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nve gqz WSL viuaaTy NOLNOWGS 98 ONIa1ING BYV1S19949 916 Ruvus SHNLVIS1087I The Gazette Published Weekly at Olds, Alberta ooonm Issue No. 32. Wednesday, August 12, 1987 Hometown pony Jack Stott received a big kiss and a hug from his mother as she presented him with the trophy named in honour of his father, for winning the chuck- wagon championship at the .County of Moun- tain View Fair this weekend. Stott, driving for Ken Taylor Livestock in Carstairs won the event with a two and a half length win in the final heats Sunday night to win the Stott Memorial Trophy. His overall Glen Helmig came in second with an overall time of 180.10. In. Sunday night s ac- tion the near capacity crowd was treated to a good show with many close finishes. and two In. one heat a wagon flipped during a barrel turn, spilling the driver and bounced back to its wheels. In heat six, Blaine Melford hit a bump in turn two and was thrown from his rig. He was shaken but Highway 2 to get face lift Selected sections of Highway 2 between the Carstairs overpass and secondary highway 587 at Bowden will get a face lift . Those im- provements include changes in the inter- section of Bergthall Road and Highway 2 south of the Didsbury overpass, A contract valued at 1,192,005 has been awarded to Ledcar In- dustries Ltd. of Ed- monton. The tender call, says Highway Minister, Hon. Al Boomer Adair at- tracted eight bids. Peter Kiewit Sons Co. Ltd. of Edmonton bid 1,281,714 and Roads West Paving Ltd., Ed- monton bid 1,292,069. The project is endor- sed by Roy Brassard, MLA, Olds-Didsbury and Nigel Peng elly, MLA Innisfail. According to Roy Brassard, work on the project was to begin on August 1. With good weather, it would take about 30 days to com- plete the work. : Elmer Jack Stott poses proudly with his mother and his family displaying the Stott Memorial Trophy for his pony chuckwagon championship driving at the County Fair. The trophy is named in honour of Jack's father. Stott gets kiss for win time for the weekend chuckwagon driver was 177.78. minutes later. was up and walking seeringly calm, smoking a cigarette. In the chariots on the weekend, Irvin Miciak won by two one hun- dredths of a second over young Chad Har- din. - Miciak, driving for. Olds Co-op finished with an overall time of 171.11. Hardin s overall time was 171.13. park issue prompts public meeting A. public meeting to The date of the public the location. hear .views on the town s: proposal to give the Evergreen Club in E E i i i : : en: ails aie hearing will be announ- ced at a later date. Over 20 people, some from the Evergreens and others part of the delegation, crowded in- to the council chambers to participate in the dis- cussion. Someone remarked this was one of the biggest crowds seen at a council Jim Spicer, of Olds, who presented the documents to council said he was not op posed to the Ever- greens and their plans to build a center, just catching the spirit Olds. Hheinces places, Several visitors to ; the sown office and the ids-and a-number of museum caught the town residents wanted spirit of the fair. and 4) were suitably decorated for the occasion. Henry s Shoes was ' named. best-. decorated found at the Olds Museum with Saan Store personnel taking the second place ribbon. to know. whether Olds had at one time been called Hay City . That term.-was ac- tually a nickname given the: town. early. in its history as thousands of tons of baled hay were shipped by rail from district farms and Olds became the Hay City - of the west. The town should preserve parkland forever and he suggested to them to take the decision and think about it real he But: councillor Glenn Elmer said the proposal will not destroy the library, the Horizon School -and other buildings have been built on such land and have not destroyed it, he said. Elmer also said the town is not breaking a ,. bylaw because of the The land is not being sold and will still be considered park- land even if a building is constructed. But former mayor Bill Edgar said the section of the. bylaw which states the park is to be preserved for the use. and enjoyment of all persons in the Town of Olds is jeopardized be- cause of the proposed The. council cannot ignore the bylaw which he said was part of a long range plan set when he was mayor in 1976, the year the bylaw was passed. town starts relief fund The town reached into its pocket Monday night and pulled out 2,000 to start a local fund for the victims of the tornado catastrophe in Edmonton. : The fund, which was created on a suggestion by Councillor Glenn Elmer, will be open for monetary donations from Olds citizens until the end of August. It will then be presen- ted to a relief fund in Edmonton on. behalf of the- town and the citizens of Olds. said. Olds should - tfake- some gesture to Edmonton, because Olds experien- ced catastrophe in 1977, with the destruc- tion of the Tecreation center. The province and the country raised a lot of money for Olds after the fire so the town should do the same sort of thing for Edmonton, he said. The chances may be getting slim for the Evergreens Club to build their long awaited seniors center because if they change their minds about the Cen- tennial Park site and go with another one, they could meet with more opposition. All of the sites offered parkland and several people at Monday s When we had ours,. meeting the cities and towns in would said oppose... they any Alberta donated a lot of development on any stuff, he said. to drill sour gas: well Pan Canadian Petroleum Ltd. of Calgary has served notice of -intention to land considered a park. I would fight to the death, said Jim Spicer of Olds when asked if he opposed develop- ments on town parks. Spicer and Mary Jane Harper, who was also at- the meeting, said though Olds may have lots of parks, never enough parks for 'there s drill a sour gas well F children and grand- about-three miles north- west of the town of Olds, But just because it s considered a park, it doesn t mean the town The land is owned by cannot build on it, the Ross Holmes and.the council said. well will be located on- LS 6-14- 33-2W5. The Olds the library and the Horizon School were The well is to be listed as examples of drilled to a depth of buildings 8300 metres and drilling will commence in September, 1987. on town If all of the sites of- fered to the Evergreens are. opposed the town would be forced to do one thing if they still wanted to give land to the seniors. They would have to go out and buy some land, all sites may be opposed Hilton remarked. The other sites offered to the Evergreens were, land west of the library, west of the Horizon School or next to the Nazarene Church. If the Evergreens put want the town to be a building on the land, divided because of the then it may contravene situation. the. bylaw because only The Evergreens would certain persons may be have trouble raising allowed to use the,cen- money for their ter, Edgar said. building and the town Several members of would be worse off if it the seniors club poin- split in two opposing ted out the building camps, he said. would be open to The Evergreens have everyone to use, for a been trying to get a site fee, and compared it to and building since someone using the 1980, said club swimming pool. president Alma Allison, The pool is in Centen- . but every time they get nial Park, but even shot down. though everyone is in- The Evergreens have vited to use it, they done a lot for the Olds have to pay a fee, they community, she said, said. and it s time the seniors Their building will be had a place where they operated the same way, could go and meet the gallery offered An unidentified mem- views for or against the ber of the club said the proposal, but Mayor center will not be just Robert Armstrong cut for the seniors of today, off debate and put for- but. also the youth of ward a motion for the today, to use when they public hearing, which become: the senior was passed on a citizens in the future. unanimous vote. He said it was good to iq. postmen never tire, see sympathy for Cen- but they're quite apt to lose tennial park but did not their zip. Tuggle wins truck Tuggle Insurance of Didsbury were the lucky winners of the 22,000 truck in the Olds Sportsmen s Recreational Associa- tion annual truck raffle. Gary Tomkin,. who bought the ticket with Jill Tuggle, said they were estatic about their luck of the draw. Tomkin said he and Jill almost forgot about the ticket, which they bought about a month . ago. Still somewhat in a self-admitted state of shock Tomkin said they are still debating on who gets to the truck. Arvin Bull, President of Realty World Amigo Real Estate in Olds shares a joke with Mayor Bob Armstrong at the ribbon cutting that launched the official entrance of Realty World to Olds. During the open house last Friday, Arvin and his staff welcomed a number of visitors to their office in Olds.
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