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Page 1: CCoommmunitymunity Advisor€¦ · Deputy Mayor Norm Hodgson, 780-396-9034 Councillor Derek Schlosser, 780-268-3375 Jay Granley, Director Community Services, 778-2273 The Adult Living

TALK TO A TOP PRODUCER

Patrick Carewcell: 778-0053778-0053

Top Producer Top Producer 2010 2010

& Every Year & Every Year Since 2004Since 2004

“Home of the Best Burgers!”

3909 37 Ave.3909 37 Ave.

DELIVERYDELIVERY (after 4 p.m.)(after 4 p.m.)

778-3500 • 778-5955

Cbspo t -- Pizza

So, Are We Strong Enough?

(Continued on page 10)

By Serena LapointeAs a mother of two young children with one on the

way, I am constantly in the mindset of protecting my kids. I am sure most parents can relate. We read the labels of our food, we teach them about 911 and not to talk to strangers. Our job never ends!

Health wise, in recent years, we've learned how bad trans fats are, that sugar seems to be in everything, what high sodium levels can lead to and even more so how, all these things affect our kids. As new information comes out, some take it to heart and change their ways, even if it only means buying less pop.

www.CommunityAdvisor.NETwww.CommunityAdvisor.NET

Media

CIRC. 5,500CIRC. 5,500

AdvisorCoCommunitymmunity

September 2011 — VOL. 9 NO. 9September 2011 — VOL. 9 NO. 9

FREEFREETTake One ake One

FURNITURE DENSEE AD ON PAGE 17

Open 10 am to 11 pm dailyOpen 10 am to 11 pm dailyMountain Shopping StripMountain Shopping Strip

WINE TASTINGThursday Sept. 22Thursday Sept. 22

LIQUOR

UNLIMITED

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All Wines 5% OffAll Wines 5% OffFor The Month of For The Month of

September September More info on facebook More info on facebook

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PAGE 2 Community Advisor SEPTEMBER 2011

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SEPTEMBER 2011 Community Advisor PAGE 3

History Cont...

History of the Town of Mayerthorpe

(Continued on page 19)

WHITECOURTDECKING & RAILING

Why repaint the deck year after year? MAKE IT LAST!

778-2336 • Cell: 706-9406

WEATHERDEK Waterproof, Vinyl Decking - 5 to 15

year warranty

S.T.A.R. Aluminum

Railing Systems 20 yr. warranty.

Providing Leaf Guard & 5” Continuous Eavestroughing! Siding Soffi ts Fascia Window & Door Capping Metal Roof & Wall Installation

Custom Metal DetailResidential & Commercial

Phone: 780-706-9255 • Fax: 780-778-6168

Many Colour Options Available.

Book Now Book Now for Summer for Summer Spruce-upsSpruce-ups

Top left is Mayerthorpe's fi rst and only electric street light, 1927. Main Street looking north.

Gold Nails780.778.4879

Appointments & Walk-ins Welcome

Midtown Mall • Mon. - Sat.10 - 6

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LOCAL POLITICAL HISTORYtaken from the Sherratt StoryThe 1920's were to usher in a period of political and

social and economic change of great signifi cance — one in which the people of this area also played a role.

In 1921 the United Farmers of Alberta were swept into power in Alberta on a program designed to improve and more nearly equalize opportunity between urban and rural people. This was the beginning of bringing bet-ter schools and better trained teachers into every school district, and of high schools and travelling libraries and health services into rural areas. The constituency of Lac Ste. Anne elected Milton McKeen as its U.F.A. member of the legislature.

Linh's KitchenServingWestern

Breakfast

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Delicious & Healthy

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9:30 AM - 2:30 PM

DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS

VIETNAMESE DISHES & SANDWICHES

11 AM - 4 PM

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PAGE 4 Community Advisor SEPTEMBER 2011

This Month in Whitecourt Whitecourt Council Month in ReviewMunicipal Planning Commission Meeting Thurs. Sept. 1, 15 & 29, 2011 4:00-5:00 p.m.The Municipal Planning Commission deals with

land use planning matters, with particular emphasis on the Land Use Bylaw. The public is welcome to attend.

Party In The Park Sat. & Sun. Sept. 3&4, 2011 12:00-10:00 p.m. Wrap up the warm days of summer in Whitecourt

at Party In The Park. Hosted by the Joint Economic Development & Tourism Committee, the Town of Whitecourt, and Woodlands County, Party In The Park is one of the most popular family events of the year! Concert headliners have TBA.

Labour Day Facility Hours Mon. Sept. 5, 2011

Allan & Jean Millar Centre: 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. Alliance Pipeline Aquatic Centre: 10:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.

Bingo at the Seniors Circle Every Tues. at 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.Everyone welcome. Doors open at 6:00 p.m.

(Continued on page 8)

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• General House Cleaning• Move In/Move Out Cleaning• General Building Maintenance• Post-Construction Services

• Pre-Sale Cleaning• Lawn & Garden Care• Carpet Cleaning• Snow Removal

NewFloor Waxing Now Available!

Personalized ServiceProfessional Results

August 26, 2011 - Art Erickson, Community De-velopment Coordinator for the Canadian Paraplegic As-sociation (Alberta), made a presentation to Council in regards to informing council about his role in assisting communities to become more welcoming to people with disabilities. Mr. Erickson travels throughout northern Alberta to present some of the challenges that people with disabilities face. He recommends that communities have an audit done to assess accessibility for people with disabilities. Council will send a letter thanking him and asking for information on community audits.

In response to a campaign to promote sponsorship and naming rights for the arenas facility, Scott Safety has entered into an agreement with the Town of Whitecourt to name the twin arenas facility the “Scott Safety Cen-tre”. Scott Safety will sponsor the facility for fi ve years. Various components of the building were also offered for sponsorship, and Whitecourt Power has entered into an agreement with the Town to sponsor the “Whitecourt Power LP” Board Room at the facility for fi ve years. The sponsorship money received will be used for facil-ity enhancements including bleacher improvements, res-taurant enhancements and new signage. For more infor-

(Continued on page 5)

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SEPTEMBER 2011 Community Advisor PAGE 5

P. 780.778.8680 C. 780.262.06524904 ~ 51st Avenue (Beside Rainbow)

Appts. & Walk-ins WelcomeAppts. & Walk-ins Welcome

Acrylic ~ Gel ~ Nail DesignsGel Toes ~ Spa Pedicures & Manicures Airbrushing ~ Paraffin Wax ~ Waxing

Mon. to Sat. ~ 9 am - 6 pmMon. to Sat. ~ 9 am - 6 pm

Gift Certificates AvailableGift Certificates Available

VINYL FENCINGDECKING & RAILING

Call: 780-706-8079 or 780-778-8282Call: 780-706-8079 or 780-778-8282

• Many styles available• Residential and ranch rail• Residential and ranch rail• Selection of colors• Selection of colors

“VINYL IS FINAL”“VINYL IS FINAL”

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Decking & Decking & Arbour needs!Arbour needs!

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• Computer Sales & Service• PC & Notebook Repair• On-site Servicing• Network Consulting• Domain Hosting• Wireless High Speed Internet

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Mon. to Fri. 8 to 8 • (780) 706-5003 • Midtown MallServices:• Individual Physiotherapy Assessment and Treatment• Work Related Injury Assessment and Treatment / Work Reconditioning Program.• Foot Orthotics• Motor Vehicle Accident Rehabilitation• Physical Conditioning Program• Manual & Manipulative Therapy• Sports Injury Management • Intramuscular Stimulation• Medical Legwear / Pressure Gradient Stockings• Pre-Employment Screening.

Referrals accepted from:• Employers & Safety Coordinators• WCB• Physicians• Walk-in Patients• Insurance Companies • Other Professionals

Fees covered by:• WCB (Workers Compensation Board)• Independent Contracts with Employers• Extended Health Insurance Plans• Casualty Insurers (motor vehicle accidents)• Personal Payment (receipts will be provided)

mation on additional sponsorship opportunities, please contact any of these Whitecourt representatives:

Deputy Mayor Norm Hodgson, 780-396-9034Councillor Derek Schlosser, 780-268-3375Jay Granley, Director Community Services, 778-2273The Adult Living Development Agreement Bylaw

1466 was adopted, providing an additional 18 adult liv-ing condo units in the midst of other residential devel-opment. In addition, the Single Family Development Agreement Bylaw 1467 was adopted, involving the development of six single family units, north of Mink Creek Road. Council was also in favour of a separate motion to name the street, which enters from the Flats Connector Road, “Abraham Drive” after ‘Albert Abra-ham’, a Pioneer of Whitecourt.

Administration submitted an application to the Al-berta Emergency Management Agency for disaster re-covery assistance related to the heavy rains and fl ood-ing experienced on July 8 – 9, 2011. The intense rain-fall caused severe erosion of the Beaver Creek Storm Drainage Channel, signifi cant erosion of 5 Storm Sewer Outfalls, eroded roadways, damage to recreation infra-structure including stairs, parks and trails, and damage to buildings, resulting in an estimated $740,000 in dam-

(Continued from page 4)

(Continued on page 28)

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PAGE 6 Community Advisor SEPTEMBER 2011

(Continued on page 11)

The Market Has Spoken: Austerity Is Bad For Businessby Ellen Brown

It used to be that when the Fed Chairman spoke, the market lis-tened; but the Chairman has lost his mystique. Now when the market speaks, politicians listen. Hopefully they heard what the market just said: government cutbacks are bad for business. The govern-ment needs to spend more, not less. Fortunately, there are viable ways to do this while still balancing the bud-get.

On Thursday, August 4, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 512 points, the biggest stock market drop since the collapse of September 2008. Why? Weren’t the markets supposed to rebound after the debt ceiling agreement was reached on Monday, avoiding U.S. de-fault and a downgrade of U.S. debt? So we were told, but the market apparently understands what politicians don’t: the debt deal is a death deal for the economy. Re-ducing government spending by $2.2 trillion over a de-cade, as Congress just agreed to do, will kill any hopes of economic recovery. We’re looking at a double-dip recession.

The fi gure is actually more than $2.2 trillion. As Jack Rasmus pointed out on Truthout on August 4th:

Economists estimate the "multiplier" from govern-ment spending at about 1.5. That means for every $1 cut in government spending, about $1.5 dollars are taken out of the economy. The fi rst year of cuts are therefore $375 billion to $400 billion in terms of their economic effect. Ironically, that's about equal to the spending in-crease from Obama's 2009 initial stimulus package. In other words, we are about to extract from the economy — now showing multiple signs of weakening badly— the original spending stimulus of 2009!

(Continued on page 18)

9/11 After A Decade: Have We Learned Anything?

By Paul Craig Roberts

In a few days it will be the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. How well has the US government’s offi cial account of the event held up over the decade?

Not very well. The chairman, vice chairman, and senior legal counsel of the 9/11 Commission wrote books partially disassociating themselves from the commission’s report. They said that the Bush admin-istration put obstacles in their path, that information was withheld from them, that President Bush agreed to testify only if he was chaperoned by Vice President Cheney and neither were put under oath, that Pentagon and FAA offi cials lied to the commission and that the commission considered referring the false testimony for investigation for obstruction of justice.

In their book, the chairman and vice chairman, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, wrote that the 9/11 Commission was “set up to fail.” Senior counsel John Farmer, Jr., wrote that the US government made “a de-cision not to tell the truth about what happened,” and that the NORAD “tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public.” Kean said, “We to this day don’t know why NORAD told us what they told us, it was just so far from the truth.”

Most of the questions from the 9/11 families were not answered. Important witnesses were not called. The commission only heard from those who supported the government’s account. The commission was a con-trolled political operation, not an investigation of events and evidence. Its membership consisted of former poli-

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SEPTEMBER 2011 Community Advisor PAGE 7

The current economic prediction is that many major countries, including the U.S., are poised to go into a double-dip recession in the near future. Anything is possible of course in a fi nancial system that is more and more a political animal, increasingly divorced from real economics or actual creation of what most people would consider wealth. The reactions so far to the current economic problems are not promising for the near-term future but hopefully more creative solutions will prevail.

To date the response to the various debt bombs around the world has been to create more money, sometimes through quantitative easing. Since this money is created as more debt, at more compound interest, this practice is more than a bit like trying to cure a hangover by drinking more. The move can work in the short term, but only at the cost of a bigger crash later on. Record low interest rates are helping the situation signifi cantly, but there is no guarantee these will stay low.

Even with the massive cash injections taking place during quantitative easing, there was little to no relief of

A change for the better Community

AdvisorAdvisorPublisher: Dan Parker

Production: Terry DraegerOffi ce: Jennifer Vandenhouten

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CommunityAdvisor.NETCirculation: 5,500

Published Monthly

“The liberty of the press is the

palladium of all the civil, political,

and religious rights.” - Junius

by Dan Parker

(Continued on page 16)

Call: 780-778-5225Marinated Beef - Bul Go GiChicken Breast - TeriyakiMaki & Sushi

We use Local Ingredients Wherever Possible. All Beef is AA Alberta Beef & Our Seafood is from B.C.

Kimchi - Top 5 of World’s Healthiest FoodBibimbab - Very Good Non-Fat Meal w/Rice

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(780) 778-9339(780) 778-9339www.whitecourtatv.comwww.whitecourtatv.com

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

- Bertolt BrechtHe that will not

apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

- Francis Bacon He who rejects

change is the architect of decay. The only hu-man institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

- Harold WilsonThings alter for the

worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better design-edly.

- Francis Bacon

Rediscover the path to wellness!

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Keep Your Energy Level Energy Level Up!

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PAGE 8 Community Advisor SEPTEMBER 2011

This Month in Whitecourt Cont...

Whitecourt ATV Club Meeting Wed. Sept. 7, 2011 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. The Whitecourt ATV Club invites you to attend its

monthly Club Meetings at the Forest Interpretive Cen-tre. For more information visit www.whitecourtatvclub.com

Council Meeting Mon. Sept. 12, 2011 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. At the Forest Interpretive Centre Community Services Advisory Board Meeting Tues. Sept. 13, 2011 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. The Community Services Advisory Board's objec-

tive is to create a healthy, strong community by meeting the leisure and social needs of the community.

Community Fun Night Sat. Sept. 17, 2011 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. We invite one and all to come enjoy the Allan &

Jean Millar Centre at a discounted rate. $2.00 for Adults & Youth, $1.00 for Children & Seniors. FREE for mem-bers

Policies & Priorities Committee Meeting Mon. Sept. 19, 2011 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Members of the public are encouraged to attend this

Public Dialogue Session. Enhancement Grant Workshop Tues. Sept. 20, 2011 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Located at the Allan & Jean Millar Centre. The En-

hancement Grant is offered to community organizations and groups to provide funding for the enhancement of programs, services, special events, specialized equip-ment or facilities that are not usually funded through their annual budgets. To be considered for this grant, a representative from the group or organization must at-tend the Enhancement Grant Workshop. The deadline for the grant application is Friday, September 30.

For more information: Town of Whitecourt Commu-nity Services Department, Allan & Jean Millar Centre, 58 Sunset Blvd., Box 509, Whitecourt, AB T7S 1N6, Ph: 780-778-3637, www.whitecourt.ca

Community Events 2011/12 Brochure Deadline to Book Space is Wed. Sept. 21, 2011 4:00 p.m. Contact Fay by Sept. 21, 2011 at 780-778-6300 or [email protected].

Fluoridation Information Monday, September 22, 2011 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM At the Senior's [email protected]

(Continued from page 4)

If Hearts If Hearts Could Speak

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SEPTEMBER 2011 Community Advisor PAGE 9

Top 20 things we'd like to see on those inspirational

posters around the offi ce

1. Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them.2. If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos... then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation.4. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.5. Artifi cial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity6. A person who smiles in the face of adversity... probably has ascapegoat.7. Plagiarism saves time.8. If at fi rst you don't succeed, try management.

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PAGE 10 Community Advisor SEPTEMBER 2011

This month, on September 22nd a meeting is going to be taking place. Our councillors voted this meeting into action, in an attempt to increase their knowledge on a subject few know much about. In the near future, they will have a big decision to make that affects the health of every member of our community. Many of us are healthy and don't pause to think of those who aren't, but in this instance, we CANNOT ignore that individu-als in our town are being put at risk.

I recently read a handout from Alberta Health re-garding fl uoridation. The fi rst question was "What is fl u-oride?" They go on to explain that it is a natural element found in many places. The second question is "What is water fl uoridation?" They state that "once added to wa-ter, the fl uoride used in water fl uoridation is no different than naturally-occurring fl uoride." Which seems OK, until you realize that the fl uoride put in our water is NOT pharmaceutical grade like the stuff in our toothpaste. It is industrial grade artifi cial fl uoride called Fluorosilicic Acid, which also comes along with contaminants includ-ing arsenic and lead. Our body is better able to handle "natural fl uoride" and we absorb less when compared to fl uorosilicic acid, which matters GREATLY. Absorp-tion means, with every sip we are collecting it within our bodies, along with all the other heavy metals that come

(Continued from page 1) with this industrial grade fake-fl uoride. We can't swal-low the pharmaceutical grade fl uoride in our toothpaste, but it's ok to swallow industrial grade fl uoride from the tap? If your doctor said industrial grade medicine was just like pharmaceutical grade versions once in your body, would you want to take it? Probably not, because we have pharmaceutical grade for a reason!

Keep in mind that we are just starting to learn how artifi cial ingredients in our food are harming our bod-ies, after all these years of being told that they are safe, because they are just like the real thing.

Health Canada admits that fl uoride's main benefi t is from TOPICAL use and not SYSTEMIC. Yet in the Q & A sheet from Alberta Health Services they leave that out. Which is quite signifi cant don't you think? Please remember that this whole entire debate concerns the SWALLOWING of fl uoride in our tap water! We aren't saying that fl uoride has no value in our dental health. Our goal is to show that we do not need to swallow fl uoride to get its benefi ts and here is this statement from Health Canada, saying EXACTLY that and Alberta Health just leaves it out!

Alberta Health also says that fl uoridation is "safe" and they list the University of York (2000) study as proof. Professor Trevor Sheldon, who produced the

(Continued on page 15)

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SEPTEMBER 2011 Community Advisor PAGE 11

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As others have pointed out, that magnitude of spending contraction will result in 1.5 million to 2 mil-lion more jobs lost. That's also about all the jobs created since the trough of the recession in June 2009. In other words, the job market will be thrown back two years as well.

We’re not moving forward. We’re moving back-ward. The hand-wringing is all about the “debt crisis,” but the national debt is not what has stalled the econo-my, and the crisis was not created by Social Security or Medicare, which are being set up to take the fall. It was created by Wall Street, which has squeezed trillions in bailout money from the government and the taxpayers; and by the military, which has squeezed trillions more for an amorphous and unending “War on Terror.” But the hits are slated to fall on the so-called “entitlements” – a social safety net that we the people are actually en-titled to, because we paid for them with taxes.

The Problem Is Not Debt But a Shrinking Money Supply

The markets are not reacting to a “debt crisis.” They do not look at charts ten years out. They look at present indicators of jobs and sales, which have turned persis-tently negative. Jobs and sales are both dependent on “demand,” which means getting money into the pockets of consumers; and the money supply today has shrunk.

We don’t see this shrinkage because it is primarily in the “shadow banking system,” the thing that collapsed in 2008. The shadow banking system used to be refl ected in M3, but the Fed no longer reports it. In July 2010, however, the New York Fed posted on its website a staff report titled “Shadow Banking.” It said that the shadow banking system had shrunk by $5 trillion since its peak in March 2008, when it was valued at about $20 trillion

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review, had to issue a public statement denying such a conclusion, because the study was constantly being used to back up statements that fl uoridation is safe, just like Alberta Health is using it now. HOWEVER, the actual fi ndings from the study were that not enough evidence exists to support that fl uoridation is effective or that it is harmless. So who knows best, the people who actually did the study or those who are quoting it? What reason does Alberta Health have for misreading this study?

Making statements on paper is easy because no one is standing in front of you asking you to prove some-thing or to better explain it. Though this meeting is for our councillors, it is also a chance for us to see informa-tion in action. Alberta Health will be there as well as Dr. Beck, Professor Emeritus from the U. of Calgary, who is an expert on this topic.

The number of people concerned with fl uoridation grows everyday and communities near and far are go-ing to be watching Whitecourt. Barrhead, Hinton and Red Deer are just 3 examples of communities where residents are standing up and fi ghting for an end to this practice. Folks in Edmonton are also starting up, as well as communities in BC, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It's not just Canada either; other countries involved include

(Continued from page 10) the US, Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain. Since 1990, in the US and Canada, 267 communities and cities have either stopped or have rejected starting fl uorida-tion. If you can't understand why so many people are against fl uoridation, then you owe it to yourself and your family to come fi nd out.

Both sides are being represented so it doesn't matter which side you are on, just that you show up. If there is a chance that members of our community are being harmed, is it not worth looking into it? Healthy people excrete roughly 50% of the fl uoride ingested, those who are unhealthy excrete less, which means they absorb more. What could that mean over time? If you don't know, then come fi nd out.

Our town councillors have shown that they are open-minded and concerned about this issue. They have decided to have this meeting so that they can hear all of the evidence. I also know that they want to see you there, because after all, a community is only as strong as it's weakest member. Let's show them just how strong we really are!

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economic problems on the street. What happened is that the banks took the new money and socked it away into reserves, rather than lending it out to Main Street. The fl ip side of this is that only so much money can hit the streets as purchasing power before infl ation becomes a serious problem. This makes obvious the fact that there are no sustainable solutions under the current money system, that runs on debt with compound interest charged on the debt. Compound interest is an exponential formula. Remove the politics behind the economics and the issue that is apparently bedeviling the world’s economic experts would become a rather routine high school math exercise on exponential formulae.

The so-called austerity movement may have as its underpinning some environmental component where some super-elites have decided to go with imposed simplicity on the part of the masses, since the voluntary simplicity movement did not take off. That is, with far less disposable income, populations will supposedly have smaller ecological footprints. This design hasn’t worked in the poorest countries, nor in the cash starved former Soviet Union and hopefully there is minor support for this thoroughly disproved idea. A society of wealth and leisure can get far more involved in environmental issues than a society in which most have to give high priority to

simply staying solvent. How much the situation is getting out of control of the super-elites is another issue.

With austerity riots growing around the world, in London, Greece and much of the Arab world, now might be a good time to question whether our 350 year old debt/compound interest money system could use some fundamental changes. And yes, the Arab revolts were primarily driven by bad economics. As one think tank put it “[i]n Egypt, the price of rice and wheat had multiplied nearly threefold, while in Tunisia, the cost of living rose steeply in parallel with vast youth unemployment. In general, the effects of globalization and a depressed world economy were undeniable.” The corrupt practices of the ruling elite in some Arab countries, and their crude responses to the unrest, provided a focus point for the economic malaise. However there is little question the initial spark of discontent was because of the enforced austerity.

One other thing to keep in mind is that the last 350 years of history has been like no other period before, with amazing technological advances, meaning more is possible, not less. In the developed countries, at a time when there should be major advances in environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation and growth in leisure, there is instead degradation in the systems that were at

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one time moving forward. The economic situation in other parts of the globe is far worse.

There is slow or negligible progress towards the U.N. Millennium goals for relieving poverty in the poorest countries. For example, part of goal #1 is “to halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger”. The results to date are that the hunger statistics in 2009 were higher than ever, “one of the many dire consequences of the global food and fi nancial crises”. The U.N. also reports that “progress to end hunger has been stymied in most regions”.

The current debt/interest money system began centuries ago with Goldsmiths, who noticed that the receipts they issued for storing gold for people began trading as money. Only a small percentage of people actually came to get their gold at any one time. Seeing the opportunity for more profi t, many of the goldsmiths would lend out far more in ‘gold receipts’ than they had gold to back those receipts. In short, they began running an unoffi cial, and fraudulent, fractional reserve system.

In 1694 this system was formalized with the founding of the Bank of England. The fractional reserve system and compounding interest that began to take over the money system had built in injustice and instability. Still it was far less damaging then, in a world in which huge tracts

(Continued from page 16) of land were relatively unpopulated and undeveloped. As mentioned, compound interest is expressed as an exponential formula, and one way to keep up with the mushrooming debt that comes with this basic math is to expand economic activity dramatically.

Today the system has all but run its course and can only be kept going through a host of damaging economic practices, such as built-in structural infl ation, churning and burning resources needlessly, boom and bust markets, a GDP that considers a murder and marriage to have the same value,as long as the same amount of money changes hands, and so on. It is the view here a witch doctor in deepest, darkest Africa has a belief system that is as scientifi c as the fundamentals of mainstream economic belief in the developed nations today.

Of course no one person, or team of experts, can devise an entirely new system. What is possible is putting in place basic mathematical, environmental and moral principles, and letting a healthier system naturally develop through a truly free market. Prototyping one area might be possible if transducers could mimic the attachments to a larger economic system. Probably the best design in this area is what is known as Kelsonian economics. In this model, money creation is designed to give each and every individual ownership of the means of

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ticians. No knowledgeable experts were appointed to the commission.

One member of the 9/11 Commission, former Sena-tor Max Cleland, responded to the constraints placed on the commission by the White House: “If this decision stands, I, as a member of the commission, cannot look any American in the eye, especially family members of victims, and say the commission had full access. This investigation is now compromised.” Cleland resigned rather than have his integrity compromised.

To be clear, neither Cleland nor members of the commission suggested that 9/11 was an inside job to advance a war agenda. Nevertheless, neither Congress nor the media wondered, at least not out loud, why Pres-ident Bush was unwilling to appear before the commis-sion under oath or without Cheney, why Pentagon and FAA offi cials lied to the commission or, if the offi cials did not lie, why the commission believed they lied, or why the White House resisted for so long any kind of commission being formed, even one under its control.

One would think that if a handful of Arabs managed to outwit not merely the CIA and FBI but all 16 US intel-ligence agencies, all intelligence agencies of our allies including Mossad, the National Security Council, the State Department, NORAD, airport security four times on one morning, air traffi c control, etc., the President, Congress, and the media would be demanding to know how such an improbable event could occur. Instead, the White House put up a wall of resistance to fi nding out, and Congress and the media showed little interest.

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Firefi ghters for 9/11 Truth, Pilots for 9/11 Truth, Schol-ars for 9/11 Truth, Remember Building 7.org, and a New York group which includes 9/11 families. These groups call for a real investigation.

David Ray Griffen has written 10 carefully re-searched books documenting problems in the govern-ment’s account. Scientists have pointed out that the government has no explanation for the molten steel. NIST has been forced to admit that WTC 7 was in free fall for part of its descent, and a scientifi c team led by a professor of nano-chemistry at the University of Co-penhagen has reported fi nding nano-thermite in the dust from the buildings.

Larry Silverstein, who had the lease on the World Trade Center buildings, said in a PBS broadcast that the decision was made “to pull” Building 7 late in the afternoon of 9/11. Chief fi re marshals have said that no forensic investigation was made of the buildings’ destruction and that the absence of investigation was a violation of law.

Some efforts have been made to explain away some of the evidence that is contrary to the offi cial account,

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built in Mayerthorpe was a 25,000 bushel structure erected in 1920. This was dismantled in 1975. The second elevator was built in 1926 and was a 30,000 bushel structure. A crib annex of 65,000 bushels was added to this in 1959. Both of these structures were purchased by Federal Grain Ltd. in 1972. In 1928 a third structure, a 35,000 bushel elevator, was built by F.W. McDougall Con-struction Company. This elevator was destroyed by fi re in 1929 and another structure of the same size was erected that year to re-place it. An annex to this, a 35,000 bushel structure was added in 1940. This elevator was converted to a twin elevator in 1966 when a 53,000 bushel ele-vator portion and a 60,000 bushel annex portion was added.

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From 1932 to 1977 the Pool's Mayerthorpe elevator handled 7,569,152 bushels of grain. In 1977-78 the han-dlings were 5,587 tons. The largest handling year was 1976-77 with 645,686 bushels handled. The lowest han-dling occurred in 1935-36 at 18,124 bushels.

GRAIN AND LIVESTOCKWritten by Nellie PetersonIn 1923 the fi rst farmer-owned grain elevator system

was organized with membership in the wheat pools be-ing signed up across the prairie provinces.

Then, as now, this was a mixed farming area, but prior to the building of the grain elevators farmers had depended upon livestock for their major source of in-come. The animals were shipped in carload lots to Ed-monton's packing plants. Obviously no individual farmer produced hogs or cattle in carlot quantities so there came into being, throughout the west, middlemen known as "Drover Buyers." For the most part they made their homes in the cities and worked throughout the country buying up the farmers' livestock which the farmer then had to deliver to the local C.N.R. stations stockyard on shipping day, in order to receive payment. Before radio or rural telephones only the Drover Buyers knew the prices packing plants were quoting. What's more, by

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agreement between themselves, each Drover Buyer had his own territory.

These arrangements guaranteed that there would be no competitive bidding for the farmers' livestock or any alternative to his acceptance of the price offered by the Drover Buyer. The price generally was well below those which the Drover Buyers knew the packing plants had been bidding when he left the city so that should these drop before his delivery of the purchased livestock he would still have a profi table margin. There were, no doubt, honest Drover Buyers but whether any permitted their religion to stand in the way of business has, I be-lieve, never been documented.

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The Mayerthorpe U.F.A. Local, which had learned by experience the benefi ts of buying and selling at cost carloads lots of coal and B.C. apples to its' members, initiated discussion on the feasibility of joining together to sell their livestock themselves. Out of this came the formation of the Paddle Valley Livestock Co-operative Shipping Association. A.E. Sherratt was elected to man-age the shipments of livestock, arrange for their sale by competitive bidding at the Edmonton Public Stockyards and record the sale of each farmer's hogs and cattle.

So successful was this venture that before long farmers from as far away as Hattonford were delivering their hogs to the Mayerthorpe Co-operative Association and sub-depots were organized at stations along the line from Greencourt to Onoway. When after some years Mr. Sherratt resigned his position, Jack Calder was elected.

The Drover Buyers were out of business.When an all-weather highway (of sorts) to Edmon-

ton was built and the advent of graded market roads made truck transport less burdensome and more eco-nomic than rail shipments, the need for the shipping co-operative no longer existed. Its members voted to dis-solve the association.

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On July 29, a memorandum of Association of the group, under the name of "Mayerthorpe District Co-op-erative Association Ltd." was signed. The Memorandum of Association was registered on October 7, 1939, bring-ing the Co-operative into existence, with Chas. Keeley as president and E.B. Loucks as secretary.

During the next two years the Association func-tioned as a bulk buying club, handling coal, apples,

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twine, salt, etc., for the members. Canvassing for mem-bers and funds was carried on by the board, along with planning for the future.

On October 11, 1941, the fi rst store was opened. Membership in the Alberta Co-operative Wholesale was taken out during the same year. Sales for the balance of that year totaled $3,373.85, with savings of $104.67. Be-fore too long the association moved into new premises. These quarters were soon outgrown, and after a drive of funds, a store on the present property was purchased from R.N. Sherwin.

The business continued to grow and in 1959 the present store was erected, and offi cially opened on Oc-tober 29. A full line of groceries, household appliance, kitchen housewares, and dry goods stocks are carried.

The latest addition to services for the members is the Lumber Supply Service Centre which was opened on November 28, 1963. A full line of lumber and build-ing supplies, paints, heavy hardware, fertilizer and feeds are carried here.

1964 business will hit an all time record of approxi-mately $400,000 in sales.

SMALL TOWN LIFEBy Nellie (Webber) RoyThe place in which I grew up has acquired town sta-

tus. Forty years ago it was a village with a population of around three hundred. Then there were coal-oil lamps wood and coal fi res, rain and snow for water, mud streets and wooden sidewalks. Horses were the main source of "horsepower". Now there is electricity, natural gas, plumb-ing, and cars have pavement instead of mud to travel on.

No electricity meant no convenient source of light or heat. We would buy a load of green poles in the winter and in the spring the sawyers would come to saw them up into blocks, ready to be split for fi rewood. A familiar sound in early spring, when the snow was just beginning to go and water dripped from the eaves, was the whine of the saw blade cutting through the poles. It could be heard all over the village and would continue most of the day as the sawyers moved from one yard to another.

Our source of drinking water was the village well – two blocks from our house. It was my job to carry the pail

The fi rst water well for the residents of Mayerthorpe was drilled by Mike Cierny.

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or so we needed each day for cooking and drinking. Rain supplied our sum-mer wash water; ice and snow provided it in winter. When the river froze, sev-eral men from the village would cut out blocks of ice and sell them to people, to be melted down into wash water. The butcher used to store blocks of ice in saw-dust in a shed behind the butcher shop to be used through the summer in the meat cooler.

On my way to school, I used to pass fi rst the liv-ery stable and then the blacksmith's shop. The latter was always a place to waste a minute or two watching a horse being shod or the sparks fl ying from a piece of hot iron the smith would be ham-mering on the anvil. At the livery stable teams were left, on winter days, to be fed, watered and sheltered until their owners were ready to start home. The liveryman also operated a draying service, picking up the mail from the railway station and taking it up the main street of the village to the post offi ce.

With light, heat and water so easily available now, life is easier in my home town — easier but not so interesting. Or may-be it is just a case of dis-tance lending enchantment to a way of life that had its hardships and frustrations.

This history provided by Three Trails Home, copyright - the Town of Mayerthorpe, with permission.

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(Continued from page 18)but most of the contrary evidence is simply ignored. The fact remains that the skepticism of a large number of knowledgeable experts has had no effect on the gov-ernment’s position other than a member of the Obama administration suggesting that the government infi ltrate the 9/11 truth organizations in order to discredit them.

The practice has been to brand experts not con-vinced by the government’s case “conspiracy theo-rists.” But of course the government’s own theory is a conspiracy theory, an even less likely one once a person realizes its full implication of intelligence and opera-tional failures. The implied failures are extraordinarily large; yet,

no one was ever held accountable.

Moreover, what do 1,500 architects and engineers have to gain from being ridiculed as conspiracy theo-rists? They certainly will never receive another gov-ernment contract, and many surely lost business as a re-sult of their “anti-American” stance. Their competitors must have made hay out of their “unpatriotic doubts.” Indeed, my reward for reporting on how matters stand a decade after the event will be mail telling me that as I hate America so much I should move to Cuba.

Scientists have even less incentive to express any doubts, which probably explains why there are not 1,500 Physicists for 9/11 Truth. Few physicists have careers independent of government grants or contracts. It was a high school physics teacher who forced NIST to abandon its account of Building 7’s demise. Physi-cist Stephen Jones, who fi rst reported fi nding evidence of explosives, had his tenure bought out by BYU, which no doubt found itself under government pressure.

We can explain away contrary evidence as coinci-dences and mistakes and conclude that only the gov-

ernment got it all correct, the same government that got everything else wrong.

In fact, the government has not explained anything. The NIST report is merely a simulation of what might have caused the towers to fail if NIST’s assumptions programed into the computer model are correct. But NIST supplies no evidence that its assumptions are cor-rect.

Building 7 was not mentioned in the 9/11 Commis-sion Report, and many Americans are still unaware that three buildings came down on 9/11.

Let me be clear about my point. I am not saying that some black op group in the neoconservative Bush administration blew up the buildings in order to ad-vance the neoconservative agenda of war in the Middle East. If there is evidence of a coverup, it could be the government covering up its incompetence and not its complicity in the event. Even if there were defi nite proof of government complicity, it is uncertain that Americans could accept it. Architects, engineers, and scientists live in a fact-based community, but for most people facts are no match for emotions.

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My point is how uninquisitive the executive branch including the security agencies, Congress, the media, and much of the population are about the defi ning event of our time.

There is no doubt that 9/11 is the determinant event. It has led to a decade of ever expanding wars, to the shredding of the Constitution, and to a police state. On August 22 Justin Raimondo reported that he and his website, Antiwar.com, are being monitored by the FBI’s Electronic Communication Analysis Unit to determine if Antiwar.com is “a threat to National Secu-rity” working “on behalf of a foreign power.”

Francis A. Boyle, an internationally known profes-sor and attorney of international law, has reported that when he refused a joint FBI-CIA request to violate the attorney/client privilege and become an informant on his Arab-American clients, he was placed on the US government’s terrorist watch list.

Boyle has been critical of the US government’s ap-proach to the Muslim world, but Raimondo has never raised, nor permitted any contributor to raise, any sus-picion about US government complicity in 9/11. Rai-mondo merely opposes war, and that is enough for the FBI to conclude that he needs watching as a possible threat to national security.

The US government’s account of 9/11 is the foun-dation of the open-ended wars that are exhausting America’s resources and destroying its reputation, and it is the foundation of the domestic police state that ultimately will shut down all opposition to the wars. Americans are bound to the story of the 9/11 Muslim terrorist attack, because it is what justifi es the slaugh-ter of civilian populations in several Muslim coun-tries, and it justifi es a domestic police state as the only

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means of securing safety from terrorists, who already have morphed into “domestic extremists” such as en-vironmentalists, animal rights groups, and antiwar ac-tivists.

Today Americans are unsafe, not because of ter-rorists and domestic extremists, but because they have lost their civil liberties and have no protection from unaccountable government power. One would think that how this came about would be worthy of public debate and congressional hearings.

Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939) is an American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as a co-founder of Reaganomics."[1] He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Busi-ness Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. Roberts has been a critic of both Democratic and Republican administrations. He has written or co-written eight books, contributed chapters to numerous books and has published many articles in journals of scholarship. He has testifi ed before congressional committees on 30 occasions on issues of economic policy.

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– actually larger than the traditional banking system. In July 2010, the shadow system was down to about $15 trillion, compared to $13 trillion for the traditional bank-ing system.

Only about $2 trillion of this shrinkage has been replaced with the Fed’s quantitative easing programs, leaving a $3 trillion hole to be fi lled; and only the gov-ernment is in a position to fi ll it. We have been sold the idea that there is a “debt crisis” when there is really a li-quidity crisis. Paying down the federal debt when money is already scarce just makes matters worse. Historically, when the defi cit has been reduced, the money supply has been reduced along with it, throwing the economy into recession.

Most of our money now comes into the world as debt, which is created on the books of banks and lent into the economy. If there were no debt, there would be no money to run the economy; and today, private debt has collapsed. Encouraged by Fed policy, banks have tight-ened up lending and are sitting on their money, shrink-ing the circulating money supply and the economy.

Creative Ways to Balance the Budget

The federal debt has not been paid off since the days of Andrew Jackson, and it does not need to be paid off. It is just rolled over from year to year. The only real danger posed by a growing federal debt is the interest burden, but that has not been a problem yet. The Congressional Budget Offi ce reported in December 2010:

[A] sharp drop in interest rates has held down the amount of interest that the government pays on [the na-tional] debt. In 2010, net interest outlays totaled $197 billion, or 1.4 percent of GDP — a smaller share of GDP than they accounted for during most of the past decade.

The interest burden will increase if the federal debt continues to grow, but that problem can be solved by mandating the Federal Reserve to buy the government’s

debt. The Fed rebates its profi ts to the government after deducting its costs, making the money nearly interest-free. The Fed is already doing this with its quantitative easing programs and now holds nearly $1.7 trillion in federal securities.

If Congress must maintain its debt ceiling, there are other ways to balance the budget and avoid a growing debt. Ron Paul has brought a creative bill that would eliminate the $1.7 trillion defi cit simply by having the Fed tear up its federal securities. No creditors would be harmed, since the money was generated with a computer keystroke in the fi rst place. The government would just be canceling a debt to itself and saving the interest.

The Trillion Dollar Coin Alternative

The most direct solution to the debt problem is for the government to fund its budget with government-is-sued money. One alternative would be for the Treasury to issue U.S. Notes, as was done in the Civil War by President Lincoln.

Another alternative was suggested in my book Web of Debt in 2007: the government could simply mint some trillion dollar coins. Congress has the Constitutional power to “coin money,” and no limit is put on the value of the coins it creates, as was pointed out by a chairman of the House Coinage Subcommittee in the 1980s.

This idea is now getting some attention from econo-mists. According to a July 29th article in the Johnsville News titled “Coin Trick: The Trillion Dollar Coin”:

The idea just started to get serious traction the last few days as the debt stalemate has grown more intense and partisan. Yale constitutional law professor Jack Balkin fl oated it as an option in a CNN op-ed yesterday (July 28th).

Today the idea has gone mainstream. It is covered by NY Magazine, CNBC, and The Economist. Even Nobel economist Paul Krugman of the NY Times has

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weighed in. Annie Lowrey of Slate discusses it as one of several gimmicks the government could use to resolve the debt-ceiling debacle. Krugman added:

These things [like coin seigniorage] sound ridicu-lous — but so is the behavior of Congressional Repub-licans. So why not fi ght back using legal tricks?

The debt ceiling itself was a legal trick, a form of extortion based on a century-old statute that confl icts with the Constitution. However, said the Johnsville News article, “coin seigniorage is not a scam. It is legal . . . . This plan looks like it might be Obama's ace in the hole . . . .”

The article cites Warren Mosler, founder of MMT (Modern Monetary Theory), who reviewed the idea in a January 20th blog post and concluded it would work operationally.

Scott Fullwiler, associate professor of economics at Wartburg College, also did a comprehensive analy-sis and concluded that the trillion dollar coin alternative was unlikely to result in infl ation. Comparing it to Ron Paul’s plan, he wrote:

This option is much like Ron Paul’s proposal—ac-tually identical in terms of the effect on the debt ceil-ing and the Treasury—except that his proposal would destroy all of the Fed’s capital (and then some), which is a potential problem politically . . . though not opera-tionally, and which the Fed is therefore very unlikely to agree to.

On the infl ation question, just because the Treasury has money in its account doesn't mean it can spend the funds. It needs the usual Congressional approval. To keep a lid on spending, Congress just needs to be in-structed in basic economics. They can spend on goods and services up to full employment without creating price infl ation (since supply and demand will rise to-gether). After that, they need to tax -- not to fund the budget, but to pull excess money back in and avoid driving up prices.

Spending More While Borrowing Less

In an economic downturn, the government needs to spend more, not less, as history shows. This can be done while still balancing the budget, simply by taking back the government’s Constitutional power to issue money.

The budget crisis is an artifi cial one, and the current “solution” will only guarantee a deeper recession and more widespread suffering. Rather than obsessing over defi cits and debt, the government needs to turn its focus to jobs, sales and quality of life.

Ellen Brown is president of the Public Banking In-stitute and the author of eleven books. She developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil liti-gation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and “the money trust.” Her websites are http://WebofDebt.com and http://PublicBankingInstitute.org.

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production, through the purchase of shares in companies with newly created money. The loans are paid off through the profi ts of the companies, with diversifi cation, reinsurance schemes and so on to deal with the inevitable failures of some companies.

The immediate response of many on hearing of such ownership societies is to describe the system as socialist. This highlights the abject condition of our educational system in conveying ideas about economics and politics. Having small parts of the means of production controlled directly by individuals is diametrically opposed to socialism, where a monolithic state controls the means of production. The upshot of Kelsonian economics is highly decentralized power; which is critical for a healthy democracy.

Keeping interest rates extremely low is only a stop-gap measure to keep the current compound interest system going. More fundamental changes are necessary to bring the money system up to date in how this symbol of wealth more accurattely refl ects

real wealth creation. It is more than a little likely the breakdown of the economic systems of such powerhouses as the U.S. and European Union is designed towards creating an imposed global solution that leads towards a world government. The end goal is to make war on earth a thing of the past. However, if there is too much emphasis on a top-down solution, any world government promises to be short-lived. In systems theory, there are logical reasons why dictatorships are highly unstable, not the least of which is even the most enlightened dictator is highly vulnerable to those with less scruples. As Thomas Jefferson put it “I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.” For more on Kelsonian economics, visit www.cesj.org.

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2004 TR Cruiser - $$CALLCALL 1986 GMC 1500 -$$CALLCALL1993 GMC 2X4 - $$CALLCALL2004 Crossfire - $$CALLCALL2006 Keystone Outback- $$CALLCALL04 Ford Explorer - $$CALLCALLFull Load, LimitedFull Load, Limited

2008 Grand Prix - $$CALLCALL 1999 Ford 1 Ton - $$CALLCALL1998 Ford - $$CALLCALL1991 Ford Ranger - $$CALLCALL07 30.5 ft Sandpiper - $$CALLCALL2005 Buick Terraza - $$CALLCALL2 Slides, Like New2 Slides, Like New

2006 Chev 2500 4X4 - $$CALLCALL 1998 Plymouth Breeze- $$CALLCALL1989 Southwind -$$CALLCALL2001 GMC Yukon -$$CALLCALL1997 Flagstaff - $$CALLCALL2009 VLine Havoc - $$CALLCALL

1998 Chev Blazer -$$CALLCALL1997 Jeep Cherokee - $$CALLCALL2007 Toyota 4 Runner $$CALLCALL2008 GMC 3500 - $$CALLCALL2004 Chev Blazer - $$CALLCALLFully Loaded LeatherFully Loaded Leather

Corner Hwy 43 & 32 South - Mon-Fri: 9 to 6, Sat:11 to 4Also see www.whitecourtautosales2004ltd.autotrader.ca

Ultra Classic, MintUltra Classic, Mint (Very Fast)(Very Fast)

Fully Loaded VanFully Loaded Van Diesel Service TruckDiesel Service Truck

5th Wheel, 27 Ft, Slide5th Wheel, 27 Ft, Slide

1995 Mallard -$$CALLCALL1988 Toyota Supra -$$CALLCALL1998 Ford F-150 $$CALLCALL2000 Chev 1 Ton -$$CALLCALL2003 GMC 2500 -$$CALLCALLComes with PlowComes with Plow

05 GMC 2500 -$$CALLCALL

4x44x4

Call For Details!Call For Details!

4X44X4

400 Sport Quad w/ Reverse400 Sport Quad w/ Reverse

Low Rider!Low Rider!

2,800 KM, Like New2,800 KM, Like New

SportsterSportster Fully Loaded 4x4!Fully Loaded 4x4!

30 ft with Gen Set30 ft with Gen Set

50 HP Merc.50 HP Merc.

1 Ton Catering Truck!1 Ton Catering Truck!

3.OL Turbo, Tanga Top3.OL Turbo, Tanga Top

Full Load, Leather (Nice)Full Load, Leather (Nice) Race BikeRace Bike

V6, Auto, Full LoadV6, Auto, Full Load

4x4, 103KM (Mint)4x4, 103KM (Mint)

F-150, 2x4F-150, 2x4

Fully Loaded 4X4Fully Loaded 4X4

(Like New)(Like New)

Fully Loaded 4 cyl AutoFully Loaded 4 cyl Auto26' Bumper Pull26' Bumper Pull

Full Load (Nice Car)Full Load (Nice Car)

Fully Loaded 4X4Fully Loaded 4X4

Extended Short BoxExtended Short Box

120 Sport Jet120 Sport Jet

4x4, Leather, Full Load4x4, Leather, Full Load

Fully Loaded Short Box Fully Loaded Short Box

Fully Loaded 4X4Fully Loaded 4X4

Full LoadFull Load

LeatherLeather

383 Stroker, 425 HP383 Stroker, 425 HPLike New!Like New!

2 Slides (Hardwood Floor)2 Slides (Hardwood Floor)

500 CC 4X4500 CC 4X4

4x4, Full Load4x4, Full Load

Showroom ConditionShowroom Condition

SOLDSOLD

SOLDSOLD

SOLDSOLD

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