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Three-year-old Calder Dick was dwarfed by the Santa backdrop created this year by Greg Carson. Santa was visiting Bentley at a Santa breakfast held in his honour on Dec. 12.
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TOPS ( Take off Pounds Sensibly) meets Wed evenings, Rimbey United Church basement. You are invited to an open house. Oct 17 @ 7pm Nancy 843-0067Bentley Minor Hockey Annual General Meeting- Oct 17 at 7pm at Drop-In Centre. Call 748-4838 or 748-2078 for info.Bentley Curling Club Annual Fall General Meeting- Oct 17 at 7:30pm at The Curling Club Lounge. New and Returning curlers invited.Blindman Valley 4_H Beef Club Parent Oragnizational Meeting- Oct 17 at 7:30 pm at Bentley Ag Centre. Call 748-2374 or 748-4739. New members welcome.Rimbey Elementary School Parent Council Meeting- RES room Oct 16 at 7:00pm2nd Tuesday each month 1 pm Rimbey Health Centre Rimbey Auxilary Hospital1st Thursday each month, 7:30 p.m. Regular Members Meeting, Rimbey Legion #36.2nd Thursday each month- Rimbey Ag Society 7:00pm at the agriplex 3rd Tuesday each month- Caregiver Support Group 10am at Rimbey Health Centre.
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Bentley Library Society Dinner Theatre- Event to take place Oct 20, tickets now on sale. Call Arlene 748-4429Bentley Carpet Bowling- Wednesday mornings. Bentley Hall. 9:30 am. New Players invited. Call Harry or Georgina 748-3404 for more info.“ Food For Fines Week” at the Bentley Municipal Library Oct 22-27. Donate dry foods in lieu of library fines. Will be given to Bentley Blessing Pantry.West Pine Lodge In Winfield- Chicken Supper Oct 19 @ 5:00pm. For more info call Wendy @ 780-682-3960Winfield Playground Fundraiser- Supper & Silent Auction, Oct 19 @ 4:30,Winfield Rec Centre. Skating,Crafts, Clown and more. Call 682-3788 for more infoFamily Halloween Dance and Silent Auction on Oct 27 from 5-9 pm at the Bentley Community Hall. Hosted by Bentley Nursery school. Call Tina 748-4407 for info.Rimbey Community Chorus- Starts practice for Christmas, Wednesday Oct 10 8:45pm at United Church. New singers welcome. Annette 843-3115Rimbey United Church is planning a Memorial Hymn sing Nov 4 at 2:00pm. For info call Alice 843-6732 or the church 843- 2458.
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ACTIVITIES:Regular Jammers’ Dances @ Rimbey Drop In Centre, every Tuesday nights @ 7pm.Forshee Hall Community Potlucks, Th ird Sunday of Jan.,Feb., & Mar. @ 5:30 p.m.Bentley Municipal Library - closed December 23 at 5:30 p.m. Reopens January 5 at 10 a.m.Christmas Eve “Candles & Carols of Hope” Service – Dec. 24 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Bentley Community Church. Open to everyone.Nowhere for Christmas Dinner? Rimbey Drop In Centre Dec. 25 @ 2 p.m. Donations welcome, no cost. Gayle 403 843 6864Bentley School “Aft er Christmas” Christmas concert - Two performances on January 7 at 1:10 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. in the elementary school. Replaces the cancelled Christmas Concert. Community invited.
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It was a busy weekend for the Agrim Centre in Rimbey.
On Dec. 11, the centre was fi lled with youngsters from the Rimbey area who were given an opportunity to learn fi rst hand about farm safety when they
attended the Ag for Life Rural and Farm Safety Day.
During the day the stu-dents were treated to hands on presentations which helped farm safety become a very real and tangible.
Working in tandem with
Alberta based Ag for Life organization, the rural and farm safety day offered an interactive line-up of simulators, activities and demonstrations for stu-dents at eight stations. The youngsters had an oppor-tunity to learn more about
Rimbey elementary students learn about ATV safety during a Farm Safety Day held at the Rimbey Agrim Centre recently. Treena Mielke Photo
large animal, ATV, water, powerline, grain and large equipment safety.
Clown, Blayne Wendland was also on hand during the activities.
Rimbey Ag Society Tim Edge is pleased the farm safety day came to frui-tion.
“We’ve had this in the works for months,” he said. “We want to support families in agriuclture an show what this building can do for the commu-nity.”
On Dec. 12, the popu-lar Ultimate Cowboy event was held at the Agrim Centre.
The Rimbey Roster in-cluded such competi-tors as Canada’s newly crowned All-Around Champion Josh Harden of Big Valley. Also in the line up were favoites like Branden Dillman of Rocky, bronc riding champion LeRoy Eash from Montana and Austin Stewart from North Carolina who is a fi fth generation cowboy, entertainer and trick roper.
With 65 heated box stalls added to the Agrim Centre, the building is proving to be versatile and easily ac-comodates a participants and crowds for a variety of shows and events.
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The little girl in the Sears Christmas catalogue had long curly blonde hair, an angelic smile and wore a perfect white fur coat.
Her little hands were snug and warm inside a matching fur muff.
“I wanted that coat for Christmas so badly when I was about seven,” my daughter confessed to me while we were on a recent shopping trip.
“You did?” I replied, about 30 years of guilt immedi-ately settling in around my heart region.
“I did,” she replied.I wracked my brains try-
ing really hard to remem-ber the coat and/or the
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Advertising directs the popularity of articles published on Internet
I was going over an essay assignment for one of my English classes at RDC. One of the instructions was to consider the sourc-es, which might be insert-ed into the assignment, for applicable appropriate-ness. An essay won’t even be accepted if it doesn’t have any primary sources. And secondary sources are
Treena MielkeOn The Other Side
request.I could not.“You didn’t get it, did
you?” I said morosely. “Nope,” she replied cheer-fully. “I did not.”
And now so many years later that little girl is a mom with three small boys of her own.
And do any of them want a fur coat?
Hardly! They are rough and tumble boys who love superheroes and mud puddles and hitting things really, really hard.
Fur coats do not exist on their wish lists.
But apparently a ride-em jeep complete with all the bells and whistles has caught the oldest boy’s eye. And, yes, you guessed it; this is what he has his heart set on this year for his big Christmas gift.
Is it going to happen?Nope! No ride-em jeep
for him. Apparently the $500 price tag was a little too rich for even the most benevolent of Santas.
The conversation be-tween my daughter and me sparked lots of other conversations and re-member when’s about the ghosts of Christmases past. What did you want?
What did you get? What did you not get that you really wanted?
I listen and in my own mind go back, way back to when Moby Dick was a minnow and I was a child.
I honestly can’t remem-ber much about presents.
But, I remember Christmas. I remember the way it smelled. Fragrant, like someone had lugged the forest into the living room.
And I remember the magic.
The bubble lights on the tree. If memory served me correctly, we only had about three that actually bubbled, but they sure did
bubble well, those lights.And I remember the star
that my brother and me created out of tinfoil and cardboard. It truly was a work of art. Never, to this day, have I seen such a perfect star as the sim-ple tinfoil star created by him and me one magic Christmas so many years ago.
Many of the people from my Christmases past have now left this earth. And every year as Christmas shows its bright and shiny face, I remember them and the way we were and I feel the whisperings of a quiet sadness brush over my heart.
Oh, to go back there, to simple Christmases com-plete with brothers who loved me, protected me against the world and as-sured me, every year, that Santa was real.
One wish. Give me back one moment in time to be with those gone on before. Only one moment.
Every year I ask and every year I get the same thing.
Memories. Lots of mem-ories. And, for that, I will be forever grateful.
Merry Christmas! And may each and every one of you be granted your own special wish and your own special memories!
Jonah Kondro
a good thing to include if you want to solidify your argument.
Most people reading non-scholarly essays or articles likely don’t give much consideration for the source of the materi-al. Especially articles that surface on social media websites. The more views, the more comments, and the more likes tend to drive the conscious of the Internet. Reputable jour-nalism is becoming harder and harder to fi nd in swirls of the Internet’s kaleido-scopic ignorance.
The Internet fosters ama-teur and professional writ-ers; however, the struggles to score a paycheck are very real. Most Internet media users wouldn’t even consider visiting a web-site if they have to pay for access. Therefore, a lot of writers can’t charge for
users to read his or her work outright. Most inter-net writing has to rely on revenue generated from selling advertising space on a website to make a buck.
A lot of website adver-tising works on a cost-per-click model. It breaks down like this: an arti-cle gets shared, liked, or linked; the reader comes to the website to read the article; and then reader may click on an advertise-ment within the website they were linked to. This is how revenue is generated by the website publisher or owner—when the read-er clicks on the advertise-ment. The more clicks on an advertisement equals a larger paycheck by the website owner.
Advertising pollutes the conscious of Internet writers and readers. What
tends to happen is sensa-tional writing. The more controversial, the more eye grabbing, and the more morally challenging head-lines attract more readers to a particular article on a web page. Thus, more readers on a web page could mean more clicks on an advertisement. More, more, more …
In an age were informa-tion can be generated in a matter of moments, it is hard to produce quali-ty articles over and over again to generate web page pings. It is a lot eas-ier to simply exaggerate or simply make something up in a headline to attract users to a web page. This is how articles that express a government’s secret plan to bamboozle landowners out of the rights to their land to install windmills; or articles that falsely rep-
resent the federal budget expenditures on a certain refugee crisis; or articles that suggest that spooning is sexist get spread around the internet. Read these articles for what they are—entertainment.
The drive to generate advertisement revenue is diminishing the quality of the writing that appears throughout the media hubs of the Internet. Writers, whom are already struggling to make a dime, are force to succumb to sensational and exagger-ated writing practices to get users onto his or her website.
Ironically, I haven’t em-bedded any source mate-rial to back up my own opinionated argument. So maybe my readers will just have to read my columns for what they are—enter-tainment.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2015 RIMBEY REVIEW 5
Reader wants
explanation of quote
Dear Editor,I am writing in regards to a letter by Paul McLauchlin
on page 6 in the Rimbey Review of Nov. 3 in which he ex-presses surprise at the resignation of the Bethany Group. I quote “it’s regrettable,” he said, “but board and manage-ment were going in two different directions.”
We do not have any information as to what those two different directions consisted of, but knowing that The Bethany Group is a recognized and well respected man-agement company, it strains credibility that they should resign for no reason, so this requires us to question the “amiable parting of ways?”
Is anyone going to explain?Earl D. Giebelhaus
Dear Editor,As winter is now fully
upon us, a reminder needs to be given to home own-ers and businesses that it is their responsibility to keep their sidewalks cleared of snow and ice. It’s discouraging to see moms with strollers and wagons, and elderly with walk-ers, struggling to make it through certain sections of sidewalks. The town
does such an excellent job keeping a path cleared for residents of Kansas Ridge to safely walk from their homes to Mainstreet. The same courtesy needs to be extended from the busi-nesses on Mainstreet to allow all of our town res-idents to walk safely and comfortably.
Thank you for your con-sideration,
Britney DeVries
Businesses need to keep
sidewalks clear
Dear Editor,We keep reading about thieves that judges keep put-
ting back on our streets.What’s with the judges?Do they have personal interests for letting them walk
freely among us law abiding citizens?I have the perfect solution to deal with the thieving
problem and now is a great time to do it.We do a trade. For ever refugee we take in, we trade a
thief and a judge.The new prince of Ottawa has been sending empty
planes to refugee camps for pickups, but he might as well have the planes full both ways. Then as the thiev-ing problem levels itself out we could do the same with crooked politicians.
Ray Barrette,Winfi eld
Solution to keep thieves of the streets
offered
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A small farmer provides personal perspective on Bill 6Dear Editor,I know what you’re
thinking…”Haven’t we heard enough from these people already?” But if you’ll give me a moment of your time I’d like to clear up some misconcep-tions you may have.
We (farmers) are not an-ti-safety. We live and play in our workplaces and it is our family, friends, and neighbors who’s health and well-being is at stake when they step foot on our property. We take that very seriously.
We were taken by sur-prise some two weeks ago by the announcement of Bill 6. In the form it was presented it would dras-tically change our lives. Since then we have re-peatedly heard Premier Notley claim that “stake-holders were consulted” by her government.
Well, that could be true depending on the defi ni-tion of consultation. As the Oxford dictionary states - Consultation is a “meet-ing with an expert or pro-fessional in order to seek advice.” So by this defi -nition stakeholders were NOT consulted. The fact
is meetings did take place between government and industry commissions and associations, the general consensus was that some portions of Bill 6 were dis-cussed and industry gave recommendations to ex-empt farms from WCB, giving them the option to voluntarily apply.
These industry leaders also requested further in-formation and meetings so they could participate in creating regulations that would be specifi c to Agriculture, making sure not to impose any legis-lation that would be po-tentially crippling to the industry. These recom-mendations were ignored on all fronts, in fact nine of these “stakeholders” pub-lished an open letter on Dec. 4, to Premier Notley and all NDP MLA’s, it in part reads;
“The undersigned or-ganizations representing the majority of Alberta’s agriculture sector would like to call upon the Government of Alberta to consider farmers and ranchers concerns and suspend the implemen-tation of the Enhanced
Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act (Bill 6), and conduct proper and meaningful consultations with farmers and agricul-ture organizations.”
“The provincial commis-sions have been extreme-ly proactive in trying to represent the interests of farmers on this issue. Most of the provincial crop and livestock commissions met with government of-fi cials on a few occasions in 2015 to discuss the government’s intentions to introduce farm safety legislation, and while we pressed for more informa-tion regarding the legis-lation, your offi cials said they were unable to dis-close any of the details until an announcement was made.
This is not consultation.Nor are the consultations
that are happening in the form of town hall meet-ings lead by NDP MLA’s. Very rarely do they answer a question directly, related to how this bill will affect the farmers. It was asked at one such meeting, “Who is taking notes so you can present our concerns to your party?” the MLA’s
embarrassedly looked at each other and shrugged. No one was even taking notes! When we try and email or call our MLAs with questions we get a cookie cutter response “thank you for your con-cerns” and rarely a phone call is returned.
We have repeatedly heard that this legisla-tion is about making sure workers have the right to minimum wage and the right to refuse safe work. According to the Occupational Health and Safety Alberta Website Currently, in Alberta, farm-ers do not fall under the act (Bill 6). Instead, they are protected under the Employment Standard Code for standard wage entitlement, parental leave, and termination pay and notice. As well, federal legislation outlines basic responsibilities which em-ployers must comply with to protect their staffers.” Additionally, according to the Government of Alberta Industry Profi les 2015 re-port, the average farm worker is paid a minimum $15.38 up to $43.32 an av-erage of $29.35, well above the $11.20 minimum wage requirements.
This NDP government
continually claims that this is the way you do legis-lation, you pass a Bill then you fi ll it in later. However, according to The Guide to Legislative Process: Acts & Regulations prior to a Bill being introduced for fi rst reading it goes to an Agenda & Priorities Committee to fi ll in the details during the drafting period, which they have omitted doing altogether.
Another misconcep-tion amplifi ed by the NDP caucus is that Alberta is currently the only prov-ince that does not com-ply with this legislation, according to AAMDC Bill 6 Environmental Scan of Farm Safety Legislation and the Association of Workers Compensation Boards of Canada 2015 re-port: “Farms are excluded from mandatory WCB cov-erage in PEI, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan”. Regarding OHS policies, farms in BC with less than 20 employees are exempt and all other provinc-es have industry specif-ic legislation with many different exemptions for small farms as well as in their Labour Relations and Employment Standards Legislation.
Finally and possibly the most unfortunate and damaging misconception in recent days is the impli-cation that farmers have become violent and even gone so far as threatening the MLA’s who are in favor of Bill 6. Misinformed, Shaye Anderson called a peaceful family rally ex-tremely violent and brutal. It seems he was speaking on behalf of Lori Sigurdson, and later retracted and apologized for his state-ment admitting he wasn’t even there. Cam Westhead claimed Rick Strankman threatened gun violence when he brought up fam-ers concerns over how OHS legislation would af-fect farmers ability to carry guns on their own prop-erty for predator control. Westhead later apologized for his misunderstanding. Brian Mason in his own outburst called Wildrose MLAs and farmers goons and gangsters. He later retracted and apologized. Mcuaig-Boyd cried in leg-islature over being cy-ber-bullied and threatened with physical violence which were implied in messages and cartoons on social media, to the point she was somewhat afraid to go home to her own riding, but not enough to contact the police. McCuiag-Boyd is quoted in the Calgary Herald as say-ing “To be fair, a lot of the bullying comments I don’t believe were from farmers, they were just from people who trolled into the situa-tion” on social media. But alas the damage has been done.
Now that Bill 6 has been passed and will take effect January 1, 2016, farmers are left with the daunting task of fi guring out how this legislation will affect us, how we can make our concerns heard to a gov-ernment who has proven they are not interested in listening, and how and if the family farm way of life is a viable one for us.
Shelley EricksonBruce, AB
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Rimbey town councillors work on creating long term vision
Rimbey town council held a special meeting last Monday where they spent some time dissecting the proposed vision statement introduced by Bob Stevenson, chairman of the The Rimbey Business Sector Sustainability Advisory Committee.
The in-depth discussion gave council-lors an opportunity to voice their opin-ions about the town as it is now and how they would like to envision it in the future.
Stevenson explained the vision state-ment needed to be time based and offer a reasonable picture of what the town could look like in eight to 10 years.
“It could be seen as the legacy of this
town council and the community,” he said.
Council spent some time discussing on how to change the perception of Rimbey as being a retirement based, one-horse stagnant town.
“I grew up here and I don’t view Rimbey as a retirement town,” said Coun. Jack Webb.
But Mayor Rick Pankiw said the percep-tion is based on age demographics which
Bentley Santa’s breakfast continues to
grow in popularityThere was again a great
turnout for the Bentley Santa’s Celebration.
It ran from 9 to 11 a.m. on December 12 at the Bentley Ag Center. Everything was free of charge.
Over 300 guests signed the guest book but some missed signing in.
Around 30 individuals and volunteers from various groups including the local museum, TOPS, the library, Bentley Boutique, Stay and Play group, Razzle Dazzle Family Day Home, Ag so-ciety, Rimbey gymnastics club, Jennifer Johnson music students and other individ-uals manned different areas, were greeters, and provided entertainment.
“Numbers were compara-ble to last year,” said Bentley Community Services man-ager Barb Carson who co-ordinates the event, but ad-mitted there were concerns that morning because of poor visibility and travelling conditions.
Many attendees agree the event appears to be getting bigger and more organized and more impressive each year.
A free pancake breakfast/brunch included pancakes, sausages, juice/coffee, small Christmas oranges, and small yogurt served by vol-unteers from TOPS. Longer
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indicate Rimbey has an older chronolog-ical population base than the provincial average.
“But I see Rimbey as getting younger,” he added, noting he is observing more children in town.
Acting CAO Donna Tona said she also grew up in Rimbey and when she came back to the community it seemed tired and complacent.
While councillors agreed this percep-tion did have a grain of truth in it, there was many attributes about the town that needed to be given a higher profi le.
Pankiw said he sees the town as pro-
gressing and moving forward.Councillors agreed the town is commut-
able, the hospital here is the envy of other small towns and the community is a hub for job opportunities.
They also agreed the trail system, soc-cer pitches, the arena, skateboard park, baseball diamonds, racetrack and Agrim centre are high quality recreational fa-cilities that the town should be proud of.
Coun. Paul Payson noted Rimbey offers quality education in all its schools. He gave accolades to the high school, noting the number of gradates from the school in the last few years has exceeded the provincial average.
“The students here don’t have the atti-tude that dropping out is an option,” he said.
Council will continue to review and re-vise the vision statement in the new year.
“THE STUDENTS HERE DON’T HAVE THE ATTITUDE THAT DROPPING OUT IS AN OPTION.” - PAUL PAYSON
BY JUNE NORVILA lineups at times moved through quickly by the well-prepared TOPS chefs.
There were free crafts for the kids. Local museum volunteers supplied copies of letters for Santa that could be picked up and fi lled in. When completed letters were returned to the table, a small candy bag was given out. Volunteers said they have fun collecting the letters and will make sure each one is answered personally by Santa.
There were a number of tables with craft supplies to make a Santa beard, a Christmas bell from a paper cup, and Christmas cards. Volunteer Kathy Pike helped organize some of those.
Face decorating supplies with face paint crayons and stickers was at another table with Bentley Boutique vol-unteer Sarah von Tettenborn overseeing.
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Family-owned farms and ranches that have no waged, non-family
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Grace Lutheran Church Bentley - ELCIC
Worship 11:15 a.m.4th Sunday of the month 5 p.m.
More Info, Mark Ree403-748-2147
5 miles west, 1.5 miles south, 1 mile west of Bentley
“Sharing New Life in Christ”Rimbey New Life Fellowship
Sunday 10:30 a.m. Children’s Church 11:30 a.m. Midweek Service - Wednesday 7 p.m.
Ladies Meeting Friday 2 p.m.Pastor Reg Darnell 403-843-3336 (Offi ce)
403-782-2694 (Home) 5038 - 49 Ave. • www.rimbeynewlife.com
Church of the Nazarene, RimbeyChurch of the Nazarene, RimbeySunday Worship & Sunday School 10:30 a.m.
(on Radio 93.3 FM)5214-51 Street, Phone: 403-843-2029
Pastor Grant Rainey
ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY5211 52 St., Rimbey
Service & Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.4th Sunday Family Service: 11:00 a.m.
Stuart Adams: 403-843-6164 or Arlene Edwards: 403-843-6077www.churchofepiphany.ca
Th e Rimbey Seventh-Day
Adventist ChurchSaturdays
Sabbath School at 9:45 a.m. Worship Service at 11:00 a.m.
Pastor David Beaudoin - 403-783-2499
Evangelical Missionary Church
1/2 mile East of Hoadley on Highway #611
Worship Service 10:30 a.m.
Pastor: Rev. Barry Klassen 403-843-6461
Zion Lutheran ChurchLutheran Church Canada
Divine Service at 10:304521 - 54th Ave. Rimbey
Pastor Mark Schultz Offi ce - 403-843-2767 Home - 403-843-4420
Rimbey Christian Reformed Church5506-51 Ave
Service at 10:00 a.m. Nursery Provided
403-843-2585Pastor: Bill Nieuwenhuis
Rimbey Alliance Church4620 - 54th Avenue, Rimbey
403-843-372710:30 a.m. Worship Service with Children’s Church
Last Sunday of the month, service held at Parkland Manor at 10:00 am
Roman Catholic Church Saturday Evening: Sylvan Lake - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday Morning: Rimbey - 9:00 a.m. Sylvan Lake -11:00 a.m.
Last Sunday of every month: Sylvan Lake 9:00 a.m. Rimbey 11:00 a.m.Parish Priest: Father Les Drewicki
Administration Offi ce: 403-843-2126;
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Share the Season of Hope, Peace, Joy and Love
On Christmas EveAt: RIMBEY UNITED CHURCH
Thursday December 24, 7:30 pmChristmas Eve Candlelight Service.-a “country Christmas” full of music, light, story and prayer as we celebrate the coming of God’s light into the world in the birth of a baby in Bethlehem. This is a service for all ages. Carols, bells, anthems, gifts…everyone is welcome.
Rimbey United Church would like to extend a warm Christmas greeting to all the community. May God’s kindest blessings be with you and those you love.
Rimbey United Church4931-51st Avenue | 403-843-2458
rimbeyunitedchurch.org
Students from Rimbey Elementary Grade 6 students performed the play, Baby, It’s cold outside, during the school’s Christmas concert held at Peter Lougheed Community Centre Dec. 17.
Treena Mielke Photo
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Throughout the morning, 23 youth members from the Rimbey Gymnastics Club showed some moves and routines, and some music students of Jennifer Johnson provided some musical pieces.
The gymnastics club men-tioned their sudden tragic loss of Jill Bellows who was the club president.
There was a free draw for everyone to enter for a gingerbread house that was fashioned after the “Monkey Top” saloon this year. It was designed and built by volunteer fi re fi ghter Kathy Issler. Over the years, she has made creative gin-gerbread reproductions of many different buildings
throughout Bentley for the event.
There was a small blow-up bouncer house provided to offer more fun and for the little ones to let off steam. It was good to have an adult volunteer supervise there the full time.
This year a new beautiful creative backdrop for behind Santa’s bench was designed by Greg Carson. The main feature was a huge blow-up polar bear that stood all the way up to the ag center ceil-ing that had been donated by Sylvan Lake Wal-Mart. Carson added a wonderful mountain landscape and borrowed fake spruce trees for an astonishing effect.
Santa was very popular and kept busy. His special elf, Laurie Sarty, kept things
on track.Jolene Naismith from the
local library manned tables where, after their Santa visit, each child could pick out a free book to take home from tables stacked with new books provided for by Hans Gelsing.
MP Blaine Calkins was present and said he really enjoyed it. He said he didn’t know something like this was done here and was impressed.
MLA Jason Nixon had been invited but sent his regrets.
Some ag society mem-bers and other volunteers were ready to aid in a fast cleanup.
Donations by groups/busi-nesses/individuals and at the door go towards cov-ering the cost of the event.
Santa’s breakfastcontinued from page 7
Volunteer craft assistant Sarah von Tettenborn watches Sandi Meredith carefully pick out face crayon colours.
Some of those wanting pictures with Santa included volunteer greeter/helper Mary Imbeault, volunteer craft helper Sarah von Tettenborn, MP Blaine Calkins, Santa’s elf Laurie Sarty, Bentley Community Services manager Barb Carson, Luke Pike age 10, Santa Claus, Ava Pike age 5, and Kathy Pike volunteer craft helper. June Norvila Photos
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The EckRim Rimbey Atom A Renegades hockey team recently took part in the Innisfail Atom A tournament and played hard into the championship fi nal losing 3-2 to Strathmore.
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fourth place this season
The EckRim Rimbey Atom A Renegades hockey team has had a great start to the 2015/16 season. A very strong pre-season earned them a spot in the North Central Hockey League’s Tier 1 division. The high-ly competitive league in-cludes teams from Stettler,
Lacombe, Sylvan Lake, Battle River and Sundre.
The Renegades have been very competitive thus far sitting in fourth place with a 4-5 record as of Dec 15. The boys recently took part in the Innisfail Atom A tour-nament and played hard into the championship fi nal losing by the slimmest of margins (3-2) to Strathmore. Coach Chad Beagle said that
he couldn’t have been more proud of the team and the way that they out-worked, out-skated and out-bat-tled their opposition every game, even in the fi nal. “That’s the fi rst time I have ever had an opposing coach tell me that even though we won your team deserved to win that one,” said Beagle.
continued on page 17
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Missing You at ChristmasEvery day without you,since you had to go,
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I wish that I could talk to you,There’s so much I would say,
Life has changed so very much,since you went away.
I miss the bond between us,and I miss your kind support,
You’re in my mind and in my heart,and every Christmas thought.
I’ll always feel you close to me,and though you’re far from sight,
I’ll search for you among the starsthat shine on Christmas night.
With love Ross and Dorothy.
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16 RIMBEY REVIEW TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2015
Sometimes murderers get away
with it
Early in my career I had the fortune to work in a community called Fort Macleod, near Lethbridge. I worked at the Macleod Gazette from 1996 to 2000. A very historic communi-ty, I had the good luck to work with plenty of great people. Also, just starting out I was also learning as much about community journalism as I could.
I learned a lot from the police commander there. The RCMP commander in Fort Macleod was Sgt. Pete Sopow. Pete was a friend-ly, easy-going fellow who was easy to work with. If he had a problem, he told you. If you helped him, he thanked you. I’ve been lucky to work with many great detachment com-manders like Bill Laidlaw and Kevin Murray, but Pete will always be at the top.
After a police-involved shooting incident in town, Pete told me I could come directly to the detachment for an interview. He had the report in front of him for the incident, and liter-ally let me read it myself. Trust me when I say that doesn’t happen very often.
Not only was Pete a great police commander to work with, he was a good friend outside the offi ce. I liked to play community sports like volleyball and slo-pitch, and so did Pete. One night at co-ed slo-pitch, my horrible team was facing off against the best team in the league, the RCMP offi cers. Pete was pitch-ing, and he was good. Very good. He struck me out every time I went up. Then at the end of the game on my last “at bat,” Pete, for some reason, lobbed a big, fat duck that I was all over.
I got a triple, my only hit that night. Pete threw me that pitch on purpose. He could have struck me out if he wanted.
Pete Sopow, along with his girlfriend, kindergarten teacher Lorraine McNab, were found murdered on Monday, December 15 1997 at her farm outside Pincher Creek, a few min-utes west of Fort Macleod. They’d been shot to death two days earlier, Dec. 13, and their bodies tossed in a horse trailer. RCMP found them Monday morning after Pete didn’t show up for work.
No one has ever been arrested or even charged for the double-murder 18 years ago. Whoever mur-dered them was waiting at Lorraine’s farm on Sat. Dec. 13 and ambushed his victims after they returned from visiting Lorraine’s parents. The murderer had some dumb luck in that the weekend included a fresh snowfall that like-ly damaged or destroyed some evidence, such as footprints.
Initially, some suspected the shootings were linked to Pete’s police career, but he wasn’t the prima-ry target. Lorraine was. Apparently, Lorraine was being stalked by a man known to her whom she had no interest in. Most people familiar with the murders agree this is the person very likely to have murdered them. I spent about fi ve minutes phon-ing around and had the person’s name on my desk.
You can Google search and read lots of articles from the Calgary Sun and Herald by people who think they’re experts on Pete’s murder. Maybe they are.
But I knew Pete. I’m very afraid he will become a for-gotten statistic, and he de-serves to be remembered. And almost 20 years later, those of us who knew him are still waiting for justice.
Stu Salkeld is the new edi-tor of The Leduc/Wetaskiwin Pipestone Flyer and writes a regular column for the paper.
Marguerite Newbury surveys the ladder Christmas tree she and her husband Ken created for their living room. The unique ladder tree is made from a real ladder with a number of shelves of graduating lengths. Each shelf is decorated with Christmas artifi cial snow and villages. At the bottom is a train and an ice skating rink. The couple, who live in a senior’s complex in Rimbey, opted to go with the ladder Christmas tree as it is smaller than a real tree and fi ts nicely into their bay window.
Don Bresnahan and his wife Audreyann from the Rimbey Lions Club present a $225 chequ to the Grade 4/5 class at Rimbey Elementary School for the school’s hot lunch program. Pictured with the class is vice principal Kathleen Terry. Accepting the cheque is Grade 4 student Austin Flikkema.
Treena Mielke Photo
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Basketball: Rimbey Spartans basketball players Colin Humphreys and Travis Hunt reach for the ball in a game against Central Alberta Christian High School from Lacombe last week. The Spartans lost 71-43 against CACHS.
Morriah Rudnik Photos
Brendan Freerksen from Rimbey Spartans takes a shot at Wednesday’s basketball game against St. Augustine from Ponoka. The Spartans won 81 - 45.
Megan Thebeau from Rimbey Spartans girls basketball team takes the shot in a game against St. Augustine from Ponoka. The Spartans defeated Ponoka 84 - 16.
The team is looking very strong going into the new year, looking forward to Provincial playdowns as well as league play and playoffs. “Our goal is fi rst of all to make it back to the provincial tournament and once that happens we can set our sites on repeating as champs. We obviously don’t want to put the cart before the horse so to speak, but I am very confi dent in this team, they are an absolute blast to coach!” said Beagle. This year if the Renegades can win the zone the Atom B provincial tourney will be held in Vegreville March 17-20.
The 2015/16 EckRim Atom A Renegades are: No. 2 Ryder MacLeod, No. 4 Cooper Moore, No. 5 Brodie Hankel, No. 8 Graedy Landry, No. 10 Liam Tennant, No. 11 Keston Beagle, No. 12 Keegan Beagle, No. 14 Cole Wright, No. 15 Karson Ledieu, No. 16 Zach Neumeier, No. 17 Kaelan Plunkett and No. 31 Jayce Schatschneider. The head coach is Chad Beagle and assistant coach-es are Jeremy Hankel, Stacy Tennant, Ted Plunkett and Jason Schatschneider.
continued from page 12
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Rimbey Rodeo Queen Kayla Dueck received an honorarium from Steven Boyce from the Rimbey Exhibition Association at the organization’s annual general meeting, banquet and caberet held at Last West Hall on Nov. 28.
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r or g
m.c
a. C
orre
ct a
nsw
er to
mat
hem
atic
al s
kill-
test
ing
ques
tion
requ
ired.
See
you
r GM
dea
ler o
r gm
.ca
for f
ull c
onte
st ru
les
and
prog
ram
det
ails
. ^ O
ffer a
vaila
ble
to q
ualif
ied
reta
il cu
stom
ers
in C
anad
a fo
r veh
icle
s de
liver
ed b
etw
een
Dece
mbe
r 4th
, 20
15 a
nd J
anua
ry 4
th, 2
016.
0%
pur
chas
e fin
anci
ng o
ffere
d on
app
rove
d cr
edit
by T
D Au
to F
inan
ce S
ervi
ces,
Sco
tiaba
nk®
or R
BC R
oyal
Ban
k fo
r 84
mon
ths
on a
ll ne
w o
r dem
onst
rato
r 201
5 Sp
ark,
Son
ic, C
ruze
LS
1SA,
Mal
ibu
(exc
ept L
S), V
olt,
Impa
la, C
amar
o, T
rax,
Equ
inox
LS
AWD,
Tra
vers
e, C
olor
ado
2WD,
Silv
erad
o 15
00 D
oubl
e Ca
b 2W
D W
T / C
rew
Cab
2W
D W
T an
d Si
lver
ado
HD’s
WT
2WD
with
gas
eng
ine.
Pa
rtici
patin
g le
nder
s ar
e su
bjec
t to
chan
ge. R
ates
from
oth
er le
nder
s w
ill va
ry. D
own
paym
ent,
trade
and
/or s
ecur
ity d
epos
it m
ay b
e re
quire
d. M
onth
ly p
aym
ent a
nd c
ost o
f bor
row
ing
will
vary
dep
endi
ng o
n am
ount
bor
row
ed a
nd d
own
paym
ent/t
rade
. Exa
mpl
e: $
40,0
00 a
t 0%
APR
, the
mon
thly
pay
men
t is
$476
.19
for 8
4 m
onth
s. C
ost o
f bor
row
ing
is $
0, to
tal o
blig
atio
n is
$40
,000
. Offe
r is
unco
nditi
onal
ly in
tere
st-f
ree.
Fr
eigh
t and
air
tax
($10
0, if
app
licab
le) i
nclu
ded.
Lic
ence
, ins
uran
ce, r
egis
tratio
n, P
PSA,
app
licab
le ta
xes
and
deal
er fe
es n
ot in
clud
ed. D
eale
rs a
re fr
ee to
set
indi
vidu
al p
rices
. Lim
ited
time
offe
r whi
ch m
ay n
ot b
e co
mbi
ned
with
cer
tain
oth
er o
ffers
. GM
Can
ada
may
mod
ify, e
xten
d or
term
inat
e of
fers
in w
hole
or i
n pa
rt at
any
tim
e w
ithou
t not
ice.
Con
ditio
ns a
nd li
mita
tions
app
ly. S
ee d
eale
r for
det
ails
. ®Re
gist
ered
tra
dem
ark
of T
he B
ank
of N
ova
Scot
ia. R
BC a
nd R
oyal
Ban
k ar
e re
gist
ered
trad
emar
ks o
f Roy
al B
ank
of C
anad
a. ‡
$2,
500/
$2,5
00 is
a c
ombi
ned
cred
it co
nsis
ting
of $
1,00
0 Co
nnec
t & W
in B
onus
(ta
x in
clus
ive)
, $50
0/$5
00 H
olid
ay B
onus
(tax
incl
usiv
e) a
nd $
1,00
0/$1
,000
man
ufac
ture
r to
deal
er fi
nanc
e ca
sh (t
ax e
xclu
sive
) for
a 2
015
Cruz
e/Eq
uino
x w
hich
is a
vaila
ble
for f
inan
ce o
ffers
onl
y an
d ca
nnot
be
com
bine
d w
ith s
peci
al le
ase
rate
s an
d ca
sh p
urch
ase.
† $
4,50
0/$5
,700
/$12
,000
is a
com
bine
d cr
edit
cons
istin
g of
$1,
000
Conn
ect &
Win
Bon
us (
tax
incl
usiv
e), $
500/
$500
/$0
Holid
ay b
onus
(tax
incl
usiv
e), a
nd a
$3,
000/
$4,2
00/$
11,0
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anuf
actu
rer t
o de
aler
cas
h cr
edit
(tax
excl
usiv
e) fo
r a 2
015
Cruz
e/Eq
uino
x LS
FW
D/Si
lver
ado
HD D
oubl
e Ca
b w
ith g
as e
ngin
e (e
xcep
t WT
2WD)
, whi
ch is
ava
ilabl
e fo
r cas
h pu
rcha
ses
only
an
d ca
nnot
be
com
bine
d w
ith s
peci
al le
ase
and
finan
ce ra
tes.
By
sele
ctin
g le
ase
or fi
nanc
e of
fers
, con
sum
ers
are
fore
goin
g th
is $
3,00
0/$4
,200
/$11
,000
cre
dit w
hich
will
resu
lt in
hig
her e
ffect
ive
inte
rest
rate
s. D
isco
unts
var
y by
mod
el. †
† Of
fer a
vaila
ble
to re
tail
cust
omer
s in
Can
ada
only
on
new
201
5 &
2016
Che
vrol
et C
ruze
, Equ
inox
and
Trax
del
iver
ed b
etw
een
Dece
mbe
r 11,
201
5 an
d Ja
nuar
y 4,
201
6. $
500
bonu
s ca
sh in
clud
es H
ST/G
ST/Q
ST/P
ST a
s ap
plic
able
by
prov
ince
. Li
mite
d tim
e of
fers
, whi
ch m
ay n
ot b
e co
mbi
ned
with
cer
tain
oth
er c
onsu
mer
ince
ntiv
es. G
M C
anad
a m
ay m
odify
, ext
end
or te
rmin
ate
this
offe
r, in
who
le o
r in
part,
at a
ny ti
me
with
out n
otic
e. S
ee d
eale
r for
det
ails
. ** T
he 2
-Yea
r Sch
edul
ed L
ube-
Oil-F
ilter
Mai
nten
ance
Pro
gram
pro
vide
s el
igib
le c
usto
mer
s in
Can
ada,
who
hav
e pu
rcha
sed
or le
ased
a n
ew
elig
ible
201
5 M
Y Ch
evro
let (
excl
udin
g Sp
ark
EV),
with
an
ACDe
lco®
oil
and
filte
r cha
nge,
in a
ccor
danc
e w
ith th
e oi
l life
mon
itorin
g sy
stem
and
the
Owne
r’s M
anua
l, fo
r 2 y
ears
or 4
0,00
0 km
, whi
chev
er o
ccur
s fir
st, w
ith a
lim
it of
four
(4) L
ube-
Oil-F
ilter
ser
vice
s in
tota
l, pe
rform
ed a
t par
ticip
atin
g GM
dea
lers
. Flu
id to
p of
fs, i
nspe
ctio
ns, t
ire ro
tatio
ns, w
heel
alig
nmen
ts a
nd b
alan
cing
, etc
. are
not
cov
ered
. Thi
s of
fer m
ay
not
be r
edee
med
for
cas
h an
d m
ay n
ot b
e co
mbi
ned
with
cer
tain
oth
er c
onsu
mer
inc
entiv
es a
vaila
ble
on G
M v
ehic
les.
Gen
eral
Mot
ors
of C
anad
a Co
mpa
ny r
eser
ves
the
right
to
amen
d or
ter
min
ate
this
offe
r, in
who
le o
r in
par
t, at
any
tim
e w
ithou
t pr
ior
notic
e. A
dditi
onal
con
ditio
ns a
nd l
imita
tions
app
ly. S
ee d
eale
r fo
r de
tails
. ^
^ W
hich
ever
com
es f
irst.
See
deal
er f
or d
etai
ls.
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