June 30 Lamont Leader

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World starting to look normal again, looking forward to Canada Day

Crowds gathered at the shore of Astotin Lake at Elk Island National Park to enjoy the water, recently. As restrictions are lifted and people begin to resume normal lives, the park south of Lamont is expected to be extremely busy on Canada Day, Thursday. Photo Crystal Moren

Heat - not Covid - halts holiday fireworks as fire ban declared

BY JANA SEMENIUK A sudden heat wave put the kibosh on Canada Day fireworks plans for Bruderheim and Mundare after a county wide fire ban was put in place June 28.

“We had fireworks booked but we just couldn’t risk it,” said Chief Administrative Officer Patty Podoborozny. “With all of that dry grass out in the AG grounds, the heat wave and a bit of wind, it was just too risky to do fireworks so we cancelled them Friday.”

The hot dry weather eventually prompted an outright fire ban for the County of Lamont June 28.

Regional Fire Chief Shayne Milliken said the ban was necessary.

“Our fire weather values jumped 15 points this morning which puts us in extreme risk,” he said by phone.

“Within Lamont County there is to be no open-air burning, and no exploding targets including fireworks.”

Milliken said fireworks are particularly dangerous.

“I would encourage people not to set off fireworks in any urban setting even without a fire ban. Anytime you set off fireworks it’s a significant fire hazard,” he said. “Anyone wanting to set off fireworks needs to apply for a permit and any commercial fireworks must be

Day tenting at EINP, as visitors both enjoyed and endure the 30-something temperatures this week.

Photo Crystal Moren

done by a pyrotechnic company. When an application is made, we verify the site and the credentials of the company.

It’s not like the old days when just anyone could do fireworks.”

Milliken added that there are exceptions to the fire ban.

“We still allow propane fire pits with fake rock because they are lower risk.

There are no embers and they carry less risk of people walking away and a spark starting. They can also be shut off immediately,” he said. “Hopefully with some rain we can go back to where we were last week without a fire ban.”

Additional information is available

A Canada flag sits proudly mounted on the front porch railing of a home in Bruderheim. Canada Day festivities will commence throughout Lamont County tomorrow in a variety of ways minus fireworks in light of a county-wide fire ban. Photo: Jana Semeniuk

at albertafirebans.ca.

Meanwhile, the province of Alberta will move to a stage three re-opening on July 1 which allows for indoor social gatherings and the lifting of a general indoor provincial mask mandate.

Although there will be no fireworks, Canada Day festivities will still carry on cautiously throughout Lamont County in many other ways.

Bruderheim has planned a reverse parade that will travel through their neighbourhoods, Lamont is holding a virtual parade online, Andrew has festivities planned including hotdogs and a spray park, while Mundare is holding a house decorating contest.

Paddle boats are a common sight at EINP as visitors enjoy the hot summer days. Photo Crystal Moren

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Support sought for keeping RCMP, others reserve decision

BY JANA SEMENIUK Town councils around the province are submitting letters to Alberta Justice Minister Kaycee Madu voicing support for keeping the current policing model of RCMP versus the possibility of moving to a provincial police force.

The letters are being sent, prior to the release of a study that will detail what the move would look like, in hopes of having an impact on the government’s decision.

Bruderheim Town Council discussed where they stood in their support during their June 16 council meeting.

Chief Administrative Officer Patty Podoborozny presented council with three options; to send a letter of support for keeping the current RCMP, a letter of support for a provincial police force, or to wait for the report from Minister Madu before making a decision.

“If we wait for that information, we could still have an option to voice a concern at that time,” said Bruderheim Mayor Karl Hauch. “So, it might be strategic to use that option, but we’ll let council decide.”

Councillor Len Falardeau felt strongly for the first option.

“I make a motion that council direct administration to send a letter of support to Premier Jason Kenney for the continuation of the RCMP,” he said.

Councillor Pat Lee agreed with Falardeau.

“I agree. This is not the time to get into place another police force when resources that would be utilized for the new force could be used for the RCMP. They need support. Just the startup

of a new force would be way beyond our budget here. None of us can afford it,” she said.

Councillor Dan Skousbal held a different opinion.

“I support our RCMP fully but we don’t have all the information regarding the costs,” he said. “I believe it will be wise to wait and learn all the details for and against it and weigh our options. I understand sticking to what we have but going forward if something else makes more sense why wouldn’t we do it?”

Mayor Hauch was curious about other provinces’ choices to move away from federal policing.

“Other provinces have chosen to move away from the RCMP and I’m curious as to what their reasoning was,” he said.

The motion was carried with Hauch and Skousbal voting against.

Meanwhile, Lamont Town Council also visited the issue for a second time during their June 22 council meeting.

While Councillor Dave Taylor originally made a notice of motion with respect to the crafting of a letter in support for the current RCMP, he withdrew it once he realized residents would be polled about their opinion.

“I didn’t take into account we’re actually putting out a survey to our residents to see what their thoughts and directions are on the policing service to the town so I withdraw my notice of motion,” he said. “The reports in terms of what this could cost, as well as the fact that our surrounding municipalities have indicated they are not in favour of renounc-

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Bruderheim Mayor Karl Hauch, left, and Deputy Mayor Dan Skousbal, right, are seen clowning around on the town’s newest tourism initiative – a giant wooden chair. The chair, constructed by resident Phil Olechow, was put in place near the town’s fire station earlier this month. Photo: Jana Semeniuk ing the RCMP that puts us in a different position.

But I will defer until after the survey for this.”

Lamont Mayor Bill Skinner agreed. “We will see what our survey tells us and give our residents a voice,” he said. “It will help us make a clear motion in support of their position.”

Vegreville-Fort Saskatchewan MLA Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk said during an interview that information from the report will be helpful in deciding what is best for the province.

“There are some areas where provincial police would be very beneficial.

Larger areas don’t feel the impact of lack of officers as the rural areas do,” she said. “I’m open to seeing what they found in the study. I see a lot of support on both sides and I understand municipalities are afraid of the cost, especially in these economic times. I am confident when we see the results of the study, we will have the

information we need.”

After the policing initiative was presented during the Fair Deal Panel in Jan 2019, Price Waterhouse Coopers Canada were hired to examine the feasibility of provincial policing by way of a Police Transition Study. The report was completed in late April and the results are still being compiled.

The AUMA (Alberta Urban Municipality Association) have indicated they will wait for the report to be shared publicly and then engage their members in developing a draft policy position and advocacy campaign.

During an AUMA policing summit in Feb, Justice Minister Madu explained results from the FDP and how it applied to the policing issue.

“It’s important to put the Police Transition Study in context with all the work we are doing on police reform.

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Opinion My home is Alberta rather than Canada

BY JOHN MATHER So tomorrow is Canada Day. Across this land there are fractures throughout our communities many brought on by the complete lack of leadership across the political spectrum at both the Federal and Provincial level.

In fact right now if I was to say there is a true leader it would be Jodie Wilson Raybould, the indigenous independent, who was the former solicitor general until she dared stand up to our wannabe dictator-for-life Justin Trudeau.

I think I can can still say this safely although the entitled leader continues his quest to quell free speech. I don’t think his last censorship bill has been made law yet.

Trudeau has taken the time to comment on Canada Day and how Canadians should be feeling.

“I think this Canada Day, it will be a time of reflection on what we’ve achieved as a country, but what more we have to do,” he said last week. “This coming Canada Day, I think we all need to pledge ourselves to doing what we can to continue that effort to make Canada better, all while respecting and listening to those for whom it’s not yet a day of celebration. I think all of us need to aspire and work hard to get to the point where everyone across this country will be able to celebrate fully.”

He uses the words respect and listen, but in reality he always fails to practice either of them.

Trudeau, although not alone, is a prime example of what’s wrong with Canada.

Our politicians have quit listening to the people who elected them. They have stopped respecting them.

Instead they tend to hear the bleats and howls of anguish from special interest groups and those woke people so intent on destroying this country’s history and good standing among nations of the world.

But then again it must be hard to govern a country that is thousands of miles across from Pacific to Atlantic, and while it also stretches north to the Arctic Ocean the majority of our more than 35 million residents live within 200 miles of the American border.

And out of that thin ribbon of population, the bulk lies in southern Ontario and southern Quebec.

And that’s what dictates to our Federal government’s thinking. How do we keep this block of votes happy?

Continued

CONTINUED For years the Liberals and Conservatives have done nothing about the remains of unknown adults and children buried on the sites of former residential schools. A Truth and Reconciliation inquiry with follow up report explained the government should move to address this. But those bodies don’t vote Liberal so Trudeau and his unelected cronies in the PMO office haven’t cared and have done nothing.

But suddenly more than 700 new bodies have been discovered recently and the woke are screaming again. And, justifiably, so are the indigenous leaders.

Including Wilson Raybould, who’s tweet to Trudeau resulted in an insulting “pension?” response from our Indigenous Relations min-

ister Carolyn Bennett, who should absolutely know better.

But apparently not and Trudeau lets her off rather than taking on a leadership role and demanding her resignation.

It’s his way of governing. He blasted parliament for being a place of toxicity last week, not reflecting that his party is the cause of much of that toxicity.

And does he care about the west? No, except to pay it occasional lip service.

Remember line 5. That pipeline serves Ontario and Quebec so it’s essential to Canada’s energy security.

Canada is defending it strongly as it is threatened in court by the State of Michigan with closure.

Meanwhile Keystone XL was allowed to be shut down by the Biden administration without so much as a whimper from Canada’s

Federal government.

This is a fractured country! There’s no Federal leadership. How can you possibly trust Trudeau, Singh, or O’Toole, who is too busy catering to the eastern voting block to care about the struggles of our western economy, to actually run the country.

Trudeau’s lustre has worn off on the world stage as shown by his reception at the recent G7 meetings in England.

I think tomorrow, I’ll quietly reflect on what this country would be like in three or four pieces.

Separate nations allowed to seek out their own identities in a world marketplace. Or a federation with minimal Federal laws where provinces control their own destinies.

Rather than a Canadian flag flying proudly from my vehicle it will be an Alberta flag.

Alberta is my home.

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FROM WHERE I SIT: More Questions

BY HAZEL ANAKA When it’s that time again…time to write the weekly column for The Leader… and I’ve got no idea what to say, procrastination of the Nth order kicks in. In my defense, I’ve been writing a weekly From Where I Sit column for one newspaper or another and an online publication since 2002.

When the online and local paper obligations were simultaneous, I often had to write two columns a week. Rough calculations put the total number at well over a thousand.

If I knew I was going to be away for harvest, or the Festival was imminent, I got ahead of the deadline by writing several for a slush pile. Very, very occasionally, have I missed a week. Even more seldom was the column ever bumped by

the editor because of space. For many years, I wrote about the current day of celebration: New Years, Mother’s and Father’s Day, Canada Day, and so on. But after years of this, how many more fresh and unique ways can I talk about Valentine’s Day or Easter or Christmas or whatever? How many new takes are there on politics and elections, scandals and outrage, human behaviour, crime, celebrity shenanigans, farming plight, creativity and mindfulness, organizational hacks, reading and literacy, personal development, parenting, health and surgery, landscape and gardening, human rights, and every other topic I’ve ever tackled. And let’s not forget a year and a half of Covid.

So today, a very hot Sunday in late June, I’m at a loss. To delay the march to my keyboard, so far, I’ve taken a shower, make a couple trips to and from the garage, watered the planters, cleaned my desktop, washed the Dyson filter, unloaded the dishwasher, checked Instagram,

and rearranged piles of stuff. I’ve updated my planner, polished my glasses, plucked my eyebrows, chatted with Roy, went up and down on my office chair, started a shopping list, planned the first part of my week, emptied all the garbage cans in the house, texted a couple people, and ate some ice-cold watermelon chunks. Checked our lottery numbers online and big surprise: we didn’t win. All the while without the white noise of TV, YouTube, or Netflix. I wanted to keep the reception lines to a brainwave open.

And what of it? Nada.

Let’s just say this.

Political posturing is a ramping up; expect a late summer, early fall federal election. The discovery of unmarked graves of indigenous children will escalate until all or most of us are sickened into pushing politicians and the Catholic church to do better. Covid-19 is less the killer threat it used to be. If you’ve gotten one or both of your shots, you are part of the solution and helping all of us get back to some kind of

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normalcy.

Pop psychology claims it takes twenty-one days to change a habit. We’ve had a helluva lot longer than that to change what we think and how we act. I suspect that normal will be forever changed.

Some employees have adapted beautifully and flourished in the ‘work from home’ scenario and will be reluctant to go back to the workplace.

Others will have taken ‘time theft’ to an art form and will be reluctant to go back where co-workers notice the laziness and lack of results. In-

person meetings may be the second rather than first choice in the future.

I frankly don’t care if the cruise industry ever sees its glory days again. Will families go back to huge funeral crowds or have smaller, more intimate gatherings been just what grieving families need? Ditto for weddings. Will we travel the way we used to or has home become a refuge?

Will the kids whose education has been impacted for parts of two school years ever catch up or has everything been recalibrated? When will

thousands pack into stadiums, arenas, and venues for sports, concerts, conferences again? Or are people stay gun shy of huge crowds? Will new hobbies like gardening and knitting continue or is it back to the mall and bar? Will the move out of big cities continue or will the rural decline begin unabated again?

Are the forecast temps nearing forty degrees Celsius in June another nail in the global warming coffin?

I’ve never claimed to have all or even some of the answers. And this week there are more questions than ever from where I sit.

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Please donate to the bus/train accident monument Led by Tom Hrehorets and Trudy Harrold, a committee has been formed to look at erecting a memorial to honour the 17 young people who lost their lives in that tragedy and the survivors who have lived-on to carry those memories. Work is being undertaken to fundraise for this $35,000 project. As the 60th year commemoration of the Chipman and Lamont Bus-Train accident passed quietly with the COVID events of 2020, a project is being undertaken to honour that milestone.

Bring donation to the Lamont Leader office Or mail cheques c/o Chipman & Lamont Bus/Train Memorial Committee PO Box 1079, Lamont, AB. T0B 2R0.

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JOANNIE KOZDROWSKI (18) GENEVIEVE LUDWIG (18) KATHLEEN MALKEWICH (18) JENNIE OZDOBA 16) MARIE PAVICH (16) BARBARA PEWARCHUK (15) ROSALIN PYLYPCHUK (15)

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SPRAY PARK RELIEF FROM HEATWAVE Nineteen-month-old Lamont resident Marzia enjoys a cool romp at Lamont’s Hillside Spray Park on June 28 when temperatures soared to 30C. A heatwave warning, issued by Environment Canada, is in effect for the rest of the week as elevated temperatures near 40C are expected. Photo: Jana Semeniuk

Three other provinces have own policing Continued from Page 2 The FDP consulted with tens of thousands of Albertans, especially rural Albertans, about the law enforcement challenges in their communities,” he said.

“While many expressed their appreciation and respect for the local RCMP members they also expressed their frustration with the effectiveness of the RCMP polic-

ing in rural communities. The FDP support is not a criticism of the RCMP who serve our communities but rather a concern about the realities of a police force that is ultimately managed from far away in Ottawa.”

Madu detailed some of the concerns.

“Many are concerned that there is tension between the RCMP’s responsibility to provide front line policing to provincial and municipal government as well as

Ottawa’s policing objectives,” he said. “There were concerns about response times, officer availability and policing continuity in smaller more remote communities where the frequent transfer of RCMP members reduced the connection between police and the communities they served.”

Currently, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador are the only other provinces with their own police force.

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OBITUARY (William) Wayne Anderson October 24, 1956 June 15, 2021

On June 24, Mundare Communities in Bloom members were working on the rehabilitation entrance sign at the south end of the town. Pictured are: (front row) Francis Ayotte, Eileen Howard, Maggie Breland, Susan Svencuinas, Irene Talaga, Marg Donaldson, and Charlene Nowicki. In the back row are: Bob Gratton and Debby Gargus. Missing from the photo are: Debbie Gratton and Mike Nowicki.

Born in Brandon, Manitoba, Wayne was predeceased by his parents Bill and Ada Anderson and his younger brother Dean.

Wayne will forever be remembered and missed by his devoted wife Darlene, his three sisters, his sons and daughter, and his grandchildren.

“When we lose someone we love, we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind.”

There will be a celebration of life held for Wayne by his family and they thank the community for their condolences.

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BY JANA SEMENIUK Towns across Lamont County are asking their residents to conserve water in light of a heat wave that prompted a warning from Environment Canada this week.

Temperatures are expected to top 40 C. A notice posted to the Town of Mundare’s social media from the John S. Batiuk Regional Water Commission, asked residents to voluntarily avoid using nonessential potable water.

“There is a ban on nonessential potable water use for all municipal operations and a voluntary water restriction for the general public,” said the notice. “The ban is expected to last until the heat warning for the region is lifted.

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The notice further stated that the ban is Condition B which means the ban is for all municipal operations and voluntary for the general public.

“The restriction will help reduce our demand on the water supply and may prevent entering

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More talk but limited action on water management

BY JOHN MATHER After meeting with representatives from Alberta Environment, and Parks and the Farmer’s Advocate Office, to discuss the state of Lamont County drainage and roads, County council remains as frustrated as ever.

Greg Smith from Alberta Environment and Parks said he was at council because of the ongoing water issues.

“You have to plan for the water flow,” he said.

“You have to have a plan and that’s essential to being able to manage your surface water.”

He said in most of Alberta, as people farmed, they wanted to rearrange water flows so they could get more farmland. The consequences were that they create water flow issues and then as roads are constructed they further impact natural water flow.

Ultimately he said mother nature wins the battle of water flow and the result is usually flooding.

He stressed the importance of the County having a water management plan. After getting a plan in place they would then need approvals and do public engagement .

“People have their own ideas of where water should go,” said Smith. “And sometimes they’ve altered where the water should go. But when you show them an actual plan of where the water should go they generally aren’t happy.”

He added having a plan allows the County to get regulatory approvals for the following construction season when water courses might be altered or cleaned up to allow better drainage.

Using satellite photos from random locations in the County, he told council it was very difficult to tell where the water is supposed to ultimately flow.

“There’s multiple wetlands and multiple flow paths and then you have roads and all the things that interfere flow. This is an example of where planning will show where water should flow to.”

Greg Smith from Alberta Environment and Parks and Carolyn Chenard from Farmers’ Advocate Office appeared before Lamont County Committee of the Whole June 22, to discuss how their respective departments could assist the County in completing the Master Drainage Plan; present the plan to County residents; and implementing the finalized plan. Photo supplied He said he was aware Lamont had done a water planning study and presented it to his staff, but he hadn’t had a chance to go through the document himself.

Carolyn Chenard from the Farmer’s Advocate Office said she had read the water drainage study on the County’s website.

She said she and her organization could help with the stakeholder engagement.

“We can help you identify who your major stakeholders are in working with drainage whether it be Alberta Environment and Parks or individual landowners.

“You have to determine whether you just want to share information or whether you want a dialogue with residents to determine an outcome satisfactory to everyone.”

She explained the many ways the Farmer’s Advocate Office could coordinate all communications between the County, stakeholders and landowners. They would act as a middleman throughout the entire process.

Reeve David Diduck stated he was impressed by the services the Farmer’s Advocate Office could offer the County.

Chief Administrative Officer Stephen Hill said in the past few years the County had experienced severe overland flooding. Council had asked

administration to develop a master drainage plan. He said while the plan was ongoing, it had been impacted by severe rain in the spring of 2020 and the introduction of a pandemic. There are drafts of the master plan on hand and the County was waiting to embark on a public consultation process for it.

Diduck added he felt the drainage master plan was a little different from what the two visitors had been talking about.

“The plan deals with culverts both compromised and missing throughout the County,” he said. “But it still doesn’t identify all our problem areas.”

But he said while Smith said the crown was responsible for the water, the County was still responsible for the movement of that water.

He wondered what happened when water flow was blocked by landowners, or overgrown ditches blocked flows.

Smith said you had to be able to prove the flow had been altered.

“With older stuff it’s hard to say, ‘did a landowner change the flow or did Mother Nature.’ But when you can show a landowner has altered a watercourse, then it becomes a matter between the Crown and the landowner.”

Diduck asked how to make applications through the Water Act to

improve drainage and did that apply to private land or just County ditches.

Smith said the Crown couldn’t make those decisions because of liabilities but the landowner and the County could work to make changes, but then the landowner would have to sign off on the applications to make the changes.

He further stated costs could be high and, also, you had to know where the altered water would go.

“There’s no easy answer to these issues,” he said.

Councillor Wayne Woldanski wondered what sort of funding was available from the province for drainage studies.

“We spent substantially to do a management study and we haven’t done anything for operational costs,” he said.

“It’s a massive amount of money the County has to spend and yet the province is constantly cutting our costs in all areas.

“We can manage the water issues in our right of ways, but a lot of the water issues are on private land. What sort of help can we be provided with to address these issues?”

Smith said he wasn’t sure where any funding might come from but he would ask.

Woldanski said while it seems funding has dried up it appeared to him that wetland management was beginning to overtake public safety and food production in terms of importance.

“I know we have to conserve our wetlands, but we also need help from the province in

those areas.”

Smith said many people have to realize the wetlands are helping them more than hurting them and the County had to communicate this.

Woldanski shot back that the province should be doing the communication.

“There has to be a balance at some point,” he said.

Councillor Daniel Warawa agreed wetlands are important, but they have farmers who have yards being flooded out.

He wondered if Ducks Unlimited had some form of priority over others when it came to wetland management.

“I can’t understand how some of our projects to improve intersections can be stopped. It becomes a disaster waiting to happen. Last year we had one lady who couldn’t get off her land … she was blocked in two different directions.”

Smith stated along provincial highways water should be discharged along proper water courses and if it wasn’t the County should ask provincial transportation to look into that.

Councillor Roy Anaka said he had brought up questions regarding the Lafarge Drainage over several years, but never got any answers from Alberta Environment.

Again, Smith asked for specifics to be sent to him so it could be followed up.

Chenard said her office could work to mediate with landowners, provincial departments and the County to try and find solutions.

Councillor Neil Woitas asked if Alberta Environment had any

dealing with Elk Island National Park and it releasing water outside its boundaries on to County land. Smith said the province had no control over the national park.

“You would have to talk to the Federal Minister of Environment and see if he could talk to the Parks Minister, but the Province has no authority within their fences,” he said.

Diduck pointed out the County is very flat and you might only see a change of three metres over several miles.

“Water is very difficult to move to begin with,” he said. “And it doesn’t take very much to impact that flow. And that’s a major issue we have.”

He added he was extremely interested in the role the farmer’s advocate could play.

“I’m looking forward to getting back to a level of post-Covid normalcy where we can have open public houses and see a greater role of advocacy.”

Smith said he understood the County had decades of catch up to do with water management and there wasn't going to be total happiness with the outcomes, but that was the way of water management.

Warawa stated they had to go back to public consultation.

“Who knows better where the water goes than the people who have lived on the land for years and years,” he stated.

Following the two leaving the Committee of the Whole, Diduck suggested they had at least gained many more contacts they could call on to help with the ongoing water issues.

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Fire grant funding explained during Committee of the Whole

BY JOHN MATHER During the June 22 Committee of the Whole, Lamont County Council received a report on the grant funding the County has received through the Municipal Wildfire Wildfire Assistance Program.

“This is to basically provide some context to the two recent wildfires we have had,” said Regional Fire Chief Shayne Milliken. “It is basically to clear up some confusion over which fire was which and what the overall costs were for those fires.”

He said the 2016 Skaro Wildfire had been a fire that started in April of 2016.

“It was in the peat moss area of Skaro and it essentially burned off and on for several months,” he reported.

“There was a two- week period initially but then it died down, but then it flared up again on the same day as Fort McMurray in 2016.”

He said the cost of

fighting the fire was $1.68 million and the County received Municipal Wildfire Assistance Program funding of slightly more than $1.26 million in 2018.

“That funding was received into normal operating revenues later in 2018,” he said.

The second wildfire he addressed for council was the 2018 North Bruderheim wildfire. It started on May 12, 2018 and was extinguished within a couple of weeks, explained Milliken.

“It was much smaller than the Skaro fire,” said Milliken.

The expenses for fighting that fire was just over $270,000 and it was funded through the normal operating budget.

“There was no need for any additional funding from any other departments,” he added.

He told council funding through the MWAP was received in 2020 in the amount of just over $200,000.

“Because that was one

time funding, it was moved to the emergency services reserves as a one time funding.”

Milliken told council the Emergency Services Operating Reserve sat at $226,000 and the Emergency Services Capital reserve balance was $604,325.21.

Milliken explained the MWAP funding allowed the County to apply for

funding up to 75 per cent of the cost of a wildfire.

Reeve David Diduck asked if council was satisfied with the allocation of the funds, and he received no responses.

Milliken said there were a few capital expenditures planned for the year, but the costs were very manageable.

When asked how the Chipman Training

Centre project was proceeding, Milliken said the big gap was groundwork needed for the road access, but he had had interest from a few companies who were interested in renting the facility which would allow it to generate revenue.

“It’s positive news regarding the training centre,” he said.

Councillor Roy Anaka

wondered what costs might be coming out of the Emergency Service’s Operating Reserve and he was told it was a very static fund. Funds in it, explained Milliken, would only be used if there was an emergency.

“It’s pretty much just there if something came up unexpectedly,” he said.

Family Fishing Weekend

#BattleRiverWatershed

SATURDAY JULY 3 & SUNDAY JULY 4 Across the Battle River Watershed The Battle River Watershed Alliance is promoting this Alberta-wide event within our region. Fishing is a great activity to get outside and explore your watershed while gaining an appreciation for ecosystems and your food!

Family Fishing Weekend is a free event which allows anyone to try fishing without a sportfishing license. You must still only fish at locations with an open fishing season, and follow all other rules.

SEND US YOUR PHOTO FOR A CHANCE TO WIN! 21064ra0

• Take a photo of you or your friends/family enjoying a waterbody on this July +3/4 weekend. You could be fishing or any other water sport!

• Tag us in a post on social media using the hastag #BattleRiverWatershed.

Not on social? Email us the photo: otis@battleriverwatershed.ca • Entries are due on Monday July 5th.

• The BRWA staff will select 5 lucky winners to receive a gift basket. Winners will be selected by location, activity, and photo composition.

battleriverwatershed.ca The Battle River Watershed Alliance is grateful to Cargill for their support on this and many local projects.

16 - The Lamont Leader (Lamont, Alberta), Wednesday, June 30, 2021