Red Deer Advocate from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada • 8

A8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, March 10, 2007 Ottawa inventor comes up with Rimroller EDMONTON (CP) A popular Edmonton nightclub has a 12 metre-square hole above its dance floor after a buildup of snow and ice caused the roof to cave in. District fire chief Ron Toker says a buildup of ice and water likely due to a plugged drain was responsible for the collapse of the roof of Urban Lounge, just off the citys trendy Whyte Ave. Only a janitor was in the bar when the collapse began early Friday morning. Bv Canadian Press Of tlu millions of winners, big and small, who have struck it lucky with Tim Hortons annual Hull Up the Rim to Win sweepstakes, an Ottawa inventor might be sitt i ng on the biggest windfall yet. Three years ago, Paul Kind began tinkering with a device that he hoped would take the frustration out of the tedious task of rolling up the rim in hopes of discovering a prize-winning message a task Canadians every where have grown accustomed to performing repetitively between March and May each year.

1 thought surely there must be a better way to get this rim up, because myself like a lot of people we go to Tim Hortons, and we like the Roll Up the Rim to Win contest, but you know its hard on your fingers, its hard on your teeth, said Kind on Friday. After three years, a dozen different models, hundreds of test cups, and more coffee than he had bargained for, the Rimroller was born in the form of a plastic gadget the size of a bottle opener that slices open and unrolls a coffee cup rim in just one motion. Selling for $2 at Lee Valley Hardware stores, and online at the stores website, the device is said to take only a second and it saves you from broken fingernails or wax in the teeth. The gadgets are available through www.leevalley.com, although Kind admits that the price of shipping is probably higher than the Rimrollers $2 price tag. Several blocks were also shut down and gas to the building was shut off after the collapse caused a natural gas leak.

Urban Lounge owner Tim Fuhr, who arrived on the scene shortly after the collapse, fought back tears after he surveyed the damage. He says there was no warning, and hes glad the accident happened in the morning, as opposed to during a busy Friday night. Long-time Bowden councillor dies on the board of the Parkland Foundation, which manages two seniors lodges. She recently received the Alberta Centennial Medal in recognition of her work in the community. My thoughts and feelings go out to her family, said Berggren.

Lane was born in Nova Scotia and relocated to Bowden in 1979, after living in Calgary for more than a decade. She leaves behind her husband Lloyd, their daughter Colleen and two grandchildren. She was predeceased by two young sons. Lanes death leaves the Town of Bowden short of two councillors. Berggren said Andy Plummer stepped down in January when he moved away from the community.

Town council will discuss whether it can operate with five councillors until the municipal election in October or have a by-election. By LANA M1CHELIN Advocate staff Long time Bowden town councillor Mildred Lane, a passionate supporter of the local library and seniors lodges, died on Wednesday at the age of 64. Bowden Mayor Cody Berggren said Lane had been suffering from cancer, but had made it though her first round of chemotherapy without problems. Her death during the second round came as a shock to those who knew her. Berggren will remember Lane as a kind hearted person with a team approach to sitting on town council a job she held for 23 years.

Never a grandstander, Lane only spoke out when she had a valid idea to put forward, said Berggren, who will feel the loss of her vast experience. Berggren said Lane was an especially active supporter of the town library and sat TB case investigated the lungs, is relatively rare iri Canada but common in parts of the developing world plagued by poverty, malnutrition and poor general health. Hundreds of temporary Filipino workers are at the site and live in nearby camps, but Coll said the infected person was a Canadian. A public health nurse visited the site on Feb. 28, conducted interviews and tested 21 workers who had been in close contact with the infected former employee.

Results were negative. Basically, what weve done was to fully co-operate with the health region, and our on-site response to the situation has been under their direction, Coll said. A health official confirmed the disease has surfaced in other camps over the years. ANZAC (CP) A case of tuberculosis at a northern Alberta oilsands construction project has alarmed some workers, but health officials say the infection has been contained. A spokesman for Opti-Nexens Long Lake project said the company was notified by public health officials in February that a former project worker had tested positive for TB.

That person left the Long Lake site in mid January this year, said David Coll. Managers met with close to 400 workers Wednesday morning to give them information about the communicable disease. They talked to us (about) what TB is, but they wouldnt identify who the person was, what camp or what area the person worked in, said one worker. Tuberculosis, a disease of Man admits to fraud to do home renovations. He then took another $845 from a person on Nov.

30, 2005 for work. He also took $3,200 from a man in Consort for work on a business which was never done. Defence lawyer Michael Scrase said his client took on too much work and felt overwhelmed when he couldnt meet his end of the bargain. He then fled the area and moved to Edson. Court heard Prodeahl had a previous serious alcohol problem which included eight prior drunk driving convictions.

However, he didnt have a previous conviction for crimes of dishonesty. By Advocate staff A man who defrauded residents in the Consort and Coronation area out of $7,000 in renovations pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court Friday. Barry Prodeahl, 54, who now lives in Edson, received a two-year suspended sentence and was ordered to repay the money for work he didnt perform in 2005 and 2006. Prodeahl had been in custody for two weeks since his arrest at a routine traffic stop in Valleyview on Feb. 23.

Court heard that on July 24, 2005 the accused took a $2,835 deposit from a couple We have carefully printed the names of each and every one of our 560 donors on this dot. If you dont have an electron microscope handy, please go to our website at sciencealberta.org. Thanks to these donors, we inspired more than 700,000 young minds in Alberta to invent their future. Road bans start Monday Red Deer County is imposing spring road bans starting at 7 a.m. on Monday.

Engineering manager Marty Campbell said the frost is starting to come out of the ground, necessitating a 75 per cent road ban on all paved or chip sealed roads excluding all industrial and commercial subdivisions. This means trucks are only allowed to carry 75 per cent of their maximum allowable weight. Trucks on gravel roads have to reduce their axle weight allowance to 90 percent. For more information, call 350 2158, or visit the Red Deer County website at www.reddeercounty.ab.ca. They guarantee it.

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