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• Nick Lees: Bringing back the Roaring Twenties at CASA's Great Gatsby party

  29-07-2018 22:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  There was something missing when we planned our Great Gatsby party for Aug. 29 at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald.
  Friends had told us they had the right clothes to wear for a Roaring Twenties party. After all it was the era when just about every moment of the day had its own dress code.
  “We need something iconic to capture the 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald,” said Fred Katz, my photographer buddy who is helping plan the party.
  Up stepped Gerry Levasseur, owne
  
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• Blue Quill apartment fire razes suites, displaces residents

  29-07-2018 21:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  A number of suites were destroyed in a fire that started on the fourth floor of an apartment building in southwest Edmonton early Sunday.
  Jason Gwilliam said his wife woke to the sound of crackling and the smell of smoke before the alarms started going off. He said he believes the blaze originated in the suite above their third-floor unit in the Monticello apartments in Blue Quill.
  “We didn’t really think about grabbing anything. We just left and hoped for the best,” he said.
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• Edmonton Humane Society cuts euthanasia rates by half since 2016

  29-07-2018 21:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Most cats at the Edmonton Humane Society used to live in singular cages. Now, they get double the space, curtains and boxes as part of a care that has reduced the shelter’s euthanasia rate by half.
  Since the humane society started using the Capacity for Care (C4C) regimen in 2016, the number of cats put down per month has been cut by 55 per cent; from an average of 68 cats per month from November 2015 to October 2016, to 30 cats per month, from October 2016 to November 2017.
  “In the
  
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• Blue Quill apartment fire displaces residents

  29-07-2018 18:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  An entire building of residents were displaced by an early morning fire in southwest Edmonton Sunday.
  At the height of the blaze, 14 Edmonton Fire Rescue units responded to the scene at 27 Avenue and 115 Street in Blue Quill, Edmonton Fire Rescue spokeswoman Suzzette Mellado said Sunday morning.
  “We received a call at 1:45 a.m., with reports of flames going through the roof at a four-storey apartment building,” she said.
  Everyone in the building was evacuated to Edmonton Transit Serv
  
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• Edmonton weather: It's hotter than hot. It's hot, hot, HOT!

  29-07-2018 17:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Sunday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 19.4 C with a 7 km/h wind coming from the southwest.
  A heat warning is in effect for the City of Edmonton and surrounding area. Temperatures are expected to reach 30 C today and 32 C Monday. Environment Canada says a low pressure system will eventually move into northern Alberta Monday evening, bringing thunderstorms and cooler temperatures. But until then, be su
  
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• Free-falling with SkyHawks, Canada's troops in the sky

  29-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Whitecourt Airport — The anticipation tangles one’s soul but stepping into a free fall from an altitude of 12,500 feet brings breathtaking clarity.
  Of course, I’m tethered to the captain of the SkyHawks, the Canadian Armed Forces parachute team, and all I have to do is trust him. With my life.
  “Don’t look straight down, you’ll get vertigo,” are the last words I hear from Capt. John Hart Friday before we step in tandem off the jaw-like ramp of the rumblin
  
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• From The Cult of Hockey, All kinds of personal reasons to expect Milan Lucic to rebound next season: 9 Things

  29-07-2018 09:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  He has been the most talked about of all Edmonton Oilers during the off-season.
  For all the wrong reasons.
  Surely by now you don’t need me to recount the year that Milan Lucic endured. Of all of the things that went wrong in Edmonton over the course of the 2017-18 Oilers season the Lucic collapse had to be #1 on the hit parade.
  Some say the swoon was physical. In fact, a large number of commentators and fans alike quickly attributed his slide to a combination of 1) The increasing speed of
  
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