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Facing off with the mayor
Truck, tires stolen
in Stephenville
Police in Stephenville are investigating a theft from a property in
the community where a truck was
amongst the items taken.
According to Bay St. George
RCMP, the incident happened on
Jan. 19. Items were taken from a
number of motor vehicles, and
tires were also reported stolen.
The truck was later recovered.
Anyone with information is
asked to contact the RCMP at 6432118, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477 or www.nlcrimestoppers.com.
Police looking
for public’s help
To aid ongoing investigations into break-and-enters in
the Cape St. George area, the
RCMP is encouraging people to
report such crimes.
Bay St. George RCMP reported last week it was investigating
numerous break-ins. If victims
of break-and-enters report such
incidents to police, they say it
can help potentially solve a rash
of similar cases.
Anyone with information pertaining to recent break-and-enter
incidents in the area is asked to
contact the RCMP at 643-2118, or
Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477
or www.nlcrimestoppers.com.
Youth receives
scholarship
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KeArra Fortune, a graduate of
E.A. Butler All Grade in McKays, is
among 12 Newfoundland and
Labrador Housing tenants attending post-secondary school who
have each been awarded a $1,000
scholarship.
The scholarships are awarded
annually to both tenants and their
children by the Newfoundland and
Labrador Housing Corporation.
“This assistance will help students meet their financial obligations, as they continue to invest in
their education, and their future,”
said Paul Davis, the minister
responsible for Newfoundland and
Labrador Housing, in a release.
Ms. Fortune is currently attending College of the North Atlantic.
Kudos to the
people who
waded through
the federal
application
form.
A spokesperson for Newfoundland Power said 1,033 of their business and household customers in the Stephenville area were without power for three hours on Jan.
23. A primary feeder snapped on Gallant Street in Stephenville and a second feeder had to be taken down to make the repairs. Pictured is a Newfoundland Power
employee as he makes the repairs during snowy weather that resulted in intermittent whiteouts throughout the day. Frank Gale photo
Four arrested following Stephenville home invasion
Two suspects sent for psychiatric assessments
BY FRANK GALE
THE GEORGIAN
Four people have been arrested
in connection to a home invasion in
Stephenville on Jan. 18.
Charles Joseph Barron, 23, of
Stephenville Crossing, and Donald
Matthew King, 30, of Mattis Point,
appeared in court on Jan. 21 and
have been sent to St. John’s for psychiatric assessments.
Tyler Bennett, 19, of Mattis
Point, and Marie Diane Bennett, 28,
of Stephenville Crossing, were due
back in court for a bail hearing on
Jan. 25.
The Bay St. George RCMP
received a report of an invasion at a
residence on St. Clare Avenue at
8:10 p.m. on Jan. 18. The report indicated three suspects with their
faces covered entered the home
with knives and a machete.
The occupant, a male resident,
was assaulted and received some
bruises and cuts due to an altercation with the men. He was taken to
Sir Thomas Roddick Hospital in
Stephenville and treated for the
injuries.
Police said the group stole cash,
marijuana, and prescription pills
from the residence, before fleeing
the area in the getaway vehicle.
All four were later arrested at a
traffic stop in the area.
Mr. Barron was charged with
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Appointed youth ambassador with international group
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BY CHRISTOPHER VAUGHAN
THE GEORGIAN
Mental health advocate and
public speaker Jeremy Bennett is
eager to help others as youth
ambassador with the World Organization of Natural Medicine.
Jeremy Bennett, originally from Flat Bay,
This Flat Bay native has been
has been named youth ambassador with speaking publicly for four years on
the World Organization of Natural Medi- how he overcame obsessive-comcine. Submitted by Jeremy Bennett
pulsive disorder and depression
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Four of the dignitaries present for an announcement on Saturday of federal funding for septage management facilities in
Clearwater and Barriere, plus for upgrading Dutch Lake School for a community centre pose for a photograph. Pictured are (l-r)
Clearwater Mayor John Harwood, M.P. Cathy McLeod, TNRD chair Randy Murray, and S.D.73 vice-chair Kathleen Karpuk.
Donald Matthew King, left, and Charles Joseph Barron are escorted into Stephenville
provincial court on Jan. 21. Frank Gale photo
Jeremy Bennett reaching out to young people
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through the strength of his subconscious mind.
It was while giving a presentation at the World Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine Congress
in Toronto last year that he caught
the attention of Sheila Mackenzie.
She’s the president of the World
Organization of Natural Medicine –
an international, non-profit group
that seeks to deliver primary traditional and natural medicine health
care and education to people facing
economic hardships due to largescale conflicts or natural disasters.
Impressed with what Mr. Bennett had to say and his ongoing
dedication to helping those with
mental health issues, Ms. Mackenzie asked him to become the
group’s youth ambassador.
He’ll be travelling across Canada
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At the official opening ceremony of the Minor Hockey Jamboree, Mayor Ross Forrest stepped onto the ice for the puck-drop in a face-off between Initiation Laker Ollie
Fawcett (left) and Midget Laker Tom Day. The one-day event, Jan. 26, drew many members of the community to the Cowichan Lake Sports Arena for a great day of hockey.
Jamboree packs day of minor hockey fun at the Lake
ELODIE ADAMS, GAZETTE EDITOR
It’s a once-a-year event that involves
every child that plays hockey in Lake
Cowichan.
Seven teams, well over one hundred
kids, and a lot of the community come
out for the Minor Hockey Jamboree, and
again this year was no disappointment.
All the parents who volunteer as
coaches, organizers, or who just come out
to watch and cheer their kids on played an
important role in the success of the day.
Although the day was meant to be a
fun one, there was still hockey to play,
and each team played to their best ability.
Some teams came away with a win, while
other teams came away with a loss, but it
doesn’t alter the fundamental enthusiasm
the day brings to all who participate.
The first Laker team to break the ice
was the Synergy Safety Novice C2, that
faced Kerry Park with a 7:30 am start.
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management facility will
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Thompsonformer Dutch
Nicola Regional
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the people who
Clearwater facilwaded through
ity will mean
the federal
a long haul
application
for septic tank
form.”
sludge from
The two
the Blue River area, said
facilities will be used to
Thompson Headwaters
treat sludge that has been
pumped from septic tanks. (Area B) director Willow
MacDonald. However, it
About 7,300 people in the
will be much shorter than
North Thompson Valley
or 90 per cent of the popu- hauling to Heffley Creek.
“I’m thankful that we
lation depend on septic
were involved in the discustanks, said McLeod.
sions,” she said.
Until now, contractors
have hauled the sludge
District to move into Dutch
for disposal at pits at the
Lake School
Clearwater and Barriere
M.P. McLeod said
landfills.
Those landfills are clos- she has been involved in
discussions to upgrade
ing, however, and a new
method of disposal needed Dutch Lake School for
several years.
to be found.
Several funding
The alternative would
sources were explored
have been to haul the septic sludge to Heffley Creek. before the success-
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ful application to the
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produced the $92,000
announced on Saturday.
“I look forward to
Dutch Lake being the
important facility that it
should be,” said McLeod.
School District 73 has
agreed to lease the former
school for 25 years (in
five-year blocks) at $1 per
year, said Mayor John
Harwood.
Plans include handicap
access and bathrooms,
rooms for seniors, free
space for non-profits to
meet, as well as art and
theater to make use of
the stage in the gym. The
former school will be a
stop on the local transit
system.
The money from the
federal government will
augment $50,000 from
Wells Gray Community
Forest for the project.
District of Clearwater
plans to move its offices
from the Flats to the
Dutch Lake School.
It will, however, keep
the maintenance yard in
its present location.
About half the former school will be used
by the District while the
other half will be used
by Yellow Community
Services. It appears that
possibly the Community
Resource Center, now
managed by YCS, will
move from its present
location next to Raft
River Elementary to
Dutch Lake.
The mayor praised
YCS executive director
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“We’re absolutely delighted to see the school back
in use again.”
Other dignitaries
present for Saturday’s
announcement included
Barriere Mayor Bill
Humphreys, Wells Gray
Country director Tim
Pennell. Lower North
Thompson director Bill
Kershaw, and TNRD
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Global carbon tax petition
going online — Care2
Group opposes mine within
Kamloops boundaries
Editor, The Times:
We are sending this letter to
your community on behalf of
many Kamloops citizens who
are opposed to development of
an open-pit copper and gold
mine immediately adjacent to,
and partly within, our city’s
boundaries – the Ajax mine.
We have learned that current legislation allows the interests of mining companies to
override the needs and aspirations of municipalities, regional districts and First Nations.
The Mineral Tenure Act gives
preferential treatment to the
mining sector over other development opportunities such as
renewable resources, agriculture, and tourism. Because of
the well documented health
and environmental hazards
associated with open pit mining, we believe it is critical for
all BC residents to be aware of
this issue. What has happened
to Kamloops can happen anywhere in B.C.
This spring, the Association
of Vancouver Island and
Coastal Communities voted
unanimously to support a
resolution advanced by Tofino
Mayor Josie Osborne calling
on the Provincial Government
to modernize the Mineral
Tenure Act. This resolution
will be put before the Union
of BC Municipalities (UBCM)
this fall, and we believe it is
extremely important that local
governments and First Nations
across B.C. support efforts to
enshrine their right to refuse
proposals that threaten the
well-being of their citizens or
local eco-systems.
We wish to clarify that we
are not opposed to responsible mining. We recognize
the important role this industry plays in our economy.
However, developing an openpit copper and gold mine
dangerously close to, and
upwind from, a populated area
is extremely irresponsible and
should not be allowed. The
health and environmental risks
associated with open-pit mining require that such activity
be safely away from heavily
populated areas and vulnerable
ecosystems.
Fundamentally, we believe
that the long-term health and
well-being of the population
and protection of the environment must take priority over
the short-term economic benefits of resource extraction.
The present environmental
assessment process, however
well-intentioned, cannot be
relied upon to protect the longterm interests of local populations or the environment in
which we live.
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Fire departments
worth every cent
editorial by Keith McNeill
Sometimes, if you want something done right, you have to do it
yourself.
Those readers who keep track of
such things might recall that your
editor has been trying to interest a number of organizations in
promoting a petition for a global
carbon tax.
So far there have been no takers.
So I've decided to do it myself.
To recap a bit, climate scientist
James Hansen has called for a
global carbon tax with the revenue
to be given through equal and
recurring dividends to everyone.
Hansen is an American whose
Congressional testimony in 1988
was one of the first public warnings of the dangers of global
warming.
How would such a global carbon tax be brought in?
Well, how do we bring in a new
tax in our own local communities?
Here in Canada and in other democratic countries it is often done
through referendum.
And how would we initiate such
a referendum? Here in Canada we
usually have to rely on our political
leaders, which isn't likely to happen on a global basis. However, in
Switzerland the citizens have the
right to bring forward important
questions to a nationwide vote
through a petition with 100,000
Rod Sluggett Publisher
Pirjo Raits Editor
Britt Santowski Reporter
It’s been said in a number of places, but it needs
to be said again. We, at the Sooke News Mirror, want
to publicly thank the scores of firefighters who
came to the fire which destroyed our building. The
firefighters from all of the outlying areas, through
the district’s mutual aid agreement, didn’t fail us.
Which brings about the whole mutual aid
premise, and it’s a good one. This allows smaller
communities the ability to afford their fire
departments and because large fires happen
infrequently, each department does not need every
single piece of equipment which may be required.
This is a good thing and it works.
But most of all, the local fire department, under
the direction of Fire Chief Steve Sorensen, did a
remarkable job of not only fighting the fire but of
helping out before and after the flames were out.
This is what happens in a small community where
people matter.
So, when the councils in the future start
to question every single line item in the fire
department budget, perhaps they should
remember what these people do in our community.
They risk life and limb to help others and most do
so voluntarily. It’s never a pleasant job but it is a
necessary one.
The businesses that were impacted by the fire
will survive. While rental premises are scarce
in Sooke, each one will probably find space
somewhere. Our office is now located at the
Seaview Business Centre at 6631 Sooke Road.
This is our first issue since the fire and we have
managed to pull it off even though we don’t yet
have phones, didn’t have any Internet for awhile
and barely found a pen or pencil. But, like the
postal service, the paper must get out. Thank you
to all who helped make our ‘transition’ easier.
signatures. A good example of this
was the recent vote that brought in
limitations on corporate executives'
salaries and perks.
How much should the carbon
tax rise to? As far as I know,
Hansen hasn't defined that.
However, here in British Columbia
we have a carbon tax that gradually
rose to $30 per tonne of carbon
dioxide and that seems to be having
some effect..
According to Wikipedia, the
world produces about 30 billion
tonnes per year of carbon dioxide
through the burning of fossil fuels.
A carbon tax of $30 per tonne
of carbon dioxide would therefore
raise about $900 billion per year.
Assuming there are 5 billion
adults (aged 18 and over) in the
world, such a tax would result in a
social dividend of about $180 per
person per year – effectively doubling the annual income of hundreds of millions of people. Such a
social dividend would compensate
everyone somewhat for the risks
that global warming is causing.
The petition has been posted
online on Care2, a social network
website developed to connect activists from around the world. All
readers of the Times are invited to
check it out at www.thepetitionsite.
com/286/384/042/petition-for-a-referendum-on-a-global-carbon-tax/
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ANOTHER VIEW
Big hearts in a caring community
away and I can get my city hit
Sooke is one amazing
whenever I choose and I get
community. I came here
nature at its best in Sooke.
just over eight years ago
But the biggest reason
as a reporter and was then
includes the great friends I
appointed editor. I always
have made and the general
thought my stay here would be
community of involved and
a few years and then I would
passionate people who choose
be off to another gig in another
to live here as well. They
town or city. Somewhere bigger,
volunteer and do for others
brighter and more trendy.
without looking for a
As it turned out, that
pat on the back. They
has not been the case.
do it because they care.
Most of it has been my
One thing cemented
choice. Sure, there have
my thoughts about
been times when I was
Sooke. Most people are
getting a bit bored with
aware that the Sooke
the same old, same old,
News Mirror office
and who wouldn’t. Sooke
building burned on July
is not my home town, I
31. Fire razed four other
wasn’t born here or have
business premises as
the history so many
well.
others have.
Sooke has some of
But, I have embraced
Pirjo Raits
Hard Pressed
the kindest and most
this community for a
thoughtful people I
variety of reasons. Some
have ever met. It is a
of them are because of
community that looks after its
the quality of rural life I enjoy
own and doesn’t necessarily call
at my waterfront home, other
for help from anywhere else,
reasons are because of the
People just respond. Like the
incredible artists who grace
firefighters who went above and
and make the area a more
beyond the call of duty to help
beautiful place. They draw their
inspiration from the region and I save our computers by covering
them with tarps while the fire
draw my inspiration from them.
blazed away. No one knew the
And one can’t forget about the
fire would take over and result in
natural beauty which embraces
total destruction of the building.
me every time I look around. I
They even helped the day after
have the best of both worlds.
the fire to help us recover what
Victoria is a scant 45 minutes
we could and they didn’t have
to.
While doing my job and
taking photos of the fire, hugs,
condolences, coffee and kind
thoughts were given out freely
and without any expectation
of anything in return. That’s
community. It was just such
caring actions that made me not
just a reporter but a victim of
the fire.
I am stoic and can take a lot,
but the simple offer of coffee
from Wendy Milne got me and
I was overcome with emotion.
I realized I was a part of this
community not just an observer.
Anyone who has been
involved in a fire knows how
the flames take everything.
No discrimination, no picking
out what to burn, just all of it.
That’s the hard part. We can
all replace things, but we can’t
replace people and I learned a
big lesson through those flames
and that is that community and
people matter. What I found was
a community full of people with
big hearts and as a consequence
my heart has been opened up as
well. Appreciation and respect
for the people who make up the
community of Sooke is a lesson
learned.
Thank you Sooke for showing
me your true nature.
Get borrowing under control
Editor, The Times:
Re: Get ready for
Hydro rate hikes, July
18 issue.
Yes, the BC
Hydro rate increase
tsunami is coming
after the earthquake
of B.C. government
debt. This will hit
lower income people –
hard. All levels of government are increasing
fees and service rates
rather than raise
income taxes on those
who can contribute
more and pay more
property tax.
I don't want to see
any drastic action to
increase job loss, but
governments at all levels need to limit their
spending growth to the
level of inflation and
get borrowing under
control.
Phil Harrison
Comox, B.C.
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To aid ongoing investigations into break-and-enters in
the Cape St. George area, the
RCMP is encouraging people to
report such crimes.
Bay St. George RCMP reported last week it was investigating
numerous break-ins. If victims
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of similar cases.
Anyone with information pertaining to recent break-and-enter
incidents in the area is asked to
contact the RCMP at 643-2118, or
Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477
or www.nlcrimestoppers.com.
Clearwater receives federal funding grants
Clearwater’s septage
Keith McNeill
management facility will
be located near the presM.P. Cathy McLeod
ent sewage lagoons, said
announced two major
Mayor John Harwood.
grants while in Clearwater
Canfor has agreed to
on Saturday.
provide land for a new
The first was for $1.4
road into the facility so
million in gas tax money
trucks won’t need to go by
to construct septage
residences to get to it.
management facilities in
Both the Clearwater
Clearwater and Barriere.
and Barriere facilities will
The second was for
be operated in
$92,000 to
partnership with
upgrade the
Thompsonformer Dutch
Nicola Regional
Lake School
District.
into a commuThe facilinity center.
ties will help
“I think
make the North
this is a really
Thompson
important
Valley a better
addition to
place for famiyour communilies to live, grow
ties,” McLeod
and work, said
said of the
TNRD board
septage manchair Randy
agement projMurray.
ect. “Kudos to
The
M.P. Cathy McLeod
the people who
Clearwater facilwaded through
ity will mean
the federal
a long haul
application
for septic tank
form.”
sludge from
The two
the Blue River area, said
facilities will be used to
Thompson Headwaters
treat sludge that has been
pumped from septic tanks. (Area B) director Willow
MacDonald. However, it
About 7,300 people in the
will be much shorter than
North Thompson Valley
or 90 per cent of the popu- hauling to Heffley Creek.
“I’m thankful that we
lation depend on septic
were involved in the discustanks, said McLeod.
sions,” she said.
Until now, contractors
have hauled the sludge
District to move into Dutch
for disposal at pits at the
Lake School
Clearwater and Barriere
M.P. McLeod said
landfills.
Those landfills are clos- she has been involved in
discussions to upgrade
ing, however, and a new
method of disposal needed Dutch Lake School for
several years.
to be found.
Several funding
The alternative would
sources
were explored
have been to haul the septic sludge to Heffley Creek. before the success-
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013
Four arrested following Stephenville home invasion
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2013
New Year’s
baby
recognized
with
cheque
2011
CCNA
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..... page 2
Property
assessments have
reduced funds
available to run
District
(L to r) Retired Barriere businessman Dave Baines (l), presents a cheque for $333.50 to the areas first New
Year’s baby, Illyana, and her proud parents Peter Hunt and Jamie Raelff. The cheque was for the baby’s
weight measured in loonies.
As the Mayor sees it
..... page 9
By Elli Kohnert
North Thompson Star/Journal
Four of the dignitaries present for an announcement on Saturday of federal funding for septage management facilities in
Clearwater and Barriere, plus for upgrading Dutch Lake School for a community centre pose for a photograph. Pictured are (l-r)
Clearwater Mayor John Harwood, M.P. Cathy McLeod, TNRD chair Randy Murray, and S.D.73 vice-chair Kathleen Karpuk.
Photo by Keith McNeill
ful application to the
Community Infrastructure
Improvement Fund
produced the $92,000
announced on Saturday.
“I look forward to
Dutch Lake being the
important facility that it
should be,” said McLeod.
School District 73 has
agreed to lease the former
school for 25 years (in
five-year blocks) at $1 per
year, said Mayor John
Harwood.
Plans include handicap
access and bathrooms,
rooms for seniors, free
space for non-profits to
meet, as well as art and
theater to make use of
the stage in the gym. The
former school will be a
stop on the local transit
system.
The money from the
federal government will
augment $50,000 from
Wells Gray Community
Forest for the project.
District of Clearwater
plans to move its offices
from the Flats to the
Dutch Lake School.
It will, however, keep
the maintenance yard in
its present location.
About half the former school will be used
by the District while the
other half will be used
by Yellow Community
Services. It appears that
possibly the Community
Resource Center, now
managed by YCS, will
move from its present
location next to Raft
River Elementary to
Dutch Lake.
The mayor praised
YCS executive director
Jack Keough for his cooperation on the project.
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“We are very happy
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“We’re absolutely delighted to see the school back
in use again.”
Other dignitaries
present for Saturday’s
announcement included
Barriere Mayor Bill
Humphreys, Wells Gray
Country director Tim
Pennell. Lower North
Thompson director Bill
Kershaw, and TNRD
chief administrative officer Sukh Gill.
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23. A primary feeder snapped on Gallant Street in Stephenville and a second feeder had to be taken down to make the repairs. Pictured is a Newfoundland Power
employee as he makes the repairs during snowy weather that resulted in intermittent whiteouts throughout the day. Frank Gale photo
Keith Moore
toasted as Citizen
of the Year
..... page 11
STAR/JOURNAL photos: Elli Kohnert
Baby Illyana was born on Jan. 1, 2013,
weighing in at 7 lbs, 5 oz.
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It’ a girl! The celebrated first baby of the
New Year arrived right on time, January 1, 2013.
Her name is Illyana, and she is Barriere’s newest
young resident.
Happy parents, Jamie Raelff and Peter Hunt,
are full of pride and shy smiles due to all the attention their little girl has been receiving. Most
recently, retired Barriere businessman Dave Baines presented the little newcomer with a cheque
that had the amount calculated out to match the
baby’s weight in loonies.
Baines told Illyana’s parents that a number
of years ago he was touched by the action of a
wealthy businessman he met in Edmonton who
had wanted to share his fortune with someone for
a good cause. The businessman had decided to
give the first baby of a New Year its weight in
gold, to be spent by the baby’s parents for the
future benefit of the child. Baines said he was inspired by this, and decided he also wanted to help a child achieve a successful future.
As a result, for more than 10 years, Baines annually presents the area’s New Years baby (from
McLure to Little Fort) with the child’s birth
weight in loonies. For Illyana, with a birth weight
of seven pounds and five ounces, this amounted
to $333.50.
Baby Illyana’s parents say they both share in
the care of the their new little girl. Peter is obviously happy to be Illyana’s dad, and remarked on
how seldom she cries. “When she wouldn’t go
back to sleep after a night feeding I was wondering why she was fussing; so we gave her another
bottle, and when she’d had enough she just fell
asleep, and we did to,” said Peter.
Jamie, already seems to be comfortable and
relaxed in the role of new mom to Illyana. The
role suits her well as she cuddles the newborn
and whispers to her softly, “You are the first New
Year’s baby of 2013.”
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BY FRANK GALE
THE GEORGIAN
Four people have been arrested
in connection to a home invasion in
Stephenville on Jan. 18.
Charles Joseph Barron, 23, of
Stephenville Crossing, and Donald
Matthew King, 30, of Mattis Point,
appeared in court on Jan. 21 and
have been sent to St. John’s for psychiatric assessments.
Tyler Bennett, 19, of Mattis
Point, and Marie Diane Bennett, 28,
of Stephenville Crossing, were due
back in court for a bail hearing on
Jan. 25.
The Bay St. George RCMP
received a report of an invasion at a
residence on St. Clare Avenue at
8:10 p.m. on Jan. 18. The report indicated three suspects with their
faces covered entered the home
with knives and a machete.
The occupant, a male resident,
was assaulted and received some
bruises and cuts due to an altercation with the men. He was taken to
Sir Thomas Roddick Hospital in
Stephenville and treated for the
injuries.
Police said the group stole cash,
marijuana, and prescription pills
from the residence, before fleeing
the area in the getaway vehicle.
All four were later arrested at a
traffic stop in the area.
Mr. Barron was charged with
Please see Page A2
Donald Matthew King, left, and Charles Joseph Barron are escorted into Stephenville
provincial court on Jan. 21. Frank Gale photo
Jeremy Bennett reaching out to young people
Appointed youth ambassador with international group
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Mental health advocate and
public speaker Jeremy Bennett is
eager to help others as youth
ambassador with the World Organization of Natural Medicine.
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She’s the president of the World
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that seeks to deliver primary traditional and natural medicine health
care and education to people facing
economic hardships due to largescale conflicts or natural disasters.
Impressed with what Mr. Bennett had to say and his ongoing
dedication to helping those with
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among 12 Newfoundland and
Labrador Housing tenants attending post-secondary school who
have each been awarded a $1,000
scholarship.
The scholarships are awarded
annually to both tenants and their
children by the Newfoundland and
Labrador Housing Corporation.
“This assistance will help students meet their financial obligations, as they continue to invest in
their education, and their future,”
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Police in Stephenville are investigating a theft from a property in
the community where a truck was
amongst the items taken.
According to Bay St. George
RCMP, the incident happened on
Jan. 19. Items were taken from a
number of motor vehicles, and
tires were also reported stolen.
The truck was later recovered.
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Class 1011 – Best All Round Newspaper
First - The North Thompson Times
Lots of great photography showcased throughout both editions. Also great to see strong
editorial page. Adding photos of voices in your stories will help you engage with readers.
For example, it would have been nice to have a head and shoulders photo of the bus driver
in the A3 story in Jan. 31 edition. (I also would have considered that story as a contender
for front page)
Second – The Georgian
Nice placement of photos on front page - really draws the reader in. Good mix of local
content. Editorials could use some strengthening. Aim for topics related to news stories
and try to avoid “soft” topics when possible. Don’t be afraid to take a stance on something
more controversial than flu season.
Third – The Lake Cowichan Gazette
Great front page in Jan. 30 edition. One area to grow the paper is through its editorial page
content. Strive for staff-written editorials on the topics that matter most to your readers.
Also continue to encourage letters to the editor. Based on Aug. 7 edition, seems like
reader engagement is strong in your community. As a newsroom, you can build on that by
carefully reading what they have to say and looking for story ideas within their comments.
Nice selection of columnists.
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Macleod singer-songwriter sang some of his established songs as well
as a new one he wrote earlier in the week. Photos, Page 10.
EMS veteran
raises concerns
with ambulance
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A long-time emergency
medical services worker
has come forward with
concerns about the inability
of ambulances to respond
to emergencies in rural
Alberta because they are
busy transporting patients
in non-critical situations.
George Porter, who has
been working in ambulance
service 40 years, appeared
as a delegation at the
Aug. 14 MD of Willow
Creek council meeting.
Porter opened by joking
that day could be his last
working for Alberta Health
Services because he had
been directed not to talk to
elected officials — so he
spoke with the local MLA
and Coun. Neil Wilson.
“I’ve had some very
serious concerns about
EMS since Alberta Health
Services took over,” Porter
said, adding he has not
been quiet about it. “For
almost two years I got not a
single response.”
Porter admitted he does
not have all the answers, but
he recognizes the problem
and it is not hard to fix.
At times there have been
no ambulances available in
Claresholm or Calgary as
examples, because every
one is doing an inter-facility
transfer. That means transferring patients from one
medical facility to another.
“It’s leaving huge areas
and sometimes this whole
section of the province
without an ambulance to
respond,” Porter said.
Porter noted there are a
lot of managers but still
a problem. “We have no
vision, we have no leadership.”
Porter was asked to do a
deployment review. He
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deal with his findings.
Porter submitted that
report in February and there
has been no change.
Porter has waited, and
decided to talk to MD of
Willow Creek council.
When Porter advised
Alberta Health Services
officials, he was sent an
e-mail not to talk to council.
“I don’t know what else
to do,” Porter said. “We’ve
had people die.”
Porter cited an example
of the closest ambulance
being an hour away when a
patient’s chest collapsed.
“There have been several
instances where patients
have been compromised,”
Porter said, adding he is
not sure if some patients
would have survived with
an ambulance responding
sooner.
Porter warned there will
be a high-profile incident
where an ambulance is too
far to respond.
“In my opinion they
(Alberta Health Services)
are in an undefendable
position,” Porter said.
Porter then cited an
example of an ambulance
in Vulcan used to take
someone to the hospital to
have the insoles of their
shoes fixed. It left the area
with no ambulance for six
hours, because there was
no back-up.
Porter also reported he
talked to an Alberta Health
Services official who
admitted 60 per cent of
the calls coming from
High River don’t need an
ambulance. That number
climbs closer to 80 per cent
in communities such as
Claresholm and Black
Diamond.
“Why are we taxiing people
around?” Porter asked.
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The senior high
drama class at St.
Andrew’s School
presented
A
Midsemester’s Afternoon Daydream on
Jan. 22 throughout
the day for the
school and public.
The play was a
spoof based on A
Midsummer Night’s
Dream. Terry Hogan, left, and Kenneth
Halcrow,
show
emotion
while playing their
roles as Emmy and
Brittney
respectively. Hogan was
filling in for an absent actor. Please
see more photos
and a story in next
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At the Kraft Celebration Tour
event on Monday, August 19th,
Heart of the Rockies Triathlon
organizer Bruce Stroud was
profiled by TSN during the live
SportsCentre broadcast that
took place at Kinsmen Beach in
Invermere, which attracted at
least 1,000 enthusiastic people
waving signs and cheering
loudly for the cameras. 2013
marked the 30th anniversary of
the triathlon, which Mr. Stroud
started, and he is still competing at the age of 69, making
him a likely candidate for the
TV feature. Tremendous online
support for the Rotary Club of
Invermere's Kinsmen Beach
Splash Park proposal landed
Invermere a spot on the coveted
tour, as well as a $25,000 donation towards the project. For full
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Council left to clean up the mess
Chris Clegg
South Peace News
Shoddy accounting for
a grant to help build the
Gordon Buchanan Recreation Centre might
cost High Prairie taxpayers as much as
$10,000.
Paperwork for the
grant is as much as five
years overdue. It is also
preventing town council,
or other groups associated with the town, from
tapping into present and
future
government
grants.
The paperwork involves a $843,332 grant
under the Canada-Alberta Municipal Rural
Infrastructure
Fund
program. CAMRIF was
a federal-provincial-local grant program with
each partner sharing
costs
for
projects
one-third
each.
CAMRIF says they will
not accept any new
grant applications until
the $843,332 grant paperwork is completed.
The situation sur-
faced when High Prairie
and District Sports
Complex Society wanted
to apply for a grant to
build the skateboard
park. They were told no
money would be forthcoming until reporting
on the old grant was
complete.
“This is horrible,” said
High Prairie mayor
Linda Cox after discussion at the Jan. 23 council meeting.
“I agree,” said Councillor Brian Holmberg.
Town
CAO
Keli
Tamklo said he met with
the sports complex society on Jan. 11 and was
told that five years ago
there was a “handshake
agreement”
between
former society members and the town indicating the town would
complete the CAMRIF
accounting.
“The town or society
did not account for the
grant,” said Tamaklo in
his report to council.
“This has prevented the
skateboard park from
receiving funding from
the province.”
After learning of the
boondoggle, council debated what to do. Councillor Wayne Forrester
spoke to the issue.
“The audit needs to be
filed,” he said, adding no
more grants would be
released until it was
completed.
“Money can be forwarded from reserves,”
to pay for an audit, he
said.
Cost of the audit is
Cont. on page 3
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Future of parade
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Double-whammy of inspiration
Last night, I got the chance to spend
a couple hours with a group of
people that filled me with inspiration.
These people are incredibly hardworking, dedicated and proud. They
are leaders in their field and speak
with such passion about their work. It
was one of the best two hours I’ve
spent in a while.
I came home feeling energized,
which is not a good thing at bed time.
I spent the night awake, going over
our conversation, thinking about the
enthusiasm this group brings to their
jobs. Our conversation made me
reflect on myself and the way that a
good team with strong people can
accomplish magnificent things.
I’ve been blessed to be part of such
teams, starting with my first job at
McDonald’s, to my second teaching
job, to my participation on the nonprofit boards I’ve worked with over
the last eight years here in Macleod.
You cannot beat the feeling of creating
something together with a group of
people that have a common goal.
When you’ve got great leadership
thrown in there, with dynamic and
strong people on board? Magic.
It’s not just in work that this is
important. I saw this type of thing just
this morning when I attended G.R.
Davis school’s Excellence in Sports
Leadership
Day. The presenters spoke
SLICE
about Steven
OF LIFE
C o v e y ’s
Seven Habits.
I don’t know
much about
that program,
but I can tell
you that it’s
something I
want
my
children
Trish Hoskin
immersed in.
Our kids are
being taught
the value of integrity, personal
responsibility and what it means for
the whole when we, as individuals,
step up.
These ideals translate into all kinds
of nooks and crannies in a person’s
life. It’s about how a person wants to
be in the world and who they want to
be. It’s about drive and focus, but with
the whole community in mind. I just
can’t believe how fitting this all is at
this point in my life.
Positive behaviour, self-reliance
and responsibility, teamwork; this is
what I saw last night, and this is what
I saw my children being taught today.
When I see these things at work, it
makes me want to be part of it all.
The point is that inspiration can
come from anywhere. I was certainly
not expecting it from either of the
experiences I had in the last 24 hours,
but I got hit with a double-whammy.
This is the stuff that brings tears to my
eyes, much like when the choir sings
at church. It’s just something that’s so
much bigger than me and there’s
nothing to do but ride the wave. It’s an
intangible, unquantifiable thing, but it
packs a punch like Rocky.
My plan is to have a better sleep
tonight, but I know that I’m going to
be thinking about what I learned in the
last 24 hours for a while.
(Trish Hoskin is a Fort Macleod
teacher, writer and artist.)
Finding their passion in life pays off for these people
Last week I had the pleasure of chatting
with Denise Calderwood about her latest
film. This one is a documentary about
cowboy poet Doris Daley and in it Denise
pursues an answer to the question of where
Doris’s remarkable talent comes from,
whether it’s in her very DNA.
In search of the answer, Denise, Doris
and a crew headed to Ireland and the
ancestral home of the Daley family. No
need for a spoiler alert because Denise
wants us to see the documentary this
Saturday at the Empress.
My question of Denise was why she
makes documentary films, of which I
Found My Tribe is her 10th. I was curious
why Denise would put the time and effort
into such an elaborate project with no real
promise of huge financial reward.
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OPINION
Everyone loves a parade, especially the Fort Macleod
Santa Claus Parade.
The Santa Claus Parade over the past 31 years has
proven to be the premiere event in Fort Macleod,
attracting thousands of people to our community for
our Christmas festival.
The parade is the centerpiece of the festival, which has
developed into two days of activities that provide fun and
enjoyment to the people of the town and southern Alberta.
Carolling, a community Christmas tree, arts and crafts
sales, Rotary’s fund-raising auction, pictures with Santa
and a family dance stir the spirit of the season and our
community every year.
As the festival has grown, so too has the parade in both
magnitude and reputation. Each year the parade lasts
close to an hour, making its way through the downtown
core. In addition to the floats and vehicles entered by Fort
Macleod and area residents, the parade boasts a big
collection of bands that provide a soundtrack that simply
can’t be matched by any other small town parade.
The Fort Macleod Santa Claus Parade doesn’t happen by
accident. It takes months of planning by co-ordinator Sue
Risser and her dedicated volunteer committee. They put in
countless hours making sure that every detail of the parade
is attended to, from inviting and registering participants, to
fund-raising, to marshalling the entries and sending them
on their way — to the delight of an adoring audience.
If a parade the size of Fort Macleod’s takes planning,
so too does it take money. The Santa Claus Parade committee operates on a budget of about $35,000. The bulk of
that money goes into paying the costs to bus the marching
bands — the ones that really set the Fort Macleod Santa
Claus Parade apart from the growing number of imitators
— to our community. The bands get a small honorarium
of just $250, and a free lunch. The rest of the more than
$23,000 spent on bands is just for transportation.
Bands are what people want, and bands are what
people get in Fort Macleod.
This year the committee is in a financial crisis. So far
donations total just over $17,000, less than half the
$35,000 it will cost to stage the 2013 Santa Claus Parade.
Unless the community comes forward in the next week
with cash donations, the financial picture — as well as
the future of the parade — looks bleak.
Unless support is forthcoming the Santa Claus Parade
committee will be in a deficit position. And after scrambling to find the money to pay for this year’s parade, will
be in the sad position of deciding what to cut from the
2014 parade. Because cuts will have to be made if the
parade’s financial position does not immediately improve.
It is in the hands of Fort Macleod residents, businesses
and organizations to determine the parade’s future. We
must each decide how valuable the parade is to us as
individuals and to the community at large, and donate
accordingly. The Santa Claus Parade is in our hands.
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I loved Denise’s answer, that she “wants
to tell a few good stories.”
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In the case of
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sport, and he pursued it relentlessly in a
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in the brilliant eulogy he gave Wednesday
for Jesse, where others saw beauty and
grace in Jesse’s performances, Jesse saw
mistakes and room for improvement. That
drive for perfection took the young skater,
whose life ended far too soon, to the
heights of his sport.
Ashley Steacy spent some time on
Friday talking to students from Fort
Macleod and other communities about her
passion for rugby. After being talked into
giving the sport a try, Ashley fell in love
with rugby and made it her passion, earning
a spot on the national women’s team.
I liked what Ashley had to say about
using Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of
Highly Effective People in her life as an
athlete. She has some physical gifts as an
athlete, but it is Ashley’s mindset and her
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willingness to choose to train hard that
has put her at the top of her chosen game.
I have some friends who are writers of
books. They have a passion for storytelling
and for the written word, and they spend
countless hours in the solitary pursuit of
writing those stories, choosing to put in
the work to be good at their craft.
I interviewed a sculptor years ago who
told me he had finally decided to pursue
his art and would let nothing get in his
way, including the naysayers who told
him to get a “real” job.
Too many folks drift through life, unwilling
or unable to find their passion and pursue
it. The ones who find their passion and
pursue it are to be admired. Now I’m
wondering if that passion and the pursuit
of excellence is also in their DNA.
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It's such a tragedy when a young person loses his
or her life, whether it's to illness, an accident or
natural causes. But when the cause is suicide, the
grief is particularly heartbreaking.
Those left behind wonder how it could have been
prevented, if it could have been. But the mindset
of someone who is suicidal is not something that
develops overnight.
It's the outcome of a prolonged period of inner
pain and suffering, a sense of isolation that may
not be apparent to even close friends and family,
and a despair so profound that a positive outcome
to life's hardships seems impossible.
That Cheyenne Michelle Mason-Lalonde felt she
had no other choice but to end her life will have an
impact on her community for some time to come.
There needs to be more public education around
suicide, so more people can learn about the warning signals and how to help if someone they know
is exhibiting suicidal behaviour.
And a smaller community, with its tightly-knit
groups and cozy familiarity, should have better
odds identifying someone who is headed down
this path. Teachers, employers, co-workers, family
members, friends, neighbours... all are in a position to notice whether or not something is wrong
and take action.
There is likely speculation that Mason-Lalonde,
in having been arrested and charged with arson
in relation to the fire at Columbia Eagle Resort in
Fairmont Hot Springs this past December, succumbed to the stress of an impending conviction
and the resulting impact this may have had on
her future, in terms of travel, being accepted into
schools, being considered for jobs, etc. A looming
criminal record may have proved to be too much
for a young woman caught in a chain reaction of
poor decisions, which unfortunately led her to
make the poorest decision of all.
Mason-Lalonde will be mourned by those who
loved her. And according to Fairmont Hot Springs
Resort chief operating officer Dean Prentic who
is managing grief counselling services for MasonLalonde's former co-workers, the circle of those affected by her death continues to grow. Despite her
problems, it appears she was an individual who
touched the lives of many people while she was alive.
And she will continue to touch the lives of many
more people as long as her unforunate death creates more awareness and public support for troubled youth, ultimately helping others avoid the
slippery slope she found herself on.
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Aggravated by errors
Dear Editor,
I have several pet peeves frequently seen in newspapers, or heard on
radio or television: I wonder if any
other people in the valley have similar misuse of words that they find irritating?
1. “To continue on” – the “on” is
not needed.
2. Something being “different to”
or “different than” – correct use being “different from”.
3. Using “me” or “I” incorrectly
when writing or talking about yourself with another person.
4. Use of “iconic” – now almost an
epidemic use – should only apply to
something of unique religious status.
Shirley Campbell
Invermere
Dialysis unit needed
Dear Editor,
I have been a resident of Invermere
for 24 years. Due to a genetic illness, Polycystic Kidney Disease, my
kidneys failed and I started dialysis
in September 2011. When I started,
there were also two other patients
receiving this essential service in
this long-established unit. When
the nurse went off on medical leave
in June 2012, Interior Health didn’t
have proper resources to address the
service gap and patients were directed to travel to Cranbrook for treatments (three times per week at four
hours per treatment run plus travel
time).
Note that this isn’t like cancer
treatment — there is no cure short
of a transplant. Then after seven
months and currently down to just
one patient — me — Interior Health
announces they are permanently
closing the Invermere Dialysis Unit.
I would like to share my story and
concerns for other Invermere area
citizens.
Kirt Sellers
Invermere
Dialysis decision disputed
Dear Editor,
I am responding to your article
concerning the closing of the dialysis unit at the Invermere & District
Hospital. It is interesting that Interior Health
Authority (IHA) says they are closing
it due to lack of staff. I know of two
nurses who were interested in work-
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applied for the posted position.
There are three satellite dialysis
units in the East Kootenay and their
patient numbers vary from time to
time so being down to one patient
is not finite but merely a temporary
situation.
The unit in Invermere is also used
by non-residents who come on vacation and this actually adds to the
viability as the money they pay does
not come from B.C.’s health system.
I have talked to nurses in the dialysis units around the East Kootenays
and they agree with me that a pool
of nurses who would be willing to do
some travelling around the region
would allow for increased patient
numbers and the flexibility to provide quality health care to patients
who require dialysis. I think it’s about time that IHA began looking outside the box to try to
provide services like dialysis instead
of just closing programs and denying
access to the taxpayers of rural B.C.
communities.
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Tim Hus will hold a
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to Granum, where he
was once a pitcher for
the White Sox.
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Empress Theatre as part of the Fairy Tale Vaudeville show. The Fort
Macleod singer-songwriter sang some of his established songs as well
as a new one he wrote earlier in the week. Photos, Page 10.
EMS veteran
raises concerns
with ambulance
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A long-time emergency
medical services worker
has come forward with
concerns about the inability
of ambulances to respond
to emergencies in rural
Alberta because they are
busy transporting patients
in non-critical situations.
George Porter, who has
been working in ambulance
service 40 years, appeared
as a delegation at the
Aug. 14 MD of Willow
Creek council meeting.
Porter opened by joking
that day could be his last
working for Alberta Health
Services because he had
been directed not to talk to
elected officials — so he
spoke with the local MLA
and Coun. Neil Wilson.
“I’ve had some very
serious concerns about
EMS since Alberta Health
Services took over,” Porter
said, adding he has not
been quiet about it. “For
almost two years I got not a
single response.”
Porter admitted he does
not have all the answers, but
he recognizes the problem
and it is not hard to fix.
At times there have been
no ambulances available in
Claresholm or Calgary as
examples, because every
one is doing an inter-facility
transfer. That means transferring patients from one
medical facility to another.
“It’s leaving huge areas
and sometimes this whole
section of the province
without an ambulance to
respond,” Porter said.
Porter noted there are a
lot of managers but still
a problem. “We have no
vision, we have no leadership.”
Porter was asked to do a
deployment review. He
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plan of action in place to
deal with his findings.
Porter submitted that
report in February and there
has been no change.
Porter has waited, and
decided to talk to MD of
Willow Creek council.
When Porter advised
Alberta Health Services
officials, he was sent an
e-mail not to talk to council.
“I don’t know what else
to do,” Porter said. “We’ve
had people die.”
Porter cited an example
of the closest ambulance
being an hour away when a
patient’s chest collapsed.
“There have been several
instances where patients
have been compromised,”
Porter said, adding he is
not sure if some patients
would have survived with
an ambulance responding
sooner.
Porter warned there will
be a high-profile incident
where an ambulance is too
far to respond.
“In my opinion they
(Alberta Health Services)
are in an undefendable
position,” Porter said.
Porter then cited an
example of an ambulance
in Vulcan used to take
someone to the hospital to
have the insoles of their
shoes fixed. It left the area
with no ambulance for six
hours, because there was
no back-up.
Porter also reported he
talked to an Alberta Health
Services official who
admitted 60 per cent of
the calls coming from
High River don’t need an
ambulance. That number
climbs closer to 80 per cent
in communities such as
Claresholm and Black
Diamond.
“Why are we taxiing people
around?” Porter asked.
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The senior high
drama class at St.
Andrew’s School
presented
A
Midsemester’s Afternoon Daydream on
Jan. 22 throughout
the day for the
school and public.
The play was a
spoof based on A
Midsummer Night’s
Dream. Terry Hogan, left, and Kenneth
Halcrow,
show
emotion
while playing their
roles as Emmy and
Brittney
respectively. Hogan was
filling in for an absent actor. Please
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and a story in next
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Regals eliminated
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contention.
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At the Kraft Celebration Tour
event on Monday, August 19th,
Heart of the Rockies Triathlon
organizer Bruce Stroud was
profiled by TSN during the live
SportsCentre broadcast that
took place at Kinsmen Beach in
Invermere, which attracted at
least 1,000 enthusiastic people
waving signs and cheering
loudly for the cameras. 2013
marked the 30th anniversary of
the triathlon, which Mr. Stroud
started, and he is still competing at the age of 69, making
him a likely candidate for the
TV feature. Tremendous online
support for the Rotary Club of
Invermere's Kinsmen Beach
Splash Park proposal landed
Invermere a spot on the coveted
tour, as well as a $25,000 donation towards the project. For full
coverage of the Kraft Celebration Tour event, see Friday's
Columbia Valley Pioneer.
Shoddy accounting for
a grant to help build the
Gordon Buchanan Recreation Centre might
cost High Prairie taxpayers as much as
$10,000.
Paperwork for the
grant is as much as five
years overdue. It is also
preventing town council,
or other groups associated with the town, from
tapping into present and
future
government
grants.
The paperwork involves a $843,332 grant
under the Canada-Alberta Municipal Rural
Infrastructure
Fund
program. CAMRIF was
a federal-provincial-local grant program with
each partner sharing
costs
for
projects
one-third
each.
CAMRIF says they will
not accept any new
grant applications until
the $843,332 grant paperwork is completed.
The situation sur-
faced when High Prairie
and District Sports
Complex Society wanted
to apply for a grant to
build the skateboard
park. They were told no
money would be forthcoming until reporting
on the old grant was
complete.
“This is horrible,” said
High Prairie mayor
Linda Cox after discussion at the Jan. 23 council meeting.
“I agree,” said Councillor Brian Holmberg.
Town
CAO
Keli
Tamklo said he met with
the sports complex society on Jan. 11 and was
told that five years ago
there was a “handshake
agreement”
between
former society members and the town indicating the town would
complete the CAMRIF
accounting.
“The town or society
did not account for the
grant,” said Tamaklo in
his report to council.
“This has prevented the
skateboard park from
receiving funding from
the province.”
After learning of the
boondoggle, council debated what to do. Councillor Wayne Forrester
spoke to the issue.
“The audit needs to be
filed,” he said, adding no
more grants would be
released until it was
completed.
“Money can be forwarded from reserves,”
to pay for an audit, he
said.
Cost of the audit is
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JUDGE’S COMMENTS
First – The Macleod Gazette
This is just a solid, solid newspaper. It is obviously a work of love; the people involved love
the work they do and the community they live in. Plenty of letters to the editor indicate
that love is returned by the readers. One criticism might be (at least in the two issues
provided), that there is too much emphasis on council news. However, the features in the
regional supplement included more than made up for that.
Second – The Valley Echo
The Echo is a youthful, playful sort of newspaper that appears targeted towards the
younger, outdoorsy crowd living in the East Kootenays. The front pages of both issues both
had strong photos, but fell down on details. The Jan. 30 showed a family that apparently
was ice-fishing, but showed no ice. They could have been anywhere. It also gave no
names. The page 1 picture with the Aug. 21 issue has a rambling cutline that might refer
to the person in the picture. The opinion page of the Jan. 30 issue has three letters to the
editor, all local, but they are flown together. This makes them hard to read and gives the
impression the editor didn’t think it worth his while to lay them out properly On pages 10
and 11 of the same issue is a nice montage of photos of winter activities, but no names or
cutlines. The same can be said of pond hockey photos on the following two pages.
Third – South Peace News
A colorful newspaper with a wide variety of well-presented local news and features and a
strong front page. Criticisms might include perhaps too much yellow on the front page.
There doesn’t seem to be a list of staff anywhere (who is the editor?) and there is an almost
total absence of photo credits. There is a one-word widow near the middle of page one in
the Jan. 30 issue. The cutline for the page one photo in the Aug. 7 issue is printed over a
dark portion of the picture, making it hard to read.
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Residents
warned
of door-to-door
sales tactics
Concern expressed
over medical alert system
for seniors
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Some contracts signed with a company that sold medical alarm systems in
Hantsport and the surrounding areas
may be void.
The Windsor District RCMP, Better Business Bureau and Service
Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations
have all received complaints about
Seniors Connect, a privately-owned
business that sent a sales representative to the homes of some seniors in
the area, pitching its medical alert
technology.
According to the Better Business
Bureau (BBB) website, the consumer
advocacy organization received three
complaints about the Middle
Sackville-based Seniors Connect
between February and May of this
year.
Two of the complaints lodged with
the BBB reported problems with the
product and service, while one
involved advertising and sales issues.
Two of the complaints have been
resolved but one, citing problems with
the product or service, remains outstanding.
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UNDER THE
RAINBOW
While the grown ups learned to cook using organic
produce, kids at the Meadows to Menu event at Fairmont
Jasper Park Lodge, made themselves at home under a
colourful parachute. For more coverage of the event, see
next week’s Fitzhugh.
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This Upper Burlington home was fully ablaze when firefighters arrived on scene Aug. 8, making battling the fire all the more difficult. Carole Morris-Underhill photo
Upper Burlington home destroyed by fire
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THE HANTS JOURNAL
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The charred remnants of an Upper
Burlington home were all that remained
following a mid-morning fire Aug. 8.
Brooklyn Fire Chief Mark Dearman
said when he arrived on scene, the home
was fully involved, with flames coming
out both ends of the building, as well as
through the roof.
“There was a lot of heat involved. I
tried to take a walk around the house to
see what hazards we had and (I) couldn’t walk around the house; the heat was
so unbearable on the backside,” said
Dearman.
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THE PILOT, LEWISPORTE, NL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013
In the past, Parks Canada has been criticized in this
space for engaging the public for the sole purpose of
crossing public consultation off its decision-making to-do
list.
But that can’t be said of the agency’s latest decision.
Last week, with the release of the decision on the delayed
winter access areas, Parks showed that not only can it
listen to feedback, it can also take it into account and make
an informed decision that placates everyone.
Parks sat down with “the brown baggers of the park”—
as Loni Klettl referred to herself and other backcountry
users—and listened to their input and it also listened to
tourism agencies, the municipality, and environmentalists.
And then it created a new proposal that could be agreed
upon by everyone.
Of course, the agency didn’t give in to every desire,
but it did allow for boundary changes that will allow
recreationalists to continue using the areas they so love,
without impeding critical caribou habitat, and it also
promised to create more recreational areas at Decoigne
and Pyramid Lake.
This decision, which will see the Brazeau and A La
Peche caribou ranges closed until Feb. 28, is somewhat
surprising, if you consider the state of the debate last
winter.
At that time, any opposition to the proposal was viewed
as opposition to the conservation of caribou—an argument
few people voiced. If you looked at comment threads on
stories written by provincial or national media sources,
it made Jasper’s recreationalists sound like pitchfork
wielding caribou killers.
But here we are with a decision that resulted in positive
words from the superintendent of Jasper National Park, the
executive director of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness
Society’s Northern Alberta chapter, the interim CEO of
Tourism Jasper, the executive director of the Association
for Mountain Parks Protection and Enjoyment and local
outdoor enthusiasts.
The chances of such a wide acceptance for a decision
that had caribou conservation pitted against backcountry
users, seemed unlikely a few months ago, but Parks
somehow found a cozy middle ground for everyone.
For that, the agency, and the working group who spent
countless hours on this decision, deserve credit.
We hope that Parks will take the lessons it learned
during its latest public consultation process into its next
one, when it discusses Maligne Tours’ proposal to develop
overnight accommodation at Maligne Lake.
It would be nice to again see a decision that clearly
reflects the community’s input, as this latest decision has.
— Karen Wells
[email protected]
Questioning Simms article
Dear Editor,
The story “Get it done” in January 9th’s issue of the Pilot has a
very ironic title. If “get it done” is MP Scott Simms’ motto, he might
start by taking his own advice.
In 2012-2013 our province got 34 per cent more federal health
care funding than it got when Simms and fellow Liberals were last
in charge of “getting it done.” Education and social transfers last
year also were 19 per cent higher.
Scott Simms voted against the budgets that made these
increases a reality – a full $632 million for our hospitals, schools,
and other critical services. So much for getting it done where it
counts most...
Municipalities received more federal investment in infrastructure in recent years than ever before. In your story, Simms selectively ignores important progress – from Lewisporte highway
improvements to the Gander fire hall to the upcoming replacement of the Robert Bond Bridge.
For someone whose riding has mining and exploration industries, Simms surprisingly still chose to fight against reforms
designed to eliminate duplication, delay and needless red tape.
Apparently attracting resource investment isn’t his priority.
It gets better. Our MP spent dozens of hours slowing-down passage of the final part of the 2012 Action Plan legislation, repeating
ad nauseam that he was “protecting” waterways. Omitted from
his litany, be it due to disgraceful dishonesty or embarrassing ignorance, was the fact that no less than nine federal statutes (including the Environmental Assessment Act) continue to protect every
waterway he mentioned. In other words, Simms wasted our dollars and everybody’s time. So much for representing us. . Still, I
must give credit where it is due – it takes a special kind of person
to complain about inaction while jamming so many sticks into so
many spokes.
Helen O’Brien
Buchans
The secret is out
DS, PS3, Xbox, Wii — don’t worry
this isn’t some kind of secret code.
These are popular video games that
children and adults like playing — I will
go so far as to say some are addicted to
playing.
Video games have evolved from the
classic Pong to a character named
Mario battling mushrooms and turtles
to save a princess, to all out war games
where the player is the solider trying to
save the world. The games have graphics and sounds so realistic players feel
they are actually in the game.
While video games have made
tremendous strides towards realism to
keep players interested, they are facing
some new obstacles. iPods, iPads and
tablets ranked very high on Christmas
lists this past year. Games can be purchased directly from the App store for
as low as .99 cents and downloaded
directly to the iPod. The App store is
what the arcade was 30 years ago, give
the game your money and you get
instant play. Kids now think they have
to have the latest video game or iPod
in order to have fun. I’m not judging,
my kids (ages nine and seven) love, no
adore, their games. I enjoy games and
apps as well sometimes, but they feel
like they have to take them wherever
christy
boyd
sit down for a spell
we go or “they won’t
make it” as my son Cody tells me on a
regular basis.
I respond to him, “Cody, your brain
is going to turn to mush if you keep
playing that. You do have an imagination.” He says nothing.
Are we keeping a secret from our
children that we treasured as children
ourselves? Imagination, pretending
and make believe — remember those
days? We would eat our breakfast and
go outside to play, eat lunch, play and
only when our stomachs rumbled was
it was time for supper. Where did all
these ideas come from? Books — they
are our window to another time and
place, they enrich our lives and allow
us to feed our imaginations. Just like a
seed must be planted and watered,
children need to be read to in order to
grow and develop their own love of
reading. January 27 is Family Literacy Day
this year’s theme is “15 Minutes of Fun.”
ABC Life Literacy Canada is encouraging people to take 15 minutes out of
their day to learn and have fun together. This is a perfect opportunity to show
children that reading and learning go
hand in hand. Fun can be found not
only in a video game or at an app store,
but in picking up a comic strip or playing a board game instead. Books are
much more fun read in silly voices or
under the blankets with a flashlight. If
you would like more information about
Family Literacy Day visit www.abclifeliteracy.ca and check out 15 fun literacy
activities you can do with your family.
Children can also visit their local
library to get their own library card and
borrow books for free. The Lewisporte
Memorial Public Library will also be
celebrating Family Literacy Day. They
are looking for young authors to write
a one-page (or less) story, with or without artwork, and bring it to the library
by Jan. 25. All the stories received will
be made into a book and displayed at
the library. Please include you name,
grade and age along with your story.
Don’t forget to put on your thinking
caps and use your imagination.
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Thomas Ricketts, one of the only two
Newfoundlanders to have earned the Victoria Cross (VC) — the British Empire’s
supreme award for gallantry — is rightly
regarded as one of the pre-eminent heroes
of the Great War of 1914-18. The other Newfoundlander, John
Bernard Croak from Little Bay, in Notre
Dame Bay, also won a VC; on Aug. 8, 1918,
while serving with the Canadian army. He
died of his wounds later that day.
Ricketts was only 17 on Oct. 14 1918, the
morning that he demonstrated “the most
conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty”
for which he won the British Empire’s highest decoration. France, Britain’s ally, awarded him the Croix de Guerre with Gold Star,
to honour his courage further.
Several of his comrades were also commended for their gallantry that morning.
Matthew Brazil, Thomas Corbin, Samuel
Greenslade and Arthur Whalen won the
Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM), second only to the Victoria Cross. Lt. Albert
Newman was awarded the Military Cross
(MC), while Richard Power received the Military Medal (MM). Power had won a DCM
only 11 days earlier.
Their actions still stand as proof of the
finest traditions of our regiment.
But, it takes nothing away from their
gallantry and courage to recall that Ricketts
and his comrades were not the regiment’s
only heroes. These other soldiers exemplify
the finest traditions of the regiment, and
they, too, deserve to be remembered.
Ricketts is the only member of the regiment to have won the Victoria Cross, but
he was not the regiment’s most decorated
soldier. That honour belongs to Bertram Butler.
A Blue Puttee (he was No. 146), Butler was
commissioned as a lieutenant on Oct. 4,
1914, the day he and his comrades sailed
for England. He fought at Gallipoli, and
accompanied his comrades to France. By now a captain, he was appointed the
battalion’s intelligence officer. On June 26,
1916, he led a raid on the German trenches
at Beaumont Hamel, seeking prisoners and
any other information that could help to
prepare for the planned attack — the July
Drive. His mission was to destroy the
barbed-wire fields in front of the German
trenches.
The limited success of the raid led to a
second one, on June 27. Again, Capt. Butler
led the raiding party. He was awarded the
Military Cross (MC) in acknowledgment of
his gallantry.
Butler served throughout the war, and
fought in the engagements at Gueudecourt, Sailly-Saillisel, and Cambrai. He
earned a Bar to his MC — a second award
— at Gueudecourt, in October 1916.
A year later, at Masnières during the
Battle of Cambrai, he won the Distinguished Service Order (second only to the
VC, and equivalent to the DCM awarded to
the rank-and-file soldiers) for leading an
attack in which he and his comrades captured a machine gun. And he was Mentioned in Dispatches — an official commendation by the High Command — in
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Weedy first impression
Dear Editor,
I would like to voice my disappointment and frustration
at the appearance of the boulevard along Connaught Drive.
We consider ourselves a world-class destination. Is
Connaught Drive the first impression we want to give our
visitors? The first thing they see as they enter town on our
“main” street is a weedy landscape mess. The large rocks
and ever-growing weeds are causing sight line problems on
an already congested roadway.
At one time, the boulevard was landscaped with
underground sprinkler systems and grass. As expensive as
that landscape option may have been, it presented a neat and
tidy appearance. I don’t believe paying multiple people to
weed the boulevard all summer is going to be any cheaper.
The amount of area that needs constant weeding, makes
hand weeding an almost impossible task. If workers could
get the entire street weeded, they would literally be going
back and starting all over again.
I don’t know the solution. One remedy may be to remove
all the rocks and weeds, leave the trees, replace the sprinkler
system and replace the grass. It would cost yet more money
to correct the unfortunate choice that has been made, but the
alternative is to live with it as it overgrows for years to come.
As residents and businesses alike strive to enhance their
properties, it’s disheartening to see the state our main street
is in.
Barbara Feniak
Jasper, Alta.
Inspired and inspiring group of Friends
Dear Editor,
Congratulations to the Friends of Jasper on the occasion
of their 30th anniversary. I’ve had the pleasure of working
with a few Friends groups over the years and can confidently
say that the Friends of Jasper are by far the most successful,
inspiring and inspired of the lot. It likely has a lot to do
with the quality of its key staff people, the volunteer spirit
that runs so strong in the Jasper community, and the love
of Jasper National Park shared by so many members. Here’s
hoping for many more decades of success to a great bunch of
people in one of the world’s great places.
Kevin Van Tighem
Canmore, Alta.
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Past Imperfect columns on a bi-weekly
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offered some valuable insight into this
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 2013
Public consultation
done right
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‘Exam’ ining
the options
There isn’t an issue that impacts people more than health care
— quality health care.
Health care is something that impacts each and every person living
in a community. Whatever your age or gender, we all require the services of a physician at some point in our lives and some of us more than
others.
Since arriving at the Pilot almost 10 years ago there has been an
ongoing stream of health-related issues to cover including the lobby
effort for an under-one-roof health care complex, the retention of laboratory and x-ray services and nurse staffing models. One that has
been a constant throughout that time is the need for better recruitment and retention of physicians. Related to that is the concern over
the condition of the current private medical clinic in Lewisporte.
As is noted in the article on page 1A, the Concerned Citizens Committee has been working diligently since 2011 on seeing change to the
current medical environment. They want to see a second privately
operated clinic located in Lewisporte. People might question if a second clinic is required, but the committee can see the merit in such a
facility.
Not only does Lewisporte have a large senior population, there are
also a number of young families. Access to quality health care is a priority for both areas of the population. It can be a determining factor
in deciding if Lewisporte or one of the surrounding communities is
a place to retire or settle down.
While it is not known how many doctors the developer of a second
clinic would be looking at having on staff, with 12,000-13,000 patient
files at the Lewisporte Family Medical Clinic and normally five physicians on staff, it’s pretty safe to say that there is enough to go around
in terms of a thriving practice with an attractive income.
The benefits of a second clinic seem obvious. Just as obvious is
what would happen if we were to turn around tomorrow and the current situation of the clinic condition and lack of doctors resulted in
its closure. The committee members point to a domino effect that
would likely ensue in this instance.
Without a clinic there would not be a need for a laboratory and xray facility. The After Hours Clinic would likely cease to exist without
doctors to staff it. Residents of North Haven Manor would have to rely
on either a physician visiting them to attend to their medical needs,
or having to make the out of town trip to Grand Falls-Windsor or Gander to see a doctor.
Bring a second clinic into Lewisporte and you are bound to see
related residential and business growth not just in Lewisporte, but
throughout the region. While a second clinic could bring growth to
the community/region, not having a clinic at all could have devastating consequences on the attractiveness of the area for people who
might consider calling it home, or those who already live her might
not be willing to live without this level of health care.
As one committee member said, we will all be waving at each other
from the highway as we travel back and forth to medical appointments. The committee members don’t want people to take for granted
or be complacent about the importance of a medical clinic and the
associated services.
They know they have the support of people in their efforts of seeing
a second medical clinic established in Lewisporte, but it doesn’t happen overnight and it hasn’t been an easy process so far. Whatever support residents can show them would go a long way in this process.
As they and the newly formed Mayor’s Committee led by Lewisporte Mayor Brian Sceviour also address physician recruitment
and retention issues, the support of those directly impacted will
also be key.
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Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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Health
Hantsport water woes
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News
Firefighters battle Sunday
afternoon garage fire
Sports
Television Guide . . . . . . 16
Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Wrestling match coming
to Windsor Aug. 23
Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Residents
warned
of door-to-door
sales tactics
Concern expressed
over medical alert system
for seniors
By Ashley Thompson
THE HANTS JOURNAL
NovaNewsNow.com
Some contracts signed with a company that sold medical alarm systems in
Hantsport and the surrounding areas
may be void.
The Windsor District RCMP, Better Business Bureau and Service
Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations
have all received complaints about
Seniors Connect, a privately-owned
business that sent a sales representative to the homes of some seniors in
the area, pitching its medical alert
technology.
According to the Better Business
Bureau (BBB) website, the consumer
advocacy organization received three
complaints about the Middle
Sackville-based Seniors Connect
between February and May of this
year.
Two of the complaints lodged with
the BBB reported problems with the
product and service, while one
involved advertising and sales issues.
Two of the complaints have been
resolved but one, citing problems with
the product or service, remains outstanding.
Continued on Page 5
UNDER THE
RAINBOW
While the grown ups learned to cook using organic
produce, kids at the Meadows to Menu event at Fairmont
Jasper Park Lodge, made themselves at home under a
colourful parachute. For more coverage of the event, see
next week’s Fitzhugh.
N. VEERMAN PHOTO
The Fitzhugh
Jasper, AB
This Upper Burlington home was fully ablaze when firefighters arrived on scene Aug. 8, making battling the fire all the more difficult. Carole Morris-Underhill photo
Upper Burlington home destroyed by fire
By Carole Morris-Underhill
THE HANTS JOURNAL
NovaNewsNow.com
The charred remnants of an Upper
Burlington home were all that remained
following a mid-morning fire Aug. 8.
Brooklyn Fire Chief Mark Dearman
said when he arrived on scene, the home
was fully involved, with flames coming
out both ends of the building, as well as
through the roof.
“There was a lot of heat involved. I
tried to take a walk around the house to
see what hazards we had and (I) couldn’t walk around the house; the heat was
so unbearable on the backside,” said
Dearman.
Hants Journal
Windsor, NS
Continued on Page 3
Kivalliq News
Nunavut, NU
General Excellence
Judge: Julie Carl
Blue Ribbons
Almaguin News, Burks Falls, ON
Deh Cho Drum, Fort Simpson, NT
Hants Journal, Windsor, NS
Kivalliq News, Nunavut, NU
Meaford Express, Meaford, ON
New Hamburg Independent, New Hamburg, ON
Powell River Peak, Powell River, BC
The Chief, Squamish, BC
The Fitzhugh, Jasper, AB
The Kincardine Independent, Kincardine, ON
The Pilot, Lewisporte, NL
JUDGE’S COMMENTS
First – The Fitzhugh
Amazing photography well played on both fronts. (Bit disconcerting that Aug. 1 pointed to
next week’s paper, front elements should draw the reader into this week’s paper.) I love the
weekender wrap on the August paper. Never seen that anywhere. I like the history photo
on editorial page. Nice solution to keeping it local with no local cartoonist. Avoid backing
into sentences, especially with ledes. Straightforward sentences make for clarity of writing.
Second – Hants Journal
Photography is outstanding. A fire shot with actual flames! And an editor not afraid to
run with the breaking news story. Lots of news here, something for every reader. I like the
photos in the sky boxes. Generally, the writing is colourful, but always keep an eye out for
the dull, too long lede.
Third – Kivaliq News
I love the use of the two languages. What a sign the paper is inclusive of all its readers. And
bonus: the type of the second language is so beautiful. Big bold photos, nicely played. I like
the quote of the day. Writing is not as strong as photography. Watch length of leads and
extraneous detail.
General Excellence
General Excellence
Judge: Grant Harris
first place
Second place
Third place
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Photo by Brandon MacLeod
Kids are making use of the Big Book Station and other new additions to the Bonnyville Library, as part of its yearlong Literacy Enhanced Program upgrades, which were made possible by a $4,000 grant from Telus last year.
Pictured (from left to right) are Tyler and Sydney Syverson from High River and Aletta and Skylar Dechaine from
Bonnyville. For more on the library, see page 9.
BY SARAH MAETCHE
STAFF REPORTER
Dog sled team raring to go for gruelling races
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on January 23. Read more on B1.
County, Town consider partnership
for waste water treatment
Reeve says they are looking at many sites for facility
BY SARAH MAETCHE
STAFF REPORTER
“It’s being looked at by the town
and the county,” said Clearwater
County Reeve Pat Alexander to
the Mountaineer on January 4.
“We are establishing our short
term need and our long term
needs and there’s also everchanging regulations to discharge
the highest quality of water that
you can. We are looking at the
technology that’s available.”
‘It’s an expensive venture
and it has to be looked
at from a community
perspective to provide the
best for everyone in the
area in the future.’
Pat Alexander
Clearwater County Reeve
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Alexander mentioned that
both the town and county are
accessing their future needs in
regards to waste water facilities
and hopes both parties can work
together in meeting the needs.
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It’s back to the drawing board
for Clearwater County regarding
the proposed waste water facility.
Clearwater County will now be
possibly working together with
the Town of Rocky Mountain
House on a facility.
In 2011, a problem arose when
waste water haulers from the
county were closed
out of the Town of
Rocky Mountain
House lagoon. At
that time a report
was given to
town councillors
indicating their
waste water lagoon
Pat
was not complying
Alexander
with provincial
regulations.
To be in volume compliance,
the town chose to close the lagoon
to out of town traffic. County
haulers were then forced to other
locations including the Leslieville
lagoon.
To meet its needs, the county
has examined the possibility of
a new facility which will cost
approximately $6 million.
“It’s an expensive venture
and it has to be looked at from
a community perspective to
provide the best for everyone in
the area in the future,” he said.
As for a location, which is yet
to be determined, Alexander
said there is a whole list of
possibilities.
“If the town is part of it, it
needs to be in a position, a place
where they can take advantage of
it,” he said.
Alexander also mentioned
that due to technological
advancements, it is possible the
facility will be located inside a
building.
“I think if you look at the
system we have and in 10 years
from now it doesn’t meet the
need because the regulatory
keeps changing, everybody looks
at us upstream as a source of
the North Saskatchewan source
water,” he said.
Alexander stated that currently
the water leaving Clearwater
County borders is rated good to
excellent and he plans to ensure
that it will remain that way.
Expenses regarding the
proposed waste water facility will
be visible in the 2015 budget.
INSIDE THIS WEEK
AGRICULTURE
CAROLINE CLARION
CLASSIFIEDS
DINING|ENTERTAINMENT
OPINION
SPORTS
ROCKY LIFE
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C4
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‘This is one large
community and we
as municipal leaders
have to nd ways of
working together.’
THE WILL TO SURVIVE:
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assumed dead after he was
missing for four days alone in
the frigid west country. D1
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postpones
cuts to
pathology
services
Clearwater County
2013 budget in the works
Clearwater County’s 2013 budget has not yet been
approved but all signs point to a similar budget to
that of last year.
“It’s a service budget,” Clearwater County Reeve
Pat Alexander told The Mountaineer January 4.
“We’ve seen an increased demand for some increased level of service on gravel roads and things
like that, so we’ve addressed some of those issues,”
he said of the budget, which may be approved at
council’s upcoming meeting on January 8.
In response to a question whether taxes will be
going up in the county, Alexander said it’s early yet
to determine whether there will be an increase.
“The difference between an urban and rural budget is, a huge amount of our revenues come from
non-residential, which
is industrial, and we
don’t get those assessments until March,” he
said.
“When we get our
assessment, we will
see if there is or isn’t
an increase and it can
be determined at that
time.”
One of the biggest
Pat Alexander
expenses the Reeve
predicts for 2013 is the
Public Works paving
program.
“We always tender our paving program in the fall
for the next year, so we tendered 2013 paving in November,” said Alexander. “When we saw the kind
of pricing we were getting for 2013, council then
decided ‘Well, let’s take our 2014 paving program
and tender it and see what kind of pricing we will
get if we put the two together.’ We then decided we
would take the money from the program reserves
and do our 2014 program also in 2013 because of
the pricing we got on the paving was exceptionally
good.”
Alexander also mentioned that the county plans
to work on five local bridges that will be re-habbed
in 2013, among other previously budgeted expenses.
When looking back, Alexander says 2012 was a
successful year for the county.
“Certainly it had some challenges at the start of
the year,” he said.
“We got most of our work plan complete. The
only one we didn’t get complete was the Angle Road
and that was because our tenders came in way over
budget. But we were able to re-tender that this past
fall and they came in considerably under, so that
will go forward in 2013.”
Alexander says the county will always have challenges.
“I think we need to do more communication with
our citizenry on the reasons we do things — some
that’s regulatory and legislated, some it’s by choice
of council based on information that we have,” he
said. “We want to try and increase our level of communication and try to answer questions citizens
have.
“We have an extremely good relationship with
the Town of Rocky Mountain House and the Village
of Caroline and that will continue. We are looking
at structuring it a little bit more so that when we
potentially look at a regional service, then we have
a better structure of working through it.
“This is one large community and we as municipal leaders have to find ways of working together.”
When asked if he will run in the 2013 municipal
election, Alexander said it is a possibility.
“It depends on what happens during the year,” he
said.
“I just wish everyone in the county a happy New
Year and all the best,” said Alexander. “I am looking forward to working with them over the next
year.”
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Three men saved by strangers after boat capsizes
BROMLEY CHAMBERLAIN
ADVOCATE STAFF
The August long
weekend started out
the same as any other
day for Ron Piasetzki
and Mackenzie Ryan at
their cabin on Calling
Lake.
“It was a perfect
morning. The water
was absolutely crystal
clear, calm,” Ryan recalled about the morning of Aug. 2.
Since the two had had
no luck fishing in front
of the cabins recently,
they decided to head out
into the lake towards
the ranger station.
“Normally, because
I was only going out
for a short time, I just
would have fished right
in front of the cabins,”
Piasetzki said. “I asked
Mac where he wanted
to go, and he wanted to
try somewhere else.”
At 9 a.m. they headed
out onto the lake.
After shutting off the
big motor, Piasetzki
fired up the trolling
motor, and they start-
ed to fish. For half an
hour they trolled along,
catching only one fish.
Piasetzki and Ryan
then heard something
peculiar. A faint voice
yelled out.
“In the distance we
heard, ‘Hey,’ which was
kind of odd that there
was not a cry for help,”
Ryan said.
Piasetzki added, “We
looked in the direction of the voice, and it
looked like there might
be someone in the water.”
The shape in the water was quite a distance
from the boat, but Piasetzki and Ryan decided
it looked like someone
in trouble.
“We raced over to
take a look,” Piasetzki
said. “When we got
there, we found a man
in the water. He was
hanging onto what appeared to be a blow-up
toy and wasn’t wearing
a lifejacket.”
Ryan said, “Ron
yelled out to ask if he
needed a hand, and he
said yes. I grabbed him
and pulled him into the
boat.”
Ryan noticed the man
was out of breath and
was freezing cold. The
man had been in the
water for several hours
after his boat capsized.
The man then told
Ryan and Piasetzki they
had to save his friends.
“I just felt sick instantly. There was no
one around,” Piasetzki
recalled.
However, the man
pointed, and they could
make out something in
the water in the distance.
“We couldn’t make
out what it was. It was
white, and it looked like
something sticking out
of the water,” Piasetzki
said.
Ryan added, “It was a
long way … and as we
got closer and closer,
you could see the boat
was nosed out of the
water.”
See STRENGTH,
page 4A
Storseth sees proroguing of
parliament as a ‘kind of reset’
JANICE HUSER
Nouvelle Contributor
Last week Prime Minister
Stephen Harper announced his
intentions to ask the governor
general to prorogue parliament
this fall.
According to Westlock-St. Paul
MP Brian Storseth, proroguing
parliament is fairly routine and
offers the government a “kind
of reset.” The last session of
parliament, he says, was pretty
long and a lot of “key issues” were
addressed.
Issues that were addressed since
the last throne speech include
items such as the long gun registry
being repealed, the ending of the
Canadian Wheat Board monopoly,
along with a number of economic
items.
Storseth adds that Harper had
alluded to the proroguing of
parliament last year, saying there
would be another throne speech.
As for new priorities that will
be included in the upcoming
throne speech, Storseth says that
right now MPs are spending the
summer talking to Canadians. MPs
will then submit ideas to the prime
minister’s office.
“I can assure you that there will
be jobs growth and long-term
prosperity” addressed in the throne
speech, says Storseth. Economic
development will continue to be
a priority moving forward, along
with focusing on trade and trying
to ensure some of the proposed
pipelines are built in Canada.
“People are still very much
concerned about the economy,”
says Storseth. But, he added,
people are also optimistic in this
area, with a good growing season
and good crops being seen so far.
Ensuring there is enough labour
in Alberta is also something
Storseth says Canadians feel is
important to keep moving the
economy forward.
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With the proroguing of parliament
MPs will most likely not sit until
sometime in October, rather than
mid-September. Storseth says
that sitting for fewer days this
fall doesn’t necessarily mean the
government will sit for fewer days
overall.
The proroguing of parliament
does have an affect on certain bills
that haven’t received royal assent,
as some can be set back to zero.
“They’re all affected differently,”
says Storseth, adding, the
government sat extended hours
during the last session to pass
legislation.
Looking to the next session,
Storseth says his priorities will
be pushing for a response to the
Cold Lake Oil Sands Area CRISP
report, and also helping with
provincial issues such as improving
the conditions of Highway 28
and bringing money into the
province to address rural health
care issues.
Following further discussions between Alberta
Health Services and staff at the Bonnyville Health
Centre on Aug. 5, the province has decided to postpone
any decision to make changes to the pathology
program at the hospital pending further investigation
and discussions.
With Dr. Bob Davey having announced his intent to
retire earlier this year, AHS had planned to close the
pathology department at the health centre and revert
all local pathology services to Edmonton.
Dr. Leonard de Freitas, president of Bonnyville’s
medical staff, has been against these planned changes
since they were announced earlier this summer, and
he said he was happy to see AHS responding to pleas
from both the staff at the hospital and the public
following a meeting with AHS representatives Aug. 5.
“I got a phone call a week after our meeting from
AHS North Zone Medical Director Dr. Kevin Worry,
and he told me after collaboration with his bosses,
AHS had decided to put the whole process (of closing
the pathology department) on hold pending further
investigation,” de Freitas said. “I think the general
conclusion is they need to go back to the drawing
board again and present us with some answers on a
number of concerns we have. They’ve acknowledged
the way they went about implementing the changes
wasn’t right and have decided they need to take our
concerns into consideration and come up with a viable
plan.
“That being said, they haven’t promised they’re not
going to move forward with their plans, they’re just
putting them on hold for the time being and taking a
look at the whole issue.”
Worry said he was encouraged by the meetings in
Bonnyville and was happy to see local physicians step
up to the plate and provide AHS with all the relevant
information needed to make a final decision.
“Certainly both AHS and Covenant Health
appreciates the time and effort Bonnyville physicians
are making when it comes to ensuring we have all the
information and take everything into account so we
are able to make the right decision concerning quality
of patient care moving forward,” Worry said.
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women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.’
Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Preserving
history
P
Sanction
Mizkat, premier of Canada’s Rich and Poor province sighed deeply
as she closed the front door of her house against the wind-driven
snow outside. She tossed her keys into the basket on the table in the
entryway, shrugged out of her coat and hung it up in the closet. Sitting down heavily on a bench, she pulled off
her snow boots. Mizkat leaned her head
back against the wall, closed her eyes and
sighed again.
She was tired and bone-weary after yet
another long day. Tired, but satisfied. The
job had been done. The great project had
been launched at last, and although there
still remains a long list of hurdles to get over,
for the moment there was a chance to catch
NEITHER HERE
her breath.
Padding along the hall in her slippers, she
NOR THERE
headed for the kitchen.
BY PETER PICKERSGILL
She paused by the door to the living room
and glanced in. Nalcor, her little pet muskrat
was asleep in his special place. On a tiny rug under the coffee table
he was curled up, dead to the world.
Nalcor is tired too, she thought. He has been sleeping a lot since
he re-appeared as if by magic several weeks ago. What a surprise to
see him spiralling down out of the sky, towed by a team of Greater Yellow
Legs who deposited him gently on the lawn before lifting off and vanishing into the southern sky. She had been so very glad to see him after his
mysterious disappearance and a long absence she feared might last forever.
In the kitchen, Mizkat opened the refrigerator and took out the halffull glass she had left there last night. If the opposition were here now, she
thought, they would claim the glass was half empty, but it’s a moot point.
In minutes it will be entirely empty and I will be feeling a whole lot better.
Mizkat tip-toed across the living room to turn on her computer.
Under the coffee table, unseen by her, the little muskrat opened one eye,
closed it again, and trembled ever so slightly.
As the computer screen slowly lit up, Mizkat was surprised to see the
word SANCTION appear.
“What’s that about?” she thought.
“I turned this machine off last night. I’d say somebody has been playing with my computer, but that’s impossible. There’s been no one here all
day but Nalcor. Maybe I didn’t turn the machine off properly last night.”
As Mizkat watched the screen, under the word SANCTION a list
began to appear. She stared. As was her habit, whenever a thought
entered her mind, Mizkat spoke it aloud. Thinking the little muskrat
under the coffee table was sound asleep and didn’t understand
human language anyway, what harm could come from talking to herself?
See SANCTION Page A10
Knock down barriers
Dear editor,
Remember the days where it
seemed everywhere we’d go people
were lighting up?
At restaurants, on airplanes, in
hospital rooms ... cigarette smoking
was widespread, and accepted. In
recent years, things have changed.
Awareness campaigns touting the
ills of smoking and widespread bans
have encouraged a number of people
to drop the habit.
But, for 87,000 people (20 per
cent) in Newfoundland and
Labrador, it’s still an addiction that
won’t quit. Despite all efforts, there
has not been a significant decline in
the smoking rate over the past 10
years. Smoking is an addiction and a
serious, chronic condition.
So, how can we help smokers
quit? Increasing access to anti-smoking medications and therapies is an
important next step.
In a news conference hosted by
the Newfoundland and Labrador
Medical Association in November,
physicians and other concerned
groups, including the Association of
Registered Nurses of Newfoundland
and Labrador, called on the province
to include tobacco cessation medications and nicotine replacement
therapies as a benefit under the Newfoundland and Labrador Prescription Drug Program for low-income
smokers. Evidence shows that the
highest proportion of smokers in our
province are those with the lowest
incomes and the cost of quitting is
expensive. Registered nurses support access to therapies and services that will help smokers who are
ready to quit and lead healthier
lives.
The association of registered
nurses believes that helping
remove financial barriers limiting
smokers from accessing medications and therapies that are proven
to help them quit should matter to
all of us.
Tobacco-related hospital visits
and admissions directly impact
wait times and bed availability for
you and your family. Join registered
nurses, physicians, and others, in
calling on the provincial government to fund anti-smoking therapies for low-income residents. We
can all be part of the solution to
help smokers access proven methods for quitting. We will all benefit
from a lower smoking rate.
Tell your MHA that you support
this cause. Let’s work together to
help smokers quit.
Cathy Stratton,
President,
Association of
Registered Nurses of
Newfoundland and Labrador
case in Alberta and Ontario) competing alongside the mediocre public education system that we currently have in this province. A concurrent model of education, where
parents have choices and options, is
the only viable and realistic means
of educational improvement.
In that same CBC interview, Ms.
Adler, who had to make her testing
simpler, waves a red flag: “They
should not be confusing Antarctica
and the Arctic, and they should
know that they live on the Atlantic
Ocean ... and they should be able to
know where North America is.” Our
province is relying on this next generation to build our local economy
of the future. These university students are supposed to be the cream
of the crop. If they do not know
where North America is and that
they live along the Atlantic Ocean,
then that bodes very poorly indeed
for our provincial hopes and aspirations. Accordingly, when ExxonMobil decides to construct its infrastructure outside of Newfoundland
and Labrador (and is willing to pay
double to get out of its obligation), is
there really any wonder why?
Consider St. Bonaventure’s College. I have every confidence that its
students are geographically literate.
Recommendation: the establishment of a fully-funded Roman
Catholic public education system in
Newfoundland and Labrador.
Jerry Lewis
St. John’s
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LOOKING BACK | from the files of The Mountaineer
Collusion keeps
prices up
5 YEARS AGO
Clearwater County Rural
Beautification awards went to Carl
and Mary-Ellen Wilson, active farm;
Helda Oastrom, retired farm; Bruce
and Colleen Stangl, acreage over 15
years.
10 YEARS AGO
Clearwater County Rural
Beautification Award winners were
Chuck and Patricia Poteet, Don and
Kim Chevallier and Ken and Joanne
Kendze.
15 YEARS AGO
A new multi-purpose
administration and wellness
building opened at O’Chiese First
Nation.
20 YEARS AGO
Equestrians Candace Dahms and
Amber Caine and canoeist Jeremy
Peacock won medals at the Alberta
Summer Games in Wetaskiwin.
25 YEARS AGO
The Chamber of Commerce
launched a “We Love Our
Customers” promotion with a new
car as featured prize.
Dr. S. S. Hein retired after 35 years
in medical practice in Rocky.
Over 200 spectators enjoyed
Leslieville Antique Days.
30 YEARS AGO
A Christian Family Fair was a
huge success.
The Rocky Native Friendship
Centre purchased the building they
now occupy.
40 YEARS AGO
For the first time in its history,
events at the annual David
Thompson Cavalcade were
cancelled because of rain.
Council held its first meeting in
This week in 1968, the David Thompson Highway was officially opened, deemed
the “highway of happiness.” Pictured is Min. of Highways, Gordon Taylor; Regional
Engineer for Kamloops area, J.M. Nelson; and Liberal M.P. for Rocky Mountain House,
FILE PHOTO
Allen Sulatycky; at the annual Kootenay Plains Cavalcade.
the new Council chambers.
The Department of Municipal
Affairs approved a development
permit to Aquitaine for a sulphur
loading dock in the Cow Creek area.
George Stewart, one of the
original pioneers in the Bingley
district, passed away at the age of
97.
50 YEARS AGO
Cyclone-force winds struck the
district, doing considerable damage
in the Crimson Lake area.
70 YEARS AGO
To honour A.J. Hooke, local
member, for his elevation to the
cabinet and provincial secretary,
the Board of Trade were hosts at
a banquet. Guests were here from
Nordegg, Saunders, Alexo, Red Deer
and points east and south.
A bad hailstorm did a lot of
damage at Arbutus.
80 YEARS AGO
Harry Leggett of HMCS
Armentiers of Esquimalt was home
on leave.
A forest fire southeast of Nordegg
was so bad that citizens had their
belongings ready to move out. The
fire was burning on a ten mile front.
The Scoular Dairy sold out to
the Boles Bros. and Mr. and Mrs.
Scoular moved to Red Deer.
Parents are cool
I
t’s usually when you’re an awkward preteen in high school that
your parents seem to become
nothing but a big embarrassment
in your life. That’s how it was for
me anyways. Going anywhere with
my parents in public became a
challenge to make sure I didn’t see
anyone I knew, because it would
most likely be extremely lame to be
seen out in public with the people
who raised me.
Now that I consider myself an
adult (mostly), I can’t believe the
way some teenagers can be so embarrassed by every move their parents make, because quite honestly,
parents are usually awesome.
When I was in my awkward teenage years, I’m sure I had an easy
enough time embarrassing myself
without my parents’ help anyways.
I was lanky like a string bean, had
a blue retainer and only wore one
brand of clothing.
Whenever I’d bring friends over
my parents would get all excited
and start engaging in conversation with them. To me, this was
t equivalent of
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them
ruining my
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life.
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wanted
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CHELSEA’S
socialize with my
CHESTERS
parents.
I noticed this
CHELSEA
with most of
GRAINGER
my friends too.
Parents were automatically uninvited to acknowledge us as normal
human beings even though they’re
the ones who gave us the gift of
life.
Culture also generally depicts
teenagers as being embarrassed by
their parents.
Tons of times on sitcoms or in
movies, the teenage character has
asked their parents to drop them
off a few blocks from school to
avoid embarrassment.
These days, I’ve learned to appreciate my parents a whole lot
more than I used to. Parents are
not embarrassing; they’re probably
the coolest people anyone can have
in their life and I wish more kids
would realize this.
Of course they may do a few
old-timey things that make you roll
your eyes and turn a mild shade of
red, but when it comes down to it,
they only want the best for you and
there’s nothing better than that.
A lot of times now, I find myself spending Saturday nights at
home with my mom and dad. I’ve
reached that age where I enjoy
spending time with them without
feeling like a loser and I can’t believe there was ever a time where it
was any different.
Plus, my parents have put up
with everything from being a toddler stuffing my face with dirt to
deciding to move away for university and everything in between, and
for that, I’m proud of them.
CHELSEA GRAINGER is a staff reporter at
The Mountaineer and can be reached at
[email protected].
Making history in Rocky
S
ince coming to Rocky Mountain House, my life has been a
crash course in learning new
things.
Even after three months, I’m still
a city girl, but I’m also loving living
in a town.
For instance, this summer I
caught my first fish, ran in my first
charity race, and attended my first
powwow.
I was taught to identify and even
convinced to try a number of local,
edible, wild plants – not exactly
gourmet, but not bad either.
I’ve been welcomed at every community event the town has to offer,
which made taking photographs
much, much easier.
The best part of Rocky Mountain
House though has been learning
about its history.
A few trips out to the bustling
National Historic Site informed
me that history is not only valued
by residents, it’s a pillar of the
culture.
I started at The Mountaineer just
in time to witness the intensive
research that went into “History
from the Headlines.”
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agricultural,
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environmentalist
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cultures that have
been interacting
for over 100 years.
I was a little surprised to find
that the history of the Canadian
Forces in the area is not only quite
rich, it is also very well documented and interesting.
Bill Dickson, coordinator of the
Paratrooper D-Day celebrations at
Siffleur Falls on June 6 was kind
enough to send me many pages
describing the day and its importance, all which I read in under an
hour.
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paratroopers who trained just two
hours away from Rocky were a
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more interesting read than most
novels.
I’m very grateful that there are
people out there keeping these
memories alive and that for the
summer, I get to be one of them.
Working for a paper that is 90
years old, not only am I writing
and taking photos for residents of
Rocky this week, I am also working to preserve history as it’s being
made.
That’s a pretty humbling feeling that I think residents here can
appreciate.
The movie night and pancake
breakfast at the centennial celebrations this year were fun, but the
time capsule that residents helped
create was the icing on the cake.
It’s a great idea to get the community involved in history-preserving initiatives like the time
capsule so that the next generation
can appreciate the good, the bad,
the weird and the awesome things
that happen here.
SARAH ANN Collins is a staff reporter at
The Mountaineer and can be reached for
comment at [email protected].
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Alberta’s energy watchdog, the Market Surveillance
Administrator (MSA), has indicated electricity
providers in the province are “signaling” each other
to keep prices up.
Surprise, surprise.
Electricity prices in Alberta have been on the
rise since the PC party created a system based
on markets and competition, which included the
MSA as an overseer to ensure “Alberta’s electricity
markets are fair, efficient and competitive.”
However, it now appears the body entrusted
with ensuring competitiveness is claiming the very
companies created to compete with each other and
keep prices reasonable are colluding to ensure prices
keep rising, using the Historical Trading Report
(HTR).
According to the MSA’s report, available to the
public on Albertamsa.ca, “The (HTR) is a spreadsheet
published by the Alberta Electric System Operator
(AESO) 5‐10 minutes after the end of the settlement
interval (every hour of the day). It discloses all
market participants’ offer prices...includes the
volume offered at each price. It does not identify
the assets associated with the offers. However, in
practical terms, sophisticated market participants
can decode the report with a high degree of certainty
and therefore know the price and volume their
counterparts were prepared to sell at, effectively
their competitive intentions, and this is repeated 24
times each day, seven days a week.”
The report goes on to call Alberta’s electricity
market an oligopoly - a market form in which a
market or industry is dominated by a small number
of sellers. Oligopolies can result from various forms
of collusion, which reduce competition and lead to
higher costs for consumers.
The PC party started restructuring the public
market in 1996, which up until then prescribed
prices based on regulation. The goal of deregulation
was to sell off the public utilities and diversify
Alberta’s power market.
Evidence suggests the system has diversified,
adding wind power to its mostly coal-fired power
grid. There are also steam generators used in
oilsands extraction that produce more power than
the companies using them require. The excess is
then sold back to the power grid.
There has also been significant spending on new
infrastructure and upgrades to older items.
Certainly, building and upgrading electrical
infrastructure requires initial investment from
the power provider, but once the construction is
complete, the cost are passed on to the consumer
indefinitely, while the company completely recoups
its investment and in turn increases profit.
Albertans require power to survive this climate.
However, the current system is clearly gaming the
consumers and that is not right.
The government stepped in nearly two decades ago
to change what it deemed a flawed system. Will it
step in again, this time to protect the people, or will
corporate interests continue to run the province’s
power grid?
Syrian atrocity must be dealt with
Well, it has to be said,
the fighting in Syria,
as sick and disgusting
as it is, seems to be
unavoidable
without
intervention by outside
forces.
It’s been almost two
and a half years since
rebel forces rose up
against President Bashar
al-Assad’s
regime
in March 2011, and
very rarely do you
see such grievances as
these settled swiftly or
peacefully.
With the death toll now
in excess of 100,000, it’s
easy to see that this civil
war between Assad’s
controlling government
and coalition forces, now
officially known as the
Syrian National Coalition
for Opposition and
Revolutionary Forces,
has been a blood bath.
But over the past few
months, all indications
seem to point to Assad
following in his father’s
footsteps – accused of
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several human rights
violations.
Since those disgusting,
bone-chilling
reports
surfaced on Wednesday
confirming that between
322 and 1,300 people,
including over 100
children, were killed
by alleged chemical
weapons attacks on
the eastern suburbs of
Damascus, the entire
western
world
has
blown up, with both the
public and the media
demanding the UN take
action against those
responsible.
With UN officials
currently on the ground
in Syria to investigate
claims President Assad
launched
several
warheads
containing
nerve gas at the suburbs
of Ain Tarma, Zamalka
and Jobar, collectively
known
as
eastern
Ghouta, last week,
many are expecting to
hear news sooner rather
than later that could
leave high-profile world
leaders with a decision
to make.
Reports on Monday
suggested the UN team
were being fired at by
several snipers in the
‘buffer zone area’ as
they made their way to
the site of the alleged
attack, so it seems
somebody doesn’t want
the world knowing what
really happened on that
fateful day. Nobody
was hurt in the attack,
and the convoy is
expecting to head back
to the area in the coming
days.
As has been seen
in the past during
confrontations between
Israel and Palestine, the
first two years of this
Syrian civil war, and the
uprisings in northern
African countries over
the past two years, the
UN and its ‘leaders’,
the likes of the United
States, Russia, France,
the United Kingdom and
Canada are more than
happy to sit back and
watch, allowing opposing
and warring parties to
fight it out. But there
comes a time when they
need to step in, and in
light of these chemical
weapons attacks, that
time is now.
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Time for alternatives in public education
Dear editor,
“The Atlantic Ocean is labelled
as the Mediterranean Sea; Africa is
circled and labelled as Europe, with
Spain and Italy being put in the middle of Africa,” states Memorial University geography professor Judith
Adler, as reported by the CBC on
Jan. 15, concerning her university
students’ lack of geographical
knowledge.
I have written to former minister
of education Joan Shea in the past
and have indicated that Newfoundland and Labrador students are performing dreadfully on international
and national testing. I have, as remedy, recommended the establishment of fully-funded Roman
Catholic public education (as is the
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ublic education is key to addressing domestic
violence. However, this doesn’t only concern
potential victims, but also potential perpetrators and bystanders.
A report recently published by the Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives
called The Gap in Gender Gap:
Violence Against Women in
Canada asks for a coherent,
coordinated, well-resourced
national action plan to address
violence against women.
Although not all domestic
violence is perpetrated against
women, it makes up an
overwhelming majority of cases
that are worth considering.
For example, when Oscar
Pistorius killed his partner Reeva Steenkamp,
it put a spotlight on South Africa where rates of
violence against women were the highest ever
reported in research across the world.
However, the World Health Organization also
estimates that one in four women in Canada will
experience intimate partner violence or sexual
assault in their lifetime.
Further to that, the Canadian Centre for
Policy Alternatives wrote in its report that more
than 7 per cent of the population of Alberta has
experienced intimate partner violence in the past
five years.
On any given day, more than 200 Albertan
women will seek protection from a shelter or
transition home.
The report finds that there are 50 shelters in
total in Alberta, with 1,304 spaces available to
women fleeing abuse and their children. The rate
of women residing in shelters or transition homes
has nearly doubled over the past decade.
According to the report, “violence impacts
women’s health, women’s ability to access higher
education, women’s economic security, and
women’s ability to participate in public life.”
The 2012 Justice Canada report: An Estimation of
the Economic Impact of Spousal Violence in Canada
identifies the total cost of intimate partner violence
in Canada as $7.4 billion per year. The report
includes estimates for pain and suffering as well
as direct costs such as medical care costs and lost
productivity. The direct costs of intimate partner
violence in Canada total $1.9 billion per year.
Most recently, there has been a shift away from
a framework in which victims are held responsible
for the crime committed against them, according to
the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report.
“For example, the response to the problem of
drunk driving is not to educate the population
about how not to be hit by a drunk driver. Current
public education campaigns are beginning to
address themselves to potential perpetrators and
bystanders—encouraging bystanders to intervene if
they see the potential for violence,” states the report.
One such campaign is Walk a Mile in Her Shoes
which aims to raise awareness about causes,
effects and remedies for sexual assault and
domestic violence. The Mountain Rose Women’s
Shelter Association is holding its second annual
event Sept. 21 at noon in Rocky Mountain House.
Cindy Easton, executive director of the women’s
shelter, encourages residents not to think of
domestic violence as only a women’s issue, but
also as a men’s issue.
One of the things people can do is not to remain
silent, according to a list of 10 things men can do to
prevent gender violence distributed in the shelter.
“If a brother, friend, classmate or teammate is
abusing his female partner – or is disrespectful or
abusive to girls and women in general – don’t look
the other way,” one message states.
Another strategy is also to mentor and teach
young boys about how to be men in ways that don’t
involve degrading or abusing girls and women.
Understanding domestic violence is also
important. According to a booklet distributed by
the women’s shelter: “Domestic violence occurs
when one person does whatever is necessary to
have power and control over his or her partner.”
A partner may exert control in the way you act,
the way you look, where you go and what you do.
Types of abuse can range from using coercion
and threats to intimidation or social isolation.
Getting out of a domestic violence situation
can be a complex and long process because of
the many things that tie partners such as money,
living arrangements and children.
However, preventing domestic violence
situations can be as easy as looking at your own
triggers and just walking away so that a bad
situation doesn’t escalate.
Asking for help in resolving conflict situations
when things have settled might lead to resolutions
and strengthening of relationships.
Finally, instead of playing for power, in a healthy
relationship partners should empower each other.
Providing support in time of need is crucial and
a sign of true class, caring and character.
Educating
the public
is a crucial
step in
addressing
the issue
Gander’s town council is considering putting some money, and some
effort, towards the refurbishing of the old town site.
The area, adjacent to what is now the Gander International Airport, has
gone from a bustling community in the 1940s and 1950s to a place where
residents go for walks, take family photos, and revisit the past.
Many of the streets are still there, although most are overgrown with
grass and brush. There are still some building foundations that remain, not
quite lost amid the flora and fauna.
Several years ago, a chunk of cash was spent to revitalize the place. Signage was erected, streets were made passable, and it became a destination
for both residents and tourists to visit.
In recent years, however, the area has been somewhat neglected. As
Coun. Dave Blundon said, “To let it go would be a crime.”
He’s right. This area of our town is a significant part of our history. For
many people who call Gander home, the old town site is where their parents grew up, or their grandparents lived. For some people who now live in
other parts of town, it’s the first Gander they called home.
People moved to the site around the time of the Second World War. The
airport was a major international transportation hub, and it was from
there thousands of airplanes were flown overseas to be used in combat.
Hundreds of families lived in homes and apartment buildings there.
Children went to school, and were taken to church by their parents. There
were stores and gathering places, just like you’d find in any town at that
time.
But eventually, as the airport began to find its footing at the Crossroads
of the World, and commercial airline travel made Gander a much-used
stopover point for planes travelling between North America and Europe,
more people began to move to Gander, and soon the town began to be
developed west of the airport.
The buildings and roads that once teemed with men, women and children at the old town site began to disappear, but the memory of them is
still very strong in the minds of so many people who have called Gander
home.
It’s a part of the history of this town that must be preserved, and protected. If council decides to spend some money, or seek some funding, to
ensure it’s taken care of, that would be a good thing.
Gander is all about history. Let’s not let this part fade away.
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rel per day capacity, TransCanada already has binding long-term contracts
for 900,000 barrels a day
through its “open season”
process of attracting bids.
There would be two onramps to the Energy East
pipeline—one at Hardisty,
Alta., and one in the
Moosomin area to handle
oil from the Bakken formation in Saskatchewan,
Manitoba, and North Dakota.
The development in this
area would include a terminal, and a new pipeline
connecting the Moosomin
compressor station with
Cromer, Manitoba. There
would also be a tank farm
to store crude oil destined
for the pipeline.
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Lot auction
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Reeve says they are looking at many sites for facility
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“It’s being looked at by the town
and the county,” said Clearwater
County Reeve Pat Alexander to
the Mountaineer on January 4.
“We are establishing our short
term need and our long term
needs and there’s also everchanging regulations to discharge
the highest quality of water that
you can. We are looking at the
technology that’s available.”
‘It’s an expensive venture
and it has to be looked
at from a community
perspective to provide the
best for everyone in the
area in the future.’
Pat Alexander
Alexander mentioned that
both the town and county are
accessing their future needs in
regards to waste water facilities
and hopes both parties can work
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It’s back to the drawing board
for Clearwater County regarding
the proposed waste water facility.
Clearwater County will now be
possibly working together with
the Town of Rocky Mountain
House on a facility.
In 2011, a problem arose when
waste water haulers from the
county were closed
out of the Town of
Rocky Mountain
House lagoon. At
that time a report
was given to
town councillors
indicating their
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Alexander
with provincial
regulations.
To be in volume compliance,
the town chose to close the lagoon
to out of town traffic. County
haulers were then forced to other
locations including the Leslieville
lagoon.
To meet its needs, the county
has examined the possibility of
a new facility which will cost
approximately $6 million.
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It will be evident soon how much interest there is in
residential lots in Moosomin.
The town of Moosomin’s auction of lots at the former
Moosomin Union Hospital site is slated for this Thursday
evening at the Conexus Centre.
The town office has had a few inquiries about the auction, including one potential bidder who plans to come
from Vancouver for the auction.
The town has been short of residential lots for the last
few years, and has developed a series of new lots at the
former site of Moosomin Union Hospital.
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“It’s an expensive venture
and it has to be looked at from
a community perspective to
provide the best for everyone in
the area in the future,” he said.
As for a location, which is yet
to be determined, Alexander
said there is a whole list of
possibilities.
“If the town is part of it, it
needs to be in a position, a place
where they can take advantage of
it,” he said.
Alexander also mentioned
that due to technological
advancements, it is possible the
facility will be located inside a
building.
“I think if you look at the
system we have and in 10 years
from now it doesn’t meet the
need because the regulatory
keeps changing, everybody looks
at us upstream as a source of
the North Saskatchewan source
water,” he said.
Alexander stated that currently
the water leaving Clearwater
County borders is rated good to
excellent and he plans to ensure
that it will remain that way.
Expenses regarding the
proposed waste water facility will
be visible in the 2015 budget.
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Clearwater County’s 2013 budget has not yet been
approved but all signs point to a similar budget to
that of last year.
“It’s a service budget,” Clearwater County Reeve
Pat Alexander told The Mountaineer January 4.
“We’ve seen an increased demand for some increased level of service on gravel roads and things
like that, so we’ve addressed some of those issues,”
he said of the budget, which may be approved at
council’s upcoming meeting on January 8.
In response to a question whether taxes will be
going up in the county, Alexander said it’s early yet
to determine whether there will be an increase.
“The difference between an urban and rural budget is, a huge amount of our revenues come from
non-residential, which
is industrial, and we
don’t get those assessments until March,” he
said.
“When we get our
assessment, we will
see if there is or isn’t
an increase and it can
be determined at that
time.”
One of the biggest
Pat Alexander
expenses the Reeve
predicts for 2013 is the
Public Works paving
program.
“We always tender our paving program in the fall
for the next year, so we tendered 2013 paving in November,” said Alexander. “When we saw the kind
of pricing we were getting for 2013, council then
decided ‘Well, let’s take our 2014 paving program
and tender it and see what kind of pricing we will
get if we put the two together.’ We then decided we
would take the money from the program reserves
and do our 2014 program also in 2013 because of
the pricing we got on the paving was exceptionally
good.”
Alexander also mentioned that the county plans
to work on five local bridges that will be re-habbed
in 2013, among other previously budgeted expenses.
When looking back, Alexander says 2012 was a
successful year for the county.
“Certainly it had some challenges at the start of
the year,” he said.
“We got most of our work plan complete. The
only one we didn’t get complete was the Angle Road
and that was because our tenders came in way over
budget. But we were able to re-tender that this past
fall and they came in considerably under, so that
will go forward in 2013.”
Alexander says the county will always have challenges.
“I think we need to do more communication with
our citizenry on the reasons we do things — some
that’s regulatory and legislated, some it’s by choice
of council based on information that we have,” he
said. “We want to try and increase our level of communication and try to answer questions citizens
have.
“We have an extremely good relationship with
the Town of Rocky Mountain House and the Village
of Caroline and that will continue. We are looking
at structuring it a little bit more so that when we
potentially look at a regional service, then we have
a better structure of working through it.
“This is one large community and we as municipal leaders have to find ways of working together.”
When asked if he will run in the 2013 municipal
election, Alexander said it is a possibility.
“It depends on what happens during the year,” he
said.
“I just wish everyone in the county a happy New
Year and all the best,” said Alexander. “I am looking forward to working with them over the next
year.”
‘This is one large
community and we
as municipal leaders
have to nd ways of
working together.’
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The August long
weekend started out
the same as any other
day for Ron Piasetzki
and Mackenzie Ryan at
their cabin on Calling
Lake.
“It was a perfect
morning. The water
was absolutely crystal
clear, calm,” Ryan recalled about the morning of Aug. 2.
Since the two had had
no luck fishing in front
of the cabins recently,
they decided to head out
into the lake towards
the ranger station.
“Normally, because
I was only going out
for a short time, I just
would have fished right
in front of the cabins,”
Piasetzki said. “I asked
Mac where he wanted
to go, and he wanted to
try somewhere else.”
At 9 a.m. they headed
out onto the lake.
After shutting off the
big motor, Piasetzki
fired up the trolling
motor, and they start-
ed to fish. For half an
hour they trolled along,
catching only one fish.
Piasetzki and Ryan
then heard something
peculiar. A faint voice
yelled out.
“In the distance we
heard, ‘Hey,’ which was
kind of odd that there
was not a cry for help,”
Ryan said.
Piasetzki added, “We
looked in the direction of the voice, and it
looked like there might
be someone in the water.”
The shape in the water was quite a distance
from the boat, but Piasetzki and Ryan decided
it looked like someone
in trouble.
“We raced over to
take a look,” Piasetzki
said. “When we got
there, we found a man
in the water. He was
hanging onto what appeared to be a blow-up
toy and wasn’t wearing
a lifejacket.”
Ryan said, “Ron
yelled out to ask if he
needed a hand, and he
said yes. I grabbed him
and pulled him into the
boat.”
Ryan noticed the man
was out of breath and
was freezing cold. The
man had been in the
water for several hours
after his boat capsized.
The man then told
Ryan and Piasetzki they
had to save his friends.
“I just felt sick instantly. There was no
one around,” Piasetzki
recalled.
However, the man
pointed, and they could
make out something in
the water in the distance.
“We couldn’t make
out what it was. It was
white, and it looked like
something sticking out
of the water,” Piasetzki
said.
Ryan added, “It was a
long way … and as we
got closer and closer,
you could see the boat
was nosed out of the
water.”
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First – The Mountaineer
Good use of Social Media to drive traffic to your website. Excellent coverage of local and
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could have used larger photo of races, with closer point of view. January page A7, B&W
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opinion pieces. Also better to criticize Non-Profits looking for free space one to one rather
than in public (January Editorial “the logic behind no thank you”) . January Page A-10
Similar shot of the same RC plane, should have been other models to picture. Despite the
notes above your coverage of the area makes me want to move there.
Second – The Athabasca Advocate
Good use of Facebook or Twitter to drive traffic to your website. I feel that Editorials should
be signed. Excellent range of coverage of local and provincial issues and events. Photos
well done. photo essays excellent.
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January 13, no full on faces. Good use of colour. Good community coverage. Nice clean
looking ad pg.20 August issue. When Announcements section is on a colour page the
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by Ian Froese
S
TEINBACH may be seen
as a humble place but organizers behind this year’s
Pioneer Days parade hope the city
will change their ways and brag
about their accomplishments—at
least this once.
The parade theme this Friday
is “Celebrating our Champions,”
a suitable motto for an annual
procession drawing over 110 parade entries and thousands more
onlookers to the city’s streets.
From there, the festivities become
a four-day celebration of Steinbach’s heritage at the Mennonite
Heritage Museum.
Parade marshal Kyla Murray
said recognizing the city’s accomplishments stemmed from conversations with Steinbach Chamber of Commerce board members
about the Steinbach Pistons improbable run to a Manitoba Junior
Hockey League title this spring.
The feeling was this would be
sort of like a victory parade for
the Pistons but discussions pro-
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gressed from there.
“As we got brainstorming
around the table, we realized
that we have a lot of champions
coming out of our city and the
surrounding area,” said Murray.
“Time to celebrate them all.”
To that end, the Chamber’s
business of the year, Penn-Lite
Electrical and Mechanical, will
lead the parade, with members of
the champion Steinbach Pistons
behind them.
All entrants are encouraged,
119 and counting as of Wednesday, to acknowledge their champions, from business awards to
employee accomplishments and
gifted youngsters.
Murray said Friday’s parade is
on track to eclipse last summer’s
record of 124 entries.
You can salute the city’s gifted
beginning at 10 a.m. As usual,
the parade will proceed west
along Main Street starting at the
fire hall. Turn north onto Brandt
Street and continue until Stone
Bridge Crossing.
See “Donations” on page 5A
Provencher lauds
retired MP Toews
Hospital renovations
nearing completion
having left the premises. There
are some mechanical aspects inside that must be attended to before the hospital can open its additional wing.
In total, it’s 16,000 sq-ft. of
new real estate; up substantially
from the 19-20,000-sq-ft the hospital was formerly sized at.
Jo-Anne Marion is the new director of health services for Ste
Anne Hospital. She did not want
to estimate an opening date for
the $14 million facility, but said
they are excited.
See “Ste Anne” on page 2A
by Ian Froese
V
IC Toews admits he has
had a tough persona in
the public eye. He did not
smile much on TV reports, dealing with serious matters that did
not always endear him to a national audience.
On Tuesday night, in front of
scores of supporters at A.D. Penner Park in Steinbach, the retired
Provencher MP said he did not
need to be the tough guy anymore.
He warned that he would pull
on one of his ears if he was going to cry, a technique he learned
through his travels.
It was foreshadowing to a moment only a minute into his address.
“In my line of work, there isn’t
much to smile about,” Toews said.
“I want people to understand very
clearly that I’m serious of the
obligations I undertook on behalf
of the people of Canada, so it’s
with great pleasure that I’m up
here, in Manitoba, in my riding.
The riding that,” as Toews trailed
off, pulling on one of his ears,
“I’ve loved very much.”
More than 12 years after he
was vaulted into Provencher to
claim the Canadian Alliance
nomination, Toews’ adopted riding showed one last time that the
affection is mutual. About 700
supporters enjoyed a free hot dog
barbecue put on by the Conservative riding association.
The line-up for food was long,
but there was no rush where the
hot dogs were. Toews stood in
line beforehand, shaking hands
with his former constituents,
some of which he spoke with for
several minutes at a time.
A who’s who of Manitoban
politicians was in attendance, including MLAs Kelvin Goertzen,
Dennis Smook, Cliff Graydon
and Ron Schuler. Senator Don
Plett as well as MPs James Bezan, Lawrence Toet, Merv Tweed,
Robert Sopuck and former MP
Lloyd Axworthy all showed their
support.
See “Toews” on page 2A
You won’t find genetically modified meat on
everyone’s dinner table.
Some like it or don’t
care while others say
“no thanks.’’
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by Grant Burr
S
Park Road wreckage
GRANT BURR • THECARILLON
A two-vehicle accident took another two drivers to hospital shortly after 5 p.m. on Monday afternoon after a white Ford Edge and black Ford
Escape collided on Park Road near Penner Building Centre. Both drivers, each the sole occupants of their vehicles, were attended to by paramedics
and taken to hospital for observation. RCMP said the accident remains under investigation and it is too early to determine who may have been at
fault in the crash. Earlier in the afternoon two drivers were taken to hospital for observation after a crash on road 32E northeast of Mitchell.
OD is laid, light posts
are up, lines have been
painted, marking the
completion of the parking lot
improvements at the Steinbach
Aquatic Centre.
The work to pave, add
overhead lights and improve overall traffic flow in
the parking lot took about
seven weeks.
A general drop-off and pickup area has been created to improve safety and an additional
entrance was created off of
Park Road to improve traffic
flow. Handicap parking stalls
and designated staff parking
has been established as well.
The city says the final project cost is expected to be under
the $600,000 budget.
Face off
Action in the 23rd
Annual
Montague
Norsemen Memorial
Hockey Tournament
starts Thursday. Thirtythree teams will vie for
championships at the
Cavendish Farms Wellness Centre, Northumberland Arena and
Three Rivers Sportsplex
in Georgetown
See page B-10
Happy Birthday
Three Grade 5 classes
from Montague Consolidated sang Happy Birthday to Sir John A MacDonald in Charlottetown where they attended a party set to an
1860s theme.
See page 14
Twelve teams, and 48 kids participated in the George's Deck & Recovery Under 13 Funspiel at the Montague Curling Club Saturday. The event,
which was started to encourage younger curlers to enjoy the sport, is now in its ninth year. It was the first ever competition for many who took part.
Teams from across the province including Crapaud, Summerside, Cornwall and Montague attended. Trophies were awarded to the top three teams,
and the overall winner will have their names engraved on the George's truck trophy. The tournament was all about having fun.
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Karen Peardon worries the
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perpetrators may become
Kings District RCMP are brazen enough to break
investigating a spree of into people’s homes.
Ms Peardon, who lives on
almost 20 break and enters
around the Town of Mon- Robert Clements Drive,
tague over the past two and spoke to Montague Council
Monday night.
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spaniel, started barking and
woke her up.
The person who had broken into her shed used a
crowbar and then fled on a
dirt bike. Nothing was taken.
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Last
week
Dorothy
Burhoe of Annandale woke
up to a sight she won’t soon
forget.
There were fresh coyote
tracks in the snow leading
up to the door, too close to
paw prints made by her cat
Cindy.
“He took her, she’s gone,”
Mrs Burhoe, who lives in a
rural area with her husband
said.
“We’re heartbroken,” the
90-year old said.
“We’re two old people,
and we’re so sad. We got so
attached to this animal.”
She said Cindy has been
in their lives for more than
five years. She followed
them everywhere and kept
them company. The feline
loved the outdoors.
The coyotes are becoming a problem, Mrs Burhoe
said, adding she’s heard
about 16 cats have gone
missing in her area this year.
Gerald MacDougall, section manager of the Fish
and Wildlife Section of the
Department of Agriculture
and Forestry, hasn’t heard
about any coyote problems
David Dixon of Montague faces a hefty clean up bill after his certified but uninsured oil tank
in Annandale.
leaked 100 litres of oil around his Locust Street property.
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“Cats go missing often
and we typically don’t
encourage people to report
missing cats. But if people
encounter a coyote showing any kind of aggressive
behaviour, then we would
like to hear about it.”
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even the federal government’s to take.
“It’s not tax money. It’s
actual money the employer
and employees put in. They
(the federal government)
have been given the right to
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and I should be able to
keep it.”
Mrs Bernard understands
the federal government is
trying to save money, but
she thinks the move is,“cutting places where it’s the
lower paid people that are
suffering.”
She’s also curious if
employment insurance is
Sudden spike in break & enters Beloved cat Cindy
worries Montague resident
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“I’ve worked really hard at
keeping my job. I’ve taken
all the training I could possibly take to improve my
skills,” she said. Mrs Bernard
earned her Grade 12 equivalency five years ago, she’s
trained as a campground
attendant and has taken
tourism courses.“It’s a good
job. The job is only seasonal,
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years and she fears she’ll
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There are many reasons 30 per cent less pay.
“It would be hard. I’m a
seasonal employee AnnMarie Bernard of Sturgeon cancer survivor and I take
isn’t happy with new medication. I’m a diabetic
Employment
Insurance and our house isn’t paid off.”
Mrs Bernard said she’s
changes.
Mrs Bernard has worked well trained, but her job is
seasonal.
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IAN FROESE • THECARILLON
EARS in the making, the
long-awaited
enhancement of Ste Anne Hospital’s surgical services is prepared
to open early this fall.
First promised in spring 2007
by then-Premier Gary Doer during a re-election campaign, the
two new operating theatres, endoscopy suite, recovery rooms
and an equipment sterilization
area are nearly ready for use.
The project is structurally completed, with construction crews
Medical mix-ups
A total of 122 medication errors were made at
Souris Hospital and
Kings County Memorial
Hospital in Montague.
Patients sometimes got
the wrong medication,
too much medication or
none at all.
Former Provencher MP Vic Toews chats with visitors as they waited in line for hot dogs at his retirement barbecue Tuesday night in Steinbach.
Montague resident David
Dixon is staying at a neighbour’s place after an oil spill
forced him out of his home.
He discovered the spill at
7am Monday when he
noticed the smell of oil,
which still lingers around
the Locust Street property.
About 100 litres of oil
seeped into the soil through
a pinky finger-sized hole but
about 270 litres of oil were
saved.
A contractor dug a six
foot deep hole beside the
house where the tank was,
and more will have to be
excavated.
Mr Dixon doesn’t know
what the final cost of the
work will be and the tank
wasn’t insured.
He said there were a few
instances of aggressive
reports this fall, but none so
far this winter. The department sends trappers to
remove coyotes if they are
deemed aggressive.
The population has stabilized at about 2,000 animals
Mr MacDougall said. About
500 are killed every year by
the Island’s 130 trappers.
Coyotes were first spotted
on PEI in the early 80s and
they still have a healthy fear
of humans, unlike in some
other provinces, Mr MacDougall said.
“People need to have a
healthy fear of wildlife nearly any wild animal will
bite you, even squirrels. We
want to keep coyotes wild,
keep them fearful of
humans and living the way
they’re meant to.”
Mrs Burhoe fears coyotes
on her property are bold
enough to go right up to her
door.
She said they don’t plan
to get another cat.
“There’s no use, the coyotes would just get it.”
Dr Dave Lister, owner of
the Montague Veterinary
Clinic said coyotes eating
cats is nothing new.
“We hear about people
missing cats all the time. We
also hear about missing
dogs, or injured dogs.”
He said the only way to
prevent attacks from coyotes, owls, or other animals
is to keep pets indoors.
“It’s just a headache a fellow didn’t really need,” he
said.
The 14-year old tank was,
however, certified until 2014,
which upsets him.
“The homeowner thinks
it’s good.”
Mr Dixon said he would
have rather paid for a new
tank when it was last
inspected instead of paying
for cleanup now.
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Pilot error. Those two words carry
so much weight for so many people
when used to make a judgment on
an aviation accident.
Airplane manufacturers breathe
a sigh of relief that their airplane
wasn't blamed, considering all the
legal implications and potential damage to their business reputation. The
owner of a downed aircraft can get
some comfort their practices and
maintenance were not called into
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It's left to the pilot or pilots to bear
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or injuries of their passengers on
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Considering the heavy implications
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It was not business as usual in the
instance of the Arctic Sunwest Twin
Otter charter that came down on an
Old Town street on Sept. 22, 2011.
There were 30-knot winds sweeping
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The Twin Otter's floats bounced off
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Jonasson took over from first officer
Nicole Stacey, aborting the landing
to attempt another. In 10 seconds of
roaring engines, high winds, powerlines, rock faces, two and three-storey
homes and businesses and stressful
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No one knows what the pilots were
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seconds, not even the experts who
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in time and determine what should
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Whatever happened, the pilots
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lot about the risks pilots accept when
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day while flying thousands of feet in
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Jonasson's father Ray says his
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injury to serve others and losing his
life doing so, then his son and Stacey
are indeed heroes.
Other heroes stood up to be counted that day.
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Fort Frances was urged last week to “rock this house”—
and did we ever!
Our enthusiasm, spirit, and hospitality was front and
centre when the “Kraft Celebration Tour” came to town—
culminating with the throng of people who turned out
Sunday at the Sorting Gap Marina for the community barbecue and live broadcast of TSN’s “SportsCentre.”
Despite the scorching heat, with humidex values hitting
at least 40 C, the crowd never let up—cheering wildly
while waving signs and flags from the moment the show
began until co-anchors Darren Dutchyshen and Jennifer
Hedger signed off an hour later.
And by all accounts from those who watched the broadcast on TV at home, that passion and excitement really
came through.
As the final stop on this year’s 10-town “Kraft Celebration Tour” across Canada, we certainly delivered a great
send-off. While TSN obviously will tell every community
what a wonderful time they had, to hear one producer
say Fort Frances “raised the bar” is a real feather in our
collective hats and a testament to the great job the organizing committee did.
It first had only three weeks to co-ordinate the online
voting campaign needed to defeat Dryden, then had barely a month to organize a weekend of events to showcase
our community from coast to coast.
Their efforts were truly inspiring—and a real lesson on
the right way to stage an event.
Fort Frances starred in our moment in the spotlight and
everyone should be so proud.
Fun being the
sidewalk super
Since the first week of July,
I’ve been a sidewalk superintendent.
I began learning to be a
sidewalk superintendent watching homes being built on Third
Street when I was four. There
were no sidewalks on that street
back then.
My wife likes to kid me that
I have outgrown “Tonka” toys
but that my enjoyment of big
machines remains fast.
I watched as Makkinga Contracting ripped up Second Street
East from Central Avenue to
Mowat, and then Mowat from
Second to Third Street East.
John Makkinga began the
company in 1989 and today
he and his five children operate
it. The job in Fort Frances had
them replacing a deep sewer
line on Second Street.
It was that year that John
bought the big orange 3500 Insley excavator that dug deep to
the sewers. And back in 1989,
it was the largest excavator in
Northwestern Ontario.
It is a loud machine but John
operated the digging with a surgeon’s skill and could scrape a
half-inch of soil along the sewer
bed to lay a section of pipe. He
kept three trucks revolving in
the long 12-hour days.
Fresh soil was dug from the
section that was going to receive the new piece of sewer
pipe and was trucked around to
the hole where the last piece of
pipe had gone in.
There his son, David, operating another backhoe, took the
dirt and back-filled the hole.
The Makkinga crews were
replacing the Second Street water line simultaneously. There
was never a slack moment in
the day as the crew worked
tirelessly, often in extreme heat.
They ran into problems. The
first was discovering a thick layer of concrete that was the old
road bed on Second Street. The
second was the Bell cement
conduit that ran along the side
of the road and crossed over at
Mowat Avenue.
Both were unexpected setbacks.
John told me that Makkinga
Contracting has 40 excavators,
and four were in Fort Frances
for the project. Dave Makkinga,
who is heading up the project,
also brought in John’s lovingly-restored 1975 Dodge “Big
Horn” dump truck.
With good weather, the crews
jumped ahead of schedule and
were available when the sewer
collapsed on the 400 block of
Second Street East. The Town
of Fort Frances asked them to
come in and do the repairs.
It was a messy job. With the
collapse of the pipe, the sewage
had no place to move.
Beginning at the manhole
at the centre of the Victoria
and Second intersection, the
crew from Tuesday afternoon
through late Wednesday night
were able to replace almost a
half-block of sewer, connecting homes on both sides of the
street with new sewer pipe and
those homes on the south side
with new water connections.
As one of the crew said,
“We like to dig,” and they are
really good at sewer and water
replacement. Shortly after 9:30
on Thursday night, the 400
block of Second Street was reopened to traffic.
Makkinga had used three
backhoes, a vibrating compacting roller, a bulldozer, and grader to quickly bring the street
back to function. Their work on
the 400 block of Second street
filled my noon and evening
time.
I watched in fascination as
the 100 block of Second Street
was torn up—the crews scrambling to set the sewer pipes at
proper grades and the replacement of water lines. The work
went quickly.
Once the sewer and water were replaced, everything
slowed as grades were set for
curb work and paving. A specialized concrete crew came in
and in a short week, the curb
and sidewalks were replaced.
This week they are getting
the final road bed grades in
place.
Paving is not far behind and
I will get to watch a different
crew put the black top down.
I was asked on Monday,
“When we finish here, what are
you going to do?”
I had no answer.
Letters to the Editor
Many thanks
Dear Mike:
Thanks to my fellow “lead
riders” (Bob Gordon from
Kenora and Doug Hutton of
Dryden), this year’s “Ride For
Memories” from Fort Frances
into Dryden on Saturday was a
huge success.
The ladies at the Fort Frances Legion started us off with
a great lunch, then we were escorted through the TSN/Kraft
Celebration Tour festivities at
the Sorting Gap Marina with a
“bagpipe salute” from the Fort
Frances Highlanders.
A bear crossing Highway
502 near the monument pullover brought our mile-long
caravan down to a crawl/stop
but only for a few minutes
(being our version of the Highway 401 rush-hour traffic in
Toronto).
In Dryden, the Legion greeted us with their Sgt.-at-Arms
and army cadets as traffic/parking security, followed by a delicious barbecued steak dinner,
so we were well-fed.
Dryden Mayor Craig Nuttall
was gracious in welcoming us to
his hospitable city and should
know his fellow citizen, Doug
Hutton, did a marvelous prizegathering job from his many
generous local businesses.
Congratulations goes to Lawrence Lunam from Kenora for
winning the best poker hand
with an ace high flush.
A special thanks goes to the
police from Kenora, Fort Frances, and Dryden for their traffic
escorts and ensuring everyone’s
safety, and, in particular, the
OPP for their motorcycle escort
for the entire ride.
It also was pleasing to see so
many couples amongst the riders this year—it’s always nice to
see ladies in leather.
Another special thank you
goes to Kevin Kennedy from
Stratton for raising the most
money amongst the riders–
and to all the riders (and all
their donors) from Fort Frances, Dryden, Kenora, Red Lake,
Sioux Lookout, Thunder Bay
(and points in between, including Bemidji, Mn.) who raised
funds for such a worthy cause
as our local Alzheimer’s Society.
We look forward to next
year’s event, to be hosted by
Kenora. Until then, keep your
feet on your pegs and the wind
at your back.
(Signed),
Bill Naturkach
Fort Frances, Ont.
You rock!
Dear Mike:
As part of the “Kraft Celebration Tour” local organizing
committee, I’d like to take this
opportunity to say a huge thank
you to Fort Frances, International Falls, Rainy River District, and
Koochiching County for making
this event a huge success!
Both TSN and Kraft were
incredibly impressed with Fort
Frances. The producers, co-anchors Jennifer and Darren, and
the production crew all were
blown away by the size of the
crowd and the community spirit
that was evident throughout the
weekend.
Many of the TSN crew made
a point of mentioning to us how
well they were treated everywhere they went in Fort Frances,
and they were very happy to
end the “Tour” with such a fantastic event.
Every member of their team–
not just the celebrities–received
first-class treatment all over
town.
The positive comments about
our community were constant
throughout the weekend. Not
only did we garner the most
votes in Canada this year, the
crowd at the Sorting Gap Marina
was one of the biggest and loudest that they’ve had since the
“Tour” started five years ago.
While we were standing on
stage during the cheque presentation, we couldn’t see where the
crowd ended.
Not only were we able to put
on a great event for Fort Frances, we managed to give Jennifer, Darren, and everyone else
on the crew an experience they
will remember for a long time.
When we learned that we
won the online vote, we knew
we had a lot of work ahead of
us. But the community really
came through and made organizing this event as easy as it
could have possibly been.
Everywhere we turned, we
found people asking us what
they could do to help.
Not only did we have a ton
of volunteers, but the local business community really stepped
up to help us out, as well, and
our media partners were instrumental in our success. We
could not have accomplished
this without the support of our
entire community on both sides
of the border.
In particular, thank you to
our wonderful volunteers who
worked tirelessly throughout the
past few months, and especially
on Saturday and Sunday for
hours in the extreme heat, to
make this event a reality.
We could not have done this
without you.
Fort Frances, you rock! Thank
you for showing TSN, Kraft, and
all of Canada what a fantastic
community this is!
Sincerely,
Charles Fisher
Fort Frances, Ont.
Bravo!
Dear editor:
As I saw the community spirit, in both winning the “Kraft
Celebration Tour” and the resounding success of the event
here Sunday, I must say I was
incredibly proud of our town.
But upon seeing the “Rainbow” flag proudly flying in the
background during the TSN
broadcast of the event, my heart
swelled again.
The country saw that flag—
saw that we are a community
which can show openness and
tolerance.
To the person who brought
it and proudly flew it . . . bravo!
(Signed),
Hank Calder
A proud resident
of Fort Frances
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Parade theme misses mark
i
n recent years the Steinbach Chamber of Commerce, through its connection to Eastman immigrant Services, has done well to make one of
the major highlights on the Pioneer Days parade a
celebration of cultural diversity in the Southeast, a
focus that was engaging and appealing to a diverse
audience.
This year’s main parade theme makes an attempt
at that same engagement but, in the end, falls short
and serves as an example of trying to wring too
much from a good idea.
The plan to celebrate champions emerged from
discussions about honoring the Steinbach Pistons
Manitoba Junior Hockey League championship
title. The Pistons didn’t get much of a send-off or
recognition after their big win, possibly due to the
hope that the team would garner bigger prizes at the
Western Canadian championship and beyond.
The Chamber likely started off with the best of
intentions but that seems to have become muddled
as discussions continued towards celebrating, not
just the Pistons, but all community champions. For
the Chamber that meant recognizing Penn-Lite
Electrical & Mechanical, a company with deep
roots here and over three decades of service to the
community, who garnered the Chamber’s annual
business of the year award late last year.
So, it was obviously a no-brainer as to who
should lead the parade this year. Yes, rally around a
celebration of that local company who battled hard
and won top honors last November. The Pistons?
Oh, they’ll still be there as runners-up, a silver
medal to go with the silver chalice they brought
home to the community.
it is perhaps the price the city pays for having
the Steinbach Chamber of Commerce organize its
annual parade but, really, a bit of perspective seems
to have been lost when a local business is chosen as
a focal point, instead of a team that electrified the
community with its playoff run.
it is wonderful that the Chamber takes it upon
itself to organize and coordinate the annual affair.
if not for them it would fall on someone else to
handle the event.
it is an argument the Chamber has made in the
past as it has pressed city council to maintain the
over $100,000 in funding it receives annually
through the city’s business tax. The Chamber has
touted its organizational efforts in managing the
parade as one of valuable reasons for the city to
continue funding chamber activities.
Maybe at the end of the day perhaps a theme isn’t
all that necessary. A parade can simply be a parade
too. it can be a great chance for people to decorate
floats and for kids to grab some candy. Maybe it is
just a case of the Chamber trying too hard, a case of
trying to appeal to too many and in the end missing
the mark.
Sometimes the brightest idea is to keep things
simple.
-G.B.
Some perspective on crime and curfews
S
TATiSTiCS Canada released its annual crime
statistics update on cities over 100,000. Overall crime index and violent crime severity index are the two columns most reports in the media
focus on. Winnipeg is still statistically violent, but
less so. Overall crime is down in Manitoba’s capital
– that is good – but youth crime is up – that is bad.
Simple stories with simple numbers (if one is not
concerned about what index is) comfort frazzled
reports looking for something that can almost write
itself.
So how did Steinbach do? There have been
rumblings that with the increase in population has
come an increase in vandalism. A possible solution
thrown out has been a curfew for people under 18.
Canadian cities over 10,000 have their policereported crime statistics from 2011 on the Statistics
Canada website. Out of 239 communities across the
country, Steinbach is 85th worst in overall crime.
The city is 112th in violent crime, and 75th in nonviolent crime.
Not good statistics, but not disastrous either. in
comparison, Thompson was the most violent community over 10,000 in all of Canada and second in
overall crime. Selkirk was 29th and 15th respectively; Portage la Prairie eighth and fourth. Winkler
is a relative city of angels at 208th and 175th.
But what does that all mean? Thompson most
definitely has social issues that have decimated
many residents’ quality of life. A Winnipeg Free
Press report on Saturday cited a study that showed
80 percent of Thompson students in Grades 7-12
have someone in their family battling addiction to
drugs or alcohol. Steinbach is not Thompson.
Most crimes that come through Steinbach court
involve drugs and alcohol in some way. More
resources are needed to fight addictions (many
addicts seek a non-religious alternative that is
not found here and emergency shelters and programs are stretched to capacity), and for policing
(Steinbach has less than half the officers Portage
does and fewer than statistically safer and smaller
Winkler). But a curfew is preposterous.
The fact is the kids are all right. On a busy day
in court, the docket will have one page for youth
offenders and dozens of pages for adults. There is
a misconception that all vandalism or mischief is
caused by kids with nothing better to do. Adults
who forget or never experienced the joy of being
a teen and going to dinner and a movie in the city
have suggested that any kids not out working ought
to be behind locked doors are being both naïve and
unfair. A 17-year-old high school student can make
you a burger but not go for one him or herself? The
city is growing and experiencing growing pains. Let
the kids hanging out at Youth for Christ, working at
McDonalds, or just going for an evening stroll grow
up too – outside somewhere that they do not have to
suffer for the crimes of others.
-C.G.
Photo by Alma Barkman
As the twig is bent, the tree inclines.
Let working dogs do their work
Dear Sir:
Think of it this way; not only service dog Mocha’s vest her working
jacket, but it is also a cloak of invisibility.
A Grade 2 student that practices
her reading with Mocha and i was a
great role model for how to behave
around a service dog. Mocha and i
met this student outside the school.
Not only did she not interact with
Mocha, she had already informed her
mother about the rules. i was able to
greet them and have a nice conversation without anyone paying any atten-
tion to Mocha at all.
All dogs, whether they be guide
dogs or service dogs such as search
and rescue dogs, are protected. in
2009 the Manitoba government put
into law The Service Animals Protection Act which makes it a criminal offense to interfere with service animals
and for other animals to do so without
consent. Manitoba was the first province in Canada to pass this legislation
against interference with a service
animal.
Many people ask why they cannot
pet the dog? Let me highlight a few
Rethinking Lifestyle
When Weeds Aren’t Weeds
by Ernie Klassen
ter used to be a nuisance - not
any more. Even dandelions are
looked upon kindly.
Why? Because it turns out that
the “weeds” are as good or better for you than the veggies that
your mother insisted that you
eat (or at least try!) The weeds
taste great if you pick them while
they’re young and sweet. And as
we all know, there is no shortage
of young weeds in the garden,
pretty well all the time. They just
keep coming.
What passes for a salad on our
table, when inspected closely,
contains not only the usual lettuce, spinach, cucumbers and
green onions, but also dandelion, pigweed and lambs quarter
leaves and succulent portulaca.
Add in various exotic greens
that we actually sowed in rows,
and the tomatoes (in a couple of
weeks), and we need to get out
the industrial size salad bowls.
What a great time of year this is.
You don’t have to hold your
nose when you take in these
greens either; the wild salad additions are every bit as tasty as
the domestic. Check the nutrition
charts and be amazed by how
superior the vitamin, iron and
calcium content is compared to
many of the conventional components. That scientific data, and
my wife’s persuasive powers,
got me to open my mouth and
Letters to the Editor M Rethinking
Lifestyle
PST hike hurts pensioners
Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir:
Some of the unseen victims of the
NDP’s decision to increase the PST
one point are those in poverty or on
fixed pension incomes. The real impact of the PST increase to eight percent means people are paying 14 percent more tax on goods and services
they need. it has the greatest effect on
those least able to pay. it reduces the
disposable income available to purchase the necessities of life.
The NDP pushes Manitobans impacted by poverty further behind as
any increase in income assistance or
pension barely keeps up with inflation. it does not keep up with NDPimposed increases to taxes like the
PST, particularly as tax increases
have pushed inflation above average
in Manitoba.
At the end of the day, the PST increase means there are fewer dollars
for those that can least afford to have
this happen.
Providing government services
that we all need and enjoy should not
come at a disproportionate cost to
those who can least afford to pay.
ian Wishart
MLA for Portage la Prairie
Letters to Love of the game lagging
the Editor
Dear Sir:
i am a baseball fan and enjoy
watching the Carillon Sultans.
However, this year i am disappointed in their games. All the players sign
up because they love baseball and like
to play but in this year’s games extra
players were rarely in the lineup.
Why do the extra players not get to
play a few innings especially if their
team is a few runs ahead? They paid
the fees that were required. These
extra players may choose not to play
next year. This would be the right decision.
H. Schmidt
Mitchell, MB
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other reasons: Two hours of work or
errands could easily take twice the
time if we accommodated each request to talk about Mocha, to answer
personal questions asked to me, or
to pet Mocha; having people interact
with them everywhere starts to negate the many hours of public access
work training; many service dogs are
constantly monitoring their partner’s
health. They have the right to do their
best work without being constantly
disturbed.
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Sprague, MB
Y wife loves to garden.
i like to garden. We
spend a lot of time in
the vegetable garden. She does
almost all the brain work and a
lot of the brawn work. i put in
the odd request for a particular
vegetable when the garden is being planned. After that, i mainly
weed.
My idea of a garden is straight
rows of veggies - carrots, corn,
peas, etc. and my idea of weeding is to pull out any plant that
my wife tells me to. Janet’s
idea of a vegetable garden may
or may not have straight rows.
We’ve had beds and groupings
of one sort or another, curvy
lines and what not, and she likes
to explore the fringe flora - like
arugula. i’m a linear thinker and
she’s imaginative and experimental. Occasionally we clash, but
i lose because she’s the garden
boss.
So, my latest capitulation
involves weeds. in the last few
years, weeding in our garden has
changed dramatically. i still do
quite a bit of it, but the approach
is completely different. it’s taken
a bit of time and persuasion on
Janet’s part, but i’m mostly reoriented and retrained. No longer
is portulaca Enemy #1. Pigweed
is now my friend. Lamb’s quar-
Rethinking
Lifestyle
my mind to the new possibilities. After that, the “weeds” sold
themselves.
Forget what you learned in
your youth - those endless hours
in the garden with a hoe or on
your knees. Portulaca is not the
devil’s own plant. Pigweed isn’t
just for pigs, if it ever was. Dandelions are more than a pretty
face. Nature provides these and
other plants in abundance. We
simply haven’t recognized the
gift. Check out a website or gardening book to make sure you
recognize what you’re after. Pick
the leaves while they’re young
and tender. Enjoy the taste, the
goodness and the feeling of
revenge against your garden “enemy”, or if you like, the satisfaction of making peace with them.
And if you really do enjoy
weeding, as i do, don’t worry;
there’ll still be lots of them to
hoe and pull when you’ve eaten
your fill.
(This column is prepared by
the South Eastman Transition
Initiative. Go to www.setimanitoba.org.)
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NUMBER 31
Pioneer Days parade
to celebrate champions
by Ian Froese
S
TEINBACH may be seen
as a humble place but organizers behind this year’s
Pioneer Days parade hope the city
will change their ways and brag
about their accomplishments—at
least this once.
The parade theme this Friday
is “Celebrating our Champions,”
a suitable motto for an annual
procession drawing over 110 parade entries and thousands more
onlookers to the city’s streets.
From there, the festivities become
a four-day celebration of Steinbach’s heritage at the Mennonite
Heritage Museum.
Parade marshal Kyla Murray
said recognizing the city’s accomplishments stemmed from conversations with Steinbach Chamber of Commerce board members
about the Steinbach Pistons improbable run to a Manitoba Junior
Hockey League title this spring.
The feeling was this would be
sort of like a victory parade for
the Pistons but discussions pro-
$.95 (plus GST)
gressed from there.
“As we got brainstorming
around the table, we realized
that we have a lot of champions
coming out of our city and the
surrounding area,” said Murray.
“Time to celebrate them all.”
To that end, the Chamber’s
business of the year, Penn-Lite
Electrical and Mechanical, will
lead the parade, with members of
the champion Steinbach Pistons
behind them.
All entrants are encouraged,
119 and counting as of Wednesday, to acknowledge their champions, from business awards to
employee accomplishments and
gifted youngsters.
Murray said Friday’s parade is
on track to eclipse last summer’s
record of 124 entries.
You can salute the city’s gifted
beginning at 10 a.m. As usual,
the parade will proceed west
along Main Street starting at the
fire hall. Turn north onto Brandt
Street and continue until Stone
Bridge Crossing.
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Former Provencher MP Vic Toews chats with visitors as they waited in line for hot dogs at his retirement barbecue Tuesday night in Steinbach.
Provencher lauds
retired MP Toews
In Ste Anne
New Northern
hockey
championship
Hospital renovations
nearing completion
by Ian Froese
Y
EARS in the making, the
long-awaited
enhancement of Ste Anne Hospital’s surgical services is prepared
to open early this fall.
First promised in spring 2007
by then-Premier Gary Doer during a re-election campaign, the
two new operating theatres, endoscopy suite, recovery rooms
and an equipment sterilization
area are nearly ready for use.
The project is structurally completed, with construction crews
having left the premises. There
are some mechanical aspects inside that must be attended to before the hospital can open its additional wing.
In total, it’s 16,000 sq-ft. of
new real estate; up substantially
from the 19-20,000-sq-ft the hospital was formerly sized at.
Jo-Anne Marion is the new director of health services for Ste
Anne Hospital. She did not want
to estimate an opening date for
the $14 million facility, but said
they are excited.
See “Ste Anne” on page 2A
by Ian Froese
V
IC Toews admits he has
had a tough persona in
the public eye. He did not
smile much on TV reports, dealing with serious matters that did
not always endear him to a national audience.
On Tuesday night, in front of
scores of supporters at A.D. Penner Park in Steinbach, the retired
Provencher MP said he did not
need to be the tough guy anymore.
He warned that he would pull
on one of his ears if he was going to cry, a technique he learned
Mary River
iron ore project
downsizes
through his travels.
It was foreshadowing to a moment only a minute into his address.
“In my line of work, there isn’t
much to smile about,” Toews said.
“I want people to understand very
clearly that I’m serious of the
obligations I undertook on behalf
of the people of Canada, so it’s
with great pleasure that I’m up
here, in Manitoba, in my riding.
The riding that,” as Toews trailed
off, pulling on one of his ears,
“I’ve loved very much.”
More than 12 years after he
was vaulted into Provencher to
claim the Canadian Alliance
nomination, Toews’ adopted riding showed one last time that the
affection is mutual. About 700
supporters enjoyed a free hot dog
barbecue put on by the Conservative riding association.
The line-up for food was long,
but there was no rush where the
hot dogs were. Toews stood in
line beforehand, shaking hands
with his former constituents,
some of which he spoke with for
several minutes at a time.
A who’s who of Manitoban
politicians was in attendance, including MLAs Kelvin Goertzen,
Dennis Smook, Cliff Graydon
and Ron Schuler. Senator Don
Plett as well as MPs James Bezan, Lawrence Toet, Merv Tweed,
Robert Sopuck and former MP
Lloyd Axworthy all showed their
support.
See “Toews” on page 2A
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LEVEE. Bracebridge Mayor
Graydon Smith makes a
donation to the food
bank at his New Year’s
fete at the Bracebridge
Sportsplex on Jan. 5.
(Photo by Louis Tam)
BY LOUIS TAM
It cost the Town of Bracebridge over $158,000 in legal costs to make
amends with bylaw officer Ted Lowcock after he was fired two years
ago.
The number was revealed to this newspaper by Bracebridge Mayor
Graydon Smith on Thursday, Jan. 3, a few weeks after Lowcock’s official
reinstatement date. The 21-year town employee was fired in December
2010 after a number of people alleged he addressed his boss with homophobic slurs, harassed a fellow colleague, slacked off during work hours
and that he ordered student employees not to outshine him.
Smith said it cost about $158,000 to cover associated legal fees in
handling Lowcock’s case. The additional cost of hiring labour arbitrator
Louisa M. Davie to resolve matters was pegged at about $32,000.
“This has been over a couple of years, so I think generally all those
costs have been dealt with,” Smith said of the legal costs. “There may
be some minor impacts in 2013, but those costs have been absorbed as
we’ve gone along through this process.”
Bracebridge CAO John Sisson said in an email that the cost of hiring
Davie was spread out over two years. Sisson said although legal costs
exceeded the town’s 2012 legal budget, “other favourable variances
during this past year will offset the legal over-expenditure in whole or
in part.”
“There is no budgetary impact expected in the draft 2013 municipal
budget related to this arbitration matter, which is now concluded,” he
said.
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Sportsplex won’t turn profit, but
pennies need pinching: mayor
BY LOUIS TAM
Extracurricular school
activities stay off table
BY LOUIS TAM
Wednesday • Friday
There is still no end in sight to
the hiatus on extracurricular activities for students at Muskoka’s
high schools.
Speaking to this newspaper a
week after Education Minister
Laurel Broten announced plans
to impose contracts on teachers, Ontario Secondary School
Teachers Federation Trillium
Lakelands president Peter Carroll
said teachers will be continuing
to withhold sports and afterschool activities for the foreseeable future.
Though Broten withdrew Bill
115, its terms were nonetheless imposed upon teachers and
school support staff. Education
workers have criticized the province’s actions as a power grab that
takes away their right to collective
bargaining.
“We believe that the government’s actions are certainly going
to discourage our members from
resuming voluntary activities,”
said Carroll. “The government has
given them absolutely no reason
to be spending hours and hours
of their personal time delivering
voluntary services to the school
community.”
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Carroll said the hiatus will likely
continue at least until the provincial Liberals find a replacement
for premier Dalton McGuinty.
“I can’t see an end to it right
at the moment, we would hope
that at some point the government might decide to change its
policy – we do know there is
going to be a new premier,” he
said. “Hopefully that person is
going to review the situation and
come up with a more reasonable
approach to the situation.”
Last winter, Bracebridge and
Muskoka Lakes Secondary School
students staged a walkout in protest of the province’s actions.
But they also expressed concerns
that the hiatus on extracurricular activities like sports puts their
future at risk, as some students
are counting on being scouted for
athletic scholarships at universities and colleges.
Elementary Teachers Federation
of Ontario Trillium Lakelands
vice-president Kevin Adam said
the local is working on its next
steps, but otherwise remained
tight-lipped.
He said the union is expected
to comment sometime later this
week.
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Bracebridge can’t realistically expect the Sportsplex to
be profitable, but losing a large
chunk of its customer base may
necessitate a new approach to its
finances, Mayor Graydon Smith
says.
Smith said the town needs to
look towards “right sizing” the
Clearbrook Trail facility’s business model to fit its customer
base, which drastically shrank
in 2012 with the opening of the
Gravenhurst Centennial Centre
and new competition in the
private sector. Over the past
year, the culture and recreation
department’s target market has
dropped from 27,000 to about
16,000.
Historically, the first four
months of the year have been
the bread and butter of the facility’s annual membership earnings, with 40 per cent of membership fees for the year rolling
in between January and the end
of March. What worried council and staff in 2012, however,
was that membership revenues
in that time period fell short by
$85,000 this past year.
By comparison, the membership revenue shortfall at the
end of 2010 amounted to about
$22,000, and about $8,000 in
2009. In 2008, the membership
revenue shortfall was around
$19,000, and about $32,000 in
2007.
“It was clear early in the year
that we weren’t going to meet
those projections,” said Smith.
“If we’re going to be $85,000
short on a projection we’ll need
to take some corrective meas�
Mystery surrounds old
Germania newspaper
BY JENNIFER BOWMAN
The facts are not clear surrounding an old
German newspaper which appears to be a home
and farm authority for Germania.
The newspaper was found in an old collapsed
house in Germania, full of holes, ripped, and
with bits of plaster still stuck to it. It was stuck
between two scorched, whitewashed beams and
is believed to have been used as insulation, a
common practice for many houses at the time.
The paper, Der Haus und Bauernfreuud, is
written in German script with an English sub
heading, indicating the paper was “The Germania
Agriculture … The Home and Farm Company”
and that it was established in 1873.
The owner of the newspaper said a German
friend read the paper and said it spoke about the
Civil War.
“Some of these articles I would believe my
great-grandparents probably read,” she said.
Initially the owner, who wishes to remain
anonymous to avoid any looters on the property,
thought there may have been a newspaper in
Germania at some point.
But history is at odds with the idea.
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Borbely murder trial
to begin next week
An Orillia man accused of killing a Bracebridge woman six years ago
is headed to trial.
Staff at the Bracebridge courthouse have confirmed that the trial
for Ian Charles Borbely is expected to begin sometime next week.
Currently, the court is still in the process of selecting jurors.
Borbely, 35, is facing a second-degree murder charge and an indignity
to human remains charge after the remains of 29-year-old Samantha
Collins were found at a Wood Lake property in 2010. Borbely has
remained in custody since his arrest in 2011. At the time, police told
this newspaper that Borbely and Collins were in a relationship at some
point. Since 2011, the details of Borbely’s preliminary hearing have been
under a publication ban.
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‘This wouldn’t be nearly so
upsetting if the Yukon Party
ministers were actually
upfront with their intentions.‘
aybe the Yukon Party
government is trying
to score points for consistency in its handling of the
creation of a land-use plan
for the Peel watershed. Having bungled the process from
the start, the territory seems
determined to continue in a
similar style right to the bitter, drawn-out end.
The latest mini-scandal, as
we first reported in Wednesday’s edition, involves how the
government stripped useful
numbers from the report it
prepared from the final consultation process. Why it did so
seems pretty obvious.
The results show an overwhelming majority of respondents supporting the final
recommended plan to protect
four-fifths of the vast swath
of wilderness in the territory’s
northeast. The Yukon Party,
meanwhile, has made it no
secret that it intends to push
ahead with its own plan, which
would see far more of the region open to mining.
But if you want to sum up
what’s really wrong with the
government’s approach to
the Peel, look no further than
Environment Minister Currie
Dixon’s explanation as to why
the government made those
inconvenient figures disappear
from the final consultation
report.
“The numbers don’t matter,”
he explained. Well, the author
of the report apparently begged
to differ when he initially
included them. While acknow-
ledging that the consultation
wasn’t a statistically valid poll,
he concluded that including the
numbers was “one of the few effective ways of distilling tens of
thousands of words into a few
pages of meaningful data.”
If Dixon were being honest,
he would have answered, “The
numbers didn’t reflect what we
wanted to see, so we took them
out.” Or perhaps: “We just can’t
resist the urge to meddle in this
stuff.”
Various revisions of the
consultation report tell a story
of their own. As later drafts
were produced, the number of
respondents who oppose the
final recommended plan drift
upward. You can almost hear
the government officials issuing orders to their consultant
to massage the data to better
match the government’s views.
Yet these numbers still
remained stubbornly short
compared to the number of
expressions of support for the
recommended plan. So the
figures were axed.
This behaviour fits a pattern. Recall how the previous
premier, Dennis Fentie, suppressed a report prepared by
the Environment Department
that described the benefits of
protecting the watershed.
In both cases, it seems clear
that the government was expected by other participants in
the process to serve as a facilitator of valuable information for
all the parties involved. Instead,
it stooped to its own narrow,
partisan interests by clawing
back data that didn’t suit its
fancy. It’s doubtful that the signatories of the Umbrella Final
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The young minister qualified
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net so wide it could capture people like humanitarian workers.
Justice Arne Silverman’s ruling has thrown into question
two high-profile trials. One, involving four men accused of smuggling
76 Sri Lankan Tamils aboard the MV Ocean Lady in the fall of 2009, was
cancelled before it even got off the ground.
The next in line, involving six people accused in connection with smuggling 492 Tamil migrants on the MV Sun Sea in 2010, is also on the rocks.
The government had promoted the cases as reasons why Canada
needed stronger laws against migrant smuggling. It brought in Bill C-31,
which passed last summer, to slap harsher sentences on smugglers.
But with Justice Silverman striking down section 117 of the Immigration
and Refugee Protection Act, the four accused in the Ocean Lady case may
continue their lives in Ontario, where they’ve been living on bail. It may be
a long time before they are judged, if at all. The government is reviewing
the decision. The Crown is expected to appeal the ruling.
The section at issue states: “No person shall knowingly organize,
induce, aid, or abet” someone coming to Canada who doesn’t have a
visa, passport, or other required documentation.
The judge agreed with the defence lawyers who argued that the
provision could ensnare well-meaning humanitarian workers or family members helping asylum claimants flee persecution. Mr. Silverman
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Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees life, liberty, and
security of the person.
“They [refugee claimants] almost all come without the proper
paperwork and they’re almost all helped by somebody [who] could
theoretically be guilty of smuggling them,” said lawyer Phil Rankin,
who represents one of the accused in the Ocean Lady case.
It’s a very important point. Human smuggling must be defined in the
most airtight way, leaving no vagueness and room for interpretation.
The government had been trying to get C-31 and its various previous versions passed for years. To be sure, Bill C-31 didn’t create the
problem Justice Silverman pointed out in his ruling. The “organize,
induce, aid, or abet” clause was set in the Immigration and Refugee
Protection Act even before the Conservatives took office in 2006.
But there has long been strong evidence that the definition of
human smuggling needed refining, and Harper government must have
known it when it was drafting C-31.
Three former attorneys general and three former immigration ministers were among those who protested charges against an American
refugee aid worker, Janet Hinshaw-Thomas, who went along with 12
asylum-seeking Haitians to the Quebec border in 2007.
The former Cabinet ministers argued there’s an important difference between criminal profit-seeking smugglers and groups helping
people flee persecution and torture. The charges were dropped following the uproar.
The Harper government tinkered with all sorts of parts of Canada’s
immigration laws and didn’t narrow the human smuggling provision’s
scope when it had the chance. That was a mistake. It’s time to rectify
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true tactics of the propagandist.
Say something with enough
confidence and repeat it often
enough, and people will believe
you, or so the theory holds.
This sometimes works, but
it’s worn pretty thin throughout
the seven years of the Peel planning process.
It doesn’t matter how often
the government claims it will
produce a plan that will magically make all parties involved
happy. Adults in the room
realize that the Peel is an issue
in which painful trade-offs are
inevitable. Miners, outfitters,
wilderness paddlers and First
Nation people with ancient
ties to the area have divergent,
conflicting interests.
It doesn’t matter how often
the government claims it’s
followed the Umbrella Final
Agreement. The courts have
ruled that following the letter of
the law isn’t good enough when
it comes to the government’s
dealings with First Nations.
Instead, it must also live up to
the spirit of signed treaties.
It’s pretty clear the territory didn’t meet that standard
when it declined to offer much
concrete criticism of the recommended plan while it was being
produced. Instead, it preferred
to wait until the planning commission’s job was done before
unveiling an entirely different
plan it intended to use.
Maybe this seemed to be a
convenient way to duck controversy at the time, but now that
negotiations with First Nations
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headed for a stalemate and
long-running court challenge, it
all seems awfully shortsighted.
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Minister Julian Fantino saw Liberal
MP John McKay’s argument that the
government was breaking the law in
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Mali: The next
Afghanistan or Libya?
that Gaddafi’s mercenary troops
were about to overrun Benghazi
and massacre the rebels. NATO
served as the rebel air force, but
no Western troops fought on the
ground. And it worked.
With Mali, once again it was
decided in a couple of days, and
once again France has taken the lead.
Once again Britain is sending some
help as well (transport aircraft, but
ast Friday, France sent a squadno troops or combat aircraft), and
ron of fighter-bombers to the
the United States is providing disWest African country of Mali to
creet logistical support. (US Air Force
stop the Islamist insurgents who
tankers refuelled the French fighthave seized the northern half of
ers on their way to Mali.) But that’s
Mali from taking the capital.
where the similarities end.
“We are making air raids the
The West is supporting the govwhole time,” said French Defence
ernment, not the rebels, in Mali.
Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. “They
That government, behind a flimsy
are going on now. They will go on
civilian facade, is controlled by
tonight. They will go on tomorrow.”
the same thugs in uniform whose
Some 550 French combat troops are
military coup last March, just one
on the ground already, with up to
month before the scheduled demo2,500 more to follow. Contingents
cratic election, created the chaos
of soldiers from the neighbouring
that let the Islamist rebels conquer
countries of Nigeria, Benin, Burkina
the northern half of the country.
Faso, Niger, and Togo are scheduled
The young officers who now run
to arrive as early as next week. It
the country are ignorant and viohas turned into a real war.
lent, and having them on your side
It has also turned into a
is not an asset.
Western-run war in a Muslim counThe Islamist rebels are fanatical,
try, despite the discouraging precintolerant, and violent, but they are
edents of Afghanistan and Iraq.
well armed (a lot of advanced infanThe government of Mali has asked
try weapons
for French
came on the
help, and
market when
on Monday
It has...turned into a Gaddafi’s
the United
regime colNations
Western-run war in a lapsed) and
Security
appear
Council
Muslim country, despite the they
to be well
unanimoustrained. They
ly supportdiscouraging precedents have
almost
ed France’s
no popular
military
of Afghanistan and Iraq. support
in
intervenMali, which
tion. The
is 90 per cent
army of
Mali, such as it is, will theoretically Muslim (its version of Islam is much
be in charge of the war—but every- more moderate), but they have terrified the population of the north into
body knows that the Malian army
submission or flight.
is useless.
Until recently the rebels seemed
In fact, the presence of Mali’s
to be confined to Mali’s desert north,
army at the front is usually
but last week they began to advance
counter-productive, as it is brutal,
into southern Mali, where nine-tenths
militarily incompetent, and prone
of the country’s 14 million people
to panic flight. The other African
live. The Malian army collapsed, and
armies are of variable quality, but
Western intelligence sources estimatit is obviously French troops, and
ed that the Islamists would capture
especially French air power, that
the capital, Bamako, within two days.
will decide the outcome of the war.
That would effectively give them conSo has France bitten off more than
it can chew? Is this going to end up trol of the entire country.
Mali has long, unguarded borlike Afghanistan and Iraq?
ders with seven other African
The supporters of the war precountries, and it is only 3,000
fer to compare it with last year’s
kilometres from France. So French
Western military intervention in
President François Hollande
Libya, another French initiative
ordered immediate military
that was decided over one weekintervention to stop the Islamist
end. They like that analogy better
advance, and we’ll all worry about
because the Libyan intervention
the long-term consequences later.
ended tolerably well, with the
The next Western war against
overthrow of the dictator, a demoIslamist extremists has already
cratically elected government, and
started, and the question is whethno Western casualties. But the difer it will end up like Afghanistan.
ferences between Libya and Mali
Nobody would like to know
are greater than the similarities.
the answer to that more than the
In Libya the rebels were trying
French. Except, of course, the
to rid the country of Muammar
Malians.
Gaddafi—a loony, friendless dicGwynne Dyer is an independent
tator—and create a democratic
journalist who writes a weekly colfuture. The decision to intervene
umn for Embassy.
was made in Paris in only two
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Winter is here to stay, so we might as well embrace
it for our physical health as much as our mental
well-being. That means we should stop hiding under
the covers buried in comfort food while hoping for a
prompt end to the season.
As much as complaining about the weather is the
favourite Canadian past time, the fact that our obesity rates continue to grow — especially among young
people — is alarming.
According to the feds, over the past 25 years obesity
rates among Canadian children and youth have tripled.
Canadian teens overweight now, will likely continue
to be overweight into adulthood. It’s not the physical
appearance alone that’s at issue; it’s the health problems associated with being overweight that are of concern. Those include reduced balance, bone and joint
problems, hypertension and high blood pressure as
well as heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and
other types of breathing problems, not to mention low
self-esteem.
As taxpayers, we demand that municipalities take into
consideration the health of their citizens. That means
maintaining outdoor skating rinks and winter trails
for their taxpayers. Provincial parks are already doing
that, but they’re not always located close enough to
certain residents. The private sector may provide such
opportunities, but the cost can be prohibitive for large
families.
Municipalities ought to calculate the distances and
ensure, depending on their size, that there is at least
one public trail and skating rink available to its residents and families. Far too frequently the public as well
as the private sector has discontinued programs or the
availability of a trail due to legal fears. We do live in a
litigious world, but common sense should and does
prevail, which means the possibility of litigation should
not be used as an excuse not to be a good corporate
citizen or service the interest of your taxpayers.
An active population is a healthy population that will
rely less on costly social and health-care services and,
consequently, take up less tax dollars.
So, while we’re not making any new year’s resolutions, this is as good a time as any to grab your family,
friends and maybe even a neighbour and head for a
trail to snowshoe, cross-country ski or skate. Start
making up for that Christmas merry making and get
outdoors and enjoy the beauty of this area in the winter, like the thrill of making the first tracks on fresh
snow or walking under a canopy of snow-covered
pines.
Go for a simple walk and do it often! More oxygen
as well as light to combat the darkness of winter will
improve both our physical and mental states, especially
for those suffering from the winter blues. So, as you
start putting on the layers, don’t be afraid to shout to
Old Man Winter: “Bring it on!”
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LETTERS – OPINION
Bracebridge needs to be more accessible
Re: Accessibility recommendation floated for town hall,
Bracebridge Examiner, Jan.2, 2013.
I wish to comment on the recent article in the Bracebridge
Examiner regarding accessibility issues at the town offices.
Unfortunately, the town hall is but one of many places in
this town which are inaccessible to those in wheelchairs,
those with walkers or strollers, or simply those of us who
have difficulty navigating steps. Until one is actually faced
with a mobility issue, it is impossible to understand just
how many barriers there are right here in town.
An article in the Toronto Star on Jan. 3, 2013 describes a
project called StopGap which makes shops and restaurants
accessible using wooden ramps which are provided free of
charge by the community fund of some 15 Home Depot
associates across Canada.
Where to send
your letters
The Bracebridge Examiner welcomes your opinions.
Unfortunately, not all letters received can be published
in the space available. Clarity, brevity and originality
are particularly valued in letters to the editor. Send
letters to the Bracebridge Examiner, 34 E.P. Lee
Drive, Bracebridge, Ontario P1L 1V2 or via email to
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Letters and guest columns become the property of
the Bracebridge Examiner and cannot be returned.
They may be edited, and may be republished in all
media.
The downtown merchants association in Bracebridge
encourages people to shop downtown, but this is an
impossible exercise for those who cannot navigate steps.
Seventeen shops in the town of Stouffville are now accessible as are 43 stores and restaurants along one street alone
in Toronto.
I encourage you to view the information on the stopgap.ca
website. Some solutions are much simpler than one might
think and require little in the way of feasibility studies!
Another plus ... because the ramps are portable, no permits
are required. This could also be a great community project
for high school wood-working students. Let’s stop talking
about accessibility issues and do something about them!
Dinny McCraney
Bracebridge
Consolidate
and streamline
government, reader
Re: Accessibility recommendations floated for town hall,
Bracebridge Examiner, Jan.2, 2013
Consultant Heather Elston makes some very valid points
in her wheelchair accessibility study but I would advise the
“powers to be” to think twice before investing hundreds of
thousands of dollars at the town offices.
The Muskoka One recommendations to consolidate and
streamline our local governance was the best news that I’ve
heard in my seven-year residency. If that happens (hopefully), the regional offices would be far more accessible at
minimum expense.
Great reporting Louis.
J.R. Prendergast
Bracebridge
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Senior boomers continue to change the world
This year seems to be staring off with the
needs of seniors having more importance
than we have previously seen. We appear
to be experiencing a shift in our society.
A shift of public resources to enhance the
lives of seniors should not be coming as
a great surprise. The baby boomers are
now reaching their senior years. This is
the group who has by the sheer force of
their numbers forced important changes
in society to meet their requirements.
Changes that were needed were met
because we recognize that public money
should be for the greatest needs of our
society. To this end we, the public, have
supported spending and have met the
demands of the times. There have recently been a variety of reports indicating the
need for seniors housing, health care etc.
It is to be expected that as the requirements of society change so will the apportioning of public funds. The change in
our population needs may be contributing to one of the current difficulties we
see in Ontario. While there were growing needs in areas such as education we
were supportive of directing the funds
to meet those needs .Government funds
were available to meet the important
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challenges and therefore establishing priorities was not as difficult. The recent
past and the future predictions indicate
a change in the availability of government funds. These circumstances require
accommodating to the changes we are
experiencing. This shifting of priorities
will no doubt continue to cause concern
in many areas as we make this major shift.
This may be why the public support for
the current education confrontation here
in Ontario does not appear to be strong
The pressures on us now are to improve
and enhance quality of life for seniors.
Fortunately there are groups working to
overcome the shortages in housing and
health care. Those of us who are in this
age group have found it difficult to see
the stresses that many of our friends
and acquaintances have been facing and
the lack of resources to assist them. The
needs of our elderly will be priority as it
has become evident that these concerns
must be our priority in Muskoka. This has
been apparent in the recent reporting on
housing needs and health-care delivery
in our area. This is where government
funds, with local support are desperately
needed
Those of us who are and have been
living in this senior society also see the
need to explore the larger lifestyle picture
of ageing. There are avenues that can be
explored by families and communities to
enhance and improve lifestyle.
Our personal experience when an ipad
was introduced to our lives a few years
ago brought improvements that we never
could have imagined. There was the
obvious, enhancement for communication, and access to such things as worldwide newspapers and magazines. All the
information and information sources that
became available at a fingertip. All of
these were anticipated and appreciated.
What was a surprise was finding the
other lifestyle improvements.
Hearing impairment had made communication through the phone impossible. The uses of face time and texting
have been wonderful life-changing solutions. That of course is the whole purpose
behind taking advantage of the current
advances in technology
Being a senior, being confined to home,
having limitations on lifestyle, need no
longer be a total isolating experience.
There are so many opportunities as we
look around. Libraries have added ereaders to their collections. How wonderful.
Those who have difficulty getting out for
whatever reasons are now being served by
this public facility. Technology is providing ways to keep seniors an active contributing segment of society.
Seniors, thanks to the boomers, are a
significant segment of our society and will
change our views on ageing. There is full
recognition that the public purse is not as
full as it once was but our desire to be a
strong society is still there. There are so
many ways that exist today to enhance
and improve lifestyle when unexpected
limitations due to age occur. We all have
responsibility to see that the important
needs of our society are met.
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Winter's
first real
blast comes
as a shock
to residents
A GOOD TIME FOR THOSE WHO LOVE WINTER
So, cold enough for you? There
was only one topic of conversation
for anyone who stepped outside this
week.
If you found the plummeting temperatures and biting wind came as a
shock to the system, you’re not alone.
Environment Canada’s Dave
Phillips says the cold can be rather
shocking after last year’s non-winter
and thawing temperatures we experienced through most of January.
“It really is cold. Normally we
should see high of minus-4 in the
afternoon and minus-12 in the morning. Yesterday morning it was minus-21,” he said on Thursday.
“We were seduced into thinking we
wouldn’t have any cold air again. Last
year was one of the warmest [winters]
on record. Winter cancelled last year:
you had just barely half of your normal snowfall.”
But the cold start to the week is
hardly breaking any records. On Jan.
23, 1948 temperatures plummeted to minus-26.7. On
the same day in 1976 the
thermometer hit an icy
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Worry about
legal fees sees
Woolwich defer
planning budget
STEVE KANNON
Not everyone is afraid of the frigid cold. Brandon Gerling, 6, and sister Taylor, 9, welcome Wednesday afternoon’s frost with
some skating on the rink in the back yard of their Elmira home.
[ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]
It was a case of once bitten, twice shy as Woolwich
councillors turned down
an engineering and planning budget with too little
money set aside for legal
expenses.
With legal costs having been well over budget
last year, councillors are
not prepared to take any
chances this time around.
Driven largely by gravel
pit battles at the Ontario
Municipal Board, Woolwich spent more than
$361,000 on legal fees in
2012, far more than the
$25,000 in the engineering and planning services
budget.
While the extra expenses
were covered from supplementary revenue, including unexpected money
from Waterloo North, last
week’s budget discussion
was an “I told you so” mo-
ment for Coun. Mark Bauman, who last year warned
the money set aside for
legal fees was inadequate.
In this year’s budget,
that line item was bumped
to $110,000, with staff admitting that number, too, is
likely just a placeholder.
“That placeholder fell
well short,” said Bauman of
last year’s budget, noting
the township had to rely on
unanticipated revenue to
cover the difference.
“Our windfall went to
lawyers,” he lamented.
Bauman pushed for a
doubling of the $110,000 –
“the placeholder ... is not a
fair picture of where we’re
going in the next year” –
saying he couldn’t support
the department budget in
the form presented.
“I want to see a realistic
number there.”
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away uninjured as his plane landed up in blackberry bushes.
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Plane pilot avoids injury in mishap
Erin Haluschak
Record Staff
A Courtenay pilot’s flight
came to an abrupt end Tuesday
morning as his plane landed off
the runway at the Courtenay
Airpark, but he walked away
without injury.
Courtenay Fire Chief Don
Bardonnex said upon landing,
the private plane hydroplaned
across the runway, slid over a
patch of grass and into some
blackberry bushes.
He confirmed the pilot did
Erin Haluschak
Record Staff
Although recent late August
weather might feel more like a
preview of fall than summer, a
weather outlook for September
to November predicts slightly
above-normal temperatures and
normal rainfall for the region.
According to The Weather Network’s 2013 Fall Outlook, part
of the province from the tip of
Haida Gwaii down the central
and south coasts (including Vancouver Island) is predicted to be
slightly warmer than normal.
For the rest of B.C., they are
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predicting near-normal temperatures.
As for B.C. precipitation, the
Outlook predicts near-normal
rainfall, with the exception near
Chetwynd south and east through
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not suffer any injuries.
“There was not even much
damage to the plane. Everything held together and the
props are in good condition.”
The plane was towed away
shortly after the incident.
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has indicated there will be an
open and transparent process,”
Davis said. “There is a desperate
The Lilli House shelter has need for affordable housing of all
reached capacity more frequently kinds here. It’s not going to be
over the last year than in the past. easy to determine priorities.”
Financing for constructing the
The reason, says Comox Valley
Transition Society program co- project still needs to be addressed.
ordinator Anne Davis, is because The City will investigate funding
women who have sought shelter opportunities from all levels of
and are ready to move on have government and seek partnernowhere to go in terms of finding ships with community organizations.
an affordable place to rent.
The CVTS, which has operated
“And that has an obvious
impact on other women who are about 25 years, owns Lilli House
outright. It has
needing to come
funds set aside
in in urgent sitThere is a desperate for housing.
uations,” Davis
“We’re in a
said.
“We’re need for affordable housvery good posiseeing a huge
ing of all kinds here. It’s
tion to move
need for affordforward,” Davis
able
housing not going to be easy to
said. “But what
for women and determine priorities.
we need is propchildren leaving
Anne Davis erty. This is a
abusive situapossible opportions.”
The society welcomed last tunity.”
The Cliffe Avenue site was
week’s announcement by the City
of Courtenay, which purchased a lauded by front-line workers but
property at 810 Braidwood Rd. criticized by area businesses as
on the east side of the Courtenay a possible shelter location. Last
River where it intends to estab- year, Jangula forwarded a resolish affordable, supportive hous- lution to direct staff to initiate
ing. The $264,500 purchase was a zoning amendment to ensure
made with $355,000 in proceeds homeless shelters are not perfrom selling a trio of lots at Cliffe mitted within a specified area of
Avenue. The regional district pur- the downtown core. The CVRD
chased the latter for $470,000 in then transferred ownership of the
2010 for emergency shelter/sup- Cliffe Avenue properties to the
City along with $100,000 from
portive housing purposes.
Mayor Larry Jangula says the the Vancouver Island Health
City wants any housing construc- Authority.
The funds and proceeds from
tion to be an asset to the neighbourhood and to the entire Valley. the property sale would be used
He promises an open and inclu- “for the development of an emersive process when seeking input gency shelter and/or supportfrom the community and service ive housing elsewhere,” a news
providers as to how to move for- release states.
However, Jangula feels taxpayward.
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Boycott destroys teens’
shots at achievement
Re: Trustees eye options to ‘mitigate’ teacher extracurricular boycott, Jan. 17.
Chantal Mancini, president of the
Ontario Secondary School Teachers’
Federation of Hamilton-Wentworth,
claims boycotting voluntary activities
is “all we have left.”
Students across the province in
their final years of high school, the
ones who have truly worked as hard as
they can to get those scholarships, are
losing everything because of this boycott.
Educators of Ontario argue they’ve
lost their collective bargaining rights,
while students around the province
grieve as they may lose the valuable
scholarships they’ve worked so hard
to get.
his is the outcome of teachers boycotting extracurricular activities so
they can earn their right to bank
unused sick days.
As a student in the community, I
believe futures lay at the feet of the
Hamilton-Wentworth District School
board in hopes trustees will find a way
to pursue extracurricular activities. If
the teachers want to protest and set a
negative example for young students
across this province, let them.
Respectively, there are properly
educated bodies fresh out of teachers
college willing to immediately take
their place for half the pay.
Is boycotting extracurricular activities really worth possibly destroying
the chance for a youth to achieve success through a scholarship?
At least the trustees are trying to do
something right.
Landon Tulk
Dundas
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Unprofessionalism may lead public
to consider privatization of schools
As a professional engineer, I am
proud of my profession and the fact
that we consider ourselves true professionals.
We have our own code of conduct
and code of ethics, aimed at conducting ourselves in a manner that must
always have the public’s well-being
and safety in mind. We would never
compromise those ethics or allow
those codes of conduct to be superseded by any outside influences or
union directives.
Our association only educates and
reminds our professional engineers to
conduct themselves in a competent
and morally responsible manner to
ensure the public’s well-being is
served. That is the mark of a profession.
As for teaching being referred to as
a profession, my concern is the recent
behavior of teacher’s union spokespersons and hopefully a vocal minority among their union membership
leads me to think otherwise.
It’s sad to say, but if things continue this way, such unprofessionalism
may lead the public to consider privatization of schools as a better option.
At least with privatization, teachers
have to compete for limited jobs and
have to maintain a certain performance level to retain their job at that
particular school.
No job will be guaranteed for life
and public complaints to that private
school regarding the quality of teaching will be taken seriously and
responded to.
Perhaps in this scenario, that professionalism may return.
Craig Hagopian
Hamilton
Ban sales of assault rifles in U.S.
No doubt every parent is looking at
their children wondering what if this
were their school.
The school massacre in Newtown,
Connecticut sorrowed us all. And yet the
National Rifle Association vice-president
Wayne LaPierre stated they need armed
guards in schools.
If that is the answer, armed guards are
required in movie theatres, shopping
malls, bars, restaurants, community centres, churches, hotels, busy streets and
during fire alarms to protect firefighters.
Apparently, the NRA wants to revive the
Wild West.
No one hunts deer with a machine
gun. Assault weapons were designed to
kill people. They belong to their intended customer – the armed forces. Banning
the sale of assault rifles is a must. The
next step is to outlaw ownership of these
weapons. Anyone with one must turn
them in.
The NRA and gun-huggers have a
creed: guns don’t kill people, people kill
people. If that is the case, then the problem of guns in society is solved... don’t
give people guns.
John vesprini
Stoney Creek
Students earn honours from Legion
In November 2012 the Royal Canadian Legion Valley City Branch 36 held its
Annual Remembrance Poster and Literacy Contest.
Students in area schools were invited
to participate and we had an exciting
response. Entries were received from
four local schools and a home-schooled
group. There were 23 literary (poetry
and essay) entries and 44 poster entries
(colour and black and white).
Following rigorous judging, we
awarded 13 first place, six second place
and two third place winners with a total
of $530 in prize money. These winners
were notified earlier this week.
Congratulations to all our participants. These students assisted the Legion
with one of its primary goals — fostering
the tradition of remembrance among
Canadians.
All first-place entries have moved on
to compete at the zone level and we wish
them luck.
John Murphy, president, Royal
Canadian Legion, Branch 36
Only developers win in casino lotto
If I remember correctly, the OLG
changed its accounting procedures a
little while back and the City of Hamilton received less than it was originally
rewarded. This certainly doesn't leave
one with the feeling casinos will provide
an economic boom for the city.
The only people who will receive any
type of remuneration are the developers
and the OLG hierarchy; the population
itself will be the dupes.
Also, the original intent was to have
at least five per cent taken off the top,
leaving a 95-per-cent chance for the
patrons. Lo and behold, that was, in my
estimation, rather quickly altered and
has been consistent ever since.
Again, it’s just a layman's opinion;
not nearly as astute as the people behind
this endeavour.
G.A. Soehner
Hamilton
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As a teacher for 32 years in the Hamilton Catholic school system, I can say
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public, to one of their caring teachers.
Place to learn
A student in the Catholic school system of Ontario views school not only as
a place to learn content about subjects,
but primarily as a place where teachers
teach them as a person.
Bob Stachyra
Hamilton
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Fire talks need to focus on
what’s best for residents
S
ISSUE: It’s time to slow down rhetoric and posturing
in discussions of fire service delivery.
parks are flying over
whether a regional fire
department will amount
to better public service
and a bigger bang for
your tax dollar.
If improved firefighter and
public safety — as well as millions of dollars in cost savings —
are realized through amalgamation as the unions contend, then
what’s the harm in the region
updating its 1996 and 2001 studies to look at the numbers?
Compare costs in York now to
see if the region would be on a
similar $30+ million hook similar
to the Ottawa example, to bring
individual departments on the
same page.
Find out how much eliminating eight chiefs and about 15
deputies to run in a similar fashion as York Reginal Police would
save taxpayers.
Determine what effect the
move would have on composite
departments that rely on career
and volunteer firefighters to provide service.
Georgina’s council has yet to
make a decision to ask the region
to do a feasibility study.
But there’s been plenty of
debate over whether those discussions should include eliminating the fire service from medical calls.
This component is repeatedly
called for by Georgina Mayor Rob
Grossi, who doesn’t believe it’s
necessary to send million-dollar
apparatus with full-time firefighters, instead of ambulances, to
most, if not all, medical calls.
It isn’t a view shared by Georgina’s fire chief or a majority of
councillors if last week’s council
meeting is any indication.
Dispatch protocols send
high-end priority calls, such as
heart attacks, strokes and serious motor vehicle collisions, to
fire stations and there is a need
for the fire service to be at those
calls, according to Fire Chief
Steve Richardson.
Bottom line, is the local
debate, so far, seems to be more
focused on vested interest rather
than if the move will translate into
better public service and safety.
Ability to pay references seem
more like pushing an Association of Municipalities of Ontario
agenda rather than a legitimate
concern over Georgina’s force,
which has never gone to arbitration before this past agreement
over contract talks.
On the other hand, the fact
amalgamation is being pushed by
the unions this time around leads
some to fear the move is self-serving, with a larger union and more
bargaining power at its root.
It’s time to slow down the
rhetoric and posturing.
It’s time for actual numbers,
not only in terms of response
and dispatch times, but also how
much Georgina taxpayers would
be on the hook to standardize
equipment, training and procedures under a regional model.
And what benefits, in terms of
service and cost savings, will be
passed on.
Examine whether pilot projects on automatic aid, such as the
one being suggested by Vaughan
council, would work or are simply
Band-Aid solutions preventing an
inevitable regionalization of the
last of three emergency services
under a regional umbrella.
The focus should be on if a
vital service is being provided to
residents in the best and most
cost-efficient manner.
It shouldn’t be on turf wars
and municipalities protecting
their ability to set service levels or
larger areas carving out empires
they don’t want to redistribute
under a regional model.
That ensures the best possible
service for residents is driving the
truck, so to speak.
When in doubt, go public.
Maybe it’s time the public
weigh in on the issue.
Hard numbers will help them
do that.
BOTTOM LINE: Focus should be on if vital service
is being provided in best, most cost-effective manner.
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OUR VIEW / EDITORIAL
People don’t vote because it’s
forced down their throats
I can’t help but comment on the York
Region Media Group’s pleas to get people
out voting and to get the younger generation
involved.
The writing is on the wall as to the reasons why people don’t vote: it’s forced down
our throats.
We hear nothing else than the $580 billion
it takes for the provincial gas plant cancellations. We hear Toronto wants a subway built
to the tune of $2.8 billion despite the fact the
province has no money, yet it will invest $1.4
billion without thinking about from where it
will come.
In Georgina, we have that monstrosity of
an apartment building being constructed at
The Queensway and Church Street, on order
by York Region. Mayor Rob Grossi and council can’t or won’t do anything about it.
Some of our roads in Georgina need
repaving badly, but nobody does anything
about that.
If the town or the province needs money,
we just up the taxes and bleed the taxpayer.
You don’t think the younger people who
can vote are not aware of this?
The term of office for mayor is four years.
A lot of harm can come during this time and
PAT MERLIHAN
SALES MANAGER
ELENA MAYSTRUK
LETTER OF THE WEEK
THE VIEW FROM HERE
Time for council
to take wage issue
into its own hands
HAVING BROACHED THE ISSUE of evergrowing staff costs, Woolwich council should
be encouraged to go beyond wage freezes – a
given – to assessing staff levels and over-inflated salaries.
he or she can’t be ousted until then.
No wonder voter turnout is roughly 36
per cent, at best, and will be lower in future.
Joe Vanderloo
KeswicK
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Small businesses can’t afford
to pay higher minimum wages
Booze in corner stores would
cause too many problems
Re: Groups rally for minimum wage hike,
thetopic.ca
Small businesses are already suffering
while paying minimum wages.
Raise those wages and many will fold, but
most will need to raise their prices accordingly, so everyone suffers from higher prices.
Also consider the hard worker who, after so
many years of dedicated service, finally gets
a raise to what will soon be the new minimum wage.
Only the government looks at this scenario as being normal because it is not its
money being spent.
Don’t like minimum wages?
Work even harder and/or smarter. The
last generation overcame minimum wage
by working maximum hours; working 80
hours, which doubles a 40-hour weekly paycheque. Simple math.
No increase in expenses to the business,
so no need to raise prices for everyone.
Re: Do you want booze sold in your corner
store?
We asked you what you thought about
this issue last week.
Here’s what you told us:
I have concerns on alcohol being sold in
corner stores.
It will make it too easy for young, underaged people to get.
There will be more motor vehicle crashes
and could lead to more violence in our area.
There could also be more street-level outbursts from people who have consumed too
much alcohol.
More robberies could occur as more corner stores will have more cash in them.
All in all, I don’t think this is the kind of
thing we want for our young adults.
Don’t put more on their plate with all
they have to endure now in this world.
Mori Goldlist
GeoRGina
Richmond hill
Georgina Advocate
Keswick, ON
diane Kirton
Staff will resist, of course, but they’re clearly in a conflict position and any comments contrary to the necessary
direction should be disregarded.
In that light, it’s no surprise chief administrative officer
David Brenneman was none too eager to embrace wage
freezes and cuts to salaries and benefits as a way of bringing Woolwich’s budget under control when the subject
was raised at last week’s budget meeting. Bureaucracies
always look for more even when it’s not needed or contrary to the public interest.
Councillors are on the right track, however, and should
push ahead with those kinds of cuts, even if the Mayor
and bureaucrats argue otherwise.
The first step is to separate wage agreements for unionized and non-unionized workers. There’s a clear conflict
when senior staff receives the same increases they negotiate with the unionized workers. Councillors’ pay should
again be a separate matter. Each should be debated in the
open, making the spending of public money truly transparent no matter how uncomfortable that makes public
employees.
This is the way the process should work. However,
we’ve seen a disturbing trend in some municipalities
toward automatic annual increases, sometimes tied to
increases negotiated with municipal staffers. Throw in a
propensity for closed meetings and residents are not seeing any accountability for what is surely the most conflictridden part of a councillor’s duties.
Each of the municipal employee groups – unionized
workers, staff and council – should be handled separately
in negotiations about compensation.
While negotiations with the union are typically confidential, it falls to council to set the tone early and in public. In this case, given recessionary times and the growing
gap between over-inflated public sector wages and the
incomes of those in the real, productive part of the economy, freezes are appropriate. A line must be drawn, and
council cannot depend on management to do that.
Last year’s budget is an indication of what happens if
staff leads the process. Directed by council to find five per
cent in efficiencies – i.e. cuts – staff came back with a few
token spending reductions and a raft of fee increases. To
its discredit, council went along with that.
Likewise, when wage freezes and rollbacks are discussed, staff’s default assumption is that services will
be cut, rather than doing away with unneeded managerial positions. Front line services are what residents are
overtaxed to pay. Bureaucratic bloat is what management
encourages to make its life easier and to pad the payroll.
When it comes to choosing between the two, councillors
have an easy decision.
The idea is to identify the most essential of services offered to residents, then to begin trimming away at everything else.
As with governments of all stripes, program bloat and
internal entitlements become entrenched. In budget deliberations, there is a rationale for every spending request.
Taken in isolation, each may make sense, but it’s the role
of elected officials to see the big picture, and to nip in the
bud empire-building and incremental growth.
Like kids left to their own devices, some groups would make decisions that aren't in the best interest of anyone, including those paying the bills.
WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER
Little Englanders win big in Cameron's EU speech
WORLD
AFFAIRS
The real problem is
continental drift: Brussels,
the capital of the European
Union, is getting further
and further away from England. Or at least that is British Prime Minister David
Cameron’s line.
Cameron made his longawaited speech promising
a referendum on continued British membership
in the European Union on
January 23, and he placed
the blame squarely on
plate tectonics: “People
are increasingly frustrated
that decisions taken further and further away
from them mean their living standards are slashed
through enforced austerity
or their taxes are used to
bail out governments on
the other side of the continent.”
The “frustrated” people
in question are English,
of course. Hostility to the
European Union is mainly
an English thing, but that
matters a lot in the United
Kingdom, where 55 million of the kingdom’s 65
million people live in England.
The Scottish nationalists seeking separation
from England in their own
referendum take the opposite tack. They promise
the Scottish electorate
that leaving the UK would
not mean leaving the European Union (although
in fact Scotland would
probably have to re-apply
for membership). Scottish
politicians have to promise
to stay in the EU, because
otherwise very few Scottish voters would say “yes”
to independence. But England is different.
The “Little Englander”
glories in the notion of
England being unencumbered by foreign ties and
commitments. It’s the kind
of nationalism that Americans call “isolationism,”
and the phrase is now used
to describe strongly nationalist, even xenophobic people on the right of English
politics. Those people, always present in significant
numbers within Cameron’s
Conservative Party, have
now won the internal party
debate.
Every Conservative
leader has had to deal with
these people. They al-
ways managed to contain
them in the past, because
the European Union is
Britain’s biggest trading
partner, and it is obviously
in Britain’s interest to belong to the organization
that makes the rules for
Europe’s “single market.”
What has changed is that
the long recession and
relatively high immigration of recent years have
increased the popularity
of the extreme right in
England.
That doesn’t mean that
populist demagogues and
neo-fascists are about to
win power in the United
Kingdom. Far from it:
they’d be lucky to get 10
per cent of the vote. But it
does mean that the Conservatives are losing their
more right-wing supporters
to the anti-EU, anti-immigration United Kingdom
Independence Party.
UKIP could never win an
election in Britain, but it
could easily steal enough
votes from the Conservatives to make them lose the
next election. So there has
been mounting panic in
the Conservative Party, and
not just among its instinctively anti-EU members.
Cameron’s promise of a
referendum on EU membership is first and foremost an attempt to steal
UKIP’s thunder and win
back the defecting Conservative voters. He doesn’t
really want to leave the EU,
but he really does want to
win the election that is due
in 2015.
His reluctance to be the
man who took Britain out
of the EU was evident in
the way he hedged around
his referendum promise.
The referendum would not
take place until after the
next election, and only if
the Conservative Party won
enough seats in 2015 to
form a government on its
own. (Its current coalition
partner, the Liberal Democratic Party, opposes the
whole idea).
Cameron says he will
spend the next two years
renegotiating the terms of
Britain’s EU membership
to “repatriate” many powers from Brussels to London, and to make various
changes in the way the EU
is run. Then, if he is satisfied with the outcome, he
will support EU membership in the election and in
the subsequent referen-
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OMB battles over gravel pits
ELENA MAYSTRUK
So, cold enough for you? There
was only one topic of conversation
for anyone who stepped outside this
week.
If you found the plummeting temperatures and biting wind came as a
shock to the system, you’re not alone.
Environment Canada’s Dave
Phillips says the cold can be rather
shocking after last year’s non-winter
and thawing temperatures we experienced through most of January.
“It really is cold. Normally we
should see high of minus-4 in the
afternoon and minus-12 in the morning. Yesterday morning it was minus-21,” he said on Thursday.
“We were seduced into thinking we
wouldn’t have any cold air again. Last
year was one of the warmest [winters]
on record. Winter cancelled last year:
you had just barely half of your normal snowfall.”
But the cold start to the week is
hardly breaking any records. On Jan.
23, 1948 temperatures plummeted to minus-26.7. On
the same day in 1976 the
thermometer hit an icy
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It was a case of once bitten, twice shy as Woolwich
councillors turned down
an engineering and planning budget with too little
money set aside for legal
expenses.
With legal costs having been well over budget
last year, councillors are
not prepared to take any
chances this time around.
Driven largely by gravel
pit battles at the Ontario
Municipal Board, Woolwich spent more than
$361,000 on legal fees in
2012, far more than the
$25,000 in the engineering and planning services
budget.
While the extra expenses
were covered from supplementary revenue, including unexpected money
from Waterloo North, last
week’s budget discussion
was an “I told you so” mo-
ment for Coun. Mark Bauman, who last year warned
the money set aside for
legal fees was inadequate.
In this year’s budget,
that line item was bumped
to $110,000, with staff admitting that number, too, is
likely just a placeholder.
“That placeholder fell
well short,” said Bauman of
last year’s budget, noting
the township had to rely on
unanticipated revenue to
cover the difference.
“Our windfall went to
lawyers,” he lamented.
Bauman pushed for a
doubling of the $110,000 –
“the placeholder ... is not a
fair picture of where we’re
going in the next year” –
saying he couldn’t support
the department budget in
the form presented.
“I want to see a realistic
number there.”
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Now that he’s in charge of health rather than the environment, Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Terry Lake no longer
has to remain neutral on the proposed Ajax copper and gold
mine.
But, that’s not changing his position on the project.
“There are people who have legitimate concerns and I understand those concerns,” Lake said.
“I still own a home in Aberdeen and I totally understand
those concerns. I have some very close friends that have those
concerns. But, I think to know whether to be concerned, I need
to know the information and we’re still not there.”
Lake said more of his constituents in the North Kamloops
area tend to contact him about how they approve of the mine,
but he has not taken a side.
“I still take the position that, until we have all the information, it’s difficult to take the position.”
With KGHM’s application for environmental assessment
unlikely to be filed before next year, there is one area where he
thinks the province can take action in the interim.
Lake would like to see the Environmental Assessment Office
do another “EA 101” seminar in Kamloops, explaining how the
process works and giving the public a chance to ask questions.
“It may not be a bad idea to do another one and then these
kind of concerns could be addressed,” Lake said, noting he
would also like to see the session address other permits the mine
will need to operate.
“It almost becomes a full-time job trying to follow the process, so I understand how people could get a bit exasperated by
it,” Lake said. “I think doing that public information session
would be helpful for people to understand.”
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nearby unit.
Once the suspects entered the
townhouse, a female was heard
yelling for someone to call the
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The 26-year-old female victim
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five-year-old son at the time of
the invasion and recognized her
attackers, said Langley RCMP
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Witnesses said two of the suspects had baseball bats while
the third carried a handgun.
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A 12-year-old girl was airlifted to B.C. Children’s Hospital after being rescued from the
bottom of a steep ravine in Brookswood on
Monday.
Langley City fire crews got a call about the
girl falling near 204 Street and 43 Avenue,
around 3:40 p.m.
“We located the young lady about 60 feet
down a steep embankment,” said Peter Methot,
assistant City fire chief. “We don’t know how or
why she fell. But luckily, the crew we had are
proficient in rope rescue.”
Methot said 20 City firefighters, several paramedics and several Township firefighters helped
in the rescue, which involved climbing gear and
using ropes attached to the large cedar trees to
pull the girl up.
She was put in a basket stretcher instead of
a regular stretcher to make the rescue possible,
he said.
Once the girl was safely brought to higher
ground, she was airlifted to hospital by a helicopter that had landed in the nearby cemetery
at 208 Street and 44 Avenue.
She was conscious the whole time, but suffered several injuries including a severe fracture
and possible pelvis fracture. She was being
checked for possible internal injuries. Methot
didn’t have an update on how the girl is doing.
He said this was the first time City firefighters
trained in rope rescue got to use their skills.
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rescue went,” said Methot.
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A8 TUESDAY, January 22, 2013
Costly lesson
For Muskoka Lakes councillors, there is little left
to salvage from the Bala Falls debacle but there is a
lesson to be learned – there is a time to fight and a
time for compromise.
While many of the township councillors were
elected with a mandate to oppose the Bala Falls
project, they were also elected to do what’s in the
best interests of their community. In the latter
respect, they have failed miserably.
For years, misconceptions have been circulating
about the project at Bala Falls from the extent of
the road closures to the size of potential government subsidies. During that entire time, members
of council haven’t done enough to get the facts, dispel the rumours and present the public with a clear
understanding of the project
This debate has been going on for nearly seven
years and there has essentially been no doubt about
the outcome since the first environmental assessment was completed in 2009.
Swift River, the developers of this project, have
tried in every conceivable manner to meet the
Township halfway. Swift River was stymied at every
turn and now an opportunity to build a more aesthetically pleasing option has been all but lost.
The years have seen countless staff reports, studies and meetings, all of which eat up staff time and
much taxpayer money; not to mention legal and
other professional fees. It will be interesting to
learn if taxpayers are ever provided with a full
accounting. After all, Mayor Alice Murphy is an
accountant and it might be expected she’d want to
know the final tally expensed to her taxpayers.
Today, councillors have nothing to show for their
time-consuming and expensive effort except a
divided community and the worst of two sites for
the project.
Should there be a next time, perhaps they will
take a step back, look at the facts and help their
community find a compromise.
Mayor doesn’t listen
Dear Editor:
At the Township of Lake of Bays council meeting
on Jan. 15, 2013, I was astonished when the proposed Rogers communication tower was discussed.
The protest against this tower has been immense;
it has been made clear the majority of residents are
against its construction. However, Mayor Young,
who by his own admission was instrumental in
wanting this tower, has refused to listen to his residents. His self-serving and arrogant attitude at the
meeting was both shocking and disappointing.
Mayor Young was rude to delegates and ignored his
own rules of order.
Mayor Young refuses to follow Lake of Bays written protocol regarding the towers proximity to residential housing. If the majority of residents do not
want or need this infrastructure, I fail to understand
why he is adamant in proceeding with the project.
I am sure I woke up in Canada today, the greatest
county and democracy in the world. Perhaps Mayor
Young woke up somewhere else.
Randy Gill
Huntsville/Lake of Bays
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should be. It is high time that the
silent majority stood up and
demanded an end to guns in society.
We don’t need guns for protection – that’s why we pay our
police.
We don’t need them for food –
that’s why we have a food industry.
We don’t need them for sport –
shooting wild animals with guns is
not sport, it is unskilled slaughter.
If you want to make a sport out of
it – use a bow and arrow.
But, why slaughter our wildlife
anyway when most of us would
prefer to see them alive. Nature is
quite able to deal with excess populations herself and pest control
services are there to deal with nuisance wildlife.
Maybe guns are nature’s way of
dealing with excess human population – I would prefer birth control and gender planning.
As far as the specious argument
that people kill people, not guns,
then explain why, when you make
guns illegal, you go from 60
deaths per year for every two million people to just one?
Alan Dean Clark
Bracebridge
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Dear Editor:
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Yes, stupid, guns are the problem. “Stupid is as stupid does” - Forrest
Gump.
It is absolutely appalling that in
the aftermath of the latest completely senseless mass shooting of
children and teachers, that Don
Crossland (Jan 16. What’s Up
Muskoka) would subject us to the
lunatic ravings of gun culture
minutiae.
How we have come to permit
instruments of death to be allowed
in a modern society is beyond
comprehension. The only conclusion I can come to is that the lack
of a culture of acceptance and
treatment for victims of mental
health trauma has left the primary
and high school bullies, the ones
that go on to beat their wives and
children, harass their employers or
fellow workers, no place to take
out their aggression but by slaughtering our wildlife, our women,
our children and themselves.
Any guns are anaethma to a
sane, modern society. Britain outlawed them years ago and has
been reaping the rewards ever
since. Even police don’t carry guns
in Britain and that is the way it
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Yes, it’s true — Ajax mine
process has been impressive
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COTT BAILEY OFFERED
an open pit of valuable information, yet took some unnecessary
blasts from those in attendance
whose rigid opinions cannot be changed
even with the most powerful excavators.
Bailey is executive project director with the province’s Environmental
Assessment Office. As such, he is the
guy co-ordinating the process through
which the proposed Ajax copper and
gold mine application journeys.
He spoke to a decidedly anti-Ajax
crowd during an event last week at
Thompson Rivers University sponsored
by the TRU Faculty Association and
TRU Human Rights Committee.
Bailey was invited to give a presentation on how the environmentalassessment process works in general
and where the Ajax application stands in
particular.
Aided by environmental-assessment
officer Lindsay McDonough, Bailey
gave a thorough presentation, one that
answered many questions and filled in
many blanks for those wishing to know
more about the process a project — be it
a mine, a pipeline or ski-hill application
— must navigate to become a reality or
be rejected.
The problem with such forums related
to Ajax, however, is the fact attendance is
dominated by those who are opposed to
the project — always and forever.
To be opposed, and intransigently so,
is a democratic right, but to be opposed
and attend a meeting intended to explain
the process, then lob questions and statements at Bailey that have nothing to do
with his jurisdiction is plain silly.
At one point, after an audience
member delivered yet another comment
completely irrelevant to the topic at hand
(something about alleged lies told by an
Ajax proponent and the pending mass
exodus of people from Kamloops due to
CHRISTOPHER FOULDS
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certain air-quality deterioration), Bailey
reminded the crowd of his role.
When he said he didn’t care whether
the Ajax mine proceeded or not, there
were some gasps of indignation.
But, Bailey is correct.
As project manager, he is responsible
for ensuring all technical analysis is completed, for ensuring all reports are finalized, for ensuring all problems have mitigation proposals and for ensuring the final
report delivered to the provincial ministers
of environment and mines and federal
minister of environment is detailed, complete and ready for a decision.
Bailey does not care whether Ajax
proceeds because Bailey cannot care.
Objectivity is the crucial aspect of
his job, something many at last week’s
forum failed to note as they lobbed questions and made statements that have
nothing to do with Bailey’s role or his
purpose in presenting his lecture.
(Objectivity is also part of the deal
for Terry Lake, the Kamloops-North
Thompson Liberal MLA and B.C.’s
environment minister. He will be part of
the decision-making process; therefore,
it is incumbent upon him to stay out
of the fray until the report is delivered,
despite some ridiculous calls along the
way that he get involved and “protect”
Kamloops).
To be fair, there were some solid
questions asked at the TRU event, some
of which led to answers that enlightened
me on the process.
Nothing, however, was made more
clear than the fact the Ajax proposal is
alone among all previous environmentassessment proposals in the magnitude
of attention given the process.
No other project has seen Bailey’s
office hire its own socio-economic
consultant; no other project (save for
one, possibly, decades ago) has seen the
creation of a community advisory group;
few other projects receive three (rather
than one as required) public-consultation
periods; few other projects are afforded
the maximum 75-day public-commenting period; and few other projects require
the proponent to hold community-consultation meetings.
And, as Bailey said, it is not often he
engages in such an information session
as the one at TRU last week.
“Yes, we are blazing new trails,” he
said. “Under certain circumstances, we
throw our whole toolbox at a project.
This is one of those projects.”
All we as a community can ask is
that the environmental-assessment process, with its stack of documents fivefeet deep, is as thorough and objective
and fair as possible.
Under the existing legislation (no, it
is not perfect. For example, it requires
consultation with affected First Nations,
but not with affected municipalities and
regional districts), it would appear Bailey
and his crew are being as thorough and
objective and fair as possible.
A decision on Ajax is likely at least a
year away, based on the timeline of the
process.
There is plenty of time for more
opposition, more meetings, more information — and more rhetoric.
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Do owners,
players, truly
care about
the fans?
The NHL is back in business.
After five months of sportscasts that sounded more like
business reports as owners and
players argued their cases for the
protracted labour dispute that
kept arenas dark, teams returned
to the ice to prepare for a truncated season that began this past
weekend.
Some teams are trying to make
amends, to salve the wounds
that three difficult lockouts in 19
years have
wrought on
ticket-buying
fans. The
Vancouver
Canucks
are cutting
prices at their
concessions and gave away the
jerseys their players wore in their
home opener.
The Edmonton Oilers held
their first practice on a frozen
pond, using Twitter and Facebook
to alert fans.
Canadians generally, and hockey fans in particular, are pretty
forgiving.
The arenas in the NHL’s six
Canadian cities have been just
as full and noisy had the season
been at its proper midway point.
Those who can’t get a ticket,
or afford one, will be tuned in
to Hockey Night in Canada, a
Saturday night TV tradition for
more than 60 years, and Sportsnet
and TSN during the week.
By the time the race for the
Stanley Cup playoffs heats up
in earnest, in a few weeks, most
fans will probably have forgotten
there was a lockout in the first
place.
It’s hard for the average working person to relate to a labour
dispute between billionaire owners and employees who earn millions of dollars.
There were never any picket
lines set up outside those glittering arenas, many of them built
with help from taxpayer money.
Locked-out players never huddled around fire barrels to stay
warm, worrying about how their
strike pay would cover the rent.
Perhaps both sides should
pause and think about that the
next time they threaten to put
hockey on hold.
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A penny
saved? Nope
he BC Liberal government
unveiled an ambitious plan on
Thursday, to try and take some
of the dissension out of bargaining
between boards of education and the
B.C. Teachers Federation.
It is an excellent starting point for
future discussions, but has almost no
chance of being adopted in its entirety
– particularly as we are now entering
a provincial election campaign, an
election that, thus far, the BC Liberals
seem likely to lose.
Premier Christy Clark has stated
on many occasions that she would
like to see labour peace in the school
system for at least 10 years. This is
an admirable goal. Labour disruptions
do not help students get a better
education.
In the last school year, teachers
were basically on a work-to-rule
campaign for the entire year, and it was
not helpful to students or parents –
particularly the lack of report cards and
lack of dialogue between parents and
teachers.
The provincial proposal calls for
teachers, through the BCTF, to have
more of a voice in education policy
decisions.
It also calls for teachers’ wages
over the next 10 years to be based on
an indexing of other major B.C. public
sector wage settlements, which would
ensure that they do not fall behind. It
also would let the BCTF, at some point
in time, regain the right to strike.
In addition, the province is ready to
put $100 million into a Priority Education
Investment Fund. In the third year of
the agreement, it would be available
to address education priorities – and
teachers would be among those with a
say on what those priorities would be.
The province also wants a more
transparent bargaining process and
clear timelines of when bargaining
takes place and contracts are agreed
to. There is no question that the
bargaining with the BCTF has been
seriously flawed for many years.
Agreements have been few and far
between, and even when one side
or the other makes concessions,
controversy seems inevitable.
Part of this is due to the feeling by
the BCTF that it deserves a voice in
setting policy. While it has every right
to discuss policy with the province,
in fact, under NDP, Liberal and Social
Credit governments, this has rarely
gone smoothly.
This proposal actually sets up a
formal avenue for the BCTF to be
involved in policy discussions and
it needs to be careful not to reject
something it has long wanted.
S
Up the ante at Cascades
Expansion of Langley City casino makes most sense
T
he casino issue has become
Mayor Lois Jackson says residents
one for much speculation,
spoke out strongly against a
so I might as well take a
casino when one was proposed
From
shot at it.
about eight years ago. That was
Surrey council has turned
in South Delta. A North Delta
the Editor
down a casino proposal for South
frankbucholtz casino might make more sense,
Surrey. The proposed casino,
but would be located quite
hotel and convention centre would have been
close to the existing Starlight Casino in the
built in a rural area adjacent to Highway
Queensborough area of New Westminster.
99, and would be some distance from other
I believe that the Lower Mainland is wellcommercial facilities and transit.
served by casinos, considering how few of
Fort Langley-Aldergrove MLA Rich Coleman, them there were when the BC Liberals took
minister responsible for gaming, weighed in
office in 2001. Keep in mind, one of the
after the vote, saying that Surrey should get no planks in Gordon Campbell’s campaign was
consideration from B.C. Lottery Corporation in that there would be no expansion of gaming.
the future. It later developed that he phoned
The Liberals are now addicted to the
at least two members of Surrey council in
revenue (over $1 billion) that comes their
between the two nights the public hearing
way through gambling, and it is not going
took place. Some are saying he crossed the
to be reduced in scope. There seems to be
line by doing so.
enough business to keep the current casinos
Meanwhile, BCLC is suggesting that the
busy and profitable, but gamblers don’t just
casino could go in Delta or Langley. Langley
gamble here. Many gamble online. Others like
City’s casino could be expanded, and that
to make trips to places like Las Vegas, which
seems the most logical if BCLC wants to add
offers entertainment opportunities that are
more gambling facilities south of the Fraser.
impossible here.
Langley Township is suggesting it would
Others like to go to Washington state to
like a casino on the Gibbs nursery property it
gamble. Many gamblers like variety, and that
just purchased, adjacent to the Langley Events
won’t change.
Centre where, incidentally, Coleman has his
It seems to me that the best option for BCLC
constituency office.
would be to talk to Langley City council and
I can’t see two casinos in Langley making
see what expansions to the existing Cascades
much sense. There aren’t that many gamblers
Casino would meet with its approval. If the
around this area. I’d be surprised if Gateway
casino can be expanded in such a way as to
wanted to build a new one in the Township,
include a theatre which was significantly larger
which would seriously affect its existing casino than the present one, and open to all members
in the City.
of the community, not just those over 19, it
Delta seems unlikely to want a new casino.
could be a significant benefit to Langley.
ay goodbye to the penny. It is
being taken out of circulation
next month, a victim of inflation.
Whether you feel sad in a
sentimental way to see the coin go,
or happy that you won’t have to carry
round that dead weight that just ends
up cluttering your dresser, the truth
is, the penny has no monetary value
anymore.
The penny was introduced in 1858
and was designed to serve as a
unit of measurement for Canadian
traders and merchants – one penny
was exactly one-inch wide, and 100
coins equaled one pound in weight.
Its modern, slimmed-down version
was introduced in 1920, after the price
of copper sharply rose. It was also
designed to mimic the size and shape
of the penny in the U.S., Canada’s
increasingly important economic
partner at the time. Only about 4.5 per
cent of recently issued pennies are
actually copper, the rest steel.
The decision to get rid of the penny,
of course, came down to production
costs. A penny costs about 1.6 cents
to make, and its elimination will save
the government more than $11 million
a year.
Canada joins a number of countries
that have eliminated their one-cent
coin including Sweden, Finland, the
Netherlands, Switzerland, Israel,
Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.
Penny boosters say the loss of the
coin could lead to inflation, saying
retailers will be inclined to mark up by
five cents, instead of just one. But the
experience in those other countries
that have dropped low-denomination
coins suggests that rounding will be
fair.
The disappearing penny will likely
have little economic impact, but it may
require some cultural adjustments.
Penny candy? A relic of the past.
And some old adages will likely
fade away, too.
What are people going to pinch?
Will thoughts now cost a nickel?
See a penny? Leave it.
Penny-wise? Just foolish.
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Two 17-year-old Langley boys
and a 22-year-old Abbotsford
man will answer to numerous charges involving a violent
home invasion in Aldergrove,
which saw them take a baseball
bat to a young mom’s head,
while punching her mother in
front of a five-year-old boy.
Police are saying the July 29
robbery at a townhouse in the
2800 block of 273 Street was
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older grey vehicle.
Police arrived in less than five
minutes to find the victim bleeding from a cut above her eye.
She and her mother were taken
to the hospital for treatment.
A 17-year-old Langley youth
and 22-year-old arrested and
a warrant for the arrest of the
third suspect, also 17. The first
youth has been charged with
break and enter and assault
causing bodily harm. He has
been released from custody and
will next appear in Surrey Pro-
vincial Court on Aug. 28. He
can’t be named because he is
a youth.
A warrant has been issued
for the second youth who is
charged with break and enter,
assault causing bodily harm,
assault with a weapon, disguising his face with intent to commit an offence, possession of a
weapon and uttering threats.
Police have recommended
charges against the Abbotsford
man but Crown hasn’t approved
those yet.
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Now that he’s in charge of health rather than the environment, Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Terry Lake no longer
has to remain neutral on the proposed Ajax copper and gold
mine.
But, that’s not changing his position on the project.
“There are people who have legitimate concerns and I understand those concerns,” Lake said.
“I still own a home in Aberdeen and I totally understand
those concerns. I have some very close friends that have those
concerns. But, I think to know whether to be concerned, I need
to know the information and we’re still not there.”
Lake said more of his constituents in the North Kamloops
area tend to contact him about how they approve of the mine,
but he has not taken a side.
“I still take the position that, until we have all the information, it’s difficult to take the position.”
With KGHM’s application for environmental assessment
unlikely to be filed before next year, there is one area where he
thinks the province can take action in the interim.
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Lake would like to see the Environmental Assessment Office
do another “EA 101” seminar in Kamloops, explaining how the
process works and giving the public a chance to ask questions.
“It may not be a bad idea to do another one and then these
kind of concerns could be addressed,” Lake said, noting he
would also like to see the session address other permits the mine
will need to operate.
“It almost becomes a full-time job trying to follow the process, so I understand how people could get a bit exasperated by
it,” Lake said. “I think doing that public information session
would be helpful for people to understand.”
A Langley City fire rescue crew brings out a 12-year-old girl who fell down a ravine near 204 Street and 43 Avenue
Monday afternoon. She was airlifted to B.C. Children’s Hospital after suffering a severe fracture and possible pelvis fracture. She was also being checked for possible internal injuries.
five-year-old son at the time of
the invasion and recognized her
attackers, said Langley RCMP
Cpl. Holly Marks.
Witnesses said two of the suspects had baseball bats while
the third carried a handgun.
One of the suspects struck
the 26-year-old in the head
with a baseball bat. The victim’s
mother, 51, was punched in
the face and threatened with a
handgun. The five-year- old was
uninjured, said Marks.
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targeted and related to a prior
drug dealing relationship.
On that day, around 8:40
p.m. police were called to the
Aldergrove townhouse when
several neighbours observed
three males wearing hoodies
and masks kick in the door of a
nearby unit.
Once the suspects entered the
townhouse, a female was heard
yelling for someone to call the
police.
The 26-year-old female victim
was home with her mother and
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A 12-year-old girl was airlifted to B.C. Children’s Hospital after being rescued from the
bottom of a steep ravine in Brookswood on
Monday.
Langley City fire crews got a call about the
girl falling near 204 Street and 43 Avenue,
around 3:40 p.m.
“We located the young lady about 60 feet
down a steep embankment,” said Peter Methot,
assistant City fire chief. “We don’t know how or
why she fell. But luckily, the crew we had are
proficient in rope rescue.”
Methot said 20 City firefighters, several paramedics and several Township firefighters helped
in the rescue, which involved climbing gear and
using ropes attached to the large cedar trees to
pull the girl up.
She was put in a basket stretcher instead of
a regular stretcher to make the rescue possible,
he said.
Once the girl was safely brought to higher
ground, she was airlifted to hospital by a helicopter that had landed in the nearby cemetery
at 208 Street and 44 Avenue.
She was conscious the whole time, but suffered several injuries including a severe fracture
and possible pelvis fracture. She was being
checked for possible internal injuries. Methot
didn’t have an update on how the girl is doing.
He said this was the first time City firefighters
trained in rope rescue got to use their skills.
“We are very happy with how well the rope
rescue went,” said Methot.
Kamloops This Week
Kamloops, BC
General Excellence
Blue Ribbons
Capital News, Kelowna, BC
Cowichan News Leader Pictorial, Duncan, BC
Kamloops This Week, Kamloops, BC
The Langley Times, Langley, BC
The Times-Herald, Moose Jaw, SK
Judge:
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JUDGE’S COMMENTS
First – Kamloops This Week
Really good paper, very good photography, and layout is very clean and fresh. Obviously
one of the best papers in the category.
Second – What’s Up Muskoka
Nice paper, good all around. Liked the innovative layout and the one issue in bright white
gloss was nice too. Editorial page was very nice looking and good local content. One of the
best in the class.
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Third – The Langley Times
Great front page story on Andy Bhatti. Good headline writing as well. Overall, an excellent
paper with very good layout, photography and writing. Obviously one of the best of the
class. Keep it up.
General Excellence
Scores
General Excellence
Scores
Advertising
and Layout:
Ad Design
and Copy
Editing (15)
Advertising
and Layout:
Layout and
Effective Use
of Colour (5)
Editorial
Page:
(10)
Editorial:
Photography
(15)
Editorial:
Quality of
Writing
(15)
Editorial:
Range of
Coverage
and Editorial
Design (35)
Front Page:
(10)
Typography:
Print Quality
(5)
Typography:
Typography
and Design
(10)
TOTAL
(120)
CLASS
NEWSPAPER
1011
Clearwater (BC) The North Thompson Times
10.00
5.00
9.00
14.00
13.00
33.00
9.00
5.00
10.00
108.00
1011
Stephenville (NL) The Georgian
12.00
3.00
6.00
12.00
12.00
34.00
9.50
5.00
8.00
101.50
1011
Lake Cowichan (BC) The Lake Cowichan Gazette
13.00
4.00
8.00
11.00
10.00
30.00
8.00
5.00
9.00
98.00
1011
Sooke (BC) Sooke News Mirror
13.00
4.00
7.50
11.00
10.00
27.00
7.00
3.00
6.00
88.50
1011
Sicamous (BC) Eagle Valley News
11.00
3.00
7.00
10.00
10.00
28.00
7.00
3.00
7.00
86.00
1011
Valemount/McBride (BC) The Rocky Mountain Goat News
9.00
3.00
6.00
12.00
10.00
30.00
7.00
2.00
7.00
86.00
1011
Barriere (BC) North Thompson Star/Journal
10.00
4.00
6.00
9.00
9.00
28.00
8.50
4.00
7.00
85.50
1011
Whitewood (SK) Whitewood Herald
9.00
4.00
5.00
10.00
11.00
26.00
6.00
4.00
7.00
82.00
1011
Tofino/Ucluelet (BC) Tofino - Ucluelet Westerly News
12.00
4.00
5.00
10.00
8.00
26.00
6.00
3.00
7.00
81.00
1011
Kitimat (BC) Northern Sentinel
14.00
3.00
7.00
7.00
10.00
25.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
81.00
1011
Elk Point (AB) Elk Point Review
10.00
3.00
5.00
10.00
10.00
25.00
7.00
3.00
7.00
80.00
1011
Stayner (ON) Stayner Sun
10.00
3.00
5.00
10.00
10.00
23.00
5.00
4.00
8.00
78.00
1011
Fort St. James (BC) Fort St. James Caledonia Courier
10.00
4.00
6.00
8.00
8.00
25.00
6.00
5.00
6.00
78.00
1011
Vanderhoof (BC) Omineca Express
10.00
4.00
3.00
10.00
5.00
24.00
5.00
4.00
8.00
73.00
1011
Rainy River (ON) Rainy River Record
8.00
3.00
0.00
8.00
2.00
15.00
4.00
4.00
6.00
50.00
General Excellence
Scores
Advertising
and Layout:
Ad Design
and Copy
Editing (15)
Advertising
and Layout:
Layout and
Effective Use
of Colour (5)
Editorial
Page:
(10)
Editorial:
Photography
(15)
Editorial:
Quality of
Writing
(15)
Editorial:
Range of
Coverage
and Editorial
Design (35)
Front Page:
(10)
Typography:
Print Quality
(5)
Typography:
Typography
and Design
(10)
TOTAL
(120)
CLASS
NEWSPAPER
1012
Fort Macleod (AB) The Macleod Gazette
12.00
5.00
9.00
12.00
13.00
32.00
9.00
4.00
8.00
104.00
1012
Invermere (BC) The Valley Echo
14.00
5.00
8.75
11.00
10.00
28.00
8.00
5.00
9.00
98.75
1012
High Prairie (AB) South Peace News
11.00
4.00
6.00
13.00
12.00
30.00
8.50
5.00
8.00
97.50
1012
Happy Valley-Goose Bay (NL) The Labradorian
10.00
4.00
8.50
13.00
11.00
27.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
91.50
1012
Kahnawake (QC) The Eastern Door
11.00
4.00
8.00
8.00
11.00
29.00
5.00
5.00
7.00
88.00
1012
Port Hardy (BC) North Island Gazette
13.00
5.00
8.00
10.00
9.00
25.00
6.00
4.00
7.00
87.00
1012
Pictou (NS) Hub Now
11.00
4.00
4.00
11.00
10.00
26.00
6.00
4.00
8.00
84.00
1012
Sundre (AB) Sundre Round Up
10.00
4.00
7.00
12.00
8.00
25.00
7.00
3.00
6.00
82.00
1012
Roblin (MB) The Roblin Review
9.00
3.00
7.00
10.00
9.00
28.00
6.00
3.00
5.00
80.00
1012
Blue Mountains (ON) The Blue Mountains Courier-Herald
12.00
4.00
5.00
8.00
8.00
25.00
5.00
3.00
7.00
77.00
1012
Ladysmith/Chemainus (BC) The Chronicle
10.00
4.00
6.00
8.00
9.00
26.00
5.00
3.00
6.00
77.00
1012
Gull Lake (SK) The Advance
9.00
3.00
5.00
12.00
8.00
25.00
5.00
4.00
5.00
76.00
General Excellence
Scores
Advertising
and Layout:
Ad Design
and Copy
Editing (15)
Advertising
and Layout:
Layout and
Effective Use
of Colour (5)
Editorial
Page:
(10)
Editorial:
Photography
(15)
Editorial:
Quality of
Writing
(15)
Editorial:
Range of
Coverage
and Editorial
Design (35)
Front Page:
(10)
Typography:
Print Quality
(5)
Typography:
Typography
and Design
(10)
TOTAL
(120)
CLASS
NEWSPAPER
1013
Jasper (AB) The Fitzhugh
14.00
5.00
8.50
14.00
15.00
34.00
9.75
5.00
9.00
114.25
1013
Windsor (NS) Hants Journal
14.00
5.00
8.00
15.00
14.00
33.00
9.50
5.00
9.00
112.50
1013
Nunavut (NU) Kivalliq News
14.00
5.00
8.00
15.00
13.00
33.00
9.25
4.00
10.00
111.25
1013
Squamish (BC) The Chief
13.00
5.00
8.00
15.00
14.00
33.00
8.00
5.00
9.00
110.00
1013
Fort Simpson (NT) Deh Cho Drum
15.00
4.00
8.00
12.00
13.00
32.00
8.00
5.00
8.00
105.00
1013
New Hamburg (ON) New Hamburg Independent
12.00
5.00
8.00
13.00
14.00
34.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
104.00
1013
Kincardine (ON) The Kincardine Independent
14.00
5.00
8.00
12.00
9.00
33.00
8.00
5.00
10.00
104.00
1013
Powell River (BC) Powell River Peak
12.00
5.00
8.75
13.00
10.00
33.00
8.00
5.00
9.00
103.75
1013
Burks Falls (ON) Almaguin News
13.00
4.00
8.00
14.00
12.00
31.00
7.00
4.00
9.00
102.00
1013
Lewisporte (NL) The Pilot
12.00
5.00
9.00
12.00
11.00
32.00
9.00
4.00
8.00
102.00
1013
Meaford (ON) Meaford Express
12.00
5.00
7.00
15.00
12.00
32.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
101.00
1013
Inuvik (NT) Inuvik Drum
12.00
4.00
8.00
12.00
13.00
32.00
7.00
3.00
8.00
99.00
1013
Creston (BC) Creston Valley Advance
12.00
5.00
7.00
12.00
11.00
32.00
7.00
4.00
8.00
98.00
1013
Salmon Arm (BC) Salmon Arm Observer
12.00
5.00
7.00
11.00
12.00
32.00
8.00
4.00
7.00
98.00
1013
Pictou (NS) The Advocate
11.00
4.00
8.00
11.00
11.00
32.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
95.00
1013
Taber (AB) Taber Times
12.00
5.00
8.00
12.00
10.00
30.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
95.00
1013
Exeter (ON) Times-Advocate
12.00
5.00
5.00
12.00
10.00
32.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
94.00
1013
Shelburne/Barrington (NS) Coast Guard
12.00
5.00
6.00
11.00
11.00
31.00
5.00
4.00
7.00
92.00
1013
Wingham (ON) Wingham Advance Times
11.00
4.00
8.00
10.00
10.00
30.00
7.00
4.00
6.00
90.00
1013
Williams Lake (BC) The Williams Lake Tribune
10.00
4.00
7.00
9.00
10.00
30.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
88.00
1013
Elmira (ON) Elmira Independent-Express
12.00
5.00
6.00
10.00
10.00
27.00
6.00
3.00
8.00
87.00
General Excellence
Scores
Advertising
and Layout:
Ad Design
and Copy
Editing (15)
Advertising
and Layout:
Layout and
Effective Use
of Colour (5)
Editorial
Page:
(10)
Editorial:
Photography
(15)
Editorial:
Quality of
Writing
(15)
Editorial:
Range of
Coverage
and Editorial
Design (35)
Front Page:
(10)
Typography:
Print Quality
(5)
Typography:
Typography
and Design
(10)
TOTAL
(120)
CLASS
NEWSPAPER
1014
Rocky Mountain House (AB) The Mountaineer
14.00
5.00
9.75
15.00
11.00
31.00
9.50
5.00
10.00
110.25
1014
Athabasca (AB) The Athabasca Advocate
11.00
5.00
8.00
15.00
12.00
31.00
10.00
5.00
8.00
105.00
1014
Bonnyville (AB) Bonnyville Nouvelle
13.00
5.00
9.50
15.00
13.00
25.00
7.00
5.00
7.00
99.50
1014
Yarmouth (NS) Vanguard
10.00
5.00
9.00
11.00
15.00
30.00
8.00
4.00
6.00
98.00
1014
Carbonear (NL) The Compass
11.00
4.00
8.00
10.00
10.00
31.00
9.00
3.00
8.00
94.00
1014
Salt Spring Island (BC) Gulf Islands Driftwood
8.00
4.00
9.25
12.00
13.00
25.00
9.00
5.00
8.00
93.25
1014
Bonnyville (AB) Bonnyville Nouvelle
10.00
5.00
8.00
13.00
10.00
30.00
7.00
5.00
5.00
93.00
1014
St. Paul (AB) The St. Paul Journal
11.00
2.00
8.00
12.00
13.00
27.00
8.00
5.00
5.00
91.00
1014
Antigonish (NS) The Casket
11.00
4.00
9.00
14.00
10.00
23.00
7.00
5.00
8.00
91.00
1014
Marystown (NL) The Southern Gazette
8.00
5.00
9.25
9.00
13.00
30.00
7.00
3.00
6.00
90.25
1014
Sussex (NB) Kings County Record
15.00
4.00
7.00
13.00
10.00
20.00
8.00
5.00
8.00
90.00
1014
Gander (NL) The Beacon
10.00
5.00
10.00
12.00
13.00
20.00
8.00
2.00
8.00
88.00
1014
New Liskeard (ON) Temiskaming Speaker
9.00
2.00
9.25
8.00
9.00
30.00
7.00
4.00
4.00
82.25
1014
Kentville (NS) Kings County Advertiser
8.00
4.00
7.00
10.00
12.00
20.00
8.00
5.00
8.00
82.00
1014
Moosomin (SK) World-Spectator
8.00
5.00
7.00
15.00
9.00
20.00
9.75
2.00
6.00
81.75
1014
Westlock (AB) The Westlock News
8.00
2.00
8.00
15.00
9.00
24.00
6.00
4.00
5.00
81.00
1014
Carstairs (AB) Carstairs Courier
9.00
5.00
6.00
12.00
8.00
20.00
9.00
5.00
6.00
80.00
1014
Kentville (NS) Kings County Register
10.00
5.00
7.00
10.00
8.00
20.00
7.00
5.00
7.00
79.00
1014
Clarenville (NL) The Packet
6.00
3.00
8.00
9.00
10.00
26.00
8.00
2.00
4.00
76.00
1014
St. Stephen (NB) The Saint Croix Courier
8.00
2.00
8.00
10.00
10.00
20.00
8.00
4.00
5.00
75.00
1014
Parry Sound (ON) North Star
9.00
4.00
6.00
10.00
12.00
15.00
6.00
5.00
7.00
74.00
1014
Didsbury (AB) Didsbury Review
3.00
2.00
6.00
12.00
9.00
18.00
9.00
3.00
6.00
68.00
General Excellence
Scores
Advertising
and Layout:
Ad Design
and Copy
Editing (15)
Advertising
and Layout:
Layout and
Effective Use
of Colour (5)
Editorial
Page:
(10)
Editorial:
Photography
(15)
Editorial:
Quality of
Writing
(15)
Editorial:
Range of
Coverage
and Editorial
Design (35)
Front Page:
(10)
Typography:
Print Quality
(5)
Typography:
Typography
and Design
(10)
TOTAL
(120)
CLASS
NEWSPAPER
1015
Nunavut (NU) Nunavut News/North
12.00
4.00
7.00
13.00
13.00
31.00
9.00
4.00
8.00
101.00
1015
Steinbach (MB) The Carillon
12.00
4.00
8.10
12.00
12.00
30.00
8.25
4.00
7.00
97.35
1015
Montague (PE) The Eastern Graphic
12.00
3.00
8.00
13.00
13.00
29.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
96.00
1015
Yellowknife (NT) Yellowknifer
11.00
3.00
8.30
12.00
13.00
28.00
8.50
4.00
8.00
95.80
1015
Fort Smith/Fort Chipewyan (NT) Northern Journal
12.00
4.00
8.00
12.00
12.00
28.00
8.00
4.00
7.00
95.00
1015
Brock (ON) Brock Citizen
12.00
4.00
7.00
13.00
12.00
28.00
7.00
4.00
8.00
95.00
1015
Fort Frances (ON) Fort Frances Times
11.00
4.00
8.20
12.00
11.00
28.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
92.20
1015
St-Boniface (MB) La Liberté
11.00
3.00
7.00
11.00
11.00
30.00
6.00
4.00
7.00
90.00
1015
Alberton (PE) West Prince Graphic
11.00
3.00
8.00
12.00
10.00
28.00
7.00
4.00
6.00
89.00
1015
Dauphin (MB) Dauphin Herald
15.00
3.00
7.00
10.00
11.00
27.00
6.00
3.00
6.00
88.00
1015
Gravenhurst (ON) Gravenhurst Banner
11.00
3.00
8.00
10.00
11.00
28.00
6.00
3.00
6.00
86.00
1015
Invermere (BC) Columbia Valley Pioneer
10.00
4.00
6.00
9.00
10.00
28.00
6.00
4.00
6.00
83.00
1015
Oak Bay (BC) Oak Bay News
10.00
3.00
6.00
9.00
9.00
26.00
7.00
3.00
7.00
80.00
1015
Ponoka (AB) Ponoka News
9.00
3.00
7.00
8.00
9.00
25.00
8.00
3.00
7.00
79.00
General Excellence
Scores
Advertising
and Layout:
Ad Design
and Copy
Editing (15)
Advertising
and Layout:
Layout and
Effective Use
of Colour (5)
Editorial
Page:
(10)
Editorial:
Photography
(15)
Editorial:
Quality of
Writing
(15)
Editorial:
Range of
Coverage
and Editorial
Design (35)
Front Page:
(10)
Typography:
Print Quality
(5)
Typography:
Typography
and Design
(10)
TOTAL
(120)
CLASS
NEWSPAPER
1016
Whitehorse/Yukon Territory (YT) The Yukon News
14.00
3.00
10.00
14.00
13.00
32.00
9.50
5.00
9.00
109.50
1016
Huntsville (ON) Huntsville Forester
14.00
5.00
9.25
13.00
14.00
32.00
8.50
4.00
8.00
107.75
1016
Bracebridge (ON) Bracebridge Examiner
14.00
5.00
9.50
12.00
13.00
34.00
8.00
4.00
8.00
107.50
1016
Ottawa (ON) Embassy
12.00
4.00
9.75
13.00
14.00
30.00
9.00
5.00
9.00
105.75
1016
Canmore/Kananaskis/Banff/Lake Louise (AB) Rocky Mountain Outlook
14.00
5.00
9.00
12.00
12.00
32.00
7.00
4.00
8.00
103.00
1016
Uxbridge (ON) Uxbridge Times-Journal
11.00
4.00
9.00
13.00
12.00
32.00
9.00
5.00
7.00
102.00
1016
Nelson (BC) Nelson Star
12.00
4.00
9.00
12.00
12.00
31.00
9.00
4.00
8.00
101.00
1016
Sechelt/Gibsons (BC) Coast Reporter
13.00
5.00
8.00
12.00
13.00
31.00
7.00
4.00
8.00
101.00
1016
Whistler (BC) Question
13.00
5.00
7.00
12.00
11.00
30.00
8.00
5.00
9.00
100.00
1016
Wasaga (ON) Wasaga Sun
12.00
4.00
8.00
12.00
11.00
32.00
8.00
4.00
8.00
99.00
1016
Ottawa (ON) Hill Times
13.00
4.00
8.00
12.00
13.00
26.00
9.25
4.00
8.00
97.25
1016
Mission (BC) Mission Record
12.00
4.00
8.00
11.00
13.00
30.00
8.00
4.00
7.00
97.00
1016
Stittsville (ON) Stittsville News
13.00
5.00
8.00
10.00
12.00
31.00
8.00
3.00
7.00
97.00
1016
Innisfail (AB) Innisfail Province
12.00
4.00
9.00
10.00
12.00
30.00
7.00
4.00
8.00
96.00
1016
Port Perry (ON) Port Perry Star
11.00
4.00
8.00
12.00
12.00
28.00
10.00
4.00
7.00
96.00
1016
Olds (AB) Olds Albertan
13.00
5.00
9.00
11.00
12.00
25.00
7.00
4.00
8.00
94.00
1016
Lunenburg County (NS) The Lunenburg County Progress Bulletin
11.00
4.00
8.00
13.00
11.00
28.00
7.00
4.00
8.00
94.00
1016
Castlegar (BC) Castlegar News
12.00
4.00
8.00
10.00
12.00
30.00
7.00
3.00
7.00
93.00
1016
Almonte/Carleton Place (ON) Carleton Place-Almonte Canadian Gazette
11.00
4.00
7.00
9.00
12.00
31.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
92.00
1016
Parry Sound (ON) Beacon Star
11.00
3.00
8.00
12.00
10.00
28.00
9.00
3.00
8.00
92.00
1016
Strathmore (AB) Strathmore Times
0.00
5.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
30.00
8.00
4.00
8.00
86.00
1016
Northwest Territories (NT) NWT News/North
10.00
4.00
3.00
10.00
10.00
30.00
7.00
3.00
6.00
83.00
General Excellence
Scores
Advertising
and Layout:
Ad Design
and Copy
Editing (15)
Advertising
and Layout:
Layout and
Effective Use
of Colour (5)
Editorial
Page:
(10)
Editorial:
Photography
(15)
Editorial:
Quality of
Writing
(15)
Editorial:
Range of
Coverage
and Editorial
Design (35)
Front Page:
(10)
Typography:
Print Quality
(5)
Typography:
Typography
and Design
(10)
TOTAL
(120)
CLASS
NEWSPAPER
1017
St. Albert (AB) St. Albert Gazette
14.00
4.00
6.00
14.00
13.00
34.00
9.00
4.00
8.00
106.00
1017
Elmira-Woolwich (ON) Observer
14.00
5.00
7.00
14.00
12.00
31.00
9.50
4.00
9.00
105.50
1017
Courtenay/Comox Valley (BC) Comox Valley Record
12.00
4.00
6.00
13.00
13.00
30.00
7.00
4.00
8.00
97.00
1017
Sidney (BC) Peninsula News Review
12.00
4.00
6.00
12.00
13.00
32.00
8.00
4.00
4.00
95.00
1017
Dundas (ON) Dundas Star News
10.00
3.00
9.00
12.00
13.00
30.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
95.00
1017
Cobourg/Port Hope/Colborne (ON) Northumberland News
12.00
4.00
6.00
12.00
12.00
29.00
8.00
4.00
8.00
95.00
1017
Swift Current (SK) Prairie Post
12.00
4.00
6.00
12.00
12.00
30.00
8.00
3.00
7.00
94.00
1017
Calgary (AB) Fast Forward Weekly
12.00
4.00
6.00
11.00
12.00
28.00
8.50
4.00
7.00
92.50
1017
Ancaster (ON) Ancaster News
10.00
4.00
6.00
12.00
13.00
30.00
7.00
4.00
6.00
92.00
1017
Alliston (ON) Alliston Herald
10.00
4.00
6.00
12.00
11.00
28.00
8.00
4.00
8.00
91.00
1017
Campbell River (BC) Campbell River Mirror
12.00
4.00
6.00
12.00
13.00
25.00
6.00
4.00
8.00
90.00
1017
Keswick (ON) Georgina Advocate
10.00
3.00
8.00
12.00
11.00
28.00
7.00
4.00
6.00
89.00
1017
Victoria (BC) Goldstream News Gazette
11.00
4.00
6.00
11.00
11.00
28.00
6.00
4.00
6.00
87.00
1017
Port Perry (ON) Scugog Standard
10.00
3.00
6.00
11.00
11.00
28.00
6.00
4.00
6.00
85.00
1017
Renfrew (ON) Renfrew Mercury
10.00
4.00
6.00
9.00
11.00
28.00
7.00
4.00
6.00
85.00
1017
Cloverdale (BC) Cloverdale Reporter
12.00
4.00
6.00
7.00
9.00
20.00
7.00
5.00
8.00
78.00
1017
Stouffville (ON) Sun/Tribune
10.00
3.00
5.00
9.00
10.00
25.00
5.00
3.00
6.00
76.00
1017
Waterdown (ON) Flamborough Review
10.00
3.00
6.00
11.00
0.00
27.00
6.00
4.00
6.00
73.00
1017
Caledon (ON) Caledon Enterprise
8.00
4.00
6.00
6.00
6.00
6.00
7.00
3.00
6.00
52.00
General Excellence
Scores
Advertising
and Layout:
Ad Design
and Copy
Editing (15)
Advertising
and Layout:
Layout and
Effective Use
of Colour (5)
Editorial
Page:
(10)
Editorial:
Photography
(15)
Editorial:
Quality of
Writing
(15)
Editorial:
Range of
Coverage
and Editorial
Design (35)
Front Page:
(10)
Typography:
Print Quality
(5)
Typography:
Typography
and Design
(10)
TOTAL
(120)
CLASS
NEWSPAPER
1018
Kamloops (BC) Kamloops This Week
15.00
4.00
9.50
13.00
13.00
31.00
9.25
4.00
10.00
108.75
1018
Muskoka (ON) What’s Up Muskoka
13.00
4.00
10.00
14.00
13.00
31.00
8.00
5.00
9.00
107.00
1018
Langley (BC) The Langley Times
12.00
4.00
9.25
13.00
14.00
32.00
10.00
4.00
8.00
106.25
1018
Kelowna (BC) Capital News
13.00
4.00
8.00
13.00
13.00
32.00
9.00
4.00
7.00
103.00
1018
Duncan (BC) Cowichan News Leader Pictorial
13.00
3.00
7.00
14.00
13.00
30.00
9.00
4.00
8.00
101.00
1018
New Westminster (BC) The Record
13.00
4.00
7.00
14.00
12.00
30.00
8.00
4.00
8.00
100.00
1018
Mississauga (ON) Mississauga News
15.00
5.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
30.00
9.00
4.00
6.00
100.00
1018
Burlington (ON) Burlington Post
12.00
4.00
8.00
14.00
13.00
30.00
7.00
4.00
8.00
100.00
1018
Vancouver (BC) The Vancouver Courier - Downtown
13.00
4.00
9.00
12.00
13.00
30.00
8.00
4.00
7.00
100.00
1018
Burnaby (BC) Burnaby Now
13.00
4.00
8.00
13.00
12.00
30.00
8.00
4.00
7.00
99.00
1018
Saanich (BC) Saanich News
12.00
4.00
8.00
13.00
13.00
30.00
7.00
4.00
8.00
99.00
1018
Abbotsford (BC) The Abbotsford News
14.00
4.00
8.00
12.00
12.00
29.00
9.00
4.00
7.00
99.00
1018
Coquitlam/Pt. Coquitlam/Pt. Moody (BC) The Tri-Cities NOW
13.00
4.00
8.00
12.00
13.00
30.00
7.00
4.00
8.00
99.00
1018
Nanaimo (BC) Nanaimo Daily News
12.00
4.00
7.00
13.00
13.00
30.00
8.00
3.00
9.00
99.00
1018
Barrie (ON) Barrie Advance
14.00
4.00
7.00
13.00
13.00
30.00
8.00
3.00
7.00
99.00
1018
Victoria (BC) Victoria News
12.00
4.00
8.00
13.00
13.00
30.00
7.00
4.00
8.00
99.00
1018
Duncan (BC) Cowichan Valley Citizen
12.00
5.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
30.00
8.00
4.00
9.00
99.00
1018
Surrey/North Delta (BC) The Leader
12.00
4.00
8.00
13.00
12.00
30.00
8.00
3.00
8.00
98.00
1018
Chilliwack (BC) Chilliwack Times
12.00
4.00
8.00
13.00
12.00
29.00
8.00
4.00
8.00
98.00
1018
Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows (BC) Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Times
12.00
3.00
9.00
13.00
12.00
30.00
8.00
4.00
7.00
98.00
1018
Surrey/North Delta/White Rock (BC) The Now
13.00
4.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
30.00
8.00
4.00
7.00
97.00
1018
Milton (ON) Canadian Champion
14.00
4.00
6.00
13.00
12.00
29.00
8.00
4.00
7.00
97.00
1018
Chilliwack (BC) The Chilliwack Progress
12.00
4.00
7.00
13.00
13.00
30.00
8.00
3.00
7.00
97.00
1018
Oakville (ON) Beaver
12.00
3.00
7.00
13.00
12.00
29.00
9.00
4.00
8.00
97.00
1018
Brantford (ON) Brant News
12.00
5.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
29.00
8.00
3.00
8.00
96.00
1018
Richmond Hill/Thornhill (ON) The Liberal
12.00
5.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
30.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
96.00
1018
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows (BC) The News
12.00
3.00
7.00
13.00
12.00
30.00
8.00
4.00
7.00
96.00
1018
Newmarket/Aurora (ON) Era-Banner
12.00
4.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
29.00
8.00
4.00
8.00
96.00
1018
Nanaimo (BC) Nanaimo News Bulletin
12.00
4.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
30.00
8.00
4.00
7.00
96.00
1018
Vancouver (BC) WE/WestEnder
14.00
5.00
0.00
13.00
12.00
28.00
9.50
5.00
9.00
95.50
1018
North Vancouver/West Vancouver (BC) North Shore News
12.00
4.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
29.00
8.00
4.00
7.00
95.00
1018
Penticton (BC) Penticton Western News
12.00
4.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
29.00
8.00
4.00
7.00
95.00
1018
North Bay (ON) Nipissing News
12.00
4.00
7.00
12.00
11.00
30.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
94.00
1018
Montreal (QC) The Suburban, City Edition
12.00
3.00
8.00
12.00
12.00
30.00
7.00
3.00
7.00
94.00
1018
Langley (BC) Langley Advance
11.00
4.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
29.00
8.00
4.00
7.00
94.00
1018
Coquitlam/Pt. Coquitlam/Pt. Moody (BC) Tri-City News
11.00
4.00
6.00
11.00
11.00
30.00
9.00
4.00
8.00
94.00
General Excellence
Scores
Advertising
and Layout:
Ad Design
and Copy
Editing (15)
Advertising
and Layout:
Layout and
Effective Use
of Colour (5)
Editorial
Page:
(10)
Editorial:
Photography
(15)
Editorial:
Quality of
Writing
(15)
Editorial:
Range of
Coverage
and Editorial
Design (35)
Front Page:
(10)
Typography:
Print Quality
(5)
Typography:
Typography
and Design
(10)
TOTAL
(120)
CLASS
NEWSPAPER
1018
Prince George (BC) Prince George Free Press
12.00
3.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
30.00
8.00
3.00
7.00
94.00
1018
Cambridge (ON) Cambridge Times
12.00
4.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
29.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
94.00
1018
Kitchener (ON) Kitchener Post
12.00
4.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
28.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
93.00
1018
Hamilton (ON) Mountain News
11.00
5.00
7.00
10.00
12.00
30.00
6.00
4.00
7.00
92.00
1018
Surrey (BC) Peace Arch News
10.00
4.00
7.00
11.00
12.00
28.00
8.00
4.00
8.00
92.00
1018
Stoney Creek (ON) Stoney Creek News
11.00
3.00
7.00
11.00
12.00
29.00
7.00
4.00
6.00
90.00
1018
Parksville/Qualicum Beach (BC) The News
13.00
4.00
9.00
13.00
7.00
25.00
7.00
5.00
7.00
90.00
1018
Nanaimo (BC) Harbour City Star
11.00
3.00
0.00
14.00
12.00
30.00
8.00
4.00
8.00
90.00
1018
Port Alberni (BC) Alberni Valley Times
10.00
3.00
7.00
13.00
12.00
25.00
9.00
4.00
7.00
90.00
1018
Guelph (ON) Guelph Tribune
10.00
3.00
7.00
12.00
12.00
29.00
7.00
3.00
6.00
89.00
1018
Kawartha Lakes (ON) Kawartha Lakes This Week
10.00
3.00
6.00
11.00
15.00
29.00
6.00
4.00
5.00
89.00
1018
Prince George (BC) The Prince George Citizen
10.00
4.00
8.00
11.00
12.00
24.00
8.00
3.00
8.00
88.00
1018
Peterborough (ON) Peterborough This Week
10.00
3.00
6.00
10.00
12.00
28.00
7.00
4.00
7.00
87.00
1018
Ajax/Pickering (ON) News Advertiser
10.00
3.00
6.00
10.00
15.00
26.00
7.00
3.00
7.00
87.00
1018
Whitby (ON) Whitby This Week
10.00
3.00
7.00
11.00
11.00
27.00
7.00
3.00
7.00
86.00
1018
Oshawa (ON) Oshawa This Week
11.00
3.00
7.00
11.00
11.00
26.00
7.00
3.00
7.00
86.00
1018
Clarington (ON) Clarington This Week
10.00
3.00
7.00
11.00
11.00
26.00
7.00
3.00
7.00
85.00
1018
Waterloo (ON) Waterloo Chronicle
10.00
3.00
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