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Volume 112, Issue 36
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
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Daysland School students had a blast on Thursday, March 5, as the entire student body, as a group raced across the soccer field with their home-made sleds. Every early out Thursday, starting in October, squads made up of students from ECS to Grade 12 got put into groups and worked together to design and build a cardboard toboggan for the race. They were only allowed to use three materials: cardboard, tape, and rope. To be crowned the winner, a team had to cross the finish line with all team members and all the pieces of their toboggan.
Flagstaff County Peace Officer Skyler Killam members join other Zelinski awarded long-service medal detachments after post office
break in in Veteran Attempt to flee police ends badly for suspects
During the 2020 Alberta Association of Community Peace Officers (AACPO) Conference in Lake Louise, Flagstaff County Peace Officer Skyler Zelinski received his 12-year Alberta Emergency Services Medal. From left to right: Terri Miller, President of the AACPO; Zelinski; Tammy Spink, Manager of the Peace Officer program for the Alberta Justice and Solicitor General; Curtis Zablocki, RCMP K Division Commanding Officer; and Mark Sproule, Vice President of the AACPO. Zelinski has served as a Peace Officer in Flagstaff for nearly a decade. Published weekly in Killam & Sedgewick, Alberta www.thecommunitypress.com
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On Friday, March 6, at approximately 5:30 in the morning, Consort RCMP responded to theft of mail from a post office in Veteran. Several RCMP Detachments including Vegreville, Viking, Tofield, and Killam responded. A suspect vehicle was identified, and when RCMP attempted to contain it, it drove away at a high rate of speed. Additional RCMP vehicles entered the area near Chipman, and had intermittent contact with the suspect vehicle, which continued travelling at excessive speeds. At a location near Chipman, the suspect vehicle turned south on Range Road 184, where a bridge was under repair, and collided with concrete barricades on the roadway. The suspect vehicle was badly dam-
aged and the two male occupants were trapped inside. The local fire department and EMS responded and extracted the two males from the vehicle. A 37-year-old male was transported by STARS air ambulance to hospital in Edmonton. A 40-year-old male was transported by ground ambulance to the same hospital. Both males were listed in critical condition with various injuries. The Director of Law Enforcement has been notified and the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) has been directed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the collision and actions of police. The RCMP will continue to investigate the events leading up to the collision. Funded by the Government of Canada