Milo Canopener (November 1, 2007)

An archive of the Milo Canopener.The University of Lethbridge Library received permission from the Archives at Milo Library to digitize and display this content.Milo Can Opener Box 12, Milo, AB T0L1L0 MILO CANOPENER November 2007 Edition no. 209 Canada Post Agmt. # 40607518 MILO MUNICIPAL LIBRARY N/C Winning poster in 2007 Legion Remembrance Contest Intermediate Age Group - Black & White Poster Entrant: Joelle Liewen Lethbridge, Alberta Immanuel Christian School General Stewart Branch #004Ad Rates Xmas Greeting Subscription Rates Business Directory $ 5.00 Milo $ 16.00 Quarter Page 6.00 3.00 (- pickup,delivery or mailed) Half Page 8.00 4.00 Mailed (outside Milo) 24.00 Full Pages 15.00 7.50 Single Copies 2.00 Christmas Greeting (bus card size) Classifieds 2.00 1.00 The following items are free of charge Notices Announcements ( Wedding, Anniversary, Births, Showers, etc.) Cards of Thanks News items Articles Letters to the Editor are welcome. 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THE COUNTRY FARMHOUSE Gifts, Antiques and Collectibles With A Taste of Rural Alberta HOURS: Monday to Saturday - 10:00am to 4:00pm First Place ~ Senior Poem Entrant: Corley Farough Taber, AB St. Mary’s Roman Catholic School Taber Branch #020 Crosses Crosses are standing row after row A silent reminder of men we don’t know Men who have given up all of their lives Men who left children and warm loving wives The long fearful wait then the tender goodbyes The burden and sorrow, the look in their eyes The brush of a hand cross the cheek of his girl Then boarding the plane all at once in a whirl A strange country abroad with its sights and its smells He thinks of his Canada and his heart nearly swells ‘Cause he’s brave and he’s strong and his heart’s full of hope With the war all around future plans help him cope He stands up for the good and the truth and the right And he eats dreams and sleeps with his gun in his sight Reads letters from home again and again His modest attempt to wash away pain Reservations for evening meals are welcome! Book for parties, anniversaries or special events. Box 10 from Cluny Hilltop Dianne Brown Cluny, AB 3 miles west Ph. 403-734-2593 TOJ 0S0 1/2 mile north Fax 403-734-2882 Sunday Brunch November 18 Brunch starts @ noon Music by ‘‘Golden Age Gospel Group@ 1:00 pm Phone for your reservation! Country Christmas Saturday, December 1 Stop all day for Christmas Shopping Specials Turkey Supper @ 5:00 pm Phone for your supper reservation! Ladies Wine and Cheese Party Thursday, December 6 “Come and go” party format, starts at 7:00 pm includes Christmas shopping specials This pain is his gut is not hunger or fear But the loss of his innocence and all he holds dear He looks at a photo all battered and torn This face is the reason his heart feels forlorn In the pit of his soul is an ache he can’t mend The news hits him hard of the death of a friend The sickening feeling of loss only grows As the fields keep filling with crosses in rows He puts on his helmet and picks up his gun This battle for peace has only begun If tomorrow will come he does not know But crosses are standing, row after rowLETTER TO THE EDITOR Legion Did anyone read a magazine called Irrigating Alberta? A story on page 6 referring to Land use framework should be of concern to farmers and ranchers in Alberta. This L.U.F. is a policy being developed by professionals that have some knowledge of the water supply in Alberta. When I look at the organizations some of these people represent, I am not too sure if agriculture is being included in their concerns. Most of the organizations appear to me to be a little on the green side. I see no Rancher groups among the experts listed. In this article there is a reference as to the management of Public and Private land. I do not need another person helping me manage my private land. To me this means more Govt, regulation (interference) on how farmers and rancher look after their property. As most of you all know you can no longer remove a dead animal from your property without a permit. How important is this? Some of the comments in this magazine are referring to the restrictions that will be placed on the use of Agriculture water. For example you may be told to limit amount of water you use on your crop as other people need it more. If we are not vigilant on what is being proposed, we will be blind sided by regulations we know nothing about. People like to make rules that affect other people, who end up paying the cost. You should read this magazine yourself as these are my interpretation of what I think is being discussed. Grant Lahd Editor’s Note: article was on the web and is printed on the following pages. Second Place ~ Intermediate Poem Entrant: Nicole Stewart Lethbridge, AB Father Leonard Van Tighem School General Stewart Branch #004 Eyes Remembrance Day is here once more. I sit at a ceremony, lonely and bored. There are seniors galore in dresses and ties, I don’t understand ‘till I look in their eyes. A mother’s eyes glow with the ghost of her son Who lost his life that had barely begun. Just a few rows over eyes look to her love Who’s now watching her from heaven above. A daughter’s eyes shine with love for her dad. She never knew him, what fun would they’ve had? A brother’s eyes fill with tears because He never told his sister just how proud he was. The eyes the most haunting are in the front row, A blue so bright they cut into my soul. A single tear forms in the comer and rolls Down his face through the creases and fold. He thinks of that day that he left on that ship Not knowing what would come on that horrible trip. The tears, the violence, the pain and the fright. He thinks of the visions that still haunt his nights. He thinks of the battle he barely escaped. Why was he the one who was given this fate? To this day he can hear the air raid alarms As he thinks of his best friend who died in his arms. A tear falls down for each memory he sees. Suddenly it clicks, it makes sense to me. We must honor our heroes with love and respect, That’s why we’re all here today: Lest we forget.irrigating Alberta Fall 2007 Fage i oisi ^limliEL dommxmlaatlom. [ Home ] [ Recent Work J [ Services ) [ Events ] [ Photo Gallery ] [ About us ] Irrigating Alberta Fall 2007 Irrigating Alberta publishes twice a year in the Farm Press Ad-Visor Subscriptions are $15 Can/year anywhere in the world. Call 1-877-328-0048 to subscribe. Alberta Government Takes on Land Use Framework Giant step forward or giant exercise in lip service? by C. Lacombe Does Alberta have the gumption to fashion a Land Use Framework (LUF) that will protect its natural resources and the fortitude to make it work? Irrigating Alberta talked to eight professionals with abundant knowledge about water resources in Alberta and asked them to name three key things the LUF needs to include to protect our water resources. Some of these professionals are taking part in the process to develop the LUF and some are not. To begin, according to the LUF website, "A land-use framework provides an approach to better manage Voices heard Bill Berzins Chair Bow River Basin Council Patsy Cross Limnologist (fresh water biologist) Danielle Droitsch Bow RiverKeeper Executive Director Lome Fitch Professional Biologist David Hill Alberta Irrigation Projects Association Executive Director Stephanie Palechek Oldman Watershed Council Executive Director Bob Sandford Chair United Nations Water for Life Decade Heather Sinton AENV Manager Environmental Integration Land Use Framework website: http://landuse.aiberta.ca public and private lands and resources to meet long-term economic, social and environmental goals. It is intended to become government policy that will help governments, industry and other groups make land-use decisions based on a foundation of sound environmental management. The framework will apply to all private and public land in the province." First, let's give the government kudos for attempting this policy development in the first place. It has the potential to be far-reaching, innovative and instrumental in the future health of our province. Consider how many Albertans and Alberta businesses/industries have an impact on our landscape and you begin to appreciate the task at hand. Political change Perhaps this is why the professional opinions voiced on this question raised the issue of political will to create and enforce an effective LUF. Danielle Droitsch put it this way, "We need clarity of the government's commitment to implement the LUF and to be accountable. The government should make specific commitments to adopt a framework that has teeth." Lome Fitch expressed concern about political will in this way, " In many of the provincial efforts toward planning, few of them have ever resulted in any substantial change because none of them had any political will behind them to actually implement the recommended changes. The Alberta Forest Conservation Strategy is an excellent example of something that Albertans poured a lot of time and effort into, but there was no will to implement it and it died.” Another challenge brought up by our specialists is the process for integrating the decision-making across all sectors of government, industry and the public. "The actual finding of a mechanism for integrated decision-making that recognizes the unique political entities that exist, I think will be a huge, huge challenge. They all pursue their own mandates; yet, they all share the same watershed. I think there are some difficulties here but I don't think they are insurmountable," says David Hill. Heather Sinton added this thought, "I see the LUF setting some policy direction at a very high level. It wouldn't make a decision at a municipal level per se about development, but it would give direction to the municipality and watershed groups as to.what is appropriate and what is not. So, it would guide those land use decisions." Regarding land use decisions, one of the first recognitions Alberta and Albertans need to make according to these experts is that we can’t have everything, everywhere, all the time. "While I don't think anyone is opposed to the idea of limits, we still like to think that, if we do this right, we can have everything we want all of the time. I'm not sure we have that amount of flexibility. I think by a very careful process of integration, we probably can get much more of the things that are important to us," says David Hill. He and others point out that there may be places in Alberta that simply are not suited for development that greatly alters the landscape and interferes with its ability to provide ecological goods and services such as water quantity and quality. This would be a recognition of sensitive or unique landscapes within the province. As Bill Berzins put it, "We need proper assessment of cumulative effects on the landscape that supports decision-making regarding the fate of increasingly rare natural landscapes." Stephanie Palecheck put it this way, "Identity vulnerable landscapes and sensitive areas that contribute to the cleanliness of the water in the watershed and protect them. Not only the national and provincial parks, there are other areas that need special protection in order to protect our water sources. There are some areas that just shouldn't be touched." Lome Fitch agrees, but believes that the best way to ensure we can protect these areas is through awareness and extension activities to get the public to accept this is important. "The LUF needs to include a much more concerted effort with awareness, extension and education. The second most powerful piece of federal legislation, after the Income Tax Act, is the federal Fisheries Act enacted in 1868. A year after confederation, the people of Canada said, 'Fish are important.' So, why aren't we up to our armpits in fish in http://www.umbel.ca/IA%20fall%202007.htm 10/29/2007 Irrigating Alberta Fall 2007 Page 2 ofJL Canada? I think it's because the law in itself isn’t enough." Nor is it enough in our experts' opinions to create a strong LUF without tying it into the Water For Life Strategy. "The LUF and Water For Life cannot operate separate from one another. The government should fully integrate Water For Life with the LUF making watersheds the planning unit." says Droitsch. Palechek points out that these two planning documents are actually working toward very similar objectives. The final administrative-type change in provincial thinking needed in order for the LUF to protect water resources is a reassessment of incentives for change. Berzins brings up economic incentives that promote sustainable development. In other words, support and reward people and industry that find sustainable ways to live within our environmental capacity. Although there are people who also bring up the idea of disincentives; which are big sticks to punish those who refuse to operate sustainably. Dave Hill steps outside the box and suggests we may explore radical ideas such as sharing of municipal revenues so that a municipality that contains an area deemed sensitive and not suitable for development can continue to prosper while accepting less development to generate taxes. "For example, if an upstream rural municipality was willing to say 'we don't want any developments of this type because of the need to protect this area for the health of the overall watershed,' they could know that taxpayers aren't adversely impacted because of that decision.' It might mean sharing of tax revenues between municipalities or investigating issues around development credits." And now for the nitty-gritty on watershed protection Assuming Alberta and Albertans can master the complex political landscape to ensure the LUF has traction to move forward, what kind of actual landscape protection do we need to guarantee water quality and quantity for future generations? For a global perspective, Irrigating Alberta went to Bob Sandford. Sandford knows water issues on this planet. He can pull up examples from all over the globe to illustrate how land and water management decisions look 10, 20, 50 or 100 years later. Here again we hear the term integration, but now integration refers to land and water management rather than political entities or stakeholders. Sandford advises, "Explore the relationship between natural ecosystems, protection, cultivation and surface and ground water availability. We have to look at hydro-ecology. We have to examine how the relationship functions between our terrestrial ecosystems and the amount of water that's available; how you modify, control and plan the types of ecosystem plants you have in your landscape to optimize the amount of water availability you might need. What's growing in your upland areas, riparian areas and how much water is withdrawn naturally for various purposes because of the content and nature of your ecosystems. For instance, the tremendous influence of natural prairie grasses and how they affect hydrology and store carbon compared to cultivated forests or invasive species that can generate water loss that ultimately affects how much water is available to you." He explains that in South Africa they are changing upland plants in order to influence the amount of water available in the lowlands. Several experts also talked about integrating surface and ground water management. This is an acknowledgement of their connectedness and somewhat new thinking for most people. However, science now confirms that surface and ground water systems work together and feed each other. This is one factor that makes protecting the uplands of watersheds the most important for the health of our watersheds according to Sandford and others who echoed his concern. We know now that water from the rivers fills underground aquifers in eastern Alberta. This brings us to Berzins over-arching issues such as proper assessment of cumulative impacts on our watersheds and proper valuation of ecological values over many generations. "(It) allows for proper comparison between economic value created through incremental degradation and long term value derived from a combination of development and preservation," Berzins says. This ties into our experts' choice for the next most important area for conservation and protection in the province; riparian zones. This is the green area next to any surface waterbody. "There are ways of defining those scientifically and those should be mapped for the whole province and setbacks delineated accordingly," Sinton says. Setbacks came up repeatedly talking with these experts. Patsy Cross said it most succinctly, "There needs to be intelligent setbacks that consider the shape of the land and the shape of hydraulic connection and riparian area soils and inter­connectedness between surface and