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Saskatonian Jesse Beyer will deliver come sunshine or rain as Global Edmonton's newest member of their #1 weather team! by emil tiedemann " G O big or go home!" That's what local meteorologist Jesse Beyer told himself when he made the decision to spend a year in Australia after he finished high school in hometown Saskatoon.  It's an adage that he seems to have stuck with through the years, as he now gets set to take over the six o'clock weather over at Edmonton's #1 news station, Global . Can't get much bigger than that!  Jesse Beyer (center) with Global's six o'clock anchors Nancy Carlson & Gord Steinke When Beyer, 27, returned home from Aussieland, he enrolled in NAIT's Radio & Television program and upon graduating found work as an intern at CHAT TV in Medicine Hat. Then he spent a year as the six & ten o'clock weatherman at Saskatoon's division of Global, and then two and a half years over at Edmonton...

What would Global News anchor Carole Anne Devaney want to read, listen to, or watch if she were stranded on a deserted island?  BY EMIL TIEDEMANN Since she was 17 in English class, Ottawa-born Carole Anne Devaney knew she wanted to be in journalism. W hen Lynda Steele announced that she was leaving Global Edmonton in 2010 to move to Vancouver, we were devastated. Okay, maybe we weren't devastated , but there was no doubt whoever was to take her place had some big shoes to fill. But, by the end of 2011, Ottawa's Carole Anne Devaney took over as Gord Steinke 's co-anchor of Global's News Hour , and it was as though she had always been there. "This is such a perfect fit for me," Devaney said when she accepted the job. "The position really plays to my strengths and skills." Devaney--who speaks three languages btw--graduated from Ottawa's Carleton University School of Journalism, and is the winner of an RTNDA Canada Award for her work on ...

Local headlines usually focus on the bad and the ugly, but not these ones... I HEART Edmonton is fully aware that there's an abundance of shitty things going on all over the world, as well as right here in our own neck of the woods. But our days are crammed with these ongoing updates of car accidents, earthquakes & hurricanes, homicides, suicides, war & terrorists, etc., etc., etc. So, let I Heart bring you some good news for once. The Edmonton Examiner - Fashion industry going eco-friendly - Bike-a-thon helps build new home - Students design recyclable dresses - Thunder capture bronze at Esso Cup The Unknown Studio - Episode the 23rd: Music, Edmonton and Erica Viegas (pictured below) Citytv Edmonton - Helping a family a world away (video) - Her memory lives on/ Katherine Hay (video) The Edmonton Journal - Mandel proposes LRT expansion without raising taxes - Edmonton city council gives thumbs up to Jerry Forbes Centre - Korean foundation eyes multicultural centre - P...

Edmonton teen spells his way to nationals at today's regional spelling bee BY EMIL TIEDEMANN He's only 13-years-old, but Jared Barron of Edmonton's Ottewell Junior High School could easily kick my ass! At spelling, that is. You see, the 8th grader won today's (February 20) 2010 Canwest Canspell Northern Alberta Spelling Bee , presented by the Edmonton Journal . His winning word was auricular , which--according to Wiktionary --means "of or pertaining to the ear." Don't ask me to use it in a sentence though. "I was mostly thinking just that I want somebody to get a word right so that we could get on with it," Barron said after he beat out runner-up Allison Probst , an 11-year-old who attends Grade 6 at Calmar Elementary School . Barron won himself a trophy, $5,000, and a trip to Ottawa to compete in the National Spelling Bee from March 24th to the 29th. And we can't forget about bragging rights! There was a total of 68 students (Grades 4-8) ...

Five local stories from February 18, 2010 I HEART Edmonton is fully aware that there's A LOT of bad things going on all over the globe, and in our own backyard, too. But our days are over-saturated with these steady updates of car accidents, homicides, natural disasters, war, etc., so let I Heart bring you some good news for once... Edmonton Journal - United Way raised $20.6M in Edmonton area Edmonton Sun - Edmonton prima ballerina in 'Moulin Rouge' (pictured) Global Edmonton - Olympic men's curling: Canada defeats Sweden 7-3 Edmonton Examiner - Edmontonians put their hearts into Mazankowski fundraiser Metro Edmonton - Edmonton doctor to lend helping hand in Haiti e