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May 2006.Indd MAY 2006 your free COMMUNITY newspaper ALBERTA AVENUE DELTON EASTWOOD ELMWOOD PARK REE S PARKDALE EKK PPR SPRUCE AVENUE CCRREEE WESTWOOD RSRSAATT S BUILDING COMMUNITY . ENCOURAGING COMMUNICATION . IN CREASING CAPACITY CIRCULATION 8,500 PH: 479-6285 EMAIL: [email protected] We need your help pickin’ up the neighbourhood BEAUTIFICATION AND BIG BIN EVENT CLEANLINESS WORKING GROUP (LARGE ITEM PICK UP) May 13 & 14 Spring brings green grass and 9:00 am–5:00 pm May flowers but it also uncovers months of garbage. On a windy Bring your debris and day you’ll see more garbage fly- unwanted large items to the ing in the air than birds. The Alberta Ave Community Alberta Avenue hall is growing League parking lot at 93 St patches of cigarette butts instead and 118 Ave for free disposal. of grass. Some apartment build- ings on 82 Street have more Sponsored by the Capital City garbage outside the dumpsters Clean Up and the Avenue than inside. Walk down your Initiative Beautification & street and alley and you are sure Cleanliness Working Group. to find many private and com- mon areas in need of a spring cleaning. LARGE ITEM PICK UP Well, we’ve made spring Need help getting your cleaning easier for you this year! garbage to the bin site? Set aside May 13 & 14 to haul If you have no way of bringing your large items or garbage to your large items to the bin site, dumpsters in the Alberta Avenue call and we will do our hall parking lot – dump for free! Amanda Lewis best to arrange for pick up of If we really want to see a cleaner DOESN’T FIT IN THE GARBAGE CAN? BRING IT TO THE BIG BIN EVENT. your items. Also please report neighbourhood, we need to look large items dumped on empty beyond our own fence. So pick lots or left at vacant properties. up in and around your yard, VOLUNTEERS NEEDED EVERYONE WELCOME then ask your neighbours if they Help give our community a spring cleaning Volunteer Pancake Breakfast May 13, 8:30- Please note pick up service is need help. Many people do not Do you have a truck or trailer? Help pick up 9:30 am at Eastwood Hall (86 St & 118 ave), dependent on having volunteer have access to a truck, so getting large items. Do you like to paint? Join the graf- Tim Horton’s coffee & donuts, d oor prizes truck drivers. If at all possible, rid of large items can be diffi- fiti removal team. Help also needed with the and lots of fun! Truck owners will be compen- please arrange to get your cult. If you have a truck or trail- pancake breakfast and cleaning up blocks adja- sated for gas. items to the bin site yourself. er, call Judy at 496-1913 and cent to 118 Ave. Contact Judy 496-1913 or [email protected] Call 496-1901 or 479-6285. offer a few hours of your time to help with pick up service. Take pride in your neigh- bourhood and join in on Pickin’ up the Neighbourhood! Who you gonna call? We all need to do our part. 2ND ANNUAL SPRING onlineEXTRA STREET SWEEP May 16 east of 90 St May 17 west of 90 St Join local businesses in cleaning up 118 Avenue. Garbage will be picked up, sidewalks swept and a power washer will be avail- able for businesses to wash their storefronts. Flower barrels will be put out at the end of May. Kick-off on May 6, 8:00 am at Coliseum Steak & Pizza parking lot (84 St) with the mayor and other VIPs. CONTENTS Editorial ........................................2 Community News .....................3 Local Business ..........................4 Education and Learning ....6, 7 Resident Profile ........................8 Law And Order ..........................9 Community News ...................10 Sports And Recreation .........11 Community Notices ...............12 RAT CREEK PRESS EDITORIAL MAY 2006 • VOLUME 8, ISSUE 4 PHONE 780.479.6285 I’m not stupid, but . EMAIL [email protected] WEB www.ratcreek.org DAWN FREEMAN support a family on that kind (for close to minimum wage) in I say, DON’T! Stick with it of money? Would I like to go a store at the mall and ironically and get that piece of paper. It MANAGING EDITOR Karen Mykietka I have a secret. I am some- to university and get a degree, became the editor of this fine is so much easier to do it at 17 EDITOR Dawn Freeman what ashamed of it, and I have a Masters, a Ph.D.? How do paper. It was the motivation than it is at 20, or 25, or 35. GRAPHIC DESIGN Leanne McBean spent years either being angry I get a job that has potential, that stopped me finishing high I’m not stupid, but it sure ADVERTISING SALES Joy Dyck at myself or my parents about that I can use my brain in? school, not the lack of ability. was dumb not to finish school. DISTRIBUTION Coordinator Needed it. It hasn’t exactly stopped When I started finding So here I am now, I’m 35 ACCOUNTING Arthur Dyck me from doing a lot of things, answers to some of my ques- and it does matter. Eventually *Different college and university but it sure is stopping me tions I was in for a shock. Sure it does matter. It may not courses have their own specific BOARD MEMBERS now. Luckily I still CAN do I can get a job, but a lot of the stop you from pursuing your requirements. Kathleen Quinn, PAAFE something about it. What’s my jobs I wanted, the ones with dreams, but it COULD. It Peter Rausch, AABA secret? I didn’t graduate high potential, wanted a high school may not stop you from getting Editorial Note: Dawn definitely Jill Oliver, Alberta Avenue school. diploma. Sure I could go to col- that great job, but it COULD. isn’t stupid! She is well-spoken and Margaret Guthrie, Norwood When I was 17, it didn’t well-read and an articulate writer. Verna Stainthorp, Spruce Avenue matter at all. I got a job and I It took a lot of courage for her to Cheryl Walker, Parkdale wasn’t thinking about long-term “Career was a word other share this publicly, thanks Dawn! Cath Jackel, Alberta Avenue plans. Career was a word other people used, and university was I hope it encourages some of you. I More board members welcome. people used, and university was am the opposite of Dawn. I gradu- an unaffordable dream. When an unaffordable dream.” ated high school at the top of my RAT CREEK PRESS ASSOCIATION I was 25, it still didn’t matter. I class and went on the university Box 39024 RPO Norwood worked in bars and I played in lege as a mature student, but It may not stop you from ful- where I put in seven years get- Edmonton, Alberta T5B 4T8 a band. I only had me to look I still needed either a 65% in filling your potential, but it ting a Bachelor degree and then Phone 780.479.6285 out for, and as long as I made English 30 or equivalent. And COULD. At the very least it a Master’s, picking up numerous Email: [email protected] enough to pay the rent and buy as for university? Well, only creates one more roadblock scholarships along the way. Am I Web: ratcreek.org a beer, I was content. When some undergraduate programs that has to be overcome. smarter than Dawn? Am I more it became important, I saved accept mature or non-matricu- I’m studying right now to educated? Depends how you look at OUR MISSION enough to fly away from my lated students and even then take my GED (general equiva- it, but probably not on both counts! The mission of the Rat Creek Press New Zealand home to Canada. you still need a 70% in English lency diploma) exams so I For instance, out of a list of a 100 Association is to highlight community Things started to change 30 or equivalent and sometimes don’t have such a disadvantage classic books, Dawn has read 30 of news, activities, and recreational when I settled here. I got a in another subject as well.* anymore. If you’re like me, them; I have read 4! How educated opportunities as well as local residents job, no big deal, but I started It was about then I had my an adult with no high school you are often has little to do with and businesses to support the growth to think about the big ques- first child, then my second, so I diploma, I say join me! And if how many years you sit in school, of a strong, vibrant, well-connected tions like: Do I want to work put those thoughts on the back you are a teenager stuck in your but schooling is important to get community. in a bar or retail now that I burner. I stayed at home to raise last years of school and feel- ahead in our society. So make the am nearly 30? How would I the kids, took part-time work ing like you just want to quit, most of it. - Karen LETTERS Letters Welcome VILLAGE FOODS We invite you to write letters Common Courtesy Open 7 days a week. Mon-Sat: 8am - 11pm Sun: 9am - 10pm to the editor. A maximum of movie rentals - 99 cents & up 350 words is preferred. You The Rat Creek Press is your administrative time for our prepaid calling cards must include your full name, community newspaper.
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