Puppies and Kids are always fun to watch

These are certainly more than puppies and certainly more than kids and I commend all these young people for getting involved in 4H. Thanks to Charman Alm for passing along this information.

Lakeland Scruffy Puppies 4-H Club: 2010 – 2011 Summary

It has been a fun year to be a member of Scruffy Puppies! The year started off with a focus on agility training as we worked outside with our dogs in a riding arena. Our dogs learned how to go through tunnels, up and over A-frames, and how to polebend. As the weather grew colder we changed to indoor meetings and began our fundraiser selling “Cookie Crumbles” products. We learned the difference between showing our dog in a Showmanship class verses an Obedience class. While making homemade dog cookies, we were taught about nutrition. Members competed in 4-H’s mandatory communication event with a variety of interesting speeches and one presentation.

Cesar Millan (the Dog Whisperer

During the past year, our club also went on three outings. We enjoyed a wonderful informative tour of the Bonnyville Vet Clinic thanks to Dr. Benoit and his beautiful dog Maggie. We all visited the seniors at Extendicare and introduced our dogs and had them show their tricks. We went to the Cesar Millan (dog whisperer) Concert in Edmonton.

Club members would like to thank Georgena Graham and Lindsay Graham for all their work with the club again this year.  We invite everyone to come watch us and meet our dogs at the club’s year end Achievement Day Show on Saturday, May 7, 2011. Beginning at 10 am there will be classes in Obedience, Showmanship, Agility and more! We will be at the Ardmore School parking lot in Ardmore.

Submitted by: Club Members

Lakeland Scruffy Puppies 4-H

Now make sure you get out and support them. 

Learn to do by Doing!

Here's Cesar Millan in action.

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Don't forget the upcoming Annual General meeting for LICA or Lakeland Industry and Community Association. It will be held on Wednesday, May 4th at the Bonnyville Senior Citizens Drop In Centre at 4813-47 avenue beginning with a meet and greet at 5 p.m. This will be followed by their 10th anniversary dinner at 5:30, a guest speaker at 6:30 then the AGM at 7:30. For more information, or to confirm your attendance please call them at 780-812-2182.

Get involved in your community and the environment by volunteering for one of their many committees.  Visit their web site at http://www.lica.ca/
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I can't believe how quickly time flies

I can't believe that it was more than 20 days ago that I was last on here. Things have been quite busy and I guess its just a matter of ach, I'll do it tomorrow.  Well buddy, tomorrow is here, now. I've got a few things to share with you so here goes.

Thursday, May 5th, at 7 PM, out at the Ardmore Community Centre, the Bonnyville-Cold Lake PC Association is holding a final Annual General Meeting and founding meeting for a new association at the same time. This occurs when they redraw the constituency boundaries as they did when four new constituencies where added to the mix last year - one each in Edmonton and Ft. McMurray and two in Calgary. 

The biggest problem I'm running into is I can't find a map of the new divisions. Oh there's one for Edmonton and one for Calgary but the rest of us are in the dark. As near as I can figure we lost about a mile off the south end of this constituency so it doesn't affect us that much but we'd like to know.  I tried searching different ways and always ended back up at the Elections Alberta web site with their Edmonton & Calgary maps but nothing on the rural ridings. What a bunch of horse shit. Here's more of the blah blah blah from another site that tells you all about the reasons why. Enjoy. I'm going to have some scrambled eggs!

OH, please come out to the meeting, help elect a new executive and talk to your MLA about where to find the map. 

The difficult decisions surrounding an election are not all made by voters.  One of these decisions is how to divide the province into voting districts or constituencies, each of which has one MLA.  Constituency boundary lines are normally determined by a special body called the Electoral Boundaries Commission.

The commission draws the boundaries on the basis of population, common community interests, geographical area, natural boundaries such as rivers, and other considerations.  Its decisions are guided by a law called the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act.  According to the Act, the commission must evaluate and recommend any changes to the present boundaries following every second provincial election.  These changes must become part of a new Act before they can take effect.  This Act is introduced in the Assembly; then members debate it and finally vote on it.

One of the busiest offices around election time is Elections Alberta, the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer.  This office divides constituencies into polling districts (so that voters don't have to go a long way to cast their ballots), hires enumerators to count the voters and returning officers to count the votes, makes sure voting is conducted according to the rules, takes care of all election paperwork, and, finally, issues the official election results.

Constituencies and boundary rules are constantly changing. For the most current information on Alberta's constituencies and boundary rules, please visit the Elections Alberta website!