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to have been drafted and approved before the North Bridge replacement and road realignment project began.
The decision was made Tuesday, Oct. 27 during a regular meeting after council heard from Sandra Lund, acting director of corporate services for the Town of Ponoka, on how the borrow-ing process will work. The bylaw sets a clear outline of how the town will borrow and pay back the $5 million
of the $5.45 million project.Lund said $100,000 is to
come from reserves and $343,00 from infrastruc-ture grants. As the project has already begun, and a bylaw was needed before that time, Lund said she had spent much of her time working closely with Municipal Affairs to ensure all the missed steps had been caught up with.
First reading of the bylaw is the fi rst step while the
town then must advertise for two weeks before passing second reading of the bylaw. After the second week of advertising, residents can petition the town, says Lund.
“Nov. 12 will start with a 15 day petition period … That will bring it back to the fi rst council meeting in December for second and third reading,” said Lund.
If and when the bylaw is approved, money will come from the Alberta Capital Finance Authority (ACFA) with an interest rate of 3.7 per cent over a 40-year term, which amounts to $240,826 per year. After third reading, a bylaw is considered valid after 30 days if no application has been made to the Court of Queen’s Bench to have it declared invalid.
Coun. Loanna Gulka asked about the petition process. “If there are people not in agreement to this … my understanding is that a certain percentage of the community must petition.”
Ten per cent of the com-munity must petition against the expense for it to be in-valid, replied Lund.
“If we were to run into
that,” said Gulka, “I’m just throwing this out there, what would happen to us?”
Council could initiate a plebiscite — a direct vote of all members of the elector-ate on an important public question, offered Mayor Rick Bonnett. The town could also continue the project under a three-year loan, however, he did not appear to favour that idea. “That would affect our budget going forward,” stated Bonnett.
Civil liability of councillorsUnder the current cir-
cumstances, there may be civil liability for councillors stemming from the borrow-ing bylaw.
The extent of that liability is laid out in the Municipal Government Act (MGA), in this particular case section 241 and sections 248 to 251.
When it comes to large capital projects that would see debt with a term of more than fi ve years, a munic-ipality may only resort to borrowing if authorized by a relevant bylaw.
The civil liability to a mu-nicipal council falls under three areas:• If it makes an expendi-
ture that is not autho-rized; (Those authoriza-tions are stated as being included in the operating, interim or capital budget, for an emergency or if legally required to be paid)
• Votes to spend money ob-tained under a borrowing for something other than was intended;
• Votes to spend money from a grant for some-thing other than what the grant was intended for.
Further, a council is re-quired to bring a procedure forward to authorize and verify expenditures. It should be noted the 2015 budget did prepare for the potential expense of the project but no money was set aside.
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Rimbey woman ejected from vehicle, dies in rollover
Police are investigating the cause of a rollover that resulted in the death of a 25-year-old Rimbey woman.
The incident occurred on Highway 53 on Sunday, Nov. 1 just west of the 46 Street intersection. A 24-year-old male driver of a white Ford F250 is said to have lost control of the eastbound pickup, which rolled into the south side of the road several times before coming to a rest on its wheels.
A 25-year-old Rimbey woman was ejected from the vehicle and emergency crews were seen conducting CPR on her, however, police said she died at the scene.
The relationship of the two people is unknown. Investigation into incident is ongoing.
This was the second inci-dent crews attended on that morning as there was an-other rollover about 45 min-utes prior at the Highway 2 and Highway 53 cloverleaf.
Attempted theft of side by side
The attempted theft of a side by side ATV twice on the same day of Oct. 28 at a rural residence has police looking for suspects.
Offi cers say a suspect is believed to have attempted to steal the ATV with the
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wrong keys early on Oct. 28. The attempt failed but later on the same day at approximately 11:40 p.m. the suspects returned. It was an alarm that alerted the homeowner of someone being in their barn.
The caller said they saw an individual running out of the barn with the own-er’s dog giving chase. The suspect then called for the owner to call their dog off, which subsequently chased the man into a nearby fi eld. RCMP and the K-9 unit attended where they tracked the footprints to Maskwacis.
Police say they are looking for a First Nations man be-lieved to be under 20 years of age. RCMP advises taking necessary precautions to
lock up their outbuildings.Suspended driver nabbed
by traffi c unitMembers of the Ponoka
Integrated Traffi c Unit nabbed a speeder Oct. 27 at 8:15 p.m. who was found to have a suspended licence.
Offi cers were conducting speed check when they witnessed a vehicle travel-ling at speeds of 137 km/h. The vehicle is said to have been weaving in and out of lanes. The vehicle was stopped and the 42-year-old Edmonton driver was charged with driving while unauthorized, exceeding the maximum speed limit and failing to maintain the centre lane.
Aggressive dogs in townPolice are investigating
complaints of overly ag-
gressive dogs that are said to have attacked a woman and her dog as well as trapped an individual in their car.
The incident occurred Monday, Oct. 26 at 3 p.m.
When police arrived at the scene of the person trapped in their car, the dogs eventually returned to their yard.
If you have information on any of these occurrences,
please call the Ponoka RCMP at 403-783-4472. If you want to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), or by internet at www.tipsubmit.com.
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Religion
Are we able to get our message through?
The other day I was riding my bicycle home from the Ponoka Hospital. As I ap-proached the four-way stop at 54 Street and 57 Ave, I noticed a pick-up heading south on 54th. It was easily going to beat me to the intersection and because they were on my left, they had the right of way even if we got there at the same time. But as I got closer, I noticed the driver had stopped and he was waiting
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for me. I guess he wasn’t sure what the guy on the bike was going to do and didn’t want to run me over. Grateful but not surprised, seems as some cyclists don’t follow the rules of the road and some drivers don’t share the road with bikes either. Anyway, he was waiting. So when I got there, I signalled to turn right onto 54th and waited for him to cross the intersection. And as he did, the passenger waved.
Nice gesture – truly, but it seemed to me that he had taken my right hand signal the wrong way. I wasn’t waving, I was going to turn.
And that got me thinking.How often do we signal
something and the message doesn’t come across as we intend? How often are we misunderstood because of assumptions, distractions or a lack of common language? In this case, I wonder how many people know the hand signals cyclists are supposed to use.
In the same way, I wonder about the controversy over head coverings that Muslim women wear. It might be true that some wear it out of fear or as a form of male domination, but I have heard enough women speak about how it protects their modesty; it’s an expression of their faith. So while it’s a custom I’m not familiar with, I want to respect it in the same way
I want the distinctives of my faith respected. Besides, I wonder if our western style of dress leaves too little to the imagination and they might be onto something better. Regardless, it seems sad to me that so many respond to this custom out of fear and suspicion.
Another example involves the person who spray paint-ed a swastika on an election sign earlier this year. Did they realize what they were saying, really? I mean, just how does a fascist (extreme right wing) symbol and a left-leaning political party match in any way? I realize political decisions impact jobs and social programs, but is our provincial government a new form of Nazism? Hardly! Was all this thought through or is this another case of fear, a lack of knowledge or some personal fi nancial crisis that prompted the act? I wonder, is this how it has to be?
I like the band Genesis and they wrote a song with a lyric that goes like this:
“And you kill what you fearAnd you fear what you don’t
understand.” (Duke’s Travels; Duke, 1980)
Sadly, believe those words speak the truth so many people and movements ex-perience everyday.
continued on page 11
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2015 PONOKA NEWS 5
Refl ections of Ponoka
Remember When...Photo from P.C.H.S. 1999 Yearbook
High school sports have always been front and centre up at the Ponoka Composite High School, and this week we will feature the powerful 1999 Senior Broncs volleyball squad that had a great season and earned the right to attend the Zone Championship Tournament. Shown in the back row (from left to right) are Trevor Stemo, Jeff Deckert, Jon Long, David Grootjes, Mark Jorgenson, Jeremy Smith, and Coach Ron Labrie, and seated in front are team manager Jessica Reddick, Isaac Dahms, Graham Davenport, Cameron Kusiek, Allan Prediger and Marty Gratrix.
The ‘good old boys’ from the Bismarck district north west of Ponoka poise in front of the fi rst gas-thrashing outfi t in the area in 1913. Shown sitting on the tractor are (left to right) Paul Nagel, Ob McFetridge, and John Hagemann, then standing in the front row are Art Archibald, Charley Hemeyer Jr., William Kucker, Hugo Kerber, John Stark and early district pioneers Ed Kerber and Henry Nagel Sr.
Photo from Crestomere/Sylvan Heights Heritage History Book
Bismarck was the
early frontier between
Rimbey and Ponoka
It was in the early 1900s that the very motivated Gehrke Brothers, Charley, Julius and August arrived in the rugged countryside a half a dozen miles west and north of Ponoka to establish their new homesteads. Thanks to the early encouragement of the always con-genial Charlie Gehrke and his brother, settlers poured into the district from 1902 to 1904, all eager to accept the immediate gift of $10 cash that had been promised to immigrants who were willing to settle and work the land.
Charlie would also purchase a half section of land from the Canadian Pacifi c Railway, which he sold to Mr. C.R. Kirk in 1902 and would later become the location of the fi rst Post Offi ce and General Store in the busy new district of Bismarck. From the beginning, it was a friendly stopping and shopping place for the many settlers living in the vast area to the west, who travelled by oxen and horse teams, had to stop along the way to open and close 22 cattle gates as well as cross the Battle River, and depending on the conditions, it would quite often take up to a week to make that arduous trip into Ponoka. In 1902, the hardy folks of the west country grew tired of waiting for the government to build them a bridge, so they went out and did it themselves. To keep up with the rapid growth of the Bismarck district, a saw mill was erected on the Kirk place and operated by a Mr. Converse, and then the Bismarck U.F.A. local was formed in 1915 to serve the very active and productive district farmers.
The fi rst Bismarck School District was organized in 1903-1904, and fi nally after long delays dealing with the authorities in Regina, the tiny country school was built by Julius Gehrke and Willam Jacobus on the N.W. 8-43-27-W4th, which was located on an histori-cal spot 13 miles west and two miles north of Ponoka. Hundreds of district children from three family genera-tions were taught the three R’s and much more at that cozy Bismarck School, which closed in 1953 when the Crestomere School was opened. One of the fi rst stipu-lations of the early school was that the children of new
BY MIKE RAINONE FOR THE NEWS
settlers who had arrived in the district from the United States had to start in Grade 1, regardless of their age. The teachers, many of whom lived at the school, were paid between $400 and $600 a year, but if the board couldn’t collect enough taxes to keep the school open, it had to be closed until they could. Among the fi rst early fami-lies who homesteaded in the Bismarck district were the Tiltgens, the Hagemans, the McFetridges, the Gunthers, the Kerbers, the Cissells, the Jacobuses, the Jensens, the McClafl ins, Harold Luce, the Hemeyers, the Nagels and countless others on through the decades and genera-tions.
The family of Henry Nagel Sr.During the winter of 1902 Mr. Henry Nagel was living
near the west coast of Oregon when he read an article in the local paper that would completely change his life and that of many others. The advertisement (like-ly placed by the Gehrke Brothers) was encouraging settlers to come to western Alberta, where there was fertile homestead land available. It also explained that Charlie Gehrke was organizing the fi rst Lutheran Church Congregation in the Bismarck district, and this was like-ly the primary interest for Nagel to make the move.
It would be in April of 1902 that he arrived in Ponoka with his bride of three months, and the couple were immediately whisked out west to the friendly Gehrke homestead. It was in that pristine countryside that they would set up their fi rst house-keeping together in a small tent, from where Henry would scout around for suitable land to fi le on, and eventually chose the S.W. 12-43-28-W4th about 15 miles west of the Village of Ponoka. He would now bravely set out with sincere fortitude and clear foresight to clear this land, and over the years, would transform it into one of the fi nest model mixed farms in the district. Along the way seven children were born, including Paul, Carl, William, Fred, Henry,
Hannah and Elizabeth, several who settled and raised their families in Alberta and B.C., while Henry, Hannah, and Elizabeth resided in this area for many years. Henry Nagel Jr. married Sarah Duel, and they farmed the home place for many years, while Henry also did custom threshing throughout the district, and they would also be blessed with four children, Ronnie, Kay, Ann, and Bert. Ronnie Nagel was married to Beatrice Bengston, they lived on the farm, Ronnie drove a Crestomere School bus, and together they raised fi ve sons, Bernie, Lorne, Barry, Andy, and Daren, and many of the Nagel generations and their neighbours have proudly carried on their family traditions to this day.
In the Crestomere/Sylvan Heights Heritage History Book, Elizabeth fondly recalls that it was not always hard work out there on the Nagel homestead. There were many lively gatherings among the neighbours and at the popular ‘Gerhke Hall’, with the winter months spent visiting and playing cards, and the mid-summer highlight included the annual picnic, where excitement always ran high over tug-of-war contests, foot and sack races, horseshoe games and lots of good food. In the 20s, Miss Abercrombie, one of the school teachers, had a vin-tage Roadster car, and always cut ‘quite a dash’ through-out the district. They never forgot one very wet summer when the Battle River fl ooded over the road and caused a washout, and the day that their father was heading home from town with treats and three kegs for the pic-nic, the wagon tipped over and everything was washed downstream. Only one keg of beer was recovered, but everyone pitched in for treats at the local store, and all was well. So many changes have come about through the years, but the true word heard in the Sunday service held at the church on the hill will always be the same for countless families, neighbours, friends, and visitors to the Bismarck district.
6 PONOKA NEWS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2015
The government of Rachel Notley fi nally an-nounced its fi rst budget with a delay of almost six months after the provin-cial elections in the fi rst week of last May and pre-dictably drew both positive and negative reaction from a wide range of stakehold-ers.
Association of School Boards of Alberta said they were happy with the can-
Budget and support to agriculture
Dear Editor,It’s was so good to see a heavy RCMP presence tonight
in Ponoka with all the stealing and crap going on in this town.
Kudos to the RCMP!Being a hardworking, tax-paying Canadian that works
for what I have, I salute you and the same goes for the Ponoka Fire Department, for putting the lights on and handing out glow sticks and candy. It made my kids’ night.
Thank you, both forces!I’m proud to be from Ponoka.
Brant Flaws
Proud to be from Ponoka
Dear Editor,While Netanyahu is no doubt using the life of Haj Amin
al-Husseini for his own purposes, there is an important connection between the grand mufti and the Nazi party. Though it is unlikely that the idea of “the Final Solution” came from the Muslim cleric, there is evidence to sup-port that he aided Hitler and the Nazis in the genocide.
In his book, Semites and Anti-Semites, Bernard Lewis documents that Haj Amin al-Husseini not only wanted to halt and terminate the Jewish settlement in Palestine, he wished to see the termination of Jews everywhere.
Or one can read in Kenneth R. Timmerman’s arti-cle “Forgotten Palestine” that the mufti sent Bosnian
Muslims into Croatia and Hungary to aid the Nazis in the killing of the Jews. “Hanjar troopers” were responsible for the slaughter of 90 per cent of Bosnia’s Jews.
There were meetings between the Muslim cleric and Nazis such as Himmler. This is documented. I can under-stand why Netanyahu is talking about Haj Amin al-Hus-seini. What I cannot understand is why so many people are rushing to defend Haj Amin al-Husseini. He did con-tribute to the Holocaust, even if he was not its author.
Sincerely,Timothy N. Nelson
Ponoka, AB
A Response to “Netanyahu and the Truth”
Opinion
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cellation of the funding cuts of the pre-election PC government but they in-dicated they expect more to provide school divisions across the province to have “fl exibility”.
Manufacturers and ex-porters described the bud-get as “underwhelming” and criticized it for lack of support for “job creators”.
Consulting Engineers of Alberta applauded the budget for its emphasis on infrastructure buildup and the money to be allocated for it.
AUMA, the provincial or-ganization of the munic-ipalities, in simultaneous press statements, both praised and criticized the budget, for increased sup-port for FCSS and other community service orga-nizations and lack of ad-equate support for afford-able housing, respectively.
One of the key stake-holders in the province’s economic management, Alberta Chambers of Commerce found both positive and negative el-ements in the budget.
Positive elements includ-ed realistic exchange rate and oil price predictions taken as a basis for cal-culations and lack of tax rises for small and me-dium businesses while it was reported that the predicted depletion of the Contingency Fund in 2016 and the planned length of the period until the return to a balanced budget were serious concerns.
As with many other el-ements associated with politics, a budget is just another set of promises, with two important differ-ences as compared to oth-ers. One is that the set of promises in the budget di-rectly impacts the amount of money we can spend, therefore our welfare and way of life; the second is that the promise is clearly calculated and expressed in concrete fi gures, an el-ement which hangs over every government like the sword of Damocles, mak-ing it very diffi cult to stray from the announced in-tentions.
We should, however, also
be cognizant of the fact that, despite its nature of mathematical certainty and accuracy, the imple-mentation of the budget as a process of delivery is just as important as the text of the promise, itself.
There are several ques-tions one might be tempt-ed to ask with regard to the implementation of this recently announced budget as a function of the wider policy promises made during the election campaign.
One that immediately comes to mind is the how responsive the govern-ment will be towards the various sectors of the elec-torate in delivering on the
promises. For instance, it was widely discussed after the provincial elections that the outcome had shown the power of the urban constituencies in determining the composi-tion of the new provincial legislature. Will that mean the new government be paying much closer atten-tion to the concerns of the urban constituents and consider the rural as of secondary importance?
Having come to power with a distinctly pro-diver-sifi cation economic agen-da, how much support should the province’s sec-ond strongest asset, the agricultural sector, expect to receive from the new
government?As these lines were being
written, the government was in the process of an-nouncing a new program to support jobs and busi-ness in the province. The details will clarify wheth-er agricultural businesses will also benefi t from the program.
One hopes that the gov-ernment will keep a focus on agriculture in planning its economic management strategies because that very sector is supported by governments all around the world, including by those of the United States and European countries. Albertan and Canadian farmers don’t deserve less.
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Folks choose some beautiful handmade bowls donated by the Ponoka Potter’s Guild for the Empty Bowls fundraiser Tuesday, Oct. 27 at the First Baptist Church. The fundraiser sold almost double the number of bowls from last year.
Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
Folks stay warm at Empty Bowls fundraiserA cold, blustery day
ended up being the perfect
opportunity to enjoy a hot bowl of soup during the Empty Bowls fundraiser Tuesday, Oct. 27.
BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE More than 110 bowls were sold at the fundrais-er aimed at bringing funds to the Ponoka Food Bank. That was close to double the amount sold in last year’s event, said Shelly Van Eaton, organizer and program co-ordinator with Family and Community Support Services. “We al-most doubled our num-bers. We sold 112 bowls and last year was 70.”
The event was held at the Ponoka First Baptist Church, which brought donated bowls from the Ponoka Potter’s Guild, hot soup and buns from busi-nesses and community organizations as well as a rice pudding dessert from a local dessert maker. For $20, attendees received a hot bowl of soup donated by several businesses in the community in addition to the bowls the soup was served in and a chance to
fi nd refuge from the cold weather.
Lacombe residents also attended the fundraiser, explained Jan Holoboff, a member of the guild. “We always have a good turn-out.”
The grassroots program is aimed at bringing funds to organizations that support people in need of food and the Ponoka Food Bank is an ideal agency to support, said Holoboff. She added the guild is moving to the old Ponoka Elementary School pink building.
Van Eaton said the sup-port this year from busi-nesses and volunteers was even greater than before and she is grateful for the time and the donations. Having the food and buns and water donated provid-ed more money to go to the food bank. Leftovers were taken to the Ponoka Rising Sun Clubhouse.
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Ponoka Fire Department Weekly ReportPONOKA FIRE WEEKLY REPORT: OCT. 21 – OCT. 28
The Ponoka Fire Brigade was pleased to donate a $500 scholarship to Brittany Lange, a St. Augustine student for her interest in Nursing and Emergency Services. She will be attending Red Deer College.
For the last week, the fi re department responsed to 4 fi re calls • 1 Motor Vehicle Accidents • 1 Vehicle Fire • 2 Alarms
Mayor Rick Bonnett emphasized working together during his Mayor’s Address at the Annual Organizational Meeting on October 27, 2015. “It’s not feasible to do everything alone. Regional collaboration, partnerships and community involvement are important to moving forward. We are stronger as a group than as individuals.”
The Mayor listed successes in the past year including the Canada Day celebrations, fi reworks and the Town’s fi rst Day in the Park, thanking the committees and staff involved for their hard work. He also thanked people for supporting and attending these events.
Council will continue to move things forward including a Recreation Master Plan, a regional fi re agreement, and making a new Community Health and Wellness Centre a reality, added the Mayor.
“At this half-way point of Council’s term there have been many achievements and some setbacks,” said Mayor Bonnett. “I’m optimistic about potential funding from both new governments. We know there is only one taxpayer. There are diffi cult times ahead with rising construction costs, and economic turmoil. We will keep the Town’s fi scal house in order and together, we will get through it.”
Council hopes to have an interim CAO in place shortly. With the help of a consulting service Council will search for a new CAO, with the goal of having someone in place early in 2016.
HOMETOWN NEWS HOMETOWN EVENTSFEATURE NEWS!
Town and Ponoka Rising Sun Clubhouse working together for a Green Ponoka - The Town has contracted with Green for Life Environmental to begin a town-wide pick up of garbage and recycling. The Ponoka Rising Sun Clubhouse has offered this service for many years. This plan enhances Ponoka’s overall waste reduction efforts. It will promote that every household recycles beginning in January. The Town and the Ponoka Rising Sun Clubhouse will provide a recycling service to all residents. Carts come in December – and pick-up starts in January. Ponoka Rising Sun Clubhouse existing and new customers - watch for information about signing up for their services Watch for pick-up schedules and details from the Town, coming soon!
COUNCIL UPDATESThe next meeting of Council will be on Tuesday, November 10 at a new time - 6:00 pm at the Kinsmen Community Centre. Agenda packages are posted on the website in advance of every Council meeting. Everyone is welcome to attend.Budget Deliberations November 12-13 from 8:30 - 4 pm at the Kinsmen Community Centre. These are open to the public.
TOWN NOTICESTOWN HALL IS MOVING! Town Hall offi ces will be CLOSED November 6-11. The new offi ce opens on November 12. All other town facilities are open for business as usual; however phone lines may be disrupted during the move. During Town Hall’s Big Move in November, please pay bills online or at your fi nancial institution. Town Offi ces are moving to the “Pink School” on November 6, located at 5004 54 Street. Thank you for your patience during the move. The new offi ce will open November 12. We look forward to serving you in our new locationRemembrance Day – Town of Ponoka Offi ces and Waste Transfer Station will be closed on November 11Winter hours at the Waste Transfer Station - will be starting on Tuesday, November 3. The new winter hours are 10:00 am until 4:00 pm, Tuesday through Saturday. Remember - the Waste Transfer Station now accepts household hazardous waste (paint and electronics).
Aquaplex - Register now for November Swim Lessons. All PD Day Swims 1:00pm-3:00pm. Public Skating - Shinney Hockey &Public Skating times are Monday to Thursday from11:30 am until 1pm. Friday’s is maintenance day. Weekend public skating is from 2 - 3:30 pm. PD day skating takes place after 1:00 pm due to ice maintenance. The schedule will be posted on our website for confi rmed times – Ponoka.caPonoka Lion’s Club is once again sponsoring the Public Skating Program at the arena,Ice Rental: Small ice surface is available for rent, for more information contact Tamara @403- 783-0131CP Holiday Train – December 8 Arrival at 5:30 PM; show from 5:45 – 6:15 pm. This is a fundraiser for our local foodbank! Please donate generously to those in need at Christmas. Ponoka’s 2nd annual Festival of Trees takes place from November 19 – 21Ponoka FCSS Starry Nights Road Trip – December 3 Ponoka to Red Deer for shopping, dinner and a sleigh ride at Heritage Ranch; tickets on sale now to 55+, and others on November 18 depending on seat availabilityPonoka Secondary Campus Santa’s Anonymous events running now through December – check PSC Santa’s Anonymous Facebook page for details
Smoke Alarm Reminder! The Fire Department has purchased 100 smoke alarms. If yours is over 10 years old, please bring it to the Fire Station and we will replace it for you. So far, 25 people have received a new smoke alarm from the PFD. REMEMBER when you change your clocks, change the batteries in your smoke alarm.
MAYOR STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF WORKING TOGETHER
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Local banker ready to take on new challenge
A number of challenges are ahead for Dennis Jones, the least of which is fi guring out just what his new job will entail.
The 48-year-old Jones, who is a fourth-generation born and raised Ponoka area res-ident, was hired to fi ll the position as Ponoka County’s fi rst-ever regional fi re chief at the county council meeting
Dennis Jones hired as Ponoka County regional fi re chief
Dennis Jones will be leaving the cozy confi nes of the branch manager offi ce at Servus Credit Union in Ponoka as of Nov. 20 for an offi ce down the road at Ponoka County as their fi rst-ever Regional Fire Chief. Jones is looking forward to turning his passion for fi re fi ghting into a new career path.
Photo by Jordie Dwyer
BY JORDIE DWYER on Tuesday, Oct. 27. He was selected as the top candidate out of 26 applications that were received and made it through the short-list of four that were interviewed.
“All of the candidates were really strong, but the ad-vantage for Dennis was his education and experience,” said Ponoka County chief administrative offi cer Charlie Cutforth.
“Having spent 10 years in management and adminis-tration at his present banking job along with the expertise and training that goes well beyond what we were look-ing for and that he knows the local situation we are dealing with, he brings a lot and more to this new post.”
For Jones, the move from branch manager at the Ponoka branch of Servus Credit Union and into this new post is simply a tran-sition from a lengthy career in fi nance to continuing to work on a passion he has developed.
“My work has taken me all over Alberta and when I was
given the chance to bring my family back to Ponoka in 2000, where I was raised, it just seemed to fi t nicely,” he said in an interview Monday, Nov. 2 from the offi ce he will vacate at Servus on Nov. 20.
“Having spent nearly 11 years on the Ponoka Fire Department, and now my recent work as part of the Rimbey Fire Department, plus the 10 years as branch manager at Servus along with the other numerous ways I have supported the community, taking this new job is kind of putting a career and a passion together. It was all there, so I fi gure what an opportunity this would be.”
As Ponoka County has stated from the start - and something Jones reiterat-ed- the regional chief post will focus on managing and administering the fi re protection services in the region with no changes in the operational or command structure of the two depart-ments currently serving the area - Rimbey and Ponoka. One other focus will be on
ensuring the departments have enough members so they don’t get stretched too thin and burn out occurs.
“While negotiations are still ongoing with Ponoka, mean-ing we will have to wait and see how this all rolls out and everything fi ts, what I see is us maintaining the incident command structure with the two fi re chiefs leading their departments with me being there to support them through taking on the man-aging of the fi re service and working with them on capital purchases, recruitment and retention, having consistency in training and helping to plan their budgets. We also need to remember these are volunteers that can get burnt out,” Jones explained.
“A regional fi re service model works well by being more effective and effi cient. With my strong background in recruitment, training, budgeting as well as my con-nections with the fi re depart-ments and the communities in Ponoka and Rimbey, it’s going to be an interesting
but great challenge ahead.”One of those challenges
will be analyzing the cur-rent and future needs of the Rimbey Fire Department and then integrating and balancing those with what the Ponoka Fire Department brings to the equation. That is, if and when the Town of Ponoka and Ponoka County are able to negotiate an agreement that would put the department under the regional umbrella.
“We are still negotiating with Ponoka, and once an agreement is made, it is critical that all three chiefs work together or it won’t work,” explained Cutforth.
“We don’t see the actual operations changing at all. The local chiefs will, as always, run their depart-ments and at the scene, but the benefi t will come in the consistency of training, the ability to work on recruit-ment and retaining fi refi ght-ers and putting the revenue generated from department activities right back into fi re
continued on page 12
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PRESIDENT OF THE ORTHODONTIC SOCIETY tried to STOP competitor’s advertising?For almost 10 years a few specialists have been trying to interfere with the advertising of orthodontics by general dentists. There is no state or province in North America that has prevented general dentists from providing braces, but that doesn’t stop certain people from trying. To be fair, there ARE some situations where you should probably ONLY see a specialist. If you need jaw surgery to have an ideal result, and accept the risks of doing this treatment you actually need to see two or three dental specialists plus your general dentist to complete your treatment. If you are especially particular and want to be as close to textbook perfect, then not only should you see a specialist, you should be sure you see a very fussy specialist. Not all specialists are equal.SAD TRUTHEven specialists are not able to guarantee straight teeth will make you or your child a Hollywood star. Another reality is while they used to think they could ‘grow lower jaws’ with orthodontic appliances the facts seem to suggest otherwise. Many young teens treated with appliances and Herbst braces simply grew out of their bad bite – and others who were ‘fi xed’ were actually only posturing their jaw forward and not really improved. The good news is even if the bones of the jaws are a mismatch- typically the lower being too small to match the upper, it is not a fatal condition. Many people live to be over ninety years old with this kind of bite, but if you are concerned about the retruded profi le or other effects, as an adult you may choose jaw repositioning surgery…but the sad truth is no dentist, and not even specialists can actually claim to grow a mandible more than it is programed to do by genetics. It is sometimes better to do little or nothing for a teenager when it is clear they will want jaw surgery later anyway. It is simply not wise to keep braces on for extended periods of time, waiting for the person to stop growing. As a parent you may want to do the best for your child but sometimes that means waiting.
Dental professionals tell you this, but if you don’t really understand you may be wasting your money. Who wants to be told their child may be better off waiting and choosing jaw surgery when he/she is an adult?
Sometimes it is better to do less and here’s an example: A child was being teased about her ‘buck teeth’ which were spaced out and sticking out of her mouth even when her lips were closed. She clearly needed something done, but it was also obvious she was going to need jaw re-positioning at a much older age to improve her profi le. If you watch Dr. Pol the veterinarian on television, you’ll notice his wife has a very small lower jaw. People often look better when their jaws match, but as mentioned, this cannot always be corrected as a teen. What did Dr. Zuk recommend? He suggested not doing what his friend the orthodontist recommended, and instead suggested a very inexpensive, limited orthodontic treatment. With $1999 braces the young girl’s smile would be little better and she wouldn’t be as self-conscious. Spending $7000 would not have corrected the true skeletal problem anyway.
Other situations where ‘$1999 & up braces’ may help teens & adults include mild to moderate crowding, twisting or spacing of the upper teeth- especially when you can’t afford a specialist for comprehensive or ‘full treatment’. Limited treatment often just focuses on making your smile look better and not correcting all the things you could if your budget was higher.
To discover if $1999 orthodontic braces may be right for you or a loved one call today for a consultation with Dr. Michael Zuk, General Dentist, Bower Dental,Bower Mall at (403)347-8008 or visitwww.1999Braces.com for more information on the limitations of this treatment.
Why You SHOULDN’T get $1999 Orthodontic Braces From THIS DENTIST…
You may have recently heard radio ads about $1999 orthodonticbraces and wondered if it would be wise to try to save money on orthodontic care. The answer is sometimes it is better to pay more, but in some cases it is simply a different alternative that isn’t necessarily better or worse. In fact, sometimes even the experts agree it is better to save your money and do the simplest choice.
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I read that the latest shoot-ing in Oregon involved a person who questions his potential victims before fi r-ing. He asked each one, “are you a Christian?” Those who responded “yes,” were killed. I grieve those deaths and his. I grieve that my faith and those who share it are misun-derstood and at least in this instance feared and killed. I grieve our past faults and sins.
continued from page 4 But I also know the good we have done; the way Christians and Christian faith has blessed the world. I won’t give a list or debate the issue here, but I will invite a conversation. Just as the driver of that pick-up may not have understood me at the four-way, I may not have understood him. Maybe I should have waved him over and had a chat so that we did.
The Bible I read is fi lled with stories of God coming near to talk. Jesus exemplifi ed the ap-
proach. He consistently asked people about their situation and then listened. Patiently and respectfully. Sometimes a new relationship was formed. Sometimes people saw things differently; they changed their point of view and sometimes they didn’t. The point is that Jesus cared enough to talk it over. No snap judgments, no fear fi lled reactions. I hope my legacy, our legacy as a commu-nity, bears some resemblance to that approach.
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service. This is the most im-portant service in the county, it’s a brotherhood and we need to treat it that way.”
For his part, Ponoka fi re chief Jamie Wilkinson is looking
continued from page 10 forward to working with Jones on a plan to move things for-ward - once an agreement is signed - and hopes the tran-sition keeps things operating smoothly. Meanwhile, the vast community of Ponoka and the county have shown their sup-
port with social media blowing up with congratulations and well wishes for Jones’ new job.
“It’s been humbling and encouraging, all the support through social media, texts, phone calls I have received from work colleagues, fi refi ght-
ers both locally and around the province, people from the surrounding community - it’s just great,” Jones said.
“I’ve always been big on giving back to the commu-nity, and I’ve been fortunate to be able to keep that strong
connection to the community through my job. In hindsight, it’s great and unique that I can serve the community where I grew up and it’s important to maintain that good community feel. It doesn’t get any better than this.”
While talks continue between the town and county, county council also approved a motion at the meeting that would see
an advisory committee set up with representation from the county, Summer Village of Parkland and the towns of Rimbey and Ponoka - once all agreements are in place - to pro-vide consultation, direction and an avenue to voice concerns on the workings of the regional fi re structure. The formation and make up of the committee will be revisited annually.
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Town staff prepare for big moveTown staff are ready-
ing themselves for the big move that will see the Town of Ponoka’s administrative building relocated to the old Ponoka Elementary School building.
The offi ces will be lo-cated at the north end of the pink building with a customer entrance on the northeast side, says Donna Brinkworth, communica-tions offi cer. To help res-idents navigate the new location, a large sign will be shown at the northeast entrance to the old school.
Brinkworth said if all plans go well, the new town hall will be open for business Thursday, Nov. 12 after
Remembrance Day. “It’s going to be a huge move,” she said.
“We’ll make sure we have reserved parking for cus-tomers.”
There will be no commu-nication capabilities with phone or Internet Friday, Nov. 6 and any calls made that day will go to the town’s call centre. Staff will be spending much of Nov. 9 and 10 unpacking boxes in their new home. Brinkworth said over the weekend crews will have moved the old desks from the current building to the new one, which will allow staff to get their items ready for the 12th.
“The biggest challenge I would say is moving all the IT stuff,” said Brinkworth.
In addition to regular parking, there will be two handicapped parking spots and a ramp to make the building wheelchair ac-cessible. Crews have been refurbishing the space to ensure there are areas for town employees to work and the main entrance is de-signed so that residents will be able to speak with staff who are most frequently serve town’s clients. Those departments are fi nance, bylaw services, utilities and the receptionist.
Brinkworth added that Val Schabert, who handles requests for plots at the Forest Home Cemetery, now has a room she can meet with residents in.
Planning and development
BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE will continue to work out of the Visitors’ Information Centre. Brinkworth said there has been some disrup-tion with email and phone communications with the two offi ces but added staff are working to ensure issues are dealt with as quickly as possible.
One benefi t of the move is town staff will be housed in the same area. The current building splits departments up and this will not happen with the new location. “We look forward to serving peo-
ple when we come to this building,” added Brinkworth.
A 10-year lease has been signed with Wolf Creek Public Schools for the space
at $10 per year and council approved the reallocation of $120,000 Sept. 8 to help pay for the move and re-furbishing.
Crews have been working to refurbish the old Ponoka Elementary School building in anticipation for town staff moving to a new town hall. The building is expected to be open for business Nov. 12. Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
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Bethany announces decision to quit managing Rimoka Housing Foundation
Bethany Group has an-nounced its decision to resign as the CAO for the Rimoka Housing Foundation.
The decision was made Wednesday, Oct. 28 during a regular meeting of the
Rimoka board, announced chairperson Paul McLauchlin.
“We’re shocked,” said McLauchlin of the board’s reaction.
He did not say why Bethany Group resigned but added that the compa-ny will be working closely
BY JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE with Rimoka to ensure a relatively smooth transition for customers. Resigning is not as simple as handing in the papers, either, says McLauchlin.
Both groups need to work with the Ministry of Seniors as there are several steps that need to be followed, explained McLauchlin. He suggests “transition” is a better term for resigning due to the nature of care provided to seniors.
This decision affects res-idents of both Ponoka and Rimbey lodges — Legacy Place and Parkland Manor — as well as Golden Leisure Lodge in Ponoka. McLauchlin added that the board’s prior-ity now is to fi nd a CAO who is capable of handling the job. When Bethany Group took over several years ago as the CAO of Rimoka, there were several challenges the board faced, which have since been dealt with.
Bethany’s presence helped the Rimoka board during the time it managed Rimoka’s affairs, and now the board chair feels they are in a posi-tive place to hire a new CAO. “We’re approaching this in a positive, professional manner,” said McLauchlin.
“Our fi rst choice is going to be to hire local,” he added.
While there may be some challenges bringing the transition about for senior residents in Rimoka build-ings, McLauchlin says the board is ready to ensure they are cared for. As more details become available, McLauchlin says Rimoka will be apprising the public of those changes.
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Increased non-refundable check-off option supported at regional ABP meeting
Two potentially contentious issues proved to have no meat to them for the area’s beef producers.
Being able to maintain their competitiveness and enhance the value of their products through better re-search were more important to the members of the Alberta Beef Producers (ABP) who attended a regional meeting at the Ponoka Royal Canadian Legion last Thursday night, Oct. 29 where the majority of the about 50 in attendance voted in favour of raising the national check-off per head as well as for eliminating the refundable portion of the provincial service charge.
The regional meeting, which was one of 23 held over the past few weeks throughout the province, in-cluded presentations on the ABP’s 2015 annual report and the funding options for both the National Beef Strategy and the ABP, plus giving producers the opportunity to put forward resolutions that will be voted on at the ABP annual general meeting in Calgary in December.
“It was a good discussion and showed that producers want to be involved in the strategy being put forward by the ABP to help maintain our research to keep the industry competitive,” said ABP chair Greg Bowie following the meeting.
The aim of the fi ve-year National Beef Strategy is to ensure research and pro-motion of Canadian beef enhances the value of the products in addition to ex-panding the domestic, but especially the international, market potential for beef products.
Bowie, who is also a pro-ducer from the Ponoka area, explained the per head na-tional check-off has been $1 since it was introduced 20 years ago, and that dis-cussions between various stakeholders over the past 18 months has resulted in the recommendation to hike it to $2.50 per head.
“This raise is necessary if we are to reach the aggressive goals and objectives that have been set out in the National Beef Strategy,” he said.
As for the changes the ABP is advocating in order to maintain their own via-bility, Bowie was as equally straightforward stating the refundable portion of the pro-vincial service charge must go if the ABP hopes to keep their products at the forefront along with generating more value for their members.
BY JORDIE DWYER Bowie explained to the participants that last year alone $2.1 million was taken out of the system through the refundable option by people who had no intention of ever putting into anything except their own pockets.
“That’s a huge chunk of the money taken in and, I would have no problem with that if it went back into the industry,” he said.
However, that hasn’t been the case - with most of the refunds going to the cattle feedlot operators who fi rst convinced the provincial government to provide the refundable option back in 2010, which has amounted to a total of around $13 million since it became available.
“Not having that money available to the ABP, it has
forced us to restrict spending on strategic initiatives and re-search and also has us losing out on government grants, as more often governments now want to see industry putting up cash before they will pro-vide support for programs,” he added.
It is for that reason, and for the fact that all who benefi t should pay, that beef producer Assar Grinde, who runs his operation northwest of Ponoka, was one of the majority in favour of both initiatives.
“We need to have the rise and have that money put back into the system,” said Grinde.
“There are always going to be people that are going to take that refund, but still get all of the benefi ts. They are
like the free rider on a bus. He still gets the exact same benefi ts as everyone else, but gets to keep his money.
“It’s the same thing here, they get all the benefi ts of the research, marketing and promotion, but the rest of us are the ones paying for it.
This is signifi cant and needs to change so we can move forward.”
Bowie added fi nal outcome of the votes on the provincial surcharge from the various regional meetings will help when the ABP approaches the provincial government
to lobby for the legislative changes necessary to remove the refund option.
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Spooktacular tourneyJunior volleyball players dressed up in
their funnest, scariest or goofi est costumes for St. Augustine Catholic School’s annual Spooktacular volleyball tournament last weekend.
Of the 10 teams competing, two were St. Augustine teams — Team Green and Team Black — who took part in the event, said organizer and coach of the Green Team Lindsey Schamber.
The Green Team consists of mainly Grade 8 and 9 girls and their fi rst match Friday, Oct. 30 was a two-set win against Bentley.
She says her team lost to Bentley recently during league play. “To play them again and win was really nice for them,” said Schamber.
“They had lots of three hits,” she added.The goal with these fun tournaments is
to give players as many hits on the ball as possible. Schamber added her players work well at creating a positive team en-vironment and encouraging each other in games. While the tournament is a fun experience, it’s also a chance to meet other players and coaches and compete against teams not in their own league.
As for the rest of the season, Schamber says her team is sitting in fourth of nine
spots in the league. League fi nals are set for Nov. 3 and 5 in Bentley.
For Team Black, the fi rst match brought one win and one loss. Coach Chris McLean was proud of his players who mainly consist of Grade 7 players and two Grade 9 players. He said the 1-1 score after the fi rst match was a positive experience considering their opponents were Grade 8 and 9 players.
“They’re (Team Black) way ahead of their schedule for Grade 7 (players),” said McLean.
Most of the teams that Team Black played against were older and McLean’s goal is to see them improve each match. “When you coach Grade 7s against Grade 9s you want to see growth.”
The season started tough for Team Black who couldn’t manage to make solid hits after the pass. As the season progressed, however, players started making more hits and now McLean says the team is making fi ve hits per game. Having as many losses as they did at the outset of the season may have been a good thing for the team.
McLean suggests a team has to learn how to lose a game and then from there players can learn from their mistakes and improve. He suggests practice and following a training process helped the team improve day in and day out.
This St. Augustine Kings volleyball player makes a solid hit Monday, Oct. 26 during a game against CACHS. The Kings lost 2-0.
Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
Kings improve week to weekGame performance by
the St. Augustine Kings se-nior boys’ volleyball team showed the team has seen some improvement to their skills.
The Kings played the Central Alberta Christian High School Knights Monday, Oct. 19 losing both sets. Despite the loss, the Kings showed solid improvement in their play as seen in the fi rst set, losing 25-21. They started relatively strong against the Knights with an even game for the fi rst three or four points.
However, that confi-dence faltered and the young Ponoka team trailed by a large margin against Lacombe. A series of strong serves from the Kings, however, helped re-bound the team’s confi -dence and reduced their defi cit to a few points. Those serves and com-pleting plays helped the Kings immensely in the fi rst period.
“It’s all basically down to one step at a time,” said coach Justin Florean of the
Broncs JV girls ready to fi nish the season
The season of bumps and spikes continued for the Ponoka Secondary ju-nior varsity girls’ volleyball squad last week.
The Broncs split a pair of home matches - hitting a bump in a straight sets loss at home to Camrose on Monday, Oct. 26 followed by a straight sets victory over Stettler on Wednesday, Oct. 28.
That gave the team a record of three wins and six losses heading into the
fi nal week of the season - which included their last league match of the season in Rocky Mountain House on Monday, Nov. 2 (result was unavailable at press time). The season con-cludes today, Wednesday, Nov. 4 with a tournament in Stettler with all of the league’s teams.
Head coach Tim Corkery explained the group of girls - which consists of one Grade 9, six Grade 10 and fi ve Grade 11 players - are a great bunch that love to play.
“The girls played well against Camrose, who are a very good team, and we played them very close. We match up a little better against Stettler and we were able to get a win,” he said
“The league we play in is very competitive. It is all 3A and 4A schools and we have been right in every match, which makes for a fun and exciting year.”
Corkery added the team has come a long way since the beginning of the season.
“The girls have come a
long way since the start of the year. They have worked very hard at improving their skills,” he said.
“The biggest improve-ment we have seen is their defensive positioning and better movement on the court.”
According to Corkery, many of the girls on the squad will keep playing this winter at the competitive club level, that begins next month, and he hopes that will help them continue on in the sport in the years to come.
Ponoka’s Taryn Corkery (#3) goes up high for a tip against Camrose during the second set of their match at Ponoka Secondary on Monday, Oct. 26, where the Broncs lost 3-0. Photo by Jordie Dwyer
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players’ improvements.The team practices two
times a week and Florean says with each game the team’s unity grows.
A win in the fi rst game was in sights for the Kings after several strong serves landed just within the boundaries of the court but a stronger Knights’ de-fense proved too much for the Ponoka team.
Despite that loss, Florean says the Kings are realizing they can play well against other teams. It’s their con-fi dence that needs to grow.
“Everything’s tighter. They’re off the net and they make fewer and fewer mistakes,” he explained.
The second set proved a tougher challenge for the Kings who lost 14-25. While they made some positive strategic plays, Ponoka’s defi cit continued to grow and the point dif-ference was too much for the team to catch up. Early in the game CACHS was ahead 9-3, then 10-5 and they increased it to 12-6.
The point difference was almost double point gap throughout the game.
At one point Florean called a timeout in an attempt to regain some momentum but that didn’t seem to help. The only thing that appeared to keep the Kings on the points board were un-forced errors on the part of the Knights.
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Player and goalie meet face to face: This sequence of three images shows Ponoka’s Fountain Tire midgets player Braeden Korchinski colliding with the Lacombe Rockets’ goalie Sunday, Nov. 1 causing his helmet to fl y off. The Wolves lost the exhibition game 4-2. Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye
Senior Broncs conclude season with home turf lossPonoka’s senior Broncs
ended their football season losing to the only team they had won against this season, Drayton Valley, with a 20-8 score in their only playoff game on Wednesday, Oct. 28.
The Broncs bench was fur-ther trimmed down because of injuries as the game got underway in sunny but cold and breezy weather. After the uneventful fi rst quarter, visiting Drayton Valley got on the scoreboard early in the second with a swift play and before the Broncs
defence could regain their composure, scored another. With converts made good after both scores, the fi rst half ended 14-0 as the teams huddled to strategize for the second half.
As the third quarter began, Broncs showed some deter-mination to get back into
Ashton Soosay and Braeden Korchinski do what they are best at, bringing down the Drayton Valley ball carrier during their game in Ponoka on Wednesday, Oct. 28. Photo by Mustafa Eric
BY MUSTAFA ERIC the game and the visibly more vivid defensive effort allowed the offence to get more chances to execute some plays. In one of them, Braeden Korchinski, having assumed the role of quar-terback in the absence of DJ Horne due to injury, just blew like a wind to score a 60-yard rushing touchdown. Instead of a kick, Ponoka boys went for a two-point conversion after the TD and with surprisingly smooth execution, they added two
more points to make the scoreboard show 14-8.
But the hopes were not to last long. Just before the end of the third, Drayton Valley scored another touchdown. The only consolation was that the Broncs defense did manage to block the kick after the score and held the visitors at 20. The last quar-ter was as plain as the fi rst one and the game ended 20-8 for Drayton Valley.
Defensive coordinator Cody Baird said after the
game that his team had played “for the love the of the game in Broncs tradi-tion”, in reference to the lack of any realistic possi-bility to advance enough to take a shot at the champi-onship.
Asked to assess the sea-son, Baird said the team had seen continued progress in the course of the season. “We had our fi rst win, as you know,” he said. “We have come the furthest we have been.”
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Mayor calls for collaboration in state of the town speech
Collaboration was a key part of Mayor Rick Bonnett’s state of the town speech during town council’s regular meeting Tuesday, Oct. 27.
Speaking after council ap-proved the allocation of tasks at its organizational meeting, Bonnett stressed that working with stakeholders is important.
“As we move into the next stages, we have to remember that we need to be regional collabo-rators and we will alwasy need to have partnerships to continue to move forward,” said Bonnett.
Alliances are going to be even more important as infrastructure costs are rising and government grants are being provided less frequently than they used to, according to the mayor. However, Bonnett added both provincial and federal governments have stated their intention to boost the economy.
In their search for a new CAO. he added that council would need to be diligent to hire the right person for the job and said council would most likely seek the help of a consultant in that process. He suggested there would be challenges along the way, but that he is confi dent in the town’s abilities.
“We are in some diffi cult times ahead and we will struggle through them,” said Bonnett.
Organizational meeting Council also set the schedule
for deputy mayor and committee appointments.
Deputy mayor schedule:• • November to December
2015: Coun. Teri Underhill• • January to February 2016:
Coun. Sandra Lyon• • March to April 2016: Coun.
Carla Prediger• • May to June 2016: Coun.
Marc Yaworski• • July to August 2016: Coun.
Loanna Gulka• • September to October 2016:
Coun. Tim FalkinerMeeting schedule: Regular council meeting times
are changing.For the winter months town
council will be meeting at 6 p.m. The earlier time is for the months of November to April and they are held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month.
For the spring to fall months of May to October, council will meet at 7 p.m.
Committee of the whole meet-ings will be held on the third Tuesday of the month with the exception of December and July, where council does not meet. For the months of November to April, committee of the whole meetings will start at 6 p.m. and from May to November they will start at 7 p.m.
Council standing committee appointments
Councillors approved their committee and sub commit-tee appointments with a few changes as to who sits on what committee.
Finance: Yaworski; Union Negotiations: Yaworski and Underhill
Planning, promotion and eco-nomic development: Underhill and Prediger; Subdivision and appeal board: Bonnett and Lyon; Parkland Community Planning Services: Underhill and Bonnett
Protection and safety services: Yaworski and Prediger; CP Train: Gulka
Community services: Yaworski and Gulka
Recreation, parks and trails and Recreation Advisory Committee: Falkiner and Bonnett
H e r i t a g e / D o w n t o w n Revitalization Committees: Underhill and Prediger
Ponoka Ag Events Centre Society: Bonnett and Yaworski
Central Alberta Regional Trail Society: Falkiner and Bonnett
Social and Health Services: Yaworski; FCSS: Gulka and Lyon
Transportation, utilities, ceme-tery and environmental services: Bonnett and Lyon; Utilities/Environmental Committee: Bonnett and Lyon; Airport Development Board: Underhill and Bonnett; Battle River Watershed: Falkiner
External committees: Central Alberta Economic Partnership: Gulka and Yaworski; Ponoka Stampede and Exhibition Association liaison: Bonnett and Falkiner; North Red Deer River Water Services Commission: Bonnett; Rimoka Housing Foundation: Gulka and Prediger.
Proposed remuneration policy for council to be further discussedTown council tabled a pro-
posed council remuneration policy after a request to discuss it further.
The decision was made during the Tuesday, Oct. 27 regular meeting, where Joe Henderson, chairperson of the remuneration committee, provided some explanation of the proposal.
One concern voiced by Coun. Loanna Gulka related to com-mittee of the whole meetings, which is categorized as a regu-
lar meeting. She referred to a clause in the proposed policy that states if a councillor is absent for more than three regular council meetings in a calendar year, there will be a deduction of $200 for every meeting missed after that from a councillor’s honorarium.
Gulka suggested committee of the whole meetings were not necessarily mandatory but that changes with this policy.
Among some of the proposed amendments to the current remuneration policy were to classify meetings to ensure
clear understanding of where the honorarium and per diem payments sit. Travel time and parade claims as well as other suggestions to remove alco-hol purchases as an expense option and how committee of the whole meetings are also classifi ed.
One of the areas Henderson recommended be changed were if a meeting is not part of the regular appointments or council meetings, then council must vote on the decision for whether a councillor should be paid for that time. He added it
The end of October marks the conclusion of much of the construction season for Ponoka County.
Herb Schwingel, Public Works superintendent, pro-vided county council with a report on the department’s 2015 activities at their Tuesday, Oct. 26 meeting.
Schwingel told council that nearly all of the projects the department undertook since the spring have been completed, including work on various roads, fencing and the West Lake boat launch.
Among the road projects that have been fi nished are - two miles of Range Road 234, access road at RR 261, one mile of RR 282, one-half mile of RR 14 and 3.5 miles of Township Road 435 between Highway 2 and Secondary Highway 795.
Council was also informed that paving still needs to be completed on the project at the intersection of Highway 771 and West Lake Road, that funding from the federal gov-ernment has been received for the 5.5 miles of work needed to be done on Menaik Road (Township 442), as well as that the agreements are now in place for the Triple H Road (RR 283) 1.5 mile project to move forward and discus-sions are just beginning on the project planned on RR 12.
In addition, about 35 miles of road upgrades, repairs and paving projects were com-pleted during the season as well as more than 210 dust abatement applications for rural county residents were done.
Schwingel also presented council with the recommend-ed tender assessment for the Anderson Bridge replacement project over Lloyd Creek, with council accepting Formula Alberta as the low bidder at $513,000. With the county already having contracted
Accused in car-jacking answer to numerous charges
The three adults - two males and one female - accused in a recent car-jacking incident near Morningside made their fi rst appearance in Ponoka Provincial Court last week.
Isiah Riel Rider, 19, along with Allan Donny Rain, 18, and Lesa Nora Okeynan-Rain, 19 - all of Calgary - appeared on Friday, Oct. 30, via closed circuit televi-sion (CCTV) from the Edmonton Remand Centre to answer to numerous charges stemming from the incident that took place on Friday, Oct. 23.
Rider is facing a total of 21 charges including two counts of robbery, three counts of assault, unlawful confi nement, theft of a motor vehicle, evading police and possession of a prohibited weapon. Rain and Okeynan-Rain are both facing eight charges related to the incident
that include robbery, assault and unlawful confi nement.
No pleas were entered on any of the charges and both Rider and Rain will remain in custody until they next appear in court on Friday, Nov. 20, where Rain will have his bail spoken to. Okeynan-Rain was released on $5,000 no-cash bail, but ordered to be back in front of the judge on that same day along with obeying several conditions.
Rider will stay behind bars as he has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 26-year-old Calgary woman back on Oct. 11.
In this latest incident, it is alleged the three, along with two female youths who have yet to make their fi rst court appearance, were in a truck heading north from Calgary in the early morning hours that day when the vehicle went into the east ditch of Highway 2 just north of the Morningside exit.
A small car then stopped in an effort to lend any assistance, when the fi ve individuals jumped out of the ditch and attempted to take the car, assaulting the two males and one female as well as issuing threats to shoot them if the car wasn’t handed over.
The car’s driver tossed the keys away and all of the oc-cupants managed to fi ght off their assailants, who fl ed into a nearby fi eld as soon as police began to arrive on the scene.
Rain and Okeynan-Rain were tracked down by Ponoka RCMP in the fi eld, while Rider was taken down by Maskwacis RCMP following a brief chase and the implementation of a spike belt to stop the stolen car he was seen driving. The two female youth were also arrested by RCMP later that day.
During their investigation, offi cers did fi nd a high-powered rifl e in the fi eld.
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out the engineering portion - at $103,000 - as well as the purchase of the concrete girders at $150,000, it means the project will come in more than $262,000 under what the county had budgeted for.
This is also usually the time of year the county decides to trade-in some graders and purchase new ones, but chief administrative offi ce Charlie Cutforth and Schwingel both recommended council hold off and hope that next fall the market looks better.
“We normally rotate three graders out after having them in service for three years, but with the low Canadian dollar and the increased price on new graders, there is currently no benefi t to fl ipping those units now,” explained Cutforth.
“New graders are now sit-ting at $555,000 and the ones we would fl ip are still under warranty for another two years and will have plenty of hours left.”
He added that if the trade-in was to be done now, the county would take a big hit to its equipment purchasing reserves. However, not doing it will have little effect as the unit are still under warranty, meaning they won’t be hit with any extra maintenance costs.
Council accepted the rec-ommendation, meaning the county will look at trading in six graders next fall in hopes that both the used grader market and the exchange rate will rebound to make the deal more favourable.
News report reaction It was learned through
Cutforth’s CAO report to coun-cil that the news item by the Ponoka News reporting the county’s decision to step away from their contract for the enhanced RCMP position based in Rimbey attracted a great deal of attention by the people in charge of the federal policing force Alberta. Council had determined back at their Tuesday, Oct, 13 meeting that
they would not be renewing the agreement with the RCMP when the contract concludes at the end of 2016.
Cutforth stated in his report that, “Because of the news story about the issue in the Ponoka News, I was contacted by K Division headquarters and have arranged a meeting with them for (Wednesday) Nov. 4.”
He added the meeting will provide the county the chance to discuss the numerous issues they have had, which include rising costs of the contract, lack of patrols and enforcement in the area as well as the lack of availability of the offi cer for use in the county.
Contributions approved A pair of requests for fund-
ing from the county were passed at the meeting, but both were provided with a bit of consternation by council.
The fi rst was the annual funding the county hands out to the Rimbey Municipal Library, which was asking for a fi ve per cent hike for 2016.
Discussion ensued amongst councillors that the request seemed a bit out of line, con-sidering the economic situa-tion and the fact that Ponoka’s library - who the county also provides a portion of funding to - didn’t ask for any hike and are facing similar wage and other circumstances.
In the end, council approved the same amount of funding - $38,500 - as in 2015.
The other request came from the Mecca Glen Fundraising Society, asking for $1,500 to assist them in operating the heated shack at the commu-nity’s outdoor rink located right beside the Mecca Glen Elementary School.
Council unanimously ap-proved the request, but ex-pressed strong disappoint-ment in the lack of will of the Wolf Creek School Division to assist in helping operate a facility that is used a lot by the school.
is diffi cult for an administra-tion to make those decisions and having a council make those decisions could increase the transparency of council.
Adding a council approved decision for questions related to extra time would ensure council’s remuneration budget does not get overspent. “At the end of the day you have to decide what’s appropriate for you,” said Henderson.
Per diem rates, the same as the previous policy, are rec-ommended at $35 per hour for other meetings or events listed on the organizational meeting. For full day meetings, conventions or seminars the per diem is $260 per day. Four hours or a half day events, or parades, will pay $130 per half day. Claims made are to be for the actual meeting and will not include travel time.
Any per diems and expenses out of province must be ap-proved by council.
External committees such as the Rimoka Housing Foundation or North Red Deer River Water Services Commission are paid meetings for council members, which means they are not part of the regular honorarium.
Honorariums for council are recommended to be increased to $26,686, up from $25,500 for the mayor per annum and $15,070, up from $14,400 for councillors yearly. Rates are meant to increase annually based on the consumer price index for Alberta from Statistics Canada.
Council will revisit the poli-cy during a committee of the whole meeting.
Downtown Heritage Revitalization Committee
Council unanimously ap-proved third reading of the Heritage and Downtown Revitalization Committee bylaw.
One addition to the bylaw was for the committee to align
its terms of reference with the town’s land-use bylaw and municipal development plan.
Economic Development Board (EDB) appointments
Council approved the re-appointment of Ashley Plamondon to the EDB for a three year term. Plamondon already served one year on the EDB and expressed an interest in continuing with the board.
Council approved Carlen Cire to the EDB for a one year term from Nov. 1 to Oct. 31, 2016.
Allocation of funds for rec-reation master plan
Council approved the reallo-cation of $80,000 to pay for the Recreation, Culture and Master Plan and Facility Development Study.
The expense and contract was already approved but to ensure accounting procedures are followed, the money already saved for the project had to be reallocated from the building development reserve.
The moment that you left me, my heart was split in two.One side was fi lled with memories; the other died with you.I often lay awake at night when the world is fast asleep;
And take a walk down memory lane with tears upon my cheek.Remembering you is easy, I do it every day;
but missing you is a heartache that never goes away.I hold you tightly within my heart and there you will remain;You see life has gone on without you, but will never be the same.
Love always Bonnie & Family
JARDINE, Helen1918 - 2015
Helen Margaret Jardine, wife of the late Donald Gordon Jardine, formerly of Ponoka, Alberta, passed away quietly at Villa Marie, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, October 30, 2015 at the age of 97 years. Helen was born on August 3, 1918 to Hugo and Ellen (nee Anderson) Erickson at Mannville, Alberta; attending school
there and in Edmonton, before becoming a Registered Nurse in 1946 at Oshawa General Hospital School of Nursing, Oshawa, Ontario. She and Don married in 1950 and lived at Ponoka, Alberta; where they owned and operated Jardine’s Jewelry for over forty years. She worked beside Don at the store for the entire time that they were in business. Helen and Don loved to visit with family and friends, wintered at their home in Mesa, Arizona and travelled extensively throughout the world. In Ponoka, Helen was a member of the United Church Women, I.O.D.E., the Kinette and K-40 Clubs, and also assisted with Explorers and C.G.I.T. Helen will be lovingly remembered by her daughter, Margaret McFarlane (late Bob) of Gleniffer Lake Resort; granddaughter, Debbie of Olds, Alberta; and grandson, David (Jodie) McFarlane and their daughters, Ella and Phoebe of Vancouver, British Columbia. She will also be sadly missed by her sister-in-law, Jean Jardine (late G. Douglas Jardine) of Three Hills, Alberta; and her brother-in-law, Elmer Benner (late Vivian Jardine) and his wife, Joyce of Vernon, British Columbia; as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins in Alberta, British Columbia, Nebraska, and Sweden. Honoring Helen’s wishes no formal funeral service will be held. If desired, Memorial Donations in Helen’s honor may be made directly to the C.N.I.B. at www.cnib.ca or to a charity of the donor’s choice. The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to the Doctors, Nurses and staff of Villa Marie, Red Deer for their kindness, caring and true compassion to Helen during her stay there. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements in care of Ashley Paton,
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6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
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SECTION 251 - THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT ACT
TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Town of Ponoka, in the Province of Alberta, has given fi rst reading to borrowing By-law No. 357-15 which will, upon fi nal passage and approval, authorize the proper offi cers of the said Town to borrow monies from the Alberta Capital Finance Authority by way of debenture issue, to pay for the cost of the following municipal purpose, namely 50th Avenue Battle River Road Re-alignment and Bridge Crossing within the limits of the said municipality;
The total cost of the aforesaid project amounts to $5,450,000. After deducting from this cost the amount of $100,000 to be received by way of reserves and $353,000 by way of grants, the net amount to be borrowed on the credit and security of the municipality at large by the issue of debentures is $5,007,000. The debentures are to be repayable to the Alberta Capital Finance Authority in EIGHTY (80) equal consecutive semi-annual instalments of combined principal and interest, the semi-annual interest not to exceed EIGHT per centum (8%), or the interest rate as fi xed from time to time by the Alberta Capital Finance Authority;
NOW THEREFORE NOTICE is hereby given by the Council of the Town of Ponoka that, unless a petition of the owners for a vote on By-law No. 357-15 is demanded, as provided for by the terms of Section 231 of the Municipal Government Act, the said Council may pass the said borrowing by-law.
All persons interested are hereby notifi ed and they are required to govern themselves accordingly.
DATED at the Town of Ponoka, in theProvince of Alberta, this 30 day of October, 2015.
Town of Ponoka
Per: Dave McPhee, Acting Chief Administrative Offi cer
INFORMATION FOR ELECTORSPursuant to Section 1(i) of the Municipal Government Act an “elector” means:
1. A person who is eligible to vote in the election for a councillor under the Local Authorities Election Act.
Pursuant to section 47(1) of the Local Authorities Election Act a person is eligible to vote in an election if he:
a) is at least 18 years old,b) is a Canadian citizen, andc) has resided in Alberta for the 6 consecutive months immediately preceding election day and is resident in the area on election day.
A poll may be demanded in the Town of Ponoka by electors equal in number to at least
a) in the case of a municipality other than a summer village, by electors of the municipality equal in number to at least 10% of the population andb) in the case of a summer village, by 10% of the electors of the summer village
in accordance with the provisions of section 223 of the Municipal Government Act and in accordance with the provisions of section 251 of the Municipal Government Act.
The petition for a vote must be received by the Chief Administrative Offi cer within 15 days of the last publication of this notice and shall contain on each page “an accurate and identical statement of the purpose of the petition”. (Further requirements of the petition are provided in section 224 of the Municipal Government Act.)
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