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Vol. 14, No. 20, Wednesday, April 3, 2019 www.LamontLeader.com
Election’s dirty tricks Election signs disappear in rural Lamont County, Vegreville
Moving from Edmonton to CFB Wainwright for strategic military training, the public will see a high volume of military vehicles on Highway 16 this week.
Military movement along Highway 16 MAUREEN SULLIVAN From April 1 to 6, approximately 600 military vehicles from Canadian Forces Base Edmonton will be moving along Hwy. 16 on their way to CFB Wainwright in preparation for large scale military training exercises. The public should expect to see a high volume of military vehicles between 8:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. daily.
The training being conducted at CFB Wainwright will ensure 3rd Canadian Division soldiers are fully trained and certified by the appropriate Canadian Army authorities, ready for deployment on international operations from July 1, 2019 to Aug. 31, 2020 in support of the foreign and defense policy objectives of the Government of Canada, according to Captain Ken Jacobsen, Public Affairs Officer, 1st Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group.
BY JOHN MATHER Thieves targeted Alberta Party candidate Marvin Olsen’s election signs during the past weekend. Olsen said in a release to The Leader, almost all of his election signs in the rural areas of the constituency were stolen, including the ones on private property. “I understand residents of Vegreville were physically going to the RCMP detachment and phoning in about Marvin Olsen it this morning,” he said April 1. “They were complaining about the thefts before I was even aware of it.” While he said he hadn’t had the chance to travel throughout the constituency to check, signs were stolen in Vegreville, Mundare and Lamont. In a post on Facebook, UCP candidate Jackie Armstrong Homeniuk stated, “this is completely unacJackie Armstrong ceptable and must stop Homeniuk immediately. No matter what your political beliefs may be, removing signs of those with whom you disagree is an egregious affront to the hard work of candidates running to serve in public office and those whose volunteerism is fundamental to the success of any campaign.” She said she stood in solidarity with all the candidates in the campaign in rejecting “such juvenile and despicable vandalism.” She added the best way to voice one’s opinion was at the ballot box. Olsen later said in a Facebook post, “We are going to move forward with our campaign and continue to spread the positive message of the Alberta Party.” To that end he asked that all his supporters keep people talking about “the great things and positive change the Alberta Party can bring to Albertans.”