Red Deer 1913 — 2013 Create Celebrate Commemorate
REMEMBERING THE CHILDREN
OILERS HUNT FOR NEW COACH
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CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER
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MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013
Way of life under siege BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF
MORE INDUSTRIALIZATION PROPOSED NEAR INNISFAIL
When Michael and Marion McLetchie look out from their rural Innisfail home now they see hundreds of acres of prime and pictur-
esque farmland. But not for long, the couple says. Saskatoon-based Federated Co-operatives Ltd. has been granted permission to build a fuel depot that will see
20 tanks, each 10 metres high, sprout on a farm field a few hundred metres west of the McLetchies, just north of Innisfail. That prospect is bad enough, but
Marion has little doubt it won’t be the end of the industrialization of the site. “It’s going to mushroom into a huge gigantic thing eventually,” she said in a recent interview.
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SYLVAN LAKE CENTENNIAL
History told through eyes of ‘pioneers’ BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF
Photo by MYLES FISH/Advocate staff
Marcus (left) and Robert Ornella act out a vignette representing the 1970s in Sylvan Lake as part of the town’s centennial celebrations on Saturday.
Alexander Loiselle was not quite sure what to make of Sylvan Lake 100 years on. As Loiselle — or at least John Treleaven, in his act as the town’s first permanent settler — told the attendees of the Sylvan Lake centennial jubilee ceremony on Saturday, a lot has changed since he first made his way to the area in 1899 from Quebec via Michigan. There are now eight schools, he exclaimed, “and they teach French!” And, oh, he said, the town’s traffic is so constant, so fast — “Main Street could never be used as a tobogganing hill as it used to be.” But despite his incredulity towards skateboarding and all the other examples of modernity in the growing town, Loiselle could still hold on to the town’s central attraction. “The burnished trail of a sunset across the water. The sudden dark ferocity of a summer storm. The reflection of autumn leaves burning the water into liquid gold, and the sharp crystalline beauty of winter ice . . . Beneath all of its unfamiliarity, the heart of my 1913 lake still beats.” The act, performed by Treleaven, was one of 10 vignettes written by Judy Hinshaw for the celebratory event. The vignettes — one for each decade of the town’s history — featured actors reminiscing about the old boat house, Varsity Hall, and the old grain elevator, while talking about what was new and exciting in the town during each period. The vignettes and performances by the H.J. Cody concert band interspersed a chronological look at Sylvan Lake’s history by Michael Dawe. The historical look back ended with a look forward for the community that now numbers over 13,000 inhabitants, 70 per cent of whom are under the age of 44.
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Looking at our past, present and future CAROLYN MARTINDALE
CITY EDITOR
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The theme of past, present and future runs through the 2013 edition of Report on Central Alberta. The Red Deer Advocate special section, an annual effort, this year celebrates the 100th anniversary of the City of Red Deer, as well as several surrounding communities and institutions. Two new sections, Centennial and Milestones, document sig-
REPORT ON CENTRAL ALBERTA nificant events in area history. The Centennial section concentrates on Red Deer, looking at some of its bright ideas, and explaining the origin of many of its placenames. Milestones chronicles the development of Sylvan Lake, Rocky Mountain House, Del-
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burne and Elnora, communities that also mark centennials this year. A host of Central Alberta groups and institutions mark important anniversaries this year. The Learning section is dominated by several stories about Olds College, which turns 100
years old this year. A timeline of its history shows how it has grown from its humble beginnings as an agricultural school in 1913. It now boasts a modern campus that includes an innovations centre and programs on everything from golf course management to costume cutting.
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CANADA
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The federal government says it will allow a man accused of terrorist ties to have a mobile phone but balks at the idea of giving Mohamed Harkat access to the Internet or removing his electronic tracking bracelet. A5
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