“They’re basically unstoppable right now.”
    That’s how the bantam Titans’ head coach Thomas Laffin is describing his team after a lopsided 106-8 win at home on Saturday, where fans watched as the scoreboard rolled over to double zeroes for the first time in recent memory.
    The bantams were part of a triple header weekend at the Drumheller Valley Secondary School fields on Saturday of the Thanksgiving weekend, where the team racked up points against Stettler like it was a basketball game.
    “We didn’t like the fact we ran up the score but we needed the points for playoffs,” says Laffin, who adds the game put them in third place and earned them the title of highest scoring team in the league.
     “We knew heading into it it wasn’t going to be an easy game, but we got ready and went out there and dominated from the very beginning,” says Laffin. “We’ve been fired up ever since our McMahon game. The guys aren’t slowing down one bit and they’re coming together as a team more and more each day.”
    He says the team took the opportunity to get all their players into the game, and while they didn’t let up on scoring when the opportunity came, Laffin says the team followed the coaches’ direction to soften their blows and to encourage Stettler’s players. He says the Stettler team stuck with it and finished the game.
    While the team has one more regular season game against Springbank at home next Saturday afternoon, the team is now eyeing playoffs as they’ve pretty much secured at least a third place finish in the standings. The team seems locked to play Sylvan Lake in the first playoff round  in two weeks, but will be looking at this last regular season game to add more points to their differential and hopefully secure home field advantage for playoffs.
    “We’re more worried about the playoffs but we’re going to give Springbank all we got,” said Laffin.
    The team will be at home next Saturday afternoon, with the start time still unconfirmed as of publication.

    Once a main driver of the community of Carbon, the assets of Bertram Drilling are to be sold off.
    Bertram Drilling has operated since 1962, as a diversified drilling company that operated in Canada the US and overseas. However, with the downturn in the resource sector, its parent company is liquidating its assets.
    In 2011 Energold Drilling Corp purchased Bertram International Corporation. At the time it had an inventory of 119 rigs. It acquired the outstanding shares for $15 million and assumed long term debt and lease obligations of about $3 million.
    Trouble was looming for Energold and in August it announced it would not be filing its interim financial statement and three directors resigned.
    On September 16 it announced that substantially all the assets of Bertram Drillings be sold to Century Services Corporation pursuant to an asset disposition proposal.
     “…it is expected Energold will wind-down all operations and business of Bertram Drilling Corp. Other than Bertram Drilling Corp. it is expected all operations of Energold, the Canadian Companies, and Energold's non-Canadian operating subsidiaries will continue uninterrupted in the ordinary course of business,” stated an Energold press release.
     Carbon Mayor Bryan Peever says it is a big blow of the community.
“A number of people worked there and of course they give us a tax base,” said Peever. “They have been a great partner in town. They have always done good things for the town,” he said of Bertram Drilling.
    The sell-off has already begun. The sale is listed on Century Services’ online site Club Bid, with lots in Carbon and Fort Saskatchewan. Bidding opened on October 3 and is to close on October 30.