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Shannon LeCLairTimes Reporter

Anyone who has driven down Ridge Road lately can tell it’s in desperate need of repairs, a fact that hasn’t been lost on town administration.

Jesse Parker, Director of Engineering and Operations for the Town, was looking for direction from council about the dete-rioration of Ridge Road.

In 2011, work on Ridge Road was not included in the capital projects, but it is an area in need of major repairs. There had been some patchwork done last year, which seems to be holding up well so far.

“The disintegration of that road is largely due to water…entering into the sub base of the road, basically, then pushing the as-phalt out and also due to heavy truck traf-fic,” said Parker.

He said a preliminary report was done in 2009 to determine the cost of fixing the road, which would be approximately $3 million. This would be for a complete upgrade to the road sub-base, a drainage system being implemented, and replacing the underground utilities, which are due for replacement due to their age.

Council agreed something permanent has to be done, instead of just patching the areas of the road most affected.

“I asked for this matter (to be) brought forth because we’re in big trouble here with that road,” said Councillor Bob Sobol

“It’s in really bad shape, and it’s worse than I’ve ever seen it. I don’t recommend any more patching of that road. I think if we’re going to do anything, we have to have it replaced and try to find some money.”

Sobol doesn’t feel the whole area has to be done. He thinks construction could be-gin at the curve of the Strathmore Station and then continue it until East Lake.

“In the three terms that I have been on council I can think of very few things where I’ve had more people come to me and talk about the shape of this road. I think that with the deplorable shape that it’s in, we really need to look hard to be able to come up with the money to make this happen,” said Councillor Earl Best.

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Communities in Bloom is looking for sponsorship, and would like to know if there are residents who would like to buy a park bench or a bench for the commu-nity, in celebration of the centennial. Vol-unteers are needed to help plant trees and flowers at the birth forest on May 14.

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“I did talk to (MLA) Arno Doerkson, and told him that this was an emergency, and there must be emergency funding available. He is checking into it,” said Mayor Steve Grajczyk.

There must be more than one estimate submit-ted for a construction project. Parker said he was looking for direction from council to begin look-ing for different estimates, and figure out what sort of grant funding may be available from the province. Parker said he will bring back a bud-get for a capital project to be approved once ev-erything is where it needs to be.

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Between the steaks and songs the Standard Lions Club and Hall Board hosted an out-standing fundraiser for the new community hall last Friday night April 8 which drew people from across the county. The evening began with the Lions’ annual Steak Fry where they served up more than 200 steaks plus hamburgers to a hungry crowd. During the supper a silent auction was held which brought in $3,505 thanks to the generosity of donors and buyers. The total amount brought in by the event has not yet been calculated. Local coun-try artist Drew Gregory provided the entertainment for the dance, which was open to the whole family until 10 p.m. after which time those under 18 headed home. Gregory did a fine job of performing favorites for the crowd, which included covers as well as some of his own original material from his two CDs. He even accommodated some of the younger fans by singing a Taylor Swift song, to which, surprisingly he knew all the lyrics. All in all the evening was a great success, both in terms of money raised for the hall and a good time for all who attended. Pictured here: Katie Brown (l), Andy Cammaert, Nathalie Gregory, Drew Gregory.

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Wildrose Alliance poten-tial candidates held a pub-lic forum at the Travelodge in Strathmore on April 11. Approximately 125 people were in attendance. Both candidates, Jason Hale and John Bland, focused on who they are, as a person and as someone with political aspi-rations.

“Basically trying to get people to get to know me, and if they get to know me, they’re going to come out and vote for me on May 7,” said Bland.

Each candidate had a 10 minute time frame in which to introduce themselves and speak on what would make them the best candidate. A question and answer period followed. Jason Hale spoke first and made his stand-point clear that he is a listen-er who feels that education decisions need to be made locally.

He also reviewed the party’s view on the failing health care system, and the need to make seniors a pri-ority along with the extend-ed health care facility previ-ously promised. He said it is time to move Alberta to-wards a smaller government and rebalance the system. John Bland spoke as pas-sionately on his views on how the PC government is failing us and has failed to balance the budget. This, in his view, is unacceptable and it is time to work more efficiently to reduce govern-ment spending.

Bland has been involved in the community for 35 years, and spent 25 years in-volved with the Progressive Conservative party.

Bland said he knows his way around the political are-na even though he has never been an elected official.

“I don’t think I left the Conservatives, I think they left me,” said Bland.

“They’ve just kind of moved away from being fiscally responsible, that’s

one of my first things, and they’re not listening to Al-bertans.”

Bland said one way Wil-drose is trying to show they will be fiscally responsible is that Danielle Smith has vowed to lower the pay and perks of elected officials. He said he decided to run now because the opportunity is now there for him to step up and take a larger role in politics. He said he sees Wil-drose as an opportunity to change things in Alberta.

“It’s just…part of who I am, that I want to better my community and serve peo-ple in my community,” said Bland.

Bland was also a member of the RCMP for 14 years, and was Corporal and Con-stable at several Canadian detachments. He also owns Barbeejay Supplies and a cow-calf operation.

Bland thinks his experi-ence is a good reason why people should vote for him, and he will be able to put that experience to good use if elected. Jason Hale is new to politics and he believes that it’s a good thing be-cause he doesn’t come with any ‘political baggage.’

“I have youth integrity and determination to stand up and do what’s best for our riding,” said Hale.

“We need to look after our seniors and make sure they have the proper care and housing and benefits that they deserve.”

At the forum, Hale dis-cussed his background and why he thinks he will be a good candidate with the Wildrose Alliance. He joined Wildrose because he be-lieves in their policies and the leader. Both Hale and Bland are concerned about property rights Bills 36, 19, 25 and 50.

“I agree totally with the Wildrose Alliance, we need to repeal those bills,” said Hale.

Another thing that attract-ed both men is the fact that an individual MLA can vote on their constituents wishes

instead of only being able to vote along party lines. Both men bring a strong case to the table, and voters still

have another three weeks to determine whom they will be voting for. The election takes place May 7.

At 1:40 a.m. on March 22 a fire raged through a home at the corner of Briarwood Road and Briarwood Cres-cent in Strathmore. Four neighbouring homes were evacuated for the safety of the occupants due to the severity of the fire and wind direction. The occupants of the residence where the fire started were not home at the time. A second residence next to the first, was dam-aged by the fire.

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Strathmore mayor Steve Grajczyk made the ceremonial ribbon cut at the Wildflower Ranch showhome grand opening April 9. The festive weekend featured Henry Burris of the Calgary Stampeders and Jerry Bremner from the WPCA signing autographs, lots of food and bever-ages and of course the four new showhomes, which are now open. Also joining Grajczyk (middle) for the ribbon cutting were Wildflower Ranch developers (from the Cancorp Property Group), eli Ghanimé (l), Ken Struss, Bill Greene and Steve Lister.

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TOWN OF STRATHMORE PuBliC nOTiCeThe Development Permit for the Discretionary Use listed below has been conditionally approved in accordance with the Town of Strathmore’s Land Use Bylaw.

APPliCATiOn CiViC ADDReSS legAl DeSCRiPTiOn DeVelOPMenT11/D-030 332 Ranch garden lot 18, Block 13, Plan 0810607 Single Detached Dwelling to be constructed The above permit shall not be valid until fourteen days after the Notice of Decision has been published. Any person wishing to appeal this decision can do so by obtaining an Appeal form at the Planning & Development Department of the Town of Strathmore. This form, including the $100.00 fee should be addressed to the Secretary of the Strathmore Subdi-vision & Development Appeal Board, 680 Westchester Road Strathmore Alberta T1P 1J1 and is to be received within the fourteen days.

Notice of Decision published this 14th day of April 2011.

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In late 2010, the Town of Strathmore commissioned the new Waste-water Treatment Plant. This plant is a Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) plant which was needed to meet/exceed the higher standards required by Alberta Environment in the Town’s Wastewater Approval, as well as to increase the Town’s wastewater treatment capacity. As a result of the changes to the wastewater treatment plant, Opera-tional costs have increased in the plant, as well as a result of new processes resulting from the new plant. One of the more significant changes as a result of the new plant is the production of biosolids – thickened waste collected as part of the treatment process. Biosolids then need to be disposed of either through landfill, composting or otherwise, and disposal methods/costs of biosolids have proven to be a challenge. As a result of these changes, it was necessary for the Town to increase sewer rates in 2011.

The increased costs associated with the new plant resulted in a budget deficit of approximately $1.15M. With a movement to focus on variable costs, as opposed to fixed costs in Utility pricing, the decision was made to increase variable sewer rates to recover the difference as follows:

2011 Deficit (estimated) $1,150,000Annual Billed Water Volume (approx.) 1,100,000 m32010 Variable Sewer Rate $.63/m3Required Rate increase per m3 $.97/m3 (154% increase)2011 Total Variable Sewer Rate $1.60/m3

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To the EditorI do not fund, nor speak in favor of any certain

political candidate or party. I am a proud Canadian and especially proud of my democratic rights, such as my right to freedom of speech, freedom to vote for whom I believe is the best candidate without re-prisal; or even worse, death, like in other parts of the world. I enjoy my freedom to love whomever I wish regardless of race, sex or religion, as set out in the Charter of rights and freedoms.

This brings me to my observations on the upcom-ing federal election on May 2.

Some of you would argue the election is unnec-essary. I believe one is necessary when a party is found in contempt of parliament (of which is con-tempt of democracy in my opinion).

I have watched closely the candidates being more or less on the campaign trail for over two years through the media, and the PC’s using taxpayer’s money for signage, ads that clearly states PC on them for the Economic action plan to claim credit for public funded programs.

The opposition parties attempted to ask for ac-countability for actions made by the Progressive Conservatives over their mandate. Remember when the PC’s campaign process was accountability and transparency. What happened to that? When they get asked a question, they answer with a question or constantly talk about the Economic action plan, regardless if the question was about any of the fol-lowing topics.

• Torture of the Afghanistan detainees and the cover up that the highest military ranking members were aware of this occurring.

• Spending over 1 billion on the G8-G20. • Spending 1 billion on shutting down peaceful

protests.• Spending billions on the untendered, un-debat-

ed purchase of fighter jets• The creation of American style super prisons in-

stead of providing programs, middle class jobs• The PC’s are attempting to take away the fund-

ing for political parties is undemocratic.• Have been in favor of privatization of your public

services like Health services. American styles HMO’s (Health management organizations) are the Ameri-can style health care, and is dangerous where the rich have privileged to health care before the poor.

• Have been in favor of privatization and deregu-lation of your postal system.

• Have cut women’s programs that were very im-portant to women’s issues.

• Made a promise when elected to abolish the sen-ate, but instead promptly elected PC senators. Two of the senators are in contempt of parliament, or under investigation at present with full pay, one for a year and a half.

• Have the biggest deficit ever 500 billion and they still are giving the largest corporations vast tax breaks.

• Have mislead the taxpayers by criticizing the other parties for creating a coalition party (of which many governments around the world operate effi-ciently with a coalition government), while in 2004 the current PC Government signed a coalition that closely resembled what is currently happening.

• Has introduced the HST (Harmonized sales tax) of which has made items that were non-taxable are now taxable.

• Holding out integral family members of immi-grants.

• Abolished the long form Consensus of which is important for farmers so constituents can identify is-sues at the parliamentary level.

While the PC’s did attempt to abolish the Long gun registry, it was only the NDP that instructed their constituents to vote with their conscience.

If the Fair Vote was in Canada there would be no issue, as this process is proportional representation.

Harper this week is again limiting questions from the media, has pirogued government twice over the past mandate, when tough questions get asked by opposition, of which in my opinion goes against freedom of speech and democracy.

Would you hire someone that is in control of your money, future of you and your children, future of your public services without reading their resume?

I will say no at the election polls to “Harper’s G20 $1 BILLION dollar CONsevative summit, CON-victs, CONflicts of Interest, CONtempt of Parliament, Harper’s eCONomy, jail CONtracts, Fighter-jet CON-tracts, say NO to the CONservative CONtrol freaks. I will vote ABC. Anything but CONservative!”

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Dustin WolfsStandard 4-H Sheep Club

On Sunday, April 10, the Stan-dard 4-H Sheep Club had their monthly meeting. The club would like to say a big thank you to Darcy and Lisa Reinhardt for holding the 4-H sheep weigh in.

We are continuing with our

recycling program for tires, elec-tronics and cell phones. Anybody who has any tires or electronics sitting around contact any sheep club member or myself, Dustin Wolfs, at 403-677-2021.

The highway clean up will be on May 7, with more information to follow.

For the next meeting, everyone should bring ideas and costs for

our wind-up party to present to the other members. Also, thanks to all the people who helped out at the district multi-judging clin-ic. After our meeting, the club went around Standard collecting items for the food bank - again a big thank you to all who do-nated!

Next meeting is on May 7, af-ter the highway clean-up.

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sarah WolfsStrathmore Rusty Spurs

On April 5, the Strathmore Rusty Spurs held their general meeting. We decided to cancel the Anita Hodgonson clinic because a lot of members would not have been able to make it. The English riding clinic with Rob Sharette will be held on May 6, with levels one and two riding from 1-3 p.m. and levels three and up riding from 3-5 p.m. If you do not own an English saddle you can use a western one.

Our first riding lesson was on April 12 at Cloud-

walker, levels one and two were from 6:30-7:30 p.m. and levels three and up were from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Our next lesson will be on April 19, again at Cloud-walker and the same levels will still be riding at the same times.

On April 29 the club will be going to The Mane Event in Red Deer. We will be meeting at the gates at 11 a.m.

Congratulations to Martina Vergouwen for win-ning regional public speaking!!!

Our next meeting will be on May 3 at the EnCana building.

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SHS students go hungryJenna CampbellTimes Junior Reporter

Several Strathmore High school students decided to go hungry to help those who do not have access to clean drinking water. With nearly half of the world’s population not having access to this life-giving resource, the students de-cided to take part in the 30 Hour Famine which is the world’s largest youth fundraiser. The famine re-quired the students to not eat for thirty hours, begin-ning at 1 p.m. on April 7, and finishing at 7 p.m. on April 8. The famine gave the students an idea of what it is like to go to bed hungry and wake up hun-gry.

“I’ve never done (a fam-ine) before, it’s definitely a lot different. I don’t feel hungry at all,” said SHS student, Keegan Schultz near the end of his thirty hours. Schultz has been greatly involved with SHS’s Me to We program, with all fundraised go-ing to Free the Children. This year’s direction fo-cused on tackling fresh water issues, with all of the money raised going towards building wells, pumps, drilling boreholes and building safe water storage.

Exceeding expectations, the students raised well

over four thousand dol-lars, surpassing their goal of only one thousand dol-lars.

“It has been a project that we’ve as a group been working on all year. We’ve had a bake sale and sold candy grams, but this is definitely our biggest and most successful fund-raiser we’ve had all year,” said SHS student Sarah Harward.

The 30 Hour Famine has been challenging students to go without food so oth-ers can eat for 20 years.

SHS teacher, Christine Magill said, “I did the 30 hour famine when I was in high school. I also have a friend who’s actually a World Vision rep right now, so she came and guest spoke to my so-cial classes, and then met with the Me to We club at lunch. She encouraged them to take up the fam-ine.”

The students celebrat-ed the end of their thirty hours with movies, games, and supper thanks to sponsors which included Domino’s, Dairy Queen and No Frill’s. Having all of the students final fees taken care of, all of the money raised was able to go directly to charity.

For more information about the famine, visit www.famine.ca or www.freethechildren.com.

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“Celebrate Strathmore 100th YearAnniversary with Us”

Boston Pizza treated safety patrollers at Brentwood elemen-tary to a pizza party on April 8. every year the patrollers have a ser-vice project and this year was for the Fill the Bus campaign, which took place Oct. 15. . Boston Pizza donated the pizza to the kids as a way to say thank you for helping out with the campaign.

Shannon LeClair PhotoStudents from Strathmore High School took part in the 30 Hour Fam-ine from 1 p.m. on April 7 to 7 p.m. on April 8 at the school.

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Students end famine in good spiritsShannon leClairTimes Reporter

Students and teachers at Holy Cross Collegiate, HCC, took part in a 25-hour fam-ine, beginning at 1 p.m. on April 8, until 2 p.m. April 9.

“I think today was the hardest for most of the kids,” said Jenni Annicchiarico, a teacher at HCC.

“Last night wasn’t bad but, then they woke up hungry this morning, I think this was definitely the longest stretch.”

While the famine was a part of Lent, it was also a fundraiser which brought in approximately $2,800. The funds raised will be donated to the Catholic charity Chal-ice.

“I’m used to this feeling,” said Mikko Mirador, who ex-plained he only cooks when he is hungry.

Students from Grades 7 to 12, and six teachers, took part in the famine, sleeping at the school overnight, and finding ways to stay entertained.

“It was very fun and en-tertaining, we did lots of ac-tivities,” said Grade 8 HCC student Benjamin Budzey af-terwards.

He had decided to par-ticipate because a lot of his friends were, and he felt it was a good thing to do. He said he tried not to drink a lot of juice because, for him, it would defeat the purpose of participating in the famine, and would take away from the experience. After mass, the doors flew open and groaning students came out, with an hour left until they could eat. Budzey said the second day was the worst be-cause during mass they could smell sausages being cooked. Volunteers had gathered to make up a healthy, hearty meal for everyone.

About a third of the school’s population participated in the famine. Organizer and HCC teacher Tomas Rochford said they would like to see the event become an annual thing.

everyone was happy to get some food into them after students and staff finished their 25-hour famine on April 9.


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It is the middle of the after-noon. All looks good! Soon the puddle gets bigger and bigger. Picture the corner and water start-ing to run further and further to the North, up McKinnon Drive in Carseland. This progressed past the water tower and was begin-ning to go half way up the drive way four houses away. The water also proceeded to head East, like a flowing river along Railway Ave-nue, until it reached approximate-ly two blocks. The ball diamonds to the West resembled a lake.

Homes along the way were getting water in basements as the water crept up to their foun-dations. Many vehicles turned around, but a few trucks and quads looked forward to the challenge and made their way through not realizing they were causing waves that headed straight for the homes. This gave the owners even more problems trying to keep the water away.

Police and fire trucks were out to help where they could and finally put barricades up to stop the mo-torists from proceeding through the now formed river. One home owner commented that the vibra-tion of the trains going through also sent waves driving the water her way.

Earlier, some kids decided to confront this huge pool of water with their bikes, some making their ride while others fell into this new formed river. A chill must

have gone through their bodies at this point. Others thought their boots were high enough to stroll through but unfortunately they came out with wet feet and cloth-ing. This proves that what is fun to some can be disastrous to oth-ers.

By 10:30 p.m. the waters had started to descend and by morn-ing the roads were next to dry, but still leaving some with messes to clean up. Don’t we all just love mother nature!

corinne BallChairman, Project H.O.P.E

Project H.O.P.E. will be holding a community information night on Wednesday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. at Westmount School and everyone is wel-come. There will be refreshments, snacks and ev-eryone present can enter to win two tickets to this years GALA being held on May 13, valued at $90!

This will be a great opportunity to learn about the workings of Project H.O.P.E. as it is a program that is unique to our community. It is such a spe-cial thing for Strathmore to offer to children with developmental challenges.

Project coordinator Joan Yule will give a brief presentation on the therapies that Project H.O.P.E. provides to the students. There will also be an

informative presentation on different tax breaks and other free local programs available to chil-dren with special needs and their families.

Most people assume that because these thera-pies are offered to the students during school hours the funding comes from government or school fees. This is not the case however.

All of the therapies are provided by funds do-nated by our community - 100 per cent of Project H.O.P.E.’s funding must be raised by the volunteer board members each year in order to be able to continue to offer the therapies.

The therapies include music therapy, art thera-py and phys ed. therapy. Community awareness is very important to Project H.O.P.E. which is why the community awareness night on April 20 is open to everyone.


Warm temperatures and the rapid melting of snow caused major flooding in Carse-land on April 11. According to RCmP, there was also flooding in the Standard area.

Photo courtesy of Sharon Alce

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The Crowther memorial Junior High School junior jazz band and the Strathmore High School senior jazz band played a mini concert April 12, to show off their skills. The bands practice once a week after school and the senior students earn three credits for participating.

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BreAk, enTer And ThefT of APPliAnceSOn Feb. 14, Strathmore RCmP Detachment responded

to a complaint of a break and enter to a show home in Langdon. The culprits entered the residence by breaking open a basement window. Once inside all of the kitchen appliances were removed from the residence. The offence occurred sometime between Feb. 3-14. The theft appears to have involved more than one person and a vehicle to transport the appliances. The value of the missing appli-ances is about $4000.

ThefT from The reAl cAnAdiAn liquor SToreOn march 30, at approximately 4:30 p.m., Strathmore

RCmP responded to a report of a theft from the Real Ca-nadian Liquor Store located at 800 Pine Road in Strath-more. Two females entered the business and distracted the employee while a third female entered the store, se-lected, and concealed three bottles of liquor in the bags they were carrying. The subjects then fled the store mak-ing no attempt to pay for the liquor. The subjects fled in a stolen 1990 grey Jeep Cherokee, which was later ob-served in the city of Calgary by off duty officers. Pictures below.

Strathmore RCmP would like the public’s assistance in identifying the three subjects responsible for this crime.

BreAk And enTer in lAngdon On April 8, Strathmore RCmP Detachment responded

to a complaint of a break and enter at two businesses in Langdon. Culprits entered the Subway by driving a vehicle into the front doors of the business. Once entry was made the person or persons jumped the front counter, opened the till and removed cash.

Also during this incident, Canadian Pizza Unlimited which is located within the same complex was also en-tered by the front window also being smashed. Culprits again targeted the cash register.

The offence took place some time between 10 p.m. on Thursday, April 7 and 6 a.m. on Friday, April 8.

STolen Skid STeer loAderOn march 31, a Case skid steer loader was reported

stolen to the Strathmore RCmP Detachment. Between the dates of march 28-30, the skid steer was stolen from behind the Shopper’s Drug mart in Strathmore. The skid steer had been parked behind the Shopper’s Drug mart beside a Rencor trailer since Nov. 10, 2010. The skid steer is a 2007 Case model 445.

home invASion And ASSAulT WiTh WeAPonOn April 7, at 4:17 p.m., Strathmore RCmP members

responded to a 911 call from an individual who stated four males wearing masks broke into his house, attempted to tie him up, assaulted him and then fled in a white truck. RCmP members and Strathmore emS attended the home and located the victim suffering from a serious head wound. He was transported to the Strathmore Hospital for treatment and has since been released. Assistance in the investigation was received from the Calgary RCmP Foren-sic identification Section.

Four male suspects, two youths and two adults, have been arrested and charges are pending. At this time it is believed the victim and the suspects are known to each other and this was not a random attack.

if person(s) have any information regarding any of these occurrences please contact the Strathmore RCmP De-tachment at 403,934-3968 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TiPS.

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Many Rosebud theatergoers may not know her by name, but anyone who has been to Rosebud in the last year will likely remember her acting. Sienna How-ell-Holden has been a Rosebud Theatre student for four and a half years.

“I took half a year off because I wasn’t sure I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up just feeling the void that it left in my life when I wasn’t a part of it,” said Howell-Holden.

Her father is an actor, and she said she grew up watching him. She said she has been encouraged in acting but no one has really told her it is something she should pursue because it’s not a finan-cially stable line of work. However, she said, she realized that it was something that lived deep in her and she felt she was losing a part of herself by not do-ing it.

“When I’m sitting in a theatre and I’m watching a show, it doesn’t really matter if it’s really good, there’s something in my soul that comes to life, that really just sparks,” said Howell-Holden.

“I love being on stage and being able to hopefully create that for even just one other person, because there is no feeling in the world that is like it, not that I’ve experienced yet.”

This past year she has been in Oli-ver, The Secret Garden, She has a Name and A Bright Particular Star. Now she is working on her student final project, ‘Songs for a New World,’

“I love, love, love musicals. I think, at least for me, there’s something in telling a story through song that is just extreme-ly powerful, and it transcends spoken word,” said Howell-Holden.

“I love the music in this show, the mu-sic in the show just has so many differ-ent styles.”

She said it couldn’t be classified into just one genre of music, as it has gospel, rock, and swing.

“I like a lot of what the show talks about. It’s all about finding a place to be-long, finding a place you can call home and that, I truly believe, is what we’re all looking for,” said Howell-Holden.

She said she likes that all of the char-acters are struggling with it, some of them getting it right and some getting it wrong. She said she also likes that the show is about having to make a choice and not being able to just let life pass you by. The characters have to decide to make life better, or worse.

“It’s going to be powerful, I have a lot of hope for it,” she said.

The role that has affected her is that of Martha, in ‘The Secret Garden.’

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“It was just quite a joy to be able to play this down to earth woman, who is just full of tough love and yet utter kind-ness at the same time. It was really fun, and the cast was really great and we just had a lot of fun.”

Currently she can be seen performing in ‘A Bright Particular Star!’ From April 18 to 20, ‘Songs for a New World’ will be onstage. These will be the last perfor-mances in which to see this talented ac-tress in. As of June 1, she will be moving to England where she plans to specialize in musical theatre.

“I think I’m going to go audition. I’ve got some really excellent training behind me, and I think I’ve got a strong enough foundation that I can just try to make it happen,” said Howell-Holden.

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Cooking TogeTher Program is a social get together for those 55+ to prepare and have a group lunch and

take home a second portion. Cost is $5.00 per session from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm on Fridays ~ April 29, May 6, May 27, June 3. To register call Betty-

Anne, Volunteer Coordinator with Bridging the Gap at (403) 901-7811.

TasTy, healThy & BudgeT Friendly Program is a social get together for those who want to learn and exchange

information with Greta Kubis, Community Nutritionist. Sessions are from 1 to 2 pm on Fridays ~ May 6 - Meal Planning, June 3 - Weight Management with Medications.

Sessions are FREE, but pre-register by calling Growing Families Society at (403) 361-7216.

sTraThmore uniTed ChurCh ThriFT sale April 14 & 15 - 9:00am – 8:00pm and April 16 - 9:00am – 1:00pm.

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sTraThmore minor hoCkey agm Friday, April 15 at 7 pm upstairs at the Strathmore Family Centre (Arena).

sTraThmore & area moPs Toy swaP ‘n sale Toys* Baby Equipment* Kid’s Stuff. Saturday, April 16, 2011 10 am-2 pm Westmount School Gym (220 Wheatland Trail).

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Band wars Strathmore Civic Centre, Saturday April 23. Tickets are $10.

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Royal Canadian Legion For information regarding hall rentals, darts and crib, please call 403.934.5119

Strathmore Elks Lodge #491 meets 3rd Tuesday at the Strathmore Curling Club 6:30 pm. Steak Supper at 7 pm. New Members welcome. Call Greg 403-888-6155.

MOPS (Mother’s Of Preschoolers) meet 1st and 3rd Thursdays 9:30am – 11:30am at the Strathmore Alliance Church. Babysitting available for ages 0 - 6. For more information call Jennifer at 403-934-5799 or visit www.mops.org

Strathmore Parent and Tot Playgroup, meets every Thursday at 9:30 - 11:30 am. in the Strathmore United Church Basement. For more information call Tammy at 403-983-7284 or Ali at 403-934-2089. $1 per child

Strathmore District Health Services Auxiliary Meetings are held the fourth Monday of the month @ 1:30 pm, (excluding July & August). Lower level Confer-ence Room at the Strathmore Hospital. New members welcome. For more info please call 403-934-4436

Strathmore & District Chamber of Commerce meets the third Monday of the month @ 7:00 p.m. All members welcome. Check web page for meeting location. For more information call 403-901-3175 or www.strathmoredistrictchamber.com.

Come Fly With Us 903 Royal Canadian Air Cadet Sqn. Meet Wednesdays at 6:30pm at the blue building and Quonset on the Ag grounds. Boys & Girls welcome between 12 & 19 years. Call Joanna Howard at 403-983-5796 for more information.

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The Hope Bridges Society Board meetings held the third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at #3-236-3rd. Avenue. Please visit our website at www.hopebridges.ca or contact us at [email protected].

Meals on Wheels is available in Strathmore. For information or to obtain this service please contact Wheatland FCSS at 403-934-5335.

Strathmore FASD Parent Support Group at the Strathmore United Church. For more info call Pam @652-4776.

Strathmore Caregiver Support Group This is an opportunity for caregivers to find support and benefit from interaction with others in a similar situation. For more information or to register call Amy Yaneza at 403-361-7176.

Sunday School for All Ages: Lord of All Lutheran Church offers Christian Education opportunities for ages 3 years to adult, on Sunday Mornings. All are Welcome! For more information please call Margo Sevick 403-901-2044 or call the Church Office at 403-934-2374.

Wheatland Conservation & Wildlife Association (Your local fish & game club). Meetings – 2nd Thursday every month, 7:30pm at the Clubhouse. Call Larry at 403-934-4388 for more information.

Wheatland Rural Crime Watch. Meetings are the 3rd Thursday of each Month. Featuring guest speakers. For more information call 403-934-4055.

Strathmore Lions Club meets the first and third Thursday at the Strathmore Civic Centre at 6:45 pm.

Strathmore Country Gardens Club Meetings at least once per month. Tours, guest speakers, workshops and much more included in a membership. $20 single, $30 family. For more information visit www.strath-morecountrygardensclub.webs.com or phone Linda Pekrul 403-901-0017.

Free Tree for all New Born Babies Attention all infants – remind your par-ents to register your birth so a tree can be planted commemorating your birth in the Chinook Credit Union Birth For-est in Strathmore. Registration Forms are available at the Town office, Chinook Credit Union and Health Unit. (A Communities in Bloom Project)

Strathmore Masonic Lodge #53 meets the first Monday of each Month at 7:30 p.m. Call Glen at 403-901-6038. Website: www.strathmore53.com

Adult Competitive Volleyball at Crowther Memorial Junior High in the gym every Wednesday from 7-9 pmContact is Lavern Lein 403-934-4646.

Strathmore Regional Victim Services Society needs community members to be Advocates (volunteers). Training is provided. Contact Victim Services through the RCMP Detachment at 403-934-6552

Strathmore Homeschool Familes. Any Strathmore and Area familes that are homeschooling are invited to join our Yahoo Group. groups.yahoo.com/group/strathmorehsfams

Healing Rooms, open for prayer Mondays from 7 to 9 pm. at the Harvest Healing Centre at 115A-3rd. Avenue in Strathmore. Everyone is Welcome.

Strathmore Full Gospel Church We’re a Pentecostal Bible based family church that has something for all ages. Call 934-2225 or visit www.strathmorefullgospel.com

Kidz 1st Network Parent Link Centre, We offer programs for children (0 – 6 yrs.) and their parents (caregivers)Strathmore ProgramsStay & Play - Mon. 10- 12, Wed. 9:30 - 11:30 and 4:00 - 8:30 p.m.Tot’s Time - Continuing Care Facility Mon. 1- 2Let’s Grow Together- Thurs. 10-12Sing and Play -Fri. 1-3Rockyford - Let’s Grow Together- Mon. 10:00-11:30Nightingale - Encouraging Development through Play - 10:00-11:30Standard - Sing and Play - Friday- 10:00-11:30Cluny- Let’s Grow Together - Thurs. 10:00-11:30All Programs are free. Please call 983-0016 ext.3 for program details.


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Writing can be a difficult thing for some peo-ple; you can’t get the words right, the grammar, or the spelling. This is just one of the things Sig-mund Brouwer spoke to Sacred Heart Academy, SHA, students about during his Rock and Roll Literacy show.

“He’s somebody who really talks about how to motivate your kids, he emphasizes that writ-ing doesn’t come naturally to everybody,” said SHA teacher Sarah Watson.

SHA does literacy week every year, and ev-ery year they try to get someone different to come in. Brouwer is the author of more than 30 books, and he will be the first to admit writing is difficult.

During an undergraduate English course in college, a professor had encouraged him to write because he loved telling stories. It took seven years and a pile of rejection letters before he had his first story published, and three years later his first book was published.

“The main point I’m trying to make to the kids is, that good stories are like good songs, they make you feel something,” said Brouwer.

“So when you read, look for books that make you feel the way you want to feel, whether they make you laugh, or they are full of mystery and make you curious. When you write, write sto-ries with the goal of hooking your teacher by giving them a story that makes them feel some-thing.”

“He ties music into the whole presentation,” said Watson.

Brouwer talked about the emotions people get from songs, and then he spoke about sto-ries, and how there are emotions involved with them as well.

“It’s phenomenal, he’s got us all hooked,” said Watson.

Brouwer was at SHA for two days, meeting with all of the students, the parents and staff. He also did a writing workshop with the Grade 4, 5 and 6 students. Brouwer has been to Strath-more before to talk to students, and was happy to come back.

mP Kevin Sorenson officially opened his campaign office in Strathmore on April 7. With the help of volunteer Rachael Rogers (l) and his wife Darlene, Sorenson is preparing for the may 2 Federal election. People looking to find out more about Sorenson’s cam-paign and what he is proposing, can stop by the office. The office hours are: Tuesday - Friday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday eve-nings 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Satur-day from noon to 4 p.m.

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Using music to inspire writingS i g m u n d B r o u w e r was at Sa-cred Heart A c a d e m y last monday and Tues-day. Here he shares snack time with the division one students.

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The annual Mothers Day Market was held at the Civic Centre on April 9, and saw a variety of different crafts and other items be-ing displayed for sale. Left: Relay for Life is coming up on June 10 and Anissa Viveiros (l), and Krystina Gieck, were at the market selling luminaries and signing up teams. Right: Paulette Birkbeck decided to show of her artistic skill by gathering Tufa rocks, planting cactus in them, and hand painting them. Shannon LeClair Photos

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Going on an outdoor adventure can be a dream for some people. Thanks to Brett Wilson and Prai-rie Merchant Corporation, it may be a dream come true for a few Strathmore High School, SHS, Grade 10 and 11 students.

Wilson is sponsoring two $5,000 Outward Bound scholarships over the next five years. Out-ward Bound is an outdoor adventure company founded in Europe. Wilson himself had taken an Outward Bound course when he was younger, and he said it was life changing.

“It was confidence building, it was inspiring. It taught me a lot about what I could or couldn’t do, and it turned out I could do a lot more than I real-ized,” said Wilson.

He said there are two reasons why he is spon-soring the scholarship; one is because he does a lot of charity work in Calgary and had realized he hadn’t done much in his hometown, North Bat-tleford, Saskatchewan. He began running a series of programs, including an Outward Bound schol-arship, in North Battleford.

“I looked around and thought about other plac-es where we’re doing business as an organization, and I’m doing some real estate development in the community (Strathmore), and there is no greater investment than the youth of a community,” said Wilson.

“So we decided to redirect some of what we’re doing with Outward Bound into the Strathmore area where it might have the greatest impact on changing the lives of a couple of kids every year.”

The reason Grade 10 and 11 students are the only ones eligible is so they can come back to the school to bring some of the skills they have

learned.Out of the scholarship, $4,000 is for Outward

Bound and $1,000 is for travel and equipment and anything else that the kids might need. Students had until April 15 to submit a 250-word essay based on why, and how, an Outward Bound trip would benefit them.

“So there is absolutely no academic requirement for it at all, it’s based on student need,” said Karen Galandy, a guidance counselor at SHS.

“A student who thinks they need a change in their lives, a student who would like to partici-pate in this kind of event and who is ready to go out and have a change in perspective. It’s kind of exciting.”

Anyone can go on an Outward Bound trip, and it’s a world-renowned program. There are a couple of schools in Alberta, Canmore Collegiate and Oilfields in Black Diamond, which both have Outward Bound programs that run out of their schools.

“It’s a growing up experience. It’s going out on your own, for many kids for the first time ever in their lives. They have no parents with them, they have no friends with them, they’re in a group of people but it’s a group of people they have never met before,” said Galandy.

“It’s a really maturing experience as well, and so we’re hopeful that it’s going to be students who maybe need to make a change in their lives and this would be kind of the doorway to do this.”

On YouTube there is a video called, Outward Bound Canada-Thank you, Brett Wilson, where a couple of kids talk about having the experience of going on the trip. The trip lasts for two to three weeks and takes place in the summer. After the Easter break SHS will announce who the two stu-dents are.

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Wheatland County approves budgetShannon LeCLairTimes Reporter

Wheatland County Council approved the 2011 budget at the regular council meeting on April 5.

“Our 2011 budget reflects an overall tax increase of 4.60 per cent,” said Jennifer Deak, Chief Administrative Officer for the County.

The proposed budget is $29 million, and the county will be receiving approximately $26 million of that from taxes.

Some of the larger capital projects and purchases include road grading and road paving. There is one large paving proj-ect for 2011, where the county will be paving both RR 232 and RR 233 from Hwy 564 to Hwy 9, Rockyford Road. They will be paving a total of 14 miles, for a cost ofapproximately $7.51 million. There have been applications made for MSI Capital and Basic Transpor-tation Grant funding on this project for total grant funding of $4.18 million.

Because the Carseland waste-water treatment plant project didn’t proceed as planned in 2010, it has carried into 2011. Restoration of the Gleichen Water Tower and an addition to the park have also been carried

into the 2011 budget. The total 2011 cost is $636,000. Includ-ed in the budget are $298,000 in funding from the Alberta Historical Resource Grant, $239,000 from the Municipal parks reserve and $100,000 in contributions.Revenue changes

In order to reduce the bur-den on municipal taxpayers, the county has applied for grant funding under several programs. The anticipated pro-vincial and federal grant rev-enue is expected to be $7.91 million, which is down $1.08 million, from the 2010 budget.

This is due to a change in scope and the delay of the Carseland wastewater treat-ment plant. The plant was ini-tally to be funded completely by grants. There are expected increases in utility fees, road data revenue and road ap-proach fees incorporated into the budget. gRant funding

There have also been sev-eral applications filed for grant funding under various programs. Revenue from the grants is only recorded in the budget if the funds are to be spent. To find more in depth detail about the approved bud-get go to Wheatland County’s website.


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Rocky View County ap-proved their 2011 budget at the end of March, with the new tax rates to be set later this month. Last year the county, which governs Langdon and area, ran a zero percent tax increase for their 2010 budget, but this year are contemplating a three per cent increase.

“You can’t keeping run-ning the budget at zero. It’s just impossible, if you know the price of electricity, or the price of gasoline at the pump, that has to be reflect-ed in a budget or you’ll be potentially running a bud-get (in) deficit,” said Barry Woods, Financial Services

Manager for Rocky View County.

Woods said based on the 2010 consumer price index numbers, inflation was actu-ally zero or in a slight nega-tive, so Rocky View County felt they could mirror the reflection of the economy in their 2010 budget. Woods said if people were destitute and there is no inflation, then the county should be able to hold the line on in-creases.

Woods said council didn’t get a lot of public feedback regarding the possible tax increase. While the county did have public input the day they set the budget, Woods said during that session they didn’t receive many comments in respect

to the taxes. Rocky View County had deliberated over some time to find a good balance for the budget.

“It’s always a balancing act, services for money, I mean, if you reduce money, you reduce service, because you can’t fund service with-out money,” said Woods.

“So it is definitely always a balancing act, and you want to get that balance of the correct level of service that the tax increase is go-ing to support.”

Rocky View County is now waiting for the external requisition numbers from the school board and their seniors foundation before setting the new rates. The new tax rates are scheduled to be set April 26.

Budget approved

everyone who was interested had a chance to learn traditional West African Djembe drumming. Sarah Lyons, band director for Holy Cross Collegiate, HCC, taught the in-terested parties techniques and rhythms associated with the drumming. Hope Bridges Society sponsored the workshop as a part of their inclusive learning series. Lyons learned the style through the One World Drum Company out of Calgary. Ly-ons said some times band can be kind of academic and she wanted something fun for the students to learn, so she introduced it to HCC and Sacred Heart Academy two years ago as another music option.


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Samantha Andrews, a Sacred Heart Academy student, was one of the finalists for Alberta in the Starlight project and now her work will be competing against other students in Canada.

Courtesy of Starlight Art Project


The Strathmore Lions Club annual auc-tion was once again a success. The auc-tion took place on April 2, and there were approximately 335 donors, who helped the Lions gross $50,225.

“It went fairly well,” said Lions Presi-dent Keith Temple.

Despite the snow that was piling up outside, Temple said the amount raised was fairly average compared to other years. Most recently the Lions donated money to the Strathmore Handi-Bus As-sociation.

“There’s lots of smaller donations going around,” said Temple.

“There was a whole list of stuff that we had done last year, going up on the over-head as the auction was going on. We ac-tually donated $69,000 something in the

last nine months around town.”All of the money raised by the Lions

is distributed back into the community, to help organizations in need and local projects.

“As of now we don’t have a specific project for it…but we’re trying to com-municate with the Town and possibly do something for the 100th anniversary, but that’s not a hard, fast, thing yet,” said Temple.

The Lions support the youth exchange, and Temple said they plan to have a speaker come out to talk about the youth camp in Cremona.

Temple said they also support a leader-ship youth camp in Waterton, which they sponsor students to go to.

Organizations looking for help can make an application to the Lions Club. The application will then go to the board for approval.

Annual Lions auction a success


Members of the irrigation commit-tee and concerned residents filled council chambers on April 6 as the committee gave their final report and recommendations. The decision won’t be made until April 15, but coun-cil wanted the committee to have a chance to present their work to them.

“We do want it, it’s a matter of figur-ing out where, and how, we can get this money. That really is the bottom line,” said Mayor Steve Grajczyk be-fore allowing the delegation to begin.

“There’s a lot of suggestions out there and it’s much appreciated but we have to figure out where this money is coming from and what kind of dollars we’re going to spend.”

“What we have done, is develop a plan on how to go forward,” said Bob Carver, a member of the committee.

“Basically we’re talking about a sustainable system that is user pay.”

Carver said the committee believes the onus should be on the people to drop off of the system, instead of coming out to sign up for the system as was proposed early last year. The first year of bringing irrigation back would be an assessment year, where the committee and town can deter-mine where the system is sitting at and how much it will cost.

Carver said they don’t want to jump into anything. They aren’t planning on major upgrades, but he said some things should be upgraded to make them more suitable to the users. The two main things they would like to see upgraded would be screening the water and convenient hours. The hours the committee recommends are from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. on a daily basis.

“After that year, we would then look at what we would have to do to start upgrading the system,” said Carver.

The people not being served by the system would not have to pay into it. Carver said the most they could charge would be the same price as the alternative product, potable wa-ter. He said they want to keep the price as low as possible during the assessment year because they know the improvements will be needed the following year, which will raise the costs to the users.

“If we could do it under our costing estimates, which we think are very

realistic, and in fact a lot of these are based on historical ones that the Town has actually provided, we think we can keep it down to $50 in the assessment year. That would be made up of a $25 service fee and a $25 us-age fee,” said Carver.

Carver said the committee is will-ing to put up a contingency fee of $50, is in addition to what the com-mittee thinks the expenses will be. It is the committee’s way of saying if the Town is right and they are wrong about what the cost may be, then it should cover the $100 the town is currently asking for.

“What we’re saying is, if it isn’t nec-essary, we don’t want you to use a contingency fee. But the following year we know the price is going to go up, we aren’t denying that but, we’re trying to make this sustainable,” said Carver.

“The system was so bad in ’09, that we ended up giving the money back to the people who had put the money in to get usage of it,”countered Coun-cillor Earl Best.

Carver and the committee feel they have brought forth a proposal that should be able to fit the bill for what council is looking for.

Strathmore resident and business owner Brian Code brought up a cou-ple of questions for council to con-sider.

“People will not use potable water if it’s going to cost them more - you need to consider our financial con-cern,” said Code.

“There has to be an accurate ac-counting of cost of potable water versus irrigation water, so people can make the correct decision for them-selves. If it’s going to cost me $200 more a year to use potable water because I like to use a lot of water, guess what, I want irrigation water. But until the customer has the facts they can’t deal with this situation.”

He said if cost is an issue, why not have a local improvement tax, and make the residents pay for it.

Grajczyk assured the residents and committee they weren’t trying to sound negative, but they had to look at everything regarding the issues in 2009, and all of the repairs that could be needed.

“We’re as sincere about this as you are and we have to take a long hard look at it. We really are going to do that again, and then make a decision,” said Grajczyk.

Final recommendations for residential irrigation presented to council

Sacred Heart student’s art competes at national level

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Locals look to impress Oil BaronsMario PrusinaTimes Editor

Even though their championship campaign just ended, five members of the Wheatland Chiefs are already looking for a home for next season.

Goaltender Wilson Sproule, de-fenceman Zach Wittenburg and for-wards Devon Westby, Rylan Muen-chrath and Justin Fraser took part in the Fort McMurray Oil Barons Spring Prospect Camp April 8-10 at the Strathmore Family Centre.

Between 55-60 players from all over Southern Alberta attended the camp, which has been hosted in Strathmore for the past eight to 10 years.

However, this year’s camp definite-ly has a local flavour.

“That’s one of the reasons we’re in this area right now,” said Oil Bar-ons head coach and general man-ager Gord Thibodeau. “Len Desmet (Chiefs assistant coach) and Doug Hergenhein, our head scout out of Calgary, have been very successful drawing players from here. They’re well coached and they are guys who have really progressed – so we try to

identify them. That’s part of the rea-son for having the camp here – is to get those kids out and find the next stars of the Oil Barons.”

According to Thibodeau, the for-mer Chiefs are skilled players, but it’s their winning pedigree that makes them intriguing to the Barons.

“You tend to recruit character play-ers and guys that have won before,” said the coach. “They understand what it takes to win and there is no question that is part of what you are recruiting – not just good, skilled players, but the character of cham-pions.”

The Oil Barons, who finished the AJHL season with a 43-16-1 record, are looking to reload for the future. That future starts with the prospects camp in Strathmore.

“This is just a good location for us,” said Oil Barons head coach and general manager Gord Thibodeau. “We’ve been very successful in get-ting Calgary and area kids – some kids from Chestermere and this area (in Strathmore). We’ve had real good success holding camps here. We’ve been fortunate to sign some really good players.

“We’re looking for players that might not play for us this year, but maybe over the course of the next two to three years.”

According to Thibodeau, the team will take about 20 players from this session to a summer camp held in Edmonton in July. That is where these prospects will join the veteran players in an attempt to make the big squad.

While most teams host their main camp later in the summer, the Oil Barons will start the process early, as they were asked by Hockey Canada to take part in an international event in Russia during August.

However, for now, the Chiefs were thrilled to have five players from their squad at the camp.

“(These) guys worked hard all year and were our top players, so it’s good to see,” said Chiefs coach Devon Olson. “They show up every night and they compete. That’s why they got picked to come here.

“They know what it takes to win now … once you win a champion-ship you always have in the back of your head that you want to win an-other one.”

Five members of the Wheatland Chiefs championship squad attended the Fort McMurray Oil Barons Spring Prospect Camp this past weekend at the Strathmore Family Centre. Wilson Sproule, Zach Wittenburg, Devon Westby, Rylan Muenchrath and Justin Fraser were all vying for a spot with the Oil Barons.

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Calling all U15 hockey playersshannon LeCLairTimes Reporter

Hockey Alberta is putting on a U15 camp for both male and female hockey players, beginning April 29 and ending May 1. The camp in Strathmore is a part of the U15 set of camps, and they are run-ning approximately seven of them in the province this year. This is the first camp in the line-up for the off-season.

“The reason that we have the U15 camps, the main reason is to, well one…to have a quick weekend style camp where we run skill sessions and also have some games along the way,” said Troy Muspratt, Regional Development Coordinator- South for Hockey Alberta.

“But more importantly, it’s an introduc-tion to the Team Alberta program where these kids, next year, will be getting in-vited to try out for the Alberta Cup.”

The Alberta Cup program is a Hockey Al-berta Development program that provides everyone involved with an opportunity to learn more about competitive hockey in a well organized, fair, Zone camp and select team competition.

“What we wanted to do was have a weekend style camp where we can intro-duce the program to them, and hopefully generate some excitement and some inter-est in the process, and let them kind of know what they need to do to be an elite player,” said Muspratt.

“Or if they don’t want to be an elite play-er, at least (show them) some things they can do to at least improve their game.”

The camp goes back to the basics in the first few lessons, with puck handling and skating, some power work with edges, and tight turns. Muspratt said the kids then move into team play, defensive zones and learning to read a reaction to a play, and offensive triangles. This is the third year they have run the U15 camps, and Mus-pratt said it is one of the programs they look to run every year.

“It’s a $150 for the weekend, and that includes four ice times, and roughly about three hours of off-ice stuff that would in-clude the Team Alberta presentation, and some dry land work,” said Muspratt.

“We usually try to bring in a nutrition-ist for the kids, and the parents, to talk to them about diet and healthy living.”

He said the camp is not really designed for new players. While they won’t turn them away, Muspratt said it is recommend-ed the kids participating in the camp have played hockey previously. The registration deadline is April 20, and to register people can go to www.teamalbertahockey.ca.

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The World Professional Chuckwagon Association (WPCA) hosted their annual canvas auction April 5 at the Deerfoot Inn & Casino in Calgary.

A total of eight stops in the WPCA Tour, including the Strathmore Heritage Days

Stampede later this summer, sold prime advertising space on the tarps carried by the best 36 chuck drivers in the world.

The total for all eight shows came in at $1,602,750 - up $326,500 over the 2010 total of $1,276,250. The Strath-more Heritage Days Stam-pede sold the fourth most, totaling $216,000, which is


Jerry Bremner’s chuckwag-on canvas was purchased by the Wildflower Ranch at the WPCA Canvas Auc-tion April 5 in Calgary. The Wildflower Ranch, a new development by the Can-corp Property Group, has supported Bremner for the past five years at the Strathmore Heritage Days Stampede. Jerry Bremner (middle) is surrounded by key officials from the Can-corp Group; Bill Greene (l), Ken Struss, Steve Lister and eli Ghanimé.

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The 2011 Star Skate Championships took place in Okotoks last month, with five skaters from the Strathmore Skate Club competing. It was the first time the club has had that many skaters attend the provincial event.

“We have so much talent in our club, and it showed at this competition,” said Leanne Woodcock, one of the coaches.

“The club has grown, and the skill level has also grown. It takes a long time to be able to compete against kids across Alberta.”

The club only has three days of ice a week, and she

said sometimes it can take a little longer to get to the skill level needed to com-pete at a provincial level.

Sasha Sandmaier ad-vanced to the finals in pre-introductory interpre-tive, where she placed third. Sandmaier competed against 64 skaters in the fi-nals and placed second in Alberta.

Also advancing to finals was Jacey Birch. Birch placed fifth in the runoff and 10th in the preliminary, 10-years-old and under, fi-nals. The other skaters who attended the champion-ships were Kayla Lochhead, Rebecca Faulks and Jessica Thurlow. Woodcock said it was a job well done by all of the participants.

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up from the 2010 total of $185,250.

“We were hoping to break the $200,000 mark and we did,” said Pascal Del Guer-cio, Rodeo and Chuckwagon Chairperson. “We have gone from $152,000 in 2009 to $185,250 last year to $216,00 this year, (so it) definitely is a sign that our economy is turning around. We feel this may result in higher atten-dance on our weekend and possibly more money from our sponsors.

“Hopefully a larger spec-tator turnout will add more money to the local econo-my.”

The average bid for Heri-tage Days was $6,000, while the highest bid went to Wildflower Ranch, who sup-ported veteran chuckwagon driver Jerry Bremner to the tune of $15,000.

“We are a sponsor-driven sport and it is just critical,” said Bremner of the auction. “If the sponsorship is not there (it’s tough). Our ex-penses don’t change, so it is huge to get that sponsorship because it elevates our sport. That’s what drives us and it’s great to see people jump on board.”

The Wildflower Ranch, a new development by Can-

corp Property Group, has supported Bremner for the past five years at the Strath-more Heritage Days Stam-pede.

“Jerry is a well-known driver and he is very person-able,” said Ken Struss, prin-cipal of Cancorp Property Group. “It’s been very good for us (to) help him out with sponsorship.”

Other shows up for sale included the Grande Prairie Stompede, Medicine Hat Ex-hibition & Stampede, North American Chuckwagon Championship in High River, the Bonnyville Chuckwagon Championship, the Badlands Dinosaur Derby in Drum-heller, the Battle of the North in Dawson Creek and finally the Battle of the Rockies in Rocky Mountain House.

According to Darcy Ledene, General Manager of the Strathmore & District Ag-ricultural Society, he is opti-mistic for Heritage Days.

“Having a tarp auction as successful as that is just a good sign of things to come,” said Ledene. “We’re hoping that those tarp sponsors, as well as the other sponsors that make Heritage Days happen … make the event bigger and better than it’s been.”


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Lady Spartan set to join ClippersMario PrusinaTimes Editor

After a successful high school volleyball career, Mikayla Rein-hardt is taking her skills to the next level.

The 5’11” outside hitter from the Strathmore Spartans program has committed to joining the ACAC’s Briercrest College Clippers for the 2011-2012 season.

“I was ecstatic – I was shaking,” said Reinhardt after accepting the school’s offer. “I went to stay at the campus for a couple of days during exam break and I met all the girls and all the coaches and they were really, really great. One of the girls is even taking the education pro-gram that I’m interested in, so she pretty much told me what it was about and it really helped me.

“It was mostly the people (there) that helped make my decision.”

Reinhardt entertained the thought of going to other schools, but at the end of the day, she felt that Briercrest was the best fit for her.

Last season, the Clippers finished the season with a 6-14 record, good enough for 11th place in the ACAC.

According to their head coach, Reinhardt will be a welcome addi-tion to their program.

“Mikayla is bringing a lot of great things to our program. I see her making a big contribution to our team with her offensive ability – she has the ability to terminate rallies and hit with consistency,” said Briercrest Clippers coach No-lan Weinmaster in a press release. “She also has strong ball control

and great court movement … I re-ally like her positive attitude, work ethic, and that she is someone who wants to continue to develop the great character that has been in-stilled in her from growing up in a great family.”

“She is a perfect fit for our pro-gram here at Briercrest and some-one who will be a key part in con-tinuing to build a championship program. I am really looking for-ward to being her coach.”

According to Reinhardt, she first fell in love with the sport in ele-mentary school.

“In Grade 6, our school (played) a class against class,” she recalled. “I guess I got really competitive when my team won and I fell in love with the sport.

“When you get a point (you cheer), by the end of the game, you won’t have a voice – that’s the way it should be.”

In Grade 7, Reinhardt joined the Wheatland Aces Club Volleyball program, coached by Randy and Susan Moncks. She continued play-ing both school and club volleyball right up to this season.

During her time at Strath-more High School, Reinhardt was coached by Louise Bleier.

Last season, she was coached by both Bleier and Randy Moncks.

Reinhardt was named the MVP for the Lady Spartans in her Grade 11 season and was selected as the team captain in Grade 12.

“(They prepared me) so much. I owe a lot to those two – they were definitely stepping stones for my career,” she said. “I really, really love them for that.”

Strathmore High School student mikayla Reinhardt will take her volleyball skills to the ACAC this fall. Reinhard has agreed to join the Briercrest Clippers for the 2011-2012 season.

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Bringing home bronzeshannon LeCLairTimes Reporter

Dakota Gillies was recently in Cambridge, Ont. representing Al-berta as a part of Team Alberta in the ringette Nationals. This was Gillies’ first year playing for a team outside of Strathmore. It had taken time, and patience, but after three years she had made the Calgary Belle AA ringette team.

“It was amazing. It was a long year and…there’s just no words to describe it,” said Gillies.

“We just kind of went day by day, and just to go to Nationals and have that chance was breath-taking. It was definitely a thing I would love to do again.”

She said she missed playing with her old team, but she is happy to play with Calgary and further her ringette career. Gillies did notice some differences between the two teams. In Calgary, the players are selected by skill level, whereas in Strathmore, teams may be selected by the number of people regis-tered and not necessarily by skill level.

She felt she adjusted well to her new team and said there was a lot of time for bonding, thanks to be-ing cooped up in hotel rooms to-

gether for tournaments. It was quite a year for the goalie,

who was happy to make the team and even happier with their suc-cess this year.

“Winning provincials was defi-nitely a highlight, and then going to Nationals for a whole week was awesome,” said Gillies.

“It was very good, (we) played two games a day and came out in third for our country so that’s pret-ty awesome.”

She said Ontario was one of the toughest teams they faced during the tournament.

“We played Ontario first…about three seconds into the overtime and we won,” said Gillies.

“We had to play them for semi-fi-nals and the deal was that the win-ner would go for the gold medal game against Quebec, and the loser would win bronze. So they came up guns a blazing and we lost to them the second time.”

She said she didn’t feel the team was quite where they needed to be for their second matchup with On-tario, but was still happy to bring home bronze. The season may be over, but Gillies will be going to goalie lessons in Calgary, once ev-ery two weeks, and will be taking part in three-on-three camps.

Dakota Gillies was a guest speaker at the ringette windup for Strathmore minor Ringette on April 3.

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Indus Minor Hockey celebrates its leadersHeatHer ButterwickIMHA Treasurer

On Tuesday, April 5, Indus Minor Hockey Association held its 2010-2011 Chili Night and Awards Presentations at the Bill Herron Arena. Dave and Shelley Kinley, of Concept Electric, presented 10 players with a 2011 Leadership Award. The leaders were: Jordan Rohel, Midget Tier 4; Marc Bouvier, Bantam Tier 3; Jake Anderson, Bantam Tier 3; Andrew Bretin, Peewee Tier 2; Matthew Kuystermans, Peewee Tier 5; Connor Bertamini, Atom Tier 2; Easton Fritz, Atom Tier 4, Calder Cleveland, Atom Tier 6; Dawson Cleve-land, Novice Tier 2 and Ethan Weir, Novice Tier 5. Shonna Nichols presented Brady Skiffington with the Craig Kletzel Memo-rial Award on behalf of the Kletzel family.

Following the evening 3 banners were

raised to finalize the season. Congratu-lations to the following teams on their Banner Awards: Peewee Tier 2 Team for winning their CAHL League Banner; the Bantam Team for winning their Home Tournament Banner and the Peewee Tier 5 Team for bringing home the Bassano Tournament Banner.

After her second successful hockey season as President, Shonna Nichols will be stepping down. Shonna has invested countless hours during her two years as President and her time was greatly appre-ciated by the Association. The 2011-2012 Board is Dan Lafaut, President; Heather Butterwick, Treasurer; Pam Tanner, Sec-retary; Arlana Vander Velde, Registrar; Dustin Borbandy Director of Hockey De-velopment; Don Neddow Ice Schedule Di-rector; and Shonna Nichols Past President.

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Hoping to inspire future curlersSHannon LecLair Times Reporter

Students at Brentwood Elementary School were treated to curling lessons through the Rocks and Rings program, put on by Capital One and the Canadian Curl-ing Association.

Rocks and Rings is an indoor simulated curling event.

Each class had a chance to head to the gym and try dry curling, while learning ba-sic terminology and having fun.

“I think curling is starting to die a little bit in Canada, not die, but it’s not thriv-ing as well as it was 20 years ago. I think this is an effort for Rocks and Rings to try and get interest, and just raise awareness about the sport,” said Craig Jantzen, who spends five days a week teaching kids in different schools all over southern Alberta.

He was at Brentwood school for two days last week.

“It’s not a crazy, intense sport as far as physically demanding, but it is a good so-cial sport that people can do for their lives.”

Each class is 40 minutes of instruction and fun. The students never have to travel, all the equipment is brought to them. At the end of the program, each participant is given a Capital One Rocks and Rings Graduation Certificate. The two kits Jant-zen brought with him are worth a total of approximately $1,000. He said he has been using them five days a week, with about seven classes a day, since November and the equipment doesn’t seem to be wearing down.

Staff members at Brentwood school said they would like to be able to purchase the kits some day and use them as a part of their physical education curriculum.

Hussar hosted their annual mixed bonspiel during the first weekend in April (all pictures are l-r; skip, third, second and lead). The C event winners were Brent Ashlee, Cindy Shackleton, Ken Shackleton and Addy Ash-lee from Strathmore. The B event winners were Galvin egeland, Tammy Lahd, Christo-pher Northcott and Christine egeland from milo. The A event winners were earl Stender, melody Treso, Garry Bleier and Pearl Bjerke from Strathmore.

Photos Courtesy of Pam Collett

Students at Brentwood elementary School had a chance to take part in Capitol One’s Rocks and Rings program April 7 and 8.


Mixed bonspiel winners

indus minor Hockey hosted their annual Awards Banquet on April 5 at the Bill Herron Arena.

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C Winners

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Strathmore High School hosted the badminton counties on April 12. Participants in the tournament were from Holy Cross Collegiate, Strathmore High School and Standard.Boys singlesJunior: 1st ethan Yeomans SHS; 2nd Daniel O’Leary HCC; 3rd Daniel Shapka SHS. Intermediate: 1st Ja-son muller SHS; 2nd Trent Fandry SHS; 3rd Andrew Pringle HCC. Senior: 1st Zach Code STANDARD; 2nd Austin Larsen STANDARD; 3rd ethan Stinn STANDARD.girls singlesJunior: 1st Katylyn Dougan SHS; 2nd Danielle Skib-insky SHS. Intermediate: 1st mareike Noedler SHS; 2nd Jessica Stephenson SHS. Senior: 1st elizabeth Steele SHS; 2nd Sandra Jin SHS.Boys DouBlesJunior: 1st Keegan Lane & merrick Fanning SHS; 2nd evinn Beck & Russell Treacy STANDARD; 3rd Dale Palsson & matt Lauridsen STANDARD. Inter-mediate: 1st Kirby Ruzesky & Darian Henry SHS; 2nd Abe Jensen & Duncan michie STANDARD; 3rd David Barbeau & Rylan muenchrath SHS. Senior: Keenan Fanning & Jordan Kraft SHS; 2nd Chris Re-iter & Jordan maier SHS; 3rd Josh engelhart & Gar-rett mcCormack STANDARD. girl’s DouBlesJunior: 1st Shaun Brinton & Shannon Brinton STAN-DARD. Intermediate: 1st Carly melcher & Shavonne Tapaquon STANDARD; 2nd Caley Ryan & Amy Kalb-hen STANDARD; 3rd Chayla Phillips & marissa Dahl SHS. Senior: 1st melissa Larsen & marleen Palsson STANDARD; 2nd Jessica Griffiths & Kylie Johansen SHS; 3rd Kate Schlinker & Kaitlyn Stewart STAN-DARD.MixeD DouBlesJunior: Devon Kathol & Leah Dahm STANDARD; 2nd Zack Gibson & megan Lecavalier HCC; 3rd Jenna Vergowen & evan Fullerton HCC. Intermediate: 1st max mcKinnon & Shaina Kuhn SHS; 2nd Trevor Sandum & Shannon Coutts SHS; 3rd Janelle Hoff & Toby Noy STANDARD. Senior: 1st Jenna Firkus & Keith Rasmussen STANDARD; 2nd Ryan Fraser & Hannah meers SHS; 3rd Alisha Holzmann & Taylor illes HCC.

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seventeen great-grandchildren; and brother William gray. betty was a loving wife, mother and grandmother and was always there to help, comfort, and support her family. a special thank you to Dr. Piesas and the strathmore hospital nursing staff who were so kind and caring and went out of their way to make betty and her family comfortable in their time of need. also, thank you to the strathmore Lions Club for their continued support and kind words, and to the home Care staff. at betty’s request there will be no service. however a small memorial will be held on thursday, april 21, 2011 at the strathmore royal Canadian Legion hall from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. for all family and friends. to send condolences, please visit www.wheatlandfuneralhome.ca. WheatLanD FuneraL hoMe LtD. (strathmore) in care of arrangements. 403-934-5666.

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