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Red Deer Advocate WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2015
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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Nineteen Notre Dame High School students graduated as full-fledged health care aides from Red Deer College last week — including 13 Grade 11 students. It was the first group of students from the Red Deer high school to graduate as health care aides after completing a two-year, dual credit program that gave students both high school CTS credits and college-level credits. RDC’s health care aide program has been suspended for 2015-16. Grade 12 student Mariah Hermary, 18, said she didn’t hesitate to take the program and felt lucky that it was available. “It was one of the best classes I could take at the high school. It was a no-brainer for me. I wanted to take it,” Hermary said. Hermary is one of the students who will be graduating twice this month. “It felt weird almost because I was graduating college before I even graduated high school. My (high school) grad isn’t until two weeks from now. But I was cool.” She said the program taught her how to help people in a professional way who can’t help themselves.
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WOMEN OF EXCELLENCE GALA
Dickson honoured for dedication to environment BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF For decades Dorothy Dickson has been on mother nature’s side. Her dedication was recognized on Tuesday night at the eighth annual Women of Excellence Gala when she was the recipient of both the Environment Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award. Dickson, who lived in Calgary before moving to an acreage near Red Deer in 1985 and into Red Deer in 2003, said her connection to Red Deer went back to the 1970s when she chaired a committee on Dorothy Dickson renewable resources for the Lougheed government. “There was some question of the provincial government taking over the Gaetz Lakes Sanctuary. I came and looked at Gaetz Lakes Sanctuary and advised the provincial government to back off,” said Dickson to the roar of applause during her acceptance speech for the Environment Award, her first award of the night at the gala held at Sheraton Red Deer. “It was particularly pleasing to me to see it was a financial institution that was sponsoring the Environmental Award. I think if the economists and ecologists talked to each other and got together more, we could do a lot towards helping solve some (problems),” she said earning more accolades from the more than 400 people in attendance.
Erica Hodgson ties memorial ribbons on Tuesday at the scene where Const. Dan Woodall (inset) was shot and killed overnight in Edmonton. Hodgson says she has friends in the EPS. BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Moments before he died in a barrage of bullets, Const. Daniel Woodall had been chatting with a man about whether his neighbour who was under investigation for hate crimes might have any guns. Norman Raddatz was a JUSTICE MINISTER 42-year-old refrigerator repairman — a divorced fa- CALLS GUN REGISTRY ther with money problems, LINK ‘ABSURD’ A3 who didn’t cut the grass around his west Edmonton bungalow and put dog poop on the top of his fence to irritate those living next door. Ryan Colton didn’t know much more about him, other than that he had a small dog. “As far as guns, I said, ‘I don’t know.’ That’s all I could give him for info.” Woodall and seven other city officers, half of them in plainclothes, then approached Raddatz’s home about 8 p.m. Monday. They knocked and announced themselves, and when no one answered, Woodall started using a battering ram on the front door, said Colton. During the third blow, gunshots rang out, he said. Woodall, a 35-year-old officer recruited from Great Britain, suffered a fatal, “catastrophic wound” despite wearing body armour, Chief Rod Knecht told reporters Tuesday. He said another officer, the first at the door, was shot and wounded in the lower back as he turned around. Sgt. Jason Harley, 38, was wearing a bullet-proof vest and it saved his life. Officers carried the wounded officer to the front corner of Colton’s yard, where he helped by pressing a cloth onto the bleeding wound before an ambulance arrived. For about 10 minutes, no one could escape the gunfire. The remaining officers took cover behind vehicles until the bullets stopped flying. In all, officers counted 53 bullet holes in the house and a garage across the street. A Second World War veteran, who were dozing in front of
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING “The Edmonton Police Service has always stood by the RCMP in its darkest hours. It is now our sad honour to stand by the Edmonton Police Service as they deal with the loss of a beloved police officer due to an act of unprovoked and senseless violence.” — RCMP Deputy Commissioner Marianne Ryan “I was heartbroken to learn that an Edmonton police officer ... lost his life in the line of duty ... This tragic event is a sombre reminder of the dangers our men and women in uniform face every day in their service to Albertans.” — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley “This was a senseless and devastating crime against the very people who work day-in and dayout to keep our communities safe.” — Alberta Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley “Constable Woodall’s service to Edmonton and to Canada will be remembered and honoured. We grieve his loss today with Alberta and the rest of the country.” — Prime Minister Stephen Harper “The very bravest and best among us step forward to become first responders ... we rely on our police to protect us from the few and the worst among us.” — Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson “Our thoughts are with the (Edmonton police). We understand your hurt. RIP Cst. Woodall” — RCMP New Brunswick “I can’t really comprehend this has happened and I am in shock.” — Det. Insp. Jim Faulkner of the Greater Manchester Police the TV, and his wife, who was working on a puzzle, were remarkably not hit.
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