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What a pleasant surpriseThe weather has turned and its super niceFor baskets, pots, a shrub or a treeBobtail Nursery is the place to be!Chicken coops, bark mulch, fountains and moreWe even have a cool gift storeSo come take a stroll thru our doorAnd try not to let your jaw hit the fl oor!
This is my 5th year working as the School Social Worker at Ponoka Outreach. I enjoy the positive and energetic atmosphere that both staff and students bring to the school.
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Monday, June 1All students welcome to attend
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BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE
Results of the recently conducted Ponoka Down-town Survey are in and town planners are looking at how that information can benefit the downtown area.
The survey was host-ed by the Downtown Revitalization and Heri-tage Committee, explained chairperson and Coun. Teri Underhill. Participants were invited to answer a set num-ber of questions as well as offer comments.
There were 124 par-ticipants to the survey and despite the low number, Un-derhill was pleased with the involvement. She says some communities are lucky to get numbers like that.
Underhill feels the ma-jority of comments were positive although there was one she felt she needed to clarify. One respondent of the survey stated the town does not allow certain busi-nesses such as shoe and
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clothing stores into Ponoka. “Right now about all
visitors can purchase is gas-oline, groceries, fast food and booze,” the survey re-spondent continued. “Some owners are simply charging too much rent.”
Underhill said coun-cillors and administration have no say over what business comes into town. “The town has no control over who wants to bring a business or who doesn’t,” explained Underhill.
“All we can do is en-courage it,” she added.
Council and adminis-tration have no power over what a landlord charges, either.
Another respondent suggested “Putting lipstick on a pig doesn’t work. See Chipman Avenue.”
One respondent offered the idea to close Chipman Avenue to cars and create an environment that is con-ducive to open air cafes and musical performances.
“I think Ponoka’s down-town has a great foundation that can be built on. It’s just a matter of the right investments and buy-in from residents and business owners,” suggested another survey participant.
Underhill said some of the users have a valid point about the downtown area. She suggests communities need to change the way they see downtown and how it can be used.
One person suggested the old hospital, which sits on 50 Street near the down-town area, be converted into a museum.
Looking at the ques-tions
Underhill was asked what struck her the most about the survey and she started with results from Question 4, which asked what elements people would like to see developed or improved in the down-town area.
The top choice was pub-lic murals and artwork with 65 votes in favour. For this question, users could pick more than one choice. The next highest options were public washrooms (51), public benches (50) and “other” (50). Information
signage (34) and pedestri-an-only streets (25) were the lowest picked options.
Underhill feels residents want downtown to “reflect the beauty of the town and the people.”
She suggests the top pick of murals and artwork show that residents would prefer to see the area beau-tified.
Another surprise were the results from Question 6: What per cent of personal shopping is done locally?
Of the 124 participants, 42 stated they shop locally 75 per cent of the time, 39 said 50 per cent, another 39 said 25 per cent and four said never.
To bring those numbers into perspective, Question 7 asks what people’s main reason for shopping outside of Ponoka.
Like Question 4, us-ers were able to provide more than one choice and 113 people stated they go outside of town due to bet-
ter selections. Better price and better hours were the next highest at 58 and 47 respectively. Better quality (26), better service (18) and better parking (8) were the other options.
Question 10 related to business owners, which asked how much of a capital investment they would be willing to make as part of the downtown revitalization plan. Here are the results from the 16 submissions: • $500 or lower: 8• $500 to $1,000: 1• $1,000 to $1,500: 2• More than $1,500: 5
While the majority stat-ed under $500 or under the next highest said they would be willing to spend more than $1,500.
Underhill suggests the results from this question need some in depth con-sideration. She says some business owners might be looking at other avenues to improve the downtown area.
“We have work to do to discuss with property own-ers and businesses,” said Underhill.
For full survey results without the comments visit www.ponoka.ca.
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1. Grip putter with your regular grip (light pressure)
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3. Swing putter with a rhythmical motion
4. Control distance with length of backstroke, follow through same length low through to target.
5. Experiment on practice green, learn from your mistakes if ball is going to long or to short adjust back stroke accordingly
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After four years of ser-vice to the Town of Ponoka, RCMP Staff Sgt. Cameron Chisholm is transferring to a new location.
No official announce-ment is expected with regard to Chisholm’s de-parture to his new duty station. Until a new com-mander is appointed, Cpl. Jeff Sehn, assisted by Cpl. Chad Pushie, is expected to be in charge of the overall operational responsibilities for the Ponoka detachment. There is no definitive time-line as to when the new commanding officer will be appointed.
BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE
Police are investigating the theft of four quads from three different locations last week.
RCMP received three reports Tuesday, May 19 that ATVs were stolen over-night out of properties north of Ponoka near along Town-ship Road 435 and 433.
The first report was of a red 2002 Suzuki 500. The second report was of two ATVs stolen with one re-covered, say police. A 2009 black Yamaha Raptor and a 2001 Yamaha, the latter of which was recovered on the Louis Bull Reserve.
The third report was of a 2003 black Suzuki King Quad, which was later found, also on the Louis Bull Reserve. Police have no suspects at this time. Lawnmowers stolen
The next day police took a call that two Mower brand lawnmowers were taken from a business near the Southwest Industrial Park.
Four ATVs reported stolen over one night
Police are asking any-one who has information on the thefts to call the detach-ment or Crime Stoppers. Broken down vehicle found to be stolen
The breakdown of a Chevy Blazer on Highway 2 last week proved to be bad luck for the driver as it turns out the vehicle was reported stolen last fall.
Members of the Ponoka Integrated Traffic Unit noticed the Blazer in the breakdown lanes north-bound on Highway 2 on May 20 at 9 a.m. and came to help out.
The driver, a 33-year-old Red Deer Man was unable to provide a driver’s licence, vehicle registration or insurance and a subse-quent check of the vehicle’s license plate showed it was reported stolen in Septem-ber 2014.
The man initially pro-vided a false name but upon further prompting from po-lice gave his real name. He was charged with posses-sion of stolen property.
There was also a 24-year-old woman passen-ger and a small child in the vehicle. Speedster nabbed with open liquor, marijuana
Speeding at 154 km/h with open liquor and mari-juana in the vehicle and no insurance turned out to be a bad combination for a 21-year-old driver.
Members of the Inte-
grated Traffic Unit pulled the Edmonton driver over on May 23 at 10 p.m. in a 2009 Subaru Impreza for speeding. Upon investiga-tion, an odor of marijuana could be smelled from the vehicle and open liquor was found in the vehicle.
He was charged with possession of marijuana, no insurance and open liquor within reach. There were three other passengers in the vehicle and one of them, a 20-year-old man, was charged with open liquor within reach. Tired driver in possession of marijuana
A tired motorist had some tough questions to an-swer after police found 60 grams of marijuana in his vehicle.
Officers were alerted to an erratic driver May 22 in a Dodge Ram and after pulling the vehicle over the 43-year-old Lethbridge man admitted he was fatigued. A subsequent investigation found marijuana in the ve-hicle.
He was given a 24-hour driving suspension. Other charges were not available at press time.
Ponoka RCMP and the Integrated Traffic Unit took 94 calls for service last week.
If you have information on any crime call Ponoka RCMP at 403-783-4472 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
RCMP Staff Sgt. transferringto a new location
Operations of the Ponoka RCMP detachment and the Ponoka Integrated
Traffic Unit are expected to continue without any hin-drance.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY
PONOKA WORD OF LIFE CHURCHPastor Rob McArthur 403-783-5659
9 miles east on Hwy 53 403-782-9877Jr. Church during service for children
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Religion
Last night, the commu-nity was invited to attend a public information event about Automated Exter-nal Defibrillators (AED’s) which had recently been installed around town.
AED’s, as they are referred to, are portable devices that can check the heart rhythm of a person and if necessary, send an electric shock to the heart to restore a normal rhythm. In worse case scenarios, an AED can be used to bring
God’s AED
Pastor Tim Graff
back to life a heart that has completely stopped beat-ing.
AED’s can certainly save the life of a person, but they cannot fix the problem that caused the heart to stop beating nor-mally in the first place.
There are other kinds of heart beats that exist within people and within the larger community. There are the healthy heart beats that give us that sense of peace, that all is well. Then there are the abnormal rhythms when things are going wrong in our personal lives or in the life of our smaller and larger communities.
A couple of weeks ago, I listened to an aboriginal woman speak with anger and frustration about what was going on for aborigi-nal women in Canada. One of her responses to the problem was to somehow “fix men” so that they wouldn’t be abusive.
This is often our re-sponse to our personal and societal problems. We want to “fix them” with some kind of human AED or worse.
The dilemma we face though is that our attempts to remedy these problems fail to address their causes and most importantly, fail to recognize that the root issue behind these prob-lems is really a spiritual one.
The abnormal life rhythm we feel in our own lives and in the life of our communities is a product of sin – that broken rela-tionship between ourselves and God. Most of us would like to just ignore that and either go on living with ar-rhythmia or attempt to fix things ourselves. However, the results usually end in some form of death.
The AED God brings us is the message that we are sinners and that there is truly nothing we can do to remedy our condition. This spiritual AED is in-tended to wake us up to the reality that life apart from God is a death spiral. The wages of sin is death (Ro-mans 6:23).
However, this spiritual AED called the Law can-not fix our relationship with God. You can’t come to worship or read the
Bible or do enough good things to fix what is wrong with your relationship with God. This AED is only there to show us that our lives are truly a mess and we need the Great Physi-cian.
That Physician is Je-sus Christ who through his life, death and resurrection can actually change the rhythm of our personal and community lives so that through faith our hearts be-gin to beat in rhythm with God’s heart.
I thank God for in-ventions like AED’s, but I am even more thank-ful for those who can surgically fix hearts. More importantly, I thank God for revealing our spiritual sickness and I give great praise to God for the gift of his love in Christ Je-sus who comes to heal the spiritual hearts of all people.
Do we want to see change in our communi-ties? Do we want to see healing in our own lives or in the life of one you care about? It all begins and ends with Christ, the Great Physician.
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Remember When...
Photo courtesy of Delores MorrowFastball and baseball season is now upon us, and here is a great photo
of the 1951-52 Ponoka Flyers Softball team. Shown in the picture from left to right, back row are Shirley Cammidge, Eloise Raper, Vi
Hoar, coach Adolph Kailwet, Audrey Brown, Meagan Morgon and Enid Tweedy; then in the middle are Coach Blondie Doell, unknown,
unknown, and seated in front are unknown, Edna Smith, Muriel Clapp, and unknown. If you know any of the girls we missed please let us
know and please keep these great Remember When? and Reflections photos and stories coming in to the News! Thanks from MDR!
Reflections of Ponoka
May is that glorious month when nature bursts forth in all its finest, and when our youngest school students look forward to final exams and sum-mer holidays, while our Grade 12s prepare for the gala celebration of their once-in-a-lifetime Gradu-ation Day. The proud and long-standing traditions of giving thousands of young town and rural students the opportunity of receiving a good education and having fun in the process has been going on in and around our community and districts for over 115 years.
After the first pioneer families began settling in this area in the late 18th century, they worked hard to establish their homes, farms and businesses, and then looked to the next most important task of building the schools and churches to serve a rapidly growing population. By 1905, there were over 25 mostly log and sod one room school houses
hosting rambunctious new students from all nationali-ties and walks of life in our rural districts, and going into the 19th century, this would zoom to over 70 country sites. Much of the learning done in these early schools was not only by the boys and girls struggling with the basics of the three Rs, but by the poor young teachers ($300-a-year salary) who not only had to teach up to six grades in one small room, but also had to quick-ly learn to adjust to a new and overwhelming environ-ment on the Alberta prairies. These friendly one room schools would also serve as the year-round ‘heart of the district’, often hosting church services, weddings, funerals, pie and box so-cials, concerts, picnics and all sorts of meetings. Their hardy and amazing stories of survival and successes in teaching thousands of students from several fam-ily generations for so many years will also relate their
delightful daily adventures such as starting the old pot-bellied stove and boil-ing some water on a minus 35 degree morning, sitting in those very hard wooden desks all day, and huddled together eating lunch in one room before dashing outside where the world was their playground. There were also many horrific days when just getting to school by horse and buggy or sleigh or walking was a real task, and some lived a few miles away from their school.
The first school class in the Village of Ponoka was held in a church in 1898, but the rapid growth of the community, which became a town in 1904, resulted in the addition of the White School, the Brick School, and countless other large and more modern facilities over the years. Out in the County of Ponoka, the need for larger education facili-ties resulted in the addition of popular country schools such as Mecca Glen, Syl-
Photo from Crestomere Sylvan Heights HeritageThis 1910 class photo was taken in front of the Iowalta School west of Ponoka, which was one of the first of the over 70 one-room country schools that were established in the County of Ponoka and would host generations of students between 1898 and 1959. Shown from left to right in their fine long dresses, trousers, and ties are, back row, left to right, Pat Zielie, Charles Hubbard, Teacher Miss Doris Talbet, Ella and Fred Marquardt; then in the third row are Strausie Taylor, Jessie Hubbard, Cecil Whitecotton, and Harry Taylor. Kneeling in the second row are Jennie Frizzell, Fred Key, Mabel Ingraham, and Zelia Zielie, then sitting in front are Victoria Kinley, Clara Frizzell, Marvel Rowland, and Addie Frizzell.
Early education began in tiny one room schools
I’ll sing you a song of the old one roomed school, a symbol of our pioneer days
It was when men worked together in all kinds of weather regardless of payment or praise
A community grows with the school at the centre, the hub of the wheel we will say
‘Twas used as a hall as many recall, and also a church come every Sunday
Inside of the building the tools of the trade, with desks seating one child or two
There was a pointer so long and a bell to ding-dong for that time when the classes were through
The blackboard was up front with brushes and chalk, and
sometimes a world map on display which rolled up like a blind when not needed to find the name of an ocean or bay
Then down in the corner or quite near the door the pot-bellied stove stood its ground
and when the days were cold or when the thunder rolled each child in the school gathered round.
To get them to school was the worry of parents with a number of children to go, and many a mile was trudged
with a smile through the mud holes or deep snow.The pioneer teachers we must mention, too, who never a
chance would they lose, to help a child’s mind develop and find the path in the future they choose.
And there are so many persons in the high walks of life
who owe their successes they will say to the start that they got and the lessons they were taught in the ‘little old
school down the way.’
Although our educational facilities and teaching skills and technologies may have changed just a little over all those many years when our grandparents, parents, ourselves and our children achieved and enjoyed this age-old ‘adventure in learning’, we must always remind and encourage our vibrant new generations from tots to teens that this keen and excit-ing opportunity to attend school with our buddies was and should always will be the most important and best 12 or so years of our busy and exciting young lives.
The little old school house down the way
BY MIKE RAINONE FOR THE NEWS
van Heights, Usona and Crestomere to teach grades 1 to 9. In the early 1950s, when the County of Ponoka was formed and took over the direction of the school system, the high school stu-
dents were bused into the town schools, and eventu-ally many of those quaint but wonderful one room schools were closed, and while some are only marked by a sign, will always be remembered
as very close and personal and friendly ‘hallowed halls of learning’ from great days gone by. Helen McLennan proudly shared and dedi-cated some of these colorful memories in this song:
6 PONOKA NEWS Wednesday, May 27, 2015
We are realizing yet another grad season, with brilliant young people be-ing sent off to the next stage of their journey with glare and glitter, celebrating the outcome of years of effort put into their studies from kindergarten to Grade 12.
Some will pursue fur-ther studies while others start to put into practice whatever skills they have already acquired in the course of their high school years, being welders, hair-dressers, car mechanics or
Dear Editor:
In five months, in October, we’ll be into another elec-tion, this time a federal election. As the electorate we have important decisions to make. Even at this point in time, before the summer and outdoor activities engage us, and before the fall winds come our way, it is worth thinking about where we want to go as a country.
The campaign rhetoric has not heated up yet, but it’s coming. We will be lambasted with pictures and politi-cal promotions of all kinds, even negative attack ads, who knows, but it would be important that we identify kernels
of genuineness and truth in what sometimes becomes elec-tion mayhem. Messages can be confusing, repetitive, and sometimes misleading so it could be helpful to stake out important ground around our areas of interest.
News media, we know, can only present limited and of-ten very selective pieces of information but there are online resources and good reporting on issues if we are willing to look for them. A visit to the library for assistance should not be a barrier.
Important areas for most of us are employment, health care and education. All of these have federal and provin-cial components. One needs to see what exists and what
has changed for the better or the worse: How fair, equitable and helpful has the federal government’s relationship with the provinces been? What significant issues has the federal government initiated or reneged on?
Reaction to the status quo plays a big part in politics but it is also important that we identify concrete alternatives and options that have not seen the light of day.
Don’t keep the midnight oil burning, though. There’s a good five months to think clearly even if campaign emotion eventually fills all the airwaves.
George Jason
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Seeing off another bunch of youth set sail to life
cooks; some might do both, working to finance their university tuition fees.
Whatever they will be doing, there is one thing certain that they have to face as they advance along their chosen path, and that is the increasing uncertainty in the world we live.
It has been almost a decade since newcomers to the labor market started to be preached about what they should or should not expect in their careers: The time for holding on to your job until retirement is long gone, be prepared to work for at least half a dozen different employers before even beginning to think of retirement.
In addition to, or rather in connection with, the changing economic cir-cumstances, the social background we are living against is undergoing fun-damental shifts, too. OECD, the international think tank of the capitalist system has just announced that income distribution has just taken a turn for the worse, with the
highest earning 10 percent of the population making 10 times the money of the bottom 10 per cent in the industrialized west. Middle classes in developed econo-mies are slowly seeing their share of wealth get steadily smaller as they join the ranks of poor, increasing the possibility of social conflict while religious extremism contributes to the emer-gence of tendencies for too strong governments, threat-ening individual liberties and ultimately the values of democratic governance.
This comes on top of the technological revolu-tion that has been changing our lives on an almost daily
basis with newly developed apps coming on stream, transforming the way we share and exchange infor-mation and even having an impact on the way we think and act. This progress in technology also allows more and more employers to prefer robots to do the work rather than humans, creating a significant em-ployment crunch for those populating the labor market.
We should also remem-ber that by the time the graduates of this year come of age of carrying family responsibilities, technology will have progressed much faster and the challenges of today will have increased,
maybe exponentially in cer-tain areas.
It looks certain, then, that with such head-spin-ning pace of change in the way we live and work, most of the youth saying goodbye to their high schools these days could well be in need of additional skills training, and even longer term re-education, to adjust to new circumstances that will be emerging in the years and decades to come.
But regardless of the kind of new skills or abili-ties that they might have to acquire in the later stages of their lives, two main char-acteristics that they should have developed in their
years of secondary educa-tion will stay with them as long as they live: Prudence and sense of responsibility.
The first will allow them to chart their courses through the foreseen and unforeseen traps life will set for them and the second will be their guiding prin-ciple as they strive to be the best individuals they can be.
As their parents, teachers, elders and ac-quaintances, we have all the right to share the pride of their moment of glory in their graduation celebra-tions if we could make even the tiniest of contributions to those two main traits of their personality.
Still lots of time to study who to vote for in October
Ross North, GM of Legacy Ford Ponoka, is proud to announce that Legacy Ford will again be the presenting sponsor of the Ponoka Festival of Trees. Sherry Gummow (left) and Judy Dick are shown here with Ross.
Committee members are pleased to have Legacy Ford confi rm their commitment to this community event, taking place November 19 - 21 at the Calnash Ag Event Centre. Proceeds from the annual Festival of Trees go to the Ponoka & District Health Foundation.
Ponoka Festival of Trees 2015
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Library NewsSUDOKU PUZZLE INTRODUCTION CLASS: Ponoka Jubilee Library invites you to learn the basics on solving Sudoku puzzles. Saturday June 13th at 1:00 pm. This is a free class, but registration is required. Call 403-783-3843, or register in person at the Library.BILLYCO JUNCTION GARDENS: The Ponoka Friends of the Library Society invite you to support the Library, while receiving the benefits of fresh vegetables/fruit. Buy a Community Shared Agriculture share from BillyCo Junction Gardens, and have fresh organic fruits/veggies brought to Ponoka for you, plus choose to donate a portion of your cost back to Ponoka Jubilee Library. Sign up sheets available at Ponoka Jubilee Library, deadline for CSA sign-up is May 31st. Go to www.billycojunction.com for more information, or call the farmers at (403) 782-4263. GO FUND ME: Did you enjoy receiving your Free Library Membership this year and want to see it continue next year? In order for that to happen Ponoka Jubilee Library needs to raise funds! To donate money quickly and easily, go to GoFundMe.com/tfkcb8. Thank you.E-WASTE BRIGADE: Ponoka Jubilee Library is collecting your trash and using it to raise money! Bring your old e-items to the Library and we will ship them off to TerraCycle to be made into cool new products. Acceptable items are: cell phones, smart phones, iPhones, digital cameras, camcorders, graphic calculators, inkjet cartridges from HP & Canon printers, iPads, laptops, notebooks, netbooks, eReaders, tablets and iPods. Please drop items off at Ponoka Jubilee Library – 5110 48 Avenue. For more information visit: http://www.terracycle.ca/en-CA/brigades/e-waste-brigade.html.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDEDCanada Day “Human Canadian Flag” Attempt on July 1st
**** Ponoka Day in the Park, August 29th ****For more information please contact Wes Amendt, Director of Community Services
Job Opportunities:-Volunteer Fire Fighters -Manager of Operations
For more information please visit the Town website and apply to [email protected]
Next Town Council MeetingsJune 9th @ 4:30 pm
Are you a good artist or have some great ideas and would like to see that put into art? The Aquaplex is looking for someone to help design a mural for the blank wall space over the whirl pool. The top 5 will then be selected and voted on by you the public and painted by a professional artist. Have the designs water related and of course appropriate. You can tie in the town theme and logo, or go a who different route. Submit by July 2nd to the Aquaplex front desk. Thank you!
Register now for Summer Swim Lessons! 403-783-0131Renovations to the Tennis Courts - Watch for signs of Re-opening Soon - for Tennis & Pickle Ball Players
Aquaplex:
Spring Clean-Up Has Started The Annual Town of Ponoka Spring Clean-Up has started and will continue until completed. Pick up is restricted to compostable materials (e.g. landscaping waste such as leaves & grass clippings) and small amounts of tree branches that are no longer than 3 feet. Materials not picked up include: rocks, construction material, wood, household waste, and pet excrement. Preference is to have all materials in a pile and not bagged. Make sure
your yard waste is set out adjacent to your normal household garbage pickup location. If yard
collection is not completed that week - it will continue the following week. The Town will only make one trip per
street/avenue. ***Please do not throw grass, leaves and compost materials into the garbage***
Ponoka Youth Centre 2015 Summer Program (July 6 - August 28):RACE FOR THE KIDS: Fundraiser on June 6, 2015. Support your local youth programs. Enter a team of 4, raise money
& compete for great prizes!!! Anyone who can walk can be involved there are 10 locations in the town of Ponoka to start from. For more information please contact 403-783-3112 or visit www.raceforkids.ca to register online.
Quote Of The Week: “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confi dence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
Ponoka Recreation Committee Vacancy (Senior & Youth)The Ponoka Recreation Committee is seeking applications for an enthusiastic and community-minded individuals to join the Recreation Committee as the Senior’s and Youth Representatives. Any persons interested in serving on
the Recreation Committee are requested to submit a completed Board Application Form to the Town of Ponoka. For more information please contact Wes Amendt at 403-783-0118 or [email protected]
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yourself, a business, or someone you know for having a well-kept property. Prizes are awarded to Residential and Business properties as follows:
Best Kept Residential - 1st Prize $500 Town of Ponoka Utility Credit 2nd Prize - $250.00 Town of Ponoka Utility Credit
Most Improved Prize of $500 Town of Ponoka Utility CreditBest Kept Commercial/Industrial – 1st Prize $500 Town of Ponoka Utility Credit
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Alberta Seniors Week – June 1 - 7Seniors make a diff erence in our communities every day. From supporting family members and friends to assisting
charities and volunteering, seniors are deeply involved in our communities and their contributions benefi t Albertans of all ages. Please take the time to acknowledge Alberta’s seniors and all that they contribute to our quality of life. ponoka.ca
Ponoka Mini Golf & Ice Cream Shop Open June 5!Splash Park Open June 12!
Fort Ostell Museum is now open for the summer. Hours are 10 – 5 Monday to Friday. Dates to note on your calendars are August 1 – Heritage Tea
Ponoka Adult LearningHave you moved to Ponoka from another Country? Ponoka Adult Learning would like to hear from you! You are invited to a focus group to discuss the issues and challenges that you have experienced while
moving to Ponoka! Please join us on Thursday June 11 at 5 pm at the Kinsmen Center for a free catered supper from Cilantro & Chive. For your time each participant will receive a grocery voucher.
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A playground not even one year old, located across the street from the Howard Buffalo Memorial Centre in Maskwacis, was set on fire the evening of Saturday, May 23 according to the conclusions of the investigators on the site. Despite speaking with witnesses at the scene, Maskwacis RCMP officers left with no leads and no suspects. Photo by Amelia Naismith
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Ponoka and District Chamber of Commerce executive manager Les Jaster and president Jim Hamilton celebrate Saturday, May 23 after hearing Ponoka won the Chamber of the Year category from the Alberta Chambers of Commerce.
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BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE
Members of the Ponoka and District Chamber of Commerce can walk a little taller after hearing Ponoka was awarded the title of Chamber of the Year for 2015.
President Jim Hamilton and executive manager Les Jaster were all smiles Satur-day, May 23 in Medicine Hat at the Alberta Chambers of Commerce annual general meeting.
Ponoka won the Chamber of the Year award in the 100 to 300 member category and Hamilton gave much of the credit to Jaster. “We were pumped. It is a huge cue to Les,” said Hamilton.
He added that one of Jaster’s goals when he took on the role of executive manager two and a half years ago was to win the award.
“It’s pretty impressive that he’s done it in less than three years,” said Hamilton.
Winning the award isn’t just a matter of submitting the Ponoka chamber’s name. Hamilton said key criteria are looked at to determine if a chamber is eligible for con-sideration.
Among the criteria that helped the rec-ognition were:• Increase in luncheon attendance. Hamil-
ton said the average attendance numbers are up to 30 to 35 people per meeting compared to 10 to 15 in previous years.
• Raising the presence of the chamber.
There are four key events for the cham-ber in Ponoka with the trade fair, passport to Christmas, downtown garage sale and the annual business awards. Hamilton said the business awards have
seen an increase of 10 per cent attendance every year for the last four years.
Another criterion that benefited the Ponoka chamber was the development of a policy document that helps government with legislation.
In this case, the Ponoka and Red Deer chambers joined forces to create a policy document that is meant to benefit central Alberta beef farmers.
“We wrote a policy position paper on origin of meat from the United States,” said Hamilton.
Meat labeling rules in the United States required meat in grocery stores to be labeled by its country of origin. However, that re-quirement has recently been rejected by the World Trade Organization.
“We wanted this to be front and centre that this is important to rural central Alberta,” said Hamilton.
Jaster said he hoped to maintain the prog-ress the chamber has made into next year to win a second time in a row. Winning was a confirmation of the hard work done over the years.
“It confirmed to me that all along this has been a great organization,” said Jaster.
BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE
The Ponoka Stampede and Exhibition Association is getting ready for another busy week when cowboys come rolling in for the one of the largest pro rodeos in Canada.
Vice-president Blair Vold spoke with members of the Ponoka and District Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, May 19 at the Cal-nash Ag Event Centre about the association’s plans for the week of June 25 to July 1.
Blair said later in an interview that last year’s stampede had quite high numbers of tickets sold. “We were very happy with our numbers last year and this year looks like it’s going to be good, too,” he explained.
“My goal is to sell 90,000 to 100,000 tickets this year,” he added.
Vold said there would be two exciting concerts this year accompanying the rodeo action: Sawyer Brown on June 25 and Josh Turner
Stampede Association gearing up for a busy rodeo week
on June 30. He reminded that Saw-
yer Brown was the first entertainer to perform at the Ponoka Stampede when the association introduced live music several years ago. He added that Josh Turner is an exciting act to have in Ponoka.
For other entertainment, Vold announced trick roper LaRue Olson, a fourth gen-eration cowboy, would be performing at the Ponoka Stampede.
With plans in full swing to ensure the week goes on without a hitch, the associa-tion has been meeting with
many stakeholders includ-ing the Town and County of Ponoka as well as sponsors and volunteers.
“We’re looking forward to working with the town,” said Vold.
Getting the name out with social media
Last year saw a shift in how the association gets its name out there with a push to promote the busy week with social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and In-stagram.
The group has hired a communications person to promote the busy week and to connect with rodeo fans.
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Chamber moving to county officesAfter some searching, the Ponoka and
District Chamber of Commerce office will move to the Ponoka County offices, says Hamilton.
The chamber has been searching for a new location since the Town of Ponoka announced changes to the Visitor’s Centre, where the chamber is currently located. He
expects the move to be made over the month of June. Not much will change for opera-tions, he added.
“Again, our focus is to work more with rural Alberta,” said Hamilton.
He feels this will get the chamber closer to local farmers and open up other avenues for the chamber while still being able to pro-vide the same service to existing members.
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Brooklyn Green (left) and Mina Shin (right), Grade 8 St. Augustine Catholic School students, placed third out of 300 Albertan students in the Caring for Our Watersheds competition with their idea to reduce pesticide use via birdhouses placed on golf courses. The competition finals took place at the Reynolds Museum in Wetaskiwin, Saturday, May 23. Photo by Amelia Naismith
BY AMELIA NAISMITH
Two Grade 8 St. Augus-tine Catholic School students placed third in the Caring for Our Watersheds competition with their project that mixed environmental stewardship with their passion for golf.
Although the girls are not taking home the first place prize of $10,000, they may still be eligible for a portion of that amount as the contest places a great focus on supporting students who wish to implement their projects within their com-munities.
Nathalie Stanley Olson, education and outreach co-ordinator for the Battle River Watershed Alliance
Ponoka girls take third place in $10,000 watershed competitionsays there have been years when portions of the spon-sorship money had gone to different groups competing against each other because the students wanted to make their proposals a reality.
As third place winners the girls take home $400 each and $800 is given to their school.
The top 10 projects were presented at the contest fi-nals on Saturday, May 23 at the Reynolds Museum in Wetaskiwin.
Brooklyn Green and Mina Shin proposed bird-houses placed on golf courses would lower the use of pesticide in the Battle River Watershed.
The idea started out as a
school project and the two girls had been working on their project since January.
At the finals each group was required to give a short presentation on their project proposal.
“It was a very close race,” said Olson.
“I think, for both of us, we feel pretty proud of our-selves,” said Shin. In early spring, when the girls found out they had made the top 10 they were surprised that their proposal could com-pete with the Grade 12 students of the Battle River Watershed, which stretches from Fort McMurray to Le-thbridge.
It was a record-breaking year, as the competition received more than 150 pro-posals from approximately 300 students.
From their project, the girls learned the importance of caring for the watershed, especially as the province’s up and coming generation. “In 50 years, we’re going to be the older generation,” said Shin.
“It revolves around ev-erything we have to work with,” Green added, refer-
ring to the health of the watershed.
Shin says she has learned to be more aware of her sur-roundings since taking on the project.
Because the Battle Riv-er Watershed covers such a large land area, Olson says there was a great diversity in the projects this year as
each community faces dif-ferent challenges.
“When we’re talking about how to protect the watershed it’s so much more than water,” Olson ex-plained.
“It was really interesting and exciting to see the stu-dents taking on old problems … it’s an age old problem
but coming up with new so-lutions,” she added.
She feels the students who partake in the com-petition begin to see their communities in a different light and having the support of their recognition will increase their confidence when it comes to believing they can incite change.
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BY AMELIA NAISMITH
Poverty challenging many WCPS students to the point of homelessness
The state of students com-ing from households living in
poverty within the division ter-ritory and how those students
are affected by the decisions of the Wolf Creek Public
Schools Board of Trustees was the main topic of discussion
among the trustees on Tuesday, May 19.
Trustee Bob Huff told the board there is a difference be-tween minimum wage and living wage, and many stu-dents in the division come from homes that bring in less than a living wage.
“We’ve got to be cognizant of that,” said Huff.
Some students’ behavior, practices and actions in school can be traced back to living in poverty, including such issues as payment of school fees, anxieties and mental illness.
Huff is also concerned youths living in poverty will become more susceptible to human trafficking situations.
“Some of these people who are in these homes re-ally don’t have the capacity to get out,” said Huff.
“We have to be less preju-diced and less stereotypical and find out why these young people are having these dif-ficulties,” he added.
In the WCPS division, there are pre-Kindergarten students who are already fac-ing the challenges of living in poverty the trustees were told.
“As trustees, we make data-driven decisions and part of the data is we have students living in poverty,” said Huff.
He told the other trustees a lack of affordable housing on the market is leaving students couch surfing as they try to go to school. “Not because it’s fun, that’s what they have to do.”
Trustee Pam Hansen added the division and the province was in for a change on who would be affected by poverty; she was referring to oilfield workers. “They’re not going to be able to go for assistance because last year they made $150,000.”
“It’s going to affect these kids hard because there’s not going to be food on the table,” she added.
Hansen says she’s been involved with two homeless families living in her ward in Bentley. “There’s five kids who are without homes right now and I don’t know where they are, I know where two are.”
“It’s the reality right now people are living in,” she added.
She also mentioned drug addiction on the part of adults had contributed to some of these students’ situations.
“It’s a mess and it’s going to get worse,” she added.
The board’s discussion was for information purposes only and no motions were made.
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Donations: Members of the Ponoka Legion provided cheque donations to three groups Tuesday, May 19: The Wheelchair Van Society ($4288.44), the Ponoka Gymnastics and Trampoline Club and the Ponoka Youth Centre, both $500. Here (l-r) President Sybil Evans, Ways and Means chairperson Dorothy Houghton present a cheque to the Wheelchair Van Society with Nancy MacKenzie accepting.
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There are nine hard re-fusals for the acceptance of the wireless Neptune water meters that were installed in most Ponoka homes last year and town councillors are considering what their next steps should be on the matter.
Betty Quinlan, director of corporate services for the Town of Ponoka told coun-cil Tuesday, May 19 during a committee of the whole meeting that there are also 28 property owners that town staff have been unable to reach over the matter, what she called “soft refus-als.”
Councillors read over some of the clauses in the town’s Water Rates Bylaw to determine the legality of changing out the old water meters.
Quinlan wanted to let councillors know that ad-ministration will have to take some steps to get the job done. An extreme case would be to turn off the wa-ter and the bylaw provides four reasons why that is possible: • Repairs• Want of supply• Non-payment of ac-
counts• In any other case in
which council deems it advisable While the water meters
are in a person’s property, they belong to the town, advised Quinlan and staff have the legal right to make a change. Clause 10 of the bylaw states:
“Whenever the Town wishes to repair or remove a measuring device, an au-thorized employee of the Town may enter the premis-es on which same is situate and repair or remove such measuring device and may cause any damage neces-sary to effect such removal or repair.”
At their Oct. 14 2014, meeting council voted against giving residents op-tions, something that other municipalities have done as well. Quinlan said the Town of Innisfail did not provide options and the entire com-munity has fully switched to wireless water meters.
Mayor Rick Bonnett said he hoped common sense would prevail in this situation as the vast ma-
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jority of residents have accepted the change. He wondered if there were any other options for the com-munity.
However, Coun. Lo-anna Gulka said council had already voted on no op-tions. Coun. Marc Yaworski agreed. “The new ones
should be put in,” he said.Coun. Carla Prediger
added that extreme deci-sions such as turning off the water do not make sense and she hopes there is a way to deal with the issue.
As committee of the whole meetings are for in-formation, no decisions
were made. A d m i n i s t r a t i o n
options for gym club ir-relevant
Information from Al-berta Municipal Affairs has cleared that the options given by the administration to the town council on the gym club land were irrel-
evant. Council was given two
options by administration to give the club a lease or to transfer the title with a $160,000 payment if the land is sold, at a recent meeting
Mayor Bonnett said an informal consultation with
municipal affairs had clari-fied that options were not required because council had already approved a land exchange with Ponoka County to give two-acres to the gym club.
“We need to finish this off and get it done,” said Bonnett.
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THANK YOUThe Ponoka Ag Society would like to thank the sponsors who
contributed to the success of our fi rst Farming With Horses seeding event at Ken and Verna Pohl’s farm on May 9 & 10.
Ponoka Fertilizer
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We would also like to thank the teamsters who came from Central Alberta to Northern BC and brought 25 to 30 horses and mules to seed 5 acres of oats with the proceeds going to Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Many spectators came out to watch us recreate history plowing, discing, harrowing and seeding the land with horses.
Later in August we will be cutting, binding and stooking the crop followed by threshing, all with teams. Please watch ‘Farming With Horses Ponoka’ Facebook page for those upcoming dates and come join us. Learn how to put those bundles into stooks followed by the knack of piling those bundles effi ciently on the hay rack then loading the threshing machine just like our forefathers.
Good Feeder Steers 1000 lbs Plus: 207.00-215.00 Good Feeder Steers 900 lbs Plus: 230.00-246.00 Good Feeder Steers 800 lbs Plus: 236.00-254.50 Good Feeder Steers 700 lbs Plus: 280.00-291.00 Good Feeder Steers 600 lbs Plus: 276.00-314.00 Good Feeder Steers 500 lbs Plus: 295.00-333.00 Good Feeder Steers 400 lbs Plus: 310.00-350.00 Good Feeder Steers 300 lbs Plus: 320.00-360.00
Dairy Steers 195.00-238.00
Baby Calves Dairy Type: 200.00-400.00
Baby Calves Beef Type: 385.00-775.00
Hay: Sq Bales 5.00-9.00
Straw: Sq. Bales NONE
Greenfeed: Sq. Bales
VJV MARKET REPORTMARKET REPORT MAY 20, 2015
On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 1877 head of cattle went through our rings
& 67 head on the Canadian Satellite Sale - TOTAL - 1944
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Seeders spread out at the Canadian Foodgrains Bank field Thursday, May 21 to seed barley in preparation for the season. Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
BY JEFFREY HEYDENKAYE
Volunteers with Pono-ka’s Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFB) finished plant-ing barley in preparation for this season’s harvest.
Members got together with two seeders Thursday, May 21 at their 170-acre field south of Ponoka to
Canadian Foodgrains plant barley for 2015 season finish seeding the land with barley, said farmer and vol-unteer Johan Feitsma. He says their goal is to eradi-cate hunger around the world.
The hope is that the crop will bring in a large amount of money that will benefit the CFB’s goals. For more than a decade, the Ponoka
branch has been farming on the same 170-acres, added Feitsma.
Spring seeding has been going well as Feitsma believes the field has the right conditions for the barley they planted. “It is good actually. It is good for
germination. We still need spring rains of course,” he said.
Feitsma hopes they will be able to sell the barley in the $4 per bushel range once harvest is complete and if the season goes well, they will have quite a bit to
sell. Donations from local agricultural product deal-ers is helping ensure the Ponoka branch will be able to keep its costs down, said Feitsma of the joint effort between the many farmers in the community.
Alberta has several
projects for the FCB this year, added Terence Barg, a regional co-ordinator for (CFB). Ponoka’s is one of 36, Barg said excitedly.
“It’s just encour-aging when you see businesses, farmers and community members
come together,” said Brag. “Working together for one cause of ending hunger.”
“That’s really what CFB is about. Getting Canadians involved,” he added.
Brag says matching contributions from the federal government gives the CFB an opportunity to raise more money to reach their goals.
“We’re very apprecia-tive of these groups that do this,” said Brag.
SELLING 2 PARCELS OF LAND BY UNRESERVED AUCTIONSELLING 2 PARCELS OF LAND BY UNRESERVED AUCTION
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Selling Unreserved for Eon HildebrandLand Located at View Mar Estates - 4 Miles North of Rimbey on Hwy #20 to Twp Rd 432 (Medicine Lake Road), West 3 Miles to Rge Rd 31, North 1 MileCounty Sign: 1843302Legal Description: Part of the SE 23-43-3 W5M - Lot 6, Blk 2, Plan 8123182Selling: An Approx. 1120 Sq Ft 3 Bedroom Bungalow w/ a 24’x24’ Attached Garage on a 1.97 Acre Lot that is Landscaped with Mature Trees. The House has an Open Floor Plan with a Wood Burning Stove & Chimney, Nature Gas Heating, Fridge, Stove & Dishwasher. Drilled Water Well with Good Water.2015 Taxes: $749.08Open Houses: May 31st & June 6 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.For More Information:Eon Hildebrand (403) 704-3857
Selling Unreserved for Dorothy DahmsLand Located at 4625 52nd Ave, Rimbey, AlbertaLegal Description: Plan 506HW, Block 15, Lot 18Location: 4625 52nd Ave, Rimbey, AlbertaSelling at 50’x120’ Lot with an Older Mobile Home c/w Addition, Deck, Stove & Fridge, Plus a Storage ShedZoned: R22015 Taxes: $819.79Viewing by Appointment OnlyFor More Information: Allen Dahms (403) 843-6155All measurement are approximate and need to be verifi ed by the purchaser.Real Estate Transaction are being Handled by Morrison Realty (403) 783-0556Real Estate Terms & Conditions: 10 % Down on Sale Day. Balance & Possession on or before July 20, 2015. If Balance is NOT RECEIVED by July 20, 2015 the Deposit will be Forfeited as Liquidation Damages.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 PONOKA NEWS 15
Bill Frischke’s granddaughter Azaylia Diet helps him celebrate his retirement after practicing as a vet in Ponoka for 39 years. A celebration was held at the Stagecoach Saloon on Saturday, May 23.
Photo by Amelia Naismith
Long time Ponoka vet retires after almost four decades
BY AMELIA NAISMITH
After practising in Ponoka for 39 years, an exceptional Central Veteri-nary Clinic veterinarian is retiring.
Bill Frischke moved to Ponoka from Saskatchewan in June of 1976 and joined a veterinary practice with several other partners. “We knew nothing about the town except it had a big ani-mal hospital,” he recalled.
“I really like the area and the countryside,” he added.
Frischke is a rarity in the world of rural, agricul-tural veterinary sciences as he worked a mixed practice, dealing with livestock and family pets. He says most vets choose either one path or the other. “I enjoyed it all,” he stressed.
Living in central Alber-ta, where many of the farms are close together, allowed him to hold a mixed prac-tice with ease.
Frischke grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan and
that is where he first noticed his love of animals. How-ever, he had doubts in his ability to become a veteri-narian and moved into the field of human x-rays.
But he could not stay away from his passion and re-attended school in Sas-katchewan to become a vet.
Frischke says what kept him going all these years is seeing the faces of both the owner and their animal when a treatment works. “After being here a lot of years, you get to know the people, they almost become personal friends. It makes you want to try that much harder,” he explained.
Working through the issues animals face to pro-vide the best level of care he could was also a driving factor for Frischke. “You’re dealing with some real wrecks . . . you’re always dealing with a problem thing,” he said of his hard work.
“And sometimes you can’t do something, and that’s sad,” he added. “You
get the good and the bad.”Frischke has been con-
sidering retiring for the last 10 years and now that he sees the practice will re-main in good hands with the partners there, he could take that thinking to the next level. “I was slowly selling myself out over the last 10 years,” he said.
“As you get older you’re not capable of some things,” he added, referring to the physically demanding job.
Frischke built the Cen-tral Veterinary Clinic in 1988, where he worked alone for three years, after leaving the first practice he joined in town.
Over the years, he fig-ured he would pick up a few partners and as he leaves his practice, there are five to see him off, which surprised him. “We’ve outgrown the place,” he said.
Even with the emotional aspect of the job, Frischke says all his years as a vet were quite interesting. One summer he worked with the veterinarian of the Calgary
Zoo and he recalls the time a large primate escaped.
In Ponoka, Frischke continued to work with wild animals such as coyotes, deer and owls. “We even had a pelican,” he said.
Snake owners have brought their pets into the clinic for treatment and Frischke remembers the time he got a call from an individual looking to see if there was such a thing as a snake call that would draw out the missing reptile.
Another of the more interesting calls was a man looking to rent cats from the clinic to deal with his mouse issue.
Now that he has retired, Frischke has no concrete plans he is looking to follow. “I have a lot of hob-bies, summertime will not be a problem,” he said.
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DREAMBIG.The future belongs to you, graduate. The future belongs to you, graduate. Remember the important values and Remember the important values and lessons you’ve learned here at home, lessons you’ve learned here at home, and carry them with you on your path and carry them with you on your path to success. We wish you health, to success. We wish you health, happiness and prosperity today and happiness and prosperity today and always. Congratulations.always. Congratulations.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 PONOKA NEWS 17
ST. AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC PRINCIPAL’S GRAD MESSAGE
Congratulations to the graduating class of 2014-15 Congratulations to the graduating class of 2014-15
As you have worked your way from grade to grade, year to year, it has As you have worked your way from grade to grade, year to year, it has
been our pleasure to watch you grow, change and develop into the been our pleasure to watch you grow, change and develop into the
outstanding young men and women that you are today. Your passion outstanding young men and women that you are today. Your passion
for learning, life and faith has left an indelible impression on St. for learning, life and faith has left an indelible impression on St.
May your graduation day & future hold much success! Congratulations!
20 PONOKA NEWS Wednesday, May 27, 2015
St. Augustine Class Of 2015
Rhyliegh Patterson Ivan Penales Meghan Rain Morgan Rain Raven Reese
Blake Shimp
Shania Simon
to the class of 2015!Congratulations
KAYLA WAKNUK
Take pride in how far you have come, and have faith in how far you can go.
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We wish you all the best that the future holds!
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015 PONOKA NEWS 21
St. Augustine Class Of 2015
Dana Stephenson Hannah Stretch Richard Sweet Bastiaan Ten Haaf Brendam Tremblay
Kyla Waknuk
Carl Zacate
to the class of 2015!Congratulationsttooo ttthhee aassee ccllaa 22ss ooff 555!!!001155ttooo ttthhee cc aassss ooff 2201155!!tthhIt is with great pride and admiration that the Ponoka Outreach Staff It is with great pride and admiration that the Ponoka Outreach Staff wish each graduate the very best of what the world has to offer.wish each graduate the very best of what the world has to offer. Graduating and getting a High School Diploma may be taken for Graduating and getting a High School Diploma may be taken for granted by some of us, but for our Outreach students this has been a granted by some of us, but for our Outreach students this has been a journey of many different paths. journey of many different paths. TThe graduation theme states “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”, but before he graduation theme states “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”, but before we do that we need to look back at the journey that got you here. we do that we need to look back at the journey that got you here. Through your commitment to doing your best and dedication to hard Through your commitment to doing your best and dedication to hard work, you have achieved the goal you set out to achieve. For some work, you have achieved the goal you set out to achieve. For some the path has been straight with very few bumps but for some of you the path has been straight with very few bumps but for some of you the path has had many curves and lots of rough spots. You should the path has had many curves and lots of rough spots. You should be proud of your accomplishments and as you graduate refl ect back be proud of your accomplishments and as you graduate refl ect back on the good times and the rough spots – they all made you a better on the good times and the rough spots – they all made you a better person. As a staff we look at your graduation with the same pride you person. As a staff we look at your graduation with the same pride you do – we have been in this together and together we made it!!do – we have been in this together and together we made it!!
We wish you continued success and best wishes. We wish you continued success and best wishes.
ROB PEARNROB PEARN
22 PONOKA NEWS Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Ponoka Outreach Class Of 2015
Melanie Baitinger
Mallory Dabbs
Melanie Baitinger Christin CardinalHailee Buffalo
Mariah Ennis
Tavis Buffalo
Cajun HillZach Ermineskin Danika Hudson-McLeod
to the class of 2015!Congratulations
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to the class of 2015!Congratulations
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We wish you all the best as you embark on exciting new challenges and adventures. The best is yet to come.
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Ponoka Outreach Class Of 2015
Morgan Jones
Lance Mackinaw
Lucrezia Johnson Samantha LysonsLaina Kirchmann
Chase Meredith Ellie Montour
Owen Leighton
to the class of 2015!Congratulations
MORGAN JONES
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Congratulations on your graduation & best wishes for your next adventure!
Students are writing their fi nal exams and school will soon be out. If tests in math and history are important, it is just as essential that young people be able to judge what is true and what is false where drinking and driving are concerned. Getting a passing grade on this test might prevent a graduation formal from ending in tragedy:
1. DRINKING COFFEE ACCELERATES THE METABOLIZING AND ELIMINATION OF ALCOHOL FROM THE BODY.
FALSE. Time is the only factor in sobering up. Getting some fresh air, having a nap, or taking a cold shower aren’t any more effective than drinking coffee in eliminating alcohol.
2. ONLY 3 PERCENT OF ALCOHOL IS ELIMINATED THROUGH SWEAT.
TRUE. This means that busting some moves on the dance fl oor won’t help you sober up more quickly.
3. NO MATTER HOW MANY DRINKS ARE CONSUMED DURING AN EVENING, ALL YOU NEED TO DO TO BE SAFE IS TO STOP DRINKING AN HOUR BEFORE DRIVING.
FALSE. To respect allowable legal blood alcohol levels, it takes a lot longer than 60 minutes before being able to drive, especially if someone has been drinking for hours.
4. IT TAKES TWO HOURS TO ELIMINATE ALL ALCOHOL FROM THE BLOOD WHEN A BLOOD ALCOHOL RATE OF 0.07 HAS BEEN REACHED.
FALSE. It takes about fi ve hours to eliminate all that alcohol from the blood.
5. ALCOHOL AFFECTS PERIPHERAL VISION, HEARING, THE CAPACITY TO EVALUATE DISTANCES, AND REFLEXES.
TRUE. All these factors mean that a person who has consumed alcohol has lower levels of concentration, poor coordination, and will likely be unable to react properly when faced with an obstacle.
“Congratulations graduates and please don’t drink and drive.”
You deserve to see your dreams come true! Be safe!
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28 PONOKA NEWS Wednesday, May 27, 2015
BY AMELIA NAISMITH
Days before he was set to stand trial for 25 charges, a now-convicted assaulter pled guilty to 11 of them in Ponoka provincial court on Friday, May 22 and was sentenced to almost two years in jail.
Daniel Archambault, 27, pled guilty to possession, multiple assaults, threats and engaging in threatening conduct.
The remaining charges have been dropped and the trial, scheduled for Tuesday May 26 and Wednesday May 27, did not proceed.
Judge W.A. Skinner sen-tenced Archambault to a total of 660 days in jail. Taking into account pre-sentencing time served, he had 477 days left as of May 22.
Archambault was also or-dered to give his DNA and is under a lifetime firearm prohi-bition.
Going forward, he is to have no contact of any kind with the victim.
The victim, whose name cannot be released, was first as-saulted on Dec. 24 2014, early in their relationship with Ar-chambault.
The victim was driving her vehicle when Archambault began looking for his cocaine. He could not find it and accused her of stealing it. He began hitting her with gloves with solid plastic knuckle coverings.
The Crown Prosecutor R. Clark told the court Archambault threatened to break the woman’s fingers and burn her residence and car.
Archambault assaulted the woman three more times before Jan. 5 2015, each time while in her vehicle.
On Jan. 5 the woman contact-ed her mother. The two women attended the Ponoka RCMP de-tachment where the victim gave a statement.
That same day RCMP went to the residence where Archam-bault and the woman had been staying.
Aware of his impending ar-rest, Archambault tried to escape out of the back door but was caught near the residence.
Close to the location of his arrest, cocaine was found and in-side the residence RCMP found a sword, the knife, starter pistol, the gloves, ammunition, marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
The court was informed during each of the incidents Archambault was under the in-fluence of alcohol or drugs. He does not remember all the facts mentioned but does not dispute them.
“I’m very sorry for every-thing that happened and I feel bad for what I did,” said Archam-bault in court, via closed circuit television.
Assaulter pleads
guilty, gets jail sentence
St. Augustine Theatrepresents:
June 5 & 6 @ 7:00 PM • St. Augustine School GymTickets $10 each or $35/family • Available at the door
Pre-show event:Art Show & Sale
Featuring original student works5:30–7:00 PM in the school library
May 29 - Pot luck & General meeting 5:30pm Bring a dish to share, table service and enjoy good company
June 1 Senior’s Week Champagne Brunch sponsored by FCSS. 9:30am at Drop- In. Cost $10.00. Tickets from FCSS - Brunch & EntertainmentJune 21 Gospel Concert 7:00pm music by “New Song” Band
Billiards - Weekdays 1:00pm. Mon through Sat – 50 cents per game. Honour system
Monday Bridge 1:00pm
Monday Whist - 1:30pm
Monday Yoga - 6:30pm
Tuesday & Thursday Exercise class 9:30am FINISHED MAY 28 UNTIL FALL
Tuesday Shuffl eboard - 7pm • FINISHED UNTIL FALL
Wednesday Sewing Guild 9:30am to 4pm
Wednesday Cribbage 1:00pm
Wednesday Yoga - 6:30pm
Wednesday Duplicate Bridge 7:00pm
Thursday Floor Curling - 1:00pm • FINISHED UNTIL FALL
Thursday Weaving 1:00pm Welcome to drop-in to see how it’s done
Thursday Bridge 1:00pm
Thursday Pickleball 7pm - contact Janice Mackie 403-396-4315 for location
Thursday Art Club Drop In Noon to 4pm
Friday “500” 1:00pm
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Memberships available for 2015 - $10.00 per person. To rent our facility contact Dorothy @ 403-783-3027 or George
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015 PONOKA NEWS 29
Early bird winner: Scotty MacGregor (left) accepts the early bird prize of $1,500 for a travel gift voucher from the Ponoka Stampede cattle raffle Tuesday, May 19. Here Stampede Association director Joe Dodds presents the certificate. Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
BY AMELIA NAISMITH
Ponoka streets became a show circuit for luxury cars when Corvette owners from across the province gathered in town for the annual Ponoka Corvette Meet and Greet, Sat-urday, May 23 at the Prairie Boys Truck and Car Wash Ltd.
The third annual meet and greet also included a drive down main street and a group cruise to Gull Lake.
Bruce Wagner, meet and greet organizer as well as a Corvette enthusiast and owner himself, says what brings so many drivers to Ponoka for the meet and greet is the chance to get together with like-minded people and the passion for the cars.
“On a day like today, I love to put the roof down, taking my grandson,” said Wagner, referring to his yellow 2002 C5 convertible Corvette; meaning fifth generation.
“(It’s) a chance to drive somewhere,” said co-organizer and owner of three Corvettes Don Peterson.
He owns a C3, C4 and C5 however, only the 1991 ZR-1 C4 was at the meet and greet.
“It’s quite a rare car,” said Peterson. He says only 6,000 were ever built.
The car also holds the speed record of 178 mph for 24 consecutive hours, “which has never been beat,” said Pe-terson.
Wagner says the meet and greet had a C7 in attendance. “It’s the latest, greatest, fully computerized.”
The earliest generation at the event was a C3. Peterson and Wagner say a person would be hard pressed to find a second or first generation Corvette in Alberta.
“There’s some old school boys out there who love old school cars, but there’s a variety of people. It’s about the power and the horsepower and the noise,” said Wagner.
The meet and greet started three years ago after a dis-cussion on the idea took off on Canadian Corvette Forum website.
Peterson says the meet and greet is about raising public awareness in the community, as many of those who turned up were not from Ponoka. “Now we’ve got guys right across Canada talking about Ponoka on our forum.”
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30 PONOKA NEWS Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Sports
BY MUSTAFA ERIC
Ponoka’s Storm FC sailed to an easy 6-0 win over their opponents from Millet on Sunday, May 22 in their second home game of the Battle River Men’s Soccer League, building more confidence as they eye the second league title in as many years.
Storm dominated the game from the beginning to the end over the visitors who had only one substitute against the comfortably crowded bench of the hosts who played with ease, taking breaks as and when they needed.
Millet did not make their first appearance in front of the Storm net until well into 20th minute of the game but the hosts’ solid defense made it impossible for the Millet offense to find a gap to score.
About 10 minutes later, Storm was awarded a penalty when a Millet player jumped high enough to jeopardize the head of a Ponoka player with his cleats, and by con-verting the penalty shoot, Christoph Dittmar opened the floodgates. Five minutes later, Carmen Lyon struck when he sent the ball coming from a cross to the Millet net from just outside the six-yard box. Another five minutes passed and Elzard Visscher scored with a neat shot from the corner of the 18-yard box to close the first half at 3-0.
Second half started with a lot of effort by Millet to put pressure on the hosts and they appeared to take con-
Storm in easy win over Millet
trol of the midfield briefly, but the Strom were not to be stopped. Almost halfway through the second half, Eric Eischeid swerved his way through the Millet defense and scored with a short-range shot. It was just minutes later that Todd Alexandre turned up in front of the Millet goal and his soft shot found the back of the net after going
through the under arm of the goalie. Then Millet defense went into a complete disarray allowing Visscher to score his second goal about five minutes from the end of regu-lation.
Storm play their next game on the road and return to high school field to host Diablos on June 7.
The almost goal: This classy header by Josh Simons would have been Storm’s fifth goal if it had not been disallowed by the referee on grounds that the Ponoka player was in the offside position. Storm still won the game 6-0. Photo by Mustafa Eric
U14 Storm player Marcelle Louis (kicking) scores against the Lacombe Panthers goalie under pressure Wednesday, May 20 during a game. Ponoka won 5-3.
Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
U14 boys storm past Lacombe PanthersBY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE
Competition between the U14 Ponoka Storm boys and the Lacombe Pan-
thers in Ponoka was strong Wednesday, May 20 with the hosts defeating the visi-tors 5-3.
Ponoka seemed to have
the Panthers all washed out after scoring three goals in the first half. Important saves from Ponoka’s keeper, Kyle Pallin, kept Lacombe
from scoring, which boost-ed the confidence of the home team.
Despite the gap in the score, possession appeared to be largely with the La-combe side but the Storm’s ability to capitalize on plays was the major difference in the first half, explained coach Matt Sealy.
“They (Panthers) pass the ball really well. They had a lot of good passes and short passes. Lacombe re-ally did control the play. I think the biggest difference is we finished,” said Sealy.
“If we get six or seven shots on net, we want them to hit,” he added.
He encouraged his players to keep up the mo-mentum coming into the second half but the break rejuvenated Lacombe.
The Panthers pounced on the Storm and were able to score two important goals within a relatively short time into the second half. A free kick in favour
of visiting Panthers became the launching pad for La-combe’s third goal, tying the game up at 3-3.
“Our guys got a little out of position on one play there and we’ve got to work on that on next practice for sure,” explained Sealy. “We give them credit for a good goal.”
Ponoka was under pres-sure from Lacombe’s strong offense and both teams went back and forth across the pitch in attempts to score. Sealy encouraged his play-ers not to give up despite being tied up. “I think we showed a lot of character and a lot of resolve,” he said in reference to the minutes played after the tie.
It was Ponoka who managed to break the tied score with a masterly for-ward pass deep into Panther territory, making it 4-3.
Lacombe’s subsequent attempt to score was spoiled when a mid-range shot proved to be just a bit too
high and was deflected by the crossbar. A short time later Ponoka managed an-other goal securing their 5-3 win against the Panthers.
The Storm will be able to take in some important practice sessions before their next game as Wetaski-win’s U14 team dropped out of the league
“It will get us the chance to work on some things so we can improve on for the next game,” said Sealy.
He added that the win over Lacombe was a boost of confidence for players who have won two games this season.
Scorers for Ponoka were Marcelle Louis with a hat trick, Jace van Scheik and Ethan Little scored the oth-er two goals for Storm.
In the meantime, U16 boys defeated Sylvan Lake 2-0 on Tuesday, May 19.
Ponoka U12 girls lost 5-0 to Lacombe in their home game on Thursday, May 21.
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Camryn willier, with the U14 girls Bandits manages to stay safe on first base Thursday, May 21 during a game against Sylvan Lake. Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE
Players with the U14 Bandits girls’ fastball team had a strong performance against Sylvan Lake Thursday, May 21.
The Bandits defeated Sylvan Lake 18-7 playing to their strengths, said coach Lucas Willier.
“Our pitchers threw the ball over the plate and the fielders played strong defense when the ball was hit,” said Willier.
The Bandits’ pitchers did particularly well getting the ball over the plate forcing Sylvan Lake to take a swing, he added. “We are lucky to have four girls that can throw with accuracy.”
Willier had players coach each other on bases, which he feels created a positive team atmosphere during the game.
“I was ready for anything but they surprised me on how much they know about the game and base running situa-tion,” explained Willier.
59ers win in StettlerThe 59ers U12 team had a close win away against Stet-
tler Wednesday, May 20. They won 15-12 with four girls earning two runs each
that game: Tayli Yellowbord, Olivia Willier, Brooklyn Fredrickson and Morgan Hutchison.
“Ponoka 59ers already have a reputation in the league to be strong competitors and it’s so easy to play a game when you’re having fun,” said Willier.
U14 Bandits take out Sylvan Lake in nine innings
BY MUSTAFA ERIC
Ponoka’s Broncs have taken to the field in prepara-tion for their 2015 season and head coach Cody Baird sounds optimistic that in ad-dition to the improvements already visible, there is room for a lot more.
Speaking during a break in the defensive game drills on Thursday, May 21, Baird said he was happiest with the level of football experi-ence the team now boasts as compared to last year’s start to the season.
In addition to six play-ers who have graduated from the bantam program to join the returning players with senior Broncs, half a dozen Ponoka boys will carry to their school program the experience they acquired through their involvement with Camrose-based Shock midget football team earlier in the spring.
Baird said he was par-ticularly pleased with the willingness of graduat-ing players to share their knowledge and experience with younger members of the team: Three players from last year’s senior Broncs team are acting as assistant coaches and the players are happy with their continued com-
Broncs optimistic for their2015 season
mitment to the team. Although it is far too early
to speak about the prospects of the team in the regular sea-
son, Baird believes the build up of the momentum for a good team is well underway.
Broncs are expected
to take part in at least one jamboree in early June be-fore they break up for the summer.
Looking good: Broncs have started their spring preparations with biweekly practices and the signs from their defensive drills are already heralding a much tougher and aggressive team in the regular season, which starts in September. Photo by Mustafa Eric
32 PONOKA NEWS Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Brooklyn Cowles turns a barrel Wednesday, May 21 at the Ponoka Stampede grounds during the second annual Lyle Norn Memorial Barrel Racing Series. Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE
Organizers of last year’s Lyle Norn Memorial Barrel Race Series were so ex-cited about it they have put together a second series in what is becoming an annual event.
One of the co-organizers Kaylee-Jo Henkelman said
the event was put together to honour her grandfather Lyle Norn, who died after a battle of chronic obstruc-tive pulmonary disease (COPD), and was also a big supporter of rodeo.
Norn also suffered from CO2 retention, which is an issue where not enough carbon dioxide is removed
from the lungs. The second series start-
ed Wednesday, May 20 at the Ponoka Stampede Grounds with 80 entries.
The event is also a fundraiser for the Lung As-sociation for Alberta and the Northwest Territories and Henkelman said they raised $6,500 last year for
the association. She hopes to bring
in more money this year through raffle sales of do-nated items.
Her main goal is to raise more money to sup-port research for finding a cure to COPD and Henkel-man recommends people receive a medical checkup
on the issue. She says there are many people who don’t know they have a problem until too late.
“That’s what our series is primarily about,” said Henkelman.
Because of Norn’s involvement in rodeo, Hen-kelman says many people have come together to help
Lyle Norn memorial barrel racing series in its second yearout and tell stories about his adventures.
“I feel like I learned more about my grandpa than I knew before,” she said.
“It’s just so cool to see him through the light and the eyes of his friends,” she added.
Henkelman said they are hosting a double header Saturday, May 30, a single race Wednesday, June 3 and another double header Sat-urday, June 13.
Henkelman said Ponoka County is the sponsor of a $3,000 credit for a saddle for the winner of the open group and Jones Boys Sad-dlery and Western Wear is sponsoring a $3,000 credit for a saddle for the youth winner.
For more information on the series check out the 2nd Annual Lyle Norn Me-morial Barrel Race Series on Facebook.
Ponoka Secondary Campus (PSC) played host to track and field areas for Area 2 of the central zone Wednesday, May 20.
The top two competitors at areas will compete in the zones challenge in Red Deer May 27 and the top two com-petitors from zones will head to Lethbridge for provincials on Friday, June 5 and 6.
A small number of students from PSC and St. Augustine Catholic School competed in the areas challenge with a handful clearing their way to zones.
PSC athletic director Jody McElroy said that while there were not a large number of students from PSC who competed, the majority of them placed in the top four of their categories. For those that did make it to zones, she praised their efforts.
“Those girls (Sarah Morin, Tess Pearman, Skye Whit-ford, Neesha Soosay and Delaney Brachman) and Levi (Robinson) all deserve it,” said McElroy.
As PSC is one of the few high schools with a racing track, the school is hosting several track and field challeng-es including a PSC junior high track meet Thursday, May 28 and a Wolf Creek Schools track meet Tuesday, June 2.
St. Augustine Catholic School athletic director Adam Bowie was pleased with Isaiah Bott’s performance who won the 100-metre dash. Teaming up with Alix Mac High School, Bott also helped win the intermediate boys 4x100 relay.
“He will therefore be moving on in those two events. Our other athletes competed well and represented our school with pride,” said Bowie.
Here are the top three results for each category where St. Augustine Catholic School students or PSC students placed in the top two spots. In some events only two teams or athletes competed:Girls 200 Meter Dash Junior• Maddison Kendall, Ecole Secondaire Lacombe Com-
posite• Sarah Morin, Ponoka Secondary Campus• Edith Van Ginkel, West Central High School
posite• Levi Robinson, PSC• Mitchell Anderson, West Central High School
Boys 100 Meter Dash Intermediate• Isaiah Bott, St. Augustine Catholic School
CASAA track and field zone track and fieldresults for Ponoka
• Mike Lemme, Ecole Secondaire Lacombe Composite• Kayle Adair, Bentley
Boys 4x100 Meter Relay Intermediate• St. Augustine combined with Alix Mac High School:
Mason Fournel, Kyle Adair, Brian Castro and Isaiah Bott
• David Thompson High School: Kevin Szymanek, Tan-ner Steenbergen, Chris Maki and Tristan Agnais
• Central Alberta Christian High School: Jayden Door-bos, Geoff Luymes, Braden Olsen and David Verhoef
PSC’s Tess Pearman makes a long triple jump Wednesday, May 20 at the PSC ground during the Area 2 track and field challenge. The top two in each event move on to zones in Red Deer.
Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
THANK YOUKidSport Ponoka is honoured, the family and friends of Cooper Tonneson, who passed away in early December 2014, would choose to give other kids a chance to participate in sport as a part of his legacy. Cooper played most of his minor hockey career in Ponoka, he played with the Ponoka Stampeders for a while too. He enjoyed other sports, including golf and lacrosse.
Thank you to the Cooper Clint Tonneson Memorial Fund for remembering Cooper by reaching out to others through KidSport.
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DENNIS Nancy Elisabeth
Jan. 23, 1956 - May 16, 2015
It is with heavy hearts and deep regrets that we announce that Nancy Dennis, of Ponoka, AB passed away at the Ponoka Hospital and Care Centre at the age of 59 years after a third brief but courageous battle with cancer. Nancy was born on January 23, 1956 in Killam, AB to
Arthur and Sylvia Muckleston. She was raised in Acme, AB and moved to Ponoka in 1974. She completed the Psychiatric Nursing Program in Ponoka in 1976 and later her Bachelor of Science in Psychiatric Nursing. Nancy worked as a psychiatric nurse at the Centennial Centre for Mental Health and Brain Injury for 39 years; she was also a dedicated foot care nurse providing care to many individuals in the community. Nancy is lovingly remembered by her children Damien (Sara), Devon (Amy), Darius (Sara), Desirae (Darko) and Drew; grandchildren Dexter, Masen, Ellissa, Hadyn, Eathan, Eden, Eraryk, Jacob and Nathan; sisters Janet (Steve) Syndmiller, Rita (James) McCrimmon and sister-in-law Kathy Muckleston. She is also mourned and deeply missed by many relatives and friends. She is predeceased by her son Deryk, brother Jim Muckleston and parents Arthur and Sylvia Muckleston. In lieu of fl owers, donations may be made in Nancy’s name to the Canadian Cancer Society or the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. A Celebration of Life was held on Monday, May 25 at 2:00 p.m. at the Stagecoach Saloon.
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RYAN ZIMMERIt is with great sorrow and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Ryan Zimmer of Lacombe, formerly of Ponoka, at the Ponoka Hospital and Care Centre at the age of 31 years, on May 10, 2015 after a two year struggle with neuro-endochrine pancreatic cancer. Ryan will be deeply missed by his loving mother and father, Maxine and Lyle, and his younger brother
and best friend, Darren. He also leaves his maternal grandmother Hilda Radke as well as many loving aunts, uncles, cousins and second cousins. Ryan was predeceased by his grandfather Adolph Radke in 2000 and grandparents Edward Zimmer in 2009 and Barbara in 2012. A Funeral Service was held at the Royal Canadian Legion in Ponoka at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, May 15th with the Interment Service following at Forest Home Cemetery. Memorial donations are gratefully accepted to the Tom Baker Cancer Centre or The Stollery Children’s Hospital. To express condolences to Ryan’s family, please visit www.womboldfuneralhomes.com.
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HOLYOAK, Leona Mae March 7, 1940 - May 20, 2015
Leona Mae Holyoak of Camrose passed away Wednesday, May 20th, 2015 at the age of 75 years.Left to cherish her memory are her children Mitchell “Mick” Larson of Perth, Australia, Terry Larson of Australia, William “Bill” (Jackie) Larson of Calgary, Dawn (Donald Raeney) Larson of Ponoka, and Toby Larson of Melbourne, Australia; step-sons Earl Holyoak of the U.S.A., and Richard (Cindy) Holyoak of Black Diamond; brother Stanley Benz; sisters Doris Eshpeter and Fern (John) Shomachuk; and sister in-law Dot Benz.Leona was predeceased by her husband Lloyd; sisters Viola Mikasko and Marjory Benz; and brothers Harold Benz and Ray Benz.A Funeral Service will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, May 28, 2015 from the Burgar Memorial Chapel with Rev. Bev Swanson offi ciating. Inurnment will take place in the Forest Home Cemetery, Ponoka.If family and friends so desire, memorial contributions are gratefully accepted to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Canadian Lung Association.
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RANDLESJuly 25, 1937 - May 12, 2015
Curtis Keith Randles passed peacefully surrounded by family on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 6:00 Kootnenay Lake General Hospital at the age of 78. Curtis was born in Radville, Saskatchewan July 25, 1937 to parents Forest Neil and Beatrice Randles. Curtis worked on farms, oil rigs, as a milkman, underground mine worker,
and eventually found his calling as an electrician. Curtis courageously battled cancer for several years and refused to let it stop him from doing the things that were important to him. He worked in Fort McMurrray until retiring in November 2014, just fi ve months before his passing. He is predeceased by two brothers; Allan and Garnet, and is survived by his loving wife Ethel; sisters, Oce and Carla; four children, Tim, Darren, Michael, and Michelle; two step children, Kevin and Wendy as well as eleven grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
GLEN TAYLOR1963-2015
After a long battle with cancer, Glen passed away April 28 at the Red Deer Hospital, at the age of 52.He is lovingly remembered by his Grandmother, Margaret Taylor. His daughter Chaste Taylor (James MacDonald) and two grandsons, Zach and Matthew.Three brothers, Kevin Taylor and family; Donald Taylor and
family; Dean Schmidt and family, all of Medicine Hat.He is also survived by his father, Glen Taylor of Glen Isle, B.C., many aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews. Internment of cremation will take place at a later date.
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The Council of Ponoka County has been asked by Jaap Dominicus to amend Land Use By-Law 7-08-LU as follows:
Reclassify approximately 10.5 acres of the SE 26-42-27-W4 from Agricultural District to Country Residential (Hobby Farm) District to allow for subdivision of the rezoned area (1 new parcel to be created).
Before considering the by-law, Council will hold a Public Hearing at which any person claiming to be affected may ask questions or make comments. This hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 in the Council Chambers of the County Administration Building.
A copy of the proposed by-law may be inspected at the County Administration Building, Ponoka, Alberta during regular offi ce hours.
Ponoka CountyPUBLIC NOTICE
Charlie B. CutforthChief Administrative Offi cerPonoka County4205 - Highway #2APONOKA, Alberta T4J 1V9Phone: 783-3333Fax: 783-6965e-mail: PonokaCounty @PonokaCounty.com
Amendment to Land Use By-Law 7-08-LU
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2015 combined assessment/tax notices have been prepared and mailed to all property owners in the Town of Ponoka.
The assessment and taxroll is open for inspection during business hours:
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If you have not received your 2015 assessment/tax notice, please contact the Town Offi ce in person or by calling 403-783-0127.Dated at Ponoka, Alberta this 6th day of May A.D. 2015.
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The Council of Ponoka County has been asked by Edwin & Sheila Sande to amend Land Use By-Law 7-08-LU as follows:
Reclassify approximately 5 acres of the NE 16-43-25-W4 from Agricultural District to Country Residential District to allow for subdivision of the rezoned area (1 new parcel to be created).
Before considering the by-law, Council will hold a Public Hearing at which any person claiming to be affected may ask questions or make comments. This hearing is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 in the Council Chambers of the County Administration Building.
A copy of the proposed by-law may be inspected at the County Administration Building, Ponoka, Alberta during regular offi ce hours.
Ponoka CountyPUBLIC NOTICE
Charlie B. CutforthChief Administrative Offi cerPonoka County4205 - Highway #2APONOKA, Alberta T4J 1V9Phone: 783-3333Fax: 783-6965e-mail: PonokaCounty @PonokaCounty.com
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As a scruffy little youngster, I always looked forward to spring because I could put on my over-sized rubber boots and sneak down to the lazy old Battle River with my buddies to try our luck at fishing. Not too many of us could afford a real fishing rod, so we cut a strong willow branch with our jack-knifes, tied some tough Co-op store string on the end, then jabbed a fresh wig-gling worm on a hook made out of safety pin. It actually worked a few times, but on most hot afternoons we got bored and went wandering in search of new adventures, maybe even a few girls, but hopefully not too much trouble.
The old Canadian Pacific Rail-way dam just over the hill across the road from the Royal Hotel was a great place to fish and even go for a swim. At this time of the year, the jackfish were always real hungry, but hard to snare, but among the rocks on the spillway of the dam, there were hundreds of slippery old suckers, which were easy to catch by hand if you were fast enough. If we took any fish home to our mothers, they would likely throw a hissy-fit, so we took our prize catch up to the local Chinese restaurants, who usually hollered at us a little, but paid us 50 cents for the whole works, then put them on the sizzling F/C supper special. My biggest thrill came one day when I got to borrow my dad’s fishing rod and tackle box, and just under the south bridge, I actually caught and hauled in a nice 10 pound jackfish. It was awful heavy but I managed to haul it all the way home cross-country to Riverside, Mike Sr. showed us his expertise as a surgeon’s assis-tant in the army, and we enjoyed several great meals from what was left of that big clunker. I heard on the radio the other day that there wasn’t that many fish left in the Battle because most of them had been fished out or had been pol-luted by all of the junk that is now going into what once used to be real clean and fresh water.
Along the way, our family did some camping so we went fishing quite a bit at the lakes, and one of our friends had a real nice boat, and always liked to cruise around in search of the ‘big ones.’ It was
there that I learned how to ‘troll’ from the slow-moving boat, and while I got excited lots of times when I felt a tug, it was usually only a bunch of seaweeds or a log. As I got older, I think that the most fun I had fishing was with one of my favourite workmates at the old Ponoka Herald, Gordy Galbraith, who has a beautiful cabin on the Bentley side of Gull Lake, and took us out many times in his nifty pontoon boat in search of some really big jackfish, and a few nice pickerel. He always loved to clean them on the fish rack beside his cabin, so the rest of us sat back and watched until they were ready for the BBQ, then broke open the beer and enjoyed a meal fit for a king until long after the sun went down. My wife’s father was also an avid fisherman and we also enjoyed many weekend sessions at Medicine Lake, Buck Lake, Buffalo Lake and all the rest, but by that time we had to take along the kids, and they would usually manage to get the lines tangled up, got snagged with a hook, or made so much noise that it scared all the fish away.
So why, you ask, is fishing so good for the mind? It is the perfect opportunity to sit back, relax and go stressless, to visit with friends, and to silently contemplate about your future plans as you dangle your bobber in the water and wait for something to happen. Do you remember when good old Huck-leberry Finn used to tie the line to his toe, and then had a snooze until he felt a big tug? I love to go for a stroll and watch the seniors and youngsters fish for those lively little trout that will soon be stocked at Centennial Pond in the Lion’s Park, while a real challenge now for the wiliest of fisher folk is using barbless hooks, which makes it a real skill and thrill to land the fish on the line, but a whole lot easier to toss it back after you have taken a picture. One old timer told me that you should only take home what you can eat or give away to the neighbours, and the laws and restrictions are pretty strict now because the fish population has dropped drastically. Boating rules and courtesy are also very important, and include not over-loading the boat, not standing up and rocking the boat, always wear a lifejacket, reel in your lines if some-one else yells ‘I got one’, and remember that patrols are out on the water watching for liquor or other violations.
Whatever the case, many of us will always be ‘fish and chip’ fanatics, while others claim that all ‘finned creatures’ contain lots of Omega 3 fatty acids, which are good for heart health and many other things that might ail us. Have a safe and great fishing season, try to help a youngster get the really big thrill of catching his or her first fish, and have a great week, all of you..
Mike RainoneHammertime
Fishing can be good for the mind
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