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May 12, 2021 ~ Vol. 91

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Crowsnest Pass Fire Rescue received a call for service late afternoon on Wednesday May 5th, for hikers stuck on Turtle Mountain. The hikers were two females from Lethbridge along with their two dogs. Crowsnest Pass Fire Rescue and RCMP coordinated rescue operations and sent a 4-person rescue team up Turtle Mountain to attempt finding them and getting them down. Crews operating on the ground in the Frank Industrial Park were able to locate them with binoculars and determine that helicopter rescue was required due to extreme terrain considerations and nightfall coming. Kananaskis Rescue were called from Canmore where they successfully airlifted them-including the two dogs-down to safety without further incident. Preliminary investigation showed that they became separated from the trail and ventured into unforgiving terrain, where they just got stuck. The hikers made the right decision in calling 911 and staying put, as they were in a dangerous situation. It was a very successful operation.

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Coal Policy Committee begins engagement plans from survey 24,752 people responded or 0.5 percent of the population of the province, 8000 of whom were from central Alberta markable. What's really interesting is that more than 70 per cent of the respondents indicated that the management of Alberta's coal resources has a major effect on them.

Not everyone lives near a coal operation and yet 70 per cent of those 24,752 people, felt that they had a significant stake.”

Of the responses, Wallace says they came from a broad area of the province.

"From central Alberta, there were 8,000 responses, from southern Alberta there were 13,000, from northeast Alberta there were 403 and northwest Alberta there was 589."

The age groups of the survey also drew Wallace's attention.

"What's really interesting to me is that when you look at the age groups, Of the 24,572 responses, 18,000 of them came from age groups between 25-64. This shows it wasn't a group of young kids filling out the responses. This shows quite a consistent response. 2534 was 4,500 responses, 35-44 was 5,400. 45-54 was 3,800 and 55-64 was 4,400. That's within a few percentage points of being pretty much the same. What that indicated was that this concern is not only a broad one across the province but

DaviD SelleS Pass Herald Reporter

Initial survey results are coming in following the online survey available to all Albertans regarding coal mining in the province.

Chair of the Coal Policy Committee, Ron Wallace, says that the survey provided immediate impact on decision-making.

“It was based on that information that the committee, very quickly, formed it's recommendation to the minister to recommend a moratorium (on Category 2 Lands).

The survey had a major impact on the committee forming that recommendation to the Minister.”

Wallace says the committee has continued working hard to come up with their next plan.

“The committee has been working very hard to come up with it's engagement strategy with things like a website. With the website, some of this information will be posted to the wider public. That should happen sometime shortly.”

Overall, there were 24,572 responses to the survey.

Wallace says those responses came from a wide variety of areas and age groups.

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it's very broad across the electorate and across age groups within the electorate. This isn't just a group of young kids getting together saying they don't like coal mining."

The survey provided Wallace and the committee with more interesting discoveries.

“What's even more interesting is that 64 per cent of the respondents did not think the economic benefits of coal development in Alberta were in the important category. Eight per cent indicated that they are very important. What that indicates to me is that the small number of people that live around coalmines or are involved in the production of the coal, feel very strongly about it but a very large number of people question the economic benefits of coal development.”

A large number of the survey results also showed that Albertans are not confident that coal can be mined safely and responsibly.

“Over 85 per cent indicated that they were not confident that coal exploration or development in Alberta is regulated to ensure that it's safe, efficient, orderly and environmentally responsible. That's a very significant finding because what that does is it calls into question the confidence of a lot of the people who responded to the survey in the policy or the regulatory system for

coal,” said Wallace.

There were many respondents who felt certain areas of the province should also be off limit.

“Over 90 per cent of the respondents felt that there are areas of the province that are not appropriate for coal exploration or development.

Whereas about 30 per cent felt that exploration and development may be appropriate for some areas of the province.

That to me is a very interesting finding because when you have 85 per cent of the people saying they're not confident about the regulatory system and over 90 per cent saying that there are some areas of the province that are not appropriate and 30 per cent that development could be appropriate in some areas of the province, that's a very sophisticated understanding by the public that they discriminate between areas where they feel coal development should be going on and they're discriminating very knowledgeably and very strongly between areas they think it should not be occurring.”

Wallace says he understands the survey results are from a very small percentage of the Alberta population but is also pleased with the results of the survey.

“I recognize the survey results are from a very small percentage of the Alberta population of

course, but at the same time, I think anyone would look at those numbers and they would be impressed by the breadth and depth of the response that came in.”

Wallace also stated the committee has held conversations with different Mayors in affected areas, including Mayor Painter of the Crowsnest Pass.

Mayor Painter says the conversation he had with the committee was very beneficial.

"They wanted to know if I knew about the projects and what classification of land they were in. They also wanted to know how our community felt about it and any concerns our community had. They said they had around 25,000 submissions and they ranged over 400 topics. They wanted to make sure they fielded all questions and were open to listening to everybody. It was a really good conversation."

Mayor Painter added that he wasn't overly surprised at the number of submissions and said he was partially expecting lower numbers of submissions.

Wallace says now that the survey is over, the committee’s engagement process should be rolling out in the next couple of days.

"What we will be doing is inviting people to come forward in our first round of engagement.

That is not by any means a selective thing at all. We will go through several rounds to make sure that we're hearing as many people as want to be heard. Now that we have our engagement strategy based on our initial conversations with key opinion leaders, we'll be going down that path and opening that door this week."

Wallace says the CPC reached out broadly asking what ways their engagement strategy could move forward.

“We reached out fairly broadly asking people how we should design the full engagement strategy. We're fully aware that in the initial stages of the engagement we may miss people. We plan to come back and make sure we're touching all of the bases for people who want to be heard.”

With more information available soon and engagement about to begin, Wallace says it’s important for people to keep an eye out for when engagement begins.

“We encourage people to keep an eye on the Coal Committee because our website and our engagement and communication plan is going to surface soon. If people are interested in engaging I really recommend they look for that on the website and that we are wide open to suggestions for engagement from all parties.”

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Online Auction for Mining Research DaviD SelleS Pass Herald Reporter

The Livingstone Landowners Group is raising more funds for research on potential mining impacts to the area.

Vice President of LLG, Norma Dougall, says the purpose of this auction is to keep their research going.

“The main purpose of this auction is to raise funds for Livingstone Landowners Group to continue our work in trying to understand and evaluate what the potential consequences or impacts that open pit mining would have to the area not just locally to the Crowsnest Pass but also to the downstream and down wind areas. That would take us right across the prairies if you were looking at water.”

According to Dougall, the work is being done in a wide area

and isn’t confined to the Crowsnest Pass.

“This work isn't just related to the Grassy Mountain or Tent Mountain projects but it's to the potential mines that go all the way up the eastern slopes and that would be almost all the way up to Edson and Jasper. It's a much bigger issue than just locally.”

Currently, LLG is working with many different experts to try and understand the impacts mining could have.

“It's a moving target in that things come up and change every day. LLG has always tried to be objective in the things that we look at and try to keep emotions out of it. We've been hiring experts, scientists, ecologists and others to help understand and to give us information that we can then use in our discussions with

either the public or government and that could be local, provincial or federal government. This money will be used towards continuing our work to gain more information from experts and with experts.”

One area that LLG is currently looking at is water.

“One of the things we're involved in now is a study of water sampling throughout the south and through the Crowsnest in particular. We'll look at what the qualities of the water are now.”

Dougall says LLG is currently looking at streams with legacy mines and ones that are in areas with no mines or that haven't had any mines.

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Wednesday, May 12, 2021 - Crowsnest PAss herAlD - 3

In the lIne of fIre Between May 3 and May 10, Crowsnest Pass RCMP responded to a total of 44 calls for service including the following reported incidents.

Three (3) break and enter (residential), two (2) fraud/forgery, three (3) mischief/vandalism, one (1) theft, seven (7) other provincial statutes, seven (7) driving complaints, three (3) motor vehicle collisions, five (5) assistance to general public, two (2) suspicious occurrences, one (1) assistance to other agencies, one (1) false alarm, one (1) animal call, two (2) lost/found, and one (1) coroners act.

Theft On April 27th, 2021, there was a complaint of theft of a fire pit from Island Lake campground.

Suspicious Phone Call On May 4th, 2021, there was a complaint of a suspicious phone call from a person saying the complainant had won a vehicle and to send money for freight. The

complainant believed it was a scam and did not send any bank information or monies.

Graffiti On May 4th, 2021, there was a complaint of graffiti mischief to a building in Blairmore. It is under investigation.

Found Phone On May 4th, 2021, a Samsung cellphone was found on 214 Street in Bellevue.

Trespassers On May 5th, 2021, there was a complaint of trespassers on off highway vehicles on Grassy Mountain private property.

Stranded Hikers On May 5th, 2021, there was a report of stranded hikes on Turtle Mountain. Search and Rescue assisted along with the services of Kananaskis Helicopters.

Two females from Lethbridge area were safely rescued.

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Traffic Stop On May 6th, 2021, a traffic stop of vehicle resulted in a 44-year-old male being charged with driving an uninsured motor vehicle and driving an unregistered motor vehicle.

Fence Damage On May 6th, 2021, there was a complaint of damage to a fence, which was knocked over sometime overnight on 19th Avenue Blairmore.

Possible Fraud On May 6th, 2021, there was a complaint of possible fraud on Facebook. The complainant received a message that if money were sent she would get more money back. The complainant did not send any monies as it was believed to be scam.

Theft On May 7th, 2021, there was a complaint of numerous items taken from a yard on 19th Avenue in Coleman.

The Simple Raven’s Post

by Avner Perl

Born into conflict I was born and raised where Christ and the prophets walked. It is where the idea that helping the disadvantaged, living in peace, and not valuing material wealth is the answer for all of the human’s woes. Some folks would say that this is the cradle of human morality. Yet the country is the bridge between continents which every empire and major religion used to expand its power and territory.

In this tiny splinter of real estate, a worldwide movement started by a young preacher with wild ideas. His father, a God creator, wanted people to give up the natural want for domination and exploitation and work together towards developing all humans into a new social order dominated by a need to include all humans, including the poor, for the benefit of all.

Two thousand years later, the new way of living spread across the world to become the most followed religion. Over millennia, it lost the emphasis that the originator intended. Instead of a unifying force teaching love and compassion, it became a way to rule people, discriminate and colonize, mostly for material profit.

The relatively young state of Israel, where I was born, is not only the centre of major religions. In the last century, it was populated by refugees of a major genocide and some lesser examples of ethnic cleansing. There you can meet some of the most skilled survivors, hardened fighters that humanity ever produced.

In my formative years, I was exposed to both kinds. The philosophical believers of a creator god and the freedom fighters who are very adept at “shooting those who outdrew you” (Leonard Cohen) as the song Hallelujah goes. By the time I was seventeen, I lived through two major wars and later studied about many others.

As you can see, I had to live my life in a major conflict.

If you study human history, you may become ashamed of being a human. Humans instinctively know that compassion, sharing, empathy are feelings that are born with a human. A child will cry seeing an animal suffering. However, you also witness another force acting upon human consciousness. People teach each other to be “strong” and merciless, take delight in the suffering of others, and grab all they can defending their selfish gains.

Right from the beginning, by biblical creation or scientific evolution, people learned to use and protect whatever advantage they had. The first example is male humans taking advantage of the fact that the females are physically weaker. Males subjugated them, used them, and created ways to discard them. If you wish, you

Break and Enters On May 8th, 2021, at approximately 6:30pm, there was a complaint of a break and enter to residence at Burmis. The suspect then went to neighbouring residence.

Police attended and the suspect was inside the residence and was arrested. A 25-year-old male was charged with break and enter, mischief and obstruction. A JIR hearing was held and he was released on documents for Court. Then on May 9th, 2021, at approximately 9:30pm, there was a second complaint of a suspicious male at a residence west of Coleman, Police attended and the same suspect was arrested. The 25-year-old male suspect was charged with break and enter of a residence, mischief and obstruction.

He was lodged in cells awaiting JIR hearing, which he was released on documents for Court.

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can investigate recent documentaries of human trafficking, or look up statistics on pay scales around the world.

History shows a variety of examples of people enslaving weaker groups, denying them the fruits of their labour, dispossessing them of land, and killing them on mass. If you study examples, you discover that the only way to survive often turns out to be by fighting. When people fight they solicit support from others and soon there is a wider conflict or war. War is a situation that none of the sides win. Great suffering happens on all sides, and animosity remains long after.

People tend to avoid fighting, wishing for a peaceful solution. Like any wound or sickness, the hurt festers until it blows up. I was watching for forty years the gap between the rich and the poor widen. It is now alarmingly high, and I see signs of aggression growing all over the world. From my history studies, I assume it may lead to some sort of revolution.

Revolutions are difficult to control and become hideous rather fast. It is almost impossible to predict which direction they will go because of their volatile nature.

Any of us can find ample information about the disappearance of most royal power just a few generations before us. Revolutions were bloody and some like the Russian revolution shifted the world’s balance of power.

We have been watching a build-up of resentment for a while now and people formulating defenses. The shrinking of the western middle class, followed by the danger from global warming, shrinking freshwater reservoirs, increase in communications abilities, all contribute to unrest. The world is becoming a powder keg ready to explode.

Now, out of nowhere, a pandemic started and gained momentum. We can beat it, but it can’t be done without much sacrifice. Even if we win, we will not be free of it unless the entire world is free of it. Sadly, it expands the division between what we call the political left and right.

The political Right is people who achieved some superiority and are ready to fight to retain it. They have a following within the most disadvantaged who wish to benefit from supporting what they view as the stronger side. The Left is the opposite. Here are people striving to improve their present situation joined by many who had better conditions and lost them, often to see the top layer gain what they have lost. Both sides are ready to fight and already started in some places.

I don’t believe in any of the proposed “isms” that all failed. I think this planet was meant to be “the kingdom” or “heaven” for all living things. It can be if we use the fruits of the tree of knowledge that we took. We have the answer but we must care, forgive, share, and love to enjoy it. How do we love? As we love ourselves.

Today is Mother’s Day. Mothers even in the animal kingdom are giving us the example we could and should follow. A few are not but most love unconditionally.

All of us can look and learn. It is a point in history when our actions of caring or not are visible to the entire world. Should we share life-saving limited vaccines, for example, with the poor? We each should consider what is the right answer.

God, the creator will know.

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It’s Census time, get ready DaviD SelleS Pass Herald Reporter

This month was census month across Canada.

With the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the census looked different than previous years.

In a letter to Council, The Chief Statestician of Canada laid out what the census would look like this year.

“Statistics Canada has adapted the collection process to ensure that all Canadians and our employees remain safe while participating in this vital national exercise. Data collected in the 2021 Census will inform many of the economic and healthrelated policy decisions that must be made by all levels of government in the coming months and years, as the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the lives of Canadians. Statistics Canada will do everything it can to get Canadians to respond to the census without an inperson visit from a census employee. Completing the census questionnaire online is the best and

fastest way to fulfill the census obligation. We anticipate that the great majority of Canadians will complete the questionnaire through our efficient, secure and user-friendly online application. Respondents without reliable access to the Internet can also call the Census Help Line to complete their census questionnaire over the phone or request a paper questionnaire.”

Mayor Painter says having everyone in the community do the census is vitally important for the Crowsnest Pass.

"The main points I want to try get through is that we need 100 per cent participation in filling out the census because the grants that we receive both provincially and federally are based on our population. We need to get an accurate count on our population so that we can maximize the grant money and funding that's available from both the province and the federal government."

In a post to the Municipality of Crowsnest

Pass Facebook page, Mayor Painter added in a statement that the municipality could lose out on thousands of dollars if residents don’t complete the census.

“The details each of us provides in the census is used to plan services and make informed decisions about the levels of services our communities need. Our responses form the data used to plan services that support employment, schools, public transportation, and hospitals in addition to many other services locally, provincially, and federally.

It also is used as part of the funding calculation for several provincial and federal grants. This results in the Municipality losing 1000’s of dollars in grant funding over the next five years for every person that is not counted in the census.”

The census opened on May 3rd and the deadline to complete it was May 11th.

However, anyone who may have missed the original deadline is still able to complete the census online at census.gc.ca.

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Letters to the the Editor

Editorial Well the numbers are in. I wrote an editorial a few weeks ago regarding my disgust with Jason Kenny and waffling on the coal issue to the point he created a survey allowing Albertans a say on the future of resource extraction in our pro resource province.

From the public outcry I assumed that there would be hundreds of thousands of respondents, perhaps even a million. Imagine my surprise when only 24,572 people responded to the survey. If you do the math that’s 0.5566278% the population of Alberta. You read me correctly just over half a percent of the population of this great province answered the call to arms. I’ve tried to figure this out but my question is, when a number is this small is it actually statistically insignificant? I think it just might be.

The demographic breakdown is as follows: from central Alberta, there were 8,000 responses, from southern Alberta there were 13,000, from northeast Alberta there were 403 and northwest Alberta there was 589, you have to love northern Alberta whose bread and butter is resource extraction.

When the Old Man Regional Planning Commission was updating our Municipal Development Plan they conducted a survey for the community and one of the questions was “Can Tourism and Mining Coexists”. 70% of the respondents said yes. 700 people responded to a survey in a community of approximately 5600 people, which is 15%. I based my decision on supporting coal extraction based on the will of the people that took the time to respond to the most important document the municipality owns, the future development plan of the community.

How can the government even take this survey seriously? Even if two thirds of the respondents were anti-coal that’s approximately 16,381 people or 0.374773% of our population. I think they can note their concerns, send lovely letters about how science trumps conjecture and call it a day.

The opponents of this project keep talking about short term benefits of a mine, a 23-year life of mine plan is short term? The mines in the Elk Valley have been operating since the 1960s and no end is in site.

Why, because new ways to make steel are not in the imminent future! The proponents also talk about a few jobs. Using Teck’s ratio of direct to indirect jobs, 400 direct and 1100 indirect, that would represent a payroll alone of 128 million a year. (400 @ $100,000k a year and 1100 @ $80k a year) even if that’s only half it would still be a huge boost to our local economy.; add in federal/provincial tax rate of 40% a boost to maintaining all the government programs we cherish.

So I’ll end this saying that I felt like doing a victory dance when just over 0.5% of the population of Alberta filled out a survey. With the public outcry from musicians, ranchers, environmentalists and sudo-scientists I feel like the rational people of Alberta have spoken. It always seems to be those who agree that are the quietest, while those against pound the drum with outcry. I suppose the people have in fact spoken in the fact that they didn’t really respond at all.

I hope Mr. Kenny listens to the 99.4% of Albertans who say the coal issue isn’t an issue for them at all.

Perhaps they have bigger fish to fry like surviving in a country that’s so in debt there will be nothing to fix it but another tax hike. Perhaps an extra 128 millionpayroll income increase in a year isn’t a bad thing. Perhaps they understand that Alberta is a resource extraction province and that’s how we support the rest of the country through transfer payments. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

I can’t begin to think what is going through their minds, but I assure you with so little respondents to the coal survey it certainly isn’t the coal issue in the Crowsnest Pass. So I say listen to the concerns of approximately 16,000 people, acknowledge them and lets move forward to prosperity in southern Alberta.

It’s about time our neck of the woods had something they could clap about and do our share in the prosperity of Alberta both north and south. What a great day I had when I found out about how few people really cared about our coal issue.

LS

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Hurting our Charter of Rights Dear Editor;

Well, it is has been a great couple of weeks for the government driving nails into the coffin of the freedoms we are guaranteed under the Charter.

First there has been the persecution of people who want to worship freely, having their churches (private property) seized by the state, and their pastors thrown in jail. To Jason Kenney, Deena Hinshaw, the AHS, and all the other uninformed bureaucrats involved... shame on you!!

What about your promise, Jason, when you were an MP, to be champion of religious freedom in Canada?

Then we heard about B.C. closing the border, and limiting travel across and within its borders. No protest from Alberta.

There goes our guaranteed right of free movement within Canada.

Later Jason Kenney announced a curfew in all major centres in Alberta.

That takes away our right to move about freely in our own communities.

And there is talk about extending that curfew province-wide. What's next, a permit to leave the house?

A couple of days ago, we get the announcement

that effective May 6, all schools will be closed once again for at least 3 weeks, and all restaurants will have take-out only.

This means that untold thousands of dollars spent on opening patios, money that many have had to borrow, is now useless. Freedom to operate a business as we choose? Gone.

Then there is subject of masks. They have been proven time and again to be totally useless against the virus. There is scientific proof that a mask does not stop the virus from passing through it.

Is anyone listening? And the vaccines. The director of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. has stated he has forbidden his 17,000 employees to get the "ineffective and dangerous untested drug." This is getting more insane every day.

Hasn't Jason Kenney ever heard the phrase "when you're in a hole already, STOP DIGGING!" He has been doing most of the same things for over a year now, and numbers are still going up! What the hell? Why are these supposedly intelligent people in government and Alberta Health Services willfully ignoring any evidence that doesn't

agree with their ideology or their dictates? What happened to open-mindedness and looking at both sides? It is unconscionable that we may be forced to take an experimental drug, the Covid vaccine, when such action is against the Nuremberg Code (remember WWII?) My disgust with Jason Kenney, Deena Hinshaw, and the UCP government has reached a new height, while their tactics have reached a new low. The UCP slogan is "United Conservatives Strong and Free." In my mind, all of us are weaker and less free today than we have ever been in Alberta. Neither the politicians nor the police seem to have any respect for the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is the ultimate law.

Every police officer in Canada swears an oath to uphold the Constitution, and yet they continue to write tickets for "offenses" which are explicitly allowed under the Charter.

Thankfully, there are more and more police officers every day that are realizing that they are violating that oath, and are refusing to take part in this travesty.

There is more and more evidence coming to

light every day that lockdowns, masks, and vaccines are doing more harm than good. There is a requirement in the Charter that governments have to prove that these measures are doing more good than harm (look it up!) but no such proof has ever been offered by any government. Yet these measures, over year later are only getting stricter, with no proof of success being offered.

I just received a newsletter from the UCP talking about all the promises Jason Kenney is making regarding equalization, our own police force, our own pension plan, etc. Why should we believe any of these promises? Then they ask for donations to the UCP. Donations from people who have been bullied, dictated to, ticketed for not "obeying", and had their rights removed unconstitutionally?

They must be kidding!! They will have to go a LONG way to restore what trust I once had. I demand the fairness from your party that you are demanding Trudeau gives to us on other fronts.

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Musings from your local reporter This week’s issue has three separate articles on coal mining in Alberta.

One will show the survey results and some of the work being done by the Coal Policy Committee, one will show what work Cabin Ridge is still planning to do this summer after the moratorium on Category 2 Lands was made and one is about a local group raising funds to help them research and understand the possible impacts mining will have on this area.

The topic of mining in the Crowsnest Pass has been a massive topic before I even came to the Pass.

I didn’t really know anything about mining before I started working here and over the last couple years, I’ve had to try and understand all the terms and different types of mining, find out what areas are potentially being mined and who is hoping to mine those areas.

The idea of mining in this community over the last few years has always had two sides to it.

There are a group of people who believe mining will bring life back into the community and there are people who believe mining will only harm the area and community moving forward.

Both sides of the argument have solid reasons why.

On the one side, people believe these mines will bring much needed industry to the community.

On the other, people are genuinely worried about what these mines will do to water quality and are also worried about reclamation afterward.

Both sides have real reasons for the beliefs they have.

That’s why it’s incredibly important for this community to use the tools that will be provided to them to get their voice heard.

Starting this week, the Coal Policy Committee began their engagement process.

The committee is hopeful to provide every person interested, a chance to have his or her voices and ideas heard.

If you don’t want mining in this community, then tell the committee and they will take that information and bring it into the committee’s decision-making process.

If you want mining, do the same thing and that too will be brought into the committee’s decision-making process.

At the end of the day, one side of this argument won’t be entirely pleased or perhaps won’t be pleased at all but I would have more time to hear out people who aren’t pleased with the final decision who took part in the engagement processes than I would someone who only tried to get their point across on Facebook or perhaps just sat at home frustrated with the possibility of mines coming back to the Crowsnest Pass.

Opportunities like this are why we can enjoy living where we do.

We can have input on the potential projects that come to the Crownsest Pass area.

Let’s use that opportunity to make our voices heard, whether that’s being in favour of mines, or against them.

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8 – CrowSneSt PaSS HeraLD – Wednesday, May 12, 2021

South Zone Covid-19 Update DaviD SelleS Pass Herald Reporter

ALL NUMBERS ARE UP TO DATE AS OF Monday May 10th.

Province wide, there have been 210,387 cases to date. Of these cases, 25,438 are active. 2,117 people have died from the virus.

The number of cases in the South Zone by area is as follows: South Zone total: To date, there have been 11,368 total cases in the south zone. 9,912 people have recovered from Covid-19 in the south zone. There are currently 1,335 active cases in the south zone. There are 719 active variant cases in the south zone and no deaths from variants to date.

There are currently 18 outbreaks in the South Zone.

These outbreaks locations include 12 in Lethbridge, one in Picture Butte, one in Cardston, one in Taber, one in Medicine Hat, one in Coaldale and one in Fort Macleod.

Here is the community breakdown of cases in the south zone.

Crowsnest Pass: 63 cases reported, 18 cases are active, 45 case recovered.

Pincher Creek: 283 cases reported, 17 cases active, 261 cases recovered and 5 deaths.

Fort Macleod: 293 cases reported, 84 case active, 204 cases recovered and 5 deaths.

C a r d s t o n County/Kainai: 952 cases reported, 75 cases active, 861 cases recovered and 16 deaths.

Lethbridge: 4,533 cases reported, 452 cases are active, 4,044 cases recovered and 37 deaths.

New Restrictions The Government of Alberta has expanded restrictions for high case regions.

• Additional restrictions are in effect for regions with at least 50 cases per 100,000 people, and at least 30 active cases. These restrictions remain in place for at least 3 weeks, even if a community moves below the threshold, and will be extended if necessary.

• Province wide restrictions remain in effect for all communities, including those with lower active cases.

Province wide restrictions • All Schools have moved to online learning.

• All restaurants province wide are take out, curbside pickup and delivery only with no patio service allowed.

• All indoor gatherings are prohibited public and private. o Close contacts are limited to household members only o People who live alone can have up to 2 close contacts: • These must be the same two contacts throughout the duration of the restriction • If the close contacts do not live alone, visits cannot be held at their home • Single parents who only live with their children under 18 can have up to 2 close contacts • Outdoor gatherings have attendance limits depending on active cases in your area.

• High case area restriction • 5 people maximum (2 household cohorts maximum is

encouraged) • Lower case area restriction • 10 people maximum Retail High case area restrictions • Customer capacity limited to 10% of fire code occupancy, or 5 customers, whichever is greater. Staff are not included in this total.

• Shopping mall capacity limits exclude common area square footage.

Lower case area restrictions • Customer capacity limited to 15% of fire code occupancy, or 5 customers, whichever is greater. Staff are not included in this total.

• Shopping mall capacity limits exclude common area square footage.

Personal and Wellness Services High case area restrictions (effective May 9 at 11:59 pm) • All personal and wellness services must close.

Low case area restrictions (no change) • All personal and wellness services can remain open by appointment only o Walk-in services are not permitted o Appointments should be limited to oneon-one services o Businesses must follow all current public health guidance o Home-based businesses must follow the restrictions for the type of service they provide For a full list of all restrictions go to alberta.ca/enhanced-public-health-measures.

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Letters to the Editor continued from page 6 The big picture Dear Editor;

Does anyone look at the big picture when reviewing proposed landuse issues? Do municipal, provincial or federal agencies assess what’s best for society? Does anyone make a value judgment as to whether a proposal has worth?

I started wondering about these questions after participating in a couple of land-use planning exercises. The first was a gathering at Livingstone School led by the Oldman Regional Planning Commission. The intent was to determine what should be done to control development within the country residential zone known as the Burmis Lundbreck Corridor. The problem: People were living too close to gravel pits, a wind turbine, and other industrial uses, and there were conflicts.

The meeting was handicapped by the fact that there was no universally accepted vision for what the area should become. Should regulations be enacted to protect the river, riparian areas, and the area’s 600-year-old limber pines (an endangered species)? Should

quality-of-life values and the beauty that caused people to want to live there be defined as the prime considerations?

Should more gravel pits be allowed, or more houses, or both?

The meeting wasn’t too interesting, with formless conversation and no real direction, but then I, given the floor, said, “Maybe allowing a house to be built so close to Lundbreck Falls that no one can ever again get a good picture of the falls without a house in it was not such a good idea.” My founding thought: The primary viewscape of Lundbreck Falls, an iconic attraction, is worthy of protection. Well, turns out the owner of the house was there. He was quick to stand up and describe the beauty and worth of his house, and then the room erupted into pandemonium. I crept out.

“That went well,” I told my husband.

My next experience in land-use planning involved an industrial application by a BC mining company, Earth’s Vital Extractors/EVEX. Sounds harmless, doesn’t it?

EVEX’s articulated plan: move ore from the Bull

Getting rid of toxin Dear Editor;

It's May of 1950 and I am 11 years old, living in Bellevue. I have just finished a grueling road hockey season at Raymaker Gardens ending with Mattson and Stoklosa playing for the Stanley Cup. I'm digging out my Alvin Dark Baseball Glove and getting ready for the home and home series between those in grade 5 & 6 of Bellevue School and those in grade 5 & 6 of Maple Leaf School.

But this story is not about hockey. It's about the dreaded "Spring

Clean Out". Every year people in the Crowsnest Pass believed the family needed to be rejuvenated after a long, hard winter.

Whether it was a tonic bought from the Rawleys, or the Watkins man, or a homemade brew, such as sulphur and molasses, or molasses and coal oil. All were guaranteed to rejuvenate the body. Every year my mother would go to Haysoms' Drugstore and purchase Beachms Pills. If she killed us, she could always blame it on the pills.

My brother Tom, was the first to be rejuvenated

River Mine in BC to a spot between Twin Butte and Waterton Lakes National Park where there had been a petroleum facility and the land was zoned industrial. There, the company proposed to process the ore, then move the waste rock back to BC. A public meeting to discuss the proposal was held in the basement of the MD of Pincher Creek’s former office.

There, an estimated 90 people were packed into a small room. The Reeve of the MD moderated the session.

In the back of the room, a toilet gurgled ominously behind a halfopened door. A sink, open to the room, was making vomiting noises. From its basin, a dark, foulsmelling substance periodically rose and then sank out of sight.

Crystal clear was the obvious fact that almost all the people present had serious concerns with the proposed project. It didn’t seem safe to have trucks carrying ore on roads travelled by school buses, dust would be terrible on the gravel roads with the increase in heavy truck traffic, and there were fears contaminants might be left behind after taking metals out of rock. Residents felt the beauty of

this extraordinary landscape would be negatively affected. The MD of Pincher Creek was asked if it could say anything about the proposal, such as “No thanks.”

The Reeve told the crowd the MD could comment on the setback of buildings from the road, and roof heights, but that was it. A representative from Alberta Environment was asked the same question, and he said his department had a checklist. If the proponent checked all the boxes, they’d get the green light.

The checklist was not extensive, and didn’t appear to have human health, safety, and environmental protection as measures of the project’s worth. Instead, it appeared to be a lets-get-this-paperworkout-of-the-way-so-wecan-proceed list. I asked if anyone processing approvals would make a value judgement as to whether or not this proposal was deemed good for society. What about cumulative effects? The environment? All other values? Seems it’s like this: If a proposal is purported to provide one job, it’s a go … even if it might kill other jobs or other opportunities. There was clearly no one considering the big picture at any level of government.

and because he was older he received a couple more pills than I did. These pills, according to my mother, were designed to rid all of the toxins that had accumulated in your body over the winter.

Covid and all it variants, would not have had a hope in hell of surviving these cures.

The pills were fairly fast acting - once our stomach started to make rumbling sounds, we stayed as close to the bathroom as possible. The household knew that you had bathroom priority, so there was no sitting and looking through the Eatons Catalogue. Now if you had outdoor plumbing and there were quite a

few that did, that was a totally different story.

First you'd have to judge the distance from the house to the outhouse and then, your timing had to be perfect. There was no room for error. As well, eating anything before twelve hours was up, was absolutely useless - as the old saying goes - in one end, out the other and in this case was totally true.

I'm not quite sure if the pills really did get rid of any toxins, but one thing was for certain that with all that running back and forth to the bathroom and sudden weight loss we were cleaned out and rejuvenated.

George Dowson

The proponents of the project included a British geologist with a highclass accent. He sounded like he knew everything. I don’t know why we assume people with British accents are knowledgeable, but it seems we do.

He said there would be zero admissions and many jobs. He made the proposal sound wonderful; still the assembled crowd wasn’t sold. When this appeared obvious, the Reeve asked if anyone was in favour? I felt this was a bit unfair as it put people on the spot. One brave man stood up. He said he wanted a job.

Meanwhile, the ominous sounds coming from the back of the room grew louder and participants, growing ever more nervous and anxious to leave, were given questionnaires provided by the proponent. The room buzzed with expressed anger, and people appeared ready to write concerns and vent their outrage.

The volatile toilet and sink, upping their game throughout the meeting, chose this precise moment to erupt. A vile black liquid geysered out into the room.

People dropped their questionnaires and fled, almost trampling each other as they raced for the

top of the narrow stairway. It was panic at its finest, no consideration for the mobility-impaired, the elderly or infirm. No women and children first.

A week later, an article appeared in the Pincher Creek Echo. It reported an unrealistically low number of attendees at the meeting, and noted that all of the questionnaires returned were in support of the project.

Turns out many, if not all, of these questionnaires came from a single fax number, used by people who liked the project so much they invested in it.

Clever, that.

The EVEX proposal was approved and would have become reality… except for one little legal detail: The company was found guilty of “salting” the mine (falsifying ore samples). Everything collapsed in the dark Sea of Shame that drowns cheaters who get caught.

Media reports revealed investors lost 200 million dollars. And that was the end of the EVEX proposal. There, but for the grace of God …

We shouldn’t have to depend on God to kill proposals that are really bad. Might we work some bigger picture thinking into our review processes?

Monica Field

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Making a mark Celebrating Economic Development Week

Following Council’s decisioto take part in promoting Economic Development, the Economic Development of Alberta’s logo was coloured on the ski hill as discussed at a previous Council Meeting. The photos taken will be part of a larger collage that will help promote Economic Development. This was also done to help promote Economic Development Week that occurs from May 9-15.

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Rocky Mountain Gut Truck Doing their part to help our local businesses DaviD SelleS Pass Herald Reporter

A local food truck is doing their part to help out local businesses.

The Rocky Mountain Gut Truck will be offering small businesses in the Crowsnest Pass and other small communities the opportunity to advertise on the Gut Truck.

Owner, Deanna Le Vavasour, said this was something to do that would promote a little more positivity in all the negatives happening right now.

"There is a lot of negativity right now. I think that something more positive should be happening. I felt this was a move that could bring us a little closer together as a community and help each other out. We're all human, we all have a voice, we all have opinions and we all need to respect one another. It doesn't get us anywhere when we're all angry at each other and hurting each other. It just makes everything worse."

Le Vavasour says right now, people need to

come together in support of one another.

"If we can come together and build a foundation instead of tearing down a foundation that has already been made before the pandemic, we can create a greater space for everyone to work together and come together."

The Rocky Mountain Gut Truck is in the Pass every Thursday at various locations.

"We've been down at the NAPA in Blairmore in their parking lot. We also go to the Crowsnest Market in the summer when it's outside and park there."

Le Vavasour says she’ll be keeping the advertisements on the truck for a while.

"We'll have them on as long as it takes. I really want to share what the Crowsnest Pass and all the other little towns we go to with small businesses have. Any of them that want to put their logo on our truck they can. Anything that helps any of the small businesses is our aim, even if

it's just one customer or maybe brings in 20 customers. Anything helps those businesses. We'll probably do two seasons."

Le Vavasour says it’s a priority to help as many businesses as possible.

"We can talk about sizes. I don't just want one big advertisement from someone. I want to fit a lot of small businesses on the food truck to help everyone out. We can talk about where people want their info on the truck and the size of it when people contact me."

Anyone interested in having their business advertised on the Rocky Mountain Gut Truck, can contact Le Vavasour through their Rocky Mountain Gut Truck Facebook page or by calling (403)-583-0111.

Le Vavasour reiterated that helping these small businesses is massive right now.

"We never know what businesses are going through right now so be kind, be helpful, be respectful and just love one another."

NEWS BULLETIN!!!

You can now donate to the crowsnest Pass health Foundation through the website!

Please visit www.cnphealth.ca and consider donating to your local health foundation. or you can call 403.562.5018 and supply your information over the phone. tax receipts can now be e-mailed rather than in the mail if you choose.

Monthly giving can also be set up. thank you for continuing to support the patients and residents of the crowsnest Pass and surrounding area.

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Creative Writing reflectIon

by Hailey Yoner I see her smile a few times a day Oh, how the power of words can make it fade.

Her hearts like a rock, it weighs her down This is one of the things that makes her frown.

Her love for everything keeps her strong But they only last so long.

Something always happens, something bad This always has a way of making her sad Still, she finds love in herself through all the hate But she questions if her happiness is really her fate.

As I stand in front of her on this wall I still wonder how she does not fall.

Her smile is genuine for sure But that does not make it pure.

Her skin grows pale For she fears she’ll fail.

Her grades are poor And she longs for more.

Yet she is stuck in place A place in which she hates to face But her smile, oh her smile It holds her for a while.

If it wasn’t for that We might all be trapped.

But her smile sets her free To the place, she wants to be.

Somewhere that when she looks back at me It’s a place she’s happy to be.

Content with herself and more overall Where she is happy that she did not fall.

I am her and she is me And now we will let it be. my complexion Is her reflection.

I aM Me. - anonymous All of my bumps and bruises, All the times that my emotions have choked me, All the times that I didn’t feel good enough.

This is me.

The times that I couldn’t speak up for myself, Fears and worries of doing something wrong, To be known as a failure.

All of my quirks.

The emotions that fiddle my head, Until there are no more tunes left.

The invisible hand that holds me down, That stops me from reaching my full potential, Well that’s me too.

But then there’s you.

When my world falls apart, You are always there with the glue.

Mending all that was wrong, Perfecting spots that I couldn’t.

You make me better.

I am me.

But without you, I am Nobody.

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by Jorja Mercer-Penney fever dreams winter frost summer disappeared summer sun blistered skin salted body mom soft and gentle my heart

WItches’ sabbath Inspired by Witches’ sabbath, a painting by goya

by Matthew Gil We meet under the moon tonight.

We sit on your shadow and ball our fists together. Tonight, I offer you, my infant.

Vitalize my daughter, or damn her to your world tonight we offer you wine.

My child is dead but we still love you, for giving us life, for giving us love-Oh, Great He Goat!

Tonight, we dance in circles for you, we wail and cry for you, This is a witch’s sabbath.

If I could tell you just one last thIng

by Joe Schreiber If I could see you just once again I would smile at you and under the stars I would kiss you And then I would not look at you one time or two but I would look at you until the dark because you are the big mark on my heart that I will never let go

If I could feel you just once again I would hug you with pride and sing a song of you and me and from when we were young and free If I could give you just one last gift I would sent you a single flower, beautiful and smelling of spring, but just one because you were the only thing for me, that I loved If I could hear your voice just once again I would listen and not just stare in your eyes I would listen and this time I would remember for life and what you would say I would keep in my heart because later the reverberation brings the light to my dark If I could touch you just once again I would try to feel you and try to pretend that you're there for me always, forever and soon because you love me not just a bit, but to and back from the moon If I could tell you just one last thing I would tell you I'm sorry that you are my glory That I really love you and you are my heartbeat that the sun won't be shining if you wont be with me that the only reason for smiling is you make me feel free that the cause of my living is you staying within my heart till the ending cause you weren't just friendship That your struggle was a real thing and I should've trusted your feelings and that if we will die now I will make you a show Of all the happiness in the world before were getting hurt and that when the blood floods your body I will be standing with you And when your vision goes blacking that I will be lacking and when you finally close your eyes I will stand there and cry And cry I will scream I will yell I will burn them to hell I will fight them and bite them and beat them to death and in the end I will follow you because you were my rest My rest from the storm From the barricade stopping me proceed From the man making me bleed From the nightmares and falling chairs and the belts and the unfair The blood and the screaming, The tears that stopped me from healing And the hell on earth and the woman's pain that gave me birth You were the reason to live and the reason to die and the only thing that kept me alive Your the sun and the rain The help and the tie chains You're the nature and wildlife The water when I go dive The sky and the clouds The silence and the shout outs You're my heart and my soul and the reason I want to grow old You're the plug in the hole in my heart That is there since you left But if I see a blinking star And I feel that you're really still in my heart Then I don't hate you or me or him I just love you even more You were not my sin You were my pride

anxIety

by Sam Dyck Everything seems fine Right?

It’s a bit crowded But that’s okay.

More people More feet More faces Too many eyes Tense Protective Fight or Flight creeps in Can’t breathe Can’t speak Can’t move RUN. It’s too much.

Can’t stay here.

Calmness settles Back to normal A bit fidgety A bit on edge But that’s okay.

Just breathe.

You’ll be okay

the fIght

by Hunter Warnock I always feel scared Now that he’s gone But like dad always said “The show must go on” I will adapt I’ll play that part I’ll show the whole world Who I am at heart Life is a mess But no longer a void My tears turn to rainbows And rainbows bring joy When life has us down We get back on our feet The war doesn’t end After one small defeat Mistakes happen Life will be okay The tears can’t hurt you So wipe them away It builds inside The courage to rise No matter location No matter the size Arm in arm By each other’s side No time to cower Never again will we hide

PoWer and PraIse

by A.J. Jensen-Moen Lost again and again as blood drips from his face and his arms the blood so crimson so contrasted to his pale blue eyeswatching closely, his limbs dance around my fingers blood and beauty we hunt once again, silk now covered with mud and dried blood, her body miles away power and praise.

Who promised to protect killed the daughter, a promise of power and praise is all it took to win over his mind.

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KENNETH EDwArD LoGAN LIvINGsToN (Ken) March 24th, 1969 ~ Apr. 14th, 2021 Kenneth (Ken) Edward Logan Livingston passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 52.

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JUDITH ANN MEGLI March 24, 1945 ~ April 30, 2021 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear mother, Judith Ann Megli (Née: Cartwright) on April 30th, 2021.

Judy was born in Blairmore, Alberta on March 24th, 1945 and was also raised there. She grew up in a loving family with her mother Jean, father Joe and three siblings. Judy was the eldest of her siblings. It is here in the Crowsnest Pass, that she met Ken and they were married on November 1, 1969. Together they raised their children, Trent and Sandra.

Judy is survived by her children, Trent Goodwin of Cobble Hill, BC, Sandra (Ryan) Trempner of Lethbridge; her grandchildren, Joe and Tucker Goodwin and Riley and Sydney Trempner; her siblings Marylin (Len Blanchette), Susan (Mike) Tkachuk, Randy (Shar) Cartwright; numerous loving nieces and nephews; as well as many friends.

Judy was predeceased by her first husband, Billy Goodwin; her husband, Ken Megli; her parents Jean and Joe Cartwright; and her father-inlaw and mother-in-law, Ervy and Dorothy Megli.

Loving, caring, honest, kind, gentle spirited and patient are only a few of the many amazing characteristics to describe mom. She was quiet, soft spoken and always a voice of reason.

Mom was very creative, often involved in some sort of crafts, whether it was knitting, crocheting, creating beautiful flower arrangements, or ceramics. She also enjoyed reading and looked forward to finishing one book and starting another. It seems that I could never keep up to her when asking about what was happening in the book she was reading, she would often reply, “ I finished that one a week ago.”

She was an amazing baker and cook. When we gathered together as a family she always made sure we had our favourites waiting for us and she was always open to receiving special requests. There was always an abundance of food, good conversation and laughter.

Mom was a loving and devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She always made time for her family no matter how busy she was. She spent years and countless hours sewing and embellishing skating outfits for competitions and year end shows. One of her favourite holiday traditions was listening to Christmas carols while doing her Christmas baking and decorating ginger bread houses with her grandchildren.

Mom and dad always had a family pet or two. In more recent years she had two loyal dogs, Chelsie and Kramer, which gave her their unconditional love, time and attention. She found comfort in them and loved them dearly.

She was our mother, our comfort, our mentor, our greatest cheerleader and dear friend. Mom has had a positive influence on our lives and the love she provided and so freely gave throughout her years will always live within us. Mom’s journey on this earth is complete and she is now reunited with the love of her life, our dad, Ken. A heart that is broken is a heart that’s been loved.

Judy’s family would like to extend their heart-felt thanks to the Crowsnest Pass Continuing Care Centre staff for the kindness and compassion shown to their mom. Their actions demonstrated how deeply they cared for her. A private Graveside Service will be held. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations will be gratefully accepted by The Mustard Seed, Calgary (www.theseed.ca), or by your local SPCA or Humane Society. Condolences may be registered at www.fantinsfuneralchapel.ca.

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16 – CRowsnest PAss HeRALD – Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Cabin Ridge Coal Project update after Class 2 changes Mining company still able to do some work after Category 2 exploration moratorium have to ensure our water pipes. We do field surveys to our neighbours to ancrossings survived the on wildlife as well. For ex- swer questions and exwinter and that they aren't ample, we'll put up plain who we are and The Cabin Ridge Coal damaged and are doing recording devices to what we're doing so that Project is still moving forwhat they're intended to record the birds and then people can get a sense of ward with some different do. We'll be doing that someone who's competent our values and put a face work following the decikind of activity for sure. in that area will do counts to our name. We'll start to sion to halt exploration on The work we have and do inventories from appear at community Category 2 Lands at the planned will definitely go these devices. It's all non markets and different end of April. into the fall. It depends on invasive work that doesn't events.”

Chief Development According to Johnthe activity of the different leave any kind of footOfficer for Cabin Ridge, ston, Cabin Ridge may be print.” species.

A lot of it on the Brad Johnston, says while looking to open an office Johnston says Cabin wildlife side will be in the they are disappointed in next year.

Ridge has made the spring and early summer, the decision, they are fully “Depending on the whereas sampling proper people aware of on board with consultaoutcome of the consultathe work that will be done. groundwater from our tion. tion, should we progress “We certainly have let standing wells is done “We were disapto say we have a viable the regulator and our quarterly.

We'll do that in pointed with the Minisproject, it would be our inneighbours know what June and then again in ter's announcement. tent to eventually open an we have planned and we September.

I don't think There's no doubt about it office in the Crowsnest expect we'll be doing that we'll go much beyond because we had plans for Pass. We haven't done that September. The bulk of the work this summer.” the summer. We wanted to yet because we want to Johnston says this activity would end near carry on with our drilling 3” w ide 3.75” w ide v er sio n see whether or not we work doesn't require the end of September.” and our activity. In our Johnston added that nearly as much man- have a project first. We think it would not be reathey would also be doing power.

"As opposed to 60-90 sonable to open an office some reclamation work as people on site at any one and then determine you well.

On top of that work, time, it could be three or don't have an economic project and then close it.

Johnston says they will be four."

While Cabin Ridge is That wouldn't be respondoing some non-invasive still slightly unsure of it’s sible. That's all been dework as well.

“Our baseline envi- future, Johnston says more layed by the moratorium ronmental work, which is engagement will begin on drilling so before I thought it was possible with care the community. non invasive and them doesn't you Show during Show them you care during we'd be contemplating “We don't know leave a footprint is the Alberta Rural Health W Alberta Rural Health Week Week that in the fall but I'd say whether or not we have a kind of thing we have to May 24-28, 2021 May 24-28, 2021 do for a potential project. project. That's what this now, depending on the is to define.

What tooutcome of the consultaOften the• drilling the work on Giveand a shout-out social media • Give a shout-out on social media to we'll do is we'll start environmental collection health providers in your area to tion, that could happen health providers in your area is done on a parallel path. make ourselves available now into next year.”

• non-invasive #RuralHealthMatters • Tag RhP RhPAP AP at #RuralHealthMatters It's very things like looking at the • Visit www.ruralhealthweek.ab.ca for • Visit www.ruralhealthweek.ab.ca for soils and vegetation and COVID-safe suggestions to celebrate COVID-safe suggestions to celebrate fish habitats. We did some your local heroes! your local heroes! groundwater monitoring wells so we'll probably go @AlbertaRhPAP @AlbertaRhP AP @AlbertaRhP “We ended up being and keen so if we get collect some more groundcontacted by a few artists enough people and interwater out of the standing originally who had con- est we would consider cerns and wanted to help doing another one perout with our work. They haps in the fall or before wanted to donate some of Christmas. It will depend their art to the cause. We what our needs are as far had no way of really as projects moving fordoing a live auction or ward for LLG but also inof both the silent auction. Eventually terest more artists started com- committee and artists.”

One of the artists who ing forward and there was a few in particular that donated a painting, Milan wanted to create an online Stevulak, was born in auction. They approached Hillcrest and has a history us and we said yes please with mining.

"My father was killed and it's gone from there,” in the mines when I was said Dougall.

Most of the artists are three years old. I also from areas of Alberta but worked in the mine one there are some from out of summer when I was in university. I have a big province as well.

The first response to connection with that part the auction has been posi- of the world."

For Stevulak, he tive and Dougall says more artists have come would much prefer the forward interested in pro- Crowsnest Pass to stay, what he calls it, fly fishing viding art for auctions.

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“Since we've an- heaven.

“Having lived there nounced this and began Please call us for an estimate! advertising it, we've had and having worked in the several other artists who mines and around the 403-627-4589 have wanted to donate mines, having suffered a items as well. Since this is tragedy because of the the first one and it's kind mines, my relationship of the prototype, we did- with coal is not very n't want to get it too big good.”

Another artist, Valerie until we see how it works.

It's been a huge amount of Wynder, says she would work for the organizers like to see the area prebut they're all motivated served for future generaDaviD SelleS

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case it was a reasonably sized investment and of course there is the 60-90 jobs we would've had employed this summer including local contractors from the Crowsnest Pass.

We do support the consultation. We think it's reasonable and fair that Albertans have input into what it is we're up to. We do support that. If this is the right course of action, we support that too.”

Johnston says Cabin Ridge still has other work they can be doing heading into the summer and fall months.

“In the interim, we will be out there this summer. We still have obligavtions ersio nhave to fulfill. We we

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Johnston says that Cabin Ridge will respect the process of making the final decision.

“To respect the process, no one should or really can provide us a timeline because you can't prejudge the outcome. It's not appropriate.”

Johnston reiterated that Cabin Ridge is fully on board with engagement and environmental protection talks.

“We support the engagement about development and environmental protection. These questions ought to be asked and answered. What we really encourage Albertans and our neighbours to do it make their thoughts known. That's the purpose of this. We think it's a good thing and wish and encourage that people really take advantage of that opportunity.

Engagement with local communities, with stakeholders and with indigenous groups is part of our values too and we intend on doing that this summer. We plan to be at the community market and look forward to answering people’s questions face to face.”

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tions.

“I wanted to find a way to actively engage in the preservation of the eastern slopes from coal mining. This was a really cool opportunity that I could easily participate in so I jumped at the chance.

My family just really values those eastern slopes.

We spend a lot of time in that area hiking and exploring. It's so great for the kids. I just want that to be available to my great grandchildren and great great grandchildren so that they can have the opportunity in a place that's at least as beautiful then as it is now.

Wynder has one set of mugs in the auction.

Dougall says LLG is very thankful to all the artists who have donated so far.

“We're very honoured and grateful of the artists that have stepped forward to donate their work for something that they really care about. Hopefully the positive that will come out of all this is that the Crowsnest Pass has been a focus and that perhaps we can find some sustainable economic gain for the Crowsnest Pass.”