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After hearing there was enough demand from parents of young boys, Larissa Whiting — an instructor at Moon Fire Yoga on McKenney Avenue — has started up a yoga class for hockey players, which can have benefits both on and off the ice. See story, page 4.

That’s how much revenue street food vendors — including traditional street vendors and food trucks — are expected to generate this year, according to a report recently published by IBISWorld.

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GLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Students at Vincent J. Maloney Junior High School are feeding their minds, their bellies and the community through an event next week.

Grade 8 Internationale Baccalaureate students at the school are hard at work putting together a food truck event for Tuesday afternoon, where three food trucks will be serving up delicious dishes at the school and 50 cents from each one sold will go to the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village.

The students have been working since the beginning of the school year on organizing and advertising the event. They also had the chance to dream up their own food trucks, from the menus to the exterior design.

“I created a unit that involved advertising, design and a lot of writing ... so they could explore language arts in a different way and make it a little more fun,” said teacher Kelly Montpetit.

They even got some hands-on experience last week when the Orbit food truck — which is one of the three participating in the event — visited the school and owner/operator Marc Swereda answered their questions.

“Ten kids at a time went through the truck, and they all got to see the inside. He talked about how he does

things, what the logistics are. They ssaw how small it is in there — and he’s got a big truck. His is bigger than most inside,” Montpetit said.

“They found out a little about business and how much is involved. He does everything with the business; it isn’t just going to work and being a cook.”

The other participating trucks include Drift and the Lemongrass Grill.

Malcolm Scott is one of the students in Montpetit’s class, who had some help from a 3D printer at his dad’s window company in designing his own food truck. He was pretty excited to see the inside of a food truck, but there were some aspects of it that surprised him.

“You can buy the truck, but the truck isn’t always built with the food truck supplies in it. Sometimes you have to buy the food truck stuff by itself and then put it in,” Scott said.

The school typically holds a food drive for the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village every

October, the donations from the food truck event will help supplement that.

“I think it’ll be a good reputation for our school, showing that we give

back to the community,”

Scott said.Montpetit said that she

hopes Grade 8 students will be able to continue to take this new food truck unit in future years.

“The other classes that haven’t started yet are going, ‘Are we going to do this too?’” she said with a laugh.

The food trucks will be parked outside the front doors of VJM (20 Mont Clare Pl.) during the lunch hour on Tuesday. Parents and community members are invited to come out and get some grub after 12:30 p.m. once the students have had a chance to order.

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Borrett work on a poster for their class’s upcoming food truck event.

Photo suppliedStudents check out how things work inside the Orbit food truck.

For more information or to set up an appointment callShirley at 780-458-1937 at The St. Albert Salvation Army.

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BRINGING YOGA TO THE ICEGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Mindfulness, tranquility, focus — these are attributes you’d expect to find in a yoga studio. But if one local yoga teacher has her way, we’ll be seeing them on a hockey rink pretty soon.

Larissa Whiting is an instructor at LahariYoga.ca, a yoga studio on McKenney Avenue in St. Albert. With the help of some friends, she recently started up a yoga class for minor hockey players, helping them not only with strength and flexibility, but also with the inner peace the ancient practice can bring.

“They have these crazy lives. … Here they get one hour of breathing and de-stressing,” Whiting said. “It’s not about being better and improving yourself; it’s about accepting yourself.”

The idea of offering yoga for hockey players was born when Whiting — who recently completed her yoga teacher training to complement her background in nursing — started a class for girls between the ages of 10 and 12, the same age as her own two daughters.

“All the moms were saying, ‘What about boys?’ And I said, ‘I don’t have boys; I don’t know boys.’ But everyone

kept asking for it,” she said. “Then I get a call from my girlfriend.

She has two boys in hockey, and she said, ‘Enough is enough. I need a yoga class for hockey boys. Are you gonna do it or not?’ And I said, ‘You’ve got to help me. I don’t know how to reach out to these teams. I’m not a hockey mom; I don’t know the schedules.’ She basically told me everything about … what she needed, what time she needed it at, the specifics that I had no idea about. So I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it.’”

Whiting only came up with the idea last week, but she has been promoting it heavily on social media, and has garnered enough response that official classes will start up next week.

“Now I’ve got people booking — it’s crazy!” she said.

Jace Lasanko, 12, plays for the Peewee AA St. Albert Sabres, and while he has only taken a few yoga sessions, he’s already starting to see some benefits.

“It loosens your muscles and makes you feel calm,” he said, adding that he has more focus and attention on the bench as well. “And I can touch my toes.”

Aside from the off-ice benefits, though, yoga helps hockey players on the ice by developing power in the legs

while building core strength through twisting at the waist in several poses.

“The big things about yoga are strength, flexibility, breath and focus,” Whiting said. “If they are able to get into a place where they can centre themselves, slow down their heart rates, be present in what’s going on right

now and not worry about anything else, be totally focused on their game … they actually learn a way to be more in control while also letting go. You’re basically able to connect to a flow that happens naturally.”

Aside from sessions aimed specifically at hockey players, Whiting is still

offering her yoga classes targeted at other tweens, through which she hopes to spread a positive message of self-acceptance.

“Right before they turn into teenagers, they still take things literally. You can tell a 12-year-old that message, and they’ll take it as, ‘Oh, that’s true.’ But a teenager will naturally rebel and question it. … Why not tell them a good message?” she said.

As well, she has been teaching yoga to firefighting recruit classes in Edmonton, and she hopes to expand that to include other established first responders to help them cope with post-traumatic stress disorder in the near future.

Between firefighters and hockey players, Whiting has a lot of male clients, but she said that, even in regular classes, she is starting to see more and more men come through the doors.

“I’ve been doing yoga for 12 years, and there was always one. There’s always one or two, but it’s becoming more and more and more,” she said. “The firefighters always show up with pink mats, because they’re their wives’ yoga mats, and I tease them incessantly.”

LahariYoga.ca is located at #200, 86 McKenney Ave. (above Seasons Gift Shop).

“They get one hour of breathing and de-stressing.”

Larissa WhitingYoga instructor

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderJace Lasanko of the Peewee AA St. Albert Sabres (left) and Ronin Pusch

of the Peewee A St. Albert Blades, both 12, get a lesson in yoga from Larissa Whiting at LahariYoga.ca on McKenney Avenue in St. Albert.

Whiting recently started promoting yoga classes for young hockey players on social media, and the response so far has been overwhelming.


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SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – A St. Albert family’s supper was interrupted by a bus crashing into their back deck.

St. Albert RCMP say the bus was headed northeast on Heritage Drive close to Haviland Crescent around 6 p.m. when the bus went off the road, crashing into a fence and shed, pushed a trampoline and broke a second fence before hitting a back deck of a second home and coming to a stop.

The male bus driver was the only occupant at the time and was taken away by ambulance with non-serious injuries. He was helped by quick-thinking residents who lived nearby.

Residents of the first house were not at

home. Two adults and two children were in the second home and were uninjured, but jarred by the incident.

St. Albert RCMP members and St. Albert Fire Services attended the scene and St. Albert Transit is helping in the investigation and offering help to all involved in the collision. St. Albert Victim Services will also be working with those directly affected by this incident to providing emotional support and other resources.

The cause of the crash is still not known.Anyone who witnessed the crash and

may have information on how it happened is asked to call the St. Albert RCMP at 780-458-7700.

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It is often during times of extreme devastationwhen children first see how communities can jointogether to help one another. Such efforts may be achild’s initial exposure to charity while highlightingthe importance of putting another person’s needsbefore your own.

But children neednot be exposed tocharity solely duringtimes of tragedy.Teachingchildren tobe charitableis one of theways to helpthem becomegood citizensof the world. Byhelping others,parents can instillearly on lessons ofkindness, empathyand compassioninto their sons anddaughters. Childrenwho are ready andwilling to lend a helpinghand may grow up to bemore appreciative of whatthey have in their own lives.What’s more, they may learnto be self less while assigningless value to material things.

Youngsters who repeatedlysee their own parents and other rolemodels doing good and lending a helping handmay be more inclined to repeat that behavior,and giving will be the norm for them rather than theexception.

To mold charitable children, families can employthe following techniques.

• Start locally. There are people right in yourown community or on the street where you live whocan benefit from a helping hand. Ask an elderlyneighbor if he or she needs assistance with shoppingfor groceries or could benefit from your childtaking in the garbage cans after pickup. Children

can help shovel snowfrom sidewalks or doother age-appropriatetasks, such as placea carelessly strewn

newspaper closer to aneighbor’s door.

• Volunteer as afamily. The entirefamily can gettogether and spendtime working at a

community-sponsoredcarnival or cleaning

debris from an area park.Volunteer work may be

available at your child’sschool, where families canplant gardens around the

property. When volunteering asa family, not only is your entirefamily helping to do good, butyou’re spending quality time

together as well.• Make charitable donations.

Let children see the solicitations formonetary donations that come in the

mail. Read aloud the pleas for funds tohelp children and adults who may not have enoughto eat or who may require medical care. This is animportant lesson in humility and helps show childrenthat not every person in the world is comfortable.Once kids have read about the needs of others, involvethem in the donation process. They can assist withsorting clothing and toys they may no longer need

and then help bag it up and donate it to an agency thattakes collected items.

• Give throughout the year. Charity need not belimited to the holiday season. Inform children thatmany people need throughout the year, and thatvolunteering is a year-round activity.

• Match kids’ charitable fundraising. Encouragechildren to start their own fundraising efforts andmatch the funds they raise. Find companies that willalso match the amount your children have raised.

• Set up a giving policy. Children can learn theimportance of giving at an early age by dividingtheir allowances and financial gifts into differentcategories. They can put one-third toward savings,one-third toward spending and one-third towarddonations. If children do not have a lot of money in apiggy bank, they can donate their time, which manycharities need as much as money.

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Accountability and transparency are buzzwords that appear

at election time at all levels of government. While thrown around when convenient, their definitions can be muddied by the actions of the elected leaders who promised these items, yet failed to deliver.

Transparency is being easy to understand, open and honest in all communications, transactions and operations. While it is possible to be accountable by providing a lengthy and technical explanation of every detail, if the audience cannot understand the information presented, and if key facts are buried by the sheer volume of information, then it is not considered transparent.

Accountability is being responsible for your actions,

and being able to explain, clarify and justify actions. It implies that someone has a right to know and hold an organization to account; and that the organization has a duty to explain its actions.

These ideals are the cornerstones of democracy. If you look across the western world, you will find a myriad of checks and balances that serve to tie government and politicians to these ideals. Without these two principles, freedom and economic prosperity will disintegrate.

We were recently reminded of this when the provincial

auditor general came forward to point out abuse of government aircraft for the benefit of a few elected officials and their supporters. Ask yourself: What would the province look like without a provincial auditor general and without any oversight from the official opposition? Without these two checks and balances, we would probably remain in the dark on this issue.

Let’s now compare the checks and balances — or the lack thereof — at the municipal government level. There are no inquiries into any matter without a majority vote from council, there is no independent auditor to investigate issues and there is no official opposition. The checks and balances consist of a mandatory limited scope audit and the hope that a councillor or two will ask some

pertinent questions. Last election, I stated that

we need an internal auditor to ensure transparency and accountability. In the course of this, I was met with numerous red herrings and obstructions. The most notable and laughable was the claim that it is illegal to have an internal auditor.While bizarre and outlandish, this claim does point out how far some will go to obstruct greater accountability and transparency in government.

Nonetheless, an internal auditor would be a strong democratic check and balance that could only improve both transparency and accountability. The only question is why any elected leader would try to obstruct this when it is for the greater good and would result in improved government?

Auditor a needed check at municipal level

Time to roll up your sleeves

It’s a shame that the only times you hear about some very necessary and vital services provided here in Canada are when

they are in dire need of help. Food banks and hamper drives are like this sometimes, as are other fundraising campaigns, particularly those take take place around Christmas.

The great thing is, though, when pleas for help are put out there, the response is typically very good. Canadians take a lot of pride in rolling up their sleeves and getting the job done to make sure everyone is looked after.

Well, the latest plea will hopefully have Canadians rolling up their sleeves — literally.

On Tuesday, Canadian Blood Services issued their own desperate plea for blood donations, espcially for O- and A-type blood. According to CBS, their supplies are at the lowest level they’ve been since 2008. Attendance at recent donor clinics has been “extremely poor.” And while they typically aim to have five to eight days’ worth of blood supply in their inventory, they are dangerously close to slipping below three days’ worth.

Donating blood is something that we sometimes take for granted. It’s something we figure other people will do. Often, the thought of making an appointment never crosses our minds, or when it does, it soon gets pushed out of the way by work or family or other commitments.

But it’s times like this that we need to realize that we must make time to donate blood. It’s an essential part of surgical care and cancer treatment — and if we haven’t had to undergo either of those ourselves, then surely there is someone very close to us who has.

And that’s to say nothing of emergency care. In emergency situations, blood transfusions may be the difference between life and death. The only way to ensure some form of blood will be there is to go and donate.

If you’ve been thinking about donating blood, now is the time to turn that thinking into action. Now is the time to make sure your loved ones will have the blood they need when they need. Now is the time to roll up our sleeves and make a difference in somebody’s life.

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32 years later, mom’s love still runs deepGARY POIGNANTSun Media News Services

A mother’s enduring love runs deep in a very special St. Albert house.

For more than three decades, Barbara Kersh has been caring for her only daughter, Cheryl, left severely brain-damaged after a car crash almost 32 years ago.

“If I had left her in the extended care centre, she’d be dead,” said Barbara, simply stating that her daughter “needs to be at home to survive.”

Life turned upside down for the Kersh family on Dec. 6, 1982, when Cheryl, then an 18-year-old Grade 12 student, hopped into a car being driven by a girlfriend outside Sturgeon Composite High School.

“She usually took the bus home after school, but that day she went with her friend,” she said.

A short time later, the car was broadsided by a pickup truck and Cheryl — who was in the front passenger seat — was left with severe head injuries. Her friend escaped with a broken arm.

After the collision, Cheryl stayed in an extended care centre during the week and came home on weekends.

“Everytime she went back to (the centre) on the Monday, she would have a seizure. I realized after three years that I couldn’t leave her there anymore.”

“I love my daughter. I won’t put her back in. It would kill her,” said Barbara.

Barbara and her husband, Gary, brought Cheryl home in 1985 and — with assistance from home care six days a week — she has been there ever since.

Although they made the changes at home to accommodate Cheryl, including purchasing a specially-equipped van, their daughter’s condition has remained virtually the same.

“She shakes her head up and down to say yes and moves it to the left to say no. She is also able to write with her left hand,” said Barbara.

Once, when Barbara and Gary, were watching TV and having a conversation when Cheryl gestured.

“She makes sounds. She had written on her pad, ‘I want to talk too,’” said Barbara.

“Her neurologist has said she

will always be like this,” said Barbara, admitting that taking care of Cheryl is a “full-time job.”

The strain of caring for her daughter became even more difficult in 2011 when Gary died of cancer.

But Barbara’s unshakeable bond with Cheryl remains.

“She smiles and she knows I’m there,” said Barbara, saying her daughter is in a specially-equipped wheelchair during

the day and in a hospital bed at night.

She said Cheryl, now 49, enjoys watching TV, “mainly game shows like Family Feud and Peter Sellers movies, especially The Pink Panther.”

“She also likes ‘50s rock n’ roll music,” said Barbara, who has received financial assistance from a structured settlement related to the collision.

She also receives crucial

emotional and spiritual support from fellow members of a nearby Catholic church, and takes Cheryl to services and out shopping,

Next month, like they have for the past 10 years, Barbara and her daughter will load up their van and make the four-day drive to a seniors’ residence just across the Arizona border from Laughlin, Nev.

“It is such a beautiful spot. We

stay there for six months,” said Barbara.

“Cheryl will sit poolside and watch the rest of us. She will also come to bingo with me,” she said.

“There are people a lot worse off than us. We are very blessed.”

Asked if she thinks about life with Cheryl before the collision, Barbara, now 75, replied, “I try not to.”

She added, “I do pray everyday. I keep praying for a miracle.”

Photo: IAN KUCERAK, Sun Media News ServicesCheryl and Barbara Kersh pose for a photo in their home in St. Albert. Cheryl was severely injured in a car crash in 1982, an incident that put her in a wheelchair and changed both women’s lives.

“I love my daughter. I won’t put her back in. It would kill her.”

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Bridge named for NHLer Joe BenoitGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Just in time for the start of a new National Hockey League season, a foot bridge in St. Albert now bears the name of one of the city’s earliest hockey heroes.

Family of Joe Benoit joined City of St. Albert officials at the bridge that spans the Sturgeon River, connecting the Braeside subdivision to St. Albert Centre, on Monday afternoon as it was officially christened Benoit Bridge in honour of the first person from St. Albert to play in the NHL.

“That is, for me personally, maybe one of the most emotional and historical (naming) for me, probably because I’m a hockey guy,” said Mayor Nolan Crouse, himself a former coach in the Alberta Junior Hockey League.

“He was the first NHL player from St. Albert, an aboriginal player, a Stanley Cup champion, a world champion, a Trail

Smoke Eater. It was in the Bs in Braeside, an unnamed bridge over the river where he skated. That one just captured everything about history in St. Albert that I could imagine.”

Benoit was a right winger with the Montreal Canadiens from 1940 to 1947, winning a Stanley Cup with the team in 1946. However, he missed out on a second Cup in the 1943-1944 NHL season after he enlisted with the Canadian Armed Forces to fight in the Second World War. He also played with the legendary Trail Smoke Eaters, who represented Canada in the world championships at the end of the 1938-1939 season and won the gold medal.

A plaque honouring Benoit was installed next to the bridge on the south side of the Sturgeon River. A framed jersey was also donated by the Montreal Canadiens, and will be put on display at Servus Credit Union Place.

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Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderA plaque sits on the south side of the newly named Benoit Bridge, a pedestrian bridge spanning the Sturgeon River near St. Albert Centre.

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Picture perfect tribute for late photographer


It was a picture perfect tribute for the Post family this week.

On Tuesday morning, the family joined Mayor Nolan Crouse as the park at the base of the clock tower at the intersection of Perron Street and Sir Winston Churchill Avenue was officially renamed Victor Post Park, honouring the well-known photographer who called St. Albert home throughout his career.

“If Victor were here today, I’m sure he would be at a loss for words,” said Victor’s widow Kathy at the ceremony. “Of all the places in St. Albert we could have chosen to honour Victor, I think the setting here is most fitting — the clock tower is full of leading-edge technology; the park itself is along St. Albert’s historic Founders’ Walk; and we’re just a few blocks away from where Victor had his business, in the heart of downtown St. Albert.”

Victor Post took photos of everyone from Wayne Gretzky and Pope John Paul II to Princess Diana and Liberace over the course of his career, which was based for many

years out of a studio on Perron Street. In February 2013, the Musée Heritage

Museum hosted an exhibition of his work entitled Catching the Light, cobbled together from his archives, which were donated to the museum after he passed away in 2001.

The Post family has been working with the City for some time now, trying to get some piece of municipal infrastructure named after Victor. Other local historians have also been championing his cause to City officials in recent years.

Mayor Nolan Crouse said Victor was certainly worthy of the honour.

“He was a businessperson, a family person, a St. Albertan, a Paul Kane grad, and an Alberta- and Canada-known photographer,” he said. “... I’m happy we were able to accomplish this.”

He added that the City has now cleared the official backlog of people who they want to name things after in St. Albert, but he has a few more opportunities in the back of his mind.

“Someone has to continue to breathe life into naming. ... You have to continue to make sure you’re acknowledging the past,” he said.

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderKathy Post, widow of renowned photographer Victor Post, stands next to a plaque in the newly renamed Victor Post Park in downtown St. Albert.

Photo: Musée Héritage Museum Victor Post fondsSt. Albert photographer Victor Post in his lab.


2 arrested after weapons foundSUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Two St. Albert men were arrested for possession of dangerous weapons near two minor league baseball games Saturday.

St. Albert RCMP seized two firearms and several knives from two men, aged 18 and 20, from a “fort” in the woods near two baseball diamonds and a skate park around 2:30 p.m.

Mounties responded to a resident’s call about a man dressed in camouflage carrying a rifle and walking eastbound on Red Willow Trail toward the two baseball diamonds, which were busy with games played by teams of 11- to 14-year-olds.

Mounties searched the area and found the suspects in the fort in a wooded area north of the diamond, along with the firearms — a pellet gun and an airsoft rifle that both looked like “very realistic” rifles — as well as four knives and drug paraphernalia.

The men were arrested without incident and the baseball games were not disturbed.

Police continue to investigate but have not released the men’s names.

COUNTERFEIT PILLSA deadly knock-off drug is making its

rounds in the Edmonton area.RCMP in St. Albert said last week

that they have seized pills being sold as Oxycontin, but when analyzed by the drug lab, they were found to be counterfeit. In this particular case, the pills were actually Fentanyl.

“The community should be concerned,” said Insp. Kevin Murray, commander of the St. Albert RCMP detachment, in a press release. “RCMP drug investigators tell me that Fentanyl is 80 times more toxic than morphine.”

Fentanyl is a powerful opioid pain medicine that prompted warnings from Health Canada back in October 2013. Overdose symptoms can include slow or weak breathing, dizziness, tiredness, extreme sleepiness,

confusion, difficulty talking or walking, hallucinations and seizures.

Two Saskatoon men in their early 20s died earlier this month after ingesting counterfeit Oxycontin.

The counterfeit Oxycontin pills seized by Mounties are round, convex and in blue-green in colour, and have the number ‘80’ written on them.

Anyone with information about these pills is asked to call the St. Albert RCMP Drug Tip Line at 780-460-DRUG (3784). Callers can remain anonymous.

Photo courtesy St. Albert RCMPCounterfeit Oxycontin pills like these ones, which are actually a drug called Fentanyl, have been seized by St. Albert RCMP.

Photo courtesy St. Albert RCMPSt. Albert RCMP arrested two men and seized knives and imitation firearms from this ‘fort’ north of Legion Memorial Ballpark on Saturday after receiving tips from residents.

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Coats for Kids campaign gearing up

Outloud group gets new space


The St. Albert Salvation Army is hoping to warm the hearts of less fortunate families once again this winter.

For more than 10 years, the Salvation Army has been running its Coats for Kids and Families program, and will do so again this year from Oct. 14 to 24, collecting coats, scarves, toques, gloves and other essentials for needy kids and parents to make it through a northern Alberta winter.

Lt. Peter Kim, pastor at the St. Albert Salvation Army, said that over the past decade, the program has typically seen a good response from the community.

“It’s something that the community does need,” he said.

Some of the money for the Coats for Kids and Families program each year comes from the Salvation Army’s Christmas Kettle campaign. Other sponsors

of the program include the Rotary Club of St. Albert, Apex Casino, Page the Cleaner and Sturgeon Valley Baptist Church.

The Art Gallery of St. Albert is also donating a number of scarves created for their Scarf for St. Albert project that was part of StArts Fest over the weekend.

In a typical year, Kim said the program helps out around 50 families.

“When you multiply that by the

number of family members, that’s quite a few (coats),” he said.

Over recent years, though, he has found that the same families are coming back year after year.

“Kids are outgrowing (the coats) very quick, so we’re looking for larger sizes that aren’t typically kids’ sizes,” Kim said. “Some of the older kids need adult-sized jackets.”

Another challenge is finding enough coats for adults who need them, too, and making sure they treat the families who need their help with the dignity they deserve.

“We’re in conversation with Page the Cleaner to work out something where they might be able to provide some dry-cleaned clothes that were donated, so that we still have that dignity aspect to it,” Kim said.

Families in need of winter gear are asked to schedule an appointment by calling the St. Albert Salvation Army at 780-458-1937.


Outloud St. Albert is a place for LGBTQ youth in the city to call home, but now the group itself has a new place to call home too.

Starting on Wednesday, Outloud moved its monthly support meetings for young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, queer and questioning from the St. Albert United Church to Room 231 at Bellerose Composite High School.

Terry Soetaert — whose daughter Mia was the inspiration for the group — said he started talking with administration and teachers at BCHS, where his kids attend school, and one thing led to another.

“They were nice enough to let us come in and do whatever we feel like doing,” Soetaert said.

Parent support meetings through PFLAG Canada will also be held in the same space.

To celebrate their new space, Outloud will be holding a pizza party and playing games. But most of all, Outloud is there to

provide kids with a safe, non-judgmental space where they are free to be themselves.

“We just want kids to be comfortable in their own skin, their own space, and do whatever they want to do to be happy,” he said. “The church space was fine, and the church people were great. It was just the perception of the kids that, ‘I’m going to church.’”

Since the beginning of the school year, Soetaert and his family have been working hard to get the word out about Outloud. They recently launched a new website, have been putting up posters in the community, and have been visiting with school principals throughout the city to let them know this resource is at their disposal.

“The support in the schools and the administration has been excellent, because they know they’ve got these at-risk kids, and they have nowhere to send them. So they’re happy about that, and so are we,” he said.

For more information, search “Outloud St.Albert” on Facebook or visit www.outloudstalbert.ca.

Leader file photoOutloud St. Albert, a support group for LGBTQ youth in the city started by (L-R) Terry, Mia and Natalie Soetaert, has moved their monthly meetings to a new space in Bellerose Composite High School starting Oct. 1.

“Some of the older kids need adult-sized jackets.”

Lt. Peter KimSt. Albert Salvation Army

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Morale going down among emergency personnel: survey

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Paying their respects to the 98 police and peace officers who have laid down their lives for the communities they serve, hundreds gathered at theAlberta Legislature Sunday for the Alberta Police and Peace Officers Memorial.

“When they go to work in the morning, they expect to come home at night. For all these names that were read off today, that didn’t happen,” said Margaret Galloway, the widow of Cpl. James “Jim” Galloway who was shot during a standoff with a mentally ill man in Spruce Grove on Feb. 8, 2004.

While she said her beloved Jim — credited with setting up the RCMP’s Civilian Search and Rescue Dog Association in Alberta who happily shared his home with five police dogs — would be amazed by the memorials and dedications celebrating his life, a small turnout from the community

had her questioning whether these sacrifices were truly appreciated by those they died to protect.

“These officers laid down their lives for all of Alberta, and yet only 500 people come here to show their respect? That’s a little disheartening to me,” she said.

Members of the community and family members laid flowers and wreaths at the foot of the Pillar of Strength Monument, with 98 bronze doves etched with the names of those police and peace officers in Alberta who died in the line of duty.

“They chose to place themselves in between the bad

guys and their communities,” said Sgt. Paul Wozney, representing the Alberta Federation of the Police Associations.

“They serve and protect because it’s their calling, because of their sense of duty and because their conscience tells them it’s the right thing to do,” said minister of justice and solicitor general

Jonathan Denis, who added that while it is rare for officers in Alberta to lose their lives in the line of duty — without any in the last year — the threat is real and constant.

“The loss of one of us is a loss felt by all of us,” said deputy commissioner Marianne Ryan with the Royal Canadian Mounted

Police.Over a hundred years after

losing his life while trying to arrest a robber who was breaking into a box car, Robert MacIntosh — killed in action on Sept. 3, 1912 — of the Canadian Pacific Railway police finally had his name added to the Pillar of Strength Memorial, ensuring his sacrifice will never be

forgotten.Alberta’s Police and Peace

Officer’s Memorial Day, held on the last Sunday of September since being proclaimed in 1999, coincides with ceremonies across Canada to remember those lives lost in the line of duty, and those family members, friends and colleagues left behind.

“Only 500 people come here to show their respect? That’s a little disheartening to me.”

Margaret GallowayWidow of police officer

Photo: PERRY MAH, Sun Media News ServicesPolice members march into the grounds during the Police and Peace Officers’ Memorial Day at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton, Alberta on Sunday.

KEVIN MAIMANNSun Media News Services

Front-line EMS workers across Alberta say morale is deteriorating.

A new survey conducted by the Health Sciences Association of Alberta (HSAA) found 81 per cent of EMS members feel employee morale is lower than it was two and a half years ago when a similar survey was conducted to gauge working conditions.

“That should be truly alarming,” said HSAA president Elisabeth Ballermann.

More than 60 per cent of respondents said they felt resources, management, dispatch and ability to take time off have deteriorated in that time.

Ballermann said the province has not fully implemented any of the five recommendations made after the

previous survey. She said the HSAA is frustrated that Edmonton has not seen any “meaningful” increase in resources since 2008 while its population continues to grow.

Some front-line workers say they do not get time for washroom breaks and lunch breaks and are often forced to work long overtime hours.

Rural workers are frequently asked to cover for urban centres, leaving their rural communities unable to respond to emergencies in a timely fashion. Ballermann said Peace River ambulances will get dispatched to emergency calls in Grande Prairie, which is a two-hour drive.

“Our practitioners are under tremendous stress,” Ballermann said.

“The demands on Alberta health providers throughout the system ... are

all overworked.”The HSAA is aiming its message at

the provincial government, including new Health Minister Stephen Mandel, in hopes that health care resources will become a higher priority.

“We need to address the very real capacity problems at every level of the system, and that includes expansion of EMS capacity,” Ballermann said.

NDP health critic David Eggen said the ongoing issues with hospital wait times and strained resources are proof that ambulance centralization has been a failure for the province.

“EMS workers are compensating for shortages of personnel and equipment and material resources by working overtime and putting in double duty, basically. That’s no way to run an emergency system,” he said. “You

know that a crack could lead to tragic consequences.”

Alberta Health Services president and CEO Vickie Kaminski said the concerns are being addressed. In the past two years, AHS has appointed a chief paramedic, Darren Sandbeck, and held meetings with front-line workers. AHS has also built 15 new ambulance stations in the last two years, with 15 more on the way in the coming year.

Kaminski admitted patient off load times are well below target, however. Due to overcrowded hospitals, EMS workers sit with patients for an average of three and a half hours in Edmonton emergency rooms, falling short of the target of 30 minutes.

“It really is a system-wide issue that has to be addressed,” she said.


City puts out pair of surveysGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

The City of St. Albert wants residents to make their voices heard on a pair of pressing issues.

The City has announced two separate online surveys, one of which is already underway and one that starts on Monday. The first aims to find out what sort of entertainment options residents want to see come to St. Albert, while the second is soliciting input to help guide transportation options over the next 25 years.

Urbanics Consultants Ltd. of Vancouver has been contracted by the City to undertake an entertainment demand study, which will identify gaps in St. Albert’s entertainment offerings and hopefully attract entertainment companies to the city to help fill those gaps.

Part of that study is an online survey, which can be found at fluidsurveys.com/s/stalbertentertainment and will be available to fill out until Oct. 18.

“The Entertainment Demand Study will benefit hundreds of developers, commercial brokers, retail marketers and entertainment operators,” Mayor Nolan Crouse said in a press release. “An important component of the study is that it will remain valid and relevant for many years to come.”

Urbanics will also be conducting telephone surveys, as well as in-person

surveys at the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce’s outdoor farmers’ market on Oct. 4 and 11.

A final report should be before St. Albert city council in November. Similar studies have been done recently to gauge industrial, retail and hotel demand in the city.

Meanwhile, a separate survey set to start on Monday will give residents the chance to have their say on the development of the City’s Transportation Master Plan, which will look at roads, trails, sidewalks and other infrastructure needed to move people and goods from one place to another over the next quarter-century.

The survey will ask residents what they feel the priorities for St. Albert’s transportation system are and what their habits and preferences are as they move around the city and into surrounding areas. It will also include an interactive map where respondents can point out areas where they feel improvements are needed.

This survey will be combined with a Household Travel Survey, which is currently underway, and a Highway 2 travel pattern survey to help develop the Transportation Master Plan, which should be completed in September 2015 and presented to city council in October 2015.

The last update to the Transportation Master Plan occurred in 2009.

The transportation survey can be filled out until Nov. 17 at stalbert.ca/getting-around/roads/transportation-master-plan.

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ALL HAIL THE KING OF KINGSGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

A labour of love has finally come to fruition for Lewis Lavoie and the rest of the Mural Mosaic team.

After working on it for six years, they recently unveiled their newest mural, King of Kings, on their website, a portrait of Jesus Christ made up of 195 smaller painting of great leaders throughout history, from Roman emperors to United States presidents.

Lavoie is excited to show people what the completed mural looks like, but he also admitted it’s a bit strange to be at this point.

“I’ve been living with this thing for so long, working on it, and to have it wrapped up — you feel like going back and constantly modifying things,” he said. “The hardest part is to close the door on it and say, ‘This is done.’ Six years, I’ve been working on it; six years is done. But it looks pretty good.”

The inspiration behind King of Kings came partially from the Mural Mosaic concept itself, with many paintings coming together to form one larger image.

“I was thinking, ‘What would be the ultimate thing that would have that shape

and that form?’ And I kept thinking of that saying: King of Kings. It’s saying there’s all these little kings that make up one big king,” he said. “Now that I’ve been working on it for so long, I realize that’s probably the ultimate thing that these murals actually explain — little pictures and the big picture. ... I can’t think of anything bigger than this.”

“He’s been working on it whenever he’s had the chance for the last six years,” added fellow team member Phil Alain.

Over the years, the Mural Mosaic team has done similar murals across North America, including one in Utah, one in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics, and one in Sherbrooke, Que., for the 2013 Canada Summer Games.

King of Kings is different, though, because while Lavoie has had help from other artists painting squares for other murals, he did all the painting on this one himself.

“That’s always been our goal, to get communities of people to work on one project,” he said. “So on a personal level, I thought if I was to take on one thing personally for myself and do it in the same matter as we do with the

communities, what would that be like? That’s where I started coming up with what would be the main picture, the main focus. And King of Kings kept coming into my mind.”

That also meant doing a lot of research on various rulers and getting accurate descriptions of what they looked like.

“Almost all the emperors of Rome had statues carved

of them, so we know what Julius Caesar looked like,” Lavoie said. “And all the paintings in Europe are paintings of noble people and kings, so they are recognizable people.”

What spurred King of Kings on to completion was a campaign they ran on crowdfunding site Kickstarter late last

year, which raised more than $21,000 in 60 days, giving Lavoie the time and security he needed to focus on the project.

“I just love the idea of group funding,” he said. “It just allows artists to have all the control when there’s a group funding you, as opposed to trying to find a sponsorship, which could influence it a little bit. ... It’s just a perfect fit for us.”

Alain added that it gave Lavoie a lot of necessary breathing room.

“We needed that grace from the supporters in order to focus on it,” he said. “It took some of the pressure off him ... (and he could) really plow through it for the last seven or eight months here.”

The original tiles from King of Kings will be sold off, some to those who backed the Kickstarter campaign, but a full-size replica will be on display at events in the Capital Region in the coming months, starting with the Laugh for Life gala benefitting The Mustard Seed and the Kids Kottage Foundation on Oct. 25 at the Winspear Centre in Edmonton.

“Hopefully we’ll be showcasing this all over the place,” Alain said. “We’re getting requests from the States.”

For more information on Mural Mosaic and their projects, visit www.muralmosaic.com.

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McGraw has his priorities straightJANE STEVENSONSun Media News Services

When it comes to duet partners, Tim McGraw seems to have his priorities straight.

Turns out the country music veteran is still a major fan of Faith Hill, his wife of almost 18 years and fellow singer who joined him on “Meanwhile Back At Mama’s,” a song from his latest record Sundown Heaven Town.

“I always enjoy singing with her, I mean, of course she’s my wife but as an artist I just have the utmost respect for her,” said McGraw, 47, down the line from New York City in a Canadian newspaper exclusive with Sun Media News Services.

“(Recently) I was on the treadmill and I was looking for something to listen to while I was running and I put on her Fireflies album and I listened to that album while I was running, and I came back up the room and I said, ‘Look, you are just so awesome.’ I told her I can’t wait for her to make another record ’cause, for me, personally I just want to hear it. She has such a sophistication about what she does and the quality of the songs and the quality of the production and the quality of her voice and the heat and passion that she delivers what she sings.”

McGraw, who also sings with his cousin Catherine Dunn and Kid Rock on two other duets of his new album, had a recent Las

Vegas residency with Hill of their acclaimed Soul2Soul show at the Venetian, but it’s “done” for now.

“But who knows we might do it sometime down the road,” said McGraw. “We loved it.”

In the case of Sundown Heaven Town, McGraw already toured this summer before the album’s Sept. 16 release that included a show that night for the American Express Unstaged series — which pairs a big artist and director at a small venue for a filmed concert — at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom that was directed for a live webcast by director Bennett Miller (Moneyball, Capote).

“I’d gotten to see (Foxcatcher, Miller’s buzzed about TIFF film starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo) the night before so it was cool to be able to walk in that room and know I’m doing this live thing with somebody that brilliant and talented,” said McGraw.

“(Foxcatcher) was very creepy but the tension was so thick in it and I just thought it was so well done. Three of the best performances I’ve ever seen.”

McGraw, whose movie roles have included turns in Country Strong, The Blind Side and Friday Night Lights, has his own buzzy film to come, the sci-fi adventure flick, Tomorrowland, opposite movie star royalty George Clooney, due in May 2015.

“There are some scenes with George, of course, but I’m not supposed to say too much about it,” said McGraw. “It’s a complicated plot, but it’s going to be a good movie.”

He plays a father and rocket scientist, while Clooney’s an inventor who befriends a teenaged science lover.

“One of those is a stretch,” said a laughing McGraw, father to three teenage daughters with Hill.

“All the girls at my house, including my wife, all they wanted to do was show up at the set and hang out with George Clooney.”

So did they succeed?“No they didn’t. I wouldn’t let my wife

anywhere near George!” he joked.With no Sundown Heaven Town tour in

front of him, McGraw said he’s “reading scripts and trying to connect the dots… It’s just a matter of finding the right one that I really like.”

He says, after 20-plus years in the music business, he still considers himself a musician who acts.

“I wouldn’t be able to have any of the opportunities without music having gotten me there but I love to act,” said McGraw. “At this point in my career, the thing that I want to do is I want to pick and choose the things that I want to do. I want to work with people I really respect and people that are going to teach me something... And that goes for

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But despite being in the best shape of his life (check him out on the July/August cover of Men’s Health), McGraw’s had some fall plans he was really looking forward to: “Hang out with the girls and eat as many cheeseburgers as I can!”

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St. Albert celebrates culture in style with StArts Fest

Photos: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderFrom music and storytelling to sculpting, knitting and painting, there was something for everyone at this year’s StArts Fest, held at various venues across downtown St. Albert from Friday to Sunday. Folks got a chance to learn from experts in different fields and try their hand at something new.


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Difficulty : EasyThis week in history and

celebrity birthdays

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OCT. 3, 1927Prime Minister William Lyon

Mackenzie King makes the first transatlantic phone call, chatting

with his British counterpart, Stanley Baldwin.

OCT. 2, 1758Charles Lawrence convenes

the first meeting of the Nova Scotia Legislature in the Halifax

Courthouse. This is the first elected Parliament in Canadian

history.

OCT. 5, 1984Marc Garneau becomes the first

Canadian in space when the space shuttle Challenger launches from

Cape Canaveral, Fla.

OCT. 6, 1847Jane Eyre, the story of an

orphan girl who grows up to be a governess written by Charlotte

Brontë, is published.

OCT. 7, 1959TV producer and talent show judge Simon Cowell is born in

London, England.

ANSWERS: 1. Tongue on Gene Simmons changed to blue; 2. ‘Raj’ removed from package; 3. Price tag changed to orange; 4. ‘Star Trek’ removed from package; 5. ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ removed.

Photo: CODIE McLACHLAN, Sun Media News ServicesAction figures are seen for sale at Tugs, which is based out of Drumheller, during the Edmonton Comic & Entertainment Expo.

OCT. 4, 1990 Beverly Hills, 90210, starring

Luke Perry, Jason Priestley, Tori Spelling, Shannen Doherty and

others, debuts on FOX.

OCT. 8, 1970Actor Matt Damon — best

know for roles in movies like The Bourne Identity, Good Will

Hunting and Saving Private Ryan — is born in Cambridge, Mass.

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Kids Krossword

ACROSS3) Number of golden rings

5) 7 multiplied by 2 6) Lucky number?

7) Unlucky number? 9) Number of commandments

12) 4 multiplied by 213) Voting age

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NUMBERSCompiled by Leader staff

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METRO CREATIVE SERVICES – Balancing work and family life is a major challenge for many professionals. Many established professionals �nd it stressful to juggle the demands of successful careers with the obligations they have to their families, and regaining that balance once it has been lost only adds to that stress.

Part of the di�culty of balancing work and family life is that the challenge is ongoing. �e threat of losing your work-life balance is never too far away, but there are steps men and women can take to regain that balance once it’s been lost.

• Start documenting your activities. No one operates at 100 per cent e�ciency all the time, but balancing obligations at work with those at home is especially di�cult when time is routinely lost to trivial matters or tasks at work that can be delegated to others. �ese time-consuming tasks have a tendency to add up, but professionals rarely take note of the smaller tasks or distractions that cost them time. Start documenting your activities on a daily basis, jotting down how each hour of your day is spent, both at home and at work. Do this for several weeks, a�er which time a pattern will likely develop, and you can see where you are wasting time and where you are being most e�cient with your time. When you sit down to examine your notes, look for ways to free up time without sacri�cing the quality of your work or the quality of time you spend with your family. Don’t be afraid to make changes.

• Don’t go it alone. Teamwork is important at home and around the o�ce and can help overburdened professionals regain their work-life balance. If you tend to go it alone in the o�ce, reach out to your colleagues more o�en, seeking their help on projects and o�ering your help in return. �is can drastically cut back on the hours you spend in the o�ce, giving you more quality time at home. But you also can work with your family to free up more time. Assign tasks around the house so you aren’t doing chores during the time you do have at home. Split cooking duties with your spouse or even the kids if they’re old enough and delegate other household tasks as well. Such tasks can be tackled

while you’re at work so the family can spend more time together each night and on weekends.

• Stop emulating Atlas. In Greek mythology, Atlas was condemned to standing at the edge of the Earth and holding the weight of Uranus on his shoulders. Many professionals can no doubt empathize with Atlas, even if taking such weight on their shoulders was self-in�icted. Regaining work-life balance may require taking some of that weight o� of your shoulders by learning to respectfully decline extra projects around the o�ce or in your personal life. You can still pitch in on special projects at work without spearheading them, much like you can still spend time with your kids at the ballpark even if you aren’t their coach. Cutting back on your

obligations is a great way to reduce stress and free up time to focus on the things that mean the most to you.

• Think outside the box. If you have examined your daily activities and commitments but can’t seem to �nd any ways to regain your work-life balance, start looking for unique ways to make the time you spend at work and the time you spend at home more proportionate. Consider telecommuting one or two days per

week to free up time to spend with your family. If moving is an option, consider moving closer to your o�ce so you aren’t spending so much time commuting to and from work each day. Even if you have seemingly exhausted all options, chances are strong there is a solution to help you regain your work-life balance. But sometimes that balance requires a little creativity and some give-and-take with both your employer and your family.

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BRITTANY KUSTRASpecial to the Leader

The Capital Region’s worst-kept secret is that it’s one of the best places in the country to do business. If you’re thinking of starting a business, here are the top five reasons you should do it right here at home.

1. COMMUNITY BUILDERSA strong business community is built

by strong business leaders. Our business community is led by entrepreneurs that encourage mentorship, individuals that believe in collaboration, and creative thinkers that bring people together. If you haven’t witnessed the energy that our community leaders can create, attend Make Something Mondays, tthe E-Town Festival, or a St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce breakfast.

2. LOCAL GOVERNMENT HAS YOUR BACK

This summer, Julio’s Barrio on Whyte Avenue was the first of several restaurants to expand their patio to the entire width of the sidewalk. The move meant fewer parking stalls, but happier patrons and busier businesses. Encouraging businesses to expand creates momentum and allows us to tap into our potential as a city.

3. BOOMING TECHAn entrepreneurial friend of mine relayed a

story to me from his most recent trip to Toronto: the client there remarked that all of Canada’s top tech businesses are coming out of the Edmonton region. Powerhouses like NAIT breed tech

entrepreneurs, and local support organizations grow them into thriving businesses.

4. INCUBATION AND SUPPORTEdmonton, St. Albert and surrounding

areas are home to over 70 business incubation and support organizations. Yes, you read that correctly. Long-time players like TEC Edmonton and the Northern Alberta Business Incubator are the experts in building business, but newbies like Startup Edmonton have made a huge impact in a very short period of time. High-tech is the focus of several organizations, such as NINT and the Edmonton Research Park, but there seems to be a niche incubator

for any type of business. Alberta Women Entrepreneurs offers female-friendly business advice, and the AgriValue Processing Incubator focuses on food.

5. WE SUPPORT THE UNCONVENTIONAL

Make Something Edmonton is a local darling. The volunteer task force (started by the City of Edmonton!)

strives to tell stories about the region and encourage others to create. It’s one part crowd funder, one part volunteer resource, one part storytelling engine. In the past year, it’s helped launch mainstream projects like a burlesque performance and a book about winter in the city, and more offbeat projects like a Barbie hair salon and a comedy about axe-wielding knights who use rock ’n’ roll to fight evil.

Brittany Kustra is the Communications and Marketing Coordinator for the

Northern Alberta Business Incubator.

Top 5 reasons to do business here

Photo: Sun MediaNews Services

LINDA WHITESun Media News Services

For many teens, a credit card is an exciting rite of passage that reflects their maturity. Sure, this demographic is flush with disposable income and some teens argue they need a credit card so they can make online purchases, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re ready for this piece of plastic.

“A credit card is definitely a convenient way to ensure you can pay for different things, but at the same time the teen needs to be ready for that kind of responsibility,” says Natasha Nystrom of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada.

“A child should have a foundation of basic money management skills before they start using a credit card. They should have a good understanding of their personal budget — whether that’s from earnings, an allowance or savings, so they can ensure they can make payments. They also need to understand that credit is not extra income. It’s basically equivalent to debt.”

Credit cards require discipline. If your teen doesn’t pay on time and stay within credit limits, she could incur extra fees or higher interest rates. “Those are the kinds of things included in a credit card contract that teens need to look at and understand,” Nystrom says.

It’s also important to understand that if they don’t pay off their credit card balance in full every month, they pay interest — which means they’re paying more for everything they purchase. A buy-now, pay-later mentality can also damage their credit report and score, which can

hinder future plans to get a car or student loan, rent an apartment, start a business and eventually buy that first home.

According to the consumer agency’s youth literacy study, six in 10 youth report debt of some kind, with more than one-third of this group carrying a total debt load of $10,000 or more. Credit card debt is by far the most commonly reported type, followed by student loans.

Teens under 18 years need an adult co-signer to get a credit card, but before signing on the dotted line, parents should understand their rights and responsibilities and be aware they may be held responsible for any outstanding balances.

Parents who want to instill smart credit card habits in their teens might want to draw from personal experiences when talking about the benefits and potential pitfalls, advises TD Canada Trust’s Stephen Menon.

It’s important to also help teens understand the cost of borrowing and that using credit cards irresponsibly could cancel any potential benefits, like building a strong credit rating or earning potential rewards.

Menon suggests adding an authorized user card to your credit card account as your child’s introduction to credit card ownership because it can offer the experience in a controlled financial environment.

“It’s a great first step, particularly because parents can see everything that’s going on and can help their child learn to manage their finances by understanding their responsibilities. You can help them develop good habits.”

Helping teens build good credit habits

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