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Virus & Malware Removal COMPUTER PROBLEMS? Computer Repair Have a Virus? Spyware Trouble? Computer Just Running Slow? Backup & Restore Wireless Networks Computer Upgrades Data Recovery 403.924.HELP (4357) Remote Support 403 Main Street, Three Hills Same Day Appointments [email protected] | www.vincovi.com We make house calls and also offer a pickup & drop-off service Y R C N PETERS 403.443.2433 419 Main St., Three Hills PHARMACY [email protected] THE We highly encourage all P T H customers wear a mask when Volume 107 - Number 46 you come into the store! Wednesday,CAPITAL August 12, 2020 FREE Monday to Saturday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Bus: 403-556-3371 Cell: 403-443-0180 www.oldsgm.com Arlin Koch - New/Used Sales Three Hills / Olds / Kneehill County P3 PRAIRIE COLLEGE PREPARES The Langshaw house in Trochu, AB Sweetgrass Café in Trochu, AB TO RE-OPEN 100 year old home, feature of Doors Open P4 by Jenny Lyver Eugene and Anne Fortier family. 1928, the post office was moved back building and opened G.A. Molnar The Trochu & District Museum The youngest daughter, Marie, to its original site and the Sunrise and Sons. Suzanne Sinclair took over will be hosting their annual Doors married Roland Langshaw, owner of Café opened up in the building. the building as the new home of the Open historical walking tour on Langshaw Studios. They moved their In 1946, Gus Molnar bought the Sweetgrass Café in 2019. THAT'S Thursday, August 13, at 6:30pm. photo studio to the house in 1948 Entrance fee will be $10 per person, after Mr. Fortier’s death in 1947. The which includes a drink at the house is now currently occupied by LIFE Sweetgrass Café at the end of the tour. Tod and Daviana Hunt. Pre-registration is not required to William Garrick purchased the attend this event. land and built the house, now known P6-7 Due to the circumstances, the as the Dr. Hay house, in the 1920’s. museum staff will be encouraging Dr. Hay was the next owner of the everyone to wear a mask and to house and lived there until his death sanitize their hands at each location. in 1973. The land was purchased by CHILDREN'S This year’s tour will be starting the town of Trochu in 1988 and on at the museum, then the first stop July 1, 1989, the Arboretum officially ACTIVITY will be visiting the Langshaw house, opened. which is celebrating 100 years since The Yost house was built in 1928. PAGES being built. Next stop will be the Adam and Matilda Yost and their Arboretum where the Dr. Hay house family lived there for many years. is located. Vivian Yost, their daughter, continued From there the walk will continue to live there after her parents passed P12 to the Yost House, then it will be and taught piano lessons out of the ending at the Sweetgrass Café where house. The house has been occupied the tour group will all receive a drink by Brenda Cunningham since 1991. MAJOR of their choice and get a chance to She has since enhanced the garden and look upstairs. added a pottery studio to the property. Pooling together ROAD These buildings have each been The building that now occupies the The Acme Swimming Pool has undergone about eight weeks of upgrades chosen due to their own unique Sweetgrass Café was built in 1919. It during this year’s COVID-19 shutdown. Thanks to the Acme Ag Society REPAIRS history in the town of Trochu. was first home to the second location and some personal donations the pool liner was replaced and the facility The Langshaw house was built of the post office, and in 1922, a law has been newly painted inside and out. The Village of Acme anticipates APPROVED in 1920 and was occupied by the office was established upstairs. In the re-opening of their swimming pool next summer. BigFoot Towing BigFoot & Co. Inc. No Appointment (403) 443-0854 Tel (403) 443-3668 (Foot) (403) 443-3668 Fax (403) 443-7708 Toll Free (866) 442-3668 Oil Changes! 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Fee for Center is https://www.facebook.com/ SENIORS OUTREACH NEWS The SENIORS collected ($2/day) as you SeniorsOutreachKneehill OUTREACH MAIN enter. PLEASE PAY SUBMITTED BY TERRY SCHLINKER, ADMINISTRATOR OFFICE (as noted SENIORS OUTREACH ATTENTION TO the Three above) continues to be Perhaps, as we have some them for pets. “Neither,” he YOU MAY ORDER IS NOW ON FACEBOOK! Hills Capital, the Seniors staffed and to take calls/ If you are already on Outreach Website, our new dedicated time, our ideas replied. “People buy one and OVER THE PHONE appointments. Facebook simply enter Facebook page, or word of can become more and more then release it in the nearest WITH ONE OF OUR 2. Regular MEALS ON Seniors Outreach Kneehill mouth regarding any further focused and directed at river or canal. It makes them STAFF MEMBERS OR WHEELS AND low- County and if you are seeking changes to our operations. options and entrepreneurial feel good because they have CONTACT US FOR AN income FROZEN endeavors. What I mean done a kind deed. The turtle ORDER FORM before the MEALS ON WHEELS is that we have more time also feels pretty happy.” The next order date. PLEASE are available. Contact Toll Free: 1-866-443-5541 to come up with ideas and next day someone catches Call in to order your food us for the frozen meals www.kneehillcounty.com activities that allow people them – and the cycle begins as the Next Order date is menu/costs and/or to overcome our struggles. again – also providing more Monday, August 17 (no payment before the next After all, many seniors have jobs. What a delightful idea. later than 10:00 a.m. and the order date. (403) 443-5541 lived through a great many The ideas or solutions Next Delivery date in 2020 3. Delivery driving Kneehill County that we personally come is Tuesday, August 25 (in the challenges in their lives and for limited medical Connect with us! @kneehillcounty have been able to overcome up with do not have to afternoon). appointments main call them. Novel ideas. New be earthshaking, however, REGULAR FROZEN to book Caring Cars/ SEPTEMBER COUNCIL MEETING DATES business ventures. New they are usually practical. MEALS ON WHEELS Wheelchair Busing as Tuesday, September 8 & 22 2020 games/entertainment. New We need to constantly ORDERS: Anyone who is they are available for Kneehill County Council Chambers clothing. New transportation assess where we are at, our not at a low-income level those who need this 1600 - 2nd Street NE • Three Hills, AB ideas. New food and drink. relationships at present, our to be supported through support. KNEEHILL COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM And the list could go on. needs, and what may help these grants may still order 4. Extension Offices in DEADLINE AUGUST 30, 2020 So as we move through us to remain engaged and frozen Meals on Wheels to be Acme, Carbon, Linden, Kneehill County is pleased to offer two, $2,000 scholarships, our ‘isolation’ times, maybe interested in living through delivered in Kneehill County, Torrington & Trochu in support of rural students enrolling in their fi rst year of we will be able to come this time period. It has been however in these cases we remain CLOSED at studies at a recognized post secondary institution. For further up with some other new a few months, but we are still require that your orders be in present. Will be updated information please see our website at www.kneehilcounty.com directions that will be of continuing on. Finally, what and be paid in full/arranged as changes occur. benefit to us all. We do need are the ‘turtle’ ideas that we for before the above order 5. All BUS RUNS HAVE some new ideas for business recognize and would be able date. STOPPED and NO TOWN OF TROCHU and economic development, to share with others? The Seniors Outreach Community Bus runs Box 340, Trochu, AB T0M 2C0 better ways of operating in Our choices to overcome MAIN OFFICE has re- will occur on Tuesdays Ph: 403-442-3085 the community, better ways the COVID-19 pandemic has opened for regular hours – and Thursdays each to keep ourselves safe, and/ enabled Seniors Outreach to Mondays to Thursdays from week in Three Hills at www.town.trochu.ab.ca or ways to change our habits move safely forward through 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily. present. NO Bus Trips TROCHU TOWN OFFICE CLOSED TO PUBLIC as we move through this initiating social distancing, Pandemic precautions are to Red Deer/Specialty Due to an increase in COVID activity, Trochu Town Office is CLOSED ST the wearing of masks, using of active at Seniors Outreach: to the public as of July 21 .