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Shadow Ag Minister views Lamont County devastation Liberal minister wouldn’t come

BY JOHN MATHER MP Shannon Stubbs couldn’t get the Federal agriculture minister to visit devastated farmers across her riding, but she was able to bring shadow agriculture minister Lianne Rood to visit the area last week.

The MP from Lambton-KentMiddlesex in southwestern Ontario said coming from a farming background she was a ”boots on the ground kind of girl” and she wanted to see the devastation firsthand.

Five counties within Stubbs’ Lakeland riding, including Lamont County, have declared states of agricultural emergency this year after heavy, long term spring rains wiped out the ability to plant crops or salvage any remaining crops from the previous year.

“I want to see firsthand what’s going on and meet with the local people affected,” Rood said. “It’s one thing to sit in Ottawa at a desk and think you know something and it’s a whole different thing when you go out and actually look at the issues.”

Farmers, she said, are passionate about feeding Canada and maintaining their livelihood.

“So far the devastation in the west has fallen on deaf ears in Ottawa,” she said.

“We are consistently standing up for the west and trying to explain the harvest from hell but nothing is being done.”

“I will continue to be the voice for western farmers and the minister will hear from me every day. Unfortunately it falls on the deaf ears of the minister.

They just don’t have a rural lens.”

Rood said it would be good for the Federal minister to come out west and see the devastation.

The two MPs joined several Lamont County officials on Oct. 3, including Reeve David Diduck and Agricultural Fieldman Terry Eleniak in touring some of the devastated farms in the County.

Prior to the tour they met with County officials to discuss the situation.

MP STUBBS BRINGS HELP Conservative Shadow Agriculture Minister Lianne Rood, Lakeland MP Shannon Stubbs, Lamont County Reeve David Diduck, a local farmer, and Lamont Agricultural Fieldman Terry Eleniak stand at a corner of a flooded road in the county on Oct. 3. The shadow minister came to tour the damage wrought by heavy spring rains that forced Lamont County to declare an agricultural state of emergency and take local concerns back to Ottawa.

2 - The Lamont Leader (Lamont, Alberta), Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Passionate groups vows to fight on to save Andrew School

By Jana Semeniuk The Andrew School Committee, a group created to ensure the future of Andrew School, presented their recent survey findings to Andrew village council members during their Sept. 23 meeting.

The survey was launched in July in order to gauge local opinions around the importance in keeping Andrew School open and a part of the community.

“Our committee believes proper steps were not taken (by Elk Island Public Schools) when the junior high and the high school programs were closed,” said committee member Stan Zabrick. “But the group has chosen to let it go and instead focus all of our efforts in ensuring the elementary school program stays open.”

Zabrick added that the number of people who contributed to the survey

was amazing.

“We had around 200 responses, about 150 in actual surveys as well as about 50 in conversations,” he said.

Zabrick explained to the Andrew council members that the survey consisted of 10 questions on such topics as whether it mattered to them to have a local school, how they felt around alternative schooling options, as well as why they felt the school enrolment numbers were declining.

“Our findings indicated seven themes in priority ranking; preserve the elementary school program, unite the community behind this effort, reverse the school closure, improve the level of education within the facility, provide a selection of after school programs, engage the community through media, and make the school viable again,” he said.

Zabrick added that one question gave an overwhelmingly clear response.

“Over 80 percent of respondents indicated that Andrew School can, and should, be saved,” he said.

Zabrick included what some of the written comments were around the issue.

“Some of the comments were; ‘without a school this town will wash away and die;’ ‘Without a school there is no town;’ ‘a school is needed for people to be interested in moving to the area;’ ” he said. “We think we are plugged in and have a sense of how the community feels.”

Zabrick added that the current enrolment situation of Andrew School is dire.

“Right now, we have 65 students enrolled at Andrew School. Fiftyfive is the watermark,” he said.

Zabrick’s enrolment information raised questions of what the situation will look like after the grade six students leave next year for grade seven.

Jodie Calfat, the Andrew School Committee chair, communicated what information was available right now.

“There are currently 11 students in grade six, and seven or eight students identified to come to kindergarten next year,” she said. “We are a little shy of the 65.”

But Calfat felt hopeful a current new program at the school might help.

“Mr. Cruikshank (Andrew School principal) has started the Kindercare program which is before and afterschool care and he said it’s turned out really great. It helps the kindergarten children get used to school so it’s not so scary when they finally

go,” she said.

Zabrick added that residents were also asked how they felt about alternative schooling options for Andrew.

“Some alternative options suggested in the survey, should the school close, resulted in 29% choosing a charter school, a sports academy was chosen by 19%, plus other school divisions were chosen by 41%,” he said.

Along with information on the current situation at Andrew School, solutions should the school close and public opinions around the necessity of a community school, Zabrick included some possible causes and solutions within his presentation.

“Sixty-nine percent of the people surveyed felt the issue is a village problem and village decline are to blame,” he said. “Some of the comments were the village of

Andrew needs to provide some kind of incentive to bring more people to the area. If the village can’t wrap its head around how what it does or doesn’t do, past present and future, then it will have an effect on what is happening at the school, and at best it will only be held off for a period of time until it is closed and the village will suffer.”

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Lamont students don orange shirts to remember residential schools

BY JANA SEMENIUK Students and staff in schools across Lamont County donned orange shirts on Sept. 30 to support Orange Shirt Day; a movement which began in 2013 acknowledging the horror and devastation inflicted upon indigenous people during the days of residential schooling.

Jeremy Albert, First Nations, Métis and Inuit Education Advisor at Elk Island Public Schools, spent part of Orange Shirt Day at Lamont Elementary School where he taught grades three to six students about the history of residential schools in Canada while acknowledging survivor’s healing journey and showing commitment toward the ongoing process of reconciliation. Students also learned how the orange shirt came to symbolize the movement.

In 1973, Phyllis Webstad was a happy six-year-old child living with her Grandmother on the Dogcreek First Nation reserve an hour and a half from Williams Lake B.C. Phyllis tells her story on Youtube where she remembers her grandmother buying her a brand-new orange shirt to wear for her first day at St. Joseph Mission Residential School.

“When I got there, I was stripped, my clothing taken away, including my new orange shirt.

I never saw it again,” she said. “I was no longer excited to go to school. I wanted to go home to Granny.”

Webstad remembered that she had to stay at the school for 300 sleeps.

“It didn’t matter how much us little kids cried.

Our feelings didn’t matter. We didn’t matter,” she said.

Although she only attended the school for one year, Webstad shared with Indigenous Corporate Training Inc.

that the impact her experience had has lasted a lifetime.

“I finally get it, that feeling of worthlessness and insignificance, ingrained in me from my first day at the mission, affected the way I lived my life for many years.

Even now, when I know nothing could be further than the truth, I still

sometimes feel that I don’t matter,” she said in the article.

According to ictinc.ca, an estimated 150,000 children attended residential schools in Canada. 6,000 of them died while in their care.

Sept. 30 was chosen as the day to honour the victims and survivors as this was the day buses would collect students to bring them to the schools. Over the years, students experienced cultural assimilation,

mental, sexual and physical abuse, shame and deprivation.

Residential schools operated in Canada from 1831 to the last school finally closing in Punnichy, Saskatchewan in 1996.

First Nations, Metis and Inuit Education Advisor at Elk Island Public Schools, Jeremy Albert, uses the giant indigenous floor map to teach grades three to six students at Lamont Elementary School the history of residential schools in Canada during Orange Shirt Day on Sept. 30.

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Opinion Just who is running Canada?

BY JOHN MATHER So how does this happen.

I mean we are told we live in a democracy yet, how does this happen?

In 2019 we held a Federal election.

The result was a minority government with the Liberals winning 157 seats. They lost the popular vote to the Conservatives who tallied 121 seats, and the Bloc Quebecois, a separatist party that claimed third place with 32 seats.

Then there was the NDP, and leader Jagmeet Singh, finishing just beyond the horizon with 24 seats, and the grungy greens getting three seats.

Former Liberal Jody Wilson-Raybould, tossed aside by the corrupt Justin Trudeau, won her seat as an independent.

So after a summer in which the Liberals cancelled Parliament because of covid, threw convenient Covid bucks around like a drunken sailor, then got caught up in the WE scandal, they decided to prorogue Parliament to make it all go away.

He came up with a throne speech which did nothing for the West, but threw some more money at Covid unemployment.

The Conservatives, those with the second most seats and winners of the popular vote, said they wouldn’t support the throne speech.

The Bloc Quebecois, the third place finishers in the election, said the throne speech wasn’t for them and they wouldn’t support the government.

It looked like the scandal-plagued government of the Trudeau Liberals was set to fail, giving Canadians a chance to go to the polls and elect a new government.

A government that would have sold the populous on its spending programs, family programs, supports for the vulnerable segments of society, forms of payment for those suffering from the affects of the Covid pandemic and being truly in need of subsidization to stay afloat.

It was going too a be a win for Canadians.

Continued Despite the pandemic, a successful election had been held in New Brunswick. Based on the strength of that, elections have been called provincially in B.C. and Saskatchewan.

Yes an election could be held in a pandemic.

But to the chagrin of many this won’t happen.

The Liberals did some backroom dealing, and those bottom feeders from fourth place, the NDP, held out for more unbudgeted hand outs for Canadians in the form of sick leave and CERB pay-

ments. The Liberals caved and an election was avoided.

So my question is who’s running this country?

It’s the Diperals!!

A consortium of Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau and pals running amuck placing Canada’s economy in its most precarious position in decades.

And the one making the decisions.

Is it Justin or Jagmeet?

JJ! It’s fitting in a bizarre way that Jagmeet’s and Justin’s first initials are the same as the buffoon character played by Jimmie

Walker in the U.S. sitcom Good Times back in the 70s.

We have a fourth place finisher now acting like a fourth rate leader.

Did he have the support of Canadians to prop up this corrupt government?

No. He did it for purely selfish reasons.

The job pays him well.

And in the end we as Canadians have a left wing cabal playing with, “Dyn-o-mite,” regarding our economy.

Just like JJ would have said on Good Times.

Only our times aren’t so good.

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FROM WHERE I SIT: Stay Safe

BY HAZEL ANAKA The past few weeks have seen an incredible return to what we fondly remember as perfect harvest weather. Waking up to temperatures of ten or eleven speed the start of work each day. Not having to wait for frost to disappear has easily added two, three, or more hours to each day.

The same blustery sustained winds that disturbed canola swaths (bad) also immeasurably

helped the drying of the crops (good).

So many consecutive days of gorgeous weather meant that farmers binned a lot of crop. Not forcing combines to growl through tough straw has reduced the amount of downtime, service calls, frustration, and money spent. Those same savings of frustration and money extend to taking off a dry crop.

A few days running aeration fans to bring down moisture levels a point or two in warm weather is a far cry from the past four or five years of grain handling.

Anyone who’s had to dry every bushel of grain or run aeration fans and heaters for months on end knows what I’m talking about. Anyone who’s had to rotate entire bins of grain to keep it from chunking up or has had to find a mar-

ket for damp or tough grain knows what I’m talking about. Anyone who’s experienced the total loss of heated grain knows what I’m talking about. The cost to pocket books and mental health are incalculable.

So, if your operation survived the last four or five horrific years, bravo.

But this year hasn’t been without its challenges.

We had to contend with unheard-of rain levels, flooded out areas, and crop insurance writeoffs. You gotta know there was a lot of rain when low spots turned into cattail patches.

Weeds got an aggressive foothold. Spraying was a challenge and left huge ruts in the field. When you’re used to driving a combine on a relative tabletop, this year felt more like riding a mechanical bull. Heaven help you if you moved

into a swathed field after dark. Avoiding flooded out areas could make you dizzy and disoriented. Or maybe that was just me.

Another huge plus this fall is the time it offers to get some field work done. To chop down the cattails, to rip up the chickweed, to save some precious time in spring.

That wasn’t possible for many of us the last few years when combining dragged into November and the ground froze.

For all of these reasons, we are truly grateful.

Families may even be

able to celebrate Thanksgiving this year, albeit in their own tiny cohort bubbles. Perhaps a Cornish game hen instead of a turkey??

There are still reasons to be anxious this fall as Covid rears its ugly, unpredictable head. I hope all the seasonal flu shot naysayers decide to get one this year. Even in rural Alberta, we need to be vigilant. Our world is small and inter-connected so even if you are doing everything right, you have no idea what the people you’re in contact with are doing or

who they’ve been exposed to. I seldom quote Justin Trudeau (unless it’s one of the countless asinine things he routinely says) but he did say that if we forego Thanksgiving, we may have a more normal Christmas.

So, my lovelies, God speed if your harvest isn’t yet complete. Stay safe on the farm and in your normal life. May the good weather continue long enough to enjoy these days of warmth and get some projects done. It’s been five long years, from where I sit.

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FEATURED LISTINGS The beginning of the harvest moon peaks its face over trees and shrubs in Mundare on Sept. 29. The actual Harvest Moon occurred Oct. 1. It is named after the full moon occurring closest to the autumnal equinox, which was on Sept. 22 this year.

Local MP will fight for legal gun owners

BY JOHN MATHER Work on the rural crime file was one of the main reasons, Lakeland MP Shannon Stubbs was appointed as the shadow Minister of Public Safety by newly crowned Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole.

“It’s was a great privilege to serve as shadow minister of natural resources and argue on behalf of the industry, not just in Lakeland where it employs many people, but for the region as a whole in Western Canada,” she stated.

“Unfortunately the Liberals don’t seem to want to visit the west too much to see the devastation some of their policies have caused. The role was a great privilege for me” But she adds when she was asked to be the Public Safety shadow minister, she was pleased because, “you never know what will happen.”

“When Erin phoned to ask if I’d accept the new role, he specifically mentioned Motion 167 on rural crime,” she said.

“That was a two and half year mission where we got massive support from across the country but the Liberals failed to move forward on it.”

She stated she’ll keep putting attention to rural crime and calling for action to combat it.

“Without a doubt it’s an uphill battle,” she stated. “The Liberals attack the wrong people in combating rural crime.

Instead of assuring more resources and pushing stiffer penalties and providing more staffing in the judiciary, they don’t follow through.”

“I doubt the Liberals will take action to do what has to be done,” she said.

She adds China issues

and border public safety are other major areas she will concentrate on in her new position.

“Gun licencing is important,” she added.

“What the Liberals are doing is targeting highly vetted, law abiding firearms owners and retailers, but failing to do anything to combat criminals using guns and dealing with the main source of gun violence in Canada which is gangs.

They’ve also done almost nothing on illegal gun smuggling.”

“We want to see an increase in sentences for crimes committed with

firearms. Out here the people most calling for sentencing increases are law abiding gun owners.”

“This issue is a high priority for me,” Stubbs said.

She said in the next few weeks she’ll be calling for an extension for amnesty for firearms owners, because of challenges before the courts.

“The Liberals have an RFP out for a gun buyback program, but now they want to do it internally because no outside contractors would touch it. It’s another Liberal boondoggle.”

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Covid restrains fire week activities for this year

BY JOHN MATHER This is fire prevention week running from Oct. 4 to 10, but it is a fire prevention week unlike any other in recent memory.

During fire prevention week local fire brigades visit schools and educate the students on how to prevent fires, how to plan for a safe escape from a burning building, and how to have a survival kit prepared in the event of an emergency.

But this year, they can’t visit schools because of the pandemic caused by the Covid 19 crisis.

Yet in Andrew, the fire department will be going to Andrew School Oct. 16, to provide some safety lessons to the children.

“We’ll be instructing them in fire safety through some games and puppet shows all while wearing proper PPE and maintaining safe distances” said Andrew firefighter Paulyna Nazarenko.

She added the students in the younger grades will remain in their cohorts while the lessons are taught and the older children will go outside to see safety demonstra-

tions.

With restriction in place as to who can go into the schools, many other fire week programs have been cancelled.

In Mundare, the fire

department is still active in the community hosting community dinners.

The first one in September was a huge success with people coming out for take from

around the county.

On Oct. 2, the fire department cooked up a pork tenderloin dinner and had preorders for more than 160 meals.

“We can’t do our regu-

A group of Friends of the Lamont Firefighters Society helped with the road clean up which was held Sept. 19.

The group who cleaned an area around Lamont made $1,900 and also collected a further $73 in empty bottles. Left to right (Front Row); Dustin Harpe, Kylee Dziwenko, (Middle row); John Helton, Mario Cox, Sylvia McDonald, Russell Scott (Back Row); Xander Harpe, Nick Mercer, Ryan Moffat, Kevin Price, Chris Greening.

lar fire prevention week activities,” said chief Glenda Dales. “But we’ll do things to support our community wherever we can.”

In Lamont Fire Chief Scott Calder said Covid has stopped many regular events.

“There’s really nothing to do this year,” he said.

“We’ll try to reach out through social media, but Covid has really put a damper on things.”

Calder adds as of right now all extra curricular activities have been put on hold.

“If the town goes ahead with its Light Up event, we won’t be able to give the fire truck rides as we have in the past. It’s just too much of a health risk right now.”

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Minister’s Message

Departments work together in extraction training

BY JOHN MATHER Members of the Lamont and Bruderheim fire departments have been training for the past several weeks at a local wrecker’s honing their skills in removing patients from a vehicle following a collision.

“We’re all part of Lamont County emergency services,” said Lamont Fire Chief, Scott Calder. “Bruderheim and Lamont departments have been practising together for the past several weeks in doing vehicle extrication.”

Calder said the departments are broken into teams and they enhance their skills in stabilizing vehicles, patient care, cutting vehicles and removing portions of the vehicles to allow for safe, efficient removal of the patients.

“It’s our full operation from start to finish,” he said. “It’s everything we would have to do to remove a patient from the vehicle following an actual collision.”

With today’s high tech vehicles there are a lot of precautions the firefighters have to take to prevent doing more damage to either the patient or themselves.

This starts with disconnecting the battery.

Air bags are also secured if they haven’t been deployed during the accident.

“If they’ve been deployed they’re not a hazard any more,” said Calder. “But if they haven’t deployed we carry restraint systems that we can attach to the steering wheel or around the airbags to prevent them from opening.”

“The high intensity headlights in today’s cars also pose a hazard because they have a large amount of voltage.

“With these lights,” he said. “We have to disconnect the battery and let the capacitors discharge.”

Calder added that with the new hybrid and electric vehicles on the road, firefighters have to be up

to date on how to cut the vehicles open.

“When it comes to them you have to disengage the battery at specific locations in order to maintain a safe environment.”

“You have to know where to cut them,” Calder said. “With them you have to stay up on how they are designed and what some of the systems are that are used to run the vehicles.”

He added that with a car such as a Tesla, the entire bottom of the car is battery so you have to be very careful where you would cut them.”

Calder explains at the wrecker’s they can cut up a lot of later models “so we’re cutting on relatively new technology.”

“We’re studying the actual removal of pieces of the car to get the patient out of the vehicles.”

He adds, ambulance personnel also attend the training sessions, so firefighters can understand what the medical personnel require on site.

Calder states group training happens through Lamont County with fire departments from Andrew, Bruderheim, Chipman, Lamont, and Mundare often training with each other.

“Vehicle extrication is

something we do every year to keep our skills up.”

He says training takes place across the County so if two departments attend the same accident scene they know how to work together.

“We share equipment and it’s important to know that we’re comfortable working with each other.”

Specialized tools are used to prop up and secure a vehicle during a safety training demonstration with the Bruderheim and Lamont Fire Departments in late September. Here firefighters receive instruction in how to properly prop the vehicles and then secure it further before attempting any rescue of a victim inside.

Courage and dedication appreciated by Canadians OTTAWA, October 5, 2020 - The Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, made the following statement today to mark Fire Prevention Week: “This week, from October 4 – 10, we mark Fire Prevention Week in Canada.

This year’s theme is “Serve Up Fire Safety in the Kitchen! ” I encourage everyone in Canada to familiarize themselves with kitchen fire safety. Cooking can lead to home fires and can cause home fire injuries.

Fires can have a devastating impact on our families and our communities, and it’s important to remember that they are very dangerous and can spread quickly.

One-third of residential fires are initiated by cooking equipment. We must be prepared by staying alert while cooking, by being aware of what can cause fires in the kitchen, and by never leaving our cooking unattended.

We know that a quick and easy way to help protect yourself and your loved ones in the event of a fire is by preparing an escape plan, with two or more safe ways to exit every room in your home, and by ensuring that your home is properly equipped to detect fires.

Sadly, too many people already know the devastating outcome that fires can cause. On September 13, we marked Firefighters’ National Memorial Day in Canada, when we remembered and honoured those firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty.

I commend the work of Canadian firefighters, their professional organizations and other fire safety leaders who keep us safe.

I would also like to thank firefighters across the country for their courage and public service in the face of dangerous emergencies, especially during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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Pandemic hurts fundraising for Bruderheim F.D.

BY JANA SEMENIUK Fundraising for the Bruderheim Fire Department came to a standstill this spring when the pandemic hit.

“We were only able to hold one event this year, which was our paint night,” said Bruderheim Fire Fighting Captain Coreen Hosack in July. “We had to cancel the others including our big one, the Fire and Ice gala.”

Although regular fundraising couldn’t be accommodated, one event couldn’t be stopped; the annual Firefighter Stair Climb Challenge which went virtual this year.

“It was definitely weird and different,” said Hosack.

Normally held at the Bow Tower in Calgary, the annual Fire Fighter Stair Climb Challenge has taken place each May for the past six

years. It was first inspired by Kathy Lamont County emergency serBlas who lost her brother, fire fight- vices team raised $8,284.

“We were still somehow the top er Gord Paul, to occupational cancer in 2007. Firefighters ascend the fundraising team, but we fell short Bow building, which is 775 vertical of our goal which was $25,000,” feet or 1,204 steps, in full firefight- said Hosack.

She added that she is hopeful the ing gear. The climb starts at 3,400 feet above sea level and is usually event can continue next year at the Bow tower in Calgary. timed.

“There is just something differFor this year, firefighters booked individual time slots to climb the ent about being in the Bow tower stair case inside the Bruderheim with the other firefighters, the volfire station which, when climbed unteers, it just gets you going,” she up and down 25 times, is the added. equivalent of the Bow tower in Calgary. The event was timed by Hosack and results updated on the climb website.

Although fundraising events could not be held, online contributions still A group of Bruderheim firefighters converge added up. In total, the as a team on a burning practice wall.

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Mundare Fire Department hosts another successful fundraiser The Mundare Fire Department held its second monthly supper Oct. 2.

“It too was a great success,” said Fire Chief Glenda Dales. “We offered a scrumptious meal of roasted pork tenderloin with baby roasted potatoes and finger carrots, a bun and homemade dessert. We are very fortunate to have such a supportive community and surrounding areas with over 160 meals sold.”

Fire fighters and their spouses helped prep the food and again helped with serving and handing it out to the people.

The department used the dinner as an occasion to hand out fire prevention packages with fire prevention hints.

“We were unable to do our annual door to door

checking smoke detectors,” added Dales.

This week marks the 149th anniversary of Fire Prevention Week which originated from the great fire of Chicago dated October 8, 1871.

The theme of “Cooking up fire safety in the kitchen.”

Kitchen fires are the leading cause of residential fires with most fires starting on or near the stove, explained Dales.

The Mundare F.D. will be hosting another meal on Nov. 6 of Chicken Pot Pie, cheese bun, coleslaw and dessert.

All meals are take out only and have to be pre ordered and picked up at the Fire Hall at people's chosen time.

When they order they chose a pick up time and it will ready when they arrive.

Safety Training Specialized tools are used to prop up and secure a vehicle during a safety training demonstration with the Bruderheim and Lamont Fire Departments in late September. Here firefighters receive instruction in how to properly prop the vehicles and then secure it further before attempting any rescue of a victim inside. Below: Members of the Mundare Firefighters serve up a pork tenderloin dinner for take away to a customer on Oct. 2.

MUNDARE FIRE DEPARTMENT Above: The members of the Mundare Fire Department gathered Sept. 29 alongside the department’s new fast attack CET Brush Truck. From left to right in the back row are: Dale Morrison, Brent Conner, Charlie Gargus (DC), Al Lenkewich, Ken Podolsky, and Sean Brison (Captain). In the front row from left to right are: Andrea Conner, Colin Zyla (DC), Glenda Dales, Matt Onyskow, and Dale McCarty (Safety Officer).

Missing are: Ryan Webb, Jason Warawa, Brody Thurston, Dwayne Hick, Jorestin Brison, Dartanin Brison, Danika Brison, Cam Pomeroy, Brian Sharun, Cheyenne Sharun, and Trisha Ming Brison, Prevention Officer.

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Andrew School Continued from Page 2 Zabrick added that one suggestion is to create a promotional campaign highlighting positive aspects of the village of Andrew in order to draw more residents and businesses into the area.

“There might be some grant money and provincial resources to help with the promotional campaign. We could do some of the work in house, but at some point, some of that work has to be handed out to professionals,” he said.

Zabrick included that the committee would like to see a town hall meeting to engage residents in creating solutions.

“We need the village to accept that this is a village issue and a priority one at that,” he said.

“The school committee is requesting from the vil-

lage a town hall meeting to get direct input for solutions from residents.

We would like this by the end of October so as not to lose momentum.”

In addition to a promotional campaign and a town hall meeting, Zabrick also requested ongoing financial assistance from the village in order to continue the committee’s volunteer efforts.

Upon completion of Zabrick’s presentation, Councillor Sheila Lupul responded to some of his financial concerns.

“I can assure you there is no provincial grant funding that we, as a municipality are able to apply for. That is a fact,” she said. “We have given you a small budget, and allowed up to $500 with the fact that if you needed more just let us know.

We want to work with you.”

Lupul expressed to Zabrick gratitude for work the committee has put into the school proj-

ect.

“Please reach out if you need help and we can work together and figure something out,” she said. “We do appreciate the hours you have all put in. We didn’t know what we wanted to do (when the programs were closed) we just knew we had to do something. Now with this information we will meet and discuss this and see what we can do.

In the meantime, I would like to meet with you before our council next meeting because we can’t discuss it any further at the moment. I have a lot of respect for all of you in the work that you have done.”

The Andrew School Committee was formed in light of two recent closures of both the high school program and the junior high school program over the past year due to declining enrolment. Andrew school is currently a kindergarten to grade six school.

Lamont man caught up in child pornography investigation

BY JOHN MATHER A Lamont man was one of many charged across the province following a three-month investigation into child pornography Gary Campbell, 28, of Lamont was charged with possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography.

In all 26 people from across the province were charged with various offences.

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“The internet isn’t anonymous and these arrests demonstrate

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It was a very red sky in the morning as the sun rose in smoky conditions in Lamont County, Sept. 19. Smoke from wild fires along the U.S., west coast had drifted into Alberta causing the sun to take on the distinctive red hue early in the morning. Crystal Moren photo.

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