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Snow policy revisited BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF All things snow will be up for debate at Red Deer city council on Tuesday. Council will delve knee deep into the city’s new Integrated and Accessible Transportation policy, formerly the Snow and Ice Control policy. The changes come following a winter of extreme weather conditions that smashed snowfall records across the province.

To date, the city has spent $5.6 million for 2014, more than $1 million over the $4.5 million budgeted, as a result of the unprecedented conditions. The budget for 2015 will be set during upcoming budget talks. Council will be asked to approve policy updates that reflect new triggers and targets for the snow and ice control, amend street land use bylaw to allow private contractors to remove windrows and amend traffic bylaw to allow movable signs for parking restrictions. The policy was revised last winter and tweaked this summer at the committee level.

Typically, the city plows residential areas once a season, in a 40-day window, and leaves a large windrow on one side of the street. Because of the amount of snow and ice last winter, council directed crews to step outside policy and conduct two flat-blade campaigns within 20 days. Small windrows were piled on both sides of residential streets. Proposed revisions to policy will make flat-blade plowing standard, along with other tweaks.

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Memorial Cup a ‘game changer’ for the city

BRAD PAISLEY IN CONCERT

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Country rocker Brad Paisley and his band mates took to the stage at the Centrium in Red Deer entertaining an appreciative crowd Thursday. Look for a review of the show by Lana Michelin in the Saturday Advocate.

Student guilty of uttering threats BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A 17-year-old student was convicted of uttering threats for leaving a “chilling and specific� note threatening to shoot staff and students at a Red Deer high school. The boy, who cannot be named under provisions of the Youth Justice Act, was found guilty in Red Deer youth court on Thursday by provincial court Judge Jim Mitchell. The student left a note written in pencil on a desk threatening to shoot staff and students at Hunting Hills High School at 3 p.m. on April 15, 2014, just prior to the start of the Easter long weekend. The note was written at some point during the day, but indicated a specific time for the shooting to take place. Andre Phypers, the student’s lawyer, argued that the charge was lacking because the threat was not directed at a specific group. Crown prosecutor Jordan Petty argued the staff

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and students are a discernible group. Mitchell agreed with Petty. It was also argued that the threat was never intended to be fulfilled. However, Mitchell said that was irrelevant as the threat still caused concern and a heightened police presence. Red Deer RCMP responded to the scene. Uniformed officers patrolled the halls and evacuated the school, not forcing people out but denying students and staff re-entry once they had left. After the school was emptied, police performed an extensive search but found no weapons. Mitchell called the threat “chilling and specific� while delivering his decision. He acknowledged that in the student’s statement to police he said he didn’t know why he left the note, but the judge didn’t accept that as a valid reason. The student also indicated in the statement that he would never do anything like that. Mitchell said that was irrelevant to the charge.

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Red Deer’s 2016 Memorial Cup promises many landmarks. Not only will it be the first time in 42 years that major junior hockey’s holy grail has come to Alberta, it will mark the 50th anniversary of the Western Hockey League. The same year, the Red Deer Rebels will celebrate their quarter-century anniversary. Not to be outdone, Westerner Park intends to salute its 125th anniversary, which technically takes place in 2015. The Memorial Cup trophy was front and centre at a news conference at Westerner Park on Thursday morning attended by local dignitaries, WHL commissioner Ron Robison, and Rebels owner, general manager and head coach Brent Sutter and his entire squad wearing their maroon home jerseys. Robison said Red Deer can expect some big things when a half-century of WHL hockey is celebrated. “We’re going to make it a very special season next year. We expect to use the MasterCard Memorial Cup as one of the centrepieces to celebrate our 50th season. “It’s going to be a very special event in 2016.� Feeding that excitement will be the end of Alberta’s lengthy Memorial Cup hosting drought. “That brings it to another level in of itself,� said Robison. The 10-day event is expected to pump $8 million to $10 million into the local economy, and give Red Deer and area the kind of exposure impossible to put a dollar figure on. “It has a very significant economic impact, and that would be sort of a moderate estimate at this stage.� Given the province’s hot economy, the economic spinoffs could well exceed any early paper predictions. As well, Memorial Cup communities enjoy plenty of legacies from their time in junior hockey’s brightest spotlight. Volunteers come together, charitable contributions are made and local facilities are highlighted. “I think it really engages the community in so many ways that it will leave a lasting level of excitement that will probably lead really nicely into the (2019) Canada Winter Games,� he said.

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