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Recreation rates see an increase
By Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
The rates for recreation and community build-ings are increasing by five per cent.
Wes Amendt, director of community services for the Town of Ponoka, brought back the rates schedule to councillors Feb. 11 after it was tabled last month.
He feels the increase is reasonable. “We’re still in the middle compared to other communities.”
Mayor Rick Bonnett questioned why out of town users and commercial groups pay more than what the regular rates are. “It just seems it’s kind of a big deterrent…Is it not better to have it uti-lized,” he asked.
If local groups are not using Ponoka’s facili-ties, then he feels outside users should get a break on the cost. Amendt said there are not many people outside of Ponoka that use the town’s recreation and community buildings.
“I can understand that with these rates,” re-plied Bonnett.
Coun. Tim Falkiner was not in favour of the hike and used the ball diamonds as an example. “We need to look at filling these ball diamonds.”
He suggests the fees are too high and are a hin-drance for people coming from outside of Ponoka. With staff already maintaining the town’s recre-ation areas, Falkiner suggests a lower price would help promote more events in town and increase spending at local businesses.
Amendt said he has been working with Sarah Olson, economic development officer, to put to-gether packages for groups that do use Ponoka’s services. The package would include coupons to different areas such as the Aquaplex and arena.
Coun. Loanna Gulka said she understood Falkiner’s concerns but commented on the rec-reation deficit. “I agree with the thinking outside the box aspect…Recreation is one of the biggest deficits that this town runs. It’s a constant deficit.”
Coun. Marc Yaworski suggested having an empty field is worse. “If they’re sitting there mak-ing no money, best to get something for them.”
“Maybe it is something we should make a de-cision on before spring,” he added.
Coun. Carla Prediger suggested council and administration should conduct some strategic planning for the future.
Rates for the Aquaplex remain unchanged as they were increased last year. The new rates be-come effective March 1.
Town council wants to repeal the business hour bylaw
By Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
Town council wants to repeal the contentious business hours bylaw.
The 5-1 vote in favour of the annulment, with the only dissenting vote cast by Loanna Gulka, came during the regular meeting of the council Feb. 11, during which councillors were told a bylaw must be drafted to rescind the current one.
The current bylaw restricts the sale of liquor from liquor stores and off-sales liquor to 10 p.m. Some waivers have been given in the case of Almost
Midnight Madness, New Year’s Eve and the week of Ponoka Stampede, al-lowing liquor sales after 10 p.m. and liquor store owners have advocated the repeal.
Coun. Tim Falkiner made the pro-posal to repeal the bylaw and Coun. Loanna Gulka was the only person to speak against the motion. She said time and study is needed to see if the bylaw has made Ponoka a safer com-munity, and researchers have said as much.
“It takes time to study whether a bylaw like this is effective or not,” said Gulka.
She believes two to three years are needed to gather enough information.
“I’m asking for the time to see what happens after that time period. To gain a proper statistical overview of whether it’s working for this commu-nity or not,” added Gulka.
Coun. Carla Prediger feels the strategies used to pass this bylaw were not conducive to how other areas try to bring community safety. She has seen initiatives that have addressed drug addiction and homelessness. “But it came from the community asking for support, whether it be protective ser-vices or whether it be council.”
In meeting with RCMP Staff Sgt. Cameron Chisholm, she was con-cerned that no other safety methods were thought of. She wants to see other strategies looked at rather than restrict-ing businesses.
She said she saw the preventive re-sponse to a particular situation produce a punitive consequence and wanted to know what other preventive programs were in place right now.
There is already the legislation for the sales of liquor, said Coun. Falki-ner. “The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission is in charge of alcohol related products licensing in this prov-ince. I think they do a fantabulous job and I only know that because I repre-sent them out of Stettler,” said Coun. Tim Falkiner.
“If we don’t rescind this, we’re letting it open to set ourselves above them (AGLC),” said Falkiner.
He suggests if council really wants to change the rules, the way is to lobby the AGLC or province of Alberta rath-er than hurt local businesses.
“It’s a financial cost to numerous business in town, not only liquor relat-ed businesses. How’s that going to look when we attract businesses to town and we’re stepping all over businesses that we already have,” he questioned.
Mayor Rick Bonnett said council would not make a quick decision on repealing the bylaw and would give residents the opportunity to voice their opinions on it. “We do want some pub-lic input from both sides.”
A draft repeal bylaw is expected in the near future.
The owners of sev-eral liquor stores were in the gallery to find out what council would decide. Coun. Marc Ya-worski had to recuse himself from the discus-sion as he is an owner of the Leland Hotel, which is affected by the bylaw.
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Open liquor in vehicle clocked at 160km/h
By Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
Ponoka RCMP handled 53 calls for service last week with various is-sues. The following are some of the highlights:
A vehicle traveling at 160km/h was seized by police as no-one in the car, including the registered owner, had a valid license.
Police stopped the vehicle Feb. 14 at 11 p.m. on Highway 2 and found open liquor in the vehicle. Upon in-vestigation police found that the driver, a 25-year-old Quebec man, did not have a valid licence and was driv-ing while disqualified.
The vehicle, a 2013 black Ford Fusion, was found to be uninsured and the registered owner was a passenger in the vehicle with open liquor. There was another passenger who also had open liquor in the vehicle.
Officers with the Ponoka Integrat-ed Traffic Unit charged the driver with driving while disqualified. The regis-tered owner received several charges, including having open liquor in a ve-hicle and having an uninsured vehicle. Driver fails to follow Stop sign
Two motorists received a close call Feb. 12 after a t-bone collision at a Stop Sign on Highway 2A and 53 Avenue.
A 55-year-old Wetaskiwin woman failed to follow rules of the Stop sign and her 2000 Dodge Caravan collided with a 2001 grey Dodge Ram pickup. There were no injuries in the collision. Motorist with open liquor refuses tow bill
Rather than pay a tow bill, a motorist now faces charges of open liquor in a vehicle.
The registered owner called a tow company Feb. 14 at 5 p.m. on High-way 2 after running out of gas. But after refusing to pay the tow bill po-lice were called in to assist. Further investigation found that the driver and passengers in the vehicle did not have driver’s licenses and one passenger had open-liquor in the vehicle. Collision on Highway 53
A 54-year-old Ponoka woman was charged Feb. 12 at 3:45 p.m. with failing to proceed safely at an intersection after she collided with another vehicle.
Two vehicles were involved in the collision at Highway 53 and 50 Street. There were no injuries and one vehicle was towed. Forgotten gas nozzle
A forgetful Ponoka man was surprised to find a gas nozzle in his vehicle when he arrived home last week.
The man filled up the gas tank of his ve-hicle Feb. 13 at 10 a.m., paid for the gas and pro-
ceeded to drive away without putting the gas nozzle back in the fueling sta-tion. No charges were laid. Impaired driver hits ditch
Police have charged a 19-year-old Ponoka man with impaired driving Feb. 15 at 3 p.m. after hitting the ditch.
The man was driving a 2001 steel coloured Dodge Ram when he hit the ditch on Township Road 431 near Range Road 271A. Officers could smell the odor of liquor from the man’s breath and arrested him. He provided blood-alcohol samples of .23 and .22. Wigs and toy guns found
Two wigs, fake moustaches and two toys guns were found in a trash receptacle on Highway 2 last week.
A public service employee was cleaning out a garbage receptacle at a rest stop Feb. 13 at 11 a.m. when they located the mysterious items. Police were notified and the incident is under investigation. Motorist denies speeding
Concerned drivers called police over a 2013 white C300 Mercedes driving at high speed.
RCMP were unable to intercept the driver Feb. 15 at 1 p.m. but called the registered owner as they were provided with a licence plate number. A Calgary woman answered and denied speeding.
Shortly after the woman was pulled over near Leduc as she was clocked at 146 km/h. Impaired driver
A 28-year-old Athabasca man was charged with impaired driving Feb. 11 at 6:11 p.m.
Police responded to a complaint of an erratic driver of a 2006 Chevy Silverado, and upon stopping the ve-hicle, could smell alcohol emanating from the car. Results of the blood-alcohol samples provided were not available at press time.
If you have information on any crime call Ponoka RCMP at 403-783-4472 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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No new developments on masked robbery No arrests or any other new leads have been re-
ported with regard to the robbery committed by a an unidentified man armed with a machete at 7:40 p.m. at the Reddi Mart in Ponoka on the night of Thursday, Feb. 13.
According to the account of the incident given by the RCMP Ponoka Detachment, the suspect produced a machete and demanded cash from the clerk. After taking the undisclosed amount of cash, the man then fled on foot and no vehicle was seen when the man left.
The suspect is described as approximately 5’3” in height and weighs between 120 to 140 pounds. He was wearing a black and white snow jacket with hood and black snow pants.
There were no injuries in the incident. Should anyone have
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PONOKA WORD OF LIFE CHURCHPastor Rob McArthur 403-783-5659
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCHPASTOR DAVE BEAUDOIN
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NEW COVENANT BAPTISTREFORMED CHURCH
Currently meeting at Ponoka Christian School 6300-50 St.Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m.
Everyone Welcome!phone: 403-783-6962 • www.baptistreformedponoka.org
PARKLAND REFORMED CHURCHSouth on 2A, West on Spruce Road 403-783-1888
Rev. Mitch Ramkissoon Worship Service 10:00 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.www.parklandurc.org
Associated Gospel Churches of Canada
CHURCH OF THE OPEN BIBLEPastor Jerry Preheim • Pastor Matt Sealy
3704 - 42 St. Ponoka 403-783-6500Worship Service 11:00 a.m. • [email protected]
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH PONOKASr. Pastor Paul Spate
Erin Dirsten - Fac. Youth & Family Min.
5109 - 57 Ave. Ponoka www.fbcponoka.org 403-783-5533Bible Discovery Hour 9:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m.
PONOKA UNITED CHURCH Minister: Beatrix Schirner [email protected]
Sunday Service 10:00 am.
5020-52 Ave. Ponoka Phone: 403-783-4087
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½ mile south of Centennial Centre for Mental Health & Brain Injury 403-783-6012 • www.sonriseponoka.com
ST. AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC CHURCHFr. Chris Gnanaprakasam, S.A.C.
Mass Times: 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 9:00 a.m. Sunday5113 - 52 Ave., Ponoka, T4J 1H6 403-783-4048
ST. MARY’S ANGLICAN CHURCHVen. Michael Sung
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Sunday Service: Holy Eucharist 10 a.m.www.stmarysanglicanponoka.com
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Christmas Gift to Baja, MexicoSubmitted by Nellie Bos
On Dec. 25, 2013, Bill and I left Ponoka to spend a month in Baja, Mexico. Our daughter and her family were already there, so we knew there would be projects lined up for us to do. First we worked with “Safe Care International”, an orphanage/day care center that reachs out to the poorest of the poor.
We were part of the “Samaratian’s Box Gifts” campaign to deliver to ap-proximately 50-60 children at the migrant camp.
Here you see simply deplorable conditions of poverty. Average wage is $10 a day, costs $5 for milk. Babies drink soda pop, cheaper by far. Seeing the migrant camps is a real eye opener of needy families. It was a joy to de-liver gifts of hope, “Safe Care “ reaches out to some of these camps on a regular basis. The children were so happy to see us.
Next stop Vincente Guerrero, ap-proximately 4.5 hours south of Tijuana, to begin our house build (one room 16 x 24) for a family of six who had lost their primary caregiver in a “widow maker” accident.
We were joined by 23 other folks from Alberta ranging in age from 12-70. For the next week, Bill was part of the house build. The rest of us were in teams doing various ministrys. We watched eight teens in our group go to a poverty stricken seniors home and wash and oil cracked feet, do hands and nails and call it the highlight of their trip. We were impressed.
On Friday, we handed over the keys to the new owners proudly wearing T-shirts that Leisure Lanes of Ponoka had so generously donated. We then gave our T-shirts to the Mexicans and en-joyed the authentic Mexican meal the family had graciously prepared for us.
The rest of our stay was at a women’s shelter (New Beginnings & Restora-tion Place).
My main ministry of service would be teach-ing ladies and older teens how to sew. Sheila from Wombold Funeral
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Homes Ponoka had graciously donated yards and yards of fleece and other sewing materials for this endeavor. Approximately, 18 pairs of pajamas, tops, slacks, skirts, and a wedding outfit were sewn. Our team played with the children, did crafts and learining projects, baked, cleaned, sorted etc.
I found myself not just sewing but listening to many sad stories. I found myself encouraging the ladies. A good thing a hug, tears, smiles and loving touches are the same in any language.
Thank you to all of you from Ponoka who helped in some way. It is all about teamwork and we were proud to share your support with others.
Bill and I felt like we were able to make a differ-ence in the lives of many.
On Feb. 23, at 1:30 they will be sharing more with a power point in the Church of the Open Bible. You are welcome.
“ Bravo! – for Junio ”I have to admit; I’m a sucker for the
Olympics. Like many of us, I have more than 50 years of Olympics to look back on. Memorable moments, (both good and bad), to cherish. These Sochi Games, like our own “Vancouver Games” have given us some of the best.
An “Off - ice Story” sometimes out-shines what happens inside the arena.
I don’t know - have you heard about “Denny Morrison & Gilmore Junio” yet? It’s the kind of story that makes you want to stand up and cheer !!
It goes like this: Canadian Speed skater, Gilmore Junio, was scheduled to compete, in the 1,000 meter, long track, race last week. But then, he had a change of heart and decided to allow his friend and team-mate Denny Morrison, to race in his place
It’s not uncommon for a coach to do that - to replace one athlete for another. It happens in hockey all the time! But, NO hockey player, in his right mind, would voluntarily become a “healthy-scratch”. (not to my knowledge, anyway)
Has anything like this ever happened before? What a remarkably wonderful, and almost unthinkable scenario. Chanc-es for greatness (read: Olympic Records) don’t come around every day! But, to voluntarily give one up? WOW!!
– Everybody’s asking “Why did he do
it?” Your guess is probably just as good as mine. The Globe and Mail reported: “[Junio] stepped aside to allow a [friend and] veteran to fulfill a lifelong dream.”
His friend, Ft. St. John native, Dan-ny Morrison, - one of Canada’s premier speed skaters for the past eight years – hadn’t medaled in Vancouver – and was still searching for his first individual Olympic medal.
What Gil Junio did serves as a good example this is for all of us. What a HUGE sacrifice!! I applaud his “selfless-ness” – in putting a teammate ahead of himself. I know that this kind of thinking
often goes against my nature, and is not an easy thing to do.
This paid off, wonderfully, for the both of them! Morrison unexpectedly won the silver medal for the 1,000 me-ter race! Afterward he said: “I actually surprised myself with how close I was to [Dutch star Michel Mulder] with one lap to go,” ... “I knew I was on a good one.”
He is also qualified for the 1,500 me-ter race and will be racing again tomorrow (Feb. 15th). Hopefully it will be a repeat performance.
What does Gil Junio get from all of this?
Well, he now has the warmth of know-ing his blessing to a friend, has changed his life forever!
Junio has also gained worldwide pop-ularity! And deservedly so! Hence the media campaign to make him Canada’s flag-bearer in the closing ceremonies. And best of all - in 30 or 40 years, when his grandchildren ask him; “Grandpa – did you really do that?” – he’ll have wonderful story to tell!!
The Bible says, in John 15:13 “Great-er love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”
As our Aussie friends would say: “Good – on - ya”; and I’d say “Bravo for Junia”
Bye for now.
Pastor Jerry PreheimChurch of the Open BibleA member of the Ponoka Ministerial Association
This little girl was one of the recipients of the gift packages from Samaritan’s Purse.
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Refl ections of PonokaRefl ections of PonokaA life dedicated to sports, family, and community
By Mike Rainone for the News
May Pringle was born in Edinburg, Scot-land on June 3, 1923, and immigrated by ship to Canada in 1926, eventually settling in Edmonton with her parents and three young brothers. She attended Parkdale School through grades 1-9 and eventually developed an instant love for the sport of basketball. The Pringle family worked hard and also became very active in sports, with May’s brother Alex Pringle later playing with the Edmonton Flyers team when they won the Allan Cup in 1947-48, starring on the big line of Kreller/Smitten and Pringle, and affectionately known as the ‘receding hair line.’
May began her Grade 10-11-12 studies at Edmonton’s Eastwood High School, where, of course, she would join the basketball team. She was later contacted by Claire Hollingsworth, (the son-in-law of Percy Page, the Coach and mentor of the perennial world champion Edmonton Grads hoop team), and in 1937, while still playing for the Eastview team, she was invited to play cen-tre with the prestigious McDougall Commercial High School squad. The team played in various Edmonton city leagues, as well as travelling, all expenses paid to games and tournaments through-out the province of Alberta. Among her earliest fond memories included playing in Cardston, be-ing billeted by the Mormons and getting to tour the magnificent Mormon Temple. May’s inspira-tion for joining and enjoying the great hoop game came as a young girl, who followed the amazing story of the famous Edmonton Grads basketball team, which put together an unbelievable record of 502 wins in 522 total games, as well as winning all 23 games that they played as a demonstration sport in the 1924 (Paris), 1928 (Amsterdam), 1932 (Los Angeles), and 1936 (Berlin) Olympic Games.
In 1944 May Spence met and married Pilot
Officer Robert Lorne Spence, who served in the Mediterranean for the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War. May would play for the Edmonton Army and Navy ‘Pats” ladies’ basket-ball team for nine years and along the way would help them to win numerous city, provincial, and prairie championships. She vividly recalls going by train through the mountains to Vancouver for a competition, where May and her mates were able to play with former Edmonton Grads Noel (Mc-Donald ) Robertson, Etta Dann, and Laura Scott. After cruising the west coast, the talented team returned home, and this would mark the end of May’s exciting Basketball career.
The happy couple moved to North Battleford, Saskatchewan, where she taught basketball as well as playing softball for years on a great team coached by ‘Wild Bill Hunter’ of later hockey fame. Daughters Donna and Darlene were born in North Battleford on June 19, 1948 and June 19, 1951, then after moving to Edmonton, son Ron was welcomed on October 25, 1954. The family moved to Ponoka in 1955 and soon after purchased Central Hardware on Railway Street, which they operated for many years. May later went to work at Lou Gorman’s Drug Store on Chipman Avenue, played lots of golf in the summer, and also teamed with Dorothy Berg and others to open the Clay Barn, which was dedicated to the promotion and teaching of the arts, culture, and crafts for all ages. An accomplished artist, May really enjoyed paint-ing as a hobby, and loved to donate many of her works (under the name of Tu Tu) to worthy causes in and around the community.
The Spences very quickly became involved in the community, Bob as a longstanding Director, President, and Secretary of the Ponoka Stampede Association, and May as busy volunteer during the annual Stampede, as well as a member of the
Kinettes and K-40, as a coach of the Composite Hi-Aces girls basket-
May Spence, 91, still enjoys an active life in her favourite community of Ponoka. Photos submitted
The Championship 1945 Edmonton Army and Navy ‘Pats’ Basketball team shown from left to right, back row are: May Spence, Margaret Hembling, Marie Schwarz, Coach Clare Holling-sworth, Noel Robertson, Gladys Limming, and Peggy Colville; then seated up front is: Etta Dann, Denize Callaway, Connie Strachan, Laura Scott, and Edith Skitch.
ball club for several seasons, as a Sunday School teacher, and one of the leaders of the 72 girls taking part in the United Church C.G.I.T. Club. After raising family, Bob and May loved to join the Snowbirds for their annual winter getaway to Yuma, Ari-zona. Both the Spence girls, Donna and Darlene, went into nursing ca-reers, while Ron and his family were very active in business and sports here in Ponoka. As a lifetime mem-ber of the Ponoka Community Golf Club, May played in many tourna-ments and events, and the highlight
came with the scoring of a hole-in-one out on the pristine Ponoka course.
At the age of 91 May Spence still continues to enjoy an active life-style with her partner of 11 years Don Dil-lon, loves go to out for coffee and share memories with family and friends, as well as staying in touch and pampering six grandchildren and 10 great-grand-children. She has always been proud to be a Ponokan, a community she will always cherish as a great and friendly place to live, work, play, and raise a family.
Photo courtesy of Winnifred Evans
This is when we were so cute, and were so happy to poise for our Grade 2 1950 class photo with our teacher Mrs. Berdine. Shown in the top from left to right are: Percy Williams, George Stiles, Dwayne Schalin, Donald Gotfriedsen, Howard Rowland, Bruce Rowland, Wayne Newton, Ritchie Twa, Jack Peters, and Vera Wolfe; then in the middle is: Ada Sparks, Joan Switzer, Doreen Stuart, Violet White, Mina Tweedy, Jean Sutherland, Charlene Winslow, Rose Pohl, Myr-na Schalin, Garry Rowland, and David Parent. Seated in the front row from left to right are: Janice Umbach, Audrey Raugust, Maryann Kohlman, Tommy Williams, Michael Rainone, Garry Stiles, Steve Ulyett, Tommy Tait, and Ian Sandulak.
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(page 2) on the regular town council meeting of Tuesday, Feb. 11, council-lors voted with a majority of five to one to start the procedure to rescind the controversial business hours bylaw introduced last year to ban sales of al-coholic beverages after 10 p.m.
There is nothing wrong with a piece of legislation being withdrawn provided that it is done in line with the procedures and/or bylaws in place.
In this particular case, the deci-sion to start the process to revoke the bylaw comes less than a year after it was introduced and only a few days following a survey by the Ponoka and District Chamber of Commerce that came out strongly in favor the abroga-tion of the restriction.
Since the debate over the pros and cons of the bylaw is so fresh in the minds of the people involved, no one needs to be reminded of them, it seems.
Despite that, one cannot help no-ticing a few points that might still need to be considered.
First, Councillor Yaworski with-drew from the deliberations on the issue declaring conflict of interest, which was both appropriate and in line with procedures. The position of another councillor, though, might call for some additional discussion: Coun-cillor Falkiner, who both initiated the motion to rescind the bylaw and voted for his own motion, said during the council meeting that he represented ALGC.
“The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission is in charge of alcohol related products licensing in this prov-ince. I think they do a fantabulous (sic) job and I only know that because I rep-resent them out of Stettler,” were his exact words.
Sitting on that forum, unless in-vited in any other special capacity to do so, councillors should represent no party other than the voters of the Town of Ponoka. ALGC is a provin-cial organization and as described on its homepage, its “business focuses on maximizing the economic benefits of gaming and liquor activities in the province to benefit all Albertans.”
As one can clearly discern, while the main concern in introducing the
legislation in question was safety and security of the Ponoka community, the ALGC’s priority is maximizing profits and not particularly issues of safety. In that context, can a councillor, repre-senting ALGC by his own admission, be considered neutral in this debate and can he claim to speak for the ben-efit of the Ponoka community only? In other words, is Councillor Falkiner’s initiation of the motion, and his vote in favour, legal/legitimate/appropriate/acceptable?
Second, the business community of Ponoka, being a well-organized stake-holder in the debate, successfully made its voice heard loud and clear, thanks to the outcome of the Monkey Survey conducted after its recent AGM. Now, will the municipal leadership make a move to hear the voice of the resi-dents? Will the town council assume that the voice of the business equals the voice of the residents? Or will the town council put the onus on residents of this community to make their voice heard? If the town council/councillors do not hear from the electorate in mass numbers either in favor or against the repeal of the bylaw, will they assume that the silent majority is in favor of the abrogation of the bylaw?
Third, we know that Ponoka is at pains to attract more population, more business to induce stronger economic growth. We have already witnessed how the recent municipal election campaign was dominated by the discussion on the improvement of recreation services as a means of attracting more families to the com-munity.
The repeal of the bylaw, on the other hand, can comfortably pave the way to a return to the situation, which found its most telling description in the words “drunken driving capital of Canada” as uttered by the head of the Ponoka RCMP Detachment. If a tragic event occurs as a result of the abrogation of the bylaw, like a massive collision or a death as a result of drunk-enness (granted, it may never happen, but then again, it may), how will that affect the image of the town and the community and might it not send to waste all the efforts being undertaken to portray the image of a welcoming and peaceful town to outsiders?
Mustafa Eric
Is the high speed rail plan really necessary?Dear editor,
Public consultations about high-speed train, costing Albertans between 3 and 20 billion dollars will take place later this month. In order to have a say in what Redford’s government decides, you will have to attend meetings. As most people are too busy working to attend meetings and little is reported in newspapers, radio & TV news, but the Conservatives consider this “democratic” and let-ting Albertans having their say.
Of course, meetings can be “stacked” with people of one opinion or another and if govern-ment decides, there is a decision to build it; the issue is at rest once and for all. In other words, all Albertans will not have a voting say in spending their hard-earned dollars to build a rail system.
Why is the government subsidizing rail systems? Do we also subsidize airplanes and buses? Commuter trains between Calgary and Edmonton were previously discontinued due to the high rate of accidents over all the level cross-ings. We just finished bailing out everybody from the flood with billions of dollars, spent billions of dollars for carbon capture for the oil compa-nies and now they want to have a high-speed rail which will probably favor business travelers and
not the ordinary person. You pay whether you use it or not! Of course, no one mentions over-runs and things never cost what they are predicted to cost; they always go over. No mention of upkeep or which corporations are pushing for this.
I know. Increase corporate tax to fully cover the cost of high speed rail.
If you are against paying for a high-speed rail system, call your government representative now. Send an email- quick, easy and it’s docu-mented in writing. Or next year, you’ll see your personal income taxes go way up, while you pay for up to a 20 billion dollar train between Calgary and Edmonton. Check out high speed rail com-ments made by Transportation Minister, Rick McIvor this week.
I am against putting my tax dollars towards a high-speed train and would much rather see an-other highway lane put on Highway 2 between Calgary and Edmonton with proper road sanding and clearing when required. Also upgrade sec-ondary highways with the increased population that Alberta has seen since 1960! Let’s help all Albertans! Put it to a vote for next public elections.
Debbie Newbery
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Autograph session to follow.Samson Cree have new chiefBy Mustafa Eric
Samson Cree nation elected a new chief last week, replacing in-cumbent Marvin Yellowbird with Kurt Buffalo, one of the 12 candi-dates who put forward their names in the poll that took place on Tuesday, Feb. 11.
Buffalo won the tight race with a majority of only four votes, with 259 against the 255 of the runner-up Vern
Saddlebeack.The new chief was not available
for any comments immediately after his election.
As Ponoka News went to print on Tuesday, the list of candidates for the election of the Samson Cree band council was being finalized.
The vote for the new council members will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 25.
Residents allowed opportunity to speak
with town councilBy Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
Town residents will now have the opportunity to speak up during a regular town council meeting.
A new bylaw was passed Feb. 11 al-lowing people the opportunity to speak with town councillors for a two-minute period. The decision was part of the town’s Council Procedures Bylaw, which allows up to three groups to give their concerns or suggestions.
Also the mayor can give control of the meeting to the deputy mayor to give councillors experience in running a council meeting. Credit card limit increase
Councillors approved the increase of three MasterCard credit card limits with Servus Credit Union to $30,000 from $10,000, with a collective total of $90,000.
Mayor Rick Bonnett, the director of corporate services and the CAO each have a credit card for purchases and there have been times where $10,000 has been insufficient when councillors attend con-ferences, explained Sandra Lund, acting director of corporate services.
Bonnett said councillors were at a recent Alberta Urban Municipalities Association conference when his credit card was declined.
Acting CAO Betty Quinlan said the credit card usage is strictly audited, which provides some security to the town. “There’s always a double check and they’re scrutinized and the auditor actually looks at every receipt.”
Coun. Sandra Lyon asked how often issues with the cards being maxed out happen. Bonnett said there have been is-sues when councillors go to municipal conferences and Sarah Olson, economic development officer said when the town needs to make purchases for computer equipment or other items that are not billed, the credit cards need to be used, but there have been times the cards were close to being full.
“It’s just when things culminate,” said Olson.
The town’s auditor, Rowland, Park-er and Associates, has recommended a credit card policy be created, which Quinlan said administration is working on.Year-end audit extension
Administration is applying to Mu-nicipal Affairs for an extension on the town’s year-end audit.
Lund presented the request to coun-cillors stating that recent changes in administration and changes in staffing
and municipal software conversion has caused a challenge to get the audit done in time. The year-end audit submission was intended for May 1.
“We’re wishing to extend it to Sept. 1,” said Lund.
Council approved the request.Public hearing set for land-use bylaw
A public hearing is set for March 11 at Town Hall to rezone a property located at 3915 46 A Street Close to high-den-sity residential district from low-density multi family residential.
The request came from David Clark, whose goal is to develop a vacant space within the existing building. Clark had applied to council in 2008 but was un-successful. The development authority of the day required the entire block be rezoned, explained Quinlan.
Betty Jurykoski, planning and devel-opment officer for the Town of Ponoka, feels the new application is reasonable for the area.
“His zoning, currently, is the only thing prohibiting him from developing that final suite,” she said.
Off-street parking can be made avail-able as there is already a two-car garage on the property and room for four spots, explained Clark. Jurykoski feels the proposal is consistent with the neigh-bourhood.
Clark said he plans on attending to the public hearing to answer any ques-tions. Five-year contract approved for as-sessment firm
Councillors approved the renewal of a five-year-contract with Wild Rose As-sessment Services.
The company’s rates are for as-sessment, re-evaluations, interpretation and implementation of new legislation, re-inspections and a variety of other as-sessment services is $77,000 per year, approximately $22 per parcel based on 3,500 parcels. The fee stays the same for 2015 and increases to $22.50 per par-cel in 2016, $23 per parcel in 2017 and $23.50 per parcel in 2018.
Lund said the town has been using the company’s services for some years and usually signs a five-year-contract. “They currently provide services to 38 other municipalities.”Increase of staff at arena
Amendt said the town now has eight staff, including himself, who have all been trained in operating the Zamboni at the Ponoka Culture and Recreation Com-plex. He has also hired more part time and temporary staff to keep operations running smoothly at the arena.
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With more than 90 per cent of its territory receiving direct high-speed Internet access. Ponoka County has been deemed to have, on a municipality basis, the best Internet coverage nation wide.
Pre-2010, CAO Charlie Cutforth says, approximate-ly 10 per cent of the county could receive access. “Like most municipalities, we kept hoping the private sector would see a market in the rural sector. But we waited for years, and the coverage was so sporadic.”
In early 2010, Cutforth attended a conference in Co-chrane put on by a number of rural gas co-ops across the province that were looking into electronically reading meters rather than physical excursions.
“They got together and looked at, if there was some sort of high-speed Internet available, they could do their readings more efficiently,” said Cutforth.
“The service was at the same level as the major ur-ban centres,” he added.
Ponoka County received The Final Mile $500,000 federal grant and finished up their discussions with CCI Wireless (called Corridor Communications at the time) for seven high-speed towers to be erected across the county.
The total cost for the county was $1.7 million and the grant went into helping to pay that cost. Cutforth says while Ponoka County had to front the entire cost, they also entered into an agreement that CCI could pur-chase the towers over a 15 years.
“When those towers got built we thought ‘oh beauty, we’re done,’” said Cutforth. However, once the towers were constructed, it was found that there were still cus-tomers throughout the county that couldn’t receive direct access because of topography.
In 2012, Ponoka County formed another agreement with two coun-ty residents who formed Missing Link, “which is intended erect to small towers in places CCI isn’t available,” Cutforth ex-plained.
To construct the 13 smaller towers cost a total of $270,000. How-ever, the county received another grant to the tune of $240,000 and ended up having to pay only $30,000.
Like CCI, Missing Link can also buy their towers from the county over a 15-year period.
Because of obstacles such as heavy tree cover-age, Cutforth says there may still be county resi-dents without access to a signal. He says the county is willing to pay for small towers to go in if they’ll provide access to at least three households but he hasn’t received a call from someone without access in over a year.
After Ponoka County joined forces with CCI, Cutforth says approxi-mately six other counties have either done the same or are in the midst of that process.
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Council denies second request for property tax forgiveness
By Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
A property tax forgiveness request has been turned down by town councillors.
A request came to the Town of Ponoka Feb. 11 to forgive the 2012 property taxes and penalties in the amount of $647.71 on the property. The same re-quest came to councillors last year but was denied. The owner of a manufactured home made a second request after some discussion with town administra-tion.
The homeowner met with assistant CAO Betty Quinlan to explain some of the mitigating factors in not paying the property tax. The resident owns a manufactured home and rents property and Quinlan said there were some errors that caused the mistake.
“There was new managers at the manufactured home park, the old managers always kept the town updated on who the residents were,” she explained.
Individual property owners pay tax just on the mobile homes and not on the land, said Quinlan. The new resident was paying rent and was unaware of the taxes and the new managers did not notify the town of the change, which caused some issues.
“She didn’t become aware that there was taxes owing,” said Quinlan.
Coun. Teri Underhill was unimpressed. “I just think this is phooey to be honest.”
She said property owners should get tax adjust-ments after land sales and asked if the person making
the request could show a statement of adjustment.
“Anytime that you buy land or a manufactured home there’s a state-ment of adjustments,” said Underhill.
The tax responsibility falls on the lawyers or homeowners finalizing a sale to ensure those taxes are paid, she explained.
“And if you choose not to use a
realtor or a lawyer and do your deal privately then it is your obligation to know that,” added Coun. Sandra Lyon.
Coun. Carla Prediger made a mo-tion to table a decision to get more information from the person, but council defeated it. Underhill made the motion to deny the request, which passed 6-1 with Prediger voting against it.
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Youth centre looks for support from town council By Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
Visits to the Ponoka Youth Centre (PYC) have increased by 35 per cent last year.
In 2013 the PYC received 13,686 youth visits, from 550 different kids, that’s 3,408 more visits than in 2012. Executive director for the PYC Beth Re-itz met with town councillors Feb. 11 to show how important the operation has been to Ponoka youths and families.
“We run one of the most successful teen youth centres in our province,” said
Reitz. She feels strong staff and positive col-
laboration with Ponoka and area schools have been important factors in the PYC’s growth. Many of the programs offered are meant to benefit kids’ life skills and Reitz feels there is a long-term benefit to what they offer at the centre.
One of the programs is designed to help former Diamond Willow Middle School students’ transition to being taught at Ponoka Secondary Campus. Twice a week in the morning, PYC staff
bring smoothies and will check in with the students. They also check in at lunch-time and the PYC has logged 2,000 visits with students so far, explained Reitz.
The PYC has been operating with another program under the same roof; Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS). “It has worked phenomenally well to have those two programs (PYC and BBBS) togeth-er.”
Organizers have taken the mentoring program to a new level with high school students mentoring younger elementary
aged students at the centre. “We have about 20 of these going on right
now and just the relationships between the high school and the elementary school…When they go to Grade 7, they’re going to know somebody in high school,” explained Reitz.
She suggests the dollars used in mentoring programs is money well spent and brings future dollars into the community.
“Every dollar that you invest into a mentoring program, the social return is $18. You can’t find that return on investment anywhere else,” said Re-itz.
She says benefits to the community come in the form of reducing juvenile crime between 3 to 6 p.m., and the risk of teen pregnancy is also reduced. This time-period is found to have more youth-related crime and the youth centre provides kids with activities to keep them busy.
Some of the funding provided to the youth cen-tre is at risk. Reitz said the centre receives 20 per cent of their funding from Family and Community Support Services (FCSS). The organization makes use of a home care contract and because FCSS is non-profit, it can provide funds to community ef-forts such as the youth centre. There is worry that contract will not be awarded to FCSS next year.
“That’s a huge hit…We wouldn’t even know where to start to make that up,” said Reitz.
Another 10 per cent of their funding was lost after the 2013 Alberta Budget was announced. Re-itz asked council for financial assistance to keep the PYC and BBBS programs going.
Coun. Marc Yaworski asked Reitz how much she was looking for.
While Reitz said she knows the town has not given financial assistance before and realizes the budget is tight, making up for lost funds is still a concern. She asked for a minimum of $10,000 per year for the youth centre and $5,000 to $8,000 for BBBS program.
FCSS provides $25,000 to BBBS and $40,000 to the PYC.
Council did not make any decisions but Mayor Rick Bonnett thanked Reitz.
“We don’t know what we have room for yet, but we will definitely look at it,” said Bonnett.
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There’s still time to nominate Ponoka’s young leadersBy Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
The deadline is fast approaching for folks to nominate young leaders in the community.
The Leaders of Tomorrow program is in its 18th year of recognizing Ponoka’s youth
volunteers, says Leanne Brusegard, chairper-son of the Leaders of Tomorrow Committee. Youths in the Ponoka area, who have volun-teered their time to improve the community, will be honoured at an awards ceremony April
6 at the Ponoka Secondary Campus. But time is running out, says Brusegard,
since the nominations deadline is Feb. 28. Those who wish to nominate a young leader can find forms at the Ponoka Hospital and
Care Centre, at Ponoka and areas schools or on-line at www.ponoka.ca. Organizing the event be-gan last year.
“We actually started planning for this event in October,” explained Brusegard.
There are four categories this year: • Primary – Kindergarten to Grade 3• Elementary – Grades 4 to 6• Junior – Grades 7 to 9• Senior – Grades 10 to 12
Brusegard said the goal is to “ensure the youth of our community are recognized and acknowledged for their contributions.” The Mecca Glen and Crestomere schools and the Christian School are on board and the eight-member committee is looking forward to seeing the nomination forms come in.
Nominations will be sent to anonymous judges outside of the community who will then evaluate each individual. Brusegard said all primary and elementary nominees will receive a certificate for their efforts and the junior and senior winners will be announced at the awards ceremony, which is open to all nominees’ family members.
Encana has been the sole sponsor of Ponoka’s Lead-ers of Tomorrow program for the last 18 years, said Brusegard, helping pay for the awards ceremony and supplies.
All youths will be invited to a 4-H leadership work-shop May 2 to 3 at the 4-H centre in Battle Lake as well. Brusegard feels the Leaders of Tomorrow Awards provide a valuable tool for students’ resumes. “A lot of schools look at that. A lot of jobs look at that.”
Mentoring social return on investment
Information released last year by the Boston Con-sulting Group (BCG) on the Big Brother Big Sisters mentoring programs provides encouraging data.
The company released results from a study that for every dollar spent, the Social Return on Investment (SROI) is $18. The number is higher for economically disadvantaged participants at $23 SROI.
Five hundred former mentors were looked at with a control group of individuals who were not mentored by a Big Brother or Big Sister. There were four life out-comes that were looked at: employment, philanthropy, life-skills and general well-being.
The average cost to mentor these little brothers and sisters was $5,059. The study states those studied will generate an average tax revenue of $32,154, $49,819 in increased consumption, $5,856 in additional charitable volunteering and $890 in greater charitable giving. Key findings from the study: • 68 per cent of the individuals were employed full time compared to 58 per cent in the control group• 66 per cent self-reported volunteering compared to 43 per cent in the control group• 42 per cent agreed they were happy compared to 26 per cent in the control group • 42 per cent strongly agreed they had a strong network of family compared to 28 per cent in the other group.Methodology
The BBBS SROI study compares the life outcomes of single parent children of very similar backgrounds who had a BBBS mentor with a group that did not have that experience. The differential life outcomes were then identified and attributed to the program based on self-reported causal assessments. BCG then translated the causal differential life outcomes into societal dollar impacts and compared them to the up-front investment on a Net Present Value (NPV) basis to generate the ROI. The study was undertaken by BCG using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative research consisted of 50 one-on-one interviews where hypotheses were tested and refined in preparation for the quantitative research. All of the quantitative research was undertaken via online survey and weighted to en-sure a representative socio-economic, demographic and geographic sample in Canada.
Further detailed information is available at the fol-lowing link: http://www.bigbrothersbigsisters.ca/en/home/newsevents/investinginkidsfuturespaysoff.aspx
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County receives more funding requestsBy Amelia Naismith
With budget deliberations just around the corner, Ponoka County council is continuing to re-ceive funding requests from organizations across the county.
Five funding requests were set before council-ors at their Feb. 11 meeting and they decided each one would be deferred for budget discussion; the budget meeting date is set for the end of March.Ponoka
Ponoka Covered Wagon Handicapped Trans-port Society is asking for $1,800, which is the same amount as last year despite an increase in client trips from 3,170 to 3,821.
The Ponoka Agricultural Society is also hop-ing for a sponsorship donation from the county. Sponsorship levels of the Ag Society range from $100 to more than $2,000.Rimbey
Rimbey Junior Senior High School is in the midst of trying to raise the money to construct a new multi-use sports area, which would include a field for football and rugby as well as a red shale track.
The approximated total cost for the project would be $350,000, but that doesn’t include the scoreboard that’s also being considered and the power to run it.
The project would also include a structure for storage, and could be used as changing rooms for the players.
The school already owns the land that would be used; it sits just west of the school and north of the community centre parking lot.
“I haven’t got anybody to commit yet. It’s just an idea with an engineer drawing,” Bill Ar-gent told council. Argent is helping spearhead the fundraising for the project and is the father to two students at the school.
Last year, the Town of Rimbey paid for Tagish Engineering for a drawing and quote.
It was pointed out to council that the county didn’t contribute to Ponoka Secondary Campus, Ponoka Composite High School at the time, when its track was built.
Rimbey boasts junior and senior six-man foot-ball teams as well as junior and senior girls’ rugby teams.
Despite using subpar fields located at the el-ementary school playground, the rugby team has competed in provincials over the last five years and medaled four of those times, and last year the senior football team was the provincial champion.
“As far as their track and field program, they don’t have a big track and field program, but they don’t have a facility,” said Argent. “They do have a track and field program somewhat at the elementa-ry level. After that, because of the lack of facility, I think there’s just not much there.”“Too many large projects?”
Council liked the idea of the sports park but CAO Charlie Cutforth says the issue with Rimbey right now is there are many large projects under-way — the speedway just outside of town and the Agrim Centre — and that local funding resources are being continually tapped.
Coun. Mark Matejka was also concerned that, once built, Wolf Creek Public Schools (WCPS) will take control of the sports field and restrict community access. However, Cutforth believes that’s up to each individual school to decide.
Argent says part of the reason the town paid for Tagish is because the parks and recreation department would like to see it as a community project as well. “Now there’s been a change in Rimbey council . . . but at the time they were very on board with that.
“Now as far as the school division goes I don’t know, I haven’t had discussions with them,” he
added.While Argent says the project has the approval of the WCSP, that’s all
the school is getting from them at the time being. “At one time there was a proposal to put a facility in there. Unfortunately the school division does not have the funding to even attempt the project, from the information I’ve been able to gather.”
Rimbey Historical Society is asking council for $150,00 to be used in multiple ways around its museum and park.
Pauline Hansen attended the meeting on behalf the historical society and gave council a rundown of what the money would be used for.
To keep the educational and visual technical tools at museum standards, the society would spend $10,000.
Hansen says the park’s pond also needs repairs and renovations, which would come to another $10,000. A pond liner is needed because the dirt base is allowing algae to flourish at an out of control rate. Surrounding trees also need trimming.
Funds are also needed to extend the museum’s artifact shelter. “It’s all jammed in there. It’s not even displayed properly,” said Hansen.
Upgrades are also needed for the archive office; insulation is needed to control heating costs and the plumbing should be updated. Hansen says “bringing the office up to date” will cost around $20,000.
Hansen says archive storage is expensive, especially when it comes to newspapers, yet it’s a necessary measure as the museum gets calls from as far as the United States seeking the history stored in the old papers. Each archival storage unit costs between $4,000 and $5,000 and Hansen is hoping for four or five units.
Hansen also wants to expand the International Truck Museum and up-grade the site to entice a partnership with Travel Alberta.Driver shortage serious concern
As the Blindman Handi-Van Society loses more drivers to old age, soci-ety representative Harold Kenney says the van no longer has enough drivers to operate efficiently and funds are needed to employ a full-time driver, rather than solely relying on busy volunteers.
The van is down to four drivers, with each volunteer driving for one week out of the month.
Rimbey Handi-Van used to run two vans, one in town and another for out of town trips. However, volunteers were being called when it wasn’t their week to drive and the number had to be cut back to one van.
“We’re asking for $20,000 from the county,” said Kenney, who added the cost of a full-time driver would be around $35,000 per year.
“We probably have a year or two years be-fore it’s going to fall apart,” he added.
“But you don’t want to sit on your laurels, you want to be proac-tive,” added Reeve Paul McLauchlin.
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Dear Editor,As a dog owner, I know the im-
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I live in a neighbourhood that has many people who walk their dogs on a regular basis.
I really don’t appreciate people who take their dogs out and don’t bring anything with them to clean up after their pets when nature calls.
With all this snow melting, I have found many “land mines” that sure don’t belong to my dogs.
To me, this is just rude. The fact that I can watch people let
their dog do their business on my lawn from my window, and then watch them walk away makes me angry.
Why should I have to clean up af-ter your pet. I have two of my own to clean up after.
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All of us have our own pet peevesAs we soar through our day-to-day lives,
there will always be some things that we do not always agree with and other subjects that really ruffle our feathers......right?? So should we just sit back and stew about it or should we speak out with our opinion on what might or might not help to solve the situation? Bot-tom line is we must never be afraid to express ourselves in a positive but not pushy manner on any issue that we wish.
Among my pet peeves are: drivers who act like idiots and have no consideration for anyone else, politicians who make excuses after the fact but never do anything about it, chronic complainers, and people who act like snobs. Of course, after all that, I will admit that I also have some nagging and bad hab-its, but I really don’t mind sometimes being humbled, but positively corrected or assisted when I screw up or say something wrong.
On top of the bad driver issue are those who continue to use a cell phone or stare down at their laps while behind the wheel. Once again the ‘powers to be’ claimed that they are going to clamp down on these ongoing cul-prits, but how tough will that be to police? Of course, there will always be those who continue to perform these idiotic and selfish distractions, speed through school or safety zones, and whatever, and should be nailed by the law with hefty fines and demerits that will either smarten them up or get them off the road. Before more people are injured or killed please appeal to everyone to shape up, put the gizmos away, pull over to take your calls or text, and start thinking a little more about the safety of others. For those who don’t co-
operate, we hope that soon you will look up from your distraction and see some red and blue flashing lights in your rear-view mirror.We should all real-ize that everyone can gain from our mistakes if we do something to cor-
rect them, and maybe we should thank those who care enough to let us know in a positive manner.....right??Now let’s have a little fun.
I feel that I am so fortunate to be able to just keep on writing for the Ponoka News dur-ing my retirement years. It is so much fun to play around with words, both to give a story meaning and also having a little fun with my friends and faithful readers. A ‘Lexophile’ is a sentence or word used to describe those who love to use their literary skills in rather unique ways, and here are just a few great examples.*With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.*A dentist and a manicurist married, and now they fight tooth and nail.*One of the most important rules of winter, especially for children, is don’t eat yellow snow.*A boiled egg is hard to beat; and when you’ve seen one shopping centre you’ve seen a mall.*The guy who fell into the upholstery ma-
chine is now fully recovered.*My friend had a photographic memory which never developed; and when she saw her first strands of grey hair she thought that she would dye.*Police were called to a local day care Center where a three-year old was resisting arrest.*Always remember that those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.Even newspapers make mistakes.
After working in the newspaper business for close to 30 years, I can assure you that with all the material that comes in to go into each edition that a few mistakes are occasion-ally made, because after all us ‘newsy folks’ are always in a hurry, and nowadays our fancy computers have far too many keys, and ‘spell check’ makes mistakes also. Here are a few famous typographical boo-boos that have oc-curred in head-lines and advertisements over the years in various publications, and there will always be some, which, by the way, will usually be corrected in the next issue.
*Marijuana issue sent to a joint commit-tee. *City is unsure why the sewer smells *Statistics show that teen pregnancies drop off drastically after age 25. *Barbershop singers bring joy to School for the Deaf. *A meeting to discuss open meetings by Town Council has been closed to the public. *Sale in a local dress shop offered ‘Pants and slips half off’ and all ‘dresses seduced to half price.’
What would life be like if we didn’t have a sense of humour and couldn’t laugh and have a little fun once in a while? Time to start thinking spring, and then just go ahead, get outside, and have a great week, all of you..
Mike RainoneHammertime
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Winter Games thrilled Ponoka hockey playersBy Amelia Naismith
Two Ponoka Peewee A boys survived their first taste of the Alberta Winter Games and the pleasures that went along with the experience.
Noah Hackett and Jared Rice both made the Zone 4 team and played five games in all, coming out in sixth place. “I’d say we were a good team but the teams we played against were really good, too,” said Hackett.
“It was really fun. There’s a lot of good players in our zone and you get to play on the same line as
them,” he added.During the second game, all of which were
played in Banff, Rice pulled a muscle in his quad. He finished the game but was made to sit out the third period of the third game while physiotherapists attended to him.
“It just started hurting about half way through. It was hard, I couldn’t skate very fast,” said Rice.
Despite the injury Rice says he really enjoyed playing with the Zone 4 team. He says the biggest difference between playing for Ponoka and playing
at the winter games was the pace of the games. “We had less time to move the puck, they were just on you. Here you have more time.”
“It’s not like winter hockey where you get to score all the time,” added Hackett. He says, because the com-petition was so stiff, a player may get the opportunity to try and score one or two times per game. In the five games played, he scored three times.
The boys also got to experience the star treatment usually associated with professional hockey players. When the team walked into their dressing room each one had a name tag, their equip-
ment was hung out and waiting for them and there was a tub of Gatorade sitting in the middle of the room.
“It was awesome,” said Rice.The boys were also exposed to
another interesting feature of hockey in a competition as big as the winter games: “Sleeping in one room with a bunch of hockey players was really weird,” said Hackett, who added each of the eight teams was separated by curtains.
During the games the boys also received some messages and inspiring words of encouragement from Olym-pians in Sochi on the jumbo screen.
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Coming soon- Ponoka Home-school Thespians have been rehearsing at the Asker Church for their next act, Romeo and Harriett, an adaptation to comedy by Charles Lovett of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and curtains will be raised for the first performance on the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 26 at the same church. “This a modern parody based on Romeo and Juliet and 36 home-taught students are involved” said director Debbie Zepick. The students come from a wide area, including Clive, Lacombe, Ponoka and south of Wetaskiwin and the work on the play started with the new year. Director Zepick said there would be a total of four performances, including the opening gala. The second production will be on Thursday, Feb. 27 and two more the following day, the first a matinee and then the evening show. The plot of the play, widely produced by mainly young troupes supported by schools and educational institutions throughout North America, involves young members of two rival families running two competing department stores falling in love, and despite some tragic incidents, joining hands in a happy ending. Photo by Mustafa Eric
Rimbey FCSS fears home care
contract lossBy Amelia Naismith
Just like many other FCSS organizations across the province, Rimbey FCSS is struggling with the idea they could lose their home care con-tract to a for-profit organization.
During a presentation made to Ponoka County at their Feb. 11 meeting, FCSS director Peggy Makofka also mentioned Ponoka FCSS and their situation. “We’re very similar, we’re in a similar situation.”
Across Alberta, especially in the cities, FCSS organizations have lost their home care contracts to for-profit and multi-national companies. “We have a concern, maybe even a fear that that could happen in the small rural areas,” said Makofka.
She believes, when the contracts are not re-awarded to FCSS, service levels drop, especially in rural areas. “We saw lots of these bigger outfits being quite shocked about trying to provide care in the rural areas. I don’t think it’s all they thought it was going to be.”
“Home care can happen any time of the day. It’s scheduled care but you don’t get it all between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,” said Makofka. Recently, she spoke to a service provider out of Edmonton who now owns one of the contracts. The woman was surprised how far Drayton Valley was from the city and how uneconomical driving out there to provide rural care could be.
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The traditional Dining in-Night of Ponoka’a Air Cadets Squadron took place on Saturday, Feb. 15 at the Royal Canadian Legion hall with the at-tendance of Lacombe-Ponoka MLA Rod Fox.
Before the start of the dinner, participants heard tributes being paid to three Canadian soldiers who lost their lives while serving in Afghanistan as part of Canadian contingent of NATO. They are Petty Officer Second Class Craig Blake of Canadian Navy, Private Colin Wilmot of Canadian Army and Corporal Dany Fortin of Canadian Air Force.
A small table was placed in front of the head table and cadets put the wedge caps on the plates in memory of their sacrifice for the nation before standing in salute.
A tribute read: The tablecloth is white, sym-bolizing the purity of their motive when answering the call to duty; the single red rose reminds us of the life of each of our fallen comrades; the vase is tied with a red ribbon, symbol of our determina-tion to remember our fallen comrades; a slice of lemon is to remind us of the bitter fate of those who will never return; a pinch of salt symbolizes the tears endured by the families of those who have sacrificed all; the glass is inverted, they can-not toast with us at this time; the chair is empty as they cannot join us tonight.
Following the dinner there was live and silent auction for a variety of items.
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Ponoka County’s Highway II cor-ridor study and development plan is falling into place, as five major highway intersections have been highlighted for encouraged develop-ment in the area.
County CAO Charlie Cutforth contracted Bob Riddett, a retired manager of West Central Planning Agency, to spearhead the special project.
Other counties up and down the highway corridor are already tak-ing advantage of their location to the heavily traveled road to entice business of commercial and industrial nature, and Ponoka County Council is ready to take that step as well.
“I think the driving force behind this is that a lot of businesses want and need good road ac-cess, paved highways that are well maintained, not too many road bans,” said Riddett.
The five intersec-tions along Highway II within the county are Highway 53 on the west and southeast sides, secondary highways 611 and 605, Matejka Road and Menaik Road. “At Charlie’s request, we looked at whether we should allow this in Ponoka County, what the rules might be, what sort of businesses we might expect to get in these locations,” Rid-dett told council.
Council was rec-ommended to reserve the areas for business-es that would benefit most from the exposure along Highway II and dictate with a list of ap-proved uses in the land use bylaw.
Acceptable uses would include, but not be limited to, ware-houses, recreational vehicle sales and rent-als, auction marts, trade shops, truck stops, gas stations, restaurants, and hotels and motels.
“My guess is hotels and motels might be a bit iffy,” said Riddett. He feels it would be unlikely to acquire mu-nicipal sewer and water at the locations, with the exception of High-way 53; he doesn’t want any business that would consume huge amounts of water because most will be on well systems.
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going to remain open. But the other five intersec-tions, they have no problems with.”
“If Highways had said no, the thing would be dead, but Highways said yes as long as we do some more detailed planning at the subdivision stage,” he added.
Three of the locations are designated provin-cial highways, but Riddett says the project has clearance across the board if the county wished to proceed in this direction.Open House for landowners
“One of the things we have to be careful about, of course, is these things don’t exist in a vacuum. There are neighbours who may be concerned about
traffic or noise . . . So the neighbours certainly have to have their input, too, if anything like this is pro-posed (and) before it’s approved,” said Riddett.
Riddett says the county’s land use bylaw con-tains a provisional reservation, which stipulates that granting a permit, a development office can impose conditions to protect the value and life en-joyment of nearby properties.
“I would think the next step would be to advertise this and invite the affected landowners for an open house at the county (office),” said Riddett. Council set an open house for April 3 from 1 to 4 p.m. where land owners will be able to speak with Riddett about the project in a less formal, open atmosphere.
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Along with the multi-nationals, Makofka says Rimbey FCSS also feels a threat from Bethany Group, which is why she’s thrilled with the promise made by the Rimoka board that Bethany won’t be seeking the contract. “That promise was obliviously made with pre-vious members of the board, too, but we’ll revisit that promise,” said Reeve Paul McLauchlin.
Rimbey FCSS started their program in 1982. “In the beginning, we started with home support, which is house keeping and helping people stay in their own home with meal prep and laundry. We did personal care, which is through the contract with Alberta Health Services,” said Makofka.
“The goal of our agency is to help people stay at home longer,” she added.
Because of the contract, Rimbey FCSS runs with a small profit each year, allowing more programs and staff to remain on board, as well give funds back to the com-munity. Makofka says, if they lose the contract, they’ll also lose those funds and other community organizations will have to look elsewhere for their own funding.
Although Makofka thinks Rimbey FCSS, as it is now, can keep pace with larger outfits, the organization is going through an accreditation process to maintain a competitive edge and prove it’s the best holder of the contract. “It’s not mandatory requirement until Decem-ber of 2016.”
The process runs at about $10,000. “But we want to keep pace, we want to have a good quality of care and keep the standard up,” said Makofka.
She’s been in touch with two Alberta Health Care workers, Ernie Clarke, who handles the contracts, and David O’Brian, a senior vice-president for mental health and health services.
“We wanted to share with them kind of what I’m telling you today; we think we’re doing OK. He ac-tually reassured me that we do very well and he said he knows of the Rimbey and Ponoka programs,” said Makofka.
“He does feel we’re providing good service and in fact, he doesn’t have the final say, but he’s hopeful we’ll just be offered an extension on the contract,” she added.
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Jan Slomp, president of Canada’s National Farmers’ Union was in Bluff-ton Hall on Thursday, Feb. 13, trying to raise awareness against what he called Harper government’s second major step to wrest power away from farmers to hand to big corporations.
Slomp addressed a meeting of the area farmers to appeal to them to join the campaign against Bill-C-18, under which Harper government will switch allegiance from UPOV 1978 to UPOV 1991, restricting the rights of farm-ers to save, store, clean and use seeds from their own crop in favor of big ag-ricultural corporations like Monsanto, which then will be able to make the farmers pay royalties for the use their own seed.
UPOV is the French acronym for Union Internationale pour la Protection des Obtentions Vegetale (International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants), and it is an international convention that establish-es rules for recognizing, ensuring and defining intellectual property rights of breeders of new plant varieties.
From “right” to “privilege” Slomp said in an interview that if
the government does go ahead and switch com-mitment from UPOV 1978 to UPOV 1991, the farmers will have their thousands of years old traditional right to keep seed from their own crop changed into a “privi-lege” which can be taken away without any legis-lation or any other legal process, just by a deci-sion of an authority.
According to Slomp, under UPOV 1991, a plant breeder will have not only the right to claim royalties from a farmer for a particular crop for up to 20 years, but the breeder will also be able to dictate the amount of seed a farmer can save for the next sea-son of planting.
Slomp described this change as the second major blow to Canadian farmers after the dis-mantling of the single desk marketing authority of the Canadian Wheat Board.
The draft legislation which comes as part of an Omnibus Bill, the Agricultural Growth Act
will also diminisih the furnction and role of Canada’s public plant breed-ing system financed by the farmers in the form “check-off”s and increase the role of private agricultural corpora-tions and allow them to have a bigger say in what Canadian farmers will be able to grow.
Slomp said if the legislation is passed, farmers would have to pay a lot more for one of their main inputs in their farming operations.
During his presentation to about two dozen farmers at the Bluffton com-munity hall, Slomp made a reference to the case of Schmeiser vs Mon-santo case (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Sch-meiser) whereby a Canadian farmer, Percy Schmiser had to go up to the Su-preme Court to defend his case that his field was contaminated with patented seed and that he had not intentionally used the Monsanto-produced canola seed in his 1997 planting season.
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Good Feeder Steers 1000 lbs Plus: 155.00-160.00 Good Feeder Steers 900 lbs Plus: 160.00-167.00Good Feeder Steers 800 lbs Plus: 170.00-177.00Good Feeder Steers 700 lbs Plus: 178.00-183.00Good Feeder Steers 600 lbs Plus: 195.00-198.00Good Feeder Steers 500 lbs Plus: 205.00-215.00Good Feeder Steers 400 lbs Plus: 220.00-225.00Good Feeder Steers 300 lbs Plus: 225.00-230.00
Dairy Steers 95.00-105.00Baby Calves Dairy Type: 30.00-160.00Baby Calves Beef Type: 195.00-310.00Hay: Sq Bales 3.00-7.25Straw: Sq. Bales 1.75-2.00 Greenfeed: Sq. Bales. 3.75-
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Farm Credit Canada (FCC) has announced that two “Knowledge Exchange” events will be organized in central Alberta in the first week of March to enable area farmers to learn about new mobile communi-cation technologies and their use in farming operations.
The events, first at the Vermil-ion Senior Citizen Centre on March 3 and the second at Dinosaur Trail Golf and Country Club in Drum-heller the next day, will be free for any farmers willing to participate.
Online registration is available at www.fcc.ca/learning or willing participants can also call 1-888-332-3301.
“During this workshop, par-ticipants will learn how mobile technology can be a perfect fit for their farm and how smartphones, tablets and the right mobile appli-cations can help them manage their business,” a press release by the
FCC said“Attendees will know what to
look for in selecting a service pro-vider, learn how wireless can help in their day-to-day activities, dis-cover functionality they might not know they have, learn which apps are most useful in agriculture and get input into which device might be right for them.”
The speaker in both events is Peter Gredig, a corn, soybean and wheat producer based near Lon-don, Ont., who has a background in agricultural media and communica-tions.
For more information about this FCC Ag Knowledge Exchange event or to schedule an interview, contact Éva Larouche by calling 1-888-780-6647 or emailing [email protected]
Knowledge Exchange for Farmers The second week of trade in the grain markets
was highlighted by the release of the U.S.D.A.’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Esti-mates on Monday, Feb. 10. For a report that isn’t historically known to create buzz in the markets, this W.A.S.D.E. showed significantly lower end-ing stocks for both wheat and corn, pushing those markets up. Specifically U.S. corn carry-out for the 2013/14 marketing year came in at 1.481 billion bushels, well down from January’s forecast of 1.631 billion bushels and the pre-re-port expectations of 1.619 billion bushels. The bullish downgrade was mostly the result of U.S. corn exports being increased 150 million bush-els. As for wheat, ending stocks were lowered by 50 million bushels (45 million bushels more than the trade was expecting) due to increased exports for a forecasted 2013/14 carryout of 558 million bushels. As the old adage goes, the cure for low prices is, well, low prices. However, corn is still having a tough time breaking over the $4.50 per bushel level (almost 1.5 billion bushels is still a lot!). In all reality, until the seeders are put way in late spring 2014, it’s hard to justify an aggres-sive bullish approach.
Oats futures have been playing the vola-tile card recently as the logistical issues hitting Western Canada is limiting movement of sup-ply through the pipeline to U.S. millers. The fundamentals behind the recent price increases on the Chicago Board of Trade are sound: about 45 per cent of the U.S. supply is imported from Canada and with less railroad movement, this would intuitively drive up the price. Further, the 21 per cent stocks-to-use ratio expected this year in America is fairly tight compared to the aver-age, providing another catalyst to push price up. One has to remember though that this is the price for delivery into only a few locations in Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. With that in mind, potentially driving your oats directly to these points could get you a price similar to the futures price, but here in Western Canada, where ample supplies exist, it’s hard to expect it.
On that note, lately we’ve been hearing more
arguments that the Ca-nadian Wheat Board’s single-desk deregula-tion is the catalyst that triggered this entire logistical quagmire we’re seeing here in the Prairies. Undoubtedly, the C.W.B. held a sig-nificant position as to efficient railcar distri-bution and movement. Without them, the argu-ment is that there’s no
order. This is false. In any new open market, there is a period of adjustment. Last year, everyone got nine or ten dollar wheat and we were happy but when the price drops, it’s time to point fingers. There’s a myriad of factors that hit the markets this year (i.e. huge crops everywhere for one).The reality is, this new free market is in its infan-cy. You can’t call a newborn baby disrespectful because they cry a lot – from an economics per-spective, correlation does not imply causation. Remember how Steven Stamkos was called a flop his rookie year in Tampa Bay under Barry Melrose? Look where he’s at now.
To growth,Brennan Turner
President, FarmLead.comBrennan Turner is originally from Foam
Lake, SK, where his family started farming the land in the 1920s. After completing his degree in economics from Yale University and then playing some pro hockey, Mr. Turner spent some time working in finance before starting FarmLead.com, a risk-free, transparent online and now mobile grain marketplace (app available for iOS and Android). His weekly column is a summary of his free, daily market note, the FarmLead Breakfast Brief. He can be reached via email ([email protected]) or phone (1-855-332-7653).
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You haven’t had to hit the alarm for quite a few months now.
You haven’t had a whole lot of reason to look presentable, either; sweats and tees are just fine. You’re not even sure your office attire fits anymore.
Retired? You wish it were that simple. No, you’ve been downsized, laid off, fired, let go, and it’s starting to wear on you. But after you’ve read “Reset: How to Beat the Job-Loss Blues and Get Ready for Your Next Act” by Dwain Schenck, you might be inspired to hit the streets again.
Dwain Schenck was part of an in-herited staff.
(You know where this is going.)He’d been hired for a job he loved
by a man for whom he truly enjoyed working. When that guy left, the wom-an who took over was amazing. She let Schenck interview the man who would eventually become his third boss, the guy who made Schenck uncomfortable and who ultimately let him go.
At first, Schenck was filled with “fake bliss.” He was “too good for [that] company anyhow” and he fig-ured it wouldn’t take him long to find a job. He had a few months’ severance, great ideas, and tons of experience. He’d be fine.
But as the weeks passed, it became apparent that the search wouldn’t be easy at all. Schenck went on interviews that seemed to go well, only to end in silence. He endured “courtesy inter-views” set up by former colleagues and contacts, in which it quickly be-came apparent that there was no job to
be had. He obsessively searched online and even applied for posi-tions for which he was extremely overqualified. The lack of job-hunting success made Schenck depressed and his family life suffered.
Through this experi-ence, though, Schenck learned several things, and he shares the advice he discovered: Upgrade your resume and “make sure [it] doesn’t read like
an obituary…” then utilize the internet (including LinkedIn) by tweaking it to maximize search engines. Become a “networking machine.” Be “transpar-ent” about your age and experience, have a strategy for all interviews, and practice what you’ll say before you leave the house. Send thank-you notes following interviews. Be resilient.
And finally, “Don’t go it alone,” says Schenck. That’s the worst mistake you can make.
At the risk of being a spoiler, I should tell you that “Reset” ends on a nice up-note… but wow, is it harrowing to get to that point.
Author Dwain Schenck gives read-ers his story, warts and all. We’re privy to the embarrassments, the aggrava-tions, the outrageousness, the highs, and the bottom-of-the-barrel moments including envy and consuming bitter-ness. The ferocity of the latter is quite disquieting, but not without reason; Schenck’s experiences as a job-hunter were often soul-crushing and, sadly, common – and on that note alone, his book offers lessons and tips all around.
Definitely, this is a book for job-seekers but there’s plenty here for upper management, CEOs, and any-one along the job spectrum who knows that, well, you never know. If that’s you, then “Reset” is a book to hit.
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Although her volleyball team did not earn a medal at the Alberta Winter Games, Lauren Bussiere of Ponoka thrived in the high-pressure environment.
Her team represented Zone 4 at the winter games recently in Banff and Canmore and they almost made it to the gold medal match. The stakes were high, though, and the best young volleyball athletes in the province also wanted a chance at glory.
“All the teams were good,” said Bussiere. During the match that would qualify her team to com-
pete for the gold medal, Bussiere said her team trailed behind in points. They rallied to even the score in both games of the qualifying match but the deficit was too large to close the gap. “We fell behind in both of them.”
While not completely ready for this level of volley-ball, Bussiere found herself enjoying close games against her opponents.
“It’s a lot tougher than what I play in high school,” said Bussiere.
“It definitely made me want to step up my game,” she added.
There was a high energy level in all her games and while it created some stress on the young volleyball
player, it also helped her to do better. The bronze medal game against Calgary was close enough that Zone 4 took Calgary to a tie-breaker game. “It was close.”
They beat Calgary 20-25 in the first game, lost 25-20 in the second but could not keep the momentum of the first game to win the tie-breaker and secure the bronze medal.
“If you’re going to get behind you really have to work to get it back. It was close but just not in our fa-vour,” said Bussiere.
She enjoyed seeing other Ponoka athletes supporting her team during some matches and despite not having time to see the other sporting events, enjoyed supporting the boys’ Zone 4 volleyball team.
Bussiere’s mother Susan, feels the entire winter games is a healthy competition for young athletes. She enjoyed seeing parents and families support those in-volved.
“It was an exciting atmosphere,” said Susan. Bussiere looks forward
to continue playing volley-ball with her club team and is eager to play the next sea-son of volleyball.
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Jennifer Henderson jumps to shoot another one of her at least half a dozen 3-pointers in the Queens’ game against the Saints of St Joseph from Whitecourt on Saturday, Feb. 15.
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Darien Lloyd, with the St. Augustine Kings, makes a lay-up Feb. 11 against the St. Dominic Catholic High School Huskies. The Kings lost 58-55. Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
By Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
Hard work by the senior boys basketball team at St. Augustine Catholic School was not enough to win a league game last week.
The Kings lost 58-55 to the Hus-kies of St. Dominic Catholic High School from Rocky Mountain House Feb. 11. The Kings were up for most of the game, said coach Adam Bow-ie, but were unable to adjust their defense enough to win. “They just kept running the ball…and didn’t get back fast enough.”
Bowie said the Kings were dis-appointed in their performance but a look at a video of the game showed strong skills in some areas. He coached his players to work on ad-justing their defense and offence to
the meet the opposing team. The Kings played the Huskies
earlier in the season and won by a large margin, which Bowie feels may have given his team some false confidence. The Huskies had some new players and played hard every minute of the game.
For the Queens it was a differ-ent story altogether; the senior girls team soundly defeated St. Dominic 60-27.
Bowie said the senior girls coach, Kevin Prediger, had been working on the Queens full-court press and it was working. Most of the game the Queens had a strong lead and in the fourth period were able to open up that lead further in the fourth period.
The Kings’ record so far is 2-6 and the Queens are 3-5 in the season.
Close game for senior boys basketball at St. Augustine
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Senior Queens of St. Augustine won the champion-ship of the Girls Shine Tournament over the weekend with emphatic victories in all of their three games, thanks to an iron-clad determination, smart coaching and team solidarity.
The tournament, which opened with the local team hosting Breton High Friday afternoon, promised to be an exciting event from the very first game, in which the Queens overpowered their guests with a score of 50-32.
In their second game, the Queens did not waiver in their determination and defeated Christ The King of Leduc 51-43.
This brought the Queens to the championship final against St. Joseph Saints of Whitecourt Saturday eve-ning.
The game was almost a textbook example of how good defense wins games and championships.
St. A girls built up an almost impenetrable wall in front of their paint in the first period and allowed only
one point to the opposition in the first 10 minutes, and that point came through a free throw. When the buzzer went off, the scoreboard was showing a lead of 12 points for the local side: 13-1 at the end of the first period.
In the second period, St A girls kept the good de-fensive posture, quickly getting into double-teaming formations and forcing the opponent to commit shot clock violations and turnovers. In the offense, in the meantime, their ball movement steadily improved and almost professional-level 3-point shooting by Jennifer Henderson helped the Queens carry their double-digit lead to the second half: 19-9.
With the confidence of their well-established po-sition in the first half, the Queens continued to put pressure on the Saints of St. Joseph in third and fourth periods as well.
At the end of the 40 minutes, the Queens declared they were the masters of their gym.
This weekend St. A kings will be hosting the Boys Shine tournament at the school gym.
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Speed skater faces loss at nationals competitionSpeed skater faces loss at nationals competition
“When another adversity “When another adversity happens, I can deal with it.happens, I can deal with it.
I can handle it.”I can handle it.”Speed skaterSpeed skater
Maddison PearmanMaddison Pearman
By Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
Every athlete can tell a story of personal loss or growth as they attempt to attain their goals.
For speed skater Maddison Pearman, that story came during junior nationals in Saskatoon, Sask. re-cently. The 18-year-old skater faced a real challenge as she had been recovering from a skating accident that gave her a concussion last October.
Pearman was taken out by another skater on a corner of a racetrack and spent one month away from hard training. The loss in time meant she fell behind her junior Alberta team counterparts. “It was a pretty bad slip…And that put me down in the rankings.”
Heading to nationals, Pearman knew she was faced with a tough challenge as she was the under-dog and a fall early in the first 500m event did not help; she fell to seventh place.
Pearman needed to be in the top four to make it to the nationals team.
That did not stop her from shaking off the dust and trying harder during the 1,000m, 1,500m and 3,000m events. Pearman forced herself to regain fo-cus and prepare for the other heats.
Her overall performance was strong, placing fourth and fifth in 1,500m and 1,000m events, re-spectively, but the one that mattered the most was the 3,000m race. Pearman had to finish at least fourth — as she was fifth overall — for a chance to make the national team.
She had a mental race against herself, because a speed skater who was just ahead of Pearman in points would race in a different 3,000m heat after
Pearman. This meant her opponent would know what time was needed to beat the Ponoka athlete.
Watching the girl race and comparing her time to Pearman’s was a stressful moment for both Pear-man and her mother.
It was one of Pearman’s best performances of the competition, though and she was faster than the other girl.
“I think it was the best 3,000m I possibly could have skated at that time,” she stated, and her skills are improving daily.
But the committee organizing the national team chose the other girl to represent Canada, which left Pearman devastated.
“I haven’t really dealt with anything like this yet,” she explained.
The decision left her wondering about her fu-ture in speed skating. She did some soul-searching, however, and realized the sport is something she loves. Pearman said she is getting stronger as the days progress.
This setback, while tough to deal with, has pro-vided her with the strength and desire to perform better in the future.
“When another adversity happens, I can deal with. I can handle it,” she affirmed.
Her goal is to represent Canada in the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics and this test makes Pearman want to prove to herself and organizers that she de-serves to be on the national team.
Pearman trains six days a week with the help of local sponsors such as Rip’N Ronnie’s Fitness and she was able to use a $500 grant, provided by the Town of Ponoka to travel to Saskatoon for nationals.
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Over the Valentine’s Day weekend, Ponoka and Maskwacis Minor Hockey teams added more wins, losses and tie games under their belts.
Atom Tier 1 Maskwacis Atom A Chiefs lost their Feb. 15 away game against the Thunderstars Atom A, 10-3. Calvin Williams scored once and Jason Macki-naw Jr brought home two.
On Feb. 16 Maskwacis tied their home game with the Eckville Eagles, 8-8. Kihew Lee earned a hat trick, Dayzel Bull and Damian Omeasoo both scored twice while Jason Makinaw scored once.
Atom Tier 3 Ponoka Atom A team tied Delburn 5-5 in a Feb. 14 away game. Colter Bresee scored twice and Joshua David, Levi Busat and Alex Brackenbury all scored once.
The following day Ponoka lost to Sundre Atom Huskies 7-5. Zachary Rausch, Alex Brackenbury, Col-ter Bresee, Kael Street and Gavin Allen-Prefontaine all scored once.
Atom Tier 4 Maskwacis Atom C Chiefs clob-bered Rocky’s Atom B2 team 12=3 on Feb. 16. Stephan Brown scored 5 times and Nathan Deschamps and Tyri-kis Buffalo both scored twice. Blake Whitebear, Rielly Saddleback and Ethan Ermineskin each brought in one goal.
Atom Tier 5 Ponoka Atom B won their Feb. 15 home game against La-combe Atom C Rockets, 4-2. Dex Wager scored twice, Kevin Kammer and Levi Harbin both scored once.
Peewee Tier 1 Mask-wacis Peewee A Chiefs lost 10-2 to the Bentley Peewee A Bruins, Feb. 15. Carson Baptiste scored both of the team’s goals.
The next day the team lost 6-5 to Red Deer Sun-rise Roofing. Nolan Twins and Ashten Littlechild both scored once while Ethan Smallboy earned a hat trick.
Peewee Tier 4 Ponoka Peewee B team lost their Feb. 14 home game against Eckville’s team 11-3. Ethan Little, Travis Hyink and Connor Macleod all scored once.
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ALL CLASSES OFSNUBBINGPERSONAL.
Class 1 drivers license, must be willing to work away,
must be physically fit. Complete benefit package. This includes RSP, Medical,
Dental, Eye Glasses.We offer Top Wages. We will train the right person
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Big on Career Satisfaction.Big Country Energy Services Inc is a premier pipeline and facility construction company servicing western Canada, and we’re opening our doors to exciting new career opportunities in our Ponoka division. Built on the foundations of safety, quality and teamwork, Big Country understands that people and commitment to the community are the most important parts of our business. If you desire a rewarding career you can be proud of – then look our way. We’re currently building our team with dedicated and innovative professionals, who will prosper with us and share our focus of dynamic customer service.
Accounts Receivable Administrator – (Full Time - Maternity Leave)
Exhibiting professionalism and the ability to think outside the box, your role will be to effectively perform all tasks necessary to maintain current, accurate receivables and payables systems. You will be responsible for reconciling and posting of invoices and billing from the field, spreadsheet and ledger balancing, weekly and monthly report maintenance and monitoring the status of accounts. Assisting in timely resolution of vendor and customer concerns and management of accurate files is also within your scope.
As the ideal candidate, you will possess one to three years advanced proficiency in an accounting or data-entry related position, and will be familiar with the pipeline construction industry. You are a definite team player, whose exceptional organizational and multi-tasking skills are complemented by your ability to communicate on all levels. Being self motivated is vital – along with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple objectives. You are proficient in MS Office software; experience in Explorer Accounting Software is also an asset.
In return for your skill and enthusiasm, Big Country offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits package, combined with long-term career development. Candidates are invited to submit a resume with cover letter and references before March 3rd to:
Big Country Energy Services Inc.6709 44 AvenuePonoka, AB T4J 1J8Fax: (403) 783-4670 Email: [email protected]
ENERGY SERVICES INC.
a MasTec company
STUBENVOLLA sincere thank you to the doctors, nurses and support staff for the compassionate care given Louie while inhospital. For the many beautiful cards, flowers and
donations and visits to the house. A special thank you to Pauline and Harvey Collins, Mary Lou and Lawrence
Henkeleman, Frank Bednar, Evelyn Morrow, and Glenco Resources Ltd. for all you did. Thank you to Marlon,
Sheila and Deidra, also the Sunshine Singers, and the Anglican Ladies for the lunch, and to Pastor Len for his
kind words. God Bless you all.Elaine and family.
Employment#700 - #920
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Oilfield 800LOOKING FOROPERATOR
for Stiff Boom Picker/Cranevalid drivers licence
w/clean abstract required. possibility of owingpercentage of truck.
Email resume [email protected]
WINCH TRACTOROPERATORS.
Must have experienceoperating a winch.
To apply fax, email or drop off resume at the office. Phone 780-842-6444.
Fax 780-842-6581. Email: [email protected]. Mail:
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AB, T9W 1L7.For more employment
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Professionals 810MACKENZIE COUNTY in
Fort Vermilion has a career opportunity for a Director of Finance. Salary range
$117,266. - $134,700. Visit:
www.mackenziecounty.com for more information or
call 1-877-927-0677.
Trades 850Doors On Demand is hiring
OVERHEAD DOOR TECH• Minimum 2 yrs + experience
in residential & commercial installation & service
• Pay DOE up to $35/hr
OVERHEAD DOOR ASST.• Training will be provided• Pay DOE up to $20/hr
For info or to apply call Gerald 403-963-5000
OR email resume to [email protected]
BRANCH MANAGER & Counter Parts Person
required for automotive parts, HD parts and body shop supply business in
Wetaskiwin, Alberta. Parts experience required.
Email: [email protected].
FULL-TIME BAKERY MANAGER required at Sobeys in Olds, Alberta.
40 hours per week. Benefits. Fax resume to 403-556-8652 or email:
Professionals 810
Trades 850JENSEN Contract Flooring is looking to hire a SafetyOfficer. Hours are flexibleand training is available.
Please submit resumes byemail to jensen@
jcfgroup.ca or by fax to 403-876-2574 no later than
February 21, 2014.
WANTED: OPERATIONS FORESTER required to
lead team in Alberta. Permanent full-time
opportunity for qualified experienced forester with supervisory experience.
Email resume to: [email protected]
Trades 850
PETROFIELD Industries, the Leader in manufacturingHydrovac trucks, is acceptingresumes for the following positions:* General Labourers* Industrial Painters* Sandblasters* Material Handler* Automotive Electrical Technician* Journeyman Welder / Apprentice* 2nd Yr Welder with Aluminum experience
Visit our website at: www.tornadotrucks.com
for more details. Our Company has an
enthusiastic fast paced working environment, with advancement possibilities for the motivated person, and offers an excellent benefit package. fax
403-742-5544e-mail: [email protected]
TOWN OF PONOKAEmployment Opportunity
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer, this new position is responsible for the planning, preparation and delivery of communications for the Town of Ponoka to ensure citizens are well informed and to keep Council and administration advised of public opinions. In this permanent part-time position (approx. 3 days/week), the incumbent will be responsible for the development and implementation of a communications strategy for the Town including coordination with Town departments, external partners and in obtaining community feedback.
Duties and responsibilities of this position include:• Develop, implement and align communication plans and strategies to
support the objectives and services of the Town.• Provide strategic communications tools, using best practices to support
administration to proactively identify and mitigate issues.• Coordinate and manage the Town’s print, electronic, radio and TV
advertising for all departments.• Draft and edit a variety of communication materials, including
newsletter, web copy and information documents.• Write/edit news releases, speeches, briefi ngs and other
communications materials as appropriate.
To be effective in the performance of this position, an individual would require the following knowledge and skills:
• A degree in communications, journalism, public relations or related fi eld with a minimum of fi ve years related experience, preferably in a municipal setting.
• Ability to lead Town communication initiatives.• Excellent written and oral communication skills.• Excellent computer program, internet and office management skills.
The successful candidate will be required to submit a satisfactory Criminal Record Check. To obtain a copy of the position description, please contact Betty Quinlan, Acting Chief Administrative Officer at (403)783-0129.Submit resumes to:
ATTENTION: Betty QuinlanActing Chief Administrative Officer, Town of Ponoka
5102 – 48 Avenue, PONOKA, AB T4J 1P7Fax: (403)783-4086; Phone: (403)783-0129
email: [email protected]
This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
FTE - 0.9 to work days, evenings and nights. Salary commensurate
with training and experience. Excellent benefi t package. Must
have valid registration for RN/RPN.Position to start immediately.
Apply in writing to:Donna LantzCare Manager
Northcott Care Centre4209 48 Ave., Ponoka, AB T4J [email protected]
Ph. 403-783-1764
RN / RPN PART TIME POSITION
TOWN OF PONOKAEmployment Opportunity
HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER
Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer the Human Resources Officer is responsible for planning, organizing, directing, controlling and analyzing the human resources functions. This is a new permanent part-time position and the incumbent will work approximately 3 days per week.
Duties and responsibilities of this position are to:• Provide support to Directors and managers through consultation
and review of policies, procedures and new initiatives.• Strategically plan for the Town’s human capital needs in collaboration
with Town management staff. • Develop and implement human resources programs and procedures
that optimize staffing and align workforce with strategic and operational goals.
• Human resources programs include policy development, compensation, employee relations, workforce planning, training, organizational development, performance management, and recruitment & retention.
To be effective in the performance of this position, an individual would require the following knowledge and skills:
• Minimum three to fi ve years of progressively responsible human resources generalist experience, preferably within a Municipal Government setting.
• CHRP designation is required. • Sound knowledge of employment and labour legislation, including
but not limited to Employment Standards Act (Alberta), Alberta Human Rights, FOIP, and principles and practices of human resources administration.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills matched with the ability to negotiate and build relationships with key stakeholders as well as an ability to interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
The successful candidate will be required to submit a satisfactory Criminal Record Check.
To obtain a copy of the position description, please contact Betty Quinlan, Acting Chief Administrative Officer at (403)783-0129.
Please submit resumes to:ATTENTION: Betty Quinlan
Acting Chief Administrative Officer, Town of Ponoka5102 – 48 Avenue, PONOKA, AB T4J 1P7
Fax: (403)783-4086; Phone: (403) 783-0129email: [email protected]
This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.
AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES
A & JA & J AUTOMOTIVEAUTOMOTIVEREPAIR6701 - 46 Ave.
Ponoka, AB T4J 1J8(403) 783-8755
Al DickhautOwner/Operator
Rimbey Implements Ltd.
Al York General ManagerAl York General Manager
Rimbey, AB
Cell: (403) 783-0593
Bus: (403) 843-3700
Fax: (403) 843-3430
AG EQUIPMENT
A & J AUTOMOTIVE
Al DickhautOwner/Operator
A & J AUTOMOTIVE
6701 - 46 Ave.Ponoka, AB T4J 1J8
(403) 783-8755
ANIMAL SERVICES
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• Snow Removal• Commercial & Residential• General Bobcat Service
Reliable | Efficient | Great Service
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REQUIREDProduction Welder
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olds needed for internet study about parenting. Receive $15. Call the UBC Parenting Lab,
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is looking to hire full time
• BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE
• Identify customers & market opportunity• Develop prospects list and implement follow up• Provide feedback to management from customers on
performance/satisfaction.
Experience & Requirements• Strong customer service skills for direct sales contact for existing
& prospect customer• A professional & effective presentation style.• Strong communication skills• Profi cient in Microsoft offi ce, Excel & Word.• Ability to prioritize work where frequent interruptions may occur.• -Background/experience in Automotive parts preferred.• We offer competitive wages, excellent benefi t plan and
retirement package.
To apply please email resumé [email protected] call 403-913-4413
or deliver to 430054 Don Laing Business Park, RR261, Lot 2. Ponoka
POWER LINE TECHNICIAN/APPRENTICEThe Town of Ponoka has an immediate opening for the position of Apprentice/Power Line Technician for the Town’s Electrical Department. Reporting to the Line Foreman, this position is responsible for construction, operation, maintenance, and metering of the overhead and underground distribution system within the Town of Ponoka.
Required Quali cations:• Valid Alberta Journeyman Power Lineman / Powerline Technician
Certi cate or Interprovincial Red Seal.• Dependent on applications received, a fourth year Apprentice may be
considered.• Valid Emergency First Aid Level or above.• Valid Alberta Class 3 Vehicle Operators License with Airbrake Endorsement
preferred or willingness to achieve.• Current Criminal Record Check and suitable Driver’s Abstract.
Required Skills:• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and with minimal
supervision.• Strong interpersonal, team participation and communication skills.• Distribution operations, construction and maintenance knowledge and
skills.• Excellent customer relations.• Safe work skills including knowledge of safe work and job planning
procedures.
Desirable Skills Include:• Experience in the operation of a Digger an asset.• Standby and troubleshooting experience an asset.• 25 kV rubber glove and hotline work knowledge an asset.• Computer knowledge an asset.
Other Duties:• Assist other Town Departments with work activities including snow removal,
tree trimming and operating other equipment vehicles when required.Participation in the On-Call rotation is a requirement of this position and the successful candidate must reside within 10 km of the Town of Ponoka Limits (this item may be negotiated)
This position is open until a suitable candidate is found. For a complete copy of the job description, contact [email protected]
Please submit resume and references to:Town of Ponoka
5102 – 48 Avenue, Ponoka, AB T4J 1P7Fax: (403)783-4086 Email: [email protected]
TOWN OF PONOKAEmployment Opportunity
12345Experienced contractor log trucks & drivers wanted immediately to haul into Spray Lake
Sawmills, Cochrane, Alberta. Contact Rob 403-851-3388
Email: [email protected]
LOG HAULCONTRACTORS
WANTED
Sur-B Enterprises Ltd.
BOBCAT SERVICE• Snow Removal• Driveways & Parking Lots• Post-Hole Augering - 6, 9, 12, 15• Corral Cleaning• Grading & Construction
Call Jim Ashbough 783-2764 or Cell: 588-0599Jack Surbey 783-5283 Cell: 588-0597
BOBCAT SERVICES
SALES & SERVICE
BOTTLE DEPOT
Call Jim Ashbough 403-783-2764 or Cell: 403-588-0599Jack Surbey 403-783-5283 or Cell: 403-588-0597
PONOKA BOTTLE DEPOT
Open Monday - Saturday10 am - 5 pm
Closed Sundays & Holidays
We Now Recycle Milk Cartons for Deposit
3, 5520 Hwy 2A(Across from Husky)
403-783-6875
Tues - Fri: 8:30 am-5:30 pmSaturday: 9 am-3 pm
403-783-51851-800-662-7135
Fax: 403-783-4635
Motorcycles & ATV’s
Reaching 6000 households weekly
for just$30PER WEEK
This space could be yours!
403-783-3311
OVERHEAD DOORS
This space could be yours for
$30PER WEEK
Call 403-783-3311
is Currently Looking to hire
BOBCAT OPERATORSOff ering High Paced Work with Competitive Wages and Local Job Sites. Applicant Must Have A Valid Class 3 License with Air. • Experience in Fine Grading and Finishing is a Must. • Knowledge of the Area Would Be an Asset. • A Positive Attitude Is A Must.
Please Submit Resume with Driver’s Abstract in person to:
5913 Len Thompson Drive Lacombe, AB
Email: [email protected] or by Fax: 403-782-7786
NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE
PERMANENT EMPLOYMENTOPPORTUNITIES
Electrical Enclosure & Power Division
DANDY
Full Benefit Package & ProductionBonuses. Safe, Warm, Modern
Working Environment.
Fax or E-mail your resume inconfidence to:
A.C. Dandy Products Ltd.
Fax: 780-352-2249
Email: [email protected]
• CNC PROGRAMMER
• PART TIME TRUCK DRIVER
• TURRET OPERATOR
• PANEL SHOP ELECTRICIAN
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Under supervision, this position performs a variety of maintenance duties on various types of equipment, buildings; and grounds under the direction of the Department Supervisor and/or other maintenance workers in accordance with acceptable standards, regulations, safety, policies and procedures. The work is defi ned as semi-skilled, routine, manual, becoming somewhat independent.
Qualifi cations: High School diploma Three years operations experience with maintenance management and periodic maintenance program experience
Knowledge and/or experience with computerized control systems and maintenance management would be benefi cial
Minimum a 5th class steam ticket would be preferred but not mandatory
Closing Date: Until suitable candidates found
Please direct applications to: Human Resources - [email protected]
A current Police Information Check is a pre-employment requirement for new employees to The Rimoka Housing Foundation
We sincerely thank all candidates for their application; however only those selected for interview will be contacted
Maintenance Service Worker - CasualPonoka, AB
DENTISTRY
Family Friendly Dentistry
Box 11004905 50 St.Rimbey, ABT0C 2J0
RIMBEYDENTALCAREDR. STEVE CALDER BSC DDS
Ph. (403) 843-2173Fax: (403) 843-2607
HEATING
“Committed to your comfort”
Advertise your business
in the Business
Directory!
EYE CARE
Drs. Heimdahl, ZoBell & Kallal403-783-5575 1-800-662-7168403-783-5575 1-800-662-7168
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- ADVANCED EYE HEALTH & VISION EXAMS
- CONSULTATION & REFERRAL SERVICES
- DESIGNER EYE WEAR & CONTACT LENSES
- INSURED MEDICAL EYECARE SERVICES NOW AVAILABLE FOR ALL AGES
NEW PATIENTS ALWAYS WELCOME
OFFICE HOURSOFFICE HOURS: Monday - Friday: Monday - Friday8AM - 12:30PM • 1PM - 5PM
BIRCHLAND DENTAL CLINIC
- General Dentistry - Orthodontics - Cosmetic Dentistry - Bonding - Veneers
- Bleaching - White or Gold Fillings- Crown and Bridge - Implant Restorations
“WE ENTHUSIASTICALLY WELCOME NEW PATIENTS”
DR. HUGH PORTER • DR. RICK BARR
DR. JEFF BARR • DR. GREG EDWARDS
PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY
4037835225 • 40378352355118 - 51 Ave., Ponoka, AB T4J 1R5
DENTAL CARE
Ph: 403-782-7722
Fax: 403-782-7499
Robin Esau
www.KlesMechanical.com
This space could be yours for
$30PER WEEK
Call 403-783-3311Big on Career Satisfaction.Have a rewarding career with a company you’ll be excited to represent. Big Country Energy Services Inc. is a premier pipeline and facilities construction company servicing western Canada and we’re currently looking to build our business with a dedicated team, who will prosper with us and share our focus of dynamic customer service. We’re currently accepting resumes for the following positions from anyone who has experience in our industry and shares our vision of a safe, responsible workplace:
Parts Runner
Big Country Energy Services is proud to lead the charge on creating a drug and alcohol free work environment; pre-employment testing is required. If you are looking to be part of an innovative team who offers competitive wages, comprehensive benefits and an excellent work environment, please submit your resume, copies of oilfield tickets and current driver’s abstract to:
Big Country Energy Services Inc.6709 44 AvenuePonoka, AB T4J 1J8Fax: (403) 783-4670 Email: [email protected]
ENERGY SERVICES INC.
a MasTec company
is looking to hire full time
• INVENTORY PERSONto join our team
• Automotive bodyshop repair an asset.• Computer literate• Applicant must have a positive attitude and
willingness to take on new challenges.
We offer competitive wages, excellent benefi t plan and retirement package.
To apply please email resumé [email protected] call 403-913-4413
or deliver to 430054 Don Laing Business Park, RR261, Lot 2. Ponoka
in Ponoka, has immediate openings for
SWAMPERSPlease submit resumes to
6526 - 44 Ave., Ponoka, AB T4J 1J8Fax: 403-783-3011
or Email:[email protected]
CALNASH TRUCKING LTD IN PONOKArequires an immediate
SHOP/PARTS PERSONSHOP/PARTS PERSONTh e responsibilities will include ordering and organizing
parts, data entry, record keeping and general shop duties. Reporting directly to the operations manager,
the individual will have excellent communication skills, organized and general computer knowledge. Some
training will be provided, but must have some general trucking and parts background.
Excellent wages and company benefi ts
Please submit applications to:Calnash TruckingCalnash Trucking
6526 44 Avenue, Ponoka, Alberta T4J 1J86526 44 Avenue, Ponoka, Alberta T4J 1J8Fax: 403-783-3011Fax: 403-783-3011
E-mail: [email protected]: [email protected](Attn: Shop/Parts Person)
Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.No Phone calls please.
/MAVERICKSupply Ltd.
Warehouse RepresentativeRequired for Rimbey Oil eld Supply Store
Duties to include:Customer ServiceInventory ControlClerical DutiesForklift Operations
Heavy Lifting InvolvedDeliveries (with trailer)Shipping & Receiving
Please Send Resume to:Email: [email protected] Fax: 403-843-3775
In Person: 5618 - 44th St., Rimbey (Behind the A&W)
Ponoka has immediate openings for
Team MembersFT Weekdays - Weekends - Nights
Wages $9.95 - $11.00/hrApply online at [email protected] fax 403.783.5595 or drop off resume
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Contractors 1100ATTENTION HOME
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Permit. Contact Blanket Home Warranty for
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LegalServices 1260
CRIMINAL RECORD? Think: Canadian pardon.
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Misc.Services 1290
DISCONNECTED PHONE? Phone Factory Home Phone Service. No one refused! Low monthly rate! Calling features and unlimited long distance available. Call Phone
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WellDrilling 1400
Being a new
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Misc.Services 1290 Personal
Services 1315Unplanned
pregnancy may be
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We care. For
confi dential help call
403-343-1611 (24 hrs.)
DATING SERVICE. Long-term/short-term
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TRUE PSYCHICS!For Answers call now 24/7 Toll Free 1-877-342-3036;
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Pet Services 1318CLINKERSKENNELS
403-783-6272
* Quality Boarding for your dogs & cats
*Proof of vaccinations and advance bookings required
HOURS: Mon - Thurs 9 am - 12 Noon; 4 pm - 6 pm;
Fri. 9 am - 12 Noon; 4 pm - 7 pm; Sat. 9 a.m. - 12 noon;
Sun. 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. & 4 - 7 p.m.
www.clinkerskennels.ca
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Rental -Misc 1350
Need RV or Self Storage?8’ X 10’ mini
storage units
available for rent.
Also RV storage.
Secure compound.
Call Keith at
First Call Towing
783-3636
Buy & Sell#1500 - #1990
Aircraft ..............................1510Antiques & Art ..................1520Auctions ............................1530Bicycles ............................1540Building Supplies ..............1550Business Machines ..........1560Cameras & Accessories ..1570Children’s Items ................1580Clothing ............................1590Computers ........................1600Concert & Event Tickets ..1610Equipment - Misc. ............1620Equipment - Heavy ..........1630Tools ................................1640Farmers’ Market &Food Basket......................1650Firewood ..........................1660Lumber ............................1670Garden Supplies ..............1680Lawn Tractors ..................1690Health, Dietary, Beauty ....1700Household Appliances......1710Household Furnishings ....1720TV’s, Stereos, VCR’s ........1730Hot Tubs & Accessories ..1740Jewellery ..........................1750Kid’s Deals........................1755Misc. For Sale ..................1760Musical Instruments..........1770Music Lessons..................1780Piano & Organs ................1790Office Supplies ................1800Pets & Supplies ................1810Pet Services ....................1820Cats ..................................1830Dogs ................................1840Sports Cards ....................1850Sporting Goods ................1860Collectors’ Items ..............1870Swap, Barter & Trade ......1880Travel Packages ..............1900Wedding Supplies ............1910Recycled Products............1920Wanted to Buy ..................1930Items to Give Away ..........1940
Auctions 1530MEIER GUN AUCTION. Saturday, March 8, 11 a.m., 6016 - 72A Ave.,
Edmonton. Over 150 guns - Handguns, rifles,
shotguns, hunting and sporting equipment. To
consign call 780-440-1860.
Auctions 15308TH ANNUAL Red Deer Collector Car Auction &
Speed Show, March 14 - 16/14, Red Deer Westerner Park.
Exhibitor space available. Consign your car.
1-888-296-0528 ext. 102; EGauctions.com.
BIG STRAPPERAUCTIONS
SALES EVERY WED. @ 6 pm.
Moose Hall 2 miles south of Ponoka on 2A
Resuming Weekly SalesWed. Jan. 15, 6 pm
FIRST ANTIQUE SALESun. Feb. 2, 1 pm
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Minor Hockey round-upContinued from page 24
Peewee Tier 5 Maskwacis Peewee B lost 1-4 to the Lacombe Peewee C Rockets. Cole Brown scored twice while Shane Okeymow and Dwyatt Buffalo both scored once during the Feb. 15 away game.
Bantam Tier 1 Maskwacis Bantam A lost to Edson on Feb. 15, 8-4. Keyshawn Threefingers, Dylan Soosay, Jakobi Omeasoo and Nimkees Bailey-Lee all scored once during the home game.
That same day Maskwacis Bantam B tied Blackfalds 6-6 in an away game. Ishaiah Deschammps earned a hat trick and Trey Littlechild, Tristen Ward and Tyshawn Raine brought the final number to six.
Midget Tier 2 Lacombe Midget A Rockets lost to Maskwacis Midget A Chiefs during a Feb. 14 Erminekin-based game; 6-3. George Montour scored twice while Nolan Lightning, Bryton Buffalo, Cheyden Baptiste and Kendall Swampy all scored once.
Atom Female Maskwacis girls lost the Fort Sas-
katchewan on Feb. 15, 6-0.On Feb. 16 Lacoka’s team lost to Stettler 4-3 in an
away game. Chloe Wilton, Kate Hollingsworth and Lind-say Johnson all scored once.
Bantam/Midget Female Maskwacis Midget Female lost to Lacoka Bantam Female 3-1 on Feb. 14.
For Lacoka Lindsay Johnson scored once and Dani-elle Blacklock brought in two. Megan Ermineskin scored Maskwacis’ only goal.
On Feb. 15 Maskwacis’ Bantam team lost 13-0 to Endmoor in an away game.
Also that day, Lacoka Bantam beat Stettler Bantam 4-2. Kelli Rae Sieben scored twice and Meg Crawford and Lindsay Johnson both scored once.
On Feb. 16 Maskwacis Midget Female won their away game against Tofield 6-3. Aishah Buffalo scored twice and Elizabeth Raine, Megan Ermineskin, Summer Lightning and Robyn Strongman all scored once.
By Gwynne Dyer
When Mordechai Vanunu, a humble Israeli technician who worked for years at Israel’s secret nuclear site at Dimona, spilled the beans about Israel’s nuclear weapons in 1986, very bad things happened to him. He was drugged and kidnapped from Italy by Is-raeli agents, and imprisoned for eighteen years in Israel (eleven of them in solitary confinement).
When Avraham Burg, the former speaker of the Israeli parliament, said last month that that Israel has both nuclear and chemical weapons, nothing bad happened to him at all. He is pro-tected by the Important Persons Act, the unwritten law that gets powerful and well-connected peo-ple off the hook in every country.
They didn’t even go after Burg when he said that Israel’s long-standing policy of “non-dis-closure” (never confirm or deny that it has nukes) was “outdated and childish.” But even ten years after Vanunu finished serving his long jail sentence, he is not al-lowed to leave Israel, go near any foreign embassy, airport or border crossing, or speak to any journalist or foreigner.
The state’s excuse is that
Vanunu may still know secrets he might reveal, but that is non-sense. He hasn’t seen Dimona or talked to anybody in the Israeli nuclear weapons business for 30 years. What drives his tormentors is sheer vindictiveness, and he may well go on being punished for his defiance until he dies – while Avraham Burg lives out his life undisturbed and offers occasional pearls of wisdom to the public.
So here are the “secrets” that Vanunu and Burg revealed, in rath-er more detail than Burg chose to give and in a more up-to-date form than Vanunu could give from per-sonal knowledge.
Israel has a minimum of eighty and a maximum of four hundred nuclear weapons. At least some dozens are “tactical” weapons de-signed to be fired by artillery, but Israel also maintains a full “triad” of long-range delivery systems: land-based missiles, sea-launched missiles, and aircraft.
The missiles are mostly Jeri-cho II medium-range ballistic missiles, which can reach all of Europe and most of western Asia. Since 2008 Jericho III interconti-nental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) have also been entering service, with a range that would allow Is-rael to strike any inhabited point
on the planet with the exception of some Pacific islands. Both can carry a one-megaton warhead.
The maritime leg of the triad is highly accurate cruise missiles that are launched from underwater by Israel’s German-built Dolphin-class submarines. And finally, there are American-made F-15 and F-16 strike aircraft that can also carry nuclear bombs.
The United States did not help Israel to develop nuclear weap-ons in the first place (France did that), and even now Washington does not really approve of Israel’s nukes, although it tolerates them in the interest of the broader alliance. But why, after all these years, does Israel still refuse to acknowledge that it has them?
The only plausible answer is: to avoid embarrassing the United States in ways that would make it restrict its arms exports to Israel. But realistically, how likely is that to happen? The US Congress will ensure that Israel goes on getting all the money and arms it wants no matter what it says about its nukes, and it is high time to end this ri-diculous dance around the truth.
Gwynne Dyer is an indepen-dent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
Israel’s Nuclear Hypocrisy
This week I would like to talk to you about the benefits of using premium gasoline in your equip-ment. Over the last few decades we have seen a decline in the quality of regular fuel at the pumps. When it comes to your lawn and garden equipment, snow blowers, motor-cycles, ATV’s, and other power sports equipment, a lot of the new equipment states right on the ma-chine usually near the gas tank to use premium fuel. There is a rea-son for this, and that is that the machines need the higher octane in the premium gas to run properly. Most machines have a very nar-row window of compression values that they run optimally in (between
75 – 120lbs) required to compress the fuel air mixture to run prop-erly . This is especially true when you are running anything that uses two stroke mixed gas. Premium gas also keeps your motor running cleaner and more efficiently in both two stroke and four stroke motors in power sports equipment.
Another important feature of higher octane premium gas is that it will start a lot easier in cold weather due to the higher octane values. Octane is the BANG in the gasoline that makes your motor run properly. Also during cold weather the added benefit of having an Eth-anol blended gasoline for moisture control due to condensation is an
added benefit. If you have ques-tions concerning what is in your gas, always ask for an information pamphlet from the place where you get your gasoline from.
So in closing, please heed your manufactures’ recommendations for your equipment, a few extra dollars at the fill up of your equip-ment can prolong your equipment’s life and you will ultimately end up spending less in motor repairs and service.
Blake NoblesBTK MotorsportsPonoka, AB(403) [email protected]
Importance of using premium fuel in your equipment
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