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The final amount raised for the Toy Drive at Red Apple in Blairmore is in. $6414.80 in donations is going to The Women's Resource Centre for the Christmas Toy hampers. This excerpt was taken from the Red Apple Blairmore Facebook Page: “We could not have done this without the support of the community, the Fire Department, Women's Resource Centre, the Lions club and Santa. Again thank you to each and evey one of you that has donated this Christmas Season.” See more photos on page 10.
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Trip of the Month Winner Dennis and Diana Plaza of Blairmore a 5 night Victoria BC trip for two, valued at $2,400.00 Louise Andrist of Bellevue a $200.00 gift card from Allied Hardware Darlene Newsham of Bellevue a $120.00 gift certificate from Bamboo Bistro Presenting the winners letter is Lion Bob Budzen Herald Contributor photo
Thank You The CCHS graduating class of 2020 would like to thank everyone that attended our Senior Supper on the night of December 3rd. We would also like to thank Chris's Restaurant for catering, and the parents who volunteered to help decorate and clean up.We greatly appreciate the time taken to show your support for our school and our senior students. We hope that you enjoyed the dinner that was served and the songs that were sung by the class. The generous donations we received that evening will go directly towards the funding of our grad ceremony on May 8th.
Charity Checkstop
The Crowsnest Pass Fire and Rescue Services held their annual Charity Check Stop last week. Both money and food donations were accepted during the stop and all proceeds go to the local food bank. This year’s stop collected a record $5,640 for the food bank along with some food donations as well. David Selles photo
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In the lIne of fIre Between December 2 and December 9, Crowsnest Pass RCMP responded to a total of 46 calls for service including the following reported incidents. Three (3) assaults, one (1) fraud/forgery, one (1) threat/harassment, four (4) mischief/vandalism, one (1) theft of a motor vehicle, two (2) impaired driving, one (1) disturbing the peace, two (2) other criminal codes, six (6) driving complaints, six (6) motor vehicle collisions, six (6) assistance to general public, one (1) lost and found, one (1) abandoned vehicle, five (5) assistance to other agencies, four (4) false alarms and two (2) municipal bylaws. Attempted Truck Theft On December 3rd, 2019, there was a complaint of attempted truck theft from a parking lot in Blairmore. The door locks and ignition of the truck were broken. The attempt occurred sometime over the few days prior.
Stolen Vehicle On December 5th, 2019, there was a complaint of a Chevrolet Malibu stolen from 227 Street in Hillcrest. The vehicle was recovered on December 10th, in Calgary. The theft is currently under investigation. Vehicle Stop On December 6th, 2019, at approximately 3:30am, a vehicle was stopped between Frank and Blairmore. A 36-yearold male from Foothills County had a strong odor of liquor. The driver refused to provide a breath sample and was arrested and charged due to the refusal. He was then released on documents for Court and his vehicle was towed. Arrest On December 6th, 2019, a 40-year-old male from Canmore was arrested on outstanding warrants from Calgary Police Service. He was released on documents for
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Calgary Court. Vehicle Damage On December 9th, 2019, there was a complaint of damage to a vehicle. The windshield and headlights were smashed. The vehicle was parked in an apartment parking lot in Blairmore. Suspicious Vehicle On December 9th, 2019, RCMP received a complaint of a suspicious vehicle. The vehicle was reported stolen from Lethbridge area and the licence plate was also stolen. A 42-year-old male from Coaldale was arrested and charged. He was released on documents for court. Thank you to those you participated in the Policing Priorities Survey. Be aware of a new scam. Victims get phone calls from someone pretending to be from Service Canada or another government agency, saying
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Last night I got the phone call telling me that my father passed away. It is a call that we all receive unless we are at a loved one’s bedside when they pass away. Now in a world that shrank and families are often spread over long distances many are away at the time of someone passing away. No longer do families live close to each other and the old people are cared for by “staff” not by close relatives, aside from a few. Some are placed in Seniors’ homes away from family and even mates, depending on their illness. I had a friend Ron who went through a long process of dying from Cancer. He was not a religious person at all and he waited for death with open eyes. For some unknown reason, Ron chose me to be his confidant on those matters and we talked a lot about death. He told me about his experience with the deaths of his parents, told me about the problems of being an executor of their wills and above all he wanted to discuss death itself. Ron believed that when you die you go to sleep and never wake up. He considered people who believe in God to be weak individuals who refuse to accept the harsh reality that life ends. I came at the problem from another angle, perhaps a more religious philosophy. In our discussions, always initiated by Ron, I expressed an opinion that the awareness which is life, never dies. I visited the reality of death and when revived felt that I existed in a wholesome reality which gave me a positive feeling. It was not blackness. One day Ron’s wife invited me to see him for the last time. The doctors said that he will not last long. When he saw me his eyes became clear, and we spoke for a while. His wife later told me that this was his last conversation and that he never spoke again after I left. That conversation I still puzzle over. Ron motioned me to come close and spoke very quietly so the other people in the room would not hear. First, he thanked me for being his friend at a time of need. He felt that others were too busy with their daily lives and that I took the time to support him when he needed another human to by Avner Perl listen. True, I had to admit. Then he looked me straight in the eyes, like a person who wants me to know that he wouldn’t There is nothing lie to me and said. Avner I know I argued with you about life after death but I have changed my thinking all around. I think you are right and that after the body dies the awareness continues somewhere else. I even consider believing in the wrong with dying existence of angels, but I don’t know. I believe now that the part of me which is not the body will not die. Ron went, but I spoke to many others who were dying and mostly they didn’t think that death is the end. My father didn’t want to talk about death, not with me anyway. He spoke very little about his life before my birth. All I know is that it was a very painful time, and he never talked about a happy childhood. He probably had none. He didn’t have much faith in people, trusting them to always do what’s good for them and shaft everyone else. Now he is gone to the other side. There are many people who believe that your last thought in the earthly body determines where you will go after leaving it. I don’t think this is the whole truth. My Christian beliefs say that a soul will be with God. I agree, but I don’t think the creator will be a king on a golden throne in a kingdom called heaven. Sorry folks, I can’t. I believe that you go where you came from before you were born. This life is a temporary diversion from another existence where the essence is with what we call God. It could be pleasant or otherwise resting upon your beliefs. My personal understanding differs from popular beliefs. I think we are truly created in the creator's likeness who lets us grow in a human body and return to him after graduation, called death. I think we discard the body when it's no longer useful as an old coat would be. The world of living people is just a training camp. A school of some sort from which not everyone passes. Hell is also a reality in my life. I have seen much suffering often caused by the sufferers themselves. There is pain that purifies the soul, the kind that strengthens us, and there is the pain that comes from knowing that we have done wrong for selfish reasons. Physical pain can be treated and even gone with anesthetics. The pain of the soul can’t be treated. People who deny doing wrong vehemently, often can’t run away from their own conscience. It can only be washed away with good deeds greater than the evil ones, and only when the person is still breathing. Everyone must take the “finals.” Now my father is gone and his suffering ended. I look and reflect upon my own life wandering. Have I been unjust? Do I have to pay up? So far I always supported justice and fought for a better world. I hope that those who read this feel the same about their lives or are working on it. Life is a game we play, and it doesn’t matter if we win or lose. What matters is if we play fair and if we aim for selfishness or love.
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Crowsnest Consolidated Panther Junior Basketball Junior High Basketball began last week with games in Fort Macleod against FP Walshe. The “A” team lost to Walshe 43-13 while the “B” boys lost to Walshe 32-31. Left photo Bailey Siray and Quinn Douglas, right photo, playing some amazing defence. Frank McTighe and Cori Plosz photos
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Project UPdate elan Project overview Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Elan Coal Ltd, Atrum is proposing to evaluate, develop and operate a metallurgical coal mine in the Crowsnest Pass area of Alberta. The Elan Project is located entirely on crown land approximately 13 kilometers north of Blairmore. Atrum is currently conducting an exploration program on two separate lease areas of the Elan Project – Elan South and Isolation South.
coal for Steel The coal that is deposited and planned to be produced at the Elan Project is used to make steel. In industry terms, this type of coal is known as metallurgical coal or coking coal, with the top tier product known as Hard Coking Coal. Our coal and coke quality testing programs to date have established the Elan deposits as a Tier 1 Hard Coking Coal resource. This includes possessing physical characteristics that meet, and often exceed, the premium products being produced by Teck Resources in the nearby Elk Valley. The global steel production industry consumes approximately 1 billion tonnes of metallurgical coal per year, and like other metallurgical coal mines in the region, Elan coal is planned to be exported from the west coast to international markets.
Public Involvement Atrum believes that the exploration phase of any mining project is the beginning of a lasting partnership with the local communities and stakeholders. To support our engagement efforts, we have opened an office in Blairmore that has allowed us to meet and talk with the many locals that stop in. We have also made a number of presentations to community groups. We look forward to engaging further with the community through public open houses and other events that will help us connect with local stakeholders and identify interests and concerns. We are committed to open, respectful communication, which we believe will ultimately result in a development that reflects the values of the community
2019 Highlights
ceo’s Message Welcome to our first community newsletter. Going forward this communication is planned to provide a regular and general update on progress at our Elan Hard Coking Coal Project (Elan Project). Atrum Coal Limited (Atrum) is a public company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: ATU). Our overarching vision is to be a socially and environmentally responsible developer of world-class metallurgical coal assets. In addition to the Elan Project, Atrum has a substantial position in what is currently the world’s largest high-grade anthracite deposit, Groundhog/Panorama, located in north-west British Columbia . Atrum acquired the Elan Project in March 2018 on the basis of its clear potential to emerge as a Tier 1 hard coking coal mine. We spent the summer of 2018 proving the concept – including delivery of a premium hard coking resource, detailed coal quality testing and initial environmental data collection. In 2019, we have accelerated exploration and commenced baseline environmental study work and broader community engagement. Atrum is committed to environmental excellence and considers the protection of water, aquatic species, biodiversity and human health to be at the core of our development philosophy. We are also committed to building strong relationships with all of our stakeholders, including seeking your input and looking to address your concerns, as we progress the Elan Project. Your engagement will assist us in evaluating, developing and operating this world-class asset with globally leading social and environmental practices. Finally, on behalf of all Atrum shareholders and staff, I wish you a safe, restive and joyful holiday season.
• Completed over 20,000 meters of exploration drilling at Elan South and Isolation South • Initiated engagement and consultation activities with the community and First Nations • Initiated collection of comprehensive environmental baseline data at Elan South • Updated estimates of Elan Project coal resources, conducted further detailed coal quality testing and developed preliminary mine plan options • Opened an office in Blairmore
Max Wang Atrum Managing Director and CEO
Next Steps Our next major milestone is targeted to be completion of a Scoping Study on the Elan Project. This technical evaluation will contain preliminary development and mining options. We envisage sharing and discussing the content of this Scoping Study with the local community during an open house planned for the first half of next year.
Project timeline
1Q 2019 2019 field exploration program commences
3Q 2019 Early engagement activities and baseline environmental studies
4Q 2019 Updated resource estimates and Elan South “Scoping Study”
2Q 2020 Possible window for publishing Project Description
1Q 2021 Possible window for submission of Impact Assessment and mine permit applications
additional Information For additional information, we invite you to drop by the Blairmore office, visit our website or send us a message at consult@atrumcoal.com
atrum coal Ltd Po Box 1380 12907 20th avenue Blairmore aB t0K 0e0 www.atrumcoal.com
6 – crowsnest PAss HerALD – wednesday, december 11, 2019
Editorial and Opinions ThiS communiTy ... As you have read in this paper my son Aiden started a school led initiative called the ‘12 Days of Christmas’ to help those students in his school who struggle during the festive season. Well his fundraising program is over and holy moly has this community come to the plate! Aiden, with the help of businesses, individuals and community organizations has fundraised $5756.85. Yes, you read that correct $5756.85 raised by a 17 year-old kid, which is 100% going towards kids in need at the Crowsnest Consolidated High School. Neither Aiden nor myself know who is getting the secret stockings but whoever receives them will have, I believe, one heck of a stocking full of love and Christmas spirit. The stocking will include a $20 gift certificated to both Tim Horton’s and Subway, a $30 Coleman Remedy’s RX and Red Apple Store gift cards, a dental hygiene kit from Crowsnest Dental, a $25 meal from Chris’ Restaurant and a $50 gift card to American Eagle store. We were gifted with 5-day passes from 40 Developmental Assets CNP with 5-ski rentals included from Pass Powderkeg Ski Hill. As we were stuffing stockings on Monday I think we all had tears in our eyes, happy and sad both at the same time. It’s not just Aiden, I look in this community and see CNP Fire and Rescue, the Lions, Red Apple and several other businesses in this coming to the plate to support those in need. It really sums up what we are ... a community of loving, giving people who do look out for one another. Never have I been so proud as I was that day, stuffing those stocking, and taking stock of the amazing place we live and work in. Aiden received donations throughout the community. The Municipality of Crowsnest Pass donated $1000 through a Category 3 New Initiatives Grant, Riversdale Resources matched that amount and Crowsnest/Pincher Landfill came through with $500. We were given cheques and cash each over $100 from Crockets, Country Encounters Hospitality, Chris’ Restaurant, Copy Magic, Pass Herald and AARN Chapter of Crowsnest Pass. Coleman Remedy’s Rx topped up the gift cards, 30 of them from $25 to $30. The Food Bank donated 30 - $20 Subway cards and an anonymous donor gave us 30 - $20 Tim Horton Cards. Chris’ when I was buying gift certificates gave us an extra 4 - $25 cards for a few more in need. Also throughout the community people donated cash and change in our tins. The Red Ravens Theatre Group, which Aiden is a part of, donated cash as well. As I was sitting in the office two older women, both on oxygen, donated a bag full of change they collected to help the kids in our community in need. It humbled me to collect it on Aiden’s behalf. So this is what our community is made of, loving caring people who do look out for each other. How blessed are we! I’ll end this with Merry Christmas, my son Aiden and this community makes me want to be a better person. LS
Letters to the Editor Provincial budget woes Dear Editor; Now that the provincial budget has come down, the protests have started from the provincial employees' unions, members and leaders alike. I have one question for everyone; what would you do?? It seems to me that, if any solutions at all are offered, which is seldom, they fall into the category of the "NIMBY syndrome" , "not in my back yard." Cut somewhere else, just not where it affects me. I never thought much about how much a Billion dollars is until I read one day that if I had $1000 to spend every day it would take me about 3000 YEARS to spend a billion dollars! The fact is that, thanks mostly to four years of NDP government, (which unions generally seem to favor, and vice versa) our provincial debt stands at about $70 BILLION. That's the number 70 with 9 zeros behind it! The interest alone on this
debt is $2.3 BILLION per year! That is the interest alone, not 5 cents being paid toward the loan itself. Can you imagine the good that $2.3 billion would do if invested in education, health care, policing, infrastructure, etc. instead of being thrown away? Somewhere along the line the increasing of that debt has to stop, and the only way to stop it is to STOP SPENDING more than is coming in. This is not the government's money. Governments don't have any money. It is all yours and my tax dollars they are spending. Politicians don't have to worry about spending our money, because they don't have any skin in the game! If we go broke, they don't have any consequences. They get thrown out of office, then go on to something else, but still collect their pensions, from our tax dollars! Where else can you get fired from a job after as little as four years, and still collect a pension?
Public consultation on Castle park ignored by the previous NDP government Dear Editor; I took the liberty of modifying the CastleCrowns and CPAWS letter title of last week to more accurately reflect the recent history in the Castle. (2014 to present) Castle Crown and CPAWS are now “crying foul” on the present governments decision to look into the Castle. Their argument is based on the “Management Plan” established for the Castle Provincial Park. What they fail to mention is the former NDP Minister of Environment, Shannon Phillips, so wanted to es-
tablish another Provincial Park that she, and her government, completely ignored the findings and the legislated (2014) South Saskatchewan Regional Plan. A planning process much more inclusive and extensive that the self serving Castle Park management plan. Isn’t it interesting when the tide is turned. The sad argument used, by the Park proponents, is that unless the forest is turned into an area where industries and motorized recreation are prohibited wildlife and watersheds will be damaged beyond
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Governments do NOT "create jobs." They simply hire more employees, and pay them out of tax revenues which are paid by all of us. Private companies, big and small, "create jobs", because employees are paid out of income generated by the company's business activities, "new" money that wasn't there already. I am no economist, but those are a couple of the principles at work in what we call a "capitalist" society in which we all live at the moment. The relative advantages of capitalism vs. socialism is a topic for another day. Let's bring this all down to your family level. Over a period of years, you have maxed out your credit cards, lines of credit, etc. What do you do? You can either increase income, if possible, but most probably are going to have to reduce your outgo. Now what do you pick to cut? It is better to cut out one big thing altogether, or try to reduce spending a little bit on everything, wherever possible? Those are proba-
bly the choices you face, because unlike governments, you can't borrow any more because you've been cut off. So how is it different with governments? The luxury they have is that they can carry on borrowing. During election campaigns almost all governments promise us that they will be good stewards of our money and will manage it well. After the election, the principle of not spending more than you have goes out the window. It seems, at the moment at least, that this government is keeping it's promise to "get our financial house in order." That is not by increasing taxes, which none of us seems to want, but by cutting spending, and doing it as fairly as possible, and that is across the board. In the past when governments have tried this, they have knuckled under to the protests of the noisiest ones. We shall see if the same thing happens here.
repair. They tug on the publics emotions that our water supply in threatened if the Castle continues to be used by industry and motorized recreational use. Emotion with no science. No mention or concern is made of pumping water all the way from the Oldman Reservoir back up to the West Castle Ski Hill. Back up to the very place the water came from in the first place. They make no men-
tion of the seemingly bottomless budget poured into the Castle Park, flying in the face of the almost zero budgets the Forestry Departments had in previous years. The real travesty in the Castle (and this wasn’t the NDP’s fault) was there was never a decent budget provided to maintain and enforce the well thought out Castle Access Management Plan. cont’d on page 10
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Simply Selles by David Selles As Lisa mentioned in her editorial last week, I am coaching the Grade 7 and 8 “B” boys basketball team this year. The school approached me and they asked me to coach and while I had never coached before, I felt I still had enough experience and knowledge to teach them. I started playing basketball in grade 5, which was the earliest I could. I was always the tallest player on my team, which meant I always played the same position. I was one of two guys under the basket for my team every time I was on the court. Over the years, I got a little more coordinated and by the time I was in grade 12, was starting for the senior varsity team. In grade 11, I was still on the junior varsity team, which allowed me to get as much playing time as possible and helped me develop my skills and knowledge of the game. That year, the senior varsity team made it to provincials and while I wasn’t on the team as a player, my coach asked me to be part of the team and help keep stats and grab water for the guys who needed it. I genuinely loved that I was asked to be part of the team in this way because it gave me a front row seat to watching what it would take to win a provincial title at that level. My team won and I received a gold medal as part of the team. The following year, I was now a starter on the senior varsity squad and helped my team to another provincial championship game. This time meant more to me simply because I was on the court physically helping our team win games. In the Championship game against Stirling High School, my team was up by one with just a couple seconds left to go. Stirling had possession and inbounded the ball and put up a shot just before the horn sounded and it went in meaning we had lost by 1 point, 85-84. While it took a bit of time to get over that loss, looking back, that silver medal means more to me than the gold does because I was more involved in that achievement. Now as a coach, I get to try and relay that knowledge I collected to a new generation of basketball players. While I’m still working out the kinks of how to coach these young men, I know that we’re all having fun. It will continue to be a learning process for me and for them but as long as we enjoy the season together, I’ll finish the year as a happy coach.
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Royal LePage South Country Real Estate Services Ltd. mountain property Great opportunity to own a mountain acreage close to Lee Lake and en route to Castle Mountain Ski Resort. This acreage offers many opportunities for someone who would like to keep horses or other farm animals on a small piece of land. Small acreages in this area are rare because of the subdivision process and requirements. Just off of Highway 507. $249,000 CALL JOHN MLS
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coleman Full lot with exceptional mountain views. House is to be removed so this property is priced for the lot value only. One of the very few sites where you can see Crowsnest Mountain, Tecumseh and the South Range all at the same time. $69,000 GST CALL JOHN MLS
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blairmore This 3 bedroom double wide mobile home is located on its own lot in a fantastic location in Blairmore right by the Crowsnest River. Surrounded by mature landscape and within a short distance to all amenities. This home is suitable for someone looking for an affordable one level type of dwelling. Additional 2 piece bath off the master bedroom. Lots of parking. $119,000 CALL JOHN MLS
pincher creek Remarkable revenue property. Long term tenant in place with lease. Convenient, central location close to all amenities. Solid, small house on a large lot with a big backyard. Great long term investment. $99,000. CALL JOHN MLS
blairmore condo Great Condo apartment in historic building in central Blairmore. Expertly updated for modern living in the Canadian Rockies. Affordable option as a home or as an investment. Parking at rear. Ski hill, swimming pool within walking distance. Offers carefree condo living. $84,000 CALL JOHN MLS
coleman Great opportunity. Bright, well laid out 2 bedroom, ground level apartment is located in the well kept Rocky Mountain Condo complex. The condo fees include heat and town utilities. Located in a beautiful area with lots of sun and scenic mountain views. Why pay rent when you can own and build equitY. $99,000 CALL JOHN MLS
belleVue Fantastic opportunity for commercial location along busy Highway 3. East and West bound traffic access. Currently occupied as a successful flyfishing shop, known to fly fishermen throughout Canada and the U.S. Can be sold as a business to someone wishing for a change of pace or for a property that can be re-purposed. Present zoning is C1 allows for different opportunities. High traffic volume in front of the property. $435,000 CALL JOHN MLS
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65 ironstone High quality 4 bedroom mountain condo at Ironstone Lookout in beautiful Crowsnest Pass. Bright open floor plan where you can choose high-end woodwork and cabinetry. Spacious main floor laundry. Large garage with double car driveway. Still time to choose from a variety of quality finishes. Enjoy maintenance free luxury living at an INCREDIBLE price. $349,000 + GST CALL JOHN MLS
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belleVue acreage Large acreage in Crowsnest Pass. 5.88 acres with grass, suitable for horses. Several building sites. Awesome deal for this many acres. Beautiful mountain views. Build a walk-out bungalow, if you choose. Water well on property. Power and gas nearby. Lots of sun. $219,500 CALL JOHN MLS
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coleman Affordable 50’ x 100’ flat lot in Coleman Crowsnest Pass. All services near property. Close to mountain back country. Fantastic fly fishing. Renowned mountain biking, motorized, groomed sled and hiking network of trails near-by. York Creek staging area just around the corner. Popular walking path. Back lane access. Adjacent lot also available for sale. $39,000 CALL JOHN MLS
Fantastic Opportunity for first class office space in a busy downtown Blairmore location. Currently used as a mine office, but may be re-purposed into any other commercial use. Current zoning is commercial. Perfect location. Call Lister for more details. $104,000 CALL JOHN MLS
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Million Light Festival DaviD SelleS Pass Herald Reporter
The Bellecrest Society held their annual festival of lights December 7th. Belle Kovach, a volunteer with the Bellecrest Society, says the festival involves a few different activities for people to enjoy. “The light festival is primarily a Santa Claus event. It's held in the Bellevue Legion. It involves Santa and other activities for children. There's some entertainment and we have chili provided by the Legion ladies as well as free hotdogs for anybody.” Other things people could see during the festival included a pop up Christmas Market at Rudy’s and games and craft making as well. Kovach says this type of event has been happening in the town for a few years now.
“The Bellecrest Society has been lighting the town of Bellevue for a number of years. A few years ago a suggestion was made that we try to increase the amount of lighting and work it up until it's about a million lights. At that time, it didn't fall on deaf ears and we thought it was a wonderful thing to do for Bellecrest and we were good at putting up lights. So we started adding more and more lights over the years. We will continue to do that until we reach a million lights.” Kovach says that each year, the society tries to add at least $1,000-$1,500 worth of lights to the town. As for why a festival like this is put on, Kovach says it goes back further into the history of the town. “Bellecrest Society's mandate has always been to create things that get people off the main highway and into Bellevue and Hillcrest. We've continued with that mandate and we always try to do something for the people who are on main street and we do it for the children in the town as well.”
The Million Light Festival was a success this year. Many people were able to take in the pop up Christmas market over the festival days and kids were also able to have caricatures drawn of themselves.
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Letter to the Editor con’t from pg. 6 A mere fraction of the “open chequebook” budget Parks had would have managed the Castle, very well, under its multiuse concept. The Forest Industry was well regulated in the Castle and was accomplishing the task of removing the old fire risk forest and replacing it
with new reforestation. Back to the well thought out South Saskatchewan Plan ( legislated in 2014) It is rarely mentioned, by the Provincial Park Proponents, that the Castle Wildland Park was already proposed, under the SSRP. But that wasn’t enough for the NDP, they
wanted to create the Castle Provincial Park on the SSRP’s multiuse lower Castle as well. And they pushed it through and funded it to the limit. So now we have a new government. And, of course, the CastleCrown/CPAWs/AWA, etc. are telling the public that this new government
is bowing to the pressure of industry and motorized recreation by allowing the Castle to be reviewed. I hope this Government opens up the SSRP, sees what a good plan it was, and moves to reinstate its recommendations for the Castle. I hope they abolish the Provincial Park, maintain the Wildland Park, and begin to man-
age, not exclude, under the principles of multiple use. As a long time user of the Castle, both for my living and my recreation, it was a very real slap in the face to be told by the NDP that what I had done for years was “ruining” the Castle. All my industries efforts to harvest and reforest responsibility, with the resulting vi-
brant new forest, must be stopped. All the efforts, and time, to come up with a sound South Saskatchewan Regional Plan for the Castle were to be ignored and a Provincial Park established. I fought the decision then and I will continue to fight it now. John MacGarva RPFT
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Mines update residents North Coal, Riversdale Resources, Atrum Coal
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The mining companies in the Crowsnest Pass area were provided an opportunity to give updates on their current process at the Crowsnest Conservation Society AGM on Wednesday, November 27th. North Coal, Riversdale and Atrum Coal were all present and gave updates on where they currently sit while Montem was unable to attend. Here is what each company said. North Coal Environmental Coordinator for North Coal, Jason Swanson, provided an update covering a couple different topics. Swanson began by overviewing the work North Coal is interested in as well as how much land their area of operations covers. “Our area of operation covers about 8000 Hectares. Our predicted environmental disturbance is about 1400 hectares. We're interested in three deposits. Loop Ridge to the north, Tent Mountain in the middle and Michel Head to the south.” Swanson also mentioned that North Coal has decided to remove Tent Mountain from their project. “A decision was recently made by North Coal to pull Tent Mountain from the project. The tent mountain deposit is no longer part of the Michel full project. The primary reason for that is we have a Ktunaxa knowledge holder and Elder led group called the furbearer group. We put them out into the field at three different seasons and their job was to detect presence and absence for various species so they were looking for tracks and scat in critical and important wildlife areas and that group identified Tent Mountain as a critical wildlife movement corridor. Based on that feedback we had some rigorous discussion within North Coal we actually decided to pull Tent Mountain from the project. That decreased our environmental disturbance by about 500 hectares.” Swanson says North Coal’s annual production rate is estimated at about 2 million clean tonnes a year and says there is about 50 million clean tonnes of reserve making
the estimated mine life around 25 years. Swanson says the project started in 2013 and they immediately began their environmental baseline data collection and also started their engagement with the Ktunaxa nation. “Over the last six years we've been doing our environmental baseline as well as our coal quality and exploration drilling. Currently we are expecting to have our environmental assessment submitted to the BC and federal governments in June of 2020. The governments then have approximately one year to say yes or no. If they say yes, we go to permitting and then construction, if they say no, our project is essentially dead in the water.” Swanson says if things go according to plan, there’s a timeline in place for when the first coal will be mined. “We are expecting if everything goes according to plan, we are hoping to begin construction in about 2021/22. That's an 18-month construction window, which brings first coal in about 2023. We're looking at decommissioning and closure at around 2047/48.” Swanson also touched on water quality and says North Coal is taking a three-pronged approach to increase water quality in the elk valley. "One of the ways is to minimize the mine disturbance footprint. Make the mine as small as possible. Our next two technologies are called in-pit saturated fills and bottom-up mine rock storage. What that is, is essentially trying to create what's called a suboxic environment which is a fancy term for little or no oxygen." Swanson continued his presentation by talking about their wildlife program. Swanson says part of that program also includes working with the Ktunaxa nation. Swanson says 60 grizzly bears and 30 elks have been tagged by different groups in the area as a way to gain as much real data as possible. North Coal also has monitoring cameras throughout their project area. These cameras help North Coal determine which areas within the project area the animals are in the most. The presentation by
Swanson finished with talk on reclamation and closure. Swanson says North Coal will be working on reclamation already while they mine and says that they have been in contact with a Ktunaxa elder group to find out what they would like to see the landscape be after mining is completed. Riversdale Resources Tyler Riewe, who oversees the Safety Health and Environment Department for Riversdale, provided their update. Riewe began by giving a small overview. “The Grassy Mountain Coal project is an open pit mine operation with an estimated 24 year mine life. It is a steel-making coal product and we will be taking advantage of the infrastructure in southern Alberta and southern BC to get our coal to market. The project footprint for Grassy Mountain is anticipated to be around 1,500 hectares for total disturbance. 25 per cent of which has been previously disturbed from service mine operations.” Riewe recapped how they got to this point as well. “From a timeline and regulatory perspective, we submitted our notice of application in October of 2017 and then in August of 2018, our JRP members were announced. Since that time we've had a number of submissions and public comment periods where the public has been invited and has the opportunity to provide comment on supplemental information that's gone into our EIA and the opportunity to raise potential concerns about the project. While those submissions and public comment periods are the official way to raise concerns, Riewe says Riversdale also focuses on engaging different groups in the Pass to receive feedback. “We also want to be engaging with groups like Crowsnest Conservation and other groups in the community because we want to be a good community citizen and we anticipate that our members will also want to help contribute to conservation efforts in the valley.” Riewe also touched on where the Environmental Impact Assess-
ment currently is in the review process. “Our EIA is currently under review from a Joint Review Panel (JRP). We are waiting on an update from the regulators about the status of our application and we are anticipating an announcement going to a panel hearing in 2020. We're targeting a JRP hearing in 2020 and then a subsequent panel decision in late 2020. The regulatory timeline is hard to pin down because we haven't heard if we have the final approval to go to a permit hearing but we are eagerly anticipating the next notification from the JRP.” Riewe then moved on to talk about mitigating certain concerns residents have. “Some of the interesting things that we're going to develop into this construction project that should help mitigate concerns about dust and impacts to the community would be things like using a covered conveyor system to move the coal down to the rail load out.” If approved, Riewe says there is an approximate 24-month construction window which would put us at first coal likely in late 2022 or early 2023. As for land reclamation, Riewe says Riversdale already has steps in place to help with that process. “To get us started on the correct reclamation trajectory, one of the first exercises and order of business for building a mine would be segregating top soil units and having that material protected and available for final placement as soon as possible.” Atrum Coal Atrum Coal’s update was provided by Daniel Campbell, the Chief Geologist of Atrum Coal. Atrum has been in Canada since 2012 with projects in north central BC and are now shifting their focus to the Crowsnest Pass. “We've switched focus to the Crowsnest Pass. There are a lot of good things happening here for a company like us who's in an infancy stage compared to the rest. We decided to focus last year's efforts on just doing some rough exploration drilling. We liked our results so we started doing some environmental baseline last year and we continued that focus through this year.” Atrum recently established an office in Blair-
more as well. Campbell says there are two areas of exploration Atrum has looked at. “This year we really continued our exploration efforts with both our Elan South and our Isolation South projects. Elan South is our main focus. That is located directly north of Riversdale.” Due to the early stages of Atrum’s work, Campbell says they don’t have any mining plans or infrastructure routes they can show the public yet. Campbell also says that Atrum is hoping to complete a scoping study by the end of the year. “Towards the end of this year, we are trying to complete a scoping study, which is looking at a high level overview of what we could potentially do with mine plans and infrastructure routes. Until we have those down, it's hard to present maps and that kind of information. Right now we are still very much in our infancy of defining what that process is but in doing so, we're trying to fast track our position when we come to that process. We're doing extensive en-
vironmental baseline work this year.” Campbell also talked about a bit of a timeline moving forward. “In the second half of 2020 we plan to submit a project description, which kick starts the federal process and says this is what our project will generally look like and from there we get back a list of environmental impact requirements. That's everything that we're planning for right now to try and tailor all the way up to 2021.” Campbell says Atrum ahs drilled about 130-150 holes at the Elan South location this year and another 35-40 at Isolation South. According to Campbell, Atrum has also done work in regards to the land their site is on as well. “We've done a significant amount of work with several of the different groups in the area. We're identifying a lot of plants and high risk areas to our project and are trying to bring those into our preliminary plans and we'll continue to bring those efforts into all of our planning.”
Thank You Drew Robinson and family would like to thank Pincher Creek Search & Rescue, Fantin’s Funeral Chapel and special thanks to the Coleman Legion and Leo’s Pub for the luncheon and celebration of life. Drew Robinson, Diana Bramer Ted & Vi Robinson, Dane & Natasha Robinson
MunICIPaLITY oF CRoWSnEST PaSS noTICE oF DEVELoPMEnT PERMIT LanD uSE BYLaW no. 868-2013 The Development Authority of the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass recently approved the following development application(s): 1. DP2019-096: 13341 – 18 Avenue, Blairmore, AB; Lot 19-22, Block 5, Plan 3380T i. Discretionary Use: Accessory building (prefabricated garden shed: 10’ by 20’; 200 sq. ft./ 3.0m by 6.1m; 18.3 sq. m) located in the rear yard. Any persons claiming to be adversely affected by the above development may file an appeal in writing by December 11, 2019, to the MUNICIPALITY OF CROWSNEST PASS, SUBDIVISION AND DEVELOPMENT APPEAL BOARD, BOX 600, CROWSNEST PASS, ALBERTA T0K 0E0. A fee of $400.00 must be included with the appeal. Taylor Felt Interim Development officer Municipality of Crowsnest Pass P.0. Box 600 | Crowsnest Pass, alberta | T0k 0E0 P 403 562-8833 F 403 563-5581 E taylor.felt@crownestpass.com
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Mountain Spirit Festival DaviD SelleS Pass Herald Reporter
Volunteers in the Crowsnest Pass helped create the Mountain Spirit Festival this year. Joni McFarlane, along with other volunteers, spent time putting on the weeklong festival that began with an art and writing competition for students in the Pass. The idea for this festival comes from the International Mountain Day, which was created by the United Nations to help increase the attention to the importance of mountains. McFarlane says it was
decided a few years ago that since the Crowsnest Pass is surrounded by beautiful mountains, that a festival leading up to the day seemed appropriate. “We just decided a few years ago since we're a mountain community that it would be great to piggyback on that and have our own festival that celebrates mountain culture. That includes everything from recreation to water sustainability and the environmental issues as well.” McFarlane says the volunteers are a few sec-
tors of volunteers for this festival. “It's a group of volunteers that came together to do it. We're not a formal organization; we're just a group that wanted to put this on. There's a few sectors represented. We tried to get the sectors that had mountain events like Pass Powderkeg, cross country skiing, Uplift Adventures and those types of things.” The festival began on Tuesday, December 3rd with an art and writing contest that was overseen by McFarlane. "The United Nations
ART CONTEST WINNERS 2019 KINDERGARTEN 1 & 2 Group (Kara Kulak’s class) GRADE 1A (Tie) Noah Burton Charlotte Rampage GRADE 1
Sawyer Schmipf GRADE 2B (Mountain Reflections) Ryder GRADE 3 Dameon Crabbe GRADE 4/5 Sophie Wendrich
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designates a theme every year. The theme is usually mountains matter and this year it was mountains matter for youth. We decided to have an art competition with kids in kindergarten to grade 6. It was fabulous. They're all on display at the library and will be there for two weeks. There was also a writing component that was available to high school kids and those are also available to read at the library as well. McFarlane says both the art and writing were judged as well. "For the art aspect of it we had two professional artists. They came and looked at all the sub-
missions and then chose the top ones from each class. For the writing component we had grades 8-11 participate and they had to write a short poem or essay or a small fictional piece on why mountains matter to them. We then had three judges who read all the submissions and they picked the top winners. We had prizes for the winners as well." The festival actually opened with the art installation and it goes until the 11th, which is the official day. Other events and activities over the week long festival included a film festival on Friday, an
event at Allison/Chinook Lake on Saturday, activities at the ski hill and the festival concluded on Wednesday with the Frank Slide Interpretive Centre hosting events and activities. McFarlane says the reason for putting the festival on is simply because of our location and that we should celebrate it. “We live in the mountains and we have lots to celebrate living where we do. It's a unique and different culture than the prairies or either coast. We have a lot of things to celebrate by living here. From an artist's point of view, it lends itself to a different kind of creativity."
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16 – CrowsNesT PAss HerALD – Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Looking Back
By John Kinnear
Tales from the Cookie Box – A New Beginning We left off last week’s column with Gunter and Franz Koci arriving in Blairmore in late 1951 after an 11 day boat trip and then train ride across Canada. They soon settled in Blairmore with Franz working at the Sartoris Mill and Gunter at the Lynx Creek sawmill. Gunter told me that in October he, along with three other young men, also immigrants, rented a small drafty shack out at the mill camp for $16 a month. It had but one mattress and on first glance is a rather tough-sounding start to a new life here. In fact the very first thing Gunter shared with me was an article in the Lethbridge Herald that year that had to do with 18 disgruntled German and Italian immigrants complaining to the local department of citizenship and immigration about lack of support on arriving here. Their specific complaint was about “false promises” given by immigration officials overseas. These days we provide temporary funding to help new arrivals to get established. Unfortunately back in 1951 you were on your own as not speaking the language and having little, if any, money would have made a new start pretty tough. There was no financial assistance whatsoever and how do you qualify for unemployment insurance if you haven’t worked here. So one day Gunter asked the mill manager Mr. Funky, “Are there any bakeries around here?” to which he replied (in Gunter’s words), “Ja (yes), I think there is one in Bellevue.” So Gunter said, “Can you take me there, but you have to speak for me because I don’t speak English.” Funky agreed and took him to Bellevue where he met with Bob Paton who was running the bakery at the time. Paton was no stranger to the bakery business having managed the McGavin’s Bakery in Lethbridge for 15 years. He took over in Bellevue from Harry Meade in 1946. Harry Meade, who had been running Bellevue since 1923, had systematically built the business up until it was running four delivery trucks that reached from Michel to Burmis and even Waterton Park. Meade’s Bread was a household word back then. As was the case for most of Gunter’s life, serendipity stepped in. One of their bakers had just left the day before and Paton told him he could start the very next day. Gunter was a properly trained and innovative baker and quickly introduced some German pastry items into the Paton selection that were big hits. He worked there for four years and then, being the ambitious type, quit to go back to the mill for more money. It wasn’t long before Gunter contemplated creating his own business and controlling his own affairs. He suggested to Franz that they build their own bakery and he went before Mayor Tiberg in a council meeting (called town meetings back then) to request a lot. The lot price was $850, which was all the money they had. The empty lot, the only one available, was located next to Blairmore Motors (now the IDA Pharmacy) and someone loaned them $5000 to get started on the building. The boys built the concrete block main floor themselves and one year later added an apartment upstairs in which they lived. The pictures of Gunter back then are of a really nice, clean- cut looking man but, according to him, the women in town showed no interest. He suggested to me that, given his accent and his birthplace, there was a racial bias at play back then. So Gunter placed an ad in a German newspaper in 1961 apparently looking for someone to join him and be his bride. While he received a fair number of letters back he chose one that had included a picture in her response. It turns out she, Dorothy Lichtenstein, was already working in a bakery in Germany and looking to start a new life. As the story goes, Gunter sent her the money to come to Canada and she eventually flew into Edmonton and then Calgary where Gunter picked her up. Try as I might, I cannot seem to picture myself in this situation, bringing a total stranger home here to potentially be my bride. Gunter said they stopped at Lundbreck Falls to show here the sights. He claims he turned to her there, and in classic Gunter fashion said, “You should give me a kiss!” which she did. No doubt this broke the ice. So let’s preface their coming together story by backing it up a bit and telling you that Gunter and Franz saved every cent they had and brought their mother and father here in 1952. Franz Josef went to work in the sawmill and the family threw all their resources together and bought a house in Blairmore. Both boys took English lessons in night class from William Jallep in 1952 to help them make their way in our English world. At the time of Dorothy’s (Doris) arrival they now had an established business, were all Canadian citizens as of 1956, and had begun to build a new future for all here in Canada. This is how immigrants helped build our country and contributed to its remarkable and diverse ethnic diversity. They capitalized on opportunity or created it themselves and integrated into our cosmopolitan society. Getting back to the Gunter/Doris story, there is a wonderful unfolding of their coming together event that I just have to share. I have consistently cleared this with him and his response is always as I said before, “It is what it is.” According to him, Immigration policy dictated that they had but four days to decide whether she would stay. If she did she had to commit to marrying him within that time otherwise she would have to return to Germany. I have not been able to verify this qualification but it was apparent there was some kind of edict that came into play as far as Doris being able to stay or not. Prior to the four day edict expiring, Gunter chose to go and see Serafino Trono at his jewellery store, a place that had operated since 1915. Mr. Trono was certified to marry people but Gunter did not realize this. He thought he was merely going to purchase or obtain the marriage certificate he needed for a church wedding. Gunter and Doris were escorted to his office in the back and at some point Gunter realized Trono was going to marry them right there and then. Since Doris did not speak English he whispered to her in German, “When I nudge you, just say yes”, which she did. Just love this! After this unexpected back room union there was in fact a formal church wedding at the United Church and thus began a remarkable fifty-two year marriage. Gunter affirmed there were never any issues between them and they both worked hard to make the bakery thrive. He described it as the perfect marriage and that Doris trusted his judgment implicitly. Her mother came from Germany for no less than three visits and was astounded to learn her daughter was a beautician. After a couple of years Franz decided he wanted to pursue a career as an artist and sculptor and left the business. Being the practical businessman he was, Gunter decided that the basement of the bakery could be put to good use. So Gunter and Doris agreed that she would take a hairdressing course in Lethbridge and open up a shop down there. He even bought her a car to come and go on weekends as she trained. Eventually the Style Rite Beauty Salon was opened and operated for many years. The former Pass Promoter newspaper offices were also downstairs for a time. Early pictures of the bakery reveal a cream-coloured two-story building with an awning and a separate entrance on the left to the apartment above. In later years the façade was nicely Bavarianized with decorations and shutters and a full-length wooden shake canopy front. The store advertised bread, buns, pastries and pies. Eventually the store was renovated to allow for a small deli for hot or cold lunches. Gunter said that he began making the true German dark rye bread early on and that people came from as far away as Fernie to buy this traditional bread that he said was the typical everyday bread consumed back in Germany. Pictures courtesy of Gunter Koci Again it appears that I have run out of room to properly The staff at Patons Bakery, Bellevue 1952; 1951 wrap up Gunter’s story. The on-line version of part 3 will English class with Franz and Gunter - William contain lots of extra images of the bakery, Doris and later imJallep instructor; Gunter Koci as a young man in ages of Gunter. In the last installment I will share yet another Blairmore; Gunter and Franz laying concrete block serendipitious story of how he acquired his present house for the new bakery; Cookie Box Bakery in later and take you through the sale of the bakery, his retirement years; Front page photo Cookie Box Bakery 1960 years and a remarkable legacy of world travel. with Gunter's 1958 Dodge out front