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Located above the post office in downtown Stettler is a hidden treasure for parents and young children looking for fun activi-ties and friend-making opportu-nities.

The treasure is the free ac-tivity program known as Par-ent Link, which closed its 2014 year out with a “Messy Art” day where kids could paint with sparkles, sparkle-glue, markers and paints.

The kids, however, were more interested in playing with the fabulous playsets and the costumes than working on the messy art, leaving parents to complete the projects as they drove around as firefighters and police officers, climbed moun-

tains, and crawled through deep, “dangerous” underground tun-nels (also known as cardboard tubes).

Vicki Callianteris was at the Messy Art day with her son, three-and-a-half year-old Mason Proven. Proven was determined to become everything he could be, starting out as a police offi-cer, graduating to a firefighter, and closing off his career as a doctor.

“Mason has been (here) two or three times now,” Callian-teris said, explaining that her husband brought him by the first few times. “Now that we know about it, (we’ll be here more). We didn’t know about this at all.”

According to Candice Magee, the parent link program assis-tant, it’s a common comment

from new guests at the play pro-gram.

“We’ve been (above the post office) for six years and most people don’t even know we’re here,” she said.

When parents find out, though, they tend to be long-term friends of the program, which offers free activities for parents and their toddlers.

“Some days, I think the par-ents have more fun than the kids,” Magee said with a laugh.

Tiffany Gopfrich was super-vising her son, Liam, who was determined to become a master builder, building towers out of blocks. The four-year-old had to rebuild several times as fire-fighter Mason drove his car into the tower repeatedly.

“We just found out about (par-ent link) recently ourselves,”

Liam’s mom noted.The program has several dif-

ferent activities for January planned out, including the return of some regular programming and some unique opportunities.

On Tuesdays between 10 a.m. and noon is Messy Art Tuesday, with Music and Movement fol-lowing on Wednesday during the same time period. On Friday, again 10 a.m. to noon, is Mixed Up Fridays, featuring different themes. This Friday, Jan. 9, is bouncy day, where the upstairs toy area will be cleared out and bouncy houses inflated for kids to enjoy.

Parent Link is found upstairs at the post office building. Ac-cess to the second floor is not through the doors leading to the post office, but by the doors by the outdoor message board.

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Stettler’s youngest firefighter, three-year-old Mason Stettler’s youngest firefighter, three-year-old Mason Proven, loses his hat as he crawls through a cardboard Proven, loses his hat as he crawls through a cardboard tunnel at Stettler’s Parent Link on Dec. 30.tunnel at Stettler’s Parent Link on Dec. 30.

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Joel van der VeenINDEPENDENT REPORTER

Stettler music lovers got a late dose of holiday cheer when the Cantus Choir pre-sented its annual Christ-mas concert last weekend — about three weeks later than usual.

The choir had scheduled its concert for Dec. 14, but had to postpone after direc-tor Gordon Moorlag slipped on the ice on his way to the gym, bruising his ribs and wrenching his knee.

With their leader tem-porarily out of commis-sion, the choir delayed the concert till the evening of Sunday, Jan. 4, when it was held at the Stettler Alliance Church, drawing an appre-ciative crowd of about 70 people.

“People still came out four weeks later, so it’s good,” said Moorlag, ex-plaining that the choir has developed “a dedicated au-dience” that knows what to expect from them.

The concert went on with the same setlist that had been planned for Decem-ber, ranging from hymns and Christmas standards to pop songs and an original composition by Moorlag.

“It’s a bit of everything, which the choir likes, and I like, and the audience likes,” he explained.

Neil Pinder served as the emcee for the evening, in-troducing the performances by the 18-member choir, and throwing in the occa-sional joke, like referring to Moorlag as a “benevolent dictator.”

The choir opened with “Gratias Tibi Deus (Thanks

Be To God),” an original song written by Moorlag and developed around the Latin phrase. Other classi-cal pieces featured included George Frederic Handel’s “Lascia Ch’io Pianga” and

Joseph M. Martin’s “Morn-ing of Promise.”

Pop offerings included “Days of Wine and Roses” from the 1962 film of the same name, the Pretend-ers’ “I’ll Stand By You,” Gordon Lightfoot’s “Song for a Winter’s Night” and Michael W. Smith’s “All is Well.”

The choir also performed the hymn “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” as well as Christmas songs like “Born

in Bethlehem,” “The Huron Carol,” and “Gaudete,” dat-ing back to the 16th century and repopularized by the folk group Steeleye Span in 1973.

Close to half of the setlist was performed without instruments (a cappella); other songs were performed to recorded music, or with piano accompaniment by alto Betty Stokoe. Flautist Jenny Munholland accom-panied the choir on “Song

of Mary.”After receiving a stand-

ing ovation, the choir con-cluded the concert with the encore “Deep Peace.”

Moorlag said he was very pleased with the results, es-pecially given that the choir had not had a full rehearsal since Dec. 7. They warmed up extensively prior to Sun-day’s show, which served to “tweak the memory cells,” in Moorlag’s words.

“We didn’t have to de-

lete anything because of the time off,” said Moorlag, adding that the choir began rehearsing in September, gathering weekly on Sun-day nights.

Moorlag has directed the choir since 1981, when he arrived in Stettler from Windsor, Ont., to teach music. At that time it was known as the Stettler Mad-rigal Singers and consisted solely of teachers from the public school division.

The choir later grew to include members from the greater community, and it was renamed — reflecting a change in repertoire and style — to the Cantus Choir, taking its name from the Latin word for “singing.”

The Cantus Choir also traditionally holds a spring concert just prior to Eas-ter, in addition to its annual Christmas performance. For more information, visit cantuschoir.com.

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Gordon Moorlag (top left) directs the Cantus Choir during a last-minute warm-up before its concert at Stettler Alliance Church on Sunday, Dec. 4.

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Stacey LavallieINDEPENDENT REPORTER

The ‘pop pop pop’ people heard in Stettler shortly be-fore 5 p.m. New Year’s eve wasn’t fireworks being set off early, but was instead gunfire, leaving one person seriously wounded and an-other on the lam.

A 37-year-old Stet-tler man was airlifted by STARS to Foothills Hospi-tal in Calgary with two non-life-threatening gun-shot wounds, where he is now recovering from his serious injuries.

RCMP identified the shooter as Darren James Bauer, 33, who was al-ready being sought on a Canada-wide warrant for 12 offences, some of which were issued by RCMP in Vancouver, Rocky Moun-tain House and Red Deer. After the Dec. 31 shooting, a warrant was issued for at-tempted murder, as well.

According to Stettler RCMP detachment com-

mander Sgt. Duncan Bab-chuk, Bauer and the victim were “chasing each other” through town before the chase led to a loud smashing collision on 58 Street and 50a Avenue, behind the ho-tel and Dairy Queen. There, Bauer shot the victim twice before fleeing the scene in a stolen blue Dodge quad-cab pick-up truck.

Less than 24-hours later, though, Bauer was stopped by the Calgary Police Ser-vice in the truck, along with his girlfriend and kids. Though he was armed, he gave himself up peacefully and without incident.

According to Babchuk, the investigation was hand-ed to the Airdrie RCMP’s General Investigative Ser-vice (GIS) unit, otherwise known as a plainclothes unit, because of the out-standing Canada-wide war-rants and because it was the nearest RCMP detach-ment to Calgary. The Cal-gary police handed off the case rather than deal with it

themselves because of the national aspect of the mat-ters.

At the time of arrest, Bauer was found to be in the possession of drugs and

firearms, including the fire-arm used in the shooting of the Stettler victim.

Bauer next appears in provincial court in Red Deer on January 9.

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This window at William E. Hay Composite High School is but one of several damaged panes after a person decided to use the school as a target with an air rifle. The electronic sign in the school parking lot was also damaged.

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The Stettler RCMP are asking for the public’s assistance in finding the person or persons responsible for van-dalism to William E. Hay Composite High School over the Christmas holi-day break.

During the break, the north windows of the high school office and the elec-tric sign in the parking lot were used for target practice by someone using an air-rifle (bb gun or pellet gun).

According to Const. Bill Lewad-niuk, “there were a large number of pellet rounds shot on the property, and the school received a substantial

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Stacey LavallieINDEPENDENT REPORTER

Cody Borek considers himself a happy person, so as he went through a bookstore and saw a woman reading a “double dictionary thick” book on how to find happiness, he racked his brain for a way to help her find happiness.

He couldn’t think of anything. At least, not until after he bought his books and found himself beside his brand-new vehicle in the parking lot.

He and his wife, Eva, had just pur-chased it from Aspen Ford and it came with a free round-trip airfare for two to Hawaii with a five-day stay at a five-star hotel. It occurred to him that he didn’t really need a trip, so he broached the idea of giving it away with his wife, who came on board with the idea.

The Boreks decided to give the trip away to someone in Alberta, a person nominated by others for their kind and giving nature.

The person being nominated should be “a person who you feel lives as Christ would want them to live,” Borek said, but noted that religion won’t be a factor in picking a prize winner.

Christ preached a message of being “loving, caring, forgiving, humble and selfless” people, Borek said. It’s those traits he’s looking for, not what god or faith people personally find faith in.

“Do unto others as you would have done unto yourself,” Borek said.

Before he could launch his give-away, though, Borek had to get As-pen Ford on board. The trip, as given, was non-transferable, meaning Borek couldn’t actually give it away. After a

brief discussion about what he wanted to do with the prize with the dealership, though, they allowed Borek to transfer the trip to the winner, yet to be chosen.

Once word of the nomination process got out, though, another person – an anonymous Saskatchewan man – do-nated another $500 to whoever wins the trip, so they’ll have spending money for the adventure.

The Boreks set up a Facebook page on Dec. 25, 2014, to collect nomina-tions and by Jan. 5 had collected more than 10,000 nominations, not all from Alberta.

“Some of these stories really stick with you,” he said. One person who came to mind easily was an RCMP

constable Robert Hynes in Barrhead. The nomination includes a video of the RCMP constable dancing in front of a bunch of students.

Another person that came to mind for Borek is a real-life Santa, John Myslicki of Niton Junction, who currently has more than 500 nominations. The man is a pillar in his community, selflessly giv-ing to others.

Nominations close at the end of Janu-ary, and the top names will be placed in a hat. The name drawn will be the win-ner.

Though Borek started this after seeing the happiness seeker in a Chapters store, the affect has been world-wide. People are nominating people from all over – other parts of Canada, the United States, Australia and elsewhere.

Someone, inspired by Borek’s give-away, has set up one in Ontario – a weekend getaway to Niagara Falls, Borek said. And if he can manage to find sponsors, Borek said he hopes to do a bigger giveaway, a world-wide one so that everyone can take a moment to recognize those who make differences.

Borek said he’s had people call him, crying.

“They’ve seen themselves nominated on the page, have seen what other people are saying about them,” he explained. “It’s made them feel so appreciated.”

And no matter who goes home with the trip to Hawaii, that’s the real win.

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July 9: Dreams turn to reality as skate park fans break ground

On Friday, July 4, mem-bers of the Stettler Skate Park Committee joined Town of Stettler Mayor Dick Richards, skateboard-ers and parents in breaking ground at the new site.

July 16: Fish-free week-end draws in families

Several of the anglers had never lifted a fishing rod in their lives, but it didn’t stop them from taking advantage of the opportunity provid-ed by the Kids Can Catch event held at West Stettler Park on Saturday, July 12.

July 23: Alberta debt clock visits Stettler

Every day, as Alberta’s debt climbs higher, Derek Fildebrandt sees his chil-dren’s future being eroded. Unwilling to be silent, he goes from town to town, bringing behind him the debt clock.

Fildebrandt was in Stet-tler Tuesday, July 15, parked out front of the Town of Stettler office.

July 30: Full house for RCMP musical ride

On July 22, the Stet-tler Agricultural Society brought in the Musical Ride, which is touring Que-bec and Alberta this year.

Aug. 6: Jewel Theatre to lower curtain for final time

The Jewel Theatre, locat-ed at the junction of 50 Av-enue and 49 Street, is clos-ing its doors on Aug. 15, as a result of a management decision to end the opera-tion and sell the property.

Aug. 13: Alberta Métis come together in annual meeting

Stettler played host this past weekend, Aug. 8 to 10, to Métis from all over Al-berta as they came together for their annual general meeting and youth confer-ence.

Aug. 20: Firefighters work to dispel fear before emergencies

It’s a hot summer day when Stettler and District Volunteer Fire Department lieutenant Steven Notman kneels on the asphalt in full gear, all so children under four years of age can get a close look and poke and prod at him.

Aug. 27: Clean, fresh water flows into Big Val-ley, Donalda

On Aug. 20, at the Shir-ley McClellan Regional Water Services Commis-sion water transfer site, dig-nitaries from the province of Alberta, the County of Stettler, Town of Stettler, and villages of Big Valley and Donalda joined mem-bers of the commission for a ceremonial turning of the taps to mark the comple-tion of the second and third stages of its water delivery Master Plan, which would see clean, potable water de-livered to communities all through Stettler County and parts of the neighbouring counties of Lacombe and Camrose.

Sept. 3: Back to school in Erskine

The halls of Erskine School, west of Stettler, were loud with the sound of children’s voices and banging lockers as students came in from recess before their lunch.

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continued from page 4For the past five or so

years, the school has been having recess before lunch, a project that lets kids run off some energy before eat-ing.

Sept. 10: Inaugural Boomtown Music Festival has strong start

Ol’ MacDonald’s Resort north of Erskine was home this past weekend to the in-augural Boomtown Music Festival, a country-western/bluegrass weekend of mu-sic performances.

Sept. 17: Skating’s great at new Stettler park

At three-and-a-half years old, Skyler Grams is just a beginner on the board, but he was as excited as any-one to try out Stettler’s new skate park.

Skyler and his father, Chad, were part of the crowd of skaters that came by to check out the park at its unofficial opening in West Stettler Park on Satur-day, Sept. 13.

Sept. 24: A place of their own, at last

First they got a new play-ground, and then they got to see their principal and vice-principal get hit in the face with pies. Altogether, it was a great day for the 450 stu-dents of Stettler Elementary School.

Oct. 1: A crack and a whack at Stettler PAC

Stettler’s Kimberlee St-adelmann and the Acciden-tal Humour Co. brought their latest creation to a hometown crowd last week at the Performing Arts Cen-tre.

Oct. 8: Food bank’s bare shelves filled to brim

Sirens ringing and lights flashing, Stettler Regional Fire and Rescue prowled up and down Stettler’s streets collecting food for the an-nual fall food drive for the Stettler Food Bank.

Oct. 15; Superintendent to review issues with Stet-tler schools

The staff, students and parents of Stettler’s public schools will soon have the chance to have their say on the issues facing those schools and what could be done to address them.

Oct. 22: Some pig! Prin-cipals pucker up in por-cine prank

Two staff members at Stettler Elementary School got up close and personal

with a young piglet last week to reward students for raising more than $15,000 for the Terry Fox Founda-tion.

Oct. 29: Gala event kicks off $1-million campaign

Each story was different, but the message was the same: it’s sometimes hard to appreciate what we’ve got until we really need it. The stories served to illus-trate why a crowd of close to 200 had gathered for a gala event at the Stettler Community Hall on Satur-day, Oct. 25.

Nov. 5: Geddes family bringing movies back to town

Stettler’s silver screen will soon be aglow once again, thanks to a local fam-ily that hopes to have the Jewel Theatre back up and running by the end of No-vember.

Nov. 12: Grade 11 class examines Canada at war

The students’ projects were on display at William E. Hay Composite High School on Tuesday, Nov. 4, where they were viewed by their peers and other guests, including members of the local Royal Canadian Le-gion branch.

Nov. 19: Taming the Dragons: Grade 2 Stettler student a hit on CBC-TV

showIt took Mya Prehn mere

minutes to win the hearts of the five investors on CBC’s Dragons’ Den.

The seven-year-old Grade 2 student from Stet-tler — an entrepreneur in her spare time —became the youngest guest in the show’s history with her ap-pearance, taped in March and aired on Wednesday, Nov. 12.

Nov. 26: Kitchen fire closes Stettler restaurant

The quick thinking of the owner of the White Goose Restaurant at the sight of smoke coming from the kitchen door saw firefight-ers on scene within min-utes, likely saving the res-taurant thousands of dollars in damages.

Dec. 3: Festival of lights shines through cold, snowy weather

When the heavy snow began to fall on Thursday, event organizers at Stet-tler’s annual Festival of Lights felt a twinge of wor-ry — but despite the scary roads and cold weather, people still made it out to events on Thursday, Nov. 27.

Dec. 10: Holiday check-stop raises more than $7K

Members of the commu-nity opened their wallets

big time this past weekend for the annual emergency services charity check-stop on Highway 12, as the vol-unteers brought in more than $7,000 in donations.

Dec. 17: Local teen col-lecting gifts for Edmonton hospital patients

A local teenager is en-couraging Stettler resi-dents to share the joy of Christmas with patients at Edmonton’s Stollery Chil-dren’s Hospital.

Jordan Church, 16, be-gan a campaign this month to collect donations of toys and other gifts for patients at Stollery, inspired by the children and teens she met there on her recent stays at the hospital.

Dec. 24: He made his list — and these kids were on it

Many kids dream of fly-ing to the North Pole, drop-ping in on Santa’s house and

visiting the old man himself, surrounded by toys, cookies and other sweet treats. For

a group of Stettler kids, that dream came true over the weekend.

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This holiday season was marked by grim news occupying the print media headlines and top news on TV screens informing the audience of killings, stab-bings, gun fights etc.

The shooting incident in Stet-tler on New Year’s Eve was just a reminder that how fragile peace-ful communities are because of the roaming criminal elements.

It may not be very pleasant to know but, as the residents of this oil-rich province, we might want to be prepared for an extended wave of crime and violence in the weeks and months to come in a textbook case of how a blessing is transformed into a curse by the change of circumstances.

What I have in mind is again, what else, the decline in the oil prices.

As we entered the new year, the price of oil kept falling and many wise experts say the low prices are here to stay. We have yet to

hear officially any operation be-ing suspended or shut down in the oil sands region, but the im-pact is already being felt with the news of at least partial layoffs in the Athabasca area.

And that is where the biggest problem for our public safety is likely to emerge from.

When one looks at the profile of the workforce manning the oil patch, it is easy to see many young people, many from outside the province, some of them being new immigrants, most of them single and without family respon-sibilities, some either high school or college dropouts, a majority of them without any additional skills that could make them employable in other sectors. And most of these young people, thanks to the relatively high wages paid by the oil companies, have developed expensive tastes and, one could assume, wasteful spending habits in the years they spent working

for the oil companies.Once they are laid off, it is safe

to expect, at least some of them will be easy targets for recruit-ment by criminal gangs while others may jump on the opportu-nity voluntarily to be able to con-tinue to put their hands on some big bucks so they can keep in-dulging in their spending habits.

And there you have the mak-ings of a new crime wave involv-ing everything from drugs to hu-man trafficking, theft to killings.

We have already been receiving information of increased number of car thefts and robberies in the Red Deer area; while we have no definitive evidence to prove that the rise is directly linked to the increasing unemployment among the ranks of oil patch workforce, it would not be totally unreason-able to establish a link between the two trends.

And one should not forget that the oil production in this prov-

ince is also supporting many other sectors from construction to transport to services. Once oil businesses go down, a lot of others will follow suit, thereby adding many more people to the ranks of those without a pay-check, potential recruits for or victims of crime.

It is safe to bet that none of our provincial (or federal) politicians has ever thought of the potential harm that could come from any reversal of fortunes when they so enthusiastically jumped on the bandwagon of quick and easy money promised by oil.

Our newly installed premier has already proven his recruit-ment skills by luring nine Wil-drose MLAs to his own caucus. Shouldn’t we expect him to pull out a rabbit or two from his hat to find a solution to the unemploy-ment problem by creating some recruitment miracles?

– Mustafa Eric

Much commentary has been made about the loss of an effective opposition with the imploding of the Wildrose Party. Be that as it may, the demise of Wildrose is being most seriously felt in rural and small town Alberta. Its that part of the province that provided the party with most of its support and elected most of their MLAs. Many citizens in those areas were tired of always being taken for granted as “captive” PC party voters who had no political choice and could be conveniently ignored by the government. Vot-ing Wildrose in past elec-tions gave those voters new found power and sent a message to the PC government. But alas that voting power now seems fleeting as the Wil-drose political momentum seems thwarted by the re-cent defections of many Wildrose MLAs to the governing PC party.

There is a feeling of res-ignation with many voters, particularly in southern Alberta, that the PC gov-ernment will now return to its “benign neglect” political strategy for rural areas. That approach will

almost be guaranteed if voters in those areas re-turn to electing PC party MLAs in the next election. And who could blame the government for returning to that approach, with the crash in energy industry tax and royalty revenues, they have much bigger concerns to worry about – that’s just political reality.

Part of the demise of Wildrose was due to an insightful political move by newly minted Premier Jim Prentice. Unlike the political brain trust that surrounded the previous Stelmach and Redford PC governments, he and his strategists figured out that the property rights issue was both the political club and the Achilles heel of the Wildrose Party policy platform. Even before the mass Wildrose defec-tions he introduced Bill 1 as a step to deal with the most continuous issues caused by the govern-ment’s property and land stewardship legislation. Although some analysts have implied that Bill 1 merely pays lip service to any significant changes to the existing legislation and is mostly smoke and mirrors. One suspects that

had no Wildrose defec-tions occurred and they stayed well ahead in the polls, the Premier would have introduced even more amending legisla-tion to steal the property rights issue away from Wildrose. Perhaps some Wildrose MLAs suspect-ed that was going to hap-pen and saw the loss of that political stick as cata-strophic. It would seem that was a political risk some were not willing to take.

One may ponder as to where the property rights issue now stands. Defect-ing Wildrose MLAs claim that the Premier will be making further amend-ments more in line with Wildrose Party policy. From a cynical political perspective it would seem that the Prentice govern-ment doesn’t have to do

anything at all with the issue except to make idle promises during the elec-tion. With Bill 1 and the mass Wildrose defections they have politically neu-tered the issue. That will hurt the Wildrose Party the most with rural voters.

A sure sign of the new reality would be the gov-ernment dismantling the Alberta Property Rights Advocate office. That po-sition was nothing more than a political pacifier to delude voters into think-ing that government cared about their concerns with the issue. That office had a three year appointment and I expect it will soon conveniently disappear under the guise of gen-eral government cutbacks. That would be no loss, be-ing it was a waste of tax payer dollars from the very beginning.

If the Wildrose Party wants to hang onto prop-erty rights as a major part of their policy plat-form for the next election they need to do a major revamping of their ap-proach. Just stating that Wildrose would repeal all of the land and stew-ardship legislation is not enough as the PC gov-ernment has somewhat thwarted that angle with Bill 1 even if it is a bit of a mirage. Wildrose would need a much more detailed property rights policy ap-proach that voters can sink their teeth into - its an is-sue that needs some legis-lation - it can’t be wished away. What voters need is a real vision on the issue that makes them feel good and renews the support of the faithful. Maybe start by soliciting advice on the issue from major agricul-tural, commodity and ru-ral organizations by meet-ing with their executive committees, followed up by public meetings in ru-ral areas. If the Wildrose Party does not become more visible and proac-tive on the property rights issue they will surely lose control of it and they will likely disappear.

Blessing turning into a curse

Wildrose Party demise a serious loss for rural AlbertaProperty rights may now be Achilles heel

Ahead of the heard

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2014 is history and 2015 lies before us; in fact a week is already gone! How should we approach the new year? Per-haps the following story will provide a helpful hint.

A young man nearing graduation from college had admired a beautiful sports car in the showroom of a local car dealership. His father was wealthy, so he told him that the sports car was what he wanted for graduation.

The young man watched for hints that his father might have purchased the car for him, but no visible sign appeared. On the day of his graduation his fa-ther called him into his office. He told him that he loved him and was pleased with his academic achievements. As he spoke, he simultaneously held out a beautifully wrapped gift box.

Curious, confused and visibly dis-appointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible inside, with his name engraved in gold letters on the cover. Angrily, he shouted at his father, “With your wealth all you could give me was this Bible?” He tossed the Bible onto the corner of his father’s desk and stomped out.

Years passed and the young man now had a successful business, a wonderful family and a beautiful home. However, it always bothered him how he had left his father and that he had not seen or talked with him since that graduation day.

One day his father’s lawyer called him and told him that his father had

died and left everything to him. Arriv-ing at his parent’s home, he went into his father’s office. To his surprise, the Bible still sat on the edge of the desk where he had dropped it years before. In tears, he opened the Bible and be-gan to turn the pages. His father had carefully underlined Matthew 7:11 which says, “And if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father which is in Heaven, give to those who ask Him?”

As he read those words, a car key dropped out from the back cover of the Bible. It had a tag identifying the sports car that he had so desired and a receipt with the date of his graduation, and the words “PAID IN FULL” on it.

I would suggest that if you want to find, not only what you’re looking for in life, but also what you need for life, you might want to open your Bible during 2015. I’m reasonably certain that the keys for living, as well as the accounts paid in full, that you will find within its pages will astonish you.

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The staff has had our holiday cheer and now it is time to welcome in 2015 with a bang. The Stettler Public Library has some wonderful pro-grams to keep your New Year’s resolution of vis-iting the library more of-ten.

Read and Rhyme is back after its Christmas break on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. Kids between the ages up to 5, bring your big peo-ple and enjoy some songs, rhymes, stories and play.

Tutoring Tuesdays is back from 5 to 8 p.m. to help with all those pesky homework questions. If you need help with a sin-gle concept or the whole subject has got you in knots, Tuesday is a night to come to the library for some help.

Read and Rhyme at Bo-tha School will be back on Thursday Jan. 15 at 10:30 a.m. (new time). It is the same great program as at the Stettler Public Library, just in a different location.

Something Cool after School at Erskine School returns on Fridays at 2:30 p.m. It is a fun-filled hour of crafts, stories and so much more.

Have you been want-ing to join a book club,

but you don’t want to join when you haven’t read the book? Why not join our Readers’ Circle Book Club on Thursday, Jan. 8 at 7:30 p.m.?

It is the perfect time to join a new book club as we discuss our favorite reads from the past year. New members are always welcome.

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A delegation of farmers from the County of Stettler came before the Stet-tler town council on Tuesday, Dec. 16 to plead for an examination of the new truck routes before it destroyed the viability of its seed cleaning plant.

With the new changes to the truck route, farmers coming in from certain directions now have to circle through the town be-fore reaching the plant, instead of being

able to head directly to it as before.As the group, which consisted of coun-

ty councillor Dave Grover, farmer Bob Anderson and two others, prepared to be-gin their presentation, town Mayor Dick Richards explained to them that the del-egation process did not mean there would be a solution to their issues at the meet-ing, but instead it could result in town staff being directed to look at the problem to find solutions. Then, citing an unspeci-fied conflict of interest, Richards recused himself, and Deputy Mayor Al Campbell

took the mayor’s seat.The delegation explained the seed

cleaning plant is run as a co-operative, and for the past several years had just scraped by. In the last year or two, though, it has managed to turn enough profit that the co-operative has been able to integrate some upgrades to the site.

The concern expressed by the delega-tion is that the extra few miles through town on the truck route, especially with existing construction, will send farmers to seed cleaning plants in nearby communi-ties like Bashaw or Coronation.

When council pointed out that the trips to Coronation or Bashaw were longer than the additional twists on the Stettler truck route, Anderson and Grover explained that the drive to those plants was still a straight one, not requiring farmers to go through crowded town streets or deal with tight turns against oncoming traffic.

Even if the stretch of road that was once a truck route wasn’t re-established as a truck route, if farmers with a destination of the plant could use the road, the co-operative would appreciate it, Anderson

noted. He also pointed out that the homes on the former truck route purchased the homes knowing the property was on truck routes, so to have the change to the route made potentially due to complaints was disconcerting.

Anderson concluded his presentation with a warning for council.

“If we lose this, we’ll never get it back,” he told council. “It’ll never hap-pen again.”

He noted that if the plant closes, the farmers that would be heading into Stet-tler to do business would be having to go elsewhere, which means less support for other facets of the town’s economy.

Council heard out the party, at times in-quiring about the current truck route and issues with the turns. Grover pointed out several turns against traffic where there were no slip-around or turning lanes, and where the turns were uncomfortably tight for bigger trucks that would be transport-ing the seed.

Council decided to send the matter to staff for examination, but as warned by the mayor, no decision was made.

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Joel van der VeenINDEPENDENT REPORTER

Twelve Novice hockey teams faced off in a fun tournament held at the Stettler Recreation Centre on Saturday, Jan. 3 and Sunday, Jan. 4.

The tournament featured all four Stettler Storm Novice teams — white, black, blue and yellow — as well as the Blackfalds Bulldogs, Bow Val-ley Flames, Cochrane Flyers, Endmoor Thunder, Forestburg Thunderstars, Kneehill Chiefs, May-erthorpe Mustangs and Red Deer Little Caesars.

While the scores were kept in each game, nov-

ice director CJ Oprea explained that no winners were declared at the end of the tournament, as it was intended simply as a fun event to give the kids lots of time on the ice.

“Some of the kids got their first goal,” she said, adding that each team got to play three games over the weekend.

After each game, “Heart and Hustle” awards were presented to one player on each team, and a “Freezie shootout” was also held on the ice.

The Stettler Minor Hockey Association has a total of 58 children enrolled in Novice hockey this year, divided over four teams.

Novice teams face offfor the fun of it

Joel van der Veen INDEPENDENT REPORTER

Despite coach Doug Smith’s hopes to the contrary, the Stet-tler Lightning’s first game of the new year did not kick off a new streak for the team.

The team began 2015 with a visit to the Medicine Hat Kin-plex on Sunday, Jan. 4, losing 5-2 to the Medicine Hat Cubs.

Smith said the team’s perfor-mance had good and bad sides, but acknowledged they were

struggling with “a little bit of rust in there.”

“I think we moved the puck up well last night,” he added. “Our power play was terrific.”

The team suffered with a slow start on Sunday, as the Cubs shut them out 3-0 in the first period. Smith said the team was light on the puck and slow to react.

However, the Lightning showed a marked improve-ment in the second period. The defense blocked the Cubs com-pletely and DJ Kistner scored an

unassisted goal two minutes in. Smith said the team played

“really, really well” in that pe-riod but added they missed some clear opportunities to score.

The third period, he said, was “back and forth,” as Medicine Hat racked up two more goals.

Jake Schwarzenberger scored a power play goal for Stettler, assisted by Mark Dietz and Scott Ternes, with a minute and a half remaining, bringing the final score to 5-2 in the Cubs’ favour.

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Bantam girls top Leduc with 6-3 win at home

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Krysta Froese (4) of the Stettler Bantam girls team shoots during a home game against the Leduc Ritchie Bros. Roughnecks on Sunday, Jan. 4.

Joel van der Veen/Independent reporter

Chase Anderson (10) of the Stettler novice white team shoots during a tournament game against the Cochrane Flyers on Saturday, Jan. 3. The Stettler team won the game 12-6.

Joel van der VeenINDEPENDENT REPORTER

Stettler’s Bantam girls hockey team rang in the New Year with a 6-3 win over the Leduc Ritchie Bros. Bantam female Roughnecks.

The home game, held on Sun-day, Jan. 4, saw the Stettler girls pull ahead in the second period with two consecutive goals by Jamie Lee Spady.

Spady scored a total of three goals in Sunday’s game. Kacee Ward, Madison Kuefler and Chelsey Dev-loo also scored.

In other girls’ hockey, the female Atom team visited Innisfail to face the ATB Flyers on Jan. 3, shutting them out 3-0. Paige Simpson, Gab-by Heck and Charlee Resch scored.

The next day, they travelled to play the Sundre Atom B Huskies, again winning 3-0. Ashley Lang scored twice and Gabby Heck scored once, with all three goals scored in the third period.

The Peewee girls visited the Four Nations Arena to play the Maskwa-cis Peewee female Hawks on Jan. 4, winning 9-0. Brooke Laisnez scored six goals, while Brittany Anderson, Mikayla Macey and Taylor Kobi scored the remaining three.

On Jan. 3, the Stettler OK Tire Midget Storm visited the Endmoor Vipers, winning 6-1. Kierra Scollo and Grace Chapman each scored twice, while Geri Slemp and Ashley Sharpe scored one goal each.

Atom hockeyStettler’s Atom A team hosted

Wainwright Atom A on Jan. 2, squeaking in a 5-4 win. Scoring for the home team were Quinton Hansel (twice), Devon Kerik, Skylar Hym-ers and Riley Turre.

The next day they visited Rimbey

to play the Atom A team, losing 5-1. Bret Hymers scored the lone goal for Stettler.

On Jan. 4 they travelled to face the Red Deer Sheraton team, losing 8-4. Quinton Hansel scored twice while Brady Petersen and Carter Zuk each contributed one goal.

The Atom B and Atom C team had no scheduled games this past week.

Peewee hockeyThe Peewee A team defeated the

Lacombe Peewee A Rockets 5-0 at the Clive Arena on Jan. 3. Scoring for Stettler were Shay Anderson, Clay Kneeland, Noah Duff, Andrew Chapman and Marcus Laisnez.

A Peewee B game against the La-combe Peewee B1 Rockets on Jan. 2 was postponed.

The next day, the team visited the Bentley Peewee Canucks, winning 7-2. Ty Dowling and Brier Devnich scored two goals each, while Colton Ansorger, Billy Praski and Nicholas Deaver scored one point apiece.

Bantam hockeyStettler’s Bantam B team visited

the Blackfalds Bulldogs bantam team on Jan. 3, winning 8-4. Isaac Lee scored three times, Riley Cor-nelssen scored twice, and Beau Cooper, Reese Smith and Kolby Ringdahl each scored once.

The next day they visited the Hardisty Hughenden Bantam Jets, winning 4-3. Riley Warner, Del-aney Anderson, Isaac Lee and Riley Cornelssen each scored for Stettler.

The Bantam A team had no games scheduled this past week.

Midget hockeyStettler’s Midget boys teams had

no regular season games scheduled this past week.

Lightning lose 5-2 to Cubs in first game of 2015

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“We never got a real sustained push in the third period,” Smith said.

He said he had hoped the team would get the new year off to a good start, but added he was pleased by the positive signs and would continue

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Several players were missing on Sunday ow-ing to illness or injury, but Smith noted that forward Michael Neumeier has re-turned to the ice after suf-fering a concussion.

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Lightning lose first game in 2015

Joel van der Veen INDEPENDENT REPORTER

After back-to-back losses to the Tofield Satellites this past weekend, the Big Valley Oil Kings will look for some “redemption” next time around, according to general man-ager Dustin Edwards.

The Oil Kings hosted the league-leading Satellites on Saturday, Jan. 3, losing 2-1. The teams faced off again in Big Valley the following day, with Tofield winning 6-4.

Edwards said the Kings couldn’t overcome the Satel-lites’ strengths, including their defense during penalty kills and their power play performance.

“Their specialties really outdid ours,” he said. “I didn’t think they were that strong . . . We had a pretty full roster this weekend.”

Satellites 2 Oil Kings 1On Saturday’s game, both teams were held scoreless

through the first period. Big Valley was first to score in the second period with a single goal by Luke Boyer.

Tofield turned the tables near the midpoint of the third period with two consecutive goals, the second a power play goal, and Big Valley was unable to recover, losing 2-1.

Satellites 6 Oil Kings 4In Sunday’s game, Big Valley was again first to score, as

Luke Boyer and Wyat Haustein each scored within the first 10 minutes. A goal by Tofield brought the score to 2-1 at the close of period one.

Tofield came out in full force in the second period, scor-ing three consecutive goals and shutting out Big Valley.

The Satellites scored again to open period three, giving them a commanding 5-2 lead, but the Oil Kings followed that up with a goal of their own, courtesy of Matt Kinnunen.

Pat Turville scored for Big Valley in the final minute, bringing them within spitting distance, but ultimately they could not bridge the gap. An empty-net goal for Tofield with eight seconds on the clock gave the visiting team a 6-4 victory.

“We were all over (the goalie) and we just couldn’t get that last goal to tie her up,” said Edwards.

The two losses give Big Valley a 3-4-0-2 record so far this season, putting them fourth out of five teams in the Battle River Hockey League.

The Oil Kings will host the Daysland Northstars on Fri-day, Jan. 9, followed by an away game against Tofield on Saturday, Jan. 10.

Edwards also noted that Saturday will mark the signing deadline for senior hockey teams, adding that the team is actively working to “recruit and sign a top-six forward by the weekend.”

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We certainly started off the new year with one of those January cold spells. Hopefully it will return to what they call ``normal`` temps soon.

The Tailcreek Snowbirds raised $800, which they are donating to Bar Harbour Camp. It’s not too late to donate if you want to. This can be done at the Erskine Post Office.

School is back in after a nice long time off. I’m sure the teachers were ap-preciative of the time off as well as the students. Jan. 9 is Switch a Shoe Dress Up Day when you can ex-change a shoe with a friend. Jan. 16 is Crazy Hair Dress up Day.

The parent council will hold their January meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 21 at 5 p.m. They are really in need of more parents to at-tend.

The knitting club will hold their monthly meeting

on Saturday, Jan. 17 at the seniors’ centre from l to 5 p.m. Don’t bring your knit-ting machines, but instead bring unfinished projects. They will be going out for supper after the meeting, the place to be decided at the meeting.

Coming up in Febru-ary will be the Family Day Funspiel on Monday, Feb. 16. Bring the whole family for a day of curling, games and prizes. You can call the Curling Rink at 742-5073 to register a rink.

The Erskine Recreation Board will be hosting a Skating Party on Friday, Feb. 13. This is a fam-

ily event and will include skating, music, camp fire, hot dogs and hot chocolate. This is a fun time, so don’t forget to mark your calen-dars and bring out the fami-ly. The fun begins at 7 p.m.

Don’t forget crib play-ing at the seniors’ centre on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m. You don’t have to be a se-nior to come and enjoy card playing.

To book the Waverly Club Rooms or the seniors’ centre, you can call me at 403-742-0604 or 403-742-4561 or call those numbers if you have any news you would like put in the Stet-tler Independent.

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Linda StillingerBIG VALLEY BULLETIN

Happy New Year! Christmas has come and gone and once again I have been reminded of how very fortunate we are to live in a commu-nity where the people care so much about their village and their neigh-bours. During our eight years of residency in this amazing little vil-lage, my daughter and I have often found ourselves on the receiving end of “random acts of kindness.” From “snow angels” who anonymously do away with the snow from our front walk to the ladies who so faithfully deliver their delicious home baked goodies every year just before Christmas to the amazing handmade gifts we have been so privileged to receive, the spirit of caring and shar-ing that defines this community con-tinues to amaze me.

This year the “Christmas Elf” vis-ited our home again. On the week-end before Christmas, we awoke to find four, very large, wonderfully wrapped boxes sitting on our back stoop. Bringing them into the house, we were astounded to discover a ful-ly cooked, and still warm Christmas dinner. Containers overflowed with

turkey, dressing, gravy, fresh baked buns, handmade chocolates, blue-berry cheesecake…each box opened to reveal amazing, mouthwatering goodies from the main course to desert, even beverages, much too numerous to list. We could have set our table and hosted a dinner for 10 hungry people. Included with this banquet were little notes with de-scriptions of recipes and words of encouragement for the Christmas season.

Why we have been chosen to be the recipients of these marvel-ous gifts can only be attributed to the kind and generous hearts of the wonderful people of this communi-ty. There are no words to adequate-ly express our heartfelt appreciation to our “Christmas Elf” for this mar-velous feast. Big Valley is certainly a very special place filled with some amazing people and we feel incred-ibly privileged to be part of this as-tonishing little community.

Seven players braved the frigid temperatures this past Sunday to come to the first Big Valley Inn Crib tournament of 2015. First place went to Stan Nattestad, second to Teresa Greig, third to Dorothy Annabel while Gloria Emblau took home the

booby. Dorothy Annabel won the regular draw and Caroline Pound won the 50/50. The next crib tourna-ment will be next Sunday, Jan. 11. New comers as well as the regulars are always welcome to play. Crib starts at 1:00 p.m.

The first Legion meeting for 2015 will be on Monday, Jan. 12 at the Big Valley Legion Hall beginning at 2:00 p.m.

January birthday greetings go out to Takaleah Daychief – 1, Ross An-nable – 1, Nicole Zoller – 1, Tom Fraser – 3, Jim Brenchley – 4, Marj Olive-Kilpatrick – 5, Lawrence Wilkie – 6, Art Tizzard – 8, Ariane Jensen – 8, Danny Webster – 11, Owen Jake Stewart – 11, Marguarite Kerbes – 12, Mike Noon-Ward – 12, Indianna Soboleski – 13, Don Saar – 15, Rod Miller – 17, Bill Kirtley Jr. – 17, Keelan Stefanik – 17, Re-ece Stefanik – 17, Thomas Cassidy Jr. – 17, Micah Toews – 19, Curt Watts – 22, Marian Rinehart – 25, Katherine Stillinger-Winegarden – 26, John Bolton – 26, Chad Kirtley – 27, Chase Skocdopole – 28, Austin Daychief – 28, Brady Duncan – 28, Ann Tizzard – 30, Devon Bould-ing – 31, Aaron Stewart – 31, and Adam Stewart – 31.

Visited by Christmas ElfRose Koenraadt and

Dorothy AndersonHALKIRK HERALD

Peggy and Terry Vock-eroth returned home from a visit with son Scott and Emily and their children Annika and Lyra for Christ-mas.

Mike Neilson was home visiting with mom, Anne Neilson and Bert and Cindy Neison and family.

Paul and Jacquie Diet-rich returned home from a 10-day Caribbean cruise, which the children got them for their 30 year an-niversary.

Mel and Dale Kent visit-ed with Mel’s family at her brother’s in Ardrossan, all

Mel’s siblings were there except two of them. Mel and Dale continued on to Greg and Laura’s in Lloy-dminister.

Dale Berry visited with his daughters Christie Rud-dell and Ellyn Schaffner and their families.

Carlie and Aaron Stewart along with children Brook-lynn and Cassidy and Keith Stewart were visitors with Mary Stewart.

Brad and Erica Engel hosted supper for the fam-ily. Don and Kjerene, Doris and Dennis, Diane and Wayne and their fami-lies. Brad and Erica live in Leduc.

Coming up is Bingo on Jan 8, Feb 7, Elks fish fry.

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a stick tying workshop with Dave Westwood and we’ll learn about the his-tory of lacrosse and the rules of the game.

We love the willy nilly silly old bear here at the Stettler Public Library and because of that Tues-day, Jan. 13 is Winnie the Pooh Day from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Read Winnie the Pooh books and make headbands, popcorn box-es, and honey popcorn.

Did you get a new gad-get for Christmas? If you need help with it, drop by the library on Thursday Jan. 15 at 1 p.m. for Tech Time for Seniors.

Our teen book club Spine Crackers discusses “Going Bovine” by Libba Bray on Thursday, Jan. 15 at 5:30 p.m. There are always snacks and copies of the book are available at the Library.

On Thursday, Jan. 15 at 6:30 p.m. is Chicks with Sticks. Starting a new project for the new year? Join us at the library to work on your knitting, crocheting, sewing, or whatever else you have on the go!

We are pleased to pres-ent Kids and Cash on Sat-urday, Jan. 17 at 10:30 a.m. Presented in con-junction with East Park-land Community Futures, this is a one-hour work-shop for children ages 5- 8 in which we ask: What is money? How do you make it? What can you do with it? Provide your kids with the vocabulary and tools necessary to make financial choices. You must pre-register at the library by calling 403-742-2292.

There is a lot more hap-pening in the month of January, but I have run out of room. Keep an eye out for additional activi-ties on our website (spl.prl.ab.ca) and on our Facebook page!

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KOWALCHUKWilliam (Bill) Feb.13, 1924-Jan. 1, 2015It is with great sadness that we must announce the passing of Bill Kowalchuk on January 1, 2015 at Three Hills, Alberta. Bill was born on February 13, 1924 in Ostrania, Ukraine. When he was fi ve years old, he came to Canada with his mother, Mary, and sisters, Annie, Lena and Helen. His father, George, had come over the year before. They settled in the Athabasca area for several years. In the 1940’s, Bill moved to Rumsey with his family.

On October 29, 1952, he married the love of his life, Jeanette Uttley, and they shared 62 wonderful years together. He loved being a farmer and being able to raise his family on the farm. His favorite times were when he got together with his family and friends. Bill was very active in the Rumsey community. He was one of the original members of the Rowley Grazing Association and he was involved with the UFA, 4H and Ag Society in Rumsey. He was a lifetime mem-ber of the Big Valley Elks. He liked to play ball and go curling. In his later years he took up golfi ng which he really loved. He was a member of the Trochu Golf Club for over thirty years. In 2000, Bill and Jeanette moved to Trochu. They were members of the Drop In where Bill enjoyed playing cards and visiting with his friends. Bill is survived by his lov-ing wife, Jeanette, and his fi ve chidren, Dorothy Gwynn, Bill (Becky) Kowalchuk, Marilyn (Harold) Kenzler, Kathy MacDermid (Gordan Friedley) and John (Paula) Kowalchuk, grandchildren, Heather, Erin, Lindsey (Travis), Travis, Jared,Ryan (Kelly), Daniel (Julia), David (Christine), Brandin (Stephanie), Amanda, Jayden, Kassidy and Kaley, great grandchildren Hayden, Alina, Bronson, Claire, Jack, Carson and Devin. He was predeceased by his parents, George and Mary Kowalchuk, his sisters, Annie Kapel, Lena Kashuba and Helen Kowalchuk, and his grandchildren, Brent Kenzler and Katherine, Christopher and Morgan Gwynn. The Funeral will be held on January 10th, 2015 at the Trochu Community Hall at 2 pm, a private family graveside service will be held at the Rumsey Cemetery prior to the funeral service in Trochu. Memorial donations may be made to the Trochu Seniors Drop In. Prairie Winds Funeral Home of Trochu is in charge of the arrangements.

REIDPearl KathleenPearl passed away on Saturday, December 20, 2014 with family at her side in the Palliative Care Unit of the Red Deer Regional Hospital. She has gone to be in the loving arms of her Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. She is survived by her husband, Rodger; her 3 children, Rhonda Stetsko, Glen (Karen) Stetsko and Cheryl (Rob) Stetsko Mayne; 4 grandchildren, Christopher Stetsko, Shadrach, Nicoleas and Micheyla Mayne;

her sister, Leona (Willie) Trefi ak as well as 2 nieces and a nephew. Pearl was predeceased by her parents and her brother, Louis Olinyk. Pearl loved to sew and bake for the Stettler Farmer’s Market. She truly enjoyed her garden and fl owers. She kept herself busy with lots of travel to various parts of the world. She also golfed, bowled, played cards and loved having coffee with friends around Stettler where she lived until May of 2014 when she moved to Red Deer. Pearl was always helping others and was a devoted, wonderful wife. She will be dearly missed by all who knew her. Her spirits were lifted by the wonderful prayer support from the congregation of the Stettler Alliance Church, various area Pastors as well as friends and family. In lieu of fl owers, donations in Pearl’s name may be made to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada, Prairies Region, 2020 - 10 Street NW, Calgary, AB, T2M 3M2 or a charity of their choice. There will be no service at her request. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at

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BAUER, Victor JohnJuly 20, 1923 - Dec. 30, 2014

Victor John Bauer passed away peacefully on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 at the age of 91 years. Victor is lovingly remembered by his family and all of his friends. A memorial service will be held at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel & Crematorium on Monday, January 12, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Memorial donations in Victor’s memory can be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta, #202 - 5913 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4C4.Condolences may be made by visiting:www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca

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HillWilliam (Bill)Bill Hill passed away peacefully at the age of 91 in the Wetaskiwin hospital on December 27, 2014. Bill was predeceased by his wife Dorothy, son Roger, daughter Zanna, sister May and brother David. Left to morn is his twin sister Nan in England, sister Charlotte in Australia, sister-in-law Grace in England, son Barry (Colleen) Hill, daughter-in-law Lorraine Hill of Calgary, son David (Brandy) Hill of Ridgetown, ON, son Andrew Hill, daughter Suzette Parker of Breton, close friend Carolyn Benoit of Wetaskiwin, 15 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren. Bill was born in Colinton, Scotland and immigrated with his wife and four boys to Canada in May of 1957 where he worked a short time for farmers then as a heavy duty mechanic. Bill was a fi ery little Scotsman that never let too much grass grow under his feet as he moved often working for different companies. On Bill’s request there will be no funeral. The family will have a get together at a later date. His ashes will be returned to Scotland sometime in the future.

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AssistantPurchaser

Industrial Painters/HelpersWelders Helper

General LabourersConstruction Workers

Our Company has a enthusiastic fast paced

working environment, with advancement opportu-nities. Wage would be commensurate withexperience/skills.

For more information about these positions and our company, check out our

website www.tornadotrucks.com.

Resumes can be emailed to hr@petrofi eld.com or faxed to 403-742-5544.

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

requires aSafety Coordinatorto implement, manage &

enhance our existing safety program. Fax

resume and references to 403-343-1248 or

email admin@shunda.ca.

Stettler Rifl e & Pistol Club2015 Memberships are available atGuns ’n Games Source for Sports

ORIENTATION DATES:Wed., January 14, 2015 - Orientation - 7 p.m. -

Indoor Rangewww.stettlergunclub.com

P & H Elevator Christmas PartySaturday, Jan. 10, 6:30 p.m.Stettler Seniors CentreDoor Prizes (Prize donations welcome)$25/Person Catering by Sarah

Call Craig at 403-742-5847 or Call Craig at 403-742-5847 or Joyce 403-742-3470 Joyce 403-742-3470 to reserve your plate to reserve your plate Everyone Welcome! Everyone Welcome!

Administrative Assistant 1Campus Alberta Central has an exciting

opportunity for a part-time Administrative Assistant to work 2 days per week with the

possibility of additional hours in peak periods. Th e position is located at our Stettler Campus.To become part of this dynamic team, please

forward a resume quoting competition #14156A by January 16, 2015.

For further information on these or other employment opportunities, please visit our

website at www.oldscollege.ca/employment

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Tickets available at the door and atPfeiffer House of Music - 403-742-3777

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Allied Fabrication is a young aggressive company looking for like-mindedindividuals to join our team. If you enjoy a fast paced, positive work environment, pride yourself on having an eye for details, a strong work ethic, and consider yurself reliable please send your resume. Allied manufactures oil & gas production equipment from our facility in Stettler, AB. We are quickly gaining a reputation as a high quality, dependable, competitive supplier.

We are now accepting resumes for:

- Apprentice Welders- Labourers

Allied Fabrication offers competitive wages, a health & wellness program, access to overtime hours, and the opportunity to advance your career; division manage-ment positions will become available as we continue to grow.

Please send resumes to:Fax: 1-888-526-0274 or Email: careers@alliedfab.com

Allied is pleased to announce the opening of our new manufacturing facility in northeastStettler. With our team’s safety, effi ciency and success in mind it is well tooled with overhead bridge and station cranes, a separate paint bay, and comfortable lunch and coffee area just to name a few. All of course in addition to an advanced HVAC system and bright, open workspaces.

We are now accepting resumes for:

- Quality Control Manager- Senior Pipefi tter with skid package experience

- “B” Pressure, Journeyman and Apprentice WeldersAllied Fabrication offers competitive wages, a health & wellness program, access to overtime hours, and the opportunity to advance your career; division management positions will become available as we continue to grow.Please send resumes to: Fax: 1-888-526-0274 or Email: careers@alliedfab.com

5302 - 42 Street, Stettler

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd. is seeking qualifi ed candidates to fi ll Floorhand, Derrickhand and Driller positions. These positions are locally based.Applicants must have all necessary valid tickets for the positionapplied for.Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary & benefi ts package along with a steady work schedule.Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources

Email: hr@bearspawpet.comFax: 403-258-3197

Or mail to: Ste. 5309, 333 - 96 Ave. NE, Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

Service Rig

Canadian Tire Stettler

Automotive Technician requiredWe are looking for a Licensed Automotive Mechanic for our fast paced 3 bay Service Centre. The Licensed Automotive Technician plays a key role on the automotive service team. Working in a busy Service Centre, with state-of-the-art equipment and modern technical training, the technician’s ability to combine automotive expertise with good customer relations skills contribute to making Canadian Tire the most recognized leader in the automotive service industry. Suitable candidates will possess proven problem solving abilities, ability to take instruction, safe working practices and a passion for all aspects of the automotive trade.

Minimum requirements are: - Energetic with strong work ethic - Red Seal Interprovincial license. - Valid driver’s license. - 2 years’ experience as a technician.

This job brings with it a higher than average hourly rate (Up to $38) for experienced technicians, with bene ts.

If you are interested in this position and would like to join our team,

please contact Allen Plant by phone at (403) 742-8319 ext 222 or 1-416-988-9809

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NOW HIRING!Join our growing team. We have career opporunities available in our Edmonton location:

• Heavy Equipment Technicians (Apprentice or Journeyman) • Positions available in the shop and fi eld • Resident position available in Bonnyville, Edson, Hinton.

Apply online at www.brandtjobs.com. Enter “Edmonton” into the search fi eld on the Job Opportunities page.

Find out more about our exciting career opportunities at www.brandtjobs.com or by calling 306-791-8923.

Brandt Tractor is the world’s largest privately held John Deere Construction and Forestry Equipment dealer and a Platinum member of the Canada’s Best Managed Companies Program.

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Welcome to Trail Appliances, a family owned and operated company since 1974!

Trail Appliances is one of the leading independent

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We have an immediate opening for a full-time Plumber to work within

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location at 2823 Bremner Avenue.

The main duties of this position include, but are

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* The installation and service of water purifi cation products

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Truckers/Drivers 860

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needed immed. for waste & recycling automated & roll off trucks. Email resume

with a min. of 2 referencesto: canpak@xplornet.ca

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Heavy lifting involved(driver’s helper) position.Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

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FarmEquipment 2010

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of Ponoka on 2A WE BUY FOR CASH.

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Firewood 1660SPLIT FIREWOOD

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Pine & Tamarack WoodPick up in yard

or UFA Bulk FuelDelivery AvailableVolume Discounts.403-876-2422

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Serving Stettler for 10 years

SEASONED SPLITFIREWOOD

4.5 kms. West of StettlerCall 403-323-0744

Misc.Help 880

OfficeSupplies 1800

403-742-2395

WHITE 20LB WHITE 20LB BOND PAPER: BOND PAPER:

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$48$48/case/caseShop Stettler Shop Stettler

& Save!& Save!

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Farm Equipment ..............2010Haying Equipment ............2020Tractors ............................2030Combines & Headers ......2040Fertilizer Equipment..........2050Misc. Farm Machinery ......2060Equipment Wanted ..........2070Farm Custom Work ..........2080Farm Auctions ..................2090Livestock ..........................2100Livestock - Exotic..............2110Sheep ..............................2120Poultry ..............................2130Horses ..............................2140Horse Boarding ................2150Riding Supplies ................2160Horse/Stock Trailers ........2170Pasture Wanted ................2180Grain, Feed, Hay ..............2190Seed Grain ......................2200Seeding & Tillage ............2210

FarmEquipment 2010

FLEXI-COIL 6000 AIR DRILL, 40’, 3450 TBH tank,

double shoot, 7.5” spacing, rubber packer wheels. All new discs, bearings, air

hoses. Shedded& unused for 3 seasons.

$60,000 obo. 403-784-3633or 403-304-2266

Livestock 2100SHORTHORN bulls for sale, reds, roans and

whites. Semen tested and delivery within 100 miles.

www.prospecthillshorthorns.com Les & Shelley Peterson,

780-877-2444.

Pasture/Land Wanted 2180Wanted: Pasture to rent for

2015 & beyond. Call 403-741-2099.

Houses/Duplexes 3020

1/2 duplex in Stettler, 2 bedrooms, 4 appliances, $600/mo. + utilities, $600 d.d., close to hospital. No

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Troyer Ventures Ltd. is a privately owned, energy services company serving Western Canada and is now accepting applications at our

Edmonton offi ce for the following position:

This is an exceptional employment opportunity for a professional, self-motivated individual willing to work in a fast paced environment where multi-tasking and teamwork are essential. Candidates possessing tank truck Super-B driving experience will be given additional consideration. Compensation package includes excellent wages and benefi ts.

Apply online with resume and driver’s abstract at www.troyer.ca/employment or email careers@troyer.ca

We thank all candidates who submit applications, but will only contact those selected for interviews.

Class 1 Driver

Visit our website www.Troyer.ca

Owner Retiring

Business for Sale!RAINBOW PHOTO LAB

Be Your Own Boss!at an established business

4938 - 50 Street, StettlerPlease inquire within or phone 403-742-1666 or 403-742-7715

Based in Central/Southern Alberta the successful candidate will be willing to spend considerable me on the road developing rela onships, and u lizing their lamb and ag-business knowledge and experience to execute on the business r equirements of the posi on.

Salary and other terms of employment are nego able and include bene ts. For a more in depth descrip on of the opportunity go to our website at www.sungoldmeats.com under the careers tab.

Provide your cover le er and resume to Dwayne Beaton, CEO by January 26, 2015 by:

Email: dwayne.beaton@sungoldmeats.com

Fax: (403) 227-1661 Mail: 4312 – 51 Street Innisfail, AB T4G 1A3

LAMB INDUSTRY CAREER OPPORTUNITYSunGold Specialty Meats Ltd. has an immediate opening for the newly created posi on of

Manager – Producer Rela ons and Field Procurement

OK Tire Stettler is currently accepting applications for a tire technician.

If you HONESTLY believe you have what it takes to be part of our team we would like to hear from you.We offer the best wages in the industry, group benefi ts, and a great team environment.

If you – Are a team player – Have a willingness to learn – Have a current drivers licence – Capable of working in a physically demanding job

Then please forward your resume with current references to : jim@oktirestettler.com Fax to 403-742-1557, or drop of 4809 - 44 Avenue, Stettler, Alberta

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Bashaw Golf and Country Club in Central Alberta requires a

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The successful applicant must be self-managing, have strong organization skills, customer service experience and be capable of managing the overall performance of all operations. Golf experience is not necessary, but would be a considerable asset.

The club is prepared to offer a competitive compensation package in accordance with previous experience and education.

Please email your cover letter with resume to both bashawgolfclub@hotmail.ca and to the President of the Board djonespfd26@hotmail.com no later than Friday, January 2, 2015.

To see more details about our club please visit our website at www.bashawgolf.com. We thank everyone in advance for their interest in this opportunity. Please be aware that only the short listed candidates will be contacted for further consideration for this position.

Springbank Service Station’s

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Perfect family home within walking distance to the schools. Many recent updates. Detached garage with heated fl ooring. RV parking pad. $268,900. Call Ross.

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Cozy 4 bdrm, 2 bath home with double detached garage. Large, completely fenced yard in a quiet

neighborhood. $239,900. Call Sherri.

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Beautifully designed home with many extras! Double attached garage with under fl oor heat. Maintenance free deck. $366,500. Call Doug.

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3 bdrm mobile located in Emmerson Acres featuring a large master suite, ensuite and

walk in closet. $58,900. Call Doug.

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This 1008 sq. ft. home in Big Valley is just right for seniors! Double car detached garage, bright open kitchen and includes an adjacent

lot, perfect for RV parking. $179,500. Call Doug or Mike.

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Beautiful older home with lots &lots of character. Located in the small & friendly

community of Big Valley. $124,000. Call Edna.

1.5 storey charming home with over sized double garage. Walking distance to downtown. Many upgrades throughout. $199,000. Call Sherri.

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Mobile home with large addition and many upgrades throughout. Fenced yard. Immediate

possession available! $24,000. Call Atie.

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for RV parking and deck. $328,000. Call Sherri.

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Build your dream home on 6.8 acres of untouched property near

Erskine. $110,000. Call Jill.

Commercial property in Alix with3000 sq. ft. of useable warehouse and

office space. $380,000. Call Edna.

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Practically brand new home situated on a quiet block in Big Valley. Large open concept main fl oor. Spacious yard for the

kids with a garage/shop in back. $299,900. Call Jill.

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and oversized double car garage. $439,000. Call Garry.

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4701 - 50 STREET, STETTLER

Call a Central “Team” Sales Associate today for FREE advice or enquiries.

403-742-3344 (24 hours)

To view more info on our listing check out

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Edna StuartAssociate Broker

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Jason OlsonAssociate

Mike RobertsAssociate

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Specializing In* Residential * Commercial

* Farms * Acreages* Lake Properties

Over 26 Years of Experience

Diamond Award Recipient

ANDYBIRCH

Associate

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ROYAL LEPAGE

NETWORK REALTY CORP.Independently Owned and Operated

5002 - 50th Ave., Stettler

Bus.: 403-742-3069 1-888-742-6685

“Priceless Unbelievable View” 3 bdrm, 2 bath home all located on a private & scenic

section with a breathtaking view of the river valley. 36’ x 48’ barn, 16’ x 40’ shop, dbl detached garage,

various outbuildings. #CA0016473. $695,000

LOOKING FOR LAND? 160 acres near Donalda. Has been continuously cropped. Approximately 141

acres cultivated. Tower lease revenue - $800 annually. Immediate possession. #CA0050973. $320,000.

NEW

SUBDIVISION POTENTIAL for 15 acres. Services, 2 wells, indoor riding arena,

heated shop, mature landscaping. Offers subject to subdivision approval.

#CA0025826. $750,000.

BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME – Scenic, private acreage near Buffalo Lake with no services. Imme-diate possession. Can be purchased with adjoining

153 acres - see MLS #CA0050358. $99,000.

Great opportunity for a starter home or retirees. Modest, comfortable bungalow with beautiful spacious back yard. Enjoy your privacy from your patio deck. Lots of space to

build double car garage. #CA0048148. $125,000.

RECREATION QUARTER - ATTENTION: CONSERVATIONISTS AND NATURALISTS:

Available immediately. Beautiful property with rolling hills, trees, water ponds and native grass located 2 ½ miles east of Buffalo Lake. #CA0050359. $280,000.

Stettler’s Best Read Real EstateSection Reaches Buyers and Sellers

Where They Live, Work and FarmFran

Snowden

Karen

Cannady

Darien

Chapman

Locally owned & operated Visit us at www.century21.ca/candorrealty for more listings

CandorRealty Ltd.

Ph. 403-742-4424

4908 - 51 Street

GREAT 4-ACRE PARCEL only 2 blocks out of town. Open beam

cedar ceiling, oak cabinets,3 bedrooms, 2 lovely refi nished bathrooms, deck and huge 42’ x

24’ heated garage. Only $439,000.

IDEAL STARTER HOME with3 bdrms/2 baths. Newer cabinets

in kitchen and fi nished bsmt. Shingles and siding are only

2 yrs. old. Large fenced yard and 2 garages. $188,500.

STUNNING 2 STOREY HOME.

With 4 bdrms/4 baths. Very unique, open concept, top of

the line features, fi nished bsmt and very well maintained, inside and out. $475,000.

3 BDRM Bungalow on 75’ x 120’ lot. Ideal rental property or a great starter home for a

young family. Partial unfi nished bsmt. Priced right

at $129,000.

1700 sq. ft. bi-level with3 bedrooms and 2 baths.

Gleaming hardwood fl oors, granite counter tops, vaulted ceiling and stainless steel appliances and

much more. $366,000.

ACREAGESTARTERHOME

SOLD

NEAT, CLEAN BI-LEVEL in Parkdale. Freshly painted,

3 bdrms and main fl oor laundry. Garden area, dbl garage and room for RV.

$229,000.

BI-LEVEL REDUCED

GREATSTARTER

Suites 3060L A R G E

One & Two BEDROOM APARTMENTS

FOR RENTNo pets

Phone Ellen at 403-742-1568

Phone Linda or Ernieat 403-742-5005

Suites 3060BEST RENTAL VALUE

IN STETTLER1 & 2 Bedroom, furnished

kitchenette suites.All utilities, cable, internet.

1 Bedroom, $800/mo.2 Bedroom, $1100/mo.

plus D.D. Avail. immediately

Kimberly 403-690-5828

Buffalo Lake/Rochon Sands, 20 min. from

Stettler, AB. two bedroom walk-out suite, utils. incld.,

no pets, n/s, S/D, avail. now, 403-742-0024

StorageSpace 3160STETTLER MINI

STORAGEHousehold, furniture,business records, etc.

Various sizes. Protectedby security alarm and

fenced and lightedperimeter. Owner:

Reg and Darlene Hunter403-740-9283 or

403-742-3153

CommercialProperty 4110 Commercial

Property 4110

Commercial BLDG. * 2300 sq. ft. * 1.9 ACRES*Corner Lot

*Fenced CompoundPhone 403-740-5657

3 SHOPS FOR RENT   PRICE REDUCED ~Now willing to separate shop ~Sitting on 2 acre lot in total

1st and 2nd Shops- 50’x90’ Duplex style construction, Metal Building, South and North sides identical. Offi ce Space @1000sq ft with bathroom, Shop fl oor 25’x70’ 1750 sq ft, with bathroom, 14ft overhead doors, insulated, 2 walk in doorways, 3 phase power available, Huge parking lot, rent dependent on duration of lease.

3rd Shop- 60’ x 40’ -2400 sq ft Metal building, insulated, infrared heat, single phase power. Small offi ce with mezzanine on top, 10’x14’ & 12’x14’ shop door with electric door opener. Huge parking lot. Rent price dependent on duration of lease. Triple net.Separate living accommodations on site can be provided

Email or Call: dreinhart@telus.net 403-740-6630

Business Services#1000 - #1430

Accounting 1010

4819 - 51 StreetStettler, AB

403-742-3141www.numeratax.com

4814 - 49 Street,Stettler

403-742-5520

403-882-3740 (Castor)

Thorogood

Pinches&Certified General Accountants

Ph:403-742-5979Fax:403-742-3656

Box 1595, 4907 - 50 Street,

Stettler AB

info@leschert.net

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Chapman and Co.Professional

Accountants LLP

Guy Chapman, CAChris Annand, CA

Kendra Walgenbach, CANaomi Roth, CGA

P.O. Box 1328 4702- 51 Ave., Stettler

Tel: 403-742-3438e-mail: gchap@gchap.ca

Accounting 1010

Gitzel KrejciGitzel KrejciDand PetersonDand Peterson

CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS

4912 - 51 StreetP.O. Box 460, Stettler, Alberta

403-742-4431

Toll free1-877-742-4431

e-mail:gkdpca@gkdpca.com

website:www.gkdpca.com

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Automotive 1029JT AUTO BODY LTD.

“Serving Stettler & areafor years”

• Complete auto bodyrepair & painting

Call Curt or Rob

Phone 403-742-2869 4606 - 40 St., Stettler

Quality Collision Repairand Professional Service…

Guaranteed!

Find out more about us at:www.brennanautobody.com

Phone: 403-742-35554109 - 48 Avenue, Stettler

AUTO BODY REPAIR LTD.

Contractors 1100

403-742-1330

Buzz AndersenServing Stettler

area over 35 years

-Residential-Commercial

-Farm Buildings-Renovations

Drafting& Design 1120

RAILSIDEDESIGNGALEN WIEBE

RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL

DRAFTING AND DESIGN

5004 - 48 AVE., STETTLER

PH: 403-742-4101FAX: 866-305-5686

galen@railsidedesign.com

Eavestroughing1130FINISHING TOUCH EXTERIORS LTD.

5”Continuous Eaves“Gutter Clean” Leaf Protection

Call Barry Harvey

403-742-8838*27 years experience*

Misc.Services 1290

Electrical 1150CLINKERSKENNELS

403-783-6272

* Quality Boarding for your dogs & cats

*Proof of vaccinations and advance bookings required

HOURS: Mon - Thurs 9 am - 12 Noon; 4 pm - 6 pm;

Fri. 9 am - 12 Noon; 4 pm - 7 pm; Sat. 9 a.m. - 12 noon;

Sun. 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. & 4 - 7 p.m.

FurnaceCleaning 1193Stettler Furnace

Cleaning

Qualifi ed and Qualifi ed and ReputableReputable

403-742-3418403-742-3418

Glass Shops 1196HEARTLAND

GLASS• Locks repinned & installed

• Windshields repaired & installed

• Residential & Commercial Windows & Doors

• All your glass & screen needsMain St., Stettler Emergency403-742-2665 403-742-3628

Glass Shops 1196

LTD.C.R. GLASS“Your Service Specialists”

Randy Long• Residential• Commercial

• Automotive Needs

403-742-25204607 - 59 St., Stettler

(Beside A & W)

HealthCare 1210

Hauck Optometry & Hearing5014 - 50 St., Stettler

403-742-4504

Stettler Eye Care

Dr. R. TROY NELSONComprehensive eye

health and vision exams

Top quality frames,

lenses and contacts

Treatment of eye

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Paulette HeerGADSBY/WESTWOODS NEWS

A happy and healthy New Year to all! It’s been a busy Christmas season for fami-lies in the area.

Fred Entwisle drove to Kimberley, B.C. to pick up Velvet’s mom and dad, Ben and Linda Nickerson bring-ing them back to Alberta for the holidays. Christmas Eve, they spent at Haley and Nick’s with Cooper and Rowyn. Christmas day Fred and Velvet had all the family home (this is the first time in 14 years that Ben and Linda have been with them for Christmas). Boxing Day saw everyone at Tom and Angela’s. Also there was Velvet’s step-daughter Jocelyn and Dean Child and their family from Nanaimo, B.C. It’s been 16 years since they were to-gether at Christmas. Dec. 27, Velvet took her parents home, staying to visit fam-ily, returning home Dec. 29.

Wayne and Margery Glasier were hosts to Wayne’s sister Kay and Doug Hankinson from Wandering River. Ken and Alisa joined them. James and Janine were in Saskatchewan at Janine’s parents. Wayne and Mar-gery; Doug and kay took a day trip to Lacombe to visit brother Harvey and Barb Glasier.

Percy and Paulette Heer enjoyed their family com-ing home. Christy and Curtis Wideman, Matthew, Clayton and Josie as well as John and Jewel Heer, Han-nah and Bailey. Also out for the day was Paulette’s mom, Iona Berg.

Bill and Joyce Hansel had a busy holiday. Christmas day, they had Sandy and Rod, Sue and Brad, Mary-lou and Stan, Jeff and Kathy and baby Brett. Dec. 27, they headed to Beaumont to celebrate with son Larry and Erika and all their fam-ily at granddaughter Lena and Brad’s. Marie Vance joined Bill and Joyce for New Year’s Day. Curtis and Corine Katy and Rider stopped in on way home as well.

Frank and Eleanor Dahl-gren had 30 family mem-bers home for Christmas Eve. There were six wee ones, who made the eve-ning special; supper and gift opening for all. Boxing day, the Kobi and Hronek families came home. Then on Monday, daughter Bren-da Laboucan and her four grandchildren came from Slave Lake, spending a few days to visit with family and friends.

Barb and Vic Carey cel-ebrated their Christmas on Dec. 28 when all the family could be home.

Hazel (Thomas) and Har-old drove to New Norway to spend Christmas with Ta-mara and family. Roseanna and her family were there as well as Pat Mansfield. New Year’s, Hazel and Harold went out for supper to the Club Café in Stettler. Daughter Sue is in United Arab Emirates for a year of nursing. Way to go Sue.

Jim and Ethel Baird had Lynne and Doug and son Dustin, Kyle from Fort Sas-katchewan, Michael and Robin from Stettler.

A very busy Christmas week for Stan and Gloria Diegel starting with Stan’s birthday, with family home; then on the Dec. 23, over to Richelle and Greg’s for movie night; Christmas Day at Gloria and Stan’s with Arden and Deanne and girls, Tasha and Aaron and family, Richelle and Greg and family; New Year’s Eve Arden and Deanne and family, Richelle and Greg all over to Stan and Gloria’s; New Year’s day Stan and Gloria, Arden and daughter Sadie, Richelle and Greg all headed to Ta-sha and Aaron’s.

Percy and Paulette Heer spent two days in Medicine Hat. While there, they visit-ed Percy’s uncle Alvin and Rose Shearer. The roads and weather were great throughout the holidays.

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Louise BellairBOTHA BOOSTER

Welcome to 2015, with the New Year entering, so did Old Man Winter hit again with a lot of colder weather and a larger dump of snow.

A belated birthday wish for Harriett Hud-son who celebrated her birthday this past Saturday, Jan 3. Hope you had a great day.

This coming Thursday, Jan. 8, Dorothy Reiter is celebrating her birthday, so hope you have a fantastic day, Dorothy.

Quilting takes place this coming Mon-day, starting at 9:30 a.m., so they are hop-ing everyone can join them.

Bingo evening happens again the eve-ning of Tuesday, Jan. 20, so grab your Bin-go Dabbers and come and join in the ex-citement of the evening. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the balls start rolling at 7:15 p.m.

For your convenience, the Botha Transit Station is open Tuesdays from 1:30 p.m. to

5:30 p.m. and again Saturdays from 8 a.m. - 12 noon. Hopefully everyone’s schedules will work with these times.

With snow removal, please contact the village office at 403-742-5079 any Wednesday, Thursday or Friday’s from 8 a.m.- 4p.m., and something will be set up for you.

Floor curling takes place every Wednes-day and Thursday afternoon at 1p.m. So please join them in this fun event.

School is now back into full force, so please watch the children walking across the street to the school. Skating and skiing will be starting up very soon, so please keep your eyes open for this.

For skating please call Shaun Derr at 403-742-4811, and get your yearly pass. Arena hours are from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.

Also for the rental of the hall, get a hold of Shaun Derr again and book the hall. Bo-tha Hall has very reasonable rates for all occasions.

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Realtors & Services..........4010Houses for Sale................4020Houses Wanted................4030Condos/Townhouses ........4040Acreages ..........................4050Acreages Wanted ............4060Farms/Land ......................4070Farms/Land Wanted ........4080Manufactured/Mobile Homes ..................4090Income Property ..............4100Commercial Property ......4110Industrial Property ............4120Cottages/Resort Property ..4130Businesses for Sale..........4140Buildings for Sale ............4150Lots for Sale ....................4160Out of Town Property ......4170Investment Opportunities ..4180Mortgages Bought/Sold....4190

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PublicNotices 6010Notice to Creditors

And ClaimantsEstate of

Rene Edmund Joseph Lamoureax

who died onAugust 24, 2014

If you have a claim against this estate, you must le your claim byFebruary 14, 2015

withSchnell Hardy Jones LLPBarristers & Solicitors

atBox 1240, 4902-51 StreetStettler, Alberta T0C 2L0

Phone: 403-742-4436

and provide details of your claim.

If you do not le by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

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COCAINE ANONYMOUSPager toll-free (20 sec. response time)

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COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS

SUPPORT GROUP403-742-2337 (parents who have lost a child[ren])

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Residents of Stettler and the sur-rounding area now have access to this free and confi dential service. It provides information and referral on social agencies, government ser-vices, clubs and organizations, to best suit the caller’s need.

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PUBLIC OPEN HOUSEThe Town of Stettler will host a Public Open House on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. upstairs in the Meeting Room at the Stettler Recreation Centre.

The Public Open House will be a come and go format and will introduce residents and business owners of the Town’s proposed Land Use Bylaw amendments. The amendments are of a housekeeping nature and intend to address some gaps discovered through the application of the existing bylaw as well as introduce some new or refi ned regulations.

The Town of Stettler is interested in the public views on: • new environmental policies, • portable sign regulations, and • any of the other proposed amendments that may impact you.

If you are unable to attend the Public Open House, please feel free to contact Leann Graham at the Town of Stettler offi ce for a copy of the proposed Land Use Bylaw amendments.

Leann GrahamPlanning and Development ServicesTown of Stettler403-742-8305lgraham@stettler.net

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Happy New Year! Another year has slipped away; we hope 2015 brings lots of good things your way.

Local folks enjoyed mild weather throughout the holi-days for their travels and basked in plus temperatures on New Year’s Day. That has quickly changed since, with snow and frigid temperatures.

St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Christmas service was well at-tended. As per tradition, Silent Night was sung by candlelight in both English and German.

The Sorensen families held their annual Christmas cel-ebration at the Endiang Hall on Dec. 27 with more than 60 family members enjoying the get-together.

Members of the Walker fam-ily gathered on New Year’s Day at the Byemoor Hall for their annual celebration with about 70 attending.

Get well wishes go out to Gordie Gallagher who has been in the Red Deer hospital since before Christmas. We hope you are on the mend and home soon, Gordie.

Sympathy is extend-ed to Rod and Lynnette

Schellenberg and family on the passing of Lynnette’s broth-er Ron McCaskill on Dec. 22 while visiting in Stettler. He was 47. Besides his mother and siblings, Ron also leaves be-hind two young children. Our thoughts are with the Schellen-berg and McCaskill families in their sad loss.

Sympathy is also sent to the family of Linda Hoath who passed away in Drumheller on Dec. 31. She was 67.

Linda lived in Byemoor with her husband Merritt in the former Mary Kobi residence. Their daughter Laurel also lives in Byemoor, in the former Birkheim house. Our thoughts are with Linda’s family at this time.

Rob and Rhonda Maginn and

their son Hunter spent time dur-ing the holidays in Saskatch-ewan at their cabin at Fishing Lake. They were joined by family members from Ontario and Saskatchewan.

The hamlet of Endiang wel-comed three new residents re-cently. Leaha Medland and Ja-son Paquette and their wee son William Michael have joined Leaha’s parents Marianne and Garnett McLearn’s household.

Congratulations to Ty-ler Stulberg and Samantha Huskinson on their recent en-gagement.

Get well wishes are sent to Ken Schultz who had surgery in the Red Deer hospital. We hope you are feeling better soon, Ken.

Remember Byemoor will

be hosting the North Central Minor Hockey Association’s All-star Bantam Midget tour-nament at the Endmoor Arena on Jan. 10. Games are at 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Be sure to come out and sup-port our local players from the Endmoor Vipers girls’ hockey team.

The Peewee boys’ hockey team played in Rimbey on Sun-day, winning 8-0. Congratula-tions guys! Their next games are Jan. 10 in Big Valley at 3 p.m. against Eckville and on Jan. 11 in Byemoor at 3 p.m. against Alix.

Big Valley was successful in its bid to host the Peewee “D” Provincial playoffs on Mar. 19-22. This is exciting news for several of our local boys who play Peewee hockey on the Big Valley host team.

The Novice hockey team

played in Drumheller on Dec. 27-28. They won all five of their games. The last game in the A final ended in a tie, and the locals lost in the shoot-out. The young players did very well.

The Novice team played in Stettler on the weekend and won two out of their three games, defeating Cochrane and Red Deer, with a loss against Blackfalds.

We send birthday greetings to Herb Gutsche, who cele-brates his 89th birthday on Jan. 8. Congratulations Herb on this milestone and best wishes for many more.

New Year’s humour — “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s reso-lutions.”

“A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.”

Don’t forget to support girls’ hockey teamByemoor/Endiang

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CorrectionLast week’s Donalda column was erroneously marked as hav-

ing been written by Darlene Tantrum. It was actually written by Ken Favrholdt. We apologize for the error.

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