ECA Review 2019-03-14

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STARLAND COUNTY
A backhoe demolishes the remainder of the Starland County building on mainstreet in Morrin, Ab. on wed. Mar. 7 and thurs. Mar. 8, 2019.
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MARCH 23
ECA Review/Submitted
Starland County building clean-up continues
Terri Huxley
ECA Review
An awarded contract has
allowed for further breakdown
and removal of the once
standing Starland County
building in Morrin, Ab. on Wed.
Mar. 7.
Administration hope to start
reconstruction of a new office in
the village as soon as this
summer.
On May 25, 2018, at approximately
4:30 a.m., the County
building became engulfed in
flames, rendering the facility a
write-off in terms of insurance
and usage.
The east side took the most
damage as fire crews used backhoes
and trackhoes to lift the
roof in an attempt to stop the
fire by constantly feeding water
into the structure.
The west side, which did not
fall, sustained serious smoke
damage among other issues so it
was determined the entire
building would be demolished.
Morrin, Munson, Rumsey
and Drumheller Fire
Departments responded as well
as RCMP and EMS, all of which
did not leave the scene until late
in the evening.
For now, ATCO has lent some
mobile units that have been
transformed to fit the needs of
the County so they can continue
running.
“It’s been pretty good,” said
Matthew Kreke, Assistant Chief
Administrative Officer (CAO) of
Starland County. “They [ATCO]
were pretty good about setting it
up real quick and giving us a
spot to move in. We prefer to be
in Morrin.”
Shortly before the fire, the
County was making plans to
construct a new public works
facility that currently sits at the
north end of the village.
The County is now pivoting
and taking advantage of the
misfortune by allocating their
funds towards an entirely new
building or buildings that will
hold space for both public works
and administration.
“We’re going to be using the
money to build a new location,”
continued Kreke. “We made the
decision not to rebuild. It was
pretty expensive to rebuild and
we were already in planning to
build a new public works shop
on the north end of town. We
MLA responds to correction
in February 28 ECA Review
Press release
The text of the ECA’s
“Correction”, Feb. 28, Page 3
states there was an error in
the newspaper’s reporting
on MLA Rick Strankman’s
decision to leave the UCP to
sit as an Independent in the
provincial legislature.
This correction information
is, in fact, incorrect and
misleading.
The “correction” contends
that Mr. Strankman did not
leave UCP for the reasons he
stated publicly when he left
the Party in January, with
ECA citing different motivation
assumed to be definitive
and conclusive.
Those assumptions are
inaccurate. The factual reasons
communicated by MLA
Strankman in January were
VILLAGE OF ALIX
Traffic Bylaw
analysis continues
Terri Huxley
ECA Review
Council picked up where
they left off by reviewing the
Traffic Bylaw as they continue
to look at each
segment in depth during
their meeting on Wed. Mar.
6.
The rules of parking was
this week’s topic.
One of the rules requires
vehicles to not park within
five metres of a fire hydrant,
marked crosswalk or stop or
yield sign.
Recently, a new stop sign
was erected in the village to
curb speeding in a residential
area which happens to
also be located close to a
school zone.
A resident who lives right
outside of this stop sign has
lived on the property longer
than the sign so councillors
felt there should be some
discretion for the homeowner
when it comes to
parking vehicles near his
property.
The bylaw acts as a way
for law enforcement to have
backing when investigating
a complaint.
The system is complaint
driven.
Another concern coming
from both residents and
councillors was idle times in
a residential district.
Some residents earn their
living by truck driving so
some semi-trailer trucks
can be seen parked overnight
in these areas and are
sometimes run for long
periods of time in the
morning to warm up.
Turn to Council, Pg 14
repeated in the news release distributed
to all constituency media on Feb.
18 when he announced his candidacy
as an Independent in thecoming provincial
election.
Those reasons cited by MLA
Strankman stand as stated publicly in
communications on both dates in this
matter:
1) Repressive top-down control of
the UCP, and
2) The slow elimination of Party
grassroots principles developed by
Wildrose, and brought to UCP in the
parties’ merger, but slowly being eliminated
under UCP leadership and
administration.
This was correctly reported in the
ECA Review, front page coverage, Feb
21, 2019 of the Feb. 18 announcement
meeting in Stettler.
figured we could save a bit of
money and combine the
buildings.”
Their Request for
Proposal document is out so
possible submissions can be
sent in until March 22, at
which point a committee
will check the submissions,
conduct interviews and
hand over the final decision
to council.
This will be decided by
April this year.
“We’re hoping to get
shovels in the ground this
summer,” he said.
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