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Red Deer Advocate THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2015
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Vote call looms IMMINENT FEDERAL ELECTION TO BE COSTLIEST, LONGEST IN RECENT HISTORY BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Stephen Harper is poised to fire the starting gun for the Oct. 19 federal election as early as Sunday. Sources say the prime minister is set to visit Gov. Gen. David Johnston within days, possibly as soon as Sunday, to formally dissolve Parliament and launch what will be the costliest and — at 11 weeks — one of the longest campaigns in Canadian history. Here are five things voters should know about Canada’s imminent 42nd general election campaign: — Elections law requires a minimum campaign of 37 days. It does not impose a maximum length. Harper is choosing to make this the longest traditional campaign in Canadian history. Only the first two election campaigns after Confederation were longer — 81 days in 1867 and 96 days in 1872 — but in those early days voting was staggered across the country over a period of several months, necessarily extending the length of the campaigns. Since then, the longest campaign was 74 days, way back in 1926. Four of the last five campaigns were just five weeks long. — Due to legislation passed last year by the Harper government, campaign spending limits for parties and candidates will increase by 1/37th for every day longer than 37 days.
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Steve Morgan of Sylvan Lake takes a cool plunge in a dunk tank outside Central Alberta Women’s Outreach in Red Deer Wednesday afternoon. The agency launched its Tools For School program Tuesday with a BBQ fundraiser that let participants take turns dunking volunteers. Morgan, who has been co-ordinating the backyard project at Julietta’s Place in Red Deer, was dunked multiple times. The Tools for Schools program helped just under 1,600 students last year. Heather Turnbull with Central Alberta Women’s Outreach says the agency hopes to help up to 1,800 young students this year with school supplies. For the second year, the program is helping to supply new shoes to those who need them.
Inglewood school to be a ‘great community centre’ BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A school in west Inglewood is slowly becoming a reality for students in the
Red Deer Public School District. On Wednesday, the municipal planning commission gave the thumbs up to the development permit application. Set to open in September 2017, the kindergarten-to-Grade-5 school on 99
Irving Drive will accommodate up to 600 students with a final build out of 24 classrooms, of which eight will be modulars.
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Waste not want not: Sylvan Lake pumped about water recycling BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF
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Sliders film themselves during the recent Slide the City in Sylvan Lake. The town is recycling the 300,000 litres of water used by the event.
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What do you do with 800,000 litres of barely-used water? If you are in Sylvan Lake, you recycle it of course. The Town of Sylvan Lake has taken two separate situations involving large amounts of water and found secondary uses for it. On Saturday, the Slide the City event used about 300,000 litres of the town’s water. The portable water slide event attracted about 1,100 users. Joanne Gaudet, communication coordinator for the town, said the Public Works department staff got creative in
making the event work, without wasting water. Sylvan Lake’s swimming pool has been closed all summer while an engineering report is being prepared to look at structural concerns and how the building will connect to a new multiplex facility, the NexSource Centre. That report is expected in the fall. The town decided to pump the water used during Slide the City into the empty swimming pool at the Aquatic Centre. The water was pumped through hoses into the town’s storm drainage system, and then into the pool, which was filled.
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Never too old to bike Granny Gears members may not be the strongest riders, but leader Jackie Larocque says that’s fine with them. Story on PAGE C1
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