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e pi ro r* gt; C. *- K * pc e- gt; - O ' r srr * o w * s c. - vn r is ws. NC oato * ra g J * lt; ts The Gazette Your Hometown Weekly Newspaper 2 so lt; lt; Wednesday, July 26, 1989 Issue No. 30 a-mmr Town of Olds takes Olds Golf Club title Cipperley's Maule-M5 is upside down after the landing wheels were snagged by waist high wheat. The accident, on Friday, put the pilot, Melvin Cipperley, in hospital with a bruised hip, a black eye and a lump on his head. Cipperley plane crashes by Anthony Connolly Following the advice of a solicitor the Town of Olds is to seek the title of the Olds Golf Club, it was announced at this week's council meeting. The town and club are to meet soon to draw up an agreement detailing the terms of the title transfer, Town Manager Ron Hilton said. The title is to be used as security against a guarantee the town is awarding the club, he said. The guarantee is for a loan the golf club acquired to expand existing operations to include nine more holes. Councillor Glenn Elmer said the title transfer will allow the golf club to borrow money at a favorable rate. Town Manager. Ron Hilton said he didn't know what council would do if the golf club ever failed to make a loan payment. We don't know, he said. We would take whatever actions are in the agreement, which hasn't been drawn up yet, the town manager said. Hilton said the title will bear the name of the Town of Olds and that caveats will be placed on the title prohibiting anyone from doing business using the club, without the town's permission. By Anthony Connolly A single engine aircraft slid 40 feet through a soggy wheat field, flipped over and then crashed at the end of a makeshift runway two miles south of Olds, this week. The pilot, Melvin Cipperley, 76, of Olds was injured in the crash. Cipperley and his Maule-M5 plane were coming in for a landing, 9:30 a.m., Friday when the accident occurred, Cpl. D.V. Skappak said. Skappak's initial findings suggest that the plane's wheel had become entangled with waist high moist wheat. causing the plane to nose dive into the damp sod, slide and then flip over. Francis Cipperley, the pilot's wife, watched the entire accident from the runway. I was standing there with my son and daughter-in-law watching him come in, she said. He got tangled up in the wheat at the end of the runway, Mrs. Cipperley said. When the plane flipped over and came to a hault, they rushed over and dragged Melvin Cipperley out of the upside-down plane. Mrs. Cipperley said they drove him straight to the hospital in their car- Wendy Green, Olds General Hospital spokesperson, said that Cipperley was stiff, but in stable condition. He's sitting up in bed and eating. Green said. Cipperley received only minor bruises in the accident. He's got a badly bruised hip and a lump on his head, Francis Cipperley said. And he's got a nice black eye, she added. The Canadian Aviation Safety Board is expected to investigate the accident. Olds College working towards new program In other council news, it seems as if the Town of Olds has learnt a lesson with a decision to buy land. The town has purchased 29 acres in the west end of town to ensure that land is available so that road right-of-ways can be built near the proposed new high school. The mayor said the purchase, costing 70,000, was done at this time so that in future they wouldn't have to expropriate anyone, which usually is very costly. We spent 35,000 once on a little comer and it took five years, Mayor Armstrong said. The section of land, Fenske sues town by Shelley Bandura Former secretary treasurer, Howard Fenske, is suing the Town of Olds for 143,000. Fenske, who started working for the town April 4, 1988, was relieved of his duties April 26 of this year. Fenske's lawyer, Michael Welsh of Welsh and Company in Edmonton will only say both sides are talking and that it will take a while before anything is formally released. But in a statement of claim issued July 4 to the courts by his office, Welsh reports Fenske was relieved of his duties without just cause and without sufficient notice. Considering his age and position, the document reads, a reasonable amount of time would have been at least 12 months. The salary for this period tallies to 43,900. The additional 100,000 in general damages Fenske's lawyer filed for, stems from reimbursement costs for employment benefits and defamation. Life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, weekly indem- the Osterman question By Anthony Connolly Much like her governmental counterparts, Connie Osterman is cloaked in the shadow of the Code report. The Principal Group's fiasco and collapse in 1987 is back to haunt the Three Hills MLA. This week the report, which details the fall of First Investors Corporation and Associated Investors of Canada, points a finger at Osterman, who, at the time of the collapse, was the minister of consumer and corporate affairs. The monitoring of Principal Group's actions during that time was under the direct jurisdiction of that minister. The Code report says that Osterman committed a breach of trust and erred in her ministerial duties. Resign, say the opposition, stay, her con stituents reportedly replied. In the meantime, Osterman is not talking to the media. The provincial government is expected to reveal their feelings toward the Code report later this week. At that time the MLA for Three Hills is expected to tell her part of the story, or at least, answer Code's allegations, her executive assistant, Joan Hurtz said. She is receiving support from her constituency, the assistant said. In Olds people are split over whether Connie Osterman should take the fall for the provincial government. Dave McLeary, said that Osterman's fall is the way politics work. She was in the position to do something, he said, although she probably didn't know all that was going on. Bev Penny says Osterman wasn't in a position to do much of anything because she's just one politician. She shouldn't be blamed. You can't blame this on one person, Penny said. There's probably several other factors and people involved. She played the political game, one man, who wished that his name not be published, said. She'll have to pay, he said. But Gena Kemp said there's more behind the fiasco than Osterman. Before they blame one person, they should look behind the scenes more, she said. There's always more than one person, Salena Lee said. Former MLA for Olds- Didsbury, Stephen Stiles said it's unfor tunate that Osterman is being dragged into the scandal that Principal Group created. But, he conceded, responsibility must lie with the minister responsible for the department that oversees corporate affairs. However, Stiles said the opposition has no right to ask for Osterman's resignation. To suggest that the now minister of career development and employment resign because of when she was minister of corporate affairs is farfetched, the former MLA said. If anything the times dictated what went wrong in the government, he said. Osterman shouldn't have to stand alone, he said. nity, long term disability, extended health, dental and Alberta Health Care 'Insurance benefits, loss of pension and relocation costs are all listed as unnecessary losses in the court statement. The defamation Fenske is including in the suit allegedly resulted after a press release about the dismissal was wrongly supplied to Drumheller's Q-91 radio station. The statement calls the leak of information false, malicious and defamatory warranting reckless disregard of the plaintiff's reputation. Fenske's lawyer states: By reason of the conduct of the defendant, the plaintiff has suffered mental distress, anxiety and frustration, as well as loss of reputation and as a result, has suffered damages, particulars of which shall be provided and proven at the trial. Rich Horner, news director at Q-91, says that although the station did carry the story, the information provided was not from a release. The stories we did came from information we received on our own, rather than from any single press release. Both Town Administrator Ron Hilton and acting lawyer for the Town, Brian Vail from Field and Field in Edmonton have refused comment on the issue. by Shelley Bandura Interested in a career working with seed and grain? Up until now, anyone wanting to learn how fro be a field or seed and grain inspector, grain handler, primary elevator manager, or seed analyst had nowhere to go in Alberta to receive specialized training. Jennifer O'Halloran, extension services programmer at Olds College, has been hired to help change all that. I was hired in February. At that time we convened a board of individuals representing industrial and educational institutions to discuss the seed and grain technology area. Once all the planning and verification is complete, O'Halloran says the program they are proposing will be the first of its kind in Alberta, and quite possibly all of Canada. As far as I know there are no other programs of a two year nature like this that will meet the special needs that have been identified by the seed and grain industry. The unique blend of representation from both industry and educational institution, O'Halloran believes, plays an important role in the process of choosing a curriculum; one she feels is vital. The board is made up of about 25 representatives from industrial and educational institutions. There could be even more members joining our board later on though, as this whole process continues. Input from a viable seed industry is essential for a viable agriculture program like this. Some of the colleges involved in the project include: Lakeland, Lethbridge and Fairview. We are also involved with other colleges across Canada and are in the process of discussing the work we've done with them. So far, work towards starting a seed and grain program has come a long way. Along with having two industry advisory board meetings to priorize and identify role, strengths, needs and support, a two part working committee has been developed to slate proposed curriculum priorities. The program development process, O'Halloran says, has followed a distinct order. Identifying the needs, matching the needs to a curriculum, developing the curriculum and finalizing the curriculum are all Continued on Page 2 just north of the new town subdivision, has no homes on it, the mayor said. In other council matters, Town Manager Ron Hilton was appointed the town's returning officer for the fall's municipal elections. Hilton, accepting the post, said he will soon look for a deputy returning officer to help with the election preparations. open access to Crown grazing land by Anthony Connolly A provincial court judge, this week, ruled that Crown grazing land is open to the public. In acquitting an Eden Valley man of the unlawful possession of two elk shot on Crown grazing land without the leaseholder's permission, Judge John Robbins ruled that no one will be restricted access to the public land: The judge's decision goes against what the Alberta Forestry, Lands and Wildlife department tries to enforce every hunting season. Recreational users and hunters must first receive permission from leaseholders before entering Crown grazing land. In the department's 1989 Guide To Big Game Hunting states that Section 41 of the Criminal Code says that anyone in peaceable possession of real property can ask a trespasser to leave the land. The guide also states: The Attorney General's department has advised the Fish and Wildlife Division that it is its opinion that, for the purpose of interpreting Section 41 of the Criminal Code, a grazing lessee is a person in possession of real property. Judge Robbins' ruling puts all that up for re- interpretation, Crown counsel Tim Friedman, solicitor for Alberta Forestry, Lands and Wildlife (AFLW) said. Friedman said that the Attorney General's department is currently reviewing the decision and will decide, once their review is complete, whether to appeal the judgement. The bottom line is that it's unsettled at this time, Friedman said. Meanwhile recreational users and hunters are elated over the decision which seems to put to rest decades of controversy. Dr. Niels Damgaard, vice-president of the Alberta Fish and Game Association says he can't believe a decision like this has finally come. This is the first time such a ruling has been made by an Alberta court. We agree with everything the judge ruled on, because we've said it for years, the vice-president said. We can't see why anyone should be restricted from public land, Damgaard said. And Crown grazing land is public land regardless of its leaseholder, he said. But there is a downside to the ruling, Damgaard says. It's a double edged sword this ruling, the doctor said in a telephone interview from his practise in Calgary. He said the ruling may seem to some hunters to encourage open season . He said that some people would abuse the freedom to access the land. We don't want to damage the land, we don't want four-by- fours running all over the land. Also, the judge's ruling could possibly throw open the land to abuse at the hands of natives. Judge Robbins' ruling was in favor of unrestricted right of access to treaty indian George Alexson. . Natives know this, and they could wipe out the entire grazing area, he said referring to the apparent Continued on Page 2
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