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Shannon Laprise running for Wheatland County Division 1 seat

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Shannon Laprise is running for the Division 1 seat on Wheatland County council in the upcoming municipal election.
She has a business background and has a track record of improving business processes and reducing costs, and feels her experience makes her an excellent candidate for a position on council.
“My various roles have taught me the importance of working collaboratively with a team, while respectfully questioning proposals or policies to ensure the group comes to the best decisions,” she said in a press release.
Through her business career, Laprise coordinated the modernization of processes and implemented a company-wide performance tracker. She has also farmed alongside her husband for the past 17 years. Laprise says living, farming, and raising children in Wheatland County has been a privilege, and has taught her the importance of community.
If elected, Laprise hopes to attract more business to Wheatland County to help increase tax revenue while keeping the agriculture industry strong. She also hopes to keep towns and hamlets attractive and viable, and enrich communities through the power of their residents.
She is always looking for ways to be more efficient and keep costs within reason, and welcomes an inclusive and open relationship with Wheatland County citizens and neighbours.
Laprise looks forward to working with the successful councillors--both acclaimed and elected--to build upon the successes council has achieved to date.


Drumheller Minor Soccer awards players for excellence

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The Drumheller Minor Soccer club held a wrap up celebration for their outdoor soccer year on Tuesday, October 5. Players and their families were treated to pizza, and club Vice President and Coach Brad LeDrew handed out a total of 12 awards to players for Most Improved, Rising Star, and Excellence. The players who received awards were (back; l-r) Luke, Alexis, Ryah, Tate, (front; l-r) Riley, Lilah, Lexie, Austin, Eli, and Erica. Also pictured are Coach Brad LeDrew and Coach Scott Duggan.

Kneehill County closing gap in square foot requirements

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An application for a residence in Kneehill County unveiled a gap in minimum square footage requirements in the county’s Land Use Bylaw (LUB) during the Tuesday, September 21 Committee of the Whole meeting.
Manager of Planning and Development Barb Hazelton brought the discussion forward to council following a request from the August 25 Municipal Planning Commission meeting which triggered a conversation about the gap in requirements.
“The subject application was for a residence that did not meet the minimum square footage for Ag District, but was too large to meet the definition of a tiny home under the current LUB,” Hazelton said during her presentation at the September meeting.
She noted administration will propose draft changes to the LUB in the new year, and stated administration can include changes regarding the housing issue at the same time.
Hazelton’s recommendation was to make the LUB as least intrusive as possible by setting a maximum 1,000 square foot discretionary size for garden suites, keeping the maximum discretionary tiny house size at 500 square feet, and removing the 800 square foot minimum requirement from some county districts including the Agriculture and Manufactured Home districts.
Hazelton noted this would allow all single family dwellings to be permitted, so long as it was over 500 square feet and was not a secondary residence, garden suite, or tiny home.
She added other municipalities in the area have varying square footage requirements-Wheatland County, which borders Kneehill County, has no minimum square footage requirement in its Agriculture District, though Hazelton noted there were several designations within their Eagle Lake/Speargrass development.
Reeve Jerry Wittstock moved for administration to bring the proposed amendments back to council in the new year.


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