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C.A.R.E. official on Trump’s border shutdown

BY MARK WEBER Express staff

One local official that works closely with newcomers to Canada is concerned about the tone that is being set with President Donald Trump’s sweeping changes as to who is and is not allowed into the U.S. currently.

Trump recently signed an executive order that closed U.S. borders to people from seven Muslim-majority countries, according to news reports. These countries include Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen and the order is to last for 90 days.

Since then, demonstrations have been held in protest. There have also already been legal challenges to the measure as there was some confusion over issues such as dual-citizenship and what that would mean in regards to those trying to enter the United States as well.

Here in Red Deer, Frank Bauer, executive director of the Central Alberta Refugee Effort (C.A.R.E.) said that he is pleased that Prime Minister

Justin Trudeau has gone the opposite direction by stating that Canada remains open to those seeking refuge.

“I’m happy with the message that our prime minister sent that every refugee and every person who needs help as a refugee is welcome in Canada regardless of their religion,” he said. “I’m happy with that message. The message is important.”

Meanwhile, Bauer said he isn’t surprised at Trump’s action or of the speed in which it came about.

“The way he announced it - without too much clarity up front - was I think not a smart thing to do.”

He also points out that those behind the Sept. 11th attacks did not enter the U.S. as refugees, so the idea that terrorists are necessarily included in refugees entering a given country is unfounded as well.

“It’s more of a signal that he’s giving out than anything else,” said Bauer. “I can imagine that it makes everybody nervous what’s next?”

Bauer said that personally, he

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also wonders about the unpredictability that the American government is showing in introducing these kinds of measures. “It’s difficult to say what the situation will be two days from now.”

He added that he is also concerned about the tone that Trump’s measures may cause in the United States and beyond.

He explained that one of those

wrong messages being sent is that Muslims in a general sense are either terrorists and on their way to becoming terrorists.

“That’s a very bad and wrong message,” he said, while acknowledging that Trump didn’t outright say the ban was against Muslims in particular.

“Imagine if you are a Muslim living in the U.S. or even in Canada - regardless of wheth-

er you are a refugee or not,” he said, adding it would be hard to not feel nervous in the current circumstances.

Ultimately, regardless of the exact wording of Trump’s order, it’s the potential setting of a mood that is troubling, he said.

Clearly, the future of refugees seeking to settle in the U.S. is growing more uncertain, too.

And the numbers of refugees

and displaced people is on the rise, said Bauer.

“If you look at the overall statistics, I think the number of refugees world-wide is only increasing,” he said. “So I’m not sure where this is going altogether.

“I’m also really curious, again, as to what the situation is two days from now.” mweber@reddeerexpress.com

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Local Pokemon league provides connection for enthusiasts Sylvan Lake man is the drive behind the Central Alberta Pokemon League

BY JOSEPH HO Express staff

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here’s always something bigger behind the Central Alberta Pokemon League, the dozen or so hobbyists who still play the Trading Card Game (TCG) together on Sundays at Nerd City, 20 years after the media franchise’s initial craze hit screens and tabletops.

Sylvan Lake resident Brad Hughes is the founder of the group. He and his two sons, Blake, 8 and Isaak, 6, started playing in Pokemon leagues about three years ago while living in Calgary.

But when they moved to Central Alberta, they couldn’t find one to keep up with their new hobby.

So Brad started his own.

He needed to pass an exam to become a professor, an official who organizes and adjudicates Pokemon league events and tournaments.

It turns out there’s an extensive governing structure for the game and Pokemon cares about how you play it.

Every participant has a unique ID they use to register in tournaments with. That ensures accountability.

“If you cheat, you go onto a list and you’re not allowed to play,” said Brad, who works shifts as a power engineer in Fort McMurray.

He adds that before game-play, officials check every card in players’ decks, making sure they’re legal. They also check the sleeves for scuffs, marks or anything that could be used for an unfair advantage.

Professors must pass a background check and adhere to Pokemon’s Core Values - integrity, honesty, responsibility and professionalism. They ensure participants do the same.

“At the beginning of every game, what you’re supposed to do is called, ‘shake, shake shuffle.’

You shake hands, you shake a dice to see who goes first, then you shuffle your deck and begin playing. You say good luck to your opponent. At the end of every match, you shake hands and say, ‘good game,’” Brad said.

While there are a few teen-aged players, the kids who frequent Brad’s league tend to be about 10-years-old.

“It’s tough for them to control their emotions.

They lose a game and they cry because they want to win,” he said.

Brad makes the case the card game teaches kids more than interpersonal skills.

There’s a learning curve to playing Pokemon the ‘official’ way. You place different cards in different places in front of you, for different reasons. But the most basic premise is that of the television show — Pokemon battle each other like prizefighters.

They attack, dealing damage to opponents’ hit points or rendering some kind of impairment like sleep, confusion or paralysis. But to do so, players must attach energy cards to their Pokemon.

But then there are ‘Support’ and ‘Trainer’ cards that come with even more instructions, allowing players to draw from their decks, swap cards, quash opponents’ energy and more.

Ultimately, you’re at the mercy of luck and the

YOUR TURN - From right, Blake Hughes, 8, plays a card against Tristan Johnson. The two are members of the Central Alberta Pokemon League based out of Nerd City in Red Deer.

Joseph Ho/Red Deer Express cards you’re dealt. But to make the most of them, saw demand in the City for a place where people could play together. reading comprehension is key.

In Brad, he saw a shared vision of community Brad started the league at the Sylvan Lake library.

But he later moved it to Red Deer’s Nerd City, with building.

“I stress that it’s a clubhouse. It’s a place you can game-play happening on tables and chairs set up in the back of the store. The chatter between come, it’s a safe environment, hang out, see your friends and spend quality Pokemon trainers gets noisy. time,” Dempsey said. “There Mike Dempsey owns the ▾ a lot of hobby genres that downtown shop. He started “AS MUCH AS KIDS HAVE ALL are haven’t been supported in playing board games in his THE ELECTRONICS IN THEIR Red Deer for a long time.”

20s. He has owned busiFACES, THE TRADING CARDS He sees the remnant of nesses before, including a those who play Pokemon as security company in Fort ARE TANGIBLE. THEY’RE to tactile play with McMurray.

HOLDING IT, THEY’RE PLAYING returning human contact, as an escape “My heart was not in (the IT. THEY’RE FORCED TO from the digital world. security company). It was INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER.” “As much as kids have purely business. I always all the electronics in their wanted to do something Mike Dempsey faces, the trading cards are that I was more passionate tangible. They’re holding it, ▴ about, that didn’t really rethey’re playing it. They’re volve around money, money, forced to interact with each money,” Dempsey said.

Each week, his store hosts players of tabletop other,” Dempsey said.

“It’s really refreshing for me. You see a young games like Magic the Gathering, Warhammer, Warmachine and Dungeons and Dragons. He boy come in with his father, they learn to play

together and start competing together. The sister gets involved because she sees it’s exciting. All of this is very exciting for me.”

That’s the kind of family affair Pokemon is for the Hugheses. Blake is a wide-eyed, emerging Pokemaster. He’s played in championship tournaments at the City, provincial and regional level, where qualification points are earned toward a trip to the World Pokemon Championships.

That’s where they went last summer, to San Francisco.

The stakes were high. Cash and scholarships were awarded as prizes. They range from $25,000 for a first place finish, to $1,500 for 32nd place.

Blake finished with a winning record on his first day of competition but did not advance.

Back home, Blake recently finished first in his age class at the Alberta Open, a provincial-level tournament. Brad said his son has a strong understanding of his cards and how best to use them.

It’s not easy. Pokemon can be a complex game and that’s why Brad is there to teach the rules and ensure that people are having fun. It’s what a professor does. Shake on it. joseph.ho@reddeerexpress.com

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Nathan Desharnais pleads guilty to second degree murder

BY ERIN FAWCETT Express staff

from the locker and was able to bypass the passcode and extract information. He said a report was completed regarding the analysis Nathan Desharnais pleaded guilty to sec- of the cell phone on July 2nd, 2013. ond degree murder on Tuesday after Justice MacNaughton said a proper warrant was Eldon Simpson ruled that photos found on not obtained before the search of the cell a cell phone would be admitted as evidence phone more than one year after its seizure. in the case.

“The crown wants to put in ▾ Nathan Desharnais was this evidence to bolster the charged with second degree “THIS WOULD HAVE reliability of the alleged statemurder and offering indigniments Mr. Desharnais made to NEVER MADE THE ty to human remains after the undercover officers in the Mr. LIGHT OF DAY IF body of Talia Nellie Meguinis, Big sting,” said MacNaughton.

IT WEREN’T PART 27, was found at a recycling “Police did not have the phofacility in the Riverside OF ANOTHER tographic evidence when they Industrial area on Feb. 22nd, arrested Mr. Desharnais on INVESTIGATION.” 2012. the murder charge. The arDesharnais was arrested rest was based on the alleged Patty and charged in September that were made by MacNaughton statements 2012 after an undercover opMr. Desharnais. ▴ eration, dubbed Mr. Big, was “This would have never conducted. made the light of day if it weren’t part of anDefense lawyer Patty MacNaughton had other investigation. They received it impropearlier argued the evidence from the cell erly in another investigation and now they phone was not admissible to the trial as it are trying to use it. If it were weak or strong was obtained through an unlawful search evidence, it all could have been done above and seizure. The cell phone was seized during board. They didn’t bother to do it properly.” another unrelated investigation.

Crown Prosecutor Bruce Ritter said invesLast week, Don Lee, a civilian member of tigators appeared to have forgotten about the the RCMP and tech crimes analyst, testified phone. “Mr. Lee learned about technological he received the cell phone in question from advances so he went to the phone. the RCMP in June 2012 and was instructed to “The seriousness of the breach is tempered analyze it. “I did not see a search warrant for or lessened by the police thinking they were this phone. The search was incidental to an acting by lawful means at the time. Other arrest,” said Lee, adding he did not access it than the Mr. Big operation, the photos help right away because it was password protected us because the time of the photos puts the so it was placed into an exhibit locker. victim in the presence of the the accused.”

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Convicted murderer launches appeal

BY ERIN FAWCETT Express staff

Convicted murderer Mark Lindsay, who was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 16 years, last year, has launched an appeal.

Lindsay, 29, was found guilty of second degree murder in May. He was charged in 2011 after the body of his then girlfriend, Dana Turner, 31, was found in a ditch near Innisfail.

Lindsay, who is the adopted son of a former Edmonton police chief, has admitted to murdering Turner by stabbing her in the eyes with a pencil, strangling her and running over her with a vehicle.

Lindsay’s lawyers had argued over the course of his trial, held earlier this year, that Lindsay was not criminally responsible for Turner’s death and that he was suffering from schizophrenia at the time of the murder.

A second degree murder conviction carries an automatic life sentence with parole eligibility to be decided.

Both the crown and defense presented a joint submission of 16 years in prison before Lindsay would be eligible for parole.

An appeal was filed with the Alberta Court of Appeal on Nov. 25th. No date for the hearing has been set.

Meanwhile, during the trial

defense lawyer Kent Teskey said Lindsay was mentally ill at the time of the offense.

MARK LINDSAY “Mr. Lindsay was profoundly ill in 2011 when the index offense took place,” he said, adding that records show that Lindsay has suffered from mental illness since 2005. “Mr. Lindsay has a disease of the mind which is schizophrenia and that was not contradicted (throughout the trial). Dana Turner died a horrific, violent and tragic death,” said Teskey.

He added the question is what was the mental state of Lindsay during that time?

He said even though Lindsay has admitted to substance abuse, Lindsay would not continue to show any signs of psychosis if it was substance induced like the crown had alleged during the trial.

“We heard that once withdrawals are complete, symptoms should subside,” said Teskey. “Mr. Lindsay continues to be psychotic with abstinence and continues to be psychotic today.”

Defense Lawyer Curtis Steeves added Lindsay believed that Turner was a supernatural woman. “He was scared of this supernatural woman that he was about to kill.”

Teskey added Lindsay’s ‘delusional system’ got completely out of control as he continued to believe there were healers and assassins and he was going to be killed imminently.

Meanwhile, Crown Prosecutor Bina Border said there was unreliability in the evidence presented during the trial. “(Mr. Lindsay) was not suffering from mental illness to warrant NCR (not criminally responsible),” she said. “He was not in a psychotic state at the time of the offenses. Mr. Lindsay knew his acts were morally wrong.”

Crown Prosecutor Ed Ring added there was, “Abundant evidence to support Mark Lindsay was aware of his actions (at the time of the offense). He expressed no fear of Ms. Turner before he stabbed her and videos leading up to the offense show Mark Lindsay to be acting normal in demeanour.” efawcett@reddeerexpress.com

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Officials say new ‘Speed on Green’ will bolster traffic safety

BY JOSEPH HO Express staff

One City official believes the evidence shows that the use of Speed on Green will improve public safety in Red Deer.

Director of Community Sarah Cockerill uses Calgary, which has used the technology to nab drivers speeding through intersections since 2001, as a case study.

Cockerill said that from 2000-13, the number of fatal collisions where Speed on Green technology was used, dropped to zero.

Further, collisions causing injury decreased by 4% and total collisions dropped by 7%.

“So statistically speaking, we believe it will make our community safer, make our pedestrians safer and is being implemented in our high-collision locations,” Cockerill said.

Now that council has approved the project, there’s a three-month notification period before the cameras start working. Then a 30-day grace period.

Cockerill is expecting the program to start this summer.

During budget talks last month, council heard that City administration looked to municipalities of comparable size and found a number that already use the technology: Calgary, Edmonton, Grande Prairie, Fort Saskatchewan, Lethbridge, St. Albert, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and Strathcona County.

Cockerill said research since 2013 has shown that 6 to 7% of collisions

across the province are attributed to unsafe speed. That number jumps to 27% when it comes to fatal crashes.

Locally, Speed on Green has been a recommendation of the Traffic Safety Working Group, a committee mandated to decrease the number of crashes that result in property damage, injury and death.

To do so, they are targeting aggressive drivers.

There are 10 high-risk intersections in Red Deer. They are defined as those where motorists are habitually ignoring traffic laws, or where there are high volumes of pedestrians and where conventional enforcement would be dangerous.

“In Red Deer in particular, we ran a trial in the summer period where we had over 400 people speeding through a high-collision location which was alarming for us,” Cockerill said.

Council approved the project in a 5-3 vote, with Councillors Buck Buchanan and Dianne Wyntjes opposed, as well as Mayor Tara Veer.

For Buchanan, he said there’s a perception in the community that the decision was made to generate revenue.

“They’re looking at me and saying, ‘Well, this is just nothing but to make money’,” Buchanan said.

He also wanted to hold off on issuing fines.

“Let’s try and educate folks on what they need to do or what the proper thing is to do,” he said. “Down the road, you can bring in the revenue piece versus right off the bat, we’ll give folks tickets.”

During debate, the councillor had suggested using the cameras on a pilot basis.

Speed on Green is expected to net the City $250,000 in ongoing revenue, which administration states is a conservative estimate.

Councillor Paul Harris, who sup-

ported the decision, said he’d prefer to issue demerit points instead of fines, though that would require proving the identify of the offending driver.

He rejects claims that the City is milking a “cash cow,” as he expects some will call it.

“I have no trouble charging a fee to

somebody to get them to change their behaviour. We do that all the time,” Harris said.

“It’s penalizing the people that break the law and those same people are saying it’s a cash cow. That makes no sense to me whatsoever.” joseph.ho@reddeerexpress.com

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opinion Reflecting on the tragedy in Quebec City The tragic shooting at a Quebec City mosque over the weekend has sent shock waves across the country.

At 7:50 p.m. on Sunday, gunfire was reported at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Quebec. Six men were killed and five were critically injured as a result.

One suspect, Alexandre Bissonnette, was arrested on site.

He faces 11 charges - six counts of first degree murder and five counts of attempted murder using a restricted firearm. No terrorism charges have been laid and a motive is not yet known.

Bissonnette, 27, is a student and has been described as an introvert and a far right fanatic. He did not have a previous criminal record.

An act like this is so rare in Canada. We are, sadly, no strangers to hearing of similar incidents like this happening across the globe, but when it happens in our own country, it is almost unimaginable - especially in a place of worship.

We as Canadians are used to going about our days without much concern for safety and terrorism. But in a day and age where that is changing globally, Canadians must pay closer attention, because as we’ve seen, we are not immune.

The troubling truth is that really there is no place that is safe.

The fact that this heinous act happened in a place of worship where people gather, hold services and have fellowship is particularly disturbing.

Not to say that we should always be on guard to the point of paranoia, but we do need to be aware of the changing world that we live in today.

After the tragedy, political leaders offered their condolences.

“Tonight, I am heartbroken to hear of a deadly shooting at a mosque in Sainte Foy, Quebec, during evening prayer,” said Premier Rachel Notley. “On behalf of Albertans, my heart goes out to the victims of this attack and their loved ones. We stand in solidarity with all Muslim Canadians and all of those grieving in Quebec.”

Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann issued the following statement in reaction to the shooting.

“Words too often fail us during tragedies like these. My heart goes out to the victims of this despicable and unthinkable act, and the loved ones they leave behind,” he said. “It is heartbreaking to see such malice directed at innocent people in their time of prayer. I join with those across the country in standing in solidarity with our Muslim neighbours and friends, and condemn the hatred and bigotry which birthed this heinous attack.”

Here in Red Deer, locals can honour those affected by the tragedy. A candlelight vigil will take place Wednesday night at City Hall from 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. to honour the victims of the massacre. We can all stand strong together for those affected.

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The all-day breakfast wake-up call The three-meals-a-day standard is slowly becoming generates a significant amount of its revenue between 6 more an ideal than a reality – ask McDonald’s and mil- a.m. and 9 a.m. is getting anxious. lennials.

Offering free coffee helped McDonald’s establish itself More than a year ago, McDonald’s Restaurants in- as a breakfast contender. Since 60% of all breakfasts eaten troduced all-day breakfasts in the United States. Now, outside the home include a coffee, McDonald’s Canada McDonald’s Canada is slowly rolling out the all-day break- knew the free coffee offer was the hook it needed to fast, testing it at several locations across the country. move the profitable McMuffin. It also likely knew that A&W Food Services of Canada will follow suit shortly. all the top breakfast restaurant chains in Canada have The blurring of time divisions between meals is be- achieved higher sales when their coffee gained market coming more obvious as millennials start to gain a hold currency. With tea and now cold brew, things are going to get interesting again. in the marketplace.

And all-day breakfasts will continue to The tactic was predictable. Over the last 10 Sylvain years, institutions like universities and colleges change habits.

Charlebois have moved away from setting specific hours However, given global demographic trends, for meals, to accommodate schedules and fastthe company may actually be late to the table. paced lifestyles.

All-day breakfasts are already well established While baby boomers want to indulge, millenand successful in the casual, full-service and nials want choice. Most boomers still prefer to brunch domains like Cora’s, Eggsmart, Ben eat breakfast at home. Millennials, on the other & Florentine and Tutti Frutti. hand, eat on the go. According to new research But you need time to eat a meal at one from Mintel, 65% of boomers eat breakfast at of these establishments. A weekend brunch home most days, while 60% of millennials eat with friends is enjoyable but its impossible to breakfast somewhere else. And if millennials manage through the week, with daily comprepare breakfast at home, more than 80% of the meals mutes and other obligations. In fact, we’ve seen some will take less than five minutes of preparation. Most of consolidation in this sector of late, which may indicate that growing this business faces headwinds. it is ready-to-eat bars or juices.

The ever-complicated morning rush is disrupting market Many food service companies have seen the divide rules and forcing the food industry to revise its approach between breakfast, lunch and dinner erode in the last to serving breakfast. year. The pursuit of convenience seems to be trumping McDonald’s is just trying to capitalize on this monu- the traditional view of how individuals pace themselves mental demographic shift. through an average day.

When McDonald’s committed to the all-day breakfast We eat when it fits our schedule – and it rarely does. strategy in the U.S. in September 2015, the price of the Eating at the desk or even eating while walking is becompany’s shares was $96. Now share prices are up by coming a new normal. More than 60% of those people almost 25% and same-store sales are up 6% from last surveyed in the Mintel study who work full-time claimed year. So it was a highly successful strategy. they seek portable food solutions almost daily.

At the same time, the company added menu items with There are even suggestions that the three-course meal healthier ingredients like the ‘super food’ kale to appeal is slowly disappearing, replaced by one complete course to millennials. that includes all the proteins and fibres one needs.

In Canada, McDonald’s is also aggressively catering to Time itself is perhaps food’s most powerful foe. millennials. It plans to offer only hormone-free chicken As consumers, we aren’t willing to invest time in our in a few years and cage-free eggs by 2025. The company’s breakfast, so the food service industry is investing in our procurement process is being completely transformed. breakfast for us.

As a breakfast space, McDonald’s Canada has made Sylvain Charlebois is dean of the Faculty of inroads. With offers of free coffee and its McCafe ap- Management and a professor in the Faculty of proach, it’s giving Starbucks, Tim Hortons and other coffee Agriculture at Dalhousie University. His column is shops a run for their money. Any Canadian business that distributed through Troy Media.

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Chamber hears of changes to province’s electricity sector

BY JOSEPH HO Express staff

ENMAX President and CEO Gianna Manes was the speaker at Wednesday’s luncheon hosted by the Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce at the Black Knight Inn. She talked about the major changes that are occurring in the province’s electricity sector.

Part of that is technological, with advances in electricity storage and electric vehicles on the way. But the biggest shift has been the greater focus on the environment.

“The largest change we are incurring right now has to do with the increased emphasis on environmental regulation. Here in Alberta, we will be on a path to retire our coal plants,” she said.

“We must replace that generation with something that is cleaner but also reliable and affordable.”

The Alberta Government’s Climate Leadership Plan calls for phasing out coal-fired generators by 2030 and to have roughly a third of electricity

to come from renewable sources.

That time-frame is only ‘just around the corner’ for their industry, Manes said.

In her speech, Manes said the company had reduced its reliance on coal to zero per cent in 12 years.

“Our generation plants today are 86 per cent natural gas and an Alberta-leading 14 per cent wind as our renewable,” she said.

She named other policy changes that will impact the sector, including: the restructuring of the electricity market, introduction of energy efficiency programs, distributed generation and the carbon tax.

The implementation of these must be pragmatic to ensure that power is safe, reliable, affordable and increasingly sustainable, she said.

“We have got a number of investments that we are developing and preparing but we need to see the rules first. We need to understand the environment in which we’re going to invest,” she said.

During the question-and-answer period, Manes

also addressed ENMAX’s status with the termination of its Power Purchase Arrangement (PPA) last year.

PPAs allow companies to buy power from a generation plant and sell it. However, ENMAX and three other companies have ended their agreements using a clause that allows them to do so if the government passes laws that make them unprofitable or more unprofitable. In this case, it’s the carbon tax levied onto greenhouse gas emitters such as coal-fired plants.

“ENMAX on a good year makes about $150 million a year,” Manes said. “When they changed the regulation, our go-forward projection for the last five years of those PPAs was we were going to have to pay $600 million.”

“The additional cost of carbon clearly made those plans unprofitable.”

The Alberta Government contends the clause in question was enacted illegally, challenging it in court.

“The ‘Enron clause’ purports to give power

companies the option to hand off unprofitable Power Purchase Arrangements (PPAs) to the Balancing Pool, effectively passing their financial losses and risks on to consumers. It is estimated that the clause will cost up to $2 billion between now and 2020, when PPAs are set to expire,” reads a government release from last July.

Manes said her company has not resolved its dispute with the government yet. But she said ENMAX’s decision to end its PPA was foreseeable, clear and well-supported by law.

Manes joined ENMAX in 2012. Prior to that, she was the senior vice-president and chief customer officer for Duke Energy, based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

She has been named CEO of the Year by Electricity Human Resources Canada, among Alberta Venture’s Top 50 Most Influential People in 2015, and one of Canada’s most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network. joseph.ho@reddeerexpress.com

A look at the Alberta Provincial Police There has been a lot of discussion recently about the future of policing in Red Deer. What is often forgotten is that from 1901 to 1943, Red Deer had its own City police department.

What is also forgotten is the fact that for 15 years, from 1917 to 1932, Alberta had a provincial police force with regional offices in Red Deer.

The creation of the Alberta Provincial Police (A.P.P.) was rooted in the First World War. With so many men serving overseas in the military, there was a shortage of manpower for police. While the Royal North West Mounted Police (R.N.W.M.P.) had been providing police services across western Canada since 1874, the federal government decided it would be best to focus its reduced police resources on national security and federal legal matters.

Another factor, although not explicitly mentioned, was the implementation of Prohibition in Alberta.

While the federal government offered political support to this new provincial legislation, there was a realization that laws against the sale and consumption of liquor would be difficult to enforce. Hence, the federal

authorities were quite happy to have a police force other than the R.N.W.M.P. handle such enforcement.

The federal government served notice in 1916 that it was ending its provincial contracts.

To its credit, the Alberta government was able to get its replacement police force into place

by March 1st, 1917.

That was made possible by recruiting many members of the R.N.W.M.P. for the A.P.P. As the A.P.P. got organized, a decision was made to divide the province into five geographical divisions. B Division was created for Central Alberta, with Red Deer as the regional headquarters.

In establishing the relationship with the municipal police, it was agreed that the A.P.P. would, “Investigate and prosecute all criminal cases and infractions of provincial laws” (including breaches of the new Prohibition legislation), while the Red Deer police would, “Attend to all sanitary work, collections of licenses and prosecutions for infractions of City bylaws.”

The changes to policing came at an opportune time.

One of the immediate consequences of the prohibition of alcohol was an astonishing

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amount that the province had previously paid to the federal government for the contract with the R.N.W.M.P. As the Depression continued to deepen, the provincial government finally decided in 1932 to disband the A.P.P. It negotiated a new contract to get police services from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (the new name for the R.N.W.M.P. which had been adopted in 1920 after an amalgamation with the Dominion Police).

In order to provide its own regional offices, the RCMP in September 1932 signed a $55 per month lease for the two-storey brick building on the northwest corner of Ross Street and 49th Ave. The building had previously been used as a taxidermy shop.

The City acted as the landlord, although the City police department continued to have its own offices elsewhere.

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the old Wigwam Men’s Club on the corner of Gaetz Avenue and 54th St. from the Red Deer Social Club. That facility was then used both as the A.P.P.’s headquarters and barracks.

Later, a decision was made to move the A.P.P. offices to the provincial court house, which had been created in an old blue jean factory on the corner of 51st St. and 49th Ave. The Wigwam building was sold in 1929 and was converted into a funeral home.

As many had expected, during the 1920s, bootlegging and illegal liquor infractions became more and more common. The A.P.P. detachment found itself stretched to handle all of the cases.

With the onset of the Great Depression in 1930, the provincial government faced severe financial difficulties.

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Week of February 1-8, 2017 The Red Deer Arts Council is pleased to present a special First Friday Red Deer Comedy Show featuring Heritage Lanes Comedy Troupe - Clint Worke, Adam Mac, Zachary Landry, Bradley Layden, Danny Flexhaug, and Vidi Epson, in the Snell Auditorium at the downtown library. This group of comics will take turns making the audience laugh in this family-friendly event which starts at 6 pm. The adjacent Kiwanis Gallery, hosting the exhibit, ‘Selfies: Mixed Media’

by Renu Mathew will also be open from 6 to 8 p.m. Refreshments will be served. No charge, but donations are accepted.

SINGING VALENTINES! To provide a Valentines gift that will be remembered forever, say ‘I Love You’ with a Singing Valentine from the WildRose Harmonizers.

The Harmonizers will have quartets available to provide a valentines gift message in the form of two tender love songs sung in gentle close harmony delivered to the home, workplace, seniors residence or anywhere on Saturday, Feb. 11th or Tuesday, Feb. 14th. The cost is $40 which includes a rose and a picture.

For bookings, call Fran at 403347-0436 or Ralph at 403-3479852. Book early as bookings are limited. Deadlines are Feb. 10th for Saturday delivery and Feb. 12th for Tuesday delivery.

The Spruce View and District Lions Club’s annual Horse Cutter Poker Rally (Saddle Horses Welcome) runs Feb. 19th at Double Tree Village (nine miles west of Spruce View on Hwy. 54 to RR 41 then north to the village).

Registration starts at 11 a.m. with the rally starting at 12:30 p.m. Five dollars per card, and there will be a concession as well. For more information, call Ray Stanton at 403-728-3875. It is not necessary to have a cutter to participate. Just bring a sense of fun and some warm clothes.

Here are a list events that are happening at the Cronquist House in 2017 - on Feb. 14th there will be a Valentines Sweetheart Dinner at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $150 per couple or $170 for a private room. There will be a six-course meal. On Feb. 20th, there’s a Family Day open house from noon to 4:30 p.m. with house tours, chili and a bun, hot

coffee, tea and cocoa. On March 1st, a St. David’s Day Tea runs from 2 – 4 p.m. at $12.00 per person and on March 17th there will be a St. Patrick’s Day Tea from 2 – 4 p.m. at $12 per person as well. On April 21st, there will be a spring tea from 2 – 4 p.m. and on May 2nd, the Cronquist Tea House opens and will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Fridays. On May 13th, check out the Mother’s Day Tea from 12:30 – 4:30 p.m. Call 403-346-0055 for reservations!

Are you a Senior and celebrating a birthday between Jan. 1st and March 31st? The MLAs for Red Deer (Barb Miller and Kim Schreiner) are jointly-hosting a birthday party for you!

the need to learn scripts, or to work with complex sets, costumes or make-up. It distills the pure experience of a stage performance, providing a relaxed atmosphere for both participants and audience. We work with some of the best scripts in the literature. Join us in Red Deer’s newest theatre group and participate in the pleasure of being ‘on stage’, where the fun starts from the first minute. We meet every second Thursday at the Timberlands Branch of the Red Deer Public Library (in the same building as the Barry Wilson School - 300 Timothy Drive). Open to all ages. For more information, call Lionel at 587-679-6222.

organization whose goal is to make the Health Benefits of Tai Chi available to all. Come and try it out with no obligation.

Wear comfortable clothing and bring flat soled indoor shoes.

Central Alberta Singles Club is sponsoring a dance Feb. 18th at the Innisfail Royal Canadian Legion. Music by Runaway Train. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

Music starts at 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Call Elaine at 403-341-7653 or Mattie at 403-307-1751. Randy Hillman returns on March 25th and Lost Highway plays on April 29th.

Randy Hilman and Hot Spur play on May 27th, and Triple Nickle performs June 24th. Runaway Train performs on July 29th.

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The birthday celebration will happen March 4th, from 1 - 3 p.m. at the Golden Circle. We’re limited to 120 guests so be sure to reserve your spot early by calling The Golden Circle at 403-343-6074. Please RSVP

by Feb. 16th. Come join us for birthday cake, refreshments, celebration, and to meet your local provincial politicians!

Compass for the Caregiver: are you looking after a friend or family member, call CABIS and join the Caregiver Course from March 1st to April 19th.

Call Lorraine at 403-341-3463 for more information.

Wanted: fabric donations, yarn and notions for GrammaLink-Africa Fabric Sale April 22nd at Gaetz United Church. Call Gloria 403-342-6482 or Jane 403343-1073 not later than April 11th for pick up of donations or further information.

Readers’ Theatre gives you the experience of performing in a theatrical production without

Red Deer Arts Council and Red Deer Public Library are pleased to present Selfies: Mixed Media

by Renu Mathew which runs in the Kiwanis Gallery to Feb. 19th.

Yoga YARD: Yoga Alliance of Red Deer. Register now for our Winter Session: Classes run through March 12th. All our classes are a great way to start off the New Year and are sure to keep you warm mind, body and soul. Something for every level. Please register early. Full details at www.reddeeryoga. ca or call 403-550-9240. You can also email info@reddeeryoga.ca.

FLK Taoist Tai Chi Beginner Classes start this month. It is not too late to come and play Tai Chi with us. We have daytime and evening classes in Red Deer, and Innisfail, as well as evening classes in Sylvan Lake, Lacombe and Rimbey. Check out our website at www.taoist.org to find a time and location that works for you. FLK Taoist Tai Chi is a non-profit volunteer

The Central Alberta Council on Aging is holding a meeting on Feb. 7th at the Golden Circle Seniors Resource Centre starting at 9 a.m. The topic is ‘Meet Your Alberta Council on Aging Executive’ with speakers president Fred Olsen and community outreach coordinator Laureen Guldbrandsen. The focus of discussion will be an update on the Alberta Council on Aging, the Senior Friendly and Outreach Program, 50th anniversary plans, and questions and answers.

Everyone is welcome. For more information, contact Shirley Thomas at 403-343-0767. There will be a $4 charge at the door.

The Feb. 2nd First Thursdays in the Snell at the Red Deer Public Library presents violinist Cristian Neacsu and pianist Debra Bakland with a program including works from Beethoven to Bartok 12:15 - 1 p.m. in the The Snell Auditorium. No admission charge. A free will donation will be accepted at the door. Coffee

RDE and tea provided by Cafe Noir.

Downtown Sounds at Gaetz - ‘Out of Doors’ featuring pianist Alison Kilgannon. Piano works of Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy and Bartok. The concert takes place Feb. 5th at 3 p.m. Tickets at the door - $15 single/$30 per family.

Daytime Documentaries - Feb. 8th from 2-4:30 p.m. in the Red Deer Public Library, Downtown Branch, Snell Auditorium. He Named Me Malala: An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December of 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

Join us at the library for light refreshments. If you plan to bring a group, please contact us at 403-346-4576 ext. 1500.

Benalto & Area Rural Crime Watch Society general meeting runs Feb. 23rd at 7 p.m., Benalto Leisure Centre, Ag. Grounds.

Guest speakers - Protective Services Peace Officers Brett Miller, Lacombe County and Alissa Firmston, Red Deer County. The topic is ‘Deterring crimes of opportunity through pro-active planning for your property’. Other BARCWS Liaison in attendance will be Sylvan Lake RCMP Cst. Carlos Da Silva.

BARCWS memberships are $25 for 5 years and RCMP clearance.

For more information, call Dave More at 403-746-3429 or Sue Banting at 403-896-7189.

Perogie Supper runs Feb. 23rd from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Parish Hall (3932-46th St) in Red Deer. Everybody is welcome.

Tickets will be available at the door. No advance ticket sales.

Adults - $14; children - 10 years and under - $7. For more information, call 403-782-5828.

Golden Circle continues with Thursday night dances - admission is $7 per person and everyone is welcome. For more information, call 403341-4672, 403-347-6165 or 403-342-2875. The AllSorts play Feb. 2nd. Black Velvet perform for a Valentine’s Dance on Feb. 9th and Purt’ Near Country plays Feb. 16th.

Silver & Gold plays Feb. 23rd.

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City’s withdrawal from CAEP won’t end partnerships, officials say will continue to do.”

It was during budget deliberations that council approved its 2017 membership fee, but also passed a motion to give one year’s notice to withdraw from the regional economic development alliance.

The City’s membership costs $39,933 — calculated at 40 cents per capita.

Instead, the City wants to work with CAEP on a per-project basis.

CAEP is a regional economic development alliance consisting of more than 40 municipal members and associate members, originally formed to present one voice on behalf of municipalities to the provincial government.

Altogether, the organization

BY JOSEPH HO Express staff

Red Deer’s expected withdrawal from the Central Alberta Economic Partnership (CAEP) does not signal that the City is turning its back on regional economic development, according to the councillor who prompted the anticipated exodus.

“We do so many other initiatives with so many of our neighbours,” said Councillor Lawrence Lee. “We touch base with them on so many things whether it’s the urgent care centre in Sylvan Lake, a multiplex in Penhold, an agricultural operation in the County or Lacombe. We have all those initiatives that we still

UP AND UP - Theresa Setso, 8, climbed up a climbing treadmill at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum this past weekend.

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Formal notice has not yet been received, said CAEP Chair Patricia MacQuarrie, but she’s looking forward to a continued relationship with the City of Red Deer, even if she doesn’t know what that will look like yet.

“We’re always in conversations with the City of Red Deer so over the next year, we’ll be having conversations about what potential opportunities are there in the future for working with them,” MacQuarrie said.

Even without the City, the

organization will go on, she added.

“We still have a partnership of about 200,000 people in our municipalities,” she said.

Lee said talk about exiting CAEP has been ongoing as the City started to do more of its economic development planning in-house, focusing on Red Deer’s interests, such as sports tourism and downtown redevelopment.

“We have now allocated our own resources and staff to handle those because we have very specific projects: Riverlands and now the revitalization of downtown strategy, those types

of things we’re trying to capitalize on,” he said.

“We absolutely want to keep our ties with CAEP in terms of any support we can lend them on a project-specific basis.”

MacQuarrie said CAEP’s work is about, “Empowering communities in their own economic development activities.”

One example of that is gathering statistics and generating reports on economic indicators. That data is available to members or can be provided to investors.

A current project is www. investcentralalberta.ca. It’s a map-based program that lists

all industrial and commercial properties for sale in the region.

But it’s more than an inventory of what site selectors can choose from on behalf of industry.

MacQuarrie said the program taps into a municipality’s GIS (geographic information system), allowing users to narrow their searches.

“The data layers within the program are extensive. If somebody’s looking for a piece of land, they can put a variety of different parameters into the program to see what kind of demographics are in the area.” joseph.ho@reddeerexpress.com

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Drive to collect instruments for new band programs moves forward

BY JOSEPH HO Express staff

The Foundation for Red Deer Public Schools collected 81 used musical instruments, with a combined estimated value of $30,000 for new band programs across the district.

Some of the instruments put on display this week included trombones, saxophones, trumpets, guitars, amplifiers and a tuba.

The goal is to put them in the hands of students who otherwise wouldn’t be able to access music education.

“We’re just very, very grateful this community has come forward,” said the Foundation’s executive director Bruce Buruma.

“It does support our equity priority. It’s an important project of the Foundation

for Red Deer Public Schools. And we just want to let the community know how valuable these instruments are.”

Not all of them will end up being played.

Buruma said some will end up being used in the metal shop or art studio.

“Some of them are good. Some of them are not so good. But they’re here. People have done it with passion, commitment and for that, we’re grateful.”

There were some interesting personal stories behind the donated items.

One clarinet belonged to a mother’s late daughter.

“It took five years for her to do that because she thought her daughter would have done the same thing,” he said.

The Foundation also received a tuba and a saxophone from a man who lost his memory in a gliding accident.

“Just recently he started to get some

of his memory back but not enough to remember how to play, which is why he doesn’t need the instrument and donated it to us,” Buruma said.

Allison Klavano and Calista LonsdalePangle, music teachers at Normandeau and G.H. Dawe respectively, were happy to see the added inventory.

As former elementary schools that have transitioned into middle schools, their band programs are relatively new.

Lonsdale-Pangle’s Gr. 6 band program is the first of its kind in about 15 years.

This means those students will get to stay in house. Until now, they’ve been bussed to Normandeau.

Klavano said the school doesn’t like to charge fees for programs. But access to a musical instrument is a barrier to the education.

“We want to provide them band free

of charge. This allows us to do that,” Klavano said.

They note that music education costs money and not just for the instruments.

Music stands, reeds and cork grease for woodwind instruments, and the sheet music itself, all adds up.

The benefits of playing music however, are well documented.

For one, there’s a correlation with higher math scores.

But there are also life skills such as resiliency, commitment and dedication — music is the vehicle through which these are taught, Buruma said.

The Foundation is an arms-length charitable organization from the school district that provides funding for programs that do not receive public money.

Like the district, the organization has three key priorities: literacy, high school

completion and equity.

Last summer, organizers held a musical instrument drive, asking the community to donate quality used instruments to help students whose families wouldn’t otherwise be able to provide them.

The drive involved several partners.

While schools were closed during the summer, instruments were collected at fire stations in the City.

The Optimist Club funded the repairs, done by 53rd Street Music, which also appraised the instruments’ value so that charitable tax receipts could be issued.

As well, Buruma said the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra is partnering to provide some enrichment programs.

Instruments continue to be donated and Buruma estimates 100 will have been collected by the end of the year. joseph.ho@reddeerexpress.com

Research into early onset dementia being done at RDC

BY MARK WEBER Express staff

A study into what caregivers of those with early onset dementia are facing is currently being carried out at Red Deer College.

The results, which should be available by April, will be a critical tool in not only building awareness of the condition, but will also help to show the often overwhelming challenges families face when a loved one is diagnosed.

Dementia is more common in people over the age of 65 but it can also affect younger people. Early onset of the disease can begin as young as the 30s, 40s or 50s. To that end, EODA (Early Onset Dementia Alberta) provides a voice for those families affected by dementia.

According to the EODA web site, EODA provides a voice for those families affected by early onset Alzheimer’s and dementia.

“Officially, the diagnosis of ‘early onset’ applies to anyone diagnosed before the age of 65, but most of our partners were diagnosed before the age of 60, and some of our group before the age of 50.”

The diagnosis can be devastating, as often they lose jobs, their driver’s license and their independence, notes the web site.

The organization holds conferences in Red Deer each fall - this year’s is set for October.

“We are often on the lookout for applied research possibilities where we can partner with community organizations on projects that have mutual benefits involving our students. Our

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relationship with Bernie and her organization has been hugely valuable to us, and we’ve formed a terrific connection,” said RDC Psychology Instructor Greg Wells, who is also a psychologist.

“She identified some priorities, and one of them was looking at the unique challenges of care providers to people with early onset dementia,” he said.

“In discussing that, we thought that one direction we could take would be to look at their experiences.

“We have the opportunity to benefit the community, establish a partnership and fulfill our applied research mandate.”

Jamie Prowse-Turner, also an RDC psychology instructor, said that oftentimes with early onset dementia, the voice of the caregivers simply isn’t being heard.

“The problem is that unless you are 65 or older, a lot of the services out there aren’t applicable to you,” she said. “A lot of these families have individuals under the age of 65 who have these unique challenges, and they have unique challenges themselves. And no one is really listening to them.

“When you look out into the research, there are all of these caregiving studies but they are all for those typically above 65.

There’s some great research there, but those challenges are not the same necessarily - there’s overlap but there are definitely differences.

“By allowing this research to get out there, we can actually show a more accurate picture of what these care providers are facing. It’s not something they are getting a lot of help with now.”

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Onset Dementia Association (EODA), said awareness is growing but there’s a long ways to go yet. To that end, the research being done at RDC should help tremendously with the mandate of the EODA in both influencing and shaping policy to help families affected.

“It takes us to another level where we are more confident, and we will be more confident in advocating for the care in the community, and for continuing care. It’s really important,” she said. “We are finding that becoming more engaged with (research participants), that they are becoming more empowered.

And that they have hope.

“This is a real gift for me to able to see this happening with Red Deer College.”

Rozalyn Vickery, a student at RDC, is conducting the research via interviews with caregivers of those looking after persons with early onset dementia. She

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has, so far, 35 people signed up to talk to. She is still looking for anyone interested in taking part - they can contact her via email at rozalyn.vickery@rdc.ab.ca.

“This is an opportunity to share their entire experience with a sincere, invested listener where they don’t have to filter anything out,” she said. “Knowing this has helped encourage the respondents. And usually when they are done, they are often quite surprised at how good it actually feels to be able to speak openly.

“It’s very rewarding to know that we are giving these people an opportunity to share those experiences, especially when I hear about what are those specific and unique challenges they are facing.

“But being able to document their experiences - I have faith that this will lead to change.”

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Edmonton’s Chloe Albert set to perform Feb. 4th in City

BY MARK WEBER Express staff

CLASS ACT - Presented by the Central Music Festival Society, the Edmonton-based Chloe Albert Band will be performing at the Elks Lodge on Feb. 4th. photo submitted have a vision that was terribly different from Albert, who has one child and one on the way, when I recorded Dedicated State. The only thing has pointed out that her musical passions of late that I remember consciously knowing was that stretch from Sam Cooke and vintage soul to old I wanted to come out with a good vibe album country and blues. More specifically, her canon - I remember consciously writing a few songs to date falls into the intersection of folk, country, with that intent of wanting to put and pop, with jazzy and bluesy out some good-hearted stuff. I highlights. ▾ think that came from gigging It all comes through beauti“I ALSO KNOW with Dedicated State. fully on Dream Catcher, which THAT THERE ARE SO was the number one most played “I mostly played solo all of the album of 2013 on the CKUA time, I didn’t really play with the MANY INSPIRING band back then,” she said. “And EXPERIENCES AHEAD radio charts.

It also reached number one on I remember thinking at some of OF ME.” Halifax’s CKDU radio and was the gigs, I don’t feel like playing number five on the Canadian all of these sad songs, but it’s all Chloe Albert Folk/Roots/Blues charts before I have,” she added with a laugh. ▴ “It’s not like my whole album was being nominated for a Juno a downer either - I just felt like I Award for Adult Contemporary wanted some more positive, pick-me-up songs. Album of the Year.

Otherwise, it was like another shot in the dark - a Albert has notched a number of accolades innew producer, a new studio. I was was just kind cluding Album of the Year, Female Artist of the Year and Folk/Roots Recording of the Year at the of open to the experience.”

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Presented by the Central Music Festival Society, the Edmonton-based Chloe Albert Band will be performing at the Elks Lodge on Feb. 4th.

Born and raised in Edmonton, Albert was raised in a musical household with her mom’s acoustic guitar always in easy reach, and the likes of Hendrix, Raitt and The Beatles on the family box, according to her bio. She also started on piano at age five, guitar in her teen years and eventually tried her hand at percussion.

“There was kind of a clear time - I think that was right around when Lilith Fair started - I was around the age of 15 or so,” she explains during a recent chat of her first thoughts of getting into music.

Indeed - singers like Sheryl Crow, Sarah McLachlan and Paula Cole provided plenty of inspiration to the budding young songstress. “I remember going to Lilith Fair and discovering all of this music. So I got my own guitar and I started learning a few chords from my mom.

“That’s when I thought, I would love to do this.”

She had also sung in choirs throughout her growing up years, so a compelling vocal talent was flourishing as well.

Later on, she was off to MacEwan University’s music program in the vocal department, graduating in 2004. After that, Albert continued to find her own path musically - writing and performing and preparing to lay down tracks on her debut CD - Dedicated State which was released in 2008.

The recording process proved a fascinating experience in and of itself. “There is so much to learn in the studio,” she recalled. “It’s a whole other art form. The other big thing is that I recorded a fully produced album with a full band sound, and I hadn’t played with one before. So these songs were being completely transformed from me and my guitar to these full arrangements.”

It was a big process and it was challenging, and then there’s the back and forth of working so closely with a producer as well. But ultimately, Albert was pleased with how Dedicated State came together. “In the end, I was really happy with it.

“With each recording experience, every time you work with someone different or get some time in the studio, it’s such learning process.”

That debut CD also won Albert an Emerging Artist of the Year Award at the Canadian Folk Music Awards and support from CBC and CKUA networks.

Strong showings in songwriting contests at Nashville’s East Side Music Festival and the Calgary Folk Festival also provided encouragement, as did her work waitressing and performing at Edmonton’s Blue Chair Cafe.

Her latest disc, Dream Catcher, was independently released in 2013.

“As far as the style and production, I didn’t

Edmonton Music Awards as well.

Through it all, she has certainly found her calling.

“It’s the idea of creating something out of nothing,” she said, recalling the times prior to the release of Dream Catcher when songs were coming together and the vision for the album was gradually coming to fruition in her mind.

“That always inspires me. Having gone through that, I know there is this potential for something completely unknown to be born and that excites me.

“Just performing, too. There are times when you aren’t super stoked to be at a gig, but then it blows your mind and you leave feeling really inspired by the people you met or the people you may have touched,” she said. That always keeps me going.

“I also know that there are so many inspiring experiences ahead of me.”

For ticket information for her Red Deer performance, check out www.centralmusicfest.com. mark.weber@reddeerexpress.com

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world meets Cat in the Hat, and then the Cat kind of throws the kid into the story, too,” said Layden. École Secondaire Notre Dame High School There are about 32 songs featured in the profine arts students will be staging Seussical the duction, which the students have been working Musical at the Red Deer Memorial Centre Feb. on since early last October.

9th to Feb. 11th at 7 p.m.

“I think most of the kids didn’t know the show There will also be a matinee on Feb. 11th at initially, and so (it’s been great) watching them 1 p.m. kind of fall in love with it through the process Seussical brings some of the favourite Dr. Seuss and seeing themselves in the characters because stories and characters to life. it’s very relatable,” she said. “You know Disney The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton movies - you can watch them as an adult and who protects an abandoned egg left by Mayzie La get something out of them and watch them as Bird and trying to convince the jungle creatures a kid and get something out of them - but it’s that Whoville does exist. a different ‘something’ depending on what age The performance shows the powers of friend- you are at? ship, loyalty, family and community.

“That’s how Seussical is - there are messages “It was a show produced in the early 2000s about community, family, friendships and beby two big Dr. Seuss fans who thought it would lieving in yourself. It’s really applicable for all be great to make a musical out of it,” explained ages,” she said, adding the show has been double Stephanie Layden, drama instructor at Notre cast as well which also helps to spread the roles Dame High School. “So they took a few story around a bit. “Our cast numbers 32, and then lines and rehashed them into one.” we have a students’ technical theatre team of 15 According to Wikipedia, Seussical was created and a pit band of 14 students. We also have two

by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty based on community guests that are joining us as well. the books of Dr. Seuss (mainly Horton Hears a “Each interpretation of each role is also so difWho!, Horton Hatches the ferent,” she said. “They see Egg and Miss Gertrude something different in the Enter online at McFuzz). The Grinch character, or they think a www.reddeerexpress.com even has a cameo. for a chance to win free tickets particular line should be It made its debut on delivered differently. You Broadway in 2000. After interpret things in a way a Broadway run, the production spawned two that makes sense to you, and I think that’s what U.S. tours and a UK tour. It has indeed gone on to makes things so interesting. be a much-loved classic for schools, communities “I also think it’s interesting to see each of the and regional theatres. kids find their own person that they connect to “It’s framed as though this child from the real in the story, and see themselves in the story -

ONE FISH TWO FISH - Students at Notre Dame High School put the finishing touches on their production of Seussical the Musical during a dress rehearsal last week. The production runs from Feb. 9th to Feb. 11th at the Red Deer Memorial Centre.

Zachary Cormier/Red Deer Express that’s really neat,” said Layden, who co-directed last year’s rendition of Mary Poppins and prior to that was at the helm for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.

For Layden, who has been at Notre Dame for three years now, there couldn’t be a more fitting line of work.

“I think on a day-to-day basis what makes it special is seeing students flourish in a way that is different from an academic classroom,” she explained. “And really grab hold of what they are passionate about, and run with it,” she said.

“In the bigger picture of things, what inevitably makes me emotional at every show is watching their success. And seeing the audience stand at the end and applaud all of their efforts. Also,

seeing the kids being recognized for their efforts and their talents, their time and their energy, and to see that be appreciated by the community,” she said.

“For me, I love to teach and I love watching the kids grow, but the cherry on the cake is having the community see it as well, and seeing the students get publicly recognized for their hard work.”

Tickets are $20 per person and children under five years of age are free. They can be purchased from the school’s main office or from any cast/ crew member.

For more information, visit http://www.mtishows.com/seussical. mark.weber@reddeerexpress.com

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The best success plan for getting in top shape I have many tricks to get me to my goals and achievements, and as a trainer since the late 90s, I have seen a lot of things work, and a lot of things fail.

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My heart grew a bit bigger, and stronger. Instead of lots of little pumps per minute, it has fewer, but more powerful pumps per minute. That makes me more efficient over long distances.

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Annual bridal gala set for this weekend

BY ERIN FAWCETT Express staff

The annual With This Ringâ&#x20AC;ŚBridal Gala is set to take place in Red Deer this weekend.

The event will take place Feb. 5th at the Parkland Pavilion at Westerner Park from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door.

Tickets are available online at www.bridalgala.ca or at The Bay, Novia Mia and Black Knight Tuxedos. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People can expect to see and learn whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new

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Fashion shows, door prizes, grand prizes and much more make for an exciting day. The bridal show offers businesses a focused target market of those looking to meet their specific wedding needs.â&#x20AC;?

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At the upcoming spring bridal gala, there will be a variety of exhibitors showcased. Two fashion shows will also take place - one at 11:30 a.m. and the second at 2:30 p.m. Seats are limited for both shows. As well, there will be a presentation stage where local experts will share their knowledge. efawcett@reddeerexpress.com

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RACE DAY - From right, Brandon O’Connell of the Red Deer Central Lions Speed Skating Club led the pack through the first few laps of the Mixed 3,000 Metre Mass Start during a competition at the Golden Circle Skating Oval on Saturday.

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RDC indoor track team impress at first competition of the season

BY ZACHARY CORMIER Express staff

New Red Deer College Indoor Track Head Coach Kari Elliott is a happy camper after seeing her athletes excel at their first meet of the season this past weekend.

The RDC men’s and women’s track teams are off to a flying start to the indoor track season after taking second and third place overall respectively at the first Running Room Grand Prix at Grant MacEwan University on Saturday.

“It was a fabulous weekend. We really didn’t know what to expect, to be honest,” laughed Elliott, who is in her first year as head coach of both the cross-country and indoor track programs at the school.

Elliott said the team was looking to use the weekend as a benchmark to gauge how they measure up to the other indoor track programs in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference.

“I’m very pleased with how everyone did,” she said.

At the end of a busy day of track events at the Kinsmen Field House in Edmonton, runners from RDC were able to score top three finishes

in a number of different events.

Fourth year runner Jordanna Cota led the way for the women’s team, picking up a first place finish in the women’s 3,000 metre run and claiming second in the women’s 1,500 metre.

The strong finishes were another accolade in an already strong season for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing major, who placed sixth overall out of 115 athletes at the CCAA Women’s CrossCountry Running National Championship in Sault Saint Marie in November.

“Considering that she did both of those long events in one day, it was pretty amazing,” said Elliott of Cota, whose 18 points on the day put her in a first place tie with SAIT’s Ricki Doyle in the event’s individual rankings.

Meanwhile, resident sprinter Sadie Borgfjord contributed 10 points of her own to the team with third and fifth place finishes in the 300 metre dash and 600 metre run respectively.

Borgfjord also played a key role in helping the women’s 4x400 metre relay team post a third place finish in the premiere team event of the day.

“She’s pretty phenomenal to watch over 300 metres and a solid, solid ringer for our 4x400 metre relay team,” Elliott said.

Other standouts for the RDC women’s team included Amy Severston, who pulled in 10 points with top five finishes in the 1,000 metre and 1,500 metre, and Shaelyn Moltzahn, who finished top six in the same two events for eight points.

Overall the team finished the day in second place with 57 points, 13 points behind the first place Grant MacEwan and 19 ahead of third place Grande Prairie.

Elliott said the ladies team will be looking to continue to improve while holding on to their solid second place spot behind Grant MacEwan, which is a university competing at the college level in the sport.

“Individually, of course, a few of our athletes are able to best their athletes but as a whole our team may not be able to do that this season.

What we can hope to do is maintain that second spot and really dominate that on the women’s side,” she said.

The men’s side was a slightly tighter affair.

RDC’s men’s squad squeaked into the third spot overall after edging out SAIT by just a single point.

“It was a photo finish relay that got us that extra point, so by no means do I feel like we’ve

got third spot and we’re going to hold onto it. It’s going to be a bit of a fight,” Elliott said.

New arrival Adam Wass and veteran Nathan Goode lead the way for RDC on the men’s side with 10 points each.

Wass, who joined the team after Christmas, put up strong performances in the 1,500 and 3,000, finishing fourth in both events.

“He came into the team after Christmas not being at the top of his shape, so I know that with another month of training we should see him improve quite dramatically.”

Goode, meanwhile, came up big in the shorter events, finishing fifth in the 300 metre and third in the 600 metre.

“He was kind of under the radar for our cross country season and he came out on Saturday and ran a really great 600 metre,” Elliott said, noting overall, both teams will be looking to continue to improve their physical conditioning as they gear up for provincials in early March.

The indoor track athletes will be back in action on Feb. 12th when they head to SAIT for their second meet of the season and final tune up before the ACAC championship. zcormier@reddeerexpress.com

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Olympian seeks to get students talking about mental health at RDC

BY ZACHARY CORMIER Express staff

Students and fans who turned out to support the Red Deer College Kings and Queens last Saturday were treated to a visit from a very special guest.

Two-time Olympic speed skater Anastasia Bucsis of Calgary made the trip out to Red Deer last weekend to speak to high school and college students about the importance of maintaining their mental health ahead of tip-off on the Queens game as part of the CCAA’s nation-wide Make Some Noise for Mental Health Campaign.

“It’s a difficult conversation to have.

There’s so much stigma, unfortunately, attached to mental health issues and I think pairing it with athletics is such a good vehicle to have that difficult conversation,” said Bucsis, who has been a long-time advocate for mental health.

Bucsis, 27, has been competing in speed skating for 23 years. Over that time she has faced struggles with anxiety. She was diagnosed with clinical depression in 2013.

“I think that as athletes we’re kind of programmed to go bigger, faster, stronger, harder. You don’t admit to having any faults or any weaknesses.

When a bunch of athletes and people who want to further this discussion come together, I think that’s making the whole community a lot better,” she said.

During her time at the college, Bucsis spoke to female high school basketball players and was around during and after the games to sign autographs and pose for photos with students to promote good mental health.

“It’s absolutely a difficult conversation to have,” said Bucsis, noting that mental illness affects one in five Canadians.

ANASTASIA BUCSIS “It’s one of the leading illnesses in this country and oftentimes the most misunderstood and silence really furthers that stigma.”

The Olympian’s visit also helped to wrap up RDC’s week-long ‘take some time’ campaign, which encourages students to take a minute to think about how they manage their own stress levels, which can be a huge factor in mental well-being.

Bucsis said that taking the step to speak about her own struggles with mental illness publicly wasn’t an easy thing to do.

“It makes you feel very, very vulnerable. I think as human beings, whether you’re an athlete or not that’s not a very comfortable feeling,” she said, noting that she has now found a place in her life where she can recognize that having the conversation was worth it.

“I’m at a place where I can celebrate the struggles and the triumphs. I realized that we come together every two years and watch summer and winter Olympians come together and cele-

brate their victories but it’s just as important to take a step back and know we all struggle and we’re all human.

We’re in this together.”

Over the course of her speed skating career, Bucsis has represented Canada in long track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

In 2013, Bucsis came out publicly at the Calgary Gay Pride Parade.

Just before the Queens’ game Bucsis also announced that Kings Guard Spencer Klassen was the winner of RBC’s Make $150 Count bursary, which goes to a local charity or project.

Klassen said the money would go towards his team’s Black Top project, which will see Kings players host an outdoor basketball clinic somewhere in the community and use the proceeds to refurbish a court in Red Deer. zcormier@reddeerexpress.com

Local gymnastics club gears up for busy month

BY ZACHARY CORMIER Express staff

It’s going to be an extremely busy month for gymnasts in the City.

Over the course of the next three weeks, Red Deer’s Exelta Gymnastics Club will play host to three competitions in the

City including two Exelta Cup competitions and a provincial qualifier.

According to Exelta Gymnastics Head Coach Barb Bilsborrow, the Club will be a popular place this weekend as they host the Women’s Artistic Exelta Cup. “We have 550 athletes at-

tending, which is a record for us,” said Bilsborrow of the meet, which will be held Friday through Sunday at the Collicutt Centre.

Meanwhile, the Club will host a one day long Men’s Artistic Exelta Cup the following weekend featuring just under 100 athletes.

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They will then welcome athletes from all over the province as they host the first Trampoline and Tumbling Alberta Cup of the season from Feb. 18th-20th.

Bilsborrow noted that Red Deer will be well represented at all three competitions.

“In all three there’s many, many,” she laughed, adding that if she had to guess she would say there will be 80 to 90 Red Deerians competing in this weekend’s women’s competition alone.

Meanwhile, around 15 athletes will suit up for the local club on the 12th while about 33 will take to the mats for the T&T event at the end of the month to vie for a spot in the provincial competition.

The team will also have three national level athletes competing at the T&T event.

“It was an Olympic year this year and we did definitely see a higher number of enrolment this year for us, which typically happens which is great for us,” Bilsborrow said, adding that many of the athletes — especially the ones who compete at the

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She noted that Exelta’s role as one of the host sites for the nation’s largest sports meet is one of the reasons that they are hosting so many high profile events.

“Again we’ll do the Exelta Cups and we’ll host provincial championships next year as a test event for the Canada Winter Games,” she said.

As the games draw closer, Bilsborrow said the team has a few athletes that are gearing up to make a run at competing at the event.

The club will have five athletes that may qualify to go to the trials and try out for the team including two in the Artistic program and three in T&T. “We definitely are looking to hopefully have some kids try out for that team. It is very, very hard to make but we always try to keep our fingers crossed.”

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elite level of the sport — have dedicated an immense amount of time to the sport.

“Competitive (gymnastics) is a life-long sport.”

Elite level gymnasts often will dedicate anywhere from six to 27 hours per week to training depending on their age and most athletes will start the sport at the age of five and continue to compete in it right through to the end of high school.

“It is a huge commitment but definitely a life-long commitment. You definitely accumulate the numbers when that happens, which is great.

We love that,” Bilsborrow said, noting that right now is an exciting time to be a gymnast in Red Deer.

Though in the short term, she said, the club will be focusing on preparing for this month’s competitions, they’ve also got their sights set on the horizon as Red Deer prepares to host the 2019 Canada Winter Games.

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Brightening up those long, dark winter days As I reflect on the weeks of January, I am encouraged by the warm(ish) weather we have had and am grateful that this month has gone by quickly.

January can be difficult for many people and the increases in seasonal depression and anxiety are alarming.

Social media has opened conversations to increase awareness on this topic and people are encouraged to share more than ever which is a very positive sign. For people who may not be able to afford or face traditional counselling, it is a wonderful forum to talk about the things in our heads that can cause us to worry or give up.

Seasonal depression can sneak up on you when the days are dark and dreary and some days it can be difficult to even poke your head out of your

front door.

The reason so many people take vacations this time of year is to perk up their spirits and to grab some sunshine to get through January and February.

But what about those who can’t afford a vacation or aren’t comfortable or anxious about travelling? For those, a pick me up can start at home.

Nothing lifts the spirits like sound, sight and smell and we can incorporate these items in our own homes easily and affordably.

Inexpensive excursions such as your local pool or one evening in a hotel with a hot tub will also help you feel like you have jetted away to more tropical climes – but let’s get back home for a minute.

Indulge yourself with citrus of all kinds – essential oils, candles and the real thing.

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DREAM HOME - This upstairs living area at the STARS Home Lottery show home in Laredo, built by Mason Martin Homes, shows how a few unique touches can give a space oodles of personality.

Zachary Cormier/Red Deer Express Lemons and limes are wonderful to have at home and are always handy to make a refreshing drink. Citrus has long been known to encourage calm, peace and hopefulness and it is an instant lift to your senses.

Cheerful in sight and scent, these citrus fruits will recharge your batteries even on the darkest days and are a small investment in health and happiness.

Using the citrus palette in a room where tasks can be boring

like kitchens or laundry areas will encourage you to spend more time in these areas and will work to brighten your day and lighten your load.

Download and fill your home with the sounds of a spirited mariachi band or some tracks that transport you to the Hawaiian Islands.

It is a temporary retreat but it can help to lift you out of the doldrums. Who says you can’t make a frosty margari-

ta in January? Plan a tropical evening where you indulge on pineapple and coconut yogurt smoothies and watch old reruns of Magnum P.I. and mentally whisk yourself away to the place where palm trees grow.

Spread on some suntan lotion for added scent effect.

When life looks and feels grey, it’s time to add a little colour and creative to your days for a quick pick me up.

Saunter around your home

in a fluffy white terry robe as you sip a cocktail and listen to tropical waves on the shore. It is a cheap vacation and it might just give you that lift to ride the wave all the way through to spring. Perk up your home with some bright colours and catch as much sunlight as you can, even on chilly days.

Kim Wyse is a Central Alberta freelance designer. Find her on facebook at ‘Ask a Realtor/Ask a Designer’.

Prepare is the key word when entering the housing market Most first-time buyers don’t know exactly where to start when home shopping and may also not be aware of who is involved in the transaction.

There are many professionals that can be used in a real estate transaction.

In most cases a visit to your local mortgage professional is your first step. Our job is to educate you on the mortgage market and to determine how much you can qualify for while not just providing a great wholesale mortgage rate and program but also a great mortgage lender that has choice and flexibility for you and your family.

Once you meet with us, we are going to assess your current financial position, while at the same time review your credit bureau for quality and then proceed to find out how much of a home you can afford. We will discuss your budget for today’s needs while at the same time also discuss future requirements

along with current qualifying guidelines to ensure that you are fully educated on the market. This year’s mortgage word of the year will be ‘prepare, prepare, prepare!

Once we’ve determined how much you can qualify for, it’s time to start researching the home market.

Getting together with a local licensed real estate professional or new home builder is where you’ll start learning which way you’d like to go.

Is a new home what you want or is an existing home with all the work already completed more your style?

The realtor’s job is to show you around your city’s neighborhoods that you’ve pre-selected together where you see yourself living, and then also to help you negotiate the purchase (again, there’s more than just price to consider).

Good realtors and home builders with a lot

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of experience will be able to help you navigate through good properties and bad, along with helping you avoid bad locations as well.

Once you have chosen a home to buy and have an offer presented, two things are going to happen - working on completing your financing approval, then hiring a home inspector to walk through and look in all the nooks and crannies of the house to ensure that the home is safe and to inform you of any defects.

The home inspection should provide you with peace of mind, but be wary that not every defect can be detected.

A few months back a friend of mine bought an older home in Edmonton and a lot of renovation work had been completed. The home inspection went very well (and this after a couple of previous offers on homes fell through on the home inspection) however the sewer lines underground weren’t viewed, and only six weeks after they moved in they are stuck with a $26,000 repair

bill on the underground lines that connect to the city’s lines.

A terrible outcome that may have been prevented had they had the lines viewed with a camera, which the plumbers found very quickly.

Mortgage brokers, realtors, home builders and home inspectors are not created equal.

A wise young prominent New York developer once said, “If you are going to hire one (of the above), make sure you hire a good one.”

Ensure you do your homework on each professional you choose as this is likely one of your biggest purchases and things can go very badly quickly without the proper professionals backing you.

Finding out how much experience they have, what types of volumes they perform along with client testimonials and a professional attitude will give you the peace of mind that you are making the right decision. Happy house hunting!

Jean-Guy Turcotte is a mortgage broker with Dominion Lending Centres - Regional Mortgage Group in Red Deer.

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HEATED CANOLA buying Green, Heated or Springthrashed Canola. Buying: oats, barley, wheat & peas for feed. Buying damaged or offgrade grain. “On Farm Pickup” Westcan Feed & Grain, 1-877-250-5252.

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

Warehouse Space

3140

WAREHOUSE SPACE WITH OFFICES

directly below Parkland Mall in Riverside Light Industrial, 4619 - 63 St. 7455 sq. ft. including mezzanine - 6660 main Áoor, 795 mezz. level, A/C in ofÀces and showroom, 16x16 OH door, 22x36 compound, small industrial paint booth.

Chuck 403-350-1777.

Garage Space

3150

SINGLE CAR, RED DEER $150/mo. 403-348-6594

Farms/ Land

4070

PRIVATELY OWNED pasture, hayland and grainland available in small and large blocks. Please contact Doug at 306-716-2671 for further details.

4090

Manufactured Homes

WE ARE “Your Total Rural Housing Solution” - It’s time to let go & clear out our Inventory. Save on your Modular/ Manufactured Home.

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SUV's

5040

3 BDRM, close to dwntwn, mn. Á., all util. incl’d, $1250/mo. 403-348-6594

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

SYLVAN LAKE, 3 furn., 2 bdrm., dishes, bedding, etc., $900-$1200/mo.

Incl. all util. 403-880-0210

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

3 BDRM. townhouse in Red Deer for rent or rent to own 403-887-4670 or 403 350-6194 3 BDRM. townhouse, close to school and all amenities, 6 appls., fenced yard.

Avail. now. 403-506-0054

2009 BUICK Enclave 112,000 kms Loaded w/dual Sunroof, Fwd, A/T, Beautiful SUV. $15,800. Payments are available.

Reward Lease Mngt. 403-358-1698 harvey@rewardlease.com

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Red Deer Express

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View the Clues Contest

Read to Win!

Below are five phone numbers that appear inside our clients’ ads in this week’s Express (includes Special Features & Supplements) Simply match the phone number to the business, fill out the contest form and drop it off at the Express office prior to draw deadline listed.

Note: Express office is closed between noon and 1pm daily.

403-346-6402 403-347-8008 403-346-8599 403-596-1958 403-556-6440

________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________

Enter in person at the Red Deer Express #121, 5301 - 43 St.

WIN A $25.00 GIFT CARD TO LAS PALMERAS

HOW TO PLAY: Fill-in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 only once.

Each 3x3 box is outlined with a darker line. You already have a few numbers to get you started.

Remember: You must not repeat the numbers 1 through 9 in the same line, column or 3x3 box.

ANSWER

3630 - 50 Ave. Red Deer

403.346.8877

www.laspalmeras.ca

A LITTLE TASTE OF MEXICO

DRAW DATE: FEBRUARY 28TH @ NOON

January Winner: Frieda Halonen Name: _______________________________________ Phone: _______________________________________ #121, 5301 - 43 St.

403-346-3356

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