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Heisler celebrates the holidays while the weather stays nice Maxine Badry Heisler P.
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Hi everyone, what a beautiful day we have today. It’s nice to get a reprieve from the cold once in a while. We just got past the full moon, so maybe we'll be lucky and have a warmer Christmas Day. It would be so nice if we wouldn't get any more snow until at least the New Year. We know we
are going to get more as winter is far from over yet. The sun was so warm this morning it made one want to be outside. I hope you all had a good week. There were lots of Christmas parties. The ladies of the Royal Purple and their husbands enjoyed a very delicious supper on Thursday night, with a nice crowd of ladies in attendance. To keep up with tradition, the Elks also held their Christmas party with their wives and girlfriends in attendance. A very delicious supper was
served by David and Wanda Hihn to start the evening off. Fellowship and later, cards were enjoyed by all in attendance. On Sunday afternoon the Seniors held their Christmas party in the Heisler Seniors Centre with a good crowd in attendance. The first part of the afternoon was spent visiting, games were enjoyed by all as more gathered. The final game was great fun, as each person took a gift from under the tree. Once the poem was completed, the gift you held at that time was yours to keep.
It was a very fun game. A delicious potluck supper and lots of goodies were enjoyed by all. The week will fly by as we make our final preparations for the coming of Christmas next week, I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas with family and friends and wish you all the best in the new year. Congratulations to Hailey and Ethan Bownes on the birth of a beautiful baby girl. Ivy Margit Patricia was born in Edmonton on Thursday, Dec. 5, weighing in at seven pounds and 15 ounces.
Proud grandparents are Lorne and Patty Schulte of Heisler and Nicoletta and Scott Bownes Birthday greetings to: Ashley Wolbeck, Barb Kroetsch, Mickey Heisler, Wynn Linklater, Dec. 16; Cliff Wolbeck, Evan Weller, Gracie Klooster, Shaylyn Wolbeck, Dec. 19; Carrie Bendfeld, Dec. 21; Aria Wolbeck, Colby Clements, Trent Steil, Dec. 22; Emily Wolbeck, Matt Miske, Dec. 23; Jordyn Wolbeck, Natasha Martz, Dec. 24; Alvin Meyer, Heidi Rohe, Spencer Sommer, Dec. 25; Garth Wolbeck,
Dec. 26; Sharon LaFortune, Dec. 27; Robert Dingreville, Dec. 28. Anniversary greetings to: Jordon and Susannah McIntyre, Dec. 31. Have a nice day everyone. There will be no news until Friday, Jan. 3 Thought for the year end: for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. Please take note, Mass will be held at St. Martin’s Catholic Church on New Years Day with a potluck dinner following. Everyone is welcome. Come enjoy dinner and fellowship.
Forestburg History Book project giving back to community Leslie Cholowsky Editor The Forestburg Historical Society’s History Book Committee has had a huge couple of years, culminating in a very successful launch of a new Forestburg history volume called, Yesterday and Years Ago - Our Story Continues, just in time for the Forestburg Centennial this summer. Members of the committee put in hours of work gathering stories for the new volume, including a stint as The Community Press’ Forestburg News team of correspondents. The book project received funding from the Alberta Community Initiatives Program, the New Horizons for Seniors Program, and had many community based sponsors. The committee had 900 of the new books printed, and issued a re-print of the original volume, Yesterday and Years Ago, with 300 copies. Co-Editor of the new volume is Marion Oberg Riise, and she says, “Sales of both books have been really good. “We have about 130 of the new book left and less than 60 of the reprinted Yesterday and Years Ago.” She says that thanks to the sales of the books and
the tremendous number of hours put in by their volunteer team, the committee now has about $26,000 to share with the community and with the Forestburg Historical Society. “We decided to give back to the wider community as we wouldn’t have had a book without all the stories submitted by community members.” The committee has made the following financial contributions to local organizations and funds: •$1,000 split between the Forestburg Golf Club and the Forestburg Curling Club (for using their building for storage and for the sales of the book;) •$10,000 to the Big Knife Villa Handivan Project; •$2,000 to the Forestburg S c h o o l Breakfast Program; •$4,000 to the Forestburg Community Hall. They will be giving $8,000
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plus the revenue for the remaining book sales back to the historical society. Riise says that $1,000 of that amount has been bud-
geted towards building a new interactive website to collect stories on an ongoing basis. “Even though we had
over 600 stories in this book, there are still a lot of stories out there that should be collected and preserved,” says Riise.
For those who missed out, both volumes are still available for sale through the Village of Forestburg’s office.