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Red Deer Advocate MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2014
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YARD GROWTH CAN BE EDIBLE BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF
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Red Deer Buccaneer Hunter Girard (99) is tackled on a kick return by Grande Prairie Drillers’ Edgehill Gerrick (40) In Alberta Football League action at MEGlobal Athletic Park in Lacombe on Saturday. Grande Prairie won 31-18. See a report of the game and additional photo on Page B1 of today’s Advocate.
Mountview resident Martin Scholz knows a thing or two about turning a lawn into lunch and a yard into yummies. Scholz, a local permaculture educator and sustainability co-ordinator for Action International Ministries, recently gave his yard an edible makeover to represent what he has been teaching for many years locally and around the world. “The goal is to bring agriculture back into the urban setting,” said Scholz. “In Red Deer the average yard could produce about
1,000 lbs of food a year if we just got a little more creative.” Scholz answered questions about edible landscaping and delivered a presentation to young students as part of Garden Days at Parkland Garden Centre last weekend. Edible landscaping is a food production approach where typical lawn ornaments and grass are replaced with edible plants. In Scholz’s front yard, there’s corn, squash, pumpkins, onions, zucchini, pears, apricot plum trees, cherry trees, raspberry, blueberries, strawberries and other goodies growing.
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After 47 years, man gets his Grade 12 diploma WILL BE AMONG STUDENTS GRADUATING FROM LACOMBE COMPOSITE HIGH SCHOOL BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF It took 47 years, but Warren Kreway is finally getting his high school diploma. Kreway, 65, left school in Rosemary about 10 credits short of completing Grade 12 in 1967. On June 27, he will be one of about 230 students graduating from Lacombe Composite High School at a ceremony at Westerner Park. Kreway could have applied to get his diploma based on his training while employed through the years, including courses he took at Mount Royal College. Instead, he enrolled in three classes and was shoulder-to-shoulder with high
school students for three months. “Is it worth doing what I’ve done? Absolutely. When I see the reaction of the students. When I see the friendships that we’ve built. When I see the reaction of the student body, and when I see the reaction of the faculty — it’s like coming home,” said Warren Kreway Kreway, of Lacombe, who drives a school bus for Wolf Creek Public Schools. He would bus students from Blackfalds, attend class, then get back in the driver’s seat to take students home.
He admitted his first few days of class last fall were awkward and students were unsure why he was there, so he got up and spoke in front of his class. “I explained to them why and what I was doing and the purpose behind it. And the class actually got up and gave me a standing ovation.” Kreway has been a volunteer with high school’s robotic club for a few years. When he bashfully revealed to them that he didn’t have his diploma and felt uncomfortable leaving his education unfinished, students encouraged him to do something about it.
He said school definitely has changed, with the emphasis on using computers and the large classes.
more about the challenges youth face today. While students helped him when it came to computers, he was kind of like the “resident grandfather” providing e n c o u r agement. But mostly, Kreway said he was seen as just anoth— WARREN KREWAY er student to talk to about homework “Nowadays, you’re up to and class. 40-some kids in the classroom. He was surprised to discovWhat I was hoping to get was er a passion for writing after more one-on-one. critiquing novels and movies “I did (get one-on-one as- for class. sistance), but not as much as I expected.” Kreway said he learned Please see GRAD on Page A2
‘I EXPLAINED TO THEM WHY AND WHAT I WAS DOING AND THE PURPOSE BEHIND IT. AND THE CLASS ACTUALLY GOT UP AND GAVE ME A STANDING OVATION.’
Angels help Virgil find home SAFE HARBOUR RESIDENT GETS OFF THE STREETS AFTER DECADE BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF
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Virgil Frencheater shares a laugh with his two case workers Candace Thomson (left) and Tammy Nooskey at his home in Red Deer. Frencheater likes to call his case workers “his two angels.”
WEATHER Partly cloudy. 30% showers. High 17, low 8.
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Sitting at his dining room table, Virgil Frencheater looks out the window and stares at the pouring rain beating down on the sidewalk. It wasn’t too long ago that Frencheater would be tucked under a plastic bag trying to stay warm and dry in the downpour. These days Frencheater, who carved out an existence
on the streets for more than a decade, doesn’t have to worry about the inclement weather. Since October 2013, the 46-year-old has called Safe Harbour Society’s Harbour House home where he is working on improving his health and staying sober. Harbour House has space for eight people who have the most difficulty accessing and sustaining housing.
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Canadian cowboy becomes a long rider A Canadian cowboy has reached his destination in an epic horseback journey to Brazil from Calgary. Story on PAGE A5
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