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TUESDAY, AUG. 6, 2013
Public market keeps growing BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF It was a record day at Saturday’s Red Deer public market with 230 vendors. Dennis Moffat, mar- BIKE CORRAL ket manager, said the CATCHING biggest public market CYCLISTS BY in the province just SURPRISE A2 got bigger. “There are other places that advertise they’re the biggest farmers’ market. We don’t have the restrictions of a farmers’ market. We allow everybody in as long as it’s legal,” said Moffat about the Red Deer Market that has run for 43 years. This season the number of vendors has been steady in the low 200s. He estimated about 15,000 people visit each week. Some people come to Red Deer just for the market and it’s attracted some bus tours from Calgary. “We do about $2.5 million worth of business in the 88 hours that we’re open. “That’s an amazing amount of commerce.” Moffat said so far only one Saturday this season was rained out and the variety of food vendors is one of the reasons people attend.
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Nineteen-month old Keeley MacDiarmid, of Calgary, didn’t want to leave her sandy spot at Sylvan Lake on Sunday.
Families dig beachfront sand BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF
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New sand on a small piece of Sylvan Lake’s beachfront was a magnet for young families on the weekend. Bruce MacDiarmid, of Calgary, said the last time he was in Sylvan lake five years ago sand was hard to find. “It is beautiful. The sand is nice. The kids need an area where they can play and this is perfect,” said MacDiarmid who was at the beach with his young family on Sunday.
Chris Trevors, of Edmonton, was also impressed. “I just know everyone is having a pretty good time. Kids just love to run in the sand and play, right,” said Trevors near a sand pit his young family helped fill with water, perfect for splashing around to keep cool. The town added sand to the existing sandy area near the southeast corner of the pier on July 10 and 11 to improve the beach area.
A post barrier system will be installed to ensure vehicles do not have access to the area. Removable bollards will create a drive lane in the winter months for lake access. The area will be monitored and protected from runoff. The project, located on provincial land, cost $25,000. In the 1970s and ’80s, the town dredged up sand to restore the beach each spring. Alberta Environment does not allow that practice anymore.
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Vanderschaeghe building relationships, one person at a time BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF
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Executive director Jennifer Vanderschaeghe has been executive director of the Central Alberta AIDS Network Society for the past nine years.
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As a former health-care aid, Jennifer Vanderschaeghe built one-on-one relationships with those in her charge. When she switched to the field of AIDS and HIV 20 years ago, cultivating relationships remained her focus. “The only way we can do what we do is that we work to build relationships with all the people we come across. People who are having terrible days. People who are having great days. People who work in office buildings. People who live outside,” said Vanderschaeghe, executive director of Central Alberta AIDS Network Society (CAANS). Then come the difficult, but necessary, conversations. “It would be very simple if our job was just to cut flowers and sell flowers to people who wanted flowers. Our job is to talk about sex and drugs to people who don’t want to talk about sex and drugs, and certainly don’t want to disclose what is happening during those very intimate times,” said Vander-
schaeghe, 41. In 1993 when she began her career as a volunteer with Lethbridge AIDS Connection, now Lethbridge HIV Connection, she attended 12 funerals in about a year. Eleven of those who died were gay men at a time when there wasn’t medication to stop the reproduction of HIV and the disease progressed quickly. “Now when I go to funerals it’s more likely to be people who are street-involved and folks who are part of our harm reduction programs, so people who use drugs. Their deaths are everything from violence to overdose to cardiovascular disease. It’s not one thing that’s killing them.” Now people receiving HIV medication, which is available free in Alberta, can expect to live almost a normal lifespan, she said. “You might lose 15 years rather than losing 60 years. Having said that, if you don’t know you have HIV, if you don’t have access to medications, than you don’t have the luxury of a longer lifespan.”
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