Drupal Omega: Print region outside of section

page.tpl.php

//Your region won't be rendered if it doesn't have a zone. There is a work-around for your use-case. All the //regions that are not being printed get placed in $page['#excluded']. You can use hook_page_alter() to move a //region from there to the part of the $page array that gets forwarded to the templates.
//source: http://drupal.org/node/1200272

$page['my_new_region'] = $page['#excluded']['my_new_region'];