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• New Ukrainian village homestead honours all newcomers, says Hoffman

  13-08-2017 23:37
  It’s authentic right down to the cow manure on the kitchen floor meant to keep down the dust.
  The provincial Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village opened a new homestead Sunday, celebrating the hard work of another family who helped build Alberta.
  It’s a way to honour the role of all newcomers, said deputy premier Sarah Hoffman, making the point while the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., dominated the news.
  “It’s heartbreaking,” Hoffman said of the vio
  
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• Annual RT Open 'fellowship through golf' for Wilkes' family, friends

  13-08-2017 21:55
  Replete with a green jacket that goes to the winner, the Wilkes family’s annual golf tournament — as Jim Nantz would say about The Masters — “is a tradition like no other.”
  Started to simply get all the ‘boys’ from Edmonton’s Meadowlark district back together, Gord, 65, Brian, 63, Peter, 61, and Chris Wilkes, 58, have now been organizing an event which has been held 20 consecutive years with virtually all of the same people getting together year af
  
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• Heritage planners seek bits of old city to tell the story of Edmonton

  13-08-2017 21:46
  Originally published March 28, 2015.
  David Johnston is hunting for remnants.
  Each week in Edmonton’s mature neighbourhoods, little old houses are being pulled down to make way for new infill projects but in a few places, intact rows of original homes still tell our story.
  “A block face here, half a street here. It’s not whole neighbourhoods that still have it,” said Johnston, a heritage planner for the city.
  His office has six heritage character areas identified and prote
  
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• Terrific summer wine cocktail recipes

  13-08-2017 21:00
  There’s a popular and widely planted varietal that is bottled as red, white and rosé wine. It’s known as Grenache in southern France, Australia and California, Cannonau from Sardinia in Italy, and Garnacha from Spain. We are seeing increasingly serious and concentrated wines from Spain.
  If you are looking for a smooth, juicy glass of red, then Garnacha is a great choice. They’re lighter coloured reds, medium- to full-bodied, often bold, luscious and high in alcohol, 13 t
  
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• Social Seen: Fringe Festival lineup launch

  13-08-2017 20:59
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist.
  Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at @fotocodie. Follow Codie on Instagram (@fotocodie) and Facebook (facebook.com/fotocodie)
  Edmonton Fringe Festival lineup launch
  Where: Arts Barns
  When: Aug. 9
  Who: Edmonton International Fringe Festival
  What: Lineup launch of t
  
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• 72 points for Ryan Strome, predicts The Sports Forecaster, but just 32 for Patrick Maroon

  13-08-2017 20:43
  Malkin predicted to outscore McDavid this year
  The Sports Forecaster is out with its annual predictions of player points, so as an Edmonton Oilers fan I immediately dug into the predictions for Oilers players.
  I was astonished by what was predicted.
  On the low side, there was 97 points for Connor McDavid and 32 for Patrick Maroon.
  On the high side, 91 for Leon Draisaitl, 72 for Ryan Strome and 49 for Anton Slepyshev. 
  Last year, McDavid got 100, Maroon 42, Strome, 30, Draisaitl, 77, and Sle
  
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• Woman drowns after dinghy capsizes in Gull Lake

  13-08-2017 20:26
  A 57-year-old woman is dead after drowning in Gull Lake.
  The woman was on an inflatable dinghy when the dinghy capsized, said Blackfalds RCMP in a news release on Saturday.
  Emergency crews were called out around 1 p.m. on Saturday.
  RCMP said the woman was not a strong swimmer and became separated from the dinghy.
  Bystanders brought the woman to shore and she was conscious. First aid was administered on scene, RCMP said.
  An ambulance took her to Lacombe hospital, but she died on route.
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• Lees: VETS Group fundraiser collects $180k for local military veterans

  13-08-2017 20:19
  A tank was a suitable and impressive backdrop last week when a local company shared with three local charities the $180,000 it had collected.
  The swinging fundraiser was held at the Edmonton Garrison Memorial Golf and Curling Club, where a M109 Howitzer (not technically a tank) stands guard over Hole 15.
  “We set out to raise $95,000 to celebrate our family businesses’ 95-year history,” said Erin Rayner of the VETS Group, a construction services firm with head offices in Edmont
  
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• Gallagher Park stage heats up at Day 3 of the Edmonton Folk Fest

  13-08-2017 18:27
  If you could handle the withering heat on Saturday you might have heard a number of remarkable things down at Gallagher Park.
  There was bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs singing Uncle Pen as though he was born to it, which in a sense he was; the mandolin wonder took the Bill Monroe penned tune to the top of the charts over three decades ago after playing with Monroe at the age of 6. Young neo-soul/r ‘n’ b singer Anderson East used every melismatic trick in the vocal book on The Devil In
  
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• Edmonton's African-Canadian communities expand youth summer camp

  13-08-2017 16:00
  African-Canadian community groups in Edmonton have teamed up to expand a summer camp that draws hundreds of children every year. 
  “It was our intention and dream to start something on the south side,” said Tesfaye Ayalew, executive director of the Africa Centre.
  This year marked an expansion for the longstanding All One Summer program, which has been operating in the city’s north for nine years with capacity for about 180 children. The south side program — which
  
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• The Press Gallery #192: The Modernly Furnished With A Sweeping View Of The City edition

  13-08-2017 04:31
  The title of this week’s Press Gallery podcast is, of course, a homage to the Airbnb listing for the apartment of United Conservative Party MLA Derek Fildebrandt, following revelations he rented it out while claiming an accommodation allowance from taxpayers.
  Join host Emma Graney with guests Janet French, Paula Simons and Graham Thomson to talk about the latest expense controversy in Alberta politics, as well as Premier Rachel Notley’s pipeline tour and B.C. doubling down on its ple
  
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• Edmonton Oilers defence prospect John Marino covering the early bet

  13-08-2017 04:26
  2017 Edmonton Oilers prospects#17 John Marino
  Previously: No 24 in 2016
  “Draft-and-follow.”
  Such were the first words I wrote about Edmonton Oilers’ prospect John Marino when the rangy right-shooting defenceman first entered the system a couple years back,  ranking 25th in our summer prospect series and labelled in the headline as “a long-term bet with a chance”. Two out-of-sight-out-of-mind years later, those words still hold.  
  Let’s be honest here
  
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• Edmonton Prospects' success in WMBL playoffs comes by committee

  13-08-2017 03:26
  On Thursday night, Dean Olson couldn’t help but savour the moment.
  The Edmonton Prospects outfielder missed out on winning the team’s first Western Major Baseball League West Division title last year – but he was going to take it all in this time and really enjoy it.
  The last two seasons have been pretty special for the Prospects, but Olson certainly doesn’t forget about being part of the team’s dark days early on in his time with the Prospects.
  In 2012 and 2013, th
  
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• Woman accidentally drowns after dinghy capsizes in Gull Lake

  13-08-2017 01:25
  A 57-year-old woman is dead after drowning in Gull Lake.
  The woman was on an inflatable dinghy when the dinghy capsized, said Blackfalds RCMP in a news release on Saturday.
  Emergency crews were called out around 1 p.m. on Saturday.
  RCMP said the woman was not a strong swimmer and became separated from the dinghy.
  Bystanders brought the woman to shore and she was conscious. First aid was administered on scene, RCMP said.
  An ambulance took her to Lacombe hospital, but she died on route.
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