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VOLUME 13 NUMBER 41 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2015

Jessa Heatherington satisfi ed with international experience

MOUSH SARA JOHNWEEKENDER REPORTER

Jessa Heatherington was the fi rst female ar-cher to represent William E. Hay Stettler Secondary Campus at the National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) World tournament in July 2015.

But Heatherington re-mains grounded after the experience.

“Honestly, I didn’t go to Worlds or All-Stars to win, I went for the ex-perience and I met peo-ple from all around the world who love archery just as much as I do,” said Heatherington. “I now have amazing friends from not only across Canada, but across the world, and I made memories that I will remember for the rest of my life, such as inter-national Duck Duck Goose started from Will Roberts’

uncanny ability to start a game of it in every situ-ation, or fi nding out how many Canadians we can stuff in a tiny elevator, the answer of which is 26 by the way.”

It has not been an easy road for the 11th grad-er with hours of practice every single day, leaving very little room for any-thing else.

Speaking about how she remained motivated all through those weeks lead-ing up to the competitions, Heatherington comes across as a self-assured, gritty 16-year-old.

“At both provincials and nationals, my driv-ing force was ‘I will make it on the All-Stars team’ I wanted it so bad,” said Heatherington. “While I was at Worlds and All-Stars, I just kept think-ing ‘I’m here to represent Stettler, Alberta. I’m the

fi rst girl to ever represent William E. Hay at the NASP World tournament, I need to make my town proud.’ It was my way to stay fo-cused.”

Heatherington does not allow one arrow to infl u-ence the next, a philoso-phy she learnt from her coaches.

“If I know I’m not doing as well as I would like, I usually try to stretch and then relax my muscles,” said Heatherington. “My coaches have told me to not let one arrow infl uence the next, and not to think about the past few rounds, so I try and distract my-self.”

Heatherington added, “There are days that I am really not good at it, but I still try.”

Heatherington began taking archery lessons in 2013, a couple of years back, but she has already set targets for herself and is in love with the sport.

“I do plan to continue with archery after I grad-uate,” said Heatherington. “I’ve always wanted to try using a recurve bow, maybe I’ll try Olympic ar-chery. I’m really not sure right now. I just know that I won’t give it up. I love it too much.”

Although archery is Heatherington’s sport, she has been dancing since she has been three, but as any professional she uses her lessons from each dis-cipline to propel her for-ward.

Accord ing to

Heatherington, both ar-chery and dance are very similar, and they work well together.

“In both cases, you strive for improvement and to be the best of yourself,” said Heatherington. “Also, a lot of the things I have learned from dance have helped me in archery, and many of the things from archery have helped me in dance.”

Discussing how, Heatherington explained, “My posture and strength to begin with helped me to have a bit of a foundation before I began archery, and the strength and attention to details that I have built

from archery has helped me in dance.”

Next year will mark Heatherington’s 14 years in the world of dancing.

“It’s what I love to do, just like archery, and I dance up to fi ve hours a night, four nights a week, taking lessons in every genre offered in Stettler, including tap, jazz, bal-let, highland, musical theatre, pointe, acro, hip-hop, modern, contempo-rary, and lyrical at Rhonda McCulloch Danceology,” said Heatherington. “My dancing has taken me to amazing places; not only have I won talent shows, and awards at dance com-

petitions for solos, duets, trios, and group numbers, I have also travelled to Vancouver, New York, and Los Angeles with my dance studio (Rhonda McCulloch Danceology).”

Not only is Heatherington a learner, but she also loves to help others with her skills.

“While I love dancing, I love to help teach it too,” said Heatherington. “It makes me so happy to see younger kids at my studio grow up with their dancing, and I love hav-ing a positive infl uence on them.”

continued on page 2

Moush Sara John/Weekender reporter

Stettler’s Jessa Heatherington of William E. Hay Stettler Secondary Campus represent-ed Canada in the National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) 2015 All-Star World Championship in July 2015.


Jessa Heatherington with her bow and target board discuss-es her experience at the NASP All-Star World Championship 2015 and NASP world tournament.

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“Must-knows” about investment risk

Why it’s essential to understand risk: In order to plan for your financial future, you need to un-derstand that risk and returns are intertwined, you can’t have one with-out the other. In gener-al, taking on more risk can potentially provide both greater rewards and greater losses. It’s im-portant to note too that investment risks go be-yond the normal ups and downs related to market volatility.

Some risks of low-risk investments: Low-risk doesn’t mean risk-free. Here are two examples of the risks associated with low-risk invest-ments. The first is infla-tion; if your returns don’t keep up with it, the fu-ture purchasing power of your savings can be sig-nificantly reduced even if you don’t make any with-drawals. The second is the risk of longevity, the possibility that you could outlive your money if your investment growth doesn’t keep up with what you spend.

Some risks of high-risk investments: Here are two examples of the

risks associated with them. One is market risk – the chance that you could lose some or all of your money if the mar-ket value drops substan-tially. Investments out-side Canada may also be subject to currency risk. For example, if you invest $100 CDN in a U.S. dol-lar denominated invest-ment and the U.S. dollar declines by 10 per cent against the Canadian dollar, your investment will be worth $90 even though the U.S. invest-ment value may not have changed.

Risks with the wrong type of investment: An example of this is a 20 year old investing their RRSP contribution into a “safe” high interest sav-ings account or a five year GIC paying 2 per

cent when they have 45 years or more of future growth potential.

Why it’s important to work with an advisor: Risk affects people dif-ferently, so it’s important to discuss your personal feelings about risk with your advisor. Together, you can build a portfolio designed to achieve your goals that are within your comfort zone. Following are three strategies that can help you to manage risk, while alleviating the effects of market fluctu-ations.

Dollar-cost averaging: Investing a small amount regularly lets you buy at different price points and average out the cost of your investments.

Diversification is in-vesting in different asset types (for example, stocks

and bonds), industries or countries to help reduce the impact of underper-formance in any given category.

Keeping pace with life’s changes by meeting reg-ularly with your advi-sor and adjusting your portfolio as you move into different stages of life can help keep your investments aligned to your time horizon and tolerance for risk.

Talk to your advisor if you have questions about fluctuations in the value of your investments. It’s important that you are comfortable with your portfolio, and that com-fort comes when you have a better under-standing of risk. Consider one of Warren Buffet’s favourite quotes: “Time in the market beats tim-ing the market.” This is best illustrated by some-one who invested just $100 in 1950 in the USA Small Cap Stock Index Fund and left it to grow, it would have a market value of close to half a million dollars today!

This article courtesy of Manulife Financial’s Solutions Magazine

continued from front page

Jessa Heatherington was the fi rst female archer to represent William E. Hay Stettler Unlike other teenagers, Heatherington plays a superb balancing act, which in-cludes also doing well in academics.

Heatherington was on the high school merit roll at the fourth annual Fall Honours Breakfast on Tuesday, Oct. 6.

Looking back on her Worlds and All-Stars days, Heatherington said, “The experience was so meaningful for me, I was so sad when it was over, but I am grateful that I got to chance to take part in this experience.”

Jessa Heatherington satisfi ed with international experience

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Stettler’s annual rummage saleattracts many visitors


The Kinette Club of Stettler and Imperial

Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) hosted the 72nd annual rummage sale at the Stettler Curling Rink and Stettler Agriplex

on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 25 and 26.

With a huge line up on Friday going past the parking lot, it was easy to see the huge crowds that the sale had attracted from Stettler and neigh-bouring areas.

“I believe that this year’s

rummage sale was just as successful as last year, as we did not have much left at the end of the sale,” said Tanya Derr, co-chair of the rummage sale. “The sale was very well received and people in general were quite happy about what the rummage

sale does for the commu-nity.”

With an amount of $37,500 raised, before ex-penses, the funds will be used by both organiza-tions, Kinette and IODE, to fund community projects and scholarships.

“The rummage sale

numbers were compara-ble with the past num-ber of years,” said Cheryl Barros, co-chair of the rummage sale. “We were quite happy with this, considering we did not have the Town Pick-up this year.”

The Stettler Agriplex held bigger items such as furniture, sports goods, kitchen appliances and a wide range of electronic goods, while the Curling Rink had clothes, shoes, tableware and other items.

“This year a portion of the proceeds will go to-wards building our play-ground which will com-mence Oct. 1,” said Barros, also a member of the Stettler Kinette Club. “I think overall we are pret-ty happy with how the sale was run and won’t be making many changes to it.”

For the rummage sale volunteers form the big-gest support, acknowl-edging that, Barros said, “Most importantly we could not hold this event without the help of all our volunteers. The vol-unteers truly help make this event a success and we cannot thank them all enough.”


Visitors go through kitchen appliances at the 72nd annual rummage sale at the Stettler Agriplex on Saturday, Sept. 26.


Bryce Leschert goes through a bunch of skiing poles to select his at the 72nd annual rummage sale at the Stettler Agriplex on Saturday, Sept. 26.

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The final chapter of the McCrackin trilogy ‘Release the McCrackin’ was hosted by the Accidental Humour Co. at the Performing Arts Centre on Tuesday, Sept. 22.

Peals of laughter filled the auditorium as soon as the performance started.

Opened at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival, the pro-duction has been on its Alberta tour after a three-week break following the gala performance, visit-ing Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Stettler, Calgary and Edson.

The cast includes William Banfield, Clif Kelly, Kristin Johnston and Alex D. Mackie.

“In 2010 we did Happy Whackin Jim Crackin a story of a hit man who wanted out of the game and then in 2013 we de-cided to bring that show back and make a trilogy as most action movies these days,” said Kimberlee Stadelmann, stage man-ager, Accidental Humour Co. “As for the comedy in the show, the writer brings us a lot of jokes in the script and then the Accidental core team

works on the show to-gether adding ideas and jokes along the way, it is a group effort.”

Planning for the pro-duction started in September 2014.

“We started around September of last year working with our writ-er, work-shopping the show and coming up with ideas for screen and stage interactions,” said Stadelmann. “We cast the show in February and filmed from February to May and then rehearsed from May to August when we opened the show.”

The core produc-tion team met at the University of Lethbridge in the early 2000s and made their first theatre show in 2009, ‘For the Love of a Zombie’, and since they have creat-ed five additional orig-inal productions over seven years, ‘Release the McCrackin’ being their sixth.

“We are excited about next year. We are bring-ing back one of our fa-vourite shows ‘Cowboy: A Cowboy Story’, a spa-ghetti western spoof, with a part of the film portion of this show was filmed on the Stettler Steam train,” said Stadelmann. “We are also working on some new scripts so hopefully

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Performing Arts Centre hosts fi nal chapter of McCrackin trilogy


William Banfi eld and Kristin Johnston in a funny scene in Release the McCrackin, the fi nal production of the McCrackin trilogy, presented by the Accidental Humour Co. on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at the Performing Arts Centre (PAC) in Stettler.


Kristin Johnston, Alex D. Mackie and Cliff Kelly (background) perform in Release the McCrackin, the fi nal production of the McCrackin trilogy, presented by the Accidental Humour Co. on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at the Performing Arts Centre (PAC) in Stettler.


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How the parties propose tohelp young Canadians

save for retirementPAUL KERSHAWTROY NEDIA COLUMNIST

With Statistics Canada showing that a small-er proportion of se-niors currently fall below low-income cut-offs than any other age group, the concern is that younger Canadians may not be saving enough for their retire-ment, in part because younger Canadians have less access to generous pensions paid by em-ployers than did work-ers who started out some decades ago.

What does research tell us about this prob-lem?

Young Canadians can’t save money they don’t have because costs are higher than in the past. Research shows it’s harder for young adults to save today because they earn thousands less for full-time work than in the past, in jobs that less often pay pen-sions, and despite hav-ing more post-second-ary, larger student debts and that they must pay hundreds of thousands more for housing.

This means any plans to adapt Canada and Quebec Public Pension (CPP and QPP) plans must occur in tandem with policy changes that save young Canadians money when they are young adults. In other words, strong retire-ment security policy for Canadians in their 20s, 30s and 40s requires a two-prong approach:

• Adapt policy relat-ed to postsecondary, child care, and housing to save young adults money, because these major costs are much higher now than in the past; and

• Revise CPP and QPP rules so that young Canadians can efficient-ly put aside some of these savings for their own retirement in part-nership with their em-ployers.

By focusing only on adapting CPP and QPP policy we risk tight-ening the squeeze by mandating that young Canadians find more money to put aside for their retirement amid their current

time, money and ser-vice squeeze. This is like trying to squeeze water from a stone, and implies that young Canadians are simply dumber than in the past when it comes to saving. They’re not.

Research also cautions against accepting un-critically when banks and investment compa-nies tell Canadians we should be aiming to re-place 70 per cent of our annual income when re-tired. Evidence indicates that a replacement rate of between 40 to 70 per cent will result in many Canadians enjoying a better overall standard of living in retirement than what they experi-ence as young adults, especially when they start their own families.

How do the federal parties compare?

All the parties are short on specifics for now. While the NDP, Liberals and Greens have all stated they are committed to revising CPP and QPP in ways that are consistent with having employees and employers contribute more, they would nego-tiate such details with the provinces shortly after being elected.

The Conservative Party vision for CPP re-form is different. The Conservatives would enable workers to top up their savings in the CPP in addition to, or in-stead of, putting money aside in an RRSP or a Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA). They won’t ask employers without pen-

sion plans to contribute more for their workers.

Like the other par-ties, the Conservative proposal would give Canadians greater ac-cess to the expert man-agement of the CPP Investment Board and do so at fees that are far lower than what we pay in the private sector. This is good for maxi-mizing our savings.

However, if you are concerned about young-er Canadians not saving enough for later retire-ment, the Conservative proposal does little to address the problem di-rectly. There are already lots of other voluntary savings mechanisms like RRSPs and TFSAs that younger people ar-en’t using - typically be-cause they don’t have the cash to put aside.

There’s no obvious reason to believe they’ll start using a new op-tional CPP mechanism when they’re not using the other savings op-tions that already exist. For example, Canadians under 45 only benefit from one third of the tax savings made avail-able through RRSPs - the majority of the savings go to older Canadians. The same is true for Tax Free Savings Accounts. Canadians age 60+ are three to five times more likely to max out their TFSAs, compared to those age 18 to 49.

Dr. Paul Kershaw is a policy professor in the UBC School of Population Health, and Founder of Generation Squeeze (gen-squeeze.ca).

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New report advances the discussion around hydraulic fracturing and water issues in CanadaFROM CNW

Central to the vast ma-jority of conversations about hydraulic fractur-ing is the issue of water – its use, its manage-ment and protection, and its ecological, social and economic impor-tance. There are many unknowns, but this is a fast-paced and import-ant area in which deci-sions being made should hinge upon scientific knowledge.

A new report, Water and Hydraulic Fracturing: Where knowledge can best support decisions in Canada, issued by Canadian Water Network (CWN), provides a com-prehensive and up-to-date assessment of where effective access to research can lead to better decisions. The re-port summarizes what we know now, what we most need to know and what is reasonably ob-tainable through target-ed research.

“The focus of the report is about helping to en-sure decision makers get real value from existing knowledge to support their decisions on what to do now and where to go next,” says Bernadette Conant, chief executive officer of CWN.

The report draws wide-ly on the knowledge base; in particular, on five CWN-funded proj-ects from 2014-2015 that focused on where the un-knowns – the knowledge gaps – are most centrally connected to our needs and questions involv-ing water, including:• Watershed governance and Aboriginal issues,

• Groundwater and subsurface impacts,

• Wastewater manage-ment, and

• Impacts of hydraulic fracturing on surround-ing water resources.

These projects involved over 70 researchers from 18 universities across Canada, along with 20

partners, including Aboriginal organizations, government, industry and non-governmental organizations.

The report also draws on the collective expe-rience and expertise of federal, provincial and territorial government and industry represen-tatives.

“There is a huge need for scientific knowl-edge to help decision makers,” says Dr. Simon Courtenay, scientific di-rector of CWN. “Ensuring that leading science un-derpins decisions being made in Canada about hydraulic fracturing is extremely important, not only for responsible re-source development but for our collective health and the environment.”

Falling oil and gas pric-es have recently slowed the pace of development, but continued develop-ment of unconvention-al reserves in Canada can be expected going

forward. This slowdown in pace is an excellent opportunity to focus on key priorities within the

industry and undertake the research most need-ed to inform regulatory, best management and governance decisions, and to re-engage the public in discussions about Canada’s interre-lated water and energy sectors.

CWN’s next step will be to survey decision mak-ers to determine which of the knowledge needs concerning water that are highlighted in the re-port are of highest pri-ority for making future decisions regarding hy-

draulic fracturing. CWN will use these shared pri-orities as cornerstones in the development of a collaborative research agenda.

About Canadian Water Network

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