October 31, 2001

New Reeve
Gillman (Fritz) Crone is the new Reeve of the Municipal District of Provost No. 52. He was elected to the office for the first time by fellow councillors on Thursday morning, October 25.

Fritz Crone

Municipal elections were held October 15. Crone, who lives just south of Rosyth represents Division 7 (see map inside this paper). He has served nine years on M.D. council. Deputy reeve is Tom Schneider.

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A Canadian Pacific Railway work crew began tearing up an area at the west crossing in Provost on Wednesday morning in a bid to smooth the bumpy ride that motorists receive when crossing over the tracks. One of the 10 workmen there said that they were going to lay down asphalt on this and the east crossing. ©Provost News Photo.

Larger P.P.S. Gym Request Rejected by Province

A request for extra $1.2 million for a new, larger gym at Provost Public School has been turned down by the provincial government says MLA Butch Fischer.
He told The News on Friday afternoon, October 26 that “It would have been nice to have a new (larger) gym but they are getting the main expansion which is really, really needed and I am very pleased that we got that.”
He says that “given the cutting policy (of the Alberta Government) we are very lucky to have got this (original plan) approved. They were going to cut some of the projects that hadn’t started yet.”
Chair of the Public School Council, Agnes Whiting said later on October 26 that she was “a little disappointed” and her group will discuss the issue. She stressed that they have not got official word on the matter from the province’s infrastructure department so was not yet ready to close the door on the plan.
She added that their first priority is classrooms.
Whiting had said earlier in the day that her group was “waiting on pins and needles” for the decision from the province.
The MLA added in a telephone interview that “When we put our deficit elimination act in for no more deficits we did that with the strong approval of the people of the province. We put it in legislation and this is the negative side of that. You can’t spend more than you brought in. I think long term we are doing the right thing.”
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Letters . . .

As Remembrance Day draws near, portions of several selected letters written by a local soldier, sent from England and then later from the front lines during World War II are being reproduced in this paper and next week’s. Some readers may recall getting similar letters during this period—others born later may be able to get some sort of a feel what life was like as war raged close to 60 years ago when local boys and men fought for freedom.
All letters were subject to censor by the military at the time of mailing.
A peek into Private Adrian Schug’s public war and private life with excerpts from his correspondence:
August 2, 1942
. . . I got over here (England) okay, didn’t have a bad trip on the ship . . . it was pretty rough water for about two days, but otherwise the weather was fine, so I didn’t get sick. Saw some whales and a few big fish.
August 31, 1942
. . . Well it’s pretty quiet around here, you wouldn’t know there was a war on except for the search lights at night, and the black outs, they were hard to get used to at first but can find my way around now. Saw a lot of buildings blown up last year, but haven’t been in the right place yet to be in a raid, kind of like to see one . . . Grenvil Michel was working here in the kitchen . . . didn’t see any of the other boys yet except Schafflers and a Wright boy from north of town.
July 26, 1943
I suppose you know that we are all in Sicily, sure is a hot place in the day time and cold at night . . . well we have begun being in a few hot spots I didn’t expect to get out of but we are still here except for a few casualties. We heard today that Mussolini resigned, sure hope it makes a change to the good.

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