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Wainwright Communiplex Hall #1 Eskimos come to town Page 18 Zak McLachlan [email protected] ocal students and military per- Lsonnel at Camp Wainwright were treated to a special visit on Tuesday, April 9, when a handful of members of the Edmonton Eski- mos came to town as part of their Eskimos Community Tour. Andrew Jones, a retired Cana- dian offensive lineman who spent time throughout his nine-year career playing for the B.C. Lions, Toronto Argonauts, Eskimos and Saskatchewan Roughriders, runs the Community Tour. He said it is important to him and the Eski- mos organization to be involved in Alberta communities, both inside and outside the city. “We do the community tour to get the people outside the city some football exposure. The schools in the city in Edmonton get a lot more visits from the players, but we want to get further outside the city to some of the kids who might not be able to get to a game or get to meet some of the players,” Jones said. Jones brought along four Eski- mos players with him - long snap- per Ryan King, running back Calvin McCarty, linebacker Blair Smith and defensive tackle Almon- do Sewell. Continued on page 18 The Edmonton Eskimos visited Wainwright on Tuesday, April 9, as part of their Eskimos Community Tour. After visiting the military base in the morning, Photo: Zak McLachlan the players spent some time teaching local Grade 6 students about the game of football at the PMM. Pictured above, Eskimos long snapper Ryan King has some fun chasing down Wainwright Elementary School student Aris Ford during one of the football drills at the arena. “We love to make you smile” $FFHSWLQJ1HZ3DWLHQWV! Dr. Nordstrom (780) 842-6838 Dr. Jacob Dr. Radasic 2 EDGE | Wainwright, AB | April 12, 2019 Election candidates speak on local, provincial issues at All Candidates Forum in Vermilion Zak McLachlan evening. Early on, the right wing can- [email protected] didates received plenty of applause after each chance they had to speak. As the evening moved forward, the he Vermilion and District Chamber amount of applause from the crowd of Commerce hosted an All Candi- T shifted more towards the quality of dates Forum at St. Jerome’s Catholic the response rather than the candi- School in Vermliion on Tuesday, April date responding. 9. Five candidates for the Wainwright- All five candidates received plenty Vermilion-Lloydminster electoral of applause from the crowd at differ- district were in attendance for the fo- ent times throughout the event. rum, where they were asked a series of All five candidates also showed their questions pertaining to both local and support for one another and respect provincial issues. for each other for the good sportsman- Kelly Zeleny from the Alberta Ad- ship throughout the campaign. vantage Party, Ryan Clarke from the Photo: Zak McLachlan Five candidates from the Wainwright-Vermilion-Lloydminster electoral Following the forum, many of those NDP, Garth Rowswell from the UCP, district attended the All Candidates Forum in Vermilion on Tuesday night. who attended the event stuck around Jim McKinnon from the Freedom Pictured, from left, are Kelly Zeleny of the Alberta Advantage Party, Ryan Clarke of the NDP, Garth Rowswell of the UCP, Jim McKinnon of the Free- to ask further questions of the candi- Conservative Party and Craig Peter- dom Conservative Party of Alberta and Craig Peterson of the Alberta Party. dates, who were all happy to speak son of the Alberta Party took part in with the constituents. the forum on Tuesday evening. period where each candidate had candidates were given three minutes EDGE The forum began with the candi- two minutes to give their response to each to give their closing remarks. dates giving a four-minute opening questions which were submitted by Some used the short time period to ************************************** statement touching on who they are members of the audience. thank voters for attending and re- and why they are running for office, The questions focused on a number hashing their platform topics, while Check page 3 to see what each explaining why voters should consid- of issues, both local and provincial, others used the time to clarify con- candidate had to say about some of er voting for them and talking about such as healthcare, seniors’ housing, cerns raised throughout the evening the questions asked during the All each of their platforms. social services, education, small busi- in the question period. 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Kelly Zeleny Ryan Clarke Garth Rowswell Jim McKinnon Craig Peterson A. ”We don’t support A. ”I think it’s A. ”I think we need A. “We need to find A. ”As an MLA, I Q. How will you any frontline worker job important that we specialized people out why these doctors would champion for cuts. As a nurse, I know increase health who can provide aren’t staying and find and help these rural ensure rural what nurses need... We funding to tie in to the specialized treatment a way to attract more areas attract and need comprehensive population growth so in rural areas, doctors to the rural maintain doctors in Albertans audits looking at we have the services especially in our areas.” their medical centres.” management, materials, that people need.” constituency.” receive top tier even the simple overuse healthcare? of paper.” A. “We have identified A. “As a teacher, I do A. “My party has A. “I think one of the A. “We want to education as a priority, have some concerns guaranteed to most important things double the use of Q. What will meaning that rural or about education in maintain or increase from a financial education grants and urban children should the province, and I funding while seeking standpoint in the have the same access to double the number of you do about will do whatever I can efficiencies and we education system is educational assistants and level of eduction, to get it moving in the will build schools.” that there are a lot of and we are working with in the classroom. We education? right direction.” inefficiencies in the also want to fully teachers and aides to come system itself.” up with revisions to the fund special needs curriculum.” education.” A. “We want more A. “The NDP’s rural A. “If we are elected A. “If you want to A. “One of the things Q. what will crime control by crime strategy has into government, we increase the number of we need to look at training and elevating provided more funding will do everything officers you have and is why is there a sherrifs and police for officer and hired in our power to stop increase training, you problem. The growth you do about officers. We know more prosecutors to the revolving door need the funding. We in rural crime in this there are just not keep up with the trials of criminals being need to keep money area started with the rural crime? enough RCMP to and we’ve seen a 16% arrested and just being in this province in downfall of oil and cover the vast space of reduction in rural let out.” order to do that and fix the economy.” a rural area.” crime.” equalization payments.” A. ”There are three A. ”If people have more A. ”Our resources are A. ”We need to A. ”Part of the Jobs Q. how will things we have to money in their pockets, key to that. There’s a reduce their taxes, First plan is to put do to support small they’re going to go out couple issues with it.