Ep 5 2026 05 18 Potholes and BBQ

Summer’s Coming… Maybe? ☀️❄️🕳️

This week the divas are back and covering EVERYTHING from Alberta’s confused weather patterns to potholes big enough to qualify for municipal addresses.

We’re talking:

•  Summer plans vs. surprise winter 
•  BBQ season essentials 🍔 
•  Small-town life and community events 
•  County and Town Council chatter 
•  Boundaries… because apparently some people still don’t understand them 👀 
•  Road conditions, construction frustrations, and THE potholes 
•  And of course… a couple of classic diva rants along the way 

If you love local conversations, unfiltered opinions, small-town humour, and a little chaos mixed in with community talk — this episode is for you.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:07

Welcome back to Two Divas One Ran, where local news meets local attitude. Oh yeah. Hello, Terry. How are ya? Good. How are you? I'm not happy, Terry. Why? I'm looking out the window and I see snow on the ground.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Oh yeah. Welcome to winter number eight in the Arctic tundra. That's what I call it. It's the winter that'll never leave. Somebody did not get the memo, which is like, I feel like we've been talking about this forever. Right?

SPEAKER_00 0:41

I I mean things have look a lot greener. That's poking through under the white stuff, but I would have been happy with some showers.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Yeah. But they say that's what you get for May Long. It's May long, baby. It is May long. No planting potatoes today.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

Bring your uh little buds and blooms in. Yeah, as you can see, they are all in. They are, yeah. That's it. Nothing else, Terry? I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 1:13

Do I do I have anything else? I don't in my brain it's percolating, I'm sure it'll come out.

SPEAKER_00 1:19

Okay. Yeah. Work's going good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:22

Work's work. How about you? How's your work?

SPEAKER_00 1:25

Work's okay. I was in the city for most uh for the last couple weeks, actually. One for a conference and then for training. I dreading going back to work on tomorrow when I open up all my emails, and yeah, that'll be a good day just going through all the emails and and stuff. So as much as I love a long weekend, it's gonna be painful.

SPEAKER_01 1:55

I will say I forgot that on Friday I was in Manville for a meeting. Manville, yeah, and we had this lunch by let me get this straight. It's called Something Sweet Bakery. Something something sweet coffee and bakery. It was amazing in Manville. In Manville. So yeah, you know how all of us go to the city now and then and we're like, oh, we gotta stop at Bandere for sausages. Oh, we gotta stop here for this. Stop in Manville to the something sweet coffee and bakery. It was delightful. We had a cream potato soup, which was so nummy. We had chicken Caesar wraps, and then you know, I was thinking, oh, we'll get these little cheesecakes for desserts. And I was just thinking they're gonna be like little squares. Oh no, they were like full on slices. Oh, I ate it all guilt-free. It's great. Excellent. Okay, so there you go.

SPEAKER_00 2:58

So it's it's a little cafe, it's not just a bakery per se. You can have like soup and sandwiches and yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

And then they also had some picnic tables out in the front of their like we obviously had it delivered because we're having a meeting. Yeah, but um, yeah, rave for sure.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

Wow, yeah, I did not know. Good this is good information. I love traveling around uh and finding new hidden little gems to go eat because I am on the road quite a bit and I have eaten at some quaint little places. And if you're ever in Smoky Lake, you gotta go to the Sentex for their chicken tenders and fries.

SPEAKER_01 3:44

Oh really? Heaven. Oh, there's also a burger joint in Smoky Lake. I think that's supposed to be pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 3:51

Okay, I I know the bakery's really good too there, but the Sentex chicken, man. Sentex chicken.

SPEAKER_01 3:58

Not you know, they both start with C, but I'm not sure I would have put them in the same chicken Sentex.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

Yeah, so all these, you know, Derwin's got Derwin pizza.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Oh, yeah, they do, and it's delicious. It is. Yeah. Elk Point has a golden loaf bakery, right?

SPEAKER_00 4:16

Yeah. Um wow. Vermilion has delicious. It's I think it's called Delicious Bites. It's a cute little restaurant there, as well as the uh red brick. Red brick.

SPEAKER_01 4:29

I was just gonna say red brick, right?

SPEAKER_00 4:31

We have the El Point Coffee Club, Bonnieville has caffeinate.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, all these little things. It must be like lunchtime soon. It must be. So um, we're gonna talk some county and some town stuff and some taxes, county town, and taxes. Yeah, like doesn't that sound riveting? What could possibly go wrong?

SPEAKER_00 4:58

I think it kind of goes with the weather.

SPEAKER_01 5:02

Yeah. Hold on to your helmets.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

Okay, so what's going on, Terry?

SPEAKER_01 5:11

Uh oh, hey, we had uh a real estate property plus realty reached out and said, Hey, I'd like to give you some stats. I saw that. What did they have to tell us, Terry? I thought that was a great idea. So a big thank you to Desiree and Evan here in the town of Elk Point. So currently they have 13 houses for sale. And again, disclaimer, could have changed between when we got the email and that two condos, two houses that are pending, a new listing of four four plexus, and dun dun, there's been two sales in the last 30 days. So things are moving. Sale prices are between you know 250 to 320,000. So, you know, we got a little bit of everything in Elk Point. Low, medium, high. Right?

SPEAKER_00 5:58

Quaint. Quaint. Uh, to you know, if you need more room, because maybe you've got a growing family, come to El Point, check it out. Yeah, it's the right place to be. Well, most days.

SPEAKER_01 6:14

It's we can always strive to be better. Oh, uh absolutely. Right. If you're not striving, you're well then you're stagnant. Oh, well, that that didn't roll right off the tongue. It didn't. I was thinking strive to stagnant. Yeah, we always gotta do better. Yeah, what do you got on your list for stuff to chat about? Nothing.

SPEAKER_00 6:36

What? I'm just yeah, I have been on the road, so I uh I left it all up to you, Terry. Thank you for picking up the ball.

SPEAKER_01 6:44

No, it's all good. So on the road, so how are the potholes where you went? Let's dive into my first rant.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Oh uh yeah, potholes not as big as uh some of the ones in El Point.

SPEAKER_01 6:58

Yeah, we just can pile on in ours, so at least you see it coming from a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

You know, maybe what uh needs to happen in El Point, which happened in England, was somebody drew a dick and balls around the uh pothole so that the council would fix them in like bright fluorescent colors. Yeah, that'll do it. That was yeah. I mean, I'm not encouraging vandalism, but I am trying to make a point here that there would be a lot of dick and balls around Elk Point.

SPEAKER_01 7:34

Oh my gosh, I don't even know how to respond to that. Trying to keep it together over here. Um, yeah, like I understand 'tis the season, you know, the supposed winter number eight is gonna go away and it exposes all these wonderful potholes. But I don't know. And then you know what really grinded my gears? What? Do you know what creams my corn? No, I'm just kidding. Um, I read a Facebook comment, which really take it for what you got. But oh, I don't think we should fix the potholes because it makes people slow down. Uh well, to me, that was a walker, somebody who just walks everywhere. Don't get hit by the swerving vehicle that's got to swerve from the pothole.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

And maybe if you're not familiar with Elk Point and you hit that pothole and you are doing the speed limit, and then your vehicle has a nice little shake and rattle going to it. That's not really uh investing in bringing people to our community.

SPEAKER_01 8:39

Yeah, and it's not even just the potholes at this point. Like we've got projects still sitting on the books, and I don't know, maybe somebody can reach out to us in the next week and a half and tell us why it's not being completed. But Main Street has been dug up for what, two years now? Two parade things. I I call it parade cycles. We don't even call them years anymore. You know, our that's our main drag. That's what we should be, you know, flaunting. And you gotta drive over this patch that hasn't been fixed yet.

SPEAKER_00 9:15

And parades are coming up. I mean, Canada Day is only a month and a half away. This is true, yeah. And lots of people come to El Point Canada Day Parade. They do, and the events that you're usually follow that.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

I would say hazard to, you know, second to hockey and you know, the riding arena and maybe the theater. That's why they come to El Point is for the parade. Canada. We've got a great Canada Day. There's some axe throwing is gonna happen. Like maybe I gotta get go do that, get out some aggression. I'm with you. Okay, I'm going.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

Uh, yeah, so that would be really nice if we completed some projects, spruced up our main street for our parades.

SPEAKER_01 10:03

Well, considering the taxes have gone up, and you know, two sure things in life, death and taxes. How much are taxes going up, Terry? Okay, well, let's just remember this is only the municipal side of the taxes. Okay. We're not going to talk about other requisitions and school taxes because that is, you know, that's a separate thing. Elk Point tax going up 2%, Bonneville tax increased 2%, Town of St. Paul tax increased 3.9%. Oh, so I guess they're fixing their potholes is what I read that. Um, no, I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

I'm gonna say, I don't know, I drove on uh St. Paul streets the other day.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

And the county of St. Paul, they're holding their own, they're not expected to increase or decrease. But again, remember municipal taxes portion only, not okay.

SPEAKER_00 10:59

So where I live in downtown LA, yeah, Lindbergh, Alberta. Woo-hoo. My county portion of tax will not be increasing at this point.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

I don't think so. But you'll probably get an increase overall.

SPEAKER_00 11:15

Now, what what what else do we pay in our taxes that would cause for me to have an increase?

SPEAKER_01 11:23

Well, the government's gotta pay for stuff. So one of those stuff. Which government?

SPEAKER_00 11:29

Oh, provincial government. Provincial government.

SPEAKER_01 11:31

Okay, your educational taxes are gonna go like some of them are up like nine percent. That's where I read 5.3%. So it's gonna be crazy.

SPEAKER_00 11:42

So when we were kind of planning this out, you said you educated me by saying when I pay education tax, doesn't stay for like my Elpoint schools, or in this case, maybe my Heinsburg school, because it's in the county. This goes across the province.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

Yeah, it goes to a big pool. And then they decide how they're gonna spend their money in education. Oh, what schools they're gonna fund, what schools they're gonna retrofit or create, or yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:11

So more likely than not, it's gonna go to Edmonton.

SPEAKER_01 12:17

Well, probably the bigger cities, yeah. Or and dare you say the word charter schools.

SPEAKER_00 12:23

Well, I was just gonna say that because what is that? Uh in Innisf what's West of Manville. Is that Innisf Innisfree? Innisfree?

SPEAKER_01 12:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:34

Yeah. Because they're closing their school.

SPEAKER_01 12:37

So I think is Rochester too.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

So uh, but somebody said something about a charter school.

SPEAKER_01 12:44

Oh. Now I don't know if that's true.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

Why a chartered school would come to a rural that small a town, but you never know. Maybe because people don't want to bust their kids. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I that is just something I I heard. Now, that's doesn't mean it's true. Uh so if somebody does know, please send in to Two Divas One Rant. You can find us on uh Facebook, Instagram, or to divas onerant at gmail.com.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

So uh so back to to the education tax that goes to everywhere, but our schools.

SPEAKER_01 13:25

And it's a tax whether you've got a kid in school or not, right? Right. So we all pay for it because potentially more educated people are going to help us in the long run.

SPEAKER_00 13:36

Right. And I don't mind paying tax, education tax. I mean, my kids are done school, but I would like to see people move into L Point and use our school. Uh, you know, I think I said that in one episode where we used to have two classrooms for every grade. We're down to I think it's almost every grade has just one class.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:59

And we have two schools.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

Yeah, that's the challenge of rural, right? We don't always fill all, but then you'll have some years where you have lots, right? And then some years you don't.

SPEAKER_00 14:10

So the projection has been downwards for a while. So we have a K to 6 school, Elp uh, L Point Elementary, and then across the street, we have FG Miller Junior Senior High School, grade seven to grade 12. So if the population is going down and we're paying taxes for two schools, yeah. I dare I say it. I don't want to say it, but what economically or fiscally responsibly be to combine the two schools?

SPEAKER_01 14:40

Right. I think we also have a bigger issue, too, if you want to go crazy, that the average um babies are like 0.4. How that works out, I don't know. What do you mean? Expect like we got the generations, the next two generations not having kids. Uh so to your point, maybe we'll need less putting all this money into schools where we have the people. What are we doing where we don't have the people?

SPEAKER_00 15:09

Yeah, it'll all catch up to itself and it will be like I mean, I went to school in Derwent. Uh when I started, it was grade one to grade twelve. And then I want to say when I was in grade two, that's when the bus came to take the grade 10 to 12 to Myrnham. And eventually decline in enrollment, population. Durwent school closed, it became a blind factory. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, now it's closed completely. Uh, that's never good for a town when a school closes. And I do and I don't want to see that for L Point. I think L Point has a lot to offer. And I would love to see it filled up.

SPEAKER_01 15:51

Well, and I think that's why we fought for the outreach school too a few years ago, right? Yeah. The need to have that alternate education as well is important.

SPEAKER_00 15:59

I I just think we need to do something uh to bring people here, because then I mean, if we are, you know, that means then we lose teachers. And if we lose teachers, then they, you know, the provincial government might say, Do you really need a hospital?

SPEAKER_01 16:15

Oh, let's not go down that control today. I don't want okay, we won't.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

But let's try and think springy. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah, because it is the long weekend. Monday, holiday Monday, Victoria Day, Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria.

unknown 16:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:35

Which are you doing anything special for long weekend? No.

SPEAKER_00 16:39

No planting potatoes.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

Even if the weather was nice, Roger said no garden, you have no time. Well, you do travel a lot.

SPEAKER_01 16:48

I do, but I love new potatoes. Well, there's you go to the store. It's not the same.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

No. I I have a really good friend. Oh, good. They supply you, they hook you up. Well, I'm I'm hoping she will. I mean, she doesn't know it yet. Step one. Uh, but yeah. So, I mean, it is the long weekend Monday, so it's the kickoff to summer usually. Right? It's that kickoff to, you know, burnout boundaries and barbecue.

SPEAKER_01 17:27

Barbecue. Okay, burnout. Let's talk about that for a bit, right? Who's got burnout this time of the year?

SPEAKER_00 17:34

Me. Me. Right? I mean, it's been a long winter and I, you know, it's that work thing all the time. Like, what else do you gotta do? I do a little extra work or all of that.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

And now it's like and I think it's even outside going from you know, that small window of time where it goes from white, it's still light out there, to brown to green, right?

SPEAKER_00 18:00

Like that blah time. Yeah. And the sun is out longer, so it it, you know, you you want to get home and you want to get outside. And, you know, I love cutting grass. I love sitting on the lawnmower and cutting grass. I love the smell of fresh cut grass. Nice. Right. So that's part of your work-life balance. That's right. And that's that's part of that boundaries, right? It's it's nice out. I've given you a lot of time during the winter months, the long winter that will never end. Right. Um, and now I I want to just, yeah. Hey, 4:30 is cut-off time. I'm going home.

SPEAKER_01 18:38

430 wanna money here.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

And then barbecue.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

Yeah, it is the barbecue season.

SPEAKER_00 18:46

I know. For Mother's Day, we were barbecuing, and I was like, Oh, I know what to get, Roger, for Father's Day. A new barbecue? A new barbecue. Don't tell him.

SPEAKER_01 18:58

Would it be like a smoker barbecue or just a regular?

SPEAKER_00 19:01

I think just a regular barbecue. I don't I don't like a lot of heavy smoke flavor in my barbecue. What's your favorite thing to barbecue? Ribs. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01 19:13

Yes. That's Dan's favorite. He makes ribs like almost weekly, not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Oh no, we don't have it weekly, maybe every couple of months.

SPEAKER_01 19:23

No. We he and he tries different recipes. He does very good. But um, yeah, do you take the membrane off the back of the ribs? Yes, okay, good. See, there are other people like that.

SPEAKER_00 19:35

Yeah, yeah. What do you like? What's your favorite barbecue thing?

SPEAKER_01 19:38

Um, I like to try different things, but yeah, probably good juicy hamburger or chicken.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

Yeah. That's yeah, again, it must be close to lunchtime because here we go, talking about the food. Yeah. And you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

Just getting out at the lake lot and having barbecue and yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

Well, and that's the important back to that boundaries and burnout. I'm tired of cooking, like the same thing. Like we do eat ribs, but it's like ribs and sauerkraut. Right. And, you know, casseroles. Well, now it's like barbecue and a salad.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

Salad? Ooh, the macaroni salad comes out. I make a lot of macaroni salad in the summer.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

Do you make a good macaroni salad?

SPEAKER_01 20:26

Well, I try and make different ones. Dill pickle, macaroni cheese salad.

SPEAKER_00 20:29

I'm in. Yep. I'm in, I which reminds me. I'll give you the I have a tray of cabbage rolls for you.

SPEAKER_01 20:37

Oh, yes. Excellent.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

And then, yeah, take some you'll you'll in a macaroni salad. They don't make macaroni salad. I yeah, I I've tried. Don't get me wrong, I've tried. It's the balance in the dressing.

unknown 20:52

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

Yes. I just I'll never make so this is a fun thing in my house because we'll have a great meal, and Owen or Dan will be like, the sad thing is we'll never have it again. Never duplicated. Oh, I never follow a recipe. And he's like, Oh, this is great. What did you do? I'm like, don't know. A di a dash of this, a sprinkle of that. Yeah. I just said, remember, it's just made with my love. That's what makes it taste so great.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

And I really loved you today, so that's why it tastes so good. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

And I just find a macaroni salad is easy to take. Like, you know, if you're going somewhere for a potluck or you're going somewhere, easy to whip up and take. Nice. Yeah. And most people aren't allergic, but then I guess there's the gluten people. And I do have one girlfriend who's allergic to lemon. Well, I put lemon in everything, so it's very hard. But she's worth it. So there you go. I'll put off a little to the side and make sure I don't put any lemon in it.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

Nice. Yeah. Nice. Okay. What do you got over there? What's on your list, my my

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Well, I did uh take another kick at the cat to listen to some council meetings this past week.

SPEAKER_00 22:05

Good for you. I did not.

SPEAKER_01 22:08

So I tried. What did you learn? Okay, biggest thing, biggest news for Elk Point, town of Elk Point, new garbage contract came through. So E360 is now doing the entire town. So we used to, I think half the town was on a Wednesday and half was on a Thursday. Entire town is gonna be on Wednesday now. And you have to have your garbage bin out by 7 a.m.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

So did they not have somebody from the town an employee who did garbage pickup? So what's no idea?

SPEAKER_01 22:40

Oh I'm guessing they're on to bigger, better things.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

Or found or restructured and put somewhere else. I'm hoping. Yeah, hopefully that's what happened. But so now we're contracting somebody to come in and pick up our garbage.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

I think it makes more sense than to have our own truck that was aging out, anyways. And for what, two days a week? So, you know, I'm pretty sure they probably got other work for hey, maybe they get on the potholes. Just saying. Um other thing that I thought was interesting was you know, the MD Foundation is um needing money from all their players for their um senior housing renovations.

SPEAKER_00 23:25

So MD Foundation, that's out of St. Paul. Am I correct? There, they do housing, they also do like low-income housing and housing for seniors, like uh not necessarily they do the lodge, but there's also those adult living like Fort George and Buckingham Place in El Point.

SPEAKER_01 23:42

Yeah. Yeah. Any assisted, yeah. They they are the head of that. And then all these town of St. Paul, County of St. Paul, town of Elk Point pay into that to have that, right?

SPEAKER_00 23:53

Oh, so we're they're waiting for their so MDA Foundation is waiting for these people to give them some money that they they need.

SPEAKER_01 24:01

And in true Elk Point fashion, we're blast. Everybody else is paid, but everybody else, also, I shouldn't say everybody, because I don't know about the town of St. Paul, but the county and the town of Elk Point ran into a problem with uh debenture. So usually they just get a loan through the debenture and then pay it and whatever. But um apparently the government changed their you know criteria on that, so all the debentures were denied to everyone. So good thing, yeah, good thing county and town have some reserves. So they paid the loan out of their reserves in the meantime until they get this loan stuff figured out, which they assured the people that they would. So stay tuned on that. But um, yeah, so I guess that's exactly why you have some reserves. So um, also not the greatest audio. I have to agree with you. You you mentioned that before, and it was really hard. I only made it halfway through, and I had to turn off because it's hard to follow, right? Totally hard to follow. And you have and this has always been a town of Elk Point thing. The CAO runs a show, not really like the mayor doesn't really they chair the meeting, but they don't seem to run it, and so you've got the CAO trying to talk over here and not totally confident, and then you got an EA yelling from behind where from everybody where they sit and it's cutting in and out, and it was just it was too much.

SPEAKER_00 25:28

And the EA we're talking the executive assistant, correct?

SPEAKER_01 25:31

Yeah, yeah, the one that does the computer thing and takes the minutes and stuff, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

Well, that's weird because you from any board I've sat on and any organization I've been with, it is the chair person who chairs the meeting, which in this case should be the mayor.

SPEAKER_01 25:47

Yeah, and you don't talk until you're called upon, right? Like if you watch any other town or county, I don't know why elk points backwards, but they always have been. Like even when I sat on there, they did it. When I questioned it, then they didn't like it. So we just continue on with life. But you watch other ones, they don't. The CAO and any other supporting cast is how I like to say it. Right. Just sit and wait till they're called upon.

SPEAKER_00 26:14

Right.

SPEAKER_01 26:14

And it's the chair recognizes yeah, if they need more information, that's when they should be reaching out and saying, Hey, can you explain this more? Because we've all read our minutes here. Well, you should all read our agenda, apparently. And uh, we've got further questions, right? Right, but honestly, watch others. It's not just me, it's not uh yeah. Yeah, and then the county, county of St. Paul.

SPEAKER_00 26:41

Oh, what's happening in there? Lovely county.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

Well, the big debate on the curling rink of Elk Point, because Elk Point's gonna go after some grant funding for a plant, I think, because they need a new plant. And uh they are run by a great bunch of volunteers that keep that curling rink limping along. And so they did ask the town for some insurance money, and they did ask the county to uh let our support for their grant and maybe some matching funds if that's in the works down the road, if they're successful. And um, yeah, but you know what was encouraging about that listening to that? Here's a society, a group of volunteers who got their poop in a group. They brought everything and they even said, Hey, look, we have our matching funds. We are prepared to pull the pin and we can get this done. We just need your support and your help. Nice. Often you have lots of nonprofits like you don't have their their portion of it, right? So good on them. Good job.

SPEAKER_00 27:43

You know, many, many years ago, and I'm gonna say decades ago, there was an L Point resident who often thought our curling rink and our arena should be one big building. Yeah. And I thought that was a pretty good idea because I know when the kids were in school and you know, learning about curling, they spent half their period walking down or walking back up, yeah, and not a lot of time on the ice. And it would have been nice if it was right there by the by the arena, yeah, all together.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

When you go to other rural uh, you know, towns and county or towns and villages, some of them have separate, some of them are together. So it's really kind of a mishmash.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

I just thought though, that could have been good. You could have built on and maybe had like a you know, pickleball courts in there and you know, maybe expanded on it to make it like a a regional center of some sort where they had things in there. But that was somebody thinking uh way ahead of way ahead of their time. Yes, but anyways, good for the for our curling rink. It is very active curling rink, and I'd love to see it continue.

SPEAKER_01 28:57

Yeah, I agree. The other thing uh County of St. Paul talked about was uh the Allied Arts. They wanted a gravel request because they're down to like bare minimum in their front area. Oh yeah. And um I was just surprised that the Allied Arts is a shared building between the town and the county. Is it really? Yeah. Okay, yeah. And um there was a lot of conversation of yeah, uncertainty.

SPEAKER_00 29:26

So you mean uncertainty about the gravel request or who's responsible for what and who does this?

SPEAKER_01 29:32

And oh, are we you know are we being fair about what's being asked and yada yada? But the motion was perfect, it was bang on. County's gonna deliver the gravel, town, you can spread it. I thought that was pretty fair.

SPEAKER_00 29:45

Wow, how long did it take to get to that motion? Longer than it needed. Really? Yeah, it fascinates me. Like I don't know who gets to like when you take on this venture together, do you guys not sit down and say, okay, we're gonna do this and you're gonna do that? Or or do they, or they just somebody's lost those documents along the way somewhere?

SPEAKER_01 30:04

Yeah, that might be part of it for sure. And it might be just the request too. Who knows? It hasn't been there for a long time, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

Nice, okay. Well, way, way to go, county. Uh, bringing in some gravel to the Allied Arts. Yep. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

Um, last but not least for the county. So, you know how we've always said, you know, if we get something wrong or we need more clarification, reach out to us. Absolutely. Yeah. So somebody did reach out to me. Excellent. Because they may or may not have liked how I worded the county, uh denied the request for uh for the setback of the wind turbines.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

Oh, yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 30:46

So I hey, great. Thanks for reaching out. I will dive deeper into that, which of course I did. Way to go, Terry. All right, because I like that stuff. Bring that shit on. Um so the ask was actually a 10 kilometer setback. And that's what was not approved, is the county is like going, no, we're gonna go with the Alberta government and what and their 1.6 kilometer setback, and we feel that that's you know, reasonable. Okay. So yeah. So it's funny how sometimes you get the Facebook warriors that are on there going, Oh, this was denied, or da-da-da-da. But sometimes you need to know what the original ask was.

SPEAKER_00 31:26

That's right. And they are not warriors, they're trolls, they're keyboard trolls. Okay, yes. Because a warrior will face you face to face, not hide behind a screen and think that they, you know, they can chat GPT how to uh write something and put it on there.

SPEAKER_01 31:42

Chat GPT is really good at posters, though. I'm not gonna lie. But you've got to read it. It's not always true. That's right. Yeah. I think chat GPT purposely like changes information on your poster just to see if you did actually read it. Could be. Yeah. Could be. Anyways, that's a whole nother thing. That's a whole nother rant. So, yeah, that's it for me. That's really the highlights that came out of the the two council meetings. And then I just kind of watch the other stuff with with Bonnieville and in town of St. Paul.

SPEAKER_00 32:15

Okay. Well, there you go. Thank you for that, Terry. Keeping us informed. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

And uh, do you you got some like community shout-outs or some events for this this uh you want to tell us what's happening for events? Because I feel like I've talked a lot. Yeah, but you've done a good job. Oh, thanks.

SPEAKER_00 32:39

We got some events going on. So on Sunday, May 24th, it's the plant exchange at the Further Ed building, 1 to 3 p.m. And then Tuesday, May 26th is the Greater Lakeland Rural Crime Watch meeting, 7 p.m. at the Elk Point Senior Center.

SPEAKER_01 32:56

Are you part of that? I am not. You haven't paid your 10 bucks? I no. Are you a part? No, you yeah, yeah, for our lot. Oh, right. Yes. If you're out here in the county, do you go to those meetings? I did for a bit. And they're great. They're good information, but there's just somebody there that okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:15

All right. I mean, maybe I should go check it out. Thursday, May 28th. It's the newcomer support event at Laverne at Laverne Wilson uh public library in Elk Point at 9 30 a.m.

unknown 33:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 33:32

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 33:33

Yeah. And then Friday and Saturday, May 29th or 30th, it's the Elk Point Dinner Theater presents. Sweet Surrender starts at 6:30 p.m. and it's $50 a ticket. Nice. And with that ticket, there it's dinner and a show, people. Dinner and a show. And uh the food is usually very good. I I've never had an issue with the food when I've gone. And I've I'm always surprised when I go and go, my God, these guys really do put on a good show. Yeah. And I don't know why I think that after going for I don't know how many years.

SPEAKER_01 34:13

They really do.

SPEAKER_02 34:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:15

And you know, it's not something I I couldn't go up there and do it. So I always appreciate when somebody can do something I can't. Right. And do it so well.

SPEAKER_00 34:23

And then the following uh on Sunday, May 31st, they also have uh Elping Dinner Theater. Yes. No, it says, Oh, they present at 6 30 p.m., but it's uh $45. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 34:38

Well, maybe because it's Sunday.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

Maybe. So uh I recommend you guys get out there, support them. It's usually, like I said, great food and great great performances. Yeah, absolutely. So, but if anybody has an event coming up, remember we drop every two weeks. Yep. So get us your information. We will gladly share it on our podcast.

SPEAKER_01 35:03

We will gladly accept any sponsorships. Sponsorship. Okay, so here's the deal. What's the deal? I've had lots of people say, You guys really need to do weekly. I can never remember the second Monday. Okay, well, it's May long, so start from there. Number two, if you want us to go weekly, we need sponsors. We need we need money. That's right. Yeah. Or goods or goods.

unknown 35:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:29

Um, but also if you like and subscribe wherever you get your podcast, you'll get a notification when ding, ding, podcast has dropped.

SPEAKER_01 35:38

Podcast has dropped. And not gonna lie, you've been rocking the social media with all your posts. Oh, well, thank you. Like when how do people not know it's dropping?

SPEAKER_00 35:47

I you know what? People gotta like and then share it. Yeah. Let's spread the word. Spread the word. Though I kind of fell back a bit this week on um, because I had no idea what we were talking about. We I I missed a couple of meetings. There are no planning meetings. Well, sometimes at our um our little side club.

SPEAKER_01 36:11

Yeah, our our side club. We yeah, we get some ideas.

SPEAKER_00 36:14

You know, or at least touch base of uh when are we, you know, what got any ideas? What's happening? And I haven't been around, and you picked up the ball.

SPEAKER_01 36:23

And well, you know, I just didn't want to talk about the opening of her moose or whatever, like and the China US related. Like, come on, it's so I hate mainstream media. I can't even do it anymore. It's the same stuff, right? Yeah, and we all know gas prices are up still. Oh, and there is a new announcement about electrification. Get a grip. Electrification. Oh, yeah. Carney was on there the other day. He's gonna electrify all of Canada. We gotta do infrastructure, we gotta do this. We got oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 36:55

Like, are we talking electric vehicles? Because didn't Honda Honda pull out of that and do lots of things, but that's just the tip.

SPEAKER_01 37:01

We gotta change all propane. I think he said his words were we're gonna change propane, the dependency on propane and gas to electricity. We're gonna start just using electricity more, but we don't have the grid or the infrastructure to do that. But we're gonna get all that. Okay. Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 37:21

You said propane, and all I could think was propane and propane accessories. Barbecue season. Are you telling me I'm gonna have an electric barbecue? I don't think so. Did they even create such a thing? They used to be when I lived in Red Deer decades ago. Uh, we couldn't have gas barbecues on our balconies. I lived in an apartment. Oh, yeah. So I had an electric one. It's not the same.

unknown 37:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:48

It's kind of going from like those coals to remember those old coals? Like in a hibachi or something. Are you talking of like one of those little ones? Yeah, where they all turned white and then you knew it was time to cook or something. Yeah. Then to natural gas, then to propane. Yeah. Just stop fixing things that aren't broke, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:08

Well, that always gets me back onto the train tracks here. For the disclaimer? No, for the for the uh, you know, they wanted electrify us, but the train tracks. Yeah, they took out all the trains, tracks, right? And we gotta sh, you know, transport everything. But that's a that's a that's a whole different rant.

SPEAKER_01 38:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:32

Are we going to the disclaimer?

SPEAKER_01 38:33

Is it that time? Are you ready for that? Yeah, it is. Just like that, bang, it goes fast.

SPEAKER_00 38:39

Right? Holy. Okay. Well, two divas one rant is all about real conversation from our point of view. Everything we talk about reflects our own opinions, experiences, and interpretations. Exactly. That's right, train tracks. Just saying. Stop. I gotta get through this. Okay. Of what's happening in our town, our county, and beyond. We're not claiming to have every detail. We didn't have every detail about the um wind turbines, and thankfully, our listener educated us. Yes. Thank you. Right? Uh, every detail or the full story, we're reacting to what we see, what we hear, and what affects our community. We're here to spark discussion, not present ourselves as experts, though sometimes we are experts.

SPEAKER_01 39:28

Expert in my own mind.

SPEAKER_00 39:30

What works for me. Yeah. If we miss something, get something wrong, or there's more to the story, we genuinely welcome being corrected or educated. Community insight makes the conversation better, and we're always open to learning from the people who live it.

SPEAKER_01 39:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 39:48

Right. Oh, before I forget, Roger has not seen the R.

SPEAKER_01 39:52

I cannot believe it. Roger, what is going on? We need to see the R. Like hockey's almost over. Football's gonna start on Monday when we drop this episode. You gotta see the R, buddy. Come on. I'm not hiding it. You should put you should just put like one letter for his name for like each month until he clues in. Why do you have an urge? It's a rogue. See if he notices then. Uh too funny. Um, okay. Uh the other thing I was thinking of with your boundaries and barbecue and what was the other one? Burnout.

SPEAKER_00 40:36

Burnout. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's not also for you know the youngsters to doing burnouts on the road.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

Yeah. Do them right by the potholes, make them bigger, and then we can put like some kind of like scenery in them. Grow trees in them, maybe. Uh, golf courses are open.

unknown 40:52

Yeah. Are they? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:54

Well, I know the Elk Points uh has struggled a little bit, but I think they were hoping to get open this weekend. So what do you mean by struggle? Well, I think they were waiting for a piece of equipment for their kitchen area or something. Um, but I think that is also a great place to go for food in this yeah, they have like that Thunder Crunch burger. Yes, so good. Oh, yeah. We should do like a four a food tour day.

SPEAKER_00 41:19

Oh, Sentex chicken. Here we go. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 41:24

Okay, can we put that on the bottom of the list?

SPEAKER_00 41:27

Well, we could. Okay, but we could go out to the we could maybe do a live podcast from the uh golf course while we're having our thunder kit the Thunder Crunch Chicken Burger.

SPEAKER_01 41:38

That's a great idea, actually. Let's hope that there's one day of good weather that we could try and do that. I would love that. Or we're totally open to go to your events, so you know, call us. We will be uh if it works, we'll do our podcast from your live event.

SPEAKER_00 41:54

Oh my god, we have so many great things that happen in our community and around. I would love to go out to those things and do that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:03

So Elk Point, County of St. Paul, any area in and around there within a radius. Happy to drive and Durwin's having a big car show coming up sometimes here in June. Yeah, car show on Elk Point, June 2nd, with the chili kick off uh cook-off. See, we could perhaps be at one of those or both events. The fish derbies happening in June in uh Bonneville, hosted by the Elk Point Lions. Lots of things. We go to the trout pond and do something.

SPEAKER_00 42:32

You know, I have never been to the trout pond. Are you kidding me right now? Really?

SPEAKER_01 42:36

I haven't maybe we just got a bunch of more fish there delivered last week.

SPEAKER_00 42:39

Oh, maybe that's something we do our next podcast from is from the trout pond pond. Providing Mother Nature and Old Man Winter have finally either decided to break up break up for good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:52

Maybe. Okay, okay. Well, that's this has been great. As always. As always, love it, love it. Thanks for still liking me at this point. Haven't kicked me out of the crew. Oh, too funny. Well, this is it. This is two divas, one rant, where local news meets meets local attitude. Oh, yeah.