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Volunteer auctioneer Claude Dupont has been with the Heartland Youth Center’s Awesome Auction since he graduated from its radio auction roots. Here, he auctions off one of many donated items to benefi t the youth group.

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It was the best evening at the beach to be found indoors at the Stettler Community Centre as the community gathered for the Heartland Youth Center’s annual Awesome Auction on June 7.

The beach-themed fundraiser for the Big Brothers Big Sisters programs in Stettler drew in hungry members of the community for a lobster dinner, followed by a live auction and music.

During the entire evening, silent auctions were ongoing as

bidders tried to out-do each other on items donated by generous business members of the community.

The annual event started 22 years ago as a “humble radio auction,” but after a few years, faced with overwhelming generosity from the community’s businesses, expanded to a dinner and live auction and has been going strong ever since.

Claude Dupont has volunteered his time as an auctioneer since the live-auction began.

“People come out every year,” he said. “The faces change but it’s always sold out before the tickets

are even printed.”He said one of the

reasons why the auction is such a successful event for the youth centre is because of the amount of work the centre does for the kids it serves.

“HYC goes above and beyond what they have to do,” Dupont said. “The community sees that, and that’s what they respond to.”

More than 75 volunteers – former employees at the youth centre, “graduates” of the centre’s programs, current members and employees and others all pitch in to make the event happen, according to Winnie Bissett, the

executive director of Heartland Youth Center.

“One of the things I really take pride in is the community volunteering,” she said, explaining that the kids at the youth centre help clean up every spring and work with people in the community in various volunteer roles. “It comes back to us full circle.”

Some of the items up for auction included a Team Canada jersey from the final game of men’s hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics, a train trip incursion from Via Rail, a cooler that can “keep ice from melting for days,” a mini-quad for kids, and much more.

Local members of the communities, community businesses or international businesses with local branches donate all of the items at the auction, meaning the profit goes purely to the youth centre.

According to Bissett, the auction is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the youth centre, and it never disappoints.

“People are so generous,” she said.

The kids at the youth centre get into the night as well, helping prepare and serve dinner, gathering dishes, creating the decor, and creating the sand castle masterpiece seen

at the front of the hall as people entered.

Kevin Sorenson, MP for the riding of Crowfoot, of which Stettler is a part, stopped in to act as a guest auctioneer at the event, reaching back to his pre-politics days as an auctioneer. He gave Dupont a genuine run for his money, bringing in more than $6,000 for the Via Rail train incursion.

“I come every year,” Sorenson said. “It’s a privilege to help groups like Heartland Youth Centre with events like this.”

The amount raised at the auction was not available at press time.

Awesome Auction brings in the bucksAnnual fundraiser in 23rd year

STACEY LAVALLIE


An Erskine family is in mourning after an early-morning accident on Saturday, June 7, claimed the life of 18-year-old Andrew Nibourg.

Nibourg, who only the weekend before graduated from William E. Hay Composite High School, was ejected from the driver-side window of his truck during a collision with a fl at-bed transport truck. He was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS due to injuries sustained in

the collision.Drugs and alcohol were not involved

in the collision, but Stettler RCMP cited speed and a lack of seat belt as causative factors in Nibourg’s death.

“We have truly lost a very great young man,” James Nibourg, Andrew’s father and a councillor for the County of Stettler, said in a released statement. “Our Andrew has touched so many hearts in his short time on earth. We would like to thank everybody for the overwhelming support and please keep us in your prayers.”

A number of Nibourg’s graduating classmates weren’t in school on Monday

as they gathered elsewhere to grieve and remember their friend together, William E. Hay Composite High School principal Norbert Baharally said, though, he noted, he would rather have them in school as there is a crisis intervention team at the school which can offer students emotional support.

Baharally said the school day on Monday was “going as well as could be expected,” but admitted that both students and staff were grieving and that the atmosphere in the school was grim.

“Andrew was a great young man,” Baharally said. “He was involved in band, and very heavily in our vocational programs.”

He said Nibourg enjoyed cooking, and a great deal of his vocational training was in the kitchen. That passion for food also worked its way into Nibourg’s volunteer work, which involved helping with a catering program.

Nibourg’s death is really impacting the students at William E. Hay who came to the high school from Erskine, Baharally said, noting that the large class of about 15 students from the school are a “tight-knit group of kids.”

Baharally praised Nibourg as the sort of student who would give the shirt off his back and put others before himself, which is one of the reasons staff – even those who never taught Nibourg – are suffering

such sadness at his passing.Clearview Schools’ crisis intervention

team has set up at the school and counsellors are available to help students and staff for this week and longer, if necessary, Baharally said.

“We expect that some (students) will seek out this help, while others may not,” Baharally said in a written statement, made available on the school’s website. “Students will have varied reactions to the death and loss of a peer. A wide range of reactions is normal...and can vary from withdrawal, to crying and anger.”

The school encourages parents to speak openly with their children about the tragedy and has prepared information for parents who need help in helping their son or daughter cope with Nibourg’s passing. Parents can phone the school for the information.

The driver of the other vehicle, a 51-year-old Delburne man, received no injuries.

William E. Hay grad dies in collision south of ErskineVictim a ‘great young man,’ says principal

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Andrew Nibourg, the 18-year-old William E. Hay graduate driving this blue Dodge pickup truck, was killed in an early-morning collision after he was ejected from the driver-side window. The collision happened at the intersection of Township Road 38-4 and Highway 835.

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It wasn’t until after harvest was complete that Christine Wedrick’s husband, Trevor, would take the time to go to the doctor.

Trevor was a tall fel-

low, but in fall 2012, he’d drastically and unexpect-edly lost weight, con-cerning both family and friends.

A battery of tests at the doctor’s office revealed that Trevor’s blood sugar was “extremely high,” Wedrick said, and the doctor sent Trevor home with pills used by people with Type II diabetes.

They didn’t work, ac-cording to Wedrick, and the couple travelled to Red Deer where, at the diabetic clinic, Trevor was diagnosed with Type I diabetes, a disease most often diagnosed in chil-dren.

The pair’s life has changed in small but dra-matic ways in the two years since diagnosis, and one way is their in-volvement in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foun-dation (JDRF), which raises money for use in research and education in Type I diabetes.

On Wednesday, June 4,

Wedrick brought three ta-bles of baked goods, most made herself but some by family and friends, and set up a bake sale to raise money for Team Green, her team in the upcoming Telus Walk to Cure Dia-betes, scheduled for June 22 in Red Deer.

Both she and Trevor will be walking with hun-dreds of others that day, all bringing in pledges to help support JDRF’s re-search.

Eighty per cent of all funds gathered by JDRF goes to research or re-search-based education, according to JDRF rep-resentative and Stettler resident Melissa Zim-mermann.

Zimmermann’s son, Carter, was diagnosed with Type I diabetes at 15 months of age, and this year is the walk’s ambas-sador at the strapping and healthy age of five.

The disease has al-tered the course of the lives of both the Wedrick and Zimmermann fami-lies. There are needles every day – a minimum of four for Trevor, un-less his blood sugar level is skewed and requires more maintenance, mean-ing more shots. Carter also has to endure several insulin shots daily.

Unlike Type II diabe-tes, which can be man-aged through diet and ex-ercise, Type I diabetes is caused when the body at-tacks the pancreas, which creates insulin. Over time, the pancreas stops releasing insulin into the body and shrivels up and dies.

Since the disease is auto-immune, a trans-plant isn’t much of an op-tion since the body would just attack the new, trans-planted organ.

Without insulin, the body cannot process sugar, and it gathers in the blood vessels. Signs of diabetes present itself in Type I sufferers with

weight loss, frequent urination, fruity-smell-ing breath, lethargy and shakes, to name a few. Without insulin injec-tions, death is inevitable.

It’s not as simple as just a few needles of insulin a day, Wedrick notes. Both she and Trev-or count calories in ev-erything he eats, since he has to take those numbers to help calculate what sort of insulin dose he will need to compensate for the sugar.

Since Trevor is in a “honeymoon phase” where his pancreas is still producing some insulin, his blood sugar levels sometimes plummet, and other times spike, mean-ing he always has snacks on hand to help him if his sugar levels drop too low because he has too much insulin in his system.

It’s been a change of life for both families. That’s why Zimmermann and Wedrick are going to be walking later this month.

“There’s research go-ing on in eyelet trans-plant,” Zimmermann said. “Eyelets are the part of the pancreas that dies in Type I diabetes.” Research has developed items like insulin pumps, which help manage Type I diabetes in people who have difficulty managing blood sugar and insulin levels, making the pro-cess more automatic and less hands-on.

There’s research into implant-type treatment that could see tea-bag like items implanted un-der the skin that help regulate the disease, research that is in part funded by events like the Telus Walk to Cure Dia-betes.

Someday, both Wedrick and Zimmer-mann say they hope there will be a cure for people with diabetes. Until then, they’ll bake sale and walk to help get there.

Stettler bake sale injects funds

into diabetes walk team

STACEY LAVALLIE/Independent reporter

Christine Wedrick, left, and Melissa Zimmermann set up a bake sale on Main Street in Stettler on June 4 to raise money for Wedrick’s Team Green, which will walk in the Telus Walk to Cure Diabetes in Red Deer later this month. Wedrick’s husband, Trevor, and Zimmermann’s son, Carter, both were diagnosed with Type I diabetes.

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Though the current version of the Big Valley 4-H Beef Club has only been active for about two years, it’s gained a large amount of popularity in the village in that relatively short time.

“We started with eight members two years ago and now we have 20, so it’s grown a lot,” said club leader and co-founder Cheryl Bartley.

There was a club in Big Valley for years before it died out for lack of membership. Over ten years later, Bartley and her cousin, Doug Duncan, started it again, since there was con-siderable interest from young people within Big Valley.

“I work at the school, so for me it was a no-brainer just because so many kids here at the school wanted to do it,” Bartley said. “So much of my fam-ily and I had been through it and been part of it, so it just kind of made sense to help facilitate it…and so many of the parents had been members too – we had all been members together – so it was kind of easier that way.”

The Big Valley club skews young-er, and its oldest member is 13 years old.

“Our oldest member (Emily Brown) was exceptional,” Bartley said. “She had been in 4-H for fi ve years so she really had a handle on how to help the younger kids keep going and get them prepared and kind of keep them busy and focused on what they need to be doing. She was awesome at helping.”

When the club fi rst formed two years ago, all but one of the members were completely new to 4-H. While Bartley said that the fi rst few meet-

ings were a bit long while the mem-bers learned the basics and what was expected of them, she said they caught on quickly.

To be in the club, each member picks either a steer or a heifer, and then they work with that animal, tak-ing care of it, halter breaking it, and learning to lead it, and it culminates with Achievement Day and the Show and Sale in May. Bartley said that the members learn a lot about how to work with cattle, and how to impro-vise and do things on the fl y.

“The kids have to do it; mom and dad can’t help them do anything, so the kids have to know by the time they go into the ring what they’re going to do and how they’re going to do it,” she said.

4-H also benefi ts the community. Members are required to do commu-nity service, which for the Big Valley club includes cooking steaks at bar-becues for the Elks and Agricultural Society or cleaning up around the vil-lage.

“Being a past member myself, 4-H taught me to work, it taught me that I needed to be responsible for the things I was doing... public speaking, that kind of stuff,” Bartley said. “It taught me resilience…that go-getting attitude.”

This is part of a series profi ling 4-H beef clubs in the area.

The Big Valley winners from the Stettler District 4-H Beef Show and Sale are as follows:

Grand champion and Jr. grand champion- Kyler Kaiser

Reserve grand champion and Jr. reserve grand champion- Hannah Elines

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ily BrownIntermediate reserve grand cham-

pion- Jenny Munholland

Jr. showmanship- Nicole Zoller2nd Jr. showmanship- Faith Shuck-

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Jr. grooming- Faith Shuckburgh2nd Jr. grooming- Owen Wilkie

Intermediate showmanship- Jessie Armstrong

2nd intermediate showmanship-Emily Brown

Intermediate grooming- Emily Brown

2nd Intermediate grooming- Jenny Munholland

Big Valley grand champion Heifer- Faith Shuckburgh

Big Valley reserve grand champion heifer- Robin Schipper

Big Valley grand champion cow-calf pair- Faith Shuckburgh

Big Valley reserve grand champion cow-calf pair - Hannah Elines

Overall WinnersStall Display Winners- Big Valley

4-H Beef Club

Overall grand champion cow-calf pair-Faith Shuckburgh

Stettler & District overall rate of gain- Dan Brown

Overall Jr. judging- Faith Shuck-burgh

2nd Overall Jr. judging- Hannah Elines

Overall Jr. showmanship- Nicole Zoller

STACEY LAVALLIE


A plan developed by the federal Conservative government to phase out cheque payments to Canadians in favour of direct deposit is receiving heated criticism from the opposition.

The plan comes as part of the Pub-lic Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) study on defi cit reduction, and is estimated to save roughly $17.4 million a year. The cheque services will be phased out until April 2016, when it will cease.

According to PWGSC, 93 per cent of Old Age Security payments and 90 per cent of Canada Pension Plan pay-ments already go to seniors who use direct deposit.

“This is part of our consumer-fi rst agenda,” Crowfoot MP Kevin So-renson said. “It’s something people wanted.”

He said that in addition to saving Canadians money, eliminating cheque payments will also help seniors be safe. Removing cheques means they won’t be lost by or stolen from Can-ada Post, lost by the owners, and just simply save time.

“It’s just another job they have to do, taking the cheque down to the

bank,” Sorenson said. “There’s also been cases of elder abuse, where those cheques have been taken and in some cases, deposited in wrong accounts.”

While the NDP have raised con-cern that the plan targets the vulner-able, Sorenson said the plan actually helps them.

“This is a safety measure,” he said. “(And) it’s a measure many of the se-niors were asking for. More and more are doing it, and we’re thinking it’s a good use of taxpayer money.”

By the time the program comes to a close, the only people receiving cheques would be those in the rare circumstance of having no access to a bank, such as those living in excep-tionally rural areas, such as the ter-ritories or very northern parts of the provinces.

NDP launch petition to dismantle phase out

The Conservatives should wait until there’s an option for the “un-banked” Canadians before initiating any sort of phase-out of cheques for people on Old Age security, Canadian Pension Plan payments, or on disabil-ity, according to NDP National Cau-cus Chair Glenn Thibeault, MP for the riding of Sudbury, Ont.

“They’re still leaving 20 per cent

of the most vulnerable population in the lurch,” he said.

Thibeault and his party have launched a petition calling on the Conservatives to call off the phase out until there’s something for the people who are affected by the plan to fall back on.

And while he approved of the phase-out being given a pass for peo-ple with no access to banks due to the lack of banking options in rural areas, he questioned how having no physi-cal access to a bank is different from being fi nancially unable to access a bank due to barriers such as banking fees.

“What about people who live in ur-ban centres (and can’t afford banks)?” Thibeault asked. “This (plan) targets people who can’t even afford ‘no frills’ bank accounts.”

Government announces no-cost, low-cost banking agreements

As part of its “consumers-fi rst agenda,” the federal government met with the major Canadian banks to insist upon no- or low-cost bank ac-counts to help out the most vulner-able of Canadian society, Sorenson announced in late May.

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The Big Valley 4-H Beef Club poses at the Stettler District 4-H Beef Show and Sale in May.Back row: Ryan Coleman, Emily Brown, Jenny Munholland, Abigail Webster, Kim Schipper. Second from back: Eric Coleman, Robin Schipper, Zachary Duncan, Hanna Elines, Faith Shuckburgh, Owen Wilkie. Second from front: Nicole Zoller, Eric Elines, William Brown, Jacob Webster, Chantal Schipper.Kneeling: Ashton Kaiser, Kyler Kaiser, Jessie Armstrong.

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There has been a lot news of violence on TV over the past week, including the more than 30-hour lockdown in Moncton, a shooting incident in Seattle and latest as of writing, an incident in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday.

So is it just that we hear more of these violent shoot-ings and killings because the communication technology has improved or is it simply the fact that these incidents have begun to spread?

If it is the latter, what is the explanation?It is a fact that the wealthy and prosperous societies in

the west have grown numb for a long time now to the news of violence coming from the Middle East, South Asia and Africa; the newsrooms of most broadcast media just men-tion those incidents in passing, paying lip service, as it were, to reports of violence in poorer regions of the world and print media, only if they need copy to fi ll some space.

But when it comes to incidents closer to home, where they hurt most, we remain glued to TV screens for days to get as many details as possible from the armies of report-ers assigned to provide coverage from as many angles as possible.

Ironically, the violence in the poorer, less developed so-cieties of those far-away lands has a much easier and plau-sible explanation: It is mostly desperation with a lot of brainwashing involved.

Having lived in several of those less developed countries and witnessed the levels of poverty and misery that people have to endure throughout their lives, I can vouch that it is not very diffi cult to acknowledge the suitability of the circumstances to breed anger, rage and, consequently, vio-lence when people, particularly the young who have a lot of energy but nothing to look forward to resort to violence in the hope of changing the world and achieving martyrdom, a sacred stature in Islam.

Of course, the naivety of the youth just facilitates the brainwashing by the old and shrewd to use the energy and innocence of the former to score against what they perceive to be the “decadence of the west”.

But what about the west, itself? First an observation: We don’t hear of similar incidents

taking place in western European countries, at least not in the frequency and intensity as in North America.

Secondly, from a purely statistical standpoint, in North America, particularly in Canada, these incidents have been on the rise over the last few years.

So is it fair to conclude that it is not the exuberant con-sumerism of the west that leads to those personal break-downs, which result in expression of exasperation through random killings and that they are just individual outbursts without a possible sociological explanation?

But then the question is why these individual outbursts are increasing in number, even in Canada, a country, which has come to be known for the tolerance and compassion of its people.

Are we unwittingly creating circumstances whereby we are letting people become desperate in their search for a better life?

The conventional wisdom is that if people have hope, if they can realistically believe that they have a good chance to achieve a decent living standard within an embracing community, they will not develop the fury that might ulti-mately lead to violent outbursts.

If that is the case, are we in North America, as one of the wealthiest societies in the world, failing our own people?

The answers to such questions are not easy to fi nd and it might take years of research and study to establish any behavioural patterns that might or might not link the perpe-trators of the acts of violence in terms of their social/family backgrounds, levels of achievement or personal traits.

But one thing is certain: it is probably time to start to look at these incidents against a wider social/economic/cul-tural background instead of just treating them as individual criminal acts of violence. – Mustafa Eric

The word “sustainable” has without a doubt become the most overblown and overhyped word in the Eng-lish language. It’s now used by almost every sector of the economy to appear po-litically correct and environ-mentally aware. It wasn’t always so - at one time the word sustainable meant “bearable, maintainable, defensible, or workable”. Over the past 40 years, how-ever, it seems that the word “sustainable” has come to mean “ecological, organic, natural, environmental” and other such green lobby buzz words. The use of the word in these contexts is no acci-dent. Green groups have hi-jacked the word to give the impression that everything being done in the economy is unsustainable and there-fore bad. The further impli-cation is that only a radical change to their green ide-ology can save the planet from its present doomed course of unsustainability. It is a clever public rela-tions approach and it gives green groups the moral high road on almost every issue, that being they are naturally right and everyone else is morally wrong. In a world where fi rst impressions are all that matters, that’s the best position to be in to sell your cause.

That green lobby PR ap-proach advantage put the commercial food produc-tion and retailing industry on the defensive and their response has been limited. Their hope was, and in many sectors it still is, that the facts will rule the day. Others were not so sure and the past years has seen a concerted effort by many in the food business to seize the green approach – the point being if you can’t beat them, join them - prefer-ably on your own terms. For instance, we have seen devious green groups create bogus sustainable labelling programs, where retailers pay royalties to use logos such as “sustainably caught fi sh”. It gives the impres-sion of being environmen-tally responsible, but the words are essentially mean-ingless.

The latest example of the word sustainable being ex-

ploited is an effort by Mc-Donald’s, who plan to cre-ate a program that will see their beef supply becoming “sustainable.” That may come as a surprise to most citizens who have seen Mc-Donald’s sell ever increas-ing billions of burgers with no particular concern over their supply being unsus-tainable. There is no prob-lem with the beef supply to McDonald’s; it’s all just a matter of public perception, advertising spin doctoring and retail competition.

I expect the McDonald’s sustainable beef supply pro-posal also came as a bit of a surprise to the cattle in-dustry, being they already consider themselves to be sustainable beef produc-ers. The Canadian Cattle-men’s Association, how-ever, was quick to support the McDonald’s sustain-able beef program concept. They were wise to be on side with one of the biggest beef buyers in the country if not the world. They did point out that McDonald’s did not defi ne what they meant with the words “sus-tainable beef”. One suspects that their version of what the words mean is probably a bit different from its origi-nal defi nition. Big fast food retailers are ever conscious of being seen in a positive light by their customers – keeping them happy and buying is rule number one. They have also learned that their critics in the green and animal rights business can cause them perception

grief with spurious allega-tions. Therefore it’s always better to get the jump on those pesky folks before any damage is done - real or imagined.

That approach has some fast food operators mak-ing such claims as their eggs come from cage-free hens and their pork from gestation grate-free hogs. Another hamburger chain claims its beef is free from added hormones and ste-roids. McDonald’s has been following the trend in mak-ing politically correct state-ments about its food supply, but others seem to be ahead of them in the perception battle. One suspects that McDonald’s idea of a sus-tainable beef program will include all those claims made by its competitors and some new ones to give them a promotional advantage - just keeping up with the competition is not enough in the fast food advertising war.

There is one reality to the noble concern of fast food chains being sustain-able and green – someone is going to have to pay for all that politically correct ef-fort. That group instinctive-ly knows who will be paying for consumers to feel good about eating beef and those folks are the primary cattle producers. Perhaps the day may come sooner than we think that raising cattle in aperceived politically cor-rect sustainable way may itself become fi nancially unsustainable.

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With some sharp losses to end the month of May, many market participants are blaming the end of the calendar month as the reason as funds try to shore up their books and withdraw cash to pay off clients requesting their investment back. In my opinion though, the fun-damentals are still the main factor for markets dropping. This is simply the time of the year where the northern hemisphere harvest starts to ramp up and world production numbers are better known. Combine this with the fact that growing conditions are pretty decent despite the slow starts as planting paces are near seasonal av-

erages (although western Manitoba and eastern Sas-katchewan are still very wet). There’s a lack of weather concerns not just in North America but all over the world (although that’ll likely change in a few months when the ex-pected El Nino weather pattern makes landfall). U.S. winter wheat condi-tions seem to be stabiliz-ing as rains in the Mid-west have helped the crop. While it’s guaranteed now that the crop will still be smaller, conditions are looking pretty good for the U.S. corn and soybean to grow up out of the ground (which would more than make up for less domestic wheat supply available).

Canola is also off its highs from earlier in the month, despite more de-mand slated for the Ca-nadian oilseed. Richard-son just completed a $30 million expansion of its

Yorkton, SK processer, in-creasing daily volumes 25 per cent to 3,000 MT. The company, which already has 1.5 million tonnes of annual crush capacity, is considering expanding its Lethbridge plant. Also, as mentioned last week, a new plant in Quebec with capabilities of up to 500,000 MT of canola a year can also assist in supporting prices, but as mentioned, crop condi-tions are generally solid right now, which in turn, is seen as bearish. Switching gears, the Canadian Cano-la Growers Association joined Louis Dreyfus in filing a service complaint with the Canadian Trans-portation Agency, arguing

that the railroads did not fulfill their duty this past crop year. With the Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act still a hot topic, it’s an interesting move to see a producer organization to levy a service complaint with C.T.A (but kudos to them for stepping up).

Getting political, the Chocolate King of Ukraine, AKA Petro Po-roshenko, has been elect-ed as the new President of Ukraine. The new leader comes into power with already a full plate, what with trying to calm re-lations with Russia and civil war certainly on the brink in Eastern Ukraine. Across the Black Sea in Egypt, residents have re-portedly voted in former military chief Abdel Fat-tah al-Sisi, one of the

main architects behind the aforementioned removal of the last president). Just like Porosehnko, Sisi will also have his hands full as Egypt continues to be di-vided. This news is impor-tant because these coun-tries are trying to grow out their instability and more importantly, one is one of the world’s largest grain producer and exporter (Ukraine) while the other (Egypt) is only the world’s biggest wheat buyer so I’d say what happens there politically is pretty impor-tant).

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Brennan Turner is originally from Foam Lake, SK, where his fam-ily started farming the land in the 1920s. After completing his degree in economics from Yale University and then play-ing some pro hockey, Mr. Turner spent some time working in finance before starting FarmLead.com, a risk-free, transparent online and now mobile grain marketplace (app available for iOS and Android). His weekly col-umn is a summary of his free, daily market note, the FarmLead Breakfast Brief. He can be reached via email ([email protected]) or phone (1-855-332-7653).

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there politically is

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Taylor Gunderson and Delaney Niehaus clean windshields at the Tim Horton’s drive-through on Wednesday, June 4 as part of Tim Horton’s camp day. All coffee sales on the day are donated to the Tim Horton’s Camps, which provide camp opportunities for less fortunate kids. Not pictured is helper Cassidy Nichols.

ROBIN TARNOWETZKI


Wildca t Thea t r e i s gearing up to perform L e w i s B l a c k ’ s “ O n e S l i g h t H i t c h ” a t t h e Performing Arts Centre this week.

Grade 12 students are going back to the ‘80s again – following on the h e e l s o f N o v e m b e r ’ s musical – for the play, which will run from June 12 to 14 at 7:30 p.m.

“ T h a t w a s a n accident,” said director D a r r e n F l e i s h h a c k e r , who added that this time, the students didn’t need to have as many ‘80s references explained to them.

W i l l i a m E . H a y doesn’t do a Grade 12 play annually – instead, Fleischhacker will pull together a play if there is enough interest.

“We just have to have the right group, and this is just another one of those years with the right group,” he said. “There’s a core group of Grade

12 drama kids that will pressure me.”

F l e i s c h h a c k e r s a t down with some of the students to read scripts, and ended up with “One Slight Hitch.”

“I wanted a comedy,” he sa id . “ I t ’ s s imi la r t o N e i l S i m o n - s t y l e comedy.”

The show is about a m i d d l e - a g e d c o u p l e , Delia and Doc, whose daugh te r Cour tney i s getting married. Things start to get complicated w i t h t h e a r r i v a l o f Courtney’s ex-boyfriend, Ryan on her wedding day.

“ I t ’ s a show about w e d d i n g p l a n s g o n e bad,” Fleischhacker said.

The group has been rehearsing since March, and Fleischhacker said t h e y ’ v e b e e n “ g o i n g hardcore” for four nights a week recently.

“It’s a funny show,” he said. “They’re ready to ge t in f ron t o f an audience, to get some energy from the audience to laugh and let them

know that these things are funny.”

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It’s the end of an era for the Stettler Lightning, who not only lose four of its oldest players who have aged out of the league, but also their head coach, Doug Smith, who retires this year.

Despite the hopes of players and parents that the powerful year had by the Lightning would convince Smith to keep on as coach, he declined the powerful pull and stuck to his decision – though he said it wasn’t easy.

He’s s taying on as general manager with the team for now, but will “eventually foster that job out, too,” he said.

He praised this year’s team for being a “terrific bunch that got along on and off the ice,” which helped the team flourish because when the games were rough, instead of pointing fingers and recriminations, it was a group of young men buoying each other up.

For Smith, though, the change is big. Since he started coaching in 1984

in Byemoor, the Stettler-area man has been behind the coach’s bench for some team in some capacity, and with the Lightning now for the past 16 years.

A need for a coach for his own sons’ hockey leagues got him started but it was a love of the sport that kept him going long after his kids were done with hockey. After moving up from Byemoor to Bantam hockey in Stettler in 1989, he moved on to the minors in 1994 and coached the Chill. Four years later, he started coaching the Lightning.

Things have changed significantly over the years, he noted.

“I got older,” he said with a laugh. “It was fairly basic back then. There wasn’t as much emphasis on skill training (as there is now).”

He said hockey players today are much better than they were, skill-wise, than when he started coaching simply due to the emphasis on the individual skills.

“Every year, as a coach, you realized you had to be more and more technical and teach tactics,” he said.

“One thing I’ve tried to keep constant is the fun and enjoyment. I think I’ve succeeded.”

He learned his coaching skills from local greats who had reached out and mentored him when he started coaching – Don F a l k e n b e r g a n d L e s Schwartz. In turn, he’s mentored his assistant coaches as their head coach and hopes they’ll someday return the favour to others.

As head coach, Smith said he kept a bit of a distance from the players, l e t t i n g t h e a s s i s t a n t coaches be the “buddy coaches” so when things got rough, he could “be the hammer.” Still, though, as the Lightning Wind-up wound down on Friday, June 6, the hugs and cheers from the players revealed that the distance Smith kept between him and them wasn’t as great as

imagined.“This is probably the

highest some of them will play,” Smith said of the Lightning’s players. “We play as hard as AA but hold 9-5 (jobs or schooling). It’s good to see guys still have a love for the game all the while getting an education or working trades.”

As player and parent after player and parent came to bid there farewells to Smith, it was obvious

that he was going to be missed by his players, f e l l o w c o a c h e s , a n d parents.

“We’ve got a good team,” Smith said. “We’ll do rea l ly g rea t nex t season.”

Windup NotesAt the Windup, it was

revealed that making the playoffs this year, where the Lightning lost to Blackfalds, was a financial boom for the team.

Door fees collected during the playoffs beat out regular season door fees three times over, and the extra money meant each player was able to keep his jersey at the end of the season.

Volunteerism amongst hockey fans and parents also helped the season go off without a hitch, as parents volunteered as score keepers, board operators, doormen and in other related chores.

A new head coach hasn’t been hired for the Lightning as of yet, but the hopes is to have one in place shortly before the new season begins in the fall.

Lightning bid farewell to coach

STACEY LAVALLIE


If the line-up at Tim Hortons’ drive-through looked a bit longer on June 4, it wasn’t your imagination – people were lining up to buy coffee to help under-privileged kids head to camp.

The annual Camp Day event takes place Canada-wide as Tim Hortons restaurants gear up with spec ia l events , s i l en t auctions, special guests, and special gear, all aimed at helping raise funds to keep the Tim Hortons camps across Canada open and operating.

All coffee sales on June 4 go to the camps, and as coffee is the restaurants’ biggest sel ler , i t ’s no small chunk of coin.

P r o c e e d s f r o m t h e Stettler Tim Hortons go to Camp Kanakaskis, which is where area kids head if selected to attend the

camp.Kimberly DeVloo is a

manager at Tim Hortons and was one of the Camp Day coordinators.

“We had such an out-pour ing of help f rom loca l bus ine s se s and volunteers ,” she said, gesturing over at the silent auction table which held a selection of items donated to the event. Throughout the day, in addition to the silent auction and coffee sales, money was raised by 50/50 t icket sa les and volunteer “squeegee girls” who were cleaning windshields of people wait ing in l ine at the d r i v e - t h r o u g h f o r a toonie.

Even t hough some p e o p l e d e c l i n e d a windshield wash, more often than not, they would toss coins in the bucket anyway, willing to help out, something DeVloo said was an indication of the generous spirit of the community.

Volunteers lend a handduring Camp Day drive

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Independent editor

C o i n c i d i n g w i t h the “Year o f Fami ly Farming” announced by the Food and Agricultural O r g a n i z a t i o n ( F A O ) , an agency of the United Nat ions , the Donalda and District Agricultural Society hosted their annual Ranch Rodeo on Saturday, June 7.

The event provided a conducive background for the recognition of two families farming in the Donalda area for more than a century. The Charles family has been operating their farm in the area for four generations and the Vikse family for three.

During the event, Julie Hebbes, representing the Dona lda Agr icu l tu ra l Society presented both families with T-shir ts marking the year of family farming,

F o l l o w i n g t h e ceremonies, rodeo events got underway with 11 teams taking part, with

some of them coming from far away communities, including Caroline.

The buckles winners of the event were a team from Donalda and Hay Lakes,

Darr in Hebbes , Mark Meston, Doug Stevenson, and Josh Lysing.

Breast Collars winners at the second place were The Caroline Misfits with UFA Saddle Pads from

Rolleyview coming third. The Wrubleski family

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Rope Bags were won by another Caroline team.

Organizer Julie Hebbes praised the volunteers in the community for their

contribution in the effort to stage another ranch rodeo, which has marked its sixth year.

S h e a l s o t h a n k e d corporate sponsors for their donations and support.

Annual ranch rodeo recognizes farmer families, generates lots of fun

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Grade 12 students at William E. Hay will be performing “One Slight Hitch” at the PAC from June 12 to 14. L-R: Nathan Spencer, Maggie MacKenzie, and Justin Fleischhacker.

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Kids were in a tight race to be able to put their hands on the last of the four pink ribbons tied to the neck of the sheep during Donalda’s annual Ranch Rodeo on Saturday, June 7.


Next year’s Stettler Lightning bench will be devoid of these fi ve gentleman, as four age out and the head coach retires after 16 years serving the team. From left are, Simon Thieleman, Cam Wright, head coach Doug Smith, Kyler O’Connor and Landon Potter.

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The Stettler Public Library was oddly quiet

for a place with 35 kids crammed into a small cor-ner, but that was because of the Lego.

For Crystal Friars and Darlene Philpot, the quiet

buzzing from the activity corner is an excellent sign, since it means the kids are busy and mentally engaged in the activity of building neat and nifty things with

the Lego kits provided by Bricks for Kids.

“It can be our future engineers and architects in there,” Philpot said.

Though the Lego kits

used during the Saturday, June 7 event were on loan from the Bricks for Kids organization, the library has been and continues to collect Lego, either through generous dona-tions or through purchas-ing Lego kits themselves, for their new Lego club.

The no-fee club runs every Saturday, all year, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the li-brary, with the Bricks for Kids event this past Satur-day its official kick-off.

“Anyone who wants to donate Lego can just bring it into the library,” Friars said, though cautioned that the library is looking for actual Lego, not the giant megablocks type of building block.

“There are so many cool things you can make with Lego,” Friars noted. “It never goes away – it just keeps getting better and better.”

The events are great for kids as young as five and as old as interest persists because it engages the mind while allowing kids to remain social, Friars and Philpot said. Build-ing different things and designing new projects engage the mind and help kids explore that previ-ously untapped potential, but working together, sur-rounded by four or five

kids who are all working on the same project, helps them learn to work togeth-er and play nice.

“It’s a social event, with lots of talking and helping, but intense concentration,” Philpot said, gesturing at the quiet room of kids.

“Parents don’t have to stay, but for the littlest ones, we recommend they stay to help.”

Once kids reach sev-en or eight years of age, though, they usually have the cognitive ability to function at an event like the Lego Club on their own or with minimal as-sistance.

If the club takes off, in a few years the library might look into an older-group Lego club where kids be-gin to work with some of the more advanced, scien-tific Lego kits that include new things like robotics.

“The possibilities are limitless,” Friars said. “(Lego building) is a trig-ger for some kids – they start asking why and start learning why and explor-ing. It’s fantastic.”

The club does not re-quire parents to register their kids or pay a fee to participate. The Lego Club runs Saturdays from 1-4 p.m. at the library upstairs in the Stettler Recreation Centre.

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“The signs of collusion between the criminal class and the highest political and institutional offi ce holders are too numerous and too serious to be ignored,” concluded the report submitted to the Council of Europe in Decem-ber, 2010. The name of Hashim Thaci, then prime minis-ter of Kosovo and former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), was mentioned 27 times in 27 pages.

Hashim Thaci is still prime minister of Kosovo. Indeed, he has just been re-elected to the job, although the turnout was a feeble 42 percent. The European Union and NATO, the two organisations that helped the Kosovars free them-selves from Serbian rule, seem quite happy about his vic-tory – and even the Serbian government urged the Serbian minority who still live there to vote in Kosovo’s election. So redemption is possible, after all.

Thaci might have turned out to be a mild-mannered accountant if he had been born in a different era, but he came to adulthood just as the independence struggle of the Albanian-speaking majority in Kosovo was coming to the boil. He joined the KLA, and after several rivals suf-fered unfortunate accidents he emerged as the undisputed leader.

Revolutionary movements need money, especially if they include an armed wing, and since they have no legal sources of income, they must resort to crime. They rob banks; they blackmail people and kidnap them for ran-som; they smuggle stuff, including drugs. Whether their cause is good or bad, they have almost all done it: the Taliban, the Irish Republican Army, Boko Haram, ETA, FARC and the KLA.

Hashim Thaci certainly did it all. In fact, you could argue that he overdid it. After NATO’s 78-day bomb-ing campaign against Serbia in 1999 forced Slobodan Milosevic’s government to evacuate all the Serbian troops from Kosovo and a United Nations administration backed by NATO peacekeeping troops took over, the time for fi ghting – and illicit fund-raising methods – was over. But Thaci just kept going.

The KLA was renamed the Kosovo Protection Corps, and used intimidation and occasional assassinations to gain control of almost all the municipal governments in the country. A recent report on corruption in Kosovo by BND, the German intelligence service, noted that “The key players (including...Thaci) are intimately involved in inter-linkages between politics, business, and organised crime structures in Kosovo.”

The Council of Europe report of 2010 says bluntly: “In confi dential reports spanning more than a decade, agencies dedicated to combatting drug smuggling in at least fi ve countries have named Hashim Thaci...as hav-ing exerted violent control over the trade in heroin and other narcotics. Thaci and [other former KLA members] are consistently named as ‘key players’ in intelligence reports on Kosovo’s mafi a-like structures of organised crime.”

That report, commissioned after the chief prosecutor for war crimes at the Hague, Carla Del Ponte, said she had been prevented from investigating senior KLA offi -cials, also contained details about the KLA’s fund-raising methods just after the fi ghting ended in 2000. The most shocking was the allegation that some Serbian prisoners held by Thaci’s faction of the KLA were killed in order to harvest their organs for sale abroad.

The report found that Thaci’s people held Serb captives in six detention facilities in Albania, and that a “handful”

were transferred to Tirana, where they were killed for their kidneys. “As and when the transplant surgeons were confi rmed to be in position and ready to operate, the cap-tives were brought out of the ‘safe house’ individually, summarily executed by a KLA gunman, and their corpses transported swiftly to the operating clinic.”

The human rights rapporteur who wrote the Council of Europe report, the Swiss lawyer Dick Marty, subse-quently admitted that he had no evidence directly linking Thaci with the organ traffi cking, but if you’re the boss, you have to accept at least a share of the blame. So why is this suspected war criminal and big-time crime boss being welcomed as Kosovo’s legitimate leader by all the European countries, including even Serbia?

Two obvious reasons are that he won the election, and that he doesn’t actually face any outstanding criminal charges. But the deeper reason is that Serbia wants to join the European Union.

The European Union wants it too: it’s important to bring the Serbs into the club and not leave them feeling bruised and resentful about the Balkan wars of the 1990s, even if they were largely responsible for them. However, Serbia cannot join the EU until it accepts that the break-away province of Kosovo is gone forever and recognises its leader as legitimate. The EU does not accept applicants with unresolved border disputes. (Ukraine please note.)

And this also means, by the way, that the EU has to accept Kosovo as a legitimate candidate for membership even under its current leader. Both the EU and Serbia would certainly prefer the prime minister of Kosovo to be somebody a bit more presentable, but the Kosovars keep electing Hashim Thaci, albeit with a small and dwindling turnout of voters. And maybe he really has changed.

Sometimes you just have to put the past behind you, and maybe even some of the present too.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose ar-ticles on world affairs are published in 45 countries.

Wendy Rhyason, MA CounsellingExecutive Director, Stettler & District FCSS

How did I end up in another bad re-lationship? Why do I keep choosing the wrong partner or friend? Have you asked yourself these questions? Do certain pat-terns keep popping up in your relation-ships? Without realizing it, most of us follow distinct patterns that are often learned in childhood and we will continue to repeat them unless they are identifi ed and changes are made.

As a child, my mother had an undi-agnosed personality disorder and her mental illness created an unsafe, volatile and chaotic home. This left me and my sister with deep emotional scars. Chil-dren in abusive dysfunctional homes be-lieve their experience is normal and they learn to imitate the behaviours witnessed. When I became an adult I realized that my upbringing was not normal or healthy

and I had been infl uenced by what I ex-perienced. Determined to break free of destructive patterns, I worked with a therapist over several years to recognize unhealthy relationships and change my behaviour.

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My mother passed away six months ago and in the process of cleaning out her residence I found an old let-ter I had written her during our long estrangement. I then found another one, and a couple more after that.

We had a very diffi cult relationship fi lled with pain, resentment and so much re-gret, but the letters I wrote expressed the love I always felt for her regardless of our unfortunate circumstances caused by her mental ill-ness. They also expressed the unfulfi lled hope that we’d one day reconnect.

After reading the letters I cried for days, but I was so glad I’d sent them. I don’t know if they brought her any peace or if they effec-tively conveyed how much she meant to me - I certainly hope they did.

I thought about those let-ters again on June 6 because it was her birthday and I was yearning to call her and hear her voice.

I also started wonder-ing why I’d never written a letter like that to my father. Was it because he already knew how I felt and didn’t need me to put it in writing? Probably.

My dad and I always

had an easier go of things. He was a loving, positive man, and although he was extremely quiet when I was young, and left me curious about what he was thinking, I always felt safe around him.

When I was about fi ve or six he took me sailing and our boat capsized in the middle of the lake. I re-member how shocked I felt hitting the cold water, terri-fi ed I’d drown or get eaten by a shark. He reached me quickly and instantly made me feel like everything was going to be okay. He’s never stopped making me feel like that.

He’s excellent at mak-ing me smile as well. With a goofy sense of humour he still laughs like a little kid and wants everyone to be happy. If they’re not, he doesn’t stress out about it though. He’s become good at defl ecting negative, toxic energy so it doesn’t eat him alive. That’s something I’d like to get better at.

I often think of how young my parents were when my mom became pregnant with me. She was 17 and he was 18 and they were just graduating from high school. So young, and

not nearly ready to start a family, they did it anyway, and they gave it everything they had.

A letter to my dad might not feel necessary since he presumably knows how grateful I am to him and our mom for all that they did for my brother and me growing up, but I’m going to write one anyway.

Among other things, I’ll thank him for giving me life, teaching me the bene-fi ts of positive thinking and showing me the joy in sim-ple pleasures - like eating a couple of Oreo cookies with a glass of cold milk.

I’ll thank him as well for always believing in me, long before I believed in myself, and encouraging me to be fearless.

“You only live once,” he’s said to me often. “You might as well follow your dreams and have some fun as you do it.”

I didn’t heed his advice until I was in my 40s and fi nally realized what my dreams were, but better late than never I fi gure.

More important than all that was his counsel to live in the moment, enjoy every-

day and tell the people that I love how I feel about them.

Good idea. Time to get going on that “Dear Dad” letter. After I grab a couple of Oreo cookies and a glass

of cold milk, of course. Lori Welbourne is a syn-

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Does it have anything to do with fathers? That is the question that comes to my mind with the increasing number of shootings in our nation and in our neighbor nation to the south.

P o v e r t y , b r o k e n marriages and abuse (both phys ica l and menta l ) are typically named as the culprits for these acts of violence and heinous crimes, but psychologists p o i n t o u t t h a t m o s t children coming from similar backgrounds don’t commit these crimes. So, my question stands; does it have anything to do with fathers?

A few years ago a report stated that in the last three decades, in the United States, there has been a 550% increase in violent crime, 400% increase in illegitimate births, 200% increase in teen pregnancies and 300% increase in teen suicides. It adds that 70% of juveniles in reform institutions come from fatherless homes and the report insists that there is a direct correlation between these statistics and the lack of affirmative father figures in homes.

If the absence of a father figure produces such negative results, would it

not follow that a consistent, healthy fatherly presence should generate positive results?

There is a dramatic and touching story of a loving father found in Mark 5:21-23 & 35-43. The man’s name was Jairus and his 12-year-old daughter was dying.

Jairus was a ruler in the local Jewish synagogue...a prestigious position, yet on behalf of his daughter he found Jesus and in great humility, “...fell at His feet and begged Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter lies at the point of death. Come and lay Your hands on her, that she may

be healed, and she will live” (Mark 5:22,23). One of the names for God in the Old Testament is “Jehovah Shammah” meaning, the God who is there. In godly fashion, Jairus was certainly there for his daughter!

By the time Jesus arrived the little girl had passed away and a group of people were already mourning. However, Jesus told those present that, “The child is not dead, but sleeping”. He was ridiculed for this comment but undaunted He, along with the girl’s mother and father, went into the house. Jesus said, “Little girl, I say to you,

arise”. A grieving father and mother were amazed and overjoyed as their daughter was raised from death to full health.

Imagine the powerful, constructive and lasting impact that this father had upon his daughter. As the story of her healing was recounted over the years she probably made statements like, “Daddy, you mean you loved me so much that you kneeled before the Lord and begged for me?”

Yes – it has a lot to do with fathers! Homes don’t need a man in the house...they need a father!

First off, I will share with you the results of last week’s 4-H beef show. Rumsey did very well once again. On the district level, this is how we placed: Lowell Nelson won Reserve Grand Champion. In the grooming category, Corbyn Stoneman won first place in junior grooming, with Rachel Robinson placing second in the intermediate category. At the senior level, Lowell Nelson won first place and Garret Holowath placed second. Corbyn Stoneman also placed well in the junior showmanship taking home a second place ribbon. Lowell took home the first place ribbon in the senior showmanship category. Rate of gain over all the clubs went to Joel Howard with a rate of 3.82 pounds per day. Grand Champion Female went to Corbyn Stoneman, first place in junior judging went to Amanda Holowath and second in Intermediate judging to Rachel Robinson. In the senior judging section, Lowell Nelson took first and Mickey Johnson took second place. The pen of three category was won by Rumsey with the stall competition ribbon coming over to Rumsey’s table as well.

At club level, the winners were Lowell Nelson as club champion in confirmation with Matthew Howard winning second. In the grooming category, Corbyn Stoneman placed first with Matthew

Howard winning second at the junior level; at intermediate level, the winners were Rachel Robinson and Bre t t Holowath, then the seniors grooming top two were Lowell Nelson and Garrett Holowath. In the showmanship division, Matthew Howard and Corbyn Stoneman were the top contenders in the junior arena, in the intermediate level, Rachel Robinson with first and Brett Holowath with second. The senior showmanship champs were Lowell Nelson and Jorden Ferguson. On the female side of the show, Garrett Holowath placed first for his heifer with Corbyn Stoneman taking home second. Club champion cow/calf pair was awarded to Corbyn Stoneman and mature cow/calf pair going to Jorden Ferguson. The club champion female winner was Corbyn Stoneman with his cow/calf pair and reserve went to Garrett Holowath with his heifer. Well done to everyone for all their hard work and great efforts at the show.

The Rumsey/Rowley 4-H Beef Club members would like to invite all 4-H supporters to their year-end banquet on June 26 starting at 6 p.m. at the Rumsey Hall. I think there will be beef on the menu.

Helen Steen had the pleasure of attending her grandson’s, Dane Steen, ball games this weekend in Havre,

Montana. She traveled with her son, Kelly and his wife Marcie, and daughter, Carolin to watch. The games were fun to watch and they did well. Quintin Kopjar is also part of this Strathmore Midget ball team and he pitched a great game, winning 11-1. By the end of the tournament, they had won two and lost two.

The Richmonds; along with two other Limousin breeders, Combests and Stewarts; are hosting a Limousin bus tour this Saturday, June 14, starting at the Rumsey Hall. This will entail going to each farm to celebrate the cattle industry and to promote both the purebred industry and commercial herds. Everyone will then head back to Rumsey winding up the day with a steak supper at the Rumsey

Hall, followed by a Funny Money Casino Night (this is a family event so you do not have to be 18 to participate). The bus tour will be picking up participants in Stettler and they will be bused back to Stettler after the evening’s events if that works best for you. If you are interested in participating please contact Tiffany Richmond at 403-368-2103 for more information.

Don’t forget to sign up for the Rumsey Connection Golf Tournament this coming Thursday at the Trochu Golf Club starting at 5 p.m.

Since my son’s football spring camp has just finished up, I decided to pick on him a little by choosing this joke, so enjoy: A football coach walked into the locker room before a game, looked over to his star player and said, “I am not supposed to let you play since you failed math, but we need you in there. So what I have to do is ask you a math question, and if you can get it right, you can play.” The player agreed, and the coach looked into his eyes intently and asks, “Okay, now concentrate…what is two plus two?” The player thought for moment and then he answered, “4?” “Did you say 4?!?” the coach exclaimed, excited that he got it right. At that, all the other players on the team began screaming, “Come on coach, give him another chance!”

How one drunk driver can destroy so much in our small village; on Friday, May 30, a female driver under the influence destroyed the foot bridge at the “Lamp Park” very fortunate no one was injured, as there were approximately 14 young people in the park at the time. The world’s largest lamp was built all by volunteers, a shame that so much damaged can be done by one person in a vehicle.

Now the work begins to clean up.On the positive, we will recover and no one was hurt.June 28 is fast approaching, so hope all you car

buffs have your cars polished up and able to attend the third annual Show & Shine, kicking off with a pancake breakfast at 8 a.m. at the Lamp Park.

The Donalda Art Gallery is looking for a summer student, must be 15 to 30 years of age being a full time

student and returning to school next year. The job would include being an ambassador to the Village of Donalda,

upkeep of gardens in the park, grass cutting, meet and greet at the gallery, covering also at the museum. You may send your resume to [email protected] or email for more information.

The Donalda Museum is looking for homestead information and pictures, if you have a story to tell and pictures that you would like to share, please drop off at the Donalda Museum, or email to info @donaldamuseum.com

Thank you.Birthday greetings go out to Alan Fisher, Jason

Tantrum, Kelley Lynne Andres, Kelly Sutton, Lynda Jaffray, Adam Volker, Amy Smith, Rachel Dietrich, Kara Wilkie, Rylan Salmon, Cam Nixon, Gina Hurren, Kyle Foot and anyone else celebrating this week.

Happy Birthday!

Mrs. Karen Norman’s piano students held their recital on June 2 at the Halkirk hall. Piano students w e r e f r o m E n d i a n g , Gadsby and Halk i rk . From Halkirk were Jillian Schaffner, Owen Schauer, Dakoda Gemme, Tayah Perry, Toryn Johnson, Zach Schilling, Logan Perry, Devon Johnson, Natalie Schilling and Brooklyn

Perry. After the program everyone enjoyed lunch.

S e v e r a l f r o m o u r c o m m u n i t y a t t e n d e d the vo lun tee r / sen io r s appreciation afternoon at the Castor hall last week. The hall was full and were entertained by Wheatland band from Rosebud.

Junior high students camping field trip Circle Square organized by Ms.

Brier and Mr. Courtney. U n f o r t u n a t e l y t h e weather didn’t want to co-operate very well.

Sympathy to Tony and Clara Nibourg and the Nibourg families on the passing of Andrew Nibourg of Stettler at the weekend.

F r i e n d s o f E l a i n e Dahmer Towpich will be interested to hear that she has moved to Stettler from

Lacombe and is making her home at Heritage House.

Dale and Melody Kent attended the 65th birthday party for Mel’s brother-in-law, Randy Archibald at Rosalind on the weekend.

Grade 1 orientation is scheduled for Friday, June 20.

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There was little available parking on Saturday morn-ing at the Stettler Town and County Museum as people gathered to peruse a barn full of donated items for sale and enjoy a pancake and ham breakfast.

The annual fundraisers are usually held separately, but a cool and slow spring led the museum’s manager, Karen Wahlund, to com-bine the two during the fi rst weekend in June.

The June 4 garage sale brought in about $880, and the pancake breakfast near-ly $1,100, Wahlund said, a generous amount consider-ing the number of events going on the same day.

Without the fundraisers, Wahlund said the museum wouldn’t be able to offer the programming it does, and would have to scale back some of its displays.

There are 26 historic buildings and new buildings on the 10 acres of land de-voted to the museum, build-ings which host exhibits and displays that pay tribute to both the Town of Stettler and the communities that make up the County of Stettler.

This year, a new agri-cultural building will be hosting a display of Minne-apolis tractors, and a special exhibit is coming in from Edmonton featuring the his-tory of the Estonian settlers who settled much of Central Alberta.

The largest congregation of Estonian settlers was in the Linda Hall area, which is south of the Town of Stettler.

The museum is also run-ning a special Canada Day event, and admission that day is free for everyone, making it a perfect day to bring the family to learn about the area’s history and enjoy some of the special games and activities set up by museum staff and volun-teers.

Another special project in the works at the museum is the creation of a market area, meant to be used by local merchants to display hand-crafted items. The market would be for people to show off their handi-work and would run during the summer months, if not longer, depending on the market’s success, Wahlund noted.

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we couldn’t run,” Wahlund said, adding that about 12 people came out and vol-unteered their time to make the garage sale and pancake breakfast a success. The museum hosts a special vol-unteer appreciation day in August to thank their many

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County Museum is open during the summer seven days a week between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Admis-sion is $5/adult, $4/seniors, $3/students (kids 6-16) and under six admitted for free.

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Lindsay Dayman, one of the employees at the Stettler Town and County Museum, serves up pancakes on Saturday, June 7, as part of the annual pancake breakfast fundraiser.

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Almost 50 kids from cen-tral Alberta converged on Stettler this past Saturday and Sunday, June 7-8, for the annual 4H Horse Club and Stettler Silver Stars rodeo.

This was the third year for the event, and the second of four planned 4H rodeos in east-central Alberta for the season.

4H members from Stettler, Halkirk, Hanna, Tees, Neu-tral Hills, Cadogan, Morrin, Bashaw and Three Hills took part in the event, which also featured a dance Saturday evening.

The stands at the Stettler Agricultural Grounds were steadily full of family and friends who came to watch the kids compete in different events, such as barrel racing, steer riding, breakaway and team roping, keyhole riding, pole bending, and goat ty-ing.

If you missed the Stettler Silver Stars 4H Rodeo, you can still catch some rodeo action at Halkirk this coming weekend, June 14-15, as the Halkirk Hicks host the third of four central Alberta 4H rodeos.

Full results from the last weekend’s 4H rodeo can be found on our Facebook page.

4H rodeo blessed by clear skies, warm weather

MUSTAFA ERIC/Independent editor

Simon Muncy of Stettler scores the last goal for his team in the third period of the game against Warriors. Stettler’s Midget Lacrosse tea lost a hard-fought game to Blackfalds 10-8 on Saturday, June 7 at the Stettler Recreation Centre.


Connor Sharp sticks out in his bright pink shirt as he skillfully weaves his horse between poles in the pole bending event at the SilverStars 4H rodeo this past weekend. More than 40 kids from 4H clubs around Stettler took part.

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U18 boys defeated Camrose 6-1. Garret Burns made some solid saves in the first half to keep the game tied at 1-1. After the break, the boys came to life and started to move the ball. Goals came from Taylor Chase (3), Frank Van Ommeren (2) and Braden Deagle.

The team then hosted undefeated Lacombe. Both teams played a solid game ending in a 1-1 tie. Eric Pitzel scored the lone goal. The fullbacks (Cole Bailey, Stefan DuToit, Chad Detlor, Tim Ascah, and Brandon Kent) did a great job stifling Lacombe’s attacks.

On Wednesday, June 4, the team traveled to Wetaskiwin and opened up a 3-0 lead before the game was suspended at halftime due to a torrential downpour.

STACEY LAVALLIE


Stettler’s two U14 girls’ softball teams combined its best players to create a team to head to the Red Deer Rage U14 Fastball tournament and the combination was gold as the team won its second tournament victory.

The June 7-8 tournament in Red Deer saw the local girls at bat against the Red Deer White, a team they defeated thanks to the superb pitching efforts of Raina Thomson and Mikayla Torgerson, according to Shelly Morbeck.

Next up at plate was Sedgewick, a team that Stettler had battled hard against at their home tournament the weekend before. This game was no exception to the teams’ history and it was a hard-fought win for Sedgewick after seven innings, after the team managed to keep Stettler off home plate.

“Jaiden Stotz, pitcher for all seven innings, was spectacular

on the mound,” Morbeck said. “The two runs we allowed in the fi rst inning, and one more in the fi fth for Sedgewick brought them ahead in the end.”

She noted that despite

Stettler getting people on base, the other team’s excellent work kept them from getting them home.

In the last game on Saturday, Stettler faced Red Deer Blue,

and the game was an easy end to a tough day, ending 15-8 in Stettler’s favour. Pitcher Rachel Morbeck struck out nearly every Red Deer batter, the elder Morbeck noted.

Sunday morning started with a game against Innisfail, and it was a close contest, according to Morbeck, though it eventually ended 11-7 for Stettler.

With its three wins and one loss record, the girls headed into the gold medal game against Sedgewick, the only team that had defeated them in the round-robin.

The girls had a slow start on the bats for the fi rst two innings, leading to a 4-3 lead for Sedgewick.

“Jenny Munholland made a fantasic running catch in center fi eld to turn the momentum in Stettler’s favor,” Morbeck recalled.

The catch helped the team turn around the momentum of the game, and they sent batters home twice in the fourth, twice in the fi fth, and fi ve times in the sixth to win the game 12-6.

Stettler’sU18 boys

doing well

Stettler U14 claim another softball

tournament victory

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The Stettler U14 girls’ softball teams merged to make a fastball team to compete this past weekend, June 7-8, in a Red Deer tournament where they won gold. Back row, from left, are Jaiden Stotz, Taylor Northrop, Rachel Morbeck, Jenny Munholland, middle row Tamara Ball, Brooke Mulgrove, Elli Anderson, Rebecca Bridge, and front row, Gracie Morbeck and Mikayla Torgerson. Missing from photo is Raina Thomson.

Page B2 Wednesday, June 11, 2014 THE STETTLER INDEPENDENT SPORTS

STACEY LAVALLIE


A fifth-inning come-back by the Stettler Steal-ers was not enough to send the Rockies Sundevils packing, even though it gave the local team a new wind as it closed up the 12-1 gap.

The Stettler bantam baseball team had a rough start during the first in-ning as they had to pull their pitcher, whose sore shoulder led to inconsis-tent pitching, letting the Sundevils get an early lead

on the team.By the fifth inning, the

Sundevils had managed to shut down the Stealers’ batters, striking hitter af-ter hitter out, and quickly finishing off anyone who managed to hit the ball with superb catching.

In the fifth, after shut-ting down the Sundevils in a quick bottom of the fourth, the Stealers seemed to rebound.

The normally adept aim of the Sundevils’ pitcher and players were off, and error after error allowed the Stealers to live up to their name, stealing base after base.

By the end of the fifth, the Stealers had narrowed the gap to 12-7, aided in part by a home run by An-drew Bauman, with a man on base.

“Good rally, boys,”

called coach Jeff Lee. “That was awesome.”

The good feeling didn’t last long into the sixth inning as, wary of the Stettler team, the Rock-ies regrouped and not only recouped the six runs, but gained a seventh, leading to 19-7 score.

The game ended after the sixth inning after the Rockies shut down the Stealers in four batters.

For his part, Lee was still proud of his team and the players who battled hard despite the deficit.

“They came alive at the end,” he said. “They had a rough start and having to pull our pitcher didn’t help.”

It’s one of the few loss-es for the Stealers so far this season, and the team is one of the leaders in the league.

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THE STETTLER INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ZONE Page B3Wednesday, June 11, 2014

by Caitlin Forsethand Holly Blackmore

The annual Night of the Bands concert was held on June 3 and it was a huge success for all the bands and Mr. Rahn. The PAC played host to this fantastic event and it was great to see all the people who came out to hear how much progress all the bands made this year.

SMS also held their track and fi eld event on June 3. The weather was amazing and the athletes were even more amazing. There were numerous records broken this year in different events. In shot put, Robert Mbon-galonzi in the Grade 7 boys event and Kayla Myshaniuk in the Grade 8 girls event overtook the best distances and in high jump, Austin Stalberg in the Grade 6 boys event has the new re-cord height. In the running events, both Robert Mbon-galonzi and Noah McKay beat the previous record in the Grade 7 200 meter event, while Delaney An-derson, Daniel Moon, Noah McKay and Robert Mbong-alonzi took the record time in the boys Grade 7 relay event and Kassy Diegel, Baileigh Sorenson, Noah McKay and Robert Mbong-alonzi beat the record in the Grade 7 mixed relay event. The day was a huge success and we wish all the athletes the best when they compete against other schools in our division in C.A.R.A.

The Grade 6 students

went on their year-end fi eld trip to Wetaskiwin on May 27 to tour the Reynolds-Alberta Museum. They had a great time going through the museum looking at dif-ferent types of planes and cars. While there, they re-viewed their units in science of Air and Aerodynamics and Flight. They took part in rocket experiments and had a game show. Everyone had a great time.

Students in grades 7B and 7D also went on their year-end fi eld trip to Drumheller on May 27. They went to the Royal Tyrrell Muse-um. The Grade 7A and 7C classes had already gone on their trip earlier this month. Not only did the students explore the museum and learn about the past, they also studied the strata (lay-ers of sedimentary rock) and the surrounding hoo-doos while hiking on trails in the valleys surrounding the museum. It was a fasci-nating experience.

The Grade 8 students recently arrived back from their annual leadership camp. No one can say that it was uneventful. Unfor-tunately, a fl u bug made its way around camp, but it didn’t stop everyone from enjoying the overall experi-ence.

Climbing the mountain on the hike was fun, but it wasn’t an easy task. Dur-ing their trek, they saw a sun dance hut and a home-made steam room built by

the fi rst nations. Everyone stopped for lunch on top of a ridge and was able to take in the amazing views of the mountains and landscapes. Some people also went on a mountain bike ride amongst hoodoos, while others went canoeing on Fish Lake. It was a great experience and many memories were made to last a lifetime.

Stettler Middle School is hosting a talent show this year and it will take place

this Friday. Mrs. Erickson has been busy organizing this fun event. There are all kinds of entries such as comedy routines, singing, playing musical instru-ments, tae kwon do, trick roping, and much more. The performances will take place after lunch in the PAC.

The last C.I.A. lunch of the year will be held this Friday in the gym. Those who received recognition

for demonstrating one or more of the 7 Habits will be invited to enjoy a tasty meal.

Nearing the end of June means fi nal exams and P.A.T.s are around the cor-ner. The Grade 6 students write the following P.A.T.s on the assigned dates: lan-guage arts on June 18, math on June 19, science on June 20 and social studies on June 23. Grade 7 and 8 stu-dents write their fi nal exams

as outlined: math on June 20, language arts on June 23, science on June 24, and social studies on June 25. We wish all the students the most success on the writing of their exams.

Upon completion of the school year, students will be able to pick up their re-port cards on June 27 from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

It’s been a busy June and before you know it summer will be upon us!

Stettler Elementary SchoolStudents in 1JL are writing stories about

dinosaurs from the Royal Tyrell Museum coming to SES for a fi eld trip. They did some role playing to help make their writ-ing more creative. Ms. Limpert pretended to be a dinosaur KNOCKING at the class-room door. It startled and entertained the students! Grade ones will be visiting the real Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller for their year-end fi eld trip on June 24.

Some of the Grade 3 butterfl y pupae have turned into butterfl ies. The students are very excited, and continue to check the pupae and butterfl ies daily, preparing for their eventual release.

Grade 4 students had a tour of the steam train and the grain elevator last Wednes-day. Bob Willis and Alberta Prairie staff took the students through the train cars and explained the history of each of them and how the train works using steam. The grain elevator was equally interesting as the stu-dents learned how the operation of eleva-

tors changed as we moved from horses and wagons to trucks to deliver the grain. This mini-fi eld trip complements the Grade 4 social studies unit on the history of Alberta where the students learn about settlers and how the railroad opened up the west. This Monday, June 9, Grade 4 classes went on their year-end fi eld trip to Fort Edmonton to learn more about the fur traders and trad-ing posts.

Kindergarten classes went to the Central Alberta Children’s Festival at Red Deer’s Rotary Recreation Park on Friday, June 6. Thank you to the many parent volunteers for helping make this trip a successful event. The last day of classes for kindergar-ten students is Wednesday, June 18. Next year’s kindergarten classes will be in the school for orientation and screening before the end of June. If you haven’t registered your child for kindergarten yet, please call the school at 403-742-2235.

Grade 5 staff and students are prepar-ing for their year-end trip to Circle Square

Ranch. Students will be at the camp from Tuesday, June 17 through to Friday, June 20. They will enjoy activities such as ca-noeing, archery, horseback riding, orien-teering, wall climbing, and much more! Each student will come home with the cov-eted camp tie-dye shirt that everyone will wear back to school on Monday, June 23. Thank you to the many parents that have volunteered to help at camp by staying in a cabin or helping teachers and Circle Square staff run the many activities. We appreciate everyone’s support, and couldn’t do all that we do without it.

Grade 5 are also preparing for Middle School. Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Rahn visited all of the Grade 5 classrooms this past week to explain some of the new routines students will encounter when they are in middle school next year. The teach-ers and administrators also gave students information on the various options they can choose to enroll in. Students need to have their option sheets fi lled out, signed by par-

ents, and returned to their SES homeroom teacher by this Wednesday, June 11. We hope that many SES grade 5 parents were able to attend the parent meeting on Mon-day, June 9, to have questions answered.

Clearview Public Schools is changing the format of Professional Development (PD) days throughout the school division next year. There will be more full-day PD days, which will give staff a better op-portunity to meet with colleagues in other schools, attend in services, and more fully collaborate within their own schools. This will mean a few more long weekends for students, which should be benefi cial for families planning mini-holidays, sports, etc. Due to this change, there will only be one early Monday per month (the fi rst Mon-day, except November), which will make it easier for everyone to remember and plan for. You can download the complete 2014-2015 calendar from the Clearview Public Schools website, or the Stettler Elementary School website.

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Even though the school year is coming to a close, the teachers of Wm. E. Hay have been working there students hard. The school hosted the Science Fair for grades 9-12 over the past week. The grade 12s were in the PAC on the evening of June 2 and had a guest key-note speaker from Spartan to talk about science related technology in the oil fi eld. The grade 10s and 11s host-ed their fairs in the cafeteria during FLEX on June 3 and 4. Good job to the students who participated.

During T.A, the teach-ers are getting their students to volunteer and help our community. We have been out in Memorial Park help-ing rake and dig up the red rock ready to lay new mulch as well as helping with the community gardens proj-ect.

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Congratulations to all our Grade 9 athletes who competed in a track meet on June 10. Everyone compet-

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Dances down to once a week THE STETTLER INDEPENDENT DISTRICT

A special day is com-ing up this coming Sunday, June 15, for all fathers out there, so make sure you get out and celebrate his big day with him. Sorry, the Botha BCC Committee de-cided not to have a Fathers’ Day Breakfast this year. So they apologize for this, but they wish all fathers a Happy Father’s Day.

Today - however (June 11) come on out to the Botha Arena for two great courses. CPR Training and AED (defi brillator) Train-ing is being offered there, at free of charge to anyone that is interested, so make sure you make your way over to the arena for these two great courses at 5 p.m. and will run until 9 p.m.

Then this Friday, June 13 make sure to wonder over to the Botha Hall at 7:30 p.m. for another great evening of entertainment. The “Old-Thyme Aires” Band will be there again entertaining the crowd that evening. This will be the very last dance now, until Sept. 28 starting at 1:30 p.m. So make sure you come out on Friday for

a great time. The Commit-tee is asking everyone to bring buns/sandwiches or pastry with you to share for the last night luncheon. This dance will be based on a Hawaiian theme so if you like wear something Hawaiian, and you could bring something on theme-related to share for the lun-cheon. There are recipes on the Internet, so please feel free to be creative if you would like to. So if you have any questions on this dance or up coming dances for the fall please contact Doug Haustein at 403-742-3994. The Old -Time Dance Club would like to wish everyone a great sum-mer and hope to see you there on Friday.

Apparently, come fall, there will only be Sunday afternoon dances only, for at least a while, as the club has decided to cancel the Friday night dances at least for the time being.

At the Botha School everyone has been really busy as they wind down the rest of the activities for this school year. The last

day for this school year is coming up really quickly as this day will be Wednesday, June 25.

This week the students and staff will be heading to the two Big Valley track meets. The students have been practicing all events and ready to take on the challenge.S o good luck everyone, and have fun.

On Tuesday, June 24, staff and students will be heading to the Ukrainian Village which, is located straight north of Tofi eld. students will be able to tour this pioneer village and re-late their classroom work to “the real McCay”. Sounds like fun.

On Wednesday, June 25, this is going to be a fun fi lled day for everyone to start the day out, fi rst they will all be heading over to the Botha Hall for the yearly Spring Concert and Awards which takes place at 10:30 a.m. that morn-ing. This sounds exciting, and to fi nish the day off they all will be having fun in the Stettler Swimming Pool. What a fantastic way to fi nish off a fantastic and fun fi lled school year. Ev-eryone is welcome to this Spring Concert and Awards celebration and they hope to see you all there.

Next Tuesday, June 17, is the day the Grade 5’s

have been waiting for all year. This is the day they will depart and head to Cir-cle Square Ranch for their Grade 5 Camp trip. They will be camping out for four days and nights and re-turning Friday, June 20. So sounds like a great trip, and they would like to thank the Stettler Elementary School for the invitation and the privilege of going along with them. Every year the Grade 5’s look forwards to this special trip and have a lot of fun when their there.

A big Thank you in ad-vance to everyone that vol-unteers to go along to help with this trip. Without your help this trip would be im-possible to do, so thank you everyone.

In Grade 2/3, they are asking if anyone has any corks or plastic lids (yogurt or margarine lids) and sty-rofoam to send or bring it to the school, for them to use on a science project they need to do. This would very much be appreciated.

Botha classes were de-lighted to perform at the seniors’ centres this past

couple months to which ev-eryone enjoyed. They sung Mr. Sun, Alphabet in my Mouth, and Banana Dance of Chickens by Jack Pre-lutsky.

Bingo anyone? Bingo night happens again,the evening of Tuesday, June 24,starting at 7:15 p.m. sharp. So come on out and try out your luck. Who knows you could be one of the lucky ones, taking something home with you.Bingo continues every sec-ond Tuesday at the same time throughout the sum-mer and everyone is wel-come to come out and try out your luck.

Then let’s don’t forget every Wednesday morn-ing, the coffee is on at 10 a.m. at the Senior Centre and this too will continue throughout the summer months. So make sure you take a break away from your busy schedule and join your friends there.

So in closing I would like to wish all dads out there a great Father’s Day, and hope everyone has a fantastic day.

The Big Valley Municipal Library has had an interesting history since some en-lightened community members formed the first library board in 1986 with the goal of establishing a library here in Big Valley. They met with success and in April of 1987 when a very, very small li-brary was opened in the back room of the Village Office. Their first official annual report proudly stated t28 library mem-bers and by 1989, the library was moved to its present location, the converted fire hall adjoining the Village Office.

In the year 2000, thanks to the Al-berta Community Facility Enhancement Program, the library received a much needed renovation, and in 2003 a be-quest enabled the board to convert an unfinished back room into an office and storage space.

Big Valley’s Village Council approved membership in the Parkland Regional Library System in 2006 and library us-age soared thanks to access to all the ad-

ditional materials. Then with the com-ing of the Supernet, our small library became the communications hub of the village and surrounding county.

In 2006, the Friends of the Big Val-ley Library Society was formed as the fundraising and advocacy arm of our li-brary. Over the years, they have worked tirelessly to elevate the profile of the li-brary’s services to this community.

In 2009, the library celebrated its twentieth anniversary with hopes to move to bigger and better quarters. The 610 square feet of floor space seemed no longer adequate to serve the communi-ty’s needs. A children’s section, a meet-ing room, reading area and electronics room suitable for computer teaching, distant learning and gaming were the new requirements. The Friends Board produced a community cookbook with the goal of raising funds towards this new goal.

Three years ago the Friends partici-pated in a casino event through AGLC which allowed them to finance another renovation of the Library. By reconfig-uring their space and with the addition of mobile bookcases, the library now has a small children’s section, a dedicated electronics area and the ability to pro-vide meeting space within their small space. Programming opportunities have soared and they can now boast library

sponsored activities including teen game and movie nights, a book club, garden club, a sit n’ stitch group, ladies night out, a painting classes and much more, all within their tiny space.

This year as Big Valley prepares to celebrate its Centennial, the library cel-ebrates its 25th year with three major projects. First is the 25th anniversary expanded edition of their very successful cookbook. Second, they are in the midst of creating the “Centennial Wi-Fi Park”, a very welcomed addition and beautifica-tion of an under utilized space within the Village; and third the Big Valley Library Board and staff and the Friends of the Library Society will be hosting a “penny carnival” to entertain the children dur-ing Big Valley’s Centennial festivities.

We would like to take this opportuni-ty to thank the countless volunteers who have so generously given of their time and labour to help to make these projects possible.

The Byemoor School is once again taking orders for its Community Calendar. Folks can have their fam-ily’s birthdays and anniver-saries put on the calendar. There is also room on the calendar for advertisers. Forms are available at the school, Byemoor Store or by contacting Rhonda Hut-ton at 403-579-2135 or 403-742-9634 and completed forms can be dropped off at the same places by June 16.

This fundraiser helps fund the bussing for swim-

ming lessons for the stu-dents — a worthy cause that needs your support. Calen-dars are $15.

Some local residents and former Endiang residents attended the Strawberry Tea in Scapa last Monday. They enjoyed entertainment, vis-iting and of course straw-berry goodies.

Congratulations to fi rst-time parents Dustin and Erin (nee Grams) Weinzi-erl on the birth of their son Jacob Rodney Weinzierl on June 3 in Stettler. Jacob

weighed eight pounds fi ve ounces. Congratulations to the local grandparents Rod and Debbie Grams and great-grandparents Jack and Vi Grams.

We welcome Michelle and Gordon Borgstrom and their young daughter Dustee to the community. They purchased Rob and Sherry Carlgren’s acreage (formerly Ernie and Gail Irion’s place). Gordon is employed at the Sheerness power plant. We hope the Borgstroms enjoy our com-

munity.Carol Stulberg and

Mickey Tucker attended the Mayor’s Garden Party luncheon in Hanna last Tuesday. Irene Brooker, along with former-Endiang residents Ken Halverson and Shirley Lumsden, were among those supplying the musical entertainment.

The Byemoor kindergar-ten to Grade 3 students at-tended the track meet in Big Valley on Wednesday driv-en by bus driver Rosemary Stulberg. On Thursday the Grade 4-6 students partici-pated in the track meet in Big Valley, driven by San-dra Keith.

A good number turned out for the afternoon cof-fee social on Thursday at the Endmoor Drop-in Cen-tre to mark seniors’ week. We salute the seniors for their valued contributions to our community — past and present. Councillor Les Stulberg presented a fruit tray on behalf of the County of Stettler.

The school exchange stu-

dents from Cornwall, Ont. arrived Friday. Bus driver Anita Mappin picked them up at the Calgary airport. On Sunday the exchange students and their host fam-ilies travelled by chartered bus to tour the Banff area.

Friends of Marj So-rensen will be interested to know she has sold her house in Hanna and moved into Manor I. She had a moving sale on the weekend. We hope you enjoy your new location, Marj.

Billy-Joe Hawkins was one of the Air Cadets partic-ipating in the 572 Squadron Royal Canadian Air Cadets annual Ceremonial Review in Coronation on Saturday. Congratulations to Billy-Joe on being promoted to Corporal. The squadron has cadets from Byemoor, Cas-tor, Coronation, Consort, Hanna and Veteran. The esteemed organization pro-vides the training for skills and leadership for cadets to become productive Cana-dian citizens.

The hamlet of Endiang

resembled a mini RV city with several members of the Alberta Explorers RV club spending the weekend in town. The participants who came the farthest were Rich and Norah Meyer from Vale-mount, B.C. Other campers came from Fort Saskatch-ewan, Stony Plain, Calgary, Medicine Hat, Carstairs, Stettler and Endiang.

Mark your calendars for the Wade Buchwitz Memo-rial Gymkhana coming up July 1 at the Endiang Riding and Roping Club grounds. Entries will be accepted on June 26 from 8-10 p.m. and on July 1 up to 10 a.m. This event is always a great way to celebrate Canada Day.

Twila Buchwitz and boys Ryder, Bronc and Colter spent a few days at Melfort, Sask. visiting with members of Twila’s family.

Rhonda Munns has her gift shop on Highway 855 south of Endiang open for summer hours each Wednes-day and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. or by appoint-ment by calling Rhonda at 403-665-2431. The quaint shop has many unique gifts for home and garden, many with a country theme.

Congratulations to Heather Keith on her gradu-ation with a degree in phar-macy. Family members at-tended her convocation in Edmonton on Thursday.

Congratulations to Cait-lyn Keith on her gradua-tion with distinction with a teaching degree. Members of her family attended the convocation exercises in Medicine Hat on Friday.

Volunteers of the Byemoor community hall worked at the Jackpot Ca-sino in Red Deer on the weekend. Thanks to all who helped out.

Canadian trivia — On-tario’s Thomas Ryan in-vented the hugely popular and uniquely Canadian game of fi ve-pin bowling in 1909.

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Mr. Robert Roy Andrews passed away in Red Deer on Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at the age of 84 years. Bob was born on April 1, 1930 the eldest son of Ethel and Robert Andrews. He married Melva Metzger on October 25, 1952. They moved to the Botha area in 1965 (where he said he was never going to live) until their retirement in the early 1980’s. Bob and Melva loved to travel. They toured for 23 years visiting Arizona and most of the

other States as well. They also loved to go fi shing and always found the far out places, nevertheless Bob always caught the biggest fi sh. They took a few cruises to see what boat life was all about and also took the train venturing through the Rocky Mountains. Bob and Melva moved to Red Deer in 2005 and had just recently moved back to Stettler to be closer to their family when he passed away. Bob is survived by his loving wife Melva, son Donald and wife Diane, grandchildren Angela, Robert (Janene), Calvin (Brenda) and great-granddaughter Emily; daughter Lois and husband Larry Robinson; grandchildren Michelle great-grandson Logan, Micheal (Christina) and great grandson Grayden. He is also survived by his siblings Lorretta Bradly, Roger (Janet) Andrews, Joan Stevenson, Larry (Wanda) Andrews, Dave (Claire) Andrews, Joyce Rogers and Danny (Brenda) Andrews as well in-laws Mary Andrews, Harold Ray, Sylvie Metzger and Mary Metzger and by many nieces, nephews, other relatives and many very dear friends. Bob was predeceased by his parents Robert and Ethel Andrews, one brother Harold Andrews and by his infant son Robert Kenneth Andrews. A memorial service to commemorate Bob’s life was held at the Brennen Funeral Home Chapel on Monday, June 9, 2014 at 2:00 P.M. with the Rev. Carolyn Langford of St. George’s Anglican Church offi ciating. Following the service, Bob was laid to rest in the Lake View Cemetery after which a reception and fellowship took place at the Brennen Funeral Home reception area with the Botha UCW serving the lunch. As an expression of sympathy and in loving memory of Bob, memorial contributions may be made to the charity of your choice in care of

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HILDRETHAlta Muriel1922 - 2014

Alta Hildreth of Castor passed away peacefully at Castor, Alberta on Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at the age of 92 years. Alta Muriel Peters was born at Mulhurst, Alberta on April 12, 1922 to Mary (Armstrong) and Esca Peters, the third of six children. She spent her growing years at Mulhurst when the family moved to Forestburg in 1934 or 1935. Her mother was

buried there at the age of 38. The family then moved to Castor in 1941.On August 12, 1943 Alta was married to Stan Hildreth and resided on the family homestead until 1964 when, due to Stan’s health, they moved into Castor. Alta worked in the hospital as ward aid for a few months, then left there and worked in the ladies dress shop (known as Castor Style Shoppe) for eight years.They moved to Stettler in 1974 where Stan was confi ned in the Auxiliary Hospital. Alta worked in the Stettler Hospital Complex until April 1985 when she took early retirement. Stan passed from this world on September 14, 1985.After fi ve years alone Alta married Ellwood Smith and lived at Donalda on an acreage until Ellwood passed suddenly on April 5, 1996.After moving back to Stettler, Alta was a Mary Kay consultant until she reached the age of eighty.In March, 2008 Alta moved to the Paintearth Lodge in Castor and resided there until she passed from this world on May 28, 2014.She loved her family dearly and always looked forward to a visit or phone call from any one of them.She was predeceased by her parents, two brothers Barnard Peters and Edgar Peters, and her son Glen Hildreth.Alta leaves to mourn her passing: Norman (Nina) Hildreth, Acme, AB, Mary Lynn (Ken) Gollan, Camrose, AB, Merle (Laura Jane) Hildreth, Castor, AB, and daughter-in-law, Marietta Hildreth, Almonte, ON; ten grandchildren, Michelle (Brent), Allison (Jiubasco), James (Tammy), Kim (Street), Clint, Carey, Lindy, Janel (Sean), Dallas (Amanda), Kelly (Teri); twelve great grandchildren, Chase, Kayley, Avery, Shane, Taran, Trinity, Harrison, Erika, Trayce, Cole, Max, Nixon; three sisters, Ruth Christiansen and Violet Windross both of Castor, Ethel Paynton, Quesnel, BC, and many nieces, nephews and good friends.A funeral service was held at the Knox United Church in Castor, Alberta on Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at 1:00 P.M. with the Rev. Barbara Zimmerman offi ciating. The interment took place at the Castor Municipal Cemetery at 10:00 A.M. that same day. As an expression of sympathy and in loving memory of Alta, memorial contributions may be made to the Stollery Children’s Hospital or to a charity of your choice in care of Brennen Funeral Home and Cremation Services P.O. Box 193 Stettler, Alberta TOC 2LO who have been entrusted with the care and funeral arrangements. 403.742.3315.

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HOWLETT (Forsey)Mildred “Milly”October 20, 1922 - May 15, 2014

Milly passed away at Points West after a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend with her family. Milly was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba where she met and married Ted in 1940. They moved to Southern Alberta in 1947 and then to Red Willow in 1961. She was active in the community of Red Willow and a long-time member of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Stettler Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.

She will be dearly missed by her children: Pennie Benoit, Surrey, BC; Jan (Wayne) Vallet, Aggasiz, BC; Trudy (Karl) Sideritsch, Donalda; Terry (Doreen) Howlett, Las Vegas; and June (Les) Quast, Innisfail. She will also be missed by her 11 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and 4 great-great-grandchildren. She is survived by her sister, Alice Danielson of Innes, Texas and many nieces and nephews. Milly is predeceased by her husband, Ted of 68 years, her son-in-law Ray Benoit, 4 sisters and 4 brothers.A Celebration of Life service will be held Saturday, June 28, 2014 at 2:00 PM at the Heartland Chapel of Stettler Funeral Home. Memorial Donations may be made to the Red Willow Cemetery Club or a charity of your choice.

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NICKLOM Ferdie Nov. 15, 1927 - May 24, 2014 Ferdie Nicklom was born on November 15, 1927 and he passed away quietly in the early morning hours at his home in Stettler, Ab. with his loving wife at his side on Saturday, May 24, 2014 at the age of 86 years. He is survived by his loving wife of 55 years, Millie Nicklom, two sisters; Betty Sideritsch, Verne (Harold) Spitzig, and one brother Otto (Gladys) Nicklom, sister-in-law Irene (Ernie) Kerbes and brother-in-law Cliff Sivacoe, numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and a host of wonderful friends. He was predeceased by his parents Pauline and August Nicklom, sisters Olga Wolkowicki and Rose Kerbes, and by his brothers Bill, Henry, Carl, Julius, and Rudy Nicklom.Ferdie attended school at Wooded Hills and then farmed with his

dad and brothers. As a young man Ferdie drove a water truck for his friend Monty DeGraff, he also worked with his brother Henry for Poole Construction when the Stettler Hotel was rebuilt and he worked at the Stettler Pool Hall for Bill Pochylko.Ferdie met and later married Millie Sivacoe in September 1958. Ferdie and Millie farmed the Sivacoe farm until they retired to Stettler in 1996.Ferdie acquired his pilot’s License, owned his own plane and enjoyed fl ying. Snowmobiling, playing cards, socializing, building model planes and cars, repairing clocks, watches, radios and going ice-fi shing with his old friends were some of his many interests that Ferdie enjoyed over the years. Ferdie was an active member of the Linda Hall Men’s Society.Along with actively farming Ferdie was employed with Alberta Environment for a number of years.Ferdie’s declining health caused Millie and Ferdie to retire to Stettler where he still enjoyed some of his many interests and pastimes.A funeral service was held at the Brennen Funeral Home Chapel on Friday, May 30, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. with Albert Reule offi ciating. The eulogy was given by Ferdie’s niece, Dianne Allen and his sister, Betty Sideritsch shared some fond memories of Ferdie. The congregational hymn was “The Old Rugged Cross” and a special musical tribute “One Day at a Time” was sung by Ferdie’s great nieces Kira Christofferson and Tanzi Reule with niece Lori Reule accompanist on piano.The Pall-bearers were Deane Kerbes, Fred Von Krogh, Archie Lunevich, Jim Bogdanovich, Rick Nicklom, and Bill Bauer. Ferdie was laid to rest at the Lake View Cemetery, Stettler, Ab. Friends and family gathered for a time of fellowship and luncheon at Linda Hall prepared and served by the Linda Ladies.As an expression of sympathy and in loving memory of Ferdie, memorial contributions may be made to Alberta Heart and Stroke foundation or to charity of your choice in care of

BRENNEN FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATION SERVICES P.O. Box 193, Stettler, Alberta T0C 2L0

who have been entrusted with the care and arrangements. 403-742-3315. Condolences can be forwarded to the family by visiting our website at

www.brennenfuneralhome.com

VOZDolly July 4, 1921 - June 6, 2014 After a long life well lived, our beautiful Mom peacefully slipped away. Mom was born in Alsask, Saskatchewan and raised in Denholm, Saskatchewan, Mom met Dad in Edmonton. They spent their early years in Vancouver and Calgary, settling for good in Stettler in 1951. Predeceased by husband Al in 2011, Dolly is survived by her loving family, daughters: Carol (John) Short, Faye Chinn, Gail (Art) Anastasi and Patti (Lorne)

Nicoll, and son Gilbert; grandchildren: Michael (Laura Bacchus) Short, Suzanne (Ryan) Cyr, Matt Chinn, Claire (Mark) Selebay, Chrissy (Dave) Cruickshank, Amy (Chris) Buckman, Jenny (Stephan Tschan) Ogilvie, and Adam Nicoll; great grandchildren: Logan and Austin Cyr, Jack and Ben Short, Garrett Selebay, Drew and Jeffrey Cruickshank, Evan and Ruby Buckman, and Lily Tschan. A Celebration of Dolly’s life will take place at 1:00 pm on Thursday, June 12, 2014 at Stettler United Church, 4820 - 51st St., Stettler, Alberta. In lieu of fl owers, contributions to these charities: Heart Haven Lodge, Points West Living Stettler or S.T.A.R.S. will be gratefully accepted at the church or c/o

STETTLER FUNERAL HOME Box 1780, Stettler Alberta TOC 2L0, who have been

entrusted with the care and arrangements. To send or view condolences to Dolly’s family,

please visit www.stettlerfuneralhome.com

The family ofLarry & Darlene Doell

invite you to help them celebratetheir 50th Anniversary,June 14, Linda Hall,

5:30 p.m.BBQ beef on a bun

7 p.m.-12 a.m.Open house & dance.

Toonie bar.Come out and visitthe afternoon away.

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Card Of Thanks

We are ever grateful to the Stettler Fire Department for the prompt response

to the fi re on May 28,consuming both our

neighbour’s and our garage.Their profi ciency, dedication

and courtesy will beforever appreciated.

Thank you!!Francis and LeeAnn

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In Memoriam

In loving memory ofSteve Gordon

June 16, 2013

There is a facethat haunts us ever,

And eyeswhich brought us cheer

And a smilewe’ll forever remember

When in silencewe dry every tear.

Always remembered & lovedby his wife, Joyce & family

In Memoriam

ANNABELLE PARKERJune 12, 2013

On angel’s wings you were taken away,

but in my heart you will always stay.

I will hear your whisper in the tallest of trees, feel your love in the

gentle summer breeze.And when I fi nd

I miss you the most,inside our beautiful

memoriesI will hold you close.

You are my angel watching over me,

with the comfort and blessings you bring.

You embrace my heart and hold it close,

forever on angel’s wings.

I will miss you Mom, always and forever.

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SeverinJoan Apr. 17, 1946 ~ June 2, 2014 Elizabeth Joan Leinweber was born on April 17, 1946 in Calgary, Alberta to parents Elizabeth and William Leinweber. Joan passed away on June 2, 2014 at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta at the age of 68 years. Joan is survived by her loving family: husband Dave Severin of Donalda; daughters Sherri (Randy) Yaremchuk of Coronation and Brenda (Shel) Vert-Fisher of Donalda; son Dwayne (Jenny) Vert of Carlisle, Saskatchewan; stepdaughters Lori (Stephen) Schwenk of Coronation and Barb (Martin) Hunt of Millers Lake; stepsons: Michael Severin of Edmonton, Bruce Severin of Coronation and Mark (Jeannie) Severin of Erskine; numerous beloved grandchildren; brothers Jim Leinweber and Kenny Leinweber; other family members and many dear friends. Joan was predeceased by her daughter Brenda Jean Vert, father William, mother Elizabeth and sister Diane. A celebration of Joan’s life was held on Monday, June 9, 2014 at the Donalda Community Hall, Donalda, Alberta with Mr. Bob Derval as leader of ceremonies. Joan was laid to rest at the Donalda Cemetery. Donations in memory are gratefully accepted to Alberta Diabetes Foundation or The War Amps c/o

STETTLER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM,

who were entrusted with the care and arrangements.

To send or view condolences to the family, please visit

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Celebrations

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Arts & Crafts Shows ..................50Class Registrations....................51Coming Events ..........................52Lost ............................................54Found ........................................56Companions ..............................58Personals...................................60Bingos........................................64Fitness & Sports ........................66Happy Ads .................................70

What’s Happening#50 - # 70

ClassRegistrations 51

GunSafety

InstructorNon-Restricted/

Restricted Courses/ Challenges Reasonable Rates

Will TravelStan Genert Donalda, AB

403-749-2517

ComingEvents 52

Bridal shower forAmber Creasey

bride-elect ofChris HanselJune 20, 7 p.m.,

Stettler United Church CE Wing.

Please bring a brooch for the bride if possible.

Registered atWish Kitchen

& Stettler Travel.

Bridal Shower forKari Niehuas

Bride elect ofJason Steele

Shower to take place at the Ramada Inn, Stettler,

Banquet Room.June 14, 2014, 1-4 p.m.

Everyone welcome.

COMMUNITIESAGAINST ABUSE

Annual General MeetingTuesday, June 17, 2014

at 11:45 a.m.4704 - 55 Street, Stettler

Lunch will be served.

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Personals 60

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DRESS WESTERN& JOIN THE FUN!

OLD TYME DANCING!Thursday, June 19

“The Hub”(Upstairs at the

Stettler Rec Centre)6202-44 Ave.

Cocktails: 5 p.m.Supper: 6 p.m.

Dance: 7-10 p.m.Music By: Yesteryear

(Live band)Catered by:

Catering By SarahTickets $17.50/person, Dance only $10/person

Supper Only: $14/personAvailable at the door

Sponsored†by: Stettler Old Tyme Dance Club.

Everyone WelcomeYoung & Old!

MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held for

Edith Marie Davidson (Nee Chick)

on June 14, 2 p.m., Gadsby Community

Hall.

Rochon Sands,Buffalo Lake

Neighborhood Yard Sale

Saturday, June 21, 20148:30 am - 1:00 pmSANDS STREET,

near the Provincial Park~ Furniture and

household items ~

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YOU ARE INVITED!To the 60th wedding

anniversary ofJIM AND MARIE

BRENCHLEY Sun. July 6, 2-5 pm.

at Big Valley Drop In

Centre.No gifts please. Your presence is

our gift!

Employment#700 - #920

Caregivers/Aides................710Clerical ..............................720Computer Personnel ..........730Dental ................................740Estheticians........................750Hair Stylists ........................760 Janitorial ............................770Legal ..................................780Medical ..............................790Oilfield ................................800Professionals......................810Restaurant/Hotel ................820Sales & Distributors ..........830Teachers/Tutors..................840Trades ................................850Truckers/Drivers ................860Business Opportunities......870Miscellaneous ....................880Volunteers Wanted ............890Positions Wanted ..............895Employment Training ........900Career Planning ................920

Dental 740

HIRING PART-TIMELEVEL 2

DENTAL ASSISTANT,3-4 days per week.

Apply by fax:403-742-2391; Email:SamHuangDentalClinic

@gmail.com

Personals 60

Personals 60

Restaurant/Hotel 820

Sales &Distributors 830

Farm Work 755FULL TIME

FARM WORKER NEEDED WITH DAIRY COW& MEAT GOATS.15 minutes south

of Big Valley.Wage based upon

experience & education.Minimum $15/hr to start.

Call 403-323-0219

Medical 790MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION

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work-at-home career today!

Oilfield 800

Sales &Distributors 830

Teachers/Tutors 840

Trades 850

Trades 850

Oilfield 800KEN’S POWERTONGS LTD.

requires an experienced Power Tong Operator

immediately for long term employment in Edson

area. Oilfi eld experience, clean driver’s abstract &

valid oilfi eld tickets required. Fax 780-693-2200.

Phone 780-723-4810.

Oilfield 800AN ALBERTA OILFIELD

company is hiringexperienced dozer

and excavator operators, meals and lodging

provided. Drug testingrequired. 780-723-5051.

Stettler Rifl e & Pistol Club2014 Memberships are available atGuns ’n Games Source for Sports

New Th is Year:ORIENTATION DATES:

Wed., June 11/14 - Orientation - 7 p.m. - Indoor Range

Sat., July 19/14 - Orientation - 10 a.m. -Outdoor Range

www.stettlergunclub.com

Heartland Arts Troupe Society

AUDITIONS…come and try out for this fun-filled comedy…

Wednesday, June 18 & Thursday, June 19Stettler Community Hall - 7 p.m.

We need: 5 women & 5 menE X I T T H E B O D Y

by Fred CarmichaelDirector: Wayne Smith

Production dates: November 12,13, 14 & 15, 2014For more information call 403-742-2435

Wildcat Theatre presents

One Slight Hitch by Lewis Black

At the PAC!

June 12-14, 2014Curtain at 7:30

Tickets: $15 for Adults and $10 for Students & SeniorsTickets Available at Wells Furniture

& The High School OfficeFriday Night dinner Theatre for

$35 including VIP seating

Not Recommended foryounger audiences.

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Bridal RegistryAshley Patterson & Brian Kelly June 21Taylor Falkenberg & Matt Wilfort June 28Jordan Wasdal & Kyle Smith July 5Claire Aspenes & Tyler Stewart July 5Jamy Stewart & Chais McRae July 9Lindsay Scott & Darcy Pollock July 12Amber Creasey & Chris Hansel August 2Hannah Miller & Brendan Aspenes August 2Brooklyn Carl & Steven Levy August 9

Alexi Hiller & Curtis Bauman August 23Amanda Smith & Wayne Dolan August 23Heather Keith & Dustin Derrick August 23View registries online www.wishkitchen.comMain Street, Stettler 403.742.8484

Bridal RegistryMatt Wilfort & Taylor Falkenberg June 28Dustin Derrick & Heather Keith August 23

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EYE SPY…EYE SPY…EYE SPY…

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: [email protected]: 403-258-3197

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

Service Rig

Are you a results-driven individual looking for a Business to Business sales opportunity? Then we want to hear from you! As the “Big Voice for Small Business” in Canada, we have begun the process of recruiting a Sales Professional to promote our services to small and mid-size businesses in Stettler and area.

If you’re looking for a long-term sales career with a great company, possess an entrepreneurial spirit and are experienced in dealing with small business owners, apply today!

The successful candidate will manage an assigned territory by proactively engaging business owners focusing on business development and growth.

If you are the right person for the job, you can expect competitive compensation, an excellent benefi ts package, and comprehensive training. You can also expect that the sky’s the limit in terms of career growth; in fact, all of our sales managers have been promoted from within the organization.

This position requires access to a vehicle and a valid driver’s licence.

Apply today!Qualifi ed individuals are invited to forward their resumes in confi dence to CFIB at recruit_md@cfi b-fcei.ca.

About UsThe Canadian Federation of Independent Business is a growing organization dedicated to supporting small businesses in every province and territory in the country. CFIB represents small business owners in every industry sector in Canada. Through direct contact with business owners, we offer business counselling support, preferred pricing programs and we advocate for changes to government policy to benefi t the small business sector. To learn more about CFIB please visit our website at www.cfi b.ca.

Job PostingJOB TITLE: Mechanic - Stettler, Alberta

(All trades will be considered based on agricultural industryexperience)

DESCRIPTION: ENR Distribution is an emerging company which is providing sound agronomy and effective nutrients in an environmentally responsible fashion ensuring a sustainable source of enriched food to help nourish an increasing world population.The position will be responsible for all aspects of the maintenance and repair of mechanical equipment at our fertilizer plant and storage site to ensure both short and long term safety, efficiency, reliability and cost effective production. This will all be in accor-dance with company policies and relevant government standards and codes.

Qualifications

technical abilities in maintaining mechanical equipment within an agricultural or production environment.

Interested candidates please see our website www.enrdistribution.com for more details or apply on-line to [email protected]

candidates will be contacted for an in person interview.

East Central Alberta CatholicSchool Division No. 16Invites applicants for the position of:

Full Time, Teacher AssistantEast Central Alberta Catholic School Division #16 invites apllications for the position of a Teacher Assistant at Mother Teresa School in Halkirk, Alberta.

This is a temporary full-time position for the 2014-15 school year, working directly with a child. This position is subject to theECACSSRD No. 16 Support Staff Collective Agreement and isto commence as soon as possible.

Interested applicants can send their application, including cover letter, a faither reference from your parish priest (if applicable), and your resume to:Sherri Beier, Vice PrincipalMother Teresa SchoolBox 129Halkirk, AB T0C 1M0Fax: 403-884-2022Email: [email protected]

The closing date for this competition is Friday, June 13, 2014

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Super 8 in Stettler is taking applications for a Maintenance Person to perform day-to-day maintenance of building, facilities and equipment. The position requires someone with a basic knowledge of various trade fundamentals, sufficient to deal with the general repairs such as plumbing, heating, lighting, etc.

Duties incudes but are not limited to: – Responsible for the condition and inventory

of maintenance supplies, tools and various equipment

– Performs preventative maintenance on guestrooms.

– Performs work order requests on a daily basis.

– Responds to emergency maintenance requests as received from housekeeping, front desk, management or guests.

– Provides security for guests and property by following all key procedures, maintains work areas in a clean, well-organized condition and follows all safety regulations.

Candidate must:– Possess good communication &

organizational skills– troubleshooting abilities – be able to work independently– Experience in maintenance in a hotel or

similar environment

Interested applicants can send resume in the following manner: Email: [email protected] Fax: 403-742-1363 In person: 5720 44 Avenue, Stettler

BashawSports Centre

Has an opening for a Full Time employee in a high volume Sporting Goods Store:

• Excellent customer service skills• Retail sales experience• Valid Firearms License• Good working knowledge of fi rearms, ammunition and general sporting good items.

We off er competitive hourly compensation, fl exible hours, and good working conditions.

Please fax your resume in confi dence to:Bashaw Sports at 780-372-4447

We appreciate all who take the time to apply and thank you for your application, but only those being considered

for an interview will be notifi ed.

Stettler

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County of Stettler No. 66602 - 44 Ave., Box 1270,

Stettler, AB T0C 2L0Phone: 742-4441 Fax: 742-1277

PUBLIC NOTICE


Stettler, AB T0C 2L0Phone: 403-742-4441 Fax: 403-742-1277

PUBLIC NOTICEHELP WANTED

FULL-TIME HEAVY DUTY MECHANICThe County of Stettler is seeking a Full-Time Heavy Duty Mechanic. Automotive mechanics will be considered. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or abilities required for this position:

• self-motivated, positive attitude, ability to comprehend and communicate effectively with others, work well with others and open-minded to learning new tasks

• own their own toolbox including hand tools • work independently • grade 12 high school diploma • class 5 driver’s license • the ability to withstand related deadlines and pressures • general computer skills, reading text, document use, written

communication • apprentices will be considered

The County of Stettler No. 6 promotes a positive and friendly atmosphere and offers an excellent compensation and Comprehensive Benefi ts Plan.

For the above noted position; please submit resume, including 3 professional (job related) references, along with current 5-year driver’s abstract. Candidates selected will provide a criminal record check prior to commencement of work.

Resumes and supporting documents may be mailed or hand-delivered to:County of Stettler No. 66602-44 Avenue PO Box 1270STETTLER, Alberta T0C 2L0

Please respond in confi dence to Kerry George, Shop Foreman

Email: [email protected] (word or PDF formats will be accepted)

We thank all for their interest in the County of Stettler No. 6, but only those selected for interview will be contacted.

PheasantbackGolf

Kitchen Help Wanted Full time cook. Full time, breakfast short order cook. Part time prep cook & dishwasher.Phone 403-742-GOLF (4653)

ask for Pat

Pheasantback

Golf & RV Estate

s

Join Our Fabulous Fashion Team!

We off er great benefi ts & perks!

Salary based on experience.

Please apply in person or by [email protected]

4809 50th St., Stettler AB.

Assistant Manager

& Part Time

Wardrobe Specialist

EMPLOYMENTOPPORTUNITY

Floor Covering Installers and Tilesetters needed

for Jensen Contract Flooring, Big Valley, AB

Starting wages:$28.85/hr - Floor Covering Installers

$24.75/hr - Tilesetters40-50 hours per week

Applicants should have a minimum of 3 years of work experience or have a valid trade certifi cation.

Please send qualifi ed resumes only [email protected] or

fax to 403-876-2554

Primrose Farmsof Big Valley, Alberta

is seeking a Full Time Permanent “Dairy Herdsperson”

on a rural farm near Big Valley, AlbertaNOC: 8252

Job Duties: - Supervise and oversee breeding and

growing of cattle - Ensure farm safety and biosecurity

procedures are followed - Maintain quality control and production

records - May perform general farm duties

Must have university degree or college diploma education

No experience necessaryWill train the right applicant

Starting wage $15.00/hr with a2 year contract

8 hrs./day - 40 hrs./week

Contact: 403-323-0219Fax: 403-488-5038

E-mail: [email protected]

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Administrative Assistant, Counter Salesand Service Writer

This is a full time position with a locally owned and operated business.

We offer a competitive wage and other benefi ts that will bediscussed with candidates that are short-listed for interviews.

If you believe that you have what it takes to become part of our team we would like to hear from you!

Please stop in to 4809-44 Ave. with a resume and referencesor email to [email protected].

Jensen Contract Flooringin Big Valley, AB is looking for an Estimating

Administrator to start immediately.

Responsibilities will include:

• Research and document current bidding opportunities. • Track and coordinate estimates and results • Assist Estimators in the bid preparations

Qualifi cations

• Highly organized, achievement oriented with strong multi-tasking abilities.

• Detail oriented with strong analytical, math & computer skills(Excel, computerized estimating systems, spreadsheet design and formulas).

• Demonstrate leadership skills in order to be able to take-onadditional short and mid-term responsibilities

Working Conditions

• Fast-paced, deadline driven • Tight deadlines and high work volume are the norm

Ideal candidate would have working knowledge of construction in a related fi eld although on the job training will be provided. JCF is one of the industry’s most experienced fl ooring contractors in Western Canada, this is an opportunity not to be missed.

For more information on this posting and Jensen Contract Flooring please go to www.jcfgroup.ca Please send resumes to [email protected]

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PLEASE EMAIL YOUR RESUME [email protected]

SCOPE OF JOBWorking in A&B’s Bashaw shop, this position is responsible for the mechanical maintenance, repairs, servicing, inspections, and rigging up of A&B’s on-highway trailer and truck fl eet. The majority of this position’s duties will be involved with trailer repairs.

RESPONSIBILITIES • Perform preventative maintenance, oil changes, tire changes, mechanical and

general maintenance to A&B’s fl eet of National Safety Code (NSC) qualifi ed trucks and trailers.

• Troubleshoot, diagnose and complete repairs for A&B’s trailer and vehicle fl eet. • Respond to service calls and perform emergency repairs on vehicles and

equipment in fi eld locations as needed. • Assist with ordering of parts, and maintaining inventory. • Rigging trucks with the following: Tool boxes, box liners, fi re extinguishers, fi rst

aid kits, radios, hands free communications systems, etc. • Pick up and deliver vehicles. • Oversee and ensure registration and documentation of all light duty fl eet

vehicles is completed. • Parts pick-up and hot shot deliveries. • Tracking and submitting of equipment hours and mileage.

QUALIFICATIONS • Alberta On Highway Heavy Duty Equipment Technician Journey Certifi cate

(interprovincial an asset). • Authorized CVIP Inspection Technician is an asset. • Gasoline and diesel vehicle experience required. • Experience with Ford vehicles an asset. • All candidates are required to undergo and pass a Drug & Alcohol screening as

condition of employment.• A Valid Driver’s Licence.

Please send resumes to [email protected] or fax 780-384-2402

Arnett & Burgess Oilfi eld Construction LimitedInternal Job Description

Job Title: Heavy Duty Mechanic – On Highway VehiclesDesignated Location: Bashaw, AB.Department: OperationsReports to: Equipment ManagerType of position: Full-time. Some Weekends. On call.Hours: Monday – Friday. As required

FULL-TIME PERMANENT JUNIOR DESIGN DRAFTSPERSON Needed for Metalex Metal Buildings Inc.4204 - 46 Avenue, Box 1058, Stettler, Alberta T0C 2L0Start Date: ASAP

Main Duties Include: Prepare engineering designs and drawings; Familiarity with, and preparation of, IFA, IFC and , As-Built drawings; Drawing revisions, and status monitoring; Develop and prepare design sketches; Complete documentation packages; Provision of markups; Storage and record-keeping; Estimate costs and materials; Examine drawings; Write specifi cations; Write technical reports; Use, development of, and maintenance of templates; Manuals and building guides; Work closely with Project Management; Cross-training to other offi ce disciplines may be provided for select candidate(s); Use of Excel and Word.

Education: Completion of high school – Experience: At least 2 years of experience, or, a post-secondary certifi cate is required.

Salary: $29.50 to $31.91 Hourly, 40.00 Hours per week. Full benefi ts provided

Apply by e-mail to: [email protected], mail (address above), or fax to: 403-742-1308

Labourer/Customer Relations Specialist Local Industrial Contractor is looking for a specialized position for this growing company that provides services to the Oil and Gas, Heavy Industrial and Construction Industries.

The successful applicant will have basic carpenter skills and the ability to safely operate a wide range of hand and power tools, as well as be physically fit and able to complete demanding work within inclement weather conditions. In addition to the labour demands of the position, there also is a Customer Relations aspect where the incumbent will be expected to have exceptional communication skills and be community focused, as maintaining a positive corporate image in the central Alberta region is a requirement of the position. This position demands the ability to positively interact with existing clients and the ability to develop new relationships with contract holders in the area. The successful applicant will be highly ethical, and will be required to pass a drug and alcohol pre-screening test as well as provide a current criminal record check. The new hire will be detail oriented and possess strong computer skills and any experience working within culturally diverse environments will be considered an asset. A valid drivers’ license is required and applicants with human service/ sales background are also encouraged to apply.

Mail in resumes to: 1393179 Alberta Ltd.6012 51 Ave. Stettler, AB T0C 2L2

Advertisers in the showcase section maintain Real Estate offices in Stettler, are members of the Red Deer & District Real Estate Board Co-op Ltd., and all offer full multiple listing services.

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KarenCannady

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

CandorRealty Ltd.

Ph. 403-742-44244908 - 51 Street

BEAUTIFUL MEADOWLANDS HOME. 6 Bdrms, large kitchen/dining area. Beautiful hardwood and finished bsmt. Quality throughout. $499,000.

QUALITY UPGRADES throughout this 4 bdrm/2 bath home. Solarium, garage and nicely landscaped. Playground across the

street. Great Family Home! $239,900.

MAINTENANCE FREE LIVING! 3 Bdrm/3 Bath, finished bsmt and main floor laundry.

Open concept with deck off living room. Attached garage and fenced. $279,000.

4 BDRM BUNGALOW close to shopping. Kitchen has been upgraded. Double

detached garage and fully fenced yard. Affordable @ $234,900

RETIRING? DOWNSIZING? This is the home for you. Open concept living with 2 bdrms, main floor laundry and nice

covered deck off living room. $259,000.

AFFORDABLE FAMILY HOME close to Rec Centre and Golf Course. 3 Bdrms/2 Baths with finished bsmt. Large lot and

double garage. $249,900.

UNIQUE 2 STOREY HOME with 3 bedrooms and 3 baths. Extensive

renovations completed. Good location. Ready to move into. $338,000.

BIG VALLEY - smaller, older home sits on 2 lots. Great starter home or would be ideal for future

development. ONLY $44,000.

FAMILY HOME fully finished up and down with 3 bdrms/2 baths. Close to all

amenities. Double detached garage and fully fenced yard. $249,900.

SOLD REDUCED

Stettler’s Best Read Real Estate Section Reaches Buyers and Sellers Where

They Live, Work and Farm

Oilfield 800

$2500 BonusEvery 100 days

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS

Oil & Gas Well Testing Night Foremen,

Experienced/Inexperienced

Junior Day/Night Operators

Must have H2S, First Aid,valid driver’s license. Pre-employment Drug

screening Competitive Wages.

Benefi t PackagePlease submit resume

with references to:[email protected]

or by fax to (403) 783-8004Only individuals selected

for interviews will be contacted

Restaurant/Hotel 820

CAMERON BAYHOLDINGS INC.

o/a McDonald’s requires aRestaurant Managerfor Lacombe Store,

located at 5510 Hwy 2A. Yearly salary is between $38,000.00 - $42,000.00. Must have 3 to 5 yrs exp. and be able to supervise

30 to 70 employees. Flexible hours needed as

restaurant is 24 hours. Must be able to work with

all types of crew,train and run programs.

McDonald’s experience ispreferred or hospitality

industry experience but wewill consider all applicants.

Benefi ts and bonusprogram offered.Fax resume to

403-783-4251 or email to: [email protected]

GRILLER’S Steak House in Rocky Mtn. House is

looking for Cook’s. Wage $15-$20./hr. dependant

on exp. Submit resume to:[email protected] or fax to

403-845-7469

X-STATICis now accepting

applications for P/TCocktail Server

Apply in person after 3 p.m.

Trades 850AUTOMOTIVETECHNICIAN

(Certifi ed or qualifi edApprentice) required,

12 minutes south of Calgary.Successful candidate

will have a proven track record of quality workman-

ship and effi ciency, and commitment to

manufacturer training.Chrysler experience

preferred. Brand new state of art service facility and

shop equipment.Excellent compensation.

Will consider transferbonus. Fax resume:

403-938-8627 or email [email protected]

Southridge Chrysler,Okotoks, Alberta.

F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience

needed. Apply to: [email protected]

HD LICENSEDTECHNICIAN

for several Alberta areas.Must have or willing toobtain CVIP licence.

Please emailor fax applications to:Carillion Canada Inc.;

[email protected] 780-336-2461.

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC to work in private shop on

farm. We have several semi trucks hauling farm products as well as farm

tractors. Job would include maintenance on all

equipment, as well asrepairs as necessary,

clutch, wheel seals, some welding, etc. This is a

full-time year round position.250-838-6630.

[email protected].

NOW HIRING!FIELD TECHNICIANS.Are you looking for an

opportunity where you can make use of your skills & talents? Consider joining

our team. For moreinformation call

1-855-697-6799 or visit www.corix.com.

PCL ENERGY. Now hiring Journeyperson Pipefi tters

($40+/hour) and Scaffolders ($38+/hour) for an industrial project in Vascoy, SK. LOA of $145/day worked, travel and bonuses paid! We offer

competitive wages and benefi ts. Send resume to: [email protected].

Truckers/Drivers 860

CLASS 3 DRIVERSw/airbrake endorsement

needed immed. for waste & recycling. Email resume

with a min. of 2 referencesto: [email protected]

BusinessOpportunities 870

GET FREEVENDING MACHINES.

Can earn $100,000. + per year. All cash-retire in just

3 years. Protected territories. Full details call now

1-866-668-6629. Website: www.tcvend.com.

THE DISABILITYTAX CREDIT.

$1,500 yearly tax credit. $15,000 lump sum refund

(on average). Covers: hip/knee replacements,arthritic joints, COPD.

Apply today! 1-844-453-5372.

Misc.Help 880

SWAMPERS F/Tneeded immediately for a

fast growing waste &recycling company.

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

Please email resumes to [email protected]

Misc.Help 880ACADEMIC Express

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

FALL START

• Community Support Worker Program

• GED Preparation

Would you like to take the GED in your community?

• Red Deer• Rocky Mtn. House• Rimbey• Caroline• Castor• Sylvan Lake• Innisfail• Stettler• Ponoka

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930www.academicexpress.ca

INTERESTED IN THE COMMUNITY

NEWSPAPER BUSINESS?Alberta’s weekly

newspapers are looking for people like you.

Post your resume online. FREE. Visit:

awna.com/for-job-seekers.

P&H ELEVATORREQUIRES A

SUMMER STUDENT for general dutiesand tour guide.

Apply at P&H Elevatoror call 403-742-3470.

Misc.Help 880

Misc.Help 880

Misc.Help 880

Misc.Help 880

Auctions 1530

Misc.Help 880ACADEMIC Express

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

FALL START

• Community Support Worker Program

• GED Preparation

Would you like to take the GED in your community?

• Red Deer• Rocky Mtn. House• Rimbey• Caroline• Castor• Sylvan Lake• Innisfail• Stettler• Ponoka

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930www.academicexpress.ca

THIS WEEK’SEYE SPY WINNER IS

Al CampbellPlease come into the

Stettler Independent to claim your prize!

EmploymentTraining 900

MEDICAL BILLING TRAINEES NEEDED!

Learn to process & submit billing claims for hospitals

and doctors!No experience needed!Local training gets you

ready to work! 1-888-627-0297.

EmploymentTraining 900THERE IS STILL A HUGE

DEMAND FORCANSCRIBE MEDICAL

TRANSCRIPTION GRADUATES.

Medical Transcription is a great work-from-home

career! Contact us today at www.canscribe.com.

1-800-466-1535;[email protected].

Buy & Sell#1500 - #1990

Aircraft ..............................1510Antiques & Art ..................1520Auctions ............................1530Bicycles ............................1540Building Supplies ..............1550Business Machines ..........1560Cameras & Accessories ..1570Children’s Items ................1580Clothing ............................1590Computers ........................1600Concert & Event Tickets ..1610Equipment - Misc. ............1620Equipment - Heavy ..........1630Tools ................................1640Farmers’ Market &Food Basket......................1650Firewood ..........................1660Lumber ............................1670Garden Supplies ..............1680Lawn Tractors ..................1690Health, Dietary, Beauty ....1700Household Appliances......1710Household Furnishings ....1720TV’s, Stereos, VCR’s ........1730Hot Tubs & Accessories ..1740Jewellery ..........................1750Kid’s Deals........................1755Misc. For Sale ..................1760Musical Instruments..........1770Music Lessons..................1780Piano & Organs ................1790Office Supplies ................1800Pets & Supplies ................1810Pet Services ....................1820Cats ..................................1830Dogs ................................1840Sports Cards ....................1850Sporting Goods ................1860Collectors’ Items ..............1870Swap, Barter & Trade ......1880Travel Packages ..............1900Wedding Supplies ............1910Recycled Products............1920Wanted to Buy ..................1930Items to Give Away ..........1940

Auctions 1530ACREAGE AUCTIONBig Toys for Big Boys

June 15, 2014 - 10 a.m.East of Bowden A.B.

#587, 3 milesJohn Deere & Kubota

Tractors, 3 PTH equipment, Hand & power

Tools, Tool boxes, ATV, Welding truck, Check the

web for full listing & pictures…

PILGRIM AUCTION 403-556-5531

www.auctionsales.ca

ACREAGE AUCTION.Big Toys for Big Boys. June 15/14, 10 a.m.

East of Bowden, Alberta #587, 3 miles. Tractors,3 PTH equipment, tools.

Pilgrim Auction, 403-556-5531;

www.auctionsales.ca.

AUCTION SALE.Saturday, June 14, 9 a.m.

Welding & heavy dutymechanic tools/equipment.

Acreage equipment.SW of Stony Plain, Alberta.

Details: www.spectrumauctioneering.com

780-960-3370 / 780-903-9393.

IS NOW HIRINGFull and Part Time Positions

STETTLER

• Meat Cutter • Baker• Produce Clerk • Deli Clerks• Front Lead Supervisor

Please Apply Within

• Bakery Manager

• Bakery Assistant Manager

• Bakery Clerks • Deli Clerks

• Produce Clerks • Meat ClerksPlease email resume to

[email protected]

IS NOW HIRING

We are now accepting applications for

Full and Part Time

Summer Employment

Learn customer relations, fi nancialmanagement, food preparation, and

how to decorate Cup Cakes from a Pro.

Excellent Pay & Benefi tsTake away an experience to last a lifetime.Call Zina 403-742-5151 for an interview.

Erskine Grill

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Interested candidates should submit resumes in confidence to [email protected] or contact Ken Kernohan directly at 1-306-948-5262

United Tank Inspections Inc. is looking for a laborer to assist the Quality Control Manager doing tank/trailer inspec-tions, recertification’s and repairs. This is a long-term, full time position with training to become a tank inspector available.

Job Description

Job Requirements/Qualifications

Fall Protection tickets or be willing to take courses

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PUBLIC AUCTIONSJune 21, 2014 @ 11:00 a.m Castor, AB - Klaus Farms

Selling - full line of farm equipment, tractors, haying and feeding equipment, grain bins, ATVs, stock trailers, vehicles, cattle equipment.

June 28, 2014 @ 11:00 a.m 4409- 50 Ave., Vegreville, ABSelling – 2244 sq ft home on 33 acres in the Town of Vegreville c/w outbuildings, fenced and crossfenced. Antiques, horse drawn vehicles, buggies, 1904 Victoria Vis-à-vis sleigh,1890 horse drawn hearse, cutters , sleighs.

Antique Tractors – professionally restored 1949 Case LA, 1957 JD 430T.

Cat 416C backhoe … and much more

Complete listing, please refer to www.prairieauction.com or contact 780-499-9832

Accounting 1010Chapman and Co.

ProfessionalAccountants LLP

Guy Chapman, CAChris Annand, CA

Kendra Walgenbach, CANaomi Roth, CGA

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

Tel: 403-742-3438e-mail: [email protected]

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

[email protected]

Betee

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ABtree

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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:[email protected]

website:www.gkdpca.com

GG KKPPDD

Automotive 1029

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.

JT AUTO BODY LTD.

“Serving Stettler & areafor years”

• Complete auto bodyrepair & painting

Call Curt or Rob

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

Painters/Decorators1310

Misc.Services 1290

CabinetMakers 1054

TEL: 403-742-6277No. 5. 4707 - 42 Street

Stettler, AB

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

[email protected]

Eavestroughing1130FINISHING TOUCH EXTERIORS LTD.

5”Continuous Eaves“Gutter Clean” Leaf Protection

Call Barry Harvey

403-742-8838*27 years experience*

Electrical 1150

“If It’s Electrical We Do It”All types of Electrical

Installation &Maintenance

403-742-5111Serving Stettler

& Area since 1978

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 1210PERFORMANCEPERFORMANCE

Physiotherapy, Physiotherapy, Acupuncture Acupuncture & Massage& Massage

“Keeping people in Motion...”

403-742-4533

4806 – 51 Ave., Stettler, AB403-742-EARS(3277)

Open Monday to Friday 9:00a.m to 4:00p.m.

(Closed over lunch & on holidays)

Jacquie Mvula, M.S., R.Aud

Dr. E. LYNESChiropractor

4719 - 49 St.Stettler, AlbertaOne block East of Scotia Bank

403-742-5810 or 403-742-6443

DR. D.G. BECKLUNDChiropractor

-Gitzel Krejci Building

4912 - 51 StreetStettler, AB

Open Mon. - Sat.

Bus.: 403-742-2553Res.: 403-742-0370

Stettler Eye Care

Dr. R. TROY NELSONComprehensive eye

health and vision exams

Top quality frames,

lenses and contacts

Treatment of eye

disease, injuries and

surgical co-management

Phone 403-742-2683New patients welcome

LegalServices 1260

LANDMAN REULE LAW OFFICE

4819 - 51 Street

Lori R. ReuleLL. B.

StettlerProfessionalBuilding

403-742-3411

ANDERSON LAW OFFICE

Brenda Anderson,

B.Comm., LL.B.

5002 - 51 Ave., Stettler, AB

Phone 403-742-2529

Fax 403-742-2522

[email protected]

Gary G. GrantLaw Office

4910 - 51 StreetStettler, AB T0C 2L0

Phone: 403-742-4437

Barristers and Solicitors

Advocates

2401 Toronto Dominion Sq.Edmonton Centre

Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2Z1Telephone: 780-426-4660

Fax: 780-426-0982

BRYON D. BALTIMORE

of McCuaig Desrochers

LegalServices 1260

CRIMINAL RECORD? Think: Canadian pardon.

U.S. travel waiver.(24 hour record check). Divorce? Simple. Fast.

Inexpensive. Debt recovery? Alberta collection to

$25,000.Calgary 403-228-1300 or 1-800-347-2540;

www.accesslegalresearch.com

Misc.Services 1290

Tru-FenceGood Fences Make Good Neighbours!

Verle KlassenPh 403-741-4483 • Fax 403-742-4560

[email protected]

“Contact us for all your

fencing needs”

403-742-3007

Get rid of your Garbage with. . .

3R Management

AWARD-Winning Wedding & Portrait Photographer serving the Big Valley,

Drumheller & Stettler area! Beautifully unposed

photography style, creative locations and fantastic

rates. Photography workshops also available.

www.photographybybenamoz.com

NEED TO ADVERTISE? Province wide classifi eds.

Reach over 1 millionreaders weekly.

Only $269. + GST(based on 25 words or less).Call this newspaper NOW

for details or call 1-800-282-6903 ext. 228.

PersonalServices 1315

DATING SERVICE.Long-term/short-term

relationships. Free to try! 1-877-297-9883.

Live intimate conversation,Call #7878 or

1-888-534-6984. Live adult 1on1 Call

1-866-311-9640 or #5015. Meet local single ladies. 1-877-804-5381. (18+).

TOP REAL PSYCHICS Live. Accurate readings

24/7. Call now 1-877-342-3036;

Mobile dial: # 4486; http://www.truepsychics.ca

Plumbing& Heating 1330

• Complete Plumbing & Heating Services• Commercial and Residential• Water Conditioning & Pumps

• 24 Hour ServiceService Wise - We Specialize

Stettler

Ph. 403-742-5237

YardCare 1430

BRIAN HALLETTLAWN & GARDEN CARE

Town & Country Big or Small

…WE DO IT ALL!

Phone: 403-742-5830Please leave a message if no answer

RUBBER DUCKYARD CARE

• Power Rake• Aerate

• Lawns ~ cut & trimmedFor personalized services callLana Gross ~ 403-740-3595

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View our 29 patented and patent pending inventions online at

www.1800bigiron.com

RURAL WATER TREATMENT (Province Wide)

Tell them DannyHooper sent you

#2 4707 42nd StreetStettler, AB

403-742-5813Fax: 403-742-5816shane@stettlerfl ooring.com

STETTLERFLOORING

& Paint

Shane MercierOwner/Manager

Wednesday, June 11, 2014 THE STETTLER INDEPENDENT CLASSIFIEDS Page B9

Business Services#1000 - #1430

Painters/Decorators1310

Misc.Services 1290 Misc.

Services 1290

Whatever

you SELL...

Advertise it

HERE!

403.742.2395403.742.2395THIS?THIS?

OR THIS?OR THIS?

Don’t waste time sifting through garbage online. Find what you need from a trusted source.

403.742.2395403.742.2395

Auctions 1530AUCTION SALE.

Wednesday, June 18,5:30 p.m.

Acreage North of Onoway. Toyota RAV4, 2 western saddles/tack, Massey 44,

Yamaha 350 quad,more. Details: www.

spectrumauctioneering.com.Call 780-960-3370 /

780-903-9393.

BuildingSupplies 1550

METAL ROOFING& SIDING.

Very competitive prices! Largest colour selection in

Western Canada. Available at over 25

Alberta Distribution Locations.40 Year Warranty.

Call 1-888-263-8254.

Firewood 1660LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging

403-318-4346

SEASONED SPLITFIREWOOD

4.5 kms. West of StettlerCall 403-323-0744

GardenSupplies 1680

BEAUTIFULSPRUCE TREES.4 - 6 ft., $35 each.

Machine planting; $10/tree (includes bark mulch and

fertilizer). 20 tree minimum order. Delivery fee:$75 - $125/order.

Quality guaranteed. 403-820-0961

Misc. forSale 1760

EVERY WATER WELLon earth should have the

patented “Kontinuous Shok” Chlorinator from Big

Iron Drilling! Why? Save thousands of lives every year.

www.1-800bigiron.com. Phone 1-800-BIG-IRON.

SAWMILLS from only $4,397. Make money &

save money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & dvd:

www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT. 1-800-566-6899

ext. 400OT.

OfficeSupplies 1800

403-742-2395

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

8.5 X 118.5 X 1110 pkgs. of 500 sheets10 pkgs. of 500 sheets

$48$48/case/caseShop Stettler Shop Stettler

& Save!& Save!

WantedTo Buy 1930

FIREARMS.All types wanted, estates, collections, single items, military. We handle all

paperwork & transportation. Licensed dealer. 1-866-960-0045;

www.dollars4guns.com.

Agricultural#2000 - #2290

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

Livestock 2100FOR SALE.

Simmeron Simmentals, fullblood full Fleckvieh

yearling bulls, polled and horned, A.I. bloodlines,

very quiet, muscled. Website:simmeronranch.ca.

Martin 780-913-7963.

LIMOUSIN Bulls Polled Red and black two year olds and yearlings. Semen tested. Combest Limousin Farm. (403)742-5211

PUREBRED red and black Angus bulls. 1 and 2 year

olds. Semen tested and delivered.Vicwin Farms 403-784-3517, 403-318-7363.

Horse/StockTrailers 2170HORSE and Stock trailer. Parts and repairs. Axles, brakes, drums, bearings,

spring, rims, fenders, lights, and wiring.

Pick up & delivery avail.HORSE SHOE TRAILER

MFG. AND REPAIR. HALKIRK, ALBERTA

403-884-2173 403-430-0504

Grain, FeedHay 2190

FEED BARLEY.Paskal Cattle Company in

Picture Butte area islooking for Feed Barley.

Put more $ in your pocket. Sell direct to us.

Please call Main Offi ce for details. 403-732-5641.

WANTED: Hay land to put up on shares. 403-742-4337

Grain, FeedHay 2190

HEATED CANOLAbuying Green, Heated or Springthrashed Canola.

Buying: oats, barley, wheat & peas for feed.

Buying damaged oroffgrade grain.

“On Farm Pickup”Westcan Feed & Grain,

1-877-250-5252.

LACOMBE COUNTRY FEED STORE,

Come see us at:4836 45A St. Lacombe, Ab

ALL THE FEED YOUR ANIMALS NEED!

403-782-3333Dealer of Masterfeeds

SeedGrain 2200

COMMON SEAD OATS97% germ. Colour sorted.

Call Glen Lepard403-740-2872.

For Rent#3000 - #3200

Acreages/Farms ..............3010Houses/Duplexes ............3020Condos/Townhouses........3030Manufactured Homes ......3040Four Plexes/Six Plexes ....3050Suites ..............................3060Cottages/Seasonal ..........3070Roommates Wanted ........3080Rooms for Rent................3090Motels/Hotels ..................3100Offices ..............................3110Stores/Commercial ..........3120Industrial ..........................3130Warehouse Space............3140Garage Space..................3150Storage Space ................3160Land ................................3170Pasture ............................3180Mobile Lot ........................3190Misc. for Rent ..................3200

Wanted to Rent#3250 - #3390

Acreages/Farms ..............3255Houses/Duplexes ............3260Suites ..............................3270Rooms..............................3280Manufactured Homes ......3290Housesitting Wanted ........3300Garage Space..................3310Storage Space ................3320Stores/Commercial ..........3330Office Space ....................3340Industrial ..........................3350Warehouse Space............3360Resorts & Cottages..........3370Pasture/Land....................3380Mobile Lot ........................3390

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

BEST RENTAL VALUEIN STETTLER

1 & 2 Bedroom, furnished kitchenette suites.

All utilities, cable, internet.1 Bedroom, $800/mo.2 Bedroom, $1100/mo.

D.D. $200.Avail. immediately

Kimberly 403-690-5828

LARGE, QUIET,1 BEDROOM

APARTMENT, Close to schools & hospital. No

pets.403-742-3092

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

StorageSpace 3160

CommercialProperty 4110

Trucks 5050

Pasture 3180SOUTH of Alix, will hold

20 - 25 prs. 403-347-0021 or 403-340-4122

Real Estate#4000 - #4190

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

Acreages 4050

WALKOUT BUNGALOW

5 Bdrm, 3 bath, Oversized heated garage. Covered

deck. Beautiful 1 acre lot in Westridge Estates in Poplar Ridge area.

$649,900. 403-340-0813

ManufacturedHomes 4090

SHOWHOME SALE.Substantial savings to be had! Need room for whole

new display!Visit Grandview Modular

Red Deer to see the quality and craftsmanship

that set us apart. 1-855-347-0417; www.grandviewmodular.com;

[email protected]

Cottages/ResortProperty 4130*SANDY COVE RESORT*

Pine LakeLAKE FRONT LOTS

FOR SALE& SEASONAL LOT RENTALS.Cheapest in the area, $3000.

Call 306-402-7776

BY OWNERLot #86 Hendrickson Bay,

Sylvan Lake. Only lot avail. 5 min. drive from lake.

$139,900.11.25 m front, 35.78 m side, 29.63 m back. Pie shape.

780-238-6608

ELINOR LAKE RESORT. Lots selling at 25% off

listed price, or 5% down on a rent to own lot with no

interest over 5 years. 1-877-623-3990;

elinorlakeresort.com.

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Cars 5030

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For more info Kira & Ian

FCSS, 403-742-2339

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS403-742-3214; 403-742-2966 or 403-742-4271

AL-ANON403-742-0990

ALZHEIMERS SUPPORT

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BEREAVEMENT

SUPPORT GROUP403-742-2337

BIG BROTHERS &

BIG SISTERS ORGANIZATION403-742-5437 during business hours

BRIGANTIA PLACE(formerly Camrose Women’s Shelter)

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

1-403-357-6266

COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS

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

GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS403-742-4059

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NARCOTICS ANONYMOUSHot Line 403-342-1444

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For more information phone

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STETTLER & DISTRICTFOOD BANK SOCIETYKathy Willis - 403-742-4567

Elaine Williams - 403-742-2745

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2014 PROPERTY ASSESSMENT TAX NOTICESNotice is hereby given that the combined Property Assessment and Tax Notices for County of Stettler ratepayers have been prepared and mailed to all property owners. There will be no extensions to the assessment complaint deadlines or tax payment due date.

If you have not received your Notice by July 4 you can pick up a copy at the County offices at 6602 - 44 Avenue, Stettler, AB or please contact the County office at 403-742-4441.

Assessment inquires call 403-742-4441. Complaints may be submit-ted in writing at the County office until August 5, 2014 at 4:30 p.m. accompanied with a fee of $50.00 (Residential and Farmland) or $100.00 (Machinery & Equipment and Non-Residential). Please address the complaints to the attention of the Clerk of the Assessment Review Board.

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2014 ASSESSMENT NOTICESAND TAX ROLL

Town of Stettler, Province of Alberta

Notice is hereby given that the Combined Assessment & Tax Notices have been mailed to all property owners.

The assessment roll is open to inspection at the Town Office and any person may inspect the assessment roll during regular business hours. An assessed person or a taxpayer wishing to make a complaint about any assessment or tax must do so in accordance with relevant provisions under the Municipal Government Act and Regulations. There is no right to make a complaint about any tax rate.

A complaint must be in writing and in the form prescribed in the Regulations. The prescribed complaint form is available by contacting the Town Office. Complaint forms must be accompanied by a fee of $50.00/property and MUST be received at the Town Office before July 21, 2014 at 4:30 p.m.

Dated this 6th day of June, 2014.

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Amid the spotty rains and frost warnings, the spring seeding is coming to a close; gardens are coming up and the Omega Circle Cemetery fl owers have been planted thanks to members, workers and volunteers.

The annual Gadsby se-niors fruit tray presentation was enjoyed by about 30 people. County councillor Ernie Gendre presented the fruit tray and a pleasant af-ternoon was spent visiting and reminiscing. A ques-tion arose: Bokerville was the name of the subdivision southwest of Gadsby; what

was the name of the sec-tion northwest, just over the tracks. This parcel of land had been surveyed and re-corded in “block/plot” areas and was called something. But no one could remember what. Anyone who might know, please give me a call!

Iona Berg enjoyed the company of daughter Pau-lette Heer and friend Jeanne Beisel, who joined her for the family barbecue at Heart Haven Lodge last Tuesday evening. Joining Phyllis Robinson were sons Nor-man and Robert Robinson.

Bill and Joyce Hansel took the weekend off and headed to Drayton Valley to stay at son Larry and Eri-ca’s, visiting granddaughter Karla and family, Jonah, Kamden and Madison. They also had a relaxing supper with Bill’s cousin Marg and Frank Nash while there.

Several family and friends gathered at the Gadsby Omega Cemetery on Sunday for a graveside memorial service for Lor-raine Coulthart. Among the mourners and representing the Heartland Belles were friends Donna McKay,

Evelyn Shursen and Jane Whitaker. Lorraine’s two sisters from Calgary plus nieces and nephews also were there. They fi nished the day with tea at Donna’s in Gadsby.

Donna McKay was one of 18 friends who helped Evelyn Shursen celebrate

her 75th birthday with sup-per out at the Club Café res-taurant in Stettler. Happy birthday, Evelyn!

Dates to remember in June; On Saturday, June 14 Harold Chick and the Chick family would like to in-vite you to join them at the Gadsby Community Hall to help celebrate the life of Edith Marie (Chick) David-son. The memorial service starts at 2 p.m., followed by lunch provided by the Gad-sby Omega Circle.

The monthly bingo at the Bank Building will be held Saturday, June 14, (please note the change from the usual date), doors open 6:30

p.m. Early bird starts at 7 p.m. The loonie pot is close to $100! Coffee and cake will be served half time. Everyone welcome!

Looking ahead, there will be a six week “Jackpot Cribbage Tournament” at Heritage Place in Gadsby (Church building) begin-ning July 3 to August 7. Five dollars per week, in-cludes snacks; single play; fi rst and second payouts each week; jackpot pay-out August 7. Sounds like lots of fun. Must attend at least fi ve to qualify for the jackpot. For more informa-tion phone 403-742-3478 or 403-742- 2117.

Public HearingTake notice that the Council of the County of Stettler No. 6 will hold a Public Hearing to hear representation concerning the proposed Bylaws:

BYLAW 1527-14, providing for amending the text of Section 100 Direct Control District No. 4 (‘DCD4’) in order to incorporate Lots 1 to 4, Block 1, Plan 1420412 and Lots 1 to 5, Block 2, Plan 1420412 into the regulations of the Direct Control District No. 4 (‘DCD4’) and rezoning the said properties from the Highway Commercial (‘HWY-C’) District to the Direct Control District No. 4 (‘DCD4’).

BYLAW 1529-14, providing for minor amendments to the County of Stettler’s Municipal Development Plan to allow additional private titles (acreages) to be subdivided out of a quarter section over and above the maximum density, under specific circumstances and at the discretion of the Subdivision Authority, and to clarify the measurement of the default CFO exclusion zone at undeveloped portions of future residential areas within area struc-ture plans, concept plans and outline plans.

The public may inspect a copy of the amending bylaw at the County Administration Building during regular office hours, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

The Public Hearing will be held Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 1:00 PM, or as soon thereaf-ter as possible, in Council Chambers of the County Administration Building.

Receipt of written submissions in support or opposing this bylaw must be submitted to the Development Officer, County of Stettler, Box 1270, Stettler, AB. T0C 2L0 by 4:30 on Tuesday, June 24, 2014.

Dated: June 9, 2014

Jacinta DonovanDevelopment Officer



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The sacr i f ice these young Canadian soldiers made on that fateful day left all of us with a debt we can never repay. Last w e e k ’ s u n s p e a k a b l e tragedy in Moncton, New Brunswick that saw three young RCMP officers cut down and two injured in the line of duty reminded us all again what the cost of freedom is.

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their daily sacrifices must always be remembered. The price of freedom and democracy has been paid for with the lives of thousands of young men and women throughout our country’s history.

Prime Minister Harper’s words echoed across the beach in Juno this week where he said in a speech, “The freedom, democracy and just ice for which these veterans fought are still Canada’s birthright. It is their legacy to you. Cherish it.”

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Const . Douglas James Larche , a re a l l owed the same debt of eternal gratitude that the 117,000 Canadians throughout history who gave their lives in the name of our freedom, are owed.

Last week’s tragedy in Moncton stands as a reminder that heroes don’t only wear military uniforms. In our society t o d a y , i t ’ s e a s y t o overlook the integrity and commitment these home-based freedom-fighters

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W e w e r e a l s o unfortunately reminded, once again, of the sacrifice so many make right where we live, that, for the most part, can go un-noticed.

Prime Minister Harper reminded us last week that any threat to democracy is

a threat to our Canadian bir thright and legacy. Thank you to all of the Law Enforcement and Military people that preserve the legacy of those that made the ultimate sacrifice. We will remember you.

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