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VALHALLA: Tiny Community Hasn’T Just Survived, but Thrived SEE INSIDE AND SAVE! WATER HEMLOCK CAN BE GOOD BUGS AND UFA.com DEADLY FOR CATTLE » Pg 28 BAD BUGS » Pg 16 Prices in effect from August 1 to August 31, 2012 Publications Mail Agreement # 40069240 18470_04b UFA FallLube_Earlug_3.083x1.833.indd 1 12-07-20 3:38 PM VOLUME 9, NUMBER 17 AUGUST 13, 2012 VALHALLA: Tiny community hasn’t just survived, but thrived RENEWAL With a thriving restaurant, charter school and community centre, Valhalla Centre remains a going concern 1946 is when the downturn of the BY REBECCA DIKA community started,” said Mavis AF CONTRIBUTOR / GRANDE PRAIRIE Breitkreutz, a former local resident whose parents both worked in the t’s named for the afterworld of creamery. Norse legend, and Alberta’s Val- Breitkreutz had moved away but I halla might have passed into the was part of a committee that was Great Beyond save for the dogged first struck to hold a reunion and efforts of a small community group. then decided to do more. The first Valhalla Centre, the tiny Norwe- move by the Valhalla Heritage Soci- gian community west of Grande ety was to have the town’s store, Prairie, had been in a decades-long which dated back to 1918, declared decline when the Valhalla Heritage a historic site. Funding from the Society was formed in 1988. Their Alberta Historical Resources Foun- efforts have since proven the wis- dation paid for a new foundation, dom of Margaret Mead’s words which was poured a few feet back Mavis Breitkreutz had that a “small group of thoughtful, from its original site close to the moved away but was part committed citizens can change the highway. The 1,700-square-foot of a committee that was world.” structure was initially leased to first struck to hold a Originally founded in 1912 by a a private operator of a small res- reunion and then decided Norwegian missionary, the com- taurant and eventually taken over to do more. munity’s claim to fame — aside by the society. Today, Melsness PHOTO: REBECCA DIKA from the Valhalla Brass Band — Mercantile restaurant (named was its creamery, which opened after the longtime operators of in 1919 and later won first prize the store) employs eight, attracts for its butter at Toronto’s Royal patrons from as far away as Grande Winter Fair. But it was sold and Prairie, and showcases community closed in 1946. “When the creamery was sold in SEE VALHALLA page 6 BARLEY: UNIFORMITY BEATS PLUMPNESS FOR MALTSTERS Pg 12 It’s time. ©2012 UFA Co-operative Ltd. All rights reserved. Prices in effect from August 1 to August 31, 2012. UFA.com 07/12-18470 18470_03 UFA FallLube_Banner_10.25x3.indd 1 7/24/12 12:12 PM 2 news » inside this week AUGUST 13, 2012 • alberTAFARMEXpress.CA inside » livestock crops columnists Two new Two-sided does sucking brendA schoepp commissions coin beaT blowing? The “why behind The buy” underway in for beef consumers 29 alberTa Daniel bezte 15 skepTics are melTing away blisTer beeTle- afTer 329 sTraighT monThs 31 infecTed hay can roy lewis high grain prices are great Vacuum planter may wesTern waTer hemlock is deadly for cattle be Toxic 30 — if you’re not a livestock 22 cut canola seed cost 13 28 feeder brieFs A good use for Peace-area grain grower overripe tomatoes if you haven’t planned your holiday for this summer, diversifies into a unique crop consider travelling to bunol, spain for the annual La tomatina festival on aug. 29. try fruit } Kreg and Leanne Alde will soon be the province’s largest haskap according to one of the u.K. travel websites pro- growers, but they predict others will follow in their footsteps moting package tours to the event, between 20,000 and 40,000 people visit “the by rebecca dika world’s biggest food fight” af contributor / sexsmith where more than 100 tonnes of overripe tomatoes are ast year’s closing of car- thrown in the streets. gill’s albright facility west the fight culminates a L of Grande Prairie prompt- week-long festival of music, ed grain farmer Kreg alde to try parades, dancing, and fire- something completely different works. on the night before — fruit production. the tomato fight, participants the elevator closing was not of the festival compete in a a popular move with area farm- paella-cooking contest. ers, who will see their transpor- at around 11 a.m., the tation costs double as they ship first event of the tomatina to the next closest site, the Vit- begins. many trucks haul erra facility in sexsmith. the bounty of tomatoes into the cargill closure was a the centre of the town, Plaza wake-up call, says alde, who del Pueblo. shopkeepers use grows mostly wheat, barley and huge plastic covers on their canola on about 2,500 acres with storefronts in order to pro- his wife Leanne and in partner- tect them from the carnage. ship with his father Wayne. the signal for the beginning “i always like to balance risk of the fight is firing of water and with the cargill shutdown it cannons. once it begins, the got a little scary,” says alde. “as battle is generally every man soon as i have to rely on other or woman for him/herself. people, i get uneasy.” those who partake are alde, who is also co-owner strongly encouraged to wear of an oilfield environmental protective safety goggles and company, said he has long gloves. in addition, they must wanted to move away from a squish the tomatoes before “one-window” farm operation. throwing for safety precau- he previously tried hemp but tions. another rule is that encountered production and no one is allowed to bring marketing issues. into this fight anything that but he has higher hopes for may provoke someone into haskap, a so-called “super- a more serious brawl, such fruit” with extreme cold hardi- as a glass bottle. although it ness. Derived from an edible is forbidden to tear someone honeysuckle from siberia and else’s clothing, the crowd resembling an oval blueberry, tends to ignore this and the haskap is tart, sweet and invariably will rip the shirt high in antioxidants. of any clothed person, man it is also extremely hardy, fast Kreg Alde examining one of the 7,000 haskap seedlings. phoTos: rebecca dika or woman. growing and high yielding, say after exactly one hour, the its advocates. seedlings will plant another 7,000 next year fighting ends when the water produce fruit within three years, on about 40 acres taken out cannons are fired once more reaching maximum maturity at of regular crop rotation — “As soon as I have to to signal the end. fire trucks 10 years. the fact it can with- making their farm the largest spray down the streets, stand winter temperatures of haskap operation in the prov- rely on other people, I which are said to be quite -47 c and its fruit ready to har- ince. they’ve installed a drip get uneasy.” clean due to the acidity of vest by late June piqued alde’s irrigation system at a cost of the tomatoes. interest. approximately $25,000 and are hoping to eventually harvest Fruit in six years about 80,000 pounds of fruit KreG Alde five commercial cultivars have annually. Plans for a cottage been developed by the univer- winery and offering juice, fresh sity of saskatchewan, the only and frozen haskap berry prod- source of certified seedlings in ucts for sale are in the works. compared to conventional “even though we’ve been a canada. they grow from four alde says more haskap grow- farming. farm family for years, i’m not to six feet high, and yield 2.2 ers will be needed to meet “a new combine can cost comfortable operating today’s pounds of berries per plant in the demand as the market $400,000,” he says. “a berry huge farm machinery.” their third year and as much as develops. one of the advan- harvester costs about $100,000. the idea that they’ll be 8.8 pounds by year six. tages of haskap production a used one is $30,000.” able to scale down harvesting the aldes bought 7,000 for small farmers, he notes, and, says Leanne, there are equipment in both cost and seedlings this spring and will is the required infrastructure other advantages. size is very appealing, she says. ALBERTAFARMEXPRESS.CA • AUGUST 13, 2012 3 Pardons for Harper celebrates border runners raise questions Laws remain } Protesters marketing freedom were convicted under the Customs Act and PooLing oPtion } The new CWB says it’s ready to compete in an open for contempt, not market and buoyed by a good crop, high prices and farmer support under CWB Act By AllAn DAwson By AllAn DAwson staff staff he drama over the Prime Minister stephen Harper’s demise of the Canadian decision to pardon some of the west- T Wheat Board single desk ern farmers convicted of contravening showed no sign of abating as Customs act regulations in the 1990s the new era of open grain mar- is raising eyebrows. keting began. “Where does that stop?” Bob Roeh- Prime Minister stephen le, a former CWB employee and mem- Harper told several hundred ber of friends of the Canadian Wheat cheering farmers gathered at Board asked. “In a democracy, do I get a farm near Kindersley, sask. to choose which laws I support? aug. 1 that farmers who ran the “What about these freedom fighters border to challenge the board’s who don’t like Medicare?” monopoly in the 1990s deserve a government official declined to much of the credit for bringing release the names of the farmers par- about the change.
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