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66 YEARS OF SERVING THE COMMUNITY
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016
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RCMP files from July 14 – 20 Joe Machney Reporter July 14 02:01 911 report of horses on the road. Patrols were made but the horses were not found. 11:00 A male was arrested with a stolen vehicle and other stolen items. Upon investigation it was found that he was in possession of methamphetamines and two air soft pistols. The man was remanded in custody. 11:58 Report of a speeding vehicle. Member was busy with another call and could not attend. 12:37 Report of an impaired driver. Patrols were made but the vehicle was not located. 13:42 Report of harassing communications over a property dispute. A male continued to contact a female against her approval. 16:07 Report of a window in a vehicle being smashed over night. 18:23 Report of a gunshot heard the day before. Members patrolled the area however nothing out of place was noticed. 20:22 Report of someone banging on a door. Patrols were made and the person was gone. 20:57 Report of a suspicious vehicle. A license plate was obtained and the member contacted the owner and learned that the couple were bird watching. 22:44 Report of possible theft. There were no grounds to support a charge. July 15 09:18 Complaint of an oversized load on a highway. 10:02 Report of a suicidal male. Male was located and deemed not to be suicidal. 10:40 CRA scam. 13:54 911 report of a two vehicle collision near Mundare. Seemed to of been caused by a medical issue from one of the drivers. 14:04 Report of a domestic argument. Situation was mediated. 17:00 Report of a theft from a property in Lavoy. Still under investigation. 17:48 Member assisted in retrieval of property as per a court order. 18:26 Report of a girlfriend and boyfriend breakup. He disabled the battery in her car and then removed it. Situation was mediated. 23:33 Report of a truck revving an engine on a street outside of residences. Members patrolled but the vehicle was gone. 23:35 911 report from a licensed establishment of an intoxicated driver. Member patrolled and the vehicle was not located. July 16 02:07 Member stopped a speeding
truck and the driver ending up being arrested for marijuana and hashish. Released with a promise to appear. 05:57 911 hang up call which ended up being two roommates arguing. Members did not attend and the roommates resolved their issue. 09:30 911 report of a blue barrel in the ditch. Corilian was notified. 10:39 911 report of a missing 16year-old. The 16-year old’s location was determined and she was put in contact with her parents. 12:04 911 hang up. This son had been arguing with his mother. Members were not required. 15:51 911 report of altercation
between two drivers. One had reported the other blocking the entrance to the Vegreville shopping mall. The other gave the finger to the other but reversed the accusation when the police spoke to him. Both drivers were warned. 17:27 911 report of speeding in a construction zone. 17:51 Report of a landlord and tenant dispute. The tenant was advised to contact the landlord and tenant board. 20:54 Report of a black lab in the middle of highway 16. Member attended and the dog was not on the road… (again). 23:44 Report of a male being arrested on outstanding warrants. During the arrest he assaulted a member and is now facing multiple charges. July 17 00:21 911 report of an erratic driver near Mundare. RCMP patrolled but ended up with negative results. 00:34 A traffic stop resulted in tickets for no driver’s licence, no registration, no insurance, misuse of licence plate and multiple criminal code charges including possession of a weapon for dangerous purposes. 01:51 911 report of a group outside a bar shoving and arguing. Member attended and one male was arrested and lodged to sober up. 16:17 Report of a vehicle driving on a dirt field. Vehicle was located and
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the driver was ticket for driving without a supervising driver. July 18 12:45 Report of two males that threatened to damage some property. Members located the two males and the y were warned about what they were saying. 15:59 Report of a female driving carelessly, waving her hands and talking on her cellphone. Still under investigation. 17:12 Traffic stop resulting in a 24hour suspension for drug consumption. 21:51 Report of a truck on fire on highway 16. The fire department showed on scene and put the fire out. 22:25 Report of a complaint of a semi-truck with a flat deck with a long blade hanging out of the trailer. Members attended but could not locate the truck. July 19 02:51 Members located a truck on highway 16. Driver said that he had run out of gas. Investigation revealed that the driver had consumed marijuana and was given a 24 hr driver suspension. 17:39 Report of theft from a vehicle. Someone broke in and stole a wallet. 22:07 A vehicle was pulled over for no headlights and the driver was found to have warrants out of Fort Sask and Edmonton. 23:44 Report of a suspicious young male on a bicycle checking out vehicles. Members patrolled and could not fine the individual. July 20 06:34 Report of a truck parked in the middle of the road. The driver was given a 24hr suspension and a vehicle towed. 10:27 Report of break-in to a business. Still under investigation. 10:51 Report of a truck weaving on highway 16 westbound near Vermilion. RCMP was notified and the vehicle was intercepted by members and determined to be stolen. The driver was arrested and held for a hearing. 16:46 Report of mischief to a vehicle parked outside of a residence. 18:19 Request for a well-being check. Members located the person and concluded that she was fine. 19:09 A woman came to the station with a wallet that she had bought which had credit cards in it. The card owners were called and the cards were returned. Upon investigation it was learned that a couple had been trying out the wallet and had forgotten to take out their credit cards. During the week 6 false alarms, 0 false 911, 2 animals strikes and 71 calls in total for service were made.
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Boat Safety Starts with You: Tips for a Safe Summer on the Water (Part 1) Cst. J. Gagnon Now that summer is finally upon us, many Albertans are venturing out to discover the beauty and majesty of our wonderful province’s many lakes, rivers and ponds. Though not a prolific activity in the Vegreville area, boating remains a treasured pass-time for many of the community’s residents. Whether as part of a camping trip or a weekend of fishing, boating promises fun and excitement for the whole family. Tragically though, hundreds of Canadians die and many more get seriously injured each year in boat and water related incidents and unfortunately, many of these are young children. As with any recreational activity, safety must remain a top priority in order to enjoy boating to its fullest. First of all, remember your safety equipment. By law every recreational vessel must carry, one paddle or oar (though two are recommended), a bailing bucket or manual water pump, a personal floatation device (one for each boater) sized for each person on board, one 15 meter buoyant heaving line, an anchor with 15 meters of cable, rope or chain, a water tight flashlight, a horn or whistle and thee pyrotechnic signaling
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devices. Also, any vessel with an inboard engine, a fixed fuel tank or fuel burning appliance is required to carry a class 5, B or C fire extinguisher. All safety equipment must be in good working order and always easy to reach so it can be used in an emergency. In addition to the required equipment, it’s also highly recommended to bring along other emergenc y items including a first aid kit, emergency rations and drinking water, dry clothing sealed in a waterproof device and a small tool kit complete with spare parts such as spark plugs. This may seem like a lot to remember so make a checklist before heading out. The law also requires all recreational vessels to have a pleasure craft license assigned to it. This license is a document with a unique number assigned only to that vessel. In an emergency situation this number provides Search and Rescue personnel with important and often lifesaving information. This license number must be displayed on both sides of the bow of the boat and should be in a colour that contrasts with the colour of the hull. To be continued. Be sure to check this section next week for more important boating tips.
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Addictions are a waste of your time Joe Machney Reporter This is really a no-brainer, but I want to get into it a bit more to try and offer another perspective into this whole addiction matter as I hope this can open the door to a quicker recovery so that you can get back to the life you truly want to live and were meant to live. I want to start with some simple, what people may perceive as innocent, addictions. People look outside themselves for love, and have been taught by society to do this. If they do not get this love then they look for it elsewhere, and the first place can quite often be in food. The taste that it gives you brings you comfort and takes you away from the uncomfortable feelings that you are
going through. So you physically, mentally and emotionally develop a pattern that associates comfort from food with love. This is filling a hole and need for approval on some level. This is the basis for all addictions, and is the key to understanding why people become addicted and is also the answer as well as the first step to taking back your life. In addressing addictions there is an innate intelligence within us that knows right from wrong, good from evil and can guide you through times of uncertainty. That being the case you can nurture and teach the emotion, physical and mental part of yourself which are in reality tools to use in your life that they do not need to have the food to be
Theft of Minivan and Debit machine in Lamont RCMP On July 2, 2016 at approximately 1:30 p.m., a believed to be lone male entered the Heartland Hotel in Lamont, A.B. The male then proceeded to steal a handheld debit machine and departed in a minivan that was property of the Heartland Hotel. The Minivan has since been recovered. Fort Saskatchewan RCMP is requesting the assistance of the public in identifying the male responsible for the theft. The male is described as Caucasian, in his twenties, approximately 6’2� and 160 lbs. The male is observed to have
several tattoos, including a sleeve tattoo on his left arm containing spider webs and a tattoo on his right hand. Anyone with information pertaining to this crime is requested to contact the Fort Saskatchewan RCMP at 780-9977900. If you want to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), or by internet at www.tipsubmit.com. You do not have to reveal your identity to Crime Stoppers, and if you provide information to Crime Stoppers that leads to an arrest(s), you may be eligible for a cash reward.
happy, that it will only give it joy for a moment and is not everlasting. You could blame the chemicals and neurology and all that, but the truth is that you can override all those patterns by letting that innate intelligence take the wheel and take your life back for you. You can change anything you want in your life, any pattern. It is your choice to believe this or not, but ask yourself, how does it serve you to not consider this and to go back to eating that cake, that last piece of pie, even though you finished the first eight pieces earlier in the day, or maybe as you were reading this. I feel that sex, smoking, drugs and alcohol can all be addressed in the same way as food, and it is only a fabrication of the mind and society that tells you
that it should be harder than this. It doesn’t need to be and yes there are chemicals at work and some of these addictions will need more time than others, but I know that it is the same process and it all started from not understanding the true power and strength that is within every one of us and has been since the day we were born. If you use this as your compass, your way home, you will never be misguided on your journey, and you can get rid of the habits and patterns in your life that do not serve you. Be patient with yourself and keep steady as the waters of addiction get rough from time to time. You can do this!
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FROM THE PAGES OF THE VEGREVILLE OBSERVER
COMPILED BY DAN BEAUDETTE
90 Years Ago – August 4, 1926 Elevators of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company, Limited, today came under the management of the Saskatchewan wheat pool, making the Saskatchewan pool the greatest wheat handling organization in the world. The first payment of $1,500,000.00 was made by the pool to the company today by certified cheque. The pool previously had made a deposit of $500,000 just prior to the meeting of the directors and shareholders of the company in April, when decision to sell the company’s elevators and holdings was reached. Jas. McCrea, exhibition secretary, announces today, Wednesday, that nearly 1500 entries have been received for the exhibition to be held on the three concluding days of the week. This is nearly double the number received in 1925 and more than double any previous years. The exhibition is off to a good start. The platform attractions are uniformly entertaining and the baseball games are expected to be quite up to the mark. Improvements are being made to the curling rink premises this season. The rink company is putting a cement foundation under the building and has also torn down the fence round the old open air skating rink.
75 Years Ago – August 6, 1941 While rain upset part of the programme at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the coming of the Ukrainians to Canada, held at Mundare on Saturday and Sunday, August 2nd and 3rd, it failed to dampen the spirits of those who attended. Estimated at 3,000 from all parts of the province, the big crowd took enthusiastic part in the proceedings. A spectacular fire believed caused by lightning destroyed the Vermilion flour and grist mill shortly before midnight Sunday. The building and contents were valued at $60,000, only partly covered by insurance. Heroic work by the town fire brigade saved the municipally owned electric light and power plant, located only 100 feet west of the mill and toward which a light wind was blowing. The mill was owned by W.R. Wiebe and sons. The mill was 58 ft. high and housed fully modern milling machinery. Only last fall the steam power plant had been replaced by a big diesel engine at a cost of $7,000. Contents of the office, which was a lean to addition were saved.
50 Years Ago – August 4, 1966 Following a period of about two weeks shut-down the Vegreville Swimming Pool got back into business on Sunday afternoon. A breakdown of the circulation pump motor and unavailability of parts caused the lengthy closing. A fire early Wednesday morning at the egg grading station operated by Eli Swekla in Vegreville caused considerable smoke damage to the building. The fire department was called out about 6:00 am and had everything under control in about an hour and a half. Florists Transworld Delivery Association (FTD), the world wide flowers-by-wire organization, announced today that Speidel’s Flower Shop has been selected as a member in the Association. The woner of the new FTD member shop, located at 4934-51st Avenue at Vegreville. Congratulations was extended to Mrs. Speidel. The winners of the cash awards at the Vegreville Exhibition are as follows: $100 Monday, Metro Holowaychuk, Two Hills; $100 Tuesday, Arnold Fried, Vegreville; $1000 Wednesday, Sam Strashok of Chipman. Dr. N.G.M. (Max) Tuck, former Technical Department Head in Cornwall, Ontario, has accepted the position of Marketing Manager for the whole of the Domtar operations in the United Kingdom. Another son of Mr. and Mrs. J Tuck of Lavoy, Glenn, has recently been appointed acting executive director in the Department of Youth of the Province of Saskatchewan.
25 Years Ago – August 6, 1991 Drahomanow Nature trail was officially opened Friday, August1. The trail was completed November 1990, cost $5,000 and was funded by Recreation, Parks and Wildlife Foundation (RPW). The trail is at Drahomanow Park located south west of Vegreville. Ron Gorgichuk represented RPW at the ceremonies and congratulated the society for their efforts. The trail is approximately 400 feet long and features a variety of bird houses, benched rest stops and a viewing deck on a pond. Construction of the trail was supervised by Drahomanow Society building committee and is maintained by Drahomanow Recreation Association. For their next project the society is looking into funding for a gazebo that provides shelter for two to three hundred people. A John Deere 9600 Maximizer combine was won for this seasons harvest by Randy Cannan an Innisfree farmer. Cannan won the grand prize in Alberta Pool’s Haul In and Win, program. During the Haul and Win program anyone who made a grain or oilseed delivery to Alberta Pool between June 1 and 30, was entered in the draw. The grand prize was the use of a John Deere 9600 Maximizer combine for harvest 1991.
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Terrorism in Europe: “Our Country is at War” Gwynne Dyer “Our country is at war,” said French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday, after a priest was murdered near Rouen in front of his congregation by two attackers who claimed to be serving Islamic State. It’s the sort of thing leaders feel compelled to say at times like this, but it does send the wrong message. French aircraft are already bombing IS forces in Syria, so you could call that a sort of war (though nobody on the French side is getting killed). But that was not what Hollande was talking about. He was saying that France is somehow at war AT HOME, and went on to say “Our democracy is the target, and it will be our shield. Let us stand together. We will win this war.” Stirring stuff, and the French certainly need some encouragement, because they are still in shock after the recent slaughter of 84 people by an truck-driving Islamist terrrorist in Nice. But the words are wrong, because if the French are at war at home, then who are they at war with? The obvious answer, almost the only plausible answer, is French Muslims. Which is, of course, precisely the conclusion that Islamic State wants the French people to reach. I’m not saying that the two deluded Muslim teenagers who carried out the attack on the French priest were aware of the grand strategy behind IS’s terrorist campaign in Europe. But the men who set IS policy and control the Islamist websites that urge young European Muslims to commit these terrible acts know exactly
what they want to achieve. In France, they want to stimulate anti-Muslim hatred, turn the majority against this under-privileged minority, and ensure the victory of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the neo-fascist, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant National Front, in next year’s presidential election. She is already practically guaranteed a place as one of the two contenders in the second, run-off phase of the French election. If the terrorist attacks radicalise many Christian and post-Christian French people and lead to widespread anti-Muslim violence, Le Pen might even win it and become France’s next president. Islamic State’s strategy in Germany is just the same, although the country is less fertile ground for Islamist extremism: relatively few of Germany’s Muslims are Arabs, and IS is an overwhelmingly Arab organisation. The far-right parties in Germany are also much weaker than the National Front in France. But IS has just claimed credit for two terrorist attacks in Germany in a single week. Why does Islamic State want an anti-Muslim backlash in European countries? Because it will radicalise many more European Muslims, and also maybe bring to power populist leaders who really do want to “wage war on Islam”. Islamic State’s ideology claims that the whole Muslim world is under attack by the evil West, and that only IS can defend it successfully. Only if its real target audience in the Arab world believes that lie can IS hope to gain popular support, and perhaps ultimately political power, in the Arab countries, so it NEEDS the West to behave badly. That’s why Francois Hollande was wrong to say that France is at war at home. Words matter, and he’s playing into the terrorists’ hands. It’s also why the United States can expect to see a rash of Islamist attacks next October. They wouldn’t even have to be very big to drive millions of American voters into the arms of Donald Trump, and nothing could please Islamic State more than Trump as president. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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Being mirrors for each other
Joe Machney Reporter By being mirrors for one another in your relationships, you can observe where your weak points are. These may show up when you have a sudden reaction to what the person said or did. Why is that a weak point for you? What is this person showing you that you need to look at in yourself? Asking these types of questions with a neutral non-attached outcome will allow a stillness to come to your mind and with it an answer, if you are patient enough to hear it. It will clear the smoke in front of you which was created by you and the other person. Make sure you get your sharptongued ego out of the way so that it doesn’t interfere with the answer! The many lessons the person has to teach to help you grow as a spiritual being will continue on for the duration of the relationship. Some are meant for a lifetime and others are not. Understanding this truth should make it easier for you to set sail again on your own, should you feel the relationship is not going anywhere anymore and there is no more growing. As a kindness to the other person, if you could somehow convey this to them, it would be a good way of having closure. Although they may not understand where
you are coming from, at some level of themselves they will get what you are saying, and be grateful for the time spent with you. When you set sail on your own again and are at peace with that decision, you will have more love for yourself and more inner peace. This adds to the love that is your true being. Even though it is hard and to experience pain, loss and other uncomfortable feelings, you will know that you have completed
an important contract that you and that person signed together. Grief and loss will always heal in time; trust this. What the other person feels and thinks is up to them. This is not being self-centered; this is about not looking for love outside yourself. By achieving this you offer this presence to the world, and hope for people who are going through a challenging time.
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Decision-making should be based on facts, not politics
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Shannon Stubbs Northern Albertans affected by the devastating wildfires in and around Fort McMurray have experienced challenging, and in some cases, life-changing, times recently. The impact on communities and businesses, particularly on the energy sector, is significant, and will pose challenges for some time. It has been inspiring to see how this tragedy has brought out the very best of generosity and kindness in Canadians. Energy workers were struggling even before the fires in Alberta. Low commodity prices combined with regulatory uncertainty and delayed energy infrastructure projects hinder Canada’s energy sector, and negatively impact its competitveness. In January 2016, the Liberal government introduced an unclear and duplicative interim review process for energy infrastructure projects that outline intentions to base decisions on science and facts, consider the views of the public and effected communities, meaningfully consult Indigenous peoples and accommodate their rights and interests, and assess direct and upstream greenhouse gas emissions linked to the projects under review. Liberal ministers tout their announcement will “provide greater certainty” and “restore confidence” in Canada’s regulatory process.
This is confusing because these measures already characterize Canada’s regulatory process for energy project assessments and approval. Both Canada’s energy producers and the Government of Canada have a long history of consultation and partnership with First Nations in energy development. This relationship-building is incorporated into the existing review process, and First Nations and Métis companies, partnerships and employment certainly underpin Alberta’s oil and gas sector. In fact, oil sands companies employ among the highest numbers of First Nations workers in wellpaying jobs of any businesses in Canada, and First Nations and Métis-owned companies are involved in oil and gas from production to service and supply provision, generating benefits and opportunities for their own and surrounding communities. Stakeholders are concerned about this “new” approach. Alex Ferguson, the Vice President of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, told the Standing Committee on Natural Resources recently that “we’ve scratched our heads a little bit…” about specific requirements and measures, and how it differs from Canada’s long track record of world class regulations and stringent assessment. He said the interim process
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is “a bit up in the air”. Others, like Katrina Marsh of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, say they “don’t fundamentally believe that the environmental assessment processes run by the federal and provincial governments are broken.” The new requirements for upstream greenhouse gas emissions from pipelines are also worrying, given pipelines do not emit GHGs and that upstream emissions fall under provincial jurisdiction. This is not a bar to which any other major infrastructure in Canada is held. The federal approach is causing uncertainty, delays, higher costs and creating a lack of confidence in the oil and gas industry. The Liberal government is undermining the stability and predictability of one of Canada’s most vital sectors that provides crucial economic benefits to all Canadians. In fact, the sector contributes $17 billion dollars annually to all levels of government to fund essential government programs and services. The industry is important in 12 of Canada’s 13 provinces and territories, and is the single largest private sector investor in the country, with $81 billion dollars in capital projects in 2014. The contribution of oil and gas companies to the Canadian labour force is considerable. More than 440,000 Canadians work directly and indirectly in the oil and gas sector, from coast-tocoast-to-coast. The review process was independent, scientific, evidence and fact-based, and has always consulted with communities and the public, before the interim measures were announced. While the former Conservative government trusted the expert work and recommendations of the National Energy Board, the
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Trudeau Liberal government has created an entirely parallel additional layer of bureaucracy not to supplement the NEB process, but to duplicate it. They’ve even said that if the NEB recommends a project for approval, the Cabinet may not approve it. So much for thorough decision-making based on facts and science, and not on politics. Shannon Stubbs is the Member of Parliament for Lakeland, and the Official Opposition Deputy Critic for Natural Resources.
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Frank Sapach has been riding across Canada from Victoria to Moncton to raise awareness about homeless and abused animals...good on ya mate!!
Alberta Innovates Technology Futures’ Vegreville field day explored canola, barley, flax, oats, native plants, hemp, and a couple hours of rain in the morning while doing the field tour
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Bruce Stampede rides on! Before the professional rodeo came the parade down main street Bruce.
Joe Machney Reporter Since 1914 people have been coming from all over North America to participate in and enjoy Canada’s oldest oneday rodeo, the Bruce Stampede! The 103rd annual Bruce stampede started off with the barrel racing jackpot on Friday, July 29 with seventy entries in total. The pony chuckwagon and chariot races came after that followed by a steak supper and then a concert by Tracy Millar with many country music fans in attendance. Calvin Vollrath, the Canadian-born, and world-famous fiddler joined her on stage as well to end the first day of the three-day event. The local rodeo began on Saturday with the scheduled events being mutton busting for the little kids, stick horse barrel racing with a best-dressed cowboy and cowgirl contest, a greased pig scramble, a calf scramble, a bloomer race, wild cow race, calf tying, and open cow riding. The
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Kristy White from Big Valley, Alberta took first in ladies barrel racing with a time of 17.568 seconds. William Barrows from Foremost, Alberta took first place in junior steer riding with 81 points.
fun continued late into the afternoon with the kid’s wild pony race, peewee barrels and the rescue race. “For Saturday, with the rain during Friday night, the Taste the dust pro tour decided not to run due to the rain and it causing safety issues and all,” Doug Wenstob, vice president of the Bruce Stampede Association, reported. “The local rodeo was good and there were no injuries even though the weather was poor a lot of people had come out for the day. The slack event had a lot of entries and everything went well, the ground was good. To end the day there was a rodeo dance with Domino, out of Stettler, playing to upwards of 400 people. The bass player of the band, Luanne Carl grew up in Viking, and her husband Russ Carl, who plays guitar and mandolin is from Wainwright,” Robbie Chomik, president of the Bruce Stampede Association, said. Sunday rolled in with a pancake breakfast at the stampede grounds and the recreation centre, then a parade in the hamlet of Bruce. Giving people who stayed for the whole weekend a chance to take a breather from all of the excitement for a few hours, the main show began at 1pm with Luanne Carl singing Oh Canada. Starting off the professional rodeo for the afternoon was the wild horse race which got everybody’s blood pumping. With two parts to the competitions and many comical interludes by the rodeo clowns as well as a reading of Curtis Anderson’s road to recovery speech about brain-injury awareness from the courageous man himself, the rodeo ended at around seven in the evening with the final event being freestyle bull fighting where Dylan Miller took the top score with 75 points. The winners of the other events were: Jake Watson from Hudsons Hope, BC taking first place in saddle bronc with a score of 82.5 points. JR Vezain from Cowley, Wyoming took first place in bareback with a score of 84 points. Lonnie West from Cadogan, Alberta took first place in bull riding with a score of 85 points. Ben Robinson from Red Deer county, Alberta took first in the tie-down roping with a time of 8.2 seconds. Justin Millar from Neepawa, Manitoba, took first in steer wrestling with a time of 3.8 seconds. Brothers Justin and Brett McCarroll from Camrose, Alberta, took first in team roping with a time of 4.3 seconds.
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Walmart, Costco muscling into Canada’s food retail marketplace Troy Media The evolution of Canada’s food retailing industry is being hastened by a pair of American giants. Consumers are the big winners. Reports on the latest Canada consumer price index
drew a great deal of attention to falling meat prices. To the delight of barbecue fans, beef, pork and chicken prices have dropped for the first time in six years. In fact, according to Statistics Canada, food prices declined dramatically across the board in June. Food inflation is now below the general inflation rate for the first time in almost two years. Food price decreases are driven by a range of factors; for example, because food distributors are winning their fight against vendors to lower prices for consumers. While food prices contract, menu prices in restaurants continue to increase, at 2.6 per cent over last year.
Aside from Newfoundland and Labrador, most provinces and the territories experienced food price declines. Prices fell the most in Quebec and British Columbia, by more than 0.5 per cent in just one month. Both provinces were considered key markets for high-value food products for sophisticated consumers. However, that may be changing, because underneath the numbers published recently by Statistics Canada is a very different, even troubling, story about the nation’s food retailing establishment. In the face of a changing marketplace, one retailer stands out. Walmart’s store sales are up 6.7 per cent from last year and the retailer has made significant inroads in many parts of the country, particularly in Quebec and B.C. In fact, eight of the 13 stores Walmart bought from Target last year were in Quebec and B.C. Overall sales are up more than eight per cent at Walmart Canada and customers are spending 2.1 per cent more per visit. Also, the average Walmart consumer is visiting the store more frequently, a powerful indicator that food is making a difference for the retail giant. The numbers confirm the impact of Walmart Canada’s strategy as the food retailing landscape becomes more competitive. Walmart wants to be the No. 1 food retailer in Canada, as it is in the U.S. And it’s difficult to bet against the Arkansas-based giant. Its lowcost operating model provides a significant advantage. And its focus on food prices can no longer be ignored.
Walmart Canada now has food labs to develop and test new products. The company is fully committed to food, offering more fresh products and better merchandise. It has gone from a mediocre food retailer, at best, to a decent one. Now you feel like you are in a food store and the process of Walmart Canada legitimizing itself as a food retailer is almost complete. But it’s not just Walmart. Costco has almost 10 per cent of the Canadian food retailing market share, an impressive increase from a few years ago. Both companies are capitalizing on our two-tiered food system. While the haves - the foodies, the organic lovers and fan of local products - advocate for more changes, the have nots just survive. The have nots, who are not necessarily the poor and socially inept, are often the forgotten food consumers. They may have lost their jobs, recently run into financial difficulties or trying to raise children during a separation. They may even be working two or three jobs at once. What Walmart and Costco are doing resonates with the have nots. They are capitalizing on that segment of the market who must watch every cent they spend. So Loblaws, Sobeys and Metro are all putting more pressure on vendors to reduce prices. If you think the intent is only to protect consumers against higher food prices, you’re kidding yourself. These traditional retailers are working hard to protect themselves from Walmart.
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Pauline puts the positive in life Rosanne Fortier There are some people who accept life the way it is and seem generally happy. Pauline is a person like this. Pauline was born at home on a farm in Mundare in 1927. Her parents were religious people who were very good to their children. Pauline said she had a happy childhood. She had two brothers and four sisters where she was the second child and the oldest of the girls. “We were poor and we lived in a one-room house with a dirt floor and a small kitchen that my dad made later. There were eight beds in this room. This never bothered me because we didn’t know any better. We never saw a store-bought toy but we made our own games. Then we were never hungry because we had animals on the farm. And even if we were in close corners, we never fought because there was a strap hanging on the wall that my parents seldom used but just the threat of this punishment kept us wellbehaved.” Pauline’s earliest memory was when she was two-and-ahalf years old and her parents dressed her up to go to the Ukrainian Catholic Church and she would misbehave because at this young age, she thought she knew better than anyone else. “They made me go around the church and put flowers out for the Pentecostal holiday and with the basket of roses the sisters gave me that I was supposed to throw one-byone around the church, in the second round, I got tired and put my hands in the basket and threw all the roses out.” Pauline remembered babysitting for her younger siblings since she was six yearsold. When she started school,
she didn’t like it at first because she needed glasses and her parents couldn’t afford to buy her a pair, so it was really hard to learn when she couldn’t see. “The teacher wouldn’t allow the students to get out of their desk to see what was on the board and I saw different than what was on this board. One day, I said I wasn’t going to go to school without having glasses on. This made my mom find a way to get me a pair and I went back to school and I started to pass my grades and I liked school a lot better. I had many friends at school. “When I was nine yearsold and my brother was 10, my parents left us alone one time when it was very cold outside. There was an old horse in the barn that we didn’t want to be cold. So, we decided to put some heat under the horse. We got some straw and hay and lit it up with a match. The neighbors saw some smoke and she came to see what we were doing and she led the horse away from this. But she never told our dad what we did. “We loved growing up on the farm because our dad always allowed us to have friends over to play ball. When we were teenagers, we played baseball and dad always had a lunch available for our friends after the game. Today, I have so many fond memories from that time. “I went up to grade 10 at school because there were farm schools nearby. After I finished school, I went to work in a hospital in Vegreville where I took care of seniors. I really liked the old people and
I used to tease them. Pauline said she first met her husband at a celebration at church. “A friend from school introduced me to Paul and Paul asked me if I would go out with him. I said yes immediately because it was love at first sight for me. Paul was handsome and he seemed like such a nice man. We had a good courtship after this and we got married when I was 21 years-old. We got
along very well after we got married. We never quarreled. When I didn’t like what he said or did, I just told him this and he would try to do things differently and if he felt I shouldn’t do something, I would listen too. After we got married, we lived on the farm and I still worked at my job in
the hospital. I feel that our love got deeper the longer we
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MLA column Jessica Littlewood, MLA for Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville Agriculture in Alberta is older than the province itself. In fact agriculture,
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and not the fur trade or the oil fields, was what brought settlement to Alberta in first place. Most Alberta communities grew up around farms and the people who built them, and it is rare to find a second or third generation Albertan without farming roots in their background somewhere. Agricultural Societies have played a critical role in the development of rural Alberta, promot-
ing rural life and sharing agricultural innovation and best practices among farmers and communities. There are over 285 Agricultural Societies in Alberta. They do everything from hosting local farm fair days to supporting local swimming pools and playgrounds to running camps so that city kids can experience farm life. In the Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville area we have Ag Societies in Bruderheim, Lamont, Chipman, Andrew, St. Michael and of course in Vegreville, where they host the Vegreville Country Fair that’s taking place August 4 – 6. Another thing that Ag Societies do in Alberta is promote and educate about agriculture and about farm safety. That’s why I’m very happy to help spread the word that the Alberta
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Association of Agricultural Societies (AAAS) has announced a new grant program for Ag Societies. This new grant program is specifically designed to fund programs about farm safety – to raise awareness, to educate and to support programming. It is funded by the Government of Alberta through the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Later this fall at the Ag Society regional meetings AAAS representatives will distribute a list of resources, speakers or programming suggestions. There is $900,000 available over three years for this initiative. For more information you can contact someone with AAAS directly at: Alberta Association of Agricultural Societies Rm 100a, 7000 – 113th St Edmonton, AB T6H 5T6 Ph: 780-427-2174 Email: aaas@gov. ab.ca I encourage everyone associated with agriculture or one of the Agricultural Societies to take advantage of this opportunity. Agriculture is a way of life that will always be part of Alberta. Our government wants to support agriculture and all the people who take part in it, and to help keep them safe so that the rural way of life continues forever. Jessica Littlewood is the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Fort SaskatchewanVegreville Constituency. If you have any comments or questions concerning this column or other provincial government issues, please contact Jessica at her constituency office located at 4927-51 Ave Vegreville.
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TENDERS Storing hay Agri-news While hay quality varies across the province, how to store that hay for the best results doesn’t. “We’ve got a mixed bag this year,” says Barry Yaremcio, beef and forage specialist, Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. “Some people cut their hay early, got caught with the rains and had it discolour before it even got into the bales. Other are cutting now and may be looking at plants that are more mature than optimum. In both cases, quality may be down a bit.” Yaremcio says that, no matter what the case, feed test to know what you’re starting with, and work from there. “If the hay was baled tough, and you notice the bales are slumping, have a slight tobacco smell, or a moisture probe reads over 40 degrees Celsius, some of the protein will be tied up with the fibre and unavailable to the animal. In that case, a secondary analysis of acid detergent insoluble nitrogen (ADIN) needs to be done as well.”
Yaremcio says the bales should be left in the field for seven to ten days to cool off and for moisture to equalize throughout the bale before being put in the shed or feed yard. “When the hay does get stacked in the shed, you’ll still need some air movement through the shed to keep the bales cool.” When it comes to stacking bales in the field, there are a number of different methods for stacking. One method is the pyramid style, with three bales on the bottom, two in the middle and one on the top. “That’s actually the poorest way to do it,” says Yaremcio. “If it rains after the stacks are made, or if snow melts during the winter, all that moisture will works its way through the stack from the top down, and cause spoilage wherever the bales contact each other.” He says the mushroom stack, with bottom bale flat and the second one on top, is better than the pyramid but still will
end up with a lot damage. “The best method, however, if you have the space, is to put single bales in rows with the individual bales in the rows separated by about six inches so they don’t touch.” If bales are weathered over winter, they can potentially lose from 100-200 lbs. due to deterioration, protein content may drop 1-2 per cent, and digestibility, if used in the second year, can be down 10-15 per cent. “For outside storage, hardcore bales are better than soft bale, and the tighter you can get them the better, and net wrap is preferable to twine.” Yaremcio adds a hay shed is still the best solution. “Considering the losses you can get with having bales stored outside, it can take about four years of retained nutrients and dry matter to pay for the shed.”
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Ask the Guys Dear Classified Guys, I am very good about having a yard sale every year or so to clean out. My sister, on the other hand, stockpiles things in her garage and waits for me to have a sale. Then she loads up her car and brings a trunk full of stuff to my house and tells me to sell it for her. I probably wouldn't mind except she doesn't price anything and then gives me stipulations on what to sell and how. "Don't sell this for too much", "Don't sell this too low", or my favorite, "Don't tell Mom I'm selling the birthday present she gave me last year." I've really had it! How should I clear this up with my sister?
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Carry: You know, I do the exact
same thing to Cash. Every time he has a yard sale, I show up with a truckload of stuff for his sale. Cash: That's true and it's typically all the gifts that I gave him! Carry: As you already know, dealing with relatives is not always easy. None-the-less, there is no reason your sister needs to annoy you by dropping her things off every time you're hosting a sale. Cash: However, part of the
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problem is your fault. You need to speak up and tell her your concerns. If she's been doing it for years, it sounds like she may not even know that her actions are bothering you. Carry: You should be very polite when you explain the problem. Rather than getting angry, offer some corrective actions. Let her know that she needs to help you on future endeavors. For instance, she needs to price all of her items beforehand. Cash: You could also tell her that you would be happy to have her help run the yard sale. Have her put up signs around the neigh-
borhood and come over early to help with setting up. Carry: Maybe she can run her own table at the sale. That way she can decide what offers she accepts for her items. Cash: And, she can hide the birthday gifts when your mom stops by! Carry: If none of those suggestions work, then consider bartering with her. If she brings items for you to sell, maybe she could watch your kids for the afternoon or run your errands. Cash: I like that advice. Maybe next time you bring stuff to my sale, I'll have you wash my car!
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Here’s a great tip: make your yard sale a family event. If you have close friends or family in the area, invite them to participate in your yard sale. Have them bring their items to your house and help out for the day. It's not only a good reason to get together and have fun, but it's a great way to clean out everyone's garage. You could also pool the proceeds from the sale and use it to fund a family vacation or put it towards the children's college education fund. That's incentive for the whole family!
I love to shop at yard sales because I never know what I'll find. Once I stopped at a sale and discovered a huge box filled with women's shoes. I immediately took off my shoes and began trying on everything in the pile. Of course, another woman had the exact same idea as well. As we both sorted through the mound of shoes, I spotted one that was just perfect. It was the right style and the right size. I searched frantically to find the match before the other woman did. However, suddenly I noticed she was holding the match in her hand. "Excuse me," she said before I could ask if she would give it to me, "Can I please have my own shoe back?" (Thanks to Diem K.)
Told You So If your brothers or sisters occasionally get on your nerves, you're not alone. Today there are over 22 million families in America that have two or more children and at some point those siblings will argue. As a parent, the best method for keeping the peace among the kids is to let each of your children express their feelings when they begin fighting. If they know that their voice is being heard, they are less likely to lash out at others. •
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Our Special Thanks We, Richard, Lorie, Courtney, and Chelsey Tennant, wish to express our most sincere gratitude to our dear relatives, friends, and neighbors, for your comforting expressions of sympathy throughout our bereavement of our dear father, and grandfather, Walter Sribney. Our sincere thanks to all of you for the many acts of kindness in memory of our loving Walter. Your cards, gifts of food, phone calls, email messages, and visits were truly appreciated. A special thanks to all who attended the Divine Liturgy service to pray with us. We also thank you for the many charitable donations in Walter’s memory. Our grateful and sincere appreciation to: Father John for the comforting service, Orest Kuly, Lector, Roman Kravec, Cantor and the Choir U.C.W.L for the delicious lunch, Clarence Pynylo, Victor Firmaniuk, Bernie Yakimyshyn, pallbearers, Gordon and Patricia, Autumn Rose Funeral Home, for their compassionate support and excellent service, St. Joseph’s General Hospital Staff for their pleasant, expert care while Walter was in the hospital, The Vegreville Homestead Lodge Staff for their kind, friendly, professional care of Nellie and Walter while they were living at the Lodge, Loyal and Sylvia Krawchuk, for their thoughtful support, help, and hospitality. We are most grateful to God our Father for giving us our kind, caring Walter to love and cherish for many years, before He called him home to be with Him. Our love for Dad/ Grandpa will never fade as we cherish special memories of him forever. May God bless all of you who supported our family in so many compassionate ways.
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MEMORIAM HORON Nadia, Jan. 23/1924 – Aug. 13/1983 Nick, May 7/1917 – July 10/1990 We cannot bring the old days back Your smiles we cannot see We can only treasure the memories Of the days that used to be. Memories are like leaves of gold They never tarnish or grow old Locked in our hearts You will always be Loved and remembered For all eternity. Annette & Gerry, Jason, Shannon & Blair, Raeanne & Reagan, Marlene & Ted
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Why are so many Canadians using food banks? Troy Media Canadian households are paying more for a nutritious basket of food and rising prices hit low-income households hardest - especially those receiving government assistance. Food Banks Canada estimates
that just over 850,000 Canadians use a food bank on a monthly basis. The ability to afford food is increasingly problematic. Average prices run as high as $900 a month for a family of four in major cities like Vancouver and Toronto. This
increased cost, along with escalating housing prices and stagnant incomes, has certainly contributed to rising food bank use. Simple access to food also remains a problem in Canada. That’s especially true in areas of poverty where an overreliance on convenience stores often results in higher prices, fewer options and poorer diets. Studies over the last several years reveal that several major Canadian cities have “food deserts” that make accessing nutritious food difficult. The term “food desert” describes geographic areas with limited access to healthy food because the distance to the nearest supermarket is in excess of one km. Living far from healthier options forces many Canadians to fall back on higher-priced convenience stores or to find ways to get to food stores elsewhere. Both options are costly. But it turns out that locating poor food environments is more complex than just identifying food deserts. The simple measurement of food deserts doesn’t account for areas of the country where nutritious options are nearby but poverty prevents people from being able to make better choices. In other words, food insecurity is an even bigger problem than we think. My colleagues and I at the University of Winnipeg’s Institute of Urban Studies developed a more realistic measure of food insecurity - and the results are troubling. In our model, along with distance and access to food options, we include socio-economic measures such as the percentage of the labour force that does not drive, the unemployment rate, and income and education levels. This approach ensures a more fulsome picture of food insecurity at the neighbourhood level - and the picture is not pretty. In Winnipeg, for example, we calculated a neighbourhood’s physical and economic access to healthy food by mapping those
areas with no access to supermarkets - the traditional measure of food deserts. But we found that while distance remains a barrier in certain areas, income and affordability present bigger obstacles. In other words, many Canadian families experience food insecurity because they can’t afford food, not because they can’t find a place to buy it near them. We identified, mapped and classified “food mirages” instead. “Food mirages” are places where persons live near a healthy food source but are unable to buy it due to cost. Our new method of calculation allows us to recognize those truly at risk for food insecurity. In the inner city of Winnipeg, 60,000 people live in neighbourhoods defined as severe food mirages where significant socio-economic hardship may affect their ability to afford healthy food despite good proximity to supermarkets. It also helps us eliminate neighbourhoods with affluent residents who have the means to purchase food whether it is nearby or not; they are not really food deserts and do not present a significant concern. Why is this finding significant? Simply having policies to encourage more grocery stores in urban areas will not necessarily solve food insecurity issues. Instead, we need to shift our thinking toward measures that support income growth, such as increased educational options or job training. There are no shortcuts. Ending food insecurity means lifting people out of poverty. In the end, while many cities have food deserts that limit healthier choices by distance, our study has added to the discussion by demonstrating that the presence of food is only one factor. Far too many live close enough to see through the windows of grocery stores but are forced to walk by, en route to the nearest food bank.
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were married because we spent a lot of time together, worked together and supported each other. My parents really liked my husband, Paul and they spoiled him. I remember them taking his side a few times. Then I had a fan-
picking together and had a good time, no matter what we did. My husband and I moved to Vegreville in 1980 where he worked at the Environment Centre. I loved living in town and working at the hospital. “We had our first child when I was 23 years-old and we went on to have
tastic mother-in-law. She had five sons and no daughters and she told me when I married Paul that she would treat me, like I was her own daughter. She did this too, when she bought a new dress for herself, she would buy one for me also. We always went berry-
four children; two boys and two girls. Our children all turned out well and they obtained good careers. We made sure to teach our sons how to do traditional women jobs and the girls learned from us how to do traditional man jobs which gave them
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many options. My oldest boy became a better cook than I was. Pauline went back to school at 62 years-old to get her high school. She took grade 10 and 11 and left after she finished grade 11. She really enjoyed going to school at this age because she felt she was in more in charge of her life then. Paul helped her with her studies. Then she wanted to show people that she was smart and wasn’t to blame for failing her grade one because she couldn’t see without glasses. Her life is good now but her voice grew sad when she spoke about her
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husband. “Paul passed away from cancer four years-ago. I still really miss him. It’s lonely now because we were always together,” Pauline said. Pauline loves living at Homestead Lodge where she has resided for the past five years because most of her friends she knew before are living at this place. Then the staff, food and recreation are good. “Life wasn’t always perfect but I just accepted when bad things happened because that is life,” Pauline added with an expression of contentment on her face.
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AITF field day rich with information
Rod Werezuk talks about Blackleg tolerance at the nursery at AITF.
Joe Machney Reporter Farmers and like-minded people gathered from all over the province and as far as Denmark to take part in Alberta Innovates Technology Futures’ (AITF) 2016 field day to hear what the province’s leading agricultural researchers have been up to at their Vegreville facility. MLA Jessica Littlewood also made a brief appearance. The six-hour presentation consisted of a tour and in depth explanations of their test plots which featured canola, barley, flax, oats, hemp, faba bean, and native plants. The research that Dr Jan Slaski, Byron James, Ludovic CapoChichi, Marshall Mckenzie, Rod Werezuk, and Jeff Newman elaborated on was disease, herbicide performance, fungicide performance, seed treatment performance, and hail damage research with a demonstration of their golf ball whacking machine as well. After everyone was greeted by Dr Slaski and had their coffee and doughnut they were brought out to the field to begin what would be a rainy tour for part of the morning. Luckily Dr Slaski’s talk on Industrial Hemp was the only topic that left everybody a bit wetter than when the morning started. Dr Slaski is a plant physiology
research scientist at AITF. “The fact is that hemp is one of the oldest fiber crops known to man. The Greek name ‘kannibis’ means fragrant cane aroma. Hemp is a very competitive plant and quickly forms a canopy,” Dr Slaski, who has been working with industrial hemp for 15 years, said as he stood beside the healthy plants. “It is also fairly resistant to frost. Retting is a hemp harvesting process of beginning to separate the bast fibres from the hurds.” Dr Ludovic Capo-Chichi, who received the 2012 Contribution to Community Award from his AITF peers for his selfless, volunteer contributions to Haiti that was devastated by the 2010 earthquake, spoke next about his research on barley seeding and the different species that he is working with at ATIF. “Early seedling vigor is a desirable trait that allows plants to form a canopy more rapidly, ensuring adequate utilization of the moisture available early in the season as well as preserving it for later by minimizing losses through direct soil evaporation. Water-soluble carbohydrates deposited in
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A passage through another era
Peter Traudt, stands beside this 1913 Ford Model T. Peter is with Vegreville Regional Museum where he helps with special events and many aspects of the museum.
Rosanne Fortier During the August’s long weekend, citizens commented how neat it was to see vintage vehicles as early as 1913 Ford Model T’s driving around Vegreville. Sharing hobbies restores connections and memories of a great age! Vegreville Iron Runners Club, where Bill Smolak is President, played host to Edmonton Antique Auto Club’s Circle Tour from July 29 to August 1 which had 80 citizens and 40 vintage vehicles from all across Alberta on the tour. Edmonton Antique Auto Club go on this circle tour every year on the Civic Holiday in August but this year, the club took the journey from Lamont to Ukrainian Heritage Village and made their first stop in Vegreville on July 29 at Vegreville Regional Museum. Their trip included breakfast, a potluck supper, entertainment at Elks Hall in Vegreville and a visit to Mundare.
Ted Horton said his 1940 Mercury Eight is unique because it was the second year that Ford made Mercury and the last full production of this vehicle before World War II. (Rosanne Fortier/photo)
This trip also included a bit of education on vintage vehicles. Lawrence Halladay, owner of an immaculate kept 1954 Dodge Royal said the interior when he bought the vehicle needed quite a bit of work which he did himself but he had the upholstery body work done by Doug Popik. “I especially like vintage vehicles because I started working on the mechanical part of these types of vehicles when I was 12 years-old and I used to really enjoy being able to fix vehicles by myself,” Halladay said. “The disadvantage is it is hard to get parts to fix older vehicles now. For instance, the lock on the door on this Dodge is broken and a person can only get out from one side of the car.” Ted Horton said his 1940 Mercury Eight is unique because it was the second year that Ford made Mercury and the last full production of this vehicle before World War II; they didn’t make many cars after that year, just war machinery. “I bought this
vehicle 46 years ago in Edmonton. I drove it home after I bought it. It didn’t need a lot of maintenance at first and it has never been restored. But over the years, it did need quite a bit of maintenance when I drove it, which I did myself when I was able to. I had it painted in 1971 but haven’t bothered painting it since then. I drove it 85,000 miles since I bought it. We took it across Canada in 2000. I like vintage vehicles because I could only afford older vehicles when I first started driving. Then when I brought a modern vehicle, I wanted a vintage one to play with. I own two other older vehicles,” Horton said as he admitted that the tour went well and the people in Vegreville were very friendly. They had a lot of help from Mayor Myron Hayduk and the Vegreville Iron Runners Club. Greg Panchyshyh, owner of an American Motors Javelin 1969 said the novel part of his vehicle is that the color, not the paint, is still the factory
Greg Panchyshyh, owner of an American Motors Javelin 1969 said the novel part of his vehicle is the color, not the paint, is still the factory color.Then there were only about 500 that came out of the factory that year. (Rosanne Fortier/photo)
Lawrence Halladay, owner of this immaculate kept 1954 Dodge Royal said that people can only go into this vehicle on one side because the other side is broken. (Rosanne Fortier/photo)
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color. Then there were only about 500 that came out of the factory that year. “We bought this vehicle from an individual but my son and I had to do a bunch of work on it; painting it and working on the motor. I have to continue to do maintenance on it. I think these vehicles need more work than modern vehicles but the maintenance required is just preventable care like changing the oil, doing the filters and checking wheel alignments. Then the advantages of this vehicle are it has about 300 horsepower under the hood; so we built that motor and pulled out the old engine and we rebuilt a bigger engine. I have a modern vehicle and I don’t use my vintage vehicles regularly. But my wife and I really like to go cruising in an older vehicle because of the atmosphere; it brings a person back to a simpler time.” Steve Bemount, owner of a 1939 Ford Deluxe Sedan said another club member sold him this vehicle. Bemount does most of the maintenance on it. These older vehicles aren’t automatic and there is no power steering like the new vehicles. But he likes driving older vehicles because they drive a little bit slower and this helps a person be more observant and enjoy the scenery and every moment more. “There is a certain element of adventure and it brings me back to when I was a child when these vehicles were driving around all the time.” Norman Grabatin came driving in his 1930 Hudson Rumble Seat Coupe which he said is a vehicle he grew up with and has known this car since 1938. This one he obtained in 1977 from his brother who has passed away. Then Grabatin restored it and did most of the mechanical aspects by himself but he admitted there is some work he cannot do. “It’s hard to do maintenance on this car because it’s over 80 years-old. You can’t find parts for it; you have to restore it or make your own parts. Even so, vintage vehicles are neat because they take a person back to another time.” Edmonton Antique Auto Club and Vegreville Iron Runners Club sponsored this event. The Auto Club is a non-profit society for historical motor vehicles and
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related collectible items. This club promotes acquisition, restoration, preservation, salvage, maintenance of vintage vehicles. Their goal is retention, promotion of driving tours, and to educate the public.
Steve Bemount, owner of a 1939 Ford Deluxe Sedan said another club member sold him this vehicle. Steve does most of the maintenance on it. (Rosanne Fortier/photo)
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The 2016 outdoor soccer season has come to an end. It was a very busy season, filled with practice sessions, league games, and tournaments. The Vegreville Minor Soccer Association has enjoyed another huge enrollment this season. We had 374 registered players from Vegreville and surrounding communities. We formed a total of 29 teams, and had 71 volunteer coaches and managers. It is wonderful to see the sport of soccer grow in membership year over year, and we could not make this happen without the help from these volunteers. Registration numbers for our Mini age groups of Under 4, Under 6, Under 8, and Under 10, had a large increase with a total of 251 kids, 21 teams, and 49 coaches and managers. The Youth age groups also had an increase in enrollment, 92 kids, 8 teams, and 22 coaches and managers. The U6, U8, and U10 mini teams once again enjoyed the annual Vermilion Mini Tournament, in addition to weekly scheduled games between all of the Vegreville teams. The 8 youth teams travelled to Camrose on June 3-5 for the annual Under the
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The VMSA Executive Board had another very busy season, from early spring with registrations and team creation right through to our Windup Bar B Q at the end of the season. These people have donated many, many hours of their time to work together to make this sport available for the families of Vegreville and area. They all deserve a huge thank-you. This outdoor season may be wrapped up, but the VMSA is already hard at work preparing for the Indoor Season which begins in September.
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inoculate it with strains collected from the region and this nursery has been active for over thirty years. Many pathologists at AITF have done a lot of great research on Blackleg on this site. Blackleg is a fungus that infects the root and stem area and stops the transmission of water up to the plant so the plant dies. Some people think that it is a thing of the past but that is not the case. It has recently resurfaced and as you know diseases adapt and so we need to learn about it as it evolves. Mainly though, it is about rotation and to not have canola on a tight rotation, giving it three years in between seeding,” Werezuk said. “Here at AITF we provide a service to the companies that discover, manufacture and sell herbicides used to control weeds. It is used as a tool to maximise the potential yield of the crop they seed and weeds which can cause huge losses if not controlled,” Jeff Newman said as he began his herbicide efficacy trails presentation. “Herbicide performance involves evaluating herbicide performance in order to determine how they control weeds and how they affect the crop to which they were applied. At AITF that is accomplished by growing weeds and then planting them into a certain crop and then trying to control them. The data collected is then used by our clients within certain applicable regulations dictated by Canadian standards.” A demonstration of faba beans, which is a newer crop to Alberta was given next by Dr Slaski. During his final presentation of the day he talked about the different varieties within Alberta. “Broad bean is really good for human consumption. It has a high concentration of protein, up to 30% and lots of starches and fiber,” Dr Slaski said. “In 2015 in Alberta we had 100,000 acres of faba bean growth and this year it is more. The difference being more moisture this year as this particular plant likes cool and wet climate. So, if you have soils that retain moisture, then faba bean is a good crop for you.” The final presentation of the afternoon was put on by Rod Werezuk and was on crop pathology and hail simulation. This one came with a demonstration of a tractor fitted with a hail simulator which is used to determine the damage that hail does on a crop. “We tried a few different ideas,” Werezuk said, “talking with the hail adjusters about it. I started with a dog chain idea, with wiping, and then mechanized it on to a tractor in 2015. He have demonstrated and proven to the industry and to the funding bodies that this actually works and with the blessings of the AFSC hail adjusters and their expertise, this is a great machine. Some of the physical damage that we’re making with this machine is bang on to what you’d see a hail storm do.”
barley stems are important carbon sources for grain filling under water-limited environments,” Dr Capo-Chichi explained. The fibre applications of hemp was explained next by Byron James, facility supervisor for the fibre processing pilot plant in Vegreville. “There are only two crops that we can grow in Alberta that produce bast fibres, the long stringy fibres, and these are hemp and flax. The hemp is harvested with a six foot pickle bar mower, then raked and finally baled. In
hemp the female plants are the ones that are desirable for all the multiple purposes that it can be used for, not the male.” Dr Slaski shared his vast knowledge on flax agronomy and showcased four trails for the gathered guests. “This is our eighth season of working with flax and we are the hub for flax research in the province. There are short and tall varieties of flax here. The taller ones are fiber flax which are slender and meant for fiber production. In Canada 99.9% of seed flax are the short varieties, which are meant for grain. Canada is the largest exporter of seed flax. Last year we had over 1.5 million acres,” Dr Slaski said. Marshall McKenzie’s passion for native plants fueled the next presentation as he talked about his research that he and his team have been doing. “With a lot of our species we will go and do wild collections and bring them back here and grow them on the farm. Our breeder Jan Slaski takes the seeds through the CSGA process and then has them available for growers who will then make them available for commercial production and purchase through Bret Young or other seed companies. Almost all of them are perennials so when we plant them it takes them about three years to become a good crop and yield a breeder seed and then a further three years once it’s given to a grower. It takes 6 – 8 years to become a species from a wild collection to being available in the market,” McKenzie explained. After the lunch break, Rod Werezuk talked about Blackleg tolerance within the different varieties of canola at the AITF disease nursery. “The purpose of the disease nursery is that we grow canola repeatedly and
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Discus champion Sean Doherty goes to Montreal
This deer is such a dear! Rosanne Fortier This deer has been in every spot in Vegreville; trying to befriend everyone. It has won the hearts of many people as it goes to parks, sits on front lawns and is a common sight around the town. But this is still a wild animal and people are cautioned not to feed it or encourage it to be dependent on them and possibly obtain a multiple personality where it could turn violent and attack someone. (Laura Hewko/photo)
Joe Machney Reporter Track and Field discus and javelin thrower Sean Doherty, who had just come back from the Alberta Summer Games in Leduc on July 15, and the Western Canadian Championships in Regina at the end of July, is heading to the Canadian Legion Championships in St Therese in Montreal to compete on August 5 to 7. Speaking of his time in Leduc, Doherty had nothing but good words to say. “There was lots of good energy there. At the track meet there were hundreds of people competing. Ten people were competing in discus and twelve people were competing in javelin. I got first in discus and third in javelin.” Sean won the Gold medal in Youth Boys Discus and broke the Alberta Summer games record of 42.07 with a throw of 42.09 meters. He also won the Bronze medal in javelin and won the Gold medal in Youth Boys Discus with a throw of 44.29 meters at the Western Canadian Championships. “This is my last year for competing in youth and next year I will be throwing 1.75kg discus, but if I’m able to make the Canada summer games team, I will be throwing the Olympic size 2kg discus,” Doherty said. As far as advice that Sean would like to give people who are trying to make something of themselves, he said. “Never give up and always try and be someone better the next day. Track and field has been going on for centuries and anybody can do it.”
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Winners of Father’s Day Show and Shine 2016 Bill Smolak A. Convertibles: Frist place, sponsored by Outlaw All Terrain. Winner is Hank Gulaga of Sturgeon County with a 1958 Ford Sunliner. Second place, sponsored by Bucky’s Welding. Winner is Robert Strand of Thorhild with a 1963 Ford Thunderbird. B. Muscle Cars: First place, sponsored by Maddigan Chrysler. Winner is Miles Tupechka of Camrose with a 1969 Ford Mustang. Second place, sponsored by Value Drug Mart. Winner is Peter Kshyk of Vegreville with a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner. C. Pre 50’s Cars and Trucks: First place, sponsored by Vegtel Engraving Ltd. Winner is Allen and Linda Tomaszewski of Camrose with a 1946 Chevrolet 1314. Second place, sponsored by Vegreville Electric. Winner is Kevin Ball of Ardrossan with a 1947 Dodge Power Wagon. D. 1950’s Cars: First place, sponsored by Woodcraft Canada. Winner is Cary and Debbie Treasure of Edmonton with a 1953 Hudson Hornet. Second place, sponsored by A+ Cellular. Winner is Saramaga of Spruce Grove with a 1952 Studebaker Starlite Coupe. E. 1960’s Cars: First place, sponsored by Vegreville Auto Body. Winner is Arden Okerstrom of Sherwood Park with a 1960 Chevrolet Corvette. Second place, sponsored by Webb’s Machinery (Vegreville) Ltd. Winner is Mike Petrula of
Sherwood Park with a 1963 Studebaker Daytona. F. 1970’s Cars: First place, sponsored by Flash Distributers (NAPA). Winner is Fred Thielman of Ardrossan with a 1972 Buick Skylark. Second place, sponsored by OK Tire (Vegreville Ltd). Winner is Sonny Gegolick of Vegreville with a 1972 Ford Mustang. G. Cars 1980’s and Up: First place, sponsored by Twin Lakes Ready Mix & Aggregate. Winner is Adam Yakimec of Fort McMurray with a 2013 Chevrolet Corvette. Second place, sponsored by Home Hardware. Winner is Lyle and Rose Nelson of Bawlf with a 1988 Studebaker Avanti. H. Hot Rod/Street Rod/ Modified: First place, sponsored by Black Tint. Winner is Leonardo DeWeerd of Edmonton with a 1934 Ford Sedan Delivery. Second place, sponsored by Ernie’s Auto Body. Winner is Don Lokken of Sherwood Park with a 1937 Chevrolet Coupe. I. Low Riders: First place, sponsored by Volten Electric. No Winner. Second place, sponsored by Titan Tree Services. J. Trucks 1950-1972: First place, sponsored by Gordo’s Mechanical. Winner is Edward Charest of Leduc with a 1951 Mercury M1. Second place, sponsored by Prime Cuts Meats & Deli. Winner is Harvey Derewynka of Elk Point with a 1955
Chevrolet Half Ton. K. Trucks 1973 and Up: First place, sponsored by County Collision Repair. Winner is Jerry Kalita of Edmonton with a 1975 Ford Ranger XLT. Second place, sponsored by Peavy Mart. Winner is Richard Heitman of Tofield with a 1973 Ford Bronco. L. Foreign: First place, sponsored by Kal-Tire/Extreme Clean Truck & Car Wash. Winner is Jim Herbert of Calgary with a 1951 MD TD. Second place, sponsored by Deerland Equipment. Winner is Jason Scott of Edmonton with a 1994 Subaru SVX. M. Special Interest: First place, sponsored by Weiss Mechanical Services Ltd. Winner is Ronald Kulezycki of St. Paul with a 1937 International 1 ½ - 2 ton. Second place, sponsored by F.S. Painting. Winner is Cathy Boss of Sherwood Park with a 1981 Ford Durango. N. Motorcycles: First place, sponsored by Canadian Tire. Winner is Arlene Usselman of St. Albert with a 2015 Polaris Slingshot. Second place, sponsored by Baron’s No Frills. Winner is Vince Hrabec of Vegreville with a 2016 Polaris Slingshot. Best of show: Overall placing. Sponsored by Vegreville Mechanical. Winner is Jeri Boonstra of Vegreville with a 1969 Dodge D100. Club Participation: First place, sponsored by father’s Day Event
Committee. Winner is ESRA Good Guys. Second place, sponsored by Father’s Day Event Committee. Winner is Battle River Road Runners. People’s Choice: Sponsored by Boston Pizza. Winner is Richard Glover of Irma with a 1959 Mercury Monterey. $250 Prize Winners Sponsored by Bumper to Bumper. Oldest Driver is Robert More of Edmonton, age 86, with his 1962 Studebaker Hawk. Youngest Driver is Wyatt Granger of Mundare, age 14, with his 1956 Mercury M100. Furthest Distance Travelled is Jim Herbert of Calgary, 396km, travelled one way with his 1951 MG TD. Best of show is a 1969 Dodge D100 driven by Jeri Boonstra of Sherwood Park. Best Big Rig Semi: Sponsored by 857 Mechanical Services. Winner is Ken Dubuc of Ardrossan with a 1979 Kenworth W900A. Best Antique Tractor: Sponsored by Dennill’s Agri Centre. Winner is Lawrence Sarafinchan of Willingdon with a John Deere Model D. Best Antique Snowmobile: Sponsored by Vegreville Mechanical. Winner is Calvin Robinson with a 1970 Snowjet Supersport. Best Vintage & Custom Motorcycle: Sponsored by vantage Builders Ltd & Vantage Building Supplies Ltd. Winner is Dale Melenka of Vegreville with a 1969 Triumph 650.