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The province has extended the timeline on caribou recovery consultations in the Peace Region by four weeks, and tapped Dawson Creek Coun.

Blair Lekstrom to act as a community liaison during the process, Premier John Horgan announced Monday.

Consultations on two draft agreements with the federal government and the West Moberly and Saulteau First Nations have been extended to May 31. Lekstrom will report directly to Horgan as he consults with local political and business leaders, as well as residents on the agreements, required by federal law.

At a press conference in Dawson Creek, Horgan said he wants to “dial down the acrimony” that has resulted from the current process, acknowledging the “significant” 35,000-signature petition tabled by Peace River South MLA Mike Bernier in the legislature last week.

“It will give us an opportun-

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Premier John Horgan with Dawson Creek Coun. Blair Lekstrom and Forests Minister Doug Donaldson in Dawson Creek on April 15, 2019.

ity in Victoria to look at the feedback from the community in a more focused way,” Horgan said. “This is clearly an issue that has enraged some people and has inflamed passions, and I can’t feel that in real time on the ground because of my responsibilities in Victoria. Blair can do that.”

Horgan said he was concerned to see a region of the province known for working co-operatively coming to a confrontation over caribou recovery efforts. But, he also said he regretted public consultations didn’t start sooner.

“I regret that we didn’t start that consultation earlier, I regret that we didn’t put more information out to the public.But, we are where we are,”

Horgan said.

“We decided to add additional time to the consultation because it was clear to the public that the public wasn’t satisfied with the information they were getting,” Horgan explained.

“At these public meetings where often you’d like to have an elected representative, we were sending public officials who were in some instances not able to answer the questions that the public were bringing up, because they weren’t connected to this specific issue at play.”

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bou to help preserve herd populations and have operated a successful penning project over the last five years, Horgan said.

Horgan said the extra four weeks was enough time to get the agreements where they need to be, though he acknowledged many won’t agree.

“I believe we need to come together in the region, we need to come together in the province, and come up with a land-use plan that protects jobs, protects caribou, and also protects the constitutional rights of indigenous people,” Horgan said.

Lekstrom is a former mayor of Dawson Creek and former cabinet minister for previous BC Liberal governments.

He’s tasked with giving input into an economic impact analysis of the agreements — there are fears of up to 500 job losses and a mill closure in Chetwynd — and he will advise Horgan and Forests Minister Doug Donaldson on how the province can meet its caribou recovery obligations while protecting jobs and balancing the region’s economic needs.

After the press conference, Lekstrom noted he was asked

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WHOLE HOLE: While we’re on the topic of space, last week scientists revealed the first ever picture of a black hole. They are mysterious areas of space that collapse after swallowing everything. Planets, galaxies, stars, even light. Let me put it in terms we can all understand: Imagine if you ate way too much food, then you suck in your full stomach, you continue to suck in your belly, the pressure builds, your belly button collapses, swallowing your entire body.

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BEATLE BULLETIN: More news for middle-aged music fans: Up for auction later this month, the piano John Lennon used to write Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. It’s expected to fetch $200,000. Also for sale: The drumsticks Ringo Starr used on We All Live In a Yellow Submarine. Ten dollars for one, or fifteen bucks for both.

CONDIMENT COMMENT: Kraft launched a new condiment that combines ketchup and Ranch dressing. My mom was a lousy cook. Dad’s favorite condiment was a mix of ketchup and Pepto-Bismol.

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Doig River eyes expansion, new protections for tribal park matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

The Doig River First Nation has submitted a proposal for federal funding to develop the K’ih tsaa?dze Tribal Park into an indigenous protected and conserved area.

Officials from the First Nation gave Fort St. John city council an overview of its proposed four-year work plan on April 8, noting its proposal to the Canada Nature Fund was submitted on March 29. “(K’ih tsaa?dze) has been an important part of our nations, for generations,” said Chief Trevor Makadahay. “We’ve seen a lot of development in that area, and we really need to look at protecting something, not only for our next generation, but for everybody.”

K’ih tsaa?dze is pronounced “ki-tsaw-tsay” and means “old spruce” in the Dane-za language. Though the park was first declared in 2011, much work needs to be done to turn the park into an indigenous protected and conserved area.

If approved for funding, a decision expected in May, Doig would need to carry out a number of technical and scientific studies over the next four years.

The park is currently 45,000 hectares, but the ultimate goal is to place more than 108,000 hectares of land in protection within four years to help steward its cultural, ecological, and economic potential, said Laureen Whyte of Arbutus Consulting, who is working with Doig on the project.

That includes mapping connectivity to the Chinchaga Wildland Park to the north and enhancing range habitat for a caribou herd in the region, investigating potential new resource management

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Doig River First Nation Chief Trevor Makadahay speaks to Fort St. John city council about the K’ih tsaa?dze Tribal Park on April 8, 2019. He was joined by lands manager Cec Heron (centre), and Laureen Whyte of Arbutus Consulting.

zones, establishing partnerships to reclaim orphan well sites, and engaging local communities, Whyte said. From there, the appropriate land protection “tools” would be applied for certain areas based on their needs. That could be include either Class A, B, or C park status, or conservancy, recreation area, or wild land statuses.

“You go through the research piece first. Once you’ve identified what protections are suitable, you choose the vehicles,” Whyte said. “The last stage of the entire process is working with government on the legislative options available, and applying them as they make sense.”

Co-management of the area is key to the project, and the federal government’s reconciliation agenda, Whyte added.

“There are some objectives that the province will want to achieve, and we would want the K’ih tsaa?dze project to align with that,” Whyte said.

“One of the things Doig will have to explore is how will it manage that area together with other governments that manage jurisdiction in the area.”

Doig is currently in treaty negotiations with B.C. and Canada to settle a land debt still owed from the signing of Treaty 8 more than a century ago. It has selected five parcels of Crown land covering around 4,900 acres at K’ih tsaa?dze near the Alberta border, and another 5,000-acre parcel in Alberta was selected to encompass the seasonal rounds of Doig River.

The band has had discussions with the Alberta government on protecting the Chinchaga caribou herd in Northwest Al-

berta. It will also be a part of future land use planning discussions for the entire Upper Peace regional area with the Alberta government.

Council was receptive of Doig’s plan for the area, and at the meeting approved writing a letter in support of its application for funding.

However, council noted communication with government and industry stakeholders was key to moving forward.

Coun. Byron Stewart called the rush to protect southern mountain caribou in the South Peace, and how that process has unfolded, as “chaotic.”

“Having this conversation early allows us to have that open conversation about it,” Mayor Lori Ackerman said.

“The communities … have to be engaged.”

The Chinchaga herd is a

boreal caribou species, and separate from the plans being developed for the southern mountain caribou in the South Peace, said Cec Heron, lands manager for Doig.

“We’re not only looking at caribou; we’re looking at moose and grizzly bear. We also recognize there’s bison in the area as well,” Heron said.

Doig has already done some studies of the the tribal park, but the work has been piecemeal, Heron said. If Doig is approved for funding, there will be four years of ongoing engagement with stakeholders and other First Nations in B.C. and Alberta, Heron noted.

“This funding gives the chance to do comprehensive studies in a specific timeframe,” she said.

Ackerman noted the potential to bring the Trans Canada Trail through the area from Clear Hills, and even look connect it to the Global GeoPark in Tumbler Ridge.

“It may be beneficial to link the region together,” she said.

Collaboration is key for Doig as it looks to balance the environment with industry, Makadahay said.

“Doig’s been very positive in inclusivity and I don’t really like the word stakeholders; we’re all land users, this is our backyard,” he said.

“There has to be a balance between industry and the environment. There’s places we have to save for future generations to come. And if we don’t do something now, I don’t know what to say, it’ll be too late.

“There needs to be collaboration between all of us to bring initiatives like this to a good and happy ending. I think if we do it all together it’s something that we can all be proud of.”

Petrucci named new superintendent matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

Stephen Petrucci has been appointed superintendent of School District 60.

Petrucci’s appointment was announced Monday evening at the board of education meeting. Petrucci replaces Dave Sloan, who retires this fall.

“We’re pleased to have him. The board had an extensive process and we came up with the best candidate,” board chair Ida Campbell said.

Petrucci began teaching in the district in January 1995, teaching at both the high school and elementary levels.

After more than a decade working as principal at various schools at all levels, Petrucci was appointed assistant superintendent in 2013.

“We’ve got a fantastic team of administration in our district, and I’m going to continue to work with them toward our goals,” Petrucci said.

Sloan announced his retirement earlier this year, capping off a 30-year career in education.

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“Be that little seed that started it all.

You may not see the results but there will be results, I guarantee it.”

Those were just some of the words of encouragement by keynote speaker and local author/poet Ronnie Pelletier at the 12th annual Fort St. John Community Awards Night at the Lido Theatre Thursday, April 11.

Pelletier, better known by her pen name Ronnie Roberts, asked the audience to consider their talents and how that might help “to build a better, stronger, and more compassionate, thriving community.”

“Don’t hide your excellence, don’t hide your passions, your creativity.

Share it, even with one person,” Pelletier said. “You don’t need to know where it might lead, but it’s important that you share it.”

Pelletier was one of two speakers on the night; business manager Chad Chapple spoke during the second half of the evening.

While Pelletier spoke to the individual volunteer, Chapple’s message urged

whole families to become involved in their community, sharing personal stories about his own family.

The Chapples have recently become part of a small group instrumental in bringing back the annual Fort St. John Rodeo.

Mayor Lori Ackerman summed it up best.

“I want to offer a huge congratulations to absolutely everybody in this room, because if you weren’t a winner or nominated, you’re supporting someone, so good for you.”

As for the awards, there were 33 nominations submitted to the three-member judging panel of councillors Trevor Bolin and Becky Grimsrud, and Director of Recreation & Leisure Services Karin Carlson. The winners are as follow: • Citizen of the Year: Paul van Nostrand • Lifetime Achievement: Gail Weber • Recreation Award: Annika Hedican • Youth Award: Ally Peever • Cultural Award: Sandy Troudt • Humanitarian Award: Sherri Mytopher • Literacy Award: Connie Greyeyes-Dick

Chiefs want to address racist tone, misinformation about caribou plan CARIBOU FROM A1

Lekstrom acknowledged his longstanding friendship with Horgan, and said his goal will be to balance the need to recover caribou populations as mandated by federal law with the needs of local industry.

“It’s an interesting thing: I don’t sit with his government, I sat with the BC Liberals,” Lekstrom said.

“But at the end of the day, this is not about politics in my mind. This transcends any political party. We have families and jobs that could be on the line. I believe we can accomplish looking after the caribou, working with our First Nation communities, and still maintain the jobs and industry in the area in a way that moves caribou recovery forward.

“I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me, but I’m going to do it,” he said.

Southern mountain caribou in the region have been listed as a threatened wildlife species under the federal Species At Risk Act since 2003.

Last year, the federal government declared the species to be under imminent threat of recovery, starting a year-long timeline to put a strategy in place.

B.C. has drafted a partnership agreement with the Saulteau and West Moberly First Nations that proposes a series of moratoriums on resource development, and continuing support for their maternal penning program as well as an ongoing wolf cull.

It’s also drafted an agreement under Section 11 of the federal Species At Risk Act with Ottawa that outlines “broad recovery actions” and gives the province access to federal funding to support those efforts.

Horgan met with the regional district board — made up of elected officials from across the Peace Region — as well as West Moberly Chief Roland Willson and Saulteau Chief Ken Cameron on Monday.

In a press release on Tuesday, the chiefs said Lekstrom will be instrumental in dispelling myths about the agreement and addressing the racist attitudes found in some commentary about the issue on social media.

“We denounce racism in every form.

That includes ‘dog whistle’ statements in social media posts that promote

stereotypes or invite others to imagine that there are some concealed motives lurking behind these agreements,” Willson said.

“We welcome the extra time to dispel myths about the agreements. We also appreciate hearing Premier Horgan say that the provincial government denounces the racist comments and conspiracy theories that have been circulating. There are no backcountry closures.”

The two took aim at local MP Bob Zimmer for spreading misinformation about the closures.

There will be no restrictions on activities like hiking, hunting, fishing, and camping, and any snowmobile closures in caribou habitat will be offset with new snowmobile areas elsewhere, Willson said.

Reductions to annual allowable cuts to forestry companies will amount to 300,000 cubic metres split between the Mackenzie and Dawson Creek timber supply areas, and Tree Farm Licence 48, according to the chiefs. Those reductions are limited and manageable between the companies operating in the area, the chiefs said.

“We can’t control what Canfor or West Fraser do with their mills. But if they drop a shift or close the doors, it won’t be because of the caribou,” Willson said.

“It won’t be because of these agreements. The grandstanding has to stop.

It’s not factual and it’s not productive.

The people of the Peace deserve better.”

Mining operations and pipeline infrastructure won’t be impacted, the chiefs said. Lekstrom will be key in working with the mining sector and other industries to identify opportunities to support caribou recovery, they added.

“We hope and expect that Mr. Lekstrom and other local government representatives will provide local people and local governments with the facts,” Cameron said.

“This is about caribou recovery pure and simple. Some politicians will continue to try to use fear to manipulate voters, but it won’t work. People are smarter than that, and the agreements actually reduce the potential for impacts on communities.”

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Artist rendering of the new Anne Roberts Young elementary school in Fort St. John.

Fort St. John’s new elementary school has a name.

School trustees have chosen to name the school after Anne Roberts Young, the first registered nurse in the North Peace. Young’s name was chosen to grace the new school after she topped the list of suggestions during public consulations last fall, and fits the district’s naming protocols, officials said Monday.

“It recognizes contributions of women to the history of the community and is locationally appropriate given the school’s proximity to the hospital,” said incoming superintendent Stephen Petrucci.

At the same, trustees have chosen to incorporate indigenous language elements to the names of existing schools, and in future school name selections.

The district will add signage to the outside of North Peace Secondary and Upper Pine schools to read dane jejehde, which means place of learning in the Beaver language.

“We’re starting with those two schools, and we’ll be continuing to have that conversation around other district locations being recognized with the Beaver language,” Petrucci said.

The city’s two new elementary schools have been named after pioneering women.

Margaret ‘Ma’ Murray Community School, opened in 2018, was named after the pioneer newspaper publisher and Order of Canada appointee who started the Alaska Highway News in Fort St. John in 1944.

Young arrived from England in 1930 to work at the Grandhaven Red Cross Outpost Hospital. At the time, Fort St. John wasn’t even a village.

Young married farmer and postmaster Jim Young of Rose Prairie, and continued working as a nurse after her move to that community. She often

travelled by horseback and through severe weather to see patients. She delivered more than 300 babies during her 25-year career in the region.

At a groundbreaking ceremony last year, Education Minister Rob Fleming said school district made a good business case for the new school, but joked the best case was made by Northern Health and the city’s maternity ward. In announcing the school, the province recognized the school district as one of the fastest growing in B.C., with more than 600 births per year at the Fort St. John Hospital.

The new school will have seats for 505 students, and include a neighbourhood learning centre, a daycare, and multi-purpose spaces for community use. Construction began in 2018, and is planned to be complete and ready for students in fall 2020.

The district expects to pour the last of the foundation walls this week, and to see the precast wall structures for the gym and daycare area to arrive in the next two weeks. Steel is expected to arrive shortly after that, said Doug Boyd, assistant superintendent in charge of the build.

“We’re trying to do it in phases so we will do a wall section and then try to get the roof on that section so that as we’re progressing we’re getting in preparation for winter,” Boyd said.

The district continues to secure partnerships for three projects tied the school’s construction, including the expansion of the gym, a music and multi-purpose room, and a daycare.

The next two schools likely to need a name are a new middle school that will be built next to Ma Murray along the West Bypass, and a replacement school for Charlie Lake. The schools are the district’s top two shortlisted priorities for ministry funding.

Charlie Lake is named after the local Dane-zaa leader Charlie Yahey. It is also home to the Charlie Lake Cave (Tse’KWa), where an indigenous cultural musuem is planned.

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Updates from April 8, 2019 Council Meetings PROCLAMATION The week of April 6 – 12, 2019 was proclaimed as “National Dental Hygiene Week” in the City of Fort St. John. The intent of the proclamation is to promote the importance of dental issues and celebrate the success of the profession and contributions of dental hygienists. In recognition of this proclamation City Hall was lit up in the colour purple on Tuesday April 9, 2019.

TAX RATES Council considered options for the 2019 tax rates. The final numbers presented to the City of Fort St. John from BC Assessment were 37.2 million dollars less than the projected values. This decrease in assessment value created a $601,514 shortfall in tax levy as compared to the 2019 budget. After considering the recommendation and alternative recommendations, Council directed staff to amend the Five Year Financial Plan Bylaw No. 2455, 2019 to increase 2019 Return on Investment Income by $350,000 and transfer $251,514 from the Tax Stabilization Reserve. This action ensures that tax rates for residents and businesses remain unchanged for 2019.

K’IH TSAA?DZE TRIBAL PARK At the Committee of the Whole meeting, members of the Doig River First Nation provided a presentation and overview of the K’ihtsaa?dze Tribal Park. TheK’ihtsaa?dze Tribal Park was announced by Doig First Nation in 2011 and encompasses 44,690 hectares of boreal forest, including wetlands, deciduous forests, mixed wood forests and coniferous forests. At the Regular meeting, Council directed staff to draft a letter of support for federal funding to carry out technical work related to the K’ihtsaa?dze Tribal Park.

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he completion of the McMahon Plant on the banks of the Peace River in Taylor signified another event in the 1950s that contributed to the history of the North Peace.

The building of it promised markets for the oil and gas industry and therefore expanded their workforce and at the same time brought in a workforce to build the plant and another workforce to eventually run the plant. The area was in its first real boom. Gas was now also a commodity that could be refined and shipped. While the plant was being constructed, the oil industry in B.C. also became the gas industry, and has always been fondly referred to as The Patch. The activity that was around the Peace River was definitely accelerated by the promise of markets for natural gas.

Of course, the Alaska Highway News reporters consisting of Ma and George Murray, and their son and daughter Dan Murray and Georgina Keddell, were keeping tabs on this activity.

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Oil-Gas Rigs Move North On Alcan As ‘56 Drilling Drive Gets Underway Fourteen huge diesel trucks operated by Gibbs Oil Field Transport from Grande Prairie lumbered through Fort St. John this week on a 200 mile haul of a new drilling rig to the G.B. White group in the Blueberry Field, thirty miles east of the Alaska Highway. Earl Gilchrist and Ed Smith were in charge of the haul, and the loads ran as heavy as twenty ton on the huge lowboys and highboys.

Charlie Lake Motel was the bivouac spot for the tired truckers and Mac and Mac poured in fuel oil and lubricant. The hauling job was said to cost around $25,000. The work moved with precision and there was only one near accident. That was in Pouce Coupe when one truck, loaded with a very high steel frame, nearly fouled a power line.

Aerial view of McMahon Plant fully operational in the 1960s.

The rig was formerly in operation at Kelly Lake in Alberta. The J.B. White group hoped to start on their new drilling site in the rich Blueberry Field at once. The field, now well proven, is docketed as a major source for the West Coast Transmission Line. A lot of the gamble has been taken out of investment by the White group in view of the phenomenal success so far met with at Blueberry.

While a scrubbing plant will not be placed at Blueberry for the time being, one is designated for there, according to official announcement of West Coast Transmission.

Next important haul to the north will be the Tompkins Brothers removal of a rig now at Dawson to Mile 95, at which point Tompkins have bulldozed a road forty odd miles west to the Westergaard area. Trinity Drilling will do the job and the rig now at railhead is said to be one of the largest to be brought in.

Phillips Petroleum of Bartlesville, Oklahoma hold several thousand acres on the Halfway and Upper Halfway, all of it under wraps since the late Dr. Knox submitted his geological findings some years ago to his company.

Heavy movement of drilling equipment into Boundary Lake is announced by Texaco.

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Frank McMahon

River Bridge, seismograph outfits are darting in all directions from the Alaska Highway. A familiar vehicle on the Highway is the CIL truck loaded with explosives for the various crews. Tuesday morning Cliff Andrews, of Fort St. John, speeded north with four and a half tons of nitroglycerin for delivery at Fort Nelson.

Shell Oil officials say the budget for 1956 in northern BC and Alberta is $18 million and of this amount a great deal goes up the Highway and Shell crews are everywhere north of Mile 232.

Shell has contracts for the placing of several heavy rigs on sites around Fort Nelson this winter.”

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“Frank” McMahon was a Canadian oilman best known as the founder and first chairman of Westcoast Transmission Company Ltd. The July 15, 1957 issue of TIME magazine called him, “the man who did the most to open up northwest Canada’s wilderness” and convince oilmen of its treasures.

He merged two smaller oil companies with West Turner Petroleum (Turner Valley) to become Pacific Petroleum, based out of Calgary.

Once the McMahon Plant was processing both natural gas for export and also processing oil into gasoline and other fuels, McMahon was quoted as saying, “that sales of the Pacific 66 brand products were increasing on every hand. This is no doubt due, in some extent, that we are pretty much a home industry and that in due course all gasoline sold locally under the Pacific 66 signature will be purely local.

In the next column, we will discuss the construction of the Pacific Petroleum subdivision and the visit of Princess Margaret and how Princess Crescent got its name.

Larry Evans is a former fire chief, city councillor, and lifelong historian living in Fort St. John.

Is it true that nice women finish last?

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s I sit at my desk on this Tuesday morning, I am aware of the Alberta provincial election happening across the border. By the time you read this, the premier of Alberta will have been chosen, and political pundits and pollsters will be dissecting the election ad nauseam.

Who will win? Who will be the next premier of Alberta?

All signs point to the anointment being bestowed upon the United Conservative Party leader, Jason Kenney.

While sitting around the kitchen table last evening with friends, talk turned to the looming election. Everyone echoed how much they like Premier Rachel Notley, how they feel her sincerity in what she says and does, but ended with, “But she won’t be re-elected.”

Rachel is well liked. In fact, a radio commentator said recently (and I am paraphrasing) that Rachel has a high approval rating as a person. The individual went on to say that everyone really likes

Judy Kucharuk her but she would be the most well-liked premier who won’t get re-elected.

So, maybe it’s true that nice people finish last?

There has been plenty of mud-slinging in the Alberta election by both of the frontrunning parties. Neither the UCP nor the NDP are squeakyclean when it comes to throwing sand in the political sandbox.

The evolution of the conservative political parties in Alberta has been intriguing to watch. The Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta under the leadership of folks like Peter Lougheed, Don Getty, and Ralph Klein was a strong, unified group.

The introduction of the Wild Rose Party, a right of centre party with much stronger

conservative values, seemed to fracture Alberta, and who could forget the upheaval that occurred under the leadership of Alison Redford. It was natural that those who felt that the Progressive Conservative Party was not representing their conservative values would then support the Wild Rose Party.

Hm. If only there were something in the middle of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Wild Rose Party? Ta-da!

The United Conservative Party was born.

That is my Coles Notes version.

It really wasn’t the middle though was it? The UCP is very much right of centre in it’s philosophy and, if the pollsters are correct, we will see them as the governing political party in Alberta.

Albertans want jobs.

Albertans want their economy to rebound. Albertans want stability. Albertans will vote for the UCP because of those reasons and the belief that a changing of the guard will provide those results. As we

watch from Northeast British Columbia, we hope that they are correct.

They don’t care if Jason Kenney is likeable or not.

My crystal ball this morning is nothing more than the sunlight streaming through my window, hitting a water glass, and refracting onto the ceiling. I can’t be certain of any of my predictions, but there is something that I know for sure.

Many marginalized Albertans have had a taste of what it is like to be heard, to be seen and to be understood. Under Premier Notley’s leadership, they have been reassured that they have a voice and that government will listen.

I don’t believe for a moment that you can turn back time and go back to the way it was years ago. If elected, the United Conservative Party will need to listen to everyone, to all Albertans, not just their base.

Judy Kucharuk is a lover of sarcasm, witty people and footnotes.

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More time needed to create a caribou plan supported by all of us

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ast week, I tried to put some context around some of the South Peace caribou species at risk protection plan and its associated issues. I limited my discussion to the Burnt Pine (now extirpated) and Moberly caribou herds near Chetwynd.

The current draft plan intends to create a new park and severely limit industrial development in large areas that are predominately used by the forest industry. These areas are also extensively used by outdoor recreationalist, including hunters, trappers, hikers, and snowmobilers.

In the 1960s, the WAC Bennett Dam was constructed and created the Williston Reservoir. This became the single biggest factor influencing local caribou populations.

Caribou were no longer able to migrate north for the winter and join up with what are now known as the Graham and Pink Mountain herds. They were now stuck on the south side of the Peace River. The reservoir restricts caribou’s movement and has changed them from wanderers to a stay-at-home population, which then makes them more vulnerable to tough winters and wolf predation.

The areas south of the Peace River are not great winter caribou habitat, when compared to the areas north of the river. This is mostly to do with considerably more snow and scarcity of windswept ridges.

Add increasing moose numbers and it became a very good place for wolves to live and thrive. Add human impacts through logging, mining, natural gas, wind

turbines, snowmobiles, etc., and we have what we see today. And finally, on top of this, now throw in a rushed implementation of the species at risk legalisation.

An important consideration in this debate that should not be minimized is the recognition that South Peace caribou herds are not distinct species. Mountain caribou, as a species, are not in eminent danger of extinction.

These caribou used to travel north and were part of the herds that currently exist north of the Peace. It is also noted these northern herd population numbers are currently down but are not considered threatened to the same degree.

The question is whether either the Moberly or Burnt Pine herds should be subject to the species at risk legislation at all. Should they be managed as a herd of concern outside of the legislation?

It has been said that there once were “thousands upon thousands” of caribou wandering across the Peace region. That may have been true, at a specific point in time. In the late 1800s, Treaty 8 was being considered for Northeast B.C. Written reports justifying it stated that the indigenous peoples of this region were “poorly nourished,” in danger of “starvation,” and that there was not a lot of food sources.

A treaty would help address this. The result, part of Treaty 8 was written to give its recipients farming tools to reduce their reliance on fluctuating big game populations (a natural process) and ensure a more consistent source of food.

Evan Saugstad This would seem to indicate that for at last this time period, there were not “thousands upon thousands” of caribou in the area.

West Moberly representatives at the Fort St. John Open House on April 2 claimed that Treaty 8 promised them caribou.

It doesn’t. Treaty 8 promises the ability to hunt, trap, and fish. I do agree there must be animals maintained on the landscape to allow for these treaty rights to occur.

Notmuch has been said about population numbers and what caribou should be managed to. Reading between the lines, I would assume that about 1,000 animals is the target for the entire South Peace, including those areas near Tumbler Ridge.

If I had to hazard a guess, 1,000 caribou spread across this large area, living as small “distinct” herds, will never be managed as a source of food for indigenous peoples, or anyone else. Caribou will be managed as an “iconic” species, and other ungulates such as moose, elk, and deer will be the food source.

Given this, how do we sell the premise that moose numbers should be reduced when caribou are not likely to replace them as a food source?

Those crafting this draft plan seemed to all agree to the “let’s limit humans” aspect of this issue, and that is where this all falls part.

We, as humans, are part of the environment, part of that problem, and part of the solution.

From what I have heard and read, these open houses did present a fair overview explaining the greatest industrial user in these areas is forestry, and that the other industries are relatively minor. There is very little natural gas infrastructure, a couple coal mines, and one wind farm. Most all seismic lines were handcut and are no longer even visible, let alone used as travel corridors.

Although no socioeconomic plan has yet to be completed or presented, it is estimated that upwards of 500 jobs could be lost in the Chetwynd area, which could mean the possibility of one of their two sawmills closing.

Interestingly, and further adding to “job” loses, would be West Moberly’s claim that their new Community Forest Tenure would have “no logging.” If true, this would further restrict log supply to local mills. How can there be a forest tenue issued if its objective is no timber harvesting?

Chief Roland Willson of West Moberly has claimed that many jobs will be created by this plan. He may be correct, but they are all funded by government, which is always subject to budgeting, unless there is a secret plan to now make industry pay for this.

Deconstructing roads and removing bridges do not create longer term sustainable jobs. Hiring “watchmen” to look after areas that have no activities are not likely to be funded in perpetuity.

It has also been reported

that despite being part of the “agreement” to help consult this plan, Saulteau First Nations has not sent representatives to these consultation meetings. If they aren’t out trying to sell this to us as a great plan, I can’t help but wonder if they truly support this at all.

This draft caribou protection plan has become an us-againstthem issue for locals to the region, and it shouldn’t. A comprehensive plan does need to be created, one that should not be considered as the economy versus the environment, loggers versus environmentalist, wolves versus caribou, First Nation communities versus non-First Nation communities, or any other form of us versus them.

And ,if we think about it, we do have the time.

If those involved agreed that we take this plan and rework it into something that reflects more of our local values, Prime Minister Justin is not going to invoke some special order to shut down B.C.’s Northeast. He has too many other issues on his plate and he does not need to create another one.

Taking another six months, or even a year, will neither impact the caribou or result in huge irreversible impacts to the landscape. Simply put, taking a bit more time to get this thing right may actually create a plan supported by the vast majority, rather than a plan that conveys rights and jobs to a very select few.

Evan Saugstad is a former mayor of Chetwynd, and lives in Fort St. John.

Liberals of today are no different than yesterday

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re engineers crooked?

I don’t think they are, at least not by and large. However, some of them certainly are.

It’s not just about the current SNC-Lavalin scandal, but really has its current origins not in a Libyan bribery scandal, but in a Canadian bribery scandal that took place in Canada, in Quebec; and that implicates not only SNC-Lavalin, but also three other Quebec engineering firms – Genivar (now WSP), Dessau, Groupe SM, and Cima+.

By 2018, that Charbonneau Commission in Quebec laid 331 criminal charges and obtained 114 convictions against individuals and companies. One of the outcomes is that Quebec is now the only province in Canada where engineers are not allowed to regulate themselves.

Politically, the Charbonneau Commission resulted in either charges or resignations of several high-placed individuals, including three Montreal mayors, McGill University staff, Quebec Ministry of Transportation staff, and City of Montreal staff. Anybody want to venture a guess with whom those were affiliated with federally? You think the Bloq, Conservatives, or NDP? Think again.

Is it any wonder that SNCLavalin was so anxious to prevail upon their Liberal friends in Ottawa to firstly bring in an amendment to the Criminal Code, buried in a budget bill, that would allow for a type of “plea deal” called a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with no criminal conviction? And that when

Steve Thorlakson the Liberals did so, SNC continued the pressure for the Liberal government to enact that DPA? Is it not as obvious as the nose on your face that when the Attorney General, Jody Wilson-Raybould, refused — despite intense prolonged pressure to subvert justice — that ultimately the Liberal government fired her and her colleague Jane Philpott, who also would not compromise her ethics and principles?

Is there any doubt by any objective thinker that the federal Liberals of today are no different than those during the time of the Quebec-based federal Liberal Sponsorship Scandal?

I’m a partisan, I’ll admit it, so please don’t take my word for any of this. Click these links for some primers, and decide for yourself: one, two, three.

But also take a moment to think about the thousands of ethical Canadians, including Quebecers — engineers, consultants, etc. — who will feel the pain resulting from more than one Quebec-based unethical company, all linked clearly to the federal Liberals.

I wish the mainstream media would dive down and expose the litany of corrupt behaviour. I know it didn’t take me very long.

Steve Thorlakson is a resident and former mayor of Fort St. John.

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2019 Peace River North Performing Arts Festival results Delegates, and trophy and scholarship results from the 2019 Peace River North Performing Arts Festival.

The festival has brought more than 600 performers to Fort St. John from across the Peace Region and Northern B.C. for competition in dance, strings, speech, choir, and other performing arts. More than $8,000 in scholarships were awarded.

Provincial Delegates Dance: Modern I: Ella Brooks Stage I: Rylea Krezenoski Stage I Alternate: Kori Daisley Modern II: Haley McNiven Stage II: Jordyn Krezenoski Merited Participant: Sophie Soderberg Ballet II: Abby Taylor Modern III: Katelyn Brooks Modern III Alternate: Makayla Connelly Stage III: Emily Cui Stage III Alternate: Abby White Ballet III: Mackenzie Gosling Music: Guitar: Nansen Andersen Woodwind: Geneva Iten Woodwind Alternate: Fiyin Oyedeji Merited Participants: Abigail Ryder and Varenka Iten Scholarship Winners Piano: Canadain Award (All Grades): Simon Jones Romantic Junior Award

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Provincial delegates from the 20219 Peace River North Performing Arts Festival. From left: Makayla Connelly, Abby White, Katelyn Brooks, Haley McNiven, Ella Brooks, Emily Cui, Sophie Soderberg, Jordyn Krezenoski, Kori Daisley, Rylea Krezenoski, Mackenzie Gosling, Abby Taylor, Varenka Iten, Abigail Ryder, Geneva Iten, Fiyin Oyedeji, Brian Andersen (not a delegate), and Nansen Andersen.

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Eyesore targeted for cleanup

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The property at 10471-102nd Street in Taylor has been the subject of a bylaw complaint since February.

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The District of Taylor is at a standstill trying to get an absentee landowner to clean up their unsightly and dangerous property, and is soon likely to foot the bill itself.

The property at 10471-102nd Street has been the subject of a bylaw complaint since February, and is littered with cars and automotive products that are starting to leach into the ground and posing risks to the community, staff say.

Attempts to send the owner a cleanup order have been unsuccessful. While they are no longer living in Taylor, no one knows whether they’re still in the province, or even in the country.

“We’re basically at a standstill now,” Enzo Calla, deputy fire chief, told council on Monday.

Councillors gave staff Calla the OK to

hire a contractor to cleanup the property, pending one final notice to the owner, including placing a boulevard billboard sign outside the home.

It’s unlikely to make much of a difference. It’s believed a squatter lives on the property, and Calla notes it’s well-known to police, with more than a dozen break-ins, thefts, and assaults there since 2017.

District staff have already towed out three derelict vehicles from right-ofways that were in the way of public works. A vermin outbreak is feared if the property isn’t cleaned up.

The work is estimated to cost the district up to $10,000.

A staff report notes the district could recoup this either by invoicing the owner or collecting through their property taxes. However, chief administrative officer Andrew Young noted their taxes are already in arrears — a sign the property is likely headed for the auction block.

Taylor mulls microbrew, pot zoning matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

Taylor is looking to open up its zoning rules to let microbreweries, craft distilleries, and cannabis retailers do business in the district.

A local group of prospective investors has approached the district to open a craft brewery in Taylor, however, current zoning rules don’t allow for them.

Chief administrative officer Andrew Young is proposing to allow a microbrewery to operate in commercial and service commercial zones, largely confined to 100 and 100A streets along the Alaska Highway.

Distillery and cannabis retail uses are also proposed for those areas as part of a broader package of zoning amendments for council feedback and public consultation, Young said. Cannabis retailers would face proposed setback minimums from schools, daycares, parks, and churches.

“Some of the provisions put forward in the proposed bylaw are modelled on

provisions that the City of Fort St. John developed, for cannabis retail in particular,” Young said.

The district’s heavy industrial zoning allows for large-scale brewery and distillery operations.

The local beer investors are interested in a microbrewery for wholesale distribution and would include a tasting room. Property has yet to be secured, and the investors need to know there’s local support before they invest, Young noted in a report to council.

Last year, Taylor council voted to ban legal cannabis sales and production in the district, punting the issue for reconsideration post-legalization.

“It’s just an idea staff have put to us about creating a bylaw with some of these (uses) in there. The real process will come after,” Mayor Rob Fraser said.

Council plans to gather feedback from residents at an upcoming open house at the community hall, scheduled for May. “It’s a great topic for that sort of thing,” Fraser said.

City sales and home prices on the rise matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

Real estate sales in Fort St. John were up 17% in the first quarter of 2019.

Across the area, there were 111 properties worth $35.5 million sold by the end of March, according to the BC Northern Real Estate Board. That’s up from 95 properties worth $31.1 million at the same time last year.

Of those sales, 54 were single-family homes, fetching an average price of $366,136. Selling prices are up roughly 7% from this time last year, when 55 single-family homes sold for an average price of $340,968.

The city also saw the sale of nine halfduplexes, eight homes on acreages, nine manufactured homes in parks and another 18 on land, according to the board.

While sales increased, the number of

active listings decreased. There were 597 properties for sale in the area through the Multiple Listing Service, down from 664 at the same point last year.

In Fort Nelson, sales plummeted by 50%, according to the board.

There, 11 properties worth $919,000 were sold by the end of March, down from the 22 properties worth $1.9 million in the same period last year.

As of March 31, there were 95 properties listed through MLS in the Fort Nelson area.

“The markets in Fort St. John and Fort Nelson are connected to the jobs generated through the oil and gas industry projects in the area,” the board noted.

Across Northern B.C., 876 properties worth $257 million had sold through MLS in the first quarter. The first quarter of 2018 saw 914 properties worth $250.6 million change hands.

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SPRING CLEANING Yellowhead Road & Bridge crews began their annual washing of the Taylor Bridge on April 15, 2019.

Work is expected to last up to three weeks. The bridge will reduced to single-lane alternating traffic between 9 a.m. and noon and then, again, from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

Delays of up to 20 minutes can be expected.

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Finding a way to build legacies when faced with vacancies

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he economic life of a building is the expected period which an asset remains useful to the average owner. The building’s physical life may outlive the income generating potential.

There is a noticeable trend of e-commerce impacting commercial retail space by declining market demand. As a result of aging resources and changing e-commerce trends, the demand for commercial space in downtown cores of small to medium-sized communities is having a large impact on the feasibility of continued use.

The asset inventory and infrastructure in the downtown core of Fort St. John is aging and seeing growing vacancy. There is some evidence of redevelopment. There is also evidence of growing occupancy by not-forprofits. The not-for-profits fill a social need in the community and at the same time fill large

retail space that would otherwise be vacant.

Downtown corridors often experience a transition period if they are not healthy and thriving. Aging buildings will begin to experience a high tenant turnover and then extended periods of vacancy.

Vacant buildings are an opportunity to consider redevelopment or offer for lease at a reduced lease rate until re-development is a viable opportunity. The lease rate reduction is often an opportunity to offset holding costs of the land. The lease is often that of operating costs only.

The alternative is for aging buildings to sit vacant, often vandalized and subject to fire.

As neighbourhoods experience transition, another alternative to multi-tenant buildings with chronic vacancy would be to offer leases to not-for-profits along with a donation in-kind.

Edwina Nearhood LIFE AT GROUND ZERO

The lease would be offered at a reduced rate, but the in-kind donation would be subject to a taxable benefit (as long as the not-for-profit has a charitable organization status and you check with your accountant).

Organizations such as a farmer’s market may meet these criteria and offer yearround opportunity to sell goods and services to the community. Like-minded artisans or food producers also have an opportunity to work together as a co-operative to bring multi-operators together with a common vision or goal.

Have a need, fill a need.

Together is better. Working together building partnerships is an opportunity to achieve numerous measurable differences. Vacant buildings can be filled. Numerous small buildings or organizations can profit and grow brands and products.

The community benefits from buying locally. The downtown corridors begin to regenerate and thrive. The sense of community pride improves.

The days of operating business in a silo have served its course and once again we are in a cycle of relationship-based business, accountability, and transparency. Community building is a must. The work of one is great. The hands of many make great work with small efforts from one hand.

Together is better.

We do need leaders to support a common goal. We do need project and planning to get things going. We do

need land and building owners willing to offer space to incubate such growth. It is not a get-rich-quick opportunity, it is about being of service to the community. It is about supporting local hard-working volunteers improving the quality of lives throughout the community. It is about leaving a legacy behind at a time when selling out is not the best option. Perhaps at some point the not-for-profit may be the next best owner if they do want to consider property ownership.

This is a precursor to our next conversation, which will be about asset planning. This is where we turn real estate ownership upside down and look at it from the end instead of the beginning.

Edwina Nearhood is a lifelong resident of Fort St. John, with 30 years experience in the appraisal industry.

Administrative Professionals Day

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ways to say thanks to your administrative staff

ON April 24, 2019 celebrate Administrative Professionals by highlighting the work of these essential employees. Here are three simple ways to thank your loyal administrative staff for their invaluable versatility, efficiency and professionalism.

1. DECORATE THEIR DESKS Surprise your administrative staff by leaving a bouquet of flowers on their desks. This simple gesture is a great way to brighten up their workspace and their week. For an even more festive touch, make it a bouquet of helium balloons instead.

2. TREAT THEM TO SOMETHING TASTY Bring coffee and pastries that your staff will enjoy to start this special day off on a positive note. You might also choose to organize a team lunch or serve cake during break time.

3. GIVE A HEARTFELT CARD Take the time to write a personalized message that conveys just how much you value the work of each administrative employee. Ask other workers to sign the cards. A few well-chosen words can mean far more than any gift.

There are tons of ways to thank your team of administrative professionals, but your best bet is to let them know every day just how important their contributions are to your business.

For more information, visit the website of the International Administrative Professionals Association

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Here’s to you for all you do!

Administrative Professional Day

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I would like to extend a special thank you to my amazing constituency staff for all they do for me and the people of Peace River North.

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Annual News Letter

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2018 - 2019 Fiscal Year

Message form our Executive Director | Niki Hedges Our hospital is in the heart of this great community and region and I can say it is an honor and privilege to be representing the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation as the Executive Director.

This year we have so much to celebrate and to be proud of as we continue to build a robust Foundation. As the demands on healthcare increase, so too will the reliance on fundraising for vital equipment. We are committed to maximizing the support of the Hospital through building our Endowment Funds. It’s important to also remember our special supporters who are not here with us today and we promise to continue to build on their legacy for the generations that follow us.

We want to acknowledge the Founding Members and their passion, Strength and dedication 25 years ago, back in 1994.

Since then, the generosity of donors has had a tremendous impact on local healthcare, touching the lives of everyone, young and old alike.

I am astounded by the generosity of donors who are committed to local healthcare; helping to support the best in patient care and comfort with the purchase of medical equipment so that patients both young and old can receive services and treatment close to home, near family and friends using equipment funded by our donors.

So much has been made possible from the funds raised through a number of fun third-party events. We are grateful to the organizers who commit many hours coordinating these fundraisers such as the ice hockey tournaments, golf and softball tournaments, fun spring ditch races, tent events, bake sales, hot chocolate stands, radiothons, the smile cookie program, raffles, photos with Santa and much more.

There are so many dedicated individuals who play an integral part in our success. It is through everyone’s efforts; our board, the membership, our dedicated volunteers, event sponsors, local stores and businesses, and the many event participants, that we have had a very successful year. Our organization is built on a tradition of caring people and there are so many people and businesses we wish to say “Thank You”.

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2019/2020

OUR SIGNATURE EVENTS May 25

Bluey Day

Sept 18

AGM

Nov 1 - 30

“Be an Angel” Campaign

Nov 2

“Be an Angel” Silver Bells 25th Anniversary Gala.

3rd PARTY EVENTS April 26

MasTec Canada Spring Ditch Race weather pending

June 7 - 8

Northern Metallic Tent Event

Jun 13

Chamber of Commerce BC LNG Open Golf Tournament

Jun 14 - 17

8th Annual Arnie Isberg Softball Tournament

Sept

Tim Hortons “Smile Cookie”

Oct/Nov

Annual Shopper Drug Mart Love. You. Campaign/ Westjet Raffle*

Nov

16th Annual Rhyason Contracting Light a Moose Radiothon*

Nov/Dec

Photos with Santa at Unforgettable Memories*

Feb 20, 2020

18th Annual Sun FM “Have a Heart” Radiothon

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SOME OF OUR SIGNIFICANT DONATIONS Your Donations

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In Memoriam Donations Third Party Events “Be an Angel”

The Arnie Isberg Memorial 1-Pitch Tournament held every summer.

This very fun, very popular slow pitch event raises money for our Cancer Treatment and Diagnostic Fund. The 7th Annual Tournament took place at The Taylor Ball Diamonds on July 20th – 22nd, 2018 and raised over $20,000!

Bluey Day General Donations

“Well… isn’t that ironic!”

By Viva Swanson In 2009 my third born son Jordan was just 6 years old when he shaved his head for Bluey Day for the first time. Our dear friend Auntie Sherry (Loney) had been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer and Jordan dedicated his shave to her and the breast cancer recurrence that would change our world forever.

In 2011, Jordan and I shaved our heads together and raised double the donations we had set as our goal. It was an incredible experience.

Our thoughts were with Auntie Sherry that day as well, knowing she was smiling down upon us from heaven above.

In 2015 when we sat down with our boys to share the news of my breast cancer diagnosis, my then 12 year old boy sat back on the couch, crossed his arms, cleared his throat and ever so maturely stated: “Well … isn’t that ironic!” Quite honestly, I thought: “Hmmm... really? Like he knows what ‘ironic’ means!”. When I asked what he meant by ironic, Jordan said: “Well, think about it Mom… we shaved our heads and raised all that money for Bluey Days… it’s like we raised all that money just for you!”

Holy catfish! His wisdom simply took my breath away! And, indeed, my son did understand the definition of ironic! And, yes... it was like we had raised all that money just for me; as I would certainly come to appreciate the impact of all the contributions our community has made through the Foundation to ensure the comfort of patients and avail our healthcare professionals to cutting edge technology.

My cancer experience has been an incredible gift. From the unexpected discovery of a tumor hidden deep within my breast by way of ultrasound technology… a machine purchased from Foundation funding… to the comforts found within the Cancer Care Unit…to the many pieces of equipment involved in my care from diagnostic imaging, surgical services, cancer care and inpatient unit stay for a complication 18 months after diagnosis that included digital mammography, ultrasound, gamma camera, cardiac monitors, blood pressure machines, IV pumps, stretchers, electric beds, digital scales, and goodness knows… my favorite would be the blanket warmer… thank goodness for warm blankets!

In 2015 Jordan shaved his head for a third time. Bluey Day fell on the Saturday before I had my first chemotherapy treatment. It was an emotional day! I was in awe of my child and ever so thankful for his experience with a community event that effectively grounded his response to my diagnosis in one of hope and knowingness that I would have everything I would need on my journey.

Everything I needed was right here in Fort St. John. I had my husband, my boys, my friends and my family. I had a healthcare team who had the equipment they needed to both diagnose and treat the tumor that had hidden deep in my breast. I am ever so thankful for the Foundation and this wonderful community I call home.

Thank you!

Please visit fsjhospitalfoundation.ca for Viva’s full article

EQUIPMENT PURCHASES EQUIPMENT - COMPLETED Colonscopoedual Focus Scopeguide (B) $42,805 Moose FM teamed up with the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation to help raise funds for the “Be an Angel” campaign with the 15th Annual Rhyason Contracting Light a Moose. Pembina Pipeline Corporation came on board as the $25,000 corporate matching sponsor. The 2018 event was broadcast live from Murray GM parking lot and raised a record breaking $94,331.50! Funds raised focused on the purchase a Portable Ultrasound Machine with F.A.S.T. Technology.

The Fort St. John Hospital Foundation joined the Sun FM crew live on location at Safeway FSJ for the 17th Annual “Have a Heart” Radiothon on February 14, 2019. Every year this wonderful community shows us how much heart they have in helping purchase a vital piece of equipment that directly benefits our children at the Fort St. John Hospital. Have a heart raised an impressive $18,573! Our goal this year was to purchase 6 Alaris Syringe Pumps to help improve IV Medication safety for pediatric patients.

Every holiday season Unforgettable Memories Photo Source transforms into a gorgeous holiday scene and residents bring their little ones down for photos with Santa and Mrs. Clause.

100% of the proceeds go to the Foundation. This year, the 4 day event raised a record breaking $8,150! Over the years, this event has raised an outstanding total of $29,237.00!

Betty Pimm is being remembered in a new Endowment Fund through the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation. The Betty Pimm Named Endowment Fund was created on March 25, 2019 with a generous donation from Betty’s family, husband Darwin Pimm and sons Ted and Clint.

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Each autumn, women’s health is recognized and supported through the national fundraising efforts of Shoppers Drug Mart stores. The “Love. You.” Campaign is a four-week program, held across Canada raising funds that are directed towards enhancing women’s health in the communities they serve.

In October 2018 Shoppers FSJ chose the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation as their charity of choice and raised an impressive $25,780.00! It was the most funds raised provincially and nationally through the campaign.

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ENT Chair

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Popsicle Refrigerator

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Dental Tool Sets (4)

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Panda Infant Warmer

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IsoFlex Mattresses

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Ultrasound Additional Probes

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Vein Finder

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LG Bluetooth Speaker System (4)

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Curling Game

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T688 Dialysis Chairs (7)

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Dental Drill Sets (2)

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Endo Eye 5mm

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Curling Game for Peace Villa

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EQUIPMENT - IN PROCESS The Fort St. John Hospital Foundation was named the charity of choice for Boston Pizza’s Heart-Shaped Pizza Campaign.

Boston Pizza patrons could make a minimum donation of $2 and have a personalized Boston Pizza Paper Heart hung up at the restaurant. Then on February 14, Valentine’s Day, Boston Pizza sold heart-shaped pizzas to raise funds for the Hospital Foundation. $1 from each heart-shaped pizza purchased was donated to the Foundation’s “Have a Heart” Campaign. BP FSJ raised $2,700!

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Nostalgic Craftsman styling gives the Lincolnshire its comfortably welcoming front facade. Smooth round columns seated on stone veneer bases flank the gently arched entries, and iconic Craftsman windows face the street. Shingle-textured siding adds visual variety on the upper level.

The units of this two-story duplex very nearly mirror each other, with the exception of a second gable in unit B that results in a slightly differently shaped bedroom below it. Thus, the description of one unit will apply to both.

A gentle down slope leads into the garage, which is about a half-flight lower than the ground floor. Secondary bedrooms and their shared bathroom sit above the garage, where an extrathick wall boosts the sound buffering.

From the driveway, a half-flight of stairs angles up to the vaulted porch.

Inside, a convenient powder room is to the left and a coat closet is dead ahead.

An opening on the right leads into a large vaulted room that comprises the

living and dining areas. An abundance of natural light spills into the space through wide windows front and back.

Lincolnshire Bedroom 12'10'' x 10'4''

Casual meals and snacks can be served on the raised eating bar that bounds the kitchen and dining room.

In warm weather, meals can move onto the patio, through the dining room's sliding glass doors. Cabinets wrap around three sides of the kitchen, while counters line sections of all four. Working at the kitchen sink, you can keep an eye on the back yard, patio, and dining room.

On the opposite side of the dining room, a passageway leads to the Lincolnshire's owners' suite, plus a small utility room. In addition to a walk-in closet, the suite includes a private bathroom with a dual vanity, shower, and linen closet.

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Jarvis Crescent contract awarded Taylor council awarded a $3.39-million contract to S. Young Enterprises to build the Jarvis Crescent subdivision on Monday.

“This has been years coming, but finally we’re in a position to be able to move on an award,” Mayor Rob Fraser said.

The district is servicing the district-owned land with utilities and infrastructure for 50 lots to stimulate new home construction. Council has approved up to $4.2 million in borrowing to pay for the development.

The district received seven bids for the work. The contract with S. Young in-

cludes quotes for extra items such as lot fill, subgrading replacement, fencing, seeding and tree planting that may be done as part of the work, but will be determined later.

Also on Monday, council approved a $128,000 direct award to Urban Systems for project management services.

Urban Systems has been involved in the engineering and planning for the subdivision since the project started.

“We’d be remiss if we went looking for another project manager with the wealth of knowledge and history they have with this,” Coun. Betty Ponto said.

The subdivision is named after former long-time mayor Fred Jarvis, who served for 28 years and died in December 2018.

Dawson Creek Law Courts

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court docket A summary of sentences and fines handed out in Northeast B.C. courts for the week ending April 12, 2019.

Fort St. John Law Courts • Brandon Boyd Moore (born 1984) was sentenced to 30 days in jail for breach of probation.

• Cayla Lea Bitterman (born 1992) was handed a six-month probation order with a conditional discharge for breach of undertaking.

• Jordan Pernell Scott (born 1992) was handed one year of probation with a suspended sentence for assault.

Scott was fined $500 for breach of undertaking.

• Nicholas Kenneth Brown (born 1995) fined $500 and handed a one-year criminal driving ban for operating a motor vehicle while disqualified.

• Kristin Ida Handsor (born 1999) was handed a probation order with a conditional discharge for mischief $5,000 or under.

• Jason Alexander Dupuis (born 1971) was handed a one-year probation order with a suspended sentence for mischief $5,000 or under.

— Tom Summer

Woman dies in police custody in Dawson Creek The Independent Investigations Office of BC will be sending investigators to Dawson Creek after a woman died after being taken into custody.

Early on Saturday, April 13, 2019, officers arrested a male and female and transported them to cells as a result of an ongoing investigation, according to the IIO. “Later that morning, due to the behaviour of the female, Emergency Health Services were requested. On arrival, the female went into medical

distress and was transported to hospital in Dawson Creek. Medical assistance was given but the female was airlifted to Prince George Regional Hospital and was pronounced deceased in the early hours of 14 April, 2019,” notes the release by the IIO. Dawson Creek RCMP could not be reached for comment. The IIO note they are the independent civilian oversight agency of the police in British Columbia.

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First Listen

Adam Winn’s “Roots” matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

Adam Winn performs a song from his new album Roots at a CD release concert at Evangel Chapel, April 13, 2019.

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LIBRA (SEPT. 23 TO OCT. 22) Tomorrow, the only Full Moon in your sign all year will take place, which is why today you feel on edge when dealing with partners and close friends. Patience is your best ally.

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Dear Annie: My husband has a friend, “Ralph,” who is half his age and was recently married.

Ralph’s wife, “Katherine,” is always texting my husband, and SCORPIO (OCT. 23 TO NOV. 21) not me, to make plans to go Today you might feel a bit restless out to eat. I have asked my husand impatient and not know why. band several times to text Ralph Actually, the Full Moon tomorrow back instead of his wife, but takes place in a hidden part of he has not. When we go out to your chart, which creates an eat, Ralph’s wife always wants energy buildup within you. to sample my husband’s food and taste his drink; she never SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22 TO DEC. 21) samples mine. She never asks if Be patient with friends and she can taste test. She just does members of groups today, it. She also likes to sit beside my because they might be at odds.

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PISCES (FEB. 19 TO MARCH 20) You will have greater success in dealing with disputes about shared property and red-tape issues if you wait until the weekend. Get past tomorrow’s Full Moon.

Fort St. John’s firefightin’ troubadour Adam Winn returns to the mic with new stories, more wisdom, and a fulsome sound on his latest album, Roots.

The 10-track full length, released April 12, builds on the tight and sparse acoustic sound Winn debuted with on his self-titled EP in 2017. Winn still sticks to those folk musical roots, a fine treble to backdrop and carry the earnest tremble he keeps at the edge of his voice.

But for an album all about roots and family, and the lessons of time, it’s the flourishes that Winn adds this go-around that stand out: the instrumentation is more complex and expansive, the percussion more encompassing. A smooth slide guitar can make anyone’s knees go weak. Indeed, the musicianship here is on point, and the mix from Ryan Mcallister of Five Acre Studios elevates Winn to his natural next level.

On Roots, Winn wastes no time sweeping listeners into the album on the opening track Suzannah, a mid-tempo toe-tappin’ shuffle about the betrayals and double-crosses of an outlaw life, and the pain of being separated from love.

“Suzannah, it won’t be long; If I can make it through the night, I hope to be back home before the dawn; But for now I best be moving on,” Winn sings. His bluegrass influences are on display here, and the banjo-like lead sets the tone for the album to come.

The album’s first single, Song For The North, is the hometown summer anthem of the year fit for those late night campfire singalongs. It makes sense: Winn’s been a Northerner now for more than a decade, so he knows the people, he knows the life, and he knows the pride. Plus, after writing and releasing a music video about his hometown Creston on his debut, the North was owed an ode — some pushing from his fellow firefighters made the track a reality.

But that doesn’t mean Creston doesn’t get a sequel here — though Winn’s a happy, hardworking northerner with solid new roots here in Fort St. John, he reminds us we never really forget where we come from,

and the nostalgia and yearning that lingers along with it. “My hometown, it’s still the same; Oh man, ain’t it good to know some things never change?

Sure do try to make it back, but it’s never quite enough; I miss the place where I grew up,” Winn sings, his lyricism strung together with a strum and a rhythm sure to keep listeners bouncing.

Pouring Rain is the surefire single of the album, and deserves mainstream radio play.

Here, Winn channels his inner Garth Brooks with a song about the difficulties we all experience in the face of unpleasant honesty, the exasperation of feeling helpless and hapless, the struggles of moving on — with love still at the heart of it all, “as hard as it may be,” Winn sings.

There’s much to please listeners on Roots.

On one hand, Winn slows down the album with the tearjerker, Dear Jenny, a track about accident and addiction, recovery and regret. “My mistress Miss Morphine, she helped me relax; One kiss from her lips, and I never looked back,” Winn sings. “But if I could turn back time, to that day in November, well I never would have left your side and our home on the farm; But I traded it all for two nickels and a needle in my arm...” The song is based on a true story and is timely one with the opioid crisis — if a listener can’t identify with it, Winn’s weary tremble will certainly make them empathize with it.

On another hand, Winn kicks up the tempo again with He Wanted More, a soldier’s shell-shocked reflection about D-Day at Normandy and the hunger for war. Winn captures it all: the desire for glory, the fear of a fight, the cost of a life, the legacy of a sacrifice: “He was there the sixth day of June, 1944; Gunshots and bombs dropped like they never had before; They died in his arms that day on the shore; The red waters turned the tides of the Second World War.” On his debut EP, Winn planted a seed few at the time likely realized would one day grow into such formative Roots. It’s a strong sophomore effort that earns Winn a footing in Canadiana.

Visit adamwinnmusic.com for more.

The other night, she stood at the bar talking to both of us with her arm on the back of my husband’s chair and not mine.

One time, I got back to the table just in time to hear her say that she wouldn’t be getting any love from Ralph tonight. My husband replied that he wouldn’t be getting any from me either.

That’s because my husband falls asleep as soon as he gets home. Her reply was that my husband should leave with her and I should leave with Ralph.

She once told me that she and a girlfriend had read that they could make $7,000 a month if they worked for a sugar daddy. She has been married 10 months and is already complaining about Ralph. I see no

Annie Lane DEAR ANNIE

love between them when they are together. My husband feels that his relationship with her is more like a father/daughter relationship and does not see anything wrong with it. My husband tells me nothing would ever happen between them and it’s all in my head. I think she is looking for a sugar daddy. What are your thoughts? -- Am I Right to Be Suspicious?

Dear Suspicious: Trust your instincts on this one. She sounds like a shark circling your marriage. Picking food off your husband’s plate, texting him instead of you and placing her arm on the back of your husband’s chair are all signs that she is going in for the kill. The question is how to put an end to this shark and not allow your marriage to be swallowed up by her.

Don’t continue to be put in a situation where you are accusing and complaining about her while your husband rushes to her defense. Instead, trust your instincts and insist that the

friendship ends. The alternative is that she continues to drive a wedge through your marriage, and that is not OK. You and your husband should be a unified front protecting your marriage from circling predators.

Dear Annie: I’ll never forget my mother’s comments about a co-worker who was over 50.

There was talk for years about this person’s flawless complexion but nobody bothered to ask about her “secret.”

At my mother’s retirement luncheon, my mother finally asked. The co-worker replied that it was Vaseline! Her family was poor and she had tried anything cheap. Later, when she had the money for more expensive skin care products, she tried them all but found that still Vaseline worked best.

-- Glowing Complexion Dear Glowing: Thank you for this great tip. I have also heard that Aquaphor has the same effect as Vaseline and is around the same price. Here’s to beauty on a budget and keeping things simple.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com. To find out more about Annie Lane and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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Pemi Olajide won first place in the Grade 1 Category of the 2019 Spelling Bee.

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Contestants young and old took to the stage at Margaret ‘Ma’ Murray Community School on April 13 for the Fort St. John Literacy Society’s second annual Spelling Bee. The event raised $4,397 to support the society’s after school homework club. The top fundraiser was Cooper Haggstrom, who raised $740.

Grade 2/3: 1st place: Lucy Toews 2nd place: Arene Saukila Grade 4/5: 1st place: Archer Giesbrecht 2nd place: Lily Murray

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Dougie Lambert a key factor in Huskies, Flyers success DILLON GIANCOLA sports@ahnfsj.ca

Any successful amateur hockey team needs reliable volunteers who show up and do their job each week, without question, without complaint. For the Fort St. John Huskies and Senior Flyers it’s no different. There are many people involved in these teams, but the one who’s been around the longest and best embodies the spirit of these volunteers is the one and only Doug Lambert.

Lambert, or Dougie, as he’s affectionately called, has been the waterboy for the Huskies and Flyers for at least 15 years. He’s been doing it so long neither he nor anyone else is really sure when he started. All they know is that when they first got involved with the Huskies and Flyers, Dougie was there.

“He’s been around the whole time I have, even back when I was playing,” said Huskies President Mike Bacso. “My understanding is that he’s the longest standing member of the current Huskies organization.”

Dougie is more than just a water boy, he’s the team’s most loyal and faithful fan.

He attends every single home game without fail, and can be seen in the stands wearing the newest Huskies team hat and jacket, laughing and cheering along with whomever happens to be sitting next to him that game.

But when the period ends, Dougie slips away. He enjoyed the hockey, but now, for just 10 minutes, he has to do his job. Dougie goes out to the bench like clockwork, collects the 12 or 18 water bottles, carries them back to the locker room, and fills them up.

This is more than just a task that needs to be done.

For Dougie, it’s important, and it needs to be done well.

“I just like to help out and I

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Above: Doug Lambert raises the NPHL Senator’s Cup in joy, to the delight of the Huskies, after the team beat the County of Grande Prairie Kings 8-1 on March 23, 2019. Below: Huskies President Mike Bacso and Lambert after a Huskies playoff game on March 9, 2019.

love being the waterboy. I do a good job, I do a really awesome job,” he said.

Dougie is also the water boy for the NEBC Midget Trackers. Three teams may sound like a lot, but if it involves hockey, Dougie will be there.

“He’s our guy, he loves hockey, loves his Huskies and loves the Flyers. All the teams look after him and make sure he has the latest team clothing, and it’s a lot of fun having him around,” said Flyers President Paul van Nostrand.

Not just a water boy Dougie does more than fill water bottles. He’s an integral part of the team and organization, and his love of the game and the joy he brings to the rink each day is infectious and impacts the players.

“He’s a guy who puts a smile on your face every time he shows up to the rink.

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“He reminds us it’s just a game, and the positive energy he has, you can’t beat it,” said Huskies forward Dean Whitcomb.

After the 2018-19 regular season, and before to the start of playoffs, Bacso awarded Dougie with the President’s Award at the team’s award ceremony, for embodying the spirit of the Huskies and hockey, and being a key part of the team.

Dougie wins and loses with the team. He feels the pain when they lose, and he gives a speech when they win. Dougie loves to give a

speech.

“I don’t like losing, I hate losing, but I really like when we win,” Dougie said.

This year, the Huskies won the Senator’s Cup for the second straight year.

Like last year, they won it on the road, but this season, Dougie was on the road too, and got to hoist the trophy along with the players, a smile wide as can be plastered on his face.

“I’m pretty happy we won the championship. I want to do this again next year. I want to do it in my hometown of Fort St. John.

I’m very happy.”

ne of the most memorable sports moments of the last 20 years happened on Sunday, when Tiger Woods won the 2019 Masters to win his first major golf tournament in 11 years. In the process, he completed maybe the ultimate sports redemption story: an 11-year fight through immense personal troubles and health issues to regain his place on the sports landscape.

It was a remarkable ending to an incredibly entertaining tournament, which saw nine players within two strokes of the lead just an hour out. As I looked on Twitter, received texts from friends, and heard the roar of the crowd on TV, it was apparent everyone in the world was cheering for Tiger to win.

Except for me.

Don’t worry — this isn’t another column about myself. This is a column about redemption, the softening of hearts, global moments, and Tiger Woods.

It’s a weird feeling when you feel like you’re the only person alive who’s not cheering for something. It’s as if you were cheering against the New England Patriots or New York Yankees, but you were the only person in the world who hated Tom Brady. It’s so hard to imagine, because that would never happen.

I had so much fun watching the Masters all weekend, especially on Sunday morning, though, that I didn’t want it to end in disappointment — the world cheering while I felt annoyed, as if the Golden State Warriors won another stupid title.

So, maybe for the final time, I thought about my grudge against Tiger Woods.

I think the way I felt was valid — I didn’t want that kind of character to be universally loved. Unless, maybe, he wasn’t that character anymore.

Obviously, none of us can know what an athlete is really like on a day to day basis. But here was a humble guy, smiling wide and hugging his children.

There was no sign of the cocky, rude man I had spent so many years watching and observing.

The ironic part of it all is that I love second chances of all kinds. I was down with Michael Vick when he was on the Eagles and overjoyed when Roger Federer started winning majors again.

Kurt Warner had two huge second chance moments and he’s one of my favourite athletes of all time.

Many people don’t see Tiger Woods as an unlikeable person, as I do. But we all have likeable and unlikeable things about us. Why was I clinging to this stance when I have let it go in most other situations? Why did I want the entire sports world to feel miserable?

Would my sneaky grin as Woods botched a winning putt really make me feel better?

When it comes down to it, Tiger winning this major after 11 years of coming up short is what sports are all about. It’s why we watch, really.

Sports bring us together and give us immense joy. Sports can even do the unthinkable — providing you with a sense of joy felt around the world when the very thing you never wanted to see happen finally happens.

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McCormick eager to return to ring after Fivestar fight night exceeds expectations dillon giancola sports@ahnfsj.ca

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Above: Nick Dragojevich (left) and Nick Young receive their fight of the night awards with Alaya McCormick at the end of the night on April 12, 2019. Below: Nick Dragojevich flexes for the crowd after winning his fight against Justin Lemire of Grande Prairie.

When Alaya McCormick heard that Fivestar Boxing Academy was holding a charity event for her, she was cautiously optimistic. She thought it would be cool but didn’t really know what to expect.

Turns out, Fivestar Fight Night 23: Fight for Alaya went as well as it ever could have and surpassed all her expectations.

“It was amazing, unbelievable really.

It meant everything to me, and I was so happy to see all the support in front of everyone,” McCormick said.

It was a fitting end to a happy week for McCormick, as she was officially classified as in remission from Lymphoma on Monday, April 8, five days before the fights on April 12.

“I just have a couple checkups in three months but I’m doing great and it feels amazing,” McCormick said.

Fivestar owner Justin Donally, the man behind the event, was ecstatic at how good it went. Though the official number wasn’t known at press time, Donally expects to donate more than $10,000 to the McCormick family to help cover the costs of the travel and time unable to work over the past year.

“Everything went better than planned.

I was hoping to have the show before Christmas, and then we got pushed back, and it had been a year since we put on a show. But we completely sold out and I was told we had to stop selling tickets at the door because we were at capacity,” Donally said.

Donally said it was the first boxingonly show he’s put on that has completely sold out. The crowd wasn’t just large, it was also really loud, and they responded in kind to the awesome fights put on for them.

Excellent fights The card featured 13 fights, including 12 Fivestar fighters, seven of which were official, scored bouts.

The first six fights included debut fights from Andrea Wall (loss) and Jesse McArthur (an exhibition), and set the

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stage for a thrilling second half. Brad Stewart and Raphael Bergmann put on an entertaining kickboxing exhibition, a showcase of two former champs having some fun, before Brayden Sims and Cole Brander showed the crowd what two Canada Winter Games medalists looked like against each other in a lively exhibition.

All the action inspired McCormick to get back in the ring herself, and reminded her of how much she loved it. She was able to get into the ring after each fight to hand out the awards.

“It was different, but nice to be in the ring again and I was nostalgic. My last fight was a year and a half ago, but I’m shooting to be back in the ring for the end of the year,” McCormick said.

Lincoln Pomeroy lost a tough fight to Jimmy Romero of Edmonton. Pomeroy will have to move on to the next fight, as both he and Sims will be in Victoria for nationals next week, beginning April 22.

The final two fights of the night were by far the best, and deservedly won the contestants Co-Fight of the Night Awards. Nick Dragojevich put on a show in his trademark style, trading huge bombs with Mark Bouchard, the crowd roaring in approval.

Technical fighters Nick Young of Fivestar and William O’Keefe of Red Deer ended the show with a much different but equally exciting fight, which Young won by unanimous decision.

“I’m not going to lie, I was really nervous going into this fight. William is a tough kid and super active this year, and I went up a weight class. But I decided win, lose or draw I’d go in there and put on a show for the hometown,”Young said.

Young’s next fight is a rubber match against Josh Peck in Lethbridge on May 4. Young beat Peck the first time, but lost the rematch.

Other results from the night include Fivestar’s Landon Beasley beating Dylan Holland, and Thomas Pope defeating Jimmy Romero.

Fivestar’s Lane Harris lost by split decision to Justin Lemire.

PRO GOLF WEEKLY UPDATE Golf News, Tips, Trivia & Stats

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FedExCup leader Matt Kuchar headlines the field as the PGA TOUR transfers from Augusta National to unwind on Hilton Head Island The RBC Heritage has been a fixture on the PGA Tour since the tournament first began in 1969. The Harbour Town course was designed by famed golf course architect Pete Dye, with assistance from Jack Nicklaus. Arnold Palmer won the inaugural event. Last year, Satoshi Kodaira wound up earning a full PGA Tour membership with a sizzling charge from six shots back to outlast Si Woo Kim in a playoff.

Trump, Obama join Tiger Twitter frenzy President Donald Trump and Barack Obama were among those hailing Tiger Woods on social media after his 11-year major drought was ended by a thrilling and emotional Masters victory on Sunday. “Congratulations to @TigerWoods,” tweeted the US president Trump, who played a round of golf with Woods earlier this year. “A truly Great Champion!” “Congratulations, Tiger!” former president Obama tweeted. “To come back and win the Masters after all the highs and lows is a testament to excellence, grit, and determination.” As Woods went on a charge on the back nine at Augusta National with birdies at 13, 15 and 16 to win by a stroke and claim his 15th major and fifth Masters, fellow golfers and former greats of the game were quick to hail Woods’ achievement. Just two years ago his back pain was so bad Woods thought he might never play again, let alone win another major.

Tiger Woods, for the first time since 2005, is your Masters champion. Tiger played in the hunt for nearly the entirety of the weekend. He shot a final round score of 70 to finish 13-under par. He has now earned 15 career major titles, just three behind all-time leader Jack Nicklaus.

As he walked off the green following the win, Tiger his son Charlie Axel Woods a huge hug.

“To have my kids there, it’s come full circle. My dad was here in ‘97, and now I’m the dad with two kids there,” Woods, 43, said.

Lessons from the Golf Pro

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One of the easiest ways for the recreational golfer to lose distance on his shots is the old “scoop” that most of us are familiar with. Scooping occurs when we cock the wrist on the downswing instead of keeping it straight through impact. So, whenever your wrists are cocked when you hit the ball, the hands are behind the ball at impact and this adds loft to your club. Also, the biggest problem in getting to the most powerful hitting position is that we never shift our weight properly during the swing. If you keep all of your weight on the left side of the body, you have to hit early on the downswing and the scooping effect takes place. Make sure that on the backswing, the shift of weight moves from the left to right side in order to get your hands through the ball properly at impact.

Through April 14, 2019

Course Stats Yards: 7,099 Par: 71 Course record: 61 Tournament record: 264 Defending champion: Satoshi Kodaira

TV Coverage Day Time Thursday 3:00pm-6:00pm Friday 3:00pm-6:00pm Saturday 1:00pm-2:45pm Saturday 3:00pm-6:00pm Sunday 1:00pm-2:45pm Sunday 3:00pm-6:00pm

Network GOLF GOLF GOLF CBS GOLF CBS

Pro Golf Trivia Who was the only player to lose the Masters in a playoff twice? a) Chris DiMarco b) Ben Hogan

c) Greg Norman d) Arnold Palmer

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Last Week in Pro Golf Tiger Woods won the Masters

Tournament Results Player Score Earnings 1. Tiger Woods -13 $2,070,000 T2. Dustin Johnson -12 $858,667 T2. Xander Schauffele -12 $858,667 T2. Brooks Koepka -12 $858,667

1) Matt Kuchar 1,730 pts. / 5 top tens

2) Xander Schauffele 1,558 pts. / 4 top tens

3) Rory McIlroy 1,457 pts. / 7 top tens

FedEx Cup Standings continued...

Player Points 4) Paul Casey 1,261 5) Dustin Johnson 1,214 6) Brooks Koepka 1,112 7) Gary Woodland 1,102 8) Rickie Fowler 1,088 9) Charles Howell III 1,086 10) Justin Thomas 1,064

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NPSS girls soccer team win B title at Nike Spring Classic in Vancouver The Senior Girls soccer team finished the second leg of their trip to the Lower Mainland with the Nike Spring Classic, hosted by the University of Victoria Vikes. The Grizzlies played St. Andrews (4-0 W ), Oak Bay (L), Shawnigan Lake (Shootout W ) and Windsor Secondary (3-0 W ) to finish as Tier 1 “B” Champions with a record of 3-1.

The girls are back to school this week after two weeks of tournaments.

Grade 12 player Kenzie Chilcott (UNBC commit) said “Overall both showcases were a success. We were not only able to see what our competition will be like for provincials, but we showed the province who we are, and that we don’t back down.”

“The trip our soccer team took to UBC and UVIC for their tournaments was

very eye opening. It was good to see the competition in Victoria and Vancouver and that we matched up pretty well to most of them,” said Leigh Hedges.

The girls will now be training and preparing for provincials in May..

“It helped our team build up trust and work on teamwork. Having this chance to be in so many game situations before provincials will hopefully benefit us because we will be way better practiced,” said Grade 11 player Jordyn McPherson.

Female of the Week: Kenzie Chilcott (Gr. 12, Girls Soccer) Up Next: Boys and girls rugby have their first league games of the season Wednesday, April 24 in Grande Prairie.

— Samantha Stackhouse

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The NPSS senior girls soccer team at the 2019 Nike Spring Classic in Vancouver.

2019 Warm-up Track Meet results The Bert Bowes track and field team, in conjunction with the DCSS track meet, held the second annual Spring Warm-Up Track Meet at the Pomeroy Sport Centre on Saturday, April 13.

Below are the top two finishers in each event.

2. Jarden Whitford 0:16:25 Bert Bowes 800m Male 1. Kane Scheriner 2:22 BB 2. Jacob Haluszka 2:31 NPSS Female 1. Jenna MEszaros 2:47 DCSS 2. Megan Stobbe 2:52 DK

Results 3000m Male 1. Adam Wangler, 10:25 DCSS 2. Jacob Haluszka, 11:42 NPSS Female 1. Megan Stobbe, 13:34 DK 2. Paige Dyck, 14:01 DK

80m Female 1. Elenor Copes 11:31 BB 2. Sarah Shoemaker 11:56 DCSS Male 1. Kordell Ollenberger 10:78 DK 2. Jayden Whitford 11:04 BB

60m Hurdles Female 1. Sarah Shoemaker 0:14:34 DCSS 2. Sophia Detorres, 0:17:62 Dr. Kearney Male 1. Victor Dechamps 0:14:25 DCSS

200m Male 1. Victor Deschamps 27:69 DCSS 2. Kordell Ollenberger 28:00 DK Female 1. Elenor Copes 29:87 BB 2. Kesney Myllymaki 31:22 BB

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The track athletes after the second annual Bert Bowes Warm-Up Track Meet on April 13, 2019.

PRO RACING THIS WEEK Racing g News,, Stats & Trivia

No Cup Series Race This Week - Next Race April 28th

Last Weekend’s Race: Martin Truex Jr. won at Richmond Martin Truex Jr. outlasted Clint Bowyer and then held off a four-lap charge by Joey Logano to win the NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway on Saturday night. “I was struggling the last 40 laps,” Truex said. “I had no front turn.

I was just real, real tight that last run. I just had to hold him off. Being out front was important tonight.” Truex led a race-high 186 laps and regained the lead for the last time after greenflag pit stops that started with just more than 80 laps to go. It’s his 20th career victory and 17th in the last four seasons.

Martin Truex Jr. Born: June 29, 1980 Crew Chief: Cole Pearn Car: Toyota

Year 2019 2018

Wins 1 4

Top 10s 6 21

Avg. Finish 10.3 10.7

2019 Standings Cup Series Top Ten Drivers 1) Kyle Busch 2) Joey Logano 3) Denny Hamlin 4) Kevin Harvick 5) Brad Keselowski 6) Martin Truex, Jr. 7) Kurt Busch 8) Clint Bowyer 9) Ryan Blaney 10) Chase Elliott

Points 400 380 366 349 313 311 287 280 277 267

Xfinity Series Top Ten Top 10s 9 6 8 7 5 6 6 5 4 2

Drivers 1) Tyler Reddick 2) Christopher Bell 3) Cole Custer 4) Austin Cindric 5) Justin Allgaier 6) John Hunter Nemechek 7) Michael Annett 8) Chase Briscoe 9) Ryan Sieg 10) Noah Gragson

Points 362 338 333 299 275 263 262 255 253 246

Top 10s 7 5 6 6 4 6 5 6 5 3

Ji mie Jimmie Jim i Johnson Johnson Joh hnson Running Runnin Run ning i g Boston Marathon Jimmie Johnson has long been a fitness freak who swam in high school and has always run and cycled to stay in shape for driving.

Now 43, he has a bit of a bucket list of athletics events he wants to complete; he has already knocked off a couple of mini triathlons and half marathons as well as the Assault on Mount Mitchell, a 102.7-mile bike ride with a 10,000foot vertical climb up a North Carolina mountain that he rode with Jamie McMurray and Matt Kenseth. Just because he won’t be surrounded by 3,300-pound cars traveling at more than 200 mph doesn’t mean Jimmie Johnson will be able to relax when he runs the Boston Marathon this week.

The marathon is held on the traditional Monday Patriots’ Day holiday, giving him about 36 hours to recover from his drive, which typically leaves him with a sore lower back, glutes and hamstring.

Johnson ran the Daytona Half Marathon in 1 hour, 33 minutes, and is hoping to break 3 hours on Monday. ‘’I know that’s a very lofty goal,’’ he said.

Racing History April 3, 1987 - Bill Elliott set the NASCAR qualifying speed record of 212.809 mph at Talladega. He also set the qualifying speed record at Daytona International Speedway at 210.364 miles per hour. Both records were set in 1987. The mark at Talladega has since been the fastest speed for any NASCAR race ever.

Racing Trivia Which car won the Manufacturers’ Championship in 2018? a) Ford b) Toyota

c) Chevrolet d) Dodge

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Supporting the military is one thing, but what we want to do is also to support the fallen.

That’s why we’re partnering up with Honor and Remember. They’re a terrific organization.”

Answer : a) Ford won the Manufactures’ Championship for the first time since 2002.

Goodyear unveils Charlotte sidewall honoring fallen heroes On Saturday afternoon outside the Richmond Raceway media center, Stu Grant, Goodyear’s general manager of worldwide racing, unveiled a special sidewall all Goodyear tires will display for the Charlotte races on Memorial Day weekend. This is the 10th year Goodyear will replace its familiar “Eagle” branding with an inscription honoring the United States military and fallen heroes. This year’s tires will display the lettering “Honor and Remember,” a national Virginia-based organization whose mission is to “perpetually recognize the sacrifice of America’s military fallen service members and their families.” “Goodyear and the military have always had a strong association,” Grant said. “We supply ground tires for a lot of military vehicles. We supply aircraft tires to a

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Creating a daily routine that will lead to real change

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f you’ re not seeing progress when comes to your weight-loss and lifestyle goals, it’s time to check up on your daily routine. Changes are seen when a person consistently acts in a way that encourages those changes and this only happens when they build a strong daily routine.

A daily routine will look different for each and every person as we all have different circumstances and schedules to factor in. But ultimately, you want a routine to prepare you for the day ahead and create a positive domino effect for the rest of the week. How does a person go about creating a routine that supports their efforts to change?

Start by examining your current routine. Ask yourself: Is what I do each and everyday making it harder for me to do what I need to to reach my goals?

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Narrow down the activities and actions that are wasting your valuable time and energy, like excessive TV watching and social media browsing.

Make another list of activities that are non-negotiable, such as time for family, exercise, and meal prep.

Once you have these lists written out, you can build a template of what a realistic, daily, routine would look

like for you. You will more than likely rework this template a few times because life is not always ideal and no two days are ever the same.

What could changes to our routine look like in real time? If we are finding that we don’t have enough time for meal prep during the week, we can start to look for ways to make that a priority by cutting out other activities that aren’t as important.

If we are feeling exhausted and need more time to sleep, we can schedule our day so we can get to bed at a time that allows us to get the sleep our body needs. These are just a couple ideas of changes that can be made to a person’s routine. It’s important to look at your own personal circumstances and goals to see where you would like and/or need to make changes.

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Our daily routines include everything from what time we wake up, when we eat our meals, when we spend time with family and friends, plus every activity in between.

There’s a lot we need to factor in so start slow and easy when incorporating changes into your routine. This means starting with one tweak at a time and progressing from there.

An overnight transformation of your routine is not impossible but most likely not sustainable in the long run.

What we ultimately want to create is a daily routine that we can rely on and consistently carry out. In turn, this will create momentum that will help us reach our health and lifestyle goals.

Caitlyn Harbottle is a Peace Region nutrition coach.

Rodeo gala leads into spring season dillon giancola sports@ahnfsj.ca

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Rob Doucet, left, and Gary Paulson take the first drives of the 2019 season at Lone Wolf Golf Course on April 12, 2019. Paulson managed to keep his drive a bit straighter than Doucet. Simon Wolford and Jim Webster joined them for the round.

With the winter finally in the rearview, high school rodeo is back to take us for a ride through spring and into the summer. The B.C. High School Association’s North Region held its annual Rodeo Gala April 13 at the Pomeroy Sport Centre, the main fundraiser for the BCHSRA. The exact amount raised at this year’s gala isn’t yet known, but the 2018 gala brought in $25,000. Both current and former cowboys and cowgirls were on hand to represent the association and celebrate the start of the spring season, as were city officials.

Acting mayor Lilia Hansen was on hand to announce the City of Fort St. John’s $5,000 to the BCHSRA to be used towards the hosting of the B.C. High School Rodeo Finals, in Chetwynd, June 8 and 9.

“Events like this are tremendously important.

I love seeing all the athletes out here engaging the guests and community, and building skills

they can use throughout their careers,” said Hansen.

Defending Canadian tie down champion Ben Jackson was on hand for the final time as a high school athlete, as the current Senior Boys All Around leader, with 95 points, will graduate after this season. Jackson currently leads the field in tie down roping with 29 points, one more than Tyler Pederson.

Jackson, along with the rest of the athletes, will resume competition this weekend, April 20 and 21, with two rodeos in Chetwynd. The North Region will return to Chetwynd next weekend, April 27 and 28, for another round of rodeos.

Tyler Bondaroff is the current Miss B.C. High School Rodeo, as she won the queen event last year.

Currently in Grade 11, Bondaroff has one more year of high school rodeo ahead of her and is hoping to defend her queen event title.

She also leads the senior girls in goat tying with 45 points, a half point more than Rylie Bondaroff.

— with files from Dave Lueneberg

Beatton Community 4-H Club Report Club Report: by Hailey Illenseer I’m Hailey and I’m new to the Beatton Community 4-H Club!

Well, I think the Beatton Community 4-H Club is very excited about our first riding lesson at the Wilson’s arena, taught by our horse leader, Julia Fellers. At our first lesson we will basically figure out what level everyone is on, having fun and just getting to know everyone and their horse’s. We will be having some fun rides and some lessonbased rides. So, at the fun rides, the riders and their horses have lots of fun together. Some examples of the fun rides are, jumping, pole bending, water races. We will be having lessons once a week.

Our club also had a Nutrition Seminar hosted by Joyann Woolsey and Tory Nelson.

We learned a lot in that one night! They taught us how much to feed your horse and talked about the inside of a horse’s stomach. It was so worth it!

We also have Regional Communications coming up!!

The Regional Communications is on April 13th at 8:00 am, at the Northern Lights College. If you win 1st or 2nd at the District’s, you move up to Regional’s!

We are excited to have members going to regionals to represent our club!!

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The Fort St. John U13 boys soccer team showing off their gold medals from the 2019 Quesnel Goldpan Tournament on April 13, 2019.

Local cowboys qualify for 2019 Calgary Stampede The Calgary Stampede officially announced the 2019 contestants, and three Peace Region cowboys will be competing in one of the biggest rodeos of the season.

Saddle bronc rider Jake Watson of Hudson’s Hope and steer wrestler Clayton Moore of Pouce Coupe will be returning to the big stage.

Joining them is Fort St. John’s Stephen Culling, making the Stampede for the first time as a result of him winning the 2018 Finning Canada Pro Tour steer wrestling title.

The 2019 Calgary Stampede goes July 5 to 14.

Jake Watson has had a great start to the 2019 season, as he sits ninth in the PRCA World Standings for saddle bronc, and has brought in $44,982.10 in winnings so far this year.

Culling has had a strong season as well. He won the Fort Worth Stock and Rodeo Show in February, and is currently 10th in the PRCA World Standings for steer wrestling, with $30,907.77 in earnings.

This year’s Calgary Stampede field includes 36 Canadians, 10 more than 2018 and the most since 2013.

Fort Bowling Lanes league standings: week 27

High Series 1. The Fantastics - 3,921 High Single 1. The Fantastics - 1,524 Individiual Leaders Mens Single Flat - Kevin Alexander - 365 Mens Series Flat - Kevin Alexander - 844 Ladies Single Flat - Brianna Warnock - 324 Ladies Series Flat - Brianna Warnock - 764

High Averages Boys 1. Logan Dufresne - 151 2. Parker Mayes - 141 3. Logan Dalley - 138 Girls 1. Tejana Walterlea - 126 2. Destiny Bigcharles - 123 3. Sierra Bigcharles - 99

Coffee League Overall points / week 27 1. Ball Busters - 116 / 3 2. Shady Ladies - 107 / 4 3. Five Alive - 95 / 2 4. Fab Five - 93 / 6 5. Pin Poppers - 89 / 5

Ages 8-10 Boys Single Flat Cade Hackman - 177 Girls Single Flat Brooklyn Bigcharles - 171

High Series Shady Ladies - 3,358 High Single Ball Busters - 1,230 Ladies Series Beth Cobet - 681 Ladies Single Beth Cobet - 287 Ladies High Average 1. Joanne McGinnis - 182 2. Jeannette Ward- 168 3. Debbie Lebeau - 167 Kids Leagues Ages 11 - 14 Boys Single Flat Logan Dufresne - 266 Girls Singles Flat Tejana Walterlea - 230

High Averages Boys 1. Cade Hackman - 117 2. Marcus Vandal - 96 3. Joel Newhook - 74 Girls 1. Brooklyn Bigcharles - 111 2. Emma Schram - 89

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Norman Cloutier of St. Albert, AB, formerly of FSJ passed away peacefully from pneumonia on Mar. 25, 2019

at the age of 74.

A Celebration on Life will be held in Fort St John on May 5 at the Lido Hall from 1-5 pm A Celebration of Life will be held in St. Albert, AB on May 18 at the Legion Cornerstone Hall, 6 Tache Street from 1-5 pm Story telling (St. Albert) will begin at 2 pm.

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Mr. Kenneth Thorson,

born June 12, 1948 passed away unexpectedly in his home on February 13, 2019.

He was predeceased by his parents, Olaf and Ruth Thorson, and will be greatly missed by his loving sisters and family.

Cremation was entrusted to Hamre’s Funeral Chapel in Fort St. John.

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Acquired Brain Injury Support Group: ABI Support group meets every 2nd & 4th Thursday of month at 6:00pm at the Northern Brain Injury Association office: #11-1405 102 Ave Dawson Creek. Please call 250-719-4673 for more information. http://nbia.ca/

Dawson Creek Seniors Hall Activities 1011 McKellar Ave. Floor curling, carpet bowling, pool, line dancing, bridge, crib, darts, bingo, Wellness Exercise, craft classes.

Schedules are available at the hall. Come and see our hall and try out our activities.

SATURDAY APRIL 20, 2019 - COUNTRY MUSIC DANCE-Music by “Country Horizon” at the Senior Citizens Hall, 1101 McKellar Ave, Dawson Creek.

Dance from 8:30- 12:30 Admission includes lunch. For more information phone Linda at 250-843-7418 or Joanne 250-782-0158

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South Peace Historical Society Meetings Third Wednesday of the month. In Dawson Creek at the Calvin Kruk Centre Archives Room at 2 pm.

Friday, April 19 Ham & Beef Supper Pouce Coupe Seniors Hall- $15/person.

Doors open: 4:30 pm, Supper: 5:30pm

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Memorial Counsellors Oliver’s Funeral Home – Grande Prairie Chapel of Memories – Peace River, Fairview, High Prairie, Valleyview, Slave Lake Beaverlodge Funeral Service – Beaverlodge Marie Froese – LaCrete Bergeron Funeral Services – Dawson Creek Reynars Funeral Home – Dawson Creek Hamre’s Funeral Chapel – Fort St. John

With heavy hearts we announce the passing of our beloved Mother, Grandmother and Friend,

Sarah Beale

who passed away on April 4, 2019 at 88 years of age.

As per Sarah's wishes there will be no services at this time.

Cremation arrangements entrusted to the care of Hamre's Funeral Chapel.

for the late Larry Carothers of Taylor, BC will be held Wednesday, April 24 at 1:00pm from the Taylor Community Hall.

If so desired expressions of sympathy can be made in memory of Larry to the

Fort St. John SPCA.

Head Office: Main Street, Rycroft, Alberta.

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CITY OF FORT ST. JOHN - 2019 Capital Roadworks Sealed Tenders clearly marked City of Fort St. John – 2019 Capital Roadworks will be received at the main reception desk of City Hall no later than 2:00:00pm, local time, April 25, 2019.

Contract documents, contract drawings and any reference material for this project will only be distributed electronically in digital format (PDF) through the MERX tendering website at www.MERX.com/urban under the “Agencies, Crown & Private Corporations” tab. Information will be available online on or after April 11, 2019 The work to be undertaken generally consists of, but is not limited to, the following: Construction of 400lm of roadway in 2 locations within the City of Fort St. John, construction of 395lm of 2m sidewalk and streetlighting and expansion of an existing RV sani dump site.

All inquiries should be directed to the Consultant: Urban Systems Ltd., Rob Close, Contract Administrator, 250-785-9697 Email: rclose@urbansystems.ca City of Fort St. John: 10631-100 Street, Fort St. John, BC, V1J 3Z5 Attention: Jim Stewart, Engineering Manager

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HANS ESPE

(August 7, 1932 - April 6, 2019) Hans Espe of Camrose, Alberta, passed away on Saturday, April 6, 2019 at the age of 86.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife Sylvia; children Larry Espe (Debbie Mah) and Carol (Mike) Twomey; step-children Judy Engen, Maureen Millang, and Twyla (Yves) Lapointe. Hans also leaves five grandchildren; Cylas, Brittany, Kayla, Janelle, Makari and six step-grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and ten step-great-grandchildren; and brother Thor (Cecile) Espe.

Hans was predeceased by his wife Kay; infant son Lorne Olaf; and infant brother Dennis.

Hans will be remembered for his kindness, honesty, music and laughter. As a store-keeper, school bus driver, hockey/baseball coach, and volunteer, Hans was the ultimate role-model.

A funeral service was held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, April 13, 2019 at the Messiah Lutheran Church, 4810 - 50th Street Camrose with Rev. Calvin Skriver officiating. A Peace Country Celebration of Life will take place at a later date and will coincide with the inurnment at the Montney cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, if family and friends so desire, memorial contributions in Hans’s memory may be made to the Parkinson Association of Alberta or a charity of one’s choice.

To send condolences, please visit

www.burgarfuneralhome.com Burgar Funeral Home Camrose & Daysland (4817 - 51 Ave, Camrose, Alberta T4V 0V4) in care of arrangements. 780-672-2121.

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SENIOR PLANT OPERATOR

Loca�on: Pouce Coupe, AB Status: Full-�me permanent Posted: April 15, 2019

Repor�ng to the Gas Plant Foreman, the right candidate is fully familiar with all aspects of sour gas plant opera�ons, procedures for safety, troubleshoo�ng, produc�on logging, start-up, shut-down and equipment maintenance.

General Requirements and Responsibili�es: • Fully competent in the safe opera�on, maintenance and repair of pressure, process and rota�ng equipment; • Experienced in troubleshoo�ng upset plant condi�ons; • Provide mentorship and coaching to more junior employees; • Able to work independently with minimal guidance from Foreman and Lead Operators; • Assists with organiza�on and implementa�on of company-wide programs such as preventa�ve maintenance, pipeline integrity, electrical QMP, turnarounds, pressure equipment integrity, etc.; • Support our HSE program by assis�ng in the development of opera�onal policies, standards, procedures, and prac�ces.

Educa�on, Skills and Abili�es: • 8+ years’ opera�ng experience in a Gas Plant environment; • 4th Class Power Engineering or higher is required; • Control Room/Board opera�ng experience is considered a significant asset; • Safety Cer�fica�on required – H2S Alive, First Aid and CPR, Common Safety Orienta�on, etc.; • Ability to self-start as well as work effec�vely as a team member; • Cri�cal thinking skills with the ability to manage and assess risk; • A�en�on to detail with the ability to manage and priori�ze workloads; • Excellent organiza�onal and communica�on skills both wri�en and verbal; • Computer skills like Outlook, Word, Excel, some experience with PVR, Scada, Roughneck or DATS is beneficial.

Applica�on Process Note that this posi�on is located at Birchcliff ’s 3-22-78-12W6 Pouce Coupe Gas Plant. The ideal candidate must reside in the Spirit River, Dawson Creek or Pouce Coupe area.

Interested applicants are invited to submit their resume to careers@birchcliffenergy.com with the term “Senior Plant Operator” in the subject line of the email.

Birchcliff Energy Ltd. (www.birchcliffenergy.com) offers compe��ve compensa�on, stock op�ons and benefits to its employees.

The successful applicant will be a highly mo�vated, flexible, enthusias�c and well-organized individual who enjoys being part of a fast-paced team.

We thank you in advance for your submission; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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PC Roots Group Building Open: Every Saturday Sept-June 10:00am-12:00pm to members wanting to use the genealogy library. A member will be available by appointment to anyone requiring help on how to get started on your family history. Everyone is welcome. We are located in the small building in NAR Park.

For appointment call: Lynn- 250-7824058. Neil- 250-7827651. Website http://peacecountryroots.ca

Please join us on June 2nd for the 2nd annual Walk to End ALS. at the Greenspace at 100th Ave. & 100th St. Fort St. John, BC Registration for the event will begin at 10am. There will be food, music, games, raffles, activities and lots for the whole family to do. The walk is about 4km long but the route brings you back to the Greenspace multiple times, if you need to shorten your distance.

We are encouraging you to sign up teams this year and challenge other teams to raise money as well. Sports team vs. sports team.

Business vs. business.

School vs. school.

Create some competition and let’s make this year better than last!

Go to this site to preregister for this walk: events.alsbc.ca.

PC Roots Group Meeting: 4th Sunday/month - from Sept-June 1:30pm in the Roots Building at NAR Park. Getting started on family tree research, need Help? Come learn & share experiences with other amateur genealogists.

New members welcome. For more info call: Lynn- 250-7824058. Neil- 250-7827651. Website http://peacecountryroots.ca SATURDAYS: LEARN YOUR ROOTS - Genealogy information NAR PARK ROOTS BUILDING 10:00am peacecountryroots.ca

Save the Dates July 12, 13, 14, 2019 for the Mile Zero Cruisers Silver Anniversary Summer Cruise weekend Bring down your pride and joy and register for the Car Show weekend.

For online Registration and more information: MileZeroCruisers.com

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Coming EvEnts Sunday, April 28- The Mile “0” Quilters will hold their ANNUAL QUILT SHOW and STRAWBERRY TEA from 1:00 - 4:00 at the Calvin Kruk Arts Centre (KPAC), 10401 - 10th Street, Downtown, Dawson Creek.

Guest Vendors will Display their Products. Scissor Sharpening Available. Admission: $6.00; Five and Under, No Charge. There is a Door Prize.

SUNDAYS: FAMILY TREE HELP - Peace Country Roots Group Meeting - Fourth Sunday of each Month at the CALVIN KRUK CENTRE in Dawson Creek 1:30pm Thursday at 9:30 amNew Beginnings Baptist Church in DC, 10221-18th St.-TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly). Phone: Gail at 250-782-7208 for more info.

TOPS Evening Sessions Meet Thursday at 6:00 pm New Beginnings Baptist Church in DC, 10221-18th St Phone: Judy 250-782-9540 or Gail 250-782-7208 for more info.

Domestic Help WanteD Nanny/Live-in Caregiver required for 4 children ages 10/7/4/ & 18-months. Full-Time Live-in only. Duties include: Care for younger children at home. Make beds and do laundry.

Light house cleaning.

Working hours 8am4pm Monday-Friday Weekends off. $10.25/hr or $1640/mth. Must speak English. Related Experience necessary. Prefer high school graduate or someone with higher education and/or caregiver training. Call 250219-2291/250-4679112 or email: salverene01@yahoo.com

General employment

Looking for a seasonal farm hand with class 1 and good operational skills. Competitive wage. Hythe, AB 780512-3120/ 780-8319159

TRAFFIC CONTROL TRAINING BCCSA/WCB Certified FSJ: New TCPs-2-days May 9-10 Re-Certs-1-day May 11 PG: New TCPs-2-days May 14-15 Re-Certs-1-day May 16 1-866-737-2389 or roadsafetytcs.com

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Home Care Wanted In-Home Caregiver for Hire: To look after my (2) children; 7year old girl & 6 year old boy.

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Accommodation available on a live-in basis at no cost but is not a condition of employment. Main duties include: supervise and care, assist/guide children on personal hygiene; meal preparation; organize and participate in children’s activities and may perform light housekeeping.

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PRRD Annual Financial Statements

The PRRD Board will be considering its draft 2018 Financial Statements at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 25, 2019 at the PRRD Office Boardroom, 1981 Alaska Avenue, Dawson Creek. The statements are available for inspection at the PRRD offices in Dawson Creek and Fort St. John.

www.prrd.bc.ca Peace River Regional District Official Page I Facebook ApArtments / Condos-For FSJ Motor Inn. 10707-102St. Close to downtown.

Furnished/Private rooms/Kitchen/bathroom, TV/Wi-Fi/utilities included. Call Gary 250-682-1982. No lease, month to month basis. $950/month.

SuiteS For rent FURNISHED SUITE FOR RENT in Dawson Creek.

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We have a variety of apartments, town homes, executive homes, and duplexes for rent. To apply for these,please email reception@licar.ca or visit our website at www.licar.ca

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Temerarious Tabias

Teddy Bear Picnic NORMA RRAE

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abias’ little sister, who’s five, is mean. Sister is so mean that when her friends come over, Tabias plays with them, just to save them from her. Father doesn’t believe him, and Step-Mother laughs when Tabias points out Sister’s piggy tails hide her devil horns.

They don’t listen. Instead, they send Tabias outside. “Imagination needs fresh air,” Father says.

He sits high in a giant oak tree; snow below him, forest around him, and home behind him. The tree sits on the outskirts of Fort St. John.

Spring buds were appearing and the winter bark was peeling to make way for fresh tree skin. Grass patches were turning a honey brown. Purple crocuses bloomed and scented the clearing that Tabias overlooked.

He could hear footsteps approaching, and singing.

“If you go down in the woods today…”

Tabias nearly fell out of the tree when he heard his little sister’s voice.

“You’re sure of a big surprise…” she sang.

Between the words, Tabias could hear many footsteps but only one voice.

“So, if you go down in the woods today, you’d best go in disguise.”

She wasn’t singing at all! She was commanding an army march.

“For every bear tha’ ever there was, will gather there for certain because…”

From the break of the forest, emerged a line of stuffed animals marching behind Sister. There was something off about the stuffed animals. The cuddly cute creatures, something was…

Tabias saw the lines of their stitching had burst open. White pillowey tuffs trailed behind the stuffies as they marched. A tall, yellow giraffe nearly tumbled as his leg fell off.

A bunny was trying to hop but his tail kept falling off. A white bellied, brown bear with fluffy large ears, was carrying his head as he marched, sadly.

There had to be ten or more of them but the teddy bear looked the most desperate. He wobbled as he tried to keep pace behind Sister the Drill Sergeant.

“Today’s the day.” She stopped suddenly causing a chain of collisions as she turned to face them. Her piggy tails flared straight up and she held her arms out as she belted the last words, “The teddy bears have their piiiiicccccnnnniiiiiccccc.”

Tabias climbed quickly down the tree. Sister was approaching the animals. Tabias hit his feet to the soggy ground. His snow suit kept him dry and warm but his ears were cold, his hair was frozen, and he never hesitated once as he ran straight to the poor teddy bear.

He swooped the bear up and left with a plume of snow bursting toward Sister from his quick turn and burn out.

The other mis-happened stuffed animals cheered him on as Sister screamed her carnal cry.

Step-Mother fixed the bear the best she could. He became Tabias’ best companion, perched atop his head with his ears listening for his lost friends, and his arms hugging his new friend close.

Norma Rrae is an author based in Fort St. John. Read more of her works at notmewriting.com.

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Nick Guliov wins Stage One of Blizzard Spring Stage

Congratulations!

The BC Northern Real Estate Board recognized members for their excellence in sales achievement on April 5, 2019 when they were presented with MLS® Awards for 2018.

The BC Northern Real Estate Board’s 387 members sold 5,125 properties worth $1.5 billion through MLS® in 2018.

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In Fort St. John, MLS® Awards were won by: Chad Bordeleau • Cindy Brule • Michael Buburuz Brenna Burns • Elizabeth Chi • Leah French • Lanna Tucker Our members work in the communities from Fort Nelson to 100 Mile House and from Valemount to Haida Gwaii.

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The Blizzard Bike Club held the first of eight races in its Spring Stage series on April 14, 2019.

Ten cyclists rode in the Rocky Road Classic, a 16km gravel road circuit that began just east of the Lone Wolf Golf Club in Taylor and included a trip up and down the steep Peaceview Road hill.

Seven riders chose to complete the course once, while three others, Nick Guliov, his father, Darren, and Dan Webster decided to ride the circuit twice to acquire points in the series and season standings.

It wasn’t, however, until the dave lueneberg photo second ride up the Peaceview Hill that the younger Guliov was able 2019 Rocky Road Classic champion Nick Guliov (left) is presented with the winning trophy by to pull away from Dan Webster, the Blizzard Bike Club President, and 2018 race winner Dan Webster.

2018 winner, and win the five points The second event in the series, a and the trophy.

(16km) short course clocking in at time trial, slated for Thursday, April His time of 1 hour, 23 minutes 45:52. and 57 seconds was just over four Kristine Bock took top honours in 18 is set for 6:30 p.m.

For times and locations of the minutes faster than Webster’s the Ladies event with a time of 47:20, 1:27:58. beating out Heather McCracken by remaining races in the series, see the club’s website.

Pat Ferris was the winner of the just 46 seconds.

Alexandria Hedges wins Western Canadian bronze medal The Speedo Western Canadian Championships brings together a great mix of Canada’s senior, youth and junior swimmers from across Western Canada. Alexandria Hedges, Eric Louie, and Griffin Ternier-Smith swam in the 4-day event at the Kinsmen Centre in Edmonton, from April 11 to 14.

The competition was fierce with many of Canada’s top swimmers coming from Canadian Trials last weekend.

Hedges had a great finish to her meet in the 50m freestyle on Sunday night, where she touched the wall third out of 10 women and snagged a bronze medal!

“The race is so fast it’s hard to see what’s going on until the water settles and you look up at the clock,” explained Coach Norah Vogan. “The entire race is usually decided within hundredths of a second so every

move counts.”

Hedges works well under pressure and she proved that earlier in the weekend when she tied for 10th place in her 50m butterfly.

“In the case of a 10th place tie there has to be a swim-off to decide who gets to be in the final.

Alex was incredibly calm, went in aggressively, and won the tie breaker decisively! She wanted it and got it.”

Hedges swam the 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, and 50m butterfly.

Griffin Ternier-Smith did a great job as he continued to drop time in his freestyle events. “Griffin is a fun swimmer to watch race. He’s relaxed, knows what he needs, and keeps chipping away at those times,’ said Coach Norah Vogan.

Ternier-Smith competed in the 50m freestyle, 100m free, 200m free, and 400m free.

Eric Louie had a difficult meet

with four races over two days, with both races scheduled back-to-back each day.

“Both times Eric raced he jumped out, circled back, and raced again.

It was not an ideal schedule for anyone,” said Vogan. Despite the tough situation, Eric bested his 100m breaststroke time and moved his position from 9th to 6th place.

“It’s frustrating and challenging but Eric did well with it. He made finals in three of the four events and swam gutsy.” Louie competed in the 50m breaststroke, 100m breaststroke, 50m butterfly and 100m butterfly.

“These meets are good to show us where we’re at in personal times,” Vogan said. “Sometimes we hit it perfectly and sometimes we need to go back to the drawing board and tweak. We have a lot of season left.”

— Norah Vogan

FORT ST. JOHN & DISTRICT CHURCH DIRECTORY ANGLICAN CHURCH of CANADA NoRTH PEACE PARISH Please join us at our temporary location at the Peace Lutheran Church @ 1:30pm Ph: 250-785-6471 “All are Invited and Welcome Here” - (Luke 14:23) SERVICES St. Martin’s, fort St. John, BC Sundays 1:30 p.m. ********** Church of the Good Shepherd Taylor, BC - Sundays 10:00 a.m. ********** St. Matthias, Cecil Lake, BC 3rd Sun. of the Month 3:00 p.m.

Holy Communion ********** BAHA’I fAITH BAHA’I fAITH National Baha’i Information 1-800-433-3284 Regular Firesides Mondays @ 8:00 p.m.

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250-787-0089 ********** BAPTIST CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH 9607-107th Ave., fSJ Ph. (Office) 250-785-4307 Pastor: Michael Hayes Associate Pastor: Doug Janzen SUNDAY WoRSHIP SERVICE 10:30AM ********** BAPTIST CHARLIE LAkE CoMMUNITY CHURCH 12731 244 B Road, Charlie Lake (1st left turn off the Alaska Hwy. past the Charlie Lake Store) 250-785-1723 office@charlielakechurch.com www.charlielakechurch.com Lead Pastor: Joshua Goetz Associate Pastor: Jared Braun Sunday Worship: 10:40 AM Sunday School during the service nursery-grade 6 ********** CATHoLIC RoMAN CATHoLIC CHURCH (Resurrection Church) Pastor: Rev. Aruldhas Lucas, SAC Phone 250-785-3413 www.fsjresurrectionchurch.com MASSES: Saturday 7:30 p.m.

Sunday - 10:00 a.m. oNLY OFFICE HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 9:00 -12:00 noon & 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

BAPTISM: Contact the Pastor 3 months before baptism.

MARRIAGES: Contact the Pastor 6 months before the wedding. **********

ALLIANCE CHURCH 9804-99 Ave., fort St. John, BC V1J 3T8 Ph: 250-785-4644 fax: 250-785-8932 e-mail: office@fsjalliance.ca www.fsjalliance.ca SUNDAY WoRSHIP SERVICE: 9:15am & 11:00am kIDVILLE: for ages 2yrs.-Gr.6 @ 9:15am ********** CoMMUNITY PEACE CoMMUNITY CHURCH 10556-100th Street, Taylor, BC Pastor: Wally Pohlmann Phone: 250-789-3045 HoURS: 9:00am-Noon Monday-Wednesday & friday Email: office@taylorchurch.ca Website: www.taylorchurch.ca SUNDAY ADULT CLASS - 9:30am SUNDAY WoRSHIP SERVICE - 10:30am ********** EVANGELICAL foRT ST. JoHN EVANGELICAL MISSIoN 8220-89th Avenue, fSJ Sunday School September-June begins at 9:30am Sunday mornings.

Worship Service - 10:45am Phone: 250-787-2550 ******* INTERDENoMINATIoNAL UPPER PINE GoSPEL CHAPEL Church Phone: 250-827-3833 Email: upgc@pris.ca Board Chairman: Andy Burkholder 250-827-3811 Box 66, Rose Prairie, BC ********** LUTHERAN PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 9812-108th Avenue, fort St. John, BC V1J 2R3 Office Phone: 250-785-2718 Pastor: Rev. Kebede Dibaba Regular Worship Schedule: 9:00am Youth, Adult Bible Study 10:00am Sunday Worship Service & Sunday School ********** PEACE RIVER MUSLIM ASSoCIATIoN Information: 250-787-1264 Jumm’a (Friday) Prayer @ 1:00pm 203-10903-100th Street, fort St. John, BC email: tahermorsi@shaw.ca ********** MENNoNITE NoRTH PEACE MENNoNITE BRETHREN CHURCH North Peace Mennonite Brethren Church 10816 106 St. fort St. John, BC V1J 5V2 250-785-3869 Lead Pastor: Andrew Eby Associate Pastor of Youth & Young Adults: Don Banman SUNDAY SERVICE TIMES: 9:00am & 11:00am **********

MENNoNITE MoNTNEY MENNoNITE CHURCH SUNDAY MoRNING: Sunday School & Worship: 9:30am SUNDAY EVENING: 2nd & 4th Sundays: 7:00pm Everyone Welcome!

Pastor Warren Martin Phone: (250) 827-3231 ********** NoNDENoMINATIoNAL CHRISTIAN LIfE CENTRE “Associated with “Fellowship of Christian Assemblies” “King Jesus is Lord Over the Peace” 8923-112th Avenue, fort St. John, BC V1J 6G2 website: www.christianlifefsj.ca Ph: 250-785-4040 fax: 250-785-4021 Pastor Steve Oboh Principal of Christian Life School: Garry Jones Everyone Welcome Sunday Morning Worship Service: 10:00am Nursery available and Sunday School is held during the sermon for ages 3-12 years.

Christian Life Centre is “Home of Christian Life School” ********** foRT ST. JoHN NATIVE BIBLE fELLoWSHIP Sunday Worship: 11:00am Wed., Night Bible Study: 7:30pm Pastor John A Giesbrecht 250-785-0127 ********** GIDEoNS INTERNATIoNAL Fort St. John Camp Ray Hein 250-827-3636 John Giesbrecht 250-785-0127 ********** NoRTHERN LIGHTS CHURCH INTERNATIoNAL (Rose Prairie, BC Sunday Service: Pre-Service Prayer: 10:30am Worship Service: 11:00am Everyone Welcome ********** THE SHELTER CHURCH “...the Lord will be a shelter for His people” Joel 3:6 9808-98A Ave. fort St. John, BC 250-785-3888 SUNDAY SERVICE: 10am Pastor: Oral Benterud 250-785-9151 ********** PENTECoSTAL THE PENTECoSTALS of foRT ST. JoHN Phone: 250-787-9888 Pastor: Jason McLaughlin Sunday 10am Service, Sunday School Youth Sunday 11am Worship Service Tuesday 7pm Prayer Wednesday 7pm Bibile Study Friday 7pm Youth **********

PENTECoSTAL ASSEMBLIES of CANADA EVANGEL CHAPEL 10040-100 St., fort St. John Phone: 250-785-3386 Fax: 250-785-8345 Lead Pastor: Tony Warriner Sunday Services: 9:30am, 11:00am www.evangelfsj.com ********** The Journey 10011-100 St., fort St. John Phone: 250-785-6254 Pastor: Larry Lorentz Services: Sundays: 10:30am Tuesdays: 7:00pm **********

PRESBYTERIAN fort St. John Presbyterian Church 9907-98th St., fort St. John, BC Phone: 250-785-2482 fax: 250-785-2482 12:30 p.m. - Pie and Coffee 1:00 p.m. - Worship Service Everyone is invited to participate ********** REfoRMED TRINITY CoVENANT CHURCH Sunday Service: 10:00am Meets at the The Plaza 8111 100th Ave fort St. John, BC Elder: Desmond Jones Phone: 250-785-8289 www.trinitycovenant.ca matthew@trinitycovenant.ca Affiliated with C.R.E.C. ********** THE SALVATIoN ARMY THE SALVATIoN ARMY Sunday Worship Service: 10:30am 10116-100th Ave., fort St. John, BC Come Worship With Us. For information; Phone 250-785-0506 or food Bank 250-785-0500 ********** SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 9008-100th Avenue, fort St. John, BC Phone: 250-785-8632 Pastor: Cavin Chwyl Phone: 250-719-7949 Saturday Service: 9:30am ********** UNITED CHURCH of CANADA ST. LUkE’S UNITED 9907-98 St., fort St. John, BC Office: 250-785-2919 Rev. Rick Marsh Email: stlukeuc@telus.net Sunday Worship Service @ 10:00am All are Welcome!

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