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| MLA Legislature Report Alana DeLong, MLA
Bowness Receives Provincial Grant To Improve Community Safety: BowWest Community Support Services Society is a recent recipient of a Wild Rose Foundation grant. Four times a year, the provincial foundation awards up to $50,000 to non-profit organizations working to improve community safety and deliver programs for seniors and families. BowWest Community Support Services Society is one of 26 non-profit organizations to share $1.1 million in this most recent installment of the Wild Rose Foundation’s Quarterly Grants Program. The BowWest Community Support Services Society, which is located in the Bowness area, will use its $29,800 grant to support the Parent Child Mother Goose Program. The program helps develop structured, positive play and literacy experiences for families facing barriers. The grants are administered through the Wild Rose Foundation to non-profit and voluntary sector organizations, providing valuable services to Albertans. Organizations are eligible for one grant in a three-year period. To be eligible, the organizations must also be legally registered as a society, non-profit company, charity or service in Alberta for a minimum of one year, and the nature and scope of their activities must be related to health, social service or community service. The organizations’ cash operating reserves can’t exceed their operating expenses for the year. Wild Rose Foundation grant submission deadlines are Jan. 1, Apr. 1, July 1 and Oct. 1. The Wild Rose Foundation is the Government of Alberta’s principal agency responsible for promoting and supporting Alberta’s non-profit and voluntary sector. For more information, visit www.wildrosefoundation.ca. To learn about Alberta’s other community investment programs, working to create stronger and safer communities, visit www.culture.alberta.ca. Government Outlines Long-Term Alberta Oil Sands Development
Plan: The Government of Alberta has released a comprehensive
20 year strategic plan for Alberta’s oil sands that aims to
reduce the environmental footprint, optimize economic growth, and
increase the quality of life in the province’s oil sands regions.
Responsible Actions: A Plan for Alberta’s Oil Sands
outlines immediate actions and long-term strategies that address
economic, social, and environmental challenges and opportunities
in the oil sands regions. The plan highlights current efforts such
as carbon capture and storage, and strengthens the approach for
land reclamation, cumulative effects management, and environmental
conservation. The strategy is closely aligned with provincial and
regional initiatives such as the Provincial Energy Strategy
and the Land-use Framework. The strategic plan was based
on extensive stakeholder consultations, which were outlined in three
reports: Investing in our Future: Responding to the Rapid Growth
of Oil Sands Development; Multi-stakeholder Committee Final Report;
and Aboriginal Consultation Final Report. Alberta’s oil
sands regions contain the second largest petroleum reserves in the
world and play a key role in the long-term economic growth and energy
security for Alberta and Canada. Happy Easter Everyone!! Alana DeLong was elected to her first elected as MLA Calgary Bow on March 12, 2001. Alana was born in Nelson, British Columbia and obtained her Bachelor of Science (honors) in mathematics with a minor in theatre from the University of British Columbia. She then moved to Calgary, where she attended courses at the University of Calgary in the Masters of Computer Science program. Alana has more than twenty years of experience in information technology and has worked for many leading high-tech computer firms in Calgary. She was also the first computer mainframe salesman with Sperry Univac, and was the first female marketing manager with Canadian General Electric Information Services. She has hosted a TV Ski Program, has been an actress with Theatre
Calgary and a singer with the Calgary Opera Chorus. She enjoys the
outdoors, and has hiked the province’s mountains and canoed
most of the rivers in southern Alberta. Alana has called the community
of Bowness home for twenty-nine years where she resides in a log
home that she built for her family. Alana is married to Dennis Beck.
Together they have two grown children, Samantha and James.
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and provide your input to matters that affect Albertans.
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