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County declares local state of emergency from flooding

BY JOHN MATHER Lamont County Council declared a local state of emergency on June 8 due to overland flooding and drainage issues caused by the recent rain on the weekend.

The declaration was made pursuant to the Emergency Management Act section 21(1).

According to the legislation to declare a local state of emergency it must be defined as “an event that requires prompt coordination of action or special regulation of persons or property to protect the safety, health or welfare of people, or to limit damage to property or the environment.

In a post on the County website residents are informed that all County Public Works staff have been redirected to road and drainage maintenance duties. As a result other duties such as dust abatement and driveway approach, requests are not being performed.

The site further encourages everyone to obey all road closure signs and barriers for their own safety.

“Lamont County will be enforcing local traffic only on closed roads,” states the site. “Caution is required on all Lamont County roads at this time.

Anyone found not complying with road closures can be charged $243 for failure to obey a traffic control device.

“Anyone found responsible for damaging signs or barricades can be charged with criminal mischief and will be required to appear in court and pay restitution.

Division 5 councillor Neil Woitas, who farms in the Bruderheim area, said his rain gauge had measured 14 inches of rain fell during the past weekend.

“It seems we’ve really been getting a lot of moisture along a line following Township Road 562 between Hwy 45 and the St. Michael/ Wostok area.”

Spring melt coupled with heavy rains have made many of Lamont County’s road impassable for heaving farm equipment trying to get to fields for seeding. As a result they get bogged down like this equipment. Council received a report last week suggesting a major overhaul of the county’s drainage and infrastructure be undertaken to find long-term solutions to the problems.

As of June 4, there were at least 28 closures of County roads.

In the town of Lamont a notice was posted online over the weekend advising residents to be careful in the area of the creek between the Edna and Campbell subdivisions.

The notice said the water had risen considerably and sections of the trail in the area were under water.

Residents were asked to avoid the area.

Lamont town Chief Administrative Officer Christine Beveridge did report late June 8, that the levels were dropping in the creek as well as at the pond in the town. She added there had been no other issues with flooding in the town.

As its gets deeper into spring, there are still several road closures in the County of Lamont. One is at Range Road 194 just south of Highway 16. A beaver dam has caused localized flooding of the road which was still closed as of Monday morning.

2 - The Lamont Leader (Lamont, Alberta), Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Storm pond overflow floods Bruderheim family again

BY JANA SEMENIUK Frustrated residents of Bruderheim are looking for action to rectify a flooding issue they say is being caused by overflowing storm water ponds from the neighbouring Canadian Rockies Hemp Corporation (CRHC) facility.

“The flooding started across my front yard on Friday,” said Ron Ewasiuk, who’s property lies directly North of the CRHC. “It finally started going down Sunday morning but it’s damaging my yard and driveway.”

Ewasiuk and his family have lived on the property for 14 years and normally experience a degree of flooding from heavy rains and spring run off.

“We normally got a pretty good flow of water coming into the backyard,” he said. “but it was manageable. What we have going on now is not managed. It’s causing destruction.”

Ewasiuk made reference to damages on his property that he said are a direct result of the overflowing storm water ponds on the CRHC property that were created to catch extra water.

So far this year his property has flooded three times.

“My front yard is still under water and part of my driveway has eroded from the flowing water,” he said.

Although the issue has been ongoing since

CRHC took ownership of the property in early 2019, neighbours are becoming increasingly frustrated at what they say is a lack of care and action on the part of the town of Bruderheim and CRHC. Ewasiuk requested a meeting with Bruderheim town officials, which took place on Jun. 8, to discuss the ongoing flooding issues.

In attendance were Ewasiuk who was joined by some of his neighbours as well as Bruderheim chief administrative officer Patty Podoborozny, director of legislative services Sherry Cote, and director of public works Dennis Tomuschat.

“They (neighbours) wanted to talk about the water issues and I reassured them that we are working with CRHC for a solution,” said Podoborozny.

“The water comes really fast and our existing infrastructure isn’t there to handle it.”

When asked about whether a possible solution is on the horizon, Podoborozny cited the ongoing construction of the facility as a major roadblock as well as problems with wetland designations.

“They are only about halfway done their construction,” she said.

“CRHC is working very hard with Alberta Environment on a solution. They cannot just divert water wherever they want. They need to

get approval from all levels of government because Ron’s property is a designated wet land.”

During the last flood over Ewasiuk’s property during the spring thaw in April, Aaron Barr, Chief Executive Officer for CRHC, cited the town’s ditch system as another barrier that might have allowed for the pumping of the overflowing storm water ponds.

“We have seven million gallons of storage in those storm water ponds.

It’s remarkable how much water is there,” he said. “One of the solutions we looked at was using the town’s ditch system to pump the overflow of one of the ponds, but our civil engineer looked at it and said it (the ditch) was not in good shape and needs to be fixed first before it can be used.”

Podoborozny echoed Barr’s statements and said that she has been trying to get the ditch system fixed for the past five years.

“The ditch is actually owned by Alberta Transportation,” she said. “We’ve been lobbying them for the past five years. There’s no outlet for the water once it gets to the rail tracks.”

Barr has reached out to the neighbours via social media to reassure them that action is being taken. In a post on the CRHC Facebook page he said, “Our community is

An overflowing storm water pond from the Canadian Rockies Hemp Corporation property is seen flowing to the front of neighbour Ron Ewasiuk's property.

Ewasiuk said the continuous flooding from CRHC is now causing damage to his property.

very important to us, and we recognize the valid concerns that this neighbour has, and we are hoping to be able to find a viable solution to

this problem. We have spoken directly with Alberta Parks and Alberta Environment about the natural water flow. They are working

with their engineers and hydrologists to see if they can come up with a solution and will get back to us as soon as possible.”

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the LAMONT HEALTH CARE CENTRE BOARD

Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic the LHCC AGM will be held via Teleconference on Monday June 22nd, 2020 commencing at 11:00 a.m.

The Public is cordially invited to present any matter for discussion by the Board at the AGM by contacting the Executive Director at shahad.bharmal@ahs.ca prior to June 17th, 2020.

Thank you, Lamont Health Care Centre Board

THANK YOU! Battle River 4-H Beef Club would like to thank all the supporters of our sale day.

• Barry Little • Grainland Ltd. • Carmen & Laura Rachel • Wallace Enterprises Ltd. • Trademark Welding Ltd. • Younger’s Inspection Services Ltd. • Guardian Drugs Killam • Brent & Jeanette Forster and Kevin & Tammie Anderson • Johnson Farm Simmentals • Creekview Farm and Jeff & Becky McClements • Danval Stock Farm • Brad Lewis • Terry and Ellie Hamilton • Wallace Vac • Brad Bunting • Glen and Sherry Bullee • Fringe Benefits • Wyatt & Vera Hinkey

• Jayco Mechanics Ltd. • RMK Inspections • Mike & Betty Smith • Wallace Oilfield Services Ltd. • Elmer & Doreen Bullee • Todd and Tyrion Rosiechuk • Brian Golka • Dean and Tannis Zimmel • Viking Veterinary Clinic • Ploc Electric & Danny Suddaby • Kreska Young • Campbell-McLennan Chrysler • Larson Water Well Services & KL Agency • And to all of our bidders!

We also would like to thank all who have supported our flower fundraiser, including the Village of Lougheed and the Town of Sedgewick who have purchased flowers through our 4-H club to beautify the streets!

The Lamont Leader (Lamont, Alberta), Wednesday, June 10, 2020 - 3

New program could benefit young Andrew students Minimum of 4 needed for program to proceed

BY JANA SEMENIUK Andrew school is exploring more ways to support early childhood learning by introducing a potential kindercare program which will provide care and instruction to kindergarten aged children on non kindergarten days throughout the school year.

Andrew school principal, Greg Cruickshank, explained via email how the program could benefit the community.

“It has been a program that found success in Vegreville. We have the room and are already a licensed pre-school so it is an easy option for us to provide (the program) with the resources we already have.

“This program enhances the opportunities for early learners and provides childcare for working parents with children in kindergarten.

I wanted to build upon the success of our preschool and explore if the community sees a kindercare program as

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Instructors will enhance the instruction offered during kindergarten through a focus on learning through play.

Programming will include letter and number recognition, language and literacy, math facts and numeracy, arts and crafts, and physical literacy.

Parents will have until July 31 to enroll in the program, which will only proceed if there is sufficient interest. It includes busing at a cost of $300 for the year, although parents may be eligible for subsidy from the province of Alberta’s childcare subsidy as it is a licenced childcare program.

“I wanted to build upon the success of our preschool and explore if the community sees a kindercare program as something they would like to have,” said Cruickshank.

He added the program will need at least four

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If it proceeds, the kindercare program will run alongside Andrew’s preschool program which began operation in Sept. of last year.

Andrew school is looking at providing Kindercare, which will provide care and learning for kindergarten aged children on non kindergarten days, provided there is sufficient interest from the community to proceed.

4 - The Lamont Leader (Lamont, Alberta), Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Opinion COMMENTARY

Diggin’ the new slang The world is a heavy place these days, man. If you want to dig what drift the young people’s vibes are on, you have to brush up on the mod slang of today. If you want to freak them out, just learn and then spill some of these phrases on them and watch them freak out. 10-4 good buddy? You copy?

Big Off: Replaces “My Bad,” or I made a mistake.

Big Yikes: Something super embarrassing or unfortunate.

BTO: “Bathroom Time Out” is when people go to the bathroom at work just so they can search the web, or play video games on their phone. “I had a lot of BTOs today.”

Cap: To lie about things. “All you do is cap.”

Choosey Beggar: When you try to give away something online and people want to negotiate an even better deal.

Cringey: Seeing something that makes you feel awkward or embarrassed. When something happens that is weird.

D List: People who are famous online only. Sometimes called an “Influencer.”

Facepalm: Making a mistake.

Flex: Brag about yourself. “Flexing in their new car.”

Good Vibes Only: Taking a break from online negativity.

Go Off: Ranting about something, or telling someone off.

Heart Horny: Someone looking for a deeper, more loving, or romantic relationship.

Mewd: A picture that evokes a powerful or relatable feeling.

Okay Boomer: When you make a snide remark about what a Baby Boomer thinks or does.

Okay Zoomer: A sarcastic remark about something a Generation Z person thinks or does.

Periodt: Ending a conversation, or something that’s final.

Purity Spiral: When people on social media try to out virtue everyone else to prove how good a person they are.

Shade: Ignoring someone. “Throwing shade on someone.”

Snappin’: Someone is looking good or wearing clothes that makes them look very put together.

Spilling the tea: gossiping about what somebody else said, or about what happened.

Spun: Referring to someone high on drugs.

Straight Fire: Someone who is looking very attractive.

Stan: People who admire someone famous to grandiose heights. “They stan them.”

That’s A Choice: Acknowledging something you don’t necessarily agree with.

Thirsty: Someone who is dying for attention or trying too hard to be noticed.

You Problem: Some issue only pertaining to the person talking about it. “That’s a You Problem.”

Now that you have the lowdown, I think some of these new terms are pretty far out, groovy, and maybe even fab. Getting the skinny on them gives me good vibes if you catch my drift.

Some young people might give you the hairy eyeball, but keep on truckin’.

Kerry Anderson

We’re witnessing a breakdown of civilized society

BY JOHN MATHER Can we have a civilized talk about racism? How about child abuse? Or road rage?

Of course we can’t!

Look around at what we’re seeing in 2020!

We are seeing a complete lack of respect and a breakdown of what we’ve taken for civilized society for several hundred years.

Where it’s going to end I don’t know, but I predict it’s not going to be pretty.

Let’s review shall we.

In our little part of the world called Western Canada we still battled the Federal government about getting some proper recognition as an economic engine in this geographic country of Canada.

Foreign funded protest groups opposed our success in any way and this led ultimately to illegal blockades of railways, roads and other forms of protests in the country.

Was the law applied and arrests made after these protests starting bringing the national economy to a near standstill?

No! Laws should be enforced, otherwise we have a breakdown of civilized society.

Now, again way back in December, a small report came out of China about a new virus that was on a killing spree in the city of Wuhan.

National governments around the world were informed by the World Health Organization, but little was done.

Eight weeks later this little bug hit Italy, Spain and most of Europe with vengeance.

Shortly after it ravaged North America. Depending

on the response of national and more locally based governments, we saw the extent of damage it caused.

But, it also led to societal lockdowns with much, much disagreement on what was the best form of lockdown and how long it should, last.

We are still sorting this out at various levels of government 12 weeks later.

But again it’s a mark of the breakdown of civilized society. We haven’t seen the world working together to find a cause or deal with the fallout of this pandemic.

Instead, in Canada, the government has without proper debate thrown billions at the problems, but not in creating a solution. Small businesses are going bankrupt, jobs have been lost and society is getting very, very frustrated.

In the U.S. it has pitted political parties against one another with an unpopular president saying one thing while an unpopular opponent in the upcoming elections says the exact opposite.

Both sow the chords of civil unrest.

And the latest was the callous murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which has sparked worldwide outrage in the form of racism arguments.

That the poor back man was murdered is probably correct. That it may have been done by a white police officer looks pretty obvious since it’s on video.

But our society is based on innocent until proven guilty.

But that hasn’t happened here. The city exploded into riots with looting of poor black neighbourhoods only spurring additional anger.

I’ve never understood why people who start rioting choose to burn down their own neighbourhoods, rather than going and destroying those people and edifices that they feel are the cause of their exploitation. But that’s an argument for another day.

I like to think, I and everyone else on this spinning orb called earth, was born a human.

It didn’t matter whether we were white, black, yellow, brown or any other colour. It didn’t matter whether were were Catholic, Christian, Muslim, Hindi or Buddhist.

All those names come after we are born human!

As humans we created a civilized society using our opposing thumbs and brains to raise above the other mammals, primates and critters in the animal kingdom.

But once we started adding those other names denoting race, and religion we started stereotyping and losing our civilized nature because it was us against them. It always has been and despite more and more clamouring for it to end, it always will be.

Each and everyday we may laugh at memes on Facebook or laugh at comedians in comedy clubs telling off-colour jokes and then the next day go out and protest. Does that mean we’re racist or just hypocrites?

That, history can tell example through example, is just the way it is.

But it seems in 2020 there is an exclusive group hiding at the very top of the societal heap which controls world affairs through governments and business.

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FROM WHERE I SIT: Whichever comes first

BY HAZEL ANAKA Yet again, I find myself in the dark. And while that may be some cosmic metaphor about my personal state of enlightenment, in this case I mean the power is out. There have been several outages this spring including at least one that covered many townships in the County. Often, they last for hours.

It’s in those hours that I’m reminded of two things: how much I rely on electricity and how much I take it for granted when it is working. This outage caught me midcycle in laundering a load of Roy’s farm work

Commentary: Breakdown Continued from Page 4 I have to wonder if they are directing these seemingly unconnected occurrences into a mass sequence of societal disruption worldwide.

clothes. I don’t know how this electronic Maytag will react and resume when the power is restored. Let’s hope its ‘brain’ didn’t get blown.

It also caught me before I made lunch.

Luckily, I’d boiled a dozen eggs earlier and could make chicken salad wraps without any voltage required.

One also becomes cognizant of how electricity powers basic necessities like the furnace and water pressure system.

You stop flushing the toilet or running taps. You stop needlessly opening the fridge or freezer. You hope you’ve had your morning coffee before the Keurig or the kettle become inoperable. For those people who still have a landline, you hope the phone handset is charged.

And then there’s technology. If your devices aren’t charged, you could be hooped.

Though a battery storage device or solar-powered USB charger could theo-

retically top up the phone. The battery life on my fully charged laptop dropped noticeably during the writing of this piece. I can’t even turn to the steel blue vintage Smith Corona typewriter Roy bought because it too is electric! And I think the ribbon on my antique Underwood typewriter dried up decades ago. Sadly, I’ve also misplaced my quill and inkwell. Even so, there’d be the problem of scanning and sending a document to the Leader’s publisher, Kerry Anderson.

Depending on how much natural light particular rooms get, especially during these dreary rainy days, even items not requiring electricity may be unusable. While the treadmill is out, even the woman-powered recumbent cycle (that’s essential to my ongoing knee recovery) doesn’t work because that room has no windows and it’s pitch black down there. I could happily lose hours

We are rapidly declining back into ways of tribalism. Left tribe vs right tribe.

Environmental tribe vs non-environmental tribe; this colour tribe against another tribe.

And I don’t see it coming to a very peaceful ending.

Governments are not upholding the very laws they passed to protect their citizens, and people are not respecting the very laws enacted to keep society civilized and safe.

A change is going to come and it ain’t going to be pretty.

in my basement studio space but for the same issue with lighting. As it was, I was doing some online courses when the house went dark.

TVs which are always a great diversion are no go. For those of us who often use them as white noise, the house is eerily quiet.

When I reported the most recent outage, I wondered aloud why there have been so many power outages in the last two or three months. She said all she’d heard ‘was birds and trees, oh and a farmer hit a pole.’

Hardly, a satisfying

explanation.

Maybe these crazy Covid, recession, lockdown, swamped grain fields, killer cop/abuse of power times have knocked the fight out of us. We can’t do much about any of this, so when the universe throws something else at us, we Shrug and Carry On. (Hey, that’s almost as catchy a slogan as Keep Calm and Carry On)! Last week, it was discovering that the sump pump in the septic tank had fried and both tanks were full. Thank God, the floor drain valve we had installed

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6 - The Lamont Leader (Lamont, Alberta), Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Four year old Bruderheim resident Fisher Baumann plays on the side streets in large puddles created during the heavy rains over the weekend of Jun 7.

Driver in Lamont County among impaireds handed out by police JANA SEMENIUK Fort Saskatchewan RCMP arrested multiple people for impaired driving over the weekend, including one arrest in Lamont County.

While conducting pro active patrols in Fort Saskatchewan on Jun 5, police observed a vehicle swerving through an intersection while speeding at 11:16 p.m. After a mandatory alcohol screening test resulted in a fail, the male driver was arrested for impaired driving and taken to the Fort Saskatchewan detachment where two additional breath samples resulted in an alcohol level detected of twice the legal .08 limit. The 32-year old male driver was released from custody with a court date of Aug. 20 in Fort Saskatchewan.

The next evening, Jun. 6 in Lamont County, Fort

Saskatchewan RCMP were again conducting pro active patrols when a vehicle was observed failing to stay within the centre of the driving lane at approximately 11:24 p.m. Once a traffic stop was conducted, a mandatory alcohol screening resulted in a fail. He was then arrested for impaired driving and taken to the Fort Saskatchewan detachment where two additional breath samples were obtained and resulted in an alcohol level three times the limit of .08. The 32-year old male was released from custody and given a court date of Sept. 24 in Fort Saskatchewan.

Two additional male drivers were arrested on Jun. 7 in Fort Saskatchewan for impaired driving.

Police responded to reports of an impaired driver at 2 a.m. on 101

street. Once a traffic stop was conducted, a roadside alcohol screening device was administered and resulted in a fail for the driver. He was arrested and transported to the Fort Saskatchewan RCMP detachment where two additional breath samples found his level of alcohol to be over the legal limit of .08.

The 18-year old driver was released from custody and given a court date of Sept. 24 in Fort Saskatchewan.

More than two hours later, at 4:21 a.m., police again responded to reports of an impaired driver at 99 avenue and 101 street in Fort Saskatchewan.

Once police located the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop the driver was found to be grossly intoxicated. He refused to give breath samples and was found to be driving while prohibited.

Landy Shirt-Lightning was arrested and charged with Failing to Provide a Breath Sample, Operation while Prohibited and Fail to Comply with Release Order. He was remanded into custody, following a judicial hearing, and is set to appear in Fort Saskatchewan Provincial Court on Jun. 11.

Constable Hayley Townsend, media contact for the Fort Saskatchewan RCMP, explained why only one persons’ name was released to the public.

“Shirt-Lightning was the only person who was held for a hearing by a Justice of the Peace and information was sworn so his charges are now public record,” she explained by email.

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The Lamont Leader (Lamont, Alberta), Wednesday, June 10, 2020 - 7

Lamont County to look at new detailed drainage plans

BY JOHN MATHER Lamont County will start looking at new technologies and methodology to strengthen the county’s aging road system and drainage issues.

County Road Maintenance Technologist Joel Cardinal provided an update of what could happen to the County at a special council meeting.

“We’ve made some observations since taking my position with the County,” he told council June 3. “Some roads are seriously deteriorating and some culverts are undesirable.”

He said the County didn’t have to look at the infrastructure issue from a point of “doom and gloom” but did have to realize there were problems.

“We have to accept the realities we have in certain situations,” he said.

“Once we accept this is where we’re at, then we can make a plan to move forward.”

He pointed out some roads were built to standards which are no longer acceptable.

“What was an acceptable standard 30 or 40 years ago, is no longer,” he said. “Something was built to a standard back then but since the landscape around it has changed bringing changes to the road structure as well.”

He told council the general consequences of the crumbling infrastructure was among other things, an organizational dysfunction; a very low servicing standard; unsatisfied ratepayers; reoccurring problems not being solved; and, the infrastructure breaking down to the point where it is no longer repairable but has to be totally replaced.

Cardinal warned if the infrastructure problems were to continue and not get resolved it could lead to reputational issues and by not resolving the problems more and more infrastructure would deteriorate. That in turn could affect future development plans.

He further told council that Lamont County was not unique in experiencing these issues.

“Many counties, small towns and hamlets are in

this situation,” he said.

“However decisions that are made will impact our direction moving forward.”

He said moving forward the County would have to tailor capital and operations planning consistent with a technical and functional based infrastructure approach, representative of the initiatives, cost-estimates, priorities, focus and the execution of requirements to ensure the manipulation and improvement of identified infrastructure in order to achieve future desired service levels, plans and viable maintenance procedures.

He added the County had to commit to the plan.

“When the culverts are being installed we have to make sure it’s being done properly on site, so we need the buy-in right down to the ground employee.”

All work, he suggested, must be tailored to future considerations in the County also.

He further told council all plans must look at water, drainage, utility and other issues along with building a road.

“There’s no point building a new road or rehabilitating a road and then a year later tear that up to put in a utility line and then tear it up again at a later date for a water line,” he said. “Plan to do it all at the same time.”

“We have to analyze the areas so know all the issues we may be facing and then address them all.”

He pointed out that across North America municipalities are moving from gravel roads to stabilized roads.

“There is a cost involved and we would have to plan how we would build this out if we decided to go this route.”

He suggested the County get and maintain a data base of their infrastructure.

Cardinal didn’t shy away from stating the proposed plan was expensive.

“But if you don’t choose to buy in to this plan,” he asked. “Then what are the viable alternatives?”

He further suggested that no outside consultant could achieve the results the County required, but rather the

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“That was a very detailed and comprehensive report,” stated Reeve David Diduck after Cardinal finished his presentation.

“You have a good grasp of the situation after only a short time with the County.”

County Manager, Stephen Hill said the County had moved to satellite imagery of its infrastructure during the past year and it would be updated on an annual basis.

“If we saw it right now, could we see all the problems with our roads,” asked Councillor Roy Anaka. Hill said they would.

Councillor Neil Woitas stated there was more water on roads than he had seen in a long time and “we’ve got to do something sooner rather than later.”

Hill said the size of farm equipment had increased so much that the tillage could change the elevations and landscaping of property just by being pulled through it. He said while this wasn’t intentional, it still changed the landscape.

Diduck mentioned the County had commissioned a drainage study about a year and half ago.

Hill said it was still under way and wasn’t at the point where it could be presented to council.

“I believe there’s about three month’s

work left on that study,” he said. While he wasn’t sure if it had been slowed by the pandemic affecting work, he told council an August or September presentation could be feasible.

He said the County had culverts crisscrossing roads which slowed the drainage process and that was something they would have to address in the future.

“But part of the drainage study is identifying each and every culvert in the County and knowing the direction and slope of the drainage through the culverts.”

Cardinal agreed saying in the short time he’d been with the County, drainage was obviously a major issue.

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County drainage plans to be made Continued from Page 7

It’s a large County and a large boundary,” he said. “It’s a massive challenge.”

Diduck stated Cardinal’s report fairly addressed the water and drainage issues in the County.

“We probably do have to change going for-

ward,” he said. “But it’s not an overnight solution. It will take a detailed plan.”

He suggested a committee would be the way to develop the plan through the creation of a business plan to move it forward.

“In the interim we

may have to find some solutions to alleviate some of the major problems, but we also must look at the long term solutions.”

Council moved to accept Cardinal’s report as information.

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sengers as having outstanding arrest warrants on unrelated criminal offences. All three were arrested.

A search following the arrest resulted in police finding approximately half a pound of suspected crack cocaine, worth an estimated street value of $25,000.00, 31 tablets of Buprenorphine, drug packaging, a digital scale, bear spray and $586 dollars in Canadian currency, suspected of

being proceeds of crime.

The two male passengers, from Saskatchewan, were eventually released from custody.

The driver, 33-year old Gerald Sinclair also from Saskatchewan, was issued a number of violation tickets in addition to being charged with numerous offences including; driving while suspended, two charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking, pos-

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Bruderheim budget has zero percent increase JANA SEMENIUK The town of Bruderheim has worked hard to support their residents during the pandemic including maintaining its town budget to a zero percent increase. The budget for 2020 was approved during the May 20 town council meeting and did not increase from the previous year.

“One of the things we did to help was to scale down staff at our town office,” said chief administrative officer Patty Podoborozny. “We had six staff at one time, now we have three. I answer the phone a lot these days.”

Although the tax increase was zero percent, Podoborozny said that some people may still see an increase on their tax bill.

“Just because our tax rate is at zero does not mean your taxes won’t go up,” she said. “What zero percent says is that our budget didn’t increase from 2019 at all.

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Podoborozny went onto explain different portions of the tax bill.

“The municipal portion of the taxes did not increase, but the education portion and the senior’s portion both went up,” she said.

Podoborozny included that residents are also able to take advantage of the TIPPS program (Tax Installment Payment Plan) which allows residents to pay their taxes monthly.

“Normally residents have to sign up before Dec. 15 to be able to pay their taxes monthly for the coming year,” she said. “But this year they can pay the first six months then sign up to pay the next six on a monthly basis.”

Podoborozny added that ultimately, she would like to see everyone on the monthly payment plan.

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