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City, AHF talking

Top doc urges all to get their annual flu shotsGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

With the temperatures getting chillier, Alberta Health Services once again wants to get Albertans thinking about getting their annual flu shots.

The clinic in Grandin Park Plaza opened last week, and Dr. Christopher Sikora, medical officer of health for the Edmonton zone, said that, as always, it’s very important for as many people as possible to go out and get their influenza immunization.

“Immunization is the single best way to prevent getting sick from the flu on a yearly basis,” he said. “And the flu shot is part of what has to be done every year. It’s good to make it a routine; it’s good to make it a habit. We’re certainly able to offer this to our population, and

we’d really like to see everyone make this part of their health program.”

Sikora said that usually only about 30 per cent of eligible individuals come out to get their shots, although others may get them outside AHS clinics, through pharmacists or family doctors.

“We’d like to get as many people in the population protected as possible. That’s what our want is because it helps reduce disease, it helps reduce absenteeism from work, helps reduce death, helps reduce disability, helps reduce hospital admission and, at the core of this, helps reduce people getting the flu,” he said, noting that those over 65 and health care workers are particularly at risk. “That’s what we want, and to get that, we need as high a rate as possible. … As long as people get the flu shot, I’m thrilled.”

With no pandemic strain making headlines this year, like H1N1 has in the past, Sikora said

it’s tougher to get people out.“There does seem to be a certain amount of

complacency. It does come around every year, people get hit with the same messaging, and they get comfortable with what happens,” he said. “What we want people to know is that influenza is a dangerous disease that kills hundreds to thousands of people every year across Canada. It causes 20,000 hospitalizations on an annual basis. Those are hospitalizations that should be preventable.”

Sikora also recommends frequent handwashing and staying home from work if you’re sick as other ways to help prevent the spread of influenza.

The flu shot clinic in Grandin Park Plaza is open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday until Nov. 24.

Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leaderA member of St. Albert Catholic High School Skyhawks senior girls volleyball team spikes the ball against R.F. Staples of Westlock during Western Canadian Challenge action at SACHS on Friday.

Power play

GLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

According to the City of St. Albert, everything’s hunky-dory when it comes to negotiations on a new stewardship agreement with the Arts and Heritage Foundation.

City manager Patrick Draper gave city council a verbal update on the negotiations at their regular meeting Monday afternoon, saying everything was going swimmingly from the City’s perspective.

“I would characterize [discussions] as extremely positive, extremly productive, and I envision we would have a very effective agreement in place in the not-too-distant future,” Draper said.

AHF executive director Paul Moulton was out of the country this week, and board chair Dr. Alan Murdock could not be reached for comment before deadline.

But AHF marketing and communications director Danielle Antoniuk did issue a brief statement: “We are optimistic the ongoing negotiations will produce a partnership agreement that is in the best interests of the community.”

Draper said the two sides

have been meeting on a regular basis, and there is “a high level of consensus” on the key points both sides want to make sure are in the agreement, with up to 20 changes being contemplated.

He also said the two sides are working hard to improve their communication with each other, which was one of the sorest points earlier this year when a new agreement was first brought up.

“We have collectively been developing a steering committee model that would see staff from both AHF and the City meet at minimum quarterly to work through the variety of projects and communications and other tasks that would ensure both organization are fully up to speed on current and going-forward plans,” Draper said.

The only wrench in the plans so far, Draper noted, was that the AHF is scheduled to hold its annual general meeting on Nov. 14, where they may appoint new board members who would need extra time to be brought up to speed on the situation, possibly necessitating an extension of the current agreement of two or three months.

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Wayfinding guru visits city

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderWayfinding expert Todd Mayfield looks over a map of St. Albert at the Business and Tourism Development headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.


Todd Mayfield found his way to St. Albert — now he wants to help others do the same.

Mayfield is a wayfinding specialist with Destination Development International, and was in St. Albert this week to assess how people are currently guided around the city by signage and how it could be done better.

“Primarily we want to create function, create navigation for people — visitors and locals — to get from point A to point B and connect the dots,” said Mayfield, who flew in from Florida. “The second objective is to support the brand through aesthetics. Doing it through signage is a relatively inexpensive way to start giving a facelift to the environment without moving buildings or large masses of property.”

Destination Development International is the same company that helped St. Albert come up with its “Botanical Arts City” brand a couple of years ago.

Joan Barber, manager of

marketing and research for the City of St. Albert’s business and tourism development department, showed Mayfield around the city on Tuesday, and said wayfinding is an important step in the process of building a brand.

“We want to get people moving around St. Albert efficiently and effectively, and we don’t want them to miss anything,” she said.

Overall, Mayfield said that St. Albert has some problems, but they can be fixed.

But one big area of improvement would be St. Albert Trail.

“[Visitors] don’t understand where the 700 block is, or where the 100 block is,” he said. “That seems to be kind of confusing. So logically we have to come up with a way to demonstrate which block they’re in. It could be as simple as putting a series of signs on lampposts, just before intersections.”

He’d also like to see signage letting people know about other attractions in other parts of the city so that they stay longer.

However, he doesn’t want to complicate the message too much for motorists.

“We tend to not want to slap the logo on all those signs, because you only have a limited time where a driver can comprehend a message, so you don’t want to load it up with stuff,” he said.

But foot traffic must also be considered in the system.

“We want to look at areas where we have the most pedestrian traffic and be able to make pedestrians aware of retail or other activities that they normally wouldn’t see at the pedestrian level,” Mayfield said.

Mayfield said that this week would be spent doing research and assessment, including a photo survey of the city’s current wayfinding system. He would then take that back to his studio in Florida to identify challenges and potential solutions.

“The objective, then, is to get a buy-in to a direction before we get into any designing,” he said. “Once we satisfy everyone and have a good direction to head in, then we’ll come up with concepts.”

The final implementation is likely to be phased over time, and take about three years to fully complete.

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PKN set for encoreGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Organizers of Pecha Kucha Night in St. Albert are hoping for a repeat performance next month.

Grow St. Albert, the not-for-profit organization that is organizing the event, announced the speakers for the second instalment of Pecha Kucha Night in the city this week, and director Gilles Prefontaine said he is hoping for an encore of the great turnout they saw for the first go-round in July.

“The word is spreading, and there’s a lot of interest in terms of the Pecha Kucha Night [concept]. It’s a format people enjoy, and more of a social environment,” Prefontaine said.

Pecha Kucha Night events usually feature about eight speakers touching on various topics, but each is limited to 20 slides of 20 seconds each, a total of six minutes and 40 seconds.

Speakers confirmed for the second St. Albert event — to be held Thursday, Nov. 15, in the Park Room at the Enjoy Centre — include:

• Stop Abuse In Families (SAIF) Society executive director Doreen Slessor;

• Arts and Heritage Foundation executive director Paul Moulton;

• Kidsport St. Albert founding member Kathleen Range;

• Marketing consultant Kurian Tharakan;

• St. Albert Minor Hockey Association referee-in-chief Joe Becigneul;

• St. Albert Heavenly Rollers roller derby league co-founder Celeste “Petra Phi” Thiesen; and

• Grief counselor Krista Osborne.Prefontaine said one of the speakers

he’s most looking forward to is Thiesen, as her experience should make for a great presentation.

“It’s both a fun topic and enjoyable, but the other side of it is, it’s bound to have some very interesting images and pictures to go along with it,” he said.

He also hopes the interest is strong this time around as it will help build the case for expanding out of the Enjoy Centre’s Park Room and into the much larger Mayflower Room next year.

Tickets for Pecha Kucha Night are $12 each in advance and are available through www.pknstalbert.com. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and speakers start at 7:30 p.m. There may also be tickets at the door for $20 each.

Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leaderHunter Kuzik spars with his grandfather during the #SOMEFight fundraiser at Hayabusa Training Centre in Campbell Park on Saturday afternoon. The event brought people out to learn about mixed martial arts and raise money for the Hunter’s Fight for a Cure Foundation, which helps children with rare blood disorders.

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150th committee delivers final report

Offer pending on lands


It was quite the party, and now city council has the official word on how it all went.

The committee in charge of the City of St. Albert’s 150th anniversary celebrations delivered their final report to city council on Monday evening, and committee chair Margaret Plain said that the celebration of the city’s past should be felt in the future.

“There are records of many community celebrations throughout our history, and now we have added another one — or several, depending on how we define the activities of 2011,” Plain said. “We worked in the present, but we had an impact on our immediate, and hopefully long-term, future.”

The committee was first struck in November 2007, and worked up until the final part of their mandate, a statue of local volunteer Millie Seitz, was unveiled in July 2012. Other members of the committee included Kevin Jones, Barry Bailey, Doug Kennedy, Kent La Rose, Carol Watamaniuk, Abi Iskander, Susan Jones, Bill Newton, Dawne Fowler, Donald Thompson and Nicole Craft.

Councillors were happy with the report and the job the committee did over the past few years.

“I look back on last year fondly with some great memories, and as I read your report, it brought them all back,” said Coun. Wes Brodhead, who served as a council liaison to the 150th committee for part of its tenure. “One thing that stuck out to me — and it continually surprises me, although I’m not sure why — is that it’s gratifying to be part of a community that volunteers as much it does. The 20,000 hours of volunteer activity in support of this only

goes to show the money the City set aside was well-spent.”

The final report did not, however, contain any financial statements, as there are still about $11,000 in holdback funds from federal government grants that have yet to be received, mostly around the volunteer appreciation statue.

“We couldn’t complete any of the final financial documents until the legacy project had been installed and paid for,” Plain said, noting that the City’s financial department does have all the committee’s financial documents on file. “Then we can submit our final report, and once they receive the final report, they are able to release the holdback funds.”

Other forthcoming legacy projects include a grant for a public art project, a bench and a grant to the Spirit of St. Albert Society, which is continuing several of the events from the 150th celebration into the future.

The total expenditures for the committee came in at $1,263,500.

One sore spot, though, was the slow sales of some merchandise with the 150th anniversary logo. But the committee made the best of it — for example, donating several unsold blankets to the Youville Home for the use of residents there before their office closed in March.

One more legacy from the celebration, Mayor Nolan Crouse announced Monday, is that a time capsule will be installed in the mayor’s office at St. Albert Place containing items from the 150th anniversary celebration, with a copy of the committee’s final report the last thing to go in before it is locked for the city council of 2036 to open.

“We’ll have to live carefully,” Plain joked to Crouse as they mused about the prospect of being around to see it opened.


Long-vacant lands in St. Albert’s southeast corner could see development very soon thanks to a pending deal.

The lands, spanning from Campbell Road in the west to Veness Road in the east and from Boudreau Road in the north to Anthony Henday Drive in the south, are owned by Apex Casino owner Bruce McPherson, but he said Monday that he has a deal in the works to sell the roughly 60 acres to a developer.

“We’ve got an offer from a developer, but they have to do their due diligence, so it’ll probably be two months until we get any decision back from them,” McPherson said.

He added that it has been in the last year or two that consultants have been brought in to figure out what to do with the land and if the best use for it is industrial or commercial.

Either way, though, the land is in a prime position to capitalize on Anthony Henday Drive and the thousands of drivers it carries every day.

“Especially with the offramp at Campbell Road, that makes it a pretty unique and desirable piece

of land, I think,” McPherson said.McPherson said that the

developer is looking at a mix of light industrial and commercial uses, and that’s pretty close to what he had envisioned for it from day one.

“I wouldn’t mind seeing a mixed bag of some industrial as well as a bit of commercial and perhaps some retail,” he said. “But it really

doesn’t matter that much to me.”But McPherson stresses that the

deal isn’t done yet, noting that he had a deal in the works about four months ago that ended up falling through.

“It’s on the table, but I’m not getting too excited about anything until they say they want the land or they don’t want the land,” he said.

Map courtesy City of St. AlbertApproximately 60 acres of land around the Apex Casino are the subject of an offer to buy made recently by a developer, who wants to put a mix of commercial and industrial uses there.

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We Day sparks student passionsGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Students from across St. Albert are back in town today, hopefully with their fires for helping others reignited.

Students from both Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools and St. Albert Public Schools made the trek Wednesday to the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary for We Day, a conference designed to get young people thinking about social justice and ways they can make a difference in the world.

Corissa Tymafichuk, a Grade 10 student at Paul Kane High School, attended a We Day event last year in Vancouver, and said it was an “amazing experience” that she couldn’t wait to do all over again.

“My favourite thing about it last year was the whole stadium filled with people around my age who wanted to change the world,” she said. “It was really inspiring.”

We Day in Calgary featured speakers like Larry King, Rick Hansen and Martin Sheen, and musical performances by Hedley, Shawn Desman and Lights.

Tymafichuk was one of 22 students

and three staff members from Paul Kane to go to Calgary, as was assistant principal Joanne Dodd, who said she hoped the students came back with a new perspective and a new attitude.

“People often say one person can’t make a difference. I absolutely disagree with that,” she said. “One person can make a difference. One person can lead initiatives to create change. I hope our kids come back and hear that message, that they as individuals can take some initiative to be instrumental to make change.”

Meanwhile, École Secondaire Sainte Marguerite d’Youville assistant principal Danielle Karaki headed up a group of 50 staff and students from that school to make the trip.

“We’re excited because a lot of our students are interested in social justice now, and it’s an event to pull all the students together and really help them understand that call to serve the needs of others,” she said.

About half the students from ESSMY are part of the school’s mission team, which will travel to New Orleans to help with the continuing cleanup from hurricane Katrina during spring break in February 2013.

For Dodd, having such a great

opportunity close to home is something to take advantage of.

“These are the future leaders of our world, and they need to be aware of and get inspired to do something about issues,” she said.

Students in Paul Kane’s social justice and environment clubs had the first crack at going to Calgary.

Karaki said it’s also a great chance to reinforce some of the religious teachings of the Catholic district.

“Part of being a Catholic school is understanding the mission of a Catholic school, and that is that call to serve,” she said. “For our students, it’s about energizing them and getting them excited to lead a life of service.”

For Tymafichuk, when she came back from last year’s We Day, she said she was inspired to take on more projects with the social justice club at Paul Kane, especially putting an end to human trafficking.

“That’s something I feel really passionate about,” she said. “Others are doing stuff about the environment, and foie gras is something we’re trying to help end. Just lots of different things.”

For more on We Day, check out www.weday.com.

Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leaderChildren’s performer Gerry Krinsky clowns around with his cap at Wild Rose Elementary School on Friday prior to his show at the Arden Theatre on Saturday.

Hat trick


It is certainly exciting news that city council has endorsed and approved the

new economic development plan for the City of St. Albert. Before I comment on this process as chair of SAEDAC, I’d like to take a step back and make sure that citizens really understand what SAEDAC is and the value it brings.

Just as the name suggests — St. Albert Economic Development Advisory Committee — our main function is to “advise” Council on matters pertaining to economic development in St. Albert. Our volunteer board consists of members from a variety of organizations and associations in St. Albert including both business parks, school divisions, citizens of St. Albert selected by council (called members at large), the

Chamber of Commerce and NABI. In total, we have 18 members and annually select a chair, vice-chair and an executive of six members.

We work with City administration and intricately with economic development personnel to advise council on topics they request our input on or topics we as a group feel council should review regarding economic development. Our efforts involve not only seeking to get more businesses to locate in St. Albert but to review methods to ensure we keep the businesses we already have.

What makes SAEDAC so vital and successful is that council can get a cross-section opinion from 18 individuals that represent many different organizations. SAEDAC has also invited other St. Albert citizens to sit on subcommittees where a certain individual’s expertise is required.

So now that everyone knows the who, what and why of SAEDAC, I’d like to comment on the new economic development plan Guy Boston presented to council on Oct. 15. As little as 12 months ago, we had no designated industrial land, a completely depleted economic development staff, no city manager and no economic development plan. It’s hard to believe that, in less than 12 months, all of the above deficiencies have been addressed and corrected.

Kudos to council for achieving that.

In my opinion, the last piece of the puzzle was “the plan” on how to move forward and present that plan to developers, builders and, most importantly, land owners. We now have a strategic outline that has timelines on actions such as industry section planning, incentive programs, investment attraction, marketing plans, branding and tourism.

SAEDAC’s role will be to review, analyze, consult and obviously advise administration and council on each of the above topics. Will this happen overnight? Not a chance. But if everyone works as a team to accomplish the main objective — which is attracting more businesses to St. Albert — I believe everyone in this city will benefit greatly.

New plan is last piece of economic puzzle

We Day proof future is solid

Throughout history, it has been incredibly easy for one generation to blame either the one that came

before it or the one that has come after for its troubles. More often than not, though, it has been the latter, however unfair that may be.

“Kids these days,” we grumble as we clean graffiti off public property or as news reports say police are looking for underage arsonists lighting garbage cans on fire in the wee hours of the morning.

But, for the bad rap we tend to give those younger than us, it’s important to remember that these are merely a few bad apples. The vast majority of young people are idealistic and driven to help their fellow human beings. One need look no further than this week’s We Day celebrations in Calgary for proof of this.

The event saw 18,000 young people from across the province — a healthy portion of those hailing from both school divisions here in St. Albert — filling the Scotiabank Saddledome to the rafters to take in musical acts as a reward for the good deeds they’ve already done, and to hear speakers like Larry King and Rick Hansen inspire them to go back home and do even more to lift up those around them.

It’s incredibly heartening to see so many people with similar goals in one place, receiving reassurance that they are not alone. These are truly the people who will lead society in the future, and if We Day is any indication, we are in good hands.

So, while the bad apples may wind up getting the attention and their names in the paper for the wrong reason, the upstanding young citizens of our society continue to toil away in obscurity, by choice or not.

However, it is high time that we all drag them out into the spotlight for the attention they so richly deserve. To all those students and clubs raising money for those less fortunate or otherwise working to make this world a better place, we doff our caps to you.

And may you never grumble about “them kids” when you get older.

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The Dawg House is about to turn into the Bears’ Den for a night.

Bellerose Composite High School in St. Albert will play host to a preseason Canadian Interuniversity Sport basketball matchup on Friday as the University of Alberta Golden Bears host the Mount Royal University Cougars of Calgary at 7 p.m.

There is no admission cost, but the St. Albert SLAM Basketball Club will be on hand to collect donations for their community basketball programs.

“Our organization is very excited to be able to showcase university basketball to the community of St. Albert,” said SLAM president Gerry Salcedo in a press release. “Over the past few years, we have had a number of our players train with the Golden Bears Academy and play on their club teams. We are honoured that they would ask our club to host this preseason game.”

The Golden Bears are coming off a 2011-2012 season where they finished the regular season with a 14-6 record and won

the Canada West conference championship. They lost the CIS championship final 86-67 to Carleton University in March

in Halifax.“This is important

to Golden Bears basketball because it is a chance for us to

get out into the communities that support us and give

something back,” said Golden Bears head

coach Barnaby Craddock in a press release. “All of our student-athletes were minor basketball athletes at one point, so we are happy to be supporting an association like

St. Albert SLAM Basketball as it is a great chance for us to help raise some money, and it’s a great opportunity for all SLAM athletes to see high-level basketball right in their own backyard.”

Paul Kane High School grad Nick Maglisceau is entering his first year as an assistant coach with the Golden Bears after spending nine years playing basketball professionally in Spain.

The Golden Bears open their CIS regular season with two games against the Brandon Bobcats on Nov. 2 and 3 at the Saville Community Sports Centre. Tip-off is at 8 p.m. both nights.

Golden Bears bring preseason hoops to city


Staff and clients at a local not-for-profit organization are going to new heights to help out their peers on the other side of the world.

About 13 staff, clients and family members from the LoSeCa Foundation, located in Campbell Business Park, are heading to Africa next March for what they’re calling the Rafiki Project — a mission to climb that continent’s highest peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and raise money for the Brothers of Charity, an organization that provides similiar services in Kigoma, Tanzania.

“We’re getting excited,” said executive director Marie Renaud. “We’ve all got our vaccines now, and I think every time we do something like that, it becomes a little more real.”

LoSeCa provides residential and day program supports to adults with developmental disabilities in St. Albert and Edmonton.

“Rafiki” is a Swahili word meaning “friendship.”

Renaud that the idea was hatched more than a year ago. The foundation had been struggling to find staff and brought on several employees who had immigrated from Africa to fill those gaps.

“We got to know some of these guys, and they were telling us a little bit about how shocked they were with the supports for people with disabilities in Canada, and they

were telling us about back home, where it’s pretty dismal,” she said.

One employee, Pie Buzubona, was a refugee from Burundi who had lived in Rwanda before going to Tanzania to live with the Brothers of Charity, and he went back during a summer vacation to volunteer with them.

He told LoSeCa officials that, even among the orphans the Brothers looked after, those with disabilities were picked on harshly, so they started a new house just for them.

“They’d end up on the street. They didn’t have anything, and were really unwell and mistreated,” Renaud said.

When Buzubona went back, he

took a video camera with him, and when Renaud and the rest of the Lo-Se-Ca staff saw the footage he brought back, they were “stunned” at the poverty and inspired to help.

“We were thinking how lucky our [clients] are. We’re squawking sometimes when they don’t get minimum wage at their jobs, where these guys just need clothing,” Renaud said.

Renaud said they want to raise about $16,000 for construction projects, plus another $20,000, which will pay the Brothers of Charity’s operating bills for about three years.

“We want to raise a dollar for every foot we’re climbing,” she said, noting that the peak of Mt.

Kilimanjaro is 19,341 feet above sea level.

Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, though, isn’t something that can be done without preparation. The group has been training for over a year, going on group hikes, the last of which is coming up this weekend.

“We go to Jasper together, and we’ve done two days in a row of long hikes, and backcountry camping,” Renaud said. “It was a good experience for people who haven’t hiked or felt what it’s like to not have running water. Especially some of our guys with disabilities, they’re fairly fit, but they just don’t know what this is about.”

Aside from the climb, though, the group from LoSeCa will also spend a week in Tanzania with the Brothers of Charity, volunteering at their facility and passing on some of their expertise.

“What we’ll be doing is, some of the training we do with our staff, we’ll do with their volunteers,” Renaud said.

For more information on the trip, visit www.therafikiproject.org.

While the Kilimanjaro trip will raise money for another organization, LoSeCa is hoping to raise a little money for themselves with their 11th annual live and silent auction fundraiser on Friday, Nov. 2, at the Italian Cultural Centre (14230 133 Ave. NW, Edmonton). Tickets are $60 each and are available by calling the foundation at 780-460-1400 ext. 233.

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader(L-R) LoSeCa community support worker Pie Buzubona, client Jonathan Hamilton and executive director Marie Renaud are all part of the contingent heading to Africa next March as part of the Rafiki Project.

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Servus Place gets spooktacularGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Witches and warlocks will take over the waterslides while hobgoblins haunt the hockey rinks at Servus Credit Union Place’s largest annual event Friday evening.

The recreation facility is hosting its annual Halloween Haunt, sponsored by Sobeys, Friday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., with spooky activities all over the building, including:

• a haunted house in the

Morinville Room;• a mad scientist’s lab for

younger children in the Tournament Room;

• a photo booth on the main floor, next to Booster Juice;

• a creepy crawly petting zoo supplied by Paradise Pet Centre;

• inflatable castles, games and activities in the community gymnasium and the indoor soccer fields; and

• cookie decorating, games and crafts for kids in the

second floor program rooms.Sobeys is also providing

plenty of pumpkins to participants to carve and take home.

The facility is expecting more than 3,000 ghouls and goblins to come out in costume to take part in the event.

The Landrex Water Play centre, fitness centre, Kingsway Toyota Children’s Play Area and leisure ice will remain open and available for use during the event.


The City of St. Albert and a non-profit society are putting a plan in place to work together and make sure several community events take place both next year and well into the future.

At their regular meeting Monday afternoon, city councillors heard from staff on their recommendations for funding the Spirit of St. Albert (SOSA) Society in 2013 as the society gets on its feet and takes over several events from the 150th anniversary celebrations held in 2011.

“It’s a good step in the right direction to make [these events] part of our continuous activities in St. Albert,” Coun. Len Bracko said.

Staff told council that a memorandum of understanding has been drafted between the two parties, and there will be a business case in the upcoming 2013 municipal operating budget to fund the society to the tune of $20,000 so they can put on the Family Day Frostival, the Father’s Day Soapbox Derby and the River Valley Picnic in August.

SOSA is also slated to take over Canada

Day celebrations, but declined to do so in 2013 due to turnover in their board membership, instead choosing to focus on the first three events before taking on another major one.

After 2013, SOSA will be expected to apply under the Community Events Grant Program to obtain any funding from the City.

“The intent behind the business case is to give them one year to establish a base, to develop a relationship with the community, to get partners and sponsors in the business community, and then set them free in 2014 to go after the Community Events grant like any partner would,” said recreation services co-ordinator Monique St. Louis.

Councillors also asked about SOSA’s plans for fundraising in future years to supplement any grants received from the City.

St. Louis said the society had submitted a plan last fall, but hadn’t been updated since.

“The fundraising has been slow going, but they’re very active in working on it,” she said, also noting that the Community Events Grants Program policy may have to be reconsidered to accommodate SOSA in the future, as it currently only allows groups to apply for funding for one event per year.

Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leader

Teva Rigney, 5, works diligently alongside her sister Jaden, 10, during a bracelet making demonstration at the Edmonton Tumblewood Lapidary Club’s annual show and sale Saturday at the St. Albert 50+ Club. The show also featured demonstrations on faceting and chain maille construction.

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ENTERTAINMENTLocal theatre troupe indulges in bad habitsGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

The St. Albert Theatre Troupe is about to indulge in some bad habits.

The dinner theatre company is getting set to rise the curtain on their latest production, The Nun’s Trail — a comedy involving a prison escape, mistaken identities, men dressed as nuns and a priceless diamond — tonight (Thursday) at the Kinsmen Banquet Centre in Riel Park.

Director Mark McGarrigle said it’s a different sort of story than the productions the troupe has mounted in the past, but still one with a wide appeal.

“It’s definitely not high-brow humour in any way, but it’s a good, good laugh,” he said. “It’s a good belly laugh. You get to forget about life for an hour and a half. … I think it’s going to go over very well, especially the way the actors play the parts. Everybody has some sort of redeeming quality; everybody isn’t what they seem.”

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“There’s secret passageways, and we have to build trick props and sets; we haven’t had to do any of that [until now],” McGarrigle said. “Every time we do something, we’re trying to up it a little bit, so this time, we went with sets and props and costumes.”

However, the cast features quite a few familiar faces from previous productions — including Trevor Lawless, Katie Elliott and Bob Locicero — which provides a lot of much-needed continuity for directors like McGarrigle.

“It helps with casting, kind of knowing

what actors are out there and available for you,” he said. “You know what they’re like, you know what they’re going to do, you know how they’re going to behave

and what they’re like as a character. It’s a little easier to pick some plays knowing what the stable of actors is like.”

So too does the venue, as McGarrigle couldn’t thank the Kinsmen enough for the use of their facility, both for

the run of the show and for rehearsals beforehand.

“The Kinsmen have been awesome to us;

they’ve allowed us to rehearse in their big hall that we’ll be performing in. They’ve really helped us out a lot,” he said.

This is the third production that the troupe has put on — the previous two being plays by Norm Foster — and McGarrigle said they’re starting to build up a little bit of a following locally.

“We have a couple of seniors’ groups who came out to see our last production, and they have almost doubled their sales for this one because they enjoyed the last one so much,” he said. “We’re getting a lot of return business.”

Once the curtain closes on The Nun’s Trail, preparations begin right away for the troupe’s next production, Wife Begins

at Forty by Ray Cooney, as auditions are scheduled for Nov. 4 and 5.

“We did have a break after the last time, and we found that little lull, we lost interest from people,” McGarrigle said. “And we want the actors in the next one to see the stage they’re going to act on. That’s why, while we have the stage up, we thought we would do auditions, and they can see and feel what they’re going to be part of.”

The Nun’s Trail runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from Oct. 25 to Nov. 10 at the Kinsmen Banquet Centre (47 Riel Dr.). Doors open at 6 p.m., with dinner at 6:45 p.m. and the show at 8 p.m. Tickets are $47.50 plus GST, and are available through the troupe’s website at stalberttheatre.com.

“It’s definitely not high-brow humour... it’s a good laugh.”

Mark McGarrigleDirector

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderCriminals Fingers (played by Julian Stamer, left) and Harry (played by Trevor Lawless) go over the finer points of their escape from prison in a scene from The Nun’s Trail, being put on by the St. Albert Theatre Troupe at the Kinsmen Banquet Centre starting tonight (Thursday).

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Hoskyn’s heart still with musicGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Simon Hoskyn’s heart may have stopped beating for a few minutes, but that never stopped his love for music.

A year to the day after suffering a cardiac arrest while playing basketball at Servus Credit Union Place, Hoskyn is getting back on stage, performing at the Next Christian Community (#490, 140 St. Albert Tr.) on Friday, Nov. 2.

“It’s a huge milestone in terms of my life, to just get around to the point of a year later being able to actually celebrate instead of grieving or scared,” he said. “It’s definitely been a journey throughout the year, dealing with all the implications.”

Hoskyn was playing basketball with friends when he started feeling light-headed and collapsed on the floor.

“I landed smack on my face on the floor, and was obviously not breathing,” he said. “There was a paramedic who was off-duty playing soccer a court over from us. He saw what happened and came over and asked my friends if they needed help. He treated me with CPR, and they also got a defibrillator from in the building, and he shocked my heart back into rhythm. Within 10 minutes,

my heart was going again.”While he recovered, Hoskyn couldn’t

sing for about three months, but he had recorded a song called “Life is Made of Water” just before the incident, about the journey from birth to death. It proved to be something he and his wife could hold on to.

“That song alone has been hugely therapeutic — at least it was for my wife when I was in the hospital, to have a recording of me, kind of singing about death in a hopeful way,” he said.

The cardiac arrest has changed Hoskyn’s life in more ways than just his music, though.

“Basically it’s a perspective shifter,” he said. “It’s made me thankful for all the different days I have, whether they’re good days or bad days. It’s just made me really grateful for the things I have — my family and the community that we have, our friends and our church.”

Hoskyn started his musical career in Vancouver when he was just 15 years old, playing in a punk-metal band called JustStayCalm. But he soon moved on to acoustic folk music, releasing three full-length albums: Arrest Me (2005), The Seen and Unseen (2006) and Sing of the Beauty, Say Nothing of the Pain (2009).

“I just play the stuff that I like. It just

depends on what I’m listening to,” he said.

He has also toured from one coast of Canada to the other to support those albums.

These days, though, Hoskyn is sticking close to home in St. Albert, not only because of his heart, but because he has a wife, two young children, and is studying law full-time at the University of Alberta.

“Life is definitely more than music for me,” he said, “but music remains a big part. ... Hopping in a van for two months is not really an option for me.”

It is a big enough part of his life, though, that he is planning to release another album sometime in fall 2013.

“It’s somewhat dependent on whether I get any funding [from grants],” Hoskyn said. “But I’ve got about 10 or 11 songs toward the new record, and a few more in the works. We recorded some demos this past summer toward that, and I’ve been talking to my friend Jon Anderson, who is a producer in Vancouver, about getting set up next summer to record for a few weeks.”

Simon Hoskyn takes the stage at Next Christian Community on Friday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. with guests Nathan Carroll and Brock Tyler. Admission is free.

Photo SuppliedA year after suffering a cardiac arrest, Simon Hoskyn is slated to play at the Next Christian Community Nov. 2.

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Local zombie enthusiasts are getting a head start on Halloween — even if it’s a slow one.

St. Albert’s annual Zombie Walk is set to shuffle off from the clock tower at Perron Street and Sir Winston Churchill Avenue at about 8:15 p.m. Friday, with participants shambling through downtown St. Albert to Lions Park in search of, if not brains, some Halloween treats.

Participants are encouraged to come dressed as their favourite zombified celebrity, drawing inspiration from Bill Murray’s cameo in the movie Zombieland. However, there is no requirement to stick to the theme. Organizer Sean Bedard warns, however: “Don’t expect to be treated as an average joe if you don’t dress up! The dead take no excuses!”

Participants are asked to meet up starting at about 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leaderPat Trudeau (left) and Peg McPherson, two of the three founding members of the St. Albert Painters’ Guild who are still members today, check out some of the works on display during the guild’s annual fall show and sale Saturday at St. Albert Place. This year marks the Painters’ Guild 25th year in existence, and their membership has grown from seven to more than 80 during that time.

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He’s living in Austin, Texas, and has found his way onto the New York Times bestseller list, but St. Albert will always hold a special place in Drew Karpyshyn’s heart.

A graduate of St. Albert Catholic High School, Karpyshyn was back in the city Sunday as part of the St. Albert Readers Festival (STARFest) to talk about his experiences writing for video games as well as novels based on characters in the Star Wars and Mass Effect universes.

Karpyshyn comes back to St. Albert a couple of times a year to visit family, but this is the first time he’s been back in a professional capacity.

“I love everything [about St. Albert] except the weather. Summers actually are beautiful, but they’re just too short,” he said with a laugh.

Karpyshyn was employed at video game developer BioWare when he started taking on writing projects based on BioWare products like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect.

He recently retired from the video game industry, though, to focus solely on writing.

Working with universes that have already been created by others has both its pros and cons, he said.

“I’ve loved Star Wars for a long time, so getting a chance to work in the universe was kind of a special privilege, something I couldn’t have dreamed of as a kid. It’s a lot of fun,” Karpyshyn said. “But the universe is so big and so developed now — beyond the movies, there’s all these books and comics and the television show — there’s so much going on, even I as a fan don’t know everything about it. I haven’t kept up with everything. So when you get invited to be part of that universe, it’s cool because you’re part of something huge and massive, but you think, ‘How am I going to make my mark? How am I going to stand out?’”

Karpyshyn has done just that through his Darth Bane trilogy, chronicling the rise of one of the most powerful Sith lords about 1,000 years before the original Star Wars movie was set.

Working on novels set in the Mass Effect universe, though, means he has to be able to switch between mindsets for each of the two.

“Mass Effect, I focus a lot more on the technical aspects, because I want to make sure I get the science right; it seems to be one of the

hallmarks there. Also with Mass Effect, I don’t want to say ‘adult,’ but it is a bit grittier. There’s more of the sexual stuff — not that that’s a huge part, but you can go a little farther,” he said. “Star Wars is much more PG-13 in that regard. And with Star Wars, I

tend to focus more on the tone of the fantasy themes. It’s space fantasy; it’s a big, epic, ultimate battle of good and evil. The force is much more magic, whereas I like to think that biotics [in Mass Effect] is based more on an extrapolation of potential science.”

Of course, along with those established universes come established fans, many of whom are very enthusiastic, protective and willing to jump on the smallest error.

But, having been a fan himself first, Karpyshyn is grateful for the fans’ passion, even if it does come back to bite him sometimes.

“You have to take the good with the bad,” he said. “For me, personally, I’ve had some small little minor things where some people complain, but most of the people really appreciate what you do. It’s always the case where the angry voices are the loudest, but they’re the very small minority.”

While Star Wars is best known for its movies and Mass Effect for its video games, both have spawned plenty of other media projects, like television shows and books like Karpyshyn’s. He said the appetite for such projects is based mainly on the fully realized universes that the stories take place in.

“It’s very easy to imagine yourself being

part of that universe, being drawn into that universe,” he said. “There are characters you can identify with, and you can kind of see yourself as these characters. Even if they’re not human, you can see personality traits or things you admire.”

However, Karpyshyn is set to strike out into his own universe with the publication of the first instalment of his original fantasy trilogy Children of Fire, set for 2013.

Karpyshyn describes the trilogy as a “traditional medieval fantasy” about four children from different corners of the world and different backgrounds who are brought together because they have been touched by magic, and opposing forces battle to control them.

He has been working on the story off and on for the last decade, but he said he now has the time to really craft his own universe the way he wants to.

“It’s all my own, and you want to make something people will feel drawn into, but you don’t want it to feel derivative. You don’t want it to feel like a copy of something else,” he said. “But I also want it to have the spirit of things I love: Lord of the Rings, George R.R. Martin, Guy Gavriel Kay, all this classic fantasy I grew up reading and loving. I want to capture that. … It’s little bit daunting, but I think anything worth doing is going to feel like that at the start.”

Author’s universe always includes St. Albert

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderSt. Albert Catholic High School grad and Star Wars and Mass Effect author Drew Karpyshyn talks to the audience at STARFest at the St. Albert Public Library on Sunday.

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ABest way to balance work and home life for meis just setting aside time. I make sure to thinkabout home life so work doesn’t consumeme, sometimes I even mark time off in mycalendar where I sneak away early forthe weekend or go to a day time moviewith my wife. It’s a great break and thetheatres are so much less busy.

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An Edmonton doctor is taking a lighthearted approach to a rather heavy subject at a fundraiser scheduled for next month in St. Albert.

Leading obesity expert Dr. Arya Sharma will be speaking at the St. Albert Inn and Suites on Monday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m., looking to debunk myths and shatter stereotypes about weight, all while raising funds for the Canadian Obesity Network.

But don’t mistake Sharma’s talk for a stuffy seminar — despite the serious subject matter, he instead is choosing to take a more accessible, more affable approach that he compares to a TED talk or even standup comedy.

“We’ve got a lot of good science happening and we understand a lot about obesity — what drives it, what some of the solutions are — but there’s also a lot of misinformation out there, a lot of magical thinking and belief systems a lot of people have,” he said.

“I was thinking, ‘What’s the best way to bring some of those messages out there?’ Nobody wants to go to a boring talk where

you get all the doom-and-gloom stories and shows you the kind of science that just confuses the issue more than brings any clarity. I thought somehow this could be done in a more entertaining fashion.”

That kind of candor comes naturally for Sharma.

“Forget about me being a professor, being a physician — here is some stuff that I know and things I think about,” he said. “I’ve got lots of funny stories and ways of thinking about things that people don’t normally think about.”

While the St. Albert talk will be one of Sharma’s first test drives of this concept, he thinks it is resonating so far as ticket sales have been strong.

“I think a lot of people in St. Albert are going to come out and have a nice evening, have a fun evening,” he said.

The Canadian Obesity Network is not-for-profit organization formed in 2006 to improve access to obesity prevention, treatment and management, as well as to break down social stigmas and stereotypes that surround obesity.

“It’s not just about finding better ways to manage obesity or prevent obesity; it’s about tackling issues like weight bias and the discrimination a lot of obese people face, the bullying children experience because of their weight,” Sharma said. “Those are really important issues, and those are important objectives of the Obesity Network.”

But, in the end, he hopes people come away from his talk feeling good and thinking a little differently about their health.

“I give a lot of talks to health professionals, I give a lot of talks to patients, but this is really more for the public,” Sharma said. “I want people to come out, have a good time, maybe learn something, maybe laugh a little bit, maybe go away understanding some things a little differently, maybe having a few ‘a-ha’ moments.”

Tickets to this fundraising event are $25 each and are available through www.drsharma.com or at the door.

“I want people to come out [and]

have a good time.”Dr. Arya Sharma

Obesity expert

Photo SuppliedLeading obesity expert Dr. Arya Sharma is hoping to bring a lighthearted approach to a heavy subject when he speaks in St. Albert on Nov. 5.

AARON TAYLORSun Media News Services

Members of the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry are being recognized for a decade-long initiative that has finally paid off.

In the early 2000s, two members of the U of A faculty had a chance meeting and found out that both of them had been volunteering their time to help establish a health sciences medical school in Nepal.

Eventually the project picked up momentum and, in 2010, the Patan Academy of Health Sciences accepted its first medical student.

And this would not have been possible with out the co-operation of many of the university’s faculty members.

“The interesting thing is there was

never an organized, proactive effort to attract a bigger volunteer base. I never gave a sales pitch to anyone,” David Zakus, director of global health with the faculty said in a press release.

“We’ve gone from one to two to 15 in a very natural way.”

Those 15 volunteers offer their expertise in the fields of laboratory medicine and pathology, family medicine, pediatrics, nephrology, cardiology, endocrinology, rehabilitation medicine and

community engagement, and have allowed the Nepali medical school to serve a crucial need in the community.

The school focuses on meeting the needs of those in rural areas who were left under-served by a civil war that lasted until 2006.

“Not only is this effort important in a humanitarian and collegial aspect,” Zakus said.

“What we have learned here about rural medicine is applicable in Nepal and what physicians in Nepal have learned about the same issue there is applicable here in Alberta.”

The efforts of the university staff was recently recognized in the peer-reviewed Global Journal of Health Sciences.

Authors of the article noted the necessity for the school calling it the “gateway to Nepal’s most needy communities.”

“I never gave a sales pitch to

anyone.”David Zakus

Director of global health

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Energizer Canada Inc., said it is voluntarily recalling Banana Boat Ultra Defense SPF 60 Spray Sunscreen and Banana Boat Sport Performance SPF 60 Spray Sunscreen, both of which are sold in 180 ml containers.

In the U.S., 23 Banana Boat UltraMist sunscreen sprays have been recalled.

The company said it believes the risk is associated with the size of the spray valve, which dispenses more sunscreen than is typical in the industry.

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Oct. 25, 1881Artist Pablo Picasso is born in

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Tombstone, Ariz.

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It was Gemport’s time to shine last week at the St. Albert Chamber of Commerce’s annual Awards of Distinction ceremony.

The local jewelry store, located on St. Anne Street and serving St. Albert since 1976, was the big winner at the Arden Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 18, beating out seven other nominees to win the Small Business Award of Distinction for the first time in their history.

“It was a shock. I could have had the big one there,” said Luc Guillemette, who owns Gemport with his wife Joan. “It’s recognition for many years of what we believe in.”

“We love St. Albert so much. ... Being artistic and having our designs out there, and having people love what we do, it just boggles your mind,” Joan added, still shaking a bit after the ceremony.

That wasn’t their only win, though, as Luc also had the lucky ticket at the end of the evening to take home a painting created live at the ceremony by local artist Samantha Williams-Chapelsky.

Going into the evening, Luc said they weren’t getting their hopes up too high.

“Looking at the competition, we thought maybe [we’d be] third or fourth,” he said. “They were all very worthy people.”

Chamber 2012 chair Darel Baker said that Gemport was certainly a deserving recipient.

“They’re just such great contributors to the community in so many different ways,” he said. “They’ve got a wonderful business. ... When people like that win awards, it can’t help but make you feel good.”

Other nominees in the Small Business category

included Blue Kettle Specialty Foods, Claysmore Spring Water, Great Beginning School of Music, Karbz Performance and Sound, KDM Management, Revive Wholebody Health and Big Toy Car Wash.

Baker added that this year saw the most nominees ever for the awards overall, and that is an indication of the strength of the local business scene at the moment.

“I think there’s a lot of energy in the business community right now, and it’s growing,” he said. “I can’t speak for everybody, but I know our Chamber membership is growing; at the lunches, there’s a real buzz in the room. There’s a real sense of optimism all across Alberta, but you certainly feel it in St. Albert.”

The Young Entrepreneur Award of Distinction category had 10 nominees, and the award was taken

home by Troy Biever of Panago Pizza.“To go up against a couple of people that we’ve

talked business strategy with, being younger people in the community and how to grow our businesses, the challenges that come with business itself, I feel honoured and a sense of accomplishment,” Biever said.

Seeing such a large number of nominees in that particular category speaks volumes about the vibrancy of business in St. Albert, Biever added.

“Younger people, they’re not wanting to work for the man for very long,” he said. “They’re a very ambitious group of people, and within this community, you get a sense of not only young entrepreneurs, but they have a lot of role models.”

Meanwhile, Tudor Glen Veterinary Hospital won the Marketing Award of Distinction, and owners Scott and Dr. Tammy Wilde said it was a great validation of the hard work they’ve done over the past year.

“You’re always in the room with a bunch of amazing businesses, so to be picked out and recognized is a great honour,” Tammy said.

“We try to come up with ideas that are different, and when you’re acknowledged, when other people see your ideas and say they’re good, that they work, it makes it all seem worthwhile,” added Scott.

Other winners on the evening included:• Get Organized Business Management Systems

(Home-Based Business);• Maxim Truck and Trailer — Leslie Cogswell

(Youth Work Experience/Apprenticeship);• Trace Associates Inc. (Business to Business);• Farlie Worldwide Travel (Outstanding Customer

Service); • Crackmaster Distributors Ltd. (Chair’s Award of

Distinction).

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderJoan and Luc Guillemette of Gemport accept the Small Business Award of Distinction at the Arden Theatre.

DaNIEL PrOUSSaLIDISSun Media News Servces

Bell Canada Enterprises isn’t giving up its $3.4-billion effort to swallow Astral Media.

“The Broadcasting Act explicitly empowers the cabinet to issue directions to the CRTC on broad policy matters,” Bell legal officer Mirko Bibic said in a statement.

Bell accused the CRTC of ignoring its own policies in rejecting the

mega-merger last week, so it will formally ask the federal cabinet on Monday to direct the CRTC to follow a 2008 policy Bibic believes would favour the deal.

Still, the Conservatives don’t seem inclined to get involved.

“There actually is not a mechanism by which cabinet can intervene in this process,” Heritage Minister James Moore said Friday in Vancouver. “This is an independent decision and it’s for the CRTC to

explain their decision making, which I believe they did.”

The NDP said it’s happy the feds seem to be staying out of the issue.

“I’m, in a sense, a bit relieved if that’s the position that the government takes, that it’s none of their business to intervene in a legal matter,” said New Democrat MP Francoise Boivin.

Boivin added she wishes the Tories had also “voiced their happiness” with the CRTC decision, instead of

staying so neutral.“I think there’s nothing wrong for

the government to state very clearly that they do agree that concentrating all the media into a few hands is not ... a good thing for Canada,” she said.

In rejecting the takeover, the CRTC stressed it was concerned that, if Bell got too big, it would be able to bully its competitors and reduce the options available to consumers.

— with files from Ada Slivinski

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Their family could almost start their own company within the ATCO group.

The Matthews/Schlegel family is doing something truly special.

With the way that technology has gained a firm grip on Generation Y, it could be considered a home run in today’s working environment to have a member of the next generation of your family work for the same company you did.

But Ed Matthews, 88, has hit the grand slam, with four generations of his family following in his footsteps since he started with ATCO Gas (then called Northwestern Utilities) back in 1948.

“I answered their ad in the Red Deer

Advocate back then and I had no idea it would have this kind of impact on my family’s life,” said Matthews, who retired in 1985.

Ed started as a meter reader in ’48 and worked his way up to become one of ATCO’s district supervisors.

His son Chris worked for ATCO for 20 years and retired in 2002 as a project manager for ATCO I-Tek.

His granddaughter Suzanne Schlegel started in the mailroom in 1989 and eventually found her niche working in the Human Resources department and is currently ATCO Electric’s HR senior supervisor. Last year, his great-granddaughter Alix Schlegel embarked on her career with ATCO as a clerk.

The ATCO group of companies pride

themselves as being one big family, but with the imprint the Matthews/Schlegel family have had within the company, it goes above and beyond that.

“Our family has built up many nice memories over the years,” said Suzanne.

“I have a picture that my grandfather painted that sits on my desk and it’s of the three original company buildings that my grandfather worked in and it’s a constant reminder of how things started.

“It speaks volumes for the type of company that ATCO is. They truly care about the well being of their employees.”

Since 1948, ATCO greatly encourages and supports many their employees to be active within many local charities, raising millions of dollars in the process. ATCO also focuses on having many private

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company functions over the years.“I was a bit of an actor and singer in my

day and over the course of the years we had a group called the GasCo Players, and we would entertain in the year-end party every year,” said Ed.

“Many of us are still around from that era, and we still talk about those times today.”

For Chris, he started working with ATCO as a summer job and the allure of seeing how much his father loved his job brought him back shortly after high school.

“I enjoyed the environment as a kid with my dad working there and it made me want to work there,” said Chris.

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