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County removes another four kilometres from calcium policy

SANDRA M STANWAYBROOKS BULLETIN

Since 2018 the county has removed 66.1 kilometers of road from its calcium supported program which has saved $300,000 and no change will be made this year.

At their last meeting council reviewed the policy and accepted the recommendation from staff that it remain unchanged for his year but to reviewing concerns from the public

when considering future changes.

Terry Schroeder, the county’s manager of operations, told council residents have been fairly understanding. He said residents have requested calcium in some of the county-paid areas and are paying for the costs.

Council accepted Schroeder’s proposal to remove the county-paid portion of calcium spread 100 metres on roads adjacent to residences, commercial and industrial

buildings or sites on county aggregate haul routes which are identified by the county.

“I do feel that we can probably remove this section from the policy and just go strictly to user pay,” he said.

Areas affected include Tilley and Gem as well as a route that left Highway 539 and went through Rainier to Scandia.

Under the new policy about 4.6 kilometers will be removed from the 2021 program.

Kariem Hassan took advantage of the warm weather on Saturday to play and record himself playing Kendama in front of St. Joseph’s Collegiate. The game is similar to the classic cup-and- ball-on-a-string game where the player attempts to put a ball into a cup,but Kendama involves more skill and hand-eye coordination. The Japanese skill toy which has been around for about 200 years is made up of a ball on a string with a small and a large cup and spike. The game has grown in popularity in North America since the pandemic. “When the quarantine happened people were looking for things to do out of the house,” Hassan said. | SANDRA M STANWAY PHOTO

Brooks Asphalt wins city street improvement contract


Close to $1.7 million will be spent by the city on this year’s street improvements which will be undertaken by Brooks Asphalt and Aggregate.

The local company was the lone company to bid on

the project which will also include the 4th Street West sanitary main replacement.

Six areas will be part of this year’s program including 1st Street East, Purcell Place, McKittrick Place, a crossing at the new French school at Meadowbrook Drive, 3rd Street West (Cassils Road

to 3rd Avenue) and Fourth Street West.

The projects are expected to be completed by Aug. 27.

The budget was $1.7 million plus $150,000 for the sanitary work. Brooks Asphalt’s bid was just over $1.652 million.

City asking residents if train whistle should be silenced


The City of Brooks is again looking at silencing the train whistle which would result in having to upgrade their rail crossings.

City council has not discussed this issue publicly, however, Alicia Bartlette, the city’s manager of planning and engineering, said rail crossings have been a part of previous budgets.

She said the city has been waiting for information about crossing upgrades from CP since December and there has been an unknown number of complaints regarding the whistle since that time.

She said instead of delaying the issue and waiting for the information, it was decided to see where the public wants it to go.

Quieting the train whistle is an expensive endeavour and one that has been discussed in the past.

In 2002 a petition with 1,100 signatures in favor of keeping the whistles was presented to the city’s operational services committee.

At that time Transport Canada wanted the city to pay $130,000 to improve crossings at 7th Street, Young Road and the pedestrian crossing to Sunnylea.

The fourth crossing that was not included in the 2001 quote is the one at Range Road 151.

In 2008 a request from

a single citizen was made to the council’s operational services committee to quiet the whistle but there were staff changes and the issue seemingly was dropped.

Although Transport Canada does allow municipalities to quiet the whistle, there are many steps that need to be taken and regulations that must

be followed including contacting CP, notifying the public and numerous requirements under various federal acts and regulations.

Salem Woodrow, a CP spokesperson, said the whistle cessation outline is extensive. She could not provide costs.

The city’s survey is open until April 2.

Front view of the assembly of a limited use warning system with dimensions. | TRANSPORT CANADA DIAGRAM

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No development proposals accepted for old rodeo grounds

SANDRA M STANWAYBRookS BulleTiN

The City of Brooks did not accept any of the mixed-use development proposals for the old rodeo grounds.

Last winter the city issued a Request for Proposal to develop the old rodeo grounds for a residential housing and/or mixed use development on the 24 acres of land.

As of the deadline two

submissions were received but neither met the criteria.

One was from Best Buy Homes in Brandon, Manitoba which proposed to build two turnkey affordable homes. If they were deemed to be a success then further negotiations on future projects could be held. The second submission was from the Lethbridge-based company McNabb Studios which proposed landscape designs that could be considered for

a new development.Council could have

reissued the RFP but agreed to get a cost estimate from their land planners, Oldman River Regional Services Corporation (ORRSC) to gather community input regarding the future of the property and to use the information to develop a high-level phased development plan.

The property has been used as a dog park.

The city issued an RFP to develop the rodeo grounds on 7th Street but none of the submissions were accepted. The city has asked their land planner to present an estimate for gathering information from the public | SANDRA M STANWAY PHOTO

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RCMP COMMUNITYCONSULTATION

Are you interested in helping make the City of Brooks and County of Newell a safer place to live, work, learn, and play? The Brooks RCMP and Brooks & Newell Safe Communities Committee are conducting a survey to assess the priorities of

the various communities in their jurisdiction.

Scan the barcode below or visit Brooks.ca to complete the survey! It will only take you a couple of minutes

and is completely anonymous!

Newell Recycling Association is hosting an AGM Wednesday, March 24 at 7PM via Zoom.

Questions for us? We can answer them! Suggestions are also welcome. Email [email protected] for information to join the meeting.

We are also seeking board members.

Newell Recycling AssociationAnnual General Meeting

The City of Brooks is looking at ending the train whistle requirement when trains are traveling through City limits. To do this, the City will have to upgrade the rail crossings to meet

standards implemented by Transport Canada.

We’d like to hear from you!Scan the barcode below or visit

Brooks.ca to complete the survey!

The survey closes April 2, 2021.

TRAIN WHISTLE SURVEY

As geese and ducks return to our area, we want to remind our residents to be mindful of our natural areas, lakes and ponds and the animals that live there. It’s a federal o�ence to disturb a Canada Goose or duck nest by taking their eggs. The minimum �ne for a conviction of this o�ence is $5000.

Please leave nests around our local lakes and ponds alone.

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Brooks Curling Association In Partnership with City of Brooks

Request for Proposal JBS Canada Centre

Kitchen/Bar/Lounge/Catering Services Background The Brooks Curling Association will be accepting Proposals for the provisions of Kitchen/Bar/Lounge/Catering Services at the JBS Canada Centre. The purpose of this process is to obtain the most suitable company to provide the service.

The Brooks Curling Association is located within the newly renovated JBS Canada Centre located at 323 – 1st Street East, Brooks, Alberta. We have all the amenities of a major center. Located in this 190,000 square foot facility is a large kitchen/bar/lounge/catering area.

Full Package Details In order to obtain a full package for proposal, or for any further questions, please contact the following:

The Brooks Curling Association Cindy Brkich, General Manager Duane Perkins, President (403)362-3668 Email: [email protected]

The Package can also be found @ www.brooks.ca or picked up at City Hall.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is 3pm on Friday March 2nd, 2018

Brooks Curling Association In Partnership with City of Brooks

Request for Proposal JBS Canada Centre

Kitchen/Bar/Lounge/Catering Services Background The Brooks Curling Association will be accepting Proposals for the provisions of Kitchen/Bar/Lounge/Catering Services at the JBS Canada Centre. The purpose of this process is to obtain the most suitable company to provide the service.

The Brooks Curling Association is located within the newly renovated JBS Canada Centre located at 323 – 1st Street East, Brooks, Alberta. We have all the amenities of a major center. Located in this 190,000 square foot facility is a large kitchen/bar/lounge/catering area.

Full Package Details In order to obtain a full package for proposal, or for any further questions, please contact the following:

The Brooks Curling Association Cindy Brkich, General Manager Duane Perkins, President (403)362-3668 Email: [email protected]

The Package can also be found @ www.brooks.ca or picked up at City Hall.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is 3pm on Friday March 2nd, 2018

Brooks Curling AssoCiAtionIn Partnership withCity of Brooks

request for ProposalJBs Canada Centre

kitchen/Bar/lounge/Catering service

The Brooks Curling Association is accepting Proposals for the provisions of Kitchen/Bar/Lounge/Catering Services in JBS Canada Centre. This opportunity would be an

independent operation and would be available for public use.

In order obtain a full package for proposal, or further information please contact:Brooks Curling Association

Cindy Brkich, General Manager – (403) 793-4841Email: [email protected] pick up at JBS Centre Front Desk

DeADline for suBmitting A ProPosAl is monDAy, APril 12th, 2021

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Bassano updates FCSS board, removes councillorSANDRA M STANWAYBRookS BulleTiN

The Town of Bassano will no longer have a councillor as a member of the FCSS board.

At the town’s last meeting council gave third reading to the motion to update its FCSS Bylaw.

CAO Amanda Davis

said the bylaw provides operational policies and strategies to FCSS which allows them to deliver programs on behalf of council.

The bylaw also formally establishes an administrative department under the town.

FCSS board reviewed the bylaw at their March 1 meeting.

“They are in favour and support council’s decision with that. Of course, as with other boards, their concern is just finding enough volunteer members,” Davis said.

The board will receive a formal recruitment package for potential members.

“They believe that will be very helpful,” she said.

Solar farm companies host virtual open housesSANDRA M STANWAYBRookS BulleTiN

A couple of virtual meetings for future solar farm projects in the area have been held over the past couple of weeks.

Greengate Power is proposing to build the 120 megawatt Lathom Solar Project on 1,280 acres of land about 15 kilometers southeast of Bassano on privately owned, cultivated land.

In mid-February the company hosted a virtual open house. The majority of questions during the 30 minute meeting had to do with fire safety and doing business with the company.

Greengate expects to submit their application to the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) this month.

On March 9 Solar Krafte hosted a virtual open house that was close to two hours long.

Their project is proposed to be a 400 megawatt plant on 3,900 acres of private land near the West Brooks Substation on Highway 36 6.5 kilometers west of Brooks. It will include 1,142,532 horizontal single access solar

panels.Ivan Friesen, general

manager of the Eastern Irrigation District said the agreement to lease the land to Solar Krafte was made this year.

Solar Krafte president Mark Burgert said the company started looking at the entire area many years ago.

At the end of the day it was the “hub” of existing pipelines and working with the Eastern Irrigation District that helped with their decision.

“Property taxes are a very big driver. At the end of the day the way that the mill rates work any money that we inject into the county by way of property taxes they can only benefit,” he said.

He said the myriad of pipes underground means the project will not be built on a clean piece of land but will use the land effectively.

He told The Bulletin the project’s footprint will be less than half of the 3,900 acres.

He said the site is sandwiched between the Cassils and West Brooks substations.

“This site represents the gold standard how to

integrate renewable energy with conventional energy right into the heart of some of the most robust transmission structures Alberta has to offer in the south,” he said.

While there were concerns expressed by some of the attendees about the land, Jeff Tkachuk, the company’s CAO said a vegetation study was completed on the site.

“Only 17 per cent of all the acres in this project site is native prairie. Seventy-five per cent is tame pasture and approximately eight per cent is cultivated farmland,” he said.

Although the project is proposed to last 30 years once it’s interconnected the future is indefinite.

An attendee was concerned about burrowing owls on site but was told no nests or owls were seen within the project’s fence line during the 2020 wildlife study.

“We do not believe they are anywhere on site,” said Sarah Gutman, the environmental affairs and permitting manager with RWE Renewables. RWE is a partner on the project.

“The goal was to determine

whether or not they are present on the area we’re proposing to develop,” she said.

Burgert was asked why the project will not be located further away from houses and water.

“If we move this 10 kilometers away you’d have 10 kilometers of (above ground) transmission infrastructure,” he said.

County councillor Brian de Jong asked if the name Brooks Solar was finalized.

He said the project is located on EID land in the

County of Newell.It is also the same name

as Elemental’s project east of Brooks on Highway 1.

The company attempted to build the Cassils Solar Farm on 160 acres but landowners vehemently opposed it. The file was closed by the Alberta Utilities Commission in 2018.

The work on the proposed site began in about 2017 and the EID agreed to lease the land in about 2019.

In 2018 the EID leased about 5,000 acres to the company for a 450-megawatt project which is proposed to

be built on land surrounding the ATCO converter station on Highway 36. That project is currently on hold while engineering is worked on.

Burgert will speak to county council on Thursday at 11 a.m.

The public is welcome to listen to the meeting which starts at 10 a.m.

Meetings can be accessed at countyofnewell.ab.ca/p/meetings.

It is likely the company will file an application with the Alberta Utilities Commission by the end of March.


E d I T O R I A L

It has been quite pleasant living on a planet where most of the great powers were not locked up into two hostile nuclear-armed alliances, but nothing lasts forever. Creeping shyly onto the stage via Zoom, the successor to NATO emerged into public view last Friday.

It’s called the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue – the ‘Quad’, for short. It’s intended to be to China what NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) was to the old Soviet Union: an alliance to deter and contain the‘evil regime’, now located in Beijing, until it finally collapses.

The core four in the Quad are countries that have all fought China in the past 75 years: the United States and Australia (in the Korean War), Japan (before and during the Second World War), and India (sporadic border wars).

It was the militaristic Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan who originally proposed Quad 1.0 in 2007, but new Australian, US and Japanese leaders shelved it in 2008. Donald Trump re-launched it as part of his anti-Chinese policy in 2017, and this time the other former players were also up for it. Joe Biden has just given notice that he’s also on board for Quad 2.0.

Most of the ‘usual suspects’ (the other NATO members) also want to join the team as players, or at least as substitutes: a Canadian warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait in January, and Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands will all deploy warships to the Indo-

Pacific region later in the year. Is ‘NATO in Asia’ really

getting ready for another decades-long cold war and/or a possible hot war? Every nuclear weapons power except Israel and perhaps Russia would be part of this confrontation, and there are many more potential flash-points in the Asia-Pacific region than there ever were in Europe.

This new alliance will provide employment for a generation of military professionals in many countries and a strategic rationale for pouring money into their arms industries. But what’s driving it is not just the usual exaggerated ‘threat assessments’ of the military.

There is absolutely no evidence that China plans to invade anywhere (except Taiwan, which all members of the Quad acknowledge is technically part of China). In fact, apart from minor border clashes, no Chinese regime, Communist or otherwise, has invaded anywhere at all for centuries. So why worry?

There’s something older and deeper at work here. It’s the age-old ‘balance of power’ strategy that appeared among the Sumerian city-states about 2500 BC, and has dominated international politics for most of the time since.

All the major powers in a given region (Mesopotamia 3,500 years ago), or continent (Europe 350 years ago) or even the entire world (NATO vs. the Soviet Union 35 years ago) see every other big power as a potential enemy. And history teaches that today’s friend can be tomorrow’s enemy, so you must always be stronger.

In particular, countries worry about an emerging great power that might get big enough to upset the whole applecart – Spain in the 17th century, France in the 18th,

Britain in the 19th, Germany in the early 20th century, Russia

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in the later 20th – and make alliances against it.

These arrangements have usually ended in great wars, but recently not so much: forty years of Cold War against the Soviet Union ended without a ‘world war’. Now China’s growing strength is great enough to set the wheel in motion again, and its behaviour would have to be utterly saintly to stop the others from ganging up on it in the time-honoured way.

There are aspects of the Chinese Communist regime that are indeed ‘evil’: its behaviour towards ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet, for example, and indeed towards dissenters among its own Chinese people. Treaty-breaking in Hong Kong and building military bases on disputed islands in the South China Sea in defiance of international law are hardly ‘confidence-building measures’ either.

But there is no need for this Quad alliance. It’s as implausible to believe that China would invade some country beyond its borders now (except Taiwan, of course) as it was to think that the Soviet Union would ever have seriously considered invading West Germany. The Quad is a waste of time and resources, and (given nuclear weapons with many triggers) an unnecessary risk.

One staircase thought, however. Are Biden’s advisers cunning enough to realise (a) that China under current management will eventually invade Taiwan and is bound to win; (b) that it would be suicidally dangerous for the US to intervene; and (c) that all America’s current and prospective allies think the same? In which case their real aim might be to spread the blame: they’d rather be just one of the Quad crowd that abandons Taiwan, rather than bearing the blame alone?

But I suspect they’re not that clever.

GWYNNE DYER

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Time CapsuleThe introduction of recall

legislation by the provincial government has the Alberta reps of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation all giddy and they are probably joined by those who believe taxpayers are really the boss.

As Winston Churchill said, democracy tends to take the line of least resistance to approve and appoint those who promise the people easy things with pleasant sounding platitudes.

And as these candidates take power and move on, there can be friction when the serious issues come to light and some voters wonder how these people got into office.

So, should they get a do-over?

The CTF claims that recall legislation is a “big win” for government accountability but it depends on the level of government you take into account.

In provincial and federal politics, it is not individual MLAs or MPs who run the government, it is the party.

Sure, our Alberta MLAs are elected by the people in each constituency but the vote is along party lines. We don’t necessarily vote for the candidate (although this can have some influence), we vote for the party.

An MLA who strays from the party line won’t have to worrry about a recall by voters--the party whip will come calling first.

Of course there could be other reasons for recalling an MLA or MP but these would most likely be on the personal side.

In any case, the process is so convoluted that it would be almost impossible to

Recall legislation political pandering

recall any MLA.The ability to recall a

municipal councillor or member of a school board, however, is a different story and is quite intriguing.

This is where taxpayers can truly flex their muscles.

Candidates for municipal and school board elections must rely on a certain level of believability and there is no question that those popular with the electorate have a better chance of getting into office.

Up until now, when a councillor or school board member has fallen out of favor with voters they usually pay the price at election time.

But with the ability to gather the signatures of 40 per cent of voters over anywhere from two to four months and have the councillor or school board member ousted when a sufficient petition is presented to council or the board changes the rules of the game.

No longer can municipal councillors who run afoul of the wishes of the general electorate sit comfortably in their seat until the next election.

In municipalities, the majority indeed is the boss.

Of course, we must take this new found power with a grain of salt. It is a very serious move to have an elected official removed and besides, just because voters may be unhappy at times, they simply can’t have a do-over.

However, having said this, officials who seriously run afoul of taxpayers just might get the process started.

Who knows?


and pure contentment. But in the Greek legends Kairos was hard to catch because man was too busy with other things. And so Kairos, a servant of holy purpose, always escaped man’s clutches. Chronos consumes, Kairos creates. Chronos tires us out. Kairos refreshes.

Whether we like it or not, whether we know it or not, whether we agree with it or not - most of us today orient ourselves in chronos time. The time of the clock and calendar. And it consumes us. It seems like time well spent but it really isn’t. There is a better way. Kairos time. Time of the spirit. Let Kairos time dictate where you go, what you do and who to spend it with.

In the bible there were two sisters: Mary and Martha. Martha, when she heard Jesus was coming to visit hustled and bustled around, cleaning the house and preparing food. Not Mary. She waited for Jesus. When Jesus arrived, Martha was too busy with dinner preparations and missed quality time with Him. But Mary, she just sat at His feet and enjoyed Jesus’ company. Martha served chronos time. Mary served kairos time. There is a better way. In Matthew 11:28 Jesus says: “Come to me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.” That rest is kairos time – time well spent.

NO PLACE TO HIDE Some years ago, my friend Gerry had some business to attend to in Los Angeles. While he was there, settling into his hotel room, there was a severe earthquake–something he’d never been through before. He spoke later of the panic he felt, as the floor shifted and rocked beneath his feet. Was the building going to collapse around him? Should he run out into the street? It was a frightening experience. And it parallels what some go through when their life changes dramatically. Things that once seemed stable and reliable (the income from a job, a marriage relationship) suddenly begin to totter and come apart. As David put it, “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (Ps. 11:3). The answer to questions like that is addressed in a beautiful hymn. It was written nearly two centuries ago by Thomas Moore (1779-1852). He is an interesting man, a lawyer and public servant, as well as an Irish nationalist. He wrote secular songs, including one called Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms. That song’s history shows something of the character of Moore himself. Apparently his young wife contracted smallpox. And after recovering, she was so disfigured by the disease that she refused to be seen by anyone, including her husband. In his sorrow, the author wrote a song to assure her of his love, no matter how she looked. After she heard him sing it outside her room, she opened the door and gratefully fell into his arms. The song says: “Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, / Which I gaze on so fondly today, / Were to change by tomorrow and flee from my arms, / Like fairy gifts fading away / Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art, / Let thy loveliness fade as it will; / And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart / Would entwine itself verdantly still.” Though Moore also wrote a number of hymns, only one is still in common use. Taking its present title from the opening line, it says, “Come, ye disconsolate, where’er ye languish, / Come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel. / Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; / Earth has no sorrow that heav’n cannot heal.” The word “disconsolate” speaks of a distressed person unable to find any consolation or comfort–one who finds the ground giving way beneath him, as my friend Gerry did. The word disconsolate is not found in the Bible, but its opposite, consolation, is, many times. The Messiah is called “the Consolation [Comforter] of Israel” (Lk. 2:25), and believers receiver “everlasting consolation,” through Christ (II Thess. 2:16). If the individual is “languishing” in this state, it is draining him of vitality; he’s weakening and withering away for lack of encouragement, reassurance and hope. During the severe famine prophesied by Joseph, we read that “the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished [wasted away] because of the famine” (Gen. 47:13). But for all the troubles believers go through, the hymn reassures us, “Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.” Through Christ, our great High Priest at the Father’s right hand, there is “mercy and...grace to help in time of need,” and we are invited to “come boldly” before God’s throne and seek it (Heb. 4:14-16). Of course there’s not only an immediate application of this truth, but an ultimate and final one. The hymn says, “Earth has no sorrow but heaven can remove [and remove forever],” when “God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away” (Rev. 21:4). “Here see the bread of life, see waters flowing / Forth from the throne of God, pure from above. / Come to the feast of love; come, ever knowing / Earth has no sorrow but heav’n can remove.”

Meditations onOur Traditional HymnsBy Robert Cottrill, B.A., B.R.E.

Words for the Pilgrim Way

TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH(Lutheran Congregations in Mission

for Christ)811 Cassils Road West, Brooks, Alberta

Pastor: Rev. John TheissYouth & Family Minister: Maggie Theiss

Office Telephone 362-4259www.brookstrinity.ca

Sunday Worship Service ................... 10:00 am

Everyone Welcome!“Serve Christ our Lord by welcoming, equipping & sending disciples.”

BROOKS 304 Cassils Road East

Phone 362-8908Website:

www.brooksalliancechurch.com

PASTOR DAVID BRADFORD

SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP SERVICE

10:45 a.m. Coffee to FollowSunday School

for all ages 9:30 am

DUCHESS LUTHERANCHURCH (LCC)

PHONE: 403-393-4121Leave Message

REV. BASIL CHRISTISunday WorshipService 11:30 am

Everyone welcome!LUTHERAN HOUR

Sundays 7:30 a.m.CHAT FM94.5 RADIO

8:30 A.M. CKMX 1060

“The Word in a World of Words”(2 Corinthians 5:19-20)

BROOKS UNITED

CHURCH

Office Hours:9:00 to 12 Noon

(Tues. - Fri.)

SUNDAY SERVICENURSERY & SUNDAY SCHOOL

10 AM

507 - 3rd Ave. W. Brooks, AB.

Phone/Fax: 403-362-3637Email: [email protected]

GEM MENNONITEBRETHREN CHURCH2 Miles South &

1 Mile West of GemChurch: (403) 641-2345SUNDAY SCHOOL

10:00 A.M.

WORSHIP SERVICE 11:00 A.M.

Warm Welcome to all!

Lakewood Community Church

804 Cassils Road E., Brooks, Alberta T1R 0L2

Pastor Daryle FoxHome 403-362-7472Cell 403-793-7203

SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE - 11:00 a.m.

Affiliated North American Baptist Conference

Connecting People to Christ and His Caring Community!EVERYONE WELCOME!

CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCH

One Block North of Cassils Rd. at11th Street West

Sunday Worship Services10:00 & 11:15 a.m.

Sunday School - 11:20 a.m.Nursery provided.

PASTOR J. CORVERS362-4750

Listen to the “Back To God Hour”Sunday Mornings 8:30 a.m. on Q-13

Radio (1340 am) & and watch “PrimaryFocus” Sundays at 3:00 and 11:00 p.m.

on VISIONS Cable Channel 16 inBrooks or visit www.primaryfocus.tv

for the latest broadcast schedule.

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School Children, Youth and

Adult Sunday School starts at 9:30 a.m.

Pastor Alvin Penner Associate Pastor Nathan Ramer

Women’s Care Pastor: Sara DriedgerOffice Hours: Tuesdays to Thursdays

8 am to 12 Noon

Sunday Service - 11 am


Sunday School

The Venerable Ken WellsThe Reverend Casimir

Makabuza

Anglican Church

Join us forSunday Worship

10:00 am

Sunday School for all ages11:40 am

Pastor: Martin Boardman403-362-4750

St. Mary’s Catholic Church

511 - 4th St. W., Brooks, AB.Ph: 362-4466Fax. 793-2571

Saturday at 6:00 pmand

Sunday at 10:00 am

Weekday MassPlease call church

office at 403-362-4466

Parish Priest Father Raul Hernandez

BROOKS SEVENTH-DAY

ADVENTIST CHURCH

Pastor Tyler403-878-3636

430 - 2nd St. W.,

Sabbath School - 10:30 a.m.;

Worship - 11 a.m.

403-362-2952Email: [email protected]

Lead Pastor: Daniel PetersChild & Family Ministries Pastor:

Garth EverettPastor of Student Ministries:

Josiah Johnson

Worship Service - 10 AM

Call for information about:Bible Studies

Kids & Youth Ministries

Our service times are as follows

Family Worship ServicesSunday @ 10:30 am

Pastor: Mike Boschmann

Address: 203 - 3rd St. W.Phone: 403-501-0202

Website: thewellbrooks.comOffice Hours:

Tuesday - Friday • 11 am - 5 pm

Pastor: Frank Krulicki

Worship Service 10:30 am

403-378-4933

THIS WEEK!

Spirit of Grace Lutheran Mission

10:00 am Worship & Sunday School

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Spirit of GraceLutheran Church

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DuchessMennonite Church

Box 298, Duchess, AB. T0J 0Z0Phone 403-378-4966 Email: [email protected]: www.duchessmennonite.ca

Pastor Maureen Chelemu

“We believe in the Prophetic”

120-1st Ave., E. Brooks, AB T1R 0S4 T: 403-362-2129 CP:403-363-0843Email add: [email protected]

Sunday School at 10:30am Kids Sunday School at 12:30pmPraise & Worship at 11:30am

Saturdays Prayer meeting at 7:30pm

Brooks International Gospel Church

120 - 1st Ave. E., Brooks, AB. T1R 0S4T: 403-362-2129 CP: 403-363-0848

Email: [email protected]“We believe in the Prophetic”

Sunday School at 10:30 amKids Sunday School at 12:30 pm

Praise & Worship at 11:30 amSaturday’s Prayer Meeting at 7:30 pm

PASTOR MAUREEN CHELEMU“Love Lives Here” 23-26P

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424 3rd ST.W. 403.362.8697

www.brookschurch.ca Sundays 10:30AM

Pastors Joel & Amanda Goodnough

Summer time! That time of the year where most of us get a few weeks to rest and get away from the hustle and bustle of the real world. Let me ask, do you feel rested or do you still feel rushed?

I ask, because there is a better way. I believe you and I are constantly in a state of war over time – how to spend it, who to spend it on, how to use it wisely. I think, in our heads, we understand what we ought to do with our time but realistically, time slowly slips through our fingers.

It’s interesting to note that in the Greek language, the predominate languages of the New Testament, there are two distinct words for time. There’s chronos and then there’s kairos. Chronos is time of the clock and calendar. Kairos is time of the spirit. In Greek mythology Chronos was a nasty guy who was portrayed as a glutton and cannibal who ate his own children. He was always consuming.

Kairos, on the other hand, was very quick and never stayed in one place for too long. The Greeks were forever hoping to catch Kairos because they believed that if they could catch him they would enjoy long life, long health

Pastor Frank KrulickiRosemary Mennonite Church

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“We believe in the Prophetic”A Year of Success

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Having been a rural correspondent many years ago, I sympathize with the present ones who are having trou-ble filling their columns as there are no local events due to Covid. Many are therefore resorting to jokes – which gives me the courage to write the following true story that has a horticultural theme.

When I planted my first garden, as a new bride from Montreal, I had never seen a flower or a vegetable seed. But undaunted, I ventured into the world of gardening.

When Jim came home for lunch, I looked forward to his praise as I had a sweet arrangement of flowers on the table. Instead he laughed and said “ Didn’t your Mother ever tell you about the birds and the bees ?“ I had picked the pumpkin flowers.

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Another storm hits

BrooksSandra M. Stanway

Brooks Bulletin

Thunderstorms with heavy rain and hail returned to the area last Tuesday afternoon in what seems to be a regular event this year.

The 50-minute storm caused flooding in all of the regular low lying loca-tions across the city as well as other areas that have not been previously affected.

“We have received 20 calls for water in base-ments,” said Amy Rom-mens, the city’s manager of administration.

As of last Thursday the city had received reports from homeowners on Douglas Court, 1st Street East, 1st Avenue East, 2nd Avenue East, 2nd Avenue West, 2nd Street West, 9th Avenue East, 10th Street West, Uplands Court, Uplands Boulevard, Uplands Bay, the 600 block of Centre Street, Railway Avenue and in the industrial area on Aquaduct Drive.

The city is urging resi-dents to document damages to their property as a result of the storm and to contact their insurance agents.

As well the city is collect-ing information to make a submission to the province under the Disaster Recov-ery Program on behalf of residents for flooding and water damages.

Rommens said the city will also include a submis-sion for expenses incurred by the city’s emergency operations staff and Brooks firefighters.

The storm marked the third time in July the fire-fighters were on “puddle

patrol,” blocking intersec-tions as they waited for the water to flow down the storm sewers.

“It was just preventa-tive measures. We blocked roads and at the sewage lift stations,” said city manager of works and utilities Don Saari.

He said no damages at city facilities or infrastruc-ture were reported as a result of the storm which brought between 1.5 and 3.0 inches of rain according to various city-owned rain gauges.

“The South Shore park-ing lot was unnavigable. No vehicles could move,” said Brooks fire chief Kevin Swanson.

Fire fighter Kelly Atwell had finished an appoint-ment in the South Shore complex at the tail end of the storm.

He said there were vehicles in puddles as deep as two or three feet that had attempted to leave but stalled.

As he looked at the situ-ation he knew it would be easier for him to leave his vehicle and walk to the fire-hall.

Homeowner Bev Watson, who snapped a photo of her husband Brad kayaking near their Uplands home, said her area received about 1.5 inches of precipita-tion including hail. She said because the drain system could not keep up, water crept up her lawn.

“It’s awesome,” she said.Although she did not get

any basement flooding, her flowers were damaged.

“My vegetable and peren-nial garden took a big hit,” she said.

EID to donate $100,000 to

dialysis projectSandra M. Stanway

Brooks Bulletin

The board of the East-ern Irrigation District has pledged to donate $100,000 to the Brooks Health Foun-dation’s dialysis project.

“It’s amazing. It’s our first major corporate spon-sor. It takes our number to $408,000 raised so far,” said Cindy Simpson, foundation board chair.

She said the goal of the board has been to raise $250,000 a year over five years to reach $1.5 million.

Once that amount is raised, the provincial govern-ment is expected to provide $2.1 million to the project.

“We’re early in our second year. At the rate we’re going we’re probably going to break a half million this year,” she said.

Simpson said the foun-dation trustees are “thrilled” to have received the funds.

“Big jumps like that make such a big difference to the number that needs to be raised,” she said.

“Ensuring that the Brooks Health Centre has facilities in place to offer long term health care ser-vices to local residents will continue to strengthen our rural based community,” said EID board chairman Floyd George.

“Achieving the fundrais-ing objective and making dialysis a reality in Brooks will allow patients and their families to remain in the local communities they call home,” states an EID press release. The health founda-tion is fundraising for a six-bed renal dialysis unit at the Brooks Health Centre.

PHOtOS By BEV watSOn

Brooks resident Brad Watson kayaks in about a foot and a half of water near his Uplands area home on Tuesday afternoon following another heavy downpour. Bev watson, who took the photo, said it always pools in front of her home when the rain falls as much and as fast as it did last week. there were reports of between 40 mm and 80 mm 1.5 inches to three inches.

Bassano to sign one of two regional agreementsSandra M. Stanway

Brooks Bulletin

The Town of Bassano will again sign the three-year regional assessment review board agreement.

“It worked really well,” CAO Sabine Nasse told council last Monday.

However, the council decided they will make a final decision later to sign onto a regional intermu-nicipal appeal board which is being spearheaded by the County of Newell.

The issue was discussed at the recent regional CAO meeting.

Under the new Municipal Government Act communi-ties are being mandated to work together. One idea was to have an Intermunicipal Subdivision Development and Appeal Board (ISDAB).

“This is one of those boards that is supposed to be going regional. Right now the town has its own. We don’t have anybody appointed to it because we’ve never had an appeal. The thing is, we need to do something on a regional level,” she said.

“There are two choices: we can either do one with Rosemary and Duchess or we can do with the entire county.”

While the smaller com-munities have not heard an appeal in the last decade, the county and the city have between three and five each

year.“Do we want to have

people trained to do their appeals and be trained on the big regional board or do we want to stick eventually with Rosemary and Duch-ess?” she asked council.

“It would be an added expense. We haven’t had to use one yet,” said councillor Rick Doherty.

Councillor Jackie Peter-son believes a larger board would eliminate potential conflicts of interest while

PHOtO By Sandra M Stanway

Golden Retriever puppies are tuckered out after their visit to a local veterinarian last week.

councillor Lynn MacWil-liam believes it would mean attending board meetings that are irrelevant.

Nasse said Rosemary’s feeling is they, Duchess and Bassano “govern small” while the city and county are big.

“They are sometimes on a different level. They may not understand as well what we are up to compared to what they are doing,” Nasse added.

The county has prepared

an agreement that includes all the municipalities while Oldman River Regional Services Corporation is pre-paring an agreement for the three smaller communities.

“Maybe at the next meet-ing I can bring both and we can have a look at them to make a final decision.”

At the county’s last board meeting, CAO Kevin Ste-phenson said it’s OK to start an agreement between only the city and county.

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WIEBE - Born to Anna and John Wiebe of Brooks, AB., a son on March 10, 2021.

Births

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RAINIER - Happy Birthday greetings for this coming week go out to Dylan Sandau on March 29; Alyssa Slenders on April 2; Kerrin Slenders on April 3.

The Alcoma Community Library is open to the public, once again,

from 3.30pm to 5.00pm on Thursdays. Protocols will be followed like the last time, with only one person allowed at a time to enter and check out items. Alcoma Community Library will continue with its curbside pick up and return. Please

contact Janet Wagner at [email protected] or call the school at 403-36-3741 to leave a message. Once she receives your requests, she will contact you to arrange a pick up.

Scandia’s Annual Easter

Egg Hunt is scheduled for Saturday, April 3rd at 10.00am in the EID Historical Park. Please call 403-362-9630 to register. All ages are welcome to come and join in the hunt!

If you didn’t take part

in the pumpkin growing contest last year, you will have your chance again! Start thinking about the pumpkin you will be planting this Spring for the next Fall Pumpkin Growing Contast.

Alcoma School News – Alberta Health and Safety protocols have been put into place. Please keep watch in the Alcoma School Happening’s information on Facebook for information on fun activities that are being planned for the school year. If you plan on visiting the school, please call ahead to arrange a time. There is a doorbell installed at the front door. It must be depressed until there is a red light.

The school is continuing to accept bottle donations. These are much appreciated and can be dropped off beside the quonset.

Rolling Hills Ag Society is excited to announce their new annual fundraiser, 1st Annual Giant Pumpkin Growing Contest! To participate, become a member of the Rolling Hills Giant Pumpkin Growing Association which includes annual membership, five pumpkin seeds, T-shirt, and discounted admission to the weigh in event (beginning of October). You don’t have to live in the Rolling Hills area to become a member. There are five different categories offering lots of prizes. For more information, contact Ben 403-633-4175, Raoul 403-896-9900, or Darby 403-363-3216.

Please contact me by Sunday if you have any news you would like included in this column. [email protected] or 403-793-0692.


L E T T E R SSolar farm will also be an issue for future generations

Editor, The Bulletin; Not everyone likes a sur-

prise, especially when it comes to finding out that over one million solar pan-els covering 3,900 acres are slated to be installed in your area to be known as the 400MW Brooks Solar Farm. For perspective, 3,900 acres is slightly smaller than the same area the City of Brooks currently covers.

In May of 2019, the EID Board of Directors voted unanimously in favor of purchasing 3,780 acres of land bordering the north and south sides of the An-telope Creek Road on the west side of Highway 36 from Torxen Energy. When the EID Board was asked at their annual meeting in 2020 for further explana-tion of the acquired lands, the EID responded that they were approached by Torxen to purchase the land which was already being used by the district for grazing. Sounds like a very reason-able explanation as the EID is not only a distributor of a reliable water source to sup-port agricultural lands but also supports the beef cattle industry by providing ad-ditional grazing lands to ir-rigators within the district.

Fast forward to the end of February 2021... residents that border the purchased lands and some that don’t receive a four page infor-mational letter telling them about the latest Solar Krafte project and invite them to attend a “virtual” open house on March 9th from 5-7pm to learn more about the project to be installed on the newly purchased EID lands.

Funny nothing was men-tioned about the solar proj-

ect going on EID lands at the EID annual meeting held in the afternoon of March 9th? Not only is quality ag-ricultural land that is used by two separate grazing associations being taken out of commission, wildlife habitat will be destroyed and the area residents who live across the fence line will have a neighbor no one wants to live beside.

Renewable energy sourc-es are part of Canada’s net zero strategy and will pro-vide many jobs and an eco-nomic boost for the short term while the project is being built but that is only short lived. Currently in Canada there is no dedicat-ed recycling facility for solar panels. In order to be truly green and a clean source of energy, the panels need to be manufactured sustain-ably, be fully recyclable and stay out of the landfills.

Decommissioned panels now are being sent to the U.S. or to Malaysia to recycle what materials they can, so basically we are passing on our waste to be someone else’s issue. That seems eco-nomical and environmen-tally friendly?

Quoting Ugo Lapointe, who is the Canadian Pro-gram Co-ordinator of Min-ing Watch Canada, “we are not equipped to properly recycle metals and minerals we use in our daily lives, let alone the massive mineral boom coming up with en-ergy transition demand”.

The panels are to have a sustainable life of 25 years but we all know how that goes in this day and age. Solar Krafte is the company responsible for construct-ing this $500 million project and they were asked a num-

ber of times via a typed in question during the virtual open house held on March 9 about what happens to the panels at the end of their life and if the EID was in-sured and who was respon-sible for the clean-up if Solar Krafte went bankrupt. But a direct answer was never given as this is still a work in progress. Good answer to not be held accountable.

According to solarmetric.com, it currently costs $15 - $20 to recycle one standard 18 square foot power mod-ule panel. Doesn’t seem like much but multiply that cost by 1,142,532 panels (which is only this one solar farm and not the next one that is slated at even a bigger size, yes another one that has not been disclosed) and you have over $22 million dol-lars just in recycling fees at today’s dollars (labor and transportation not includ-ed).

Will the revenue gener-ated for the EID offset the cost of the cleanup down the road 10, 15 or 20 years if Solar Krafte walks away into the sunset or will our water rates sky rocket in order to recoup the costs? That legacy is still to be de-termined...short term gain...for long term pain?

Or will this be the future board’s and our children’s and grandchildren’s issue to deal with? According to the board chair, “The District is comprised of its water us-ers. It is imperative that we listen to the water users when making decisions that affect the livelihoods of our water users.”

Or does that just apply to certain decisions?

CRySTAL MULvEy,Antelope Creek

The UCP is a Train WreckEditor, The Bulletin; Sean Holman, a professor

of journalism at Mount Roy-al University who specializ-es in access to information, says the party “isn’t operat-ing in accordance with the evidence.”

“They’re operating ac-cording to what they want the world to be, as opposed to what the world actually is,” Holman says.

The world is moving to alternative energy sources even if the UCP doesn’t want it. The UCP has lost and wasted billions of dollars. And the oil and gas industry has figured out how to elim-inate more and more jobs permanently. Buying jobs is a very bad strategy by our governments.

I am guessing the lead

characters in UCP have a lot to lose with these com-ing changes. It is always the folks who think they have a lot to lose who become the reactionaries to change. Well, the price of oil and gas is going up for the near mid-term future and that should help Alberta a bit with the small royalties they have changed over the years. But it is not going to last.

Maybe the UCP can jump ahead of everyone else. We have endless opportunities for solar and wind power. This is also a chance for small municipalities to in-vest in their own source of electricity. The problem with this energy is no roy-alties for the government coffers at all. So, taxpayers should be investing big time

in solar and wind energy. And it is my opinion that long term, electric vehicles are not the total answer. I think hybrid cars of some kind will prevail with hydro-gen and fuel cells combined with electric drive will dominate the market. Elec-tric cars have only 25 major moving parts.

The trans mountain will probably never be profit-able. The Saudis are target-ing the Asian market. XL pipeline is probably dead. What we really need is a pipeline to eastern Canada. Time to stop buying USA gasoline. Time to tell Que-bec to put up or go away if they are not willing to be equal partners in Canada.

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Martin Shields Member of Parliament for Bow River:

Spring is around the corner! That means warmer weather and the opportunity to begin participating in events and activities. We all want to go back to the way things were, whether it’s a day out at the golf course or an afternoon on a patio with friends. This has been a long, tiring year. Constant changes in restrictions, endless updates on numbers and cases, and no real federal plan for recovery has made life extremely difficult for everyone. Our communities need to be able to safely hold their events that are so crucial to their economy and culture.

We keep hearing about the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ from the government officials during their press conferences. However, this light still seems so far away because of the confusion of this government. Our vaccine rollout has been erratic, and this is a major reason why we haven’t yet been able to return to normal. We keep hearing that vaccines will be available to ‘every Canadian that wants one’ by the END of SEPTEMBER.

The provinces have been a target for the Liberals trying to pass the buck, but the provinces cannot administer vaccines if there are no vaccines to administer.

The issue I hear from constituents the most recently is about the lockdowns. When are the lockdowns going to end? It’s a question we all have, including myself. Recently, our Shadow Minister for Health Michelle Rempel-Garner has pressured the government asking for a plan to safely re-open and finally bring an end to these lockdowns. I understand the frustration my constituents have because I am frustrated as well. We need a concrete plan from this government to re-open in a manner that will ensure the safety of Canadians – but we cannot continue like this.

My Conservative colleagues and I have been fiercely holding the Liberals to account on many fronts. Some recent highlights of Conservative accomplishments include: A Conservative motion securing support for workers in the hospitality, tourism, and charitable

sectors in the next budget. That motion also requires the Government to improve support programs for Small Businesses within 30 days to prevent a wave of bankruptcies and layoffs.

We presented a Bill to protect farmers and their livestock from trespassers and it has been approved at second reading and sent to committee. This is in addition to Conservative Bills to exempt farm fuels from the carbon tax and make it more fair for farmers to pass their operation on to the next generation of their family. The Conservatives supported a bill to boost seniors benefits in which all parties voted in favour – with the exception of the Liberals; all of them voted against increasing seniors benefits.

I will be in the riding and hoping to meet with you all very soon. In the meantime, I can be reached by email at [email protected]. My Brooks office can be reached at 403-793-6775, and my Strathmore office at 403-361-2980. Please don’t hesitate to contact me on any federal issue.

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Another $1.6 million funneled to Brooks Health Centre


By the time work is finished in the Brooks Health Centre over the next couple of years it will have received close to $20 million in renovations.

Over the last seven years there has been just over $9 million spent on renovations and there is currently $7.8 million in work underway.

The future work will include $1.5 million for roof replacement and upgrades to the sprinkler system in the long term care wing.

The latest funding announcement is part of a $50 million commitment to modernize and improve rural health facilities that was announced in the provincial budget.

Premier Jason Kenney announced the launch of the program during the Rural Municipalities Association (RMA) convention last week.

Brooks Health Centre will receive $1.6 million for the medical device reprocessing upgrade.

“The department looks after the decontamination, cleaning and sterilizing of the instruments to be used by the surgeons,” said Michael Stanford, the executive director of capital management at Alberta Health Services.

He said the upgrades will include utility and hand hygiene sinks and pieces of equipment and instruments that need to be brought up to standard as well as six soiled utility holds.

“There’s seven areas throughout the hospital we have to upgrade,” said Stanford.

“We have a lot of coordination to do with the critical operation team to make sure we have things scheduled that are going to keep facilities functioning.”

There is also $3.7 million in renovations currently going on for the development of the palliative care unit. That work includes $2.95 million for construction and $750,000 that was donated by the Brooks and District Health Foundation for furniture and equipment.

That unit will include 14 new patient rooms, nine for sub-acute and five palliative care beds.

“The intent for all that is to bring it up to the current code and CSA standards to provide a better patient experience for those 14 different rooms for the patients and the families that will be utilizing them,” he said.

Stanford expects workers to begin putting up the drywall this week but the rooms will not be

available until September or October as each instrument, component and buzzer in the entire area has to be tested to ensure they are each integrated.

“There’s quite an extensive commissioning component that happens to make sure that all the different systems are functioning properly.”

There are also ongoing upgrades to the domestic water, cooling and boiler systems, security upgrades to the building management system, automatic door replacement in the OR and flooring and mill work throughout the hospital.

Workers are installing the infrastructure for the Connect Care system, which will connect patients and physicians with AHS medical records, lab results prescriptions and care history.

The program is slowly being implemented across the province. It was first launched in 2019.

Work on the new 14 bed unit for palliative and long term care patients continues at the Brooks Health Centre. | SUBMITTED PHOTO

No additional restrictions liftedFour COVID cases in city, zero in county....


Minster of Health Tyler Shandro said the slight increases of COvID and its variants means the province will not lift any additional COvID19 restrictions.

He said hospitalizations are at 280 and they have risen by 16 over the past week.

“This is a problem and a

warning sign that we must take seriously,” he said.

Shandro expects that there will be 300 people in hospital within a week.

“That’s why we decided not to move to Step 3 of our path forward plan today. There will be no easing of any restrictions at this time,” he said.

As of Sunday there were 979 active cases of a variant of COvID including those first identified in Brazil, South Africa and UK.

As of Sunday there were four active cases of COvID in Brooks while the county had zero.

There are no cases of COvID in schools.

Between now and May 30 Alberta will receive 1,571,902 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech and 374,300 of Moderna.

Janssen, which is the single Johnson and Johnson dose, has been approved for use but there is no update on its delivery to Canada.


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Bassano ends 2020 ingood financial shape


Bassano’s finances are in good shape despite a pandemic year that saw closures of facilities and businesses.

During a recent town council meeting Mark DeBlois a KPMG auditor presented the town’s 2020 year end financial statement.

“You’re in a very healthy financial position given that you have net financial assets of about $6.8 million representing an increase over the prior year of 14 per cent,” said DeBlois.

According to the statement of operations as of Dec. 31 the town’s revenue was $2.943 million which was just over the $2.803 million budget and its net financial assets at the end of the year was $6.810 million.

To address COVID issues the town made a number of changes including closing the municipal office for extended periods, restricting access to facilities and staff worked from home where possible.

For the residents they reduced the penalty charge on late payment of taxes as of July 31, 2020 to four per cent and waived penalties for six months.

Council reduced their honourariums by 25 per cent for six months.

During 2020 the total salaries for council was $33,010 which was a reduction of $16,895 over the previous year.

“That speaks to the total amounts that are paid including benefits and allowances,” said DeBlois.

He said the town’s salaries, wages and benefits at $561,924 along with the contracted and general

services of $1,000,507 made up 60 per cent of the town’s total expenses last year.

“Overall the town is fairly consistent year on year trending upwards in terms of the fiscal management so that your net financial assets remain fairly consistent,” said DeBlois.

During the meeting council updated the honourarium, benefits and expense policy to reflect a consistent style with other policies but without any financial implication.

“It just now has the appropriate policy numbering scheme as well as updated statements and definitions throughout the policy,” said CAO Amanda Davis.

Davis, who has been on contract with the town, had her contract renewed. It will be discussed during the town’s meeting in April.

Bassano proposes master recreation, leisure plan

Process expected to take multiple years before progress is seen....


Bassano administration has proposed a recreation and leisure master plan that was two years in the making.

The document is a framework to identify recreation and leisure for the community and is part of the town’s strategic goal to help bridge the recreation gap.

It will include the development of strategies that are outside of the plan.

“Each individual in Bassano will benefit from the master plan to include many community user groups, clubs and facilities,” CAO Amanda Davis presented to council.

She said a significant portion of the plan will be to empower the community and provide support.

The plan requires engagement with the County of Newell because the municipality is a key

stakeholder as per the cost sharing intermunicipal collaboration framework agreement.

There will also be a full engagement process with town community members and user groups.

“There are financial implications for the county as well as the town in its implementation so we want to make sure everyone is on board moving forward,” said Davis.

There will be discussion about how the plan will be generally implemented.

Councillor Irv Morey said the pandemic has shown how important recreation and culture really is.

“Everybody is getting downtrodden and depressed. If we want to maintain this community and have this community grow, I think we have to maintain the recreation,” he said.

He said user groups and volunteers are getting tired so it’s also important to make it easier for them so they don’t have to concentrate on funding but rather just focus on the group’s plans.

The plan does not include financials.

Rather, it looks at what could be accomplished in a variety of areas such as hiking trails, promoting new partnerships and development of a number of plans.

Morey said none of the ideas are terribly expensive but it will involve money from the town until it’s discussed with the county and some of the user groups.

“We don’t know how much that is going to be yet but it is going to involve some and I for one am in favour of that and if it means a little bit more money coming from wherever it has to come from I think it’s money well spent,” he said.

Councillor Doug Barlow said the document will allow the town to move forward.

“It lays the ground work for everything.”

Davis said like other plans, such as the town’s beautification document, the recreation plan will take many years before anything will be realized.

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PATRICIA - Hello everyone, hope you are all doing well and enjoying the nice temperatures that we had last week. I have noticed more of our locals out walking and riding bikes which is really nice to see and feels like spring.

The Duchess & District Public Library is open by appointment only. Masks are required to enter the library. Children under 12 years old with a parent. This is required to keep staff and the public safe. RB Digital magazines can now be found in Overdrive. The County and the Library Board is looking for a representative from Division 8. Please call the library for more information at 403-378-4369. Stay safe everyone!

The Duchess Rec Centre

is also by appointment only. If you have any news

please call me at 403-793-

5005 or email at [email protected]. Hope you have a great week.

DUCHESS - I love that it is light out until at least 7:30! It does so much for our psyche! I dare say that Spring is really, truly here!

The Duchess & District Public Library is open by appointment only. Masks are required to enter the library.. Children under 12 years old with a parent. This is required to keep staff and the public safe.

RB Digital magazines can now be found in Overdrive. The County and the Library Board is looking for a representative from Division 8. Please call the library for more information at 403-378-4369.

Softball and baseball registration start March 5- April 2. For more information on ages and pricing, please check out the website:

h t t p : / / b r o o k s b a l l .rampreregistrations.com or: http://brooksminor.ram preregistration.com. One is for baseball and one is for softball.

Heather and her helpers have teamed up with Duchess Ag Society Hall Board and are putting on an ‘Easter Egg Hunt’ on Saturday April 3, 2021. It will be on the east side of Duchess at Anniversary Park on Louise Crescent (please NO PARKING ON CRESCENT DURING THE EVENT). The start time is staggered so that all ages can enjoy their time starting with 2 - 4 yrs- hunt starts @10:00AM, 5 – 7 yrs starts @10: , 8 – 10 yrs old Pinata Swing 11:00 AM, 11+ Treasure Hunt 11:00 AM and Adult Easter Hunt 11:30 AM. I would suggest that you arrive by 10:00 and meet the Easter Bunny, a Duchess Spring Princess and have an egg ride. While others are doing their hunt you can enjoy the other activities.

Registration is $20.00 per family by e-transfer: d u c h e s s a g s o c i e t y. c a . Because we are opening it up to outlying areas this will be first come first serve. The Hall Board is looking to upgrade some of their sound system, any money raised will be going to the upgrades. If you’re not set up for e-transfer you

can text or call Heather at 403-793-3337 and we can arrange something. Looking forward to seeing you all.

Have a wonderful week and please call or text me at 403-793-1630 with your news items.

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Bassano to use stimulus program funds for FAB village


The provincial government has allowed Bassano to use their Municipal Stimulus Program funds of $143,000 for the FAB Village pilot project.

The concept of the future adaptive building

project will consist of about seven 580-square foot homes for an age friendly neighbourhood at 702-5A Avenue.

Palliser Economic Partnership (PEP) is helping with fundraising for the project however the Newell Foundation has not responded to the town’s

partnership request.“We have not received

a formal response from the Newell Foundation regarding their partnership within the project,” CAO Amanda Davis told council last Monday.

More details of the project were moved to the town’s in-camera meeting.

PEP earns award


The Palliser Economic Partnership (PEP) was presented an Economic Developers Alberta 2020 Award of Excellence.

The Business Retention and Expansion Award of Excellence (large community) was presented during the Economic Developers Alberta program last month.

It was recognized for its role in developing the Len Mitzel Logistics Park which serves as a laydown yard for major wind energy projects and agrifood processing in the Village of Foremost.

“The Len Mitzel Logistics Park is a significant economic driver for southeast Alberta as it provides for much freer movement of goods into and out of southeast Alberta”, said Jay Slemp, PEP chair.

Bassano, Duchess, the county and Rosemary are members of PEP. The city withdrew from the organization in October.

The EDA also awarded the Brooks region with a couple of awards that were reported earlier in the month, including the Business and Investment Attraction and Business Retention and Expansion.

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JENNER - I haven’t sent in a column for awhile as new news is scarce. All regular fall preparations for farmers and ranchers in the Jenner area have taken place as usual.

I realize everyone is sick & tired of regulations necessary to try & keep the Covid 19 Pandemic in check but people don’t like to be restricted & told what they can & cannot do & therein lies the greatest problem facing our govt. health team. It’s time now to revive ‘COMMON SENSE’! Be a dedicated ‘TEAM PLAYER’ & follow the guidelines set out for masks, distancing etc. Work together to stamp out this deadly virus so our lives can get back to some semblance of normal living. WE CAN DO IT IF WE ALL WORK TOGETHER!!!

I wish to share again an obituary printed in the London Times several years

ago.Today we mourn the

passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated many valuable lessons as: Life isn’t always fair: And maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) & reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place, such as a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became

businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims; when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home & the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live.

Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth & Trust; by his wife, Discretion; by his daughter, Responsibility; and by his son, Reason.

He is survived by his five stepbrothers; I Know My Rights; I Want It Now; Someone Else Is To Blame; I’m A Victim; Pay Me For Nothing.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

On a lighter note, friends in the Jenner area extend congratulations to Art & Frances Klassen of Big Stone, AB on the occasion of their 65th Wedding Anniversary on December 17, 2020. Best wishes for good health & many happy times to enjoy together in the year ahead.

Best wishes for a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year goes out to all my column readers & especially to all the dedicated Brooks Bulletin Staff who work so hard to publish the weekly paper for us all to enjoy.

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Now is the time to prune deciduous trees. The shape, size and condition of the tree’s branches are much easier to see without leaves making it easier to decide what needs to be removed.

Prune trees to remove deadwood, broken branches, correct shapes, for safety and convenience. If a tree is too large, pruning to reduce its size will become an ongoing, yearly struggle. Sometimes, it is best to remove large trees and replace them with a smaller variety.

Always cut the branches flush to another branch or trunk allowing the tree to heal faster. Do not worry about covering wounds with pruning paint as it has been proven ineffectual.

Start pruning by removing all dead or diseased wood. Dead wood will be brittle, often with loose bark. Live wood will feel cold while deadwood will warm up when held. Diseased branches can be misshapen, have sunken areas or be discolored.

Diseased wood needs to be removed immediately regardless, of the time of year, as diseases can quickly spread to the rest of the tree or to other trees. When removing diseased branches, make sure the final cut is in healthy wood. Dipping the tools in a 10% solution of bleach between cuts will keep the

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disease from spreading in warm or wet weather. During the winter season diseases are dormant and tool sterilization is unnecessary.

It is important to either burn or double bag diseased wood immediately to stop the disease from spreading.

Next remove all suckers or water sprouts. Suckers are found growing from the roots around the trunk. They should be removed as soon as they appear. Water sprouts are long thin branches that grow straight upwards with out any side branches. They are the plants response to loosing too much top growth either through winterkill, or over pruning.

Look for branches that rub together as over time the bark will be damaged creating openings for insects and diseases. Remove one of the branches. Take into account the; size and health of the branches, direction they are growing and angle at which they are attached to the tree before deciding which one to cut. As the ultimate goal is to have an attractive plant, be sure the branches that are removed will not make the plant misshapen. Never keep a branch that appears to be weak or diseased.

Branches that can be hazardous or rub on

buildings are next on the list. Take aesthetics into account when removing bottom branches to make mowing easier.

Lastly, shape the plant. Never remove more than

a quarter of the plant in one year. Removing more will result in a profusion of new watersprouts that will need removed next year. Better results are achieved by spreading massive pruning projects over a number of years.

Anyone can prune successfully as long as the basic rules are followed. Remember, removing less is better than too much.

Linda Tomlinson is a local horticulturalist that can be reached at [email protected]

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The new dining room at Newbrook Lodge should be substantially completed by the end of the month but it will not be available to residents for a while longer. “The target for all intents and purposes is to be finished by March 31. I would say it will be into April or June before it’s actually open,” said board member and city councillor Dan Klein. “Armor Building and the team have done an excellent job in terms of being able to work through the pandemic, staying on budget and sticking to the time line that was quoted,” he said. The budget was about $1.6 million.With the merger of the Newell Foundation and Newell Housing Association to take place on April 1, Klein said he hopes more restrictions will be lifted by the province so everyone can see the construction and to allow board members to tour the facilities. The existing dining room will be re-purposed into a multifunction room.| SanDra m STanWaY PHoTo

BUFFALO - It has been a long time in coming - this week I have good news to write!

Congratulations to Calvin and Andrea Heiland on the arrival of their son Lane Terry Heiland on March 9, 2021. He weighed 9 lb. 3 oz and is little brother to big sister Brady. Best wishes to all the family including grandparents Rob and Val Heiland of Hanna.

Welcome to the district is extended to Rylee (Osadczuk), Lyle and Meritt Hewitt who have recently moved to the Chip Barry place. We look forward to having you as our new neighbors.

A sad note too as we extend sincere sympathy to Valerie and Rob Heiland on the passing of Val’s mother Emma Christman of Brooks. Condolences to all the family. Rob and Val lived at Buffalo some years ago.


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just donate millions to the causeAbout every ten years, TV

news reporters rediscover how unwanted horses are disposed of in Canada. They are guided to their foregone conclusion by cunning lobby groups like the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition. The recent CTV investigative show invariably weaved an empathetic narrative with images of forlorn-looking horses and allegations of nefarious cruel activities by heartless horsemeat processors and shippers. That’s fair enough, animal rights groups furiously compete for the hearts, minds and wallets of citizens. Getting your cause on national TV is a public relations victory. It’s especially sweet when awkward questions are not asked by biased journalists. Having a noble, photogenic animal with a deep human emotional attachment sure helps the cause. Most everyone in agriculture involved with horses, share

that emotional attachment to these regal animals. As a former horse owner, I also share that attachment and respect for horses. On the other hand, I eat a Netherlands smoked horse meat delicacy called paarden rookvlees. I feel no more guilt eating that meat than eating beef, lamb or venison.

Those bothered by eating horsemeat need to contemplate the alternative fate for a dead horse – consummation by fire or disembowelment by scavengers, worms and maggots. I don’t think a horse cares about the morality of its final fate as long as it’s quick. Duplicitous

WILL VERBOVEN

AG WRITER

lobby groups and their TV producer allies never mention what is to become of the unwanted horses that would accumulate were they not disposed of by the processing industry. The closest they come is appealing for the support of horse rescue sanctuaries. The implication being that enough funding could save all the horses destined for slaughter. That’s a tall order as around 70,000 horses annually are either exported live or processed in Canada. It’s claimed 70% of Canadians are opposed to the horsemeat business; then perhaps those compassionate folks should commit to annually contributing a mere $100 to retire all those unwanted horses to rural tranquillity. But as with most causes, folks only pay lip service rather than real cash. Nowadays, publicity-hungry TV personalities and musicians are attaching themselves

to image-conscious causes. Jann Arden was featured on the show visiting her rescue horse at a sanctuary. That would leave another 70,000 such horses that she and her admirers need to rescue this year.

The show focused on the air transport of live horses to Japan. They are processed there into a sliced raw horse meat delicacy that costs $100 per serving in Japanese restaurants. Eating raw horsemeat is hardly unusual; fish are eaten raw as sushi, raw hamburger as steak tartare, and beef is eaten rare in much of the world. In visiting Japan to confront offending horsemeat eaters, a CTV reporter found it challenging to find many Japanese ready to condemn horsemeat eating. Consider this; a reporter from an East Indian TV show would probably find it equally challenging to find someone in Alberta willing to condemn our eating of

sacred cows (beef), which Indian Hindus consider sinful and criminal. That’s the hypocrisy part for many opposed to the horsemeat issue.

The show tried to highlight the cruelty of air transportation by alleging horses were jammed into cramped cages and suffered irreparable physical and mental harm. There may be a few incidents, but considering the whopping cost of flying a horse to Japan and then its feeding and processing, I expect every care is taken during its transportation. Horses are probably in more injury danger in regular land transportation, and more die from stepping in gopher holes than flying overseas. My son worked one summer loading meat horses onto planes; his experience was quite different from the contrived and manipulated images featured on the TV show. But then a more

truthful story would not be helpful in lobby group campaigning for donations to the cause.

The show did get some comments on the issue from a horse industry group spokesperson, but it’s a no-win situation for them when the premise of the show is stacked against you – he got 2 minutes. The Fort Macleod horse plant owners wisely turned down any participation in this biased performance, as I am sure they learned a long time ago from experience that they would have been set up as villains. As long as horses remain part of business, entertainment and pleasure, and no vast user-paid retirement service exists, it is fair to condone a regulated alternative for their final destination that doesn’t cost taxpayers millions. Will Verboven is an ag opinion writer and policy advisor.

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Brooks, Alberta - Annett Auction Center Bidding begins online Monday, March 29th @ 8 am and Lots will start to close at 1:00 pm on Thursday, April 1st.

TracTors 2013 New Holland T7 250 FWA Diesel Tractor * # ZDBZ07106* 2887.5 hrs at listing in Dec. 2020 will update closer to sale * Self leveling 875TL Loader w/ 8’ bucket and grapple * Power Shift Transmission with reverser * 20.8R42 rear tires & 420 85R30 front tires ( good )* Very clean 1 owner unit

2006 New Holland TC48DA diesel tractor w / loader* # HV11437* 18LA loader with 7’ bucket* 828 hours * 3 point hitch * 540 PTO

Haying equipmenT 2010 Krone 1290HDP Large Square Baler* # 793299* Monitor and Accumulator cart * under 7000 bales * GOOD CONDITION

2014 Krone Easy Cut 4013 CV Mower Conditioner* # 886802* 1000 PTO* 13’ wide swath* Flail conditioner * good condition

Mon., March 29, 2021 at 8 am

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Tractors and Equipment will be located at the “ ANNETT AUCTION CENTER “

# 1 Joanne Trucking Road viewing 8am to 5 pm. Monday to Friday

8am to Noon Saturday’s

2014 Krone Swadro 800/26 Rotary Rake * # 883912* 26’ swath * 540 PTO drive * good condition

Trailers 2015 EBY Maverick 30’ Tri-axle All Aluminum Livestock Gooseneck Trailer * 30’ long x 6’11” wide x 6’6” tall* Tri-axle Dexter Torflex 7000lb grease axles * 235/85R16 steel belted radial tires * Matching mounted spare tire and rim * Front rolling gate with 15’ rail * Full swing center gate with slam latch and outside release* Full width extended rear bumper * 1 piece aluminum floor (no deflection )* Tandem 12k jacks * Lighted aluminum sign on nose * 2 5/16” ball coupler or King Pin * Double tail lights with backup inserts/fender lights are mid-span signals and covered with an aluminum stone guard * This unit is in great condition and has been serviced and cleaned @ T Down , all lights are LED and working / wiring checked / electric brakes all serviced and good / breakaway system checked and battery new .

1985 Maverick GN Ramp floor Trailer* # T265013* Triaxle 7k spring axles * Maverick ramping deck * Planks need work * 12 vt. built in winch (condition unknown)* Tires older

Trucks and combine 1987 C 70 Chev.Tandem Grain Truck* # 1GBS7D4E9HV108251* 66272 kms* 8 CY. V8 gas motor * Eaton 2 speed standard transmission* 18’ Midland steel box * Michel’s Select Cover * twin post hoist ( Good ) * Western hyd. drill fill

1999 Freightliner Road Tractor * # 1FUYFDZB3XLA25136* 708,922 KMS. * Eaton Fuller standard transmission* Full walk-in bunk * Interior clean * Crack in curbside windshield * Curbside fender damaged and repaired with Fiberglass kit* 24.5 aluminum rims with good tires * Aluminum front bumper

1991 Case Axle Flow SP Combine * # 1676908* 874 hrs * operational condition * 12’ pickup header

* unit has been kept in good condition and is operational * Clean combine

Tillage and seeding 2007 Delta 32’ Chain harrows and cart* Double 10’ wings with 12’ base* In very good condition 2014 Horsch Anderson Joker MT15 Disc * # 330015014006* 15’ vertical disc * 3 point hitch * w/ steel packers * Like new unit

1998 Flexi-Coil 70’ Harrow packer* 5’ steel coil packers* spring tooth harrow sections * double hyd. wing with cylinders 1990 IH 620 Disc Drill * 28’ overall width * w/ transport

livesTock Handling equipmenT 2016 Q Catch Cattle Squeeze* auto head catch* 8’ unit * Drop bar

2016 Hi-Hog Portable loading * Steel construction * Height adjustable * Very good condition

2017 Shop Built Loading Chute on skid * steel construction* 2 position ramp

* very well built and good design

( 5 ) 30’ Free Standing wind break panels(37) 8 bar 24’ x 65” steel freestanding panels (2 7/8 pipe and sucker rod )(8) 8 bar 24’x 65” steel free standing alley panels with joiner tubes ( 2/78 and sucker rod )(10) 7 bar 24’ x 65” steel freestanding panels ( 2 7/8 pipe and sucker rod )(32) 5 bar 24’x 60” Light Duty Free standing panels ( 1x1 tubing)GATES : ( 8 ) 16’ steel gate w/ hinges ( 5 ) 12’ gates w/ hinges ( 1 ) 10’ gate w/ hinges ( 1 ) 8’ gate w/ hinges ( 2 ) All steel silage bunks 40’ long x 5’ wide ( 1 bunk has some damage )

( 8 ) 30’ x 4’ Steel pipe frame and plank construction silage bunks ( 1 bunk has broken plank)

mic. ag. equipmenT 2016 Wheatheart Heavy Hitter Hydraulic Post Pounder* Hydraulic Huger

* 11hp Honda gas motor * w/ wire roller attachment* standard post storage

2012 Wacker - Neuson 20KW Generator * Model G25 - 20 KW* 3 phase * Diesel on skid * Good unit (2) steel pipe racks(1) 12’x 7’ Texas gate

lawn mower & gaTor 2013 John Deere 2445 Zero Turn Lawn Mower* # 1M0Z445KVDM131351* 27.00 HP Gas motor ( 5 step cyclone / USA made )* 48” steel deck * 1 owner

2014 John Deere 825I S4 Gator * # 1M0825GFLMD0261599 * 4X4 , 4 seater* Hdraulic lift bax * Tow hitch * clean unit

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Notice of Annual General Meeting

Please be advised that the membership of the Alfalfa Seed Commission is encouraged to participate in the 2021 AGM.

Tuesday March 30th, 2021

Online - hosted by Rural Roots Canada Starting @ 9am.

To register please go to the website alfalfaseedab.com

Or email Jodi [email protected]

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TAKE NOTICE THAT A Special General Meeting of the Board of Directors of Tirol Gas Co-op LTD will be held for the purpose of seeking approval for Supplemental Bylaw #7 - to Section 14 of the Rural Utilities Act: Alternative Methods of Voting. This Supplemental bylaw is required prior to the Annual General Meeting in the event that COVID-19 regulations prevent meeting in person, and is subject to change in the future.

Additional information regarding the proposed supplemental bylaw will be available to the membership on our website, www.tirolgas.ca

Please contact our office with any questions403-964-3653

Due to current guideline put in place by the Chief Medical Officer of Health the Special General Meeting will be a Director Only meeting to be held at the Tirol Gas Building Monday, March 31th 2021 beginning at 6:30 PM.

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NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING

TAKE NOTICE THAT A Special General Meeting of the Board of Directors of Tirol Gas Co‐op LTD will beheld for the purpose of seeking approval forSupplemental Bylaw #7 ‐ to Section 14 of the RuralUtilities Act: Alternative Methods of Voting. This Supplemental bylaw is required prior to the AnnualGeneral Meeting in the event that COVID‐19regulations prevent meeting in person, and is subject tochange in the future.

Additional information regarding the proposed supplemental bylaw will be available to the membershipon our website, www.tirolgas.ca

Pleasecontact our office with any questions403‐964‐3653

Due to current guideline put in place by the Chief Medical Officer of Health the Special General Meeting will be a Director Only meeting to be held at the Tirol Gas Building Monday March 31th 2021 beginning at 6:30 PM.

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING

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TILLEY - The Tilley Canada Day Annual General Meeting and Tilley Ball Association Annual General Meeting will both be held on Monday, March 29. Both meetings will take place in person at the Tilley Curling Club – Canada Day AGM at 6:30 pm, and Ball Association AGM at 7:30 pm. Masking and physical distancing will NOT be mandatory. For those not interested in joining in person, we will be broadcasting the meetings via WebEx. Canada Day AGM Room Code : 182 078 1806; Ball Association Room Code: 182 814 3168. We look forward to seeing you there!

The Rolling Hills Ag Society is running a unique fundraising event – the Giant Pumpkin Growing Contest! There are a variety of event categories with which to win a pumpkin prize. Entry fee is $50 and the growing begins April 1. Judging will take place mid-October in Rolling Hills. For more information, please look around for posters or contact Ben at 403-633-4175, Raoul at 403-866-9900, or Darby at 403-363-3216. You do not have to be a Rolling Hills resident to join in the fun!

Bethany Lutheran Church offers weekly services at 11:00 am each Sunday. Everyone is welcome. All health safety protocols remain in place – please wear a mask.

The Tilley and District Public Library is open on

Mondays from 7:00 to 9:00 pm, Wednesdays 9:00 to 11:00 am and 7:00 to 9:00 pm, and on Saturdays, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Deliveries are received weekly on Thursdays. Staff continue to quarantine and handle materials for your safety. Please contact the library if you prefer contactless pick-ups. The library is closed over the Easter weekend, including Easter Monday.

We are now counting down in weeks, but very soon it will become necessary for the public library to close for several months to accommodate the move to the new building. Please be prepared to utilize library services in a different way for some months. Any other Shortgrass library will be able to accommodate your needs during the closure. Further details are forthcoming as planning continues.

For Tilley Community Centre booking inquiries, please email [email protected] or call 403-377-2406.

A student was writing a biology exam and the final question was worth 70 marks – Name 7 advantages of mother’s milk. The student wrote, 1. It is perfectly formulated for the child, 2. It provides immunity against several diseases and maladies, 3. It is always the right temperature, 4. It is inexpensive, 5. It bonds mother and child, 6. It is always available when needed. Then, the student

was stumped. Desperate and with time running short, he finally wrote, 7. It comes in two attractive containers and is high enough off the ground the cat can’t get it. He received an A+!

To submit news items, please PHONE Anita Chappell at 377-2259. You may also EMAIL me at [email protected] with subject line Tilley Telegram. Please contact me by or before 8:00 am on Monday mornings to have your news included for the week. On long weekends, news is due Thursday morning before the holiday!

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Okotoks forced to cancel weekend game against BanditsSANDRA M STANWAYBRookS BulleTiN

The Brooks Bandits got just one game played

over the weekend after the return to play protocol was enacted which forced the game to be cancelled.

A news release on

Saturday stated the game in Brooks that was to be played that night against the Okotoks Oilers was cancelled due to precautionary measures

within the AJHL Return to Play Plan. No other additional information was available.

The return to play states if a member of the AJHL cohort – players or staff – test positive for COVID19 at any point in the season, the team will be required to isolate and suspend all in-person team activities for 14 days.

Okotoks defeated the Calgary Canucks on Friday night, 8-0.

On Sunday the Bandits travelled to Calgary where they doubled the Canucks, 4-2 and improved their season to 5-0 thanks to a 20-save performance from Ethan Barwick. Bandits goals were scored by TJ Hughes, back-to-back goals by Sean Chisholm and Taylor Makar.

The Bandits are expected to be back in action at home on Saturday when they face the Canucks. They

are expected to travel to Okotoks on Sunday.

Chris Pappas, a 20-year-old Torontonian who has been with the team since 2019-2020, said everything has been getting back to normal with regular practices since COVID forced everyone off the ice but no cheering crowds has also resulted in some changes.

“Our home ice advantage kind of gets thrown out the window but I think it’s a lot on the team and all the players to create their own energy and their own environments against other teams which I think we’ve done so it’s been fun.”

When the team returned to the ice after a three-month break, Pappas said it was a big change to get back into game ready shape.

“Our coaches have done a good job with keeping us on the ice.”

This is Pappas’ last

season with the Bandits. Pappas has committed to St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York where he will play for the Saints.

Chris is a highly skilled forward with a great hockey IQ,” said Saints head coach Brent Brekke.

“After a strong season putting up a point per game in his first season with Brooks last year, he has shown another level to his game and has had a tremendous start. Chris will add a lot of offense to our roster.”

Over the weekend the Saints were crowned the ECAC Hockey League Champions and were to move to the NCAA tournament but the team was forced to withdraw when Brekke’s COVID test was positive. Quinnipiac University takes the ECAC’s automatic bid to the tournament as league champion.


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2021 SEASONAL BOAT SLIPS ROLLING HILLS RESERVOIR CAMPGROUND

The Eastern Irrigation District is now accepting applications for Seasonal Boat Slips for the marina at the Rolling Hills Reservoir Campground. The camping season is extended this year with an opening date of May 14 through September 30, 2021.

• Seasonal boat slip fees are $475/season, plus GST.

• Additional boat slips will be available to rent on a daily or weekly basis, through the campground office.

• Maps of the marina boat slip layout and numbers are available on our website.

Application forms are available at www.eid.ca or at the EID main office (550 Industrial Road West, Brooks). Application forms must include the application fee of $475, plus GST.

For more information visit www.eid.ca or call (403) 362-1400.

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The day use area at Kinbrook Island is getting busy on the weekends as the warmer weather arrives. Hopefully people will be more careful how they leave the spots than the ones who used this fire pit on the weekend. | BULLETIN PHOTO

WARDLOW - Well John and I had our COVID first shots last week. We didn’t do it with out lots of thought. At the last our decision was made to yes we will do what ever we can to live in a more normal environment. Looking at last year I put a lot of unknown substance into my body to battle cancer and I did this because medical personnel said it may help with no promises, I wanted to live so I did it. Thinking about it I truly don’t know what is in any medication, I take it because it is supposed to help. I’m not even sure what’s in bologna or hot dogs, truly don’t want to think about it just want to enjoy a wiener roast with my family and friends. I realize that each person must decide for themselves and do what you feel is right for you. And most importantly don’t fight or name call if some one makes different choice than you.

If you have some news to share call me at (403) 566-2448 or email at [email protected] .

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Good turnout at golf AGM continues the positive vibe

SANDRA M STANWAYBRooKS BulleTIN

About 50 people attended last week’s annual general meeting of the Brooks Golf Club which continues the positive trend that started during the 2020 season.

Despite COVID, a late start and fewer playing days the club was financially successful with about $130,000 in income.

“It was not as bad as we expected,” said Mike Hamilton, in his greens committee report.

The club received $10,000 in federal funding which they used to hire a consulting firm to help them move forward and to hire a new general manager after the previous one quit in November. The report will be presented at a later date.

Justin Latrace, the club’s treasurer, said hiring the firm was about the direction they were trending.

He said between 2015 and 2017 the kitchen did well but began to spiral down at an alarming rate.

In 2017 the club netted just under $130,000 but lost $50,000 during each of the following two years.

Last year it jumped up to $128,880.

“We were heading in the wrong direction. We felt we lacked strategic direction as a board. We didn’t have a long-term plan in place and more of our decision making was reactionary not proactive,” Latrace said.

The board wanted someone who could help them to become more proactive which led to Kelly Cherkowski, a 25-year golf veteran.

“I’ve worked everywhere from small golf courses with small memberships to building golf courses in Vietnam and in Thailand but we’re really, really happy to be back here as part of the community and part of the legacy,” he told members.

He said the course exceeded his expectations.

“You guys have a fabulous golf course here. The playability and the condition is outstanding.”

Kent Baker, the club’s outgoing vice president, said they needed someone to make a plan for the club to save money for the $1 million replacement of the irrigation system.

“Being the reactive board that we were that wasn’t really in the future plans because we were surviving,” said Baker.

“I think having an expert on board is going to pay benefits down the road.”

This season’s capital projects include new patio doors, a kitchen oven and grill, a charcoal grill as well as upgrades in the bar and new lighting in the pro shop.

The membership rate resulted in a fairly lengthy discussion although they were ultimately accepted by the members.

The seniors rate was increased to $1,350 and there is a chance it will be eliminated in 2022.

“That has been discussed. It has not been decided on,” said outgoing president Brian Shantz.

It was found that seniors play more rounds on average than other golfers but their membership is 25 per cent lower.

He said the increase should have been made gradually over the years.

“We’re just ripping the Band-Aid off and moving the rate to where it is today.”

One member said the elimination of the seniors rate is a slap in the face.

“We’d love to keep them as low as possible but operating costs will continue to go up and we want to provide a product that you guys enjoy,” Shantz responded.

A member suggested that the board increase the green fees which are $77 for adults with a cart for 18 holes.

“Now is the time to raise green fee walk-on cost,” he said.

“You don’t have to put it on the members all of the time,” said another person.

Speaking as president for the final year Shantz said regardless of last year’s pandemic the club was supported.

“Despite everything going on we were able to have a financially successful year,” he said.

The incoming executive member were acclaimed and are Brent Kopec as president, Linda Simpson as vice president, Latrace treasurer and Wayne Eggen is secretary.


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Brooks, Alberta, T1R 1B2 Phone (403) 362-1400 Fax (403) 362-6206 www.eid.ca

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Date: March 12, 2021

To: Bassano Times [email protected] Brooks Bulletin [email protected]

From: Wendy Enns

RE: Applications for Irrigation Acres – Ad Please run the ad below in the following issues: Bassano Times - March 22nd

Brooks Bulletin - March 17th & 24th

The ad should be approximately the same size as below. Please respond with proof of ads. Thanks so much – Wendy …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

APPLICATIONS FOR IRRIGATION ACRES

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In accordance with Irrigation Acres Bylaw #943 [bylaw and application form available on the District website] the Eastern Irrigation District is now accepting applications for irrigation acres. Landowners must contact the EID Office (362-1400) and complete an application form; previously declined applications will not automatically be resubmitted.

Applications for Projects to be completed by September 30, 2021: • To permit eligible installation-ready projects to proceed this season, applications are now being accepted up

to end of day, Friday, March 26th. • Additional acres required for projects may be under or over the 50 irrigation acre threshold; and may be for

irrigation parcels or dry parcels. • Applications will be rated and presented at the April 20th Board of Directors Meeting and landowners will be

informed directly after of the Board’s decision.

Applications for Projects to be completed by September 30, 2022: • In continuance of the format of annual approvals for projects requiring over 50 irrigation acres, or for projects

on dry parcels: o applications will be accepted up to end of day, September 30th o projects are to be completed by September 30th of the following year

• Applications will be rated and presented at the November Board of Directors Meeting, after which Landowners will be contacted of the Board’s decision.

Ongoing Applications: • Landowners may apply at any time during the year for projects requiring 50 or less irrigation acres to be

added to existing irrigation parcels. • Upon project approval by the Board, Landowners are given 1 year to complete the project.

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BOW CITY - We have had some beautiful days last week up in the high teens once. Can sure put up with that and hope it warms up more since the first day of spring began on the 20th.

If you have some news for my newsletter please phone me at 403-362-2206 or email Vikki at [email protected] by Sunday evening or phone Vikki at 403-466-0395 also.

Dana Molnar and daughter, Zarena, from Calgary, came to Brad and Carrie’s for a visit for the weekend. Nice surprise and they sure helped out in working on tearing the old deck down from their house. Saturday afternoon Brad and Zarena went for quad rides, nice run-away and then Brad and Dana helped a calf up, close to Brad Calvert’s garbage pit, to get to its mom. Cute and funny and sure got a lot of work done.

Jerry and I have been out hunting gophers a few days after they have came out which is fairly early for them this year. Have had good luck but at least it is something to do to get out of the house!

Had a good card and dice party here again Saturday night as a few of us gathered for the night. Fun and laughs all evening.

Walking down the street, two hillbillies met a Catholic nun whose arm was in a sling, “What’s wrong with your arm, Sister? Asked one hillbilly, “It’s broken in three places,” the Sister replied. “How did that happen?” asked the second hillbilly. “I slippd in the bathtub,” the sister replied. After leaving, the first hillbilly asked the other. “What is a bathtub? “Heck I don’t know,” said his friend. “I’m not a Catholic.”

SCANDIA - This year will be the Easter Bunny’s 25th year of Hippity Hopping through Scandia! Hip Hop Horray!!!! Scandia’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt is scheduled for Saturday, April 3rd @ 10am in the EID Historical Park. Please call 4033629630 to register. All ages are welcome to come and join in the hunt!

If you didn’t partake in the pumpkin growing contest last fall you’ll have your chance again. Start thinking about the pumpkin you’ll be planting this spring for the next fall Pumpkin Growing Contest.

Alcoma School News- the school is now selling hanging flower baskets. If you would like to purchase a basket to help support the school please contact myself, the school or any of our Alcoma school students. Orders are due in April 19th. ECS registration is now available on the schools website or you may contact the school 4033623741. The zoom assembly scheduled for Thursday has been moved to this Tuesday. The school is no longer in need of plastic bottle caps. Thank you to everyone who saved and donated! Stay tuned for our bottle cap masterpiece!

As we know our Alberta weather can change rapidly. Please remind your children about the importance of dressing for the weather so they can be safe and comfortable while playing outside. The school will gladly accept bottle

donations and they can be dropped beside the quonset. Check out the Facebook page for more info or contact the school if needed. 403-362-3741.

The Alcoma Community Library is once again open to the public, Thursdays from 3:30-5pm. Protocols will be followed like the last time, with only 1 person allowed at a time to enter and check out items. We will continue with Curbside pickup and returns still if patrons prefer that.

The Rolling Hills Ag Society is planning their 1st annual Giant Pumpkin Growing Contest. Purchase a membership for $50 which includes 5giant pumpkin seeds and 1 tshirt, and a discounted admission to the fall weigh in event. Prizes will be given heaviest, largest girth, ugliest, combined weight, and kids heaviest pumpkin. Earliest planting date is April 1st. For more info please contact Ben 4036334175, Raoul 4038969900, or Darby 4033623216. Memberships are available at the Rolling Hills post office.

Scandia’s Salem Lutheran Church is continuing to hold Sunday services at 9am, following all protocols and guidelines.

Please Note- Masks are now mandatory inside the Post Office. Also due to the size of the reception area in the Scandia Post Office, the Area Superintendent has advised to limit the number of customers coming in to

pick up their mail/parcels, to one at a time. Please respect this request and act accordingly. Thank you.

Have you checked in with your senior neighbors? If you’re going

for groceries, maybe you can pick something up for them? Support seniors at home. Seniors can contact 211 if they need help finding resources in their community. 211 is

a comprehensive referral system accessible to all Albertans. Call or text 2-1-1 or visit ab.211.ca

It’s always great to hear about our neighbors and the exciting things happening in

the community. If you have any news or interesting Scandia trivia you’d like submitted in the sketch, please contact me at [email protected] or 403-362-5488.


2021 SEASONAL CAMPSITES DRAW ROLLING HILLS RESERVOIR CAMPGROUND

The Eastern Irrigation District is now accepting Seasonal Campsite applications for the Rolling Hills Reservoir Campground.

35 seasonal campsites, with electricity, will be available from May 14th until September 30th, 2021 at a fee of $3,200 + GST.

*Applications are due by 5:00 PM on April 5th, 2021 and must include the $500 application fee (to be applied to the seasonal campsite fee for selected entries). Forms can either be dropped off at the EID office or mailed to the address below.

*Application forms and other information regarding the campground can be found at www.eid.ca or at the EID main office.

Eastern Irrigation District PO Box 128, 550 Industrial Road West Brooks, AB T1R 1B2 (403) 362-1400

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2021 ‘CITIZEN OF THE YEAR’

‘JUNIOR CITIZEN OF THE YEAR’ NOMINATION FORM

Grasslands Regional FCSS recognizes excellence in our community. In partnership with our sponsors, we are proud to announce the annual Citizen and Junior Citizen of the Year 2021. Due to the pandemic, no gala will be held this year. Recipients of the award and Nominees will be recognized through our media partners and other methods during National Volunteer Week April 18th – 24th.

Selection Criteria

To be considered for the 2021 Citizen or Junior Citizen of the Year Award: ➢ The work or services performed by the nominee must not concern work performed in public office. ➢ The nominee must not have received compensation for the services performed. ➢ Grasslands Regional FCSS Board and Staff are not eligible for nomination. ➢ The achievement of the nominee should be something that has demonstrated contributions to the

betterment of the community. (e.g. volunteering/nonprofit organizations/community groups) ➢ Junior Citizen of the Year Nominees must be in Grade 10-12

I, (name of person nominating) wish to nominate (Name of candidate) for the Citizen or Junior Citizen of the Year

Award. Name of Nominee

Address of Nominee

If Junior Citizen of the Year, AGE and Grade of Nominee (MUST BE IN HIGH SCHOOL GR 10-12) ___________

Phone number of Nominee Nominee e-mail:

Phone number of pers on nominating Nominator e-mail:

Signature of Nominator: _______________________________________________

Why are you nominating this person? Attach a Detailed Summary including the following:

1) Any information about the candidate such as: Community or Humanitarian Services performed. Where the services were performed, how long the services were performed and the impact on the community 2) Nominee’s personal characteristics 3) Letter of Support for Nominee (MINIMUM of 5) 4) Any other information you wish to include about the person you are nominating. Nominations from previous years can be resubmitted if the nominee has not received the award.

PLEASE RETURN TO FCSS: Fax: 403- 362-4571 OR

Mail: Box 1994, Brooks AB T1R 1C7 OR Email: [email protected]

DEADLINE: Thursday, April 9th, 2021 53c

A lone ice fisherman on Lake Newell last week. | BULLETIN PHOTO

All 2021 aquarium moss balls should be destroyed

SANDRA M STANWAYBRookS BuLLeTiN

With aquarium moss (marimo) balls in the western states and Alberta being found to hold invasive mussels, Todd Green, the county’s director of ag services is urging everyone to be extra careful.

“If for some reason somebody made the mistake to flush that aquarium water or put that aquarium water in their pond it’s a really easy way for those muscles to propagate and that’s kind of where our concern was,” he told council recently.

“We really wanted to make sure that people knew about it even if they already had them.”

In Alberta moss balls with live zebra mussels were found at a Calgary dealer which sold them to retailers. Workers have been checking other retailers and are urging anyone who has suspected moss balls to contact conservation staff.

An Alberta team sampled moss balls that were found in the province and confirmed they contained zebra mussels.

Water samples are being tested to see if they contain veligers which are the larval form of mussels.

Moss balls are used in aquariums to help with water quality and can be used as a food source.

Any moss balls purchased after Jan. 1, 2021 are to be destroyed because they likely contain live zebra mussels.

If those mussels get into the water they will clog water intakes and pipelines which will cost the province at least $75 million to control They cannot be eliminated.

Instructions for destroying moss balls include freezing and packing and cleaning

any residue. They or the aquarium water is not to be put into any water source including down a drain or in a waterbody.

Call 1-855-336-2628 (BOAT) if you have any questions about their destruction or if you suspect that you have found any mussels.

“Mussels that have been discovered by AEP (Alberta Environment and Parks) staff have ranged in size from being barely visible to extremely small,” states a social media post from My Wild Alberta.

The organization states they received reports from one person who purchased moss balls at the beginning of February.

“We are working closely with our partners in other jurisdictions and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to trace shipments that were received in the

province.”Pet and plant stores

are being contacted to remove the product from their shelves and halt sales immediately.

If stores have any moss balls in stock they are to be seized under the Fisheries (Alberta) Act.

A package of aquarium moss balls. All moss balls purchased after Jan. 1 are to be properly destroyed. | ALBERTA GOVERNMENT OF ALBERTA PHOTO

Bassano’s major wastewater project

underway

Hillside excavating clears vegetation near Bassano’s existing lagoon to make way for a new lagoon cell on the site. The town is completing a wastewater treatment upgrade and irrigation project that will include a pivot on a field east of Highway 1. | TOM MACPHAIL PHOTO

SANDRA M STANWAYBRookS BuLLeTiN

Bassano’s wastewater treatment upgrades and irrigation project are underway with the clearing of the vegetation near Highway 1.

When the project is completed later this year it will have a new storage cell, upgrades to the existing lagoon transfer structures as well as a pump and irrigation pivot which will be set up on east of Highway 1.

The project will provide a sustainable outlet for

the discharge of treated wastewater effluent.

“This is welcoming news for our community as we have been working to bring this project together for many years,” states a public notice from the town.

The town began working on the project in 2017 when they found out it was required to bring the system into compliance with provincial standards.

The $7.020 million project received $2,723,264 from the federal government, $2,339,766 from the province and $1,956,970 from the town.


“Go West – young man”PART SIX

The late Leonard D. Nesbitt was editor of The Brooks Bulletin from 1912 to 1920 and was associated with this newspaper and a great many people in the district from those years until his death in Calgary at the age of 81.

H e c o m p l e t e d t h i s autobiography a year or so before his death; it has no message but readers may find it interesting.

I t w i l l b e p u b l i s h e d intermittently over the next few weeks.

***WESTWARD HO!The lure of the Canadian west

was strong in the early years of this century. The province of Alberta appealed to me for I wanted to be close to the Rocky Mountains. I wanted to get to a new region which was at its beginning in expansion. I thought I had a better chance for advancement under such c o n d i t i o n s . I h ave n eve r regretted my decision to leave Ontario and settle in Alberta.

I went home from Toronto and said good-bye to my parents and sisters and brothers in Lindsay. That was in the last few days in the month of May, 1910, and the weather was warm and the countryside greening. My mother was concerned about me going so far away but she prayed for me and wished me good luck. I walked to the far corner of the block in which our home was located (119 Regent street) and turned to look back and there was my mother standing on the verandah waving farewell. She did the same when I was a six-year-old lad, starting to school for the first time. (In January, 1911. I received a telegram from

my father informing me that my mother was very ill. I went back to Lindsay and a short time later she died and was buried in the Riverside cemetery).

I took the train for the West in Toronto on a Sunday night and four days later arrived in Calgary. My mother wanted to pack lunches for me but the train stopped frequently on the way and there were lunch counters in the stations all the way along. I was not too flush with money and had to be careful. A young fellow from Scotland going through to Vancouver was my seat mate. We watched the rugged scenery along Northern Ontario and caught an occasional glimpse of the Great Lakes. Then came the vast prairies, “the gardens of the desert, boundless as beautiful, for which the speech of England has no name.” It was an awesome sight and a strange one for a young fellow who had been raised in heavily treed regions. It took me some years to really get used to the long reaches of the treeless land.

When we reached Medicine Hat we were ‘greeted’ with the worse dust storm I had ever seen. Further west a snowstorm was encountered and when we left the train at Calgary there was a foot of that white stuff on the ground. On the way to the Queen’s Hotel, where the Scotch lad and I spent our first night in Calgary, we discovered that there was a layer of mud beneath the snow. That was my introduction to Calgary. The date was June 1, 1910.

The next morning I located the office of the Albertan newspaper. It was on the northeast corner of Ninth avenue and First street east. The only one in the office was a bookkeeper, as the staff did not come to work until

noon, the Albertan being a morning newspaper. I walked northward to see the Bow River, which I had pictured as a gentle, slow-running stream where one could paddle a canoe, as I had enjoyed doing in rivers around Lindsay. But the Bow was a rushing mountain-born torrent, cold as the ice fields in which it originated, and not a boat or boathouse to be seen on its banks.

In the afternoon I met W.M. Davidson and the staff of the Albertan. The office was a dismal, dusty place with tiny rooms for the reporters. I was disgusted and thought of going on to the Pacific coast, but I had only $8.00 in my pocket. I paid that sum for my first week’s board and room i a house on 12th Ave. East. Then I caught a bad cold.

I discovered that I had to cover other assignments besides sports events. The Albertan did not have many reporters and it obviously was a struggle to keep the newspaper financially afloat. Cliff Kirke, one of the reporters, took me around to get acquainted on the second day. Among his connections were a number of bartenders and when he got hungry he would order a big glass of beer with a raw egg inserted therein. That was his lunch.

Andy Moore was business manager and Harry Ford was the advertising manager. “Harry’s son now operated The Lacombe Globe). There was a man named J.M. Macdonald who had been a teacher in a small college in Ontario, and he had some authority over the news. He also covered the rural districts and wrote stories gleaned there from. His weakness was liquor. When apparently under that influence, and while in the town

of Gleichen, he agreed to take the position of publicity man at a salary of $150 a month. When he sobered up he tried to wish the job onto me. No dice!

***W. M . D av i d s o n wa s a n

enthusiastic baseball fan and sat beside me as I covered the games at Victoria Park. The team was composed of imports and was in a league which included Winnipeg, Regina, Moose Jaw, Calgary and Edmonton. He asked me on one occasion what I thought of the calibre of ball they played. “Not bad for Class D,” I foolishly answered. I had been used to the standard of baseball in the Eastern League, then Class A. I sure got in wrong with “Dave”, as he was known behind his back.

The editorial staff had an original “fringe benefits” deal with Crist’s Cafe on Ninth Ave. , which had a steady advertisement in the paper. Payment was due when the paper came out at midnight and the reporters would collect contra account – by getting their breakfasts at Crist’s. On one occasion I stepped beyond the pay limit by ordering strawberries and cream and the waiter followed me to the office for the extra – 15 cents.

The Albertan also had its first annual banquet . The commissariat committee erred and supplied each guest with two bottles of beer and one mickey of whiskey. The result was that the banquet got under way amid great hilarity. When in the course of the feast Mr. Davidson got hit in the eye with a thrown pickle, he declared the affair to be the first and the last Albertan banquet.

When money was scarce the staff had to accept a percentage of their salaries in orders on city merchants. On one occasion I purchased a winter overcoat from Dan Cashman, whose motto was “Meet Me Face to Face.” I handed over the order before I made the deal and the only overcoat in the store that he claimed would fit me was a monstrosity he had never been able to sell anybody else. And winter was coming on. Afterwards I always made my purchase first and then handed over the order.

***Another story that was

circulated at that time was that Mr. Davidson stopped to ask Andy Moore, the business manager, for a couple of dollars as he was on his way home. “We have no money,” was the reply. “Then could you lend me a street car tickets?” Mr. Davidson is supposed to have replied.

***Daily newspapers in that

era were either Liberal or Conservative. Those were the only two political parties and there was no place in the middle of the road. The Albertan was Liberal and the Herald was Conservative. The city of Calgary was a consistent supporter of the Conservative party while Edmonton, probably under the influence of Frank Oliver, publisher of the Edmonton Bulletin, was Liberal. That was the underlying reason why Edmonton became the capital city of Alberta and also the site of the University of Alberta. Frank Oliver was a cabinet minister in the federal government. The Liberals held political power in provincial affairs as well. That

An autobiography by Leonard D. Nesbitt – 1888-1969party was in power from 1905 when the territory entered Canadian Confederation as a province, until 1921 when the United Farmers of Alberta won an election.

W. M . D av i d s o n wa s a n intelligent man and an able editor. He had come to Calgary from Ontario and purchased the Albertan which was and is a morning daily. But Calgary has never been morning newspaper minded and the Herald, owned by the Southam family, had ample financial support. Mr. Davidson was always short of cash . He would never kow-tow to advertisers and that cost him business. R.B. Bennett, later prime minister of Canada, was a substantial shareholder in the Albertan, but that did not stop Davidson from opposing him strongly in the political field.

In the early 1920’s Mr. Davidson was e lected as m e m b e r o f t h e A l b e r t a legislative assembly and a Liberal, that party then being in control of the government. He was defeated in the election in 1925 when the United Farmers of Alberta political party swept into power. I had published some kind remarks about him in The Bassano Mail, which I then owned and on November 17, 1925, he wrote me:

Dear Mr. Nesbitt;Of the happiest memories of

the election, which are not very many, the happiest I think were your very kind references to me, both during and after. You were very kind and I appreciate your kindness.

With best wishes, yours truly.W.M. Davidson

(To Be Continued)

Holy Family Academy proposes full day kindergarten

Full time registration must be complete on March 31...

SANDRA M STANWAYBRookS BulleTIN

Holy Family Academy in Brooks is considering increasing their Kindergarten program.

The program would move to four full days and one half day which is the same as the regular school schedule.

Lorraine Spence, HFA principal, said it does give the child consistency to be in class. Currently kindergarten students attend a couple of days a week with gaps between being in school as well as weekend and holiday gaps.

“With them being at school every day we’re able to give them more of that consistency, they have more opportunity to build up their literacy and numeracy in the morning and it gives us more time in the afternoon more time to explore through play,” she said.

“It builds up routines and relationships with adults and children, which are huge. When they come two times a week it takes time to get back into the routine of things.”

Students would also have the advantage of being a little further ahead when they reach Grade 1.

If a child cannot be with

a parent all day because of work being in school all day is also a good option rather than shuffling them to day care and school.

The all day schooling would cost parents about $250 per month to cover staffing.

The province funds schools to teach about 400 hours of kindergarten per year.

She hopes the fee is affordable for any family that wants to take advantage

of the program.As of Friday there were

17 students enrolled in a 20 student class for September.

If they get another 23 students registered they will open a second class.

Registration must be completed by March 31 to plan for September staffing.

Scott Brandt, superintendent at Grasslands Public Schools said a similar program will be part of a future discussion.

Five-year-old Adeline Huber enjoys a book during quiet reading time at Holy Family Academy. | SUBMITTED PHOTO

County readies for Brooks Kinsmen tree planting programSANDRA M STANWAYBRookS BulleTIN

The county has been working with the Brooks Kinsmen Club which will begin their tree planting program at the Silver Sage Rodeo grounds.

The county offered equipment and mulch to help and other community partners including the EID and the city have come forward.

“We’re happy to help them out in that regard,”

said Todd Green, the county’s director of ag services.

The county applied for a TD Tree Days program last year for the Kinsmen and they were approved, however, the program was cancelled.

The Kinsmen were able to secure funding for other trees and they have partnered with the EID for water delivery and a turnout, said Green.

“This spring they’re

going to move a little gravel back because the trees are kind of going around the chain link fence, work up the area and then we’re going to use our tree planter and our plastic mulch applicator and put in some shelter belt rolls,” he said.

It’s likely the trees will be three rows thick so in about 10 years there will be some protection from the wind while beautifying the area.

One Tree World IrMa MErkl

ONE TREE - Wow what a lovely week we had again. Gee, I don’t know how long this will last but I’ll take it over snow for sure. On Saturday afternoon I heard my first robin but I didn’t see him, It may have been just passing through, but I hope it shows itself in the days to follow. The birds may just get a surprise if they come back too soon as it is only March. And speaking of March we are already into the last half of the month.

Well I hope everyone is getting their vaccine shots, I got mine last week and as far as I know a lot of my friends have theirs already too. Maybe one of these days we’ll be able to visit with friends again. In the

meantime I hope that those that haven’t got their shots. Even after getting our shots you are still required to KEEP wearing the MASKS and WASHING your hands and /or do SANITIZING. Let’s try to keep everyone safe, including yourselves and your loved ones too, as well as other folks.

Birthday greetings this coming week go out to Dick Alberts and to Dave Waschenfielder, both on Mar. 27th; to Wayne Bunney of Derwent and to William Allaby, both on Mar. 28th; to Elvin Robinson of Rimby Care Facility on Mar. 29th; to Dusty Airth and to Peggy Hasselberg of Two Hills on Mar. 31st. We wish each of you a great day and we wish each of you a “Very Happy

Birthday” and to everyone else that is celebrating a birthday this week, we also wish everyone all the best for many great years.

Happy anniversary wishes go to Michael and Corey (Merkl) Meyer of Chestermere on March 26th, we wish you both all the best for many, healthy and happy years together.

My thought for the week— How is a best friend like a four-leafed clover? Well because, they are hard to find and lucky to have.

Courage and will, perseverance and skill, are the four leaves of Luck’s Clover.

I’ve nothing much to report again this week. Sorry folks!!! Stay safe and stay healthy and take care.


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ANSWERS

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Don’t shy away from the issues that keep cropping up this week, Aries. They may cause a few headaches, but they also are making the days much more exciting.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Taurus, many people like to live by the mantra “don’t judge a book by its cover,” but many times appearances matter. Don’t regret picking out a nice outfit or a trendy restaurant.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Change may take you in unexpected directions this week, Gemini. The good news is that things are finally turning around for you. Enjoy this exciting time.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Cancer, you may be drawn to people who appeal to your analytical side this week. You could be interested in some intellectual debate and need a worthy sparring partner.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, if you see a chance to get ahead this week, jump on it. No matter what is involved or how inconvenient, you do not want to let this opportunity pass you by.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22There is much more clarity in your life this week, Virgo. It’s almost as if a veil has been lifted or if your eyeglasses prescription has been fine-tuned.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Libra, there might be a lot of activity going around you over the course of the week. Whether it’s good or bad, you won’t be directly involved in any of it.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Exercise caution when sharing your secrets, Scorpio. Make sure others can be tight-lipped, as some people cannot resist passing on a little gossip here and there.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21There is great harmony in your life right now and it’s due mostly to the fact that you are working together with people both at home and at work. Keep up the collaborations.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20Listen to people around you to get a fresh perspective on various components of life that you share. People may have good ideas and be willing to share their advice.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, if you have been trying to become better acquainted with someone in your personal life or even at the office, pay attention to their body language. It can say a lot.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Pisces, trust your heart this week and be honest with how you feel about situations. Not every decision has to be based on analysis. Trust your gut.

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in memoryin memory

In loving memory of

ANTHONY (TONY) SICKEL April 21, 1933 – March 26, 2011

We Remember Him

When we are weary and in need of strength, We remember him.

When we have a joy we crave to share When we have decisions that are difficult to make,

We remember him. At the blowing of the wind and in the chill of winter

At the opening of the buds and in the rebirth of spring, We remember him.

At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer At the rustling of the leaves and in the beauty of autumn,

We remember him. At the rising of the sun and at its setting,

We remember him. As long as we live, he too will live

For he is now a part of us, As we remember him.

~ Missed and lovingly remembered - your devoted family.

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We Remember HimWhen we are weary and in

need of strength,We remember him.

When we have a joy we crave to share

When we have decisions that are difficult to make,We remember him.

At the blowing of the wind and in the chill of winter

At the opening of the buds and in the rebirth of spring,

We remember him.At the blueness of the skies

and in the warmth of summerAs the rustling of the leaves and in the beauty of autumn,

We remember him.At the rising of the sun and at

its setting,We remember him.

As long as we live, he too will live

For he is now a part of us,As we remember him.

~ Missed and lovingly remembered - your devoted

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ESTHER KOCH-WITTIG

Nov. 16, 1917 - March 27, 1995

***

JOHN KOCHAug. 22, 1915 -March 29, 1974

Those we love don’t go away,

They walk beside us every day.

Unseen, unheard but always near,

Still loved, still missed and very

dear.

Always loved & remembered,

Reg & Grace, Carol & Sieg, Ken, Merle &

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Brooks Health Centre 440 3rd Street East

Wednesday 8:00 PM

Brooks Trinity Lutheran Church

811 Cassils Road WestTuesday 8:00 PMThursday 8:00 PM

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B&B HORSE BOARDING - 3 miles from town, excellent hay supplied, I feed your horse for you. Outdoor arena & round pen for your use, riding trail. B&B LONGHORNS Longhorn bulls & cattle for sale. Call 403-362-2279.

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CARDS OFTHANKS

THANK YOU!The family of Anne Penner would like to thank everyone for the love and support shown to us during the loss of our mother. Anne’s family would like to send a special heartfelt thank you to Dr. Coetzee for your wonderful care over the years. The family would like to thank the nurse and caregivers of Brooks Long Term Care for the excellent care that mom received there. Mom will be missed forever but we know that she will live in the hearts of all who shared our grief during this difficult time.

Warm regards,the Penner Family

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• Landfill Hauling -Concrete

• Post Holes• Small Corral Cleaning Jobs

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ANDERSONMEMORIALQuality Etched

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AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE

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COMINGEVENTS

LEMONADE & BAKE SALESat., August 13,

201612 Noon to 4 pmLot south side Capital Glass

100% proceeds go to Children’s Hospital

Sponsors are BRK Equipment &

Iwaasa Industries & Always A Dollar

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GIT-R-DONE- Okay it time to get that long overdue job done. I do roofs (tin), siding & soffit, decks, garages, additions, fences (wire or wood). Call Kevin for a quote 403-378-3213, have references, please leave message and I will get back to you. ________________________MARIO CARPENTRY - Need a renovation, addition, kitchen or washroom upgrade? Maybe new paint, tiles or floors, a deck with concrete sidewalks? All work warranted, no GST. Call now 403-363-5996, [email protected].

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If you would like to make a tribute in the name of your love one’s charity or society, here is a listing of some worthy

charities in the area- as this is the first time this list has been published more can be added for next year by contacting the

Brooks Bulletin staff…

There are so many worthy causes and this is just a little view... Watch for next year’s additions.

Prevention of Family Violence 310-0000Any one of our many service groups Brooks Food Bank Foundation 793-2535Senior’s Out Reach Society 362-4131Bassano & District Health Foundation, Box 120, Bassano, AB. T0J 0B0. 641-6100Brooks & District Health Foundation Bag 300, Brooks, AB. T1R 1B3 793-6663Palliative Care 501-3210SPEC Association for Children & Families 362-5056 Diabetes Association 362-5914Brooks & District Toy Lending Library 362-3232Brooks & District Museum 362-5073Brooks Women’s Shelter 362-2766Community Foundation 403-527-9038Newell Community Action Group 362-6661Brooks Animal Protection Society 403-362-4323

Big Brothers/Big Sisters Association of Medicine Hat & District – 403-527-6640Canadian Cancer Society 403-528-2125Good Samaritans Society 403-528-5068Habitat for Humanity – c/o 362-4141Global Friendship Immigration Centre – 362-6115STARS Calgary Base – 1441 Aviation Park NE. Box 570,Calgary, AB T2E 8M7Cystic Fibrosis Foundation 403-266-5295Kidney Foundation of Canada 403-526-4192Alzheimer Society of Alberta D401 - 3rd St. SE, Medicine Hat, T1A 0G8Multiple Sclerosis Society 101, 1201 Kingsway Ave.S.E. Medicine Hat, TIA 2Y2 403-529-6797

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BAxTER - Bob Baxter passed away peacefully in the Long Term Care Facility in Brooks on July 23, 2016 at the age of 96. Funeral services will be held on Friday, August 19, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at the Brooks United Church, Rev-erend Shaun Roth officiating. Interment at Brooks Cemetery. In memory of Bob, if friends desire, memorial tributes may be made to either, Brooks United Church Memorial Fund, 507, 3rd Avenue West, Brooks, Alberta, T1R 0B2; or Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta, Room 124 Professional Building, 430 6th Avenue S.E., Medicine Hat, Alberta, T1A 2S8; or Canadian Diabetes Associa-tion, 1400-522 University Avenue,

Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2R5. For updated Funeral Service announcements please visit www.sfh.ca

Funeral arrangements entrusted to:SMITH FUNERAL HOME LTD. AND

CREMATORIUM, BROOKS, ALBERTA. Condolences may be forwarded through

www.sfh.ca Telephone 403-362-4636 or

Toll Free (866) 362-4652“Our Families Serving Your Family Since 1951”

VARTY, Elizabeth (Liz) JaneMay 15, 1938 – July 24, 2016

It is with great sadness that the family of Elizabeth Jane Varty (nee Thomas) announces that she passed away on July 24, 2016 in Turner Valley, Alberta.

Elizabeth (Liz) was born in Vulcan, Alberta to Norman and Marion Thomas on May 15, 1938, and was the oldest of four chil-dren. She was raised in the Black Diamond area, where she met and married the love of her life, Gerald (Gerry) Varty; together, they raised two sons, Gerald and Christopher.

Liz and Gerry lived in various areas of the province, including Cessford, Brooks, and Grande Prairie, following Gerry’s career

in the oil patch; they eventually moved back to Turner Valley, to retire closer to their early friends and family, in the foothills region they had loved since childhood.

Liz worked as a Teacher Assistant and Librarian for many years in Cessford, worked for Peace Library Services as a clerk during their time up north, and most notably, worked as a wife to Gerry and mother to their two sons. After a successful 24-year career as a Grandma, she began her tenure as a Great-Grandmother (Job Title: ‘G.G.’) in 2008, and dearly loved her 7 great-grandchildren.

Liz had a real knack for meeting and befriending people, and formed many life-long relationships that distance could not over-come. She loved to write, talk, send cards and letters, and keep those relationships alive. She cared deeply about people loved to make them laugh, and was a tireless worker, volunteering at many community events and functions. She whole-heartedly par-ticipated as a proud member of many Oilwives chapters, a valued member of the Eastern Star, and actively contributed to the com-munity clubs and other organizations in her life.

Liz was predeceased by her parents, Norman and Marion, her sister Judy and brother Tim, mother-in-law Anne and by her beloved husband Gerry, who passed away in 2005.

She is survived by her sons Gerald (Lee) and Chris (Malaina); and her brother, John (Marlene) Thomas. She also leaves behind the grandchildren she was so proud of; Gerald’s children Kami and Kenny; and Chris’ children Jeffrey, Alyssa and Mark; by her 7 great-grandkids; and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews; and the many friends who made so many contributions to her life.

A Celebration of Liz’s life will be held at the Snodgrass Funeral Chapel (Okotoks), at 200 Woodgate Road, on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016 at 2:00 PM, followed by a reception at the Foot-hills Centennial Centre (204 Community Way, Okotoks) for friends and family to renew friendships, share memories, and to reflect on the legacy Liz leaves behind.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you consider making a donation to the Canadian Cancer Society (Alberta/NWT Divi-sion), to help Liz continue the fight against cancer. Arrangements are in care of Snodgrass Funeral Homes (Okotoks) 403-938-3111. To email condolences, please visit www.snodgrassfuneralhomes.com

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Condolences may be forwarded through www.sfh.ca

Telephone 403-362-4636 or Toll Free (866) 362-4652

“Our Families Serving Your Family Since 1951”

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BrooksTues. & Thurs.

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legal notices

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS

Estate of James Peter McClelland who died on

November 11, 2020

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file

your claim by January 22, 2020

with MacLean Wiedemann Lawyers LLP

at 422 – 6th Street SE Medicine Hat, AB T1A 1H5

and provide details of your claim.

If you do not file by the date above, the estate

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HEMMELGARN - Paul Raymond Hemmelgarn (1944-2020)Paul passed away on December 16, 2020 at the age of 76 years. Paul leaves behind to cherish his memory; wife Verna, sister Marg Durda, sister in-law Eileen Hemmelgarn, step children Mike & Barb Konotopsky – Lana & Jack Sehn, Brent Konotopsky, lots of nieces and nephews, eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Paul lived his life in St. Walburg, Saskatchewan receiving his education there, until he went out to work. He was a professional truck driver and worked many years in the bush hauling logs. Afterwards he started his own business with a

gravel truck and back hoe and on weekends he had his horses and chuck wagon that kept him busy. When he met Verna his life changed as he was then a husband, and grandfather to a family who now misses him dearly. In memory of Paul, memorial tributes may be made to Parkinsons Society. A private family service will be held this summer in Saskatchewan.

WELLS - Marian Wells died at home On December 17, 2020 at the age of 88, having lived a rich and full life. A life filled with love and loss, family and friends, music and worship.

Marian was born to Genevieve and Albert Johnson in the deep of “The Depression” in Mrs. King’s home for birthing mothers in Brooks. Her early life in Scandia revolved around the sheep ranch: lambing, shearing, dipping, sheep dogs & their puppies, sheep herder’s and their camps and the big prairie to the east. Her family later moved to Brooks and focused on cattle. Herefords, of course.

After finishing High School in Brooks, she completed nursing

school at the U of A in 1954 and got her first job at Brooks Municipal Hospital. There, a certain young Wally Wells, a rancher who came from a construction family in Saskatchewan, was dating the nurses. He saved the best for last and they wed in 1955.

The next years were busy on the ranch in Scandia. Caring for their six children, feeding the hired men, homemaking as well as church and community activities filled her days start to finish. In 1967 Wally received an offer to manage a cattle ranch in Hawaii. The way Marian heard about it was as follows: a phone call came from a George Murphy in Hawaii. She drove out to the field to tell him, thinking it was a mistake. With a bit of an abashed look Wally said, “I guess I haven’t told you about that yet”. Many lifelong friendships and memories were formed during their time on Molokai. The family eventually settled back in Brooks and it has remained their home base since.

Marian was predeceased by her husband Wally and daughter Bonnie, as well as many beloved relatives and friends. She will be dearly missed by those she leaves behind, children Bill (Dina), Janet, Joanne, Jim and Linda (Dave); grandchildren Amanda (Mike), Max & Emma; brother Burton (Wanda) and countless extended family and friends who she loved like her own.

Being a grandma was a role Marian cherished. She was an integral part of the upbringing of her three grandchildren, Amanda, Max and Emma. They all enjoyed the pleasures of playing tag, gardening, music, baking and sheep tending with Grandma. They knew no other babysitter. She often declared that she was the luckiest grandma in the world to see and play with her grandkids every day.

Marian was a lifetime volunteer. She was an active member of the Brooks United Church for over 60 years. She gave generously to all facets of her community and built countless friendships through her involvement. She cared equally for all, from shiny new babies to the those weakened by sickness or age. She was a voracious reader of all forms of literature. She played the piano by ear and with obvious joy and was providing music therapy long before music therapy was a thing.

Mom valued her independence and always enjoyed good health. At age 88, she was ready to hang up her walking shoes. She approached her death with her customary grace and fortitude.

She will be deeply missed.

Cremation is entrusted to and conducted by Smith Funeral Home.

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lost &found

FOUND - Set of GM keys found in alley behind Bulletin. Can claim at office. 11-13p_______________________FOUND - One GM key on tag found on road west of Harwood Ford. Can claim at Brooks Bulletin office. 12-14p

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HOPP - Arthur Hopp of Brooks passed away at Brooks Health Centre on March 15, 2021 at the age of 91 following a brief illness. He was born in Castor, Alberta to Theodor and Justina Hopp. Dad had various jobs from farming and ranching, lease rider to brand inspector. During the late 1960’s he started Chariot Racing and in 1971 his horses were used in the Disney Movie, Hacksaw. Dad married Bernice Westwick on June 16, 1984. After retiring in 1987, Dad and Bernice bought at pair Percheron horses.

They started participating in parades around Southern Alberta and in1992 they were honored to be asked to participate in the Calgary Stampede Parade. The Calgary Flames rode in his wagon a number of times in the Stampede Parade. Dad started the Log Skid Competition at Patricia Rodeo in 1993. Grampa’s Team was the transportation for his children’s weddings which he was proud to do. Dad was predeceased by his wife Bernice, parents Theodor and Justina, grandson Jamie Lawson and great granddaughter Mia Hopp, 5 brothers and 1 sister. He is survived by his children Larry (Joanne), Randy, Reta (Brian), Joyce (Dale), Keith (Sandra), step children Bea (Harvey), Pam (Iesmall) Loretta, Gene (Kelly), 20 grandchildren, and 28 great grandchildren. To the doctors and nurses that looked after Dad, a special thanks. For further information, to light a memorial candle or to leave a message of sympathy, please visit www.thomsfuneralhome.com or call (403) 501-1010.

ANDERSON - It is with a heavy heart that Debbie Kowal announces the passing of her beloved husband, Robert David Anderson at St. Joseph’s Home - Carmel Hospice in Medicine Hat on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, at the age of 74 years. Along with Debbie, Dave will be lovingly remembered by his children: Cameron Anderson (Christy), Boyd Anderson, Jason (Tory) Kowal, Penny Kowal, Sarah Botting (nee Saubak); step-son, Bradley Jacques; grand-children: Nash and Lawson Botting, Taylor and Riley Anderson, Kale, Nevada, Nathan, Kain and Noah Kowal; great-granddaughter, his little princess, Addison; siblings, William Ross (Rosemarie) Anderson and Joanna Lee Godfrey; nieces and nephews,

Guy (Terry) Groves, JB Groves, Jimmy-Joe Groves, Christy Godfrey, Travis Godfrey, Ryan (Trina) Anderson, Tyler (Lisa) Anderson, Johnny Drummond, Samantha Eirich, Jamie (Alex) Vas Lawson, Jade Vas Lawson, Jeffrey Vas Lawson, Jared Vas Lawson and their families as well as the mothers of his children, Judy Anderson, Karen Saubak and Monica Jacques. Dave was predeceased by his mother, Janet Anderson (nee Pepper); father, Robert; Anderson brother-in-law, Richard Godfrey; nephew, Duane (Kathi) Groves and his step-daughter, Crystal Jacques. Dave was affectionately known as ‘Dirty Dave’ to his friends and family. He loved his motorbike, ‘Sweet Misery’ (The Widowmaker) 2000 softail, guns, old cars, new cars, bars, parties, women and a good scrap. He worked hard, played hard and he knew how to love. Dave’s eyes welled up with tears at the sight of a baby, any baby; human, puppies, kittens, deer and bush bunnies. A Celebration of Dave’s life will be held in the summer of 2021, where a motorcycle procession will be held in his honour. Further details will be announced closer to the date. (Condolences may be expressed by visiting www.cooksouthland.com) Honoured to serve the family is Cook Southland Funeral Chapel, 901 - 13 Street S.W. Medicine Hat, Alberta T1A 4V4 Toll free 1-877-528-6455.

Jennifer Evans1990 - 2010

We know you’d be with us today, if Heaven wasn’t so far away.

Love from your Friends & Family

We can’t forget that fateful day,you had to leave, you went away.A sadness filled us up inside,Emotions that we could not hide.

Tears, they came, sadness too,All our emotions, just for you.Time will heal, so we were told,But time could never fill this hole.

Here in our heart there is a place,Your always there, keeping us safe.It’s filled with love & happy times,It’s never dark, your light it shines.

In heaven now you do reside,To watch over us with love & pride.We know one day, we’ll meet again,Until we do, just know how much we’ll missyou, and you are always with us.

Love,Andy, Joan, Dean, Steven, JimAnd Families

In memory of

Carol SchlachterMarch 23, 2020

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

MEETINGSMon & Sat

8:00 pm Brooks United Church, 507 - 3rd Ave. W.,

BrooksTues. & Thurs.

8:00 pm Trinity Lutheran Church

811 Cassils Rd. W., BrooksFOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CALL 403-793-4796

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AGMto be held at the

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Rolling HillsGolf ClubANNUAL

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wanted

WANTED - OLD FISHING LURES: Will pay cash for lures I can use for my collection. Particularly looking for Gellings Bullfrog Spoons from Brooks. Please call/text 1-306-222-2227 or email [email protected] with anything you may have to offer. Thanks Joe V. 12-13p

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ALFALFA SEED: * Common #1, • Bagged. Call 403-362-1979. 12-14c


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AnnouncementsMUST-READ BOOK Now Available: - Canadian Agriculture in the 21st Century. 14 chapters; 340 pages; 200 illustrations; index. $60 softcover: $70 hardcover, Delivered. [email protected]. Also available from Amazon, Indigo and Friesen Press.Auctions2 BANKRUPTCY AUCTIONS conducted simultaneously. Laser Clean Ltd., Edmonton; Turcon United Building Systems Inc., Grande Prairie. Bidding starts Friday, March 26, ends Thursday, April 8. Construction equipment, Duct cleaning trucks, Pressure trucks, Floor & Restoration equipment. Trucks, Trailers, Skidsteer, Light Towers. Complete listing, terms & details. www.

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974-7678 www.integritybuilt.com.Employment OpportunitiesBLANKET THE PROVINCE with a classified ad. Only $269 (based on 25 words or less). Reach 90 weekly newspapers. Call NOW for details. 1-800-282-6903 Ext 225; www.awna.com. FREIGHTLAND CARRIERS, a tri-axle air ride flatdeck carrier is looking for Owner/Operators to run Alberta only or the 3 Western Provinces. Must have own plates, insurance & WCB. Truck gross revenue is an average of $16,000/month. Call 1-800-917-9021 or email: [email protected] and SeedHEATED CANOLA buying Green, Heated or Springthrashed Canola. Buying: oats, barley, wheat & peas for feed. Buying damaged or

AWNA blanket adsoffgrade grain. "On Farm Pickup" Westcan Feed & Grain, 1-877-250-5252.CERTIFIED SEED. - WHEAT – Go Early, Pintail. - OATS – AC Juniper, AC Morgan, AC Mustang, Derby, SO1 Super Oat. - BARLEY – Amisk, Busby, Cerveza, Conlon, CDC Austenson, CDC Maverick, Sundre. Very Early Yellow Pea, Forage Peas. Polish Canola, Spring Triticale. mastinseeds.com; 403-556-2609.ALBERTA FEED GRAIN: Buying Oats, Barley, Wheat, Canola, Peas, Screenings, Mixed Grains. Dry, Wet, Heated, or Spring Thresh. Prompt Payment. In House Trucks, In House Excreta Cleaning. Vac Rental. 1-888-483-8789.FORAGE SEED FOR SALE: Organic & conventional: Sweet Clover, Alfalfa, Red Clover, Smooth Brome, Meadow Brome, Crested Wheatgrass, Timothy, etc. Star City, SK. Birch Rose Acres Ltd. 306-921-9942.HealthHIP/KNEE REPLACEMENT. Other medical conditions causing TROUBLE WALKING or DRESSING? The Disability Tax Credit allows for $3,000 yearly tax credit and $30,000 lump sum refund. Take advantage of this offer. Apply NOW; quickest refund Nationwide: Expert help. 1-844-453-5372.Land for SaleVERY INEXPENSIVE 2 QUARTERS OF PASTURE LAND, Central SK, for sale. 8 other good quarters may be available. Requires fencing. Great hunting $74,900. Call Doug at 306-716-2671.ServicesCRIMINAL RECORD? Why suffer employment/licensing loss? Travel/business opportunities? Be embarrassed? Think: Criminal Pardon. US entry waiver. Record purge. File destruction. Free consultation. 1-800-347-2540. www.accesslegalmjf.comGET YOUR MESSAGE SEEN ACROSS Alberta. The Blanket Classifieds or Value Ads reach over 600,000 Alberta readers weekly. Two options starting at $269 or $995 to get your message out! Business changes, hiring, items for sale, cancellations, tenders, etc. People are increasingly staying home and rely on their local newspapers for information. KEEP people in the loop with our 90 Weekly Community Newspapers. Call THIS NEWSPAPER now or email [email protected] for details. 1-800-282-6903, 780-434-8746 X225. www.awna.com.GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420. www.pioneerwest.com.

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ATTENTION CONTRACTORSBROOKS HOUSING SOCIETY IS BUILDING A PARK -2021

situated in the greenspace beside 235 Meadow Lake Way, Brooks, Alberta

to include: Youth Soccer Pitch

Basketball Court Picnic Area

Timeline: Project must be completed by August 31, 2021.

Request for Proposals - Packages are available by contacting:Mara Nesbitt, Property ManagerDeadline for Submissions of Completed RFP package - APRIL 2nd, 2021 at 6:00 p.m.Brooks Housing Society 403-501-4250 10-13c

SHORTgRASSECOSYSTEMS LTD.

LOOKING FOR

OPERATIONS MANAGER• WAGE NEGOTIABLE• FULL BENEFITS• SALES SKILLS• LEADERSHIP QUALITIES• KNOWLEDGE OF OIL & GAS

Please send resumes to the following:Scott Martin, Owner

Email: [email protected]: 403-376-1740 12-13c

TENDERBROOKS HOUSING SOCIETY

#235 Meadow Lake Way - Brooks, Albertais accepting tenders for the

2021 LAWN MOWING SEASONWork commencing the week of May 24th to approx. Sept. 12, 2021. We require the grass to be bagged or mulched

and the area trimmed every two weeks.

Applications must supply a copy of their current insurance and WCB if they have employees. Deadline for submissions

is April 1st, 2021.

Please send in your quote to: Brooks Housing Society - Box 1522, Brooks, Alberta T1R 1C4 or fax to 403-362-3383

attention Mara, or email [email protected]. Attention: Mara. If you would like a walk about on site

please call for a showing:Mara at 403-501-4250 or 403-501-8026

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SPRING HOME IMPROVEMENTS! What do you need?

• Fencing, deck, structures • door/window replacement or any outdoor repairs! • Interior finish/ repairs or development: framing, drywall • flooring, bathrooms and more!

If you need it done, I can come! Experienced carpenter, small and major construction services and a PHD in positivity!!! Referrals on request. BROOKS and surrounding area. CALL TODAY ANGUS MURRAY – (403) 633‐7754

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UPGRADED OFFICES, Cottonwood Court, 403 - 2nd St. W. 140 to 1100 sq. ft., large windows, wheelchair access, $400-$1000 per month. Utilities & taxes included. Call 403-362-4475. 01-13p__________________________

real estateFOR SALE BY OWNER: 1668 sq. ft. home in Brooks. 4 bedrooms, office, hardwood floors. Call 403-489-0344. 12-13p


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Condolences may be forwarded through www.sfh.ca

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legal notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS

Estate of Herbert Wetteskind who died on

January 24, 2021

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by April 30, 2021

with MACLEAN WIEDEMANN LAWYERS LLPBarristers and Solicitors

at 422 6th Street SEMedicine Hat AB T1A 1H5Telephone: 403.527.3343and provide details of your claim.

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

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TAKING ORDERS

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- Glas Flax- Brandon HRS

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BROOKS TAXI

looking for

EVENING DRIVERS

Call403-362-7199

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CITY TAXI

We are hiringFULL TIME &PART TIME

Must be honest and able to work in a

diverse environment.Call Jay

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SEASONAL LABOURER POSITIONS Shortgrass Ecosystems LTD. is accepting applications for summer student positions for as early as April 2021. Job includes swamping, grass cutting, weed whipping and weed spraying. A valid Class 5 driver’s license is required and successful applicants may be asked to receive training in First Aid and H2S as well as do a security screening.

Please send resumes to the following:Scott Martin, Owner

Email: [email protected]: 403-376-1740

Shortgrass Ecosystems183034 RR151

Brooks, AB T1R 1C5P.O. Box 1569 11-13c

Cascade Energy Services L.P. is actively recruiting for the position of 3rd or 4th Year Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic at its Brooks location.

Duties will include:• Adjust, repair or replace parts and components on all

companyfleetunitsconsistingofHighwayTractors,TankTrucksandpickups.

• Testandadjustrepairssystems.• Perform scheduled maintenance service.• Diagnose faults and malfunctions.• Reviewworkordersanddiscussworkwithsupervisor.• Rotating On-Call schedule.• RIDESHARE TRANSPORTATION TO BROOKS IS

AVAILABLE FROM MEDICINE HAT

Qualifications:• 3rd to 4th Yr. Apprentice or Alberta Journeyman Heavy

Duty Mechanic.• Abilitytomulti-taskwithstrongattentiontodetailand

excellent organization skills.• Positive and professional attitude.• Demonstratedabilitytoworkinateamenvironment.• Self-motivatedwiththeabilitytotakeowninitiativeon

projects.• AwarenessofourCorporateObjectivesandPrinciples.• TeamPlay–hasrespectforselfandco-works.• RequiredtosupplyowntoolsandCSAapprovedsteel

toedworkboots.• Valid driver’s license.• Requiredtosuccessfullycompletefitfordutytesting

whichincludesmedical,physical,drugandalcoholtesting.

Benefits:• Competitivewagesandbenefitspackage,after3months

ofemployment,willbeoffered.• Cascade Energy Services L.P. is an Employment Equity

company.

Interestedandqualifiedapplicantsshouldforwardtheirresumeswithaminimumofthreeworkrelatedreferencesand

driver’s abstract to:[email protected]

Thank you for your interest, only those chosen for interviews will be contacted

BRANCH ADDRESS 9201 – 148 Ave

Grande Prairie, AB T8V 7W1 780‐832‐0451 PHONE 780‐832‐1459 FAX

BRANCH ADDRESS 36 Onely Cres.

Swan Hills, AB T0G 2C0 780‐832‐0451 PHONE 780‐832‐1459 FAX

BRANCH ADDRESS 6209 – 56th Ave.

Drayton Valley, AB T7A 1R6 780‐542‐5958 PHONE 780‐542‐1516 FAX

11504 Tahltan Rd Fort St. John, BC V1J 7C4

Phone: 250‐785‐0236 Fax: 250‐785‐0716

Cascade Energy Services L.P. is currently recruiting for the full‐time position of Receptionist/Driver Log Auditor in our Brooks location. As an entry level position, Cascade Energy Services L.P. offers a 40 hour work week, competitive wage and a full health benefits package. The successful candidate will possess excellent interpersonal skills, have exceptional computer knowledge in Microsoft Office, is punctual, organized, and work well under pressure in a very busy office enviroment. Prior office administration would be an asset but we are willing to train the right candidate.

Job Responsibilities

Reception/Administrative Support Greet visitors Answer phones Office supply and forms ordering Process mail Arrange travel and accommodations Data entry Filing Other general office duties Back up support for the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable

Driver Log Audit Enter all driver’s logs into hours of service spreadsheet Enter KM’s into IFTA spreadsheet Notify dispatch, branch managers and HSE of any hours of service violations.

If you feel you would be a great addition to our team, please forward your resume along with three work references to: nwarren@cascade‐energy.ca Drop off a resume or mail to: #10 Industrial Rd. W., Brooks, AB T1R 1B4

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WE ARE HIRINGThe Eastern Irrigation District is seeking an individual to fill a full-time position as the Assistant Superintendent of Equipment.

This position reports directly with the Construction Superintendent to manage all aspects of the EID construction and equipment department. This individual is responsible for the allocation of manpower and equipment to provide operations and maintenance for various programs and projects. Valid Alberta’s Drivers’ License that is insurable under the District’s insurance policy required.

Key responsibilities/skills include, but are not limited to:

Directing, training and scheduling staff for various projects.

Working both with limited supervision and in a crew environment.

Working knowledge of earthworks, installations of PVC pipelines, precast concrete structures, and construction layout.

∗ Minimum of 10 years of construction experience.

The EID offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package including a defined benefit pension plan. Interested applicants are invited to submit a resume and cover letter to Kathy Bowlby at [email protected] before March 26, 2021 at 5:00pm.

For a complete job description please visit www.eid.ca. Eastern Irrigation District 550 Industrial Road West Brooks, AB T1R 1B2 (403) 362-1400

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WE ARE HIRINGThe Eastern Irrigation District seeks a full-time Trackhoe Equipment Operator to join our Construction team.

This position will be responsible for operating EID equipment to maintain the EID irrigation distribution and draining system. A valid Class 5 Driver’s License that can be insurable under the District’s coverage is required.

Key responsibilities/skills include:

Installing pipelines, concrete structures, road building experience and rebuilding drain ditches and canals.

General knowledge of site plans.

Previous experience in operating various heavy-duty equipment and mechanical background an asset.

∗ Minimum of 8 years of experience with a Trackhoe.

∗ Basic surveying experience, working with Laser’s & GPS.

The EID offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package including a defined benefit pension plan. Interested applicants are invited to submit a resume and cover letter to Kathy Bowlby at [email protected] before March 26, 2021 at 5:00pm.

For a complete job description please visit www.eid.ca. Eastern Irrigation District 550 Industrial Road West Brooks, AB T1R 1B2 (403) 362-1400

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GENUINEPARTS & SERVICE

1303 Sutherland Drive EastP.O. Box 2200 - Brooks, Alberta T1R 1C8

CURRENTLY SEEKING A FULL-TIME

JOURNEYMANTECHNICIAN

• Competitive wages and benefits offered.• Customer satisfaction is a top priority.• Must be able to work in a very busy environment.

Qualified candidates should deliver their resumes to: John Funk [email protected] Phone 403-362-6900

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SCHMIDT - Ted Schmidt, beloved husband of Dorothy passed away at Brooks Health Centre on March 21, 2021 at the age of 74. Funeral Service details will be made available once finalized. For further information please visit www.thomsfuneralhome.com or call (403) 501-1010.

SIDAM – Mrs. Flo Sidam of Brooks, beloved wife of the late Monty Mortensen, passed away in Brooks on Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 at the age of 72 years. Flo was born on August 16th, 1948 in Medicine Hat, Alberta to Edwin and Agnes Finkbeiner. She attended

school in Hays, Alberta and later attended college in Drumheller, Alberta receiving her Hairdressing License. Flo married Jerry Sidam in 1968 and together they had 2 children, Cameron in 1969 and Charmaine in 1974. Flo and Jerry later divorced in 1984. She met her soulmate Monty Mortensen in 1988 and they lived on a farm south of Brooks. Flo worked at Safeway in Brooks for over 25 years, until taking early retirement at the age of 60 years. She loved camping, her yard, sheep, gardening, watching curling, her dog Corky, happy hours and, most importantly, her grandchildren, who many referred to her as “Grandma O”. Friends and family will fondly remember family gatherings at the farm and endless hours playing card games, especially Yahtzee and Crib. Flo’s favorite phrase was “Grandma’s house, Grandma’s rules!” She was predeceased by the love of her life, Monty Mortensen; first husband Jerry Sidam; parents Ed and Aggie Finkbeiner; sister-in-law Elaine Finkbeiner and great nephew Chet Sulz. Flo is survived by her children, Cam (Jasmine), Charmaine (Dave) and step-children Shari (Ray) and Miles; grandchildren, Cooper (Maddy), Keelynn, Colton (Libby), Scout, Jasper, Piper, Tyler (Taylor), Lindsay (Jesse), Mac, Kayden and Maysie; daughter-in-law Tracy Sidam; 3 brothers and 1 sister and their families. A Private Family celebration will be held at a later date. In memory of Flo, if friends desire, memorial tributes may be made directly to Canadian Cancer Society, #200, 325 Manning Road NE, Calgary, Alberta T2E 2P5.

Cremation is entrusted to and conducted bySmith Funeral Home Ltd. and Crematorium, Brooks

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The Palliser Primary Care Network (PCN) is a partnership between local physicians and Alberta Health Services. This partnership promotes a collaborative team approach to caring for patients experiencing chronic disease. Family practice teams, led by physicians, are located in physician clinics. The composition of specific teams in each clinic is dependant on the primary health care focus of that physician or clinic.

The physicians at South Shore medical clinic in Brooks, AB promote a community-based collaborative team approach to caring for patients with chronic disease. They currently seek to fill the position of:

This is a permanent, part-time position. The RN’s major focus will be to enhance effective management of patients living with chronic diseases such as hypertension, chronic heart failure, atrial fibrillation, dyslipidemia, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, obesity, osteoporosis and various mental health issues. Consistent with the principles of primary health care, the RN will provide comprehensive health care with an emphasis on healthy living, illness prevention (primary and secondary), health education, chronic disease management and clinical intervention within the scope of nursing practice.

The successful candidate will have a proven ability to work effectively within a team environment as well as independently, demonstrate empathy, provide continuity of care, possess excellent organizational skills and maintain a flexible schedule.

The PCN offers a competitive salary, excellent hours of work, paid vacation and a health flex spending account. Education and training are also high priorities for the PCN. Please note, this is not an Alberta Health Services position.

Interested candidates are invited to apply no later than 12:00 p.m. on Friday, August 5, 2016.

Please send resumes to the attention of: Jim Fleming Administrative Assistant Palliser Primary Care Network Suite 104, 140 - Maple Ave SE Medicine Hat, AB T1A 8C1 Tel: 403.580.3825 x 226 Fax: 403.580.3825 Email: [email protected]

your health. your team.

Only those applicants selected for interview will be contacted. All others are thanked in advance for their interest.

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CITY OF BROOKS EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

FULL TIME POSITION SUPERVISOR OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

The City of Brooks has an opening for the full-time management position for the Supervisor of Planning and Development. Reporting to the Manager of Shared Services, this position is accountable for the effective coordination of land use planning, subdivision, and development applications. In this position you will serve as an advisor to Council, the Subdivision and Development Appeal Board, the Municipal Planning Commission and other committees as required. You will coordinate and maintain all statutory plans and provide advice, guidance and customer service to the general public, consultants and other agencies. You will manage and administer the Safety Codes Officer contract for the building permit discipline and coordinate the work of ORRSC and other consultants as required. You will undertake the lead role in developing strategies to capture, enhance and maintain the City’s land related data for the Geographic Information System as well as ongoing maintenance and GIS mapping.

As the successful applicant, you will possess a University Degree in Urban Planning or related field with an emphasis on the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a minimum of one (1) to three (3) years’ experience working in planning and development or similar setting, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. A strong knowledge of the provisions of the Municipal Government Act would be considered an asset. The successful candidate will be proficient in Microsoft Office, have experience working with AutoCAD Map and PC-based GIS applications. The chosen applicant will possess excellent reading, writing and verbal communication skills, excellent organizational and time management skills, advanced public relations and with a high degree of problem solving. Exceptional customer service skills are essential to the success of this position. The ability to interpret policies and bylaws is also considered an asset.

The City of Brooks offers a competitive salary and benefits package for this position. The successful applicant will also receive a free family membership to the Lakeside Leisure Centre.

A clean criminal records check and drivers abstract will be required before an offer of employment is presented to the successful applicant. Please submit your cover letter and resume to:

Human Resources City of Brooks

201 - 1st Avenue West, Box 879, Brooks, AB T1R 1B7 Bus: (403) 362-3333 Fax: (403) 501-0090


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Drop off resume to:904 - 2nd St. W. or

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Conseil scolaire FrancoSud

The Conseil scolaire FrancoSud is hiring for the following

part‐time (0.8) temporary position:

English Language Arts – ESL TeacherÉcole Le Ruisseau

(Brooks)

For information, please visit:www.francosud.ca

403.686.6998

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C O L L E C T O R C A R AUCTION. 9th Annual Red Deer Fall Finale Collector Car Auction. 200 cars. Westerner Park, Sept 9, 10 & 11. Last year sold over 85 percent. Time to consign, all makes models welcome. 1-888-296-0528 ext 102 or 103. [email protected]. EGauctions.com. Featuring Horny Mike from hit TV series Counting Cars.

ANTIQUE COLLECTOR A U C T I O N ! 1 0 a . m . , Saturday, August 6, 121 - 15 Ave., Wainwright, Alberta. Petroliana, advertising, furniture, collectibles and more! Coin Auction, Friday night. Scribner Auction, 780-842-5666; www.scribnernet.com.

UNRESERVED INDUSTRIAL AUCTION. September 13, 2016. Brochure deadline August 17. To consign please call Canadian Public Auction to speak to a Salesman 403-269-6600.

BUD HAYNES & WARD’S Premier Firearms Auction. 50th Anniversary. Sat. & Sun., August 13 & 14 at 10 a.m., 11802 - 145 St., Edmonton, Alberta. Modern & collectible firearms and accessories. Over 1,000 lots - Online bidding. To consign phone Linda 403-597-1095; Brad 780-940-8378; www.budhaynesauctions.com; www.wardauctions.com.

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MEDICAL TRAINEES needed now! Hospitals & doctor’s offices need certified medical office & administrative staff! No experience needed! We can get you trained! Local job placement assistance available when training is completed. Call for program details! 1-888-627-0297.

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JOURNALISTS, Graphic Artists, Marketing and more. Alberta’s weekly newspapers are looking for people like you. Post your resume online. Free. Visit: awna.com/for-job-seekers.

EXPERIENCED WATER WELL DRILLER required for a busy company located at Sylvan Lake, Alberta. This position is year-round, permanent full-time offering competitive wages & benefits. Minimum Qualifications: Trade Certification, Class 3Q, Physically Fit, Safety Tickets. Please email resume to: [email protected] or Fax 403-887-0258.

MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION! In-demand career! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get online training you need from an employer-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT?uid=prt_blanketclassifiedacn or 1-855-768-3362 to start training for your work-at-home career today!

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THE IRON AGE

LEARN ABOUT BABY ANIMALS IN THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF WORLD OF WONDER

SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 2021

Exploring the realms of history, science, nature and technology

SOURCES: World Book Encyclopedia, World Book Inc.; Past Worlds: Atlas of Archaeology, Harper Collins; www.history.com; www.answers.com; https://kids.kiddle.co;

The Iron Age was a period when people began making tools and weapons with iron. One of three periods that classify prehistoric societies, it follows the Bronze Age

and the Stone Age. The knowledge of working with iron did not happen at one time or in one place. The wide-

spread use of iron began between 1500 B.C. and1000 B.C. and continues to this day.

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Mastering metalThe earliest metals used by man were copper and gold. Nuggets of copper and gold could be found in nature and were soft enough to be hammered and cut with stone.People began heating metals around 7000 B.C. Using a combi-nation of copper and tin to make bronze marked the beginning of a new era in metallurgy.Iron from meteorites was used to fashion tools and weapons as early as 4000 B.C. In many early languages, the word for iron translated as “metal from the sky.”Iron has a higher melting point than bronze, so it was not until people figured out how to make a fire hot enough to melt it that the Iron Age began. Once they knew how to work iron, it was adopted quickly over bronze. Most early iron was wrought iron and not as strong as bronze, but it was less expensive and more abundant than the copper and tin used to make bronze.The Hittites in Asia Minor (a re-gion of modern Turkey) were the first people known to have large supplies of iron. As early as 1400 B.C., they were making iron by smelting ore. By 1000 B.C., many civilizations had developed iron-making techniques.The invention of steel (adding carbon to iron) resulted in even stronger and potentially sharper tools and weapons.

Early usesMeteorite iron was more rare than gold and used sparingly, mostly in jewelry. Early orna-mental weapons made of iron were reserved for kings, and iron daggers have been found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs.The use of smelted iron marked the rise of many military powers. Civilizations such as the Per-sians, Scythians, Celts, Etrus-cans, Greeks and Romans rose to great power using weapons and tools forged of iron. With the iron plow, sickle and ax, rough or forested lands could be farmed. The iron adz and saw led to advances in woodworking and shipbuilding. Work with cast iron began in Europe in the Middle Ages.

The basicsIron is a silvery-white metallic element that is malleable and highly magnetic.The symbol for iron is Fe, from its Latin name, ferrum.Iron was one of the seven elements known to the ancient world. Today, it is the most widely used commercial metal.

The CeltsThe rise of the Celts in Europe is largely connected to their mastery of iron. They were working with steel as early as A.D. 200, and the strength of their swords was legendary. Celtic sol-diers wore armor and used weapons made of iron.

Cool factsHammering iron was known as smithing.The Assyrians were the most powerful Iron Age kingdom in the Near East.The earliest-known iron artifacts are nine small beads dated to 3200 B.C. Found in Egypt, they are made of meteoric iron shaped by care-ful hammering.The Gauls were a group of people from Western Europe that emerged during the Iron Age. They were found in many coun-tries, including Spain, France, Germany, Belgium and Austria.

The alchemical symbol for iron, the metal of weapons, is that of Mars, the Roman god of war.

Examples of smelting furnacesEarly iron-smelting furnaces were little more than round, shallow hearths. Iron ore and charcoal were heated together until the ore released its oxygen and changed into metal. The furnace had to reach and maintain a temperature of about 2,192 degrees Fahrenheit (1,200 C). The iron was reheated, worked and reworked several times to remove impurities. Iron makers discovered that blowing air into the furnace created a hotter fire and a better-quality metal. Heat reduces iron ore to a porous mass, or “bloom.” The liquid slag settles to the bottom.

When it happenedThe Iron Age began in the 12th century B.C. in the ancient Near East, ancient Greece and ancient India. In most of Europe, the Iron Age started much later, in the 8th and 6th centuries B.C. It reached Africa by the 6th century B.C.

Bowl furnace Bloomery furnace (India)

Shaft furnace (Roman)

Bellows furnace operated by waterwheels (China)

Funnel-shaped furnace (Africa)

Animal skin bellows

Charcoal

Reduced ore

IronSlag

Brick platform topped with a mound of dirt

Terracotta crucible

Slag hole

Charcoal

Bloom

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BellowsWater wheels

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Slag pit

The Hittites were among the first to smelt iron and to make steel.

Examples of iron work can be found in ancient Egypt as early as 3200 B.C.

India was probably making quality steel as early as 300 B.C. Iron was used in east Africa by 200 B.C. and reached southern Africa by A.D. 200.

Except for a little work in gold, there was no metalwork-ing in the Americas until after European contact.

Very little metal was used in sub-Sahara Africa before 500 B.C.

Iron was first smelt-ed in China around 600 B.C. By 200 B.C., the Chinese were using smelt-ing techniques that would not be found in Europe until the 1700s.

Iron ax Gotland, Sweden

Iron sword with gold hilt

Hallstatt, Austria

Tools of the trade Metal tools have always played an im-portant role in farming and agriculture.Iron rusts, so artifacts are relatively rare and often in poor condition.This iron sickle from

eastern Norway was used to cut grain.

The best swords were pattern welded (sometimes called damascus): Rods of iron and steel were twisted and hammered together to produce a very strong weapon.

There was no metal work-ing in Australia until after European contact.


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