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Viking U9 Hockey Tourney all day fun Patricia Harcourt Editor

The Bullzeye Fire & Safety Viking U9 Gas Kings held their annual tournament Saturday at the Viking Carena Complex. Players were able to show off their hockey skills before a large crowd of family, friends and visitors to the arena.

Gas Kings players who participated in the action included #1 Nate Doucette, #2 Harper Amundson, #4 Berkley Hafso, #11 Brantley Tkaczyk, #12 Jaime-Lynn Crocker, #14 Aderet Dsilva, #15 Bentley Arndt, # 16 Hayes Hafso, #18 Bo Hafso, #45 Gunnar Gaboury, #77 Reid Broadhead, and #87 Logan Page.

The team’s coaches are Matthew Hafso and Brad Hafso, with Jennifer Page the Gas Kings’ U9 manager.

It was a full day of play as each team facedoffs with three different teams.

The eight teams included the Gas Kings, Battle River Knights, Camrose Fire Crackers, Lloyd Team 325, Vegreville Wranglers, Oilers Team 1, Oilers Team 2, and Fuzion Ice Dragons.

The fun included raffle ticket draws; and a puck toss which took place at 2:30 p.m. Locals turned out to cheer on the Gas Kings, and many visitors were also there to support their own area’s team, coming from six other communities in the region.

The Gas Kings distinguished themselves with Heart & Hustle Awards for Bentley Arndt, Logan Page, and Nate Doucette; MVP Awards went to Berkley Hafso, Jaime-Lynn Crocker and Reid Broadhead.

Many people contributed to help make the tournament such a success, including sponsoring prizes and awards.

He shoots, he scores! The Viking Gas Kings held their annual U9 tournament over the weekend with eight different teams in attendance to join in on the fun. More photos can be found on Page 2.

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Viking Carena buzzing with activity at Gas Kings U9 tournament

Brettzky donates $70,700 to 23 local groups Patricia Harcourt Editor

Brettzky’s Hockey Challenge has once again provided an opportunity for local groups and organizations to benefit from funds raised by the event.

The 2023 Challenge was its eighth annual, having started in 2015

by Brett Sutter in Calgary.

“It was moved to Viking 2016 with KidSport Alberta being the primary beneficiary,” explained chair of the Hockey Challenge Committee Todd

Ritchie. The Brettzky Committee had been formed the following year.

“With the intent of keeping all the money raised in our community for local organizations,” said Ritchie.

“The Committee mandate is providing funds to support youth sports and activities and organizations who contribute to the wellness of the community in the Viking area.”

Since then, over $287,000 has been donated to community groups.

“2023 is a record year Continued on Page 3

Recipients Viking Dance Inspirations.

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Brettzky local donations Continued from Page 2 for us,” said Ritchie. “We’ll be donating $70,700 to 23 different organizations in our community. This is the most we’ve ever raised.”

This year’s donations are going to Adrenaline TaeKwon Do, Battle River Knights U13F and U15 hockey, Brettzky Hockey Camp, Camrose U15AA Vikings hockey, Cloverlodge Stampede Association, Red Deer Rustlers U9, Riggers 2013 Minor hockey, Riggers 2016 Minor hockey, Town of Viking - Brettzky Shinny, Viking Curling Club, Viking Dance Inspirations,

Viking Grad Class, Viking Golf Club, Viking HandiVan Society, Viking Minor Ball, Viking Minor Hockey, Viking School, Viking Travel Club, Viking Senior Club, Viking Skating Club, Viking Wellness Society and Viking Wings hockey.

“We are pleased to be able to provide so much financial support to our community groups,” said Ritchie.

Ritchie also gave enormous credit to the Brettzky Committee for their organizational and other work, and to the “amazing sponsors, both individuals and businesses, who continue to support ‘The Brettzky.’”

And he called the community volunteers “vital” to achieving the event’s success every year with 150 community volunteers helping out every time.

These volunteers do a varied number of jobs like time keeping time for games, bartending, providing security, merchandise sales, meal preparation setting up and cleaning up, or helping on-ice at the Brettzky Hockey Camp.

“The Brettzky is a community event and can’t be put on without the support of all the groups involved,” he said, thanking everyone “who stepped up to volunteer.”

He also credited founder Brett Sutter and the Sutter family. “A big part of “The Brettzky’s” success is from the effort put forth by them.”

Planning has already started for the annual Brettzky’s Hockey Camp to be held Aug. 5-8, and for the 2024 Brettzky’s Hockey Challenge on Aug. 8-11.

Viking Minor Hockey recipients of Brettzky donation.

Adrenaline TaeKwon Do is given a Brettzky donation.

The Cloverlodge Stampede Association receives its Brettzky donation.

Battle River Knights U13 Female Brettzky recipients.

Viking School students and staff come out to accept their Brettzky donation.

Viking Minor Ball receives their Brettzky donation.

Viking School Grad Class accepts their donation.

Battle River Knights U15 Male team receive their donation. Check out next week’s edition of The Weekly Review for the other donation recipients photos.

Riggers 2013 minor hockey accepts donation.

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OPINION LETTER

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Hon. Damien Kurek, Battle River-Crowfoot MP It’s time to stop Greenwashing!

Beware of scammers Dear Editor: I am a 96-year-old senior and I am writing this narrative in the hope that it will save some seniors from getting scammed.

About a year ago one of my friends lost $8,000 to a scammer impersonating his grandson who covered his voice by saying he had a cold, and claimed that he got himself into trouble and needed the money to cover legal costs, and begged my friend not to tell his parents because they would be very upset.

I also have a friend that has been getting several calls that she won $385,000 in a lottery and that they will be bringing her the money as soon as she paid them their travel expenses from Toronto, which amounted to nearly $2,000. I had a hard time dissuading her from sending them the money and told her to hang up and not to ever talk to scammers.

Now I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent person. In the light of knowing about these scams, I should have been the last person to be scammed.

Yet recently, but for a stroke of luck, I came very close to losing nearly $10,000 to scammers!

The technique they used was to mesmerize me by convincing me that my grandson was driving with his friend and they got into an accident.

His friend was the one driving but my grandson bumped his head to the windshield and thought he had a broken nose and that affected his voice.

When the police came to investigate, they found a brown paper bag filled with illegal drugs on the back seat of the car. The scammer impersonating my grandson went to great length to convince me that he didn’t know his friend used drugs, that he never used drugs, and that he didn’t know anything about the brown paper bag.

He added that they were both arrested and in jail, and that he had a lawyer friend whom he knew for 30 years and whom he trusted completely, and for me

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to do whatever the “lawyer” told me to do. Then he turned me over to his “lawyer” who advised me that he would need $9,000 to get my grandson out of jail and to hush up the incident so that my grandson wouldn’t lose his job. He also assured me that I would get my money back if they didn’t find my grandson’s fingerprints on the bag. He added that there was a publication ban and that he could only help my grandson if I didn’t speak about it to anyone, not even a family member, so that it wouldn’t leak to the press.

By now the thought of my grandson, who had a high paying job and had only recently purchased an expensive home, losing his job had me completely mesmerized and I was incapable of rational thinking or behavior.

The “lawyer” asked for and I gave him my phone number and address.

He gave me explicit instructions what to tell the bank if they asked why I needed the money. I was to tell them that my grandson was going to a car auction that afternoon and that they only accepted cash.

When I asked for $10,000 cash at the bank, the teller told me she could give me only $3,000. I asked if I could get more out of a joint account I had with my son.

At this point I believe the teller became suspicious and asked if she could call my son.

I gave her his phone number and after she talked to him, she handed the phone to me. My son did his best to convince me I was being scammed, but I didn’t believe him and told him I would explain everything the next day! The bank gave me the maximum amount they were allowed and when I got home the phone was ringing. It was my son. He told me he had just spoken to my grandson who was at work teaching a class and annoyed to be disturbed. It was only then that I snapped out of my “trance” and realized I was being scammed!!

William Dascavich

It’s time to have an honest and pragmatic conversation about environmental policy.

This need became desperately clear when, on the second weekend of January, Alberta faced an electricity shortage. This led the province’s utility administrator to issue an Emergency Grid Alert, asking Albertans to cut their electrical consumption or risk facing rolling blackouts and the possibility of serious grid disruptions. This move seems unimaginable in a country like Canada, let alone a province like Alberta, where our energy resources are vast. This needs to spur an honest debate about how we approach our environmental policy.

The reason for the shortage can be attributed to one main factor: the sky was dark, and windless. At one point, out of the maximum capacity of 6131 MegaWatts (MW) of wind and solar, there were only 121 MWs of wind and 0 MWs of solar being produced - that is less than 2 per cent capacity. When power consumption peaked, Alberta’s power grid was short by several hundred MWs of the more than 11,000 MWs the grid required.

Thankfully, disaster was averted when both demand was reduced and our neighbouring jurisdictions were able to provide us with the power needed to keep the grid stable.

I wish I could say this was a surprise. For years, pragmatic voices in Canada have been saying how we need to be realistic about energy, but they have been drowned out by a chorus of those who refused to be realistic. This was evidenced recently when many high-profile, left-leaning figures criticized Alberta’s advertising campaign they don’t want Canadians to “freeze in the dark.” Yet those same figures (left-leaning politicians, commentators, and so-called experts) labelled anyone who dared question them as climate deniers or planet-haters.

Greenwashing is when you label something as “green” or “environmentally friendly” but don’t talk about the real impacts. We saw the impact a couple of weeks ago with Alberta’s power grid. In Ottawa, we see it daily on mainstream media, scientific literature, and popular culture; greenwashing is everywhere and is promoted without potential consequences being realistically considered. It should not be controversial to ask tough questions about the reliability of our power grid, or any other environmental policy.

But greenwashing doesn’t stop at our power grid. Oil and gas production is another example. While the Liberals brag about reducing emissions by phasing out carbon-based fuel, Prime Minister Trudeau and the Liberals’ policies have directly funded dictatorships and the wars they perpetrate while making Canada poorer. The carbon tax that doesn’t work and costs a bundle. Or think of the recently announced electric vehicle mandate, which has been criticized by virtually everyone except those looking for government subsidies and activist groups (who, in many cases, are funded by foreign money). Or the “plastics ban” that is not only unscientific and found to have been an overreach of federal jurisdiction, but very well could lead to a larger, negative environmental footprint. This is just to name a few things. Our country and world need to honestly look at environmental policy and rate it not on ideology or celebrity endorsements, but on facts.

Let’s end the greenwashing of policy. And that doesn’t mean saying ‘no’ to new technology. In fact, it’s the opposite. If new technology is going to work, be beneficial for the environment, and lower costs, then it will prove itself without the lies. Only then will it be trusted by the people (and trust right now is in short supply!). It is possible to be realistic, lead the world in innovation and have both a clean environment and a strong economy. That is the Conservative Party of Canada’s vision, and it will ensure Canadians can keep their lights on.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this column, you are encouraged to write Damien at 4945-50th Street, Camrose, Alberta, T4V 1P9, call 780-608-4600, text 403-575-5625, or e-mail damien.kurek@parl.gc.ca.

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WORD ON THE STREET Axe found in flower bed outside local business Barb Chrystian 780-385-0631 On January 29, police received a complaint of a suspicious person. The complainant advised while he was at work he was approached by a male asking if he had any scrap copper wire. The male left in a white van, members were unable to locate the vehicle.

That afternoon, police received a complaint regarding a wellbeing check on a subject. This matter is still under investigation.

Later that afternoon, police received complaints of a vehicle abandoned on the side of Highway 14.

Said vehicle was located and determined to be rented from Hertz. Hertz was contacted and they advised they would arrange to have the vehicle towed.

On January 30, police received a complaint of mischief.

The caller advised that a 2003 Chev Duramax truck parked at a local business had the door and ignition damaged. The caller also advised that the fuel cards were missing.

Police have no suspects at this time.

Also this day, police learned that Bryce Kraychy had failed to attend court in Vegreville to answer to unrelated charges previously laid by Viking RCMP. A warrant for his arrest was issued. Upon arrest, he will be facing an additional charge.

That same morning, police assisted with the

execution of a warrant.

Members located the subject, who was arrested without incident.

That afternoon, a citizen located an axe in a flower bed at a local business. The axe was turned over to the RCMP. On February 1, police responded to a complaint of erratic drivers. The caller advised of two vehicles speeding down Highway 14 side by side, with subjects hanging out the windows. Members patrolled the area and were unable to locate the vehicles.

That same day, police received a complaint of fraud. The complainant advised of parcels in the mail that were believed to be fraudulent. This matter is still under investigation.

On February 2, police received another complaint of fraud. The complainant advised he mailed a cheque to a local business. The business advised they have never received the cheque. This matter is still under investigation.

That same morning, police received a complaint of a vehicle parked on the roadside with a male who appeared to be sleeping inside.

Members located the vehicle; the driver of the vehicle admitted to police to smoking drugs and consuming alcohol five hours prior.

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Hardisty woman charged with attempted murder Patricia Harcourt Editor A Hardisty woman has been charged with attempted murder following an incident where a man was shot in this town located in Flagstaff County.

Killam RCMP report they received a dispatch that a shooting had taken place in Hardisty on Jan. 27. Once they arrived, the officers found a man with injuries “consistent with a gunshot wound,” stated the RCMP. As of a Feb. 1 news release by police, the unidentified man remains in critical condition after being transported by ambulance to an Edmonton

hospital.

An investigation ensued with the assistance of the Forensic Identification Services and Eastern Alberta District General Investigation Section.

As a result of the investigation, RCMP have charged Alicia Vandenberg, 42, with attempted murder, pointing a firearm, careless use of a firearm, aggravated assault, and assault with a weapon.

Police report that Vandenberg appeared before a justice of the pace and was remanded into custody. She was to next appear at the Alberta Court of Justice in Camrose on Feb. 7.

pension of his license and the seizure of his vehicle.

On February 3, police responded to a break and enter. The complainant advised that he received a notification that there was motion on a camera on his property.

The camera revealed two vehicles and two suspects had entered his property. A neighbour attended the location and the subjects fled the scene with a utility trailer that belonged to the complainant.

This investigation is

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That evening, police received a complaint of an erratic driver. The complainant advised of a vehicle tailgating and following her vehicle.

Patrols were made but the vehicle was not located.

During this time period, police also dealt with several motor vehicle collisions involving deer and one involving a moose.

They also issued violation tickets and warnings for various traffic offences.

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RCMP to field test Vialta Lodge chatter body worn cameras Marion R. Cottrell

Patricia Harcourt Editor

It is the RCMP’s intention for all of its members to eventually wear cameras on their person while conducting their duties as officers in the province.

Alberta RCMP says the future use of body worn cameras is in the interests of transparency and accountability to the communities they serve.

The field test will include the use of the cameras plus a new digital evidence management system.

Front-line officers in Grande Prairie, St. Paul, and Parkland County will conduct initial field test starting in February.

It will continue for eight to 10 weeks.

The move towards cameras that operate while RCMP officers are conducting their policing business is also in the interests of increasing trust between police and the communities they are mandated to “serve and

protect.”

“The video evidence collected will provide an independent, unbiased and objective way to capture interactions between the public and police officers,” explains the Alberta RCMP Feb. 2.

Detachments in Nunavut and Nova Scotia are also field testing the devices.

Once field tests have been conducted, the RCMP plan to phase-in the use of body worn cameras across the country within a 12-18 month period.

The cameras will usually be worn in the middle of the officer’s chest, with a red light on the device indicating to anyone present that recording is taking place at that time.

“Once complete, the body worn cameras and a digital evidence management system will become the national standard for general duty frontline RCMP officers,” says Alberta RCMP, in its release.

February has arrived with temperatures much more to our liking than some past days in January! The daylight hours are noticeably increasing in length and with fewer days in February it won’t be long until we’ll be imagining spring around the corner.

Residents of Vialta Lodge greatly enjoyed the “Central Singers” on Monday, Jan. 22 and “Ralph and Friends” on Jan.25. Toe-tapping and reminiscent tunes help to cheer hearts.

Coming up, Joe Petras will be entertaining on February 13, just in time for Valentine’s Day. The “Central Singers” might be coming again on Feb. 20. On Thursday, Feb. 22, the line dancers plan to delight the tenants with their newly acquired moves. Come out to watch, lodge dwellers, and you may be surprised by an invitation to participate.

January saw no additions or deletions from the Lodge population.

The two birthdays this month are for Donna

Tkaczyk and Keith Firkus. Interestingly, they are on the same date, February 25. Happy Birthday to both of you.

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“When a friend passed away, I texted his family: “I’m praying God will comfort you and Fred.”

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The Irma Fire Department was called out to assist with the large oil lease fire in the County of Minburn on Tuesday.

Irma School students enjoyed Literacy Day on Monday, January 29. Guest readers, games and costumes helped make for a fun day focused on reading. The second semes-

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The Irma Aces defeated Forestburg 4-2 on Saturday evening.

The 4-H Beef Club is holding the annual Valentine’s Day beef supper on February 14 at the school. Tickets are available from any 4-H member or at the door.

The United Church Shrove Tuesday supper was moved to Tuesday, February 20 so as not to conflict with the 4-H supper.

Bill and Carol Lawson are vacationing in Mexico.

After some very warm weather, snow and cooler temperatures arrived to give us more seasonal conditions.

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Three artists “Touch the Sky” at library exhibit Patricia Harcourt Editor

Three artists are currently displaying their works at the Viking Municipal Library until Feb. 27.

The works of Esther Hoflick, Angela Fehr, and Elizabeth Hutchinson will invite you in to a world of subtlety and iridescence.

The display is part of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program and is curated by Robin Lynch.

Lynch asks some intriguing questions when introducing this art to a larger public.

“How can an artwork capture the dynamic experience of space?” he asks. “What does the smell of rain look like in a painting?”

He also wonders when perusing these paintings: “Or our dream experiences in relationship to our waking experiences?”

These are not necessarily questions many of us have asked ourselves, but we have all smelled the fresh brain enhancing smell of rain, and wondered about our interior world as manifested in dreamscapes.

Lynch states that the display at the library called “Touching the Sky” has the effect of “balancing between abstract marking and painterly realism.”

These are three Prairie Region artists, says Lynch, “whose work is rooted in exploring these embodied experiences and our ability to represent them through art.”

They endeavour to capture the experiences

that go beyond the visual senses to include smell, touch, emotion, spirituality, sound and time, and he invites people in the local area to come to the library and take it in, hopefully with all the senses at work when they do.

Angela Fehr works with watercolours and “embraces the ephemeral nature of water in relationship to her depiction of the landscape.” She uses her belief in a deeper spiritual reality to combine memory of landscapes she has seen on the Atlantic coast and her personal memories of these experiences as they translate onto the canvas.

As stated by Lynch, they are “our environment’s profound shaping of our daily experiences.”

Hutchinson herself states that: “More than a collection of images, they are a gathering of memories that remind us of the poetic potential of our collective emotional relationship to the landscape.”

Esther Hoflick is chair of the Department of Fine Arts at Grande Prairie Regional College in Northern Alberta. She sometimes spends her summers living in a tent in Dawson City, Yukon.

Also co-founder of Night Owl Contemporary Gallery for emerging artists in Montreal, and has worked as a curator and studio assistant.

“I am fascinated both by materials and by philosophies of matter,” she writes, in her introduction. “Specifically, I’m curious how we perceive ourselves in rela-

tion to the physical world and how these intrinsic perceptions are paralleled, metaphorically, by the act of creating visual objects.”

Hoflick currently paints with oil emulsion on plaster, “where the pigment and surface become inseparable, much as we are inseparable from our environment,” she says.

Her “Spell for Healing a Fracture, 2022,” for example, is an embryonic look using subtle colours. She says her work is representing the “schizophrenic understanding of the …nature of all and everything while brooding on specific moments of interactivity.”

The third artist on display at the library’s gallery this month is Angela Fehr, who returned to her birthplace in the Peace River region after living in Ontario, the United States and Papua New Guinea.

Once back home, she took watercolour classes and reached out to fellow artists as a stay at home mother due to feelings of isolation.

Her aim is to “fall in love with the painting proces,” and be her authentic painting self instead of focusing on technique.

The lessons learned in this “have filled her life with meaning and signficance.” That is due to the ability she now has

to express her intimate connection with the beauty around her in her native region.

She explains her work thusly: “Nature informs both my subject and my process,” she says. “As a water colourist, I marry water with colour to create my work, understanding that I am working alongside a medium that must be allowed to

flow, to evolve and my responses are as immediate as the flick of a brush.”

Her work “Does it Begin Where It Ends, 2022,” carries the blue tinges of sky with reds, browns and yellow subtleties of earth which is a

feast for the eyes and mind.

Anyone with a deep sympathy for nature and an internal sense of its largess and beauty would benefit from seeing this particular gallery showing, on now until Feb. 27.

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Impromptu stop on Health Care Engagement session tour in Camrose on Monday Leslie Cholowsky Staff Reporter

Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange was in Camrose on Monday, Feb. 5, for an engagement session with healthcare professionals and the general public.

The Camrose stop was initiated by Camrose MLA Jackie Lovely, who says Camrose was not originally on the list of locations for public engagement sessions.

“When I approached the Minister's scheduling team they were quick to add Camrose as they and I feel the feedback for our community is valuable.”

Lovely says there were approximately 75 people who attended the session and provided feedback for the minister and her team.

She adds, “I'm grateful so many people took time out of their schedule at short notice, to

provide their thoughts and potential solutions.”

The Province says the in-person engagement sessions are “Part of our ongoing efforts to refocus the health care system.

“We are committed to engaging with health care workers and listening to the input of patients, families and caregivers.

“These in-person sessions will offer an opportunity for open conversations about the challenges, solutions and innovations that will help shape a more responsive and effective health care system for generations of Albertans to come.”

Alberta residents are also invited to give their feedback online, at: your.alberta.ca/health/survey_tools/feedback-form-2 A number of telephone town halls were held in November and December, and transcripts of those sessions

are available at: alberta.ca/shape-the-way Part of the information package introducing the public engagement says, “The government heard what Albertans had to say about their experiences with the current health system and carefully looked at what did and did not work in Alberta’s previous health system models.

“The government has considered a wide range of options and identified that this is the best path to achieve the goal of improving access to and quality of health care.

“Changes with local decision-making and regional advice will empower local communities to have a greater say.

“Involvement of local communities in decision-making can lead to health care services that better meet specific needs, ensuring that citizens have a voice in shaping their health care systems.”

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Claystone Waste named in Alberta Top 80 employers Kari Janzen Claystone Waste, the waste management and landfill corporation located outside Ryley, was recently named in the 19th edition Alberta’s Top Employers.

In the magazine published by the Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal, Claystone was listed among the 80 employers recognized in this year’s edition.

“We've been a top 75 previously recognized employer a number of times. We weren't successful on being among the top 75 employers last year. So we're very grateful that we were recognized and reappointed through now the top 80 employers in Alberta and that's due to our strong core unit and family group of everyone that makes up Claystone.

We look after each other, safety is a paramount focus, and we help everybody to succeed both in their work lives and their personal lives,” said Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Corey Popick.

Listed among the reasons for Claystone Waste’s selection this year is their commitment towards paying for employee education, their health benefits plan, and their high number of sick days. Claystone offers paid education leave of up to 30 weeks and tuition subsidies for job-related courses with no set maximum per year.

“Each full-time employee, on an annual basis, gets at least $847 that they can utilize for training. That money is not limited in scope; if they're looking for additional opportunities, funding is there. At all different levels of staff, from your professionals in your management and administrative individuals, to your mechanics and operators, everyone has direct, job-

specific training that they must undertake, in addition to your regular safety type training, but we also support non work-related training. If an employee, or employees, are interested in learning a topic, it could be anything at the universities, or at NAIT, or any sort of personal development program, small engine repairs; it doesn’t have to be job-specific training,” Popick said.

As well, full-time Claystone employees’ health benefits plan includes a health spending account of up to $850 per year and a wellness spending account of up to $500 per year.

“There is a regular benefit program that will include a baseline amount for items like a massage, but on top of that, they'll get $850 a year. If that amount is not used up, they can carry over their surplus for up to one year for their health care spending account. They can apply for almost anything health care related including chiropractors, massages, additional follow ups, mental health items, etcetera. It’s a supplemental top up to their benefit package. In addition to that, they get an annual $500 wellness account, which can be applied to gym memberships, buying a bicycle, hockey skates, anything for health and wellness activities outside of work,” said Popick.

Claystone also has up to 18 sick days for fulltime employees.

“It is high, but it's important to look after our staff.

Fulltime employees earn 1.5 sick days per month, which rounds out to be 18 days per year. With sick time earned, plus short term and long term disability, we look after our individuals in the good times and the bad,” Popick said.

Popick officially became CEO of Claystone Waste on December 1, and started with the company in April of 2021 as the Chief Operating Officer.

Claystone, established in 1992, currently employs 65 fulltime staff, with the longest serving employee having been with the company since 1997.

“We are very proud of each individual that makes up the Claystone family,” Popick said.

Claystone Waste Communications Manager Anne Ruzicka (L) and HR Manager Jeanie DeGrande (R) attended the Alberta's Top 80 Employers 19th annual awards luncheon on Tuesday, Jan. 30 in Calgary to accept the Top Employer award on behalf of Claystone Waste.

Ryley FCSS to host grief counselling sessions starting mid-February Kari Janzen Ryley FCSS (Family and Community Support Services) held a grief counselling information session at the Village Office on Thursday evening, February 1. 80 Acres Counselling, Mediation, and Consulting will be starting a four-to-six-week grief support group on Wednesdays at the Village Office, starting February 21. Karlana Noel of 80 Acres Counselling and her practicum student, Tyra Shulko, will be leading the support group sessions.

Shulko is completing her Masters in Counselling in Psychology at City University in Edmonton, and will graduate in April. Noel has a Master of Counselling in Psychology, she is a Counselling Therapist, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Psychology and being a qualified mediator. Noel says she began to

practice in this area because of the lack of services available.

“I started rural counseling out here because there's a huge lack of services. We do general counselling, and I specialize in sexual survivors counselling. Tyra will specialize in somatic therapy once she's done, and animal therapy,” Noel said.

When Shulko was asked if she will be providing therapy for the animals, she said she often gets that question.

“Everybody always asks that, and no. Somatic therapy is working on being in the present and the mind-body connection. It’s like coming back into your body and using the animals for even the sensory experience of touch. Somatics is using our senses, touch, smell, sight, etc., to bring you into the moment. Often when we're stressed or working

through trauma, we maybe in our heads or dissociated, and it brings us back into the moment,” Shulko said.

Noel said that using animal therapy for children and adults alike is a neat tool to help them talk about how they are feeling, in an indirect way.

“For kids especially, they can communicate through the animal. They are better able to project what they're feeling, but it's described through the animal, which is amazing. They don't have to talk about their feelings; they could talk about how the animal might feel. Based on what they say, you can relate it back to them, and they can draw those natural connections to what they’re feeling,” said Noel.

Noel said that in dealing with grief, somatic therapy and animal therapy can be helpful in Continued on BCC4

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ȇɎɵ ǣȇɮǣɎƺɀ ɵȒɖȸ ȒȸǕƏȇǣɿƏɎǣȒȇ ɎȒ ǴȒǣȇ

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ʿ˔ˡ˗˙˜˟˟ ʙ ˅ˬ˟˘ˬ ˇ˥˔ˡ˦˙˘˥ ˆ˧˔˧˜ˢˡʭ ʨʣʤʤʪ ˅˚˘ ˅˗ ʤʪʦ ʛʻˊˌ ʫʨʧʜ ʵˢ˫ ʦʥʥʟ ˅ˬ˟˘ˬʟ ʴʵ ˇʣʵ ʧʴʣ ˊ˘˘˞˗˔ˬ˦ ʬʭʣʣ˔ˠ ʠ ʧʭʦʣˣˠʮ ˆ˔˧˨˥˗˔ˬ˦ ʢ ˆˇʴˇˆ ʬʭʣʣ˔ˠ ʠ ʦʭʣʣˣˠʮ ʶ˟ˢ˦˘˗ ˆ˨ˡ˗˔ˬ˦ ˁ˂ˇʸʭ ˖˨˦˧ˢˠ˘˥˦ ˠ˨˦˧ ˔˥˥˜˩˘ ˔˧ ˟˘˔˦˧ ʤʨ ˠ˜ˡ˨˧˘˦ ˣ˥˜ˢ˥ ˧ˢ ˖˟ˢ˦˜ˡ˚ʮ ʴ˗ˠ˜ˡ˜˦˧˥˔˧˜ˢˡ ˕˨˜˟˗˜ˡ˚ ˀˢˡ ˧ˢ ʹ˥˜ ʫʭʣʣ˔ˠ Ϟʧʭʣʣˣˠʟ ʶ˟ˢ˦˘˗ ˙˥ˢˠ ʤʥʭʣʣ ʠ ʤʭʣ ʣʣˣˠ ˇˢ˟˟ ʹ˥˘˘ʭ ʤʡʫʨʨʡʥʥʤʡʥʣʦʫ ˃˛ʭ ʪʫʣʡʩʩʦʡʥʣʦʫ ʿ˜ˡ˗˕˥ˢˢ˞ ˇ˥˔ˡ˦˙˘˥ ˆ˧˔˧˜ˢˡʭ ʨʤʣʣʫ ˅˚˘ ˅˗ ʥʣʤ ˃˛ʭ ʪʫʣʡʩʩʥʡʥʪʣʧ ˇ˨˘˦ ʤʣʭʦʣ˔ˠ ʠ ʨʭʦʣˣˠʮ ˇ˛˨˥˦ ʤʤʭʦʣ˔ˠ ʠ ʩʭʦʣˣˠʮ ˆ˔˧ ʤʣʭʦʣ˔ˠ ʠ ʨʭʦʣˣˠ ˇˢ˙˜˘˟˗ ˇ˥˔ˡ˦˙˘˥ ˆ˧˔˧˜ˢˡ ˡʭ ʨʤʣʦʥ ˅˚˘ ˅˗ ʤʬʤ ˃˛ʭ ʪʫʣ ʣʡʩʩʥ ʥʡʥʪʦʤ ˊ˘˗ʟ ʹ˥˜ ʙ ˆ˔˧ ʤʣʭʦʣ˔ˠ ʠ ʨʭʦʣ ʣˣˠ ˠ ˉ˜˞˜ˡ˚ ˇ˥˔ˡ˦˙˘˥ ˆ˧˔˧˜ˢˡʭ ʤʥʨʣʦ ˇ˪ˣ ˅˗ ʧʫʣ ˃˛ʭ ʪʫʣʡʪʤʫʡʪʬʨʩ ˇ˨˘˦ ʤʣʭʦʣ˔ˠ ʠ ʨʭʦʣˣˠʮ ˆ˔˧ ʤʣʭʦʣ˔ˠ ʠ ʨʭʦʣ ʣˣˠ ʾ˜ˡ˦˘˟˟˔ ˇ˥˔ˡ˦˙˘˥ ˆ˧˔˧˜ˢˡʭ ʧʩʧʤʫ ˅˚˘ ˅˗ ʤʤʦ ˃˛ʭ ʪʫʣʡʥʥʩʡʩʫʣʥ ˊ˘˗ ʤʤʭʣʣ˔ˠ ʠ ʨʭʣʣˣˠʮ ʹ˥˜ ʤʤʭʣʣ˔ˠ ʠ ʨʭʣʣˣˠ

áƺ Ȓǔǔƺȸ ȵȸȒǔƺɀɀǣȒȇƏǼً ƬȒȇǔǣƳƺȇɎǣƏǼً ɀǝȒȸɎ‫ٮ‬Ɏƺȸȅ ƬȒɖȇɀƺǼǼǣȇǕ ǔȒȸ ǣȇƳǣɮǣƳɖƏǼɀً ƬȒɖȵǼƺɀً ƏȇƳ ǔƏȅǣǼǣƺɀِ ɖȸ ƬȒɖȇɀƺǼǼȒȸ ɯȒȸǸɀ ɯǣɎǝ ɎǝȒɀƺ ɀƺƺǸǣȇǕ ƏɀɀǣɀɎƏȇƬƺ ɯǣɎǝ ȵƺȸɀȒȇƏǼ ƳƺɮƺǼȒȵȅƺȇɎً ƺȅȒɎǣȒȇƏǼ ƏȇƳ ȸƺǼƏɎǣȒȇɀǝǣȵ ȵȸȒƫǼƺȅɀ ǣȇƬǼɖƳǣȇǕ ȅƏȸǣɎƏǼ ǣɀɀɖƺɀً ǔƏȅǣǼɵ ƬȒȇǔǼǣƬɎً ƏǕǕȸƺɀɀǣȒȇً ƏȇǕƺȸً ǼȒɀɀً ɀɎȸƺɀɀً Ȓȸ ɎȸƏɖȅƏِ ɖȸ ƬȒ ȒɖȇɀƺǼǼǣȇǕ ɀƺɀɀǣȒȇɀ Əȸƺ ƳƺǼǣɮƺȸƺƳ ƫɵ !ǝƏȸǼǼƺȇƺ Xȸɮǣȇƺً ً xِ³!ً !!!ِ !ȒɖȇɀƺǼǼǣȇǕ ǔƺƺɀ Əȸƺ ‫ דבڟ‬ȵƺȸ ɀƺɀɀǣȒȇِ ɖɎ Ȓǔ ɀƺȸɮ ɮǣƬƺ ƏȸƺƏ ǔƺƺ ƺɀ ƏȵȵǼɵِ ¨ǼƺƏɀƺ ƬȒȇɎƏƬɎ Ɏǝƺ ÁȒǔǣƺǼƳٖ ƺƏɮƺ ƺȸ !ȒɖȇɎɵ áƺɀɎ I!³ ³³ ȒǔǔǣƬƺ ƏɎ ‫ וה׎וٮאההٮ׎זו‬ɎȒ ƫȒȒǸ Əȇ ƏȵȵȒǣȇɎȅƺȇ ȇɎ Ȓȸ ǼƺƏȸȸȇ ȅȒ Ȓȸƺِ

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Beaver County Chronicle, February 7, 2024 - 3

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I0 «È «ç «ç ‫ גא׎א ًו‬ n¨«Á ‫ ג׎׎׎(ٮגאٮ׎א׎׎א׎‬ x J 0ȇƺȸǕɵ nɎƳِ !« IƏȸȅɀ nɎ nɎƳِ ¨ǼƏȇ ‫ ٕזאחא א׏א‬ǼȒƬǸ ‫ ٕ׏‬nȒɎ ‫ ב‬ǼȒƬƏɎƺƳ ǣȇ z0‫ٮח׏ٮ׏דٮד׏ٮ‬á‫ ג‬ (ǣɀƬȸƺɎǣȒȇƏȸɵ ȸɵ Èɀƺ ٫ zƏɎɖȸƏǼ «ƺɀȒɖȸƬƺ 0ɴɎȸƏƬɎǣȒȇ Èɀƺɀ ƏȇƳ JƺȇƺȸƏǼ XȇƳɖɀɎȸǣƏǼ Èɀƺɀ ٫ Áɵ Áɵȵƺ XX ٫ IȒɖȸ ٢‫ג‬٣ zƏɎɖȸƏǼ JƏɀ JƺȇƺȸƏɎȒȸɀ ƬȒȅƫǣȇƺƳ ƬƏȵƏƬǣɎɵ Ȓǔ ‫ ׎חח‬Ǹá ٢ɀƺƏ ƬƏȇɀ ‫ٮ‬ ƺƏƬǝ ƫƺǣȇǕ ‫דِ׏‬ȅ ɴ ‫גِא‬ȅ٣ ƏȇƳ ȇƺ ٢‫׏‬٣ (ƏɎƏ ¨ȸȒƬƺɀɀǣȇǕ IƏƬǣǼǣɎɵ Ɏɵ ٢ɀƺƏ ƬƏȇ ‫גِא ٮ‬ȅ ɴ ‫גِא׏‬ȅ٣ ٫ ƏƳƳƺƳ ɎȒ ƺɴǣɀɎǣȇǕ ɯƺǼǼɀǣɎƺ ɯǣɎǝ ɯƺǼǼ ƏȇƳ ƬȒȅȵȸƺɀɀȒȸ

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I0 «È «ç «ç ‫ גא׎א ًו‬ ³( ‫ ד׎׎׎(ٮגאٮ׎א׎׎א׎‬ IǼɖƺȇɎ ³ȒǼƏȸ JȒȸƳȒȇ ǣɎǸƺȇ ƏȇƳ (ƏȸǼƺȇƺ ³ɮƺȇƳɀƺȇ ¨ǼƏȇ ‫ ٕזזחא אזו‬ǼȒƬǸ ‫ ٕג‬nȒɎ ‫ א‬ǼȒƬƏɎƺƳ ǣȇ z0‫ٮ׎אٮ׎דٮואٮ‬á‫ ג‬ (ǣɀƬȸƺɎǣȒȇƏȸɵ ȸɵ Èɀƺ ٫ ³ȒǼƏȸ !ȒǼǼƺƬɎȒȸً «ȒȒǔ xȒɖȇɎ ٢‫ חאِהבב‬ǔɎ ǔɎ‫א‬ ǣȇ ƏȸƺƏ ɎȒ ƫƺ ȅȒɖȇɎƺƳ Ȓȇ ƺɴǣɀɎǣȇǕ ǕƏȸƏǕƺ٣

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I0 «È «ç ‫ גא׎א ًג׏‬ ³( ‫ ב׎׎׎(ٮגאٮ׎א׎׎א׎‬ ȸƺȇɎ ¨ǣƬƏȸƳ ٢ ȅȅȒȅƺȇɎȒ٣ RɖƫƺȸɎ ƏȇƳ hɖǼǣƺ Jǣƺɀƺ ¨ǼƏȇ ‫ ٕז׎ד׎ אדו‬ǼȒƬǸ ٕ nȒɎ ‫ ו‬ǼȒƬƏɎƺƳ ǣȇ zá‫ٮ׎אٮ׎דٮאבٮ‬á‫ ג‬ (ǣɀƬȸƺɎǣȒȇƏȸɵ ȸɵ Èɀƺ ٫ JƺȇƺȸƏǼ !ȒȅȅƺȸƬǣƏǼ Èɀƺ ٫ ‫ ټא׏‬ɴ ‫ټהב‬ ȵȒǼƺ ɀǝƺƳ ɯǣɎǝǣȇ Ə ‫בא‬ȅ ɴ ‫אא‬ȅ ȒɖɎƳȒȒȸ ǝƏȇƳǕɖȇٖȵǣɀɎȒǼ ɀǝȒȒɎǣȇǕ ȸƏȇǕƺ ɯǣɎǝ ‫׎׏‬ȅ ǣȇ ǝƺǣǕǝɎ ƫƺȸȅ ƏȇƳ ȅǣȇǣȅɖȅ ‫ ټז‬ǣȇ ǝƺǣǕǝɎ ȵƺȸǣȅƺɎƺȸ ǔƺȇƬƺ

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I0 «È «ç ‫ גא׎א ً׏א‬ n¨«Á ‫ ו׎׎׎(ٮגאٮ׎א׎׎א׎‬ nƏǝȸȅƏȇȇ !ȒȇɀɎȸɖƬɎǣȒȇ XȇƬِ hȒɀƺȵǝ nƏɿƏȸɖǸ z0‫ٮח׏ٮאדٮגאٮ‬á‫ ג‬ (ǣɀƬȸƺɎǣȒȇƏȸɵ ȸɵ Èɀƺ ٫ JƺȇƺȸƏǼ XȇƳɖɀɎȸǣƏǼ Èɀƺ ٫ Áɵ Áɵȵƺ XX ‫ٮ‬ ÁƺȅȵȒȸƏȸɵ ȸɵ ɀȵǝƏǼɎ ¨ǼƏȇɎ ƏȇƳ ³ɎȒƬǸȵǣǼƺ ³ǣɎƺ ٢‫׎ח‬ȅ ɴ ‫׎׎׏‬ȅ ǣȇ ƏȸƺƏ٣ ɯǣɎǝ áȒȸǸ !ƏȅȵɀǣɎƺ ٢‫׎ד‬ȅ ɴ ‫׎ז‬ȅ ǣȇ ƏȸƺƏ٣

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ȇɵ ȵƺȸɀȒȇ ɯǣɀǝǣȇǕ ɎȒ ƏȵȵƺƏǼ Əȇ ƏȵȵǼǣƬƏɎǣȒȇ ȅƏɵ ƳȒ ɀȒ ƫɵ ɀƺȸɮǣȇǕ ɯȸǣɎɎƺȇ ȇȒɎǣƬƺ Ȓȇ Ɏǝƺ ȵȸƺɀƬȸǣƫƺƳ ǔȒȸȅ ٢ɀɎƏɎǣȇǕ ȸƺƏɀȒȇɀ ǔȒȸ Ɏǝƺ ƏȵȵƺƏǼ٣ ɎȒ Ɏǝƺ ȸƺǼƺɮƏȇɎ ƏȵȵƺƏǼ ƫȒƳɵِ IȒȸ ǣȇǔȒȸȅƏɎǣȒȇ Ȓȇ ǝȒɯ ɎȒ ƏȵȵƺƏǼ ƬƏȇ ƫƺ ǔȒɖȇƳ Ȓɖȸ Ȓɖȸ ɯƺƫɀǣɎƺ ɖȇƳƺȸ ³ƺȸɮǣƬƺɀ ‫¨ ڽ‬ǼƏȇȇǣȇǕ ۭ (ƺɮƺǼȒȵȅƺȇɎ ‫ڽ‬ ȵȵƺƏǼǣȇǕ ¨ǼƏȇȇǣȇǕ (ƺƬǣɀǣȒȇɀ IɖȸɎǝƺȸ ǣȇǔȒȸȅƏɎǣȒȇ ȸƺǕƏȸƳǣȇǕ Ɏǝƺ ƏƫȒɮƺ ƳƺƬǣɀǣȒȇɀ ȅƏɵ ƫƺ ȒƫɎƏǣȇƺƳ ǔȸȒȅ Ɏǝƺ !ȒɖȇɎɵ Ɏɵ ǔǔ ǔǔǣƬƺً «ɵǼƺɵً ǼƫƺȸɎƏِ

³ɎƏɵ ǣȇ Ɏǝƺ ǼȒȒȵٍ

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Grief Counselling Continued from BCC1

encouraging getting out, and focusing on their own healing, instead of hiding away.

“It’s a good distraction, and a good focus on getting out those coping skills, A lot of people with grief will become reclusive; they’ll avoid or isolate. Animal therapy can be an opportunity for them to get out and to really focus on their own healing without recognizing that is what’s happening,” she said.

As for what the grief group will look like, Shulko explained that part of the process is understanding what grief is.

“Grief is a natural, normal, healthy response to loss. A lot of people may not realize that, and might be feeling like they are the only ones going through what they are experiencing.

Hearing the other experiences of people is huge, as well as knowing this is a safe environment to share. That’s why a group is so important, so that we can see that we're all grieving and it all looks different, even though it is similar.

“It's an overwhelming emotion, and that’s why we need to find coping skills. And again, to have the support of a group,” said Shulko.

Noel said throughout the sessions they will go over the stages of grief and the understanding that there may be a cycle of stages and not just experiencing any stage only once.

“We will cover the stages of grief, and help individuals understand that you cycle through those stages at different points and different times.

There's no cut and dry path. We will go over how to recognize the symptoms to those stages, and how to cope healthily through those,” she said.

Shulko said the end goals of the grief group is to help people bring meaning to their loss, to work through the coping skills, and to keep their loved one in the present in a positive way.

“It is a very common myth to believe that if you ignore grief, it’ll go away. Being able to process is actually feeling the emotion and to bring meaning to that loss. It's not to make it go away or change it. It's always going to be there, but to bring some meaning to it.

“We like to encourage people to have a creative thing they can do to represent the person that they've lost, to keep that person present with them in their lives. Compared to the despair or grief that they might be feeling, to turn that into a positive thing and a loving remembrance of that person,” said Shulko.

Noel also said that once a sense of closure or relief is reached, there can be more to process through when an individual feels guilt for that feeling of relief.

“A lot of people will go through the grieving process and then when they start to feel a sense of closure, or a sense of relief, they start to have guilt because they feel that relief. So, there is that to process through, too. Relief is normal. It's appropriate, and there's no timeline for when that happens,” she said.

The counselling sessions will be held on Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. at the Ryley Village Office. There is no cost and registrations are to be made through Ryley FCSS director Mickey Wilson.

Karlana Noel, left, of 80 Acres Counselling, Mediation, and Consulting, along with her practicum student Tyra Shulko, right, will be leading the group grief counselling sessions at the Ryley Village Office on Wednesdays, starting Feb. 21.

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U11 Gas Kings have big weekend Kerry Anderson These are some of the results from Minor Hockey League games held recently. (Please note that scores and scoring is taken from the websites, and some game scores and scoring is dependent on proper league entries).

Irma U11 Female Aces (0-14-2) dropped a 7-2 game at Saddle Lake on Saturday. Laney Fenton and Abby Larson scored for Irma.

Irma U13 Female Aces (11-7-0) beat Lloydminster 6-3 on Saturday on the road led by Runa Erickson’s hat trick and 4point game. Candace Hollar scored twice and Eldlynn Newton added another.

Madelynn Challborn also got an assist. Brynn Newton got the win in goal.

Irma U15 Female Aces (5–5-6) lost a 2-1 at Lakeland on Saturday.

Rhyan Fraser scored for Aces, assisted by Jenna Lee Anquist.

Irma U11 Aces (13-6-1)

dropped a 5-1 game at home on Sunday against Lac La Biche. Ryder Clark scored the only goal for Irma.

Viking U11 Gas Kings (11-7-2) skated to a 3-3 tie against Elk Island on Friday at the Carena. Gas Kings came back from a 31 deficit to score two late third period goals to get the tie. Matthew Lampitt scored twice and Stetson Shepley scored the tying goal with 2:56 remaining.

Kolt Morken collected an assist and Taylen Place stopped 19 for Viking. On Sunday at Viking, Gas Kings won a 4-2 game against Redwater. With the game tied 2-2 well into the third frame, Easton Morken and Peyton Bird scored for Viking. The goal was Peyton’s second of the game. Also scoring was Kolt Morken. Stetson Shepley picked up three assists. Taylen Place got the win in goal with 21 saves.

Irma U13 Aces (18-5-1) won two games over the weekend. On Saturday at

Elk Point, Aces won an 82 game, and on Sunday at Marwayne they won 13-5.

Scoring over the weekend for Irma were; Parker Leskow (6g 1a), Knox Smith (3g 5a), Kohlten Anquist (4g 4a), Keetley Gulbraa (2g 5a), Gauge Petersen (1g 5g), Lex Anderson (3a), Levi Larson (1g 1a) Matthias Beer (3a), Hayden Smith (2g 1a).

Hayden Smith got the first win, Conall Rue got the second win.

Irma U15 Aces (5-14-4) dropped two games over the weekend. On Friday at Irma Arena, Vermilion downed the home team 81. Then on Sunday at Lloydminster the visitors lost 7-0. Colten Lawson scored for Irma, assisted

by Hudson Clark and Nixon McLaughlin.

Irma/Manville U18 dropped a 7-4 game at Elk Point on Sunday. Scoring for I/M was Dominic Whidden (2g 1a), Zachary Oracheski (1g 2a), Cordell Prior (3a), and Blake Fuder (1g).

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When a pause is not a pause: submissions still accepted in Alberta’s pension plan consultations George Lee Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A deadline approaches for Albertans to again have their say on leaving the Canada Pension Plan, this time by completing and submitting the Your Pension, Your Choice workbook.

A public engagement panel struck by the government is accepting submissions of the 18-page workbook until Feb. 28, the same day the legislature resumes after breaking for Christmas.

The NDP opposition, meanwhile, continues to hold in-person town halls, something the engagement panel has so far not done.

Your Pension is Yours town halls are slated for eight communities.

The panel announced in early December that it was putting consultations on hold, pending the receipt of financial information from the Office of the Chief Actuary of Canada. The actuary is arriving at its own calculation of what an Alberta withdrawal amount would be.

Earlier, a provincial government-commissioned report from the firm LifeWorks estimated Alberta would be entitled to $334 billion or 53 per cent of base Canada Pension Plan assets.

The calculation is disputed as too high by the Alberta opposition, by elected officials from outside Alberta and by the CPP Investment Board. The investment board estimated that CPP would owe Alberta about 16 per cent of the fund.

Despite the public engagement pause, press secretary Savannah Johannsen of Alberta Treasury Board and Finance confirmed that the panel is still collecting comments and opinions from Albertans, via the workbook. Those who complete the workbook can submit theirs electronically by using a fillable online form or emailing them, by posting them, or by dropping then off at any MLA office.

Find the workbook and submission details at www.albertapensionplan.ca Federal Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre of the Conservative Party of Canada entered the Alberta pension plan fray late last year. In a statement urging Albertans to stay in the national plan, he said that as Prime Minister he would

“protect and secure the CPP for Albertans and all Canadians.”

No province or territory has withdrawn from the CPP since the federal government established it in 1965. Quebec operates its own plan and never opted in.

The opposition house leader characterized consultations by the engagement panel as a meandering and crewless ghost ship.

Christina Gray, NDP MLA for Edmonton-Mill Woods, said the panel’s consultation has been “drifting, aimless and seemingly abandoned by this government.”

In a member statement to the legislature, she called on the provincial government to “leave the CPP alone.”

The engagement panel has held no in-person town halls so far. Telephone town halls heard from 150 prescreened Albertans, said Gray, “and now silence.”

But supporters of continuing to investigate a provincial plan called it a way to keep money in the province at no cost to Albertans.

Jason Stephan, the UCP MLA for Red Deer-South, said workers could save $1,000 or more each year under an Alberta pension plan. “That can be a very big deal for Albertans,” said Stephan, who like Gray sits on the legislature’s standing committee on Alberta’s economic future.

The legislature rejected an NDP motion to compel the government to abide by results of a pension referendum on the idea. But the legislature passed the Alberta Pension Protection Act without the amendment, and it came into force before Christmas.

The government’s online overview of the act says it does what the opposition asked for: “The Alberta Pension Protection Act guarantees the government won’t launch an Alberta Pension Plan unless Albertans vote in favour of it in a referendum.”

But the act itself doesn’t say that. A lieutenant governor’s order calling for the referendum would detail whether results are binding, the act says.

The online overview continues: “The act also guarantees that Albertans would pay the same or lower contribution rates and receive the same or better benefits as the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). It also ensures the as-

asked whether they support moving to an Alberta pension plan.

The NDP is accepting registrations now for eight more town halls. They are: Central Edmonton, Jan. 30, 6 p.m., Lethbridge, Jan. 30, 6 p.m., Medicine Hat, Jan. 31, 6 p.m, High River, Feb. 1, 6 p.m., Edmonton South, Feb. 6, 6:30 p.m., Drumheller, Feb. 9, 6 p.m., Calgary South, Feb. 11, 2 p.m., Calgary North Central, Feb. 24, 11 a.m.

Interested Albertans can register for any of the NDP town halls at www.albertasfuture.ca. Also on the site is a survey that asks: “Should Alberta leave the Canada Pension Plan?” Options are yes, no and unsure. Those who select yes or no are

sets transferred to Alberta from the CPP would only be used to set up a pension plan and operate it in the best interests of Albertans.”

Consultations so far through the engagement panel comprise an online survey, telephone town halls and the workbook. More than 760,000 Albertans participated telephone town halls, says the province’s website. About 94,000 Albertans completed an online survey, but critics said it lacked objectivity and failed to ask whether respondents favour an Alberta pension plan.

In the workbook, an option exists for respondents to select one of a range of answers from “definitely not” to “definitely” when

Albertans about something that the federal government has made clear to me. . .is totally the right of a province to consider. Knowing that, we’ll continue with our engagement.

“The first round is complete. I look forward to meeting with the panel to talk about next steps. This is a complicated idea, admittedly, brought to us by the Fair Deal Panel. It has great potential and promise for Albertans. We look forward to having the conversation.”

The Fair Deal Panel made its final report to the province in May 2020, recommending ways to strengthen Alberta’s voice in Confederation. One idea was the exploration of an Alberta pension plan.

given space to expand.

Opposition Leader Rachel Notley told the legislature before Christmas that two NDP-organized town halls had 85 and 90 per cent of attendees against Alberta withdrawing from the CPP, based on shows of hands. At the Red Deer-South event, UCP MLA Jason Stephan attended—“I’ll give credit where credit is due,” said Notley.

But she noted during Question Period that Finance Minister Nate Horner has not attended NDP town halls and that she finds it unusual that he gets secondhand information about them.

Horner said: “There is no endgame here other than having a conversation with

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