Red Deer 1913 — 2013 Create Celebrate Commemorate
WHO WILL BE TOP TOMATO?/A11 Rare bird sighting
A 27-metre-long Erickson Air Crane touched down at the Rimbey Airport on Saturday
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CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER
BREAKING NEWS ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM
TUESDAY, AUG. 20, 2013
STORM ROLLS IN
Photo by BRIAN CONSTANTINE/contributor
Menacing storm clouds passed through the Red Deer on the evening of Aug. 15. Local photographer Brian Constantine captured this image along Hwy 2A just north of Innisfail.
Cost to fix flood damage: more than $5B BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta Premier Alison Redford says provincial estimates show “well over” $5 billion will be needed to rebuild infrastructure after severe flooding in June. Talking on Calgary radio station CHQR, Redford
said she has spoken with the prime minister about rebuilding costs. Redford said Stephen Harper understands that the federal government will be responsible for covering part of the bill. She and Harper sat together last week at a flood-aid concert in Calgary. “Our estimates right now is that we are looking at well over $5 billion in terms of infrastructure re-
Council votes in favour of Canada Winter Games bid BY CRYSTAL RHYNO AND MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s bid for the 2019 Canada Winter Games may not include hosting synchronized swimming locally. Council voted in favour of the bid Monday, hosting all sports locally except for an off-site venue and athletes village for synchronized swimming. Having to move synchronized swimming out of the city re-awakened the debate of a new swimming facility in Red Deer. Councillors debated public consultation about a new swimming facility in relation to their bid for the games, but ultimately approved the bid and moving synchronized swimming off-site.
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Senior’s care facility in north to go ahead BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF
Mayor Morris Flewwelling said the motion approving the bid does not preclude the city from going beyond it. “Given the work that has already been done and given the potential this community has in terms of its location, facilities, volunteers and readiness we’re going to put on a winter games the likes of which this country has never seen,” said Flewwelling. Administration recommended placing a bid to host all sports locally with synchronized swimming to be held at a secondary site in either Calgary or Edmonton. Council heard the bid would come with an estimated $22.1 million capital price tag to ensure all existing facilities are up to technical standards.
Council paved the way for a five-floor senior’s care facility to be built on Taylor Drive near 67th Street. Voting 7 to 2 with Coun. Tara Veer and Frank Wong against, they approved the re-zoning a section of land off of Taylor Drive to allow the construction of a five-storey Points West Living Senior’s care facility at Monday’s council meeting. The facility is adjacent established light industrial buildings and two raised concerns about the proposed senior’s care facility. Derold Clark, president of both Blue Rock Management Ltd. and Canalta Controls Ltd., owns property adjacent to the site.
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Sun and cloud. High 20. Low 5.
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build,” she told CHQR on Monday. “Part of that is going to be financed through the federal government and the prime minister has made a commitment to that, which we are grateful for, and part of it will come from provincial revenue.”
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OFFICER CHARGED WITH MURDER
ALBERTA KEEPS THE UPPER HAND
A Toronto police officer is facing a rare murder charge in the death of a young man who was shot multiple times while apparently wielding a knife on an empty streetcar. A5
Alberta has set new rules on how resource industries must deal with aboriginal bands, despite the objections of at lead one group that says the policy is designed to keep government in the driver’s seat. A7