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on measures
to calm traffic,
auditor finds
Ryan
Tumilty

Metro | Edmonton
Eighteen communities in
Edmonton that have been
waiting for speed bumps or
other traffic-calming to dissuade drivers taking short
cuts through their neighbourhoods might finally get
them, after a city auditor
found major problems with
the program that builds such
things.
David Wiun, the citys

2003
The year Edmontons
traffic-calming guidelines
were created.

2013
The first year trafficcalming implements were
piloted.

auditor, determined that

there was no clear point
person within the city to
deal with requests from
communities for traffic-calming and other
measures designed to
address drivers taking
shortcuts.
Wiuns audit, released last week, also
found that 18 communities are currently
waiting for a response
from the city to their
requests for traffic calming and that there is a
complicated process for
these communities to endure to ask for traffic calming.
One of them is Belgravia.
Steve Schroeter, with the
community league there said
his neighbourhood sees lots
of drivers speed through their
community as a short cut and
would like the city to look at
some steps, but so far have
had only deaf ears.
Were frustrated we have
been unable to get a response
from city administration to
our request, he said.
At city council on Monday,
Mayor Don Iveson said the
traffic-calming programs
flaws are sending a bad message.
It certainly feels like the
message to the community
is that were going to make
this really, really hard because
were not really interested
in doing this work, he said.

H e
admitted council bore
some of
the blame
by not
making
it clear
this was
a priority.
Weve
not alw a y s
given administration clear direction, Iveson said.
After Wiuns audit, councillors voted Monday to

have city administration work on a better

policy
for dealing
with these complaints.
Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n
head Dorion Wandzura
said the department has to
find a way to create a balance
between one point of contact
at the city and getting all of
the right people on the job.
There has to be a balance
from finding that one owner
and getting all that experience, Wandzura said.
Shroeter, who watched the
debate, said council struck the
right tone on Monday, but will
now wait to see the results.
Were optimistic. The right
words were said.

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HEALTH

Restaurant worker
positive for hep A
A restaurant worker in southern
Alberta has tested positive for a
viral liver disease that can cause
severe illness.
Alberta Health Services says
the food handler at the Original Joes Restaurant and Bar in
Strathmore has hepatitis A.
The agency says people who
ate food there from June 9 to
June 19 may have been exposed
to the virus.
Dr. Judy MacDonald, medical
officer of health, says Alberta
Health Services is offering the
hepatitis A vaccine to those patrons at clinics in Strathmore
and Chestermere.
The World Health Organization says the virus is transmitted
through contaminated food and
water or through direct contact
with an infectious person.
It says hepatitis A infection
does not cause chronic liver disease and is rarely fatal but can
cause debilitating symptoms,
including liver failure.
While we believe the risk to
the public is low, hepatitis A is

a serious infection, MacDonald

said in a release Monday.
A vaccine administered within 14 days of exposure can greatly reduce the risk for patrons
who consumed food at this location during this time frame.
Alberta Health Services says
symptoms of hepatitis A may
include: fatigue, poor appetite,
nausea and vomiting, abdominal
pain and fever, dark-coloured
urine, light-coloured stools and
yellowing of eyes and skin.
Some people, especially
young children, may get hepatitis A without noticing any
symptoms. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Fred Thompson stands in Telus Field, where hes launching a drive-in movie theatre this summer. MICHELLE FALK/FOR METRO

While we believe
the risk to the
public is low,
hepatitis A is a
serious infection.
Dr. Judy MacDonald

CRIME

Officer attacked by
man with hatchet
An EPS officer received a blow
to the thigh with a hatchet on
Monday during an altercation
with a man suspected of vehicle
break-and-enters.
Police approached a makeshift
camp near the LRT tracks at 96th
Street and 104th Avenue after
receiving a call about suspicious
activity. As police approached

a man lying on the ground, he

drew a hatchet from a holster on
his leg. A struggle ensued as the
officers attempted to remove the
weapon. An officer was struck in
the leg, and the suspect obtained
a cut to his hand. Both non-lifethreatening injuries were treated.
The suspect is in custody, with
charges pending. METRO

Drive-in theatre gets

rolling downtown
ENTERTAINMENT

Silver Spur
sold out first
three showings
in 24 hours
Michelle
Falk

For Metro | Edmonton

In 1977, Edmonton boasted
10 drive-in movie theaters,
but the city hasnt had one in

operation since the Millwoods

and Twin closed back in 1996.
The wait has clearly built a
demand, as tickets to the first
three showings at the Silver
Spur a drive-in thats been
mobile for a year but has now
found a more permanent home
in a parking lot at Telus Field
sold out within 24 hours.
Having a permanent space
changes what Im doing in a
lot of ways, said Fred Thompson, 26, who launched Silver
Spur Movie Company last year
after pitching it in his business

program at NAIT.
For the first year, Silver Spur
was a mobile theatre, with
Thompson setting up in communities in northern Alberta
and showing nine movies. This
year, itll be far more accessible, he said. For one, were
going to be able to have a more
consistent operation.
Thompson plans to show at
least 30 movies this summer,
with a capacity of 80 vehicles.
Were going to run from
July until the weather says we
cant anymore, he said.

Many vendors and foodtruck operators have expressed interest, said Thompson. There will be some cool
partnerships to get something
new at the drive-in, throughout the summer, in terms of
treats.
Are you able to come without a car? No, says Thompson.
The young entrepreneur
considers this summers location a solid step toward finding
a permanent spot for a drive-in
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Edmonton

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popular
premier
The numbers are in, and it
looks like Rachel Notley is
the second-most popular premier in Canada.
Albertans gave Notley a
53 per cent approval rating
during a survey conducted
through the Angus Reid Institute (ARI) earlier in June.
Notley falls second behind
Saskatchewans Brad Wall,
who once again leads the
country with an approval
rating of 61 per cent.
The ARI survey noted ratings are subject to change
once Notley is more firmly
settled into her role and her
policies are rolled out and
have time to take effect.
The survey was done prior
to the Alberta throne speech,
which saw corporate and personal taxes raised, along with
proposed changes to corporate and union political donations.
The online survey of 6,291
randomized and representative Angus Reid Forum
panelists was conducted from
May 26 to June 7, and a probability sample of that size is
supposed to have a margin of
error of plus or minus 1.2 per
cent, 19 times out of 20. METRO

For this
silence, we
apologize:
Premier

The city will be meeting with business-owners whose signs dont have permits, in an attempt to bring them into compliance.

City clamping down

on Whyte Ave. signs

RYAN TUMILTY/METRO

OLD STRATHCONA

70 per cent
of businesses
dont have
permits: City
Ryan
Tumilty

Metro | Edmonton

Premier Rachel Notley

METRO FILE

City planners want to crack

down on signs that dont fit
the historic character of Old
Strathcona, but plan to use carrots for a long time before they
consider using a stick.
The city has surveyed the

signs along Whyte Avenue and

found that 70 per cent dont
have permits.
Permits are required for a
sign in any part of the city, but
in Old Strathcona, which is a
provincially designated heritage
area, signs have to meet more
stringent rules.
City planner Stuart Kehrig
said the city is looking to deal
with the issue gently.
We will be exhausting all
options before we even look
at enforcement, he said. We
want businesses to prosper and
we want the area to prosper.
Karen Tabor, with the Old
Strathcona Foundation, said the
group has noticed standards slip-

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She said signs might seem like
a minor thing to clamp down
on, but they can start a process.
If you start to erode those

small pieces of character, then

other pressures can come, she
said.
Last year the sign at Meat,
a new restaurant, prompted a
minor uproar, but when the restaurant came in for a permit the
design cleared the citys rules,
according to Kehrig.
Murray Davison, with the Old
Strathcona Foundation, said that
incident has lead to businesses
being more pro-active and he
doesnt think this new campaign
will hurt the area.
Everyone is coming to us
now ahead of time asking what
the regulations are, so its not
deterring anyone from opening
up a business.

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2 dead after planes

collide in mid-air
Two people are dead after two
small planes collided mid-air in
northeastern Alberta.
Mounties say the collision happened Sunday night east of Fort
McMurray.
Police say one of the planes
landed safely and the lone pilot
was uninjured. A medical helicopter searched for the other
plane and found that it had
crashed east of the city.
Police got to the crash site and
confirmed the two people in the
aircraft were dead.

A lot of pilots have

trained on both
those aircraft.

John Cottreau,
Transportation Safety Board

John Cottreau, spokesman

with the Transportation Safety
Board of Canada, said the planes
involved were a Cessna 172 and
a Cessna 185. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Premier Rachel Notley apologized

Monday on behalf of Alberta to
indigenous peoples for abuse in
residential schools, and added
her voice to an inquiry for missing and murdered aboriginal
women.
We want the First Nation,
Metis and Inuit people of Alberta
to know that we deeply regret
the profound harm and damage
that occurred to generations of
children forced to attend residential schools, said Notley in
a speech to the house.
Although the province did
not establish this
system,
members
of this
chamber The commission
estimated more
a t t h e than 6,000
time did children, about
not take one in 25, died in
a stand the residential
against it. schools.
A n d
for this silence, we apologize.
In the gallery watching the
speech were a number of invited
guests of the premier, including
residential school survivors.
Earlier this month, the national Truth and Reconciliation
Commission detailed more than
a century of institutionalized
abuse of generations of aboriginal children in residential schools.
The report, based on interviews with thousands of survivors, detailed the plight of
youngsters forcibly separated
from their families to endure
loneliness, cruelty and physical
and mental abuse tantamount to
cultural genocide.
The report made 94 recommendations to repair the bonds
between the country and its
founding peoples, including
that Canada adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples as the framework for
reconciliation.
Notley also urged the federal
government to convene an inquiry on missing and murdered
aboriginal women.
Numerous provincial, national
and international organizations,
including a committee of the
United Nations, have been calling for such an inquiry to shed
light on the root causes for the
disproportionately high number
of indigenous women who are
missing or have been murdered.
Last week, the RCMP reported
that since 1980, there have been
1,049 murdered aboriginal
women and another 175 have
disappeared.
Prime Minister Stephen Harpers government has resisted calls
for an inquiry. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Edmonton

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218 parts described as railroad
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spare parts for its system as
part of its current contract
with the city, and that those
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mitigate any future challenges,
we dont want to have any kind
of wait time for a spare part
associated with the system.
McElheran added previous
experience has shown that ac-

quiring spare parts can require

long lead times.
A request for spare parts
was never part of the original
plan for the 3.3-kilometre extension to NAIT, McElheran
said, but it is one of managements approaches to being
proactive, long-term, for Metro
operations.
We want to have spare
parts on hand for the longterm prosperity of people riding the LRT so its easier for
us to have them in a timely
fashion, he said.
With delay after delay and
no set opening date in sight,
Coun. Mike Nickel questions
whether its necessary to be
buying these parts ahead of
when the need is there.
I appreciate good inventory
management, but the issue is
that you dont want to throw
too much money in inventory
that it sits on the shelf, he
said.

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Consultant asked to provide

direction for LRT planning
Where should Edmonton build
LRT first in the future? The
city says it wants a fresh pair
of eyes to decide whether it
should build in the west end,
Old Strathcona or another spot
in the city, and it is asking for
a consultant to provide them.
City officials said this first-ofits-kind report on LRT will help
them provide a case to council
on which LRT projects they
should be seeking funding for.
It will be looking at not just

lines as a whole but pieces of

the lines, said Natalie Lazurko,
general supervisor with facility
and capital planning at the city.
With dollars tight both provincially and federally when it
comes to mass transit, the city
wants the consultant to also
crunch the numbers and innovate when it comes to seeking
necessary dollars to build LRT.
The outside set of eyes
is really important when it
comes to the funding mech-

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Edmonton

Budget cuts made

to Freewill festival

SALVAGED

Making garbage
into gourmet food
Michelle
Falk

SHAKESPEARE

Performances
will be outside
despite money
difficulties
Stephanie
Dubois

Metro | Edmonton
To be or not to be has been
the question for the Freewill
Shakespeare Festival group
over the past year.
A windstorm damaged their
tent at Hawrelak Park last year
and the troupe was forced to
perform inside at the University of Alberta. That decreased
its performances.
That meant about 10,000
ticket sales evaporated, and
the resulting financial difficulties have spilled over into this
year, said Cadence Konopaki,
managing director of Freewill
Shakespeare Festival.
But the troupe has decided,
budget problems or not, that
they must be outside this year

We, as much as
everyone else, like
being out in
the park. Were
just excited to
be back home.
Cadence Konopaki

The Freewill Shakespeare Festival has become a summer staple for many. COURTESY LUCAS BOUTILIER

and have cut the money they

spend on sets and costumes
to do so.
Preview shows start in the
park today.
We didnt want to limp
back into the park. We dont
want to go back to one show
or a shortened run ... otherwise were just hindering ourselves in the long term, said
Konopaki.
Shakespeare plays performed in the park has become
a tradition in Edmonton, with

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starting in late June. Last years
relocation was the first time in
the groups 25-year-long history that it wasnt in the park.
The change in venue may
have set the production crew
back but theres hope it can
replenish its rainy day fund
and look for a back-up outdoor venue should they need
it so they can avoid relocation
troubles.
Our audience really is, and
follows us, outdoors. In the

future, we know now which

venues would be best suited for
us, said Konopaki, adding the
troupes energy is high to be
back at Hawrelak Park.
We, as much as everyone
else, like being out in the park.
Were just excited to be back
home.
This years shows are As You
Like It and Coriolanus, with
preview shows happening on
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Opening nights are Thursday
and Friday.

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Food literacy is not just
learning about how to grow
Top Edmonton chefs are food its learning how to
set to teach people how prepare food and pick the
to waste less food this Friday by right food.
The Edmonton Food Bank
cooking with veggies and
fruits that would be thrown has also run a program for
a w a y b y o v e r l y f i n i c k y garden donations since 1997
supermarkets or consumers. called Plant a row. Grow a
The event, called SalvagED, row.
is being thrown by the Alder
Reducing food waste has beFood Security Society at come a popular trend since a
Earths General Store, down- French supermarket launched
town, and its the volunteer what it called its Inglorious
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Fruit campaign last summer.
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Canadian grocery chains
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Stanton, the
and Safeways
groups foundMisfits lines,
er.
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Im
glad
that
food
tionships and
Stanton said
is now the cool s h e w a s i n education are
really inaccess- thing to talk about. spired to start
ible if you cant
her group after
Tamisam Bencz-Knight
pay for it.
working as an
At SalvagED,
employee of
four chefs will prepare meals River Bend Gardens, a vendor
for anyone who comes by at several farmers markets.
using food that would have
Working at the downtown
been thrown away either by farmers market, Stanton
supermarkets or consumers said she sees the inner ring
food that is cosmetically less of affluent shoppers able
than perfect but otherwise to come to such markets,
and then those on the
absolutely edible.
Some studies estimate that outskirts, many of whom live
supermarkets reject more in the area, noticeably exthan 30 per cent of fruits cluded.
and vegetables because they
Stanton said her group will
believe consumers will re- partner with local farmers,
ject them.
restaurants, grocery stories,
The theme of wasting less and households to help them
sits well with some.
reduce their food waste, give
Im glad that food is now back to the city, and create a
the cool thing to talk about, food culture open to everyone.

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