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• Fountain Park Recreation Centre Annual Spruce Up

  14-08-2017 23:46
  Fountain Park will be closed for its annual Spruce Up from August 26 – September 10, 2017 Fountain Park Recreation... Read Post
  
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• Grande Prairie man arrested in Calgary in child pornography investigation

  14-08-2017 22:30
  A 29-year-old man from Grande Prairie has been located and arrested in Calgary for child pornography related charges.
  Wally Adams was located in Calgary on Aug. 3 and charged with possession of child pornography and making child pornography available, a Monday afternoon Grande Prairie RCMP statement said. 
  RCMP executed a search warrant in Grande Prairie on Aug. 2 in relation to the possession and distribution of child pornography as a result of information received by the National Child Ex
  
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• No plans to expand year-round school beyond Edmonton's inner city

  14-08-2017 21:53
  Demand for year-round schooling has held steady in Edmonton since it was introduced eight years ago, but there are no imminent plans to adopt the calendar in other parts of the city, the local Catholic board says.
  “That’s not to say we won’t expand in the future, but right now we find these three communities we’re in are a really good place for the program,” Edmonton Catholic Schools spokeswoman Lori Nagy said.
  “We find this program is very successful in commu
  
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• Woodwork chef Lindsay Porter opening her own restaurant in Ellerslie

  14-08-2017 20:04
  Award-winning chef Lindsay Porter is poised to leave her post at downtown’s Woodwork to open her own restaurant in the Ellerslie area.
  The new restaurant is to be called London Local, and will draw inspiration from Porter’s British heritage. 
  “It’s English-inspired, with a pub feel,” says Porter, 31, of the restaurant’s theme. 
  Porter is taking over the space recently vacated by Cured Wine Bar at 2307 Ellwood Drive. She’s partnered with Evonne
  
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• Man facing drunk driving charges after pedestrian run over in Calmar

  14-08-2017 19:35
  A 30-year-old man is facing several charges after a pedestrian was run over by a pickup truck early Sunday morning in Calmar — about 50 kilometres southwest of Edmonton.
  Leduc RCMP responded to the call around 1:50 a.m. in the area of 51 Street and 47 Avenue, a Monday morning media release said.
  Witnesses told police the man hit was trying to prevent the suspected impaired pickup truck driver from leaving the scene after he was involved in a minor collision with another vehicle, RCMP
  
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• Air quality warning lifted for Edmonton area

  14-08-2017 19:20
  An air quality advisory in place due to wildfire smoke has been lifted for the Edmonton area, though warnings remain in place for the eastern part of the province. 
  The smoke, which reduced air quality and visibility, is expected to clear the province as a cold front moves through.
  David Lyder, senior air modelling engineer with Alberta Environment and Parks, said the smoke over Alberta is moving east from the B.C. wildfires even though there are also fires in the territories.
  The recent in
  
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• Neighbours furious former Edmonton mayor's property up for subdivision

  14-08-2017 16:09
  Neighbours of a home on east Jasper Avenue are up in arms over an infill plan for the property of former mayor Joe Clarke.
  The house itself is dilapidated — infested with mice and mould — but residents don’t want to let the new owners subdivide to accommodate two families. There is a special historic zoning in the area and the residents want the new owner to be forced to build one new home in roughly the same size and style as the homes built before the 1940s.
  “It’s
  
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• Forest fire smoke prompts special air quality statement for Edmonton

  14-08-2017 15:51
  A special air quality statement from Environment Canada is in effect Monday morning for the City of Edmonton and surrounding areas of St. Albert and Sherwood Park.
  The increased smoke over central and southern Alberta from the British Columbia forest fires will result in poor air quality and reduced vision, the statement says.
  Most of the smoke is expected to clear late Monday morning.
  The Air Quality Health Index measured by Environment Canada is currently high risk in Edmonton sitting at seven
  
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• Metallica talks Cthulu, fighting their own ghost and short hair

  14-08-2017 14:00
  Metallica is not alone in having to compete with its own ghost — don’t we all.
  But given the metal icon’s unquestionable influence early on — plus the rabidity of their intergenerational and global fan base — few musical acts have been so scrutinized at such a level, one perhaps only George Lucas can fully understand as mastermind behind both Darth Vader … and Jar Jar Binks.
  While 1991’s self-titled Metallica sold more than 20 million copies &mdash
  
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• KARE team broadens mandate to prevent murders of at-risk individuals

  14-08-2017 14:00
  An RCMP team that emerged out of a 2003 task force dedicated to investigating the local murders of high-risk women has a new province-wide mandate targeting vulnerable individuals in rural areas. 
  “We’ll work with anyone who’s high risk,” said Cpl. Kim Bradfield, analyst with the KARE Proactive team, operating under the RCMP K Division in Edmonton. 
  The unit — made up of three officers and two civilians who work in victim services — is the latest evo
  
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• Alberta's history of political expense scandals

  14-08-2017 14:00
  Alberta politics is back on the merry-go-round of MLA expense controversies.
  It’s a ride the province seems to clamber on at least once a decade, this time after the Journal revealed United Conservative Party MLA Derek Fildebrandt was subletting his taxpayer-subsidized apartment on Airbnb.
  Let us take you back to 1992.
  That year, expenses caused outrage after taxpayers ponied up more than $1.3 million to finance living allowances for MLAs, including some who lived less than a 30-minut
  
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• Do Edmonton Oilers have a Slepy of a prospect in Kirill Maksimov?

  14-08-2017 08:05
  2017 Edmonton Oilers prospects
  No. 16: F Kirill Maksimov
  Previously: N/A, drafted 146th overall in June 2017
  I’ve not seen more than Youtube highlights of Kirill Maksimov, so in writing about him today I’m fortunate to have a report from Sean Patrick Ryan of the Oil Knight blog, who watched Maksimov in the Ontario Hockey League this year.
  After scoring just 16 points in 37 games for the Saginaw Spirit to start the year, Maksimov finished off strong after he was traded to the Nia
  
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• Edmonton Prospects drop Game 1 of WMBL final in Swift Current

  14-08-2017 06:46
  Their bats woke up late — but it was too late to mount a comeback.
  The Edmonton Prospects lost Game 1 of the Western Major Baseball League final 13-7 to the Swift Current 57s on Sunday night. Only six runs in the top of the eight inning made it somewhat respectable for the visiting Prospects, who saw their series-opening hosts score in every inning but two at Swift Current’s Mitchell Field.
  The 57s’ Riley Campbell led all batters, hitting two home-runs while going 4-for-6, scor
  
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• Folk Fest 2017: Liquid lineups, one strong wind and a lot of love in the rain

  14-08-2017 06:11
  We of the north can take a little thunderstorm and deluge, right? Hell, we can even take a full-on evacuation on Thursday night without too many tears.
  But looking back, one of the big stories of this year’s Edmonton Folk Music Festival — like this summer’s Cirque’s Kurios, Interstellar Rodeo and Big Valley Jamboree — is that it was stopped dead at times by weather, the first time I can remember such a multi-fest string in many years of reviewing outdoor m
  
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• Funeral home opens doors for tours during Fringe Festival

  14-08-2017 03:01
  An Edmonton funeral home is opening its doors during the Edmonton International Fringe Festival to draw in curious bystanders and dispel the myths about what happens after death. 
  “This helps alleviate a lot of the questions and the misconceptions,” said Eden Tourangeau, funeral director at the South Side Memorial Chapel on Sunday. 
  Visitors to the Old Strathcona business can take a peak into the embalming room or consider coffin and urn options for their eternal resting pl
  
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• Gallagher Park stage one hot place for Edmonton Folk Music Festival

  14-08-2017 02:48
  If you could handle the withering heat you might have heard a number of remarkable things down at Gallagher Park on Saturday.
  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 six.
  Young neo-soul/R&B singer Anderson East used every melismatic trick in the vocal book on The Devil In Me
  
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• Pressure to make football playoffs gnaws at Alberta Golden Bears

  14-08-2017 01:39
  The pressures of trying to make the Canada West playoffs has been like a dark cloud hanging over the Alberta Golden Bears football program.
  It’s something that eats away at Bears head coach Chris Morris, his coaching staff and the players around who they built the program the last five years.
  But they’re done talking about playoffs and feeling that pressure. They just want to play and show they have what it takes to get there. It’s become pure motivation.
  “The pressure of
  
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