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The Calgary JULY 2013 JOURNAL FREE DAVID RUTHERFORD: A LOOK BACK AT THE 40-YEAR CAREER OF A RADIO FIREbraND PAGE 8 STAMPEDE VOLUNTEERS rock ‘n’ roll flood relief ready for kickoff A look at the people who help Five concerts to attend DeVone Claybrooks talks make ‘The Greatest Outdoor in support of disaster coaching, the defensive line Show on Earth’ possible recovery for our city and what fans should expect PAGE 3 PAGE 6 PAGE 20 THIS ISSUE J ULY 2013 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Kristine Saretsky Girls in ONLINE EDITOR games BAJ Visser Page 11 COPY EDITOR Shane Flug LAYOUT & DESIGN EDITOR Jordan Simpson PHOTO & GRAPHICS EDITOR Season Karry Taylor Preview REPORTERS Page 27 Hannah Cawsey Ian Epslen SUPERVISING EDITOR, PRODUCTION & ADVERTISING Brad Simm Scones! ph: 403-440-6946 Page 20 Left photo by Kristine Saretsky/CJ Middle photo by Hannah Cawsey/CJ Right photo courtesy of Canescast OUR CITY C ALGARY VOICES C ALGARY ARTS Volunteers Women with tattoos The Hungry Ghosts Page 10 | Online blogger insults Page 23| Shyam Selvadurai’s extraordinaire females with ink new novel explores bad karma Page 3 | Find out about the hard and the perseverance of love work that goes into making Travelling with Mom Stampede memories Page 12 | A die-hard solo As the winner of the traveller takes a trip with her SPORTS 2010 Pacemaker award for Scholarships lacking mother North American newspaper Page 7 | Few opportunities for Racing for another excellence from the Associated sexual minority students seeking Collegiate Press, the Calgary Page 25 | Nanton’s Lindsay Sears post-secondary education Journal reports on the people, THING S TO DO faces tough completion and issues and events that shape our even tough circumstances as she city. It is produced by journalism chases her second buckle students at Mount Royal HEALTHY LIVING Coke twist University. Page 19 | Add the popular pop to your baked beans What are their chances? Contact the Journal: Summer Fitness Page 27| Find out how [email protected] Page 16-17 | A look at places to Red and white defensive line coach DeVone 403-440-6991 explore in Calgary Page 20 | Chocolate and fruity Claybrooks feels about the scones are a great treat Stampeders this season This month’s cover: Photo by BAJ Visser 2 JU C LYAL 2013GARY JOURNAL.CA OUR CITY P EOPLE MATTER Volunteers heart of Calgary Stampede Western Showcase Committee members bring 50 combined years experience IAN ESPLEN [email protected] very year the Calgary Stampede provides lasting memories to everyone that pass- es through the gates and into Stampede Park. Whether it’s spending the day on the Mid- Eway eating mini donuts, waiting in line for hours to get into Nashville North, admiring the artwork in the Western Showcase or even meeting a real cow- boy or cowgirl for the first time; we all have our own memories of the greatest outdoor show on earth. But what often goes unnoticed are the hours of work that the more than 2,300 volunteers, making up 47 committees, willingly give up to make those memories happen. “It’s like having a full-time job at certain points of Left to right: Marjie Fenton, Pat Guillemaud and Anne Platz have volunteered or worked at the year, ” said Pat Guillemaud, head of the Grade the Calgary Stampede for more than 50 years combined. At times the trio feels like they are 12 art scholarship, which is part of the Western Art working a full-time job. PHOTO BY IAN ESPLEN/CALGARY JOURNAL Auction. Guillemaud, along with Marjie Fenton and Anne Platz have been volunteering or working the volunteers. mittee oversees – from the arts and crafts show to at the Calgary Stampede for over 50 years com- “During a 24-hour period, I can account for every serving as the chairperson for the “Window of the bined between the three of them. While working hour and the whereabouts of every volunteer on West” stage. on the Western Showcase Committee, the group the committee,” said Fenton about the tasks ahead But Platz’s passion for the Stampede runs in the estimates each of them volunteer an average of of her on Thursday, July 11, the day of the art auc- family. 40 hours a week during May and June. tion. While Platz was born and raised in Calgary, she Guillemaud’s role with the committee has been Aside from watching her friends compete in the had a late uncle from Great Britain who was at the to organize and award the Western Art Grade 12 Stampede Rodeo riding broncos in her younger first Stampede in 1912. While there, he purchased scholarships, which are arranged into two catego- days, Fenton’s favourite Stampede memory came a some postcards by the legendary Stampede pho- ries: Calgary schools and rural schools. few years back when she was a given a Spur Award tographer Marcus “Doc” Marcell. The winners of this year’s top prizes of a $2,000 by a fellow volunteer for staying well after her shift Before his passing, Platz’s uncle gave them to her scholarship were Michelle Ku of Sir Winston had ended to give a couple from Scotland a tour of mother and the post cards found their way down Churchill Senior High School and Nicole Hudye of all the art exhibits. to Anne. Springbank Community School. “I was supposed to be off at 3:00 p.m. and I don’t About 10 years ago the Stampede archives were “Seeing the kids succeed and go on to use their think we ended until about 5:30 p.m. or so because looking for postcards and Platz graciously donated scholarship is the biggest reward I get for the work we were having such a good time seeing every- hers. I do,” said Guillemaud. thing, talking with the artists and learning about One might argue that the Western Showcase Marjie Fenton has also volunteered with the the artwork,” said Fenton would not run as smoothly without these three Western Showcase committee and may be the And with such a time commitment, one may lovely ladies lending hours of their time. most versatile volunteer within the walls of Stam- think that the volunteers would get tired of being When asked what the Stampede would be like pede Park. at the Calgary Stampede, year after year. But Anne without the Western Showcase, they unanimously Fenton describes her current position as Platz actually feels the opposite. agreed that it would be pretty boring with only the “multi-tasker.” She handles everything from the “I don’t ever get tired of coming to the Stampede. rodeo, chuckwagons and the Midway. pins and the art auction packages, which are I love being part of it and that’s why I volunteer For more information on the Western Showcase made up of gate passes, auction paddles, tickets every year,” said Platz, who has volunteered with or to purchase an art auction package visit west- and a catalogue of all the artwork to scheduling nearly every area that the Western Showcase com- ernshowcase.com C ALGARYJOURNAL.CA JULY 2013 3 OUR CITY HEARTY HAt-triCK Playing street hockey to fight hunger Five Hole for Food volunteers hope to raise record amount of food IAN ESPLEN cjournal [email protected] unger is a feeling many people have experienced at one point or another. Hockey is a game that’s a part of our national identity and most of us are also familiar with as well HVancouver’s Richard Loat took note of both those traits during the 2010 Olympics and used the two together to create Five Hole for Food – a yearly street hockey touring event, where Loat and his team, travel coast -to -coast, challenging any and all skill levels to play hockey for food. “Hockey nets were set up along Granville Street and people loved it. It was at that time, when I real- ized that hockey has the potential to be this vehicle for social change across Canada,” said Loat while recalling the first moment he noticed that Canadi- ans’ love for hockey could be used for a larger good, Left to right: Vic Lo, Richard Loat (founder) and Captain Scott Chant faceoff in Five Hole channeled into help elsewhere. for Food’s first ever hockey game on a boat while traveling from Newfoundland to Nova And so, it was around this moment that Loat Scotia during the 2011 tour. Loat and his team will be at Eau Claire Market playing hockey would recruit a couple of his friends and they for food on July 16th. PHOTO COURTESY OF FIVE HOLE FOR FOOD would start to plan their cross- Canada summer tour, with the goal of raising 2,000 pounds of food for various food banks. However the record was short-lived as Vancou- According to Food Banks Canada’s Hunger- ver raised over 43,000 pounds of food less than Count 2012 report, more than half of Canadian “Will you play a week later, which brought the tour’s total to food banks have had to cut back amounts giv- a whopping 133,000 pounds raised in roughly en to clients in the past year. In Alberta, 53,512 hockey for food on three weeks. people — almost half of them children — used a July 16th at Eau And as for how Loat is hoping to make top- food bank in March 2012; an almost 60 per cent ping that number a reality this year, he aspires to increase since 2008. Claire Market?” have donation boxes in 7-Elevens across Canada.