ECA Review - 2024-04-18

10 A pril 18'24 HANNA/CORONATION/STETTLER, AB. ECA REVIEW
REAL ESTATE/HOMES
HANNA COUNCIL
Surplus chairs donation to Legion
Stu Salkeld
Local Journalism Initiative reporter
ECA Review
Hanna town council passed a resolution
to donate surplus community
centre chairs to the local Royal
Canadian Legion as a neighbourly
gesture. The resolution was passed at
the April 9 regular meeting of
council.
Councillors read a report presented
by Town Chief Administrative
Officer (CAO) Kim Neill who noted a
few hundred chairs in use at the community
centre had outlived their
usefulness, at least to the Town of
Hanna.
“As part of the 2024 approved Town
of Hanna capital budget there was
$12,000 allocated for the purchase of
new vinyl chairs to replace the fabric
chairs which were stained and only
used for events requiring more than
300 chairs,” stated the CAO’s report
to council.
“Fabric chairs are not well-suited
for banquet events as they can get
dirty and stained and it is a labourintensive
challenge to keep them
clean and presentable.
“One hundred twenty new vinyl
Three kinds of lies: Lies,
Damned Lies and Statistics
by Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
The above title, attributed to Mark
Twain, pretty much sums up the
manner in which citizens of the world
are being mislead by politicians and
academics. The current situation with
regard to climate change and the
global warming mantra is horrible
because of how badly, even maliciously
we are being mislead.
If you take nothing else from this
column, please watch Climate, the
movie. I can’t verify if every claim
made in the one hour and 20 minutes is
correct, but there certainly is enough
information to seriously question what
is being passed off on an unsuspecting
public as science.
Here’s the link:
https://www.smalldeadanimals.
com/2024/03/31/climate-the-movie-2/
The gist of the movie is that we are
being lied to and at best it is innocently
but I suspect it is
being carried out
“
with malice. It
will take some
concentration to
view the movie
but you owe it to
yourself to
examine what
the green movement
is ramming
down our
throats.
Perhaps most
telling is the last
few minutes
where Kenyan
farmers clearly
speak to how
they need fossil
fuels, internal combustion engines and
First World technology so they can
feed themselves and neighbouring
countries.
In Manitoba, it appears that the relatively
new NDP government may be
seeing the light on the carbon tax.
Most clear-headed Manitobans realize
that if any province in Canada already
has a green economy, it’s Manitoba.
Our energy comes from Hydro (which
comes mostly from water driven turbines),
natural gas and some solar
energy.
Manitoba doesn’t need a carbon tax.
Yes, we have lots of gas and diesel powered
vehicles, but how else are we
going to travel and move goods in
Manitoba’s climate? In addition,
Manitoba stores unknown tonnes of
carbon by way of minimum tillage
farming and vast forests.
Electric vehicles will likely take over
some day, but they just don’t cut it in
many applications. And I personally
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Why would
Canada… strangle
our economy and
food production
when “we” aren’t
the problem?
resent paying taxes to subsidize the
few people who are buying electric
vehicles. There’s a federal subsidy of
up to $5,000 and Manitoba is proposing
a provincial subsidy. It’s simply not fair
to people who can’t use an electric
vehicle.
Carbon taxes are a hoax, a scam in a
few different ways. The carbon tax was
supposed to raise costs so as to deter
people from using as much fuel and
that was supposed to reduce emissions.
Well, if higher costs were supposed
to work, then the fuel price spikes we
saw in the past two years should have
answered that question and made the
tax unnecessary. Carbon taxes only
purpose are to bloat government
coffers.
Think about it. Either governments
are gaining funds and bloating bureaucracy
or if the funds are all, or mostly,
being rebated, then the rebate process
results in even higher numbers of
bureaucrats.
Politicians have
swallowed a
lie, perhaps of
their own making,
that people have
to be controlled,
told what to do,
what to eat, told
where to go and
how to look after
themselves. After
all, the people are
pretty stupid you
know!
I don’t think I
have seen a time
in my life when
governments have
such a record of
getting things wrong. Over the decades
there have been some dandy screw-ups
but current governments’ insistence
on trying to change the climate takes
the prize.
I have long said, and firmly believe
that the climate is changing but not
anywhere near to the extent that governments
claim. Our climate has been
much warmer than it is now and it has
been much colder. And, even if manmade
activities are affecting climate
change, why would Canada, or
Manitoba, strangle our economy and
food production when “we” aren’t the
problem?
Listen people, get your nose out of
your cell phones, out of the cat videos,
the dinner pics and get into the real
issues of the day. Governments and
many other institutions want us to
stay dumb. We are much easier to control
when we are willfully dumb.
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chairs have been purchased and
delivered and the fabric chairs are
now surplus.
“Administration reached out to
Hanna Legion representatives to see if
they had any interest in the chairs
and they have responded with an offer
to purchase the chairs for a price of
$10/chair.”
During discussion Neill confirmed
the new chairs have arrived and it’s
time to make a decision about the old
ones.
The CAO noted when the Town of
Hanna contacted Royal Canadian
Legion #25 Hanna, the non-profit
organization voiced interest in the
fabric chairs and countered with a
cash offer per chair.
Councillors were presented with a
letter from Legion executives John
Akkermans and Don Brinton.
“These (chairs) would be a fine addition
to our Legion as we have many
odd chairs in disrepair,” stated the
letter, date stamped March 21.
The CAO stated councillors had several
options open to them with this
item. Of course, they could accept the
Legion’s offer of $10 per chair for the
entire 210 chair lot.
The second option was simply to
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donate the chairs to the Legion, a wellknown
organization which is involved
with a number of well-attended
annual events such as the
Remembrance Day ceremony.
Neill noted the councillors could
instead choose to offer the chairs for
sale in a closed bid process.
“Administration does not know
what these chairs would be worth on
the open market,” stated Neill’s report.
Lastly, the CAO noted councillors
could elect to keep all the old fabric
chairs in storage in case they are ever
needed again.
As councillors discussed the options
open to them, Coun. Sandra Beaudoin
moved that the Town of Hanna donate
all of the surplus fabric chairs to the
local Legion free of charge. She stated
the Legion is a non-profit society
which provides services to the community
and donating the chairs would
be a neighbourly gesture.
Other councillors agreed donating
the chairs to the Legion was the best
idea, although it was mentioned the
Legion was willing to pay cash for
them.
The motion to donate all of the surplus
fabric chairs to Royal Canadian
Legion #25 Hanna was carried.
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