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Red Deer Advocate TUESDAY, SEPT. 8, 2015
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CEO busy learning, planning, organizing BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF
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ABOVE: Venturers with Red Deer’s 18th Morrisroe Scouts recently attended the World Scout Jamboree in Japan. Their trip took them to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, where the ruins of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall stand to remind us of the 70,000 killed instantly by the atomic bomb. LEFT: Evan Schollie was one of eight Red Deer Venturers and an advisor who travelled to Japan for the World Scout Jamboree. The Venturers visited a Japanese middle school as part of their experience.
NINE MEMBERS OF 18TH MORRISROE VENTURERS TROOP ATTEND SCOUTS WORLD JAMBOREE IN JAPAN BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF “Do you live in igloos?” Sylvan Lake’s Jocelyn Mosset got that question and others as she joined 30,000 others at the Scouts World Jamboree in Japan recently. Her curious interviewers from the Middle East also wanted to know if pet polar bears were a thing out here. She’s not sure if they were disappointed by her reality-check answer, she recalls with a chuckle. Dispelling a few myths about the Great White North was all part of the fun for the teen who is one of the nine members, including an advisor, of Red Deer’s 18th Morrisroe Venturers troop who made the journey to Japan’s Yamaguchi City along with about 350
other Canadian Scouts. “Really the highlight was going into a different culture and experiencing that,” says Mosset. “It was different because you got to see what their culture was like compared to yours.” The Scouts’ Japanese hosts provided a glimpse into their culture. They are “very, very respectful and very polite as well. They always make sure you have what you need.” A visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial provided a sombre experience. The park built around the ruins of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall serves as a memorial to the 70,000 people who died instantly, and another 70,000 who succumbed to their radiation wounds later, when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city during the Second World War.
She describes the experience as “draining. It was a lot to take in.” Mosset, who turned 16 on Monday, joined Scouts as a seven-year-old and is heading into her third year as a Venturer, which is for Scouts aged 14 to 17. Other Venturers also spoke glowingly of their opportunity to participate in a jamboree that is only held every four years. “My favourite part was climbing Mount Fuji, and spending the extra week touring around Japan,” says Evan Schollie, who was joined on the trip by his father and Venturer advisor Bruce Schollie. The Red Deer contingent spent four days in Hong Kong with most staying on for 20 days in Japan, plus a day in Seoul, South Korea.
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Scott Robinson has hit the ground running as the CEO for the 2019 Canada Winter Games. Robinson has wasted no time getting down to business after officially coming on board in his new role on Aug.15. He has a temporary office sent up on the second floor of the Recreation Centre. It will fit the Scott Robinson bill until moving over to former Central Elementary School which served as a few years as the Gateway Christian School on 53rd Street by early October. Eventually the entire games operations will have the run of the facility. The Central Alberta Regional Consortium will continue to operate out of the building. In the meantime, Robinson said the status quo for the next eight to 10 months will consist of learning, planning and organizing. For the most part it will be the behind the scenes work of filling committees and building the work plan for the organization for the next six to 12 months. “I think the challenge will be managing all the parts at once with a small group of people,” said Robinson. “We will start adding people in the late fall/early new year that will be central to leading various parts of the games.” That will also include a call for volunteers who will be key to the games. He said there will be lots of opportunities for volunteers down the road. Plans are in the works for a potential event that will mark three years before the games – Feb.15, 2016 – as a way to keep the momentum alive in the community. The host society will also be at public events and sharing information about the games through its various social media channels. It was a little more than a year ago when Red Deer was given the nod to host the games.
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Willson House named Municipal Historic Resource BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF The house that Loveland and Miller built has stood the test of time. The two-storey house at 5011 43rd Avenue was built for brothers Ernest and Arthur, relatives of the Michener family, in 1911 for $3,500. Just a few weeks ago the house, now owned by Patty and Mark Marback, became the city’s 18th Municipal Historic Resource, of which four are provincial historical resources. Janet Pennington, the city’s heritage community co-ordinator, said the home in Michener Hill was first identified for its significance when the city conducted a heritage survey in 2007.
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The city has been working with the owners for the last two years on the designation. “It is an absolutely beautiful house,” said Pennington. “It was part of that early residential development before the First World War.” For some time in the 1950s, the house was used as a home for seniors and was known as Grandview Lodge or Grandview Villa. “When we designated the house as a Municipal Historic Resource in August 2015, and with the approval of the homeowners, we decided to rename the house the Willson House after the two Willson brothers the house was built for in 1911,” said Pennington. “Naming a building or site after the person or people it was originally built for is a
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fairly standard heritage practice.” She said there are 2,200 houses built before the 1950s still standing in Red Deer. Of the ones already surveyed, most were built between 1904 and 1935. Pennington has been working with a team of volunteers and a few city staffers on its current heritage survey for more than a year. They have already survey 500 houses and in the next month they will 400 more. Last February and March, Pennington and her team walked every street in Red Deer to identify the 400 sites that will be surveyed for historic value.
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Known as the Willson House, this home at 5011 43 Avenue in Red Deer is an historic resource.
Tories drop two candidates The Conservatives stumbled as the federal election reached an unofficial milestone on Monday, dropping two candidates. Story on PAGE A5
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