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Town of Stettler council recog-nized the undefeated provincial champions in U12 soccer during their latest meeting, held Tuesday, Aug. 18.

The squad, which didn’t lose a single game during the regular and post seasons, went on to win the top spot at the provincial level.

“It’s important we recognize our sports heroes,” Mayor Dick Rich-ards said. He also honoured the parents of the youth sports cham-pions, who themselves gave freely of their time and devotion.

The group received a certificate from council and had a chance to enjoy some cookies and drinks af-ter a photograph with the mayor.

After the boys departed, council returned to its bi-weekly business,

voting on and passing a bylaw al-lowing the rezoning of an indus-trial area to be used as recreation.

Gymnastics ready to vault into first season

Councillor Karen Sernecky pro-vided an update on the gymnastics club, which should be ready to launch in October. The big news was that the club now had a build-ing.

“It needed lots of cleanup and TLC, but it was all cosmetic so I was instantly excited,” Sernecky said in an interview after the meet-ing.

The building, located in Stet-tler’s industrial area, is an old ga-rage with high ceilings, a neces-sary factor for the club, who will have youth practicing on uneven bars and trampolines.

“I really went about it (getting the group running) backwards,” Sernecky, a councillor with the Town of Stettler, admitted.

She quickly had a coach lined up, but then that coach pulled out, she recalled

“You should probably get a coach, then funding, then a place,” she said. “We got the place first.”

She said that media attention to the forming sports group caught the attention of Gudrun Feller of Bashaw, a coach of nine years in the sport.

“She contacted us and said she’d want to coach us,” Sernecky said.

With a coach in place and a lo-cation hunt narrowing down, Ser-necky began work on funding. Her bevy of volunteers helped register the club with the provincial gym-nastics authority and they were

official.“We couldn’t afford the build-

ing,” Sernecky said as she toured the garage, which still had a strong smell of motor oil. “But we worked out an agreement for a three-year lease.”

The first task was cutting down the weeds that choked the sur-rounding land, some of which were up above the knee. Then the cleaning – lots of cleaning.

Paint donated by Stettler Floor-ing and Paint joined office equip-ment donated by the Stettler Board of Trade, Chapman and Co., Richards Insurance, and other gracious donors, Sernecky said. Some gymnastics equipment was donated by Donna Robinson, and an online auction raised $3,632 for the group.

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Mayor Dick Richards, front centre, is joined by the undefeated U12 boys’ soccer team. Council recognized the efforts of the provincial champions at its recent council meeting.

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Stettler band Domino entertained the community on Wednesday, Aug.19 at the West Stettler Park to

raise funds for their friends Jennel Schofer and Robin Walsh.

When band member Louanne Carl came to know about the young cou-ple, she knew they had to do something.

Walsh was diagnosed with brain cancer in May earlier this year, while his

wife Jennel Schofer was expecting their second child.

“It has been a hard go be-cause neither one of them can work,” said Carl. “Of course, Jennel has had the baby in July and Robin is going through cancer treat-ment, so we wanted to try and do something.”

The band donated to the young family all the money raised during the perfor-mance, close to $3,100, including a percentage of any merchandise sold that night.

Domino started together in 2003 and has been to-gether for a while.

According to Louanne, Domino performed at the country music jamboree in Stettler as the backup band, but three years ago the band decided to take it to the next level, and started per-forming more regularly on the music circuit.

As one of the acts for Entertainment in the Park, Domino played to a huge crowd as the Stettler com-munity came out in large numbers to show solidarity with the young couple.

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Local band Domino played at the West Stettler Park on Wednesday, Aug. 19 to fundraise for Stettler couple Jennel Schofer and Robin Walsh. From left to right, Scott McKnight, Luanne Carl, Kent Nixon and Russ Carl.


Two men from Edmonton were lucky to only be damp and cold after their outboard motor on their small alu-minum fishing boat quit during a fishing trip on Buffalo Lake on Friday, Aug. 21.

When inclement weather rolled in, the lake got rather choppy, Stettler RCMP Cpl. Ryan Koehli explained. The two were in danger of capsizing or being swamped by the waves.

“We went out (to find them),” Koehli said. “It was a real safety concern.”

By the time police found the duo around 5 p.m., the wind had actually pushed them to shore between Boss Hill and Bar Harbour. Koehli said the two were lucky.

“They were out with good intentions,” he said, noting that the pair had a bailer and life jackets, and that alcohol wasn’t an issue.

However, the two didn’t have a set of paddles or oars, lights or a sound device, and weren’t familiar with the lake. It made it harder to be located when they weren’t able to say where they were when they phoned for help, and made it pure luck they were blown to shore.

Rural break-ins stopRCMP received several concerned calls about rural

break-ins after the Independent reported thefts by a bra-zen bunch of men who would steal right in front of the owners.

Police are happy to report that the rural break-ins seem to have died down, but it’s important for people to re-member to remain aware of their surroundings and to lock up when out of the home.

An incident near Boss Hill saw the sign, mail boxes and property of a rural property owner vandalized after some-one chose to shoot the property with a shot-gun.

“Mischief can quickly become (more serious charg-es),” Koehli noted, especially if a person ends up being wounded. “This is a serious concern.”

Traffic stop ends with officer assaultedA routine traffic stop by the Integrated Traffic Unit,

which is based in Stettler, ended up in a chase, arrest, and assault on an officer on Thursday, Aug. 20.

Police signalled a vehicle to pull over around 10 p.m. on Highway 56, south of Big Valley, but the vehicle did not stop and instead drove away, turning onto a rural route.

Police followed, and the road ended up being a dead end. Three people were found in the vehicle, including the 29-year-old woman driver, a 35-year-old man, and a 45-year-old man. All three are from Drumheller.

The driver refused to provide a roadside breath sample, and was arrested on charges of flight from a peace officer, refusal to provide a breath sample and impaired driving.

Her companions were also arrested on charges of flight from a peace officer, though charges were later dropped in the case of the 35-year-old, who had not been driving and was co-operative.

The three were taken by police to the Stettler detach-ment when an altercation broke out.

The 35-year-old man kicked the window of the RCMP cruiser, breaking it, and both he and the 29-year-old woman caused damage to detachment property.

By the end of the night, the 29-year-old also faced a charge of mischief, and the 45-year-old man faced charg-es of mischief and assault of a peace officer.

Further charges are likely pending, Koehli said, as it’s expected there may be failures to comply with conditions or probation.

Youth held after domestic dust-upA 17-year-old girl will be appearing in youth court in

Red Deer on Thursday, Aug. 27 after police received calls about a domestic situation.

The girl and her boyfriend, a 19-year-old man, were separated and the girl was charged with two counts of possessing a contraband substance and four counts of failure to comply with conditions.

She is being held in custody until her appearance in court, Koehli reported.

Collision brings STARS inA collision on Township Road 835 between two ve-

hicles required STARS to airlift a woman to hospital with serious life-threatening injuries.

Five people were involved in the Aug. 23 crash at an intersection just before Rochon Sands.

The investigation into the collision is ongoing, with support from collision reconstructionists, Koehli noted. Charges are pending the result of the investigation.

If you have information about the crimes listed above or any others, phone Stettler RCMP at 403-742-3382, or remain anonymous through Crime Stoppers at 1-888-222-TIPS (8477).

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Pet Valu, the new pet supply store, which opened July 30 in Stettler, is “up for adoption,” with the par-ent company looking for the right local individual to take on the franchise.

“It’s actually quite com-mon for us to open stores before we find the franchi-see,” said Geoff Sonik, fran-chise sales manager for Pet Valu. “If we find the right property, we’ll sign a lease, rather than wait and possibly lose it.”

The company is commit-ted to the location and will operate the store if a local franchisee cannot be found, but hopes are high a Stettler business person will step up.

The store location, located

adjacent to the new Sobeys Liquor Store on Main Street, is a 3,000 square-foot space and stocks specialty pet foods, treats, toys, groom-ing tools and more. It also features a self-serve dog wash with two dog wash and blow-dry stations.

“It makes tremendous sense to us to have someone already locally established (as franchisee),” Sonik said. “We want someone who will be involved. Our best prac-tices include high levels of community involvement – not just with animal shelters and rescues, but in the com-munity’s projects as well.”

The stores do not sell pets like dogs or cats, but the company is looking forward to partnering with local shel-ters and rescues to have cats up for adoption and special

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continued from front page“There are so many people

who came right on board,” Sernecky said.

Though Sernecky said she believed there had been a gymnastics club in the com-munity “a very very long time ago,” she’s not absolute-ly certain, but she said she’s excited to see it return in Oc-tober, when the club will host its first sessions.

A source in Grande Prai-rie has equipment enough to furnish almost the entire gym, so Sernecky said rais-ing the money needed for

the equipment is the next big hurdle. That’ll cost the group $12,000, plus another $13,000 or so to outfit the place with the floor mats and spring floor. Even though that comes to a hefty $25,000, if the group misses out on the Grande Prairie opportunity, the group is looking at a bill well over $30,000 to outfit the space.

For volunteer Sarah Tuck-er, whose daughter studies gymnastics in Red Deer, getting on board with a local club was a no-brainer.

“It’s a long day,” she said

of gymnastics days. “There’s the travel to Red Deer, the session, and then the drive back.”

In the winter, the 45-min-ute drive to Red Deer often takes longer, or ends up not happening at all, if the weath-er is inclement enough.

Registration night, which started last night, Aug. 25, continues tonight, Wednes-day, Aug. 26, from 5-8 p.m. at the Stettler Recreation Cen-tre. Parents who wish to sign up for, or learn more about, Stettler Gymnastics can do so at the signups.

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The governance team of Campus Alberta Central (CAC) held its retreat in Stettler on Thursday, Aug.20 as members discussed issues and looked forward to the future as they embarked upon their sixth year as an organizati

“Campus Alberta Central has been working throughout the region and in Stet-tler in particular to provide a wide range of programming,” said Bonnie Ireland, executive director, Campus Alberta Cen-tral. “At this moment we have a number of programs we offer online through our col-leges, Red Deer College in particular and we have got a number of new ones coming soon through Olds College as well.”

CAC was formed as a partnership be-tween Olds College and Red Deer College to take their platform to learners, rather than expecting learners to move to a dif-ferent place.

“We believe that giving students an op-portunity to take programming in their own communities, in their own homes makes it a lot easier for them to be successful,” said Joel Ward, president of Red Deer College.

CAC has three main hubs – Stettler, Rocky Mountain House and Drumheller.

Dr. Tom Thompson, president of Olds College, explained that every community has its own unique needs and depending

upon the needs of the learners in a particu-lar area, a specific program can be devel-oped.

Speaking of the meeting, Thompson said, “It is a very important part of our overall program, because, of course, this is the time when you got to take a step back and you get to reflect and you get to look ahead and get to do your strategy, especial-ly the strategy, which leads into the opera-tional planning.”

Elaborating on the learning process, Ire-land mentioned that CAC provides “blend-ed delivery programming”.

“We have a face-to-face component that’s right here in our classrooms at the centre, where people are training specific workplace skills and then they could be taking portions of their program online.”

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Central governance team retreat

Moush Sara John/independent reporterFrom left to right, Dr. Jason Dewling, vice-president Academic and Research, Olds College; Malcolm Fischer, town councillor and member, Stettler post-secondary committee; Dr. Tom Thompson, president, Olds College; Diane Palmer, Alberta Health Services, member, Stettler post-secondary committee; Dr. Paulette Hanna, vice-president Academic, Red Deer College; Joel Ward, president, Red Deer College; Wayne Nixon, Reeve, County of Stettler and Bonnie Ireland, executive director, Campus Alberta Central.


What started way back in 2003 as an idea discussed by former Cougars coach Mike Roach and Wildcats head coach Norbert Ba-harally finally came to complete fruition just before the start of the new football season: Wildcats now have a new change room in the football field house.

The construction of the fieldhouse was completed way back in 2009, but the inside furnishing of the structure was delayed due to lack of funding, among other factors.

So when Wildcats and Cougars first started to use the fieldhouse, it didn’t have much of the furniture that a change room would re-quire.

The basic construction of the change room was completed in the winter of 2014 by the students of the building construction class with much support from volunteers. The year before that saw the completion of the central

block, which includes the mechanical room, coaches’ offices, washrooms, showers and the central sink.

But intense fundraising and volunteer ef-forts made the facility ready just in time for the 2015 football season.

“The boys were happy to be out of the school and have a space of their own,” said Patty Steen, one of the volunteers and a foot-ball parent.

She added that the local businesses in Stet-tler and surrounding area came together to fund the project, along with Clearview School division and other community partners.

“I can’t say it enough, how great it is to live in a small community,” stated Steen.

“They were really happy and proud of the finished product tonight, as they walked in to dress for their first night of the fall camp,” said Steen.

The Wildcats’ season opener will be in St. Albert on Sept. 3.

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Stettler’s Heartland Youth Centre (HYC) host-ed a summer art camp for kids, aged six to 12 be-tween Aug.17-21 to en-courage them to demon-strate their creativity.

Working with clay, paints and pictures, the kids enjoyed themselves as they dabbled in all forms of art.

On Thursday, Aug. 20 the kids were engaged in drawing their own realism portraits.

Their pictures had been taken and printed. One half was pasted on a sheet, they had to come up with a creative way to finish the other half, either through sketching, drawing, or creating artwork, which would complement the picture.

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Since last week, we have been bombarded with the news of de-clining stock prices and indices from all around the world, with most, if not all, pundits refer-ring to a meltdown in China as the main reason for the selloff in financial markets.

On Monday, when these lines were written, headlines from the news agencies and news websites looked almost like reporting a calamity. Quoting a widely fol-lowed investment guru, Reuters news agency said there would be a further downward movement in the stock exchanges.

For people who don’t have investments in financial instru-ments or in stock markets, this may sound an absurd and alarm-ist way of reporting the news of financial fluctuations in the global markets, but when one considers that most of those mar-kets move with sentiment rather than fundamentals, it shouldn’t come as such a big surprise.

Financial media are already reporting a significant loss of investor confidence based on various indexes managed and maintained by investment firms.

And with the possible loss of the potential to make more mon-ey through financial instruments in times of crises, one can safely bet that the more reporting there

is, the further the markets could fall, at least in the short term.

There are several major prob-lems with the way financial mar-kets work these days. Among them are lack of proper regula-tion, concentration of too much power in certain financial in-stitutions (known as the too big to fail syndrome), manipulation of markets by such institutions with impunity and the imbalance of power and influence among the nations that govern the setup of the global economic order, among others.

But the mother of all prob-lems is that modern economy has become a fictitious, lately mostly digital, trade of per-ceived value rather than real value, thanks the to the process of excessive financialization of what used to be the supply and demand economy.

The symptoms of the cur-rent financial scare do go back to China: That country has been engaged in a process of modi-fying its economic practices to make them look more like those of the West, with people being encouraged to invest their sav-ings in stocks and bonds instead of hoarding money under their pillows, thereby contributing to capital accumulation, which is supposed to lead to increased

productive investments, which will lead to more employment so on and so forth.

But the problem is that Chi-na has been growing thanks to a strictly controlled command economy and the government is even ordering pension funds, banks and other big companies to buy stocks when the mar-ket seems to be in decline to maintain the appearance and the country is still far, far away from a point where people’s in-vestments in stock markets can really prop up capital accumula-

tion processes.In other words, the capitalist

mode of functioning is not cur-rently suited to the economic ba-sics in China.

Now, there are two main questions that need answers (of course there are a lot more but due to space limitations, just to take two):

1) What is it to us: A lot. Can-ada being a commodity econo-my, mainly selling raw materi-als and agricultural produce, of which China buys a lot, loonie has already taken a big hit. If the selloff and scare continues, we will definitely be poorer than we are today.

2) Will it continue: It all de-pends on what the powers that be will decide. If central banks and investment banks, in other words market manipulators, decide that more steam should be released from the giant debt bubble we have been in for more than decade, then it will continue with bankruptcies and liquidations becoming common place in the weeks and months to come. If they decide that the implosion of the economy will not be conducive to their ben-efits, then popping of the bubble will be delayed until another occasion.

– Mustafa Eric

Has the rout begun? Manipulators will decide whether market turbulence is to continue

Modern economy has become a fictitious, lately mostly digital, trade of perceived value rather than real value.

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this morning, so they are making their own tic-tac-toe sets out of clay and now we are working on real-ism,” said Alexis Lawlor, supervisor at the art camp. “They get to experiment with drawing people, which is fun!”

Home to the Boys and Girls Club and Big Brothers Big Sisters programs, there are presently 290 youth aged between six and 18, registered with HYC.

Although summer pro-grams are designed differ-ently for more activities, the centre offers programs throughout the year includ-ing an afterschool program; teen leadership programs; mentoring programs; and summer programs.

With 85 children who were registered in the sum-mer program, and 15 in the teen programs, HYC was a hub of activities all through summer.

Summer activities includ-ed a daily program for ages six to 12, a week-long art camp in the past week and junior leadership opportuni-ties for teens, besides teen trips and various other com-munity service events.

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When Alberta Agricul-ture called for farms to open their doors to the pub-lic for one or two days a year to help educate people about farm-life, Cornel and Cremona Primrose decided it was a great idea.

The pair are both farm-bred; he on a grain and cattle operation near Big Valley, and she on a dairy and grain operation near Erskine. For them, farm life is normal life, but they’re under no illusions about how the urban residents of Canada view farming.

“There’s a lot of infor-mation out there,” Cornel Primrose said. “Animal welfare is a big deal to us.”

When walking into Prim-rose Farm’s dairy barn, there’s no headstalls, no shackled cattle attached to suction machines for milk-ing, no crowded pack of bovine flesh. The barn, spa-cious, is made to be com-fortable, with soft ground for the cattle to stand or lie

on.The milking is done by

automatic machines that the cow walks into whenever she pleases, for a special bit of treat feed, a quick bath and milking. When she’s had enough, she leaves the machine.

Cornel Primrose said that while some tourists in the industry said his barn should have “twice as many” animals in the barn, he sees no need to crowd them.

“I think it’s important to have healthy, happy ani-mals,” he said. “If they’re going to spend most of their life in a barn, it should be a comfortable one.”

If the herd is to expand, he said the family would likely build new facilities rather than crowd the barn.

He and Cremona, plus daughters Ceaxna, 5 and Careese, 7, are the labourers are on the farm, which also raises free-range chickens, goats, and pigs.

The cattle raised by the family are Fleckzieh cattle,

a “dual-purpose” cattle breed that can either be raised for beef or for dairy. On the Primrose farm, it means there’s always an outlet for the non-milking cattle that come from the farm.

“We started milking cows in 2003,” Cornel Prim-rose said. “As it evolved, we went toward dairy. We found we had more passion in it.”

The next big project is a processing plant on the farm, so they can sell their own milk without selling into Alberta’s supply man-agement program.

“How people see food is evolving,” Primrose said. “They want to know where it came from, how the animals are treated. ‘Free-Range’ and ‘Organic’ mean nothing.”

He said that the prov-ince’s supply management program – which sees milk from all sources “pooled together” before it’s pur-chased by milk retailers – it outdated.

“You won’t see ‘Primrose Milk’ out there, because it’s impossible to tell where the milk has come from, and it’s been mixed with other milk,” he explained.

By having the milk pro-cessed on Primrose Farms, though, he can sell it as be-ing from the farm. For the family, who values animal

welfare, that’s very impor-tant. There’s no steroids injected into the animals, antibiotics are kept to a bare minimum, and when the animals need feed that the farm doesn’t grow on its own, the farm buys from vendors it knows.

About 50 people came to the farm to visit the milking

plant, the cows, the pigs and goats, and chickens on Sun-day, Aug. 23. Some people misread the literature and showed up a day early, which while unexpected, was a welcome visit, Cor-nel Primrose noted.

“We’re just friendly peo-ple,” he noted with a laugh. “Any time people come to visit, we’re happy.”

It’s the second year the family took part in Open Farm Days in Alberta, and it’s something that will likely happen again next year.

“People are coming to a farm,” Cremona Primrose said of her discussions with other farmers, who balked at opening their gates to the public. “A real farm, not a Hollywood farm. They know it’s not going to be spotless.”

Jonathan Poole and his mother, Elizabeth Brost, travelled all the way from Calgary to Primrose Farms, which is located just south of the Byemoor/Endiang turn-off on Highway 56.

“I was interested in the goats, and this was the only farm that said they had them,” Poole said, as he fed alfalfa to one of the goats through the fence.

The two said they were really enjoying the trip, as they weren’t entirely sure what goes on behind the farm gate, being from a city, which was exactly the point of taking part in the event, Cornel Primrose noted, as he prepared to take a new group of tourists through the dairy area.

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I tried to remember if the news was more posi-tive when I was a boy. I can’t really say because I didn’t pay a great deal of attention to it. I do recall that any Canadian cel-ebrating a 100th birthday was something of a na-tional celebration. There are currently 6000+ Ca-nadians 100 years old or older, so now even that bit of positive news has dropped by the wayside.

It is a well-known fact that headlines in newspa-pers, along with radio and TV news are predomi-nantly negative. Psychol-ogists tell us that people simply find catastrophic happenings, negative events and political in-competence more intrigu-ing than positive happen-ings and improvements which tend to be more gradual and less dramatic.

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charged. When was the last time you heard of, or saw a group of employ-ees huddled in the corner of the lunch room having a coffee and gossiping about how great the boss, job and wages are?

So, how refreshing, in the midst of all the Duffy-ism, low oil prices and gloomy forecasts for the future, both political-ly and economically, to have 90-year-old, former United States president, Jimmy Carter come into the media limelight.

Seeing Carter walk energetically to the plat-form, take his place be-hind the microphone, si-multaneously flashing a toothy smile, one might have thought he was about to announce anoth-er Nobel Prize nomina-tion. That was however, not the case.

Fully lucid, he cheerily announced that having al-ready undergone surgery for liver cancer, he will now be treated for brain cancer. He explained that he expects the cancer to appear in other parts of his body as well. Though the news was grim, his posture and presentation were positive and affirm-ing and he said that he has not been experiencing an-ger or despair.

I expect that we’ve all seen people respond less favorably to less threat-ening situations. How-ever, Carter also provided the key to his positive outlook during his physi-cal downturn. He said, “I am perfectly at ease with whatever comes...this is in the hands of God.” Carter explained that while he would be re-ducing his commitments, he will still continue to teach his Sunday school class at Maranatha Bap-tist Church.

Let me close with the passage of Scripture that Carter used for his inau-gural speech as Ameri-ca’s 39th president. “He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8).

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Some readers might recall back in 1992 a federal government entity called the Trans Canada Trail (TCT) was created. It’s noble goal was to establish a trail sys-tem that would cross Canada from west to east with various branches to other parts of the country. Since then most of the route has been completed in eastern Canada using already existing trails; smaller dis-tances also made the process relatively easy. It was a different story in much of the west where outside of urban centres long-distances are a big and costly chal-lenge. The push is now on to complete the trail by 2017, the 150th anniversary of confederation, that’s a fair goal but seems unlikely being big gaps remain particu-larly in Alberta. There is lots of enthusi-asm and hope to see it completed but it always boils down to funding the creation or rehabilitation of trails. In times of fiscal restraint trail development is well down the government’s priority list. The groups involved have created foundations and charitable arms to raise funds but its not enough.

The national trail concept got off to rocky start back in the 90’s just after the TCT was created. In the usual Ottawa ap-proach the federal government of the day decided to create a national agency to cre-ate the trail. The first thing it did was to provide the agency with bureaucrats, pow-er and money – that’s a sure-fire recipe for bureaucratic mischief, abuse of power and empire building. To make it worse, for political purposes, the head office was located in faraway Montreal even though most of the undeveloped trail network was in the west. That guaranteed a focus on de-veloping trails in the east first. But it also guaranteed that trail issues in the far flung west would be bungled with the usual east-ern political ignorance, some would say arrogance. Luckily that was later resolved.

Soon after the TCT was established Ca-

nadian railways donated hundreds of miles of abandoned railway rights of way in western Canada to the organization. It was a stroke of genius and luck as it potential-ly created almost instant trails over large areas. One would assume that the TCT would have created a process to quickly utilize this ready-made trail system, but alas they chose first to pick a fight with ad-jacent land owners. In the typical eastern federal bureaucratic approach they sent le-gal letters to landowners adjacent to their newly acquired rights of way that made various demands, restrictions and threats (depending on how you interpreted the let-ter) on using or crossing their land. That infuriated the land owners affected par-ticularly in light of over a hundred years of harmonious cooperation with the former railway company owners. At first the TCT as expected would not back down – which only made it worse. After a few years of acrimony and stagnation an agreement was reached that provincial trail develop-ment agencies would take over responsi-bility. The TCT was delegated to provid-ing oversight and development grants.

In Alberta the lead trail development agency is Alberta Trail Net and it tries its best with a limited budget – the problem always is the same - big distances. Rail-way right of ways remain a viable way to expand the network, but there is concern that they won’t be well utilized because many are seen as remote. I suggest that approach is self-defeating; the plan should be that if you build them they will come. Rails to trails projects in eastern Canada, BC and parts of the US have shown that once the trail is built to biking standards, bike tourism seems to develop. In many of those locations much of the trail use is by non- local residents, and that is only common sense. It’s an approach we need in Alberta. Part of the problem may be a perception who the biking community is and how to serve their needs. At present the tourist industry sees mountain bikers as their focus and rightly so – millions of dollars are spent by countless thousands of young folks roaring recklessly down mountain sides at ski resorts in the sum-mer. A whole industry has grown up in many small towns to service that sector of bikers, but a large segment has been ig-nored. There are legions of bikers that pre-fer a more sedate and safer style of bicycle touring, and railway lines converted to bi-cycle trails serves that part of the market. More next time including how pipelines can lead the way.

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The Stettler Public Li-brary celebrated its final day of the summer reading program on Thursday, Aug. 20 as it recognized some of its young readers for taking the time to read all through summer.

Being called the ‘games galore’ week, the final week

began on a fun note as kids enjoyed playing a variety of games, which included corn holes and twister, minute to win it and were engaged in a wide range of activities.

On Wednesday, Aug.19 the kids made a trip to Ro-chon Sands, where they participated in more activi-ties, making up their own games, such as cup and ball games.

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Arya-Lyn Macdougall said, “I’m very sad the sum-mer program is ending.”

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Morrin School is set to open their doors on Aug. 31 for their students. Big Valley and Stettler will start on Sept. 2 and Trochu will open their doors for students on Sept 1. Good luck to all the students who are returning and to all students who are head-ing off to post-secondary

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reading this on Wednes-day so you will barely have time to get some clean clothes on and head to the Garden Show, which will be held at the Agriplex. The doors will open to the public at 4 p.m. and supper will start at 5 p.m. to last until 7, with the children’s flower arranging to happen at 7:30. The awards cer-emony will follow after that.

Also, remember that the library will be hold-ing the photo contest during the open hours of the show and I will call upon the general public to be my judges for the favourite photos for next year’s calendar. It will be a good evening in town, so I hope you will plan to attend.

Congratulations to Gene and Betty Pennock as they will be walking their oldest daughter, Ka-tie, down the aisle this coming weekend at the Rumsey Hall. I hope all goes well, I have heard from mom that Katie is always very well orga-nized so it sounds like a wedding well under con-trol.

Barb Luhti called me last week to say that Jorge has been spending some time in the Red Deer hos-pital feeling a little un-der the weather so keep him in your prayers and I hope he gets feeling bet-ter quickly.

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The Endiang Hall was filled on Sat-urday evening for Jim and Maureen Wasdal’s 40th wedding anniversary celebration. A family supper was fol-lowed by an open house and dance, attended by many family, friends and neighbours. Marty Brooker and Terri Simpson provided the music.

Congratulations on this special mile-stone to Jim and Maureen and best wishes for many more.

Audrey (nee Ackerman) Noel of Victoria, B.C. was a weekend visitor to our community and took in the Was-dal’s 40th anniversary party. Audrey was one of the bridesmaids from 40 years ago.

Endiang had international visitors on the weekend when a couple from Holland, Archie Verhoog and Susan Sie visited. They first came to Endiang to learn horsemanship skills, and have visited a few times since. They are back in Canada once again, and took in the Wasdal 40th anniversary, as they met Jim and Maureen on one of their earlier visits to Endiang.

A bridal shower is planned for Cait-lyn Keith, bride-elect of Tyler Dickson, on Sept. 4 at 7 p.m. at the Byemoor Hall. All are welcome and contribu-tions to the lunch are appreciated.

Friends of Lois Ballinger will be interested to know she will soon be welcoming visitors at her new location at Points West Living care facility in Stettler. Lois becomes a resident there on Sept. 9.

Cheryl (nee Joiner) Davis of Hope, B.C. along with Marilyn Boehlke of Hanna were Sunday visitors with the Stulberg family. Cheryl’s grandparents Matt and Verna (nee Bailey) Joiner were early pioneers of the Endiang dis-

trict. The Joiner homestead was where Carol Stulberg lives today.

Cheryl’s uncle Creighton Joiner and father Howard Joiner also farmed this land for a time. After the Joiner fam-ily left the Endiang district they moved to Saskatchewan and later relocated to B.C.

Cheryl was in search of her roots, having heard her father speak of Endi-ang many times. She has gained quite a lot of knowledge on the Joiner side of the family and is in hopes to learn more of her Bailey relatives.

Our district received another inch of rain on Friday. The countryside looks beautifully green for this time of year, when you would expect everything to be drying up.

Congratulations to a local ball team on winning the Hanna slo-pitch tour-nament on the weekend. With the re-cent rain, the Hanna tournament expe-rienced the same muddy conditions as the Byemoor tournament did the week previous. Among those on the winning team were Ryan Gallagher, Dwight and Heather Tucker, Jonathon and Raelynn Knowles, Dusty Wasdal and Mike and Nadine (Gallagher) Hein.

Thought for the day — “We don’t stop laughing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop laughing.”

Wasdals’ 40th anniversary marked in style

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The day was full of clear skies and sunshine for the annual Auto Daze in Don-alda, bucking the trend of cold and rainy weather of late.

It ended up being a perfect day for the event, which saw auto aficiona-dos bring out their rides, buff them up, and put them on display in the park alongside Donalda’s giant lamp.

The damage done by a drunk driver last year had all been tidied up, and ev-erything was pristine for the event.

People travelled from all over Alberta to have their vehicles on display, with some coming from as far as from beyond Edmonton, right into the roots of the Rockies.

For Terry Ziegler and his wife, it wasn’t as long a journey. The duo drove up from Stettler in their restored 1956 Chevy Bel-Air. A friend of Terry Ziegler’s found the car in Medicine Hat, and let him know about it, and the Stettler mechanic snapped it up in a jiffy.

The car was barely more than a frame when it was brought home. The drive

train was gone, the inside was gutted, and the classic car was in tough shape.

Restoring the engine, the vehicle’s interior and exterior, took the Stettler

man about six years of labour, labour he put in on his own, as he had the skill. He didn’t have to fabricate parts, but man-aged to find them out on

the market, through no easy effort.

“I used to drive one,” he said of his car. “I just thought I should have it.”

The car, which has been

in Terry Ziegler’s care now for about a decade, comes out for the special events, and the occasional drive. Otherwise, it’s kept safe in a garage, where weather will leave it be.

One unique vehicle, which travelled from be-yond Edmonton at Seba Beach, was an old Ford truck from the 30s. The vehicle, which is still roadworthy, had an inter-esting take on a vacation vehicle with a wooden camper built on the back, and decorated with hang-ing long johns, a woman’s brassiere, and a giant chain saw.

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Daphne Ziegler and her husband, Terry, pose with the 1956 Chevy Bel-Air that Terry restored over a six-year period. Daphne said she didn’t mind the project that ate up so much of her husband’s time since it “kept him out of my hair.”

Kasheen ClousonDONALDA DIARY

The Donalda Library held another Adult Informa-tion Night, themed ‘work-ing on the internet’, which was well attended and very informative. Everyone had a chance to learn something new.

The Donalda & District

museum is open weekdays 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. and week-ends noon – 4 p.m. If you are interested in booking a group tour. please call us at 403 883 2100. Please stop on by for a visit and enjoy the many beautiful items we have on display. After Sep-tember long weekend, the museum will revert back to

its winter hours. The Donalda Gallery

for the Arts will be having an art sale for the closing weekend of the exhibition ‘Collections” during Sep-tember Long Weekend. Purchase or bid on unique works of art. The gallery will be open from noon to 4 p.m. during the long week-end.

Birthday wishes this week go out to Carl Kittler, Rhett Norman, Brent Har-tum, Laura Hebbes, Michal Henderson, Jim Awe, Kelan Carroll, Trudy Bailey, Jen-nifer Reyes, Chad Mont-gomery, Cheryl Charles, Joseph Broemeling, Claus Mueller, Loverna Dahl, Sheldon Donalda, and Sheryl Van Haga. Happy birthday to all.

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The summer of 2015 has passed by much too quickly for my liking, but it’s been a lot of fun for us here at the Big Valley Municipal Library. The gardens in our Wi-Fi park have thrived as usage of the facili-ties have grown and our busy summer programming sched-ule was a huge success. With the help of our very talented summer student, the Big Val-ley Library was able to offer numerous programs, services and events throughout the summer months.

This year the Summer Reading Club took place ev-ery Tuesday and Thursday afternoon and we were very pleased with the community’s response. We had record numbers of children and par-

ents participating each week. Thanks to the boundless en-ergy, enthusiasm and creativity of this year’s summer student, Kelsey Mailer, we were able to provide a popular and enter-taining place for the children of our community to spend the summer months. Kelsey man-aged to deliver a wide variety of fun and interesting activities throughout the program. Each week included creative craft activities, science projects and fun games along with many exciting books.

Every Friday, a computer “drop in time” was set aside specifically to provide local se-niors assistance with computer and technology issues.

New this year, our once a week Teen Night was well attended and included paint-ing projects, “seed bombing”, game nights, geocaching and the “Spinecrackers” book club.

Kelsey also contributed

children’s programming to Big Valley’s First of July celebra-tions and was responsible for the success of our Children’s Carnival held on the August long weekend.

All summer programming came to a close on Friday, Aug. 21.

We must thank Kelsey Mailer for her hard work. We could not have done any of this without you. We will all miss you, but we wish you luck in all your future endeavors. We must thank the Big Val-ley Municipal Library Board, the Friends of the Big Valley Library Society and all our dedicated volunteers for their marvelous support of all our activities. We also thank the TD Bank Group, the Toronto Public Library and Library and Archives Canada for support-ing literacy in Canada by offer-ing the TD Summer Reading Club every summer to Cana-dian children across the nation.

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The Stettler Recreation Centre was a hustle of activ-ity as the East Central Hockey School (ECHS) hosted the town’s first hockey camp of the season, from Aug.17 to Aug. 21.

With four teams – Crosby (six to eight), Ovechkin (eight to 10), Stamkos (9-11), Doan (12-14) – categorized according to age groups, it was a week-long event as kids had a full day, starting from 8 in the morning to 7 in the evening.

Although it was a hockey camp, young players were given a lacrosse introduction, participated in team-build-ing exercises, had time allotted to swim, and even played soccer.

“We wanted to put on a good camp for kids to develop their skills and have a good time, have fun but also want-ed to teach these kids some life skills, respect, respon-sibility,” said Jason Hegberg, head-on-ice instructor and part owner of ECHS. “I mean all this stuff is in play here, it’s not just about hockey.”

With 140 kids participating in the camp, Hegberg thinks the camp was a success in its fifth year running.

“They seemed to all want to come back next year, and keep coming back, so I think we are doing a good job,” he said.

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As the True Grit Cowboy Mounted Shooters (TGCMS) club held its final shoot of the season at the Litvak Are-na in Big Valley on Sunday, Aug.23, Cathy Papley of Stet-tler scored a good run to finish as the ladies’ overall champi-on with 88.210 seconds, while Amanda Marshall of Stettler was declared as the ladies’ level one winner.

Gary Couch of High Prairie was the overall men’s cham-pion with 81.861 seconds.

Finishing at 83.694 sec-onds Clint Bowman of Ni-ton Junction was named the men’s reserve champion, while Heather McKenzie of Devon became the women’s reserve champion clocking in at 98.658 seconds.

In other categories, Mar-shall scored a win again with Heather McKenzie as they were declared team handicap winners.

In the ladies’ divisions, Lisa McKenzie was the level two winner, Heather McKenzie was the level three winner and Sarah Harbin was level four

winner. While in the men’s divisions, Brad Mathiesen was the level one winner, Orin Sand, level two winner, Clint Bowman, level three winner and Gary Couch was declared level four winner.

There were senior mounted shooters too, with categories for men’s and women’s.

Linda McKenzie was de-clared senior women’s level one winner, Kendra Karch-Sinclair was level two winner, with Jean MacMillan being the level three winner, while Cathy Papley was named se-nior ladies’ level four winner.

With no entry for senior men’s level one category, the focus was on the other three levels.

Buck Williams was named the level two winner, Don Lit-vak was declared as the level three winner, while Ken Wick became the level four winner.

Although cowboy mounted shooting is not as popular in Canada as it is in the U.S.A., it continues to be one of the top equestrian sport, regulated by several organizations, though the Cowboy Mounted Shoot-ing Association (CMSA) is quite well-known.

Amanda Marshall and Cathy Papley of Stettler among

winners at the final shoot-out event of the season

East Central Hockey School hosts theseason’s first hockey camp in Stettler

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Celebration is in order as one of the players score in the practice

game. Participants of the hockey camp held at the rink in the Stettler

Recreation Centre from Aug.17–21, play a friendly match on the final

day to put to test the skills learnt over the week.


Amanda Marshall shoots her target at the final summer shoot organized by the True Grit Cowboy Mounted Shooters’ Club on Sunday, Aug. 23 in Big Valley. Marshall finished with an overall five-stage time of 105.564 seconds, which included 10 seconds in penalties for missed balloons.

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There were no extra-spe-cial events or exceptional fanfare to announce the 20th anniversary of the Halkirk Elks Bull-a-Rama, a family-friendly rodeo event that raises money for the com-munity. And that’s the way the Elks wanted it.

By choosing to not spend money on an exceptional

marking of the anniversary, the Elks were able to make sure that the money went to the purpose it is raised for: helping the community’s groups, organizations, and people in need, organizers said.

Though no one managed to keep their seat on the bulls through two rounds of riding, Casey Bertram from Piapot, Sask. took the prize

in saddle bronc, pulling ahead of Mike Gordon, who led after the long go.

Despite a downpour on Friday, Aug. 21, Saturday was bright and sunny, with rarely a cloud to be seen. While some parts of the Halkirk grounds were a lit-tle mushy with moisture, the wet soil kept the grounds from being dusty during competition.

People from the surround-ing communities – and all over Alberta – packed the stands outside the ring, or the alcohol-serving garden, to watch the 20 competitors in either saddle bronc or bull riding compete.

Competitors came from all over; some travelled barely at all, hailing from the surrounding communi-ties, while others came from Saskatchewan and Manito-ba. Armando Davila Rodri, whose base is in Stettler, actually trains in Mexico, announcer Les McIntyre re-vealed.

Stock for the event was provided by Rafter Anchor of Outlaw Buckers, while Brett Sollocy and Edward Hourdan distracted the bulls after their riders dismount-ed.

Though the rodeo events were the star of the show, they were but a part of a day-long celebration that began with the opening of the gates at 2 p.m.

Terry Howe and Quality

Sound provided music un-til the opening ceremonies at 3:30 p.m., with Ladies of the Heartland performing the Grand Entry.

O Canada was sung by Brooklyn Perry.

Kids events throughout the afternoon, before the start of the rodeo event, had kids getting down and dirty. Mutton busting and wild pony races had kids scram-bling in the damp dirt of the rodeo ring.

The rodeo events them-selves got underway at 4:30 p.m., with each event interspersed with different games for kids or presenta-tions for the audience.

One such presentation was a display by the Wild Hearted Trick Riders, who on their horses performed gravity-defying tricks, hanging from or standing on their saddles as their equine partners cantered along the glittering silver rope held by volunteers.

Later in the evening, the Ladies of the Heartland re-turned for another perfor-mance, this time of “Kira’s Ride,” a performance de-signed to honour Stettler youth Kira Richardson, who is battling a form of bone cancer called osteosarcoma.

Kira chose the music for the performance herself, but was unable to attend the event herself, which was recorded so she could see it later.

Halkirk Elks, community celebrate 20 years of Bull-A-Rama


Armando Davila Rodri bursts out of the gate on the back of Dirty Steve at the 20th annual Halkirk Elks Bull-a-Rama. Like other bull riders, he was bucked off. The money raised by the event is used to help support the community.

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Cornelius Unruh was born to Claude and Susan Toews Unruh on August 1, 1929 at home in the Swalwell, Alberta area. He came into this world prematurely weighing only 4 lbs. and his mother kept him warm in the warming closet of the wood cook stove. He passed away on August 13, 2015 in his room at Heritage House, Stettler, Alberta reaching the age of 86 years.Cornelius grew up in the Linden, Alberta community but moved with his parents and siblings to the newly started congregation at Abbotsford, BC, in 1947 when he was 18 years old. He returned to Alberta moving to Stettler in 1984 at age 54 with his wife and two youngest sons.Cornelius felt the call of God and gave his heart to the Lord when he was 14 years old and was baptized in the Church of God in Christ Mennonite at Linden, AB. He walked faithfully with the Lord until the end.He married Anne Reimer daughter of Otto and Margaret Reimer who had also moved from Linden, AB to Abbotsford, BC, with her parents. They were married by Min. Frank Wiebe on Jan. 3, 1954 and shared 61 years of marriage with all its joys and sorrows. On Feb. 15, 1962 he was ordained into the gospel ministry by Min. Clifford Mastre. Dad had a great love for the church and for his calling as a minister and served faithfully within his gifts. He did enjoy his own style of parables and used them in private life as well as in his sermons. He wanted all to be able to see the deep things of the scriptures. He had a compassionate heart for his fellow men and for the spreading of the gospel. In the latter capacity he and his wife spent two years in the Linwood, Ontario mission, three six month periods in the Russia mission and also in the Iceland tract work.Dad’s faith was in the God of heaven and his greatest wish of all was that all his children and grandchildren make it into the glory land. Dad’s last illness was a 5 month ordeal with some diffi cult times. Numerous times during this period he expressed a deep longing to be released from this life and go to heaven.Dad worked at various jobs in early life but eventually centered on carpentry for many years. Early in married life he also set up a laying hen farm. After relocating to Stettler he built a brand new homestead on a bare piece of ground. He loved his “plantation” as he fondly called it. Here he did a little farming and operated a woodworking cabinetry shop until retirement.Dad was a man of grit and gamely tackled diffi cult tasks and saw them through. He didn’t use a master plan but believed that the plan will unfold as he went along. It was often amazing how this worked for him. While growing up he taught us that things have always worked out and so they will again. Those left with precious memories are his wife Anne, and his children: Darlene and husband Darin Litwiller, Middleton, Michigan and their children Jessica, Melanie, Luke and Carol; Del, Stettler, AB; Barb and husband Stefan Simonovic, Coquitlam, BC and their children Tanja (Archie) and their children Ethan and Abigail, Kristina (Gianfranco) and their children Gianluca and Cristiano; Carol and husband Ed Klassen, Abbotsford, BC and their children Lance, Bentley and Travis; Ken and wife Raynelle, Edmonton, AB and their children Natasha and Chantel; Tim and wife Rita, Stettler, AB and their children Ashton, Eddason, Gavin and Gabriella; family friend Diana Shepherd who was like a daughter; one sister Anna, Enderby, BC, and two brothers Ivan (Betty), Mission, BC and Ben (Marianne), Scio, Oregon; and in-laws, Virginia (John) Giesbrecht; Glen (Frieda) Reimer; Dale (Rita) Reimer; Dorothy Reimer; Mabel Unruh; Marci (Jim) Wilson; Marlene (Bert) Wiebe; Eunice (Percy) Thiessen.Preceding him in death were his parents, two infant siblings and three brothers; parents-in-law, three brothers-in-law and two sisters-in-law. Funeral Services were held Monday, August 17, at Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, Lakeview Congregation, Stettler, AB with interment in Fenn-Lakeview Cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family at [email protected]

ELMER TOEWS Elmer Jacob Toews was born on the family farm at Linden, Alberta on July 14, 1928. God took him home the evening of August 15, 2015, surrounded by family in the Stettler Hospital. Dad married our mother, Helen Penner on April 18, 1954 at Greenland, Manitoba. They shared the joys and sorrows of life for 61 years. Dad gave his heart to the Lord and was baptized into the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, later being ordained as a deacon. He served the church faithfully including eleven years in mission outreach. Our Dad supplied our needs capably through his farming, raising grain crops and cattle. We spent 3 years at Entice, Alberta. In 1973, we moved as a family to the young congregation of Stettler, Alberta. His gentle nature and patient quiet ways were appreciated by many. We are comforted that Dad is at rest and safe in the arms of Jesus. A year ago Dad and Mom moved to an assisted living facility in Stettler. We, as a family, wish to thank Dr. Heaven and Dr. Bouwer, the fi rst responders of the Big Valley Fire Department, Stettler EMS and the staff of Stettler Hospital and Points West Living for their excellent care of our father. Dad will be lovingly remembered by our mother, Helen and their children and grandchildren: Rosanna and George Toews, Stettler, AB, Noreen and Jody Wohlgemuth, Kevin and Valerie, Eric and Rachel, Dennis and Melissa, Linda and Philip Johnson; Mervin and Diana Toews, Berwick, NS, Jennifer and Rob Wohlgemuth, Daniel and Grace, Bradley and Fen, Lori; Kathy and Keith Klassen, Stettler, AB, Cameron and Heather, Randy, Rilla, Natalie; and 19 great grandchildren; one brother, Harvey M. and Susan Toews, Linden, AB, a sister in law Barbara and Harvey Thiessen, Pincher Creek, AB; Mom’s family: Elizabeth Barkman, Caroline Penner, Esther Penner, Lydia Toews, Marianne and Leroy Reimer, Naomi and Clifford Warkentin, Marlene Penner, Cornie and Linda Penner, Joseph and Adeline Penner. Preceding him in death were his parents, one brother and seven sisters and their spouses. A funeral service for the late Mr. Elmer Toews was held at Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, County of Stettler, Alberta on Thursday, August 20, 2015. Interment took place at Fenn-Lakeview Cemetery with his beloved grandsons serving as pallbearers.

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family by visiting the funeral home website at www.stettlerfuneralhome.com

A big thanks to all my dear friends that came to my“Spur of the Moment” farewell tea at Stettler United Church, Sunday, Aug. 23. Thank you for all the hugs and cards and other best wishes. Sorry I had to leave for St. Albert by the

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BAERGPaul DouglasPaul Douglas Baerg passed away peacefully at the University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, AB on 10 August 2015 at the age of 66. Paul was born in Calgary, AB on 22 August 1948. He is survived by his wife Lorraine Baerg of Wainwright, AB, daughter Diana (Wayne) Slemp of Nanaimo, BC, aunt Bertha Storek of Calgary, AB, sister Nora Charles of Stettler, AB, step-children John Lymbery of Alix, AB, Carla Lymbery of Edmonton, AB, Maria (Rob) Maguire and Amanda (Kyle) Deyell of Wainwright, AB. Paul was predeceased by his mother Mable Rogers, father Bill Baerg, sister Joyce Rowley and late wife Phyllis Baerg. Paul attended Stettler School, Stettler, AB and then in 1990 graduated from Grant MacEwan Community College at Edmonton, AB with a certifi cate in Correctional Services. Paul had many roles in his life; working for the Gas Company in Central Alberta; working on the bridge crew; driving truck for Parcels Trucking in Stettler, AB; working within the correctional services in Drumheller and Edmonton, stationary store owner and also worked on the military base in Wainwright, AB to name but a few, making life-long friends along the way. A Funeral Mass for Paul was held on August 13, 2015 at the Blessed Sacrament Parish, Wainwright, AB. Internment was held at the Alix Cemetery on August 18, 2015. Our parting is not the end of our relationship, only an interruption. We know you are watching over us until we meet again.

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NORMA MACDONALD

In loving memory of a very special Wife, Mom, Nan, Great-Grandma, who passed on August 31, 2014.

The Lord saw you getting tired And a cure was not to be,

So He put his arms around you And whispered, “Come with me”.

With tearful eyes we watched you sufferAnd saw you fade away.

Although we loved you dearly,We could not make you stay.

A golden heart stopped beatingYour beautiful smile at rest.

God broke our hearts to proveHe always takes the best.

It’s lonesome here without youWe miss you so each day.

Our lives just aren’t the sameEver since you went away.

When days are sad and lonelyAnd everything goes wrongWe hear you gently whisper,

“Cheer up and carry on.”Each time we see your picture,

You seem to smile and say,“Don’t cry, I’m in God’s keeping,

We’ll meet again someday.

Miss you and love you foreverJim, Michelle & Dick, Michael and families

CHRIS BARCLAYJan. 4, 1982 - Aug. 27, 2014

In loving memory of my brother.You are missed so very much

I often sit and think about the year that has passed by and of the happiness and joy that was shared by you and I.

I think of all the laughter,the smiles and all the funand before I even know it,

My tears have once again begun.For although it brings me comfort

to walk down memory laneIt reminds me how, without you,life has never been the same.

Love you always and forever my favourite twin brother. You are missed by so many.

CONNOR

In Loving Memory of Andrew “Andy” David Connor

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the sudden passing of Andy Connor from Big Valley, AB, at the age of 68 years, on August 17, 2015 at the Royal Alex Hospital in Edmonton.Born on September 13, 1946, in Stettler, AB, Andy is predeceased by his daughter, Colleen Connor; parents, Genevieve and Gordon Connor and his

brother John Connor. He is survived by his sons, Daniel Connor (Catherine) of Quebec and Colin Toner (Carrie-Anne) of Victoria, B.C.; sisters, Margaret LeVesque of Big Valley, AB, Audrey Hamilton of Harrowsmith, ON, Ethel Hughes of Kingston, ON and Linda Connor of Red Deer, AB; 4 grandchildren, Iseal, Asha, Marissa and Jacob; and numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.Andy will be truly missed by all his family and friends.A Celebration of Life will be held at 2:00 P.M. at the Big Valley Drop In Centre on August 28, 2015. As an expression of sympathy, Memorial Donations may be made to the Cancer Society or a Charity of the Donor’s choice.Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.brennenfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of BRENNEN FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATION SERVICES

Box 193, Stettler, AB T0C 2L0. 403-742-3315.

Wow - 70 years together. Congratulations to John and Vally Innocent

on their 70th wedding anniversary on August 24, 2015. They celebrated with family and friends on

Saturday and Sunday, August 22 and August 23.

Love from your family

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The Big Valley Ag. Society is now accepting tenders for

the position of Kitchen Caretaker for the

2015-2016 season.Interested applicants should submit their tenders to Box 7 Big Valley, AB T0J 0G0 by

September 20, 2015. For questions, please call 403-740-5223.

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BIG BROTHERS &BIG SISTERS ORGANIZATION

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NOTICE OF SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING & PUBLIC HEARING

SUMMER VILLAGE OF WHITE SANDS BYLAW 153-15AUGUST 29, 2015 AT 9:00 AMWHITE SANDS VILLAGE HALL

Pursuant to Section 606 of the Municipal Government Act, the Council of the Summer Village of White Sands give notice that they have given First Reading to Land Use Bylaw 153-15.

The changes to Bylaw 153-15 from the current Bylaw 146-14 include:• Increasing front yard setbacks by 1.5m for buildings on lots larger

than 929m². This will allow for better visibility and sightlines where buildings appear too close to the road, and will allow for increased room for shallow utilities.

• The wording for “lakeside” lots meant that fences along roads for these parcels could be 6.5 ft. high. This has now been clarifi ed so on “lakeside” parcels, the roadside maximum height is 4 ft., and the side and lakeside fences can be up to 6.5 ft. (just like all other lots in the village).

• Bringing back an allowance for occasional exceptions to the limit of 2 RV’s per lot. The proposal allows approval of up to 4 RV’s, 3 times per year for up to 5 days at a time.

Anyone affected by this amendment may make written submissions before 12:00 p.m., Friday, August 28, 2015 to Graham Scott, CAO, Box 280, Stettler, AB T0C 2L0 or [email protected].

The Public Hearing for the Bylaw 153-15 will be held on Saturday, August 29, 2015, at 9:00am in the White Sands Village Hall at 8 Front Street, White Sands, Alberta.

The Public Hearing will be a part of a Special Meeting of Council for the Summer Village of White Sands.

Copies of the proposed Bylaw are available at the Town of Stettler Offi ce during offi ce hours, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., or online at www.summervillageofwhitesands.ca.

Box 280 (5031 - 50 St.)

Stettler, AB T0C 2L0

www.stettler.net

DEVELOPMENT PERMIT NOTICENotice is hereby given that the following Development Permit Applications have been approved as permitted uses in accordance with the Town of Stettler Land Use Bylaw N0 2060-15:

1. No: 2885-2015 Legal Description: Lot 47, Block 2, Plan 0522825 Municipal Address: 6708 – 43 Avenue Close

Applicant: Shelley Davis-Hall Proposed Development: Uncovered Deck

2. No: 2886-2015 Legal Description: Lot 24, Block 13, Plan RN54A Municipal Address: 4807 – 51 Street

Applicant: Tim Croker Proposed Development: Detached Garage

3. No: 2887-2015 Legal Description: Lot 2, Block 4, Plan 0227539 Municipal Address: 4106 – 50 Avenue

Applicant: North Star Trucking Proposed Development: Storage Shed

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Next weekend (Sept. 5-7) will be Labour Day weekend, when some campsites will be closing down again until next May, so hopefully everyone can get out and enjoy themselves at some out door activities with this end-ing.

Our activities in Botha will be starting up again, such as school for the 2015-2016 school year will be starting up Sept. 2,with the first bell going off at 9 a.m., quilting, the Old-Time Dance Club, and the monthly seniors’ meetings.

Hopefully all students and staff have had a relaxing summer break and ready to hit the books again for this upcoming year.

The first seniors’ meeting will be held Monday, Sept. 7 start-ing at noon, with a potluck lun-cheon, so please bring something to share with you. All seniors are welcome to attend these meet-ings.

Then the monthly village meeting takes place on Thursday, Sept. 24 starting at 7 p.m. Hope-fully, everyone can attend.

Then, Sunday, Sept. 27 will be the kick off for the Old Time

Dance season again with the “Old Tyme Aires” band enter-taining the group that afternoon. These start at 1:30 p.m and they hold a pooled luncheon, so they are asking everyone who attends to bring either buns/sandwiches, salads or desert with them. This is open to all age groups and are looking forwards to everyone coming back for another year of fun.

If you have any questions on these dances please contact Doug Haustein at 403-742-3994 or John Blonski at 403-574-2197.

Then on Monday, Sept. 28, quilting kicks off for another year and they meet at the Bo-tha Seniors’ Centre at 9:30 a.m.

Even if you have never quilted before, they would love to see you attend as they would love to teach you this special craft.

Coffee time is every Wednes-day morning at 10 a.m. at the se-niors’ centre, so join your friends there.

Then, that same afternoon make sure you come back at 1 p.m. (every Wednesday and Thursday) and get involved in a friendly game of floor curling.

This coming Saturday, a spe-cial event is taking place at the Stettler elevator from 2 to 5 p.m. Come on out for a great time and learn more and see how eleva-tors worked that were around the country. It’s quite interesting.

This morning, we were invad-ed by a flock (hundreds) of me-dium size birds, at first I thought grosbeak, no, maybe a wood-pecker; not sure. But the ground was alive.

Lavonne and Smitty headed to Bashaw on the weekend, taking in the “qualifier races” for next year’s chuckwagons in Calgary.

Meanwhile in Gadsby, the Bruce Bignell memorial park is underway with a sign on the northeast corner, trees and plant-ers installed, all with the help of donations made.

Gloria Diegel enjoyed one last campout for the year at Pelican Point. Joining her were Richelle and family and Corinna Derr and

girls; a fun week.Barb and Vic Carey held a

family BBQ and birthday cel-ebration at the farm. There were several birthdays, so they came together for one big celebration in August.

Bill and Joyce Hansel spent the weekend (Friday to Sunday) in Drayton Valley at son Larry and Erika Hansel’s, taking in the annual baseball tournament,

cheering on Larry and his team.One last reminder, Decoration

Day is this Sunday. Begin the day at the Gadsby church build-ing for pancake brunch (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.) sponsored by the Heri-tage Society. Then, it’s on to the cemetery for the Legion Service beginning at 2 p.m., followed by coffee and donuts. Everyone is welcome.

Velvet and Fred Entwisle, Nick and Haley and girls, Kyle and Leigha all enjoyed a birth-day supper at son Tom and An-gela and girls’ in Stettler to cel-ebrate Velvet’s birthday (actual date Aug. 18). Games, pictures, water fights and birthday cake were on the menu.

Botha goes back to winter schedule

The 20th annual bull-a-rama was held last weekend. Once again the bleachers were full even though it was chilly, but worthwhile. Beach Bad Boy played music at the dance and the fireworks were put on by Prairie Thunder, who once again did a fabulous job. The 50/50 winner was from Botha.

Melody and Dale Kent drove to Evans, Colo-rado, where they visited with Melody’s young-est sister, Holly and her family. While there, they toured the famous hotel that was featured in the movie The Shining.

John and Judy deMos ad John’s sister and husband, Riny and Leroy are visiting from Cal-gary.

Wally and Linda Lehmann drove down to

Quebec visiting with Wally’s family, then went down to Ottawa. They took three weeks to drive through this trip.

Don’t forget it is almost time for school to start, our students go back Wednesday, Sept. 2.

Mark your calendars, Bingo is scheduled to start again on Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. in the hall.

Visitors driving all over North America

Gadsby/Westwoods

PAULETTE HEER403-574-2442

Decoration Day is this Sunday

Botha Booster

LOUISE BELLAIR403-742-5317

Halkirk Herald

ROSE KOENRAADT & DOROTHY ANDERSON403-884-2237/403-742-4494

County of Stettler No. 66602 - 44 Ave., Box 1270,

Stettler, AB T0C 2L0Phone: 742-4441 Fax: 742-1277

PUBLIC NOTICE

County of Stettler No. 66602 - 44 Ave., Box 1270,

Stettler, AB T0C 2L0Phone: 403-742-4441 Fax: 403-742-1277

PUBLIC NOTICEPUBLIC NOTICE

Request for Proposals -Entrance Sign Renewal Project

The County of Stettler No. 6 is seeking individuals or companies that are interested in working on our Entrance Sign Renewal Project. There are five (5) wooden Entrance Signs located at the Major Highway Entrances to the County of Stettler that need to be refurbished.

Sealed submissions will be received until 2:01:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 3, 2015 at the County of Stettler No. 6 office.

Further information and documents are advertised and available on the County of Stettler Website, www.stettlercounty.ca or for pick up at the County of Stettler Administration Building during office hours.

Inquiries regarding this Project shall be directed to:Shawna Benson6602-44 AvenueSTETTLER, AB T0C 2L0Phone: (403) 742-4441

Public HearingTake notice that the Council of the County of Stettler No. 6 will hold a Public Hearing to hear representation concerning the proposed Bylaw:

BYLAW 1551-15 Dog Control – providing amendment to Sections pertaining to the confinement and release of vicious dogs as well as updating the responsibilities of dog owners.

The bylaws may be reviewed at www.stettlercounty.ca or at the County Administration Building located at 6602 – 44 Avenue, Stettler, Alberta during regular office hours, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

The Public Hearing to hear representation concerning Bylaw 1551-15 is scheduled to be held Wednesday September 9, 2015 at 1:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers at the County Administration Building located at 6602 – 44 Avenue, Stettler, Alberta.

Any person wishing to comment on the proposed bylaw may do so in writing to the Legislative Services Advisor, County of Stettler No. 6, Box 1270 Stettler, Alberta, T0C 2L0, or by email to [email protected] prior to September 4, 2015 or make personal representation at the Public Hearing.

Following the Public Hearing, Council may proceed with second and third readings to approve the bylaw.

Should you require additional information, please contact Shawna Benson at (403) 742-4441.

Dated: August 19, 2015

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