Life TOWN

2016

Every year, a few residents call the Town and offer a tree that is causing them problems on their property and they will have to have it removed. In November, staff review the list of trees and choose one that is suitable in height and can be safely removed from the property.

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Heartland Industries donates their picker truck and Town staff remove the tree and place it on Main Street. The tree is lit up on the eve of “Light up the Night” at the end of November and remains up until after Ukrainian Christmas.

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great pride in

decorating, and in 2015

they used 81 strands of LED

lights to light up the

tree!

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Councillor Al Campbell

Councillor Darcy Bachman

Councillor Malcolm Fischer

Councillor Will Brown

Councillor Sean Nolls

Councillor Karen Sernecky

Mayor Dick Richards

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www.stettler.net

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I lick like composting (darn autocorrect)

Compost collection sites are available from the beginning of April to Nov. 1st each year.

They are so picky with their “No branches, plastic bags or garbage”. Oh and they want you to put the compost in the bins ONLY!

Yeah, but where?

51 Ave. & 57 St., 51 Ave & 45 St., 57 St. alley (next to rail tracks), 41 Ave. & 60 St. (in alley), 41 Ave. & 65 St. (in alley) and 51 Ave. & 62 St. (in alley)

“Illegal Dumping” <snicker>

“Any compost waste or garbage discarded outside of containers is at an extra cost to the Town to remove what is left behind. The material left behind can also attract unwanted pests and animals to the area as well as be an eyesore.” – Lee Penner, Director of Parks & Leisure Services

Also, compost can be taken to the Stettler Transfer Station “at your leisure” (no lifting is required here to dump it). Note: their hours of operation are now 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm.

Lol, that’s right I’d work for the… #leisuredepartment

Or if you prefer composting at home, here is a good “recipe”:

Just make sure you don’t add: Meat, bones, fat, grease, oils, peanut butter, dairy products, cooked foods with sauces or butter, dog & cat manure, diseased plants, weeds gone to seed, or weeds that spread by roots & runners. Right?

Okay mom…

Add 3 parts “browns”: Fall leaves, straw, hay, shredded paper, cardboard, sawdust, pine needles, chipped brush, paper towels, paper plates, paper bags

Add 1 part “greens”: Grass clippings, weeds (without seeds), vegetable & fruit waste, eggshells, coffee grounds & filters, tea bags, manure (rabbit, chicken, goat, gerbil)

Mix or layer materials. After every 12” or so add a few shovels of rich soil or compost. Keep it damp & aerated. Wait a few months and voila…black gold!

Yes, now will you quit stalling and go take the grass clippings?

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The Heartland Beautification Committee is a committee funded from grants and the Town of Stettler.

Our membership includes two Town Councillors and some great volunteers that happen to reside in both the Town and County of Stettler. Some of our programs involve adding greenery and beauty to our community,

but we also focus on environmental initiatives, heritage conservation and working with other community groups. Please come to our meetings at noon on the first Thursday of every month at the SRC, check us out on Facebook,

or come chat with us at the annual Trade Show.

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STETTLER & DISTRICT HANDIBUS SOCIETY

Sometimes I get confused between the terms “handy” and “handsy”, but in this case the proper term is “HANDI”!

We have a wheelchair accessible bus with seating for six persons and one wheelchair. We have a full-time bus driver for the bus in town. Our van also has a wheelchair lift and is driven by

part-time drivers for out of town medical trips and county trips. On weekends, evenings, and holidays the bus is available for wheelchair passengers only and must be booked before 4:30 pm on Friday.

The weekend, evening and holiday trips are also dependent on driver availability.

Stettler & District Handibus provides transportation for seniors 60 years & over and handicapped persons of all ages in both the Town of Stettler and County of Stettler.

Bus Services in Town: Monday– Friday $5.00 each way Tickets: $50.00 for 11 one way trips (one free ride with ticket) Scheduled Pickups: Willow Creek - 9:40am & 1:00pm Heart Haven - 9:45am & 1:05pm Paragon Place - 10:00am & 1:30pm WALMART - 11:15am & 3:00pm

For all other pickups please call the office to book. There are no scheduled pickups on Monday please call office to book appointment for that day.

Within County: Monday to Friday $16.00 per person each way. All other days & out of town rates vary.

For more information please call: (403)742-5858

OFFICE HOURS: Monday – Friday 8:30am-12:00pm & 1:00pm– 4:30pm (Closed Over Noon Hour)

Medical City Trips: Initial Fee: $50.00 + 50 cents per Km + parking. Standby Fee of $20.00 per hour apply after 3 hours. If more than one passenger is going, each person pays the flat rate passenger fee of $50.00. Actual cost of trip (Kilometers, parking & standby fee will be shared by the number of passengers).

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Connecting Seniors

at the

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$2!

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The Fire Department responds to many false alarms in the Town of Stettler. Many of you have residential fire alarms which when activated will automatically call the Fire Department. We have responded to many “burned toast” alarms. People often inform us of the false alarm when we arrive and tell us that they didn’t know how to contact their alarm company to have us stand down. The Town of Stettler has a Bylaw in place that allows one free alarm response by the fire department per residence per year. There will be a charge for the second response to that residence. Please familiarize yourself with the procedures of how to contact your alarm company to prevent this from happening. Do it for the toast!

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There might be no better example of collaboration than our volunteer firefighters responding to an incident. We have accountants, welders, carpenters, store managers, retail workers, oilfield

contractors, farmers, florists, clerks, railroad workers, realtors, and peace officers dropping what they are doing at the sound of their pager to form a smooth working team. Working together might be

embedded in the “DNA” of any fire department, and we could inform you about all the apparatus, the equipment and the four Fire Stations. We could tell you about the collaboration and dedication of the

Town, County and their partners to provide you with a well equipped Regional Fire Department.

However it is the commitment of the volunteers to each other and to their community that is the heart of this organization, its beat pulsating through every fibre of the Department.

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Stettler & District Family and Community Support Services

strives to build a better community by providing support that strengthens, enriches, and enhances the quality of life

and encourages the efforts of volunteers.

We provide funding to the Stettler Regional

Day Care, Summer Fun Program, Association

for Communities Against Abuse,

Prevention of Family Violence, Stettler &

District Home Support, Meals on Wheels and

the Health Emergency Line Program (HELP

Line).

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Stettler & District Family and

Community Support Services strives to

build a better community by

providing support that strengthens,

enriches, and enhances the quality of life and encourages

the efforts of volunteers.

We connect isolated seniors to cheerful

volunteers bearing hot meals. We connect desperate people to

appropriate resources, suicidal teens to

counsellors, abused partners to programs

that give them confidence to leave a

relationship and rebuild.

Stettler & District Family and Community Support Services creates connections through the programs and information we provide.

Stettler & District FCSS is a nonprofit organization funded by the Town of Stettler, the County of

Stettler and the Province of Alberta. Programs are

designed to be preventative in nature and to improve the quality of life for the

residents.

FCSS runs a number of programs such as the Family Counseling Program, Caring

Companions and the Community Outreach. These services are provided free of charge to the community and are available to all residents of the Town &

County

Celebrating 50 Years of

Strengthening Communities in the Province of Alberta – 2016

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Heart Haven Lodge: One of the first seniors' lodges built in Alberta, officially opened on April 11, 1960. An annex was added in 1983 and two new wings were completed in 1995. Currently it has 70 units and offers full services . Willow Creek Lodge: A neighbour to Heart Haven Lodge, was opened in 1993 when it was clear there was a need for additional seniors’ housing. An additional wing was built in 2000. Willow Creek Lodge is a two-story building with 53 units and full services. Paragon Place: Built in 1978 as seniors’ self contained apartments, it had an addition built in 1982 and another addition plus an expansion to the kitchen and dining room added in 2002. With a total of 70 units, Paragon Place was gradually converted to a full service seniors' lodge .

We are a Board with representatives from eight municipalities including the Town of

Stettler, the County of Stettler, the Villages of Big Valley, Donalda, Botha and Gadsby

and the Summer Villages of Rochon Sands and White Sands.

We operate seniors’ lodges with 193 units for independent seniors, the Big Valley

Villas, 12 seniors' self contained one bedroom units; Affordable Housing for

working families with a total of 33 one, two and three bedroom units in Stettler,

Donalda and Big Valley, 14 low income Community Housing units in Stettler, and

Rent Supplements to 7 landlords and Direct Rent Supplements to over 50 families.

For more information regarding seniors' lodges call Kathy at 403-742-6195;

for Community/Affordable Housing/Rent Support programs

contact Judy at 403-740-9224.

We offer high quality affordable housing for the seniors and families in our

communities. Our most important resource is the wonderful caring people

who work for our organization and care for our residents.

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Stettler Parent LINK

Centre

Two organizations COLLABORATING to help make

our COMMUNITY better!

Stettler Wellness Network

Perhaps you may know them as the folks who used to live above the Post Office, but that doesn’t cut it any more, because now they moved to the mall. So you should know that they do stuff too, like assisting parents and helping families with high-quality, accessible programming. In fact, parents can come with their children under age 5 to drop-in play five days a week! Not only do they assist young families in this way, but they have done a wonderful job of stepping up to help our community have a Good Food Box program.

Who? Ah yes, that group of volunteers from all sorts of places who

focus on “health”. Although not just physical health , but also arts & cultural health,

environmental health, social health, community health, etc.

In the past they have collaborated with

the Town to start our Block Party Program and have helped with events like triathlons, and

many other efforts. However, the Good Food Box would probably rank

as their most widely utilized program.

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is a non-profit fresh fruit & vegetable community co-op. It is open to everyone, runs once per month,

and costs $10 for a small box or $20 for a large. Please see their Facebook page

or for more information contact stettlerplc@mcman.ca

These folks talked

Situated in the Heart of Stettler is the Stettler Ag. Society. They bring the country to town offering memberships and a variety of events throughout the year. Events include: Concerts, Steel Wheel Stampede, Farmers’ Market, Roughstock Rodeo, ranch rodeo club and competitions, barrel racing, gymkhana club, riding and roping clinics, Family Day sleigh rides, and Cowboy Church.

Upcoming Events: April 1 - Roughstock Rodeo April 3 - Century Roping Finals April 30 - Stettler Auction Mart Estate Sale May 28 & 29 - Mounted Shooters May 18-July 27 - Weekly outdoor barrel racing jackpot (Wednesdays) June 10&11 - Steel Wheel Stampede July 23 - Tractor Pull August 26-28 - High School Rodeo

The public is invited to come and watch these events as the majority are

free to watch! The Stettler Ag Society facilities are available to rent to host weddings,

family reunions, Christmas parties and meetings.

For more information on events and facilities contact 403-742-6288

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Children who spend time with a mentor gain confidence, acquire new skills and competencies and develop an enhanced capacity to

are for others. Mentors experience a sense of discover and enjoyment as they see the world of possibility open up through a child’s eye. An In School Mentor is matched to a youth age 6-18. They spend 1 hour per week together on school property, through the school year. Our Teen mentors are at least 14 years of age, and participate in the same screening and training process as our adult mentors. Mentors help build a child’s self-esteem and school performance while having a lot of fun. The experience is also very beneficial for the teens who gain some great skills

and work experience. They learn the importance of being dependable and they have a lot of fun too!

Boy’s and Girl’s Club provides after school, evening and summer

group programs to youth. Big Brothers Big Sisters provides a number of mentoring programs including; Traditional matches, Couple’s matches, In School Mentoring and Teen Mentoring. In a Traditional match a Big Brother or Sister is

matched to a Little Brother or Sister. In a Couple’s match a Big Brother and Sister (a married or common-law couple) are matched

to a Little Brother or Sister. In these community matches, they spend a few hours per week together pursuing common interests such as crafts, sports, or just hanging out!

Heartland Youth Center Heartland Youth Center started in 1983, with a single dad who identified a need for his two daughters to have a positive female role model.

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Soon after (in June 1984), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Stettler became an incorporated Alberta society. In 1988 Boy’s and Girl’s Clubs was introduced to meet the needs of the unmatched children and other community youth. In 1990 the two organizations amalgamated as the “Heartland Youth Center”, although affiliations with the two national organizations still exist.

Looking for a place to volunteer? We accept volunteer applications from adults too! Call us at 742-KIDS (5437) or email us at hyc.bbbs@telus.net to find out more information.

2015 Property

Bylaw Enforcement

The Stettler Visitor Centre saw a 40% increase in visitors

from June to September of 2015 (compared to past

years).

Rochon Sands Provincial Park saw ~10,000

visitors in 2015.

The factory was operating in Stettler from ~1913 to 1920. A second factory was

opened in Vancouver, but it

didn’t last long there.

Alberta Prairie Railway Excursions

sees ~20,000 visitors per year. In 2015, visitors were from 44 different

Countries.

Nuisance Property

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Private Parking

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Overgrown Grass/Weed

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Snow Removal

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Nuisance Noise 7

292 total

Weighted average rent

by type of apartment

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The most common Noxious

& Prohibited Noxious Weeds in Stettler:

Scentless Chamomile,

Oxeye Daisy, Canada Thistle, Yellow Clematis

& Himalayan Balsam,

Big Head Knap Weed

Over the past five years, 76 Weed

Inspectors Notices have been issued for the irradiation

and control of various Noxious and Prohibited Noxious weeds

observed or reported to be

growing in Town.

Scentless Chamomile Himalayan Balsam & Big Head Knap Weed

These are plants designated in accordance with the Weed Control Act as noxious weeds (includes the plant’s seeds). This weed designation can be seen as a “containment” stage of invasive plant management as plants listed in this category are considered too widely distributed to eradicate.

These are plants designated in accordance with the Weed Control Act as a prohibited noxious weed (includes the plant’s seeds). This weed designation can be seen as a “Early Detection and Rapid Response” stage of invasive plant management. Plants in this category are either not currently found in Alberta or are found in so few locations that eradication could be possible.

If the growth of a Noxious or Prohibited Noxious weed is suspected in Stettler, the sighting can be reported to the Town at 403-742-8305 or to the Alberta Ag Information Centre at 403-310-3276. The appointed weed inspector for the Town will attend to the area to investigate the sighting and determine if the plant suspected is in fact a weed regulated by the Weed Control Act. If the plant is confirmed to be a Noxious or Prohibited Noxious weed the weed inspector will contact the owner of the infested property and begin the process of issuing a control notice for the removal and irradiation of the weed.

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We do A LOT

Together!

Regional Fire Protection

Equitable Recreation Funding

Regional Emergency

Planning

Physician Recruitment &

Retention

Heartland Youth Centre (HYC)

Airport Operational Funding

Regional Stormwater &

Utility Servicing Studies

Family & Community

Support Services (FCSS)

Regional Water Supply

Pest & Weed Control Assistance

Regional Ambulance

Services

Board of Trade Community

Projects

Seniors & Affordable Housing

Museum Funding

Community Resource RCMP

Officer in Schools

Community Library Services

HandiBus Funding Assistance

Intermunicipal Planning &

Development

We do A LOT

Together!

Services in our community that are jointly funded with the Town of Stettler, the County of Stettler

and other regional municipal partners

Regional Landfill