Hopes of High Prairie School Division re-opening the sledding hill just east of the High Prairie Learning Centre melted away faster than the snow last week!
At the HPSD meeting April 21, the board of trustees was told flat-out it was not happening.
“Our insurance company is quite clear, the answer is no,” said Supt. Murray Marran.
“You cannot give up liability. Tobogganing is restricted in the area.”
The Town of High Prairie was willing to pay all insurance costs and assume liability if HPSD would sign an agreement.
Apparently, the only avenue left is for town council to purchase the land.
Meanwhile, look for HPSD to lock up the playgrounds this summer. Can’t risk the liability, you know!
The Page is proud of Town of High Prairie Councillor Bryce Shunter!
At council’s meeting April 29, the auditors presented the audited financial statements. Shunter voted against receiving the statements as presented because he was given them just before the meeting and had not had time to read them. It should be noted council was told the deadline to submit to Alberta Municipal Affairs was May 1.
After Shunter’s statement, Mayor Dan Vandermeulen asked why the statements were not ready earlier. There was no decent answer. Vandermeulen asked they be ready two weeks earlier next year.
What we have here is Shunter merely doing his job. It is his duty to read and examine such documents before approving them. As it is for all members of council. Shunter was the only one expressing a desire to do so. The Page applauds his actions and his diligence.
It was heard earlier in the meeting that the Town received the documents Saturday night (three days earlier). Certainly not enough time for members of council to read them.
Hmmm! Interesting!
But we may never know all the facts!
April 30, the Alberta government announced its members to the Teacher Advisory Council to help shape education policy. The Page was interested to see if any of the 16 members to the council were from the local region.
High Prairie School Division?
Nope!
Holy Family Catholic Regional Division?
Nope!
Peace River School Division?
Nope!
Northland School Division?
Nope!
Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge? Check, check, check! What a surprise!
We do know 174 educators applied to participate in the council. What we don’t know is if any from our local school divisions showed any interest.
Locally, Matthew Kierstead from Fort Vermilion School Division was selected.
Pretty shoddy representation from northern Alberta, but what else is new?
Reports of plenty of swans in the area.
What is the difference between a salon and a saloon?
A salon is where you go to make yourself look better, but a saloon is where you go to make everyone else look better!
Looks like there will be no barbecue at The Page’s house this summer.
Once again, The Page bombed out by not winning the High Prairie Agriculture Society’s draw at the Indoor Rodeo. Despite positive thinking, the Good Lord decided The Page has enough to eat!
Congratulations to first place raffle winner Taylor Blackhurst, second place winner Nancy Olansky and third place winner Jim Daubert. Melissa Payne won the Saturday 50/50 and $800.50 while Ryan Cox won Sunday’s draw and $548.50.
We hear these five people have made lots of new friends!
Congratulations to all winners!
A boy was assigned to writer a paper on childbirth.
“How was I born?” he asked his mother.
“The stork brought you to us,” replied his mother.
“Oh,” said the boy. “Well, how were you and daddy born?”
“Son, your grandparents found us under a rock!”
“I see,” said the boy. “And how were grandma and grandpa born?”
“They were found under a cabbage leaf,” replied the mother.
Several days later, the boy hands his paper in to his teacher. She is confused after reading the first sentence.
“Cannot write report,” he wrote. “There has not been a natural childbirth in my family for three generations!”
How to know if you’re addicted to the Internet:
You step out of the room and realize your parents have moved, and you have no idea when it happened.
Your wife drapes a blond wig over the monitor to remind you what she looks like.
All your friends have an @ in their name.
Your dog has its own home page.
You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop on the way back to bed to check your email.
Why are people choosing cremation over burial?
They are thinking outside the box!
A father picks his son up from school. Knowing the parts for the school play were announced that day, he asks his son what part he received.
“I play a man who has been married for 20 years,” he enthusiastically tells his father.
“That’s great, son,” says the father. “Keep up the good work and before you know it they will give you a speaking part!”
The Page says women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition!
Few women admit their age but even fewer men act it!
You have to love it now that spring has finally arrived!
It is about time!
Have a great week!