St. Albert news

• Police investigate Christmas morning suspicious death

  25-12-2017 22:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homicide detectives are investigating after a 45-year-old man was found dead in a southeast Edmonton home early Christmas morning.
  Police were called to a home near 73 Avenue and 77 Street in the Avonmore neighbourhood around 3:30 a.m. Monday.
  When they arrived, officers found a 45-year-old man dead.
  The man’s death is being treated as suspicious and homicide detectives ave taken over the investigation.
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• Odyssey to save Bobby the stray ends in early morning rescue

  25-12-2017 19:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three officers from animal rescue talked to the dog gently.
  Two ladies – Donna Sokolik from St. Albert and Michele Johnson from Edmonton – who were following the dog for close to two months soothed the animal in quiet tones.
  On Sunday morning, as temperatures hovered in the low negatives and people cleared their snowy driveways, a tired dog, who had kept the women awake for nearly 60 days and made them drive almost the length and breadth of the city, simply surrendered.
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• Three month odyssey to save Bobby the stray ends in early morning rescue

  25-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three officers from animal rescue talked to the dog gently.
  Two ladies – Donna Sokolik from St. Albert and Michele Johnson from Edmonton – who were following the dog for three months soothed the animal in quiet tones.
  On Sunday morning, as temperatures hovered in the low negatives and people cleared their snowy driveways, a tired dog, who had kept the women awake for nearly 90 days and made them drive almost the length and breadth of the city, simply surrendered.
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• Northern Alberta school division hopes university tuition, housing upgrades help attract more teachers

  25-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A sweeping northern Alberta school division is offering to pay the way for people to complete teacher training in an effort to curtail its recruitment and retention struggles.
  In addition to a promise to pay for support staff to do a bachelor of education degree through the University of Calgary, Northland School Division is asking for $6 million to help replenish and replace its stock of rental housing for teachers in remote communities.
  “We want to be fully staffed, and we’re not,
  
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• Centre used by Indigenous seniors to stave off social isolation facing financial peril

  25-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A centre that caters to hundreds of Indigenous seniors living in Edmonton is struggling to stay afloat, putting a beloved home away from home at risk, say staff. 
  “We have a lot of knowledge we want to … pass on to our young people,” says Ed Lavallee, elder and board member at the Edmonton Aboriginal Seniors Centre.
  Every Wednesday, dozens of seniors sit down to eat soup and bannock, celebrate birthdays and share news at 10107 134 Ave. The friendly afternoon gatherings al
  
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