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Terri Huxley

ECA Review

Chad Webber was caught between a

rock and hard place when the

COVID-19 virus infected western civilization

beginning in mid-March.

This Castor based pig farmer specializes

in wild boar crossed with

domestic pigs, creating a hybrid breed

with unique characteristics that make

pork flavours pop.

Pre-virus, Webber was working with

a broker to get his animal meat to

market, most of which was sold to

high-end restaurants in eastern

Canada and the United States like

Quebec, Ontario and New York along

with a few private customers.

With the reduced need for pork

products and the market shutting

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down, the only people or companies

who would take the product was a pet

food company, purchasing the meat for

under half of its actual

worth which is normally

marked higher

than regular pig prices.

“It was scary,” said

Webber.

“I honestly thought

the next time I would be

current with my market

hogs would be when I

went out with a gun and

euthanized a bunch.

“I really believed that

was my only option [at the time].

Webber

“I spent days on the phone trying to

find anything and then all of the

sudden the phones started ringing. It

was just… I still can’t believe the

response.”

Since the ECA Review wrote an

article in the April 23 edition of the

newspaper as well as online,

Webber has seen his numbers skyrocket

as people from out of the

blue have reached out to him in

hopes of helping and purchasing.

“You may have saved my farm,”

he said in a call to the newspaper

last week to re-book his ad.

“The first week was completely

overwhelming. It was over a 100

phone calls a day for the first eight

days then it got a little more realistic

where I could return the calls and

I don’t know if I’ve still straightened up

from the original influx.

Chad Webber, a wild boar cross domestic hog farmer located between Castor and Alliance in the County of Paintearth, does a check on his

animals on Thurs. June 4. Seen here are some finisher hogs. Webber has seen a massive influx of customers due to an article the Review ran a

few weeks ago about his situation with sales since COVID-19 hit.

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I’m trying and I’m sorry to those

people that I got mixed up with but I’m

not a secretary and I wasn’t prepared

for that.”

Webber reported he had calls from

all over western Canada as far north

as Fort Nelson, B.C. to the southeastern

corner of Manitoba near the

national border.

In one weekend they moved 84

market hogs when normally they

move about 70 hogs every two weeks.

“I’ve sold close to 500 pigs since this

story broke. That includes weaners,

feeders, bred sows and market hogs,”

said Webber.

“And imagine, a guy like me who’s

complete focus has been production

for how many years with just the odd

private customer, to get bombarded

with this and I’m not complaining but

wow like it was just… like at one point

my cell phone got up to 106 text messages

behind.”

Webber even went as far as hiring

his own mother to clear their landline’s

voicemail two-three times a day

as he worked and couldn’t stay on top

of all the messages at first.

“With the position I’m in, it’s nice

that I don’t feel obligated to sell my

pigs at a loss now. The calls are

coming in.”

Now the question remains of how

sustainable this situation is.

“I’m not getting out of business but

what level am I staying at if this is

going to be the new norm?”

The largest problem has been processing

as many abattoirs are booked

solid since many of the large facilities

are down.

Many who have purchased though

have decided to process the animals

themselves which helped take the pigs

off his hands.

“It was one of those things where I

knew people need to eat but how do

you make a connection on that big of a

volume that quick?

“And I never once imagined that a

little paper like that did what it took,”

said Webber.

INDEX

Big Valley council ....................... 2

Bashaw council .......................... 2

Stettler town council .................. 3

Morrin council ............................ 3

Alix council ................................. 3

Forestburg council ...................... 4

Letters ..................................... 6-7

Classifieds/Careers ................... 10

Obituaries ................................ 11

Kneehill council ....................... 12

Paintearth council .................... 13

Hanna 4-H ................................ 15

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Preliminary look at multi-sport facility

Terri Huxley

ECA Review

Members of the Alberta Community

Partnership (ACP) Grant committee

met for the first time on Tues. May 19.

This provincial grant has allowed

seven members of the community

including four councillors – two from

Coronation and two from the County of

Paintearth – to explore the idea of a

sportsplex for the Paintearth area and

outward.

The ACP grant covers the design and

engineering work needed to put in

before construction.

Since Paintearth and Coronation

will not be able to fund the entire build,

major grant funding is still needed.

“We’re waiting on more things like

provincial and federal funding and

meetings way before we can even

design to know what will go in there

type of thing,” said Blaine Brigley,

chair of the committee.

“If that goes through, I see it as a

high probability as long as we can keep

from taxing the people,” he said.

At both the Coronation council

meeting on Mon. May 25 and the

County of Paintearth meeting on Tues.

June 2, councillors who sit on the committee

spoke about some of the details

– what could possibly go into the

facility, gauging what everyone felt

needed to be included.

The committee emphasized the need

to be attentive to the total overall cost

of the new facility and the need for it to

be a 365-day use building that should

provide multiple services.

The number one priority they identified

was a new hockey arena, the

second was a restaurant to feed people

from out of town while also providing

healthy options for anyone visiting the

centre. And the third was a curling

rink or small meeting rooms.

Chair of the Committee is Blaine

Brigley and Vice-Chair is Kevin

Thornton.

Then with the following appointed

members of council and administration

included Coronation Mayor Mark

Stannard, Coun. Diane Elliott, Coun.

Brett Alderdice and Coun. Dale

Norton.

Coronation Chief Administrative

Officer (CAO) Quinton Flint is the

Recreation Representative.

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One of the committee’s main priorities

for the future of this process is

collecting feedback from the community

to understand what is most needed

and valued from their perspective.

“We want to include as many people

from the community as possible while

ensuring a max of $5 million,” said

CAO Flint. “We want to keep under as

much as possible.”

He added, “It wouldn’t hurt to talk

with the community. We don’t want to

be the know-it-alls. We are just volunteers.

This is something the

community is going to be proud of at

the end of the day and not an eyesore.”

“We’re waiting to hear more before

we take it to the public,” said Brigley.

Council keeps local tax increase at zero per cent

Stu Salkeld

Local Journalism Initiative reporter

ECA Review

The Village of Big Valley council

passed their operating budget and mill

rate bylaw with a zero per cent municipal

increase.

The latest developments were done

at the May 21 regular meeting of

council.

Mill rate bylaw

Village of Big Valley Chief

Administrative Officer (CAO) Sandra

Schell noted councillors recently

approved their three year operating

budget that included a zero per cent

municipal tax increase, then followed

it up by passing the new mill rate

bylaw.

She pointed out though that

increases in a tax bill are still possible

due to the provincial government’s

school requisition and senior’s requisition,

two taxes the village has no

control over.

New gym

Councillors heard a presentation

from a new gym in Big Valley, Prairie

Fitness, and an idea they had for supporting

the local fire department.

The gym proposed both the business

and the village pay the cost of gym

memberships for local volunteer

firefighters.

Schell noted council is considering

the request but hasn’t made a decision

yet.

Traffic bylaw

The updated Big Valley traffic bylaw

passed second and third readings at

the council meeting. Schell noted the

bylaw was undergoing an examination

and update, as it’s been decades since it

was touched.

Schell stated the updated traffic

bylaw saw only limited changes, with

major factors such as the 30 km/hr

speed limit left unchanged throughout

the village.

Snow removal

The village’s updated snow

removal policy was also approved by

council.

Schell stated council was seeking

as much efficiency as possible when

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removing snow, as this job can be a

huge expense.

One major change is that public

works wont plow snow until the depth

is seven cm.

COVID-19 update

Schell stated the village continues to

follow all pandemic rules from the provincial

government and is also

working with Stettler County to have

as much consistency as possible.

However, the CAO noted the village

office will soon re-open to the public.

One member of a household will be

allowed into the office at a time.

Services bylaws

Councillors also approved Bylaw

848, the Fees and Charges Bylaw. The

CAO noted this is the bylaw that lays

out what the village charges for various

jobs and services.

Much the same as above, the Water

and Sewer Bylaw has also been

updated for consideration by council.

Schell stated one change to the bylaw

includes a penalty for late utility

payments.

The revised bylaw suggests a charge

Council decides roof project goes ahead

Stu Salkeld


ECA Review

Town of Bashaw council reviewed

major construction projects during

their regular meeting of council June

4.

Councillors examined the 2020 capital

projects listing.

At the top of the list was the previously

approved project “54th Ave.

paving, Phase 2.” It was noted the

project was funded from reserves.

New items were listed in priority

order, and at the top of the list was the

lagoon project, 2020 cost to the town

listed as $178,807.

Second on the list was the Happy

Gang’s roof (the Bashaw area senior’s

centre located on Main Street).

The project cost, surface coat, was

listed at $29,400 and it was noted at the

meeting the Bashaw seniors will contribute

$10,000 of their own money.

A town report stated work on the

roof is overdue and damage is

occurring.

Councillors approved the Happy

Gang roof project.

Town office

During a regular staff report, Coun.

Lynn Schultz stated he felt the time

was right for the town office to re-open

to the public. It has been closed to

follow coronavirus pandemic

measures.

Chief Administrative Officer (CAO)

Theresa Fuller reported she’s trying to

stagger staff returns to spread it out.

She also added that the town office

isn’t part of the reopening strategy, but

rather is covered more on the social

distancing guidelines since the town

office is a fairly small area.

Schultz said it would be nice to reopen

the town office and hold council

meetings in person again.

Emergency operations

Foreman Murray Holroyd gave a

report on the emergency operations

department.

He stated that Bashaw’s playgrounds

and parks have been re-opened, but

washrooms at Heritage Park and the

baseball diamonds remain closed to

the public.

He stated that playground users

must sanitize the equipment before

and after using it.

Holroyd noted that even though the

provincial re-opening proceeds, social

distancing guidelines still apply.

Public works

Holroyd also submitted his regular

Public Works update. He stated the

54th Ave. paving project is almost complete.

A patch on 54th was also

completed to seal a water leak there.

Another patch will have to wait,

though. A soft spot on 51st street is too

soft to work on yet.

Grass and dandelions are coming up

quickly the foreman noted. He stated

town staff are having trouble keeping

up because the town is short-staffed

due to having no summer students this

year.

Deaf child sign

Fuller reported that a previous decision

of council will require some

tweaking.

Residents requested a sign on their

street notifying motorists that a child

with a hearing issue lived nearby, and

to drive cautiously.

Fuller reported the family is moving

to a different part of Bashaw, so the

sign will be erected there.

after 30 days overdue. The bylaw will

return to the June 26 meeting.

Kudos to you

The village recently heard from the

province’s Department of Municipal

Affairs with results for the Municipal

Accountability Program required by

the department.

The program examines a municipality’s

compliance with certain

requirements and Schell stated Big

Valley’s grade came in well under

what are considered legislative gaps.

Schell stated it gave the village

council and staff a good feeling to get

that positive feedback.

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Council says Canada Day will go ahead

Stu Salkeld


ECA Review

The Town of Stettler will move

ahead with plans to celebrate Canada

Day, but the event will be significantly

different from non-pandemic years.

Councillors heard a report on the

subject at the June 2 regular council

meeting.

Chief Administrative Officer Greg

Switenky, along with staff members

Alan King and Brad Robbins, gave

councillors a report on how the town

could offer a Canada Day celebration

amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

Switenky stated it’s important to

decide ahead of time whether large

events should be cancelled, as a lot of

planning is needed for events like

Canada Day, including booking

entertainment.

Robbins gave an update from the recreation

department’s point of view. He

stated some large events, such as Music

in the Park and Canada Day, are

coming up in about a month and have

not technically been cancelled.

He noted Canada Day’s live entertainment

probably won’t work this

year with pandemic measures in place,

including a limit on the number of

people in a gathering and social

distancing.

However, the fireworks show is still

possible at 11 p.m. Town staff could be

located at the entrance to West Stettler

Park and guests could remain in their

vehicles for the fireworks.

Robbins pointed out some events like

Music in the Park could also in theory

be held at a large venue like West

Stettler Park since there is so much

room to work with and guests would

simply be informed of pandemic measures

and expected to follow them.

Robbins had an interesting idea for

Stettlerites to celebrate Canada Day.

He said the town could encourage

people to celebrate Canada Day at

home by, for example, decorating their

houses and yards in tribute to

Canada’s birthday.

Coun. Malcolm Fischer pointed out

that social distancing doesn’t apply to

members of the same family household,

so those people wouldn’t have to

social distance with each other at the

event.

Mayor Sean Nolls stated as long as

the town staff were counting heads and

keeping track of how many people

were there, things should be fine.

He added later that it was vital to

have the pandemic measures posted

clearly and often at any event.

Coun. Scott Pfeiffer stated the town

should get the word out to residents

that Canada Day is going ahead.

Robbins responded a publicity campaign

was planned.

Barros stated she was glad to hear

Music in the Park could go ahead, as

everyone around Stettler was looking

for something to do outside of their

homes.

Mayor Nolls said it sounds like

Canada Day can be hosted safely in

Stettler.

“I think it’s a good idea to forge

ahead,” said Nolls.

Council learns of liability issues according to MGA

J. Webster

ECA Review

Morrin council motioned to sign an

interim agreement with Starland

County to have a certified water operator

look after the village water plant

until the village had time to fill the

position left open when Glen Riep of

Pier Enterprises resigned at the end of

May.

Village of Morrin had made the

written request at the last Starland

council meeting on May 27 which had

been taken into a closed session

deeming it to be a personnel issue.

Alix top cop reports

crime down substantially

in first quarter

Stu Salkeld


ECA Review

Crime in and around the Village of

Alix appears to have dropped somewhat

since the same time last year,

according to numbers presented by the

local RCMP commander June 3 at the

regular meeting of Alix village

council.

Sgt. Bruce Holliday, non-commissioned

officer in charge of the Bashaw

detachment, which includes the Alix

region, appeared before council to discuss

crime over the past 12 months and

some plans for the next 12 months.

He said persons crimes in the

Bashaw detachment area decreased 15

per cent, property crimes decreased 13

per cent and other Criminal Code

offences decreased 15 per cent.

Other types of crime included property

crime break and enters (decreased

14 per cent), theft of motor vehicle

(deceased five per cent), theft under

$5,000 (decreased 29 per cent) and total

Criminal Code offences in the Bashaw

detachment area are down 13 per cent.

Holliday stressed the fact police

always want the public to report crime

or suspicious situations, as the RCMP

can’t investigate something they aren’t

aware of.

He noted that between 2014 and 2019,

there was a 350 per cent increase in

public reports of suspicious vehicles or

persons.

Coun. Barb Gilliat asked whether or

not the COVID-19 pandemic had an

effect on crime rates.

Holliday stated it seems to have had

an effect in that so many people were

at home there was an increase in

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reports of crime.

Mayor Rob Fehr asked how Alix

compares to other communities of

about the same size, for example,

Rimbey.

Holliday stated Alix compares well

as it seems there are more calls out

west than in the Alix area.

Holliday also reported on a few

major investigations recently.

He stated a “significant prolific

offender” was arrested and a new preliminary

hearing set.

Holliday stated more than one

detachment was investigating crimes

they believe are related to this

individual.

Gilliat asked about a spat of overdose

deaths in the Alix area. Holliday

responded that there were three

deaths in a rather short period of time,

and one was revealed to be natural

causes. The two others are still under

investigation.

Holliday stated RCMP see roughly 37

deaths a year and sometimes they

happen in a cluster and sometimes in a

small town people assume they are

related somehow. Holliday stated

deaths are not always related.

Looking ahead, Holliday stated he’s

aiming at a seven per cent crime

reduction over the next 12 months and

boosting the clearance rate to 26 per

cent.

Also, the RCMP commander stated

he’d like to hold two town hall style

meetings for the public to attend and

discuss policing matters. Some ideas

tossed around for meeting topics

included landlord-tenant issues,

mental health and crime prevention

through environmental design.

The agreement is up to 45 days, June

1 to July 15, 2020 for $650 or 30 days or

if needed, $975 for the full 45 days.

In other county business, Chief

Administrative Officer (CAO), Annette

Plachner confirmed when asked by

Mayor Helton if Starland County had

been paid the $127,463 for the generator

and cost overruns at the water plant.

“Yes, I got the receipt today,” said

Plachner.

Unbeknownst to council, they had

learned through an article in the

Drumheller Mail that this invoice was

outstanding and upon investigation

found that Starland had sent the

invoice to the village office on March

11, 2020.

Mayor Helton pointed out in the

meeting that this expenditure had

already been approved in 2019.

Mayor Helton read portions of the

Municipal Affairs Act, Section 248

regarding expenditure of money by

council stating that as they were still

operating on the ‘interim budget’

which is the 2019 budget that was

passed June 2019, no new expenses can

be authorized until such time as those

expenses are included in the approved

2020 budget.

If council authorizes expenditures

outside of this budget, then councillors

are personally liable.

“To my understanding, [of this section

of the MGA]... anything that is in

that [2019 budget], things like wages,

admin costs, that $127,000 for Starland

which was approved in 2019, general

operating things like phone bills, gas

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bills, etc. is okay. Is that correct

Annette?”

“Yes, that’s true,” confirmed CAO

Plachner.

Tree placement

Tree placement was discussed, however

Helton pointed out that council

had already provided direction where

the new trees would be placed.

The Tree Policy established last year

outlined that trees and tree stumps

removed from boulevards would be

replaced with new ones.

Sewer work

Coun. M’Liss Edwards raised issues

by email regarding the status of cameraing

the sewer lines.

She explained saying her understanding

that discussions held would

fall under the 2019 budget allottment

and had thought it was okay to move

forward.

Mayor Helton confirmed that

Howard’s had been cameraed but it

was discovered that the laterals on 2nd

Ave. N. were never replaced when the

main line was done a few years ago.

Council had determined to get all

the quotes for that and Hampton’s

before moving ahead so that the contractor

could come and do it all.

“But not having it in the 2019 budget,

I’ve learned that according to the MGA

Section 248, we cannot do it until we

put it into and pass the 2020 budget or

we would be liable as per Section 275 of

the MGA,” concluded Mayor Helton.


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FORESTBURG COUNCIL

Updated village website

coming to fruition

Terri Huxley

ECA Review

Administration has been working

on a new version of the website for the

Village of Forestburg.

The current website was designed in

2013 by Civic Web and they no longer

deal with websites and has made

things difficult for administration to

make any changes to the design and

format.

The current website is said to be

dated and not compatible with tablets

and cell phones.

The new design will make it easy for

staff to make changes and update the

website as needed and will keep the

cost down as this will all be done in

house.

Assistant administrator Sharon

Duncan gave council an overview of

what the new website would look like

and how it is mobile friendly.

Council unanimously approved publishing

the new website and replace

the existing one.

“[Sharon has] just done it in her

spare time and has done a wonderful

job,” said CAO Moffat.

Before it is finalized, administration

is seeking feedback as to what villagers

want to see made on the website

and what expectations they have for it.

Three-year

plans

Dep. Mayor

Bob Coutts found

the overall 3-year

strategic plan to

be all right but

wanted to touch

on the village’s

mission statement,

finding

that it points out

the strength in

infrastructure

and emergency

services but not

community direction

as much.

“What are we

doing as far as

our plans? The

people part is

what we don’t

have a plan for,”

said Coutts.

“We have all

this great verbiage

but when

we dive deeper

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Council accepted the strategic plan

with a friendly amendment to look at

social aspects and needs in the future

as per the village mission statement.

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Council, after extensive review also

accepted the 3-year capital plan and

3-year operating plan.

The annual operating budget is prepared

by administration with the

assistance of the public works

foreman, and interaction with community

groups who operate village-owned

facilities.

The annual operating budget is a

work in progress for much of the year

with the first draft normally being provided

to Council in October of each

year.

General operating expenses such as

utilities, electricity, insurance, goods

and supplies, and professional fees are

expected to increase by approximately

two per cent each year.

Wages and benefits are expected to

increase by approximately 2.5 per cent

per year and no additional staff will be

hired in future years.

Additions to reserves should be consistent

with the prior year and should

total approximately $140,000 to $150,000

each year.

Additions to reserves for water and

sewer are funded through user fees.

Utility rates are reviewed based on

prior period actuals to ensure that fullcost

recovery of expenses continues.

Natural Gas fees provide approximately

$275,000 in positive revenue for

the village, gas rates are reviewed

annually utilizing actual consumption

to ensure that this profit margin is

maintained.

Council has indicated that budgeting

for an annual increase of two to two

and a half per cent in residential property

taxes rates provides for the ability

to capture inflationary increases.

Special operating projects should be

funded through reserves or grants and

should not cause significant spikes in

anticipated property tax rates.

Land use bylaw adjustment

Mayor Young has requested that the

following property be rezoned from

(M) Industrial to (DC) Direct Control:

Plan 9920067; Block 3; Lot 7 (4310 – 47

Street S).

This request has been made in order

to expedite the potential location of a

thermal treatment plant for the treatment

of non-hazardous waste.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and

the inability to have an effective public

engagement process, it is felt that if

council rezoned the potential site for

the facility, it may

increase the

ability of the village

to obtain this

development.

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this land to DC

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impact on future

development of

the site, even if

the village is not

successful in

obtaining the

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which will be held prior to giving

second and third reading. It will now

go the a public hearing.

Winter camping

The village has been operating the

Municipal Campground since 2018 and

a policy regarding the operation of the

site was drafted and accepted by

council that same year.

The policy did not include winter

camping from November 1 through to

April 30.

During the winter months of

2018/2019 and 2019/2020, campers have

been in the site.

Powered sites will be available

during the winter months and no

water or sewer services will be

available.

Tent sites are all unserviced.

“If I am camping in the winter time,”

asked Coun. Dwayne Giroux, “and I’m

not getting the same services as I am

in the summer time, why would I want

to pay this?”

“Because our electricity costs are

way higher,” replied CAO Moffat.

“In fact you should be paying more

in the winter,” added Coun. Fossen. “I

know what it costs. We need to

increase it in the winter.”

She made a motion to move the current

price for winter camping at $35

per night up to $50 per night which was

carried.

Council suggested the village look at

using e-transfer as they would not

have any credit card service fees

attached.

Swales removal

The village has found the drainage

swales located on 46 Avenue and 51

Street have deteriorated and the intersection

is failing because of water

settling in the area.

A quote from Forestburg Transit

Mix to replace the current swales,

which are both asphalt, with 6 ft. wide

concrete swales came to a total cost of

$10,105.

This number has not been included

in the 2020 budget.

Council chose to proceed as directed

pending an engineering review.

“They know what happened here is

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the opinions of this newspaper.

Federal Government

should deliver $7 billion

to Alberta under Fiscal

Stabilization Fund

EDMONTON, AB, June 8, 2020 –

Today, Fairness Alberta released an

analysis of Canada’s Fiscal

Stabilization Fund and, in light of

Albertans’ $324 billion net contribution

since 2000, called on the Federal

Government to use the original stabilization

formula and increase Alberta’s

2016 and 2017 stabilization payment

from $500 million to $6.996 billion.

Premiers across Canada unanimously

agreed to support a retroactive

2.4 billion payment in December.

Thus far, the Finance Minister has

only said that he is “open-minded”

about considering reforms.

Alberta’s revenues fell by $8 billion

in 2015-16, but it only earned a “stabilization”

payment of $248 million,

covering 3.1 per cent of that loss.

“While delivering on the $2.4B

request would certainly be welcome,”

said Executive Director Dr. Bill

Bewick, “when you consider that

Albertans’ net contribution to the federal

government in 2016 and 2017 was

still over $31 billion, in looking at

recent expert analysis we really think

it would be fair to use the 1967 formula,

which would bring the stabilization

payment up to $7 billion.

Albertans have never shied away

from doing our part to help Canada –

all we are asking for is some

reciprocity as we deal with multiple

blows to our economy.”

In a recent article, economist Trevor

Tombe reviews the various amendments

to the Fiscal Stabilization Fund

over the last 55 years, and sheds new

light on the $60 per capita cap that

means Alberta cannot be eligible for

more than roughly $250 million

regardless of their revenue drop.

He also estimates that under the

original 1967 formula, which excluded

the first 5 per cent of lost revenue,

Alberta would have received a $6.996

billion payment for the profound two

year drop in revenues.

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In 2019, economist Bev Dahlby presented

proposals that would have

garnered Alberta between $5.5 - $8.5

billion in stabilization payments over

the last decade.

Fairness Alberta recently launched

a billboard and online campaign to

make Canadians aware that Albertans

have contributed more than $324 billion

to the rest of Canada since 2000,

playing a very large role in funding the

social, educational, health and infrastructure

programs that make Canada

one of the most livable countries on

earth.

Despite the massive job losses and

ongoing devastation in Alberta’s

energy-fueled economy since 2015, the

steady outflow of dollars has continued:

Albertans contributed an

average of $18.2 billion more per year

to Ottawa than they received from

2015-2018.

For a family of four, that works out

to nearly $18,000 per year during the

downturn. The 20-year cumulative

total is a $318,000 contribution per

Alberta family, and a $42,000 benefit

for families across Canada.

“This is about fairness and support

of a province whose taxes have supported

all parts of Canada for a long

time,” Bewick added.

“This $60 per person cap on stabilization

payments is especially difficult

to comprehend given that our net tax

payments to the rest of the country

have been fluctuating between $3,500

and $7,000 per person over the last five

years.”

The full analysis of the Fiscal

Stabilization Fund can be found in the

Issues section of the Fairness Alberta

website.

For more information on Fairness

Alberta, its mandate and future plans,

please visit our website at www.fairnessalberta.ca.

Fairness Alberta,

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Who is going to pay?

Dear Editor,

Re: May 21 ‘20 Trenholm letter.

So Mr. Trenholm is not a Herman

Schwenk fan? I gathered that from the

dozen negative labels and opinions

expressed.

I think Mr. Schwenk has a point.

“Prime Minister Trudeau pops out

of his rabbit hole to make another

financial announcement” should be

leading every thinking Canadian to

wonder, who is going to pay for all this?

And maybe we should be wondering

if it is a Prime Minister’s job to appear

on national television, almost every

day, for months, when his minority

government is facing an impending

election?

Pat Reiter

Meeting Creek, Alta.

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Right to life, liberty

Dear Editor,

This is an open letter to all

Albertans from an English farm boy

immigrant, now a fifty-year Canadian

citizen!

Having now lived in Alberta,

Canada for 50 years, I can look back

fondly on my journey from the farm in

England, to deciding to move to

Canada for the prospect of a better life

offering more opportunity.

After high school, I spent two years

training to become an agricultural

equipment mechanic, then continued

for a further year to earn my agricultural

engineering diploma.

I then decided to take a year off and

travel around the United States as an

exchange student, which opened my

eyes to the opportunities and standard

of living people enjoyed in North

America.

I returned home and applied to emigrate

to Canada as I felt this offered

me the lifestyle I was seeking.

On being accepted, I decided that

Alberta offered me the best overall

future opportunity based on my skills.

So 50 years later, after 27 years in a

wide range of occupations working in

the farm equipment industry and now

in my twenty-third year as a financial

advisor in Stettler, Alta.

I have some thoughts on what we

Albertans need to do - to prepare for

the next 50 years, as our current status

in the Canadian Confederation is not

working at all well for us!

For far too long, the elites in Quebec

and Ontario have plundered the

resource wealth of the Western provinces,

while offering very little in

return.

The existing equalization formula

designed up to favour Quebec and

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Ontario at our expense, whose politicians

choose to import Saudi or other

countries oil over Alberta’s and continue

to deny pipeline access for our oil

to the east coast refineries.

The billions currently being spent

on imported oil would benefit all

Canadians if used to buy the ethical oil

we produce in the West.

I remember seeing an old cartoon of

Canada illustrating our dilemma,

showing a cow straddling the country,

being fed by Alberta, Saskatchewan

and Manitoba, milked by Quebec and

Ontario and the Maritime provinces

getting the manure!

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Defunding

police services,

CBC?

Dear Editor,

We are living in a chaotic Canada, to

say the least. The Coronavirus has literally

shut down people’s lives and the

economy and now non-stop parades

and protests against our police forces.

The remedy as presented now is that

the police services be defunded with

no plan or possible outcomes.

I would suggest that if defunding

will be a remedy to our cities, provinces

and our country then defunding

the CBC would be in order so honest

unbiased news could perhaps become

an option.

Gayle Smigg

Hanna, Alta.

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Health care system needs an overhaul

Dear Editor; Minister Shandro,

Why is the Alberta Medical

Association (AMA) using patients and

the health of entire communities as

pawns in a chess match that should

never be occurring during a public

health emergency?

I have been pondering this question

and several others for weeks, but to be

honest, I don’t have answers.

There is no doubt that our publiclyfunded

health system is not

sustainable. Everyone knows this.

This global pandemic required our

health care professionals to become

superheroes to combat the virus.

Up to a quarter of my patients are

newly unemployed because of this

pandemic.

My patients don’t deserve to see

their superheroes fighting the government

to get more money.

The public may not be aware of this,

but in medicine, similar to other

industries in Alberta, there are health

services that the larger centers along

the Highway 2 corridor (QE2) get and

then there is the Rest of Alberta

(ROA).

I was born and raised in the ROA

and lived first in Camrose and now in

Drumheller.

I am pissed off that suddenly my

patients and their access to quality

care is being questioned for benefits

outside of the ROA.

Couldn’t

agree more!

Dear Editor,

The letter titled, Amalgamation

should happen, May 28, was published

May 28 2020.

I couldn’t agree more! I thought

amalgamation was a slam dunk.

The ideal outcome should come from

application of the Nash solution.

“The Nash solution or the Nash

equilibrium, his theory attempted to

explain the dynamics of threat and

action between competitors.

Despite its practical limitations, the

Nash solution was widely applied by

business strategists”.

Basically the best results would

come from what is best for all communities

and the county.

My two cents worth!

Glen Chapman,

Nutrien Project Planner

Redwater, Alta.

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Urgent Appeal demanding the right to

say “No” to 5G in our neighbourhoods.

Twenty-four Canadian groups,

including Albertans for Safe

Technology, have banded together to

call for a national moratorium on the

roll out of 5G until questions about its

human health effects are resolved.

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Apparently, the stress on the health

system due to the global pandemic

crisis, coupled with the eroding economic

instability that it is causing,

weren’t enough for the doctors and

government to play nicely in the

sandbox.

The AMA is spending a ton of time

and resources, blaming the government

for everything, without taking

any responsibility whatsoever. Natta.

Nothing. Zero.

Why am I asked on an almost daily

basis to allow my name to be used in

carbon copied letters chastising government,

not about anything related to

COVID-19, but about the fact that I

should be paid more?

Earplugs may be a necessity?

Dear Editor,

Wow, the things this old lady has

learned in the last 10 days or so!

Now, I have been reading the Bible

for about 50 years or more and I just

found out that I have been very ignorant

as to “ Bible carrying” protocol.

Normally I simply pick the wonderful

Book up and proceed from

there. Oh, sometimes I have to turn it

over or flip it from side to side never

once thinking I was doing anything

wrong.

Believe in democracy or you don’t!

Dear Editor,

Is this the policy of your party,

Nathan? [MLA Nathan Cooper, Olds-

Didsbury-Three Hills, and Speaker of

the House].

No discussions. No dialogue with

the public or with debates in the

legislature?

Where were the discussions with

the teachers on cutbacks to public

education?

Where were the discussion with the

teachers when their pension fund was

usurped by the Alberta government?

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But this week I found out from the

many media giants as well as the

Bishop of the Episcopalian Church in

Washington, DC that I just proved

myself a heathen because I may have

inadvertently held the precious book

UPSIDE DOWN.

Perhaps this is the unpardonable sin

the scriptures talk about!!!!

I was amazed that the Right

Reverend Mariann Buddle made sure

we all knew what her “rank” was and

how offended she was the President

Or with usurping the pension funds

of other public servants?

What discussions were held with

doctors on their contracts?

What discussions were held with the

medical profession on cutbacks to

public health care?

What happened to discussions with

the public on the closures of public

parks?

What happened to public discussions

concerning the de-regulations of environmental

regulations in the oil patch?

What discussions with the public on

the sale of crown land to private

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did not get her permission to enter her

church, which of course, it is not.

Not only that but he further offended

her because he carried a Bible upside

down!

It seems position, pride and unkind

words are not just typical of the U.S.

President.

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and no debates. Trump’s MO, in

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OBITUARIES

Cherished tending her garden and farm

Edna May Heidecker

April 4, 1919 – May 27, 2020

It is with heavy hearts to announce

the passing of Edna May Heidecker on

May 27, 2020, at the age of 101 at the

Coronation Health Care

Complex - Extended Care.

Edna was born Apr. 4, 1919, in

Hull, Yorkshire, England to parents

Arthur and Amelia

Langham, where she spent her

early childhood.

She travelled to Canada in

1929 with her parents, celebrating

her 10th birthday on the

Atlantic.

Later, Edna attended school in

the Arkona District and lived on

a farm near Bulwark, Alta.

After several months of courting,

Edna married Max Heidecker from

Federal on Feb. 23, 1952.

Together they farmed in the Federal

area for the next 42 years and raised

three children, Gary, Terry, and

Cheryl.

Edna cherished her garden and farm

and spent many wonderful

summers tending it

with her grandchildren.

Edna was an early

member of the Federal

Friendship Club and a

dedicated volunteer.

In 2005 she was honoured

with an award for

53 years of service with

the club.

Over the years and

when time allowed, she

and Max travelled with

family and friends throughout Canada,

the US and Europe.

Heidecker

Positive attitude

and love of family

Jennette Eileen Bonnaure

(Pitkeathley)

May 22, 1948 ~ May 24, 2020

Jennette Eileen (Pitkeathley)

Bonnaure was born in Vancouver, B.C.

on May 22, 1948.

Her growing up years was in

Saskatchewan; and she moved to

Calgary when she completed

school.

There she met Maurice,

the love of her life and they

were married on May 16,

1970 and soon moved to

Castor where they lived for

over 40 years.

A golden heart stopped

beating and hard-working

hands put to rest. Jennette

Bonnaure

loved life with a passion.

She will be remembered

for her positive attitude and her love

for her family and friends.

She didn’t think of herself, she

always put other people first.

She never quit on anything and if

you needed a hand, she was there.

Jennette is in Heaven taking deep

breaths and helping someone.

If you did not know her then you

were missing someone special.

She made beautiful floral arrangements

in the flower shop for 18 years

and enjoyed all the people who came

in.

She had three favourite sayings:

How Goes It, Goodo and Oh Fluff.

Jennette is survived by her husband

Maurice; sons: Ted (Camille)

and Anthony; sister Pat

(Charlie) Lynch and many

nieces, nephews, and special

friends.

Jeanette is predeceased by

her parents Edward and Nora;

brothers Bert and Terrance.

Funeral services for Jennette

will be announced.

Should friends desire memorial

contributions may be made

in Jennette’s memory to the

Alberta Lung Association.

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Bonnaure families by visiting www.

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Political campaign attacks

Cont’d from Pg 7

I wasn’t at the negotiating table, and

I don’t know the details of what

occurred, but I’m sure there are likely

many reasons why the AMA couldn’t

reach an agreement with government,

with faults on both sides.

Rather than acknowledge their missteps,

the AMA has spent an exorbitant

amount of resources – including my

physician dues - on a political campaign

attacking the government,

without explaining where they themselves

went wrong, what they exactly

offered, and how they expected to fit

within Alberta’s economic reality.

I am a proud Albertan, proud to be a

rural physician and I love the work

that I do.

I was told by the medical establishment,

I had to either get out of town, or

stick with the status quo that since

1976 lacked continuity, lacked access,

and was bereft of ideas that could vault

rural medical care past the confines of

the 1960s.

I proved in 2017 that I would never

abandon my patients, or use them as

pawns.

As a physician, I did and continue to

do my part to help contain spending,

while significantly enhancing the satisfaction

and care of the health of my

community through a Patient’s

Medical Home model, recognized provincially

and nationally.

This pandemic has taught us one

thing – things need to change.

I do not believe in the status quo

because there will always be improved

technologies, better processes, and

smarter people making everything

that is good, great, and everything that

is great, extraordinary.

Minister, you have the opportunity

right now to put into place an Alberta

health advantage that other provinces

will use as a model for their own

jurisdictions.

Our publicly financed and administered

health care system must remain,

but it needs an overhaul, and we can’t

wait years for that to happen.

Rithesh Ram BSc. (Electrical

Engineering), MD, PhD (Epidemiology),

CCFP (Rural Generalist Medicine

specialist)

President, Physician & Founder

Riverside Medical

180 Riverside Drive E, Box 1990

Drumheller, Alta.

In 1994, Max and Edna retired and

moved into Coronation where Edna

enjoyed playing cards with family and

friends, knitting and baking.

In 2016, Edna moved with Max to

the Extended Care Facility at the

Coronation Health Care Complex.

Max passed away on Nov. 29, 2018, at

the age of 96 marking an incredible 66

years of marriage.

Edna will always be remembered by

her family and friends for her loving

nature, strength of character, friendship,

and hospitality.

Funeral services for the late Mrs.

Edna May Heidecker were held on

Thurs., June 4, 2020 at 2 p.m. with Rev.

Alwin Maben officiating.

The interment followed in the

Haneyville Cemetery beside her

loving husband Max.

Memorial contributions in Edna’s

memory may be made to the

Haneyville Cemetery in c/o Jay

Heidecker.

Should friends desire condolences

may be left for the family by visiting

www.parkviewfuneralchapels.com.

Parkview Funeral Chapels were

entrusted with the care and funeral

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please contact 403-578-3777.

Card of Thanks

The family of Edna Heidecker would

like to sincerely thank the physicians,

nurses and support staff in Long Term

Care at the Coronation Health Care

Complex for their compassionate care

during Mom’s stay.

We would also like to thank all our

family and friends for your love and

support during this difficult time,

including your cards, flowers, phone

calls and messages of condolences.

How fortunate our parents were to

reside in such a wonderful and giving

community.

Sincerely,

Gary Heidecker, Terry Heidecker,

Cheryl Deagle, and Families

Remembered for her

love of animals

Wanda Leila Etson (Buck/Nelson)

March 13, 1961 - May 29,2020

Wanda Leila Etson was born March

13, 1961 in Provost, Alta. to Frank and

Leila Etson, the fifth and baby of the

family.

She was raised in and attended

school in Chauvin, Alta.

Wanda married Wayne Buck and

together had a daughter Leslie Ann.

Wanda and Leslie moved to Big Valley

where Wanda would become

manager of the Lucky Dollar

Grocery Store.

Many residents appreciated

“Wicked Wanda” in the

store.

She revelled in the notoriety

of the name and

although she used ‘colourful

language’ she was a very efficient,

thoughtful and terrific

store manager. During this Nelson

time, Wanda met Jack

Nelson.

Jack’s job would move the couple to

Consort, Alta. where Jon (1992) and

Ethan (1994) were born.

Family ties and illness would bring

the family back to Big Valley and then

Erskine.

When Wanda’s Multiple Sclerosis

progressed, she moved into Heritage

House in Stettler where she remained

until her death.

Wanda fought many battles.

She will be remembered for her love

of animals, especially dogs and horses.

Wanda was an accomplished rider.

When she was still able, she enjoyed

horseback riding and the outdoors.

Wanda loved Leslie, Jon and Ethan

and was always so happy to see them

and especially appreciated the visits

from her two grandchildren, Will and

Mya.

Wanda is survived by her daughter

Leslie (Steven) Pinder; sons Jon (Abby)

Nelson and Ethan (Kayla and girls)

Nelson; and grandchildren Will and

Mya.

She also leaves her sisters: Ann (Art)

Tizzard, Donna MacLean; and

brothers: Ray (Elaine) Etson and

Barry (Barb) Etson; and numerous

nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by both her

parents Frank and Leila Etson.

Memorial donations may be made to

Helping Hands or to Multiple Sclerosis.

Condolences may be sent to the

family at www.stettlerfuneralhome.

com.

Stettler Funeral Home &

Crematorium entrusted with the care

and funeral arrangements

403-742-3422.

Card of Thanks

The family would like to thank the

many people in both Big Valley and

Stettler that continued to visit Wanda

regularly and ask about her.

Special thanks to Janet

Campbell from Helping

Hands for her twice-weekly

visits and her friendship, that

Wanda so enjoyed.

Also thank you to Wanda’s

sister Ann Tizzard for her

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for always going above and

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the kids.

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Kneehill County adopts rules for movie, TV filming

Stu Salkeld


ECA Review

Setting out the ground rules for television

and movie companies was one of

several items of business conducted by

Kneehill County council during their

regular meeting May 25.

Manager of Planning and

Development Barb Hazelton presented

councillors with a report on how the

municipality handles TV and movie

filming requests.

“Kneehill County recognizes the

importance of the film and television

production industry to our area’s economic

strength,” stated Hazelton’s

report to council.

Hazelton explained that no policy

existed to handle TV and movie

filming, and such projects were being

handled on a case by case basis.

“Currently we are dealing with each

of these on their own merit, but have

no policy in place to ensure consistency

in how we deal with these

opportunities.

As you are aware, some of these projects

can be quite large, and may

require staff involvement outside of

their normal day-to-day duties.”

Councillors unanimously approved

the new policy.

Special events bylaw

Hazelton also presented councillors

with a revised bylaw on special events.

“These existing bylaws are not sufficient

in meeting the requirements for

current public events.

“This bylaw refers to any event or

function which is held at a public place

in the county and to which members of

the general public are invited or

admitted for a fee or free of charge, but

does not include a private gathering or

event to which members of the public

are not invited or admitted.

“An approved application will be

required for these events, and will provide

a process for ensuring large

public events can be held in a responsible,

safe manner.”

Councillors passed all readings to

bring the bylaw into force.

Dirt trails

Director of Transportation Brad

Buchert presented councillors with a

proposed policy, Maintenance of Dirt

Trail Road Allowances, which they

passed.

“The current Dirt Trail policy

Say ‘no’ to 5G in

our neighbourhoods

Cont’d from Pg 7

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The Appeal can be read at www.c4st.

org/5Gappeal.

Individuals are invited to ensure

their concerns are heard by signing

the Appeal at www.appel5gappeal.ca.

Everyone wants faster access to the

internet, and recent events have

shown us how important dependable,

high-speed internet is.

Yet many parts of Alberta do not

have it.

The telecoms are promising a brand

new, untested wireless technology, 5G,

and are laying the groundwork for the

grid in the larger centres.

As scientists and experts from

around the world warn about associated

risks to both health and privacy,

people are becoming concerned, and

rightly so.

Better options to another wireless

network are available.

One is a fibre optic cable network

that goes into the home and connects

via cable to provide internet access.

Fibre optic cable provides far faster

service (up to 20 times faster), can

handle more data, does not emit radiation

and is far more protective of

personal information.

In addition wired internet uses far

less energy than does wireless.

Olds, Alberta is a community that

has a community-owned fibre network

already! (https://community-broadband.ca/olds)

Meanwhile, concerns raised by individuals

are going unheard by industry

and the government agencies responsible

for protecting us, and 5G

continues being rolled out.

The health and security of our families

and theirs are being put at risk.

With federal funding available for

rural broadband, community-owned

fibre to the premises is looking like a

great opportunity for communities for

safer, faster, and more cyber-secure

internet networks, without the health

and environmental concerns.

Lori Curran,

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Co-Founder, Albertans For

Safe Technology

procedures did not reflect any issues

from an environmental assessment

which could exceed the allowed dollar

amount,” stated Buchert’s report to

council.

“There is limited room to work

along dirt trails as a majority of the

road allowance is cropped, thus limiting

the time frame to work in early

spring or late fall.”

Buchert noted the proposed policy

reflected environmental issues and

the costs associated with them. He

noted the county was looking at three

dirt trail upgrades this year.

An advisory group helped develop

this policy, consisting of councillors,

staff and ratepayers.

Councillors unanimously approved

the policy.

Gravel specifications

Councillors approved changes to the

Gravel Specifications policy.

Buchert provided councillors with a

report on the

subject.

“The new

amendments proposed

would

allow the county

to use a modified

road crush gravel

eliminating a percentage

of fines to

better suit our

needs,” stated

Buchert.

“The result of

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PAINTEARTH COUNTY

Rural Municipalities

Association reps make

virtual visit to meeting

Terri Huxley

ECA Review

The first two readings were carried

in February.

Al Kemmere, Rural Municipalities

Association (RMA) president as well as

District 2 Director Paul McLaughlin

and Executive Director Gerold Rhodes

of RMA were in attendance at the regular

council meeting June 3 to give

updates and spark conversation on hot

button issues on a local, provincial and

federal level.

Overall, changes to the Municipal

Government Act (MGA) has allowed

municipalities the opportunity to utilize

technology to conduct meetings

since the pandemic hit which are still

in place.

Time extensions for the

Intermunicipal Collaboration

Framework (ICF) and Intermunicipal

Development Plan (IDP) have been

allotted as well, pushing the due dates

back a year so all IDP’s and ICFs shall

be done by April 1, 2021.

Questions have been swirling

around stimulus funding from the

province. They have asked for any

shovel ready projects to kick-start the

economy but beyond that, the RMA is

unsure of details.

“At this point, we have not seen anything

with foundation to it,” said

Kemmere. “Our definition of imminent

and theirs is not quite the same.”

They have advocated that whatever

the stimulus looks like it should be

given to every county and should be

used under already established structures

like grants of Municipal

Sustainability Initiative (MSI)

funding.

Rhodes added that the phased-in

business operation openings are successful

so far and he anticipates an

earlier opening date for more than the

initial businesses posted in Phase 2 as

Alberta has successfully narrowed the

curve of coronavirus cases.

“There might be more included in it

than originally thought,” said Rhodes.

RMA is planning for fall convention

to allow one on one communication but

is contingent on government regulations

and guidances.

The presenters asked Reeve Stan

Schulmeister if there were any

burning questions or concerns he

wanted to be raised.

He asked about the newly implemented

gun ban set by the federal

government to which they said they

have not had a recent discussion on it

as they are yet to meet soon.

“It painted all gun owners the same

way,” said Reeve Schulmeister. “They

turned law-abiding gun owners into

criminals. Not that we should agree

that everyone should be packing heat

but we should have clarity brought to

Ottawa that it went too far in the way

they portray gun owners.”

This visit with RMA is done on a

regular rotation every three years

face-to-face to keep in touch with each

rural municipality that is a part of the

association.

With COVID-19 still causing restrictions,

the presentation was done via

Zoom during Council’s regular

meeting on Tues. June 2.

Schedule fees bylaw

Council passed the third and final

reading for the fee schedule bylaw

which allows the county to charge fees

for services like administrative work

involving certificates and copies as

well as public works.

Tax penalties are also set within this

bylaw.

In-camera matter

Council entered into a non-public

meeting from 3:41 p.m. to 4:57 p.m.

citing the FOIP Act as the reason for

the closed session.

No motions were made at this time.

Public input summary

A public input summary report was

given to council for review following

the County’s public engagement sessions

on the Municipal Development

Plan (MDP) and Land Use Bylaw back

in January and February.

Chief Administrative Officer (CAO)

Michael Simpson said that plenty of

members from community groups

gave staff lots of data to work.

After the sessions were complete,

administration was tasked with categorizing

and preparing in a

presentation format for public review

before a future second round will take

place with more direct questions and a

voting component added.

These consultations were originally

going to be held in July and August but

with COVID-19 disrupting summer

plans, this has been pushed farther

into the year or even as late as next

year depending on provincial

guidelines.

Council approved the summary,

asking only for minor changes to

ensure people who read understand

that this is simply a regurgitation of

what was said at the meetings with

little county response.

“It’s not a county position paper at

all. Just pure data capture,” said Todd

Pawsey, a member of the County of

Paintearth Public Engagement Team.

“We heard a lot of statements across

a plethora of topics from highly possible

to that is totally illegal topics

discussed,” he said.

CAO Simpson agreed, saying that

they “Captured everything, every

sticky, every comment in the policy.”

The booklet, which is available for

public review, summarizes some

themes seen throughout with graphs

and other diagrams for easier understanding

with the remaining pages for

pure verbatim of what people noted at

the meetings.

The meetings have “never been tried

in the County before”.

Round One featured community

engagement and feedback sessions at

Brownfield on Jan. 3, Coronation on

Jan. 14, Halkirk on Jan. 15 and

wrapped up in Castor on Jan. 16.

Approximately 150 members of the

public attended over the course of the

four evenings, as well as facilitation

staff and planning professionals to be

able to answer questions on the subject

matter and help elicit discussions.

Following a supper, participants

undertook extensive work completing

workbooks filled with policy review

from the existing MDP and completed

the evening with poster stations of various

Land Use Bylaw topics and

proposed amendments.

A survey on landowner values

relating to various types of developments

was also placed before

participants.

The format of the workshops was a

series of roundtable discussions with

participants in groups across various

tables each evening.

A facilitated presentation was delivered

throughout to discuss the

material in the workbooks.

BACK IN TIME


Spanish flu took its toll on one

east-central Alberta community

by Lorena Franchuk, Rural Health

Professions Action Plan (RhPAP)

The pastoral prairie around

Alliance, Alta. was quiet long before

COVID-19 required citizens to social

distance.

This scenic village, situated near the

Battle River, is well over an hour from

larger urban centres, an

isolated location that has

helped it weather the

COVID-19 storm.

Indeed, Alliance, and

surrounding Flagstaff

County, have been

incredibly successful at

keeping the curve not

just flat, but non-existent,

having registered

no cases of the coronavirus

thus far during the

outbreak.

While the community’s

relative remoteness

from larger centres has

helped to keep COVID

away, Alliance’s location

wasn’t enough to protect

it from a similar outbreak

a century

ago—one which proved

far deadlier.

As the First World War

wound down in Europe

during the fall of 1918, the

Spanish flu arrived in

Canada with returning

troops and spread quickly,

afflicting communities

across Canada.

“It spread across

Canada very quickly,

because there was a troop

train … loaded up in

eastern Canada, going

across the country [carrying]

soldiers [who] started getting

sick,” said Suzanna Wagner, a history

Master’s student, who researched the

Spanish flu and its impact on

Edmonton’s University of Alberta,

where severe cases were treated.

“Obviously, [the soldiers] were

infected when they got on the train,

and as the train went across Canada,

it would stop, and the sick soldiers

were sent to local military hospitals,”

she said.

The virus crossed

the nation in just

one week in October

1918, at a time when

Nurses and teachers working as volunteers during the Spanish flu

pandemic at an isolation hospital in Lloydminster, Alberta (2.5 hours east

of Edmonton) in 1918. Photo supplied by Glenbow Archives.

Phyllis Alcorn, local resident and author of In the Bend of the Battle,

a history book on life in the area, visits the cemetery overlooking the

village of Alliance which was established in 1918 to bury locals who

died from the Spanish flu. Photo courtesy of Lorena Franchuk

spitting in public was socially acceptable

and handkerchiefs a

quintessential accessory–not necessarily

cleaned very often– making it

relatively easy to transmit the respiratory

disease, Wagner said.

The flu quickly left behind its mark

as railway workers and soldiers interacted

with locals along the way.

Alliance was no exception.

There are no records on how the flu

arrived in the agricultural community

but the village of 200 residents at the

time (home to about 160 people today)

was hit hard, according to Phyllis

Alcorn, a lifelong area resident, and

author of ‘In the Bend of the Battle’, a

history book depicting life near the

Battle River.

The Alliance School was quickly

converted to a hospital, with beds and

bedding donated by the local hotel

owner.

“The town [was] kind of closed off

and, if you needed groceries … or staples

from town, you came to the edge

[of town] and someone met you

there,” said Alcorn,

noting it was similar

to

curb-side pickup from stores and restaurants

today.

Dr. Russel Boyle, the village’s doctor,

caught the deadly flu shortly after the

pandemic began and succumbed

quickly on November 18, 1918.

“[The Alliance area] had no cemetery,

but they quickly made one … in

the fall and the first one

[buried] was a baby … he

was three months old,” said

Alcorn. Two additional

area residents died around

the same time.

“[The pandemic] was five

times deadlier than the

war,” the news reported at

the time.

An estimated 50 million

people died across the

world in the 1918-1919 pandemic,

with more than

one-third of the world’s

population infected,

according to the Centers for

Disease Control and

Prevention.

By late December 1918,

the virus appeared to peter

out in Alliance.

That was until the local

Argyle Women’s Institute

held a bazaar at the rurally

located Argyle School three

months later.

“It was a big deal,” said

Alcorn. “The community

people all turned out and

somebody had come in on

the train and attended.

That’s how [the flu]

spread to everybody. Within

the next few days, it was in

every household.”

Local residents volunteered

to nurse the sick,

mind children, prepare meals, and do

endless chores when they heard of any

households infected; however, sometimes,

word didn’t get out in time as

telephones weren’t widely available in

the country just yet, said Wagner.

“You had to stoke your fireplace or

you would freeze,” she added, noting

running water wasn’t always

available.

“There are stories about people who

would walk miles to check on people

and their animals … but you were a lot

more alone, you were a lot more in

danger [back then].”

Alliance’s one-room school became

a full hospital again with as many as

40 patients being treated during the

1919 spring outbreak.

Others convalesced in people’s

homes or on their own.

Rural communities like Alliance

were hit particularly hard as

access to transportation, communication,

water and

supplies, and a

shortage of

doctors and nurses were issues.

“The impact on rural communities,

particularly in the north, was truly

devastating,” said Trudy Cowan,

author of the children’s book

QUARANTINE: Keep Out! based on

the early 20th-Century influenza.

“There were reports of whole …

communities dying … with no one left

to bury them … There were few or no

medical personnel. Even if a community

had a doctor, there was little that

an overworked and minimally

informed person could do.”

People, aged 25 to 45 years, were generally

most susceptible.

“There is a theory that the stronger

immune systems of young, healthy

people basically reacted so strongly to

the virus that their own immune systems

killed them,” said Wagner.

“This is happening right on the

heels of the war, so as if the war hadn’t

killed enough men of that age, the flu

was going to kill more.”

Twenty-eight people died from the

deadly virus in the Alliance area. Only

two residents from the town proper

died during the whole pandemic—Dr.

Russel Boyle and postmaster, Mr. Art

Smith. The remaining 26 who died

resided in the country, said Alcorn.

About 25 families initially contracted

the Spanish flu in the spring of

1919.

The family of Alfred Smith lost six of

its 10 members, including children

from three to 20 years of age in just a

few days, as well as the 46-year-old

mother, Carrie.

Her husband and remaining three

children recovered.

“They had a very small home, and I

think it was very crowded,” Alcorn

said. “[One] of the rules in those days

… was to put [the sick] in a different

room, but, in some of these rural

houses, there wasn’t another room.”

One month after the spring outbreak,

the community held a memorial

service for those who died from the

Spanish flu, back at the school where

the second wave began.

Six Smith family headstones lay side

by side in the hilltop cemetery—overlooking

the village that’s tucked into a

bend in the Battle River. They continue

to be a tragic reminder of the pandemic’s

devastation more than a century

ago.

Today, social distancing is practised

in the Alliance area when friends meet

for coffee on patios and in driveways.

Prior to the provincial Phase 1

opening in mid-May, only the bank,

hardware store, grocery store, and restaurant

(takeout only) were open.

Alcorn doesn’t wear a face mask

herself, but does respect social distancing

and limits trips from her farm

northwest of Alliance.

Wagner chuckles when she hears

people say that “COVID is

unprecedented.

“I say, ‘No, it’s really not. The similarity

is quite eery.’”

Six graves lie side by side

in the corner of the Alliance

Cemetery where mother

Carrie Smith, and her children,

Mabel, Harry, Burt, Basil and

Alice were buried during a

second wave of the Spanish flu

in the spring of 1919.

Photo supplied by

Lorena Franchuk

AGRICULTURE


Hanna District 4-H Sale 2020

Nothing has changed

Cont’d from Pg 7

I am just a bit upset about how thousands

of protestors are allowed to

gather, do their share of yelling, jostling

and so on due to the murder of

one man in Minnesota.

Yet in Canada, funerals could not be

held, weddings had to be set aside,

graduations became “virtual” rather

than the real McCoy.

Sons and daughters of the elderly

were not allowed to visit or even see

their parents who were suffering from

tremendous distress, being forced to

stay in a room by themselves which in

some cases contributed to their

passing away.

Why didn’t we think of just calling

these events “protests”?

Third lesson learned is when one

threat does not work lets add another

and another and another!

Submitted

Springtime in Alberta is traditionally

filled with live project

4-H Show and Sale Achievement

Days.

This year, like every live

project 4-H club in Canada, the

Hanna 4-H District will not be

having a show; but we will definitely

be having a sale.

Thirty-three prime examples

of choice 4-H beef on the hoof

will be offered to the public for

purchase on June 13.

The steers will be weighed in

at the Bow Slope Auction Mart

in Brooks in the afternoon, and

an on-line DLMS live auction

Cont’d from Pg 6

Sadly over time, nothing has

changed, and in my humble opinion,

things are only going to get worse with

the current tax and spend Liberals

holding power in Ottawa!

Their reckless approach to dealing

with the current COVID19 pandemic

and endless pandering to the Chinese

Communist Dictatorship, the corrupt

UN and the World Health Organization

- has put us all at risk and is alienating

our international allies in the process!

Plus, adding to their mishandling all

of the above issues, they now want to

disarm all our honest legal gun

owners, which begs the question –

what are they planning to do to all us

citizens once disarmed?

Plus, to have the audacity to increase

carbon tax when Canadians are

reeling through the COVID-19 begs

one to question their sanity?

How any sane voter can think a

failed snowboard instructor and fired

drama teacher has the slightest of

qualifications to lead our great

country is beyond me, just because his

last name is Trudeau?

I left England to get away from all

socialist and liberal philosophies, from

the entry of Great Britain into the

European Common Market, which I

saw as the abdication of British sovereignty

to unelected officials in

Brussels.

Unfortunately, I’ve since been

proven right with the Brexit movement

underway there, with the sad realization

– that what I left to get away from

in Great Britain is, unfortunately, now

festering here in Canada.

Our corrupt Prime Minister aided

by his fawning Liberal Ministers, has

bought and paid for Media, the complicit

NDP, Green and the Block MP’s,

and advisors like Gerald Butts and

Katie Telford are rapidly taking us

down the path to a dictatorship.

No surprise considering our Prime

Ministers’ love affair with the Chinese

Communist Peoples Party dictatorship

and the millions that have been

donated by wealthy Chinese businessmen

to the Trudeau Foundation.

Worse yet, he’s allowing Chinese

companies to take over and plunder

our resource wealth and maybe even

build our 5G network!

Plus, stacking the Liberal voter base

in Ontario, Quebec and other significant

centres with hordes of legal and

illegal immigrants from third world

countries, all influenced to vote

Liberal in our elections!

Then, on top of all this, his hastily

put together ban on guns after the

killing spree in Nova Scotia, that

should ring alarm bells with all

Canadians? Which has me wondering

what the government’s ulterior motive

is for doing this?

His daily appearance to shovel out

ever-increasing millions of dollars to

anyone and everyone, giving nonanswers

to scripted friendly media

questions, turns my stomach.

Also, begs the question - as these

handouts are rapidly approaching a

trillion dollars of borrowed money, is

how long it will take to pay this horrendous

debt back, and to whom do we

owe it?

People wake up to the scam here,

bribed with future tax dollars that the

government will have no choice to

increase, once we’re through this

crisis to enable future governments to

pay for all this!

We either all take a stand to return

to being a sovereign, democratic

nation, to purge our schools, colleges

and universities of all the fanatic leftist

leaning academics - busily brainwashing

our children to be good little

Marxists!

Or, be on the Liberals, NDP and

Greens fast track to a one-world government,

to be digitally chipped,

forced vaccinated and to use a global

digital currency by corrupt UN and

Global Elites as laid out in their

“Transforming our World” - their 2030

Agenda for Sustainable Development.

I would instead suggest we emulate

the basic tenants of that immortal

phrase in the USA constitution - that

we have the right to “Life, Liberty and

Subjected to unending

fear mongering

The citizens of Canada as well as

many other places in the world have

been subjected to unending fear mongering

since the beginning of 2020.

Just as the light finally begins to

shine and maybe our lives could

return to normal, along comes another

“the sky is falling” disaster.

Once again the demon of racial prejudice

and bias has completely taken

over and we now must march in lock

step to that tune!

What will be next, oh, yes the U.S.

election. Surely that will provide all

the nasty, bias, junk to enable all those

who love to throw monkey wrenches

into our lives to have a great summer

and fall.

Rather than face masks maybe we

should start buying ear plugs!!!

Faye Pearson,

Stettler. Alta

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The following briefly described property is hereby offered for sale by tender, subject to the

reservations and exceptions contained in the existing certificate of title:

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FEATURES of this property:

• 180.62 acres+/- pasture, native grass and fenced. Pasture is rented for the 2020

• grazing year.

• 1000 sq ft +/- cedar home built in 1979 with basement and carport. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms,

office, with beautiful rock-wood burning fireplace. Some upgrading done to interior of home and

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• New septic system installed spring 2018.

• 1981 - 32 x 48 framed barn with concrete foundation, fully finished interior with box

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• 1981 - 32 x 48 framed shop with concrete foundation.

• $1200/year power pole surface lease income.

• Property is located in a beautiful valley located approximately 7 miles SW of Hardisty, AB with

a creek running through the property and boasting a spectacular view. Located just over 1 mile

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The sale of the land is to the terms and conditions hereinafter mentioned:

• Property and any contents are sold on a strictly “as is where is” basis, and the owners make no

warranties or representations about the size, measurement, condition or environmental status of

the property.

• Buyer is responsible for all costs associated with registration of Transfer of Land and any Mortgages

placed by buyers.

• Tender price does not include G.S.T. and the Tenderer will provide valid G.S.T. Registration Number

or pay G.S.T.

• The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. The seller may reject any and all

tenders.

• If the successful tenderer does not complete the purchase after acceptance of that tender, their

deposit shall be absolutely forfeited.

• Tenders in writing will be received by the lawyer noted below up to but not after 12:00 o’clock noon

on June 26, 2020. Tenders should be forwarded to Andreassen Borth Law Office, Killam, Alberta

in a sealed envelope marked “Link Tender.” A certified cheque or bank draft payable to Andreassen

Borth equal to 5% of the purchase price must accompany the tender bid.

• The balance of the purchase price to be paid by solicitor’s trust cheque or certified funds on or

before July 31, 2020 (“Possession Date”). No adjustment for 2020 power pole payment. 2020

property taxes will be adjusted on the possession date.

• Mineral rights, if any, are not included in the sale.

For further particulars or to arrange viewing please contact Lana at 780-386-3812.

Andreassen Borth

Barristers & Solicitors

5014 50 Street, P.O. Box 727, Killam, AB T0B 2L0

780-385-3670

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