BACK ON THE AIRWAVES
TRADING UP Brent Sutter made a pair of moves on Wednesday that he hopes will add depth to his blueline and up front
Evan Solomon has landed a job as the host of a political talk show on Sirius XM
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Red Deer Advocate THURSDAY, AUG. 6, 2015
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Workers decry contract delay BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Frustrated with stalled contract talks, some 150 senior care workers gathered at a lunchtime rally in Calgary on Wednesday. AUPE workers at Bethany CollegeSide and Bethany Sylvan Lake were among the crowd that protested their employer’s decision to postpone the mediated bargaining until late-September. The talks were originally scheduled to happen in July.
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HARMONY GARDEN
A park in tune with nature BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF
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Lena Hartel, held high above the spray of the water by her father, TJ Hartel, laughs as they reach the bottom of the Collicutt Centre’s waterslide on Wednesday morning. With gloomier weather and rainy conditions outside, many Red Deerians headed to the city’s indoor pools.
As outdoor parks go, a new one in Red Deer will sound unlike any other one in Alberta. The Kiwanis Harmony Garden at Kerry Wood Nature Centre is going to be a fully accessible space where anyone can try their musicality out in natural surroundings. “It’s very, very cool,” said Todd Nivens, programs co-ordinator for Waskasoo Environmental Education Society. The garden, which is to open on Oct. 2, will have a variety of permanent percussion instruments in an 1,100-sq.ft outdoor area at the nature centre.
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Divas 2.0 rises from wreckage of demolished hair salon BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Seven months after a wayward driver turned her hair salon into an unwanted drive-through, Jessica Baker is back in business. Divas Hair Boutique was opened for customers again on Tuesday, almost exactly seven months since she was phoned on Jan. 6 and told that a woman had lost control of her car on nearby Riverview Drive and slammed through the front of the business she had run for more than five years. The front of the shop next to Burger Boy at 6007 54th Avenue was completely demolished. Adding to the devastation was an overnight temperature of -35 C, which froze and fractured water pipes and hair product containers. Cleanup and repairs were expected
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to take weeks, but insurance and permitting red tape delayed the project. Fortunately in the meantime, Baker and her staff were offered space at Red Room Salon at 80 Donlevy Ave., a helping hand for which she is deeply grateful. On Wednesday, Baker was thrilled with her new and improved shop, which she jokingly dubs Divas 2.0. “I feel absolutely ecstatic,” she said. “My girls are beyond ecstatic,” she says, referring to her five staff. Bringing back Divas from the wreckage proved a daunting task for Jessica and husband and co-owner Ben. “It was a huge ordeal,” she said. Eventually, Ben and his brother Jesse, owner of Terra Firma Concrete Services, rolled up their sleeves and rebuilt the shop themselves.
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Jessica Baker, owner of the Divas Hair Boutique at 6007 54 Avenue, is happy to be back in business after renovations to her salon in Red Deer. Baker was forced to close her business after a vehicle came crashing through her front door on January 5, 2015.
Musical menu will accompany watercolours Music on-demand will complement watercolour paintings at a First Friday gallery reception this week in Red Deer. Story on PAGE C1
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