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2 LETHBRIDGE JOURNAL - WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2011
LETHBRIDGE JOURNAL - WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2011 3<br />
Teen volunteer awarded<br />
<strong>major</strong> <strong>schola</strong>rship<br />
By Jeff Wiebe<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
For Marissa Schmidt, volunteering in the community has really paid off.<br />
Schmidt was recently awarded a $36,000 CIBC Youthvision Scholarship, as well as a<br />
special award for her community volunteerism, and the local grade 11 student couldn’t be<br />
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“I really wasn’t expecting it, it was a big shock. I’m really thankful for it,” she says.<br />
Only 30 of the awards are given out each year to high school students across Canada. <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>schola</strong>rship is designed to target high-potential young people who may not otherwise have<br />
the opportunity to pursue a post-secondary education, and applicants must be enrolled<br />
in a mentoring program with either Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada or the YMCA.<br />
Schmidt has been mentored by a Big Sister since grade one, which is how she learned<br />
about this <strong>schola</strong>rship opportunity.<br />
“My Big Sister is just a really awesome person, and I’ve found an awesome friend in her.<br />
She’s always there to help me.”<br />
Volunteering has long been an important part of Schmidt’s life – soon after being matched<br />
with her Big Sister, she began volunteering with the local Humane Society and continued<br />
to do so for several years. She currently donates her time in the volunteer resources office<br />
at the local hospital and works with Project Paintbrush during the summer.<br />
“Before, I thought I’d have to work as much as<br />
possible while going to university, but now I’ll be<br />
able to focus more on school and less on work.”<br />
Schmidt’s time at the hospital will prove especially valuable going forward, as she plans to<br />
study nursing with the goal of becoming a pediatric oncology nurse at a children’s hospital.<br />
“When I get older I want to work in a hospital as a nurse. I just like the environment there<br />
– it’s fun,” she explains. “I love kids – they are always so positive no matter what’s going<br />
on, and I just want to help them get better.”<br />
As part of the <strong>schola</strong>rship, Schmidt will receive up to $16,000 toward four years of postsecondary<br />
tuition, and a series of six paid summer internships through the YMCA valued<br />
at up to $20,000. She will continue to receive mentoring through either the Big Brothers<br />
Big Sisters or YMCA until graduating from university, and will take part in a CIBC student<br />
seminar intended to help students manage their finances and prepare for the future.<br />
Schmidt had always planned to attend post-secondary school, and having this <strong>schola</strong>rship<br />
will help remove some of the pressure to work while attending classes.<br />
“I’d always wanted to go to university, but getting the <strong>schola</strong>rship will help that be possible,”<br />
she explains, adding that she plans to attend the University of <strong>Lethbridge</strong> after<br />
graduating from Catholic Central High School.<br />
“Before, I thought I’d have to work as much as possible while going to university, but now<br />
I’ll be able to focus more on school and less on work.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Youthvision Scholarship program, now in its 13th year, has helped more than 390<br />
students across Canada achieve their goal of post-secondary education.<br />
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By Jeff Wiebe<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong>re are thousands of ways to help make the world a fairer place, and for 35 years, Ten<br />
Thousand Villages has given <strong>Lethbridge</strong> residents a chance to do their part.<br />
<strong>The</strong> store offers a variety of products created by artisans from around the world, and in the<br />
process, helps ensure that people are paid a fair wage for their labour and are able to work<br />
in safe conditions. As the local chapter celebrates its 35th anniversary this month, Julie<br />
Klok, store manager, says it continues to make a difference in the lives of workers.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s truly a care and a respect for these people – it’s giving them back a dignity they<br />
may not have known otherwise,” she explains.<br />
“We’re part of something that is pretty important on a global scale.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> local shop got its start decades ago, when a group of Mennonite churches banded<br />
together with the goal of opening a thrift store, a long-time method of fundraising for the<br />
church. At the time, the self-help crafts movement was taking off in the U.S., and after<br />
spending an initial $1,000 on a selection of crafts, the local group joined the movement.<br />
<strong>The</strong> store has resided in a variety of locations throughout its history, and remained under<br />
the banner of Self Help Crafts until 1996, when the entire organization changed its moniker<br />
and became Ten Thousand Villages.<br />
Klok got involved as manager in 2005, but had been aware of the store’s work for many<br />
years before.<br />
“I knew about Ten Thousand Villages long before – my first nativity scene came from a<br />
Self-Help Crafts store,” she explains, adding that she was drawn in by the opportunity to<br />
contribute to a global effort.<br />
“I wanted to do something that would really benefit people on a more international level.<br />
Knowing people from other countries has always been something I’ve enjoyed, and having<br />
a more global involvement was really important to me at that time.<br />
“Knowing that we’re helping people to maintain those indigenous crafts was something<br />
that also had a lot of value for me.”<br />
Klok quickly realized the store was part of an important movement that was having a <strong>major</strong><br />
impact on quality of life the world over – when producers are fairly compensated for<br />
their work and are given an opportunity to hone their skills, everyone benefits.<br />
“People are getting a business sense, they’re getting an idea of how to develop their own<br />
products, and they’re thinking ahead to their communities.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> work done by Ten Thousand Villages can be particularly empowering for women in<br />
developing countries, many of whom have never before had a chance to earn their own<br />
income.“As you’re making your own income, there’s something that really does make a difference<br />
for so many women,” says Klok.<br />
“When women start to realize their value, they start to give back to their families, and<br />
their communities benefit. <strong>The</strong>y’re finding that in developing countries, over and over<br />
again.”<br />
at editor@lethbridgejournal.com<br />
<strong>The</strong> store’s holistic approach to improving the lives of people around the world has<br />
garnered it a dedicated base of customers, and Klok is thankful for all the support it has<br />
enjoyed over the years.<br />
“We have our faithful group that follows us and believes in what we’re all about – without<br />
their support, we wouldn’t exist.”
Editors Note<br />
Now, that’s some crunchy stuffing!<br />
Hello, again.<br />
Lisa Doerksen<br />
Editor for the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
Crisp mornings. Yellow leaves. Twilight evenings. Without a doubt, fall is in the air.<br />
While I’m normally one to mourn the end of the summer, I have to admit, the past<br />
few weeks have been welcome in my world. I have dug out a few favourite sweaters, burned<br />
candles and spent a rainy afternoon baking in the kitchen. Last grocery day, my daughter<br />
squealed in excitement at the big bin of pumpkins plunked in the middle of the store’s produce<br />
section. I couldn’t resist bringing three mini pumpkins - one for each child - home!<br />
Indeed, our family is ready to celebrate this colourful change of season.<br />
This issue of the <strong>Journal</strong> embraces fall as well, with features highlighting some of our region’s<br />
seasonal offerings. Check out the photo spread on page six of the recent giant Pumpkin<br />
Festival at Green Haven Garden Centre. <strong>The</strong> festival gave all of southern Alberta a<br />
chance to celebrate the best fall has to offer while supporting a great cause - <strong>The</strong> Children’s<br />
Wish Foundation. Our travel feature on page 27 details all you need to know to take advantage<br />
of the spectacular fall scenery in Kalispell, just a short hop over the US border.<br />
We’ve also made an effort to introduce you to a few more of the people who make our community<br />
such a great place. This issue, meet Marissa Schmidt, a Grade 11 student whose<br />
heart for others has really paid off. Get to know a little better alderman Jeff Coffman and his<br />
passion for serving the residents of <strong>Lethbridge</strong> through politics.<br />
As always, our outstanding crew of contributors has offered up their insights, opinions and<br />
downright off-the-wall thoughts!<br />
Indeed, this issue of the <strong>Journal</strong> will be the perfect companion to a cozy sweater and hot<br />
cup of apple cider.<br />
Enjoy!<br />
Letters To <strong>The</strong> Editor<br />
Whiskey or whisky?<br />
Editor,<br />
Leafing through your new-look <strong>Journal</strong> this morning my eye caught the feature by Kyle<br />
Baines “<strong>The</strong> Spirited Word.” <strong>The</strong> question arises, is it WHISKEY or is it WHISKY he is<br />
talking about in his interesting article?<br />
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It’s always a great time for families to get<br />
together for good food, good times and good will. But enough of the serious. I want to<br />
share with you an incident that happened a few Thanksgivings ago.<br />
First off, I have to admit that I’m a bit vain. I don’t have too many vices, but one I will<br />
admit to is getting my nails done every three weeks. To me, it’s just like needing a<br />
haircut. I “need” to have nice nails.<br />
At the time of the “Incident,” I was helping my daughter prepare a turkey. I volunteered<br />
to make the stuffing because I’m such an awesome cook and proceeded to do so with<br />
gusto. Everything went swimmingly and we were all enjoying our meal when I realized<br />
one of my nails was missing. I didn’t say much about it. I just figured that I had lost it a<br />
day or so ago. (You can see where this is headed.)<br />
“He was enjoying a bite of stuffing when<br />
he thought he broke a tooth. He fished<br />
something hard and white out of his mouth<br />
and, guess what! You got it!<br />
It was my nail.”<br />
Anyway, the following morning, my son-in-law took a plate of leftovers to work for his<br />
lunch. He was enjoying a bite of stuffing when he thought he broke a tooth. He fished<br />
something hard and white out of his mouth and, guess what! You got it! It was my nail.<br />
I don’t think I will ever live down the embarrassment but I have to admit it was pretty<br />
funny, at least his co-workers thought so. Needless to say, whenever I make stuffing for<br />
Thanksgiving, I count my nails as well as my blessings.<br />
Oh, and by the way, my son-in-law still likes me. <strong>The</strong> awesome cooking, well, not so<br />
much.<br />
Thanks for reading and I hope to be back soon.<br />
<strong>The</strong> answer is YES, but it depends which one he is referring to. For Irish or American it is<br />
WHISKEY, with an e. For Scotch or Canadian it is WHISKY, with no e. Just check the bottles<br />
in any liquor store. <strong>The</strong>y tell the truth.<br />
Geoff Bradshaw<br />
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Pumpkin Festival<br />
an opportunity for fun<br />
It was a fall-themed good time at the 23rd annual Giant Pumpkin Festival at Green Haven Garden Centre recently.<br />
<strong>The</strong> festival - a family fair - featured games for children, live entertainment, hay rides and a petting zoo. A weigh-off competition<br />
was held for the many large pumpkins that were entered. This year, Coalhurst’s Ray Beaudin came out on top with<br />
a 917-lb monster of a pumpkin.<br />
All of the pumpkins were auctioned off to raise money for the Children’s Wish Foundation. <strong>The</strong> foundation grants wishes<br />
to children with life-threatening illnesses. In 2010, the Giant Pumpkin Festival raised over $23,000 and helped grant wishes<br />
for 10 southern Alberta children.<br />
Band “Back Porch Swing” played for the crowd.<br />
A close-up of Ray Beaudin’s winning giant pumpkin.<br />
Pumpkins are lined up on display, waiting to be auctioned<br />
off to raise money for the Children’s Wish Foundation.<br />
Festival participants take a hay ride around the grounds<br />
surrounding Green Haven Garden Centre.<br />
Children’s Wish Foundation wish recipient Ryan Phillips,<br />
of Vauxhall, hugs the winning pumpkin - a 917-lb<br />
behemoth grown by Ray Beaudin of Coalhurst.<br />
All photos submitted by Lynne McGuire
LETHBRIDGE JOURNAL - WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2011 7<br />
Organization Key in Coffmanʼs Concept<br />
of Effective Civic Leadership<br />
By Bill Axtell<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
“<br />
Anytime is a good time to get organized” - it’s an altruism<br />
in ethical thinking which seems to have a very real<br />
practical application in the city of <strong>Lethbridge</strong>.<br />
Alderman Jeff Coffman may be the newest member of<br />
<strong>Lethbridge</strong> City Council - notwithstanding his previous<br />
term on council in the mid-1990s - nevertheless, he’s using<br />
a keen sense of vision to move council towards organizing<br />
some of its more significant issues.<br />
At two different times earlier this year, when two <strong>Lethbridge</strong><br />
organizations - <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lethbridge</strong> Symphony Orchestra<br />
and the Safety City Society of <strong>Lethbridge</strong> - found themselves<br />
facing recession-based financial crisis, city council<br />
voted to provide financial bail-outs.<br />
Yet Coffman, admittedly taken aback that two such organizations<br />
required city financial support in the same year,<br />
looked at the issue retrospectively. He saw the need for a<br />
new city procedure for organizations to follow when, finding<br />
themselves in desperate financial circumstances, they<br />
require last-resort help from the city to keep their operations<br />
going.<br />
His idea for such a new policy, now called the Community<br />
Not-for-Profit Emergency Funding Policy and Agreement<br />
was presented to council at the Sept. 19 meeting by Bary<br />
Beck, director of community services. Council passed the<br />
new measure.<br />
“Now we can evaluate such requests on a sound business<br />
From the People<br />
basis with relevant facts - not just voting by the seat of<br />
our pants,” Coffman says. “Without a formal process in<br />
place to guide aldermen in making such decisions, the voting<br />
becomes purely emotionally-based,” he adds.<br />
With a Masters Degree in Political Science, and sharing<br />
his time between his Aldermanic position with the city<br />
and teaching Civic Government at the University of <strong>Lethbridge</strong>,<br />
Coffman seems more than well-equipped to bring<br />
a vision for better ways of doing things to his colleagues on<br />
council.<br />
Coffman says of his decision to return to school in 2004,<br />
enrolling at the University of Alberta in a political science<br />
program leading to an undergraduate degree there, “the<br />
courses there allowed me to rediscover my joy for politics.”<br />
After Coffman’s first term on <strong>Lethbridge</strong> council ended in<br />
1998, he purchased a local Japan Camera franchise, fortunately<br />
selling it in 2002, the year before Japan Camera went<br />
out of business nationally.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n, in 2002, Coffman accepted a post as chief of staff in<br />
Edmonton for the party leader of the Official Opposition.<br />
When another leader was elected in April 2004, Coffman<br />
enrolled at the U of A, graduating in 2007 with distinction.<br />
Next, Coffman moved back to <strong>Lethbridge</strong> with his wife,<br />
Arlene, where he enrolled in the U of L’s graduate program<br />
in political science. Upon graduating in 2010, he began a<br />
sessional teaching stint.<br />
“My students benefit from my position on city council in<br />
that my course in civic government can offer immediate<br />
application of the concepts I teach,” he notes.<br />
Coffman makes a strong effort to split his time 50-50 between<br />
City Hall and the U of L. “I consistently log 40 hours<br />
for my work at the city,” he observes, noting that the job<br />
of Alderman is actually structured for 20 hours a week.<br />
Yet, Coffman spends a lot of time “conceptualizing and<br />
researching programs and issues affecting the city government,”<br />
a process which also carries over into his teaching<br />
realm.<br />
Coffman pinned down his principal concepts for successful<br />
civic governance to four points, which he feels are mandatory<br />
for the job: accountability, accessibility, efficiency in<br />
both time and costs and dedication to the job.<br />
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Of course, Gnissios is also<br />
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elicit more out of key staff<br />
than even they thought<br />
they had within them.<br />
Who could have expected<br />
that Gnissios, upon his<br />
appointment as Acting Library<br />
Director and CEO in<br />
July 2009, would even be<br />
able to pull it off - bringing<br />
a new library branch from<br />
almost nothing into fully<br />
operational status, completing<br />
it one week before an aggressive scheduled opening date at the end of August of<br />
last year.<br />
In the process of accomplishing the near-impossible, Gnissios, who was promoted to Director<br />
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Gnissios explained, “It takes three years to order that volume of material to fill up the empty<br />
building provided by the government for the new West <strong>Lethbridge</strong> Crossings Branch<br />
- we only had 14 months. Nevertheless, everything was delivered on time with more than<br />
enough funding raised through a public drive to cover all the costs.”<br />
Starting a fundraising campaign from scratch in March 2010, the library needed $969,000<br />
to pay for the books, DVDs, CDs and other materials it had already ordered for the new<br />
branch. By early August, six months later, fundraising successes had accumulated all but<br />
about $100,000; by September the campaign had actually gone over the needed amount.<br />
“We have a simply amazing team,” Gnissios said, humbly passing all the credit to his group<br />
of librarians and support staff. “And our managers did an outstanding job of increasing our<br />
total staffing levels by an extra 30 per cent, providing sound organization and training, yet<br />
maintaining efficiency.<br />
“We’ve learned from our mistakes; the job is well done,” he said, with characteristic enthusiasm.<br />
“Many staffers have been promoted or have taken on increased responsibilities.”<br />
He explained that the concept of the library board, in recruiting Gnissios from the Vancouver<br />
Public Library into <strong>Lethbridge</strong>, was “to take the local library from a single- branch system<br />
to a multiple-branch system,” a giant step in the life cycle of any library system. Gnissios<br />
hints that the future growth of <strong>Lethbridge</strong> will eventually dictate other new branches on<br />
both the north and south sides of the city.<br />
Director Gnissios is, himself, a breath of fresh air both in how he presents himself and offers<br />
up his ideas for broadening the library’s services. Long gone is the historical ideal that<br />
a library is a building filled with books; “We are a state-of-the-art system, complete with a<br />
full range of internet-based services accessible from customer’s homes or offices designed<br />
not only to provide an unlimited fountain of information, but even to assist in driving the<br />
local economy to previously unforeseen levels.”<br />
As an example, he explained how the library, when faced with “the worst recession in history<br />
since the 1930’s,” set up programs to take people - often with Grade 10 educations -<br />
who were laid off from a suddenly declining oil industry and provide them new avenues of<br />
training and upgrading.
LETHBRIDGE JOURNAL - WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2011 9<br />
Bookkeeping and<br />
Accounting Basics for<br />
Small Businesses<br />
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Debbie Thomas<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
Bookkeeping and accounting share two basic goals: to keep track of your income and expenses, and to collect the necessary financial<br />
information about your business to file your tax returns and local tax registration papers.<br />
Sounds pretty simple, doesn’t it? It can be, especially if you remind yourself of these two goals whenever you feel overwhelmed by the details<br />
of keeping your financial records.<br />
Hopefully, you will also be reassured to know there is no requirement that your records be kept in any particular way. As long as your records<br />
accurately reflect your business’s income and expenses, Canada Revenue will find them acceptable. Please keep in mind, the more organized<br />
and straight-forward your records are, the easier it is to determine how your business is doing. In the event of an audit, having your books<br />
accurate and accessible will make the audit process much easier.<br />
Step 1: Keeping Your Receipts<br />
Comprehensive summaries of your<br />
business’s income and expenses are the<br />
heart of the accounting process. Each of<br />
your business’s sales and purchases must<br />
be backed by some type of record containing<br />
the amount, the date, and other<br />
relevant information about that sale.<br />
Most successful businesses choose to<br />
outsource this task to the experts: bookkeepers<br />
and accountants. You will want<br />
to choose a system you feel comfortable<br />
with and that fits your business<br />
needs. For example, a small service<br />
business that handles relatively few jobs<br />
may get by with<br />
a bare-bones approach.<br />
But the<br />
more sales and<br />
expenditures<br />
your<br />
business<br />
makes, the better<br />
your receipt<br />
filing<br />
system<br />
needs to be.<br />
Step 2: Setting Up and Posting<br />
Ledgers<br />
A completed ledger is really nothing<br />
more than a summary of revenues, expenditures,<br />
and whatever else you’re<br />
keeping track of (entered from your receipts<br />
according to category and date).<br />
Later, you’ll use these summaries to answer<br />
specific financial questions about<br />
your business such as whether you’re<br />
making a profit, and if so, how much.<br />
Generally speaking, the more sales you<br />
do, the more transactions require posting.<br />
A retail store, for instance, that does<br />
hundreds of sales amounting to tens of<br />
thousands of dollars every day should<br />
probably post daily. To do this, the<br />
busy retailer should use a cash register<br />
that totals and posts the day’s sales to<br />
a computerized bookkeeping system at<br />
the push of a button. A slower business,<br />
however, or one with just a few large<br />
transactions per month, would probably<br />
be fine if it posted weekly or even<br />
monthly.<br />
Even the tiniest new businesses are well<br />
advised to use an accounting software<br />
system to help keep their records accurate.<br />
That’s because once you’ve entered<br />
your daily, weekly, or monthly<br />
numbers, accounting software makes<br />
preparing monthly and yearly financial<br />
reports incredibly easy.<br />
Step 3: Creating Basic Financial<br />
Reports<br />
Financial reports are important because<br />
they bring together several key pieces of<br />
financial information about your business.<br />
Think of it this way -- while your<br />
income ledger may tell you that your<br />
business brought in a lot of money during<br />
the year, you may have no way of<br />
knowing whether you turned a profit<br />
without measuring your income against<br />
your expenses.<br />
That’s why you need financial reports;<br />
to combine data from your ledgers and<br />
sculpt it into a shape that shows you the<br />
big picture of your business.<br />
Conclusion:<br />
Your bottom line is the most important information to determine how your business is doing and if you need to adjust your procedures. Your Profit & Loss statements<br />
show you exactly that. <strong>The</strong>se reports can be easily provided to you by your bookkeeper or accountant each month. Take stock in the amount of time you spend on your<br />
own bookkeeping and compare that to the time you could be growing your business – is it to your advantage to outsource this task to an expert that can get it done<br />
faster, and perhaps more accurately?
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Mastering the ‘language of business’<br />
In fact, the <strong>major</strong>ity of the most profitable and highest<br />
growth companies are those that know their numbers at<br />
every possible level. <strong>The</strong>y know very clearly you cannot<br />
manage what you do not measure. <strong>The</strong> key to knowing<br />
your numbers is simply that: knowing and understanding<br />
exactly what your business needs to produce to give you<br />
the profit you need to survive and grow.<br />
Most business owners I’ve coached over the years have no<br />
clue what their real numbers are. <strong>The</strong>y have a vague guess,<br />
but they don’t really know – mainly because I think they<br />
don’t want to be faced with the reality the numbers will<br />
show them.<br />
By Greg Stonehocker<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong>re are a number of areas in a business you can gain<br />
mastery in, but I think one of the most important areas<br />
is what I call the “language of business” – which is numbers!<br />
So let me ask you a few questions, do you know how<br />
many customers or how many sales you need to make today<br />
to make a profit? What about how long you’ll have to<br />
work this year just to pay your taxes? How many prospects<br />
do you need in your sales pipeline to generate enough customers<br />
to make your profit margin?<br />
“you can jump your profits<br />
immediately simply by<br />
actually knowing the<br />
numbers that lead to them”<br />
All very important and key questions to ask yourself in any<br />
business. Now, if you’re struggling to answer these basic<br />
questions, you’re not alone. But you can jump your profits<br />
immediately simply by actually knowing the numbers that<br />
lead to them.<br />
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To prosper, you’re going to have to put the fear of numbers<br />
behind you and embrace the reality they will reveal to you.<br />
Not only will mastery of your numbers give you an edge<br />
over your competition, it will give you the power to make<br />
better decisions in real time, regardless of the economy.<br />
So what can numbers tell you?<br />
First, numbers will tell you where you are right now.<br />
Beyond revenues and expenses, your numbers will show<br />
your profit margins, as well as vital sales figures. If you<br />
know how many people come through your doors a day<br />
and how many actually buy something, you suddenly have<br />
a handle on the number known as your “sales conversion<br />
rate.”<br />
By that measure, if you know you always convert 15 per<br />
cent of your prospects into a sale, and you know you need<br />
12 sales to profit, you can easily determine you’ll need 80<br />
people through your doors on average to be<br />
profitable (12/15% = 80).<br />
Second, numbers will guide you where you want to go.<br />
Are you looking for an extra $10,000 in gross profit on a<br />
25% profit margin? You’ll need to generate a turnover of at<br />
least $40,000 ($10,000/25% = $40,000).<br />
Are you a professional who charges $100 an hour who<br />
now wants to double your income? You might need to determine<br />
whether it is better for you to charge $200 over<br />
2,000 working hours a year (highly unlikely given you can’t<br />
charge every working hour) or charge $400 multiplied by<br />
1,000 working hours a year (meaning you can take some<br />
time off once in a while).<br />
Finally, numbers will help you form a plan to get there.<br />
Sometimes, the numbers will reveal your current skills and<br />
market conditions – or your current mix of products and<br />
services – just won’t support your revenue and profit targets.<br />
That’s not bad news – it’s just news. But it will help you<br />
determine what you will need to do to improve your skill<br />
set or revamp your product and services mix.<br />
So what do the numbers look like in your company?<br />
If you are in sales, how many calls will you need to make<br />
next week to get the number of appointments you’ll need to<br />
make a sale? If you are in retail, how many customers will<br />
you need in your shop to break even?<br />
Take some time – right now – and introduce yourself to<br />
the past, present and future numbers of your particular<br />
business. Because if you don’t master your numbers, your<br />
numbers will surely master you.<br />
send pictures<br />
of you and local events to<br />
at editor@lethbridgejournal.com
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Virtuous<br />
woman exposed<br />
Guten Tag!<br />
Tell me, in the future from which you are reading this, has Fox admitted they still<br />
make BILLIONS from <strong>The</strong> Simpsons and they’re just being cheap? No? Who<br />
wants to organize a mob with me? No? Fine, I’ll just complain about it on the Internet.<br />
Bus pass, anyone?<br />
Debate broke out recently at the University of <strong>Lethbridge</strong> over a referendum to socialize<br />
the cost of a Student Bus Pass. Proponents of the UPass believe it will encourage use<br />
of public transit and reduce carbon output, while critics maintain that the $77.50/<br />
semester charge is an unfair burden for those who already pay for alternate forms<br />
of transportation and parking. Both sides suffered severe casualties in the ensuing<br />
discussion, and with the vote still on the way more are expected. Transit authorities<br />
are reportedly excited to begin slowly increasing the price over the next several years<br />
while nobody is looking.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y elected who?<br />
<strong>The</strong> provincial Progressive Conservatives shocked everyone, including themselves,<br />
when they accidentally elected Alison Redford as leader of their party, and by extension,<br />
the Premier-Designate of Alberta. Political commentators have had a field day with the<br />
appointment, using their thesaurus to procure words ranging from the usual ‘unlikely’<br />
and ‘surprising’ to more exotic fare such as ‘astonishing’ and ‘never in a million years<br />
would I have ever ever guessed it.’ Pundits expect her attempts to bring a different<br />
perspective to government will mostly be met by resistance at every turn, with lobby<br />
groups and opposition MLAs lining up to complain about her policies even before she<br />
officially took office.<br />
That’ll be one cool statue<br />
Apple co-founder and honorary member of the Justice League Steve Jobs passed away<br />
at the age of 56, leaving behind a legacy of unique aesthetic design and overpriced<br />
hardware. <strong>The</strong> company plans to erect a large statue in Jobs’ honor, which will include<br />
a retina display, voice control, and be replaced by a newer generation statue roughly a<br />
year after its unveiling.<br />
James<br />
**I DO NOT REPORT REAL, VERIFIABLE NEWS**<br />
Junior high? Please, no!!<br />
With five children at home, we seem<br />
to hit a new milestone every other<br />
day. In the last couple months, my<br />
11-month-old baby boy went from crawling<br />
to running; my five-year-old, selfproclaimed<br />
princess started kindergarten,<br />
my all-star nine-year-old son got reading<br />
glasses and my handsome, brown-eyed<br />
three-year-old finally realized that warm<br />
mush in your pants is not the best way<br />
to end a play date. <strong>The</strong> last milestone in<br />
our family of seven has been my beautiful<br />
pre-teen, who has been submerged headfirst<br />
into the hormonal cool-pool we call<br />
junior high.<br />
I had a chance last week to drop by my<br />
daughter’s school for a quick hello and<br />
meet-the-teacher. It seemed so peaceful<br />
at first; the sound of gym shoes on the<br />
brown waxed floor, the clicking of the<br />
hall clock and the school office phones.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n the bell rang and all at once, like the<br />
charge of the bull, hundreds of insecure, blemished, awkward teenagers filled the halls.<br />
Testosterone filled the air like a leaking hot air balloon as snippets of drama and crisis<br />
burst out of the girl’s mouths. “Did you hear about so and so and so and so and so?”<br />
“I can’t believe we actually do this to our poor 12-yearolds!”<br />
We just chuck them into the doors of pecking order<br />
and macho display and say, “Be good, see you in seven<br />
hours!”<br />
I started wandering the halls in disbelief thinking, “I can’t believe we actually do this to<br />
our poor 12-year-olds!” We just chuck them into the doors of pecking order and macho<br />
display and say, “Be good, see you in seven hours!” I panicked for a moment, thinking<br />
she needed to be rescued from this place and I didn’t have a clue where my daughter’s<br />
locker was! <strong>The</strong>n my terrified eyes met her mortified, blushed face which read: “O.M.G.,<br />
my mother’s here!”<br />
She was gracious and confident to give her insecure and awkward mother a quick tour<br />
of her class and we were only interrupted three or four times by incoming drama and<br />
crush updates. I met the teacher, whom I desperately tried to read, like we read the faces<br />
of flight attendants during turbulence. If they seem calm and in control then junior high<br />
can’t be that bad, right? <strong>The</strong>n like being delivered out of Egypt, my daughter held out her<br />
arms and gave me a hug, in front of people!! How did she know I needed to be rescued?<br />
I went home in a daze wondering how yesterday I was braiding her pigtails for kindergarten<br />
and packing her back pack full of show and tell and today I’m buying her locker<br />
mirrors and digging out of her bag three-week-old sandwiches, friend’s notes and lip<br />
gloss. I’m realizing that I only have a few years left to pack her bag full of the things she<br />
really needs, like support, openness, self-respect, discipline and love.<br />
Every day, my little one-year-old stumbles and falls learning to keep up. Every day, my<br />
precious five-year-old daughter stands in the field of kindergarten alone awaiting a friend<br />
to say hi. Every day, my nine-year-old son struggles and stutters over words and sounds<br />
that seem to come so easy to others. Every day, my pre-teen gets a lesson in humility and<br />
identity and every day I pray over all my kids that they will succeed in these milestones<br />
joyfully, unharmed and growing stronger. <strong>The</strong>y’ve got to go through it. That’s life!<br />
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Holding a 30-30 rifle in your hand with a 500-lb buffalo - or rather a Wood Land Bison - in<br />
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With the help of some certified and experienced butchers, the animals were then drained,<br />
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By Mark Campbell<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
My cohort in morning show radio<br />
crime, Esther Madziya, will be leaving<br />
94.1 CJOC at the end of the month.<br />
She will fully dedicate her time to the <strong>Lethbridge</strong><br />
Hurricanes as their new communication<br />
and events manager. Apparently it’s<br />
going to be tough to get up at 3:45 am, do<br />
a morning show for five hours, get to the<br />
Hurricane’s office for 8 hours and then stay<br />
at the Enmax Centre until midnight when<br />
all the press releases and stats are completed<br />
at the end of a Hurricane game.<br />
Wah!! So just because she needs her precious<br />
sleep, she’s going to leave me. It’s just<br />
as well. I won’t have to worry about “that<br />
look” she gives me when I say something<br />
inappropriate. And to all Hurricane players<br />
and coaches, if she needs you to do a<br />
media interview and you don’t think it’s at<br />
the most convenient time, trust me. Just do<br />
it. You don’t want to feel the wrath of the<br />
E-Mad.<br />
“Esther Madziya will be<br />
leaving 94.1 CJOC at<br />
the end of the month”<br />
Ok, now that I got my bitterness out of the<br />
way, I couldn’t be happier for Esther. She’s<br />
passionate about sports and, in particular,<br />
junior hockey. She’s as professional as they<br />
get and to use a sports analogy, the Hurricanes<br />
just scored a wildly sought after<br />
first-round draft choice. Esther is going to<br />
be tough to replace. And I’m really going<br />
to miss her. No one ever didn’t laugh at my<br />
jokes better than Esther didn’t.<br />
News Tid-Bits<br />
Belated congratulations to singer/songwriter<br />
Johnathan Scout AKA Johnny<br />
Rains, who won an Alberta Youth Aboriginal<br />
Award in Edmonton last month. I love<br />
his positive message and outlook on life.<br />
Brian Quinn from the newly formed<br />
Hatrix <strong>The</strong>atre Company invites you<br />
to “<strong>The</strong> Gazebo” October 20 - 22 at 7:30<br />
pm at the Moose Lodge (5 Avenue North<br />
across from Giant Tiger). It’s a murder<br />
mystery comedy that features the acting<br />
talents of Preston Scholz, Laurin Mann,<br />
Lyn Ens, Emily Pollock, Kelly Frewin,<br />
Lloyd Pollock, Susan Bohnet, Clive Abbot,<br />
Aiden Quinn, Pat Piekema and Logan<br />
Piekema. <strong>The</strong> show is directed by Karolyn<br />
Harker. Tickets are available by calling Brian<br />
at 403-315-9816.<br />
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Just when I was getting used to a 780 area<br />
code to go along with our 403 area code<br />
in Alberta, I find out we actually have another<br />
one. 587 was activated late in 2008<br />
and is gradually showing up more and<br />
more on your caller IDs. Here I thought it<br />
was another telemarketer that I wasn’t answering.<br />
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This made me chuckle: If you’re heading<br />
to the PBR finals in Las Vegas later this<br />
month, chances are you’ll be there cheering<br />
on your favorite bull rider. What about<br />
cheering on your favorite bull? That’s the<br />
case of a group of retired southern Alberta<br />
bull riders who run the Wild Hoggs Bucking<br />
Bull Company. <strong>The</strong>y’re heading down<br />
to cheer on “Gas Tank,” one of their prize<br />
bulls who’s performed very well on the<br />
PBR circuit this year. I hope they bring<br />
signs. I’m sure that will pump up old Gas<br />
Tank.<br />
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So You Think You Can Dance Canada<br />
winner Tara-Jean Popowich is coming<br />
back to <strong>Lethbridge</strong> for her 2nd annual<br />
dance workshop. She’s bringing Alex Wong<br />
of So You Think You Can Dance USA. He<br />
will be teaching ballet and jazz. Also coming<br />
is Eddie Lawrence, who’s been working<br />
on Broadway in New York and recently<br />
completed a world tour of Cats. He will be<br />
handling Broadway and tap dancing while<br />
Tara-Jean will offer up her expertise in<br />
contemporary and hip hop. <strong>The</strong> workshop<br />
goes Nov. 5 - 6 at the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> Lodge Hotel.<br />
For more information, contact tarjean.<br />
co@hotmail.com. Nice to see Tara-Jean<br />
wanting to give back to her hometown.<br />
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did an interview last week with Canon<br />
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the church’s history of supporting the arts.<br />
In fact, I had an instant flashback when I<br />
passed by the small hall at St. Augustine’s.<br />
It was there I did my very first solo in the<br />
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Hello hockey fans, this fall, go to where the game is<br />
AT— AVERAGE JOES<br />
“It’s not just a place where you can come and have a beverage, it’s a place where you can come and entertain yourself,”<br />
said owner Rob Mereska, who has operated Average Joes in a couple different locations since 2000.<br />
While the main attraction of this downtown sports bar located at their new location (420 6th Street South) is, of course,<br />
the game, that isn’t all. People flock to Average Joes to watch a variety of sports throughout the year including the UFC<br />
fights.<br />
During the fall and winter you can watch all of the NHL games<br />
and NFL games on one or all of the 30 television sets.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y serve 11 different draft beers including Stella Artois,<br />
Alexander Keiths red and white, Guinness, Strongbow, Budweiser,<br />
Bud Light, Kokanee, Kokanee Gold and a brand new<br />
beer — Rolling Rock. <strong>The</strong>y also have a fully equipped kitchen<br />
and over 30 staff eager to serve their customers.<br />
Average Joes also features a variety of games including Buzztime<br />
trivia plus Fooseball and air hockey as well as a variety of<br />
sports related video games including Golden Tee golf, Buck<br />
Hunter, Silver Strike, lawn darts and Big Buck Hunter.<br />
Things are going to get even better game-wise.<br />
Just because winter is coming and there will be snow on the<br />
ground and a chill in the air, it doesn’t mean you have to give<br />
up golf.<br />
As of the beginning of November, Average Joes is bringing in a<br />
virtual golf simulator.<br />
“You use real clubs and real balls, and there’s a screen which tells you how far you hit,” Mereska enthused. <strong>The</strong>y are<br />
going to start a winter golf league surrounding the new game.<br />
“So call the golf hotline for details at 403-942-3563,” Mereska said.<br />
If bowling is more up your alley, Average Joes is also bringing in a mini-bowling lane, on which you roll real bowling balls<br />
at pins placed at the end of a 19 foot lane. That is also expected to arrive in mid-November.<br />
Average Joes is also the place to go for live music, though they will be scaling that back in the new year.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y feature Duelling Pianos every Friday and karaoke on Wednesday nights. Both touring and local musicians plus Yuk<br />
Yuks comedians perform in Joes Garage, the adjacent room. A variety of classic rock bands have played Average Joes over<br />
the past year including Dr. Hook, Prism, Nazareth, Lee Aaron as well as Big Sugar frontman Gordie Johnson’s new project<br />
Grady.<br />
You use real clubs<br />
and real balls, and<br />
there’s a screen<br />
which tells you<br />
how far you hit,<br />
420 6 th Street South<br />
403-942-2563<br />
Up And Coming Events...<br />
Local classic rock band the Chevelles play Joes Garage<br />
regularly. <strong>The</strong>ir next gig is Average Joes Halloween Party, Oct. 28.<br />
If you like country music, local up and coming country star Trevor<br />
Panczak and Rough Stock often play Average Joes.<br />
Canadian country music star Julian Austin is also a regular visitor.<br />
His next show is Oct. 22.<br />
And if you like Johnny Cash, Big River, the Johnny Cash<br />
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Friday, October 14<br />
Extreme by Nature Windy Hills Kite Folks<br />
Helen Schuler Nature Centre<br />
1:30-3pm ages 11-15 (register)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Fraternal Order of Eagles, Steak Supper<br />
Eagles Hall<br />
5-7pm $10<br />
<strong>The</strong> Canadian Cancer Society- Harvest of Hope Gala<br />
Galt Museum<br />
5-11pm<br />
6th Annual Big Brothers Big Sisters Auction<br />
<strong>Lethbridge</strong> Lodge<br />
5:30-11pm<br />
Dan Reeder<br />
Mocha Cabana<br />
6-9pm<br />
Howlin’ Wolf Open Stage<br />
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7:30-11pm<br />
Jerry Seimfeld Live<br />
EnMax<br />
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9pm $10<br />
Saturday, October 15<br />
But for the Grace of God<br />
Sandman Hotel<br />
9am-4pm $23/ $30<br />
Junior Naturalists – I Think Mice are Nice<br />
Helen Schuler Nature Centre<br />
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Shadow Puppetry- Galt Family Program<br />
Galt Museum & Archives<br />
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Harvest Moon Ball<br />
Coast Hotel<br />
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<strong>Lethbridge</strong> Hurricanes vs. Swift Current<br />
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7pm<br />
Duane Steele w/ Charlie Evin<br />
<strong>Lethbridge</strong> Folk Club<br />
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Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle<br />
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Sunday, October 16<br />
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Monday, October 17<br />
Chinook Health Region Flu Clinic<br />
Exhibition- Main Pavilion<br />
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<strong>Lethbridge</strong> Hurricanes vs. Kootenay<br />
EnMax Centre<br />
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Master Series I<br />
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Mike Edel & Tyson Motsenbocker<br />
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Tuesday, October 18<br />
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Chinook Health Region Flu Clinic<br />
Exhibition- Main Pavilion<br />
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2011 Flashlight Cemetery Tour<br />
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<strong>Lethbridge</strong> Jazz Society: Jerry Granelli Trio<br />
<strong>The</strong> Black Tomato<br />
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Chinook Health Region Flu Clinic<br />
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LSCO Karaoke Concert<br />
<strong>Lethbridge</strong> Senior Citezens Organiztion<br />
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2011 Business Ethics Awards<br />
Coast <strong>Lethbridge</strong> Hotel<br />
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Playgoers of <strong>Lethbridge</strong> – Send Me Flowers Dinner <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
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Thursday, October 27<br />
Wages at Work- Workshop<br />
<strong>Lethbridge</strong> Centre Rm #3- 2nd Level<br />
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Chinook Health Region Flu Clinic<br />
Exhibition- Main Pavilion<br />
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Playgoers of <strong>Lethbridge</strong> – Send Me Flowers Dinner <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Sandman Hotel<br />
Concert One- <strong>The</strong> Spinney Brothers<br />
Empress <strong>The</strong>atre, Fort Macleod<br />
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Friday, October 28<br />
Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror! Teen Programs<br />
Library- Crossing Branch<br />
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Pirates Plunder - Bids for Kids Dinner & Auction<br />
<strong>The</strong> Coast Hotel<br />
5:30 Cocktails 6:30 Dinner $50/ $350 for 8<br />
<strong>The</strong> Herb Hicks Jazz Quartet<br />
Mocha Cabana<br />
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<strong>Lethbridge</strong> Hurricanes vs. Portland<br />
EnMax Centre<br />
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Concert One- <strong>The</strong> Spinney Brothers<br />
Empress <strong>The</strong>atre, Fort Macleod<br />
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Bone Thugs N Harmony-<br />
Zombie Gras Mardi Gras Halloween Bash<br />
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Sheena Lawson & Boogie Patrol<br />
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Art Alchemy - transformational art<br />
Potemkin Too Artist Studios<br />
October 13th- November 3rd , Thursdays 7-9pm<br />
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Galt Museum<br />
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Gnarly By Nature<br />
Helen Schuler Nature Centre<br />
October, 1-4pm (closed Mondays)<br />
Derek Besant<br />
<strong>Lethbridge</strong> Public Library Gallery<br />
October<br />
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Southern Alberta Art Gallery<br />
10am-5pm September 24 - November 13th<br />
Future Events<br />
Rocky Horror Picture Show - October 29th, 10pm @ Galt Museum<br />
Big Sugar Reunion -November 7th, 9pm $40 @ <strong>The</strong> Stone<br />
Fiddler on the Roof - November 8th, 7:30pm @ EnMax Centre<br />
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18 LETHBRIDGE JOURNAL - WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2011<br />
Well folks, it’s Halloween again, and my favorite time of the year. You get to watch<br />
a bunch of horror movies, eat a lot of candy and scare little kids without getting<br />
arrested. Seriously though, is there anything better than carving a pumpkin, putting a<br />
horror movie on and randomly answering your door to strangers? I can’t think of one.<br />
I’m going to share my top 10 favorite horror movies. <strong>The</strong>se are movies I watch every<br />
Halloween season, the kind that gave me nightmares when I was a kid. Oh, and remember,<br />
don’t turn out the lights. . . because it’s hard to read this in the dark.<br />
Halloween Top Ten Horror Movies<br />
1. Halloween (1978) – <strong>The</strong> original and still best of the franchise<br />
2. Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) – I had nightmares for years as a kid<br />
3. <strong>The</strong> Exorcist (1973) – People fainted in the theater, enough said<br />
4. Candyman (1992) – Tony Todd and a hook<br />
5. Night of the Living Dead (1990) – Remake, but still classic and hey, is that Tony Todd?<br />
6. Dawn of the Dead (2004) – Again a remake, but better than the original<br />
7. Land of the Dead (2005) – George Romero back directing, excellent sequel<br />
8. Prince of Darkness (1987) – Liquid Satan in a jar<br />
9. <strong>The</strong> Thing (1982) – Aliens that look like humans and Wilford Brimley before oatmeal<br />
10. Alien (1979) – <strong>The</strong> alien looks real and robots spit milk at you<br />
Have a favorite Halloween horror movie?<br />
Email editor@lethbridgejournal.com
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By Marty Baceda<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
Now understand, I’m not a doctor, so<br />
I can’t say if Canada recently caught<br />
a full-blown case of “rugby fever.” However,<br />
at least for a few weeks, more than<br />
a few of us came down with a touch of<br />
something for the sport.<br />
I’d like to think of myself as a casual<br />
rugby fan. I have grown to appreciate<br />
the game more and more the past few<br />
years, mostly a by-product of covering<br />
the University of <strong>Lethbridge</strong> Women’s<br />
Rugby team. <strong>The</strong> Pronghorns have become<br />
one of the country’s best programs<br />
- capturing three CIS National Championships<br />
in recent years. As a result, the<br />
‘Horns have had several players suit up<br />
for our country in international competition<br />
and Head Coach Neil Langevin<br />
is heavily involved with Rugby Canada<br />
himself.<br />
So, as the 2011 Rugby World Cup was<br />
about to be played in New Zealand, I<br />
was earnestly looking forward to it for<br />
the first time in my life.<br />
Canada headed into the competition<br />
in its customary role as an underdog,<br />
part of rugby’s middle class. <strong>The</strong>re is a<br />
huge division in the sport among the<br />
best sides on the planet and the next<br />
tier. Australia, England, the defending<br />
champs from South Africa and the host<br />
All Blacks were favourites heading in.<br />
Everyone else was just hoping for a spot<br />
in the quarterfinals.<br />
It didn’t take long for fans to really get<br />
behind this Canadian squad after watching<br />
their opening match against Tonga.<br />
This was an intensely physical battle.<br />
We’re talking about men, many of them<br />
approaching 300 pounds, repeatedly violently<br />
crashing into one another - with<br />
almost no padding on.<br />
In the end, Canada held on for a 25-20<br />
win. <strong>The</strong> level of courage shown by the<br />
lads wearing the maple leaf was inspiring.<br />
It didn’t take long for some buzz to<br />
get going on Twitter. <strong>The</strong> effort Canada<br />
needed to win was tremendous and was<br />
easy to appreciate. But there was also<br />
something else rugby fans new and old<br />
could attach themselves to, which many<br />
picked up on - facial hair of epic proportions.<br />
Several Canadian players had grown<br />
huge beards for RWC 2011. Overnight<br />
“fear the beard” became a catch phrase<br />
for the team on the Internet. Adam<br />
Kleeberger, Jebb Sinclair and Hubert<br />
Buydens all looked like they just came<br />
back from a logging camp where they<br />
had spent a couple of years isolated from<br />
civilization.<br />
While facial hair doesn’t win matches, it<br />
gave this anonymous group an identity<br />
that people who were new to the sport<br />
could relate with. Pretty soon, I was having<br />
discussions with folks around the<br />
city about rucks and line-outs.<br />
Unfortunately, the win versus Tonga was<br />
the high point for Canada at RWC 2011.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team’s next game was just four days<br />
later against France, a member of rugby’s<br />
top tier. To play such a quality side<br />
at normal rest would be enough a challenge<br />
for Canada, never mind less than a<br />
week later after a brutal match.<br />
This game was played in the wee hours<br />
of the morning locally (I stayed up until<br />
4 am to watch). Canada started off<br />
brightly enough against the French, with<br />
the match tied at 10 until the first half<br />
was almost over. France then quickly<br />
struck for three quick penalties to lead<br />
by nine at the half.<br />
<strong>The</strong> second half was back and forth until<br />
Canada, clearly tired down the stretch,<br />
allowed France to notch a group of late<br />
tries for a 46-19 win. Despite the score,<br />
Kieran Crowley’s team kept battling until<br />
the end.<br />
With a quarterfinal berth pretty much<br />
out of the picture, Canada still had plenty<br />
to play for in its match versus Japan.<br />
A great start was sabotaged by too many<br />
miscues as the two sides ended up tying<br />
at 23, a disappointing result for the<br />
Red and White. A victory would have<br />
assured third place in the pool and an<br />
automatic berth in the next RWC.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n Tonga upset France, so Canada<br />
needed a win over New Zealand to<br />
ensure a spot in 2015. <strong>The</strong> All Blacks<br />
cruised to a 79-15 win.<br />
It concluded a brilliant, yet somewhat<br />
frustrating tournament for Canada.<br />
Nobody can question the heart of this<br />
side. <strong>The</strong> experience the lads picked up<br />
is invaluable, and for some players, like<br />
Kleeberger, this should open up some<br />
professional opportunities (Canada has<br />
very few players who actually are pros<br />
playing abroad, most compete with club<br />
teams here at home).<br />
At its best, rugby is a wonderful sport to<br />
watch. It’s a blend of power and grace,<br />
brutality and finesse.<br />
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come up as many wins as it would have<br />
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From the Bullpen<br />
RIVERA’S ‘CUTTER’ A<br />
SAVIOUR FOR YANKEES<br />
By Bruce Penton<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
Forty-year-olds playing <strong>major</strong> professional<br />
sports have almost always been<br />
hangers-on, once-great players merely<br />
playing out the string.<br />
Let’s cut to the chase and meet the exception<br />
— Mariano Rivera of the New York<br />
Yankees.<br />
Rivera, a Panamanian, will be 42 years old<br />
this November and he is still Major League<br />
Baseball’s best, most reliable, and certainly<br />
most amazing relief pitcher. This year, the<br />
ace closer saved 44 games for the Yanks,<br />
the fourth-best total of his career.<br />
Let’s also cut to the chase and zero in on<br />
why Rivera has defied every age-related<br />
athletic assumption and continued to mow<br />
down hitters and save victories for the Yankees:<br />
the baffling ‘cutter.’<br />
Rivera’s ‘cutter’ — a cut fastball — is the<br />
only pitch he throws. Normally, a onepitch<br />
pitcher has about as much job security<br />
as a hockey player who goes over on<br />
his ankles, but that cutter is so dominating,<br />
so infuriatingly hard to hit that Rivera has<br />
racked up 603 saves since 1996 — the most<br />
in baseball history. Hardballmechanics.<br />
com says that the break on Rivera’s pitch<br />
is “so late, the batter must commit to swing<br />
before he knows where it’s going. That late<br />
break is a product of maximum rotation<br />
and just the right finger pressure on the<br />
ball.”<br />
Rivera throws with such ease of motion<br />
that his right arm seems like it could throw<br />
95 MPH cutters for another 10 years.<br />
When he finally decides to retire, he will<br />
have established a saves record that will<br />
stand forever.<br />
Perhaps his longevity is due to his late start<br />
in baseball. Rivera was almost out of his<br />
teens before a scout noticed him — and<br />
even then, he was a shortstop who pitched<br />
in an emergency one day when the regular<br />
starter didn’t show up. He underwent<br />
elbow surgery at the age of 23 and the Yankees<br />
thought so little of him, they didn’t<br />
even protect him when the Florida Marlins<br />
and Colorado Rockies held drafts to stock<br />
their expansion teams.<br />
But something clicked for Rivera in 1995.<br />
He discovered his cutter. He’s been dominating<br />
hitters ever since.<br />
• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Of all<br />
the soccer teams to be fined because fans<br />
threw cups of excrement, why did it have<br />
to be Cologne?”<br />
• Comedy write Jerry Perisho: “Philadelphia<br />
Eagles quarterback Michael Vick was<br />
removed from a recent game with a hand<br />
injury. Every time Michael Vick suffers an<br />
injury, a party breaks out at the city dog<br />
pound.”<br />
• Tweet of the week from Steve Elling of<br />
CBS sports: “With playoff loss by Hunter<br />
Mahan, the four Golf Boys still winless<br />
since video came out. Finished Oh, Oh,<br />
Oh-for- the-entire-summer.”<br />
• Comedy writer Jim Barach: “Dustin<br />
Johnson says he isn’t mad that Tiger<br />
Woods stole his caddie. He is just glad he<br />
doesn’t have a wife.”<br />
• RJ Currie of sportsdeke.com: “An Edmonton<br />
woman is reportedly suing Kraft<br />
for $100,000 alleging one of their products<br />
caused her to suffer 10 minutes of depression.<br />
In a related story, a Toronto man has<br />
launched a $600,000 suit against Brian<br />
Burke for one hour of watching the Leafs<br />
play.”<br />
• Currie again: “Canada stormed back late<br />
to tie Japan in their final game at the World<br />
Cup of Rugby. Surprised Canadians responded<br />
with, ‘What’s rugby?’”<br />
• Headline in the San Diego Union-Tribune,<br />
on the site of the next NHL Winter<br />
Classic outdoor game: “Philly fans . . .<br />
snowballs . . . did anyone really think this<br />
through?”<br />
Care to comment?<br />
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Beyond Chocolate<br />
Covered Almonds<br />
Fundraising in a<br />
Nutshell<br />
By Julie Freund<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
If you are feeling the squeeze of the rising<br />
cost of sport, the required equipment,<br />
travel and associated costs to participate,<br />
it becomes all that much more important<br />
to help develop a sustainable club without<br />
relying on increasing registration fees<br />
and taxing the parents even more. Come<br />
up with creative fundraising ideas for the<br />
overworked non-profit sport organization<br />
and it will be a refreshing change for parents,<br />
club and athletes.<br />
Go beyond the hummingbird thermometers<br />
and chocolate covered almonds. Move<br />
past trying to sell the bottomless case of<br />
Product X at the office by hosting a unique<br />
Do-It- Yourself event or sell a product that<br />
no one in your area has done before.<br />
How about selling ‘Fundraiser Insurance’<br />
to protect the purchaser from all fundraising<br />
activities for the next six months? Or<br />
plan a ‘Don’t Come Event’ where the event<br />
only happens on paper. People donate<br />
the ticket cost of the non-existent event<br />
and extras such as imaginary babysitter<br />
wages and they save the time and energy<br />
of scheduling yet another function in a<br />
jam-packed schedule. Plan to make this a<br />
sensational event with a famous guest of<br />
honor and delicious food without lifting a<br />
finger to decorate or clean-up!<br />
Remember your goal and time frame. Be<br />
concise and realistic with expectations<br />
of your organizing committee and participants<br />
– let them know how much each<br />
family is to sell.<br />
Painless fundraising through gift cards for<br />
items we all need, such as groceries or gas,<br />
is a reliable decision. <strong>Lethbridge</strong> businesses,<br />
such as Yoga Rituals and Average Joe’s,<br />
offer opportunities to fundraise with local<br />
non-profit groups.<br />
Consider a green initiative and ask people<br />
to donate used ink cartridges or soup labels<br />
to be converted at a local business into<br />
cash for your team. Raffle tickets for something<br />
useful such as $100 or even $500 of<br />
free gas or cash is a popular option. Remember<br />
to follow gaming/licensing rules<br />
as required by the Alberta Gaming and<br />
Liquor Commission.<br />
“Putting time into considering<br />
the goal, the<br />
target audience and<br />
realistic expectations<br />
will result in success.”<br />
It’s not to say a tried-and-true fundraiser<br />
won’t work: bake sales, car trunk sales,<br />
chocolate bar sales or a combination thereof.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y all have a time and place and can<br />
work to your benefit to raise money. Food<br />
products sell well at games because they<br />
are portable and are purchased to eat as a<br />
treat while watching the game. How about<br />
selling ‘Best Seat in the House’ tickets so<br />
the lucky winner will have front row seats<br />
on a comfy sofa to watch the game? Putting<br />
time into considering the goal, the target<br />
audience and realistic expectations will<br />
result in success.<br />
And now for marketing and publicizing<br />
your initiative ... that’s a whole other story.<br />
But don’t worry as we have plenty of information<br />
to get you going. Contact us at 403-<br />
320-9371 or info@lethbridgesportcouncil.<br />
ca to check out our Fundraising Tool- Kit<br />
for numerous resource ideas. We’d be delighted<br />
to work with you to plan and promote<br />
your fundraiser.
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A R I E S<br />
(March 21-April<br />
19)<br />
Your fondness for fire will<br />
lead to trouble with the<br />
authorities if you let your<br />
ADHD get the best of you.<br />
Reconsider selling your<br />
meds to your friends until<br />
you’re sure you can handle<br />
a chemical fire without<br />
losing your focus.<br />
TAURUS<br />
(April 20-May 20)<br />
Watch your<br />
finances closely next<br />
month, as you may run<br />
into money trouble during<br />
a vacation getaway<br />
that will later turn out to<br />
be a gay cruise. Don’t be<br />
put off if it’s not your scene<br />
though, because they mix<br />
a mean martini and one of<br />
them might be Lady Gaga.<br />
GEMINI<br />
(May 21-June 20)<br />
An accident<br />
at work will leave you<br />
stressed while you pick<br />
Horoscopes | from our resident fortune teller Birthday<br />
up the pieces, but you can<br />
avoid having to collect<br />
dismembered body parts<br />
with a simple review of<br />
safety procedures while<br />
handling high explosives.<br />
CANCER<br />
(June 21-July 22)<br />
<strong>The</strong> crystal<br />
ball says you’ll find true<br />
love next week, but it also<br />
claimed Apple was going<br />
to reveal an iPhone 5 and<br />
not a 4S, so who knows<br />
how accurate this thing is.<br />
LEO (July 23-<br />
Aug 22)<br />
This is the<br />
weirdest thing; the only<br />
thing I’m getting for you is<br />
the word ‘powder.’ Hopefully<br />
that means something<br />
to you, because I’m<br />
stumped. Maybe now is<br />
the time to try skiing?<br />
VIRGO (Aug<br />
23-Sept 22)<br />
As the weather<br />
gets colder, refrain from<br />
stuffing chemical heat<br />
packs down your pants as<br />
cotton underwear is extremely<br />
flammable and<br />
hot water bottles are more<br />
comfortable anyway.<br />
LIBRA (Sept<br />
23-Oct 22)<br />
That YouTube<br />
video of you crying during<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lion King 3D will<br />
go viral and get your best<br />
friend arrested for illegally<br />
filming a copyrighted<br />
movie, but it’s okay because<br />
everybody cries during<br />
that part and it doesn’t<br />
make you less cool.<br />
SCORPIO<br />
(Oct 23-Nov 21)<br />
You will run<br />
into your ex at a social<br />
event this week, step carefully<br />
or everyone you<br />
know will learn some<br />
pretty juicy secrets about<br />
you. It never hurts to have<br />
a Plan B, so start looking<br />
into relocating to another<br />
city to get a head start on<br />
your dirty laundry.<br />
SAGITTA-<br />
It’s always good to face<br />
your fears, but assaulting<br />
a clown while yelling ‘DIE<br />
DIE DIE’ will raise some<br />
eyebrows among the rest<br />
of the birthday party. Wait<br />
for him in the parking lot<br />
after hours instead.<br />
RIUS (Nov 22-<br />
Dec 21)<br />
CAPRI-<br />
CORN (Dec<br />
22-Jan 19)<br />
FYI- your neighbours<br />
can see you when you rap<br />
along to Eminem in your<br />
bathrobe and while they’re<br />
impressed you know all<br />
the lyrics to Guilty Conscience,<br />
it’s uncomfortable<br />
that you’re doing it when<br />
their kids are coming<br />
home from school. Push<br />
your ‘me-time’ back a couple<br />
hours to avoid a run-in<br />
with them, or start taking<br />
better care to covering up<br />
anything private.<br />
AQUARI-<br />
US (Jan 20-Feb<br />
18)<br />
No matter how much Halloween<br />
candy you buy, by<br />
the time trick-or-treaters<br />
make it to your door all<br />
you’ll have are some Rockets<br />
and those little red and<br />
white mint candies that<br />
you don’t remember purchasing<br />
but have a thousand<br />
of. Enjoy it, they<br />
make those mini chocolate<br />
bars just two or three<br />
times a year.<br />
PISCES (Feb<br />
19-Mar 20)<br />
It doesn’t matter<br />
how hard you<br />
work, until you’re<br />
willing to start<br />
wearing pants<br />
to the office that<br />
promotion will<br />
continue to elude you.<br />
It’s also time to pick up<br />
some new dance moves,<br />
because while disco is<br />
still cool ironically it won’t<br />
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From the People<br />
<strong>Lethbridge</strong> author returns<br />
home for book signing<br />
Submitted by Emily Shorthouse<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
He’s a <strong>Lethbridge</strong> boy and he’s coming<br />
home - at least long enough to share his<br />
latest accomplishment.<br />
Author Mark Lavorato will visit his hometown<br />
next week to launch his newest book<br />
- Believing Cedric.<br />
Lavorato, who now lives in Montreal, will<br />
be at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery<br />
from 2 - 4 p.m. Oct. 22 to do a book signing<br />
for his latest effort.<br />
Photo submitted by Pat McCorkle<br />
Members of the Chinook High School girls and boys volleyball teams pose with<br />
their medals following the recent LCI Green and Gold Tournament. <strong>The</strong> Coyotes<br />
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Jeff Frostad, centre, stands with the Small Town Hero award he received<br />
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well as community supporters.<br />
As part of the award, Frostad received a cheque for $1,000, which he donated<br />
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26 LETHBRIDGE JOURNAL - WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2011<br />
Healthy Habits<br />
Ten Thousand Villages<br />
Fish vs Flax: seeking<br />
Omega-3s<br />
By Priscilla Peltier<br />
Health practitioner and nutrition consultant<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
We hear a lot about fish and flax these days, and with<br />
good reason. <strong>The</strong>y’re packed with good-for-you<br />
nutrients, including polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids.<br />
But why all the fuss about omega-3? Simply put, they are<br />
vital support for extraordinary health and our bodies can’t<br />
make these and other fatty acids, so they must come from<br />
our diet. <strong>The</strong> question that follows is: where should I get<br />
my omega-3’s from?<br />
Fortunately, you can make an informed decision when<br />
it comes to your omega-3’s. <strong>The</strong>re are three <strong>major</strong> types<br />
of omega-3 fatty acids, including docosahexaenoic acid<br />
(DHA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and alpha-linolenic<br />
acid (ALA). Fish and fish oils are abundant in DHA and<br />
EPA, while flax and flaxseed oil are brimming with ALA.<br />
You can find EPA and DHA in cold-water fish like salmon,<br />
sardines, tuna, herring, and anchovies, while good sources<br />
of ALA include flax, flaxseed oil, chia seeds and chia seed<br />
oil, perilla seeds, pumpkin seeds, and walnuts.<br />
Cold-water fish (wild, not farmed) provide an impressive<br />
natural food source of omega-3’s. In fact, four ounces of<br />
salmon provides over 87 percent of the current daily value<br />
of omega-3 fatty acids. Dietary fish is so important to<br />
health that the American Health Association recommends<br />
one to two servings of fish per week for all adults.<br />
“emerging science suggests<br />
that the EPA and DHA found<br />
in fish”<br />
In addition to their high omega-3 value, fish are high in<br />
protein and provide vitamin D, B12, niacin, selenium,<br />
B6, magnesium and calcium. But, beware of farmed fish.<br />
Farmed-raised fish can be genetically modified, have high<br />
levels of antibiotics, dyes, growth hormones, PCBs and<br />
other environmental toxins, including endocrine disruptors.<br />
Wild fish are cleaner and have a higher protein and<br />
omega-3 content, but farmed fish contain more omega-6’s.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n there’s the issue of mercury in fish. Even though<br />
mercury levels are lower in certain types of fish, some<br />
people choose to avoid fish altogether. Fortunately, for<br />
those who want the benefits of fish oils without consuming<br />
fish itself, fish oil supplements are a viable option.<br />
Heavy metals and other contaminants can be removed<br />
from the fish oil, while EPA and DHA levels can be<br />
concentrated. This makes fish oil a more pure and potent<br />
source of those all-important omega-3’s: EPA and DHA.<br />
More good news is that emerging science suggests that<br />
the EPA and DHA found in fish and their oils may have<br />
more important functions in supporting your body than<br />
ALA. That’s significant too, because most of the benefits<br />
from omega-3’s have been studied in EPA and DHA, not<br />
ALA. In fact, many believe that the benefits of ALA are a<br />
result of the conversion within the body of ALA to EPA<br />
and DHA, a conversion which is not highly effective, by<br />
the way.<br />
Most of us already know what omega-3’s, especially EPA<br />
and DHA, can do. <strong>The</strong>y support heart, brain, blood vessel,<br />
nervous system, cellular, immune, and joint health! Additionally,<br />
they help maintain healthy blood pressure and<br />
blood sugar levels that are already in the normal range,<br />
while serving as energy reserves for organ transport, synthesizing<br />
hormones, and normal healing processes.<br />
For those who don’t like the taste of fish or are vegans<br />
or vegetarians, flax is the seed of choice because if offers<br />
a high-quality, non-animal source of omega-3’s. In fact,<br />
flaxseed provides a rich source of ALA, which is important<br />
for cellular energy production. Generally free, or<br />
very low, in contaminants, flaxseed is also a good source<br />
of protein, antioxidants, vitamins B1, B2, C and E, zinc,<br />
magnesium, the phytonutrient lignin, and digestionsupporting<br />
fibre.<br />
It’s not surprising why many people turn to flax. For<br />
example, two tablespoons of flaxseeds provide plenty of<br />
omega-3 fatty acids in the form of ALA. Likewise, flaxseed<br />
oil is one of the richest sources of ALA.<br />
When it comes right down to it, the issue isn’t which is a<br />
better source of omega-3. I believe health should be a matter<br />
of choice. Whether you choose fish or flax, just make<br />
sure you are making omega-3 nutrition a priority every<br />
day.<br />
By Julie Klok<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
Ten Thousand Villages<br />
is celebrating its landmark<br />
65th year of crafting<br />
change around the world<br />
while the local store here<br />
in <strong>Lethbridge</strong> will mark its<br />
35th anniversary this fall.<br />
When Edna Ruth Byler<br />
first brought Puerto Rican<br />
needlework to North<br />
America in 1946, the term<br />
Fair Trade did not exist.<br />
Her volunteer project<br />
to provide market access<br />
for artisans spearheaded<br />
the Fair Trade movement<br />
and eventually evolved<br />
into what has become the<br />
world’s oldest and largest<br />
Fair Trade organization<br />
in North America<br />
– Ten Thousand Villages.<br />
Through a network of 48<br />
stores, hundreds of festival<br />
sales and online shopping,<br />
Ten Thousand Villages<br />
Canada sells artisan-crafted<br />
personal accessories,<br />
home décor, consumable<br />
goods and gift items from<br />
around the globe. Through<br />
long-term, fair-trading relationships<br />
with villages,<br />
artisans in developing<br />
countries can earn a better<br />
income than they would in<br />
their local markets and are<br />
therefore more able to take<br />
care of themselves and<br />
their families.<br />
On a local level, a woman<br />
named Salome Sommerfeld<br />
pursued a passion she<br />
had for several years – to<br />
have an outlet for SELF-<br />
HELP Crafts (unique<br />
handmade products) in<br />
<strong>Lethbridge</strong>. In November<br />
1976, with a $1,000 in her<br />
hand and an empty car she<br />
headed for Saskatoon. (Alberta<br />
did not have a provincial<br />
program for SHC.)<br />
With her car full of product,<br />
she headed back to<br />
<strong>Lethbridge</strong> and displayed<br />
these items in the newlyopened<br />
Mennonite Central<br />
Committee (MCC)<br />
Variety store, located<br />
at 308 1 Ave. S. (where<br />
Park Place Mall currently<br />
stands). Soon the store<br />
was moved to its own location<br />
on 3 Avenue South,<br />
which helped increase exposure<br />
and sales. With an<br />
increase of product and<br />
responsibility, the decision<br />
was made to bring on<br />
a manager for the store.<br />
In October of 1977, Doris<br />
Boehr was brought on<br />
as manager, a job she did<br />
for 21 years. A few more<br />
years and few moves later,<br />
the store was established at<br />
its current location in the<br />
heart of downtown <strong>Lethbridge</strong><br />
at 329 5 St. S, right<br />
beside <strong>The</strong> Penny Coffee<br />
House.<br />
As with the rest of the<br />
stores across the country,<br />
Ten Thousand Villages is<br />
staffed mostly by local volunteers.<br />
Without the help<br />
and dedication from these<br />
individuals, we would not<br />
be able to do the work we<br />
do or be able to celebrate<br />
these landmark anniversaries.<br />
Ten Thousand Villages is<br />
a non-profit program of<br />
MCC, the relief and development<br />
agency of Mennonite<br />
and Brethren in<br />
Christ churches in North<br />
America. Ten Thousand<br />
Villages is a member of the<br />
World Fair Trade Organization<br />
(WFTO), and Fair<br />
Trade organizations from<br />
both the north and the<br />
south.<br />
For more information,<br />
please visit our website at<br />
www.TenThousandVillages.ca
LETHBRIDGE JOURNAL - WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2011 27<br />
Discover<br />
Kalispell<br />
Tour Montana’s<br />
Flathead Valley<br />
by bike this fall<br />
By the Kalispell Convention and Visitor Bureau<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
Cycling in Montana’s Flathead Valley is stunning in the autumn months. Highways<br />
are wide open and, with the summer visitor rush over, largely unoccupied by vehicles.<br />
<strong>The</strong> aspens and larch trees across the valley are bright with golden fall hues,<br />
and the temperatures are still warm during the sunlight hours and crisp during the<br />
evening. Several tours offer more intimate glimpses into the scenic vistas northwestern<br />
Montana has to offer, and centrally located Kalispell is the perfect place to refuel at the<br />
end of the day.<br />
“Top off your day of adventure<br />
with a fine dining experience in<br />
historic downtown Kalispell”<br />
gentle grade for cyclists of all abilities and ages—not to mention stunning views of the<br />
Flathead Valley and surrounding mountain ranges. <strong>The</strong> paved trail offers a very safe<br />
path around Kalispell’s Bypass and then follows U.S. Hwy 2 west out of town. <strong>The</strong> second<br />
half of the trail winds along Ashley Creek and the Batavia Waterfowl Production<br />
Area, culminating the 24-kilometre journey in the small town of Kila.<br />
Top off your day of adventure with a fine dining experience in historic downtown<br />
Kalispell. Capers Restaurant and Pizzeria offers brick-fired pizzas and Montana-esque<br />
cuisine, such as filet mignon from local ranchers. Rest your bones at familiar names,<br />
including Hilton, Hampton and Red Lion, or stay at a more unique property, such as<br />
the historic Kalispell Grand Hotel or Glacier Ridge Suites.<br />
For more information on all the recreation, shopping, lodging and beauty Kalispell<br />
and the Flathead Valley has to offer, visit http://www.discoverkalispell.com.<br />
CAMAS ROAD (Glacier National Park): Begin your journey in West Glacier and<br />
pedal northwest, beginning along the western flank of Lake MacDonald and past Fish<br />
Creek, through charred remnants of the 2003 wildfire and ending at the pristine waters<br />
of the North Fork of the Flathead River. From this point either pick up your car shuttle<br />
or turn tail and pedal back to West Glacier. Don’t forget to stop for a huckleberry<br />
shake après-ride!<br />
RAILS to TRAILS (Somers to Kila via Kalispell): Pick up your Rails to Trails map at the<br />
Kalispell Visitor Information Center at 15 Depot Park, Kalispell. <strong>The</strong>n hop on the trail<br />
in the village of Somers, on the northwest end of Flathead Lake. From Somers the trail<br />
follows the former path of the Great Northern Railway north to Kalispell and offers a<br />
Photography Credits: Chuck Haney, submitted by the Kalispell Convention and Visitor Bureau <strong>The</strong> Great Northern Trail, part of the Rails to Trails routethrough the heart of Montana’s Flathead Valley. Photo submitted by Travel Montana Lake McDonald in<br />
Glacier National Park — some of the beautiful scenery along the Camas Road. Photo obtained from www.discoverkalispell.com.
28 LETHBRIDGE JOURNAL - WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2011<br />
News Briefs<br />
Bored to Death<br />
‘Evening in Paris’ to benefit cancer society<br />
It’s a girl’s night out for a good cause.<br />
Ladies around southern Alberta are invited to “An Evening in Paris,” a special event benefitting<br />
the Canadian Cancer Society. With a goal of supporting breast cancer research,<br />
Miro Bistro, the Wine Cavern and Shindigz Party Artists have teamed up to throw the<br />
french-themed bash. <strong>The</strong> evening will feature French champagne, wine, appetizers, music<br />
and decor. <strong>The</strong> event will run from 7 - 10 p.m. Oct. 20 at Miro Bistro. In conjunction<br />
with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the event will provide information for attendees,<br />
as well as door prizes and party favours. Tickets are $55, $15 of which will go directly to<br />
the Canadian Cancer Society. To purchase tickets stop by Miro Bistro or call Shaina Di<br />
Rocco at 403-635-0203.<br />
Pirate-themed auction for Boys and Girls Club<br />
Parrots, eye patches and peg legs are welcome at the Coast Hotel Oct. 28 for the annual<br />
Boys and Girls Club of <strong>Lethbridge</strong> Bids for Kids dinner and auction. <strong>The</strong> annual fundraising<br />
event, called Pirates Plunder this year, will feature dinner by LA Chefs as well as a live<br />
and silent auction facilitated by Perlich Bros. Auction. Entertainment will be provided<br />
by the Fast Times Band and Bamboo Guppies. Cocktails begin at 5:30 p.m. followed by<br />
dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $50 apiece, or a table of eight can be purchased for $350.<br />
For tickets, visit www.bgclethbridge.com or call Angie at 403-327-6423 ext. 207.<br />
Boob Tour raises money for breast cancer research<br />
<strong>The</strong> Boob Tour, a comedy show in support of the Canadian Cancer Society, will hit the<br />
stage in <strong>Lethbridge</strong> Oct. 15. <strong>The</strong> stand-up comedy show includes a game show and video<br />
presentation and features Star Search winner Tracey MacDonald and breast cancer survivor<br />
Allison Lane, who also appeared on Oprah. James Uloth will also take the stage,<br />
along with a few other surprise acts. <strong>The</strong> show begins at 8 p.m. at <strong>The</strong> Stone, 1917 Mayor<br />
Magrath Drive South. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased by calling 403-317-4658.<br />
Top 5 Things to<br />
do in <strong>Lethbridge</strong><br />
By Paul K Lawton<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
Welcome to Bored To Death, a<br />
shortlist of things to do in <strong>Lethbridge</strong><br />
to aid in the “there is nothing to<br />
do here” blues, because the truth is that<br />
there is mostly nothing to do here.<br />
1Nightseeker at <strong>The</strong> Stone (Monday,<br />
October 24) $20<br />
If you’ve seen Fubar 2, you will remember<br />
that Nightseeker was the metal band<br />
Deaner started after he bought his warlock<br />
bass. <strong>The</strong> Deaner is breaking the<br />
fourth wall and making Nightseeker<br />
a reality, featuring a who’s who of the<br />
Montreal rock and roll scene. Give’r.<br />
2<br />
B.A. Johnston at <strong>The</strong> Owl (Tuesday,<br />
October 18) FREE<br />
<strong>The</strong> one and only B.A. Johnston brings<br />
his latest “crappy tour of everywhere” to<br />
<strong>Lethbridge</strong>. If you haven’t witnessed the<br />
spectacle of B.A. Johnston yet, all you<br />
need to know is that the man puts on<br />
the best show you could ever want: fireworks,<br />
playing in the girl’s bathroom,<br />
flying splits, snot rockets, and songs<br />
about stealing from work, the pirate life,<br />
Old Dutch chip-bag logos, deep-frying<br />
food in your bedroom, <strong>The</strong> Hamilton<br />
Tiger Cats, zombies, and McDonald’s<br />
coupons.<br />
3<br />
CKXU Fundrive ‘80s Movie Music<br />
Night at <strong>The</strong> Slice (Saturday, October<br />
22) $10<br />
Local Campus and Community radio<br />
station CKXU is having their annual<br />
“Fundrive” concert, which gets a bunch<br />
of local bands to do covers based<br />
around a specific theme. This year, each<br />
band picks an ‘80s movie and covers<br />
the soundtrack - in costume. Should be<br />
fun, though I will admit to hating the<br />
‘80s and its (mostly) awful music more<br />
than anything. Other CKXU Fundrive<br />
events include the cupcake carnival<br />
at the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> Public Library on<br />
Sunday, October 23 and a board-game<br />
night at the Owl on Tuesday, October<br />
25!<br />
4<br />
Emotional Blackmail Group Exhibition<br />
at SAAG (Until November<br />
13)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Emotional Blackmail exhibition is<br />
definitely worth your time, especially<br />
the collection of junior high poems<br />
and notes and the short film “Human<br />
Opera XXX” (which plays on a loop in<br />
the main gallery space). <strong>The</strong> new SAAG<br />
building, if you still haven’t been, is a<br />
beautiful centerpiece to <strong>Lethbridge</strong>’s<br />
rich cultural life, and nothing caps a<br />
walk downtown on a Sunday afternoon<br />
better than a visit.<br />
5<br />
Cuff the Duke with Hooded Fang<br />
at <strong>The</strong> Slice (Wednesday, October<br />
26) $10<br />
Cuff the Duke are one of Canada’s best<br />
Alt-Country bands, and their new LP<br />
Morning Comes, which came out last<br />
week, is sure to top next-year’s installment<br />
of the Polaris prize. <strong>The</strong>y haven’t<br />
played here in quite a while, and their<br />
live show is definitely good enough to<br />
warrant a late Wednesday night.
LETHBRIDGE JOURNAL - WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2011 29<br />
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PANGAEA Diversity Café<br />
celebrates one year<br />
By Roy Pogorzelski<br />
For the <strong>Lethbridge</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> PANGAEA Diversity<br />
Café, if you have not<br />
heard of it by now, is an informal<br />
gathering celebrating<br />
diversity in the community<br />
of <strong>Lethbridge</strong>. It’s an opportunity<br />
to grab a snack, have<br />
a beverage, enjoy art and entertainment<br />
and meet new<br />
people from different backgrounds,<br />
cultures and ways<br />
of life.<br />
This café, taking place on<br />
October 19 from 6-9pm at<br />
the University of <strong>Lethbridge</strong><br />
Penny building on 5 Street<br />
South, is the fifth café this<br />
past year. Celebrating its one<br />
year anniversary, the diversity<br />
café has continued to offer<br />
a fun-filled evening for the<br />
citizens of <strong>Lethbridge</strong>.<br />
This project is funded by<br />
the Coalition of Municipalities<br />
against Racism and<br />
Discrimination (CMARD),<br />
who created the “Building<br />
Bridges: Community Action<br />
Plan,” that was approved by<br />
city council this past January.<br />
This diversity café is a leadup<br />
to the next <strong>Lethbridge</strong><br />
Diversity Conference, which<br />
will be taking place October<br />
25-27 at the Coast Plaza Hotel.<br />
<strong>The</strong> space has been donated<br />
by the U of L, who is a partner<br />
in the PANGAEA Diversity<br />
Café and has partnered<br />
with CMARD at this year’s<br />
diversity conference.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se cafés have been put<br />
together through the collaborative<br />
efforts of volunteers<br />
and many community<br />
organizations including:<br />
Aboriginal Council of <strong>Lethbridge</strong>,<br />
<strong>Lethbridge</strong> Family<br />
Services – Immigrant Services,<br />
<strong>Lethbridge</strong> Regional<br />
Police Service, KAIROS,<br />
Allied Arts Council, City of<br />
<strong>Lethbridge</strong>, Government of<br />
Alberta, Southern Alberta<br />
Ethnic Association, YWCA,<br />
Women Space and Outreach<br />
Southern Alberta.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se organizations have<br />
combined to support, promote<br />
and play an important<br />
role in the organization of<br />
this community-based event.<br />
<strong>The</strong> evening’s agenda will be<br />
quite entertaining. <strong>The</strong>re will<br />
be local artists showcasing<br />
their art work, exhibit booths<br />
and a returning henna tattoo<br />
artist that was quite popular<br />
at the last café. As well, there<br />
will be Blackfoot performers<br />
and Jesse Northey from Jesse<br />
and the Dandelions will sing<br />
a few acoustic songs.<br />
Door prizes will be raffled<br />
away for individuals filling<br />
out a comment card,<br />
including one from LFS –<br />
Immigrant Services for two<br />
tickets to the “Taste of...”<br />
international food night.<br />
This evening is that it is completely<br />
free. All you have to<br />
do is show up ready to have a<br />
good time, eat snacks, drink<br />
beverages, watch awesome<br />
entertainment, view art and<br />
meet interesting new people<br />
in our community.<br />
This sounds like a good deal<br />
to me. Hope to see you at<br />
the next PANGAEA Diversity<br />
Café, let’s pack the Penny<br />
Building and show our community<br />
how much we appreciate<br />
a vibrant inclusive<br />
<strong>Lethbridge</strong>.<br />
Leslie Vaala and wife Karen Thorpe have been volunteers with our Project<br />
Paintbrush program since its inception in 2003. <strong>The</strong> program assists<br />
seniors and individuals with special needs maintain the exterior of<br />
their home. As avid gardeners, they are pleased to be able to use their<br />
pruning skills at many of the projects to prune overgrown branches and<br />
bushes. <strong>The</strong>y continue to enjoy meeting and working with new volunteers,<br />
sharing their enthusiasm. <strong>The</strong>y hope to continue volunteering<br />
with the program for years to come. Leslie and Karen – thank you for<br />
your dedication and hard work; it is much appreciated!
Services are at no cost to you. Funded by<br />
LETHBRIDGE JOURNAL - WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2011 31
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