The town of Lamont welcomed over 300 people into their Remembrance Day indoor service where they hosted, for the first time, the No Stone Left Alone program which aims at including youth into Remembrance Day
events.
The program, which began in 2011, supports youth involvement by having children place a poppy on the headstones or crosses of fallen soldiers. Currently the NSLA program runs across Canada, in addition to three
sites internationally.
crosses together on a display. Towards the end of the service, the children lined up again to place poppies on wreathes that were spread in front of the stage.
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Hydrogen Hub appeared before Lamont County Council on Nov. 7 to brief the council on the benefits of hydrogen and activity on developing new hydrogen sources in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland.
“What the hub is, is an alliance of organizations formed in the region to accelerate the adaption of a new fuel economy in the region,” he said. It was launched and formed by the five municipalities that make up the Industrial Heartland.
“What that means to us in the Edmonton region,” he said. “Is to participate in this economy we need to grow in the same direction and look at what a net zero system looks like.”
He said hydrogen is one of the pathways to
this and the Edmonton region was uniquely positioned to take advantage of this because it has all the ingredients to produce hydrogen, through carbon capture and sequestering carbon dioxide.
He added a skilled labour force was also present in the area.
Two thirds of the hydrogen produced in Alberta comes from the Heartland Region, LeaWilson said.
“There’s hydrogen infrastructure, there’s pipelines and carbon dioxide pipelines,” he said. “There’s also a large local market.”
He said heavy duty trucks totalled almost 100,000 across Alberta with most travelling the corridor between Edmonton and Calgary. He said they could be redesigned to be hydrogen powered on sources based from the region.
He added transportation so far provided the most economic use of hydrogen. It’s competitive with diesel if it can be developed to scale and doesn’t have the noise, vibration or smells associated with diesel fuel.
“There’s a lot of economic upsides to using hydrogen,” he stated.
He said hydrogen could be produced by using natural gas or using water and splitting it with electricity.
Currently, he added, most hydrogen is used in heavy industry to refine oil to produce diesel fuel or jet fuel or similar products.
“It is also used as a feedstock for fertilizers, petro chemicals and things like that.”
He said the next challenge is addressing the hydrogen value chain and find ways to get it to market by pipelines,
trucks or store it in containers.
He said in the past year, members of the Alberta Hub have been busy trying to understand how to capitalize on the economic benefits hydrogen can provide.
“It’s going to be an important part of our future,” he said. “It is economically viable but the challenge is to bring it to scale.”
What that means, he added, is large industrialized hydrogen production plants and pipelines to transport the product.
“Pipelines are by far and away the lowest cost method to move hydrogen,” he said. “In order to incentivize that we need to create demand.”
And creating demand has been the focus of the Hub beginning with the transportation sector.
He pointed out two hydrogen powered trucks would begin run-
ning between Edmonton and Calgary next year, and in Fort Saskatchewan ATCO Gas was putting together a hydrogen blending facility for use with the natural gas stream for home heating.
“It burns very similar to natural gas, so blending it with natural gas will help us build up the economies of the product.”
He said Strathcona County and Edmonton had purchased two hydrogen powered buses to start running on their transit systems early next year.
“The reason for those buses is to create further demand for hydrogen in the region,” he added. He said the communities were working on building hydrogen fuelling stations for both the buses and trucks and that CP Rail had developed a hydrogen freight
locomotive for its rail line.
“This definitely seems to be the way governments are focussed right now,” noted Reeve David Diduck at the conclusion of Lea-Wilson’s presentation. “A main advantage of it is the positive impact of it around decarbonization and climate change.”
Councillor Daniel Warawa asked if hydrogen could be used for agriculture to power tractors and trucks and Lea-Wilson said equipment that runs diesel could be developed to run on hydrogen but it would be expensive..
He did say one of the biggest hurdles facing the move to converting conventional diesel to hydrogen transport was the cost of conversion. Continued on Page 5
Just when you think the Liberal cabal in Ottawa can’t get any worse, some of its prominent members do or say some silly things to indicate just how far out of touch with the Canadian public they really are.
A few classics occurred during the past week to ten days.
Let’s begin with the financial update provided by our inspired Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.
Now it’s highly unlikely our illustrious Chrystia has gone without a meal in her life, having been educated at both Harvard University and Oxford you can’t deny she’s smart. She speaks five languages including Ukrainian, when at home, so her three children can learn the language.
She even mentioned her three children during an interview last week. And a little more background … her mother, Halyna, had a distinguished career and ran for the federal New Democratic Party in Edmonton Strathcona in the 1988 federal election.
An ardent feminist, Halyna was a founder of Common Woman Books Collective and Bookstore. From 1981 to 1987 she taught courses on Feminist Theory and Women and the Law at the University of Alberta Faculty of Extension, and published essays and handbooks on Matrimonial Property, Domestic Violence, and Family Law. She was a founding member of the Ukrainian-Canadian feminist organization, the Second Wreath Society.
She was devoted to Ukrainian-Canadian cultural life. She founded the Peace River Ukrainian Society and taught Ukrainian language classes in Peace River.
But, back to the present. When asked last week after presenting her financial update if the government is “open to reviewing programs, looking for wasteful spending” and after Canadians were told that cutting taxes and pausing CPP premiums were not on the table, Freeland said that the government announced in April that they were going to look for $9 billion in savings in the federal government. The finance minister then proceeded to compare the process to how Canadian families are “looking really closely at all of their expenses.”
“I, personally, as a mother and wife, look carefully at my credit card bill once a month and last Sunday I said to the kids, you’re older now,” she said. “You don’t want to watch Disney anymore, let’s cut that Disney+ subscription. So we cut it. It’s only $13.99 a month that we’re saving, but every little bit helps.”
A bit of a correction to a recent article about Queen’s Park in Bruderheim. Queen’s Park was built by the Town of Bruderheim for the Queen’s visit. It was designed by Carl Royan of WJ Frankl and Associates and built by Bob Davies using town equipment.
George Hargesheimer Jr.“And I think every mother in Canada is doing that right now. And I want to say to all of those mothers, I believe that I need to take exactly the same approach with the federal government’s finances because that’s the money of Canadians.”
Wow, our Deputy Prime Minister, the real one not Jagmeet Singh, someone who makes up to $575, 483 in annual salary and has a net worth of $5 million, feels trimming $13.99 from her monthly expenses is doing her part to help our economy.
How out of touch can someone really be!
After a substantial outcry in the national media, Freeland walked the comments back a day later saying she was a very privileged person.
“I really recognize it is not people like me, people who have my really good fortune, who are struggling the most in Canada,” she said.
She said those struggles shaped the fall economic statement she had prepared.
But she didn’t specifically say what she was doing for the vulnerable in our urban centres who sleep under bridges, struggle for food and live on handouts from the community and through taxpayer subsidized support
assisted with the installation of posts and solicitation of trees from various farms in the Bruderheim area. Not sure how the rumour started that the Ag Society had anything to do with the construction of Queen’s Park.
Over the years the Lioness Club maintained the gardens until the membership could no longer sustain that type of
groups. She probably could have kept her Disney subscription. I have seen promotional commercials for the service and it seems to be made up primarily of fantasy programming. And we know Chrystia and her Liberal cronies are living in a strange, bizarre, fantasy world.
Why else would they possibly feel the need to squirrel away at the back of the same financial statement another handout of an additional $42 million to CBC/Radio Canada to assist the network recover from the pandemic.
It is designed to help the public broadcaster offset losses in revenue related to the impact of Covid 19.
Why does CBC need more government funding? If anything Freeland would have been smarter to make a positive budgetary restraint measure by cutting funding to this bloated monstrosity called a public radio that claims to speak for all Canadians when it’s nothing more than the Liberal PR department.
And it received $1.5 billion in 2021/2022 for its operations, and used $156 million for staff bonuses.
Ridiculous! This flow of money has to stop. CBC has to be reined in.
And the last dumb thing out of the Liberals during the
commitment.
The resurgence of the Ag Society and involvement in many worthwhile projects has taken place with the help of volunteer leaders such as Bob and Sherry Cote and Queen’s Park has been one of the projects that have recently benefitted.
Sincerely, Linda Daviespast week falls right at the dazzling, stockinged feet of Justin Trudeau.
Prior to jetting off to Asia to attend some high level conferences and no doubt stay in a swanky taxpayer funded hotel and eat high on the hog, what advisor suggested to him it would be a brilliant PR coup to appear on RuPaul’s Canada’s Drag Race?
I mean, I don’t understand why a network would air this show, but then to appear as the first world leader to be in the ‘werkroom’ of the Canada’s Drag Race vs the World series is just stupid.
This appearance by Trudeau makes for the first world leader to enter the 'werkroom' for the Drag Race franchise. He can be seen smiling away in promotional commercials for the program.
Trudeau will join host judges Brooke Lynn Hytes, Brad Goreski, and Traci Melchor, along with several other guest judges. No word on whether Sleepy Joe Biden or maybe even Nancy Pelosi will join in on this fun program.
But then that’s our illustrious leader Justin.
He’s just so “woke”! And just so out of touch with mainstream Canada.
Shortly after returning from Nashville, we got sick. At first it seemed just like a doozy of a head cold. But each day since has seen changes in symptoms. Runny nose; stuffed nose. Chilled and unable to warm up; body clammy with sweat. Phlegm of every colour and consistency. Headache; no headache. No appetite; diarrhea. You’ve gotta know it’s bad when I share a pot of Roy’s specialty: Lipton’s chicken noodle soup from a pouch. That razor blade feeling in your throat when you try to swallow your own saliva. The raw, red, sore throat and pulled ab muscles from days of intense coughing. Soothing comfort from hot ginger tea and honey to a need for the numbing cold of frozen yogurt. Now it’s pain across the forehead stage. Then a nose that drips unbidden, like a tap.
The strategy has been rest and an assortment of over-the-counter reme-
dies. I’ve always gotten relief from Buckley’s liquid-gels (yellow for daytime, blue for nighttime). We also have expired Tylenol Complete day and night caplets, lozenges (Bentacil, zinc, Buckleys), and cough medicine. One Buckley’s formulation is good, the other tastes like poison.
The best part of the strategy has looked like midday naps and Netflix binge-watching. Let’s talk TV. If you remember the old movie starring Jack Nicolson called One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, you will remember Nurse Ratched. That movie was an adaptation of a 1960s book by the same name. This week I finally watched the limited series Ratched starring Sarah Paulson. If gore upsets you, best stay away from this one.
As I think about what I’ve watched recently an underlying theme emerges: nurses. I watched The Good Nurse based on the true story of Charles Cullen, a serial killer nurse. Dozens of murders over sixteen years, two states, and nine different hospitals. The for-profit health model in the United States helped make this horror possible. It was more expedient to just pass him along to the next hospital than risk
is working towards a net zero emissions.
He said hydrogen was a net zero energy source and when used it produced no carbon dioxide.
“It just produces water.”
the bad press of a killer nurse within their facility. That can’t be good for business, you know. A few days later, I watched the Netflix documentary Capturing a Killer Nurse which explains some of the challenges in both determining his guilt and amassing enough evidence to charge him. Cullen is suspected in possibly hundreds of deaths which would make him the worst serial killer of all time.
In between the gore and mayhem, I squeezed in three stand-up comedians: Neal Brennan, Craig Ferguson, and Gad Elmaleh, a MoroccanFrench comedian. Three totally different men with three totally different styles and deliveries. I was shocked that the audience in the Brennan one not only tolerated but seemed to respect the vulnerability he shared with them. Oh, there were props and plenty of laughs too but the insights and self-awareness were especially touching. The Elmaleh special gave a comedic look into the immigrant experience including the quirky, confusing way we speak and how easily mixed signals occur. I hate to say the Craig Ferguson one was the most disappointing. I used to love this Scot
He mentioned Reeve Diduck was part of the hub due to his having a seat at the table of the Industrial Heartland.
turned American when he had his daily latenight TV show. This special was 2017 I think and just okay.
With movies, if there is one thing I can’t stand, its English subtitles. I don’t want to have to stay glued to the screen to get the nuance of the movie. I accidentally watched a 2002 one (The Sum of All Fears) with Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman because I thought it was a Jack Reacher not a Jack Ryan story. (And Morgan freeman never disappoints.) Go figure, it was about Russia wanting to nuke
the world and how some indiscriminate action by flawed human beings (on both sides) can change the course of history. A lot of Russian and Ukrainian needed to be translated into subtitles.
So, it annoys me if I select a movie or limited series because the description sounds intriguing only to see that subtitles is my only option. I’d much rather watch an un-synched word-mouth thing play out over a couple hours than have to “read” a movie. But because Netflix thinks I want to watch this it goes into
the Continue Watching for Hazel list. Is there some way to clear that list? It also includes those I watched until the credits roll. How does keeping a movie with two minutes remaining on that list make any sense? As much as Netflix is intuitive about some things, this is nuts. And while we’re at it, could it please keep track of those I did watch so I don’t rewatch them by accident?
So, that’s the extent of excitement here at the old Ponderosa: coughing and watching, watching and coughing. Hopefully, relief is in sight, from where I sit.
“There’s a fair gap there right now,” he said. “But the government is offering some incentives to attempt and reduce those costs, but there’s a long way to go.”
He added as the volume of hydrogen vehicles increased, the costs would drop.
Lea-Wilson said the Paris Agreement in 2015 represented a tipping point in climate change talks where it’s now no longer about climate change and greenhouse gas reduction as it’s about a world economic system.
He added 90 per cent of the world’s economy
Lea-Wilson added that in addition to the five municipalities the Hydrogen Hub also included two first nations bands, the province and several economic development organizations.
“We’re doing two things really,” he told council. “We’re analyzing what a hydrogen economy could look like in the region and we’re engaging with organizations to understand how we can transition to this fuel in an economically prosperous way.”
Gary Gabert, 77, has been playing the organ inside Bruderheim’s Bethlehem Lutheran Church since he became a member in 1981.
By 1984, however, he steered the church in a new direction with regards to their organ.
“(The organ) was just an old crap can thing. It was terrible,” he said. Gabert knew a man named Adrian Koppejan who might be able to help.
“He was a Dutch organ builder, came from Holland and came to BC and he built a bunch of organs,” said Gabert. “I got to know him from some work he had done at our church. And I asked him to come over here and he said he could build something for us. And this is what happened. “
What happened was a floor to ceiling custom built solid oak pipe organ housing 460 metal pipes with nine ranks. It
sits nestled in the loft of the church who recently celebrated their 125th anniversary.
A description encased in plastic and fixed behind one of the organ’s panels states that the organ was constructed in the ‘classical’ style according to the finest structural and tonal principals developed in Europe over the past 400 years. The eight stops, keys and foot pedals are all constructed with Oak, Rosewood and Boxwood.
“The thing about this is there's no electricity in there, except (what) powers the blower, all the key action is all mechanical, just like it was in Europe,” said Gabert. “And there are valves in there. (When you push a key) that pulls down the lever there and it opens a valve inside there and lets the air through to the pipe.”
Gabert said the organ requires low mainte-
nance. A list of dates ranging from every one to two years, is posted inside the motor area and shows a history of when the motor was last oiled.
“It's very stable because of the room and everything. The last time it was completely tuned was 2004 and it still sounds like the day when it was brought in here. That's how remarkable they are,” he said.
The cost of the organ was $53,700 in 1984, equalling $147,795 in today’s dollars according to saving.org inflation calculator.
After nearly 40 years, Gabert said he is still satisfied with the investment the church made into their organ.
“It was custom built for here so that it doesn't overwhelm you,” he said. “This is the one that Johann Sebastian Bach in 1750 would have been comfortable with.”
still like new after nearly 40 years
Alberta’s government has announced more than $161 million in funding from the Alberta Petrochemical Incentive Program (APIP) to further develop the Province’s burgeoning hydrogen sector.
At a news conference at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Nov. 8, it was announced the Province is supporting Air Products’ new natural gas to hydrogen production facility.
The proposed project was initially announced more than a year ago, but with this new announcement the project will move into its full construction phase in the Aurum Industrial area of northeast Edmonton.
The facility is designed to produce clean hydrogen using advanced natural gas conversion techniques
and carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) technology to permanently store the resulting carbon dioxide.
The funding is for a $1.6-billion blue hydrogen facility from Air Products, an Americanbased multinational corporation, that is being
hailed as an opportunity to make Edmonton the centre of Western Canada’s hydrogen economy.
“It’s about energy. It’s about jobs,” provincial Energy Minister Peter Guthrie said at the announcement.
“The energy produced
from this project meets the highest environmental standards. It’s affordable, and this project is good for our economy.”
Three hundred million dollars from the federal government’s strategic innovation fund will be provided, which was first announced in June
2021.
The project’s initial $1.3 billion cost increased, Seifi Ghasemi, chairman, president and CEO, Air Products said, due to the new technology to get the facility to net zero emissions.
“Alberta’s hydrogen sector is growing rapidly,
These are some of the results from Minor Hockey League games held recently. (Please note that scores and scoring is taken from the websites, and some game scores and scoring is dependent on proper league entries).
Elk Island U9 was
scheduled to travel to Bon Accord for a game on Saturday but no score was posted at deadline.
Elk Island U11 Wild lost a 4-1 game on Saturday at Redwater.
Jonas Wytrykush scored the only EI goal, and Zachary Vandelannoite made 39 stops as the Wild was outshot 43-6 in
the contest. On Sunday, Wild hosted Whitecourt at Bruderheim, losing an 8-1 contest. Jonas Wytrykush scored the lone Wild goal from Barrett Danilkewich.
Elk Island U15 Wild played Smoky Lake at Bruderheim on Sunday, beating the visitors 7-4. Scoring for EI were;
Kayden Winslow (2g 1a), William Furey (1g 1a), Reid Chudyk (1g 1a), Nicklas Mehlenbacher (2a), Rowan Young (1g), Matthew Iverson (1g), Kyran Belcourt (1g), Cameron Olechow (1a), and Ashton Strickland (1a). Liam Ellis got the win in goal.
with more and more hydrogen-powered projects coming online over the coming years. With more than $161 million in funding for Air Products’ clean hydrogen facility, we are creating jobs, growing the energy sector and bringing clean hydrogen to customers across Western Canada.
When completed in late 2024, the facility is expected to produce more than 165 million standard cubic feet of hydrogen per day. That hydrogen may be used in a variety of markets, including industrial, transportation, power generation and utility heating.
Air Products has three other hydrogen facilities in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland supplying hydrogen to both Suncor and Shell Canada for use in their processing operations.
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The County of Lamont Foodbank, with the help of local businesses, have begun their annual Giving Tree campaign for the Christmas season.
County of Lamont Foodbank Chair Jody Zachoda explained that the Giving Tree is a tremendous help to families for the holidays.
“(People would) most certainly be amazed (to see how many use the foodbank at Christmas). It's always surprising and Christmas is hard,” she said. “The price of gas, the price of groceries and household utilities keep going up and trying to provide something special or extra in the month of December can be very taxing. A lot of people don't get as many hours at work in December because some places close between Christmas and New Year’s, so you're already short of money and then
you have to find some extra somewhere. It's very difficult.”
The Giving Tree program is where an organization sets up a Christmas Tree in their building and decorate it with tags, provided by the FoodBank, that have the age and gender of a child listed on each one.
Anyone can pick up as many tags as they would like, purchase a gift for the child described on the tag, and then put the unwrapped gift, with the tag attached, under the tree. Food Bank representatives come on a regular basis to pick up the gifts for distribution in their Christmas Hampers.
Zachoda said that currently there are four businesses participating in the Giving Tree Program: Lamont Home Hardware, Lamont Trendy Petals, Lamont Value Drug Mart and the Town of Bruderheim’s
town office.
Allen Franchuk, owner of the Lamont Home Hardware, said this is the fifth year he has participated in the Giving Tree program, and he believes the program is important for children.
“I think it's important that all the kids have a present to open up on Christmas morning,” he said. “(The response from people) has been really good.”
Zachoda echoed Franchuk’s statement, saying that although they have never been short of gifts since the Giving Tree began, they will use cash donations to help purchase gifts if needed.
Meanwhile, Zachoda said that any business can join and can contact her by phone through the County of Lamont Foodbank’s website to participate.
Vegrevillle MLA Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk has been tasked to head up a new committee, by Premier Danielle Smith, to further help with the settlement of Ukrainian refugees across Alberta.
“Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Albertans have opened their hearts and homes and provided support through donations and humanitarian aid,” Smith said in a news release announcing the formation of this new task force.
“This new task force is yet another way Albertans stand with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.”
After already committing $23 million to help Ukrainians both overseas and in Canada, Alberta launched a new task force Nov. 10 to explore what more can
be done.
Alberta has already committed $16 million for humanitarian aid, $5 million for defence equipment for Ukrainian soldiers, and more than $2 million for settlement and language programs for newcomers.
“The ideas and information gathered by this group will help identify gaps in existing supports and ensure Ukrainian evacuees face a smooth and welcoming resettlement process,” said Armstrong-Homeniuk.
She's been appointed parliamentary secretary for Ukrainian Refugee Settlement.
Other members of the committee include former premier Ed Stelamch, non-profit executive and emergency management specialist, Sally Mansour; firefighter and Firefighter Aid Ukraine project director, Kevin
Royle; founder of Helping Ukrainians in Fort Saskatchewan founder, Carol Slukynski; chairman of the supervisory board at the National Depository Ukraine, Vitaliy Milentyev; and Lethbridge city councillor, Jenn SchmidtRempel.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February and an American Army Gen. estimated this week that nearly 250,000 soldiers and civilians have been killed since.
Alberta is home to more than 369,000 people of Ukrainian descent.
To hear directly from the Ukrainian community and those supporting newcomers, the task force is expected to hold roundtables across the province. It is expected to make both immediate and long-term recommendations in its final report.
Approximately 70 people joined Pastor Jeff Dul to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Bruderheim Nov. 6.
Dul, who has been pastor at the church for the past four years, began his Sunday service with a statistical history of the church’s activities over the past century-and-aquarter where, although services began in 1897, official records only began in 1907.
“Is anyone here from the original opening? Anyone at all?” he joked to the giggling congregation. “There's been 969 baptisms, 720 confirmations, 238 plus couples were married here, (plus)
386 funeral services. There's been 17 pastors in two church buildings, plus they were worshiping in someone's building beforehand. We take a look at the history we have here of 1,000 saints baptized. With 125 years of services, they rejoiced in those gifts, rejoiced in the salvation that has been proclaimed here for the last 125 years and God’s blessings.”
According to A Century of God’s Grace, the church’s history began one mile east of town in the home of Andreas Lilge, a teacher from Russia, who conducted the first Lutheran services in 1897. An official church building was completed in 1904 and located on a farm owned
by Albert Schiller. The first entry into the church’s official register was the baptism of Ruth Rosnau on Dec. 1, 1907.
Although the congregation was aging by the 1920s, one member, 102year-old Mrs. J Wagner was noted as still being active in the church.
In 1938, the current church was built with a dedication happening on Dec. 11. Photos of the new church show the interior nearly identical to how it stands today, from the round tiered light fixtures hanging from the ceiling to the solid wood pews lining both sides of the aisle.
Meanwhile, Pastor Dul, 46, said he is a second-career pastor after first working in opera-
tions at the Dow Chemical plant in Fort Saskatchewan.
“I was doing well,” said Dul. When asked what drew him to pastoral work, he quickly pointed to a picture of Jesus near the front of the church. “That guy,” he said.
Dul explained that he had long felt a push towards ministry and finally answered the call. “I always kept pushing it off saying not yet, not yet, thinking not ever, then the Lord said, ‘hey now’,” he said. “I was a pastor in Saskatchewan for seven and a half years, before coming out here.”
Dul said he has been pastor of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church since 2018.
In terms of what the
future may hold for Bruderheim’s Lutheran Church, Dul said it’s in God’s hands.
“I see all kinds of stuff happening, all kinds of good things. But you know what? I think someone once said when you tell God your plans, he laughs but in a good way,” he said. “We have some new people coming and the congregation is supported. We are not a country club for saints, we are a field hospital for sinners.”
During a large spread of lunch after the church services, Bruderheim town councillor Dayna Jacobs stood to congratulate Pastor Dul on his church’s longevity and to make a special announcement in commemoration.
“In 2023 we will be planting a tree where the skateboard park is, where our new walking path is going to be put up to honour you guys,” she said. “Congratulations.”
BY JOHN MATHER
Former premier and Lamont County resident Ed Stelmach is among the latest 100 Canadians banned from travel to Russia because of their support for Ukraine.
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced the sanctions Nov. 14.
Stelmach joins Premeir Danielle Smith on the latest list along with actor Jim Carrey.
“In response to the continued practice by the regime of Prime Minister J. Trudeau of imposing sanctions against the Russian leadership, politicians and parliamentarians, representatives of the business community, experts and journalists, cultural figures, as well as anyone whom the Canadian Russophobic authorities
consider objectionable, entry is closed on the basis of reciprocity for 100 Canadian citizens,” said the Russian Foreign Ministry in a press release.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said these people are “directly involved in the formation of an aggressive anti-Russian course.”
Other politicians who were sanctioned by Russia include former
defence minister Peter MacKay and former Quebec premier Jean Charest.
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Elk Island Public Schools has responded to concerns from the public around school illness outbreaks by creating a website that parents can check weekly to see what schools are affected.
The website, https://www.eips.ca/o utbreak-notification, says it is updated every Monday.
A letter emailed to families Nov. 14 indicat-
ed that ‘several families have contacted Elk Island Public Schools (EIPS), expressing concerns and asking questions about the measures EIPS is taking to mitigate the spread of infection within schools.’
EIPS stated in the letter that masks are not mandated by the division and using a mask at school is a personal choice.
The Bruderheim Lions Club celebrated the addition of four new members as well as a scholarship recipient at their special meeting Nov. 10 at Walker School.
Former Lamont Elementary School student Adelynn Kroeker accepted two $500 scholarships, one from the Bruderheim Lions Club and the other from the Alberta Lions.
Kroeker is currently enrolled in the Bachelor of Education program at the University of Alberta.
“Adelynn is a great role model. She worked hard in school and vol-
unteered in many different roles in her young life including volunteering to help homeless people through the Street Invaders program,” said Bruderheim Mayor and Lions member Karl Hauch. “The Lions were glad to help in a small way with her tuition costs for University.”
Meanwhile, four new members were inducted into the group; Bruderheim residents Lisa Myers, Kal Jabara, Sandra Payne and Bev Druken. Lions District Governor Suzanne Leshchyshyn was onhand for the induction ceremony.
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Lamont town councillor Linda Seiker said the NSLA portion of the program, was a welcome addition.
“It was great. And everybody loved the kids’ part. They were so engaged in it, excited and well behaved,” she said. “It's wonderful.”
She added that the NSLA program will be included in future Remembrance Day services at Lamont.
In an earlier interview, Seiker said she felt youth involvement was important in keeping the traditions of Remembrance Day alive and the NSLA program was the way to go.
“It’s important because of the youth engagement. A lot of older people are not going to be around forever (and) we need to get youth involved in this,” she said. “And that was
the biggest thing; it was a way to engage youth (to) start to understand about Remembrance Day.”
Emcee for the event was Lamont councillor Dave Taylor and scripture passages were read by Mae Adamyk, Mike Barter and Terry Eleniak. The poem, In Flanders Fields, was read by Ayden Brzezicki and The Story of Remembrance read by Lynn Huxley.
Herman Seiker gave a prayer at the indoor cenotaph service.
In addition, Lamont councillor Colleen Holowaychuk read a Prayer of Remembrance and MLA Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk delivered powerful words in her address.
“I am the proud and grateful granddaughter of a World War I veteran and the daughter of a World War II reservist,” she said. “My family knew first-hand the sacrifices of the soldiers who went overseas, and
the families that were left behind. Too many have entered the terrible fields of battle and have not returned. We will not forget them.”
Meanwhile, Sieker added that she was also missing veteran Ed Drolet who spent years assisting with Lamont’s Remembrance Day activities and recently passed away Oct. 30 at the age of 88.
“Ed Drolet used to do the wreathes part of the program. We had 42 wreathes purchased this year so it was overwhelming,” she said. “We had to figure out how it all worked because he wasn't there. There was a few times that I thought I need to pick up the phone and ask him about this protocol or whatever and stopped in my tracks. He was totally missed.”
Sieker said Drolet was a legion member for 50 years who served in the Korean war.
• 15,000 sq. ft. Industrial shop built on 42.8 acres in Lamont County adjacent to the town of Lamont. There is an approximately 15 acres of gravelled yard with partial chain link fencing. located at 195043 HWY 29 Lamont County Price $3,175,000 or inquire about lease price
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The Young Canadians Roundtable on Health, in partnership with The Sandbox Project, Healthy Debate and the Healthy Communities Initiative, are once again looking for youth ages 12 to 25 for the continuation of our project called “In Their Own Words - Reflections by Youth on the Pandemic.”
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Lamont Lions is hosting a bingo on Wednesday, November 23 at the Lamont Recreation Centre. St. Nick and Snooker –Friends of the Ukrainian Village Society fundraiser 50/50 and print draw
(For as little as $10 you can support a champaign to furnish the historic Hilliard Pool Hall at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village and win up to $10,000!): rafflebox.ca/raffle/fouvs
St. Michael Golden Age Club is changing its Coffee Club times for the winter. It runs from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.