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Vol. 66, No. 19 | WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2014 | 403-783-3311 | EDITORIAL@PONOKANEWS.COM

Ponoka veteran receives Caring Canadian Award Story on page 8

Snow steals gold medal chance from U-16 Ponoka Storm” Story on page 28

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Duke of Edinburgh Award presented to Ponoka youth

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

Over the last two years, Clinton Rodney has taken on a challenge that will be a great addition to his resume.

While managing his education, schoolwork and extra-curricular activities with the Ponoka Air Cadets, Rodney has been putting in extra hours to complete tasks that earned him a much-deserved silver level Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.

Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Donald S. Ethell presented the award to Rodney at Government House in Edmonton on Friday, April 25.

Rodney is a member of the 65 Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron and this award will make a great addition to his bucket list. His next goal is to become a medical officer with the Canadian forces, and his application for post-secondary education to be able to get that position will be greatly helped by this award.

Rodney had to complete specific tasks, with a certain number of hours

per challenge to receive the award: • Service by connecting with the community; • Skills: Rodney needed to improve a specific skill or set a new one for himself; • Adventurous journey is meant as a means of getting outdoors and exploring; • Physical fitness to keep with a healthy lifestyle; • Residential project (gold): Only available for the gold award, participants need to spend five days and four nights away from home on an activity shared with people never met before.

Rodney said many of the challenges were activities he was already doing. “I like to be well-rounded and I found I was already doing a number of the items required.”

Air rifle marksmanship is an area that Rodney has some strength. He saw this as a means to develop his skill set. He says that hard work has

“I like to be well-rounded and I found I was already doing a number of the items required.”

Clinton Rodney

paid off with two trips to national competitions and he also represented the Ponoka Air Cadets in a biathlon challenge of skiing and marksmanship.

Travelling is something he has always wanted to do and Rodney feels being a medical officer is the perfect opportunity to see the world. Learning under the Medical Officer Training Plan will help

pay for his education.

“I like the idea of helping people and doing aid missions,” explained Rodney.

Rodney says he is already working on completing his gold level award.

The award recognizes young people aged between 14 and 24 for their efforts aimed at supporting the community and improving their personal skill-set. In 2013, a total of 11,502 young Canadians got involved in the program.

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award was founded in 1956 by Prince Philip and was launched in Canada in 1963 for young Canadians between the ages of 14 to 24.

PONOKA RURAL CRIME WATCH ASSOCIATION (PRCWA)

Annual General Meeting Tuesday, May 13, 2014, at 7:30 pm At Ponoka County Office • Election of officers • Dissolve or not

Clinton Rodney accepts the silver level Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Donald S. Ethell presented the award to Rodney April 25 at Government House in Edmonton.

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Early Deadline Notice Due to the Victoria Day Holiday the Ponoka News will have an early deadline for the May 21 issue for display and classified advertising.

Deadline : Thursday, May 15 at 5 pm

Mecca Glen School Council Invites all Mecca Glen Parents to our Annual General Meeting Monday, May 26, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Motorist clocked at 173 km/h on Highway 2

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

Lisa Barrett, Victim Services board chair and the other organization volunteers of the gala thank those who attended as well as the ever-supportive businesses in Ponoka with a speech.

Photo by Amelia Naismith

Wine and entertainment a hit at Victim Services gala 100 per cent of the proceeds go to Victim Services and the community gets growth. It’s a win, win, win,” said Lefebvre. In total the event raised approximately $8,000.

Profits from tickets, a photography station, musical requests and a silent auction also added to the proceeds of the event Board chair Lisa Barrett says Victim Services was originally established to support the RCMP — which they still do — but now the organization also works closely with the Ponoka General Hospital and Care Centre.

“We can call them directly if we think there’s people who could use their services,” said Barrett, who is also a manager at the hospital.

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All gussied up in their finest, approximately 200 of Ponoka’s town and county residents attended the annual Victim Services Gala with open hearts and wallets, ready to keep the instrumental organization in top shape to aid victims within the community.

This year’s gala ran on a new, experimental format of wine tasting with small food stations accompanying, rather than a heavy sit down dinner.

Organizer Francine Lefebvre says this year was less about the actual fundraiser and more about Victim Services putting its face out into the community and building relationships. “The reason we didn’t do supper is because we wanted people to mingle, build PR (public relations) and network.”

An entertaining evening of wine and mingling was mixed in with great food, mood lighting and dueling pianos to give the people of Ponoka a night on the town.

Goody bags full of gift cards from local businesses were also being sold for $20 each, “to promote growth in the local community and to pay it forward to the businesses that always help us,” Lefebvre explained.

The gift bags were sold out within an hour and a half, raising just over $1,700. “People who buy the gift bags get their monies worth,

A Fort McMurray man was in for a shock when police stopped him after travelling at speeds in excess of 173 km/h on Highway 2 last week.

Police stopped the driver, a 27-year-old man, after clocking his Mitsubishi Lancer at such a high rate of speed. He was pulled over without incident and faces a mandatory court appearance.

Thieves nabbed near liquor store Two drunks were surprised to be caught April 29 after stealing a 750-millilitre bottle of Crown Royal whisky.

Police say the couple stole the liquor at 5 p.m. from a liquor store on Highway 2A but were found a short time later in a nearby alleyway.

A 33-year-old Calgary man and a 27-year-old woman from Maskwacis have been charged with theft under $5,000.

Open liquor in vehicle Police stopped the driver of a 2005 Pontiac Sunfire after it drove between lanes May 1 on Highway 53.

The driver, a 51-year-old Camrose man, provided blood-alcohol samples of .07 and .06, below the legal limit. However a female passenger was charged with transporting an open liquor container. The driver received a ticket for driving carelessly.

Driver falls asleep, hits ditch One motorist was lucky that all he hit was the ditch May 1 at 4:30

p.m. after falling asleep at the wheel.

Police responded to the call and found a silver Audi on Highway 2 on the west side of the road. A 68-yearold man from Edmonton said he was tired and fell asleep. He received a 24-hour suspension and had no injuries.

Learning without proper supervision Police ticketed a 46-year-old Banff man with having no taillights running and driving without supervision last week.

He failed to turn on the running lights of the car May 1 at 11 p.m. The driver was stopped southbound on Highway 2 near the Bear Hills rest stop. There was a 31-year-old man in the back seat with a Class 5 licence and he received a ticket for being in the back seat while a learner was driving.

Motorcyclist found with open liquor Passing a SUV on the shoulder of an on-ramp turned out to be a bad decision for a 35-year-old Edmonton man.

He was on a 2003 Yamaha motorcycle that had no licence plate and police witnessed his driving. After stopping the motorcyclist, it was determined the man had a nationwide prohibition from driving. He was charged with driving while disqualified, having no insurance and transportation of open liquor.

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Your Guide To Local Houses of Worship CHURCH DIRECTORY Associated Gospel Churches of Canada

CHURCH OF THE OPEN BIBLE Pastor Jerry Preheim • Pastor Matt Sealy 3704 - 42 St. Ponoka 403-783-6500 Worship Service 11:00 a.m. • churchoftheopenbible@telus.net

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH PONOKA

Sr. Pastor Paul Spate Erin Dirsten - Fac. Youth & Family Min. 5109 - 57 Ave. Ponoka www.fbcponoka.org 403-783-5533 Bible Discovery Hour 9:30 a.m.

Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

NEW COVENANT BAPTIST REFORMED 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 CHURCH South on 2A, West on Spruce Road 403-783-1888 Worship Service 10:00 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.

Rev. Mitch Ramkissoon www.parklandurc.org

PONOKA ALLIANCE CHURCH 4215 - 46 St. Pastor Norm Dibben 403-783-3958 Sunday Service 11:00 a.m.

The Christian & Missionary Alliance

PONOKA WORD OF LIFE CHURCH Pastor Rob McArthur

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Sunday @ 10:30 a.m.

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PONOKA UNITED CHURCH Minister: Beatrix Schirner

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Sunday Service 10:00 am.

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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH PASTOR DAVE BEAUDOIN 6230-57 Ave. Ph. 403-783-6404 Saturdays 9:30 - 12 Noon dsjjb@xplornet.com ponokaadventist.ca

SONRISE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Pastor W. Delleman Worship Service 10:30 a.m. ½ mile south of Centennial Centre for Mental Health & Brain Injury

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Sunday Service: Holy Eucharist 10 a.m. www.stmarysanglicanponoka.com

TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH 5501 - 54 Ave. Ponoka 403-783-4141 Sunday Service: 10:30am Sunday School: 10:30am Pastor Tim Graff • trinityponoka.ca

ZION CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Pastor Fred Knip 9 miles east on Hwy 53 (403) 782-9877 Jr. Church during service for children Sunday Service 9:30 am

A heartwarming story on a newly canonized saint

BY DEACON ROLLIE COMEAUST. AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC PARISH

Realizing that we are already in May, the date, April 27, probably has little significance for most people, but for the Roman Catholic community, it marks the date for the canonization of two former Popes, John XXIII and John Paul II. Although this wouldn’t be the first canonization of a Pope, it is the first time two have been elevated to sainthood at the same time.

Of the two Popes, I am most familiar with John Paul II, who most certainly left his imprint upon the Catholic Church and in many ways upon the world. He was the first non-Italian Pope in over four hundred years and the third longest serving Pope in history. He was the most traveled Pope of all time, visiting more than 100 countries.

In 1994, he was hailed as Time Magazine’s “Man of The Year”. He is probably most remembered for his advocacy of human rights around the world, his advocacy for the “family” and for his appeal to the youth of the world to become engaged in their faith and become advocates for social justice. The fall of the Iron Curtain, the removal of the Berlin Wall and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union are linked to his support of the Polish solidarity movement which began the wave of reform in eastern Europe.

The conferring of sainthood is not a recognition of these geopolitical events in history. Sainthood is a recognition of the way one chooses to live his or her life. To illustrate this point, one of the more obscure stories that has surfaced about the life of John Paul II in recent years, took place just after the Second World War. In January of 1945, at age 13, a young girl named Edith Zierer had just emerged from a Nazi labor camp in Czestochowa,

Poland. Separated from her family, unaware that her mother and father had been killed by the Germans, she could scarcely walk. But walk she did, to a train station, where she climbed unto a coal train. The train moved slowly, the wind cut through her. When the cold became too much to bear, she got down at a village called Jedrzejow. In the corner of the station, she sat. Nobody looked at her for she was a girl in the striped and numbered uniform of a prisoner and there was still anti-Semitism sentiment running throughout the country.

Unable to move, Edith waited.

Death was approaching, but a young man approached first, “very good looking” as she recalled and healthy. He wore a long robe and appeared to be a priest. “Why are you here?” he asked. She explained that she was trying to get to Krakow to find her parents.

The man disappeared. He came back with a cup of tea. Edith drank. He said he would help her get to Krakow. Again the mysterious benefactor went away returning with bread and cheese.

“Try to stand”, the man said. Edith tried and failed, so he carried her to another village, where he put her in the cattle car of a train bound for Krakow. Another family was also in the cattle car. The man got in beside Edith, covered her with his cloak and made a small fire.

His name he told Edith was Karol Wojtyla. Although she took him for a priest, he was still a seminarian who would not be ordained until next year. Thirty-three more years would pass before he became Pope John Paul II .

Here were two people in a ravaged land, a 24-year-old Catholic and a 13-yearold Jew. The future Pope had already lost his mother, father and brother and Edith, although she did not know then, had lost

her mother at Belzec, her father at Maidanek, and her little sister at Auschwitz.

They got to Krakow, but Edith fled from the train after the Jewish family on the train warned her that he might take her off to a religious cloister. But the girl did not forget. She had written the young seminarian’s name in her diary and years later was astonished to learn that Karol Wojtyla had just become Pope. They eventually met again in 1997 where Edith was able to formally thank the Pope for saving her life.

The point of the story is that saints are just everyday people who respond to God’s call. In truth, we are all called to be saints, whether we get canonized or not.

Saints are not people who go around with hands clasped and eyes looking upward.

They have their struggles and have made their share of mistakes. The scales tip in their favor when they maintain their deep love of God amidst all of this and have a desire to do God’s will, no matter what the sacrifice.

Despite our sectarian beliefs, we do acknowledge goodness in our world and recognize those champions who labor hard and long for truth and justice. This may include men and woman who have become saints like St. Francis of Assissi, St Theresa of Lisieux and now John Paul II. But it also includes people like Nelson Mandala, and Ghandi, who fought for human rights and made the world a better place because of their presence.

It was John Paul II who recognized this goodness among us by canonizing more saints than any other Pope. He left the door open for everyone’s call to sainthood when he said “We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of God’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son”.

A response to James Strachan not nullify any sins he may have committed in his life. Nor do the sins he committed remove the image and likeness of God. The castration of an individual, a bad act, would not justify any sin a eunuch may commit. And neither would it remove the image and likeness of God. Sexuality is not to be condemned or praised in it of itself PONOKA RISING but to the extent the action reflects the image SUN CLUBHOUSE and likeness of God. King James and the Ethiopian eunuch lived through difficulties I will never know but their divine likeness For per month was not destroyed by bad done by others to We will pick up your paper, clean tins, them. glass, No. 1-5 plastic and cardboard.

But when we sin, We also pick up cardboard from local businesses. we make God’s reflection difficult to see.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Reflections of Ponoka

Photo courtesy of Fort Ostell Museum

This new display at the Fort Ostell Museum vividly depicts the colorful history of sewing throughout the centuries, featuring the machines and accessories from the early 19th century that introduced exciting new technology in the lucrative clothing manufacturing industry.

BY MIKE RAINONE FOR THE NEWS

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The theme of the 2014 Ponoka Stampede parade (June 27th) will be the ‘Year of the Horse’, in honour of these magnificent animals, who have faithfully served us in so many capacities for centuries. This classic photo, taken in the early 1900’s, depicts the great ‘horse and buggy’ days, and features a handsome mare guiding a well dressed district trio of Harry Hunter, Clara Oppen, and Sophie Untinen on an afternoon outing.

I always enjoyed watching my mother darn a big hole in my socks or sewing a big colored patch on a well worn favourite pair of play pants. As we grew up, we likely tried it ourselves, carefully threading the tiny eye of the needle, and poking our fingers on many occasions while nervously attempting to stitch in a neat and straight line. Later on, the girls in the family were likely given the opportunity to hewn their skills and maybe even make a dress on mom’s shiny new sewing machine.

The art of hand sewing is over 20,000 years old, dating back to the Palaeolithic Age, where natives skillfully stitched together animal hides to make the sturdy clothing and shelters that would assure their survival. The first crude sewing needles were made out of bones or animal horns, and the first thread was made from animal sinew. As methods improved quickly, strong iron needles were invented in the 14th century, followed by those handy-dandy needles with eyes just a century later. In those early days making clothing was very expensive and time consuming, so getting lots of use out of each item meant many long hours of mending. If they became faded, they would be turned inside out and worn much longer, then later as hand-me-downs.

With the rapid settlement and population explosion throughout the world, the demand for clothing and other fabric products became overwhelming. The first possible patent connected to mechanical sewing was a 1755 British patent issued to German Charles Weisenthal. The patent for this exciting international invention also featured a needle, however, did not describe the rest of the machine or how it worked. The world’s first functional sewing machine was invented by the French tailor, Barthelemy Thimonner in 1830, and the exciting era of automated sewing and fancy needlework had begun. On the rather dark side of the ‘sewing revolution’, many massive sewing factories, mills, and ‘textile sweatshops’ were formed, with thousands of employees toiling up to 14 hours a day for poverty wages to meet the overwhelming demands of the lucrative clothing industry. Before the introduction of the treadle and electronic sewing machines, it would take a seamstress 14 hours to make a dress and three hours to put together a pair of pants. Nowadays with the modern technology the textile clothing production lines can produce a dress in one hour, a fancy dress shirt in an hour and fifteen minutes, and a pair of pants in just 38 minutes.

In 1851, the Singer Sewing Machine Company came into being, and for many decades has become synonymous with the magic world of sewing and many new exciting and colorful concepts along the way. The spirit of practical design and creative innovation that characterized the Singer Company at its beginning, and became internationally successful due to many firsts in the field, including the world’s first Zig-Zag, the initial electronic machines in 1916, and just recently the world’s most advanced home sewing and embroidery machine.

From home decor and clothing to embroidery and quilting, Singer and many other companies are avidly dedicated to helping people express themselves through the magic of sewing.

So many of us, whether involved in the hobby or not, will always be amazed and appreciate the great and traditional skills displayed by those who enjoy doing needlepoint, macramé, embroidery, quilt making or turning out countless other delicate and spectacular items that are still being sewn by hand, just like they were for so many decades in the past.

Exciting new display at Fort Ostell Museum.

In honour of the long and colorful history of the ‘world of sewing’, the Fort Ostell Museum has put together a delightful and authentic display that is now open for the enjoyment of families, individuals, and groups of all ages. Here are some of the unique items featured in the new display all to see, as well as everyone always being welcome to stay browse through many others that tell the story of the proud heritage of our town and districts.

•A hand-crank 1876 Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine which belonged to Charles Palecheck, who owned a general store in Hobbema from 1936 to 1957.

•A 1916 treadle sewing machine, as well as the original Singer Featherweight electric sewing machine that was used for many years in the busy sewing room at the Provincial Mental Hospital.

•A Pfaff Treadle sewing machine that was manufactured in 1920, was owned by Adolf Schmidt of Ponoka, and is personally engraved with his name. The Coronado machine was manufactured in Canada in 1950 and was sold exclusively by Macleod’s.

•Also featured are many great samples of early buttons, needles, and threads, colorful patterns

by Hollywood/Butterick/McCall, and Advance, swaths of material, sewing kits and baskets, and instruction books entitled ‘Short cuts to Home Sewing’, ‘Smart Fashion Stitches’, and much more.

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Opinion

Taking statistics with a grain of salt Statistics are probably the most other words, is the seeming rise of convenient tool for spin-doctoring the income of Canadian middle class because they allow one to twist the a result of borrowing or increase in reality in a way that figures can be the earnings? For those who may not shown to support a particular line know: Canadians are one of the most of thought by isolating it from the indebted nations on earth with every greater picture; and as such, they are single household, on average, owing the best friends for politicians, not some 164 per cent of its annual inonly because of their come. flexibility of use, but Another question also due to their accesis why the comparisibility: laymen never son is drawn with the get to know about staUnited States, a countistical data before try, which is known for politicians. the fastest spread of inPredictable as it come inequality in the may be, the introducworld. (It is a very intion is about the New teresting coincidence York Times story, that the NYT report which was published Mustafa Eric came only a few days on April 22, declaring Editor after the announcethat Canadian middle ment of the findings class families may of two respected US have surpassed the researchers, namely Prof Martin American middle class families in Gilens of Princeton University and wealth since 2012.

Ever since the story surfaced, Prof Benjamin I Page of NorthwestConservative MPs and politicians ern University, who say that US is no have been drumming to a single longer a democracy, but an oligarchy tune: “This has happened thanks to where the rich and powerful have an the policies of our great Conserva- overarching influence on the govtive government, so make sure you ernment and that therefore, they get vote for us again in 2015 and ditch richer as the middle and low income the idea of replacing us with the Lib- sections of the population get poorer erals.” {http://www.bbc.com/news/blogsAfter so much fanfare, one might echochambers-27074746}). be tempted to look behind the façade In all fairness, it is a fact that to see how much the NYT story re- Canada survived the Great Recesflects the reality: First of all, the story sion of 2008-2009 with the least is far from reporting a certainty, the possible damage as compared to the exact quote from the story is as fol- other major industrial nations, but lows: “Median income in Canada it was first and foremost due to the pulled into a tie with median United prudent line of action taken by Mark States income in 2010 and has most Carney, former governor of Bank of likely surpassed it since then.

Canada, (who was apparently lured Therefore, we should understand that the latest definitive data for this to London as a result of that success) particular set of comparative figures and to some extent, to the fiscal poliis from 2010, when there was rough- cies put in place by late Jim Flaherty. ly a sort of parity, and the remainder But, dodging a recession is one thing, claiming success for non-exisis an estimate.

Here are several questions: Does tent economic success using dubious the comparison take into account the statistics is another.

And of course, politicians will be decline of the purchasing power of the politicians and they will try to take Canadian dollar versus the US greenback since then? Does this particular the juice out of every plumb they can statistic analysis accommodate the get their hands on. The question is indebtedness of the US and Ameri- how long the electorate will continue can income categories discussed? In to take it.

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A brief history of Alberta politics Dear Editor, No one really knows what the status of ex -premier Alison Redford will be before the next provincial election. No provincial ex-premier in Alberta has ever returned to the provincial legislature as a mere back-bencher other than the first Alberta premier Alex Rutherford. He was forced to resign after the Alberta and Great Waterways scandal, in which his government was assumed to be implicated. Though he kept his seat in the legislature, he lost it in the 1913 provincial election. After he left politics, he returned to his law practice and eventually became chancellor of the University Alberta in Edmonton in 1927. His successors in the office of provincial premier, Arthur Sifton and Charles Stewart both became federal politicians.

Herbert Greenfield, a United Farmers of Alberta premier, from 1921 to 1925, was, like Alison Redford, unable to maintain caucus support. Ac-

cording to the Calgary Herald at the time, he was thrown to the wolves by his legislative colleagues.

John Brownlee, a Ponoka MLA, succeeded Greenfield as premier for almost a decade till 1934, but resigned after a court case having being brought by a family friend for seduction. He lost the subsequent election in 1935 to Aberhart’s Social Credit league who wept the swept the province.

Alberta politics has often been colorful and politics itself here and elsewhere is often unpredictable. Our hopes and aspirations for change sometimes go up in smoke. Our political leaders are seen to have feet of clay. It is easy to become disillusioned with politics as usual.

But there are surprises, sometimes pleasant ones. It takes discipline, energy and I believe, interested in the lives of others and the communities we live in to stay engaged. Who ever said things would always be easy?

George Jason

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Ermineskin chief opposes new First Nations education bill

BY AMELIA NAISMITH

Along with several other chiefs and grand chiefs, Ermineskin Cree Nation Chief Craig Mackinaw recently travelled to Ottawa to meet with Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt regarding a widespread dislike of the proposed Bill C-33, also known as First Nations Control of First Nations Education.

“We went to a press conference on the rejection of Bill C-33 as presented,” said Chief Craig Mackinaw.

Mackinaw feels if the bill is passed in its current state, the federal government is essentially absolving itself of responsibility of First Nations education. Bill C-33 would put their education in the hands of a corporate structure and a regional board. “They’re looking at an education authority to be set up.”

“The government, their responsibility, it’s not theirs (any) more . . . It would take chief and council out of the picture,” said Mackinaw.

This would be an aberration of the treaties, which is a huge concern and “sticking point” of his.

“They’re dangling the carrot, offering this funding” Ermineskin Chief Craig Mackinaw

Bill C-33 focuses only on reserve schools. With 10 to 12 in the Maskwacis area, it affects 3,000 to 4,000 students, and numbers are expected to increase because the population is so young, says Mackinaw.

With a push to have the bill passed by the fall of 2015 and no concrete funding available to the schools until it is passed, Mackinaw is concerned a new managing party may not honour the idea of guaranteed funding.

“They’re dangling the carrot, offering this funding. But you don’t get to know how it’s going to be done,” said Mackinaw.

He says his doubts come from the ignorance and ambiguity that’s plagued their treatment over the last year. “It makes you kind of apprehensive of how things are going to happen down the road.”

“There’s a lot of uncertainties that come out of it,” he added, with regards to funding for post-secondary means as well as pre-school.

While opposing the bill, Mackinaw wants the government to look

at another solution that would respect the treaties. “It could be an agreement down the road. There’s too much uncertainty.”

“The issues lie with the students themselves and their home life” Tara Cutarm, Ermineskin Cree Nation communications manager

There’s also a deep dissatisfaction with how the First Nations community is allowed to be involved in the process of drafting the bill. “Minister Valcourt says we’re supposed to be the ones driving this act,” said Mackinaw.

However, he feels that isn’t the case and they haven’t been given the opportunity. “We need to have a proper consultation right from the beginning to end with this bill, respecting our position.”

Mackinaw says there are other aspects of First Nations education that aren’t even addressed by the bill, including head start programming and programs to aid special need students.

Tara Cutarm, communications manager for the Ermineskin Cree Nation, feels this new bill is still allowing the minister to call all the shots while the First Nations community is left to uphold the results.

Along the lines of the uncertainty that comes with the funding, she feels the government is using technicalities to dodge equality for reserve-based education. “They’re using the word comparable, comparable isn’t equality.”

Cutarm also feels more needs to be done and addressed in terms of education, rather than “throwing money at the problem” in hopes it will fix the issues.

Even with funding and topnotch schools, there is still a high percentage of attendance issues.

“The issues lie with the students themselves and their home life . . . and that stems from the Residential School era,” said Cutarm.

Having attended the April 28 press conference and stating his concerns, Mackinaw says the ball is back in the government’s court.

Now it’s just a waiting game for a response and baited breath to see if any changes will be made to the bill.

Town Times

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NOTICES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Sidewalk Repairs Does the sidewalk in front of your residence have any trip hazards we should know about? Winter frost conditions can cause heaving at the joints. We would like to hear from you. Go to our website www.ponoka.ca and fill out a community feedback form, or call the Town office 403-783-4431

STREET SWEEPING The Town’s sweeper is once again out cleaning away the winter residue from the streets.

We ask your assistance in removing vehicles from the street when the sweeper is in your area. Unfortunately, due to unpredictable weather, we are unable to provide exact locations and time schedules. Please drive with care and consideration, obeying all traffic laws.

EVENTS AND RECREATION Spring Clean-Up The Annual Town of Ponoka Spring Clean Up Week is scheduled to begin May 20 and will continue until completed. Pick up is restricted to compostable materials (e.g. Landscaping waste such as leaves & grass clippings) and small amounts of tree branches that are no longer than 3 feet. Materials not picked up include: sod, rocks, construction material, wood, dirt, household waste and pet excrement. Preference is to have all materials in a pile and not bagged. Make sure your yard waste is set out adjacent to your normal household garbage pickup location. If yard collection is not completed that week, it will continue the following week. The Town will only make one trip per street/avenue.

Library Activities

SUMMER SIPS: Ponoka Jubilee Library is hosting another in their series of fabulous Wine Tastings. On Saturday May 10th at 7:00 pm, come down to the Library to sample eight white wines, accompanied by a selection of fine cheese, meat and fruit. Get prepared for a hot summer by discovering new white wines to savour in the sun! Tickets are $30/person and space is very limited, so be sure to come down to Ponoka Jubilee Library to purchase your tickets. ONE PAIR LEFT! FLOWER ARRANGING CLASS: On Saturday June 21st, Ponoka Jubilee Library is hosting a Flower Arranging Class! From 12:00-3:00 you will be learning how to build your own mixed vase arrangement; personalizing it to make it really special to you. Cost is $65.00/person and includes a full flower bouquet, arrangement instructions & items needed for arranging. Space is VERY limited, so please come to the Library to sign up today! Don’t allow a beautiful bouquet of flowers to ever look awful again!

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Pitch-In Ponoka Week May 4 -10, 2014, open to all citizens, organizations and businesses of the community! Do a clean-up or commit to being a green home; or do an environmental project!

Aquaplex & Recreation Update: May 16th PD Day swims 1-3pm May 19th STAT Holiday hours Family Swim 2-4pm, Public Swim 4-6pm Start training for the Tri Services Triathlon held June 15th! Are You An Artist? The Aquaplex is searching for a local artist to design a mural for the vacant wall above the whirl pool. The design should incorporate the town`s ideals, and spirit. Deadline for a design is July 31st. Drop off at the pool.

COUNCIL UPDATES & BYLAW INFO Fire Permits Please remember that Fire Permits are required for any burning taking place within the Town, with the exception of the following: • Using a Portable Appliance to cook food.

• Recreational burning or the cooking of food in Acceptable Fire Pits or Acceptable Fire Places, provided: • only clean fuel is used such as natural gas, dry wood, or charcoal in the amounts which will be contained within the fire pit or fire place below the mesh screen; • the fire pit or fire place is not used to burn prohibited debris; • a means, acceptable to the Fire Chief, of controlling or extinguishing the fire is available on the property and within reasonable distance from where the fire occurs; and • a responsible adult is present on the property when the fire is burning.

• Burning in campgrounds and parks where fire places, stoves, and fire pits are provided by or approved by the Town.

• Burning by the Fire Department for the purpose of training its Members or by having a controlled burn.

• The permits are free of charge from the Fire Hall. Don’t forget the many alternatives to burning: try recycling, composting, or take your items to the Waste Transfer Station (compostable items are free of charge).

If you have any questions, please contact the Fire Hall at 403-783-0112.

Next Town Council Meetings May 13 & May 27, 2014 @ 7 pm Visit our website @ www.ponoka.ca for copy of the agenda.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul

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Ponoka veteran receives coveted Caring Canadian Award ing to volunteer.”

He first joined the Wetaskiwin Legion in 1946 and Ponoka veteran Hugh Greene received a big sur- then transferred to Ponoka in 1958. He has also spent prise when he found out he was the recipient of the some time helping develop the Ponoka Air Cadets and Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award. The spent 10 years as chairman of the Air Cadets board of commendation is presented to Canadians who have directors. Greene said he was a big promoter of track gone above and beyond the levels of service normally and field competitions with the cadets. expected of volunteers.

Being past-president of the Ponoka Legion is anGreene received the award from Governor General other honour that Greene has on his resume and he David Johnston April 28 in Edmonton. has even taken youth to Europe in an effort to enhance This was someremembrance. thing unexpected “On three occasions I took “On three occasions I took for Greene who was youth leaders to tour monuyouth leaders to tour monuselected for his comments and battlefields,” explained munity involvement ments and battlefields,” Greene. with the Ponoka LeHugh Greene “I was always enthusiastic and gion, the Dominion I felt it was something I liked dobranch of the Legion ing,” he added. and for his efforts with youths. “When I was informed, As to who submitted his name, Greene does not I was quite emotional and speechless,” he said. know, which perhaps is one reason he is so humbled Criteria for the award state individuals who have by the nomination.

The award recognized specific volmade a significant and sustained, unpaid contribution unteers who spend time to help others and “build a to their community, whether in Canada or abroad, are smarter and more caring nation,” as stated in the award eligible. fact sheet.

Greene said he was unsure as to what he did exGreene is proud of the award, especially consideractly to deserve the honour, but says he was dedicated to his work as Dominion president. “I was quite will- ing his rank when he finished his service to the country.

“Not bad for an LAC (leading air craftsman),” he joked.

The Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award was established in 1995 and the award pin depicts a maple leaf, symbolizing the people of Canada; a heart, for the open-heartedness of Canadians and an outstretched THEME:

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Hugh Greene proudly holds up his Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award, which was recently presented to him by the Governor General David Johnston Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye

hand portrays boundless generosity.

Greene is an active mem-

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Without your dedication, the show would not be what it is.

Thank you to the Trade Fair sponsors as well as the Chamber member businesses who donated merchandise.

To all the individuals who so graciously donated their time to come and entertain, job well done and greatly appreciated!

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Chuckwagon tarp auction reaches new heights

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

“This helps the chuckwagon families go down the road for the year.”

A furious back and forth bidding war between Rusway Construction and Pidherney’s Oilfield Construction caused quite a commotion last Stampede president Joe Dodds weekend at the Stagecoach Saloon during this year’s tarp auction in the changing. run-up to the Stampede excitement.

“We are at the beginning of a new Thirty-six chuckwagon racers on cycle,” said McKernon. the World Professional Chuckwagon WPCA on SiriusXM Association (WPCA) tour came to In an effort to reach a broader cusPonoka to vie for best bid during the tomer base, the WPCA is breaking Ponoka Stampede tarp auction, which raised $500,000, the second highest new ground with a new contract engaging SiriusXM satellite radio. Look the association has ever seen.

The bid that turned everybody’s for channel 80 to catch up on the lathead was when Rusway beat out est Half Mile of Hell action.

McKernon said the WPCA has Pidherney with a record breaking $51,000 bid, acquiring the rights to new members on its board of directors and he looks forward to seeing what Roger Moore’s chuckwagon.

Pidherney was Moore’s sponsor the “new blood” will be able to ofin Ponoka last year, but Merv Krauss fer their organization. As technology of Rusway, made some quick deci- grows, McKernon suggests planners sions while talking to his business need to ensure they keep with trends.

“We’re trying to make improve- Bid taker Mike Brenpartner, Wayne Russell, over the phone. Krauss said they had their eyes ments and all that stuff takes time,” he nan calls out a $40,000 bid during explained. on Moore.

Troy Dorchester took the second the Ponoka Stampede “We were going to buy him,” said Krauss determinedly. highest bid at $26,000 from Lafarge chuckwagon tarp auction. Roger Moore, Moore was a little taken aback Canada. and couldn’t stop smiling. “Rusway The average bid was $13,888.89, sold for a Ponoka rehas backed me 100 per cent for 10 with the median bid at an even cord of $51,000.

Photo by years.” $10,000.00.

Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye When the auctioneer yelled a $40,000 bid for Moore, people started to get excited.

But they weren’t ready for the record sale that he garnered. Moore was last year’s Ponoka Stampede champion after winning the Tommy Show support to the 2014 Dorchester $50,000 St. Augustine grad class this year and Dash-for-Cash.

There was an air of congratulate them on all of their efforts optimism in the room and success. before the auction even Publishes: May 28 started, possibly due to organizers adding more Deadline: May 23 - Noon tables to accommodate buyers. Stampede president Joe Dodds said the tarp auction is a muchanticipated day for everyone involved.

“It’s basically the kick off to the Ponoka Stampede,” stated Dodds.

This section will show support “This helps the chuckwagon families to the grads and congratulate them go down the road for the on their efforts and success. year,” he added.

WPCA president Publishes: June 4 Arnold McKernon was Deadline: May 23 Noon uncertain how the night would go as the Calgary Reserve your advertising space by calling Stampede tarp auction was down from last year. Despite the low sales in Calgary, McKernon feels trends are

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Mother’s Day

Remembering grandma As I write this, I remember that today is my mother-in-law’s birthday.

Weird, I would remember that, as she left us many years ago.

Still, when I see pussywillows softening roadside ditches and the earth going through the labor pains of spring, I think of her.

My mother-in-law was a nononsense type of woman who didn’t have a lot of time for small talk

probably because she was so busy in the kitchen; always moving, always making things; canning, cleaning, cooking.

They say communication is only ten percent verbal anyway, so it didn’t really matter to me that she didn’t talk much.

I liked her a lot!

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grandchild; a healthy 8 lb. 1 ounce baby boy. To say the least, she was surprised. No doubt, she wasn’t expecting such a gift from me. I was, after all, the kid she had introduced to her lady friends as her son’s little friend only months before. I handed her the child when he was about two weeks old, hoping she Treena Mielke would notice how wonOn The derful he was and love Other Side him at once.

She did.

She took him in her capable hands, paused momentarily from hanging the washing on the line, examined him thoroughly and before long her knitting needles

began clicking and her sewing machine began whirring and, as it turned out, the child, as were his sisters, was dressed by grandma pretty much until they started college.

We lost grandma several years ago physically, but we really lost her many years before that when she left this world in her mind, only returning in brief, lucid moments to grace us with a smile or a gentle squeeze from tired, bony fingers, the parchment skin stretched so tightly across them, it seemed like it would tear at the slightest pressure.

I loved grandma for a lot of things, but mostly because she loved me back, I think, but even more importantly than that, she loved my children.

And, also, she gave me the piano.

The piano has been with us for many years, traveling unceremoniously to all our houses, being hauled in and out by many strong men, who got to show how very strong they were, indeed, by hauling such a piano.

It has sat in our last home, in its place of honour in the living room, for almost 20 years.

And, if the truth Celebrate were known, there has been months, when it has gathered dust and Sunday, its keys have been still and quiet.

May 12 It’s different now.

In one of my ‘self improvement’ ahaa moments, I decided I needed to expand my horizons. I had many options. Learn to tweet, retake math 30, oops, I never did take math 30, join a knitting club, (never learned that either), or start piano lessons again.

I decided to go with the piano.

It is slow; painfully slow, but I so do love it.

Right now I am learning the Sound of Music, which, surprisingly is even beginning to sound like said song.

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Mother’s Day Saluting the special ladies in our lives on May 11 Sunday-May 11 will surely not be just an whelming adventure ordinary day. Hopefully, it will be a warm and of raising a family and glorious spring event where we can all gather being a good and lovtogether to honour those pert, proud, and pre- ing wife to our super cious ladies in our lives on Mothers’ Day 2014 dads. There is no one edition. This delightful and traditional family day like a mother, whose is an ongoing celebration honouring motherhood, ongoing job always maternal bonds, and the powerful influence and promises to be a long guidance of mothers in family, community, and and tough one, through society. Here is my all time favourite tribute to overwhelming times all mothers, who no matter what joys and tribula- of good and bad, joy tions have fashioned their early family nests, will and sadness. While we all eventually one day fondly look forward to be- all know that she has coming a grandmother.

Mike Rainone always done her very Our mothers and grandmothers are and always Hammertime best to raise her chilwill be the gentler half of that wonderful team that dren from tots to teens bring their children into this world, and then spend many loving but challenging years striving to lead to adults, she often us all in the right direction down the constantly worries that she hasn’t done her best, and that they changing path of life. As we celebrate Mothers’ didn’t turn out like she hoped and prayed they Day on Sunday, May 11, let us all pause just a would. Of course, mothers are only human like little and try to fondly remember that after madly the rest of us, never perfect, and capable of makfalling in love with us at first sight, she patiently ing mistakes and sometimes missing the mark, but changed our diapers, fed us whether we liked it or the amazing characteristic that sets her apart is her not, bathed and dressed us, dried our tears, fixed everlasting love, understanding, and mostly unour owies, and had very little time for any other flappable patience for her children and her family, as well as her always strong and passionate intent sort of social life in those early years.

Along the way, she tended to us when we were that they will lead normal and well adjusted lives, sick and wished that she could have borne our no matter what the challenges might be.

There is no doubt that we will remember most pain, made sure we were safely inside/washed up, and tucked into bed every night, soothed our cuts of the adventures of our childhood, and that the and bruises while wiping away the tears, tried not upbringing and parental support that we received to spank to hard when we had to be punished, and along the way helped us to be a better person, had an uncanny way of convincing us kids to eat and maybe even made it a little easier to bring up everything on our meal plates, no matter how long our own flock? If we can remember back that far, it took, with our favourite dessert and treat prom- we will admit that these lessons of life were usuises the rewards. Later on, she took us to our first ally presented many times in a firm, occasionally day in school, cheered for our first team game, louder, but always in loving fashion, until it all filet us beat her at video games, bravely approved nally sunk in; hopefully by the time the kids were our first date, talked dad into letting us take the car, proudly cried at our graduations and weddings, on and on, because after all, it never really ends when it comes to raising a 403-783-3050 family.

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Mother’s Day For Moms who passed away Any holiday can be particularly difficult to enjoy when a loved one passes away Mother’s Day is supposed to be a happy oc- family. Your Mom would want you to; • Wear a white carnation to symbolize that casion wherein individuals honor their mothers and other special women with gifts and tokens of you have lost your mother; • Gather together with siblings or friends appreciation. But for the men and women who have lost their mothers, this holiday can be ev- who have lost their mothers and spend erything from bittersweet to painful. Honoring the day together.

Mom takes on new meaning.

Any holiday can be particularly difficult to enjoy when a loved one passes away. However, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day -- dates on the calendar specific to a special person in one’s life -- can be even more trying, especially if the loss is still fresh.

Individuals who have lost their mothers may experience Mother’s Day in myriad ways. Some may choose to ignore the day, preferring to keep busy and not acknowledge that Mother’s Day is taking place. Others may pour over memories of their mother, looking at old photos or videos.

Some may make a trip to a cemetery or special place of reflection.

Certain people prefer to be alone, while others want to be in the comfort of a group.

The way the holiday is spent is entirely up to the person and the way he or she feels the most comfortable. In fact, it can be downright challenging to wade through the rows of greeting cards at every store and watch scores of commercials on television reminding one not to forget to pick up something special for one’s mother.

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Mother’s Day Tips for dining out on Mother’s Day A vast majority of children opt to treat Mom to a night out on the town come Mother’s Day Mother’s Day is right around the corner, and this special holiday serves to honor all those women who devote so much time and effort to their families. While gifts and other trinkets are certainly part of the celebration, a vast majority of children opt to treat Mom to a night out on the town come Mother’s Day. Not only does this give mom a night off from cooking, but also it presents an opportunity to get dressed up and spend time together as a family.

A vast number of families travel to their favorite restaurants for Mother’s Day meals.

Mother’s Day is one of the busiest holidays of the year for restaurants. The National Retail Federation says 54.8 percent of Americans treat their mothers to a special meal out on Mother’s Day. Billions of dollars are generated by people eating out with their mothers. With large crowds to be expected, diners can follow a few tips when treating Mom to a meal.

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• Book early ... very early. To guarantee a reservation at any restaurant, namely your favorite restaurant, you will need to make a reservation well in advance of Mother’s Day. It’s never too early to put your name on the reservation list.

Don’t forget Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 11, 2014.

• Expect to wait. Even with a reservation, you’re bound to spend some time waiting at the restaurant. Other families may be lingering at their tables, as no one wants to rush Mom out of the door. Plan accordingly for a potentially long wait time. This means having a snack before you leave. Don’t arrive famished, as no one wants the dining party to be hungry and cranky, which is not a good way to celebrate Mom. Have plenty of snacks and drinks on hand for young children, as well as activities to keep them entertained.

• Consider dining out a day before or after.

Restaurants are generally packed on Mother’s Day, and as a result kitchen and wait staffs might be overtaxed. What’s more, diners might be relegated to a special or abbreviated menu. If you want a more relaxed setting and the ability to order whatever you desire, it may be a better idea to celebrate Mother’s Day in advance. Then have Mom enjoy a relaxing day at home on her special day.

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Maskwacis youth to travel to Hawaii

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A group of 25 dancers, drummers and singers from the Maskwacis Cree nations will travel to Honolulu, Hawaii in two weeks’ time to respond to an invitation to perform at the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education that will take

place between May 19 and 26.

The group will comprise youths aged between 7 and 18 and they will be performing at the conference venue during the week-long event.

A fundraiser was organized at the Ermineskin High School on Friday, May 2 to support the youth group with their travel expenses and other

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During the fundraising dinner, various traditional, chicken and grass dances were performed by the youth who will take the trip to Honolulu.

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Young rodeo veteran named new stampede queen

Katy Lucas, the succeeding Ponoka Stampede Queen, shows off some horsemanship abilities to the selection committee.

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“I feel like this is my way to give back�

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Six young women applied in hopes of becoming the next Ponoka Stampede Rodeo Queen, but there can only be one.

Katy Lucas, a rodeo competitor from Carstairs, was named the incoming queen for the 2014/15 term on April 28.

The recent broadcast journalism graduate of Lethbridge College says, in her new position, she’s in the perfect place to convey her passion for the sport of rodeo. “I think it’s just the opportunity to promote rodeo. Communication is something I’m obviously interested in.�

In her younger years, Lucas was dazzled by the glamour of rodeo queens but she now recognizes how she can help play a role in ensuring its survival. “I feel like this is my way to give back.�

That focus on the sport’s longevity is what drew Lucas to the Ponoka Stampede Ro-

deo Queen pageant. “I chose Ponoka Stampede because the stampede is all about the cowboy. Their dedication to promoting the cowboy and western way of life was very important to me as a rodeo competitor myself.�

This is Lucas’s fourth rodeo pageant. In 2008 she was crowned the Carstairs Rodeo Queen and in 2010/11 she was also the Alberta High School Rodeo Queen. Following that position, she ran for the National High School Rodeo Queen. “I actually placed seventh and it was actually one of the tightest competitions they’ve ever had.�

Ponoka Stampede Association board director Bruce Harbin and the other members of the selection committee were thinking the same thing about the pageant competition this year. “I wish we could have all this talent spread over two or three years,� said Harbin.

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New flock of engineers leave their Nashville nest “In our first week, we got to talk with Tim McGraw,” said Moore. OthOne of Blackbird Academy’s first er industry experts included former graduates is on the cusp of spreading The Beatles record producer/engiher wings and learning to fly, as a neer Ken Scott and producer Nick full-fledged audio engineer.

Raskulinecz, who’s worked with the Stephanie Moore, 19, began at- Foo Fighters. tending classes as one of the initial Equipment was available to the students at the Nashville-based students during and after classes Blackbird Academy, owned by John as well as weekends. “We had a lot McBride and his country star wife of resources at our disposal,” said Martina McBride. Classes began Moore. mid-September of 2013 and six Moore declares the way the months later, hands-on acadshe graduated “In our first week, we emy educates the with a diploma small number of got to talk with Tim in audio engistudents who are neering.

McGraw” accepted each “It’s like a Stephanie Moore year is developtrade school for ing a new type of audio engineerlearning. “We’re ing,” said Moore, who was born in stepping away from traditional postcentral Alberta, where her grandpar- secondary education where we’re ents still reside: Ponoka. trained to take tests and people are “The school itself is very in- afraid to fail. We need to be moving teresting. It’s very intensive,” she into an education where we’re taught added. Students spend two weeks in failing is the correct way to learn.” a classroom then the following two Each year, approximately 30 stuin the studio; the academy is run us- dents are accepted onto Blackbird ing a four-week interval rotation.

Academy. After doing some research Moore says the system is used to online and learning about the acadallow students to apply what they’ve emy, Moore decided to give herself a learned in the classes in a real studio chance there. setting.

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Stephanie Moore (centre) along with John and Martina McBride.

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Confused, Moore phoned the academy and it turns out her letter had been sent to the wrong address. “A week later I got the acceptance letter.”

“I was just very excited I had a plan after high school,” she added.

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Nashville continued from page 16 The plan of action wasn’t a big stretch for Moore. She already knew she wanted to move to Nashville no matter what and had always been captivated by behind the scenes work. “Growing up I loved watching behind the scenes of movies and music videos.

I always thought that would be my area of expertise.”During a vacation in her freshman year of high school, Moore visited Nashville and fell in love with the city and its country music culture.

“Music’s been in my blood since before I could remember.”

At age two or three, Moore was singing along to one of her mother’s friends on the piano. “She was like ‘your daughter has perfect pitch, she’s a singer.’ My mom was like ‘really, I don’t know where that came from in our family.’”

From those early beginnings, Moore attended school at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Arts in Minnesota.

During her high school years, she was trained classically in vocal arts but was recommended not to pursue a career in singing and entertaining because it would become a job and lose appeal. Instead, she was encouraged to pursue a different career in the same industry and save singing for open mic nights, “just to keep it enjoyable,” she explained.

Since graduating in March, many of Moore’s friends have already moved on to positions in the industry. One of her friends move to Los Angeles for a job and another relocated to Washington to work for Microsoft.

Seven of the Blackbird’s former students, including Moore, are interning at the academy. “There might be a possibility of me getting another job at a private studio in Nashville.”

stampede queen continued from page 15 “This is the best group. From what I’ve seen they’re all super candidates,” added committee member Dale Olsen.

Harbin says the process of finding the queen was streamlined in recent past to make the beginning of the search similar to a job application. Girls submit their resumes by the end of April and those short listed by the committee likes for the position are invited to the audition process.

The selection committee looks closely at the candidates’ horsemanship abilities, public speaking skills and personality. “Horsemanship is very important, and the ability to meet and greet people,” said selection committee member Lana Dodds.

“The girls must be able to represent rodeo.

They need to be a well rounded person with a huge heart,” added committee member Karen Skeeles. “In today’s world there’s so much sadness. They need to be able to be a light.”

The five other candidates of the pageant were: Kayleigh Ware, who has attended the Ponoka Stampede for the majority of her life; Rachelle Dondurand, a rodeo and dressage rider with dreams of becoming a high school teacher; Shelby Oracheski, a former Coronation rodeo princess and drill team member; Kellyn Christensen, a legacy child in the world of rodeo pageants; and Lindsey Newman, a newcomer to rodeo competitions but long-time 4-H member.

Dog Guide awareness walk expands in Ponoka

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Who let the dogs out?

Ponoka’s second annual Purina Walk for Dog Guides is being held in Centennial Park on May 25, beginning at 10 a.m.

The walk is put on across Canada each year by the Lions Foundation of Canada and Dog Guides Canada.

Members of the Ponoka Lions Club are inviting residents of Ponoka and their furry friends to come out for the event, make some new friends and raise the funds needed to train the country’s population of dog guides.

“Mostly it’s just to get people aware that it’s out there,” said Dixie Tyndall, chairperson of the walk and Lions Club member.

“We have a couple Lions guide dogs coming to the walk,” she added, referring to the seeing eye dog and seizure response dog that will be attending the event. The owners can then answer any questions other walkers may have about the process of gaining a dog.

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Soul searching after mistakes “Mistakes I Made at wondered how, with a culture that demands Work” edited by Jessica perfection from women Bacal and a reluctance to disc.2014, Plume cuss such things, we $16.00 / $18.00 can ever learn anything Canada from our errors?

252 pages She contacted inEverybody knows fluential women from what you did. several walks of life, It didn’t take long and asked them about for word to get around, their mistakes, what actually; you can tell by they learned, and how the smirks and the lack they grew from it. of eye-contact in the Laurel Touby, Terri hall. It was a colossal error, one that cost the Schlichenmeyer founder of Mediabistro.com, learned the company more than you The Bookworm hard way that no job care to think about. And was worth ignoring it was all your fault. who she really was, How can you ever bounce back from something like this? Will it down-deep. Her advice is to “pursue end your career? Twenty-five lead- work environments that feel like the ing women say no – and you’ll find right fit for you.”

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was angry, but it was a turning point in her life.

Her advice: “Don’t be afraid to quit.”

Lawyer and social activist Reshma Saujani lost a Congressional race in 2009 and “I felt like I had let [supporters] down.” She advises readers to keep trying: “fail fast, fail hard, and fail often.”

From economist Carla Harris: if you “don’t know, you need to ask.” From writer Cheryl Strayed: “We’re all rough drafts.” From physician Danielle Ofri: nobody learns through humiliation.

Says writer Alina Tugend: master the art of asking for money. And from writer J. Courtney Sullivan: “be a kind and generous coworker. You never know where it might lead you in the future.”

As a Champion Goof-Up from way back, I approached “Mistakes I Made at Work” with a little trepidation. When it comes to blunders, there are lots of chestnuts out there that are of little help – and then there’s this book.

I was pleased with the candor that editor Jessica Bacal found when interviewing the women she chose. Some of the mistakes in this book might seem minor, while some are pretty good-sized but the meaning behind each brief chapter is the same; to wit: these women messed up, they were embarrassed, and they lived to tell about it. Best of all, things were often better, post-oops. And wow, that’s pretty comforting to anybody who knows she can’t cast that first stone…

This is an excellent book to give to a new grad, an old hand, an employee who’s feeling red-faced, or YOU. Reading “Mistakes I Made at Work,” in fact, is something you’ll be glad you did.

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Canada has the richest middle class On April 22, the New York Times released a study that declared Canada’s middle class was better off than the middle class in the United States.

Instantly a wrench was thrown into the plan of Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party’s belief that our middle class in Canada is struggling.

MP Blaine The New York Calkins Times reported that per capita income in Canada in 2010 was $18,700 or about $75,000 for a family of four after taxes which is the highest in the world. The study was based on analyzing 35 years’ worth of income data and comparing Canada with Norway, Netherlands, Britain, Germany, Sweden, France, Ireland, Spain and the U.S. “the more the eviThe study dence piles up the found that Can- more it discredits ada’s median the thesis, popular income grew by in certain quar19.7% from 2000ters of a struggling 2010 compared to middle class”.

0.3% growth in the Andrew Coyne U.S. Mr. Trudeau and the Liberal Party have a hard time defining who fits in their definition of middle class and while they’re struggling to define who they think the middle class is, our Government will continue to fight for hard working Canadians by developing and implementing tax cuts and programs that put more money back in their pockets.

In February Statistics Canada released a study showing the net worth of Canadian families rose 44.5% since 2005 and nearly 80% since 1999.

The facts are not lining up to support the position Mr. Trudeau and his party is trying to sell to Canadians.

Andrew Coyne recently wrote in an article “the more the evidence piles up the more it discredits the thesis, popular in certain quarters of a struggling middle class”. The study confirms what the Liberal Leader didn’t want to hear, in Canada the middle class has never been as well off.

All of this is very problematic for the Leader of the Liberal Party, as he tries to convince himself and his party that our middle class is struggling.

The data however paints a very different picture.

Mr. Trudeau said he wanted to put forward evidence based policy, which seems to be the case only when the data supports his theories.

The global economy is still fragile and recovering, Canada is outpacing our partners and we are continuing to focus on our economic growth and long term prosperity. While Justin Trudeau is trying to figure out who the middle class is or just how the budget will magically balance itself, our Government will continue to put policies in place that will benefit Canadian families.

Please contact my Constituency office if you have any questions or concerns on any federally related matters, postage free, at: Bay #6A, 4612 50th Street, Ponoka, T4J 1S7; tel: 403-783-5530; toll free: 1-800-665-0865 or visit my web site: www.blainecalkinsmp.ca or on twitter at www. twitter.com/blainecalkinsmp

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Fast-food restaurant jobs are It’s time for the PC to right the fiscal ship hard to fill: the other side of the coin

BY LAURA JONES

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Former Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford left a trail of fiscal wreck and ruin in her wake. Yet, a reversal of deficits, debt and overspending has not happened since her departure. Despite efforts by her party to erase her from history, the PC caucus just unanimously passed her budget that takes on $21 billion in debt and continues to run a massive deficit.

The next leader of the PC Party and premier of our province is going to have a large fiscal mess to clean up. Changing the name of the leader will not suffice if nothing changes in substance.

Restore straightforward financial reporting When former Alberta Treasurer Jim Dinning passed the Government Accountability Act (GAA) in 1994, he declared that, “[A future government] will not be able to water the standard [reporting] down without looking at the whites of the eyes of Albertans and say, ‘We’re going to deliver to you substandard government.’” But that is precisely what Redford and her finance minister, Doug Horner did when they repealed the GGA last year.

For two years, the PCs have intentionally confused the financial reporting of the province to obfuscate the real balance of spending and revenues for the province. That is, they have hid the deficit.

The PC government also repealed Ralph Klein’s Fiscal Responsibility Act, effectively abolishing any legal definition of debt. This conveniently allows the government to rack up $21 billion in debt, but to not actually have to call it debt. Instead, Redford called it “hope.”

This is not a conservative-liberal issue, but an issue of basic government accountability and honesty.

Redford, Horner and most of the PC caucus attacked the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) for contradicting their budget numbers in recent years, but time, and most experts – including the Auditor General – have proven us right.

This month, the government’s last two budgets were brutally slammed by the Auditor General for not adhering to “basic public sector accounting standards.” By the usually milquetoast language employed by auditors, this translates as a foul-mouthed expletive in regular English.

Balance the budget After being honest with Albertans about the true state of the province’s finances, the PCs need to balance the budget, and fast. Redford promised during the election to do it by this spring, but her government didn’t even come close.

When we cut through the funnymoney reporting in the government’s budget, the CTF estimates that they will run a deficit of $3.9 billion. This is inexcusable when oil is running at $104 a barrel and tax revenues are at an alltime high.

The CTF projects that under the current fiscal plan, the PCs will continue to run large deficits well into the future unless there is a major change in fiscal policy or a war in the Middle East.

Pay down the debt The PCs running against Klein’s accomplishment of a debt-free Alberta is like the NDP running against Tommy Douglas’s accomplishment of universal healthcare. The government’s latest budget takes Alberta a further $5 billion into debt this year, and will leave the province in a $21 billion hole by 2016.

This is short-term gain for longterm pain that Albertans will have to pay for, and as we learned in the 1990s, paying for it can be very painful.

After being in power longer than East Germany’s Communist Party (43 years), the broad fiscal policy of this government is not its only problem; but if the successor to Redford and Hancock has any hope of keeping the province from going off the fiscal cliff, then this short list is the minimum for consideration.

Derek Fildebrandt is the Alberta Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

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Monday Billiards 9:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday 50 cents per game. Honor system.

Monday Bridge 1:00 p.m. - continues through summer Monday Whist 1:30 p.m. - continues through summer Tuesday and Thursday Exercise class 9:30 a.m. Stimulating, invigorating Tuesday Shuffleboard - See you in September Wednesday Sewing Guild 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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Wednesday Floor Curling - See you in September Thursday Weaving 1:00 p.m. Phone Betty @ 783-3029. Welcome-drop-in to see how it’s done Thursday Bridge 1:00 p.m. - continues through the summer Thursday Art Club – Noon to 4:00 p.m.

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Memberships still available. $10.00 person. To rent our facility contact Dorothy @ 403-783-3027 or George @ 403-783- 3514 or leave a message @ 403-783-5012.

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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to hire people to staff a fast-food restaurant? I recently spoke to someone who does just that for a number of restaurants in the Vancouver area. She told me she feels lucky if she gets one candidate to show up for every five job interviews booked.

The no-shows don’t even bother to let her know they aren’t coming.

One applicant looked really good on paper and kept applying for the jobs she was advertising, but she could not track him down. When she got a call from the Employment Insurance (EI) office asking if that applicant had applied for her job, she understood why. A condition of getting your EI benefits is looking for work. It seems this applicant was more interested in collecting his EI cheque than a pay-cheque.

In response to challenges like these, small business owners report trying a number of strategies, including increasing wages, expanding benefits, and providing more flexible hours.

But there are limits to how far these strategies can go because customers demand reasonable prices and convenient hours. Doubling wages might attract more applicants, but a business that tries to charge $50 for a pizza? A business with no customers won’t be in business for long. Offering more flexibility is also challenging because while employees might prefer not to work shifts when they are most needed.

So for many employers there is a gap between the jobs they can reasonably offer and the jobs that enough Canadians want to do. In fact, 81 per cent of small- and mid-sized companies that were looking to hire in the past three years said it was “somewhat” or “very” difficult. Demographics suggest that in the coming years this problem will get worse.

In desperation some small businesses have turned to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and hired employees from outside of Canada. This is an expensive option, not for the faint of heart, as it involves a lot of paperwork and expense.

Recent media stories allege that a few restaurants have abused the program.

Of course, any abuse should be treated seriously, just as abuse of the EI system should be treated seriously. Individual cases should be investigated and dealt with.

But to conclude that a handful of alleged cases of misuse constitutes widespread employer abuse is an insult to the vast majority of small businesses that are doing a good job of treating employees fairly and serving their customers well.

The business owners I talk to believe their entry-level jobs are a great first rung on the ladder of opportunity for many of their staff. They are excited to see their entrylevel employees show initiative, move up quickly to become managers, or use their experience to move on to other opportunities.

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Another response to James Strachan Dear Editor, I read last week’s article by Mr. James Strachan on the “King James Bible and gender stereotypes in Christianity” and found it lacking in proof. The first illustration that Mr. Strachan used in support of his position that homosexuality is not against

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passages in Genesis and would therefore be aware of God’s hatred of homosexuality. The eunuch then goes on to demonstrate his willingness to be obedient to the word of God when after coming upon a body of water, he points out in Acts 8:36 that there is nothing stopping him from being baptized in accordance to Christ’s command.

Another passage that the Ethiopian eunuch would have had to have been ignorant of is to found in, Leviticus 18:22,24-30. If we read this passage we see that sexual relationships between males are explicitly forbidden(22), and that this is one of the immoral acts that God is judging the current occupants of the promised land for committing (24-30).

Lastly I would refer the reader to, Deuteronomy 23:1, where we read that; “no one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord”. And here I believe is where we find the point for the inclusion of this incident in Acts. This incident is recorded to make the point that in the New Testament age physical imperfections are no longer bars to anyone’s entrance into the assembly of the covenant community. In other words Jesus Christ is the perfect sacrifice who has broken down the barriers SANDRA FIRST CHOICE of the Old Covenant.

LYON REALTY Broker/ (PONOKA) LTD. I can see no logical Owner link between the work of King James on the TYLER Bay 6, 5103 - 48 Ave. FESSLER translation of the verBox 4325 Ponoka, AB T4J 1R7 Associate sion of the Bible that 403-783-8881 bears his name and a Biblical argument for NEW LISTING the legitimacy of homosexuality. If anything is Bright open duplex with true the fact is that this attached garage at the man endured a childback! Great location being hood that by today’s walking distance to all standards would be amenities. 2 bdrms and a considered abusive and full bath. No basement & neglectful. Not only no condo fees! that he seems to have $199,000 been sexually victimized by a near relative which is not at all atypiIN TOWN cal of many people who Over 1200 sq ft. home are victims of sexual with everything on one abuse. There is absolevel. 3 bedrooms and a lutely no connection 5 pc. bath, open concept, between what this man double attached garage. experienced and what Located in the north end the Bible teaches with of Ponoka. regards what constitutes legitimate sexual $239,000 activity.

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tive probability constitutes proof and this isn’t true. The other thing that Mr. Strachan falsely believes is that the Ethiopian eunuch would not have known that God condemns homosexuality which is something that I don’t believe to be true and for which I will provide proof.

My reason for saying this is that the passage that the Ethiopian eunuch was reading comes from the book of Isaiah. Now I believe that it is most reasonable to assume that since the Ethiopian eunuch was a God fearing gentile that he must have been reading or at some point would have read the whole book of Isaiah. Given that this would most certainly have been the case then it could not have gone completely unnoticed by the eunuch that God condemns homosexuality. I feel confident in saying this because the book of Isaiah has 4 references to God’s judgement of Sodom for their wickedness. The four references are: Isa. 1:9 &10, 3:9 and 13:19. The incident to which these verses in Isaiah refers is recorded for us beginning in Genesis 18:16 and ends in Genesis 19:28. This makes it very unlikely that the Ethiopian eunuch would have been a homosexual since he clearly would have read the

PONOKA NEWS 21

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Princess who?

Thesbians at St. Augustine Catholic School perform their rendition of Princess Whatshername, based on the book by Brian Taylor. The play is a fun rendition of fairy tale stories in one. Here dwarves Nosy (Alyssa Rain) and Rowdy (Alyssa Klinger), point out that the necklace the princess (Ceanna Prediger) is wearing has to be a clue to her identity.

Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye

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Israel: The “A” Word Hillary Clinton would never have used the word when she was US Secretary of State, because she still has presidential ambitions. John Kerry, the current Secretary of State, has no further ambitions in that direction, which may be why he dared to use the words “apartheid” and “Israel” in the same sentence. Or maybe he just didn’t realise that the world would hear about it.

Kerry spoke last week to a group of high-ranking officials from the US, Europe and Japan known as the Trilateral Commission about the failure of his year-long attempt to revive the “peace talks” between Israel and the Palestinians. Somebody at the meeting secretly recorded his comments, which were published by the Daily Beast on Monday, and suddenly he was in very hot water.

What he said was that the long-sought “two-state solution” was the only real alternative to a “unitary” Israeli-ruled state that included all the territory between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean Sea – and ruled over millions of Palestinians in the territories that have been under Israeli military occupation since 1967.

Those Palestinians, most of whom cannot remember a time when they did not live under Israeli control, have no political rights within Israel. The two-state solution, under negotiation off and on for the past twenty years, would give them a state of their own, but most people had despaired some time ago of getting Israel to agree to an independent Palestine.

Kerry had not, so he was surprised and disappointed when his efforts came to

naught. That was why he blurtheid. ed out the truth that American Alternatively, of course, politicians are never supposed Israel might grant them citito acknowledge. He said that zenship and the vote: that’s without the two-state solution, what happened when apartheid “a unitary [Israeli] state winds ended in South Africa in 1994. up either being an apartheid But there are already a great state with second-class [Palmany Palestinians living under estinian] citizens – or it ends Israeli rule, and their higher up being a state that destroys birth rate would make them a the capacity of Israel to be a majority in in that “unitary” IsJewish state.” rael in less than a generation.

It was clumsily phrased, That might or might not be a but the basic idea is common state where Jews were happy in both Israeli and Palestinian to live, but it would definitely Gwynne Dyer political discourse. Even if no longer be a Jewish state.

Think Israel never formally annexes That’s all Kerry was sayGlobally the occupied territories, it has ing: if you don’t accept the been building Jewish two-state solution then settlements all over willy-nilly you get the “a unitary [Israeli] them for decades, and solution, in state winds up either one-state the Palestinian inhabone of two flavours – an itants are effectively apartheid state in which being an apartheid controlled by the Isgreat majority of the state with second-class the raeli government. actual citizens are Jews [Palestinian] citizens and the Palestinians If this situation continues – or it ends up being a have no voice in how indefinitely, and the they are ruled, or a more Palestinians must live state that destroys the broadly defined state in out their lives as mere capacity of Israel to be which everybody is a residents without no citizen but Jews are no a Jewish state.” political rights, then longer the majority.

John Kerry they are in the same Many Israel senior Secretary of State politicians who favour position as the black South Africans who the two-state solution, lived all their lives including former prime under white rule without citizenship or the ministers Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak, vote. That was the very essence of apart- have made exactly this point, even using

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that same inflammatory word, “apartheid”, to underline the gravity of the choice. Senior Palestinian politicians talk about it all the time. But senior American politicians are not allowed to talk like that about Israel.

State Department officials tried to defend their boss’s comments for a few hours, but as the firestorm of protest by American Zionist organisations grew the Obama administration realised that Kerry had to be forced to apologise for speaking the truth.

The story that they took him down into the White House basement and beat him with rubber hoses is probably untrue, but on Tuesday he recanted his heresy.

“I do not believe,” Kerry said, “nor have I ever stated, publicly or privately, that Israel is an apartheid state or that it intends to become one.” Well, of course not. It’s not an apartheid state now because the non-citizen status of the Palestinians for the past 47 years is technically only temporary, pending the creation of their own state.

And Israel has no intention of ever meeting the technical definition of an apartheid state, either, because that would be a public-relations disaster. However, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seems convinced that he can avoid that outcome simply by hanging on to the occupied territories indefinitely but never formally annexing them, and many Israelis agree with him.

They might even be right, but John Kerry doesn’t think so. Or at least, he didn’t until his own people worked him over a bit.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Biodiversity in decline across all of Canada Twenty-seven Canadian wildlife species were assessed as at risk at the recent meeting of COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada), held April 27 – May 2, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

When the Species at Risk Act (SARA) came into force in 2003, COSEWIC was given the responsibility of providing scientific species assessments to the Minister of the Environment to inform government decisions for protection of species at risk under the Act. Five hundred and eighteen of the species assessed as at risk by COSEWIC are now listed under SARA. Canada’s pollinators at risk Two bee species were assessed as at risk at this meeting. Some groups of bumble bees are experiencing dramatic declines worldwide that are not well understood.

Suspected causes include impacts from pesticides, pathogens, and human-induced climate change. This downturn is bad for the bees and bad for us. Bees pollinate more than 70 per cent of our crops, and without the services that they provide, our food supply is at risk. Western Bumble Bee was widespread in Canada, but it has undergone a mysterious decline. The southern population of Western Bumble Bee has been reduced in some areas, resulting in a Threatened status. While the northern population appears to be in better shape, declines are known in some areas, and our lack of understanding of what drives bee declines is a cause for concern. The Gypsy

Cuckoo Bumble Bee, though less abundant, also used to be widespread across Canada.

Despite an increased effort to find this species, none have been seen in Canada since 2008, and it was assessed as Endangered.

Cuckoo Bumble Bees have an intriguing way of life: a female invades the hive of another bumble bee species and takes over after removing the queen.

Coldwater shark still in hot water The Porbeagle is one of 28 species of sharks that occur in Canada. This largebodied species makes extensive migrations from Canadian waters to the mid-Atlantic.

Porbeagle sharks are caught in Canadian and international fisheries both for their fins and their meat. Due to overfishing, the abundance of this shark declined greatly in the 1960s, partially recovered in the 1980s and then collapsed again in the 1990s. The number of sharks remains at about 30 per cent of their 1961 level, and the species was once again assessed as Endangered by COSEWIC. Although fishing licenses for this species were suspended in 2013, they are still caught as bycatch in the tuna, swordfish and groundfish fisheries. COSEWIC first assessed the Porbeagle as Endangered in 2004, but it was not listed on the Species at Risk Act because of the economic losses that would result from suspending the fishery. More recently, Canada supported listing the species under CITES, an international agreement that regulates trade of endangered species.

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Wolverine population retreating northward Although most Canadians have never seen one, Wolverines used to be one of the most widely distributed animals in Canada, with a range that blanketed all three territories, all of western Canada, the prairies, Ontario, Quebec, Labrador and New Brunswick. The range of these secretive carnivores shrank considerably in the early 1900s, and they are no longer known from regions highly modified by humans, especially in southern Canada. Although often subject to high levels of hunting and trapping, this elusive carnivore receives little attention and monitoring. As a result, we have a poor understanding of how populations are faring under climate and land use change. COSEWIC assessed the Canadian population of Wolverine as Special Concern due to increasing industrial activity and greater access to its remote habitats because of new roads and increasingly sophisticated snowmobiles.

Mountain caribou increasingly imperiled The iconic Caribou, like the Wolverine is known from most parts of Canada. But in the case of Caribou, featured on the Canadian quarter, there are many distinct groups with unique combinations of genetic features and life history traits, resulting in the recognition of more than a dozen distinct population groups. All will be assessed by COSEWIC over the coming years, some for the third or

fourth time. At this meeting, three of these population groups were assessed: Southern, Central and Northern Mountain Caribou.

Together these include about 70 herds in the mountains of western Canada, from southern British Columbia and Alberta to Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Having lost 30 per cent of their range since the early 1900s, the condition of many herds has been deteriorating at an accelerating pace because of dramatic habitat changes and disturbance from industrial development, human settlement and recreation.

Southern Mountain Caribou in southeastern BC were last assessed by COSEWIC as Threatened in 2002. Since then, they have declined by 30 per cent and two herds have disappeared. Of the 15 herds comprising the Southern Mountain Caribou, 9 currently have fewer than 50 adults, and 6 herds have fewer than 15. They were assessed as Endangered at this meeting.

The situation is even more dire for Central Mountain Caribou in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and BC, which have declined by 60 per cent in the past 10 years. They were also assessed as Endangered. Many of the Central Mountain Caribou herds occur in protected areas and parks, including Jasper and Banff National Parks. Unfortunately, even in protected areas they aren’t doing well. The last five caribou in Banff died in an avalanche in 2009.

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New app enables farmers to share input prices posts a price, the data is anonymized to a 100 km diameter which prevents identifying farmers who post prices by making “proximity connections.” As well, the app does not identify specific retailers, ensuring that no identifying connection can be made between retailer and farmer.

If producers use the app in sufficient numbers, its benefit will reach beyond individuals. Over time aggregation of the information will provide the foundation for reports that could be useful to farm organizations, researchers and policy makers. Using near-real time numbers, the data will provide the most reliable tracking of farm input prices ever available, making it an unprecedented and strong tool to help farmers improve their cost-competitiveness.

FNA-STAG says that it will use that data to produce reports tracking specific input categories and even specific products with regional and national comparisons.

“If we get solid participation, the information available to those farmers should exceed the value of any of the various farm input price surveys that have been or are currently being used,” Friesen said.

But he noted that farmers will “make or break” the application. If too few farmers are willing to post prices, then the price finding features will be of little value and the aggregate data will be insufficient to generate useful reports.

FNA-STAG thanks the developer, Push Interactions, who helped to build a useful, easyto-understand application that will feel at home on farmers’ mobile devices. Push Interactions, formerly College Mobile, is a Saskatoon-based development shop that specializes in customized native mobile apps for all leading mobile platforms.

The app was developed with support from the Agriculture Council of Saskatchewan and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

Funding for this project has been provided by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada through the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP).

In Saskatchewan, this program is delivered by County residents requiring dust control on roads the Agriculture Council adjacent to their property can select either calcium of Saskatchewan.

The FNA Strategic Agriculture Institute (FNASTAG), a not-for-profit informational research organization, has launched a mobile application that could have a major impact on how farmers price inputs and on researchers’ ability to find reliable farm input price data.

The application, called AgPriceBook, is available to all farmers free of charge through either the Apple or Google Play app stores.

A “small idea with large potential,” the app gives farmers the opportunity to post prices they have been quoted or actually paid, for specific input products. At launch the product categories covered include: crop protection, fertilizer, petroleum products, and inoculant, and FNA-STAG will add categories or products where there is significant demand. Users can request products to be added from within the app.

The app enables farmers to view prices posted within a 100 km diameter from a centre-point location they select, or larger areas, to see how the prices they are paying compare to those being quoted or paid in any area of the country.

FNA-STAG CEO Bob Friesen said that tools to increase price discovery and price transparency are vital to farmers as they adapt to the ever-changing agricultural environment.

“Farmers need more tools for cost competitiveness by discovering what prices are in other locations, including other provinces and across the country,” Friesen said. “With today’s marketing techniques and bundling strategies it is important that farmers have the ability to get as accurate a price as possible. The more we can do for farmers to learn about and compare prices, the better off they are.”

App users are totally anonymous. When a user

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chloride or oil to be applied to the road surface.

This season there will be a subsidy of $250.00 available per applicant. The County will supply the grader to do the work and any water or gravel that is necessary to make the application work.

Mixed Guidance Heading into May, planting activity continues to be slowed down by wet and cold weather across North America. While most of the U.S. Midwest receives erratic shots of rainfall, dry conditions continue to affect the U.S. Plains, the main region for winter wheat crops. Recent crop tours in Kansas and Oklahoma are putting this year’s crop average yield at around 33 and 18.5 bushels per acre respectively. Aggregately, this would translate to an output significantly down from last year with less than 260 million bushels produced in Kansas and less than 66 million bushels in Oklahoma.

These numbers could fall even further if the area doesn’t get some good rains in the next two weeks (AKA many fields could simply be written off). Conversely, good rains in the Eastern U.S. Cornbelt have created what C.W.B. Director of Market Research Neil Townsend is calling one of the best moisture profiles the region has seen in a while.

This in mind, the bearishness of another large corn crop could likely offset some bullishness of a poor US winter wheat crop.

Keeping with this theme, major wheat producers around the world aren’t feeling

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• Calcium Chloride will cost $1.25 per foot (plus GST). Minimum of 400’ required.

• Oil is $6.00 per foot (plus GST). This amount will vary as supply demands change. Minimum of 400’ required.

If you are interested in this service, arrangements for stakes to be picked up and payment for the application can be made at the time of the request with Lorna at the Ponoka County Office.

For further information phone 403-783-3333 Ponoka County 4205-Hwy 2A Ponoka, AB T4J 1V9

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planting activity continues to be slowed down by wet and cold weather across North America the same problems as the U.S. winter wheat crop and that growing conditions are mostly good (especially in the E.U. with some good rains in the forecast).

Speaking of the E.U., it appears they’re back in business of buying Canadian flax just five years removed from the Triffid issue in 2009.

Between China and the U.S. buying about 400,000 tonnes, pulse company Legumex Walker is expecting the European bloc of countries to purchase about 200,000 tonnes of the oilseed. Accordingly, this potentially could put this marketing year’s flax nending stocks below 100,000 tonnes. No surprise then that 2014/15 flax acres are expected to increase in both the U.S. (+80 per cent to 326,000) and Canada (+66 per cent to 1.72 million).

It’s possible that the delivery of these purchases to the E.U. could be delayed even further as roughly twothirds of Lake Superior is still covered in ice, making movement of grain from Thunder Bay to the St. Lawrence Seaway extremely slow-going. Currently there’s 20 ships sitting

at the Port of Thunder Bay waiting to load grain and while volume is expected pick up over the next three weeks, ice-cutter escorts are still required.

While ships may be slow getting out of Canada, they are coming into the U.S. full of Brazilian soybeans. As credit restrictions are forcing Chinese buyers to default on South American soybeans, a lot of these loads are being rerouted to the U.S. (two cargoes so far with another six ships in transit or getting loaded). Thus, the trade is expecting 2013/14 U.S. soybean imports to surpass 2.3 million tonnes (U.S.D.A.’s estimate is 1.77 million).

Food for thought: there could be demand for more soybeans south of the Canadian border not only this year but for the foreseeable future as America’s demand for the oilseed seems to outpacing its ability to allocate its production efficiently.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Cattle embryo implantation benefits end results

BY AMELIA NAISMITH

For the first time in several years, Mark and Kathy Matejka of Matejka Farms are manually implanting embryos from their finest cows into surrogate mothers.

The expensive process is used by approximately 0.25 per cent of purebred cattle producers in Central Alberta, says veterinarian Bob Janzen. There’s a portion of dairy operations that also take advantage of the technology.

The Matejkas, following the spend money to make money ideology, have been using embryo implantation on and off for the past 20 to 23 years. “We’re trying to take our best genetic cows and multiply,� said Mark. “(It’s) to improve our genetic gain.� “We’re selling breeding bulls, it’s basically seed stock,�

Kathy added.

After a superovulation process, the selected cows, on average, produce seven embryos. This year the Matejkas got lucky and two of their best produced 27 and 35 embryos. “This (one of the two) cow was an exceptional cow and she’d proved herself with her offspring,� said Kathy. “If we get five more calves from our best cows . . . Potentially the calves are worth more than if she was having her own normal calf.

The potential is there,�

“That synchrony is important, between the embryo and the cow,�

Bob Janzen, veterinarian

Mark added.

Stored in liquid nitrogen, the embryos can be kept indefinitely and pulled for use as needed.

The embryos are extracted from a cow at seven days old and implanted into the surrogate mother who is seven days in heat. “That synchrony is important, between the embryo and the cow,� said Janzen.

During the implantation process, the recently awakened embryo will be gently inserted all the way through the cervix and into the animal’s fallopian tube. This is different from artificial insemination as that process only reaches to the cervix. “I give them an epidural, so the cows are relaxed,� said Janzen.

The microscopic embryos are kept in special straws, and once ready to be inserted into the cow, they are thawed for 20 seconds then attached to a sheath and roundtipped plunger for ease.

Two small holes in the tip help the object travel through the cow’s body. “The cervix is quite closed . . . It’s really nice to move though,� said veterinarian John Brogan, referring to the holes on the sheath and plunger apparatus.

In the past embryo implantation was

a surgical procedure — rather than a small injection — and the side of the cow had to be cut open and the horn of the uterus pulled out in order for it to be reached.

Also, it wasn’t until the late 1970s that the industry began freezing embryos. This not only increased their lifespan exponentially, but helped develop an international market.

Kathy and Mark, who ship their embryos internationally more than domestically, know how much cheaper it is to sell a batch of the unborn offspring than it is to transport a container of the fully grown animal.

Veterinarian Bob Janzen implants an embryo into one of Matejka Farms Red Angus cows.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

NFU wants moratorium on suspected bee killing insecticide

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

Detectives are closer than ever to finding the culprit behind the case of the missing bees.

One suspect appears to be neonicotinoid seed treatment, which is used to protect corn and soybean crops. This insecticide has been found to be one of the killers of entire colonies in Quebec and Ontario and one group seeks a moratorium on its use.

The National Farmers Union (NFU) has requested the Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, that is investigating the issue, put a five-year hold on the insecticide to research the full impacts of its use on the agricultural industry.

The Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), a branch of Health Canada, has determined neonicotinoid seed treatments in corn and soybeans in Ontario and Quebec were a contributor to bee deaths in 2012 and 2013, states Ann Slater, NFU vice-president of policy.

Slater says these two years were very different as far as weather conditions, but both years show large bee mortalities during seeding time.

“They (PMRA) determined that the use of neonicotinoid seed treated corn and soybean seed is not sustainable,” said Slater.

She says almost 100 per cent of corn seeded in Ontario has been treated with the insecticide and close to 80 per cent of soybeans. Slater feels this seed treatment is unnecessary.

Plant experts in Ontario state that only 10 to 20 per cent of corn and soybean crops are actually at risk of insect infection, says Slater. “It has become widespread use as a preventative — not necessarily as a widespread problem.”

She feels research of the treatments is important as pollinator bugs, including bees, are

important to crops. Vegetables and fruits rely on pollination and honey producers also lose out on the deal.

“The loss of bees and pollinators will lead, over time, to challenges as far as having access to many fruits and vegetables,” she stated.

“We don’t have a chemical for replacing pollination,” Slater added.

What does that mean for western Canada?

Bee mortalities in 2013 in the corn-growing areas of Manitoba have been observed, explained Slater. She says the western provinces do not ap- The National Farmers Union has called for a five-year moratorium on the use of neonicotinoid seed treatments in Ontario and Quebec as the inpear to be having the same issues as Quebec and secticide has been determined as a killer of bee colonies.

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28 PONOKA NEWS Markus Baitinger of U-16 Storm takes a shot at the Stettler net neutralizing the defense players of the opposition during the Ponoka team’s first game in the Sunbreaker tournament in Camrose on Saturday, May 3.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Photo by Mustafa Eric

Weather stops surging U-16 Storm and when the second half started, there was almost a different Storm U-16 on the pitch who were contesting Heavy and wet snow stole the potential first gold their opponents more cleverly, anticipating their moves medal of the soccer season from Ponoka U-16 Storm, and acting accordingly. The change of approach was when the organizers cancelled the Sunday games of last quick to bring results with Ponoka boys scoring one afweekend’s Sunbreaker tournament in Camrose due to ter another: Markus Baitinger struck twice and the third poor shape of the pitches. goal from Zane Fessler declared the final score: 3-1 for Storm U-16 started their first game against Stettler Ponoka. with a solid control of field and kept the ball in their pos“At half time we talked about how skill alone was session for more than two thirds of the play time. not going to win games and we needed to dig deep and The first goal of the Ponoka boys came in the first work harder than other teams in every game to get rehalf through a free kick by Cameron Walsh, boost- sults,” said Sandhu after the game. ing the confidence of the team. In the second period, “The guys did exactly that and we controlled the secStorm flexed their muscles even more and intensified ond half which was played mostly in Rocky Mountain their attacks on the Stettler net. When one of the attacks House’s end and got the three goals and then played a resulted in a corner kick for the local boys, Rian Van very solid defensive game.” der Westuizen scored the second goal with a spectacuSandhu said the goalkeeper Justin Hyink also had lar header by sending ball coming from the cross to the a great part in the winning scores over the weekend as Stettler goal in a fashion worthy of professional level his big saves allowed the team to achieve the winning soccer. scores.

The fact that the U-16 Storm was playing their first U-16 Storm was supposed to play the winner of the game as a team was a factor in several scoring opportu- Camrose-Wetaskiwin game for the gold medal on Sunnities being missed, but head coach Gurjit Sandhu said day, but the games were rescheduled due to the weather. he was proud of his players’ performance in the first Camrose-Wetaskiwin game is now scheduled for game. next Tuesday, May 13 and Ponoka Storm will play In the second game, the Storm took on the Rocky against the winner in their next scheduled league game, Mountain House, a team bigger in size and with a history if they win in the league game, they will also win the of solid performance. As the game began, the opposition championship medal for the tournament. lost no time in making it clear to Ponoka boys that they Ponoka U-14 team also participated in the Camwere up for a challenge: They scored within minutes of rose tournament and they were matched with two of the the starting whistle and Storm struggled throughout the strongest teams participating in the tournament: Camrest of the first half to equalize. rose and Lacombe.

Things changed, however, when coach Sandhu gave Ponoka boys lost 5-0 to Camrose in their first game a quick strategy lesson to his players during the break and 2-0 to Lacombe in their last game.

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Leeland Averill is on the Alberta Hockey Thunder AAA team and is heading to a big prospect tournament in Toronto, Ont. at the end of May. File Photo

Hockey athletes head to scout tournament

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

Two Ponoka athletes who thought their hockey career was over after Midget As have been given a chance to further their skills, and perhaps earn a place in a larger school hockey program.

Leeland Averill and Jared Davis both played for the Ponoka Wolves Midget A team last season and they both decided to tryout for a triple A team recently. That decision proved to be astute for both of them: Davis and Averill are now part of the Alberta Hockey Thunder Triple A team.

Davis knew when they skated that it was the last tryout date three weeks ago for Alberta Thunder and he was unsure if he would make the cut, but it turns out the forward brought his best performance, which earned him a spot. He was pleased to see Averill make it, too.

“I pretty much knew Leeland was going to make it,” said Davis.

The two are long-time friends and both have played in Ponoka Minor Hockey together since they were young.

Averill, who is a goalie, was pleased to see they made it. “It was pretty exciting. Lots of opportunities to come.”

The first competition for Alberta Thunder will be at the Challenge Cup in Vancouver, B.C. from May 16 to 19. The tournament is a Triple AAA showcase for many young teams and gives players an opportunity to experience a higher level of competition.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Junior Locos win two SUBMITTED BY WES AMENDT LOCOS HEAD COACH

With Red Deer hot on his tail Caleb Andrew steams down the rink during a Lacoka Peewee 1 game, May 3.

Photo by Amelia Naismith

leading 32 points in the first four games. Riley Workman showed his scoring touch picking up two goals and three assists. Braeden Grant chipped in with a goal and two helpers with singles coming from Jordan Smyth and little brother Cooper, a midget affiliate, playing in his first junior game. Darian Buffalo had another two point game with a goal and an assist with Tony Kozak (3), Carson Barnes (2) and Brennon Elder (1) all picking up assists. Court continued his strong play in net recording his third win of the season.

The Lacoka team will travel to Innisfail for their third meeting of the season on Friday, May 9 and then host the Calgary Wranglers on Saturday, May 10 at 5:15 p.m. at the Ponoka arena.

The Locos will then move their program to Lacombe until the end of June before returning to Ponoka in July to finish out their season. The club invites everyone to come out to take in some exciting lacrosse action.

The Lacoka Locos Junior B lacrosse team continued their winning ways last weekend with two wins in their opening home stand.

On Saturday evening, the team played host to the Okotoks Ice at the Ponoka arena and started things quickly just under a minute into the game on a goal by second year player Jordan Smyth, in his first game of the season. The Ice would tie the game two minutes later.

The Locos scored two more to take a 3-1 lead after the first period. Okotoks would score early in the second period to pull within one but the Locos continued their solid play with two of their own before the Ice tallied one with a minute left in the second to close the gap to 6-3 after the second period.

The teams traded goals in the third period and the Ice scored with 45 seconds left to pull within one but the Locos were able to hang on for an 8-7 win.

Dustin Bell led the way with three goals and a pair of assists, Smyth had a four point game with two goals and two assists. Trevor AnderLadies League Tuesday April 29 9:30am son and Darian Buffalo each chipped in with a Mens League Tuesday April 29 6:00pm goal and an assist while Seniors (Age 55plus) League Wednesday April 30 9:00am James Wood rounded out the goal scoring. Riley Mixed Thursday Night League Thursday May 1 7:00pm Workman came off the Mixed Saturday Night League Saturday May 17 7:00pm injured list picking up a pair of assists and Carson Barnes also picked All levels of play are welcome to join. up an assist to round out Call 843-3322 for more information. the scoring in a closely contested game. Zac AtsCome and check out the proshop inger played a solid game the 2014 stock has arrived!!! in goal to pick up his first win of the season.

On Sunday afternoon, the Locos took on the Innisfail Yetti for the second time in a week.

The first period was cautiously played with the Lacoka team scoring four PRESENTS minutes into the contest and the Yetti tying it up with two minutes left to finish the first period 1-1.

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Pool Sharks take part in California training

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

After months of indoor swimming and training, the Ponoka Pool Sharks were able to swim under the California sun during a recent training trip.

The group recently travelled to San Clemente, Calif. to take part in an intense six-day training camp. Kids were able to experience the outdoor swimming in a different venue than the Ponoka Aquaplex, says Bobbie-Jo Christensen, coach of the Sharks..

One of the benefits of training in California is being able to swim in an outdoor pool, said Christensen “It was a beautiful outdoor pool. We trained twice a day, every day,” she explained.

It was a positive team-building exercise as well and Ponoka’s swimmers developed strong relationships with each other and another swim team from Edmonton. The intensity of the training gave swimmers a chance to enhance some skills before their season finished.

One more large swim meet is planned for the end of May with the Pool Sharks heading to Grande Prairie, where they will race against oth-

er Alberta teams in a 50-metre pool. Organizers put a lot of effort into the meet, says Christensen.

“It’s pretty much like provincials.”

Twenty swimmers from Ponoka are heading to the swim meet, which will conclude the Pool Sharks regular season, said Christensen.

When it comes to provincial challenges, swimmers who are 16 years old and over compete in an open category. So the Pool Sharks senior athletes found themselves competing against 26-year-old swimmers recently. Despite this, Christensen says many swimmers posted some of their best times this year. “I wish Swim Alberta would change that age category,” she added.

She has a few swimmers considering trying out for the Alberta Summer Games, which will be held in Airdrie July 24 to 27.

“No one in our club’s ever tried out for summer games,” said Christensen.

Tryouts are set for June 1 in Sylvan Lake.

Young speed skaters from around the province attended a training clinic in Ponoka May 3, which was coached by three Albertan Olympians.

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The snow is finally looking like it may leave for good and already Alberta’s amateur speed skaters are entering training mode.

Over the weekend of May 4 approximately 30 young athletes from as far away as Lethbridge and Peace River congregated at the Ponoka curling rink to kick off training season under the watchful eye of some very special guests: Olympians Jessica Gregg, Kaylin Irvine and Danielle Wotherspoon-Gregg.

“We generally have a camp to start off the training season,” said Red Deer club coach Shawna Pearman.

“It’s the Alberta development skaters,” explained Gregg.

The training clinic is an annual event and has been held in Ponoka for the last several years because of the town’s central location. “We kind of just set tech-

nical drills. There’s some good pointers to work on over the summer before they get back on the ice,” said Gregg.

The non-mandatory clinic attracts the most dedicated young skaters of the sport. “They’re all fairly competitive in their age groups,” said Gregg.

Pearman says the clinic hasn’t always had these internationally ranked skaters come coach in the past but it is something she wants to happen more often.

It would benefit the young skaters who are moving their way up through the sport as well as promote the sustainability and superstars of speed skating throughout the province, says Pearman.

This year Alberta had seven skaters compete in Sochi, Russia at the 2014 Winter Olympics as part of the Canadian team; the other 10 came from different parts of the country. “Skating is doing well in Alberta,” said Pearman.

Alberta Amateur Speed Skating Association award winners Junior Male Long Track Skater of the Year – Jordan Henkelman – Calgary Club (dad and grandparents are from Ponoka) Junior Female Long Track Skater of the Year – Maddison Pearman – Ponoka, skates with the Red Deer Club Junior Female Short Track Skater of the Year – Marika Nadal – Canmore Club Junior Male Short Track Skater of the Year – Sasha Fathoullin – Canmore club

Open Female Long Track Skater of the Year – Kaylin Irvine – Calgary club Open Male Long Track Skater of the Year – Gilmore Junio – Calgary club Open Female Short Track Skater of the Year – Jessica Gregg – Edmonton club Open Male Short Track Skater of the Year – Sasha Fathoullin – Canmore club

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Clarification: The volleyball story on page 21 of our April 30 edition states volleyball at St. Augustine is over. To clarify, the Warriors are a club team that has teammates from different schools around Ponoka and the season is over for the club, rather than St. Augustine school teams.

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WARD Joan Marie (Lux) July 24, 1932 - April 26 2014 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved mother, Joan Marie Ward, long time resident of Lacombe Alberta. She passed away peacefully at the Lacombe hospital, on the morning of April 26th, 2014. We sincerely appreciate the support, comfort and compassion shown and provided by the home care nurses over these past months, along with the doctors and staff at the Lacombe hospital. Mom’s greatest joy in life was getting together and socializing with family and friends, and she was especially proud of her Children, Grand-Children and Great Grand-Children. She was the happiest when her home was overflowing with family and friends and she was in the kitchen cooking for everyone. She will be sadly missed by all her friends and family including, her Children: Ron (Renee); Neil (Joanne); Sandra (Cecil Woods); Grande-Children: Stephanie (Greg Harink); Stephen (Wendy); Shawn (Deanne) Kayle; Jordan; Travis; Angelina; Justin and Curtis. Great-Grandchildren: Chris and Brett Scriven; Jennessa, Lucas, and AJ Ward; Gage Ward; Grayson and Mickel Ward; Siblings: Doreen Mclaffilin and Norma Cave. Joan was predeceased by her parents: Raymond and Etta Lux; brother Bob Lux; Husband Lorne Ward and Son Doug Ward. A celebration of life and memorial service will be held at 1:00 PM, Saturday, May 10 at the First United Church in Ponoka 5020 - 52 Avenue, Ponoka, AB. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society #101, 6751 - 52 Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4N 4K8.

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PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

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GREAT OPPORTUNITY Afternoon Shift CNC Lead Hand / Supervisor Nexus Engineering is currently looking for Afternoon shift Lead hand/supervisor.

Duties include, ensuring production flow on Mazak C.N.C lathe and mills, trouble shooting, min 1 years experience as a lead hand/supervisor in a machine shop.

We offer competitive wages, company paid benefits and a RRSP matching plan.

Please forward resumes to: resume @nexusengineering.ca HD LICENSED TECHNICIAN for several Alberta areas.

Must have or willing to obtain CVIP licence.

Please email or fax applications to: Carillion Canada Inc.; dlefsrud@carillionalberta.ca Fax 780-336-2461.

Electrical Enclosure & Power Division

Lube Bay Technician We are currently looking for a Lube Bay Technician at our Ponoka location. If you have a positive attitude and a great work ethic, we would love to hear from you. Experience is preferred but not necessary.

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Please drop off resumes to Larry Thompson or: Email: lthompson@adamsgm.com Fax: 403-783-8000 Truckers/ Drivers

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Required Immediately

• Sheet Metal Fabricators • Warehouse/Driver • Welder/Welders Helper • Finisher Full Benefit Package & Production Bonuses. Safe, Warm, Modern Working Environment.

Fax or E-mail your resume in confidence to: A.C. Dandy Products Ltd. Fax: 780-352-2249

Email: acdandy@acdandy.com

A & J AUTOMOTIVE A & J AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR 6701 - 46 Ave. 6701 46 Ave. Ponoka, AB - T4J 1J8 Ponoka, T4J 1J8 (403)AB783-8755 (403) 783-8755 Al Dickhaut Owner/Operator Al Dickhaut Owner/Operator

This space could be yours for $

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Class 2 Operators License with a satisfactory Drivers Abstract and Criminal Record Check including Vulnerable Sector Check.

We offer:

• Well maintained buses with automatic transmissions • Bus compounds in Ponoka and Wetaskiwin

Call Hobbema Transport at 403-783-5259 or 780-585-2424

INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR SCHOOL. No Simulators. In-the-seat training. Real world tasks.

Weekly start dates.

Job board!

Funding options. Sign up online! iheschool.com.

1-866-399-3853.

MAINTENANCE PERSON Large swine facility requires maintenance person. Someone capable of plumbing, welding, minor electrical & groundskeeping will be given consideration. Exp. in all areas is not necessary, but a general pride of the overall appearance & operation of the facility is mandatory. Excellent wage & benefit plan to the successful candidate.

Fax resume with references to 1-855-499-3953 or email rwp@cciwireless.ca

Pressure Control Assembler Technician Nexus is currently seeking a mechanical individual to perform assembly & testing of all BOP’s and Pressure Control Equipment. Duties include heavy lifting, manual labour, operating forklift and overtime as necessary. We offer a competitive wage, benefits and RRSP plan.

Experience is not mandatory, but a definite asset. Email resume to resume@ nexusengineering.ca

880 PONOKA

Full & Part-time Staff Wages negotiable and benefits available.

Drop off resumes at 6707 Hwy 53 or phone 403-783-0787

Regular Routes and Spare Driver Positions Available

Qualification Desired:

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NOW HIRING IMMEDIATELY!

School Bus Drivers Full-Time Pay for Part-Time Work!

AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES

IN Ponoka, has immediate openings for SWAMPERS Please submit resumes to 6526 - 44 Ave., Ponoka, AB T4J 1J8 Fax: 403-783-3011 or Email: hr@calnashtrucking.com

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Sungold Specialty Meats Ltd. Located in Innisfail Alberta is currently recruiting for the following positions:

• Labourers • • Meat Butchers/Cutters • We are looking for team players, willing and able to work in both slaughter and fabrication depts.

Previous experience in the food industry, meat processing an asset but not necessary. We provide on the job training.

Steady year round employment and job rotation.

Competitive wages starting @ $14.25/hr with the potential to earn $19.50/hr plus performance related bonus potential.

Full benefits program including registered pension plan.

For more information or to apply you can: Visit our website @ www.sungoldmeats.com Fax: 403-227-1661 Attn: Ashley Ford HR Coordinator In person @ 4312-51 Street Innisfail, Alberta T4G-1A3 Email: ashley.ford@sungoldmeats.com

CALNASH TRUCKING LTD

IN PONOKA requires an immediate

SHOP/PARTS PERSON The 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 benefits Please submit applications to: Calnash Trucking 6526 44 Avenue, Ponoka, Alberta T4J 1J8 Fax: 403-783-3011 E-mail: hr@calnashtrucking.com (Attn: Shop/Parts Person) Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

No Phone calls please.

www.ponokanews.com We’re also on facebook!

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880 ADVERTISING DIRECTOR

The Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association is ready to add to our winning team and are seeking a highly motivated and dynamic individual to join us.

This project runs from May - September 2014, and will be by hand only-tools supplied LOA and travel pay also supplied

http://albertacareers.net/marketplace/ad/73907/advertising-director Please apply, with salary expectations, by fax 780-430-5380 or email at info@awna.com.

No phone calls please.

Submit your resume to: careers@profoxxenergy.com Or by fax 780-622-5056

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880 Looking For a Qualified & Experienced

General Insurance Agent Full time, Monday to Friday.

Must be Licensed - Level 1 or 2.

Fax, Drop off or email resume to: Fax: 780-352-2294 • khardie@petersinsurance.ca 4905 – 52 Street, Wetaskiwin Misc.

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880 Boston Pizza PONOKA is looking for motivated and energetic people to work in a fast-paced and fun environment! So whether you’re looking to build a career in the restaurant business or in search of a flexible schedule, we’ve got the right opportunity for you!

NOW HIRING COOKS (full & part time) SERVERS MANAGERS HOSTESSES DISHWASHERS DELIVERY DRIVERS Please apply in person with a resume in hand or apply online at bostonpizza.com Attention Natalie Reglin or Dany Nalewaja

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BOBCAT SERVICES Sur-B Enterprises Ltd.

BOBCAT SERVICE • Snow Removal • Driveways & Parking Lots • Post-Hole Augering - 6, 9, 12, 15 • Corral Cleaning • Grading & Construction

For taxi and/or deliveries Clean abstract Call Ken 403-963-3242

The successful applicant REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY will be a ticketed, Class 1 Drivers able to Red Seal Journeyman transport and operate Pipefitter/Steamfitter heavy equipment.

Be able to complete Aerial truck operator with ISO drawings Measure existing and new tree trimming experience. piping projects within Must have Q endorsement.

780-656-0659; an Oil and Gas Plant Smoky Lake.

Organized A Self-starter Team player Business

Are you looking to grow your career in a drug and alcohol free environment, surrounded by a great team?

Then Profoxx Energy would like to hear from you.

We are a professional fast growing company that offers competitive wages and benefits in a fun and safe environment.

The right individual will innovate and grow Provincial and National Agency business, work to grow and develop opportunities and manage our advertising account list as Advertising Director for Alberta’s community newspapers. Manage client relationships and work with our Advertising Committee

RELIABLE DRIVER

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DISPERSAL OF SMALL CONCRETE CRIBBING BUSINESS. Everything you need to start your own cribbing business.

Ken, 403-803-1872 erstelle@telus.net.

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EMF NUTRITION RED DEER BRANCH is HIRING!! We are looking to fill two positions: Packaging Operator (Bagger) Shipper/Receiver. Please visit our website for more details: www.emf-nutrition .com Apply by May 12th, 2014 Email: hr@ emf-nutrition.com Mail/person: 4747-60th St. Red Deer, Alberta Fax: 204.233.7245

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Rupertsland Institute Métis Training to Employment is looking for Métis people between the ages of 18–30 who are interested in a career in the Medical Technical field.

Space is limited, so apply today!

Application Deadline: June 16, 2014.

Call: 1-888-48-MÉTIS (1-888-486-3847) online at: www.metisemployment.ca

BOTTLE DEPOT

PONOKA BOTTLE DEPOT Open Monday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm

Closed Sundays & Holidays Funded in part by the Government of Canada.

3, 5520 Hwy 2A (Across from Husky)

403-783-6875

MÉTIS CANADIAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM 12345

Rupertsland Institute in partnership with Katimavik are seeking 4 male & 4 female Métis youth interested in volunteering, leadership and learning to learn, travel,enhance your leadership skills and earn a wage!

Application Deadline: June 1, 2014.

Call: 1-888-48-MÉTIS (1-888-486-3847) online at: www.metisemployment.ca

SALES & SERVICE

Motorcycles & ATV’s

Funded in part by the Government of Canada.

Tues - Fri: 8:30 am-5:30 pm Saturday: 9 am-3 pm

403-783-5185 1-800-662-7135 Fax: 403-783-4635

Reaching 6000 households weekly for just

MÉTIS ENVIRONMENTAL CAREER PROGRAM 12345

Are you a Métis youth between the ages of 15 and 17? Are you interested in careers in the environmental field, such as fish and wildlife officer, forest technician, or park warden?

Space is limited, so apply today!

Application Deadline: June 16, 2014.

Call: 1-888-48-MÉTIS (1-888-486-3847) online at: www.metisemployment.ca

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Funded in part by the Government of Canada.

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RIMBEYDENTALCARE

F/T MAINTENANCE COORDINATOR (INNISFAIL)

DR. STEVE CALDER BS C DDS

Innisfail, Alberta facility is in need of an energetic maintenance person.

Family Friendly Dentistry Box 1100 4905 50 St. Rimbey, AB T0C 2J0

Ph. (403) 843-2173 Fax: (403) 843-2607

DENTAL CARE BIRCHLAND DENTAL CLINIC

DUTIES: Performing routine maintenance jobs and repairs including troubleshooting on heating, cooling, ventilation systems; minor repairs to plumbing, electrical, appliances, & furniture. Handle minor painting, repairing drywall, and building upkeep.

Provide oversight of outside contracted repair companies, snow removal.

Preference will be given to candidates with previous institutional maintenance experience.

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MEDICAL BILLING TRAINEES NEEDED! Learn to process & submit billing claims for hospitals and doctors!

No experience needed!

Local training gets you ready to work!

1-888-627-0297.

Business Services #1000 - #1430

Legal Services

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CRIMINAL RECORD? Think: Canadian pardon.

POSITION U.S. travel waiver.

REQUIREMENTS: (24 hour record check).

Must comply with Divorce? Simple. Fast.

Alberta Health Services Inexpensive. regulations, policies and Debt recovery? Alberta procedures. collection to $25,000.

Must comply with Calgary 403-228-1300 Alberta OH&S Act, or 1-800-347-2540; regulation and code. www.accesslegalresearch.com Must work co-operatively with Management, staff and other Departments. Misc.

Must be able to work in Services physically demanding environments.

Must be physically fit and NEED TO ADVERTISE? able to lift heavy objects. Province wide classifieds.

Reach over 1 million May be required to readers weekly. respond to un-scheduled call back and/or scheduled Only $269. + GST (based on 25 words or less). overtime, on call Call this newspaper NOW for details or call ADDITIONAL SKILLS: Ability to work indepen- 1-800-282-6903 ext. 228. dently with minimum supervision.

Ability to identify and Misc. prioritize facility main- Services tenance needs.

Ability to communicate effectively with clients/ staff in a Patient care setting.

Competent with computer the use and Windows Office Suite software.

Must have good trouble shooting and analytical skills.

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Personal Services

Unplanned pregnancy may be difďŹ cult to face.

We care. For conďŹ dential help call 403-343-1611 (24 hrs.)

NEW TO YOUR COMMUNITY ?

Our Hostess will bring gifts and greetings, along with helpful community information.

Be sure to call

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DATING SERVICE. Long-term/short-term relationships. Free to try!

1-877-297-9883.

Live intimate conversation, Call #7878 or 1-888-534-6984. Live adult 1on1 Call 1-866-311-9640 or #5015.

Meet local single ladies.

1-877-804-5381. (18+).

TOP REAL PSYCHICS Live. Accurate readings 24/7. Call now 1-877-342-3036; Mobile dial: # 4486; www.truepsychics.ca

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CLINKERS KENNELS Heather Goodwin 403-704-3647 heathermccg@shaw.ca

* Quality Boarding for your dogs & cats *Proof of vaccinations and advance bookings required

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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.

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

www.clinkerskennels.ca

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Apply with resume by email to: greatjobs @chantellegroup.com or fax to 604-888-8902.

seeking right position Housekeeping, babysitting, pet sitting.

403-430-0260 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

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Contractors

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Kwik Kerb

Continuous decorative concrete borders

Many colours, stamps and patterns Landscape curb and edging for gardens, flower and rock beds

Check out our new continuous natural rock ďŹ nish Call for a free estimate 403-783-6115 or 403-352-5372 (cell) Misc.

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Used appliances available Six month warranty

Berni's Refrigeration and Appliance Service We deliver and install your purchases.

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Call for more details 1-800-282-6903 ext 235 Well Drilling

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Well Drilling

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Well Drilling

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RURAL WATER TREATMENT (Province Wide)

895

Caregiver

plus GST/HST

Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association toll free 1-800-282-6903 x228 email andrea@awna.com or visit this community newspaper

PUT YOUR EXPERIENCE TO WORK - The job service for people aged 45 and over across Canada. Free for candidates. Register now at: www.thirdquarter.ca or call toll free 1-855-286-0306.

Positions Wanted

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Value Ad Network

Need Flexible SUMMER WORK? We are located in your local city/town. Guaranteed $17 base pay, cust. sales/service, no experience necessary, we will train, conditions apply. Visit www.summeropenings.ca/rda or call 403-755-6711 to APPLY NOW!

REQUIRED Production Welder Painter Shop Laborer Polisher Full or Part Time Crestomere area BANDIT INDUSTRIES 403-783-4284

with a combined circulation of over 800,000 for only...

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The exposure you need!

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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 Travel

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5407 - 36 Ave., Wetaskiwin. (708)

387-5553

CRIMINAL RECORD? Pardon Services Canada.

Established 1989.

Confidential, fast & affordable. A+BBB rating.

RCMP accredited.

Employment & travel freedom.

Free consultation 1-8-NOW-PARDON (1-866-972-7366); RemoveYourRecord.com.

Yard Care

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THE ROTOTILLER GUY Garden Rototilling & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957

GET YOUR BUSINESS OUT THERE

Building Supplies

Buy & Sell #1500 - #1990 Aircraft ..............................1510 Antiques & Art ..................1520 Auctions ............................1530 Bicycles ............................1540 Building Supplies ..............1550 Business Machines ..........1560 Cameras & Accessories ..1570 Children’s Items ................1580 Clothing ............................1590 Computers ........................1600 Concert & Event Tickets ..1610 Equipment - Misc. ............1620 Equipment - Heavy ..........1630 Tools ................................1640 Farmers’ Market & Food Basket......................1650 Firewood ..........................1660 Lumber ............................1670 Garden Supplies ..............1680 Lawn Tractors ..................1690 Health, Dietary, Beauty ....1700 Household Appliances......1710 Household Furnishings ....1720 TV’s, Stereos, VCR’s ........1730 Hot Tubs & Accessories ..1740 Jewellery ..........................1750 Kid’s Deals........................1755 Misc. For Sale ..................1760 Musical Instruments..........1770 Music Lessons..................1780 Piano & Organs ................1790 Office Supplies ................1800 Pets & Supplies ................1810 Pet Services ....................1820 Cats ..................................1830 Dogs ................................1840 Sports Cards ....................1850 Sporting Goods ................1860 Collectors’ Items ..............1870 Swap, Barter & Trade ......1880 Travel Packages ..............1900 Wedding Supplies ............1910 Recycled Products............1920 Wanted to Buy ..................1930 Items to Give Away ..........1940

Auctions

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25TH ANNUAL RED DEER MOTHER’S DAY ANTIQUE SHOW & SALE. May 10 & 11. Sat., 10 - 6 & Sun., 10 - 5.

Westerner Exposition grounds.

350 sales tables. Canadiana furniture & collectibles.

Carswell’s 403-343-1614.

BIG STRAPPER AUCTIONS SALES EVERY WED. @ 6 pm.

Moose Hall 2 miles south of Ponoka on 2A NEXT ANTIQUE SALE Sun., May 4, 1 pm WE BUY FOR CASH.

403.783.3311

Welding

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403-304-4791 Check website for full listing www.bigstrapperauctions.net

Welding

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CONCRETE forming equipment Dura-Form 4’ x 2’, 5’x2’, 7’x2’, 8’ x 2’, lots of inside corners and fillers, most of forms are in cages. To view call Randy 403-843-1099 cell 587-679-2334. For pics and detailed equipt. list email: thepelletiers@ xplornet.ca

47x72 $17,779.

One end wall included.

Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422; www.pioneersteel.ca.

Firewood

1660

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Garden Supplies

1680

BEAUTIFUL SPRUCE TREES. 4 - 6 ft., $35 each.

Machine planting; $10/tree (includes bark mulch and fertilizer). 20 tree minimum order. Delivery fee: $75 - $125/order. Quality guaranteed. 403-820-0961 MASSIVE TREE SALE. Hardy tree, shrub, and berry seedlings.

Perfect for shelterbelts or landscaping. Full boxes as low as $1/tree. Bundles of 10 as low as $1.29/tree.

Free shipping.

Replacement guarantee.

1-866-873-3846 or treetime.ca

Household Appliances

MAIN: (403) 783-7591 FAX: (403) 783-8178 Website: www.harbinwelding.com E-mail: bharbin@telus.net

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Livestock

2100

For Sale

Agricultural #2000 - #2290

Farm Equipment

2010

FASTER IN THE FIELD! Get more work done faster and save on fuel.

Chip Tuning Safely gives you 15% more power.

AG equipment, semis.

1-888-920-1351; Dieselservices.com.

Auctions

Registered Yearlings

Black Angus FLEXI-COIL 6000 AIR DRILL, 40’, 3450 TBH tank, double shoot, 7.5” spacing, rubber packer wheels. All new discs, bearings, air hoses - 2 yrs ago. Shedded & unused for 2 seasons. $60,000 obo. 403-784-3633 or 403-304-2266

Farm Custom Work

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CUSTOM seedbed preparation with Lemken 403-704-3509 No Sun. call please

Livestock

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BAR-DALE LIMOUSIN, ERSKINE, AB. 40, two year old virgin bulls for sale at the farm.

Fully guaranteed.

Call Carole Barclay at 403-742-4825, Terry 403-740-5037 Ricky 403-740-5711. email bardale@xplornet.com

(780)

387-6050

BLACK ANGUS YEARLING BULLS ALSO HERD SIRES, TOMBOY & JACK .

Quiet disposition, quality genetics & semen tested.

Vaccinated. George Lane 403-885-5732 or Ross Lane 403-860-2973 LIMOUSIN Bulls Polled Red and black two year olds and yearlings. Semen tested. Combest Limousin Farm. (403)742-5211 LIMOUSIN Bulls Polled, yearlings & long yearlings, Sires, Romn Tuff Enuff & Shop Talk, Semen tested & docile. 403-540-5951 PUREBRED red and black Angus bulls. 1 and 2 year olds. Semen tested and delivered.

Vicwin Farms 403-784-3517, 403-318-7363.

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3912 - 66 St, Ponoka www.wcmltd.ca

403.783.3501 wcmltd@telus.net

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Call 403-783-3311 VETERINARY SERVICES

Bovine Veterinary Services On-Farm Mobile Veterinary Services Ultrasound-aided ReproducƟve Programs CETA CerƟĮed Dairy and Beef Embryo Transfer

Estate Sale For Charles Donald

Saturday, May 10 - 10am - 5pm Sunday, May 11 - 10am - 4pm

Herd Health

Phone 403-391-1684 ʹͶ

Dr. Bruce Wine

CONCRETE SERVICES

Specializing in: - Residential - Commercial - Agricultural - Stamped Concrete - Exposed Concrete

Leo Cabral

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Serving Ponoka & Area Ph: 403-783-6428 Cell: 403-783-1905

VETERINARY SERVICES

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SAWMILLS from only $4,397. Make money & save money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & dvd: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/ 400OT. 1-800-566-6899 ext. 400OT.

Wanted To Buy

Commercial - Residential Installations - Repair

Call Jim

18’ FRIDGE, Inglis, $275; Stove, Inglis self clean; $225; Dishwasher, Roper $100. All white & 3.5 yrs. old.

403-783-8060

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HEATING & EAVESTROUGHING

20 Bulls

Farm Equipment ..............2010 Haying Equipment ............2020 Tractors ............................2030 Combines & Headers ......2040 Fertilizer Equipment..........2050 Misc. Farm Machinery ......2060 METAL ROOFING Equipment Wanted ..........2070 & SIDING. Farm Custom Work ..........2080 Very competitive prices!

Largest colour selection in Farm Auctions ..................2090 Western Canada.

Livestock ..........................2100 Available at over 25 Alberta Livestock - Exotic..............2110 Distribution Locations.

Sheep ..............................2120 40 Year Warranty.

Poultry ..............................2130 Call 1-888-263-8254.

Horses ..............................2140 Horse Boarding ................2150 STEEL BUILDINGS. Riding Supplies ................2160 Hot savings - spring sale! Horse/Stock Trailers ........2170 20x24 $4348.

Pasture Wanted ................2180 25x24 $4539.

Grain, Feed, Hay ..............2190 30x30 $6197.

Seed Grain ......................2200 32x36 $7746.

Seeding & Tillage ............2210 40x46 $12,116.

RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME & LEG CRAMPS? Fast relief in one hour.

Sleep at night.

Proven for over 32 years; www.allcalm.com. Mon-Fri, 8-4 EST. 1-800-765-8660.

• B-PRESSURE • PIPELINE • OILFIELD • ASME Section VIII Division I VESSEL FABRICATION & PIPING • SHOP/PORTABLE • CNC PLASMA CUTTING • ALUMINUM • SHEARING & FORMING

Farm Equipment

1930

WANTED: Old tube audio equipment. 40 years or older. Amplifiers, stereo, recording and theatre sound equipment.

Hammond organs. Any condition, no floor model consoles. Call toll free 1-800-947-0393.

Acreage equipment, lawn & garden supplies, wide variety of tools and contractor supplies. Original artwork and other misc. items.

Cash Only 25004 Township Rd 432 Directions: Hwy 53 W, North on Cemetary Road, Corner of 1st intersection.

Southwest Industrial Park 4102-64 St., Ponoka 403-783-5200 8 a.m. - 5 p.m Mon. to Sat. • Open late Thursday 24-hour Emergency Call Dr. Bill Frischke • Dr. Kelly Loree • Dr. Leighton Coma Dr. Trevor Hook • Dr. Patricia Kelly

Reaching 6000 households weekly

For just

$30 per week this space could be yours!

403-783-3311

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Pasture/Land Wanted

2180

PASTURE WANTED 10-50 cow/calf pairs.

Phone Ron 403-782-2754

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

HEATED CANOLA buying Green, Heated or Springthrashed Canola.

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

Buying damaged or offgrade grain.

“On Farm Pickup” Westcan Feed & Grain, 1-877-250-5252 LACOMBE COUNTRY FEED STORE, Come see us at: 4836 45A St. Lacombe, Ab ALL THE FEED YOUR ANIMALS NEED! 403-782-3333 Dealer of Masterfeeds

2200

Seed Grain

SEED Barley & Seed Oats for Sale. 2 Row & 6 row high yielding varieties available. Suitable for grain or silage. High germination & vigour. Seed treating available. On Farm scale.

Larry Trautman, 403-843-2733, Mark Trautman 403-843-3474

Farm Equipment

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

2200

Seed Grain

BARLEY AC Metcalfe, Busby, Seebee, Sundre.

OATS AC Juniper, AC Morgan, AC Mustang, Derby.

CDC Go Wheat, Winter & spring Triticale, Silage Peas CDC Meadow field peas, NON GMO Canola, Polish & Argentine 403-556-2609 MastinSeeds.com BRIGHT’S SEED FOR SALE Wheat-Cert. Harvest HRS/Foremost CPS Barley-Cert. Copeland/ Cowboy/Coalition Oats-Seed Oats. Call 780-855-2240/780-678-6329 WHEAT HRS: CDC GO, Park. Wheat winter: Norstar. Barley: Sundre.

Canola: Early One. Oat: AC Mustang. Other kinds and varieties avail.

Grasses and forages.

Lyster Farms LTD Stettler, AB. 403-742-4456

This paper is

0la% 0 1 ble c y Rec

2200

Seed Grain

Houses For Sale

FORAGE SEED FOR SALE. Organic and conventional.

Sweet Clover, Alfalfa, Red Clover, Smooth Real Estate Brome, Meadow Brome, #4000 - #4190 Crested Wheatgrass, Timothy, etc. Free delivery! Realtors & Services..........4010 Birch Rose Acres Ltd. Houses for Sale................4020 306-863-2900 Houses Wanted ................4030

For Rent #3000 - #3200

3060

Suites

PONOKA avail. immed. large 2 bdrm. bsmt. suite, new reno, 4 appls, seperate entrance, large yard for quiet working tenants only 403-704-1645

* RIVERSIDE APTS. * Newly renovated 1 & 2 bedroom units in Ponoka: 3724-45 Street.

403-357-0287

Condos/Townhouses ........4040 Acreages ..........................4050 Acreages Wanted ............4060 Farms/Land ......................4070 Farms/Land Wanted ........4080 Manufactured/ Mobile Homes ..................4090 Income Property ..............4100 Commercial Property ......4110 Industrial Property ............4120 Cottages/Resort Property ..4130 Businesses for Sale..........4140 Buildings for Sale ............4150 Lots for Sale ....................4160 Out of Town Property ......4170 Investment Opportunities ..4180 Mortgages Bought/Sold....4190

Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

3060

Suites

2010

• RENTAL OR CUSTOM

CALL MEEREVO FARMS Hank: 403-783-1270 Darren: 403-704-0843 WE ALSO DO SEEDING, SILAGING, BALING, HAY HAULING Houses/ Duplexes

3020

GREIG HOLDINGS INC

PROPERTIES FOR RENT RESIDENTIAL 2 bedroom smaller house c/w fridge and stove, washer and dryer, $800.00/mo plus utilities. N/S Available immediately.

All residences are no smoking and no pets, damage/security deposit same as rent unless stated otherwise.

Applications and references required for all properties. Working people preferred.

COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES 3000 sq ft retail type property on Chipman Ave. 1200 sq ft office building on 50th Street 1200 retail space on 50th Street

Contact Ernie Anderson at GREIG HOLDINGS INC. @ 403-783-8580 Bay 6, 5012 50 Street, Ponoka, Alberta

DELUXE 2 BR SUITES FOR RENT 4205 - 64 St., Ponoka, AB Includes: Fridge, Stove, Fireplace, Air Conditioning, Window Coverings, Oak Cabinetry with Corian Countertops, Balcony, High Security Card Locks, All Utilities except Telephone.

Houses For Sale

Automotive Services ........5010 Antique & Classic Autos ....5020 Cars ..................................5030 SUV’s................................5040 Lovely 1484 sq.ft. 1/2 Trucks ..............................5050 duplex. 3 bdrms. up, Heavy Trucks....................5060 4 bathrooms, Bsmt. newly developed. Dble. garage. Vans/Buses ......................5070 Motorcycles ......................5080 Hardwood floors.

Campers ..........................5090 Quick possession.

Was $349,900 Motorhomes......................5100 Now $339,900 5th Wheels........................5110 Agent selected Holiday Trailers ................5120 403-396-5516 cell Tent Trailers ......................5130 or Mon-Wed 314-4318 Utility Trailers ....................5140 ATV’s ................................5150 Boats & Marine ................5160 Manufactured Snowmobiles ....................5170 Homes Tires, Parts & Accessories ......................5180 CROSS COUNTRY Auto Wreckers ..................5190 HOMES SPRING CLEARANCE. Vehicles Wanted ..............5200 All show homes priced to Car/Truck Rental ..............5210 move and ready for quick Recreational Vehicle possession. 20 X 76 homes Rental ..............................5220 starting at $112,500!

Visit us in Acheson or call Trailer Rental ....................5230 Misc. Automotive ..............5240 780-470-8000; www.crosscountryhomes.com RV’s ..................................5300

REDUCED $10,000 Near Coronation Park & Trails

4090

4130

Cottages/Resort Property

ELINOR LAKE RESORT. Lots selling at 25% off listed price, or 5% down on a rent to own lot with no interest over 5 years.

1-877-623-3990; elinorlakeresort.com

5110

Fifth Wheels

2006 KEYSTONE Copper Canyon 29’. Sleeps 4, slide-out $20,000 obo.

Call 403-784-3633

Tires, Parts Acces.

Garage Space

Houses For Sale

COMMERCIAL

BAYS

FOR RENT 4205 - 64 St., Ponoka, AB

34’Lx16’W with 16’ high ceiling. Suitable for Truckers, Farmers, Boaters, Contractors, or Anyone needing Secure, Heated Storage.

SPECIAL SPRING RATES! Call ERNIE at 780-335-6767

Money To Loan

We’ve got you covered!

403.783.3311

4020

FOR SALE BY OWNER

Financial #4400 - #4430

Investments ......................4410 Money Wanted ................4420 Money to Loan ................4430

3150

5180

WRECKING AUTO-TRUCKS. Parts to fit over 500 trucks.

Lots of Dodge, GMC, Ford, imports. We ship anywhere.

Lots of Dodge, diesel, 4x4 stuff. Trucks up to 3 tons.

North-East Recyclers 780-875-0270 (Lloydminster).

Quiet Adult Complex, Age 40+, No Pets, Special Spring Rental Rates!

Call ERNIE at 780-335-6767

4020

Transportation #5000-5300

SHOWHOME SALE. Substantial savings to be had! Need room for whole new display! Visit Grandview Modular Red Deer to see the quality and craftsmanship that set us apart.

1-855-347-0417; www.grandviewmodular.com; terry @grandviewmodular.com

RENT ME! • HIGH SPEED DISC AVAILABLE

4020

4430

DO YOU NEED to borrow money - Now? If you own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits will lend you money - It’s that simple.

1-877-486-2161.

4004 – 50 AVENUE 3 BEDROOM

$

99,500

5117 – 48 AVENUE 2 BEDROOM

$

95,500

4301 – 54 STREET 2 BEDROOM

$

92,500

5105 – 55 AVENUE 2 BEDROOM

$

89,900

DROWNING IN DEBT? Cut debts more than 60% & debt free in half the time!

Avoid bankruptcy!

Free consultation; www.mydebtsolution.com or toll free 1-877-556-3500.

BBB rated A+.

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills?

Unemployed? Need money?

We lend! If you own your own home - you qualify.

Pioneer Acceptance Corp.

Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420; www.pioneerwest.com.

INVESTORS – ANNUAL GROSS INCOME OF ALL FOUR PROPERTIES IS $37,200.

ALL PROPERTIES ARE CURRENTLY RENTED.

FOR FURTHER DETAILS CALL MARY AT 403-783-6609

We want to hear from you! www.ponokanews.com

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

PONOKA NEWS 39

PLUMBING SHANDALL PLUMBING LTD. JAMES AVERY “Reasonable rates on all your plumbing needs” Gas Fitting - Home Renovations - Drain Cleaning -24 HOUR SERVICE5306 - 60 ST, PONOKA, AB T4J 1K7 PH: (403) 783-6372 • FAX (403) 783-6345

This space could be yours for $

30

PER WEEK

Call 403-783-3311 PLUMBING

PONOKA PLUMBING & HEATING We now carry a complete line of Ritchie Stockwater parts Hours of Business: Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 5 pm

5110 -50 Street Box 4414 Ponoka, Alberta T4J 1R7

JESSE ZINTER Office - 403-783-5489

Reaching 6000 households weekly for just

30

$

PER WEEK

This space could be yours!

403-783-3311 PORTABLE TOILET RENTALS

LittleJONS’ Hand Wash Stations Handicap Units Trailer Units New Solar Powered Units with Running Water

Serving Central Today!

Alberta Book On-Line

403.783.8322

www.littlejons.ca

Reaching 6000 households weekly

For just

$30 per week this space could be yours!

403-783-3311

Public Notices

6010 Ponoka County

Public Notice #6000

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notices ..................6010 Special Features ..............6050

Public Notices

Amendment to Land Use By-Law 7-08-LU

6010

NOTICE Must clean out units due to non-payment of rent.

Mel Fuson: Units 7 & 8, owing $767.50

Devon Hoy: Unit B, owing $1172 Advertising and Auctioning costs evenly divided between the 4 units.

Contact 403-843-3691 or 403-783-1150 AUCTION TBA, Storage†War Style†

WHAT CAN THE CLASSIFIEDS DO FOR YOU???

Coming Events Obituaries Memorials Pets Lost/Found Classes Vacation Homes Personals Fitness Arts/Crafts Realtors Babysitters Condos Volunteers Career Planning Legal Aid Tutors Oilfield Announcements Trades Vehicles Public Notices Rentals Acreages Motorcycles Business Opportunities Cottages Livestock Grain/Feed/Hay Tractors Pasture land Campers/RVs Extra Income Security Registrations Meetings Repairs Farmers Markets Trade Fairs Rodeos & MUCH MORE!

403.783.3311

VETERINARY SERVICES

The Council of Ponoka County has been asked by David & Shirley Mikalson to amend Land Use By-Law 7-08-LU as follows: Reclassify Nl/2 NW 26-42-25-W4 (approximately 80.0 acres total) from Agricultural District to Country Residential Hobby Farm and Watershed Protection to allow for future subdivision of the rezoned area into 3 parcels CHR and 1 parcel WP. Before considering the by-law, Council will hold a Public Hearing at which any person claiming to be affected may ask questions or make comments. This hearing is scheduled for 10:15 a.m. on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 in the Council Chambers of the County Administration Building.

A copy of the proposed by-law may be inspected at the County Administration Building, Ponoka, Alberta during regular office hours.

Charlie B. Cutforth Chief Administrative Officer Ponoka County 4205 -Highway #2A PONOKA, Alberta T4J 1 V9 Phone: 403-783-3333 Fax: 403-783-6965

Ponoka Veterinary Clinic Dr. Murray Jacobson Dr. Clayton West Dr. Ashley Shannon

Mon. - Fri. 8 am - 5 pm Sat. 9 am - 4:30 pm

24 Hr. Emergency 403-783-4348

5502 - Hwy 2A Ponoka, AB

T4J 1M1

THIS SPACE COULD BE YOURS FOR

$30

PER WEEK.

CALL 4037833311 ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS HERE FOR JUST

$

30

PER WEEK. REACHING 6000 HOUSEHOLDS PER WEEK.

E-mail: PonokaCounty@PonokaCounty.com

Public Notices

WATER WELL DRILLING SERVICES

6010 Ponoka County

PUBLIC NOTICE Amendment to Land Use By-Law 7-08-LU The Council of Ponoka County has been asked by Frances Anderegg(Witchell) & Frena Hamilton to amend Land Use ByLaw 7-08-LU as follows: Reclassify Pt SW 13-44-26-W4 (approximately 12.45 acres total) from Agricultural District to Country Residential to allow for future subdivision of the rezoned area.

Before considering the by-law, Council will hold a Public Hearing at which any person claiming to be affected may ask questions or make comments. This hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 in the Council Chambers of the County Administration Building.

A copy of the proposed by-law may be inspected at the County Administration Building, Ponoka, Alberta during regular office hours.

Charlie B. Cutforth Chief Administrative Officer Ponoka County 4205 -Highway #2A PONOKA, Alberta T4J 1 V9 Phone: 403-783-3333 Fax: 403-783-6965

E-mail: PonokaCounty@PonokaCounty.com

Darcy’s Drilling Services • water wells drilled & serviced • new pump & pressure system installations • all types of pump repairs • well shocking Darcy Schmidt Ph: (403) 783-2220 Fax: (403) 783-8828 Email: darcysdrillingservices@hotmail.com

WATER WELL SERVICE

ECKLUND

Water Well Service • Install & Service Pumps • Shock Wells • Pressure Systems Serviced & Installed Home: (403) 783-3712 Cell: (403) 704-3413

Advertise your business in the Business Directory!

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Hammy’s SPIRITS

NEW HOURS: 10

AM - 11 PM 7 Days A Week

BOXER LAGER 355 ml

MILLER GENUINE DRAFT 355 ml.

21 EACH

$

12 BTL.

49

PATRON XO CAFE 750 ml.

28 EACH

$

99

BOONE’S ASSORTED VARIETIES 750 ml.

6/ 20 $

3

20 CAN PK.

ALBERTA PURE VODKA

00 $ 99 or

BACARDI WHITE OR AMBER RUM

99 17EACH

$

750 ml.

18 EACH

$

EACH

99

750 ml.

1999 EACH

$ REVOLUTION RED OR WHITE

DOCTORS RIESLING OR SAUVIGNON BLANC

750 ml.

2/ 14 $

00

1699

$

7

$ 49

OR

750 ml.

EACH

EACH

REVEL STOKE SPICED WHISKY 750 ml.

21 EACH

$

WINE O’CLOCK PINOT GRIGIO OR SHIRAC

99

750 ml.

BAREFOOT ASSORTED VARIETIES 750 ml. $ 00 $ 49

3/ 20

OR

7

2/ 15 $

00

OR

EACH

Bay #5, 4502 - 50th St. • 403-783-2333 Prices in effect Wednesday, May 7 to Tuesday May 13, 2014 Prices do not include GST or deposit. We reserve the right to limit quantities

7

$ 99

EACH