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FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 2010 Volume 1, Issue 6 hestermere Laker Your Community News Source Waning days of summer Pre-election news /4&5 Brian Matlock, 14, of Lang- don is all concentration at the Chestermere skate park. Mickey Dumont/Laker INSIDE: • Flaky get together /6 • Fall registration time /3 • Golf course plans call for public meeting /6 • Zac Efron in serious role /7

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 2010 Volume 1, Issue 6

hestermereLaker

Your Community News Source

Waning days of

summer

Pre-election news /4&5

Brian Matlock, 14, of Lang-don is all concentration at the Chestermere skate park.

Mickey Dumont/Laker

INSIDE:• Flaky get together /6• Fall registration time /3• Golf course plans call

for public meeting /6• Zac Efron in serious

role /7

With more than eight weeks to go, it might seem a bit early to have as much election cover-

age as the Laker presents in this issue.However, we don’t believe it’s too

soon. In fact the timing is just about right

to begin giving thought to whom we want to run Chestermere for the next three years.

So far most of the incumbents have told the Laker they do indeed plan on running in the Oct. 18 election.

However, to the best of our knowl-edge, no one else in town has stepped up to the plate to challenge for one of six councillors’ seats, or to run against the mayor.

And that’s just fine if one is happy with the way the town is being run.

As the saying goes: If it ain’t broke ....

But we have to ask if that’s really the case here.

Talk municipal politics in Chester-mere and you’re bound to hear how those running the place are not doing the best they can for the town. Talk to others and they say things are run-ning smooth as silk.

The fact is politics is a thankless job and the people going into the public arena either know that or are quickly schooled on the ABCs of political life. (See Pat Hrushowy’s column on page 4.)

One minute you’re an appreciated member of the community; the next you’re regarded with the same esteem held for lawyers or reporters — both occupations that traditionally place at the bottom of peoples’ “trust lists.”

Yet more important than running for office is voting. During the 2007 elections, just more than 2,400 people voted in Chestermere. That out of about 8,000 registered voters. That ratio put us below the 30 per cent pro-vincial average.

We have to do better than that.We can do better than that.

EDITORIALElectiondeserves attention

A summer of expand-ing young minds

and their accompanying imaginations in the li-brary is coming to a close with the children’s Summer Reading Club wrap-up celebration on August 27.

The summer program has been a huge suc-cess, said Jo Anne Houston, Chestermere Pub-lic Library director.

Starting at 10:30 am, the jungle-themed party begins.

There will be stories and songs, face paint-ing, balloon animals, a picnic and a cake to

celebrate the many minutes that the children have read over the summer.

Houston said, “Studies show that children who read

over the summer vacation maintain or exceed the reading levels that they accomplished at the end of the last school year.” The Destina-tion Jungle party kicks off with jungle games, jungle crafts, a sing-along with Melanie Porter at 11:30 am followed by a picnic and a balloon artist before winding down by 1 pm.

For more information, contact the library at 403-272-9025.

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Summer readers to party

CORRECTIONDoug and Marjorie McKay were wrongly

identified as realtors who work for Remax. The long-time Chestermere realtors instead own their own company, Chestermere Real Estate. The Laker apologizes for the error.

Mickey DumontChestermere Laker

If Weedless Wednesday is a national pas-time, pulling weeds in Chestermere Lake is a local one.

For 100 years the Bow River and the City of Calgary have been increasing the silt load going into the lake.

Because water takes three days to travel through the lake from canal to canal, the water slows, causing the silt to drop.

“This allows for the increased growth of weeds,” said Jim Webber, general manager West-ern Irrigation District.

“It’s a natural function of a water body.” Weeds are an annoying fact of life in the lake

and until they’re dredged, the problem will continue.

But the town will be seeking quotes in the fall to learn the cost of dredging the lake.

Dredging Chestermere Lake has long been a town ambition for aesthetic reasons and for water quality, both for the municipality and for downstream users.

The possibility the job could cost $10 million or more, said Webber.

However, Alberta Environment, the City of Calgary and the town is studying the lake and exploring options.

The town has been active in trying to solicit grants from federal, provincial and now corpo-rate sources.

It seems everyone loves the idea but no one has yet stepped up to the plate with a sizable cheque.

“We’ve been working as a community to try and dredge the lake for a very long time,” said Mayor Patricia Matthews.

“The impetus to getting it done and getting it moving has been the implementation of the Shepard project.”

The $73 million Shepard Wetlands Project in southeast Calgary was recently dedicated to honour former Calgary mayor and Alberta pre-mier, Ralph Klein.

The wetlands is expected to filter in excess of 50 per cent of sediment that would otherwise wash off the city streets and into the canal sys-tem — sediment that eventually lands in Ches-termere Lake.

“Having to face de-silting once in 100 years is not a bad rate,” said Webber.

“From a practical point of view it’s also quite a major activity that has to be done in winter when you drain the lake.”

Still, it’s no small task, he said.“You have to have machines going 24/7 and

when you dig up all that silt, where do you put it?”

Dredging is still something Matthews said she’d like to see happen.

The town then must look at costs, what to do with sediment dredged from the lake, how long it would take and will it actually work.

“We’re not going to waste resources trying to put something together if it’s going to be a short term gain,” Matthews said.

“Unless it’s cost prohibitive and only take the weeds out of the lake for three years…that would be ridiculous … whatever is fiscally and

environmentally sustainable that’s when we will take a look at it.”

The ultimate goal is to find private supporters for dredging the lake to take the expense off of the taxpayer and Matthews said several poten-tial corporate donors have been approached.

“We may find an Exxon, for instance, looking for a cleanup project,” she said.

“We fit the bill.”Another option would be to reactivate the

deeper trenches. “You could hope the internal flow will bring

the finer silt back to the centre of the trench and pull it away from the shoreline,” said Webber.

At its deepest the lake is three-metres and dredging could also be done hydraulically with the water in place.

That means pontoons and machinery would be on the lake with the inevitable no-go areas in the middle of summer.

It would be an investment of a couple of years by a specialist firm and annoyance to all boat traffic.

The WID has not dredged any reservoir. “Never,” said Webber.“All we do is observe some of the private lakes

in Calgary — they have the same problem and they de-silt every 10 years or so.”

Yin Deong, watershed management team leader with the City of Calgary, said the work-ing committee also looked at placing a sediment trap between Calgary and the town. Matthews confirms this may become a reality.

A study was done looking at several locations along the canal that could divert some of the water from the canal to allow sediment to settle before flowing the water into the lake.

“Presently Calgary and Alberta Environment are monitoring lake water quality and are look-ing at the effectiveness of the Shepard Storm Water Diversion Project,” Deong said.

“We’re going to monitor for several years to determine the impact and how much improve-ment to explore and if any additional capital works projects are needed.”

There will definitely be improvement to water quality in Chestermere Lake with the installation of the diversion project.

The Shepard project, between the end and be-ginning of the irrigation season when the canal has been drained, diverts all the storm water and storm melt to the wetlands.

That’s a significant reduction of the solids or pollutants that go into the lake.

The town has hired the services of a former Alberta Environment employee with years of experience in Chestermere to prepare the param-eters for quotes from prospective firms.

Al Sosiak, now an independent consultant, probably has more experience understanding water quality in Chestermere Lake than anyone else, said Coun. Heather Davies.

“He has been testing the water here forever and has been a wealth of knowledge for us,” she said.

Added Matthews: “He has the expertise to move us ahead on this project and he will be working with our staff to put together a request for quotations from the professionals out there who do this for a living.”

The mayor said both levels of higher govern-ment support have been secured.

“Currently we are in the process of looking at the different ways of how to get this done in an efficient manner,” she said.

“We spent the last year securing a business case and putting it out to our provincial and fed-eral representatives saying ‘this is what we want to do, do we have your support.’”

Lake will be dredgedNEWSFriday, August 20, 2010 Chestermere Laker 3

CONSULTANT PREPARING PARAMETERS: Town moves closer to making project real

Laker/fileA weed machine hard at work to clear the lake

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Election

Retooled candi-date package now availableThe “Guide for Potential Candidates in the Town of Chestermere” — the defacto do-it-yourself document for municipal electoral candidates — has been reformatted and expanded. “We have added information on what it means to be a town councillor, information on council remuneration, advice from past councillors and a “before you submit your nomination papers” checklist,” said munici-pal intern Megan Smienk.As for the legislative information that has changed since the last election, the Town now requires a $250 deposit from candidates to submit nomination forms and the province has changed its requirements for the docu-mentation of election campaign expenses.“We did provide similar documents from Municipal Affairs in the last election, but we have now also added copies of the forms can-didates might need,” she said.The information package is available at town hall or on line at http://chestermere.ca/con-necting_with_your_town/town_council/municipal_election_2010.

—Dumont

Town to host open houseIf you have plans to run in the coming municipal election, or even if you toying with the idea, the Town of Chestermere is holding a prospective candidate open house on Sept. 1.Organizers stress attendance at the meet-ing is not an admission of candidacy. That will only become official after filing nomi-nation papers on or before the Sept. 20, deadline.The open house will feature information on how to fill out your nomination papers, rules for campaigning, the election pro-cess and the general duties on a council member.The open house will be a great opportu-nity to talk to town staff about what you could expect should you be elected.The meeting will run from 7 pm until 9 pm.For the 2010 elections, the citizens ofChestermere will elect one mayor and six councillors (at large), and participate in electing one of the Rocky View School Division No. 41’s seven trustees, and one of the Calgary School District's seven trustees.

—Dumont

Have you ever considered how difficult it can

be to live the life of a politician?One minute you are an upstanding respected member of the community, and then, once you’ve been elected, you’ve become a lying, cheating and self-serving politician, ranked only marginally above lawyers by the general public.This being an election year for our town council politicians there is at least two incumbents weigh-ing whether or not the want to face that reality again come October. There are still others who are considering running for office for the first time who are delightfully and

naively ignorant of the bile and vindictiveness they potentially face from their adoring public.As difficult as a politician’s life can be, politics is something like a disease. Once you've been infected a cure is often difficult or even impossible, but it has been known to go into remission. And, like with malaria, the disease of politics can come roaring back from remission, so we can count on a constantly renewable source of people.So, just what is it about a person that makes them instantly critical of politicians, and others, for that matter? Apparently this tendency has been around for a long time.“It’s easier to be a critic than an author,” according to an old saying arising out of Yiddish wisdom.In defence of his artwork, Greek artist Zeuxis com-plained 2,500 years ago: “Criticism comes easier

than craftsmanship.”In more modern lingo, some might say: “A good offence is the best defence.” In other words, don’t even bother trying to be something you need to de-fend; just attack something and others will join you.There is another saying that goes something like this: “It’s easier to get 100 people out to oppose something than it is to get 10 people out to be for something.”Even if a large crowd shows up to be for preser-vation or conservation, they are really there to be against destruction and waste. We humans seem to be set up to define ourselves by what we don’t want rather than what we do.Politicians are rarely elected into office for what the public wants but rather they get dumped when they have been perceived by enough voters to have done something people don’t want.

The seven elected officials in the (Town of Chester-mere) — more if you count school trustees — live with attacks and criticism as everyday features in their lives. Most learn to live with it in one way or another and gradually most will give in to the will of the angriest and most vocal and organized of their critic groups, if they can possibly do that.So, when you hear a politician saying they’re doing the will of the people, is it possible they're really saying they're making sure what the people don’t want doesn’t happen? I’d prefer a politician who does what (he or she)believes is right. Pat Hrushowy is a former political reporter and current political advisor who lives on Vancouver Island.(Updated and reprinted and with the permission of the Cowichan News Leader and the author)

Patrick Hrushowy

Good citizen to good-for-nothing in the blink of a vote

Mickey DumontChestermere Laker

W ith just about eight weeks to go before the municipal election,

there may be some seats to fill at town hall.Still, the looming Oct. 18 municipal election has so far offered no surprises.Mayor Patricia Matthews is enthusiastically running for re-elec-tion as are four of six councillors. Only councillors Stu Hutchison and Tim Reid remain undecided.As of Aug. 18, the Laker could not confirm other potential candi-dates. Those thinking of running for a municipal seat have until Sept. 20 to file nomination papers.The deadline for filing nomination papers is Sept. 20. Here's a

quick pre-election poll of council and mayor on their decisions to run or maybe not.

••••Mayor Patricia Matthews: Yes, the first-time mayor is running for reelec-tion. While still solidifying her campaign platform, she said: “I really enjoy this job and I love living in Chestermere. It’s at the heart of all the decisions I make. "I’d be tickled to have them support me again.”

••••

Heather Davies (photo unavailable): “Always.” Davies is running for a fourth consecutive term. “I never thought about not running," she said.“There are a lot of challenges, land use bylaws.” Davies sits on every committee but two and that’s because

municipal law dictates she can’t. Why almost every commit-tee? “Because I can,” she said.••••Coun. Patrick Bergen: “Yes, I now have the thumbs up from my wife and that makes all the difference.”

••••

Coun. Tim Reid (photo unavailable): said he’s unde-

cided and not sure if he’s running. If he does, he said, “It will be a final hour time commit-ment.” Between reading, research and meetings: “I would say a councillor, on average, puts in 20 hours a week, but it could easily be more.” Reid sits on the water and winter festival committees, subdivision approval author-ity, assessment review board, planning committee and the Chestermere Recreation and Culture Association.

••••

Coun. Christopher Steeves: “Yes, unless my girls change their minds, I’m in. "I love what I’m doing and there’s more work to be done.”

Steeves said he sat down with his two girls and his wife — “They are the ones most impacted by this” — a month ago and had the conversation. “They’re all for it again.”

••••

Coun. Kelsey Johnson: An enthusiastic and unhesitant yes. “July 31 was my decision date,” he said.He sits on the fire and emergency committee and worked to bring the RCMP complement up to 16. Public safety issues

are foremost on his mind and he’d like to continue to work on a new police station. He also sits on the health service commit-tee. “We have some goals and ideas and that is something else I would like to see through.”

••••

Coun. Stu Hutchison: council’s unofficial godfather says he’s sit-ting on the

fence. This is no surprise as Hutchison was a dark horse in the last election and chose to run only after a by-election presented a second opportunity for him. He handily won his spot on council with 208 votes. Runner-up Kam Khamba was a distant second with 110 votes.

••••

Patrick Bergen

Stu Hutchison

Christopher Steeves

Kelsey Johnson

Patrica Matthews

And they’re off

What does the mayor and council need to know to get your vote?

What issues are important to you in the upcoming election?What do you like and what do you dislike about the way Chestermere is being run?Does the town need a beach?Is taxation, or how to diversify the tax base, an issue for you?Are there enough activities for the town's younger genera-tions?

Do you feel well-represented by the curent mayor and coun-cil?Those are just a a few ideas, but we want to hear from you, and what you believe the election issues to be.Drop us a line at [email protected], or at [email protected] simply drop off your concerns at the Laker office at 30-140 East Chestermere Dr.

Results from the '07 Chestermere election

No acclamations Those who ran for Mayor were:

Patricia Matthews: 1281Jeff Colvin: 637

Ada Rawlins: 483

Those who ran for Council were: Davies, Heather: 1978

Reid, Timothy Dale: 1403Steeves, Christopher: 1333

Johnson, Kelsey: 1264Bergen, Patrick: 1016

Mullen, Cary: 926 (n.b. Mullen left office soon after being elected. Stu Hutchison won the

subsequent byelection)Mullen, Chad: : 890Grier, Richard: 852Khamba, Kam: 770

McOuat, Cyndie: 734DeCosta, Jerry: 708Hudson, Keith: 682Gaida, Bradley: 412

Baptiste, Peter Luke: 379

Just more than 2,400 Ches-termerians voted in the last municipalk elction.With more than 8,000 eligible

voters in town, that number put us below the 30 per cent average that turned out to vote in most Alberta towns and cities.

Voter turnout weak in '07 muni election

Don't forgetOct. 18 — Get out there and vote

Things just weren’t crusty enough at last year’s County Fair.

Local pie makers stayed home in droves and it resulted in judges be-ing unable to award a coveted Red Ribbon for best of show.

The judges, typically trained and certified by Alberta Agriculture, could not award the ribbon because they were concerned about the quality of the entries.

“They can’t just award 1st, 2nd, 3rd place just because we have three entries,” said ‘Granny Jen,’ (Jen Peddles-den) the pie coach.

Bake It, Don’t Fake It is a piecrust class — tonight starting at 6:30 p.m. — that’s designed to put the home-made flaky back in the pie crust.

Granny Jen said the free event is aimed at improving the local piecrust talent while providing a pie plate full of entertainment.

Active Creative Engaged Com-munity (ACE) thought this would be an interesting endeavor.

ACE’s Ian Hill wondered how a community that has been here before the trains came through lost the art of pie making.

“I’m sure lots of women around here could have won first prize, but nobody entered,” said Peddlesden.

“The thought of going back and being part of this heritage of our community is just not in people’s

minds,” she said.“So Ian

thought this is something we have to focus on.” As well, said Peddlesden, some entrants didn’t under-stand the rules.

Pies need to be in a glass pie plate so judges can see under-neath to gauge

how good the piecrust is.Bake It, Don’t Fake It will be held

at the community centre in the multi-purpose room.

There is room for 12 groups of four and a cheering section.

For more information contact Granny Jen at 403-272-3764 or by e-mail at [email protected].

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LAKER/FILEIN DIRE NEED: Steve King, president of the Chestermere Food Bank, is issuing a plea for help to fill the food bank pantry

A flaky get togetherNews

Mickey DumontChestermere LakerThe massive gazebo to be built

at John Peake Park has reached its conceptual stage on paper, but the Active Creative Engaged Commu-nity (ACE) group spearheading changes still need to dot the I’s and cross the T’s before the first shovel will turn the dirt.

The 50-feet wide stage will be built at a cost of over $175,000 and become a showcase for Ches-termere’s performing arts commu-nity.

ACE’s Jen Peddlesden cautioned council: “I don’t want you to be surprised when we come back here and have to ask for more money.

“We are trying to fit this to the needs of the town right now, not the needs of the town a number of years ago,” she said.

“We hope you will see these changes as what we have envi-sioned as the changes that would make it usable for now, not 1996.”

At a mid-July council meeting, Peddlesden and her group were approved up to $10,000 from the project’s budget to update draw-ings to the gazebo.

She informed council this week that $4,000 had been spent learning if the 10 changes asked for could be incorporated without major cost increases.

Laura Breckenridge appeared with Peddlesden and said all 10 changes had been incorporated in the architectural drawings.

The removal of pillars to improve visibility, raising the roof and reorientating the entire stage has been engineered into the new drawings.

The only disappointment is grading at the front of the stage cannot be at a desired four-foot level. “The retaining wall will have to be a concrete wall — the pavil-ion is too heavy,” said

Peddlesden, who told council ACE needs an additional $500 to complete detailed architectural drawings.

“This will allow us to put the project out for tender,” she said.

Terry Hurlbut, chief administra-tive officer for the town, said Ches-termere is “a little ways” yet from breaking ground. “We need those detailed drawings,” he said.

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The spectacle that is Lakeside Green’s attempt to construct more resi-dences on its golf course has added another page.

The town has scheduled a public hearing for September 20, at 7 p.m. in council chambers.

The golf course is the largest employer in the municipality and one of the strongest magnets after the lake in attracting growth.

Both the town council and Lakeside Greens management is expecting this to attract proponents for both sides of the argument.

Mayor Patricia Matthews asked at council this week about a restricted covenant and how it affects the Lakeview Greens Development Agree-ment.

“The restricted covenant mentions that there is no further development allowed,” she said.

“How does that work for the land in the golf course that is not owned by the numbered company?”

The numbered company, owners of Lakeside Greens golf course, is seeking land re-designation to allow for the construction of 18 villas and five single-family homes.

Originally the Lakeside Greens Development Agreement allowed for 407 housing units, which was voluntarily dropped to 288.

At present 245 have been constructed and the partnership holds if further development is not allowed, the way it operates here will be changed.

Lakeview Greens open house

Mike D’AmourChestermere Laker

The shelves are getting bare at the Chestermere Regional Food Bank, and the president of the program is asking for your help.

“We are starting to see a shortage,” said Steve King.“It’s not desperate, desperate yet,” he said.“But we need to address it before it does become desperate.”The food bank is vital for about 50 Chestermerians who depend on the

monthly help.Summer months are typically desperate months because the help

received through the school year by students just doesn’t happen in the summer, said King, who noted for some families it often comes down to a choice of paying a household bill, or buying food.

The food bank is really all about helping people who suddenly find themselves in a situation they never anticipated and the increased need means more people must know about the food bank, said King.

The food bank is an anonymous service, but does use community ser-vices to first qualify a family before giving it access to the food bank.

Right now, King said any food donations would be greatly appreciated.“We need non-perishable, unopened food,” he said.Donation boxes can be found at Safeway, the rec centre and the library.If you know a family in need, or to donate nonperishable food items,

contact Chestermere Community Services at 403-207-7060.

Food bank in need

Efron ‘bright and engaging’ in Me and Orson

ME AND ORSON WELLES (113 mins. PG) comes with a warning.

But it’s not for parents. It is for all the young women in the audience

who have adopted Zac Efron as hunk du jour after swooning through those High School Musi-cal pics.

Speaking in a Q & A included on the Me and Welles DVD, Zac tells UK film critic Jason Solo-mons he was looking for a film that could transi-tion him out of the teen genre into more serious fare.

He figures he found that out when director Richard Linklater offered him the role of Rich-ard Samuels, an aspiring young actor with more nerve than talent who charms his way into a minor role in a revolutionary new staging of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar directed by brash 22-year-old genius Orson Welles.

Yes, it’s a period drama. Set in 1937, the film captures Welles as he is staging his first pro-duction in soon-to-be-legendary off-Broadway venue, The Mercury Theatre.

We see the backstage shenanigans and drama leading up to opening night through the eyes of the Samuels character.

“Orson’s very competitive, very self-centred, very brilliant,” warns Sonja Jones (Claire Danes) a wannabe actress working as Welles’ assistant.

“You don’t criticize him. Ever. So in the hopes of working with him again you forgive a lot of behaviour.”

True enough. As played by Christian McKay, an obscure

British stage actor, Welles is flamboyantly egotis-tical, supremely self confident, highly theatrical and unwittingly cruel.

Although McKay bears an eerie physical re-semblance to the young Welles, this is more than a skilled impersonation — the actor seems to be channeling the spirit of the man.

He also gives Welles a much-needed touch of vulnerability and, in the process, hints at the reason many actors appear to be uncomfortable in their own skin.

“If I can be Brutus tonight,” Welles tells Richard, ”I mean, really be him, from the inside out, then for 90 minutes I get this miraculous reprieve from being myself.”

The screenplay, adapted by fledgling screen-writers Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo from a novel by Robert Kaplow, contains a mix of made up and real life characters.

Richard and Sonya are fictional creations. Canadian actor James Tupper is smooth and ur-bane as Joseph Cotten (who would go on to star in Citizen Kane) and UK film vet Eddie Marsan is suitably frustrated as John Houseman, Welles’ long suffering producer.

The film has an impeccable sense of period. (All the men wear hats).

Still, it is probably an acquired taste.

Linklater has an interesting and varied body of work — his resume includes Slacker, Dazed and Confused, A Scanner Darkly and School of Rock — and for my money any film with his name on it is worth seeing.

Theatre fans will relish the meticulous rec-reations of Welles’ groundbreaking staging of Julius Caesar.

The film also sheds light on Welles’ creative process.

McKay’s performance is a marvel. Efron is bright and engaging.

Just don’t expect him to bust some basketball moves. He’s been there and done that.

PERIOD DRAMA RATING: Three hats out of five

ENTERTAINMENTFriday,August20,2010 ChestermereLaker7

IN A CLASS BY HIMSELF: ChristianMcKay,asthelate,greatOrsonWelles

Lights, camera,action . . .

with Rick Dennis

NO BASKETBALLS HERE: ZacEfroninascenewithChristianMcKay,whoplaysOrsonWelles.

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