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Claresholm Local Press 1979-01-04 - 1980-05-29
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1980-03-13
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1905 iss it and king res. Wednesday, March 5 at 1:05 p.m. a simulated explosion took place at JUBILEE AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING THE.CLARESHOLM AREA CONTINUOUSLY SINCE 1926: u eat hod? Exercise Chinook, a simulated disaster, took place at the Claresholm Care Centre laundry Wednesday, March 5. The above. shown young girl, blasted by the ' Exercise Chin the laundry room in the Care Centre complex. The alarm went off at 1:07 p.m. and five minutes later the fire department began to arrive at the scene. Four volunteer ambulances were commandeered and the 20 casualties were quickly General Hospital for treatment. The RCMP arrived and immediately took over control of traffic, etc., to get the ambulances in and out of the scene. The town crew barracaded the area off and stopped visitors from the Care Centre and hospital to allow Jessie Watkins of Porcupine Hills Lodge, Claresholm, has been chosen to receive a Her- itage of Service award and will be honored at the annual Alberta Association of Regis- tered Nurses Membership Dinner to be held April 2, 1980, at the Lethbridge Lodge Hotel. Mrs. Watkins is a 1923 graduate of the- Holy Cross Hospital and was called ta Claresholm to work asan oper- ating room nurse. From 1949 to 1958 she served as director of nursing at the Claresholm General Hospital: Jessie recalls many inter- esting events during the course of her early experience in Claresholm which will be published at a later date along with pictures taken at the dinner. Mrs. Watkins was nominat- cipal apenas aac dinpen dine knee a AARN, Claresholm. Melba McGuire The other successful candi- date is Melba McGuire (nee Heiger), graduate of Miser- - j ecordia School of Nursing in 1935. Mrs. McGuire has had a great many varied experien- ces working in Edmonton, Athabasca, inister, Han- na, Vancouver, Lethbridge and presently resides in Taber where she recalls working from 1941 to 1963 at the Dr. Muth Clinic. Office hours at that time were seven a.m. to six p.m., seven p.m. to ten p.m., off Wednesday afternoon but always on call. ed by the Chinook Chapter . -southern Minor surgery was carried on in the office in the early S LANCE TOLY Represents Southern Alberta Lance Toly, grade VIII stu- dent at the H. T. Coutts junior high school and captain of the basketball team, recently won the Knights of Columbus regional free-throw basket- ball competition. Lance .com- peted in the 13 year division in Nanton, Blairmore, and Coaldale, and will represent Alberta in the Provincials, to be held in Olds, Alberta. Congratulations Lance, and good luck removed to the CAL PRESS;- building. Mrs. Jessie Watkins to receive service award morning and maternities were delivered in homes. Many house calls were made by Mrs. McGuire. Taber General Hos- pital opened in 1943, Mrs. McGuire has served in all departments at the hospital and on occasion acting Direc- tor of Nursing. Scrolls will be presented to these two pioneers in nursing in Alberta. explosion, was hurtied into a nearby wall with serious head wounds. Fortunately the make up was real and the disaster wasn't. Jim Cunningham, execu- tive director of the Care Centre co-operated fully with the exercise and seemed im- pressed at the way the employees reacted. Claresholm had a disaster exercise in May of 1973 at the high school. This most recent one was staged to evaluate our disaster services such as firemen, police, hospital staff, etc., at this time some seven years later. At the control centre in the town office, a news release came out at 13:32 which reported ten casualties had been received of which three were minor. At 13:44 the Care Centre reported -all injured victims had been removed. MD gives third reading by Paul C. Andersen After over Seven months of study and preparation, and a little opposition, the council of the Municipal District of Willow Creek No. 26 has finally given third reading to its Land Use By-law. The by-law has as its aim the harmonious use of land in the district for the maximum benefit to all the people living here now, as well as those in the future. The council has held public hearings and open meetings to get the maximum blic input into the new -law, which replaces and improves upon the old devel- opment control by-law. The by-law is administrated by a development officer appointed by the MD council in cone with a, muni- ci planni commission. Mr. Robert Coe has been appointed development officer by the MD council. He resides in Fort Macleod and has his to land use by-law oflice in the Administration Building in Claresholm. Copies of the land use by-law may be seen at the MD offices. 3 Ruben Hartfelder reports that the MD office still has a few belt buckels, MD s logo (crest) for sale from 1.50 to 4.50 each. They make desirable gifts and are muide of durable Pear metal. He also regorts that the MD has obtained a good specimen of a pull grader used in the old days before tractors were invented and pulled by four or more horses. The antique piece of equipment is now being shined up in the MD's shops for use in fairs and les in the celebrations of the province's 75th Jubilee. The annual meeting of the rate-payers is set for the 17th of this month. lt; Ar, Ure VOL S6 NUMBER 11 PRICE: 25 m SHOLM, ALBERTA, CANADA IRSDAY, MARCH 13, 1960 comics TV GUIDE McCarthy resigns from wage negotiations committee Councillor Dennis McCarthy shocked council this week as he read his resignation from the wage negotiation committee. The wage tiati i was ised of chairman, Councillor Stan Stoklosa and Councillors McCarthy and Bob Mackin, along with Secretary-Treasurer Larry Flexhaug and Town Co-ordinator Rene Chartrand. The committee set up to meet with union representatives and help set up the first CUPE agreement with the Town of Claresholm. , Reports from various people on both sides indicate progress is slow and it is not going very well. Two meetings are scheduled for this week but the meetings will take place without Councillor McCarthy s presence. At last week's meeting Councillor McCarthy brought up a telephone conversation he had with Councillor Stoklosa-and the conversation was denied by the chairman. McCarthy felt he could no longer sit on a negotiation board when the truth, in his opinion, was not being told. Councillor McCarthy warned council it is very important you tell the truth when negotiating a contract with a union. McCarthy stated he wanted no part of e se the doctors no interuptions in their work, The twenty casualties were high school students who had been well rehearsed in how: to act. Some were hysterical while others were in pain with burns and facial cuts, ete. After the alarm was sounded a smoke bomb exploded at the south end of the laundry. First on the scene was our local volunteer fire department with the RCMP close behind. The power company and natural gas were very fast also in getting to the scene and cutting gas and power from the Shortly afterwards at 13:48 the General Hospital reported 20 casualties had been re- ceived. It was later reported the total casualty list was 20. During the time the Victims were arriving at the hospital the clergy was represented by Pastor Dick Hanson and he was busy notifying parents und helping to get permission for surgery, etc. After the exercise reached its conclusion, about two hours after it began, a briefing session was held in the residence of the Care Centre. Present were various groups who had been involved in the exercise. Aaron Mann, direc- tor for Hospital Emergency Services, worked with the students: and set up the disaster. He felt it was the best run exercise he had ever seen in Southern Alberta. Garnet Walker watched the exercise as an observer from the Alberta Disaster Services branch of the provincial government and agreed it was one of the most organized operations he had seen, Our local director of Disas- ter Services. is town co- ordinator Rene Chartrand, and he also was very busy setting the entire program up Mr. Chartrand felt the exer- cise was handled very well and hopes we can have another one in a couple of - years. .Mr. Chartrand was delighted at the way the students played their parts und was very appreciative to all who helped. Did you know Claresholm has the capability of setting up a 200-bed hospital in the- high school auditorium in less than four hours? Possibly. this exercise will be done in the future. We were impressed to see almost all town officials present during the exercise. integrity such as has been displayed. Girl Guides attend council Our local Girl Guides atten- ded the town council meeting this week. The girls have been studying government and came to see local government in action. The young girls were very attentive and seemed interested in the functions of our council, Sundial proposed The Claresholm Lions Club were present at Monday's council meeting. with rep- resentatives Jack Derochie Bob n. Our local Lions club wishes to construct a large sundial und have it placed in front of the museum. The sundial will -be- constructed of brass and will keep an accurate time of the day. A pedestal will be poured and room will be allowed for bronze family plaques to be set around the sundial. The Lions club will be donating this to the town for its 75th Anniversary. It is hoped it will be unveiled during fair week. Mayor Ernie Patterson took time to explain the various areas the council is responsi- ble for. The Guides stayed for a short timg,and then were excused. Mayor Patterson thanked the group for attend- ing and expressed hope in more youth groups taking an interest in town affairs. World Day of Prayer . Women from several church- es in town-met Friday after- noon at St. John s Anglican Church-for the World Day of Prayer service. Various parts of the service, as prepared by Christian women of Thailand, were read by representatives from the Nazarene, Pente- costal, LDS, United, Roman Catholic, and Anglican church- es. Daphne Hodgins was the organist for the afternoon. Dianne Frayne gave a short- address on the theme respon sible freedom . The offering was sent to the Womens Inter-Church Council of Can- ada who distribute the World Day of Prayer service. WCCHS mixed rink second in provincials The Willow Creek Compo- site High School curling rink finished behind the team from Redwater, to place second in the provincial play-downs held last weekend in Red- water. They lost the game five to three. The team consists of skip, Gord Lozeman; lead, Tracy Rose; second, Adrian Bakker; third, Brenda Lengyel; and sub, Kevin DeMaere. Drop-In appreciates service ee oe quan Youth worker A recent addition to the Preventive Social Services staff is Patty Quarin, com- munity youth worker. Patty comes to Claresholm from Delta, BC, where she worked in alternate schools counselling youths, families and people with marital problems. Mrs. Quarin holds a diplo- ma in police science and also a two year college counselling program diploma. She and her husband David are natives-of Calgary and have interests in dogs and children. David will be attend- ing school at the University of Lethbridge. Anyone wishing to contact Mrs. Quarin may call the town office and ask for extension 28. Shown above is Garnet Millar, president of Hotary, accepting a cheque for 200 from Drop-in Centre president, John Johnson. The money was raised through various bingos, teas and raffles put on by the Drop-in. John Johnson stated the donation was being made in appreciation of the 260 trips from the Porcupine Hills Lodge to downtown, made by the Rotary bus since January 14, 1975. Mr. Johnson also commended bus drivers Art Nelson and Clarence Johnston on a job well done over the past five years. The Rotary bus picks up senior citizens every Thursday afternoon, for no charge, to give them the opportunity to get downtown.
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Image 1051 (1980-03-13), from microfilm reel 1051, (CU11201500). Courtesy of Early Alberta Newspapers Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.