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Stacey LavallieINDEPENDENT REPORTER
A motion made by council-lor Dave Grover to declare the County
of Stettler an agricultural disaster zone was not supported by
county staff at the Wednesday, Aug. 12 meeting.
Grover explained that pock-ets of dry conditions throughout the
county has already hit crop-growers hard and now are putting the
countys ranchers in jeopardy. With no pasture to graze on and hay
crops weak from the dry con-ditions across the province, ranch-ers
are looking at either having to liquidate herds or move them to
greener pastures. Meanwhile, hay and feed is being brought in for
drought areas, and Grover told council it was important the county
get on the disaster list so
the ranchers could take advantage of programs to access the feed
and deferred taxation programs.
Quinton Beaumont, director of agricultural services for the
county, noted that while there are dry conditions in some areas of
the county, the conditions are nowhere near as dry as they were in
2002 or 2009, the last times the county declared an agricultural
disaster.
Beaumont was also wary of de-claring an agricultural disaster
be-cause several areas in the county arent suffering from drought
con-ditions.
Dry, certainly, but not so dry that it would be a disaster
I dont want us to be seen as the boy who cried wolf, Beaumont
said.
In an interview with the Inde-
pendent after the meeting, Beau-mont explained that a lot of the
programs available to ranchers in an agricultural disaster are
avail-able any time, through speaking with financial managers.
For example, a taxation defer-ral program offered by the
pro-vincial and federal governments to agricultural disaster zones
can be arranged outside of the zones through applications, he
said.
The deferral would allow ranch-ers to liquidate their herds
with-out having to pay taxes until the next year. That would leave
them enough capital to buy new cattle in the spring.
At the meeting, council agreed with Beaumont, not wanting to
declare disaster at the first sign of trouble. However, they did
want to make the province aware of
the difficulties parts of the county were experiencing, and so
decided to write a letter indicating the trou-ble.
That would have much of the same effect as declaring a
disas-ter, Beaumont said later. With the province aware, it will
send people to monitor the situation.
Dog Bylaw update passes first reading
The County of Stettler had asked staff to review its dog
con-trol bylaw earlier this year after a residents dog was killed
by two pit bulls running loose.
Though the owners of the pit bulls were fined by a judge, the
owner of the killed dog, Wanda Watson, said she felt the countys
bylaws werent strong enough.
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Stacey LavallieINDEPENDENT REPORTER
A public hearing of the councils of the municipali-ties involved
in the Buffalo Lake Intermunicipal Devel-opment Plan was hijacked
by lake residents unhappy with bylaw changes made by the County of
Stettler earlier this year.
The meeting, which brought the councillors from the Summer
Villages of Rochon Sands and White Sands, Camrose and La-combe
counties, and the County of Stettler together at the IOOF Hall in
Erskine, was a public hearing to go over proposed changes to the
Buffalo Lake Intermu-nicipal Development Plan (BLIDP).
The BLIDP was created in 1997, and saw the five communities come
together to make a plan for the lakes future. The goal was to
preserve the lakeshore for public use while ensuring that green
spaces along the shore were maintained.
The plan was developed with a 30-year sunset es-sentially, the
plan would no longer be good after 30 years but councils were
obligated to review it every two years to ensure the plan met
current standards set down by law.
Anjah Howard of Cam-rose County explained the changes being
proposed by the planners of the coun-ties and summer villages. None
of the changes were extreme, but were instead maintenance, she
noted.
Several of the changes
involved renumbering and realigning sections of the plan,
updating definitions, and clarifying ambiguous areas of the
plan.
One of the biggest chang-es involved changing the plan review
from two years to four years.
It currently takes 12-16 months for us to complete a review,
Howard explained. Were always reviewing this plan.
Another change was the minimum amount of land between lots and
the pro-vincial right-of-way along the shoreline, which was set to
six metres. The land will be zoned as environmental review.
Howard and Johan van der Bank, planner for the County of
Stettler, ex-plained that this change ap-plies to new developments
going forward, and is not being retroactively imposed upon existing
develop-ments.
Furthermore, the pair ex-plained that the BLIDP sets out the
minimum standards, and that each village and county can impose
stricter bylaws if it so pleases but cannot go below the stan-dard
set out in the BLIDP. For example, Camrose County requires a
minimum of 30 metres from the pro-vincial right of way to pri-vate
lots, not six meters.
After going over the changes to the BLIDP with the councillors
and roughly 30 lake residents and us-ers in attendance, Stettler
Reeve Wayne Nixon, who chaired the meeting, asked if there had been
any writ-ten submissions.
There were two, Howard said. The first came from Alberta
Transportation, and commented on needing clarification on the
proce-
dure for connecting to pro-vincial roadways. The sec-ond came
from a landowner on the lakeshore whose property was an oddity
zoned as agricultural land, even though the land is not farmable or
can be grazed, and surrounded on all sides by Crown Land, the
prop-erty is completely inacces-sible by land. The owner asks for
permission to keep his seasonal dock in the wa-ter rather than
damage the shoreline by dragging the boat onto shore every time
they leave the property.
After the written submis-sions were read, Nixon ex-plained the
procedures for verbal submissions, making it clear that the
submissions should be about the BLIDP and not be a debate.
While some residents had questions that were in line with the
BLIDP, includ-ing questions about how communities became part of
the councils involved in the BLIDP, the majority of questions
centered around changes made to the south shore of Buffalo Lake by
the County of Stettler ear-lier this year through bylaw
changes.
Residents voiced con-cerns about the possibility of a fence
being put up to block access to the lake by residents and remained
fix-ated on that possibility, with speakers at times sounding on
the verge of tears.
Stettler County council-lor James Nibourg stood to answer the
fence comments.
I accept the blame for the fence comment, he said, his voice
clearly car-rying through the hall. He noted that he was the one
who made the fence com-ment originally, when the county was
discussing the potential use pathways to
demarcate the private land from public land.
Someone said they didnt want people coming onto their property,
and I said Well maybe we can build a fence, Nibourg said. I never
said there would be a fence.
The fence comment has taken on a life of its own, van der Bank
said during an interview after the meeting.
While councillors cannot rule out a fence at this junc-ture, it
is for the same rea-son it cannot rule in a fence at this time,
either: the pub-lic meeting for residents in the affected areas
have not been held yet. So while yes, a fence is a possibility, its
also equally a possibility it will not come to a fence, van der
Bank noted. It all depends on feedback from the residents.
Other residents wanted to know why the Old Bolin subdivision
wasnt repre-sented at the long table of councillors, or part of the
BLIDP, though it was clari-fied that as a community thats part of
the county of Stettler, the county repre-sents the Old Bolin
subdivi-sion.
Other complaints from residents included not re-ceiving personal
notices about the meeting, though public notices were placed in
newspapers in Stettler, Camrose, Lacombe and elsewhere.
Eventually, Nixon called the residents back to the subject at
hand, the BLIDP, and after some questions about field bed issues,
the meeting was adjourned.
Councillors and residents mingled for a while, enjoy-ing donuts,
coffee, and a chance to chat over issues that concerned them,
before the night came to a close.
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Stacey LavallieINDEPENDENT REPORTER
An early morning track check by an employee of Al-berta Prairie
Railways may have averted a disaster when the employee found a
stolen, vandalized and abandoned truck left on the train tracks
near Highway 56 on Aug. 12.
Stettler RCMP were called to the site shortly before 8 a.m. The
vehicle, stolen from Tarpon Energy Services, was a white 2008 GMC
pick-up truck that had been stolen sometime overnight.
The person or persons who stole the truck vandalized it and left
it on the tracks, Stettler RCMP detachment commander Cpl. Cameron
Russell said.
Were just lucky it was seen before a train came through, he
said.
After the cursory investigation the truck was re-moved from the
tracks, and investigation contin-ues, Russell said. The police are
speaking to wit-nesses and several persons of interest, but ask
anyone who may have seen anything come forward with the
information.
Stolen vehicle stop leads to big drug bustAround 1 p.m. at Aug.
12, an RCMP constable pulled
over an old grey 1982 GMC pickup truck at the corner of Highway
12 and 50 Street. After investigation, it was dis-covered the truck
driven by a 27-year-old woman was sto-len, the driver only had a
learners permit, and that there was no insurance (by way of the
vehicle being stolen).
After arresting the woman on the charge of possession of stolen
property, the vehicle was searched by the con-stable, who found a
considerable amount of drugs and drug paraphernalia, primarily
MDMA, or ecstasy, Russell said.
Also amongst the ecstasy were quantities of heroin, co-caine and
methamphetamine, he noted. An undisclosed amount of cash was also
seized along with the drugs, paraphernalia and vehicle.
The driver faces a charge each of possession of stolen property
under $5,000, possession of narcotics with the
purpose of trafficking, driving a motor vehicle without
insurance, and driving a motor vehicle without a licence.
Stolen firearm recovered in Red DeerShortly before 11 a.m. on
Aug. 10, Red Deer RCMP
and police dog services arrested a 28-year-old Red Deer man who
was unlawfully at large and was wanted on sev-eral warrants for
breach of probation.
According to Const. Derek Turner of the Red Deer RCMP, the
suspect submitted to police without incident.
During the arrest, a long barrel bolt-action rifle was found in
the possession of the accused, a weapon later found to have been
stolen from a Stettler residence during a break-in on Aug. 2.
The accused is charged with one count of each of breach of
probation order, possession of stolen property under $5,000,
unlawful possession of a firearm, and careless use and storage of a
firearm.
RCMP ask anyone with information regarding these or any crimes
to contact the Stettler RCMP at 403-742-3382. If you wish to remain
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The second annual Big Valley Library carnival was held on
Saturday and Sunday, August 1-2 amidst great fanfare.
Hosted at the Memorial Park across the drop-in centre on Main
Street, the event was held from noon to 3 p.m.
As the carnival coin-cided with the annual M-tis Hivernant
rendezvous as the park started teeming with kids taking turns to
play games and get their faces painted.
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The Big Valley Agriplex was transformed into scaled-down
villages and towns of Canada as mem-bers of different free-form
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Aug.15-16 to participate in the 12th annual Alberta set-up.
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We have had the carni-val last year, with the cen-tennial
homecoming of the Big Valley and it was so popular that we decided
to have it again this year, said Cindy Mailer, trea-surer and one
of the board members of the Big Valley Library. Its a really fun
thing for the local kids to come here and play games and win prizes
and just have a lot of fun.
Encouraging local or-ganizations to collaborate and work with
one another is one of the reasons why the carnival was held in the
same weekend as the M-tisHivernant rendezvous.
Kelsey Mailer was one of the library staff who was in charge of
games and putting the carnival together, and came up with the idea
of a photo booth where kids could get their pictures taken after
they had got their faces painted or just get a photograph as a
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The New York Times pub-lished a damning editorial this week on
Prime Minister Stephen Harpers nine and a half years in power and
described the period as a time of darkening in Canada. (The article
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Nigel Wrights paying $90,000 from his own pocket so that Duffy
could pay back taxpayers money. I couldnt hear what the other
senior said in response as I was not seated in a way facing her.
And then I got involved in the conversa-tion at my own table and
didnt
pay much attention to how that discussion at the next table
de-veloped and didnt think about it until I watched the evening
news bulletin on the CBC which was full of Duffy trial reporting
and analysis.
Is there really not anything wrong in Wrights cutting a cheque
for Duffy?
The former chief of staff was reported to have made referenc-es
to the Bible in justifying his payment to Duffy as charity and his
way of keeping the payment a secret (until of course it was
revealed). He insisted that the amount he paid to the suspended
senator came from his personal bank account.
Now there is a tricky ques-tion here: How much did Nigel Wright
make as a senior govern-ment bureaucrat? Was he rich enough to
throw away $90,000 just to help a senator save face? Even if he
made, say, half a mil-lion dollars a year, why would he give up
almost 20 per cent of his annual salary to someone who was becoming
a serious nuisance
for his boss, the prime minister? Are we expected to be nave
enough to believe that Wright was not reimbursed or will not be
reimbursed for this payment?
As his cross examination by Duffys lawyer Donald Bayne is still
continuing, we dont know whether and how Wright will come up with
answers to further questioning on the matter.
But as the defence team for Duffy continues to dig in to the
email traffic among the staff of the office of the prime minister,
there is bound to be more revela-tions into who knew how much about
the payment and whether Harper was a part of the cover-up.
Despite all the damaging de-tails coming out of the trial,
which, by the way, are all circum-stantial, it is quite possible
that the prime minister may come out of this trial without being
found legally responsible for the mess that was created by the
scandal of fraudulent expense claims.
But isnt there a wider context beyond the trial that all
Canadi-
ans should be looking at when they ponder about their stance
with regard to the current head of their federal government?
If one makes up a list of the scandals stemming from the
Sen-ate, whose appointees will fea-ture prominently on that
list?
Why did the most prominent cabinet ministers resign their posts
one after another since the beginning of the year?
Why are war veterans starting a nationwide campaign to have any
person but Stephen Harper in office after the elections?
Duffy trial, Nigel Wrights cheque, all the emails that are being
scrutinized and the repeat-ed accusations and denials are all part
of a culture of governance, that of Stephen Harpers, de-scribed by
the New York Times as know nothing conservatism.
As Canadians prepare to vote for their next government, they
might want to answer the ques-tion that makes up the punch line of
the editorial: Do Canadians like their country as it is today?
Mustafa Eric
The federal election is only a few weeks old and promises are
being pro-nounced by every political party. Its all part of the
usual process in campaigns to convince the innocent voter on the
virtues of their parties. Most parties en-gage squadrons of
strate-gists, pollsters, consultants and public relations spin
artists to create a success-ful election campaign. Ev-ery issue,
real or imagined, is scrutinized and agonized over as to its
potential to sway votes. Every sector of the economy is exam-ined
to find ways for lead-ers to either cater to or rant about it
depending on what the other parties are ad-vocating. The usual
sus-pects like energy, health, education, infrastructure, security
all get painstaking attention from every politi-cal angle. But
there is one sector of the economy that tends to escape attention
from most political par-ties, and you guessed it, that would be
agriculture. Its not because its insig-nificant the entire sector
generates many billions of dollars and significant
employment. But it be-comes insignificant when counting voters.
With ever decreasing numbers of producers, there are few-er federal
constituencies where the farmer/rancher vote can be decisive.
The reality of the de-clining rural vote has been that the main
parties have increasingly focused on urban connected issues and
thats just common sense from a political strategy. But I am sure
those of us in the industry wished that ag would get some bit of
attention. The problem is much of the political strat-egy brain
trust of the fed-eral parties are city folks with little background
or understanding of the ag industry. Through no fault of their own
I suspect most believe food magically ap-pears at grocery stores
ev-ery day. To aggravate such naivet many would be susceptible to
the duplici-tous machinations of anti-agriculture green lobby
groups with their twisted perspectives and hidden agendas. Thats
probably the most worrisome aspect of the political benign ne-
glect of the ag industry by federal strategists.
A perusal of what little ag policy that does exist in party
platforms shows that most have some po-sition on supply
manage-ment. Thats not the result of some genuine interest in the
topic by the parties, which can be mind-numb-ing for even the most
po-litically astute voter. But is the result of intense lob-bying
by the poultry and dairy industries who have made sure the main
par-ties are committed to their marketing system. The fact that all
three main parties are formally committed to preserving supply
man-agement is a credit to the tenacity, skill and power of those
industries lob-bying machines. Although they are all committed to
preserving the system as it presently consists, those commitments
tend to vary
in depth between the par-ties. The NDP seems most dedicated, the
Liberals somewhat weaker in sup-port, with the Conserva-tives
mediocre at best, if not suspect.
One thing for sure, all leaders sooner or lat-er will see
themselves staged in rural looking costumes on some farm with cows
or bales of hay in the background. They will then make the usual
pronouncements on their steadfast support of the family farm. Some
further verbal political fluff will be added about the safest and
best food production in the world. Some may even delve into food
secu-rity and the need to grow more of our own food. The
Conservatives will have an edge in political agricul-ture bombast
being they have an astute and long-serving federal Ag Min-ister who
knows the topic better than anyone. Thats a political advantage,
but with so few farm voters it may not matter.
The one party that does seem to have a much more specific policy
platform
about agriculture would be the federal Green Party. Rather than
address ac-tual issues of concern with present day agricultural
production and rural so-ciety, the Greens have the ultimate
solution return agriculture to the good old days. That would be a
re-turn to 18th century sub-sistence peasant farming. You know the
good old days when farmers worked from dusk till dawn fight-ing
weeds and brush with no herbicides, dealing with plagues of
insects, fungi, molds, with no pesticides, sweating and straining
be-hind horses because there were no fossil fuel burn-ing and
emissions spew-ing machinery, and dealing with horrendous livestock
losses and diseases be-cause there were no antibi-otics or
vaccines. One last note about the Green Party approach, it would
see food production drop by 75 per cent - city voters would starve
to death even those that voted Green. I guess its one of those
inconve-nient truths. More on the election and agriculture in a
future column.
NYT perception of Stephen Harpers CanadaThe paper thinks PM has
made Canada more ignorant
Not much for agriculture in federal election yetAhead of the
heard
WILL VERBOVEN
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With the case before the courts, the county could not address
the bylaw. Once it was done, however, staff re-viewed the bylaw,
checking with legal counsel.
Our current bylaw has not been reviewed in six years, John
Bishop, direc-tor of protective services, explained.
Council undertook the first reading of the bylaw at the meeting.
It was noted by staff that the bylaw was found to be more than
ad-equate through scrutiny in court, but that the pro-cedure for
impounding and releasing vicious dogs back to their owners came
into question. Minor changes to the bylaw also clarify what sort of
behaviour is punish-able by the bylaw.
Changes (in bold) in-clude:
The owner of a dog is guilty of breaking the bylaw if their dog
chases or ha-rasses any person, animal, bicycle or motor
vehicle
The owner of a dog is guilty of breaking the by-law if their dog
attacks, in-jures or kills any person or animal
All impounded dogs, including vicious dogs, are kept for no less
than seven days (which do not count Sundays and holidays). At the
end of the seven day pe-
riod, an application for the redemption of the vicious dog by
its owner will be considered by the bylaw enforcement officer.
The first reading of the bylaw passed, but the sec-ond reading
was scheduled to be heard in a public fo-rum at 1 p.m. on Sept. 9.
Written submissions in favour or against the by-law will be
received by the county until this date, and verbal submissions can
be made at the meeting.
County chooses new ani-mal control services con-tractor
The county received no-tice from Alberta Animal Services
terminating its contract effective Aug. 1. The contract was to have
been in effect from May 1, 2015 until April 30, 2016, and provided
for a minimum of two one-hour patrols per month, and any further
call-outs to be charged as special patrols at a rate of
$100/hour.
County received the no-tice of termination on June 15, citing
the lack of cost-effectiveness to make the two patrols per
month.
The company offered a revised contract, stipulat-ing that no
regular patrols would be made, but the company would respond to
complaints as special call-outs. While the rate of $100/hr remained
the same,
there would be a charge of a minimum of three hours.
County staff located a second contractor, Old MacDonald Kennels
in the Ponoka area. County staff solicited information from the
Kennels, who indicated they would be willing to consider a
contract. The company would provide the
two patrols, and call-outs at a cost of $85/hr, with no minimum
charge per call-out. Though the kennel typ-ically only holds
impound-ed animals for three days, it was willing to hold the
animals for the seven days required by the countys by-laws.
If the animals were not
claimed, the kennel would help adopt the animals out. It is also
a no-kill shelter, which spays/neuters, mi-crochips and vaccinates
dogs and cats before they animals are adopted out.
According to Bishop, who said he spoke with several of the
municipali-ties that use the services of
the kennels, all have very favourable comments and are
completely satisfied with (Old MacDonalds) services.
In the end, Bishop recom-mended the county go with Old MacDonald
Kennels, and councillors agreed, vot-ing to approach the kennel
with a contract.
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I wrote a paper in col-lege, attempting to establish and prove a
biblical basis for purpose and meaning in life. I received a good
mark, but I realized that its easier to define the meaning of life
than it is to find meaning in life.
The premise for my pa-per was built upon the 2 great
commandments that Jesus gave. He said that we should love God with
all of our hearts and love our neighbors as ourselves (Matthew
22:36 40). Life becomes purposeful and meaningful when focus is
removed from oneself and placed upon the nature of our Heavenly
Father and the needs of our fellow man. But does it work?
95-year-old Connie Vitolo says it does.
Until recently, Connie didnt care whether she lived or died. Her
fail-
ing health required that she leave her own beloved home and move
in with her daughter and she was not at all pleased. She prayed
fre-quently and fervently that she would die.
Anne, Connies daugh-ter was praying with equal zeal. Concerned
for her de-pressed mother, she prayed, Im putting it all in Your
hands God and trusting You that youre gonna help her..to find her
purpose here.
One day Anne found an ad looking for volunteers to make and send
blankets to orphans in India. She prayed one more time and
then shared this need with her mother.
Connie caught the vision and reengaged in something that she
hadnt done for years...crocheting blankets. She has spent the past
year crocheting blankets for or-phans halfway around the world. At
last count, Connie had completed 12 blankets and has started on her
13th. In an interview with Chris-tian Broadcast News in late July
Anne said that God has answered her prayer and her mom knits
joyfully all day long without getting tired.
Connies prayer request to die has changed dramati-
cally. In the aforementioned CBN interview, she says that before
starting a blan-ket, I pray to Jesus, and I thank Him every day.
When I start one I say, thank you Jesus, dont let me die be-fore I
finish my blanket. She says that she wishes she could hug the
orphans, but knows that her blankets are embracing them. She adds
Jesus has a purpose for us all. But I never thought He had a
purpose like this for me and Im very happy...
Crawling into and curling up inside of our own small-ness and
misery will always drain meaning and dispel purpose from our lives.
As someone has wisely stated, people wrapped up in them-selves make
a pretty small package. Relationship with the Heavenly Father and
reaching out to others, as Jesus taught, is both invigo-rating and
fulfilling.
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me... (Psalm 138:8).
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continued from page 4In 2013, this group had a
set-up which was 600 feet of track and thats the larg-est
free-mo set-up that has been in North America.
We hold the record for the largest North Ameri-can free-mo
setup, said
Doug Soeder, one of the members of the Calgary free-mo groups.
All the individual members own modules from as small as one foot
long to 25 or 30 feet in several sections and they can take their
modules and put them all in a set-up
together.One of the members,
Dave Chomyn had recre-ated the Othello Tunnels in the Coquihalla
Canyon, which is located in a scenic area of the Cascade Moun-tains
in British Columbia. This recreation area con-sists of a deep river
canyon set in a coastal forest envi-ronment.
Soeder said that members travel distances and con-verge here
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That rain was most welcoming this past weekend as most farmers
were starting to feel the crunch of the dry grass set-ting in once
again after a week of very hot weather. I hope you were able to get
a good amount.
The Red Deer River Garden Club is gearing up for their annual
big show in at the agriplex. It will all happen next week. On
Tuesday, Aug. 25, you will be able to bring in your entries in the
evening from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Then on Wednesday morning, you will
have one last chance to bring in from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The
judges will commence their work soon after and the exhibits will be
open to the public by 4 p.m. Bring one item or 20, everything will
be welcomed. There are books available at the Post Office and
li-brary and also with every Garden Club member. I am sure you will
have some-thing to enter from your flower garden or veggie garden.
Also, keep in mind that the library will be running our photo
con-test. There will be 12 categories broken down month by month
and we will be collecting donations for entry fees. I will
produce a limited amount of calendars this coming year as it was
an expensive venture that didnt produce much return; and the
winning photos will be on display in the library year-round.
Dont miss out on the supper that will be open from 5 to 7 at the
hall on the evening of Aug. 26 as part of the garden show events.
The kids flower arranging will happen just after that, then awards
will be handed out.
School will be starting up the week af-ter, but summer isnt over
by any means so enjoy the sunshine and have a good week.
Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no
better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment
than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is
growing it organically, is improv-ing a piece of the world. He is
produc-ing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent
of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the
meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.
Wendell BerryHave a great week.
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Its hard to believe that school will begin in two weeks. As
usual, the sum-mer is going by very quickly.
New for the seniors and in conjunction with the Erskine IOOF,
jamming sessions will begin on Sunday, Sept. 13 from 1:30 to 4:30.
Come out and enjoy the music and dancing. A donation to lunch would
be appreciated. All ages are welcome and anyone with an instrument
can come and take their turn at playing.
The Volkers held a fam-ily reunion from Aug. 6 to 9 at the
Volker campground in Erskine. There were 210 people in attendance
from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and from California. The weather
was perfect and all had a good time. Some of the activities were a
bounce house for the children, plus games and a candy scram-ble.
Also there was a very successful silent auction. A wonderful supper
was served by Shelly Grover and her staff. Campfire and
sing-along went on in the evening with lots of visiting.
Everyone was on their way home Sunday and Monday.
The Free Evangelical Church welcomes new youth pastor, Emmett
Aron-son, to their church and our community.
Speaking with Joe Gen-dre, Erskine has been awarded money by
both the provincial government and the federal government, each
putting in 1/3, for bringing water to Erskine. The county will be
putting in the other third. This project costs 4 million dollars.
It is to be noted that lines will be put throughout Erskine,
but
no one has to take the water unless they want to. The Er-skine
School will be hook-ing up as they are having trouble with their
well. Fire hydrants will also be placed around Erskine.
Work has progressed very well on the walkway and it is almost
ready for paving. It will be so nice for kids and people to be able
to walk along it instead of on the lake road, which is getting more
and more traffic.
Dont forget Floats and Flicks sponsored by the Erskine
Recreation Board on Saturday, Sept. 12. Ill have more details later
this month.
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By Kaylee Somerville Wow! What an amazing
summer it has been here at the library. With only one day left
to go, we are wrap-ping up for this year. Its crazy how fast the
summer goes by. We kicked off the program at the end of June with
our Minecraft party. The following week, Lee and Sandy Paley joined
us for our first family event with awe-some songs. Move it Move it
week brought us dance parties, movement themed activities, and
bowling. Su-per Spy week was a blast, as we snuck around the
library dodging lasers and decoding messages. Earth and Space week
connected us with na-ture as we learned about bugs, the planets and
celebrated Harry Potters birthday. Dur-ing Create week we be-came
ninjas. Tae-kwon do instructors joined us, and we learned about
self-defense. Also that week we toured the Q 93.3 radio station.
Super-man, Spiderman, the Hulk and other characters became our
focus for the first week of August. Our Hero week encompassed tons
of super-hero activities, and EMT workers joined us at our Hero
party to teach us about their heroic careers. Last week for
Super-Science we chan-neled our inner scientists by making goo,
explosions, and 3D objects. Last Friday we were joined by the
mobile planetarium from Waskasoo
Environmental Educational Society and we learned about the stars
and constellations.
This week we have a Games Galore theme. We played Minute to Win
It games and giant Jenga earlier this week, and today we will
create an Etch-a-Sketch with an electronic Arduino con-troller. Our
wind-up party is on Thursday, Aug. 20. We will be handing out
prizes
and then walking over to the water park for some fun in the sun.
Both age groups will have their own wrap up party. The program for
ages six to eight is from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon and the one for
ages nine to 12 is from 12:30 to 2 p.m. All summer we have been
tracking participants reading with our Reading Tree.
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continued from page 9We are proud to announce
that we have read over 150 hours this summer. Tomor-row we will
be randomly drawing a bird from the tree for the grand prize: a
Nin-tendo 3DS. Also, remember that this Friday is our Read
and Rhyme event for ages up to five at the fire station. Please
meet at the fire station at 10 to see the trucks, meet the firemen,
sing some songs, and have a snack.
Overall it has been an amazing summer. We would like to thank
all the incred-
ible kids that we met over the summer; we have some fan-tastic
and intelligent children in Stettler, folks. Also thanks to all of
the special guests who joined us, and the staff at the library who
put up with our shenanigans all summer. The theme for this years
pro-
gram was Play and we did just that.
Stay tuned in September for even more programs. Read and Rhyme
will be con-tinuing twice a week at 10:30. Keep an eye out for
start dates. The COW Bus (Class-room on Wheels) will be in
Stettler on Tuesday, Sept. 22 from 1 to 3 p.m. On Friday, Oct.
30, our annual Monster Bash event will occur. This is a special
giant fright-fest with performers, activities, crafts, and more.
The library and the Jewel Theatre will also be partnering in the
fall
to show films sponsored by TIFF (Toronto International Film
Festival). Like the TIFF Film Circuit - Stettler Face-book page
(www.facebook.com/stettlertiff) and check the librarys website for
news on ticket sales, films, and dates for screenings.
Stettler Public Library Summer Reading Program wraps up
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18 19 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
29 30 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 27 28 29 30 19S 24T 20S
21T 18S 19T 14S 14T 31 19S 20T
February 2016 March 2016 April 2016 May 2016 June 2016
S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W
T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 28 29 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30
19S 20T 16S 18T 19S 20T 19S 21T 20S 22T
Orange dates signify days with 1 hour early dismissal of
students - first school Monday of each month (except September and
November).
Semester 1
Professional Days Thurs. - Tues., Aug. 27 - Sep. 1, 2015 First
Student Day Wed., Sep. 2, 2015 Labour Day Mon., Sep. 7, 2015
Professional Day Mon., Sep. 21, 2015 Thanksgiving Day Mon., Oct.
12, 2015 Professional Day Mon., Oct. 26, 2015 Optional Diploma
Examinations Mon. - Mon., Nov. 2 - 9, 2015 Remembrance Day Wed.,
Nov. 11, 2015 Fall Break Thurs., Nov. 12, 2015 Day acknowledging
two evening Parent-Student Conferences Fri., Nov.13, 2015 Christmas
Vacation Mon., Dec. 21, 2015 - Fri., Jan. 1, 2016 Professional Day
Fri., Jan. 29, 2016
Number of student days for Semester 1 90 Number of teacher days
for Semester 1 8 + 90 = 98
Semester 2
Family Day Mon., Feb. 15, 2016 Professional Day Tues., Feb. 16,
2016 Teachers Convention Thurs. & Fri., Mar. 10 & 11, 2016
Good Friday Fri., Mar. 25, 2016 Spring Break (including Easter
Monday) Mon. - Fri, Mar. 28 - Apr. 1, 2016 Optional Diploma
Examinations Wed. - Thur., Apr. 6 - 14, 2016 Professional Day Mon.,
Apr. 25, 2016 Professional Day Thurs., May 19, 2016 Day
acknowledging two evening Parent-Student Conferences Fri., May 20,
2016 Victoria Day Mon., May 23, 2016 Last Student Day Tues., June
28, 2016 Professional Days Wed. & Thurs., June 29 & 30,
2016
Number of student days for Semester 2 93 Number of teacher days
for Semester 2 8 + 93 = 101
Student Days
Mon Early Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Total Semester 1 12 3 19 19 19
18 90 Semester 2 13 5 20 20 18 17 93 Year 25 8 39 39 37 35 183
Student Days Teacher Days
Semester 1 90 98 Semester 2 93 101 Year 183 199
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The 2015 Donalda Motor Daze will take place Sat-urday, Aug. 22;
a fun day filled with family events, concession, and a Main Street
cruise. Registration begins at 8 a.m. To register or for more
information, please call 403 883 2463 or
403 883 2943.The Donalda Gallery for
the Arts is currently dis-playing the exhibition Col-lections by
Kash Clouson, and other local artists. This exhibition will run
until September long weekend. Please stop by and enjoy a
variety of works, mediums and processes. Also, there is no
society meeting until September.
The Donalda & District museum is open weekdays between 10
a.m. and 5 p.m. and noon to 4 p.m. over the weekends. If you are
in-
terested in booking a group tour, please call us at 403 883
2100. Please stop on by for a visit and enjoy the many beautiful
items we have on display.
Birthday wishes this week go out to Joseph Seale, Sheri Tenney,
Steven
Dahl, Conner Horton, Edna Andres, Nakita Horton, Parker
Schoettler-Ma, Bella LaBelle, Danny Bernard, Barbara Hofer, Matthew
Berry, Bailey Dietrich, Judy Swaren, Shawn Sutton, Deegan Gebhardt,
Kelti Ol-son, and Gwendolyn Ten-
ney. Happy birthday to all. Have a wonderful day.
PAT KELM403-742-0604
Erskine Enquirer
DonaldaDiaryKASHEEN CLOUSON
403-883-2100
Donalda Motor Daze this weekend
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Moush Sara JohnINDEPENDENT REPORTER
The Big Valley Golf Club hosted the towns first annual golf
tournament on Fri-day, Aug.14.
There were 25 participants, who were charged an entry fee of
$30, which in-cluded 18 holes of golf and barbecue, and prizes that
would be drawn as raffles.
Tee-off was at 1.30 p.m.Participants could enter either as
indi-
viduals or as a team of four. The community has been very
sup-
portive, with the town of Big Valley hav-ing a population of
365, and today being a working day, this is great support for the
club, said Teresa Greig, secretary of the Big Valley golf club.
There were 10 of us who got together and decided to take it over
from the Big Valley Ag society, which does not have the manpower to
run the club anymore, although they still own it.
John Paul, president of the Big Valley Golf Club along with
Greig and members of the club will pool in their resources and
focus on running the golf course indepen-dently.
According to Greig, the funds raised would be used to fix the
greens, tee-box-es and put a fresh coat of paint in some
places.
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Moush Sara JohnINDEPENDENT REPORTER
Averaging 25.8 seconds after the third round, Blair Smith of
Wimborne secured top place at the Stettler Calf Roping Jack-pot on
Wednesday, Aug.12 at the small arena overlooking the Ew-ing Lake in
Fenn.
Riley Warren of Erskine came in second with 29.7 seconds af-ter
his third round, while Shane Smith came in a close third aver-aging
at 29.8 seconds.
Organized and hosted by Brandon and Kim Van Straten, the
Stettler Calf Roping Jackpot is an event for all calf ropers in
central Alberta.
This is a tie-down jack-pot that we try and host every
couple of weeks, and we also have breakaway roping for the
little kids, said Brandon Van Straten. Calf roping is an event that
isnt as common as team roping or barrel racing because of the
difficulty in having the right size of cattle.
There were 17 participants at the jackpot.
Each rider had to rope the calf in the shortest time.
There are three rounds, with the result being calculated as an
average of the three.
If a rider is unable to rope the calf in one round, he still
partic-ipates in the remaining rounds, but his average is not
calculated.
Only nine riders were able to successfully rope the calf in all
three rounds.
Blair Smith averages25.8 seconds to secure top spot at the
Stettler
Calf Roping Jackpot
Moush Sara John/Independent reporterDenny Greiner of Big Valley
takes aim as he participates in the first annual Big Valley golf
tournament at the Big Valley Golf Course on Friday, August 14.
Big Valley hosts its first annual Fun Tourney
Moush Sara John/Independent reporterSteve Theissen of Stettler
tries to rope a calf at the Stettler Calf Roping Jackpot held on
Wednesday, Aug.12. Theissen averaged 32.5 seconds after the third
round.
Stacey LavallieINDEPENDENT REPORTER
Since announcing his retirement as head coach at the end of the
2013-2014 season, Stettler Lightning General Manager Doug Smith
hasnt been able to get free of the reins of the Junior B hockey
team.
This year is no different.Im really bad at (retiring), Smith
said
with a laugh.This year, though, hes managed to get a
bit freer than the previous year, stepping out of the role of
coach of any sort, stepping into the shadows to handle off-bench
managerial work.
Gavin Brandl, who coached alongside Smith last year and is a
former Lightning player himself, will be joined by two of last
years most solid players, Reese Anheliger and Mark Dietz.
Both players have aged out of the junior league and have decided
to stay with the team in a coaching capacity.
Im quite excited about the younger voices at the bench, Smith
said of the new coaches and Brandl. Its a fresh new look.
Theres some hard decisions for the Light-ning coming up as it
firms up its roster for the 2015-16 season. With a large number of
their overage players indicating they want to return, the coaches
and Smith must narrow the number to four, the amount of overagers
theyre allowed to keep on their team as per the league bylaws.
Theres also some gaps to fill where play-ers have aged out. Not
only are top-scorers
Anheliger and Deitz out of the picture as players at least
goalie Simon Thieleman is also gone.
Thieleman, who played almost every game last season, made some
incredible saves to keep the Lightning on the winning side of the
tally, including a desperate flying leap across the net that
somehow deflected a puck.
We definitely have some big skates to fill, Smith said.
However, the new coaches seem up to the task, Smith noted.
Were getting a good response from the small towns (around
Stettler), he explained. Towns like Forestburg, other junior hockey
folk.
The Lightning have the first of its tryouts this weekend.
Exhibition games start in September with the regular season
starting in October, though before that, Smith noted theres one
more task to complete rally up members for the board.
Its getting to a point where its been hard filling some of the
executive positions, he explained.
By the league bylaws, each team must have a board of executives.
The board must, at its smallest, consist of six people, so its
votes can be ratified. Currently, the Lightning board is down to
three people, Smith said.
People who are interested in joining the board can contact
Smith. Theres one meeting a month, and Smith noted the board can be
flexible for the schedules of its membership.
New faces at Lightning bench
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Independent SPORTS Wednesday, August 19, 2015Page 16 The
Stettler Independent
Moush Sara JohnINDEPENDENT REPORTER
Linda Hall team from Stettler defeated Yishins, also a team of
Stettler to win the C-event slo-pitch finals at Byemoor on Sun-day,
Aug.16.
Moonshiners of Rumsey won the A-event of the slo-pitch
tournament defeating
Half Sox of Big Valley in the finals.
32 teams participated in the tournament despite the torrential
rains that hit the town of Byemoor on Satur-day, Aug.15 when the
first rounds were being played.
Team members came from Byemoor, Big Valley, Stettler and
neighbouring towns, but also cities as far
as Red Deer, Drumheller, Trochu, Craigmyle and Hanna.
Each team had to have a maximum of six men and a minimum of four
ladies on the field to start a game, and there was an hour and 15
minutes time limit on games.
The pitched ball had to have an arc of at least six
feet, but no more than 12 from the ground.
The Byemoor slo-pitch ball tournament has been going on for more
then three decades, with family and friends forming teams and
playing to have fun, said Bobbi Buchwitz, or-ganizer of the
slo-pitch tournament. We had five new teams this year.
Stettler team among winners in ByemoorSALE DATESPhone (403)
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WILDA GIBBON ESTATE AUCTION6:00 p.m. - Stettler Museum Grounds -
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Tuesday, August 25
REGULAR CATTLE SALE - 500 hd.
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Tuesday, Sept 1, 8 & 15, 2015 - Yearling Feeder Sales
Advance Listings:
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Sat, Sept 26, 2015 -
Fall Equipment & Misc. Consignment Sale - at the market sale
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Weekly show alley Cattle Sale, internet, regular ring: We treat
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