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Mass murder SON OF SENIOR POLICE OFFICER CHARGED AFTER FIVE YOUNG PEOPLE STABBED AT CALGARY HOUSE PARTY
BY BILL GRAVELAND THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Calgary police say the son of one of their own is a suspect in the worst mass murder in the city’s history, a bloody and baffling attack on a
group of university students at a house party. Five young people were celebrating the last day of classes at the University of Calgary when they were stabbed to death early Tuesday. A suspect was arrested a short time later after he was tracked down and
bitten by a police dog. Police Chief Rick Hanson told reporters that he spoke with the suspect’s father, a 33-year veteran with the force, and the officer and his wife are heart-broken. “They are now feeling so much sorrow . . . Those young people are dead
and they are absolutely devastated.” Late Tuesday, police said they charged 22-year-old Matthew Douglas de Grood of Calgary with five counts of first-degree murder.
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Funding for seniors lodge OK’d: Anglin PROVINCE UNABLE TO CONFIRM CLAIM BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF
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Lindsay Thurber High School student Dane Mulrooney, 15, leads a group of runners on the track outside the school Tuesday. For the past month, the school track team has been working indoors and hit the track outdoors for the first time on Monday.
Lacombe launches blue box recycling program BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The City of Lacombe is now a blue box community. A residential collection program to divert recyclable waste from the landfill and improve the sustainability of waste management in the community started on Monday, with the official kickoff on Tuesday. City utilities manager Chris Huston said to prevent any confusion, recyclable materials are the same as what can be dropped off at the Wolf Creek Recycling Centre. That includes plastics with recycling symbols 1 to 7, but no glass — for now. “That’s not written in stone. If something does change to reintroduce (glass), by all means we’ll reintroduce it,” Huston said on Tuesday. He said the city anticipated that only 1 and 2 plastics would be collected in blue boxes, but bids to run the pro-
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gram showed 1 to 7 plastics could be collected door-to-door. Can Pak Environmental is operating the blue box program for Lacombe. The city will review the recycling program after one year to gauge community support. Blue boxes were introduced as a result of last year’s Solid Waste Pilot Project, in which over 90 per cent of participants supported the implementation of a household recycling collection service. Monthly residential rates for waste collection increased to $27.09 from $23.67 to reflect the blue box program. Households are expected to be able to cut their garbage destined for the landfill in half. Up until now, residents had to take their recyclables to the Wolf Creek Recycling Centre. The centre will be updated in the future with new signs. In 2012, the city collected 534 tonnes of recyclable material. That amount could double with the
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blue box program. Materials that are accepted in blue boxes include clean plastic containers and lids labelled with the recycling symbol 1 to 7, metal food cans and aluminum foil, paper and cardboard, and refundable beverage containers. Labels can be left on metal food cans and plastic containers, etc. Residents are asked to remove lids and caps and place metal food can lids inside the can or leave attached; remove plastic wrapping from magazines and catalogues; place shredded paper in a clear plastic bag and tie handles; and do not tie newspapers into bundles. Residents should not put paint or aerosol cans, lighters, batteries, motor oil containers or other hazardous materials in their blue boxes. If a container has both a hazardous materials symbol and recycling symbol, do not put it in the blue box or take it to the Wolf Creek Recycle Site.
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Wildrose MLA Joe Anglin took it upon himself Tuesday to speak on behalf of the provincial government and announce that the Tories had approved $13.3 million funding for a new seniors lodge in Rimbey. The MLA for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre said he had a copy of a letter confirming that the money came from Municipal Affairs, but he wouldn’t show it to the Advocate. He also said acting Minister of Municipal Affairs Greg Weadick confirmed the funding last Wednesday. But Trisha Anderson, Municipal Affairs spokesperson, said she couldn’t confirm the funding. “Redeveloping seniors lodges across the province is a priority for Municipal Affairs under our long-term housing plan to meet current and future needs. Announcements on project commitments will be made in the near future and Parkland Manor (in Rimbey), as one of our oldest lodges, is one that is under consideration for funding,” she said. Anglin said the Town of Rimbey and the Rimoka Housing Foundation received the funding that would pay for the construction of a new 40-suite seniors lodge as well as some money to repair Parkland Manor. “This is something the community has been working for for a long period of time,” Anglin said. Rimbey Mayor Rick Pankiw could only say that funding for a new lodge was very close. “A formal announcement about the funding needs to come from the government, not the Rimoka board, not the Town of Rimbey, or anyone else,” Pankiw said.
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