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Red Deer Advocate TUESDAY, JAN. 27, 2015
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Jablonski moves on RED DEER NORTH MLA WON’T SEEK SIXTH TERM BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski has called it a career. Surrounded by family and friends, an emotional Jablonski told her supporters on Monday that it was with sadness and mixed emotions that she decided not to seek a sixth term. “There comes a PC CANDIDATES START t i m e w h e n STEPPING FORWARD C1 you need to spend more time with your family,” said Jablonski. “I want to be home at night with my husband and I want to be here in Red Deer with my grandkids. ... It’s just time for me to move on.” The five-term MLA will serve until the next provincial election is called. Jablonski predicted that will happen in April. But she said she leaves knowing that Alberta is “in good hands” under the leadership of Premier Jim Prentice. “I have no doubt in my mind that history will see Jim Prentice as one of Alberta’s greatest premiers,” said Jablonski. Jablonski said it was a privilege to serve Red Deerians and Albertans for nearly 15 years. She thanked her family, staff and supporters, who have been at her side from Day 1. She was elected in a 2000 byelection to fill a spot left vacant by Stockwell Day, who left to run federally for the Canadian Alliance Party. Over the years, Jablonski served on numerous committees and task forces. She was also the minister of Seniors and Community Supports under former premier Ed Stelmach. On Monday, Jablonski said one highlight was when she was granted unanimous consent of the legislature to set aside the orders of the day and proceed with early consideration of her private member’s bill, Protection of Children Abusing Drugs Act. The legislation gives parents the right to seek treatment for their children who have drug and alcohol addictions.
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Son of RCMP Constable David Wynn, Matthew Wynn is consoled by his mother Shelly MacInnis-Wynn during the funeral for slain RCMP Constable David Wynn, in St. Albert on Monday.
Thousands attend funeral for Mountie slain during struggle BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. ALBERT — The sister of an Alberta Mountie told mourners at his funeral Monday that he would want them to live life the way he did — with joy, with passion and with every effort to make the world a better place. “Over the past 10 days, there has been such an outpouring of stories about Dave and obvious love for him from the people that he has touched that I have realized he was far more than I ever imagined,” Mona Wynn said in her eulogy before thousands at a recreation centre in St. Albert. “Dave was an ordinary man with an extraordinary capacity to make the world a better place for everyone around him.” Const. David Wynn, 42, died last Wednesday, four days after he and auxiliary Const. Derek Bond were shot during a struggle with a suspected car thief at a casino in St. Albert. He was shot in the head and never regained consciousness before he died. The shooter, career criminal Shawn Rehn, killed himself hours later. Wynn’s sister asked everyone to take
up the example her brother set. “He would want us to throw ourselves into the things that bring us joy and to do it for him. He would want us to follow our hearts ... he certainly did that,” she said. “David would want us to forgive. He was a peaceful man. He didn’t have the time to even notice a grudge much less hold one.” Wynn’s sister remembered him as a person who brought enthusiasm to everything he did be it scuba diving, swimming, fly fishing, spending time with his family or serving his community and country. She noted that Wynn’s organs and tissue were donated and the family has been told they will help as many as 35 people. RCMP Insp. Kevin Murray called him “the finest example of a front-line police officer.” Deputy Commissioner Marianne Ryan, responsible for the Alberta RCMP, addressed Wynn directly: “Constable David Matthew Wynn, you have served this province and your country well. It is soon time for you to grab your fishing rod and head for the Miramichi, where I know your father
will be waiting for you once more. We wish you Godspeed and tight lines.” It was standing room only as more than 7,000 people came to pay their respects. The mourners included more than 2,100 Mounties, police officers, military members and first responders from communities across Canada. Their uniforms of scarlet, green and different shades of blue brought colour to the hushed arena where friends, family, guests and dignitaries gathered in a solemn show of support for Wynn’s widow, Shelly, and three teenage sons. The eldest, dressed in his cadet corps uniform, had marched in the procession for his father before the funeral. Duncan MacInnis, Wynn’s uncle and a retired Mountie, choked up as he spoke to the crowd about their grief. “The sudden and violent death of David has left everyone in the policing community and the general public suffering a profound loss,” MacInnis said. “As a family, as a police force and as a community, we mourn and grieve our fallen hero.”
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High-risk takedown at Schlumberger site ends peacefully BY MARY-ANN BARR RED DEER ADVOCATE A man caught up in a police incident just south of Red Deer on Monday afternoon said it began for him when he was told to stay indoors. “I says, ‘What’s going on?’ and I looked out in the front lot there was a half dozen RCMP vehicles, the officers were vesting up, they were getting out their high-powered rifles.” The incident occurred outside at Schlumberger Ltd.’s pressure pumping base in McKenzie Industrial Park, located on McKenzie Road between 30th and 40th Avenues. Blackfalds RCMP responded to a call of an attempted truck theft and firearm complaint. It ultimately ended peacefully with the arrest of one 17-year-old male suspect. Blackfalds and Innisfail RCMP, ALERT, Police Dog Services and the RCMP helicopter were involved. RCMP said the firearm turned out to be a replica pistol. The man who was there when it happened, and whom the Advocate is
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With weapons drawn RCMP members attend a high-risk takedown in the parking lot at Schlumberger south of the City of Red Deer in the McKenzie Industrial subdivision Monday afternoon. The Schlumberger building was in lockdown while the RCMP apprehended a suspect on the site. not identifying, said a lockdown for safety purposes quickly began at about 2 p.m., when about 75 people who were working outside in the yard were told through company loudspeaker to come
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inside. A suspect was sitting in a large black crewcab truck in the parking lot on the east side of the Schlumberger facility.
The man who spoke to the Advocate said that the whole time police officers were putting on their vests and preparing, another police officer was on his knees with a high-powered rifle on the hood of the (police) car, trained on the vehicle and suspect about 75 yards away. The man said he did not see the suspect because the back windows of the truck were blacked out. He did not know how the suspect got in the parking lot. It was about an hour and a quarter later that police informed everyone they being moving further away from the incident, eventually to the very west side of the site. The suspect was on the east side of the site. Buses were going to be brought in so workers could be removed to safety from the site. As they were lining for the buses, which hadn’t arrived, “an RCMP officer came in and said the individual surrendered to police and the situation was under control.”
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Boom Chucka Boys win pair of awards Central Alberta’s Boom Chucka Boys received the Rising Star and Group/Duo of the Year on Sunday. Story on PAGE C4
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