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The Bellevue Legion got groovin’ on Saturday, May 26 with the Crowsnest Pass Community Choir spring concert. With musical director Deborah Goldstein at the helm, the choir performed a wide variety of musical pieces, like the spiritual Wade in the Water, which builds in intensity and shows off some of the choir’s individual voices. Then there was also Peace Train, a fun, popular tune that invites one to sing along. Joining the choir was the seven-piece Big Beat R&B Band who performed pieces like the wonderfully gritty Chicken Shack and, jointly with the choir, Please Mr. Postman, which originally came out in 1961 and was performed by The Marvelettes, but has been covered by bands like the Beatles and the Carpenters.

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GoCrowsnest.ca, from concept to new look, part 3 AnnA KroupinA Pass Herald Reporter

In 2016, the Economic Development Committee (EDC), a municipal advisory board, committed to create a website focused on promoting tourism and inspiring relocation to Crowsnest Pass. By the beginning of 2017, the GoCrowsnest.ca website went live.

Now, well into 2018, members of the community question its purpose, necessity and value.

This is the last of a threepart series that will explain the benefit that the website brings to the municipality, the ongoing improvements

that are being made and how tourism and hospitality businesses can utilize it as a tool.

Part one and two appeared in the May 16 and May 23 issues of the Pass Herald, respectively. Part three explores the future direction of the Year 1 marketing plan. *** Council heard a delegation from Allison Robins, senior consultant, and Maddie Alvarez, associate, with NATIONAL Public Relations, the company hired to create the GoCrowsnest.ca website and implement the firstyear marketing plan, at a

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NATIONAL was tasked with positioning Crowsnest Pass as a recognized destination. As Robins explained, NATIONAL's approach in accomplishing this objective involved executing an online campaign that delivered consistent narrative and storytelling across all platforms.

NATIONAL is active on GoCrowsnest.ca, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. As part of the Year 1 marketing plan, they intend to roll out an enewsletter, paid campaigns and a brand ambassador program that would be an extension of the storytelling, as well as continue creating evergreen search engine optimized content.

According to NATIONAL, they measure their success based on their interactions online through all the social media channels and platforms they manage. This includes figures like number of people who visit the GoCrowsnest website, amount of followers and amount of interactions on each of the platforms.

Based on this data, Robins says they are well on their way to reaching or have already overachieved their targets, and that the interaction with social media channels is expected to grow.

It is important for NATIONAL to reach their targets because potential Travel Alberta funding in the future is contingent on meeting these targets.

Data collected over the 1.5 years that NATIONAL has been operating has given them insight into what's working, what's not and what should change going forward. Below are some key strategic elements foing forward for the Year 1 marketing plan: • My Pass The My Pass feature

was a tool introduced on the GoCrowsnest.ca website that allowed users to save multiple events or activities while browsing the site, and then access it at a later time to see all their saved content.

According to collected data, users were not using this function and it was NATIONAL's recommendation to remove it from the website.

• Cutting through the noise Being visible to and prioritized by search engines is a big part of any marketing strategy and for Crowsnest Pass, the matter is slightly complicated.

With multiple websites in Crowsnest Pass using tourism-focused posts and language, Robins says this acts to the detriment of delivering single, concise, allencompassing tourism message through the GoCrowsnest website. In short, the content delivered is blurred and confuses Google Analytics.

Robins says that this "cannibalizes traffic because you're talking about the same thing" and a goal for NATIONAL will be work with the community to ensure that websites serve their proper audiences. For example, content on the municipal CrowsnestPass.com website should only be geared towards residents and content on the Chamber of Commerce website, towards local businesses, leaving tourism solely to GoCrowsnest.ca.

• Call-to-action While current content on GoCrowsnest.ca has introduced local businesses and what they have to offer, NATIONAL will ensure that each post has a "call-to-action", a piece of content intended to drive readers to that local business's personal website or physical location.

• Ambassador program

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Local business owners are a vital front line that interacts with visitors to the area, playing an important role in promoting and representing Crowsnest Pass.

In order for NATIONAL’s strategy to work, local businesses need to get behind the approach. With the ambassador program, NATIONAL recommended hosting a workshop to educate and engage local businesses owners on how to effectively participate in the tourism initiative and how businesses can capitalize on NATIONAL's strategy.

Although it was NATIONAL's intention to host the workshop and have the program in place by early summer, Country Encounters Accomodations owner Dawn Rigby pointed out that with summer being the busiest season in restaurants and hospitality, business owners would not be able to commit to attending a workshop until well into October.

• Website changes The GoCrowsnest.ca website will undergo tweaks, improvements and changes to evolve the visual design, remove unnecessary content, make navigation more intuitive, increase calls to action and improve integration with Travel Alberta.

NATIONAL also recognized that changes are needed to the mobile version of the website. This is important because many people, although they may begin their destination search on a desktop computer, will switch to mobile research once they are on the road.

• E-newsletters NATIONAL hopes to roll out an e-newsletter that will include some sort of offering for subscribers and allow better tracking of call-to-action effectiveness.

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One of the recommendations presented by NATIONAL was to restrict the business directory section to accommodations, restaurants and tourism operators only, the elements that would fit into the "eat, stay and play" theme of the website.

The idea did not sit well with several members of the gallery and Council.

Rigby pointed out that retail is the third largest spending category for tourists and that it would be a disservice to tourism and local business to cut it out.

Council ultimately felt that retail businesses should also be part of the directory. They also indicated that they wished to see more engagement with local businesses to determine what they feel is missing.

"There is a link that has been missed. I love what you're doing but you're in Calgary. You're missing the local aspect by not being down here," said Councillor Lisa Sygutek.

Getting businesses on board, however, may pose problematic. As Chamber of Commerce president Sacha Anderson pointed out, businesses were frustrated with a lack of communication on NATIONAL's part when the website was first up and running.

"The problem is that site was not kept up, business listings were not updated, businesses were emailing and not getting a response, so now it's a hard road ahead to re-gain the trust," she says.

• Cost Councillor Dean Ward requested that NATIONAL bring back a document detailing what hours NATIONAL has put in to date and a monthly cost estimate for going forward. With Council's strategic planning upcoming, it is a topic they will include in discussions.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - CrowSneSt PASS HerAlD - 3

In tHe lIne of fIre Between May 19 and 25, Crowsnest Pass RCMP responded to a total of 75 calls for service including the following reported incidents.

Five (5) assaults, one (1) residential break and enter, one (1) threat/harassment, three (3) mischief (vandalism), one (1) theft of motor vehicle, three (3) thefts, four (4) impaired driving, one (1) drugs, one (1) disturbing the peace, three (3) other criminal code, four (4) other provincial statutes, nine (9) driving complaints, eight (8) motor vehicle collisions, eight (8) assistance to general public, three (3) suspicious occurrences, five (5) lost & found, five (5) assistance to other agencies, two (2) invalid 911 calls, three (3) false alarms, four (4) animal calls and one (1) municipal bylaw.

Stolen Calgary vehicle On May 16, a vehicle that was reported stolen from Calgary was found abandoned in Bellevue.

Police evasion On May 19, while on patrol in the Atlas Staging area, police observed a suspected impaired driver.

The driver failed to stop for police. The vehicle and driver were later located.

The driver was charged with evading police and was released on documents to appear in Pincher Creek court.

Impaired at check stop On May 19 during an inter-agency check stop on Highway 940 near Maycroft Road, police observed a vehicle stop and turn around prior to reaching the check stop. The vehicle was stopped and the 26year-old male driver was found to have consumed alcohol. His driver’s licence was seized for 72 hours and the vehicle was towed.

Liquor tickets were issued to the driver and passenger for consuming liquor inside the vehicle.

Hwy 3 accident On May 19 at approximately 11:25 p.m., a motor vehicle accident occurred on Highway 3 west of Coleman. A 23-year-old male from Elk Valley was arrested for impaired driving. He was taken to the hospital for his injuries and later released on documents to appear in Pincher Creek court.

Gas-and-dash On May 20, $66 worth of gas was stolen from a station in Coleman. The suspect vehicle is an older Toyota Rav4 with three occupants.

Pellets shot at truck On May 20, a 2017 GMC truck on 16 Avenue in Coleman was damaged.

The suspects are males in a grey Jeep Cherokee who shot pellet guns at the truck.

Damaged Chevrolet On May 22, RCMP received a complaint of damage done to the passenger side of a 2012 Chevrolet Sonic parked in the Crowsnest Mall lot.

Firing guns disturbance On May 25, RCMP received a complaint of campers firing guns at Knowles Flats. Police attended and advised the perpetrators not to shoot near other campers.

Allison-Chinook impaired driving On May 26 at approximately 12:30 a.m., a 41year-old male driver was arrested for impaired driving at the Allison-Chinook

campground and released on documents to appear in Pincher Creek Court.

Blairmore impaired driving On May 27 at approximately 3:00 a.m. in Blairmore, police stopped a vehicle for a suspicious driving pattern. A 19-yearold male driver showed signs of impairment and was arrested for impaired driving. He was released on documents for Pincher Creek Court.

Stolen quad On May 27, a black and purple 50cc quad was stolen from the McGillivray Flats camping area.

Unauthorized Lee Lake camping On May 27, people camped on an island at Lee Lake without permission.

A male and female were warned of trespassing and removed from area. The male was ticketed for fishing without a licence.

Stolen fishing supplies On May 27, fishing rods and a tackle box were stolen from a camper’s truck in the McGillvray Flats area.

CCHS girls’ trades and tech conference AnnA KroupinA Pass Herald Reporter

A group of 15 female students in grades 10 to 12 at Crowsnest Consolidated High School (CCHS) have a unique opportunity to get a first-hand look at the success they can find in tech and trades careers ranging from computer animation to carpentry, video production to hairstyling, and sheet metal to plumbing at the Girls Exploring Trade and Technologies (GETT) Conference.

The group of girls will attend the conference at the Edmonton EXPO Centre on June 1 with cosmetology/food teacher Ms. Stacey Wright and career practitioner Ms. Alanna Whitaker.

"In my role as creative practitioner, I sit down with the students and we discuss what their interests are and where they see themselves going as their first step out of high school. I keep data on those discussions so I went through it and found a list of girls that showed interest with trades and technology," says Whitaker.

The conference is hosted by Skills Canada Alberta, a not-for-profit association that advocates for trade and technical careers for youth in Alberta by facilitating links between employers, educators, labour groups and the gov-

ernment.

"High School girls will talk with certified tradeswomen, apprentices, and technology experts who have pursued nontraditional careers. Their stories, experiences and knowledge will motivate students to open their minds to the diverse career paths available in today's most dynamic industries," indicates the Skills Canada Alberta website.

The day will include presentations and roundtable sessions with industry mentors, games and prizes, and hands-on activities where they can actually "try" a trade such as plumbing, welding, aesthetics, car painting and many more.

According to the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), women are still under-represented in what are called the "STEM" careers - science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

The 2017 Alberta Labour Force Profiles on women showed that only 7.1 percent of employees in trades, transport and equipment operations were women. In fact, that number hasn't changed much since 2007. In 2007, there were 27,500 women working in trades, transport and equipment operations. In 2017, there were 28,700, roughly a 4 percent

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According to Alberta’s Occupational Demand and Supply Outlook for 2015 to 2025, occupations in trades, transport, equipment operator sectors, and related occupations will experience a forecasted labour shortage in this timeframe. This includes fields like computer and information systems professionals, construction trades, electrical trades, plumbing and machine operating.

Whitaker says that exposing girls to the opportunities and benefits of pursuing an education and a career in trades and technology will show them options they might not have considered or even known about before.

"They don't know what to do when they're done high school, so they follow on traditional paths.

I figured the more opportunities and paths I can expose them to, the more things are going to change," says Whitaker.

Many of the girls said they wanted to attend the conference to learn about the opportunities available to them.

“I see GETT as a wonderful opportunity for girls like us at a young age to open our horizon and our option for the future,” says grade 10 student Maron Lim who will be attending

the conference. “I hope to gain clearance on what I would like to do in the very near future and gain more knowledge about different forces that are possible for women.”

Meghan Tarcon, in grade 11, says that she hopes to gain “a lot of knowledge about different careers and trades that I don’t have a lot of knowledge about and meet new people.”

The school reached out to the community for support to allow for the group to attend the Edmonton conference. Several groups, companies and institutions donated towards the initiative, including The Municipality of Crowsnest Pass, the Crowsnest Consolidated Academic and Athletic Society, Teck Resources and Mountainview Industries.

Students also fundraised during the CCHS Movie Night that took place at the beginning of May. "It has been a pleasure working with members in our community and we look forward to continuing these relationships," says Whitaker.

In total, $4,700 was raised to allow the group to attend.

Check back in a later issue to hear the girls’ thoughts on the conference and what they learned.

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1. In a large paella pan, sauté the onion and garlic in the olive oil over medium heat. Add the tomatoes and bay leaves, and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the squid, cuttlefish, lobster, and a pinch of salt, and cook, stirring, for a minute or so more.

2. In a saucepan, bring the chicken stock and wine to a boil. As it boils, add the rice to the fish mixture in the paella pan and blend thoroughly. Ladle three-fourths of the boiling stock over the rice and bring to a boil. Season the rice with more salt to taste.

Reduce the heat to low and mix well, distributing rice evenly in the paella pan. Continue to cook the rice for 18 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

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4 – CRowsnest PAss HeRALD – Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Roaming travel councillor AnnA KroupinA Pass Herald Reporter

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Saturday, June 16th, 2018 Holy Trinity Parish Hall 13126-21st Ave., Blairmore Advance ticket sales $20 each by June 14, 2018 Tickets at the door $25 each if available • Cocktails: 5:30 pm • Dinner 6 pm • Entertainment starts at 8PM

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You may see her riding around town on her neon green bike, and she may even approach you and ask what your plans are for the weekend. But don't worry, she's not trying to stalk you. She's the new summer Crowsnest Pass Adventure Advisor.

Anna Koevoet has been hired by the Crowsnest Pass Chamber of Commerce to connect with locals and visitors alike, advising them about community events and activities, influencing travel decisions and ultimately encouraging them to spend more in the community. The position runs from May to August.

Koevoet will be attending all major events in Crowsnest Pass, from Bellecrest Days and Crowsnest Community Markets to Crowsnest Outdoors and UROC hikes and rides. Her calendar for June is already jam-packed, with an event to catch at least every weekend. At these events, Koevoet will be connecting with out-oftowners and posting to social media to expose these events to a larger audience that will, hopefully, entice others to pay Crowsnest Pass a visit.

Although most of her time will be spent in and around Crowsnest Pass, Koevoet will also be making "out-trips" to neighbouring communities and events.

"This past weekend, I was biking around Allison-Chinook through the campground and down around the lake just talking to visitors, giving out guides and giving information," says Koevoet.

"I'm there to advocate for activities to do and places to go and see."

With the many trail closures in Waterton Lakes

National Park, this type of outreach is perhaps vital now more than ever, especially considering that the Chamber of Commerce recently received correspondence from Waterton requesting information about Crowsnest Pass trail opportunities.

"They're crying for information about Crowsnest Pass and our hiking trails because a lot of people aren't realizing that Waterton backcountry is not available this summer. This weekend was insane," says Chamber president Sacha Anderson, referring to the Victoria Day long weekend. "We need to potentially send Anna to Waterton or Pincher Creek to talk about hiking in the Crowsnest Pass because we can offer a park-like experience, just not in a park."

Taking the interaction online, Koevoet liaises and interacts with visitors in that way, as well.

"I'm sharing events and having that communication with people who are in the area who are posting, reaching out to them saying, 'Hey, what kind of adventures do you have planned? Do you need more information?'

Or just doing social interacting and engaging with people who are posting," says Koevoet. "This May long weekend, on Instagram especially, there were lots of people posting that they were in the area and it was a great opportunity to talk to them about the different things that they can do, or just saying 'hey, that's a beautiful photo that you just posted.”

Koevoet moved to Crowsnest Pass with her family when she was 10 years old and did most of her growing up here, attending school, adventuring in the outdoors, eventually working at the

Boys & Girls Club, discovering a passion for trail running and ultimately falling in love with life in the mountains.

The 19-year-old will be starting an engineering program at the University of Calgary in the fall, but while engineering inspires professional aspirations, the Adventure Advisor position is all about her passions.

"This summer, I really wanted to focus on racing and those extracurriculars, so I wanted to be in the mountains and be able to train. Because this is my hometown, I really know the area quite well and with different community involvement in the past, I think I'm well suited for this position to be a positive advocate for this area," she says Koevoet will also be connecting with local businesses to encourage them to be set up on important online platforms like Google business listings, TripAdvisor, as well Travel Alberta's Alberta Tourism Information Service (ATIS).

The position is funded through a $7,000 grant by the Alberta Culture and Tourism's Visitor Services Innovation Fund (VSIF).

Community Futures Crowsnest Pass and the Chamber will also contribute a sum, depending on how many out trips are taken.

The Chamber was also successful in obtaining a $1,300 VSIF grant in 2017, with they put towards purchasing a branded mobile tent.

You can follow Koevoet at @crowsnestpass on Instagram or Tourism Crowsnest Pass on Facebook. Use the hashtag "WhatsYourCNPadventure" to join the conversation about everything there is to do around town.

25th Anniversary of the Coal Miners Band It was a packed house at the Miners Club in Hillcrest on Saturday, May 25 to celebrate 25 years of the Coal Miner's Band. Dozens of musicians joined the fun guests contributed a ton of potluck dishes. Pictured left to right, top row: Rose Marie Olinek, Earl Scott, Junior Gleave, Keith Krish and Bet McRae. Bottom row, centre: Shirley Armstrong.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - crowsnest PAss HerALD - 5

The Simple Raven’s Post

by Avner Perl

Community Newspapers I think that community newspapers are important and that expressing opinions in them is vital. This is what is meant by saying “grassroots”. It is the base of democracy. If you follow the mass media, you see huge numbers of people bunched together made to look like one unit. I remember hearing someone on the CBC stating that Southern Alberta is the Wildrose bastion. Yet when you read individual little town papers, you see that many people in southern Alberta are not supporting the political right for very explicit reasons. It is not in their best interest.

Last week I was having tea with a friend at Stone’s Throw Cafe and entered a conversation with two intelligent-looking local teen girls less than a third my age. Most people would say, “Kids”, and expect them to talk about hair and makeup. Not these two. One of them told me that she is going to spend this summer doing an internship at Premier Notley’s office. That is the Premier of our province! Here we have a situation where none of our local politicians are able to get any attention from the provincial government, since we are viewed as a bastion of the right, by a government that is slightly on the left, and this teenage girl is going to be chatting with the premier every day. How much would the rich lobbyists pay for an opportunity like that?

Years ago before the internet, I wanted to know about the community my wife comes from, which is situated seven hours north of Calgary. I subscribed to the local paper, Smoky River News, and kept the subscription up for some years. Eventually, I was getting the paper in the mail but rarely read any of it, and I stopped. They had news about kids’ baseball games and high school grads, talked about local businesses and honey production, but there was no content that was interesting to read. The events were too ordinary for this century. People like to know about community happenings but seek information about how the community fits into the big picture. A paper that is truly nonpolitical is like a dish that got all the major food groups but cooked without spices, salt and pepper.

A community newspaper is an asset, but it faces a challenge. The job is to report, accurately at all times, local news that interests the community. Unfortunately, a lot of little communities don’t have much news. The advertisers pay for the operation since the people in the community assumingly read the paper… Stop the press… here is a problem.

If the paper is not interesting, it starts competing with advertising pamphlets and brochures, and it is going to lose. The local paper doesn’t have the resources that the big marketing firms do. Brochures have more pictures, better color and expensive paper. The only edge of a local newspaper is that people read it for local news and often to get a glimpse of what others in the community think. All people in our community are not extreme right unquestioning sheep; they have their own beliefs and look for expression in the community newspaper. Since I have been writing this column, I have been getting a lot of comments, and all but one were complimentary.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, many little communities don’t have much news to report and Council meetings are often not interesting enough to many residents. People want to know what is happening in their community, but expect more than just that. The expectation is that the paper will report and the columnists will offer opinions. Controversy can be good if it stimulates discussion.

Years ago, when I was looking for a place to eventually retire to, I noted that the Crowsnest Pass had two local papers. I met an old guy who was driving a green SUV with the word “Press” on it and inquired about his function. He was such a professional reporter that I placed a check mark by Blairmore as a potential place to spend my later years.

The Pass was a place that had a tradition of free thinking and rebellion in its blood, and old Buddy proudly pointed it out. I went to the Frank Slide Interpretive Center and saw an old movie highlighting the women of the Pass singing, “I will stand right beside you,” on a picket line. I moved to the Pass. This was a community that historically rebelled if things went wrong. It was like moving amongst my people.

When I was here to stay, I assumed that the population would be engaged in local affairs. I talked with neighbors and others and discovered that it was no longer the case. My neighbor said, ”we don’t get the local papers since there is nothing there.” If there is an issue, we buy the paper, but not otherwise. “What about your political affiliations ?” I asked, and he answered, “We are conservative like all Southern Albertans and there is no-one questioning it.” Humm… The town that broke Prohibition, that harboured Tim Buck and had strikes that shook the nation became uninterested in politics? I wonder.

Now I am witnessing a unique phenomenon. Some of the people who remember the long and painful struggle of mine workers to feed their families are still around. The people who sang, “I am the working man I am, and I been there underground,” are passing a rich tradition to the new people, the millennials, and the young ones are ready and willing to take the torch. Girls with their cell phones are taking the tradition of fighting for the middle class, and the word is spreading through the social media and community papers, like this one. We have what Calgary and Edmonton don’t: an independent newspaper that supports real journalism. Thanks, Buddy. Your portrait should be hanging in the Civic Hall.

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6 – crowsnest PAss HerALD – wednesday, May 30, 2018

Editorial and Opinions Letters to the Editor

TraiLS anD morE I love to run, I love to hike, but I’m not a mountain biker.

I’ve tried mountain biking and I really enjoyed the climb up the mountain, but the ride down gave me grey hair. I found out in the moment as I tried to get down the hill that I am in no way an adrenaline junkie.

I want to note that I tried mountain biking in my 20s, so it wasn’t an issue of being old.

I am a swimmer by heart. I swam in university at a highly competitive level and it’s my one true love. My kids are in swimming, as well, and they are fish in the water.

But in my 30s, I wanted to try something different so I picked up running. I have been running for years now and I love it. I love the time away from my kids (yes, I admit I’m “that mom”) and that it’s just my thoughts and me. I can work a lot of stuff out on my runs.

When I started, I did mostly road running, the flat long-distance stuff. At 34, I did my first half Ironman. It was hard and I hadn’t trained enough on the bike, but I loved it. A few months later, I got pregnant with Quinn, so that was put on hold for a few years.

In my 40s, I got into weight lifting and, like most things I become passionate about, I threw myself into that, too. As a result, I took a year off running because I really couldn’t do both. If I ran a lot, I just became too slim and had a hard time putting on muscle. It’s only in the last years that I have figured out how to eat enough food to lift and look strong while running to lean out, but not get too skinny.

So to bring me back, I started running again and I have found that I love trail running. It's my new passion . I love being out in the middle of the forest looking around at this magnificant place where I live and enjoying the nature while pushing myself up a mountain.

I carry my bear spray because I’m terrified of bears and cougars, but I put my big girl shorts on and go for it.

This is where I come to mountain biking. The UROC group has put together some amazing trails that I am able to run. I love how perfect all these areas are. They are well-marked, they are well-maintained and I see traffic on these trails, so if something does happen, chances are I’ll eventually meet up with someone that can help me.

So even though I’m not an adrenaline junkie, I can still use those mountain biking trails for great runs. It’s also perfect for hikers of all levels and ages. I suggest you get out there and try these trails, especially the one on the local ski hill. It feels as though you’re both in town and way out in the backcountry. It’s the perfect place to start your fitness journey.

So thank you UROC for making such amazing multi-use areas for the people of the Crowsnest Pass and beyond!

That’s the way I see it.

LS

What has truly been lost Dear Editor; It is with a heavy heart I read the announcement of the Livingstone and Porcupine Hill Public Land Use Zone (PLUZ) Recreation Plan and the new (final) Caste Parks Management Plan last week. We have lost so much more than what the headlines show. We lost a cultural way of life, and traditional activities that cannot be continued.

These changes affect every user group. It is not just about quads, bikes, side-by-sides and campers. It’s about access for hiking, fishing, hunting, and so much more.

Through these management plans, a way of life will be lost forever.

We lost almost all reasonable access to our backcountry. We lost our berry patches that grandma and grandpa can’t take their grandkids to. We lost those early morning drives in 4-low on our way to our hunting post or berry patch talking to family and friends about the important things in life. We lost some of the best bonding experiences to be had. We lost so many life lessons to be shared, so many stories to be made. We lost the ability for the elderly and not physically elite to see that amazing view again. Or sit atop that faraway ridge and tell the younger generations those stories off success and failure. These limitations severely limit the ability of most normal backcountry users – not just those who are weak,

elderly, sick or handicapped, which have effectively been excluded from many areas they traditionally enjoyed and found peace.

The elderly will miss out on teaching life lessons in the places they were taught. They will miss out watching the youngsters eat their first huckleberry off the bush in their favourite patch.

Or watch their first grizzly browse the plateau as you share their patch.

They will miss being able to get to the old hidden fishing holes where they taught their kids how to cast and set the hook for the first time. They will miss out on those first hunting trips to those places they hold dear in their hearts. Places they want to be part in sharing with the next generation.

The places that should take hours to hike to, not days.

Places you shouldn’t have to be an elite athlete to access or in your physical prime to be able to witness.

There are hunting areas they will not be able to enjoy anymore. The distances are too great without motorized access allowed and only foot access for game retrieval. It is becoming unethical to make a harvest. If you can’t get all the meat out before it spoils, you cannot harvest legally. They will miss watching their younger family, friends, and those they influenced through the spotting scope at first light, hike the same path they did years earlier while hold-

ing their hand and wiping their nose because they can’t get to the view point. The sons, daughters, nieces and nephews will miss out on sitting on that ridge with their teacher and just sharing those last trips. The youngsters will miss out on that quality time with amazing teachers whose minds are there, but bodies are worn.

The disabled will miss it all together with no options to see and experience these utterly amazing places. They will be bound to a commercialized gravel or paved walking path taking them nowhere, or to an expensive helicopter ride to barely catch a glimpse of these favorite spots.

Photographers will miss the chances to run out for that perfect shot.

To be able to bring all the gear and stay a while, to bring those ‘wow’ moments to print or canvas, to bring those moments to those who cannot see it for themselves, to be able to stay longer through the elements to learn and better themselves.

The spelunkers will lose the chance to travel the whole passage of Gargantua in a single weekend. Or see the cave one last time with their sons or daughters. They won’t be able to explore those bucket list caves because now it’s too far and access is hidden behind a gate.

The firewood collectors now have lost their access to collect their bounty. This is no longer on the table for them to

get their exercise and save costs on their heating bills. They lost their ability to help clean up the aging forests, effectively completing fire-smart management for a tradeoff of exercise and heat.

They lost what, for some, was the only thing keeping them healthy, and active.

For the wood carvers and furniture makers, miles and legwork are now tenfold to find that perfect stick, branch, tree, drift wood or burle to make their craft. They have lost their ability to access and remove those large pieces and bring them home. They have lost their way to build their income through a passion they carry. Lost their chance to teach the next generation.

The mountain bikers have lost their staging grounds.

Lost their chances to ride new areas every day without the same 10-mile start. Lost the shorter rides to those views only an expert will see now. Lost their opportunity to share with a club that welcomed all users on their trails and shared our funds and volunteers to environmentally better the trail network.

The alpine runners and hikers have lost their ability to do the afternoon run or hike on a new ridge. They have lost some of their old favorites as well, solely due to access. Their staging areas are no longer reachable via motorized vehicle.

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Municipality prepares for cannabis legalization with bylaw AnnA KroupinA Pass Herald Reporter

With the federal government's impending legalization of recreational use of cannabis by this summer or fall, Crowsnest Pass municipal government is taking steps to introduce bylaws to be ready for the legalization.

Bylaw 999, 2018 Cannabis Related Uses Land Use Bylaw Amendment is a modification to the Land Use Bylaw. According to Patrick Thomas, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), the municipality sought input from Oldman River Regional Services Commission (ORRSC) and legal advice in drafting the bylaw. Council passed second reading of the bylaw on May 15. A public hearing took place prior to second reading.

The bylaw creates a new retail commercial C-

4 district where the sale of cannabis is a permitted use. Businesses that would like to engage in the sale of cannabis products would need to submit an application for rezoning the property.

No lot has been zoned as "C-4". Interested parties will bring forth an application for rezoning, which would go to Council for approval on a caseby-case basis.

Minimum separation distances have been outlined in the bylaw between cannabis retail facilities and several key institutions.

The federal government has set the separation distance between cannabis retail and provincial healthcare facilities as 100 m and 200 for schools. The municipality has set more stringent distances for other facilities like childcare providers (200 m), parks,

recreation centres and liquor stores (100 m) and other cannabis retail outlets (300 m).

"The federal government has a base number, but they have allowed

a lot of municipalities have been receiving is that, especially at the start, it's better to be more stringent because in the future, you can always relax the rules, but it's

"The advice that a lot of municipalities have been receiving is that, especially at the start, it's better to be more stringent because in the future, you can always relax the rules, but it's hard to become more stringent in the future."

-Patrick Thomas - CAO, Municipality of Crowsnest Pass municipalities to set their own guidelines as well.

These are the recommendations that ORRSC provided to us, our planning advisors. From their research with the various municipalities, these are the setbacks that they recommended," says Thomas. "The advice that

hard to become more stringent in the future."

The Sentinel Industrial Park has been designated as allowing cannabis production facilities. This is the only land use district within Crowsnest Pass that allows cannabis production.

"It's an isolated location, it's an industrial location where you would site production facilities and looking at the other uses, it was felt that it was a compatible use for there," says Thomas.

Currently in the Sentinel area, there is a private helicopter, a U-Haul, Blairmore Precision Machining & Welding, a storage yard for Alberta Environment and Parks, gravel pits, Crowsnest River RV Park and the former production facility Arctic Spas.

Accessibility to water was a concern expressed by a public member of the gallery at the public hearing.

According to Thomas, water would be something that the developer would have to solve.

The municipality has been exploring extending a permanent potable water source to the area, but this is a project that

has been explored long before the cannabis bylaw or potential legalization, says Thomas.

According to Thomas, the municipality has received inquiries from potential cannabis manufacturers, but no formal applications.

The bylaw also sets a definition for cannabis lounges, facilities where cannabis is sold and can be consumed on-site.

Cannabis lounges are not a permitted use within the municipality.

"We wanted to make a clear distinction that it can't be considered similar to a lounge that a drinking establishment would have, that it is its own separate use defined in the bylaw. However, it is not allowed anywhere, which makes it prohibited," says Thomas.

A date for third reading of the bylaw has not yet been set.

8 – Crowsnest PAss HerALD – Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Community fitness centre expands and rebrands AnnA KroupinA Pass Herald Reporter

For a community the size of Crowsnest Pass to have a gym as sizeable, well-equipped and wellmaintained as the Crowsnest Pass Weightlifting Club, we should consider ourselves pretty lucky.

The gym is a community-based facility operated by an executive board that, behind the scenes, maintains the facility, replaces and repairs equipment and hires a cleaning crew to keep the premises clean.

Over the years, membership has grown (with 254 registrants as of the beginning of May, the highest number yet) and is inevitably getting a bit crowded, especially during peak times when there can be as many as 10 to 15 people in the 2,200 squarefoot space.

"For us to have this high membership at this time of year, it's almost unseen. It has always dropped in summer," says Debby Greenwood, president of the gym executive board. "What I'm seeing is an increase of younger people who are fitness

driven. They are the highend fitness people in the community and they want a good facility that they'll train all year in. " To accommodate the growing number of users, the executive has started a project to expand the gym and purchase new equipment.

"It was time for an upgrade. It's so busy and some space is going to make a nice difference," says Greenwood. "We have the equipment, but we just don't have room to move around."

A brand new 1,160 square foot section is currently under construction on the east side of the building which will house free weights and benches.

New mirrors and mats have been purchased and new toilets and vanities will be installed in the bathrooms.

A second squat rack and stair climber have been prioritized for purchase, as well as a boxing bag and TRX suspension trainers. The executive has also applied for grants to upgrade several pieces of equipment, including the rotary hip machine, the seated calf machine, and

the hip abduction and adduction machines.

The executive is also proposing a name change to Community Fitness Connection, a topic that will be discussed at an upcoming members meeting.

"Community Fitness Connection describes more accurately what we want to be because there's a cardio component as well as a resistance training component," says Greenwood. "We also want to be barrier-free once the new addition is completed.

They're changes reflective of the time."

Barrier-free refers to washroom and building access designed to accommodate those with physical or other disabilities.

The hope is to have all renovations completed by fall 2018, but progress is weather-dependent. There may be days when access to the gym will need to be closed due to the construction, but will be kept to a minimum.

With the renovations and upgrades, a fee increase in membership cost is necessary, but the executive does not know how much the increase will be

Anna Kroupina photo

Pictured above is the Crowsnest Pass Weighlifting Club on Wednesday, May 23. The gym is getting a new section built on the east side of the building that will hold the free weights and benches.

at this time as it is dependent on the anticipated increase in rent.

The Crowsnest Pass Weightlifting Club was started in 1983 by a group of local men interested in bodybuilding in downtown Blairmore where Ben Wong Restaurant now operates. Over the years, the gym moved between this facility and the Crowsnest Mall until 1994, when Arnold Morris built the current building where the gym is located.

The Crowsnest Pass Weightlifting Club has five members on the executive and is a completely nonprofit run organization.

They are responsible for "keeping the lights on", en-

suring the facility is used respectfully and renewing equipment as they are able to. They compensate the landlord, cleaners, accountant and, of course, facility equipment and replacement.

All equipment they have acquired to date has been through membership fees or donations.

Because the gym is so dependent on membership fees to keep equipment as contemporary as possible and the facility as clean as possible, the executive reminds gym users how helpful and important it is to pay for membership.

"There's an honour system there. People just

need to realize that that's how we pay the bills," says Greenwood.

The gym is located at 11922 22 Ave. in Blairmore and is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Memberships can be purchased at Water Magic in Blairmore at 11906 20 Ave. A general meeting to learn more about the changes at the gym, both ongoing and planned, was held on Wednesday, May 23 at Isabelle Sellon School. This was an opportunity for gym members to learn about the renovations and offer their input on what equipment they would like purchased and other changes they find important.

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A weekend for riding In conjunction with March Northwest, a mountain biking coaching company, the local Sweet Riders hosted a Bike Instructor Certification Program this past weekend with Level 1-2 Combo Course, Ride Leader, and a Level 3 refresher course offered. Shaums March from March Northwest was here to lead the training. The weekend also included an event for kids, “Ride with Shaums”, in which over 20 kids participated. “Sweet Riders wanted to get our community involved, especially kids and parents to see what we are doing with mountain biking in the Crowsnest Pass. Shaums March is currently the U.S. Olympic & National Team Skills Coach and former Red Bull Athlete as well as two-time Master World Down Hill Champion. It was a great opportunity for our kids to meet and ride with such a mentor,” says Karey Lee Watanabe, owner of Sweet Riders.

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HIGHWAY 3 ± SENTINEL TO PINCHER STATION FUNCTIONAL PLANNING STUDY ± UPGRADING AND TWINNING PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE The current phase of Alberta Transportation¶V Functional Planning Study (FPS) for the upgrading and twinning of Highway 3 from east of Sentinel to west of Pincher Station will build on earlier planning studies, address local road networks, new environmental policies now in effect, and feedback from stakeholders and the public from the June and November 2017 engagement sessions.

Stakeholders and interested members of the public are invited to attend the public open houses for a project update. You will learn about the draft recommended plan for the Stage 1A portion (east of Sentinel to Blairmore) and functional plan options for the Stage 1B and 2 portions (east of Blairmore to Pincher Station). The project team will be available to answer your questions and to receive your comments.

There are two open houses scheduled for: Crowsnest Sports Complex 8702 22 Avenue, Coleman, AB x June 7, 2018: 4:00 ± 8:00 pm Livingstone School 215 Robinson Avenue, Lundbreck, AB x June 9, 2018: 10:00 am ± 2:00 pm

Same information provided at each session Drop-in format, come anytime

The same information will be available at each open house. Session materials will also be posted online as they become available.

For more information about the project, please: x x x x

visit http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/6087.htm Email hwy3fps@islengineering.com Call the ISL Engineering Project Manager, Alana Getty Somers (403-254-0544) Call the Alberta Transportation Project Administrator, Firoz Kara (403-592-8170)

10 – Crowsnest Pass HeraLD – Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Looking Back

By John Kinnear

The Kerr Legacy of Jack, Gordon and Bill - Part 3 So I left off last week with a promise to share the stories of James Runciman Kerr’s three sons and to chase down the other generations of Johns. Let’s start with Jim and Florence’s first son, John Albert Kerr (Jack), who was born in Bellevue and schooled in Coleman. After graduating in 1952, Jack went into the cattle business at Sentinel and three years later married Jean Bagley, whose grandparents Ray and Danny (Elizabeth) Bagley raised horses and cattle at the old Hoggan homestead at the base of Mount Tecumseh. They moved there in 1940 and renamed Crowsnest Ranch. According to Jean, they also delivered milk during the war by horse and buggy in the summer and sleigh in the winter to the Sentinel section house and as far west as the Summit Limeworks(-Graymont).

I found a corporate history document that listed Jack as a fireman in 1956 at the East Kootenay Power Plant at Crowsnest Lake. During the 13 years they were living at the Sentinel community, Jack and Jean had four children: Jim, Douglas, Karan and Carol. In 1969, the plant, which had operated since 1927, was closed and the family moved to Fernie where Jack worked for BC Hydro at Elko and eventually Hydro’s main control center in Cranbrook. While in Fernie, all four kids took to skiing big time.

Jim made it to the BC Regional Team, but broke his ankle two years in a row, ending his racing career. Doug made it all the way to the Canadian National Team and raced with the Crazy Canucks, Ken Reid and Steve Podborski. Jim Kerr sort of followed in Jack’s footsteps and worked for many years at the steam plant at the Skookumchuk Pulp Mill, which has been operating since 1968. Both of Jack’s girls raced in the Nancy Green League. Jack passed suddenly in 1994 and Jean, now 82, lives up Tecumseh Road near her daughter Carol. Carol tells me her dad worked the very last shift at the Sentinel Plant and that Jack’s grandfather, Alb May, worked the very first shift there.

Gordon Kerr, the youngest of the three boys, enrolled in the Faculty of Wildlife Technology at Montana State University and got his Bachelor of Science degree in 1961. Gordon went on to join the Alberta Department of Fish and Wildlife and was a regional wildlife biologist in the Lethbridge area for a time. Gordon wrote his master’s thesis on the Rocky Mountain Goat of Alberta in 1965. He became Chief Wildlife Biologist in 1967 and went on to be Assistant Deputy Minister of Recreation, Parks and Wildlife for Alberta in 1976. He married Marilyn Collins while at Missoula and has two sons, David and Jason.

Gordon eventually left his Alberta government job in 1981 and spent 15 years as a director of the Prairie and Arctic Region of the Canadian Wildlife Service. In a recent conversation, Gordon told me that he is particularly proud of the family decision to turn their Chinook Motel area holdings over to the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

The third son of Jim and Florence was James William (Bill) Kerr and his life history, revealed to those of us in attendance at the Frank Slide celebration recently, is a remarkable legacy. Sarah Kerr has made her delightful speech on Bill available online at soulpassages.ca/wpcontent/uploads/Sarahs-Speech-for-Bill-at-Frank-Slide-2018.pdf.

Right from the get-go, Bill immersed himself in geology. Sarah said his interest was sparked by a Dr. Friebold who was a German geologist and head of palaeontology at the Geological Survey of Canada. Friebold stayed several summers at the Chinook cabins and employed the Kerr boys as assistants, collecting fossils from the field. On Friebold’s recommendation, James enrolled in the University of Alberta’s Geology department, from which he graduated in 1956 with first class honours and a gold medal from the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. The year prior to this, he was a student with a 30-man party including 11 geologists and Inuit guides with dog teams that explored the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the High Arctic. Those islands, which are the northern most cluster of the Canadian Arctic, contain four glaciers that represent 14 percent of all glaciers and ice caps in the world. They are way the hell up there.

He joined the Geological Survey of Canada in 1961 and went on to get his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Geology and authored more than 40 scientific papers on the geology of the Arctic. In 1978, he went to Cambridge in England to research and ultimately publish a paper on Oceanography and the Continental Drift.

Through his long career, he considered his self-publishing of the book The Frank Slide as one of his favourite accomplishments. It has been in continuous publication since 1990 and at the Slide event, Sarah was there to kick off a republication of an updated, redesigned version of this definitive book on the Slide story. Bill also wrote the first 12 pages of the first edition of Crowsnest and Its People and it is an important and comprehensive overview of the geology of the Crowsnest Pass. If you really want to wrap your mind around our area’s geologic history, this introduction to Crowsnest and Its People will certainly do it for you.

So Bill Kerr was a bit of a character and according to Sarah, was “warm and gregarious, interested and interesting. He always had an intriguing conversation topic to spice things up.” Bill used to carry a thumb-sized oval-shaped magnet in his pocket and when conversations lulled, would pull it out and ask people to guess what it was. It was, in fact, a “cow magnet”, something I had never heard of. These magnets are routinely given to calves after branding to prevent “hardware disease”, another term that’s new to me. Cows ingest all kinds of junk like nails and wire because they don’t use their lips to discriminate what’s going in and don’t completely chew their food before swallowing. This can cause some serious health issues if the junk gets pushed into the peritoneal cavity, for instance.

Sarah shared the following story about her father’s magnet shenanigans: “Bill was undaunted in his cow magnet campaign, and when he attended his old college friend Jim Lowell’s 70th birthday in Colorado, he happened to find himself at the bar beside Jim’s son-in-law, Richard Gere. Instead of asking what it was like to be a famous movie star, Bill pulled out the cow magnet and asked Richard to guess what it was.”

Bill married Sheila Smith in 1965 and they have two daughters, Julie and, of course, Sarah. Bill had a debilitating stroke in 2010, but despite his physical impairment, stayed engaged mentally. Of these times Sarah said: “Even in this confined life, he was a man with dreams and plans, and I think these impossible dreams were part of what kept his soul alive in that difficult place. He needed to imagine a future that was different and better than his present. He could speak perfectly coherently about the moment, and also talk about his plans for a fantastical future. We treated it all as equally real and valid.”

Bill passed in April of 2017 and, like so many of the Kerrs that passed before him, left behind a legacy of accomplishment and talented, educated family members. So having taken you this far, I must take leave of this Kerr journey for a while so that I may do more in-depth research on the final chapter of their story. There are more Johns to come and it will allow me to eventually share their stories and shine a respectful light on the legendary Kay Kerr.

One thing that has stood out for me as I delved into this iconic family story is that they all displayed a strong connection to the land and a determination to preserve its integrity. Whether it was Jim creating Chinook Lake and transplanting fingerlings or Gordon working for decades on provincial and national wildlife issues or Bill tirelessly promoting interest in our remarkable geology, they all carried that powerful bond to their natural environment. And they passed it on to the following generations. Carol Ostrom, Jack Kerr’s daughter, tells me she still loves to go to Chinook Lake, where she finds there a quietness and serenity that keeps drawing her back.

Author’s Note: In Jean (Bagley) Kerr’s write up on her grandfather Raephael Venearz (Ray) Bagley, I found the following poem. It was posted at the main gate of the old Crowsnest Ranch and repainted faithfully every year.

It read: “Hell hath no fury so they say, Like a woman scorned, but anyway, Close this gate, for I’m telling you, I get pretty damned fussy too.”

- Ray Bagley Be sure to check out the online version for more great photos!

Photos, top to bottom: - Jack, Bill, Gordon and friends at the cabins - Jack Kerr up the Bull River - Jim and Florence with the boys - James W. (Bill) Kerr, geologist and visionary - Carol (Kerr) Ostrom, Jim Kerr, Jean Kerr and Sarah Kerr at the wreath laying ceremony during the Frank Slide’s 115th anniversary gathering

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Letters to the Editor cont’d ...

What has truly been lost The fishermen have lost access to lakes to fish and streams as well. They have lost access to their staging areas to access some of the best alpine fishing lakes and streams in Alberta. Now these trips are 2-3 night events as opposed to day trips.

Most individuals do not have the time off on a regular weekend to undertake such a trip, even if they could physically undertake the trip. They have lost the ability to spread out and fish. They are forced to fish the same stretches of river as every

A letter to the Pass Herald Dear Editor; Regarding Council Updates May 23, 2018 - Ski hill hiking trail.

We would like to address a number of statements made to Council by a Crowsnest Pass resident concerning “a trail project involving the United Riders of Crowsnest (UROC)”.

The Herald article mentioned that “A new International Mountain Bike (sic) Association (IMBA) Epic trail will be passing through the Pass Pow-

derkeg Ski Area…”

Last year, UROC proposed three options for an ‘Epic’ type trail to Alberta Parks in response to their request for input to the Castle Parks Recreational Management Plan. None of these options are anywhere near the Pass Powderkeg trails; two of the options are under consideration.

The IMBA Epic designation for a mountain biking trail is assigned by the International Mountain Bicycling Association. To

area be sentenced to the shoulder to shoulder, cluttered national park mentality is scary. To see a way of life removed and washed away as though it never mattered... To see the hard work done by many volunteers to create environmentally-friendly trails for all users blatantly ignored and criticized... To see the empty holes left in so many people absolutely

crushes a person. It is very sad times in this corner of our province.

To see the look on people’s faces of the true loss they feel tears a person apart. I dread the day I must explain this to my kids why grandma and grandpa couldn’t come.

other angler.

A large portion of every user group’s area has been lost due to these announcements. Reasonable access has been denied by our government and the groups who lobby them. Poor science, misleading headlines, biased views, poor stakeholder understanding, poor

stakeholder consultation, and a rushed process have lead to these loses. It is disheartening to see our backcountry removed from us in such a dispassionate and drastic manner, without regard to the changes that will be imposed on our culture and rural community way of life. To see our beloved

quote IMBA, “The IMBA EPICS list is crowdsourced annually via a public nomination process.

The EPICS designation denotes a true backcountry riding experience. IMBA EPICS are what many mountain bikers live for and make travel plans around: immersive rides that are technically and physically challenging, beautiful to behold and worthy of celebration.” In other words, while the designation is widely sought to promote mountain biking tourism, receiving the

designation is not something that can be taken for granted. As of late 2017, there were currently 46 IMBA Epics worldwide.

IMBA has trail building guidelines and recommended practices but no “standards”. Managing conflicts between different types of trail users is always a consideration, and some styles of mountain biking trails, for example, downhill, are not compatible with other uses but generally speaking, most mountain biking trails in our area work well for a va-

riety of non-motorized users. User education and trail etiquette contribute to a better experience. Intensity of use is a factor, but compared with areas like West Bragg Creek or even Fernie, our trails are lightly used. An Epic trail is no different in these respects.

The location of an Epic trail, partially located in the Castle parks, and the resources required to build, dictate that this would be an Alberta Parks project.

Alberta Environment and Parks will review a proposal’s suitability to meet

ecological, environmental and recreational management criteria.

There are certainly many opportunities to develop walking/hiking only trails at Pass Powderkeg, and other areas in the community. UROC has previously offered to work with the municipality to help create a well integrated trail system that works for a variety of users.

Just build it!

they will wait it out and hopefully the last few hurdles will be cleared.

Kinder Morgan, however, can see the writing on the wall and they will walk.

So, what is the solution? As Ted Kruz said “we need to think far broader . . .” It is obvious that the opposition is not against pipelines per se, but rather opposition to the transport of bitumen diluted with dilbit.

Therein lies the solution : we must upgrade our bitumen here in Alberta.

The planned expansion of the NorthWest Upgrader has been put on hold to determine if it can really do what it was proposed to do even though it has already gone through the regulatory process for stages 2 and 3.

We must get on with it.

NW Upgrader says they can get $118 per barrel more by refining bitumen into diesel. Alberta is losing $15b/year by not being able to get our product to market. Stage 1 of the NW Upgrader was over budget for a total cost of $9.5b. That in itself is only 2/3 of what we are losing every year.

The premier is talking about investing up to $7b to buy Kinder Morgan

but that is no solution. Alberta will face the same opposition as KM; the solution is to refine our product here – and now!

It is a no brainer from a financial perspective that an upgrader will pay off in the long run. Getting the capital may be a concern but $7b would be better invested in an upgrader than in a pipeline that will continue to face opposition.

Despite the fact that there is refinery capacity available in other countries, if we can’t get the product to the refinery, we have no market. Rail might be a partial solution but we can only ship about a tenth of the volume by rail as we can by pipe.

So the solution, in my opinion, is to change the pipeline application to ship refined products and get on with building both the pipeline and an upgrader so we can increase our capacity to ship to tidewater and develop an export market.

Just build it!

Dear Editor; Lets’s face it – the TransMountain pipeline is just not going to see the light of day. Kinder Morgan has set a deadline of the end of this month to get assurance that it will go ahead but with the BC government’s commitment to do everything within its power to stop it, there is no way that any assurance will be forthcoming in the immediate future. Court challenges are pending and we all know how slow our court system is so we cannot expect any decisions in the next few weeks. And once one decision comes down there is always the appeal process and if that fails they can just dig up another issue for the courts to resolve.

Kinder Morgan will be defeated not by their own actions, but by ‘death by delay’. Look at Keystone XL – that has been in the mill for 10 years and there still is no decision. I’m sure if TransCanada had known it would take so long, they would have cancelled the project years ago, but now, with all they have invested in the process,

Scott Kinnear A concerned Albertan

Andrew Fairhurst President United Riders of Crowsnest

Ken Allred former St. Albert Alderman and MLA and is now a proud resident of the Crowsnest Pass

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Obituary

WALTER HAINES September 11, 1951 ~ May 19, 2018

Walter Don Haines, son of the late Norman and Georgina Haines, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on May 19, 2018 at the Crowsnest Pass Health Care Centre. He was 66 years of age.

Walter and his then wife, Donna moved to the Crowsnest Pass, AB in 1972. They were blessed with a daughter, Linda who gifted them with twins, Owen and Kyra, as well as Noah – grandchildren who will miss Grampa Walter very much. Their son, Terry provided a granddaughter, Tanika for Grampa Walter to spoil. Walter met his beloved wife, Tracy in 2002, and they were happily married for sixteen years. Tracy brought to the family her daughters, Amber and Crystal who presently reside in Ontario.

Walter was a hardworking man. When employed at Philips Cable, he was a union rep and he planned many parties for his co-workers. When the plant closed, Walter worked at Fording River for over thirty-six years until he retired on January 7, 2018. While in the hospital, Walter was visited by many of his friends and coworkers from the mine. They shared their favourite memories of Walter and told of his jokes and antics at work.

Walter will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Tracy; his daughter, Linda (Phil); his son, Terry (Kelli); his stepdaughters, Amber and Crystal; his brother, Scott (Patricia) Haines; his grandchildren, Tanika, Owen, Kyra and Noah; step-grandchildren, Coralean, Rosalee and Kaanan; as well as his nieces, nephews and many cousins.

He was predeceased by his parents, Norman Haines and Georgina Haines (Née: Harris), and his brothers, Percy Dingman, Norman “Red” Haines and Fred Haines.

Walter was diagnosed with bladder cancer in March – a rapidly spreading cancer against which there was no defense. A very special thank you goes to Walter’s cousin and Tracy’s best friend, Marie Roy for all of her support during this difficult time. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations will be gratefully accepted by the Alberta Cancer Foundation (www.albertacancer.ca/donate/in-memory, or 710 – 10123, 99 St., Edmonton, AB T5J 3H1). Condolences may be registered at www.fantinsfuneralchapel.ca.

Fantin’s Funeral Chapel entrusted with the arrangements. (403) 562-8555

Obituary

R.E (RIck ) MATTHEWS October 10, 1951 ~ May 19, 2018

Russell Edward (Rick) Matthews passed away peacefully in his 66th year with his family by his side on Saturday May 19, 2018 in Calgary Alberta.

Rick leaves to cherish his memory his loving wife of 38 years Erin ( nee Shoesmith ), his children: Kevin ( Daina ) Matthews, Jordan ( Megan ) Matthews, Joey Matthews, Katie ( Marc) Ernst, his granddaughters Paige and Reese Matthews and Skylar Matthews.

Also missing the big guy will be his brother Terry Bailey, his brother and best friend Wes ( Carmen ) Dry, his sisters Beverly Dry, Norma Jean Dry and Lynn Dry, his extended family including Joan Shoesmith, Pamela ( Keith ) Newton and Geoff ( Carol ) Shoesmith as well as numerous nieces and nephews including Carmelle, Mason, Madison, Mathew (Laura), Josh, Nicole (Ryan), Kristina (Cam ), David, Sigourney, Tracy and Chad as well as good friends Ric Rae, Ben Smith and John ( Ingrid ) Hart.

Rick was predeceased by his infant son Joshua Luke Matthews, his mother Elaine Joyce, his father Henry Dry and his father in law J.C.( Chuck ) Shoesmith.

Rick was a big guy with a heart and a personality to match. He had a lifelong ability to remember any joke and to be able to repeat and entertain at any party, function or workplace that he attended.

Rick entered this world as a bustling 12 lb 8 oz baby in Alert Bay B.C. with childhood stops in Trail, Kitimat, Lethbridge and Calgary. After deciding that a career in academics was not for him he joined the military where he was trained in his lifelong occupation of trucking.

Rick operated and drove for various companies including South Rock Paving, Med Hat Wholesale Foods, Alberta Express and Medalta Transport before moving into sales his God gifted occupation eventually owning and operating Laker Freight Systems until its sale when he retired to the Crowsnest Pass and worked in various locations to keep himself busy.

Rick had a lifelong passion for the outdoors where he and Erin enjoyed many years of entertaining family and friends at their cabin on Lee Lake in the Crowsnest Pass suitably named the “Sitting Duck”. Rick was a skilled Fisherman always willing to take people out for a tour or a troll on his barge to bring in some big Rainbows.

When not at the cabin Rick could quite often be found in his garage on that stool cheering on his B.C. Lions or any and all other sporting events.

A celebration of Ricks life is being planned for the weekend of August 25, 2018 in Blairmore Ab. with details to be released at a further date. Please call or email Geoff (trailside@live.com) or Wes (wesdry@wdinc.ca) with a question or RSVP by Aug 15,2018 as Ricks life touched so many people.

Donations in Ricks memory can be made to a SPCA or animal rescue charity in your area or just simply adopt and give a pet a good home as Rick and Erin have done so many times.

Obituary

HELEN YANOTA

(Née: Pozzi) August 26, 1924 – May 21, 2018

Helen Anita Yanota (Pozzi) of Blairmore, Alberta passed away peacefully surrounded by family on May 21st, 2018 at the age of 93. Helen was born on August 26th, 1924 in Blairmore, Alberta. As a young woman, she enjoyed hiking, figure skating, playing tennis, singing with the church choir and spending time with friends. Helen dedicated her life to her home and her family. She loved family gatherings, good food and wine, laughing, singing, reading, taking drives in the mountains with her husband, road trips to Kalispell, Missoula, Kimberley and Wasa. She is deeply loved and will be greatly missed.

After working at the Royal Bank of Canada, Helen decided she wanted to pursue a career. She attended the Garbutt Business College in Calgary where she completed courses in typing, filing, shorthand and accounting. With her detailed and poised manner, Helen was asked to stay on in a secretarial position at the Garbutt Business College. She later returned to the Crowsnest Pass and was quickly hired for a position with Coleman Collieries. During a St. Patrick’s Day event at the Catholic Church, Helen met John Yanota. John was a well-known RCAF navigator aviator in WW II. In April 1948, they married. It was well known that John loved and adored Helen throughout their 63 years of marriage. Together they created a warm and loving home for their seven children to whom she remained devoted to. She was an active member of the Canadian Royal Purple and the Catholic Women’s League (CWL) of Canada.

Helen was the beloved mother of Elinor (Bob) Perreault, Tom (Bettie) Yanota, Michael (Brenda) Yanota, MaryAnne (Mike) Hudson, Jay Yanota, Peter (Sandy) Yanota and Gordon (Nichole) Yanota; cherished grandmother to Jason (Bente), Amy (Alvaro), Julie (Eric), Michael Jr. (Jinaye), Kimberly (Kayne), Karmen (Jason), Chad, Brennan (Chelsey), Scott, Alison and Erin; great grandmother to Josephine, Anneliese, Lily, Laura, Caleb and Hartley; and sister of Mary Catonio. Helen was predeceased by her husband John in March 2011.

We have been eternally blessed to have had such a strong, caring and loving Mother, Grandmother, and Great-grandmother. We cherish the many wonderful memories and the journey we have shared together.

Special thanks to the amazing care givers at York Creek Lodge and the Long Term Care Unit at the Crowsnest Pass Hospital for their compassion, dedication and loving care of Mom over the past six years.

The Memorial Mass will be held at the Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church (13126, 21 Ave., Blairmore, AB) on Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 11:00 am with Fr. Ben Marino as Celebrant. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations will be gratefully accepted by the Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Parish “Building Fund” (PO Box 1410, Blairmore, AB T0K 0E0), or the CNP Health Foundation “Continuing Care” (PO Box 455, Bliarmore, AB T0K 0E0). Condolences may be registered at www.fantinsfuneralchapel.ca.

Fantin’s Funeral Chapel entrusted with the arrangements. (403) 562-8555

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Obituary

PATRICIA ANN YOUNG 1938 ~ 2018

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Patricia Ann Young of Lundbreck, Alberta. Blessed with eighty years of life, Patricia passed into the arms of Lord on May 22, 2018 while receiving care at the Peter Lougheed Hospital in Calgary.

Patricia Curran was born on January 27, 1938 in Toronto, Ontario and was orphaned at an early age. She experienced much hardship and meager living standards but she accepted what she could not change and cherished what she had. With faith and a compassionate heart, Patricia carved her own way in this world and learned much. She gained employment with traveling carnivals and was affectionately known as Carol (a nickname that stuck throughout her entire life).

Carol captured the attention of a charismatic young man, Morris Gilbert, who ran his own carnival booth and was gifted with many talents and employment opportunities such as carpentry, truck driving and well-drilling to name but a few. They were devoted to each other and a greater love was never known to either of them. They settled in Lundbreck, Alberta enjoying time spent together camping, reading, caring for various pets, watching favourite TV shows and caring for one another. When Morris passed away in 2010, Carol’s heart was left broken and her life was never whole again. She maintained her generous and compassionate nature mixed with a streak of stubbornness but her passing gives us comfort knowing that she walks hand in hand with her beloved Morris once again.

She is survived by dear friends and extended family including Helen Christian, Roberta Laffin, Kevin Laffin and his family of Lethbridge, and Micheal Laffin, of Whitehorse, Mitchel Laffin and his family of Edmonton, and Madeline (Jeff) LaGrand of Calgary.

She was predeceased by her beloved Morris Gilbert in June of 2010 and Todd Stennitt.

A Graveside Service will be held on June 2, 2018 at 11:00 am at the Livingstone Cemetery, NE 30-08-1-W5, in the MD of Pincher Creek just outside of Cowley. All are welcome to attend.

A special thank you is extended to the Homecare staff, friends and medical personnel at the Peter Lougheed Centre for their compassion and kindness while caring for Patricia.

Condolences may be registered at www.fantinsfuneralchapel.ca. Donations in memory may be directed towards your local SPCA Humane Society.

Fantin's Funeral Chapel entrusted with arrangements. (403) 562-8555.

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CCHS Varsity Panthers baseball have a winning week Herald Contributor

Panthers vs. Vulcan Crowsnest Consolidated High School (CCHS) Panthers Varsity defeated Vulcan 9-7 on Tuesday, May 22 after taking the lead late in the game. Vulcan trailed 8-1 in the top of the fifth inning when an error scored one run for Vulcan.

Despite falling down by six runs in the fifth inning, Vulcan tried to fight back. Vulcan scored two runs in the failed comeback on a double by #23 in the sixth and a walk by #14 in the seventh.

The Panthers notched five runs in the second inning.

Colby Snider was on the pitcher's mound for the Panthers. He went two-thirds of an inning, allowing zero runs on zero hits and walking one. #27 started the game for Vulcan. He went one and one-third innings, allowing zero runs on one hit, striking out one and walking zero. #28 threw three innings in relief.

Spencer Dorge, Cole

Kalanza, and Connor Gunn each managed one hit to lead the Panthers. #23 went 2-for-4 at the plate to lead Vulcan in hits. #23 led Vulcan with two stolen bases, as they ran wild on the base paths with six stolen bases. Vulcan didn't commit a single error in the field. #16 had five chances in the field, the most on the team.

Panthers vs. Maple Creek Crowsnest Consolidated Panthers Varsity stole the lead late and defeated Maple Creek Red Sox 8-5 on Friday. The game was tied at three with Crowsnest Consolidated Panthers Varsity batting in the top of the sixth when Ethan Wall singled on a 2-2 count, scoring one run.

CCHS Panthers earned the victory despite allowing the Red Sox to score three runs in the fifth inning.

Maple Creek's big inning was driven by a single by Drake Francis and a double by Cache Smith.

In the first inning, the Panthers got their offense

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Pictured above is the Crowsnest Pass Panthers 2018 team. Top row, left to right: assistant coach Al Frenette, Danial Piloni, Connor Gunn, Spensor Dorge, Chriss Collings, Jace Lewis, Lyndon Ewen, Coach Rob Amatto. Front row, left to right: Cooper Snider, Cole Kalanza, Colby Snider, Ethan Wall, Sante Canderan.

started. Spencer Dorge drove in one when he singled.

In the bottom of the fifth inning, Red Sox tied things up at three when Francis singled on the first pitch of the at bat, scoring one run.

Colby Snider led the Panthers to victory on the pitcher's mound. He lasted three and a third innings, allowing four

hits and zero runs while striking out three and walking zero. Jace Lewis and Wall entered the game out of the bullpen and helped to close out the game in relief. Wall recorded the last two outs to earn the save for the Panthers.

Connor Drever took the loss for the Red Sox. He lasted one and twothirds innings, allowing

four hits and four runs while striking out two.

Smith started the game for the Red Sox. He went five innings, allowing four runs on five hits and striking out seven Lewis led Crowsnest Consolidated Panthers Varsity with two hits in four at bats. Snider led Crowsnest Consolidated Panthers Varsity with

three stolen bases, as they ran wild on the base paths with eight stolen bases.

Maple Creek Red Sox collected 13 hits on the day. Francis, Smith, Drever, Logan Eng, and Krystian Mazur all managed multiple hits for Maple Creek Red Sox. Francis went 3-for-3 at the plate to lead Maple Creek in hits.