$100 Volume 16, Issue 6 Thursday, February 12, 2015 With regular seasons winding down, playoffs started and tournaments to be played, minor hockey is going full blast for teams throughout Alberta. In Wabasca on Sunday, Peerless/Trout Lake Atoms visited and lost, 18-12. The above photo shows a scramble in front of the visitors’ net. Also on Sunday, Whitecourt Bantam Wolverines came visiting Mandy and Nigel Beauregard share a kiss. For submitting The (photo below) and took on the Wabasca Bantams who have already been slated for a this photo to Fever’s Valentine’s Kiss feature, they win some valentine’s treats to share, along with more kisses. playoff spot in the Sturgeon Pembina Hockey League. Photos by Denis Carnochan See more photos and Valentine’s Greetings on Fever Page 5 In This Issue: M.D. of Opportunity Council Communicator Take steps to have a healthy heart Desmarais RCMP news Serving the Municipal DiStrict of opportunity PAGe 2 – Thursday, February 12, 2015 Your heart needs your help to stay healthy Live By Colette Elko, Public Health Promotions smoke have many negative health ef - with Alberta Health Services fects that increase your risk of devel - Longer ... February is Heart Month, and while you oping heart disease and stroke. should be maintaining a healthy heart all year Tobacco smoke contributes to the Take care round, this month is a good opportunity to check buildup of plaque in your arteries, in - in with yourself, reflect on the lifestyle you are creases the risk of blood clots, reduces of your heart! living, and make any necessary changes you need the oxygen in blood, increases blood to improve your heart health. pressure and makes a heart work harder. Get active and fight overweight problems According to the Heart and Stroke Founda - Enjoy physical activity and a good diet Over 60 per cent of Canadian adults are ei - tion, your best defense against heart disease is You may have heard that alcohol – particu - ther overweight or obese. This is a growing con - controlling the risk factors that could lead to coro - larly red wine – is good for your heart, but drink - cern because being overweight or obese are major nary artery disease, such as high blood pressure, ing too much of any type of alcohol can increase risk factors for heart disease and stroke. By high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, stress, exces - your blood pressure and contribute to the devel - achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, you sive alcohol consumption, physical inactivity and opment of heart disease and stroke. If you really can significantly reduce your risk of heart disease being overweight. Having a healthy heart comes want to make an impact on your heart health, and stroke. from healthy eating, active living, maintaining a you're better off eating a healthy diet, being phys - A healthy weight can also help control other healthy weight, not smoking and managing other ically active and becoming smoke-free. conditions such as high blood pressure, high health problems. Stress can be terrible for heart health blood cholesterol and diabetes. If you're a man It is recommended that you have your blood Some people with high levels of stress or and your waist measures more than 102 centime - pressure checked annually by a health profes - prolonged stress may have higher blood choles - ters (40 inches) or a woman whose waist meas - sional. Of Canadians with high blood pressure, terol, increased blood pressure or be more prone ures more than 88 centimeters (35 inches), you 17 per cent are unaware of their condition and to developing atherosclerosis (narrowing of the are at increased risk of developing health prob - only 66 per cent have it treated and under control. arteries).If your life is stressful, it can be difficult lems such as heart disease, high blood pressure If you have high blood pressure, it is vital that to lead a healthy lifestyle. Instead of being phys - and diabetes. Eating right includes balanced you take your medication as prescribed by your ically active to relieve stress, you may respond meals that are moderate in portion size, are low doctor. by overeating, eating unhealthy foods, consuming in saturated fat, sugar and sodium. Reduce your salt intake too much alcohol or smoking – reactions that can Physical activity should be a part of everyone’s Cutting back on sodium is one of the best increase the risk of developing heart disease and life for many important reasons. It's a great way things you can do for your heart. More than 70 stroke. to maintain a healthy weight, reduce high blood per cent of Canadian adults exceed their upper Responding to stress with anger can also be pressure, lower blood cholesterol levels, manage limit of 2,300 mg of sodium per day, which raises harmful, since it sets off a series of physiological stress and cut your risk of heart disease and their risk of having high blood pressure. More changes, including increased heart rate and ele - stroke. The Heart and Stroke Foundation recom - than three-quarters of sodium comes from pack - vated blood pressure levels that can increase your mends Canadians make active living part of their aged foods. It’s important to eat healthy, and chance of having a heart attack. People who are daily lives. Just 150 minutes of moderate- to vig - cooking fresh food at home can help you achieve prone to anger are also more likely to turn to un - orous-intensity aerobic physical activity per that. healthy behaviors such as smoking, excessive al - week, in bouts of 10 minutes or more is all it Smoking and exposure to second-hand cohol consumption and overeating. takes to start. Burn-out light, roll-over lead to two impaired female drivers January’s impaired driv - samples which showed she about a vehicle roll-over on ing cases handled by Des - was over the legal limit and Highway 813. marais RCMP members she was charged. At the scene, they dis - ended with a 38-year-old fe - On February 2, RCMP covered a 26-year-old fe - male from Atikameg being responded to a 911 call male driver of the vehicle stopped in Wabasca because which was totalled in the her vehicle had a burnt-out Find out how you can crash, showing signs of im - light on January 30. combat drunk driving pairment. She later pro - She became an impaired in your community! vided breath samples with driving suspect. She was readings over twice the .08 See MADD ad Page 4 asked to provide breath limit and was charged. The The Fever reserves the right to decline to publish and to edit items as necessary Any item submitted to Next Deadline: February 16, 10:00 a.m. The Fever should include the name and phone number FEVER Deadline for Fever Greetings Sundays, 6:00 p.m. of the person providing it. PM40013487 Photos submitted digitally Publisher/Editor: Bruce Thomas (780) 891-2108 Production Office: 1-800-315-7826 must be sent as stand- Accounts: Patricia Thomas alone JPEG’s. Information Contributor: Denis Carnochan Box 519, Wabasca, Alberta T0G 2K0 for articles should be sent Production Chief: Joanne Rutar fax: 1-888-318-5555 e-mail: [email protected] as e-mail text, or Word Slave Lake: 780-849-4350 Edmonton Office: 12015 - 76 Street document file. Serving the Municipal DiStrict of opportunity – Thursday, February 12, 2015 PAGe 3 Chocolate bait kills bears Chocolates may be good to lure your sweetheart into Valentine's kisses, but are the kiss of death to bears, accord - ing to a Reuters news agency story about how the state of New Hampshire may be limiting the use of chocolates for baiting bears. Four bears, including two cubs, died last fall after com - ing across a bait trap containing 100 pounds of chocolate and donuts. An autopsy revealed all four died from a overdose of theobromine, a natural toxic ingredient in chocolate that is bad for animals including pet dogs. The bears died just a Lee Cardinal of Candian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNRL) happily hands the ladies of short distance from the site of the bait. the Wabasca-Desmarais International Women's Day Committee a cheque for $5,000 A law is proposed to restrict chocolate bait when hunt - on behalf of the company. The money will be used to help with the costs for the meal, fashion show and photo booth during the March 8. Some of the monies will also be ing in New Hampshire. Perhaps with obesity being a prob - used to pay Mistassiniy School’s graduating students who will be setting up and clean - lem, there should be a ban on baiting humans with ing up the women's day festivities as a fundraising activity. At the presentation were chcocolates on Valentine's Day? (left to right) Jenny Cardinal, Karen Greyeyes, Lee Cardinal, Alma Alook, Marilyn Car - dinal-Wolfe and Francesca Kiyawasew. Photo by Denis Carnochan Join Us At Our Open House Alberta PowerLine is hosting open Domestic and sibling assaults houses for the proposed Fort McMurray end up with charges laid West 500-kV Transmission Project. The project includes approximately 500 km of 500-kV During the week from two sisters led to one throw - called to a complaint about transmission line and associated facilities from Wabamun February 3 through 9, there ing a knife at the other. a domestic assault. Alcohol (west of Edmonton) to the Fort McMurray area. Early were seven assault com - RCMP laid an assault was believed to be a factor route options are being considered for this project and we plaints made to Desmarais with a weapon charge in the violence.