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F8 CALGARY HERALD Friday, June 4, 1999 ENTERTAINMENT Revenue 717 Property 1 Legal, Public QQQ Notices 037 Legal, Public QQQ Notices 039 BC'S BEST KEPT SECRET FERNIE DARROl JOSEPH REINBOLT TAKE NOTICE THAT acton commenced against you in the Court of Owen Bench of Alberta, in the Judicial District of Calgary, action number 9801-13228, by the Government of Alberta, has resulted in an order, particulars of which can be made available to you by contacting Ell Had, Family Maintenance Worker, Ministry of Family and Social Services at 700 John J. Bowlen Building, 620 7 Avenue Calgary, Alberta T2P 0Y8. 2 BR lux. apts. Ideal for second residence or exc.

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htm 1 34 i 07 CALL A4B303 235-0511 To place your ad. i iii Stuart Olson PUBLIC NOTICES LEGAL! Legal, Public Notices 899 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of ANNE RADOMSKI also known as EUPHROSINE RADOMSKI who died on May 12, 1999 If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by July 6, 1999 with Douglas G.Korman Solicitor for the Executrix Marion Kabatoff Stuart Olson Constructors acting as Construction Manager for The City of Calgary, request subtrade tenders for the following project: WESTSIDE REGIONAL RECREATION CENTRE CALGARY, ALBERTA TENDER PACKAGE 3 The Westside Regional Recreation Complex is a 16,000 m2 City owned facility being constructed at the southeast corner of 17th Avenue and 69th Street S.W., Calgary, AB. The work of this tender package consists of the following: 1. Detailed Excavation and Backfill 2. Concrete Foundations 2A.

Piling Alternate 3. Structural Steel Miscellaneous Iron 4. Reinforcing Steel 5. Metal Deck 6. Waterproofing Tender documents prepared by Ken Hutchinson Architect Limited are available for viewing at the office of: Stuart Olson Constructors Inc.

360, 1121 Centre Street NW Calgary, Alberta T2E 7K6 Telephone: (403) 520-6565 Sealed tenders. Including all attachments, appendices, and related documents will be received up to 14:00 hours, Calgary time, Wednesday, June 16, 1999, at the above noted office. Tenders will be opened publicly. Tenders in excess of $25,000.00 must be accompanied by a 10 Bid Bond and a Consent of Surety for a 50 Performance Bond as well as a 50 Labour and Materials Payment Bond. Both documents must be made out in favour of Stuart Olson Constructors Inc.

and The City of Calgary. THE OWNER RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY OR ALL TENDERS. AA30S799 800, 444 -5th Avenue S.W. Calgary, Alberta T2P2T8 If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have. Creditors: you must include a full description and value of the debt you allege the deceased owes you and a full description and value of the deceased property that you hold as security for the debt.

Claimants: you must include a full description of your claim and why you have a right to make such a clatm. 8Z3B Dean Bicknell, Calgary Herald Dave Kelly co-host of The Big Breakfast is often seen at charity events. A-CHANNEL is thriving despite a rocky beginning NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of GERALD RODNEY BENTLEY who died on January 24, 1999. If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by July 5th, 1999. with BROWN Barristers Solicitors at 316, 6707 Elbow Drive S.W.

Calgary, Alberta T2V0E5 Solicitors for the Personal Representative If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have. Creditors: you must include a full description and value of the debt you allege the deceased owes you and a full description and value of any of the deceased property that you hold as security for the debt. Claimants: you must include a full description of your claim and why you have a fight to make such a ENVIRONMENT CYPRESS HILLS PROVINCIAL PARK PUBLIC DRAW COTTAGE LOTS Alberta Environment, Natural Resources Service has under its jurisdiction 15 undeveloped cottage lots at Cypress Hills Provincial Park, Elkwater Townsite which will be leased to the public. Cypress Hills Provincial Parle is located 68 km S.E. of Medicine Hat, Alberta.

These lots will be offered by public draw on Wednesday, June 30, 1999 at 1:30 p.m. at the CHINOOK'S EDGE SCHOOLDIVISIONI73 INVITES "The equipment did let them down, but I think they would have looked amateurish anyway, with the different format and the youth they had on camera." All indications are that A-Channel management really gained the respect of its employees during those first few weeks. Youthful-looking executive vice-president Drew Craig quickly dismissed those technical glitches as "part and parcel of any startup." But Blakey figures it was Craig who was personally responsible for keeping his young team together and focused during those tough first few weeks. "There were some bruised egos at first," Craig says of some of the on-air talent. "But it was more important that we got the problems rectified." The problems were fixed Craig says by simply moving away from "digital technology that was so new that no one knew its capabilities, not even the manufacturer," and returning instead to old-school video-tape Elkwater Community Hall.

To qualify, applicants must be a Canadian citizen and be over 18 years of age. Cottage leaseholders who presently hold a lease within an Alberta Provincial Park are not eligible. A value of $20,000 has been placed on each of the vacant lots. In addition successful applicants will also be required to pay to the Cypress County a water sewer levy of approximately $7,200. The cottage lot leases are for a term of 25 years and successful applicants will have two years to complete the construction of an approved cottage.

Other conditions also apply. Alberta Environment staff will be conducting an Information Session on June 18, 1999 at 1:30 p.m. at the Elkwater Community Hail. Information regarding the draw procedures and any questions the public may have will be answered at that time. Information packages may be obtained from: Natural Resouces Service Cypress Hills Provincial Park Box 12 Elkwater, Alberta T0J 1C0 Telephone: (403) 893-3777 OR Natural Resources Service Medicine Hat Area Office Medicine Hat Provincial Building Room 301, 346 3rd Street S.E.

Medicine Hat, Alberta T1A 0G7 Telephone: (403) 528-5228 (outside of the local calling area, dial toll free 310-0000) Applications for this draw must be received no later than 1:30 p.m. local time on June 28, 1999 at either of the above noted offices. It is the responsibility of all applicants to ensure that all required documents are received on time in order to be considered. Doug Radke Deputy Minister SUPPLY AND INSTALL REPLACEMENT CARD ACCESS SECURITY SYSTEMS AT TWENTY SIX LOCATIONS WITHIN OUR DISTRICT FOR FURTHER DETAILS AND SPECIFICATIONS CONTACT: HERMAN deWOLDE FACILITIES MANAGER MECHELECT CHINOOK EDGE SCHOOL DIVISION 73 PHONE: 403-227-0144 FAX: 403-227-0143 EMAIL: hdewoldecfiinooksedge.ab.ca WE SELL ALMOST ANYTHING We cost almost nothing who knows why you bought it but now you want to sell it! Call 235-0511 1 1 Legal, Public Notices 899 playback. "After those first two or three weeks things really improved," Blakey says.

"And I haven't seen those problems crop up again." Leanne Niblock didn't stick around long enough to see the problems get worked out. Now an investigative reporter with Calgary 7, Niblock first arrived in Calgary from a television station in Red Deer as the weekend weather reporter for A-Channel. Niblock was only at the station for a month before being hired by Calgary 7, but she remembers those early days well. "That introductory music would start and I would get knots in my stomach and Expropriation Act Revised Statutes of Alberta Chapter E-1 6 (Section 8) Quotable first five minutes to the story, before moving on with the other news of the day. On the A-Channel's Live Five news program, though, a wide variety of stories revolving around the Taber shooting dominated the first 27 minutes of its one-hour newscast.

"That was done by design," Campbell says. "We feel there is one story every day that is at the top of most people's minds. On that day, it was the shooting in Taber." This vastly different way of telling the news appears to be winning over some viewers. The station has managed, in a very short time frame, to really make names of its various personalities. Meteorologist Darr Maqbool, who nervously stumbled and mumbled through the first month of programming, has developed somewhat of a cult following in this city.

Last year, he made the cover of FFWD weekly newspaper with the headline, "He's hip, he's cool, he's Darr Maqbool." Maqbool would now be hard-pressed to walk down city streets without being noticed by passers-by. Other personalities, like Jebb Fink and Dave Kelly respective hosts of The Big Breakfast program are regularly seen at media events and charity fund-raisers. All this exposure keeps A-Channel at the top of the mind with its viewers and in the rear view mirrors of its competition. When The Big Breakfast program launched, for example, the only other morning news program in the city, Channel 7's The Breakfast Show suddenly moved its format away from the very casual style that Fink and Kelly seem so comfortable with, back to the more traditional behind-the-desk format. While management at Channel 7 says the move to the traditional format was planned long before A-Channel was launched, Blakey feels there has to be a connection between the launch and Channel 7 "throwing in the towel on the casual style." Even the mighty CFCN seems to notice what A-Channel is doing.

Earlier this spring, when all of the evening news programs were focusing on the recently released provincial budget, an uncomfortable-looking Darrel Janz was seen seated on a stool surrounded by a panel of five guests talking budget talk. The scene was eerily familiar to some of the many round-table discussions A-Channel has produced since it was first launched. Again, CFCN denies lifting this format from the upstart station, and Campbell just chuckles. "I guess I'm surprised and a little bit flattered," he says. "We certainly seem to be setting the agenda more." It's hard not to notice how sparse Drew Craig's office appears when seated across from him.

His south-facing wall is nothing but a series of shelves, most of them bare. A few have been filled. One supports a Pro-Max award, on another sits a CanPro trophy, and on a third an acknowledgment from AMPIA. As far as Craig is concerned, the acronyms aren't important; their significance is. They signify elements of success in a short period of time.

And Craig has no intention of filling his shelves with anything other than more awards in the years to come. "We're really looking for that slow, steady, incremental growth, and it's something we're seeing." More importantly, that means more and more Calgarians are seeing A-Channel, and welcoming the station into their daily viewing habits. As Blakey puts it, "There's no question. The A-Channel is now a part of this city." Gary Oavies is the editor of Calgary magazine, in which this story currently appears. GARY DAVIES For the Calgary Herald Glen Carter remembers those first two nights all too well.

The 6 p.m. news anchor of Calgary's brand new television station had spent those evenings standing in front of the camera looking like a deer in headlights. And things weren't much better on the third night. Carter gave his scripted lead-in to one of A-ChanneFs top stories, but the videotape that was to follow never appeared on screen. Instead, viewers were simply left staring at Carter, who finally looked disgustedly into the camera and rolled his index finger as if to gesture, "For God's sake, move on to something else." That something else turned out to be the 7th Avenue S.W.

LRT tracks, just outside of A-Channel's brand new studio. For a full six minutes, the only thing A-Channel viewers saw on their TV screens was the LRT zooming past every couple of minutes. This was a new television station going through some of the most painful growing pains ever witnessed. And it all must have left Carter wondering why he left his job in Ottawa to come to this. "Those were some painful days," Carter recalls.

"But they seem even more painful now looking back at them than they did at the time. Now, I almost never think about it." And for good reason. When the most recent television ratings book came out in early May, Carter's numbers were up way up. According to the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement (BBM), A-Channel's 6 p.m. newscast is now being watched by 25,100 Calgarians between the ages of 18-49, as compared to only 12,000 Calgarians a year ago.

Those are numbers that have not only Carter, but everyone else at A-Channel in pretty good spirits these days. After 20 months in business, A-Channel finds itself the No. 3 television station in a four-station market. And while the station is making incredible gains in all areas of its programming, the new kid on the television block doesn't have the older stations looking over their shoulders just yet. CFCN, with its 159,000 6 p.m news viewers, and Calgary 7, with 85,000 TV watchers in the same time slot, still have solid holds on the No.

1 and 2 spots in the Calgary marketplace. But neither station can say they haven't been paying attention to A-Channel's efforts. When A-Channel was first launched on the evening of Sept. 20, 1997, it arrived with a format Calgarians had never witnessed before. News anchors who stood directly in front of the camera and not behind a desk; a prime-time lineup of re-runs of long-running shows; and more movies over more hours than you could ever watch.

A-Channel also imported a number of its personalities from stations across the country, rather than relying on second-string, tried-and-true local talent. Calgarians were suddenly seeing their city in a whole different light, and it took them a while to warm up to it. Along with A-Channel's early technical difficulties (much of which were blamed on a new digital playback system that no one seemed to know how to use), the station was staffed with a lot of young, energetic, but relatively inexperienced talent. "I really don't think they had done enough training with the equipment before they launched," says Calgary Herald television columnist Bob Blakey. Those were some painful days.

99 Glen Carter talking about A-Channel's START-UP 1. TAKE NOTICE THAT The City of Calgary intends-to expropriate the following lands: PLAN 4SS3AB BLOCK 2 LOT 3 EXCEPTING THEREOUT ALL MINES AND MINERALS AND THE RIGHT TO WORK THE SAME (the 2. The nature of the interest in the land intended to be expropriated is the fee simple estate and all other encumbrances, liens, estates or interests registered against the Lands. 3. The work or purpose for which the interest in the Lands is required is for the widening and upgrading of Glenmore Trail S.E..

4. Section 6 of the Act provides that: (a) No person may in any proceedings under this Act dispute the right of an expropriating authority to have recourse to expropriation. (b) In any proceedings under this Act the owner may question whether the taking of the land, or the estate or interest therein, is fair, sound and reasonably necessary in the achievement of the objectives of the expropriating authority. 5. Section 10 of the Act provides that: (a) An owner who desires an inquiry shall serve the approving authority with a notice of objection: (i) in the case of an owner served in accordance with section 8(2), within 21 days of service on him of the notice of intention, and (ii) in any other case, within 21 days after the first publication of the notice of intention.

(b) The notice of objection shall state: (i) the name and address of the person objecting, (ii) the nature of the objection, (iil) the grounds on which the objection is based, and (iv) the nature of the interest of the person objecting. 6. A person affected by the proposed expropriation does not need to serve an objection to the expropriation in order to preserve his right to have the amount of compensation payable determined by the Board or the Court, as the case may be. 7. The approving authority with respect to this expropriation is The Council of The City of Calgary, P.O.

Box 2100, Postal Station think what's going to happen today," Niblock says. "But there was always great energy in that place. There were all these young people and they were all really excited about getting this news program to air." That youthful energy and excitement has paid off for A-Channel, if in perception alone. "They're everywhere those guys," Blakey says. "They're all over the city.

I see those black-and-yellow trucks all over the place. They'll cover almost anything, it seems, even if it's not in their demographic." Blakey is not far off. It's very rare to attend a media event in this city and not see a representative from A-Channel. It has led other media to postulate that A-Channel will cover any news release sent its way. News director Mark Campbell says it's not that simple.

"We are committed to and we must fill five hours of local news programming a day," Campbell says. "We have story meetings every morning and we have a very straightforward agenda to cover all the news that happens in this city." Sometimes, though, A-Channel doesn't just cover the news, it beats it to death. For example, on the day that two high school students were shot in Taber, every other television station in the city devoted the THE IS Calgary, Alberta, T2P 2M5. DATED effective this 26th day of April, 1999. Larry Brown Diana Gamer ACTING LEADER CITY CLERK CORPORATE PROPERTIES GROUP CITY OF CALGARY LAW DEPARTMENT.