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* Sun at last: After a brief visit in mid-May it seems the sun and summer heat abandoned the International Peace Park region. But late last week it came back and is here to stay. At the marina in Waterton, friends (from the left) Sharon Sandham, ofCoalhurst, Alta., Emily Costa, of Cowley, Alta., and Angela McCartney, of Medicine Hat, Alta., cool their heels in the waters of Emerald Bay.
^p__§3 Study says: Hikers * What's Inside <£f**7 should carry bear spray THE WAV IT WAS by Reta Gilbert Boys will be toys - or bears Page 5 MISSOULA - Everyone who goes into bear country should carry bear spray accord ing to a position paper released last week by the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee. "No deterrent is 100% effective," warns the committee, but pepper sprays are more IN THE PARKS effective than anything else in saving both people and bears. Sprays are effective only Comeback after sojape if they are used properly. Pepper spray should only be used when a bear is attacking or showing aggressive signs, and it should only be used as an airborne repellent, states the Page 2 paper. The instructions are simple. When the bear is some 50 feet away spray a brief shot. Spray again if the bear continues to approach. Once the bear has retreated or is Native Americans part of <•-%*,' busy cleaning itself, leave the area quickly but do not run. Not just any bear spray will Glacier Park get positive results.. The IGBC recommends that everyone check to see if their spray meets the following standards Page 6 • Spray concentration should be 1.4 to 1.8 capsaicin and related capsaicinolds. Spray should be at least 225 grams or 7.9 ounces of net weight FORT MACLEOD Spray should be derived from Oleoresin or Capsicum Spray should be in a shotgun-cloud pattern Soatk Country on jblkies circuit fhe Views Spray should be delivered a minimum range of Page 16 25 feet Spray should last at least 6 seconds ELK VALLEY **»**»& found places: • Spray should be a US Environmental Pro tection Agency approved variety. Fishing rebounds fiom '95 W&ertonip Glacier Pepper spray must be readily available from jlood- a belt holster, states the paper. Bears can Page 8 travel at incredible speeds so don't count on Polebridge to Lethbridge having the time to dig the spray out of a pack even if the pack is the front loading I CARDSTON Coram to Calgary kind. The Interagency Grizzly Bear Commit Many kigkligkts with £[G FORK tee was created in 1983 to lead the recovery Aiog Swing goes of the grizzly bear in the lower 48 states. It is Page 13 Whitefish to Medicine Hat comprised of nine separate federal and state entities including the National Park Service and the British Columbia Wildlife Branch. and more
Road reports on page 11, What's Happening on page 17 July 14,1999 Waterton Glacier^Views While Sofa burned, Van Tighem planned ALPINE STAB|ES by David McNeill (403) 859-2462 ffhterton • HOURLY RIDES \ WATERTON - In some areas had been pushed aside put results so far. Tra*| rides leave on die hour under Sofa Mountain you can back again with a backhoe Because of the park's lais from 9 am to 5 pm and, as the hoe moved, a • 2 HOUR RIDES • hardly tell a fire ripped sez-faire policy, Van Tighem ^^Nff 10 am, J pm, 5 pm through here last fall; now crew turned the sod right side says the fire has offered EXPERIENCE... • 3 or 4 HOUR RIDES • the grass is lush, the wild up so the grass and wild mostly an opportunity to Breathtaking scenery, wildlife in wilderness habitat 1:30 pm flowers tall, bright, waving in flower roots would have a observe that work, but it also and wildflowers carpeting grassy meadows Inquire about our the breeze. chance to establish them has taught that reclamation Our guided rides provide western adventure FULL-DAY ond OVERNIGHT But last September a fire, selves again. work, if needed, works best if for rhe whole family. TRIPS started by lightning, pushed With one growing season started as quickly as possible. by high winds, and encour well underway, there is only The future has more inter aged by a summer of dry, hot occasional evidence of the esting potential anticipates weather, burned for more old cutline, the ground under the park's ecosystem special than two weeks on the slopes foot is uneven and Van ist. He wants to see how Bear Pan/ Tighem thinks it's possible bears, particularly grizzlies, of this mountain in Waterton Lakes National Park. By the that next year weed species will use the area. First, ants Massacre Tftera time it was through 1,524 left by the bulldozers, and and grubs will migrate to the hectares (3,765 acres) were buried in the reclamation Relaxation & Thcrapntic Massage consumed, 180 people had work, will surface. But gen Sofa - Reflexology fought it, using 13 bull doz erally, he is pleased with the continued on page 3 • Reiki i ers, nine helicopters and seven water trucks, and it had Appointment not always necessary cost Parks Canada $1.5 mil lion. Now most of those hectares lie black under blue 305 Windflower Avenue, Waterton Park. AB. summer skies. Trees stand dead, charred, without leaf or mmm needle, the bark falling off, a-a-aM-a exposing white trunks. But at their feet are signs of life. Earlier this spring, yellow glacier lilies carpeted ffatertcn'f the ground. Later, purple HIMST shooting stars took over. And now, beside dead poplars stand new, hopeful poplar BCAP SPIRITS shoots. Beyondj the trees, where cold beer and wine store the fire had scorched the ground, the grass is now lush 1If ^Waterton Avenue "and an oberver would hardly suspect last year's fire. 859-2211, extension 308 Land that the fire burned Renew will regenerate oh its own Bring us your empties! terms, part of nature's cycle, a process encouraged by park t Bottle Recycling management policy. But even even as equip ment was marshalled to con tain the fire, Kevin Van Tighem was planning part of the comeback. Van Tighem looks at new poplar saplings under Sofa Mountain Van Tighem, the park's Akamina conservation biologist, was • CLOTHING • GIFTS • COLLECTIBLES figuring how to reclaim the TkkJ!2&mea
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(T Southwest Alberta Bus lines 'GREYHOUND &m COURIER EXPRESS* Field tests for Glacier 7075 Hewetson Avenue, Pincher Creek, Alberta Come and enjoy a relaxing day in Waterton Paik Phone 403-627-2716 / 403-627-5205 La us do the driving so that you may enjoy plant manual the scenery in greater safety! Fax 403-627-5255 Gdfmg, Fishing. Hiking! by Mary Pat Murphy The most recent update on Pincher Creek-Waterton Shuttle Bus Shuttle Bus park vegetation was a plant Daily Service to Cameron Lake to Red Rode Canyon Glacier National Park per checklist completed in 1996. May 1,1999 Effective June 1,1999 Effective June 1,1999 sonnel are field testing a new With publication of the to September 15,1999 Lv. Pincher Creek 8:00 am Lv. Lodge 10:40 am field guide that will be the new guide, park managers Lv. Rncher Creek 6:15 am Ar. Waterton 8:40 am Ar. Red Rock 11:20 am first comprehensive book on Ar. Waterton 7:00 am L v.Lodge 9:00 am Lv Red Rock 11:25 am and visitors will have a sin Lv. Waterton 8:30 am Ar. Cameron Lake 9:40 am Ar. Lodge 12:05 pm the park's flowers, plants and gle comprehensive source of Ar. Pincher Creek 9:10am Lv. Cameron Lake 9:45 am Lv. Lodge 2:40 pm trees to be developed in near i information about the park's L v. Pincher Creek 10:10 am Ar. Lodge 10:25 am Ar. Red Rock 3:20 pm ly 80 years. flowers, plants and trees Ar. Waterton 10:50 am Lv. Lodge 1:00 pm Lv. Red Rock 3:25 pm The draft of the book, instead of having to search Lv. Waterton 2:30 pm Ar. Cameron Lake 1:40 pm Ar. Lodge 4:05 pm including several hundred Ar. Pincher Creek 3:10 pm Lv. Cameron Lake 1:45 pm Lv. Lodge 6.00 pm through four or five books to Lv. Pincher Creek 4:00 pm Ar. Lodge 2:25 pm Ar. Red Rock 6:40 pm line drawings, has been com correctly identify a particular Ar. Waterton ,, 4:40 pm Lv. Lodge 4:20 pm Lv. Red Rock 6:45 pm pleted and is being used in species. Williams said the Lv. Watertonfc 5:00 pm At. Cameron Lake 5:00 pm Ar. Lodge 7:25 pm the park this summer. Publi new guide is designed to be Ar. Pincher Creek 5:40 pm Lv. Cameron Lake 5:05 pm Lv. Waterton 7:30 pm cation by the University of easy to read and understand. Ar. Pincher Creek 8:10 pm Ar. Lodge 5:45 pm Utah press is scheduled for It will include a binomial key the summer of 2000. and species description of Pincher Creek Waterton Park "Hopefully, a year from every vascular plant species Greyhound Bus Depot * Aspen Village inn this summer, we will have in the park. The Lodge at Waterton the publication,'* said Tara V Total budget for the pro Williams, park ecologist who ject is about $22,500. A num is coordinating the plant ber of organizations con manual project for the park. tributed to the project, She said the field testing including the National Park HIKERS TRAIL MENU will help insure that the test Foundation, National Fish If you've an appetite for beautiful mountain scenery and is clear and easy to under and Wildlife Foundation, fresh mountain air, combine a Scenic Boat Cruise down stand. The pre-publication Glacier National History process also will include Association, Glacier National Waterton Lake with a hike in Glacier National Park. I review of the manual after it Park Associates and the has been submitted to the Montana Native Plant Soci KOOTENAI LAKES HIKE GOAT HAUNT LOOKOUT publisher. ety. The publisher has agreed We recommend departing Waterton on the We recommend departing Waterton on the The new field manual will to do the work at cost. 10 a.m. Boat to return from Goat Haunt on 10 a.m. Boat to return from Goat Haunt on be the first comprehensive Fouf years of field studies the 5:25 p.m. Boat. Enjoy this easy hike the 2:25 p.m. Boat. Wildflowers in July, guide to park vegetation through mixed forest of spruce, fir and huckleberries in August and spectacular were conducted in prepara lodgepoie pine to the marshland around the expansive views of the Waterton Valley since Paul Standley's guide, tion for the book. The text lakes. Habitat is rich and diverse with a anytime highlight this short but steep hike. which is now out of print and was written by Peter Lesica, good chance of seeing a moose. Make sure Pack yourself a lunch, some |^water and out of date, was published in a private consultant from to pack a lunch, raingear and water. bring rain gear just in case.; , mivMore than 200 addi Missoula, Mont., who pro 8 km (5 miles) - 4.5 hours 3.2 km (2 miles) - 3 hours tional species have been dis duced the 1996 checklist. He covered in the park since has been collecting informa Standley's book was pub tion for the project for more SATURDAYS; INTERNATIONAL PEACE PARK HIKE lished, and numerous correc than 12 years. The illustrator This day-long hike along Upper Waterton Lake is led by Canadian and American Park Interpreters. tions and changes in nomen is Debbie McNeil of Troy, Meet 10 a.m. at the Bertha Trailhead. You'll lunch at the border, then continue on to Goat Haunt, clature have occurred since who did the illustrations for U.S.A.! Bring a lunch, raingear and water. Please have exact change for the return boat trip. men. Glacier Park is home to the checklist. l4 km (8.5 miles) - 8 hours at least 1,600 species of The first printing of the native plants, along with 130 book, which will sell for RAINBOW FALLS (2.4 km: 1.4 miles! JANET LAKE (10.4 km; 6.2 miles) exotic species and 675 non about $25, will be between This easy hike for all begins at the Goat Trail begins at the Goat Haunt Ranger vascular forms of vegetation 1,500 and 2,000 copies. Haunt Ranger Station and follows the Station and follows the Boulder Pass trail. such as mosses and lichens. Frances Lake trail for about 0.3 miles, Moderate climb through pleasant woods to branching to the falls. the lake. Continue 4.2 km to Frances Lake
For further information, contact Waterton Inter-Xation Shoreline Cruise Co. k at the Marina in Waterton townsite - (403) 859-2362
ATERTON-GLACIER VIEWS wThe summer newspaper serving the Wfttertort-Glacter Intematioml Peace Park region Waterton-Glacier Views is published for visitors and Published by. • Tarot Decks • residents of the International Peace Park regions of hr-ZhMM jrout\A cohotvtimic-tioriS ir*e. The popularity of Tarot Decks, judging by their availability and southwest Alberta, southeast B.C. and north-central 1035 Hewetson Avenue, variety, must be increasing. There are decks based on Carl Jung, Montana Be* 98,r^icrier Creek. AB TOK 1WD William Blake, Salvador Dali and J.R.R. Tolkien. There are decks with Phone:403-627-2370 Fax: 403^527-2376 images reflecting Greek, Egyptian, Japanese, Chinese, Aztec and Native 15 issues and 150,000 copies published email: b_jround@bdusplanetnet American myths, legends and stories. There are decks based on Base May 19 through September 15,1999 ball, Halloween, Rocks & Crystals, Fairies, Dragons and Cats. Images to 400 outlets in 40 communities Publisher/Editor: Dave McNeill range from basic numbers through words and symbols to blank cards Contributing Writers:GaiI Jokerst, Reta Gilbert, you paint yourself. Some cards have elaborate paintings, some pho Published and printed in Canada forfree distributio n Shari Narine, Frank Goble, Barb Grinder, tographs, some computer-generated images, some collage, some fabric Mailed subscription available for $22 Cdn or $16 US Marlene Dean, Mary Pat Murphy art, some simple black and white drawings. And every year brings new Established in 1992 Sales: Linde Freebairn Farley variations. (U.S. sales) Caroline Casteel Some of this year's decks include the Vision Quest Deck, the Spiral COPYRIGHT NOTICE! Reproduction of any and all editorial (406)844-2014 and advertising materials in part or in whole is strictly prohibited without Tarot and the Goddess Tarot. the written consent of the publisher Production: Paul Smith, Shari Narine, Mike Michalsky In choosing a tarot deck for yourself, the most important issue is: do the images appeal to you? Do they call up strong emotions, stir your We welcome letters to the editor on issues of public interest. Please try to imagination into thoughts and stories, lead you to relate some sort of limit the length to 500 words. We may have to edit submissions fordarity and meaning to them in your own mind? Make sure all the cards, not just the appropriateness. Please include your name, telephone number and address. Major Arcana, have pictures on them. Pictures reach the mind quicker Only under special circumstances will your name not be added to the letter. Waterton Glacier Views July 14,1999
The Way it Was is a series featuring the history of the International Peace Park region. There will regularly toe stories from the pen of Frank Goble. From time to time we will have contributions from other writers with a long-time association to the region. AM Boo! stories are copyrighted. by Frank Goble half of his underwear sagging the lamp down on the table bust down the door! - Stayed pine or a deer?" down off his big belly with and the axe by the side of his up all night keepin' 'em out. "Gawd-dammit Bo, they Harry Gladstone was a him trying to hold them up bed, sat clown on the bed and Ain't gonna spend another wuz bears hyar, tryin't' git big, good-natured, heavy-set with his axe hand and not commenced climbing into his night thar without uh rifle!" in. Kep' chasin' 'em away! man with a huge appetite. being too successful at it as clothes. "Bears bust up the cabin Ain't stayin' hyar another Because of his ability to eat a he waved the big axe at the Seeing that he was getting any?" night without uh rifle!" lot of food in a short time at corner of the cabin where the dressed we thought it might "Kep' 'em out with the axe "Well, Harry, I'll leave the table, Harry was known 'bears' were doing their be a good idea if we were to ontil I left at daylight. Don't you this 30-30. Don't shoot affectionately to his many work. depart from that place, which know what happened after though unless a bear is friends as Chief Many Shov He stood there with his we proceeded to do. that; - damn cabin prob'ly tryin' to get in." els. He had a phobia - he drawers mostly down around The next day we heard wrecked by now!" So Harry got a rifle, and was scared of bears, even his ankles yelling, "Boo - that Harry had waited until "Well, maybe I better drive when we heard that he had though he had lived in the Boo - Boo" , kind of breath daylight, then had set out on up and have a look. C'mon, one we decided it would be a mountains most of his life. less-like, and he wasn't hav foot carrying his double-bit I'll get my truck. You need little bit risky to try playing One evening about 11 ing too much luck at the ted axe and had walked the any grub?" any more bear jokes on him. o'clock in late May of 1937, business of keeping himself two and a half miles down "Yeah, guess I could use a four of us, George, Bert, Slim respectable looking. Each the road and then the half- few things. Prob'ly won't be and I piled into George's time he waved the axe he mile over the Hump to his any grub left in the place Model A Ford coupe and would let go of the top of his brother Jack's place past a'tall if them Gawd-damned NOW AVAILABLE drove up the road to Bridal drawers and they would fall Lake Linnett where he had bears got in after I left." Veil, where Harry was living down around his ankles and slept for a couple of hours. They walked over to the The Trapper while he used a team of hors then he would reach down After waking up and forti warden's building, got into by Frank Goble es and a stone boat to clean and drag them up again. He fying himself with a big Bo's pick-up and drove up rocks out of the ditches. was a little bit short-handed, breakfast he had gone up the town* to Delaney's store Memoirs It was a clear, calm having enough work to keep hill to the service buildings where Harry got some grub evening, no wind, with about three hands busy but having where the Park crew was on his bill; then they drove a half-moon shining down on only two hands to work with. congregated while waiting to up the Akamina road. us as we walked up the road After a few minutes we be assigned their various jobs At Bridal Veil Bo checked after parking the coupe a left the cabin, having to run for that day. the area for bears, saw none, couple of hundred yards down the road out of hearing He walked over to the then inspected the outside of away. Harry was asleep in distance so we could do some warden's office to see Bo the cabin, seeing only a few the cabin, and from the laughing. We waited there for Holroyd, the chief warden: small scratches where we had tremendous snores we heard about a half-hour, long "Gawd-dammit Boif^i^t'' bifceh working on the walls of as we approached it appeared enough, we figured, to let night wuz the worst night I the cabin. that not only was Harry a big Harry get over his scare and hev ever hed. Bears all over "Well, Harry, seems they eater, he was also a mighty get back to sleep, then we the Gawd-damned place weren't too serious about snorer. went back and resumed our tryin't' git in; - on the roof; getting inside. You sure it We snuck over to the wall mean, hungry bear imitations. tearin' at the walls; tryin' t' was bears and not a porcu- of the cabin near where we This time we varied our figured Harry's bed was technique somewhat, with a A series of three books which located and began scratching man at each wall and the chronicle a wilderness partnership and clawing at the slab wall front man rattling the door All Saints Waterton Park among a Welsh WW1 veteran, an and at the same time started from time to time. We sort of Anglican United Church Arizona gunfighter and a youth blowing and growling in imi rotated the process, working from Waterton Lakes National tation of a couple of bears on the back wall, then on a Episcopal Church Regular Park in the southern Alberta- Summer Services southeastern British Columbia that weren't too happy with side wall and then the front region. the situation and had it in end and poor old Harry Sunday Service 11.00 am at Windflower Avenue 11 am mind to get inside the place abandoned the idea of keep Waterton Dedicated to the memory of those to find something to eat. ing his drawers where they Resident Minister two old-time trappers, prospectors Harry's snoring stopped were supposed to be, he everyone welcome Rev. Dr. Alex Lawson and hunters... with a gurgle and some kicked them off. We had him 859-2242 (Waterton) Levi Ashman and Charlie Wise, 328-9277 (Lethbridge) who took a green kid and made a coughing and there was running around in circles July 18: Rev. Stephen Smith pretty fair mountain man out of him. silence for a moment as he inside the cabin, yelling, listened to our efforts outside "Boo - Boo - Boo!", and tak Ail three volumes are available the cabin and then we heard: from: ing some hefty swings at the Borderline Books /Waterton "Gawd-dammit!" and a walls of the place with his ATM MACHINES Medi + Plus / Cardston "Boo!" and the cot springs axe. CONVENIENT! Y LOCA TED A T: Cardston Book Store / Cardston squeaked. A light came on in We took a couple more Polar Peek Books / Fernie the cabin and through the laughing breaks down the O Cedar Tree - Apgar summer only Wildrose Books /Pincher Creek ...or by calling one of the following small window we saw him road, after each of which we Q West Glader Cafe / Mercantile mitrnj .J.M---M numbers: 653-3510 in Cardston standing by his bed in his returned to the cabin to do - West Glacier summer only or 859-2284 in Waterton. two-piece long-johns, a dou some more scaring. Finally (D Alpin Glow Inn - Big Mountain ble-bitted axe in his right Harry appeared to get tired MEMBER FDIC A new book, Bears I Have Known, hand and the coal-oil lamp in from all the running around ® Main ATM - 233 E Idaho - Kalispell also by F. Goble, is now t_r available. his left hand and the bottom EQUAL HOUSING ® 2nd Bank - 552 Meridian Road - Kalispell he had been doing. He put OPPORTUNITY
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The Blackfeet connection Glacier and its American Indian staff
by Reta Gilbert plow, moved around to the ceded strip - for $ 1.5 million. east side for the later part of Mihalic believes that the "This is my home. I want the plowing season. In spite issue today is "what can we to protect the mountains and of falling snow, the atmos do which will help the everything that lives here," phere was almost festive as Blackfeet gain economical says Scott Crawford Glacier members of the group traded ly." National Park seasonal stories with each other Some Blackfeet individu ranger in his second year of about their yearly battle to ally say that the federal gov road patrol out of St. Mary plow out the road. ernment stole the land from and enrolled member of the Blackfeet employees bring them in negotiations where Blackfeet Nation. Unlike an additional set of skills liquor was used as a persua most other U.S. national with them to GNP Debbie sive device. They see the parks and monuments, Glac Fenner, administrative assis money as insufficient for ier is developing an ever tant with 17 years at GNP, what the NPS received, but closer relationship with an recalls the summer of 1998: Mihalic reminds us that this American Indian nation - the "I was a liaison between sum is nearly $1.3 billion in Blackfeet. an employee and a supervisor today"s terms. "The Blackfeet made the last summer because I under The issue of compensation park what it is today," says stand both cultures," she is prominent in the discus David Mihalic, superinten says. "New Blackfeet sions. In the Treaty of 1895, Allen Spoonhunter, US champion fancy dancer and an dent of GNP. employees suffer severe cul the Blackfeet sold the land all-American Junior College basketball player. In 1999, out of 291 tem ture shock when they come while reserving the right of porary employees hired for to work for the National Park access, to hunt, to fish, and the summer who revealed Service," she adds. to cut down timber for their ethnic background, "When dealing with tribal domestic and school use. fTwo Badger some 54 or 18.5 percent are members I have a more level Currently all Blackfeet may gf. American Indian or Alaska enter the park free of charge ground because I can read the | Organic Market native. Some 12 percent of body language, the space and they may fish wherever "Organic Food, Yoga & More" the permanent park staff communication when they they like. No hunting is Including: • Books • Body Care • Gifts # Yoga Classes identify themselves as allowed in any U.S. national • Fresh Produce • Herbs •Special Orders are talking," says ranger > iii Open Monday - Friday 9 a-m. - 7 p.m. Native Americans. Crawford. park. In the last years, GNP ._« Saturday 9 a.m. - 2p.m. This figure has risen "We don't get any favors has donated downed timber f One block off US Highway 2 slowly during the entire because we are Blackfeet," to the Blackfeet program to UH Between Dancing Bears Inn and the Post Office decade of the 90s. During says Dona Taylor, Two Medi provide winter fuel for the 308 Washington, East Glacier Park, MT 59434 the peak hiring season of cine sub district ranger, "but elders. __ Ph: (406) 226-5500 December and January, Lisa we know the area well." Tay According to Mihalic the Towery^vii; GNP human lor grew up on a ranch near question is: is there a right to resources manager, staffs an Babb and hung out with her compensation for those ^or^our^^^Mnce, visit q^AtM% office in Browning one day a grandfather, Dutch Powell, rights which were not exer at the'following locations; week to expedite Blackfeet absorbing the \Vays"of the cised? Other issues include (ATM applications. GNP also par land and its inhabitants. cattle trespass, and the loca • P&M Convenience Store, Browning ticipates An the Student This week a Glacier Park tion of the boundary. The East Glacier Lodge • Many Glacier Hotel Career Employment Pro team is meeting in private negotiators have met three gram where a temporary away from the Park with a times, but no one knows how Member FDIC S West Glacier Hotel worker combines school and team from the Blackfeet long the process will take. work experience to qualify Nation to negotiate the future "There are no magic bul BLACKFEET NATIONAL BANK for permanent employment. connections between two lets to make things right," Browning, MT (406) 338-7000 The east side road crew is, sovereign entities. David reminds Mihalic. on the east side of Glacier National Park almost entirely Blackfeet. At Mihalic, leads the GNP team Members of the Blackfeet this year's east side Show with Mike Synder, deputy Nation in both Canada and Me Day (when the public is regional director of the NPS the U.S. use the park for reli invited to watch park equip Intermountain Region, Dr. gious purposes, primarily THE GREAT NORTHERN ment clear winter snow from Pat Parker, Indian liaison on going on vision quests and the Going to-the-Sun Road), the staff of the NPS director, plant gathering. A few reli I BREWING COMPANY Ed Swartz, Daryl St. God- Butch Farabee, assistant gious ceremonies are also dard and Shawn Garrow, superintendent, Steve Frye, held here. work leader and equipment chief ranger and others repre GNP's award-winning operator, enthusiastically senting the park. The Black Native America Speaks inter showed off GNP's new snow feet team consists of the pretation programs feature entire Blackfeet Tribal Busi both Blackfeet and Koote- ness Council, led by Bill Old nai/Salish speakers. Jack STAR Chief, chairman. Gladstone, Blackfeet singer BIBS ^^^^^^^^ _^^ ME) MOUNTAIN Each team looks at the and songwriter, does a series AMBER EXPORT GOLDEN LASER ikCK LASER CHIEF issues differently. The Black of slide shows explaining TRADING POST feet talk of renegotiajitjg the Alberta and Montana history Treaty 61N 895 where the through Indian eyes. Sun U.S. government purchased Tours employs Blackfeet some 800,000 acres on the raised on the reservation to
WHEAT LAGER AMBER LAGER east side of the continental take tourists across Going-to- Hsfswsizsr, divide - what was called the the-Sun Road. The cooperative Blackfeet Community College Green house Project which opened 'RED CROW in January, 1999 is GNP's KITCHEN newest Blackfeet connection. $• INDIAN ARTS Students, teachers, and com f ASTING ROOM HOU^ AND home Cooking • Indian Taws • Stews munity members work Fry Bread * Fresh Baking* Daily Specials* SUMMER COFFEE together with resources man 1 2-6PM MONDAY - SATURDAY - OPEN - agement staff to col lee* seeds ESPRESSO COFFEE Monday - Friday 6 am to 7 pm Saturday 7 am to 4 pm in the fall, plant them in the 2 CENTRAL. AVENUE WHITEFISH, MONTANA 59937 Star Route (Hwy 89) MOST QUESTIONS ANSWERED: 406/863/1000 winter, then use the plants to FAX 406/863/IOOt St. Mary, Montana Tipi Village Shopping Centre re vegetate sites in GNP in WWW: B LACKSTARBEER.COM Browning, Montana the spring. 406-732-9242 338-7626 Waterton Glacier Views July H 1999 A book review of High on a Windy Hill: The Story of the Prince of Wales Hotel by Ray Djuff, published by Rocky Mountain Books, Calgary
My father and my two old their destination. of Poulin's Hotel, but in the National Park, this book is Reviewed by Frank Goble, est brothers, as well as two of On page 24, a Mr. T.L. lobby-dining room of the well written, informative a long-time Waterton resi - my cousins, worked for con Alfred is mentioned as buidling. The tavern, or beer and a very interesting read. dent, a Views contributor tractors Oland & Scott during owner of the Crystal Pool. parlour, was built after a The old pictures are excel and an author or several the construction of the Prince This was T.L. Allred, broth petition for a bar was taken lent books on Waterton. His of Wales Hotel, from the time er-in-law to D.H. Ellison, the by the residents of Waterton Bears I have Known has work began in 1926 until the owner of the pool. Mr. Allred in the summer of 1927. been recently published. building was completed in was managing the pool for On page 107; work on the the summer of 1927. I am Del Ellison. Chief Mountain Highway familiar with much of the The pool was not steam began in early August, 1932, information Mr. Djuff has heated. The water in the pool not in October. When George compiled in his very interest was heated by drawing water Annand and I started as part Higltwallfi Win a copy of ing and well researched pub from the pool, circulating it of the crew in the last week '''Prtriot of Wale* HoW lication relating to the through a large boiler, then of August 1932, grading on High on a Windy Hill "Prince" or "P.W. "Hotel" as returning it to the pool. (Dur the first half-mile of road, by The Story of the it is referred to locally. ing the summer of 1938 I teams of horses, was well My father, my two broth was lifeguard at the pool, underway. Prince of Wales Hotel ers, and my two cousins, part of my job was to fire the The Prince of Wales by Ray Djuff until the rest of our family boilers.) power plant not only sup published by Rocky Mountain Books moved to Waterton in the The picture on page 64 plied power to the hotel and spring of 1927, boarded and shows the ditch for the water to the dormitories, but for Send us a story of your special experience in roomed at the bunkhouse and line to the water tower. This many years also sold power dining room provided for the ditch, eight feet deep, started to the parks department in the Waterton Glacier International Peace Park crew by Oland & Scott. Mrs. at the north side of the Nar- Waterton for re-sale to the (maximum 500 words). Include your name and Mabel Dilatush did the cook rows between the lakes. townsite. This was prior to mailing address. ing for the crew, and also Another line, for the hotel Calgary Power building a looked after the bunkhouse. septic tank, ran from the power line into the park. Send it to: Waterton Glacier Views The story is good; it is hotel to the north end of the On page 128, a leasing by Box 98, Pincher Creek, AB TOK 1W0 well written; the old pictures hill. A third line, a drain, not Arthur Laing, Minister of or Box 352, Babb, MT 59411 are excellent; the descriptions as deep, ran from the water Northern Affairs in charge of or E-mail: [email protected] of Waterton's wild winds and tower to the south end of Canadian parks, at the end of heavy snows are accurate. Lake Linnett. All these lines Entries must be postmarked no later than July 31, 1999. We'll pick the lease term, everything on a winner, publish the story and send you your copy of the book. Road access to Waterton, were dug by hand, with pick the lot or lots, including chat from Cardston or Pincher and shovel. tels, became the property of Creek, as outlined in the The original plan for a the federal government, with book, was terrible; uncertain water supply for the hotel no compensation paid to the even during the summer had been to build a dam on owner. <&§§*£ Waterton Lakes months. From Cardston the Carthew Creek, run a line The Canadian national "highway", by way of Moun from there to the townsite parks business operators and Golf Course tain View or the alternate and on to the hotel. This the park leaseholders fought route through Hillspring, was plan, vetoed by the parks this proposal all the way to Public Course no more than a dirt grade. department, would have sup the Supreme Court of Cana Phone ahead for Tee Times The Rncher Creek-Waterton plied winter water to the da, and finally, after several road was the same; there was Waterton townsite as well as years of litigation, won the You don't have to be a golfer no gravel on either one, and to the hotel and would have case and the act was disal to enjoy ihe view and have during wet weather the roads eliminated the need for a lowed. Financing of the costs a great meal at the Clubhouse were almost impassable. In water tower. It was not until of the legal battle was borne the winter, with no snow 1953 that Waterton townsite by the national parks busi For Tee Times moving equipment other than had a winter water and ness owners. or more information scoop shovels and hand sewage system- call the Pro Shop at power, vehicles often had to Accommodation for the For anyone interested in take to the field or to the hills school students, until May of the early years of the hotel (403) 859-2114 in order to negotiate a path to 1927, was not in the "tavern" business in Waterton Lakes CRYPT LAKE HIKE Waterton - Glacier International Peace Park
The Crypt Lake Hike is one of the most unique hikes you'll ever encounter. Rated Canada's "best hike" \n 1981. FOOt|||EARi8SfeX_ssoRiei^ featuring / en I tires: Patagonia The w
Western SISies, Summer Nights Deneb t_ . Ii CWNUS ^ /\ """ >. «_^ A monthly feature provided by the Lethbridge Rival of Mars. / \ \ LYRA [J • \ HFR-XLES Astronomy Society. Phone 403-381-7827 The Summer Triangle, high in the east, is composed *-— * of three bright white stars. \ / SUMMER TRIANGLE :t'"V\' July's night skies Vega, the brightest, is nearly SAGITTA / ys. overhead around midnight. ^ Xy U by Gordon Falconer is a good time to look at To its lower left is Deneb, DELPHINUS "'\ ^ / .•"" « SERF Venus, to see its crescent- and about halfway up in the • *AJuir / \^ Although the nights are shaped phase, which grows southeast is AJtair. This easy- v short, the sky is dark enough thinner as the month pro to-find triangle will be visible / \ / » \ between 10:30 p. m. and 4:30 gresses. in the sky every clear evening OPHIICHUS .- a.m. to see some of the won Mars, although not as until late fall. / AQITLA ' / \ •'"'Nf ders of the summer sky. bright as it was in May, is If you are in a dark-sky / Two bright planets domi still a bright reddish 'star' in location on a moonless night, ,.m.,.ll \ \/\ nate the sky this month. the south-southwest as the you'll easily see the Milky • •_ x- * f Venus shines brilliantly in sky grows dark. At the Way, a cloud-like band of the western sky; it's the beginning of July, it was a light stretching from the GRIZ INN - SPORT HOTEL brightest object in the sky short distance (a couple of northeastern horizon, over Located in the middle ofthe when there's no moon. fingers' width) to the east head through the Summer Canadian Rockies there are Call us Venus is dropping a bit fur (left) of a bright blue-white Triangle, and down to the endless opportunities for today! ther each evening toward the star, called Spica. Watch southern horizon. If you adventures. You can kike or western horizon; by the end Mars as it moves eastwards; have binoculars, you can see bike or raft or fish or explore on horsebackA of July it will be fairly low as by late August, it will be that the 'clouds' are actually or just relax and the sky darkens in the west. close to a bright reddish star, composed of countless take in the If you have a telescope, now called Antares, which means (about 200 billion) stars. spectacular scenery
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^i *0$ The Best US 2 - from three to 13 miles east of*Browning, Pizza, Pasta watch for construction. There is 9 miles of gravel and Steaks! with a 35 mph speed limit. Cyclists should take an alternate route •[Hue In US 89N - expect up to 10 minutes delay north of •TakeOul Browning from five miles south of St. Mary to the ST_AkHOUSE ^ • Free Delivery
I I L x I I . I "* I " I ' ' n While travelling through Southwestern Alberta i -'; _L '':J!-v ""'"-,__' ": :'V"''-i V',\- .: : j.-' 'P'v'' ,v|_ -,,1'h 'r-'''•"•'•;.,'-''' +•', •> ..:. x.'.i-'',". '''•',v.-',1 v •'.''"' \'.u. i'-. ' '''' A'iP, you're never far from a Luigis PizZtt w> ^Fort Macleod -/*•"•"' SM >^!2>v Dinner Theatre Ufa k g*eot at Sub&i S. 537 24th Street (403) 553-4555 *k£RKj*i Tyreil flu**** Call for reservations on our Superline - Lethbridge - 1-800-800-8000 306 13th Street North (403) 327-2766 A. 1 mm ALBERTA ; • - ••*•' -'J Indoor Pool & Spa - Lethbridge - . 1o Medlc/netitft •'•• Cardston ^J3B j All Queen Beds 1119 .Mayor Magrath Drive South (403) 329 mm 40Twain Street Large Vehicle Parking Cardston Restaurants^; (403) 653-8000 /1 -(800) 800-8000 . A^l^fr - Lethbridge Wi/07 Mayor Magrath Drive South - (403) 381 Pincher Creek Continental Breakfast 1307 Freebairn Avenue Smoking /Non- Pincher Creek Smoking Available (403) 627-5671 /1-(800) 800-8000 Pincher Creek - 1315 Hewetson Avenue (403) 627-2526 Xa hor ' *® ^oorns te-uhng Id lit? I Queen-size Beds r a '•••'-•'•'•'••••••" '••" ••»• Highway 3 . L^ vehicle Parklngl K (Crowsnest Trail) -Guest Laundry - Taber - :ffc 5036 46th Avenue on Highway $3 (403) 223-8887 .«_3* (403) 223-8181 /1 -(800) 800-8000 . Rec(iners k %iff y_ ' ««* mm*X} mm **>* •Siwaffcj*XSS\ You're never far away from
Browning / G^\ ,1,1 II IUMI ——- Il«llj1lllll '•"• V". " - HOURS Fresh meat • Ice • Hot deli TeepleS IGA located on Main Street We accept Visa Mon-Sat 7 am. -10 pm. and MasterCard only 12 miles from Easl Glacier tbank Full Service Grocery Store Sun. 8 am.-8 pm. We sell Money Orders
3helktj '& Freshly baked bread, buns, In-Store-Bakery located right on Highway 2 - OPEN - cookies, cakes, pastries, and Deli (403) 625-2555 7 clays salads and prepared foods all ready for your picnic. '-&¥'•• 1b Great ga/fe jjta& ! • ' I. . I. |ii ,...•. HO50 60 70 Friendly Small Town Service HOURS KM located on Mon-Fri.9am.-9pm We accept Visa. Big City Prices and Selection Historic Main Street Sat9ant-7pm. and MasterCard MILES Sun. 11 am. -6pm. ) 30 HO 50 •-'-•••- -• • • •••:-•'. • • •••• •-•: -••.. ; :,-- . i -:.". •.. terpretive Centre. Pi IGA ark &k:- - HOURS Meat • Deli • Produce Your one stop grocery shop located on Bakery • Groceries GARDEN MARKET Main Street Mon-Sat 8 am -9pm. We accept Visa, MasterCard, Sun. 10 am-7 pm. Amex and Debit l V mJ "" in I.Ml, ,IJ ,. ,,l .iHll^fV* 12 July 14,1999 Waterton Glacier Views Accommodation Directors^ for |t| tfie International Peace Park Region Alberta Alberta Alberta British Columbia Montana |||lRDSTC«fe CROWSNEST PASS NANTON FERNIE BABB/ST. MARY Bed & Breakfast Hotel/Motel Bed&Breakfast Hotel/Motel Campground GRIZ INN SPORT HOTEL RANGEVIEW RANCH VACATIONS STOP INN MOTEL THE FERRIS HOUSE BED & BREAKFAST 2420-20th Street, (403) 646-5692. Our Ski Area Road. 1-800-661-0118 toll-free 30 kms. southeast of Cardston (403) 8322-20th Avenue, Coleman (403) 562- 1918 home is one hour south of Calgary. reservations. Condo hotel located on the 653-2292. Lodge and 8 bedroom cabins 7381. 24 clean, comfortable rooms, It is also 3 blocks from Nanton's large mountain. Pool, sauna, hot tubs, licensed CHEWING with modern facilities, guest ranch, trail kitchens available, cable TV, fax/modem- Antique Walk, Lancaster Museum and restaurant, fully-equipped kitchens, cable rides, home-cooked meals. compatible phones, close to ail BLACKBONES amenities. great golf course, www.thebestinthe TV, 1-3 bedroom loft condos. worfd.com/ferrishouse. htm Campground and R.V. Park TEMPLE HAVEN BED & BREAKFAST JAFFRAY East shore - St Mary Lake - Hwy #89 395-4th Avenue West (403) 653-3824. PINCHEfttJp^ VALLEY VIEW MOTEL >&_ "Lettuce Get-Together" Affordable, spacious, clean rooms are Bed & Breakfast Soup & Salad Bar tastefully and comfortably decorated. Winner of Ihe Alberta Hotel Association Bed & Breakfast Lake Front Campsites Delicious nutritious breakfast served. Good HousekeepingAward in 1996! THE THREE BEARS BED & BREAKFAST Walking distance to Alberta Temple and Clean, Comfortable & Affordable (250) 429-3519. Peaceful and relaxing Boat Dock & Marina downtown Cardston. Free Continental Breakfast • In Room Coffee accommodation in the Canadian Rockies Store...Laundromat Modems' • Microwaves • Fridges ?rame Schooner of B.C. Four large rooms, hearty 131 Campsites on 80 acres Jacuzzi Suites • Air-Conditioning breakfast included in price, central to all col 406*732-9263for reservation s Campground 306 Canyon kinds of summer recreation, children Smoking & Non-Smoking Rooms Drive 909-360-0547 during off-season LEE CREEK VALLEY CAMPGROUND Highway 3, Coleman, AB. (403) 563-5600 welcome, German spoken. Beside Remington-Alberta Carrriage Centre (403) 653-3734. 55 sites, 43 fully serviced, large tenting area, hiking frails. ESSEX FORT MACLEOD Near Waterton Park Under Hotel/Motel Campground Private Bath Bed & Breakfast $50 - $95 Sofa DAISY MAY ^.-S^. 1-877-627-5352 in the Oldman River Valley Paola Soward*$ohnsori Mini-Golf, Laundry, Heated Bed and Break- Pool, Games Room, All Services Campground Tucked between the Great Bear Wilderness & Glacier National Park EXPRESS INN Fort Macleod, Alberta Pincher Creek Skiing, Hiking, Biking, River Activities 403-553-2455 Hosts KettvA Les Hosteller (406) 888-5061 MAKES YOU FEEL AT HOME Municipal Campground JJ6 etectrical-serviced stalls and several Mam Street tk 8th Avenue W. unserviced stalls.. Shower and kitchen area, 403-653-4481 MAC|B§n| fire pits, camp kitchen and restrooms. Beside the Pincher Creek, close to all Toll-Free 1-800-l-GO-HOJO Bed & Breakfast amenities., SeJfVegistration. Stop and enjoy COLUMBIA FAL|| (1-800-446-4656) the hcspjtafityof Pincher Creek. Just 30 minutes from the park! Covered Campground Wagon Hotel/Motel BLUE MOUNTAIN MOTEL ^mmsnomr jMjrin Street&M-W 6 (403) 627-5335, #reentooob tillage Bed & Breakfast Aft SERVICES .non-smo'klng rooms, senior rates. Cabins - Bed&Breakrast - Indoor pool Remote colouPicable TV, DD phones. Campgrotmbg BLUEBIRD MOTEL* ** wagon rides, qijet location* Somequeens &^kitphen 'rHsHb Hwy *£$ Tiour south oNJa18a^*(800J-e^ 'Magrath, AB.%t)3-75B-3572 ; 4891. Super clean, 8 "Alberta Housekeeping FOOTHILLS MOTEL «•" Close fo town Awards", 2-bedroom units, kitchenettes, antique 1049 Waterton Avenue, (403) 627-3341 rooms, large-screen TV's, movie channels, in- or tofi-ffe¥tT(8»BTB27-3340, 30 units, «*** Store, Laundry room coffee, A/C, pets welcome in smoking cable TV, air-conditioned, sauna & : Indoor Pool «•" Dump site rooms. WM' ph:(403) whirlpool. Kitchens. Reasonable rates. 758-3572 Daily, Weekly, Monthly 11 OO East Oregon trti/fax: (403) Kalispell, MT. Bed&Breakfast 4& 758-3793 The Views...serving (bottom of underpass hill) THE STONE RABBIT BED & BREAKFAST Waterton-Glacier Box 67, Cowley, TOK 0P0 (403) 628- Hwy 2 East 2650. 45 minutes north of Waterton, 5 International Peace Bark 1-406-257-7719 minutes to boating and fishing, (403)627-2370 breathtaking view. Comfy rooms, private Hotel/Motel bath, full breakfast. $55.00 double,. SUPER 8 MOTEL ROCKY 1280 TransCanada Way SE (403) 528-8888, , Toll-free 1-800-800-8000. 70 clean, quiet, air Campground OUNTAIN"HI 1 conditioned rooms, indoor pool and hot tub, CAMPGROUND Campground complimentary continental breakfast and movie CROOKED CREEK CAMPGROUND channel. Children under 12 stay free! Hwy. 5, just 5.6 kms. east of Waterton ••'Large shaded sites -RV and tent areas LOST LEMON R.V., PARK & CAMPGROUND Park. Ph: (403) 653-1100 for reservations. •Cabins Box 1590, Blairmore, TOK 0E0 Ph: (403) Majestic views and cozy sites near Water- •No Highway Noise - Easy Access 562-2932, Fax: (403) 562-8065, email: ton Park. 46 sites, 7 full-service, tablesan d •Western Raytown and canoeing [email protected]. Full hook-ups, firepits, wood for sale, dumping station and •Best Rates, Guaranteed Satisfaction heated pool, hot tub, showers, laundry, Bed & Breakfast telephone. playground, fishing. 825 Helena Flats Road MOUNTAIN VIEW BED & BREAKFAST Kalispell 20 mins to Waterton Park, 1 km south of Hwy #6. WATERTON PARK CAMPGROUNDS 406 - 755 -9573 Hotel/Motel (403) 653-1882. Four large, renovated rooms with 3 park-operated campgrounds (403) 859-5133. A cat line reclaimed after last 1-800-968-5637 Reservations NOfAccepted. TOWNSITE: 238 breathtaking view of sacred Chief Mountain. Affili September's fire. http://kalispell.bigsky.net/rmhc/ ate Blue Bam great for reunions and groups.Fire sites, semi-serviced to fully serviced (S15-$23). email: rmhe0bigsky.net COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL pit, BBQ's, full breakfast,children welcome CRANDELL: 129 unserviced sites ($13). BELLY Blairmore (403) 562-7321, 13 air- www.telusplanet.net/public/mtnvubub. RIVER: 24 primitive sites ($10). Group camp can conditioned rooms, 2 mini suites, 1 2- accommodate from 25 to 100 ($2 night/person). bedroom suite. Colour cable TV, phones, ST.MAftf MOUNTAIN VIEW INN/ some non-smoking rooms. Restaurant- ROCKY RIOGE COUNTRY RESORT bar. Hotel/Motel Campground Just 15 minutes from Waterton Park. Phone (403) 653-2350. Bridal suite, trout NORTHLAND LODGE 1/2 block south of Cameron Falls. Phone/Fax CROWSNEST MOUNTAIN LODGE fishing and individual bathrooms at The (403) 859-2353. Nestled against the mountains Hwy. #3,2 kms. west of Coleman Phone/Fax Inn. Evening buffet and catering, 8 bed JOHNSON'S sits Northland Lodge. Listen toCamero n Fails (403) 562-7993. New cozy cabins with living, rooms, hot tub and canoeing at The Resort as you drift off to sleep. Charming rooms bedroom, kitchenette and full bath. RV sites Both feature horseback riding, billiards and OF ST. MARY, MONTANA w/private bams and a relaxing deck. Weddings with full hook-up. Open air hot tub, low-temp firepit. and family reunions. sauna. Cafeteria. Mountain view, e-mail: World Famous Cafe [email protected]. LETHBRIDGE 8c Hotel/Motel Campground GRAND UNION BUDGET HOTEL "Enjoy our panoramic view of St. Mary Lakes' & • Rates for all budgets INTERNATIONAL HOSTEL /w\ Hwy 89 North St. Mary • MEMBERS $12.50; NON-MEMBERS $15 ' Free continental breakfast 406-732-5565 - Cafe + Info on 1000 places to stay fer$20 or under 1 DAYS INN 1 • Luxurious whirlpool & pool 406-732-4207 - Campground Coleman- 403-563-3433/5486 Follow the Sun" • Downtown location, dose to two major shopping malls Toll-Free Waterton-Glacier Views is published for visitors and residents \ Bed&Breakfast f Reservations • Secure electronic locks of the International Peace Park regions of southwest Alberta, licensed Dining 1 1-800-661-8085 ' Friendly, professional service southeast B.C. and north-central Montana Prime Rib Nightly 115 issues and 150,000 copies published Scenic Drive at 3rd Avenue South May 19 through September 15, 1999 PH{403) 563-310! Lethbridge, AB. Canada (403) 327-6000 to 400 outlets in 40 communities Highway 3 Crowsnest AB/BC V J Waterton Glacier Views July 14,1999 13 Summer Games fun Teams from Pincher Creek and Fort Macleod battled it out in soccer with Fort Macleod coming out ahead. Soccer was among 15 of the sports played during the Southern Alberta Games held in Cardston recently. There were about 2,500 participants, said organizer Paul Doig, and 500 volunteers. "Everything went really quite smooth" he said, with even the weather cooperating for most ofthe four day event. "We got a lot of positive comments." (Photo: Hilary Matheson) Any Swing Goes f-Jensen's Trading PostA Janitors and divas battle for stardom Old Time Country Store by Marlene Dean from Candide is witty, and take off on Jerry Lee Lewis' Antiques & Collectibles her coloratura soprano is Great Balls of Fire. Flea Market every Saturday CARDSTON - Any Swing thrilling. Kudos go to all concerned, Postal Services Goes, the new musical revue She teams up with including Rachel le Sugden at the Carriage House The Cameron Cahoon to sing All for beautifully designed cos Highway 501, Aetna, Alberta atre, opened July 5 to a I Ask of You from Phantom tumes, Gerry Unger for origi (403) 653-2500 packed house. Artistic direc of the Opera. Cahoon's mag nal and exciting choreogra W tor Sheila Hague and musical nificent tenor voice adds to phy, Alonna Leavitt for bril director Alonna Leavitt have the magic of this episode. liant piano playing, Don taken musical styles from The janitors reassert their Browne for excellent percus swing to opera, dance styles right to the stage by recaptur sion and Larry Kunkle for E_MEDf + Pl__ from tap to tango, a great ing the opera stars at the end great back up on guitar. dash of humour and blended of the duet. It is a clever way Any Swing Goes plays Full Service Pharmacy them all to create a seamless to work in the operatic nightly at 7:30 p.m., Monday production, pieces, but the janitors move through Friday and will Souvenirs • Beanie Babies The show begins when a in too quickly. The audience delight the entire family. Precious Moments • Boyd's Bears group of janitors take over a needs a few more seconds to Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 theatre after locking the savour the music. for seniors and children. Call 271 Main Street, Cardston "real" stars, the opera singers, Any Swing Goes has a (403)653-1000. (403) 653-4466 • email: [email protected] in the dressing room. Their strong cast, and the singing opening dance number, and dancing is professional involving brooms as percus throughout. Andrea Bennett, T&dctMte ta &€vid "World's Best" If you're in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Wtdle im Cmfstan end District Park, you're just a short drive from the Town of also consider visiting: Museum of Cardston...and the Remington-Alberta Carriage • The Alberta (Mormon) Temple Centre. The largest museum of its kind in North • The Courthouse Museum Horsedrawn America, the Remington Centre features the Transportation continent's largest collection of carriages, buggies, • CO. Card Pioneer Home wagons and sleighs. Listen to a • Carriage House Summer See why comment by a visitor from Vir Theatre international ginia: 'This is the most fabu • The Fay Wray Fountain travellers lous collection, and we have trav • Cardston Golf Course (9 holes) say this elled all over the world and seen many fabulous collections." • Cardston Agridome about Cardston's & Buffalo Paddocks Remington-Alberta The Remington Centre • The Lee Creek Campground Carriage Centre is enhanced by: • An 85-seat theatre and several (adjacent to the award-winning media productions Remington Centre) § - Open Year Round • • A gift shop with a wide 15 May • 06 September 9:00 am to 6:00 pm daily selection of souvenir and gift items Remainder of Year 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Remington Centre • A comfortable 80-seat cafeteria • Beautiful grounds in the DISCOUNT COUPON pastoral Lee Creek Valley n good for 30% Off __ Remington-Alberta' Carriage-Centre • Blacksmith, vehicle restoration 1 and tack facilities aapission w For more information on Cardston contact: • Carriage rides through SfO Remington-Alberta Carriage Centre (403) 653-5139 Lee Creek Valley. value is pur Town of Cardston (403) 653-3366 Offer good until December 31,1999 14 Joly 14,1999 Waterton Glacier Views Gourmet Cuisine to Famous Burgers Rendez-Vous telephone (403) 564-0000 fax (403) 564-0000 Blairmore, A8. * reservations suggested * toTLyS ffiSRSSISBRS iiiM Nature & Historic Tours An Environmental Education Company Inc. P»t)«BM<)^|i|fj|iH The arts world of yesterday in the Crowsnest Pass, Alta., is the theme of this room in the '"iHI Lundbreck, Alberta TOK 1 HO Crowsnest Museum, in Coleman. Thomas GushuVs studio, shown here with some ofhis original rffill Phone: 403-564-4295 e-mail: [email protected] equipment, still stands, restored, in Blairmore, and is used as an artist retreat Also included in the >S£hoitf Proai-ams ! ' www.telusplanet.net/public/clwelshAours.htm Wkwmm room, which is one of six theme rooms in the museum, located in the Crowsnest Pass, are a variety of ______wedding gowns {and photos ofthe women who wore them and then donated them to the museum) and band uniforms. The symphony in the Pass is one ofthe oldest in the province, points out inter preter Nerissa Rejman. (Photo: Shari Narine) store the coordinates in its memory. When you want to FROM UERE • •• find it again, call up the way- point as the destination of a ...TO TIIERE navigation route. The unit will give navigation instruc tions by arrow or by words What is NavStar? such as right twenty degrees - distance 1.5 miles to guide by Chris Hoare their own position informa you there. Don't get degrees? tion - nothing else - no phone, Just remember your ears are Did you get the feeling TV or voice communications. At the Historic Empress Theatre at 90 degrees from your nose, lately that you're no outdoors Mountains, concrete build and the hinge on your sun in Fort Macleod person unless you can talk ings, and metal roofs can glasses is at about 45. You about GPS? block the signals, as can a • The Full .Mountie by Robert Clinton can also set the distance units What the heck is the thick tree canopy or a circle to kilometres, feet or whatev • Wildcat! by Gordon Pengilly Global Positioning System of heads of interested specta er you feel more at home in. GREAT • Polaroids of Don by Marty Chan all about, anyway? tors. Enough satellites are If you are making a pur July 1 - August 29, 1999 A GPS receiver works on located in any part of the chase today, go for a 12- WEST radio signals put out by the horizon that some can be THEATRE Group Packages Available! channel receiver, as they are US Department of Defence received on a city street or better at keeping lock than Call 403-553-4404 or 1-800-540-9229 satellite navigation system. A through a car windshield for older single or 3 - 5 channel hiker, fisherman, or anyone units to operate. units. The unit should have Carnage SNntge ©Jjeatre else interested in outdoor The receiver is exactly that position, navigation and plot presents Foondation adventure can use one to aid - unlike a cell phone, it sends screens for greatest utility, Any Swing Goes - their back country travel. no signals of its own. Mis and should manage about The 24 satellite system is chievous teenagers are unable seven hours of continuous July 5th to 23rd free and accessible to anyone to damage the system by operation on internal batter Hboard f or—The tfMc i with a hand-held unit costing interference, and nervous ies. The ability to plug in to August 2nd to 24th $200 or less. While the DoD computer-illiterates need not the power outlet on a vehicle restricts the accuracy to 50 - fear doing something wrong. 353 Main Street * performances begin at 750 pm, Monday to Friday is essential for anyone wanti 100 metres, lest enemy pow So how does the informa ng to use the receiver on a Call 403-653-1000 for ticket information ers try to use it against them, tion get to you? If you know long journey. it is available 24 hours a day, how to plot latitude and lon Buy one and learn it everywhere in the world. gitude, or use map coordi before you are going to Satellites rise and set nates, you can compare the depend on it, so that you above everybody's local hori screen data to a map. Those July 9 - October 9,1999 become comfortable with its Theatnf zon all day, and GPS who don't want to be both operation and have deci receivers measure their dis ered, use the receiver's own phered manual instructions as Dinner and Theatre tance from each of them - brain. If you are at your obscure as a VCR's. Which Matinees $34 - Evenings $38 resolving the distance from favourite fishing hole or a brings me to the last and per Group and Children's Rates Available several satellites gives a campsite for example, press haps most important point - Call 1-800-267-7553 for reservations position on the earth. The the button marked WPT or buy the unit from a salesman satellites constantly broad waypoint. The receiver will who knows what he is talking cast navigation signals and about, and can answer your inevitable queries. EXPERIENCE the POWER of GLENBOW THE M^ISE FACTORY Home of the Cedarsaurus . Millennium Gifts Chris Hoare is the presi - dent of Globestar Positioning ?v downtown Bellevue, Alberta in the Crowsnest Pass Discover the heritage ol •w_ttgyii C_^^ (across from the Legion) Services Inc in Lundbreck, (403)562-8517 powerful SpThis summejr* Powerful Images: Portrayal&Wim Alberta. images ||r NativesJ^I M . - Crowsnest Located in the heart of his ORTRAYALS toric downtown Coleman i>F NATIVE Summer Hours 10 am-5 pm MERICA (403) 563-5434 JULY 3 to SEPTEMBER 26, 1999 Waterton Glacier Views July 14,1999 15 walking the trails, watching of the river bottom are alive and waterfowl. the birds play in the wind and with bird song and offer cool But don't take my word Gone Hiking seeing what new flowers are shade in the heat of the day. for it, come on down and in bloom. The parks offer Coulee trails offer more of a check them of& for yourself. much more freedom than the workout for those fitness Contact your local-park to From the confining walls of my tiny minded people and display an see what activities they have Parks Day? Parks Day, bachelor apartment (more amazing diversity of plant planned or set out on your Saturday July 17th, is a little like a cell!). Here in Leth life with a different wild own and do some exploring. known holiday celebrating bridge our parks may not flower blooming on the other The whole idea behind Parks it's tenth anniversary this have the grandiose mountains side of the next rise. There's Day is to head out into the year. If you work this holi of the national parks a little the prairie uplands, where the parks in your area, enjoy day, you won't get overtime, further west, or the rugged winds play amongst a sea of them, and appreciate them. but you will miss out on all badlands of Writing-On- grasses, the stems bending So this weekend, while the excitement. It was creat Stone, but there is still a wide back and forth in hypnotic I'm out fighting my way ed as a way for Canadians to variety of landscapes to dis fashion. And don't forget the through the festival crowds, celebrate the importance of cover. wetlands, home of the West if someone tells me to take a our national, provincial and The cottonwood forests ern Painted turtles, beavers, hike, I think I probably will. municipal parks in our every Lethbridge day lives. This year also marks the fifth anniversary of The Lethbridge & District Exhibition presents ^^ COULEE the Take-A-Hike program. What does Take-A-Hike Chris Garrett mean? Well, many parks Summer Program Leader across Canada are scheduling Wfwoj)-U]) Days '99 hikes and other fun events to It looks like a busy encourage Canadians to weekend ahead. While I plan become actively involved in on attending a few of the fes the continued preservation of tivals, rodeos, stampedes, and our natural and cultural histo other happenings going on in ry sites and to build aware Southern Alberta this week ness on current issues facing d^eja^ end, I know there will be the parks. times when I'll have to I know the city parks Parade July 21,10:00 am escape the maddening rush of and nature reserves of Leth the crowds. What better way bridge play an important role to find a little peace and quiet in my life. Not only do I RCMP Musical Ride July 21 than to hit the trails and what work in the heart of one of better time to do it than Parks them, but I also spend almost Day. every hour of free time I have Pro Rodeo July 21-24, 7:00 pm LETHBRIDGE & DISTRICT EXHIBITION Flooding denies access Appearing on the Shaw Stage will be hypnotist Super Bill Bentleyand thej&lmygw Beach Band; and on the Nashville Stage-mil he Hole still closed 'oil i a •# number of up and coming local artists. by David McNeill was also reluctant to interfere Other c&ah^ons include the Fast Antics Agility Dog Show, helicopter flights with the river's natural WATERTON - Access to processes because that goes over the city and the climbing wall at the Exhibition Pavilion. the Marquis Hole, in Water- against the park's mandate ton Lakes National Park, is laid out in its general man For more information call 328-4491 still closed to vehicles. agement plan. $__ f Ken Walker, the park's front country manager, said late last week that the road Sill EVENTS THIS WEEK into the popular fishing, pic nicking and swimming hole Visit Lethbridge was still flooded and he did Helen Schuler Coulee Centre n't expect conditions to lipe Summer Sundays, 2 pm - Nature Walks change in the near future. Each walk lasts approximately one hour and |tagglM||| ^^^^^s^"*- Earlier this year, before takes place rain or shine. spring run-off had caused the Sir Alexander Gait Museum Blakiston River to jump its Helen Schuler banks, park workers had built Coulee Centre Leam more about Lethbridge's exciting some diversion banks in an past and present! Lethbridge's Nature Centre effort to reduce the flooding Southern Alberta Art Gallery on the Marquis Hole access until August 15 road. - Bob Boyer, Spiritual Landscapes "The work was only par - Guerrilla Tactics: A Diary tially successful," explained SUMMER ART CLASSES Walker. "We'll do more work Sir Alexander July 21,1-3 pm on it this fall or next spring." Gait Museum - ARTtrix (drawing) He doesn't expect to be A Bridge to the Past Register by July 19 (call 327-8770 for details) able to divert all spring run SUMMER WORKSHOPS off away from the road, but July 26-30,1-5 pm daily he's hoping if he can keep Southern Alberta - Mask Making (for ages 9 to 14) most of it away the money Art Gallery Register by July 20 ($90/$75 members) and energy the park puts to Regional Crafts & Unique August 3-6,1-5 pm dally the route's annual mainte Gifts in our Gift Shop - Dreamscape Painting (Tor ages 9 to 14) nance will be considerably Register by July 27 ($90/$75 members) lessened. Last summer the park con Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden sidered closing the road total July 18- Ikebana Display ly and permanently to vehicle Nikka Yuko Experience the art of Ikebana flower arranging access, but a delegation of Japanese Garden July 25- Sandpainting interested users met with Harmony with Nature Artwork by Tanaka Toshiko Walker, toured the area and July 27- Coulee and Cultural Connections came up with a compromise. Beside the cost, the park e<&r M ihst »?/a!V* i^bsl-O" noHstsW 16 July 14,1999 Waterton Glacier Views The Great Canadian Barn Dance At the South Country Fair: Every Friday, May 14 thru October 8 Saturdays July 3 thru September 4 Intimate feel, professional sound Enjoy a country-cooked roast beef dinner, with all the trimmings, then by Shari Narine trip west. perform. After accepting the dance to the live, friendly music of the Kunkels. Plus free dance Also on the agenda for the invitation, Hobnail Boots lessons, hayrides, horseshoes and more. Stay at our family resort - FORT MACLEOD - The weekend are the "no miss" signed up for other shows in cottage or tipi rentals, bed & breakfast, RV and tent camping. At South Country Fair offers the acts of Fat Tuesday from Canada. scenic Hill Spring, Alberta, just north of best of both worlds. Attendance at the South Rte. 505 near Waterton. Edmonton with their Zydeco- "It's small, intimate," says Tex Mex style; the Kingpins Country Fair has climbed to phone: (403) 626-3407 1&&& artistic director Maureen from Montreal and their ska 2,500 over the years. Fans Chambers, "but with the (reggae) sound; traditional come from Alberta, British J"W#BJi small size you still have a Celtic singer-songwriter Columbia, Montana, Idaho •^_f~ vx Present this coupon for very, very professional line Chris Foster; Ad Vielle Que and Washington. up and production." Pourra from Quebec, with "We have quite a recipe 20%a, The I3th annual fair, to be their world-based Parisien and it works quite well," all Regular Merchandise held at The Fish and Game music; and Tommy Feldman, says Chambers. "Each year it except Specialty Items Park, on Lyndon Road, in who Chambers describes as works better, things flow Fort Macleod, will have 22 "quite amazing" with his very smoothly." acts performing over the style of delta blues. Along with the weekend COMFORT £S~ three days, July 16-18. The South Country Fair full of music, the South ZO N E Casual Dress /Gift Shop Returning to perform will gets its acts by registering on Country Fair offers a chil 260 Col. Macleod Blvd.(Main Street), Fort Macleod, Alberta be Captain Tractor and Fred the Festival line. Bands then dren's program and a 403-553-4211 Eaglesmith. Captain Tractor, try to block book, says crafters, art and food mall. with its blend of Celtic music Chambers, meaning they line "We're right along the and rock, is still the most up performances in Alberta, river," says Chambers. "Peo popular band in the show. in which the South Country ple can swim, sunbathe. Indeed, says Chambers, Fair is just one of a number They can camp, which a lot Captain Tractor's enthusiasm of stops. of festivals don't do. We has attracted a group of fans But it doesn't always work become quite a community." from the Maritimes, where that way, she says., noting Tickets, available at the the band was touring. Band that South Country Fair gate, are $46 plus GST for members told the fans about organizers heard about Hob the weekend. Camping is the South Country Fair, and nail Boots, a band from New free on site. the fans decided to make the Zealand, and booked them to Jult_j 16 - 18 Fish 4&c- Game Pa-rlc i\ Fo-r-fr MacLeod, _/\.E$ for fhe weekend $49 a* fhe gate urvM July io+h 12 & under FREE tickets at: Forstes*'s Video Plus, R. MacLeod B. Macabee's, lethbridge Next to the Old Fort in Fort Macleod ^mmmZf<^LW/£*m--iSrr&&Jmm - Native Arts & Crafts - great music info: 403.553.3070 The BEST Ice Cream Vidz kountry - crafters' mall fi in the Country! good food - free camping \ I TOT the Arts »«DIO »urrwo.».< TSS-878-3378" • - • • • ' WRf South Country Fair - July 16-18 Come and enjoy a weekend of music, crafts and food! \^ July 16(7 pm - 2 pm) • July 17 (12 noon - 2 am) • July 18 (12 noon - 5 pm) ^•i,;:^, ;•,';• .„ L;!.,!.,.,,.:,.',,'' r • ';,„',-/: ;,;>;;';„„:: ;_•;,'•••;;..• -',' V:',,],',',',,,:, Im • „,;,„„ V' : m:" ,,' •' '''•;; i: ' ' , i ', -'I ' ' ,;' ,:;„ „ ;;,. ,-.,;,',,,.,.:,' 'v,,^,' v, ?? ;i '!:'-•• •„'::•*,•;, ••,•:"„, \',„m' m Special Events 1999 Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump J^ BUFFALO DAYS Interpretive Centre POW WOW & TIPI VILLAGE May 15 - Labour Day 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Open Year Round July 16, 17 & 18 Off-Season 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Crowsnest I Location: Secondary Hwy #785 Lost Identities Driving Times exhibition of historical photographs 75 min. northeast of Waterton Park of Aboriginal Peoples from Southern Alberta 15 min. northwest of Fort Macleod through to October 31, 1999 30 min. northeast of Pincher Creek 45 min. west of Lethbridge ^T-^Sw The Friends of 403-553-273HU0-330--C f O1 I M S 80 min. north of Cardston XJffry Buffal"io Jum^^p SocietL y www.r*id««nashedM».com AM COMMUNITY OEVELOPMENT 100 min. north of the U.S. border -*":*- #-*•=*, -4fr--h *.*V-;*fc'> BiBi Welcome to iitilllllilli Pincher Creek! coivmsrci Children ofthe Wind Kite Festival JTw*ly 17-1S at Windy Point by Ihe Oldman Dam Pincher Creek & District 627-5199 Chamber of Economic Development 627-5855 Children of the Wind Saturday, July 17th and Sunday, July 18th Kites flying in harmony: just one ofthe many demonstrations festival goers will see when they attend the Children ofthe Wind kite festival Windy Point, northeast of Pincher Creek, Alberta Come watch the Let's go fly MAYORS Rokloiku ChAlleNqe Call us for prices on our regular specials a kite Saturday, July 17, 9:00-10:00 am - featuring - by Shari Narine Co-op Mall • Pincher Creek "Windy" William Hart (Fort Macleod) ' Jim "Crosswind" Cameron (Nobleford) Phone 1 403-627-4575 PINCHER CREEK - Dual- Rod "Sparky" Zielinski (M.D. of Pincher Creek) Fax 1 403-627-4586 ing politicians. That's one of John "Doc" Irwin (Crowsnest Pass) Toll Free 1 888-627-4575 the new attractions at the 9th Dave "Hurricane" Coutts (MLA) email: [email protected] annual Children of the Wind Art "Buzz" Bonertz (Pincher Creek) www.telusplanet.net/public/ranchlnd kite festival to be held July 17-18 at Windy Point, on the WELCOME! Old Man River Dam, just EvERyoNE Ammms • TOURSI* HOTBL north of Pincher Creek. For details call the Pincher Creek Pincher Creek mayor Art Information Centre at 403-627-5855 Bonertz has lined up repre individual unique distinctive sentatives fr6*nj the neigh bouring communities as well ~as the local MIA, to duke it from out with Japanese fighting Future Ford I i kites. Children of the Wind kite BOUTIQUE (2000) LTD. festival president Pete Happening? Rickard, of Pincher Creek, 767 Main Street Let us know what** happening! Contort Waterton-Glacier Views at: 403-627-4640 > expects close to 5,000 people dm 95, Pincher Ore*, AB. TDK W01 Box 352, Babb, MT. 59411 Pincher Creek, AB Mon. - Sat. 10:00 am - 5:30 pm to take in the event. Numbers phone: (403) 627-2370 / fax: (403) 627-2376 / e-mail: bground#canu<*.com "3 TOK IWO * keep climbing, because the Open to community an<4 non-profit groups. Please limit your submission to 50 words or less. casual office. evening weekend is "just fun". Making his annual return Glacier Institute Seminars - Kalispell, MT. trip is world champion kite July 15: River Ecology by Raft flyer Ray Bethel, of Vancou Call 406-755-1211 for information and registration. ver. Cornyn wmm Drug Store "That's as big as you get," 13th Annual South Country Fair - Fort Macleod, AB said Rickard, who noted that July 16-18 for the first time, Bethel will Three days of music, crafts and food. Call 403-553-3070 exchange on be accompanied by a partner, for information. Dominick Jasper, also of Van Buffalo Days Pow Wow - Fort Macleod, AB. July 16-18 couver. "It'll be the first time 50%0 American Pow Wow and Tipi Village at Head-Smashed-in Buffalo anybody will have seen this Jump. Call 403-553-2731 for information. 750 Main Street CUttenCy Laser Color show." Pincher Creek, Alberta on amount of purchase Photocopying Also making return trips Canada Parks Day July 17 only will be Janice and Roger 627-5080 Service Celebrate Canada Parks Day by joining the special events Maddy with their 12-16 line planned at a nearby provincial or national park. kite puppets and Jim and Karen Venable, who will Golf Tournament - Elkford, BC July 17 demonstrate synchonized kite Elkview Coal Golf Invitational Golf Tournament. Call Ryan flying with their ice birds. Borys at 250-865-7510 for information. The weekend is really for children, said Rickard, which Kite Festival - Pincher Creek, AB. July 17-18 is one reason why organizers Two days of kite flying, entertainment and food at Windy decided against a beer gar Point. Call 403-627-5855 for information. dens for the older crowd. Future Ford of Pincher Creek is sponsoring this year's Com Along with flying their Whoop-Up Days - Lethbridge, AB. July 21 -25 ing Events section. So, if you're a non-profit organization or own kites (which kids will get Parade, RCMP Musical Ride, pro rodeo and much morel running a non-profit event anywhere in the International for free), there will be face Call 403-328-4491 for more information. Peace Park region this summer, please let us know all the painting, rock painting, an astro jump, balloon animals details. We'll list it in our What's Happening column and and other children's events. you'll have more people participating your event. A new There's no admission to Views is out every Wednesday, so let us know at least two the festival, just a donation, Fridays before your event. which also adds to the chil LTD. dren's atmosphere. • Rentals, featuring Taurus and Windstar Send your notice to: "None of this "gotta buy" • Parts and Service, including Saturday Service 9 am - 1pm stuff," said Rickard. "Every time you turn around, some for emergencies or by appointment Waterton Glacier Views thing costs. Not here." • We stock RV parts and supplies! E-mail us at: [email protected] Fireworks will be set off Fax us at: 403-627-2376 Saturday night over the dam. - Two Locations to Serve You - And the colours and show in Pincher Creek, AB. Crowsnest Pass, AB. Mail us at: Box 98, Pincher Creek, AB TOK 1W0 (403) 627-4461 or Box 352, Babb, MT 59411 the night are expected to rival (403) 562-2142 the kites in the day, 1-888-667-8036 1-888-696-1212 18 July 14,1999 Waterton Glacier Views Dogs considered for bear conservation in SW Alberta by Heidi Eijgel of mountains, foothills, and working dogs to hunt bears home range. Today, in many Creative Services Coordinator streamside areas which make and other large game, the dog cases, these options are no Alberta Environment, for Alberta's best grizzly bear is known for its courage and longer an acceptable alterna Natural Resources Service, range. Add outdoor enthusi ability to harass bears while tive, especially for female Pincher Creek Area asts appreciating the wide- at the same time, being ath grizzly bears as it results in open spaces and wildlife, and letic enough to avoid contact. the loss of the bear from the What does a dog breed herds of cattle, as this area When full grown the dogs ecosystem. originally from the Karelia also contains some of Cana weigh between 40 and 60 Hunt's institute stresses province of Finland have to da's best ranchland. Then, pounds. They are black and the importance of educating do with bear conservation because of the intrinsic beau white with a black mask people about simple preven-. Dr. Lara and the reduction of human- ty of the landscape, include colouring around their eyes, tion measures needed to Grinevitch B.SC, N.O. bear encounters? an ever-increasing amount of and have the body shape of a secure areas that could attract Begistered Naturopathic /fife Well, here's the challenge - acreage and cottage develop husky. bears, the bear dogs were iEluj Practioner vB' take the southwest Alberta ments. Finally, consider log Only recently has the introduced to deter bears * Naturopathic Diagnosis landscape which is rich in ging and oil and gas who were at risk of * Clinical Nutrition habitat - it is the combination development in the being habituated to * Botanical Medicine area and it is under unnatural food * Homeopathy standable that human sources. 015 * Naturopathic Bodywork OTIIUK, uses of the land and Q * Services covered by Richard Quinlan, area ttl some extended health grizzly use of their wildlife biologist, -mm['ll care plans Hedderiek Realty Ltd. habitat can often con Alberta Environment, 5 * No referral necessary 754 Main Street, P. O. Box 309 flict with each other. PincherCreek, Alberta TOK 1W0 Natural Resources Ser Bus. (403) 627-4646 The Southwestern vice says, "The South Lethbridge 403-380-2611 I Fax (403) 627-3247 fifiOS Alberta Grizzly Strate western Alberta Griz PincherCreek 403-627-6455 web site: Mtp:/Avww.canuck.corn/21 T""" /Blairmore Each Office Independently Owned & Operated §0 gy (SAGS) was devel zly Strategy empha oped to reduce these sizes prevention of conflicts while main problems, quick taining grizzly bears responses when prob as an integral part of lems do occur, and our ecosystem. Now, greater consideration Alberta Environment, for the grizzly bear in Natural Resource Ser1 final management vice biologists and decisions. We are conservation officers, investigating how a uuMBH»i. 702 Main Street Movie Hot Une 627-2995 and Waterton Lakes bear dog program may • Big Daddy 7 daily held over National Park wardens Hunt and her dogs assist us with certain sit • Austin Powers 9 daily held over are investigating the uations that may occur in • Muppets in Space 7 & 8:30 daily starting Friday use of Karelian bear dogs for Karelian been utilized to southwest Alberta." bear management in south deter bears in North America. Could this also help in WATERTON Waterton Cinema west Alberta. The Wind River Bear Insti other bear-human encounters Ages 13-64 $4.50 and $3.00 for everyone else 659-2466 So what role can the bear tute in Utah, was recently such as in campgrounds, or • Wild, Wild West 7 daily starting Friday dogs play in bear manage • Austin Powers 9 daily starting Friday established by bear biologist other recreation oriented set ment? Originally bred as Carrie Hunt to reduce con tings? Quinlan believes flicts between bears and peo nothing is more important ple by teaching bears to than eliminating bear attrac behave in a manner that does tants, but bear dogs may at RANCHLAND not put them in conflict with least provide another man people. The institute raises, agement option to consider if selects, and trains the Kare action is required for a spe lian bear dogs for bear con cific bear. flict management. The SAG Strategy is coor The Utah-based institute dinated by Alberta Environ PINCHER CREEK Hwy 3 N has used the dogs successful ment, Natural Resources Ser ly in Montana, including vice, Pincher Creek Area. Glacier National Park, New Waterton Lakes National Alberta Satellite Bingo EVERY Night! Hwy 6 (Waterton Ave.) BINGO 4 Mexico, and Wyoming to Park is a major partner in the Co-op • teach bears to permanently Average $25,000 nightly. Mall strategy. The Alberta Con stay away from areas where Open 5:30 pm. Pre-call 6:20 pm. Start 6:45 pm. servation Association has they are not wanted. In the Main Street, Pincher Creek provided funding to carry out 30 minutes north of Waterton. Closed Mondays. past, once a bear became several components of the Co-op Mall (403)627-5156 habituated to unnatural food strategy and the Nature Con Chinook Country Bingo Association to Waterton Park sources it was relocated, servancy of Canada has often well away from its sponsored the Wind River Bear Institute to share infor Quality Cotton Fashions at True Factory Prices • Quality Cotton Fashions at True Factory Prices •Quality Cotton Fashions at True Factory Prices mation with Alberta special ists. Dog handler and biologist Hunt is presenting two free TIGER BRAND FACTORY CL0SE0UT SALE! public information sessions i,*,.*x|iKNI NGG # Ju|y 19_31 . on July 17, 9:30 p.m.at Beauvais Lake Provincial Park, southwest of Pincher FACTORY OUTLET Non fiction for the Entire Family Creek, Alta., and on July 20, T-shirts - 5 for $20 7 p.m. at the Frank Slide Interpretive Centre, in the Tiger Branc Golf Shirts - 3 for $27 Crowsnest Pass. 1116 Macleod St Our Famous Fleece up to 70% -i If you would like further Macleod St. Tt information on the South 03 Corns in while quantities last! O western Alberta Grizzly Hwy 6 (Waterton Ave.) , o Strategy or the presentations Sale runs from July 19-31 TJ call (403) 625-1450 or con 5' tact an Alberta Environment, MONDAY - SATURDAY 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Phone (403) 627-3292 Fax (403) 627-2701 BLACKBURN JEWELLERS serving the community for over 60 years • gold • silver • one of a kind • Larger ln-c§>Lor Pincher Office Products (2000) Ltd • Office Supplies • Art Supplies • Fax/Photocopy Service • Wedding/Decorations tmm^kw _KJU9&£2G JL^^ Christine • Job Printing >4-2>^-_ tank • Laminating Box 2277 Pincher Creek, AB. TOK 1 WO t Phone (403) 627-2628 • Fax (403) 627-2916 20,000 sq. ft. of Quality Brand Name Mdse. Ladies, Men's Clothing A Footwear Tan Jay • Sorels • Brooks Alia • Cat Boots • Stan fields Tabi • Nike • Carhartt Crafts - Yarn - Notions - Fabric - Toys Home • Tents • BBQ Accessories m Hardware * Sleeping Bags • Camp Fuel Qame Fish Licences - Trout Flies & Lures, Rods & Reels Boytinck Dept. Store Ltd. i£">v 797Main Street 627-3422 PincherCreek Puzzle Country % on the move... By Bonnie Kennedy Ranchland Mall An UGG elevator, built in the 1920s, made Us way from Word Search: All theme words listed below are found in the Your One Stop puzzle. The words may appear vertically, horizontally, Brocket to a site northeast of diagonally or even backwards. As you find the words, draw a Pincher Creek, leaving in the line through them and then check them off the list. Some letters early morning hours last Mon Shopping Centre may be used more than once so leave all letters visible. When you are finished, the remaining unused letters give the solution. day. The 25 km trek took four hours. The 65 foot high eleva Hiking Areas & Trails tor hasn't been used in three Co-op Food Store/Gas Bar Where & how do some hikers prefer to observe grizzlies? years. 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