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Botha’s future as a municipality under focus
STACEY LAVALLIEINDEPENDENT REPORTER
The future of Botha as an inde-pendent municipal unit is being questioned and county is part of a process to assess the possibility of dissolving the village admin-istration.
The importance of the Botha Viability Review had Stettler County council appointing the reeve, Wayne Nixon, to represent the county on the review team.
The decision was made at the county’s monthly meeting on Nov. 4.
Councillor Greggory Jackson, as the councillor representing the area, was appointed as the alter-nate member, and would attend meetings if the reeve is unavail-able.
The request was made by the Alberta Minister of Municipal Affairs, who recommended one member of county council and one administrative member
from the county offi ce be ap-pointed to the team.
According to the Municipal Government Act, the Minister (of Municipal Affairs) may un-dertake a dissolution study in respect of a municipality if the minister believes that the disso-lution will lead to more effective or effi cient municipal operations.
Councillor Joe Gendre made the motion for the reeve, stating that, “I think this is important enough to send the reeve and
deputy reeve as the alternate.”A friendly amendment from
Councillor James Nibourg had the alternate become the area’s councillor. Councillor Grover, who would have been said al-ternate as the deputy reeve, ex-pressed no concerns about ced-ing his place on the team to the area’s councillor, but requested that whoever attended the meet-ing keep council well appraised.
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Junior High Students’ Union hosts dance socialMOUSH SARA JOHNINDEPENDENT REPORTER
The William E. Hay Stettler Secondary Campus gymna-sium was transformed into a dance fl oor with lights and music as the junior high stu-
dents’ union hosted an eve-ning of dancing for grades 7-9, on Friday, Nov. 6.
“Our Junior High Students’ Union hosted this dance and it was the fi rst for this school year, and is an inte-gral part of our regular year-ly students’ union function because it is important for our students to be able to
get together and socialize in a controlled environment outside of the regular school day,” said Norbert Baharally, principal, William E. Hay Stettler Secondary Campus.
Students were asked to don their halloween cos-tumes as an incentive to get a dollar off their admission into the dance, while they
also had option of donating a non-perishable food item for the same discount.
The DJs for the night were high school students, Jordan Lee and Kalie Tulan who played popular num-bers and varied the pace throughout the evening be-tween fast and slow num-bers.
Just outside the gymnasi-um parents had volunteered their time to sell beverages and snacks at the conces-sion.
Speaking of the evening, Baharally thought it was a “great success”.
“I thought that the eve-ning was a great success and that the students had a lot of fun with about 120 attending the event. All in all it was a great night,” added Baharally. “I would like to thank our student DJs as well as the teachers and par-ents for volunteering their time to help chaperone and also in helping to run our concession for the evening.”
There will be other danc-es throughout the year and Baharally hopes that there would be more students in attendance.
An afternoon of tea and cake at CK Parish HallMOUSH SARA JOHNINDEPENDENT REPORTER
The Catholic Women’s League (CWL) held its annual bake sale at the Christ King Parish Hall Saturday afternoon, Nov. 7, as community mem-bers turned up to show support and help in the fundraising efforts.
With its forthcoming 90th anniversary in 2016, it is one of the oldest an-nual events held in the community.
“Our oldest member came here in 1960, and said it was an annual event at that time,” said Patricia Standage, sec-retary, Stettler Catholic Women’s League and president, CWL Zone 5. “This is our main fund-raiser, and last year we raised just over $1,100, and this year the turnout was very good, too.”
Although Standage was not able to give a fig-ure, she thought that the funds raised this year
would be even better than the last.
“We are expecting it to be equivalent if not better, and we use the funds to buy coffee and tea for our church kitch-en, besides donating to different charities in the community such as the Christ King School, the Food Bank and the Central Alberta Women’s shelter,” said Standage. “We donate a wreath on Remembrance Day and a Catholic church camp, also giving to other chari-ties, such as refugee wel-come bags that are en-dorsed by our church and Catholic Missions.”
The funds from the previous year have been used to repair the church roof and for the general upkeep of the facility.
“The tea is a more for-
mal event as we get ev-eryone to sit down and be served angel food cake with lemon sauce, or strawberries and whip cream, and tea and cof-fee,” said Standage.
For the raffle table, peo-ple had donated items, including a book basket of Christmas books, can-dies and movies, some homemade crafts, some movie tickets, a figurine, and a George Foreman Grill.
“My experience this year was as usual very re-warding, it’s wonderful to see many friends, come together for an afternoon of friendship and relax-ation,” said Standage. “The money raised always goes to a good cause, and we are blessed to have so many wonderful people support our cause.”
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RCMP warn to be on alert for phone scamsSTACEY LAVALLIEINDEPENDENT REPORTER
Stettler RCMP are warning peo-ple to be on alert as phone scams have been making their way over the province, typically pretending to represent a bank or the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).
The intended victim will receive the call from someone claiming to represent one of these agencies, asking for personal information such as date of birth, address, bank-ing information, account numbers and so forth, Stettler RCMP detach-ment commander Sgt. Phil Penny said.
“These conversations tend to be quite aggressive, or they’ll use threats to issue fi nes in an effort to ‘bully’ the information out of a per-son,” he said.
The scams target the elderly or individuals with lesser reasoning capabilities and can result in a loss of money or identity theft.
“The thing I like to tell people is that if these agencies are actu-ally calling you, they should have all that information already and shouldn’t be seeking it out over the phone,” Penny said. “From speaking with various banks, it’s not their practice to ask such questions.”
Penny said the best practice is to be suspicious — if there’s any doubt, tell the individual you’re not comfortable with the line of ques-tioning and hang up. Phone the bank, if they’re claiming to be from your bank, and confi rm with them if there is a problem.
It’s also important scams are re-ported to the police, which can be done through phoning the de-
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Following the departure of Const. Bill Lewadniuk, who transferred to Red Deer RCMP to focus on fraud, the student resource offi cer (SRO) role has been vacant, and will re-main so for a while longer, Penny said.
“(We’re) awaiting confi rmation of a suitable candidate from our staff-ing section,” Penny said, adding that he’s uncertain of the timeline in having the position fi lled.
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the staff recommendations regarding the administrative county member participat-ing as part of the team.Road Priority map approved with amendments
Council next addressed the county’s road construction prioritization plan, which had been brought up in the past but never formally ad-opted by council. The plan lists 30 miles of roadwork that the county’s councillors and staff have examined and decided were the most im-portant projects.
Rick Green, director of en-gineering, cautioned council, noting that while the pri-oritization list of roadwork shows certain roads to be addressed in certain years, that list could be shrunk — or expanded — depending on the cost of work and the access to materials.
With its amendments, council voted it the construc-tion priorities into place, giv-ing staff a place to start with their budget work for 2016.New Deputy Reeve
Earlier, as the fi rst order of business at its monthly meeting on Nov. 4, County of Stettler council witnessed the swearing in of its new deputy reeve, Councillor Dave Grover.
Grover takes over from Councillor Greggory Jackson, who has held the post for the past eight months. Grover, likewise, will hold the po-sition for the next eight months before the next dep-uty reeve is chosen.
The eight-month terms allows all of the county councillors to sit one term as deputy reeve, giving them a chance to experience the responsibilities of the reeve when they fi ll in for the reeve.Road Closure
A request from property owners to close the “unnec-essary” portions of Township Road 35-1 was approved unanimously by council.
The request was made by two property owners who wished to subdivide their property but were hindered by the road that ran through the properties. The affect-ed roadway is a section of Township Road 35-1 west of regional Road 19-1.
The closed roadway would be ceded to the property own-ers in exchange for a similar amount of land, meaning no money would change hands, but the property size would remain essentially the same.
The section of road was deemed unnecessary be-cause other roads in the area provide access around the property in question, and no property on the road would be made inaccessible through the closing of the road.Trade Fair 2016 a go
The county’s booth will return to the Stettler Trade Show in 2016 after council voted unanimously to con-tinue with the project.
“I think it’s one of the most popular things we do,” Councillor Les Stulberg said, noting he was willing to make a motion to contin-ue the county’s attendance. However, Nibourg expressed some concerns.
“I think we should do it, but maybe not every year,” Nibourg temporized. “I have an issue with people having to pay to come see us.”
Councillor Jackson noted that the $5 admission charge was well worth it as most attendees “got their money’s worth” through the various booths.
The cost to rent space is around $700, with the booth and all its paraphernalia coming in at about $3,500, it
was said.“No other event gives us
such a great cross-section of the community,” Jackson added.
In the end, Stulberg’s mo-tion went to vote and was accepted unanimously.Achievement program ‘a lit-tle bit of 4-H’ - Nibourg
Council also decided to support the eight Junior Achievement programs at schools in Erskine, Big Valley and Byemoor, to the tune of $4,000.
The programs were de-scribed as “a little bit of 4-H, a little bit of political science, a little bit of community in-volvement and a little bit of economics” by Nibourg, who was immediately in favour of putting county money be-hind the project.
The program works through the school and has
kids out in the community, learning about economics and entrepreneurship, but not in a way that’s self-fo-cused but rather on with focus on improving commu-nities.
“We’ve seen what 4-H has done for our kids,” Asst. CAO Yvette Cassidy said. “Not all kids are in 4-H.”
In the end, council voted to support the program.Reserve land prices for tax sale
Council voted to set the re-serve public land sale prices for the upcoming tax sale. The lands in question were seized for non-payment of taxes after a long process in which the county tried to work with the property own-ers to resolve matters. The reserve prices on the proper-ties are the assessment pric-es, Cassidy confi rmed.
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Speed, safety concerns dominate council meetingSTACEY LAVALLIEINDEPENDENT REPORTER
Two residents of 68 Street raised some serious safe-ty concerns with the town council during the regular meeting of the councillors on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Tracey Marko and Kelsey McNeil briefed the council on what they perceived as potential danger to resi-dents, particularly children, living on 68 Street, which is south of the Stettler Recreation Centre, near the newer ball diamonds. The pair explained that with homes on both sides of the street, with vehicles and RVs parked out front, there’s already been some “close calls” with people trying to back out of their driveways.
Mostly, though, they’re afraid it won’t be someone backing out who’s hit by traffi c, but rather a child, as the area is home to several families with young children. If it’s not a child, though, it could just as easily be an adult, as there’s no sidewalks in the area.
Marko and McNeil canvassed the street, garnering comments from almost every single resident on the stretch that has the pair concerned.
“We didn’t want to wait until someone was hurt or killed before we did something,” McNeil said.
The complaints were boiled down to the basics — people drive too fast on the road, and at all hours of the day.
Melissa Robbins, the town’s director of operations, also attended the meeting to be able to offer her feed-back, and said that she lived near the area in question and that yes, people did drive pretty quickly on the road, which is a “residential collector” — a street that’s built wider in anticipation of higher traffi c, as residen-tial traffi c will likely collect on it.
The delegation, which had several residents sitting
in the gallery, didn’t just come with complaints, but also potential solutions. They suggested lowering the speed limit, adding sidewalks, creating better lighting on nearby walking paths, installing stop signs or even speed bumps.
“I hate to say this, but I hate speedbumps,” Robbins said, explaining that speedbumps slow down plowing in areas and create other logistical headaches.
Councillor Darcy Bachman also put in his two cents, noting that he lives on a street between two stop signs, and those stop signs haven’t solved anything. In fact, it’s like they’ve created a small racing lane.
“It’s like a competition to see how fast they can get from one stop sign to the next,” he said.
McNeil noted that she expected some push back if the option was sidewalks, as the area would have to decide if it was on one side of the street or both; if on one side, which side, and where would the RVs park, if sidewalks cut into their parking space.
With the nearby walking paths unlit, however, it’s not an option to walk on them, McNeil said.
“It can be quite scary to walk on them in the dark,” she said, pointing out that in the winter, when it’s most dangerous to walk on the road where it’s slippery and rutted, dark comes early.
Mayor Dick Richards thanked the group for coming with their concerns, but took particular pains to com-mend them on also coming with potential solutions — something that while not uncommon, is not the norm, he said.
New RCMP Dteachment commander Sgt. Phil Penny following the discussion noted that the problem may not be people driving too fast — it may be that the speed limit is set too high for the area. He told the dele-gation that if they knew what times of day the speeding
was at its highest, he could send out a patrol to watch the area and help slow things down.
Robbins invited the group to be in touch to set up a speed study on the road and talk about potential solu-tions further.New detachment commander meets council
Before listening to 68 Street issues, Stettler town council welcomed the new RCMP detachment com-mander and prodigal son Sgt. Phil Penny, who took command on Oct. 26. Penny was accompanied by the new detachment corporal, Ryan Koehli, who’d been in-troduced to council previously.
Penny introduced himself and spoke about his expe-riences — serving in Banff and Pond Inlet, Nunavut, as a constable, in Whale Cove, Nunavut, as a corporal and detachment commander, and then in Blackfalds as cor-poral and supervisor.
“Being in Pond Inlet taught me how to be a detach-ment commander, and being in Blackfalds taught me how to supervise a large number of people,” Penny said. “Now I get to bring that together here in Stettler.” Town chooses to ditch Battle River Watershed Alliance
Even though the Town of Stettler’s water needs are serviced by the Red Deer River, the town itself lies within the Battle River Watershed (BRW), and as such has been an unpaying member of the Battle River Watershed Alliance (BRWA).
The town chose to not pay into the organization be-cause its water needs are served by the Red Deer River, and thus do not impact the BRWA.
The information came up at the Nov. 3 council meet-ing because the BRWA was again asking Stettler to be-come a paying member, but instead, the town chose to withdraw completely, citing that there was no gain for the community to be part of the group.
Facing down the fear of public speakingSTACEY LAVALLIEINDEPENDENT REPORTER
While many people are frightened of and repulsed by the idea of public speaking, a ded-icated group of Stettler residents not only em-brace the idea, but want to bring more people into the fold.
These individuals be-long to the Stettler
chapter of Toastmasters International, a world-re-knowned organization that helps people hone their public speaking, listening, and leadership skills.
The chapter has been up and running for roughly a year, Claude Dupont, vice president of membership, said. He was the Toastmaster — essentially master of
ceremonies — for the re-cent meeting, held at the Stettler Board of Trade boardroom on Thursday, Nov. 5.
The group meets from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. every first and third Thursday of the month.
While most chapters need 20 paid members to register its char-ter with Toastmasters International, the Stettler chapter was fortunate to be able to assume its charter from a Calgary chapter which was fold-
ing, Dupont explained.Guests are not only
welcome, but are encour-aged. Even, and especial-ly, those who feel their knees go weak and their stomach toss and churn at the idea of standing before an audience.
Members receive an of-ficial guide, which walks them through novice speech-making skills to more complex speech structures. Each person progresses at their own pace, completing speech after speech.
Speeches are evaluated by fellow Toastmasters, who highlight areas of improvement over pre-vious speeches and suc-cesses of the speaker, all the while providing use-ful and kind critique so the speaker can address weaknesses.
In addition to sched-uled speakers, there’s a table-topic section, where random attendees are chosen to pick a topic from a box, and must speak for two minutes on the topic — with very little time to prepare.
“Table topics are de-signed to help peo-ple learn to speak on their feet,” Dupont said. “You’re given very little time to prepare, just col-lect your thoughts…and impress.”
Rob Somerville, pres-ident of the chap-ter, said the year with Toastmasters has already helped him a great deal.
“It’s one thing to have ideas, but if you’re not a good speaker, it often falls on deaf ears,” he said. He said many great ideas have been bandied about in his lifetime, working with organi-zations like the Alberta Beef Producers, that have gained little traction be-cause the people behind the idea simply didn’t express themselves well.
T h e S t e t t l e r Toastmasters are looking to increase the number of people attending meet-ings, not only because it’s important to the health and longevity of the local chapter, but because of the wealth of opportu-nities Toastmasters pro-vides. Interested individ-uals can contact Claude Dupont at 403-742-4373, or simply attend a meet-ing at the Board of Trade building, side door, on one of the Toastmaster evenings.
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Botha Christmas Market draws diverse vendors and customersMOUSH SARA JOHNINDEPENDET REPORTER
The Botha Christmas Market held at the Botha Community Hall on Saturday, Nov. 7 was a mixed bag of diverse ven-dors from in and around the county.
Organizing the event for the second year, Christine Weldrick said, “This is my second year organizing the Botha christmas mar-ket and it won’t be my last.”
With the approaching holiday season, the mar-ket couldn’t have been held at a more suitable time, with people from the community already look-ing for Christmas gifts and wares for the festive peri-od of the year.
Although this was not Weldrick’s idea, having participated a couple of times as a vendor of gour-met spices, prior to orga-nizing it for 2014 and 2015, Weldrick said, “I love it, because it brings the com-munity together!”
With enthusiastic shop-pers starting to stop by as early as 9 a.m., the market appeared to cater to ev-eryone’s needs with the exhibits offering almost everything from hand-
made recycled items and fl ower cards to knitted and crocheted clothing to leggings to food items and even a photography stu-dio,
Speaking of the turnout, Weldrick thinks that this year saw a larger footfall than last.
“The turnout was defi -nitely better this year than last,” added Weldrick. “We had twice as many ven-dors and way more foot traffi c.”
Coming all the way from
Coronation was Laurie Bullick with artwork from her shop, Double Heart Stained Glass Design.
“My husband Rob and I teach stained glass paint-ing, but whenever we can fi nd recyclable items such as jar lids, we incorporate them into our artwork,” said Bullick.
From miniature Christmas tree ornaments to wall hangings, Bullick’s display was an intriguing treasure trove for children and adults alike.
Next year, Weldrick plans to market the bazaar with a little more fanfare, put-ting in more advertising for visibility,
“Next year I’m planning on getting better signs to put up on the highway entrances to Botha, some-thing that is more sturdy and durable, which I think my husband will help with,” said Weldrick. “And I’d also like to advertise even more than what I did this year.”
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6 STETTLER INDEPENDENT Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Royal Canadian Legionand Remembrance Day
MUSTAFA ERICINDEPENDENT EDITOR
As we mark another Remembrance Day, commemora-tive events will be taking place or will have taken place throughout the country to once again think of those who fought for the coun-try, including those who made the ultimate sacrifi ce.
Special days like Nov. 11 and events that surround anniversa-ries of such milestones are im-portant elements in keeping a nation’s ties to its history alive, and in so doing, maintaining and strengthening the national iden-tity of a country.
And an overwhelming majori-ty of the nations celebrate such important milestones like inde-pendence days or major military victories with shows of lots of military pride, display of mili-tary hardware parading along-side rows and rows of soldiers on major squares or wide avenues.
Thankfully in Canada, we mark the Remembrance Day without any such military fanfare. Yes, we do have parades, mostly or-ganized and led by members of
Royal Canadian Legion, but they are solemn, peaceful and silent parades mostly to our cenotaphs at the town centres without the arrogant show of military might.
In taking note of our congenial differences from other nations in marking one of Canada’s most important historical anniversa-ries, we should also pay tribute to Royal Canadian Legion for not only keeping alive the memory of those who have made great sac-rifi ces for their country, but also for doing what they are doing in such a way that they can remain a beating heart in communities throughout the country rather than being called on to get acti-vated only for a few days every year.
From small towns to big cities, but particularly in small towns, Legion branches are generally ac-tive throughout the year, helping raise funds for community caus-es, sponsoring successful stu-dents or young athletes, hosting social and community events, engaging youth through artistic competitions and most impor-tantly, helping keep the commu-nity spirit alive.
The building where the Heartland Youth Centre has been implementing programs for the kids of the community for many years, built entirely by the vol-unteers mobilized and organized by the Legion, stands as a great testimony to the kind of contri-butions the Legion makes to ourt communities.
But the Legion’s goodwill ef-forts and mandate go far beyond pumping our feelings of pride and gratitude.
With the work it undertakes in promoting the rights of the veterans who have fought in the recent confl icts and campaigning on behalf of them for improved social and economic conditions, the Legion is also trying to en-sure that serving in the Canadian armed forces is not to be shunned by the younger generation.
Albert Einstein was quoted as saying “We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifi ces for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.”
Making such sacrifi ces in peace time means relentless efforts on
several fronts: Reminding the younger generations of what happened in the history and how; trying to make sure that history is not repeated but learnt from; and at the same time maintaining a peaceful approach to global affairs without totally dropping one’s guard against po-tential risks.
Of those tasks, it is fair to say that Royal Canadian Legion is doing a great job achieving the fi rst two, by keeping themselves vibrant in the communities and engaging the youth on a number of platforms.
The only problem is that even the successful Legion has been fi nding it more and more diffi -cult to attract new blood to its ranks. This is probably because of changing times with more and more young people taking on more responsibilities at younger ages as compared to only a de-cade ago.
But having survived through many other difficulties, the Legion is certain to adjust to challenges of the day and keep serving the communities and the cause of peace.
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Diversifi cation needs imagination and real commitmentWILL VERBOVENAHEAD OF THE HEARD
Alberta Premier Notley recently announced the creation of the “Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy”.
It replaced anoth-er advisory group called the Alberta Economic Development Authority, which I am sure in years past replaced other simi-lar sounding consultative groups. They all have a long history in this prov-ince going back to the Lougheed days 40 years ago. The mandate and goal of all those groups has been to provide the premier with advice and recommendations on not surprisingly – how to di-versify the Alberta econ-omy. These groups usual-ly come into prominence whenever energy prices crash and the provincial economy becomes de-pressed and government revenue craters. The re-curring revelation is that a more diversifi ed economy will lessen negative reper-cussions from the boom and bust cycle of oil prices – at least that’s the theory.
What has happened in
the past is that govern-ments presume that they can buy diversifi cation by directly investing in shiny new ideas or giving money away to dubious schemes of one sort or another. The underlying force seems to be that they not be related to the energy industry. One re-calls multi-million dollar government investments in Pacifi c Western Airlines, a magnesium plant, even a packing plant. It seemed at the time that the gov-ernment was just trying to preserve exiting jobs rather than create new ones. There were some successes but ironically they were energy related. Premier Klein put an end to such grandiose sketchy investments but a later PC premier invested billions in the Northwest upgrad-er project. It’s all some-what baffl ing as to what the rationale was for gov-ernment investment in projects that private en-terprise was unwilling to pursue. One hopes history will not repeat itself.
The Lougheed admin-istration included agri-culture as part of its di-versifi cation plan and set
up support programs to increase production. They worked to an extent but there were also failures, the success was that it ended up developing consolidation of existing farming operations into much larger entities. From a job perspective, consoli-dation backfi red as it saw existing small operators sell out and larger opera-tions becoming more effi -cient and requiring fewer people. The big exception was the cattle feedlot sec-tor which grew into a bil-lion dollar business from almost nothing. That was achieved not as much by direct government invest-ment but through low in-terest loans, a price stabi-lization program and a tax climate that encouraged private investment. One could say that it was still government investment just through different channels. I would add that the success of the feedlot sector was also due to the skill of a remarkable set of very clever and hardwork-ing managers. If agricul-ture is going to be consid-ered as a part of any new diversifi cation effort by the present government,
the development history of the feedlot sector would serve as a good example for potential success.
The problem with con-sidering agriculture as part of economic diversifi -cation is that government and political strategists don’t consider that sector of the economy very sexy. One can’t help but note that not a single mem-ber of the new Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy has any con-nection to the agricultural sector, which is discon-certing, considering agri-culture and food is the second largest industry in the provincial econo-my. One hears musings about high tech and green tech being the route to diversifi cation – that’s a bit of a politically cor-rect pipedream as almost every jurisdiction in North America also believes that’s the trail to diver-sifying their economies. One commentator sug-gested that a massive gov-ernment investment into the arts and culture sector would make Alberta a hub for that activity. That sec-tor already receives mas-sive subsidies and is un-
likely ever to be self-sus-taining.
One senses that the hope of diversifi cation is to support that magic bullet that will create tens of thousands of new non-energy related jobs. But that seems unlikely in a world that has fear-some competition in the economic development business between regions and countries. That leads one to wonder whether we should just concen-trate and further develop what we do best. Unless Albertans are willing to work for fi ve dollars an hour we will never have a major manufacturing sector, unless we subsi-dize high tech companies none are going to relocate here from Seattle and the Silicon Valley. The fact is Alberta is very good at coal mining, extracting oil, developing natural gas, processing trees, and oh yes, growing cereals, oilseeds, crops and raising livestock and poultry. It’s a lot cheaper and more productive to develop and expand what you already have than trying to buy something new and hope it will take root.
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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in troubleRemembrance Day is
important. The liber-ties and freedoms that we enjoy in this country (including religious free-dom) are, at least part-ly, if not largely, due to the fact that sacrifices have been made on our behalf. Through events and acts of courage that took place many years ago, we continue to enjoy benefits today. Because of this, it is important to take time to “remem-ber them”, in community and church. So…this past Sunday we did that, “lest we forget”.
It is not difficult to find correlative details and similarities between Remembrance Day and certain aspects of the Christian faith. For ex-ample, the Lord’s Table. Jesus taught His disci-ples at the institution of the communion service to “Do this in remem-brance…”
Another similari-ty came to mind one year, when during the Remembrance Day ob-servation, a portion of Winston Churchill’s fa-mous August 20th, 1940
wartime speech was quoted. He stated, “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” I was reminded of 1 Peter 2:6 which states that Jesus, “…gave Himself a ran-som for all…”
Then there is the ceno-taph itself. The word cenotaph is derived from two Greek words mean-ing “empty” and “tomb”; literally, empty tomb. Again the parallel is clear. In Jerusalem, there is an empty tomb…the place where Jesus body was laid following His crucifixion.
It is not difficult to find war heroes either; there were many. One of them was Lt. Gen. Sir William
Dobbie , who served as governor general of Malta during WWII. Things looked very grim for Malta. The opposing Italian forces were su-perior in numbers, expe-rience, armaments and military capability. In spite of this Malta never fell to their enemies.
On the day that Italy declared war upon Malta Dobbie stated, “The de-cision of His Majesty’s Government is to fight until our enemies are defeated…hard times lie ahead of us, but however hard they may be, I know that the courage and de-termination of all ranks will not falter and that with God’s help we will
maintain the security of this fortress. I therefore call upon all officers and other ranks humbly to seek God’s help and then in reliance upon Him to do their duty unflinch-ingly.”
What may not be so well-known is that his statement was based upon a verse of Scripture that this dedicated Christian had memorized and was claiming as a promise for God’s protec-
tion and help. The pas-sage is found in Psalm 46:1, and says, “God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.”
I want to take this op-portunity to express grat-itude for those who will-ingly sacrificed all that they had so that we may enjoy all that we have.
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birthdays in GadsbyPAULETTE HEERGADSBY/WESTWOODS NEWS
With a light snow fall-ing Monday morning comes a reminder; a lit-tle over six weeks until Christmas.
Keeping with the theme, several from the community head-ed over to Botha to the Christmas craft sale on Saturday. Michelle Renschler was set up, taking pictures/portraits of the “wee ones” just in time to hand out for Christmas.
This week has been a birthday week. On Saturday, Cooper Bigney celebrated her birthday at the library with eight school friends, Grandma Velvet, uncles and aunts Kyle and Leigha; Tom and Angela and girls; cousin Piper (Cooper went to Piper’s the next day to help her celebrate her birthday, with swim-ming and cake). Cooper’s theme was dinasours, from the games to the birthday cake. Happy birthday, Cooper and Piper! Grandma Monica had been up from Calgary during the week.
Happy 90th birthday to Bryce Mailer. I’m sure there was birthday cake at their house as well.
Ybiett and family helped Wade Diegel cel-ebrate his birthday on Nov. 2 with Stan and Gloria over for supper. Happy birthday Wade and sister Tasha Cordel whose birthday was Thursday, Nov. 5.
Good luck to Curtis Cassidy who will be com-peting at the Canadian Rodeo Finals starting Nov. 11 in Edmonton.
Staying with Vic and Barb Carey this past week were Barb’s sister Laurie and Andy Brownlow from Chilliwack, B.C.; brother Ken and Elaine Ganshirt from Regina, Saskatchewan. As well day visits from sister-in-law Gretha Ganshirt and sister Leslie and Duane from Alliance.
As I am told, after sending the winner list in, the Omega winner list will be posted Nov. 18. Sorry for the delay.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 STETTLER INDEPENDENT 9
Dear Boys & GirlsHave you written your letter to Santa yet?Kids, this year you don’t have to send your letter all the way to the North Pole. Instead, go to the Stettler Independent and ask my helpers for a special envelope addressed to my headquarters in Stettler. Put your letter to Santa in the envelope along with a self-addressed stamped envelope, and deposit in Santa’s mailbox at the Stettler Independent Offi ce.
All letters must be received by December 4, 2015. Mrs. Claus and I will work very hard to answer all our letters!
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Curling off to a goodstart in Rumsey
PATTY STEENRUMSEY RECORD
I hope that you found some time today to remember what November 11 stands for and all the wonderful things we have to enjoy because of a soldier’s sacrifi ce.
The annual fall supper was a huge success. There were many people vis-iting from towns around Rumsey as well as all the locals, so that’s good news. Mary Newton reported that they fed 358 adults. Pumps up the Ag Society’s bank account for another season. The super league has started as well with 11 teams, so they will be curling every Friday with an occasion-al Tuesday or Sunday game thrown in the mix.
Good luck to all the teams par-ticipating in that. All other curling leagues will be starting up as well. If you have a son or daughter interested in junior curling, contact Jackie and Brooke Watts for more information. Open league, seniors, ladies will all be starting as well, so they welcome all individuals to join up.
Weigh Day for the Rumsey/Rowley
4-H Beef club is this coming Sunday, so last chance to join in the fun for this year. Contact Jill and Kent Holowath at 403-368-3733 if you have a son or daughter interested.
That’s it for this week, enjoy:A young man saw an elderly couple
sitting down to lunch at McDonald’s. He noticed that they had ordered one meal, and an extra drink cup. As he watched, the gentleman carefully divided the hamburger in half, then counted out the fries, one for him, one for her, until each had half of them. Then he poured half of the soft drink into the extra cup and set that in front of his wife. The old man then began to eat, and his wife sat watching, with her hands folded in her lap.
The young man decided to ask if they would allow him to purchase another meal for them so that they didn’t have to split theirs.
The old gentleman said, “Oh no. We’ve been married 50 years, and everything has always been and will always be shared, 50/50.”
The young man then asked the wife if she was going to eat, and she re-plied, “It’s his turn with the teeth.”
Byemoor hosted inter-municipal business supper
LES AND ROSEMARY STULBERGBYEMOOR/ENDIANG NEWS
Elected and adminis-trative representatives from four neighbour-ing municipalities met at the Byemoor hall on Thursday evening for a joint inter-municipal supper meeting. The la-dies from the Byemoor hall catered a delicious roast beef supper. The counties of Paintearth, Starland and Stettler along with the Special Areas Board gathered to discuss items of common interest, ways to collabo-rate effectively as a group and advocate concerns to the provincial govern-ment. The joint meeting has become an annual event and because of its central location, Byemoor will be the venue again next year.
The Seniors’ Christmas Dinner sponsored by the Endmoor Drop-in Society is set for Dec. 10 at noon at the Byemoor hall and this year will feature the entertainment of Country
Friends, which follows a turkey dinner with all the trimmings.
The drop-in society honours all seniors 65 and older who live or have lived in the Endiang – Byemoor community, for their contribution to the community, with this free dinner and show.
Those interested in attending are asked to call Eleanor Schultz at 403-579-2344 or Deanna Johnson at 403-579-2331 by Dec. 3 so numbers can be confirmed with the ca-terer.
We send get well wish-es to Luann Buchwitz re-cuperating from knee re-placement surgery at the Camrose hospital and to Wes Gutsche recuperat-ing in the Hanna hospi-tal from a farm-related quad accident. We hope you are both on the mend soon.
Crib night at the Endmoor Drop-in Centre on Tuesday saw Eleanor Schultz place first and Eileen Smyth second. The
next crib meet will be on Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m.
DeAnna Groundwater enjoyed a few days in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico at Le-Vel’s Thrive Ultra Lifestyle Getaway with her associates.
The Byemoor School held its Remembrance Day service on Wednesday, as there is no school on Nov. 11.
Happy 90th birthday wishes from the Endmoor community go out to Bryce Mailer, who cele-brated his special mile-stone on Nov. 5. Bryce is well-known to many and at one time ranched between Byemoor and Gadsby.
We send happy 65th birthday wishes to Brenda Zeimer on Nov. 14. Enjoy those govern-ment cheques, Brenda.
Thought for the day — In this age when there is a cell phone app for every-thing, this is something to consider — “There is no app to replace your lap. Read to your child.”
10 STETTLER INDEPENDENT Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Lest We ForgetLest We Forget
“There is no victory in war”MOUSH SARA JOHNINDEPENDENT REPORTER
At the end of the ‘dirty 1930s’, as it was referred to in war terminology, 48 young men from Stettler and the neighbouring county decided to join the King’s Own Calgary Regiment, and became a part of the 14th Calgary Tankers.
Jack Chapman, father of Jim Chapman, was one of the 48.
Jim Chapman recalls growing up in a house of war stories and memories.
“Remembrance Day in our house was always a busy time, growing up,” said Chapman. “From the time I was young enough to recall, dad went to schools for a least a week before Nov. 11, talking about the horrors of war, the death march, prisoner of war camps and being liberated.”
According to Rosalind LaRose, Alberta and Northwestern Territories District 4 Commander of the Royal Canadian Legion, Carter Hall in Stettler was
the drawing point for a month to allow the men to sign up for their coun-try, and they were offered $1.30 per day.
First they went off to Calgary and then Winnipeg, and from there to Camp Borden, before embarking off in England.
“Training on the Isle of Wight, they learnt the maneuvers for the Port of Dieppe, but at daybreak on Aug. 19, 1942 things turned out differently and life changed for these men,” said LaRose. “Scheduled to arrive around 5 a.m. be-fore daybreak, they didn’t arrive until 7.30 a.m., with the Germans awaiting them, and blood bath en-sued along the shoreline and on the beach.”
LaRose recalls stories from her dad, Albert Chick.
“The day entailed haul-ing the dead and wound-ed to the shore, some of their own,” said LaRose. “My father never talked about what happened ex-actly but often said, ‘the red water and beaches from all the blood, and the stench of burnt fl esh
would make you sick but you had to keep going, at the Germans’ order.”
The men from Stettler and the surrounding coun-ty formed the B squadron.
Among them, Robert Andersen, Archie Anderson, Jack Chapman, Albert Chick, John Cox, Tom Cunningham, Charlie Heck, Emil Dannewald, Jack Dunlop, Stan Edwards,
Ray Gilbert, George Hailes, A (Shorty) Heffer, Lawrence Herzog, Jim Horne, Jim Ganshirt, W (Bill) Isbister, Albert Johnson, Lloyd Johnstone, Roy Lincoln, W (Bill) Olive, Harry Patrick, Vern Richardson, Clive Staples, Harold Stanfi eld, W (Bill) Stewart, Elmer Taylor, Lloyd Twa, A Roy Watson, Bill Wigley to name a few, were taken
prisoners by the Germans.When local families
heard of the Dieppe Raid, they did not know it was their men.
According to LaRose, people from Stettler had no idea what had hap-pened to all the young men from the area.
“They had just van-ished, and weeks went by with no news, they were missing, and assumed as-sumed dead,” said LaRose.
Recalling from the mem-ories that her dad had left her, LaRose said, “They were marched 15 miles that night, loaded into box cars in early morning, and remained there for four days with no food or water and human waste several inches deep, while some were dying.”
According to LaRose,
it was the bond that the locals formed amongst themselves that kept them going.
“The bond of love that was created between the young men from our area made them blood broth-ers,” said LaRose. “They went through three and a half years of pure hell, and if they hadn’t support-ed each other and hadn’t bonded together, they would never have returned home.”
Jim Chapman recalls his dad’s worst fear.
“My dad’s worst fear was as the World War veter-ans died that the world would quit remembering, and I am glad that hasn’t happened so far,” said Chapman. “Dad always said there is no victory in war.”
REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE
Monday, Nov. 11, 2015Performing Arts Centre
StettlerAssembly at 10:30 a.m.
Service at 11 a.m.“Let us pause to think reverently of those who by sea, by land and in the air, laid down their lives for their sovereign and country.May their sacrifice ever inspire us to labour on, and thecountry in which we live, and for which they died, may ever be worthy of the sacrifice they made.”
Please join us as we gather to honourthose who have served.Roast-beef dinner to follow atthe Royal Canadian Legion HallCost: $18(veterans admitted FREE of charge).
Everyone welcome.
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Remembrance DayNov. 11, 2015
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Jim Chapman, son of Jack Chapman holds a framed image of his dad, who served in World War II as part of King’s Own Calgary Regiment, 14th Calgary Tankers.
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Elaine (Hall) McKayCanadian Women’s
Army CorpsCorporal
Stationed to Ottawa4 years
Gordon DuncanArmy
1943 to 1945Sicily & Italy
Private Donald Arthur
HeslopRoyal Canadian ScottishRegiment 1940 to 1942
Princess Patricia’s CanadianLight Infantry 1942 to 1943
William H. BrownRCAF & CAF
March 17, 1952 to July 15, 1980NATO - Marville, France, U.N.,
Ismalia & Egypt
Cpl. Dane GrahamPPCLI - ISAF
8 years Unit #2 B CoyAfghanistan
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Cpl. Arthur Albert Jones
ArmyCalgary Highlanders
1943 to 1944
Bill Schiffner
ArmyPrincess Pat1943 to 1946
Harry Rivers
Infantry - CalgaryHighlanders1939 to 1945
Ignace A. Miazga
Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry HighlandersBelgium, Holland & GermanyJanuary 1944 to January 1946
Peter Chitrenky
ArmyCalgary Highlanders
1943 to 1947
Joseph Anderson
Army1941 to 1945
France, Belgium, Germany & Holland
Charles C. AndersonMotor Mechanic
1939 to 1945
Bruce JohnstonRCAF
Aircraft electrician3 ½ years
Lawrence BlackArmy
RCEME Royal Canadian4 ½ years served in
Canada, England & Holland
Trooper John HoldernessArmy
8th Can. Recce 14 CH1942 to 1946
Jim HorneCalgary Tank Regiment
1941 to 1945Britain & Europe
DieppePOW - 1942 to 1945
Jack ChapmanCalgary Tank Regiment
1941 to 1945Britain & Europe
DieppePOW - 1942 to 1945
Cyril BallRAF
1940 to 1945France, Holland & Germany
Robert John Burns
1941 to 1945Radio Operator49th Battalion
Fred William Wigley
RCASC69th Tank Transport
6 yearsEurope Conflict
Cpl. Charles Heck
14th Canadian Army Tank RegimentTank Commander
1941 to 1945POW - 1942 to 1945
George Garland
British CavalryFirst World War
Cpl. Al Voz
Army - 1940 to 1941Air Force - 1941 to 1945Air Force - 1947 to 1950
Harvey L. Mitchell
RCAF, Army, Navy7 ½ years
Canada, U.K. & Korea
Russell N. Capel
Army - 2nd Division - Corps of Signals1940
England, France, Belgium, Holland& Germany
George A. McTaggart
Air Force10 Repair Depot
1939 to 1945Second World War
Dick Hunt
Air Force - Radio TechnicianOcean Falls, B.C.Served during theSecond World War
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Allen Gendre1943 to 1945
Holland
Alice Havig
Nurses Aid1942 to 1945
England
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Served overseasin Holland
Private Irvin DyckCanadian Army1944 to 1945
Gordon Jackson
RCAFTrenton, ON1940 to 1941
Frank YoungRoyal Canadian Navy
1943 to 1945
Flight Sgt.
Albert E. Wells
Air Gunner - RCAFLandcaster Bomber 166 Squadron1940 to 1945 - Second World War
Harold Reischman
RCAF - Air Crew1943 to 1945, 1949 to 1957
Canada (Wartime)England 1951 to 1953
Roy Lincoln
Army - 14th Army Tank Battalion - Calgary1941 to 1945
EuropePOW - 1942 to 1945
Murray Nelson HyattArmy
First Hussars Tank Corps1942 to 1945
Europe
Sgt. Edward KastikCanadian Army
14th Army Tank Brigade1941 to 1945
Dieppe/European Theatre
Bruce M. WebsterGunner, RCA (CA) AE7 Anti-tank Regiment
1940Mediterranean
Woodrow Wilson “Chuck” GriceArmy - Loyal Edmonton
Regiment RCIC1939 to 1943Killed in Italy
Beatty SmithAir Force
1940Canada
Fred Smith
Air ForceCommunications - Radio, etc.
1939 to 1945England
Cpl. Robert MacFarlane
RCAFNipawin & Sask. Branch #120
1941 to 1945 Second World War
Ray LockeRCAF - 437 Squadron
1942Canada & U.K.
Christian FischerArmy
Prince of Wales Rangers1942 to 1946
Canada
Private M. Phyllis KastikCanadian Women’s
Army Corps1944 to 1946
Canada
Walter Schuler
Canadian Infantry CorpsRoyal Winnipeg Rifles
3rd Division
Private Charles Harry FordArmy
1914 to 1918Overseas (France/Germany)
Private Emmanuel
(Mannie) GrayC.E.F. - Medical Corps
1916 to 1917
Herman Woodrow RigginsRoyal Canadian Artillery
1941U.K., Central Mediterranean area & Continental Europe
Lawrence RogersArmy - Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
Korea & Middle East
B.M. “Biff” Balcom
RCAF1943 to 1959
Western Air Command
Joe GendreRCAF
1941 to 1945
Rupert Brown
British Columbia Dragoons, C Squadron, 9th Armoured Regiment in the 5th Division
Sgt. William W. Olive
Army - 2nd Div. Infantry Calgary Tanks
Enlisted in 1941 Dieppe (Europe)
Peter Bury
Army - Edmonton Regiment1939 to 1945
Royal Canadian Electrical Mechanical Engineers in U.K., Canada, Italy & Sicily
Irven Platz
Army - 3rd English Armour Fighting1938 - Reserve, 1940 - Active
France, Germany, Holland& Belgium
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Army - Queen’s Own Camerons1942
Canada, England, N. Africa, Sicily & ItalyKilled in Action
Private Hugh Charles
Volunteered for the Airborne& The Pacific
1945Canada
Archie Anderson
Army - Calgary Regiment1941 to 1945
DieppePOW - 1942 to 1945
Albert Chick
Calgary Tank Regiment - 14th Army Tank Battalion1941 to 1945
France & GermanyPOW - 1942 to 1945
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Tank BrigadeB Squadron1941 to 1943
Cpl. Ivan JonesQueen’s Own Rifles
3rd Division1942 to 1946
Europe
Lex BickleRCNVR
1942 to 1945Pacific
Morris TurvilleLight Anti-aircraft Regiment112th Bty 6LAA Regiment
1940 to 1945France, Belgium, Holland & Germany
Patrick Dempsey ChapmanCalgary Tank
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Sgt. Roy W. NelsonRCASC
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Canada & Europe
Boyd Woolsey Royal Canadian Navy
1943 to 1945Atlantic Coast
James M. RosboroughNavigator in Air Force
Second World War
George Harold SharpeCanadian Infantry (Loyal
Edmonton Regiment)KIA - France 1918
John Cherewko
RCA - AI Unit1942 to 1946
Canada
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Calgary Tanks1941 to 1946
Canada, Italy, France & Germany
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Stettler Hospital gets palliative bed with Poppy FundMOUSH SARA JOHNINDEPENDENT REPORTER
The Legion Branch 59 poppy chairman Beryl Currie presented Carol Isaman of Stettler Hospital with a cheque from the poppy fund to purchase a palliative bed for the hospital, on Friday, Nov. 6.
The Poppy Fund is an ac-count held in trust by the Royal Canadian Legion Dominion Command au-thorities.
“This money cannot be uti-lized for anything relating to branch expenses or benefi ts to members,” said Currie. “It is strictly for the veterans’ use and comfort.”
Weighing in on the same issue, Rosalind LaRose, Alberta and Northwestern Territories District 4 Commander said, “The pro-
cedure to spend even one nickel, from the fund is high-ly monitored, and misuse of any monies from the fund will bring the branch into jeopardy.”
Although cadet corps re-quests and bursaries may be approved, there is a process of approval, too.
“The local branch receives a request or considers a need for funds to be utilized from the Poppy Fund, which is then taken to a branch general meeting and a mo-tion is made to accept the request, seconded and car-ried,” added LaRose. “From there, the request is sent to the Royal Canadian Legion District Commander and if it is $1,000 or under it may be approved at this level, but if it is over this amount, the re-quest is then approved by the dominion commander and
forwarded to the AB/NWT (provincial) command offi ce for fi nal approval.”
According to Susan Mitchell, president, Legion Branch 59, an annual Poppy Fund statement is submitted annually to dominion com-
mand for approval.“Every cent of the fund is
accounted for,” said Mitchell.Among the many projects
that the Poppy Fund has con-tributed to is the palliative bed, the cost of which was $15,000 approximately.
“Branch 59, Stettler has do-nated thousands of dollars in our community to the help and need of veterans’ and seniors,” said LaRose. “The Stettler Health Foundation and Senior Housing Facilities are the main recipients to
have benefi ted from the Poppy Fund.”
The Legion representatives were extremely grateful to the generous donations of the community.
“We would like to thank all the hard working volunteers who make the campaign successful each year and to all citizens of the communi-ty, who purchase a poppy to wear proudly in memory of our loved ones, and donate to the campaign,” said LaRose. “This is what makes it possi-ble for our branch to donate back to our community.”
Some of the other projects that the Poppy Fund has con-tributed to are University of Alberta Rehabilitation Chair, Royal Commonwealth Ex-Service, County of Stettler Housing, Meals on Wheels, bursaries and Calgary Veterans’ Food Bank.
Moush Sara John/Independent reporterAt the cheque presen-tation at the legion on Friday, Nov. 6, (l-r) Kevin Milner, poppy volunteer, Branch 59, Rosalind LaRose, Legion’s Alberta and Northwestern District 4 Commander, Carol Isaman, Assistant Head Nurse, Stettler Hospital, Beryl Currie, poppy chairman, Branch 59, Susan Mitchell, pres-ident, Branch 59 and Andrea Hatch, mem-ber, Branch 59.
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Grandfather hid haunting memories for whole lifeSTACEY LAVALLIEINDEPENDENT REPORTER
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
The phrase, attributed to both Plato and philosopher George Santayana, brought to mind Cara McKenzie’s grand-father when she was given the statement as a table-topic at a recent Toastmasters meeting in Stettler. Her grandfather, Norm Bomphrey, was fi rst in the Canadian Army, and then the Air Force as a medic, during the Second World War.
Bomphrey passed away in 2009, at the age of 88, after a long life with a wife he met overseas during the war, chil-dren and grandchildren. He also had a long life in which he was haunted by memo-ries that he would never, ever share with his families — friends and comrades who
died or came home wounded.“He never spoke about the
war,” McKenzie recalled. “We had always known he had been part of the war. It’s where he met grandma.”
However, the war never, ever came up in casual discussion. When someone asked her grandfather about the war, he’d tell a quick, quippy story, something with humour in it, because there were funny mo-ments, when the war seemed to retreat.
“And then he’d quickly change the subject,” McKenzie said.
It wasn’t until after her grandfather died in 2009, and the family was helping clear out the home, that the family truly realized how much of half-a-story they’d gotten from their father and grandfather.
“We knew the funny stories,” she said. There were tales of
people in the medic corps try-ing to outscare each other in the morgue, for example.
Bomphrey, who was born near Saskatoon in 1921, en-listed in 1944 in the early days of the war. He was part of the army at fi rst, but as he was fi nishing up his training, he found out he could become a medic if he was in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He made the change and got his medi-cal training, and was stationed in Gander, Newfoundland — which at the time was over-seas, as it wasn’t part of Canada at the time, McKenzie notes.
“I was talking with my fa-ther and he said that the war wasn’t brutal for my grandfa-ther,” McKenzie said. “But he still saw things. He dealt with wounded Canadians being shipped home from overseas, and the dead.”
Canadians who were wounded in the war passed through Gander, tended and stabilized before being sent home. The dead also ended up there, where the soldiers, like McKenzie’s grandfathers, tended to them before send-ing them home for burial.
“We don’t know what he saw, because he never spoke of it,” McKenzie said. “But it was fi nding his scrapbooks, the photos and the stories, that made me realize that for my grandfather, the war was never over.”
The memories were still there, behind closed doors in his mind that her grandfather tried to never open, even when asked. And as time marches on, and the World War veter-ans pass on, that war, fi nally, can end — for the war will never be over for those who lived it.
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William James
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Canada
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Military Police - Provost Corps1942 to 1945
England
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Army - 49 Loyal Edmonton Regiment
3 yearsCanada, U.K. & Mediterranean area
Joe Smith
Army - Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry
1914 to 1918 - First World War France
Sgt. Alfred CalowRNWM Police
Overseas Cavalry, CanadianExpeditionary Forces
First World War
John Douglas Connon
Calgary Highlanders - Royal Canadian Infantry Corps1939 to 1944
EuropeKilled in Action
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King’s Own Riflesof Canada
1942 to 1945Canada
Sgt. Jack Gray
RCAF - Radar TechnicianOn loan to the RAF
1939 to 1945Overseas
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Canadian Army Engineers3rd Division1939 to 1945
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Army - 1st Battalion Canadian Light Infantry
1940 to 1944Canada
Jack ArmstrongCalgary Tanks1939 to 1946
Dr. A.E. Kennedy
Royal Canadian Army Medical CorpsFirst World War & Second World War
European in First World WarCanadian in Second World War
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Second World War1935 to 1945
Canadian
Dr. W.E. Haney (Al)Naval Forces
Act. Shpt. Fourth ClassMarch 1943 toDec. 31, 1945
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Bombadier - 112th Bty 6LAA, Reg. RCA - CASF 21AG
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Contributed photo
Norm Bomphrey was an avid photographer, tak-ing his camera with him and taking photos of his life as a medic with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. Here, he leans on the wing of a plane in Gander, Newfoundland.
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John Jackson
RCAF1943 to 1946
George H. McCord
Canadian Armoured CorpsCanadian Army1941 to 1945
David Mason McDavid
RCAFCanada
Trooper Ray Gilbert
Calgary TanksKen Rea
Calgary Tank Corp1943
Normandy
Gordon Allan Pearn
RCAFAir - Sea Rescue
1940 to 1944Canada & Alaska
Leslie McBride
Canadian Army Machine Gun Unit1940 to 1945
Pacific CommandCanada & Alaska
Cpl. John Craig
Royal Canadian Engineers1939 to 1945Italy & Britain
James Henry Robinson
Canadian Army (Active)Aug. 21, 1942 toMarch 8, 1946
Cpl. Pearl Wilson
RCAF1942 to 1945
Glenn BlackFirst Canadian Armed Division
RCASC - First Division1942 to 1945
Sicily, Italy, France, Holland, Belgium & Germany
Vera Nolte (Knechtel)
RCAF3 years
Southern Alberta
Howard Hanning
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
1942 to 1945Normandy Landing, Mediterranean
John Hanning
RCAF1942 to 1944
Dieppe, Overseas
Harry Hanning
Royal Canadian Corps of Signals1940 to 1946
Normandy, France, Belgium,Holland and Germany
G. Arlie Hanning
RCAF1941 to 1946
Overseas
William Brigham Gray
Royal Navy-Mediterranean Fleet Corporal with East York Militia, and in Canada, living in Stettler in 1906; a member of the Legion
of Frontiersman, with London headquarters. Its objective was the consolidation of the empire and its wartime defence.
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Confi dence the key to being equal in militarySTACEY LAVALLIEINDEPENDENT REPORTER
Ask anyone who grew up in Stettler knowing Helen Goldie, and they’ll be able to tell you that she would be playing with Barbies with the girls one day, and out making a fort with the boys the next.
The rough-and-tumble fi rst-generation Canadian, daughter of British im-migrants who settled in Stettler following the Second World War, Goldie was taught from a young age that her gender was irrelevant.
“As my father said, it wasn’t between my legs what mattered, it was what’s between my ears,” Goldie said, by phone from Victoria, where she’s now stationed.
The 57-year-old enlisted in the military at the ten-
der age of 17, but it wasn’t at her father’s urging — he was a retired military man himself, a former military police offi cer.
“We went to Britain for vacation and I could see the navy working, and I just thought it was adven-turous,” Goldie said. She was in her early teens at the time, but it wasn’t until a few years later, when in a school’s counselling of-fi ce, that she picked up a military pamphlet.
“I thought it was pretty cool,” she said. “Go see the world, travel, free educa-tion.”
Even then, she wasn’t completely sold, not until she came home and her father saw the pamphlet.
“Dad was quite touched,” Goldie recalled. “He brought out a box of things he’d saved from his time, and we went through it
together.”That moment solidifi ed
Goldie’s desire to join the military and “carry on the family tradition.” She en-listed, and headed off to basic training.
In the mid 1970s, when Goldie was going through basic training, the Canadian military was in its infancy years of al-lowing women to become full members. Prior to this, women served in auxilia-ry positions, or as medical staff in hospitals.
Despite that, Goldie said she was never the victim of harassment or a strong unwelcoming feeling during her stint in Basic.
“There were a few older soldiers who didn’t want women in the military, but they came around,” she said, or retired.
At the time Goldie went through basic training, ev-
erything was women. Her fellow enlistees were all women. Her instructors were all women.
“We didn’t see men,” she said, explaining they were completely separate from the young male enlistees. “The only time you dealt with men was in weapon training.”
The man who was train-ing the girls in weapons training was one of the ones who accepted the idea of women joining the military, so Goldie didn’t get any pushback from him because of her gender.
“They pushed us, and it didn’t matter that you were a girl,” she said. Those who were lazy, did things wrong, or other-wise slacked suffered the same sort of penalties that a man who did the same would, she noted.
It wasn’t until the mid-
80s that basic training be-came a co-ed training ex-perience.
“I remember meeting the fi rst women MPs (military police), the fi rst women fi refi ghters,” she said. “I never thought it at the time, but I was part of pav-ing the way for the chang-es that followed.”
Today, Goldie said she can’t think of any part of the military that truly excludes women. She’s served in the air force, the army and now the navy, and everywhere she’s gone, she said she’d been treated as one of the mili-tary family.
“I served in Afghanistan,” she said. “There were 28 guys and me. I was the only woman and I didn’t even realize it until later, because they just treated me as one of them. There was never a gender divide.”
Goldie says that while some prejudices exist in the military, for the most part, people won’t judge you on your gender, race, or religion — rather, they’ll judge you on actions.
“I’ve seen grown men who are super strong and are afraid of mice,” Goldie said. “They’ll jump up on the bunk and I’ll be like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ and he’ll realize what he did. It’s instinctive. We all have fears and quirks, but really, we’re all the same.”
Goldie has three years left in her military ca-reer, and would have 40 years this year had she not taken years off to be a mother. Once her children were older, though, she re-turned to the military.
“Once I retire, I’ll proba-bly continue working part time,” she said, likely as a reservist.
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Sgt. James Neill McBrideArmy - 3rd Regiment
1939 to 1946France, Germany & Belgium
Flight Sgt.
Percy Fredrick BailyRoyal Flying Corps
1914 to 1918 - First World WarOverseas
Paul BergBritish Flag Merchant Marine
1915 to 1918Atlantic & convoys fromNorth America to Britian
Lyman Francis Slifka
ArmyCalgary Highlanders
1939 to 1943MIA - Aug. 29, 1943
Jennie StanyerArmy Nurse
Charles Stanyer
Army
Grover Elroy LovelessRoyal Canadian Artillery
1940 to 1945Canada
Cpt. David BerezanCanadian Army Pacific Command
RCAMC CAA1942 to 1946
Pacific
Sgt. Clifford AnnableCanadian Forces
1916 to 1920France
Sgt. Lloyd HartRCAF1941
Canada & Overseas
Eric Alfred Erickson (Leif)Royal Canadian Army
Service Corps1939 to 1945
Earl A. GibbonRCAF 1942
Canada
Francis Kinly Bates
Calgary Highlanders4 years
France, Germany andHolland
Isabel Ritchie (Groat)
CWACMotor transport
2 years
Ivan Koss
1941 CalgaryParatroupers
Alvin Herman Keibel
RCAF Second World War
5 years
Leslie Richard Lovell
14th Army Tank BattalionCalgary Regiment
July 1940 to March 1947
Ronald Frederick Nighswander
Army Canadian - Calgary1940 to 1945 - Second World War
Dieppe and Normandy with Artillery, on front lines into Germany
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H. James Ganshirt
Calgary Tank Res. - 14th Army Tank Battalion
1941 to 1945England, France (Dieppe)
POW - 1942 to 1945
Hans Bauman
Army - Second World WarLoyal Edmonton Regiment
Sicily InvasionKIA: May 23, 1944 at Cassino
Buried in the Cassino War Cemetery in Italy.
Clayton KeithAir Force
1940 or 1941
Kenneth Grant Stewart
Royal Canadian NavyV - 85944 Second World
WarSubmarine Detector
May 22, 1943 to January 8, 1946
William James JacksonNorthumberland Fusiliers Land Line
transferred to the Northumberland Royal Engineers Signal Corps in July 1915 as a
driver. February 1916 - transferred to Mesopotania disembarking at Basrah in March
1917. Left Bombay, June 1919 and was discharged from military in August 1919.
Robert AndersenCalgary Tank Regiment - 14th
Army Tank Battalion1941 to 1945
France & GermanyPOW - 1942 to 1945
Lyle WhitesideRCAF - Pilot
John Murray McKennaRCAMC
Served France, Italy & North Africa
Addison WhitesideInfantry - Sniper
Eva Turner
RCAF - NurseGlenn Turner
RCAF
Fern Alberta (Cunningham)
Rodger
April 1943 to November 1945at Rockcliffe Base, Ottawa.
Western Air Command, Vancouver.Western Air Command,
Patricia Bay, B.C.
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Roy Wilson
Calgary HighlandersDieppe Raid
Cpt. William Turnbull
50th RegimentIndia, Boer War,
First World War, 1918
Private Alexander
DeNadaillac Salmon
3rd C.M.R. First World WarKIA: June 2, 1916
Gordon Bartman
Warrant OfficerRAF Squadron #7
Shot down over DenmarkApril 21, 1943
Private Arthur L. Salmon
3rd C.M.R. WIA: June 2, 1916
Ralph F. Wells415 Squadron Postal
CommandWirdessair Gunner
1941
Cpl. William A. Salmon
3rd C.M.R.First World War
Cpl. David J. FowlerSecond World War
RCAF - #5 Service Flying Squadron
1940 to 1946
John B. CooperFirst life Guards in
BritainMarch 1883 to March 1895
Arnold Wyndham StewartRoyal Canadian Artillery 82nd Anti-Tank Battery
Lance Bombardier Gunner1940 to 1945
Italy, Belgium & Holland
Ted Miko
Loyal Edmonton Regiment5th Canadian Armoured Division
1944 to 1946Italy and Germany
Cecil Isaman
ArmyAlberta 19 Dragoons
1943 to 1945 - Second World WarCanada, England, Holland
Robert Walls
RCAF Mobile Equipment1941 to 1946 - Second World War
1956 to 1968 NATOEngland and France
Murray Dermott
RCAF R209350 - Ground Crew1942 to 1945 also 1946 to 1974
In Canada 1958 to 1962 at #1 WingRCAF Metz, France
Douglas Chester GilmoreRCAF bomber Squadron 429
1942 to 1945Overseas - Bomber Stations
England
Mysie Dermott (McKay)
(W.D.) RCAF LAW 3174391943 to 1945
CanadaServed in Canada so pilots could fly
Leslie ParcelsJoined 8th Recce May 7, 1942
Stationed in Blackpool, EnglandServed in Germany and Holland
Discharged January 1946
John M. Cooper
Engine Room C.P.O.January 1943 to October 1944
on HMCS SuderoyNovember 1944 to July 1945 on HMCS Strathroy
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Pilot Officer
Charles Victor Ross Wigley
Trained with RCAFFlew with RAF as Tail Gunner aboard Halifax Bombers; killed in action during Bombing Raid in Germany, Aug. 13, 1944, while 19 years old. His name is inscribed on Runnymede Memorial in England.
Ken Simon
Lord Strathcona Tanks, Calgary
1941 to 1946Overseas
Winnie SimonRCAF
Women’s Division1943 to 1945
Canada
Marion ScheerschmidtRoyal Canadian Artillery
Platoon 4, A Company #1311941 to 1945 - Second World War
Halifax, Brandon
William Gray Stewart
Gunner with the 14thCanadian Army Tank
RegimentPOW - Dieppe - 1941 to 1945
Lawrence HerzogCalgary Tank RegimentDieppe raid, captured
by Germans.POW - 1942 to 1945
Rhinehart Carl (Bobby) Cornelssen Troop 10, B Squadron of the Calgary TanksKilled at Dieppe during Second World War
William Henry WigleyCalgary Tank RegimentDieppe raid, captured
by GermansPOW - 1942 to 1945
Robert (Bob) HaydenPilot - RCAF
120 Bomber Squadrom1941 to 1945
Reyjkavik, Iceland & Abbotsford,B.C.
Donald Robertson Jensen
Canadian Army OverseasUnit D Sqdn 25 Co dn.
Arm’d Del Regt. (Elgin R)1944/1945
Holland/Germany
Orville Strandquist
Second World WarSignal Core
Matt Beattie
Calgary RegimentalTank Core
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William LaneFirst Lethbridge Highlanders re-as-
signed to the 16th Canadian ScottishVimy Ridge & Passchendaele
Enlisted 1915
Alfred B. Williams
Army - 2nd Division17th LAA Battery
3rd LAA Regiment1939 to 1945
A.L. DittrichR.C. Chaplain
RCAF
Charles Dittrich
RCAF
L. Cpl. Alfred Firmston Williams Canadian Infantry
49th BattalionKIA: Sept. 15, 1916
Acting Sgt.
Noel Booth
RAF1941 to 1946
England & Africa
Thomas Asa PrattRoyal Canadian
Air ForceCanada
Pete Koss
Canadian Expeditionary Force
1916 to 1918
Edward Knechtel
Calgary Highlanders11 months - 1943
Italy
Roy Gilbert
Canadian Armed Forces1943 to 1946
LAC Robert Andrew
Somerville
RCAF1940 to 1945
Canada
Pilot Officer
Elmer Clarence Graham
RCAF - Bomber Command1941 to 1945
Overseas
Gordon Edward Taylor#1 Recovery, #3 Light Section,
Attached to First Division, 8th Army1941 to 1945
England, Italy, Belgium & Netherlands
Harold SimonRoyal Canadian
Air ForceCanada
Clarence GilbertRCAF
LAC Lorne
ArmstrongWartimeIreland
William J. GrahamRCAF with the 431 Iroquois Squadron
Rear Gunner from 1942 to 1945Overseas
Stella Jean (McDavid) LoganRCAF
Women’s Division1943 to 1946
Canada
John Nolte
1st Light A.A.Regt., RCA4 years
Italy and Belgium
Cpl. Claire (Casey)
Greenlee
RCACS - 1st DivisionFour years
Italy & Northwest Europe
Jim MenziesRCAF
OverseasKilled in Action
Edwin HilkerArmy
Canada
Lorne Parkin CD CWO Ret.RCAF
1959 to 1993Two tours with NATO in Europe
during the Cold War years
Clifford Gilbert
Royal CanadianArmy Service Corps
Helen Booth
Air Force, Army, Navy1977 to present
Stationed in Vancouver
Lloyd Dykstra
North Nova ScotiaHighlander
Grane, Holland & Germany
Sgt. Lyne (Bud) Starling
14th Canadian Armoured RegimentThe Calgary Tanks
1941 to 1945England, Dieppe, Holland, France & Italy
Private & Lance Corporal
John Walter Fischer
Army - Calgary Highlanders1942 to 1946
U.K., Continental Europe & France
LAC Maurice Guy FordWorked with Army Corporal in
YMCA Canteen serving overseas postal depot. 1942 to 1946
Canada and England
AWI Netta (Ford) BarrittAir Force
Wireless Operator Ground1942 to 1944
Canada
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David Shaw Jr.
Royal Canadian Air ForceUnit 6409
November 1941 to February 1946France & Germany
LAC Vern Fox
Second World War
Lieutenant
Edward Patrick Johnson
238 BattalionCanadian Expeditionary ForcesServed overseas 1916 to 1919
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WE REMEMBER
Cpl. Brian Patrick
JohnsonCalgary Tanks
Discharged 1945Sicily & Italy
Wilbur Moats Lee
RCAF - Rear GunnerEscorted convoysKilled in crash
Vern RichardsonCalgary Tank Regiment
1941 to 1945Battle of Dieppe 1942
POW - August 1942 to 1945
Don McDavidRCAF
Pathfinders Flying Officer1942 to 1945
Two tours
Murray Douglas Rairdan
Gunner Raudan M.D.1944 to 1945
Arnold BerthotRCAF - 86 Squadron
RAF 408 Sqaudron Canadian1941
Canada & England
Edward Raymond
Slifka
Army - Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Loyal Edmonton Regiment1939 to 1945
Margaret Spensley (Middie)Petty Officer
Served in Wrens 1942 to 1945
Canada
Lorraine (Howden)
Johns
RCAF - Canada1944 to 1946
Stephen GleaveRCA Artillery1942 to 1946
Canada & England
Arne Johannson
RCAF - 1st Class Air MechanicCommonwealth Air Training Plan -
English & Australian1941 to 1945
Ione Miller
(nee Benson)
Army1943 to 1945
Trooper Harold Hart
C Squadron 1st Hussars1943 to 1945
Europe
Harold Havig
Petty OfficerHMCSCanada
Dugald Stewart Campbell
Royal Canadian Navy1940 to 1945
Wallace Emberg
Leading SeamanNorth Atlantic Ocean,
Pacific Coast1942 to 1945
John Cox
Canadian Army14th Tank Corps
1939 to 1945POW - 1942 to 1945
Clarence Blaney
RCA - 14 Army Tank Corps1939
Canada & Dieppe
Charles Blaney
RCA - 14 Army Tank Corps1939
Canada & Dieppe
Sgt. Len Schofer
RCAF1943
Canada
George Joseph Slifka
Army - Royal Canadian Army Service Corps - 6th Division
Petrol Coy - Overseas; 66 Gen. Transport Coy.1941 to 1945
Tom ArmstrongRCAF
Mary Gwynneth WebbRCAF
Women’s Division1941 to 1945
W.O. Lorne Todd
Royal Canadian Air ForceCanada & United Kingdom
1941 to 1945Distinguished Flying Cross
(D.F.C.)
Ted CarterRCN - 1950 to 1955 & RCAF - 1958 to 1973
Naval Air Service - TelecommunicationsNavy - North Atlantic & Mediterranean
RCAF - Air Defence Command
Harry SnaithRoyal Canadian Navy
HMCS Athabaskan1948 to 1953
Korean War - 1950 to 1953
Albert Leander JohnsonCalgary Tank Regiment -
14th Army Battalion - 1941 to 1945
England & France (Dieppe)POW - 1942 to 1945
Johnny WelchCalgary Tanks Regiment
Wounded at DieppeDied & buried in Europe
Private Elmer Matthew Gilbert
RCA Service Corps65 Tank Transport Co.
1941 to 1945England, Holland, France &
Germany
Cpl. Robert Spiece
14th Army Tank Corps - Squadron B1939 to 1945
Dieppe, Italy, France, Germany & Holland
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Private Walter O.
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1941 to 1946
Agnes Elizabeth
Catherine (Jackson) Zorn
Served with the A.T.S. at Kingston, England, from March 1942 to May 1943.
William Benjamin
(Ben) Redfern
Air ForceSecond World War
1942 to 1945
Major Armand BrochuLes Fusiliers Mon-Royal
KIA: March 1, 1945at the age of 30.
Edgar Werner Zorn
Signed up with the Royal Canadian Artillery in 1939 then transferred to South Sas-
katchewan Regiment where he served to end of Second World War.
Re-enlisted and served in post war duties until March 27, 1946.
Walter McCord
RCAF1939 to 1945
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Own Calgary Regiment and was a POW captured at Dieppe, France.
Interment will be held Friday, Nov. 13 in Stettler at the Lake View Cemetery at 1:30 p.m.
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Al Walker
Infantry Corps1944 to 1945
Tom Cox
Armed ServicesPaul Wayne Lagore
Royal Canadian Army Gunner - 2nd Division
Sept. 5, 1940 to Oct. 19, 1945
Harold Chapman
Flying Officer (F/O) RCAF
Killed in Action
Carl Hyatt
ArmyBasic training 1st Airborne
1944
Frank Cox
RCN
Flight Lieutenant
Bruce MacKenzie
RCAFFrench Croix de Guerre
Gordon A. Connor
RCASC - 2nd Corps Troops
1940 to 1945
Arnold Ambrose Johnstone
Royal Canadian ArmyInfantry
August 1942 to September 1945
Sgt. Glen Harrison
Army Ordinance CorpsEd Cox
RCAF
Jack W. PinderRCAF
Gander
Roy S. PinderRCAF
England
Lloyd BartmanWarrant Officer - RAF
Squadron #102Lost in bombing raid in Stutt-
gart, Germany - April 15, 1943
Cpt. Jack MacKenzieArmy Service Corps
Member of the Order ofBritish Empire (M.B.E.)
Milford ParcelsFirst World War
Served in FranceFirst Depot Battalion
Alberta
Alex TickleCirca 1943
Joined CFB in CalgaryStationed at Petaevawa
Delbert Arthur Parcels
Joined Reserve Army atage 16 - 1943
Allan Wilson
Air ForceMechanic
1940
Trooper L. Bruce Salmon19th Alberta Dragoons
Died of illness during trainingDec. 13, 1914
Raymond Wilson
Air ForceGunner
Africa and ItalyMissing in Action
Arthur Patrick Hilker
Army13th Field Regiment -
ArtilleryJune 2, 1940
Private Frank L. Wells
M.M. 49th BattalionFirst World War
William Bussey Sr.
First World WarCanadian Expedition Force1916 to 1917; wounded and
discharged 1918
Lloyd Henry Johnstone
Royal Canadian ArmyCalgary Tank Regiment B Squadron
February 1941 to Sept. 20, 1945POW: Aug. 19, 1942, to 1945
Gerald Fredrick JohnstoneRoyal Canadian Army
Mechanics CorpsFebruary 1942 toSeptember 1945
Leonard Allan LagoreCanadian Army 3rd Lt.
Anti-Aircraft 2nd DivisionSept. 5, 1940, to
Oct. 19, 1945
John Duncan BusseyJuly 1940 to 1946
ArmyServed in British Isle, Sicily, Italy,
France, Belgium, Holland
Flight Lieutenant
Roland MacKenzie
RCAFDistinguished Flying
Cross
Wilfrid Weatherill
Canadian Armed Services1942 to 1945
Served England, France, Germany, Holland & Belgium
Nick WolowidnykArmy
Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment1941 to 1945 - Second World War
Ortona, Italy
Malcolm “Mac” McMillanServed in First World War
1914 to 1918
William Breen
Merchant MarineCpl. Anthoné J. McGee
Fall of 2005 to Spring 2006
Afghanistan ArmyEnlisted 1992 to present
F/O Harold Sharpe
438 Squadron R.C.A.F.Killed in Action,Normandy 1944
John Keefer Brennen
Medical CorpFirst World War
F/L Douglas Sharpe
168 Squadron RCAFMissing between
Morocco and Azores 1944
Daniel Clarence DanielsArmy - 54th Battalion
1914 to 1918Europe
Major Leonard Jack Smith CDRCAC 1951 to 1966
Korea - 1953
Trooper Herb FoxSecond World War
1942 to 1946
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 STETTLER INDEPENDENT 21 Sports
Stettler girls placed fourth in CARA tournamentMOUSH SARA JOHNINDEPENDENT REPORTER
Schools from Stettler and the surrounding county of the Clearview Public Schools Division de-scended upon the town to participate in round robin and fi nal play off games at the CARA tournament, hosted by the William E. Hay Stettler Secondary Campus on Nov. 7.
For most schools the round robin had started earlier in the week, includ-ing the Stettler girls’ team.
On Wednesday, the round robin play for the Stettler girls started in Donalda where they played both Donalda and Christ King,
losing both sets against Donalda, the girls came around to beat Christ King in both sets.
Then on Saturday the girls played Gus Wetter 1 in the morning, winning both sets, played Coronation 2 where they split the win, fi nishing their round robin on a high by defeating Brownfi eld in both sets.
This put them second in their pool as they faced Coronation 1 in the quar-ter fi nals, winning after 3 sets.
“It was a tough game that resulted in a hard-fought battle leaving them exhausted,” said coach Shonna Burkard. “They went on to the semi-fi nal
game that saw them lose to Mother Teresa (Halkirk) in two sets.”
In their third medal game against Erksine, the Stettler girls lost in both sets as well, which placed them fourth.
Speaking of the team’s performance, Burkard said, “Pure exhaustion took over after their hard-fought win against Coronation, and although they start-ed strong against Halkirk, they just couldn’t hold on, and it was the same for their game against Erskine.”
According to Burkard the girls “gave it everything they had”.
“But playing two back
to back games prior to reaching the semi-fi nal and then two more back to back games drained them,” added Burkard. “We will continue working on skill development (serving, hitting and blocking) and strategic ball placement in preparation for regional CWAJHAA in Red Deer on Nov. 21.”
With the Stettler girls scheduled to participate in the regionals in Red Deer against teams from central Alberta, Burkard wants the players to focus on their accomplishments.
Pictures of Stettler teams in the tournament can be found with our web ver-sion of the story.
Moush Sara John/Independent reporter
Lyrah Thomson of Stettler successfully gets the ball across the net, scoring a point against Coronation Angels in their round robin match on Saturday, Nov. 7, as Madison Imbery and Jenny Munholland looks on.
Cougars within yards of provincials, but lose in close battleSTACEY LAVALLIEINDEPENDENT REPORTER
Even though the Stettler Cougars didn’t bring home the title from the Tier 3 Championship game in Lacombe Friday, Nov. 6, coach Mark Neitz said he couldn’t have been happier with the game, or more proud of his players.
The game took place in Lacombe, under the lights — this time without a snow storm, unlike a few years ago.
The game started strong for the Cougars, who scored on the fi rst drive of the game. However, a few fumbles and miscues later, the team had fallen
behind the hosts. However, the Cougars kept that points difference small and by half-time, the score was 24-14 for Lacombe.
“We outplayed them on offence, out-played them on defence,” Neitz said. “But they had more plays on special teams and that made the difference in the end.”
The second half of the game saw Lacombe widen the gap, and with about fi ve minutes left in the game, the score was 48-28 for Lacombe.
“I’m proud of the boys and their effort to compete for the full tilt,” Neitz said. He said they never gave up on evening the score, and with only eight seconds left
on the clock, the Cougars brought the score to 48-44.
“There was no quitting,” he said. “We couldn’t convert an onside kick and Lacombe took a knee to fi nish the game.”
“Big plays were the theme of the night for Stettler,” Neitz said. “There were a number of 40-plus-yard plays, both through the air and on the ground. Defence played big, making some timely stops. Top-to-bottom, we were the better team. Sometimes the outcome doesn’t refl ect that.”
He said that throughout the whole Cougars season, he’s been blessed with players who’ve been committed to
the team, love the game, and carry on through injury and bad weather.
“We went through adversity with many injuries at key times,” Neitz said. “But we were able to come together at playoffs to make a strong push for the champion-ship, hoping to carry on to provincials. It was a great year.”
He said he was looking forward to see-ing many of his players “graduate” into high school, Wildcats, football next year, and continue to improve the skills they started to learn as Panthers and honed as Cougars.
“(The players) truly were like family on the fi eld.”
MUSTAFA ERICINDEPENDENT EDITOR
That Stettler’s Wildcats ended their football sea-son with a less than stel-lar performance, losing the championship fi xture 41-0 was disappointing in itself, but not as much as the uncalled for drama during the last minutes of the game, which might have long term implica-tions for the program it-self.
After an assistant Wildcat coach and two Wildcats were eject-ed from the fi eld in the last three minutes of the game versus Sylvan Lake for objectionable conduct on Saturday, Nov.7, head coach Norbert Baharally said he would reconsider his position at the helm of the team he has led for many years.
The game itself start-ed in sunny and unsea-sonably warm weather,
perfect for great football. Lakers, playing on their own turf, got on the board in the seventh minute with their fi rst touchdown and a successful convert, and before Wildcats de-fence could recover from the shock, scored another making it 14-0. In the last minute of the fi rst quar-ter, they scored a third touchdown but their con-vert attempt was blocked by Wildcats defence.
In the second, Wildcats initially appeared to be holding back the Lakers offence, but the hosts scored once again just before half time, which ended 27-0 for the local side.
Wildcats appeared helpless in establishing themselves on the fi eld. Although they did have a few fi rst downs and in-terceptions, they were not enough the stop the waves of Lakers attacks. The hosts scored twice
more, once in the third and once in the fourth quarter, and with both converts made good, the score stood at 41-0 three minutes from the end of regulation.
It was at that moment that assistant coach Brian Matchett entered into an
argument with the refer-ees protesting a call and was sent off by the refer-ees and left the fi eld with a few gestures of protest. Immediately after that, two Wildcat players were ejected for vulgar lan-guage on the fi eld.
When the game ended,
there was not much ju-bilation among the team members for having won the silver medal.
Baharally said Wildcats were not prepared for that game. “But we should not take anything away from Sylvan. They have a good team, they have a lot of
players in all positions, they are players with good skills.”
In reference to the unfortunate incident, Baharally said it would have a negative impact. “This will refl ect on me as the head coach, it will refl ect on our football pro-gram, on our school, on our community.”
“I will have to sit back and think about my com-mitment to the team,” Baharally continued. “In my position, school is my priority and with that pri-ority, I cannot be on the fi eld at every practice, I cannot leave the school building to be out every practice day. And when I cannot be on the fi eld everyday, some unwanted cultures may be develop-ing.”
He said he was still pas-sionate about football but was not sure about the level of his commitment. to the team.
Mustafa Eric/Independent editorMustafa Eric/Independent editor
Russel Steen and Teron Garbutt bring down the ball carrier as Will McDonald Russel Steen and Teron Garbutt bring down the ball carrier as Will McDonald follows the position during the Central Alberta Football League Varsity follows the position during the Central Alberta Football League Varsity Championship game in Sylvan Lake on Saturday, Nov. 7. Wildcats lost 41-0.Championship game in Sylvan Lake on Saturday, Nov. 7. Wildcats lost 41-0.
Wildcats lose championship gameDisappointing incident irks head coach
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - Regular Cattle Sale
– 1500 head, listings include:
– 225 Angus & Angus cross calves - Dwights Quance and Sons– 30 Charolais cross calves - Tim Cassidy
– 90 Black and Red Angus crossbred calves - Larry Tuck– 30 Shorthorn calves - Eleanor Richmond
– 90 Red Simmental cross calves - Mike Steen– 60 Maine cross calves - Dan Reister
– 85 Simmental cross calves - Trevor Schoff– 50 Hereford & Hereford Simmental cross calves - Clint Wells
Thursday, November 19, 2015 - Evening Horse Sale
– 5:00 p.m. Tack
– 6:00 p.m. Horses
– 50 - 75 all breeds & types
Friday, November 20, 2015 - Stock Cow & Bred Heifer Sale
Includes:
– 85 Black and Red Angus heifer bred Black and Red Angus exp June 4 - August 4 - Full health program, top
end heifers - Lake Ranching - Wetaskiwin– 29 Dispersal of 29 Shorthorn cows bred Charolais - exp
June 1, full health prog. - Rene Kuenzler– 40 Red Angus & Charolais cross cows bred Red Angus
- Darius Land– 25 mixed cows bred Charolais or Angus - Phil Barber
Friday, November 27, 2015 - Stock Cow & Bred Heifer Sale
Includes:
– 65 Annual sale of 50 Red & Red Blaze heifers and 15 Charolais cross heifers bred Red Angus calving March 1 -
Deral Lang
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Lightning eke out a win, loss on the roadBVOK home opener this weekend
STACEY LAVALLIEINDEPENDENT REPORTER
It was a scrappy pair of games over the weekend for the Stettler Lightning, which saw the team come home from the road with a win and a loss to their name.
The fi rst game on Saturday, Nov. 7, pitted the Lightning against the Banff Academy Bears. After three hard-fought periods, the Lightning came away with a 6-4 victory.
The Lightning’s fi rst goal came off an aggressive powerplay offensive, giving Chandler Knibb the perfect opportunity to even the score. Derek Muhlbach scoring at the 30-second mark of the second, and less than fi ve minutes in, Knibb scored his second goal of the game.
Dylan Houston and Logan Davidson scored, and the second ended with a score of 5-2.
The third started with a fi nal Lightning goal from Houston, and the game ended 6-4.
The next day, the Lightning faced the Okotoks Bisons, coming away with a hard-fought 5-4 loss.
The Lightning were fi rst on the
board this day, with Linden Heidecker sneaking the puck past the Bisons’ netminder less than fi ve minutes into the fi rst. That was the only goal for the Lightning in that period, with the Bisons picking up two, including one on a powerplay.
The Bisons scored less than two minutes into the second, but Jacob Bottomley, using a powerplay to his advantage, closed the gap, bringing the score to 3-2. A series of penalties in the the late second penalty left the Lightning at a disadvantage, one the Bisons’ used to their advantage, and the second ended with a score of 5-2.
The Lightning scrapped and clawed their way to two more goals, one from Knibb and another from Steven Fletcher, but the Lightning weren’t able to tie up the game, leaving with a close 6-5 loss.
The Lightning next play at home this Friday, Nov. 13 against the Airdrie Thunder. The following day, the Cochrane Generals play here in Stettler. The puck drops at 7:30 p.m.Big Valley Oil Kings home opener this weekend
The Big Valley Oil Kings senior
hockey team’ll be taking to home ice on Sunday, Nov. 15 for their homeopener of the season.
There’ll be several familiar faces on the team this year, General Manager Dustin Edwards said, in-cluding goalie Chance Edwards, who two seasons ago won the BRHL goalie of the year award.
The team has had some solid recruiting coups this season, though, including the former Red Deer Rebels’ Chad Robinson and Matt Stefanishion, who while not making the NHL draft, was contracted by the Washington Capitals for two years.
The team has already played five away games, hindered in part by the lack of ice in Big Valley.
“The team is really starting to gel,” Edwards said. “We had a few games where nothing could go right, but now we’ve pulled together and we have lines form-ing.”
With the ice now in, the team’s home opener against the Whitecourt Wild will happen on Sunday, Oct. 15, with the puck dropping at 3 p.m.
Bantam girls trounce visiting WhitecourtSTACEY LAVALLIEINDEPENDENT REPORTER
It was a busy hockey weekend at the Stettler Recreation Centre as the minor hockey sea-son got into full swing. On Sunday, Nov. 8, the Stettler Bantam girls’ team hosted the
Whitecourt Bantam girls, taking the win with a 6-2 finish.
Whitecourt was first on the board with a goal early in the first, through Kacee Ward answered that with a goal of her own less than two min-utes later, evening the score. Just two minutes
later, Abby Heidecker put Stettler ahead a point, scoring on a powerplay advantage.
The girls continued to push into the second, though it took almost half the period before another goal was had, the second of the game for Ward. Five minutes
later, Emily Reiman took advantage of an-other powerplay to give the Stettler girls a 4-1 lead, though Whitecourt got its second goal with three minutes left in the period.
Stettler finalized the gap and secured its win with a goal from Brooke Laisnez and a second by Devon Johnson, bringing the final tally to its 6-2 finish.
The girls’ hockey teams have moved to the newly formed Rocky Mountain Female Hockey League (RMFHL) this year, in-stead of being in a fe-male division all their own within the North Central Minor Hockey League (NCMHL), saving the one girls’ atom team that continues to play in the general division.
The Midget A team has also moved out of the NCMHL, heading to the Central Alberta Hockey League.
For the more de-tailed minor hockey action roundup, visit the sports page on our website at www.S t e t t l e r I n d e p e n d e n t .com.
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GEDDESHarold “Chopper” KenionFebruary 28, 1963 - October 13, 2015
It is with sadness that the family of Chopper Geddes announces his passing at his home in Edson, AB. Chopper was an avid golfer, enjoyed many hours on his snowmobile in Alberta and BC and was a devoted and enthusiastic fan of the Calgary Flames and Stampeders. He was an accomplished auto body technician with a gift for creative automobile painting, and loved to tinker on his truck, quad and Snowmobile. He is survived by his siblings Joanne (Greg) Libke, Bette Geddes (Patrick Stewart), Byron and Sonya Geddes, Cameron and Kathie Geddes and his nieces and nephews, Miles (Raymie), James, Bryce and Lauren Libke, Alexandra, Rogan, Mckenna and Niklas Geddes, and his great nephews Finn and Sullivan Libke. He was predeceased by his parents Jean Ann (Sellers) Geddes in April 1993, and Harold McGill Geddes in July of 2015. Chopper leaves many dear and close friends in Edson. Malcolm, Dale, Billy, Karen, Kim and many others will miss his sense of humor and companionship. Thanks so much to Chopper’s many friends who organized a wonderful wake and lunch at the Sit n Bull in Edson after his passing. He will truly be missed! There will be a Gathering of Remembrance on Sunday, November 15, 2015 at the Stettler Golf & Country Club, 4701 - 61 Street, Stettler from 2:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Memorial donations in memory of Chopper may be directed to a charity of choice. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.brennenfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements in care ofBRENNEN FUNERAL HOME
AND CREMATION SERVICES, Stettler. Box 193, Stettler, AB T0C 2L0. 403-742-3315.
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Restaurant/Hotel 820KITCHEN MANAGER $20
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Heartland Arts Troupe Societypresents
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Bridal RegistryAlyssa Gelech & Mark Molendyk Jan. 9Angela Shepherd & Dan Hiller Feb. 4Tannis Yuha & Buck McMillan Feb. 20
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at 3 p.m.NOTICE OF AN
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Seed Cleaning Co-op will be held at the Agricultural Grounds in Bashaw, AB on
Thursday, November 26, 2015
at 1:00 p.m. for the following process:
1. To receive the financial statements for the fiscal year end.2. To elect directors of the association.3. To appoint auditors of the association.4. To discuss the feasibility of building a
new seed cleaning plant.5. To transact such other business, if any, as may properly come before the meeting
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East Central Alberta Catholic School Division No. 16 Invites applica ons for the following posi ons
Full-Time Teacher Assistant(Compe on No. TA1516-008-CK)
East Central Alberta Catholic School Division #16 invites applica ons for the posi on of a full- me Teacher Assistant at Christ-King Catholic School in Ste ler, Alberta.The posi on involves working with learning challenged students in a Grade One classroom. This posi on will commence as soon as a suitable candidate could be found un l June 28, 2016 and is subject to the ECACS-CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees) Support Sta Collec ve Agreement. Candidates with Educa on Assistant training and experience will be given preference.Interested applicants can send their applica on, including a cover le er, a faith reference from your parish priest (if applicable), and your resume with three references (please include email addresses) including the name of your last supervisor to:Charlie McCormack, Superintendent of SchoolsEast Central Alberta Catholic Schools1018 – 1st AvenueWainwright, AB T9W 1G9Fax: (780)842-5322Email: recep [email protected]
In applying for this posi on it is understood that East Central Catholic School Division has permission to contact references or any past or present employers of the applicant. The closing date for this compe on is Friday, November 20, 2015 at 4:30 pm. Only those candidates selected for interview will be contacted.
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Christmas Craft Fair was great
LOUISE BELLAIRBOTHA BOOSTER
Today is Remembrance Day. so please attend a service that is being held around the country to remember our veterans who fought in the battles for our freedom we have today.
A big thank you to everyone who attended this year’s Botha Christmas Craft Fair. Hopefully everyone was able to attend and was able to do some early Christmas shopping for their special someone. Thank you to all the vendors, too, for bringing out their items and for getting everything set up for everyone to see.Hoping we will see you again next year for this special event.
There is no Bingo evening tonight due to Remembrance Day, so make sure you come out on the 25th, for another great evening of Bingo playing.
The village meeting is Thursday, Nov. 26, starting at 7 p.m., so come out for these important meetings.
Looking for a hall to hold your Christmas events in. Please call Shaun Derr at 403-742-4811. Botha Hall is very reasonable priced to rent and has had some new renova-tions done to it, so contact him soon.
Talking about Christmas only about a month and a half away, the Old-Thyme Dance Club will be holding their Christmas Dance the last Sunday of this month, starting at 1:30 p.m., so you will not want to miss it. That afternoon, if you like wear something red and green in color, but most of all come on out that Sunday for one great time.
Coffee is on every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. at the seniors’ centre, so take a break away from your busy schedule and stop by for a great visit, everyone is wel-come to attend.
Every Wednesday and Thursday afternoon starting at 1 p.m., come on out and get involved in a friendly game of fl oor curling. It’s a fun game and everyone is welcome to attend.
If you have ideas for budget, you have a
forum to speakKASHEEN CLOUSONDONALDA DIARY
The Village of Donalda Council will be holding a public budget forum on Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Donalda Fire Hall. Council members are looking for-ward to hearing input from community mem-bers on budget issues. This session will be strictly for information purposes and used as a resource for the upcoming budget.
The Donalda Coulee Friendship Club will be holding a Turkey and Ham BINGO on Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. at the drop-in centre. Come and win your Christmas Dinner! Everyone is wel-come.
The Donalda & District Museum Society presents a comedic evening with Jimmy the Janitor, Nov. 27, 2015 with the show starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Donalda Community
Hall. Tickets are available at the Donalda & District Museum offi ce. Tickets in-clude a dessert bar, and there will also be a silent auction and a cash bar as well. Seats are limited, so get your tickets today. For any questions, please email us at [email protected]
The Donalda & District Community Promotion Society is planning the 2015 “A Village Christmas” featuring the parade of lights. We invite you to participate. The parade be-gins at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 29, with set up be-ginning at 4 p.m. For more information or to reserve your spot please call Bruce at 403-883-2943
Birthday wishes this week go out to Karen Williams, Remy Vargas, William Whiteside, Brett Rider, Emma Gebhardt and Terri Granigan. Happy birthday to all!
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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 By-law No 2060-15:
1. No: 2903-2015 Legal Description: Lot 69, Block 1, Plan 7922286 Municipal Address: #2 54 Street Close Applicant: Beauty Refi ned Proposed Development: Home Occupation - Beauty Refi ned
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Notice is hereby given that the following Development Permit Application for a permitted use with a variance in accordance with the County of Stettler No. 6 Land Use Bylaw No. 1443-10 was approved by the Development Authority:
1. No: DP 15119 Legal Description: Lot 19 Block 1 Plan 0521511 Rural Address: 330, 40345 Rge Rd 22-1 (Buffalo Lake Meadows) Proposed Development: Detached Dwelling w/attached garage with a 9% variance (from 26.25’. to 28’ – 6 7/8”) to the maximum building height
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Face2Face Ministries returns to CKCSTARA KROES, GRADE 6 TEACHER
CKCS was able to see the fi nal product of our Clay for Kids event on Nov. 3. All the clay tiles that were made by staff and students were returned to the school and hung in the foyer in the form of a Cross. A big thank you goes to the team who hung the heavy project on the wall Monday night. Students waited anx-iously Tuesday morning for Miss. Delhommeau, who spearheaded the project along with par-ent council, to pull the sheet back to reveal our creation. The fi nal prod-uct was defi nitely worth the wait, students and teachers enjoyed trying to fi nd their clay tiles among many others the entire week. Our clay Cross will remain on the wall of our foyer for many years to come. It is a wonderful re-minder of how our many differences and unique students in CKCS, com-bine together to make a wonderful collage that glorifi es God.
The biggest highlight of the week was the visit
from Face2Face Ministries. Students and staff alike were abuzz with the an-ticipation of Nov. 4. The entire school met in the gymnasium in the morn-ing and welcomed Ryan and Shawn to our school. CKCS started the retreat day with singing, fun, and laughter. Ryan and Shawn caught all the students at-tention with a unique in-troduction that included students from the crowd. According to those two, our own Charles Ramos found the cure for coo-ties, Joel Gustavson was an all-around cool kid, and Kirklind Bachmier, Madison Swaren, and Jesse Jarmin can do the world’s best rendition of “I’m a Little Teapot”.
Throughout the day, classes were split into di-visions and went to the the gym for their own in-dividual sessions. All ses-sions however, revolved around the theme of “God loves me As I am”. Ryan and Shawn used games, funny videos and person-al stories to show stu-dents that how they see themselves is not how
God sees them. God sees past all of our mistakes and failures and loves us for who we are. They il-lustrated to the students that we should not de-fi ne ourselves by world-
ly items, but as children of God. One of the most influential metaphors used that day was that of a house-cat and a lion. Many people are content to see themselves as a
house-cat and are content in that role; however, in reality God has created us to be lions. By the end of the day, students were inspired to not just set-tle, but to seek out the
full purpose that God has set for their lives. A huge thank you goes to Ryan, Shawn, and Face2Face Ministries for an amazing and spiritually moving day.
Contributed photo
Miss Delhommeau reveals the clay Cross created by the students and staff of the Christ King School.
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