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Farmers facing flooding crisis in Lamont County
An aerial shot showing fields north east of Bruderheim, around Township Road 652 and range roads 200 and 201, flooded over from the late spring thaw and recent rains. Local area farmer Neil Woitas explained he usually seeds 65 of 80 acres in this area, but that won't be happening this year. NEIL WOITAS PHOTO.
Estimates of up to 1/4 loss of seeded acreage, no memory of more water on fields BY JOHN MATHER Lamont County declared a state of agricultural disaster for itself last week following a weekend of heavy rain. Much of the County is under water from spring thaws and the ongoing rain storms. It has left many farmers in the County unable to get last year’s crops off the fields and further unable to seed for this season. For those who did get seed into the ground, the water has done a huge amount of damage. The declaration of the Agricultural Disaster was done to raise awareness with the senior levels of government of the “critical situation in Lamont County caused by a late spring thaw combined with excessive spring rains in a short time,” said a county press release. A survey conducted by Terry Eleniak, the county’s Agricultural Fieldman, estimated a 20 to 25 per cent loss of acreage that had been seeded. “It’s terrible out there,” said Agricultural Services Board chairman, Daniel Warawa. He said this was the second time he could recall the County having to declare an agricultural emer-
gency. The first occurred in 2016, he recalled, and was for drought conditions. “That was nothing like this,” he said. “This is really bad. I’ve never seen so much water on the fields in my life. “The farmers aren’t getting their seed in the fields and those who have, well some of the planted areas are now under water and that’s killing the crop.” Warawa, who farms west of Mundare, has 5,700 acres in production but he said he still has 400 acres to seed and he feels he’s in good shape. “We were able to spray for canola on Friday and wheat on Sunday,” he said. “But I don’t know about my barley. It doesn’t like water so it could be a bad season for it.” He said if it’s a bad fall with a poor harvest, many farmers won’t financially survive. And he points out the east part of the County, while saturated, is in good shape compared “to west of Chipman.” County Councillor Neil Woitas, who farms near Bruderheim, has roughly
900 acres to farm, but still has about 400 acres left to seed. Woitas took aerial photos of the area around his farm over the past weekend showing vast amounts of field under water. Warawa said he had about 80,000 bushels of crop to haul to an elevator this week, but doesn’t know how he’ll do it because the roads are so saturated he can’t get the heavy trucks into his property to haul the grain out. “Every half mile you go there’s boils on the roads,” he said. “The County had budgeted about $900,000 for all the County divisions to do road improvements, but that’s just not enough and there’s no more money.” He said with the rural roads primarily built on black dirt with gravel put on top, their age and lack of drainage have caught up with them. “I think we really have to work on a drainage program,” he said. “We have a drainage study under way, but some ditches are blocked and the water has nowhere to go but under the road and that creates the boils in the centre of the road where vehicles can get stuck.”
He hopes the study will point out blockages that can be cleaned out so the water can find its way to natural water drainage corridors which would ease the runoff. “By declaring the Agricultural State of Emergency,” he said. “It’s our plea for help to higher levels of government. We have a very, very real crisis here.” In the meantime, at 3 p.m. June 15, the State of Local Emergency that the County had declared on June 8, came to an end as it had reached the end of the seven day mark under the Emergency Management act. Regional Fire Chief and Director of Emergency Management Shayne Milliken said in a release he didn’t foresee any extraordinary measures needing to be taken in the near future. “This certainly does not undermine the disaster that some of the residents face with overland flooding,” he stated. “Daily assessments continue to be done and a State of Local Emergency can be re-declared at any time and for any location in the County whenever the criteria is met within the Act.”
2 - The Lamont Leader (Lamont, Alberta), Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Volleyball scholarship to further education for Andrew athlete BY JOHN MATHER An Andrew area student is using her volleyball skills to continue her post secondary education as a member of the Grant MacEwan University Griffins this fall. Seventeen-year-old Alyshia Bryks has been a standout with the Lamont Lakers for the past few years, since she advanced to that school’s junior girls volleyball team from Andrew School when she was in Grade 9. On June 11, she was named the senior girls volleyball Most Valuable Player during the school’s virtual Athletic Awards for the year. Bryks plays with the Edmonton Nooks U18 club team in Edmonton, also taking on teams from Sherwood Park and Fort Saskatchewan. “We also play tournaments for northern and southern Alberta,” she added. After these elimination tournaments, the north and south are combined for further play eventually determining a provincial champion. “It’s all under the auspices of Volleyball Alberta,” she said. “Once the first tournaments are completed we are seeded for the provincial level.” She said up to 100 teams may compete at the start of the round robin events. Last year, her team went to the national championships in Toronto. This year’s national tournament was cancelled due to the
Covid-19 pandemic. As a club team player she has also had the opportunity to travel to the U.S. to play in tournaments in San Diego and Phoenix. “Most of the kids going to post secondary for volleyball pretty much come out of the club team environment,” stated Bryks. “If you get onto a post secondary team from high school, you have the coaches at the university level come and watch you play. Most of the kids will come from the club team level.” Seven of her club team members will go on to post secondary institutions to play volleyball. Playing with the Lamont Laker this year, the senior girls won second at zones, while winning a couple of tournaments along the way during the season. It was the team’s best season in decades. As a power hitter, Bryks has been playing club volleyball for eight years. At Grade 5 at Andrew Junior High they didn’t have enough students to field a junior team, so she opted to go to Lamont. As for joining the club team in Edmonton, one of her older brothers played for a club team and he convinced her. “He enjoyed it so I thought I’d give it a try.” She hasn’t looked back. This fall, providing the teams are allowed to play she’ll wear the silks of the Grant MacEwan University Griffins. She said the MacEwan
coaches came to watch the Nook U18 play in their provincials tournaments and that was where she was asked if she wanted to join the Griffin squad. “Usually you have to talk to them about being interested and have them come out and watch you,” she said. She added while she didn’t, some team hopefuls can send videos to coaches in an effort to make the team. Bryks has been offered some scholarship funding to play at the school but she is prohibited from saying how much. Once she joins the Griffins she’ll be familiar with two of her teammates whom she has either played with or against at the club level. Her other teammates will be new to her. She is currently doing offsite training as best she can while social distancing prevents team practices. “I have the workouts I was given … programs that will keep my skills up.” “It’s very hard to practice right now, but I do have a net so I can play a little with my brother, but it’s very limited.” She states she hasn’t really thought about where she might go with her volleyball. “My first goal is to make the Griffins team,” she said. She did play with Team Alberta in the Canada Games in 2019. “I was also asked to try out with the Youth Team Canada,” she said. While she didn’t make
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the final cut for the team being one of only 35 players across the country asked to tryouts was quite an honour. She added she learned a different style of coaching at that camp. “We really learned some different methods of stretching and warm up activities,” she said. “The play was essentially the same.” With the Lamont Lakers, she states she is one of the few players that plays club volleyball as well. “I’ve always tried to lead through sportsmanship,” explains Bryks. “I find volleyball fun and enjoy the competition. “It also makes me less quiet.” “There’s no contact but it is a great team sport.” Besides volleyball, Bryks also excelled at badminton during her days at Lamont High. She also played beach volleyball for a few years from age 13 to 16. She played with Volleyball Alberta and she and her partner went to the Toronto Beach Volleyball nationals in 2018 after winning bronze at the provincial level.
Alyshia Bryks, 17, poses with her dog, Zeus, at home on June 5. Bryks played her junior and high school volleyball as a member of the Lamont High School Lakers. And, after also playing Edmonton city league volleyball, she has her sights set on starting as a power forward with the Grant MacEwan Griffins ladies volleyball squad in the fall.
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Andrew area resident wins prestigious scholastic award BY JOHN MATHER Cassie Melenka admits she liked to pour over her textbooks and use them to their fullest extent in her efforts to master her nursing school courses. “I wring out every bit of information I can get,” she states. The Andrew area resident succeeded in doing just that this year winning a Governor General’s Award when she graduated from her practical nursing program at the Medicine Hat College, Brooks campus. “I thought maybe I might get the top marks in my class, but I don’t like talking about myself, and when I was informed I was flabbergasted.” The Governor General’s Academic Medal was created in 1873 to encourage academic excellence across the nation and is awarded to the student who receives the highest overall average upon graduation. “Yes, I thought I’d do well,” she reiterates. “But the Governor General’s Award is for getting the top marks in the entire college.”
“Through every program getting the top average of everyone in the whole graduating class of 2020. When I got that phone call I was in disbelief.” She said she never shot for the stars or thought the award would be a possibility. “I first attended postsecondary in Edmonton, where I realized that big city life is not for me. Having grown up in Andrew, I knew I would be best suited to a smaller, rural community to pursue my education. I searched for the smallest, closest college that offered a nursing program, discovered MHC’s Brooks campus, and felt it was exactly what I was looking for,” explains Melenka. Melenka also knew her passion and interests lay within rural health, an industry she felt would be widely understood by the practical nurse faculty in Brooks. “With Brooks being a rural community, I believed the instructors would have a great understanding of the field and where my career was headed. I felt as though it was an opportunity for me to
gain valuable, firsthand knowledge and experience throughout my studies.” She admits she had first thought about pursuing a teaching career but felt it didn’t offer as many career prospects as nursing. So for the past three years she had been helping out at the Lamont Health Care Centre. She also did a couple of nursing practicum stints at the Smoky Lake
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DNA becoming essential for law enforcement A couple of years ago, police in California entered some old DNA samples into a genealogy data base and found a close match. They knew it wasn’t the DNA from the person of interest, but they knew it had to be a close relative. Among those relatives, police were looking for a person now likely in their 70s, once athletic, caucasian, male, average height, shoe size 9, blood type A, who lived near the areas of the crimes at the time. Police tailed the most likely person, waiting for him to discard some evidence they could match. Finally they followed him to a mall where he used and then tossed away a tissue. Detectives retrieved the specimen from the trash and ran the DNA. It was an exact match to the evidence gathered from unsolved crimes and murders 30-40 years ago. The matching DNA in question was found as evidence at dozens of crime scenes, starting with a serial prowler, burglar and Peeping Tom nicknamed the Visalia Ransacker (early 1970s). After DNA evidence became more exact and indisputable, investigators discovered that the Visalia Ransacker was also the Original Night Stalker and East Area Rapist, whose crimes spanned the 1970s and presumably ceased in 1986. Because of the enormity of the cold cases (100+ burglaries, 50+ rapes, 13+ murders), and the variety of horrific crimes, this psychopath became known simply as the Golden State Killer. After some 30 years of apparent inactivity, imagine his surprise when Joesph James DeAngelo, 72, opened his front door and was arrested at his home in 2018. His criminal trial is pending on all crimes not escaping the statute of limitations. Before and since the Golden State Killer arrest, police world-wide have been able to use genealogy sites to capture hundreds of criminals and give a semblance of peace to victims, their friends and families of victims. Unfortunately investigators do not have free rein when it comes to people’s DNA. Some genealogy companies have protection guaranteed to their clients and will not share DNA information with police. My wife and I have purchased kits with 23andMe where our DNA imprint is stored. The site protects our data, but in its privacy statement you must agree that it can share your information for research purposes and also with law enforcement if necessary. That sounds like a great idea to me. Imagine the number of solvable crimes there would be these days if there was a world-wide DNA data bank. If someone leaves behind a genetic print of themselves at the scene, investigators would just have to find the evidence, take a swab, enter it, and “voila” - round up the criminal. As well, innocent people are now getting out of jail because DNA evidence found at the crime scene positively did not link them whatsoever despite coincidences presented to a judge or jury which convicted them. Instead the real perpetrator can be arrested. Today there are over 50 million DNA tests sold, and every year the number seems to double. In a world of smart phones, computers, social media, security cameras, and dash cams, would we really have much less privacy if doctors were simply required to take DNA samples from babies at birth and we had an international data bank? Kerry Anderson
Change can only be achieved by knowing history not destroying it BY JOHN MATHER When I was much younger I read Fahrenheit 451, a story about society burning its books. In more recent years I have served on my local library board and vigorously opposed library funding cuts for it and other libraries in the Greater Edmonton area. I believe libraries should always exist for they serve as the storehouses of knowledge and history. But I’m afraid maybe I’m wrong. There are a few out there who don’t support the right to knowledge or history unless it’s the form of knowledge and history that matches their own narrative! For the past several weeks we’ve witnessed rioting as people protest the unnecessary death of George Floyd. Coupled with rioting and looting and arson these protests made their way to Canada. And according to no less an expert than our Prime Minister, we and our national institutions all engage in systematic racism. Well Justin, when you have on multiple occasions dressed in blackface and often referred to yourself as privileged I can only say, “Speak for yourself and quit trolling among the politically correct and naive for votes.” Suddenly everyone wants to kill off our history.
Sir Winston Churchill guided England and the Commonwealth through the injustices and semitism of the Second World War. But now his statues should be torn down say some. Sir John A. MacDonald, Canada’s first prime minster. For all you folks out there who don’t want anything to do with being part of the United States ever, maybe thank him for making Canada a separate country before that assimilation occurred, by making sure a transcontinental railroad was constructed. But no, let’s rip his statues down. Let’s change street names and place names because we don’t like the history of who they were or maybe the errors they made in their past that aren’t acceptable today. But at the time, their thought processes weren’t necessarily out of place. The world and society was different 100 and 200 or more years ago. How can we possibly endeavour to make our society a better place if we don’t have the mistakes and errors of the past, known as history, to refer to? Did we as society condemn the Taliban when they destroyed the Buddhas of Bamyan site in Afghanistan several years ago that represented history they didn’t agree with? You bet we did! But now a generation says we should do the
same thing. Tear them down, Blow them up. You can’t erase history! Would you throw away the Bible … the Talmud … the Koran. What about the works of Archimedes, Plato and Galilao? And all in the name of political correctness. My father and uncles, among many others, fought the First World War, the Second World War and others to protect and preserve the freedoms we have today in society. Countless thousands on both sides died. But now we have a generation saying ,”Screw you old guys … this is about us …. throw it all away.” Tell me Mr. Prime Minister, how are you and your back room minions going to feel when people start tearing down daddy’s statues and removing his name from airports because the country has finally woken up and become tired of the economic apartheid he started pushing on the west with his National Energy Policy and you are continuing with your lack of concern about Canada’s oil and gas industry? Let’s leave our history alone. We need it as a road map to advance our society. And let’s respect the fact that different people do have different opinions, but that’s no reason for societal intolerance.
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FROM WHERE I SIT: Jeannie’s Bottle
BY HAZEL ANAKA How many varieties of tea does one woman need? Apparently, fortythree, give or take a dozen. While, I may be exaggerating just a touch, they do have a way of accumulating. I’ve got loose tea and tea in bags that I’ve either bought or been gifted. My all-time favourite bagged tea is Stash’s Licorice Spice so it’s hard to explain all those others. So, during the turning-inward process associated with the lockdown, I took action. I threw out the ones I don’t like. I put the nonamers in a bag and day by day I’m using them up. I won’t buy anymore until I get a grip. Ideally, I’ll limit myself to what the six compartments in my lovely wooden tea box will hold. The story is similar with toothpaste. Typically, we buy the three-pack of Sensodyne that Costco sells. Despite being a size that is huge and lasts forever, eventually it’s gone. My current plan is to use all those tiny sample tubes the dentist gives that we pull out for trips or hotel stays, neither of which look likely any time soon. I feel an inordinate amount of satisfaction every time I use something up. Since the lockdown started in mid-March, I’ve managed to use up bottles of salon sham-
poos and am now working through the drugstore brands. Frankly, in the makeup and health and beauty department, I don’t think I’m as bad as some women for product variety and inventory but I can do better. Little by little, I’m either using the stuff up or cutting my losses and chucking dated product out. I find it fascinating how this epidemic may be changing (hopefully for the long haul) the notion of beauty and appearance. We’ve always known that TV personalities, including the men are wearing makeup. The hair was always impeccably styled and immovable. For now, I won’t talk about the inequality between how we judge
women versus what’s deemed acceptable in men. When I started to leave my house in the early days, it was still winter and I was able to wear a toque to cover my grey roots and sunglasses to obscure the fact I wasn’t wearing makeup. As it warmed up, a ball cap replaced the toque. It’s become clear that CTV national news anchor Lisa Laflamme is showing her grey along with the rest of us. Seeing that I decided that if it’s okay for a woman seen by millions every night, it was okay for little old me seeing a couple of people at the post office once a week. Salons reopened a few weeks ago but my stylist is immune-compromised
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form marriage ceremonies this summer. Three and a half hours and a pile of money later, I walked out of there with a haircut and some very acceptable hair as I transition to grey. It would have been impossible and/or crazy to try to go from brunette to grey by stripping colour so this was the more prudent, safer option. While wearing makeup and bright colours will help, I do expect I’ll look older. But really, when you have grown children and grandkids who insist on getting older every year, who am I really kidding?
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Concession operator granted concession by Lamont council BY JANA SEMENIUK Local businesses hit by the provincial shutdowns have been looking to their municipalities for financial relief. Tarka’s Treats, a concession booth operated by Lorrie Tarka out of the Lamont Arena, has requested a 50 percent reduction in her annual lease as a result of arena closures suffered this year due to the COVID 19 pandemic as well as
facility repairs. In February, the Lamont arena was shut down while the ice plant went under repairs. “The arena shut down for the ice plant repair, then the pandemic happened and I never wound up being able to go back in to operate the concession,” said Tarka. She added that her season generally follows the hockey schedule beginning in Sept. and ending
approximately midApril. She indicated in her request to town council, that having the season cut short meant having left-over food she was not able to sell or carry over for the coming year. “My season came to an abrupt end first with the ice plant breaking down, then with this horrible coronavirus,” she wrote in her letter. “I was left with an abundance of
stock due to the short season and not being able to get into the concession.” Tarka entered into her lease agreement with the town of Lamont in 2018 for $1,000 per year until 2021. She requested a 50 percent decrease in her lease payment for the 2020-2021 season taking her payment down to $500. “I have no problem
supporting this request,” stated Lamont councillor Jody Foulds. “Especially considering that what happens in concessions in the last two to three weeks is when she would sell out of her food. She would have had no other means to make those sales.” “It was two or three weeks out of six months,” said councillor Al Harvey. “Courts have
determined that a pandemic is not force majeure and some loss is to be expected.” Council voted five to one in favour of Tarka’s request. Tarka indicated she was happy with council’s decision. “I was very relieved and felt very supported by the town,” she said.
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Regular school maintenance programs announced BY JOHN MATHER Andrew School will get some new roof sections this summer as part of the regular summer maintenance program. The Elk Island Public School Division included the information in its report at the May 28 board meeting. In total the board’s facility services department has 323 projects scheduled for 2020 which will include more than $5.95 million in infrastructure maintenance and renewal funding. In addition to fixes for a leaking roof section, the report given to the Board of Trustees May 28 indicates other projects will be ongoing at the small school through the spring and summer. These include: improvement to the metal roofing at the village main entrance; maintenance of the basketball support and power systems; fire extinguisher inspections and servicing; dust collector inspections and servicing; sprinkler system inspections and servicing; dryer duct cleaning, gym floor
recoating, the regular custodial summer cleaning regime; replacement of the existing flooring of the northeast corridor. At Lamont Elementary School, the routine maintenance will include: basketball backboard support and power systems; fire extinguisher inspection and upgrades; kitchen fire system inspection and servicing; gym flooring recoating; custodial summer cleaning regime; flooring replacement and countertops and cabinets in room 127; and parking lot grading. Across the street at Lamont High School manual winches and safety straps will be installed in the gymnasium; basketball support and power systems will be inspected; fire extinguisher inspections and servicing; dust collector inspection and servicing. Dryer duct cleaning; the custodial summer cleaning regime, and phase two of the cafeteria upgrades. At Mundare School, misaligned pole sockets in the gymnasium will be repaired along with annual basketball sup-
port and power system inspections; sprinkler system servicing and inspection; fire extinguisher inspection and servicing; fire alarm inspection and servicing; dryer duct cleaning; the regular custodial summer cleaning regime; and drainage corrections. The administration offices at Vegreville Composite High School will be renovated. In addition to many of the summer cleaning and inspection programs similar to the other school in the district, the public address system at Vegreville will also be serviced.
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The residents of Lamont’s Beaverhill Pioneer Lodge had a fun activity packed day June 5, as part of the Seniors week celebrations. The day began starting out with exercises, a perogy and Kubassa lunch. That was followed with an early afternoon free Bingo with special prizes. The residents were treated to their own individual choice of a personalized sundae which could include any or all the following: butterscotch chips, chocolate sauce, caramel
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MOTHER NATURE LOVES SPRING IN LAMONT COUNTY
A farmer uses a lot of major equipment as he seeds a section of land near Andrew recently. After just completing last year’s harvest, the nicer weather was allowing area farmers to quickly get their crops in for this season. Recent rains and flooding has damaged crops more in the western part of Beaver County.
A trumpeter swan basks in the nice warm weather last week on a pond south of Bruderheim. PHOTO BY CRYSTAL INVERARITY
Bruderheim planning a reverse parade for Canada Day BY JANA SEMENIUK As Canada Day celebrations were put on hold and in some cases outright cancelled across the province due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the town of Bruderheim’s hope of being able to celebrate Canada’s 153rd birthday will be a reality. “We were waiting until Dr. Deena released phase two of lifting
restrictions before announcing any plans,” said Bruderheim chief administrative officer Patty Podoborozny. Podoborozny added that the celebration will consist of a reverse parade. “This will be an evening parade, with a theme of ‘Every day heroes’, where residents can enter their decorated
homes, bikes or whatever they like onto their front lawn, into the parade,” she said. “Judges will drive throughout the neighbourhoods to judge the entries and residents are encouraged to drive around to see the entries too.” There are a number of categories for entries including best theme,
best agricultural and best vehicle. Podoborozny acknowledged that Canada Day will be a bit different this year, but hopes residents will still have a good time. “We were hoping to be able to do some outdoor activities but the guidelines are making it too difficult,” she added.
A pair of Canada Geese give swimming lessons to their goslings on a pond near Elk Island Park last week.
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MLA reports on Stage 2 openings in Alberta, thanks riding for cooperation Dear friends and neighbours, I am very happy to share that the second stage of Alberta’s relaunch strategy began on Friday, June 12 – one week ahead of schedule. This stage will significantly open up our communities to the activities that we have all been missing. Houses of worship will be able to expand their attendance, as long as there is room for physical distancing, and sports teams will finally be able to practice together. This also means that a number of busi-
nesses ranging from gyms, to spas, to libraries will be allowed to reopen, and organized sports can begin again. Churches, restaurants, and provincial park campgrounds have also had their capacity limits lifted. For small- and medium-sized businesses and non-profits who need additional help, our government will also be introducing supports of up to $5,000 to help cover the costs of reopening during the COVID19 pandemic. On June 10, our
Minister of Education announced a comprehensive re-entry plan for the upcoming school year. The final decision for which scenario will be in place at the beginning of the school year will be shared by August 1. For more detailed information on school reentry, please visit alberta.ca/k-to-12-school-reentry-2020-21-schoolyear.aspx. Beginning June 15, pharmacists will be able to relax the 30-day limit for dispensing prescription drugs in Alberta. As
our province continues to reopen, drug supply chains are remaining strong and this temporary limit is no longer necessary. I know this will be welcome relief for both patients and pharmacists. I would like to thank all of the farmers in our community and across Alberta who work tirelessly every day to put food on our table. Each year, the second Friday in June marks Farmer’s Day in Alberta. Our farmers have had a
tough year, but they continue to persevere and find innovative ways to contribute to Alberta’s second-largest industry. No matter what you had to eat today, thank a farmer for all of their hard work. Happy Farmer’s Day! Thank you to everyone in Fort SaskatchewanVegreville for following public health guidelines and working to keep one another healthy. It is because of you that we are able to move into a period of economic
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Road closed signs signal washed out roads in three of four directions at the intersection of Township Road 564 at Range Road 191 on June 12 in Lamont County northwest of Star. The County has declared a State of Agricultural Emergency to make higher levels of government aware of their flooding issues.
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Top athletes virtually honoured in Lamont Braydon Nimchuk and Morgan Fedyniak win Athletes of the Year BY JOHN MATHER In lieu of an actual presentation, Lamont High School went to social media and held a virtual athletics awards ceremony, June 11. The top athletes of the year were: Braydon Nimchuk, Senior High Male Athlete of the Year; and Morgan Fedyniak, Senior High Female Athlete of the Year. Jake Fesyk won the Junior High Athlete of the Year; and Emily Carruthers, was the Female Junior High Athlete of the Year. The Top Academic Athletes were Nigel Kroeker, Senior High; and Camryn Fossum, Junior High. Other athletic awards were as follows: In cross country, Ashlynn Dickenson was the Junior High Most Valuable Player, while Ethan Nimchuk and Corry Theissen were the Senior High MVPs in Cross Country. In Junior Volleyball, there were several awards presented to participants in both the Junior B and Junior A program. Christian Nimchuk was the boys MVP, while Devon McKinnon won the Jr. B Boys Laker Award. Aiden Carruthers won the coaches award for the Junior boys. Ruth Andruchow won the Junior B Girls volleyball MVP, with Deanna Derksen winning the Lakers Award. Camryn
Fossum was the recipient of the Coaches Award. For the Junior A Boys volleyball, Daniel Cornoc won the Most Valuable Player Award while Nathan Desjardins-Major won the Junior A Lakers Award. Jake Fesyk was the winner of the coaches award. For the Junior A volleyball girls, Emily Carruthers won the MVP, with Caylyn Flynn receiving the Lakers Award. Kylis Engman won the Junior A girls Coaches Award. In the seniors boys and girls volleyball category Braydon Nimchuk won the MVP for the boys with Del Thrower capturing the Lakers award. Trent Kucy received the coaches award. In Senior girls, Alyshia Bryks won the MVP honours with Tara Skousbol receiving the Senior Girls Lakers Award. KiannaRaine Wilchak and Kaleigh Peddle shared the Coaches Award, For basketball, Christian Nimchuk won the most valuable player in the Junior B boys category with Zach Kuzio winning the Lakers Award. Adam Boudreau was the Coaches Award recipient for the Junior B girls. For the Junior B girls, Camryn Fossum was the MVP with Jersey Neufeld picking up the Lakers Award. Ruth Andruchow won the Coaches Award. In the Senior Boys
Basketball category, Walid Khamis was named the MVP and Ethen Earp received the Lakers Award. Blake Shaw won the Junior A Boys Coaches Award. For the Junior A basketball girls, Natalie Skousbol was the MVP while Maisie Andruchow won the Lakers Award. Emily Carruther received the Coaches Award. In the senior boys basketball category, Braydon Nimchuk won the MVP and teammate Carter Schickerowsky
was the Lakers Award recipient. Markus Taylor won the Coaches Award. In the Senior Girls category Breanna Plowman was named the MVP and Abigail Marianicz picked up the Lakers Award. Morgan Fedyniak won the Coaches Award. Kianna-Raine Wilchuk received the female MVP for curling, while Autumn Riley received the Coaches Award and Payton Moser won the Lakers Award. Fred Farrell won the MVP in the Lamont High Golf Program.
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