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8 The Sturgeon Light Thursday, 7 May 2009
ANNA EHLI, Associate/Manager
Phone: 780-939-2772 Fax: 780-939-735310008 - 100 Ave. Morinville AB T8R 1P7
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BY STEPHEN DAFOE
Morinville is looking for a few good citizens to help shape the community’s future. Joan Agnew, strategic initiatives manager with the Town of Morinville, said she is currently putt ing together a Citizen’s Review Committ ee that will be able to look at the diff erent aspects of what makes a community sustainable.
Agnew said the direction she has received from council is to develop a corporate plan that will set the strategic direction for the Town of Morinville with an eye towards the fi ve dimensions of sustainability – social, cultural, environmental, economy and governance.
“We don’t want to just measure by economics – budget bott om line – we also need to be refl ecting our decisions around social issues, cultural issues, the environment, that kind of thing,” Agnew said, adding that sustainability plans – whether for a business, organization or community –
take a broader perspective than simply looking at fi nancial indicators.
“It really needs to tie in with what citizens want for the Town of Morinville. What’s their vision of this town, what do they want to see it like in 20 years, 30 years, and how can we start moving in that direction now?”
Although the committ ee would ideally consist of between fi ve and nine people, Agnew explained that there is plenty of room for Morinville residents who are interested in participating in envisioning the community’s future.
“We’re hoping to have a good mix of people who are able to kind of look broad level at all of the dimensions, but maybe have some expertise in one or two of them, so that we are not missing some important aspects ourselves as we are moving forward,” she said.
“I think the Citizen Review Committ ee is only one way; as we move forward, we’ll probably be having more focus groups in each dimension. So maybe we’ll be calling on
anyone interested in the environmental sector – come out and give us your ideas.”
Agnew, who has made Morinville her home for the past 12 years, was hired by the town last October to assist with sustainability and aff ordable housing initiatives.
Morinville is one of eleven municipalities or regions to receive some funding and support from the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA) over the next 18 months, which has helped the town to move forward with its sustainability plan.
“It’s exciting to see the town take on this initiative as a group, where we can really have a role to play in how we see this town,” Agnew said.
“It’s an opportunity to speak your voice, to get involved and really infl uence how things will look fi ve years, ten years down the road.”
For more information on the Citizen’s Review Committ ee, contact Joan Agnew at 780-939-4361.
Morinville looking to balance its future
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Th e history of Mother’s DayBY STURGEON LIGHT STAFF
Although motherhood has been celebrated around the world since the pantheistic Romans and Greeks off ered their reverence to the mother goddesses Cybele and Rhea respectively, the holiday we observe as Mother’s Day in Canada and the United States is less than a century old – at least offi cially.
Th e closest to the current celebration, Mothering Sunday, originated in the British Isles in the 1600s and was observed on the fourth Sunday of Lent. Although originally a religious observance connected to Mary, the mother of Christ and, to a lesser extent, the Mother Church, the holiday had a secular aspect in that working class children who were employed as servants were allowed to return home to spend time with their mothers. Th e holiday began to fall by the wayside during Victorian times and was revived during the Second World War. However, by this time, the American celebration was already in full swing.
Th e seeds of our current Mother’s Day began just prior to the American Civil War as a social cause. Anna Reeves Jarvis, appalled at local sanitation conditions, began a
Mothers’ Work Day in 1858 to raise awareness of the issue, a project she continued throughout the war years.
But where one woman was motivated by cleanliness, another was motivated by peacefulness. Julia Ward Howe, who had authored the song The Battle Hymn of the Republic, sought to create a national celebration honouring the role women had played in maintaining peace. Howe’s eff orts paid off on June 2, 1873, when women in several American cities observed Howe’s Mother’s Day for Peace. Th e celebration continued to be celebrated for another decade, but ultimately was forgott en.
However, the ball was picked up by the daughter of Anna Reeves Jarvis in 1905, shortly aft er her mother’s death. Vowing to continue her mother’s dream of a national holiday to honour motherhood, the junior Jarvis pressed on for seven years, until her home state of West Virginia proclaimed the second Sunday of May to be Mother’s Day. It was a holiday that would be nationalized by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914.
Ninety-fi ve years later, Canadian’s continue to honour mothers on that day, along with the United States and 68 other countries.
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asks why people who live in condos, apartments and retirement centres have been excluded from gett ing their blue bags picked up as part of the new garbage and recycling program. The Sturgeon Light has gone to Morinville’s Chief Administrative Offi cer Milad Asdaghi for the answer.
Condos, apartments and retirement centres pose an interesting situation for the town when looking at waste management and recycling services. With single family homes it is fairly easy to look to that specifi c property. When you look at businesses, condos, apartments, retirement centres and schools, the needs of those properties vary depending on their size, location for recycling pick up or method of pick-up (bins, curbside
etc). Serving their specifi c property’s needs becomes more diffi cult to manage and so it made sense to allow them to have the fl exibility to develop their own contracts with contractors. Since single family homes are paying a user fee for the service, then no one group of properties is “subsidizing” another through property taxes. You pay for the service that you receive.
For single family style homes; because the service is exactly the same for the 2,500 or so residences, it becomes easier to package them and put them to tender because it is the exact same service for each of these dwellings. Th e town is not averse to including other types of institutions or facilities in the contract. In fact, we have put it out to the condos to let us know if they want to be part of the town contract or not. However,
it was felt that other properties may be able to get a bett er contract to address their own specifi c needs if they could negotiate directly with a contractor. It’s for that reason that businesses have always dealt with their own waste and recycling needs. Th is new bylaw allows condos, apartments, retirement facilities, schools, businesses, and the mobile home park to develop their own contracts to address their specifi c needs. Th ey can decide how long of a term of contract to sign for, how much they are willing to pay, how oft en pick up is to occur and what waste or recycling services they actually want and how it is to be picked up. Providing that fl exibility to 2,500 homes is not practical, but providing it for these other property types made sense.
BY STURGEON LIGHT STAFF
Sturgeon County residents looking to put a litt le spark in their evenings will have to think of another way to do it. Th e County issued a total burning ban on May 4 that will remain in eff ect until the county has seen a signifi cant increase in precipitation.
“Low ground moisture and low humidity along with increased winds and warmer weather have continued to create dangerous conditions for grass and brush fi res, said Sturgeon County Fire Deputy Chief, Trevor Mistal in
a press release issued May 4. Th e ban nullifi es all previously issued fi re permits and
prohibits all outdoor fi res including recreational bonfi res, burn barrels, incinerator fi res, smudge fi res and pit fi res. Operators of off -highway vehicles are asked to ensure that a spark arrester is att ached properly to their vehicle and cleaned of debris.
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County bans burningWith Our Deepest Sympathies
Sturgeon Light Editorial
It has been just over a week since the body of Jessica Martel was found in her Morinville home.
We mourn the loss of this young woman and acknowledge the pain felt by her family, friends and co-workers.
A mother has lost a daughter, three children have lost their mother and Morinville has lost one of its most important assets, a citizen – one of the many recognizable faces that, when combined with all the others, transform a town or village into a community.
No words, editorial or otherwise, can remove the pain from troubled hearts or lift the spirits of those who are doubtlessly devastated by so tragic a loss as the death of this young woman.
Only time will close the wounds her death has ripped open in our community.Only time will replace the sadness of being deprived of many years on the
road ahead with the joyful memory of the short time those who knew Jessica had with her.
Only time will uncover the information necessary to prosecute her death now that it has been determined that the death was a homicide.
Only time. And it is only through our time, our compassion and our continued prayers that
we, as a community, can off er our support to Jessica’s family and friends as they fi nd comfort in each other.
Let us off er our time by allowing the law to do its job, rather than each of us playing armchair detective trying to uncover what happened. Let us off er our compassion by not being a party to the rumours that circulate in tragedies like this. And let us off er our continued prayers that Jessica’s family and friends fi nd strength to deal with that pain which we all hope we will never have to endure.
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BY STEPHEN DAFOE
Th e Morinville Jets had plenty to celebrate Apr. 18. Not only was it the capstone celebration to their 30th anniversary, the team also gathered to watch two newcomers recognized by the league
Dalen Paul was presented with the Capital Junior Hockey League Rookie of the Year award and Jets’ coach Scott Rodda was recognized as coach of the year.
In his fi rst year with the Junior B club, Paul racked up 34 goals and 31 assists in 38 games for a total of 65 points, placing him third in the league behind top-ranked Daniel McPherson of the Fort Saskatchewan Hawks and Braden Paquett e of the Beverly Warriors. Paul spent only 12 minutes in the penalty box this past season, a trend that followed his record in the Sturgeon Pembina Minor Hockey League where he helped lead the Altrac Warriors
to fi rst place in the 2007-2008 season. Th e Morinville Jets also recognized excellence in
their own ranks during the celebration. Dalen Paul was recognized as top scorer and rookie of the year by the club. Mike Roblin received three awards: the MVP, MVP playoff s and the coaches / players award. Aaron Baumgartner received the most improved player award and Coltin Sedrovic won the Tony Schafers’ Unsung Hero Award. Jeremiah Burak and Kevin Hammond were presented the Joe Kapitzke Memorial Award for best defensemen and Derek Teske was awarded the Lady Byng.
As no team can experience on-ice success without the support of volunteers, the Jets recognized their exceptional volunteers by presenting the Terry Grykuliak Memorial Award for volunteer of the year to Dale Baumgartner and Peggy Martin.
Dalen Paul was awarded the CJHL Rookie of the Year
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BY STEPHEN DAFOE
While May 10 is set aside to recognize the contributions of women by celebrating Mother’s Day, on May 9 residents of Gibbons will be recognizing the women of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #226 Ladies Auxiliary, who have been serving the community for the past 60 years.
Claudett e Clendennin, the current Ladies auxiliary president and a volunteer for the past ten years, said the occasion will be marked with a special evening at the legion honouring the auxiliary’s 34 current members, as well as those who have participated since their charter was established in 1949.
“Some of the ladies have been there for forty years,” Clendennin said of her volunteers, adding that they will receive 40-year membership pins that evening.
Th e auxiliary president said the evening will start with presentations, speeches and a PowerPoint covering the ladies who have served the
branch over the past six decades. Following the formal part of the evening, there will be a supper and live entertainment with country fi ddler Alfi e Myer.
Clendennin said that they are hoping to sell at least 100 tickets to the celebration and that she was able to arrange it so that all the auxiliary members received a complimentary ticket – a gesture of appreciation for their years of service to the community.
Clendennin said that in addition to assisting the branch, the auxiliary also serves the community in other ways.
“Th e Ladies Auxiliary in Gibbons do funeral teas – we don’t charge per se, we do it as a community service and we take donations,” she said, adding that the donation system has worked for them over the years.
Additionally, the auxiliary serves up the food for many Legion functions.
“We just have good home cooking, it’s nothing fancy,”
Clendennin said. “It’s good fried chicken or roast beef dinners – that’s what we’re well known for.”
But like many organizations, Clendennin explained that the members are aging and the search for new blood is hard. Th e auxiliary president explained that of the branch’s 34 members, roughly 14 are able to assist with functions.
“We’re really having a hard time gett ing younger volunteers,” Clendennin said, adding that the auxiliary welcomes anyone who is looking to serve the community.
“I’m one of the younger ones and I’m 55 – we have some in their forties, but every group is having the same problem.”
For more information on the 60th anniversary celebration or joining the auxiliary, contact Claudett e Clendennin at 780-923-2998.
Ladies Auxiliary celebrates six decades of service
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Co-workers rally to support deceased’s children
BY STURGEON LIGHT STAFF
The staff at Friends & Neighbours Family Restaurant in Morinville have raised more than $3,600 since last Saturday, when they began donating their tips and accepting contributions from customers for the children of former co-worker Jessica Martel.
Martel, a 26-year-old mother of three, who worked as a waitress at the restaurant, was found dead in her west end home on Apr. 29 aft er police and paramedics responded to a 911 call about a possible homicide. Martel’s 29-year-old common-law husband, who was also in the home, was taken to hospital with undisclosed injuries. Investigators also found three children in the home and they were removed from the residence and placed in the care of extended family members.
Although a post mortem examination conducted in Edmonton on May 1 confi rmed that Martel was the victim of a homicide, the investigation is ongoing and no arrests had been made by Sturgeon Light deadline on May 4.
Cindy Moncrieff , owner of Friends & Neighbours said that servers will continue to donate tips through the Mother’s Day weekend and that Morinville residents wishing to donate may do so at the restaurant. Moncrieff said that the money will be given to Jessica Martel’s mother to be placed in a trust fund for Jessica’s children.
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Jon & Esther BucherRR2, Morinville, AB T8R 1P5
Phone: (780) 939-2450Fax: (780) 939-4472Cell: (780) 975-2507
www.histrucking.ca
Morinville Shell10609 - 100 Avenue
780-939-6011
We’re behind you all the way!
Congratulationsto the Class of ‘09
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AllysonCornelis
MitchelDeatrich
SamanthaCote
ChrisDebrecen
CalliCox
JacksonCramp
TristinCrowley
ShaenaBulger
AdamCullen
MandyBunten-Walberg
TiaCyr
AshleyCallaghan Shank
JessicaCzarnecki
TavisCampbell
BrendanDagg
StephenieClewes
StephanieDavidson
PatrickGoisnard
ThomasGoodwin
AdrianaDeMaglio
AdamGottfried
KarraDubrule
JennaHaison
TrevorDurand
KylaFarrell
AdrianFisher
BryanGervais
JayleenGibbon
MichelleGillard
CaitlinHogg
TanyaHolowaychuk
Carrie-AnnHubbard
ChristopherHufnagel
GalvinHarrigan
LandonHughes
DavidHauptman
DevinHuot
SarahHay
TrevorHills
CodyHittinger
KerriHoevers
NikkolJones
KailaniJackson
DustinJarock
KatJohnson
JoelJolicoeur
CaitlinKampen
KallynKearns
ChristaKerwin
JosiahKinshella
BreannaKnievel
ShianneKrauskopf
JustinKuchta
DillonAbbott
JenessaBlackburn
LucBlanchette
MeghanBranscombe
RyanBrill
A.J.Brown
DamionAdcock
StephenAdcock
AshleyAllen
KentAppelt
MarkArcand-Paul
KeelyArychuk
MeganAtkinson
BlaineBeaupre
SamBelore
KaylaBettenson-Miller
GarnetBirch
Wishing all the best to the Graduating class of 2009!
May you always look to the future with optimism.
Legal, AB 780.961.3773 fax 780.961.4133
9602 - 100 Street Morinville780.939.3920
Congratulationson reaching this milestone!
We wish you all the bestin the years to come.
Wishing all the best to this years grads.May your futures be prosperous.
LEGAL INSURANCE & REGISTRY SERVICES4727 - 50 AVE, LEGAL
P. 780-961-3137 F. 780-961-3453
Congratulations to Our Grads! All the best!Honourable Ken KowalskiSpeaker of the Legislative AssemblyMLA, Barrhead - Morinville, Westlock Constituency
325 Legislature Bldg, Edmonton, AB T5K 2B65110 - 50 Avenue, Barrhead, AB T7N 1A4Phone: (780) 674-3225 {Barrhead} Fax: 780-674-6183
Live in the present, but reach for the stars,your future is bright & hopeful. Congratulations!
BRIAN STORSETH, MP Westlock-St. Paul10623-100 Avenue, Suite B Westlock, AB T7P 2J41-800-667-8450 [email protected]
8704-100 Street, Morinville, AB T8R 1K6 ~ 780-939-3666 or 1-888-465-6632www.frontierhonda.ab.ca
We Care
Dr. Darren Romanowski & the Dental Teamwish to congratulate the graduating class of 2009
on achieving this milestone. All the best in your future endeavors!
10407 - 100 Ave, Morinville, AB 780.939.1288
quinnsplumbing.com 780.939.4217 9923 - 101 Street, Morinville
Sending our bestto this year’s
graduates
RémiLabonté
RyanLacoursiere
DanielleLafond
BenjaminLamer
BenLane
PhilipLongson
ChayMacArthur
DarrylMacDonald
DavidMaenhout
AshleyMainville
DaneMarr
JaymieMartiniuk
NickMartiniuk
JaredMcConaghie
JennMcLaughlin
RianMcLeod
PatrickMcManners
JaredMillions
CameronMorrill
ShawnMountenay
ArielMurphy
LisaNeill
JoelNeufeld
AndreaNeumann
Morinville 780.939.3258 or 780.235.6758
All the best to the gradsof 2009
780-993-2303 rmkhomes.com
Management & Staff of
RMK Homes Ltd.congratulates our grads
Legal ConfectionaryMovies, Munchies & More
~ Sandy & Staff ~
4724-50th Ave, Legal
780-961-3831
Congratulations Class of ‘09
Marcel Blais www.canadianrealestateservice.comOffi ce: 780-961-3500 Toll Free: 1-877-961-3500 Fax: 780-961-3535
We congratulate all the
graduates of 2009 on this
achievement & wish
all the best for the future!