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Mobile kitchens shuttered for safety reasons
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BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Mobile kitchens serving firefighters west of Nordegg have been replaced after Alberta Health Services shut them down for safety reasons in midJuly. Outland Resources Inc., under a contract with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, had set up two mobile kitchens at the Spreading Creek wildfire to provide meals for the men and women working on the blaze. Discovered on July 3, the Spreading Creek fire now covers 16,400 acres of land and is classified as being held, wildfire information officer Geoffrey Driscoll said on Monday. A former firefighter with five years of experience on wildfires in Oregon, Driscoll said on Sunday that crew members are focused on three things: work, eat and sleep. Along with the massive amount of water they need to keep hydrated during the day, crew members need 4,500 calories of food intake to replace the energy they expend on the fires. It’s a highly regimented lifestyle, with your body growing accustomed to being fed at specific times of the day, said Driscoll. He heartily agreed with the suggestion that every man and woman returning to camp at dinner time is hungry enough to eat the hind end of a grizzly bear. So there was a scramble on July 19, when AHS executive officer Kelly Bauer gave a verbal order that the two mobile kitchens were found to have breached safety standards and were ordered to shut down. In a written order issued three days later, Bauer described various infractions involving the two units. Infractions in one unit including a lack of running water and inadequate facilities for cold storage. The other kitchen was shut for a lack of hot running water; a malfunction in its cooler; improper storage of equipment and utensils; improper storage in the refrigerator unit; dirty counters, walls and floors; poor ventilation and the lack of a plumbed handwash unit for kitchen staff.
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Red Deerians had the chance to meet Lucky, one of three resident tiger salamanders, at Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Saturday afternoon during “Meet the Critter.” Similar events are held periodically throughout the year.
Air cadet camp helps to lift teenagers toward their goals BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF SPRINGBROOK — There’s summer camp and there’s cadet camp. Those who have attended both say cadet camp is wayyyy more fun. By summer’s end, facilities once occupied by Canadian Forces Base Penhold will have been the training ground for more than 1,200 12-yearolds and teens attracted to training and bonding experiences offered by joining the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. They learn to be good leaders and good followers and a large number of them will get first-class training as musicians in marching bands. Wind instrument musicians Brianna Bolt, Olivia Menard and Chan Hee Park, all 15, were among the cadets whose program included courses in advanced band. Park said one of his goals as a musi-
cian is to smooth off some of the rough edges he experiences as he makes the transition back and forth between trumpet and flute. “I’ve got a bad habit, when I play flute, I did a kind of like, trumpet mouth,” said Park. He also spits into his trumpet, a carryover from the mouthing methods used for enunciating notes on the flute. A first-timer with air cadets, Park said he had attended Catholic church camp in the past and found the experience entirely different. “It’s better. I love the schedule, the sessions and the private lessons. Those are really good.” Hoping to become a teacher some day, Park said he hopes to go home from camp with more skills, like sightreading and theory, along with a new set of good friends. Playing in a band rather than performing solo has the benefit that the people beside you can cover if you
make a mistake, said Park. The bonds formed between cadets are especially tight, because they all come to camp with common interests and goals, said Bolt, who was first attracted to the program when she saw a group of cadets marching in a parade. Now in her fourth year, Bolt said she plays bass clarinet and is learning to play the flute. “It’s (more) fun because we’re here with these people for a certain amount of time and we do everything together and we bond. With the other camps, it’s like you don’t get as close to them.” Bolt said her future plans include applying for the glider program and then pursue a degree in dentistry after graduating from high school. She hopes to complete her degree through the Canadian Officer Training Program and eventually enter private practice.
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Graphic designer puts her stamp on country music stars BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF
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Collectors booklets of the three stamps that graphic designer Sabrina McAllister created for Canada Post. They were released last week as part of its collection recognizing five of Canada’s country music superstars.
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A local graphic artist trained in Calgary has put her own stamp on the country star who impressed her so much as a youth. A few years ago, when Sabrina McAllister was still a pre-teen and living on the family farm east of Penhold, her parents, David and Susan Kaun, took her to Calgary for a Shania Twain concert. They had seats in the floor area and McAllister had brought along a rose that she hoped to lay on the stage. Security staff were not allowing anyone to approach the stage, but the Kauns were able to talk one of them into taking the rose up for her. McAllister says seeing how she had
done her best to look like Shania may have helped convince the security people of her sincerity. The highlight for her that night came during the show, when Shania stopped the concert, picked up the rose, and had her stage crew put a spot l i g h t o n t h e Sabrina McAllister Kaun family as she read for her audience the note that accompanied the flower.
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Nation marks 100th anniversary of WWI Canada marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War on Monday. Story on PAGE A7
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