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Whitecourt, A History 1975 - 2010 W S Details the history and development of the Linh's Kitchen E R Serving Western Breakfast Mon - Fri 8 - 11 am NNEWU O town of Whitecourt during the latter half of HHOURS Every the 20th century and early 21st century. ATURDAYS Tuesday S General Commerce of Whitecourt continued... FREE Coff ee or Tea with Full Breakfast ALL The 1990s began with considerable optimism that DAY the worst of the petroleum sector slump had passed. In DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS BREAKFAST 1990, a Petro-Canada gas bar and convenience store Vietnamese Dishes, Sandwiches, 9:30 opened on the corner of 50th Avenue and 51st Street. Wonton Soup & Soup of the Day -

In November, Whitecourt Chrysler opened for business, ingredients natural use healthy, We 'Home-StyleTaste that ' for (Clam Chowder on Fridays) 11 am - 4 pm 3:30 providing Whitecourt auto shoppers with a competi- Take out til 5 PM (please call by 4 PM) tive alternative to Smyl Chev Olds, which had moved 780-396-8823 Midtown Mall to town in 1979. That same month the Canadian Impe- rial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), which had been one of Kevin's Floorcovering the earliest banks to open in Whitecourt, celebrated an $800,000 expansion. Two years later Spruceland Ford Sales Limited opened for business, which completed the presence of the "big three" North American Auto manufacturers.In Call Hong for a FREE Estimate! August 1991, the fi rst phase of the $4 million Valley Mall opened with the relocated IGA and a new Metropolitan Residential & Commercial (MET) store. The second phase, scheduled to open in 1992, included a 929 square metre pharmacy. The Valley • Final Clean after Construction & Renovation Mall was located adjacent to Highway 43 on the west • INTERIOR & EXTERIOR (Continued on page 20) • Sidewalk & Driveway Snow Removal • Window & Carpet Cleaning • Floor Waxing SSNOWNOW RRemovalemoval WCBC Insured 780-779-8040 Percy Baxter Public School E: [email protected] PAGE 4 Community Advisor JANUARY 2014 Whitecourt Council Month in Review Whitecourt's 2014 Interim Bidget Approved - Whitecourt Town Council approved the 2014 Interim Operating and Capital Budget at tonight’s Regular Meet- ing. The budget includes over $55.1 million of capital Come & Enjoy VLT's & Pool Tables and operating expenditures. Capital Budget Highlights: • Purchase of a Fire Heavy Rescue Truck in part- B Benjsbm nership with Woodlands County; Inn & Suites • Pre-planning and implementation of a public Phone: 780-778-2216 Fax: 780-778-4733 transit service; Email: [email protected] 5003 - 50th Street • Widening of Dahl Drive from 52 Avenue to 55 www.whitecourtadmiral.com Downtown Whitecourt Avenue; • Installation of traffi c lights at the intersection of 55 Avenue and Dahl Drive; • Street improvements program valued at ap- proximately $827,000 that includes: an overlay program; pavement management program up- Mon. to Fri. 8 to 8 • (780) 706-5003 • Midtown Mall date; repairs to streets, stairs, lighting, and side- Services: • Individual Physiotherapy Assessment and Treatment walks; • Work Related Injury Assessment and • Installation of solar LED lighting at the Treatment / Work Reconditioning Program. Whitecourt Cemetery; • Foot Orthotics • Motor Vehicle Accident Rehabilitation • Detailed engineering of the Athabasca Flats • Physical Conditioning Program East area, and construction of the associated in- • Manual & Manipulative Therapy • Sports Injury Management frastructure to accommodate future growth; • Intramuscular Stimulation • Rotary Park enhancements which include: the • Medical Legwear / Pressure Gradient Stockings construction of the beach volleyball court; ad- • Pre-Employment Screening. ditional lighting; and completion of the walking trails to 47 Street; Referrals accepted from: • Employers & Safety • Construction of a Winter Sports Park in partner- Coordinators ship with the Society and Woodlands County; • WCB • Physicians • Vitalization projects including: downtown • Walk-in Patients streetscape detailed design, Highway 43 profes- • Insurance Companies sional landscaping plan, and continued High- • Other Professionals way 43 ‘Quick Win’ efforts; Fees covered by: • Recreation will continue with ongoing mainte- • WCB (Workers Compensation Board) • Independent Contracts with Employers nance for all public facilities, and major capital • Extended Health Insurance Plans investments include: • Casualty Insurers (motor vehicle accidents) • Installation of playground equipment at Powers • Personal Payment (receipts will be provided) Cove/Reay Court; • McLeod Rink change room fl ooring, key fob system, and installation of new shower tiles at the Scott Safety Centre. Operating Budget Highlights: • Review of the Town’s Municipal Development Plan and Land Use Bylaw; • Dozer • Anchor Truck • Implementation of odour mitigation measures at • Excavator • Gravel Truck the Wastewater Treatment Plant; • Backhoe • Equipment Hauling • Continuation of economic development initia- • Hotshot • Skidsteer tives that focus on business attraction, training gap survey, and promotion of Whitecourt 780-778-1125 (Continued on page 5) Email: [email protected] JANUARY 2014 Community Advisor PAGE 5 January Town Meetings Municipal Planning Commission Meeting Thursday January 12th, 2014. Meeting in the boardroom at the Town Administration Offi ce at 4:00 PM. 5008 - 50th Street (Across from ATB) The public is welcome to attend. P. 780.778.8680 C. 780.262.0647 Town Council Meeting January 13th, and 27th, 2014. Forest Interpretive Centre at 7:00 PM. Members SShellachellac GGelsels of the public are encouraged to attend Regular Meetings NNowow Available!!Available!! of Council. All Council Meetings are held in Coun- HHours:ours: MMon.on. ttoo SSat.at. ~ 9 aamm - 6 ppmm cil Chambers located at the Forest Interpretive Centre. AAppts.ppts. & WWalk-insalk-ins WWelcomeelcome Starting January 2014, Regular Meetings of Council will be held on the second Monday of the month at 7:00 Gift Certificates Available p.m. The fourth Monday of the month at 4:00 p.m. Policies and Priorities Committee Meeting Good Deed for the Day January 20th, 2014 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM A Cub Scout troup was half an hour late to its den The Policies and Priorities Committee meets the meeting. third Monday of each month in the boardroom at the The den mother asked them severely, “Why are you Town Administration Offi ce. Members of the public are so late?” encouraged to attend and engage ina Public Dialogue “Oh,” said one boy, “we were helping an old man Session at each meeting. You are encouraged to attend cross the street.” the meeting and take advantage of this opportunity. “That’s a nice thing for scouts to do,” said the moth- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ er. She paused. “But it shouldn’t make you half an hour (Continued from page 4) late.” through trade fairs, special promotion, and con- “Well, you see,” said another boy, “he didn’t want ferences; to go.” • Programming highlights include: the introduc- tion of a backyard composting program, enhanced support for seniors; and enhanced cul- tural and summer programming; • Participation in a joint study for Performing Arts Facility with Living Waters School Divi- sion and Woodlands County.

The budget will be fi nalized in the spring of 2014 once the Provincial budget is adopted, and fi nal assessment fi gures are established. Whitecourt Town Council has authorized a maximum increase in municipal taxes of 4.4% for the 2014 Budget. For a residence assessed at $350,000, the pro- posed maximum increase to the municipal tax rate would equate to an annual change of $81.31 compared to 2013 rates. Further details on the 2014 Budget will be provided to the community in the spring once the fi nal budget is approved. A review of the Land Use Bylaw and Municipal De- velopment Plan will be completed in 2014. The Munici- pal Development Plan sets out the goals and vision of our community which the Land Use Bylaw implements through regulation; and it is for this reason that the re- (Continued on page 11) PAGE 6 Community Advisor JANUARY 2014 "As of November 2013, a group of over 4549 professionals including 361 dentists and 562 medical doctors have added their names to a petition aimed at ending fl uoridation started by the Fluoride Action Network. Among the prominent signatories are Nobel Laureate Arvid Carlsson and William Marcus, PhD who served as the chief toxicologist of the EPA Water Division."

Fluoride: Killing Us Softly Public Banking in Costa Rica: A By Dr. Gary Null Remarkable Little-known Model By Ellen Brown There’s nothing like a glass of cool, clear water to quench one’s thirst. But the next time you or your child Editor's Nore: Up until 1973, reaches for one, you might want to question whether that the publicly owned Bank of Canada water is in fact, too toxic to drink. If your water is fl uo- created a signifi cant portion of this ridated, the answer may well be yes. country's money supply. If you've noticed a decline in many areas in this For decades, we have been told a story, a story that country since then, it is not a coinci- has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ameri- dence. What is more, growing homelessness, degrading cans and the weakening of the immune systems of tens of infrastructure and so on are happening despite astound- millions more. This story is about fl uoridation. A process ing technological accomplishments that should lead we were led to believe was a safe and effective method to signifi cant improvements in both wealth and liesure of protecting teeth from decay is in fact not true. For de- time. That is they would, in a better money system. cades it’s been shown that fl uoridation is neither essential for good health nor protective of teeth. What it does is In Costa Rica, publicly-owned banks have been poison the body. We should all at this point be asking how available for so long and work so well that people take and why public health policy and the mainstream media for granted that any country that knows how to run an continue to live with and perpetuate this scientifi c sham. economy has a public banking option. Costa Ricans are amazed to hear there is only one public depository bank The Latest in Fluoride News in the United States (the Bank of North Dakota), and few people have private access to it. Today more than ever, evidence of fl uoride’s toxicity is entering the public sphere. The summer of 2012 saw So says political activist Scott Bidstrup, who the publication of a systematic review and meta-analy- writes: sis by researchers at Harvard University that explored the link between exposure to fl uoride and neurologi- "For the last decade, I have resided in Costa Rica, cal and cognitive function among children. The report where we have had a “Public Option” for the last 64 pooled data from over 27 studies — many of them from years. China—carried out over the course of 22 years. The results, which were published in the journal Environmen- There are 29 licensed banks, mutual associations and tal Health Sciences showed a strong connection between credit unions in Costa Rica, of which four were estab- exposure to fl uoride in drinking water and decreased IQ lished as national, publicly-owned banks in 1949. They scores in children. The team concluded that: “the results have remained open and in public hands ever since—in suggest that fl uoride may be a developmental neurotoxi- spite of enormous pressure by the I.M.F. (International cant that affects brain development at exposures much Monetary Fund) and the U.S. to privatize them along below those that can cause toxicity in adults.” [1] with other public assets. The Costa Ricans have resisted (Continued on page 27) (Continued on page 18) JANUARY 2014 Community Advisor PAGE 7 We Deliver!

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(Continued from page 7) often had a change of heart regarding outright hostilities, high level political fi gures and others from the earliest once it was made clear that it was his life hanging in recorded history to modern times. The term assassination the balance, rather than those of his soldiers. By using is most accurately used when murder takes place to assassination, the Hashshashin fended off much more either gain political power or to retain that power. The powerful kingdoms, until the invasion of the Mongols, book also delves into the unintended consequences that where infi ltration of the enemy’s camp was not possible can result from questionable assassinations. due to racial characteristics. The word assassin came from a tribe, the Hashshashin, Conspiracy theory is the fi rst thing that springs who originated in what is now modern day Iran. The to mind for many on hearing of organized attempts Hashshashin used a policy of assassination in lieu of to eliminate high level political fi gures in the west in open warfare. Despite some modern interpretations of modern times. This is often overblown, with many the group as drug crazed fanatics, the reality was that seeing deep organization behind every high profi le the tribe was ascetic and did not use hash to fuel their suspicious death. However, there is another side to killing instincts. Any cannabis product would of course this as well, with a complicit mainstream media all too be a handicap in such work. willing to look the other way, despite evidence that the The Hashshashin strategy was to infi ltrate highly offi cial story is highly suspect. An unbiased court of law skilled assassins who were prepared to die for their tribe would not always be able to pin down the exact players into key positions in an enemy camp. This war tactic involved in such assassinations, but there would be no was actually an improvement on the alternative, which doubt that the lone nut or accident explanations often was to have large groups of mostly innocent people used for assassinations do not have the proper evidence slaughter each other on the battlefi eld. Often a warning, to even be considered as possible theories, let alone fact. such as a dagger driven into the fl oor of the bed chamber In other cases, such as the attempts on Fidel Castro’s of a sleeping sultan, was enough to achieve the desired life, the west’s implication in assassination polices have political outcome during the negotiations that generally been documented by offi cial sources, as will be shown take place before widespread war. A king who might not later in this article. hesitate to send thousands of warriors to their deaths (Continued on page 16) PAGE 14 Community Advisor JANUARY 2014

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Castro once said "If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal." Next month, western assassinations, attempted and successful, will be covered. These include leaders such as the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, as well as assassinations against democratically elected leaders of other nations during the cold war battles. The USSR was of course also involved in this policy, but were often hamstrung by the fact that a secretive assassin had the choice of completing his mission, or turning himself in to a grateful west. This limited the use of assassination as a tactic by the USSR for cold war purposes. Previously, Stalin had Trotsky and many other dissidents assassinated inside and outside the country before becoming a likely assassination victim himself. 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In Competition Policies in Emerging Economies: Lessons and Challenges from Central America and During the last three decades, countless private Mexico (2008), Claudia Schatan writes that Costa Rica banks, mutual associations (a kind of Savings and Loan) nationalized all of its banks and imposed a monopoly and credit unions have come and gone, and depositors on deposits in 1949. Effectively, only state-owned banks in them have inevitably lost most of the value of their existed in the country after that. The monopoly was loos- accounts. ened in the 1980s and was eliminated in 1995. But the extensive network of branches developed by the public But the four state banks, which compete fi ercely banks and the existence of an unlimited state guarantee with each other, just go on and on. Because they are sta- on their deposits has made Costa Rica the only country ble and none have failed in 31 years, most Costa Ricans in the region in which public banking clearly predomi- have moved the bulk of their money into them. Those nates. four banks now account for fully 80% of all retail deposits in Costa Rica, and the 25 private institutions share Scott Bidstrup comments: among themselves the rest." "By 1980, the Costa Rican economy had grown to According to a 2003 report by the World Bank, the the point where it was by far the richest nation in Lat- public sector banks dominating Costa Rica’s onshore in America in per-capita terms. It was so much richer banking system include three state-owned commercial than its neighbors that Latin American economic statis- banks (Banco Nacional, Banco de Costa Rica, and Ban- tics were routinely quoted with and without Costa Rica co Crédito Agrícola de Cartago) and a special-charter included. 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