ECA Review 2020-01-02

ECA REVIEW HANNA/CORONATION/STETTLER, AB January 2'20 3
MORRIN COUNCIL
Council exploring use of security cameras
J. Webster
ECA Review
CAO Plachner was directed by
council at their Dec. 18, 2019 regular
meeting to provide two quotes for
installing security cameras for
recording outside the front entrance
to the village office, in the office and
in the shop area adjacent to the
office.
Council felt it was prudent for the
CAO to have this for protection purposes
as she mostly works alone.
NANA’S BLOG
Draft budget in the works at FCSS
Mayor Helton noted that at the
Community Futures meeting, Family
and Community Support Services
spent time going over the 2019 financial
reports and working on a draft
budget for 2020 as well as review the
manager’s report and the monthly
financial statements.
Coun. Wilton reported on several
things the Morrin Ag Society is doing
including hosting a Bullarama which
will be prior to the Homecoming in
2020.
Maybe people think it is ‘fake news’
by Lois Perepelitz
Stats Canada reports that in 2015
police reported 72,039 impaired driving
incidents, that is a
rate of 201 per
100,000 population.
It is good to see
that they are
reporting that is
four per cent lower
than 2014. I hope
that downward
trend continues.
Perepelitz
That does sound
good but we all
know that the
actual number of people who drink
and drive is much higher.
I don’t know why people still drink
MAIL BAG
Love OpEd writer’s columns
Dear Editor,
I love your OpEd writer’s columns.
Brenda Schimke has a way of presenting
facts in such a way that she
makes her point but doesn’t rile too
many feathers. I wait excitedly every
week for her article.
You have a gem working with you.
I subscribe to a magazine called
Alberta Views.
It comes out monthly. It contains
much commentary on social issues.
I would like to suggest that Ms.
Schimke or you on her behalf contact
the Alberta Views magazine to organize
the possibility of getting her
columns published in the Alberta
Views.
Many Albertans are caring, community-minded
individuals and not the
reactionary, flat earthers that we are
often portrayed as.
More Albertans need a chance to
read Schimke’s articles.
I have several friends who read
Schimke faithfully and they appreciate
her as much as I do. Her thoughts
would ring very sympathetically with
many Albertans.
Keep up the good work.
Ken Eshpeter
Daysland, Alta.
Not deliberately angering people
Cont’d from Pg 2
The other point I have referred to
that has angered Albertan’s is the
reckless spending.
Alberta was already running deficits
with the old PC government.
There was absolutely no effort made
by the NDP’ers to cut back spending in
any area.
There are too many top level
bureaucrats in Alberta and they are
way overpaid. Nobody needs to be paid
$600 to over $900 to provide government
service.
In just four short years the NDP government
ran up the largest debt in the
and drive. The information about why
it is dangerous has been out there over
and over again.
Maybe people think it is ‘fake news’.
Whatever the problem is, there are
still way too many people drinking and
driving.
One problem might be that they do
not realize how many other things
there are to factor in when drinking.
Things like how much you weigh, if
you ate enough, or how fast you drink,
are a few examples.
Maybe the big problem is that they
just don’t think at all when drinking.
I wonder what kind of excuses they
tell themselves to make it okay to
drive?
Let’s see… there is the coffee excuse.
history of Alberta.
In the last election Jason Kenney
and the UCP won 60 out of the 87 seats
in the legislature. That was because
almost 75 per cent of those voting were
so angry at how Notley and the NDP
were governing Alberta.
In fact, the people were so determined
to defeat the NDP government
that no one from another party other
than the NDP were elected for fear of
vote splitting.
When Jason Kenney and the UCP
were campaigning for the last election
they promised to repeal most of
Notley’s irresponsible legislation.
‘I drank a cup of coffee so I am now
good to drive.’
No, not really, you are just more
awake. The only thing that helps is
time, so if it took you about five hours
to drink that coffee you might be able
to go.
Another excuse, ‘I live out in the
boonies, no one else drives on my road.’
I guess these people have not heard of
the ‘one vehicle accident’. Maybe they
think that is ‘fake news’ too.
Or, ‘I can drive. I have done it many
times and nothing happened.’ There is
always the first time and even if you
don’t hit another car and kill someone
else, I refer back to the ‘single vehicle
accident’.
Then there is the ‘I won’t get caught.
Dianne Schmidt of
Family and Community
Support Services (FCSS)
received Brownfield
Community School’s
food bank donations
that were collected at the
Christmas Concert held
on Wed. Dec. 18. From
the left: Cloe Thomas,
Cody Cooper, Austin
Thomson, Diane Schmidt,
Sydney Richardson and
Cora Thomson holding
various donations for the
Coronation Food Bank.
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Cuts to government programs had
to be made in order to get Alberta’s
finances under control.
Of course, people will be upset when
their program is the one that was cut.
People are in favour of cutbacks until
it is their ox that is gored.
It was Notley who angered the
population.
Kenney is not deliberately angering
people. He has no choice but to clean
up the mess he was left with from the
former NDP government.
Herman Schwenk
Coronation, Alta.
The police are never around this time
of night.’
Well, sometimes they are. Can you
afford the big fine, or will it take away
Christmas for your family? What
about getting your licence taken away?
How will that affect your life? Will you
still be able to get to your job?
And finally, ‘My parents do it so I
can do it too.’
Wow! Just the thought of mixing
youth and inexperience with drinking
and driving is scary. What kind of
example are those parents giving their
children?
I do feel encouraged by the number
of young people who do make sure
they have a designated driver and do
not let friends drink and drive.
What a wonderful example their
children will have to follow. That gives
me hope for the future.
Don’t drink and drive.
Castor & District AG Society
would like to thank everyone for
supporting the raffle.
CASH Raffle Winners
1 st Prize - $5,000
Kerry Russel
2 nd Prize - $2,500
Gayle Haugen
3 rd Prize - $1,500
Barry Fletcher
4 th Prize - $1,000
Doug Robinson
County of Paintearth No. 18
COMMUNITY PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT MEETINGS
The County of Paintearth will be hosting
public meetings to engage the residents in
a process to update our MDP and LUB in
2020. Letters were previously sent to all and
requested that an RSVP process be followed
for attending. Your LAST CHANCE to RSVP
will be on Monday January 6 - in order to
prepare our numbers for workbooks and catering.
For more information please check
out the County website or call the office at
403-882-3211.
The locations and dates are as follows:
#1 Monday January 13 Brownfield Community Hall
5:30 – 9:30 pm - For residents north of 599 and east of
Range Rd 120
#2 Tuesday January 14 Coronation Community Center
5:30 – 9:30 pm - For residents south of 599 and east of
Range Rd 123
#3 Wednesday January 15 Halkirk Community Hall
5:30 – 9:30 pm - For residents in Ranges 15 and 16
#4 Thursday January 16 Castor Community Hall
5:30 – 9:30 pm - For residents in Ranges 14, 13, and 12
west of Range Rds 120/123
Dated: January 2, 2020
Todd Pawsey,
Development Officer