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2AREA ADVISOR ~ Our Community CalendarAREA ADVISOR ~ Our
Community CalendarMONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Dec 3rd, 5:00pm Diamond ValleyLight Up, Black Diamond.
Photoswith Santa, Pet photos withSanta, Chilli Cook-off.
SUNDAY
2nd & 4th Monday - Quilting 12:30 4:00p.m. Griffiths Senior
Centre, Black Dia-mond.
403-933-4036.-------------------------------------------------------9:30am
Floor Curling Valley NeighboursClub
403-933-4445.--------------------------------------------------------9:30
~ 10:45 YOGAfor beginners and all lev-els, Millarville. Margit
403-931-3649.-------------------------------------------------------11:00am
- 11:45am Chair Exercises.Griffiths Senior Centre, Black
Diamond.403-933-4036.-------------------------------------------------------12:30
~ 1:30 YOGAfor beginners and all lev-els, Priddis Community Hall,
drop ins wel-come. Margit
403-931-3649.--------------------------------------------------------1:00
~ 3:00pm Decorative Painting SheepCreekArts Council
403-938-2032.--------------------------------------------------------1:00pm
Euchre Valley Neighbours Club
-403-933-4445.--------------------------------------------------------1:00pm
Story time for 3 to 5 year olds.Sheep River Library.
403-933-3278.--------------------------------------------------------2nd/every
month 6:30pm Legion ExecutiveMeetings 403-933-4600. No July &
Augustmeetings.--------------------------------------------------------7:00
~ 9:00pm Beginner Acrylic Painting -Autumn Scene. Sheep Creek Arts
Council.403-933-4020.
403-
403-933-7464.--------------------------------------------------------
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403- NoJuly &August meetings.
403-
Business Meet-
ing Senior
--------------------------------------------------------3rd/every
month Coffee Chatter OkotoksSNAPS Orvella Small -
403-603-3232.--------------------------------------------------------9:30
~ 11:00 am - Yoga in Longview.
Kendra403-558-3696.--------------------------------------------------------10:00
~ 10:45amArt with Little Ones. SheepCreekArts Council.
403-933-4020.--------------------------------------------------------10:45am
Book Buddies Sheep River Li-brary.
403-933-3278.--------------------------------------------------------1:00
or 7:00pm Knitting Club Sheep CreekArts Council
403-933-3376.--------------------------------------------------------
Valley NeighboursClub
403-933-4445.--------------------------------------------------------6:00
~ 7:00pm Belly Dancing Sheep CreekArts Council
403-938-4020.--------------------------------------------------------7:00
~ 8:00pm - Red Deer Lake CommunityCentre - Boot Camp for all levels
- Patti:
403-931-2373.--------------------------------------------------------7::00-
9:00pm Adult Badminton, MillarvilleCommunity School gym.
931-3919.-------------------------------------------------------7:30
~ 9:30pm 1st & 3rd week of month.Scrapbooking Sheep Creek Arts
Council
-403-933-4424.--------------------------------------------------------7:00
~ 8:30pm YOGA Beginners and all lev-els, Priddis Community Hall,
drops in wel-come. Margit
403-931-3649.--------------------------------------------------------7:30pm
Last/every month. Legion LadiesAuxiliary No meetings July &
August.
403-933-4564.--------------------------------------------------------7:30
~ 9:30pm Last/month. Camera ClubSheep CreekArts Council
403-933-2407.
2nd Wednesday Pot Luck Luncheon - 12:00 1:00 p.m. Griffiths
Senior Centre, Black Di-amond.
403-933-4036.-------------------------------------------------------8:45
~ 10:00am - YOGA, Beginners and alllevels, Millarville Community
Hall, drop inwelcome. Margit 403 931
3649.--------------------------------------------------------9:30 ~
12:00 a.m. Floor Curling Griffiths Me-morial Centre, Black Diamond.
403-933-4036.-------------------------------------------------------10:30am
~ 3:30pm 1st & 3rd week of month.Diamond Valley Quilt Club
Sheep CreekArts Council
403-931-3989.--------------------------------------------------------1:00pm
- Bridge at the Valley Neighbours
Club.
403-933-4289.--------------------------------------------------------1:30
~ 3:30pm Last of each month. Volun-teer Sewing/Quilting Bee. Baby
Bags for Litfor Life Prgm
403-995-2660.--------------------------------------------------------5:30pm
Buffet & Darts Drop In Everyone wel-come. Legion Turner Valley
403-933-4564.--------------------------------------------------------6:00
~ 7:00pm Belly Dancing Sheep CreekArts Council
403-938-4020.--------------------------------------------------------6:30
~ 7:30pm Gentle Yoga for beginnersand those that practice.
Millarville RanchersHall. Margit
403-931-3649.--------------------------------------------------------7:00-9:00pm
- every Wednesday Adult Vol-leyball, Millarville Community School
gym.931-3919.--------------------------------------------------------7:30
~ 9:30pm BeginnersAcrylic Painting
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--------------------------------------------------------9:30am
Beginners Yoga Class Drop ins wel-come. Sheep River Library, Turner
Valley-Margit 403 931
3649.--------------------------------------------------------10:00
~ 10:30am Around the World withDance & Play class for Moms
& Tots. SheepCreekArts Council
403-938-4020.--------------------------------------------------------1:00pm
1st/every month General MeetingValley Neighbours Club
403-933-4445.--------------------------------------------------------1:00
3:00 p.m. Cards - Griffiths Senior Cen-tre, Black Diamond.
403-933-4036.--------------------------------------------------------1:30pm
2nd/every month Valley Neigh-bours Gardening Club. Bea
403-933-7131.--------------------------------------------------------5:00
~ 7:30pm Fish & Chip Night / Crib at7:30pm Legion Turner Valley
403-933-4564.
--------------------------------------------------------6:30 ~
7:30pm TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sen-sibly) Valley Neighbours
Club.--------------------------------------------------------7:00 ~
8:30pm 1st/month. YouthAuxiliary Le-gion Turner Valley
403-933-3739.--------------------------------------------------------7:00
~ 9:00pm Beginner Decorative Paint-ing for 4 weeks Sheep Creek Arts
Council403-938-4020.--------------------------------------------------------7:00
~ 9:00pm Decorative Painting SheepCreekArts Council
403-933-4578.
1st, 2nd, 3rd/month 6:30 ~ 8:30pm GymNight Longview School -
George
403-808-9948.--------------------------------------------------------1:00pm
Nickel Bingo Valley NeighboursClub
403-933-4445.-------------------------------------------------------6:30pm
every/other. Bingo at the ValleyNeighbours Club, Lions Club
403-933-3232.--------------------------------------------------------5:00pm
Meat Draw & Chase the Ace (drawat 6:15pm) - Buffet - Wear Red -
LegionTurner Valley 403-933-4564.
11:00am Regular services Longview BibleFellowship -
403-808-9948.
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Nov 28th, Seniors Dinner at theLegion Turner Valley. No dinner
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1st & 3rd/every month 7:00 & 7:30pm LionsClub Meeting at
Legion. Next meeting Sep-tember. Contact Don at
931-3587.--------------------------------------------------------2nd/every
month 1:15pm Sheep River Li-brary Book Club
2nd/every month 7:30pm Millarville Horti-cultural Club (9x per
year) Sheila
403-931-3989.--------------------------------------------------------2nd/every
month Foothills Search & Res-cue Meeting Oilfields General
Hospital.
2nd/every month 7:00pm Legion GeneralMembership Meetings.
933-4600.
--------------------------------------------------------2nd/every
month Coffee Chatter NantonSNAPS Orvella Small
603-3232.--------------------------------------------------------2nd
Tuesday 1:30 to 3:00pm
Griffiths Centre, Black Diamond.403-933-4036.
1:00pm Whist & Bridge
Sheep CreekArts Council 403-933-4020.
Legion Turner Val-ley
403-933-4564.--------------------------------------------------------
Meat Draw, 50/50 & Free Pool Le-gion Turner Valley
403-933-4564.--------------------------------------------------------
2nd & 4th - Quilting at the Griffiths SeniorCenter.
403-933-4036.
9:00 ~ 10:00am - Red Deer Lake Commu-nity Centre - Boot Camp for
all levels - Patti:403-931-2373.
9:30 ~ 11am - Yoga in Longview. Kendra -403-558-3696.
9:00 ~ 11:00am Breakfast
4:30pm
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Dec 12th, 4:00 to 8:00pm - A HighRiver Tradition! Bring your
familyfor fun on the ice. Food bank do-nations are accepted!
BobSnodgrass Recreation Complex.403-652-4042.
Dec 20th 1:00 pm LongviewSchool Christmas Tea. Enjoy cof-fee,
tea and treats while the stu-dents perform a dress rehearsalof
Charles Dickens' A ChristmasCarol.
Dec 7th 6:30 pm High CountryWinter Concert in the gym at
Oil-fields High School, Black Dia-mond: Featuring Band studentsfrom
Oilfields, C. Ian McLaren,Longview, Millarville and TurnerValley
schools.
Dec 21st 7:00 pm Turner ValleySchool The Best Gift Everdrama and
musical productionalso featuring performances bythe school choir
and Grade 6Band students.
Dec 22nd 6:30 pm LongviewSchool Charles Dickens' AChristmas
Carol.
Dec 22nd 6:30-8:00 pm C. Ian Mc-Laren School Black
DiamondChristmas activities and carols.
Dec 22nd 7:00 pm MillarvilleCommunity School
Christmasconcert.
Nov 25th, 2:00 to 8:30pm - Dia-mond Valley Christmas
Market,Flare 'N Derrick, Turner Valley.
Nov 25th, 7:30pm - Live Nativity atLions Campground, Black
Dia-mond. Black Diamond GospelChapel. 403-933-4957.
Nov 25th - Annual LongviewSchool Christmas Fair. Doorsopen at
5:00pm. Tickets: $6 in ad-vance or $7 at the door, includesdinner.
403-601-1753.
Dec 2nd - The 25th Annual SantaClaus Parade and Moonlight
Mad-ness. Parade starts at 6:30pmand many business will stay
openuntil 11pm.
Dec 2nd, 2:00 to 9:00pm Christ-mas Craft Fair Highwood Memo-rial
Centre. 403-652-4042.
Nov 26th Nanton Lights the WayChristmas Festival.
Nov 26th Distinctly Nanton Mar-ket 10:00am to 6:00pm.
NantonCommunity Centre.
Nov 26th, 2:00 to 4:00pm - St.George's (Turner Valley)
Christ-mas Tea and Bake Sale. Fancysandwiches & homemade
cakesfor tea and lots of baked items forsale.
Nov 26th, 7:30pm - Live Nativity atLions Campground, Black
Dia-mond. Black Diamond GospelChapel. 403-933-4957.
Dec 3rd Royal Canadian Legionand Town of Turner Valley
Chil-dren's Christmas Party. Break-f a s t w i t h S a n t a 9 : 3
0 a mand11:30am. 403-933-4564.
Dec 3rd, 1:00 to 3:30pm - HighCountry Lodge Annual Tea &
Ba-zaar. $5.00 per person at the door.There will be a raffle,
silent auc-tion, crafts and baked goods.Carol Bishop
403-933-4028.
Dec 3rd, 10:00am to 3:00pm -Community Christmas FairHighwood
Memorial Centre. 403-652-4042.
Dec 10th, 1:00 to 2:00pm - Cana-dian Pacific Holiday Train
stopsat Blackie opposite Post Office.
Food bank donation requested.
Dec 10th, 11:00am to 4:00pm -Christmas Shopping Gala,Blackie
Community Hall and theI.O.O.F. Hall. Hockey games in thearena.
Dec 31st Royal Canadian Le-gion Turner Valley - New Year'sEve
Social. 403-933-4600.
Dec 31st, 5:00pm - Family NewYear's Eve Celebration Flare
'NDerrick, Turner Valley.
Dec 31st - Children's New Year'sEve Party, Okotoks.
403-938-8950.
Dec 4th, 1:00 to 5:00pm - MarketSquares 1st Annual
ChristmasFestival. Gym at Okotoks
RecCentre:www.themarketsquare.ca.
November 18th to December23rd A Christmas Past, Okotoks
Museum, 49 Elizabeth Street
Wednesday, December 14th toSaturday, December 17th:
Oilfields' Senior High Perform-ing Arts Department presents
anadaptation of Charles Dickens'
Nicholas Nickleby. Tickets at thedoor $2 for December 14th
mat-inee (12:45 pm) and $5 for eve-ning shows December 15th to
17th (7:00 pm).
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3Contributed by IdaWegelin, OilfieldsFoodBankChair
Oilfields Food Bank is now pre-paring for its annual
ChristmasHamper Program. This year, basi-cally, because of the
increasedusage, the increased price of foodand the fact that we are
coming intoline with theOkotoks andHigh RiverFood Banks, we will be
offering themakings of a full turkey dinnerinstead of a general
hamper, to allregistered participants. In order toregister, those
with children shouldregister with Sue, FCSS co-ordinator, at the
Town Office inBlack Diamond (also your childrenwill be registered
for their SantaBags/toys). Adults without chil-dren may register at
the Food Bank(at the United Church in Turner Val-ley) any Tuesday
between 1:00 and3:00pm. Anyone needing a turkeydinner who is unable
to register inperson please call Wendy at 403-
933-5859 or Sue at the Town Officein Black Diamond.
Registrationshould be done as soon as possible preferably before
November 30th in order to allow us to plan and pur-chase for the
dinner hampers.
Regular hampers will be availablefor thosewho need
thembutwewishto remind folks that the Food Bankis an emergency food
source. We arehere to help those folks who experi-ence a short term
emergency.National Food Bank guidelines sug-gest that there should
be no morethan six (6) visits a year. If more vis-its are deemed
necessary we hope toinvestigate the reason and assist indirecting
to other help.
Our communities of Black Dia-mond, Turner Valley,
Longview,Millarville, Priddis and the MD sur-rounding those areas
are extremelyresponsive and generous in that alldonations of food
andmoney to sup-port our Food Bank come from our
local and former residents. Wethank all of you for your
continuedsupport. As alluded to the cost ofoperating our Food Bank
is increas-ing we often see 10 to 15 hamperrecipients a week. The
Firemen wereout on their annual pickup blitz onthe evenings of
November 14th and15th. Donations may be dropped offin the pick-up
boxes throughout thecommunity, dropped off at the FoodBank any
Tuesday between 1:00and 3:00pm and money donationsmay be mailed to
Oilfields FoodBank, Box 1318, Turner Valley, AB,T0L 2A0.
We thank the many volunteerswho in the past have come to
helppack our Christmas hampers. Thisyear we will not require that
workforce, so will be selecting packers.Again, thanks to all who
have helpedand are helping to support OilfieldsFoodBank.Merry
Christmas.
Oilfields Food Bank News
Longview Link By Chey NickersonIf you've had a few min-
utes to drive throughLongview lately, you mayhave noticed the
greatwork that continues infront of the Village Office.The fence is
complete andany extra leftover materi-als have been moved untilnext
spring when the pro-ject continues. Thanks toIvor and Cliff as well
asChase for working so hardto complete that phase of
the project before theground freezes and thesnow flies! Great
job guys!
Longview School will behosting a Christmas Fairon November 25th
at theschool. Check with theschool for more informa-tion on this
event. Also inDecember the ChristmasTea will be held on Decem-ber
20th and the Christ-mas Concert will be on De-cember 22nd. More
infor-
mation on these to follow.The monthly Council
meeting will be held inCouncil Chambers on No-vember 18th and
Decem-ber's will be held on the9th at 3:00pm.
The Longview Jams areback at the Twin Cities Sa-loon on Saturday
after-noon starting at 4:00pm.An acoustic jam is held onSunday from
2:00 to6:00pm to round out the
weekend. Welcome backto Pat &Heather Case.
Keep an eye out forevents in the Village on thesigns in front of
the officeand we'll try to keep youupdated on all events.Have a
great weekChey
There are many waysyou can help RowanHouseEmergency Shelter
whileyou are doing yourChristmas shopping.
Once again we are ask-ing for gift cards for ourChristmas
Campaign. Giftcards allow our women thedignity of buying whatthey
feel they need for theirfamily at Christmas. Weaccept gift cards
for food,gas, clothing, toiletriesand toys. You can choosefrom
local grocery to bigbox stores. All will begreatly appreciated.
Giftcard drop boxes will be setup at a number of localbu s i n e s
s e s b y m i dNovember. Call the officeat 403-938-6785 for
moredetails. Thank you for yourgenerosity.
Why not pick up a bookby a local author as a trulyunique
gift.
is a
woman's story about a pas-sion for motorcycles,travel, self
discovery, vet-eran advocacy, war heal-ing and personal
transfor-mation. The author,Susan Raby-Dunne, hasbeen both an
explorer ofthe open road and a spiri-tual adventurer. She haslived
life-by-motorcycle forover thirty years. Join heron an eclectic
journey ofthe soul and the saddlefrom the highways ofCanada to
America andEurope. Rowan Housereceives a $4.00 donationfrom the
sale of each bookdonated by Susan Raby-Dunne. The book is
avail-able for purchase at theChuckwagon Cafe inTurner Valley.
Both Coco Rouge inOkotoks and Vespucci inHigh River have
anaccount set up in RowanHouse's name. If you are
looking to donate gentlyused clothing these twostores will
forward the pro-ceeds to Rowan House.Now is a good time to cleanout
our closets!
If you prefer to do yourChristmas shopping fromthe comfort of
your ownhome in your pjs thenShop and Share is for you!Just go to
the websitewww.shopandshare.caand select from a widerange of well
known,brand name stores andthen have a portion of theproceeds
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We wish you and yourfamily all the best thisHoliday Season!
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4Submitted by Muriel DaisThe Sheep Creek Arts
Council wishes to announcethe name of the winner ofthe 2011
Scholarship.Laura Spencer, a graduateof Alberta High School ofFine
Arts, has been grantedthe Five Hundred Dollarscholarship. Ms.
Spencer isenrolled in the Theatre Per-formance programme atMount
Royal University.During her three years ofattendance at the
HighSchool of Fine Arts inOkotoks, she participated inthe Mainstage
productionsand has also had employ-ment in front of house
atregional theatres.
Each year the SheepCreek Arts Council providesscholarships for
high schoolgraduates who live withinthe bus zone of OilfieldsHigh
School and who wishto continue their educationsin some aspect of
the arts.Past recipients of thesescholarships have studiedin a wide
variety of artsrelated programmes andhave beenmost appreciativeof
the financial assistancereceived.
The "Octoberfest" cele-brated by Sheep Creek ArtsCouncil on
October 22ndwas a great success forthose attending. The musicof
"Longhaul" was mostenjoyed and the dance floorwas always occupied.
Theartists who made theirworks available for the silent
auction were certainlyappreciated. This first"Octoberfest"
promoted bythe Arts Council was afinancial success as well,but more
importantly, itbrought in communitymem-bers who might not
other-wise be aware of theprogrammes available at theSheepCreek
Arts Council.
After many months ofe f f o r t t h e n ew s i gnannouncing the
location ofSheep Creek Arts Counciland Valley Neighbours' Clubhas
been erected at the westend of the parking lot. SheilaVirgo and her
committee areto be thanked for their nego-tiations which have
resultedin this very attractive sign.As you drive west on
SunsetBoulevard in Turner Valley,please look for the sign.
Arts Council Update
Club Reporter: DanielleBradish
Millarville-Stockland 4-HBeef Club held their firstmeeting of
the year on Octo-ber 12th. This meeting wasa re-organizational
meetingfor all the club members tomeet with the old and newmembers.
At this meetingwe decided on who our exec-utives should be. For
ourPresident we have BrentArkes who was vice presi-dent last year.
Our new VicePresident is ShaelynnBrogden; our new Secretaryis Reil
Lowry; our new Trea-surer is Carson Campbell;our new Club Reporter
isDanielle Bradish; our newHistorian is April Jardie; ournew
District Rep is OliviaSmith.
We have a large club thisyear with eighteen club
members and three CleaverKids. Clubmembers are Benand Brent
Arkes, DanielleBradish, Ethan Beck, FinnBlatz, Shaelynn
Brogden,Carson andElizabethCamp-bell, Hunter Egeland, JoshFrench,
Amy and AprilJardie, Lars Lang, Reil andNolan Lowry, Carlie
Meyer,Wyatt Runge and OliviaSmith. Our Cleaver Kids areEmma
Campbell, SageRunge and Justin Watkins.With our Cleaver Kids wehave
sheep projects insteadof the standard cattle pro-ject. With all the
positionsfilled we ended our firstmeeting of the new4-H year.
The clubs next event wasweigh-in at Black DiamondLand and Cattle
Companyon November 6th. Theweather started out cold butturned into
a beautiful day
with lots of sunshine. All thesteers and heifers lookedhealthy
and fit as theywalked out of the trailers.Thanks to the excellent
han-dling equipment provided tous we were able to tag andweigh all
our projects.Weigh-in went smoothlywith only a couple of
excep-tions due to excited ani-mals. The steer's averageweights
were in a good start-ing range for 4-H Beef mate-rial. Everyone
seemed tohave a good time helping totag and weigh all the
calves.With all the animals back intheir trailers weigh-in wasover
and everyone left.
Millarville-Stockland 4-HBeef Club gives a big thanksto Black
Diamond Land andCattle Company for lettingus use their
facility.
Millarville-Stockland 4-H Beef Club
Dakentaijutsu - JutaijutsuThe founder of this
school, 'Izumo', learned Chi-nese Kempo boxing. Todaysome of
this is still notice-able within the techniques.
Izumo Kanja Yoshiteru isalso credited as being thefounder of the
KukishindenRyu Happo Hikenjutsu(Chapter 3).
Above the door of Toda'sdojo, there was a nameplate,which read
"ShindenfudoRyu Jutaijutsu". In the dojothere was a set of rules
dis-played for all of the studentsto abide by.
These rules are from theShindenfudo Ryu Denshoand are listed as
follows:
1. Know wisdom of beingpatient during times of inac-tivity.
2. Choose the course ofjustice as the path of yourlife.
3. Do not allow your
heart to be controlled by thedemands of greed, ease orpain.
4. Sorrow, pain andresentment should beregarded as natural
quali-ties to be found in life.Therefore, work to cultivatean
inmovable spirit (heart).
5. Hold in your heart theimportance of family loyaltyand aspire
greatly for theways of the pen and thesword with balanced
deter-mination.
Observing the 5 rulesabove is the law of the Dojo.Written at New
Year, Meiji23 (1891).
~ T o d a Sh i n r y u k e nMasamitsu
The secret principle ofShindenfudo Ryu is the"Principle of
Nature".
The Shindenfudo Ryuhas two styles of taijutsu:
Daken t a i j u t su andJ u t a i j u t s u . I n t h e
Dakentaijutsu there are noformal kamae and the use ofnatural
posture is empha-s i z e d , wh i l e i n t h eJutaijutsu there are
5kamae.
The training levels in theDakentaijutsu are:
Ten no kata (8 kata)Chi no kata (8 kata)Shizen Shikoku no kata
(12kata)
The training levels in theJutaijutsu are:
K am a e ( 5 k am a e )Shoden no kata (16 kata)Chuden no kata
(11 kata)Okuden no kata (8 kata)
Hojojutsu is also taughtin this Ryu-ha. It is usedalong side the
taijutsu, tohelp restrain the opponent.
The school uses severaldifferent types of yari, ono(war axe),
O-tsuchi (warhammers) and naginata.
Personal ProtectionHISTORY OF SHINDEN FUDO RYU - Immovable Heart
School
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5Phew! While it is not yetover, the Campaign to en-sure that our
Veterans inneed can continue to rely onassistance from the
PoppyTrust Fund is wrapping upas we write. While we willprobably
fall a little short oflast year's incredible total,the citizens of
our area haveonce again come through inthese hard economic times.We
thank you all for your un-wavering support.
This campaign is a longone through the planning,execution and
wrap-up,though its public face onlybegins locally with the
pre-sentation of the poppies toour civic leaders. It is possi-ble
only through the dedi-cated assistance of many,many volunteers;
they helpdistribute the poppiesthroughout the region, sitwith boxes
at the variouslarge stores and ser-vice/pick up those boxesthat
were placed around inbanks, stores, restaurantsand schools.
Amidst all this was thepreparation for the annualRemembrance Day
Cere-mony. This year once again,a packed house was the or-der of
the day at OilfieldsHigh School where the ser-vice was led by our
co-Chaplains. The assistanceof the Oilfields Cubs andScouts added
to the cere-mony as did the presence ofseveral members of theRCMP
Detachment alongwith members of the Air Ca-dets. Later, a Branch
ColourParty attended to assist witha short ceremony of Remem-brance
at the Okotoks Oil-ers' Hockey game.
All our area schools hold
their own RemembranceDay Ceremonies and we vet-erans who attend
are alwaysmoved by the efforts put intothe presentation.Music,
vid-eos and recitations are oftenpart of the programme andthe
respect with which thespeakers' talks are receivedis a tribute to
the schools,the teachers and the stu-dents.
We are now awaiting theexpected deluge of entriesfor the Poster
and Literarycompetition. These will becollected shortly and put
tothe judges. If our past his-tory is to be relied on,Turner Valley
Branch willonce again receive more en-tries than any other branchin
Canada. We thank ourschools and teachers for tak-ing part in these
annualevents and reminding ouryoung people of the huge im-portance
of rememberingthe debt we owe our servicepersonnel.
Services to veterans inneed are available by con-tacting the
Service Officer atthe branch. This is a veryconfidential service
andnames of those who makeuse of those services arenever announced.
At thistime, more than ever, as theuse of local food banks aswell
as the dedicated veter-ans' food bank in Calgary isincreasing, we
must be evervigilant in protecting our vet-erans from the effects
of eco-nomic or medical hardship.We are seeing more andmore stories
of homeless vet-erans, many suffering fromPost Traumatic Stress
Dis-order resulting from theirservice in various theatres.Pride can
often prevent
them from coming forwardto seek help so somehow, wehave to find
ways to reachout to them.
In Branch business, ourEarly Bird Membershipdrive is entering
its finalphase. All 2012 dues paidon or before November 30thwill
entitle themember to anentry into the draw for one ofsix offers to
refund themoney or pre-pay 2013dues. There has been a sig-nificant
increase in enqui-ries about membership inthe Legion and several
newmember applications wereapproved at the Novembermeeting. We
welcome anywho can subscribe to thegoals of our organisationwhether
or not they have amilitary background. Thereare several membership
cat-egories and most people canbe accommodated withinour
structure.
If you are interested inthe ever-popular seniors'dinners, please
be sure tophone and book your seatsfor the Christmas Dinner tobe
served on Monday, No-vember 28th. The menu willinclude turkey and
all thetrimmings and the hall willsurely be seasonally deco-rated.
This is always aheavily booked event and de-lay will almost
inevitably re-sult in disappointment. Theannual New Years' Eve
galais presently in the planningstages. Details will be an-nounced
shortly.
December is a busymonth for Christmas Partiesat the branch. Some
ofthese, depending on the sizeof the group, could requirethe use of
the entire buildingand would mean that nor-
mal operating hours are re-stricted. Pleasewatch for
an-nouncements if any suchwere to occur. The popular"Breakfast With
Santa" isset for Saturday, December3rd. Parents please registeryour
children for this eventin order to be able to attend.The Branch
will be closedduring the holiday periodbut actual dates are not
yetavailable. Again, pleasewatch for announcements.
The very successful in-door sports programmeswill all take a
break over theholidays. Last dates for par-ticipants will be
announcedas will the dates for startingagain in January. Area Aplay
downs for pairs Crib-bage players are scheduledfor Turner Valley
Branch onSaturday, November 26th.
There will not be a gen-eral meeting in December.Wewill resume
in January.
~ Serving our Veterans, Se-niors, Youth and the
Com-munity.MalcolmHughes
Legion Leanings
Recently, the Grade 6class of Millarville Com-munity School
helpedwiththe organization of theTurner Valley food bank.We put in
a lot of efforttowards the food bank.Some said that we wouldnot get
finished in time butas a result all the itemswere packed up.
Wehelped organize over ahundred bags of food forthe Turner Valley
foodbank. We help out the foodbank for people who aren'tas
fortunate as us. Whenyou make a donation peo-ple will be filled
with joythat there is food beingdonated to such an advan-tage.
The Remembrance Dayassembly, Thursday 10th2011, saw the Grade
6
class performed the poemby Edna
Jacques. Two people car-ried up wreaths from eachclassroom fromK
to 8, dec-orated with the symbols ofr em emb r a n c e . T h
ekinders did the poppies;the Grade 1 class didWinnie the Pooh
bear;Grade 2 did the crosses;Grade 3, the dove; Grade 4did the
horse; Grade 5 didflags; Grade 6 did the Vimymemorial; Grade 7,
theidentification tags; Grade8, the yellow ribbons. Aboy from Grade
5 namedJames Varty helped withbringing the wreaths up tothe stage.
Mr. Garth Prit-chard shared his photosand expe r i ences
inAfghanistan, where heworked closely with the
Canadian military as awar correspondent. Thiswas an eye-opening
pre-sentation.
There is a trailer outsideof our school to collect bot-tles for
a fundraiser. Thefunds from the bottle drivegoes towards our
Edmon-ton trip at the end of theyear. We do the bottledrive every
year and thisyear Mr. Fisher lent us histrailer.
In our archery class wetook the test to use thebows on the range
and youneeded to get mastery tostep foot on the range.
We just completed thenavigation course, wherewe had to use
compassesin outdoor pursuits to com-plete a pre-set course.
In Flanders Now
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6Learn about llamas, read up onyour favourite skateboard star
orstudy a stegosaurus. You can doall these things online and
thenemail or text message your bestfriend about it. But when
you'removing through cyberspace, youneed to stay safe.
It comes down to just a few sim-ple guidelines:
1. Don't communicate withstrangers online and never agreeto meet
in person.
2. Tell a parent or anotheradult if a stranger contacts you ina
chat room or through email ortext messaging.
3. Don't enter contests, joinclubs or share your
personalinformation for any reason,unless your mom or dad says
it'sOK. Personal informationincludes your name, address,age, phone
number, birthday,email address, where you go toschool and other
facts about you.
Since you were a little kid, yourmom or dad has probably toldyou
not to talk to strangers. Thesame goes for the online world.It's
easy to meet a stranger on theInternet. You might visit a chatroom
or get an email or text mes-
sage from someone you don'tknow.
It can be fun to make newfriends, but do not communicatewith
strangers you meet online.Don't talk to them, agree to phonethem or
email them photos ofyourself. To a kid, this can seemkind of silly.
Why not make afriend with someone who likesskateboarding just as
much asyou do? The writer might seemreally nice and tell you how
yousound really smart and cute.
Unfortunately, kids have beentricked online by people who
pre-tend to be something that they'renot. Someone might lie and
saythey're in sixth grade, too, whenthey're really all grown up
andthey don't even know how toskateboard. Some kids havefound
themselves in a dangeroussituation when they agreed tomeet the
mysterious online"friend" in person.
Let your parents know if astranger emails you, sends a
textmessage or starts a conversationwith you in a chat room.
Theemail could be from a person or acompany trying to sell you
some-thing. A grown-up should decidewhat's best to do, which
may
include changing your emailaddress or telling the police.
Anybody who uses the Internethas been asked to sign-in, log-inor
create a personal profile. Kidsneed to check with a parent
orgrown-up before doing so. Why?This information could be usedfor
reasons you wouldn't like, likegetting a lot of junk email.
Another word about email: Ifyou have your own account, letyour
mom or dad know before youreply to email that asks for yourpersonal
information. Someemail looks official, as if it wassent by your
Internet provider,but it's actually a trick to get yourpersonal
info.
Another way to keep your pri-vacy is to choose a screen nameor
email account name that isn'tyour real name. For instance,instead
of "Jack_Smith," why notchoose:
"Sk8boardKing21"? Only yourfriends and family will know yourcode
name!
No Talking to Strangers
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SCHOOL NEWSSCHOOL NEWS
Internet Safety
By Katelyn Braun, ClubReporter
Mutts
HorsesThe Millarville Mutts and
Mustangs 4-H Club juststarted our new year about amonth ago.
Karen Barnertand D'Arcy Falasconi havecome back to be our
leadersonce again, much to ourdelight. Our new executive isRachel
Falasconi/ President;Jolene Bohn/ Vice-President;Nicole Oliver/
Secretary;Nathan Glatt/ Treasurer;Katelyn Braun/ reporter andPaula
Josefiak/ historian.
- The mutts havealready learned lots with ourtwo new trainers:
JulieGomke who runs AnimalInstincts in Priddis andCassidy Barnert,
who is aSenior member. The firstgroup is working on heel onleash,
sit, stay and the basiccommands. The advancedgroup is working on
the basiccommands too, but the newthing that we are learning isthe
clicker, which is meant toreplace the treat. But withsome dogs, the
treats are tooimportant to them and one ofthose dogs is mine,
whothinks treats are too impor-tant to lose. But some dogs donot
care about treats as
much.- The horse side of
the club is working on thebasics, handling and the anat-omy of
the horse. Their train-ers are Niki Breslawaski whois helping the
members withtheir dismounting skills andDawn Kidd is teaching
themounting skills. We are gladto have both these ladies work-ing
with us. Both riders andtheir mounts are working veryhard.
The club has just volun-teered at the Millarville Race-track
gate for the ChristmasMarket on Friday, Saturdayand Sunday. We had
a lot offun. It was cold but we madeit. This will help cover some
ofthe cost of the arena rental forour club.
We are also seeking inter-ested businesses, communitygroups and
families who areinterested in sponsoringadvertising space on
ourcargo trailer to help the cluboffset the costs of mainte-nance,
insurance and pur-chase of the trailer. For morei n f o e m a i l u
s a t
This was our first monthand what an adventure, butthere is
plenty more to come.
[email protected]
Mutts and Mustangs are Good to Go
gateway gazette ~ November 22nd - december 5th, 2011 - tell them
you saw it in the gateway gazette!
Black DiamondTown of
403-933-4348 W A L K - A - B L O C KW A L K - A - B L O C KYour
Customers Will Thank Youwww.town.blackdiamond.ab.ca
Council CalendarNov 22nd Westend 7:00 pm Council ChambersNov
23rd Economic Dev. Committee 7:00 pm Council ChambersNov 28th
Sustainability Committee 7:00 pm Council ChambersDec 5th Committee
of The Whole 7:30 pm Council ChambersDec 7th COUNCIL 7:30 pm
Council Chambers
Councillor's Corner: by Councillor Jim Deacon
FCSS of Black Diamond & Turner Valley, in partnership with
the OilfieldsFood Bank, Foothills Salvation Army, EMS &
community volunteers, areonce again providing assistance to
families through the coming ChristmasSeason. Application forms for
Christmas Dinner Hampers and Santa Sackswill be accepted at the
Town of Black Diamond Office until November 30th.Pick up day for
packages is December 14th at the Oilfields Food Bank, locatedin the
lower level of the United Church in Turner Valley. For more
informationcontact Sue Nagel 403-933-4348; or go to the
websites:
town.blackdiamond.ab.ca or turnervalley.ca
The Town of Black Diamond is now accepting applications for 1
full-timeArena/Parks Attendant. This person will be part of an
energetic team whichmaintains the arenas and parks within the Town
of Black Diamond. Experience inTurf maintenance, &/or Arena
levels 1 and 2 certificates would be an asset. Thesuccessful
candidate will be required to work shift work which includes
eveningsand weekends, position also requires a physical active
person operating weed eater,mopping floors etc. A valid class 5
license is required.Employment applications/resumes are to be
forwarded to:
This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is
found. Only candidatesthat have been selected for an interview will
be contacted. Thank you for yourapplications.
Public Skating in the Oilfields Regional Arena is 2:30 to 3:30
p.m. on Sunday's.Public Skating is thanks to our local sponsor
* After School Shinny is available: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
& Friday from 3:00pm until 5:00 pm; Wednesday from 3:00 pm to
4:45 pm.* This rink is also open to the public when it is booked.
All bookings are markedon the blackboard.
Advertising space rental is still available in the Arena. For
available ice rental timesor advertising space information, .
Les Quinton, Parks and Recreation Manager, Town of Black
DiamondP.O. Box 10, Black Diamond, Alberta T0L 0H0
Fax: (403) 933-5865 Email: [email protected]
free of charge Sandul's CounterCare Pharmacy.
contact Les at 403-933-5272
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The Scott Seaman Sports Rink is in operation when the weather is
between+9C and -20C, when problems arise due to weather the rink
will close until itis frozen, or the outside air temperature
rises.
Oilfields Regional ArenaFULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Christmas Assistance Program 2011 Santa Sacks & Dinner
Packs
* Register Before November 30 ! *th
Brrrr!!! Old Man Winter is creeping up on us! The factwe have
not had much snow so far is a blessing. ATCOGas is still busy
installing mains, but the project is wind-ing down until spring.
The Black Diamond Fire Depart-ment held its annual food drive for
the Food Bank on No-vember 14th and Turner Valley Fire Department
were outcollecting food on November 15th. I hope the residentsfrom
both Towns gave generously, as the Food Bank is an
important organization that needs all of our support.The Town
crews will be getting the snowplows and sanding trucks ready to go
and
preparing to tackle winter on the streets of Black Diamond.
Please remember to takethe time to drive safely on the winter roads
and try to get out and enjoy some sort offun activity in the
snow!
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7gateway gazette ~ November 22nd - december 5th, 2011 - tell
them you saw it in the gateway gazette!
Town of Turner Valleywww.turnervalley.ca
403.933.4944 ~ 223 Main Street NE
[email protected]
Snow removal
Turner Valley Council Meetings
for November
Residents are reminded to ensure that all the sidewalks
adjacent
to their property are , following the last
measurable snow fall. If you are going to be out of town for
an
extended period of time during the holiday season or have a
rental
property, please make arrangements to ensure your sidewalks
are
kept cleared of snow and ice. If the sidewalk bordering your
property is prone to ice build up, please ensure you place a
salt/sand
mixture on your walks to prevent pedestrians from slipping.
Clearing your walks not only helps your neighbours get
around,
but also protects you from any civil liability should a
pedestrian slip
and injure themselves because of a build up of ice or snow.
Should
a resident/property owner fail to clear their walks within the
24 Hour
period, a fine may be issued under the Municipal Bylaw.
A Turner Valley Protective Services complaint line
403.863.4341
has been implemented to better manage calls and to deal with
them
in a timely manner.
Start Time 6:30 pm
Dec 5th Committee of the Whole
Dec 19th Regular Council Meeting
cleared within 24 Hours
Budget for your TaxesThe Town of Turner Valley offers a Tax
Installment Prepayment Plan
(TIPS) which enables property owners to make monthly payments
on
their property taxes without incurring a penalty. Please give
the
municipal office a call at 403.933.4944 for additional
information.
Reminder: 12% Tax Penalty January 1st, 2012 for all
outstanding
taxes
For more information: www.turnervalley.ca
Cul-de-sac Garbage Pickup Reminder
The Public Works Department is asking for the assistance of all
cul-
de-sac residents. Parking your vehicles in your driveway or
garage on
garbage day will prevent blockage and ease the access to your
bin.
This family-friendly outdoor event will add warmth and fun to
your
holiday festivities. Skate under a starlit sky with family and
friends on
New Years Eve. Featuring music, childrens entertainment, a
bonfire,
free hot chocolate and hot dogs. Spectacular fireworks will
conclude
the evening of festivities, co-sponsored by the Foothills Lions
Club.
FREE ADMISSION everyone is welcome.
Family New Year's Eve Celebration
and Skating Party
Saturday, December 31, 2011
5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Turner Valley
Flare N Derrick Community Centre
and Outdoor Skating Rink
Diamond Valley Christmas Assistance ProgramResidents needing a
little help with Christmas can register for the
Diamond Valley Christmas Assistance Program. Applications
for
assistance must be made in person at the Town of Black
Diamond
municipal office before November 30 to ensure your family gets
a
Santa Sack and/or a Christmas Dinner Pack. Pick up day is
December 14th at the Oilfields Food Bank in Turner Valley.
Contact
Suzan Nagel, 403.933.4348 for more information. Co-sponsored
by
the Black Diamond and Turner Valley Family and Community
Support Services
Experience a Country Christmas in
Black Diamond and Turner Valley
Diamond Valley Christmas Market
Historic Downtown Black Diamond
Christmas Light Up
Flare & Derrick Community Centre
Main Street, Turner Valley
December 2 and 3
Market will feature local crafts, art,
kitchen creations
and fantastic food vendors.
Featuring shopping specials and
fun activities in the downtown area!
Photos with Santa Claus and
his team of reindeer
at the Black Diamond Town Office.
Chili Cook-Off happening at many Black
Diamond downtown businesses. Come
out and vote for the best chili.
Friday, December 2, 2:00 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 3, 10:00 5:00 p.m.
Saturday December 3,
5:00-9:00pm
Hay rides, food & fun!
Turner Valley Protective Services Complaint Line
is now being implemented to better manage
calls and deal with issues in a timely manner.
403.863.4341
Looking for Christmas tree permits
and dead fall permits?
Cash only - no debit or credit cards accepted.
Permits $5.25 each
Provincial Building: 129 - 4th Ave. S.W.
Main Floor - High River Phone: 403.652.8330
Monday and Friday: 8:15 am - Noon, 1:00 - 4:30
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday: 8:15 am - Noon
Closed: Saturday and Sunday
Fish and Wildlife Division
Office hours are:
Turner Valley Legion and Town of Turner Valley
Childrens Christmas Party
December 3, 2011 - 9:30 am & 11:30 am
Turner Valley Legion, 121 Sunset Boulevard SE
Come enjoy breakfast with Santa, gifts, candy,
hayrides and crafts. All children 12 and under are
welcome to attend. Register early. There is only
room for 75 children at each party.
Call 403.933.4564 or 403.933.4600 and leave a message with your
childrens name, age, gender
and contact number to register your children by November
30th.
Kids eat freeAdults only $5
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8Lal Dadrah of AmritsarIndia graduated from theschool of hard
knocks lastweek with two very valu-able lessons that will prob-ably
stick around awhile.The first was that mid-
November's not a particu-larly great time of year tovisit
BirminghamUK.The second was that if
obsessive compulsionforces you to make thejourney, don't fly
with anairline headed by some-one with a name like DickFluck.Dick
it seems, is listed
as the headmonkey for anairline calling itselfCOMTEL, an
Austrianbased outfit with two air-planes at their disposal.At their
disposal how-
ever's not quite the sameas owning the two air-planes is it?No -
that distinction
goes to a Madrid basedoutfit called Mint Aviationwho owned the
18 yearold birds that will factorinto this story that
we'lleventually get around totelling.Neither of these two
fine outfits however werethe outfits whose nameswere on tickets
sold to thegeneral public - that dis-tinction goes to SKYJETand
ASTONBURY, two UKbased outfits that predict-ably on November
17th,folded faster than the Lib-eral Party of Canada.On the morning
of
November 15th, Lal and200 or so of his fellow trav-e l l e r s
boa rded theComtel/Mint/Skyjet/Astonbury flight in Amritsarwith the
goal of arriving inBirmingham some tenhours later.Armed with their
web
receipts for the flight anda few bits of coinage tocover on
board costs suchas purchasing safety dem-onstration cards
andwashroom vouchers, fewcould contain their giddi-ness in
anticipation of let-ting Mother Nature waterthe Birmingham
gardensfor the next sixmonths.Except of course for
Bubba Johnson in seat21D who would soon dis-cover that his web
book-ing skills weren't going toget him home to Birming-ham,
Alabama quite assoon as he'd anticipated.
For most, the firstsense that something wasa tad amiss came
whenpassengers noticed afterlanding that everyone onthe ground
looked likecast members from TheSound ofMusic.Snow capped moun-
tains at the edge of therunway coupled with theannouncement
"Welcometo Vienna" added a nicetouch to the mystery aswell.It was
when flight
attendants began passingthe hat to cover fuel andother costs
that concernbegan to set in.Except for Bubba in 21
Dwho came to realize thatMomma was really 'gonnagive him a
whooppin' if hemissed TurkeyDay.As the story began to
unfold, it seems thatComtel owed a few folks afew dollars.Some
creditors went as
far as to suggest thatComtel's president -Tricky Dick - had
Fluckedthem over once too oftenand decided to hold theaircraft and
the passen-gers somewhat captiveuntil an amount said tobe roughly
$40,000 wascollected in cash - andturned over by the pas-sengers to
the crew.P a s s e n g e r s w e r e
advised the only waythey'd be permitted to con-tinue on to
Birminghamwould be to pony up.Most agreed - Bubba
however indicated he'dneed to use an ATM in theterminal which is
ofcourse the last anyone onthat flight saw of MrsJohnson's boy.A
day late and few dol-
lars short, the Boeing 757landed in Birminghamand before
dischargingthe passengers, pre-sented each one of themwith
autographed crewphotos to commemoratetwomilestones:1. I t was the
1s t
recorded hi-jacking of pas-sengers by an airline itself2 It was
pretty much
the last f l ight soldthrough SKYJET whounceremoniously shutdown
a couple of daysago.Dick Fluck and the cast
of Comtel will have - I sus-pect - a bit of a tough go
over the next little while.That said - their
website's still up and run-ning and under the Wel-come Aboard
section itsays, and I kid you nothere folks - "Enjoy ourunique
service duringyour flight."Mint Aviation, the own-
ers of these aircraft, havereclaimed their planesand are
currently retrofit-ting them with a new typeof seatback
in-flightentertainment systemthat's coin operated.It shows the
usual
route maps, 4th run mov-ies, day old sandwichselections etc, but
a newfeature will allow passen-gers to view the amount ofdebt
accrued by which-ever outfit decides to char-ter these birds in
thefuture.When it reaches a cer-
tain level - a fuel gaugewill appear on the screenand as the
needle edgescloser to E, passengerswill have the opportunityto
insert coins into theslot to keep things in theair.For the
convenience of
passengers, each aircraftwill be outfitted withATM's as well as
creditcard point of sale proces-sors.As for Bubba?Seems hemade it
home
in time for the holidays.He's planning his next
trip onGoogle.Off to Australia in Janu-
ary.Not quite sure if I
should fire off an e-mail tohim as a reminder thatthere'smore
than one Syd-ney.........Nah.If a tourist from Bir-
minghamUK survived hisoops a couple of years agowinding up in
Nova Scotiainstead of Australia as aresult of his on line
exper-tise - let's leave Bubba be.
Adios until next time
Dave Heron
Dave Heron is the owner andoperator of: Pace Setter Travel&
Tours (1995) Inc; P.O. Box612, 70 McRae Street ,Okotoks.Tel:
403.938.5454Toll Free: 1.800.206.7223.Fax:
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9Sheep River LibraryThemore that you read,
the more things you willknow. The more that youlearn, the more
placesyou'll go. ~
The Reader
Happy is he who haslaid up in his youth, andheld fast in all
fortune, agenuine and passionatelove of reading.
Dr. Seuss
Bernard Schlink's 1998novel tells thestory of an illiterate
youngwoman's struggle to func-tion in the world. We seehow she
arranges her lifeto survive without havingto ever read or write
andthe lengths to which shegoes to ensure that nobodydiscovers her
secret. It is asource of continual shamethat she cannot read
thestories she loves to hearread to her. Some find ithard to
believe that in thisday and age, with theaccess to education for
all,there are still those whoare considered to be illiter-ate. In
June 2000, Statis-tics Canada and the Orga-nization for Economic
Co-operation and Develop-ment (OECD) released thefinal report from
theground-breaking 1994International Adult Liter-acy Survey. It
disclosedthat almost 50% of Cana-
dian adults can't work wellwith words and numbers.The survey
showed that22% of Canadians havedifficulty reading and havefew
basic skills or strate-gies for decoding andwork-ing with text. 26%
of Cana-dians read but do not readwell. Canadians at thislevel can
deal only withmaterial that is simple andclearly laid out. 33%
ofCanadians can read wellbut may have problemswith more complex
tasks.This level is considered bymany countries to be
theminimumskill level for suc-cessful participation insociety. 20%
of Canadianshave strong literacy skills,including a wide range
ofreading skills and manystrategies for dealing withcomplex
materials. Thesepeople canmeetmost read-ing demands and can han-dle
new reading chal-lenges. The survey alsoshowed that the higher
anation's literacy skills, themore likely its populationis to have
healthier habitsand lifestyles. Those withhigher literacy skills
tend
to be more involved citi-zens who participate intheir
communities and insociety. Literacy is alsolinked to economic
suc-cess. Literacy levels deter-mine the kind of jobs peo-ple find,
the salaries theymake and their ability toupgrade their work
skills.Literacy also contributesto society's overall eco-nomic and
social perfor-mance. Literacy is not afixed asset. It operates
onthe 'use-it-or-lose-it' prin-ciple. Like muscles, skillscan
deteriorate if not used.Those who read, write anduse numbers
regularlyhave higher literacy levels.Education strongly influ-ences
literacy but is notthe only factor. Some less-educated people who
prac-tice their literacy skills reg-ularly have higher
literacylevels than well-educatedpeople who do not practicetheir
literacy skills. Butthe most important factoridentified in the
survey isthat the earlier a child isexposed to reading the
lesslikely they are to have prob-lems with literacy as they
get older. Early exposurecan also help with earlydetection of
problems thatcan hinder literacy devel-opment such as dyslexiaor
eyesight problems. TheSheepRiver Library in part-nership with
Literacy forLife offers several pro-grams for pre-schoolers ofall
ages to get children onthe right track long beforethey darken the
door of aschool. Children are intro-duced to reading and
wordrecognition through a vari-ety of fun and
interactiveactivities. Check out thelibrary for the session
thatwould best suit your child.All courses will be runagain from
January toMay.
~ RufusChoate
Literacy at
On November 10th, at10:00am, C. Ian McLarenSchool held our
Remem-brance Day Ceremony tohonour and rememberthose who have
served ourcountry. We learned thatthe soldiers uphold thefreedoms
and rights that
we know and appreciatein Canada.
The ceremony was ledby our grade five and sixstudents in Mr.
Ellis'class. The students wholed our ceremony were:JB, Paige, Jami,
Cassie,Travis and Sydni. The Col-our Guard from theTurner Valley
Legion once
again began our assemblywith a march. RuthLindsay gave a
movingspeech about what it waslike to be a child duringtimes of war
which was avery relevant way for stu-dents to understand theimpact
of war at their ownlevel. Following the pre-
sentations of wreaths byeach grade and a minuteof silence to
remember, wewatched a video tributecreated by EmmaWight, aformer
student of OilfieldsHigh School. The movingvideo exemplified
theeffects of war from thepast to the present day.
C. Ian McLaren News Remembrance Day
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them you saw it in the gateway gazette!
Longview School Councilwill be having their annualChristmas Fair
on Friday,November 25th at LongviewSchool. Tickets are $6 dol-lars
in advance and can bepurchased at the schooloffice and $7 at the
door onthe evening of the Fair.Doors open at 5:00 pm anddinner is
served from 5:30to 7:30 pm. It is a ham din-ner with all the
fixings anddessert. Activities will runfrom 6:00 to 8:00pm and
include acake walk, every-one wins booth,elf self, photoswith Santa
as wellas a 50/50 draw,bucket raffles andsi lent auct ionitems. It
is a won-derful and fun eve-ning and a greatway to start theholiday
season and sup-port Longview School.Everyone is welcome
toattend!
Students enjoyed theHalloween Parade and Car-nival on Monday,
October31st. A big thank you goesout to Ms. Hoyle for takingthe
lead for this specialevent. TheGrade 5 / 6 classdid a wonderful job
of orga-nizing and running the dif-
ferent stations. Our cele-bration included all of
ourkindergarten studentswhen kindergarten wasswitched to Monday
fromTuesday. It is great fun foreveryone to see each otherdressed
in their Halloweenbest and all students reallyenjoyed this type of
Hallow-eenCelebration.
The Remembrance Dayservice was held at 10:00amon Thursday,
November
10th. Thank you to Mrs.Winfield, who took the leadon this
assembly. Every-one, all staff and students,did such a wonderful
job inrecognizing those individu-als, past and present, whohave
served our country sowell and with such dignity.Our students take
greatpride and honour in plan-ning, decorating and pre-senting for
this service. Allclasses contributed beauti-
ful art work and madewreaths for the wreath lay-ing ceremony. We
greatlyappreciate the address byRetired Master CorporalKen Harris
who repre-sented the Royal CanadianL e g i o n , M a y o r I v o
rMcCorquindale and NeilHowkwho escorted the stu-dents during the
wreathlaying ceremony. Eachclass did a presentation ofsome type.
Kindergarten
presented thepoem, . TheGrade 1 / 2 classpresented a cou-ple of
poems
a n d
. The Grade 3/ 4 class pre-sented the poems,
and. The Grade
5/6 class did the reading ofand sang
the song . Also,thank you to Flynn Rob-erts for playing byRobin
Adair on his chanter.
Many parents and com-munity members alsoattended the service
andexpressed their apprecia-tion for the wonderful jobthe students
and staff did.
Poppy
LittleP o p p yR em emb r a n c eDay
Freedom RoadWhat Heroes
Gave
Flanders FieldsOde to Peace
March
The Foothills PerformingArts 4-H Club began theirfifth year of
operation witha re-organizational meet-ing in September at
theFoothills Composite HighSchool. An executive waselected and new
membersw e r e i n t r o du c e d t oBlacklight Theatre.
Blacklight performancesare in complete darkness,where people and
objectsthat glow move to songsand even play while tryingnot to bump
into things.We recently experimentedwith blacklight during
ourOctober Halloween partywhere we played manygames in our
costumes.Our members are enjoyingmany drama activities vary-ing
from 'Ninja to Sharkie',but our main focus is pres-ently on
improv.
Our club would like tothank you, our commu-nity, for helping us
at our
Bi-Annual Electronic Recy-cle Round Up that was heldin October
at Country Liv-ing. As a club, we collectedTVs and computer
equip-ment, as an environmentalfundraiser; we raised over$500.00
which we are go-ing to spend on costumesfor our blacklight
perfor-mances.
The Foothills PerformingArts 4-H Club showed theircolours at the
Corpo-rate Partnership Ap-preciation Event onWednesday, November2 n
d , 2 0 1 1 i nCrossfield, Alberta.Our club provided anincredible
displaywhich included videosplaying of past Mono-logues and
Achieve-ment Days. The mem-bers and leaders all en-joyed speaking
to thesponsors and learningmore about the amaz-
ing past, present and fu-ture of 4-H.
In conclusion, the Foot-hills Performing Arts 4-HClub is having
an amazingNational 4-H month andwill continue to show theirgreen
throughout the com-munity in the month of No-vember.
GabrielleWilsonClubReporter
FoothillsPerforming Arts
CLUBis Black & Green
Diamond Valley
Positive Parenting Workshop Series
Ever wish your child came with an
owners manual?
Foothills School Division is pleased to host a series of
FREE workshops to support parents and guardians.
November 22: Bullying: What Parents Need to KnowRyley Hatchard
of Rowan House will explain what bullying is and the warning
signs, how to talk to your child about bullying and what to do
if you suspect they
are being bullied or are bullying others.
Time: 7:00-8:30 p.m. Location: Turner Valley School114 Royal
Ave.
November 29: Chaos to Calm:
Creating Structure & Routine in the HomeMarianne Dickson,
Executive Director, Wild Rose Community Connections will
share practical strategies and talk about the benefits of
structure and routine.
Time: 7:00-8:30 p.m. Location: Turner Valley School114 Royal
Ave.
TO REGISTER for workshops and free child care contact:
Angela Thiele, 403.938.4973 or [email protected]
Jim McFarlane, 403.938.7295 or [email protected]
Everyone in the community is welcome!
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CHRISTMAS2011
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Donation boxfor the Oilfields
food bank75 kids at each sitting. Deadline to book is Nov 30th.
Call 403-933-4600 or 403-933-4564 to book.
You can leave a message with name, age, gender and phone
number.
The Legion and the Town of Turner Valley Annual
Kids Christmas PartyDecember 3rd
12 & under are FREEAdults $5
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Onthe first dayofChristmas,
my true love sent tome
Apartridge inapear tree.
On the seconddayofChristmas,
my true love sent tome
Twoturtledoves,
Andapartridge inapear tree.
On the thirddayofChristmas,
my true love sent tome
ThreeFrenchhens,
Two turtledoves,
Andapartridge inapear tree.
On the fourthdayofChristmas,
my true love sent tome
Four callingbirds,
ThreeFrenchhens,
Two turtledoves,
Andapartridge inapear tree.
On the fifthdayofChristmas,
my true love sent tome
Fivegolden rings,
Four callingbirds,
ThreeFrenchhens,
Two turtledoves,
Andapartridge inapear tree.
On the sixthdayofChristmas,
my true love sent tome
Six geesea-laying,
Fivegolden rings,
Four callingbirds,
ThreeFrenchhens,
Two turtledoves,
Andapartridge inapear tree.
On the seventhdayofChristmas,
my true love sent tome
Seven swansa-swimming,
Six geesea-laying,
Fivegolden rings,
Four callingbirds,
ThreeFrenchhens,
Two turtledoves,
Andapartridge inapear tree.
On theeighthdayofChristmas,
my true love sent tome
Eightmaids a-milking,
Seven swansa-swimming,
Six geesea-laying,
Fivegolden rings,
Four callingbirds,
ThreeFrenchhens,
Two turtledoves,
Andapartridge inapear tree.
On theninthdayofChristmas,
my true love sent tome
Nine ladiesdancing,
Eightmaids a-milking,
Seven swansa-swimming,
Six geesea-laying,
Fivegolden rings,
Four callingbirds,
ThreeFrenchhens,
Two turtledoves,
Andapartridge inapear tree.
On the tenthdayofChristmas,
my true love sent tome
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladiesdancing,
Eightmaids a-milking,
Seven swansa-swimming,
Six geesea-laying,
Fivegolden rings,
Four callingbirds,
ThreeFrenchhens,
Two turtledoves,
Andapartridge inapear tree.
On theeleventhdayofChristmas,
my true love sent tome
Elevenpiperspiping,
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladiesdancing,
Eightmaids a-milking,
Seven swansa-swimming,
Six geesea-laying,
Fivegolden rings,
Four callingbirds,
ThreeFrenchhens,
Two turtledoves,
Andapartridge inapear tree.
On the twelfthdayofChristmas,
my true love sent tome
Twelvedrummersdrumming,
Elevenpiperspiping,
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladiesdancing,
Eightmaids a-milking,
Seven swansa-swimming,
Six geesea-laying,
Fivegolden rings,
Four callingbirds,
ThreeFrenchhens,
Two turtledoves,
Andapartridge inapear tree!
And a
Partridge
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If your holiday halls are deckedwith stacks of paper bags,
mounds ofcrumpledwrapping paper, an array ofrandom ribbons and a
gaggle of gifttags that are destined for the locallandfill, it's
time to add a little "green"to your gift-wrapping regimen.
Given that the average house-hold's waste jumps by more than
25percent between Thanksgiving andNew Year's Day and that
holidaydebris adds an additional one milliontons per week to
landfills, there is alot that everyone can do to recycle,reuse and
reduce during the holi-days. According to Eco-Chick.com, "Ifevery
family reused just two feet of hol-iday ribbon, the 38,000 miles of
rib-bon saved could tie a bow around theentire planet. If every
family wrappedjust three presents in re-used materi-als, it would
save enough paper tocover 45,000 football fields. The 2.65billion
Christmas cards sold eachyear could fill a football field ten
sto-ries high. If we each sent one cardless, we'd save 50,000 cubic
yards ofpaper."
Here are some ways to go greenand even save green on gift
packagingthis year:
Conventional wrappingpaper typically cannot be recycledsince it
is often coated in metal foil oris plastic laminated. But if the
paperrips and doesn't glitter or shine, it can- and should - be
placed in the recyclebin along with other paper products.Check with
your local recycling pro-
vider to find out which types of wrap-ping paper they accept.
The goodnews is that recyclable wrappingpaper is increasingly
available fromboth online and brick-and-mortarretailers such as
Amazon.com, OfficeDepot andUncommonGoods.com.
Before the opening of thegifts begins, set aside a box for
col-lecting reusable boxes, wrappingpaper, gift bags, bows, ribbons
andother decorative items. Even if wrap-ping paper is torn, it can
be used forcraft projects, packaging filler or toenclose smaller
gifts the followingyear. Gift bags are also great candi-dates for
reuse. If the surface of thebag is marred from removing ribbonor a
bow, the spot can be covered withother decorative items or scraps
ofusedwrapping paper.
Recycling and reusingboxes, wrapping paper, ribbon andgift bags
is a big step in the rightdirection. But the best way to avoidwaste
is to reduce the use of theseitems in the first place. Rather
thanwrapping gifts in paper, considerusing scarves, old tea towels,
clothnapkins or leftover fabric. If you'recrafty, consider creating
your ownsimple fabric sacks that can be easilysewn by hand or
machine. If you'renot, try painting an old pillowcaseand tying it
up with fabric ribbon,string or even shoelaces. And don't for-get
newspaper! The comics makecolourful gift wrap any time of
year,particularly for kids.
Recycle:
Reuse:
Reduce:
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4Watch in 2012 for details on the 32nd Annual
Turner Valley Charity Golf Classic
Per category!
8 and under
9 to 13 yrs
Sponsored by
The Annual Turner ValleyCharity Golf Classic & Silent
Auction
Winners will be announced in our January 17, 2012 edition
for everyone!
Submit your ent r y by mai l , emai l or drop of f - see rules
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1. Contest open to EVERYONE -
regardless of age!
2. Limit one contest submission per
person.
3. Contest entries may be completed
using markers, crayons or coloured
pencils.
4. Adults may assist in completing a childs entry form
information, but not in colouring a childs entry.
5. All entries must be received by the Gateway Gazette by
midnight
on December 31, 2011.
6. Winners will be notified by phone before January 15, 2012
and
published in the January 17, 2012 edition.
7. Judging is performed anonymously by local artist Robin
Thibodeau (she will not see any names prior to judging). As
such,
this contest is open to positively anyone, whether or not there
is a
personal connection in any way to the sponsors.
9. All submissions become property of the Gateway Gazette
and
may be published accordingly.
10. Entries can be submitted by mail to: Gateway Gazette, Box
457,
Black Diamond, AB, T0L 0H0; Scanned and emailed to:
[email protected]; or dropped off at Pharmasave in Black
Diamond.
8. Decisions of judge are final.
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When among the masses shopping for holidaygifts, consumers might
want to take a close look atthe expressions on their fellow
shoppers' faces. Notethe ones whose eyes are glazed over, who are
anx-iously biting their bottom lips or seem to be exhibit-ing
recurring facial twitches. These are not individu-als on the verge
of a nervous breakdown. In fact,many are otherwise well adjusted
people in thethroes of choosing holiday gifts for their coworkers
orbosses.
While there is nothing inherently complicatedabout choosing
tokens of appreciation for one's asso-ciates or superiors, the
challenge is not just choosingthe right token, but in choosing
something without
the potential to offend or confuse the recipient.To help make
the process go smoothly from pur-
chase to presentation, here are some of the chief do'sand don'ts
for office gift-giving.
* Make sure that you know your company's pol-icy on gift-giving.
For example, are there specified orunstated spending limits?
* Be clear about who should be on your gift list.Do you get
gifts for everyone in your department orjust those individuals with
whom you interact mostfrequently?
* Choose thoughtful and tasteful gifts, whetherbuying a
different item for each person or the sameitem for all.
* Consider gifts that can be used in the office,such as
distinctive office supplies, a photo frame,gadget, calendar or
pen.
* Go for gifts that can be shared either at homeor work, such as
gourmet food items, books orplants.
* Find out if colleagues have food or plant aller-gies before
selecting gifts in those categories.
* Take the time to package and wrap gifts withcare.
* Overspend, especially when purchasing a giftfor your boss.
* Give presents to colleagues outside of your"gift circle" in
order to make a good impression orcurry favour.
* Choose "joke" or "gag" gifts, even for coworkersyou think you
know well. While the recipient mightappreciate the gesture, it
could be misinterpreted byothers.
* Re-gift or give items that are used or in any-thing but
pristine condition.
* Stray outside the limits of "good taste." Inother words, don't
even think about gifts that couldbe considered too personal
(including clothing, per-fume or jewelry) or are in any way
political, religious,racial or sexual. And unless you are
absolutely cer-tain of the recipient's tastes and habits, steer
clear ofalcoholic beverages of any kind.
* Give gifts that can be misconstrued as havinga hidden meaning
or agenda, such as flowers (espe-cially roses), cash, lingerie or
personal hygiene prod-ucts.
* Leave anyone out. Hurt feelings are hard toovercome and can
strain otherwise productive work-ing relationships.
Do:
Don't:
Dos And Don'ts For Exchanging
Gifts With Coworkers
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Hand Made
African Jewellery
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Bernie BrownGiftware
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ABMJeans
While quantities last
$39.95
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We are openTuesday through Sunday11am to 5pm
403-933-7001
www.marvsclassics.ca121 Center Ave. Black Diamond
May your days bemerry and bright,And may all your
Christmases be white
Thanks to our customersthroughout the year.
Christmas partiesup to 30 people.
Please call for bookings.
More than ice cream!Delicious burgers andsandwiches along
withcandy and retro gifts.
I didn't do a ChristmasWish List/Children's BookReview last
year. However,I've had many people askfor it again, so here
goes,with a lot of help and in-put.
The Bear Stays UpFor Christmas - Karma Wil-son, Jane Chapman,
thishas great illustrations anda catchy lilt to the story
The Nativity
That's