Community ClicSites CwoB 2008

Mayor Kevin Edwards of the Town of Three Hills describes the community project to take advantage of the Alberta SuperNet at the Communities without Boundaries virtual conference held at 21 venues across Alberta on October 31st 2008.
Kevin Edwards is married to Leah, his lovely and wonderfully

supportive wife of 20 years. They have two grown children who are now

raising their own young families. Kevin is happy to report that his

wife, children and grandchildren are all much finer people than he

could ever hope to be.

Kevin is currently serving his fourth term on Three Hills Town

Council, and his second term as Mayor. It has been an extremely active

time of rapid growth for Three Hills; the town's taxable assessment

has nearly doubled, the largest capital projects in the town's history

have been constructed, new comprehensive internal planning and

development processes are in place, and a twenty-year sustainability

planning exercises is complete. As Mayor, Kevin also played a role in

securing a $1.5 million grant from Rural Alberta's Development Fund

for creating Virtual Learning and Business Centre (VLBC) ClicSites in

partnership between the Three Hills Library and Hanna Learning Centre.

This was the first project funded by the RADF.

Kevin has been writing his own paycheck for nearly thirty years as a

small business operator. He and Leah presently own a small commercial

job printing business. Kevin was named 2006 Eco-Councillor of the year

by the Gallon Environment Letter for his leadership role in

establishing an Integrated Sustainability Plan for Three Hills. He has

presented at AUMA and FCM conferences on the Sustainability Plan; only

a handful of communities in Alberta have adopted similar plans. Kevin

was asked to be Project Director for the VLBC ClicSite project, and

has presented on the project at more than a dozen workshops and

conferences. Recently, he was elected to the board of Volunteer

Alberta and looks forward with special interest to this new area of

service.

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• rural
• broadband
• videoconference
• community
• development