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Night Before the Night Before Christmas celebrates community spirit

STACEY LAVALLIEINDEPENDENT REPORTER

It was a busy day Dec. 23, as shoppers and fun seekers thronged to Stettlers Main Street for the annual Night Before the Night Before Christmas extravaganza.

Local businesses pulled out all the stops, decorating their stores and having eve-ning hours, while hay rides, a petting zoo, warming fi res, free food and refreshments and other fun activities drew crowds all afternoon and eve-ning long.

From noon until 4 p.m., Santa ensconced himself at Wells Furniture, letting chil-dren have a last-minute meeting and chance to tell them their special wishes be-fore he and his elves fi nished their Christmas-time toy building spree in the North Pole. After visiting with Santa and receiving a bag of candy, children could enjoy a hot dog, hot cocoa, and warm up by the fi re, or pet one of the three sheep penned beside the store.

We never keep track of how many people come,

Wells Furniture owner Bernie Jackson said. Its just a give-back to the community event. It was amazing everyone on Main Street kicked in. We had people come from all over.

She said she didnt think that the economy affected how many people attended the events during the Night Before the Night Before, since while stores remained open late in hopes of catching last-minute shoppers, that wasnt the goal behind the event.

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Railways, the four free train excursions drew in the larg-est-ever number of guests, spokesperson Bob Willis said.

A total of more than 2,000 children and adults board the train, he said. Adults were invited to make a $5 or food-stuff donation to the Stettler Foodbank, but no one was turned away if they chose not to contribute.

The event ended up raising $4,271 for the Stettler and District Food Bank, which this year has seen an increase in the number of families need-ing assistance.

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Children and adults alike enjoy a wagon ride along Main Street on Wednesday, Dec. 23 as part of the Night Before the Night Before fun despite chilly weather and fl urries.

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Librarys gingerbread house workshop at full capacity

MOUSH SARA JOHNINDEPENDENT REPORTER

The Stettler Public Library was a riot of festive colours as children came out to make their own ginger-bread houses at the librarys work-shop on Monday, Dec. 21.

There were 12 participants, which was the maximum number that the workshop could accommodate.

The event went off well, given the program was full, said library man-ager Mary Zazelenchuk. We had all the supplies to get them going, but if they wanted to do something more personal, they would need to

bring their own supplies.The library has been hosting an

array of events throughout the Christmas break to keep the chil-dren engaged creatively.

The grinch tree workshop with Kirsten Nugent was quite busy, added Zazelenchuk. Even Craftapalooza event at which young dancers from Danceology per-formed also received a lot of par-ticipants.

According to Zazelenchuk, the li-brary has been hosting a series of after school programs called Crafts before Christmas and even had a holiday movie marathon in the mix.

My boys took their time to dec-orate their gingerbread houses, it took them just over an hour of cre-ativity! said Lucy Bergen, a resident of Erskine who had come with her sons to participate in the workshop. It was their fi rst time and they en-joyed the process thoroughly.

This week the library will be host-ing another week of activities for kids, such as make your own soap and food science among others.

All events will require preregis-tration and will be conducted by Maggie Orlick, who also supervised the summer program earlier this year.

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Erskine resident Charles Bergen (left) with his older brother Brendon carry their gingerbread houses from the Stettler Public Library on Monday, Dec. 21.

SRC hosts the fi rst annual Christmas dive-inMOUSH SARA JOHNINDEPENDENT REPORTER

The Stettler Recreation Centre (SRC)s aquatic

staff had a busy after-noon Tuesday, Dec. 22 with kids enjoying the pool, water slide and var-ious Christmas activities

that were being hosted as part of the fi rst annual Christmas dive-in event.

While it was the fi rst of its kind, assistant aquat-

ic manager Heather Waye said she had hosted sim-ilar events in various mu-nicipalities before.

Being part of teams that have been hosting events for every major holiday, and for any theme you can think of, whether its Christmas or anything Disney related, this was a great success and are always a big hit with the kids, said Waye.

The dive-in event al-lowed families to enjoy a regular two-hour open swim, with a little bit of Christmas magic thrown in for the kids.

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SRC hosts the fi rst annual Christmas dive-incontinued from page 2

There were games that included fi nding lost mit-tens, building a snow man and scaling the SRCs new climbing wall.

Of course, each game included a prize for all who participated, said Haye. When the children grew tired of swimming, families were able to stop by the pool viewing area for some snacks while watching Elf on the big screen.

This year the SRC life-guards had put in that

little bit of extra effort.We were able to invite

Santa Claus, despite him being at the height of his busy season as a surprise guest for the kids; making the event extra special, said Haye.

The guard team in charge of organizing the event planned for approx-imately 60 people to at-tend the event.

We were looking for-ward to inviting 60 peo-ple and we were excited to see that we estimated correctly, because over the course of the two-

hour event 52 people at-tended, mostly families with young children, added Haye. I was very happy with how the event ran.

According to Haye, the lifeguards did an excel-lent job.

Often times, lifeguards can, in a way, blend in to the rest of the facility in the publics eyes, but today I was glad to see our patrons and staff ex-citedly interacting togeth-er in the holiday spirit, said Haye.

Haye hopes to im-

prove upon what she has achieved with her team this year.

We might try to in-clude electronics to ac-commodate the viewing of a movie, which can be a challenge in a wet and bright environment with no simple and safe solu-tions, said Haye. In the future we are hoping to improve upon the place-ment of the movie so that patrons may enjoy it from the water without limit-ing their access to any of the pools or features such as the slide.

Bad Santa makes off with jewels after brazen heist


The Stettler RCMP are on the hunt for a Bad Santa, and are hoping peo-ple in the community may have in-sight to a brazen Christmas eve rob-bery.

Around 4:45 p.m. on Dec. 24, a man dressed as Santa Claus entered Wares Jewelers in Stettler and proceded to

rob the store at gunpoint. The man, described as a pocked-faced cauca-sian around fi ve-foot-eleven-inches tall, entered the store wearing Santa Claus jovial red and white winter suit, wore gloves and a fake beard and hat. Despite the suit, he didnt appear to have Santas girth, being described as slim and skinny.

The bad Santa made off with an un-disclosed amount of precious stones

in an SUV-type of vehicle, driving away on Main Street. No one was harmed during the commission of the offence, detachment commander Sgt. Phil Penny said.

Police continue to investigate, but the RCMP are asking anyone with in-formation to phone the detachment at 403-742-3382 or anonymously phone Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS(8477).

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Kinsmen Makerspace, a digital hub for studentsMOUSH SARA JOHNINDEPENDENT REPORTER

The Makerspace room of William E. Hay Stettler

Secondary Campus was renamed Kinsmen

Makerspace on Tuesday, Dec. 15 at a gathering where representatives of various organizations that made the transformation possible were present.

Since the majority of the funding from the communi-ty came from the Kinsmen Club, the Clearview Public Schools Division has agreed to name it the Kinsmen Makerspace for the next fi ve years.

Financial contributions also came from other local organizations, TD Canada Trust, Superfluity and Heartland Auto Supply.

The idea of the Makerspace room came about as a result of con-versations between Peter Barron, Superintendent of Clearview Public Schools and Norbert Baharally, Principal of William E. Hay Stettler Secondary Campus during the course of the previous school year, 2014-2015.

With the reconfi guration of the schools at the Stettler school complex, it was a great opportunity and time for us to implement some-thing new and different into our learning environ-ment, said Baharally.

They started by research-ing what Makerspaces looked like and the pur-pose of it.

After fi nding out some basic facts, they visited the

Edmonton Public Library to see their Makerspace and attended some Makerspace workshops and semi-nars that were happen-ing around the province to fi nd out how to tie the Makerspace movement into the various curricular programs.

After all the background work, we looked for a space within the school that could serve our needs and then we started to solicit various service clubs and organi-zations in our communi-ty to secure some funding to outfi t the Makerspace room with equipment and necessary tools, continued Baharally. We also worked closely with Clearview School Division and com-pleted some minor mod-ernizations to the room to meet our needs and re-quirements.

Dave Morris has been one of leads in getting the Makerspace room up and running.

He has been involved in working with me in secur-ing some of the funding, attending the workshops, purchasing of the equip-ment and maintaining and setting up the area, added Baharally. Mrs. Pat Ough, one of our teacher assistants has also played a key role in working di-rectly with our students su-pervising them when they

are in there working, she has been crucial in the de-livery of programming as part of the rotation of the junior high county option program at our school on Tuesday mornings.

In the Kinsmen Makerspace, the students have access to digital pho-tography projects and ed-iting software, including video editing, robotics, computer programming, simple circuitry, soldering, wood working, all sorts of hand tools, 3-D printing and a recording studio.

They are able to use these areas to explore their creative and innova-tive side of learning, and we just want to encourage students to come into the space and tinker around, said Baharally. We have become too much of a con-sumer economy, as soon as something is broken or does not work, we simply want to go out and buy a new one, so we want to try to encourage students to be creative and use their hands and minds to be cre-ative and to be patient and perhaps invent something instead of buying it new. Baharally calls it the Maker Movement and wants to try to start promoting it within the schools and even tie it into the curriculum with project-based learning in the Clearview classrooms.

Homecoming for Stettler docSTACEY LAVALLIEINDEPENDENT REPORTER

When Kim Chapman for-mally opens her practice on Jan. 16, 2016, itll mark a homecoming for doctor, who was born and raised near Stettler, leaving only to complete her medical studies.

Chapman, 31, will begin taking new pa-tients mid-January at the Heartland Medical Clinic on Main Street, where she will join doctors Elizma Bouwer, Pieter Bouwer, Francois Du Toit, Hassan Lockhat and Phil Vogel.

Im just glad to be close to my family and my friends, Chapman said. I always wanted to return home.

Growing up on the family farm southeast of Stettler, Chapman said she never had a burning desire to be a doctor in her early years. That all changed, she ex-plained, after illness struck her extended family.

I was 15, she recalled. I had that experience with illness and loss. It made me want to help people.

Originally, Chapmans

post-secondary focus was cancer research, but the medical student found that she missed interacting with people, and switched her focus to family med-icine.

Research is important, but I really missed the human part, Chapman ex-plained, and so she began her general practitioner studies at the University of Alberta. From 2008 until 2012, she worked on her degree, then did her resi-dency at the hospital until 2014. For the fi rst part of 2015, Chapman served as a locum doctor in south-ern Alberta, fi lling in for doctors who were away on vacation or had taken med-ical leave.

While that gave her ex-perience, it didnt give her a chance to build relation-ships with her patients, since she never had a steady roster.

Many people never see their doctor more than once a year, Chapman said. There are those who see a doctor regular-ly, though, and you get to know them very well. And I wanted that.

When the opportunity to come to Stettler for work as a permanent fi xture came up, Chapman leaped at the chance. A new mother to a baby boy, being close to family was very important. Her husband, who works in instrumentation, is tak-ing time off to be a stay-at-home dad, something that suits both him and Chapman.

Rural medicine pro-vides several challenges, Chapman said, the biggest being the breadth of knowl-edge a doctor here will need to serve the community. As doctors here also do stints on call as emergency de-partment doctors at the hospital, being prepared to handle what emergencies present themselves is a big chunk of what challenges doctors locally must rise to.

Its just the scope of what you need to know, Chapman said.

However, with the new year just days away and a new practice just weeks, Chapman said shes excit-ed and eager to get started.

I hope to raise our family here, grow old here, she said. This is home.


The Midget boys present a cheque of $1,340 to Patrick Callin, a representative of FCSS at the FCSS facility in Stettler on Monday, Dec. 21. The funds were raised through a progressive 50/50 draw that was hosted at the Stettler Recreation Centre over the weekend, Dec. 18-20.

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Makerspace Room at the William E. Hay Stettler Secondary Campus is renamed Kinsmen Makerspace. From left to right, Pat Ough, teacher assistant, Shawn OHara, manager of TD Bank, Greggory Jackson, Kinsmen representative, Norbert Baharally, principal and Dorothy Anderson, Superfl uity representative. Not present in the picture are Glen and Laurie Myshaniuk from Heartland Auto and Dave Morris, who was in charge of setting the space up and maintaining it.


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WOL Christmas celebrations with Olaf and Mrs. Santa ClausMOUSH SARA JOHNINDEPENDENT REPORTER

The Word of Life (WOL) Church held its Christmas festivities on Wednesday, Dec. 23 aligning them with the Night before the night before, treating the kids to a live performance of Olaf and Mrs. Santa Claus enacting How Santa be-came so generous.

According to pastor Shawn Acheson, one of the benefi ts that the Stettler WOL gets is the creativity of some awesome people at the other WOL churches around the world.

The amazing lead cam-pus in Red Deer sets into motion amazing themes and great seasonal pro-grams based on this shared creativity, said Acheson. At the local level in Stettler, we have followed the lead of the Christmas experience model and with our own creative people assembled

a program that fi ts our community and facility, and we are blessed to have so many creative people at the Stettler WOL campus.

The Christmas festivities at WOL this year were fo-cused on families, with a photo booth set up where families could get their pictures taken with Olaf, the snowman and other scenes and were given free prints to take home.

Throughout the eve-ning, there were live per-formances of storytelling play at Santas workshop. where Olaf, the snowman and Mrs. Santa Claus spun a tale of How Santa be-came so generous.

Refreshments were being served as the chil-dren enjoyed hot choc-olate or hot apple cider besides baked goods and cookies,

With 120 kids in total who watched the play throughout the evening, Acheson thought that the

event was well received.It blended perfect-

ly with Stettlers Night Before the Night Before

Event, so we were happy to meet so many people from our community, said Acheson. Next year we

hope we can create more awareness and visibility for the event in the com-munity, and also create a better set-up to accommo-date the large attendance.

Pastor Achesons new years message for the Stettler community was simple: Everyone needs Jesus and everyone needs a home.

In the Dec. 23 edition of the Stettler Independent, the story headlined HYC made us better people: award re-cipients, Dacia Gramlicks name was incorrectly spelled as Dacia Gramlich. We regret this error.

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Keegan Vaudry watches the live performance of Olaf and Mrs. Santa Claus enacting How Santa became so generous, along with other kids as part of Word of Life Churchs festiv-ities on Wednesday, Dec. 23.

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Whats in store for 2016?MUSTAFA ERICINDEPENDENT EDITOR

We are preparing to turn yet another leaf to welcome a new year. Wise men say in order to be able to see the future, one has to look at the past. As the occasion is the start of a new year, it might be appropriate to look at what happened in our town, province and country in 2015 to try to guess what might or should happen in 2016.

At the local level, Stettlers economy has been severely af-fected by the slump in the oil prices and the impact is likely to be felt throughout the new year.

At the provincial level, the only success of Ms. Notleys govern-ment so far has been to make a mess of their first six months in office. Bill 6, and after that Bill 8, went a long way to prove wrong those who claimed that Rachel Notley, coming from a family of a serious politician, would not be making clumsy moves in establishing herself and the

NDP as a serious political force. So far, with her recruitment of policy advisers and senior bu-reaucrats, Ms. Notley unwitting-ly inflicted great damage to her chances to govern the province effectively.

At the national level, the elec-torate decided that it was time for a sea change in the coun-trys political orientation and brought in Liberals in a decisive show of support for the young Trudeau. The change of tone in government was noticeable almost from day one, with the new government taking bold steps both to restore Canadas international image as a hu-mane and caring nation and to ensure that First Nations would not be treated as second-rate citizens of this country any lon-ger. But the new government also immediately realized that economy would not be as easy a file as it seemed before the elec-tion and the new finance min-ister shared his concerns with both the public and the provin-cial/territorial governments.

Outlook for 2016In the province, Ms. Notley

and her ministers need to real-ize that there is Alberta beyond Edmonton, too, and they also have the responsibility to serve that Alberta as well. Provincial government will need to find a better way of communicat-ing with all the population of the province, in particular by improving their listening skills. With oil prices certain to remain at about the current levels for most of 2016, the government will have to come up with cre-ative ideas to turn the slump around and nurture the hope among Albertans that things can and will get better.

At the national level, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will have to make good on his promises to return the economy to growth and create jobs, even at the cost of big deficits, in order to main-tain the positive image he has so far created mostly at his in-ternational engagements with world leaders and his young female fans. The settlement of

the promised 25,000 Syrian ref-ugees in Canada in the first few months of the new year will be a major test of the new govern-ments ability to manage the bu-reaucracy and mobilize resourc-es for a particular objective.

And at the global level, the new year does not look likely to be less tumultuous than the out-going one: Middle East conflicts are likely to get worse before one can even start to talk about solu-tions; refugee crisis is still no-where near a settlement; naval tensions in the South China Sea among US, Chinese and Japanese forces are rising; the undeclared war in Ukraine may flare up any day. In technology, pundits predict the start of the demise of the smart phone technology and the rise of virtual reality products. As for the economy, the high-risk bond market has started to emit signals similar to those at the start of the 2008 meltdown, whether the mar-kets will be able to weather that storm is anybodys guess.

Happy New Year!

COOL is vanquishedbut unintended consequences may happen

Your humble writer is prepared to eat crow on the repeal of the US Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) bill. I was skeptical that the US congress would give in to any pressure to actually repeal a piece of legislation that they implemented ostensibly for the good of American citizens. Sure COOL was nothing more than pro-tectionist legislation dis-guised as consumer in-formation. But in politics, perception trumps reality hence the US congress passed the bill almost seven years ago it was a classic piece of political expediency. The negative impact on Canadian live-stock and meat exports came to fruition. The ulti-mate cost to date has been estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars and will never be recovered.

It should be noted that the history of COOL al-most paralled the ten-ure of Democratic President Obama. Prior to his regime Republican Presidents, Congressmen and Senators were able to delay and derail the im-plementation of COOL. But as soon as the Democratic Party came to power, COOL was quickly imple-mented under pressure

from party friendly vest-ed interests and lobby-ists. There was no hope of changing COOL with the unfriendly Obama regime in power, so the World Trade Organization (WTO) trade dispute mechanism was the industrys only hope to get some atten-tion on the issue. The fact that the US govern-ment used every possible obstructionist tactic to delay and derail the WTO process was indicative of their negative attitude to-wards Canada (Obamas anti-Keystone pipeline decision confi rmed that perception). Add into that the usual politicians pre-dilection never to admit to making a mistake and one could assume it was going to be a long drawn out process.

My own view was that although the previous Conservative federal gov-ernment went along with the WTO process, that, in the end, no Canadian gov-ernment was going to re-taliate against its biggest trading partner to the tune of billions of dollars of re-taliatory tariffs. In that re-gard, the COOL issue from a Canadian perspective was helped by Obamas procrastination and op-position to the Keystone

pipeline. I believe that situation hardened the governments backbone to pursue COOL at the WTO. Certainly former Ag Minister Ritz rattled the sabre at every opportunity although I am not sure the Obama administration noticed such bravado that much. With the defeat of the Conservative govern-ment, I expect there was some real concern within the industry that the new Liberal government would have the same resolve about COOL and applying retaliatory tariffs. In the end they did, perhaps they too wanted to get back at the US government for their infamous anti-Key-stone decision. What probably helped most was that the US Congress in-serted the COOL repeal amendment into a trillion dollar American spending

omnibus bill. I expect that the Obama administration was not willing to jeop-ardize that critical bill by opposing a COOL repeal, which, in the scheme of American governance, doesnt really mean much, therefore COOL was politi-cally expendable. So there we have it - COOL is gone.

The question that now looms is what will happen now that the fl oodgates to the export of cattle, hogs and pork to the USA is wide open again. On the surface, it appears that a fully reopened American market will see renewed competition for Canadian livestock and meat with producer and feedlot pric-es increasing to the bene-fi t of the industry. But as the old saying goes be careful what you wish for! Much has changed since the battle against COOL

started all those years ago particularly in the beef packing industry. Meat processing in Canada is more costly than in the US and needs to survive on economies of scale and a lower loonie. However, over the past few years cattle supply has de-creased, but was mitigat-ed because COOL discour-aged large live exports to the US. That helped Canadian packing plants. Now that COOL is gone, live cattle exports may increase signifi cantly and if Canadian plants want them, they will have to compete against a high US dollar. Thats all fair enough in a free market. But there is a dark side if Canadian plants cant compete and their costs increase as plant through-put decreases there is an inevitability those plants may close. That would be a disaster for the Canadian cattle industry.

So here it now stands the industry has won an important trade battle with the repeal of COOL. But it may lose something more important in the near future because of it. For the Canadian cattle and beef marketing busi-ness, the next few years will be interesting indeed.

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Have you ever wanted to build something but you never had the materials or knowledge to do so? Well look no further. The fantastic Mark Fox will be at the library on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. He will be running the Make, Take, and Create drop-in program. This time is unscripted and ad hoc. Just show up and well use the librarys tools and resources to help you fl esh out your ideas and possibly hook you up with local talent that can help you make your idea a reality or help you explore an interest. All ages welcome.

Remember those gaming laptops from last week? They are still here, calling to you. They are full of preloaded games, just waiting to be played. So come on in to the library and use them before its too late, they head home on Jan. 13.

On Saturday, Jan. 19 at 10:30 a.m. we are salut-ing popcorn. With various popcorn-based activities, crafts and snacks, you will be smiling from ear to ear. From little corns to kernels everyone is welcome to our Popcorn Bonanza.

Every Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. from Jan. 13 to March 14 - Colour Me Radd is an adult colouring group. Here it isyour moment of Zen. Waiting for your child at hockey, swimming, or other activities? Join us down-stairs at the Rec Centre on Wednesdays and well provide pencil crayons and intricate colouring sheets designed for adults.

Every Wednesday at 3 p.m. from Jan. 13 to March 16, we present, Rainbow Brite, a childrens colouring group. Do you love to colour? Join us at the library. Well provide colouring sheets featuring childrens characters, seasonal designs, and more. Feel free to bring your favorite coloring book.

You can do so much with your fi ngers. You can text, poke a cat, get clawed by said cat, and much more, but did you ever think you could make a blanket with your fi ngers? Well, on Saturday, Jan. 16 at 10:30 a.m., our resident gem Crystal will be teaching anyone and everyone how to crochet with nothing but your fi ngers and yarn. You kind of need that too, you will need to bring your own yarn.

Keep an eye out for additional activities on our website (spl.prl.ab.ca) and Facebook page. And if you have an activity youd like to do/see at the library feel free to let us know!

If this were theRed Green show

We are standing on the threshold of 2016! We view a New Year as a new beginningan opportu-nity to start overto let go of a nasty habit or do better at something in which we are falter-ing. We make resolutions with respect to weight loss (the perennial num-ber 1 resolution) parent-ing, spousal relation-ships, prioritizing and time management.

However, polls and sur-veys reveal that most peo-ple have become disillu-sioned about New Years resolutions. There is good reason for disillusion-ment; most resolutions are broken and aban-doned after, not weeks, but days and while noth-ing succeeds like success, nothing flops like failure. Consequently, previous good intentions have been replaced by, Oh, whats the use?!

Im a natural pessimist, but an intentional and persistent optimist, so there must be a better approach to this whole matter. First, there is nothing wrong with mak-ing a resolution. A res-olution is defined as a firm decision to do or not to do something. Whats the problem then? There is no problem with reso-lutions. Resolutions are

good. There is a problem with follow-up. A reso-lution is a decision, but it needs to be guided by direction and followed up with determination. The word is commitment!

Commitment is defined as an engagement or obligation that restricts freedom of action. You see the problem right away, dont you? The words restrict and free-dom collide in the most obtuse fashion. In sim-plest terms, it is saying that if I wish to keep my resolution, I must en-gage in a commitment and that commitment, suggests, even demands, that I wont get to do whatever I want to do, whenever I want to do itand that does not suit my self-serving human nature.

How challenging! If this were the Red Green Show, we would reach for a roll of duct tapebut this is Faith and Reflection, so I

reach for my Bible. The Bible teaches that life is not about ownership and control, but stewardship and service. Stewardship proposes that everything that I have has been given to me from God and the best way, pardon me, the only way to success-fully administrate these gifts is to give them back to Him. He is the owner, I am the manager.

If you are asking, How in the world do I do that?, let me share two verses of Scripture and a promise to revisit this topic next week.

God, Teach us to num-ber our days and recog-nize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should (Psalm 90:12) & So then, my friends, because of Gods great mercy to us I appeal to you: Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to His service (Romans 12:1).

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Deere Valley Farms held their Christmas apprecia-tion supper at the hall on Wednesday, Dec 23.

Kim and Daryl Mackie and daughters Taylor and Drew; Kandice and Scott Morrison and son Forbes all were down for Christmas. With everyone home, they also took the opportunity to help Kent celebrate his 80th birthday, which is not until March.

The Kent family got to-gether at the seniors cen-tre to celebrate their family Christmas, Greg and Laura and Robbie and his girlfriend Mel were able to attend.

Congratulations to Kathryn Morlock and Trevor Houstein on the birth of their baby boy, born in Stettler. on Dec. 19 weighing in at 8lb 4oz. Gabriel Gerhart. Grandparents are Larry and Kathy Tuck and great grand-mother Violet Turre.

Mike Neilson was home from Burnaby, BC. While here he is visiting with mom Anne, Burt and Cindy and Kids.

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Everyone in the Village of Donalda would like to wish all a happy New Year. We hope that the holidays are fun-fi lled with love and laughter. For those travel near or far, please be safe on the roads.

The Donalda Coulee Friendship Club will hold its next meeting Jan 4, 2016 at noon. New members wel-come. There will also be a Pancake Breakfast and Jam session Jan 10, 2016 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Donalda & District Museum will be closed for the Holiday season, but will return to its normal win-ter hours beginning Jan 7th, 2016.

Birthday wishes this week go out to Clay Awe, Ian Stone, Aveya Laye, Cindy Auton, Mark Siemens, Dusty Viske, Mardy Kulak, and Bob Halseth. Happy birthday.

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8 STETTLER INDEPENDENT Wednesday, December 30, 2015Sports

Big Valleys Harden brothers to compete in Ultimate Cowboy V in Calgary


One of the most popular events in equine sports, the ultimate cowboy challenge, will be held at the Agrium Western Event Centre in Calgary on Thursday, Dec. 31 with two of the areas well-known riders, Josh and Colter Harden of Big Valley participating in the draw.

In a typical rodeo, most cowboys specialize in one or two of the featured

events.But the Ultimate Cowboy

V event is a challenge to test the contestants ver-satility and skills and is a throwback to the sports roots, where contestants often entered in every competition they could and had as many chances to win as possible.

To bring the best cow-boys to an event designed to showcase how diffi -cult rodeo events really are, said event organizer Scott Wyzykoski, who is a professional steer wres-

tler himself, as well as a practicing dentist. Ive always thought rodeo has two main downfalls, fi rst is the entry fees the cowboys and cowgirls ba-sically put up most of the prize money out of their own pocket and second is the draw many contes-tants at rodeos will draw animals that they basi-cally have no chance of winning money on.

This prompted Wyzykoski to create an event with no entry fee.

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based on merit and skills to compete for their share of $20,000, and they also get to pick the animals they will compete on.

The way the partici-pants were selected were based on previous results, with fi ve guys qualifying from their previous two years results.

Colter Harden came in second in 2014, which got him his invitation.

Wyzykoski also took fi ve guys from a quali-fying rodeo in Rimbey on Saturday, Dec. 12, the

winner of which was Josh Harden of Big Valley.

Wed like to produce a high-quality rodeo event with a great party, said Wyzykoski. We are also trying to produce a rodeo video that would be en-tertaining to a non-rodeo crowd and will be shown on Shaw cable throughout January and also working on other video/TV deals.

This event is in its fi fth year, with at least two of the Harden brothers competing at each of the fi rst four ultimate cowboy

events.Jeremy Harden was the

winner of the Ultimate Cowboy 2012 in Ponoka and dominated the event, the only time it was won before the bull riding even started.

Weve really become international this year, as the All Around Champion from Australia, Braydon Wellby is in the mix, said Wyzykoski. Weve had so many cowboys who want to compete now that weve had to add a qual-ifying event.

Lightning fall to Wranglersdespite strong start


The Stettler Lightning, coaching staff and fans had high hopes for the fi nal game of 2015, played on Tuesday, Dec. 22, but those hopes were dashed in a 4-1 loss to the Blackfalds Wranglers.

The game started off on a positive note, with a goal by Derek Muhlbach in the last minute of the fi rst period, putting the team ahead 1-0. The second period didnt go quite as well, with the Wranglers scoring two goals, including one while the Lightning were short-handed due to a cross-checking penalty.

The teams headed into the third peri-od with Stettler trailing 2-1, but several missed opportunities, including a few shots ringing off the net posts, set the crowd to groaning. A third goal by the Wranglers early in the third widened the defi cit, and in the dying minute of the game, a second one guaranteed a Stettler loss.

Morale is OK, Doug Smith, the teams general manager, said. It takes a beat-ing but everyones still at it, theyre showing up to practices and theyre giving it all theyve got.

Smith, who stepped down as head coach at the end of the 2013-14 season, ended up coaching the following sea-son with a new coaching staff, former players who had aged out and wanted to give back to the team they played. One of those coaches, Gavin Brandl, is now head coach. This is the fi rst year in many that Smith has been hands-off in coaching.

Theyre doing well, Smith said of the coaching staff. Ive no concerns. Theyre coming into their own and the few things I might have done different are due to experience.

Smith also said he had no urge to re-turn to being behind the bench.

The Lightning currently are in last place in the Northern Division of the

Heritage Junior Hockey League, trail-ing the Ponoka Stampeders by two points. Only the fi rst six teams of the seven-team division will make it to

play-offs at the end of the season, so Stettlers looking to make some gains in the new year and secure a place in the play-offs.

Stacey Lavallie/Independent reporter

Logan Davidson leads a pack of players from both teams as he races for the Wranglers net, working hard to keep the puck free of interfering players from Blackfalds.


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Who were Stettlers Athlete newsmakers of 2015? The fi rst of this two-part series looks back at the fi rst six months of 2015.

Jr. girls still confi dent after close loss to Hunting Hills - Jan. 14

Stettlers junior varsity girls basketball team remained upbeat after a narrow loss to Red Deers Hunting Hills High School on Wednesday, Jan. 7.

Lightning close Stampeders series with clean slate - Jan. 21

The Stettler Lightning were not hard pressed to close the season series with a clean 4-0 record against the Ponoka Stampeders, the only team in the Junior Heritage Hockey League they could do so, when they fi nished the job in a home game on Tuesday, Jan. 13.

Thieleman named Heritage Junior player of the week - Jan. 28

Castors Simon Thieleman, primary goalie for the Stettler Lightning, has been named the Heritage Junior player of the week ending Jan. 25.

SMS teams host Big Valley in basketball matchup - Feb. 4

Stettler Middle Schools basketball teams took on the Big Valley Bulldogs last week, resulting in one win and one loss for the home teams.

Sr. girls overtake Lacombe in relentless game - Feb. 11

Stettlers senior girls bas-ketball team came from be-hind to defeat the Lacombe Rams in a close game at home last week.

JV girls take consolation prize in Wetaskiwin tourna-ment - Feb. 18

A win over Wetaskiwin gave Stettlers junior varsity girls the consolation title in a basketball tournament held over the weekend.

Norman hits the world stage in global fencing tour-nament - Feb. 25

Two weeks ago, 15-year-old Riley Norman was in British Columbia to train with some of the worlds most accom-plished fencers.

Local schools compete in CARA basketball fi nals - March 4

Stettlers schools were the site of this years CARA league boys and girls bas-ketball tournaments on Saturday, Feb. 28, welcoming 10 schools from around the district.

Norman earns bronze at Canada Cup of Fencing - March 11

Stettlers Riley Norman tri-umphed at the Canada Cup of Fencing this past week-end, earning a bronze medal in the national competition.

Hometown pride: Bantam A team takes provincial title - March 18

Cheered on by family and friends, the Stettler Bantam A Scotiabank Storm captured the provincial championship at home this weekend fol-lowing four days of intense competition.

Big Valley man fi lls in, and wins big - March 25

Last week was apparently meant to be the time for Big Valley to brag. In addition to the Peewee Thunders claim-ing a provincial title, a local cowboy won the big big prize in an international rodeo event.

Barrel racing event pays out $22,000 - April 1

Stettler Agriplex hosted the Frozen Futurity and Derby on Wednesday, March 25 with riders coming from all over western Canada, from communities spread over Manitoba in the east and B.C. in the west.

Roughstock Rodeo rocks Stettler Agriplex - April 8

Rodeo fans fl ocked to Stettler Agriplex on Good Friday to see the fi rst equine event of the season and with the added comfort of being able to watch the action on a huge screen, they were all satisfi ed with the rush of adrenalin in the course of the evening.

Stettler serves up mixed results at Hwy 12 tourney - April 15

The gymnasiums at the Stettler Schools complex were busy with students from Stettler, Altario, Castor, Coronation and Consort as they readied their racquets and their birdies for the an-nual Highway 12 Badminton tournament on Monday, April 13.

Busy weekend for Thunder - April 22

The Stettler Thunder la-crosse teams had a busy weekend here at home, play-ing host to the Lacoka Locos, the Red Deer Chiefs and the Blackfalds Warriors on Saturday and Sunday.

Badminton season in full speed - April 29

Students from the Stettler Middle School made their way to Castor last week, showing well in the annu-al Castor Junior badminton tournament.

Stettler minor soccer makes a strong showing in Camrose - May 6

Stettlers full line up of

girl soccer teams travelled to Camrose for the annu-al Sunbreaker tournament over the weekend, May 2-3, to hone their skills and test the strengths of the teams they will play throughout the new season with U16 boys also making a pitch at the title in their category.

Stettler girls soccer show-ing strong improvement, says coach - May 13

Stettlers U12 girls soccer team won handsomely over Ponoka with a score of 7-0 on Thursday, May 7, while both girls and boys U16 teams lost to visitors.

Stettler archers shoot their way to all-star team - May 20

Two young archers from Stettler qualifi ed for the na-tional all-star archery team to compete in the world championship this summer. Will Roberts, 16, and Jessa Heatherington, 15, have shot on the William E. Hay Composite High School ar-chery team for three years and two years respectively.

Eleven of Wm. E. Hays track and fi elders go to zones - May 27

Students from across the region congregated under sunny skies on Wednesday, May 20 at William E. Hay Composite Schools track and fi eld facilities for the regional high school track meet.

Stettler Midgets surge ahead in baseball - June 3

Stettlers Midget baseball team has added yet anoth-er win to their tabulations, making it 3-0 since the be-ginning of the season.

Stettlers youngest get the gold in Camrose - June 10

Stettler Minor Soccer was shining at the annual Camrose Night Classic tour-nament over the weekend with all the teams taking part having a shot at the medals, but it was the youngest of the bunch that hoisted the fl ag highest: U12 boys won the gold bringing pride to the town.

Steel Wheel Stampede rocks Stettler - June 17

Stettlers Steel Wheel Stampede did not see a lot of co-operation from the weather this year, but despite the rain and strong winds, bleachers were still full on both days of equine action at the Stettler Exhibition Grounds, with Stettler cow-boys claiming the top spot in two categories.

Stettler minor soccer goes provincial - June 24

Stettler minor soccer will be proudly represented at the provincial champion-ships this summer with three teams, U18 girls, U14 boys, and U12 boys, with one of them, U14 boys hosting the championship right here in town.

Part II of the sports review of 2015 will be in the next edition of The Independent.

Erskines Hronek fastest in peewee barrel racing


The barrel racing community of Stettler and neigh-bouring areas came together on Monday, Dec. 21 to par-ticipate in the Kept Wives barrel race series, customized for riders who are unable to travel in the evenings.

With three categories peewee, youth and open the competition had a large number of riders who had come in from as far as Alix.

Kayla Hronek of Erskine made the fastest time in the peewee category, while Bobbi Henderson of Alix clocked in 13.508 seconds.

In the open category it was Traci MacDonald of Erskine, who scored the fastest time of 13.506 seconds.

According to Melissa Thiessen, who has organized the barrel races, the series is geared towards people who can participate in the afternoon and are unable to travel in the evenings.

The races are a platform for the barrel racers to run through the winter as they get ready for spring, said Thiessen. Its about getting our colts out and about.

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YOUNG Pauline Young was born on January 14, 1929 to Regina and Gottfried Schultz of Mazenod, SK. She attended school in Mazenod until moving to Mortlach in April 1945. Pauline helped on the family farm and later worked in the General Hospital in Moose Jaw. In 1949 she went to Saskatoon to train as a Certi ed Nursing Assistant and after graduating she worked for 30 years in various hospitals across Canada. It was a good way to see the country!

In 1971 Pauline was working in the hospital in Central Butte, AB where she met Dale Young who was home on vacation. They courted long distance as Dale was working for his aunt and uncle in Consort, AB. They nally got everything together and decided to get married on April 29, 1972 and made their home in Consort. In November 1973, they became parents when they had their only child, a daughter they named Audra. In 1974 they purchased their own farm near Red Willow where they raised cattle and also grain farmed until 1995 when they retired to Stettler. Paulines unwavering Christian faith guided her through life. She was involved in many ventures throughout the years at St. Peter Lutheran Church, attended Bible study and worked with the other Lutheran ladies sewing quilts. She had a very charitable and giving heart. Pauline had a love of horticulture and as a talented gardener, she had the ability to make anything grow and bloom. She was an artist and an avid reader who said that reading is an education in itself. And of course, she always had a cute little joke to tell you. Pauline passed away in Stettler, Alberta on December 16, 2015 at the age of 86 years.She is remembered and forever missed by her husband Dale and daughter Audra (Chris). Pauline is survived by her sisters Elma (Ted), Frieda, Irene (Jake) and Martha along with Dales family; Jack (Marj), Shirley, Stuart (Dianne) and Larry (Kerryl) as well as numerous nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by her brother Alfred and sisters Millie and Elsie, brothers in law Ted D., Bruce, Ed, Ted A. and Bob.Bye for now, Mom.Funeral service was held at St. Peter Lutheran Church on Monday, December 21, 2015 at 2:00 PM with Rev. Karl Faltin of ciating. Scott Pfeiffer presented his gift of music for Paulines favorite hymns as well as for soloist Blaine Paulson as he sang Just A Closer Walk With Thee, Mr. Doug McKay gave a loving tribute to those in attendance. Pauline was laid to rest at Lake View Cemetery with Chris Bell, Bill Kot, Garth Benjamin, Wade Bryant, Barry Haner and Ron Van Landuyt serving as pallbearers. Family and friends gathered for a time of fellowship in the Church Education Wing and a lovely luncheon by the St. Peter Lutheran Ladies. Memorial donations may be made to St. Peter Lutheran Church Building Fund, 5712-48 Ave, Stettler, AB T0C 2L1. Condolences may be viewed or sent to the family at www.stettlerfuneralhome.com

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NORMANArne Leander passed away peacefully at Points West Lodge on Saturday, December 19, 2015.He was born May 6, 1921, at Donalda, Alberta, to parents Fred and Albertina Norman. He was the eighth child in a family of ten. He grew up on the family farm, attending school at Spruce Coulee. On June 19, 1948, he married Alice Paulson, daughter of Henry and Gladys Paulson. They had four children; Elaine, Diane, Joan and Rodney. All

have wonderful memories of growing up in this loving family.Arne was predeceased by his wife, Alice, by his parents and by all of his siblings. He leaves to mourn his loss; his children, Elaine (Dennis) Helfer, Diane (Ed) Congdon, Joan (Lenord) Blouin and Rodney (Karen) Norman, his grandchildren, Tammy (Mardy) Helfer-Kulak, Trena (Danny) Helfer-Thomas, Tricia (Jonathan Marshall) Helfer, Tara (Kelvin Iwerinwa) Helfer, Kyle (Sandra) Congdon, Brent Congdon, Scott (Shalan) Blouin, Rick (Kelly) Blouin, Chris (Alison) Norman, Jeremy (Maryna) Norman, Kerri (Joel) Shepherd, Barrett (Lyndon) Norman and by 18 great- grandchildren. He is also survived by sisters-in-law Myrtle Norman, Patricia Norman and Irene Norman and by brother-in-law Lloyd (Lois) Paulson, cousins, numerous nieces and nephews and a host of friends.A funeral service for Arne Norman was held on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 in the Heartland Chapel of Stettler Funeral Home with Reverend Ross Helgeton of ciating. Granddaughters Kerri Shepherd, Tammy Kulak and Trena Thomas shared scripture, loving memories and a poem written by daughter Diane Congdon. Musicians Joan Rushton and Debbie Simon and soloist Blaine Paulson shared their gifts of music, with the congregation joining together to sing Amazing Grace. A walk down memory lane pictorial tribute by daughter in law Karen Norman was presented. Arne was laid to rest in Spruce Coulee Cemetery, Donalda, beside his wife Alice with grandsons: Kyle Congdon, Brent Congdon, Scott Blouin, Rick Blouin, Chris Norman, Jeremy Norman and Barrett Norman serving as pallbearers. Donations in memory of Arne are gratefully accepted to Spruce Coulee Cemetery Club, S.T.A.R.S. or a charity of choice c/o

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THOMPSONKeith RobertKeith Thompson died at his home in Stettler at the age of 76 years on Friday, December 11, 2015. Keith was predeceased by his parents Bob and Isobel Thompson, brother in law Victor and sister in law Paulette Delfs, sister and brother in law Ursula and Ted Quensel and then on June 10, 2012 his wife Christa.Keith was born in Spirit River on January 15, 1939 to Robert and Isobel Thompson, lived his childhood in Spirit River where he attended school then went on

to Edmonton to post secondary schooling at the University of Alberta.Keith married Christa Delfs of Woking in 1963. Keith owned the International Harvester in the Stettler area. They lived in Stettler and then in the Botha area and had a large herd of purebred Simmental cattle which they sold all over Canada, the States and Mexico. Chris and Keith loved their farming and cattle business for many years, before moving back into the town of Stettler. They also enjoyed many years of curling and Keith always had a love for hunting with friends, his Dad and his beloved companion Guy, the black lab retriever. They loved to golf and for the past 20 years took to being snowbirds and enjoyed the gol ng and made many dear friends in Yuma, Arizona. After the loss of Christa, Keith came to realize, with the day to day jobs, how much he had depended on her, and had many health issues to deal with alone.Keith leaves to mourn sisters in law Margot Delfs of Calgary, Gudrun Kue er of Ottawa, brother in law Gerhart and Joyce Delfs of Rocky Mountain House and his brother Michael Thompson of Wetaskiwin, as well as many nieces, nephews, many dear friends, work mates along with his beloved Yuma family.As sad as it is for Keith to pass on, when someone you love dies, you never get over it, you just slowly get through each day, but you will always keep them tucked safely in your heart.Condolences may be viewed or sent to the family at www.stettlerfuneralhome.com. Memorial donations may be made to Heartland Youth Centre or the Stettler Town and County Musuem, c/o

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ROSSMr. Alex Ross was born in Drumheller, Alberta on August 21, 1938 to Ruby and Roy Ross and passed away on December 9, 2015. He lived on the farm all his life along the Red Deer River in the Scollard area. In 1964 he married Jean Dixon at Mayerthorpe and they had two sons Steven and Clifford. Alex worked on Seismograph in the north and later after farming with his parents he began to drill water wells. He loved to have family and friends over to visit.Alex leaves to mourn his wife of

51 years Jean; son Clifford (Cheryl) Ross; four grandchildren: Caitlin Ross (Dylan), Geordy Ross, Cory Andrew and Dustin Andrew (Kaitlyn); two great grandchildren: Mackenzie and Macie; sisters Helen Wampler and Margorie Reid; sisters and brothers-in-law: Brenda (Brian) Trudzik, Rose (Henry) Starman, Marge Curley, Joan (Dick) Granley, Kevin (Barb) Dixon and Gail Dixon; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of many wonderful friends. Alex was predeceased by parents Roy and Ruby Ross in 1981 and son Steven Ross in 1987, brother-in-law Dennis Dixon in 1975.Funeral service was held at Stettler Funeral Home on December 17, 2015 with Pastor Ross Helgeton of ciating, Allen Jacobson gave a loving tribute. Evelyn Strandquist presented her gift of music. Active pallbearers were Mike McMullen, Larry Meyer, Alan Briscoe, Mike Briscoe, Allen Jacobson and George Thompson. Family and friends gathered in the Heartland Reception Centre for a time of fellowship and refreshments by Brendas Catering. Memorial donations may be made to the Big Valley Drop In Centre or the Big Valley Legion c/o Stettler Funeral Home, Box 1780, Stettler, AB, T0C 2L0. Sympathies may be forwarded to the family by signing the guestbook at

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SAVAGELois Evelyn Savage, a well known resident of Stettler and Big Valley passed away at the Stettler Health Care Centre on Sunday, December 13, 2015 at the age of 89 years. Lois was born on July 7, 1926 in Stettler, daughter of Harry and Elizabeth Fuller. On June 8, 1946 she was united in marriage to Bill Savage and raised 5 children. Bill and Lois farmed east of Big Valley from 1946 until 1974, when they moved to Stettler where she worked at the Sears

of ce for several years. She enjoyed shing, gardening, travelling, sewing, crafts, bingo, camping and being around her family and friends.Lois is survived by her children: Ron (Judy), Ann (Harvey), Dixie (Jim), Murray, daughter in law Vicki; and special friend Everett; grandchildren: Leslie (Greg), Lori, Gwen, Greg (Richelle), Jason, Kevin (Kim); great grandchildren: Kristan, Alex, Chandler, Bridget, Elliot, Jinger, Anya and Nadia. Lois was predeceased by her parents Harry and Elizabeth Fuller, husband Bill, sons Wayne and baby James, one brother and three sisters. She will be sadly missed by those who knew her.Funeral services were held on Saturday, December 19, 2015 with Pastor Don Wudel of ciating. Members of the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Lakeview Congregation presented their gift of music, which Lois so enjoyed listening to at the seniors home, where she was a resident and at the Mennonite Church; Verna Rock gave the Eulogy. Family and friends gathered in the Heartland Reception Centre for a time of fellowship and a luncheon by Teresas Catering. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.stettlerfuneralhome.com. Memorial donations may be made to the Botha Woodland Cemetery, Gadsby Omega Cemetery or Stollery Childrens Hospital, c/o

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