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L OCAL A7 MONDAY, JULY 21, 2014 Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail [email protected] WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM GIVE US A CALL PARKINSON’S GARAGE SALE Find a bargain while helping support Parkinson Alberta at the same time. A garage sale takes place on 8 Muldrew Crescent on July 24 and July 25. The sale takes place from 1 to 7 p.m. on both days. All proceeds will go toward supportive counselling, support groups for people with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers, learning resources, referrals, peer programs, in-service community awareness programs and research. For more information, call Trena at 403-346-4463 or tkozak@ parkinsonalberta.ca. The Advocate invites its readers to help cover news in Central Alberta. We would like to hear from you if you see something worthy of coverage. And we would appreciate hearing from you if you see something inaccurate in our pages. We strive for complete, accurate coverage of Central Alberta and are happy to correct any errors we may commit. Call 403-314- 4333. DAHLIA AND GLADIOLUS SHOW AT BOWER PLACE SHOPPING CENTRE Flower power will be on display at the annual dahlia and gladiolus show set for Aug. 23 to 24 at Bower Place Shopping Centre. Hosted by the non-profit Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Society, the show is expected to draw approximately 1,000 blooms in 2014. The show booklet and schedule can be found at www.alberta dahliaandgladsociety.com. For further information, contact Larry Quintilio at 403-346-8401 or [email protected]. KOREA CEASEFIRE CEREMONY Commemorate the Korea ceasefire on July 28 in Red Deer. The public is invited to support Korea War veterans starting at 10:40 a.m. at Veterans’ Park at the corner of 49th Avenue and Ross Street. There will be speeches and a moment of silence. The Korean War ended on July 27 in 1953. HOME FRONT BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF Joe Young’s journey back to the beaches of Normandy this year to celebrate the 70th anni- versary of D-Day wasn’t like any other trip. “It was a pilgrimage, I’d call it,” said the 95-year-old Second World War veteran. “Some peo- ple ask if I enjoyed myself but enjoy isn’t the right word. Sev- enty years ago we were young, the war was on and we were in it. Going back now is ... differ- ent.” Young made the trek over- seas for a week in June with 121 other veterans, who all gathered first in Ottawa. “Seeing as we’re all in our 90s, we had to have caretakers so my son Roger came with me,” said Young, who still lives on the farm he bought 44 years ago in Lacombe County between Joffre and Red Deer. They flew on a Canadian Forces plane to Gander, N.L., then to Deauville, France, and took part in the official remem- brance ceremony at Juno Beach on June 6: the day the Allied forces swept into German-occu- pied France. “I wasn’t there on D-Day; my regiment landed afterwards. Maybe two to three weeks af- ter,” he said. “I drove an ar- moured vehicle out of a tank landing ship onto the beach.” Young, who grew up in Car- rot River, Sask., was a member of the 8th Reconnaissance Regi- ment, a light armour arm of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division headquartered in Swift Cur- rent. “There was 43 of us on the train and when we got to Saska- toon, we all went down to the re- cruiting station together. They told us they were recruiting for the artillery and for a new ar- moured regiment and it was the suicide outfit. Well, everyone of us joined that one,” said Young, who signed up in 1941, with a chuckle. “We thought there wouldn’t be as much walking, you see.” Young has returned to Eu- rope nearly a dozen times since the war ended. This trip, how- ever, was the first time he found the grave of his best friend Lance-Cpl. Clifford Cushing of Regina, buried at Bretteville- sur-Laize. “He was my best friend. ... Same age as me. Just a young guy.” But the highlight of the week in France was picking up his two grandsons, Jory and Travis Young, who are still backpack- ing the continent, and driving to the Vimy Ridge memorial. “That is something I’ve al- ways wanted to see and I’d seen pictures but I still never expect- ed it to be so big,” said Young. “Every Canadian should see that. All those names. ...” Young was wounded in France in August 1944 by a large piece of shrapnel that perforated his upper back. He was taken to England to recov- er. But he went back to the regi- ment in 1945 for the liberation of Holland. “We billeted with the Dutch people in Oldebroek. I remem- ber there was not a thing in the stores. Food had to be dropped in that winter or they wouldn’t have survived. The Germans were starving, too ... I always say no one wins in a war.” After the war, Young donned his uniform one more time at a dance just north of Carrot River. He met his future wife, Nettie, that night. They’ve been married for 65 years. “I was 29 and she was 19 ... I always tease her and tell her I had to skip a generation be- cause most of the women my age were gone or already mar- ried when I got back.” The couple have 11 children and moved to Central Alberta after Young grew “too tired of the long, hard winters” in north- ern Saskatchewan. Young no longer drives but said he is glad he was healthy enough to make it back to France. “He always wanted to go back to where he landed and that’s something we hadn’t done yet,” said Nettie. She stayed at home during the D-Day celebrations but caught a glimpse of her hus- band on CBC’s The National with Peter Mansbridge on the evening of June 6. “He was filmed walking down to the beach and looking out over the water,” she said. “They didn’t know who he was, didn’t have his name but it was quite the moment. And we all recognized him back here.” rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate. com Development moratorium in flood-prone area proposed BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A temporary moratorium on new devel- opment in a flood-prone area upstream of Sundre has been proposed by Mountain View County. Council voted last week to assign staff to come back with a bylaw that will prohibit new development in an area next to the Red Deer River known as McDougal Flats. If passed, the bylaw will temporarily bar all future development in a 9,600-acre flood hazard area along a 13-km section of the river identified by consultants Golder As- sociates in a recent report. The moratorium will remain in place until lifted or modified by council. That wouldn’t happen until county plan- ning documents are updated for the low- lying area that has partly flooded several times in the last few years. Building homes and other developments in Alberta floodways became a hot issue af- ter the 2013 floods caused billions in prop- erty damage. Some questioned why homes were al- lowed to be built in some areas known to be in flood plains or floodways. As a response, the province passed Bill 27, which places strict limits on the types of development allowed in flood-prone areas. The same legislation requires munici- palities to update their plans to ensure they meet provincial regulations. Mountain View County Coun. Al Kem- mere said the bill says no building should happen in floodways. However, a draft floodway map prepared for Alberta Environ- ment and Sustain- able Re- sources by con- sultants Golder As- sociates left council unclear exactly where the floodways were in the county. “Rather than move forward with any kind of development of application for development, we’re trying to protect people and trying to protect the county on future development by just putting a moratorium in place until we get a more defined floodway and a more defined map so we know exactly where the areas of risk are,” said Kemmere. The bylaw is expected to come to coun- cil for first reading on Aug. 13. A public hearing would follow at a later date before council considers second and final read- ings. Kemmere said no time line has been set for when the map will be fully com- pleted and the county will have all the in- formation it needs for planning. “The morato- rium is just temporary in nature until we can get more accu- rate data.” The report is expected to indicate whether flood mitigation measures may be needed in development applications, whether cautionary notes will be required or if there are areas that should remain off limits to development. “We’re just not quite sure. We need more information.” [email protected] ‘SEVENTY YEARS AGO WE WERE YOUNG, THE WAR WAS ON AND WE WERE IN IT.’ — JOE YOUNG Journey not like any other ‘THE MORATORIUM IS JUST TEMPORARY IN NATURE UNTIL WE CAN GET MORE ACCURATE DATA.’ — COUN. AL KEMMERE AREA UPSTREAM OF SUNDRE Photo by RENEE FRANCOEUR/ Advocate staff Nettie Young and husband Joe in their farmhouse in Lacombe County. Joe recently returned from a trip back in time to Normandy, France for the 70th anniversary of D-Day. At right, their wedding portrait. D-DAY TRIP GOING BACK DIFFERENT THIS TIME, SAYS 95-YAR-OLD VETERAN
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LOCAL A7MONDAY, JULY 21, 2014
Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail [email protected] WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM
GIVE US A CALL
PARKINSON’S GARAGE SALE
Find a bargain while helping support Parkinson Alberta at the same time. A garage sale takes place on 8 Muldrew Crescent on July 24 and July 25. The sale takes place from 1 to 7 p.m. on both days. All proceeds will go toward supportive counselling, support groups for people with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers, learning resources, referrals, peer programs, in-service community awareness programs and research. For more information, call Trena at 403-346-4463 or [email protected].
The Advocate invites its readers to help cover news in Central Alberta. We would like to hear from you if you see something worthy of coverage. And we would appreciate hearing from you if you see something inaccurate in our pages. We strive for complete, accurate coverage of Central Alberta and are happy to correct any errors we may commit. Call 403-314-4333.
DAHLIA AND GLADIOLUS
SHOW AT BOWER PLACE SHOPPING
CENTRE
Flower power will be on display at the annual dahlia and gladiolus show set for Aug. 23 to 24 at Bower Place Shopping Centre. Hosted by the non-profit Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Society, the show is expected to draw approximately 1,000 blooms in 2014. The show booklet and schedule can be found at www.albertadahliaandgladsociety.com. For further information, contact Larry Quintilio at 403-346-8401 or [email protected].
KOREA CEASEFIRE CEREMONY
Commemorate the Korea ceasefire on July 28 in Red Deer. The public is invited to support Korea War veterans starting at 10:40 a.m. at Veterans’ Park at the corner of 49th Avenue and Ross Street. There will be speeches and a moment of silence. The Korean War ended on July 27 in 1953.
HOMEFRONT
BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR
ADVOCATE STAFF
Joe Young’s journey back to the beaches of Normandy this year to celebrate the 70th anni-versary of D-Day wasn’t like any other trip.
“It was a pilgrimage, I’d call it,” said the 95-year-old Second World War veteran. “Some peo-ple ask if I enjoyed myself but enjoy isn’t the right word. Sev-enty years ago we were young, the war was on and we were in it. Going back now is ... differ-ent.”
Young made the trek over-seas for a week in June with 121 other veterans, who all gathered first in Ottawa.
“Seeing as we’re all in our 90s, we had to have caretakers so my son Roger came with me,” said Young, who still lives on the farm he bought 44 years ago in Lacombe County between Joffre and Red Deer.
They flew on a Canadian Forces plane to Gander, N.L., then to Deauville, France, and took part in the official remem-brance ceremony at Juno Beach on June 6: the day the Allied forces swept into German-occu-pied France.
“I wasn’t there on D-Day; my regiment landed afterwards. Maybe two to three weeks af-ter,” he said. “I drove an ar-
moured vehicle out of a tank landing ship onto the beach.”
Young, who grew up in Car-rot River, Sask., was a member of the 8th Reconnaissance Regi-ment, a light armour arm of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division headquartered in Swift Cur-rent.
“There was 43 of us on the train and when we got to Saska-toon, we all went down to the re-cruiting station together. They told us they were recruiting for the artillery and for a new ar-moured regiment and it was the suicide outfit. Well, everyone of us joined that one,” said Young, who signed up in 1941, with a chuckle. “We thought there wouldn’t be as much walking, you see.”
Young has returned to Eu-rope nearly a dozen times since the war ended. This trip, how-ever, was the first time he found the grave of his best friend Lance-Cpl. Clifford Cushing of Regina, buried at Bretteville-sur-Laize.
“He was my best friend. ... Same age as me. Just a young guy.”
But the highlight of the week in France was picking up his two grandsons, Jory and Travis Young, who are still backpack-ing the continent, and driving to the Vimy Ridge memorial.
“That is something I’ve al-ways wanted to see and I’d seen
pictures but I still never expect-ed it to be so big,” said Young.
“Every Canadian should see that. All those names. ...”
Young was wounded in France in August 1944 by a large piece of shrapnel that perforated his upper back. He was taken to England to recov-er. But he went back to the regi-ment in 1945 for the liberation of Holland.
“We billeted with the Dutch people in Oldebroek. I remem-ber there was not a thing in the stores. Food had to be dropped in that winter or they wouldn’t have survived. The Germans were starving, too ... I always say no one wins in a war.”
After the war, Young donned his uniform one more time at a dance just north of Carrot River. He met his future wife, Nettie, that night. They’ve been married for 65 years.
“I was 29 and she was 19 ... I always tease her and tell her I had to skip a generation be-cause most of the women my
age were gone or already mar-ried when I got back.”
The couple have 11 children and moved to Central Alberta after Young grew “too tired of the long, hard winters” in north-ern Saskatchewan.
Young no longer drives but said he is glad he was healthy enough to make it back to France.
“He always wanted to go back to where he landed and that’s something we hadn’t done yet,” said Nettie.
She stayed at home during the D-Day celebrations but caught a glimpse of her hus-band on CBC’s The National with Peter Mansbridge on the evening of June 6.
“He was filmed walking down to the beach and looking out over the water,” she said. “They didn’t know who he was, didn’t have his name but it was quite the moment. And we all recognized him back here.”
Development moratorium in flood-prone area proposed
BY PAUL COWLEYADVOCATE STAFF
A temporary moratorium on new devel-opment in a flood-prone area upstream of Sundre has been proposed by Mountain View County.
Council voted last week to assign staff to come back with a bylaw that will prohibit new development in an area next to the Red Deer River known as McDougal Flats.
If passed, the bylaw will temporarily bar all future development in a 9,600-acre flood hazard area along a 13-km section of the river identified by consultants Golder As-sociates in a recent report. The moratorium will remain in place until lifted or modified by council.
That wouldn’t happen until county plan-ning documents are updated for the low-lying area that has partly flooded several times in the last few years.
Building homes and other developments in Alberta floodways became a hot issue af-ter the 2013 floods caused billions in prop-erty damage.
Some questioned why homes were al-lowed to be built in some areas known to be in flood plains or floodways.
As a response, the province passed Bill
27, which places strict limits on the types of development allowed in flood-prone areas.
The same legislation requires munici-palities to update their plans to ensure they meet provincial regulations.
Mountain View County Coun. Al Kem-mere said the bill says no building should happen in floodways.
However, a draft floodway map prepared for Alberta E n v i r o n -ment and S u s t a i n -able Re-s o u r c e s b y c o n -s u l t a n t s Golder As-s o c i a t e s left council unclear exactly where the floodways were in the county.
“Rather than move forward with any kind of development of application for development, we’re trying to protect people and trying to protect the county on future development by just putting a moratorium in place until we get a more defined floodway and a more defined map so we know exactly where the areas
of risk are,” said Kemmere.The bylaw is expected to come to coun-
cil for first reading on Aug. 13. A public hearing would follow at a later date before council considers second and final read-ings.
Kemmere said no time line has been set for when the map will be fully com-pleted and the county will have all the in-
formation it needs for planning.
“ T h e m o r a t o -rium is just temporary in nature u n t i l w e c a n g e t more accu-
rate data.”The report is expected to indicate
whether flood mitigation measures may be needed in development applications, whether cautionary notes will be required or if there are areas that should remain off limits to development.
“We’re just not quite sure. We need more information.”
‘SEVENTY YEARS AGO WE WERE YOUNG, THE WAR WAS ON AND WE
WERE IN IT.’— JOE YOUNG
Journey not likeany
other
‘THE MORATORIUM IS JUST TEMPORARY IN NATURE UNTIL WE CAN GET MORE ACCURATE DATA.’
— COUN. AL KEMMERE
AREA UPSTREAM OF SUNDRE
Photo by RENEE FRANCOEUR/Advocate staff
Nettie Young and husband Joe in their farmhouse in Lacombe County. Joe recently r e t u r n e d f r o m a trip back in time to Normandy, France for the 70th anniversary of D-Day. At right, their wedding portrait.
D-DAY TRIP
GOING BACK DIFFERENT THIS TIME,
SAYS 95-YAR-OLD VETERAN
