July 5, 2023
The Roaring 20’s is known for its flappers, jazz bands, silent movies, prohibition, and prosperity. The Great War was over and people were going to “throw off the shackles”, “bounce back”. Theatre, music and art all flourished. It included the invention of the traffic light, frozen food, the band aid, water skis, electric blender, the cheeseburger, and sunglasses. People showed their resiliency, creativity ,and resourcefulness just as you have in successfully completing 13 years of school. You managed your life through the Covid pandemic. You showed as much strength, resiliency, determination, and creativity as any CCHS student since the Second World War. And you grew more resilient, your mental strength, from the negative experience. The diploma you receive today is proof of that, and you had to do so much more than most to achieve success. Greg Long - Board Vice Chair Ward 2 - LRSD
We wish you continued succcess as you turn the pages to an exciting chapter. Good luck and best wishes! Vol. 93 No. 26 July 5, 2023
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CCHS Scholarships, Bursaries and Awards $32,000 being sponsored for scholarships and bursaries from CCHS graduates. SH Music Bursary Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus - $100 Recipient: Jakub Emond SH Foods Bursary Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus - $100 Recipient: Mary Chalmers SH Mechanics Bursary Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus - $100 Recipient Tristan Ewen SH Drama Bursary sponsored by the Royal Canadain Legion #9 - $100 Recipient: Mary Chalmers SH Art 30 Bursary sponsored by the Holy Spirit Preservation Society - $100 Recipient: Jakub Emond SH Fabrication sponsored by the Holy Spirit Preservation Society - $100 Recipient: Bailey Siray English 30-1 Bursary Sponsored by the Order of the Royal Purple - $200 Recipient: Silas Mertz English 30-2 Bursary Sponsored by the Order of the Royal Purple - $200 Recipient: Rayne Drost Mathematics 30-1 Bursary Sponsored by the Coleman Legion #9 - $200 Recipient: Marin Anderson Social Studies 30-1 Bursary Sponsored by the Coleman Legion #9 - $200 Recipient: Jesse MacDonald Social Studies 30-2 Bursary Sponsored by the Bellevue Legion Ladies Auxillary #19 - $200 Recipient: Darcy Wemp Chemistry 30 Bursary Sponsored by the Blairmore Lions - $200 Recipient: Silas Mertz Biology Bursary sponsored by the Bellevue Legion Ladies Auxillary #19 - $200 Recipient: Marin Anderson Physics 30 Bursary sponsored by the Blairmore Lions - $200 Receipent: Kalan Pagnucco
Sinister Sports Scholarship - $500.00 Recepient: Noah Doell Kenney Family Scholarship - $500 each Recipients: Bailey Siray and Logan Davidson Livingstone Range School Division Academic Scholarship - $500.00 Recipient: Silas Mertz Livingstone Range School Division Career and Technology Scholarship - $500.00 Recepient: Logan Davidson Dr. Lloyd Cavers’ Student Leadership Scholarship Nominee: Recepient: Silas Mertz Dan Marcial Memorial Scholarship - $1000 Recipient: Jesse MacDonald Spray Lakes Sawmills General Students Scholarship - $750 Recepient: Tyler Steenhart Teck Courageous Leadership Scholarship - $1000 Recipient: Jesse MacDonald Eugene Fabro Memorial Scholarship - $1000 Recepient: Bailey Siray Rocky Mountain Optometry Scholarship - $500 Recipient: Skyler Huseby Julia and Roy Whitehouse Memorial Post-Secondary Scholarship - $500 Recepients: Silas Mertz and Marin Anderson Riversdale Resources Scholarships - $1000 each Recipient: Connor Pitt, Alyson Ford, Noah Doell and Kate Brown Darcy’s Nature Walk for Mental Wellness Scholarship - $1500 Recipient: Marin Anderson Strandquist Family Trust Scholarships - $1500 Recipients: Jesse MacDonald and Tyler Steenhart CCHS Highest Credit Count Bursary - $160 Recipient: Silas Mertz Audrey Bonne Memorial Academic Scholarships - $1000 Recipients: Marin Anderson and Kate Brown Eric and Wilma Prentice University Scholarship - $1000 Recepient: Connor Pitt
Crowsnest Pass CUPE Local 812 Bursary - $150 each Recipients: Jordan Pedersen and Cierra Dauphinee
Dr. Kay Kerr Scholarships - $1000 (Fine Arts, Culinary Arts, Business, Tourism, Media) Recipient: Alyson Ford CCHS Trades and Technology Scholarships - $500 each Recipients: Tristan Ewen and Logan Davidson CCHS Academic Scholarships - $500 each Recipients: Kaleb Verheyden, Brayden Anctil, Luca Canderan, Skyler Huseby and Ember Campbell
Order of the Eastern Star - $100 Recipient: Marin Anderson
Evan Gushul Scholarship - $500 Recipient: Kate Brown
CCHS Bursary - $250 each Recepients: Kyle Pearson, Tristan White and Cierra Dauphinee
Stewart Schlender Memorial Scholarship – Minor Hockey - $250 each Recepients: Brayden Anctil and Connor Pitt
Crowsnest Consolidated High School Bruce Kutcher Academic Scholarship sponsored by Coleman Lions - $1000 Recepient: Silas Mertz
Schulich Leader Nominee: Recepient: Silas Mertz The Schulich Foundation, these prestigious entrance scholarships are awarded to 100 high school graduates enrolling in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) undergraduate program at 20 partner universities in Canada. Every high school in Canada can submit one Schulich Leader Nominee per academic year based on academic excellence in STEM and entrepreneurial leadership.
PE 30 Bursary sponsored by the Blairmore Lions - $100 Receipient: Cierra Dauphinee Duane and Jane Ann Reimer Bursary - $150 Recipient: Marin Anderson
Coleman Lions Scholarship by Coleman Lions - $500 Recepient: Kenna Lewis Ascent Dental - Dr. Leishman Scholarship - $200 Recepient: Silas Mertz CUPE Local 2133 Livingstone Range Support Staff Scholarship Recipients: Jesse MacDonald $750; Connor Pitt $375 and Brayden Anctil $375
Governors General’s Academic Medal: Recepient: Silas Mertz While this award has no monetary value, it is considered very prestiges and is given to the top Grade 12 student in every school in Canada. A weighted average of every course a student takes at the 20 and 30 level are calculated. We are pleased to present this award to Silas Mertz this year.
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Principal Paul Pichurski’s Well Wishes to the Graduates As principal of Crowsnest Consolidated High School, I offer my congratulations to the graduating class of 2023. As a school, we have been privileged to have you in our hallways and classrooms over the last several years; it has been our honour to teach you, to lead you and to support you as you prepare for this next phase of your life. Whether you are moving on to the workforce, travelling the world or continuing with your formal education, we hope that we have helped to provide you with the tools, strategies and resilience required to face adversity and find success. We are proud of you and glad for you - remember - this accomplishment is not an ending, but a new beginning, full of both opportunities and challenges - be sure to embrace them as them come. All the best to each and everyone of you.
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Class President - Silas Mertz Effort alone moves the wheels of history! Have you ever asked yourselves in an hour of meditation, which everyone finds during the day, how long we have been striving for greatness? Not only the years we’ve been at war, the war of high school, but from the moment as a child when we realized that the world could be conquered. It has been a lifetime struggle. A never-ending fight. I say to you, and you will understand that it is a privilege to fight! We are warriors! Students of Crowsnest Consolidated, I ask you once more: Rise and be worthy in this historical evening! No progress is worth anything unless it can defend itself! Some people will tell you teenager is a bad word. They’ll conjure up images of wild hoodlums and lazy good-for-nothings. This is our duty: to change their perception. I say graduating men... and women of the world unite! We must never acquiesce for it is together, TOGETHER, THAT WE PREVAIL! We must never give up on our dreams, for it is: Together that we prevail. Good evening, my name is Silas Mertz, and I am the one who was chosen to be the grad class president this year. That was a speech inspired by Dwight Schrute, but I think it had some real merit. It reflects how each of us have our own passions and talents as individuals. Each and every one of us has value and impact that cannot be measured. We all help and grow with each other, as we have done over many years. I am grateful to have had all of you as a part of my life, and I am grateful that you have allowed me to be a part of yours. These connections that have been forged in the furnaces of Crowsnest Pass are reflected in the latter part of the speech. I would not be the person I am today without the friendships I have formed with you, and I like to think that that applies to everyone here in some way or another. I’ve probably gone on for long enough, so I’ll wrap up with one final thought (or two). As a friend, I don’t know many things about my classmates that their parents do. However, as a friend I know some things that parents may not. We, as a grade, have been branded as quiet and reserved in many of our classes, much to our teachers dismay at times. We have a tendency to downplay our own accomplishments and skills, but this is not reality. Each person up here is capable of realizing their dreams, and as many times as it’s been repeated tonight, you should be very proud of yourselves. Parents, guardians, grandparents... you should all be very proud of the incredible people graduating this year. Thank you, and enjoy the rest of the evening.
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Greg Long - LRSD The Roaring 20’s
A very good morning to the graduates, honoured guests, staff, families, and other attendees. I like to tailor my speech on the graduates’ grad theme. Each year has been difficult and “The Roaring 20’s” was not any different. The Roaring 20’s is known for its flappers, jazz bands, silent movies, prohibition, and prosperity. The Great War was over, and people were going to “throw off the shackles”, “bounce back”. Theatre, music, and art all flourished. It included the invention of the traffic light, frozen food, the band aid, water skis, electric blender, the cheeseburger, and sunglasses. People showed their resiliency, creativity, and resourcefulness just as you have in successfully completing 13 years of school. You managed your life through the Covid pandemic. You showed as much strength, resiliency, determination, and creativity as any CCHS student since the Second World War. And you grew more resilient, your mental strength, from the negative experience. The diploma you receive today is proof of that, and you had to do so much more than most to achieve success. If you follow the news or social media, you know the world is not all roses. War, inflation, political corruption, climate change and environmental disasters. “Doom scrolling”, regularly checking the phone or computer for news can affect your mental and emotional state. Do not let the world problems deter you from your roaring 20’s. Go out and enjoy the fruits of your labour. For example, even prohibition could not stop human determination and resourcefulness. It was easy to get a prescription for whiskey as a “cure all” from a doctor; in fact, it was common for people to have several doctors. That’s being resourceful. Our own Emilio Picariello was resourceful, creative, determined, and successful during that time period right here in small town, Southern Alberta. He didn’t have to go to the big city. Resilience, resourcefulness, creativity, determination. Home brewing and illegal stills were common during prohibition. Farmer Bob set up a still in the woods behind his barn. While talking to a neigbour the subject came up, and the neighbour said he had seen Farmer Bob taking a load of white lightening into town. He wondered why Farmer Bob went so slowly. Farmer Bob replied, “My whiskey is better when aged.” That’s mental strength, resilience, creativity, and resourcefulness. Farmer Bob did not give up, Picariello did not give up, and neither did you. Here you are about to receive your diploma. I am not suggesting you go out and build a still or break the law. Instead set goals, challenge yourself, and remember being resilient; if you fail, get up. get on and get going. Your grad banquet was first class and was proof of your maturity. It was as good as any I have been to. Now is your opportunity, your time to go out into the work force or continue your education and make 2023 and beyond your own “Roaring 20’s”. Change Impossible to I’m possible. Be creative, be resourceful, but most of all be resilient. On behalf of the Livingstone Range School Division, I congratulate you. May you be blessed with a life of harmony.
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Spray Lake Sawmills awards scholarships based on school recommendations, to assist selected students in their future career development. Congratulations to the 2023 recipients at Crowsnest Consolidated High School: - Tyler Steenhart We also awarded scholarships to a total of six recipients from three separate schools in Cochrane.
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A e fr Grads о ere e r be 10 Years fr n Marin- In ten years Marin will be graduated from Harvard majoring in kahoot Kate- In ten years Kate will still be daydreaming over male Marvel characters Brayden- In ten years Brayden will be the next multi sport athlete with his own line of retro hightops Ember- In ten years Ember will open her own 24 hour fitness gym Luca- In ten years Luca will max out her Fas Gas card still driving to Claresholm Mary- In ten years Mary will master the study of Fungi in an ecosystem Cierra- In ten years Cierra will be the new owner of KTM Logan- In ten years Logan will be Canada’s greatest Goat farmer Noah- In ten years Noah will host his own comedy show based on “Why am I so tall?” Rayne- In ten years Rayne will portray Jesse Pinkman in the newest season of breaking bad Jakub- In ten years Jakub will have the best blonde Mustache a man can grow Tristan- In ten years Tristan will open his own Ford exclusive body shop Adam- In ten years Adam will publish his own book called “how to argue your way out of anything” Alyson- In ten years Alyson will air in the newest season of dancing with the stars Alexa- In ten years Alexa will still be trying to convince people she drives a
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sports car Broc- In ten years Broc will be the head coach of the highschool basketball team Skyler- In ten years Skyler will use her strength in silence to become a royal guard Matty- In ten years Matty will open her own art studio Shayne- In ten years Shayne will take her love for beauty and open her own eyelash salon Kenna- In ten years Kenna will use her expertise behind the wheel to become a drivers test instructor Jesse- In ten years Jesse will take his talents in arguing and politics to become the new Prime Minister of Canada Julie- In ten years Julie will use her experience in highschool drama to become a school counselor Silas- In ten years Silas will win the highschool reunion award that no one knew existed Kalan- In ten years Kalan will take his Mr. Peebles impersonating skills a step further and become the new CCHS science teacher Kyle- In ten years Kyle will be in riplies believe it or not for something we probably wish we didn’t know about Jordan- In ten years Jordan will still be picking up his van from Noah’s house Connor- In ten years Connor will live his dream of being a Toronto Blue Jay, just in the form of filling water bottles Jesse. S- In ten years Jesse will open his own guitar shop Bailey- In ten years Bailey will take his love for being in the principal’s office to become one himself Tyler- In ten years Tyler and his car will appear on the latest season of rust to riches Adam S.- In ten Years A.J will be the newest American ninja warrior Gaige- In ten years Gaige alongside of Jordan will start his own youtube version of impractical jokers Darcy- In ten years Darcy will have enough Tim’s rewards to buy the franchise Tristin- In ten years Tristin will still be crossing up everyone playing park basketball
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Elkford’s new Childcare Centre Facility open NICK ALLEN Pass Herald Reporter Working parents with little ones in Elkford can celebrate with the new Elkford Childcare Centre opening its doors on June 14. The Elkford Childcare Centre and Community Hub is a community project representing a partnership between the District of Elkford and local non-profit organizations. The facility helps address a shortage of available childcare and commercial spaces in the town. Located downtown, this new, multi-functional facility is situated within the former District of Elkford municipal office building on Michel Road, which underwent extensive renovations to be repurposed into a dedicated space for childcare and local entrepreneurs, small businesses and non-profits to operate from. The project was funded almost entirely by donations and grants. “This Centre and Hub is such an incredible asset for Elkford,” said Elkford’s Mayor, Steve Fairbairn, “This project is also an excellent example of repurposing assets and more importantly, an example of how much can be accomplished when a few great organizations collectively strive toward a common goal. Thanks to the generosity and combined efforts of these organizations, Elkford will have stable and affordable childcare in place for many years to come.” Funding received for this project totals approximately $2,080,000. Major contributions include a $300,000 donation from Teck, a $250,000 donation from Columbia Basin Trust, provincial grant funding in the amount of $1,119,352 awarded from the ChildCareBC New Spaces Fund program and $410,648 from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs’ Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program. “The Elkford Childcare Centre and Community Hub is a great example of how everyone benefits when we work together to deliver childcare,” said Grace Lore, Minister of State for Child Care. Story cont’d on page 2
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Top: Artwork from inside the new childcare facility in Elkford, with wildlife and mining being the focus of the piece. Top Inset: A child with face paint during the grand opening of the Elkford Chilcare Centre and Community Hub on June 14. Bottom: Elkford’s Mayor, Steve Fairbairn, spoke about the importance of reusing existing community assets and the importance of the facility to the people of Elkford.