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High heels, sneakers, boots, and sandals—footwear that could be worn by any member of the community at any given time. There were 689 pairs of shoes on display at the park at 100th and 100th on Tuesday, donated by the community, to represent the number of people in Fort St. John who use local food banks in an average week. Since the economic downturn, the need for food services in the community had doubled, in some cases even
tripled, from the same time last year. After having shelves cleaned out and more and more people walking through their doors, the Fort St. John Women’s Resource Centre, the Fort St. John Friendship Centre, and the Salvation Army, along with the Northern Environmental Action Team, banded together to show the community just how dire the situation has become. “We want to make it more visual for people to see just how much it is,� said Phallon Stoutenberg, outreach
co-ordinator for the Women’s Resource Society. “It’s one thing to say a number‌but if you were to take a pair of shoes to represent a person, that’s going to make a huge impact on someone that doesn’t really know what happening in Fort St. John.â€? The Outreach Store at the Women’s Resource Centre saw a 101 per cent increase in the number of people accessing its services in June of this year—492 this year as opposed to 245 in 2015. See SHOES on B7
Taylor orders more water samples after ‘minor’ lead excess at fire hall, preschool MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca
The District of Taylor will collect more drinking water samples from its fire hall and preschool after tests earlier this summer found lead levels above federal guidelines. Samples collected from 10 district facilities June 27 found lead levels at the two buildings exceeded the Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality of 0.010 milligrams per litre (mg/L). Tests found lead in concentrations of 0.0119 mg/L at the fire hall and 0.0116 mg/L at the preschool. “It’s a minor exceedance,� said Gordon Davies, the district’s director of operations, noting a second sample will be taken to ensure the results were correct.
“The sample is to be taken after water is standing in the facility for six hours. If there’s lead within the internal plumbing system or fittings, it’s actually leaching into the water.� Taylor council had ordered the testing of its facilities as part of a Northern Health plan to identify potential lead contamination in drinking water supplies. Davies presented the results of the June 27 samples at the district’s public works committee Monday morning. From those, ALS Laboratories detected lead at eight of the facilities. Only the fire hall and preschool, which is located in Taylor Elementary School, exceeded the guideline. See LEAD on A8
Lead Sampling Results Lowest detectable concentration: 0.00050 mg/L Maximum concentration allowed: 0.010 mg/L â&#x20AC;˘ District Library: 0.00261 mg/L â&#x20AC;˘ Lone Wolf Golf Course Clubhouse: <0.00050 mg/L â&#x20AC;˘ Fire Hall: 0.01190 mg/L â&#x20AC;˘ Medical Clinic: 0.00731 mg/L â&#x20AC;˘ District Ice Arena: <0.00050 mg/L â&#x20AC;˘ Community Hall: 0.00263 mg/L â&#x20AC;˘ Visitor Centre: 0.00586 mg/L â&#x20AC;˘ Taylor Preschool: 0.01160 mg/L â&#x20AC;˘ District Office: 0.00388 mg/L â&#x20AC;˘ Golf Course Maintenance Building: 0.00081 mg/L
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The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is calling for stricter limits on hydraulic fracturing near BC Hydro dams, after a freedom of information request revealed longstanding concerns over the potential for fracking-induced earthquakes to damage Peace River hydroelectric infrastructure. On Aug. 16, the leftleaning think tank released a report based on internal communications between BC Hydro and the Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) dating back to 2009, when concerns arose over coal bed methane development and â&#x20AC;&#x153;inducedâ&#x20AC;? seismic events. Ben Parfitt, a resource policy analyst with the CCPA, said fracking-linked earthquakes have grown in intensity, topping out with a record-setting 4.6 quake linked to Progress Energy drilling last summer. He said the research highlights the need for firm setbacks between fracking operations and dams. He characterized the existing regulations as unwritten â&#x20AC;&#x153;gentlemenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agreementsâ&#x20AC;? between the OGC and BC Hydro. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hydro was very clearly alarmed at the proposed plans (for coal bed methane development) at that time, which called for around 300 wells, some of them in fairly close proximity to its Peace Canyon dam,â&#x20AC;? he said of emails received in response to an FOI request earlier this year. See DAMS on A4
Pimm exits Liberal caucus amid unspecified â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;allegationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca
North Peace MLA Pat Pimm has announced he has â&#x20AC;&#x153;stepped awayâ&#x20AC;? from the B.C. Liberal caucus after allegations have forced him to get a lawyer. In a brief statement sent Monday afternoon, Pimm said he is staying on as an independent MLA. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to inform my constituents that allegations have been brought against me which require me to obtain legal counsel,â&#x20AC;? Pimm said. See PIMM on A7
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I’ve been having those weird dreams again POOL FOOL: Before we begin this week’s news chewing—somebody check— what color is the Olympic pool today? The big story from Rio last week was the water in the pool turned bright green. Olympic officials had a hard time explaining what happened. To be fair, maybe they were trying to make the colour of the pool match the color of Rio’s air. (Later in the week, I had a weird dream where Scotland hosted the Olympics—and the water in the pool turned plaid)
eating a bad Krabby Patty. MOVIE MEMO: A Hollywood studio announced it will make a sequel to that old movie Ocean’s 11. Ocean’s 8 will be a heist movie featuring female stars. It’s the story of a gang of female crooks who make their husbands hold their purses while they go rob a bank.
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POKEMON PROBABLY: Meanwhile in Fort St John, 200 people descended BEE BULLETIN: Last week in Oklahoma on Centennial Park for the Rotary City, a swarm of 50,000 bees attacked shopPREVAILING PRICES Club’s first ever Pokemon Go Catching pers in a Walmart store. There was a lot of iCRIME: Police in California arrested Competition. Pokemon Go has become shouting and yelling. But nobody noticed. burglars who tried to enter the Apple a global phenomenon, with people of all Because Walmart is a place that’s full of Dawson Creek 110.9 Company headquarters by breaking a ages playing the game. Twenty years from moms shouting and yelling at their kids. window. The window was made of the now, parents will be telling their kids how Fort St. John 116.9 same glass they use for iPhones—so they walked five miles—uphill—in the WAND WOES: In Huddersfield, Engthe crooks were able to break it just by snow—to catch Pokemons. And according land, the owner of a Wizard Supply Store Alberta-B.C. border to an item on TV, there are people making made headlines by banning Harry Potter 96.9 sneezing on it. money as professional Pokemon Go fans. He refuses to sell wands to them. . John, BC - 7 Day Forecast - Environment Canada 2016-08-16, 2:42 PM RODEO REPORT: The big event of instructors. To get yourself hired as a Richard Carter owns the Mystical MoFort Nelson 119.9 the year arrived in Dawson Creek—the professional Pokemon Go instructor you ments store. He says his wands are the real Fall Fair and Rodeo. It’s important to have to arrive late for the job interview thing—for real wizards—not Harry Potter Groundbirch and give the excuse that you were looking wannabes. A buddy of mine has the same 110.9 remember just because you wear a western hat and boots doesn’t make you for Pokemons. problem with his Superhero Supply Store. a cowboy. A real cowboy buddy of mine People come in claiming to be Superman. Chetwynd e Environment and natural Weather information Weather Local forecasts British Columbia 115.9resources worked on a dude ranch near Jasper. One ADHD LOL: A new Canadian study He refuses to sell real Kryptonite to them. visitor from Ontario who was all ready to shows Attention Deficit Disorder is usually Tumbler Ridge 117.9 take a horseback ride said to my friend: gone by the time young people reach the POTTERMANIA: Harry Potter & The “Can you get me a nice gentle pony?” age of 18. Do you realize that this means? Cursed Child quickly reached #1 on the “Sure,” said the cowboy. “What kind It means today’s kids can’t even pay atten- Bestseller List. The new book features Prince George 101.9 urrent Conditions 24paying hoursattention. Radar Satellite Lightning of a saddle do you want, English or tionPast to not time travel. I dreamed I built a time mason, BC - 7 Day Forecast - Environment Canada 2016-08-16, 2:42 PM Western?” chine and traveled forward to the middle Observed at: Fort St. John Airport Hythe 98.9 “What’s the difference?” asked the OCEAN COMMOTION: On the ocean of next year. When I opened the door there Date:explained: 2:00 PM“The MST Tuesday 16the August Easterner. My buddy floor off coast of2016 California, marine was nothing but soot and all I could hear saddle has Partly a horn on it.” biologists found a mysterious purple was screaming. Grande Prairie 90.4 westernCondition: Cloudy Temperature: 22.7°C The guy from Ontario said, “If the blob they can’t identify. They say it could Pressure: kPa traffic is so thick in 101.6 the mountains that I be a completely Dewpoint: new marine4.4°C species. On Bob Snyder writes the satirical Chews Calgary 94.9 need a horn Tendency: Humidity: falling 30% on my saddle, I don’t think I the other hand, it could be something the Environment and natural resources Weather information Weather Local forecasts British Columbia News column weekly. He can be want to ride.” SpongeBob Squarepants barfed up 14 after reached Visibility: 24 km Wind: WSW gust 33 km/hat chewsthenews@fastmail.com.
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School District 60 will be eligible for more than $425,000 in bus funding for students this coming school year. Education Minister Mike Bernier announced a $14.7 million student transportation fund in Dawson Creek Aug. 10, which districts can use to improve service, routes, accessibility, rides times, and bus safety. The district is eligible to apply for $425,785 in funding this September, a grant-style approach unique to B.C. Bernier said the new program will ensure the money the government gives to school districts will actually be used for transportation. “Technically under the School Act, transportation (funding) is not mandated,” Bernier said. “But we know it’s an expectation of parents … especially in rural B.C. where you have students that could be riding the bus for over an hour.” In the past, the ministry had given money to districts
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$1M for MRI machine at Fort St. John hospital JONNY WAKFIELD reporter@dcdn.ca
The Peace River Regional Hospital District will put around $1 million toward an MRI machine at the Fort St. John hospital. Northern Health is seeking to install the medical imaging equipment, which will mean patients no longer need to leave the region to access the procedure. MRI—Magnetic Resonance Imaging—is vital for cancer detection and treatment, treatment of neurological conditions, and certain surgical procedures. No hospital in Northeast B.C. currently has MRI equipment. Northern Health aims to purchase the $2.6 million piece of equipment in the coming weeks, with installation sometime before the end of the year.
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“Most patients will no longer have to travel to Prince George or out of province to access an MRI exam,” Northern Health wrote in a letter to the hospital district. “As MRI technology advances and the clinical utilization continues to expand, having a fixed MRI unit in Fort St. John will provide the required capacity and access to the residents of the Northeast.” PRRD Chief Administrative Officer Chris Cvik said that according to Northern Health, Dawson Creek was looked at as a possible home base for MRI services in the region. The Fort St. John hospital, however, was specifically designed for MRI, meaning there would be no additional renovation or capital costs. The equipment will be paid for out of a hospital district fund for medical equipment.
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“The fear within Hydro was it was possible for an induced event from fracking activities to be more powerful than what their Peace Canyon dam was designed to withstand.” The OGC, however, says the concerns are overstated and that existing regulations adequately protect BC Hydro dams. In a statement, OGC officials said a five-kilometre buffer zone has been set around the W.A.C. Bennett dam, the Peace Canyon dam and the Site C dam construction site. Neither of BC Hydro’s two existing dams are in the Montney shale play, making future hydraulic fracturing unlikely in the area, the regulator said in an email. “There are no active hydraulic fracturing operations taking place within the 5 km buffer zone and no new requests for subsurface rights are being accepted within 5 km of the Site C construction area,” the OGC wrote. While there are drilling rights leases near Site C that predate the buffer, those permits “go through a strict review process.” “The Site C location falls within the Montney play and will be built to a high seismic safety standard,” the OGC said. “During (Site C) construction, permit conditions on a well in the Montney may be used to control the timing of hydraulic fracturing operations. All wells in the Montney are double-
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Site C ag fund could be used for irrigation, minister says BC Hydro expects to release its full plan on mitigating agricultural losses caused by the Site C dam in the new year. Provincial Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick was at the Dawson Creek Fall Fair Aug. 12 to announce details of the “framework” that shaped the plan. Those include construction management practices, developing individual farm mitigation plans for producers in the valley who will lose land to flooding, managing “residual” farmland, and establishing how a $20 million compensation fund will be administered. “This framework has been shaped by input received during consultation with agricultural producers,” Letnick said. “I encourage the agricultural associations and producers to provide their feedback on the framework to ensure the plan supports the agricultural priorities of the region.” The full plan will be released in January 2017, but Letnick said the $20 million fund would go toward agricultural improvements outside the flood zone and be administered by a board that would review grant proposals. Projects could include irrigation on parcels currently considered too marginal for farming, he said. The impact on farmland has been one of the most contentious issues around Site C. Opponents of the dam say it will destroy 31,528 acres of prime Class 1-7 farmland along 83 kilometres of the Peace River Valley. BC Hydro, meanwhile, touts a Joint Review Panel conclusion that the loss of farmland in the valley is not significant “in the context of B.C. or western Cana-
dian agricultural production.” The panel determined the annual value of crops produced in the valley is around $220,000, though it also noted the threat of Site C expropriation has discouraged agricultural investment in the valley. “While this may be due in part to the continuing threat of expropriation, the more important reasons are labour costs and the availability of cheap produce from elsewhere,” the panel report states. “Only if the future holds a radical end to current cheap food prices and a breakdown in interregional and international trade would higher figures become credible. The proposed $20 million agricultural investment fund, to be spent on improvements outside the inundation zone, is generous by comparison.” The $20 million is separate from money that will be paid to farmers who lose land to flooding, Letnick said. “When people say to me ‘why are you doing Site C, isn’t that having an impact on farmland?’ And yeah, it is, around 3,000 hectares, but compared to over two million hectares in the Peace Country that’s in the ALR (Agricultural Land Reserve) and 4.6 million province wide,” he said. Between 10 and 15 farmers will lose their farms to Site C, he said. “We understand that, and I feel for them,” he said. “But the greater good is the low cost of electricity that we can provide not only to the general public in Vancouver and the Okanagan and everywhere else throughout the province, but also to farmers, and ranchers and fishers.”
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LETTERS: Site C agricultural compensation fails to address public policy values, Page A6
Old Fort concerns not from Site C, Hydro JONNY WAKFIELD reporter@dcdn.ca
Dirt and debris is finding its way into a fish-bearing back channel of the Peace River near the Site C work site, but BC Hydro says its contractors aren’t the cause. In a letter to the Peace River Regional District, Jessica Brunet claims to have seen dump trucks from a Site C road realignment project hauling dirt and waste rock to a lot in the Old Fort Road neighbourhood. Brunet writes the dirt “is being dumped over an embankment” on a lot where it is “sliding into a back channel of the Peace River where fish spawn.” “The movement of dirt is beginning to disrupt the flow of the back channel,” Brunet writes. “The movement is causing previously dumped contaminated dirt to be pushed into the river,” noting the dirt contains concrete, glass and rebar. According to the letter, Brunet saw the trucks dumping at the lot July 23-24. She could not be reached for comment. Site C spokesperson David Conway says BC Hydro has investigated the complaint, but found the dirt is not coming
from the lot where its roadbuilding contractor has been granted permission to dispose of waste dirt. Crews on the river said they observed dirt sliding into the channel—but from two other Old Fort Road properties. “These properties were not disposal sites for the contractor and the side cast (slide) is not related to the Site C project,” Conway said. In an email, B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office confirmed investigators were looking into the slide. “Our Natural Resource Officer in the area confirmed they received a complaint from a local resident alleging that Site C construction dump trucks are dumping soil down a bank and into the Peace River,” a spokesperson said. However, the spokesperson said it was too soon to say whether the dirt came from Site C construction. Old Fort Road is the nearest neighbourhood to the Site C work site—a short distance from one of two project entrances on the Peace River’s north bank and directly downstream of the dam itself.
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Letters to the Editor SITE C AGRICULTURAL COMPENSATION FAILS TO ADDRESS PUBLIC POLICY VALUES (Re: ‘Site C ag fund could be used for irrigation, minister says,’ page A5) First of all, the Joint Panel had no mandate to look at the larger issues of food security, nutrition and resilience—they were not parameters in the EIA (although we tried to convince them otherwise). The government’s package of “compensation” does nothing to address the public policy values lost if this dam goes ahead. Second, the BC Hydro assessment was inaccurate. They used an impoverished baseline (failed to recognize impact of shadow of the dam on cultivation). They capped the cultivated land 100 years from now at 1,666 hectares (13% of impacted land). They based the future (100 years out) on what farmers have planted today on 526 hectares. They failed to consider market externalities and risk (such as climate change, food price inflation, particularly in view of BC’s import dependence) and so never considered scenarios for medium and robust horticulture development. Instead the model woodenly increased horticulture planting by 1 hectare a year (100 acres in total in year 100). Based on an impoverished model of farm-gate value; BCH used an inappropriately low economic multiplier and inappropriately high social discount rate. Then they wrote agriculture off as insignificant. BCH’s loss assessment of $215.9 million should actually be closer to $2 billion, and that should be doubled to include the remaining flooded class 1-3 (improved)
alluvial soils that BC Hydro “dismissed” with no good reason. And this number fails to measure benefits associated with food security (resilience, health, nutrition). Further, their suggestion that loss of this land is insignificant on a provincial level could not be more incorrect. It’s not just the land, it’s the climate. The combination of the two is what makes the Peace Valley unique. And important. Based on BCH’s own studies, these lands are capable of providing the nutritional requirements of over one million people a year. In perpetuity. Two million if we count the alluvial soils they “dismissed.” BC imports 57 percent of the fresh vegetables we could produce here. Mostly from California and Mexico. Climate change and severe weather events are limiting production from traditional growing areas outside of BC. BC’s Peace Valley is closer to the Lower Mainland and much closer to Canada’s northern communities. Only fruits and vegetables are fruits and vegetables. For so many food-related reasons this dam must not proceed.
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—Wendy Holm, Bowen Island SOCIAL MEDIA CHATTER: MRIs, BUS FUNDS, AND MMIW INQUIRY (Re: ‘1 million for MRI machine at FSJ hospital,’ page A4) That’s awesome. Now we need the techs to run it and doctors to practice. —Scott Archer, via Facebook Why not Dawson Creek, FSJ seems to
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or large parts of the summer, the weather has been unusually wet. Roads and rail lines have been washed out. Construction, drilling and completions projects have all experienced delays due to the extreme weather conditions. At the same time, crude oil pricing has tumbled from the low 50s to the low 40s—putting renewed financial pressure on operators. Folks in Northern B.C. are used to dealing with adversity. We take our challenges in stride, and somehow find a way to get things done. Roads and rail lines get repaired. Project delays get caught up. This persevering attitude has also helped some oil companies to thrive despite the adverse price environment. Here is how they do it. Futures markets can be used by savvy operators to lock in selling prices for future
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production. Light Sweet Crude Oil (aka West Texas Intermediate or WTI) futures traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange have actively traded contracts for future month deliveries stretching out 18 months and more. A futures contract is a commitment to buy or sell a quantity of a commodity at a specific delivery location at a specific time in the future. WTI contracts are for 1,000 barrels each, delivered to storage facilities in Cushing, Oklahoma. Contracts are defined by month of delivery. Currently (and for the last few months), WTI futures pricing for next month’s
delivery is lower than pricing for future month’s delivery. For example, WTI promised for delivery in February 2017 commands a premium of more than $3/barrel over September 2016 WTI. Even though Northeast B.C. production will never get to Cushing, Oklahoma, buyers and sellers routinely use WTI as a price reference for transactions in other locations. If an operator wants to assure himself of the selling prices that he will get for his future production, he can use futures markets to lock in those selling prices. By doing so, he forgoes any further possible upside in the selling price of his production—in return for protecting against possible reductions in his selling price. The price of WTI recovered from the low 30s to the mid 50s between April and June of 2016, giving operators the
opportunity to confirm their operating plans and lock in their selling prices for the fall of 2016 and winter of 2017. The term structure of the futures markets (i.e. the fact that future months are trading at a premium to the current month) has also helped operators to lock in acceptable selling prices on their future crude sales from their winter drilling and production programs. Using futures markets effectively allows operators to keep their businesses running, employing staff and producing products needed by consumers despite the adverse pricing conditions. Hats off to those operators who have the figured out how to work in the “financial” rain. Tim Maryon is vice-president of sales and business development at Peace Country Petroleum in Fort St. John.
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“While this matter is being resolved, I have stepped away from the Government Caucus and my role as Deputy Chair of the Committee of the Whole of the Legislature. I will be remaining on as MLA for Peace River North and sitting in the Legislature as an independent member,” Pimm continued. The nature of the allegations is unclear at this time. A call to Pimm has not been returned and his constituency office in Fort St. John declined further comment. Pimm announced last November he
would not seek re-election in Peace River North. In June 2011, he briefly resigned from the Liberal caucus after a domestic dispute with his wife landed him a night in jail. Premier Christy Clark later welcomed him back into the fold. In May, local Liberal party members voted for city Coun. Dan Davies as their candidate heading into the May 2017 provincial election. Visit alaskahighwaynews.ca for updates on this story.
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Peace Island Park Pavilion tops list MATT PREPROST reporter@dcdn.ca
Fort St. John Petroleum Association plans for a pavilion at Peace Island Park received a major financial boost last week. Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT) has approved a $250,000 grant to the pavilion project, announcing the funding as the club headed into its seventh annual Oilmen’s Family Campout Weekend. “It was … perfect,” said Sean Thomas, president of the petroleum association, of the timing. The petroleum association and the Peace Country River Rats boat club have been working for years on the project as both host multiple events at the park. Once built, the facility would be available to the community as a whole to rent for weddings or private functions. The initial budget for the project was pegged around $109,000. But Thomas noted the NDIT grant, coupled with funding from the petroleum association ($25,000), the River Rats ($30,000), Pembina Pipeline ($5,000) and the District of Taylor (up to $50,000), means the plans will go back to a drawing board to create an even bolder concept. “It’s almost like a kid in the candy store: what can I get for this?” Thomas said, noting that in-kind contributions to help build the pavilion will likely push the cost of the project above $400,000. “It’s going to engineered to withstand the test of time and be a legacy for the community.” In announcing the funds, NDIT board chair Evan Saugstad said Peace Island Park is already a popular attraction for locals as well as tourists traveling the Alaska Highway. “The multi-purpose facility will mean more events and community gatherings can be held at the park annually, increasing tourism revenue and supporting the local economy,” Saugstad said in
a statement. Thomas hopes crews will break ground on the project this fall and have it completed by spring. “If they can do construction and then when spring hits this thing is standing, and May long weekend there’s people partying in it, that’s what it’s all about,” he said. Meanwhile, 14 other groups in Northeast B.C. have received just over $300,000 in grants from NDIT in the last three months. They include: • Wolverine Nordic Mountain Society, 2016 Emperor’s Challenge - $2,500 • Fort Nelson Community Literacy Society, 2016 CultureFest - $2,500 • Pouce Coupe Legion, legion hall roof repairs - $30,000 • Poplar Hills Golf and Country Club, Kitchen and cart upgrade - $30,000 • Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, Tourism Northern Rockies website redesign - $5,714 • Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, Fort Nelson Disc Golf Course - $30,000 • District of Hudson’s Hope, Structural Upgrading for solar panel installation - $30,000 • Bear Mountain Nordic Ski Association, Trail upgrades and culvert replacement - $30,000 • North Peace Cultural Society, Dimmer rack and LED lights for theatre - $30,000 • Fort Nelson Snowmobile Club, Fort Nelson Trail Network expansion and upgrades - $30,000 • Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, Vermicomposting business case study - $5,000 • Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, Regional Airport Pay Parking upgrades - $30,000 • North Peace Airport Society, Parking System Upgrades - $17,430 • Saulteau First Nations, Rodeo Arena Development - $30,000
Solid Waste Management Amendment Bylaw No. 2327, 2016 was adopted by title only. This bylaw amendment provides additional clarification as to what can be placed in the garbage versus the recycling cart.
NORTH PEACE GYMNASTICS ASSOCIATION – EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR NEW FACILITY Council received a letter from the North Peace Gymnastics Association requesting Council’s support to pursue the option of building a new gymnastics facility on the vacant lot that sits in the City’s recreational hub at 94th Avenue between the Pomeroy Sport Centre and the North Peace Museum. The Association would like to work with the City to develop a partnership that would benefit both parties in the future and is in line with the upcoming Parks and Recreation Master Plan. Council directed staff to contact North Peace Gymnastics Association to discuss the logistics and location of a new gymnastics facility.
TENDER AWARD
Council awarded the tender for the 2016 Sidewalk and Street Lighting Improvements Project to the low bidder, Interoute Construction Ltd. (dba DGS Astro Paving) from Fort St. John BC, for the unit rates in their tender submission dated July 28, 2016, with the total tendered price being $521,378.06. Any additional funds required for these projects will come from the unexpended funds for the 86 Street Sidewalk and Street Light project.
2016 CAPITAL BUDGET AMENDMENT – ALASKA HIGHWAY FRONTAGE ROAD
The 2016 Capital Budget was amended to include the construction of the Alaska Highway frontage road from 111 Street to 112 Street based on the unit rates in the developer’s cost estimate with the total estimated budget cost of $389,118 with 50% ($194,560) being funded from a developer cost share, and the remaining 50% of the funding coming from the Peace River Agreement Reserve Fund. This project is not in this year’s Capital budget however, the developer is moving ahead with construction of the frontage road and has requested that the City pay for half of the construction costs, as has been the past practice. There are ample funds from tendered projects that have come in under budget to fund the City’s portion of this project. The unit rates quoted from the developer are lower than current City tendered unit rates. The developer will be completing the construction, with normal testing and inspection protocols in place. Once complete, the developer will invoice the City based on final unit totals.
LIQUOR LICENCE AMENDMENTS •
Lonestar Nightlife applied to the Liquor Control and Licensing Branch (LCLB) for an amendment to their liquor primary licence to increase seating from 194 to 296 seats in the establishment formerly known as Looney Tunes in the Northern Grand Hotel. In accordance with the Liquor Control and Licensing Act, comments from the public and local government are required as part of the application process. No comments were received from members of the public however a building permit has not been issued for the renovations required to increase capacity therefore the RCMP, Building and Fire Departments could not provide comments on the application. Based on that, Council passed a resolution stating that it does not recommend the amendment of the liquor licence.
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Ned Nasty’s Naughty Neighbourhood Pub doing business as Cheers Pub applied to the LCLB for an amendment to their liquor primary licence to change their hours of operation. Present hours of operation are Monday to Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to Midnight. The proposed hours of operation are Monday to Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to Midnight. In accordance with the Liquor Control and Licensing Act, comments from the public and local government are required as part of the application process. No comments were received from members of the public and the RCMP, Building and Fire Departments had no concerns with the proposed amendments. Council passed a resolution stating that it recommends the amendment of the liquor licence. The LCLB will now make its decision whether or not to approve the amendment.
UPCOMING COUNCIL MEETINGS
The next Regular Council meeting is scheduled for Monday August 22, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers. The public is welcome to attend this meeting.
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Bear calls are up in Fort Nelson, but conservation officers can thank one bear in particular for keeping them busy in July. CO Chris Hamlyn told municipal council the RAPP line had received 27 calls between July 1 and July 20, up from only two calls last year. Twenty of the calls were for the same bear spotted by different people across town. An early berry crop could account for the increased sightings, he said in a report, noting berry bushes lining areas behind the rec centre up to hospital hill. “Bears are following the green belt to feed on the berries (their natural food source),” Hamlyn wrote. “If the berry bushes were removed, the bears would likely leave.” There were a total of 59 calls to the RAPP line as of July 20, 44 of them in the community, Hamlyn reported. COs received their first call May 17 for a sight-
ing at the community trail, four days earlier than its first call in 2015. As of July 29, no bears needed to be trapped within town limits, Hamlyn reported. “Bears are feeding on natural food sources and have not gained access sot unnatural food sources,” he wrote. In other bear news, Northern Rockies council signed off on a $30,000 NDIT grant application to fund bear fencing around the Mile 301 Park and Youth Sustainability Garden. The park is only half-fenced, a “major concern” for users, Community Development Researcher Krista Vandersteen wrote in a report to council. There have been a number of recent bear occurrences at the garden as well, she added. “Fencing will increase safety for all park users,” she wrote. “It is anticipated that a fully fenced park will increase the number of recreation programs and community group programs that operate at the location and an increase in attendance at those programs due to relieving the current safety concerns.”
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Coun. Brent Taillefer, who chairs the committee, suggested ordering a third sample from the buildings once the second round of testing is complete. Tests cost around $68 each. “If we test and the results are acceptable, let’s wait a week or so but test again,” he said. “It’s a minor cost and it’s just a reassurance.” The district plans to resample the fire hall this week, and will wait until the preschool reopens before resampling there to “get some regularity to the water usage,” Davies said. “Anecdotal” reports from Northern Health suggest previous water samples taken from Taylor Elementary, which is operated by School District 60, have turned up normal, he noted. “In cases where water has stood in the pipes for a number of days, the chances of lead are
probably better,” Davies said. No lead was detected at the Lone Wolf Golf Course Clubhouse or the District Ice Arena, and testing has found no lead issues in the district’s water supply and mainline, Davies said. “The remedy to the situation is to run the water until it is cold,” he said. “It basically indicates (the tap) has cleared the water within the service line from the building and fresh water is coming from the district mainline,” he said. Health Canada notes it guidelines set lead limits at 0.010 mg/L for the biochemical and neurobehavioral effects lead can have for infants and children under six, and for women who are pregnant. Lead concentrations must be at least 0.00050 mg/L to be detected and reported.
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“There’s lots of bad news stories out there about LNG (but) this game is not over.” - Byng Giraud
Province gives approval to $235M Plateau pipeline MIKE CARTER dcreporter@dcdn.ca
A $235-million pipeline from Wonowon to Taylor and another pipeline that will carry gas to the proposed Woodfibre LNG plant have been granted environmental approval by the B.C. government. Pembina-owned Plateau Pipeline Ltd.’s Northeast B.C. expansion is set to add 75,000 barrels a day of condensate natural gas liquids to the company’s system, while the Eagle Mountain-Woodfibre Gas pipeline is another step towards constructing B.C.’s first liquefied natural gas export terminal. Both projects will require various federal, provincial and local government permits be-
fore construction can begin. The 160-kilometre Plateau Pipeline will run from the Highway 97/Blair Creek area north of Wonowon to an existing terminal in Taylor. The company has noted that the project would reduce traffic on area roads by up to 100 trucks per day. “The liquids-rich Montney formation in northeastern BC is experiencing unprecedented growth, with condensate and natural gas volumes projected to rise substantially in the near term,” spokesman Jason Fydirchuk said. “A current lack of liquids transportation in this area has created strong demand for a pipeline solution. The pipeline will deliver the product into Pembina’s storage terminal in
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Taylor, BC, where it could be shipped elsewhere along Pembina’s transportation network, such as the Edmonton-area marketplace.” The pipeline still needs approval from the Oil and Gas Commission, but Pembina hopes to begin construction this September with commissioning in the second half of 2017, Fydirchuk said. The project is valued at $235 million, $83 million of which will be spent in the region, Fydirchuk said. “During construction, 455 person years of direct employment, 774 person years of indirect employment and 531 person years of induced employment is anticipated,” he said. Surerus Pipeline has been selected as the main contractor
for the work, and will hold a hiring fair at the Pomeroy Hotel in Fort St. John on Friday, Aug. 19. Twenty-six legally binding conditions have been applied to the Plateau Pipeline, while Eagle Mountain will need to meet or exceed 30 conditions placed on it by the Ministry of Natural Gas Development. The conditions on Plateau include protection of moose during construction by restricting activities near calving habitats, a requirement to undertake wetland surveys before beginning construction, protections for old growth forests, measures to help protect endangered plants, and the development of a plan to protect Aboriginal heritage sites. As for Eagle Mountain, the
pipeline’s approval will allow gas drilled near Dawson Creek to reach the $1.8 billion LNG export facility to be located near Howe Sound. Woodfibre LNG was granted environmental approval in March. Conditions for that pipeline include contributing $250,000 towards developing a grizzly bear mitigation and monitoring plan, using underground trenchless construction methods to reduce impacts on the Skwelwil’em Squamish Estuary Wildlife Management Area, and consulting with Aboriginal groups to monitor effects on community services and infrastructure. —with files from Matt Preprost
Hilton set to open doors in Fort St. John MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca
Ninety new hotel rooms are soon to open to travellers in Fort St. John. The Home2 Suites by Hilton is slated to open Aug. 24. All that’s needed is some remaining furniture to be delivered and put in the rooms. “There are people banging on our doors waiting for us to be open,” said General Manager Christina Seguin during a public open house on Aug. 13. The Hilton is designed as an extended-stay hotel, complete with kitchenettes in every suite. The hotel also features a pool and spa, a breakfast bar, meeting room, business centre, and laundry and gym facilities. The hotel also features six accessible rooms for those in wheelchairs, or who are visually or hearing impaired, Seguin said. Room furnishings, such as the floor and tiles, were made from 60 per cent recycled material, she said. The chairs were made from 98 per cent recycled material. The hotel has around 40 employees, she said.
Project the frontrunner for B.C.’s first LNG terminal MIKE CARTER dcreporter@dcdn.ca
Amid the uncertainty surrounding liquefied natural gas export facilities on the B.C. coast, one tiny project planned for the Howe Sound is poised to be the first to make a positive final investment decision. In an interview Aug. 11 in Dawson Creek, Woodfibre LNG’s Vice President of Corporate Affairs Byng Giraud doubled down on the MATT PREPROST PHOTO company’s commitChristina Seguin, general manager of the Home2 Suites by Hilton, in one of the hotel’s 90 extendedment to make a destay rooms during a public open house on Aug. 13. The hotel is slated to open Aug. 24. cision on the project by the end of this year. “We have a product “We want to be so- its doors, and a 123-room “The market’s and service that’s going cial and encourage a Best Western is under tough,” he said. “Guys to be very welcomed and warm and friendly atmo- construction. are dropping off. refreshing in this town,” sphere,” she said during Despite the flood of We’re still very much Seguin said. the open house. new rooms in a tough in the hunt. There’s Construction on the “It’s important for us economic climate, Pierce lots of bad news storMIKE CARTER PHOTO estimated $18 million to give the community said the company is foies out there about Byng Giraud, Woodfibre build got underway last a preview first as we feel cused on long-term LNG (but) this game LNG’s vice president of corporate affairs. summer, and also fea- strongly abouve being a investments. is not over.” tures an outdoor fire pit part of the community “It’s always been a While Giraud hinand lounge area. and welcome the com- question of when, not if,” ted that the project would be a “good news story” Sally Pierce, regional munity to be a part of us.” she said. for B.C.’s nascent liquefied natural gas industry, director of sales and marThe Hilton is part of “We believe in Fort St. there are a number of hurdles the project has yet keting for Inn-Trust Hos- a trend of hoteliers who John, the community to clear. pitality, said the hotel was have been flocking to the here, the future of the A tentative agreement is in place for 50 per built for relaxation, and city. 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DQ Miracle Treat Day raises $14K in FSJ MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca
Eighty-eight litres of ice cream mix and 1,900 Blizzards later, Fort St. John residents raised more than $14,000 as part of the annual Dairy Queen Miracle Treat Day Aug. 11. Through Blizzard sales and community donations, $14,260 was raised, roughly $300 shy of last year’s total, local store owner Linda Patterson said. “With the economy, that’s pretty darn good,” she said. The proceeds will go to support the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. “Everybody in Fort St. John knows at least one children that goes there,” Patterson said.
August oil and gas land sale totals $950K
“We have, over the years, eight of our employees had to use that hospital.” Local staff made more than 700 preorders the night before the event, meaning staff were plenty busy the day of to take care of walk-in customers. In total, 22 four-litre cases of ice cream mix was used to meet the demand. “On a really warm summer day, I think the most we’ve ever used was 13,” Patterson said. The biggest preorder came from the Great Canadian Oil Change, who has partnered with the local DQ every year to hand out Blizzards to its customers. “Every year we buy just to donate to the cause,” said Assistant Manager James Lovely.
Danna Testawitch whips up one of the 1,900 Blizzards made for Miracle Treat Day Aug. 11.
The province raked in $950,120 in sales from the latest crown petroleum and natural gas land rights auction. The Aug. 10 sale offered up 19 drilling licences and five land leases. All but two of licences sold and every lease was snatched up. A total of 11,451
hectares were exchanged. The average selling price per hectare sat at $79.14 for drilling licences and $71.13 for leases. This month’s land sale marked an improvement over August 2015 numbers which were $366,543. But it’s a far cry from August 2014, when the province
Birchcliff, Painted Pony boost capital spending, drilling plans Birchcliff Energy and Painted Pony Petroleum have beefed up their capital spending forecasts for 2016, allowing for more than a dozen new wells to be drilled in the region this year. According to the Daily Oil Bulletin, Birchcliff has approved a revised capital budget of $163.7 million this year, up from $122.5 million previously planned. It’s a result of the company’s recent acquisition of Encana’s Gordondale assets near Pouce Coupe. The revised plan contemplates drilling a total of 23 wells, an increase from 13 wells under the original capital program. It also includes the funding of key infrastructure required for future growth, including the company’s PCS gas plant. Of the 10 new wells, four are in the Pouce Coupe area with another six in the Gordondale area in Alberta. Birchcliff expects the wells to be completed and brought into production in 2017. Birchcliff drilled four wells in the second quarter of 2016, all in the Pouce Coupe area. Meanwhile, Painted Pony expects capital spending this year to total $199 million, up from $179 million. The $20 million increase will allow the company to drill six new wells and complete two others this year. The company expects to drill 14 wells and complete another 13 this year as it ramps up production at the Townsend facility near Wonowon, which began operations in July more than a month ahead of schedule. Painted Pony spent $35.3 million in the second quarter of this year to drill five wells and complete 10 others, while also financing facility infrastructure. The company’s year-todate capital program of $102.4 million included 17 wells drilled and 19 wells completed. —Staff, with files from Daily Oil Bulletin
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netted more than $3 million. B.C. has collected roughly $5.7 million this year, with just four more sales left in the year. Sales this year have ranged from a peak of $1.9 million in March to $0 in February. August’s auction is the province’s third best sale of the
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Committee of the Whole Meeting 2:00 p.m. In-Camera Board Meeting 5:15 p.m. Public Board Meeting 6:30 p.m. February 6 Committee of the Whole Meeting 2:00 p.m. February 20 In-Camera Board Meeting 5:15 p.m. Public Board Meeting 6:30 p.m. March 6 Committee of the Whole Meeting 2:00 p.m. March 13 In-Camera Board Meeting 5:15 p.m. Public Board Meeting 6:30 p.m. Spring Vacation: March 20 – March 31, 2017; Schools re-open April 3, 2017
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• Michael Ryan Ross (born 1980) was sentenced to two years of probation and assessed $300 in victim surcharges for one count possession of stolen property under $5,000, one count breach of an undertaking or recognizance, and one count possession of a controlled substance. • Jared Phillip Cook (born 1985) was given a conditional discharge, sentenced to one year of probation, and handed a $100 victim surcharge for one count of assault. • Kenneth Leon Donofrio (born 1960) was given a conditional discharge and assessed a $100 victim surcharge for one count of
• Ashley Louise Skerratt (born 1984) was sentenced to two years of probation, after which she will serve a one year suspended sentence, and was handed $200 in victim surcharges for two counts breach of a probation order.
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theft $5,000 or under. • Kent John Rankine (born 1997) was given a conditional discharge, sentenced to one year of probation, and handed a $100 victim surcharge for one count of mischief $5,000 or under.
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Dawson Creek Law Courts: • Rodney Wade Salter (born 1978) was sentenced to 36 months, ordered to provide a DNA sample, banned from driving for one year, and assessed $700 in victim surcharges for one count of robbery, one count possession of stolen property obtained by crime, one count flight from a peace officer, one count theft
over $5,000, and one count breach of an undertaking. • Jordan Dillion Gambler (born 1990) was sentenced to one year of probation and handed a $200 victim surcharge for one count of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm. • Rhonda Lee Haugen (born 1971) was given two conditional 90-day sentences, two years of probation, and $200 in victim surcharges for one count of theft $5,000 or under and one count wilfully resisting or obstructing a peace officer. • Bobbi-Joe Gordon Dowd (born 1983) was given a 90-day conditional sentence, ordered to provide a DNA sample, and handed a $100 victim surcharge for one count of assault with a weapon. • Mitchell Davis Remenyk (born 1984) was sentenced to 25 days in jail for six counts of breaching an undertaking. —Mike Carter
Stolen truck quickly recovered A 22-year-old woman from Fort St. John is facing theft charges after allegedly stealing a pickup truck from a restaurant parking lot Wednesday, Aug. 10. Fort St. John RCMP say a Ford F250 was stolen from the McDonald’s parking lot on Alaska Road North around 5 a.m. . An officer was on patrol in the area, according to police, and spotted the truck
heading north on the Alaska Highway. The officer pulled the truck over near Mile 58 and arrested the woman. She was released on a promise to appear in court Sept. 21, and police are recommending charges of theft over $5,000. “Fort St. John is not immune from big city vehicle theft,” Staff Sgt. Steve Perret said in a statement.
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Drive-by shooting, quadding speedsters keep RCMP busy Police in Fort St. John are investigating after a drive-by shooting on 76 Street on Aug. 12. Fort St. John RCMP say five shots were fired into a home in the 9000 block around 12:50 a.m. before the suspects fled the scene. No one was injured, and the people inside the home were not known to police, Staff Sgt. Steve Perret said in a statement. Officers believe the shooting is related to another report of shots being fired in the Baldonnel area earlier that night. Police received the report around 12:30 a.m. that multiple shots were fired on the 255 Road, just off the Alaska Highway. Police don’t believe anyone was injured or that property was damaged. “This type of reckless use of a firearm puts citizens’ safety at risk,” Perret said. “We are looking for the public’s help in identifying the person or persons responsible for this shooting.” Meanwhile, a trio of off-road
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vehicle users gave residents in the areas of 117 Avenue and 98 Street a headache on Aug. 8. Police say they received multiple calls of the drivers speeding through the area on a white dirtbike, a white quad, and a green quad. In a statement, Cst. Nancy Saggar said the trio “were seen stunting throughout Fort St. John by driving upwards of 100 km/hr and doing doughnuts.” The drivers were all wearing full-face helmets, and fled from officers who were called to investigate. Saggar said reckless off-road vehicle drivers is an ongoing issue in the region. Police have investigated a number of deaths and serious injuries caused by reckless driving, she added. Anyone with information is asked to call the detachment at 250-787-8100 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. —Matt Preprost
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Hamdan’s Supreme Court appearance comes just days after terrorism suspect Aaron Driver was killed during a police confrontation in the southern Ontario town of Strathroy on Aug. 10. Mounties had received a tip from FBI investigators that included a screenshot from a “martyrdom video” of Driver, and a warning that he was planning to detonate a homemade explosive device in an urban centre during morning or afternoon rush hour, according to the Canadian Press. Driver had been arrested in June 2015 in Winnipeg after he posted messages on social media praising terrorist activities. Mounties had applied for a peace bond that imposed limits on Driver’s activities.
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A Fort St. John man accused of terrorism related offences last summer made his first appearance before a B.C. Supreme Court justice last week. Othman Ayed Hamdan appeared in a Vancouver courtroom Aug. 12, according to court records, though details of his proceedings have been placed under a publication ban. The former construction contractor was arrested in July 2015 and is charged with three counts of committing an offence for the benefit of a terrorist group and one count of instructing a person to carry out a terrorist activity. Hamdan elected to face a trial by judge only earlier this year
and has not been found guilty of the charges. His next appearance is set for Aug. 26 in Vancouver and he remains in custody. His lawyer, Bryan Fitzpatrick, did not return a call for comment. Hamdan had reportedly been under investigation since September 2014 for postings he made on social media. If convicted, he faces the possibility of life in prison.
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The way Brad Brain sees it, the annual Oilmen’s Family Campout Weekend at Peace Island Park every summer is better than Christmas. Soaking up the sun with his two children and girlfriend and waiting for the slip and slide at the Big Bam ski hill to fill with water, they were one of around 96 families to take in the weekend, now in its seventh year. “I enjoy this weekend more than Christmas,” said Brain. “Being able to spend time with the family, to leave all the hustle and bustle of your daily routine behind for the weekend and have some good quality family time is so special.” Brain has hit the campout the last three years with his son William, 7, and daughter Emily, 9. It was the first time his girlfriend, Emily Siemens, took in the event. “I moved here from Vancouver recently, there’s nothing like this back home,” she said. “The sponsorship is pretty awesome. There’s so many cool events for the kids.” Indeed, the weekend is all about the kids, organizers say. From the slip n’ slide to Sunday morning helicopter rides to horse rides and more, there were no shortage of things to do. “We look at our community and the time that we’re in. What better time to get these kind of activities,” said Curtis Whitford, who co-chairs the Fort St. John Petroleum Association committee that organizes the event. Seventeen members sit on that committee, which began planning for the weekend in January, he said. “Without the committee members
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William Brain, 7, cools off with an ice cream cone at the seventh annual Oilmen’s Family Campout Weekend at Peace Island Park.
we couldn’t get the sponsors,” Whitford said. “We have 17 guys that spend time away from their family to put this on for everybody else’s families.” At one of the campsites, 11-year-old Sean Monahan was found chopping firewood. It was his first time at the event, and came with family and friends. “It’s really fun,” he said. “The food is really good, the movie in the park was good.” Petroleum Association President Sean Thomas said the event has been growing every year, thanks in part to sponsors pulling together, even in tough times. “This stuff doesn’t happen without the sponsors. And even in this economic turmoil, the sponsors have stepped up and said ‘it’s still going, we’re going to put in,’” he said.
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Campaign aims to build respite home MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca
A local family is aiming to build a new respite home in the community for children with special needs. Shawna-Marie Phillips and her family held a benefit concert at J & R Phillips Farm and Ranch in Charlie Lake on Aug. 13, helping to raise funds for Kashton’s Community Respite Dream Home. Phillips and her mother Rosemary have already purchased twostorey ranch-style home near Kin Park in Fort St. John, but much work still needs to be done to get the home ready for caregivers and families. “The home is big enough for other families to drop off the person they want well taken care of,” Phillips said during the concert. “We haven’t been bringing people in because we’re trying to set it up.” Phillips’ son Kashton was born with cytomegalovirus (CMV ), which has left him confined to a wheelchair and with “extreme needs.” He has been living in the home parttime as the family needs. But the home still needs an elevator installed, a finished wheelchair-accessible bathroom, and other finishing touches to feel like home. Once opened, Phillips hopes the home can support up to three families looking for respite care, a service in high demand in Fort St. John. Phillips said she caught CMV while she was pregnant with Kashton, now 14, and the Child Development Centre helped connect her with Canucks Place in Vancouver after he was diagnosed. “It’s this magical place, and its a respite, so when I go to Vancouver, I can drop Kashton off and … not have any worries,” she said. “There’s nothing like that here,” she continued. “The closest one that I know of is Prince George. If somebody wants a day off, they have to go all the way to Prince George,
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PJ Perry serenades the crowd with his sax at a benefit concert for Kashton’s Community Respite Dream Home on Aug. 13 in Charlie Lake.
it’s more costly to leave, and if they just want to come back and work on the yard, because it’s life changer when you have somebody who’s medically fragile and extreme needs.” Phillips is using Canucks Place as a model for her endeavour—from how and who they hire, to how space is offered to families. “They have genuine people who listen and people who have quality in every step they take. Those are the kind of people I am looking for,” she said. A respite home is all about giving families a break from juggling a hectic schedule of work and caregiving. “Most people when they’re taking care of somebody, their life is really limited,” said Phillips, who is currently studying for her Masters of Education degree. “Before we moved to Alberta for a little while and before I left, all I would get was two hours a week of a break, two hours a week to have a normal life. Normal as in go cut the lawn and not worry about him, normal as in going out for supper or go out for a bike ride.” A fund has been set up at the Royal Bank for those wanting to make a donation. Phillips hopes to have a website up soon as the house is established.
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The project is about one-ninth of the size of some of the larger proposed LNG export terminals, like the Petronas-led Pacific NorthWest project. Still, Giraud says having one export facility built on the B.C. coast could have impacts on other planned export terminals. “I think it puts B.C. on the map as an LNG exporter and it creates pressure for other projects,” he said. “There is a perception out there of, ‘can B.C. build stuff?’ The Japanese and the Chinese, in their parts of the world, look at us and we hear that question.” What’s next? Woodfibre has yet to apply for a 15-year extension to its 25-year export licence granted through the National Energy Board. The timeframe extension was granted just before the last federal election and has already been approved for other projects such as the WCC LNG project and Shellled LNG Canada proposal. Pacific NorthWest has applied, but has not yet received approval for the extension of its export licence. “That’ll help with the economics of the project,” Giraud said. Woodfibre will need to secure a source for the gas as well. Because its expertise is in downstream operations (it partly owns an LNG receiving terminal in Shanghai with PetroChina and has several gas to power plants elsewhere in China), the company does
not own any upstream assets itself. It intends to source the natural gas from existing producers in the Peace Region. This model, Giraud said, is somewhat concerning for potential customers across the Pacific including Woodfibre LNG’s parent company, Pacific Oil and Gas, based in Singapore. “The reason for concern is they don’t realize the abundance of gas that’s here,” he said. “So, when I say we’re just going to buy our gas on the market from long-term contracts with producers that are (in the Peace Region), the fact that we don’t have (gas) that’s on our own asset is a concern to some buyers. As part of their due dilligence, they need to see that it’s real. That buying from an existing producer is not a risk.” Woodfibre intends to bring some of its potential customers to the Peace Region this fall to offer them a tour so that they can get a sense of the extent of the resource available in the Northeast. As a parting note, Giraud gave a whiff of caution, saying that while they’re still very much in the game, the margins are tight. “But we still think we can do (it),” he said. “We’re still quite bullish. There are a number of items outstanding but they’re not insurmountable, they’re not things we fear. They’re negotiations and they take time. Those kinds of things could impact the timing of a final investment decision but we don’t see them as being things that could stop us.”
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A little home-cooking for Culling Stephen Culling moved into second in the Canadian Pro Rodeo standings after a fifth place finish in Dawson Creek BYRON HACKETT sports@ahnfsj.ca
There wasn’t even time for a quick home cooked meal for Fort St. John native Stephen Culling. Culling arrived in Dawson Creek from Omak, Washington for a 4.5-second steer wrestling run Sunday, Aug. 14 before the truck was gassed up and he hauling down the highway again. Culling’s time was good enough to tie for 5th place at the Dawson Creek Exhibition and Stampede and despite missing out on the big prize of the day by just .3 seconds, he was happy with the time he put up. “I made a good run on the steer I had, I was happy with how everything went,” Culling said shortly after his event. “It always awesome to come home and run one close to home.” Close to home has been good for Culling the last two summers, as in 2015 he had the best steer wrestling time in
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Stephen Culling tracks down a steer in 4.5 seconds at the Dawson Creek Exhibition and Stampede on Sunday, Aug. 14.
Dawson Creek and in the midst of another busy stretch this year, he said it’s good to come home to the familiar confides of the Mile Zero City. “It’s as close as I have to a hometown rodeo, lots of friends and family come down for the day. It’s good to see everyone and have a little break for the middle of the summer it’s pretty busy,” Culling said. The quick turnaround and stop after stop around North America is all part of the life of a rodeo cowboy and Culling is enjoying quite the summer. After
the money he locked up in Dawson Creek Sunday, just over $1,000, he is the second ranked steer wrestler in Canada with more than $17,000 in prize money this season. That has all but assured him a spot in the Canada Finals rodeo in November. “It’s been really good, this should bump me up into the number two spot in Canada and should be safe for a trip to the Canadian Finals,” Culling said. “This will be my first year going so it’s a big year. I’m sure my heart will be beating pretty good my first one there
but it’s still no different than every other one you go to. Just same thing.” Even though those stops will bring him thousands of miles away from his roots, Culling will never forget his younger days when his rodeo career was forged in the grandstands in Dawson Creek. “I remember coming (here) before I was competing and watching and spending a few days here every year,” he said. “I always loved to come and watch the bull dogging and the roping and watch all the pro guys.”
Lightning Luke Tournier strikes again BYRON HACKETT sports@ahnfsj.ca
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Lightning Luke Tournier accepts his $10,000 cheque as the WPCA Battle of the North Dash for Cash winner on Sunday at the Dawson Creek Exhibition and Stampede.
Much like the delay between a booming blast of thunder and the bright flash of lightning, Luke Tournier had no idea he was the World Professional Chuckwagon Association Dash for Cash winner in Dawson Creek. “I don’t like to get ahead of myself, guys wanted to drive my outfit back (to the trailer) and I said no. Let’s make sure it’s official. So I drove back and we unharnessed the horses and I waited for them to come and get me. It’s easier to not get your hopes up too high,” said the now back-to-back Battle of the North Dash for Cash winner Sunday night, Aug. 14.
Lightning Luke, as he’s known in the wagon world, finished a few seconds behind Chad Harden, but three seconds in penalties meant Tournier’s penalty free heat of 1:14.35 was the top time on Sunday. Harden crossed the finish line in first from barrel number two, but penalties for starting ahead of the horn and an outrider knocking a barrel cost him the $10,000 prize. Aggregate winner Kirk Sutherland, who won the dash in 2014, finished just 85 one-hundredths of a second behind Tournier from barrel one. Coming from barrel four, Codey McCurrach knocked over a barrel and placed fourth.
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Bartlett brings volleyball legacy back to Fort St. John BYRON HACKETT sports@ahnfsj.ca
Hugh Bartlett cracked a quick smile after a teenager blocked him at the Fort St. John Ice volleyball camp—then quickly ripped a hit past the unsettled blocker. Bartlett has exercised his volleyball experience over youthful exuberance for many years now, from the high school level in Fort St. John all the way to the international stage. Bartlett is the current coach of Team Canada Masters, won five Alberta College Athletic Association medals, 18 USA Open National Championships from 1999-2014, won two Continental Cups and three Global Cups, and was recently elected into the Alberta Volleyball Association Hall of Fame in 2013.
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Hugh Bartlett teaches group of young volleyball players the importance of defensive positioning during a coaching session at NPSS on Saturday, Aug. 13.
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He helped shape many volleyball players at North Peace Secondary School into the strong players they eventually grew into and he understands that with this latest generation, they too need that push forward. “The kids are little sponges, they are awesome. Typical Fort St. John kids. They want to be better,” Bartlett said during a break at the Fort St. John Ice Volleyball camp on Saturday, Aug. 11, at NPSS. “I spent 30 years in this town and those are the types of kids I remember. They want to learn and they want to be better. They are soaking up as much as they can and they are all hard working kids and you see some of the success.” Bartlett was back in Fort St. John for a weekend clinic with about 20 girls from the Fort John Ice volleyball club. See VOLLEYBALL on B2
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Pro-am brings high calibre golf to Lakepoint BYRON HACKETT sports@ahnfsj.ca
Garrett Kucher only used his driver four times over 36-holes last week at Lakepoint. The 22-year-old second year pro on the Vancouver Golf Tour was able to outthink the 23-player pro field and course in Charlie Lake en route to his second tour victory and his first in two tries at the Wonowon Water Services Charity Pro-Am. “I figured out that it’s not always key to rip drivers everywhere, I hit four drivers all week. That was good to set me up in positions, it was good to have a nine iron in the centre of the fairway rather than 100 yards slightly into the trees,” Kucher explained about what he learned after his first trip to Lakepoint last season. The VGT youngster fired a seven under 137 at the two-day pro-am and felt the pressure every step of the way in the final round Wednesday, Aug. 10, as Oliver Tubb tried to match him shot for shit. “I hit it good for about seven or eight holes (on Wednesday) and I was able to make some
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Garrett Kucher putts off the fringe of the 10th hole of Lakepoint Golf and Country Club Wednesday Aug. 10 at the Wonowon Water Services Charity Pro-Am.
pretty good numbers on those holes. That’s what gave me a cushion,” Kucher said after his round last week.
“I knew Oliver (Tubb) had a good start and I knew he was coming my way so I kept grinding and kept going through.
I knew that if I couldn’t make birdie I had to be sure to make pars, it was a little tense.” VGT Commissioner Fraser Mulholland praised the crew at Lakepoint for once again making a challenging course test the pros in every facet of their game. “On this golf course, it’s always about patience. The golf course was in great shape… to control the ball on these greens, there’s a lot of contouring. To control the ball off of the club face on these shots is challenging when you have a lot of uphill and downhill shots,” Mulholland added, as someone who has participated in events at Lakepoint in the past. “You’d think with the calibre of players on a 6,700-yard golf course with gettable par 5s you think they would shoot 10 or 12 under for two days but it just shows the cailbre of the golf course. It just holds up. You really have to think your way around Lakepoint.” Not only was Kucher the best golfer of the pros, he also led his amateur “Lobo Picker” team of Tim Fehr, Dustin Hill, Dave Busiak and Gene Danyluk to a total stableford score of
373 which was good enough to capture the win. Modified stableford scoring awards points based on strokes taken in relation to par (a birdie is two points and a par is 0 points). 67 amateur golfers teamed up with an pro at the event. Mulholland also noted that it’s a no-brainer to bring the event back to Fort St. John because both the players and the community continue to embrace the event. “They put out a nice purse for the pros. The one thing that makes pros travel is the purse. They’ve really done a good job with that since the inception… that doesn’t happen on every single one of our events,” he said. “The second thing is guys talk about how much fun they’ve had in previous years, so the story gets around and guys really enjoy the camaraderie of the members. The relaxation— you’re right by the lake, the members are in their sandals and the pros get that fell and the pros get that feel too.” Charity was also a big part of the docket last week, as the even raised $5,000 for the Salvation Army Food Bank.
Young players build volleyball skills at weekend camp FROM VOLLEYBALL ON B1
Bartlett said he was impressed with the talent but emphasized an even bigger positive was the encouragement and interest from potential coaches. “These girls aren’t going
to learn the skills in two days, but the great thing about being here is there are so many coaches who are learning the same thing,” Bartlett explained. “So, what we did was print a coach’s handbook for them so they know the drills we’re doing and all the technical as-
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pects that we are talking about so the coaches are going away from this with the package they can use. They are very active…participating in the things we are doing. That’s the best part of it.” On the court, he said, it’s tough to pass on too much in just two days, but said a re-
minder of the fundamentals can go a long way with high school season on the horizon. “I’m a very technical coach—the technique that’s used in the modern game… I stay pretty current on technically what’s happening in volleyball,” he said. “Our first day Erin (Hen-
ning) and I worked here… we worked a lot of the technical aspects of the skills of setting, passing and serving…. (Saturday), the challenge was to put that into practice during game play, because as soon as you put pressure on athletes everything tends to be forgotten.”
PRO GOLF WEEKLY UPDATE Golf News, Tips, Trivia & Stats
This Week: The Wyndham Championship
The Wyndham Championship has been a part of the PGA Tour since 1938. From 1961 to 1976, it was played at Sedgefield Country Club. Defending: Davis Love III Then from 1977 to 2007, Forest Winning Score: 17-under par Oaks Country Club hosted the Winning Share: $972,000 event. The tournament returned to Sedgefield Country Club four years ago. For the first three decades of this event, Sam Snead dominated the field. He won a record eight times in a 28-year span and still holds the record for the most victories in this event. Jesper Parnevik holds the tournament record that was set in 1999 with a 23-under par total of 265. Sedgefield Country Club Greensboro, N.C. 7,130 yards, Par 70
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Last Week: Justin Rose won the Olympic Gold Medal
Great Britain’s Justin Rose Tournament Results became golf’s first Olympic 1. Justin Rose Score: -16 champion since 1904 after defeating Henrik Stenson 2. Henrik Stenson Score: -14 in a thrilling final round at Rio 2016. Rose, 36, was tied with Stenson at 3. Matt Kuchar Score: -13 15-under par after 17 holes. On the final hole, Stenson bogeyed while Rose sank a birdie putt to win by two shots. “That felt better than anything I’ve ever won,” said Rose. Stenson took silver with a final round of 68, while American Matt Kuchar carded a final round 63 to claim bronze at 13-under par.
Golfing News
PGA Event: Wyndham Championship Day Time Network Thu, 8/18 5pm-7pm GOLF Fri, 8/19 5pm-7pm GOLF Sat, 8/20 3pm-6pm CBS Sun, 8/21 3pm-6pm CBS
This week, Brazil’s Miriam Nagl will hit the first Olympic golf shot by a woman since 1900. Golf had not been played in the Olympics since 1904 in St. Louis when men’s team and individual events were staged. But the only prior women’s Olympic Golf Trivia event was a nine-hole tournament at Paris in 1900 won by American Margaret Abbott, the What year did Justin Rose win his only first US woman to win Olympic gold. Topmajor championship? ranked teen Lydia Ko, the 19-year-old from New Zealand, figures to be among the top a) 2011 c) 2013 contenders. “The Olympics were the biggest b) 2012 d) 2014 goal of mine this year,” Ko said. “If I end up Answer: c) Justin Rose’s only major championship holding the gold medal and standing upon the podium, it will be extra special.” victory came at the 2013 U.S. Open.
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Lessons from the Golf Pro A fairway wood shot is one of the most difficult to master because we really are not faced with this situation that often. When we do have the opportunity to take a hack, getting the ball up in the air is the key objective. The main problem we have is that we assume that the shot should be performed the same way as when we use a driver off the tee. Unfortuntately, this is not the case and disaster can result. A couple of easy tips could make your fairway wood shot work a lot better. First, move the ball back farther in your stance than when you tee off. You want to make contact with the ball exactly at the bottom of your arc, so move the ball back slightly. The other main feature is to keep the clubhead low and long through the hitting area. This allows you to drive the ball forward properly and a good shot can result.
Player Profile
Justin Rose
Turned Professional: 1998 World Ranking: 9th FedEx Cup Ranking: 50th Gold Medals: 1
FedEx Cup Standings Through Aug. 15, 2016
1) Jason Day
2,735 pts. / 9 top tens
2) Dustin Johnson 2,701 pts. / 12 top tens
3) Adam Scott
2,063 pts. / 5 top tens
4) Russell Knox 2,001 pts. / 4 top tens
5) Jordan Spieth 1,965 pts. / 6 top tens
FedEx Cup Standings continued... Player Points 6) Brandt Snedeker 1,555 7) Phil Mickelson 1,532 8) Patrick Reed 1,531 9) Justin Thomas 1,512 10) Kevin Kisner 1,423
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Tournier takes top spot in WPCA dash FROM CHUCKWAGONS ON B1
“I didn’t know there were any penalties. I was just happy that… Chad was real fast out of the barrels and I was just happy he was fast enough to get Kirk (Sutherland) so I didn’t have to run three wide instead of two,” Tournier recalled. “I thought I had lost the race because I was beat down the line but then my hired guy come running and says ‘We won, those other guys got penalties’. So that was good.” It was the second straight win in Dawson Creek after a long streak of bad luck for Tournier in the Battle of the North, a reputation he’s glad to finally shed after the win Sunday. “This one’s real nice because it’s kind of a big cheque you get so it makes it a little special. Notoriously I used to have a lot of trouble at this show so now lately it’s our show, so
things have changed,” he said. Tournier also noted the conditions and weather might have been the best the WPCA had all season, which he thought contributed to some of the best racing of the year. “The weather was great and the track has been the best I’ve ever seen it as far as you could run two and three wide and make good races. The track was good for wagon racing and that’s what this is about,” he said. With the final WPCA stop in Rocky Mountain House next weekend, it appears Tournier has all but locked his lead on the tour, with 1135 points, more than 100 above second place Gary Gorst. “I don’t know if the win matters that much but the points that your gathering while you’re winning… we just gotta run clean at the next show and not get stupid. It’s for us to win it or lose it. Strange things can happen so I’m not going to talk yet,” Tournier added.
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Lightning Luke Tournier rips down the back stretch for his first win at the Battle of the North World Professional Chuckwagon Association last year. Tournier repeated as champion in 2016 on Sunday, Aug. 14.
Tremblay finds winning way in Dawson Creek dash BYRON HACKETT
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For the last five years, Erik Tremblay has admired the Western Chuckwagon Association Dawson Creek Dash for Cash from afar. His team, two years in the making finally brought more than a proud papa through the finish line to the tune of a $6,000 win in the WCA final race on Sunday, Aug. 14. “I stayed up pretty late and I mudded legs and I took care of them horses, and I feel like just that horse care that put into
them, it really showed today,” Tremblay said. It all started with a tense moment too, as Tremblay and his horses jumped the horn for a one second penalty that he was able to overcome to win the big prize. “We came in loaded that first time and I knew my boys were feeling good. The whole way to the track they were primed up. We came in there and they got too jumpy and they did that false start and I was in a panic,” Tremblay recalled, still shaking with excitement from the win. “When
we went turning back on the track, I don’t know what was going through my head but these other drivers are great drivers. I can barely beat them most of the time.” Despite the shaky beginning, Tremblay raced to a clean time of 1:17.05, just five one-hundredths of a second ahead of Ron Bolin. Eric Rever finished third in 1:17.96 and last year’s WCA Dash for Cash winner Sean DeBolt finished fourth in 1:18.24. The season has also been a struggle for Tremblay,
trying to break it a new group of horses that finally proved in Dawson Creek that they could be a winning team. “The whole team, they really drug me here. I couldn’t ask for anything like this. I was having a tougher spring breaking a lot of colts and I never saw this coming, it feels good,” he said. Dean Dreger also secured the WCA title on Sunday, finishing the year with 335 points, just five ahead the 2015 WCA champion Sean DeBolt.
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Erik Tremblay was the surprise winner of the Western Chuckwagon Association Dash for Cash at the Dawson Creek Exhibition and Stampede
W EEKLY P RO R ACING U PDATE Racing News, Stats & Trivia
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2016 Standings Sprint Cup Series Top Ten 1) Brad Keselowski
Race Det Race Detail tail ils s
Location: Bristol, Tenn. Date: Aug. 20th, 7:30 p.m. TV: NBCSN Last Year’s Pole: Denny Hamlin - 131.407 mph Last Year’s Winner: Joey Logano
Bristol Motor Speedway
Points: 727 Wins: 4 Top 5: 10 Top 10: 14
2) Kevin Harvick
Points: 718 Wins: 1 Top 5: 9 Top 10: 17
3) Kurt Busch
Points: 689 Wins: 1 Top 5: 6 Top 10: 16
Xfinity Series Top Ten Driver 1) Elliott Sadler 2) Daniel Suarez 3) Ty Dillon 4) Erik Jones 5) Justin Allgaier 6) Brendan Gaughan 7) Brennan Poole 8) Brandon Jones 9) Darrell Wallace Jr. 10) Ryan Reed
4) Kyle Busch
5) Carl Edwards
Points: 653 Wins: 2 Top 5: 7 Top 10: 13
6) Joey Logano In the fall of 1969, Bristol Motor Speedway was reshaped and re-measured. The turns were banked at 36 degrees and it became a 0.533-mile oval, or the “World’s Fastest Half Mile”. Improvements continued, bringing its current seating capacity to 160,000. The concrete racing surface is 40 feet wide with straightaways 650 feet long. “Racin’ the way it ought’a be” is the slogan that this raceway uses because it is the shortest track with the highest banking which makes for exciting racing. In a series of national polls, Bristol’s August night race ranked ahead of the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis as the overwhelming fan favorite.
Points: 652 Wins: 1 Top 5: 9 Top 10: 14
7) Denny Hamlin
Points: 620 Wins: 2 Top 5: 7 Top 10: 11
8) Martin Truex Jr.
Points: 612 Wins: 1 Top 5: 3 Top 10: 10
9) Matt Kenseth
Points: 600 Wins: 2 Top 5: 4 Top 10: 10
10) Jimmie Johnson
Points: 578 Wins: 2 Top 5: 7 Top 10: 8
Racing News
Only four races remain until the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, beginning with the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Eleven drivers have captured berths by winning a race and they will likely be joined by Pocono victor Chris Buescher, who sits just three points outside of the 30th position he needs to seize to make NASCAR’s playoffs. A win automatically gets a driver into the Chase as long as he/ she has attempted to start every event and is in the top 30 in points.
Racing Trivia What is the worst position a driver has started in and still won a race at Bristol? a) 15th c) 29th b) 21st d) 38th
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Answer : d) In 2001, Elliott Sadler started in 38th position and went on to win the race.
Shape: Oval Distance: 0.533 miles Turns / Straights: 36º / 16º
Points: 670 Wins: 4 Top 5: 11 Top 10: 15
Points 700 675 667 648 646 631 618 595 539 526
Last Weekend’s Xfinity Race: Justin Marks won the Mid-Ohio Challenge Mid-Ohio Challenge Top Ten Driver Points Justin Marks 45 Sam Hornish Jr. 40 Ryan Blaney 0 Ty Dillon 38 Justin Allgaier 36 Erik Jones 35 Andy Lally 35 Brendan Gaughan 33 Elliott Sadler 32 Brennan Poole 31
Not even a caution with four laps remaining in Saturday’s Mid-Ohio Challenge could detour road course expert Justin Marks from scoring his first career NASCAR XFINITY Series victory at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Marks, driver of the No. 42 Katerra Chevrolet Camaro, withstood a rain-soaked challenge from Sam Hornish Jr on the final restart, but Marks showcased his road racing skills when it counted most and stretched his lead to 3.7 seconds when the checkered flag flew. “These are as tough conditions as you can put drivers in,” said Marks from a makeshift Victory Lane.
Justin Marks Born: March 25, 1981 Crew Chief: Mike Shiplett Car: Chevrolet
Year 2016 2015
Wins 1 0
Top 10s 1 1
Avg. Finish 20.0 18.7
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McIntyre embodies spirit of the rodeo and chucks
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BYRON HACKETT sports@ahnfsj.ca
“South Bound and Down. The louder you cheer the faster they get here.” Those are the familiar and comforting words of Les McIntyre and if you’ve ever sat in the Grandstands of the Dawson Creek Exhibition and Stampede it’s about as settling as your grandmother’s cooking. McIntyre calls rodeo and chuckwagon action a lot like two old friends on the back porch sharing a cold one. He’ll slip a joke in about a Ram truck, a grand tour around the arena, or a small river in Chester, Alberta. “Sometimes, I get to a place where my mouth is at the finish line and my head is still doing a practice lap,”McIntyre says in a self-deprecating moment during Sunday’s Rodeo action. It’s times like this that endure the long-time rodeo announcer to crowds and fans across Canada. That casual nature comes with more than 20 years of experience and about 15 stops on the rodeo and chuckwagon circuit each summer. Of all those stops of course, there’s always a special circle on the calendar for Dawson Creek. “I think this is my 22 or 23 year coming to Dawson Creek and I’ve been doing wagon races for over 30 years,” McIntyre said. “It’s always fun to come here. It’s a great community; a great area. Pretty country. Of course ,the Dawson Creek rodeo is the 10th of 11 on the wrangler pro series. So you’re going to get top cowboys and the best bucking stock in the world with Kesler rodeo.” During the rodeo competition, McIntyre tells the audience everything from the cowboys and cowgirls family history to the small town beach they frequent in their hometown. The secret to all that knowledge?
Here’s a look ahead at the world of sports in Fort St. John and area over the next week. Street Legal Shootout at NLR
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If you’ve ever sat in the Grandstands of the Dawson Creek Exhibition and Stampede, the voice of Les McIntyre and is about as settling as your grandmother’s cooking.
“From being around for a while,” he said with a laugh. “From doing your homework and getting stuff right. Some of it’s true and some of it’s not but I never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” Whether it’s the greatest show on earth at the Calgary Stampede or the 1,000 seat grandstand in Dawson Creek, McIntyre’s voice is synonymous with rodeo and chuckwagon racing in the west. He brings the same unwavering enthusiasm to every small town or big stage where he let’s his voice boom out over the speakers. “I love what I do,” McIntyre explained. “I have a huge passion for this sport and I have a great appreciation for the competitors and how hard it is to make a living at this. I love the horses and the animals and I like watching them work because they too love what they do or they wouldn’t do it. “Same with chuckwagon racing, I have a passion for that as well.
It’s neat for me to come to Dawson Creek as part of our summer tour and enjoy just a different atmosphere and the great bunch of rodeo fans up here.” His qualms seemingly come from nowhere and in quick succession, like a “bay pony having more movement than two colliding tornados” or telling a tie down roper their “fishing license has expired” after a miss. It’s those phrases that will leave an impression and that cleaver ‘I’m one of you’ voices that will leave an everlasting memory in minds and hearts of rodeo fans. If he has anything to say about it you’ll be hearing it for a long time to come. “I’m 62 now and my goal is 102 like my grandfather. So, sorry, you’re going to have to put up with me for another 20 or 30 years anyway,” McIntyre teased. However long he lasts, his words will ring in arenas long after he decides to step away from the mic.
Halfway River Rodeo set for weekend MATT PREPROST
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More than 160 rodeo contestants from across B.C. and Alberta will descend on the Halfway River valley this weekend. It’s the 15th year of the rodeo at Halfway, organizer Jeff Metecheah says, with 167 contestants lined up. “It’s the most entries we’ve had in 15 years of rodeo,” Metecheah said. “We’re expecting a busy weekend.” Contestants are coming from as far away as Williams Lake to High Level. The weekend includes 43 barrel races, 41 teams of team ropers, more than 40 bull riders, a wild pony race for kids, mutton busting, rodeo clown Blayne Wendland and more, Metecheah said. “We try our best to host a good rodeo for everyone, fans, contestants, our community,” said Metecheah. “It’s a good rodeo for the local high school rodeo kids too,” he added. “It’s a chance to hone their skills, they get educated through rodeo and it makes the world a better place. We’re cool for that. And they can get a little money for college and school.” Reflecting on the last 15 years, Metecheah said the rodeo has “grown significantly” since the idea was first hatched in 2000 before opening as a one-day event in
Northern Lights Raceway and its team of volunteers will be hosting a street legal event on Saturday, Aug. 20, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. They are allowing all vehicles including bikes with exhaust (no open headers, straight pipes and turbo dumps are allowed) that run slower than 10.50 to participate. There will be two bracket classes 13.0 and slower, and 12.99 and faster. Tech will open at 10 a.m. on Saturday and races will follow shortly after. For more information, contact Dane Lucas or track president Mark Brush. Mother’s Day Run There will be an extra day to celebrate mothers around Fort St. John this weekend as the FSJ Rotary Mother’s Day Run and Walk will hit the trails around Surerus fields on Sunday, Aug. 21. The race was postponed in May after wildfires caused poor air quality in the spring. Registration is available between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. on race day. The 10-kilometre race will start at 9:45 and the 5km will start shortly after at 10 a.m. The Rotary pancake breakfast will also be apart of the festivities. Anybody who has registered online can pick up their race package at Ernie’s in the Totem Mall on Saturday, Aug. 20 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Allen Lafleur Tournament of Hope The annual “red-eye” slo-pitch tournament has finally arrived in Taylor with 40 teams set to compete from Friday Aug. 19 around the clock until Sunday afternoon. The event, officially named the Allen Lafleur Tournament of Hope has been a staple in the community since 2006. The tournament routinely raises more than $10,000 to a local family that has been hit effected by cancer. Ice nearly ready at Pomeroy Sport Centre
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The Halfway River Rodeo should be one of the biggest to date with more than 160 competitors set to hit the arena on Aug. 20 and 21.
2001. “We’re cowboys. We’re ranchers. We brand cattle. We’re everyday cowboys,” he said, noting word of mouth has helped the rodeo grow. “It’s a good organized event, there’s decent money added. The Halfway valley is so beautiful, it’s the perfect backdrop for the event.” The rodeo runs Aug. 20-21 at 1 p.m. at the Halfway River First Nation. A rodeo dance will take place Aug. 20 at 9 p.m. featuring music by the Weekend Warriors and a talent show. There will also be a pancake breakfast and a steak supper on Saturday. For more information, call 250-772-5058.
Winter sport fans can avoid the summer swelter and beat the heat at the Pomeroy Sport Centre next week as the ice at the rink is nearly ready for skating. The City of Fort St. John will start the summer skating schedule on Aug. 22 with adult drop-in hockey from 12-1:30 p.m., teen dropin (13-15 year-olds) 6-7:30 p.m. and Youth drop-in from 4-5:30. The first day of public skating will also be Aug. 22 from 5-7 on the oval. Minor hockey tryouts will also start the last week in August. Elks long track summer speed skating camp The Fort St. John Elks will get an early start on the long track speed skating season when they hit the ice from Aug. 22-26. Skaters as young as six are invited to participate in the camp. There will also be a BBQ at the end of the Thursday session for all participants.
SCOREBOARD Dawson Creek Rodeo event winners: Bareback riding: 1. (tie) Cole Goodine, 83 points on Kesler Rodeo’s 055 Three Wings; Jake Vold, 83 points on Kesler Rodeo’s 921 Alley Drift and Kody Lamb, 83 points on Kesler Rodeo’s 296 Blue Wings, $1895.06 each; Steer wrestling: 1. (tie) Jessie Heggie and Straws Milan, 4.2
seconds, $2221.62 each; 3. Scott Guenthner, 4.5, $1867.44; 4. Cody Cassidy, 4.6, $1609.87; 5. (tie) Stephen Culling, Rowdy Hays and Brendan Laye, 4.7, $1094.71 each Team roping: 1. Klay Whyte/ Brett Buss, 5.6 seconds, $1805.37 each; 2. Levi Simpson/ Rocky Dallyn and Spencer Rutherford/Denver Johnson, 5.8, $1452.15 each Saddle bronc riding: 1.
Layton Green, 88 points on Kesler Rodeo’s 351 Spanish Pair, $2447.97; 2. Clay Elliott, 87.5, $1937.99; 3. Chuck Schmidt, 85.5, $1631.99 Tie-down roping: 1. (tie) Virgil Poffenroth and Logan Bird, 9.0 seconds, $2270.25 each; 3. (tie) Clayton Smith and Kyle Lucas, 9.1, $1776.76 each; Barrel racing: 1. Braidy Howes, 17.949 seconds, $2165.95; 2. Toni Dixon, 17.972,
$1841.06; 3. Callahan Crossley, 18.015, $1516.17; 4. Kirsty White, 18.039, $1299.58 Bull riding: 1. Scott Schiffner, 87 points on Kesler Championship Rodeo’s 192 Magic Show, $2120.87; 2. Brock Radford, 85, $1679.02; 3. Wacey Finkbeiner, 80.5, $1413.91 Novice bareback riding: 1. Danny Vandenameele, 77 points, $659.60; 2. Tanner Young, 75.5, $494.70; 3. Lane
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Link, 74.5, $329.80; 4. Connor Hamilton, 68, $164.90 Novice saddle bronc riding: 1. Kolby Wanchuk, 76.5 points, $737.20; 2. Dawson Hay, 75, $552.90; 3. Ricky Warren, 74, $368.50; 4. Chase Zweifel, 69.5, $184.30 Steer riding: 1. (tie) Luke Ferber, Justin Maguire, Weston Davidson and Matt Howard, 70 points, $466.81 each R001424720
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CONTACT US ALEISHA HENDRY 250-785-5631 ahendry@ahnfsj.ca
“I always get the students that have never taken a class, and they come in and they’re really intimidated. I tell them, ‘you’ll really be amazed with what you can do’ and they never believe it.” -Tanya Shymko
Tanya Shymko creates, teaches and inspires all artistic skill levels in Fort St. John paper and Community Printers and got put through the apprenticeship program through NAIT for graphic design While other kids were out playing and printing. sports or other activities, one would find “After that, I got married and had a Tanya Shymko sketching or painting. baby and that sort of put things on hold The Fort St. John artist has been for a while.” teaching classes in the community for Once she started her family, she nearly 17 years, introducing kids and moved to Fort St. John. While still wantadults to drawing techniques, painting ing to make being an artist financially styles and colour viable, she found theory. there was a need Her own work for art classes in is steeped in realthe community. ism, often working Thus, she began off a photo in variteaching. ous mediums. She Her classes shows drawings of welcome people people and animof all skill levels, als, as well as paintfrom brand new ings of flowers and beginners to nature. those with more “I think it depends experience and on my mood. knowledge. Pencil is nice and “I try to mix it portable, but lately up, we’ll do four I’ve been doing a or five weeks of lot of pen and ink drawing and then and watercolour or we’ll get into a pastel overtop,” she type of paint,” she said. said. “(We’ll) start “I go through out with a draw“Untitled”, pen and ink/pastels/mixed media spurts, sometimes ing medium— by Tanya Shymko it’s just oil paint and pencil, pen and I’ll do five oil paintink, charcoal— ings, and then I’ll get bored of it and then move into acrylics or watercolour move on to something else.” or oil.” Lately, Shymko said she’s been workShe noted that there’s often someone ing from her imagination and free draw- in the class who has never had any ing more spiritual images. formal art instruction that don’t believe Shymko made her way to the they’re able to do the projects, but they Peace Region from Quesnel after always seem to discover something high school when she discovered one about themselves in the process. could actually get a post secondary “It’ll open their eyes to what they can education in fine art. do. I always get the students that have She was accepted to fine arts pro- never taken a class, and they come in grams at Grant McEwan College in Ed- and they’re really intimidated and then monton and Northern Lights College in I tell them, ‘you’ll really be amazed with Dawson Creek, deciding on the latter. what you can do’ and they never believe “Out of all of the programs, they were it. Then three classes in, they’ll be ‘I more inclusive. They offered more of can’t believe I’ve done this!’” she said. everything all together,” she said. Shymko will be starting up classes After completing her two-year pro- again in the fall. For more information, gram, Shymko chose to stay in the re- call 250-794-1383. gion and pursue a career that would allow her to create and be creative. “I just wanted a career in art, so I also Is there a local artist that you’d like to see took graphic design,” she said. “I ended featured in the Arts & Culture section? up getting a job with the Mirror news- Send an email to ahendry@ahnfsj.ca ALEISHA HENDRY
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Tanya Shymko is a lifelong artist that uses a variety of mediums for her work. She also teaches kids and adult art classes at the ArtsPost.
“Pansies”, acrylics by Tanya Shymko
“The Goddess”, pen and ink/pastels by Tanya Shymko
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Summer Reading Club kids went beyond the Fort St. John Public Library on Aug. 10 to pay a visit to the ArtsPost and take part in some artistic activities, including pottery, drawing and sewing emoji keychains.
Movie Review
Bourne a fast-paced thriller ALEISHA HENDRY ahendry@ahnfsj.ca
Full disclosure: I have never seen a Bourne movie. Does that make me more or less qualified to review the latest installment in this espionage series? No idea, you be the judge. So what made me head down to the Aurora to see Jason Bourne? Well, the movie I wanted to see was sold out, so whatcha gonna do? Anyways, the film opens with a brief montage of the history of the Jason Bourne franchise, which, for a viewer like myself, was much appreciated. No Jeremy Renner, though, at least not that I noticed. The action is very fastpaced and very well shot. At the end of the first act, I actually paused to breathe since I didn’t actually realize I’d been holding my breath for most of it. A chase scene through the winding streets of Athens ends badly for Julia Stiles’ character, which is unfortunate since she seemed like a reasonably capable character. Matt Damon is, of course, the titular Bourne, still looking for answers to his past, still on the run and not trusting anyone. According to the interwebs, Damon only had 25 lines of dialogue in the whole movie, which is fine, since I’m guess-
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ing people didn’t take in movies for the soliloquy. It’s all fierce stares, shooting guns, and surprisingly durable vehicles trying to run each other down. Privacy vs. Security is the ongoing theme in this installment. There are several references to Edward Snowden, as if the whistleblower was in a secret volcano lair somewhere rather than hiding out in Europe to
avoid extradition. A Facebooklike platform plans to roll out a Beacon-like system that would track all user info and data that the CIA wants open access to. Kudos to the writers for bringing a modern concern to a 12-year-old franchise. So all in all, I enjoyed Jason Bourne and may even go back at watch the original movies.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2016 B7
COMMUNITY
What is food security?
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Amanda Trotter, Niki Hedges, Talitha Nielsen, Phallon Stoutenberg, Sharon Feener, Sheldon Feener, and Karen Mason-Bennett set up the shoe showcase. SHOES FROM A1
HOROSCOPE ARIES (MARCH 21 TO APRIL 19) Today’s Full Moon could create problems with your kids, or your friends or even a romantic partner. Your best choice is to chill out. TAURUS (APRIL 20 TO MAY 20) Today you are caught between the demands of home and family versus the demands of your job and your career. (You can’t ignore home and family.) GEMINI (MAY 21 TO JUNE 20) Be careful, because this is an accident-prone day for your sign since you or someone else might be distracted. Be calm and be aware. CANCER (JUNE 21 TO JULY 22) Disputes about finances, possessions, debt and inheritances might come to a head today. It’s important to know what you really want before you agree to anything. LEO (JULY 23 TO AUG. 22) Today the only Full Moon opposite your sign all year is taking place. This will create some emotional excitement or tension between you and partners and close friends. (But you still can enjoy this day!) VIRGO (AUG. 23 TO SEPT. 22) Be patient with co-workers today, because the Full Moon’s energy makes everyone a bit antsy and easily annoyed. Therefore, stay calm. Be a role model for others. LIBRA (SEPT. 23 TO OCT. 22) Don’t try to persuade a friend
to feed my family? Or do I say maybe I have to go to the food bank this month, and we understand that.” While the Salvation Army is often considered the official community food bank, Feener stressed the importance of all the organizations that help residents in times of need. “If I had one wish in the community, I would want for people to know that we’re working together, we’re doing everything we can as organizations in this community to help each other help the community,” he said. Along with the Salvation Army food bank and the Women’s Resource Centre outreach store, the Fort St. John Friendship Centre has a mobile food unit that provides lunches to people in need. On average, they feed about 70 people per day. The Women’s Resource ALEISHA HENDRY PHOTO Centre Outreach store is funded Sharon Feener with the Salvation Army and Niki Hedges of the United Way set by the United Way of Northern out children’s shoes, as many children are often recipents of donations from B.C. Program coordinator Niki local food banks. Hedges was on site helping put out shoes, and stressed how important it is for people to be aware of the food insecurity issue in Fort St. John. “We want to bring back the attention to this community and draw more awareness to what’s going on,” she said. “Families, individuals, people unemployed, underemployed, single parent families, seniors, all are particularly vulnerable, especially with the economic downturn and it’s put enormous pressure on individuals and that in turn increases the number of people seeking out help.” R0011287874
The shoes that were laid out in the park included women’s, men’s and kid’s shoes, as it’s often not just individuals who need the services—it can be whole families. The goal was originally to show the number of people who use local food services per month, but obtaining over 3,000 pairs of shoes in such a short time wasn’t feasible. Going by the numbers provided by the organizations, 3,442 people used food related services in June. To put it another way, about 16 per cent of the population of Fort St. John needed the food bank that month. “I think that in itself it’s just going to show, or try and show our community anyway, that these are your neighbours, their kids go to school with your kids, they’re our friends, they’re our neighbours, and 700 people in one week is a phenomenal number when you think about it,” said Salvation Army Captain Sheldon Feener. In the first six months of 2015, the organization saw 992 adults make use of the food bank. This year, that number exploded to 2,232 adults in the first six months. Feener chalks it up to the uncertainty in the economy and the number of people that are currently unemployed. “If you’re not getting a paycheque, you got to make some tough decisions,” he said. “What do I pay for this month? Do I risk losing my vehicle, so that if work comes I can’t go to work? Do I risk losing my house so I’ve got no where
The phrase “food security” is coming up more and more these days, but what does it actually mean? “We are actively trying to work on food security in this region, it’s one of our strategic priorities as an organization,” said Karen Mason-Bennett, program co-ordiator with NEAT. She breaks food security down into the three A’s: affordability, appropriateness and accessibility. Affordability asks the question: can you actually afford to purchase food with the resource you have? Those that can’t often turn to food banks. Appropriateness is having foods that you’re able to actually turn into a meal, rather than just some random items you can’t do anything with. Accessibility is being able to obtain food, be it from a grocery store, a market or your own garden. If someone does not meet these criteria, they are considered food insecure. NEAT has several programs dedicated to raising awareness and providing food security to the community, including community canning, where they provide canned good to the food banks, as well as a program with local schools. “We’ve developed our food secure kids program, which is probably the most impactful program that we have. We saw about 1,200 kids this year throughout the Northeast and are gearing up to see even more next year,” Mason-Bennett said.
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to agree with you today. Just agree to disagree. Likewise, your relationships with children might be challenging because of the Full Moon’s energy today. Go slowly. SCORPIO (OCT. 23 TO NOV. 21) Like Taurus, you feel challenged by juggling the demands of home and fam.ily versus career and job. However, unlike Taurus, you cannot ignore your career, job and public reputation. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22 TO DEC. 21) Avoid controversial subjects like poli.tics, religion and racial issues today, because they quickly will lead to an argument. (Emotions run high during a Full Moon.) CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 TO JAN. 19) Try not to get carried away with dis.putes about shared property, inheritances and financial matters today, because today’s Full Moon is a tough day for having important discussions. Easy does it. AQUARIUS (JAN. 20 TO FEB. 18) Today the only Full Moon in your sign all year is taking place. Naturally, this makes you more emotional, which can rebound off close friends and partners. Oh well. PISCES (FEB. 19 TO MARCH 20) Issues at work and conversations with co-workers might be frustrating today because of the Full Moon energy. However, who knows? Things might flow smoothly. Fingers crossed!
Massive Rehearsal Dinner Dear Annie: Our son is marrying a lovely girl from out of state. “Jill’s” family offered to pay for the cost of the wedding, which is expected to have more than 200 guests. My son asked us whether we would pay for the rehearsal dinner. Thinking this would consist of the wedding party and 20 to 30 additional people, we agreed. Well, now this “rehearsal dinner” is about 70 folks, including numerous “close relatives” on the bride’s side. We are told that these people are to be included, that there is no room for negotiation and that it shouldn’t be an issue because Jill’s parents are paying for the wedding. I feel as if Jill has hijacked the so-called rehearsal dinner for a pre-wedding family dinner that is basically out of our control. Is this what weddings have come down to these days? How should my wife and I handle this? -- Budgeting Father of the Groom Dear Budgeting: A) Pick a more affordable venue and/or dining option. Buffets are great for this situation, as they’re not billed per person. Or B) ask Jill’s family members to chip in. If they’re truly that married to the idea of having so many relatives included, they ought to be willing to help. Dear Annie: Being the dutiful husband that I am, I drive my non-driving wife to work every day, and I pick her up after work. At her request, I also have been giving a lift home in the
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evenings to one of her co-workers. It’s not far out of our way, and the fellow is pleasant and likable -- well, with the exception that he smells like a farm animal and is totally oblivious to that fact. It seems to me this man seldom bathes or changes his clothes. I drive with the windows open in the dead of winter, and in the summer, the odor is even more horrific. My wife acknowledges this issue but doesn’t want to confront him or address it. I have no problem talking to this guy diplomatically and letting him know what’s going on, but my wife has strongly asked me not to. So I suffer in silence. How do I get out of this pickle without upsetting my wife or causing anyone any further embarrassment? -- Need Oxygen Dear Oxygen: It’s time to put this animal out to pasture. Your wife isn’t considering the matter from your nose’s perspective. It’s nice enough you give them both rides; you shouldn’t have to hold your breath the whole way. Tell your wife that either she needs to come up with a polite excuse for why you can’t give this man rides anymore
or you’re going to have a frank discussion with him about personal hygiene. If she doesn’t like it, they can both catch a lift on the hayride. Dear Annie: I’d like to reply to your recent correspondence with the son struggling with what to do after discovering his father smoking again. Nicotine Anonymous (once known as Smokers Anonymous), with support groups based on the book “Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,” is a resource for people seeking freedom from nicotine addiction. Its website (http://nicotine-anonymous. org) has literature -- including a pamphlet that might be helpful to your nonsmoking reader, titled “Are You Concerned About Someone Who Smokes or Chews Tobacco?” Nicotine Anonymous support groups are free and ongoing. A person can join at any time, and the only requirement is to have a desire to stop using nicotine. There are face-to-face meetings, as well as daily internet and telephone meetings, for any member to connect with other members to offer and receive support. Thank you for your understanding about this highly addictive substance. -Former Smoker 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. COPYRIGHT 2016 CREATORS.COM
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Find the correct word, joining the first word then joining the second word
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Clue
Find the correct word, joining the first word then joining the second word
TODAYS PUZZLE
HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 only once. Each 3x3 box is outlined with a darker line. You already have a few numbers to get you started. Remember: you must not repeat the numbers 1 through 9 in the same line, column or 3x3 box. PREVIOUS PUZZLES ANSWERS
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Community
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“They’re awesome ladies, some of the best ladies in Fort St. John. I just love them.” - Sirina Goode
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A second chance at giving back While recovering from a double lung transplant, Sirina Goode decided to give back
If you walk into the Women’s Resource Centre and head to the back where the outreach store is located, chances are you’ll find Sirina Goode. She’s usually going through the clothing donations, organizing what they’ve received and putting them out on the racks. “I help in anyway that needs help,” said Goode, who started volunteering with the WRC after her daughter got involved. “I started because my daughter actually needed 30 hours of community service to graduate and it’s actually helped me a lot too,” she said. But what really makes her story special is that Goode is recovering from a double lung transplant. Goode had Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and emphysema, as well as asthma and other lung conditions for most of her life. “I couldn’t breathe at all, I couldn’t walk 10 steps without huffing and puffing, I was so sick,” she said. Last year, Goode was given a new set of lungs that fit her body so perfectly that the surgery was actually far quicker and less invasive that it would normally be.
“Usually the surgery can take up to 13 hours, they did mine in five and a half,” said Goode. Because she was unable to work while she recovered from the surgery, and after seeing the work done at the outreach store, Goode has spent the last few months giving back to the community. “They’ve helped me before, so I figured if I could help them in any way (I would),” she said. “They’re awesome ladies, some of the best ladies in Fort St. John, I just love them.” The Fort St. John Women’s Resource Society is committed to promoting equality and well-being to the women of the community through education, advocacy and social justice. The Poverty Outreach Store provides clothing, food, personal care and other items to those in need, and is organized by volunteers like Goode. The WRC also provides information, referrals, education, and support to those in the community that need it. They also run a poverty law program and second stage housing for women and children leaving abusive relationships. If you know of a volunteer in the community that deserves some recognition, send an email to ahendry@ahnfsj.ca
North Peace Fall Fair back this weekend The 69th annual North Peace Fall Fair takes place Aug. 19-21 at the fair grounds in North Pine. The fair kicks off on Friday, with dance lessons and live music from Jack Jackson and JRB. Saturday opens with a pancake breakfast, followed by the light horse show, sheep show, stocks dogs and cattle show. There will also be a talent show and a family dance. And, of course, there will be plenty of
food booths and vendors. Sunday also has a pancake breakfast, and a light horse show. There’s also the tractor parade, log sawing and spike driving contests, the dairy cattle show, the heavy horse pull and tractor pull. There will also a church service by Upper Pine Gospel Chapel. For more information, call Gail Peters at 250-785-3557. —Aleisha Hendry
Animal of the Week Wuzzy If you’re looking to add an adorable ball of cute to your life, look no further than Wuzzy! Wuzzy is three and a half months old and came to the shelter on June 21, so he’s been at the SPCA most of his little life. Growing up in the shelter isn’t the best situation, so the staff at the SPCA would love to see him find a forever home soon.
Wuzzy is almost all black with a white bib, white booties and white whiskers. He is very outgoing and curious, and loves to play with dangling toys. He does well with other cats and is okay with dogs. Wuzzy may play a little rough with smaller kittens, but he’s not trying to hurt them—he just loves to play. If Wuzzy sounds like he would fit in at your home, pay him a visit at the North Peace SPCA. —Aleisha Hendry
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Sirina Goode goes through the clothing racks at the Women’s Resource Centre’s outreach store.
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FORT ST. JOHN & DISTRICT CHURCH DIRECTORY ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA NORTH PEACE PARISH Please join us at our temporary location at the Lutheran Church 9812 108 Ave 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. Rev. Enid Pow ********** Church of the Good Shepherd Taylor, BC - Sundays 9:30 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. Deepenings continued Wednesdays at 250-7870089 Next Feast Info. 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 ********** CATHOLIC ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH (Resurrection Church) Pastor: Rev. Vener Sabacan Phone 250-785-3413 www.fsjcatholic.ca MASSES: Saturday 7:30 p.m. Sunday - 10:00 a.m. ONLY OFFICE HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. BAPTISM: Contact the Pastor 3 months before baptism. MARRIAGES: Contact the Pastor 3 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 CHURCH CHARLIE LAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH Lead Pastor: Alfred Reschke Associate Pastor: Jared Braun 250-785-1723 Fax: 250-785-4136 clcc@pris.ca SUNDAY SCHOOL: 9:30am SUNDAY WORSHIP: 10:40am 1st left turn off Alaska Highway past the Charlie Lake Store. ********** 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 Pastor: Art Voth 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: 9:15am & 10:00am ********** 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) 827-3131 ********** 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 Sunday Worship Times 9:00 a.m. - Regular Service Everyone is invited to participate ********** REFORMED TRINITY COVENANT CHURCH Sunday Service: 10:00am Meets at the Quality Inn Northern Grand 100th Ave & 98th St., Fort St. John, BC Elder: Mike Donovan Phone: 250-787-7702 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 Fax: 250-785-2788 Email: stlukeuc@telus.net Sunday Worship Service @ 9:00am. for the month of August No Sunday School All are Welcome! The United Church of Canada is a Union of Congregationalist, Methodist & Presbyterian Churches in Canada formed in 1925. R0021161774
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Flying Disc Golf Make a course of six or eight “holes” by setting up a series of objects or sites to try and hit with a Frisbee.®
Tie a brightly colored ribbon on a tree or pole as a good place to start. An empty bucket or laundry basket also makes a good “hole.”
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Flying Disc Games
New Combos
Many games are now played with a flying disc.
Here is a list of some of them. How do you think each game is played? Look them up and find out if you guessed correctly.
Look through the newspaper for two items that don’t seem to go together. Think of as many ways as you can to invent something new by combining those two things. For example, what could you make with a combination of a camera and sunglasses?
• Disc Dog • Double Disc Court • Fricket • Disc Golf • Flutterguts • Goaltimate • Dodge Disc • Freestyle • Ultimate
Circle the disc that will continue the pattern in each row.
Silly News Story
Mix and match news stories to create silly stories. Select a who, what, when, where, why and how from different stories. Write a silly news story with these facts. For extra silliness, use quotes from other news stories. Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write in a variety of forms and genres.
One or more players take turns attempting to hit each target with a flying disc toy.
FRISBEE PLASTIC MEASURE FRICKET FLOATED FLYING CAMERA PLATE DODGE COURT CATCH ALERT YALE SOLD DISC
Find the words in the puzzle, then in this week’s Kid Scoop stories and activities. S D E T A O L F C T
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Players count how many throws they take to hit the target. Wherever your Frisbee® lands, you take your next shot from that spot.
Add up your score. The player who completes the course in the fewest number of throws wins. Standards Link: Physical Education: Understands and follows the rules of the game.
Complete the grid by using all the letters in the word PLATE in each vertical and horizontal row. Each letter should only be used once in each row. Some spaces have been filled in for you.
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New Rotary landmark draws the eye in Charlie Lake ALEISHA HENDRY ahendry@ahnfsj.ca
There’s a new landmark to behold at the Rotary RV Park in Charlie Lake. The Rotary Club of Fort St. John raised a new 120-foot flagpole on Aug. 11, which runs a 20x40 foot Canadian flag. The project was the brainchild of Robert Herman, president of the Fort St. John Rotary Parks Society. “The Rotary Club always felt that we didn’t have quite enough exposure in Fort St. John,” said Herman. “We do a lot of good, we fund a lot of organizations around
the community, too many to name, and this RV park is part of that process, all the money from this park goes back into the community.” He noted that many people don’t even realize the RV park is a Rotary park, despite the large sign. So Herman decided to take on the $30,000 project for two main reasons “one to make a nice landmark on this end of the highway even for the community… (and) hoist the big flag up there so everyone could see it and also to get some good exposure for the Rotary Club.”
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The 120-foot Rotary flagpole needed two cranes to lift it into place.
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Charter Rotarian Dudley Wagner, Rotary Parks Society president Robert Herman, and new Rotarian Martiall Pitts were on site.
The the 120-foot Rotary flagpole has a 20x40-foot flag flying, which is visible from the highway.
Show me the (back to school) money! H
as back to school shopping begun yet? I am a little out of the loop with that ecosystem—the ones with school age kids. As a child I looked forward to back to school shopping: the smell of paper was intoxicating, the thrill of putting together a fresh binder with dividers. Ahhhhhh heavenly. As a parent I dreaded back to school shopping: So Expensive! Right? It is so expensive! Back to school clothing and school supplies times two children equaled “this much money” (I am holding my arms wide). I didn’t look forward to the stress and worry of back to school shopping and I am certain that, considering prices have only gone up over the years, that there are parents out there who feel the same way now that I did back then. The sad part of it was, hubby and I both worked full time and still we fretted during back to school shopping. Frankly, I do not know how parents do it anymore. I came up with a coping mechanism for my worry. I purchased a $1,000 savings bond every year through payroll deductions. A little bit of my paycheque each pay period went to my savings bond and I set it up so that I could redeem it in August. The financial cushion that this little savings bond provided was one that I could lay my head on throughout the year knowing that “back to school” shopping for the family was looked after. $500 designated for each child, which purchased new clothing, school supplies and miscellaneous back to school fees. I know that a saving bond is old school and might not be an option for many, but the idea of putting some money aside throughout the year to ease the burden of back to school shopping is a good one. You can do the same thing with a separate bank account or even a jar on the
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fridge; placing a set amount aside each week or month. Backpacks and pencil cases (are pencil cases still used?) can and should be reused every year. Some clean freaks that I know tell me that as long as you are a careful and gentle, a backpack can be machine laundered. You stuff it with something before you set it out to air dry and it will retain its shape. (Note, this is an important tip during ‘lice season’—you want to be able to clean that backpack) Ughhh, lice! I just scratched my head in solidarity as I typed that sentence. If you are lucky enough to have children who love to shop used and second hand, back to school shopping can be a blast! Larger centres (like Edmonton) have many Goodwill stores that you can find amazing items that are so gently used, so lovingly pre-loved that you would be hard pressed to know if they were new or used. Mix those few items in with new items and it’s all good! I could be completely out of the loop with my advice—if you want me to go back to 2005 and stick to updating my Myspace profile, let me know. In the meantime, know that we (other parents) feel your stress over back to school shopping. We know how it feels to worry about every extra penny and we know how it feels to try to keep it all together without kids knowing how tight money really is. Good luck! Judy Kucharuk is a lover of sarcasm, witty people and footnotes. You can follow her blog at www.judykucharuk. com or catch her on CBC Radio Daybreak North where she shares her “Peace of Mind”. Follow her on twitter @judylaine
Sara Johnson and Chelsi Nurcombe fill jars with green beans and red peppers for pickling at NEAT’s Learn To Can event on Aug. 11. NEAT will also be hosting a Community Can event, where participants will take a jar home and give one to a local food bank. This event takes place on Aug. 20 at 9 a.m. at the Calvary Baptist Church. ALEISHA HENDRY PHOTO
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Eric John Emil Carlson (January 17, 1925-August 11, 2016)
Eric John Carlson lived a long interesting life, residing in Arras, Fort Nelson and Charlie Lake, B.C., Bezanson and Sundre, AB. He was “full of life” and lived it to the fullest. His outgoing personality made it easy for him to meet and make friends and this he did extensively. Eric was an entrepreneur with businesses in sawmilling, construction, gas station, real estate development and farming. He and the love of his life Agnes were inseparable working side by side and enjoying many years of travelling in their RV meeting family and friends throughout Canada and seeing all but two states in the USA. They both loved boating, fishing and camping and were able to enjoy these in their later years. Eric passed away on August 11, 2016 and will be greatly missed and fondly remembered by his extensive family and friends. Eric is survived by his adored wife of 66 years, Agnes (nee: Dahl); daughter Valerie (Sateen) Katarey and son Eric Renny (Jo-Anne); grandson Eric (Allison) Katarey; brothers Don (Doreen), Stan, Ray and sister Bernice (Jim) Marshall; numerous nieces, nephews and friends from far and wide. He was predeceased by his parents Gus and Ada Carlson and sister-in-laws Helen and Edna. The family is respecting Eric’s wish that there be no memorial service. His family asks that you raise a glass to Eric in the Irish tradition or take a moment to remember him in any way that is meaningful to you. We wish to thank everyone for their kind words and support during this difficult time. Donations in Eric’s memory may be made to S.T.A.R.S. Air Ambulance or the Sundre Legion Branch #223, Box 22, Sundre, AB T0M 1X0. Heartland Funeral Services Ltd., Olds entrusted with arrangements. 403-507-8610 www.heartlandfuneralservices.com
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Your solar questions answered S
olar has now passed wind power as the fastest growing energy source on the planet, and is quickly becoming the cheapest. But, as a homeowner, does it make sense to generate your own solar power, like you might grow your own vegetables? At Peace Energy Coop’s solar powered headquarters in Dawson Creek, we get a steady stream of interested folks dropping in, calling and emailing, all with lots of questions. Here are few of the most common, answered: How does “grid-tie” work? Most rooftop solar arrays around the world (and now there are millions, and some 750 in BC) are tied into their local electrical grid. That means they feed excess solar power into the grid then withdraw it later when it’s needed, say at night or in the winter. You might think of the grid as a huge battery. If your grid-tied system puts more power into the grid than it takes out over a one-year period, BC Hydro pays you for that excess at 10 cents/kwh. From my own experience in northern Canada, I can tell you this works very well: we have excellent solar power in the spring, summer and fall, but not so well in the winter. Being grid-tied means I can withdraw my electrical credit in the winter from the excess I generated in the summer. My modest grid-tied system in Dawson Creek has now produced more power each year than my building has consumed, resulting in essentially zero electrical bills for two years PLUS a small cheque from BC Hydro each year. Sweet. The price of solar has dropped dramat-
Don Pettit WATT’S HAPPENING
ically over the last few years. Should I wait to invest until the price comes even more, or wait for some super new solar technology? A solar power system for your cottage or cabin could cost as little as a few thousand dollars, but a large wholehouse grid-tied system, installed, wired, inspected and working could cost $20,000 to $40,000. Asking if this is a good investment only makes sense, but should I wait? Probably not. The price for solar has dropped over the last few years from $5 or $6 per watt to close to $1 per watt, making it, for the first time, quite affordable. But that price seems to be bottoming-out. Demand continues to outstrip production, so eventually we may even see a slight price increase. However, most experts think the overall price for solar will continue to slowly decrease over the next decade, heading for the magic number of 50 cents per watt, at which point solar electricity will be the cheapest source of power on the planet (even beating out the cheapest power now: coal). That will be the point when all other sources of electricity (with the possible exception of wind) become obsolete. The super amazing new solar tech we keeping hearing about is wonderful, but keep in mind it usually takes twenty years for new tech to scale up and replace the old tech with better qual-
ity and prices. Not something to wait around for. So don’t expect any more rapid price drops or magical new technology, but rather a slow, steady price decrease with existing technology over the next decade or so. Overall, NOW is an excellent time to go solar. How long do solar electric modules last? Are they a good long-term investment? All reputable manufacturers now give a 25-year warranty on their solar panels. Real lifetime is expected to be in excess of 50 years. Nothing is “used up” and nothing “wears out” on a solar module. (Actually, there is a very tiny internal deterioration causing a small power output loss, usually rated at about ¼
percent per year.) Through the magical quantum properties of light and silicon crystals, photons are converted directly into electrons in the solar module—no moving parts, no chemical reactions, no emissions, no pollution, no noise, no maintenance. PV panels are truly solidstate electrical generators. Yes, solar electric panels are a very good long-term investment. Solar power can reduce or eliminate your electricity bills, provide a good long-term asset as an investment in your home or business, and greatly reduces your carbon footprint. That sounds like pretty good value to me. Don Pettit is a founding member of the Peace Energy Cooperative. He can be reached at dpettit@pris.ca
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Six year old pals Taya Hynes and Keisha Longley took a spin on the bumper cars at the Dawson Creek Exhibiton fair on Aug. 13.
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AROUND THE REGION Right: Horse-drawn carriage rides were offered at the Oilmen’s Family weekend at Peace Island Park. MATT PREPROST PHOTO
Left: There was music aplenty, including from Tom Garcia, at the Kashton’s Community Respite Dream Home fundraiser. MATT PREPROST PHOTO
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Staff and students participated in the annual AME graduation ceremony.
Aircraft Maintenance Engineering students celebrate success
Blaine Squires has a passion for fabricating small river boats using his welding skills. ALEISHA HENDRY PHOTO
Thrill seekers tried out the Super Shot ride at the fair as part of the Dawson Creek Exhibiton on Aug. 13.
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There was all kinds of music at the Bear Creek Music Festival in Grande Prairie last weekend.
Student takes his skills to new professions A former Northern Lights College Welding student has put his skills to good use. Blaine Squires entered into the Dual Credit Welding Program, and enjoyed it immensely. After entering the workforce for a year, he returned for his second year of the Welding Program. His passion for running equipment pushed him toward helping in the family
business, where he used his welding skills to fabricate cistern lids, grates, and many other items. His most recent passion is creating small river boats. Even though Squires is not working in a welding profession, the knowledge he has gain from his program has stayed with him. Very nice work Blaine! Thank you for sharing your story!
Northern Lights College won first place in the Business/Public Gardens category of the Chetwynd Community in Blooms, Beautiful Gardens Competition for 2016.
Students from the Aircraft Maintenance Engineering program on the Dawson Creek Campus celebrated their graduation in style. “It was definitely a festive atmosphere,” said AME Chair Jim Smith. “The students were ecstatic to be done and have their diplomas in hand.” Awards were given out for the best attendance, highest practical grade, highest theory grade, and faculty’s
choice of best all-round, cooperative, responsible, helpful student. “We are all proud of them, as it is a lot of blood, sweat and tears to complete the work,” said Smith. “We tried to make it a memorable time for them.” The graduation included a video presentation of the students doing typical activities around the hangar, which the students enjoyed watching.
The Northern Lights College Chetwynd Campus has been given great recognition for its gardens. The campus won first place in the Business/Public Gardens category of the Chetwynd Community in Blooms, Beautiful Gardens Competition for 2016. “The garden overhaul has been a big combined effort,” said Campus Administrator Donna Merry, explaining that it took two summers to
get the garden into the shape they are in today. Filled with perennials, mixed grasses and shrubs, the garden turned out beautifully for the summer. Merry was thankful for help from Teresa Rose, Shirley Baxter, Merry’s daughter, and for the creative input from other staff members as well. Future plans for the garden are being discussed, as Merry hopes to continue improving them in the future.
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Wonowon 4H Club Monthly Report
Daniela BUERGE Wonowon 4H Beef and Sheep Club Hi again readers! It’s Daniela Buerge reporting for the Wonowon 4-H club. Today I want to report the Achievement Days for 2016. Achievement Days was held at the Rose Prairie fairgrounds. We got there on the 7th to unload the animals and prepare the barns. The theme for our barn display was livestock transportation. We had some pictures of livestock transportation pinned on a clothesline against a blue board and a wooden wagon wheel above each animal. It looked really neat! Friday was the sheep show, horse show, and the conformation and showmanship classes for the
steers. Saturday was the heifer and cow/calf pair show and the steer conformation classes. Saturday night was the swine show. Everyone did very well showing their animals and prices for them were high. I would like to thank all the buyers who purchased our animals. We really appreciate it. It has been a wonderful 4-H year, and we have all enjoyed it. Thank you to buyers, sponsors, club members and leaders, and all who have helped in 4-H. See you next year. Thank you to FSJ CoOp Petroleum Debt for sponsoring this page
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