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STRATHMORE

SHANNON LECLAIR

Times Reporter

Strathmore-Brooks MLA Jason Haleannounced on Feb. 27 that he intends

to step back from politics and takesome time to focus on his family andtheir business.

Hale recently is best known forcrossing the floor from the WildroseParty to join the Progressive Conser- vatives. Hale said he has zero regretsabout the decision.

“I support the Premier 100 per centin his vision,” said Hale. With an election on the horizon

Hale gave his opinion about the pos-sible call for an early election.

“The Premier stated that with thetype of budget that the governmentis putting forward here in March, he will need a mandate from the people

of Alberta to implement it,” said Hale.“That’s basically why they’re callingit now instead of waiting until next year, with the financial situation we’rein and price of oil and the reliancethat we have on oil and gas royaltyrevenue that needs to be dealt with.”

He continued on to say that in the budget there will be changes, and thatthe people need to be able to voicetheir opinion through the election,about whether they want the gov-ernment to go ahead and implement what will be proposed in the budget.

“I think Jason’s decision was prob-ably quite a difficult one, and when you’re involved in public service itoften means that family life and busi-

ness life or the business you were incan suffer so I certainly understandthe push and the pull,” said PC candi-date Molly Douglass.

“I appreciated what he has contrib-uted to our Strathmore-Brooks con-stituency and I wish him and his fam-ily all the best into the days ahead.”

Derek Fildebrandt has filled Hale’s vacated seat in the Wildrose Party byacclamation and Douglass has alreadynamed her intentions to become thenew MLA. As for whether or not Hale will ever return to politics, “Right nowmy focus is just on our agriculturaloperation and one never knows whatthe future holds,” said Hale.

Hale to leavepolitics

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The East Wheatland School projecthas been moving forward one smallstep at a time and February broughtthem one step closer with a chequedonation from Encana for $50,000 on

Feb. 26.Darci-Jane McAuley (Manager, Com-munity Relations for Encana) along with Luigi Vescarelli (Senior Com-munity Relations Advisor for Encana) were pleased to present the cheque tostudents representing kindergarten toGrade 12 from all the communities thatare involved in the new school cominginto existence. Vescarelli said, “Encana is in the pro-

cess of drilling 200 wells in the Wheat-land area. Encana is thrilled to be apart of the sustainability that takes ina number of the communities and thatthe sites for Encana are a strategic in- vestment for them as they are operat-ing in the heart of the East Wheatland

area.”“All the work by the volunteers of

the communities is why we became involved,” said McAuley. “It is an excitingproject that is looking into the futuresof the kids … this is all about the kids.”

Golden Hills School Division Super-intendent Bevan Daverne spoke on be-

half of the school division.“We are very appreciative of the do-

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enhancement dollars that are a greatasset to this project,” said Daverne.

He was happy to announce that thetender for the construction bids waschosen and that Delnor Construction would be heading up the project withhopes that the students will be stand-ing in the new facility by fall of 2016.

Vescarelli told those gathered that thedrilling of the wells has a low impacton the environment and communities

as they set up for one day, drill for oneday and take one day to dismantle. Thelongevity of the low flow gas wellsis determined to be ten-plus years ormore.

Delnor Construction is expected within the month to be on site and startthe much-awaited project.

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SHANNON LECLAIR

Times Reporter

A recent study by Behr Energy Servic-es provided town council with a 10-min-ute fire response area map for the town.

The report outlines what areas of the Town the Strathmore Fire Departmentcan responded within 10 minutes ofthe call going out. While most of thetown does fall into the coverage area,much of the land in the northwest partof town including Lakewood Meadows,Hill View and any future development,do not.

“It covers a majority of the town in-cluding the west part ... the one area thatis doesn’t cover is Lakewood Meadows,it’s not covered at all there and then Hill

View is not covered,” said Stanford.“Lakewood Meadows, the only way

that can be covered is if there is a smallfire hall in the north part of town.”

If there was a hall built it would coverHill View, Lakewood Meadows and allfuture development in the north part oftown.

Stanford had contacted a local builder

to get rough estimates on the cost of anew fire hall if it were a 30 ft. by 40 ft.steel building.

It would work out to approximately$90 per square foot. There would also

be the cost of leveling the land, and tak-

ing water and sewer across the road andthe building. With that in mind, Stanford said if

council doesn’t agree and a small firehall is not built up there, then the devel-oper of Lakewood Meadows would haveto follow the building code for the fur-ther response time, which would meanputting sprinklers in all the houses and/or using special fire retardant drywalland so on.

Stanford also brought up the possibil-ity that the developers building in thenorth end of town may be able to helpoffset some of the costs of a new hall.

“I think time is of the essence herefor this particular developer because

his lots are already set and he can’t re-ally change much,” said Councillor SteveGrajczyk.

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PUBLIC NOTICE TO ELECTORS OF THETOWN OF STRATHMORE,PROVINCE OF ALBERTA

SECTION 251 - THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT ACT

TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Town of Strathmore, in the Provinceof Alberta, has given first reading to borrowing By-law No. 15-07 which will,

upon final passage and approval, authorize the proper officers of the saidTown to borrow monies from the Alberta Capital Finance Authority by wayof debenture issue, to pay for the cost of the following municipal purpose(s),namely to reconstruct and hard surface Fourth Ave, Lakeside Boulevard, andSecond Street within the limits of the said municipality;

The total cost of the aforesaid project amounts to $6,537,146. Afterdeducting from this cost the amount of $3,537,146 to be received by way ofGrants from the Province of Alberta, the net amount to be borrowed on the creditand security of the municipality at large by the issue of debentures is $3,000,000.The debentures are to be repayable to the Alberta Capital Finance Authority inThirty (30) equal consecutive semi-annual instalments of combined principaland interest, the semi-annual interest not to exceed five per centum (5%), or theinterest rate as fixed from time to time by the Alberta Capital Finance Authority;

NOW THEREFORE NOTICE is hereby given by the Council of the Town ofStrathmore that, unless a petition of the electors for a vote on By-law No.15-07 is demanded, as provided for by the terms of Section 231 of the MunicipalGovernment Act, the said Council may pass the said borrowing by-law.

All persons interested are hereby notified and they are required to govern themselves accordingly.

DATED at the Town of Strathmore, in the Province of Alberta, this 27th dayof February, 2015.

Per: Mel Tiede Position: Director of Corporate Services

INFORMATION FOR ELECTORS Pursuant to Section 1(i) of the Municipal Government Act an “elector”means:

1. A person who is eligible to vote in the election for a councillor under theLocal Authorities Election Act.

Pursuant to section 47(1) of the Local Authorities Election Act a person iseligible to vote in an election if he: a) Is at least 18 years old,

b) Is a Canadian citizen, and c) Has resided in Alberta for the 6 consecutive months immediately preceding Election Day and is resident in the area on Election Day.

A poll may be demanded in the Town of Strathmore by electors equal innumber to at least a) In the case of a municipality other than a summer village,

by electors of the municipality equal in number to at least 10%of the population and

b) in the case of a summer village, by 10% of the electors of the summer village In accordance with the provisions of section 223 of the Municipal GovernmentAct and in accordance with the provisions of section 251 of the MunicipalGovernment Act.

The petition for a vote must be received by the Chief AdministrativeOfficer within 15 days of the last publication of this notice and shall containon each page “an accurate and identical statement of the purpose of the

petition”. (Further requirements of the petition are provided in section 224 of the Municipal Government Act .)

DATE of the last publication of this notice is the 6th day of March, 2015.

PUBLIC HEARING, MARCH 18, 2015,7:00 PM: BYLAW# 15-03

Schedule “A” the Land Use District Map in the Land Use Bylaw No.14-

11 is amended by changing the land use designation of a portion of Lot 1

Block 3 Plan 0711894 from AG – Agriculture General District to R1N – Single

Detached Residential (Narrow Lot) District, R2 – Low Density Residential

District and P1 – Public Service District as shown in Schedule “A”

(Edgefield, Phase 2).

A copy of the proposed Bylaw may be inspected by the public duringregular office hours, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday at the TownOffice (680 Westchester Road, Strathmore, AB), or can be found on theTown website (www.strathmore.ca). Please contact the Town Office ifyou would like an opportunity to review and provide input on the proposed

amendments prior to the Public Hearing.

The Public Hearing will be held at the Council Chambers, Strathmore

Municipal Building, 680 Westchester Road, Strathmore Alberta on

Wednesday, March 18, 2015, commencing at 7:00 pm with procedures inaccordance with the Town of Strathmore Council Procedural Bylaw #07-11

and amendments thereto.

Any person or group of persons, or person acting on his or their behalf,

who claims to be affected by any or all of the proposed bylaws may present

suggestions or concerns by making a submission to the public hearing.

Written submissions to the Public Hearing or the name of any person

wishing to make an oral presentation at the Public Hearing must be

received by the Planning and Development Department prior to 12:00 noonon Thursday, March 12, 2015 as outlined in Bylaw #07-11 and amendments

thereto. If your written submission is not received by this time, please

provide fifteen (15) copies for distribution at the Public Hearing. Each

person wishing to address Council at the Public Hearing shall complete

their verbal presentation within five minutes.

Please note that written submissions will become public documents

once submitted to the Town, unless otherwise requested.

SCHEDULE “A”: SUBJECT AREA IS SHOWN IN RED

NOTICE OFDEVELOPMENT PERMITS

The following application(s) for development have been approved by the Townof Strathmore, subject to the right of appeal to the Subdivision and DevelopmentAppeal Board:

Application: 15HB-012Civic Address: 1721 Strathcona PlaceLegal Description: Lot 20, Block 15, Plan 0412952Development: Home Occupation – Day Home The file as noted above can be viewed at the Town Office during regular

business hours. The permit will be issued following the lapse of the appeal period.Any person wishing to appeal this decision must submit their appeal no later

than 4:30 pm on March 20, 2015. Appeals must be in writing, accompanied by the$100.00 fee and submitted to the Secretary, Subdivision and Development AppealBoard, Town of Strathmore, 680 Westchester Road, Strathmore AB T1P 1J1.

Date of Publication: March 6, 2015

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2015 and will be available bi-weekly until further notice.

The Happy Gang Society in conjunction with Strathmore FCSS have been trained to offer seniors assistance and provide information on the financialprograms offered by the province.

They Include: Alberta Seniors Benefit Program, Seniors Special NeedsAssistance, Dental & Optical Assistance, and Seniors Property Tax DeferralProgram.

These volunteers will assist with filling out forms, answer questions, and willseek additional information from the appropriate provincial resource should that be necessary.

Appointment Schedule: February 23rd, March 9th, March 23rd, April 6th, April20th, May 4th, June 1st, June 15th, and June 29th, 2015. There will be a break

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SHANNON LECLAIR

Times Reporter

The Strathmore Regional Arts Collec-tive (SRAC) is hoping to see a new artpolicy created by the Town of Strath-more. The policy will allow for the in-stallation of art on both indoor and out-

door town-owned property.“We know that (art policies) exist

in other communities and we’d like tohave the opportunity to do the same,”said Councillor Denise Peterson of therequest.

“We think that it would be a greataddition to the community in terms ofelevating the downtown revitalizationproject and adding interest as well asproviding opportunity for artists to dis-play their work and perhaps even selltheir work.”

Peterson moved that the request belooked into and information be brought back to council from administration

Councillor Steve Grajczyk questioned whether it only has to be town owned,stating that in Canmore it is done on both town and private properties.

“You don’t dictate it, you just encour-age it” said Grajczyk, when a questionarose about how it could be dictated tothe residents. The motion was passed and a policy

will be brought back to council at alater date.

EARTH HOUR CHALLENGE

Each year people across the globe

are asked to participate in Earth Hour, which is when people are encouragedto shut off all unnecessary lights andelectronics for one hour to conserveenergy. The Earth Hour Challenge isMarch 28 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The Town of Strathmore will once again be taking part and asks that all resi-

dents in the community do so as well. There is also a chance to win moneyfor the community if Strathmore is oneof the three top energy conservers forthat hour.

FORMER MAYOR HONOURED

Former High River Mayor Emile Blok-land was praised in council during theFeb. 18 meeting. Councillor RockyBlokland was granted permission toread a letter aloud about Emile beingselected as a recipient of a Peace TowerFlag.

It is given to people or groups whohave contributed significantly to the wellbeing of citizens as part of the na-tional flag’s 50th anniversary celebra-tion, read Rocky.

During the 2013 flood Emile was both praised and maligned for his han-dling of the disaster that forced roughly13,000 people in High River from theirhomes under a mandatory evacuationorder. It was nine days before residentscould begin to return to their homes. Throughout that time Emile met

with town and provincial authoritiesand displaced High River residents inemergency shelters, and addressed re-

SRAC requests art policyporters. He was generally well receivedthough tempers did occasionally boilover as it dragged on. During that sum-mer his wife also suffered a stroke, andthat was one part of the reason whyEmile made the decision not to runagain for Mayor in the election, but in-stead seek a council seat.

“I am so proud of this person. He ismy brother and what he went throughI don’t wish on anybody, this was justunreal what he had to do and I’m very

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The Strathmore Municipal Library be-lieves in having equal access to materi-als for all of its patrons, which is whythere is assistive technology in placefor those who need it. The assistive technology includes

software and hardware that enables thelibrary staff to assist seniors, studentsand people with disabilities.

“There’s a large monitor, a large key- board a special mouse with a three inchtrackball and big buttons. The softwareis ‘Read to Write Gold,’ it’s a text tospeech program and it assists peoplethat having reading or writing dyslexiaor learning disabilities,” said Courtney

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There is also Word Q, which is de-signed to help people who are strug-gling with their writing; it uses wordprediction to suggest words and help with spelling while the user is typing adocument or e-mails.

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Carmen Erison, assistant director of library services.“Through a grant by the Community

Access Program and by money donated by W. Brett Wilson and family we wereable to purchase the computer and itssoftware for our community members.” Another program the library offers is

Solaro. It covers Alberta curriculum forstudents in Grades 3-12, offering thema chance to take quizzes and practicetests, and track their progress. Also available at the library is a DAI-

SY e-reader that patrons with print dis-abilities can be able to borrow.

“Assisted technology … really helps break down those barriers that manyindividuals have when it comes to us-

ing technology and it opens up a wholenew world to people that had thosedoors closed,” said Erison.

“It is convenient as well, this technol-ogy. Even if you don’t have a disability, you’re just a student looking to transfer your text book pages into an mp3, itsconvenient for that,” said Gordon.


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Derek Fildebrandt, the Wil-drose candidate for Strathmore-Brooks, introduced Brian Jean who has entered the Wildroseleadership race, and announcedhis support for him on Feb. 25.

“I thought through the deci-sion of whether or not to seekthe leadership thoroughly with

my friends, family and support-ers and decided that I wantedto focus on Strathmore-Brooksand rebuilding the party andfocusing on providing a solid fi-nancial platform for the party,”said Fildebrandt. Jean has 10 years’ experience

as MP for Fort McMurray-Atha- basca. Fildebrandt feels Jean isa solid fiscal conservative thathas the experience necessaryto lead the party, especially on

such short notice.“I think Alberta deserves a

well-run efficient governmentthat applies good Albertan com-mon sense and the Alberta workethic to the important activitiesof government,” said Jean in apress release.

“I think small government,low taxes, and common-senseefficiencies are how you actu-ally serve people. Those are

Wildrose principles, they havealways been my principles.”

“These are extraordinarytimes, and I thought I was ca-pable of doing it, but that I would require some time to beprepared for an election and Ithink 48 hours is not enoughtime for me to prepare,” said Fil-debrandt.

“I felt this was the best thingfor the party and the provinceand Alberta deserves a real al-

ternative and an effective oppo-sition and to do that we have torun a strong campaign to give Albertans that alternative andBrian can best lead that.”

Fildebrandt said Prentice wants no opposition in the leg-islature, but he doesn’t think Al- bertans are going to buy it.

“I think Albertans have been very well served by having acompetitive democratic system

for the last three years with anofficial opposition that untilmost of it crossed the floor wasdoing a very good job,” said Fil-debrandt.

No one knows exactly whenthe election is going to be, but itis suspected that it will be com-ing in April. Fildebrandt said Wildrose would have a leader inplace, a full platform, and good,quality candidates. They will be very competitive this election.

Fildebrandt supports Brian Jeanfor Wildrose leader

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On Feb. 13 students at Brentwood ElementarySchool got to ‘Stick it’ to their principal LaurieHuntley. The students purchased lengths of duct

tape and then took turns taping Huntley to a wallin the gym. The students raised over $700, which was

matched by Glen Shaw, for the new playgroundthe school is building. This isn’t the first time Huntley has shown her

pride for the school.“I have been duct taped in the past. I’ve actually

put up a tent and spent the night on top of theschool before, I have eaten live bugs, I’ve kissed apig,” said Huntley laughing.

“If they raise the money, I will do pretty muchanything they ask me to. The kids love it, the year we did the bug thing that was probably the tough-est one, even the kids were (cringing).” The night she stayed up on the roof was very

windy but still kind of fun. She sat out there in theevening on a lawn chair and the kids would come

out and say hi.“I’m pretty brave for most things and I like it, it’s

pretty fun to have the kids do stuff and get excited with you,” said Huntley.

The playground project is being put together bythe Friends of Brentwood School Society, which isa small group of dedicated parent volunteers.

Currently the society is working on raising fundsfor the new playground structure. The total cost ofthe project is $223,441.15 and there is the possibility of a matching grant through the CommunityFacility Enhancement Program in the amount of$111,172.58. The new structure will be the third one on the

school grounds. The first is approximately 20 years old, and the most recent one, built in 2010,is wheelchair accessible.

“This new structure will complement the cur-rent existing structure and was chosen by the stu-dents of Brentwood after Christmas,” said Friendsof Brentwood President Michelle Elaschuk.

“It will be comprised of a main structure withlots of climbing ropes, ladders, monkey bars and aslide, a zip line and the possibility of two saucersswings.” The Friends of Brentwood School Society was

created to provide an avenue for donors, business-es and community members to be able to sup-port the activities at the school while providing astrong foundation for the future.

“We have done a few fundraising ventures this year. First was our Farm to School Vegetable salesfundraiser which raised money and veggies forthe local food bank,” said Elaschuk.That saw 250

lbs of potatoes donated, plus carrots, onions, cab- bage and parsnips. In January there was a movienight, February saw ‘Stick It to Huntley’ and thereare plans in the works for two more fundraisers,including a community-wide outdoor movie night. To date the society and the school have managed

to raise $84,207.85 of the necessary $111,172.58and already have plans on different initiatives thatcan raise the remaining $26,964.73.

Huntley praises Elaschuk as being instrumentalin applying for grant funding, and spearheadingsome of the fundraisers.

“She’s the driving force behind our fundraiserfor the playground,” said Huntley.

“The reason why I contribute my time and en-ergy into a project like this is I believe in leading by example starts at home. I try to model goodcitizenship. It is what makes things happen andour community better place to live,” said Elaschuk.

“I am very lucky to have a great group of par-ents that are incredibly supportive. Without them, we would be miles behind where we are now.”

The hope is to have the grand opening forthe new structure at the playground in a yearfrom now, which also happens to be BrentwoodSchool’s 35th anniversary.

Sticking it to Huntley

Students at Brentwood Elementary School duct tapped their

principal Laurie Huntley to the wall on Feb. 13 as a fundraiser

for the new playground structure.


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Before I start this latest column, I did hear a jokeon the radio that I thought might appeal to someof my rural readers. You know, when you have to

walk out to the old outhouse when “nature calls!” Anyway, there was a travelling ventriloquist,

whose car broke down at an out of the way farm. The farmer said he could stay the night, but he’dhave to sleep in the barn with the animals. Thehired hand walked the ventriloquist to the barn tohelp get him settled. Well, the ventriloquist thoughtit’d be funny to throw his voice, and make it seemlike the cow talked. So, he did, and the hired hand

was flabbergasted!“Did you hear that cow talk?” he asked the

stranger. The ventriloquist replied, “well son, I have a

way with animals, and they’ll actually talk to me.

Watch.” The ventriloquist had the barn cat say a few

words, and again the hired hand was shocked.“You see, I can make animals talk to me”, he

stated. The hired hand blurted out, “yeah, well, just so

ya know, whatever that damn sheep says, he’s adamn liar!” This past week, my wife Debbie’s principal, had

a major landmark of a bir thday. Now, it’s not politeto talk about a lady’s age, but the heat from that

birthday cake forced a lot of the teachers out ofthe staff room! The night before, we had to setup for this “cake bonfire,” and had to deliver bal-loons and decorations to the school. Now, in mydefense, the back of the SUV was full of decora-tions and helium balloons. It’s true that our newSUV has a colour backup screen on the dash, andit has warning lights on the side mirrors as wellas a backup alarm that beeps when something is

behind you. We also have side mirrors that actuallytilt down to show you the curb as you reverse. It’salso true, that with all these safety features, I still

backed up into my son’s car! BAM! The first wordout of my mouth was “sorry.” You see, this SUV is Debbie’s baby. I’m the guy

who buys a 1994 Mustang … twice … she’s theone who gets her purchase right on the first try!

Deb was actually quite calm, and when we sur- veyed the scene, there was surprisingly no damageto either vehicle! Now, “The Walking Dead” was

on, and that’s a show where I am so scared andfocused, that I’m aware of little else. In fact, there

have been episodes where I’ve been so scared, I’mnot sure if my bladder didn’t empty a bit! Twentyminutes into the show, Deb came down and whis-pered, “did you tell Brennen yet?”

“Tell me what?” Brennen asked, with a look ofsuspicion on his face. So, I explained the wholething and reassured him that everything was fineand there was no damage. Silence followed.

“Huh,” Brennen said. “You always taught us to be honest. When were you planning to be honest?”

“I’m sorry, I got watching the zombies … I for-got!” I lamely replied.

Brennen stared at me and with a sarcastic tone(much harsher than necessary, by the way) stated,“you know, something like this shows a guy a lotabout another guy’s character.”

He had me … I was a goner, and all I could do was keep apologizing while the show was paused.

I tried the old ‘husband strategy’ of changing thesubject.

“You know what protected your car Brennen was all the layers of dirt on it. When’s the last time you washed it?”

“Nice try, Dad. You hit my parked car with oneof the top Safety Rated SUVs on the market,” hemocked.

So, while he refereed basketball, I decided I’d, you know, make up for this. I gassed up his beast,and took it to the car wash. The first stall keptdropping all my coins through, and I had to backout to another one. The only thing on my mind

was “don’t hit anything!”So, I put down the driver’s side back window to

see, got into a stall, threw in the coins, and pro-ceeded to spray the hot, soapy water through thatsame back window that I hadn’t raised!

It was only for a few seconds, but enough to bring a lustrous sheen to his back seats! This time,I ’fessed up right away, and told him he had theshiniest back seats in town! Sometimes “it takes a

village to raise a dad” and teach him that honestyis the best policy!

(“Fule for Thought” is a slice of life humourouscolumn that appears in the Strathmore Times, writ-ten by long-time resident, town councillor, high school teacher, coach, husband and father of two – Pat Fule. If you would like to get in touch with Pat, you can send him an e-mail at [email protected])

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KEVIN SORENSON, M.P., CROWFOOT

PARLIAMENTARY REPORT

At home in Alberta, we have all been concernedabout the recent release of a propaganda videofrom the terrorist organization Al-Shabaa call-ing for jihadist attacks to be targeted at a seriesof shopping centers in the West, including WestEdmonton Mall. Shortly after the threats were re-leased, the Edmonton Police Service and RCMPresponded stating that while there is no imminentthreat, police are taking the issue seriously. According to media reports following the threats,

while visitors to the mall noticed an increase insecurity presence, there has been no detectabledrop in the number of shoppers. As your Memberof Parliament, I am proud that our fellow Alber-tans north of us are not intimidated. Under theleadership of our Prime Minister Stephen Harper,our government has been steadfast insisting thatthe Government of Canada, our military and secu-rity forces, and Canadians themselves will not beintimidated by threats from any terrorist organiza-tion.

Canada’s national security agencies will not hes-itate to take all appropriate actions to counter any

terrorist threat to Canada, our citizens and our in-terests around the world. It is however importantthat we remain vigilant. The international jihadist movement has de-

clared war on us. We are being targeted simply because these terrorists hate our society and the values we represent and hold dear.

That is why we have put forward legislative pro-posals for Parliament to debate that will work toprotect Canadians from jihadi terrorists. Canadi-ans want to maintain a good balance between the

rights and freedoms that define our society andthe need to protect ourselves from the harm beingthreatened by jihadists. That is also why Canada isnot sitting on the sidelines – as some would haveus do – and we are joining our allies in supportingthe international coalition in the fight against ISIL. At the end of March, Parliament will be asked

to consider further efforts that may extend andexpand the current mission against ISIL – and whether Canada should extend our mission toSyria and Libya. We will need to assess what ournation can contribute and how we can best be ofassistance to the efforts of our allies who are con-tinuing the flight.

Previous generations of Canadians have grap-pled with these issues. In WWI, the world learnedabout Canada’s willingness to help from the greatheroics and sacrifice of our nation.

In the ensuing global conflicts (WWII, Korea,and most recently Afghanistan) the world learnedthat Canada is serious about protecting our way oflife. While we live in a peaceful and strong demo-cratic nation that we built together under the ruleof law, we must defend our freedoms - freedomssuch as the right to privacy, lawful advocacy, pro-test, dissent and artistic expression, as we have

always done historically. With that said, let’s go tothe mall!If you have any questions or concerns regard-

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selves ‘Christian,’ livingby the same moral code(which God wrote on thehearts of men)? Is it simply

tradition to be ‘Christian’by default, if one does notclaim any other specificreligion? How can thatproduce what some maycall ‘fanatics’?Love, in a nutshell, is thegospel.‘Gospel’ meaning a mes-sage that is nearly toogood to be true! God’s truelove for mankind is what

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tice (pause and think about

that). The Bible revealswho God is: He is bothLove and Justice. Therewas a price to be paid for

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the reason He createdus in the first place. HowHe paid it! Sin no longer

stands between us andGod. The Justice in Godhas been appeased byHis Love. You and I had all

this done for us, to receiveas a gift; or refuse. Myinclination was to receiveall that had been done forme. The words to the song‘How many Kings’ by theband ‘Down here,’ piercesmy heart every time I hearit: “No other Father gaveup his Son for me - OnlyOne did that for me...”

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Dear Friends

Serving as the Member of the Legislative Assem-

bly of Alberta for the constituents of Strathmore-Brooks has been a privilege and honour. I havehad the opportunity to meet many interestingindividuals and to work with great community-minded groups dedicated to building our commu-nities, and I want to thank them for the servicethey give to our constituency and its people. We are very blessed to have diverse and dynam-

ic industries in Alberta, and in my travels acrossthe province for both political and private-sector business, I have had the opportunity to experi-ence many of these companies excelling in their work, and providing sustainability for Albertans.

For the past 11 years, I have spent much of mytime working away from home as an oil/gas drill-ing consultant and now as your MLA. My familyand I own and operate a cattle ranch; however,that family business has taken a back seat to mytime away from home. My wife and I have recent-ly been re-evaluating our business and reconsid-ering concentrating on it for the benefit of our boys. Our young sons are interested in expand-

ing our agriculture operation and my wife and Ilook forward to working with them to achieve this

goal, and helping get them set up for their futures. Therefore, my family and I have decided that this will be our focus.

We have, therefore, decided I will finish my cur-rent term in politics and then take a step back forthe time being. I will not seek re-election at thistime. While I am stepping away from full-time po-

litical life, I will remain involved in serving ourcommunity and province. I am proud to supportPremier Prentice and his plan for restoring Alber-ta’s fiscal foundation and his vision for Alberta’sfuture.

My time as your MLA has truly been a remark-able experience and I am grateful for all thefriendships I’ve made.

Maggie, our sons and I would like to thank theconstituents of Strathmore-Brooks and the peopleof Alberta for giving me the opportunity to servethem in public office.

Jason Hale MLA

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Times Contributor

The glee, dance and Blackfoot classes of Strath-more High School have joined with drummersfrom Siksika Nation to create and perform NewBlood, the story of Siksika Chief Vincent YellowOld Woman.

Creation of the show began early in the school year, when teacher Deanne Bertsch invited herdance students to work with students from theBlackfoot class to devise a show based on PeterGabriel’s New Blood soundtrack. They invitedparents of the Blackfoot students to give input,and to perform traditional music and dances inthe program. The program took focus when they received

two poems – Words to a Grandchild by Chief Dan

George, and The Indian in Me, by the currentchief of the Siksika Nation, Vincent Yellow Old Woman, whose grandson Hayden attends Strath-more High School. The Indian in Me is about the chief’s experience

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How the show grew from there is “amazing,”Bertsch says.

“It feels kind of divine,” which fits, she says, because, “The whole show is a prayer. The showstarts with the Blackfoot Prayer that’s really im-portant to the Blackfoot people ... Words to aGrandchild is kind of a prayer too.”

“Our biggest hope was that we would honourthe Blackfoot people and the First Nations peo-ple.”

She felt that’s exactly what happened whenthey gave their first performance in Strathmore.

“The parents and grandparents and all the peo-ple that came from Siksika ... were just kind of blown away by their kids and by the show and bythe story they were telling,” she says. “They werereally moved and they said that it was bringingabout healing for their people.” Vincent Yellow Old Woman himself was in the

audience, and “he was really happy,” Bertsch says.“He said he didn’t expect (the show) to have thepower that it had.” They were invited to perform New Blood on the

Siksika Nation, and more invitations began flow-ing in. They performed in Drumheller in January,and this month, they’ll take it to the University ofLethbridge and Big Secret Theatre in Calgary.

Bertsch says the show also brings greater un-

derstanding and compassion to non-native audi-ences. Audience members keep saying “they wantso badly for Hayden’s character to overcome allthese trials,” she says, and it’s all the more power-ful because these trials aren’t fiction. “Those arereal trials that so many First Nations people hadto live with.” The story and its telling have affected Bertsch

and the students just as deeply. She considers it ahuge gift that she’s had the opportunity to devel-op friendships with parents of Blackfoot students.

“Even more important,” she says, is “the waythat it has brought our students together, becauseeven in Strathmore High School where kids fromSiksika have gone for years and years, there’s stillsuch separation. But now I’m seeing my danceclass students becoming friends with the Black-

foot students.”Seeing the response of those who lived thisstory originally has had the strongest impact onthem.

“For all of us, the students and myself,” Bertschsays, “just seeing the elders, especially when weperformed at Siksika, with tears flowing downtheir faces and embracing those kids and saying‘thank you, thank you for doing this,’ and show-

ing the kids how much it meant to them – that was prettypowerful.

“The students and I think that this is the most importantshow we’ve ever done and probably will ever do because ithas the power to heal. It’s an important story that everyoneshould hear and see.”

New Blood performs at the Big Secret Theatre in Calgaryon March 14 at 7:30 p.m., or March 15 at 2 p.m. and 7:30p.m. For tickets call 403-294-9494 or go to www.artscom-mons.ca.

Vincent Yellow Old Woman, played by his grandson Hayden,

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Polonich has been very thrilled with the response of theplayers.

“I sent off an e-mail because these requests come quite

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“And because there is so many alumni in the Calgary area, you quickly get 10-15 responses.”

He added that the players like to come to these events justto give back.

“They like giving back, and it’s a fun way for us to get to-gether, (enjoy the) camaraderie and the jokes in the dressingroom, those things will never go away,” he said.

Polonich was involved in helping the committee with ideasof fundraising for the event and came up with giving peo-ple the opportunity to auction themselves off to play in thegame.

“It went great, they’re apparently sweet players that havepaid to play with us. They get a Flames jersey and we’ll auto-graph the jersey for them and they get to dress in our dress-ing room and hang with the guys, it’s a great experience forthem,” said Polonich. The lucky auction winners were Derek Alce from Carse-

land, John Gauvin of Strathmore and Keith Van Bavel, alsofrom Strathmore. The coach’s spot was unable to be auctioned off, however,

they still raised over $1,000 for the games.

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Justin Seward Photos

Schools in Strathmore took part in An-ti-bullying day on Feb. 25. Many stu-dents wore pink to show support forthe initiative to prevent bullying.

Pink strongagainstbullying

Strathmore High School

Wheatland Elementary

Westmount Elementary

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Crowther Memorial Junior High School


Jaylin MacLean (l) and Kaia Gron (r) organized achew gum and wear your hat day at Westmount

School on Jan. 29 as a school spirit day. Stu-dents were allowed to wear a hat and chew gumin school, which is normally against the rules. Ifthey did wear a hat and chew gum, students wereasked to bring in change (a loonie or a toonie) toraise money for World Vision. The girls raised$413 and donated it on Feb. 27. Youth and stu-dent engagement representative for World VisionIsabella Pacchiano (centre) said the money willgo to water projects, to schools that don’t havebooks, for students who don’t know how to readand other projects that help make life better forthose in need. It was very powerful for the girlsto know that their money was going to improvingschools which, in turn, will help kids learn to readand write.

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On Feb. 27 Mark Strahl, MP for Chilli-wack-Fraser Canyon, and parliamentarysecretary to the minister of aboriginal af-fairs announced funding in the amount of$8.9 million for the new school being builton Siksika Nation.

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This April a new business is coming to Strath-more next to Gold Key Registry. Dannah Davies,owner of Sweet, will be opening a manufacturinglocation for their toffee, brittle and other sweets.It will not be a retail location, but samples will beavailable. It’s expected to open in April.

Sweet tooth love

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The Royal Canadian Legion pre-sented a cheque for $4,275 tothe Air Cadets squadron in rec-ognition of paying back their feesfor the duties they do for themand poppy sales. On hand forthe presentation were CadeyLiaison Ray Deschenes, LegionBranch Service Officer DonGood, Poppy Fund Chair Brian

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Brentwood ElementaryPrincipal Mrs. Huntleywas welcomed to schoolwith a little surprise fromher staff on Feb. 23. Shewas presented with a 60fossil sign for her 60thbirthday and a bunch oflittle dinosaurs surround-ing her.

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JUSTIN SEWARD

Times Reporter

The 2015 #1 Hoops basketball program isshaping up to be anotherenjoyable one for youngplayers in the Strathmorearea.

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of the program.“There will be an hour

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game,” said Gieck. “We’llhave new games anda couple new coaches

which is exciting. We al-ready have lots of kidssigned up, just from re-turning players.” The new coaches will

use their knowledge tohelp the kids along withskill development.

“I have six new coachesand like to have many aspossible just for one-on-one, the kids love having

them,” said Gieck. “(For)them to learn the gameof basketball, the rules,how to behave on and offcourt. I’m a big believer

in respect for the parents,teammates, even if you’resitting on the bench wait-ing to go on, you knowhow to act.” The fee for the program

is $98.95 and it covers thecourt time, water bottle,

jersey and basketballs theplayers get. The camp will begin

on May 4 and goes until June 22 at the junior highschool. Deadline for reg-istration will be April 20.

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Strathmore gymnast Montana Fair- bairn, 12, recently competed in EliteCanada held in Quebec Jan. 29-Feb.1. The young athlete has been train-

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She now takes part in approximately10 competitions per year, and trains sixdays a week at Stampede City Gymnas-tics Club in Calgary.

“I train every day except for Saturdayfor four and a half hours, except for Wednesday which is only three and ahalf,” said Fairbairn. That hard work is paying off. Fair-

bairn is currently ranked seventh inCanada in the High Performance Nov-ice Category, which her coach JudyHolmes says is a tremendous accom-plishment.

“She is a young up-and-coming ath-lete still learning to compete with lotsof potential,” said Holmes.

Fairbairn has a goal of making it tothe Olympics, and her first chance to be eligible will be in Japan 2020.

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work hard enough and be consistentenough to be named to the Junior Na-tional Team.

“She needs to continue to add highlevel International difficulty content to

all her routines and work at executingthese skills to the highest possible lev-el,” said Holmes.

“Once attaining National Team statusshe will have many more opportuni-ties to gain the much-needed experi-ence competing for Canada as a juniorin high level International invitationalsand championships. These challenges will aid her in dealing with the stressesthat surround trials to attaining SeniorNational Team status which leads toOlympic Trials.”

Fairbairn will be competing in Na-tionals again this year and is excitedabout her new floor routine. Workingthe mat, showing off, smiling and danc-ing for the judges is still her favouritepart of the sport.

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JUSTIN SEWARD

Times Reporter

The Strathmore U13 and U14 club volleyball team is getting prepared to start their

inaugural season, and the players are veryexcited to get it underway. The team was established in early January

by two coaches, Vito Peraino and Greg Ap-pleyard, who co-coached volleyball at HolyCross Collegiate earlier in the year.

“We coached the Grade 7 and 8 HCC teamtogether this year and I think we’ve seenhow much enthusiasm, and how much thosegirls appreciated and enjoyed themselves,”said Appleyard. “We just had discussionson if it was worthwhile trying to continueon with the program and the only thing I

wanted to make sure is that we had a ladycoach on the bench as well. Lindsay Hallfrom Crowther said she’d be happy with

work with the system, when she committedthen we started to put out feelers to see who

would be interested.” The interest was high and the coaches

had no choice but to make two teams out ofthe turn out they got.

“I think 27 girls come out to try-out andour ideal situation was that we were goingto pick a travel team and have a develop-mental team. But because of how manypeople we had try out, we decided just todo practices where we had a U13 with somedevelopmental and then a U14 team,” said

Appleyard. The team wants to compete at a higher

caliber of volleyball, but know they willhave to rely on the experienced players.

“We’ve already entered the U14’s in na-tionals. We’re trying to be competitive at a

provincial level but in your first couple of years it tough to compete right off the bat because some of these girls have been play-ing for the last few years,” said Appleyard.“We’re going to set up some exhibitiongames with these other towns, Brooks, Aird-rie and Calgary club teams. We’ll probablycompete in two to three tournaments andprovincials.” The cost is $400 to play for the travel team

because of various expenses. The team will play in some exhibition

games in Strathmore throughout the year. Appleyard wants to thank all the people

that are volunteering to run the club as hesaid it could not be run without the count-less hours that they are putting in.

Chaos spike intoinaugural season

JUSTIN SEWARD

Times Reporter

The UFA Bisons thought they would have had a muchstiffer test from the Calgary Royals, but instead they playeda fundamentally sound series en route to sweeping it 3-0.

In the 5-4 Game 1 win on Feb. 26, assistant coach SandyHenry thought it was a good indication of how well the

boys really played.“I think the key for us is that we’ve played closer to 60

minutes than maybe we did in the first series against theFlames,” said Henry. “When we started out at the Stu on

Thursday, we got out to a real good start, we were physi-cal. We put a lot of pressure on their guys and turnedsome pucks over and finished when we needed to.”

Kyle Gordon, Jordan McConnell, Barrett Sheen, WillConley and Quaid McBean scored in the victory The Royals came out flat in Game 2 on Feb. 28 and the

Herd was able to take advantage of it as they dominatedfrom start to finish in a 5-0 victory.

“(In Game 2) we got out to a great start, we got puckspushed deep (and) put some pressure on their defense,”said Henry. “We started being physical with them and gotthat goal and just started to role.

“We were able to play four lines and they were excep-tional. They did the things we asked, we had a defensivepresence getting back.”

Conley, Zach Vinnell, Austin Cameron, Cole Noble andGary Haden scored in the win.

Game 3 saw the Bisons thump the Royals 9-2 in theseries clinching game and head coach Dan MacDonald

gave credit to his goalie for weathering the storm early on.“Well it sure went our way, everything we shot went

in,” said MacDonald. “Kurtis (Chapman) was very goodin the first period, I thought they were all over us – you

wouldn’t know it by the 4-0 score – and their shots werequality shots.

“We were really getting to be resilient – they got a cou-ple of goals early in the second period and maybe theycould have got some momentum, but we just refused toallow it.”

He did admit that it was a slow start for the team andthe players got ahead of themselves.

“We came out flat in the second and I think we thought we had it won and they got momentum and it was 4-2 af-

ter two and we got that fifth goal and that really set them back,” said MacDonald.

Haden led the way with a hat trick, while captain ShaneFraser had two. McConnell, Noble, Sheen and Markus La-

vallee all added singles in the win. The Bisons will face either the Calgary Buffaloes or Le-

thbridge Hurricanes in the Chrysler Division Final.MacDonald fully expects to play the Buffaloes and

knows it will be

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