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Camrose Registry Ltd.
Alberta Registry Services
• Vehicle Registration • Operator Services • Pro-Rate and Fleet Registrations • Out of Province Inspection
Requests • Learners exams
Personal Property Services
• Lien Searches • Register Finance Statements • Register Writs of Enforcement • Register Garage Keepers Liens
Corporate Services
• Corporate Registries – Level 3 • File Annual Returns • Register Trade Names/
Partnerships • Incorporate Companies
Vital Statistics
• Birth/Marriages/Death Certifi cates • Marriage Licences
Other Services Include
• Land Title Searches • Raffl e Licences • Traffi c Fine Payments
Road tests can be booked through our website at www.camroseregistry.com.
HOURS: Mon. - Fri., 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; Sat. 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. We accept Cash, Cheque, and Debit for payment
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5503-52 Avenue Camrose, AB T4V 0X7 780-672-2604
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Looking Back
through the pages of The Booster 25 Years Ago This Week –from Jan. 21, 1997 edition
• Lorne and Shirley Smeland announced the sale of Jonathan’s Men’s Wear to Nicole and Greg
Rostad. The business was established in 1981 by
Shirley and Lorne. • Dwayne Sharkey was recognized by the Camrose
Minor Sports Association for his many years of service. CMSA President Don Stachniak presented
Mr. Sharkey with a plaque in appreciation for serving as president of the organization for seventeen years. • Gail Carlisle won $43,051 playing satellite bingo at the Rose City Bingo Association. Dale Bowal, of the Knights of Columbus Club which hosted the bingo, presented Gail with her prize. Gail was the fifth winner of a satellite bingo at the Rose City
Bingo Association. • Augustana athletes Robert Heie, Kathy Ronald,
Mary Beth Miller, and Stacy Phillips are among 14 cross country skiers and biathletes from across western Canada who have qualified to participate in the World University Games being held in Muju-Chonju, South Korea from January 24 to February 2. Augustana’s Dr. Garry Gibson will be coaching the Cross Country Ski Team while Darren Grosky of Sedgewick coaches the biathletes.
• Eldon Dahl accepted the gavel and presidency of the Camrose Toastmasters Club from outgoing president, Les Brager. Other executive members for 1972 are: Chris Blake, educational vicepresident; Dave Moore, secretary; Rod Skaret, treasurer; and Ray Reid, sergeant-at-arms. • A nine-year-old Camrose boy, Bobby Mingo, has won an all-expense-paid trip for two to a Stanley
Cup Play-off Game - first prize in Scotiabank’s
Hockey College’s first lucky draw. Bobby plans to take his father, Ken Mingo, with him on the trip. • Freeman Lofgren organized a big “Duhamel
Reunion” to be held at the Moose Hall. Any
Camrose resident who has some Duhamel background is invited to attend. Plans include some sort of program, cards, dancing and just plain visiting. Ladies who come are asked to please bring lunch. • Mr. Wayne Sibbald, president of the Edmonton
Parachute Club, was in Camrose to tell members of the Camrose Air Cadet Squadron about parachute jumping. A parachute primer course will be offered to interested cadets from March 17 to May 2, at regular Tuesday night parades. Upon completion of the course, graduates will go off the mock tower at Namao.
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Live well despite the chaos
I was picking out a sympathy card for my brother-in-law, as his dad had passed away. I paused as I looked at the cards, most of which had a variation of the phrase “celebrate a life well lived.” Had it been a life well lived? Most likely, but I wasn’t close enough to him to know. It seemed like a strange thing to presume, so I picked a different message. It made me think about the phrase a life well lived, especially since a new, fresh year is here. What changes can we commit to that will lead to a life well lived? Is it possible to have a life so obviously well lived that even those who didn’t know us well don’t doubt it?
One change I’m committing to this year is deepening my relationships. For many years, it felt like I never got to finish an adult conversation–a child would start crying, adults would start running and the threads of conversation would be lost. Now that my children are getting older, I’m looking forward to being more intentional, while I’m talking to someone and remembering all of those details that sometimes get forgotten as soon as the conversation is over; the name of the illness their family member has or what new job their husband is doing.
It has been a cozy Christmas. (Is that what you say when you mean it was so cold that you were all trapped together and hardly left the house?) We have read books, played daily games of Settlers of Catan, with some Uno and Checkers for good measure. We have bundled everyone up for short attempts at outside time. I wore my biggest jacket, heated mittens, a balaclava and goggles to cross country ski most days in our woods–not an inch of skin showing. Finally, two and a half weeks after Christmas Eve, once school had belatedly started again, I agreed that it was time to take down the decorations and tree. It is time to start a new year, after all.
I read online the tributes to an actor who recently died unexpectedly. One of his co-stars talked about the time they had spent together over the years and what it had meant to him. He said, “We talked a lot about how to live a meaningful life amidst all the chaos.”
I have been pondering his words since I read them. At first, I thought maybe it meant that we should buy a sailboat and live on it, sailing around the world. This seems appealing after the deep freeze we have just survived. I don’t think the actor meant the chaos of the pandemic, but the chaos of regular life. There are always activities and ideas pulling us in different directions. How do we decide what makes a meaningful life? Is it making life better and easier for others? Doing the best we can at whatever task is in front of us?
I received a belated Christmas letter from my cousin and she commented several times about the effects on their lives from the “virus that can’t be named” as she calls it. I thought back to my own Christmas letter and realized that I hadn’t once mentioned COVID, or the things we couldn’t do because of the pandemic, or the random weeks that my kids were at home instead of in school. We were always focused on what we could do instead of what we couldn’t.
One of my children has been struggling for a while with falling asleep at bedtime. One night recently, he was upset and asking us for ideas, while we were trying to sleep as well. We told him to just lie in bed for longer. Then I forced myself out of my warm bed and found him in the spare bedroom, where he was trying to sleep, sobbing quietly. I laid beside him and we counted backwards from 100 in our heads, slowly, with a deep breath in between. Could we make each breath an equal size? His breathing slowed and deepened. I stared out at the blackness outside and breathed along beside him, then eased myself out of the bed once he drifted into sleep. Later I thought, that was meaningful–coming alongside a child and being with them as they struggle through something that might seem small to me, but seems huge to them. How are we living well despite the chaos?
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