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INDEPENDENT REPORTER The line up for last-minute rush seating stretched from the Stettler Agriplex outdoor grandstand halfway down the track, but in the end anyone who waited patiently were able to get in and get rush seating on the lawn to view the spectacle of the uniquely Canadian RCMP Musical Ride. On July 22, the Stettler Agricultural Society brought in the Musical Ride, which is touring Quebec and Alberta this year. While the horses and their riders warmed up on the nearby riding ring, and the stands and lawn filled to capacity, Alberta’s Keister Family Fiddlers entertained the crowd with their unique cheery sound and a fiddling cover of Guns’n’Roses Child of Mine. The dark brown horses and their riders in bright red serge were greeted with delighted and consistent applause as they trotted into the ring to music, which was handled this performance by ride member Const. Ryan Fraser. “The DJ program has all the cues set up, but every performance is different,” he said following the show. “Horses go faster, they go slower, so you have to adjust.” As the horses trotted through the complex patterns, transitions and tricks, riders kept one hand on the rein and one hand on the regiment lance. For the most part, the show went without incident, though here and there horses decided to give their riders a bit of challenge, dancing in place. During the charge, one constable lost his hat. In addition to the routines, the riders demonstrated various lance manoeuvres, swishing the sharp, metal flag-bearing spires left, right, up, down and around. The horses, used

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This year marks the 40th anniversary of women in the RCMP, the announcer revealed during the Musical Ride on July 22. The complement of Riders taking part in Stettler appeared to be a 50-50 mix of men and women. to the presence of such things, remained stock still. Stettler RCMP Constable Sarah McQuarrie, who left earlier this year to begin training with the ride, wasn’t performing since she was in still in training, but the neighbouring detachment of Coronation saw one of its former members, Zachary MacMillan, return to strut his stuff with his horse, Elliot. “She (Sarah) is pretty jealous about me coming here to Stettler,” MacMillan said as he groomed Elliot prior to the show. “I can’t decide what I liked best,” 10-yearold Miranda Zweiful said. She was there to see the Musical Ride for the first time – and her father was the announcer, who explained each routine to the audience throughout the Ride. Stettler’s Baileigh Sorenson and Lacombe’s Kelsey Little, both riders themselves, were impressed by the skill and technical aspect of the work the riders and horses demonstrated during the ride. “I thought it was actually fantastic,” Sorenson said. “I like the transitions they did, the tricks. We do the less complex ones (in riding) ourselves but nothing like that.”

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Little said she came into the show expecting something similar to what she’s seen from local performance rides, but was blown away. “It was so much better,” she said. Both girls said they were surprised some of the riders had only been doing this slightly more than a year, and had come from no riding experience. Const. Adrienne Young grew up on a farm in Nova Scotia, raising chickens. Despite being a farm girl, she never rode a horse until the Ride. “My Dad never let me have a horse,” she said. “So Ha, Dad.” Unfortunately for Young, it’s been a short season. She broke her hand earlier this year, causing her to miss the Quebec leg of this year’s tour. It did, however, give her the opportunity to get to know Stettler’s cop, McQuarrie. “She’s a real solid, nice person,” she said. Young’s horse is a veteran of the ride, one of the oldest ones in the ring. He’s also blind in one eye due to Moon Sickness. “I wanted a challenge,” Young said. “And now I’ve got the only horse who’s blind.”

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Golden Girl Gramlick dominates competition at Alberta Summer Games Stacey Lavallie INDEPENDENT REPORTER Dacia Gramlick went to her first Alberta Summer Games with nothing more than a desire to do her best and enjoy the experience, and in achieving those two goals came home with seven gold medals and several personal bests. Gramlick, a track and field athlete who got her start at William E. Hay Composite High School, where she’ll start Grade 12 in the fall, started competing at the club level earlier this year. After securing her place on the Alberta Summer Games track and field team at the Caltaf qualifying meet, it was all about practicing and preparing herself for the event. “It was very exciting,” Gramlick said. “I was excited that I got picked to be part of the experience. I kept hearing about the Alberta Winter Games from a friend, and the Summer Games from those in the club.” The event, hosted in Airdrie from July 25-27, “lived up to the hype,” Gramlick revealed. “We had the opening ceremony on Thursday,” she said. “We went to the track and the grass, and there was music and a stage. There were speeches, and a torch run had taken place that day so the torch bearer came and lit the cauldron. It was pretty cool.” Gramlick competed in the heptathlon, which consists of seven track and field events. She competed in the 100m hurdles, the 200 and 800 metre springs, high and long jumps, shotput and javelin. Though Gramlick had done well this season both in the club and through school, she knew that going into the Summer Games

she would be competing against the best athletes Alberta had to offer. She went in looking to have fun before anything else. “I did quite awesome,” she admitted with a chuckle. “Awesome” consists of first place in every single event in which she competed as well as several personal best results. “I guess I did the ‘Go big or go home’ thing,” she said. Despite using a heavier-than-normal javelin, she achieved a personal best throw in the sport. She also got a personal best in both sprints, and since she had never competed in the 100m hurdles before – previously she had competed in 80m – she scored a best time. The closest competition in the heptathlon came in a whopping 1,1044 points behind her, which means that Gramlick didn’t just do well, she devastated the competition. For Gramlick, this is just the start. In August, she heads to Langley, B.C. for the nationals, where she’ll compete against the best Canada has to offer. She’ll fly in on Aug. 13 and head home on Aug. 19. From there, she’s got a final year of high school before she heads to college, where she said she wishes to study music – and join a track team. Even now, she’s been bitten by the Olympic dream. “The Olympics are a major goal in life,” she said. “I’ll have to put in so much time, training, and effort to get there, though.” Right now, she’s savouring her success, and the experience. “I didn’t know what to expect,” she said. “But it was an amazing experience, and I was able to meet so many other athletes.”

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Dacia Gramlick is Stettler’s golden girl! The track and field athlete competed this past weekend in Airdrie at the Alberta Summer Games in the heptathlon, which consists of seven different events – and blew her competition out of the water, taking gold in each event.

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Strong pitching from Stettler’s Ty Dowling helped the team pull away from a 10-1 deficit in the gold medal game against St. Albert. The Stettler team pulled ahead, but lost in the last inning by one run.

The Stettler boys’ Peewee baseball team grit their teeth and dug in, going from last place during the provincial playoffs in St. Albert this past weekend to secure a silver finish to the season. Rain delays postponed the playoffs, which should have begun on Friday, July 25. Games started on Sunday, with Stettler facing the team from Edmonton to begin. According to the team manager, Annette Lee, it wasn’t an easy win. Both teams seesawed back and forth between the lead, and after the innings were done and the dust settled, Stettler emerged triumphant with an 11-10 finish.

The second game, however, didn’t go so well. After five innings, the boys from Fort Saskatchewan mercy’d the Stettler boys, ending the second game of the round-robin with a crushing 14-4 defeat. The first win secured a place for the Stettler team in the semi-finals, but to go up to play for gold the team had to secure one more win. The luck of the draw saw them playing against Fort Saskatchewan again. This time, the team held it together and dealt the merciful team a blow of 18-13 – even though at one point, they were facing down a large deficit of 8-0. Comebacks were the name of the game in the gold medal match against St. Albert. With one already

under their belt, the Stettler Peewee team pushed hard to recover from a 10-1 deficit. Not only did the team recover from a slow start, they pulled ahead of the host team to go into the last part of the inning 15-14. As the home team, St. Albert was able to be last at bat, and they used it to their advantage. Despite trying to keep the team from bringing home a run, the Stettler boys let a run slip by, tying the game. Then, before they could tag him out, another run was scored, making St. Albert the winner of the provincials. “It was a hard loss,” Lee said. “They learned so much, and got silver after starting in fourth place going into finals. We’re so proud.”

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Obituaries SCHULER Walter Heinrich September 5, 1924 ~ July 19, 2014

Walter was born at Walsh, Alberta on September 5, 1924 to Gottlob and Anna Schuler. There were nine children in his family: Molly, George, Melita, Bill, Mike, Emma, Walter, his twin brother Art and Norman. Some of his family moved to the Endiang area when Walter and Art were 8 years old. He attended school at Crow Hill for 7 years. This was very difficult for him as he had to walk four or five miles one way and then when school was finished he had to re-walk it. At the age of 15, Walter went to work for Fred and Margaret Walker at their Endiang farm. They became very dear friends to Walter and his family in the years to come. Over the next couple of years, Walter worked at various farm jobs in the area, until deciding to join the army. Walter enlisted on October 20, 1943. He took his training in Calgary and Camrose and was sent overseas in 1944 to fight in World War II. He was enlisted as a Rifleman under the Royal Winnipeg Rifle regiment. He travelled to England by the Ile de France ship and was sent to fight in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. While fighting in France he was wounded and was sent on leave to the United Kingdom. Near the end of his leave, he travelled to Edinburgh, Scotland where he met his future wife, Isabella (Ella) Gillies. Shortly after this, Walter was sent back for more active duty in the war. Due to another injury Walter was sent back to the United Kingdom for sick leave. While recuperating, he once again met up with Ella and the rest is history. At the end of the war in 1945, Walter volunteered to go back with the Occupational Forces to Holland, Germany and Belgium following VE Day. Due to prior injuries not healing, he was sent home to Canada for official discharge on May 30, 1946 after serving 3 years in the army. Walter became an official farmer when he returned to the Endiang area in 1946 and purchased his first half section of land known as the Kammerle place. In 1949, Walter sent Ella her ticket to come to Canada and marry him. Walter and Ella were married on May 21, 1949 in Hanna, Alberta. From this union, Walter and Ella had four children born over the next six years: Stewart, Ann, Doreen and Andrew (Andy). Due to complications Stewart lived only one day. Walter and Ella bought more land from Bennie Ziemmer and moved to this new location where they raised their family. For many years Walter farmed with his team of horses which he dearly loved. He also had cattle and grain farmed. Walter and Ella were very busy volunteers with the Endiang Community Club for many many years. Walter and Ella sold their farm at Endiang, bought a house and retired to Stettler in 1993. Walter was very active in Stettler with his floor curling and bowling. In May of 2003 Walter lost Ella, the love of his life. His world was never quite the same. Walter had several moves in Stettler after Ella’s death including Paragon Place, Pine Ridge Long Term care facility and finally in July 2013, Points West Supportive Living. Walter’s quality of life continued to fail as this last year passed. Walter Schuler of Stettler passed away peacefully, with his family at his side, at Points West Living, on Saturday, July 19, 2014 at the age of 89 years. Mr. Walter Schuler was laid to rest with his beloved wife Ella on Friday, July 25, 2014 at the Lake View Cemetery, Stettler, Alberta. A celebration of Walter’s life followed in the Heartland Chapel of Stettler Funeral Home officiated by long time friend Mr. Ken Schultz. A history of Walter’s life was presented by friend June Mattheis and a loving tribute was given by daughter Ann Schuler. A beautiful slideshow of Walter’s life in pictures was prepared by Becky Nixon and Andrea and Dennis Smyth. Dennis Smyth presented the touching poem I Am A Veteran, followed by the Last Post Service with the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #59. In memory of Walter, memorial donations may be made to S.T.A.R.S. or a charity of choice c/o Stettler Funeral Home & Crematorium, Box 1780, Stettler, Alberta T0C 2L0, who were entrusted with the care and arrangements. To send or view condolences to the family, please visit www.stettlerfuneralhome.com

ENGEL July 16, 1922 - July 19, 2014 Fern was born at Halkirk, July 16th, 1922, the 7th child of Harry and Celia Duncan. She had 5 sisters, who she shared a special bond with Beatrice Godberson, Peggy Dahmer, Celia “Sis” Creasey, Doris “Toots” Fowler, Jean Plouvier, and her 4 brothers Alex, Donald, Jimmy, Harry Duncan. Brother Edwin passed away as a young child and Sister Mary died as an infant. Fern spent her childhood living on the Duncan family farm south of Halkirk. Fern enjoyed the farm life and the freedom they all had. When the work was done, there was always time to explore and entertain. She spoke of the skating down the creek near their farm and school functions and dances that she attended. Fern attended school at Leader. She stayed home to help her mother on the farm for several years. On February 16th, 1952 she married Louie Engel. They moved onto the “Kobi Place”, just two miles from Duncan’s, into a 3 room house. In 1957, with 3 small children they moved a mile west to Louie’s dads place, the Alex Engel farm. They farmed there until 1964, when they bought a home in the village of Halkirk. Fern lived her entire adult life within this area, and she was so proud of Halkirk. In 2006 Louie and Fern sold their Halkirk home, moving into Castor Senior Housing, then Paintearth Lodge, Coronation Assisted Living, and eventually Coronation Continuing Care. Fern is fondly remembered by staff and residents for her time with them. Fern loved to visit and many people have fond memories of sitting at the kitchen table, watching her birds, and enjoying a cup of instant coffee. She had a closeness to her sisters and brothers and as they all lived so near, there were many visits, outings and enjoyable times with family. Fern was a long time member of The Sunny Circle Club and Royal Purple and was always there to help with numerous activities. Louie kept Fern busy, for he had large gardens, a green house and a Saskatoon orchard, that she harvested and canned the produce and made countless pies. During the winter months Fern kept busy by keeping up with curling, puzzles, her beloved Oilers and crocheting blankets and mittens for her children and grandchildren, and snowmobiling. Fern is survived by her husband Louie who resides in Coronation; her four children: Don (Kjerene) Engel, Doris (Dennis) Cordel, Wayne Engel and Dianne Engel (Stuart Bates); 10 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren: Jennifer (Colin) Pekrul, and their children Emily, Austin and Greyson; Brad (Erica) Engel and their daughter Sloan; Corrine Cordel (Randy Tebbe)and Corrine’s sons Dawson and Blade Bateman; Jason (Frances) Cordel and their children Carlene, Farica and Ferron; Adrian (Cassandra) Cordel and their son Caleb; Rae-anne Cordel (Mark Smith); Nicole Thomson; Dayle Kimmel (Nicolas Renggli); Mackenzie Kimmel (Tyler Hobbs)and their daughter Emree; Madison Kimmel. She is also survived by brothers Jim Duncan and Harry (Hazel) Duncan and sisters-in-law Irene Duncan and Lena Knight, as well as many dear nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Funeral services for the late Mrs. Fern Engel were held on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 in the Halkirk Community Hall, Halkirk, Alberta with Reverend Barbara Zimmerman officiating. Fern was laid to rest at the Halkirk Cemetery, Halkirk, Alberta. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in memory of Fern to Halkirk Cemetery, Paintearth Lodge, Coronation Hospital Foundation - Assisted Living or Extended Care or a charity of choice c/o Stettler Funeral Home & Crematorium, Box 1780, Stettler, Alberta T0C 2L0, 403-742-3422, who were entrusted with the care and arrangements. To send or view condolences to Fern’s family, please visit www.stettlerfuneralhome.com

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Obituaries OLLIVE Leonard (Len) Beardmore Ollive passed away on July 20, 2014 at the age of 89 years in Stettler, Alberta. Len was born in Calgary, Alberta on October 27, 1924. He married Mae Weegar in 1946 and had their first four children in Priddis, Alberta. The family moved to Botha in 1960 where they added two more children to their clan. Len and Mae then retired to Stettler in 1985. Len worked as a farmer and raised and showed Limousin cattle. He enjoyed woodworking, dancing, playing cards as well as spending time with his large family. Len will be dearly missed by: his wife Mae Ollive of Stettler; children: Gayle (Lyle) Cassidy of Stettler, Bruce (Connie) Ollive of Big Sandy, Texas, Kathy (Terry) Andersen of Stettler, Wayne Ollive of Calgary and Wendy (Don) Davidson of Stettler; beloved grandchildren: Carrie Cassidy, Jodi (Cy) Davidson, Patrick (Lorraine) Cassidy, Dorn (Courtney) Cassidy, Bobbi Jo (Brian) Kuhn, Jamie (Tim) Osborn, Lanham Ollive, Denton (Tara) Ollive, Christy (Joey) Comte, Ricky (Jaime) Andersen, Cody (Julie) Andersen, Brandon Rumble, Tiana Ollive, Kaitlyn Ollive, Patrick Heathcott, Connor Ollive, Meg Ollive, Alyce Davidson and Logan Davidson; 24 great grandchildren; cousin Jack Ollive; numerous nieces and nephews; other family members and many dear friends. Len was predeceased by his son Herb Ollive and his sister Grace. A graveside service was held on Saturday, July 26, 2014 at Botha Woodland Cemetery, Botha, Alberta followed by a celebration of Len’s life at the Heartland Chapel of Stettler Funeral Home, Stettler, Alberta with Reverend Ross Helgeton officiating. Following the service family and friends gathered together for a time of fellowship and a luncheon prepared and served by the Linda Hall Ladies. In memory of Len, donations may be made to a charity of your choice c/o Stettler Funeral Home & Crematorium, Box 1780, Stettler, Alberta T0C 2L0, 403-742-3422, who were entrusted with the care and funeral arrangements. To send or view condolences to the family, please visit www.stettlerfuneralhome.com The family of Len Ollive would like to thank all of their friends and neighbors who brought food and comfort during Dad’s passing. As well as all the flowers and generous donations that were given, they were greatly appreciated. We would also like to thank Dr. Vogel and the staff at the Stettler Hospital Complex for making these last few months a little easier. Also to the Stettler Funeral Home, Reverend Ross Helgeton for officiating the service and the Linda Hall Ladies for providing the lunch.

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Card Of Thanks Perhaps you sent a lovely card. or sat quietly in a chair. Perhaps you sent a funeral spray, If so, we saw it there. Perhaps you spoke the kindest words, As any friend could say, Perhaps you were not there at all, Just thought of us that day, Whatever you did to console our hearts, We thank you so much, Whatever the part. The family of Walter Schuler would like to thank: All our family, friends and neighbors for their shared words of kindness, memorial donations and food. It is truly a blessing Dad lived in such a wonderful community and that we have such kind and loving support from so many people.

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We would like to express our sincere heartfelt thanks to everyone who expressed sympathy and condolences with the passing of our dear Dad, Grandpa and friend John Ahorner. Special thanks to Dr. Drummond and the nursing staff of the Stettler Hospital for the professional care and kindness shown during John’s hospital stay. To all our families and friends who attended the service and for the visits, kind words and condolences, phone calls, cards, flowers and memorial donations in John’s name we are all very appreciative. We would like to thank Verna Rock of the Stettler Funeral Home for her support and guidance in making the arrangements and the Botha U.C.W. for serving a wonderful lunch after the service. THE AHORNER FAMILY AND JOSIE

Dr. Lockhat and the caring staff at Points West Supportive Living, Pine Ridge and Paragon Place. The many who visited Dad while he lived in Stettler. Ken Schultz, Master of Ceremonies for Dad’s Celebration of Life Service. June Mattheis for her tribute and the obituary reading. Dennis and Andrea Smyth and Becky Nixon for the Power Point tribute. Dennis Smyth for his tribute and reading of “I am a Veteran”. The Royal Canadian Legion for their Veteran’s tribute. Corinne and the Stettler Funeral Home staff. Panda Flower Shop for the funeral arrangement. Teresa’s Catering for the wonderful luncheon. Thank you to each and every one of you for your special contribution. With heartfelt gratitude; your contributions were priceless. Ann Schuler, Doreen Nixon, Andy and Glenna Schuler and families

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Safety and Quality Control Inspector Candidates with experience preferred in the above positions. Only those chosen for an interview will be contacted. Send resumes to: nancy@ableoilfield.com

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ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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Community Support Worker Program GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

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Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available. 403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca CHEETAH SANDBLASTING & PAINTING Requires Sandblasters & Painters for inside shop work. entry level $20/hr. Experienced $30/hr. plus Fax resume to 403-742-3887 or email: vgeorge@telusplanet.net

W.A. GRAIN & PULSE SOLUTIONS is a growing grain export company looking for someone to fill a full time LABOURER POSITION at its Bashaw/Warden locations. Duties will include but not limited to shipping/receiving of product. If interested forward resume by fax to 780-372-4190 or by email Attn Rob: robert.mcdonald@wagrain.ca or Travis: travis.hillaby@wagrain.ca

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Scheduled days off. Home every evening. H2S and First Aid certification would be an asset. Please fax resume to 403-742-2760 attention Steve or email to steve@parcelstrucking.com Truckers/ Drivers

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REQUIRES: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Uâ&#x20AC;? Stamp Pressure Vessel Shop

Industries Ltd. Class 1 Drivers â&#x20AC;˘ Oilfield Tickets Preferred â&#x20AC;˘ Driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Abstract â&#x20AC;˘ Oilfield Experience Preferred â&#x20AC;˘ Competitive Wage â&#x20AC;˘ Benefit Package â&#x20AC;˘ RRSP Plan Fax resume to: 403-742-6590 Email: stettler@terroco.com or drop off resume at Stettler office Truckers/ Drivers

860 Industries Ltd. Hot Oiler Class 1 Operators Drivers â&#x20AC;˘ Oilfield Tickets Preferred â&#x20AC;˘ Driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Abstract â&#x20AC;˘ Oilfield Experience Preferred â&#x20AC;˘ Competitive Wage â&#x20AC;˘ Benefit Package â&#x20AC;˘ RRSP Plan Fax resume to: 403-742-6590 Email: stettler@terroco.com or drop off resume at Stettler office

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Floor Covering Installers and Tilesetters needed

for Jensen Contract Flooring, Big Valley, AB

anGroup assetBenefi but not ts necessary Available

Starting wages: $28.85/hr - Floor Covering Installers $24.75/hr - Tilesetters 40-50 hours per week

PLEASE DROP OFF RESUME TO LES SCHWARTZ PLEASE CONTACT LESSTETTLER AT 403-742-3385 5002 - 51 AVENUE, PHONEOFF - 403-742-3385 FAX - 403-742-2246 DROP RESUME TO LES SCHWARTZ

Applicants should have a minimum of 3 years of work experience or have a valid trade certiďŹ cation.

Box 280 (5031 - 50 St.) Stettler, AB T0C 2L0 www.stettler.net

Please send qualiďŹ ed resumes only to jensenjobs@email.com or fax to 403-876-2554

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Part-time Cashier Stettler Recreation Centre Company: The Stettler Recreation Centre provides recreational facilities to the town and county residents as well as many visitors. Â SRC is a friendly environment where workers are encouraged to expand their knowledge. Â The Town of Stettler provides many benefits and opportunities to their employees. Requirements and Qualifications: An acceptable applicant will be self-motivated, able to problem solve and has a willingness to learn. Â Applicants will have a minimum of 1yr of experience in being a cashier. Â Applicants will also have demonstrated strong skills in computers, customer service, and will be available to work evenings and weekends. Â This position provides 7-35 hrs per week. How To Apply: Â Applications may be submitted by mail, e-mail, or fax, no later than {Deadline for Applications} to: Stettler Recreation Centre 6202-44 Ave, Stettler AB, Â T0C 2L1 PH: 403-742-4411 FAX: 403-742-3480 srcadmin@stettler.net www.stettler.net <http://www.stettler.net/> Attention: Jacqui Newton

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Business and Services Directory Automotive

1029

1010

Chapman and Co.

Glass Shops

1196 LTD.

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Health Care

Dr. E. LYNES Chiropractor

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your Service Specialistsâ&#x20AC;?

4719 - 49 St. Stettler, Alberta

Randy Long

GALEN WIEBE

AUTO BODY REPAIR LTD.

Quality Collision Repair and Professional Serviceâ&#x20AC;Ś Guaranteed!

Professional Accountants LLP

Find out more about us at: www.brennanautobody.com

Guy Chapman, CA Chris Annand, CA Kendra Walgenbach, CA Naomi Roth, CGA

4109 - 48 Avenue, Stettler

P.O. Box 1328 4702- 51 Ave., Stettler Tel: 403-742-3438 e-mail: gchap@gchap.ca

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RAILSIDE C.R. GLASS DESIGN

Business Services #1000 - #1430

Accounting

Drafting & Design

RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL DRAFTING AND DESIGN

403-742-2520 4607 - 59 St., Stettler (Beside A & W)

PH: 403-742-4101 FAX: 866-305-5686

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Health Care

galen@railsidedesign.com

Eavestroughing

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FINISHING TOUCH EXTERIORS LTD. 5â&#x20AC;?Continuous Eaves â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gutter Cleanâ&#x20AC;? Leaf Protection

PERFORMANCE Physiotherapy, Acupuncture & Massage

403-742-5810 or 403-742-6443

Jacquie Mvula,

4606 - 40 St., Stettler

Call Barry Harvey

4819 - 51 Street Stettler, AB

Cabinet Makers

403-742-3141

1054

403-742-8838 *27 years experience*

Electrical

www.numeratax.com

M.S., R.Aud 4806 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 51 Ave., Stettler, AB 403-742-EARS(3277) Open Monday to Friday 9:00a.m to 4:00p.m. (Closed over lunch & on holidays)

1150 Hauck Optometry & Hearing

Thorogood Pinches

Certified General Accountants 4814 - 49 Street, Stettler

403-742-5520 403-882-3740 (Castor)

5014 - 50 St., Stettler 403-742-4504

TEL: 403-742-6277 No. 5. 4707 - 42 Street Stettler, AB

â&#x20AC;&#x153;If Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Electrical We Do Itâ&#x20AC;?

Contractors

1100

All types of Electrical Installation & Maintenance

403-742-5111 Serving Stettler & Area since 1978

Ph:403-742-5979 Fax:403-742-3656

Furnace Cleaning

Box 1595, 4907 - 50 Street, tree ee et et, t, Stettler AB AB

Gitzel Krejci Dand Peterson CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS

4912 - 51 Street P.O. Box 460, Stettler, Alberta

403-742-4431 Toll free 1-877-742-4431 e-mail: gkdpca@gkdpca.com website:

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Comprehensive eye health and vision exams Top quality frames, lenses and contacts Treatment of eye disease, injuries and surgical co-management

Phone 403-742-2683 New patients welcome

Stettler Furnace Cleaning Misc. Services Qualified and

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Stettler Eye Care Dr. R. TROY NELSON

Drafting & Design

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4819 51 Street

Chiropractor

403-742-3411

Personal Services

1315

Yard Care

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+).

Legal Services

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BRYON D. BALTIMORE of McCuaig Desrochers

Barristers and Solicitors Advocates 2401 Toronto Dominion Sq. Edmonton Centre Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2Z1 Telephone: 780-426-4660 Fax: 780-426-0982

Gary G. Grant Law Office

â&#x20AC;˘ Power Rake â&#x20AC;˘ Aerate â&#x20AC;˘ Lawns ~ cut & trimmed For personalized services call Lana Gross ~ 403-740-3595

TOP REAL PSYCHICS Live. Accurate readings 24/7. Call now 1-877-342-3036; Mobile dial: # 4486; http://www.truepsychics.ca

Plumbing & Heating

1330

4910 - 51 Street Stettler, AB T0C 2L0

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Phone: 403-742-4437 CRIMINAL RECORD? Think: Canadian pardon. U.S. travel waiver. Divorce? Simple. Fast. Inexpensive. Debt recovery? Alberta collection to $25,000. Calgary 403-228-1300 or 1-800-347-2540

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Brenda Anderson, B.Comm., LL.B. 5002 - 51 Ave., Stettler, AB Phone 403-742-2529 Fax 403-742-2522 ourlaw2@telus.net

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403-742-3007 DISCONNECTED PHONE? Phone Factory Home Phone Service. No one refused! Low monthly rate! Calling features and unlimited long distance available. Call Phone Factory today! 1-877-336-2274; www.phonefactory.ca. THIS WEEKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EYE SPY WINNER IS Debbie Duquette Please come into the Stettler Independent to claim your prize!

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BRIAN HALLETT LAWN & GARDEN CARE Town & Country Big or Small â&#x20AC;ŚWE DO IT ALL! Phone: 403-742-5830

Please leave a message if no answer

Painters/ Decorators

1310

Painters/ Decorators

Reputable

RURAL WATER TREATMENT (Province Wide)

403-742-3418 Glass Shops

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

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1430

RUBBER DUCK YARD CARE

-Gitzel Krejci Building

Call Curt or Rob

Phone 403-742-2869

Stettler Professional Building

DR. D.G. BECKLUND

Bus.: 403-742-2553 Res.: 403-742-0370

403-742-4533

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Serving Stettler & area for yearsâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;˘ Complete auto body repair & painting

LANDMAN REULE LAW OFFICE LL. B.

4912 - 51 Street Stettler, AB Open Mon. - Sat.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keeping people in Motion...â&#x20AC;?

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Lori R. Reule

One block East of Scotia Bank

5004 - 48 AVE., STETTLER

Phone: 403-742-3555

JT AUTO BODY LTD.

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#2 4707 42nd Street Stettler, AB

403-742-5813

Fax: 403-742-5816 shane@stettlerďŹ&#x201A;ooring.com

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Employment Training

The right place to find the right person for the job.

900

EMPLOYERS SEEKING Canscribe Medical Transcription Graduates. We can’t meet the demand! Medical Transcription is a great work-from-home career! Contact us today at www.canscribe.com. 1-800-466-1535; info@canscribe.com MEDICAL BILLING TRAINEES NEEDED! Learn to process & submit billing claims for hospitals and doctors! No experience needed! Local training gets you ready to work! 1-888-627-0297.

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RESPECT

GENUINENESS

TRUST

EMPATHY

At this time we are seeking a

Full Time Program Supervisor to work in our Stettler and Drumheller Offices Under the supervision of the Programs Manager, the Program Supervisor will be responsible for organizing and coordinating general aspects of the Family & Community Connections (OBSD) program in Stettler and Drumheller. The Program Supervisor will, in collaboration with the Programs Manager, ensure that goals and objectives of this program are met and delivered within the philosophy of McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association. Services in OBSD are collaborative in nature and we work closely with Child & Family Services. Services include the continuum that children and families need in order to succeed in their communities. Details: In this position you provide direct service that will meet the needs of clients while ensuring the association’s values are maintained and service delivery policies and procedures are followed. The successful candidate will provide leadership with respect to the therapeutic approaches specified in the service planning both within the program service team and external treatment terms. You will provide on-going support and problem solving to personnel within the program as well as support to families, coaching and training staff and will provide guidance and direction on service delivery issues while working collaboratively with a number of significant stakeholders. Why work for McMan: An opportunity to make a difference in the lives of individuals and families A chance to work with a team of dedicated staff and management Comprehensive benefits package that begins day one of employment Generous vacation allowance and personal days Opportunities for professional growth and development A commitment to a healthy work life balance The ability to work with an agency that appreciates You! As one of the ideal candidates, you possess: Degree in Social Work, Child and Youth Care, Psychology or another Human Services discipline Five years’ experience working within the Human Services field Excellent verbal and written communication skills Computer/Word processing skills Attention to detail Strong familiarity with child protection approaches Desire to see individuals and families succeed A valid driver’s license: as well as a current Driver’s Abstract Wage Range:

$27.93 to $29.37 per hour for 40 hours a week (plus on-call compensation)

COMMITMENT

If you are interested in this opportunity, please forward resume to: McMan Central Region Family and Community Connections - OBSD Email: bruce.rafuse@mcman.ca Fax: 403-556-9470 For more information visit our website at www.mcmancentral.ca

Please Quote Competition No: DRSTTLR-PS-003 Closing Date:

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We thank all that apply. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted for an interview.

McMan is Committed to the Principles of Employment Equity

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LOGS

Buy & Sell #1500 - #1990 Aircraft ..............................1510 Antiques & Art ..................1520 Auctions ............................1530 Bicycles ............................1540 Building Supplies ..............1550 Business Machines ..........1560 Cameras & Accessories ..1570 Children’s Items ................1580 Clothing ............................1590 Computers ........................1600 Concert & Event Tickets ..1610 Equipment - Misc. ............1620 Equipment - Heavy ..........1630 Tools ................................1640 Farmers’ Market & Food Basket......................1650 Firewood ..........................1660 Lumber ............................1670 Garden Supplies ..............1680 Lawn Tractors ..................1690 Health, Dietary, Beauty ....1700 Household Appliances......1710 Household Furnishings ....1720 TV’s, Stereos, VCR’s ........1730 Hot Tubs & Accessories ..1740 Jewellery ..........................1750 Kid’s Deals........................1755 Misc. For Sale ..................1760 Musical Instruments..........1770 Music Lessons..................1780 Piano & Organs ................1790 Office Supplies ................1800 Pets & Supplies ................1810 Pet Services ....................1820 Cats ..................................1830 Dogs ................................1840 Sports Cards ....................1850 Sporting Goods ................1860 Collectors’ Items ..............1870 Swap, Barter & Trade ......1880 Travel Packages ..............1900 Wedding Supplies ............1910 Recycled Products............1920 Wanted to Buy ..................1930 Items to Give Away ..........1940

Auctions

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 SEASONED SPLIT FIREWOOD 4.5 kms. West of Stettler Call 403-323-0744

Office Supplies

1800

10 pkgs. of 500 sheets

$48/case

Shop Stettler & Save! 403-742-2395 Wanted To Buy

1930

FIREARMS. All types wanted, estates, collections, single items, military. We handle all paperwork & transportation. Licensed dealer. 1-866-960-0045; www.dollars4guns.com

Agricultural #2000 - #2290

Farm Equipment ..............2010 Haying Equipment ............2020 Tractors ............................2030 Combines & Headers ......2040 WHEATLAND AUCTIONS Fertilizer Equipment..........2050 Misc. Farm Machinery ......2060 Huge Fall Equipment Wanted ..........2070 Consignment Auction. Sept. 6 in Cheadle, Alberta. Farm Custom Work ..........2080 Farm equipment, construction Farm Auctions ..................2090 equipment, vehicles, RVs, Livestock ..........................2100 Livestock - Exotic..............2110 tools and much more! Sheep ..............................2120 Phone 403-669-1109; Poultry ..............................2130 www. Horses ..............................2140 wheatlandauctions.com Horse Boarding ................2150 Riding Supplies ................2160 Horse/Stock Trailers ........2170 Pasture Wanted ................2180 Grain, Feed, Hay ..............2190 Seed Grain ......................2200 METAL ROOFING Seeding & Tillage ............2210

Building Supplies

1550

& 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. “Steel Overstock Sale!” 20x20 $4,055. 25x24 $4,650. 30x32 $6586. 32x34 $7,677. 40x48 $12,851. 47x70 $17,899. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca

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

2190

LACOMBE COUNTRY FEED STORE, Come see us at: 4836 45A St. Lacombe, Ab ALL THE FEED YOUR ANIMALS NEED! 403-782-3333 Dealer of Masterfeeds STRAW WANTED. Large square 4X8 bales. $60 metric ton for 20,000 bales. Please call Kevin Paskal at 403-330-9147

WHITE 20LB BOND PAPER: 8.5 X 11

1530

BUD HAYNES & WARD’S GUN AUCTION. Sat., Aug. 16 at 10 a.m., 11802 - 145 St., Edmonton, Alberta. Over 800 lots! Phone 403-347-5855 or 780-451-4549; www.budhaynesauctions.com www.WardsAuctions.com.

Grain, Feed Hay

Horse/Stock Trailers

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

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

FEED BARLEY. Paskal Cattle Company in Picture Butte area is looking for Feed Barley. Put more $$$ in your pocket. Sell direct to us. Please call Main Office for details. 403-317-1365 HEATED CANOLA buying Green, Heated or Springthrashed Canola. Buying: oats, barley, wheat & peas for feed. Buying damaged or offgrade grain. “On Farm Pickup” Westcan Feed & Grain, 1-877-250-5252.

3060

Suites

BEST RENTAL VALUE IN STETTLER 1 & 2 Bedroom, furnished kitchenette suites. All utilities, cable, internet. 1 Bedroom, $800/mo. 2 Bedroom, $1100/mo. D.D. $200. Avail. immediately Kimberly 403-690-5828

Roommates Wanted

3080

GALAHAD, $400. + utilities. 780-583-3280

For Rent #3000 - #3200 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

Storage Space

3160

STETTLER MINI STORAGE 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

Wanted to Rent #3250 - #3390 Acreages/Farms ..............3255 Houses/Duplexes ............3260 Suites ..............................3270 Rooms..............................3280 Manufactured Homes ......3290 Housesitting Wanted ........3300 Garage Space..................3310 Storage Space ................3320 Stores/Commercial ..........3330 Office Space ....................3340 Industrial ..........................3350 Warehouse Space............3360 Resorts & Cottages..........3370 Pasture/Land....................3380 Mobile Lot ........................3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

HALKIRK, cottage home, $650. rent/dd. Call 780-583-3280

Suites

3060

2 BEDROOM SUITE IN ADULT BUILDING 30+. Very quiet & well maintained. No pets, no smoking, $795/mo., $795 d.d., includes heat, water, 1 parking stall. Available immediately Ken @ 403-350-9243.

Condos/ Townhouses

4070

BY OWNER

457 Acres Prime Farmland 2,285,000. Surface Lease Rev. $37,535. 12 miles E. of Ponoka on Hwy. #53. Email: c_mcleod@telus.net Call: 780 910-9467

Manufactured Homes

4090

IN HALLKIRK, $15,000 is a mobile home, perfect for a couple, needs minimal renovations. 780-583-3280 SHOWHOME SALE. Substantial savings to be had! Need room for whole new display! Visit Grandview Modular Red Deer to see the quality & craftsmanship that set us apart. 1-855-347-0417; www.grandviewmodular.com; terry @grandviewmodular.com TWO BEDROOM TRAILER FOR SALE. Comes with an insulated porch, air conditioner, washer and dryer and household furniture (optional). Asking $10,000. IN ADDITION, one very large two bedroom trailer for sale. Asking $13,000. Phone 403-742-8789

Real Estate Cottages/Resort #4000 - #4190 Property

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

Acreages

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

Farms/ Land

4050

4130

LAKE FRONT LOTS

PINE LAKE - ALBERTA Lots have been developed to house recreational vehicles or park model. Starting at $79,900. SEASONAL LOT RENTALS “Cheapest in the area” $3000/seasonal 306-402-7776 www.sandycovepinelake.com

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NOTICE OF TENDER STETTLER AREA FARMLAND The following properties, located in the County of Stettler No. 6 (Stettler Area) are being offered for sale by tender: First Property: North East Quarter, Section 34 , Township 39, Range 20, W4 EXECPTING THEREOUT ALL MINES AND MINERALS AREA: 63.99 HECTARES (157.99 ACRES) MORE OR LESS 2014 Taxes $453.79 Second Property: North West Quarter, Section 34 , Township 39, Range 20, W4 EXECPTING THEREOUT ALL MINES AND MINERALS AREA: 63.59 HECTARES (157 ACRES) MORE OR LESS 2014 Taxes $521.07 7000 Bushels of Grain Storage. Third Property: South East Quarter, Section 34 , Township 39, Range 20, W4 EXECPTING THEREOUT ALL MINES AND MINERALS AREA: 64.80 HECTARES (160 ACRES) MORE OR LESS 2014 Taxes $502.95

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BRIGANTIA PLACE Manufactured Home (2013) & Ancillary Building 1050ft2) DP 14056 Lot 3 Block 1 Plan 0521511 (Buffalo Lake Meadows) 325, 40345 Rge Rd 21-1 Stuhec McLeod Investments Ltd. Recreational Vehicle (2008) & Ancillary Building (Sea-Can) as temporary use for five (5) years DP 14057 Pt. of NE 34-38-21W4M 38554 Rge Rd 21-2 Andy & Carla Vanderburg

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NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Second Detached Dwelling (Manufactured Home - 2014) DP 14058 Lot 2 Block 1 Plan 9424053 (Pt. of SW 7-37-19W4M) 37117 Hwy. 56 Toni Dikov Contractor’s Business - Home Based (Woodworking Shop) DP 14059 Lot 1 Block 1 Plan 0929851 (Pt. of NW 23-35-20W4M) 20141 Hwy. 590 Chad & Serena Ponto Oilfield Service or Supply Business – Minor w/principal building (Shop – 8000 ft2) & Signage (4’ x 12’) DP 14064 Lot 63 Block 1 Plan 8222364 (Scenic Sands) 715, 21150 Twp Rd 40-2 Tremmel Construction Inc. Roger Dellezay Ancillary Building (720 ft2) with a variance to provide for the placement of the building in the front yard of the parcel. DP 14054 Lot 39 Block 1 Plan 0620721 (Buffalo Lake Meadows – Phase II) 134, 40345 Rge Rd 21-1 Daniel & Paulette Jean-Marie Two (2) Recreational Vehicles – 2014 Chaparral (33’) & 2007 Hornet (31’)

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Provincial IODE donation helps keep programs in schools Stacey Lavallie INDEPENDENT REPORTER Several programs for children at local schools, run by the Association of Communities Against Abuse, will return this autumn courtesy of a generous donation from the Alberta Chapter of the IODE. The money will support school-based programs that start with students in Kindergarten and end with students in Grade 6, though Communities Against Abuse has programs for both junior high and high school students. According to Judi Beebe, executive director of Communities Against Abuse, the programs are designed to teach students the skills necessary to help them keep themselves safe. Students learn coping skills to deal with bullying – including how to not just stand by while it happens, as well as learning the difference between “tattling” and going to someone safe to tell them about situations where someone is being hurt, or could be hurt. “Our teachers love that program,” Beebe said. She noted that for kids, being dubbed a tattle-tale is one of the worst things that

Communities Against Abuse were the recipient of a donation from the Alberta Chapter of IODE. The money will go toward keeping programs in schools for students from Kindergarten to Grade 6. Seen here, from left, are IODE members, Irene Eyre and Diane Duce, Communities Against Abuse executive director Judi Beebe, and treasurer Noreen Wolsey. Stacey Lavallie/Independent reporter

could happen, so much so that predators and bullies use the fear of such a designation to help keep situations silent. “We teach them about happy relationships, and who the ‘safe’ people are,” Beebe said. The older programs focus more on the bystanders, who aren’t actively bullying other people, and who aren’t the victims of bullying, but who stand by and let it happen without intervening in any way. The group is also now working on a program to deal with cyber-bullying. Irene Eyre and Diane Duce travelled from Edmonton and Wetaskiwin

to make the presentation to Beebe and Communities Against Abuse board member and treasurer Noreen Wolsey. For the IODE, being able to help support a preexisting, well-established program is a delight, since the initial start-up costs, like printing materials, has already been done and the money goes toward the program itself. “Often, (donating to) established programs is better than funding new,” Eyre said. IODE was founded in Montreal and raises money to redistribute to nonprofit organizations that benefit women, children and the community all

across Canada. Approving the funding request from Communities Against Abuse wasn’t a difficult decision for the provincial body, Eyre said. “We have a committee that goes through all the applications,” she explained. “We have to make sure they meet all the criteria. Communities Against Abuse is a good example.” The organization was founded to help support children coming from abusive situations, or adults who were abused as children. Currently, the youngest client is only a few years old, while the eldest in their seventh decade.

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BIG VALLEY! Constables Matthew Fifield, left, and Carter Boytink are two of three Stettler RCMP constables who will be seen cycling around town this summer. The use of bicycles allows the RCMP better access to off-road areas like parks and trails, and helps them nab ne’er-do-wells who keep their eyes peeled for police cruisers. Stacey Lavallie/Independent reporter

RCMP bike cops nab unsuspecting warrant dodger Stacey Lavallie INDEPENDENT REPORTER People looking to cause trouble are looking for police cruisers before beginning their nefarious deeds, not two men on bicycles, something that Stettler RCMP detachment commander Sgt. Duncan Babchuk said is translating into several successful collars for the biking cops. One of the key successes was nabbing a Stettler man who had been dodging police for weeks after a warrant was issued. “He always hid when he saw police coming in the cruiser,” Babchuk said. For four weeks, the man evaded arrest until one day, two police officers on bikes rolled up beside him as he walked down the street. “The stealth component is one of the successes of the program,” Babchuk said. Stealth, however, is only one component of the program. There are currently three constables trained to be on cycle duty – Constables Matthew Fifield, Brad Wheeler and Carter Boytinck. The men, if they put in a full shift on the bikes, can put in 50-70 km a day. “We acquired the bikes early and had them training before starting the training program,” Babchuk said. “There’s no way you can go into the training cold and succeed.” The return of the bicycle program, which faltered due to constable transfers and staffing constraints several years ago, has been greeted with support and approval from community agencies and government, Babchuk said. The locals have welcomed the patrols, too, since they can get to places a cruiser can’t easily access, like the walking and biking trails in West Stettler Park, or celebrations like the one this past Canada Day. “Bicycles are a great way to get through a crowd or stopped traffic,” Babchuk said. “The bikes are mountain, or all-terrain, bikes so they can go over medians and through ditches.” The ability to cruise through parks, where cruisers can’t go, has resulted in fines and charges to some park-goers, some alcohol related, Babchuk said. “Instead of being on the perimeter of events, now we can get inside,” he added, citing the recent musical ride as well as Canada Day celebrations as instances where the police

were able to weave through crowds and make their presence known in a positive fashion. “The visibility is good, and the public perception of safety improves,” he said. He also said the program is very effective during the night hours, as they’re able to go through alleyways in some of the high-target areas, such as businesses, with a low chance of being detected. “No one has business at a business in the middle of the night unless they’re the owner,” Babchuk said. With no lights or car sounds, the cycling constables can sneak up on potential criminals with ease. With current staffing issues, the constables who work on the bicycles actually work opposing shifts, meaning that to go out, one of the officers has to come in early or stay late, working extra hours. A bit of overtime goes over well, Babchuk said, and for the program, it’s something the detachment is willing to support. The cycling constables can be seen in and around town during the summer months.

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Heartland Beautification Committee honours recycling heroes Stacey Lavallie INDEPENDENT REPORTER A teacher who taught her students to recycle when recycling was a new buzz word; a business that turns old antifreeze into something new; for these efforts, Carolyn Victor and Don Lynn of ReGlycol were awarded the 2014 Recycling Excellence Award. The award, handed out annually by the Heartland Beautification Committee, honours an individual and a business for their effort to reduce, reuse and recycle components of every day personal and business life. Twenty-five years ago, Victor taught her kindergarten students about recycling. In turn, these students went home and told their parents, creating a cascading effect that helped kickstart the recycling movement in the town and county, Grace Fix, the representative of the committee, told people gathered during the Communities in Bloom dinner on Friday, July 25. At the time, it wasn’t easy to recycle – it required people to bring materials to Edmonton, Red Deer, Drumheller or Lacombe. Whenever Victor was heading to those communities on business, she would take bags of recycling with her. She then branched out, bringing her recycling program to Stettler Day Care, helping recycle materials from meal time. Though she no longer works there, she still handles the recycling program at the day care, Fix noted. Her actions 25 years ago made such an impact on her students, and the parents of those students, that it turned out to be one of those long-ago kindergarten student parents who nominated Victor for the award. “Carolyn, you have made and are still making a difference,” Fix said. “We are

This year’s recycling heroes and beautification champions gather together at the Hub on July 25. From left is Lee Penner from the Town of Stettler, Carolyn Victor, Dorothy Anderson and Rose Wesner from Superfluity, Mayor Dick Richards, Bob Poapst, Rob Spencer, Sandy Foster, Don Lynn and Grace Fix. Stacey Lavallie/Independent reporter

grateful for your efforts to do the right thing, long before it was easy to do. Congratulations on this Recycling Excellence Award.” Turning old coolant into new coolant for Alberta’s largest city Rob Lynn said he knew a fellow who was recycling old waste antifreeze into a top-quality glycol product, which can be used either as an antifreeze or heat-transfer fluid. It was quickly apparent to Lynn that there was a market for the product, and he went into business, forming ReGlycol, alongside Norm Ternes. By taking the waste antifreeze and creating new products, Lynn and Ternes help keep the liquid out of landfills, ditches, and “who knows where else it may have ended up,” Fix said. To date, the company has recycled

more than a million litres of waste antifreeze, Fix said. The resulting products are used extensively in the oilfield industry, and is widely distributed around the province for use. The City of Calgary has chosen to use Re-Glycol products exclusively in its fleet of vehicles and in all city-owned facilities as a heat-transfer fluid, Fix said. The city nominated the company for an Emerald Award, which recognizes environmental initiatives by Alberta companies. By recycling waste antifreeze, the company reduces the resources required for new antifreeze and heat transfer products, and prevents the wasteful discarding of perfectly usable product. Volunteer organization diverts tons of

clothes from landfills The volunteers of Superfluity, a thrift store in downtown Stettler, have been diverting bags of clothing and household products from the landfill for more than three decades. Formed in 1980, the group takes gently used clothes and household products and sells them in their store, which has changed locations a few times in the 30 years. The store is run by volunteers, and all profits from the location is given back to the community by donations to community groups, projects and organizations. Superfluity currently sponsors a free weekly swim at the Stettler Recreation Centre, and donate money to help run the Stettler Handibus, the Stettler Food Bank, and have created scholarships at local schools. Money also finds its way to the local seniors lodges and the hospital. Overall, 50 different organizations benefit from the recycling going on at Superfluity. When clothing is too worn to be reused, it’s torn into rags but not before it’s stripped of buttons, which are removed and put onto cards and put up for sale. Going through the mountains of bags donated weekly, volunteers have found their Stettler location stocked to the roof. Each week, a horse-trailer sized wagon trucks usable items to nearby communities or to community businesses, which make use of the products at womens’ shelters, shelters, Loaves and Fishes in Red Deer, a sports-gear recycling centre that reconditions gear to help underprivileged kids take part in sports, and sees vases and the like given to local florists. In 2013, Superfluity injected $73,000 into the community – a big number for a location that sells items for a dollar or less on average.

Inaugural Pheasant Festival will be blueprint for other communities – CBL Stacey Lavallie INDEPENDENT REPORTER A five-day pheasant festival in Stettler in October will be a model for other Badlands communities to follow, according to Canadian Badlands Tourism (CBL) president Bob Long. Long, and several others, were present last Friday, July 25, to announce what promises to be the first of several events in the communities in the CBL umbrella.

The festival is scheduled to take place in the County of Stettler between Oct. 15-19, and in addition to pheasant hunting, will see the release of 3,000 pheasants, including 300 hens. “This is a great opportunity to showcase our community and provide an economic benefit to our local business on an annual basis,” Darcy Pollack, the festival’s chairperson, said during the event. “With a 3,000 bird release, we will

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Stettler community shines through pouring rain Stacey Lavallie INDEPENDENT REPORTER When Rob Spencer realized it was going to rain all day on Friday, July 25, he felt his heart sink a little. Judges from Communities in Bloom would be coming to see Stettler shine, and there wasn’t a bit of sunlight to be had. Judges Piet Boersma from the Netherlands and Lucie Gagné from Quebec came in to judge the community as part of the international Communities in Bloom competition, and visited Stettler last week. This year, Stettler was competing against Alberta’s Castlegar, Jasper, and Stettler, Newfoundland’s Fogo, Manitoba’s Killarney-Turtle Mountain and Ireland’s Moynalty Village. Stettler and the others are competing in the small town category of the chal-

lenge. The non-profit organization is “committed to fostering civic pride, environmental responsibility and beautification through community involvement and the challenge of a national program, with focus on enhancing green spaces in communities,” according to its website at www.communitiesinbloom.ca. As part of the celebration and judging, the Town of Stettler declared August to be Walk’n’Roll month and the Heartland Beautification Committee presented its Recycling Excellence awards and Beautification Champion award. The day of touring, July 25, decided to be rainy but Boersma said it was nothing for the community to worry about. It was possible to see the care and attention the members of the community

show towards their properties despite the rain and confinement to vehicles. Other aspects, such as community centres like the Recreation Centre, the Recycling Depot, and other projects display well no matter what the weather, Gagné noted. “Stettler is a very proactive place,” Gagné said. “It’s the 20th anniversary of the national program and Stettler has been part of it for many, many years. One of the most difficult parts for participants who have been competing for years is coming up with new ideas, but it’s not a problem here.” She praised the volunteers who make the community’s beautification and social mechanisms continue to function. “Any activities that require volunteers needs new volunteers every year, or

else it becomes the same people doing things,” she said. The walk’n’roll initiative as well as the Atco Electric green roof project were praised by the two judges. Results from the inspection won’t be available until September, but even though the competition picks a winner, Gagné stressed that there was no real loser. “The warmth of the people here is really important,” she said. “There’s no real loser in this contest and even though it steps up a winner in each category, all are winners since we help find ways to improve what is not working and recognize what is good.” Despite the floral nature of the event’s name, it’s “not just about flowers,” Boersma said. “What makes this program is the involvement of the people.”

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Inaugural Pheasant Festival will be blueprint continued from page 4 The festival has applied for a special licence, meaning that hunters registered and participating with the event won’t need a hunting licence – the festival will, essentially, confer a licence to participants. However, participants will need to supply their own shotgun, shells, and safety gear like fluorescent hunting clothes. The plan for the festival currently consists of an opening banquet on Friday, Oct. 17. The banquet will include music and entertainment and a silent auction. The following days will be dedicated to the hunt. Organizers are driven by the success of a southeastern Alberta pheasant festival in Taber, which is now in its fourth year. The success of the event, which sees itself booked solid within days of the opening of registrations, has bolstered the community’s economy. Ross Hutchinson, with Alberta Agriculture, noted that at least $10 million comes from the pheasant hunting business in Alberta alone, and there’s room for that number to keep growing. “This festival helps support a larger effort in Alberta,” he said. “I know I’ve downed a few (pheasants) in my day and...I know pheasant hunters would love to see pheasant hunting return to the area.” CBL rolled out some numbers to prove just what an economic benefit the festival would be to the area. More than 4.2 million people visited one or some of the 62 CBL communities in 2011, spending $552 million in the region. Tourism employs more than 9,000 people and generates $250 million in tax revenue for federal, provincial and municipal government, Long said. The festival would pump some of that revenue into Stettler. “I cherish the time I spent growing up, hunting with Dad,” Pollack said. “I want to see that continue, and continue the tradition with my son.”

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Story of an unreported spill Central Alberta’s small town, Bashaw, conveniently located at almost equal distance to three major towns, Camrose, Ponoka and Stettler with a lot of family, community and business links to all three, made it to provincial headlines last week. The story was about an advisory issued by Alberta Health Services (AHS), warning people who might have got in contact with frac sand, spilled within Bashaw town limits, to be careful against the health hazards it may pose. Frac sand is a kind of industrial material used in hydrolic fracturing, known as fracking in short, a process for producing oil or gas by bombarding the rocks underground with highly pressurized water and sand to allow for the release of the energy raw materials to be extracted, processed and sold. Frac sand is considered toxic and it could cause health problems. But the most interesting part of the story was not the AHS advisory released to the media, it was how the AHS had got the information about the spill. An AHS official said they had come to know about the spill of the frac sand within Bashaw town limits only thanks to the sensitivity of a “concerned citizen” whose identity we have yet to know. And it turns out this concerned citizen informed AHS about a full month after the spill had occurred. Later as reporters dug into the details, officials disclosed that the amount that spilled was 580 tonnes and that the spill had happened on

June 17. Now here is the question: Why were all three levels of government, municipal, provincial and federal, completely quiet until the AHS advisory showed up on the computer screens of journalists? Bashaw mayor, describing the spill as an “unfortunate accident,” said in an interview that the area where the spill occurred was private property. “I am sure they are doing their part,” she added. The question is whether the municipality had done their part. If the current legislation allows municipalities to lay down ground rules as to whether residents can or cannot feed chicken in their backyard or as to how pets should be taken care of, it must certainly allow for a town council to issue at least a warning to its citizens before a full month passes over a dangerous spill. But in this case, apparently the matter was not perceived serious enough. As to provincial and federal governments, we should probably not be very surprised with the level of indifference and negligence they demonstrate towards the environmental damage that such a spill might cause and it should be admitted that, from an environmental standpoint, this was not a seriously dangerous situation. But we should all be shocked and protesting against the indifference of all levels of government from a standpoint of respect, or lack thereof, to human health. I was a junior reporter when the Chernobyl disaster struck back in 1986 and the government of the then Soviet state was condemned

throughout the world for covering up the nuclear accident. Here I am not, of course, comparing the dimensions of the two incidents, but I am comparing the understanding behind the urge to keep both incidents under the lid of secrecy. The Soviet leadership at the time had an ideological motive to keep the incident secret, not to be seen as having blundered a major technological process in which they always claimed to be more successful than their western rivals. But what was the motive in Bashaw? Was it the concern that visitors could be scared away at the height of the tourist season? Or was it that the town was asked to keep the spill from being publicized and by who? Which party was at fault in the incident, was it the storage that went wrong? Is the provincial government imposing any fines either on the company owning the fracking sand or on the party responsible for the storage? Is the property owner also the owner of the storage facility, and what is their share of responsibility? So there are quite a number of questions that can be justifiably asked in the aftermath of this incident, one of which may supersede others: For the last decade or so, we have almost got used to corporate interests, whether they are of big oil, energy, railway or agricultural conglomerates, being prioritized over environmental concerns. Have we now reached a point where human health/life also takes a back seat to corporations/commercial interests? – Mustafa Eric

Bears not worth the effort and expense Anyone using our national parks would soon become aware of the fixation the park overseers have with bears. There isn’t a hiking trail that doesn’t seem to have some dire warnings about coming into contact with bears at large. The park information machine seems to grind out endless brochures, signs, and internet warnings about bear encounters. Hiking trails are routinely closed so that bears can freely roam about without the annoyance of human activity. One ponders at all the time, effort and costs that must be expended by Parks Canada on bear awareness programs. It causes one to wonder why bear welfare has become such a single purpose focus of Park officials. Some rationale does come to mind. There is the tourist appeal factor that folks in that industry would appreciate. Bears have become a Canadian iconic image particularly to foreign visitors who see it as symbol of the natural wilderness. Certainly government and tourist industry boosters zealously use the bear image to entice tourists. It certainly has been a highly successful approach if one considers the traffic jams created by any bear sightings on roadways. Which causes one to ponder why not just have captive bears on display where tourists can safely observe them, some ski resorts have done just that much to the dismay of those that prefer free-range bears. But keeping wild animals captive for display purposes seems to go against the grain of the Parks Canada establishment; they are trained in the philosophy of supporting natural conservation measures. That attitude has seen the bison paddock closed in Banff and the paddock in Waterton Park reduced to a paltry half dozen on display. Those same park folks are now pro-

Ahead of the heard WILL VERBOVEN moting the creation of a free-range herd of bison in a remote part of the park. The bear preservation fixation by government environment officials reached heights of absurdity a number of years ago on cutblock grazing projects in the BC. Those projects involve using thousands of sheep to graze down competing vegetation on recently replanted forestry cutblocks. Shepherds who managed the grazing flocks were not allowed to even possess firearms for fear they might use them to protect themselves and their sheep from marauding bears and wolves. They were supposed to use guard dogs and bear bombs to deter predation, that works to a point until the bears figure out the system and dead dogs are usually the result. It does raise the question as to why do we need bears around at all, outside of being majestic looking animals what critical purpose do they serve. Bears used to be more widespread, there even used to be a prairie grizzly sub-species, but is their absence missed? What do they actually contribute to the environment? Bears are omnivorous and scavenge but there are plenty of other scavengers around. They con-

sume roots and berries, but have little impact on plant life. Perhaps if they consumed more noxious weeds and invasive brush they would be serving some purpose. I would suggest that from past evidence the absence of bears have little impact on the general health of the ecosystem. To ranchers in the foothills and parkland areas bears present a real nuisance and cost factor. Being opportunists no self-respecting bear would pass up taking down easy prey like cows and calves. Grizzly bears are even making a comeback onto the prairies, grain farmers in the Pincher Creek area have seen them breaking into grain bins and menacing livestock and poultry in farm yards. I would suggest that we need fewer bears in areas that are used by the public, particularly in residential and hiking areas of parks. Shooting them on sight presents a bad public relations image, so why not step up removing them to where they seem to be appreciated the most – that being certain areas of BC. Residents of that province seem to be prepared to sacrifice economic development, like pipelines, to protect their precious environment. Alberta needs to help all those caring BC folks with that attitude by relocating nuisance bears to the BC spirit bear rainforest and lower mainland areas. It’s far enough away that the bears would probably not come back to Alberta. It would also give comfort to BC folks that they are making a contribution to saving bears from those awful people in Alberta who are destroying the entire planet with their energy industry. I would suggest that it would be a most noble way for BC residents to display their dedication to preserving their environment.

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Firefighter raises money for charity in cold water challenge Stacey Lavallie INDEPENDENT REPORTER Stettler firefighter Mike Tomiak didn’t give his fellow firefighters much notice that he was going to take part in the Cold Water Challenge, but in those 30 minutes raised $200 for a charity benefiting the families of fallen firefighters. Tomiak, a lieutenant

with the Stettler and District Fire Department, was nominated for the challenge by a former Stettler firefighter by the name of Tracey Depew. Depew, who now works for the County of Grand Prairie’s fire department, had been likewise nominated and raised money. continued on page 32

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August declared Walk’n’Roll month Submitted by Grace Fix Mayor Richards declared August as Stettler “Walk ‘N’ Roll” month, which is designed to encourage residents to walk or bike to some of their destinations, and leave their car at home sometimes. The goals are to promote an active lifestyle and to reduce emissions. The promotion, jointly sponsored by the Stettler Wellness Network, the Heartland Beautification Committee and the Stettler Traffic Safety Committee, involves business and individual participation. Business participation means that at least one employee in the business has walked or biked to work at least once during the week. Participation for individuals refers to walking or biking at least once during the week as a means of transportation to any purposeful destination. Participants register at

www.stettler.net . Businesses who register will be mentioned in the list of participants in weekly advertising in August. Individuals who register will be entered into a random draw to win one of 25 clipon flashing reflector lights for walkers and bikers. The “Walk ‘N’ Roll” promotion could not have occurred without a generous grant from the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation which allowed the Heartland Beautification Committee to purchase bike racks for all of Main Street. The “Walk ‘N’ Roll promotion also funds a $1 reduction in entry fees to certain public events, such as the Stettler Flying Club Fly-In Breakfast on September 1, to those who walk or bike to the event. Organizers of other events that might be interested in participating are welcome to contact any committee members. Also part of the long-

August is Walk’n’Roll month here in Stettler. People will be encouraged to walk or bike to work or other destinations when possible, both for their personal health and that of the environment. The declaration was made July 25 at the Town of Stettler office. Seen here, from left, are Grace Fix from Heartland Beautification Committee, Mayor Dick Richards, Sherry Marshall from TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, Stacie Pederson from Stettler Wellness Network, RCMP Cpl. Cam Russell from Stettler’s Traffic Safety Committee. Contributed photo

term “Walk ‘N’ Roll” campaign are new signs that have appeared around town showing residents

the distance and time required to walk or bike to certain destinations. Stettler is a very walk-

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Duty of care: Responsibility of elected officials Rick Strankman MLA REPORT One is right out of dep When making any decision that governs or affects a society, the responsibility of “duty of care” should always guide the process, to ensure that all mitigating factors are being taken into account. For individuals in elected positions, this duty of care is considered part of the social contract they assume upon their election to office. The implicit care and responsibilities held by elected individuals towards others within their society can reasonably be an expectation of them by their electorate. Soon, the Alberta government and the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) will have a very important decision to make. This critical decision involves the sale of AltaLink by its current parent company, SNC Lavalin, to the U.S.-based company, Berkshire Hathaway. Among the many considerations that need to be taken into account with regards to the sale, is that this is a public utility. Among the considerations of the sale of the energy company, the impact it

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will have on Alberta’s ratepayers, should be first and foremost. Establishing ownership of the company providing electricity is meaningless and of very little consequence to the average person; however, the escalating cost of the service is. In tort law, a duty of care is an obligation-legal or social, which is imposed on an individual requiring adherence to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could have foreseeable negative affects on others. This is the first element that must be established to proceed when establishing negligence. Since the beginning of electricity’s deregulation in Alberta, the duty of care has been neglected, and in some cases intentionally worked around. In 2009,

with the passage of Bill 50 - The Electrical Statutes Amendment Act, the burden of a needs assessment was eliminated completely. A needs assessment was the essential part of the process that determined whether a utility project was required and whether the cost justified the need. Bill 50 took that decision from the public’s scrutiny to a closed door cabinet meeting that had no discernable needs assessment or duty of care to those making the decisions. The decisions that will be made in the near future concerning the sale of AltaLink will have no legal obligation to be made with any duty of care. The ratepayers will however have an opportunity to enforce the consequences of the lack of this unwritten social obligation, should it

not be considered in the end, through the electoral process. Affordability, of a basic necessity of life, is a reasonable expectation of obligation that any taxpayer, understandably, has of their government when considering there should always be an implied duty of care. It isn’t a government’s place to be involved in a commercial transaction between private organizations, however when it involves a public utility that every Albertan depends upon, there is a reasonable duty of care expectation. I will be encouraging the Alberta government to take all factors into consideration and ensure proper regulations are in place, to fulfill their obligations for the duty of care they owe to Albertans.

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I was golfing the other day and put my ball in a bunker. I saw one rake in the bunker and one rake out of the bunker. Where is the rake supposed to go?

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The Income Tax Act allows you a principal residence deduction on your tax return in the year that you sell your house such that the capital gain (profit) you realize is not taxable. This principal residence deduction only applies to any property you own that you have ordinarily inhabited in the year and includes land up to 1.25 acres, if the property sold includes more than 1.25 acres of land a portion of the capital gain will be taxable. The principal residence deduction is claimed by one family member per property. Because this deduction may apply to more than one property you own you can choose which property to designate as your principal residence for any given year; the designation is reported in the year in which you realize the capital gain on the sale of the property.

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This controversial question can destroy a long term trust between the dealership and customer if not thoroughly explained with the understanding of where the customer is coming from. In the 15 years I have been at Stettler GM, I was asked this question by a customer and never given the opportunity to explain, only told the newspaper would hear about it and that everyone would know about it. I have yet to see the customer since, nor hear about it in the newspaper, and I feel the need to explain. The job I quoted was for a gauge replacement on a GMC Yukon. I quoted the job using a labor time guide that tells me the flat rate to complete a certain task, this time guide was Mitchell on demand quoting system. Now a days, technicians are paid by the job, and not by the hour in most cases, and rather say that a technician is paid by the job, we call it flat rate. The flat rate in this scenario was 1.0 hour to replace the gauge and reprogram. The customer dropped off at 8:00 a/m with the expectation that the job would take till 9:00, and opted to wait for the vehicle. I personally assigned the vehicle to the technician that was the most experienced at these gauge repairs and he finished in 30 minutes. The questions I asked myself and my staff at the time was, do we tell the customer that is patiently waiting for the vehicle that it is done 30 minutes early? How will they respond? Is it fair to pay my most trained tech 30 minutes for the job instead of an hour? How long would it take the average tech to complete, and if it was longer than an hour could I bill the customer? These questions are the exact reasons that the flat rate system came to be. This system rewards technicians by paying them for what they are worth, which happens to make them stick around and build your business. It also rewards the customer not only by having their vehicle sooner, but protects them from a technician that is taking their sweet time while you sit and wait. In this scenario I told the customer prematurely that their vehicle was done hoping for a positive response that they could have the vehicle sooner, and boy was I wrong. I hope this customer takes this as a public apology, and I hope everyone else understand the needs to a flat rate system of billing for not only the customer, but for the business and its employees.

What are some typical interview questions an employer might ask?

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for a job and questions asked are designed to see if you are a good fit. Typical questions would be: “Why are you applying for this job?” “Why did you leave your last job?” “Tell me your strongest skills for this job.” “Why should I hire you?” “What do you know about our company/business?” Be aware of the reason behind these questions and do your research. Employers are not allowed to ask questions about marital status, children, ethnic background, and other discriminatory questions. Drop in to Alberta Works if you need to brush up on your interview skills or wish to discuss how to answer challenging interview questions.

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Lies travel halfway around the world Pastor Ross Helgeton FAITH & REFLECTION Lying is terrible! And it seems that it has the ability to set traps for its practitioners. For example, a store manager who cared more about sales than honesty overheard one of his clerks telling a customer, “No, we haven’t had any for a while, and it doesn’t look as if we’ll be getting any soon.” The manager approached the customer and rudely interrupting the clerk said, “We’ll have

some soon. We placed an order last week.” Later he admonished the clerk, “Never, Never say we’re out of anything! Say it’s been ordered and is coming. What was it she wanted anyway?” The clerk said, “Rain!” When I became a Christian I decided to read the Bible cover to cover. I’ve read it through many times since, but that first journey through God’s Word was enlightening, exhilarating and occasionally alarming.

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“who make a lie” will not enter God’s kingdom. “I’m sunk!” I thought to myself. Thankfully, as I continued to study and learn about Jesus and what He provides for those who believe in Him, I was relieved to discover that lying sins, along with all of the others, were paid for by Christ’s finished work on the cross and forgiven when I (or anyone else) receives Him as Savior. Thank God for Christ’s forgiveness and God’s qualified forgetful-

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ness for all of our sins! “You will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!” (Micah 7:19). I have never gotten over the initial shock of that first reading however. Imagine having all that anyone of us has whispered or gossiped being broadcast from city center for all to hear. How humiliating and shameful that would be! Lying is insidious...it of-

ten seems easier and more expedient than the truth. As Mark Twain said, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while truth is still lacing up her boots.” Sometimes it appears as if a lie may hurt us or someone else less than the truth. In fact it seems almost natural to lie at times and even to hear and entertain lies... but it is still all wrong. “...speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ” (Ephesians 4:15)

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Gaza: A Little Context Gwynne Dyer THINK GLOBALLY You can see why Hamas doesn’t want a cease-fire in Gaza yet. It is continuing the fight in the hope that international outrage at the huge loss of people being killed by Israel’s massive firepower will somehow, eventually, force Israel to give it what it wants. Hamas would be quite willing to give up firing its pathetic rockets – which have so far killed a grand total of three civilians in Israel – if Israel ends its seven-year blockade of the Gaza Strip. Dream on. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s goal is harder to define. Domestic political pressure to “do something” about those pesky rockets pushed him into this war, but now he must produce some kind of success in order to justify all those deaths: around 1,150 Palestinians and more than fifty Israelis already. But what kind of success could it be? He can-

not destroy all the rockets – Hamas shows no sign of running out of them – and even if he could Hamas would just manufacture more of them later unless he physically re-occupied the whole Gaza Strip. In recent days, therefore, Netanyahu has redefined the objective as destroying all the “terror tunnels” that Hamas has dug to infiltrate its fighters into nearby areas of Israel. This makes no sense at all. In order to protect the lives of a few hypothetical Israeli soldiers who might be killed in the future by Hamas fighters using the tunnels, over forty real Israeli soldiers have already died. Besides, Israel can’t stop Hamas from digging more tunnels after the shooting stops unless it can find a way to ban picks and shovels in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu needs a victory of some sort before he accepts a cease-fire, but he cannot even define what it would be. So, as he said on Monday, “We should prepare ourselves for an ex-

tended campaign.” Meanwhile, the slaughter of Palestinians continues, and sympathy for Israel shrivels even in the United States. It’s not that the Israeli army particularly wants to kill civilians (although it is sometimes very sloppy), but it does prefer to fight a stand-off war with artillery and missiles in order to spare the lives of its own soldiers. In the crowded Gaza Strip, that inevitably means killing lots of civilians. The 1.8 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are living at the same population density as the residents of London or Tokyo: around 5,000 people per square kilometre. You cannot use high explosives in this environment without killing a great many innocent civilians, and Netanyahu knew that from the start, because this is Israel’s third war in Gaza in six years. So the Israelis are being brutal and stupid, and the Hamas leaders are being brutal and cynical. (Hamas

doesn’t really use civilians as “human shields”, as Israeli claims, but its leaders know that Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli fire provide them with a kind of political capital.) But this is not to say that the two sides are equally to blame for the killing. There is a broader context. Before 1948, only about 60,000 people lived on the land now known as the Gaza Strip. The vast majority of those who live there now are Arab refugees, or the children, grand-children and great-grandchildren of Arab refugees, who fled or were driven out of what is now Israel during the 1948 war. They are not there by choice. Israel has traditionally insisted that the refugees freely chose to flee, although revisionist Israeli historians have debunked that story pretty thoroughly. But which story you believe doesn’t really matter. Fleeing your home in time of war does not deprive you of the right to go home

when the fighting ends. Yet the Palestinians have not been allowed to go home, and Israel is adamant that they never will be. The argument of 1948 still applies: for Israel to remain a state with a large Jewish majority, the Palestinian refugees and their descendants must remain outside it. So most of them are jammed into this narrow strip of territory on the Mediterranean coast – and latterly they have even grown poorer (unemployment is now 40 percent) because they now live under a permanent Israeli blockade. Israel imposed the blockade after they voted for Hamas, a radical Islamist party that refuses to recognise the legitimacy of Israel, in the 2006 election. Yes, they are more radical than the Palestinians of the West Bank, most of whom are not refugees. But there is no going back, and even in the Gaza Strip most Palestinians know it. The ancestral lands of the Palestinians in what is now

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Was a friendly, jovial man of convictions, dedicated to the principal of service beyond self. He worked diligently through many community organizations whose objectives were consistent with truth, fairness and beneﬁt for all. He gave of himself to the last day of his life, guided by the rule, “If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well.” Always ready to extend a friendly hand, he enjoyed every opportunity to say, Welcome to Camrose. credit: Bill Fowler Centre plaque, Mirror Lake Park

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Israel are lost as permanently as those of the American Indians. The “peace” everybody talks about is really just about giving them security of tenure and real self-government in the onefifth of former Palestine that they still occupy. Unfortunately, that is not even visible on the horizon. When Netanyahu is addressing American audiences, he gives lip-service to a “two-state solution” that includes an independent, demilitarised Palestinian mini-state, but everybody in Israel knows that he is really determined to avoid it. Israel is therefore effectively committed to penning in and controlling the Palestinians forever. When their objections to this situation get too violent, they have to be disciplined. That is what is happening now. Just like 2009 and 2012.

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Wet weather, storms causing headaches for county farmers, ranchers Stacey Lavallie INDEPENDENT REPORTER The wet summer season has caused some weeds to flourish, weeds that can seriously harm or outright kill adult cattle, warns Stettler County’s Jay Byer. Western water hemlock is a plant native to the province of Alberta and it grows near water, Byer, assistant director of agricultural services with the county, said. The plant is extremely poisonous if ingested, as its name suggests. It’s not really a risk to cattle if the area isn’t overgrazed, since the plant is not the first choice for hungry grazers, Byer noted. However, if they lack choice, cattle will eat almost anything, including hemlock. Since the ground is damp, it’s possible for the plant to be completely uprooted, exposing the poisonous roots. “Even if they eat one root, it’s enough to kill a cow,” Byer said. “Not a calf, a full-grown cow.” Western water hemlock isn’t the only native, poisonous plant that grazers might eat if the area has been grazed down, Byer said. “North in the forested, bush areas there’s a plant with bluish flowers,” Byer explained. “Tall larkspur can be poisonous as well.” Seaside arrowgrass – which doesn’t grow by the sea, is not arrow-shaped, and is not grass – can also prove poisonous if ingested, Byer said. The county is available to help livestock owners identify poisonous plants or invasive weeds, especially when the plant has a chance of being mistaken for a similar plant. Cow parsnip is a local plant that is often mistaken for an invasive and dangerous plant called giant hogweed, Byer said. The resurfacing of a 2011 article, originally printed in the National Post, states the plant has been found in Alberta but as recently as last week, Byer has confirmed there has not been a single confirmed case of the weed taking root in Alberta. The weed, which can grow upwards of three

metres in height, has dangerous sap that can cause burn-like blisters, sensitivity to sunlight and blindness. The plant’s stalks ooze sap, especially if wounded somehow, Byer said. It can look almost like the plant is sweating. The veined leaves are more like maple leaves rather than the rhubarb-like leaves found on cow parsnip, Byer said. If landowners have plant concerns, the county is always able to help identify the growth, as well as provide safe assistance or information on proper removal options. Recent storms cause extensive damage in Botha, Erskine

The recent storms have caused crop damage first in Erskine, and then in Botha south, Byer said. Though there may be some recovery in the Erskine crops, which were damaged by hail in the first storm, the damage was more severe for the Botha fields in the storm last Friday, July 25. There’s less chance of recovery there, he added. Some wheat crops in the area may have been damaged by wheat midges, Byer noted, but added that if farmers are noticing it now, it’s too late to do anything about it and the damage will show in the final product. The damp weather has been a perfect breeding ground for plant moulds,

but Byer said farmers have been on the guard and there doesn’t seem to be extensive damage in that regard. Earlier concerns about a bertha armyworm infestation appears to be bearing out, an unfortunate reality confirmed by higher than average egg counts, Byer stated. The county is currently employing a student who has been keeping track of egg growth, and it looks like the infestation will strike the western part of the county especially. However, early counts that showed spikes in diamondback moths look to have not borne out. “It’s good to see Mother Nature kept that in check with natural predators,” Byer said.

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Spectacular story of a South America journey Luke Nibourg returned home in June having spent five months discovering the full beauty of the, previously unknown to him, continent of South America with all its culture and nature. Luke started in early January in the small city of Belem, Brazil. He was a pasty, lost gringo on the largest and most picturesque of rivers, the mighty Amazon. Taking a local river transport on a five day journey to Manaus is a story he won’t forget. You haven’t lived until an Amazon river boat load is singing happy birthday to you in Portuguese in unison. After the Amazon, he moved southward down the eastern coast of the continent, beach hopping from city to city until he arrived in Salvador where he met his parents, Tony and Clara. He then partied it up in the world famous Brazilian carnival. Through the Chapada Diamondina, spending nights on the mountainside alone under the stars and on to a ranch in southern Brazil called Pantanal Xaraes,

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where he worked for six weeks, helping tend to 4,500 head of cattle. After quick trips to Sao Paula and Rio, he was finished with Brazil and off to met a beautiful lady, Alyssa, in Lima, Peru. They travelled for two weeks through the sand dunes of Huacachina, stayed on a floating island on Lake Titicaca and did the Salkantay trail to Macchu Piccu, a most beautiful place. Luke has provided a snapshot of his travels to encourage others to go for a journey similar to his. You can read his blog at Farmboy adventures. Tiana Gamroth was player on the Zone 4, U16 girls fastball team playing in the Alberta Summer games at Airdrie this weekend. Congratulations to

them for bringing home a bronze. Allen, Laura and girls watched and cheered on the team. Jean and Don Farmer, who live on Vancouver island, visited last Tuesday with Bill and May Jamieson at Points West. Jean is the daughter of Eunice Doan Lindsay and a niece to Bill and May. Paul and Jacquie Dietrich visited with Stephanie and Scott in Calgary and helped grandson Ethan celebrate his 11th birthday. They also took in the Calgary – Hamilton football games at the Saddledome. Coming up: Aug 23 – the 19th annual Halkirk Elks Bull-a-rama at the rodeo grounds. Put a shine on your boots and crease in your jeans and plan to be there!

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Fun-laden activities continue full speed at the library Submitted by Lindsey Gelech, Chelsey Ternes, and Taigen Whiteside LIBRARY NEWS We are half way through the summer and we have had some very exciting programs and we have read many books. For the TD Summer Reading Program, we have a reading challenge for every participant in our Tiny Tinker, Energetic Engineer, and Teen programs. We have created a giant circuit maze and the goal is to complete the maze and connect the circuit. If the participants read over the summer, they can fill out a reading log and record the number of minutes spent reading. Every hour of reading moves us roughly 5 inches further through our maze. If the maze is complete by August 22, then we will have an awesome pizza party. Every participant who turns in a reading log also has their name entered into our draw for a chance to win some awesome prizes. Until then, we encourage everyone to keep reading and to come check out the exciting programs offered at the library. Here is what is happening next: July 30, from 6 to 8 p.m. is teen night where we will be attempting to be creative through the art of filmmaking. Teens can come learn how to make their own movies and maybe even a little bit about editing what they create. There will also be an awesome snack. Friday, Aug. 1 from 2 to 4 p.m., the

library will have visitors…miniature ponies. Come see these adorable, fluffy, kid-sized critters and enjoy a few other exciting activities at the library. Everyone is welcome. The Stettler Public Library is very excited to announce that we will be having a guest author come in Aug. 5 at 6 p.m. Nathan Banda was born and raised in Malawi, Africa. He will be sharing his experience growing up in Malawi and the process of writing his memoir “Moments That Shaped My Life.” Refreshments will be served. Don’t miss out on the excitement. Due to the library being closed on Heritage Day, the movie matinee will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 2 p.m. We will be watching the hilarious family comedy “Despicable Me.” Come enjoy the movie, laughs and some wonderful popcorn. On Aug. 6 at 6 p.m. is another awesome teen event. We hope to be playing the photo scavenger game “Roaming Gnome” as well as trying our hand at cooking. It is sure to be a fun and educational event for all in attendance. On Mondays and Fridays, there’s Reading Buddies at 10 a.m., where you can practice your reading with another person and Gargantuan Gardening at 11 a.m. On Tuesdays and Thursdays is our Tiny Tinker (10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.) and Energetic Engineers (2 – 3:30 p.m.) programs.

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Library gets facelift roof repair delayed Well, now that things are nice and wet and the heat wave has been broken, the crops can fill out and the hail insurance guys can make their rounds in the community. There was, unfortunately, a lot of damage done during that hail storm, I hope you didn’t get hit too badly. First and most importantly, the roof repair project has been delayed until after the long weekend because the tin has not arrived and with these violent storms we have been having, Kent reasoned that we couldn’t risk exposing the roof until the tin had been delivered. I will post the date here as soon as I hear. The library is undergoing a face lift. If you smell paint as you pick up your mail or see the door of the library open on the wrong days, I am in there somewhere making a mess, so stop in and take a look. Congratulations to Alyse and Devon Swanson and Angie and Joe VanStaten for celebrating their wedding days this month. Hope you all have a long and wonderful life together. There is still lots of 1982 history books available at the library for sale. If you don’t have one yet or need to replace your old, tattered one, stop in and a get a new copy. The Historical Society has started the

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process of collecting information for a new book, so keep your eye out for pamphlets on how to contribute to the new edition. Don’t forget about the STARS ride coming up this Aug. 10. There is a pancake breakfast, silent auction, raffle draw, live music, roast beef supper, and, of course, the ride into the hills for the day. It is a small column this week so I will end it with some quotes: Camping: where you spend a small fortune to live like a homeless person. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter - E.E. Cummings. Have a great week.

Visitors enjoyed central Alberta museums Haying is in full swing, with a bit of a break for a much needed inch plus of rain on Friday. The wind did minimal damage in the area. Joe Hansel was first place winner at the Heritage Place cribbage tournament last week. Max Ginther came in second and the booby prize went to Jim Hoover. Everyone is welcome to join the card players this Thursday, July 31 at 1:30 pm. The rumor has it that there is a lot of fun going on there. Percy and Paulette Heer have enjoyed a week of visiting with friends from North Platte, Nebraskalyde and Alice King, Sheyanne and Marissa. While here, they toured the Tyrell Paleontology Museum in Drumheller, along with Reptile World (where Sheyanne and Marissa got to hold one of the snakes), as well as the Valley Doll Museum. A must on the way home with a quick stop at the Jimmy Jock Boardwalk in Big Valley where they enjoyed the Art Gallery and Granny’s Fudge Shop. While driving around the country side on Saturday, Clyde and Percy spotted four buck elk south of Gadsby, near Frank and Eleanor Dahlgren’s farm. Donna McKay, along with six ladies (all Heartland Belles) drove to Drumheller last Wednesday for a picnic in the Park. Other Red Hat groups were there for the day, with five “Queens” (leaders) present. Happy Birthday to Donna, who has the honor of wearing the purple hat for the month of July. On Saturday, Donna and Lexie drove to Camrose where Lexie took part in the Augustana Campus (U of A) workshop, guided tour and course registration for the coming year. We wish Lexie great things for the year. Meanwhile Donna visited her Aunt Bunny, Alice Lewis, in Rose Haven in Camrose.

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The big weekend has arrived We’d like to invite everyone to come out to Big Valley to help us celebrate our Centennial this August long weekend. Events get underway on Friday, Aug. 1 with registration beginning at 10 a.m. at the Jubilee Hall. The Elks’ beer garden opens at 1 p.m. with supper at 5 and a dance featuring live music by our own “Genuine Cowgirls” at 9 p.m. Come to the Heritage Marker unveiling at St. Edmunds at 7 p.m. or join the Hivernant Métis Cultural Society for an evening of music, dancing and storytelling at the Drop-in Centre. On Saturday, Aug. 2, the day begins at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast at the Jubilee Hall hosted by the Big Valley 4-H Club. Kids can join us at Memorial Park for face painting as we await the start of the big Centennial Parade at 10 a.m. Opening Ceremonies are scheduled for

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11:30 at the Train Station. Noon lunch will be hosted by the ladies of the Royal Purple at the Jubilee Hall. For the kids’ entertainment, the Big Valley Library and Friends of the Library Society will be hosting free Carnival games at Memorial Park between 1 and 4 p.m. while the Métis will be offering children’s games and crafts. Stop by the library for a free movie and popcorn beginning at 2 p.m. Join the Métis for crafts, contests and voyager games throughout

the day. School reunions will be held at the Big Valley School from 2 to 4 p.m. For those who’d like to participate in a bit of a challenge, our Geocache Treasure Hunt will be ongoing all weekend. Once again, the Elks’ beer garden opens up at 1 p.m. Supper will be hosted by the Community Hall Board and at 9 p.m. the Elks bring you another chance to put on your dancing shoes and join them at the Jubilee Hall for live music featuring “Sentimental Journey”. A very special, huge fire-

works display will begin at 11 p.m. across from the Train Station. On Sunday, Aug. 3 start the day with breakfast at 7:30 a.m. in the Big Tent south of the Train Station, courtesy of Alberta Prairie Steam. There will be a church service at the Dropin Centre at 10 a.m. and then a free lunch at the Jubilee Hall courtesy of the

Community Hall Board. The Métis Hivernant Talent Contest runs from noon till 4 p.m. at the Drop-in Centre. Again, there will be carnival games at Memorial Park from 1 to 4 p.m. and another movie at the library beginning at 2 p.m. Check out our museums, the trapper’s camp, historical displays and unique vendors. “Guns of

Centennial & Homecoming Celebration Come help us celebrate 100 years!

August 1 - 3, 2014 Please go to www.villageofbigvalley.ca for more information and a schedule of events.

the Golden West” will be performing in the village throughout the day. Make your way down to the Big Valley Arena for roast beef dinner at 5 p.m. and then join us as we wrap up our celebration weekend with our “Party of the Century” concert featuring “Lisa Hewitt” and “Last Resort” brought to you by the Big Valley Ag. Society.

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August 1st registration, beer gardens, dance and BBQ August 2nd registration , parade, breakfast, lunch, BBQ supper, dance, beer gardens, fireworks and many other activities. August 3rd church service, lunch, “The Party of the Century” supper and show featuring Lisa Hewitt and Last Resort (Eagles Tribute Band)

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Celebrating 25 Years

Big Valley, Alberta Happy 100th Anniversary, Big Valley It is an honor to pay tribute to the determined pioneers of the Village of Big Valley. We will always remember the contributions of the early settlers and entrepreneurs, who have earned our respect and admiration for their courage and determination. They were committed to establishing their new homes and communities despite the many hardships in those years. I offer my congratulations and best wishes for the future. Hon. Kevin Sorenson Crowfoot Constituency Office 4945 - 50 Street Camrose, AB T4V 1P9 Phone: 780-608-4600 Fax: 780-608-4603 Kevin Sorenson M.P. Crowfoot

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A bolt of luck strikes Endiang couple Les and Rosemary Stulberg BYEMOOR/ENDIANG NEWS An Endiang couple, Don

and Audrey Grover, had a stroke of good luck winning one of the major priz-

es of the Red Deer Hospitals’ Lottery. They won a 2014 Dodge Dart car plus

$50,000 in cash. Congratulations to Don and Audrey on their win.

Members of the Campbell family attended a Riggins family reunion at Sylvan Lake on July 19. Attending were Shirley (nee Riggins) Campbell, Joyce Campbell, Leslie Campbell-Gallagher, Betty Campbell, Bob and Janet Campbell, Joni Hutton and her two boys. They reported a good time. Winnie Paulsen along with her daughter and family — Tim,Shelly, Paul and Wynn DeMaere — enjoyed a trip to Ontario where they took in a Toronto Blue Jays game and visited Niagara Falls. Sympathy is extended to the family of Fern Engel who passed away at Coronation on July 19 at age 92. Fern (nee Duncan) and her husband Louie Engel farmed north of Endiang for about the first 12 years of their marriage before moving into Halkirk. Their four children Don, Doris, Wayne and Dianne were all born while on the Endiang farm. Fern’s funeral was held on Wednesday in Halkirk. Our thoughts are with Louie and the Engel and Duncan families in their loss. Congratulations to the Petrussa and Jones families on the Petrussa Farms 100-year farm celebration on Saturday. The farmstead looked its finest for the centennial celebration, which welcomed hundreds of guests throughout the day. The Century Farm bronze plaque from the Alberta government was presented by MLA Rick Strankman. Area councillor Les Stulberg presented a plaque on behalf of the County of Stettler to mark the 100-year milestone. Adam Jones gave the farm’s history and there was a large display of photographs and memorabilia to be viewed. The guest of honour of the day was Ernie Petrussa who owns the farm today and whose father Peter Petrussa homesteaded the land in 1914. Ernie, 85, is retired and living in Big Valley. Other surviving members of the original Peter and Emilia Petrussa family are Lucy Steffler, Adeline Laisnez and Elsie Fodor. Adeline was able to attend.

Today Peter and Emilia’s great-grandson Adam Jones, his wife Paige and children Rylee, Rowdy and Memphis live on the farm. The land is farmed by the Petrussa grandsons Mark and Miles Jones and great-grandsons Warren, Adam and Justin Jones and their families. Guests enjoyed an afternoon of visiting, music, anniversary cake and beverages, a steak barbecue and then evening fireworks for the grand finale. Thanks to the PetrussaJones families for the wonderful hospitality and best wishes for many more successful years of farming. Members of Ron and Debbie Grover’s family were in the Endiang area last week for their annual wagon train expedition. Horse-drawn wagons toured the countryside with a camp-over at Boehlke Pond. Several members of the Walker family from Endiang and Byemoor attended the wedding of Angie Walker and Joe Van Stratten on Saturday. The ceremony was in Drumheller with the reception and dance held in Rumsey. Angie is the youngest of Dennis and Sally Walker’s three children. We wish the newlyweds all the best in their marriage. Keep in mind the bridal shower for Carrie Somerville, bride-elect of Jeff Macleod, on Aug. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Endiang Hall. Women of the community are asked to please bring lunch. We welcome James Gahan and his fiancée Dorothy Brickell to the community. The young couple originally from Ottawa, Ont. are employed by the Jones family and live at Petrussa Farms. Ruth Ratcliffe of Bragg Creek returned to Endiang on the weekend for a visit. She stayed with Jim and Maureen Wasdal and on Sunday evening the Wasdals hosted a get-together with several friends attending. It was so good to see Ruth again and learn she is busy with her new job. Canadian trivia — Oil was discovered at Turner Valley, Alberta in 1914.

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Donalda is full of history worth seeing As the new manager of the Donalda & District Museum one of my new duties is the weekly report from Donalda. There is a lot to see and

do in Donalda. The Museum, of course, is a mustsee. Along with our extensive collection of lamps, the Whitford collection of Métis artifacts, the Nor-

man collection of First Nations artifacts, as well as pioneer artifacts from the area form significant parts of the museum’s holdings. There are other historical sites to see. The Donalda Co-operative Creamery is a provincial historic site that is intact from the day it closed its doors in 1987. The Imperial Bank of Canada (most recently

the CIBC) is also a designated building dating from 1928, now an art gallery. As well, there is a Canadian Northern Railway train station from 1909, although it is not the original one. There are many other old buildings along Main Street which reflect the heyday of the village. The tavern is a 1910

structure that was moved from Meeting Creek after the original hotel in the village burned down in the 1970s. Antique stores can be found in a few of the other old buildings. Birthday greetings this week to Ann Frewin, Paul Rasmussen, Chad Holden, Jeremy Walker, Don Seale, Tammy Helfer-

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Kulak, Sharon Wollman, Bob Thomson, and Shirley Erickson. If I have missed anyone, have a happy birthday!

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Stettler resident inducted into Bobby Orr Hall of Fame – again

Stacey Lavallie/Indepsndent reporter

and coached by Gene Rouselle, entered the

Ontario Amateur Softball Association (OASA) and

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Wayne McKenna, seen here sporting his hall of fame hockey jersey and holding the 2014 inductee granite plaque, was inducted into the Bobby Orr Sports Hall of Fame earlier this year for his part in securing the 1964 baseball championship for the MacTier Legion Flyers.

In ‘64, the team took that previous experience and went on to play in the provincials again, after securing north zone. This time, the event was held in Grimsby, and the final game was a close one, McKenna recalled. “It was pretty tense,” he said from his home in Stettler. “We barely scraped by to win. I think it was Grimsby we were playing. If Sandy (Heidman) hadn’t caught that ball, they had a man on third and they would have won.” McKenna found out about the induction by email in March. His wife, Donna, had received the email and let him know. She passed away unex-

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Stacey Lavallie INDEPENDENT REPORTER Stettler resident Wayne McKenna, who played on the 1964 MacTier Legion Flyers baseball team in 1964, has been inducted alongside his teammates into the Bobby Orr Hall of Fame earlier this month. McKenna, who has called Alberta his home now for decades, originally grew up near Parry Sound, Ont. In 2012, McKenna was inducted into the hall as a member of the 1961-62 Bantam All-Stars hockey team, something of which he is very proud since “hockey was his sport.” It didn’t keep him from dabbling elsewhere, which is how he found himself on the Flyers baseball team. In 1963, the team was formed by Aub Allsopp,

pectedly of a heart attack three months ago, something that has broken McKenna’s heart. “She wasn’t going to make the trip to the award ceremony,” McKenna said, noting that travel was something Donna wasn’t up to any longer, but she was excited to see the recording of the event. The dvd arrived after her passing. While McKenna is coping with his new life without his wife, every time he looks at the granite plaque and gold and black hockey jersey that comes with it, he can’t help but miss her. “She was so proud,” he said.

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PRODUCTION TESTING EXPERIENCED SUPERVISORS and TESTERS Day & Night Must have tickets. Top paid wages. Based out of Devon, AB. Email resume to: kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca

Oilfield

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Oilfield

WINCH TRACTOR OPERATORS. Must have experience operating a winch. To apply fax, email or drop off resume at the ofÀce. Phone 780-842-6444. Fax 780-842-6581. Email: rigmove@telus.net. Mail: H&E OilÀeld Services Ltd., 2202 - 1 Ave., Wainwright, AB, T9W 1L7. For more employment information see our webpage: www.heoil.com

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Personal Lines Insurance Broker Allied is an enterprising company that manufactures oil & gas production Allied Fabrication a young aggressive equipment from our is facility in Stettler, AB. We company are activelylooking lookingfor for like-minded like-minded individuals to to join join our our team. team. If individuals If you you enjoy enjoy aa fast fast paced, paced, positive positivework work environment, environment, pride yourself yourself on on having having an an eye eye for for details, pride details, aa strong strong work work ethic, ethic, and and consider consider yurself reliable your yourself reliable please please send contact us!resume. Allied manufactures oil & gas production equipment from our facility in Stettler, AB. We are quickly gaining a reputation as a We are now accepting resumes for: high quality, dependable, competitive supplier. “B” Pressure, Journeyman We are now accepting resumes for: and

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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

Training and education will be provided to the successful applicant who demonstrates strong Customer Service and the ability to Multi-task in an Office environment. If you have been looking for a career that will provide competitive compensation and skills training, now is your chance to apply. Resumes can be submitted by fax to 403-742-0344 or by email to lou@rushtonltd.com. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

resumes to: or send resumes to: Please apply in personPlease at 3808send - 46 Ave. in Stettler Fax: or Email: Fax:1-888-526-0274 1-888-526-0274 or Email:careers@alliedfab.com careers@alliedfab.com

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WELL MAINTAINED, NEAT, CLEAN BI-LEVEL IN PARKDALE. 3 bdrms, main floor laundry and freshly painted. Lovely sun room, fenced & double garage. $239,000.

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GREAT LOCATION! 1.5 storey home close to school and downtown. Ideal family home with 4 bdrms. Also a nice 1 bdrm suite on north side. Ready to rent out. $399,900.

1.6 ACRES right in the village of Botha. Very spacious 4 bdrm home with nice hardwood floors. Close to school. Needs a little TLC. $229,000.

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BIG VALLEY - Lovely well kept home on 2 lots. 3 bdrms / 2 baths, beautiful yard with huge shop/garage. Enjoy small town living! $179,000.

GREAT FAMILY HOME with over 1900 sq. ft. living space with 5 bedrooms and 3 baths. Attached garage and large yard for the kids. $169,000.

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UNIQUE 2 STOREY HOME with 3 bedrooms and 3 baths. Extensive renovations completed. Good location. Ready to move into. $338,000.

4 BDRM. BUNGALOW close to shopping. Upgraded kitchen, but still needs some work and TLC. Dbl. garage and fenced. Bring your ideas. $220,000.

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WELCOME LARGE FAMILIES. Spacious 5 bedroom/4 bathroom home located in quiet cul-de-sac. Many recent renovations including: bathrooms, kitchen, windows, furnace, hot water heater, doors, floor coverings, appliances and more. Patio doors open on to spacious no maintenance deck overlooking private backyard. Enjoy “Pride of Ownership”. #CA0041979. $425,000.

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ATTENTION: HORSE OWNERS. Unique 84 acres nestled in poplars with a “ranch style” bungalow home that has 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and a fully developed basement. Plenty of pasture for horses plus a large 180 x 280 outdoor riding arena, working corrals, lots of water and a large 32 x 24 garage. Come to the country where seclusion, peace, quiet and privacy abound. CA0038027 & CA0038034. $650,000.

LOG CABIN ON LAKE FRONT PROPERTY, in Rochon Sands, with boat deck and bunkhouse for guests or kids. Large storage shed, relaxing wood burning sauna, appliances and furnishings excluding a few personal items. Perfect thing for the lake season. #CA0034808. $362,500.

EXCEPTIONAL VALUE for this . section only 4 miles from town. This “Executive” home has everything you could want and much more – 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, dream kitchen, 2 fi replaces, atrium, exercise room with hot tub, study room, formal dining room, spacious master bedroom and heated double garage. Enjoy pride of ownership, serenity, privacy and country living. Also, surface lease revenue and annual crop income. #CA0035701 & CA0035719.

GREAT STARTER HOME with mobile on a 1 acre lot in Erskine. Mobile home has porch, family room and bedroom addition. Well treed with lots of space for kids to run or a garden spot. Heated garage with one large overhead door for a camper. Quick possession. CA0035042. $160,000.

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Marking 120 years of history in Canada Here we go into a new month, and summer is going by so fast again with another long weekend upon us, it just seemed like we got done with winter just a little while ago, and now we are half way through summer, where does the time go?This weekend is a Civic Holiday on Monday, so if you get it off, hopefully the weather is nice and a person can get out and enjoy themselves. Bingo evening happens again this coming Tuesday â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Aug. 5 starting at 7:15 p.m. and takes place at the Botha Seniorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Centre. So make sure you come out for one great evening and who knows you could be one of the big winners taking some home with you. Saturday, Aug. 16, make sure you come out for one great event taking place starting at 1:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. at Botha. The Erichson/Drewes families would like to invite everyone out to their open house and help them celebrate 120 years in Canada and 110 years living and farming in the Botha area. They are going to have a lot of displays out for the public to see and lots of other items they have collected in the last 110 years. So make sure you come on out and help celebrate with them this special occasion. A little bit of history that a person would like to share is first Klaus Erichson was born on April 18,1911 in Suderbarup, Northern Germany. In 1928, at the age of 16 years, he

Drewers brothers threshing at Botha (fall of 1906)

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came to the Stettler area where his uncle Carl Truelson, was farming. Marsha Erichson, nee Drewes, was born July 16,1914 in Plant City, Florida. In 1916, the Drewesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; family returned to their homestead in the Botha area. In 1930, Marsha attended Alberta College and upon her graduation, started work keeping books for her father (Willain Drewes) in the Sunburst Flour Mill in Stettler. In 1930, Klaus Erichson began to work at the flourmill as a mill hand and truck driver. This is where the relationship started and on April 1937, Klaus and Marsha became one in holly matrimony. In 1938, they moved to William Drewesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; homestead, farming it as well as raising hogs in partnership with William utilizing waste from the

flour mill, which they purchased from him in the year 1941. Before this, they rented a house from Marshaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father. In 1947, the mill was closed down. In 1905, there were two log houses built on this homestead, so Klaus and Marsha lived in one. These houses were extremely hard to build as the men had to get the logs from the Red Deer River using horse and wagon to carry home the logs. At that time, there were no trucks to haul any home so it was all manpower instead. One of these log house still remains standing today, so they were sure built good. Klaus and Marsha had strong Lutheran convictions and were very active supporters of St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lutheran Church in Stettler, where Marsha was the organist for over 40 years.

Besides farming, Klaus and Marsha also had and raised six children, and through the generations, there have been six generations that have stayed and farmed in the Botha Area of the Erichson family, so as you can see they have been in the Botha area for a lot of years. Heinrich Drewes and his wife Anna emigrated from Center Germany to Canada in 1894, accompanied by their sons, Henry (14) and William (6) along with two older brothers who settled in the Strathcona area. With his two sons Henry and William, Heinrich went further and inspected land in the Botha area in 1904. This time is when they decided to homestead in Botha area. The year was 1912. Unfortunately Heinrick passed away peacefully at the age of 65, leaving his great grandson Donald Erichson to farm the land. Born in Central Germany in 1817, William came as a small boy to

Alberta. In 1894, joining his older brother (Henry) and his dad,and than as he grow older he selected his homestead next to them in 1904 and registered his homestead in 1905. In 1910, William was united in marriage to Dorothea Christine Wischoff. In 1916, William, Dorothea and their daughter came back to Botha area. After they came back their little family increased to five as two more sons were born. So make sure to come on out on Saturday, Aug. 16 and see what the families have planned for everyone to see. It will be a great afternoon and very educational to learn about the farming back then and all the hardships they had to go through to the farming they do now. You will not want to miss this opportunity and they would love it, if you all show up and help them celebrate all the years that have gone by living and farming in our little community.

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Now that he’s completed the challenge, Tomiak has nominated several of his friends from firefighting school, passing the challenge on and around the province. After being nominated, firefighters have 96 hours, or four days, to complete the challenge, which sees firefighters raise money for the Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation. After they raise money, they are doused with icy cold water from hydrants or fire trucks until they’ve had enough. Tomiak was soaked on Monday, July 28. “It’s such a good charity,” he said. “I just told the guys (at the fire hall) that I’m doing this in 30 minutes, and we put together the money.” The money goes to help develop and maintain programs which help the families of fallen firefighters cope with the loss of their loved one and the new reality in which they find themselves. “I haven’t heard from them (the people he nominated) except for one, and he’s on vacation,” Tomiak said. “He said he’d do it as soon as he gets back. I hope the others do it, too.” For more information on the foundation, visit its website at www.cfff. ca.

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