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Saturday, June 15, 1996 ADVOCATE Manitoba firm seeks TV licence HOME FRONT rmT United Way seat Photo by JERRY GERLINGAdvocate staff Former, present students, staff of Camille J. Lerouge Collegiate High School, spell out school letters Friday Cheryl Murphy has been elected to the United Ways national board of directors for three years. Murphy joined the local board in 1991 and was named president in 1993 before becoming general campaign chair in 1 994. A member of the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce and of Beta Sigma Phi, Murphy is a partner with her husband Terry in T.A Murphy Petroleum Services. Fond farewell to CJLC By JIM LOZERON Advocate staff Lin Radford, chair of the school council, said the new 15-million state-of-the art Notre Dame High School will prepare students for the 21st century.

But Camille has a great history which shouldnt be forgotten, said Radford. Most of the 500 students transferring to Notre Dame from Camille are excited about the move, said guidance counsellor Dan Reilly. The students more than anything else are just pumped up about the new high school, he said. As a final tribute to Camille, students, dignitaries, parents and school staff posed for a group picture taken from a 300-metre fire department aerial ladder, forming the letters CJLC as they stood on the lawn outside the school. Camille will cease to be a high school on June 27 when students finish writing their final exams.

Kruchten said the school has produced about 4,000 graduates since it opened 28 years ago. tion in Red Deer. Like other former students who spoke at the function, Volk had fond memories of his time at Camille. It was the students and teachers who made the school special, he said. Camille was like a home because of the school spirit, said Volk.

As you move to Notre Dame the home will go with you, Volk told about 700 students attending attending the ceremony. The building will remain here and it will be home for a new group of students, but you will take that spirit with you and Notre Dame will become the power house of high schools in the city, he predicted. Camille principal Bob Kruchten who will bring his staff of about 45 to Notre Dame said he has mixed feelings about leaving the old high school. I am going to miss the facility, but the real attachments are the people and they will going with us, said Kruchten, principal for the past 18 years. Ten years ago Jason Volk helped paint a mural on the gymnasium wall at Red Deers Camille J.

Lerouge Collegiate. The mural bearing the moniker of the Catholic high schools sports teams says home of the Cougars. The city councillor who graduated from Camille in 1986 returned to his alma mater on Friday afternoon. A celebration was held to bid farewell to the high school which opened in September 1968 and to welcome the new Notre Dame High School. This fall, Notre Dame will open on the east side and Camille will become a French immersion school for kindergarten through Grade 9.

Ecole Camille J. Lerouge, as the school will be known, will retain the name of a former separate school district trustee and secretary treasurer who devoted more than 30 years to Catholic educa Pork awards Central Albertans have swept the awards at this years Alberta Pork Congress. Herb Holoboff, owner of Quality Feeds in Lacombe, was presented with the Industry Leadership award. Lenz Farms at Bentley was named ProgressivQProducer of the year, while Fergus Hand of Rimbey is Herdsman of the year. Travel agent plans fees By PAT ROCHE Advocate staff A Manitoba broadcaster hopes to open an Edmonton TV station that will broadcast into Red Deer.

Craig Broadcast Systems has applied to the CRTC for a licence to open stations in Edmonton and Calgary. Established in 1948, Craig broadcasting has stations in Winnipeg and Brandon with about 160 staff If the plan gets the CRTC nod by late fall, the Alberta stations would open by September, said executive vice-president Boyd Craig, grandson of the companys founder. CanWest Global is also seeking CRTC approval to open stations in Calgary and Edmonton with a broadcast into Red Deer. Only one of the two applications for new Edmonton and Calgary stations is likely to be approved. Neither sits well with RDTV.

Theres absolutely no benefit for the community, said Lloyd Lewis, RDTVs assistant general manager. Craig promises to create the equivalent of 139 full-time jobs in Edmonton and another 139 in Calgary. No jobs will be created in Central Alberta. But CRTC rules would prohibit the proposed new Edmonton and Calgary stations from selling advertising in the Red Deer area. It wont increase the viewership.

It will just redistribute it, said Lewis. Besides taking away viewers, the proposed stations would likely erode RDTVs national and regional ad revenue, said Lewis. We have 72 employees who live in the community and get involved in Central Alberta every day, he added. RDTV is owned by Western International Communications (WIC) base in Vancouver. If someone wants to open a station in Red Deer and create jobs in the community RDTV would consider that fair competition, said Lewis.

Craig expected opposition from RDTV. So in the CRTC application Craig is offering RDTV an opportunity to run its RDTV commercials on the Craig station free of charge. Heres how it would work. Craig would sell advertising in the Edmonton area that would be aired in the Edmonton area. When that signal is broadcast in the Red Deer area, RDTV will have the option of running its own commercials over Craigs local ads.

RDTVs Lewis said this wouldnt compensate for the potential loss of market share and further diluting of ad revenue coming into Alberta. RDTV can now run some of its commercials on ITVs station. Excluding building costs, Craig broadcasting plans to spend $12 million on equipment for the new stations and $10 million to cover operating losses until the new stations are self-sustaining, Craig said. Private sources are providing the full $22 million, said Craig. The investorowners are: Craig broadcasting, 60 per cent.

The Shortell family, who own a TV and radio station in Lloydminster, 10 per cent. Toronto-Dominion Capital Group, an investment arm of TD Bank, 30 per cent. I think it says a lot about the strength of our proposal that they (TD) would get involved, said Craig. In 1994 Craig and CanWest Global unsuccessfully sought CRTC approval to start an Edmonton station that would broadcast into Red Deer. is a crock? reached the limit in tolerance.

Comprehensive polling done for Alberta Lotteries between 1993 and 1995 shows public tolerance for gambling is declining. Fifty per cent of people surveyed in February 1995 said there was too much gaming in Alberta compared to 39 per cent 14 months earlier. But to turn the cards up and suggest we have a problem in this province with teenage gambling is a red herring. The problem may be that the province has become addicted to the lucrative money that it gets from gaming You want to help gamblers? Then focus on helping the ones who really have the problem adults. There are legitimate concerns about gambling in Alberta especially since the advent of those addictive video lottery terminals that can swallow a persons entire life.

Parents of teenagers shouldn't worry about the results of the study. There ore many more important and larger matters to concern yourself with regarding your children. You can bet on it. Mary-Ann Barr is the Advocates assistant city editor. Her column appears Tuesdays and Saturdays.

City road closure A main road in northwest Red Deer is closed for three weeks due to construction. Goldenwest Avenue north of 67th Street will be closed as crews work on water and sanitary mains. Motorists are asked to detour on 68th Avenue until July 5. Drummond sale advanced Sale of the bankrupt Drummond brewery has been moved ahead two weeks. Last March the closing date was postponed to June 30.

Its now slated for July 16, said bankruptcy trustee Guy Levy with Ernst Young in Calgary. Vancouver-based ITI World Investment Group Inc. agreed last October to buy the mothballed Red Deer plant in a joint venture with Tsingtao Brewery of China. Tsingtao plans to brew beer in Red Deer to replace Tsingtao beer now imported from China. Its main market would be Chinese restaurants in North America.

line ticket issued, $10 for a hotel booking at the corporate or government rate, $10 for rush delivery of tickets or other documents and $10 for two or more changes to travel itineraries. In recent months agents commissions have dropped because of cheap airline fares, particularly to western Canadian destinations. This week, Air Canada and Canadian Airlines International announced they will cap commissions paid to agents at $60 for domestic and trans-border flights, saving the airlines up to $37 million a year. Martin Charlwood, Uniglobes executive vice-president in Vancouver, said the introduction of service fees is not directly related to the Air Canada and Canadian Airlines commission cap. The introduction of fee-for-ser-vice was coming to the North American travel market, he said.

This has speeded the process up. By Advocate staff and CP At least Red Deer travel agent plans to levy user fees on the public. Uniglobe Waines Travel is following the lead of Uniglobe Travel International, which recommended that its 190 Canadian franchises begin charging for their services. Well be implementing that policy, said Doug Waines, owner of Uniglobe Waines Travel in Red Deer. He referred inquires to the franchises Vancouver head office.

Traditionally, travel agents have made their money from commissions paid by airlines and other suppliers of travel products. Most Canadian travel agents havent charged customers. Uniglobe Travel International is considering charges ranging from $1 for collecting Vancouvers airport improvement fee to $25 for putting together a complicated vacation package. Other fees include $5 for each air Learn to save a life Every year 600 Canadians require a bone marrow transplant. You can do your part in saving a life by joining a bone marrow registry.

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We would like to hear from you if you see something worthy of a news story, a photo or some other coverage in the Advocate. And we would appreciate hearing from you if you see something wrong in the pages of the Advocate. We strive for complete, accurate coverage of Central Alberta and are happy to correct any errors we may commit. few bucks into something like a hockey pool. Camille principal Bob Kruchten says he has no knowledge of kids gambling.

To top it all, the local AADAC office also has not one single teenage gambling client, says area supervisor Craig Staniforth. He does say: Were seeing more problems in gambling with adults and from my perception its only a matter of time before that starts filtering down. Fortunately Lotteries Minister Steve West has also expressed some skepticism about the study. He said the study was too vague in explaining how it weighed different kinds of gambling. A lot of the teenage gambling that researchers included in their conclusion involved betting on hockey or basketball games.

If you extract that kind of gambling, I dont think it would be eight per cent, it would be three or four per cent, said West. If the study is used by AADAC to argue for extra funding to help teenage gamblers, the government should be astute enough to say no. The concern about gambling should focus on whether the public has Burn the Monopoly game, put your playing cards under lock and key and discourage your teenager from being a sports fan. While youre at it, never ever let your child see you scratching a lottery ticket or buying a raffle ticket to support a local community group. The evils of gambling have permeated the lives of eight per cent of our renagers and another 15 per cent of them are at risk.

That is, if you believe a study on gambling by adolescents ages 12 to 17. The Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commissions $67,000 study was based on interviews with 1,000 randomly selected teens. There are plenty of things to worry about when it comes to teenagers. Thanks to the survey, we could add gambling to the list. But you wont see it on my list.

I think its a crock. The report says Alberta has one of the highest rates of teenage problem gamblers in North America. I know lots of teenagers none of them are remotely preoccupied with gambling. Booze, drugs, sex, believing theyre invincible, peer, school and parental pressure, sorting through the confu sion of so much change, making choices, learning to be responsible yet having more and more freedom these are the teenage years. But gambling? What a farce.

I was bewildered when the report was first released. Had I missed something? It was like strange lights in the night sky unbelievable. An AADAC spokesperson said most of the gambling by teens involves betting on board games with family or friends, card games or sports. Yet when asked about the survey, guidance counsellor Addison Wilson at Hunting Hills High School (who also worked at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School for four years) said: I have not run into a single case. Steve Sivernagle, an 18-year-old Camille J.

Lerouge student, says of all his friends, maybe a couple have put a Carolyn Martindale City editor Mary-Ann Barr Assistant city editor Advocate newsroom: 343-2400 (days) 346-2460 (nights) 341-6560 (fax line).