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By Jeff WiebeFor the Lethbridge Journal

Over the past several years, dance has exploded in popularity across Lethbridge.

Several local dance companies have enjoyed increased popularity, and one only need look to the upcoming Explosion of World Dance and Music to see how much dance has grown in the city. From its humble beginnings five years ago, the event has grown to include dozens of local performers.

Lise-Anne Talhami, owner of Ammena Dance Company, created the event five years ago as a way to give her first batches of students an opportunity to display their skills and put their expensive costumes to good use.

“My students started buying belly dance costumes, which are usually around $1,000, and I just felt this guilt that they went out and bought these expensive costumes and there’s nowhere to wear them in Lethbridge. So I thought we’d put on a little show,” explains Talhami.

At the time, the studio had only had 10 students, so Talhami sent out a call to dancers across the province in an effort to make a full show of it, and sold out the Sterndale Ben-nett Theatre in the process. The next year, the show moved to its current home at the Yates Memorial Centre, and has sold out every year since. The “little show” has featured guest stars from afar in previous shows, but with more than 100 students this year, the studio is now able to fill the show completely with its own dancers.

“It kind of evolved organically – I never thought this is something I’d be doing,” says Talhami, explaining that she had originally intended to work in Lethbridge for only a short time before moving elsewhere to dance professionally, and the popularity of her studio took her by surprise.

“I don’t know how it happened, but it’s lovely that it did.”

Growing up, Talhami was heavily involved in ballet and national dance, and with a father from the Middle East, belly dancing was a common activity in the home. She went on to

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Burlesque dancing has enjoyed increased popularity since the release of the movie of the same name – Talhami says her studio’s version of the dance is not traditional, and doesn’t involve the removal of clothing.

“It’s much more of a jazzed-up Broadway type of class, where people get to dress up. So if they want to wear fishnets and red lipstick and stuff, they can, and we’re more on the sexy side of what a normal jazz or Broadway class would be.”

In addition to new styles, this year’s event will also showcase some new performers – Ammena’s youngest students will get a chance to strut their stuff, with kids and teens performing everything from jive and the Charleston to Bollywood and belly dancing.

Throughout her time operating Ammena, Talhami has seen dance grow and flourish and Lethbridge, and previously controversial subjects have become accepted as com-monplace.

“When I first started in Lethbridge, belly dancing was very taboo,” she says, adding that she received a flood of phone calls and media coverage when she first announced she would be teaching the style.

“And now it’s no big deal. It’s just this strange dynamic that has happened, and I’m not sure why.”

Lethbridge has provided Talhami a chance to instruct and guide a crop of inexperienced women to become more comfortable and capable dancers.

“Some of these women have been with me for seven years, so to see their growth is quite amazing.”

An Explosion of World Dance and Music will take place March 3 at the Yates Memorial Centre. Tickets are available at the Lethbridge box office or by calling 403-329-7328.



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So, I’ve been thinking about clothing this week.

Clothing, it seems, is a big thing.

I mean, we all care about what we wear, right? Most of us put at least some effort into choosing our outfits before we head out somewhere. There are clothes in every-one’s closet purchased for certain situations - church, girl’s night out, work, movie night on the couch.

The famous saying goes: “Clothes make the man.” While they may not define a person entirely, clothes certainly are an effective vehicle for making a statement about your-self.

No doubt about it, clothes talk. They send messages. People tend to look at what a person is wearing to make an assessment of what they are like. Well-dressed. In-style. Laid-back.

How do you want people to perceive you? You can guide them towards the im-age you’d like to have simply by carefully choosing what you wear. Jeans and a fool-er tee have an entirely different feel than slacks and a blazer. Whether dressed-up or dressed-down, accessorized or kept simple, a wardrobe is one way to say something about yourself.

Jeremiah Rickaby’s wardrobe, however, goes beyond saying something about him-self.

Rickaby has chosen to use his wardrobe

to make a statement about our world. The Lethbridge man, our cover feature this is-sue, is the proud pioneer of Citizen Sheep Clothing, a clothing line he designed to make a statement about the world we live in.

“We’re embarking on a mission to provide our

readers with information on the many sports and

recreation clubs available”Encouraging free thinking, truth and free-dom, the clothing line - with it’s unmistak-able logo - is intended to be an expression of the wearer’s commitment to those things.

Read Rickaby’s story - the evolution of his thoughts and impressions of our world into a clothing line representing such - on page 6 and 7.

And for those of you who lament Leth-bridge as a place with nothing to do, we have a suggestion: get a hobby! And we’ll help you! We’re embarking on a mission to provide our readers with information on the many sports and recreation clubs avail-able right here in our city, and start this issue with a look at the Lethbridge Bow-benders Association. If archery sounds in-teresting, turn to p. 30!

As always, I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions. Contact me at [email protected].

Editor’sNote

It’s just me, again!

It seems that all I ever do is drag out the old soap box and complain about something. If you knew me, you’d know that’s not really the case. I’m usually pretty easy to get along with. However, when I get the chance to expound on something, I can get carried away. If you read this column, you’ve probably already guessed as much.

This time I am picking on those “As Seen on TV” products that some of us get sucked into buying. First off is the “Ready, Set, Go” – a handy little electric gadget that will cook just about anything. Well, I fell for the ad on TV; you know the one where if you call in the next seven minutes, you can get two for the price of one. You just pay extra shipping and handling. What they don’t tell you is the actual cost of the shipping and handling. Anyway, I made the call. After listening to various electronic voices giving me numer-ous prompts, I gave some robotic lady my information and my order and eagerly awaited delivery of my prize. A few days later, I happened to look online at my credit card state-ment. Much to my horror, $70.00 plus was charged to my account. I naively believed the cost to be around $20.00 (the advertised cost of the mini grill) plus a bit more for the extra inserts I ordered. Needless to say, I was livid.

To make a long and most likely boring story short, I blasted the person who responded to my e-mails. I cancelled some subscription I didn’t know I had for some cookbooks I didn’t order and some other stuff that I can’t remember. After all that, I now own the “Ready, Set, Go” which, after one or two uses, isn’t ready, isn’t set, and hasn’t gone for quite some time.

“This time I am picking on those ‘As Seen on TV’ products that some of

us get sucked into buying”The other little jewel I fell for is the “Eggies”. This one I can blame on my hubby because he hates to peel hard-boiled eggs. Last week we saw the little wonders advertised in a couple of flyers so we bought them on sale for $12.99. Quite a bargain when they regu-larly sell for $19.99 (unless of course you buy them online where you can get two for the price of one, blah, blah, blah!!!). The next day, I eagerly opened the package, excited about cooking eggs. (At my age, it’s really sad when that’s all it takes to excite me.) Anyway, I found that each little egg cooker has four parts. It’s too complicated to describe in twenty words or less the ‘how-to,’ but I managed to get the six eggs ready to cook. The first mis-hap was that one of them leaked and I had egg floating in the kettle. Next, two of them flipped upside-down and cooking time took much longer than just boiling them in their shells. Once cooked, only two out of six came out looking, well, like hard cooked eggs. Clean-up was a nightmare. Because all four sections are threaded, egg was stuck in all the little grooves. After some cursing and scrubbing, they are clean and are now ready to be returned to the store.

The moral to all of this is the old adage: if something sounds too good to be true, it most likely is. Follow your gut. I wish I had.

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By Erwin BlatterFor the Lethbridge Journal

What’s up with that sheep head wearing a gas mask? It’s a question Jeremy Rickaby likes people to ask themselves when they see his new clothing line. The 33-year-old de-signer from Lethbridge named it Citizen Sheep, only to make peo-ple aware about their lives and the world they live in.

“I don’t want to die with the fastest car, I want to know that I did some-thing that’s worth it,” says Rickaby.It doesn’t take long to realize that Rickaby is not your ordinary guy. Talking to him about his clothing line soon evolves into a chat about life, about what’s going on in the world and about the fact that things aren’t always what they seem to be. And that’s exactly what he wants. Rickaby, dressed in his black self-designed hoodie and cap, came up with Citizen Sheep as a vehicle to raise awareness.

“There’s always something else go-ing on behind the scenes,” he says. “I want people to see both sides of the coin. There’s more than what meets the eye.”

The name of his clothing line stems from a conversation he once had, says Rickaby. Somebody told him that people are like sheep, that they do whatever they’re told to do. “A lot of people walk like zombies.”

In his desire to develop a distinc-tive product, he created a logo with a sheep head wearing a gas mask. The latter represents the apoca-lypse that, according to the Mayas, is to occur on December 21st of this year.

“I don’t necessarily believe in that, but I do believe in a big change,” says Rickaby.

Not so long ago, Rickaby was still living ‘the fast life,’ as he calls it. Now, looking back at that time, he concludes that he was like a zombie himself.

“I didn’t know where I was going, I didn’t have a distinct purpose. A couple of years ago I took a good look at everything that was going on around me. I thought, ‘there’s got to be more to this.’ I started to realize many things in life are really superficial. That didn’t feel right.”

An avid documentary watcher, the Lethbridge designer saw a docu-mentary about aliens being our ancestors. It more or less propelled his desire to create Citizen Sheep.

“I thought, ‘who the hell is going to believe that?’ Then I watched some more documentaries on that topic.”He’s eager to know both sides of a story. Rickaby is talking about subjects like human cloning, pole shifts, Wikileaks and the federal re-serve pyramid scam.

“But these subjects are tough. You sometimes don’t know what to be-lieve. It takes a lot of research and reading to understand them.”

His clothing line represents a path-way, Rickaby states. His website cit-izensheep.ca is not only the outlet for his clothes, it’s the focal point of his Citizen Sheep activities.

“This is definitely step one of build-ing a foundation. The site’s going to feature things that I think are intriguing. Take a topic, find both sides of the argument and put that on the website. People can com-ment with feedback, they shouldn’t be afraid to speak their mind. I would like to see it turn into a com-munity of people who ask ques-tions through stepping outside the box. There’s such a broad scope to

this.”

The launch of Citizen Sheep was ig-nited by a private investor who be-lieved in the product and the idea behind it.

“If it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t have been this far.”

Rickaby launched his clothing line in November 2011. He has been having a ‘roller coaster experience’ ever since, he says.

“I have a good following already. I had 120 pieces made and sold about half of it thus far.”

He emphasizes that his clothing line is not just a shirt, cap or hoodie with a logo on it.

“I’m always looking for a better quality shirt. If I sell a cheap prod-uct, people are not going to take Citizen Sheep seriously. I don’t want people to look at it as just an-other clothing line. I want people to be proud wearing it, saying: I’m an individual.”

Rickaby notes he can’t live off of Citizen Sheep’s profits. All the money he earns with it goes back into it. Therefore, he works at a tire centre in Lethbridge for 50 hours a week to make a living. He also runs his own design company. “I’m ex-hausted, I don’t have much of a life, but I’m at my best when I’m cha-otic, when I’m all over the place. Routine doesn’t do it for me.”

To sum up Citizen Sheep: Rickaby just likes to make a difference.

“You can either sit back and let people tell you what to do, or you live your life and make your own choices. The major thing is your mind being exercised. I definitely feel more awoken these days.”

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By Bill AxtellFor the Lethbridge Journal

Bridget Mearns’ early life reads like a dream sequence from a fairy tale. Her fascinating early life’s journey is one that - while many may dream of growing up on a 42-foot sailboat, sailing around the world with a tutor-teacher on board - is not often seen in real life.

Born in Lethbridge in 1970, Mearns, the youngest of three daughters to Peter and Bridget Pastoor, found herself and her family packing to move into the life-long dream of her father to sail around the world.

Bridget, at age seven, her sisters and her mom and dad sold their business and home and moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., where they purchased a 42-foot sail-boat and began to fulfill Peter’s life-long dream of sailing the world with his fam-ily.

After two years sailing around the Car-ibbean, the family returned to Alberta, moving into their lake home on Lee Lake near Crowsnest Pass. Mearns enrolled at the nearby school in Lundbreck.

“Mom began driving the school bus, get-ting up at 5 a.m. every day,” Mearns says. “It was a very happy time for me, but I think it was possibly a more difficult time for mom, especially considering the frequent extremes of mountain win-ter weather and the driving conditions.”

At times, the fam-ily hauled grocer-ies by toboggan up the long driveway

to their home when the snow deepened

in mid-winter.“The lake home is still one of my favorite places in the entire world,” Mearns says. “But we don’t open it during the winter anymore.”

In school, “other kids called me ‘Phyllis Diller,’ because I only brushed the part of my hair I could see in the mirror,” Mearns laughingly remembers.

After 1980, the family moved back to Lethbridge, soon afterward beginning a new voyage that started in Spain. By then, father Peter had sold the sailboat and replaced it with a 100-foot yacht, equipped with seven bedrooms and a galley.

“We girls all learned to sail as kids in the Caribbean,” she says. “And by age 10, I was spending time at the helm of the yacht.”

The family sailed to Gibraltar, Morocco, stopping in almost all the North African countries except for Egypt, which was rather unstable at the time.

“We lived through some scary times in

Algeria,” Mearns notes, explaining her journeys through the region, and ab-sorbing all the cultural differences with great fascination.

Schooling for the girls was provided on-board by a certified teacher from Fort Macleod named Chris Chambers, Mearns says.

After two years sail-ing around Spain

and the Mediterra-nean Sea, learning

Spanish, Mearns had begun to understand all the cultural dif-

ferences of the many nations throughout

the region.“This type of lifestyle shaped my sense of “fairness;” it greatly enhanced my thirst for knowledge, making me want to ex-plore, go more places, learn about even more cultures.”

A couple of years later the family once again returned to Lethbridge, where Bridget enrolled in St. Francis School. A bright student, she was able to complete two years in one.

“Mom put me into the first ever French Immersion classes in Lethbridge, be-cause I was already a year ahead. Yet, I went in cold with no understanding of French from the start.”

Fortunately for Bridget, her teacher spoke both Spanish and French, which greatly helped her through the Spanish to French transition.

She remained in the French Immersion program until grade 12, returning to the English classroom for her final year of high school at Catholic Central High, graduating in 1986 at age 16.

Then came a moment of “shift change” in Bridget’s life. She joined St. John’s Am-bulance Service, taking first aid training, and travelling as a brigade member to provide services for concerts, rodeos, sports events, and others. Mearns re-ceived an award for her volunteer hours and for her valuable assistance.

It was her service to St. John’s as a bri-gade member that allowed Bridget to discover the great personal significance service to others has for her. After a brief stay in Edmonton, Bridget returned to Lethbridge, enrolling in Lethbridge Col-lege for a nursing program.

“I really liked the academic study por-tion of nursing, but I did not like the practical work in nursing,” she says, ex-plaining why she left the college to enroll at the University of Lethbridge.

While at the U of L, Mearns met a doc-toral student from Morocco, who en-

couraged her to study in France. She wrote and passed the entrance exam and was accepted into the Duelf French Language diploma program for foreign students. For the one-year program, she lived in Rouen, France, the city where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy in the year 1431. There, after a year’s studies with students from around the world, she received her French lan-guage diploma the University of Rouen.

Returning home from France at age 21, Mearns entered her first public service job in Ottawa, joining the staff of for-mer MP Blaine Thacker as executive as-sistant. After a year there, she returned to the U of L to complete her B.A. with a major in French. Graduating in 1995, Bridget joined the office of former MLA and Provincial Treasurer Dick Johnston in the Lethbridge East Office.

She met and married husband Kirk Mearns, then pursued a series of job transfers in various parts of B.C. and Ontario, finally returning to Lethbridge in 2005.

Looking back on her years away from Lethbridge, she comments that “some-

times you have to leave, gain experience, then return to apply it.”

Now working for the Lethbridge and District Exhibition Association, her role is in the crucial area of development, working toward a massive rebuilding project of the entire park and its facilities as a basis for future growth of the region.

First elected to city council in 2010, Mearns is now deeply embedded into civic and public service, a direct out-growth of the passion she developed during her term with St. John’s Ambu-lance Services.

This year, she will serve as honorary chairperson for the Big Brothers Big Sis-ters of Lethbridge and District annual “Bowl for Kids Sake.”

As honorary chairperson, Mearns will spearhead the public drive to raise this year’s Lethbridge goal of $60,000. Big Brothers Big Sisters matches adult vol-unteers with children in need of friend-ship and mentoring.

Bowl for Kids Sake runs last two week-ends in March at Holiday Bowl.

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Sailing through the teen yearsLast month it happened. I knew it would, I have dreamt of the day. I have read all the material preparing me for this. I have interviewed every experienced friend and I have prayed for mercy all in expectation of my eldest daughter officially becoming a TEEN. Smash that champagne, we’ve set sail!

I am now officially lame, boring and old and she now officially knows everything there is to know about anything, except how to clean her room and study.

I started reading “Have a new Teen by Friday” by Dr. Kevin Leman, where he promises results on yippy, yappy and sassy. . .

”I’ve got news for you. Kids are union-ized, and they’ve got a game plan to drive you bonkers. Some hedonistic little suck-ers of the ankle-biter battalion have even

graduated to emeritus status and are holding down the hormone group division. But you don’t have to let them call the shots. I’ve got a game plan guaranteed to work. Every time.” (p. 11)

I tried hard not to leave this book lying around but a very sarcastic, “Hey, mom it’s Friday today, am I different?” caught me off guard. But, it hasn’t capsized me from wanting to go in fully prepared, fully engaged and fully humbled.

”I’ve got news for you. Kids are unionized,and they’ve got a game plan to

drive you bonkers”I think we have two main fears as parents of teens (‘cause I’ve been one for a whole 30 seconds). One, you hope you never lose them emotionally, physically or spiritually and the other fear being they might turn out like us! We don’t want our kids to suffer, we don’t want them to have to struggle or sob uncontrollably for hours in their messy closet after a wrenching heart break. We want them to go into grade seven and ten minutes later have a university degree, a husband, a great job and a clean apartment.

“34 per cent knew of someone who had at-tempted or died by suicide; 16 per cent had

seriously considered suicide; 14 per cent had made a suicide plan”

The truth is that in a survey from the Canadian Communications Research Center on youth and suicide, among “15,000 grade 7 to 12 students in British Columbia, 34 per cent knew of someone who had attempted or died by suicide; 16 per cent had seriously considered suicide; 14 per cent had made a suicide plan; seven per cent had made an at-tempt and two per cent had required medical attention due to an attempt.” According to Health Canada, “43 per cent of all teens aged 15-19 had engaged in sexual intercourse at least once and the occurrence of heavy, frequent drinking among youth 15 to 24 years of age was approximately three times higher than the rate for adults 25 years and older (9.4 per cent versus 3.3 per cent).” I realize these stats are out of province, but I’m sure we are not far from the tree.

After I researched these stats I felt a few things: sheer panic, disorientation, tremendous guilt and a desire to abandon ship, but I don’t want to forever be known as Captain Cow-ard. I realized that the ocean has a mind of its own and sometimes our calculations are off but we are bound by love and duty to see this journey through. I’m determined to know what dangers lurk beneath, watch out for storm clouds and icebergs but most of all I will try and enjoy the days of smooth sailing and breathtaking sunsets. Umbrella drink please!

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(Dissociative Press) [Febrembruary 32, 2112] – Addressing a press conference in front of his parents’ garage, 22-year-old Lethbridge local Tyler Smith told reporters he had complete confidence his band “Dethbridge” was ready for success. “We already have four fans on Soundcloud,” Smith told the capacity crowd of fifteen. “They’ve really responded to our demos and we can’t wait to get back into the garage with [bassist] Kearney’s old MacBook to put the finishing touches on our first LP.” Smith, a veteran of the Lethbridge music scene, believes that the chemistry of his latest band will be what makes the difference. “With my other bands we were just a bunch of people with instruments, but Dethbridge is like a brotherhood. With the addition of our cellist, I believe we have finally solidified our sound and it’s only a matter of time before we’re conquering LA and singing songs about how awful it is to be drunk and famous all the time.” Drummer Geoff Birk was evasive when asked about a follow-up to the band’s hugely popular side project “Nuts Axe,” whose debut album sold an impressive 17 copies to friends and family. “We’ve heard the fans and we definitely want to get back into the studio, but for the time being the guys are all focused on bringing their best to Dethbridge, the most originally named ironic hipster band in the city.” Critics remain divided on the band’s unique mix of black metal and swing music, which frequently results in fatalities at live shows, but most agreed that being stoned on ether makes their stage performance transcendent.

Trouble Brewing

A South Dakota aboriginal tribe is suing several large beer breweries and retailers for $500 million in damages, claiming the companies are helping to illegally import alcohol onto their reserve where it has been banned for 180 years. “Prohibition would work, if not for all those evil corporations working tirelessly to supply our insatiable demand,” said one tribe member. “Day in and day out they smuggle beer to liquor stores just off the reserve and demand we all drink it while pregnant so that one in four children born on our reserve will have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.” According to the lawsuit filed by the tribe, the nearby town of Whiteclay has a population of just 12 people, but maintains four liquor stores that together move nearly five million cans of beer a year. “This illegal liquor trade is destroying our way of life, and if we had any choice in the matter we would not be voluntarily consuming any alcohol at all on the Pine Ridge Reservation,” reads the filing. “The pusher man tricked us. The fault is clearly with the guy who sold us the junk, not the people who bought it.” When asked for comment, a representative of the liquor companies cackled evilly and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

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By Jeff WiebeFor the Lethbridge Journal

It can be pretty tough being a young woman.

Pressures from the media, peer groups, and other sources can lead some to make harmful choices that create a cycle of negative behaviours. Renae Pe-terson, director and creator of Beauty From the Inside Out, knows firsthand the pressures young women face, and she has made it her mission to provide these women with a source of hope and optimism.

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can lead some to make harmful

choices”“They’re being told and taught in so many ways that their bod-ies are what give them power in society, and that’s what’s going to

get them attention,” explains Pe-terson.

“We’re trying to get them to think in a different pattern and see things differently, so these messages don’t become deeply ingrained in their psyche. I al-ways tell young women that the most beautiful part of them is their mind and spirit, who they are.”

The Beauty From the Inside Out program, which has been designed for girls aged 11-17, consists of 11 weeks of classes that expose participants to a variety of new skills and ideas, from etiquette and visual poise to media deconstruction and public speaking. Peterson brings a unique professional and educa-tional background to her work with the program – as a full time nurse, she understands the im-portance of confidence and self-esteem to overall health, and as a former model, she has unique insights into what she describes as the “lost arts” of presentation.

“As a nursing student, I kept having these ideas and thoughts about how to create this pro-

gram,” she explains, adding that much of her undergraduate re-search focused on adolescent health and well-being.

“So it was like this skeleton all through university, and when I graduated, I found the courage to put it together and try it out in our community. It’s been so well-received, and I feel humbled that I’ve been able to touch many young women’s lives through the program.”

One of Peterson’s key goals with the program is providing young women with the tools they need to empower themselves and achieve their goals. Because adolescents are being constantly bombarded with media mes-sages, they need to have a strong sense of who they are and why they are valuable.

“If young women aren’t whole or don’t get connected to a stronger sense of identity, I believe they’ll make choices that can cause them further pain and heartache,” says Peterson.

“As young people, when their identity is still forming, they’re

impacted by so many people around them and so many peo-ple’s reactions to them. But when you help them see clearly that people’s reactions are more of a reflection of who they are and their own issues, it’s very em-powering.”

Given her hectic schedule, Pe-terson says she is constantly en-ergized by her rewarding work with the Beauty program. The young women she works with are often surprised to hear some of the ideas put forward in the classes, but they are equally eager to share their experiences.

“I find they’re hungry to hear that message, and for a safe place to talk about these pressures,” ex-plains Peterson.

The Beauty program has been running since 2006, with Peter-son recently introducing a moth-er-daughter night to the curricu-lum, reflecting the importance of a mother’s role in their daughter’s life.

For more information on the program or to get involved, call Renae at 403-380-0607 or visit www.beautyinside.ca

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By Trever BroadheadSubmitted to the Lethbridge Journal

Sarah Klassen, owner of Ricky’s All Day Grill and Fat-burger recently presented donation cheques to Trever Broadhead, Executive Director of the Boys & Girls Club of Lethbridge. A total of $2,500 was raised to enhance the club’s out-of-school programs for children and youth. Employees from both restaurants were on hand for this amazing show of support.

Fatburger had their grand opening in November 2011 and Ricky’s All Day Grill just celebrated 16 years in Lethbridge. A huge thank-you goes out to Sarah and our friends at these fine establishments for their ongo-ing support of our programs at the Boys & Girls Club of Lethbridge.

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Friday, February 17th

Afternoon of AnimePublic Library - Main Branch

3-5pm grades 6-12

Free Friday Tasting - Andrew Hilton

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James OldenburgMocha Cabana

6-9pm

Arts PotluckBowman Arts Centre

6-9pm

Relay for Life and the Lethbridge HurricanesEnMax Centre

7-10pm

Old Favourites 3Yates Memorial Centre

8-10:30pm

Hamlet by William ShakespeareU of L Theatre

8 pm

Old Favourites 3Yates Memorial Centre

8-10:30pm

ChurchOwl Acoustic Lounge

9pm

HippodromeCasino Lethbridge

9pm

Fur Eel w/ TellyThe Slice Bar & Grill

10pm no cover

Saturday, February 18th

Haircuts for HopeHarmony Hair

9am-5pm all proceeds going to Bridges of Hope’s Medical Project 2012

Tea - Galt Family ProgramGalt Museum & Archives

1-2pm

Extreme By Nature - Great Backyard Bird CountHelen Schuler Nature Centre

1:30-3:30pm

Knights of Columbus Annual Charity Dinner-DanceGerman Canadian Club

5:45pm

James OldenburgMocha Cabana

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Hamlet by William ShakespeareU of L Theatre

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Pickle (Mike Dambra) 50th Birthday Comedy Show w/ friendsAverage Joe’s

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Fast Times LiveScore’s Thirst & Grill

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Dreams of ReasonThe Slice Bar & Grill

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Sunday, February 19th

Pancake BreakfastEagles Hall, 631- 13th St N

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PAW Society Annual Pool Tournament & Silent AuctionShotz Billiard Club & Lounge

12pm $25 register

The Fraternal Order of Eagles - Steak SupperEagles Hall, 631 -13th St N

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Chron Goblin & Lustre CreameThe Slice Bar & Grill

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Monday, February 20th

Rick Hansen Relay and U of L Play DayU of L 1st Choice Savings Centre

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Family Day Track TrekHelen Schuler Nature Centre 1-4pm

Tuesday, February 21st

Paul Kype & Texas FloodThe Slice Bar & Grill

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Wednesday, February 22nd

Meeting Skills for results workshop via videoconferencingVolunteer Lethbridge – video-conference

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Global Change and Education Reforms: “What’s Right, What’s Wrong and What’s Going On?”

Grand Ballroom, Coast Lethbridge Hotel and Conference Centre6pm register

Westminster Neighbourhood Association AGMWestminster

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Most Vocal Poets: Kirk Ramdath - Love In A Handful Of Dust’Library – Crossings Branch

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Concert Five- A Stan Rogers Tribute by Nathan Rogers Empress Theatre, Fort Macleod

8pm

Bridgette Yarwood & Evan Mix by Ric’s

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Thursday, February 23rd

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Lord of The Dance EnMax7:30pm

Galt Agricultural Innovation & Business Speakers SeriesGalt Museum

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Michael Flatley’s Lord of the DanceENMAX Centre

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Concert Five- A Stan Rogers Tribute by Nathan Rogers Empress Theatre, Fort Macleod

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Lethbridge Historical Society Annual Dinner 2012Galt Museum & Archives

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Wednesday, February 29th

Pink Shirt Day – Take a stand against Bullying

Ag Expo – North American Seed FairExhibition9am-5pm

Chamber Annual Dinner & AuctionCoast Lethbridge Hotel & Conference Centre

5:30pmSAAG Cinema: Two Frogs In The West

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Ken TizzardThe Slice Bar & Grill

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Thursday, March 1st

U of L Faculty Of Fine Arts: The Tree Of Life (New Media Film Series)U of L6:30pm

Café Galt- Aboriginal Women During the Great DepressionGalt Museum

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Hearts by Brendan GailDavid Spinks Theatre

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Friday, March 2nd

Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra Chamber Series IVSouthminster United Church

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Samantha Savage Smith & RaleighThe Slice Bar & Grill

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Natures Past: Archival Evidence of Environmental and Climate Change

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Lady CelesteYates Theatre GalleryNow – February 24th

Leaders of Tomorrow – Accepting NominationsSuite 200 Deveta Place 410 Stafford Drive S – 403-320-2044

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Archives Exposed… New People, New OpportunitiesGalt- Main Level Meeting Rooms

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Junior Naturalists - All About EyesHelen Schuler Nature Centre

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Sock Monkeys - Galt Family ProgramGalt Museum & Archives

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Opening Of Art Gallery / Steve Coffee Art Show Geomatic Attic 1pm

Natural Connection Art ShowInvestors Group Office

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Bob Wiseman The Slice Bar & Grill

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Sunday, February 26th

Stuart McLean and the Vinyl Cafe Yates Centre2:30pm

Royal CanoeThe Slice Bar & Grill

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Monday, February 27th

Film Series: How Art Catches A RabbitBowman Arts Centre 7pm

Stuart McLean and the Vinyl Cafe Yates Centre7:30pm

Tania GillThe Slice Bar & Grill

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Free Music at Noon Concert Dr. Christianne RushtonUniversity Recital Hall

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Trying to get things done in a hurry this week will almost certainly end with an unexpected detour down a flight of stairs. You really can’t afford that with your speech for the an-nual “Institute For Falling Down The Stairs Preven-tion” conference coming up soon.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Always deliver bad news as quickly and di-rectly as possible, like rip-ping off a band-aid made of emotional trauma. Oth-erwise you’ll end up with a classroom full of children who think their substitute teacher was taken away by the ambulance because he smelled too much icing sugar and fell asleep.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You should clean this week because your neigh-bours are starting to com-

plain about the “rotten meat” smell - which shows how much they know be-cause that smell is totally coming from the garbage can across the alley, the one you saw stuffed full of mannequin limbs last week. Your house is more of a ‘wet dog’ kind of stench.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Lonely times lay in store for you if you listen to this month’s issue of Cosmo. Yes, compulsively stalk-ing your significant other is an excellent way to find out if they’re cheating, but it’s also grounds for a restraining order and the judge said if he ever saw your name on one again he was going to hit you with his “pimp hand”.

LEO (July 23-Aug 22) Expect a lot of hard work in the near future as you take more steps

towards completing your education. Ignore the cra-ter that was your social life and console yourself with University of Lethbridge memes on Facebook in-stead of paying attention to the lecture.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sept 22) Yes, their name IS Cra-zy Cakes, but I’m not 100 per cent sure they’re going to make you two dozen ‘Breast Cupcakes’ for your upcoming bachelor/bach-elorette party. If not, just buy two dozen regular cupcakes and put a Swed-ish berry on top.

LIBRA (Sept 23-Oct 22) Everyone is totally star-ing at your zit right now. They’re talking about it every time you leave the room. DO NOT POP IT. They will talk about that too. Your lucky number is 69, but try not to read too much into it. These are

horoscopes, not the kama sutra. SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 21) You should always try to keep an open mind to-wards new and challeng-ing ideas. Like how you’re actually supposed to PAY your bills instead of using them for paper airplanes, or how the guys who write the ‘For Dummies’ books just didn’t want to write ‘Serial Arson For Dum-mies’ like you asked them to.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21) Your long-standing problems with author-ity will come to a head when you’re put in charge at work and find yourself directly disobeying your own orders. You’re going to have to take yourself into your office for disci-plinary action, or else you may do as you say in the

future but you’ll never re-spect yourself.t. CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19) Surprise! The entrance to Narnia isn’t in a 1940s wardrobe, it’s in the broom closet at the zoo. Double surprise! Aslan doesn’t talk like Liam Neeson, he just roars a lot and eats people.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18) You’ve got to start thinking outside the box- as a student, you potential-ly qualify for government funding that would let you finally move out of your two bedroom cardboard suite and into a building with running water and that fabled legend, elec-tricity.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20) Your life will take an unexpected turn when you

are accepted into Hog-warts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which as it turns out is an illegal class for strippers operating out of the basement of a tan-ning salon. Whatever you do, do not put on the Sort-ing Hat.

Birthday Baby...

Everybody makes a big deal out of it the first time you walk,

but by the time you’re 18 it’s like

they don’t even care anymore. They also look at you funny when you start screaming every time a stranger

picks you up and starts running.

I hope everyone enjoyed their Valen-tine’s Day, I didn’t do anything heart

related unless you count having a couple drinks and betting on horse races roman-tic. I tried to think of a top ten romantic movie list, but I couldn’t even think of one good romantic movie. I know that’s terrible, but they’re just not a genre I en-joy when every romantic movie to me is the exact same, two people meet and fall in love, something bad happens to break them up and then they get back together in the end and that’s 95 percent of roman-tic movies. Here are some un-romantic reviews to balance out the universe.

The Rum Diary – Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing con-ventions of late Eisenhower-era America, journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper. Star-ring: Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard, Gio-vanni Ribisi.

Review – I guess I went to this movie hoping it would be like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, another Hunter S. Thompson novel and one of the funniest movies ever. Un-fortunately this movie was just okay, not great. It has some funny parts, but I think some things are better left on paper than adapted to big screen.

2 out of 4 stars

Take Shelter – Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. Starring: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Katy Mixon.

Review – I actually can’t re-view this, because Lethbridge is a small town and doesn’t release a lot of independent films, at least I didn’t see it playing anywhere. I probably shouldn’t put a movie in here that I haven’t seen, but I’ve been waiting for this release since it came out last year and I wanted it in the issue so you know it’s being released too. I will have watched it by the time this issue is out so to me, it’s worth a $5 rental. 2 out of 4 stars

Tower Heist – When a bunch of hard working guys find out they’ve fallen victim to a wealthy business man’s Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence. Starring: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Tea Leoni, Alan Alda.

Review – With this awesome cast I thought it was going to be hilarious. It’s funny enough, but not as funny as it should be with these actors, maybe an R rating would have helped. Eddie Murphy is pret-ty good though, as the crimi-nal type guy that they find to help them plan the heist. It might be worth watching if you’re bored, but I would wait for the free on television release.

2 out of 4 stars

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--It’s a fact: Eli Manning is the National Football League’s most clutch quarterback. Hav-ing fully moved out of his brother Peyton’s shadow, the younger Manning ripped it up leading the New York Giants to close the 2011 season, and to a Super Bowl title. While his completion to Mario Man-ningham in Indianapolis to rally his team to a 21-17 win over New England is the sig-nature moment, Eli provided so many other great plays as the G-Men won their last six games. Make it two champion-ships for Manning, who - with a few more above-average sea-sons - may just play his way into the Hall-of-Fame down the road.

-- It’s too early to tell who will play in the NBA Finals, how-ever, two teams that I would be shocked to see make it: The Los Angeles Lakers or the Boston Celtics. Just two years removed from playing one another in a second straight championship series, both teams have aged dramatically. In a recent February game, the old rivals showed flashes of their past brilliance, but for the most part, it was a pretty flawed game. When looking at younger, more athletic teams like Miami, Oklahoma City and Chicago, both the Lakers (no matter how many points Kobe Bryant scores this year) and the C’s (who can still get it done defensively, but the of-fence is subpar) look like sec-ond-class clubs.

--UFC events are dangerously becoming over-saturated. This year, the top mixed-martial arts promotion has added na-tional network events on Fox, a big move to be sure. Add in the customary monthly (and sometimes bi-monthly) pay-per-views, plus additional events on FX and Fuel TV (rebroadcast in Canada on Sportsnet) and almost every week there’s UFC to be seen somewhere. While this is great for the hardcore MMA fan, for the masses, it’s probably too much. Pumping up one event a month is relatively easy to do. Getting the average fan excited about three or four? Good luck to Dana White and company.

--Our Alberta NHL teams will take different approaches to the trade deadline - and both are right to do so. The Edmon-ton Oilers, after a great start, have fallen well off the pace in the Western Conference. A run of injuries have hurt to be sure, however, this is still a team in rebuild mode. Another lost spring isn’t the end of the world. The Oil will be looking to sell, still trying to get a ros-ter together that will contend a couple of years down the road.

Meanwhile, in Calgary the Flames may actually try to add at the deadline. While this may seem foolish, the Flames remain committed to trying to win now with a vet-eran core. With cornerstones Jarome Iginla and Miikka Kiprusoff still under contract next season (with the Finn-ish netminder inked through 2013-14) and the likes of Jay Bouwmeester, Alex Tanguay, Mark Giordano and Curtis Glencross still on the books awhile longer, I can’t see Jay Feaster blowing up this team quite yet. Especially since all of these players have no move-ment clauses. Yes, this team is the longest-of-shots to win a Stanley Cup, but with little roster flexibility over the next couple seasons, this is what Flames fans will have to live with. So, if Feaster can make a few moves to bolster his team for a playoff push (or even try-ing to qualify) it won’t be a sur-prise to this writer. Whether this is the right approach is a whole different story.

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--I still like my earlier predic-tion for a Vancouver vs. Bos-ton Cup Finals rematch. The Bruins have nearly an identical team from their champion-ship side, a blend of skill, grit and tenacity that translates so well in the post-season. Tyler Seguin’s maturation into an offensive threat bodes well for the B’s.

As for the Canucks, they have the edge of Detroit thanks to their goaltenders. While Rob-erto Luongo has yet to win the Cup, I would still take him over Jimmy Howard. And if Bobby Lu falters, Cory Sch-neider is certainly one of the NHL’s top back-ups, someone Alain Vignault could count on if needed.

As for other threats, sure De-troit and the New York Rang-ers will probably have some-thing to say before the day is done. I’m still thinking if Pitts-burgh could get its key pieces back (will the Kid be okay in time?) they would still be the biggest threat to toppling Bos-ton in the East.

--I can’t wait for the madness. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is approaching, and it never fails to deliver dra-ma and excitement. As anyone who recently watched Duke knockout North Carolina on a last-second 3-pointer can at-test, college basketball can be thrilling (or for Tar Heel fans on that night - excruciating). It looks like there are several teams who will be in the mix to win the battle of 68. And with “mid-major” programmes im-proving year-after-year, we can expect the unexpected come tourney time once again.

Locally, it’s also a chance for our high school teams to do the same, with the zone tour-naments at the college and university. Even if you are not a big hoops fan, seeing all of the support our local and ru-ral teams get at these events is one of the highlights of cover-ing sports here in southern Al-berta.

There are plenty of things going on in the world of sport. Here are musings, random thoughts and detritus that have accumulated in my brain but are not quite enough to turn into a full-blown For What It’s Worth.

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By Julie KlokSubmitted to the Lethbridge Journal

On Thursday, March 8, 15 per cent of all purchases made with a coupon at Ten Thousand Villages Canada will help prevent maternal mortality in Africa through the Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS). The two organizations have teamed up to empower women through access to life-saving medical care and the sale of Fair Trade handcrafted goods in Canada.

Around the world, women are among the poorest members of society, yet their income is essential for the well-being of families. Since 1946, Fair Trade handicrafts retailer Ten Thousand Villages has been creating employment opportunities for women in develop-ing countries. “Seventy percent of our artisans are women, so working with CNIS feels like a perfect fit – especially on International Women’s Day,” says Kristen Reffle, Sales Development Manager.

CNIS trains midwives, nurses and doctors, as well as medical and clinical officers, to bring life-saving surgical and emergency obstetrical training to Africans. This aids in preventing suffering and the deaths of millions of people each year. Over the last 16 years, CNIS and our partners have trained close to 20,000 healthcare practitioners and certified nearly 600 surgical, obstetrical and nursing instructors in eight African countries, as well as in Guyana and Haiti.

“During my time as Canadian Ambassador, I came to know and greatly respect the peo-ples of sub-Saharan Africa. They face huge challenges in maternal health care and trauma. CNIS volunteers are making important contributions through their life-saving surgical teaching program and the support of the development of local capacity,” says John Bell, Honorary Consul of Cote d’Ivoire in Vancouver, BC.

Partnership coupons are available online at www.cnis.ca and www.TenThousandVillages.ca, through the CNIS office, and at participating Ten Thousand Villages Canada stores.Ten Thousand Villages is the oldest and largest Fair Trade organization in North Ameri-ca. Through a network of forty-seven stores, as well as through hundreds of Festival Sales and E-shopping, Ten Thousand Villages Canada sells artisan-crafted personal accesso-ries, home decor and gift items from around the globe.

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By Bruce PentonFor the Lethbridge Journal

The 12-9 final score in the recent Na-tional Hockey League all-star game, in which there were 21 more goals scored than body checks delivered, proves once again that something should be done to make the annual “classic” more like a real game.

“fans in the United States who tune

in faithfully to the NHL all-star game — and it’s the only game they see all year — and think the high-scoring,

no-checking, laugh-filled game is stand-

ard NHL fare”The hilarity of it all is that there are prob-ably casual fans in the United States who tune in faithfully to the NHL all-star game — and it’s the only game they see all year — and think the high-scoring, no-checking, laugh-filled game is stand-ard NHL fare. It’s a real NHL hockey game in the same fashion as travelling in a Honda Civic at 110 km/h on the Trans-Canada Highway is like a NASCAR race.On Feb. 1, the second day of post-all-star-game action, five NHL games were played, with a total of 20 non-shootout goals being scored. Now that’s the low-scoring, tight-checking, hard-hitting, great-goaltending NHL we know and love. A 12-9 laugher is a disgrace to the game and the league should do some-thing about it.

How about canceling it?

Two other sports leagues have similar problems with their ‘best-of-the-best’ contests. The NBA’s biggest and best play a game that resembles a Saturday morn-ing schoolyard scrum. Last year’s final score was 148-143, with more uncon-tested shots than there were competitor tattoos.

Football’s Pro Bowl is such a joke that players from the best two teams — the Super Bowl contestants — can’t play be-cause they’re preparing for the big game.The only all-star game with a hint of le-gitimacy is that of Major League Base-ball. Not only does it resemble a real game (other than the frequency of sub-stitutions, especially on the mound), but there’s something to play for: The win-ning team earns home-field advantage for its league in that year’s World Series.Slumping TV ratings for the NHL all-star game should be a clear signal to Gary Bettman and Company that a change should be instituted. How about this (as proposed on a recent satellite ra-dio show): Merge the league’s too goofy games (the outdoor Winter Classic and the all-star game), get the silliness out of the way in one package, and then settle

back for the stretch run to the Stanley Cup. Anything has to be better than the crap the league dished out in Ottawa two weeks ago.

• Comedy writer Jim Barach: “A wom-an was arrested after reportedly trying to extort Yankees GM Brian Cashman. Now Cashman knows how fans feel when they go to buy a hot dog and beer at a Yankees game.”

• R.J. Currie of sportsdeke.com: “Gisele Bundchen sent an email asking people to pray for Tom Brady in the Super Bowl. Sure thing Gisele. But if the man upstairs was inclined to answer my prayers, you wouldn’t be married to Tom.”

• Currie again: “Reports say Dirk Nowit-zki has been out of the Mavericks’ line-up. He’s been slowed by a balky knee and a bulky wallet.”

• Among the top 10 questions to ask yourself before spending $16,000 on a Super Bowl ticket, from CBS’s David Letterman: “Do they have anything in the more affordable $15,000 range?”

• NBC’s Jimmy Fallon, on Americans eating 450 million chicken wings on Super Bowl Sunday: “Or as Thanksgiv-ing turkeys put it, ‘Who’s laughing now, chickens?’ “

• Headline at Fark.com: “How to avoid a concussion in an MMA fight. Step 1: Don’t be in an MMA fight.”

• Philadelphia 76ers CEO Adam Aron, to AP, on his team’s 10-2 start at home after going 12-29 there last season: “Our confetti budget is going through the roof.”

• Kevin Paul Dupont of The Boston Globe, on the birthplace of Minnesota Wild defenceman Justin Falk, Snow-flake, Manitoba: “A town where no two people look alike.”

• Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “Don’t want to say Madonna was too old to per-form at halftime of the Super Bowl, but in Vegas you could have got 30-1 odds on her breaking a hip.”

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By Elsie FriesenNose Tackle, Long Snapper, Right Guard, Line Captain with theLethbridge SteelSubmitted to the Lethbridge Journal

When I was in high school, it was not even fathomable that a girl play a “man’s sport.” The fact that I understood the game bet-ter than most of the boys, who did make the high school football team, didn’t seem to matter. I had to be content in just at-tending and watching as many games as I could.

Then two years ago I saw a poster in a cof-fee shop looking for women interested in playing football. I nearly cried! This was a lifelong dream come true! The one thing in life that always brought me joy was about to get up close and personal. Football is the one sport that intrigues me without fail. It can be so very simple and yet with endless possibilities and intricacies it challenges many geniuses. As I tell my basketball and vol-leyball playing friends, what fun is a game that has no blitzes? In football, every player has a different task: catch, throw, block, tackle, run or kick – and then you mix and repeat. The best part is how the roles all blend together like a fabulous recipe to make a feast of athletic ability and teamwork.

The Lethbridge Steel is headed into their third year. We have had some successes and some challenges, but most importantly we have built a great team. Through the great sport of football we have found common ground for women of all walks of life: students, moms, blue collar and white collar workers, some still in high school and some retired. The commonality of football binds us together. Our differences count for nothing on the field as we train, practice, and travel and compete together. And did I mention the fun? We have had some incredible coaches so far and while they teach us many things, they also allow us to be us! What other team gets to name their plays after Oprah or Snookie? The creativity is encouraged in football. The bonus is the fun we have doing it as a team.

Some make think football is scary, and it can be. But like anything in life, it’s all in the approach. Proper preparation and equipment makes it possible. We are shown how to tackle and be tackled, to block and be clocked. (Just kidding – we try to avoid clocking as much as possible.) We do get some injuries, minor sprains and major bruising for some of us, but we see these as badges of honor. A nice bruise is a great opener for a conversa-tion about the greatest sport in the world. And, in addition, who wouldn’t want to brag that they are the Nose Tackle, or Quarterback for the Lethbridge Steel!?

The Lethbridge Steel 2012 season is about to begin spring training and we are anticipat-ing our best year ever. We are always looking for recruits of all ages, sizes and abilities. Anyone interested in playing women’s football is encouraged to look for us on Facebook! At the very least, please take the time to check out football, you won’t be sorry! Email us at [email protected] or [email protected] for more information. For more in-formation on sport in Lethbridge, contact the Lethbridge Sport Council at 403-320-5412.

Big overhaul needed for NHL all-star game Why Football?


By Elsie FriesenNose Tackle, Long Snapper, Right Guard, Line Captain with theLethbridge SteelSubmitted to the Lethbridge Journal

When I was in high school, it was not even fathomable that a girl play a “man’s sport.” The fact that I understood the game bet-ter than most of the boys, who did make the high school football team, didn’t seem to matter. I had to be content in just at-tending and watching as many games as I could.

Then two years ago I saw a poster in a cof-fee shop looking for women interested in playing football. I nearly cried! This was a lifelong dream come true! The one thing in life that always brought me joy was about to get up close and personal. Football is the one sport that intrigues me without fail. It can be so very simple and yet with endless possibilities and intricacies it challenges many geniuses. As I tell my basketball and vol-leyball playing friends, what fun is a game that has no blitzes? In football, every player has a different task: catch, throw, block, tackle, run or kick – and then you mix and repeat. The best part is how the roles all blend together like a fabulous recipe to make a feast of athletic ability and teamwork.

The Lethbridge Steel is headed into their third year. We have had some successes and some challenges, but most importantly we have built a great team. Through the great sport of football we have found common ground for women of all walks of life: students, moms, blue collar and white collar workers, some still in high school and some retired. The commonality of football binds us together. Our differences count for nothing on the field as we train, practice, and travel and compete together. And did I mention the fun? We have had some incredible coaches so far and while they teach us many things, they also allow us to be us! What other team gets to name their plays after Oprah or Snookie? The creativity is encouraged in football. The bonus is the fun we have doing it as a team.

Some make think football is scary, and it can be. But like anything in life, it’s all in the approach. Proper preparation and equipment makes it possible. We are shown how to tackle and be tackled, to block and be clocked. (Just kidding – we try to avoid clocking as much as possible.) We do get some injuries, minor sprains and major bruising for some of us, but we see these as badges of honor. A nice bruise is a great opener for a conversa-tion about the greatest sport in the world. And, in addition, who wouldn’t want to brag that they are the Nose Tackle, or Quarterback for the Lethbridge Steel!?

The Lethbridge Steel 2012 season is about to begin spring training and we are anticipat-ing our best year ever. We are always looking for recruits of all ages, sizes and abilities. Anyone interested in playing women’s football is encouraged to look for us on Facebook! At the very least, please take the time to check out football, you won’t be sorry! Email us at [email protected] or [email protected] for more information. For more in-formation on sport in Lethbridge, contact the Lethbridge Sport Council at 403-320-5412.

By Mark CampbellFor the Lethbridge Journal

The town is all abuzz with the an-nouncement that Sir Elton John is coming to Lethbridge on April 24. He is arguably the biggest name to ever grace a Lethbridge stage. So where will this rank in terms of the greatest concert ever? Each answer will be as di-verse as the styles of music that are on any given iPod. It’s always fun to have the discussion around the water cooler. Perhaps it was Bill Haley and the Comets who played the College Barn back in the 50s. Maybe you were there when Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis performed on the same bill at the LCI gym. Was it the sold out show by Mr. Las Vegas, Wayne Newton, who came to town as a favor for his good friend Gary Kirk? Could it be that Nickelback blew you away more than any other act you’d ever seen. I’ve been going to concerts for a long time and have been fortunate to see some brilliant shows both right here in Lethbridge and abroad. Here are a few of my personal highlights.

(Don’t judge me.)

When talking about concerts in Lethbridge I’ll have to go back to my very first two at the Exhi-bition Pavilion in the early 70s and I’ve mentioned them many times in this column: Chilliwack and Lighthouse. I was young and impressionable but even in retrospect, these musicians were outstanding and I left the build-ing thinking it was the best thing I had ever heard. The fact that these two bands are still per-forming today says a lot about their talent.

There have been a few times at a concert when I’ve literally had chills go up my spine. One of those moments was when the Bee Gees came to Lethbridge and Robin Gibb sang the first lines of “I’ve Just Gotta Get A Message To You.” I can’t explain why that happened but it did. The Bee Gees were here just before their Saturday Night Fever explosion. Opening act was Heart.

Another great show was at the Yates with the a capella quartet, The Nylons. I went not expect-

ing much but their energy and unique blend of harmonies was stunning.

Neil Sedaka was making a big comeback with his hit Laughter In The Rain when he played the Sportsplex in the 70s. He had also written “Love Will Keep Us Together” for The Captain & Tennille which became the num-ber one song of 1975. He had an incredible repertoire of hits and I remember being very impressed with his charisma.

I think I somehow scored free tickets to Harry Belafonte when he played the Sportsplex. Again, I was expecting very little from the show. The only song I was familiar with was his Day-O Ba-nana Boat song. But, he was the ultimate performer. He engaged the audience, was funny and had everyone in the palm of his hand right from the opening number to his encore.

The Guess Who reunion show from about five years ago ranks high on my list of great concerts in Lethbridge. Every song was recognizable, Burton Cummings

sang as good as ever and Randy Bachman’s guitar playing was top notch.

You can’t talk about big name concerts in Lethbridge without mentioning the influence of local super promoter Ron Sakamoto. While Elton John isn’t Ron’s show, he tells me that the first big step in ever getting big names to the city was getting the Sportsplex. As the quote goes, “If you build it, they will come.” And to prove it, Ron brought in the Doobie Brothers when they were in their prime. Ron recalls there was a lot of doubt these guys would show up to little old Lethbridge until their Doobie Liner actu-ally flew into town. Ron is very proud of the city that he lives in and over the years has been able to convince many performers who were on western Canadian tours to make an extra stop in his town, which is a secondary market. He’s been able to use his influence to bring a group like Kiss or get a favor from country superstar Toby Keith. If you have a look at who has played in Leth-bridge since the 70s and compare us to other similar markets in

western Canada you’ll find that there really isn’t much compari-son.

Ron adds that he’s really pleased with the renovations made to the Enmax Centre, making it pos-sible to continue to bring in top name acts like Elton John.In case you’re wondering, my fa-vorite concert ever had to be Paul McCartney. I caught his show at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas during his Back in The USA Tour in 2002. Like so many, I’ve been a huge Beatle fan forever and when he played songs like Yester-day and Hey Jude and Let It Be, there were moments I teared up. I was stunned at how emotional I became. I keep the ticket stub in my wallet. My wife has me beat though. She actually saw the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl in 1966.

So Ron Sakamoto, are you ever going to bring Sir Paul to Leth-bridge? As he says, “Never say never.”



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CHBA AWARDS

By Patty VadnaisSubmitted to the Lethbridge Journal

Members of the Canadian Home Builders’ Associa-tion—Lethbridge Region gathered together recently to recognize those Building the Best. Over 350 peo-ple representing builders, suppliers, trades, and ser-vice professionals celebrated the accomplishments of 2011. One hundred and twenty nine entries repre-senting 47 companies were competing for top hon-ours. New home design winners can be found in all areas of the city from Copperwood and Sunridge to Legacy and Blackwolf to Six Mile Coulee.

There were 13 awards given for the best in new home design. Ashcroft Master Builder led the way, taking home four awards, followed by Galko Homes Master Builder with three awards. Avonlea Master Builder and Daytona Homes of Lethbridge both took home two awards. Bezooyen Contracting and Van Arbor Homes Corp. received one award each for their new home designs. Premiere Custom Homes Ravenstone Model took top honours for best ensuite and best energy efficient home. Best kitchen went to Galko Homes for their Lancaster model.

Multi-family home production is also an important part of the Lethbridge market with 159 units built in Lethbridge in 2011. The multi-family individual award recognizes the best design within a complex

and this year went to Dimax Developments for 839 Mt. Sundance Manor in Sundance Estates. Show-cased in this unit is a wide staircase leading to a large great room with 12 foot ceilings and a stunning floor-to-ceiling fireplace. The multi-family overall complex was awarded to Avonlea Master Builder for the Charlestown with its traditional red brick offset by black fascia, vertical awnings, metal clad win-dows and shutters. General manager Gerry Simons described the Charlestown as a labour of love in the Blackwolf community, which was named best devel-opment of the year.

For the second year in a row, CADO developments won the best renovation award. The renovation award considers the design solutions developed by the renovator, special features incorporated into the design and the challenges or constraints the renova-tor had to overcome. Renovators must also be part of CHBA’s RenoMark™ program to compete for the award. RenoMark, the professional renovators’ mark of excellence, raises the bar on renovation business practices with members adhering to a code of ethics, carrying proper liability insurance, operating under a safety program, and committing to returning calls within two business days (see www.renomark.ca for more details).

CHBA-LR also recognized its trade, supplier, and service professional members. Winning for the third

time in the past four years, Adora Kitchens claimed the top spot as best trade. All Weather Windows was recognized as best supplier and Select People Solu-tion was named best service.

CHBA-LR celebrated the work of an industry leader with the 2011 Hall of Fame Inductee, Wes Greer. This award recognizes a 30-year career and service to CHBA-LR that included Board President and chair-ing numerous committees. Also recognized was the service of long time employee Mary-Ann Hanna, who left the Association after a 24-year career.

The night cumulated with the Builder of the Year Award. The Builder of the Year honour goes to a company that exemplifies achievement in innova-tion and design, customer satisfaction, business re-lations, safe business practices, and community and association involvement. For the third year in a row, Galko Homes Master Builder earned this top award.

CHBA-LR would like to congratulate all the entries in this year’s awards. It truly was a year of Building the Best in Lethbridge. Patty Vadnais is Executive Officer of Canadian Home Builders’ Association—Lethbridge Region and can be found on Twitter (twitter.com/chbaleth), Facebook (facebook.com/chbalethbridge). Or visit the official website at chbalethbridge.com


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He can make you laugh when he’s on stage, in the office, or in the mall. Without a doubt, Jeremy Mason, general manager of New West Theatre, is one of the most up-beat, enthusiastic people out there.

Mason, actor, director, comedian, mime artist, and ris-ing young playwright, has a featured acting role in the upcoming New West Theatre staging called “The Kitch-en Witches,” a comedy that opens on Thursday, March 8, at the Sterndale-Bennett Theatre for a 2-week run. It’s the final show in the current season.

The play’s plot centres around the hilarious tale of two rival cable-TV cooking show hostesses who have hated each other for 30 years, ever since Larry Biddle dated one and married the other. The problem arises when the two cooking shows become combined into one, called The Kitchen Witches and featuring both hostesses.

“The Kitchen Witches” is only one of several times Ma-son has performed for Lethbridge since his days as a student in the University of Lethbridge Fine Arts de-partment.

Mason appeared in a double role - both as a kid and as a gunslinger in the comedy show “Cowboy: A Cowboy Story,” which ran in both Lethbridge and Edmonton in September 2011.

Often, Mason’s roles have been in the casts of “TYA” plays, meaning “Theatre for Young Audiences.” He explains that the theatre industry “no longer refers to ‘kid’s plays,’ instead, they refer to TYA, which expands the horizons to include various youthful age groups, not strictly limited to plays for early elementary-age chil-dren.”

Mason’s acting in TYA at New West have included “Ma-rooned with Munsch,” “Rumplestiltskin,” “Ned, What’s Under Your Bed?” and “Dear Santa.”

Of course, Mason doesn’t limit his acting to TYA, he joined the cast of the 2006 Christmas musical revue “Antics,” performing in improv scenes.

Born in Cranbrook, B.C., Mason moved to Lethbridge at age 10, when his father was transferred here with C.P. Rail.

His first exposure to drama was in grade 4 when his class divided into small groups to learn to perform scripted skits.

“I did a spoof on Sherlock Holmes because I could imi-

tate an English accent,” he remembers. “I was the only one. I enjoyed my uniqueness and learned how much I liked to perform in front of people.”

He went on to enjoy taking drama in junior high, after moving to Lethbridge.

Mason enrolled in LCI, where he graduated in 2001, having studied drama under Sharon Peat, who encour-aged him to join the cast or crew of several productions. At LCI, Mason teamed up with other students to pro-duce a play for competition.

“Our one-act play won the regional competition, and then went on to win the Alberta provincials,” he says.

After graduation, Mason enrolled in the U of L’s Bache-lor of Fine Arts dramatic arts program. During his uni-versity years, Mason performed in his first New West Theatre production, cast as Mowgli in the stage adapta-tion of Rudyard Kipling’s “Jungle Book.”

A year later, Mason began to study playwriting and di-rection. He co-wrote and co-directed a script for “Little Red Riding Hood” with fellow-student Stephen Delano. He says one of his favorite memories was taking a com-edy role in the Broadway musical “A Funny Thing Hap-pened On the Way to the Forum.” This role, as one of the Proteans, gave Mason the edge he needed to fine-tune his slap-stick and physical comedy talents.

After graduating from the U of L in 2005, Mason con-nected with the Empress Theatre in Fort Macleod, where he formed the Desperate Theatre, an improv company. He later developed and directed a summer drama program for youths at the Empress.

In 2006, Mason moved to Calgary, where he had joined Trickster Theatre. For the next three years, Mason’s Trickster group toured all across Alberta, providing a one-week drama development program in various schools.

After three years of touring Alberta as a theatrical edu-cator, Mason was offered his current position as general manager of New West Theatre.

Now, he spends his days managing the day-to-day oper-ations of New West, including promoting the shows, ad-vertising and marketing and administering his program for individual donors and corporate sponsorships. He also assists production crews with all the shows.

Mason reads piles of Canadian play scripts every year to help decide which plays will be staged in the fall and spring, when New West only showcases Canadian play-wrights.

Mason often travels.

“In the 2010-2011 season, I saw 76 plays in various places in Canada. This season, I have already attend-ed 56 plays elsewhere,” he explains. “We have to stay abreast of what talent is out there, what plays other theatres are doing, how they stage it, and how well it works for them.”

Right now, Mason spends his Wednesdays at Kompany Family Theatre in Edmonton, in a six-week program connected to the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Six Albertans enrolled in the program, each of whom is writing an original play, attends the weekly forum to read their scripts to each other as they develop. Feed-back is funneled through the program facilitator, a U of A professor of theatre and director, who spends time with each participant helping to improve the play. Later, the group will run a workshop to read the plays to a kid’s group to get audience reaction.

Mason’s long-term goal is to become the artistic direc-tor of a successful theatre company.

“I thoroughly understand the Canadian world of the-atre, and I love all the facets of it - acting, directing, teaching and administration.”

Funnyman Jeremy a delight for Lethbridge audiences

Jeremy Mason - photo by DeJourdan’s Photographics

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By Darlene MountneySubmitted to the Lethbridge Journal

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lethbridge is planning its annual Bowl for Kids Sake, and invites you to become involved.

As part of a national cam-paign, 1st Choice Savings Bowl for Kids Sake is one of the largest fundraisers for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lethbridge and District. It’s so popular because you can have fun and help kids all at the same time!

How can you help?

• Gather friends – find three friends, family mem-bers, co-workers. . . even bowlers to commit to one evening of bowling (about 2 hours)!

• Collect pledges – col-lect at least $50 in pledges, either personally or use our secure on-line pay-ment option.

• Know you are in for a fun evening of bowling and that you have made a

difference in a child’s life!

As a non-profit organiza-tion, Big Brothers Big Sis-ters receives little govern-ment funding. All funds raised through this and other events do make a BIG difference towards helping kids right here in Lethbridge!

The 1st Choice Savings Bowl for Kids Sake will be held at Holiday Bowl, 2825 2 Ave. S. This five-pin bowling event is open to everyone – in the past our youngest bowler was three and wisest was 80 years old! Choice of dates – March 23, 24, 30 and 31, plus two different time frames on Saturday nights!Register NOW by calling Darlene at 403.328.9355 or visit our website at www.bbbslethbridge.ca to download registration forms and information.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lethbridge and District seeks to formulate a high quality, long term friend-ship between a child need-ing additional support and a reliable, positive adult

role model. Our goal is to increase a child’s self-esteem and resilience to help the child meet life’s challenges.

How well our programs help the family unit is de-scribed in a recent quote from the parent of one of our Littles, “BBBS is the best thing that has hap-pened to our family. The confidence, self esteem and overall growth of my kids over the last few months is due to their BIGS. Without BBBS I feel I would still be struggling with trying to give each child the attention they need. Now that they have one-on-one time with their BIGS, we are able to do things together as a family without the fight for my attention. Thank you BBBS for helping my family to grow stronger and closer.”

A successful event is cru-cial in our efforts to con-tinue offering programs to the youth of Lethbridge through big Brothers Big Sisters.

Mason often travels.

“In the 2010-2011 season, I saw 76 plays in various places in Canada. This season, I have already attend-ed 56 plays elsewhere,” he explains. “We have to stay abreast of what talent is out there, what plays other theatres are doing, how they stage it, and how well it works for them.”

Right now, Mason spends his Wednesdays at Kompany Family Theatre in Edmonton, in a six-week program connected to the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Six Albertans enrolled in the program, each of whom is writing an original play, attends the weekly forum to read their scripts to each other as they develop. Feed-back is funneled through the program facilitator, a U of A professor of theatre and director, who spends time with each participant helping to improve the play. Later, the group will run a workshop to read the plays to a kid’s group to get audience reaction.

Mason’s long-term goal is to become the artistic direc-tor of a successful theatre company.

“I thoroughly understand the Canadian world of the-atre, and I love all the facets of it - acting, directing, teaching and administration.”

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Start with a brilliant mind. Add a large dose of natural talent for both music and painting. Combine with a never-ending fascination for the talents of other great artists of our day. Then, stir in a meas-ure of discipline and perseverance. The result is Herb Hicks, Lethbridge piano/keyboard musician, former professor of art, department chairman and founding faculty member of the University of Leth-bridge.

The story of Hicks, the musician, began well before the story of Hicks, the artist.Born in Williston, N.D., Hicks traveled to Regina as a teenager to watch the per-formances of Billy Eckstine and George Shearing, who played together on a dou-ble bill there.

Hicks “got bit by the jazz bug” when he went to that concert back in 1950. By the time Hicks graduated from high school in Williston in 1952, he had joined a “terri-tory band” which toured from Saskatch-ewan to Texas and was hooked on playing jazz for life.

“Some of the conditions were a little rough,” Hicks muses, remembering all the rickety old upright pianos he had to play on, on which “mice has eaten away the felts,” some “covered with cigarette burns on the keys.”

But Hicks had great fun traveling on a sleeper bus with the 10-piece group, playing one-nighters across the west all through that first summer after high school.

By fall, Hicks had decided to move to Los Angeles to enroll in the Westlake College of Music to study under a number of fa-mous jazz greats.

“There were a fleet of instructors at the Westlake College who would continually come and go,” Hicks says, “including a lot of guys that played with the Stan Ken-ton American Jazz Orchestra, including Bob Cooper, tenor sax, and Art Pepper, known as the world’s greatest altoist.”

Hicks says he went to L.A. “for the ex-posure.” He met many people in the jazz industry, playing gigs all around L.A. “It was a time of networking,” he remembers. By the mid-1950’s, with draft laws in full swing, Hicks enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, spending four years on active duty followed by four years in the Air Force Reserves. The Air Force sent Hicks to Europe, where he found a piano at the 12 AF Entertainment Unit. Although trained as a microwave technician, Hicks mostly traveled to Army and Air Force bases per-forming in live shows, often playing with French and German jazz musicians. In Paris, Hicks started a group that played off-base.

“I began to do a little drawing and sketch-ing after seeing the works of French im-pressionist artists in Paris,” Hicks says. “I was fascinated by the works by great artists Vincent van Gogh, Claud Monet, who founded the impressionist move-ment, and Pablo Picasso on display at the Louvren Museum.”

From then on, Hicks had both the jazz bug and the art bug.

He began to put on art shows with his work. “I sold some, kept some and gave some of them to my family’s art collec-tion,” he says.

After his discharge from the Air Force, Hicks moved to Minneapolis, Minn., where he used the G.I. Bill to get his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Minneapolis School of Art.

“My brother, Bob, was living there, and was just learning to play the upright string bass,” Hicks explains, adding that he and Bob formed the Herb Hicks trio with a lo-cal drummer, later adding a trumpet.

“These were the days of acoustic music, before modern electronics and digital music,” he notes. “I still prefer the grand piano, and have one at home.”

While in Minneapolis, Hicks met Cana-dian legendary jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson in a club, later meeting him again in Los Angeles. “I was sur-prised by the size of Peterson’s hands,” Hicks notes. “Twice the size of my hands.”Peterson carried his grand piano around in a truck for his performances.

“He was a most gracious guy,” Hicks says. “But the most important part is Oscar Pe-terson’s depth of music. Today’s newcom-ers are more of a ‘flash-in-the-pan, never coming into the depth of music of the old-er greats. It’s just the way the music busi-ness is now handled, how it’s promoted, full of hype. Music recording studios can adjust electronically for sharps and flats, so musicians don’t have to play in tune.”After his BFA graduation in 1964, Hicks moved to Santa Barbara, Calif., to en-roll in the Master of Fine Arts graduate program at the University of California, Santa Barbara Campus.

“I went back to California for two rea-sons,” he says. “First, I wanted to play jazz gigs in Los Angeles, and second, I wanted to study art under two highly acclaimed people on the faculty there.”

Brother Bob, had already moved to L.A. and was playing there. Hick formed a group and began playing a club called The Spigot, subtitled “The House of Jazz.”

“For the next three years, we became their house band.”

After three years, Hicks graduated from UCSB with his MFA degree, majoring in painting with a minor in print making.

Having just opened the university in 1966, the search committee at U of L con-tacted the U of C Santa Barbara campus looking for recent MFA graduates, then flew Hicks to Lethbridge to offer him the job of helping set up the Fine Arts depart-ment. Hicks, who brought his wife and young family, is still considered one of the founding faculty members.

“I had to put my music career on hold then,” Hicks says. Setting up the new cur-riculum at the U of L took up all his time and energy. He began to ship artwork for shows throughout Canada and the U.S., eventually expanding to international showings, as part of his work towards es-tablishing tenure on the faculty.

In 1995, Hicks retired from the U of L, be-coming Professor Emeritus.

Retirement allowed Hicks to resume his music career. He resumed the Herb Hicks Quartet, today made up of Sheena Law-son on vocals, Ernie Block on bass, trum-pet and horns, Neil Sheets on drums and percussion and Hicks on keyboard.

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Let’s start this week’s edition off with a question back to you. . .“WHY” is it that so many overweight people who really don’t want to lose weight buy weight loss books? In a minute I’ll give you the answer, but first let’s get to the business lesson. Last month I had a young business owner ask me at the end of a seminar all about how to grow his small business.

Problem was, I could tell that all the strategies in the world were not going to save this guy. Here was a young guy with his entire life savings, all the income to feed and house his fam-ily tied up in his own business, and no matter what I showed him, none of it would have mattered.

“The difference between big business and small is that corporations have investors demanding a return, demanding growth, and demanding success. There is a MUST level of pressure to achieve or they’ll lose

their job.”He was a heavy man buying a diet book he would never read. He was a cigarette smoker buying gum that he would never chew. When you looked in his eyes you could easily see he had no desire to be a success, no desire to build a great company, no will to do whatever it takes. . . all he had was a desire to just keep his head above water.

He and thousands of business owners like him had no big reason “WHY!”

You’ve probably read enough books, been to enough seminars, all you need now is a push. I believe that everyone in life knows enough ‘what’ to do and ‘how’ to do it. If you’re over-weight, you eat less and do some exercise. There’s no rocket science to it. Well, the same is true for business.

If there were something that needed fixing, I would bet that in at least half the cases you already know what to do. But, the problem isn’t knowing what to do. In fact, if you grabbed a sheet of paper right now I’ll bet you could list at least 20 things you know you should have done, but have not. Go on, run through the list in your head, or even better get out that piece of paper right now and start the list!

It’s not just about knowing what to do, or even how to do it anymore. It’s the motivation, the inspiration, the will to get off your backside to do what you already know.

So, back to this young guy.

I had only one job to do with him, to get him back to a stage where he would do whatever it took to get his company growing again. He had to find his “why,” and he had to do it fast.

First he had to learn the difference between a MUST and a want. Most of us want to be rich and successful, and we want to be fit and healthy, but the reality of life, I have found anyways, is that most people don’t move until they get the ‘MUST’ card dealt to them. They have a stroke and survive, their business almost goes under, or their wife threatens to leave them, and so on. So for him, success was a want, not a MUST.

The difference between big business and small is that corporations have investors demand-ing a return, demanding growth, and demanding success. There is a MUST level of pressure to achieve or they’ll lose their job.

So what could turn your wants into MUSTS? Here’s what I do. . . I make a public statement, tell my coach what I want to achieve, or make a personal promise. One time I promised to take my son to Toys R Us after reaching a specific goal, and he was able to buy one thing of his choice, big, small, or otherwise. Let me tell you, he did not forget, nor back down on reminding me each and every day about my goal. It’s amazing how the simple and small things of this world motivate us to greatness.

As a business coach I find that outside pressure is usually far more powerful than internal motivation to start with. At some point though, as people, we move from external motiva-tion to internal. That’s when you move from painful motivators to pleasurable goals. So make the leap today, set a goal to grow your company, get the 20 things you should have done and do them, work on growth instead of survival.

Remember, you already know enough “how to” to get you started, so work on your “why to” and start taking action!

Our young guy called his wife and promised her a two-week holiday in 12 months, right there in front of me. Now he has some motivation, now he has a MUST, and now he has a reason why. So, then we sat and discussed how he could grow his company, and I felt con-fident in knowing that he would actually apply what he learned.

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By Erwin BlatterFor the Lethbridge Journal

The greed of their former treasurer left the Lethbridge Bowbenders Association on the verge of bankruptcy in 2011. Almost one year later, the archery club still hasn’t given up as it’s trying hard to get back on their feet. They even get help from other clubs in the area.

“I knew there would be outside help for us. That’s what the archery community is like,” says Jude Hooey, president of the Bowbenders Association.

Hooey is confident that the incident with her former treasurer will not put an end to her archery club. “We’re working hard on getting healthy,” Hooey says at the small kitchen table of her Lethbridge house. “But it’s been tough on our club. We have lost some members because of it.”

In February of last year, the association learned that their treasurer of one year had taken nearly $10,000.

“We trusted her,” says Hooey. “Well, that obviously was a wrong move.”

The woman was convicted, the judge ordered her to pay back a lump sum of $9,000 and her attorney made sure she immediately paid back $4,500.

“But I don’t know about the other $4,500,” Hooey says. “It’s up to us to try and get it back.”

It was only one bump in the road for the club. Shortly after the embezzlement, it lost its training and shooting facility. “We couldn’t pay for the rent anymore. Now we’re hoping we could rent another facil-ity. Our previous one has been rented out again.” Finding new accommodations has proven to be difficult so far, Hooey says, “because we need one that is 100 feet in depth and those are really hard to find. So if anybody in town has a place like this to rent for cheap, we would be interested.” According to Hooey, the future of the club is depending on it. She says they will need to find a new facility before September.

“That’s the time when the junior pro-grams start. It’s an important thing for us. We want to be able to expose kids to the sport, in the hope that some of them pick it up.”

Meanwhile, the archery club tries to earn some money from shoots it holds. Last month, for instance, they held their an-nual Iron Man Shoot.

“We rented a venue for the weekend and tried to make a bit.”

And last summer, the club organized an outdoor tournament, as they do every year.

“It helped us to get back on our feet a bit.” Then there also were the donations of two clubs. Recently, the Southern Alberta Ri-fleman Association and the Grassy Lake Archery Club each donated $500 to the club during the Lethbridge gun show at the Exhibition Park.

“They had read about our situation in the

paper and decided that they wanted to help us out,” says hooey.

The mercifulness didn’t really surprise the club’s president. “I knew there would be outside help for us. That’s what the ar-chery community is like. We’re like a big family.”

Hooey doesn’t want to look back much anymore. She’d rather focus on trying to make the Lethbridge Bowbenders Asso-ciation a healthy club again.

“It’ll take some time, but we have mem-bers who are very committed, helping as much as they can with the shoots we or-ganize. We’ll just have to keep going. We won’t give up.”

Anyone interested in more information about the club can visit:

http://lethbridgebowbenders.webs.com.

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The mercifulness didn’t really surprise the club’s president. “I knew there would be outside help for us. That’s what the ar-chery community is like. We’re like a big family.”

Hooey doesn’t want to look back much anymore. She’d rather focus on trying to make the Lethbridge Bowbenders Asso-ciation a healthy club again.

“It’ll take some time, but we have mem-bers who are very committed, helping as much as they can with the shoots we or-ganize. We’ll just have to keep going. We won’t give up.”

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By Journal Staff

If the serious lack of sledding weather in southern Alberta this year has got you down, Waterton Lakes National Park has your answer.

The park’s annual WinterFest is on tap this weekend, and promises a snow- and ice-filled blast for everyone.

“snowshoe-ing to cross-

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carriage rides, stargazing to seeing local

wildlife”The festival begins Feb. 18 and runs through Feb. 20, and offers events rang-ing from snowshoeing to cross-country

skiing, horse-drawn carriage rides to star-gazing.The Little Prairie picnic shelter on the Akamina Parkway will be serving up warm drinks for those hitting the slopes for some snowshoeing, cross-country ski-ing or winter hiking. Skis and show shoes are available for rent from the Waterton Lakes Lodge Resort or Waterton Glacier Suites. Guided cross country ski trips are also available, but require advance regis-tration.

Carriage rides throughout the commu-nity are available Saturday and Sunday, as are children’s crafts, board games and much more.

Special performances of Parks Canada’s ImagiNATION are scheduled for 1, 3 and 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Once evening arrives, meet at the Water-ton Lakes Lodge Resort for some stargaz-ing, hosted by the Royal Astronomical Society.

For a detailed schedule of events, to regis-ter for a ski trip, or for more information, go to www.pc.gc.ca/waterton or contact Parks Canada at 403-859-5133. You can also call the Waterton Lakes Lodge Resort at 403-859-5120.

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HAS ORDERED LIQUIDATION OF

MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH

OF FURNITURE TO THE PUBLIC

MARKET!

SAVE ON EVERYTHING: LIVINGROOMS, DINING ROOMS, BED-ROOMS, MATRESSES, RECLINERS,FUTONS, COFFEE ENDS, ENTERTAIN-MENT STANDS AND MUCH MORE!

FAMOUS BRAND NAMES ALL WITHFULL MANUFACTURER’S WARRANTY

EZTIA BUNK BEDS

Solid hardwood, cherry

RETAIL $988 $244WHOLESALE

FLAIR RECLINING SOFA, LOVE & GLIDERROCKER RECLINER


RICKI 7PC HOME THEATRE RECLININGSUITE

with storage ottoman, leather,brown


FLAIR 5PCDINETTE SETEspresso finish table &

four chairsRETAIL $498

$198WHOLESALE

EZTIA 10PC DININGROOM PUB TABLE SET8 chairs, lazy susan and pub table

RETAIL$1488

$877WHOLESALE

BLH KIDDY RECLINERSFULL RECLINING MOTION15 colours to choose fromRETAIL $179

$99WHOLESALE

WINEFIELD 5PC

DINETE SETEspresso, table & 4 chairs

RETAIL $498

$177WHOLESALE

FLAIR 3 PC COFFEE& END TABLE SETSMahoghny or oak, all 3 piecesRETAIL $298

$99WHOLESALE

ROYAL #1SOFA BEDSAssorted fabrics

RETAIL $1298

$744WHOLESALE

SAVEUP TO

80%80%EZTIA GLIDER ROCKER RECLINER

Black, matchingglider ottoman

RETAIL $498

$198WHOLESALE

Mocha, all 3 pieces recline

Wholesale furniture1021 - 2nd “A” Avenue North, Lethbridge “WATCH FOR THE YELLOW AND BLACK SIGNS”

HOURS: MON-WED 10 AM - 6 PM • THURS & FRI 10 AM - 9 PM • SATURDAY 10 AM - 5 PM • SUNDAY NOON - 5 PM

DIRECT�PAYMENT

nterac • MATTRESSES • FUTONS • DINING ROOMS • COFFEE TABLES • END TABLES • 100% LEATHER SOFAS, LOVESEATS, CHAIRS: LARGE SELECTION! SOFAS • LOVES • CHAIRS • DINETTES • AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!

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