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After being bullied herself, Holy Cross Col-legiate (HCC) student Jayde Masciangelo, 14, decided it was time for her to try to make a difference in her own community.

On Feb. 27 - Pink Shirt Day - Masciangelo will be handing out pamphlets, stickers and t-shirts to promote awareness of the issue of bullying. The T-shirts and stickers are a de-sign she and her mother came up with while brainstorming about how they wanted to make a difference.

In January an anti-bullying bylaw was pre-sented to council by Masciangelo and is cur-rently being looked at.

“I think that it will be really awesome to have my T-shirts and to have the opportunity to be able to hand out the pamphlets. I’m ex-cited to have it out there,” said Masciangelo.

“I know a lot of people out here who have gone through bullying, whether it’s super bad or just little things that have happened to them. I think that Strathmore really needs it (an anti-bullying campaign) especially…with everything that’s still going on I think we need it out here to get the word out and stop things from happening.”

Masciangelo chose red, black and white for her T-shirts, and they have the saying in the sign of a cross says, “I will not be bullied into silence” on the back, and her anti-bully logo on the front.

“Jayde is showing a lot of courage, strength and maturity in being directly involved with our anti-bullying day. She has put a lot of work into designing the decal for the pam-phlet and also T-shirts that students will be wearing,” said HCC Principal Lavern Evans.

“She is to be commended for her efforts to bring attention to this issue that we face. It is by the passion such as Jayde has shown and by organizing this day that we can let all people know that bullying of any type does not have a place in our school, or society.”

The Strathmore Regional Victim Services Society has been working with Masciangelo to create the pamphlet that will be handed out.

They have contacted schools throughout the area, including Chestermere and Glei-chen to inform them about Pink Shirt Day.

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A test to the dog bylaw is in play, after Jay and Marianne Howard ques-tioned Wheatland Council about kennel permits of an adjacent neighbour.

The neighbour was taking in dogs without a permit, and some of the dogs were getting loose into the Howard’s feedlot operation.

“Our concern is that the approval for this kennel is retroactive. This directly affects us. The last thing I want is their dog going through the pens. If this continues, there will be future trouble,” said Jay Howard.

Howard indicated that the kennel cur-rently has six dogs and is illegal. There have been several incidents of the dogs being at large. The Howards called a bylaw officer to come out and inspect, but said nothing had been done. He said the owner isn’t using proper fenc-ing, but put up temporary construction fence to restrain the dogs. Electrified perimeters have no current circulating and the kennel has been put up at a dis-tance that will infringe on their feedlot regulations. They were also concerned about the draw of coyote populations. County staff confirmed that there had been several incidents reported.

Councillors indicated that action by council is done on a complaint basis and once the complaint is received, the investigative process begins. A warning is issued and the owner must comply with regulations and apply for permits. Staff said that the operator came in and obtained the paperwork, which is due back next week. The application for a permit is advertised and letters sent to affected parties in a mile radius, so they can object before final permission is granted.

“You are starting at the back and working to the front,” said Howard. “We should have the right to object before it is a done deal. Nip it in the bud.”

Councillors suggested that most peo-ple apply for the permit prior to setup and that the procedure usually address-es everyone’s concerns. They empha-sized that the County had to abide by the bylaws and procedures.

The Howards wondered if a stop work order could be given and staff ad-vised Council a provincial court order would be needed, and it was an extend-ed judicial process.

“It is not a friendly process,” said Reeve Glenn Koester.

“This is a big issue. We should dis-cuss it now or at another time. I would hate to think people can go ahead and

do what they want, taking the chance things won’t get taken away,” said Councillor Ken Sauve. “Where does it stop?”

Koester noted that both sides of the issue are important, but people should know that just because something is their dream, a venture may not fit with-in county bylaws.

Council asked staff to expedite the situation and deal with the issue as quickly as possible.

Howard was unsure of what he should do while he awaits that process. He said the last thing he wanted was a war, however, it was his livelihood at stake and he did not know what to do if the dog entered the pens and live-stock were in jeopardy, or if the dog got injured.

“I want to give the dogs the benefit of the doubt. People are leaving the dogs in their trust,” said Howard.

Councillor Brenda Knight submitted that if the dogs were at large the bylaw officers have the authority to remove it. She also said according to the Live-stock, Poultry and Honeybee Act a dog injuring kept livestock can be legally shot. Council directed Howard to con-tact the bylaw officer; if the situation repeats itself. The issue was forwarded for further debate.

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Students who have volunteered will be wearing the pink shirts at their schools and handing out the pam-phlets as their fellow students walk through the doors that morning.

“Bullying can turn into a crime, it’s not just hurtful to the individual when taken to extremes children have tak-en their lives, suicide occurs and no-body wants to see that. Also it could be criminal if it goes to extremes and there could be charges involved and kids need to be aware of that,” said Lesley Hering, program coordinator for the Strathmore Regional Victim Services Society.

Pink Shirt Day began when David Shepherd, Travis Price and their teen-age friends organized a high-school protest to wear pink in sympathy with a Grade 9 boy who was being bullied for wearing a pink shirt. They took a stand against bullying when they pro-tested against the harassment of the new student by distributing pink T-shirts to all the boys in their school. A few adults got involved and purchased pink tank tops, which were handed out in the foyer as students walked in. It was said that the boy who had been bullied looked like a huge weight had been lifted off his shoulders and the look on his face spoke volumes.

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Wintertime has brought Winterfest to Langdon. The Langdon Community Association is hosting the town’s first Winterfest, Friday and Saturday, March 1 and 2, with all proceeds going to the new community playground. This mi-winter celebration offers fun for every-one - families, couples and singles; se-niors and youth; parents and children, quiet and energetic, young and not-so-young.

Sno-Pitch, a slow pitch tournament in the snow, runs both Friday and Satur-day at Winterfest. It’ll be a special treat for those who can’t wait for the regular season slow pitch season to return - and for everyone else who’s ready for out-door fun.

Later Friday evening, it’ll be time for the Charity Poker Tournament. Chrissy Craig, with the Langdon Community As-sociation, says poker tables will be set up for players of all ages and ability lev-els.

“If you’ve never played poker, you can come on out and learn,” she said.

“If you’re experienced, there’s tables for that as well.”

Poker participants can call Shawna Weir-Murphy at 403-629-9124 to reg-ister and pay the $10 entry fee. Every player will have the satisfaction of rais-ing money for a cause that benefits the entire town, and the top five winners will receive a liquor basket prize.

Residents can then take in the Satur-day morning pancake breakfast, before shopping at the craft fair and enjoying free wagon rides.

Lunchtime will bring the soup and chili making competition, which Craig says will “show the great cooking tal-ents in the community.”

For only $5, Winterfest-goers can try as many soups and chilis as they like, and vote on the top three.

“There’s awesome prizes,” for the con-testants, Craig says, “over $200 worth.”

Festivities will be capped off at the Saturday night Winterfest Dance, 8 p.m. to 1 p.m., with the Room to Dance band. People can get their $10 tickets at the Langdon Liquor House. The Lang-don Community Association is directing all Winterfest benefits toward building

a new community playground, since, a year ago, the old one was declared un-safe.

This year, in fact, all money the Com-munity Association brings in will go to-ward that project.

“A new playground is just over $100,000,” Craig says. That includes a new structure and all new gravel.

“We... have (raised) about $15,000 since January 1,” she said, and she’s per-sonally determined they’ll make it this year.

“I myself have two little ones,” she says, “so it’s something that’s dear to my heart.”

To make Winterfest as much fun as possible, become a volunteer. Dealers and bartenders over 18 years of age, are needed for Friday and Saturday nights. Pancake breakfast helpers are needed on Saturday morning.

“Any volunteers are greatly appreciat-ed. The more the better,” said Craig. Call Rob at 587-580-9090 to volunteer. On March 1 and 2, bring your family and friends to the red building in Langdon’s main park, and join the community in celebrating Langdon’s first Winterfest.

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Modest and soft spoken, Coleen Cameron verified that she was elected the Legion 10 Ladies Auxiliary Presi-dent. This is her first year serving as President, but she has been involved with the Legion for a long time. She moved to Strathmore six years ago. Cameron said she likes being in-volved, due to the good feeling help-ing gives her and the smile it puts on the face of Veterans.

“It’s our priority to look after all the Veterans,” said Cameron. “We have our freedoms and it has a lot to do with the sacrifices they made.”

She said the Ladies Auxiliary hosts a special luncheon twice a year, where the Veterans are bused in from the Colonel Belcher in Calgary. Some-times there are special military trib-utes that the ladies help coordinate, such as the Vimy Celebration that was held on April 9, 2012. Members also help with the branch poppy drive in November. But aid for the military isn’t their only role.

The members often coordinate fu-

neral and anniversary celebrations for people in the community. She said the auxiliary members visit the Lodge and do fundraising through teas, bake sales and special events. They hold brunch at the memorial hall in Strath-more every third Sunday of the month between 9 a.m. -11 a.m. They also help with the Heritage breakfast and put on a Harvest Dinner in the fall. Member-ship is not all work and no play, as there are social activities within the group as well. Members recently at-tended a special dinner put on by lo-cal fire crews, thanking them for their help with a fire fundraiser. Anywhere a helping hand is needed, you may see a Legion Ladies Auxiliary member.

“There is a lot of comradeship and fellowship. It is not all work. It is just what you want to put into it,” said Cameron.

One of the challenges for her new term is to increase membership. Cam-eron said they would like to have more young women involved. Inter-ested parties don’t necessarily need to have military background in the fam-ily, as members would be willing to sponsor membership for those inter-

ested in service. She said some peo-ple think they must dress in uniforms. Cameron said it is available, but up to each individual’s discretion. Anyone interested in joining the group, need only to drop into the Memorial Hall and leave their number with someone in the office or bar, and contact will be made.


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Receiving a cheque for $125,000 from the Alberta Lotter-ies Community Facilities Enhancement Program (CFEP), with the promise of another $250,000 to come in April, will hopefully help propel the new Standard Community Hall over the finish line to open this spring.

Dr. Neil Brown, QC, MLA for Calgary-Mackay- Nose Hill, and the Strathmore-Brooks riding’s ‘buddy MLA,’ was on hand to present the cheque to the Standard Community Hall Board and to tour the still under construction facility last Thursday, Feb. 13.

Brown said, “What a wonderful facility, it is nice to come out to communities to help with their projects. You have done a lot of work to make it possible.”

He jokingly made note of the gentlemen that were work-ing presently in the Hall that he too could identify with as he put himself through school by pipefitting.

Although construction on the new hall began in June 2012, the first steps of fundraising and research for a new facility started back in 2006. Generous support from ser-vice clubs, corporations as well as local and provincial government grants have helped to make this project a re-ality, and the Hall Board hopes they can continue to count on this support as the project moves into the final stages.

Substantially larger than the current hall, with increased capacity for seating, kitchen and storage, the facility is also equipped with a full generator which will allow it to serve as a disaster centre for the Village and area citizens, the K-12 school which includes children from the surrounding area, and the area industries.

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Coleen Cameron became the Legion 10 Ladies Auxiliary President in November 2012. She invites anyone interested in Legion activities, to come in and talk with members about the worthwhile events and activities sponsored by the Legion.

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January - Bruce Klaiber was approached regarding the ninety acres he owned on the south side of the #1 Highway. This land bore some of the only remain-ing buildings from the CPR Demonstration Farm. A local group was interested in turning the land into a park or a heritage site. The CPR, federal and provin-cial governments were lobbied over the next few years for funding. For the next decade, the Strathmore Historical Park Society, chaired by Grant Klaiber, would continue the effort to get the theme park funded.

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A few local landowners and business-men considered building an industrial park with an airstrip on the north side of what is now East Lake Road. The intention was to open this area for industry and to add an airstrip for service to the Northern Alberta oil industry. The group approached the town, whose leaders at that time only intended for Strathmore to develop westward, not northward. Most of the plan was eventually scrapped, but this is the reason for the small industrial area in Brentwood, which includes the seed cleaning plant. Strathmore would have quite a different look if the area would have been industrial rather than residential.

It’s not hard to imagine what the most common medical problems are in Canada by looking at the top ten drugs prescribed in 2012. This list includes a drug for hypothyroidism, two for lowering cholesterol, three blood pres-sure pills, one antibiotic, one antidepressant, one blood thinner and one to reduce stomach acid.Everyone is aware of the benefits of exercise

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Hope Bridges is an organization that works together with the community in hope of creating a warm, welcom-ing, and supportive atmosphere for all adults through the language of the arts. Their goal is to bridge the gap between those established in the com-munity and those who feel isolated, by opening its doors to all adults, helping to build a foundation for them, where everyone feels like they are involved and important to the community.

This not-for-profit organization does this by providing creative workshops such as Up-Cycling that are held in the Leary Center and Sing Your High Note that takes place in the long term care facility at the Strathmore Hospital.

BC native Janine Regan has only lived in Strathmore for six months. She began working as a private caregiver to Rhonda Gathercole shortly after her family moved to town.

Like Janine, Rhonda moved to Strath-more a short time ago from Calgary.

The two friends, when they first ar-rived to Strathmore, walked around town, trying to figure out where they could best fit in. On one of their walks,

they stumbled across Hope Bridges. As soon as they walked through the

front doors they felt at home. They have since become very involved with the program and attend workshops every week. “Being a part of Hope Bridges brings a smile to your face, it make you feel connected and accom-plished,” explains Regan.

Rhonda’s favorite part of her weekly visits to Hope Bridges is reconnect-ing with her new friends and making wonderful pieces of art. The support that Gathercole and Regan have found here is very important to the two and they feel very confident that they can help others that are in search of strength and relationship. Board mem-ber Katy Webster has attended many workshops too, and feels comfortable and safe at Hope Bridges. The friends and mentors she has met through Hope Bridges are invaluable. She feels like she belongs to something great and her favorite activity is helping out with the yearly fundraising gala. For more information on Hope Bridges please visit their website where you can make a donation, volunteer, sign up for a workshop or just pass the in-formation on to someone.www.hope-bridges.ca.

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Davei think phasing out the penny is a good thing. it just simplifies things for everybody, within a society that has many different cultures. i just think it simplifies ev-erything for everybody in every aspect.

Interviewed By Laureen F. Guenther

What Canadians Think of Discontinuing the Penny

Liefi think it was a long-time overdue. As far as i’m concerned, it’s the greatest (solution) to keep pockets from getting holes in them. And now we’re rid of the pennies. it’s a good deal.

Wandai think it’s a good idea. Sometimes they take up a lot of room in your wallet and they’re heavy! (laughter) So, yeah, i think it’s going to be easier to shop and do things.

Chelseyi think it’s a useful strategy because you can round the change. it’s a new way to bring in a new wave.

DougWe’ll probably be round-ing up more than they’re rounding down with the penny, so it’ll probably be going up to the nickel rather than down to the ten. And i guess they’re still using it on your debit card, so whatever it is, if it’s 12 cents, it’s still 12 cents.

I stopped at the Pine Road Tim Hortons on Sunday afternoon, and Israel Ramirez, supervisor, again gave me kind permission to talk with his customers. I asked them, “What do you think of the discontinuation of the penny?” Here’s what they told me.

RobJust what Doug said, i agree with that. Plus, it’s probably the start of get-ting rid of all the change, so we’ll just be ending up with the dollar. That’s what’s going to happen. it’s just easier that way. Less expensive for the government, and i think that’s just the start of what’s going to happen.

Lornei’d like to see them go to the straight 5 cents. No more of this gasoline business of $1.109. make it a $1.10 or $1.15 and everything’s easier to figure out.

Brentwood School’s Grade 3 classes collected $575 worth of pennies from staff and students that they donated to the Free the Children Organization. Free the Children’s initiative is to provide clean water for people in developing countries. One bag of pennies equals $25 and provides clean water for a person for life. The Grade 3 classes had an original goal of raising funds to fill 10 bags and provide clean, safe drinking water for 10 people but they have more than doubled that goal with filling 23 bags of pennies. Photo courtesy of Brentwood School

We create change

The 4B Students from Wheatland elementary School raised $353.50 for the Calgary Humane Society. They planned and organized a Bake Sale and Art Sale. Garett Weremey came out from the Society to give a presentation and accept the donation.

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Giving back through art and baked goods

As part of their tour of the Post Office in Standard the Playschool children mailed their Valentines to their parents.

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Sending their love home

Kevin SorenSon, M.P., Crowfoot Parliamentary Report

Over the years, we have all heard about crimi-nal cases and court decisions that involve an ac-cused found ‘not criminally responsible’ because of a mental disorder. Sometimes, we have great difficulty accepting this decision and cannot un-derstand how the accused is not considered to pose a risk to the public in view of the extremely violent acts committed.

Our Conservative Party campaigned on a pol-icy we developed to ensure that Canadian laws are strong and clear enough to protect Canadi-ans. Last week, we introduced Bill C-54, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the National De-fence Act (mental disorder).

As the law stands now, violent individuals found not criminally responsible for their actions are released when a provincial review board - not a court – determines that they are no longer a “significant threat” to public safety. Bill C-54 will create a new designation to protect the public from high-risk Not Criminally Responsible (NCR) accused. Once designated by a court as “high-risk,” an NCR accused must be held in custody and cannot be considered for release by a re-view board until their designation is revoked by a court.

Bill C-54 makes paramount the policy of public safety. Our government is spelling-it-out for the courts that public safety is the number one prior-ity when it comes to making any decisions relat-ing to accused persons found to be NCR.

The legislation will enhance the safety of vic-tims by ensuring that they are specifically con-sidered when decisions are being made about

accused persons found NCR. Bill C-54 ensures that victims are notified when an NCR accused is discharged. We will allow ‘non-communications’ orders between an NCR accused and the victim.

“We are giving the courts the powers they need to keep those deemed too dangerous to release where they should be –in custody,” Prime Minis-ter Stephen Harper said.

Once passed into law, the proposed bill will apply to accused already in custody – including those in mental institutions. Our government will be able to protect Canadians from, for example; Vince Li who ‘snapped’ and then beheaded Tim McLean an innocent passenger on a bus in Mani-toba in 2008; and, Alan Schoenborn who killed his three children in Merritt, B.C. also in 2008.

As our Member of Parliament over the years, many constituents have contacted me asking that something be done about those who commit vio-lent criminal acts and then seem to be held unac-countable as they are released back into society. Bill C-54 is responding to these requests. Since its introduction last week, the media are report-ing that the NDP is giving serious consideration to supporting the Bill. They so far seem willing to have it pass Second Reading so that it can be studied and have hearings at Committee Stage. This is encouraging news. The sooner we can pass Bill C-54 into law the better; it will definitely prevent some future acts of violence and the cre-ation of future victims.

If you have any questions or concerns regard-ing this or previous columns you may write me at 4945-50th Street, Camrose, Alberta, T4V 1P9, call 780-608-4600, toll-free 1-800-665-4358, fax 780-608-4603 or e-mail [email protected].

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Thought for the week

~ Your actual life consists of 10% what happens

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Letters to the editor

To the EditorSince 2008, The Royal Canadian Legion has been

advocating to the Government for proper compensa-tion and financial support for the funerals and burials of Canada’s Veterans. The current amount provided by the Government through ‘The Last Post Fund’ is $3,600 and this has not been increased since 2001. This level of funding has not kept pace with the ris-ing costs of funerals and needs to be increased to reflect reality.

The Government has not responded. The Domin-ion President has determined it is now time for ac-tion.

The Dominion Executive Council has approved that the Legion undertake a member-based, letter-writing campaign to tell the Government of Canada to immediately increase the compensation provided to Veterans to ensure a proper and dignified funeral and burial.

The Dominion President launched this national letter-writing campaign on Jan. 31 at a media event to be held at his own branch.

Let’s get every one of our 330,000 members in-

volved!Branches are asked to circulate this action plan

and the enclosed letter template to everyone of their members. Encourage them to insert the name of their local MP, sign the letter and send it to their MP.

This letter is also available for download from our website (www.legion.ca), as well as being able to be emailed directly to MP’s from the Legion’s website.

The Legion needs to tell the Government to stop ignoring this important issue and to start treating our veterans and their families with dignity.

Our Veterans deserve better! With your support, we can make that happen.

We need your help. Copies of the mentioned letter are available at the Legion bar. Please pick one up, complete it and send it to our MLA (Ken Sorenson). Or, if you would rather and are able to, please down-load a copy, as mentioned, and forward.

Thank you for your support!Comrade Irene Knappe

Secretary / PR ChairRoyal Canadian LegionStrathmore Branch #10

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Spring registration for the kids is already here. ReVS set up at the Civic Centre on Feb. 13 and had a great turn out for venders and parents. every year there are more and more activities for par-ents and children to choose from. Strathmore youths are very active in the community, thanks to all the opportunities they have to choose from. Jennifer Brown (l-r), parent board president and Tanya mol-nar, teacher.


February 22, 2013, 2012 • Strathmore TimeS •

Pat FuleFule for Thought

Recently, Deb and I were leaving the Canadian Tire parking lot, and another driver almost hit us as she backed out of her spot. Debbie, as the driv-er, was honking the horn to alert the other driver. Since the truck was backing into my door, I found myself yelling “hey…hey…..hey!” inside the vehicle while I smacked our side window with my hand!

As I was doing this, I realized how dumb it was, and began to laugh! Did I think the other driver would hear my shouts? Did I really think that hit-ting my window would do any good at all? It hit me that there are a few things that I don’t “get” in life.

I was watching the Davis Cup (tennis) recent-ly, and Spain was playing Canada. The two Span-iards must’ve been talking strategy, because one was covering his mouth with his hand and racquet as he talked. I wondered why he would do this, I mean hey … you’re Spanish … why not talk in your language!? I’m pretty sure our Canadian guys can’t speak the language! It just seemed weird!

How in heck did people come to be able to be paid for being “redneck,” or ill mannered? Here most of us are, working so we can help our kids get an education and so we can retire. Along come families/friends like the morons from Jersey Shore, Honey Boo Boo, and the Kardashians!! They only have to do dumb, or outlandish things and they be-come celebrities, making thousands per episode! I don’t get it. I mean the Kardashian girls got famous because their dad was a very successful lawyer in L.A. and was on the legal team that got OJ acquit-ted! They haven’t accomplished anything on their own!

I also don’t understand things in cartoons and movies. The old Bugs Bunny cartoons are now cen-sored because they’re a little too violent! Oh yeah, censor those, but put Criminal Minds or CSI in re-runs during the day when kids may be home! Zom-bie shows (Walking Dead, World War Z, and Zom-bieland) are hugely popular. What I don’t get, is that these zombies continue to decay and rot over time. Why not hide and wait ‘til they are so rotten they can’t even walk?! I’ve also seen a lot of shows on Romans (Spartacus). Why do ALL the characters have British accents … when did that become the way they talked? I also don’t get why, of all the Dis-ney cartoon characters, that Pluto can’t talk, and all the others can! That’s just weird!

“Cougar” is a relatively new term. How is it that

our society is starting to accept that kind of behav-iour? Is it because older men have often been at-tracted to younger women? And then it hit me, that at 53, for me to meet a “cougar”, I’d have to swing by Wheatland Lodge! We might go for a nice soft meal, and finish it off with a Metamucil cocktail! It really makes a guy think!

Facebook is a huge phenomenon and it’s a great way to keep track of people you know. Imagine my shock this past Christmas when I looked at some of my daughter’s “Yuletide photos,” and saw the little camel from our Nativity Scene, being used as a playing piece in a New Year’s DRINKING Game! Now that’s not right! Isn’t it a bit ironic to use a Nativity piece for a game where most players will get DRUNK?!

I also don’t get Equestrian riding events. I mean, I understand the concept of a horse and ride work-ing to clear all the barriers, but at the end, it’s the RIDER who gets the medal! Isn’t it the HORSE that does all the work … what does it get … more oats, hay, or an apple? Speaking of animals, maybe you have the same problem I have, with cats. I’m aller-gic to them, and I don’t trust or like them! To me, it seems like they’re always “up to something.”

Since I don’t like them and I’m allergic, why is it that if I visit someone who owns a cat … it comes to me!? I don’t want it, I show no sign of interest or affection toward it. Yet, it often will come up and rub against me! THAT’S why I don’t trust them …

My brother has lived in Vancouver since 1996. When he does come out for a rare visit, he comes with some sort of satchel over his shoulder. Now I don’t want to judge, and I know he’s happily mar-ried, but to me, that’s a purse! He actually gets a little “huffy” when I call it a purse … he says it’s a “Man Bag.”

I put him to the test once. I asked him if he had three things in his bag. They were: nail clippers, lip balm, and a brush. He had all three, so I said to him, “Gary, it’s a purse! If it helps you sleep at night to call it a man bag, that’s fine, but it’s STILL a purse!”

He then threatened to hit me with his purse … uh … man bag!

(“Fule for Thought” is a slice of life humourous column that appears in the Strathmore Times, writ-ten by long-time resident, town councillor, high school teacher, coach, husband and father of two – Pat Fule. If you would like to get in touch with Pat, you can send him an e-mail at [email protected])

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Mary risseeuwWorld Day of Prayer

The World Day of Prayer service for Strathmore & area will be held Friday, March 1, at Lord of all Lutheran Church.

The theme for 2013 is “I was a stranger & you welcomed me”, put together by the women of France. In keeping with the French Connection, coffee time will see a few French inspired treats served.

This annual observance is a non-denominational gather-ing, served in more than 170 countries as well as 2000 com-munities throughout Canada.

Please remember the Fellowship of the Least Coin Collec-tion, which goes to support many women’s charities. Per-haps a good way to get rid of those pennies. Organizers & hosts for this service are from St. Michaels’ Anglican Church.

Prayer day coming soonlaureen F. Guenther Times Contributor

You didn’t offer a penny for my thoughts, but I’m going to put my two cents in anyway. The humble brown penny has enriched our lives over the years, and in for a penny, in for a pound -- so here goes.

If we find a penny on the ground and pick it up, it will bring us good luck. For even better luck, at one time, we could tuck pennies into the tongues of our pen-ny loafers, and look mighty fashionable into the bar-gain. Since penny loafers have gone the way of the penny, we can still find

luck by throwing a penny into a fountain and making a wish. Maybe we need good luck to keep us away from the people who, like a bad penny, just keep turning up.

Our grandfathers taught us that a penny saved is a penny earned, so we hope we never pay a pretty penny for something that ends up being not worth a red cent. However, we don’t want to be penny-wise, pound-foolish either. When we meet someone who doesn’t have two pennies to rub to-gether, we wouldn’t cut them off without a penny and forever be known as a penny pincher. If we

don’t have much to give, that’s okay, too – if we haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do.

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On Feb. 15 Gold Key insurance Ltd donated $190.44 to the Strath-more Regional Victim Service Society. The money was raised through the ‘insurance goal of the game’ shots during Drumheller Drag-ons games and through a collection jar set up in store. The iBAA matches the donations. Kevin Reilly, Strathmore RCmP (l-r), Julia mar-shall, Gold Key, Lesley Hering, Victim Services Program Coordinator, and Jayson marshall.

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Oriental Grill partners with Crowfoot Multi 4H Palette PleasersDiane BerrethCrowfoot Multi 4-H Project Leader

Crowfoot Multi 4-H is running an interesting program for the second year. The Palette Pleasers is a cooking project that invites participation from Strathmore and ar-ea’s ethnic community. The cooking project is designed to teach kids how to cook as well as teach them about the ethnic diversity in our community (which is quite vast).

In the past two years, the kids have experienced the culture and cuisine of the Ukraine, South Africa, Italy, Germany, Venezuela, the Philippines, and most recently Vietnam. To create additional interest, the kids have also had the opportunity to hone their cake decorating skills as two local cake decorators taught them several tech-niques.

Some of the kids had never experienced Vietnamese cuisine. Owners of the local restaurant Oriental Grill, Sang Vo and his wife Lisa Ly graciously led the cooking project on Friday, Feb. 8. Not only did the owners sup-ply all of the ingredients for the meal, they closed their restaurant down so they could teach the kids about the culture and history of Vietnam as well as their delec-table food! The kids made spring rolls, barbecued beef and barbecued pork served over rice vermicelli with Vietnamese dipping sauce. They learned techniques for making the spring roll filling, rolling them and finally cooking them. They also learned how to prepare the vermicelli, the sauce, as well as the meat. The Crowfoot Multi 4-H Club would like to thank the owners for their contributions to making the day a huge success!

The Palette Pleasers meet once a month in the project leaders’ home. For additional information on the Crow-foot Multi 4-H Club, please contact the General Leader, Margo Comstock at (403) 934-2237.

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Wonderful winter for Rockyford 4-HChristian seeleyRockyford 4-H Beef Club Reporter

CRockyford 4-H had its Christmas party on Dec. 28. Thank-You Rocky-ford Ag Society for opening the arena for us. Thank-you Granny’s Kitchen, for opening and making us hotdogs. We all had a great time skating.

Rockyford 4-H’s Awards Night was held Jan. 28. Thank-You Emma Kaunhofen, for telling us a very in-spiring story about how she dealt with bullies and her struggle with depression and its effects. Her story was very inspirational.

Member awards were, Taylor El-der: Supreme Grand Champion, 1st Senior Grand Showmanship, 1st Se-nior Grand Grooming, Club Cham-pion, 1st Senior Showmanship, 1st Senior Grooming, 1st Senior Record Book and Highest Rate of Gain, Sam Kathol: Reserve Supreme Grand Champion, Reserve Club Cham-pion, 2nd Junior Grooming. Mark Kathol: 2nd Intermediate Showman-ship, Leah Dahm: 2nd Senior Re-

cord Book, Neav Sharpley:1st Junior Showmanship, Megan Sharpley: 2nd Senior Grand Showmanship, 2nd Se-nior Grand Grooming, 2nd Senior Showmanship, 2nd Senior Groom-ing, Reece Kenney: 2nd Intermediate Grooming, 1st Intermediate Record Book, Christian Seeley: 2nd Junior Grand Showmanship, 2nd Junior Showmanship, 1st Junior Grooming, Julia Newell: 3rd Intermediate Show-manship, 2nd Intermediate Record Book, Darren Newell: 2nd Junior Re-cord Book, Hailey Kenney: 1st Junior Record Book, Jack Sherman: 1st In-termediate Grand Showmanship, 1st Intermediate Grooming, 1st Interme-diate Showmanship.

Leah Dahm also did an excellent job as master of ceremonies for this event. Thank-You, Rockyford Lions for hosting this event and a special thanks to Kim Geerart for cooking a delicious steak supper. During the last meeting the members all said that their calves looked great and were filling in nicely and some are even leading.

The Rockyford 4-H Beef Club hosted their awards dinner Jan. 28.Photo courtesy of Christian Seeley

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Nazareth Lutheran Church in Standard was one of many churches in the area that held a pancake suppers for Shrove Tuesday. Chris Jensen taking some time dur-ing the start of calving season with his son Daniel having pan-cakes at the Standard Community Hall.

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Shrove Tuesday celebrated with Pancake suppers



Sharon McLeayTimes Contributor

Parents bring a child into the world with the highest hopes for their devel-opment and well-being. If in the early years they see their child struggling with basic developmental tasks; it can be heart breaking, worrisome and frustrating to try to understand what is happening. If certain tasks aren’t mastered in the early stages of life, it can affect the child in many areas, all through their life.

“Age one to five is the most critical stage in development and this year, we are seeing kids coming into the school system not ready,” said Lana Lane, who is a Wheatland teacher. “So how do we get those struggling families in the door, to help them get the resourc-es they need.”

Lane is involved with the ECMap program. She came to Wheatland Council on Feb. 5, to update council on the Wheatland area testing results and offer council an opportunity to become involved.

ECMap is a program managed by a coalition of individuals and agencies, led by the Community-University Partnership for the Study of Children, Youth and Families and initiated by the Alberta Government Department of Education. It was devel-oped to find out how chil-dren, up to the age of five, are doing developmentally. Other provinces are also involved with the hope to develop a Canadian perspective on Early Child-hood Development.

Children five and under were tested in areas of physical health and well-being, social communication, emo-tional maturity, language and thinking skills, communication and knowledge, to gain a working baseline. Consid-

eration was given to where the chil-dren lived, plus the physical and fi-nancial resources available to them. Children with an alternative primary language to English, or severely physi-cally, mentally challenged children were not included in this set of tests. Some students could have their testing fall under other districts, for example Rosebud was included in Drumheller statistics. Siksika and children attend-ing Colony schools were not tested.

There were 383 children tested in the Wheatland area. Results showed students had areas needing significant improvement. In the five developmen-tal areas, those children needing some help ranged from approximately nine to 25 per cent, with the higher catego-ries being Comprehension and Knowl-edge and Social skills. Those needing significant help ranged from approxi-mately eight to 12 per cent, the higher

categories being Physical and Social development. For more information on the process see, www.ec-map.ca. The exact results for the Wheatland area and specifics of the test-ing will soon be posted on the website.

“What happened to the days of cutting and past-ing paper together or cuddling on the couch and reading with our children?” asked Lane, considering some of the reasons children may be experiencing delays. She

considered perhaps with the benefits of technology, some of the basic skills are being neglected. She acknowl-edged parenting is hard and as a mem-ber of the community, she wanted to be a part of this group that will de-velop programs and services to help struggling parents and children.

The next step in the program be-comes setting up a plan and initiating action. The Wheatland ECMap initia-

Targeting developmental delays

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tive currently has 20 members. They are looking for more volunteer mem-bers. They want to form partnerships with individuals, businesses, groups and agencies to help children succeed. Currently, they have attained a $50,000 grant that will fund organizational and communication needs for a two year period. They have speaking engage-ments to communicate the results to 50 more groups in the region. People can also contribute by cash donations, or articles in kind like paper, photo-copying or office space.

They would like to develop ongoing initiatives and see the program run long term. One example would be to run parent workshops, showing vari-ous games and activities that address developmental skills.

Councillor Alice Booth thanked Lane for the presentation, but suggested that excluding special needs children and those with language and cultural differences makes the study somewhat incomplete. She felt society has a re-sponsibility to those communities as well. Councillor Booth suggested ini-tiatives were needed to address their developmental needs.

Other councillors suggested that family background information per-haps would explain some of the vari-ances on the tests, and it should have been included in the analysis. Lane also added that children were exam-ined by Public Health agencies up to 18 months old, but there is no follow-up in families until the children hit kindergarten. Council took the ECMap results for information and consider-ation, and indicated they would be in-terested in the group’s progress.

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Manufacturer Rebates are not combinable with any fl eet consumer incentives. *Purchase a new 2013 Focus SE Sedan/2013 F-150 XLT Super Cab 4x4 with 5.0L engine/2013 F-250 XLT 4x4 Western Edition for $18,999/$30,999/$42,499. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price aft er Manufacturer Rebate of $500/$8,000/$5,000 has been deducted. Offers include freight and air tax $1,650/$1,700/$1,700 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees may vary by dealer), fuel fi ll charge and all applicable taxes. Manufacturer Rebates can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford of Canada at either the time of factory order or delivery, but not both. Manufacturer Rebates are not combinab le with any fl eet consumer incentives. ††Until February 28, 2013, receive 0%/4.99%/5.99% annual percentage rate(APR) purchase fi nancing on a new 2013 Focus SE Sedan/2013 F-150 XLT Super Cab 4x4 with 5.0L engine/2013 F-250 XLT 4x4 Western Edition for a maximum of 72 months to qualifi ed retail customers, on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest APR payment. Purchase fi nancing monthly payment is $236/$459/$646 (the sum of twelve (12) monthly payments divided by 26 periods gives payee a bi-weekly payment of $109/$212/$298 with a down payment of $2,000/$2,500/$3,500 or equ ivalent trade-in. Cost of borrowing is $0/$4,537.65/$7,523.22 or APR of 0%/4.99%/5.99% and total to be repaid is $16,999/$33,036.65/$46,522.22. Offers include a Manufacturer Rebate of $500/$8,000/$5,000 and freight and air tax of $1,650/$1,700/$1,700 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees may vary by dealer), fuel fi ll charge and all applicable taxes. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price aft er Manufacturer Rebate deducted. Bi-Weekly payments are only available using a customer initiated PC (Internet Banking) or Phone Pay system through the customer’s own bank (if offered by that fi nancial institution). The customer is required to sign a monthly paymentcontract with a fi rst payment date one month from the contract date and to ensure that the total monthly payment occurs by the payment due date. Bi-weekly payments can be made by making payments equivalent to the sum of 12 monthly payments divided by 26 bi-weekly periods every two weeks commencing on the contract date. Dealer may sell for less. Offers vary by model and not all combinations will apply. ±Until February 28, 2013, lease a new 2013 Focus SE Sedan/2013 F-150 XLT Super Cab 4x4 with 5.0L engine and get 0%/3.99% lease annual percentage rate (LAPR) fi nancing for up to 48 months on approvedcredit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest LAPR payment. Lease a vehicle with a value of $18,999/$30,999 at 0%/3.99% LAPR for up to 48 months with $1,500/$2,400 down or equivalent trade in, monthly payment is $218/$441, total lease obligation is $11,964/$23,568 and optional buyout is $7,030/$10,540. Offer includes Manufacturer Rebate of $500/$8,000. Taxes payable on full amount of lease fi nancing price aft er Manufacturer Rebate is deducted. Offers include freight and air t ax of $1,650/$1,700 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees mayvary by dealer), fuel fi ll charge and all applicable taxes. Additional payments required for PPSA, registration, security deposit, NSF fees (where applicable), excess wear and tear, and late fees. Some conditions and mileage restrictions of 80,000 km over 48 months apply. A charge of 16 cents per km over mileage restrictions applies, plus applicable taxes. Manufacturer Rebates can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford of Canada at either the time of factory order or delivery, but not both. Manufacturer Rebates are not combinable with any fl eet consumer incentives. ▼Program ineffect from January 15, 2013 to April 1, 2013 (the “Program Period”). To qualify, customer must turn in a 2006 model year or older vehicle that is in running condition (able to start and move and without missing parts) and has been properly registered/pl ated or insured for the last 3 months (the “Criteria”). Eligible customers will receive [$500]/[$1,000]/[$2,500]/[$3,000] towards the purchase or lease of a new 2012/2013 Ford [C-Max, Fusion Hybrid & Energi]/[Fusion (excluding S, Hybrid & Energi), Taurus (excluding SE), Mustang (excluding Value Leader), Escape (excluding S), Transit Connect (excluding EV), Edge (excludingSE), Flex (excluding SE), Explorer (excluding base)]/[F-150 (excluding Regular Cab 4x2 XL), Expedition, E-Series]/[F250-550] – all Fiesta, Focus, Raptor, GT500, BOSS 302, Transit Connect EV, Medium Truck, Value Leader and Lincoln models excluded (each an “Eligible Vehicle”). Taxes payable before Rebate amount is deducted. To qualify: (i) customer must, at the time of the Eligible Vehicle sale, provide the Dealer with (a) suffi cient proof of Criteria, and (b) signed original ownership transferring customer vehicle to the Authorized Recycler; and (ii) Eligible Vehicle must be purchased, leased, or factory ordered during the ProgramPeriod. 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Actual fuel consumption will vary based on road conditions, vehicle loading, vehicle equipment, and driving habits. **When properly equipped. Max. towing of 11,300 lbs with 3.5L EcoBoost 4x2 and 4x4 and 6.2L 2 valve V8 4x2 engines. Max. payload of 3,120 lbs with 5.0L Ti-VCT V8 engine.Class is Full-Size Pickups under 8,500 lbs GVWR vs. 2012/2013 competitors. ‡‡Max. horsepower of 411 and max. torque of 434 on F-150 6.2L V8 engine. Class is Full–Size Pickups under 8,500 lbs GVWR vs. 2012/2013 comparable competitor engines. †††Some mobile phones and some digital media players may not be fully compatible – check www.syncmyride.com for a listing of mobile phones, media players, and features supported. Driving while distracted can result in loss of vehicle control, accident and injury. For d recommends that drivers use caution when using mobile phones, even with voice commands. 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Strathmore Handi BuSReport February 2013

The Strathmore Handi-bus is striving thanks to all of our donations from individuals as well as business organizations for all your kind support and contribution. We’ve been busy this past season by our members talking to corporate businesses, meeting with the MLA Jason Hale, representing at community club meetings and also we’ve been privileged to be a part of Brett Wilson and Family United Way. This donation was made for 2012. Thank you to the United Church Women, Barbara Faradi, Wheatland County, Wal Mart, The Royal Canadian Legion #10 Progressive Raffle, and individuals who donated at the beginning of the year 2013.

We welcome Ruth Wall into our Board representing the town of Rockyford as well as Jenny Schumann as the new member from the Strathmore Legion. We thank Sheila Crispin for her time, dedication and service to the Handi-Bus Association. We wish you the best. We are still looking for representatives from Standard and the Strathmore Hospital.

At the peak of winter, many senior facilities are locked in due to a Gastrointestinal Flu outbreak which limits their use of the handi-bus. But our clients are very communicative and informa-tive about the symptoms with our dispatch that we were able to service them accordingly. We value each of our clients so that no issues or other concerns arise and continue to operate while the service is still needed. To help alleviate the symptom from spreading, our Staff takes extra precautions and appropri-ate response by ensuring people’s health and safety first. We appreciate everyone’s patience and cooperation. And for those who aren’t able to use the service during the outbreak, we will resume transportation for you as soon as the bugs go away!

Happy winter and remember to wash, wash, wash your Hands!

The Strathmore Handi Bus Association


Imagine going to pick up your favourite book, only to find it isn’t available any-more because it has been censored. Classic tales such as ‘Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl’ could be pulled off the shelves depriving people the chance to learn about history.

Freedom to Read week brings to light materials that have been challenged and why. The week, which runs from Feb. 24 to March 2, is to promote literacy, toler-ance, knowledge and a love of reading among all Cana-dians. Libraries follow the guideline and rule of the Statement of Intellectual Freedom, which follows the ideals that people can walk into their local library and

not be censored.“Some people feel that

certain materials shouldn’t be on the shelves and this is where Freedom to Read week really focuses on these challenges that people make towards public libraries and school libraries,” said Assis-tant Director of Library Ser-vices Carmen Erison.

In the library there will be a display of challenged books, with the reason they were challenged listed, al-lowing people the chance to see first hand what would happen if censorship went through every time.

“One of the largest chal-lenged books every year is ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ and you think what a classic book, why would somebody want to challenge such a great book? A lot of people…want to pull it out of libraries

Read a banned book during Freedom to Read weekbecause they feel it depicts racism and that it has poor language, so they feel that these types of books shouldn’t be sitting on our shelves,” said Erison.

“What they don’t understand is that a novel like this is also based on histo-ry, on the civil rights. We need to have books like these in our collection to ed-ucate us on what the time was like. To pull a book (that’s) such a classic like Harper Lee’s book is (something) hon-estly I find saddening because you’re holding back on our youth from learn-ing about that time and that history.”

Another example that has been big in the news right now is ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.’ Some people are not happy with the name ‘nigger Jim’ and would like to see it republished and have his name changed to ‘slave Jim.’

“What people don’t understand is the book takes place in the 19th century and that it portrays the way that African Americans were treated and spoken to during that time,” said Erison.

“Using words like this to identify cer-tain races and cultures in unacceptable but the book is demonstrating how African Americans were treated dur-ing the civil war period. Just for that specific reason it shouldn’t be changed, because it’s history.”

The two banned books that surprised Erison the most were Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Lorax.’ It had been challenged because it was felt it criminalizes the forestry in-dustry. The other is ‘Brown bear, brown bear what do you see’ by Bill Martin Jr. It was challenged and banned from Texas State curriculum after the author was mistaken for the Bill Martin who wrote ‘Ethical Marxism: the Categorical Imperative of Liberation.’

The challenges to children’s books are the ones that surprise Erison the most. ‘Where’s Waldo’ was challenged because a female sunbather on one of the pages was lying face down on the beach and didn’t have a bikini strap drawn on her back.

There will always be people who don’t feel certain materials should be sitting on the shelves, said Erison, but the library stands by the principals of the Canadian Library Associations po-sition and Statement of Intellectual Freedom. The Strathmore library may not carry all of the books, but they are available through TRAC.

Erison is issuing a challenge to the community to stop by the library be-tween Feb. 24 and March 2 and see what’s on the challenged list, and then read a banned book and open their mind to those challenges.

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Representatives from the Village of Standard spoke to Council about the transfer of road ownership of a portion of west end road along TNSP 251a, out by the Standard transfer station. The portion of the road falls on land pre-viously owned by the CPR.

Standard had recently purchased the property and found a portion of the road and the right away is Coun-ty owned and maintained. The town has purchasers interested in the property surrounding the road and they wanted the title details cleaned up prior to its sale.

County planning staff in-dicated the property would have to have a road plan and survey done.

“If this goes through, who would pay for the road plan

and survey?” said Councillor Ben Armstrong. “If the Coun-ty pays for it, Standard would get the money for it in the land sale.”

County planning staff in-dicated developers usually pay survey costs, which they indicated would be about $10,000.

“We don’t really want the property,” said Alan Larsen, Mayor of Standard.

“We would be selling the property for cost.”

Councillors indicated there would be other complica-tions with the property.

Even if a portion of the road is on private land, the road is indicated as a county road. Legally it is accepted as a public road and used by the public. So measures to close the road would be needed.

“If there is an existing roadway in place, you would

Quandary to road ownership never get permission from the province,” said Councillor Ben Armstrong, who indi-cated the road portion would have to be closed.

Once closed, a request is sent to the Alberta Ministry of Transportation for ap-proval and signoff. The process then need-ed is a County bylaw and Public Hearing process. There were also some other small land parcels involved that would affect adjacent landowners. County policy is to offer the property to the adjacent owners first.

It was questioned whether it would be easier if the land was annexed by Stan-dard.

The Standard representatives said that they would approach the prospective buy-ers, unsure that they would still be inter-ested in the property, if they have to pay the $10,000 survey fee.

If the answer was in the affimative, Wheatland Councillors voted to work with the village to allow them to take over the property with Standard assuming all the costs.

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The Strathmore musical Arts Society held a din-ner and performance on Feb. 16 which included opening acts by Car-men Stewart with mi-chael Bruce and Jimmy Souza and Dave mar-tinez. The main event started soon after and the crowd was enter-tained by The Real Deal Band who engaged the crowd with a wide range of music creat-ing a wonderful at-mosphere for fun and dancing.



After many months of hard work practicing, rehearsing vocals, choreographing and reading lines Wheatland elementary present-ed ‘The Rockin’ Tale of Snow White’. They performed their musical for friends and family on Feb. 13 at 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The many talents of the students were showcased in a very entertaining per-formance.

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The 2013 STARS request for fund-ing was discussed at the Feb. 5 council meeting. Last year the council voted on a $1 per capita payment to the so-ciety, half the amount suggested by STARS, to support the care awarded Wheatland citizens.

“I received a few calls on STARS last year. They said they didn’t need the county making a donation. If they wanted they could make their own private donation,” said Reeve Glenn Koester.

“It is taxpayer money for all that, but they would not quibble over the $8,000 if they had an accident and they needed the service, and had to pay for it out of their pocket,” said Councillor Alice Booth.

“There are pros and cons. It is a de-cent service and if you ever use them, it is worth it, said Councillor Ben Arm-strong.

Councillor Booth commented that STARS supplements the local ambu-lance service. When the WADEMSA ambulances don’t have anyone avail-able for standby responses, she said it is reassuring to have the society ser-vices available.

Councillor Ken Suave said that taxes are collected to make Wheatland a bet-ter community. In this case, it is a ser-vice that supports a safer community.

Fire commissioner visitWheatland fire services were visited

by Tom Harkness of the Fire Commis-sioners Office (FCO) to answer ques-tions and identify concerns. He noted an inconsistency by fire chiefs regard-ing fire call notification to the FCO.

Harkness used the example of a delayed or missing call after EMS or STARS participation. He indicated in-formation may be missed since often the site is cleaned up before the insur-ance investigation can be recorded.

“Sometimes there is a lot going on and chiefs miss reporting,” said Gerald Skibinsky, Manager of Protective Ser-vices, Fire, Disaster and Safety.

All fires in the province are required to be reported to the FCO. Statistics are gathered and entered into a Fire Services Information System. The ana-lyzed results are used in fire decision

Considering STARS supportmaking processes and are a standard practice across Canada. They are used by the individual departments, mu-nicipalities, insurance companies, re-searchers, and the government. They can help support the department with budget requests and refinement to codes and policy. More information can be found at www.ofc.alberta.ca

Skibinsky indicated to council that the issue was being discussed to devel-op a system that will address the issue.

ems supportSkibinsky drew Councillors’ atten-

tion to an article published Jan. 16, 2013 in the Edmonton Journal about the Opposition’s response to a Fox Creek man’s trouble getting ambu-lance service.

The government is looking at the success of the AHS takeover of ambu-lance services in the province. They are waiting for Health Quality Council of Alberta report due for release at the end of February.

Skibinsky encouraged Council to support a WADEMSA-run centre for Wheatland County. Reeve Glenn Koes-ter, who also sits in on WADEMSA meetings, said that the county is sup-portive of keeping the ambulance ser-vices and dispatch locally run. Meet-ings with AHS are still ongoing.

2012 in reviewPeace Officer Kevin Taylor updated

council on their annual statistics. The office has three officers with one new-ly hired in May. He said the officers’ goals were to maintain public safety,

protect county infrastructure and pro-tect property.

“It’s been a busy and challenging year,” said Taylor.

The officers are given jurisdiction to perform their duties and lay charges under Provincial Acts appointed to the officers by the Solicitor General.

There was a total of 2,916 vehicle overload tickets, 321 case reports, 427 moving violation tickets, 37 traffic warnings and 11 exempt applications.

The officers had four unsightly calls and seven long grass calls with no of-fence notices issued.

“We had good compliance from all the people we contacted,” said Taylor.

In animal control, the officers round-ed up 98 animals with 30 transferred to the Calgary Humane Society. There were only three animal offences. The department saved $2,663 by changing to the new animal delivery system last year, a savings they would not have had if they had continued to use the Strathmore kennels.

Peace Officer Ben Mendoza outlined the County health and safety statistics. In 2012, there were 24 accidents, 14 injuries of which were minor, 10 prop-erty damage, nine vehicle related and one other.

Safety courses were ongoing for staff. All the internal audits led to av-erage scores of 89 percent. He said training sessions for chain saws were completed, with sessions for safety on overhead crane scheduled, with balloon truck and other truck safety courses in the works. First aid recerti-fications will be done in April and May.

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For over 35 years, Strathmore Motor Products has become one of the pre-mier rural automotive dealerships in Southern Alberta.Under the tutelage of owner Hal Lust, who took over the reigns of the dealer-ship in 1978, SMP has blossomed into a pillar in the Strathmore business community.By offering competitive prices, com-mitment to customer service and giv-ing back to the local community, SMP had developed a template other busi-nesses look to emulate.With a newly-renovated showroom, literally hundreds of vehicles to choose from and an experienced sales team, SMP is ready to assist clients in the purchase of their new or used vehicle. Recently, SMP has refocused its efforts to attract and maintain clients by re-structuring the operations of the deal-ership.Principal dealer Hal Lust is look-ing to enjoy what he has built, by entrusting General Manager Clarence Kooistra, and due to the recent growth in business, a new Sales Manager, Glenn Alexander, to create for the best deal for their clients.“My responsibility is to look af-ter every customer and make sure their needs and wants are taken care of (and confirm that) we’re doing the right thing every time,” said Alex-ander. “By stocking the vehicles that customers want, paying enough for their trades – doing the best we can to keep the process easy, non-adversarial and equitable for both parties.”

With almost 100 years of combined sales experience, SMP has the exten-sive knowledge regarding any new GMC, Chevrolet or Buick automobile.However, it does not limit them to only selling those products. Since join-ing the team, Alexander has brought in a new service to help take SMP to the next level and become the dealer of choice in the Southern Alberta. With his extensive experi-ence in used vehicles, Alexander has the resources to find the right vehicle for any client.

I f they have the time and the patience, he can locate

them the car of their dreams.“Whatever we have to do (to find the right vehicle), we will,” said Alexan-der. “It takes away the time element for the client and the frustration of being told six or seven different things by dif-ferent sales reps. It’s a new service we offer our clients.”One of the benefits dealing with SMP is their no-hassle approach, which does not require clients to put a deposit on the vehicle of their choice.“It makes it non-adversarial, there is

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Mike’s parents moved from the Ukraine to Medicine Hat in 1911. There his Dad worked in the Iron Foundry section of the CPR, building rails. In 1921, they started farming at Iddesleigh. Mike was born in 1919, and the family moved to Hussar in 1925 where they started mixed farming, just north of town.

Hussar itself was only founded in 1913, just 12 years earlier. He attended the country school, travelling by horse thru’ Grade 12, then farmed for the rest of his working years, including during the Second World War.

Mary’s parents moved from the Ukraine to Saskatchewan, where she was born in 1923. She moved to Hus-sar at the age of 17, to assist an uncle

RemembeRing ouR Roosts Mike & Mary Slemko

with a very large family. Mike and Mary met as neighbours, and they were mar-ried on January 13, 1941 in Drumheller. Warm congratulations are due, on their recent 72nd Wedding Anniversary. This marriage produced a son and a daugh-ter, followed by four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Their son, Bill, took over the mixed farm in 1972, and Mike and Mary moved into a house in Hussar, where they still live today. They were members of 4-H, the Farmers Union, Unifarm, TOPS, Hussar La-dies Aid and the Hussar Li-ons Club.

In 1944, they remem-ber using barbed wire as telephone lines, before the telephone company installed/erected proper wires on poles, and party lines where one person’s news was everybody’s news! Electric power was installed in the early 1950’s, with running water and in-door plumbing coming sometime later. Propane took over from wood to heat the house.

Morning on their farm meant harness-ing the horses to pull the equipment, and take the kids to school. The cows had to be fed and milked, while chick-ens, ducks, turkeys, and pigs also had to be fed. The cream was separated and taken to the CPR Station in Hussar. The remaining milk was given to the pigs, and often the house was used to warm

those baby pigs, and then taken back to their mother, when they were squealing too loud, to eat!

All these animals brought extra money for the farm. Throughout their farming career Mike and Mary worked side by side. Mary learned to run farm machin-ery, including tractors for seeding and combines at harvest time. They both

ran the combines well into their 70’s, and were quick to point out they had no cabs, air condition-ing, monitors, auto-steer or GPS. They comment on how easy life is for farm-ers nowadays, and yet they still don’t have time for anything!

Mike and Mary recall having time for social events, visiting neigh-

bours, summer picnics and ball games, and travelling miles and miles, to visit on the coldest day of the winter, by horse and sleigh. They commented that they didn’t have those time-consuming TV’s, computers, or kids’ electronic games!

They still live in their own home, and can’t wait for spring to come so both can get back into their large garden, where Mary plants lots of flowers, watched by Mike.

They have seen many changes in their lifetime, but comment on the changes in technology, and how the small towns have become more of a convenience than a necessity.

Kinsmen give to a good cause

Manny EvErEtt Times Contributor

Students and staff at Hussar school celebrated Valentine’s Day participating in the program ‘Jump Rope for Heart.’

‘Jump Rope for Heart’ is a Nation Wide awareness program to educate kids and communities about heart health at an early age through physical activity and heart healthy living.

On Valentine’s Day, under the direc-tion and organization of teacher Jody Filkohazy and the rest of the teach-ing staff at Hussar school, the students were encouraged to participate in vari-ous events in the gym. The students were separated into five groups with a cross section of each of the K-6 grades. They were at each of the five stations for approximately 15 minutes.

Filkohazy oversaw the first station and had the kids learn how to jump rope with a long rope (or jump over a rope, depending on the age), with two people turning the handles.

At station two Mrs. Moczulski used long ropes and individual ropes to have kids walk on a tight rope and jump over snakes, and also made use of the parachute.

At station three Mrs. McRae was teaching the students all about ‘Chinese Jump Rope,’ a series of jumps with two stretched out ropes.

Mrs. Armstrong taught the children about heart facts, after which the kids needed to answer questions on work sheets and posters, as well as do some individual jump rope.

Finally, at station five Mrs. Santerre taught her group long rope jumping to some time honoured chants like ‘Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear,’ and ‘Cinderella.’

According to statistics, only seven per cent of Canadian children and youth are meeting the daily recommended 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physi-cal activity. Hussar school staff encour-aged and gave the kids the skills and education to begin changing that fig-ure.

Throughout the fun day and days leading up to the event, the students had sponsors to raise money for heart research. The students raised around $4,000 with the highest individual fun-draiser, Teagan Adamcewicz, bringing in $250 of that total. All the students who participated received a skipping rope from Filkohazy for taking part in the event.


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Wheatland Further Education Soci-ety (WFES) is celebrating 40 years this year. The non-formal community-based learning organization started out in the county in people’s homes and commu-nity halls.

In 2012 the opportunity came up to rent an office from the new Strathmore and District Chamber of Commerce of-fice.

In the past sessions have been held through Golden Hills School Division. The division has always been support-ive and allowed WFES to hold sessions in the schools, but it was limited to eve-ning classes. With the new rental space WFES can now offer daytime classes.

“What we’re trying to do is build a vibrant learning community and that’s why we have rented office space from the Chamber. With that office space came the boardroom/classroom so that we can bring those opportunities into the community,” said Joyce Bazant, ex-ecutive director for WFES.

“Community-based education is criti-cal to building Alberta’s social and hu-man capital. Non-formal learning sup-ports personal development enables people to truly become lifelong learn-ers with the knowledge, skills and commitment to learning necessary to realize their potential and to fully par-ticipate and social community life and the workforce. That’s what we do, what we’re supposed to be.”

WFES is a non-profit organization, which has been run though Alberta Ad-vanced education since opening their doors in 1973.

There are webinar classes that are offered to help people get back into the work force sooner, while providing an opportunity to upgrade their skills. There are 82 community-learning coun-cils across the province, and in 2010 there were over 120,000 people taught through organizations like the WFES.

“We would love to get volunteers in the outlying areas. We have a contact person in Carseland, we have an area coordinator in Hussar but the rest of the communities we’d love to have someone that would be there. We could bring these same classes to their com-munity if we could get someone there that would represent and be an area co-ordinator,” said Bazant.

“Right now I would love to find a French teacher, we’ve been looking for a French teacher because I know that is one of the (programs) we have been asked for several times.”

New to WFES this year is their Face-book page- Wheatland Further Educa-tion Community Learning. The page has been created as an additional way for people to stay up-to-date on what learning sessions are offered and when, their times and prices. If there are changes to a session time participants will be contacted by phone, but will now also be able to look on Facebook.

WFES offers a variety of sessions and they strive to keep bringing in ones that interest the community. Coming up over the next week are standard first aid and first-aid recertification pro-grams on Feb. 23. On Feb. 25 there is Zumba, emotional de-cluttering, yoga, Spanish and 2-step. To find out more call 403-934-5785 or email [email protected].

Wheatland Further Education ready to offer more programs than ever

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Hussar students par-ticipate in Jump Rope for Heart for Valentines Day. Students erin Slemko, Teagan Adamcewicz and Katie Taubert jumping si-multaneously in the Jump Rope for Heart event at Hussar School.



A modern day ‘Game of Thrones’ is being played out in Southern Alberta, with Wheatland County, and three oth-er municipalities, waiting to see if they will be pawns sacrificed to sections of the Calgary Municipal Plan (CMP).

In recent weeks, Calgary Mayor Na-heed Nenshi has made a bold strategic

Nenshi wants rural compliancemove, calling to the Municipal Ministry for forced membership of all Calgary region municipalities into the CMP. Ac-cording to the guidelines, all munici-palities in the designated region must be on board to move forward with the plan.

The plan was developed by the Cal-gary Regional Partnership (CRP) and deals with land use development, ser-vice and utility corridor placement, water supply and transportation infra-structures.

“We opted out of the Plan, because many parts of it are not in the best in-terest of our Wheatland County rate-payers, `` said Reeve Glen Koester.

Koester said the CRP has positive at-tributes; however, the CMP shows no movement to address rural concerns. Koester said if the province forces agreement, rural landowners will see it as another attack on landowner rights and take exception like they did to the much contested government Bills 19, 24, 36 and 50, which override land-owner rights.

Wheatland Reeve Glenn Koester said that rural and urban governing pro-cesses have a different mindset that needs to be acknowledged by the plan. For example, not all rural municipali-ties have similar land use policy. Some encourage housing development and commercial interests, while others fight to preserve the agricultural base that supplies urban centres with food and diversifies Alberta`s economy. With in-creased urban sprawl, many maintain the rural cultural and agricultural base in south central Alberta is vanishing. Some of Southern Alberta’s best farm-land now lies under roadways and

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cern when elected councils no longer have the power to govern, as granted by the Municipal Government Act,” said Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties (AAMDC) Presi-dent Bob Barss.

Last year, the rural municipalities tried to find solutions for the CRP dis-pute by asking the AAMDC to develop ideas that may work for both urban and rural municipalities.

The AAMDC reviewed the CMP in 2011, at the request of its members, and forwarded a report to the provin-cial government with mediation sug-gestions. They included:

• allowing voluntary participation in the plan

• the policies developed apply only to the voluntary members jurisdictions

• that each municipal decision-mak-ing mechanism remain intact and au-tonomous

• no new level of government or hi-erarchy is established

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partnership• partners can opt out of one or

more of the plan’s projectsDiscussions surrounding the CMP

have not always been pleasant, with members signing on only to withdraw later. Less than fair pressure weapons have been used, such as suggesting that municipalities who are not part of the plan will suffer inadequate wa-ter supply and infrastructure develop-ment. Many areas in Southern Alberta are struggling with water issues due to population explosions, urban de-velopment and the imposition of wa-ter license caps placed on communi-

ties by the Alberta Government water programs. The City of Calgary secured water rights from the Bow prior to the Alberta government caps, and uses ac-cess to water as an incentive to belong to the partnership.

An interesting political science paper by Robert Young www.uwo.ca, done at Western University of Canada, suggests increased population booms in urban areas require more resources, and de-clining populations in rural municipali-ties threaten their sustainability. His paper shows trends in provincial and federal government to grant urban cen-tres more autonomy and control over resources. He suggests if the trend con-tinues, we may be looking at urban/rural populations aligned around a type of city state governance structure throughout Canada.

Mayor Nenshi is pushing for this type of structure. He has said Calgary has more citizens than five provinces put together, and in an interview with the CBC Calgary eye-opener on Sept. 7, 2012, he said that he supports a Char-ter style of governance for Calgary. Wikipedia defines a charter city as a city in which the governing system is defined by the city’s own charter docu-ment rather than by state, provincial, regional or national laws.

“We really need that. There’s just so much wasted time and wasted cycles in bickering, in buck passing, between the various orders of government — that should just go away,” Nenshi said in the interview.

Check out Nenshi’s City of Calgary blog. The City/Province Relationship…We can do better. http://blog.calgary-mayor.ca, where he indicates a City of Calgary Charter was signed with the provincial government in June 2012, and he references the CRP and CMP.

Last week Wheatland Council re-ceived a letter from the Minister of Mu-nicipal Affairs stating a mediator would be appointed for the CRP/CMP dispute.

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Because of Canada’s vast geography, it can be difficult for advertisers to find a cost-effective way to reach Canadians living outside of metropolitan centres. Many companies are turning to online research panels to learn more about

Canada’s smaller communities. While online panel research is growing in popularity, panel providers are often faced with a lack of representation in non-metropolitan markets – typical panel composition is 90 percent urban and 10 percent non-urban.

The CCNA is responding to this chal-lenge with an innovative new project titled “Connecting to Canadians with Community Newspapers”. “By harness-ing the power of community newspa-pers and partnering with an established panel research company, the associa-tion’s goal is to increase the number of online panelists based outside of urban areas,” said Kelly Levson, Director of Research for CCNA.

Levson said rural readers have a chance to make their opinions heard so that marketing decisions are not solely influenced by people residing in urban markets. “Without the voice of people in smaller communities across Canada, marketers tend to defer to what they hear from urban residents,” said Lev-son.

For information on the rewards avail-able for your time, go to www.web-perspectives.ca. Readers will notice advertisements in their community newspaper from now until the end of March recruiting online panelists. To sign up online go to www.myvop.net/speakup.

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AWAY GAMES: Friday, Feb. 15 • 7:30 pm Cochrane. Playoffs: Friday, Feb. 22 • 8 pm Cochrane

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Despite finishing the regular season with a .500 record, the head coach of the UFA Bisons believes his team has what it takes to be successful in the post season.

Jeremy Friesen, in his third season with the organization and second as head coach, sees something special in the collection of players he helped as-semble way back in September.

“There is no question,” said Friesen when asked if his team has what it takes for a long playoff run. “It’s going

to come down to timely goaltending and special team play. We have a lot of depth, we have a lot of character and the room is really tight as well. They’re a great group of kids and they respect each other and they pull for each other.

“That’s what has been different than years past, you had a group here and other group over here … yes, they’re on the same team, but you don’t get that family cohesion.

“This group is different, they really do have an opportunity to do some-thing special, but it’s going to take a lot of hard work and a complete buy-in.”

The fourth-ranked Bisons will host

the fifth-ranked Calgary NW Flames in the first round of the AMHL South Playoffs.

After a 16-16-2 season, the Bisons edged out the 12-13-9 Flames by one point.

Despite their losing record, Friesen cautioned that the offensive-minded Flames have the ability to get hot in short spurts.

“They’ve got some speed and they’ve got some skill up front,” said Friesen. “We think that if we can get a lot of traffic and pucks on net on their goal-tenders, then we can make life a little more miserable for them.

“We know that if we pressure their D and forecheck them really hard, we take away a lot of time and space.

“We know that we’re going to have to be really defensively responsible – we don’t want to get into a river-type of hockey game with them.”

Game 1 of the best-of-three series was held on Feb. 21 at the Strathmore Family Centre (result not available as of press time).

Game 2 will take place Feb. 23 (2:30 p.m.) at the Father David Bauer Are-na in Calgary. Game 3, if necessary, will take place Feb. 24 (2 p.m.) at the Strathmore Family Centre.

Bisons prepare for battle with FlamesWendi Tashlikowich Photos

Strathmore Minor Hockey (SMH) association held their annual Family Day Half Pint tournament on Feb. 18. It was a one-day tournament which incorporated four Strathmore teams, three High River teams and one Rockyford team. Half Pints between the ages of 4 - 6 came out for a day full of hockey and fun. Each team played three games and at the end of their last game all players received a personalized mini stick and dog tag. The tournament has always been organized to take place on Family Day and with the help of many volunteers is always a huge success. The ice for the tournament was graciously donated by SMH, and all the money raised from the raffle table, 50/50 sales and sucker pull is divided among the Strathmore Half Pint teams to use towards future tournament fees.

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The Strathmore senior boys Spartans hosted their annual invitational at the school Feb. 15 and 16. Eight teams com-peted in the basketball event with each vying for the top spot.

The Spartans dropped all three games this past weekend, said coach Kyle Larson.

“We played well against Camrose, the eventual tournament champs, but we lack a bit of depth in scoring and eventually Camrose was able to just put up more points,” said Larson.

“(It was) a similar scenario in Game 2 where the boys put in a very good effort and came out firing against Beaumont but again we lacked a bit of scoring in the second half and Beaumont was able to edge away from the boys.

“The last game of the weekend for us was against Drum-heller and once again the boys came out and played a strong first half and found ourselves only down by four (points) at the half but the story of the weekend again unfolded in the second half as we just couldn’t make shots in the third quar-ter and Drumheller increased the lead to double digits and went on to victory from there.”

Larson said this season has been one of gaining experi-ence. When attending 1A and 2A level tournaments the boys have been able to show a strong front when competing and fare pretty well. When heading further up the level ladder into the 3A events, Larson said, their game isn’t quite where it needs to be yet. With playoffs coming up each team is practicing harder than ever to put their best effort forward.

“For our high school boys the league playoffs will be a tall challenge this year but we are hopeful to be quite competi-tive at the JV boys zone tournament this year,” said Larson.

Consistency and scoring have been a concern throughout the season for the team, and Larson thinks those issues may continue heading into zones.


Manny Everett Photo

The combined boys and girls junior High basketball team from Stan-dard played against Arrowood’s combined team, winning with a final score of 39-16. Ram’s #7 player Sarah Wolfs jump shot.

Rams win against Arrowood

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The Hawks and Spar-tans both fought hard in their final tourna-ment before playoffs. The two-day Sr. Boys invitational basket-ball tournament was held Feb. 15 and 16 at Strathmore High School.

Dion GaLanDy Coach

This past weekend, the 3A SHS Girls basketball team won their tournament in Dunmore, just east of Medicine Hat. They beat St. Dominic from Rocky Mountain House 63-30, where Kate Harris was named the game all-star. In their second game, they matched up against the home team Eagle Butte who are currently ranked sixth in the province.

SHS was down 37-40 at half but with their strong determination defeated the Eagle Butte Talons 73-70. This game showed the heart that the Spartans have as they were down 55-65 with six minutes to go, but still managed to claw back, take the lead and fend off a furious attack by Eagle Butte. In their final game, they played Crescent Heights from Med-icine Hat. This was a scrappy game but the Spar-tans held on for a 63-54 victory.

One of the goals for this young team of six Grade 10’s and four Grade 11’s, a typical JV team, was to try to improve throughout the year and possibly win a few games in the process. In November and December the girls managed seven wins and five losses playing in tournaments and league play. Es-pecially tough were league game losses to 4A Foot-hills Composite from Okotoks by a score of 33-76 and to Holy Trinity School also from Okotoks by a score of 47-67.

However, this team has since found a spark and just the opposite has happened beginning in Janu-ary as the SHS Girls have been playing some great basketball. In the months of January and February the girls have a record of 14 wins and two losses

and are actually undefeated in February. Including wins against Holy Trinity (77-63) and Foothills (52-49) in league play.

Because of their improved play, they finished sec-ond in league play and as a result will host the semi-final game at home against either Holy Trin-ity or Strathcona Tweedsmuir. That game will be played at Friday, March 1 at 7:15 p.m. in the SHS gym. A win and they will be playing for the league championship at 5 p.m. Saturday, March 2 at Foot-hills Composite against the winner of the second semi-final.

But it only gets tougher from here. After league playoffs the team will have 3A Girls South Cen-tral Zones to compete at, hosted by Chesteremere March 7-9. There will be no easy games as this zone is traditionally strong. As a result of the Spartan’s recent wins and competitive play they may actually be one of the top teams at the zone, but that will only be determined after the final provincial rank-ing that comes out from ASAA March 4. If Strath-more High School was fortunate enough to be one of the top teams, with the format of the zone draw, they would actually host a game on Wednesday, March 6.

It would be great if we were a Top 10 provin-cially ranked team going into 3A Girls Basketball Provincials March 14-16 hosted by Strathmore High School. This is an event where 12 teams from around the province will compete for gold and it’ll all happen right in the Spartan’s gym. With the mo-mentum that these girls have generated, they are sure to find a competitive edge necessary to battle some of the top teams in the province.

SHS Girls basketball team wins again, things looking good going into playoffs

Photo courtesy of coach Dion Galandy

The Strathmore High School girls bas-ketball team has found their spark since coming back from winter break. They have won 14 games since January and have been undefeated throughout the month of February.

Photos courtesy of Lisa Armstrong

Hussar played host to their ladies bonspiel Jan. 27-Feb. 2. Congrat-ulations to the winners (all pictures are skip. third, second and lead, l-r).Top left: Winners of the A event were the marilyn Armstrong Rink from Bassano. marilyn Armstrong, Diana Peters, Sheila evans and Janice Filkohazy. Top right: Win-ners of the B event were the Kim Douglass Rink from Bassano. Kim Douglass, Karyn Hemminger, San-dra mitchell and Kim Fraser. Left: Winners of the C were the Carey Taubert Rink event from Hussar. Carey Taubert, Pam Collett, Jead-ene Gregory and Kristin Fandry.

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Two of the three teams part of the Wheatland Athletics Association earned a first round bye of the SCAHL playoffs.

The Wheatland Braves and the Wheatland Warriors (peewee and bantam) will wait to see who they will play in the second round of the playoffs, while the Wheatland Chiefs prepare for a first round battle.

The Braves finished the season with a four game winning streak, including a pair of games this past weekend.

The local double-A peewee team defeated the Badlands Longhorns 14-0 on Feb. 15 in Hussar, before posting a 5-1 win over Sylvan Lake on Feb. 17.

By posting a 28-3-1 record, the

team finished the season in first place in the North Division.

Meanwhile the Warriors wrapped up second place in the North Division with an impressive 18-9-5 season. The double-A bantam team capped off the season with a 1-0 loss against the Syl-van Lake Lakers on Feb. 18.

The Warriors will now wait to see who they will play in the post season.

However, the Wheatland Chiefs ended the season with a four-game losing streak, including a 4-3 defeat to Cranbrook on Feb. 16.

The local midget team, which lost each of the four games during the streak by one goal, finished the sea-son with 17-15-2 season.

For an up-to-date version of the playoff schedule for all three Wheat-land teams, please visit www.scahl.com and follow the links.

Earning a bye

Sharks enter short course championship season

Photo courtesy of Lloyd Schoepp

The Strathmore Silver Sharks are currently in the middle of the short course championship swim season. A total of 14 swimmers qualified for provincial meets for the short course season. Three swimmers, Tamara Adamschek, Ashley Berreth and Lauren Zandee competed in the Senior Provincials in Lethbridge on Feb. 1-3. The remaining 11 swimmers will be competing in the Age Group Trials being held in Calgary from Feb. 21-23 at the Talisman Centre where they will have one last chance to earn a berth in the short course Age Group Provincials. This is six more than qualified the previous year. Two swimmers, madison Laycraft and Kiana Doig have already earned places at the Age Group Provincials being held in Calgary from march 1-3, at the Talisman Centre. The Short Course meet season runs from the start of the season to the Age Group Provincials. The Sharks will now be switching over to Long Course meets competing in 50-metre pools. Shown here are; Ashley Berreth (back, l-r), Lauren Zandee, Tamara Adamschek, Logan Schoepp, Liam Schoepp, marina Laycraft, morgan Hansen, Head Coach Jen mertz (front, l-r), Shelby Laycock, Ben mertz, Chelanne Wolff, madison Laycraft, Kate Doucette and Assistant Coach Shandell Laycraft. missing from the photo are Rayanne Laycock and Kiana Doig.

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special eventsCommunity Lunch Club – social get together for 55+ to have a themed lunch served; together with a presenter on Tuesday, March 5 (Spring theme) and Tuesday, March 19 (Irish Culture) from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 pm located at the Lord of all Lutheran Church. To register call Marg at 403-901-7811.

A meet & greet for Parents & Mentors – come and meet some Parents, the Mentors, do an activity and have a light lunch on Monday, February 25 (Treat for Heart Month), Monday, March 11 (Luck of the Irish) and Monday, March 25 (Ukrainian Easter Eggs) from 11:00 – 1:00 pm located at the Lord of all Lutheran Church - free event, register by calling Pat at 403-901-7684

March 8 @ Strathmore Municipal Library (85 Lakeside Blvd.) 1-3pm Friday Fun Films. This month the library will be featuring The Smurfs! Rated G. This program is free to attend and no registration is required.

The Joint Annual General Meetings of the Rosebud Memorial Hall Association and the Rosebud Fire Association will be held on Thursday, February 28, at 7:00 P.M. in the Community Centre.

Hypnotist and Silent Auction on March 2, 2013 at the Strathmore Golf Course Club. Doors open at 5:00pm, show starts at 7:30, age 18+. To purchase tickets please call 403-901-0497. All proceeds go to Canadian Diabetes Association in support of Jamie Fairbairn’s efforts to raise funds and awareness.

Project H.O.P.E. annual Gala Fundraiser, “The Power of HOPE’. March 9th at the Travelodge. Cocktails @ 5, Dinner @ 6, Tix $50 @ 403-807-2965 or 403-804-3101

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Royal Canadian Legion For information regarding hall rentals, darts and crib, please call 403.934.5119

Wheatland Conservation & Wildlife Association(Your local fish & game club). Meetings – 2nd Thursday every month, 7:30pm at the Clubhouse. Call Larry at 403-934-4388 for more information.

Strathmore District Health Services Auxiliary Meetings are held the fourth Monday of the month @ 1:30 pm (excluding July & August). Lower level Conference Room at the Strathmore Hospital. New members welcome. For more info please call 403-934-4436

Strathmore & District Chamber of Commerce Meets the second Thursday of the month @ 7:00 p.m. All members welcome. Check web page for meeting location. For more information call 403-901-3175 or: www.strathmoredistrictchamber.com.

Come Fly With Us 903 Royal Canadian Air Cadet Sqn. meet Wednesdays at 6:30pm at the blue build-ing and Quonset on the Ag grounds. Boys & Girls between 12 & 19 years welcome. Call Joanna Howard at 403-983-5796 for more information.

Storytime at Strathmore Municipal Library85 Lakeside Blvd. Held every Tuesday 11am-12pm and Fridays 2-3pm. . Pre-school children of all ages are welcome but must be accompanied by a parent or other responsible adult. No registration required.

HIV Edmonton Providing support, education and advo-cacy for those infected with, affected by or at risk of HIV and AIDS for 25 years. Go to www.hivedmonton.com or call toll free 1.877.388.5742.

The Hope Bridges Society for Creative & Continued Learning Advocating for, and bringing together citizens of all abilities for meaningful relationships, friendships, & opportunities through the Arts holds Board Meetings on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM, at Unit 9, 104 – 3rd Avenue (the Leary Centre). Please contact Wanda at 403-983-3690, or 403-901-5081 (Cell) for further information about our work and upcoming events, if you would like to be added to our “friends/contact” list, or visit us in our new office noted above.

Strathmore Musical Arts SocietyIf you love music and musicians and have a special soft spot for the Blues, you would enjoy being part of this group. Call 403-934-4196 or 403-680-7721 to get on our phone or email list and be notified about meetings and upcoming events.

Strathmore Elks Lodge #491 Meets 3rd Tuesday at the Strathmore Curling Club 6:30 pm. Steak Supper at 7 pm. New Members welcome. Call Greg 403-888-6155.

Strathmore Homeschool Families Any Strathmore and Area familes that are homeschooling are invited to join our Yahoo Group. www.groups.yahoo.com/group/strathmorehsfams

Strathmore Hand in Hand Parent Link Offers FREE programming to kids 0-6 and their caregivers! Check the Town of Strathmore website Community Events section for programs and times! Located at 421-2nd St, across from Paragon Pharmacy. 690-1237.

Strathmore FASD Parent Support Group At the Strathmore United Church. For more info call Pam @652-4776.

Strathmore Caregiver Support Group This is an opportunity for caregivers to find support and benefit from interaction with others in a similar situation. For more information or to register call Amy Yaneza at 403-361-7176.

Happy Gang 55 plus Seniors Meetings; 2nd Tuesday every month @ 1:30 pm. Potluck Supper; fourth Tuesday every month at 5:30pm. Everyone wel-come! Hall Rental; $80. Call Shirley @ 403-934-9927. All other inquiries call Eric @ 403-901-1596.

Meetings and Sewing Workshops The 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month at 7pm. We meet at the Strathmore Ag Grounds, Red Quonset. Looking for 100% cotton or flannel fabric donations to do some charity quilts. New Members Welcome. Contact Laurie at 901-0088 or Wendy 901-3756.

Sunday School for All Ages Lord of All Lutheran Church offers Christian Education opportunities for ages 3 years to adult, on Sunday Mornings. All are Welcome! For more information please call Margo Sevick 403-901-2044 or call the Church Office at 403-934-2374.

Strathmore Country Gardens Club Meetings at least once per month. Tours, guest speakers, workshops and much more included in a membership. For more information visit www.strathmorecoun-trygardensclub.webs.com or phone Linda Pekrul 403-901-0017.

Youth Club of StrathmoreProvides youth (6-17yrs) with op-portunities/activities that build positive relationships, strengthens and develops self-esteem and promote personal skill development through affordable and barrier free programs. Our programs include After The Bell, a homework program offered Monday to Friday from 3pm-6pm. Call the Youth Club for further info 403-934-4918 or www.youthclubofstrathmore.ca.

Wheatland Rural Crime Watch Meetings are the 3rd Thursday of each Month. Featuring guest speakers. For more information call 403-934-4055

Meals on Wheels Available in Strathmore. For information or to obtain this service please contact Wheatland FCSS at 403-934-5335.

Strathmore Fun Runners Car Club Meets the first Wednesday of the month. New members welcome! Please call Todd at 403-934-0558 or Shawn at 403-901-9303 for info.

Wheatland Business Women Meet the second Tuesday of the month @ 8:00 am at Days Inn & Suites. New mem-bers welcome http://businesswomen.ca and follow us on Facebook. Call 403-324-6641.

RCCG Peculiar People Assembly, 1 Peter 2:9 (KJV) meetings. Sunday Ser-vices at 10am & Thursdays Bible study at 7pm. Venue: Civic Centre, Strathmore. PH: 403-667-7832, E-mail: pastor@ rccgstrathmore.com

Strathmore Lions Club Meets the first and third Thursdays at the Strathmore Civic Centre at 6:45 pm.

Free Tree for all New Born Babies Attention all infants – remind your par-ents to register your birth so a tree can be planted commemorating your birth in the Chinook Credit Union Birth Forest in Strathmore. Registration Forms are avail-able at the Town office, Chinook Credit Union and Health Unit. (A Communities in Bloom Project)

Strathmore Masonic Lodge #53 Meets the first Monday of each Month at 7:30 p.m. Call Glen at 403-901-6038. Website: www.strathmore53.com

Strathmore Parent and Tot PlaygroupMeets every Tuesday at 9:30 - 11:30 am. in the Strathmore United Church Basement. $1/child.

Strathmore Full Gospel Church We’re a Pentecostal bible-based family church that has something for all ages. Call 934-2225 or visit www.strathmore-fullgospel.com

St. Michaels & All Angels Anglican Currently at interim location: 245 Brent Blvd. (North Door) 403-934-3017. Christ Alive in our Community. Sunday MorningWorship 11:00am

Seventh-day Adventist Church Meeting in the Lord of All Lutheran Church at 112 Lakeside Blvd,Strathmore. Saturday morning @ 10:00 AM. Pastor Ghena Girleanu, phone 403-983-0081. Strathmore Baptist Church Meeting Sundays @ 11am and Thursdays @ 7pm, Call Pastor David Blankenship for info 403-390-4431.

Wheatland County Food Bank SocietyFood applications accepted at (403) 324-4335 Monday through Thursday 12pm to 4pm or through the website at:www.wheatlandfoodbank.com.

Strathmore & District Agricultural Society Strathmorestampede.com, [email protected] Office 403.934.5811 Fax 403.901.0299 Facebook: Strathmore Stampede Twitter: Strathmore Rodeo

Community Futures Wild Rose In partnership with ‘The Business Link’ Attend valuable, low-cost learning ses-sions for small business owners in our video-conference facility in Strathmore. Phone: 403-934-8888 for info & to register.

Strathmore Writer’s Group Meets on the first Monday of the month at the Strathmore Municipal Library. Please find us on Facebook or email Sam at [email protected] for more information.

Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings Strathmore – open meetings Monday 8:00pm, Hope Community Church, Call 403-934-9570 or 403-901-6009. Strathmore Full Gospel Church – Closed meetings – Ladies, Tuesdays @ 7pm, Call 403-901-1163. Men’s, Tuesdays 8:30pm, Call 403-324-0056. Open Step Meeting, Thursdays @ 8pm at Full Gospel Church, Call 403-361-9396. If drinking is a prob-lem, please come to a meeting or all any of the numbers just to talk.

Wheatland Whirlers Square & Round Dance Club Dances every Wednesday at Westmount School Gym, September to April. New Dancers: 7-8:30 pm; Experienced Danc-ers: 8-10 pm. Contact Dave or Claudia 403-934-5966.

Chestermere and area Children (& Families) with Type 1 Diabetes. Our Goal is to create a group of mature, responsible members where we open our own homes as Safe Places for Diabetic Children to go to if ever in Diabetic Distress. Join the Facebook group for more information.

Stitch Together: Library Needle Arts Group Tues evenings (6:30pm-8:30pm) at the Strathmore Municipal Library (85 Lakeside Blvd.). Whether you love knitting, crochet-ing, embroidery or cross-stitch, you are wel-come to drop in and work on your project with others who share the same passion.

Strathmore Regional Victim Services Society (SRVSS) SRVSS is looking for men and women interested in becoming front line victim advocates to provide support, information and referrals to victims of crime or tragedy. We need individuals interested in a chal-lenging and rewarding volunteer experience who are caring and non-judgmental with a sincere interest in helping victims move past their immediate trauma. We provide extensive training in many areas, including sexual assaults, domestic violence, suicide, court preparation, and sudden death. If you are interested in volunteering please con-tact Lesley Hering at the Strathmore RCMP Detachment at (403) 934-6552. Website: www.strathmoreregionalvictimservices.com

Wheatland County Food Bank Urgently requires VOLUNTEER SCREEN-ERS. Please call Sylvia at 403-934-5287 or WFCSS at 403-934-5335 for info.

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GRAHAM, Sherry LynnDecember 2, 1967 – February 13, 2013

With deep sadness her family announces the sudden passing of Sherry Graham of Strathmore, Alberta. Sherry was predeceased by her mother Carol Graham in 2004. She leaves cherished memories with her loving family: husband, Maciej Paluch; sister Michelle and her husband Kurtis Rikstad; brother Stephen Graham; niece Nikita Kramer (Nathan Lunn); mother-in-law Helena Paluch; and brother-in-law Jan Paluch. Sherry was born in Windsor, Ontario and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. She spent the past six years in Strathmore. The family would like to thank the caring and compassionate staff at the Tom Baker Cancer Center and the Foothills Hospital. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be made directly to the Canadian Diabetes Association (2323-32 Avenue N.E., Calgary, T2E 6Z3) or the Canadian Cancer Society (200, 325 Manning Road N.E., Calgary, T2E 2P5). A Celebration of Life was held on Sunday, February 17, 2013 at the Strathmore Royal Canadian Legion Hall (230 Second Avenue) at 2:00 p.m. To send condolences, please visit www.wheatlandfuneralhome.ca.

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MILDRED FRASER is turning 100!

A party will be held at the Bassano Community Hall, March 2, 2013, from 2-4pm

Friends and family welcome.

Missing YouRon Wonnick {February 12, 2010}

Three years have passed since that sad dayWhen the one we loved was called away.

We think of you with love today and that is nothing new, We thought about you yesterday and days before that too; We think of you in silence and often speak your name, But all we have is memories and your picture in a frame.

God took you home, it was His will, where no lon-ger there is pain, And tho’ we love and miss you so, in God’s good time we’ll be with you again.

Lovingly remembered, your family,Gladys, Sherry, Mike, Lori, Lindsay,

Jordy, Zach, Ben, and Emma

Lorne LochheadSeptember 24, 1939 -

February 24, 2011

May you rest in peace, dear father, until we meet again.

Sons ~ Greg, Ray & Ken and families

Lorne LochheadSeptember 24, 1939 - February 24, 2011

A silent thought, a secret tear,Keeps his memory ever dear,Time takes away the edge of grief,But memory turns back every leaf.

Lovingly remembered and sadly missed ~ Wife Elaine

The Hussar Curling Club would like to send a

big “Thank You” to the teams that entered our

Men’s Bonspiel - a special thanks to the out of town teams that entered - your support is

greatly appreciated.

We would also like to thank the following for their generous cash and prize donations to help make our bonspiel such a success and

allow us to have much higher payouts for the winner’s:

Chinook Credit Union Ltd. - Hussar Branch • Doug’s Earthmoving Ltd.

• Jepson Petroleum Ltd. • Sage Farms Ltd. • Richardson Pioneer - Hussar

• Kevin & Barb Slemko

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HOLTAN, ValborgOctober 21, 1916 – January 13, 2013

The family of Val Holtan will host a celebration of Val’s life on Saturday March 2, 2013 at the Strathmore Travelodge (350 Ridge Road, Strathmore) from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served and memories shared. Friends are invited to drop by. To send condolences, please visit www.wheatlandfuneralhome.ca.

KNUDSEN, Carl Eric

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our husband, father, grandfather,

and great-grandfather at the Strathmore Hospital on February 18, 2013 at the age of 79 years after a long battle with Alzheimers. Carl Eric Knudsen was born in Bassano on June 11, 1933 and lived and farmed near Hussar for most of his life. He was predeceased by his parents Karl and Sigrid Knudsen. Eric leaves to mourn his passing his loving wife of 57 years, Shirley; three children Kathy (Wayne) Dundas, Robert (Rae-Ann) Knudsen, and Donna (Glenn) Carlson; grandchildren Lana (Greg) and Blair (Rachel) Dundas, Leah, Debbie, and Carl Knudsen, Erin (Garry) Harwood, Josie (Mike) Green, and Laurel Carlson; and great-grandchildren Avery Dundas, Spencer Bates, and Olivia Harwood. Eric was very proud of his family, his farm, and his community and they were the focal points of his life. A celebration of Eric’s life will be held on Friday, February 22, 2013 at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church (Hussar) at 1:30 p.m. with Pastor Dan Hendrickson officiating. Coffee will follow at the Hussar Community Hall. To send condolences, please visit www.wheatlandfuneralhome.ca. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made directly to the Alzheimer’s Association of Calgary – Research (#201-222 58 Ave. S.W., Calgary, T2H 2S3).


Despite losing their final two regular season games, including a 6-3 defeat to their upcoming first-round opponent, the Wheatland Kings are excited to start the post-season.

The local Junior-B team lost a pair of meaningless games to the Cochrane Generals on Feb. 15, before falling 3-2 in overtime to the third-ranked Medi-cine Hat Cubs the following day.

The Kings, who clinched the fourth seed in the South Division earlier this month, couldn’t move up or down in the standings entering this past week-end.

Now the focus of the team switches gears, as the Kings face the Generals in the South Survivor Series, which started Feb. 20 at the Strathmore Fam-ily Centre (result of Game 1 was not available as of press time).

According to Kings head coach Doug Murphy, the Generals had various is-sues to start the season before getting their act together in the second half. Even well before the playoffs started, he knew Cochrane would be a team to contend with.

Now his team will have their hands full trying to beat them in the best-of-three series.

Game 2 is in Cochrane on Feb. 22 and Game 3, if necessary, is slated for Feb. 23 (8 p.m.) at the Strathmore Fam-ily Centre.

The winner will face the top-ranked Okotoks Bisons in a best-of-seven se-ries beginning on Feb. 24, while Coal-dale and Medicine Hat will face off in the other South playoff series.

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The Wheatland Kings played their final regular season game Feb. 16 at the Strathmore Family Centre, falling 3-2 to medicine Hat. The Kings will face Cochrane in the South Survivor Series in the first round of the playoffs.

A Big ThAnk You to all who attended the

Cheadle Lions 9th Annual Family Day Breakfast.

To see all the young children having fun and getting our community together gives our Lions Club further proof that

our Family Day Breakfast is a very worthwhile project.

A special ThAnk You to our long time supporters: Neil & Sarah Kennedy

of Sobey’s and Landmark Feeds. Your support for all 9 years of our

Family Day Breakfast has been vital to it’s success.

ThAnk You to our musical entertainment Mr. Jim Risdon. Jim you

add a lot of atmosphere to our day. We think you do an amazing job!And finally, ThAnk You to our

Mayor of Strathmore Steve Grajczyk and Brooks-Strathmore MLA Jason Hale

for taking time out of their own Family Day plans to help make

ours more special.It is our privilege to serve

this community.Cheadle Lions Club

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HOST FAMILIES NEEDED. Northern Youth Abroad is looking for families to host 2 youth from Nunavut/NWT. Volunteering in your commu-nity. July/August; www.nya.ca. 1-866-212-2307.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS. C.A. MacLean/Fred Row Journalism bursaries. Help us locate a deserving indi-vidual from your community who would like to pursue a career in print journalism. Applications must be re-ceived by February 22, 2013. For further information, con-tact your local weekly news-paper or the Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association, 1-800-282-6903 ext. 225; www.awna.com.

AUctions7th ANNUAL COLLECTOR CAR Auction & Speed Show, March 15 - 17/13, Red Deer Westerner Park. Featuring Big Schwag & indoor car show! Exhibitor space avail-able. Consign your car; es-tate today. 1-888-296-0528 ext. 102; EGauctions.com.

CLOSEOUT AUCTION. Feb. 23. Schultz Construction. Woodworking equipment, tools, hardware, pickups, cargo trailer, office furniture, inventory, skidsteer. Phone 780-944-9144; www.Centu-ryServices.com.

MEIER GUN AUCTION. Satur-day, March 9, 11 a.m., 6016 - 72A Ave., Edmonton. Over 150 guns - handguns, rifles, shotguns, miscellaneous. Call to consign 780-440-1860.

For sALeSAWMILLS from only $3997. Make money & save money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & DVD; www.NorwoodSaw-mills.com/400OT. 1-800-566-6899 ext. 400OT.

METAL ROOFING & SIDING. Best prices! 36” Hi-Tensile TUFF-Rib 29ga. Galvalume $.67 sq. ft. Colours $.82 sq. ft. 40 Year Warranty. ALTA-WIDE Builders Supplies 1-888-263-8254.

DISCONNECTED PHONE? Phone Factory Home Phone Service. No one refused! Low monthly rate! Call-ing features and unlimited long distance available. Call Factory today! 1-877-336-2274; www.phonefactory.ca

BIG BUILDING SALE. “This is a clearance you don’t want to miss!” 20x20 $3,985, 25x24 $4,595, 30x36 $6,859, 35x48 $11,200, 40x52 $13,100, 47x76 $18,265. One end wall included. Pio-neer Steel 1-800-668-5422; www.pioneersteel.ca.

FOR SALE - To be Moved. Various sizes and styles of buildings available. For further information call 1-866-451-6395 / 1-403-279-6395 or visit www.mc-cannsbldgmovers.com.

STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100, sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206; www.crownsteelbuildings.ca. HOVERCRAFT FOR SALE. 2011 Hoverjet G.T., less than 10 hours on unit. Built for any wet terrain. 400 pound capacity. $18,000. obo. Ad-ditional information 403-223-1200.

motorcycLesWIN A 2013 HARLEY-DA-VIDSON Street Glide FLHX. Only 499 tickets sold. 3 Early Bird draws. $100./ticket. June 21 draw. 75% sold out. Proceeds support Harley-Davidson Technician Program at GPRC Fairview Campus. 1-888-999-7882; www.gprc.ab.ca/fairview.

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YUK YUK’s3 Comedians & Door Prizes

Lyalta HallMarch 2, 2013

Door Opens & Cocktails: 5:30pm

Supper: 6:30pmShow: 8pm

Tickets: $35/person

Call Kim 403-934-9964or Bobbi-Jo403-200-1489

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WHEATLAND CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION

HuNTER TRAININg COuRSE

March 9, 10 & 16, 2013$30/per person

(Require 10 students for classes)

Call Darrell403-934-7360 days

403-934-6428 evenings

How To Talk So Kids Will Listen

Wheatland F.C.S.S. presents the six-week parenting course by Co-Authors

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish for parents of children ages 5 to 14

• Be heard without nagging, lecturing, yelling, bribing!

• Manage Feelings (eg. anger, disappointment, frustration)

• gain Co-operation to willing do: homework, clean up, get ready for school,

eat meals, go to bed, daily chores• DisCipline MethoDs that Make sense

and work for both parent and chld

Fees include a workbook: $25/person or $40/couple

Starting February 28, March 7, 14, 20, April 11 & 18, 2013 (Dates are on

Wednesday or Thursday). 7pm to 9pmClasses will be held at Carseland Jetsetters

Club, 330 Railway Ave, Carseland.To register phone WFCSS at 934-5335 by Feb. 22.

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2008 CheVy uplander 7 pass bucket seats p/l p/w a/c atcrear heat/a/c

183k $7,499

2003 Ford F550 2 wheel dr. crew cab, 6.0 l diesel, 210 k, large service body $6,999

2009 Ford F250 ext cab s/b 4x4 5.4 v8 auto atc p/l p/w 111k $11,900.

2008 honda ridGeline loaded, 157k $13,999

2009 F550 4x4, 6.4 diesel, r/c, chassis, 186k $16,999

honda 2008 450r raCinG Quad MiNt coNditioN $4,999

20 Ft Car trailer with tilt deck $3,500

1998 GMC Cube Van diesel, 285 k $2,999

2005 GMC ext Cab short box 12x4, air tilt cruise, pl, pw 263,000 kM $6,999

2008 GMC 1500 ext Cab 2wd s/b p/l p/w p/M p/l carpet auto atc $9,800

2007 Ford F350 xlt ext Cab l/b 4x4 6.0 diesel p/l p/w atc p/s 172k $11,900

1999 dodGe 2500 CarGo Van 163k $5,999

1987 tanduM duMp truCK GraVel oN propaNe $5,999

1995 Ford F350 w/ 16” Cubebuilt iN reefer, 145 kM $5,999

2006 Ford F250 ext CarGo Van175k, air/tilt/cruise/New tires $8,499

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MONTGOMERY AUCTION Sales Center. Sat., Feb. 23/13, 10 a.m. 26514 TWP 400, Blackfalds, Alberta. Selling sheet metal equip-ment, vehicles, ATV’s, tarp buildings, saddles, squeeze, meat equipment, building supplies, Com.RO System, toys, dolls, shop tools & more. See www.montgom-eryauctions.com or call 1-800-361-6963.

MGM FORD Lincoln Sales Ltd. 3010 - 50 Ave., Red Deer, Alberta. Sat., Mar. 2/13, 10 a.m. All surplus equipment & assets includ-ing portable sales office, dry van, forklift, hoists, shop equipment, chain link fenc-ing, office furniture & more. See www.montgomeryauc-tions.com or call 1-800-371-6963.

1 HOME QTR & 18 Parcels of Farmland - Davidson, Saskatchewan. Sorgaard Ranches Ltd - 2290+/- title acres. 3 bedroom bungalow, 30 X 50 ft. garage, selling at the Saskatoon Auction March 19/13. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers: 1-800-491-4494; rbauction.com.

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C-Can Storage

Storage unitS available. 8’ x 20’, rodent and weather resistant sea can units. Located in a well lite fenced secure yard in Spruce Park.

Reasonable rates.

Call 403-901-5255

Piano Tuner -Technician

30 Years of ‘Noted’ Piano Service!

Kathie L. ZakreskyGraduate of The Hal T.M. Lyne School of Piano Technology 1981

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DATING SERVICE. Long-term/short-term relation-ships. Free to try! 1-877-297-9883. Live intimate conversation, Call #7878 or 1-888-534-6984. Live adult 1on1 Call 1-866-311-9640 or #5015. Meet local single ladies. 1-877-804-5381. (18+).

TRUE PSYCHICS! 4 Answers call now 24/7 Toll Free 1-877-342-3036; Mobile: # 4486; http://www.truepsy-chics.ca.

MONEYPROV IDER .COM. $500 loan and +. No credit refused. Fast, easy, 100% secure. 1-877-776-1660.

CRIMINAL RECORD? Think: Canadian pardon. U.S. travel waiver. (24 hour record check). Divorce? Simple. Fast. Inexpensive. Debt re-covery? Alberta collection to $25,000. Calgary 403-228-1300/1-800-347-2540; www.accesslegalresearch.com.

IS YOUR CRIMINAL record limiting your future? Want it gone? Have it removed to-day! Canada’s #1 record re-moval providers since 1989. 1-8-NOW-PARDON (1-866-972-7366); www.RemoveY-ourRecord.com.

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FOR SALE – 2008 HONDA CIVIC HYBRID, blue, 1.3L, 4 Cylinder, auto, FWD, brand new winter tires, great on gas, only used for high-way driving. 175,000kms. $10,000. Contact: 403-928-4123.

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Now HiriNg - F.T. at the Strathmore Station - Kitch-en Helpers 11.30/hr expe-rience preferred, but will train. F.T. Cook $13.61/hr 3-5 years experience re-quired. Mail resume to 380 ridge road, Strathmore, AB T1P 1B5 or Fax 403-934-9390 or Email: [email protected].

EArN SoME ExTrA CASH! Performalogics is looking for Customer Service Evalua-tors in the Strathmore area. For details call 1-888-855-7467 or login to www.per-formalogics.com.

oPErATor- EPCor wa-ter Services is looking for someone with a strong service orientation, excel-lent work ethic and the abil-ity to work collaboratively within a team dynamic to fill one full-time temporary operator position based out of Strathmore, Alberta for up to 18 months. To review the requirements of this role, and to apply, please refer to irC26791 on EPCor’s ca-reer website http://www.ep-cor.ca/careers. Application deadline: March 4, 2013

Feed and SeedHEATED 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. For SALE: Alfalfas, Clovers, grasses plus Hay, Pasture, reclamation and Lawn Mix-tures. Early order discounts - Book now! No charge cus-tom blending. Call 1-800-661-1529 or [email protected].

Gold Key Insurance has positions available for a

lIcensed Insurance broKer

• Part time and full time positions available• Competitive wages and benefits, must be licensed

Please email resume to:

[email protected]

STAFF ACCOUNTANT / ACCOUNTING TECHNICIANFlexible and dynamic work environment ... Competitive wages and benefits

As an Accounting Technician / Staff Accountant your main responsibilities would be the preparation of year end files, financial statements, corporate and personal tax returns. We are seeking an energetic, driven individual with experience in account-ing and related software such as QuickBooks, Simply Accounting and/or Ag-Expert. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications is required; with emphasis on Excel. An agricultural background would be considered an asset. The right candidate would be considered for either a part or full time position.

Please fax or email your cover letter and resume by February 22, 2013 to: Attention : Nicki Heck GREGORY, HARRIMAN & ASSOCIATES LLP #104, 331 – Third Avenue, Strathmore, AB T1P 1T5 FAX (403) 934-3182 [email protected]

Located 15 min south of StrathmoreSPEARGRASS GOLF COURSE

SPEARGRASS GOLF COURSE IS HIRING FOR THE 2013 GOLF SEASON

(approximately March 15 - Nov 15)

RESTAURANT SERVERSBEVERAGE CART STAFF

COOKSGROUNDS MAINTENANCE

Seeking full-time & part-time seasonal staff for all areas of the operation:

Speargrass Golf Course is pleased to offer competitive wages, year-end bonuses, meal

discounts, $5 golf and a great work atmosphere.

Read job descriptions & apply online at:

www.speargrass.ca

Resumes and cover letters, indicating position(s) applying for, can also be faxed to

403-901-1139 or e-mailed to [email protected].

Strathmore High SchoolRequires the following:

FOOD SERVICES ASSISTANTThis is a part-time position of approximately 10-12 hours a week providing support in our cafeteria. Duties include some basic food prep and cashing out. Experience in these two areas is an assett but not essential.

Send resume to:Doug Raycroft, Associate Principal

Strathmore High School100 Brent Blvd.,

Strathmore, AB T1P 1V2Fax: 403 934-6694

Email: [email protected]: February 20, 2013

Town of STraThmore Where Quality of Life is A Way of Life

PARKS DEPARTMENTSEASONAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Competition #TOS 2013-002

Parks Crew LeaderMay 1 – Aug 31/13 (approx)

2 vacancies – 40 hr work week, may work weekendsGrade 12 or equivalency

Valid Class 5 Driver’s LicenseMust possess supervisory and turf or parks equipment experience

Parks OperatorsMay 1 – Aug 31/13 (approx)

Multiple vacancies – 40 hr work week, may work weekendsGrade 12 or equivalency

Valid Class 5 Driver’s LicenseTurf or parks equipment experience an asset

Parks Horticulturist May 1 – Aug 31/13 (approx)

1 vacancy – 40 hr work week, may work weekendsValid Class 5 Driver’s License

Must possess supervisory and Horticulture experience

Those interested in applying should submit a complete resume to:Shannon Cuff

Human ResourcesTown of Strathmore

680 Westchester Road, Strathmore, AB T1P 1J1Email: [email protected]

(When emailing please quote the competition number and position in subject line)

Visit our website at www.strathmore.ca

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those contacted will be granted an interview.

Wheatland Pharmacy requires a

Pharmacy assistant(Canadian certified)

Submit resumes to:

414 Main Street, Gleichen, AB

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226-347-8040

NEwCArT CoNTrACTiNg LTD. is hiring for the up-coming turnaround season. Journeyman/Apprentice; Pipefitters; welders; Boil-ermakers; riggers. Also: Quality Control; Towers; Skilled Mechanical Labourer; welder Helpers. Email: [email protected]. Fax 1-403-729-2396. Email all safety and trade tickets.

CENTrAL PEACE NATUrAL gas Co-op Ltd. requires full-time gas Utility operator. Experience, safety tickets an asset. Clean valid driver’s licence required. Forward resume: [email protected]. Fax 780-864-2044. Mail: Box 119, Spirit river, T0H 3g0.

VAC & STEAM Truck opera-tor. Valid Class 1 or 3, Safety Tickets, Top wage, Benefits, Camp work, Experience an Asset. Email/Fax resume: 780-458-8701, [email protected].

iNTErESTED iN the Commu-nity Newspaper business? Alberta’s weekly newspa-pers are looking for people like you. Post your resume online. FrEE. Visit: www.awna.com/resumes_add.php.

Now LoCATED in Drayton Valley. BrEKKAAS Vacuum & Tank Ltd. wanted Class 1 & 3 Drivers, Super Heater opera-tors with all valid tickets. Top wages, excellent benefits. Please forward resume to: Email: [email protected]. Phone 780-621-3953. Fax 780-621-3959.

help wanTed help wanTed help wanTed help wanTed help wanTedJoUrNEYMAN HD me-chanic required for oilfield construction company. Du-ties will include servicing, maintenance and overhaul of our equipment. The job will be predominately shop work, but with a portion of your time spent in the field. A mechanic’s truck will be supplied for you. The job is based in Edson, Alberta. Call Lloyd at 780-723-5051. $100 - $400 CASH DAiLY for landscaping work! Com-petitive, energetic, honesty a must; PropertyStarsJobs.com.

EArN ExTrA CASH! Part-time, full-time immediate openings for men & women. Easy computer work, other positions are available. Can be done from home No experience needed; www.AlbertaJobLinks.com.

DriVErS wANTED. Terrific career opportunity with out-standing growth potential to learn how to locate rail defects. No rail experience needed! Extensive paid travel, meal allowance, 4 weeks vacation & benefits package. Skills needed - Ability to travel 3 months at a time, valid licence with air brake endorsement. Com-pensation based on prior driving experience. Apply at www.sperryrail.com under careers, keyword Driver. Do not fill in city or state.

CLASS oNE Tank Truck Driv-ers needed. off road experi-ence needed, oilfield tickets, accommodations available. Production work. Email: [email protected]. Fax 780-538-0968. Email preferred. Phone 780-817-8027.

PYrAMiD CorPorATioN is now hiring! instrument Tech-nicians and Electricians for various sites across Alberta. Send resume to: [email protected] or fax 780-955-HirE.

BArrHEAD & DiSTriCTS Co-op Home Center is recruit-ing Assistant Home Center Manager. Apply with resume to the Home Center Barrhe-ad; Attention: Don graham; [email protected].

wANTED - water & Vacuum Truck operators. Class 3 w/Q-endorsement, H2S, First Aid, PST, CSTS. Mechanically inclined. Day-rate benefits. Fax 403-934-3487. Email: [email protected].

TowN oF PoNoKA Employ-ment opportunity - Utility operator ii - water works. Position details at www.po-noka.org or email: [email protected].

FAMiLY BASED ATV motor-cycle business seeking self-motivated Sales Associate. Must be outdoor enthusiast. Business minded team play-er with excellent computer skills. Full-time salary. Po-tential for bonuses. Apply to: gateway Sales and Service Ltd., Box 1468, rocky Moun-tain House, AB, T4T 1B1; [email protected].

roADEx SErViCES requires o/o 1 tons for our rV division and o/o Semis and driv-ers for our rV and general freight deck division to haul throughout North America. Paid by direct deposit, bene-fits and company fuel cards. Border crossing required with valid passport and clean criminal record. 1-800-867-6233; www.roadexservices.com.

BAKoS NDT is hiring quali-fied CgSB Technicians in whitecourt, Edmonton and grande Prairie. Benefit pack-age, signing bonus and profit sharing available. Email: [email protected] or call 1-888-763-5575.

FULL-TiME MEAT CUTTEr required at Sobeys in olds, Alberta. 40 hours per week. Benefits. Fax resume to 1-403-556-8652.

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Personal Pet Care & Training

Leslie Kallen Certified

Internationally 10 Maple Garden

Strathmore, AB T1P1G3

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Pet SittingDog Walking

Puppy & Kitten Care

Midday breaksPrivate lessons

Problem solving Pet Taxi

Brought to you by Growing Families Society - Bridging the Gap Program, Lord of All Lutheran Church and the

Wheatland County Food Bank Society

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Tuesday, February 19Spanish/Mexican Culture

Topic – Healthy Eating for Diabetes11:00 am to 1 pm

Growing Families Societyfor East Rural Counties

Bridging the Gap Lunch cLuB

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Facility Space Donated By:Lord of All Lutheran Church,

112 Lakeside Blvd. StrathmoreCost: Voluntary Offering

(which will be applied to the food costs)

This project is funded in part by Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program.

To register, call Marg at 403-901-7811, by the Friday prior to the Tuesday.

You are invited for fun & socialization in preparing a group lunch

Cooking Together

Program

Cooking Together

Program

Wednesday, February 27 Casseroles are Comfort Foods

11 am to 1 pmNext gathering is March 28, 2013

Facility Space Donated By: Standard Seniors Centre

to register, call Lin at 403-324-6641,

by the Monday prior to the Wednesday session.

Brought to you by Growing Families Society - Bridging the Gap Program, Standard Seniors Centre

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For sale rED ANgUS and BLACK ANgUS bulls. Year-lings and 2 year olds. Semen tested and delivered. Mardy Skibsted 403-934-2571.

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HiriNg - F.T. Server $9.75/hr no experience required, will train. F.T. Kitchen Helper at the roadhouse restau-rant - $11.30/hr experience preferred, but will train. F.T. Cook $13.61/hr 3-5 years experience required. Mail resume to: 510 Hwy #1 Strathmore AB T1P1M6.

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LOT 6CANAL CROSSINGLIGHT INDUSTRIAL LOT FOR SALE(ZONED M-1)16.18 ACRES (APPROX.)





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2 bedrooms

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1165 - 1310 Sq. Ft. Units

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ONLY 20 Units!!in this 55plus condo community

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Local award winning business is for sale. There are three purchase options available. Customer list with all related marketing tools included is option A. Option B is this in addition to a cargo trailer. Option C is the above plus a 2005 Dodge 2500 vehi-cle. There is an option that is sure to fit your budget. Serious inquiries only can be directed to [email protected]

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RETAIL SPACE 1200 sqft. main with 800 sqft. ware-house. High traffic area. 403-901-5255

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DRIVE-IN BAY FOR LEASE. 600ft2 plus mezzanine, 12 foot entrance door, Separate bathroom area, former tire shop/detailing bay, good ac-cess to Highway #1. Perfect for a mechanic or general workbay/storage. Available immediately! $700/month plus common costs. Contact Shane @ (403) 669-4874.

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Call lorna Phibbs

403-874-7660 to buy

or sell!

106 - 304 - 3rd Ave., Strathmore

[email protected]

Associate Broker

32 Years Experience

1185 SQ. FT. BUNGHARDWOOD AND GRANITE

FULLY DEV. LOWERDOUBLE FRONT ATT

GARAGE.

THE “WOW” FACTOR$319,400

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Custom Designed 5 Bdrm Home. Over 1500 sq. ft.

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$469,900!

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ONLY $274,900COZY BUNGALOWGREAT COUNTRY

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STRATHMORE$329,900

OVER 1300 SQ FTFULLY DEV LOWER

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Corner condo unit. Full basement

developed. Price $143,545.

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Nine years new Townhouses

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rentalsCHINOOK III. 1 bdrm $800/mth or 2 bdrm for $900/mo +DD required. Heat & water included. No pets. Call Keli 403-324-2944

RENT TO OWN in ROCKY-FORD for $1450/mnt, Less than perfect Credit is OK. Owner will finance. Call To-day 1-877-700-2413

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real estateLovely 1-BD/1-BATH up-dated condo in great no pet 30+ complex. $149,900. #107 43 Westlake Circle MLS C3532342 Call Karen Crosby, First Place Realty 403-680-0424.

rentals2 BDRM CONDO FOR RENT. Downtown Strathmore. $975/mo + electricity. Newly renovated. Call 403-540-0340.

60’x48’ WAREHOuSE WITH 19’x16’ OFFICE located in Rockyford. $1600/mo + util-ities. Contact 403-533-3801 or 403-560-6265.

LAND FOR SALE by Ten-der. Closes Feb. 28/13. 2 quarters 8 miles north of Thorhild. Can be purchased separately. North quarter buildings can be purchased separately. Gas well revenue. Call 780-206-0145.

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2 Canal Side LotsHillcrest Manor

9’ Walk-outs60’x 142’

Canyon Creek 403.934.2001

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Tina ScottAssociate Broker

403-901-5388 cell

“We Have You... on the Move”

104 3rd Avenue, Strathmore“The Old Home Hardware Building”

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CHInooK II Condo living! a won-derful two bdrm adult lifestyle unit. $950.00, 2 appl, , parking inc., coin laundry in bldg, cable/electricity extra. no pets. Call luella at 403-934-5731 or em-erald Management & realty ltd. at 403-237-8811.

#8 westMoUnt DrIVenewly renovated! 2 bdrm, 1½ bath town-house w/balcony, w/D & parking. rent $1,100 plus utilities. located across from park, near westmount school. no pets. Call luella at 403-934-5731 or emerald Management & realty ltd. at 403-237-8811.

2 BDRM TRAILER FOR RENT, 5 miles from Strathmore. 5 appliances, $900/mo in-cludes water & power. Refer-ences and Security Deposit required. 403-934-3196.

FOR RENT: Large Executive Top Floor One Bedroom, One Bathroom Condo W/2 under-ground heated parking stalls and storage overlooking the Strathmore Lake. Granite Counters throughout and in-floor heat. $1200/per month. Call 403-390-1414 to make this condo your home!

2 BDRM CONDO, 5 appli-ances, 1 vehicle covered parking, storage shed, quiet location, close to park, school & downtown. $1100/mo. Includes all utilities & cable and DD required N/S, N/P. 403-650-2498.

rentalsBRENTWOOD 3 BEDROOM, large fenced yard, close to schools. N/P, N/S. $1000 per month plus utilities. Available Feb 1. Call after 6, 403-934-2265.

BuNGALOW IN DOWNTOWN STRATHMORE. 3 BDRM up, 2 finished rooms down, 2 bath. $1200/month. utili-ties NOT included. 403-934-6676.

#19 westMoUnt DrIVenewly renovated! 2 bdrm, 1½ bath town-house w/private fenced south facing yard & patio, w/D & park-ing. rent $1,150 plus utilities. located near westmount school. no pets. Call luella at 403-934-5731 or emerald Management & realty ltd. at 403-237-8811.

#25 westMoUnt DrIVe2 bdrm, 1½ bath townhouse w/park-ing & w/D hookups. Coin laundry in com-plex . rent $995 plus utilities.. located near westmount school. no pets. Call luella at 403-934-5731 or emerald Management & realty ltd. at 403-237-8811.

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FOR SALE BY OWNER

242RANCHWOOD

LANE$144,900

FOR SALE BY OWNER

242RANCHWOOD

LANE$144,900

1440 sq. ft. n/p, n/s home, with 3 bedrooms and 1 3/4 baths in gated land-lease community;

20 X 15 detached garage; 8 x 8 storage shed.Check out the peninsula fireplace in open concept

kitchen/dining/living room; vaulted ceiling with skylight.Stunning curb appeal in summer highlighted by

flower beds framed with curved-brick.

To arrange viewing

Ph. (403)901-7116 or E-Mail [email protected]

2 Bedroom- 1 Bath Log CaBin

w/valley view.

Located on private ranch. 25 mins S of Strathmore, 30 mins

E of Calgary.$1100/month + utilities, horse boarding avail. N/S. Lease &

security deposit required.

403-934-2637

RE/MAX Platinum Club, Hall of Fame, 100% Club • MLS Million Dollar Club 25 Years Serving Strathmore & Rural areas.

• 1200+sqft 2 Bedroom 2 Bath Open Concept • Large Kitchen/Dining Area

40+Adult Living in Strathmore Lakes $259,900

• Master w/his and her closet and ensuite

• Bay windows, Vaulted Ceilings, Newer Appliances

• Club house, RV Parking and Much More!!

Please see our Virtual Tour MLS#C3548265

Green Meadows $425,000

• Custom Built 1490+ SQFT Walkout Raised Bungalow

Please see our Virtual Tour MLS# C3551687

• Fully Finished, Infloor Heat, Oak Cabinets, Maple hardwood Floors• 4 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms• Oversized Double Garage w/Radiant Heat• Main Floor Laundry, and MUCH MUCH MORE!!

• 1300+SqFt 4 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom, Bungalow w/Unspoiled basement

Close to School & Park$259,900

• Oak built in entertainment centre, Hard-wood, and custom Cabinets• Kitchen has Jen air counter top stove, Newer appliances,cooking island• Jetted tub, New Shingles, Newer siding, Newer Hot Water Tank. MUST SEE!!


Absolutely Beautiful Home on 20 Acres $649,900

-1656 SqFt. Walkout Hillside Bungalow


• Heated 40’x64’ SHOP• High energy eff. pellet BOILER• In floor heat main and lower levels• 6 Bedrooms-OAK HARDWOOD Flooring throughout

Beautiful 2 Story in Quiet Cul-De-Sac in Cambridge $369,900

• 2500+SqFt fully finished 4 bedroom+Den On massive Private Lot


• Huge Entry, living room, kitchen, dining area w Low E Windows and Hardwood Floors• Massive Master w/beautiful his and her en suite, walk in closet • Upper Laundry, BEAUTIFUL HOME!!

Nice Little Bungalow located close to Shopping and Public Library $229,900

• 2.99%= $1048.00 PI/OAC• Bungalow on


Large Lot w/unspoiled Basement• Good size kitchen, living room & Master• Addition w/covered deck attached• Attached carport, metal roof, back lane access, Newer Hot Water Tank and upgraded electrical!!

Commercial Bay in Canal Gardens $229,900


• 1200 sq ft HEATED with 14’ overhead door

• Minimal condo fees - very clean• Built in 2008.• Immediate possession

BESIDE GREEN SPACE 40+ ADULT LIVING $294,900


• Double Attached Garage• Open Floor Plan w/hardwood, Vaulted CeilingsSoLD

• Large eat in kitchen w/oak cabinets and pantry• 3 Bedrooms up, Fully finished Basement• Master has jetted tub, Main Floor Laundry • Sauna, MUST SEE!!!

Fully Finished Half Duplex$224,900


• 950+SqFt 4 Bedroom, 2 Full Bath w/nice laminate flooring

• Front single attached garage,veranda,huge Newer back Deck, Fully Fenced, Back Lane Access• Open Concept, Large kitchen/Dining area, Functional Floor Plan!!

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• 2.99%= $745.00 PI/OAC”• 3 Bedroom, wheel chair access w/lift

Nicely Renovated in Brentwood $159,900

• Newer furnace, carpet, lino, deck, cabinets, counter top, toilet, sink, vinyl windows, and more!• Large yard with 2 wooden sheds one with alarm system, Mature trees and fenced MUST SEE!!


• 1200+sqft Cozy Bungalow on a large corner lot • Spacious Living room,

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Country kitchen w/loads of cup-boards, • 3 bedrooms, walking distance to all amenities• Unspoiled basement awaiting your touches MUST SEE!!


oUR RECENT SALES

In this slower time we have still been busy: • 834 Bayview Road

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• 35 Aspen Creek Way• 7 Greenview Way• 29 Westlake Circle

• 202-204 Centre Street• 34 Greenmeadows Cres.

• 117 9th Ave, Standard

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Strathmore, AB

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Professional Directory

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Complete Shop Facilities

Murray 403-934-2675 cell 403-540-8264

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Backing onto Griffith Woods! This stunning home has so much to offer with all the

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call SheilaHave you ever REALLY

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Over 2400sq ft in total this home has lots to offer.

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Great Curb appeal on the outside! Beautiful on the inside! Fully developed

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$168,900!All on one floor, this 2

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perfeCt CondoBeautiful 3 berm condo.

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handy man speCiaL $99,900!

House and land included in price! Loads of work

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