TRACK WATCH. January 2018 MILLARVILLE RACING AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY UPCOMING AT THE TRACK

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1 TRACK WATCH January 2018 UPCOMING AT THE TRACK First Aid Course in Jan./Feb. Please contact the office if you are interested in taking part. Do YOU like to PAINT??. We are looking for volunteers to help paint the inside of the Track House. Call the office or if you are interested in helping for a few hours on a Saturday! JAN. 11 TH AND 12 TH CASINO at Century Casino Calgary. We still have evening shifts for volunteers to help with this MRAS fundraiser. Call the office if you can help! DO YOU CROSS COUNTRY SKI??? Why not come for a ski around the track! The snow is great and when the sun is out, you don t want to be anywhere else! MILLARVILLE RACING AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY Office Hours Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m / Box 68, Millarville, AB T0L 1K0

2 From the President It is hard to believe we have moved through another year and will soon be planning our calendar for 2018 and all the activities ahead. From my family, to all the members and staff of MRAS, I wish you peace and happiness in this New Year! As we look back into 2017, so much was accomplished with the hall renovation, water treatment plant enhancement, lighting improvements for our arena and integrity building, facility power improvements, new staff and funding new initiatives. A BIG thank-you to the staff, event leads and many volunteers who spent hours and hours and hours over the last year in making our events such a success. We are excited for the coming year and all the events that our membership and surrounding communities will have an opportunity to experience our 5th Golf Tournament on June 4th, our 7 th Half Marathon on June 16th, the renowned July 1 st Races for the 113 th year, our 22 nd Heritage Rodeo on July 20 th, 21st & 22nd, the 111 th Fair on August 18 th & 19 th, and our 2nd Chuckwagon & Chariot Races on September 7 th, 8 th, 9th. If you are looking to get more involved in your community and/or meet more people, our event committees can certainly use your assistance. Of particular note, the Chuckwagon & Chariot Races committee will be hosting the 2018 Finals for the season and would like this to be a real celebration. With the AGM now past, I would like to welcome the newly elected directors to the MRAS Board of Directors: Michelle Parry, Colina J Clark, Blaine Clark, Catherine Durholt, Kelly Hamzic, Roy Mathis, John McGruther, Sandy MacKenzie, Bill Niles, Brad Robson, and Nancy Seaman. I look forward to working with you in the up-coming year. I would also like to thank our returning board members who were reelected; Ralph Onciul, Anne Marie Mullane, Faye White. A very big thank you to the outgoing board Members, Bill Jackson, Barb Castell, Rick Charlton and Dwain Lowe. Thank you for your time and efforts in supporting MRAS. I look forward to sharing more information with the membership as the weeks and months progress. Looking forward to what 2018 has in store! Brent Foster MRAS President 2018 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Brent Foster mraspresident@gmail.com President Ralph Onciul rtonciul@telus.net Vice President Katrin Wittke Katrin.wittke.cal@gmail.com Treasurer Michelle Parry mmparry40@gmail.com Secretary Malcolm Sills mrsills55@gmail.com Past President Colina J Clark info@ciansmustard.com Blaine Clark rblaineclark80@gmail.com Catherine Duerholt mcduerholt@gmail.com Kelly Hamzic kelly.hamzic@me.com Roy Mathis fmsl.roy@gmail.com John McGruther barjar@yahoo.com Sandy MacKenzie macfire.sandy@gmail.com Anne Marie Mullane penruddock@gmail.com Bill Niles wicniles@gmail.com Brad Robson bradrobson@shaw.ca Nancy Seaman cnseaman@telus.net Faye White faye@countrygables.ca

3 Road Trip Report from KOS and Mrs. Clause On Thursday Dec 14th, Mrs. Clause and chauffeur elf Melonie hopped into the red "sleigh" on a delivery mission. After 154 km, 3.5 hours, 2 Tim Hortons, 10 Timbits, 6 FSD schools (presenting to the principals) and the Turner Valley Food bank, and Rowan house (delivered separately) we completed this mission. These donations are for their school hot lunch programs that are utilized my MANY children daily. We started at Longview school with a super fun tour by the hot lunch coordinator. Mrs. Clause received a tonne of little people hugs and many thank you comments. Second, Oilfields High School where we stopped into the Foods class and one other classroom for a visit. Surprisingly the high school kids were still happy to see Mrs. Clause! We ended the Black Diamond stops with a quick trip into the C. Ian McLaren School. Off to Turner Valley School; Mrs. Clause surprised the Kindergarden and Grade 1 classes and had to answer some hard questions and listen to all the children s stories of their bad elves on shelves! Noticing all the cars at the Oilfields Food bank, we thought we would stop in, just in case. It was a lovely sight to see so many people there packing up Christmas hampers and we were able to surprise them too! Millarville Community School was the next destination - and how cute those Kinders were! Last stop was Red Deer Lake School. We were able to have a quick visit with the Kindergarden there and again, Mrs. Clause did an amazing job at answering all of those really tough questions like how many elves does Santa have? How old is Rudolph? In total we delivered $6412 dollars with $916 to happen next week. That is $7328! These proceeds are from the Kids Only Shoppe at the Millarville Christmas Market when the thousands of handmade (by vendors and volunteers) are sold to kids 12 and under to take home, all wrapped up, in hopes their loved ones love what they picked and that they themselves can keep the secret that long! Thank you to everyone involved whether you donated, crafted, volunteered or purchased. It is such an awesome cause that we look forward to repeating year after year! FYI - Santa employs 85,851 elves! And Rudolph is 78 years old!

4 2018 Millarville Heritage Rodeo July 20-22, 2018 It is the Millarville Heritage Rodeo Committee s commitment to have an event that promotes Heritage, Community, Education and Agriculture as well as to continue supporting the FCA sanctioned rodeos however they can. The 2018 year is fast approaching and planning for the 22 nd Millarville Heritage Rodeo is well underway with the next committee meeting on January 18 th /2018. If you are interested in sponsoring this awesome event, please visit the MRAS web page or contact Mike Braun at highcountry31@gmail.com. Any additional news or updates will be accessible through the MRAS web page, MRAS track watch and Millarville Heritage Rodeo Facebook page. We are LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS to join the group. Please send an to rodeo@millarvilleracetrack.com if you are interested in helping with the planning OR on the day of the event. We will be looking for volunteers specific to various areas that our committee heads are organizing: ticket sales, sponsorship, set up, tear down, advertising, Little Cowboy area, etc. Get your boots and hats ready, it s going to be a fun Rodeo! Shane Darling, Chair Evan Pugh, Co-Chair

5 2018 Chuckwagon & Chariot Races September 7-9, 2018 Similar to the Heritage Rodeo Committee, it is the Chuckwagon & Chariot Race Committee s commitment to have an event that promotes Heritage, Community, Education and Agriculture as well as to continue supporting the APCCA racing events however they can. With this in mind, we will be hosting the 2018 APCCA FINALS at the Millarville Racetrack in September and we are very excited to bring this to the Track. The 2 nd Millarville Chuckwagon & Chariot Races planning is progressing extremely well with the next meeting January 30 th, If you are interested in sponsoring the Chucks & Chariots, please visit the MRAS web page or contact Mike Braun at highcountry31@gmail.com. Any additional news or updates will be accessible through the MRAS web page, MRAS track watch and the Millarville Chuckwagon & Chariot Races Facebook pages. If you are interested in volunteering for this event, helping on that weekend or in the planning of these Races, please send an to: chucks@millarvilleracetrack.com Mark Your Calendars Shane Darling, Chair Andrew Cook, Co-Chair

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7 PRIDDIS & MILLARVILLE FAIR VOLUNTEER POSITIONS Are you interested in influencing one of the Southern Alberta s oldest and largest country fairs? The 2018 Priddis & Millarville Fair Committee is looking for volunteers to fill three positions: VICE CHAIR great opportunity to learn how the fair operates and manage our ribbon inventory SHEEP DEPARTMENT MANAGER looking for an enthusiastic leader for a group of experienced volunteers to run the sheep department. FAIR BOOK DESIGNER need someone with access and experience with Adobe InDesign to compile the fair book For more information, please contact Suzanne Sills at or fair@millarvilleracetrack.com HELP WANTED

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