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Windrows spark anger
Anglin drops bid to run for PCs PARTY NOT THE RIGHT FIT FOR INDEPENDENT MLA BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF
the new policy, which also involves leaving smaller windrows on both sides of the streets, rather than alternating sides of the streets. The city does make breaks in the windrows for back lane access, fire hydrants and where residents have an on-street city-approved handicapped sign. Pogmore said her husband Bill, 86, shovelled the driveway out the first time. “But it’s really hard for him to do that. He does it but this is hard frozen ice.”
Progressive Conservatives and MLA Joe Anglin have parted ways. On Thursday, both the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta (PCAA) and Anglin announced they were not the right fit. The PCs released a statement that said allowing Anglin to run for nomination in the Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre riding “is not in the best interest of the PCAA.” At the 2014 PC annual general meeting, a constitutional amendment was passed requiring candidates to be approved to run only if it is in the best interests of the PCAA. Anglin left the Wildrose Party caucus in November after a falling out with the party, became an independent MLA, and recently decided to run for the PC nomination in his riding. On Wednesday, the three candidates seeking the PC nomination for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre — Anglin, Tammy Cote and Terry Engen — had face-to-face meetings with the PCAA nomination committee. Anglin said the meetings were really good, but both sides came away recognizing it wasn’t going to work. “I could not reconcile how I would be a PC MLA, and neither could they. I am not their type of MLA,” said Anglin on Thursday. He said a sticking point in their discussions was his decision to not cross the floor to the PCs when he left the Wildrose Party. He left the Wildrose shortly before 11 other Wildrose members, including leader Danielle Smith, all crossed over to the Tories.
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Norm Gould pitches a shovel full of snow over the sidewalk along 42 street crescent. Gould along with his partner Sharon Gusafson, right, were helping Gustafson’s sister and other neighbors along the street remove windrows plowed up along the roadway by the City of Red Deer Thursday afternoon. Many of the residents along the street were upset the city plowed the snow into windrows in front of their driveways. They said in the past two previous years the city completely removed the snow from the street after plowing. BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Seniors faced with heavy, icy windrows blocking their driveways were upset on Thursday with the City of Red Deer. The city is in the midst of its second residential snow plowing this winter. One senior, 85-year-old Vi Pogmore, said she stood in front of the grader because she didn’t want her townhouse driveway blocked in Parkvale on 42nd Street Crescent. “How else am I going to stop them from plowing my driveway or get some
action?” said Pogmore. The angry seniors all live on 42nd Street Crescent downtown. Pogmore has lived there for 20 years. This is the first year the city has plowed the crescent and left windrows on driveways, she said. The city revamped its snow clearing policy this winter in order to speed up the process and clear residential streets more often. In the past, it cleared the windrows from driveways. “This is their new policy. Just plow and block the driveways,” Pogmore said. The city did its first residential streets plow earlier this winter under
Woman saved by co-workers after going into cardiac arrest Everyone should have a co-worker like Kira Fedun. Bonnie Andersen certainly can’t say enough about Fedun, who sprang into action when Andersen collapsed at work. Costco employee Andersen, 47, said she was working in the store’s photo lab at about 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 6 when she fainted to the floor and went into cardiac arrest. “I didn’t feel anything weird before I fell. It didn’t feel like I was having a heart attack or anything,” said Andersen. That’s when Fedun came to the res-
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cue. Fedun began CPR on Andersen, yelled for someone to get her the onsite automated external defibrillator (AED) and call for an ambulance. Fedun shocked Andersen three times with the defibrillator. She also performed two-man CPR with the help of another co-worker Steven Sandor before the arrival of emergency workers who just happened to be in the area. “Without her, I probably wouldn’t have had a chance. I think the shocks are what helped. Having the defibrillator probably saved me because it shocked my heart and that’s what my heart needed.”
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Bonnie Andersen, right, will soon be back to work at Costco thanks to her co-worker Kira Fedun.
Watchdog raps Mountie gun seizures The RCMP watchdog says Mounties improperly took guns from flood-stricken homes in Alberta two years ago. Story on PAGE A5
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