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By Kristin Bergman, Hiway 16 News Student Reporter

The Innisfree Chudovyi Ukraini-an Dancers hosted a Chili Cook-Off fundraiser on January 28

at the Innisfree Recreation Centre as residents from Innisfree and surround-ing areas attended to enter their home-made chili or vote for their favourites.

From 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. tasters sam-pled up to 15 different types of chili as Mexican-style music played in the back-ground. The entrants of the cook-off were Ruth and Robert Patterson, Kurt Hennig, Crop Production Services, Lou-ise Bohaichuk with Creative Catering, Kathy Newton, Wayne Melnyk (served by children Nora and Matthew Mel-nyk), Carmen Kassian, Doug Foyster, the Innisfree Delnorte School Foods 10 Class, Kim Feschuk, Ryan Feschuk, the Innisfree 4H Multiclub, Karen Nedziel-ski with the Hiway 16 News, Debbie Holden, and Diana Ashton.

After sampling the chili, community members were to vote for the one they liked the best. Mayor Debbie McMann entertained the children with the story Armadilly Chili by Helen Ketteman for a portion of the evening as their par-ents tasted the chili.

Marilyn Newton and Lori Feschuk were in charge of organizing and run-ning the event. Their hope is to raise enough money for the Ukrainian Danc-ers to buy their own costumes.

“We always have to rent costumes for the dancers so it would be really nice to have our own,” Newton said.

Sheila Neil and Tristan Neil also aid-ed the success of the night by helping with music and technology.

The winner of the Chili Cook-Off was family recipe of Wayne, Nora, and Matthew Melnyk, who were presented with a plaque, a Ukrainian ladle and

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Innisfree Crowns First Chili Champion

The winning recipe in the first Chili Cook-Off hosted by the Innisfree Chudovyi Ukrainian Dancers was that belonging to the Melnyk family team. The winning Chili pot was one of 15 entered in the fun-spirited

competition to help raise funds for the organization to purchase costumes for the dancers. Pictured here are, from the left, Wayne Melnyk and daughter Nora, with event organizers Lori Feschuk and Marilyn Newton.

Innisfree students Kathleen Fleck, on the left, and Megan Rudolf carefully tasted the different recipes to help them with choosing their

favourite overall.

Village of Innisfree Mayor Debbie McMann was in attendance of the first annual Chili Cook-Off for the Innisfree Ukrainian Dancers to sample the

various recipes vying for the top title for the event.

Innisfree Chudovyi Ukrainian Dancers’ President Sheila Neil presented the winning “ladle” to

Nora Melnyk for her family’s winning Chili recipe.

an apron.Additional fundraisers during the

evening were a 50/50 draw, a door prize, a silent auction, and a contest won by Lil Carter for most closely guessing the number of kidney beans in a jar. Left-over chili was available afterwards for five dollars.

The Chudovyi Ukrainian Dancers were very happy with the turnout and amount of money raised, which provid-ed an excellent start to meeting their fundraising goal. Newton says she con-siders the whole night to be a success and that the Ukrainian Dancers will definitely be putting the fundraiser on again in the future.

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Raising Funds In Support Of Wagon Racing

Family, friends and supporters of the Cartier’s Neckyoke Bunch gathered at the Vegreville Elks

Hall on January 30 for the organiza-tion’s annual fundraiser event in sup-port of local chuckwagon and chariot racing.

The evening featured a wide selection of silent auction items for supporters to bid on as well as a live auction fea-turing autographed Oilers jerseys and game passes, handmade woodworking items, vacation packages and much more. All items in both auctions were donated by numerous businesses, many of which are repeat supporters of the organization.

The evening’s entertainment also fea-tured a fashion show hosted by Tannis Henderson, owner of Elevation which is a yoga studio, women’s clothing store,

and wellness centre located in Vermil-ion, Alberta. Models showed off a num-ber of items available at the store as Henderson and event MC Terry Carti-er, narrated the fashion show. Included in the fashion catwalk was a number of local designers as chuckwagon drivers and organization members showed off their own personal designs in a humor-ous display of fashion.

This year’s event saw a near-record attendance for the organization, boost-ing the proceeds to help promote and support the sport of chuckwagon and chariot racing.

The Neckyoke group helps with spon-soring chuckwagon and chariot drivers, assists wagon owners with hardships during the racing season and also holds a barbecue each year during the Vegreville races. The organization also

sponsors the APCCA Equine Awards in memory of local chuckwagon driver, Leo Cartier.

The Cartier’s Neckyoke Bunch has a

large membership base, a testament to the dedication and kinship of the entire chuckwagon and chariot racing commu-nity.

Neckyoke President Jerry McCarty thanked everyone for attending the annual fundraiser for the group on January 30 and gave

newcomers an insight as to what the organization does to support chuckwagon and chariot racing.

The Cartier’s Neckyoke Bunch is a non-profit organization whose intent is to support the sport of chuckwagon and chariot racing. Pictured here are the organization’s numerous members

at the annual fundraiser held on January 30.

Event MC Terry Cartier and Elevation studio owner Tannis Henderson narrated the fashion show during the annual Cartier’s Neckyoke Bunch

evening fundraiser.

Submitted by Diane Ziomek, Library Assistant

As many of you are aware, our Winter Reading Program is well under way. If you haven’t signed

up yet, there is still time. The WRP runs until the end of February. For every seven hours of reading, you are en-tered for prizes from both the Northern Lights Library System (NLLS) and our library. If you have filled one Log Sheet, bring it in to us and pick up another. We have sheets for adults and children, so don’t be shy. The more you read the more entry forms you will have.

As part of the WRP, we will be host-ing a Blind-Date-with-a-Book event.

This will coincide with the week before and after Valentine’s Day, so stop in and see what it’s all about. The fun part is you will get to check out a book and not know anything about it (aside from genre) until you open the package.

We are also in the process of labe-ling our books for the ARP (Accelerated Reading Program). We have teamed up with the school so students have max-imum opportunity to reach and/or ex-ceed their reading goals. Reading is an important part of life. If we make it fun for kids, they will more likely continue to be avid readers as adults.

We will either have a craft or movie

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It was a near sellout crowd for the Mundare Curling Club’s theatre fundraiser presentation on Jan-

uary 23. Trevor Zacharkiw, event or-ganizer, said the crowd enjoyed the Grindstone Theater Company actors’ improv skit as they took suggestions from the audience to create a play and song based on those suggestions. This is the second year the theatre group as performed for the local organization and this year’s skit was geared towards ‘what really makes up a curling team in a small town.’ The Grindstone Theater Company performs every Friday night at the Varscona Theater in Edmonton.

Zacharkiw says the Mundare Curl-ing Club is continuously raising funds

for operating costs for the club but are also trying to raise enough for a new roof for the curling rink and shared hall.

“Curling is a very fun and social game, and with curling aids like using a stick to throw instead of sliding, it’s a sport that all ages and abilities can join and learn. Plus it’s a very inexpensive sport to get into,” said Zacharkiw. “We welcome anyone who wants to come try it for free. All that is needed is a clean pair of running shoes.”

The club curls on Monday and Wednesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. and anyone interested in giving it a try can email Info@mundarecurlingclub.ca or by calling 780-603-1144.

Mannville Students Set For Winter Walk

Submitted

A Winter Walk will be held on Wednesday, February 3 at approximately 2:45 p.m. Stu-

dents and staff will have the opportuni-ty to enjoy the beautiful winter weather while clocking some healthy steps. Fol-lowing the walk, students will be treat-ed to a healthy snack sponsored by Be Fit For Life (Vermilion branch). Any-one wishing to join us feel free to meet us at the school or join in as we wind through the town of Mannville much like our Terry Fox route.

Our elementary club for February is the Cooking Club with Mrs. Campbell. We have sixteen students in Grades 4 to 6 participating. The Cooking Club runs every Wednesday in February from 3:30 to 4:45. The students will try their hand at baking and cooking a va-riety of healthy snacks and meals. The club has been very successful these past two years and the students really enjoy making food with their own two hands.

Our junior high curlers will be at-tending the BTJHAA Northern Curl-ing Playoffs on Thursday, February 4 in Marwayne. Good luck to our Grade 9 team which includes Kayle Tod, Zack Polishuk, Max Amero and Justin Kane, and our Grade 7 team consisting of Aid-en Marshall, Blake Cadman, Robert Thompson and Tyler Lassi (Grade 6).

In some of our social classes, the Grade 2 students have finished learn-ing about ‘Looking at Places,’ and will

now start to learn about ‘Looking at People’ in three communities. In Grade 3, their current unit of study is about quality of life. Students are comparing quality of life in Peru, Tunisia, Ukraine, India and Canada.

Grade 4 students have started their unit on the First Nations People of Al-berta, learning which regions they lived in and what resources the First Nations used. In Grade 5 social class the stu-dents each completed a presentation, complete with a slideshow, about one of Canada’s regions. They looked in-depth at the Atlantic region, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands. The Grade 6 class has been busy learning all of the rights and freedoms Canadians have.

Mannville School Ladies Volleyball Fundraiser was a smashing success! We must thank Kim Ruttan for bring-ing the suggestion forward and all her work prior to, during and after the event. $1,650 was raised to go towards upgrades to our school library to create a Learning Commons area for all stu-dents and staff to use and engage in. Through the concession and prize table PAC was able to raise more than $500 which will also be donated back to sup-port the Learning Common’s project. It was a fun filled day of action and many compliments were directed towards the event and our school. We are hoping to make this an annual event.

Upcoming Dates: BTJHAA Curl-ing Playoffs – February 4; Elementary Valentine Day Swim – February 11; No School February 12.

~ Photos Submitted

Car Scam Results In Robbery Of Vermilion ManSubmitted by Vermilion RCMP

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016, at approximately 2:17 p.m., Ver-milion RCMP responded to a 911

report of a robbery that had just occurred wherein three men robbed a man at his home after having gone there under the pretense of selling a car to the victim.

The three men at arrived at the vic-

tim’s home in a rural area and offered to sell their car to him. The men negoti-ated with the victim for a period of time until they ascertained that the victim was alone at the residence. It was then that two of the men assaulted the vic-tim, took his wallet and fled the scene in the car.

The victim suffered only minor inju-ries and was able to provide police with

a description of the suspects and their vehicle. It was less than an hour later that the three suspects were located in Lloydminster and arrested by members of the Lloydminster RCMP Detachment. Police returned the three men to the Vermilion RCMP Detachment where subsequent investigation revealed that one of three men arrested was not in-volved in the crime. He was released

without charges. Two men have been charged with

robbery: 20-year-old Joshawa Ricard of Lloydminster and 29-year-old Ran-dy Bernard, also of Lloydminster, who sometimes uses the name, “Randy Flor-ence”. They are scheduled to appear in Provincial Court in Vermilion on Mon-day, February 1, 2016. Both remain in custody at this time.

for students on February 12 for those students looking for something to do on their day-off from school. The Library Board welcomes anyone looking to join the Board. Join us for our annual meet-ing to learn more about our Library.

We have extended the registration deadline for the First Aid class so please call us if you would like to reg-ister.

The January 29 PD Day Craft was For the Birds. We had eight attend-ees and made some fun feeders for our feathered friends.

That’s all for this week. To see what’s new in books and activities, feel free to visit our website or like us on Facebook.

Upcoming Library Events: February 5 – Library Tea, February 8 – Art with Alvin in the

Conference Room at the Recreation Center,

February 11 –Annual Library Board Meeting - 9:30 a.m.,

February 12 – PD Day – No School, February 13 & 14 – First Aid

Course, February 19 – WI Tea from 2 – 4

p.m.

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Mannville Seniors Birthdays

The Mannville Seniors celebrate monthly birthdays the last Tuesday of the month with birthday cake. January celebrations were for, from the left, Stewart Nickerson, Rose Konieczny, Glen Berg and Anita Williams.

Missing from the photo and also celebrated, was Bill Kuchik. ~ Photo Submitted

Innisfree Minburn 4H Beef Prep For Public Speaking

Submitted by Lemonee Kostynuk, Club Reporter

The Innisfree Minburn 4H Beef Club had their monthly meeting on January 6 at the Minburn

Curling Rink.The club decided to have their Lead-

ers Tour on February15 and Public Speaking is on February 21 at 1 p.m. at the Minburn Senior Center and every-one is welcome.

Our club will be selling a heifer at the May achievement day and donating the money to charity. At the next meeting,

members will pick a charity to donate the money raise to. The next meeting will be on February 3 at the Innisfree Millennium Building.

Police Investigating Province-Wide Cheque Fraud

Vegreville RCMP

In December 2015 the Vegreville RCMP received at least 3 com-plaints of bad cheques being ut-

tered in Vegreville, Alberta.Investigation revealed that the sus-

pects in all 3 events are identified as Virginia Josephine WALLIS (38 years old) and Daryl George WALLIS (40 years old). The pair would enter retail stores and purchase $200-$700 worth of merchandise and then write Cheques from accounts with insufficient funds.

Further investigation shows that the pair are suspected of the same offences in 23 separate and similar occurrences all across central Alberta since October 2015. Occurrences have been reported in towns from Olds to St Paul, AB and numerous stops in between.

In the most recent occurrence in Two Hills, Alberta the pair were seen departing in a white 2002 Dodge Ram truck displaying Alberta license plate BSN-0943.

RCMP would like businesses in Al-berta to be aware of these suspects, their behaviours and to protect them-selves from being taken advantage of

by these individuals.Charges have been laid and they are

wanted on arrest warrants for these offences. If you know the whereabouts of these suspects please call Crimes-toppers at 1-800-222-8477 or your local police agency. They are not believed to be violent. However RCMP advise the public not to approach the pair, and to dial 911 if spotted.

Virginia Josephine WALLIS (38 years old) and Daryl George

WALLIS (40 years old).

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filled with the sounds of musi-cians as approximately 15 per-

formers took to the microphones to en-tertain the crowd in the first jamboree for organizer, Lawrence Andrew Whit-ford held on January 31.

The afternoon of music saw fiddles, guitars, accordions and harmonicas accompany the numerous singers as dancers hit the floor to swing and sway

to the music. Toes were tapping as each performer delivered two songs each as the crowd of nearly 100 people, thanked each of them with a round of applause.

The idea of making it a regular event was tossed around but a decision on that is still to be made. Whitford said there is a Gospel Jamboree planned for Willingdon sometime this spring. Watch the Hiway 16 News for more in-formation on that in our future issues.

Jamboree Music Fills Willingdon Seniors Hall

The fiddling trio, from the left, consisting of Pat Kotowich of Vegreville, Liz King of Two Hills and Velma Sample of Vegreville, performed at the Willingdon Jamboree on January 31.

Happy Birthday Kristin!

Hope you enjoyed your day.~ The Hiway 16 News Staff

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Innisfree Curling Men’s Champs

The Innisfree Curling Club saw the men hit the rink to slide the rocks from end to end in its annual Men’s Bonspiel on January 29, 30 and 31. A dozen teams competed for the top spot and in the end it was the Allan Mytz team

from Mannville who claimed first place, edging out the Darrel Saskiw rink in a very close game, 7 to 6. Pictured here are, standing – left to right, Allan Mytz, John Bielesch, Greg Hryhirchuk and Trent Clark. Kneeling is Darrell Saskiw, Derek Saskiw, Lyle Oracheski and Ross Jackson. The next bonspiel for the Innis-free Curling Club will see the ladies hit the ice on February 26 to 28.

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In The Field - With Dean Lindballe

Wow, how time flies. Only three months until spring seeding will be upon us.

While you are busy making your seed-ing plans, there are a few key points to keep in mind.

If you are thinking of growing peas, one of the first things you should con-sider is what was sprayed on that field last year. If you sprayed any products that contain Cloypyralid (Lontrel) like Eclipse, Prestige, Momentum, etc., do not seed peas on that ground as they will not germinate.

I recently read an article published by Alberta Agriculture that identifies a disease in peas called Aphanomyces euteiches (stem rot), the most com-mon species found in northern Alber-ta (north of Red Deer). In crops where this disease is present, bad lodging usually occurs. This pathogen tends to show up more on fields that have had peas previously grown on them. There is a treatment for this patho-gen. For more information, give us a call. This year all pea products are in short supply, so book early.

If you are growing canola, a few

more options have become available to be used as a pre-burn to control volunteer canola. Remember to book your seed treatments so you can get your crop off to a great start.

As always, work safe and enjoy our relatively mild winter!

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Farm Wife Diaries - It’s Near Impossible

By Deb Barber

It’s near impossible to get away with very much in a small community. Growing up in the community of

Crossfield with about seven hundred oc-cupants at that time, I use to complain as a teenager that people would say “God Bless You” before you even sneezed.

I’m not saying that is such a bad thing especially in the times that we find our-selves living in now. It’s always nice to know that neighbors still watch out for one another.

One early spring morning I had set out to reach my 10,000 step goal. The weather still held the wintery chill so I was dressed in my dark parka and snow pants. As I often do I tend to drift off into my own little world as my feet hit the gravel road, pounding out a repet-itive beat as my pedometer ticks away to that magical number. Self-absorbed, I didn’t think too much of the neighbour’s feed truck rambling up the road until he pulled up beside me. He advised me he had seen something ambling down the road and was concerned it was one of an-other neighbour’s bulls that had jumped the fence and was just doing the neigh-bourly ‘thing’ by double checking. Af-ter a friendly chat he drove away and I couldn’t help but wonder if I didn’t need to get on a better diet, if I was mistaken to be the size of a 1,500 pound bull, or perhaps my neighbor just needed glass-es.

On the opposite end of the spectrum it was on an extreme winter morning that I was out in minus 30 degree weather, bundled to the eyebrows, outfitted in a florescent orange and yellow vest that Sam insisted I wear if I planned to walk the roads, exercising my dog.

Unfortunately my dog had the very bad habit of running away and therefore had to be ‘walked’ like a city dog on a leash. Foxy’s daily mission was to see exactly how many miles we could travel before he could locate the ideal spot to do his ‘business’. This particular morn-ing yet another neighbor came cruising down the road in a water truck. As he stopped and rolled down his window I was hoping that the camouflage of mul-ti-layers of clothing would disguise my

identity, when he inquired if I was okay? Trying to be humorous I replied that other than being a ‘crazy’ dog lover I was just fine. Shaking his head, most likely in bewilderment he drove away proba-bly having been given some interesting coffee time food for talk.

More recently during the Christmas school vacation we took our side-by-side and blade over to plough the snow off the pond for the grandkids. After stay-ing for supper we headed for home and upon turning north homeward-bound there appeared behind us, a truck pull-ing a horse trailer. The driver seemed to be preoccupied with driving too close for our comfort with lights shining directly into our cab. Needless to say the driver of our vehicle had some unmentionable comments about certain drivers and pro-ceeded to slow down and even pull over closer to the ditch so they could pass, but to no avail. Just past the train tracks in exasperation we pulled over to allow the other vehicle to go by. Pulling up beside of us, the passenger window slid down as well as our driver’s window. Shout-ing into the dark Sam suggested they drive on by. Out of the shadows came the reply, “Sammy is that you?” And as the tale spun itself out, this particular neighbor saw a dark vehicle with a new-er side-by-side loaded on a trailer that was running without lights. With all the theft going on he decided to pursue never dreaming that Sam, the most fas-tidious person when it comes to proper trailer lights, would be found driving in the dark. It was a testament to exactly how cold and tired Papa was that night and also to how diligent our neighbours can be.

And to all of Sam’s loyal fan base of sympathizers, yes he does share his abode with free range dust bunnies and often finds his daily life displayed to the world as the antidote behind some hum-ors story that winds up in print. Howev-er, on the flip side at any given time he can find a dozen frozen homemade pies in the deep freezer at his disposal and is the recipient of handmade cards and personalized poetry, so he could have it worse!

So until next time, just remember, most everything comes with a trade off.

Dean Lindballe is a Certified Crop Advisor with

Crop Production Service (CPS) in Innisfree.

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Are you a parent or grandparent

of a baby born in 2015?

Do you want to show them off to our readers

in our special Baby Publication

of the Hiway 16 News?

Then Send their information and photo to the Hiway 16 News office for publication in our February 16 issue!

Send the photo along with the following information to info@hiway16news.ca

or drop it off at our office in Innisfree.Information needed: Baby's name, Place and Date of Birth, Parents' names,

Grandparents' names and if they have siblings send their names too!These birth announcements will cost $25 + gst and will appear in colour.

The deadline for baby photos is February 11.

Watch for our February 16 Baby Issue

to welcome our littlest members of the community!

Baby Julia Smith

Born on May 16, 2015 in Edmonton, Alberta.Parents are Jane and John Smith of Vegreville.

Baby Julia has an older brother ChristopherGrandparents are Mr. &

Mrs. Clarke of Hardisty, Alberta.

11Vol. II • №4 (41) • Tuesday, February 2, 2016

11Selling 42 Bulls, 30 Yearlings & 12 Two-year-olds

Full Fleckvieh and Red Simmental Bulls Available

Wintering Program Available

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12 Vol. II • №4 (41) • Tuesday, February 2, 2016

12 Plus See Our Selection Of Used VehiclesPlus See Our Selection Of Used Vehicles

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