Danielle is a wheelchair basketball athlete. She used to be captain of MacEwans basketball team about 10 years ago then she got muscular dystrophy. She turned to wheelchair basketball and embraced this challenge with passion, making the National Team six months after diagnosis. That same year she began a four-year winning streak of the Canadian Women's Championships, and brought home a Bronze Medal from the Athens Paralympics. Now she's training for the Beijing Olympics. She is Edmonton's latest Hall of Fame inductee and is also up for the Sportswomen of the Year Awards - contending for the award is also Hayley Wickenheiser (hockey) and Kelly Scott (curling). The decision is to be made mid-October.

Russ Berrie and Company Inc. creates smiles all over the world. A leader in the gift and juvenile industry, they design, develop, and distribute innovative products that help people celebrate and commemorate milestones in their lives. RUSS® has partnered with the International Star Registry® in a revolutionary new Shining Stars™ program. The program includes a plush Shining Star® friend, crafted using only the finest of materials and identifiable by the star icon and embroidered Shining Stars® logo on the paw pad... and the chance to literally become a star by having your name recorded with a star in the sky. Since 1989, Starlight Children's Foundation Canada has enhanced the lives of countless children and their families. By granting wishes, providing state-of-the-art Fun Centers for audiovisual entertainment in pediatric hospitals and the Kids Activity Network, over 12,000 children now benefit from the Foundation's services in Canada each month, with over 5,000 in Quebec. Services are provided for children with serious, chronic or life threatening illnesses, aged 4 - 18 years.

Three friends from Medicine Hat wrote "The Big Cook" which tries to turn around the lost art of cooking for your family. They get together for a food prep "bee" making 200 meals in one day! They chop and prepare all the ingredients--pop in a zippy and freeze them.

The Big Cook
Book signing - Today from 2-4pm:
Inspirations, Sherwood Park
(780) 449-0455
Tonight @ 7pm
Sherwood Park Pentecostal Assembly, Sherwood Park
www.thebigcook.com

Bridget is joined by Patrick Warburton. EIFF is proud to present the Canadian Premiere of this blistering (and at times, blisteringly profane and funny) multiple-award winner. Ultra-misogynist Maxwell Bright (Patrick Warburton: Seinfeld, The Tick, Family Guy), fed up with dating American women, decides to get a mail order bride from China. Things go well for him at first as she appears as subservient as advertised, but when he embarrasses her (and himself) in front of his friends at a poker night, he finds that she is much more than just a prim and proper housewife. In fact, she just might lead this unlikable jerk to redemption (or will she?).