Lots and lots going on here in Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock.
HIGHWAY SIGNS
We’ve got about 60 eight-foot signs out, strategically located ALL OVER from Morinville to Swan Hills. This is courtesy of Alex Fluet, Joe Smith and Dennis Waters in the Barrhead area, Roland Sauve and Roland Seguin in Westlock, Floyd and Irene Olson in Fort Assiniboine, and Joe Gosselin and Al Homeniuk in the Morinville-Alcomdale region. Unless you’ve done it before, you have NO IDEA how much precious time and work this will save us come election time, especially if it’s this winter – a definite possibility.
FIRST SWAN HILLS MEMBERS!
A couple weeks ago, we sold our first memberships in Swan Hills – the last place in the riding where we were member-less. Jim Turnbull and I drove up and met with some very interested ladies in the Fifty-Plus centre, and they all joined – said they were fed up with the PCs and want a Wildrose government. We then canvassed the businesses downtown and got a good reception there too. Dennis Waters got there ahead of us and put up some eight-foot signs, so the Wildrose message is at last getting out in grizzly country.
FORT ASSINIBOINE TOWN HALL
Last Monday, we had a very successful town hall discussion in the beautiful log seniors’ drop-in centre in Ft. Assiniboine. Even though the canola harvest was still going and lots of folks were still in the field, we had 20 visitors and sold 14 new memberships. Special thanks to Irene Olson for parking her grain truck and to Pauline Thompson doing this. It was a fun evening.
BARRHEAD HOG ROAST
We had a great Hog Roast Fundraiser in Barrhead Saturday night – good talk, good music, good video, good food. Thanks to all who came and made it such a success. Special thanks to Jim Turnbull for organizing it, Dan Majeau for the pig, Dennis Waters for hauling the pig in the wee hours, Martin Jennings and helpers for cooking the pig, Tom Elder and Vivian for cooking everything else, “Little Joe” Dobyanski for auctioneering, and Joe MacIsaac and the band Back in Time for the great entertainment.
ONE TRAILER UP! ANOTHER ON THE WAY!
In fact we raised enough money to put up a second one of these in the riding:
Major thanks to the two Rollies – Sauve and Seguin – for getting this trailer done – and big thanks also to Ken Masse for providing the land and the trailer. For now it’s on Highway 44 six miles south of Westlock at Township Road 590. If you’re passing Ken’s place, it’s pretty hard to miss. We’ll move it from time to time.
We have a line on a second trailer near Morinville, and a great place on Highway 2 to spot it – and now we have the funds to pay for the billboard.
CAMPAIGN OFFICE OPEN ALL WEEK, EVERY WEEK
As long as we KEEP GETTING THE WORD OUT we can win.
And if you’re in Westlock, STOP BY THE CAMPAIGN OFFICE! Thanks to Jim and Gail Turnbull, Marilyn Waters, and Dean and Darlene Pearson it’s open every weekday from 9 to 5, the coffee’s always on. It’s in the Capri (Liquidation World) Mall, right across from Hardee’s Restaurant. Jim sells a steady stream of memberships just by being open. Drop by, we’d love to see you.
Link Byfield
Wildrose Candidate
Barrhead – Morinville – Westlock |
MEDIA STATEMENT
by Link Byfield
Wildrose candidate for Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock
Cardiff corner overpass
As the Wildrose candidate for this area in the upcoming provincial election, I congratulate the incumbent MLA and the government for their surprise announcement yesterday that they will build a new overpass at Cardiff corner on Highway 2 south of town. That level crossing is by far the most frightening intersection I’ve come across in our constituency.
Why it took the present government so many years to act matters less than that they finally have. Lower-cost alternative solutions – acted upon sooner – would probably have made more sense, but would have been less visible and impressive.
It is noteworthy that in one breath the government says the cost and design of this overpass are unknown, and how it will tie in to the new Edmonton bypass is unknown, but that work will begin this fall come what may. With this government, impulsive, splashy, election-related spending is standard procedure. It helps explain the gravity of our provincial deficit, and why after two resource booms and forty years of PC rule we have almost nothing in our provincial savings account.
Hopefully Albertans will opt next time for a new government that puts planning and public need ahead of political opportunity.
Link Byfield
Candidate, Wildrose Alliance
780-908-2202 /
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