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Finding a way to help patients suf-
fering from dementia, aggression or a
disability that wont calm down can be
tough on both the staff and patient, es-
pecially if sedation is required. An alter-
native method is always being sought
out and at the Strathmore Hospital on
July 27 an alternative method arrived
that is already making an impact.
A sensory stimulation cart has been
purchased from Dakota Comforts and
Designs by the hospital foundation.
It calms dementia. It creates a sooth-
ing environment, it gives them some-
thing to focus on and its quite relaxing,
said Gwen Cyr, activity convener for long
term care at the Strathmore hospital.
It started off with I just wanted to get
a few little things to do an activity with
and the more we researched it, the more
we discovered about the benefts. We
found this online and thought that it was
maybe the most ideal.
The cart has a bubble tube flled with
water and fsh and it lights up with four
different colours. There are also fbre op-
tic cables attached to it that light up. The
weight of the cables are meant to be a
comfort, they are also fairly indestructi-
ble. There is no electricity going through
them, which makes them harmless if bit-
ten or chewed on.
There is a projector on with a number
of videos, of fowers, and stars and even
an electric animated musical one.
(If) the families have pictures on
DVDs or anything we can project them
on their (the residents) walls for them,
said Cyr.
Usually in the afternoons I dim the
lights down on the unit for an hour and
I have put on a movie or stars or some-
thing and just calm the environment
down.
At times the cart will also be left out
in the main sitting area and as residents,
and even staff, walk by they will stop
and look at it. Individual therapies can
also be done in residents rooms, which
is one reason why the hospital went with
the cart option.
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Its good for the ones that dont get
any other therapies, that dont leave
their rooms, it gives them something to
focus on for an hour or two, said Cyr.
Cyr said a Two Hills senior care facil-
ity and Carewest in Calgary also use
a cart. She is not sure which other se-
niors facility uses one.
Ron Forrest from Calgary began cre-
ating the sensory rooms and carts 12
years ago. He had semi-retired and
was looking for something to do. He
came across a beanbag chair called a
Dakota chair that was specially made
for someone with special needs. It had
harnesses and straps to hold people in
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place. A woman came with her child
who had not given her a moments
peace in weeks. She placed him in the
chair and he relaxed almost instantly
and it calmed him right down, said
Forrest. The woman wanted the chair
but the people making them at the
time had decided they werent going to
do them anymore. Forrest said it was
decided right then and there that he
would keep making them.
His frst business trip to Strathmore
was to create a sensory room for West-
mount School.
Its mainly being used for small
children with learning disabilities and
schools and that sort of thing. Its of-
fering individuals a different environ-
ment. What we have found is what
works for the kids also works for the
adults and it also works for the senior
citizens in terms of the dementia pa-
tients and that sort of thing, said For-
rest.
It distracts them from the normal
everyday noises and things that act
confusing and gives them something
else to react to.
Forrest said Two Hills has had a cart
going on almost four years, they have
even made the bathrooms into sensory
bathrooms, changing the lights and the
walls are painted or a window painting
on the walls.
Cyr said the hospital plans to host
an information session in October
for Sagewood and other neighbour-
ing counties and facilities. The session
will outline how well it is working for
Strathmore and Forrest will come out
and provide a more in depth lesson on
how the cart, and sensory stimulation
equipment works.
Morgan Lee
Times Contributor
On Aug. 17 and 18 the Gleichen Fall
Fair will delight crowds from around
the area for the 28th year. Sponsored
by the Gleichen Ag. Society, the event
features a rodeo starting at 5 p.m. on
the 17th and 18th as well as a full day
of events starting the morning of the
18. The frst event starts at 8 a.m., a
pancake breakfast sponsored by the
Gleichen Lions Club with all proceeds
going to STARS. This breakfast goes un-
til 10 a.m., which is when the parade
starts. Be there early to get a great spot!
The whole event is very family ori-
ented. The cost is $2 per person or $5
for families. There will be a face painter
and bounce houses for the kids as well
as many other events for adults, includ-
ing a bench show with many different
vendors, a show and shine, Red Neck
Olympics, and a Bed Derby.
The success of the Gleichen Fall Fair
over the past 28 years is due to commu-
nity support and the hard work of the
organizers. Over its history the event
has changed a little almost every year,
but at its core it stays the same.
We change it up a little bit every year
as far as what we have for the kids,
said Fran Miller, who has been helping
with the fair for 11 years. The parade is
getting larger every year, every year its
very similar but a little different.
If anyone is interested getting in-
volved with the fair they should con-
tact Brenda Tower (403-734-2562) or
Fran Miller (403-734-2891) to ender in
the bench show, Alice Booth (403-644-
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show and shine.
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Martha, a resident of
long term care at the
Strathmore hospital
enjoyed making the
colours change in the
bubble tube of the new
sensory stimulation
cart at the Strathmore
hospital.
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It was just about a year ago when
Rockyford resident and volunteer fre-
fghter Scott Campbell proposed cre-
ating a Badlands Search and Rescue
(SAR) team.
Things have been moving along at an
admittedly slow but steady pace, and
once fnancing is fnalized and in place
Campbell predicts things will speed up.
We have 14 people that are signed up
right now that are members with search
and rescue. Ive got a few more people
that are probably going to be joining
fairly quickly here, theyre showing a
lot of interest, said Campbell.
Were based out of Rockyford at this
time, though were going to be serv-
ing Wheatland, Starland, Kneehill east
towards the special areas, (and) poten-
tially down to Brooks. A lot of that will
be determined once we have our op-
erational status. But we are going to be
covering a pretty good-sized area.
Weve been doing some training
over the past few months here. Weve
done a little bit of training on frst aid,
a little bit of training on incident com-
mand system, knots and rope training,
so just some real basic stuff right now.
Campbell anticipates the Badlands
SAR will be operational in April 2013,
but until then they are unable to as-
sist with any missions. It doesnt mean
things will be dull for the current mem-
bers, there is more training scheduled.
In September there will be a navi-
gation and GPS mapping course, and
in October a four-day wilderness/frst
aid course which includes an overnight
scenario is being planned.
Basically part of it will be this sce-
nario where well do a search for about
half an hour to an hour looking for a
victim or victims depending on how
many teams we have and then once
we locate these people well be caring
for them throughout the night. No mat-
ter what the weather is we will be out
there, said Campbell.
In the spring they will be doing the
basic search and rescue course. Once
that is completed then they will have
all of the training up-to-date that they
need to and will need to take care of a
few more details before getting opera-
tional status.
Campbell is still hoping to get 20 to
40 people to help really get the Bad-
lands SAR off the ground. Members
are expected to commit to a minimum
of six training or search scenarios per
year. Also there is a fnancial commit-
ment.
Each member is expected to provide
their own basic search and rescue pack,
which will hold everything a person
needs to survive 24 to 48 hours, and
what will be needed on pretty much
any mission. Campbell said the pack
could cost $1,000 to $1,500.
Still not sure what exactly Search and
Rescue is all about and if you would
like to join? No worries, Campbell said
anyone interested in coming out to a
training session can e-mail him.
We do ask people to sign a waiver
that are coming that arent members for
obvious reasons, but people can come
and at the very least see what were do-
ing. Depending on what sort of train-
ing that were doing will depend on the
level of participation that well allow,
said Campbell.
If were doing some fairly technical
training were not going to put some-
body into a harness and reppel down
the side of a cliff per se that has no ex-
perience, but we do certainly welcome
people to come out and observe what
were doing and hopefully take part in
at least a bit of the training to get a
taste for it.
More information about Badlands
Search and Rescue can be found on
Facebook or Scott Campbell can be
reached at badlandsar@gmail.com.
Badlands search and rescue still looking for members
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Community gives back
This year during the annual lunch served
by Chinook Credit Union on Aug. 3 peo-
ple were asked to donate a food item for
the Wheatland County Food Bank. Peo-
ple rose to the occasion, it was great,
said Branch manager Larry Betts. On
Aug. 9 Betts, right, presented food bank
representative ed Zachruik, left, with a
box of food and a cheque for $547.55.
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Members of Town council called for a special
council meeting for Aug. 8. During the meeting
revisions were made to the Memorandum of Un-
derstanding (MOU) between the Town and United
Way. The revisions included the addition of clause
2.03 which states: to designate staff/administrative
support to the Area Partnership Committee who
will regularly attend meetings and provide assis-
tance as needed.
Clause 2.12 was also added which indicated a
needs assessment should be done for Strathmore a
minimum of every fve years in order to determine
priority areas that funding decisions by the Area
Partnership Committee will be based on.
The revisions were approved unanimously. The
Lakewood Meadows Land Use Amendment was
given frst reading and a public hearing has been
set for Sept. 5.
Councillor Dave Hamilton made a motion to ap-
prove the terms of reference for the 2012 Alberta
55 Plus Summer Games Bid Committee. The pur-
pose of the committee is to compile and submit a
bid to host the 55 Plus Summer Games in July of
2015. The complete bid package must be received
by Dec. 31, 2012.
Council calls a special meeting
rebeCCa FrieSen
Times Contributor
Plans to revitalize the downtown area in Strath-
more are being discussed as business owners are
being asked for feedback on the project proposal.
Town council members Rocky Blokland and
Bob Sobol have proposed a beautifcation project
to improve Strathmores downtown. Blokland and
Sobol are gathering feedback from local business-
es who will be affected by the changes with the
intention of presenting the information to rest of
council at a later date as a possible future project.
[Sobol and I] are going up and down the street
with [the plan], talking to business owners to see
what the feedback is, said Blokland. So far weve
had pretty positive feedback.
Out of 32 businesses that Blokland and Sobol
have talked to, only one business has offered neg-
ative comments.
Blokland says that changing downtown will help
build peoples pride in their downtown area and
bring downtown Strathmore up to the level of the
rest of the town.
Since this plan is in the preliminary stages, no
dates or budgets have been set. Blokland says that
he and Sobol are just looking to get the word of
the project out and co-operation from local busi-
ness owners.
Blokland lists a few things that would be changed
with the current proposal, if council so approved,
which include exchanging advertising benches for
decorative steel benches, replacing street lamps
with coach lanterns, and adding a median into the
center of the street and changing diagonal parking
to parallel.
Theres four or fve different things were look-
ing at, said Blokland, Im trying to get people to
look outside the box. Its time for a change.
While Blokland and Sobol both recognize the
cons to these ideas, Blokland is confdent that the
residents of Strathmore will see that the pros out-
weigh the cons.
Were going to lose about 37 parking stalls, said
Blokland, and he knows that will be the number
one complaint. However, he assures this wont be
a problem as there are three parking lots available
in the downtown area to be utilized.
Blokland says that this plan, if approved, wont
cost a huge amount of money.
Positive results from the renovations include
health benefts from being able to walk through
downtown, a sense of pride and happiness from
having a nicer downtown, and a reduction in traf-
fc concerns.
Basically were trying to do something to
change the downtown area and make it look bet-
ter. We want to brighten up the area, he said.
Downtown beautifcation project being discussed
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August 17, 2012 Strathmore TimeS Page 7
Pat Fule
Fule for Thought
When you are a new parent, you might think
you would miss the intimacy of being a couple
of those WILD nights together (YOU know what
I mean!) (Okay now were back on a planet
where people actually breathe Oxygen!).
The ONE thing that ALL new parents miss the
most is SLEEP! Im going to get All Shakespeare
on you now, because he (whoever THEY think he
was!) wrote in Macbeth, that Sleep : knits up
the ravelled sleeve of care.
In other words (for those of you who stayed af-
ter the word Shakespeare), sleep is the thing that
helps us rest, and it also can ease our worries (and
you thought I was bluffng about understanding
Shakespeare shame on you!).
Sometimes in REAL Life, it takes a long time, and
a LOT of patience to get your kids to go to sleep.
Oh sure, weve all tried reading stories having a
quieter time before bed, a favourite stuffed animal
(not the one grandpa shot!), warm milk, a night
light Blah, Blah, Blah!!!
What we want as parents is that when its bed-
time, and the storys been read the kids will actu-
ally go TO sleep! I used to be so tired at Bedtime
Story Time, that Id hold a few pages of a book
together fake it and hope my kids wouldnt
catch on! But we all know, they do and I was
forced to read that same DAMN book for the ftth
time that week!
One night, I had FINALLY gotten the kids to
bed, and in the middle of the night, my daughter
Breanne began to cry. Oh horror of horrors .. the
night light was out! This sadly, was a big deal to my
18 month old daughter! I rushed around, trying to
fnd a light bulb to replace the dead one. I looked
everywhere, trying to fnd a replacement to no
avail! I decided, that at 2:30 a.m. on a school night,
maybe a Christmas light would do the trick! After
pulling down all the Christmas lights in the base-
ment, I found a yellow one, put it in, and quietly
(like a Ninja) went back to bed. Before she even
cried, I knew. I had picked one of those stupid, an-
noying lights that BLINK!! When I went back, she
was on the verge of tears all because of that stu-
pid, yellow, blinking light!
Because I can be stubborn I tried four OTHER
lights that ALSO blinked, before I found one that
just GLOWED yellow! (Youd think I would bring
up a handful of lights to try!!). Breanne and I were
fnally able to sleep! I looked at the clock it read
3 a.m., AND SHE WAS FINALLY ASLEEP (little did I
know this same situation would happen regularly,
when she was 21!!).
For those of you hoping that this ONLY happens
with baby girls be warned!!
When we were still a very young married couple
(okay, Debbie was the YOUNG one!) we vol-
unteered to be part her schools year end Progres-
sive Dinner. (Word to the wise NEVER volunteer
to host Dessert!)
Now, Brennen (as a baby) had a TOTALLY regular
routine: up at 6:30 a.m. for about four hours, then
back to bed (hopefully to nap). Our LAST guests
left at 5:30 a.m.!!
We were exhausted and tried everything to po-
litely hint cleaning up, wiping counters, empty-
ing ashtrays (remember those?) fnally we were
alone! And of course, my son woke up at 6:30 a.m.!!
He didnt seem to CARE that wed only had one
hour of sleep!! Thank God we were young, and that
it was a Saturday, so we could take Baby Shifts!
Sometimes, its the grandparents who want to
sleep. Many of you know my In-Laws (remember
the old friend who got locked out of the motel
room?). They love to be active, and they lead an AC-
TIVE social life (YOU know what I mean!)
Anyway, our kids started a morning ritual when
we visited the G-Rents (cool kids slang who
knew?). Whenever they woke up, my kids would
take their stuffed toy rooster, smack its butt, it
would then crow, and scare the crap out of my
In-Laws, who REALLY wanted to sleep! The G-Rents
were not able to run, or hide, and of course it
HAD to be cute, cuz their grandkids were doing it
(I think they learned that staying out late was HAZ-
ARDOUS to their health)!
Many years later, you would think that now (like
many of you) .. and our kids are adults, wed have a
return to great sleeps. But, oh no, the kids conned
us into a FAMILY DOG!!
THEY grew up and LEFT!!! Brodie the Wonder
Dog is worse than the two of them! He (because
were dumb!) is used to sleeping on OUR bed! So
now, instead of kids wrecking our sleep, we have
a four-legged fur ball that hogs a King-Sized bed,
snores, dreams, passes gas, and then has some
stupid instinct to JAM against us all through the
NIGHT!!!!
People tell you that once you have kids, youll
forget EVERYTHING about the Single Life all
I know, is that I slept a WHOLE LOT better THEN!
(Fule for Thought is a slice of life humourous
column that will appear in the Strathmore Times,
written by long-time resident, town councillor, high
school teacher, coach, husband and father of two
Pat Fule. If you would like to get in touch with Pat,
you can send him an e-mail at Pat.fule@shaw.ca)
Golden Slumbers
(Thanks John, Paul, George Sorry Ringo!)
Letters to the editor
The third annual Race against Hunger program initiated by encana
has been a continued success. The program is designed to help raise
food, awareness, and funds for food banks in encanas key operating
areas, which are also along the GmC Pro Tour route. On August 3 there
was the annual Community Pardner BBQ. Unoffcially approximately
$5,600 was raised for the Wheatland Food Bank from all of the Race
against Hunger events this year.
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To the Editor
Readers will recall April 13, 2010 as the date which
saw many areas in Wheatland County fooded due to
the heavy snowfall in the days previous. We awoke that
morning to fnd that most of our yard was under water.
As the thaw continued and precipitation fell, the water
continued to rise.
We arrived home from work on June 21 to a fooded
garage, a foating deck and a lake where our driveway
should be.
Maybe we should have anticipated a situation like
this. After all, were situated beside a slough, at the bot-
tom of a natural bowl in the land. In hindsight, fooding
was a pretty obvious possibility. Maybe we assumed
that the original developers of the property knew what
they were doing.
It doesnt matter now. Its interesting to note, how-
ever, that the one thing we heard most often from long-
time residents was Ive lived around here for __ years,
and Ive never seen it this high before!
Small comfort when for three plus months you cant
leave your house without rubber boots and the dog has
to be carried across the swamp just for a pee.
This is not, however, a letter of complaints. This is
a long overdue letter of appreciation to those who
helped us, in small ways and large ways. We wish to
publicly acknowledge and thank everyone who helped
us out (see the thank you list in the classifed section).
If we missed your name, let us know. We are aware
that there were others who tried to get help for us, and
we appreciate you for that.
Thank you all so much for everything you did.
Sincerely,
Mike, Barb and Jeremy Froese
Wheatland County
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Letters to the editor
To the Editor
My name is Susan Gates and I have worked for
Wheatland Family and Community Support Services
(WFCSS) for the past ten years. Recent events have
prompted me to write this letter.
The staff at WFCSS was informed on Monday, July
23 that the Town of Strathmore will be pulling their
portion of FCSS funding and starting their own FCSS.
They have every right to make that decision. My is-
sue is the way it was handled.
WFCSS has been in partnership with the Town of
Strathmore for 34 years. With that length of time, I
feel we deserved more respect, consideration and
common courtesy than we were shown. Would staff
experienced in the programs not help to make a
more seamless transition? Has the town given any
thought or consideration to the employees of the ex-
isting FCSS? What would have been wrong with the
town working with us to better serve the residents
of Strathmore? It was stated that the town residents
should have a say in what programs are available. Is
that not why we have two Town Councilors on the
WFCSS board? I honestly believe that the town does
not even know what programs are actually offered
through WFCSS to the town residents.
As to the extensive research into the pros and
cons of bringing the FCSS Program under the um-
brella of the Municipality of Strathmore would it not
be in the towns best interests to work with WFCSS
to fnd out WHAT programs are being offered, the
cost to offer these programs and the staffng time it
takes to offer these programs? What happens now
to all the programs we currently run that are inter-
twined between the county and the town, such as
the Wheatland County Food Bank?? Why would you
open your own Town FCSS and then want to partner
with the existing FCSS on programs? I wonder if its
a budget issue? How does the town plan on provid-
ing enhanced services with only half the funding?
Funding is provided on a per capita basis.
What expertise or knowledge does the town have
to run a Home Support Program? Do they know what
it entails? How has the town prepared to offer this
program? Do they realize the cost of running a Home
Support Program? What really worries me is that the
senior & disabled clients will be paying a lot more
than they currently are for these enhanced services!
So many questions and no answers!
We are all long-term employees at WFCSS and I
think that says something to the fact that we are all
dedicated to FCSS and the programs that we work
with. To work with FCSS, I believe that you have to
be a very compassionate person who cares about the
agencies and individuals that you work with.
Susan Gates
Strathmore
Partnership comes to an end
To the Editor
For quite some time, I have been very concerned
about the lack of a pathway along George Freeman
Trail (west side). This is an expensive venture, and
to complicate matters, it will be resolved once devel-
opment on the east side commences (as a sidewalk
is planned). As I looked at the feld between The
Ranch (Archie Klaiber Trail) and Parklane Drive, it
was evident that, with a little effort, this area could
be cleared and a pathway established to allow pe-
destrians to walk safely. After raising this concept
with our administration, they then approached Paul
Douglas from United Communities (The Ranch De-
velopers) who agreed that this was a good idea and
offered to take action. The result is a new pathway
which allows pedestrians a safer alternative than
walking along George Freeman Trail (for a portion,
at least). My compliments to Mr. Douglas and the
folks from United Communities their eagerness to
take action in this matter shows they are true com-
munity partners!
Bob Sobol
Councillor, Town of Strathmore
New pathways make for safer walks
To the Editor
There is no other way to describe this government
and the agencies under its control.
Last weeks article outlined the extravagant ex-
pense claims of Allaudin Merali, the former Chief Fi-
nancial Offcer with Alberta Health. In three years he
managed to push through $350,000 in entertainment
and other expenses.
On top of a $500,000 a year salary, he averaged
$10,000 a month in meals, liquor and other claims.
After the centralized Super Health Board was estab-
lished in 2008, Merali became a health consultant in
Ontario, where he again became infamous for his
excessive claims.
Despite his notoriety in government circles, Alber-
ta Health hired him as their head accountant a few
months ago. More revelations elevate the situation to
the repulsive. For his three years of work with Capi-
tal Health, a $500,000 annual salary and $350,000 in
expenses was simply the start. Read slowly to digest
the magnitude.
In addition to his regular pension (for three years
work), Merali receives a supplementary pension
of $13,303 per month (yes, per month!). He also re-
ceived 1 million (one million) dollars in severance
pay. There is now word that we might be on the
hook for another severance package for his few
months efforts with the Super Board.
Revelations suggest that there is far more than one
pig madly slurping. Taxpayers are on the hook for
a further $35 million in supplementary pensions to
other executives with Alberta Health.
This behavior is anything but an anomaly. You
might recall the $371,000 paid to a consultant by
the name of Kelly Charlebois, when Gary Mar was
Health Minister. The untendered contract was for
verbal advice.
No report was ever given of Charlebois contribu-
tions.
Charlebois has no expertise in the health feld. He
was a political insider with the Progressive Conser-
vatives. At the moment he is the interim Executive
Director of P.C. Alberta. I suggest it wont be long
before taxpayers are directly paying him again.
None of this would have come to our attention
were it not for the diligent work of one reporter who
dug up the slop via 143 Freedom of Information re-
quests. There is no reason to believe that there are
not hundreds of millions more in excessive handouts
to others in a government where accountability is a
foreign concept.
LUNACY AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL
You may have heard of federal Language Com-
missioner Graham Frasers latest initiative. It seems
that he will be sending secret language police out
to eight Canadian airports to ensure that we are be-
ing adequately provided bilingual services. These
include Vancouver and Edmonton.
At a cost of $90,000, we will not only be able to
determine whether the local Air Canada agent can
speak to us in both offcial languages but also staff at
airport restaurants, souvenir shops and bookstores.
As Kelly McParland of the National Post put it, if
theres a more pointless waste of tax money than
sussing out whether a Timmies cashier in Vancou-
ver understands the French term for double-double,
I cant think of it.
Democracy must be more that two wolves and a
sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
--James Bovard
Your comments and suggestions are appreciated:
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Don Weisbeck
Brooks, Alta
At the trough
August 17, 2012 Strathmore TimeS Page 9
Jason Hale
MLA Strathmore-Brooks
In the months leading up to the
spring election, my Wildrose col-
leagues and I highlighted example af-
ter example of what happens when a
political party has been in government
for too long. We called attention to
behaviour like the PC party soliciting
and accepting illegal donations from
public institutions like municipalities,
school boards, Alberta Health Servic-
es, and post secondary institutions,
bullying and intimidation of health
care professionals and local elected
representatives, closed door contracts
with PC connected frms with no pub-
lic tendering, and the promotions and
appointments of offcials who have
track records of abusing public dollars
to top spots in government and the PC
party.
We called it a culture of corruption,
where mutual back-scratching insid-
ers use public dollars for personal or
political beneft. This is what happens
when a party has been in power for
more than four decades- politicians
and insiders get out of touch with ev-
eryday Albertans, entitlement sets in
and they believe the rules that apply
to everyone else no longer apply to
them.
This week, a glaring example of this
deep seated and entrenched behav-
iour hit the news. The Chief Finan-
cial Offcer of Alberta Health Services
was revealed to have received about
$350,000 in expenses for unbeliev-
able claims like car detailing and re-
pairs to his Mercedes Benz, expensive
meals, butler service and opera tick-
ets, in his previous role with Capital
Health between 2005-08. Despite this
background, he was appointed CFO
of Alberta Health Services about three
months ago. Because of public expo-
sure, the CFO is stepping down and
may walk away with a hefty taxpayer
funded severance package of nearly
half a million dollars.
Whats more, just prior to the elec-
tion, he had actually been appointed
as the Controller for the entire govern-
ment of Alberta, through an Order-in-
Council, which is a special decree put
forward by the Minister of Finance and
approved by the Premier and Govern-
ment Cabinet Ministers. Its unclear
why he left that role, but immediately
after the election, he became the CFO
of Alberta Health Services (AHS).
Trying to explain this fasco after it
became public, the Minister of Health
had very few answers for Albertans.
When trying to justify how this indi-
vidual got hired as the top fnancial
watch dog for our health care sys-
tem in the frst place, the Minister of
Health said he was dumbfounded,
outraged and didnt know about ex-
penses or his previous involvement
with the Ontario scandal.
Right.
Dumbfounded. The problem is that
other Ministers acknowledged they
did know about the individuals role
in the spending scandal in Ontario. Ei-
ther nobody knew, which reveals rank
incompetence and negligence in the
hiring and appointment process, or
theyre fudging the truth. Of course,
Premier Redford isnt here to address
Albertans directly about this affront,
because she is at the Olympics in Lon-
don, on a trip that will singlehandedly
cost taxpayers much more than what
most Albertans will make this year: an
estimated $84,000.
There is so much wrong with this
situation, it is hard to even know
where to start. Aside from the galling
expense claims and obscene waste of
public dollars, the incompetence or
wilful oversight in the appointment
process, and the pattern of politicians
and senior government offcials only
looking out for themselves, Albertans
can be forgiven for also being alarmed
about what this fasco says about the
governments priorities. Irresponsible
abuse of public dollars is probably just
the tip of the iceburg, and it is symp-
tomatic of a broken and corrupt sys-
tem.
But, sadly, this is par for the course.
After four decades in power, this gov-
ernments decisions are totally out of
whack from the common sense of most
Albertans. They treat taxpayer dollars
like a bottomless personal piggybank
to reward insiders and political pals
while Albertans suffer on waiting lists
for specialized procedures and surger-
ies that are among the longest in the
country, emergency rooms and Emer-
gency Management Services are in cri-
sis, seniors in long term care facilities
have been fed disgusting, processed
and packaged food shipped long dis-
tances, many Albertans have trouble
fnding family doctors who will take
on new patients, and front line staff
are scrambling to provide core services
and going above and beyond to serve
Albertans in a top heavy, unresponsive
system that pays extravagant bonuses
to senior AHS executives, even though
the system continually fails to meet
most of its targets.
Clearly, Albertans deserve answers -
not only about expenses and hiring in
Alberta Health Services, but about the
management and oversight in other
government departments too. As the
Offcial Opposition, I and my Wildrose
colleagues will keep asking questions
and holding the government to ac-
count. As the constituents of Strath-
more-Brooks know, we will continue
to advocate for whistleblower legis-
lation so public servants, contractors
and employees can speak out about
ethical breaches and wasteful spend-
ing without fear of reprisal and for a
more responsive freedom of informa-
tion system to make politicians ac-
countable. We will continue to fght for
local delivery of health care, to get rid
of the top layers of high priced execu-
tives and to focus funds and decision
making authority on the front lines so
the health care system works better for
all of us.
Jason Hale MLA Strathmore-Brooks
stathmore.brooks@assembly.ab.ca
1-855-362-6973
Alberta Healthcare scandal
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forward to welcoming all students and staff back for the 2012/13 school
year! If you are new to one of our communities or our schools, please
give us a call. We would like to hear from you and are eager to help
you with any questions you might have about school for your children.
For returning students, just a reminder there has been a reduction in
school fees for this school year and some changes that have improved
bus service in the town of Strathmore. See you on August 30th!
Bevan Daverne - Superintendent of Schools
2012
August 28, 29 Professional Development
& School Organizing Days
August 30 first Day of School for Students
September 3 Labour Day Weekend
September 21 School closure
October 8 Thanksgiving Holiday
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October 26 School closure
november 9 Day in Lieu of Parent/Teacher
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november 30 School closure
December 14 School closure
December 24 christmas Break
January 7, 2013
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february 18 family Day Holiday
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March 8 School closure
March 11 Day in Lieu of Parent/Teacher
interviews
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May 10 Professional Development Day
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