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Small businesses get green light to reopen this week BY JANA SEMENIUK AND JOHN MATHER With provincial restrictions easing on small businesses being able to re-open, several in the area are planning to relaunch with special rules in place as early as tomorrow (May 14). In Mundare, the Corner Pub will reopen to the public on May 14 with reduced seating for patrons, said owner Peter An in a Facebook post. The restaurant has been offering take out service during the closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “We will be sanitizing the doors, tables, chairs, ATM and VLTs,” An’s post read. “And our servers will be wearing face masks as they serve customers.” He is asking customers to stay away if they aren’t feeling well and asks that all customers wash their hands as well. Stools at the bar will be removed for the time being and the restaurant will be operating at 50 per cent of its normal capacity. Cheryl Calinoiu will also re-open Hair by Cher on 50 St. May 14. The business has been closed since the provincial shut down went into effect. “I will be opening,” she said in a post. “But some things will be changed.” She said all staff and customers will have to wear face masks. She added customers should bring their own. “We will only allow one customer in the shop at a time,” her post read. Everything will be sanitized between clients with chairs, doors, counters and all styling tools being cleaned. Enough time will be built into the appointments to allow for the cleaning. In Lamont, at Trendy Petals, owner Deb Fountain is set to re-open after offering only curbside service for the past while. “It has affected my margins that’s for sure,” she said, adding rules surrounding the delivery of flowers during the Mother’s Day sales period hurt. “This will probably take a year to
recoup those losses because flower shops’ profitable days are the big occasions.” She did add she was grateful to her regular customers because she has missed them coming into the shop for a visit. “I love to see their smily faces and hear their stories,” she said. “What a great community of people we have here.” In Bruderheim, Chief Administrative Officer Patty Podoborozny said the town office would still be operating with limited staff for a while longer. “We will still be continuing with our two-way doorbell for a while,” she texted. Meanwhile, Mundare businessman Jason Kowal who started his Love-19 program to support local businesses closed or in limited operation during the pandemic has no plans to shut it down yet. “I’m committed to supporting 19 businesses,” he said. “We’ve done eight so far and there are 11 more to go.” He added while it’s nice to see the
situation easing, he expects it will be some time before things “get close to normal.” The provincial government has set up a webpage that will provide business owners with information on health and safety guidelines for general workplaces and sector-specific guidelines for those able to open in stage one of relaunch to ensure businesses can re-open safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is accessible
at alberta.ca/bizconnect “Businesses who are planning to reopen want to ensure they do so safely while following all proper guidelines,” said Annie Dormuth, provincial affairs officer for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. “A single website with resources will provide small businesses the information they need to re-open and continue their operations while protecting the health and safety of their staff and customers.”
Peter An’s Corner Pub in Mundare has been offering curbside service and take out meals since it was forced to close due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The popular eatery will reopen with 50 per cent capacity on May 14 and all staff will be wearing face masks in accordance with new regulations issued by Alberta Health.
Whitetail Crossing Golf Club general manager Laurent LeBlanc gives instructions to golfers on the opening day of the Mundare course, May 7. Golfers can’t touch the flag sticks, sand traps are out of play, and only one rider is allowed per cart unless the occupants live with each other.
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Modified graduation ceremonies to go ahead at Lamont High BY JANA SEMENIUK In-school classes and traditional graduating ceremonies may have been cancelled this year due to the risk of COVID 19, but high schools in Elk Island Public Schools, including Lamont High, have still found a way to mark the occasion safely with a Graduation Recognition Ceremony. Each student, along with a maximum of eight guests, will be permitted to arrive at the school by vehicle wearing their choice of formalwear, plus a graduation gown and cap. Students and their guests will enter the building by a specified entrance, walk through the halls of the school to traditional graduation music, then enter the gymnasium to be presented with their graduation certificate by
Lamont High School officials. Students will then be able to have photos taken in front of a Lamont High School backdrop and exit the school, when the next student will arrive. “While there is obviously disappointment for students, parents and staff alike that we cannot hold the event we had originally organized, we feel like the plan we have laid out will still honour our graduating students,” said Lamont High School principal Amit Mali in an email. Letters were sent home on May 8 to graduating families outlining the details for the Graduation Recognition Ceremony taking place June 22-25 at Lamont High. In addition, families were also asked to consider decorating their
vehicles to mark the occasion with an unforgettable entrance when pulling into the parking lot. Students will be able to book their graduation time slot online until the deadline of June 1. “While we cannot exactly replicate the experience of past graduations, I am confident this plan allows graduation to remain a special moment for students and their families, and a memory that they will look back on with fondness,” said Mali in his letter to families. “School wide, we are incredibly proud of the work the Class of 2020 has put into achieving this important milestone, and we look forward to the opportunity to see each of them again before the school year ends.”
A huge flock of snow geese take off from a field near Andrew late last week. The birds were having fun in a cropped grain field prior to heading north to their final summering grounds. PHOTO BY CRYSTAL INVERARITY.
Multiple charges laid after Fort Sask. arrests On May 1, while investigating information related to drug trafficking, members of the Fort Sask. Traffic /Crime Reduction Unit executed a Search Warrant at a local Fort Saskatchewan residence. As a result, RCMP seized over 25 grams of Methamphetamine, and quantities of Fentanyl, Cocaine and individually packaged bags of Cannabis. Also seized were digital scales, packaging, counterfeit currency, identity documents, and $3,200, suspected as being proceeds of crime. Bear spray, a stun baton, edged
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Opinion COMMENTARY
Nobody agrees with all tribal policies More than at any other time in Canadian history, Liberals and Conservatives are split by a enormous chasm. The cause of this division is that when one says black, the other immediately says white. There’s no grey in politics, yet there is among followers. Why? Because politicians are trying to split us into tribes. Tribe mentality is normal among humans, so it isn’t really that difficult to do. The problem is, when it comes to politics, who among us believes in every single thing their tribe does? Who believes all tribal policies? Certainly not me. Is it possible to be left of centre and believe in unborn rights? Or are you able to be in favour of a woman’s right to abortion despite being a Conservative? Can you be a Conservative and yet be against the death penalty, or for it despite leaning left? Is it possible to be a Liberal and be pro-Canadian-oil industry? Can you be right of centre and be concerned about the environment? Can a Conservative be in favour of physician-assisted suicide? Can a Liberal believe it is immoral for a human to assist in the death of a terminally ill person? Can a person right of centre believe in gun control? Can a Liberal be a hunter, or a member of a competitive gun club? Is it possible for a Liberal to be opposed to illegal immigration, or could a Conservative take compassion towards desperate immigrants? Can a person right of centre also be an atheist? Can a Liberal person be religious? Is it possible for a Conservative to believe in same-sex marriage? Can a person left of centre believe marriage should be between a man and a woman only? Can a Liberal be in favour of lower taxes and smaller governments? Can a Conservative person be pro-union, larger government and higher taxes? Can a Conservative also be a pacifist, believing in diplomacy rather than war? Can a Liberal believe in upholding order and strengthening our military? Can either a Liberal or Conservative see the merits of the other’s points of view? Can we put the country ahead of our tribe? Can we admit that Canada is more important than our tribe being right? Is it possible for someone who disagrees with us not to be considered evil? It is more important to be right, or is it better to get along? Can our politicians begin treating everyone fairly regardless of tribal leanings? Could they possibly quit splitting us up and do what is best for the country? It’s good to be a loyal member of a tribe, but regardless if that tribe is left or right of centre, the tribe should still be called Team Canada. Kerry Anderson
Silly comments from small leaders seeking attention doesn’t help national unity BY JOHN MATHER There’s an old saying I heard as a kid growing up, “Better to remain silent and let people think you’re stupid, rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt.” Now, as I’ve aged I’ve actually learned this often rings true, sometimes even in my own case. But nowhere … I repeat, nowhere … have I seen more brilliant examples than when Green parliamentary house leader Elizabeth May and separatist Bloc Quebec leader Yves-Francois Blanchet opened their mouths to lecture Albertans on the benefits of the oil patch last week. “Oil is dead,” spewed May. Sputtering Albertan oil is too costly to produce, Blanchet said the Feds shouldn’t prop up businesses “that will not be self-sufficient in any time in the future.” To quote Arlo Guthrie, “What’s in that pipe that they’re smoking?” If ever any two Federal politicians have done more to promote Western Separation, these two bozos did it last week. Does Blanchet not realize the Feds have bailed out Bombardier, in his home province, more times than one can count, or that May is constantly flying back and forth between B.C. and Ottawa, on the taxpayers bill, on a plane that uses oil and gas derivatives to produce and propel it. As the son of Pierre, mut-
ters his daily platitudes in Ottawa about its time “for us all to pull together,” why does he let these loose cannons chirp from the sidelines and try to pull us apart? Did he admonish them in any way for their silly comments. No. He did say he supported the oilpatch in a half hearted manner but as usual offered nothing more of substance. Back in 2017 he did state quite categorically it was time to phase the oilsands out of existence. I reached out to Lakeland MP Shannon Stubbs, who is not afraid to put these leftleaning leaders whose rump parties continue to keep the Liberals in power in a minority government situation. “I hesitate to give any attention to the colossal hypocrites that is the leader of the left wing separatist party, whose home province, is the second highest consumer of oil and gas and petrochemical products in the country and the leader of the Green party who of course has to fly on the longest trips of any MP in the entire House of Commons to do her job during normal times. “It is delusional to think that lower global oil prices will lead to bigger investments in more expensive wind and solar power.” “May and Blanchet have a classic case of magical thinking here,” Stubbs texted to me. “What they imagine can not and will not take place immediately. Their language of “just transition” is code for destroying the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Canada and hun-
dreds of communities in several regions in particular.” “These drive-by smears of my hardworking constituents who are terrified for their family’s future is why Albertans feel betrayed, alienated and attacked.” So why did these two make their ill-informed statements? As leaders of small rump parties they are not required to explain their pronouncements and rarely are they asked by mainstream media. Perhaps its just to get some facetime across the country so we won’t forget what a forgettable pair they are. But as Trudeau borrows more and more money to lavishly spend on a variety of programs ask yourself who is going to pay for it? Will he have the treasury just print more money which will lead to massive inflation or will he borrow more and more from the world bank and put our country’s identity and well being up as collateral? He doesn’t want to develop or support our natural resources, which post pandemic could be used to cover this massive debt. He doesn’t muzzle silly rump politicians inflaming the Western Canadians who, as Ms. Stubbs points out quite correctly, are intensely worried about their futures. If there was ever a moment for the western separatist train to pick up passengers and start speeding down the track …. this is it.
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FROM WHERE I SIT: A Break from All This
BY HAZEL ANAKA There’s an old expression---watch what you pray for because you just may get it. I suspect that many people have prayed for time; time to rest, time to tackle special projects, time to chill; a sabbatical of sorts from their work lives. Well, guess what, we got it. And for many, it’s getting old. Fast. Thankfully, in our part of the world, province, there have been relatively few cases and deaths from Covid-19. But that fact also makes it harder for people to understand the rationale for continuing the new behaviours we’ve all adopted. It’s a
leap of faith believing our leaders, an inherent desire to do the right thing, and a trust in the science that is making us persevere when the danger doesn’t seem imminent. But persist we must. Some day we’ll compare what we’ve personally missed or given up in the name of this pandemic. I saw a couple grade twelve girls on TV saying it ‘wasn’t fair’ their graduation from high school was cancelled. That phrase struck me as incredibly immature and petulant. But then I realized that for them it was a big deal, the biggest deal so far in incredibly short lives. Others have postponed weddings. Still others missed cele-
brating birthdays, Easter, Mother’s Day, church rituals as they normally would. Perhaps, saddest of all are those who couldn’t mourn their dead as is customary. There will be other birthdays, Easters and Mother’s Days, church rituals but funerals are in a category all their own. No doubt, after the fact, we’ll hear about those over-achievers who wrote a novel, volunteered every day, started a business, or discovered a vaccine during the lockdown. At the other end of the spectrum will be those who drank, ate, or stayed high through it all. The rest of us are just trying to manage day-to-day in a world of uncertainty.
We’re tackling extra projects or doing the bare minimum to subsist. We’ve cleaned out drawers and organized cupboards or binge-watched must-see TV. The emotional pendulum keeps swinging back from one extreme to another. We want this to be over and life to go back to what we knew before, which even if it wasn’t great, was at least familiar. But, in some quarters, the reopening is being met with fear and reluctance. As always, each person will figure out where their truth lies. But the reality is, this
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St. Michael area residents still upset with trucks BY JOHN MATHER Residents in the area of the NBI feed lot near St. Michael are still complaining about noise caused by trucks hauling grain, cattle and silage into the feedlot. “I’ve advised the feedlot operators about the designated haul routes that must be used by trucks coming to their site, but it is local farmers who are hauling materials that are proving to be the problem,” said County Peace Officer Derek Wright, who has been on the receiving end of numerous complaints for surrounding neighbours. “Silage is coming from farmers within the county however it’s hard to control the routes they use,” he said. “It’s hard for me to police because I can turn trucks away from certain roads, but they are local farmers and I can’t restrict their access to the feedlot.” He said he spoke with another homeowner in the area about the use of jake brakes. “This landowner was before council last year and it’s an ongoing issue,” said Wright.
Wright said there are concerns with cattle liners using jake breaks and Wright told council around the feedlot, he couldn’t see any reason for truckers using the engine retarder brakes. Wright said he would have further discussions with NBI and the County would post the regulations on their advertising and web pages. Reeve David Diduck said he understood the road-use agreement was with the operators of the feedlot. “It’s basically for operations they conduct,” he said. “If they’re hauling cattle or manure in or out of the feedlot, NBI contracts with the truckers and that’s where the road-use agreement comes into effect.” He asked if an individual farmer is hauling a load of cattle to the feedlot are they under the terms of the road use agreement? Wright said they wouldn’t be because they are not hauling for NBI, but rather for themselves. “They’re like any other ratepayers and they can use whatever road they
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Mundare’s town wide cleanup to go ahead, lots of requests for camping coming in BY JOHN MATHER Mundare will try to find a way to hold their annual town wide clean up despite Covid-19. It will be held May 13 and 14. “Last year we had a bin brought in and put it at Ukrainia Park and people brought their junk to dispose of,” said Chief Administrative Officer, Colin Zyla. He said town employees also helped out by going around and picking up the material and taking it to the dumpster bin. This year the dumpster bin will be located at the arena Councillor Jaime Burghardt suggested people bring their junk in to the bin on their own. “With the number of people not working and with many having trucks they could bring larger items on their own.” “Does this save people a trip to the St. Michael landfill,” asked Councillor Jason Kowal, to which Zyla said yes. The town wide cleanup was always held right after the town wide garage sale but that event has been cancelled for 2020. Council further suggested that the bin be left open so residents could put material in more easily. It was pointed out throwing garage over the sides of the dumpster was difficult for some. The diabetes collection bins on main street are a problem in the community again. Zyla suggested they be moved to the public works yard. Councillor Irene Talaga said people were just throwing junk in the bins and they were overflowing. “When it rains all that stuff gets wet and soaked through,” she said. She admitted it was an ongoing problem and the Diabetic Association who collects the bins had brought larger bins to the community about a year ago because of similar problems. Public Works director Dave MacDonald asked if the town had a key to the bins and Zyla said he would have to check because he wasn’t sure.
But he added he would talk to the association about the ongoing issues. Council agreed to shut down Ukrainia Park and campground for the spring until further notice due to the Covid19 crisis. Zyla pointed out following all the social distancing regulations and the cancellation of events due to Covid-19 it didn’t make economic sense to keep it opened. “At MRC we have spaces blocked off and we’re ensuring the sites are 30 feet apart. “He said it would remain open for campers. “We had a couple passing through, moving from B.C. to Ontario, and I wasn’t going to say no to them,” he said. He added the campsites at MRC had electricity and all people staying at the sites had to have self contained units. “At Ukrainia Park potentially we could put up porta potties, but we don’t want to allow anything other than self contained units,” he said. “It’s surprising the number of calls for camping I’ve been getting.” But he argued there was no justification for operating Ukrainia Park this year. Talaga said an event like AgriDaze could possibly proceed because there wasn’t a lot of preplanning for the event. She added she had had some of the exhibitors wanting to know what was going on so they could make plans. Kowal said he felt it would be lucky to see things getting back to normal by Christmas. Zyla said everyone was making plans but everything depended on the rules around mass gatherings. “If anything we get a festival back in August, it will probably be packed because so many other events have been cancelled and people are wanting to go to some event,” said Mayor Mike Saric. Council hopes they’ll get additional updates by the end of June. Talaga stated if they
could move ahead with some projects they could inform the public through its community newsletter. Council will host a public hearing to consider map and text amendments to the town’s municipal development plan and its land use bylaw on June 9 at 7 p.m.. Council passed first readings of each bylaw at its April 28 meeting. Zyla said he didn’t know how many people would be interested but he offered several ways that council could ensure everyone was heard. He primarily suggested the council set up a method of teleconferencing for the meeting. “I’m asking them to pre-register and if they want to speak we’ll use a system where the speakers can be online but they can be muted if they aren’t speaking.” He said if there were no objections the town could have the new bylaws in place by the end of June. Mundare council suggested Public Works director Dave MacDonald get some costs for cleaning out several catch basins in the town. Mayor Saric told him during the April 28 council meeting that he didn’t think the basins had ever been cleaned out and MacDonald agreed with him. Continued on Page 11
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Bruderheim hemp processor still upbeat on industry’s future
BY JANA SEMENIUK A pandemic and a wet start to the season hasn’t dampened the spirits of Canadian Rockies Hemp Corporation Chief Executive Officer Aaron Barr. “The pandemic didn’t change very much for us,” he said. “We are still processing hemp at our temporary facility in Lamont for now. The only change was that crews constructing our Bruderheim facility had to stick to groups of less
than 15.” In terms of water accumulation from spring thaw, Barr was grateful the grounds dried up quickly. “Our water storage ponds hold seven million gallons of water. And this spring all four ponds were full and over flowing,” he said. “Thankfully the weather helped it dry up pretty quick.” Barr is referring to four containment ponds that are situated on the
Canadian Rockies Hemp facility property located on the east side of highway 45 in Bruderheim. Last year the CRHC purchased 75 acres of farmland in Bruderheim that it destined to become a hemp processing facility that will not only grow a small amount of hemp, but also house a 40,000 square foot hemp processing facility that will process bales of hemp into fibre that will then be sold to companies
manufacturing hemp products. “We supply processed hemp to a few different organizations; one in Drayton Valley and another in Airdrie that makes hempcrete blocks. The rest is being sold across north America and overseas,” said Barr. He added that the US is seeing an upswing of their interest in hemp products. “As far as textiles go, right now, there is very limited Canadian manu-
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Road ban restrictions can be exceeded for essential loads
BY JOHN MATHER While Lamont County has established its annual spring roads bans, the provincial ministry of transportation has issued an order which could allow truck drivers a loop hole to run their vehicles carrying more weight than allowed under the ban. The provincial order allows trucks to carry fill loads if they are delivering essential services. “The definition of essential services includes delivery of seed, fertilizer and fuel,” Chief Administrative Officer Stephen Hill told council April 22. “If grain is included in that, does that mean farmers hauling grain off their farms?, because guys will combine the last of the fall harvest and haul it away,” asked Reeve David Diduck. Hill said the provincial guidelines said the County would have to provide immediate road condition status and the conditions of the roads after any movement of trucks bearing fertilizer, fuel or feed.
“If there’s damage then we can make a claim to the province and see if we get a response,” said Hill. “This is not meant to be the right to go out and do damage to our roads. “If someone is hauling and doing damage, they should be spoken to just like any other time.” He suggested Peace Officer Derek Wright should take down their insurance and registration just like any other time he would stop a vehicle. “The unfortunate part,” said Reeve David Diduck, “is the difference between hauling off the combine with the legal load and hauling off the combine with a full load.” Hill explained the measure from the province wasn’t meant to let people get away with hauling any overweight loads on County roads, but rather truckers hauling legal essential loads to go down roads with weight restrictions on them despite being above the restricted load limit.
“Wright said if farmers are moving commodities not on the government approved list such as straw then they have to abide by the legal road weight restrictions. “When asked about cattle, council was told if it wasn’t on the provincial list then it could be hauled at full weight. Hill again said livestock was not on the provincial list. Diduck said the major concern was farmers getting the last of the fall harvest off their fields and then hauling it to storage bins. “Is it okay to haul a normal load from field to yard site?” he asked. “According to the regulations, I think it is.” He further wondered about fertilizer companies hauling fertilizers and fuel for the spring planting season to the farms and did they have to obey the road bans and weight restrictions. “Everything is agricultural related,” said Diduck. “I think the feed suppliers are wondering whether they can leave
their site with a fully loaded truck and gradually reduce weight as they drop off supplies to individual farmers rather than have all those farmers individually coming to the plant site for individual loads,” stated Councillor Neil Woitas. Council worried that the county roads, which are in pretty good shape this spring, will get torn up as the spring combining begins. “There’s uncombined field scattered across the county so it would be difficult to put full bans on any of the roads,” said Councillor Wayne Woldanski. With farmers hauling grain, the County could specify certain roads as haul routes, but not combining. “We want to do right by the residents of the County, but we hope the farmers do accept some of the responsibility for putting the proper weight on the roads this spring,” said Peace Officer Derek Wright. “The province has put the measure out there for
essential service. We can only hope the farmers are careful,” he concluded. Council will post regular updates on roads clo-
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Continued from Page 9 Barr added that the shorter growing season makes hemp an ideal rotation crop, not to mention the savings in shipping by being located near the facility. “The hemp plant is cut for fibre before it is mature. Usually hemp is a 120-day seed to harvest crop, but because we cut it for fibre before it’s mature, for us its 60 – 70day seed to harvest time,” he said. “We also have a lot of farmers sit-
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