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The delay of a proposed profes-sional building by Melcor can-not, any light, be construed as a

step back.A pessimist may say ‘one step forward

and two steps back’ and others view it as a glass half empty, but it’s simply busi-ness based on solid dollars and cents.

Like all businesses today, Melcor is be-ing careful.

It’s trying to learn if we are out of, com-ing out of, or waiting for a break from recessionary market pressures.

It judges this by success of such things as preleasing of projects.

It can then take this to the bank as a measure of performance.

Melcor then borrows money and the wheels of commerce keep turning.

Unfortunately the developer is learning Chestermere’s impressive by numbers home-based entrepreneur may not be ready to leave home.

These entrepreneurs are keeping their collective chequebooks close to their chests and who can blame them?

Melcor will forge ahead with its project stretching from the Safeway to town hall and it will be a fine feature to Chester-mere Station.

Melcor has experienced sluggish pre-leasing before.

In addition to becoming arguably the most pedestrian friendly project here with its Main Street theme, it may also attract a doctor or two.

At least we can hope.Many residents still question why

just about every other town has a Main Street, a traditional hub of commercial and social activity, but not Chestermere.

Granted Chestermere (don’t call it a bedroom community to Calgary) is growing under a different set of rules.

Melcor’s project is addressing this per-ceived lack.

Judging by its architectural drawings, when completed it will become a bou-tique shopping experience and hopefully an entertainment and dining destination.

The professional building will also at-tract more traffic to John Peake Park.

So pick up your latté from one of the bottom floor retailers and remember, the glass is half full.

EDITORIALProject delay just business

Dear editor: I know a pool/aquatic center was something

that came up as a big election point in 2007. Nothing happened with that as the consultant

hired said that Chestermere was not able to sus-tain a pool itself for another five years.

I was on the aquatic committee and feel like I wasted a one and-a-half years of my life.

To my way of thinking, if you were told in five years you need and could support a pool, that would mean you should be finding where you want to put the pool.

You must decide what you want in it, put a tender out to architects, hire an architect, come up with blueprints, decide if you’re going to build everything outright or in phases, put the contract out to tender, hire a contractor, and start building so the pool/aquatic center is built and ready at the five year point.

Don’t wait five years and then start the process so it isn’t built for 10 years.

I know money to pay for it is the biggest road-block, but like anything else the longer you wait the more expensive it will get.

What might cost $20 million today will cost $30 million in five years.

The pool is still my biggest election thing, but I’d also like curbside recycling, and an Alberta Health Services Health Unit out here, like Strath-more has for vaccinations and other medical options.

There are not enough things to do out here for a younger generation.

Again we need a pool/aquatic center with other amenities in it.

I know the rec center tries but it just does not have the amenities.

Chestermere is a great town with some fantas-tic people in it.

The pathways are great and well maintained, the public works dept does a fantastic job with keeping everything neat, clean, and green.

They do a wonderful job with snow in the winter.

We just need more to do to keep the kids safe, having fun, and out of trouble.

Michelle Wills-FroeseChestermere

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Professional building delayedMickey DumontChestermere Laker

Construction of Melcor’s Chestermere Station professional building has been delayed, in part, because of the

difficulty attracting the town’s home-based professionals to its proposed new office space.“Not 100 per cent sure when construction will begin and are still hoping to still break ground this year,” said Jarett Thompson, project manager for Chestermere. “Inter-nally we are deciding if it’s still feasible (to break ground this year) or not.”The 53,255 sq-ft project’s fate is now in Mel-cor’s senior management team’s hands and a decision is imminent.“We’ve invested a ridiculous amount of time and money getting the project as far as we have,” said Thompson. “This building will get built.”The project is planned for the attractive vacant lot next to town hall and would fea-ture a Main Street theme.“It would pick up on the southeast corner of the Safeway, head directly east of there, just north of the existing storm pond and then it would reroute and circle north and ter-minate at the front door of town hall,” said Thompson. “Most towns typically have some sort of Main Street and I guess Chestermere missed out on that,” he said.“The intent is certainly to give the town a main street.”With 14-foot wide sidewalks, angled park-ing and a boulevard down the middle, the project would lend a flavour to Chestermere to compliment its growing retail centre. Opening on to John Peake Park and the lake, it will attract a crowd throughout the day.“The intent was to get this going this year,” Thompson explained, “but permits took a little bit longer than anticipated and we’re working with Fortis to get ahead with this.”Melcor is also trying to achieve a certain level of preleasing its available space, half allocated to retail boutique type stores and

half to business. But the development company is having a hard time digging the town’s self-employed out of their home offices. “That’s a problem with these types of proj-ects,” said Thompson.“Until there’s bricks and mortar, pre-leasing is quite a challenge.” He said he expects it would be a first com-mercial lease for many new tenants attract-ed to the project. “If you don’t have something tangible, sometimes it is difficult to kick start preleas-ing,” Thompson said. “Even with our projects in Calgary, we get a few to prelease early and then the phones are off the hook when construction starts.”Melcor’s intent with the upper level of its project is to attract professionals looking for higher end and more extravagant office space than what already exists in Chester-mere.Lawyers, doctors, dentists, specialists, accountants as a collective will find an apro-

priate home.“There are professionals working out of their home office in Chestermere that are ready to make the jump and we have the space for them,” said Thompson.That’s certainly the market we are gearing towards.”

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Developers foot infrastructure billMickey DumontChestermere Laker

As the City of Calgary explores charging subur-ban developers a greater

share of infrastructure costs, Ches-termere’s relatively young house-building industry likely already pays what Calgary developers could expect in 2011.

For 10 years, Calgary developers haven’t had to pay for water and sewer lines to serve new suburban developments because costs have all been borne by city taxpayers.

But the honeymoon there may be coming to an end later this year as Calgary begins to charge to cover a higher proportion of its infrastruc-ture.

Also, it has been argued the cost of a single family home could rise as much as $10,000 as developers pass on the increased costs.

“Chestermere has had off-site levies that cover hard infrastructure for many years now,” said Mayor Patricia Matthews.

Sewer and water are some of the hard costs paid for in these levies that are applied to all new develop-ments.

“As mentioned, in order not to burden our existing residents over the long term with the costs of new development, these types of infra-structure costs are either paid for by the developer up front, or cov-ered in off-site levies at the time of

development,” said Matthews. “While we can’t speak for other

communities who may have dif-ferent relationships and agree-ments with the developers in their municipalities, Chestermere has had off-site levies in place for quite a while now and they are certainly viable here.”

For Chestermere residents, having these levies in place means the developer covers the cost of hard infrastructure, such as sewer and water.

If the levies weren’t in place, then existing residents would bear the costs of infrastructure that wouldn’t be needed without development.

Added Councillor Stu Hutchin-son: “I am a firm believer — as is the rest of council — the develop-ers pay their way and the existing residents are not burdened by their developments.

“I think we always have to keep an open mind on feasible and legal (under the MGA) sources of revenue for our taxpayers.”

Hutchinson said he believes it’s a bit early to give any fair and logical assessment of this concept, but he would be in favour of hav-ing a look at it.

“But having said that, one has to realize we have our off site lev-ies in place,” he said.

“They are continuously updated to ensure all new development is paying their share.”

Welder Jamie Yaeger of Calgary’s Motion Steel works on the roof of the commercial complex adjacent to Tim Hortons.

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Mickey DumontChestermere Laker

If you live on the lake and have a level mark you may have recently noticed the water level drop off from time to time.

The Western Irriga-tion District (WID) is having a bit of a dis-ruptive year maintain-ing a constant level in Chestermere Lake. That’s due to construc-tion in Calgary to replace the weir result-ing in levels drop-ping by as much as six-inches. “Normally we can keep it pretty level year-round, (but) the water levels on Chestermere Lake are bouncing just a tad,” said Jim Webber, WID

general manager. “This is due to the

very wet year we’re having and the con-struction work going on in the (Bow) river at the weir just below the (Calgary) zoo,” he said.

The weir, which is now removed, was built in the 1970’s and was state of the art for the time.

“With the drop over the wall you get this tumbling action which is extremely danger-ous and anyone who gets in there are basi-cally finished,” said Webber.

The weir has taken a human toll over the decades and Calgary Parks is creating a diversion so canoes

and floaters can pass safely.

Webber said con-struction needed access to the riverbed and WID has had to modify its control and open its sluice gates to divert the flow.

“Normally the gates are closed this time of the year and all the water flows over the weir,” he said.

“The river has not gone low-flow as predicated because of all the big rain events, so levels begin bounc-ing overnight as much several thousand cfs (cubic feet per second) difference.

“In the dark you can’t see to gauge and no electronic gaug-ing to give you some

guidelines because the gates aren’t supposed to be used this way.”

The WID hired extra staff to moni-tor the situation, but found the flow can drop overnight which means the lake goes down slightly more than anticipated.

“It takes a day to bring it back up again,” Webber said. “So you’re seeing a bit more of a bounce in lake levels.”

Construction at the weir will be completed this year and the WID anticipates it will be business as usual.

“We have had a few enquiries,” said Web-ber, “but people have been very understand-ing.”

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Mickey DumontChestermere Laker

The leader of a newly formed association battling any realign-

ment of Highway 1, said there will not be an exodus of business owners leaving Strathmore for Chestermere if the highway is diverted.

Hal Lust, spokesman for the newly formed Town and Country Highway Asso-ciation, addressed approxi-mately 100 people who attended the Monday night Strathmore and District Chamber of Commerce-sponsored meeting.

“It won’t make any more sense for them to move to Chestermere than it does for the government to realign the highway,” said Lust.

He said he’s disappointed with Strathmore town council.

“When all this started I thought they would take the lead in this — people elected them.”

The realignment of High-way 1, now calls for it to be moved about a kilometer south of the town with in-gress and egress an uncer-tain distance just before and after.

“We don’t know about that yet,” said Lust.

What he does know is the new road change will not affect Chestermere “as much as the original plan” to go from Cheadle to Glei-chen.

“As far as Chestermere is concerned it shouldn’t hurt that much,” Lust said.

“They are not calling to upgrade Highway 901 to connect to Highway 22X to serve the southside of Calgary,” he said.

“That would have taken all the traffic away from (Chestermere’s) front door.”

But it will still hurt busi-nesses in Strathmore, Lust said.

“You never know what they’re thinking in the long range in terms of what they are going to do with the highway when it gets closer to Calgary,” he said.

“Are they going to swing south connecting with the 22X to serve south Cal-gary?”

Lust said “the only thing” his group is concerned with is where the road is going around Strathmore.

“We want to do every-thing we can to make sure our businesses stay alive,” he said.

“If we don’t protect that we could find ourselves with a 40 per cent unem-ployment rate.”

So much confusion sur-rounds the provincial gov-ernment’s proposed high-way realignment plan, one man at the meeting spoke about how he believed the project would run right through his house.

Lust later explained to him the previous plan would have demolished and paved over the retired man’s hobby farm, but not in its present proposal.

He was under the impres-sion the Cheadle-Gleichen route was still a green light,” said Lust. “After the meeting he came up and I asked him ‘where are you’?

We pulled out a map and showed him that route had been shelved. They’re not going to go that route.”

He said at present no one really knows what the government plans for the highway will turn out to be.

Next on the association’s agenda is to sign up 10,000 people on its petition and then raise money. Lust said the association is pinning its hopes it can get the govern-ment to once again capitu-late on its planned highway realignment.

“I was quite surprised they capitulated as easily as they did,” he said.

That came as a result of pressure from the county.

“We’re hoping to do the same thing to avoid the ma-jor expense of hiring an ad agency and demonstrating in the home ridings of our MLA and MP,” Lust said.

The Town and Coun-try Highway Association spokesman said fighting any realignment could cost it up to $100,000 — money it does not have.

Also, a proposed Septem-ber open house with MP

Kevin Sorenson and MLA Arno Doerksen to discuss with the town the pro-posed changes.

“They’ve scrapped their plan A and now they’re about to introduce plan B, but I am informed the plans won’t be ready in time for the open house,” said Lust.

“With the stroke of a pen, (Alberta) Minister (of Transportation Luke) Ouellette wasted up to $1 million dollars of our money on a highway plan with no feasibility study and, in fact, no engineer ever set foot on the actual route.

“People in the know tell me that such government wastes are common in our provincial and federal sys-tem because each ministry thinks it is an empire unto itself and the heads of these ministries play this game of tug-of-war with each other

at budget time to see who can get the most money by overstating their needs.

“If these ministers later discover they have sur-pluses, they are morally obl-gated to turn the surpluses back to the Provincial Treasury but rather than turn the surpluses over to other more needy minis-tries, such as health and education in this province right now, they come up with grandiose, pie in the sky, expensive and unnec-essary plans like rerouting Highway 1 around Strath-more,” said Lust.

Strathmoredigsinandpreparesforhighwayfight

ALL EARS:HalLustanswersquestionsatameetinginStrathmoreMondayregardingaproposedHwy.1realignmentand(below)givesanopeningspeech.

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Mickey DumontChestermere Laker

If Granny Jen and her fellow grannies have been success-ful, there will be red ribbons

awarded for pies at this year’s Country Fall Fair.

Jen Peddlesden (aka Granny Jen) and her merry band of Chestermere grannies conducted a Pastry 101 class last Friday that filled up more than pies.

An impressive crowd of partici-pants and spectators attended the crusty crash course.

A father and his two sons learned it was a great opportunity to spend time together doing something they wouldn’t normally do.

The granny gang was more than pleased to impart some of its collected piecrust knowledge to improve the fall fair.

The 21st Annual Country Fall Fair is scheduled for Sept. 17-18 in and around the Chestermere Recreation Complex.

Judging for submitted goods will take place Friday night so view-ing on Saturday will allow visitors to see the winners. Blooms, pies, cupcakes and photography and art exhibits are just a part of the tradi-tional country fair venue.

Vicki Klinger is once again coor-dinating the fair and said “there are a few new twists this year, but all the tradition of a country fair will be there.”

Local youth will showcase their talent Friday night in the Battle of the Bands competition.

Sponsored by First Fire Produc-tions, one lucky band will win

studio time to help with the devel-opment of a music CD.

Friday night — billed as Teen Blast — will also feature a Guitar Hero competition and laser tag. Admission to Teen Blast is $10 and includes one round of laser tag and some munchies.

The kids will continue to be enter-tained Saturday with an expanded youth program including the Ches-termere Idol contest sponsored by Gypsy and the Rose. Contestants under 18 years of age will compete to win a recording session at The Lake Recording Studio.

The Lions Club 8:30 a.m. Satur-day pancake breakfast at the BBQ

pit will get everyone fed before the parade.

Penny Sawyer, recreation pro-gram assistant, said this is Chester-mere’s only parade and pre-regis-tration is required. The parade will wind its way along West Chester-mere Drive to the rec centre. As usual participants on foot, horse-back, bicycle, and various vehicles even stilts and roller blades. The Lions will again be judging cyclists 12 and under for best in show, fun-niest and most original.

High noon at the Corral, the Wild at Heart trick riders — acrobats on horseback — will entertain during the Gymkhana.

Saturday also features a trade show, an outdoor market and a kid zone on the soccer field. enough already, 24 teams will be competing over the weekend in an annual slo-pitch tournament.

Bring a chair to get comfortable for a whole day of activity or step into the beer garden for a cool one and likely hear Chestermere’s own 1 Foot Party Band who will be everywhere and anywhere through-out the fair.

For a complete schedule of events, including entertainment, rules and explanations and for in-formation, got to www.chestermer-ecrca.com/countryfair

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— Mike D’Amour, LakerTHE ART OF THE PIE: A couple dozen people learned how to make a great crust at a recent seminar

With the advent of cooler weather — sigh, it is coming — comes the inevitable signing up for fall and winter programs.

A curling registration and general meeting is scheduled for Sept. 7, at 6:30 p.m. at the Ches-termere Complex Curling Rink.

Details are available at www.chestermerecurl-ing.com.

People can also attend Energizer Night, a chance to register for most local activities all under the Rec Centre roof. Sept. 9, 6-8:30 p.m.

Call 403-272-7170 for more information.

Some of the participants are: CRCA indoor soccer, recreation programs and special events, figure skating, minor hockey, Fit Kids Gymnas-tics, Community Services, Focus Tae Kwon Do, Community Services, Town of Chestermere, Canadian Tae Kwon Do, Community Basket-ball, Chestermere Chiefs Football, Whitecappers 50+ group, Edge Fitness, Chestermere beavers, scouts and guides, Abstract Dance Academy, Rocky View Adult Education, Indus Ringette, Citizens on Patrol, Victim Services and many more.

Fall registration begins

The Chestermere Laker is look-ing for a few good columnists.

Have an idea for a column; one that would be sustainable and fresh 52 weeks of the year? Then the Laker wants to hear from you.

We’re looking for columnists who’d like to contribute to these pages on a weekly basis.

Your column could be about food and recipes, a society column, a pet piece or one that offers a fresh opinion on local politics.

Or if you have your own ideas, we’d love to hear them.

Call Mike D’Amour at 403-984-9009, or email your ideas to [email protected]

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Creepy, morbid flick a yawner

If it were true that horror films tap into our primal fears, waking up on an embalming table as an undertaker calmly prepares my

body for burial would be fairly high on the list.That’s what happens to morose schoolteacher

Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci) in AFTER.LIFE (103 mins. 14A)

“You were in a car accident. You were pro-nounced dead eight hours ago,” mortician Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) tells the startled young woman in a matter-of-fact tone of voice.

“Your body’s already decomposing.”So if she’s dead, how come he can talk to her?

That’s what Anna wants to know. “I have a gift. I can talk to those between life

and death ... to help them make the transition.”And what if she isn’t ready to make that final

transition just yet?“You’re a corpse, Anna. Your opinion doesn’t

count anymore.”Writer/director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo

says she has always been fascinated by the idea of life after death.

“What if there is consciousness or your soul remains with you and you can actually experi-ence your own death?” she speculates on a DVD featurette.

According to Ms. Wojtowicz-Vosloo (a NYU film school grad making her feature film debut) Buddhists believe there is a transitional period of 72 hours between the time of death and the departure of the soul from the body.

“I wanted people to think about their own

mortality,” she says.“We are all terrified of death and also we are

kind of in denial of it.”She also wants us to think about how we are

living our lives.Anna had been going through the motions in

her relationship with longtime lover Paul (Justin Long) and sleepwalking through life in general.

It is only when Deacon tells her she is dead that she really begins to appreciate being alive.

So the fledgling filmmaker wants to use the idea as a vehicle to explore issues of life and death. Fair enough.

However, someone must have suggested such a weighty concept needed something to spice it up because midway through the featurette the director begins dropping hints that maybe Anna wasn’t dead after all and it is all part of an elabo-

rate ruse to bury her alive.Apparently the director wants to creep us out

while making us think and maybe with more experience she will achieve her goal.

In the meantime, we have a film that unspools at a funereal pace and is unrelentingly morbid with no flashes of wit or old-fashioned jolts of suspense to liven things up.

You can’t blame the cast if it doesn’t work. Neeson is believably creepy; Ricci enters into

her role body and soul (yes, fanboys, the di-minutive beauty bares it all for her art) and Long strives mightily in his first serious role.

To be fair the movie did make me think about The Big Sleep but in this case it was my after-noon nap.

HORROR FILM RATING: 1 and-a-half screams out of five

ENTERTAINMENTFriday,August27,2010 ChestermereLaker7

DEAD OR ALIVE:Anna(Christina Ricci)andmortician Eliot (Liam Neeson) inascenefromAF-TER.LIFE.

Lights, camera,action . . .

with Rick Dennis

NEVER OPEN THE DOOR: BUT Anna(Christina Ricci)doesinascenefromAFTER.LIFE.

“We are all ter-rified of death and also we are kind of in denial of it. ”

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