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Altona : Departments : The Town Page : October 15, 2001

 
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TOWN OF ALTONA
"You’re always welcome in Altona."

October 15, 2001
In this issue...


Special points of interest...
  • Council meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month
  • Works & Operations on the first Tuesday of each month.
  • Finance & Administration the third Wednesday of each month.
  • Community & Social Development on the Third Tuesday of the month

 
MAYOR’S DESK - Edward R. Klassen

The Webster Dictionary defines volunteers as “ One who offers services, joins force, etc., of his own free will, v.i. offer oneself” and the Town of Altona has been blessed with many volunteers who unselfishly dedicate their time and talents to help our community grow and prosper. The Town Council would like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone for their hard work and dedication to their fellow residents and our community, not only for this year, but for so many who have been volunteering year after year. Volunteers are special people and the Town of Altona has many special people. “ Thank you and our sincere appreciation.”

Mayor & Council

Council joins me in extending our sincere appreciation.

Age & Opportunity Show

Along with local realtors the Altona Community Development Corporation participated in the Age & Opportunity Show in the Convention Centre in Winnipeg. This was a great opportunity to promote our Community to individuals looking to move out of the urban setting to a quiet, safe and attractive community like Altona. When you attend a show like Age & Opportunity you realize how easy it is to promote a town like Altona, with its many attributes such as retail outlets, recreational activities for the young to the seniors, churches, health facilities, variety of housing and emergency services.

We had many people visit our booth with a variety of questions and positive comments about our Community. A highlight of the weekend was when Altona’s display won recognition by being voted “Exceptional Display”. Thanks to Grace Braun for the organization of this event and all those who took time out of their busy schedule to help work at the booth to make this a very successful venture. We feel that the time spent at this forum was worthwhile in helping put Altona on the map.

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Councillor's Corner - by Richard Martel

I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about the work the Health Promotions Committee has been doing this last year. As many of you may know the Committee was formed to help with doctor recruitment and to deal with funding request from the local Health Foundation. We were very successful in recruiting two doctors for our hospital and now have four doctors working out of the Altona Medical Clinic. This brings me to the new clinic that is now being built across from the hospital. With four doctors working out of our clinic, the need for a new and larger facility became a major concern. The local municipal bodies of Rhineland, Gretna, Montcalm and Altona have jointly come to an agreement on building the new clinic, but there is a need for funds to do the inside of the building. In the next few months we will be asking the public for donations to raise funds to do this. All donations from the community’s involved will be a great help in finishing the interior of the clinic. For those that wish to make a donation in this tax year, tax deductible receipts will be issued by the Town office.

Thank you

Richard Martel

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Altona Fire Department - Firefighters Ball

The Altona Fire Department Invites you to attend the 32nd Annual Firefighters Ball to be held on November 3rd, 2001 at the Pioneer Centre.

Reserved table seating available.

Dress Formal

Music by Short Circuit

For more information or to purchase tickets contact a member of the Altona Fire Department .

MLCC#400/01

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Sunflower Gardens Arena

The arena Schedule is now available online at: http://www.townofaltona.com/town/rec_dept/arena_schedule.html

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Altona Community Development Corporation - In Need Of New Board Members

The Council of the Town of Altona is requesting indication of interest by October 26th, 2001 from residents to sit on the Board of Directors of the Altona Community Development Corporation. These appointments have a two year term and entail one or two meetings a month. The Altona Community Development Corporation is an independent corporation formed to assist in enhancing the quality of life in our commercial/industrial sector.

For more information contact Jim Spencer at 324-6468 or Terry Wiebe at 324-7628.

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Thank you!
 

To all volunteers

Thank you for your time
and dedication!

Management & Staff of the Town of Altona!

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Altona Library

Altona Library Hours:

Tuesdays & Thursdays
11:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Wednesdays & Fridays
11:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Saturdays
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Captain Corelli’s
Mandolin

By Louis de Bernieres

Is Now In

New Books at the
Altona Library

  • Cinnamon by V.C. Andrews
  • The Russlander by Sandra Birdsell
  • Antrax by Terry Brooks
  • Envy by Sandra Brown
  • Shock by Robin Cook
  • The Silent Lady by Catherine Cookson
  • Hemlock Bay by Catherine Coulter
  • The Smoke Jumper by Nicholas Evans
  • Spadework by Timothy Findlay
  • Mercy by Julie Garwood
  • The Blue Last by Martha Grimes
  • Black House by Stephen King
  • The Associate by Phillip Margolin
  • Money, Money, Money by Ed McBain
  • A Bend In The Road by Nicholas Sparks

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Altona Police Service

“The Older, Wiser Driver” The Altona Police Service invites all seniors to attend an information session for Senior Drivers.

The session will provide seniors with an awareness of their safe driving ability and offers pointers that will help senior drivers assess their own capability behind the wheel. We encourage all senior drivers to attend. The Altona Police Service believes that this will be a very helpful, informative session for seniors.

Date: November 12, 2001

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Call 324-5373 to register.

In the Golden West Plaza

Watch for Pedestrians

With the arrival of fall, the Altona Police Service has a few reminders for walkers, bikers and roller bladers. Please dress in light colored reflective clothing at night.

Motorists please take a second look at all intersections and attempt to make eye contact with the pedestrian as they cross in front of you.

Unmanned Crosswalks

They are located at Elmwood School, West Park School, Parkside, and 5th Street N.W. Please watch for students crossing at these crosswalks. When a student is standing at one of these crosswalks with their hand extended forward ALL on-coming traffic must stop as the pedestrian has the right of way.

 

Halloween

Halloween is just around the corner and as in past years the streets are full of costume clad Trick or Treaters. Please utilize extra caution while operating your motor vehicle on October 31st.

We remind parents to encourage the use of makeup rather than masks, if masks are used please ensure that they have large eye holes, this is in order to facilitate better vision.

TIMELY reporting of incidents are an essential part of CRIME SOLVING, if you see or hear something that you feel is not right, or you are a victim of a CRIME please contact the Altona Police Services

At 324-5353– 24 Hours Line

324-5373—Administration

In case of an emergency 911

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Attention Seniors

Altona cares about their seniors and we would like to see our community have happy, healthy and active seniors. It is my job to see to it that this is accomplished. To help me better know what our seniors want, please take a few minutes to answer a few questions.

First of all I feel it is important to let you know that there are a few things we have already organized and hope that our seniors will take advantage of them.

  • Senior Skating- every Tuesday from 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  • Monthly Waffle Breakfast - Ebenezer Apartments - 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
  • Watrous Bus Tour- October 29-31, 2001 pick up at Rosenfeld at 7:30 a.m.
  • Senior Book Club - October 11th, 2001 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
  • Senior’s Pottery Class - January 22, 2002 February 19, 2002, March 19th, 2002

This will take place at Barb Wiebe’s shop and we will sign up 15 people per class. If you cannot make one of these dates it doesn’t matter as the classes do not run into another.
3 different things will be made at the 3 different classes.

Your Name:           * required
Your Email Address:  * required
Your Phone Number:   * required

What sort of senior activities would you like to see in Altona?

Should we start an exercise class for seniors?         Yes  No

Which night of the week do you already have plans?

What sort of movies do you like to watch?

What time of the day should most of the activities take place?
   Morning    Afternoon    Evening

What sort of day tours or weekend tours are you interested in seeing?

Would you take advantage of a lawn bowling facility if one
were available to you?         Yes  No

Are you available to do some story telling or reading to any of our
pre school, day care or elementary grade children and do you like spending
time with children?        Yes  No

Any other Comments:

 This survey will be sent to:

 Grace Braun
Town of Altona Office
Box 1630, Altona, MB.
R0G 0B0

Contact Grace by phone at 324-9005 or by email at graceb@townofaltona.com

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