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The Boys and Girls Club of the Foothills/CNP Branch visited the Crowsnest Pass Fire and Rescue Station on the afternoon of Friday, October 4. Deputy Fire Chief Bill Messner gave an informative talk to the children about Fire and Safety in one’s home. There was learning and also surprise at how much several of the children actually knew about Fire and Safety in the home. They reviewed drop and roll procedures, got to hold the brand new jaws of life and scissors. Then, got to see the fireman’s full uniform and experience spraying the water hose at a fun target. It was a fun learning experience. For more information of Boys and Girls Club contact Karey at karey@bgccnp.com.
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everything you need to know from the election Forum DaviD SelleS Pass Herald Reporter
The Crowsnest Pass Chamber of Commerce, along with the Pincher Creek Chamber of Commerce held an election forum at the MDM Centre in Bellevue on Thursday,
October 3rd. Three candidates for this riding attended including Bridget Lacey of the Green Party of Canada, Greg Hession of the People’s Party of Canada and John Barlow of the Conservative Party
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Bridget Lacey from the Green Party of Canada, Greg Hession of the People’s Party of Canada and John Barlow of the Conservative Party of Canada were all in attendance at the Election Forum put on by The Crowsnest Pass Chamber of Commerce and the Pincher Creek Chamber of Commerce on October 3rd. The evening allowed residents to hear what each party thinks about certain topics. Students from CCHS were also in attendance to help with moderating and keeping time. Voting day is October 21st, with advance polling available from Friday, October 11th to Monday, October 14th. Pictured top row left to right: John Barlow, Aiden Douglas, Ethan Chambers, Sarry Farrage, Alan Wong, Bridget Lacey and Greg Hession. Bottom row left to right: Elena Tkachuk, Maron Lin and Ben Sharp.
of Canada. Students from CCHS were given the chance to get involved in the process throughout the night. Some students were able to moderate parts of the forum, while others were able to keep time for candidate’s responses. MUNICIPALITY OF CROWSNEST PASS The evening was also NOTICE OF DEVELOPMENT PERMIT streamed live on FaceLAND USE BYLAW No. 868-2013 book for people who MUNICIPALITY OF CROWSNEST PASS couldn’t attend. The Development Authority of the Municipality of NOTICE OF DEVELOPMENT PERMIT Crowsnest Pass recently approved the following develThe forum gave resiLAND USE BYLAW No. 868-2013 opment application(s): dents of the riding a chance to ask questions to 1. 2309ofMUNICIPALITY –the216 Street, of Bellevue; Lot recently A, OF CROWSNEST PASS approved TheDP2019-087: Development Authority Municipality Crowsnest Pass the all or specific candidates following14, development application(s): Block Plan 6099AQ NOTICE OF DEVELOPMENT PERMIT MUNICIPALITY OF CROWSNEST PASS on important topics. LAND USE BYLAW No. 868-2013 i.1. Discretionary Use: Uncovered deck (approx. 436 sq. OF DEVELOPMENT PERMIT DP2019-087: 2309NOTICE – 216 Street, Bellevue; Lot A, Block 14, Plan 6099AQ One of the questions LAND USE BYLAW No. 868-2013 ft.) in the rear-yard of the subject property. Property i. Discretionary Use: Uncovered deck (approx. 436 dessq. ft.) in the rear-yard of asked the subjectArea property. Property designated as Non-Urban ignated as Non-Urban (NUA-1) Land Use District. Area (NUA-1) Landwas how each party will Use District.of Variance of 88% requested for side-yard The Development Authority the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass setback. recently approved the combat unemVariance of 88% requested forofside-yard setback. The Development Authority of the Municipality Crowsnest Pass recently approved the following development application(s): following development application(s): ployment. Standard Proposed Variance 1. DP2019-087: 2309 – 216 Street, Bellevue; Lot A, Block 14, Plan 6099AQ The candidates re1. DP2019-087: 2309 – 216 Street, 5’ Bellevue; Block 14, Plan 6099AQ South Side-yard Setback 50’/15.2m 8”/1.7m Lot A, 44’ 4”/13.5m i. Discretionary Use: Uncovered deck (approx. 436 sq. ft.) in the rear-yard of Discretionary Use:designated Uncovered deck (approx. 436 sq. rear-yard ofwith the following. sponded thei. subject property. Property as Non-Urban Area (NUA-1) Landft.) in the the subject Property designated as Non-Urban Area (NUA-1) Land Use22821 District. Variance of 88% requested forLot side-yard 2. DP2019-086: DP2019-086: – 4 Avenue, Hillcrest; 4-6,setback. Block 23, 4-6, Plan 51505 2. 22821 –property. 4 Avenue, Hillcrest; Lot Bridget Lacey, Green Use District. Variance of 88%garage requested i. Discretionary Use: Detached withfor anside-yard attached setback. carport (40 ft. by 30 Block 23, Plan ft.; 51505 approx. 1200 sq. ft. total) in the front yard area of the subjectParty property.of Canada: i. Discretionary Use: ofDetached garage with Variance 5% requested for height and an 65%attached for area: Unemployment is a 2. DP2019-086: 22821 4 Avenue, Hillcrest; Lot1200 4-6, Block 23, ft. Plantotal) 51505 in the carport (40 ft. by– 30 ft.; approx. sq. serious issue because it i. Discretionary Use: Detached garage with an attached carport (40 ft. by 30 front yard area of the subject Variance of 5% ft.; approx. 1200 sq. ft. total) in property. the front yard area of the subject property. does take money out of 2. DP2019-086: 22821 – 4 Avenue, Hillcrest; Lot 4-6, Block 23, Plan 51505 of 5% requested for height and 65% for area: requested forVariance height and 65% area:garage with an attached carport (40 ft. by 30 i. Discretionary Use:for Detached the pockets of people who ft.; approx. 1200 sq. ft. total) in the front yard area of the subject property. Standard Proposed Variance probably were formerly Garage Height 14’ 8”/4.5m 15’ 4”/4.7m 8”/0.2m Variance of 5% requested for height and 65% for area: 3.Garage DP2019-089: – 84sq.Street, Coleman; Lotm8, Block 18, Plan Area <7281209 sq. ft./67.7 m 1200 sq. ft/111.5 sq. 472 sq. ft./43.8 sq. m3387AE employed and it makes i. Discretionary Use: Moved-in Dwelling: Approx. 912 sq. ft. residential 3. DP2019-089: 1209dwelling – 84 Street, Coleman; Lot 8, Block 18, Plan 3387AEto new foundation them struggle to get back constructed in 2009 to be moved-on on subject 3. DP2019-089: 1209 – 84 Street, Coleman; Lot 8, i. Discretionary Use: Moved-in Dwelling: Approx. 912 sq. ft. residential property. Variance of 42% requested for front yard setback: into the employment secdwelling constructed in 2009 to be moved-on to new foundation on subject Block 18, Plan 3387AE property. Variance of 42% requested for front yard setback: tor. Our platform is a job i. Discretionary Use: Moved-in Dwelling: Approx. 912 3. ft. DP2019-089: 1209dwelling – 84 Street,constructed Coleman; Lot 8, 18,to Plan sq. residential inBlock 2009 be3387AEcreation platform. We i. Discretionary Use: Moved-in Dwelling: Approx. 912 sq. ft. residential moved-on to new foundation on subject property. Variwant to put people back dwelling constructed in 2009 to be moved-on to new foundation on subject Any persons claiming be for adversely affected bydevelopment the abovemay development may file an Any persons claiming to betoadversely affected the above an ance of 42% requested front yard setback: property. Variance of by 42% requested for front yard file setback: to work and make sure appeal ininwriting by September 11, 2019, the MUNICIPALITY OF CROWSNEST appeal writing by September 11,to 2019, to the MUNICIPALITY OF CROWSNEST PASS, SUBDIVISION AND DEVELOPMENT APPEAL BOARD, BOX 600, they have the training Standard Proposed Variance PASS, SUBDIVISION AND DEVELOPMENT APPEAL BOARD, BOX 600, CROWSNEST PASS, ALBERTA T0K 0E0. A fee of $400.00 must be included with the Front-yard Setback 20’/6.1m 11’ 0E0. 8”/3.5m 8’ 4”/2.5m must be included and that we are opening CROWSNEST PASS, ALBERTA T0K A fee of $400.00 with the appeal. appeal. up new industries and Taylor persons Felt Any claiming to be adversely affected by the Interim Development Officer to be adversely affected by the above development Any persons claiming may file an making sure the transiTaylor Felt Municipality of Crowsnest Pass may file an appeal in writing by Sepabove development appeal in writing by September P.0. BoxDevelopment 600 | Crowsnest Pass, Alberta |11, T0K2019, 0E0 to the MUNICIPALITY OF CROWSNEST Interim Officer tion to renewable energy tember 11, MUNICIPALITY 403 562-8833 4032019, 563-5581 PASS, SUBDIVISION AND the DEVELOPMENT APPEAL OF BOARD, BOX 600, Municipality of Crowsnest Passto development@crowsnestpass.com is happening quickly. InP.0. Box 600 | PASS, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta | AT0K 0E0 CROWSNEST PASS, SUBDIVISION DEVELCROWSNEST ALBERTA T0K 0E0. feeAND of $400.00 must be included with the P 403 562-8833 F 403 563-5581 appeal. vesting now in those jobs OPMENT APPEAL BOARD, BOX 600, E development@crowsnestpass.com CROWSNEST PASS, ALBERTA T0K 0E0. A fee of is incredibly important. Taylor Felt $400.00 must be included with the appeal. Greg Hession, PeoInterim Development Officer Municipality of Crowsnest Pass ple’s Party of Canada: P.0. Box 600 | Crowsnest Pass, Alberta | T0K 0E0 Taylor Felt P 403 562-8833 F 403 563-5581 The People's Party of E development@crowsnestpass.com Interim Development Officer Canada plan to combat Municipality of Crowsnest Pass unemployment is to fight P.0. Box 600 | Crowsnest Pass, Alberta | T0K 0E0 for the Alberta oil and gas P 403 562-8833 F 403 563-5581 industry. Our industry is E development@crowsnestpass.com under attack from within. P E
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We will educate Canadians on real climate science so that we understand fundamentally and collectively what we need to do to survive moving forward. The answer is not reducing our consumption of fossil fuels; it is to promote sustainable development of these resources. In doing so we'll create jobs at that level. The money that is generated will trickle down into the economy. From carpenters, electricians, plumbers, health care practitioners and so on. The gas and oil industry is where it all starts and all others will come behind. John Barlow, Conservative Party of Canada The Liberal government tried to push through some small business tax changes that were going to be devastating to small business owners and our farmers and ranchers. They increased CPP and they increased CI taxes on business owners. Governments do not create jobs. Business owners create jobs. We want to be supporting our small business owners, our farmers and ranchers from coast to coast. If they have more money in their pockets, they will be investing in their companies, they will be growing their businesses and they will be hiring more people. It's not just an Alberta issue, this is a Canada wide issue and we are going to be supporting our small business owners to kickstart our economy.
Another question brought forward to the candidates was about the opioid crisis. Here is each candidate’s response: Bridget Lacey, GPC The people that are using drugs do not start out as unemployed. They are usually people that have been given drugs initially from medical treatment and a lot of the problems stemming from the medical system over prescribing opioids in the first place. That's the first place to start is looking at how can we treat people without resorting to opioids in the first place. Also, safe injection sites are the things that are stopping overdoses and deaths. They're not places where people are going to use drugs as a novel new idea. These are people who are already using drugs and need to go somewhere safe so that when they do overdose, they can receive the treatment they need quickly so they don't die. Safe injection sites do decrease deaths and they do decrease overdoses. Greg Hession, PPC The rise of illicit drug use in Canada can be attributed to the decline in the economy. The degeneration of society and the promotion of that degeneration is suggested by relaxing regulations for illicit drugs in Canada is an absurd move for a civilized country like Canada. We need to prop up our economy so that people have jobs and are not going to be lured into-
habits with illicit drugs and crime. It's that simple. We know that when an economy collapses and people fall on hard times, they make bad decisions. The trend needs to be reversed and we are going to do that by standing up our economy with a strong energy sector here in Alberta and we're going to do it in a worldclass fashion because we're world class. John Barlow, CPC Our focus has to be on mental health; treating mental health and treating addiction. I think we can follow the path Premier Jason Kenney has put forward in Alberta. First, he put forward a minister of mental health and addictions, has put forward more than $100 million to fund 4,000 beds for addictions. That is the path that we need to be going to. The path is not how do we get more drugs on the streets that keep addicts addicted. These are not safe injection sites. Injecting drugs is not safe. We have to focus on the root cause of the problem, which is mental health and treating addictions as well as strengthening our border security when a lot of the drugs and opioids are being imported illegally. We have to focus on both of those aspects. More responses to hard pressing topics like the mine and tourism along with the recycling issue facing the area, will be answered in next week’s edition of the Pass Herald.
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In the lIne of fIre Between September 30 and October 7, Crowsnest Pass RCMP responded to a total of 50 calls for service including the following reported incidents. Three (3) assaults, three (3) fraud/forgery, two (2) mischief (vandalism), one (1) theft, one (1) impaired driving, one (1) disturbing the peace, one (1) other criminal code, six (6) other provincial statutes, four (4) driving complaints, four (4) motor vehicle collisions, seven (7) assistance to general public, six (6) suspicious occurrences, three (3) lost and found, one (1) assistance to other agencies, one (1) 911 call (invalid), one (1) false alarm, four (4) animal calls and one (1) municipal bylaw. Found Cell Phone On October 1st, 2019, a cell phone was found on 226 Street in Bellevue. Damage Complaint On October 1st, 2019, there was a complaint of damage to door of a resi-
dence in Coleman. A 21year-old male was arrested and charged. Stolen Motorcycle Recovered On October 4th, 2019, a motorcycle stolen on
September 16th was recovered in Fort Saskatchewan Pumpkins Stolen On October 4th, 2019, RCMP received a complaint that Halloween pumpkins were stolen from a display on main street in Lundbreck overnight. On October 5th, 2019, there was another complaint of stolen Halloween pumpkins stolen and decorations torn down overnight. Youths
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were identified and fixed the display. Traffic Stop On October 6th, 2019, at approximately 11:30pm, a vehicle was stopped for speeding on
highway 3 in Frank. A 35year-old male from Cranbrook provided breath samples resulting in his driver’s licence being suspended for 3 days and his vehicle was towed. FOUND PROPERTY Found keys Found cellphone Leitch Collieries Found bikes turned into Municipal Bylaw Anyone with information regarding any crime is urged to contact the Crowsnest Pass RCMP Detachment at
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economics, politics and morality change. If there is one thing that I can guarantee in this life it is that things will change. There is nothing wrong with change as long as we realize that it's good and bad. Very often the same change is viewed in opposite ways by different people. I was a child right after a great war and most of the people I knew were survivors of the war. They were a different crowd from what we are today. People who survived the hardships and the fighting, who lost their families and all that they had were not the type to demand protection from governments. They were self-reliant risk-takers who accepted whatever came and regularly prepared for whatever may come. Another mark of hard times was the ability to help each other even by risking themselves. My mother told stories of Nazis coming through the front door and Jewish children hiding in the basement. My ancestors risked themselves and their families for people they didn’t know. As I got older, the future changed into the past. Taking risks became a bad thing where it used to be admired. In our attempt to spread the risk around and make everyone share in it, we became very conscious of safety. First, it was good as we gained socialized medicine, police, fire protection, and even unemployment insurance and crop insurance. We are fighting for more and it is a good idea. However, we lose some freedom in the process and we should consider if it is important. Often the elimination of risk makes us less concerned with the price of doing so, in which we give up freedom to do “our thing.”. Two examples come to mind immediately. Take the Canadian tobacco industry. In the 1950s and sixties, tobacco was a major industry in Ontario. In the Niagara Region, we had the thriving Ontario Tobacco belt famous around the world. In came the fight against smoking and devastated the region. Another example is the thriving Asbestos mining in Quebec. Again in the sixties, Canada was supplying 40% of the world’s need for that “miracle Fibre.” I remember asbestos everywhere including at the bus stop where I was waiting for the bus to take me to school. We all had asbestos sheets behind the wood stoves to prevent fires and all the heating plumbing was insulated with the substance. It provided jobs for many thousands of Quebecers and was a very good investment
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opportunity. In came safety concerns, about smoking and about asbestos both being cancer-causing. Politicians and governments fought fiercely to keep it on the markets but lost. The need for safety convinced the public to ignore economics and champion safety and safety won. The mines and tobacco farms went bankrupt, and the world carried on as if nothing happened. In many cases, the fight went overboard but when change gains momentum, there is no way to break it. Now, we the people of Alberta find ourselves in the same fight in a big way. We have around a third of the world’s oil reserves buried in our backyard and we developed ways to mine it. In our minds, we were all rich, but the change was faster. First, our greatest competitor and market, the USA, found cheaper oil that costs less than what we produce. They flooded the market leaving us with having to sell to China. While we were working on that, we were handed the biggest Trump Card. Studies that began a long time ago brought safety against us. We are not risk-takers. This time we are not talking about the workers and consumers getting cancer, but about the earth itself sustaining irreparable damage. We tried all we could to minimize the concerns, but the risk is too consuming. If the mother earth is hurt none of us will be left untouched. Critics try their best to deny the facts but the younger people are not willing to take the risk. These youngsters will soon be voting and they are saying “we will not forget.” It hurts to give in or lose an important game, especially for proud men. I know the feeling. We will scream and go down kicking, but we will not win against “safety” in this reality. We will have to cut down our carbon emissions, give up on exporting solid liquefied oil and find new ways to make a living. Oil and gas are needed for plastics, for heating until new ways are found, and for lubrication. This is a time of big changes and the more we resist the harder we will hurt ourselves. My advice is, let’s innovate and roll with the punches. We can be a leading force in the new world if we focus on innovation instead of fighting what we can’t beat. The young people we are chastising are our ticket for a bright future, so let’s invest in them. I prefer to spend whatever is left in oil revenues on building a future than on trying to fight to make us great again in impossible ways, if anyone cares about my opinion. There is always change and we choose how we deal with it. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/73408 6807982991571/ Here is a link to my blog: https://thesimLooking at this poster that was pubpleravenspost.blogspot.ca/ Feel free to check lished in the fifties shows how far other articles and comment. we have changed as a society.