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Who are you? Layne Syvertsen

Name: Layne Syvertsen
Employer: Royal Tyrrell Museum
Job Title: G.E.O. (Gallery Experience Officer)
What do you like most about your job? Getting to spend so much time in the museum galleries, and meeting so many interesting people.
How long have you lived in Drumheller? Since last June, but I lived in Carbon for 2 years before that.
Where are you from? Born in Medicine Hat, grew up in Calgary.
What do you do in your spare time? Play music, write songs, go hiking or mountain biking.
Who or what inspires you (and how)? When I was just starting out on guitar, I had a dream where I got to visit heaven and see this awesome band of all the great musicians that have died. After the show, Jimi Hendrix came over and sat down with me. He told me “never give up on your dreams.” That has been a big inspiration for me ever since.
Who would you like most to meet? I think it would be The Edge from U2. He was one of my very first inspirations to get into music.
What would you like to achieve this year? The completion of my album Road to Maya.
Any New Year’s resolution? Not this time around.
What was your best Christmas present of all time? My first album, Let it Be by The Beatles. That was a huge inspiration for me to further my music.
Favourite book/film/song?Book: The Alchemist, Film: Gladiator, Song: Stairway to Heaven
If money was no option, what would you be doing? Recording and promoting my music.
What’s on your playlist? What’s a playlist? I listen to CD’s, you lose something when you just listen to bits and pieces instead of the album as a whole. Right now it’s lots of Beatles, Zeppelin, and Neil Young.
What legacy would you like to leave Drumheller? Again I would have to say my music, and the bands I’ve played in.
If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? Right here in Drumheller, this is where I’ve wanted to live all my life.
Black or white? White, it’s actually all of the colours in one. With black you just get a lack of any colour at all.
Words to live by? Don’t be afraid to take chances in life, the only pain is to feel nothing at all.

Who are you? Kav Salh

Full Name: Kav Salh
Employer: Canadian Tire Manager, Drumheller.
How old are you? 29 - today!! Born on January 8, 1981.
How long have you been in Drumheller? Four months.
Where are you originally from? Vancouver, BC.
What do you like about your job? Everyday challenges of improving the store and serving the community.
If you were granted three wishes from an angel or genie, what would you want?
-warmer weather
-warmer weather
-aaaaand warmer weather.
What’s your favourite movie and why? The Departed. An amazing cast and so well directed.
What was your New Year’s Resolution? To not have resolutions this year.
Has reading a book ever changed your life? If yes, which one? Yes. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
If you were reborn, who would you want to be born as? Myself! I really enjoy my life the way it is.
If you found $100 what would you do? Probably take friends out for beers.
If you could retire tomorrow, what would you do? Help other people retire faster than they thought they could.
If you could travel back in time and meet yourself as a 10 year old kid, what advice would you give to yourself? “You’re not going to play in the NHL, so go inside and do your homework...”
If you could be Prime Minister for a day, what would you do? Resign.

Who are you? Shauna Brown

Full name: Shauna Brown
Employer/Business: I have an employer which is The Royal Canadian Legion Branch #22 and a business, which is Tampogo, an online shopping mall which aims to help eradicate world hunger.
Job: general branch manager at the Legion.
How old are you? 41
How long have you been in Drumheller? I came in 1990.
Where are you originally from? Wawanesa in Manitoba.
What do you like about your job? What’s not to like about either one of them? The people at the Legion are amazing. As for my private business, it feels pretty good to be part of something that big!
What is the longest you have kept a New Year resolution? I don’t make them.
Will you be making any New Year resolutions? Just maintaining a good positive healthy lifestyle.
What was the single best thing that happened this past year? I think joining up with the people from the Legion.
Pick three words to describe 2009: 3 words? that’s tough....I am going to say positive, influential and pretty happy.
What was the biggest thing you learned this past year? Just to let it go and good things happen to good people.
Winter in Canada or in the sun? In the sun!
Favourite activity in winter: curling up with a good book.
What is one of your weaknesses? Sometimes I am too trusting.
One of your strengths? I think my biggest strength is being able to see the good in people.
What’s the most important decision you have ever made? I don’t think I have made that decision yet.
What skill do you most want to learn or improve this next year? I want to learn to build my business, by learning to deal more effectively with people.
What was your best achievement this year? Being a part of reaching our Tampogo goal I think was my biggest achievement, which was to feed 100,000 starving children by 31 December which we surpassed a few days ago.
Any unusual habits? Probably but I’ll keep them secret!
Which super power would you like to have? Invisibility...It’d be fun to be able to sneak around!
Words to live by? These are words that an older lady spoke to me, and it is to wake up each morning, be able to look in the mirror and know that you have never hurt anyone and to be able to live with yourself every day.

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