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2015 SALUTE TO

Featuring Stettler’s Citizens of the Year and

Business Award Winners

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Attendees at the Stettler Awards Gala 2015 give a standing ovation to the Male Citizen of the Year Award recipient, Scott Pfeiffer.

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Music has ruled Scott Pfeiffer’s life in one form or another, guiding him from a young age until now through his life’s endeavours.

Life has taken him through several bands, lodged him fi rmly in his faith, and brought him to serve the community and the one thing all of these many twists and turns have in common is music.

“We were a very musical family,” Pfeiffer said from his store on Main Street, Pfei-ffer’s House of Music. His parents, Evelyn and Ken, had him and his siblings Julie, Jim, Jennifer and Susan learn-ing to play the piano and other instruments from a young age.

While only he and Jim remained hyper-involved in music, it’s remained part of his siblings lives to this day.

“Jim went after music in a big way,” Pfeiffer said. He went on to study music at the University of Alberta and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY and now works as a music tutor in Cape Cod.

His parents started the store more than four decades ago and Pfeiffer took over af-ter studying business.

“Since I had a background in both music and business,” the family business came to him, Pfeiffer said. Two of his sisters went on to become teachers while the third, in partnership with her husband, run a building company.

Ken Pfeiffer’s involve-ment in the Stettler Rotary Club led his son to the service club, but it was music that drew him in at fi rst.

“It’s always the music,” he said. “I enjoy the fellow-ship, the chance it gives us to meet others in the business community.”

Pfeiffer is passionate about the Rotary Club, which he said puts a focus on helping local-ly, but doesn’t close its eyes to the big, worldwide issues. The Rotary Club has worked for decades to help eliminate polio and is near to reaching that goal. It helps teach farm-ing skills in countries where farming is possible but the skills are lacking, and helps in disasters by providing shelter, food and medicine.

Locally, the Rotary Club has made an impact, building the splash park, sponsoring the hot tub at the pool, and sponsoring the fi reside read-ing area at the library, to name a few. These projects are all things Pfeiffer said he’s proud of.

Pfeiffer just fi nished his year as president of the club, and has taken a place amongst the executive board. Now, his Rotary portfolio is that of Stu-dent Programs.

“We have Rotary in Poli-tics, which sends youth to Ot-tawa to see politics in action,” he said. “There’s Rotary in Technology, which sends youth to Saskatoon, where they can see all the technol-ogy businesses.”

Pfeiffer has been a mem-ber of the St. Peter Lutheran Church in Stettler for more

than three decades. This facet of his life began the same way as most of the others: with music. From there, it just bloomed.

“I served on church coun-cil for about eight years as

deacon and council chair-man,” he said. He’s also been the pianist and organist, and member of the church choir.

He’s been involved, over the years, in the Stettler Vari-ety Showcase, often being the fi rst to arrive and last to leave as he’d be in charge of sound and lighting, but also worked as part of its board. He helped organize Stettler Idol and the Stettler Music Festival.

Many a charitable event has ended with a fi nal thank you to sponsors, with Pfeiffer’s House of Music in-cluded in the mix, as Pfeifer often donates time and equip-ment for audio to events that better the community.

“Community is what you make it,” he said. And a vibrant, healthy community is music to his ears.

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Alex Mykyta of Q93.3 with Scott Pfeiffer, who received the Male Citizen of the Year Award. The award was presented by Penny Tash.



When Jenny Holubetz re-tired, unlike for lots of others, it was just the start.

The Stettler woman, who originally hails from Lon-don, England, has lived in the community for decades and has been a mother, a coach, a physiotherapist, a hard-work-ing volunteer at the United Church, a fundraiser at the Royal Purple, and a busy bee at Superfl uity during these years, including right up until present day.

“I guess I just like to be active,” Holubetz said with a laugh. “I’m not good at stand-ing still, or sitting still. Once I retired, I needed something to do.”

Retirement was an excuse for Holubetz to put more on

her plate, though, as she was plenty busy before she put her physiotherapist days be-hind her.

Holubetz said she started volunteering her time in

the community through her church, the Stettler United Church, and through the ac-tivities her two daughters and son became involved with. Over the years, she’s been a coach at the old Stettler Gymnastics Club and a swim coach. Her husband got into it as well, coaching badminton for decades.

As time went on and her children aged out of sports and groups, so did her in-volvement. She went back to work as a physiotherapist, and started putting her volun-teer time elsewhere.

“I joined the Royal Pur-ple,” she said, the female branch of the Elks organiza-tion. It was only this year that the two organizations merged into one, becoming the Royal Purple Elks, though the two groups still function as two separate entities under the same organizational umbrel-la.

“We’ve done a lot of fundraising with the Royal Purple,” she said. Money the group has raised has gone to the Institute for Stutter-ing Treatment and Research (istar) in Edmonton, and to assist the hard-of-hearing. Much of it remains local, though.

“We spent money on a hearing system for the school,” Holubetz said. The system allows teachers to better communicate with hard-of-hearing students as it directly sends the teacher’s voice to the student rather than having the teacher’s voice be lost in a cacophany of background noise.

Holubetz will take over in February as president of Superfl uity, a group of volun-teers who run the thrift store in Stettler. All of the money the group makes, excepting what it spends on the neces-saries like rent, utilities and insurance, go back into the community in various ways, such as free swimming for residents, the breakfast pro-gram at local schools and so on.

“I’m excited,” Holubetz said of the opportunity. “It’s taking up more and more of my time.”

As for being named Stet-tler’s female citizen of the year, it’s an honour that Holu-betz feels a bit uncomfortable with.

“I was surprised,” she said with a self-conscious chuck-le. “A little embarrassed. There’s so many people who do so much in this town, so to be singled out is an honour…but I’m not the only one. So many people do a lot of good work in the community for no public recognition.”

Holubetz said the declin-ing involvement of the youth in volunteerism is something she is sad to see, but hopes that in time, as the active ser-vice groups’ memberships decline, younger people will see the gap and step up.

“It is so rewarding,” she said. “There’s no money in-volved, and you give up your time and energy, but so much good happens that it is its own reward.”

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A year ago, the words used to describe Big Val-ley’s Tennille Day Chief would include shy, quiet or reticent. Today, those words aren’t even in her vocabulary.

The 15-year-old was “kinda scrolling through Facebook and came across a page all my friends were liking.” That page was for Miss Teenage Canada, and she decided to sign up.

While many people believe pageants can be degrading to women, or all about looking pretty and walking in heels, the experience is quite dif-ferent, and empowering, Day Chief said in an in-terview in the days after the awards ceremony.

“Before I started do-ing pageants, I think myself and most other people would character-ize me as shy and inse-cure,” Day Chief said. “I found that doing (pag-eants) gave me so much more confidence in my-self, confidence I would just love to pass on to the many other teens my age who feel the way I used to feel.”

Pageantry, in both the United States and in Canada, require a great deal of community in-volvement of the girls who compete, and in Day Chief ’s case, she dug right in.

“We have to fundraise for many different chari-ties,” she said, explain-ing that each pageant usually has a chosen charity for which the girls raise money. “We have to also pick a plat-form we strongly agree

with.” For Day Chief, that

platform is bullying, mental health and suicide awareness — as well as the very important mes-sage to girls — “Believe in yourself.”

With bullying a prob-lem in youth, especially through social media where there is a discon-nect between a person saying or doing some-thing mean and the vic-tim’s reaction, as well as the social stigma around suicide fading, the toll bullying takes on Can-ada’s youth has become much more mainstream.

The tragic deaths of Amanda Todd, who killed herself after on-line harassment, and Rehteah Parsons, who killed herself after her rapists posted pictures of the act online led to in-tolerable bullying, only drive home the message Day Chief wants to say.

Bullying is wrong, and there’s help out there if you need it, she noted.

Being named the Youth Citizen of the Year for Stettler is humbling and a great honour, she said.

“When I was first told that I was being given an award, I was completely happy and honoured that people chose me,” she said.

In the future, Day Chief said she wants to become involved with some of the organiza-tions in her community, volunteer at community events, and keep vol-unteering in general; and, of course, strutting her stuff in pageants and spreading the word that bullying can’t be tolerated.

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Though many know her name because of those efforts, Fix started her adult life as a school teacher, helping teach students French.

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“I just love the lan-guage,” she said. She knew from an early age she wanted to teach it and left Stettler for post-sec-ondary, studying teaching, with a focus in French. As part of her education in educating, Fix also spent time in France.

But like with her teach-ing, recycling was some-

thing Fix was interested in youth, even before be-ing earth-conscious was a “thing.”

“I think it started on the farm where I grew up,” she explained. “My parents had gone through tough times, the dirty 30s and didn’t waste anything. That was passed on to me.”

After her retirement from teaching, Fix didn’t sit still long before the itch to do something became

unbearable. She wanted to find something new to involve herself in, and her sons — who had moved away for their own educa-tion — brought back this desire to be earth friendly and earth-saving.

The eco-friendly drive of her sons’ infected Fix, and she found herself at the computer, researching. The more she learned, the more that passion grew, until she decided that was going to be her second career — finding ecologi-cally friendly solutions for the community she loves.

Where to start? Fix found herself looking at different organizations and groups in Stettler, and eventually found the Heartland Beautification Committee. It seemed the perfect fit — for wouldn’t these green projects help beautify the community?

Rob Spencer, president of the Heartland Beau-tification Committee, said that Fix is a “driving force” behind the many green projects the com-mitee has taken on, and said that having Fix as a member has helped give the committee a second wind.

“She’s very energetic,” he said. “That energy’s in-fectious.”

Small projects were the way Fix decided she wanted to go, noting that people react better to small little bites rather than giant big gulps.

Some of those proj-ects include the BYObag — bring your own bag — designed to reduce the number of plastic bags that end up in the landfill sites. Being Idle Free has encouraged people to not idle their vehicles to help keep the air free of pollut-ants. The recycling centre at the Stettler transfer site has helped people recycle old electronics, batteries, fluouroscent light bulbs, old paint and more. Work is underway for a Take-It-Leave-It centre, where people can leave old fur-niture and people can find new-to-them goods. A cigarette-butt collection and recycling project is also under way, with dis-creet butt collectors being at several locations around town. The butts are col-lected by the volunteers and are recycled, too.

One of Fix’s biggest projects of pride is the “Walk and Roll” project, which encourages people to either walk or ride a bike to their destination, rather than taking the car or truck. Handy signs around town reveal the distance from that spot to popular locations, and volunteers are on hand throughout the summer to reward walkers, runners and bikers with Walk and Roll gear.

“We only have one world,” Fix said. “We should be doing what we can to help keep it.”

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This frequently got her into trouble, till her mother came up with a game, which made it easier for Prehn to start eating healthy.

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Speaking of her experi-ence at the Dragons’ Den, Prehn said, “With every idea, comes a journey. I also learned not to give up, even though my fi rst try didn’t work.”

Prehn’s successful pitch earned her $1,000 from each of the dragons, thereby earning her a total of $5,000 to her campaign.

“Kira Richardson is so

brave,” said Prehn, when asked who her role models are. Adding to the list, Hay-ley Wickenheiser, because she is a “great hockey play-er” and Bethany Hamilton, of whom Prehn said, “She didn’t care about who was looking at her; she just went back into the water and fol-lowed her dream.”

And this is what Prehn advises young entrepre-neurs who would like to follow in her footsteps.

“Follow your dreams, challenge yourself and don’t be scared of Drag-ons,” said Prehn.

In a few years’ Prehn would like to see Lunch Ap-

eel in a few grocery stores. “In school we study ‘The

Leader in Me’, and my three favourite habits are, synergize, think win-win, and be pro-active,” added Prehn.

Asked if she is ready for another start-up, Prehn said, “I think I am ready for another adventure.”

But, as much as she likes entrepreneurship, Prehn loves music too.

“When I grow up, I want to be in marketing, like Arlene Dickinson,” said Prehn. “I like to draw and write songs… . I’ve been working on a jingle for Lunch Apeel.”

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Volunteer par excellence encourages “positive attitude!” Moush Sara John

INDEPENDENT REPORTERKatie Bainbridge is the beacon of

volunteering in the Stettler community, with two volunteer board positions in addition to managing the town’s pee-wee football team, besides helping out with other community events.

As the president of the Stettler Mi-nor Lacrosse Association (SMLA), manager of Peewee Panthers of Stet-tler Minor Football (SMF), and sec-retary of the Stettler Minor Hockey Association (SMHA), Bainbridge is a stellar example of giving to

community. Refl ecting on how she can bal-

ance her many roles along with a full-time job and being a parent, Bain-

bridge considers herself fortuitous. “I’m fortunate to have enough fl ex-

ibility in my job that I can organize my work schedule to accommodate regu-lar meetings and special events,” said Bainbridge.

But often the key to this harmony is having a supportive family.


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Katie Bainbridge leads from the front when it comes to volunteering, giving off her time and talent selflessly to the community.


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“One of the biggest challenges I have faced as a volunteer is balancing my family life and my volun-teer obligations, especially during the seasons where two sports over lap,” said Bainbridge. “Thankfully, my husband and three sons understand that volunteer-ing is very important to me and they’re willing to pick up the slack!”

In addition to the SMHA board position, Bainbridge was the special events co-ordinator for the Hockey Alberta Bantam A Provincial Tournament in March, earlier this year.

“I have also helped organize fundraisers for

SMLA and SMF,” added Bainbridge, “..and was most recently involved with the Stettler Football Discount Card fundrais-er, although I wasn’t the lead, Patty Steen was and should get credit for that!”

According to Bain-bridge, reliability is essen-tial if organizations want to run without glitches, especially if led with vol-unteers.

“Reliability is impor-tant for organizations to run smoothly, and volun-teers must treat their posi-tions in the same manner as they would a paying job,” said Bainbridge. “Deadlines must be met and commitments must be fulfilled, and it also helps to be able to ‘go with the

flow’, and keep a positive attitude.”

Speaking of important decisions that Bainbridge has had to take along with her board member colleagues, she said, “I haven’t personally been responsible for any one major decision, but, as a board member I’ve been part of groups who have made important deci-sions.”

“I’m most proud of be-ing one of the founding board members of Stettler Minor Lacrosse Associa-tion, with Kim Smyth be-ing the catalyst for start-ing the association, I was fortunate to be part of it,” added Bainbridge.

Fostering creativity among board members has

been crucial to the associ-ations Bainbridge has beena part of.

“We encourage cre-ative thinking by allow-ing board members andassociation members, theopportunity to share ideas,opinions, experiences, andperspectives,” said Bain-bridge. “Every associationmember has a voice.”

Having walked quite an illustrious path of vol-unteering and communitywork Bainbridge’s wordsof advice for anyone as-suming a first-time leader-ship role is “Be willing tolisten and learn, and knowthat your fellow volun-teers are glad to have yourhelp and they will be morethan happy to show youthe ropes.”

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Apple DrugsAutotrustBond-O Communications Ltd.Boston PizzaCanadian TireCanalta StettlerCaroline’s Homespun SeasonsCentral Alberta Co-op Ltd.- Stettler Gas BarCentral Alberta Co-op Ltd.- Stettler Liquor StoreDirty Road Pretty Gitzel Krejci Dand Peterson Chartered AccountantsGuns n Games Source for Sports

John’s Men’s WearJude’s Liquor StoreKal TireLawlor JewelleryPanda FlowersParty MaxxPeavey MartPfeiffer House of MusicPharmasaveSavage Value Drug MartSchwartz Home Building CentreSean’s No FrillsSneakers PlusSobeys Stettler

Stettler Home HardwareStettler IndependentStettler Veterinary ClinicSuzanne’s and Jenny’sThe Leggings Shop (Hadley Contracting)The Shoe Closet & Boutique Ltd.Tom’s BootsTown Trophy & GiftsWalmartWare’s JewelersWells FurnitureWISH Kitchen & GiftYour Design Works Inc.

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November 13, November 20, November 27, December 4,

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Light the NightLight the NightNovember 27November 27

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Stettler Stettler Festival of LightsFestival of LightsNovember 24 – 28November 24 – 28

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