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did all the sewing herself in her Penhold basement, with relatives helping her husband with their two pre-school sons. Some 40 of her made-in-CentralAlberta dresses, gowns, masks, headpieces and fairy wing accessories were eventually sent to New York. And many of these eye-catching silk and chiffon gowns appeared in fashion photo spreads in the arty publications PopImpressKA Journal and Entrigue Magazine, as well as the Fashion Plus blog. Pedersen described her Spread Your Wings pop-up fashion show, held on April 11 at the Poet’s Den Gallery (and opened by a collection from East Harlem designer Erica Jackson) as being a spectacle, similar to a Victoria’s Secret runway show. It can be viewed at www.vimeo.com/125108262.
One dog is dead after a suspected poisoning in a Red Deer neighbourhood. Tests are underway to determine whether two dogs consumed chicken laced with strychnine. The chemical is typically used to exterminate gophers. “We suspected poisoning of some sort,” said Dagmar Schouten, a veterinarian with Cedarwood Veterinary Hospital. “During the stomach pumping, raw chicken was removed. The owner knew she did not give the chicken to her dog.” The Kentwood-area owner brought one of her two dogs to a local clinic before the animal was rushed to the hospital last Friday. The dog was having seizures in her backyard. Schouten said the hospital was concerned about what was in the backyard so the owner went home to check her yards and she found her other dog in bad shape. “The bigger dog (a Labrador-Shepherd-cross) did OK but the smaller dog (a Maltese-Yorkie) passed away the next day,” she said. The stomach contents of the two dogs are being tested at a lab. “There is suspicion out in media that it is strychnine, which we have seen here before,” said Schouten. “It looks quite similar as far as onset seizures and high death rates. But we currently do not have any results from the stomach contents back yet.” They should be back in a week. Schouten said she does not know if the incident was a targeted, malicious act. But she called the incident disconcerting.
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Penhold designer Beth Anne Pedersen’s fantasy gowns were featured at a New York fashion show. BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Penhold designer Beth Anne Pedersen’s fantasy gowns were spotlighted on a New York catwalk and in magazines all because she called the wrong number. “It was very surprising to have such a huge opportunity fall into my lap,” said the founder of Fantasy Elite Designs, who got her big break by mistake. Pedersen called what she thought was a Red Deer modelling agency to try to arrange a local fashion shoot. But she actually ended up talking to the owner of Deja Vu Models in New York City, since the Red Deer franchise was no longer in business. In a case of serendipity, the CEO of New York’s Deja Vu Models, Deborah Cardona, was looking for a new design-
er to feature in a pop-up fashion show on April 11. After seeing Pedersen’s dramatic, fantasy-inspired line of couture and ready-to-wear gowns online, Cardona was hugely impressed. She told the local designer she liked their “sexy flowy, whimsical feel.” Cardona first asked Pedersen, who trained in costume and fashion design at both Red Deer College and Olds College, to send a few items to be spotlighted in a fashion shoot for some New York magazines. She then asked if she could come up with enough pieces to be featured at the New York City fashion show. Pedersen was so shocked and thrilled that she accepted Cardona’s offer — after verifying her credentials online — without thinking about how much work would be involved. It turned out to be a lot of work, recalled the 28-year-old. “I honestly don’t know how I did it,” said Pedersen, who
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in Red Deer’s Sunnybrook neighbourhood, said funds raised will help a special school and a small remote village in Nepal. For McCall, a Red Deer physician, the desire to help is deeply personal. She and her husband, Pliny Hayes, a Red Deer College biology instructor, adopted Nina, their now 16-year-old daughter, in Nepal when she was four. And their 20-year-old foster son, Urgen Dorje Lama, is also from Nepal. On April 25, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake hit Nepal, killing and injuring thousands of people. Then another quake, this time a magnitude 7.3, killed and injured more. There are now daily aftershocks. The death toll is about 8,600 and almost 18,000 people have been injured.
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Pliny Hayes adds some donated tiki lamps to the growing pile of donations in his garage that will be sold at a community garage sale on Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. The sale takes place on Savoy Cres. in Sunnybrook, and proceeds will go to helping earthquake victims in Nepal.
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It may be a local garage sale, but it comes with an international mission that could save lives. If only they can just get ahead of Nepal’s monsoon season, which is about to begin in the country of 27 million that is now riddled with shock, grief and anxiety following recent devastating earthquakes. MARY-ANN Maureen McBARR Call, an organizer of the multifamily garage sale on Sunday