NOVEMBER 25, 2020
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Vegreville 4-H Multi Club News Kaylynn Makarenko Club Reporter The Vegreville 4-H Multi Club had their regular monthly meeting on November 16 in the basement of St. John’s Lutheran Church. Our roll call question was “What did you do on your fall break?” We talked about our Electronics fundraiser and what a success it was.
All project groups that met since our last meeting gave an update on what they did. All of the project groups plan to meet at least once before out next meeting. We had our Halloween party at the swimming pool and we all had a lot of fun. After swimming, we all got treat bags.
We were sad to hear that the District Fall Fling that was going to be held in Wainwright was cancelled due to Covid. A Christmas party committee was formed and will start to plan a Covid safe way to celebrate Christmas. Our next monthly meeting will be in December.
Innisfree-Minburn 4-H Beef Club November Report Rylan Jackson Club Reporter On November 10 we had our meeting in Minburn. Besides our normal agenda we also had Tawyna Copland a 4-H parent, and a local vet of Prairie Rose Vet Services, talk to the club about lead toxicity and the negative effects that it can have on cattle. It gave us good
knowledge on one of the many reasons why it’s important to dispose of and recycle old batteries, especially around our farms. Branded Western Wear allowed us to use of their farm facilities to do our weigh in for our projects on November 8. We had good weather this year for the day. Our members have steer, heifer,
and cow calf projects this year. The club is very appreciative of surrounding communities who helped us in one of the biggest tire and electronic recycling collections yet! Your contributions really helpd us out, and we appreciate that very much. We collected over 2,000 tires this year! Our next meeting will be in December.
Bus Accident Survivors Share Experiences 60 Years Later Michelle Pinon News Advertiser November 29, 1960. The fateful winter day when a school bus and rail engine collided at the crossing north of Highway 15 on Secondary Highway 831 in Lamont killing 16 students and injuring 24 other students from Chipman who were on their way to school. The following day one more student passed away. It was considered by many to be one of the worst tragedies in recent history. It irrevocably altered the lives of families and friends of the victims and survivors. It also had farreaching impacts as news of the tragedy made headlines throughout Canada and around the world.
concussion and a fractured skull. They tell me some doctor flew in from somewhere, treated me, and got my head back into shape.” Several vertebrae in Terry’s back were badly damaged and he had a dislocated leg. “I know nothing about that day, but after, I couldn’t figure things out. I thought we had wrecked the car. I said how’d I get here, why am I here? Well, you had an accident. They didn’t want me to tell me anything because they thought I’d go into shock. So, where’s Bob then? I want to see Bob. He’s across the hall. So, he’s in the hospital. We must have wrecked the car. So that went on until they moved the bed over by the window FAMILY BUILT. FAMILY BACKED. where I could see the car outside. Then Serving Western Canada for Over 20 Years! of course that really got me mixed up. Looking around David Ewasiuk was across the hall with Bob. They both had broken legs.” Gradually Terry began to feel better. He came home from the hospital in December but was not well enough to go back to school until the spring of 1961. When he returned to classes things were not the same at all because so many of his schoolmates had passed away. John Winnick recalls that it was a ‘SUPERIOR’ sunny “crispy cold” day. He estimates FOUNDATION SYSTEMS the temperature was between 15 and 18 ENGINEERED | ENERGY EFFICIENT | PRE-CAST CEMENT degrees Celsius. It was just before 9 am when the accident occurred. John said they were travelling in a POST FRAME - STUD FRAME - PRECAST dilapidated old Mercury bus. “All the Shops | Barns | Riding Arenas | Machine storage students were from Chipman and surrounding area. I sat in the fourth row from the back of the bus on the righthand side of the bus. I sat in the middle of the seat, and the seat was right on top of the back wheels. There was a girl right in front of me, like how close can you be when you’re in your seats, that was killed. I remember making the turn and you know as usual the kids are talking and yacking on the bus. I remember making the turn cause it was the old old crossing which was just a narrow road and when you came up to the crossing you had to go up quite a steep embankment and then over the tracks. And when we turn the corner how the bus rocks so you of course were rocking back and forth. I don’t know why, but I remember this in my mind because we’d done it many times before. And then I remember the slow climb up the incline, and
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Pictures of the funerals taken by Park Memorial. (Village of Chipman/Submitted)
It was unimaginable and unforgettable except for survivor Terry Cossey who has no memory of the accident. “On Friday night I went for a drive with my buddy Bob Antoniuk in my dad’s new 1960 car. We did the usual things and did a couple of doughnuts on the ball diamond and stuff like that, and then I wake up in the hospital. When I woke up it was Christmas time. So, I don’t remember much about the accident other than what people have told me over the years. I had a severe
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