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• Grosvenor Outdoor Pool 50th Anniversary Celebration

  31-07-2017 23:30
  Celebrating 50 years of fun in the sun! In 1967, the very first outdoor aquatic facility was built in St.... Read Post
  
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• Youth soccer coach faces more charges related to sexual offences against children

  31-07-2017 21:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton youth soccer coach accused of trying to arrange sex with a child is now facing additional, similar charges.
  Wesley Darrell Vander Leeuw was in court Monday for a first appearance on the new charges which include two counts of communications to arrange sex with a child under 16 years old, and two other charges related to the making and distribution of child pornography.
  Crown prosecutor Craig Krieger confirmed that the new alleged offences would have taken place prior to Vander Leeuw&
  
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• Teenager missing after swimming in Smoky River

  31-07-2017 18:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 15-year-old boy remained missing Sunday after he was pulled away by an undercurrent on the Smoky River on Friday.
  Spirit River RCMP were called at around 8:35 p.m. to the area about 10 km downstream from the Watino Bridge. Sgt. Jack Poitras, spokesman for the RCMP, said the boy is from the nearby Shady Lane Hutterite Colony.
  The boy had been swimming with a group when he was caught in the undercurrent and pulled beneath the water, Poitras said.
  He had resurfaced before drifting down the river,
  
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• Youth from emergency shelter grow community garden

  31-07-2017 17:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  It is a garden built by the community for the community. 
  The Urban Roots Garden had its grand opening on Sunday with a duo singing at a piano next to a patch of green grass where two easels sit. 
  The garden is located across the street from the Youth Empowerment and Support Services (YESS) building on 93 Street and 82 Avenue and was built by YESS and its supporters and members of the community.
  “The garden is for providing a healing, sanctuary space for our kids.” sai
  
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• Bid to create Wildrose 2.0 gets underway

  31-07-2017 17:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Inside a mystery location in Nisku this past weekend, a group of around 50 disillusioned Wildrosers met to reanimate the party they love.
  The Wildrose Party is all but gone now — membership has merged with the Progressive Conservatives, its MLAs have crossed to the new United Conservative Party, and its leader has resigned to pursue a bid to become leader of the UCP.
  The meeting was closed to the media.
  Marilyn Burns, president of the Edmonton-Southwest Wildrose constituency association bo
  
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• Officials urge caution after woman swept away on river, rescued by boat

  31-07-2017 16:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  The weekend rescue of a woman who was swept away on the North Saskatchewan River highlights the need to exercise caution along the riverbank, says a city official. 
  “It’s a very swift river,” said Edmonton Fire Rescue Services spokesperson Maya Filipovic on Monday. “It get dangerous for our crews as well to go out there and attempt these rescues.”
  Police and fire crews were called to the river around 6:30 a.m. Sunday.
  “The caller said he sa
  
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• K-Days attendance up over last year despite weather 'curve ball'

  31-07-2017 16:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than 816,000 people flocked to K-Days this year despite stormy weather that dampened initial attendance, say officials. 
  “Mother Nature may have thrown us a curve ball the first weekend, but she came through for us this past week,” said Northlands President and CEO Tim Reid in a Monday news release.
  An estimated 13,000 more people attended the annual exhibition compared to 2016, he added. 
  Reid partly attributed the numbers to the inaugural K-Days Rodeo, which he said
  
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• Thirty years on, what does Black Friday mean to Edmonton?

  31-07-2017 15:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  The tornado that hit Edmonton on July 31, 1987, killed 27 people, injured hundreds and caused more than $500 million in damage in today’s dollars.  
  But 30 years later, does it still mean anything to Edmontonians?
  Since the day that came to be known as Black Friday, the number of people who saw the destruction first-hand has dwindled as the city’s population has grown.   
  Memories of the city’s can-do spirit in the days and weeks after the tornado occasionally re
  
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• Jones: Construction of new Century Mile horse race track underway

  31-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  They’re off!
  The graders and bulldozers have been at the gate for a week. Finally the permits have come through and the building of the new Century Mile horse race track to replace Northlands Park is underway.
  Forget plans to have thoroughbred racing begin at the new one-mile “racino” track — the only one-mile track west of Woodbine — by this date next year as originally planned.
  Your correspondent has learned that this year’s 88th running of the Canadian Derb
  
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• From not enough to too much: can you 'over warn' about a tornado?

  31-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s deadly 1987 tornado was a sea change for how severe weather is monitored in Canada. 
  The storm, which killed 27 people in Edmonton on the afternoon of July 31, 1987, led to investments in radar emergency warning systems aimed at reducing future death tolls.
  But how much warning is too much? 
  “People want more warnings, but is there a possibility of actually over-warning people?” said Environment Canada meteorologist Dan Kulak. “It’s a real thing
  
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• Body rub parlours fear ID rules would boost underground sex trade

  31-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Requiring identification from clients at Edmonton’s body rub parlours would drive the industry out of business and force women into riskier situations in the underground sex trade, two parlour owners said. 
  In June, anti-sexual exploitation advocates said the city should require stricter ID and screening systems at the city’s 34 licensed body rub centres to help weed out problem clients.
  Kate Quinn, executive director of the Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation (CEASE), told Ed
  
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• Alberta agencies grapple with rise in sexual offences against children

  31-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The small girl cut through the crowd filling the Edmonton Law Courts foyer on a late July morning.
  Instead of heading off to summer camp, to a lake, or the playground, the eight-year-old was going for lunch — a break after hours of waiting to testify at a trial of a 36-year-old man accused of sexually interfering with her when she was just five years old. 
  Despite the circumstances, the little girl smiled as she clutched the leash of a yellow Labrador retriever, one of three Zebra Chi
  
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• Former school board trustee running for council - St. Albert Gazette

  31-07-2017 08:15
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  Jacquie Hansen, a former four-term school board trustee for Greater St. Albert Catholic (2001-2013) wants a seat in city council chambers next term. SUP. A school board veteran is running for a seat on St. Albert city council. Jacquie Hansen is the ...
  
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• Lanterns released at memorial for girl who died after becoming stuck in pond

  31-07-2017 06:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Dozens of family, friends and neighbours gathered to remember 14-year-old Krystyna Maksymova Sunday night, adding to a memorial and releasing paper lanterns.
  In addition to the Chinese lanterns, the community announced a memorial bench is being donated in Maksymova’s memory.
  Maksymova was walking a neighbour’s dog with her younger sister beside a drainage pond near 82 Street and Chrystallina Nera Way (180 Avenue) on July 22 when the dog ran off, chasing some geese into the pond.
  When
  
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• Hotdog vendor previews new restaurant concept at exhibition

  31-07-2017 03:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Of the 104 food vendors at K-Days, one is more than just a food truck — it’s a training ground.
  Three new Montreal Hotdogs restaurants are opening in Alberta in the coming months and the new owners are learning the business by feeding the exhibition’s hungry crowds.
  “All the training is being done here,” said Paul Richards, director of operations. “We’ve got our three franchisees, working, training at the same time.”
  Richards said the company curre
  
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• Curtis Stock: Corbin Adams knows how to keep it together on golf course

  31-07-2017 01:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  The next time your round of golf starts off horribly, think about pulling a ‘Corbin Adams.’
  Adams started his round in the Alberta PGA’s Golf Supply House professional series at the Edmonton Garrison Memorial Golf & CC with a double bogey.
  Not dismayed or dissuaded in any sense, Jagare Ridge’s Adams proceeded to reel off seven birdies and an eagle for a 7-under 65 to win by three shots over Cardiff’s Gage Murphy.Cougar Creek’s Jake Behiels was third with a
  
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• New season, same story for FC Edmonton

  31-07-2017 01:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was a new season but same script for FC Edmonton.
  Playing the opening game of the North American Soccer League Fall Season, the club once again came up short after probably deserving a better fate.
  David Goldsmith and Eamon Zayed scored for the visiting Indy Eleven in a 2-1 victory against FC Edmonton at Clarke Stadium on Sunday.
  Tomi Ameobi scored the lone goal for Edmonton, who once again could not find a goal when most needed.
  “We can’t really ask much more of the players, espe
  
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• Bucs finish regular season with shutout win over St. Albert - rdnewsnow.com

  31-07-2017 01:17
  Bucs finish regular season with shutout win over St. Albert
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  The Central Alberta Buccaneers ended their regular season on a high note, shooting down the St. Albert Stars 47-0. The road win secures the Bucs a third place league finish in the Alberta Football League and guarantees them a first round home play-off ...
  
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