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Vol. 66, No. 42 | WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15, 2014 | 403-783-3311 | EDITORIAL@PONOKANEWS.COM

Stampeders lose in overtime after gruelling match Story on page 29

Local ambassadors look at future visions for Ponoka Story on page 5

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Kohlman denied chance to speak with council

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

Just three months after Ponoka town councillors refunded 38 Street residents $74,000 for errors in a local improvement project some years ago, administration has received a request to discuss it in a public meeting.

At the May 29 regular meeting when council approved the refund, deputy mayor Carla Prediger had also indicated to Nick Kohlman and Bill Kuncio, acting as agents for four 38 Street residents, that town would not directly interact with them and that any further request would have to go through the town’s lawyers, but Kohlman says the wording of the letter was ambiguous.

He suggests that since the property owners authorized him and Kuncio as agents, there should be some discussion with them. “If you read their (town administration’s) letter carefully, they said any more reaction from us will be referred to their lawyer.”

“Should there be any further discussion regarding the local im-

“Should there be any further discussion regarding the local improvement as agents, that discussion would have to occur with our lawyers, as agent to agent,” Deputy mayor Carla Prediger

provement as agents, that discussion would have to occur with our lawyers, as agent to agent,” Prediger stated in the May 29 meeting.

Despite that request, Kohlman and Kuncio recently asked town administration Aug. 27 for a chance to bring up some issues they see with the refund and the entire project but the request was denied.

There are 14 specific requests they have regarding work on 38 Street, some of which Kohlman says was never completed.

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mation and Protection (FOIP) – the third from Kuncio and Kohlman - on the project was sent to town with administration acceding to three specific requests. However, the then acting CAO Betty Quinlan requested in a letter to Jill Clayton, Information and Privacy Commissioner, dated Sept.

24, to allow the town to disregard the balance of the requests stating, “in addition to their accusatory and inflammatory tone, the requests are both repetitious and systematic.”

The letter continued to say it would unreasonably interfere with the town’s operations.

“In addition, the requests amount to an abuse of the right to make requests under the Act and are frivolous and vexatious,” stated the letter.

Refund was not enough Kohlman suggests the refund to 38 Street residents should have been closer to $250,000, roughly half the cost of the entire project, for what he claims to be work that was never completed.

“This issue is more than money. This issue is about serious mismanagement by the town,”

they wwanted to know.

“We’re curious about that as well why other residents are not interested about what is going on.

It’s their money,” stated Kuncio.

“This issue is more than money. This issue is about serious mismanagement by the town,” added Kohlman.

He feels they are being painted in a negative light for uncovering issues with the local improvement project.

“We’re the bad guys…we didn’t do the mistakes. We uncovered them,” said Kuncio.

“We believe the dishonesty of the town is a much greater issue than the money that’s involved,” said Kohlman.

One problem they face is that the individuals involved in viewing and accepting the proposal from Nikiforuk Construction - the company chosen to complete the project – are no longer employed by the town, said Kuncio.

Kohlman suggests the current council is responsible to rectify the issue even if it did not approve the project. “And if they try to conceal, they implicate themselves.”

Town representatives declined to comment on the request

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Squatter receives minor fine

BY AMELIA NAISMITH

Car vs train: Traffic was rerouted for some hours on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 8 after a collision between a train and car by the North Bridge. There were minor injuries in the incident.

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Minor injuries to Ponoka man after collision with train

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

The train crossing by the North Bridge was closed for some hours last week after an SUV collided with a train.

A bright, rising sun may have been a contributing factor in the collision, say Ponoka RCMP of the Wednesday, Oct. 8 collision that occurred at approximately 8 a.m.

Don Pederson, 75, was lucky to have received minor injuries after his Chevy Tahoe collided with a train. The train crossing arm and the front end of the SUV received extensive damage but otherwise there were no serious injuries in the collision.

Traffic was rerouted for some hours and the matter is still under investigation. Emergency crews, including the Ponoka Fire Department, police and EMS were called to the scene.

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There were minor injuries in the incident and EMS was not needed after the Oldsmobile Alero rolled.

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On the issue, Omeasoo was scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 7, 2014 but did not show because she had no transportation from Edmonton, where she now resides.

After the incident, Omeasoo was released after being charged but then taken into custody, released after 13 days, then detained once more after failing to appear for a second time on Oct.1, 2014.

By the time of her Oct. 10 sentencing, Omeasoo had served two to three weeks and Judge J.B. Mitchell felt that was an appropriate length, along with the $100 fine and victim surcharge fine.

A woman caught squatting in a Ponoka apartment has been sentenced with a fine and time already spent in custody will count as time served toward her penalty.

Jennifer Omeasoo, 33, pled guilty to her October 2013 offense of unlawfully entering a house and failing to appear at her hearing.

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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

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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.

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PONOKA WORD OF LIFE CHURCH Pastor Rob McArthur

403-783-5659

Sunday @ 10:30 a.m.

Corner of Hwy 53 & Hwy 2A (former Crossroads Restaurant)

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PONOKA UNITED CHURCH Minister: Beatrix Schirner

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Sunday Service 10:00 am.

5020-52 Ave. Ponoka

Phone: 403-783-4087

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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ST. AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH Fr. Chris Gnanaprakasam, S.A.C. Mass Times: 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 9:00 a.m. Sunday

Thanksgiving and the amazing race I travel to Ponoka twice a week from St. Albert. From spring to fall, the drive is largely uneventful, but when winter hits, I welcome the road signs that tell me I’m almost home.

Now just imagine if I were driving through one of those blizzards and I stopped at the Ponoka turnoff on the QE2 and got out of my car thinkPastor ing I was home. To stop Tim Graff there would probably mean my death.

Last week James Strachan mentioned Steve Jobs. Jobs grew up as a Lutheran Christian but died a Buddhist. He was indeed an inspirational speaker and motivator both before and after his encounter with terminal cancer. Many Apple owners are truly thankful for his technological developments and I’ve watched that inspirational 2005 video James mentioned. Death always finds a way to refocus us about what is most meaningful in life.

But why does it take a crisis or death to wake us up to life? Maybe it is as James indicated, a way for us to reflect and connect the dots and hopefully learn something for the time we have left. Or is there something more here?

When we were born, we began a journey that was largely focused on the here and now. It seems that much of our life journey is about the present, constantly facing current problems while trying to maximize our happiness in a thousand different ways.

However, the older we get, the more the present gives way to the past. It is the past that holds all those “better” days that seem larger than life, but there also lie our regrets. Sometimes we find ourselves able to deal with the past, but many times we are unable or disabled or even paralyzed by both the past and the present.

When I was baptized, God took all my brokenness and regrets, past, present and future and drowned them with Christ in his death on the cross. In my baptism into Christ’s death and resurrection, God took me out of those waters and gave me a hope and a future (Romans 6:3-10) that comes to life every day as I recall what Christ has done for me and for all.

I consider this the true beginning of my journey. It’s a journey that has become an amazing race in which all who are baptized find ourselves running, not looking back (Luke 9:62) or sitting on the sidelines, but pressing on toward the goal which God has called us in Christ Jesus (Romans

3:14).

Sometimes this life race is downhill, at other moments it is pretty flat and ordinary, but at times it can be like running through a snowstorm where we’re looking not back, but forward for some sign of hope that we’re almost home.

It’s at times like these that I am thankful for God’s Word in Christ.

Through preaching, baptism, the Lord’s Supper, the Scriptures and even through other Christians the Holy Spirit works through the Word to encourage us on this journey.

These signs of hope remind us not to stop short in this life or to

take some turn that offers only an endless cloverleaf or dead end. Instead, these signs of hope help us to keep our eyes focused on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith (Hebrew 12:2), the one who can lead us out of our past, through our present and into a life-giving future.

Perhaps this past Thanksgiving weekend you took time to give thanks for your many blessings. Are you still thankful on Wednesday?

Well, the race of your life is not yet over and God promises to go with you on that amazing journey leading home to life with God and the best thanksgiving ever.

Who is for some action to protect our green?

Dear Editor, One of the nicest parts of my morning walks is passing through the evergreen grove of trees behind the composite high school. The towering trees impart a sense of calm and peace as I pass by.

It is with some dismay that I notice that this grove receives a good deal less than optimum care from the town, or anyone else, for that matter.

This summer alone, three trees have come down, and remain laying on the ground, rather than having been cleared away.

As I look around the grove, I notice that there are numerous stumps, all that remain of old and rotting trees that have been cut down and

removed.

What is also quite noticeable is that no new saplings have been planted to keep the grove alive.

Without new trees being planted, it is only a matter of a few years before the grove is completely gone!

I’m wondering if there are any other folk who live north along 59 Street who use and enjoy the evergreen grove.

If you are out there, perhaps it’s time that we asked our local councillors to take some action to add new evergreens to the grove, so that our children and grandchildren can enjoy the same walk that we do. Think about it, and make a call.

James Strachan

5113 - 52 Ave., Ponoka, T4J 1H6 403-783-4048 stachurch@shaw.ca

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ZION CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Pastor Fred Knip 9 miles east on Hwy 53 403-782-9877 Jr. Church during service for children Sunday Service 10:30 am

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Reflections of Ponoka Bus tour looks at future visions for Ponoka

BY MIKE RAINONE FOR THE NEWS

During a magnificent fall day last Friday,Oct. 3, 17 enthusiastic citizens of the Town of Ponoka and districts jumped on the comfortable Lions’ bus for a very interesting tour through the rich and rolling hills of north eastern Alberta. These guests included members of the Ponoka and District Recreation Board, mayor and town council, Kinettes and Lion’s Clubs, minor hockey, swim clubs, soccer, and representatives of our Filipino Community Club. They received a warm welcome when they visited the towns of Bonnyville and Wainwright, which have similar populations as Ponoka. Prior to the bus tour, invitations were sent out to all service clubs and sport groups in the community to attend this unique sight-seeing and new idea seeking adventure.

The purpose of the daylong bus tour, which was promoted and organized by the Ponoka and District Recreation Board, was to visit and view the culture and recreation facilities of these busy communities and to meet with their town and county councils, recreation boards, staff, and other officials. A Subway lunch was provided along the way compliments of the Town of Ponoka, with the trip and volunteer driver Frank Thomiser courtesy of the Ponoka Lion’s Club, with Recreation Board Vice-Chair Peter Hall acting as the tour guide. Everyone on the daylong excursion had a wonderful time, were really impressed by the facilities they toured, and had lots of great questions for their congenial hosts at both Bonnyville and Wainwight, including the availability of funding, grants, corporate sponsors, as well as construction and operational costs involved.

A quick glimpse of Wainwright Wainwright is an active and friendly town with a busy retail district, many amenities, an extremely popular community centre, and an armed

Photo by Barry Neath

An excited group from Ponoka and districts poise with the Lions’ Bus at the Bonnyville and District Centennial Centre during a recent tour of Cultural and Recreation facilities in north-eastern Alberta. Our local ambassadors were members of the Ponoka and District Recreation Board, mayor and council, Kinettes and Lions clubs, minor hockey, swim clubs, soccer and the Filipino Community Club.

forces base that accommodates over 1000 soldiers and staff.

Their community centre, which has been referred to by the citizens of the town and districts as the ‘heart of the community’ since its inception, features a six-lane swimming pool, weight rooms, arenas, racket ball courts, three halls with movable walls to make into one large field house, a large common area and kitchen, along with a walking track and climbing wall. The curling rink is separate but located in the same area, with lots of parking spaces available for all the facilities and functions.

The staffs of the Wainwright Community Centre seemed to really enjoy their jobs, and were all dedicated to promoting year round maximum use of all areas. The ongoing regular and new programs activities are provided for all age groups and families from tots to seniors, with absolutely no restrictions on children participating or visiting the facility. The Ponoka visitors were very impressed during their morning visit to see several classes of school students using the centre for various Photo submitted sports activities.

The Male Ward charges at the rapidly progressing Provincial Mental Welcome to Hospital in 1960 are shown here from left to right: Mr. Ray Oness Bonnyville (inset-Male 7), Mr. Clarence Sutherland (Male 9), Mr. Quinn Fate The next stop for (Male 12), Mr. Frank Sutton (Farm dorm), Mr. Ray Ulyett (Male 10), Mr. the Ponoka contingent Ernie Ellis (Dawn View), Mr. Ellis Moore (Farm Dorm), Mr. Don Moller was the bustling Town (Male 11), Mr. Dave Spink Sr. (Eastview), and Mr. C. Evans (Eastview). of Bonnyville, which

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is also of similar size to our community, and features an active retail district, and also serves and works very closely with the 11,800 plus population of their surrounding municipal district. Everyone in the area is extremely proud of their fabulous new community centre, which they also refer to as the ‘heart and soul’ of their community.

This large facility includes a field house added on to two arenas, a small kiddy skating area, a field house with seating for 1000 people to host entertainment and special events, a walking track, climbing wall, lots of rental space for multi-usage, and big common areas with in-house catering. The facility, which plays hosts to an average of 1300 participants every day all year round, also features lots of parking in the area and a permanent farmers’ market, and everyone involved are committed to maximum year-round usage and promotion of all facets of their community centre. Another exciting addition to these very active culture and recreation programs will be the completion of phase two planning of the community swimming pool.

So what is the next step?

Following the successful tour, both Ponoka and District Recreation Board Chairman Barry Neath and Town Councillor Carla Prediger stressed that this was only the first step in reaching out to everyone in both the town and county to generate some very positive energy, ideas, and visions for our culture and recreation facilities and programs as we advance into the future. Over the years, we have established and enjoyed many amenities and successes in and around our great community,

but just like everywhere else in bustling Alberta, there should always be exciting new challenges, steps, and exciting plans that will attract new families, businesses and industry into our friendly fold, for the ongoing benefit and enjoyment of generations of all age groups and walks of life in this thriving community with such great potential.

The newly formed Ponoka and District Recreation Board is led by the Chairman Barry Neath, and also includes VC Peter Hall, Julie Feregan, Ryan Koehli, Tyson Matejka, Town Councillor Carla Prediger, and Recreation Director Wes Amendt. Current projects and plans for the board include a new Ponoka Community Centre, as well as the establishment of a day-byday electronic calendar that will be available to everyone in and around Ponoka, and will list all of the Culture and Recreational activities that are scheduled year round. This fall, Ponoka Town Council will meet with the recreation board to discuss the information and ideas that they gathered during the tour, and then hopefully begin to establish an action plan for the future from which they will share with everyone in both the town and county of Ponoka. It will take a lot of work and co-operation, and it will not all happen overnight, but if all of our sports organizations, service clubs, volunteers and citizens young and old can come together and express their needs and share their ideas as a strong community team, then who knows what might be accomplished for tomorrow and our future generations?

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Opinion

Why our governments need to address poverty now 86 families now hold more wealth than the poorest 11.4 million Canadians Canadians might be surprised to learn that 86 families now hold more wealth than the poorest 11.4 million Canadians. Is this a Canada to be proud of?

Hardly.

According to many studies, the Canadian poverty rate remains high. A recent OECD John Millar report shows that the Troy Media very rich are taking an Columnist ever greater share of income. And a new study from three leading Canadian academics shows the rich obscure the total extent of their individual wealth through private companies, which means they are even richer than we thought.

Why should we care?

Because poverty and inequities hurt all of us in the long run. They erode social cohesion and create a burden on all taxpayers to pay for poverty reduction, healthcare services, unemployment, crime and homelessness.

Our economic system and well-being are at risk of serious deterioration unless we take action now.

Here’s what the evidence says about the devastating outcomes of poverty: poorer health, more chronic disease, more avoidable deaths, social injustice, increasing demand and costs for healthcare services and reduced productivity of the workforce. On a large scale and over the longterm, inequality can also slow the economy and erode democracy, political and social stability.

Those in the bottom half of the economic pecking order with stagnant incomes grow resentful, envious, hopeless and distrustful of business leaders and governments. And so we have social unrest such as the Occupy movement.

How did we get here?

For years, most Canadian governments have followed an agenda based on austerity. They have lowered taxes and cut social programs to balance budgets with a focus on economic growth and “trickle down” economics. The 2014 report of the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer shows that cuts to income tax, GST, corporate taxes and others amount to governments having $30 billion less to spend per year. For the most part, this has meant fewer income supports for the poor and inadequate investments in social housing, early child development, education, healthcare and infrastructure development (with the exception of the federal stimulus program in response to the 2008 recession).

The wealthy have become wealthier with the

help of a higher rate of returns on capital (over incomes), tax breaks for capital gains and wealthy estates, and inadequately controlled offshore banking.

Economist superstar Thomas Piketty points out that these flaws in our economic system are not a reason to abandon the system itself, which has also led to abundant innovation and wealth creation. The solution is rather to moderate the excesses of the system so that prosperity is more equitably shared by the entire population. Even the IMF, which has pushed austerity agendas for decades, has recently stated that growing inequity is bad for economies and judicious

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redistribution is beneficial for economic growth.

Research has shown that countries such as Iceland, Poland and Sweden, which have invested in social programs like health and education in the last decade, have made better recoveries following the recession than those that followed an “austerity” agenda.

Economists call what we need “a judicious redistributive approach” - that is, to raise government revenues via natural resources, taxes on the wealthy (income, estates, capital), regulation of offshore tax havens, and taxes on externalities, such as pollution, tobacco, alcohol and sugar.

Governments should direct these revenues toward social

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investments such as income support, education, healthcare and infrastructure.

The business community also has a role. Businesses can help reduce poverty and inequities by paying their share of corporate taxes and having a triple bottom line - people, planet and profits with a living wage for their staff, co-ownership and profit sharing policies. The public as consumers can vote with their wallets and support such progressive businesses.

We are paying dearly for inaction. It would cost taxpayers less to eradicate poverty than to continue to pay for poverty-related policing, corrections, housing and healthcare. In B.C., the es-

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timated cost to implement a poverty reduction plan is $4 billion annually, according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Right now, poverty costs the province up to $9.2 billion per year.

Businesses and governments must take measures now to reduce poverty and inequities. It is time for concerned citizens to demand action.

John Millar is an expert advisor with EvidenceNetwork. ca and a Clinical Professor at the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia. He is also the vice president of the Public Health Association of BC (PHABC).

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FCSS plans big for its 40th anniversary

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NOTICES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Fall Cleanup Week Begins-October 14, 2014 Town staff will pick up compostable items and tree branches free of charge. The items for pickup must be placed next to your garbage receptacle for pickup no later than October 13th. Regulations when putting out your yard waste for pickup are: Do not bag leaves; Branches no longer than 1.5 metres (5 ft.) in length; and absolutely no pet excrement.

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

This year’s annual general meeting (AGM) for Ponoka’s Family and Community and Support Services (FCSS) is expected to be a celebration of the organization’s long-standing involvement in the community.

FCSS is marking its 40th anniversary at the Stagecoach Saloon Friday, Oct. 24 starting at 4:30 p.m. with an assortment of entertainment that is sure to make a fun evening, explained executive director Shannon Boyce-Campbell.

“What FCSS holds close to its heart is that for 40 years they (staff)

have contributed to the betterment of the lives of many and they certainly look forward to continuing that quest,” said Boyce-Campbell.

Belly dancers, Filipino singers and dancers and a Scottish piper will be among the groups that were asked to take part in the celebration. Also featured will be musical artist Jamie Woodfin and a hoop dancing troupe called the Kokimaw Nipawo Initiatives.

Boyce-Campbell says there has been quite a bit of interest in the event.

Those interested in getting tickets should call FCSS at 403-783-4462.

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Is Your Christmas Party Booked Yet? The Challenges of a Grade 12 Student Today

By Savannah Slater

Looking for a venue to host a birthday, anniversary or Christmas party? Consider renting Hudson’s Green Community Activity Centre, it has seating for 75 and a partially stocked kitchen, for larger groups of up to 250, the Kinsmen Community Centre is the perfect venue for any occasion. Space is also available for rent at the Aquaplex and Complex. For more information please call 403-783-4431.

EVENTS AND RECREATION I am currently a grade 12 student at Ponoka Secondary Campus and have attended the school since I was in grade 9. As my generation grows older and we continue to overcome day to day obstacles, we are faced with diӽerent situations than those of our parents and their generation. As a high school student in this day and age, it is diԀcult to remain focused and to understand what is really important. The education system is constantly evolving and putting more stress on high school students as a whole. Technology has also become a focus in many schools, and as students we are forced to adapt to these new ways.

In many cases, I think it is diԀcult for our parents to understand how diӽerent our high school experience is compared to theirs. We are often treated like kids but expected to act like adults and deal with the stress of everything the education system throws at us. The traditional school environment is no longer in existence and within the last 4 or 5 years we have been faced with more change than one could imagine.

As an evolving generation, I believe that we continue to overcome what is thrown at us and to embrace change. We are a generation that has dealt with these situations our whole lives, and we persevere and accept whatever comes our way. Constant change has allowed us to grow as individuals and to extend our comfort zones with an open mind. When all is said and done though, we still look forward to tomorrow. I believe that we are a generation that is ready to graduate and face the real world, where change is constantly happening.

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Fri & Sat - Sr. Football Playoӽs Sat - Jr Boys & Girls Tournament Sunday - BWT Meeting @7pm Monday - Picture Retakes @8:30 Tuesday - Street Wise Driving School @4pm Tuesday - Sr./Jr. High Awards @ 5pm Please visit our website for all upcoming events and exciting news! www.psc@wolfcreek.ab.ca

Aquaplex & Recreation Update: Parent fitness/tot swim lessons starting Tuesday November 4th until December 2nd. Mom or dad gets a fitness class, while the tot is in a pre-school lesson. Call the pool for more info, 403-783-0131.

Thanksgiving Holiday Swims: Family swim 2 - 4pm, Public swim 4 - 6pm

Library News Library Annual Book Sale - Ponoka Jubilee Library will be hosting its annual USED BOOK SALE, this weekend. The sale runs Friday from 10:00-5:30 and Saturday from 11:00-4:00. Make sure to get to the Library early to get first pick of the many items including children’s books, adult fiction & non-fiction, audiobooks and DVDs. Take what you like, pay what you like. Charlie Calendars will also be available for $20.00 each. Support your library!

Library Silent Auction - Fundraiser Part #2!! Ponoka Jubilee Library will hosting a Silent Auction from October 14 -October 25. Items that have been generously donated by local businesses will be put on display throughout the Library, including such things as restaurant gift certificates, car wash cards, wall hangings, pottery and a multitude of different gift baskets. Come down to the Library at 5110 48 Ave. to place your bid, or check out the items at ponokalibrary.prl.ab.ca.

Public Skating Proudly sponsored by Ponoka Lions Monday-Thursday: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Saturday & Sunday: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm **Shinny Hockey on Weekdays only**

COUNCIL UPDATES & BYLAW INFO Next Town Council Meetings October 28, 2014 @ 7 pm Visit our website @ www.ponoka.ca for copy of the agenda.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK: If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. ~John D. Rockefeller

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Amazing new gadgets have taken over our homes Whatever age or generation we may be, all of us have had to adjust to the amazing communication push-button technology that has slowly invaded our homes and our lives over the past half century or so. I really hope that most of us have eventually been able to fall in love with and figure out these new toys, because now we have multi-TV program choices in HD and 3D with split-screens, we are able to contact people halfway around the world in just a few seconds, and we have all sorts of computers, phones, iPads and Pods and all the rest that can perform instant magic for all ages at the flick of a finger. Just how far has this electronic mayhem come, and when did it all start? I got some great answers this week when I received a neat email from my brother that was entitled ‘The Stranger’, which might just possibly be some required reading in each and every modern household. This new and flamboyant visitor likely arrived in most households in the 1950s, was a little shy at first, but over the years has become a 24-7 resident in just about every room of our palatial homes.

A few years ago after I was born, my dad met a stranger who was new to our small town. From the beginning, dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer and we soon invited him to live with our family. The Stranger was quickly accepted and was around from then on in.

As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family. In my young mind, he had a special niche. My parents were com-

try it on a regular basis. He plementary instructors: Mom made cigarettes look cool, taught me good from evil, cigars manly, and pipes distinand dad taught me to obey. guished.

But the stranger....he was our He talked freely (much storyteller. He would keep us too freely) about sex. His spellbound for hours on end comments were sometimes with adventures, mysteries, blatant, sometimes suggestive, and comedies. and generally embarrassing.

If I wanted to know anyI now know that my early thing about politics, history, concepts about relationships or science, he always knew were influenced strongly by the answers about the past, the stranger. Time after time, understood the present, and he opposed the values of my even seemed able to predict Mike Rainone parents, yet he was seldom the future. He took my famHammertime rebuked and NEVER asked to ily to the first major league leave. baseball game, he made me More than fifty years have laugh, and he made me cry.

The Stranger never stopped talking, but dad passed since the stranger moved in with our family. He has now blended right in, but is didn’t seem to mind.

Sometimes, mom would get up quietly not nearly as fascinating as he was at first. while the rest of us were shushing each oth- Still, if you could walk into my parent’s den er to listen to what he had to say, and she today, you would still find him sitting over would go to the kitchen for some peace and in his corner just waiting for someone to lisquiet. I wonder now if she ever prayed for ten to him talk and watching him drawing his pictures, which quite often made us lose that stranger to leave.

Dad ruled our household with certain complete track of our time, and disrupted moral convictions, but the stranger never our families’ daily schedule.

His name? .....we just call him ‘TV.’ He felt obligated to honour them. Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our home, not has a wife now and we call her ‘Computer.’ from us, our friends, or any visitors. Our Their first child was called ‘Cell Phone.’ the long time visitor however, got away with second was ‘I-Pod.’ and just born this year four-letter words that burned my ears and was a grandchild called ‘I Pad.’ Oh my.... made my dad squirm and my mother blush. how true this is, and there is no doubt that My dad didn’t permit the liberal use of this buzzing and beeping family fun with alcohol, but the stranger encouraged us to all these new fancy gizmos will continue

to grow and flourish long into the future.

Whatever the case, we will just keep on tuning in and enjoying our favourite television shows and games, as well as tweeting, texting, and playing with all the rest of our wild and wonderful toys. Along the way we should also try to turn all these gadgets OFF, and please take a little precious time to.... get outside and enjoy some fresh air, get some exercise and play a physical game, as well as try chatting face to face with others, especially our favorite family and friends, who are by far the most important people in our lives for us to stay plugged in’ to.

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Regional library investing dollars for rainy day

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While the majority of the board has indicated a desire to invest in equity markets, there are also strong critics. Sheppard says despite these strong feelings within the executive committee, he feels they should heed analysts’ advice and stay the course with bonds. “There’s no pressing reason why we should,� said Sheppard.

He researched financial news from the Associated Press, financial magazines and from financial sites to try and formulate an educated recommendation. “A lot of it has to do with the sluggish European economy at the moment and the huge debt load that the United States is under,� explained Sheppard.

The committee decided not to invest in equities or stocks and Sheppard says he will follow the direction of the committee.

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A forward thinking strategy has allowed central Alberta’s Parkland Regional Library (PRL) network to productively use and grow a residual fund into a major asset base, which can now proRonald Sheppard, director of PRL. vide operational spending for the regions libraries up to a full year.

In 1998, the PRL was restructured and how it received funding changed; but after the change, some money from the previous funding scheme was left over. Rather than spend it, the PRL board at that time decided to invest it and there is now approximately $652,000 in the account. “It was in very conservative Canadian type funds,� explained Ronald Sheppard, director of PRL. The PRL is made up of 50 member municipalities, including the Town of Ponoka, but an executive committee, made up of 10 people, directs Sheppard.

He says much of the funding the PRL receives is from grants provided by the Government of Alberta and through municipal levies or fees charged to municipalities, but this money was not part of those fees.

Ponoka town councillors have recently questioned the purpose behind PRL investing money and some have wondered whether that can be higher than the rate of return, then that investment done. Some councillors were under the impression may not be doing as well as intended, he said. “You’re actually losing buying power from the that money was unable to be invested as they were money that you possess,� said Sheppard. under the impression the money came from PRL Dealing with economic ups and downs member municipalities.

With the economic downturn in 2008, PRL “We do not budget any money for reserves anymore. It’s purely operating dollars,� Sheppard lost the equivalent of profit from its original investment, but not the principal. Sheppard says said, in relation to the question.

He suggests some of the confusion comes from those stocks recovered some months later.

In an effort to avoid a loss, the board switched the Municipal Government Act (MGA), which does not allow equity investments with taxpayers’ its portfolio during 2010 and 2011 to bonds. “We dollars. Municipalities can however, invest in in- got out of the equity market.�

Rather than request money from municipalistruments such as bonds and debentures or other items that do not put that money at risk. The PRL ties and the province each time a large capital is actually governed by the Libraries Act, which project is needed, the PRL uses this money to pay for large items. Sheppard says the account balance falls under different legislation. fluctuates as the PRL uses money for different Why does the PRL invest its money? “Apart from our operating grants from the pro- projects.

He says the only money they invest is the legvincial government and from the levies that we place on municipalities, we don’t have any source acy dollars from when they were restructured in of income,� explained Sheppard.

This means if a set of boilers need to be replaced at the PRL building and the cost is $40,000, they foot the bill. Any services they offer, the PRL is responsible for and Sheppard says major capital costs would have to come from this fund. In other areas, the PRL would need to dip into its reserve if operating grants from the province are reduced, „Receive $25 BK Dollars per night to treat thyself right!‚ which has occurred before. #PPL B 3FHVMBS 3PPN BU JO UIF #MBDL ,OJHIU *OO JO 3FE %FFS BOE SFDFJWF #, %PMMBST If the PRL were UP TQFOE JO UIF IPUFM *NBHJOF UIF GVO ZPV DPVME IBWF XJUI PS JG ZPV TUBZ to find itself with no UXP OJHIUT FOKPZ XJOF XJUI B NFNPSBCMF NFBM BU 3FNJOHUPOhT (SJMM PS PSEFS provincial funding, it SPPN TFSWJDF BOE FOKPZ CSFBLGBTU JO CFE PS ZPVS GBWPSJUF DPDLUBJM JO +#hT -PVOHF would be able to oper PS VQHSBEF UP B ,JOH CFE PS ZPVhMM UIJOL PG TPNFUIJOH ate for one year. #PPL OPX BOE TBWF UIZ DPJO Sheppard says the board at that time wanted to ensure interest #MBDL ,OJHIU *OO ] "WFOVF ] 3FE %FFS "MCFSUB $BOBEB earned from the invest1MFBTF RVPUF SFGFSFODF BU UIF UJNF PG CPPLJOH PON ments was greater than 'PS SFTFSWBUJPOT QMFBTF DBMM 1.800.661.8793 PS CPPL POMJOF www.blackknightinn.ca the rate of inflation.

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1998. “All we’re trying to do is protect our funds from inflation,� he added.

Their goal is to manage their funds effectively. “That’s a proper business plan.�

In the world of agencies that rely on government funding, some tend save their money and then scramble at the end of their fiscal year spending money in fear if there is money left over, their budget will be reduced.

Executive committee looks at investing again Recently, Sheppard says, the executive committee instructed him to research the potential for re-investing in the equity market. However, that request was met with strong opposition from a small group within the executive committee. “There’s nothing precluding us from investing in the stock market, it’s just, is it desirable?� Sheppard asked.

He met with the executive committee Thursday, Oct. 9 to provide his recommendation, which is to keep the money in bonds until 2015 is over.

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Rural students harvest hundreds of pounds of honey

BY AMELIA NAISMITH

What began last year as a school project by two Grade 4 students has evolved into a small business and the pride of an entire community.

Each year, Crestomere School holds an excellent learning exposition where groups of two or three students choose a subject of personal interest and delve into research.

Principal Penny Mueller taught a Grade 3-4 class and, after watching a television program on the concern over honeybees, held a discussion with her students, not related to the exposition.

When the time for the exposition arrived, Mueller asked if any students were interested in deeply researching the honeybee and Aspen McTaggart and Charlotte Cutts — Grade 4 at the time — jumped at the chance.

“They learned everything about the honeybee,” said Mueller, referring to the students’ research on honey production, hives and how humans are harming the bees’ environment.

Mueller says the more the two girls learned, the more curious they and Mueller became about the idea of keeping hives at school. “The more curious we became, the more passionate we got. Along the way we discovered all these people in our area who were just as passionate.”

Nixon Honey donated two full hives to the school and the girls worked with John Sodaburg, a honeybee expert from Lacombe. He taught Mueller, McTaggart and Cutts how to manage the hives, care for the bees and extract the honey.

“By the end of the season, we had extracted nearly 480 pounds of honey,” said Mueller. The extracting team was made up of Mueller, McTaggart, Cutts and her younger sister and took a whole afternoon once school was let out.

“The two girls have done everything . . . I think what’s really cool about it is it started as a simple learning project about bees,” said Mueller.

The honey was harvested in early August and once again in early September of this year. Many students who were not originally involved in the project made themselves available to check on the

“I think what’s really cool about it is it started as a simple learning project about bees.”

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bees.

“The ownership with the kids is incredible,” said Mueller.

“It became a school project. Everybody wanted to take part in it,” she added. “That’s just a sign of true ownership.”

After the honey was harvested, the students and Mueller wanted to sell their product via small, labeled jars reading Bee Buddies Honey. “We didn’t just want to put it in Tupperware tubs. We wanted to make the best we could and really learn entrepreneurial skills.”

The brand name came from the nickname Mueller had accidentally given McTaggart and Cutts. “So that just seemed natural when we were standing around trying to decide what to call our little business.” continued on page 12

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Charlotte Cutts and Teresa McTaggart are two former Grade 4 students of Crestomere School who along with the help of principal Penny Mueller and John Sodaburg began a bee keeping project on school grounds.

Photo courtesy of Penny Mueller

continued from page 11 When it came to selling the honey, parents and other community members were anticipating their purchase long before the first harvest.

Some parent would visit the school to buy 12 to 24 jars at a time, says Mueller. By Oct. 9, only 11 jars remained from the original 480 pounds.

“It’s been a great little fundraiser for the school. The money will just go back into sustaining the Bee Buddies project,” said Mueller. Money raised from the honey sale will also be used to support any other Crestomere School entrepreneurial ventures.

Recently the Alberta Government has been making many changes to educational direction and practices through initiatives such as Inspiring Education and is placing a larger focus on making students accountable for their own education with engaging, hands-on lessons.

“This is student engagement at its best, and along the way the kids are developing an entrepreneurial spirit,” said Mueller.

Next year the project will continue with the student “bee experts” McTaggart and Cutts assuming more of a teaching role for the other students.

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On Wednesday, November 5, the Ponoka News, with the generous support of the local business community, will pay tribute to those who have answered Canada’s call in time of need by publishing a very special pictorial section honouring our veterans.

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Collision with moose closes Highway 2 south of Ponoka Emergency crews were called to the scene of a moose versus car collision just south of Ponoka on Highway 2 Friday, Oct. 10 in the evening. STARS Air Ambulance was called in to transport a women to Edmonton and the northbound lanes were closed to allow for the landing.

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A young family of four had their thanksgiving plans cut short after a moose walked into the path of their vehicle.

Emergency crews were called to the scene of a collision with a moose on the evening of Friday Oct. 10 on Highway 2 just south of Ponoka.

Two adults and two children were in a white Buick sedan northbound on Highway 2 just before the Ponoka turnoff when the moose crossed the road and entered the path of the car.

The Buick then rolled into the median.

A 24-year-old female passenger suffered serious injuries and was transported by STARS Air Ambulance to Edmonton while the 24-year-old driver and his children — one three-year-old child and the other under oneyear-old — were taken to the Ponoka Hospital and Care Centre with undetermined injuries.

The northbound lanes were closed for some time to allow STARS to land.

The moose died as a result of the collision.

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Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014

High-end body image technology now in Ponoka

BY PONOKA NEWS STAFF

After initiating lots of debate and discussions over their possible impact on human health, their alleged or presumed carcinogen effects through their use in equipment from microwave ovens to cell phones, radio frequency is now part of a skin tightening technology and it has come to Ponoka.

Ponoka’s Altitude Laser Spa announced its new offering, the top of the line technology on Wednesday, Oct. 8 with an open house and demonstrations.

Venus Legacy, a non-invasive procedure for body contouring, cellulite reduction, wrinkle reduction, circumferential reduction, skin tightening and stretch mark reduction can be used on the face, forehead, neck and body.

“This is the newest technology that’s available for radio frequency skin tightening,” said Darren Brown, territory manager for Venus Concept.

Brown says previous similar procedures were more painful and used ultrasound. Some people needed pain medication. “You get all drugged up for the treatment . . . it doesn’t make any sense yet we subject ourselves to that torture,” he said of the earlier methods.

Using magnetic pulse and radio frequency, Venus Legacy heats the body’s tissue and simultaneously promotes healing. Together, the two aspects of the machine encourage the body to create new collagen and tighten the existing collagen.

“We we’re trying to do is mobilize the body’s response,” said Brown.

The machine itself does not heat up to warm the body, but instead utilizes the body’s own heat, acting similar to a conductor and practically erasing the potential of danger.

Brown says the machine is safe for the general public but there are some instances when it should not be used; over open wounds or infections, and on cancerous areas.

Legacy became available in Canada in April of this year and is available worldwide, from Europe to South America to Russia and Asia.

A full treatment is six sessions, with one week intervals and results can be seen over one year after the last session.

“The benefits are several-fold,” said Brown.

“The big benefit is it’s very safe.”

Territory manager Darren Brown demonstrates Venus Legacy technology at Altitude Laser Spa, Oct. 8.

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Maskwacis youth speak at native development conference

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

Two Maskwacis youth had their voices heard recently during a conference aimed at the advancement of First Nations economic development officers.

Ashley Dennehy, of the Samson Cree Nation and Danielle Lightning of the Ermineskin Cree Nation, took part in a national native youth panel at the Council for Advancement of Native Development Officers (CANDO) conference in Nanaimo, B.C. from Sept. 22 to 25.

CANDO was founded by economic development officers across the country in 1990 as a non-profit society aimed at enhancing the skills of First Nations development officers. Ten years ago the group started the youth panel to recognize their successes.

Dennehy and Lightning were nominated to be part of a six-member youth panel to speak on projects they have been working on. Dennehy says the panel is one of the more popular segments of the conference as attendees are eager to hear about exciting new projects.

“We’re going to be the next leaders of our community,” she added.

While most of their stories involved entrepreneurship, Dennehy’s focus has been more on social change. She has taken part in projects in Africa and a Walk for Water initiative in Maskwacis. Dennehy says she focuses her time on social justice issues.

The panel also gave her an opportunity to get some inspiration and work closely with different groups. “I thought we had a lot of overlap and potential networking opportunities.”

“It just gives me hope for the future of our communities,” she added.

For Lightning, the experience was an opportunity to be inspired by the activities of her fellow panel members. She has two more years of education at Grant MacEwan University with a major in management studies.

Lightning was inspired by the work of fellow panelist, Michael Peters of the Glooscap First Nation in Nova Scotia. She feels his story helps paint the picture of what she aspires to do.

“It’s nice to know what he’s done to get where he is,” she explained.

Lightning’s journey started with the desire to own a fashion business. After receiving necessary certificates to pursue the career, she realized she needed a business background. Lightning had to overcome several obstacles in order to be accepted at Grant MacEwan and it took her three tries before the school accepted her application.

“Every time I reach that goal, I make more goals,” said Lightning.

She told her story to attendees at the conference and feels each of the youth panelists’ goals are similar, they just got there through different paths. Lightning feels she and Dennehy made the Maskwacis community proud.

“We’re going to be the next leaders of our community.”

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Ashley Dennehy, of the Samson Cree Nation and Danielle Lightning of the Ermineskin Cree Nation, took part in a national native youth panel at the Council for Advancement of Native Development Officers (CANDO) conference in Nanaimo, B.C. from Sept. 22 to 25.

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Farmers having trouble keeping their livestock at a good weight or see problems with animals’ hooves may need to look at their feed and the potential of ergot fungi in it.

Ergot is a fungus that infects many cereals and grasses such as triticale, wheat, barley and rye and while harvest screenings separates the plant disease from human consumption, what’s left usually gets fed to livestock, explained Art Preachuk, agricultural manager with Red Deer County.

He says three animals died in Red Deer County last year that researchers confirmed were a result of ergot poisoning, and in the Stettler area 11 animals have died in recent years due to the same issue.

“If that makes it into the feed, it’s poisonous to animals,” Preachuk explained.

If the weather is cool and damp in the late spring and early summer, these are ideal times for the fungus to grow, explained Preachuk. The fungus can be identified by black bodies that replace the grains of the affected head.

The fungus causes animals’ blood to thin and Preachuck says farmers should inspect an animal’s hooves to see if they are rotting. To prevent the disease, Preachuk recommends farmers follow a regular drop rotation and destroy screenings from the edge of an area.

“It’s usually heavier on the outside of the field,” said Preachuk.

“Don’t put that ergot into your cattle feed, it’s not going to help you,” he added.

He feels education is the best way to understand the problem and recommends farmers and seed producers ensure there is as little ergot in the grains as possible.

“Farmers should be asking their feed operators what levels they use in the feed,” he advised.

He suggests this issue could get worse over time if not kept in check. “It’s one of those sleepers.”

Control strategies Management and control strategies recommended by Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development suggest farmers reduce inoculum levels and apply copper fertilizer. Other recommendations are: • Test soils for copper availability; an application of copper fertilizer may be needed if levels are below 1 ppm in many soils.

• Use a rotation with non-host crops to reduce inoculum levels. Ergots rarely survive more than a year in the soil.

• Bury crop residue 2.5 cm or more into soil to prevent spore-producing “mushrooms” from emerging above ground. continued on page 20

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Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014

. . . keep an eye on ergot fungi continued from page 19 • Delay swathing, particularly in headland areas if possible, because windy weather will shake out

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Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014

Library takes reading to the outdoors

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

Going for a walk is about to get more fun for the entire family with an initiative by the Ponoka Jubilee Library.

Inspired by a plan called the StoryWalk Project in the United States, library manager David Tremblay says they are hoping to add a fun feature at the Diamond Willow Trail, starting at the Scout Hall that is intended to inspire reading in children.

Working closely with Wes Amendt, director of community services for the town, Tremblay asked for permission to put 32 stakes along the trail that will eventually hold pages from children’s books.

“He (Wes) thought it would be a great addition that would add value to the path,” said Tremblay.

In the near future Tremblay will use industrial Velcro to secure laminated pages from a children’s

book to these stakes. Each stake will have one or two pages from the book and as families walk down the path, they will be able to follow the story from start to finish.

“I thought it would be a beautiful fit because we have a beautiful pathway here,” he explained.

Some of the stakes have been ripped out recently and Tremblay wanted to inform residents about the project so that if they do see the stakes, they should leave them there until the pages are ready.

He feels this will be a great way to get people walking and reading and hopes to have the first book ready for display before it snows. The project is relatively inexpensive; the cost involves stakes, books and the lamination. A community volunteer built the stakes.

Tremblay says the first stake will have the first page of a book and an explanation on the StoryWalk Project and the last stake will have a feedback questionnaire for families.

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Politicians can say the darndest things from time to time; like a few weeks ago when Calgary City Councillor Ray Jones advocated a massive hike to fees for filing Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.

With any luck, he and other politicians who want to keep their secrets hidden won’t get the chance.

The plan to make filing Freedom of Information requests prohibitively expensive has been bubbling below the surface for over a year now. The idea is to jack up the fees on FOI requests to make them overly pricy to file, thus meaning fewer people will file them.

You see, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), journalists, opposition parties and concerned Albertans have used FOI over the last few years to expose an almost endless lineup of foul deeds inside of the Alberta government and several municipalities.

Redford’s Sky Palace? That was discovered through FOI. Tobacco Gate? Also through FOI. AHS executive billing taxpayers for his butler? FOI. Extravagant salaries and severance packages for political staff? FOI. Most of Redford’s international junkets?

FOI. The financial gong show in Fort McMurray?

FOI. High-income earners living in social housing?

FOI. Multimillion dollar, uncompetitive contracts for major PC Party donors? Government funding for anti-oil lobbyists? The cost of ‘Building Alberta’ signs with Alison Redford’s name plastered across them?

FOI. FOI. FOI. The list goes on and on and on.

In short, Albertans would have no idea about dozens of wasteful scandals in their governments without the ability of curious citizens to obtain documents via FOI. Some in government view FOI not as a transparency tool to hold them accountable, but as a gaping hole in the ship of state. It needs to be plugged, and the way they have quietly (or in Councillor Jones’ case, loudly) been proposing to do it is to make it too expensive to ever file these pesky information requests.

Of course, that’s not their public argument. Their casus belli is that it costs money to process FOI requests and that governments cannot afford to keep doing that. Calgary Councillor Ray Jones bemoaned the $388,000 that it costs the city every year to run its FOI department. Calgary Mayor Nenshi even went as far as to claim that those who file FOI requests are “wasting money.”

At $388,000, Calgary’s FOI department must be the leanest, meanest little slice of bureaucracy over at city hall. Calgary’s FOI budget makes up 0.012 per cent of the city’s $3.1 billion operating budget.

Put another way, the city spends 7,989 times more than the FOI budget on other things. If anything is breaking the bank at city hall, it’s surely not the small department charged with releasing information about the other 99.988 per cent of the city.

For $388,000, this little department releases an incredible amount of information to the public used by citizens to hold the city accountable. Same goes for the provincial government and other municipalities.

Some municipalities and provincial departments have already tried to shut down legitimate information requests by slapping ridiculous search fees on them. For example, the CTF filed FOI requests for the expense claims of Stephen Mandel when he was Edmonton mayor and the rest of his council. Edmonton bureaucrats came back and told the CTF that it would cost us $11,580 to get PDFs of these basic documents. Of that, the city wanted $4,630 for Mandel’s documents alone. Either he had the largest expense files in Alberta history, or somebody was trying to block the release of the information.

The CTF fought this decision with the Information Commissioner for over a year in a long appeals process and eventually won. We received the information only after Mandel was retired from the mayor’s office.

Premier Jim Prentice has pledged to introduce a

new ‘Accountability Act’ in the fall sitting of the legislature. The rumor mill at the legislature is churning out word that this bill could contain changes to the FOI Act. Changes are certainly needed to the FOI

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Bolivia and Brazil: What do they have in common?

To nobody’s great surprise, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has won a third 5-year term by a landslide majority. It’s no surprise because Bolivia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has tripled since he took office in 2006. The number of people living in poverty has fallen by a quarter, even the poorest now have the right to a pension, and illiteracy has fallen to zero. Of course he won.

What has happened in Bolivia seems as miraculous as what happened in Brazil, where another left-wing president, Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva, took office in 2003.

The economy started growing at 5 percent a year, unemployment fell steeply, and some 40 million Brazilians, almost a quarter of the population, were lifted out of poverty.

Lula’s former chief of staff and successor as president, Dilma Rousseff, is also likely to win another term in office.

Is there some secret they share? Many other South American economies have been growing fast too, but without the dramatic change in the distribution of income that has happened in Brazil and Bolivia.

Even the late Hugo Chavez’s “Bolivarian revolution” in Venezuela, for all its anti-imperialist rhetoric and despite the country’s great oil wealth, has not delivered a comparable transformation in the lives of the poor.

Evo Morales has another claim to fame, too. He comes from the poorest of the poor: “Until I was 14, I had no idea there was such a thing as underwear. I slept in my clothes...

(which) my mother only reeconomy – oil, gas, tin and moved for two reasons: to look zinc mining and key utilifor lice or to patch an elbow or ties – he negotiated deals that a knee,” he wrote in his recent compensated foreign investors autobiography. He spent only and kept the markets happy. a short time in school, and he All the rest of it – things did not become fluent in Spanlike Morales calling Barack ish until he was a young adult.

Obama “an imperialist” at the Morales grew up speaking UN General Assembly meetAymara, one of the languages ing in New York last month, spoken by Bolivia’s indigenous and Rousseff cancelling a peoples. They are a two-thirds scheduled state visit to the majority of the country’s popuUnited States last year after lation, but in almost 200 years Edward Snowden revealed Gwynne Dyer of independence Morales is that the US National Security Think the first indigenous Bolivian Agency had been spying on Globally to become president (all preher emails – simply doesn’t vious presidents were drawn worry serious investors so from the 15 percent white minority). And long as the numbers come out right and the his government passed a new constitution financial and fiscal environment is predictin 2009 that entrenches indigenous rights in able. politics and in law.

So Morales has not been punished by the So should we hail the arrival of a new markets for being a “socialist”, and neither and better model for economic growth and has Rousseff. Both still have strong support social justice? Unfortunately, no. The only at home, too. Unlike Morales, Rousseff economic secret that Lula, Dilma and Evo didn’t get enough votes in the first round of all share is that if you want the economy to the presidential election earlier this month grow, you must not frighten the horses. to avoid a run-off on 26 October, but she The international markets got ready for will probably win again even though the a meltdown when Lula, a self-taught for- Brazilian economy is now teetering on the mer trade union leader with a penchant for brink of a recession. radical rhetoric, became president of BraDespite all the similarities, however, zil, but he turned out to be the very soul of comparing Brazil and Bolivia is rather like fiscal responsibility. And although Morales comparing apples and oranges here. Branationalised a large part of the Bolivian zil has a very large and diversified internal

market (fourth largest car-maker in the world, for example), and has twenty times as many people as Bolivia. The latter has an economy that is almost totally dependent on the export of commodities, mainly oil, gas and minerals.

Bolivia’s soaring GDP of the past decade, and the modest prosperity it has brought to what was South America’s poorest country, is mostly fairy gold. What goes up usually comes down again eventually, and what drove Bolivia’s GDP up was almost entirely rising commodity prices.

When they come down again, so will the GDP, the government’s income, and its ability to support even the sketchiest outline of a welfare state.

In the meantime, Morales has spent the extra money wisely, and it will be very hard for any successor to abandon this kind of “social spending”. He has also made it normal for Bolivia’s indigenous majority to have a big say in policy decisions at the national level, and that too will be almost impossible to roll back. He has even built up big financial reserves to cope with falling commodity prices. But he has not really transformed the economy.

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

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A TV idol’s meditations “What I Know for Sure” by Oprah Winfrey c.2014, Macmillan Audiobook from Flatiron Books $24.99 / $28.99 Canada 4 CDs / 4 hours Death and taxes.

That’s what your father used to say were the only things in life that you could count on. Neither one was escapable; both were Terri consistent.

Schlichenmeyer You can also bet that The Bookworm night will follow day and that there’s good in the world somewhere.

You know rules were meant to be broken and hearts can mend. And after listening to “What I Know for Sure” by Oprah Winfrey, you’ll learn a few other things you can pretty well rely on.

Years ago, during an interview, the great Gene Siskel asked Oprah Winfrey what she knew for sure. Winfrey was “at a complete loss for words…”

“At the end of the day,” she says, “what exactly do I know for sure?”

The answer was in fourteen years’ worth of her magazine columns – and in this book.

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says you have to clean your plate.

Treasure your neighbors and friends, she says, and take time to play. Read books. Look for connections with others, but remember that you control your own life. Know that who you are supposed to be has a lot to do with who you are now. Communicate, but know when to be quiet. Understand that love doesn’t have to be in the romantic sense.

Learn the power of “thank you” – and that includes gratitude for yourself and the body you’ve got. Take care of that body. Embrace growing older. Look for miracles. Be ready to give, but learn to

say “no.”

And remember: “If you’re holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you’re wasting your time.” Be fearless. Be compassionate. “Keep moving.”

I’m always of the mind that an audiobook is better when read by its author.

In this case, “What I Know for Sure” is a double delight because… well, it’s Oprah.

Indeed, I couldn’t imagine anyone other than author Oprah Winfrey presenting this book – in part, because only Winfrey can relay the excitement we

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know well from her TV shows; and in part, because she adds so much emotion to this audiobook. We feel the joy, the heartbreak, and the fun about which she talks - but don’t think for a minute that this book is just fluffy. No, there’s solid advice inside here, ideas that are useful for anyone, and stories that are perfectly entertaining.

This is an easy audiobook to listen to because it’s filled with positivity and… well, it’s Oprah. And if you’re a fan, then “What I Know For Sure” is one I think you’ll love to death.

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The Drop-In would like to thank Jim Hamilton for his donation of a year’s cable service for the TV in the lounge room. More sports channels have been added for all you sports enthusiasts.

Programs now on regular winter schedule Drop-in’s welcome at all events Regular Jam session every Saturday at 1:00pm Oct 19 - Gospel Concert 7:00pm music by Strings and Things Oct. 24 - Potluck and General Meeting 5:30pm. Please bring your own plates & cutlery Billiards - 9:00am Mon through Sat – 50 cents per game. Honor system Monday Bridge 1:00pm Monday Whist - 1:30pm Monday Yoga - 6:30pm NEW PROGRAM Tuesday & Thursday Exercise class 9:30am Tuesday Shuffleboard - October 7 Wednesday Sewing Guild 9:30am to 4pm Wednesday Cribbage 1:00pm Wednesday Duplicate Bridge 7:00pm Wednesday Floor Curling - October 8 Thursday Weaving 1:00pm Welcome to drop-in to see how it’s done Thursday Bridge 1:00pm Thursday Art Club Drop In Noon to 4pm Thursday Pickleball - 7:00pm at Tennis Courts (weather permitting, otherwise at Drop-In) Friday “500” 1:00pm Saturday Yoga 9:30am NEW PROGRAM Memberships available for 2015 - $10.00 per person. To rent our facility contact Dorothy @ 403-783-3027 or George @ 403-783- 3514 or leave a message @ 403-783-5012. Rentals are increasing and we would like to invite our town administration, business groups, and general public (Wedding, funeral, and Birthday groups), to inquire about rentals services and prices early in their planning. We may fit your bill!

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Mecca Glen implements bully prevention program

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

Students and teachers at Mecca Glen School took pride Thursday, Oct. 9 with the implementation of a bullying-prevention program that is intended to change the way stakeholders look at the issue.

Last year the school received funding to implement the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, which is a program designed to change the culture of bullying in schools, explained principal Alger Libby.

That first year was a year of training for staff and a small committee that learned how the program works.

“This is the first exposure the kids are going to have to it,” said Libby of the Thursday’s activity.

Three teachers, a social worker, two parents representing the older and younger students and a community representative make up the committee spearheading the program. Libby looks forward to seeing positive results over the course of the year.

“It’s not just a way of getting kids to stop bullying, it’s a way of life; a paradigm shift,” said Libby.

They approach behavioral issues rather than target the person commiting the offence.

“It’s not targeting or even labeling the offenders…there’s care for using bullying be-

Students at Mecca Glen School get ready to start the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, Thursday, Oct. 9.

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haviour as well,” explained Pastor Ted Hill, a member of committee who also teaches the religion class.

“It’s very much about shaping the atmosphere of the whole school,” he added.

Libby says weekly classroom meetings are scheduled for the entire school to open up conversations about any issues students are working on. Hill added they intend to adopt all parts of the program as the best results appear to come when schools wholly commit to it.

“You can talk about what’s going on in the playground,” offered Libby.

Ponoka RCMP Staff Sgt. Cameron Chisholm helped bring the Olweus program to the Mecca Glen and Crestomere Schools as a pilot project. He hopes to see Wolf Creek Public Schools adopt the program district wide.

“I’m looking forward to seeing positive results in bullying (prevention),” said Chisholm.

He told students that bullying issues affect a student’s work, mental health and self-esteem and this program addresses those challenges.

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BMO Economics Housing Report: The housing boom-and then there were three While housing markets across the country have largely simmered down, that’s not so in Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver Report shows deep gulf between the boomtime conditions in Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver, and the lacklustre activity almost everywhere else While housing markets across the country have largely simmered down, that’s not so in Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver where prices are rising sharply, according to a new report from BMO Economics.

“The housing boom that began early last decade effectively ended with the 2008 recession and several turns of the mortgage-access screws.”

Sal Guatieri Senior Economist, BMO Capital Markets, The report shows that strong demand and lean listings in the ‘Hot-3’ markets have sent prices soaring, while most other regions have cooled.

Prices are flat in Montreal and Ottawa, and falling in Saguenay and Saint John. A few western cities have also caught a chill, including Regina (where prices have dropped -2.4 per cent yearover-year) and Victoria (-9 per cent since 2010).

According to Sal Guatieri, Senior Economist, BMO Capital Markets, reasons behind the nationwide cool-down are clear.

“The housing boom that began early last decade effectively ended with the 2008 recession and several turns of the mortgage-access screws,” noted Mr. Guatieri. “Despite reasonable valuations, most regions won’t regain their former pep, as interest rates are likely to climb next year.”

However, more puzzling are the rapid price gains in Calgary and Toronto, and the quick recovery in Vancouver. The report notes five factors driving activity in the three cities: -- Strong population growth: The combined population of the Hot-3 has risen twice as fast as other regions for the past decade - a cumulative

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Contested Conversations Japan’s largest supermarket chain, Aeon, is getting into the business of farming Ahead of the U.S.D.A.’s October W.A.S.D.E. report on Friday, Oct. 10, the grains market remained relatively pressured to the downside thanks to bigger-than-expected yields coming off of U.S. corn and soybean fields. On the flipside of harvest, Russian producers have planted a large majority of their winter wheat crop already, but given last year’s delayed seeding pace due to heavy fall rains, things are roughly at an average pace. While some may argue that planting into dry soils isn’t really condoned, Russia isn’t the Amazon rainforest so it’s not too big a deal in my opinion that they didn’t get the same precipitation as last year. On the export side of things, while Russia exported 4.6 million tonnes of grain in August, they only shipped out 3.8 million tonnes in Septem-

ber, including 2.8 million tonnes of wheat. The slowdown has been partially caused by a depreciation of the Russian rouble and lower prices offered to farmers. With Russia out of the global wheat trade, E.U. and North American players have started to get more competitive in Middle Eastern markets but should prices rise, you can bet they’ll start talking and be back in the game.

The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization expects world stocks of coarse grains (i.e. barley, corn, and sorghum) to reach 257.4 million tonnes by the end of the 2014/15 marketing year, the highest they’ve been since 1986-87.

The rise is mostly attributed to increased global corn production, and combined with wheat stocks pegged by the F.A.O. at 192.4 million tonnes, it’s the main reason the

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U.N. says food prices have dropped to their lowest since August 2010. With six straight months of decline of the UN’s food price index, “it’s the longest period of continuous decline…since the late 1990s.” Speaking of prices, Japan’s largest supermarket chain, Aeon, is getting into the business of BrennanTurner farming with plan’s to Farmlead become the country’s largest rice grower in order to provide a cheaper product. The Japanese government is creating a business environment for large corporations to rent farmland from producers. In fact, “the government wants 80 per cent of farmland to be cultivated by large-scale farms to make it competitive” with other free trade countries and revitalize the economy. Can you imagine if Safeway, Sobeys, or Costco got into the farming game? I can’t.

While we thought things were improving when it came to rail logistics, more data coming out shows that the railroad companies went for the easy-to-access grain first! C.P. and C.N are suggesting that farmers aren’t delivering to the elevators in less-regular movement corridors

such as northern or southwestern areas of Saskatchewan. However, it’s more than likely that in some of these areas, full 100-car loads aren’t available so the companies are less inclined to make these areas a priority. Why would they do this? Probably the best example is the recent rhetoric being put out by railroads about focusing on efficiency and profitability (which is in question with yet another rail derailment this past week by Wadena, SK). When you’re using the same amount of locomotives to get less grain in an area farther out from final destinations, this will certainly affect the bottom line. Ultimately, it’s still not a perfect marriage. More conversations need to be had between the various levels of the value chain to figure out what’s not working, why it’s not working, and how to fix it.

To growth, Brennan Turner President, FarmLead.com Brennan Turner is originally from Foam Lake, SK, where his family started farming the land in the 1920s. After completing his degree in economics from Yale University and then playing some pro hockey, Mr. Turner spent some time working in finance before starting FarmLead. com, a risk-free, transparent online and mobile grain marketplace (app available for iOS and Android). His weekly column is a summary of his free, daily market note, the FarmLead Breakfast Brief. He can be reached via email (b.turner@ farmlead.com) or phone (1-855-332-7653).

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Broncs end season without a win

BY MUSTAFA ERIC

Ponoka’s Senior Broncs hosted Stettler’s Wildcats on Thursday, Oct. 9 in the last regular season game, and as in previous games, a bold defensive effort was not enough to secure a win, with the visitors taking home a 35-0 victory before the start of the playoffs.

The first quarter saw the Broncs defense hold off the advances of the visiting Wildcats, forcing the opponents to turnover the ball, getting first downs and recovering fumbles. But two minutes from the end of the quarter, Stettler’s Austin Rosland scored the first touch down and with the successful conversion visitors took a 7-0 lead.

The beginning of the second quarter saw some revived attempts to get the offense going for the Broncs but a second touchdown by the visiting Wildcats drowned the enthusiasm of the hosts with visitors establishing a complete domination on the field. The first half ended 14-0 for the Widlcats.

Throughout the second half, a better coordinated and more efficiently organized Wildcats team maintained possession without giving many chances to Broncs, and with some officiating blunders adding salt to the injury, Ponoka boys have had their morale deep under the water while the Stettler side exploded with three more touchdowns and ensuing successful conversions ending the game with a lopsided score for the visitors.

Head coach Scott MacGregor said they had an “awful

Robert Crier of Broncs dives to stop the Wildcats carrier from scoring another touchdown in the third quarter of the game at the PSC football field on Thursday, Oct.9. The game ended with a 35-0 win for the visiting Wildcats.

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start” to the game. While he said the offensive drive at the beginning of the second half was the longest of the whole season, they just couldn’t find the “red zone” to score.

Senior Broncs travel to Stettler on Wednesday, Oct. 15 to face off with Wildcats for the second time in less than a week for the first round of playoffs.

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A day after they won their first regular season game in a few years, Ponoka Stampeders almost repeated the feat on home ice on Saturday, Oct. 11, but an overtime goal by the opposition shattered the dream, postponing the celebration by the home fans to the next occasion.

Saturday’s gruelling and well-matched Junior Heritage League hockey game against Medicine Hat Cubs ended 6-5 in favour of the visitors, but it by no means cast a shadow on the away victory by Stampeders versus High River with a score of 5-2 a day earlier.

Stampeders’ home game was tied 5-5 until the last two minutes of overtime, when the Medicine Hat Cubs scored their winning point in power play, returning home with the win.

“We came out and we played well,” said head coach Mark Dobler in reference to the aggressive game, during which the Stampeders dominated the rink most of the time.

The first period ended in 0-0 and Dobler says the Stampeders had created many opportunities to score but just were not able to follow through with the puck in the net.

Picking up heat in the second period, the Ponoka boys scored four times with three of their points left unanswered during the period. “We basically cashed in on our

Kyran Karol moves in for a goal during the Stampeders Oct. 11 home game against the Medicine Hat Cubs.

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opportunities,” said Dobler.

Dobler feels the team’s defeat came after the boys got too comfortable. “We scored three in about two minutes and we strayed away from our game plan.”

“I think we took some ill-advised penalties and that cost us the game,” he added.

However, Dobler believes it was a game the Stampeders should have won.

“This is one of those games we’ll learn from . . . if we can stick to our game plan for 60 minutes.”

The game saw a lot of talent and energy from the close-knit team, qualities that have not been prevalent in recent years.

“We have some real good character guys,” said Dobler. He also praises his veteran players for stepping up and taking control of the team and the games.

A day earlier, in High River, the Stampeders played another fast action game, which they won 5-2, their first in multiple years.

Goalie Zane Steeves saved 36 shots from the opposing Flyers players. Tyson Crampain, Kaden Leibel, Austin Ancion, Brandon Duthie and Brendan Scott each scored one goal to make up the tally.

The Stampeders’ next home game is Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 7:45 when they host Stettler Lightning.

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Rough Midget games end without a win for Ponoka

BY MUSTAFA ERIC

Two Midget teams from Ponoka faced off with Stettler opponents over the weekend in one league and one preseason game, with the host Ponoka teams putting up a great effort but failing to win over the visitors.

In the league game on Friday, Oct 10, Ponoka’s Fountain Tire Midget A Wolves ended in a 3-3 tie with Stettler’s Legion Storm in the competition of two well-matched squads.

The first period of the game started with both teams trying to impose their pace on the opponent but it was the hosts who opened scoring through Tyson Matejka halfway through the period. The scoreboard stood at 1-0 for the Ponoka side at the end of the first 20 minutes.

The visitors stepped up their game in the second with the Storm equalizing through Quade Cassidy in the first minute and taking the lead again with Cassidy 15 minutes later with a short-handed point. In this period the hosts found it difficult to stop the better skating Stettler team. The period ended

with the 2-1 lead for the Storm.

The third period was marked by a comeback effort by the Wolves who scored in quick succession.

Matthew Klimec scored unassisted in the eighth minute and Jarret Henderson repeated the feat in less than 90 seconds, giving the lead to the hosts. But the Storm were not in the mood to give in and Matt Sylvester scored in power-play for the visitors tying the game at 3-3.

The game between Stettler Midget C and Ponoka Midget B on Saturday, Oct.11 turned out to be a much rougher game despite being only a preseason match which saw the visiting Stettler side going home with a 7-1 win.

Although it was the Ponoka side that opened the scoring in the 9th minute of the first period through Braeden Korchinski, after that it was all visitors putting the numbers on the scoreboard until the end of the game. Captain Sreven MacCrea scored twice and so did Ryan Mielke, with Scott Verhoeven, Ryland Stefanik and Bradley Dads adding one each to the tally.

A Stettler player takes a short flight as his advance gets interrupted by Midget Wolves captain DJ Horne during the Wolves’ home opener on Friday, Oct.10 at The Ponoka Culture and Recreation Complex.

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Broncs girls’ volleyball teams show mixed results

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

The Broncs junior varsity and senior girls’ volleyball teams have an almost Yin and Yang situation whenever they play, with the senior team winning and the junior team losing.

Last week, the Broncs girls’ teams played against the Camrose Trojans Tuesday, Oct. 7 with the senior girls dominating and the junior varsity team struggling to find a flow that could earn them a win.

The senior girls played strong by winning three sets to one. Their only real trouble was in the third set, when coach Joely Churchill says the players lost focus.

“Our intensity and confidence was lost in the third, no communication on the court. “ There were times players could not keep the intensity they had at the beginning of their sets, especially in the middle of a game.

“Once we became comfortable, Camrose began to pick up their defense, which drew up panic that our points were not coming so easily as they had in the first two sets,” she explained.

Despite the one set loss, the players were able to battle through time outs and rather than lose momentum, much of the time their intensity increased. Confidence lost in the third set was found in the fourth and the girls were able to defeat Camrose.

In an effort to help players focus and develop team unity, Churchill says she does not allow the use of cell phones before games and before tournaments.

“This gets them to engage each other, laugh with each other, etc. It’s the off-court fun and inside jokes that will ultimately help create that confidence and trust on the court,” she explained.

JV girls working on communication Many of players on the junior varsity

Lauren Bussiere and Zoe Cire of the Broncs girls’ senior volleyball team make a save Tuesday, Oct. 7 during a match against the Camrose Trojans.

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team do not have the same experience as the opponents they play against, explained coach Ron Labrie.

Because of that, he is trying to find some balance between the large number of players. Labrie played two rosters that rotated turns after each set.

“The groups have been divided based on communication. It’s solely experimentation…we’re trying to figure out some

chemistry issues,” he said.

While one group seemed to mesh well together, the other had trouble communicating, which caused missed shots and passes. “They couldn’t adjust because they didn’t talk to each other.”

Communication is Labrie’s biggest focus with the junior varsity players.

“My view of what communication is and what their view of communication is

are two entirely different things. And that’s where we are, we’re trying to close that gap,” said Labrie.

He says their work ethic is improving greatly but he wants to push the players to speak up and work as a team. “That’s just growing pains.”

He wants the players to develop trust and suggests they are eager to learn. The junior varsity team lost three sets to zero.

Senior boys volleyball team remains strong despite loss

BY AMELIA NAISMITH

Despite an aggressive performance, the Ponoka Secondary Campus senior boys Broncs volleyball team lost each of the four set played during their Wednesday, Oct. 8 game against Camrose.

At the end of the first set the score was 15-25 and the boys finished the following three 21-25, 25-27 and 1517, respectively.

“We did not play well in the first set,” said coach Ron Labrie. “In the second and third (sets) we played better.

During the break between the first and second sets Labrie gave the players some pointers and they came back harder. He also made some changes to the rotation. “Kind of lined up our stronger players with a better rotation,” he explained.

However, a few key players out

with sickness pushed the team out of sync.

Labrie feels the boys also needed to be more prepared for the tough defense Camrose had.

But Ponoka’s defense came up with its own challenges for the other team. “We had some quality ups. Realistically, we had some guys playing positions they’re not normally used to,” Labrie observed.

Throughout the game, the boys stayed positive and kept their spirit strong. “These guys have great mojo.

They’re very supportive of each other,” said Labrie.

Labrie added coaching the team this year has been a gift for him.

“I’ve been coaching for 26 years now, rarely do you have a team with this much chemistry.”

Travis Lee spikes the ball at the opposing team during a Broncs senior boys volleyball home game, Wednesday, Oct. 8.

Photo by Amelia Naismith

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Mecca Glen boys’ volleyball defeat Eckville Aces

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

The Mecca Glen boys’ Pride junior volleyball team proved themselves a tough group to beat during a match against the Eckville Aces.

The Pride played the Aces, Wednesday Oct. 8 to an enthusiastic crowd of volleyball fans that saw Mecca Glen win four sets to one.

Coach Tristan Johnson says he worked on fundamental volleyball skills to ensure a solid first game of the season. “That is something we focused on, serving and the first pass,” explained Johnson.

“It was a good start to the season,” he added.

He says at this level of volleyball, the first pass and unforced errors on

the serve make an effective team.

Consequently, the Aces found themselves scrambling at times to return the ball.

“A core group of ours played last year in Grade 6…they just have a bit more confidence,” said Johnson.

Winning early in the season will just boost their confidence for games later one and Tristan says he looks forward to seeing the players serve overhand after Thanksgiving. His players have been practicing overhand serves for some time but teams are only allowed to serve that way after the holiday.

“It’s about focusing on player development and skill development,” he concluded.

Tade Tonneson, with the Mecca Glen Wildcats, makes a spike Wednesday, Oct. 8 against Eckville. Mecca Glen won overall.

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Ponoka cowboys send-off planned for CFR finalists

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

Ponoka has always been well-represented at the Canadian Finals Rodeo (CFR) where the top cowboys in the country vie for bragging rights in their respective categories. This year is no different.

Nine cowboys and girls from the Ponoka area have earned a chance to be the best at this year’s CFR planned for Nov. 5 to 9 in Edmonton. To give them a proper send-off, the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame, the Ponoka Ag Event Centre Society (PAECS) and the Ponoka Stampede and Exhibition Association are planning a night for fans to meet these local athletes.

The event will be hosted at the hall of fame at the Calnash Ag Event Centre Wednesday, Oct. 29 starting at 6:30 p.m., says organizer Brenda Vold.

“I just feel it’s nice to recognize the contestants from Ponoka and area,” explained Vold.

She cannot remember a time when there wasn’t a Ponoka cowboy at the CFR and Vold says there were competitors from town who competed in the very first CFR event. There has always been a strong showing from the area, adding “and in the last few years in particular”.

Once PAECS and the Stampede Association heard of her plans, they jumped at the opportunity to support the evening. “So far the response is really good,” according to Vold.

Meet the athletes: Jake Vold is the bareback rider leader and has also earned himself a spot at the National Finals Rodeo in the United States. “Ponoka has not had an NFR contestant for many years,” said Vold.

Luke Butterfield was the 2012 saddle bronc rider champion who is looking at another stab at the title.

Dean Edge is a tie-down roper from Rimbey who has competed at the Ponoka Stampede and has become a regular competitor at the CFR. Levi Simpson is a team roper looking to be one of the best Canadian headers in the event.

Tyrel Flewelling is a heeler from Lacombe who got his start with the Battle River High School Rodeo Association and is also a CFR champion.

Logan Bonnett got his pro card last May and will be competing as a team roping header in his first ever CFR. “To make the CFR in four months of rodeo is quite an accomplishment,” said Vold.

Tyler Pankewitz is a bull rider who sits seventh in the Canadian bull riding standings.

Brook Robertson is coming to her first ever CFR in the barrel racing competition, she sits 11th in the standings.

Trygve Pugh is sixth in the steer wrestler standings is eager to catch the title.

Also being recognized at the meet and greet will be this year’s Miss Ponoka Stampede, Katy Lucas, who is heading to the Miss

Hundreds of barrel racers stampeded to the Calnash Ag Event Centre for the Canadian Barrel Horse Incentive Futurity, held Oct. 10 to 12.

Rodeo Canada pageant to compete for the title.

And Wetaskiwin bull fighter Brett Monea will be heading to the CFR for his second year.

Vold says she feels the evening will be a good opportunity for families, friend and fans to visit the cowboys before finals.

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Bernice Schalin On September 25, 2014, at the age of 90, Bernice Schalin went peacefully to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in the presence of her loving husband, Sid. Bernice was born, on a farm near Rabbit Hill (Edmonton) Alberta. She will be lovingly remembered by her devoted husband of 69 years; children Don (Georgette) of Ponoka, Judy (Wayne) of Winnipeg, MB, Kristine (Charlie) of Lacombe, 5 grandchildren; 8 great grandchildren, brother Alfred (Sylvia) Hiller of Edmonton, sister Irene Benke of Camrose, and numerous nieces, nephews and friends.

Bernice was predeceased by her parents, Fred and Minnie Hiller; brother Harold Hiller; sisters Alice Kern, Frieda Hiller, Sally Lehman and Sadie Schalin. A Memorial Service was held on Tuesday September 30, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at Ponoka Funeral Home with Pastor Len Eichler officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial tributes may be made to Ponoka Wheelchair Van Society.

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Employment #700 - #920 Caregivers/Aides................710 Clerical ..............................720 Computer Personnel ..........730 Dental ................................740 Estheticians........................750 Hair Stylists ........................760 Janitorial ............................770 Legal ..................................780 Medical ..............................790 Oilfield ................................800 Professionals......................810 Restaurant/Hotel ................820 Sales & Distributors ..........830 Teachers/Tutors..................840 Trades ................................850 Truckers/Drivers ................860 Business Opportunities......870 Miscellaneous ....................880 Volunteers Wanted ............890 Positions Wanted ..............895 Employment Training ........900 Career Planning ................920

Coming Events

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HEALTH CREW, Pen Checkers. Immediate permanent full-time positions available.

Wages are negotiable and will commensurate according to qualifications and experience. Lakeside offers an excellent benefit package. Will train the right candidate. Fax resume to: Chris Sparrow - JBS Lakeside Feeders 403-362-8231.

PERMANENT F/T POSITION Available on large grain and cattle operation at Bashaw, AB. Applicant must have knowledge and experience in calving cows, herd health, feeding and pasture rotation.

Other duties may include fencing, haying, silaging and harvesting. Class 1 licence an asset.

Applicant must be highly motivated and have good communication skills.

Competitive salary and accommodation available.

Send resume to ddurie@xplornet.com or fax to 780-372-2350.

We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

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RIMOKA FALL TEA

Wednesday, Oct 22 at 1:30 pm Tea & bake sale Door prizes, raԁe & 50/50 at the Golden Leisure Lodge 5608 57 Ave Everyone Welcome!

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Farm Work

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SO007488 6ERMILION s ,LOYDMINSTER Apply to Lakeland College in person or online during Open House & pay NO APPLICATION FEE. www.lakelandcollege.ca/open-house

We are looking for an energetic addition to our healthcare team in Wetaskiwin.

We are a multidisciplinary office with more massage clients than we can accommodate. We receive lots of referrals and we need to find the right person to complement our team. Successful candidate must be willing to work some evenings and work in a multidisciplinary environment. Flexible hours available.

Please submit resume to: Wetaskiwin Family Chiropractic Attn: Zara Brayer 5001B-51 Ave. Wetaskiwin, AB T9A 0T9

email: dr.zarabrayer@gmail.com

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Trades

850 in Wetaskiwin is looking for a

Full Time Counter Parts Person

SULLY CHAPMAN BEATTIE LLP is looking for a wellorganized and efficient legal assistant with broad experience in a solicitor’s practice, which would include corporate and commercial law, real estate conveyancing, and wills and estates. Salary and benefits are negotiable and will be commensurate with experience.

Please email your resume to kbeattie@scblaw.ca Please Note: We will only reply to those candidates meeting our criteria.

Medical

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MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION IS AN IN-DEMAND CAREER IN CANADA! Employers have work-athome positions available.

Get the online training you need from an employer-trusted program.

Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-888-528-0809 to start training for your work-athome career today!

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AN ALBERTA OILFIELD company is hiring experienced dozer and excavator operators, meals and lodging provided. Drug testing required. 780-723-5051.

SWAMPERS & LABOURERS for oilfield company needed. Send resumes to: oilfieldcompany2001 @gmail.com

Janitorial

We are a busy dealer of both light and heavyduty parts supplier located in Wetaskiwin.

Experience in the automotive or heavy truck trades would be a definite asset, must like dealing with people and work under minimum supervision.

We offer: • Competitive wages • Excellent benefit package • Pension plan If you’re tired of turning wrenches and would like to sell parts instead of installing them.

Email resume to tgadbois@radirectparts.ca Or call Tracy Gadbois at 780-352-3166

Trades

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TIRE REPAIR PERSON

Required for maintenance and repair of truck and trailer fleet. Experience is an asset, but will train right candidate.

Excellent wages and company benefits.

Please submit applications to: Calnash Trucking 6526 44 Avenue, Ponoka, AB T4J 1J8 Fax: 403-783-3011 Email: hr@calnashtrucking.com (Re: Tire Person) Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No Phone calls please.

770 STAFFING BULLETIN FULL-TIME (1.0 FTE) AUXILIARY CUSTODIAN POSITION Covering – Sacred Heart School in Wetaskiwin, AB, St. Augustine School in Ponoka, AB and Father Lacombe Catholic School in Lacombe, AB

St. Thomas Aquinas RCSRD No. 38 is seeking applicants for a full-time (8 hours per day) custodian for our schools based in Wetaskiwin, Ponoka and Lacombe, Alberta.

The position will commence as soon as possible.

The position will provide custodial coverage on an as-needed basis at the following locations: Sacred Heart School, St. Augustine School and Father Lacombe Catholic School. Compensation for travel would be paid as per the Terms of Employment. A dependable vehicle and a valid driver’s license would be required.

Previous janitorial experience and the ability to work as part of a team are considered assets. Salary will be determined by the Terms of Employment.

Successful applicants must be prepared to supply a recent Criminal Record Check, (inclusive of vulnerable sector) and recent Alberta Children’s Services Intervention Record Check. Individuals who are interested should submit a detailed resume and support staff application form in confidence showing related training, experience, and references to: Mr. Charlie Bouchard, Assistant Superintendent St. Thomas Aquinas RCSRD No. 38 4906 – 50 Avenue, Leduc, AB T9E 6W9 Telephone: (780) 986-2500 Fax: (780) 986-8620 Email: careers@starcatholic.ab.ca Please quote reference #AUXCUSTSOUTH1014 Support staff application forms can be found on the STAR Catholic Website under “Jobs” then “Support Staff” at www.starcatholic.ab.ca.

This competition will remain open until 4:00 pm October 29, 2014 or until a suitable candidate is found.

The Successful candidate’s offer of employment will be conditional upon receipt of a satisfactory Criminal Record and Child Welfare Check.

Only those applicants short listed for an interview will be contacted.

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Oilfield

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LOOKING FOR

Oilfield Maintenance Labourer /Swamper Must have safety tickets.

No experience necessary.

Will train. Fax resume to 403-746-5131 or email smittysoilfield@gmail.com

Restaurant/ Hotel

Competitive wages, lots of hours.

Send resume to: oilfieldcompany2001 @gmail.com

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NOW HIRING Experienced Part Time Evening Cook $14/hr

LOOKING FOR

Apprentice Picker Operator / Swamper

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BILL MCCOLMAN OILFIELD HAULING LTD. Looking to hire Journeyman or Apprentice Mechanic. Great work environment. Competitive wages. Drop off, fax or send your resume to: Human Resources Dept.; derlandson@mccolmans.com Brooks, AB, T1R 1C5.

Fax 403-362-7822.

Safety Coordinator to implement, manage & enhance our existing safety program. Fax resume and references to 403-343-1248 or email admin@shunda.ca.

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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is now accepting applications for

Requires Full Time

Requires Full Time

Equipment Operator/Truck Driver

Carpenters & Apprentices

SERVICE DEPARTMENT Personnel required.

Busy expanding Chrysler dealership 40 minutes from Edmonton looking for individuals to fill the following position: Journeyman Automotive Service Technicians.

Flat rate system.

Wages commensurate with training level and experience.

Chrysler experience preferred but not essential, apprentices considered.

Apply in person or by writing to: Brown’s Chrysler Ltd., 10447 - 104 Ave., Westlock, AB, T7P 2E4.

1-888-349-5566. Fax: 1-780-349-6493. Attention: Dale Marshall or email: dfm@brownschrysler.com.

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SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS NEEDE For Breton, Ponoka, Mecca Glen and Drayton Valley areas

Q Endorsement preferred.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

MORE sellers find buyers in the classifieds. 1-877-2233311.

If you hold a full driver’s licence 14102DF0 14094DF2 with a clean record and would enjoy driving and working with children, and/or the general public, call 403-843-6161 or e-mail: tammy.freerksen@firstgroup.com An equal opportunity employer that values diversity.

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Phone 1-877-223-3311

Are you looking for a challenging career change?

We are a busy dealership and require an

Rimbey Implements Ltd.

Al York

General Manager Cell: (403) 783-0593 Bus: (403) 843-3700

Rimbey, AB

Fax: (403) 843-3430

ANIMAL SERVICES

Auto Detailer For our Ponoka location If you have a positive attitude, take pride in your workmanship and a great work ethic, we would love to hear from you.

Experience is preferred but not necessary.

We offer competitive wages and an excellent benefit package

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

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More than a job. Think career. Think ownership.

Trackmobile Operator- Edmonton Cando Rail Services is seeking experienced Trackmobile Operators for a customer site in Edmonton, Ab. Working in a small team environment, incumbent will ensure safe operation of the trackmobile and rail car movements.

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Free training. Ideal for stay-at-home parents, recent retirees or the self-employed.

Ask about child ride-along.

AG EQUIPMENT

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

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INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR SCHOOL. In-the-seat training.

No simulators.

Real world tasks.

Weekly start dates.

Funding options.

Weekly job board!

Sign up online! iheschool.com.

1-866-399-3853

We offer competitive wages and an excellent benefit package

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SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC required for busy commercial transport truck dealership in Kamloops.

4 year apprentice or ticketed mechanic with strong electrical knowledge.

Permanent full-time, competitive wage and benefit package.

Resume to: Attn.: HR, 2072 Falcon Rd., Kamloops, BC, V2C 4J3.

Email: jobapplication @jamesws.com

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Trades

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

Individuals must be safety conscious, physically fit, able to work overtime and shift work.

Wages start at $40.00 per hour and offer an excellent benefit and pension package.

Please send resume to reddeerhr@evrazna.com or deliver in person to 27251 391 Township Road

requires a

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Trades

EVRAZ Red Deer Works Journeyman Millwrights, Electricians, and Machinists.

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

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

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Top candidates will be customer service oriented and have excellent teamwork skills.

The trackmobile operator must be physically fit and be able to gain a clear medical evaluation for safety critical postions as well as possess H2S, TDG, WHMIS, and First Aid.

Full time position working 8 hours a day; Monday to Friday. Employee Group Benefits Plan and eligibility to participate in an Employee Ownership Plan.

Fax: 780-424-4848, Email: john.quirk@candoltd.com or Visit: candoltd.com for more information.

Meat Cutter Full time opportunities with a long standing local company located12345 in Salmon Arm, BC, on the beautiful Shuswap Lake. Candidates should be experienced Meat Cutters who would like to grow and advance their careers with Askew’s Foods.

Visit our website at Askewsfoods.com for details on this position.

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30

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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 $

30

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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

BOBCAT SERVICES Sur-B Enterprises Ltd.

BOBCAT SERVICE • Snow Removal • Driveways & Parking Lots • Post-Hole Augering - 6, 9, 12, 15 • Corral Cleaning • Gradingor&Cell: Construction Call Jim Ashbough 403-783-2764 403-588-0599 403-783-5283 or Cell: 403-588-0597 CallJack JimSurbey Ashbough 783-2764 or Cell: 588-0599 Jack Surbey 783-5283 Cell: 588-0597

OVERHEAD DOORS

Trades

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PETROFIELD Industries, the Leader in manufacturing Hydrovac trucks, is accepting resumes for the following positions: * Quality Control Manager (You will have trade or technical education, Quality Control training/ coursework / certification, Project Management Training. Fabricator/ welder experience, 3 - 5 years QC experience and CWB Supervisor Certification.

Class 3A Driver’s\Licence an asset) * Journeyman HET * General Labourers * Industrial Painters * Sandblasters * Material Handler * Automotive Electrical Technician * Journeyman Welder / Apprentice * 2nd Yr Welder with Aluminum experience Visit our website at: www.tornadotrucks.com for more details. Our Company has an enthusiastic fast paced working environment, with advancement possibilities for the motivated person, and offers an excellent benefit package. fax 403-742-5544 e-mail: hr@petrofield.com

TELL it all! Tell it well! Make your ads sell for you by giving full description of goods or services offered. Include prices and terms. Phone 1-877-223-3311 for a friendly ad taker.

www.doorsondemand.ca

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PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES A.C. DANDY PRODUCTS Is A Rapidly Expanding Electrical Enclosure & Power Distribution Product Manufacturer In Wetaskiwin

• Executive Assistant • Turret Operator/Programmer • Finisher • Welders • Sheet Metal Fabricators 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

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ROADEX SERVICES requires O/O 3/4 tons, 1 tons and 3 tons for our RV division and O/O Semis and drivers for our RV and general freight deck division. Paid by direct deposit, benefits and company fuel cards.

Border crossing required with valid passport and clean criminal record.

1-800-867-6233; www.roadexservices.com.

Business Opportunities

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GET FREE VENDING MACHINES. Can earn $100,000. + per year. All cash-retire in just 3 years. Protected territories.

Full details call now 1-866-668-6629. Website: www.tcvend.com.

THE DISABILITY TAX CREDIT. $1,500 yearly tax credit. $15,000 lump sum refund (on average). Covers: hip/knee replacements, arthritic joints, COPD. Apply today!

1-844-453-5372.

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OVERHEAD DOOR TECH • Experience in residential & commercial installation & service

OVERHEAD DOOR ASST.

• Training will be provided

DOORS ON DEMAND

403-963-5000

Sales, Service & Installation

For info or to apply call Gerald OR email resume to doorsondemand@hotmail.com

Reaching 6000 households weekly

403-963-5000

For just

DAIRY equipment supplier looking for GENERAL LABORERS For our parts & service dept.

Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume:joel@prolineinc.ca

this space could be yours!

403-783-3311 BOTTLE DEPOT 14093DG0 14094DG0 14101DG0 14102DG0

Open Monday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm

INTERESTED IN THE COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER BUSINESS? Alberta’s weekly newspapers are looking for people like you. Post your resume online. FREE. Visit: awna.com/for-job-seekers.

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

Closed Sundays & Holidays We Now Recycle Milk Cartons for Deposit

3, 5520 Hwy 2A (Across from Husky)

403-783-6875 SALES & SERVICE Employment Training

Motorcycles & ATV’s Tues - Fri: 8:30 am-5:30 pm Saturday: 9 am-3 pm

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

RIMBEYDENTALCARE DR. STEVE CALDER BS C DDS

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 PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY

4037835225 • 4037835235 5118 - 51 Ave., Ponoka, AB T4J 1R5

DR. HUGH PORTER • DR. RICK BARR DR. JEFF BARR • DR. GREG EDWARDS - General Dentistry - Orthodontics - Cosmetic Dentistry - Bonding - Veneers - Bleaching - White or Gold Fillings - Crown and Bridge - Implant Restorations “WE ENTHUSIASTICALLY WELCOME NEW PATIENTS”

EYE CARE Drs. Heimdahl, ZoBell & Kallal 403-783-5575 1-800-662-7168 WWW.4YOUREYESONLY.CA

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5120-51ST AVE, PONOKA

- ADVANCED EYE HEALTH & VISION EXAMS - CONSULTATION & REFERRAL SERVICES - DESIGNER EYE WEAR & CONTACT LENSES - INSURED MEDICAL EYECARE SERVICES NOW AVAILABLE FOR ALL AGES

NEW PATIENTS ALWAYS WELCOME

OFFICE HOURS: Monday - Friday 8AM - 12:30PM • 1PM - 5PM

BOBCAT SERVICES

BRUCE’S BOBCAT Large & Small Jobs

$30 per week

PONOKA BOTTLE DEPOT

DENTISTRY

For your business needs

403.783.3311

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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.

ANYTHING ANYT & EVER EVERYTHING

403-783-0663 HEATING

“Committed to your comfort”

Robin Esau

Ph: 403-782-7722 Fax: 403-782-7499

robin@KlesAir.com www.KlesMechanical.com

Advertise your business in the Business Directory!

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Pet Services

WETASKIWIN READY MIX

Now Hiring • MIXER DRIVERS Minimum Class 3 with air.

• YARD/LOADER OPERATOR • BATCH/DISPATCH PERSONNEL

Please apply with resume & current drivers abstract 5410 - 50 Street, Wetaskiwin or email

Business Services #1000 - #1430

Legal Services

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CRIMINAL RECORD? Think: Canadian pardon.

U.S. travel waiver.

Divorce? Simple. Fast.

Inexpensive. Debt recovery?

Alberta collection to $25,000. Calgary 403-228-1300 or 1-800-347-2540.

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NEW BABY

dmarkevich@wetaskiwinrm.com

or Fax (780) 352-1607 Landscaping

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Landscaping

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At Your House?

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CLINKERS KENNELS * Quality Boarding for your dogs & cats *Proof of vaccinations and advance bookings required HOURS: Mon - Thurs 9 am - 12 Noon; 4 pm - 6 pm; Fri. 9 am - 12 Noon; 4 pm - 7 pm; Sat. 9 a.m. - 12 noon; Sun. 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. & 4 - 7 p.m.

403-783-6272

www.clinkerskennels.ca

Rental Misc

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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

It’s time to call your Welcome Wagon hostess.

She will bring congratulations and Misc. gifts for the Services family and the NEW BABY!

783-3636

Specializing in Colorado Blue & Green Spruce.

Also oering a variety of caliber deciduous trees. Schubert, Royalty, Mountain Ash, Weeping Birch, Norland Apple, Green/Black Ash and many more.

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

AUCTION Sales Wed. @ 6 pm.

Antique sales 1st. Sun. of the month @ 1 pm. Nov. 2 Moose Hall 2 miles south of Ponoka on 2A WE BUY FOR CASH. 403-304-4791 Check website for full listings www.bigstrapperauctions.net

BUD HAYNES & WARD’S FIREARMS & MILITARIA AUCTION. Sat. & Sun., Oct. 25 & 26, 10 a.m., 11802 - 145 St., Edmonton. Over 1200 lots.

Gord Fortner, Estate Walter Ashfield,.

Dr. Ed Hardy, Estate Jim McKinney.

To consign phone 403-347-5855 or 780-451-4549.

CANADA PLACE FITNESS ASSOCIATION AUCTION 10527 - 106 St., Edmonton.

Saturday, October 25, 10 a.m.

Selling treadmills, cross trainers, steppers, spin and recumbent bikes, selectorized weight equipment, free weights, racks, benches, dumbbells, barbells, lockers, & more.

See www. montgomeryauctions.com.

1-800-371-6963

CLASSIFIED Want Ads do more things for more people than any other form of advertising. Phone 1-877223-3311

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New Appliances Needed?

New, dependable, affordable Inglis & Whirlpool household appliances.

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

403-783-4880 Getting Married?

Let your friends & family know in the Announcements 1.877.223.3311

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Bovine Veterinary Services On-Farm Mobile Veterinary Services Ultrasound-aided ReproducĆ&#x;ve Programs CETA CerĆ&#x;ÄŽed Dairy and Beef Embryo Transfer

Phone 403-391-1684 Í´Íś Š‘—” Â?‡”‰‡Â?…› ƒŽŽ

Dr. Bruce Wine

CONCRETE SERVICES

Specializing in:

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

- Residential - Commercial - Agricultural - Stamped Concrete - Exposed Concrete

Leo Cabral

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

VETERINARY SERVICES

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Quality First Always • Free Quotes

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Unplanned pregnancy may be difďŹ cult to face.

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

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+).

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plus GST/HST

Let us amplify your message!

F.J.B. PAINTING

CERTIFIED GRIEF COACH. Booking appointments.

I offer one-on-one or telephone services, and workshops. For information call 403-546-7040.

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INT • EXT RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL 403-307-4691

Personal Services

Commercial - Residential Installations - Repair

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Painters/ Decorators

HEATING & EAVESTROUGHING

Herd Health

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Ponoka- located 1.5 Miles North of High School Phone (403) 783-5072 Cell: (403) 704-5384 www.brtrees.com

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Well Drilling

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RURAL WATER TREATMENT (Province Wide) Tell them Danny Hooper sent you

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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 • Dr. Jasmine Hardy

Reaching 6000 households weekly

For just

$30 per week this space could be yours!

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VETERINARY SERVICES

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

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CALL 4037833311 PLUMBING

PONOKA PLUMBING & HEATING • JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER REQUIRED We now carry a complete line of Ritchie Stockwater parts 5110 -50 Street Box 4414 Ponoka, Alberta T4J 1R7

Hours of Business: Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 5 pm

Auctions

HEAVY CRUDE HAULING Surplus Inventory Auction.

Shop equipment, parts, tools.

Saturday, October 25, 6601 - 62 Street, Lloydminster, Alberta.

Stewart Auctions, Vermilion, Alberta.

1-800-269-8580; www.stewartauctions.com.

TOY & COLLECTIBLE AUCTION Sunday Oct. 19 10 a.m.

Bowden Lions Hall Bowden A.B. Approx. 200 toys, JD, Massey, Cat, MF, Train sets, Collectibles, Furniture, Celebrity dolls, Coins & Coin sets.

Check web for full listing & pictures Pilgrim Auction Service 403-556-5531 www.pilgrimauction.com WHEATLAND AUCTIONS Heavy Duty Truck Repair Dispersal Oct.18th in Strathmore, Alberta.

Gun and Sportman’s Auction, Oct. 25th in Cheadle, Alberta.

Phone 403-669-1109; www.wheatlandauctions.com

Building Supplies

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METAL ROOFING & SIDING. 30+ colours available at over 40 Distributors.

40 year warranty. 48 hour Express Service available at select supporting Distributors.

Call 1-888-263-8254.

JESSE ZINTER Office - 403-783-5489

WATER WELL DRILLING SERVICES

1530

Welding

1410

Building Supplies

1550

A-STEEL SHIPPING Dry Storage Containers.

Used 40’ & 40’ Seacans high cube & insulated containers 40’-53’ long.

Specials in stock now.

Self unloading delivery.

Phone toll free 1-866-528-7108; www.rtccontainer.com.

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EVERY WATER WELL on earth should have the patented “Kontinuous Shok” Chlorinator from Big Iron Drilling! Why? Save thousands of lives every year. www.1-800bigiron.com.

Phone 1-800-BIG-IRON.

Garden Supplies

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

Misc. for Sale

1760

$300 • Kids $25 • Table runners $20 cash only.

Advertise your business in the Business Directory!

Farm Equipment ..............2010 Haying Equipment ............2020 Tractors ............................2030 Combines & Headers ......2040 Fertilizer Equipment..........2050 Misc. Farm Machinery ......2060 Equipment Wanted ..........2070 Farm Custom Work ..........2080 Farm Auctions ..................2090 Livestock ..........................2100 Livestock - Exotic..............2110 Sheep ..............................2120 Poultry ..............................2130 Horses ..............................2140 Horse Boarding ................2150 Riding Supplies ................2160 Horse/Stock Trailers ........2170 Pasture Wanted ................2180 Grain, Feed, Hay ..............2190 Seed Grain ......................2200 Seeding & Tillage ............2210

Horses

2140

WE BUY HORSES: broke, un-broke, or unwanted.

Jerry Dodds 403-783-0303

2190

Houses For Sale

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FOR SALE

Welding

1410

4 bdrm, 3 bath house with 5 appliances in Riverside Large deck, double detached garage Immediate possession, Only $240,000 Will trade for land or cattle Call 403-350-4262

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.

For Rent #3000 - #3200 Houses/ Duplexes

FOR RENT IN PONOKA 3 bdrm 2 ½ baths house N/S, N/P $1500/mnth + $1500 D.D. Call Jennifer

403-352-7662

FURNISHED house at Sunnyside Gull Lake until end of May 2015, n/s, no indoor pets, $1150/mo.

D.D. same, utils. extra. **RENTED**

GET YOUR BUSINESS OUT THERE 403.783.3311 Suites

Industrial

FOR LEASE Hwy frontage 1 acre property, 50’ X 60’ shop with attached office, Storage shed, Fully fenced Call 403-783-2553 Or fax 403-783-2750

3060

Real Estate #4000 - #4190

4090

Manufactured Homes

20’ X 76’ MAPLEWOOD - 230. $111,000. This spacious floor plan offers great potential for your family with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 4 appliances & more.

For more information call United Homes Canada 1-800-461-7632 or visit us at: www. unitedhomescanada.com.

IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. 2400 square foot show home The Pipestone Creek. 4 bedroom, den, 2.5 baths.

Save thousands.

Sunshine Homes - Lacombe, 1-877-887-2254; www.sshomes.ca.

WE WILL BEAT ANY QUOTE IN ALBERTA ON 16, 20, 22 & MODULAR. Many models to choose from or customize your own. Best Buy Homes.

403-948-2455, 403-560-6317.

Commercial

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

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

Wanted To Buy

1930

Do you think you may have land with sand/gravel?

Central Alberta Company currently looking for sources of Gravel within one hour of Red Deer.

If you want to learn more, please email us.

centralabgravel@gmail.com

3130

3020

PONOKA 2 bdrm. clean quiet adult building, no pets $825/mo. inclds. all utils, avail.

Nov. 1, 403-348-6594

Email: darcysdrillingservices@hotmail.com

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

Agricultural #2000 - #2290

SMALL SQUARE WHEAT BALES. 403-783-8247

Very well made

Call 403-783-2398

Grain, Feed Hay

Grain, Feed Hay

• Large (dbl or queen

Darcy Schmidt Ph: (403) 783-2220 Fax: (403) 783-8828

Water Well Service

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.

Homemade Quilts

• water wells drilled & serviced • new pump & pressure system installations • all types of pump repairs • well shocking

ECKLUND

1760

STEEL BUILDINGS/ METAL BUILDINGS 60% off!

20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100, sell for balance owed!

Call 1-800-457-2206; www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

Darcy’s Drilling Services

WATER WELL SERVICE

Misc. for Sale

4110

PONOKA 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 Property bath, 4 appls, parking inRITCHIE BROS cluded, $1050/mo. + 1 mo.

DD, pet free, smoke free UNRESERVED AUCTION. October 30. Highway building 403-783-6786 commercial property, 2.04 acres in Stettler.

Two heated metal buildings, PONOKA chain link fenced.

Quiet N/S, non partier, Visit: rbauction.com/ clean, working renter only. realestate for details * LARGE BACHELOR SUITE * LARGE 2 BDRM BSMT Mortgages SUITE Bought/Sold * 2 1/2 BDRM HOUSE on large treed lot.

BANK SAID NO? 403-704-1645 Bank on us! Equity Mortgages for purchases, debt consolidation, foreclosures, renovations. * RIVERSIDE APTS. * Bruised credit, self-emNewly renovated ployed, unemployed ok.

1 & 2 bedroom units in Dave Fitzpatrick: Ponoka: 3724-45 Street. www.albertalending.ca.

403-357-0287 587-437-8437, Belmor Mortgage

4190

Holiday Trailers

5120

NOW OPEN

HWY 605 R.V. STORAGE Fenced & secure Call Dave at 403-341-0134

PONOKA NEWS 39

Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014

BMO Economics Housing Report Financial #4400 - #4430

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

Money To Loan

Transportation #5000-5300

Trucks

5050

4430

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.

2005 Dodge Dakota w matching topper, Mint condition Only 135,000 kms

Motorcycles

5080

2006 HONDA GOLDWING TRIKE

CLASSIFIEDS 1-877-223-3311

Misc.

Automotive

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

Public Notices

6010

ERMINESKIN

403-350-4262

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w/Lehman Monarch 2 trike kit. This unit is loaded with all options plus lots of extra chrome. 49,500 kms bike was triked in 2011.

Asking $33,000 Call (403)318-4653

WOMEN’S SHELTER (EWSS) Tenders are open to all contractors who can guarantee performance and completion of a renovation project under the Shelter Enhancement Program through CMHC. The deadline for submissions is October 24, 2014.

Submissions can be hand delivered in a sealed envelope to the Ermineskin Women’s Shelter in Maskwacis, Alberta.

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continued from page 27 -- Record low mortgage rates: The typical family in Vancouver would need to spend a whopping 62 per cent of income on mortgage payments to buy a bungalow, and this jumps to 75 per cent if rates were 2 percentage points higher. In Toronto, it would take 42 per cent of income currently, moving up to 50 per cent if rates were to rise 2 percentage points. While Calgary is still affordable, with mortgage costs on a benchmark home requiring 23 per cent of income, this won’t last if prices continue to leapfrog income.

-- Foreign wealth: Anecdotes from builders and realtors suggest foreign wealth is a significant factor in a number of high-end neighborhoods in Vancouver and, to a lesser extent, Toronto.

The report also states that worsening affordability means that all three of these markets will cool when borrowing costs eventually increase. “Pricey Vancouver and Toronto are likely to face moderate price declines, while still-affordable Calgary could get off more lightly,� noted Mr. Guatieri.

Public Notices

Mr. Guatieri said that raising borrowing costs or restricting mortgage access would act to cool these three hot markets, but such actions would also risk freezing demand in other parts of the country where the boom ended years ago.

Laura Parsons, Mortgage Expert, BMO Bank of Montreal, notes that especially as conditions change, it’s important Canadians stress-test their mortgage and housing costs against a higher interest rate. “Gauging the stability of your mortgage by stress testing it against a higher interest rate is key to making a responsible and informed home buying decision,� said Laura Parsons, Mortgage Expert, BMO Bank of Montreal. “Many mortgage holders and potential buyers, especially in larger cities, need to evaluate different circumstances, and the likelihood of being able to afford their purchase long term.�

Ms. Parsons added that those looking to buy in today’s market should consider speaking with a mortgage specialist who can help them establish a plan to ensure long term affordability.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION Confined Feeding Operations Adriaan & Gerrigje Both (1848603 Alberta Ltd.) has filed application RA14043 with the Natural Resources Conservation Board (NRCB) to obtain approval to construct a new confined feeding operation on NW 25-42-23 W4M in Ponoka County. The application is to construct two 74Ň‹ x 458Ň‹ broiler barns allowing capacity for 120,000 chicken broilers.

Filing a Statement of Concern Any person who is directly affected by these applications may submit a statement of concern to the NRCB. The statement of concern must be received by the NRCB on or before November 14, 2014. Submissions should be made to the NRCB address provided below. A copy of the statement of concern will be sent to the applicant for review and comment. Statements submitted regarding the application are public records.

Your statement of concern should include your name, the legal land description of your residence or landholdings, mailing address, phone number, fax number (if applicable) and a detailed summary about how you would be directly affected by this application.

Failure to submit a statement of concern may affect your rights to apply for an NRCB review.

Viewing the Application A complete copy of the application and supporting documents submitted to the NRCB under Agricultural Operation Practices Act may be viewed during regular business hours at the Red Deer office of the NRCB. If you require further information, please contact the approval officer listed below.

Kari Lisowski, Approval Officer #303, 4920 - 51 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 6K8 kari.lisowski@nrcb.ca T 403-340-7018 F 403- 340-5599

The closing date for submissions: November 14, 2014 Dated at Red Deer, AB, on October 9, 2014 www.nrcb.ca

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