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CONNECTING THE COMMUNITY

Girls take bronzeat curling provincials

Story on page 22

The Provincial MentalHospital was a

total communityStory on page 5

Bridal Gala beauties:

Melilssa Schimpf gets ready to walk the runway Friday, March 4 at the Kinsmen Community Centre during the Ponoka Bridal Gala. Brides to be, and some grooms, checked out what vendors had to offer for the big wedding day.

Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye

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Paige Brose, Admin. Asst. with BB/BS presents Angie Lewis with a cheque for $1540.00. Angie was the lucky winner of the Ponoka Gold Rush Monthly Lottery for the month of February. You to could be a lucky winner! March draw will be Thursday, March 31st. Contact Big Brothers Big Sisters for more information.

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County offers recycling option to residents

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After the announce-

ment that the town would move its centre to the town transfer station, Ponoka County residents looked at other options available to them, ex-plained county assistant CAO Tom Webber. County residents will now be able to take recyclables to the county transfer

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site in the Southwest Industrial Park.

There are 16 bins that will be available for collection of recycla-ble items. Acceptable

are plastic containers stamped with a recy-cle symbol, tin or alu-minum cans, cardboard and non-glass drink con-tainers. Webber said bins

are marked with signs to show what material goes where.

Other materials such, as glass and Styrofoam are not accepted.

Demand for recycling is high after putting up the bins a few days early, Webber said three bins had already been fi lled. “People caught onto it immediately.”

He is pleased with the update and said it will benefi t everyone as it puts less materials into the landfi ll.

Webber added that Empringham Disposal came with the best pro-posal for the county’s needs.

The transfer site is open Wednesday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Ponoka County has started collecting recyclables at its transfer site in the

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Witness scares off suspected thieves

A witness may have contributed to the fail-ure of a break-and-en-ter attempt at the No Frills parking lot on Thursday, March 3. RCMP were notifi ed of the attempt by the wit-ness who described to the police how a sus-pect was in possession of a fl at tool and was prying on the door of

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the vehicle. When the witness pulled up, a second suspect was observed as signaling to the fi rst suspect to leave. Both suspects then left the scene in a 95-98 Xtracab Chev driving in southerly direction on Highway 2A. Upon examination, it was concluded that nothing appeared to be missing from the ve-hicle although damage was done to the pas-senger door.

The fi le is still under investigation.

Thefts of various na-ture

Ponoka RCMP attend-ed on Sunday, March 6 to a rural residence along Highway 795 upon a complaint of theft. Sometime during the night, unknown

suspects were under-stood to have entered an unlocked shop and stolen two dirt bikes. File is currently under investigation.

The same day, a shop-lifter was reported to police and a 24-year-old female from Ponoka was caught stealing perfume and other consumables when the alarm was set off as she was leaving a business on 50 Street. The female was trans-ported to the Ponoka Detachment, where she was charged with theft under $5,000. She is to appear in court April 01.

Also theft of liquor from a Ponoka business was reported to the po-lice. Two First Nation males were found to

have stolen a 40-pound container of Silent Sam Vodka. One male was wearing blue head-phones, red jacket and red pants. Second sub-ject had a black toque with the slogan “what-ever” emblazoned on the front. He was also wearing a black jacket with black pants.

If you have informa-tion on these and other criminal activities, please

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PONOKA WORD OF LIFE CHURCHPastor Rob McArthur 403-783-5659

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Lost, but now found

My high school years were a very turbulent time in my life. Although I was aware of God’s presence and had a good family, I still found my-self feeling lost, battling to fi nd myself and what I was supposed to do with my life.

It was about this time of the year that I decided to run away from home and join the U.S. Marines. I wanted to prove myself and as a fairly quiet kid from Saskatchewan, this was a bold move.

PASTOR TIM GRAFFTrinity EvangelicalLutheran Church

Religion

I still remember climb-ing out my bedroom window very early in the morning and jumping in my pre-packed 74 Chevy Vega to head south to the US border. It was the perfect get away with no interruptions and no ex-planations.

However, when I ar-rived at the border three hours later I was told that I couldn’t cross, but had to head to the US consulate in Winnipeg to get the proper documen-tation. Winnipeg was fi ve hours away and so with a sense of disappointment I changed direction and began the journey there.

As I made my way to Winnipeg I listened to music playing on the radio. As the hours went by, the words began to speak to me, reminding me of home and my fam-ily who knew nothing of where I had gone.

It was evening when I came to Portage la Prairie and there I decided to spend the night. As I sat in the hotel room I felt compelled to phone home to let my parents know where I was, that I was okay. It was the least I could do.

As the phone rang I hoped that it would be my mother who would

answer rather than my father. My mother was the listener in the family and I felt I didn’t need any speeches from my father at that moment. My Father in heaven had other plans though.

It was my father who answered and after some brief conversation he spoke words I will never forget. “Son, you do what you need to do, but know this, we will always be there for you and the door is always open. We love you.”

After hanging up, I cried myself to sleep, recog-nizing that I had always had an identity: I was a beloved son. At that moment, it mattered less what I would do with my life because I had been set free by father’s love.

Jesus told a similar story about a prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32) who leaves his father, taking half of the inheritance, only to squander it and end up in the pits of pov-erty. The son eventually returns home expect-ing to be treated like a servant, but his father welcomes him home and says to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his

feet. And bring the fat-tened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’

Are you someone who is feeling lost, unsure of who you are or what you should do with your life? Are you someone who feels you have just messed up terribly? If so, I want to remind you that God loves you and has provided a home for you.

All around you are churches made up of people whom God has found and called togeth-er to be reminded every week that they are loved. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eter-nal life.

In Jesus Christ you are found, forgiven and through faith in Him you will fi nd yourself and the life and salvation He has for you.

Look to the left on this page and come to a church where you are invited to join others who were once lost, but are now found. Jesus is waiting to say ‘For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’

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Refl ections of Ponoka

RememberWhen...

Photo courtesy of the Fort Ostell Museum

In the early 1930s, the Provincial Mental Hospital (PMH) introduced their fi rst school bus, which would transport the children of the staff living on the grounds back and forth to the Ponoka Schools in town, as well picking up supplies and mail. The sturdy bus, which was originally owned by a rum-runner from Blairmore, was reconstructed in the hospital machine shop, and would serve until the 1950s when the Wolf Creek School system provided a bus to the PMH.

The Provincial Mental Hospital was a total community

For those of us who grew up in and around Ponoka in the 1950s/60s/70s, we watched the Provincial Mental Hospital grow at an overwhelming pace, were fortunate to become friends with so many of the staff and their families, and really appreciated how much that this fi rst class Psychiatric treatment centre has comple-mented our community over the years.

The day-to-day team effort at PMHHospital furniture, patients’ clothing and linens were

all made on site, as well as all the cooking and baking. The labour was all done by patients, under supervision of staff. Even some of the nursing care, feeding and meal service was done by patients, and in many ways this system worked very well. Patients were often able to work in their own trades and keeping busy, and con-tributing to the general wellbeing of the community was considered part of their therapy.

Also, many patients who perhaps could have been discharged, had no homes to go to, so were content to stay at the hospital where they had a secure and safe place to live. Many of these patients had what was called parole, and were free to do what they wanted when they weren’t at work, as long as they returned to their wards when the whistle blew for curfew. They were also given a small stipend for their work. I sup-pose that in some ways, one could say that the patients were exploited, but I think that life was much better for psychiatric patients from the hospitals than it is now, where so many are living on the streets and have no opportunity to participate in meaningful work.

At the entrance to the hospital grounds was a house for the supervisor of the septic tanks, which were across the road. In front of the main building were several acres of perfectly groomed fl ower beds, fi lled with multihued snapdragons, stocks, and asters. Walks of red gravel, with vine covered trellises and pergolas placed at regular intervals wound through the gardens, and in the fall, Chinese lantern plants whispered dryly in the chilly winds. The gardens were enclosed by meticulously clipped hedges of cotoneaster and hon-eysuckle. Beyond the last hedge were the fi elds of hay and in the later summer and fall there were wonderful haystacks on which children could climb, and then hide in all day, surveying the countryside unobserved by those unfortunates wandering around in the real world. In those simpler times, the children could disappear for an entire day and not be cause for any concern, unless they did not turn up for supper. Even then, parents were likely to assume that their child had stayed for supper at a neighbour’s, and wouldn’t begin seriously trying to track them down until bed time.

Like the inhabitants of a monastery, our lives as res-idents on the grounds too, were regulated, not by bells

Photo courtesy of Fort Ostell Museum

This early 1930s photo shows the front of the Provincial Mental Hospital near Ponoka. On the left are the female 4-5-6 wards, while in the middle is the administration building (now Heritage) with the female 2 and 3 wards on the top fl oor. This main building also contained the business offi ces, staff dining room, doctors’ quarters, labs and operating rooms. Please notice the immaculate landscaping, which was proudly and prominently pampered throughout the grounds for many decades.

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calling us to prayer, but by different kinds of bells and whistles. Early in the morning, at 8 the fi rst whistle went. This one sounded like a steam locomotive whis-tle, and it signalled the beginning of the work day for some of the staff. The next one sounded at noon, to mark the beginning of lunch hour for all the offi ce staff and maintenance workers, and again at one o’clock, to call them back to work. At fi ve o’clock there was a whistle for the end of the work day, and at dusk, the train whistle sound again, to call in all the patients who had parole and were out on the hospital grounds. Sometimes there would be a series of blasts from an-other whistle, and this was to let everyone know when a patient had escaped from the hospital. It was four blasts for male patients and fi ve for a female, and for some reason, patients escapes were called elopements.

Only a small percentage of the staff lived on the grounds. During the 1950s, the hospital housed about 1300 patients, and there were about 450 people on the

payroll. There were about 40 children of school age living on the hospital grounds, and although we didn’t realize it at the time, our childhood experiences were unique. Because we were almost three miles from the town, and very few families had cars, we had to get along with each other if we wanted anyone to play with. So for the most part, we overlooked personality and age differences, and stuck together, but I suppose this was the case in any small rural community.

We had a bus to take us downtown to school, not once, but twice a day, for we came home for lunch. Lunch hour was one and a half hours, so there was plenty of time. Our fathers also came home at lunch time, to listen to the CBC news, and to eat a leisurely meal. In those days for most families, the noon meal was the main meal of the day. We knew it was time to run for the bus when the theme for the Proctor and Gamble Hour began. Please watch for more AHP mem-ories later.


Opinion

MUSTAFA ERICEditor

By the time this article has appeared in print, provin-cial government’s Throne Speech will have been de-livered and the spring ses-sion of the Legislature will have begun, a session that promises to be somewhat acrimonious and tense.

That promise mostly stems from the style of opposition the leader, Brian Jean of the Wildrose Party, has adopted. Mr. Jean and his MLAs appear to be in a rush to discredit everything the NDP government under the leadership of Rachel Notley has been trying to do.

True, it is the task and responsibility of the oppo-sition to hold a governing party to account, but it is also the responsibility of the opposition to keep in mind that, regardless of their affi liation, all MLAs should serve the citizens of the province.

Wildrose Party announced this week that it was in-troducing legislation to allow the constituents to recall their MLAs. The press statement by the party quotes Wildrose Drayton Valley-Devon MLA Mark Smith, who will introduce upcoming Bill 201 for the re-call, as saying “Albertans are the boss, not MLAs. There needs to be the tools in place for Albertans to keep their MLAs accountable in between elections.”

Mr. Jean might be contem-plating a campaign before the end of the year to ensure the recall of enough number of MLAs to force an early general election, one that

What are politics for?

On Mike Rainone’s articleIn response to your article of March 2, it is apparent that

you’re in need of education in the area of our history.Your article started with the statement that land des-

ignation for reserves was the result of the Riel Rebellion. This information is very wrong. As you should be aware, in 1692 Christopher Columbus got lost and he stumbled on this land where the Indigenous people that lived on the land since time immemorial, referred to as “Turtle Island”. Upon his arrival, assuming he had reached his intended destination, referred to the people as ‘Indians’ because he thought he had reached India. Fast track a hundred years to 1763 when King George lll issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which has been referred to as our ‘Indian Bill of Rights’ because this proclamation promised land security from the encroaching colonizers. This document prohibited sale of ‘Indian land’ unless it was to the Crown. Please google for more information on this particular topic.

The Royal Proclamation of 1763 also gave the representa-tives of the Queen a framework for negotiation of treaties with the indigenous/original peoples. Although there were a number of treaties (sometimes referred to as Peace and Friendship Treaties) signed with the First Nations people, the numbered treaties are more important to note with reference to your article. From 1871 to 1923, the Crown entered into treaties with the various First Nations of what is now known as Canada. These are now referred to as the Numbered Treaties. [Please remember there was a Civil War in the United States and there were fears of this war in Upper and Lower Canada. Another contributing factor was the whiskey traders who were encroaching the land and making trades with the First Nations. Google for more information]

The people of Maskwacis are part of Treaty #6 and this territory covers an area in Central Alberta (from the Rockies), Central Saskatchewan and into Manitoba. Very large tract of land. Treaty 6 includes among others, the Medicine Chest. Immediately after the signing of our treaties, the demand for land by the settlers, railway companies and others increased and there was immense pressure on the Department of Indian Affairs to ensure land was surrendered (remember the Royal Proclamation prohibited sale of land unless it was

to the Crown). The pressure was so that amendments to the Indian Act were required and passed by the Laurier govern-ment to increase cash distributions to the First Nations for land surrender. Now, land surrender was conducted under questionable circumstances; if the Dept. of Indian Affairs were satisfi ed that the people were not living on the land they considered it to be abandoned. People may have been out hunting or visiting relatives in other areas. Some, like Sharphead, were largely affected by the effects of coloni-zation and had succumbed to starvation or disease. Land surrender in many cases was not voluntary. My point to this, treaties were not the result of the Riel Rebellion. Riel and his followers reacted to news that Canada had sold land without the knowledge and consent of the First Nations people. That is another matter you should Google.

The language of the people in Maskwacis is Cree, more specifi cally Plains Cree. It is not just an Indian language as you referred. There are many First Nations people in all of Canada and the United States and we all have a language. We have a history that spans thousands of years, we have a culture and traditions that have survived the loss of our main food supply the buffalo, residential school, the Sixties Scoop. We survived the continued efforts to assimilate us by banning our ceremonies, by prohibiting our children to speak their language in residential schools, by imposing a pass system whereby our people had to obtain a pass to leave the boundaries of the reserve, surviving the diseases brought on with infected blankets, by disenfranchising our women if they married a non-status person, by disenfran-chising anyone who joined a religious order or who made efforts to gain a higher education. We still speak our lan-guage, we still practise our ceremonies and our culture is still very much alive. Please use proper terminology when you refer to our history, please research our history before you submit articles about us.

Sincerely,Pat Swampy

Mike Rainone’s Note:The wording in the article was “at the end of the Riel rebellion”,

and not “because of the Riel Rebellion” and it only referred to the time period during which it occurred.

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could put Wildrose in the driver’s seat by the time oil prices might start to re-bound in about 18 months to two years.

Can it work?It could, but at what cost?Clearly, Mr. Jean and his

team are in a rush to build on the dissatisfaction of Bill 6 has caused among the rural population and would like to make things happen before the resentment over the issue wears off.

But an early general elec-tion will cost millions of dol-lars to the taxpayers and in the end it may create more instability than it pretends to settle.

One should not for-get that the Progressive Conservatives are quietly working hard to restore their position of power, which they lost in May 2015.

The widely circulated ru-mour is that the PCs have been telling the high level bureaucrats they have in-stalled in the government machinery over the four decades they were in power to dig in their heels and wait for the return of the party to their governing position soon.

Are the Willdrose racing against time to ensure that they will be able to unseat the current government before PCs muster enough strength to return to power?

They could be, and be-cause in the world of pol-itics it is the ultimate goal to capture power, they are well within their rights to pursue strategies and tactics that will take them to the promised land.

But among all these polit-ical calculations, where do the people of the province stand?

Is all that politicking really serving the people who have been left unemployed over the course of last year

and a half because of the decline in the oil market? Are we able to fi nd ways of generating revenues to create jobs through political maneuverings?

Is there a time to focus on getting things done rather than bickering on how and why they should be done or are politics and attainment of political goals above the interests of the people they are supposed to serve?

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Minister of Municipal Affairs Danielle Larivee (second from right) takes part in a fi refi ghter demonstration Wednesday, March 2 with the Ermineskin Fire Department. The demonstration came after announcing funds for training to go to volunteer fi re departments across the province. Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye

Province announces funding for fi refi ghter training

Municipalities will be able to train their volunteer fi refi ghters and receive grant money for it, thanks to a provincial train-ing grant program.

Municipal Affairs, which is in charge of the Offi ce of the Fire Commissioner, announced Wednesday, March 2 in Ermineskin that $650,000 will be provided to 50 municipalities and four First Nations that host fi refi ghter training sessions. Getting those funds will be possible if the municipality is part of some regional collaboration. The money won’t pay for any training program in full but will help reduce the overall cost of training.

Among the attendees was Danielle Larivee, Minister of Municipal Affairs, and high ranked members of the Offi ce of the Fire Commissioner as well as Chief Randy Ermineskin and fi refi ghters with the Ermineskin Fire Department.

“Most Albertans don’t know but the majority of fi refi ghters in Alberta are vol-unteer fi refi ghters,” said Larivee.

She said the goal is to help give these municipalities and fi refi ghters important emergency preparedness training. The funds from the Fire Services Emergency

Preparedness Program is an annual grant program that gives priority to regional collaboration.

“It’s so important that we all levarage all the resouces that we have to the best capacity. Typically that means when we share together we all come out ahead,” said Larivee.

Municipalities that do work together are looked at in a positive light and will be favoured in the grant process.

Chief Randy Ermineskin said the funds will be of great benefi t to the department. “It helps training and further capacities to help.”

Volunteer fi refi ghters will now be able to enhance their expertise and skills and bring further protection to the community and surrounding communities, he added.

Ermineskin will receive $12,500 towards its fi refi ghter training program. Both the town and county of Ponoka are part of a group called the Central Alberta Fire Training Association (CAFTA), which will allocate the money to departments that bring regional collaboration into their training.

CAFTA will receive $25,500 that will go to its members in central Alberta.

It is believed the money announced has been reduced compared to previous years.

Priority placed on regional collaborationBY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYEPONOKA NEWS


We provide a variety of services to seniors or chronically ill adults living independently, allowing them to remain at home for as long as safely possible versus moving into a care facility before they are medically required to do so. We assist seniors in maintaining their independence with;

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We provide companionship and supports to those living in care facilities allowing them to maintain their highest degree of personal independence by facilitating them to go out and take part in their communities.Some examples are:• Continuing Care Companion• Caregiver Respite• Resource Counseling

HELPING HANDS, a private agency, established in 1999 by Penny Leman, an LPN with 20+ years of nursing experience, in Drumheller, Alberta.

In 2010, HELPING HANDS opened a Red Deer offi ce, and now two of Penny’s daughters (also nurses) help manage these agencies!

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The Town of Ponoka is seeking applications to fi ll two positions on the new Police Advisory Committee. We welcome applications for an additional member-at-large representative and a youth representative.

The overall objectives of the Police Advisory Committee are to act as a liaison between Council, the R.C.M.P. Detachment, the Chief Administrative Offi cer of the Town of Ponoka and the citizens of Ponoka and foster responsible community actions towards the creation of a safe secure community. The Committee shall endeavor to do this by encouraging an environment, which allows for public concerns to be addressed by all affected parties.

All persons appointed to the Committee must reside in the Ponoka community, and be 18 years of age. The youth representative must be at least 16 years of age. All committee members will undergo a criminal records review and suitability screening through the R.C.M.P.

If you are interested in joining this Committee, please submit a completed application form on or before March 11, 2016 to the Town of Ponoka.

Application forms are available at Town Hall: C, 4900 – 54 Street, Ponoka, AB T4J 1N8 or on the Town’s website: www.ponoka.ca

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Five community groups banded together to raise $7,500 for a new urinalysis machine at the Ponoka Hospital and Care Centre. They celebrated the accomplishment Thursday, March 3. Presenting the cheque are (l-r) Lions Club member Bill Chorney, Masons Britannia Lodge secretary treasurer Dick Cameron, Kinettes secretary Kathryn Hall, Ponoka Legion Poppy Fund chairperson Marlene Perry, Lions president Jim Hamilton, hospital lab x-ray supervisor Lorianne Hinton, Elks exhalted ruler James Wing and Lions treasurer Bob Peters.


Groups collaborate on new medical equipment purchase

Collaboration from fi ve community groups helped bring a new urine analy-sis machine to the Ponoka Hospital and Care Centre.

Contributors celebrated the purchase Thursday, March 4 at the hospital

with the representatives from the Ponoka Lions Club, Masons Britannia Lodge of Ponoka, Ponoka Elks, the Ponoka Legion and the Ponoka Kinettes taking part. Each group contributed $1,500 to the purchase of a Clinitek Advantus urinalysis ma-chine costing $7,500.

Called the Pee Project Group, these fi ve clubs banded together in a showing of what true collaboration can do in a small community.

For Lorianne Hinton, lab and x-ray supervisor, this new machine will bring ef-fi ciency to the urine test-ing done in Ponoka, which

BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYEPONOKA NEWS

runs more than 1,000 urine tests a month.

“It leaves us (room for) growth for moving for-ward,” she told attendees.

Lions Club member Bill Chorney said when the

club was approached last fall by the hospital they realized some help would be needed. Discussion ensued with other clubs and in several months, the funds were ready.

“What we have today is a good demonstration of what hard work will get us,” said Chorney.

“We always thought, ‘What a way to raise funds in a hurry,’” he added.


Ponoka Fire Department Weekly Report

Recycling Program Shows Signs of Success

Last Week, the Ponoka Fire DepartmentLast Week, the Ponoka Fire Department responded to two 911 calls: responded to two 911 calls:• • 1 smoke investigation1 smoke investigation• • 1 cooking incident1 cooking incident

It’s Fire Season:It’s Fire Season: All outdoor fi res in Ponoka, with the exception of approved fi re pits, fi re places and portable cooking All outdoor fi res in Ponoka, with the exception of approved fi re pits, fi re places and portable cooking devices, require a permit year round. All burning activities in Alberta’s Forest Protection Area, excluding campfi res, require a devices, require a permit year round. All burning activities in Alberta’s Forest Protection Area, excluding campfi res, require a fi re permit from March 1 to October 31.fi re permit from March 1 to October 31.

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PONOKA RECYCLING CENTRE TO MOVE ON MARCH 31For the month of March, residents can continue to bring their recyclables to the downtown Ponoka Recycling Centre. The Ponoka Recycling Centre, located downtown across from the IGA, will move to the Town’s Waste Transfer Station on March 31. The Waste Transfer Station is located just outside the northeast corporate limits of Ponoka on 46 Street. For more information, please contact Manager of Operations, Jill Owen, at 403-913-4817.

Ponoka Season Ender 3 on 3 Hockey Tournament will be held March 21 – 24. Please contact Wes Amendt at [email protected] or 403-783-0118 for more information.Volunteer Opportunities – volunteers are needed for the following events. If you are interested, please contact [email protected] or call 403-783-0118• Community Wellness Fair• Canada 150 Mosaic• Two Special Event Planning Committees for (Canada Day & Ponoka Day in the Park)Westview Park & Co-op Park Playground Development Meeting - March 9, 7:00 pm at the Hudson’s Green Activity Centre. Design options available from 5 different playground companies. Everyone welcome.Ponoka Parks, Recreation & Culture Advisory Committee - Accepting application for Town & Country representation. Applications available on Town of Ponoka website. Next meeting Wednesday, March 9 5:00-7:00 pm at Hudson’s Green Activity Centre.Ponoka Community Program Guide Spring/Summer Edition - Deadline for Submissions is March 31, 2016 For more info on any of these items contact [email protected]

COUNCIL UPDATESNEXT MEETING OF COUNCIL: Tuesday, March 22, 2016, and Committee of Whole on March 17, 2016. Please note these meetings will be at 6 pm at the Ponoka County Boardroom. Agenda packages are posted on the website under ‘Town Hall’ in advance ofevery Council meeting. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Aquaplex News• Designated lap lane all day (except during morning aquasize and swim club), pools are open all

day (except during swim club).• Spring break lessons register now limited space!• We are offering a National Lifeguard course from March 28 - April 1, the cost is $225.00.• We are offering private swim lessons for all ages, anytime, any day (except during morning aquasize

and swim club).• Due to the rise in fecal incidents at the pool we will be implementing a mandatory swim diaper

policy. We have disposable swim diapers at a cost of $2 and reusable diaper covers for $20 (both are required for entry into the pool).

• The Aquaplex is starting School Swim Lessons on March 14. Due to the school lessons we will be offering a lap swim and parent and tot swim from 11:30 to 1 pm during the day. There will still be a lap lane during family swims and public swims in the evenings and on weekends.

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It’s been about two months since Ponoka’s curbside recycling program began, and it’s already showing defi nite signs of success.

Steady Increase in Recyclables Collected“We’ve seen a steady increase in the volume of recycling collected at the curb each week, and I’m getting calls from residents who are surprised by how much household waste they’re able to recycle,” says Town of Ponoka Operations Manager Jill Owen.

Before the program started, Ponoka was recycling less than 10 per cent of its waste. “We know that number has increased. At the end of the year we’ll measure how much more our community is recycling,” says Owen.60 Per Cent Waste Reduction TargetThe goal set by the Town’s Waste Management Plan for 2016 is to reduce the amount of household waste trucked to the landfi ll by 60 per cent. That goal aligns with provincial government waste reduction targets. A report published by Alberta Environment estimates 80 per cent of

material sent to municipal landfi lls can be diverted. “It’s all about the need to ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’ to help protect the environment for our children and future generations,” says Owen.

Public Feedback WelcomedThe Town continues to monitor its new Waste & Recycling Program and welcomes your feedback. In the coming months we will ask for formal input from residents on how well the program is working and what improvements we can make.

Questions about the Waste & Recycling Program can be directed to the Town’s Manager of Operations Jill Owen at 403-913-4817. For scheduling questions or to report a missed pick up, contact Public Works at 403-783-0159.

Recycling TipsWhat can you do to get into the recycling habit and recycle more at your home? Here are some helpful tips we’ve gathered from Ponoka residents and online information sites.• Monitor what goes into your garbage and identify recyclable items.• Post a list of recyclable items on your fridge. Check the Town website for a detailed list.• Buy products with a recycling symbol on them. Avoid Styrofoam.• Bring reusable bags to the grocery store. Recycle plastic bags. Most can be recycled.• If something’s still useable, give it away rather than throw it away.• Set a recycling basket in every room.• Talk to family members about what to throw into recycling baskets.• Keep a recycling bag in your vehicle to avoid throwing recyclables in the trash while travelling.• Consider composting kitchen waste in a backyard composter.For a list of items you can recycle under Ponoka’s new curb side program, visit the Town’s website at www.ponoka.ca/community, click on Recycling, Disposal & Waste, and select New Residential Waste & Recycling Program 2016.

Rising Sun Clubhouse Blue Box ProgramPlease remember, the Ponoka Rising Sun Clubhouse Blue Box Program is another great option for curb side recycling. Town residents who register for this non-profi t community program will not pay a recycling fee to the Town. For more information about the Rising Sun Clubhouse Blue Box Program, contact 403-783-5810.


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Crestomere School students compete for national award

Grade 7/8/9 students at Crestomere School are vying for national acclaim and they are hoping to re-ceive some support in the form of votes from area residents for their entry to a video contest.

Teacher Kayley Bowie, who led the students in the project, said the whole thing started when she received a brochure from Parks Canada at the be-ginning of the school year about a contest open to all Grade 8 classes through-out the country.

“Since we are a 7/8/9 split class, all of my stu-dents qualifi ed,” she said.

The contest requires classes to create a one-minute video about a Canadian national park of choice. The video has to explain the selected park’s environmental or cultural signifi cance for Canadians.

The winning entry will reward the Grade 8 class that produced it with a fi ve-day trip to Jasper, “which is not something we would be able to afford on our own,” Bowlie added.

“I put all of the choice in my students’ hands. Each

Man pleads guilty to 2014 theft of cash and weapons

Sentencing has yet to be set for a man who pleaded guilty to theft of thousands of dollars in 2014.

Christopher Slauenwhite admitted to the theft at Ponoka Provincial Court Friday, March 4 and must now wait for a pre-sentence report. Crown prosecutor Steve Degen told the court that Slauenwhite had en-tered the home subject to the crime and broken into a safe that stored fi rearms, including several hand guns and some long guns. There was also a large amount of cash estimated at $25,000 to $30,000 that was missing.

Three pistols, includ-ing a Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum were also reported missing from the safe while three long guns remained.

Slauenwhite also pleaded guilty to a break and enter to a Ponoka home on June 20, 2015. Degen told the court that Slauenwhite en-tered the home by kicking open the door and took a few hundred dollars from the home. While he was in the home a resident entered the building and found Slauenwhite who fl ed the scene. Police were called and later located a fi ngerprint found to belong to Slauenwhite.

Man ordered not to return to Ponoka

A gas and dash while in possession of a stolen vehi-cle landed one man in hot water with the law.

Kieran Matthews had al-ready faced some jail time after being in possession of a stolen vehicle with fi rearms in it, which were also reported stolen. The

incident occurred on Dec. 19 after police heard reports that a stolen vehicle out of Calgary was in Ponoka with fi rearms inside.

Offi cers located a vehicle with three individuals, none of whom were Matthews. Although they attempted to leave the scene, police stopped them, explained Degen. During the course of the investigation, police determined that Matthews was in another vehicle, also reported stolen that had fi rearms inside. He was located not long after the investigation began.

Matthews also faced charges of a $55 gas and dash from the Husky gas station in Ponoka on Aug. 19. Matthews was found later that day in Camrose. Duty counsel David Paull said that Matthews is in the process of turning his

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of them chose a park and researched it, then shared their research with the class,” she went on.

After discussing probably 15 different national parks, the students voted for the Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta, which was researched and proposed by Grade 9 stu-dent Emma Rust.

Emma said, “I had never heard of Wood Buffalo and wanted to bring attention to a park in Alberta other than Jasper or Banff. It pro-tects endangered animals like the whooping crane and it is the largest nation-al park in the world.”

Further research and discussions followed to decide on what the video should depict and how, with all class going for a creative and original pro-duction instead of rap or a song. Then Bowie said she herself suggested a silent fi lm to the class. “It took pressure off the kids who didn’t want to speak in front of the camera, and it allowed us to be comedic. My group has an amaz-ing sense of humour,” she said.

“Because we are rural, we were limited to fi lming everything at the school, so we had to think outside the box,” Bowie said of the production process. “All of our props were things the kids brought from home, including a fake Canada goose and a kayak. We utilized our green screen technology to help out with a few scenes. Every student got to be in the video and watch scenes being fi lmed. It was ex-tremely diffi cult fi tting ev-erything we wanted to do into only one minute, but I think my students were very happy with the fi nal results.”

Commenting on their production, “We tried to take a unique spin on it by doing something different so we would stand out,” said Mackenzie Gillard in Grade 8.

Grade 7 student Colter Bresee said “I like all the props we used, and all of the team scenes we fi lmed where we got to do things together.”

To watch the video and to vote for the Crestomere School entry, visit http://contest.myparkspass.ca

life around and has no prior record. He explained to Judge William Andreassen that Matthews is getting help from his step father and suggested an order be given to stay away from the three individuals involved in the stolen vehicle case and not to return to Ponoka.

The fact that Matthews has no record was some-thing to consider, said Andreassen, but the pos-session charges were an-other issue. “It is serious because it does involve stolen fi rearms and a stolen vehicle.”

Despite the absence of a previous criminal record, Andreassen suggested the court had to send a mes-sage in view of the seri-ousness of the situation. Matthews was given 46 days in jail and after hav-ing served 31 days already, would be given time and a half credit. Andreassen or-dered Matthews to pay sev-eral victim fi ne surcharges plus an additional $500 fi ne for the gas and dash. He also ordered Matthews to pay the $55 as restitution to the Husky gas station.

Matthews was given a 12-month probation and ordered not to be in pos-session of fi rearms for fi ve years, to not have contact with the three other indi-viduals and not to return to Ponoka.


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Ponoka senior on the hook for high-cost duct cleaning

A Ponoka senior is on the hook for a duct ser-vicing bill that cost more than $1,000.

When Elsie Unger, 83, had a furnace cleaner call to offer and clean her small one story duplex in January, she thought it would be an ideal time to make it happen.

The next hour however, proved a time she wished she could forget after re-ceiving a bill for $1,015.35 from Edmonton Indoor Clean Air.

The bill breakdown shows two separate charges:• $597.45 for duct clean-

ing and inspection;• $417.90 for a deluxe

furnace and cleaning inspection package.

Upon seeing the fi rst bill, Unger said the cost was too high, but was told there were several tasks done to clean the ducts. The bill checks off quite a few different tasks such as cleaning and conducting technical check ups.

“I told him my fur-nace and hot water tank had been checked. That didn’t matter. They just ignored it,” said Unger.

In an interview, com-pany representative Kevin Cowan said they have been in the busi-ness for about 18 years and generally do work through word of mouth promotions. He declined to comment on this in-


cident but said that duct work does not include the furnace and water heater cleaning, which is the second charge.

The base cost of the first charge is $349, which covers two to six hooks-ups, vacuum and air rake main ductwork and disinfectant. There

is an additional $220 — and then GST at $28.45 — added, but no itemiza-tion as to what that extra cost covered. Cowan said he did not have the full work order but claimed anything in addition would most-likely be for fuel surcharge to get to the location or for aer-

ator work or something similar.

Cowan added that all employees will explain the furnace and water heater cleaning charges before invoicing.

Unger said the furnace

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credit card bill showed the amount for two sepa-rate charges was collect-ed and a further check of the invoice showed she had signed for both of them.

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“I thought I better pay it all,” said Unger.Friend Irene Rausch heard of the situation and of-

fered to help. The two asked the police if they had any advice. Rausch said the police called the company to question them on the cost but said there was nothing illegal about the transaction.

A check of the company at the Edmonton Better Business Bureau (BBB), where it is a member, shows a similar complaint was fi led in October, 2015. The complainant alleges an employee wrote out an au-thorization invoice for $576.45 and then wrote out the cheque amount and had the customer sign it. The amount charged was $994.35, which was $417.90 higher.

After a back and forth detailed on the BBB website, the customer was eventually refunded the second amount.

For her part Unger said she felt embarrassed after paying the extra charge. Her hope was to let peo-ple know to be fully informed when any contractor comes into a person’s home. After seeing the charge she changed her credit card number.

“I wanted to just forget it,” said Unger.Cowan did say the company has done duct cleaning

at her home in 2012.

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High-cost duct cleaning

Ponoka senior Elsie Unger (right) poses with friend Irene Rausch holding an air duct cleaning bill that cost Unger more just over $1,000. After hearing of the incident Rausch offered to help.



Alberta rejects newcharter schools

Alberta Education Minister David Eggen recently rejected two applications for new charter schools - a school for special needs students and a Spanish-language school with an emphasis on science. That is unfortunate.

There is room and demand for more charter schools in Alberta, the only province in Canada to allow such schools, and the research is clear about the achieve-ment gaps charter schools fi ll. In light of Eggen’s own ministry’s fi nding that “overall, charter schools appear to have provided enhanced student learning outcomes as compared to similar schools and similar students enrolled in other jurisdiction types,” these two rejec-tions should raise eyebrows among parents and tax-payers.

The idea of public schools being independently oper-ated and held accountable for meeting particular goals is relatively new and perhaps even more successful than anticipated. Since being proposed in 1988 by the then president of the American Federation of Teachers, charter schools have been introduced in 42 U.S. states and Washington D.C., enrolling roughly 4.5 per cent of students in those jurisdictions.

Charter schools have become increasingly popular

with parents in Alberta since their introduction in 1994. The percentage of Alberta students enrolled in charter schools has more than tripled to 1.4 per cent since 1999. Yet, despite long wait lists, only 15 charter schools are allowed in Alberta at any one time (13 cur-rently operate in the province).

Because charter schools operate outside of the local school district and are governed by their own board of trustees, it might appear that they are not public schools. But unlike private schools, the province will shut them down if they don’t achieve the goals of their charter.

Charter school funding is also unique. Unlike private schools, they may not charge tuition. They typically receive provincial funding for their operating expenses but not for their capital (building, etc.) expenses as they often lease unused space from the local school district. This means enterprising educators and com-munity members collaborate to deliver innovative education programs without direct cost to parents and with lower cost to the taxpayer.

Charter schools cost less on a per pupil basis and are closed down if they aren’t effective at meeting stu-dent achievement goals. Low performing schools don’t continue as drains on the system. Just what exactly is lost by granting a charter, especially when all the legal provisions for their existence are in place?

The question becomes even more mindboggling when you stack the cost effi ciencies alongside the re-search on the outcomes of charter schools.

Charter schools are particularly well-equipped and effective at serving the needs of students of dis-advantaged populations. While many studies show strong positive effects of charter schools on student achievement in general, the literature is very clear that charter school gains are particularly large for disad-vantaged groups such as students with special needs, second-language learners, and at-risk youth.

Charter schools serve families and students who are not well-served by the traditional public schools, and are effective and effi cient in serving educational pref-erences not met elsewhere.

Moreover, if the presence of charter schools exerts pressure on surrounding schools and school districts to improve, as literature on school choice demon-strates, they benefi t not only those who attend charter schools but also students who do not.

For the sake of all students and taxpayers, Minister Eggen should be cautious about thwarting innovative and enterprising approaches to designing and deliver-ing education in Alberta.

Deani Van Pelt is Director of the Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education at the Fraser Institute and Lynn Bosetti is Professor of Education at UBC, Kelowna.

Despite evidence of their widespread benefi tsBY DEANI VAN PELT AND LYNN BOSETTITROY MEDIA COLUMNISTS

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March is Fraud Prevention Month and CFIB is focused on help-ing businesses help them-selves through education and access to resources. As a proud member of the Fraud Prevention Forum, a working group made up of CFIB, the Competition Bureau, and the RCMP, the month-long cam-paign and the publication

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“Fraud is a serious threat to unsuspecting small businesses and an on-going challenge for our economy,” said Plamen Petkov, CFIB vice-presi-dent, Ontario and Business Resources. “The report will look at not only the fi -nancial cost of fraud to small businesses, but also non-fi nancial impacts, in-cluding stress and aggra-vation for business own-ers.”

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“CFIB takes more than 27,000 calls a year from small business owners on various issues includ-ing fraud, so we are in a unique position to identify the latest scams that are making the rounds,” added Petkov. “Knowing what to look for is the key to pre-vention.”

On March 9, CFIB will release additional survey data showing how many small businesses report fraud to the authorities.


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Isabell Stamm (left) hits the buzzer Tuesday, March 1 during a Reach trivia and academic competition at PSC.


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More than $21,000 was raised at Big Brothers Big Sisters Mardi Gras Soiree Bowl for Kids Friday, March 4. Here PES teacher Erynn Rice has some fun while PSC students enjoy taking part. Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye

BBBS exceed goal at bowling fundraiserBig Brothers Big Sisters

(BBBS) struck gold at their annual bowl-a-thon fundraiser.

The goal was to raise $20,000 at the Mardi Gras Soiree Bowl for Kids Friday, March 4 at Leisure Lanes but support from Ponoka residents and businesses topped the donations at $21,250.

This is their biggest fundraiser of the year that benefi ts the mento-ring programs at BBBS, explained executive di-rector Beth Reitz. Bowling started in the afternoon and by 5 p.m. they were already halfway to their goal.

Programs such as tra-ditional mentoring, in-school, teen mentoring and the Go Girls and Game On programs will be able to benefi t from the funds raised. Go Girls and Game On are exam-ples of what BBBS offers. They are held in gender specifi c groups for stu-dents in Grade 6 to 8 hosted once a week in schools.

“We talk about self-es-teem, body image, bul-lying, all those types of things that help them be stronger personally as well as in relationships,” said Reitz.

Andrew Heinrichs, teen program co-ordinator said the Game On pro-


Reach for top spot at academic competition

Teams were scattered through the halls of PSC answering questions such as: If a=3 and b=2 what is the value of a squared -b squared and What television show was a spin-off of All in the Family? Each team was comprised of a differ-ent age group and would receive a different set of challenges said organizer and social studies teacher Rob Haggarty.

Questions included pop culture, math, science and literature, explained Haggarty.

PSC, along with St. Augustine Catholic School and other central Alberta schools such as Bentley and Lacombe brought teams vying for bragging rights and a chance at zones and then to provincials.

“The senior questions are pretty high level,” said Haggarty.

Senior students deal with

continued from page 16 more technical questions in the math and literature challenges. Trivia ques-tions were tough as well for some teams who may not be familiar with 1970s pop culture. Haggarty said they start practicing in November.

He enjoys the competi-

tion and suggests it gives students, not inclined to sports, a chance to com-pete for their school. Plus all the grade levels interact with each other, he added.

The next round of the challenge will again be held at PSC on Tuesday, March 15.

gram is developing into a fun environment for boys. “We try to sneak in a little body image, talking about self-esteem, talking about stress in your life,” said Heinrichs.

Short term goals for the

programs are to give the boys and girls the ability to think for themselves in a positive light. The program is intended to make it a comfortable en-vironment to talk about a positive body image.

Go Girls ialso brings dis-cussion of self-esteem, explained BBBS program co-ordinator Morgen Chernick. The goal with both programs is to have kids be more accepting of themselves and others,

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Canadian Finals Rodeo may be moving from Edmonton

After 42 years of rodeo fi nals action, 2016 could be the last year the Canadian Finals Rodeo (CFR) will be hosted in Edmonton.

Directors with the Canadian Pro Rodeo Association (CPRA) voted unanimously against a pro-posal presented by the City of Edmonton and Oilers Entertainment Group (OEG) to keep the event in the provincial capital, ex-plained CPRA general man-

4-H speakers move on to regional challengeThe speeches were

given, the points were tallied and after the dust settled, four 4-H speakers from the area will move

on to regionals.Eighteen young mem-

bers competed at the 4-H zones Sunday, March 6 speaking competition at the Ponoka Legion as part of the Communication

Skills program of the club.

Young speakers in the junior, intermediate and senior categories came from clubs in Ponoka, Crestomere, Rimbey and

other nearby commu-nities to show off their prepared and impromptu speaking skills, explained timer and teller Keith Kjenner. The top two se-niors and intermediate


PONOKA NEWS STAFF speakers move on to re-gionals while the juniors are done for the season.

The biggest challenge during the speech com-petitions was the im-promptu speeches, he added. Sometimes the difference between a win or lose is as a result of the impromptu challenge. “It’s a deal breaker.”

With the prepared speeches 4-H members have already practiced their subjects to the full-est extent and Kjenner suggests getting an edge will come from being able to speak on any subject with little preparation.

“It shows that they’re quick thinking,” he ex-plained.

While all speeches need to have an open-ing, a closing and a body, Kjenner suggests the best way to prepare is to have family provide the most-ridiculous topics. He feels the speach chal-lenges set members up for future life-skills and many, if not all of the 4-H projects need some type of communication skill set.

Junior winners:• First : Nicole

Groenveld, Winfield Beef speaking on Bill 6;

• Second: Quinn Going-Rycroft, Winfi eld Beef on Two Dollars and Half a Chicken.

Intermediate winners:• First: Emma-Lee Rust,

Crestomere Multi on Women’s Rights;

• Second: Mackenzie Gillard, Crestomere Multi on Have You Ever Thought About it.

Senior Winners:• First: Isabell Stamm,

Crestomere Multi on Can You See Me?

• Second: Megan Bolton, East Ponoka Beef on Brave or Confused.

Senior regionals are set for Saturday, March 19 at 1 p.m. at Lincoln Hall and intermediates for Sunday, March 20 at New Norway.

ager Dan Eddy. Since the announcement was made March 1, Eddy says he has fi elded multiple interviews with questions as to the future of the CFR’s new home.

Negotiations were led by OEG, said Eddy.

Initially, the groups went into discussions in early October, 2015, he explained but the fi rst proposal sub-mitted was not enough.

“That was declined, but it gave us a starting point,” said Eddy.

From there, he said two 60-day extensions were agreed for the sides to come to an agreement, but eventually the talks col-lapsed. The decision by the CFRA to seek a new venue has created a stir in the Edmonton community.



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Regular jam sessions every Saturday at 1pmDrop-ins welcome at all events.Mar. 20 7pm - Gospel Concert “Crystal Clear Ministries” - Crystal & Herb Taylor Nashville recording artist - for more info contact Trudy 403-783-4246Mar. 24 - Thursday - Potluck & general meeting 5:30pm. Bring a dish to share, table service & enjoy good companyBilliards - Weekdays 1:00pm. Mon through Sat – 50 cents per game. Honour systemMonday Bridge 1:00pmMonday Whist - 1:30pmMonday Yoga - 6:30pmTuesday Canasta - 1:00pmTuesday & Thursday Exercise class 9:30amTuesday Pickleball 6:30pm Centennial Centre - contact Janice Mackie 403-396-3160Tuesday Shuffl eboard - 7pmWednesday morning - PIANO LESSONS FOR SENIORS (Sara Driedger 403-790-1980)Wednesday Sewing Guild 9:30am to 4pmWednesday Cribbage 1:00pmWednesday Yoga - 6:30pmWednesday Duplicate Bridge 7:00pmThursday Floor Curling - 1:00pm - New ball bearing rocks - come & try themThursday Weaving 1:00pm Welcome to drop-in to see how it’s doneThursday Bridge 1:00pmThursday Art Club Drop In Noon to 4pmFriday “500” 1:00pmSaturday Yoga 9:30amMemberships available for 2016 - $10.00 per person. To rent our facility contact Dorothy @ 403-783-3027 or George @ 403-783- 3514 or leave a message @ 403-783-5012. Rentals are increasing and we would like to invite our town administration, business groups, and general public (Wedding, funeral, and Birthday groups), to inquire about rentals services and prices early in their planning. We may fi t your bill!

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Grains this morning were able to make some gains on short-covering and more weather head-lines scaring the bears away. Drew Lerner of World Weather Inc. says that the longer it takes for El Nino to dissipate, the likelier that we’ll see

a drier spring in western areas of the Canadian Prairies. Conversely, Lerner suggested that when La Nina does make landfall, it will likely re-sult in wetter conditions in Western Canada but drier conditions in the US southwest. When will

the exact shift of El Nino to La Nina happen? Flip a coin.

While that weather de-bate rages, prospects for the South American soy-bean crop continues to increase with continued non-threatening weath-er, and with currency

Flipping a coineffects helping maintain the height of domestic prices, Brazilian 2nd-crop safrinha acres are like-ly also increasing. More wheat bulls are looking to Europe for the condition of the winter crop there, with concerns for win-ter hardiness the loudest in Ukraine, Poland, and parts of Germany and Romania. In my opinion, this headline continues to be best possible cata-lyst to a bump in prices, but it’s be tough for us to see more than 10 Per cent gains.

We’re at the time of the year where the hope that the markets were going to go higher before road bans has turned to fran-tic concerns over moving something before and/or during Plant 2016. With grain prices subdued, there were opportunities to take advantage of over the past 2-3 months on various crops (wheth-er it be locking basis or

straight cash sales) but many were speculating, not managing risk. Risk management doesn’t mean you’re selling your entire bin yard in these opportunities, but in-stead adapting your ex-pectations versus just being greedy. This means knowing for certain what your cashfl ow needs are going to be in the next 6-9 months and then add 10 Per cent to those num-bers just as a cushion. How many times have you wished you would’ve sold at least something (i.e 10 – 20 Per cent) after the markets went down and then you were forced to sell something for cashfl ow reasons? (Psst: remember the line “Make sales when you can, not when you have to!”)

Conversely, if the mar-kets do go up, you’re not kicking yourself for sell-ing everything in a rush and still have something left sell! This is what we call risk management. Adaptability in these cur-rent grain markets is the name of the game and I challenge you to sit down over the next few weeks and review your plan for not only your remaining inventory but also expec-tations for the 2016/17 crop. This should techni-cally be done quarterly, if not on a monthly basis but if you don’t have a plan yet, put pencil to paper ASAP, and look to move 10 or 20 Per cent of what’s left in the bins. We’re happy to help you price it on FarmLead.com but fl ipping a coin is not

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Good Feeder Steers 1000 lbs Plus: 161.00-180.00Good Feeder Steers 900 lbs Plus: 175.00-191.25Good Feeder Steers 800 lbs Plus: 185.00-205.00Good Feeder Steers 700 lbs Plus: 195.00-224.00Good Feeder Steers 600 lbs Plus: 215.00-250.00Good Feeder Steers 500 lbs Plus: 236.00-269.00Good Feeder Steers 400 lbs Plus: 265.00-280.00Good Feeder Steers 300 lbs Plus: 275.00-300.00

Dairy Steers 135.00-165.00Baby Calves Dairy Type: 150.00-275.00Baby Calves Beef Type: 550.00-700.00Hay: Sq Bales 5.50-9.50 Straw: Sq. Bales 1.00-2.00 Greenfeed: Sq. Bales -

VJV MARKET REPORTMARKET REPORT MARCH 2, 2016

On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 3025 head of cattle went through our ringsTOTAL - 3025

SLAUGHTER CATTLE

STOCKERS AND FEEDERS

D1 - D2 cows 105.00-113.50D3 - D4 cows 90.00-100.00Good Holstein cows 80.00-93.00Medium Holstein cows 75.00-85.00Heiferettes 145.00-165.00Bologna Bulls 120.00-152.00

Feeder bulls 130.00-152.00Good Bred Cows -Older Bred Cows 1,400.00-2,000.00Good Bred Heifers: Cow/calf pairs (younger) -Cow/Calf pairs (older) -

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“We’re just continuing to move forward with a re-quest for proposal process,” said Eddy of their plans.

He declined to provide the names of potential cities as future hosts but says there are fi ve cities “within reach” that have at least a 13,000 attendance capacity needed to host the CFR. Eddy said the aver-age number of daily atten-dance at the CFR is 16,000.

What the exact deal is and why it was declined remains unknown as Eddy claims the information cannot be provided due to a non-disclosure agree-ment.

However, OEG chairman Bob Nicholson was inter-viewed by Edmonton Sun in the March 2 edition, providing some of what was being offered includ-ing a bigger purse of $2 mil-lion from $1.589 million, a stock contract offered at $750,000 from $540,000 and hosting fee rights proposed at $300,000 from $68,000.

Eddy claims those num-bers are “inaccurate” al-though wouldn’t say how and did not provide further

continued from page 18 details.He added that Edmonton

is still being considered in the CPRA’s new request for proposals but Nicholson has said publicly that time may have passed.

Both Nicholson and Eddy claim they have received calls from interested par-ties; for the former it is for

new attractions and for the latter it is from other cities.

Eddy said the CPRA’s focus remains to fi nd the best deal for athletes, stock contractors and to ensure the fans have an event they can enjoy. He suggests there is an estimated $78 million economic spin off from the CFR.

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Girls take bronze at curling provincials

For the fi rst time in 26 years, Ponoka has landed a medal in a provincial curling tournament.

Three Ponoka Secondary Campus teams curled their way through a challenging provincial tournament Thursday, March 3 to 5 with the girls landing a bronze medal for their efforts.

Skip Nikki Smith said she was pleased the team could come out with a medal as three of its members are graduating this year. “This is Ponoka’s second win overall.”

The last time Ponoka earned any medal in curling was a Ponoka women’s team in 1994, said Smith, and being able to nab a medal means a lot to the team. Getting to the playoffs seemed likely after the girls were unde-feated in the regular round. The only team that caused them any trouble was Sundre, forcing the game to go into an extra end.

The girls ended up beating Sundre 8-7 in the regular round. Coming into playoffs, the girls ended up coming short against Morrin losing 10-4. Smith said they gave up a couple of big ends against Morrin, which affected their confi dence. This led them to play Sundre again in the bronze medal match.

Coming into the eighth end, Ponoka was up 7-4 against Sundre. All they needed to do was take out their opponent’s rocks to make it harder to score. This way there were very few rocks in the end to cause them trouble. Once it was clear Sundre couldn’t score enough, they called the game.

Playing on Sheet 6 caused some added challenges for

the opposition. Several times, Sundre attempted a shot that ended up going wide to the left and right of their intended shot. Ponoka had prepared for Sheet 6 and it paid off.

“The sheet can be very unpredictable … We fi gured out the ice early,” said Smith.

The boys and mixed teams didn’t make it to playoffs both ending up with records of one win and two losses.

Boys’ skip Matthew Jones said their fi rst game against Manning was their biggest challenge, which they lost 9-2. Their second game against Slave Lake was a much tighter score, but still a loss at 8-7.

“It was back and forth and just amazing ends,” said Jones of the game.

A win against Slave Lake would have been possible had a takeout shot landed its mark. Despite the loss Jones said they went in to have fun over the course of the weekend. He was pleased with their 7-5 win against Claresholm after securing four points in the third end, which helped their overall total.

Mixed team coach Andrew Jones said their fi rst game proved their strongest winning 6-3 against High Prairie. “It was a good opening game. All of our team came out.”

Their second game against Westlock was an 11-9 loss but at one point the team was down six points. Andrew said the thing that helped the mixed team was a posi-tive attitude.

“They have fun. That’s the biggest thing,” said Andrew.Their fi nal game against Taber was a close 9-8 loss.

It all came down to the fi nal rock, said Andrew. The mixed team had a chance to take out Taber’s rocks and secure the win. “It missed and bumped theirs (Taber) in for two.”

PSC girls’ skip Nikki Smith watches closely as a rock makes its way to the button Thursday, March 4 during provincials curling in Ponoka. The girls earned a bronze medal, the fi rst time for Ponoka since 1994. Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye

Celebrating accomplishments:

The Central Rage U13 girls’ volleyball team celebrate a strong performance at provincial Alberta volleyball tournament. The team fi nished fi fth out of 32 teams at the tournament held Feb. 27 and 28. The team was seeded third in its pool of four and won all the games in their pool. Pictured are (l-r) Kiana McLean, Bailey Donison, Victoria Lockridge, Atom Roos, Gina Mercer, Cydney Newton, Lezah McGinnins and Kyrie Hemingson. Missing is Sam Little.



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Ponoka’s Peewee Quality Paint and Collision goalie Ethan Sharp makes a daring save Friday, March 4 in a league playoffs game against Rocky Mountain House. Ponoka lost the series.


More minor hockey teams dropped from playoffsMore Ponoka minor

hockey teams dropped off from playoff com-petition last week with many players putting their skates and sticks away until the next reg-ular season.

Fountain Tire Midget Wolves were eliminat-ed after three back-to-back losses, two on the

road and one at home to Rocky Royals and will now start their off-sea-son break. The fi rst game of the series was played in Rocky Mountain House on Wednesday, March 2, when the Wolves tried hard but could not achieve a comeback after the fi rst two periods dominated by the hosts, and when they put in the effort in

the third, it was too little too late 6-5.

In the second game in Ponoka on Saturday, March 5 , Rocky Royals proved to be even more effi cient than the fi rst game in moving the puck and defeated the Wolves 6-4.

The third game in Rocky on Sunday was a much drier affair in terms of scoring, but a

still tough game went to the hosts again: 3-2.

As for the Ponoka Peewee Quality Paint and Collision, they were also eliminated by the Rocky Mountain House team in two games, the fi rst being played on Friday, March 4, when Ponoka boys lost at home 8-4. Rocky Ice used the home ice advantage in the sec-ond game the next day

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Cory Fillinger of senior boy Broncs attempts a fi ve-foot jump-shot during their home game against the Rocky Mountain House Rebels on Wednesday, March 2. Broncs lost 76-46.

Photo by Mustafa Eric

to fi nish the series with an 8-2 win.

In the Atom Division, Tier 2 McDonalds Atom lost to Battle River Knights 6-0 in their home game on March 5 and 10-3 in the away game the next day while

Tier 5 Calnash Trucking Atom lost to Sylvan Lake Lakers 7-6 on March 5 in the away game of their series and could not ex-tend the series to the third game when they failed to bring the 4-3 score to a tie.

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Butterfi eld brothers inducted into Alberta Sports

Hall of FamePonoka cowboys Brian,

Bud (Vernon) and Tom Butterfi eld received spe-cial recognition for their dedication to the sport of rodeo.

The announcement came from the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame Monday, Feb. 22. Blake Butterfi eld was able to at-tend the induction cere-mony and represent his dad, Tom, who passed away some years ago.

Ranching and the sport of rodeo was something the Butterfi elds had in their blood. In their early days living in Ponoka, Brian said they learned to ride a horse almost as soon as they could walk. They needed the horses to get to school, he ex-plained.

“In those days you kind of had to make your own sport,” added Bud.

Bulldogging, or steer wrestling, seemed to come as a natural sport to the two brothers. While Brian and Bud be-came heavily involved in the sport of rodeo, their older brother Tom worked behind the scenes as a planner for the Ponoka Stampede and the calf in-

Olympic hopeful hosts fundraising

boot camps

Fitness buffs looking for a good workout will be able to get some hands-on training from Olympic hopeful Isatu Fofanah.

The Ponoka-raised sprinter is training twice a day, six days a week in preparation for Team Canada tryouts set for July, but with the train-ing camps, sprint meets



and vigorous workout routines comes a high cost. To help pay for that, Fofanah is hosting two fundraiser boot camps with help from Rip’n Ronnie’s Fitness.

Camps are set for Saturday, March 12 and 19 from 2 to 3 p.m. at the gym and organizers are asking for a $20 dona-tion, or more if desired, to have Fofanah show them the ropes.

Her goal is to “hopefully get people moving and changing their lifestyles and getting into shape.”

While much of her training work is timed, Fofanah says she will get people into core work-outs.

“It’s a full body circuit workout that’s going to incorporate squats with dead lifts and light weights,” said Fofanah.

For his part, Rip’n Ronnie’s owner Sheldon Ronnie said the compa-ny has always supported Ponoka’s athletes through free memberships and in Fofanah’s case, they have also donated funds to help with her goals.

He said it’s not often people get to work out with an Olympic calibre athlete but added that all fi tness levels are wel-come.

For more information call the gym at 403-790-7476.

The photos of Brian, Bud and Tom Butterfi eld at the Canadian Professional Rodeo Hall of Fame sit along side each other after they were inducted in 1996. All three were inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame on Monday, Feb. 22.

Photo courtesy of the Canadian Professional Rodeo Hall of Fame.

Bud Butterfi eldBrian Butterfi eld Tom Butterfi eld

dustry. All three have re-ceived numerous awards and acclaim. Perhaps the most proud moment was being inducted into the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame.

In 1996, all three were inducted; along with high placement in bareback riding, Brian landed four steer wrestling champi-onships and the Canadian All-Round Championship; Bud earned a total of six steer wrestling champi-onships and Tom was rec-ognized for his work with the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association CPRA.

Both Brian and Bud were active in the Cowboy’s Protective Association and Brian served as CPRA president for one year in 1958. Blake said his father

was instrumental, along with a dedicated group of cowboys, in getting the CPRA out of fi nancial trouble and setting it up for success. His father had a cowboy way of living. “The harder you work, the more successful you are,” explained Blake.

“I’m not sure where the sport would be without his input,” he added.

For Brian, being in rodeo was in his veins. “You’ve gotta rodeo for the love of the sport.”

It seems the three were inseparable. They start-

ed a feed lot business together, were inducted in the rodeo hall of fame together and although Tom couldn’t be there in February, all three were part of the recent group of inductees to the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.

What Brian said he would like to see grow in the sport is increased sponsorships that will bring bigger fi nancial ben-efi t to the athletes. What sets rodeo apart from the rest of the sports, added Bud, is: “You are your own man.”

Olympic hopeful and Ponoka-raised Isatu Fofanah is hosting two fundraising workout classes with help from Rip’n Ronnie’s Fitness to help pay for her training. The sessions will be held at Rip’n Ronnie’s gym. Photo submitted


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Ponoka’s Marilyn Chidlow was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame Monday, Feb. 22 for her dedication to the sport of fi gure skating. Here she poses at her home in town Feb. 26 .


Ponoka’s Marilyn Chidlow now a hall of famerPonoka’s own Marilyn

Chidlow has been in-ducted in the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.

The announcement was made Monday, Feb.

22 at the hall of fame building in Red Deer where Chidlow, along with Brian, Tom and Bud (Vernon) Butterfi eld were inducted.

Chidlow was induct-ed for her dedication to the sport of fi gure skat-


ing in Canada. Indeed, CanSkate, the watchdog for standards of train-ing and development for fi gure skaters across the country grew in part thanks to her infl uence.

In an interview, Chidlow said she received the call early in February that she was to be inducted and it came as a complete surprise. She developed a love of the sport as a young girl in Winnipeg, Man. “I can remember my fi rst carnival. I was a Dalmatian dog.”

She found her way to Edmonton and then Red Deer and eventually to Ponoka.

“I could remember re-ally striving for the tests I took because then we could skate indoors,” said Chidlow of her ex-perience with skating in Edmonton.

Life continued on for Chidlow who moved with Glen to Ponoka in 1973 to start a chiroprac-tic service. Helping the Ponoka Skate Club was something she enjoyed. “We coached the lit-tle babies and the mom and tot program,” she re-called.

This was the begin-ning stage of Chidlow’s deep involvement as a volunteer instructor with the training program for coaches and skaters. Chidlow was fi rst asked to join the Ponoka club’s board and eventually the provincial board and to the top with Skate Canada.

In 1992 she was vice-president of Skate Canada, and eventually president from 2000 to 2006 and past-president from 2007 to 2013.

With a group of dedicat-ed planners, she helped develop the CanSkate program that is the main standard of training and development. Her focus has always been to bene-fi t the skaters.

Her dedication to the sport cannot be ques-tioned.

During the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics Chidlow, found herself in the middle of a media frenzy. The infamous de-cision that saw Canadian skaters Jamie Salé and David Pelletier awarded silver medals despite a strong performance put judges and their deci-sions into question.

Being president of Skate

Canada, as a volunteer, put Chidlow in the lime-light and she said it was a tumultuous time for skating. The Canadian press bit into the deci-sion and how it was han-dled. She was challenged as someone who let the Canadian team down in national newspapers and news shows. “It was a really low moment for us in sports.”

Skaters she had helped nurture in the training program were hurt by that judging scandal. Seeing them at the po-dium receiving the silver medals is something that haunts Chidlow to this day.

On a positive note, Chidlow used the lessons in Salt Lake City as a tool to help drive change in the judging system. “It provided us with a new judging system that can

be measured,” she said.Because of that issue

she stayed on as presi-dent until 2006 and feels there is some vindication for the skaters who were eventually awarded gold medals.

What kept her steady throughout the whole process, from training young coaches and tot skaters to being under the media spotlight was the athletes. “We just wanted to make it better for future athletes,” she said.

Chidlow’s efforts in Salt Lake City earned her a bronze participation medal.

Looking back at the the ups and downs and Chidlow says she is proud of the work Skate Canada did and for the advances made in train-ing and in judging at a professional level.


Share your stories through library’s new project

For those of you on Facebook, have you ever checked out the page ‘Humans of New York’? It’s a very interesting page that shows the people of New York, one story at a time. We at Ponoka Jubilee Library think the concept is so good that we’d like to steal it, and focus on featuring the citi-zens of Ponoka.

We know people out there have many good stories to tell: where they’re from orig-inally and how they ended up in Ponoka, how they met their spouse, their hopes and dreams for the future, the hard times they’ve gone through, etc. We are looking for people who are willing to share their stories with us, so they can be featured on our Facebook page, either with their name and picture or anonymously. If you are willing to take part in ‘People of Ponoka’ please contact

BY JACLYN BERRY

GWYNNE DYERThink Globally

MIKE RAINONEHAMMERTIME

China: Another Chairman Mao?

Opening the National People’s Congress in Beijing last Saturday, Prime Minister Li Keqiang set China’s growth target for the coming year at 6.5-7 percent, the lowest

I was really interested to see a recent article explaining that millions of women and some men of all ages have become hooked on the new enjoyable and totally stress-less craze of ‘Adult coloring.’ Apparently, this unique hobby and casual pastime started way back in the 1960s, and booming sales are now being realized for the intricately designed coloring books that have been designed especially for adults only. These quality and artfully laid out books come in all subjects and cultures to suit the creator, and these include nature and wildlife scapes, themes, characters and heroes from at home or throughout the world.

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Welcome to the new world of adult colouring

in decades. Only two years ago, he said that 7 percent was the lowest acceptable growth rate, but he has had to eat his words. He really isn’t in charge of very much any more.

The man who is tak-ing charge of everything, President Xi Jinping, is now turning into the fi rst one-man regime since Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s. The “collective leadership” of recent decades has become a fi ction, and Xi’s personality cult is being vigorously promoted in the state-controlled media.

Xi has also broken the truce between the two major factions in the Chinese Communist Party, who might be called the “princelings” and the “populists”. Xi, as the son of a Communist Party rev-olutionary hero who ended up as vice-premier, is princeling to the core. His centralising, authoritarian style is typical of this privileged breed.

The populists, like Li Keqiang, are generally people who grew up poor, usually in the interior, not in the prosperous coastal cities. They rose to prominence more by merit than by their connections, and they are more alert to the needs of vulnerable social groups like farmers, migrant workers and the urban poor. Most of them have come up through the Communist Youth League, and are known in Chinese as tuanpai (“the League faction”).

Frightened by the non-vi-olent demonstrations that challenged the Communist Party’s monopoly of power in 1989, for almost three decades these two factions have carefully shared power and never attacked each other in public. Xi has now broken that non-aggression pact, au-thorising open attacks on the “mentality” of the Communist Youth League in the media.

The friction between the

now be, absolutely all of us will fondly remember the early adventures of our youth when we colored and scribbled for countless hours, especially on those cold, wet or sick stay-indoor days. As little duffers just out of diapers, we colored, drew, painted and dribbled on everything in sight, includ-ing paper, pets, magazines, walls, books, toilet paper and all the rest. Occasionally, we may have even tried to eat those crayons or stuff them up our nose, but we quickly learned that this was a no-no, and that treats tasted much better. It was always a special reward to be able to glue our very own creations in the family scrapbook or tape it on the frig, especially those really neat cards that we so carefully drew and colored at home or in school, espe-cially for family birthdays, Valentine’s and Christmas.

Later we got to tackle those magnifi cent coloring books, which contained so many pages of cartoons, action heroes, Disney characters, cars, trucks, birds, animals and so much more on which we spent hours alone or with friends transforming them into lots of neat pictures and characters in the wild and wonderful colors of our own choice. I will always recall at our house that my dad loved to dabble in ‘Paint by numbers’, where you really had to stay within the lines, be neat, and clean up the

brushes after each color. On nice days, we would dash outside, join the gang and use colored chalk to design amazing pictures and designs on the neighbourhood’s side-walks, walls and playgrounds, which were likely the humble beginnings of the now popu-lar and really wild graffi ti era?

The drop-in coloring ses-sions that have been formed are now being hosted at li-braries, club-rooms or at the homes of the participants, but can also be organized for gatherings at long-term care centres, hospitals, clubs and on and on. Many who take part have whole-heartedly agreed that these ‘coloring sessions’ are ideal for chang-ing mental gears, relaxing and exploring their creative sides while also enjoying some quality time for coffee, cook-ies and keen camaraderie with friends and neighbours. Maybe a few neat ideas for some future adult coloring get-togethers could include color the next U.S.A. President in naughty and wild colors of Hilary and Trump, color our Canadian Government in shades of dark red and long strokes of free-spending, and color our Alberta economy in shaky tones of black and blue, but eventually in the red with the NDP… Check the library for more info on the ‘coloring set’, and now that it looks like spring is just around the next slushy corner, just go ahead and have a great week, all of you.

Jaclyn Berry, Library Manager at [email protected] or stop by the library to chat. And feel free to check out the HONY page online, or borrow the book ‘Humans of New York: Stories’ by Brandon Stanton from the library to get a better idea of what we have in mind.

We want to remind ev-eryone that this Saturday, March 12 at 2 p.m. we, along with Ponoka Parent Link, are presenting ‘Coming Together: Legacy of Residential Schools’. We ask parents and professionals to join us at the Ponoka Elementary School learning common area, for an afternoon centred on building relationships and understanding between aboriginal and settler fami-lies. The afternoon will begin with aboriginal voices, as an elder from Maskwacis shares her experiences at one of these residential schools. Andrea Dyck, our facilitator, will then present a program that she has put together which shows us a picture of that time in our history. We hope that engaging with these speakers will promote understanding, dialogue and discussion to aid in build-ing relationships. We must,

as a community, contrib-ute positively to the neces-sary and important work of healing and reconciliation. Traditional refreshments of bannock and tea will be served, please register at either Ponoka Jubilee Library or Ponoka Parent Link Centre. We hope to see many people come together for this very important event.

For those of you who are currently looking for work, we want to let you know that we have six public computers available for use on which you can create resumes, and search and apply for jobs. We also offer printing/photocopying and faxing services for a fee, as well as scanning and emailing for no cost. We suggest that if you know when you are going to be at the library to call and book a time in advance to ensure that a computer is available for you, otherwise they may be busy when you arrive. Simply call us at 403-783-3843, and we’ll be happy to help you.

Coming soon: From best-selling author Laura Childs comes another book in the Tea Shop Mysteries, ‘Devonshire Scream’.

factions has grown so great mainly because the Chinese economy is stumbling to-wards a crisis. Neither faction has a convincing strategy for avoiding the crisis, but each has come to believe that the other’s political style – authoritarian for the princelings, populist for the tuanpai – will make matters worse.

The Communist Party’s dictatorship is founded on an unspoken contract with the population: we will provide constantly rising living stan-dards, and in return you will not question our authority. But no economy can grow at 10 percent a year forever, or even at the currently ad-vertised rate of 6.5-7 percent.

In fact, China’s growth rate actually collapsed about seven years ago, but it has so far been hidden by a binge of debt-fuelled investment. When most of the world went into a deep recession after the fi nancial crisis of 2008, the Chinese regime artifi cially kept the country’s growth rate up by raising the proportion of GDP devoted to investment in infrastructure to an incredible 50 percent.

In the following fi ve years, China was building a new skyscraper every fi ve days. It

built more than 30 new air-ports, subway systems in 25 cities, the three longest bridg-es in the world, more than 10,000 km (6,000 miles) of high-speed railway lines, and 40,000 km. (26,000) miles of freeways. Tens of thousands of high-rise residential towers went up around every city.

But the new towers remain largely empty, as do many of the freeways. These are investments that produced jobs at the time, but will not produce an adequate return on investment for many years, if ever. And to fi nance all this, the government let the country’s debt burden explode, from around 125 percent of GDP in 2009 to 220 percent now.

All of this investment has been counted in the GDP fi gures, but up to half of it, or maybe even more, is bad debts that will eventually have to be written off. If only half of it is bad debts, then China’s GDP growth in the past fi ve years has really been around 2 percent, not 7-8 percent.

The crisis can be disguised for a while longer by print-ing more money, which the regime is doing. But that is putting downward pressure on China’s currency, the

yuan, which is currently over-valued by around 15-20 percent. Devaluation would give a temporary boost to China’s exports, but it could also trigger an international trade war that would drag everybody’s economy down.

So at the moment China is spending $90 billion in foreign exchange each month to keep the value of the yuan up, but even with its immense for-eign exchange reserves that is an unsustainable long-term policy. Sooner or later there is going to be a “hard landing”, and the regime’s very survival may be at risk.

There is no evidence that President Xi Jinping has a better strategy for master-ing this crisis than the rival faction, but the storm is obvi-ously approaching and he is battening down the hatches.

In his view, that means taking absolute power and building a personality cult of a sort that has not been seen in China since the demise of Mao Tse-tung. He is certainly not a vicious megalomaniac like Mao, but he clearly be-lieves that he will need total control to get through the storm without a shipwreck.

Gwynne Dyer is an indepen-dent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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MASSEllen Lorena Mass was born on October 8, 1922 in Welsh, Alberta. She passed away in Lacombe on February 21, 2016. She is lovingly remembered by her sons Larry, James, Hugh, Robert, and Martin and their families; her sister Hilda Stickle; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends. She was predeceased by her husband Ernest; her daughter-in-law Cathy; her

parents; her four brothers and three sisters. In lieu of fl owers, any donation may be made to the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ponoka for their missions and Stepping Stones programs. A Funeral Service was held at the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church on Tuesday, March 1st at 1:00 p.m. with Reverend Tim Graff offi ciating. To express condolences to Ellen’s family, please visit www.womboldfuneralhomes.com

BEACHDarlene 1939 - 2016Darlene was born in Lacombe the 8th child of Owen and Clara Pierson on July 6 1939. She took her schooling in Morningside. On May 17th 1956 she married Raymond Beach and they lived in the Morningside area their entire lives. Darlene loved going for long country tours, playing cards, doing crossword puzzles and picking berries with her daughters and granddaughters. Darlene is survived by her

children Sharon (Harry), Danny (Edith), Johnny (Shelly), Brenda (Greg), Bonnie (Steve), grandchildren Cecil (Jennifer), Les (Candace), Pamela (Alden), Clayton, Melissa, Natasha, James, Josie, Jonathon, Emily, Jessica, Evan, Christel (Earl) and Justin, great grandchildren Jack, Olivia, Jasey, Nickoli, Gunner and August. She was predeceased by husband Raymond Beach and her son Cecil Beach. Funeral Services were held from Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Highway 2A, Lacombe, AB. on Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 1:00 PM. Interment followed in the Fairview Cemetery, Lacombe, AB. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca

WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUMof Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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Auctions 153017 QUARTERS OF FARM-LAND near Brant, Alberta. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers

Unreserved Auction, March 24 in Lethbridge.

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780-706-6652; rbauction.com/realestate.

2237 +/- ACRES GRAZING LEASE near MacKay, Alberta. Ritchie

Bros. Auctioneers Unreserved Auction, April

27 in Edmonton. 375 AUMs, natural water

throughout. Jerry Hodge: 780-706-6652; Broker: All

West Realty Ltd.; rbauction.com/realestate.

BIG STRAPPER AUCTIONS

at The Moose Hall, 2 miles south of Ponoka

on Hwy. 2A.

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UNRESERVED GUN & Sportsman Auction. March

12, 10 a.m. Firearms, ammo, taxidermy

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HEATING

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HIP OR KNEE Replacement? Restrictions

in walking/dressing? $2,500 yearly tax credit. $40,000 in tax refunds.

Disability Tax Credit. For assistance.

1-844-453-5372.

HealthCare 1210 Health

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Misc.Services 1290 Misc.

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LegalServices 1260

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Misc.Services 1290

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JUSTMOVED?

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PersonalServices 1315

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Pet Services 1318

Rental -Misc 1350

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Welding 1410 Welding 1410

WellDrilling 1400 Well

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Roofing 1370METAL ROOFING & SID-ING. 32+ colours available at over 55 Distributors. 40

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Professional Foot Care for Seniors and Diabetics

Two StepFoot Care

Clinics at Ponoka Professional Pharmacy

Used appliances availableSix month warranty

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• B-PRESSURE • PIPELINE • OILFIELD • ASME Section VIII Division I VESSEL

FABRICATION & PIPING• SHOP/PORTABLE

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Business and Services Directory

Auctions 1530COLLECTOR CAR

AUCTION. 10th Annual Red Deer Collector Car Auction & Speed Show.

March 11 - 13, 2016, Westerner Park. Special

Guests: Dan & Laura Dotson - Storage Wars; “Horny” Mike - Counting

Cars; Chris Jacobs - Over-haulin’. Consign today.

1-888-296-0528 ext. 103; egauctions.com.

VolunteersWanted 890

Misc.Help 880

Auctions 1530COLLECTOR CAR

AUCTION. 6th Annual Edmonton Motor Show

Collector Car Auction. April 8 - 10. Edmonton Expo

Centre. Over 80,000 spec-tators. Over 85% sold last

year. Consign today. 1-888-296-0528 ext. 102;

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Auctions 1530ESTATE AUCTION

Sun. March 13, 9:30 a.m. with coins

Bowden Lions Hall, Bowden A.B.

Coins, Paper Money, Collectibles, China,

Furniture, Yard & Garden, Check the web for full

listing & pictures. Just too much to mention

Pilgrim Auction Service403-556-5531

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PASTURE & GRAZING LEASE near High Prairie,

Alberta. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Unreserved

Auction, April 27 in Edmonton. 80 Acres Pasture & 2 Parcels

Grazing Lease. Jerry Hodge: 780-706-6652; Broker: All West Realty

Ltd.; rbauction.com/realestate

SHOP & OFFICE COMPLEX - Millet,

Alberta. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Unreserved

Auction, April 27 in Edmonton. 27,730+/- sq. ft. industrial shop & offi ce

complex - 40 +/- title acres. Jerry Hodge:

780-706-6652; Broker: All West Realty Ltd.;

rbauction.com/realestate.

Equipment-Misc. 1620

A-STEEL SHIPPING CONTAINERS. 20’, 40’ &

53’. 40’ insulated reefers/freezers.

Modifi cations possible windows, doors, walls, as offi ce, living work-shop, etc., 40’ fl atrack/bridge.

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Firewood 1660LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar, birch.

Price depends on location of delivery. Lil Mule

Logging 403-318-4346

GardenSupplies 1680

REFORESTATION NURSERY SEEDLINGS of

hardy trees, shrubs, & berries for shelterbelts or

landscaping. Spruce & Pine from $0.99/tree.

Free shipping. Replacement guarantee.

1-866-873-3846 or www.treetime.ca.

Misc. forSale 1760

SAWMILLS from only $4,397. Make money &

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www.NorwoodSaw-mills.com/400OT.

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MusicalInstruments1770

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Piano &Organs 1790

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Keep it real.Keep it real.Supervisor/Lifeguard/Instructor

The Town of Ponoka is seeking applicants for an experienced Supervisor/Lifeguard/Instructor.

Duties and responsibilities of this position may include:• Participate in the delivery of aquatic programs and provide “on deck”

supervision of the pool area. • Participate in the daily operation and maintenance of the facility. • Act as a shift supervisor as required

The Town of Ponoka supports our staff in certifi cation, training and development. Opportunities for advancement within the Town and Aquaplex are available.

To be effective in the performance of this position, an individual would require the following knowledge and skills:

• National Lifeguard Certifi cation• Water Safety Instructor Certifi cation (WSI)• Standard First Aid/Aquatic Emergency Care• Basic Rescuer CPR• Experience supervising aquatic staff• Lifesaving Instructor, Water Art and Pool Operator I would be an asset• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Salary: Instructor AUPE Class 8 $17.94 to $20.83 depending on experience* plus 10.6 % in lieu of vacation and holidays, as well as shift supervisor, evening and weekend

shift differentials. Health and Dental benefi ts available after one month

Applicants are asked to submit their cover letter and resume [email protected] with Lifeguard as the subject.

Position will remain open until fi lled.

Shifts available include days, evenings and weekends. Applicants are asked to specify their availability for shifts in their cover letter. The successful candidate will also be required to submit a satisfactory Criminal Record Check.

The Town of Ponoka thanks all applicants in advance, however, only those being considered will be contacted.

If interested please stop by the clubhouse at 5216 - 50 St.

for an application andask for Amanda

Ponoka Rising Sun Clubhouse Society

is requiring a volunteer to serve on the

Board of Directors.Meetings are once a month breaking for the summer.

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On-Farm Mobile Veterinary Services

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CETA Cer ed Dairy and Beef Embryo Transfer

Herd Health

Bovine Veterinary Services

Dr. Bruce Wine

Phone 403-391-1684

TREE SERVICE

Doug 1.403.318.0498Casey 1.403.358.0452

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• Water wells drilled• Water wells serviced

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Ponoka Veterinary Clinic Dr. Murray Jacobson Dr. Clayton West Dr. Ashley Shannon

Mon. - Fri.8 am - 5 pm

Sat.9 am - 4:30 pm

24 Hr.Emergency403-783-4348

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Farm Equipment ..............2010Haying Equipment ............2020Tractors ............................2030Combines & Headers ......2040Fertilizer Equipment..........2050Misc. Farm Machinery ......2060Equipment Wanted ..........2070Farm Custom Work ..........2080Farm Auctions ..................2090Livestock ..........................2100Livestock - Exotic..............2110Sheep ..............................2120Poultry ..............................2130Horses ..............................2140Horse Boarding ................2150Riding Supplies ................2160Horse/Stock Trailers ........2170Pasture Wanted ................2180Grain, Feed, Hay ..............2190Seed Grain ......................2200Seeding & Tillage ............2210

Livestock 2100BAR-DALE LIMOUSIN,

ERSKINE, AB. 40, two year old virgin bulls

for sale at the farm. Fully guaranteed.

Call Carole Barclay at 403-742-4825,

Terry 403-740-5037Ricky 403-740-5711. email

[email protected]

Misc. forSale 1760

Livestock 2100CHARLOIS bulls, Red

Angus bulls, Red Angus X Simmental 780-582-2254

Forestburg

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and other requests. PH: 403-704-3828.

PUREBRED red and black Angus bulls. 1 and 2 year

olds. Semen tested and delivered.Vicwin Farms 403-784-3517, 403-318-7363.

RED and black Angus bulls, will be semen tested

and delivery can be arranged. E & L

Ranching in Bowden, Eric @ 403 391-2259.

Evenings @ 403 224-2396

Pasture/Land Wanted 2180

WANTED PASTURE TO RENT unsupervised or

supervised. Interested in long term rent. 403-740-5197

Livestock 2100

Grain, FeedHay 2190

BRIGHT SEED WHEAT BARLEY

CERT. HARVEST-HRS CERT.COPELAND-MALTCERT. REDWATER-HRS CERT. COWBOY-SILAGECERT.FOREMOST-CPS

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HEATED CANOLA buying Green, Heated or Spring-thrashed Canola. Buying:

oats, barley, wheat & peas for feed. Buying damaged

or offgrade grain. “On Farm Pickup” Westcan

Feed & Grain, 1-877-250-5252.

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upper suite in duplexSuitable for working

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NEWER 3 bdrm. townhouse, 6 appl., 3 bath, walk-in

closets, deck, lrg. laundry storage room,403-704-1221

Suites 3060PONOKA

1ST MONTH FREE3 bdrm., 4 appl., n/s, no pets, new paint, lino and blinds, in Riverside area,

avail. imm., $995/mo., d.d. same, heat incl., 1 yr. lease min. 403 -619-5758

Suites 3060FOR RENTHARVEST MANOR

1 bdrm, 2 bdrm& bachelor studioWorking individual 403-704-3327403-870-3899

FOR RENTAVAILABLE NOW!

1 bedroom suiteUtilities included

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Available Immediately2 bdrm suite$900/mnth Utilities incl

403-790-6011PONOKA 2 bdrm. well maintained quiet adult

building, no pets $790/mo. + power, heat/water incld.

avail. immed. Brian 403-348-6594

PONOKA, 2 bdrm. suite in Riverside. Fridge, stove,

shared laundry. $675.. rent/dd. gas & water incl’d.Absolutely N/S, no pets, Avail. imm. **RENTED**

* RIVERSIDE APTS. *Newly renovated

1 & 2 bedroom units in Ponoka: 3724-45 Street.

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Pasture/Land 3380

WANTEDWANTED

403-783-0303403-783-0303

Summer pasture for mares & colts or cows & calves.

Contact Contact Jerry DoddsJerry Dodds

Condos/Townhouses4040

NEED to Downsize? Brand New Valley Crossing

Condos in Blackfalds. Main oor is 1,119 SQ FT

2 Bdrm/2Bath. Imm. Poss. Start at $219,900. Call 403-396-1688.

Farms/Land 4070

5 PARCELS OF FARMLAND near Altario,

Alberta. Ritchie Bros.Auctioneers Unreserved

Auction, April 12 in Provost, Alberta. Fenced

land, natural spring water. Contact Jerry Hodge:

780-706-6652; rbauction.com/realestate.

PASTURE & HAY LAND. 400 - 8000 acres of year round water supply. Full

operational with manage-ment available. Central Saskatchewan. Cross-fenced and complete infrastructure. Natural

springs excellent water. Shortly ready to locate cattle. Other small and large grain and pasture

quarters. $150k - $2.6m. Call Doug Rue 306-716-2671;

[email protected].

ManufacturedHomes 4090

NO MATTER WHO you are, we have a home that ts your lifestyle at United Homes Canada. Over 40

years of experience in providing the best value in

quality modular and manufactured housing. Call 1-800-461-7632 or

visit www.unitedhomescanada.com

to discover how we can help you nd your new

home.

BuildingsFor Sale 4150

POLE BARNS, Shops, steel buildings metal clad or fabric clad. Complete supply and installation.

Call John at 403-998-7907; jcameron@

advancebuildings.com.

Financial#4400 - #4430

Investments ......................4410Money Wanted ................4420Money to Loan ................4430

MoneyTo Loan 4430

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Public Notice#6000

Public Notices ..................6010Special Features ..............6050

PublicNotices 6010

TENDER FOR CARETAKERS

OPEN CREEK DAM

CAMPGROUNDFrom May 1, 2016

to September 30, 2016

For contract details please contact:

MARC DUBIELEW Phone: 403-704-3780

Email: [email protected]

Mail: Rimbey Fish and Game Association

PO Box 634 Rimbey, AB T0C 2J0

Lowest tender will not necessarily

be chosen.

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LEE, LAURA & JACKIE BROWN / TRISH & TIM HENDERSONBox 217, Erskine, Alberta T0C 1G0

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Getting something in the mail is a lot of fun, isn’t it?

What was the last thing you got from the mailman? Maybe a birthday card with money. Maybe you got a postcard from Grandma or a package from your Auntie. Getting mail is a nice surprise, even for Pope Francis. He receives letters from all over the world, as you’ll see in “Dear Pope Francis.”

Imagine being the guy who brings mail to Pope Francis. That’s what Antonio Spadaro did one day: on a “hot August afternoon,” he took thirty letters written by children from all over the world, and gave them to the Pope. Then Spadaro waited for answers, which he knew the Pope was eager to give.

“…these are tough questions!” the Pope said. Even so, he knew just what to say.

Pope Francis loves children, and he likes to talk with them and see their drawings. He re-members how it was when he was young: he liked to dance the tango, he liked soccer, and he recalls what it’s like when people you love argue.

Don’t argue, he says. “That will be good for everyone.”

In his answers to the letters, the Pope explains a few myster-ies: a Canadian boy wanted to

know what God did before the world was created. A boy from Argentina wanted to know how Jesus decided on twelve men as Apostles, instead of more. A Nicaraguan girl wanted to know if bad people have guardian angels. A boy from Syria asked the Pope if the world might be “as it was in the past…”

Lots of kids asked personal questions of the Pope: What makes him happy? Does the Holy Father feel like a father? What was the hardest thing he ever had to do? If he could perform miracles, what would he change?

And then there are the really tough things: a Chinese boy asked if his grandpa will go to heaven. One child wanted to know if God can feed poor people. A Peruvian boy wanted to know where the miracles are. And an Australian boy asked if his mum in heaven has grown angel wings…

Out of the mouths of babes? I think so; the questions inside “Dear Pope Francis” are sweet and innocent, but heavy in nature and they may be issues that you wrestle with, too. That means you’ll likely enjoy what you read, just as much as your child will.

The Pope you see from video and visits is inside this book: there’s love and joy here, as well as gentle humor and a delightful amount of insight on his life and personal thoughts.

Fr. Spadaro, in his afterword, tells what it was like to spend an afternoon with the Pope, where the letters came from, and how this book came to be.

For 6-to-13-year-olds, that makes the Pope more acces-sible. For adults, there’s a lot of comfort and wisdom in this book. For both of you together, “Dear Pope Francis” will get your stamp of approval.“Dear Pope Francis” by Pope Francis, in conversation with

Antonio Spadaro,S.J.; Tom McGrath, Project

Managing Editorc.2016, Loyola Press $18.95 / higher in Canada 72 pages

Rare book for both kids and adults to know more

about the Pope

TERRI SCHLICHENMEYERThe Bookworm


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