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County: ‘We do feel vindicated’ Elections Alberta ruling doesn’t end issue — Wildrose LISA JOY Independent reporter
The County of Stettler welcomed Elections Alberta’s ruling Tuesday that it didn’t violate election financing bylaws in the 2012 provincial election. The Wildrose Party accused the county of contravening the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act by using staff time or county vehicles for former PC MLA Jack Hayden’s campaign. “We knew there was nothing to find in the first place,” said County of Stettler Reeve Wayne Nixon. “I’m very happy to see that this is resolved to the minds of anyone who doubted us. In our minds, we knew nothing wrong was done in the first place. There was no need for accusations and we reiterated that many times. “We do feel vindicated.” Likewise, former MLA Hayden said he knew “there wasn’t anything” to the allegations. “It’s just politics at its dirtiest,” he said. “It’s like American politics. It’s like Tea Party crap. It’s really sad. I feel bad for the people in our constituency that they have had to up with that. “It’s just attack, attack, attack. It doesn’t matter, the courts can prove you right, everyone can prove
you right, it’s just smear campaign stuff.” With Elections Alberta’s ruling, Hayden said he hopes it will stop the accusations. “I’m glad the report is finally done and I’m hopeful that will be the end to it, because there’s been an awful lot of very good people who have been inconvenienced. They had to spend a lot of money and a lot of time defending themselves against allegations and charges that absolutely had no basis, in fact, so I’m hoping that it’s over for their sake.” But Wildrose Justice Critic MLA Shayne Saskiw believes that the issue isn’t settled. According to Saskiw, the MLA for Lac La BicheSt. Paul-Two Hills, the county continues to fight the Wildrose’s second Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIP) request in December 2012 about illegal donations. “That FOIP request has been fought tooth and nail, so if Elections Alberta has seen in fact all of those documents, and come to that conclusion, then we would be satisfied the investigation has been fully completed,” Saskiw said. Saskiw said the Wildrose has documents indicating the county might have hired outside legal counsel to fight the 2012 FOIP request and keep the information from becoming public. “That’s where the evidence would be,” Saskiw said Tuesday.
“We’ve done many, many FOIP requests, and generally speaking, people are just forthcoming and provide the information. “Most often, there’s nothing there, but when someone does fight it, that’s when we tend to think there may be something there.” Reeve Nixon, however, wouldn’t confirm or deny the allegation that the county hired outside legal counsel. “We want to do the right thing,” he said. “We don’t want to find ourselves at the same level as our accusers. “The reason we have chosen to take the high road is we are not apt to meet any of those guys on it. I feel we’ve been vindicated, so the high road is the road to go.” Tim Fox, chief administrative officer for the County of Stettler, said he’s also happy with Elections Alberta’s findings. “We’re very pleased that the investigation is over and the County of Stettler is cleared of its allegations,” Fox said. Reeve Nixon echoed that sentiment. “I felt bad for the administration and staff when the accusations kept coming. I’m sure it took a toll on everyone there, and we do feel much relieved.” reporter1@stettlerindependent.com
Police remain mum on Castor fatal-fire probe LISA JOY Independent reporter
Police don’t have anything new to reveal in the fatal fire last month that claimed two lives and left one more person missing. “I don’t have an update at this point,” Sgt. Josee Valiquette from Edmonton K Division said Tuesday. “At this point, this matter remains under investigation.” Although in a prepared statement in December, the police ruled the fire as “suspicious,” they seem to be backtracking. “I don’t believe we said that,” said
Sgt. Valiquette, who added, “This matter remains under investigation at this point. Two individuals were located and identified and their remains were found in the carnage, the house that was burned, and one person still remains unaccounted for. “I don’t have them (news releases) all in front of me,” she said, referring to police’s previous statement they were treating the fire as suspicious. “I would have to look at what was printed. “But we do still have investigators still on this case and working in concert with the Chief Medical Examiner’s office and other fire investigators.” Gordon Klaus, 61, and his daughter,
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Monica Klaus, 40, were identified in the farmhouse that was destroyed by fire Dec. 8 east of Castor. Gordon’s wife, Sandra, 62, remains unaccounted for. She worked at the Castor hospital. Monica lived in Stettler, where she worked in payroll and human resources at Vortex, and was home visiting her parents for the weekend, as neighbours said she often did. Earlier this month, Staff Sgt. Ross Campbell of Edmonton K Division said police don’t know whether the incident was random or not, but added that the public isn’t in any danger. “If the investigation team felt there was any danger to the residents in the area, they would have said so,” said
Staff Sgt. Campbell. “Public safety is paramount to us, regardless of investigations.” Coronation RCMP were called to a farmyard at about 7:30 a.m. on Dec. 8, where both Castor and Coronation fire departments were battling the blaze. The fire smouldered for days, preventing investigators, including Calgary Major Crimes, from accessing the scene for almost a week. Jason Klaus, 38, who farmed with his father and lives near his parents’ farmyard, isn’t a suspect, police said in earlier interviews. “Not that I know of,” said Staff Sgt. Campbell. “It has not been suggested to me.”
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Graham teams up with his mentor for Performing Arts Centre show JOHN MACNEIL Independent editor Rising star or not, there’s no strings attached to guitar prodigy Calum Graham’s musical career. “I’m definitely not going to stop doing it, that’s for sure,” said the 22-year-old Graham, one of Alberta’s bright lights on the international music stage. “I’m already planning on what I’m going to be doing from here with my next album. I just picked up a Gibson 57 Les Paul the other day, and I’m setting up a band and doing a new blues, funk, Motown kind of project. So, already thinking ahead to what I’m going to be doing in different projects I want to be involved with, and touring. What I’m going to be busy with for this year, at least.” Graham’s latest tour, in collaboration with his inspiration and mentor Don Ross, stops in Stettler on Sunday for a 2 p.m. show at the Performing Arts Centre. “I played one show in Stettler years ago, and I know Dave Goodwin from there,” Graham said in an interview Monday. “We were in touch and he heard about the (Graham and Ross) CD release, and the next thing we knew, we were lining up a show in Stettler. That’s kind of how it came to be, was mostly through Dave and wanting to help out and put this on.” For almost a decade, Graham has been performing on stage, from small venues in his hometown of High River as a teenager to concert halls in major cities. “I always had the passion for music,” he said. “I guess I never really
thought about making it a career until I was already kind of doing that, actually. “I just kept playing and playing. Eventually, when I heard Don Ross’ music — who I’m going to be playing with in Stettler — that kind of changed everything that I was focusing on and doing. I was kind of doing metal music before that, and when I heard Don’s music is when I started doing acoustic, and at least from then on, that’s when I knew that’s what I wanted to be doing for the rest of my life. “I started playing this style around (age) 13 or 14, and was performing around, I would say, 14, 15, 16.” While other children might have been playing sports, or getting in trouble, his game became music. He fashioned the guitar and found his niche. “Well, I’m glad that I did find that at an early age,” Graham reflected. “It kept me out of trouble, for sure. Yeah, as soon as I found that, that’s really all that I wanted to be doing, so I was just staying home and practising and writing music, and playing. “I was still going to school, but rather than going out on Friday nights, like all my friends did, I’d be at home practising and trying to improve on my instrument.” That approach continued through his teenage years, “and even till this day,” he said. He rotates between High River and Toronto, where he has “my own little studio.” He was finishing an album — called 12:34 — with Ross in Toronto last spring when unprecedented flooding ripped High River and elsewhere in southern Alberta.
Music helped in the healing process as the massive cleanup began, along with fundraising relief. “I came back (home) in late August and did a bunch of flood-benefit concerts in our basement, actually, that was flooded,” Graham said. “We had a bunch of people over for that and raised money for the town. “I kind of did my part to help out and give back to the town as much as I could. It felt really good in my heart to be back here and helping out like that. I got to give some money to my guitar luthier who’s built me a guitar, and is building me a guitar right now, who had a crisis with the flooding that happened at his place, too.” From such homespun happenings to world travels, Graham’s music has touched many people. He’s now touring Canada with Ross, and they plan to do likewise in Germany this spring. As for the Stettler show, it sounds like a guitar summit of sorts. “It’s definitely lots of crazy acoustic guitar, and Don and I both play … actually, every song we wrote on the album is in a different tuning,” Graham said. “So we use lots of different sounds. I just think we’re going to be playing acoustic that (show), but we’re also going to be doing duets, and some solos, and also singing a couple of songs, so there’ll be great variety throughout.” Tickets for the Stettler performance are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. They’re available at Pfeiffer House of Music in Stettler or by calling Goodwin at 403-742-3602. editor@stettlerindependent.com
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The Stettler fieldhouse committee has proposed that the remaining $15,000 in costs for the fieldhouse common areas be shared by the Wildcat high school football team, Clearview School Division and Stettler Minor Football.
Costs for new fieldhouse prompt trustee questions ROBIN TARNOWETZKI Independent reporter Last week at the Clearview School Division meeting, the prime topic of discussion was the new fieldhouse at the Stettler school complex. The fieldhouse was built to be a separate change room and washroom for teams who use the fields, so that they didn’t have to use the facilities at William E. Hay Composite High School. On Jan. 8, the fieldhouse committee met and decided to request that the remaining costs of the common areas of the fieldhouse (about $15,000) be paid equally by the Wildcat high school football club, the Clearview
School Division and Stettler Minor Football. “I don’t mind paying up to $5,000, but I want to see the other money first,” said trustee Yvette Cassidy, referring to the money contributed by the Wildcat football club and Stettler Minor Football. Cassidy also pointed out that the school board’s involvement with the project caused the cost to increase. “The bureaucracy buried this program ... and it almost tripled the cost,” she said. “That was because of us.” “I agree with Yvette, the cost is way higher because of things we did,” said trustee Karen Holloway. So far, Clearview has provided about $99,000 for the project. “We wanted to end up with a good
building that had a good foundation connected up to the utilities and all that, so that ended up costing some money, and we don’t mind contributing to that,” said school board chairman Ken Checkel. Checkel believes that the $15,000 estimate isn’t firm, and that the board has asked administration to provide an accurate estimate. The board decided to avoid making a decision on payment until it receives “a more solid estimate” on how much it will cost to finish the project and get confirmation that the Wildcat football club and Stettler Minor Football can provide their share of the money. reporter@stettlerindependent.com
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Ontario’s status creates divided Canada By Mark Milke Troy Media As anyone who has ever watched puppies tussle over a bone knows, nothing leads to acrimony quicker than competition for an object everyone wants. Keep that image in mind, but replace puppies with provincial governments, six of whom are now beneficiaries of the federal transfer program called equalization. Equalization — ostensibly designed to help provinces provide roughly equal government services — has long been defended by some as akin to a federal government “Robin Hood” scheme to help out “poor” provinces. Last year, Ottawa transferred $15.4 billion in equalization payments to six “poor” provinces, known as “have-nots.” In 2008-09 — the year before Ontario became eligible to receive equalization payments — “have-not” provinces represented 32 per cent of the 10-province population, or about 10.8 million people. But with Ontario’s entry into the club in 2009-10 (think of a big sumo wrestler at a soup kitchen), 71 per cent of the population, or 24.7 million people, now live in a province that receives an equalization cheque from the federal government. (The others are Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Manitoba.) The entry of Ontario into relative poorprovince territory has resulted in a massive shift in dependency in Canada, one that portends
future inter-provincial conflict. Any program that counts six of 10 provinces with 71 per cent of the population as relatively “poor” is an arrangement that needs a re-think. Maybe that re-think should begin in Ontario. It is, after all, its own policies — including expensive green energy schemes that drove up the cost of power and drove out business, a regulatory approach and labour legislation that has further made Ontario an uneconomical place to invest, and chronic budget deficits and weak public finances — that have contributed to its relative economic weakness. Ontarians can now look ahead to a future of higher deficits, higher debt interest payments and increased pressure for higher taxes, which will lead to even less investment, higher unemployment and eventually an exodus of wealth creators and others. (Quebec is the most notable example of such folly in practice.) Furthermore, Ontario has been receiving an ever increasing share of the equalization cash available from Ottawa, which might result in the have-not provinces demanding Ottawa increase its equalization payouts. In 2009-10, Ontario received $347 million or 2.4 per cent of the $14.2 billion equalization pie; last year, it received almost $3.3 billion or 21 per cent of the $15.4 billion available. This presents a problem for resource-rich, and only “have” provinces. You see, under the current equalization program, calculations for equalization eligibility and payouts are based on what’s known as “fiscal capacity,” that is, the
ability of a province to raise revenues. Unfortunately, the factors that go into such a calculation are not above political machinations. There have been efforts in the past to include 100 per cent of resource revenues — as opposed to current 50 per cent — in the calculations, under the justification of “more sharing,” to use the words from a 2006 report presented to the Council of the Federation, made up of Canada’s premiers. Problematically, including all resource revenues would mean even more federal tax dollars (which on a net basis originate more in resourcerich provinces) transferred to “have-nots” — the explicit aim of those who back this idea. Why does this matter? Because all the resource-rich provinces — British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland & Labrador — are now lined up on one side of the equalization divide while Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Manitoba and now Ontario, are on the other. That potential for conflict means the resourcerich provinces should expect to see attempts made by the equalization-receiving provinces to get at their resource revenues via the federal government, either through dramatically higher equalization payouts, or through some other federal program. It has happened before. Mark Milke is a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute and author of Equalization, Ontario, and the Politics of Division.
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other at least five times ... it’s always great when teaching is applied that quickly, isn’t it? I was reminded of something else when that delightful little man hugged me on Sunday, but this time I was burdened, not blessed. I recalled going to a remand centre several years ago. I was going to see a young man who was peripherally attached to the church I pastored at that time. He was by no means a hardened criminal and being around several who were was quite threatening to him. He spotted me as I walked into the visiting area and all 280 pounds of him moved quickly
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A simple touch can lower your body pressure On Sunday morning, a friendly five-yearold boy hugged me on the way into church and he returned at the close of the service and gave me another hug. I was blessed ... but I was also reminded of how important touch is. It has been known for a long time that infants require loving affection, typically exhibited by touch stimulation. Babies lacking this tend to experience developmental impairment, both physically and psychologically. However, it is not just babies that need a touch. A pat on an adult’s back, or a peck on their cheek can also be quite affirming and special. In fact, it has been suggested that a touch from the right person at the right time and in the right way, can lower blood pressure, improve attitudes and enhance academic skills. In a Bible study we hosted in our home a while back, the presenter on a DVD suggested that married couples should provide each other with five tender, appropriate touches every day in order to create a positive atmosphere and affirm their partner. I noticed that couples, as they left our home, were jovially poking each
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3 in a four-part series on property rights in Alberta More than 100 years ago, Ottawa decided to withhold mineral rights when homesteaders filed for a land title. At the time, few people realized how valuable those mineral rights would become. Similarly, using Bill 24, the Alberta government recently pilfered property from landowners that in years to come, could have value beyond anything today’s economy can imagine. In first-year law school, every student is taught that the rights of a landowner extend from the surface right down to the centre of the earth. If the government, or someone else owns the minerals (almost 20 per cent of the mineral rights in Alberta are privately-owned), then the landowner owns everything down to the centre of the earth, except the minerals. The land title will actually say something like, “excepting there out all minerals.” If the minerals do belong to someone else, the underground pore spaces belong to the landowner. Pore spaces are underground hollow spots, like the holes in a sponge. They’re valuable. They’re valuable because energy companies can pump liquids and gases into them, using them like condominium storage units.
From the Legislature MLA Report by Rick Strankman In Ontario, landowners have been leasing vast tracts of underground pore space to energy companies for years, putting more than $100 per acre per year into their jeans. In parts of the U.S., pore spaces rent for more than $1,000 per acre per year. In other regions, landowners can literally sell ownership of their pore space, the same way mineral rights get sold. The pore space business is massive. A TransCanada Pipelines subsidiary company in the U.S. boasts that the company has established storage capacity for more than 250 billion cubic feet of natural gas. That requires pore space. And now that governments everywhere are talking about pumping CO2 underground, pore space is even more valuable. Bill 24 is the law that Alberta’s PC government
used to transfer ownership of every square inch of pore space in the province from landowners to the government. The law applies, even if the minerals have been fully depleted on a property, and even if the landowner owns the surface rights and the mineral rights. The legislation stole literally millions of dollars worth of private property, yet written into the law are statements where the PC government insists it’s not stealing. Bill 24 also indicates that even if a land or mineral owner recognizes that the government is stealing, they can’t claim damages or take anyone to court. Official government documents say the purpose of Bill 24 is to “clarify” ownership of these important assets. It makes one think of how a landowner might feel if some punk walked onto his yard, pointed a gun at him, climbed behind the wheel of that landowner’s new pickup, and then as the thief starts driving away pauses to explain that he is not really stealing the truck, merely “clarifying” ownership. That’s exactly what Alberta’s PC government did to thousands of Alberta landowners, and explains why the PC government’s Bill 24 should be repealed. Rick Strankman of the Wildrose Party is the MLA for the Drumheller-Stettler riding.
‘Social’ or not, at least we’re keeping in touch with friends You hear it all the time: “Kids these days should put down their phones and just talk to people! In my day, we actually talked to human beings.” It always annoys me when people who say that never seem to consider the circumstances that lead some to talk to their friends more so through electronic means than on the phone or in-person. I grew up in a small town in Saskatchewan, went to school at University of Saskatchewan and Ryerson in Toronto, and now I live in Stettler. I have friends from all those places. I want to keep those friends, but I cannot physically be in the same place as them as often as I’d like. I try to see my friends whenever I go home to visit my parents, but that’s only once or twice a year, and I’m not sure when I’ll get back to Toronto. It’s not feasible for me to depend on in-person visits. I met one of my friends while I was living in Saskatoon. In the four and a half years since then, with her in Saskatoon and me in Ontario and Alberta, we’ve managed to maintain a close friendship. And while we commit to spending time together whenever we’re in the same place, I completely credit our continued friendship to texting.
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Independent columnist But what about phone or Skype, I can hear you saying? Phone calls cost money. And besides, I have a job that occasionally has odd hours. I have friends who work evenings or early in the morning, so they go to bed early. There is a small block of time where we are both available at the same time. It’s amazingly difficult to co-ordinate a time to get together when we’re in the same city, never mind when I’m more than 3,000 kilometres away from them. But if I send a quick text at my convenience, they can get back to me at their convenience, and we both get to maintain a link that might be
difficult to keep if we just relied on a phone call that would inevitably result in a fruitless game of phone tag. And maybe it sounds bad, but I don’t have the time to set aside a one-to-two-hour block for each friend I want to talk to. I also maintain Facebook friendships with a large group of acquaintances: specifically, people I went to high school with, and people I went to Ryerson with. I’m not interested in maintaining close friendships with those high school classmates, but I am interested to see who is married or engaged, and what they’re doing with their lives. As far as my Ryerson classmates go, networking is important for my industry, and I will likely be working with them in the future. It doesn’t make sense to cut off that contact just because I don’t have a significant relationship with them. Sure, no one should be on their phones 24/7, or be on their phone at dinner or on a date or whatever. There is a lot that is problematic with the culture around smartphones today (which could fill an entire other column). However, for some of us, it’s easier and better to maintain communication through text or chat. I know that a lot of my friendships would have faded by now if I wasn’t able to text or Facebook them.
Predictions of wheat board’s demise appear to be ‘somewhat premature’ Not too long ago, an ideological battle raged across the Prairies over the fate of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). One side wanted to maintain its singledesk marketing powers over export wheat and barley, whilst the other side wanted the board dismantled and eliminated. There was a compromise of sorts made when the federal Conservative government eliminated the CWB export monopoly, but let it live as another voluntary grain marketing organization. Many predicted that change was just a slow death and better to put it out of its misery than spend anymore tax dollars on propping up the new board. Well, it seems predictions of the CWB’s death were somewhat premature. As expected, once the CWB lost its original mandate, it went through a complete reorganization and emerged much slimmer and focused on what it could do as a grain marketing company. It also shed any pretension that it still represented the interests of Canadian grain growers, as it had in the past. It quickly divested itself of promotion, advocacy and research activities and support. It was to focus strictly on grain marketing in order to survive. Interestingly, it has not only survived, but has moved forward to acquire grain-handling facilities in western and eastern Canada. That’s a move that had to be made, as using its competitors’ facilities wasn’t going to work very well in the long run. Critics were quick to allege that the CWB was using funds from growers or some leftover horde of cash from the old CWB to buy these assets. Management
was quick to counter that was not the case, that funds were coming out of profits from its marketing operations. Perhaps there was an idea that the new CWB was not supposed to make any money on its handling business. One tends to forget that the CWB in the past was many things to the grain industry, but at its core, it was a grain-marketing organization with decades of experience in the global marketplace. Once the board was set free so to speak, it used that knowledge core to take on the competition. One also has to remember that those that stayed behind to manage the new CWB had real incentive to try to make it a success — and their livelihoods depended on that happening and soon. Now it probably helped that this year was somewhat of a bumper crop year across the Prairies and that there is no scramble by any grain buyer to buy up scarce product. In fact, buyers can be very choosy as to what and from who they buy wheat from this year. The big issue is that moving any grain is hindered by the lack of significant additional rail movement to export ports. Now one ponders that even with movement being restricted, the
big grain companies would still have an advantage over the CWB, being they controlled the handling facilities that the board needed to move the grain they bought and sold. Yet somehow the CWB did and made money at the same time. That’s perhaps a reflection of the core experience they had in finding markets and handling logistics. Only management knows for sure, but they must be having a good year if they are finding the funds to buy up handling facilities. All of this must be much to the chagrin of the anti-CWB folks. It’s impossible to determine, but one wonders if the CWB was still operating under its old mandate, would grain movement be any better with this bumper crop. The old board had powers to muster rail cars and space on a more equal basis and could put the squeeze on railroad companies. That doesn’t happen now, as grain movement and grain companies are just other clients to railway companies. Considering the competition for rail space from oil companies and their expanding tanker car fleet, grain movement is lucky to have the share it has now. What probably is missed by some grain growers is their access to deliver grain or even sell it to local grain buyers. Under the old CWB board, every grower with a permit book, no matter how big or small, had an equal opportunity to sell and actually deliver grain at a set price. That’s gone and one suspects that grain buyers might have developed preferential lists for buying. That was the sort of thing that caused the CWB to be originally created. History does repeat itself.
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The Stettler Knights of Columbus donated $350.00 to the Heartland Youth Centre from proceeds of their annual Citrus Fruit fundraiser that takes place every January. They also donated a voucher for 20lbs of “K of C” sausage (worth $110.00) to the HYC Awesome Auction that was showcased at their Spring Sausage Supper in April 2013.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
THE STETTLER INDEPENDENT COMMENTARY
Syrian peace talks: omens ‘not that bad’ It would be interesting to know just what tidbits of information the U.S. National Security Agency’s eavesdropping has turned up on United Nations SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-Moon. He certainly caved in very fast: on Sunday, he invited Iran to join the long-delayed peace talks aimed at ending the three-year-old civil war in Syria; on Sunday evening, the United States loudly objected, and on Monday, he obediently uninvited Iran. So the peace talks get underway in Switzerland this week, after all, and the omens for peace are not that bad. Unless, of course, you were also hoping for the overthrow of the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad and the emergence of a democratic Syria, in which case the omens are positively awful. The breakthrough may not happen at Geneva this week, but the Russians and the Americans are now on the same side (although the U.S. cannot yet bring itself to say publicly that it is backing Assad). Moreover, some of the rebels are getting ready to change sides. It won’t be fast and it won’t be pretty, but there’s a decent chance that peace, in the shape of an Assad victory, will come to
Syria within a year or two. What has made this possible is the jihadis, the fanatical extremists of the alNusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, who have frightened both the United States and a great many ordinary Syrians into seeing Assad’s regime as the lesser evil. Two years ago, it still seemed possible that Assad could lose. The rebels had the support of the United States, Turkey and powerful Sunni Arab states like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and they still talked about a democratic, inclusive Syria. Assad’s only friends were Iran, Russia and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. But then the jihadis showed up, alienating local people with their extreme version of sharia law and scaring the pants off the United States with their allegiance to alQaeda. It took the United States quite a while to admit to itself that it does not actually want Assad to fall if that means putting the jihadis in power, but it has finally grasped the concept. The catalyst was the poison gas attacks in Damascus last August, which forced the U.S. to threaten air strikes against the Assad regime (because it had already de-
clared that the use of poison gas would cross a “red line”). However, President Obama was clearly reluctant to carry out his threat — and then the Russians came up with the idea that Assad could hand over all his chemical weapons instead. Obama grabbed that lifeline and cancelled the air strikes. After that, there was no longer any prospect of Western military intervention in the Syrian war, which meant that Assad was certain to survive, because the domestic rebels were never going to win it on their own. More recently, a “warwithin-the-war” has broken out among the rebels, with the secular groups fighting the jihadis and the jihadi groups fighting among themselves. So far in January, more people have been killed in this internecine rebel war (over a thousand) than in
the war against the regime. And the U.S. and Russia are working on a deal that would swing most of the non-jihadi rebels over to the regime’s side. General Salim Idris, the commander of the Free Syrian Army (the main non-jihadi force on the battlefield), said last month that he and his allies were dropping the demand that Assad must leave power before the Geneva meeting convened. Instead, they would be content for Assad to go at the end of the negotiation process, at which time the FSA’s forces would join with those of the regime in an offensive against the Islamists. He was actually signalling that the Free Syrian Army is getting ready to change sides. There will have to be amnesties and financial rewards for those who change sides, of course, but these things are
easily arranged. And Assad will not leave power “at the end of the negotiation process.” The jihadis are not at Geneva this week, of course; just the Russians and the Americans, and the Assad regime and the Syrian National coalition (the Free Syrian Army’s political front), and a few odds and sods to make up the numbers. It is an ideal environment for the regime and the secular rebels to discuss quietly how they might make a deal, with their Russian and American big brothers in attendance to smooth the path. The fighting in Syria will continue for many months, even if a joint front of the regime and the FSA is formed to drive out the foreign extremists and eliminate the native-born ones. In practice, the end game will probably be even more ragged than that, with all sorts of local rebel groups trying to cut their own deals or holding out until the bitter end. But the final outcome has become clear, and it is no longer years away. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose columns are published in 45 countries.
Canada poised ‘to play leading role’ in energy supply According to the International Energy Agency, in 2035, fossil fuels will still be required to meet threequarters of global energy demand. Canada is the world’s fifth-largest producer of natural gas, with marketable gas resources estimated to be up to 37 trillion cubic metres, or 1,300 trillion cubic feet — some 200 years of production at current rates. Canada has the thirdlargest proven oil reserves
in the world, at 173 billion barrels. Canada’s Natural Resources Minister, the Hon. Joe Oliver, maintains, “With our abundance of natural resources, Canada is well-positioned to play
a leading role in supplying the energy required to meet growing demand.” Canada’s enormous natural wealth and the strength of our natural resource sectors are essential to our current and future economic success. Our Conservative government’s plan for Responsible Resource Development is unleashing the full potential of our resource sectors to create quality jobs, expand into new markets abroad and help
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grow our economy, while strengthening safety and environmental protection. Already, natural resources account for nearly 20 per cent of our economy and support 1.8 million jobs across our country. Responsible Resource Development is helping ensure that these jobs exist for today and generations to come. For example, on Dec. 19, 2013, nearly four years after the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project was submitted for review, the independent Joint Review Panel released its final report on the project. The independent panel recommends approval of the project, subject to 209 conditions. During the independent review process,
the panel heard from more than 1,450 participants in 21 different communities, reviewed more than 175,000 pages of evidence, and received 9,000 letters of comment. Our government is thoroughly reviewing the report and consulting with affected First Nations before making a decision. We are continuing to take action to improve the transportation safety of energy products across Canada. No project will be approved unless it is safe for Canadians and safe for the environment. This is why we believe pipelines are an important alternative to moving our energy by rail. Canadians support our federal government making significant infrastruc-
ture investments across the country. Programs like the Community Infrastructure Fund, the Building Canada Fund and the Green Infrastructure Fund, are helping to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Natural resources currently generate more than $30 billion in tax revenue and royalties annually to help fund critical national programs, including social-spending programs such as health care and education. Anyone with questions is invited to write MP Kevin Sorenson at 494550 Street, Camrose, AB, T4V 1P9, call 780-6084600, toll-free 1-800-6654358, fax 780-608-4603 or email Kevin.Sorenson. C1@parl.gc.ca.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
THE STETTLER INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ZONE
STETTLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TERESA ANDERSSON Stettler Elementary School Mrs. Poapst and Mrs. Neitz have set up our gymnasium for the gymnastics unit this month. Gymnastics is a unit most students look forward to every year. The gym is set up in five stations, and the students are put into groups and directed to rotate through each of the stations. The primary and upper elementary students have a great time using the gym together to hone new skills. Mrs. Kirby’s show choir started up again on Monday at noon, with approximately 60 members. The focus this term will be to prepare for the performance at the music festival this spring. Mrs. Rachar is leading a writing club for students in Grade 3. The children who are interested will meet every Wednesday at lunch recess until spring break. Students will be doing a variety of writing of their choice, including stories, poems, cartoons, letters, cards and diaries. This is a great opportunity for students to hone their emerging writing skills. On Wednesday, all of the Grade 5 classes spent an extra period outside enjoying the mild weather and having a friendly snowman-building competition. Each class was trying to make the tallest, widest or most creative snowman, using the extra deep snow in the football field. It was a great way for the students to practise their team work, using Habit 4 (Think Win-Win) and Habit 5 (Seek first to understand, then to be understood). Mrs. Fischer was the official judge, and she declared that all the snowmen were fantastic. The 5TA class has been very busy this week. On Monday, they practised Habit 4 — Think Win-
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Wayne Smith teaches attentive Grade 2 students from Stettler Elementary School about the igloo he built in his Stettler backyard. Win, by doing an art walk around the school, and leaving sticky notes with anonymous positive comments on art being displayed in the hallways. Students were excited and surprised to come out of their classes at the end of the day to a compliment on their art work, and the Grade 5 students had a lot of fun leaving the notes. This was a confidence-building activity for both the givers and the receivers. Without confidence, it is impossible to think Win-Win, so we wanted to help foster an atmosphere of confidence in our school. On Wednesday, the students in 5TA also filled their marble jar. This class earns marbles for dem-
onstrating that they’re following the 5TA mission statement, which the class wrote in September. “In this classroom, our mission is to have a good attitude so we can all achieve success. We know that the only person we should compare ourselves to is our own self. We know that to learn and improve, we need to take risks and that when we need help, we should never be afraid to ask. We respect others values, opinions and property.” As a reward, they had a popcorn and movie party on Thursday afternoon. Keep up the good work, 5TA! On Friday afternoon, all four Grade 2 classes were invited by
Wayne and Lisa Smith to visit the igloo in their backyard. It was a great cross-curricular opportunity for those students, since they study about insulators (like snow) in science and how the Inuit people in Iqaluit, Nunavut, used to live in igloos in the winter in social studies. They learned a lot on how to make a large igloo, Canadian-style, from Mr. Smith, who built the igloo himself. Each class was able to go inside the igloo (all at once!) to see how well snow acts as an insulator. The teachers and students of the Grade 2 classes would like to thank the Smith family for inviting them to their home for this wonderful opportunity.
HIGH SCHOOL
STETTLER MIDDLE SCHOOL CAITLIN FORSETH AND KASSIDY BOURDON Stettler Middle School Happy New Year! We want to welcome back all staff and students and hope that everyone had a great Christmas break. Just as students and staff get adjusted to school after two weeks’ vacation, everyone is finishing up their options from Semester 1 and getting prepared for new options in second semester. Semester 2 starts Jan. 30. This past Friday, Stettler Middle School students were fortunate enough to have Robb Nash and his band visit. From 9:30 to 11 a.m., they performed songs and talked to us about topics that are affecting today’s youth, such as bullying and suicide. This was a great opportunity for the students to get a better understanding of the hard issues teens can face. Nash decided to do such presentations around the world in hopes to help youth through tough times, and share his life stories of survival and success. To find out more about him and his presentations, visit www.robbnash. com. Last Wednesday, our school had an activity day where students chose what activities they wanted to be a part of for the day. Some students went skiing to Red Deer at Canyon Ski Hill,
while the rest participated in different activities here. Those who stayed here first watched Monsters University in the morning, and then they chose between swimming, skating, bowling, video game tournaments, gym games, board games and hockey for activities in the afternoon. Skiing was great, with beautiful weather, and the movie with activities was a lot of fun. The student union will be putting on a pizza fundraiser in February, so watch for more information to follow on that. They will also be hosting an evening dance Feb. 7 from 6 to 9 p.m. There will be a concession and parents and staff members will be chaperoning. On Wednesday, Jan. 8, the Grade 8 photography class walked to No Frills to take pictures of the produce section for one of their projects. Mrs. Ruddell was overly pleased with the students’ behaviour. They were great ambassadors to SMS. We would like to thank No Frills for accommodating our students with their project. The Grade 6 computer option class is working on a new research project. They are researching the different careers in the computer and technology field. Mr. Rahn and his band classes are presently working on finding pieces
On Friday, Mrs. Poapst sent out the Camp McE mini basketball forms. Parents are encouraged to register early for this fun and skill -building camp that will take place this April. For more information, contact Mrs. Poapst at the school. The Book Club swap and sale begins Jan. 27. There have been lots of early bird prize-winners who have already brought in books to swap. The first days of the swap and sale will be an opportunity for the students who brought in books to select new ones to take home, and then at the end of the week, the swap and sale will be open for students and their families to purchase used books.
for the Stettler Music Festival this April. Students are also signing up for solos, duets and trios in preparation of the big day. The Junior Jazz Cats have also kicked off and are working on a piece called Night Train. The festival will be here before we know it! The grades 6 and 7 developmental basketball program started last Monday and runs every Monday and Wednesday, with Mr. Lee coaching. The senior boys’ and girls’ basketball teams played Big Valley on Jan. 7 and both teams came out victorious. The boys won 44-43, while the girls won 41-16. They also played Erskine this past Wednesday here at home. The boys lost 46-32, while the girls won 43-6. The girls also played in the Lacombe tournament on Jan. 10 and 11 and came out with a third-place finish. A huge congratulations to both the boys’ and girls’ teams for a successful start to the basketball season! Our school hosted a tournament this past weekend, with teams from Lacombe, St. Francis and Gateway Christian from Red Deer. Stay tuned for the results. We will also be hosting again this weekend, with teams coming from Drumheller, David Thompson and Fox Run School. Come out and cheer on our boys and girls! ROBIN TARNOWETZKI/Independent reporter
FIT FOR A GOOD CAUSE — The William E. Hay Composite High School Gay-Straight Alliance collected 525 pairs of jeans for the Teens For Jeans campaign, which donates jeans to youth in homeless shelters. The jeans are slated to go to the shelter in Red Deer.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
THE STETTLER INDEPENDENT DISTRICT
ENDIANG-BYEMOOR NEWS By Les and Rosemary Stulberg A rare January rain fell last week to make roads and yards extremely icy and treacherous for driving and walking. A few mishaps have been reported. A couple of Endiang families are in the process of building new houses. Stuart and Kayla Somerville are building their new home on their farm, the former Alex and Anne Smith place. Miles and Judy Buchwitz are also building a new home on their farm, the former Ken Land farm. Sympathy is extended to Lane and Bobbi Buchwitz and family on the passing of Bobbi’s maternal grandmother at age 89 in Saskatchewan. They attended her funeral in Saskatoon on Monday. Larry and Lorene Stulberg attended
the graduation of their daughter, Krystal Stoutenberg, as a chartered accountant in Calgary on Saturday. The ceremony was held at the Telus Convention Centre. Krystal is employed at Chapman and Associates in Stettler. Congratulations, Krystal. A note to hockey fans, all five local teams are having home games in Byemoor at the Endmoor Arena on Saturday. The schedule is, mites — 9 a.m., novice — 11 a.m., atoms — 1 p.m., peewees — 3 p.m. and the bantam girls at 5:30 p.m. A few more local folks took a break from winter with trips to warmer locations. Dan and Verla Buchwitz have returned from an enjoyable vacation to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Doreen, Eugene and Becky Nixon, Betty Campbell and John and Carolin Schofer
were in Las Vegas to take in the Continental Cup world curling and to try their luck. Keep in mind, Canadian Roots recording artist Allen Christie is coming to Endiang for a concert on Feb. 1 at the community hall. Tickets are $20 and available at Ruthie’s Roost or by calling 403-579-2522 or 403-585-8379. The Byemoor Hotel will present live music on Feb. 8 at 8:30 p.m., following its pizza night. Be sure to mark your calendar for this event — the last time they were here, they were very well-received. Maureen Wasdal attended a Stettler Variety Showcase performance in Stettler on Sunday. One of the actors in the performance “When That I Was” was Maureen’s cousin, Chris Hunt. The two enjoyed supper together between shows.
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HALKIRK HERALD By Rose Koenraadt and Dorothy Anderson Several of our Mother Teresa students entered the Legion Remembrance Day contest. Congratulations to the students who advance to the next level: In K to Grade 3 – Tayah Perry for second in colour poster and to Owen Schauer for first in B&W poster; In grades 4 to 6 – first to Natalie Schilling and second to Cale Neufeld for colour poster; firsst to Bailey Musgrove and second to Devon Johnson for B&W poster; and first to Devon Johnson for her poem; In grades 7 to 9 – first to Abby Musgrove and sec-
ond to Hayley McNeil for colour poster; first to Tiana Gamroth and second to Madelyn Schauer for B&W poster and first to Tiana Gamroth and second to Abby Musgrove for their poems. Basketball is in full swing and we are able to field both a boys’ and a girls’ junior high team. Coaches are Sheldon Grice and Kevin Perry, with Carly Nichols as teacher rep. The boys played a tournament in Consort on Jan. 11 and the girls made the final game in Consort last weekend, losing to Theresetta. We welcome Steve and Cheryl Rayfield and their son, Bradley, from Eng-
land to our community. Steve is employed with Vestas, part of the windmill crew, and Cheryl is working at Today’s Sweet. They live on the Emmett acreage west of town. Jody and Marilyn Wakefield have moved from the Emmett acreage to the Wakefield farm south of town. Our congratulations to Jody and Marilyn, who were married in the spring and welcome to our community. Congratulations to Bill and May Jamieson, who celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary on Jan. 12. Several family members were able to help them celebrate with coffee and cake. Bill and
May make their home at Points West in Stettler. Congratulations to Vera Airey, who became a great-great grandmother on Dec. 17 with the birth of a fifth-generation baby, a boy, Hunter John Lee Umbach. This makes Lyn and Maureen Wiltse great-grandparents. Congratulations to Monte and Tracy Turre on the birth of their first child, an eight-pound, 12-ounce daughter, Olivia Elizabeth, born on Jan. 12 in Red Deer. This is grandbaby No. 4 for Dennis and Katie, the 22nd great-grandchild for Violet Turre and the seventh great-grandchild for Dora Morasch.
ERSKINE ENQUIRER By Cheri Neitz The Erskine School basketball teams played games at Stettler Middle school last week. The boys doubled the score for a win, but the girls weren’t successful. Tonight, the
teams host Brownfield at the Erskine gym. Erskine parent/school council starts right after school today. All parents are encouraged to participate in council. Advance notice for the Erskine bonspiel: the
women’s bonspiel will be held Feb 24 to March 2; the men’s bonspiel is March 9 to 16. United Church services start at 9 a.m. Sunday. Erskine Evangelical Free Church worship servicex start at 10:30 a.m.
each Sunday. They also have an elementary-age Kids Club on Thursdays after school. The junior high/high school youth group is every Friday at 7 p.m., and both groups are open to all kids in those age groups.
BIG VALLEY BULLETIN By Linda Stillinger Village of Big Valley residents would like to take this opportunity to thank all this winter’s wonderful “snow angels” who have been taking time out of their busy lives to help clear snow throughout the village. Many a resident has been surprised to find their sidewalks, driveways or boulevards anonymously lighted of their mounds of snow. It has been a great relief to so many without the time or physical ability to keep up with such ever-accumulating deposits. Your kindness has not gone unnoticed and is very much appreciated. With the excessive accumulation of snow, it has proven to be another especially challenging winter for the deer in our area.
They have been wandering into our village to try to eat whatever saplings, bushes and perennial plants they can find. Most attempts to keep them out of our yards and gardens have been in vain. It has been reported by several residents that the bags of leaves they gathered up last fall are being rooted out, torn open by the deer and devoured. Fresh footprints can be found every morning and if you happen to glance out your windows in the quiet nighttime hours, you can catch sight of them as they silently wander down our sidewalks in search of something to eat. Sadly, if these conditions persist, many are likely to perish. The success of the Big Valley Library’s “Quilling Made Easy” at last Wednesday’s Ladies Night Out has prompted the scheduling
of another session. Ladies are invited to join the fun on Saturday, Feb. 1 from 1 to 4 p.m. If you are interested in quilting, don’t forget to register for “Hexies for Beginners,” scheduled for Jan. 22 and 29; or if you love to read, why not join in the discussion at one of our book clubs. The evening Ladies Book Club meets Monday, Jan. 27, the Non-fiction Book Club on Thursday, Jan. 30, both at 7 p.m. and the regular Ladies Book Club meets Friday, Jan. 31, at 10 a.m. For more information on any scheduled events, please contact the library. Dog owners are reminded to stop by the village office to renew their licences. The prices will be $10 for altered and $20 for un-
Some of those watching the Calgary news on TV last week saw former Endiang resident Alf Woelk being interviewed as he stood in the flu clinic lineup. The Endmoor girls’ bantam Vipers played a good game in Byemoor on Saturday, but the team from Tofield posted the 4-1 win. Big Valley-Byemoor atom Swordmen hosted a tournament in Big Valley on the weekend. Congratulations to the team on winning the C final. The Big Valley-Byemoor peewee Thunder team had a good game in Byemoor on Sunday, with an 8-2 win against the Stettler Storm B peewees. The 50/50 draw at the game was won by Tyson Keith and he donated it back to the team. Thanks Tyson, for your kind gesture.
altered canines, until the end of February. Ten people were out for crib on Sunday at the Big Valley Inn. First place went to Dorothy Annable and a big congratulations to Dorothy for eight perfect games. Second place went to Len Shaw and third to Teresa Greig. Ernie Petrussia took home the booby and won the regular draw. Stan Nattestad won the 50/50. See you all next Sunday, Jan. 26, at 1 p.m. Twelve players came out to the Drop-In Centre’s Wednesday night crib tournament last week. Bob Boswell came in first, with Ken Johnson taking second and Lynne Palmer third. The Big Valley Drop-In Centre hosts crib tournaments every Wednesday at 7 p.m. and every Sunday, beginning at 1 p.m.
By Darlene Tantrum If you have recycling bottles, there is a recycle trailer behind the Drop-In Centre. Proceeds from this go to the community. There is also paper recycle bins by the curling rink. Village council now meets on the third Tuesday of the month. The council is in the process of forming an emergency preparedness committee. If you are interested, contact the village office at 403-883-2345. Curling has started. They have shortened the season to six weeks, so it’s not a big commitment, with a combined bonspiel running Feb. 2 to 9. For more information, call Mike at 403-883-2469. If you’re interested in art classes this winter, the Art Gallery offers les-
sons from mid-February to mid-March. Call Darlene at 403-883-2253 or email ctp1867@live.com Do you need someone to shovel snow? You could call Gary Sutton at 403883-2118 or Ezra and Judah Auton at 403-883-2526. Birthday wishes go out to Darcy Shepherd, Jessica Dixon, Eric Blouin, Kathy Norman, Calvin Foot, Davin Nattestad, Elizabeth Cartier, Jonathan Campbell, Laura Nelson, Rylan Jaksitz, Wayne Nixon, Amy Olson, Dennis Helfer, John Swaren, Brian Ternes, Declan Cartier, Jim Bailey, Lee White, Lexi Strandquist, Julie Bergstrom-Siemens, Kristine Bailey-Chesla, Mark Pearson, Nigel Bergstrom, Shannon Leguerrier, Terry Chesla and everyone celebrating a birthday this week. Happy Birthday!
RUMSEY RECORD By Patty Steen The Rumsey men’s bonspiel will start this week, so get ready to go in and watch some great curling. Don’t forget about Oyster night this Thursday, and the bonspiel supper that is held on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m., with awards to follow. The concession is open each night of the bonspiel, so there is always a chance to have some homemade soup and pie, steak and baked potato supper, or just fresh hamburger and fries. The curling games run from 6 to 11 each evening and the concession is open from 5 until 10. A big thank-you to all the community members who make their way into town to do their bit in the kitchen. It’s much appreciated by the Ag Society and anyone who enjoys a meal in town during the weeks of our bonspiels. Next up on the Ag Society’s schedule will be the Snowmobiling Poker Rally on Feb 1. The members will be selling hands from 9:30 to 2:30. The weather has been beautiful, so let’s hope it is nice that day, as well. I know that a fresh dump of
snow would be most welcome before the day, but we will have to wait and see what Mother Nature brings us. There will be a concession available for the day, plus the lounge will be open upstairs for when the ride is done. As I mentioned in last week’s column, there will be a crop production day held at the Rumsey Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 12, from 9:30 to 3 p.m. with six different guest speakers sharing information on a variety of topics related to grain farming. There will be a lunch provided, so Curt Walker and Curt McNaughton would like to know if you are planning to attend. Give them a call at 403-3682197 and 403-368-2231, respectively. The next curling event on the schedule will be the women’s bonspiel to be held during the week of Feb. 5 to 8, so make sure you sign up for that if you want to enjoy a great winter sport with fun people. There will be the oyster supper again on that Thursday night, and Saturday’s banquet, so mark it on your calendar.
GADSBY/WESTWOODS GAZETTE By Paulette Heer There will be a general meeting for the Gadsby Community Hall tonight at the hall, beginning 7:30. All interested persons are encouraged to attend. The Gadsby Ball Association holds its annual meeting at the Bank Building on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m. They need our support! The Omega Circle women are still looking for a caretaker for the spring. Call Joanne Hoopfer at 403-574-2340.
Fred and Velvet Entwisle have returned home from a warm week in Mexico, staying at a resort in Cancun. They saw with the dolphins and manatee (sea cows), visited the Yacatan Peninsula, saw the pyramid at Chichen Itza and the Mayan village. Shopping was an interesting experience. Mexico was a great hit on their bucket list! On Saturday night, Donna McKay attended a post-Christmas party in Stettler at the golf course upper level hosted by the P&H Elevator Society. Turkey supper
provided by Brenda’s catering was followed by a slide presentation by group president Stan Eichhorn. He brought everyone up to date on work done and future goals. About 130 people attended. Also Saturday night, 15 people gathered at the bank building for the monthly bingo. The new loonie pot started at $50 and continues to grow. It was a family day at Gloria and Stan Diegel’s place on Saturday, with all the family home. Those that stayed for Jasmin’s 10th birthday supper at Wade and
Ybiett’s were Stan and Gloria, Arden and Deanne and girls, Richelle and Greg and family. Aaron and Tasha and family had to head home early. Sympathies go out to Don and Elsie Yates on the passing of Don’s brother, Gordon Yates. Funeral services were held last Friday in Byemoor. Sympathies also to Alex and Edna Taggart and Bertha Bible on the passing of Alex’s sister-in-law (Bertha’s daughterin-law), Gwen Bible. Services were held in Stettler on Saturday.
BOTHA BOOSTER By Louise Bellair Talk about beautiful weather lately, with warmer days that haven’t been too common this winter. Some of our snow piles are starting to go down, at least somewhat, giving the snow plows a rest for a change. Get ready and make sure you make it out to the Botha Hall this coming Sunday at 1:30 p.m. for the first old-time dance for this year. The Ralph and Friends band will be entertaining the crowd for the afternooon. The dance is for everyone, regardless of age. Organizers would appreciate it if
everyone brings buns/sandwiches or dessert with them for all to enjoy at the luncheon. For more information on the dances, call Doug or Bernadette Haustein at 403742-3994. Here in the Botha area, we have two special birthdays coming up this week. Brandon Morris will be celebrating tommorrow, Jan. 23, and Donna Morris on Sunday, Jan. 26. Happy Birthday to both ... we hope you have a great birthday. Quilting happens this coming Monday, Jan. 27, starting at 9:30 a.m. and held at the Botha Senior Centre. So gather up your items and come out
and join the quilters. They make some beautiful items and they would love to teach you the art of quilting. Then, for the rest of this week, there will be the normal activities, with coffee every Wednesday, starting at 10 a.m. Then, every Wednesday at 1 p.m., it’s carpet bowling. Everyone is more than welcome to join in both activities — carpet bowling and quilting. And every Thursday, the Botha Senior Centre is full of fun and excitement, with everyone enjoying themselves for a game of floor curling. Again, all are invited
to join in the weekly fun. The next Botha monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 4, starting at noon. The organizers would apprecaite it if everyone brought something to share in the potluck luncheon. Then, the meeting follows right after the luncheon. The committee is hoping all seniors can join them for these important meetings. The next Bingo evening is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 4, at the Botha Senior Centre. The committee would love to see everyone join in the Bingo fun ... who knows, you could be the next big winner.
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Hunt’s energy keeps one-man play lively ROBIN TARNOWETZKI Independent reporter The first performance of this year’s Stettler Showcase took place Sunday with Alberta actor Christopher Hunt’s rendition of the one-man play “When That I Was.” The story revolves around Jack Rice, an actor who has fallen on hard times due to the Puritans closing down the theatres. As he takes shelter from a storm in a church, he recounts stories from his time in a Shakespearean theatre troupe. The most interesting and notable thing about the play is that Hunt doesn’t have other actors to play off of, and it’s just him performing for an hour and a half. But the play never becomes monotonous, in part because Hunt gets to play many characters other than Rice, including a woman, Shakespeare, young Jack Rice, and Shakespeare’s son Hamnet. “It was just me talking for an hour and a half, so now it’s good to break it up and all these people kind of come and tell the story,”
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Christopher Hunt performs Sunday in “When That I Was” at the Performing Arts Centre as part of the Stettler Variety Showcase.
Hunt said. Although Hunt admits that originally, learning each character was “a challenge,” he has since performed the play so many times (more than 50) that it has now become easier. “Each character has a very strong physical sense and a really clear vocal line, so once we get to that part, it’s now in my muscle memory,” he said. “So now it’s easy, but discovering that was hard.” Hunt has to get creative with props and making it clear that he’s portraying different people. For instance, Hamnet is portrayed by a knotted scarf, and at one point Hunt has to put on and take off a hat while portraying two different characters. Although you would think that a play celebrating Shakespeare would come to life through a Shakespeare fan, Hunt admits that he wasn’t that big into Shakespeare before he started doing the play. “I grew up in southern Alberta, and there’s not a lot of Shakespeare that we get to see here …
there’s not a lot of Shakespeare that I’ve had an opportunity to do,” he said. He adds that the idea of the play was scary at first, but he soon got used to it after he realized that the main character was not too dissimilar from himself. “Basically, the guy who’s telling the story, he’s just a regular actor, he’s not a superstar. He likes Will Shakespeare the man … he’s just a working actor, just like me.” Hunt said that gave him the confidence to take on the project. Just like today, 400 years ago, actors were doing plays, taking them on the road, and hoping for a good audience, he said. “Things stay more similar than you’d imagine.” Hunt added he’s happy to have the opportunity to take the show to smaller places like Stettler. “I was really happy with the turnout and how people got into the story,” he said. “I hope they did, anyway.” The next Stettler show features musicians Leela Gilday and the Tim Buckley Trio on Feb. 16 at the Performing Arts Centre.
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Photos by ROBIN TARNOWETZKI Independent reporter
ROCKIN’ GOOD TIME — Kevin Haner prepares to throw a rock at the Stettler Farmer Bonspiel last Saturday, while Barb Groves and Linda Wesselman wait for their game to begin in the Farmerette Bonspiel at the Stettler Curling Club.
STONES Brian and Brenda Braglin are thrilled to announce the birth of their first grandchild Grandson Gage James Kromm was born Dec. 24, 2013. He weighed 6 lbs. 12 1/2 ozs. and was 21” tall. Proud parents are Sara Braglin & Cody Kromm of Alix. Equally thrilled grandparents are Dale and Colleen Kromm of Haynes. Great-grandparents are Fred and Evelyn Milner of Stettler.
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Eva Wylie and her fiancé, Cody Borek, of Today’s Sweet Cakery in Castor are scheduled to audition for the Dragons’ Den CBC-TV show producers on Feb. 1 in Calgary.
Today’s Sweet enters Dragons’ Den prime time ROBIN TARNOWETZKI Independent reporter Castor’s own Today’s Sweet Cakery is going to try its luck in the Dragons’ Den. On Feb. 1, Cody Borek and his fiancée, Eva Wylie, are slated to make a pitch for the Dragons’ Den CBCTV show producers in Calgary. The judges grade that pitch and take different things into consideration, such as entertainment value and principally whether the idea is a good one. “I haven’t slept four hours a night for the last two months, just preparing,” Borek said. He’s also watched Dragons’ Den episodes and studied each Dragon. His favourite is Kevin O’Leary. “He’s the smartest and he tells it like it is,” Borek said.
Today’s Sweet opened in September 2012, and Borek began working there within a month. “I’m kind of an odd character,” said the former Stettler resident. “I grew up on the football team and acting school, and then now, I work in a cupcake shop and teach kung fu,” he said. Borek estimated about 4,000 or 5,000 people audition for the show, but only about two per cent pass the audition and fly to Toronto to pitch in front of the Dragons for real. He’s confident he’ll pass the audition, and is “a hundred per cent” confident that if he gets to pitch to the Dragons, he’ll do well, especially because he has acting experience. “With my acting experience, I’m not nervous,” he said. “I’m kind of excited.” Although he doesn’t have a business background, Borek said he loves numbers and business and has studied both on his own.
“And my fiancée, she’s unbelievably creative,” he said. “She never went to school, and yet she has people who work for Wilton asking her for lessons.” Which leads into their strategy if they make it to the Dragon’s Den: baking a cake, of course. “We’re going to be going in with the most amazing Dragons’ Den cake you’ve ever seen in your life…It’ll be like ‘Cake Boss,’ better than ‘Cake Boss,’” Borek said. The second part of his strategy is to be really strong on the numbers. “Everybody’s biggest problem is they don’t know their numbers,” he said. “I’ve been going over my numbers like crazy; I understand all of them.” In the end, the business capital they’re asking for is less important than the other benefits of getting on the show. “It’s more to get our name out there … maybe to get some of their business expertise,” Borek said.
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Mappin skates back into WHL with Blades Big Valley centre to rotate between Saskatoon and AJHL’s Olds Grizzlys John MacNeil Independent editor Fittingly, Ty Mappin returned to the Western Hockey League on Hockey Day in Canada. The Saskatoon Blades, who acquired the WHL rights to the Big Valley centre a week earlier in a trade with the Everett Silvertips, dressed Mappin for Saturday night’s home game, a 4-3 loss to the Brandon Wheat Kings. Mappin sported jersey No. 37, as he does in the Alberta Junior Hockey League with the Olds Grizzlys. As scheduled, he returned to the junior A Grizzlys on Sunday and the Blades plan to call up Mappin on an occasional basis for the rest of this season. “They’re a pretty young team, so I think it’s going to be a good fit for me over there,” Mappin said of Saskatoon, which last spring hosted the Memorial Cup. “It was good to be back (in the WHL). It was an exciting night.” Mappin, who turns 18 this Saturday, is thankful that the Blades showed faith in him. “They took the chance on me, so I want to be sure they won’t regret it,” he said. “I think I can help them with the rebuilding process.” Blades general manager Lorne Molleken said Mappin’s relative youth and superior skill make him an attractive prospect, even though he had slipped out of major junior this season. “We know we’re getting a player with an exceptional skill-set who has played in the league before,” Molleken said. “We know less about his character, but these next few months will help us to get a read on him. “We believe Ty is a player who could help this franchise considerably in the next few years.” Molleken said the Blades, in consultation with Mappin, his parents and the Grizzlys, agreed to leave him with Olds for the rest of this season to enable him to continue to develop and to finish Grade 12. The Blades gave up a conditional seventh-round draft pick to land Mappin, whom Everett chose seventh overall in the 2011 WHL bantam draft. He played all of last season with the Silvertips, scoring five goals and 17 points in 63 games, but had fallen on their depth chart this season and asked for his junior A assignment after training camp last fall. Olds became his new hockey home as he joined a Grizzlys team that features familiar faces from his Red Deer midget career. While supportive of players advancing to the next level, Olds coach and general manager Brett Hopfe is appreciative that the Grizzlys still can count on Mappin’s services. “It’s definitely nice for us to have him back,” Hopfe said Monday after Mappin returned to the Grizzlys for practice. “When we heard about the trade, we were obviously very excited for him to get a fresh (WHL) start somewhere else. (But) we knew that he wanted to finish off his schooling, so we weren’t worried about losing him this year. That’s the commitment he made right when we brought him back the first time. “We want to help Saskatoon out as much as we can, with getting him up to games,
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Ty Mappin made his debut with the Saskatoon Blades on Saturday night in their 4-3 loss to the Brandon Wheat Kings. since he’s affiliated there. Getting some experience there, I think that’ll help him out and our team out.” After a slow start offensively, Mappin has 18 points — including 14 assists — in 33 games with Olds. “After the experience he had last year, he was a little down on himself,” Hopfe said, referencing Mappin’s 16-year-old season in the WHL. “He’s starting to get some of his confidence back, and just his enjoyment of the game. “It was a very positive experience for him in Saskatoon. For that organization to think so much about him to pick him up, when I’m sure a lot of WHL teams had questions about him coming back to (junior A) and wondering what his commitment level was … I think that confidence just helped his confidence level grow, as well.” The Blades were at home for two games last weekend, but agreed to delay Mappin’s promotion until Saturday to enable him to play in the Grizzlys’ 2-1 overtime loss to the visiting Canmore Eagles on Friday night in what Hopfe said was “a pretty important
game against a South (Division) opponent.” Mappin made the most of his initial audition with the Blades. “I got pretty good ice time,” he said. “I played mostly fourth line, as would be expected as the new guy. “They kind of saw the offensive upside of me, and later in the game, I got some time on a line with (Nikita) Scherbak and (Nick) Zajac. That was a good experience, especially to play with a player of Scherbak’s calibre.” Just three days earlier, Scherbak — a high-scoring Russian — skated in the NHL top prospects game at the Saddledome in Calgary. During his Saskatoon stay, Mappin resided with Blades sophomore forward Ryan Graham, a Calgarian and a familiar face from their stint as Team Pacific teammates at the world under-17 championship last season. Blades assistant coach Curtis Leschyshyn, a former NHL defenceman, gave Mappin top marks after his Saskatoon debut. “We liked what we saw,” Leschyshyn
told the Blades’ post-game radio show on 92.9 The Bull. “(Blades defenceman) Nelson Nogier, actually, said you can tell it wasn’t (Mappin’s) first Western Hockey League game. Even though it was his first this year, he’s been at this level, so he knows how to play. He competed, he was in the corners, he’d dig pucks out, he finished his checks (and) he was good on faceoffs. I liked his game. Hopefully, we can get him in here a little bit more in the future, and then next year, be a big part of this hockey club.” Mappin is banking on more opportunities with the Blades, who visit Alberta next month for games in Calgary and Red Deer. For now, his focus is AJHL action with Olds, which hosts the Calgary Mustangs this Friday. “Things are going pretty good here,” he said after Monday’s practice. “We’re progressing.” The Grizzlys (19-20-8) are sixth in the eight-team South Division. editor@stettlerindependent.com
Lightning bolt to Castor win
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Derek Muhlbach scored three goals and the host Stettler Lightning defeated the Ponoka Stampeders 6-1 in Heritage Junior Hockey League play Friday at Castor.
Junior B hockey was in the spotlight Friday night at Castor Arena, which hosted its annual Heritage Junior Hockey League game. And the local fans went home happy as the home team, the Stettler Lightning, spanked the winless Ponoka Stampeders 6-1. The game featured four Castor players who are integral parts of the Lightning — goaltender Simon Thieleman, forward Kyler O’Connor and defencemen Mark Dietz and Steven Fletcher. Big Valley’s Derek Muhlbach was the man of
the hour, as he completed his hat trick with 18 seconds left in the game. Dylan Houston and twins Adam and Scott Ternes also scored for Stettler. Fletcher assisted on the third-period goal by Adam Ternes, who had a two-point night. Veteran goalie Thieleman blocked 17 shots, while his teammates fired 46 shots at Eli Falls in a rambunctious tilt between rivals. Reese Anheliger, a feisty Lightning forward, picked up 32 minutes’ worth of penalties. It was the lone weekend game for the Lightning, who improved their record to
19-9-1. Stettler is just three points behind the NorthernDivision-leading Blackfalds Wranglers (20-7-2). Ponoka (0-24-2) is solidly in last place in the seven-team Northern Division and in the entire 13-team league. The Stampeders continue to pay tribute to their former teammate, Damian Pannenbecker, who died in a highway crash earlier this month. His name was listed on Friday’s scoresheet, with “RIP” written alongside it. This weekend, Stettler visits Three Hills on Friday and hosts Mountainview on Saturday at 8:15 p.m.
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Stettler Storm defenceman Cole Pedersen (left) towers above a Cochrane player during Stettler’s 7-5 win Sunday in the championship game of a bantam A hockey tournament last weekend at Stettler Recreation Centre. Storm assistant captain Tye Mulgrove (in the right photo) scored back-to-back goals in the comeback win.
Stettler rallies to win bantam A tourney John MacNeil Independent editor The Stettler Storm overcame adversity to win their bantam A hockey tournament Sunday at Stettler Recreation Centre. Missing four regulars because of injuries, the Storm fell behind 4-3 late in the second period of the championship game, but rallied to win 7-5 over the Cochrane Rockies. Stettler captain Brett Coleman scored on a shot from the point just 14 seconds into the third period and assistant captain Tye Mulgrove put the Storm ahead 5-4 a minute later. Mulgrove’s power-play marker with 10:24 left, on a quick, hard shot upstairs, proved to be the winner. Brenden Tucker added an empty-net goal with 25 seconds remaining before Cochrane closed the scoring with just 11 seconds left. Although the Rockies stormed the Stettler net late in the second period and cashed in with two power-play goals — one of them on a two-man advantage — they didn’t recover after Coleman and company set the tone in the opening seconds of the third. “We’ve got a pretty resilient bunch,” Storm coach Ryan Robbins said Sunday. “We were a little short-staffed
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today, but we got ’er done. “We lost to these guys (the Rockies) last night. We came back today and put our work boots on and got the W.” Mulgrove and Ryan Mielke each collected two goals and two assists, and Talon Conner contirbuted one of each. Stettler goaltender Davin Nattestad made 24 saves in beating Cochrane, which had defeated Stettler 3-1 on Saturday night in the final round-robin game. Storm defenceman Rylee Jacobson got hurt Saturday and was a questionable starter for Sunday’s game, but he showed up ready to play and logged key minutes on the back end. “Yeah, he was pretty banged up,” Robbins said of Jacobson. “He had to go to the doctor (Saturday) night, too. He impressed us today. He put his heart on his shoulder and went at ’er.” The injured Storm players — Dawson Beck, Euan Hanton, James Switenky and Jackson Zimmermann — sported their jerseys in the stands Sunday. Stettler, which went 3-1 overall in the annual tournament, relied on its leaders, including captain Coleman and assistants Mulgrove and Paul du Toit (the other assistant, Hanton, was sidelined with an injury). “They’re our captains and assistants for a reason, so
we tend to lean on them a little more than we have to, but it’s nice to have them as stable units from past years,” Robbins said of his captaincy corps. Coleman, Mulgrove, du Toit and Hanton, along with Zimmermann and Cole Pedersen, are carryovers from last season’s provincial bantam A championship team from Stettler. In their other tournament games, the Storm posted 6-1 victories over Innisfail and Olds. Cochrane opened with a 6-4 loss to Olds, but bounced Innisfail 7-3. Stettler is a juggernaut in the North Central Minor Hockey Association, sporting a 12-1-3 league record this season. “We’ve got a couple of little guys, and then we’ve got some pretty good size,” Robbins said. “So we’ve got a real good mixture of guys, and our goaltender is usually always pretty strong. He helps us out.” The Storm are back on the ice tonight when they head to Camrose for Game 1 of a two-game, total-goal series that opens the provincial playdowns. Game 2 is next Tuesday in Stettler. Stettler would need to survive two elimination series to advance to the provincials, which are scheduled for Grande Prairie in mid-March. editor@stettlerindependent.com
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GOLDEN GIRLS — Stettler Middle School posted a 3-0 record to win the SMS girls’ basketball tournament last Saturday. Stettler defeated Red Deer’s St. Francis of Assisi 48-18 in the gold-medal game. In the back row (from left) are Kayla Myshaniuk, coach Amy Kobi, Mikayla Torgerson, Hailey Loeppky, coach Bob Poapst, Chloe WIlson, Shayna Brower, Sydney Poapst and coach Kim Poapst. In the middle row are Maria Miller, Megan Kobi, Keyonna Derr, Jessica Lane and Sadie Diegel. In front are Baileigh Sorensen and Tori Brower. More tournament action — for girls and boys — is set for this Saturday at the middle and elementary gyms.
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Jacquelyne Beth Gertsma “JACKIE” (nee: MacLean) Sunrise: Oakburn Manitoba July 15th, 1932 Sunset: Sooke B.C., January 5th, 2014 Predeceased by parents Hector and Annie MacLean, sisters: Agnes, Maime, Margaret, brother Bud and nephew Jim. Jackie was a prairie girl to the core and never quite embraced living on the coast, always missing the farm in Alberta.The most important thing to Jackie was family, whether those gone before her, her beloved boys, or her Home Hardware family. Jackie LOVED to travel, was always up for “a song and dance”, loved music, sunsets and truly loved people and visiting. We think that’s what she missed most about Alberta, visiting over coffee with family and friends. Left behind to miss her, husband of 54 years, Frank, sons, Scott (Kelly), Neil (Patricia) most special grandson, Nicolas, grandchildren, Jikel (Rodney), Levi (Emily), Jazmin (Theo), great grandchildren, Connor, Coral and Airlie. Nieces and nephews, Ellen, Dale, Debbie, Maureen, Heather, Marilyn, Rodney, Pam, Debbie, Annetta, John and Margo. Along with many friends old and new. A service was held on Tuesday January 14, 2014 at Cordova Bay United Church 813 Claremont Ave, Victoria at 2:30 pm. The Rev. Bill Cantelon officiating. Flowers greatly appreciated or donations, if desired to Sooke Hospice or the United Church.
McColeman Elsie Jean McColeman passed away suddenly on December 18, 2013 at Our Lady of the Rosary Hospital in Castor at the age of 63 years. She was born in that same hospital on October 30, 1950 to parents Margaret and Charles McColeman. Elsie grew up in the Halkirk area and attended school until grade eight, when she left to help her mother with chores on the farm. For a short time she helped various families with babysitting and house work. Her most loved passion was Bingo and the Halkirk Bullarama, she would enjoy the entire weekend, not missing an event. She will be remembered for her quietness, kindness and having a Pepsi and Aero bar in her hand. She will be missed by all those that knew her. Elsie will be lovingly remembered by her sister Rose McColeman of Halkirk, AB, nephew Charlie (Nicole) Taylor and their daughter Michelle of Red Deer, AB; numerous cousins, aunts and extended family and a host of many friends. Funeral services were held at the Community Church in Halkirk on January 6, 2014 with Pastor Jim Culham officiating. Organist Linda Chick played for the hymns that Rose chose for her sister’s service. Interment took place in Halkirk Cemetery with Pallbearers being her close neighbours and friends. Friends gathered in the Halkirk Hall for a time of fellowship and a luncheon by the Halkirk Hall Board. Memorial donations may be made to the Our Lady of the Rosary Hospital Foundation or the Halkirk Cemetery c/o Stettler Funeral Home, Box 1780, Stettler, AB, T0C 2L0. Sympathies may be forwarded to the family by signing the guestbook at www.stettlerfuneralhome.com. STETTLER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 403-742-3422, entrusted with the care and funeral arrangements.
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WEBSTER, Douglas Bruce 1944 TO 2013 Doug passed away in the loving arms of his family on December 1st, 2013, at the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster B.C. He courageously fought a brief battle but left us too soon. Doug will be forever missed by his immediate family in Vancouver: loving wife Rose; son Nelson (Keiko) and grandchildren Emma and Tysei; daughter Shauna (Manny) and grandchildren Joshua and Isabella. Grieving in Alberta are: brother Allen from Leduc, (sister-in-law Sylvia passed away July 12th, 2013); sister Joan (Bob Weder) from Turner Valley; Doug’s special friend and just like a brother, Terry Swick (Yvonne) from Edmonton; nieces and nephews and their families: Laurie, Larry, David, Darcy and many cousins. Doug was predeceased by his Mother and Father, Lloyd and June Webster. Born in Big Valley, Alberta on February 7th, 1944 Doug was raised on the OVT ranch south of Big Valley, and grew up with brother Allen and sister Joan. Together they had many happy years on the ranch. Doug loved playing cowboys and Indians and to dress up in old army clothing and play war, but there were chores to be attended to as well. When Doug was 15 he played saxophone in a dance band called “Big Valley Hot Shots” with band members Larry Klaus, Buster Watts, Marlene Tipmen, Arthur Price, Diane Price and band leader Mrs. Price, all from Big Valley. Playing for dances all over the country side, they were very popular. Attending Big Valley School from grade 1 through grade 12, Doug graduated in 1962, and then worked part time for Carnwood Wireline Services before going to SAIT in Calgary. He graduated in Merchandising Administration and Business Management and was the recipient of a Scholastic “Award of Excellence” from United Dairies Limited. Working for the Hudson Bay, he had a successful 39 year career as a store manager in Calgary, Red Deer, Kelowna, and in Vancouver, his last year in Victoria starting up their new store. Retiring from the Bay, he began a new adventure as a consultant for the Bay in Shanghai, where he lived for 6 years, visiting home often. Throughout Doug’s life he would visit his parents on the ranch and spend happy days with his children and their cousins riding horses, driving tractors and the old truck “the War Wagon”. Doug was involved in a family ranching operation with his mother, brother and sister. He would visit Big Valley and help with the cattle and fencing or whatever chore was to be done, a wonderful family time for Doug. Always an adventurer, looking for new ideas, new products, or new places to go, Doug was a business man. During his professional career, Doug was actively involved in Rotary where he enjoyed helping others and contributing back to the community. A celebration of his life will be held on Saturday January 25th, 2014, 2:00 p.m. at the Big Valley Jubilee Hall, reception to follow. Interment will be at a later date in Big Valley Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Big Valley Historical Society, Box 342, Big Valley, AB, T0J 0G0.
Mrs. Gwen Bible Sept. 18, 1947 - Jan. 13, 2014 Mrs. Gwen Bible a resident of Stettler, passed away at her home on January 13, 2014 at the age of 66 years. Gwen is survived by her children James (Kelly) Bible of Alix and Christa Bible of Coronation, sisters Judy McNeill of Stettler, Karen (Vern) Comeau of Red Deer, Kathy (Ted) Nibourg of Stettler and Jayne Fontaine of Calgary and their families; brothers and sisters-in-law Irvin (Lorraine) Knauft, Edna (Alex) Taggart, Mabel Douglas, Veronica Schmidt, Ethel (Rod) Geisbrecht; mother-in-law Bertha Bible and their familie as well as numerous other relatives and a host of wonderful friends. Gwen was predeceased by her father James McBride, mother Florence McBride, niece Darby Comeau and by her beloved husband Gordon. Gwen was born in Stettler and lived in many towns throughout Alberta while growing up, eventually settling in Stettler. Gwen attended many schools while her family moved around the province but graduated here in Stettler. She started working at the Stettler Hospital and the age of 17 years and worked there until her retirement at the age of 56 years. Gwen worked in some coffee shops/restaurants prior to working at the Hospital and it was at one of these coffee shops that she met the love of her life, Gordon. Gwen and Gordon married on June 26, 1970 at the Stettler United Church. In 1978, their first son James arrived to a very proud set of parents and in 1982 they were blessed with their daughter Christa. Gwen loved and cherished her children until her final moments. Gwen loved gardening and spending time with her family. She was a member of the RoyalCanadian Legion, the Erskine Rec. Board, Erskine Scouts and any other organization that may have needed her help. She was a much loved and much respected part of her community and will be sadly missed by all who were lucky enough to have known her. Funeral services were held at the Stettler United Church on Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 1:00 P.M. with the Rev. Jan Richardson officiating. As an expression of sympathy and in loving memory of Gwen, memorial contributions may be made to STARS Air Ambulance, the Canadian Cancer Society or to the Diabetes Association in care of Brennen Funeral Home and Cremation Services P.O. Box 193 Stettler, Alberta TOC 2LO who have been entrusted with the care and funeral arrangements. 403.742.3315. Condolences can be forwarded to the family by visiting our website at www.brennenfuneralhome.com.
THOMAS Margaret April 5, 1923 - January 14, 2014 Margaret Thomas (nee Redfern), born in Stettler, AB on April 5, 1923, passed away suddenly but peacefully on the morning of January 14, 2014. She was predeceased by her husband, John, in 2001 and by her daughter Ellen Gee, in 2002. She is survived by her granddaughter, Adrienne (Curtis) and son-in-law, Gordon Gee (Inis). In addition, she is survived by cherished nieces and nephew in Alberta. Margaret was a gentle and wise person known for her giving nature. Soft spoken but with a wonderful sense of humour, especially when beating Adrienne at rummy. Growing up in small town Alberta, she was a lover of all animals, quipping “more reliable than people”. She will be dearly missed. A celebration for Margaret will be held at the Terminal City Club on Sunday, January 26, 2014 from 2:00PM to 4:00 PM. The family wishes to acknowledge the staff at the Fellburn Care Centre for their professionalism and kindness these last three years. In lieu of flowers, donations are welcome to the Dr. Ellen Gee Memorial Graduate Scholarship for Excellence Fund at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6 or The Fellburn Fellowship Society, 6050 East Hastings, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5B 1R6.
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WINCH TRACTOR OPERATORS. Must have experience operating a winch. To apply fax, email or drop off resume at the office. Phone 780-842-6444. Fax 780-842-6581. Email: rigmove@telus.net. Mail: H&E Oilfield Services Ltd., 2202 - 1 Ave., Wainwright, AB, T9W 1L7. For more employment information see our webpage: www.heoil.com.
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Please fax resumes to 403-742-1938 or mail before January 31, 2014 to Box 1597, Stettler, AB TOC 2L0
Full Time Office Assistant Required In Alix.
Applicant should possess the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. Understanding AER mapping and well and pipeline plots is an asset but willing to train the right candidate. Please call 403-747-3017 or email resume to office@centrallinelocating.com.
Service Rig Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd. is seeking qualified candidates to fill Floorhand, Derrickhand and Driller positions. These positions are locally based. Applicants must have all necessary valid tickets for the position applied for. Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary & benefits package along with a steady work schedule. Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: 403-258-3197 Or mail to: Ste. 5309, 333 - 96 Ave. NE, Calgary, AB T3K 0S3
F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo. Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca
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ANNUAL CITRUS SALE
Allied aggressive company company looking looking for for like-minded like-minded Allied Fabrication Fabrication is is a young aggressive individuals you enjoy enjoy aa fast fast paced, paced,positive positivework workenvironment, environment, individuals to to join join our our team. team. IfIf you pride for details, details, aa strong strong work work ethic, ethic, and and consider consider pride yourself yourself on on having having an an eye eye for yourself reliableplease please send send your your resume. resume. Allied Allied manufactures manufactures oil oil & & gas gas production production yurself reliable equipment gaining aa reputation reputation as as aa equipment from from our our facility facility in in Stettler, Stettler, AB. AB. We We are are quickly quickly gaining high high quality, quality,dependable, dependable,competitive competitivesupplier. supplier. We are now accepting resumes for: We are now accepting resumes for:
- Pressure Vessel WeldersWelders - Structural Welders - Apprentice - Apprentice Welders - Sub Arc Operators - Labourers - Labourers - Pipefi tters Tuber Allied Fabrication offers competitive wages,- aInstrumentation health & wellness program, access to overtime hours,offers and the opportunity to advance career;program, division manageAllied Fabrication competitive wages, a health your & wellness access to overtime hours, will andbecome the opportunity your to career; ment positions availabletoasadvance we continue grow.division management positions will become available as we continue to grow. Please send resumes to: Please send resumes to: Fax: 1-888-526-0274 or Email: careers@alliedfab.com Fax: 1-888-526-0274 or Email: careers@alliedfab.com
Clerical Professionals
Pickup February 8 at the Parish Hall
Call: Laurence - 403-323-0687 Tom - 403-741-8807; Frank - 403-742-0390
$1000 REWARD
FOR RETURN OF STOLEN TRUCK 2005 Ford 350, 1 ton, 4 door crew cab, long box, white. Licence12345 # BKX 1380 (when stolen) Serial #1FTWW31515EA40912 Report to BIG IRON DRILLING
Thank you in advance for applying, only those who are granted an interview will be contacted.
Sales & Distributors
RSSJ Holdings Ltd O/A Tim Horton’s
6608 50th Ave, Stettler, AB, T0C 2L2
Food Counter Attendant Full Time / Part Time / Shift Work Night / Overnight / Early Morning / Weekend Some high school education
$11.00 Per Hour Wage based on experience/availability
Please send resume to rsilva2649@gmail.com
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Stettler Sales & Rentals is seeking
F/T Mechanic to service small and medium size equipment. Experience necessary. Email resume to: darryl@stettlerrentals.com or fax to: 403-742-8777 Looking for a Great New Career?
Technicians & Apprentice Technicians for our
Quicklane Auto Service Centre If you strive to be the best and want to work in an environment that is fast paced and a lot of fun.
JOIN OUR TEAM TODAY! email resume to tim@aspenford.ca
Tankstore Ltd.
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FULL-TIME SALES REPRESENTATIVE
Stettler Independent Advertising Department
1-800-BIG IRON (244-4766)
Personals
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Requirements · Level 1 or 2 General License &/or related Post-Secondary education would be an asset · Excellent verbal and written communication skills · Must be confident and reliable, motivated and goal oriented Please drop off your resume at 4840 50Street Stettler or email it to Lindsey@clarkeinsurance.ca
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The person who will be most effective in this position is someone who possesses: · Strong customer focus · Excellent verbal and written communication skills · Strong computer skills
Order deadline January 31
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is looking for an energetic and motivated individual to join our growing Stettler office as a Part Time Insurance Broker.
(Sizes may vary based on availability) 1/2 boxes available
Restaurant/ Hotel
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Tree Ripened! California Citrus!
Navel Oranges $35.00 per box of 72 Tangelos $35.00 per box of 64 Grapefruit $32.00 per box of 56
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Phone 403-742-1755
F/T COMMERCIAL GLAZIER
Journeyman & apprentices We offer competitive wages. Full benefits after 90 days. Must have valid drivers licence. Email resume to: d.generationglass @platinum.ca or Fax: 403-886-5224 or Call 403-886-5221
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HD LICENSED MECHANIC JOURNEYMAN H.D. for the stony Plain/Westlock/ MECHANIC req’d immed. Barrhead area. for very busy heavy equip. Must be willing to obtain sales lot in Innisfail. CVIP licence. Please email Wage range $25. - $35/hr or fax applications to: to start, depending on exp. Carillion Canada Inc.; Preference will be given dlefsrud@carillionalberta.ca to those with previous Fax 780-336-2461. equipment rental service, lifts and off road HELP WANTED: construction equipment AG Mechanic/Service experience. Fax resume Manager required on to 403-227-5701 or email: farm/feedlot operation in bouvier9@telus.net south central Alberta. Mechanic licence an asset but not required. Competitive wages and benefits. Housing PARK PAVING LTD. available. Please fax in Edmonton has immediate resume to 403-546-2445. openings for a Project Email: careers Superintendent, Concrete @klassenagriventures.ca. Superintendent, Shop Foreman, and Heavy Duty INTERIOR Mechanics. Send your HEAVY EQUIPMENT resume via email to: OPERATOR SCHOOL. employment No Simulators. In-the-seat @parkpaving.com training. Real world tasks. or via fax to 780-434-5373 Weekly start dates. Job board! Funding options. Sign up online! iheschool.com. 1-866-399-3853. WESTERN CHEVROLET DRUMHELLER SHUNDA seeking motivated sales CONSTRUCTION person. Full benefits, Requires modern facility. Experience Site Superintendents an asset, above average income. Email resume & Foremen and references: For Alberta sites. brad.ledrew Email resume to: @westerngmdrumheller.com admin@shunda.ca
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• New company that offers competitive wages • Excellent Benefits • Accounting/ bookkeeping experience is an asset, training will also be provided • Office is located in Stettler • Come join a Nationally Recognized Company!
Has Opening for all positions! Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, (No GDL licenses) and First Aid. We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers. Please fax resume to: 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please. www.treelinewell.com
FULL-TIME HEAVY EQUIPMENT/ TRANSPORTATION SALES REPRESENTATIVE REQUIRED. Applicants must be highly motivated. Industrial experience and knowledge necessary. Qualified persons to send resume and salary expectations to: 9320 - 52 St., SE, Calgary, AB, T2C 2R5. Fax 403-266-6754.
Bridal Registry
Coming Events
TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid Haulers for Central Alberta. Oilfield tickets req’d. Competitive wages and benefits. admin@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818
Sales & Distributors
Fri. Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. St. George’s Church 4817 51st St.
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Personals
Oilfield
Full Time Office Admin/ Bookkeeper
TELL it all! Tell it well! Make your ads sell for you by giving full description of goods or services offered. Include prices and terms. Phone 1-877-223-3311 for a friendly ad taker.
Coming Events
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THE STETTLER INDEPENDENT CLASSIFIEDS
Experienced Structural Welder *Strong Work Ethic *Pride In The Finished Product
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DONATIONS For the year 2013 the Halkirk Elks made donations to the following: • Elks & Royal Purple Fund for Children • Paintearth Community Adult Learning Council • Walk for Children • Halkirk School • Coronation Tractor Pull • Village of Halkirk • Castor Rodeo • Ladies of the Heartland • Circle Square Ranch • Helping Hands Pre-School • Handy Van • Valley Ski Club • Halkirk Hicks 4-H Club • Victim Services • Gus Wetter School Total amount for the year was $18,870. These donations were made possible through many hours of volunteer service as well as generous support from our sponsors! THANK YOU The Halkirk Elks
Join the professional team at the Stettler Independent, one of Stettler’s longest-serving and trustworthy businesses. Each week, we deliver the news and advertising content that generations of central Albertans have relied on at home and away. As a full-time advertising sales representative, you would provide advertising solutions for clients, maintain existing accounts and generate new business. The ideal candidate has sales experience and strong customer-service skills. Computer and administrative skills are also considered assets. The Stettler Independent 4810—50 St. P.O. Box 310 Stettler, AB TOC 2L0
Teachers/ Tutors
publisher@stettlerindependent.com
Truckers/ Drivers
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CLASS 1 TRUCK DRIVER
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Must have experience moving heavy equipment that is related to pipeline construction. Clean abstract. Competitive wage. Benefits available. Please fax resumes to 780-372-4238 Or email to: jobs@abpipeliners.com
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TJ LOGGING CLASS 3 DRIVERS of Whitecourt, Alberta w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & is accepting resumes for recycling. Email resume to experienced heavy duty operators, dozer/buncher/ canpak@xplornet.ca hoe/skidder/processor/ or call 403-341-9300 delimber for immediate employment. PETROFIELD Industries, ROADEX SERVICES Fax resume 780-778-2428. the Leader in manufacturing requires O/O 1 tons for our Hydrovac trucks, is accepting RV division and O/O resumes for the following Semis and drivers for our Truckers/ positions: RV and general freight * General Labourers deck division to haul Drivers * Industrial Painters throughout North America. * Sandblasters Paid by direct deposit, * Material Handler beneÀts and company fuel * Automotive Electrical cards. Border crossing Technician required w/valid passport * Journeyman Welder / and clean criminal record. Apprentice 1-800-867-6233; * 2nd Yr Welder with www.roadexservices.com. Aluminum experience A Division of CORDY ENVIRONMENTAL RONCO OILFIELD HAULING Visit our website at: Sylvan Lake. Openings for www.tornadotrucks.com EXPERIENCED Picker operator, bed truck for more details. Our Vacuum & Water drivers and winch tractor. Company has an Truck operators Top wages and beneÀts. enthusiastic fast paced req’d. to start immed. Email resume tom@ working environment, with $450/per day roncooilÀeld.ca advancement possibilities CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q or fax. 403-887-4892 for the motivated person, All oilÀeld safety tickets and offers an excellent req’d. Clean drivers beneÀt package. fax abstract. Must comply with 403-742-5544 drug and alcohol policy. Business e-mail: hr@petroÀeld.com References Req’d. Opportunities Exc. salary & beneÀts. SHUNDA Fax resume to: GET FREE 403-742-5376 CONSTRUCTION VENDING MACHINES. doug.reinhart@cordy.ca Requires Full Time Can earn $100,000. + per Carpenters year. All cash-retire in just CLASS 1 & Class 3 TANK Competitive Wages 3 years. Protected territories. TRUCK DRIVERS, oilÀeld & BeneÀts. Full details call now tickets, experience , Fax resumes & ref’s to: 1-866-668-6629. Website: Fax resume to att’n : Ken 403-343-1248 or email to: www.tcvend.com. 403-742-6761. admin@shunda.ca
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Hydrovac Swamper required immediately. MUST be able to pass drug & alcohol test. CSTS ticket an asset. Must have own transportation to and from Stettler shop. Hourly wage to commensurate with experience. Monthly guarantee. Complete beneÀt package after 3 months. Fax resume to 403-742-0509 CLASSIFIED Want Ads do more things for more people than any other form of advertising. Phone 1-877223-3311
Truckers/ Drivers
STETTLER IS NOW HIRING
Grocery Clerks & Cake Decorator Full and Part Time Positions
• Meat Cutter • Baker • Produce Clerk • Deli Clerks • Front Lead Supervisor Please email resume to Please Apply Within carol.nelson@sobeys.com
This position requires a person with excellent management and leaderships skills. The individual would have strong communication skills and the ability to work with the public, volunteers and diverse groups/situations. Computer skills are required as part of this position. An interest in history and/or previous training in museum studies would be assets. This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is selected. Resumes can be sent to Donalda & District Museum Society, P.O. Box 179, Donalda, AB T0B 1H0 or email: info@donaldamuseum.com.
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
County of of Stettler Stettler No. County No. 6 6
6602 -- 44 44 Ave., Ave., Box Box 1270, 1270, 6602 Stettler, AB AB T0C Stettler, T0C2L0 2L0 Phone: 742-4441 Fax: Phone: 403-742-4441 Fax: 742-1277 403-742-1277
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SPECIALTY COFFEE BAR, Rushton Agencies Ltd. has new photo lab, new & used, a position available and antiques, used books. will provide training to the 4600 sq. ft. store front. successful applicant for the position of a Licensed Main Street Barrhead. Insurance Broker. Duties 780-674-2810. include all aspects of Personal Lines Insurance. The successful applicant Misc. must have excellent interpersonal skills and the Help ability to multi task in a busy ofĂ&#x20AC;ce environment. EAGLESHAM Please fax resume to GOLF COURSE is seeking the services of a 403-742-0344 or email to lou@rushtonltd.com. We Club House Manager. thank all applicants for For a full description of their interest; only this job please email: applicants selected for an dbsquires@wispernet.ca. interview will be contacted.
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THE STETTLER INDEPENDENT CLASSIFIEDS/REAL ESTATE
1st Choice Realty
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Advertisers in the showcase section maintain Real Estate offices in Stettler, are members of the Red Deer & District Real Estate Board Co-op Ltd., and all offer full multiple listing services.
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FAMILIES WELCOME HERE! Excellent family home with 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, double attached garage, 2 fireplaces. Located in quiet cul-de-sac. Extra large lot, fenced and landscaped. Great Value. #CA0026195. $349,000.
THE COMPLETE PACKAGE! 20 acre parcel with 1464 sq. ft quality built home. 4 bdrms, main floor laundry, media room and much more. Only 10 minutes to Stettler. $649,900.
MEADOWLANDS HOME with lots of room for the whole family. 6 bdrms, large kitchen/dining area, beautiful hardwood and finished bsmt. Everything you want in a home is here! $499,000.
IDEAL FAMILY HOME for first time buyers. Close to school and downtown. 1.5 storey, 3 bdrms and double detached, insulated and heated garage. GREAT STARTER! $169,900.
IMPRESSIVE 5 bdrm bungalow. Large kitchen and dining area. Finished bsmt with media room. Close to Rec Center. This is a GREAT FAMILY HOME on a corner lot. $349,500.
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BUD HAYNES & WARDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Gun Auction. Sat., Feb. 8, 10 a.m. New location! 11802 - 145 St., Edmonton, Alberta. Win commemoratives, modern rifles, handguns, volcanic, cased muff pistols. F & W pocket rifle, Flintlocks. Consign 403-597-1095. Phone 403-347-5855 or 780-451-4549; www. budhaynesauctions.com; www.WardsAuctions.com
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8TH ANNUAL RED DEER COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION & SPEED SHOW, March 14 - 16/14, Red Deer Westerner Park. Exhibitor space available. Consign your car. 1-888-296-0528 ext. 102; EGauctions.com. MID-WINTER CONSIGNMENT SALE. January 25, 10 a.m., Sandhills Community Hall, Spruce Grove. Coin, antiques & collectibles, leather furniture, framed art, more. Details at: www. spectrumauctioneering.com Spectrum Auctioneering 780-903-9393
Building Supplies
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METAL ROOFING & SIDING. Very competitive prices! Largest colour selection in Western Canada. Available at over 25 Alberta Distribution Locations. 40 Year Warranty. Call 1-888-263-8254. STEEL BUILDINGS/ METAL BUILDINGS 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100, sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206; www.crownsteelbuildings.ca
Firewood
1660
LOGS
Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346
880
THE STETTLER INDEPENDENT CLASSIFIEDS
1660
Firewood
SPLIT FIREWOOD Dried, Shedded, on Pallets Pick up in yard or UFA Bulk Fuel Delivery Available Volume Discounts. 403-876-2422 403-740-3285 Distributor for
Blaze King Stoves
SEASONED FIREWOOD
Call 403-323-0744
Business Services #1000 - #1430
Accounting
Chapman and Co.
Guy Chapman, CA Chris Annand, CA Kendra Walgenbach, CA Naomi Roth, CGA P.O. Box 1328 4702- 51 Ave., Stettler Tel: 403-742-3438 e-mail: gchap@gchap.ca
4819 - 51 Street Stettler, AB
403-742-3141
403-742-6970 403-740-9782
Contractors
1100
-Residential -Commercial -Farm Buildings -Renovations
Buzz Andersen Serving Stettler area over 35 years
ATTENTION HOME BUILDERS! No Warranty = No Building Permit. Contact Blanket Home Warranty for details. 1-888-925-2653; www.blanketltd.ca.
Drafting & Design
1120
Benefits include: â&#x20AC;˘ Competitive wages. â&#x20AC;˘ Excellent benefits (health, dental, life insurance, disability etc.). â&#x20AC;˘ Participation in company RRSP program with company match. If you are interested in a career with an established Energy Services company, please apply in person at 7201-50 Ave., Stettler, Alberta or fax your resume to 403-742-6901 or email your resume to bbrinson@vortexservices.ca We thank all applicants and advise that only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
info@leschert.net
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Phone: 403-742-6612 Cell: 780-935-0540 Email: mstahlberg@shaw.ca
RAILSIDE DESIGN GALEN WIEBE
Gitzel Krejci Dand Peterson
RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL DRAFTING AND DESIGN 5004 - 48 AVE., STETTLER
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS
PH: 403-742-4101
4912 - 51 Street P.O. Box 460, Stettler, Alberta
galen@railsidedesign.com
403-742-4431 Toll free 1-877-742-4431 e-mail: gkdpca@gkdpca.com website:
www.gkdpca.com
FAX: 866-305-5686
Eavestroughing
1130
FINISHING TOUCH EXTERIORS LTD. 5â&#x20AC;?Continuous Eaves â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gutter Cleanâ&#x20AC;? Leaf Protection
*UHDW FDUHHU LQ OHVV WKDQ D \HDU Get job ready in no time with one of Lakeland Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many short-term courses or programs. Phone 1 800 661 6490 today! s !CCOUNTING TECHNICIAN s %ARLY LEARNING AND CHILD CARE 12345 s %DUCATIONAL ASSISTANT s %STHETICIAN s &IRElGHTER s (EALTH CARE AIDE s 0RE EMPLOYMENT HAIRSTYLIST WELDING ELECTRICIAN s 2ENEWABLE ENERGY AND CONSERVATION
403-742-2395
403-742-5520 403-882-3740 (Castor)
1029
Quality Collision Repair and Professional Serviceâ&#x20AC;Ś Guaranteed! Find out more about us at: www.brennanautobody.com Phone: 403-742-3555
Randy Long
Farm Equipment ..............2010 Haying Equipment ............2020 Tractors ............................2030 Combines & Headers ......2040 Fertilizer Equipment..........2050 Misc. Farm Machinery ......2060 Equipment Wanted ..........2070 Farm Custom Work ..........2080 Farm Auctions ..................2090 Livestock ..........................2100 Livestock - Exotic..............2110 Sheep ..............................2120 Poultry ..............................2130 Horses ..............................2140 Horse Boarding ................2150 Riding Supplies ................2160 Horse/Stock Trailers ........2170 Pasture Wanted ................2180 Grain, Feed, Hay ..............2190 Seed Grain ......................2200 Seeding & Tillage ............2210
Grain, Feed Hay
2190
HEATED CANOLA buying Green, Heated or Springthrashed Canola. Buying: oats, barley, wheat & peas for feed. Buying damaged or offgrade grain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On Farm Pickupâ&#x20AC;? Westcan Feed & Grain, 1-877-250-5252.
4607 - 59 St., Stettler (Beside A & W)
1210
Dr. KERRY WONG Optometrist
Stettler, Alberta Box 1796 Phone 403-742-2998
Electrical
1150
All types of Electrical Installation & Maintenance
403-742-5111 Serving Stettler & Area since 1978
Furnace Cleaning
1193
Qualified and Reputable
1054
No. 5. 4707 - 42 Street Stettler, AB
1196
HEARTLAND GLASS
â&#x20AC;˘ Locks repinned & installed â&#x20AC;˘ Windshields repaired & installed â&#x20AC;˘ Residential & Commercial Windows & Doors â&#x20AC;˘ All your glass & screen needs Main St., Stettler Emergency 403-742-2665 403-742-3628
ANDERSON LAW OFFICE
5002 - 51 Ave., Stettler, AB Phone 403-742-2529
Open Monday to Friday 9:00a.m to 4:00p.m. (Closed over lunch & on holidays)
Fax 403-742-2522 ourlaw2@telus.net
BRYON D. BALTIMORE
of McCuaig Desrochers
Dr. Patricia Ross Dr. P.G. Wilson Dr. D.A. Heimdahl OPTOMETRISTS Ponoka, Alta. 403-783-5575 1-800-662-7168 Coronation Office 403-578-3221 Hanna Office 403-854-3003 www.4YourEyesOnly.ca
Stettler Eye Care Dr. R. TROY NELSON
Barristers and Solicitors Advocates 2401 Toronto Dominion Sq. Edmonton Centre Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2Z1 Telephone: 780-426-4660 Fax: 780-426-0982
Phone 403-742-2683 New patients welcome
1290
Get rid of your Garbage with. . .
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403-742-3007 NEED TO ADVERTISE? Province wide classifieds. Reach over 1 million readers weekly. Only $269. + GST (based on 25 words or less). Call this newspaper NOW for details or call 1-800-282-6903 ext. 228.
Personal Services
1315
DATING SERVICE. Long-term/short-term relationships. Free to try! 1-877-297-9883. Live intimate conversation, Call #7878 or 1-888-534-6984. Live adult 1on1 Call 1-866-311-9640 or #5015. Meet local single ladies. 1-877-804-5381. (18+).
TRUE PSYCHICS! For Answers call now 24/7 Toll Free 1-877-342-3036; Mobile: # 4486; www.truepsychics.ca.
Gary G. Grant Law Office
Plumbing & Heating
1330
4910 - 51 Street Stettler, AB T0C 2L0
Phone: 403-742-4437
Comprehensive eye health and vision exams CRIMINAL RECORD? Top quality frames, Think: Canadian pardon. U.S. travel waiver. lenses and contacts (24 hour record check). Treatment of eye Divorce? Simple. Fast. Inexpensive. Debt recovery? disease, injuries and Alberta collection to surgical co-management $25,000. Calgary 403-228-1300 or 1-800-347-2540; www. accesslegalresearch.com
Painters/ Decorators
1310
â&#x20AC;˘ Complete Plumbing & Heating Services â&#x20AC;˘ Commercial and Residential â&#x20AC;˘ Water Conditioning & Pumps â&#x20AC;˘ 24 Hour Service Service Wise - We Specialize
Stettler Ph.
403-742-5237
Painters/ Decorators
1310
Custom window coverings and more
Bevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Valances
403-742-6443
PERFORMANCE Physiotherapy, Acupuncture & Massage
Beverley Plett
bevplett@hotmail.com THREE HILLS
403.443.5192
Fax 403.443.2407 Cell 403.443.0664
STETTLER
403.742.1965
Home Consultations â&#x20AC;˘ Shades & Blinds â&#x20AC;˘ Soft Treatments â&#x20AC;˘ Fabrics & Hardware
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keeping people in Motion...â&#x20AC;?
403-742-4533
DR. D.G. BECKLUND Chiropractor
-Gitzel Krejci Building
4912 - 51 Street Stettler, AB Open Mon. - Sat.
Misc. Services
1290
Misc. Services
1290
IUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TILE & STONE V I L Sales and Installation Ceramic, Porcelain, Slate and Travertine Tile Natural and Manufactured Stone Kitchen, Bathroom, Fireplace Custom Showers and Moreâ&#x20AC;Ś
Bus.: 403-742-2553 Res.: 403-742-0370
1290
Liviu Oprea Cell: 403-740-9317 Email: mobiletile@telus.net
RURAL WATER TREATMENT (Province Wide)
4606 - 40 St., Stettler
Glass Shops
THIS WEEKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EYE SPY WINNER IS Laurel Lockhart Please come into the Stettler Independent to claim your prize!
4819 51 Street
M.S., R.Aud 4806 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 51 Ave., Stettler, AB 403-742-EARS(3277)
403-742-3418
1270
Misc. Services
Stettler Professional Building
Jacquie Mvula,
Misc. Services
Limousine Services
LANDMAN REULE LAW OFFICE
Brenda Anderson, B.Comm., LL.B.
Phone 403-742-2869
Cabinet Makers
1260
today
LL. B.
403-742-2520 Health Care
Legal Services
Lori R. Reule
â&#x20AC;˘ Residential â&#x20AC;˘ Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Automotive Needs
403-742-8838 403-742-5810 or
Stettler Furnace Cleaning
Call Curt or Rob
LTD.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your Service Specialistsâ&#x20AC;?
Call Barry Harvey
4109 - 48 Avenue, Stettler
JT AUTO BODY LTD.
C.R. GLASS
One block East of Scotia Bank
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Electrical We Do Itâ&#x20AC;? AUTO BODY REPAIR LTD.
1196
4719 - 49 St. Stettler, Alberta
*27 years experience*
Automotive
Glass Shops
Chiropractor
4814 - 49 Street, Stettler
TEL: 403-742-6277 lakelandcollege.ca
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Dr. E. LYNES
Certified General Accountants
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Serving Stettler & area for 37 yearsâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;˘ Complete auto body repair & painting
900
$48/case
House Plan Design Small Commercial Shop Drawings As Builts rg
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The following qualifications would be an asset: â&#x20AC;˘ Apprentice or Journeyman Parts Technician â&#x20AC;˘ Proven organization skills. â&#x20AC;˘ Ability to perform in a busy environment and prioritize tasks. â&#x20AC;˘ Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel and general computer knowledge and experience. â&#x20AC;˘ Experience working with oilfield service parts. â&#x20AC;˘ Experience operating a forklift; however, we will train the right candidate. â&#x20AC;˘ Valid driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license.
10 pkgs. of 500 sheets
2170
HORSE and Stock trailer. Parts and repairs. Axles, brakes, drums, bearings, spring, rims, fenders, lights, and wiring. Pick up & delivery avail. HORSE SHOE TRAILER MFG. AND REPAIR. HALKIRK, ALBERTA 403-884-2173 403-430-0504
Agricultural #2000 - #2290
403-742-1330
Thorogood Pinches
As the successful candidate you will be responsible for parts orders, purchasing and distribution in a busy environment. The position will work closely with the Purchasers for credits, materials returns and inventory management. Other duties would include computer data entry, maintaining paperwork for material orders, completing work orders for billing and maintaining records of orders, shipping, receiving and other related duties that may be required.
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Professional Accountants LLP
Production oriented â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;˘Monday to Friday Basic Computer â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘Computer skillsand required multi-tasking skills required â&#x20AC;˘ Company beneďŹ t plan
Employment Training
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1010
Ph:403-742-5979 Fax:403-742-3656
PARTS PERSON
1070
Cleaning
Shipping Receiving Department â&#x20AC;˘ and Monday to Friday
We are now seeking a full-time employee for the following position in the Stettler branch:
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1800
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Horse/Stock Trailers
Business and Services Directory
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available in Embroidery Department.
1760
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Grain, Feed Hay
2190
LACOMBE COUNTRY FEED STORE, Come see us at: 4836 45A St. Lacombe, Ab Pet Food, Horse, Poultry ALL THE FEED YOUR ANIMALS NEED! 403-782-3333 LOOKING FOR HAY LAND in the county of Stettler, prefer to do share, but will consider cash rent. Please call 403-740-9589 leave message ROUND hay bales. Cheap Free delivery. Self unloading. No Sunday calls Please. 403-843-6380 WANTED. Hannas Seeds seeking distributors for forage, turf, native and reclamation seed. Good commissions. Contact Dave at 1-800-661-1529 or dave@hannasseeds.com
3060
Suites
Acreages/Farms ..............3010 Houses/Duplexes ............3020 Condos/Townhouses........3030 Manufactured Homes ......3040 Four Plexes/Six Plexes ....3050 Suites ..............................3060 Cottages/Seasonal ..........3070 Roommates Wanted ........3080 Rooms for Rent................3090 Motels/Hotels ..................3100 Offices ..............................3110 Stores/Commercial ..........3120 Industrial ..........................3130 Warehouse Space............3140 Garage Space..................3150 Storage Space ................3160 Land ................................3170 Pasture ............................3180 Mobile Lot ........................3190 Misc. for Rent ..................3200
4090
HOMES, COTTAGES & MORE. RTMI - Ready to Move in. Call 1-888-733-1411; rtmihomes.com. Red Tag Sale on now - ask about our $100,000 giveaway.
L A R G E One & Two BEDROOM APARTMENTS FOR RENT No pets Phone Ellen Phone Linda or at Ernie 403-742-1568 at 403-742-5005 2 BEDROOM SUITE IN ADULT BUILDING 30+. Very quiet & well maintained. No pets, no smoking, $775/mo., $775 d.d., includes heat, water, 1 parking stall. Available immed. Ken @ 403-350-9243.
SINGLE BEST SALE ever on select SRI Homes! Kick start 2014 with this unbeatable factory promotion! $7000 in free options! Lowest prices & best service guaranteed! Dynamic Homes 1-877-341-4422; www.dynamicmodular.ca
LARGE 2 BEDROOM Clean, downstairs suite overlooking Alix Lake, washer/dryer usage, gas stove/fridge, oak cupboards, utilities incl., $900/month, private entry, large bathroom/kitchen. 403-304-0146, 403-747-3806.
UNITED HOMES CANADA invites you to view our Heated display homes. Purchase today at 2012 pricing. Inventory clearance starting at $92,500.; www. unitedhomescanada.com. 148 Eastlake Blvd., Airdrie. 1-800-461-7632.
Storage Space For Rent #3000 - #3200
Manufactured Homes
3160
STETTLER MINI STORAGE
Mortgages Bought/Sold
BANK SAID NO? Bank on us! Equity Mortgages for purchases, debt consolidation, foreclosures, renovations. Bruised credit, self-employed, unemployed ok. Dave Fitzpatrick: www.albertalending.ca. 587-437-8437, Belmor Mortgage.
Household, furniture, business records, etc. Various sizes. Protected by security alarm and fenced and lighted perimeter. Owner: Reg and Darlene Hunter 403-740-9283 or 403-742-3153
Houses/ Duplexes
3020
SMALL 2 bedroom house, White Sands, AB., N/S, utils. incld, $900/mo. + DD Avail. Immed. 403-741-8707 403-742-3539 STETTLER 2 bdrm., dbl. car garage, quiet cul de sac, 6 or 12 mo. lease, $1300 + utils, n/s, no pets 780-221-9528 test/call.
Manufactured Homes
3040
LARGE 2 bedroom trailer for rent in Stettler, beside schools and close to downtown. $800/mo., $400 d.d. Phone 403-742-8789
Income Property
Transportation #5000-5300
Automotive Services ........5010 Antique & Classic Autos ....5020 Cars ..................................5030 SUVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s................................5040 Trucks ..............................5050 Heavy Trucks....................5060 Vans/Buses ......................5070 Motorcycles ......................5080 Campers ..........................5090 Motorhomes......................5100 5th Wheels........................5110 Holiday Trailers ................5120 Tent Trailers ......................5130 Utility Trailers ....................5140 ATVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ................................5150 Boats & Marine ................5160 Snowmobiles ....................5170 Tires, Parts & Accessories ......................5180 Auto Wreckers ..................5190 Vehicles Wanted ..............5200 Car/Truck Rental ..............5210 Recreational Vehicle Rental ..............................5220 Trailer Rental ....................5230 Misc. Automotive ..............5240 RVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ..................................5300
Tires, Parts Acces.
Public Notices ..................6010 Special Features ..............6050
DO YOU WANT YOUR AD TO BE READ BY
Investments ......................4410 Money Wanted ................4420 Money to Loan ................4430
Realtors & Services..........4010 Houses for Sale................4020 Houses Wanted ................4030 Condos/Townhouses ........4040 Acreages ..........................4050 Acreages Wanted ............4060 Farms/Land ......................4070 Farms/Land Wanted ........4080 Manufactured/ Mobile Homes ..................4090 Income Property ..............4100 Commercial Property ......4110 Industrial Property ............4120 Cottages/Resort Property ..4130 Businesses for Sale..........4140 Buildings for Sale ............4150 Lots for Sale ....................4160 Out of Town Property ......4170 Investment Opportunities ..4180 Mortgages Bought/Sold....4190
Houses For Sale
4020
INNISFAIL: New
DUPLEX large single att. garage, 1.5 lots, walkout, infloor heat, air cond., 2 large decks, fully dev. up/down & landscaped, high eff. furnace & water heater. $339,000. 403-396-3203
Money To Loan
4430
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County of Stettler No. County No. 6 6 6602 - 44 44 Ave., Ave., Box 1270, 6602 Stettler, AB AB T0C Stettler, T0C2L0 2L0 Phone: 742-4441 Fax: Phone: 403-742-4441 Fax: 742-1277 403-742-1277
Ratepayers are reminded that an 8 per cent penalty will be added to outstanding taxes on February 1, 2014.
5030
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FOOD CONCESSION Business Opportunity Camrose County Camrose County is inviĆ&#x;ng submissions to a Request For Proposal (RFP) to operate a summer Food Concession at Pelican Point Park on BuÄŤalo Lake. The successful applicant will be required to supply an ouĆ&#x17E;iĆŠed facility (mobile concession) to conduct business from. It must be suĸcient to meet local health authority standards and further that the successful applicant can obtain the necessary food service establishment license. The successful applicant will also be responsible for any and all site preparaĆ&#x;on, leveling, earth removal, brushing, scraping, excavaĆ&#x;on, ÄŽll, compacĆ&#x;ng or any other site work necessary. They will also be responsible for all uĆ&#x;lity hook-ups such as light, water, power, gas, telephone or any other service as well as conĆ&#x;nued payment of charges for such services imposed by any municipal, legislaĆ&#x;ve or other authority. The successful applicant will be required to observe and carry out their duĆ&#x;es in compliance with any and all legislaĆ&#x;on and/or regulaĆ&#x;ons under the Municipal Government Act, OccupaĆ&#x;onal Health and Safety Act, W.C.B., Safety Codes Act, Alberta Building Codes, Alberta Health, by-laws or policies of whatever jurisdicĆ&#x;onal or regulatory authority that may govern, all of which may be amended or repealed and replaced from Ć&#x;me to Ć&#x;me. The successful applicant must provide the Landlord with proof of two million ($2,000,000.00) dollars Public Liability and Property Insurance for the said concession. Such coverage shall remain in eÄŤect throughout the season and shall name Camrose County as a co-insured. Such wriĆŠen proof shall be cerĆ&#x;ÄŽed by the successful applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Insurance Company and submiĆŠed to the County prior to the business commencement. In return for the authorizaĆ&#x;on to conduct business, the County requests each applicant to submit a fair and reasonable proposal for Landlord remuneraĆ&#x;on. At the same Ć&#x;me there is an opportunity to negoĆ&#x;ate a desired term of agreement and any parĆ&#x;culars for opĆ&#x;on renewal. The applicant should also detail any relevant experience, faciliĆ&#x;es, equipment or any other informaĆ&#x;on that they may deem signiÄŽcant to providing adequate background. Proposals shall be marked â&#x20AC;&#x153;FOOD CONCESSSIONâ&#x20AC;? and addressed to: Camrose County 3755-43 Avenue, Camrose, AB T4V 3S8 All proposals must be received by Camrose County by Friday, February 7, 2014 at 3:30 pm. Camrose County may accept or reject any or all proposals as may be in the best interest of the County. Camrose County reserves the right to reject any and all RFP Submissions at its sole discreĆ&#x;on and that the lowest or any tender may not necessarily be accepted. This is strictly an invitaĆ&#x;on for proposals and not a tender call. From the RFPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s received, the County will negoĆ&#x;ate with a choice applicant. Subsequent discussion and negoĆ&#x;aĆ&#x;ons will be required to establish ÄŽnal terms of any agreement or contractual obligaĆ&#x;ons.
Town of Stettler PUBLIC NOTICE BYLAW 2048-14 Public Notice is hereby given that it is the intention of the Municipal Council of the Town of Stettler to pass Bylaw 2048-14 to amend Land Use Bylaw 2018-11 as follows: 1. 1.
That Schedule â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aâ&#x20AC;? of Bylaw 2011-18 shall be and is hereby amended as follows:
(a)
That NE 5-39-19-W4 from UR: Urban Reserve to I: Industrial
PUBLIC NOTICE DEVELOPMENT PERMIT NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the following Development Permit Applications have been approved. No: Legal Description: Municipal Address: Applicant: Proposed Development:
2761-2014 Lot 7-8, Block 10, Plan 7721414 4013 - 65 Street Hayley Leschert Home Occupation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Out of the Barrel Projects
You may appeal this decision by serving written notice of appeal to the Secretary of the Stettler Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, P.O. Box 280, Stettler, Alberta prior to 4:30 p.m. February 5, 2014. For further information, please phone 403-742-8305. Leann Graham Planning & Development Services
AL-ANON
403-742-0990
ALZHEIMERS SUPPORT GROUP
403-742-4263; 403-742-8122 or 403-742-4091
BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP 403-742-2337
BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS ORGANIZATION
403-742-5437 during business hours
BRIGANTIA PLACE
(formerly Camrose Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shelter)
780-672-1035
CELIAC (Gluten Intolerance) Brenda 403-742-3067
COCAINE ANONYMOUS
Pager toll-free (20 sec. response time) 1-403-357-6266
COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP 403-742-2337 (parents who have lost a child[ren])
GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS 403-742-4059
HOME SUPPORT STETTLER & DISTRICT 403-742-6568
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Hot Line 403-342-1444
STETTLER & AREA ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY SOCIETY
STETTLER & DISTRICT FOOD BANK SOCIETY
Town of Stettler
1.
403-742-3214; 403-742-2966 or 403-742-4271
Tim Fox Chief Administrative Officer
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Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014
A copy of Bylaw 2048-14 may be viewed at the Town Office during regular hours of business. A Public Hearing in the matter of Bylaw 2048-14 will be held at the Council Chambers, Stettler Town Office, 5031-50 Street Stettler on February 4, 2014 at the hour of 8:00 p.m. when written or oral presentation for or against the bylaw will be received. Leann Graham Planning & Development Officer
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
The Stettler Independent Commentary
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The politicization of the Arctic There are problems associated with the way Prime Minister Harper is representing the North By Robert Murray Troy Media Canada’s Arctic claims continue to be a prominent aspect of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s policy agenda. Recent announcements, further technological investment, and emphasis on Arctic affairs in the government’s Throne Speech all speak to the fact that, since taking office, the Arctic has been one of the few policy areas the Harper government has not deviated from. What have become more interesting than the Prime Minister’s Arctic strategy itself are the various reactions to it from Arctic experts, particularly academics. It is unsurprising that Opposition MP’s would criticize the government for either not being strong enough on Canada’s northern claims, or overemphasizing minor aspects of the high North, but increasingly, some Arctic experts have begun taking exception to the approach of the Canadian government. Much of the criticism levelled at Harper from certain Arctic experts is derived from the belief that the government is misrepresenting the realities of the North. Rhetoric, hyperbole and myth have all been associated with some of the aspects Harper points to when justifying Canada’s powerful Arctic stance. While the Canadian government has been effective in pulling at Canadians’ heart strings by associating the Arctic with the Canadian identity, there are certainly problems with the way the Arctic is presented. Even so, the politics of the Arctic are truly becoming more apparent and this is what is presenting the largest problem of all. Prior to the 2000s, the Arctic was popularly per-
ceived as a barren, frozen and empty space that had little importance to Canada’s national interests beyond protecting against Russian flyover missions. The increase in rhetoric about the Arctic, and the government’s concentrated effort to link the high North with Canada’s national identity, has not only increased the Arctic’s prominence in Canadians’ every day vocabulary, but is now subject to the same kind of political and policy scrutiny as other aspects of Canadian politics. A series of themes seem to be emerging in Arctic affairs that are worthy of mention: There is no singular understanding of “sovereignty”. In fact, the notion of national sovereignty is among the most contested in the study and practice of politics and international relations today, so it is no surprise that when Harper invokes such a powerful concept, there is no consensus on exactly what it means for the country. Disagreements over the rights, responsibilities and legal parameters of sovereign states pervade international politics on a daily basis, and have long impacted key decisions of individual states and international institutions like the UN. As the study and political landscape of the Arctic move forward, so will the discussion about the nature, and limits, of sovereignty. The Arctic is important for more than one reason. Harper’s insistence on Arctic sovereignty for the purposes of Canadian national security is only one facet of a much larger, and incredibly complex, issue. Canada’s Arctic interests include national identity, human development, environmental issues, resource and energy issues, transportation issues, security calculations, international balance of power, and more. It is unfair, and arguably unwise,
to reduce the Arctic to a select few themes in order to sell its importance to Canadians. Most everyone agrees that the Arctic should play a pivotal role in Canadian policymaking, but not at the expense of reality or for the purposes of political gain. Like every other facet of human life, the Arctic has been, and will continue to be, politicized. Chances are that individuals, including Arctic experts, who are not supportive of Harper and the Conservatives more generally, will not endorse the government’s Arctic strategy. Consensus on Arctic policy is highly unlikely across the spectrum of the many experts involved in Arctic research that spans many different fields of study, including the natural sciences, to ecology, to anthropology, to history, to political science, etc. As such, claims of neutrality and objectivity when evaluating the government’s approach to the Arctic should be taken with a grain of salt. The increasing complexities of the Arctic region require sophisticated and diplomatic policy options. On one hand, it is bizarre to think there would ever be unanimity among Arctic observers on how the government is pursuing its strategy. On the other, the government needs to do a better job of listening to experts from across the political spectrum so as to avoid misrepresentations of the true situation in the Arctic. If the region is as important as Harper is claiming, the best policy will also be the best researched policy. Robert Murray is an Adjunct Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta and a Senior Fellow of Security and Defence at AIMS.
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A painful reminder still annoying Lori Welbourne Independent columnist Except for the time almost five years ago when I was pitching this column to editors and had six articles written, I have never had an extra one ready to go. Not very smart, I know. As a result, I have found myself in many situations, right on deadline, having to write about the only thing that’s on my mind at that particular moment, and sometimes I fear it’s not something that will interest anyone but me. For that, I apologize. Right now, unfortunately, may be one of those times. I am holed up at home nursing the worst toothache of my life with a cheek so swollen it resembles a chipmunk storing nuts for the winter. This is my sixth day of trying to numb the pain and my fifth day of looking like an asymmetrical rodent. I’ve been to the dentist twice and I’ve had X-rays and tests to discover the root of the problem. The exact tooth has yet to be
identified and I’ll be seeing a specialist this week for 3D X-rays that promise to pinpoint the culprit. In the meantime I’m now on antibiotics and painkillers and am hoping the swelling subsides more than it has. If it gets worse I’ve been told to go to the hospital’s emergency ward
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