Regional Update from MLA Jackie Homeniuk

Ithas been an immense honour and privilege for me to serve the residents of Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville as your MLA for the past four years. As we approach the end of this four-year mandate, I would like to quickly recap some of the many great things we have accomplished together for our community in this time.

Earlier in this Legislature, I was able to introduce and pass my own Private Member’s Bill 201 (2019), The Protection of Students with Life-Threatening Allergies Act, which I am very proud of.

Bruderheim has also recently been awarded $3 million in funding for their reservoir and pump station. I am also proud to have provided over $3.3 million to the Vegreville Industrial Park, and an additional $1.6 million for industrial area roadway construction. I have also been a strong advocate for the Vegreville Lift Station to receive repair funding of over $1.2 million, and have provided over $1.1 million for reconstruction of Range Road 143.

This is my last weekly newsletter before the 2023 Provincial Election, coming up in May! I would first like to thank all of you for your tremendous support, ideas, concerns, suggestions, and involvement in our community. Serving as the MLA for Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville has been a great honour, and I hope to be able to continue serving each of you after the election in May. Thank you for the past four years.

With this being the last newsletter for a while, I’d like to share with you all a select few of the many achievements we’ve accomplished together over the course of this mandate:

• Successfully advocated for $3.3 million in provincial funding for Prosperity Industrial Park in Vegreville

• Successfully advocated for provincial funding for water projects in Vegreville, Mundare, Bruderheim, Myrnam, and Two Hills

• With my advocacy, our government has invested hundreds of millions of dollars over the past four years to ensure rural Albertans have reliable, high-speed internet connectivity.

• Personally advocated for the Vegreville Food Bank to receive over $60,000 in provincial funds, ensuring their ability to continue serving Vegreville residents.

• In addition to serving as the Parliamentary Secretary for Ukrainian Settlement in Alberta, have also worked with Vegreville Stands with Ukraine, and have even been sanctioned and banned by name from entering Russia by Vladimir Putin

• Personally advocated for the Fort Saskatchewan Food Bank and the Food Gatherers Soci- ety to receive over $600,000 in provincial funding for their facility. Also secured over $90,000 in additional grant funding for these organizations

• Been a strong voice in our United Conservative government supporting the Fort Saskatchewan Community Hospital.

• Have been front-and-center in working collaboratively to find solutions when obstetrician shortages have occurred

• Successfully advocated for the $60 million Vinca Bridge replacement

• Led the successful push for new overpasses at the intersections of Highway 830 with Highways 15 and 16

• Successfully advocated for improving and updating the TWS 560 and Highway 830 intersection, and multiple other paving upgrades and safety improvements being conducted on Highway 16

• Awarded more than $32 million in funding support from the Alberta Petrochemical Incentive Program (APIP) for Dow Canada’s expansion of its Fort Saskatchewan ethylene production facility and other local petrochemical projects

Once again, thank you all for the past four years! If you have any questions, please contact my office at FortSaskatchewan.Vegreville@assembly.ab.ca. Thank you!

Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk, MLA Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville Parliamentary Secretary for Ukrainian Refugee Settlement in Alberta

Additionally, I successfully advocated for the $60 million Vinca Bridge replacement, to improve connectivity and economic development in the region, and I also led the successful push for new overpasses at the intersections of Highway 830 with Highways 15 and 16, which are now in the engineering and planning stages respectively. Additionally, I have advocated for improving and updating the TWS 560 and Highway 830 intersection, and multiple other paving upgrades and safety improvements being conducted on Highway 16. Continuing with intersection improvement I have also advocated for an overpass on highway 857 and highway 16 south of Vegreville which is currently in the engineering stage. On our secondary highways I have also advocated in the planning of local transportation projects such as repaving Highway 855 and 857 North of Highway 16.

I have also been a vocal proponent of providing over $1 million for bridge replacements in the County of Two Hills. Furthermore, we have provided over $1 million in municipal funding to the Town of Two Hills, and over $500,000 to the Village of Myrnam. The town of

With my strong advocacy at the table, the County of Minburn has also received $3 million in municipal funding, with an additional $3 million going to the Town of Vegreville, over $700,000 to the Village of Mannville, and over $300,000 to the Village of Innisfree. Additionally, I have secured over $4 Million in Municipal funding to be provided to the County of Lamont, with an additional $400,000 to Elk Island Park, over $400,000 to the Village of Andrew, over $400,000 to the Village of Chipman, over $600,000 to the Town of Mundare, over $1 Million to the Town of Lamont, and over $1 Million to the Town of Bruderheim.

In addition to these and the hundreds of other accomplishments we’ve had over the past four years, I have also had the opportunity to serve as the Associate Minister of the Status of Women, and currently serve as the Parliamentary Secretary for Ukrainian Refugee Settlement. I want to thank my constituents for making the past 4 years so memorable, and I look forward to the next mandate.

Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk, MLA Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville Parliamentary Secretary for Ukrainian Refugee Settlement in Alberta