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Tony Chimini leads a trail of decked-out tractor parade floats down 100 Street during Canada Day celebrations in Fort St. John on July 1, 2019. A week of rain and thunder tapered off just in time for this year’s festivities, with hundreds turning out and lining 100 Street to catch the parade as it wound its way through city streets and back to Centennial Park. Turn to B4 for more from the parade.

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North Peace residents and organizations want the province to increase funding for rural roads, care homes, schools, teachers, special needs education, fish and wildlife staffing, restorative justice and much more here in Northeast B.C. A dozen people spoke to an all-party committee of MLAs soliciting input on the 2020 provincial budget during a public hearing in Fort St. John on Wednesday morning. And in many respects, much of what was asked for during the hearing has been asked for years. Save Our Northern Seniors is just one group that regularly presents to the committee. The group has been pushing for funding for a third care home at Peace Villa — 60 news beds — year after year. The care home was filled to capacity the day it opened, and a third house there remains a top priority, the group said. “We don’t need any more surveys or any more presentations on statistics. We need action,” Margaret Little said. “We’re up to here with piles of statistics about what’s going to happen, that’s enough

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Margeret Little and Mavis Nelson speak to the provincial finance committee in Fort St. John, June 19, 2019.

already. Let’s get on with it. My question is, is anybody listening? When we say we need more facilities and staff, we mean funding.” Wait lists for senior living facilities continues to grow, at 246 at last count. That problem is compounded by staff shortages and barriers to training care aides, Mavis Nelson said. Forty per cent of the health care workforce is

made up of casual positions, she noted. “We need consistency,” Nelson said. At Peace Villa, when Nelson’s mother resides, there are two aides for 17 patients, she added. That means seniors there are regularly missing their bathing, scheduled snack times and dietary needs, and are often put to bed early because there are no evening activities.

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a taste of culture Harvinder Singh spent his day tying turbans and teaching residents about their origins and meaning during the annual Taste of Fort St. John held at the curling rink on June 30, 2019.

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The turban, also called a dastaar, symbolizes Sikh sovereignty, and acts as a royal insignia of the Sikh gurus and their teachings. After the 9th Guru was executed in Delhi (c. 1675), their Son, Guru Gobind Singh Ji (10th Guru) gave the Sikhs such an identity so that they would always be noticed, even within the midst of a crowd. Most practicing Sikhs wear a turban, which is considered an article of faith, not headwear. matt preprost photo

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REST STOP REPORT: We start news chewing at Mile 202 of the Alaska Highway. The Peace River Regional District opened an attractive new rest stop as part of its “Gotta Go” plan. That’s a nifty name for a plan. Many tourists leap out of their cars at rest stops and run to the washrooms as part of their personal “Gotta Go Really Really Bad My Bladder Is Bursting” plan. By the way: That feeling you’ve used a washroom before is known as “Deja-Poo”.

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from the International Space Station after 204 days in orbit. I’ve always wondered: What happens when somebody sneezes in zero-gravity? Are they launched backwards at high speed? How about a science fiction movie with space aliens who propel themselves through the galaxy by sneezing? They move forwards, not backwards, because their huge noses are on the back of their heads. Hey, there are dumber movies.

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in Paris they don’t fry eggs on the sidewalk. They cook gourmet Quiche Lorraine on the sidewalk. You know it’s hot in Paris when the Eiffel Tower is wilting.

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Canadian Tire hopes to break ground on new development this month matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

Plans for a new Canadian Tire store in Fort St. John are still a go with hopes to break ground in mid-July, the retailer has confirmed. Work was supposed to have begun in earnest earlier this spring, with a planned fall opening. However, the project has been delayed as a number of issues are resolved around traffic management and site servicing. “This is the biggest retail project in Fort St. John. It is large and complex with many stakeholders and it is not uncommon to encounter some delays in the process,” said David Bianchi, vice-president of real estate development at Canadian Tire. “We’re working closely with the city and the Ministry of Transportation to get this done as quickly as possible and finalize all these details.” Despite the delay, Bianchi said talks with the city and province have been productive, and that he’s optimistic that they will be able to break ground this month. More details about the project will be forthcoming as they are final-

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ized, he said. The development will include a new gas bar, Mark’s clothing store, and other retail once fully built out. The new development requires ministry approval as it will have an impact

on traffic loads on Old Fort Road, which is under ministry jurisdiction. The ministry of transportation said it couldn’t comment on the specifics of the project, but said it was working with the retailer to address its

concerns. “We work closely with developers to support their initiatives and mitigate safety or mobility impacts to our highway and related infrastructure,” the ministry said in a statement.

“While the ministry is unable to comment on the specifics of an ongoing application, we can confirm that we are working with the developer on a Canadian Tire in Fort St John to find mutually agreed upon solutions.”

Petition pushes for wheelchair health care hero access at Liard Hot Springs matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

A Fort Nelson resident has launched a petition to build a wheelchair ramp into the Liard Hot Springs. Tanner Whidden is pushing the provincial government to install a ramp to make the popular pools open and accessible to all. Though Whidden grew up enjoying the hot springs, a recently won battle with spinal cord cancer means he now uses a wheelchair every day, and he hasn’t been able to enjoy the pools since. “I have not returned to the Liard Hot springs since my injury because I know that there is no way for me to get safely down into the water,” Whidden wrote in the petition.

Whidden is calling on the province to take immediate action, noting it failed to take accessibility into account when it spent $1 million on upgrades in 2015. Between 10 to 15% of British Columbians live with a disability and roughly 300,000 tourists travel the Alaska Highway each year, Whidden noted. “If we only take 10% of that, that’s 30,000 people who can not access the water,” he wrote. “Access and accessibility is not something that needs to be taken lightly. The Provincial Government has a duty to provide this access with the same tax paying dollars that rebuilt the Hot Springs in 2015.” Whidden has collected nearly 1,500 signatures so far.

Daylight savings survey The provincial government wants input on daylight savings time. “As our neighbours in the western United States move toward permanent daylight saving time, it’s a good time to think about what will work best for British Columbia,” Premier John Horgan said. “I invite people to consider our options and take part in an online survey that will help us decide whether to leave things as they are or if it’s time to make

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a change.” Most of B.C. “springs forward” into daylight saving time during summer months, and “falls back” to standard time in the winter. The Peace region does not observe daylight savings, and instead observes mountain standard time yearround. The Northern Rockies voted to do the same in 2014. The survey runs until July 19 at engage.gov.bc.ca/ daylightsavingtime.

Lexie Gordon has been named a Health Care Hero by the Health Employers Association of BC. The announcement was made Monday as part of the association’s annual BC Health Care Awards held in Vancouver. Gordon began here career as a medical transcriptionist at the Fort St. John Hospital, and is now the quality and improvement lead for Northern Health in the Northeast. “Lexie is recognized as a local, regional and provincial expert in quality improvement for her commitment to putting the patient at the centre of conversations about care, and for her promotion of comprehensive and consistent incident reporting as a critical component of quality improvement,” the association said. “She has been a tireless advocate for the province’s Patient Safety Learning System.” Gordon has represented Northern Health for 16 years on the BC Patient Centred Measurement Committee, where she helped develop a provincially co-ordinated survey to measure the patient experience in B.C.’s health care system, the association said, with the results used to improve patient experiences.

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In 2010, Gordon led the team that was awarded the BC Patient Safety and Quality Council team award for their quality improvement initiative in the area of medication reconciliation. In 2016, Gordon was awarded the 3M Canada Team Award for improving patient experience in cancer care.

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Updates from June 24, 2019 Council Meetings LONG SERVICE AWARD Council presented a Long Service Award to Shirley Collington, Director of Finance, in recognition of her 20 years of service as an employee of the City of Fort St. John. PROCLAMATION The week of June 23 – June 30, 2019 was proclaimed as “Sexual Health Week” in the City of Fort St. John. The proclamation was made to raise awareness of rising numbers of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Sexual Health Week includes an HIV testing day on June 27, 2019 to educate, promote sexual health, reduce stigma, and provide low barrier access to testing, thus creating a healthier Fort St. John. ZONING BYLAW REVIEW At the Committee of the Whole meeting, Council was provided with a presentation regarding the Zoning Bylaw review. Staff explained that the intent of the review is to update the bylaw to align with the Official Community Plan. The review allowed for increased user-friendliness through clarity and simple language. At the Regular Council meeting, Council directed staff to proceed to the next stage of the review process which includes public engagement through online feedback, direct mail and open houses in July and August. The draft Zoning Bylaw will also be referred to provincial agencies for comment. FREEDOM OF THE CITY Council voted to award to Freedom of the City honour to retiring Senator Richard Neufeld and retiring Member of Parliament Jim Eglinski. Senator Richard Neufeld is recognized for his long standing commitment towards bettering North East BC over many decades in public service at the local, provincial and federal government levels. Member of Parliament Jim Eglinski is recognized for his contributions as a former Councillor and Mayor of the City of Fort St. John and as a Federal MP. Recognition of the award will follow a review and update of the Freedom of the City Council Policy no. 102/06. FREE FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCTS, EQUAL ACCESS TO BABY CHANGE TABLES Council directed staff to provide feminine hygiene products free of charge to the patrons of all City facilities that are publicly accessible. The method of distribution for products is still to be decided and may vary depending on the facility. In addition, Council directed staff to provide equal gender access to baby change tables in City facilities. TENDER AWARD – 2019 WATERMAIN LOOPING Council awarded the tender for the 2019 Watermain Looping projects to the low bidder, Big League Utilities Corp. of Taylor, BC, for the unit rates in their tender submission totally $1,068,191.98. Work includes extending the watermain in the alley between the Alaska Highway south frontage road and Sikanni Road East on Sikanni Road to 93rd Street, which will increase fire flows and enhance water quality in the area. It also includes the lowering of an adjacent watermain between 98 and 96 Streets, and replacing a watermain in the alley between the Alaska Highway north frontage road and 93 Avenue west of 100 Street behind Backcountry. DISCRETIONARY GRANT Council approved a Discretionary Grant in the amount of $1,000 to the North Peace Light Horse Association to assist with costs to host the 4th Annual Stacy Michalski-Ollenberger Memorial Horse Show on July 12 – 14, 2019. 2018 ANNUAL REPORT At a Public Meeting, highlights of the City of Fort St. John’s 2018 Annual Report were presented to Council. The 2018 Annual Report includes the City of Fort St. John’s strategic goals, financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2018 as well as information about Council members and the City as an organization. The 2018 Annual Report is available to the public on the City of Fort St. John website.

UPCOMING COUNCIL MEETINGS A Committee of the Whole meeting is tentatively scheduled for Monday July 8, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. The Regular Council Meeting will follow at 3:00 p.m. The meetings will be held in City Hall Council Chambers and the public is welcome to attend.

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The North Peace Rural Roads task force asked for incremental funding to resurface key road corridors and build pullouts throughout the region to meet the needs of residents and industry. Jackie Kjos, the lead for the regional district on that file, noted 74% of the roads in the region are gravel, built over clay and old rotting log corduroy roads, and are can’t handle the growing loads from industry. The Beryl Prairie Road is one road that needs to be completely rebuilt, she said. While the region saw great investments in rural roads between 1997 and 2013, those roads are now deteriorated, Kjos said. “When we started this project 15 years ago, we were concerned about 85,000-tonne loads. Some of these loads that are coming up here now are 185,000-tonnes. They’re 100,000 pounds heavier,” Kjos said. “We need to catch these roads before they’re completely destroyed, or we’re just throwing away massive amounts of government funding.”

through its restorative justice program each year. The group relies on volunteers, and faces significant retention challenges that weighs heavy on its training costs, Stringer said. The group is also challenged by high turnover in the local justice system and the RCMP, where newly graduated recruits aren’t familiar with restorative justice and when it’s an option for them to pursue. “We are grateful for any funding, but we also acknowledge that every minute spent by staff and volunteers soliciting funding from community sources, granting sources, or other provincial or federal sources is time spent away from clients and away from building connections and collaborations in the community,” Stringer said. “We have high turnover rate in our RCMP detachment, in our school district, in our prosecutor’s office, in our probation office. We are constantly working to collaborate with these people to inform them that these programs do exist in the community, and the more time we spend on finances, the less time we spend on programming.”

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School District 60, the Peace River North Teachers Association, and Northern Lights College asked for more funding for schools, teacher wages and incentives, aboriginal education, and mental health supports for students. The school district is losing Red Seal tradespeople and journeymen to industry for higher wages, trustee Erin Evans said, asking for wages to be brought up to par. Most schools have been found to be in poor or very poor condition and need upgrades, while the need for new schools grows, she added. “Our community is growing significantly,” Evans said. “We have aging infrastructure, we need land for new schools, and, of course, for the infrastructure we have, to continue to maintain it up to the standard where we can have students in our schools where they are safe and our staff are safe.” The PRNTA asked for proper funding for special needs students based on their actual needs, not their predicted ones. Michele Wiebe and Mary Tremain expressed concern the province is proposing a “prevalence model” for special education funding, which they called arbitrary and based on thirdparty data that ignores the individual needs of a student. “The argument for the model is that it’s costly and time-consuming assessments and paperwork won’t need to be done, and funds will then stretch further,” Tremain said. “The PRNTA is concerned this model will see further reductions in service to an already vulnerable population as there will be no requirement to provide services that are actually linked to needs.” The two also asked for more funding for English language learners. There are more than 500 ELL students in the district, representing 16 different language groups. There are only six school-based teachers to support them, Tremain said. Justice Kate Stringer of the North Peace Justice Society told the committee her organization receives just $2,500 in core provincial funding each year. It has an annual budget of $75,000, supported through other various grants, and sees between 40 to 60 cases cycle

Gerry Paille of the local chapter of the BC Wildlife Federation told the committee that it’s hard to get a true sense of how much the province is spending on fish, wildlife, and habitat initiatives. That said, it isn’t enough, and there are groups that aren’t paying their fair share, he said. “We’d like to see all nature-based tourism operations contribute to the management of fish and wildlife. Right now, it’s mostly hunters and anglers that are paying the way,” Paille said. More and more, stakeholders are fundraising to pay for core government responsibilities such as prescribed burns and wildlife inventories, Paille said. “It just shouldn’t happen. It’s core government business.” Locally, Paille told the committee compensation flowing out of the Site C dam project is a big issue. “We have no idea how much money that is, and the conditions under the water licence say that Hydro gets to assess how well they are doing five years after the dam has been running, and then ask for more money or say everything is good at that time,” Paille said. “From past experience with the other two dams, the compensation programs have been woefully underfunded, and they have really done nothing to replace things like moose. It was estimated the Williston impoundment area got rid of 12,000 to 15,000 moose, and they’ve never returned.The compensation programs just haven’t done it.” Staffing in the local resource ministry is another major issue, where there are 17 vacancies, Paille said. “Our fisheries biologist just left. When the (Conservation Officer Service) open up more positions around the province, guys bid out and moved to other places, so we had one CO in Fort St. John for awhile,” he said. “We need some incentives to get staffing up here and to keep them.” The province also needs dedicated funding to monitor for chronic wasting disease, which kills off deer and elk populations. There have been no confirmed cases in B.C. from the samples that have been taken over the past decade, Paille said. However, the East Kootenays is the most susceptible area, with known cases near Libby, Montana, he said.

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Charlie Lake jet boat driver Stacy Kelm and navigator Tyler Wheat do some practice runs on the Peace River near the Taylor Bridge, June 29, 2019. Kelm is piloting one of four local boats competing in the upcoming World Jet Boat Championship being held in Whitecourt, Peace River, Grande Prairie, and Taylor July 12-21. Taylor will host the final leg of the event July 20-21 at Peace Island Park.

$1M for water main improvements matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

Fort St. John city councillors have awarded a $1.06-million contract to Big League Utilities Corp. of Taylor for three water main projects this year. Work includes extending the watermain in the alley between the Alaska Highway south frontage road and Sikanni Road East on Sikanni Road to 93rd Street, which will increase fire flows and enhance water quality in the area. It also includes the lower-

ing of an adjacent water main between 98 and 96 Streets, and replacing a water main in the alley between the Alaska Highway north frontage road and 93 Avenue west of 100 Street behind Backcountry. The city had only budgeted $400,000 for water main projects this year. However, Victor Shopland noted the scope of work was expanded in the middle of the tender period to include the replacement of the water main behind Backcountry after it saw a number of leaks and repairs. That water main,

from 1961, will likely see further leaks if isn’t repaired, he said. “Public works went in and repaired it, it then blew up a little bit further away. They extended their repair to fix the new leak, and then it blew up again, so they ended up going a bit further. because the water main in that area is very soft, it’s an old AC (asbestos concrete) line,” Shopland said. The extra costs for this year’s projects will be paid for through the city’s water reserve fund.

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Nine non-profits in the Peace Region have been granted $65,000 as part of the latest round of Site C related community funding. The grants up to $10,000 each, from BC Hydro’s Generating Opportunities Fund, have been awarded to: • North Peace Family SuperPark Society for its 2019 Summer Camp program; • Sources Community Resources Society for its ADHD Conference; • North Peace Justice Society for its restorative justice volunteer facilitator training program; • Peace Passage Skating Club for its

2019/2020 season; • Fort St. John Women’s Resource Society for its community outreach; • North Peace Gymnastics Association for its special abilities program; • Fort St. John Literacy Society for its Dolly Parton Imagination Library program; • Hudson’s Hope Fall Fair Society for its 27th Annual Hudson’s Hope Fall Fair; and • Community Bridge for its Daddy and Me events The GO funding program sets aside $100,000 per year for eight years for non-profit agencies in communities impacted by Site C. The fund is administered by the Northern Development Initiative Trust.

New Alaska Highway rest stop There’s a new rest stop at Mile 202 of the Alaska Highway. The Peace River Regional District announced the new facility Monday as part of the Gotta Go initiative to add more rest stops along the famous highway. The rest stop includes a restroom with picnic tables, a cellphone booster tower, and information signs to come. “Providing a rest area, increasing cell coverage, and providing information on our Alaska Highway will be a benefit to our important economic drivers, including tourism,” said Karen Goodings, electoral director. “Those of us who live and travel in

our region know how vital the addition of this new rest area is and appreciate the cooperation of all involved to make it happen.” Mile 202 is located just south of Buckinghorse River area. The new rest stop was developed by the regional district along with the ministry of transportation, the Northern Rockies municipality, Northern BC Tourism, and the federal Alaska Highway Maintenance and Operations department. Talks are ongoing to develop more rest stops along the highway through Northern B.C.

City provides free feminine products Fort St. John city councillors approved providing free feminine hygiene products at public facilities last week. The products will be offered to patrons at all civic facilities with public access. “It’s necessary, just as necessary as water and toilet paper and hands towels, to have feminine hygiene products available because it’s hygienic,” Coun. Byron Stewart said. City staff are still working out the particulars of how the products will be provided at each facility, whether that will through dispensers or at the front counter of the facility. City hall is a much different facility than say the

Pomeroy Sport Centre, and the city has experienced vandalism problems in the past with coin-operated dispensers. Mayor Lori Ackerman said there are a number of ways to provide the products to the public. “I think this is going to be a lot of trial and error and finding what really works,” she said. Also last week, council voted to ensure baby change tables are also made available to all genders at public facilities. While most city facilities have change tables in either a women’s washroom or a family washroom, some facilities do not have change tables available for fathers.

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Anne Roberts Young led the pack for pioneering nurses

ort St. John is getting another school, located across from the hospital, and it will be named the Anne Roberts Young Elementary School. As it was with the Ma Murray School, a lot of people in Fort St. John will have no idea who Anne Roberts Young was, nor her claim to fame. There are many pioneers who deserve to have a school named after them so the decision must have been tough, but Young was definitely the best choice. I was very glad they chose her as she was truly a peacemaker and pioneer of the Peace. More information about Mrs. Young and her pioneer husband Jim Young is printed in The Peacemakers of North Peace and Peace Lovin’ Folk, both of which are available at the North Peace Fort St. John Museum. The first glimpse of the Peace River for Anne was on April 6, 1930, in the late afternoon. She had been picked up in Hythe by Tommy Hargreaves of the Board of Trade for Fort St. John, and Joseph Devlin of the Provincial Police. The district had sent the finest escorts for her, for her role in the little log Red Cross Hospital at Grandhaven was an important one! This marked the growth in population of the land beyond the Peace and ensured that even a tiny hospital would encourage more settlers. Anne was brought across the Peace by Herby Taylor, for whom Taylor was later named, and delivered to McKnights stopping place for a good meal. The river was not yet ready for the usual ferry as the ice floes in the river were rather large, so Herby used a small craft to cross the river using his river expertise. Once refreshed, Anne was taken to Mae Birley’s for her first night in the Peace. There, she was welcomed by Ms. Monica Storrs. Anne, born Angharad Meirion Roberts in Brighton, England, had been nursing in a hospital outside London when she answered an appeal for a nurse from the Fellowship of the West. She trained in midwifery and was hired to be the first nurse at the new hospital outpost at Grandhaven. She arrived before Dr. Brown, the first physician. She opened the little hospital and her first patient was a young settler with a dislocated shoulder, so Anne put the shoulder back into place with thanks from the patient. Another patient was young Dan Darnell, who had been kicked by a horse in the face and needed several stitches. So, without anaesthetic, she quickly stitched up the young lad while an assistant held him still. Vera Smirl was the first baby delivered by Anne, which happened to be her first of many deliveries at the Grandhaven Red Cross Outpost.

Summer travel for Anne Roberts Young, the first nurse posted to the North Peace at the Red Cross Hospital at Grandhaven.

Larry Evans A year after Anne’s arrival to the Peace, she went to Edmonton with Rose Prairie rancher Jim Young to get married. They returned a week later to Jim’s home at Rose Prairie. Here, they ran the Rose Prairie Post Office and Anne continued her work as a district nurse, travelling to rural homes. This meant leaving her home, no matter how severe the weather, day or night, to aid the sick or deliver another baby. Anne had many memories of delivering babies. One morning, a man came for Anne as his wife was in labour. She knew it was cold, but didn’t realize how cold as she was taken swiftly by horse and wagon with a charcoal burner at her feet — it was -60 C! As they say, time, tide, and babies wait for no one! Anne was paid in many ways for her services, as were many folks in those days. She received two weaner pigs once, one for the baby she just delivered, and the second in back pay for the older sibling of the baby delivered on her last visit. Often the pay was in eggs, meat and hay... whatever they could spare they used for pay. Anne delivered between 300 and 400 babies during her nursing career in the North Peace. Many prospered and contributed to the welfare of the North Peace. There is a quilt on display at the North Peace Museum with the names of 99

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of the babies born. Jim and Anne Young had three children, Mary Mickey of Whitehorse, Dorothy (Dottie) Snippa of Calgary, and Robert Young of Rose Prairie. Robert and wife Gerry Ann ran the post office after the death of his parents, with Gerry Ann being the postmistress for more than 50 years. Mrs. Young passed away in 1973. Mr. Young, a true pioneer also; as a rancher, mail carrier by horse and wagon, and also known for starting the school at Kelly Lake, lived until he was 90. The Young pioneer home still stands next to the little Rose Prairie Post Office. As a footnote, there were many excellent nurses that we failed to mention in last week’s previous article about nurses in the Peace. Many of our nurses arrived as immigrants to the Peace to fill the void of nurse shortage. Tess Pagatpatan arrived from the Phillipines in the 1960s with Flor Quibuien. Both ladies worked at the hospital, Tess in maternity and helping deliver babies for more than three decades. Tess was on duty during or just after the birth of all three of our kids! Our long time friend, Gerhild Neugebauer (Nurse Gail) arrived via Austria, trained as a nurse practitioner at Halifax, and spent many years in the Far North and Fort St. John area as a health clinic nurse (new name for outpost) on local reserves. Larry Evans is a former fire chief, city councillor, and lifelong historian living in Fort St. John.

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Is it time for a conservative climate plan?

t’s clear where Andrew Scheer’s climate plan is headed: nowhere good, read one headline. Nothing more than a sad joke, said another. The one that got my attention was: So what’s the plan in the rest of the world? What would the results be if Canada followed the Conservative Party’s vision of a climate action plan? A death sentence for Canadians as we are incinerated by wildfire? Drowned by floods? Starved by droughts? Or, is this a sensible path forward in lock step with the rest of the world’s actions? And please note, I said actions, not commitments, as there is a substantial difference, albeit one that most politicians think are one and the same. Not surprisingly, the current Liberal government, the Greens, and the NDP were quick to denounce Scheer’s plan to protect Canada’s environment. Almost every left leaning environmental organization followed suit. Who’s correct? Canada’s first commitments to address climate change occurred in 1992 when Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Canada was the first G7 nation to do so. Mulroney was quoted: “I leave this conference believing we have a better chance of saving the world than we had when we came

here.” As history has shown, what Mulroney committed Canada to was not achieved. In December 1997, the Kyoto Protocol extended the 1992 UNFCCC but was not entered into force until February 2005. In 2002, Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien directed Canada’s parliament to sign off on this agreement, binding Canada to its targets. As history has shown, what Chretien committed Canada to was not achieved. In 2009, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper signed the Copenhagen Accord, a non-binding agreement agreeing to reduce emissions. In 2011, Harper officially withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol at the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, citing two reasons. One, the world’s two largest emitters, China and the United states, had not signed and committed to reductions; and two, Canada would be required to pay an estimated $14 billion to the UN for not meeting our targets. As history has shown, what Harper committed Canada to was not achieved. In 2017, Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed a new agreement at the Paris Climate Change Conference (Paris Agreement). Although the targets were non-binding and annual reporting is required, Trudeau committed

Evan Saugstad Canada to donating $2.65 billion over the next five years to help developing countries battle climate change. As history is now showing, Trudeau will not meet his targets either. Interestingly, France, the big push and “model” nation behind the Paris Agreement, isn’t meeting its targets either. If there is one common refrain throughout Canada’s venture into setting greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, it’s that no matter who proposed them, no one has yet to get them correct. They were also all wrong on the negative side, being that less is better. One common definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and always expecting different results. Maybe, just maybe, Scheer and the federal Conservatives are closer to the mark with their new plan, rather than perpetuating insanity. My simplistic view of longrange plans for greenhouse gas reduction is that there are too many twists and turns to accurately determine numbers for something that occurs in 10 or 20 years. Yes, a plan needs

objectives, but how one gets there is difficult to predict. I look at this akin to my retirement plans. Back in the 1970s when I was in my 20s, I wished for retirement at 55 — indeed, a common refrain was Freedom 55. I didn’t know how much money would be required, whether I would have my own pension plan, or where I would live. I did know that if I wished to retire, I needed to begin saving, so I did. For nearly 40 years, I saved part of most every pay cheque, except for one year when I took most of the year off from work (had a lot of fun that year!). Along the way, a divorce and a separation threw a couple of curve balls at my plan, but I kept on. Although I didn’t make 55, I did make 61. I didn’t know whether I had enough to retire on, but I thought if things changed, I would adapt, once again. That is how I look at the Conservatives new climate plan. A work in progress, where we set new specific objectives and see what they achieve. Along the way, we refine if they require refinements. Adding new taxes to everything we do is not prudent, unless all other major countries do the same and the economic playing field stays relatively level. We should focus on our major emitters and see how they can be incentivized to reduce their emissions, rather than look at

hairball schemes to shut them down. Looking to technologies can help, recognizing that governments have a role to facilitate this, both through regulation and funding. I wholeheartedly agree that reducing emissions is a global issue, and if we don’t do similar things, then emissions reductions will not be achieved. As part of this, we, as Canadians, need to define our role within the larger world. Is it our destiny to provide resources to the rest of the world, and, if so, how do we account for their emissions? Is it smart for us to stop exporting our wealth-creating resources to meet a selfimposed target, only to watch other countries step in and fill that same void? Should we stop exporting natural gas, oils, grains, legumes, lumber, pulp, meats, fish, and minerals, and only produce what we need? Bet if we did, we would meet our previously failed objectives, but in doing so, our country would likely look like Venezuela. My flat earth view: Keep doing what you are doing PM Justin, and then we will be able to see whether Andrew Scheer is any better than the previous four in reading his tarot cards.

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

Before you get married, have a spelling bee

othing slows traffic like a misspelled highway sign. You wonder if they did it purposely or if someone just made a boo-boo. The month of June is the best time to take that evening drive and go sign watching — similar to bird watching except that the signs don’t move and are therefore easier to spot. Why June? Because June is the perfect month to spot signs that declare that ‘Congradulations’ are in order for the local high-school graduates. I have to wonder if it’s an intentional play on the word, or if the sign installer believes that is the correct spelling. Does anyone else mentally spellcheck highway signage? What about Facebook posts – do you find

Judy Kucharuk yourself snorting your morning coffee after reading a Facebook post littered with spelling errors? No? It’s just me? Before you start chastising me — “But Judy, your grammar is terrible!” — I will admit that my grammar is not always up to par. I over punctuate, have difficulty with word contractions, and I am certain that my schoolteacher grandmother is looking down from

Heaven and shaking her head in disappointment. Irregardless — I typed that double negative on purpose because I have a physical reaction with I hear someone say it out loud and I am trying a new therapy where you confront your anxiety triggers — you have to admit that I rarely misspell a word and I would have no problem with you calling me out on a spelling error. June is not the only month that sets me on edge. February is a close second because, darn it, Valentines Day is not Valentimes Day! Where did that even start? Who heard Happy Valentines Day and thought, “Isn’t it Valentimes Day?” Just as heinous as those people who

announce that they are going to watch their child play volleyvall. Where did that come from? Bear with me for a moment while I take a calming breath. There is nothing sexier than a partner who can spell words properly. I think some marriages would last longer if an impromptu Spelling Bee were held prior to the nuptials. You need not include big words, just every day words like: February or Wednesday or congratulations.

Judy Kucharuk is a lover of sarcasm, witty people and footnotes. You can follow her on twitter @judylaine

Grads, don’t let the thrills of life fade away

s the local MLA, nothing gives me greater pleasure than to address graduation ceremonies. It’s not just because I am a former educator, or because these days my official role is opposition critic for education. Graduation, specifically from high school, really does mark a special moment in a person’s life. It’s that great transition to adulthood when all of a sudden the path forward is not so predictable anymore and you

finally get to make your own choices in life. Last week, I told North Peace Secondary’s grad class that if your absolute dream is to go backpacking across Canada, or maybe around the world, go and do it now because I never took that opportunity when I had the chance. All of a sudden, priorities and obligations like making a living and supporting a family quickly take over, and that sense of freedom and

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the thrill of the unknown just gradually fades away. But the one thing that sticks with us all through life are the lessons and experiences we learn at school. The biggest credit of all is owed to our teachers and parents for

helping to build one of the best public school systems in the world. We can certainly always do better, but 2019 marks a special year in which more indigenous students graduated from high school than ever before in the history of our province. A report by the Auditor General in 2015 revealed the graduation rate for indigenous students was a shocking 24% lower than for non-indigenous students. In less than four years, we

have been able to reduce that gap to 16%, but still means we have a long way to go to ensure outcomes are the same for all students regardless of their cultural background. In closing, my message to all students, be they graduating or returning to school next year, be proud of your achievements and enjoy a safe summer. Dan Davies is MLA for Peace River North.

Peace moratoriums the latest blow to B.C. forestry

ew countries have been blessed with such an abundance of natural resources as we have here in Canada. The forestry industry alone supports more than 140,000 jobs in the province, including one in five local jobs in Northeast B.C. It’s also why the recent, almost daily news of mill closures and curtailments throughout the province has been so devastating for our communities. I know that many of our residents have been directly affected by these announcements and my thoughts continue to be with those workers and their families. So why is this happening?

Many within the industry are pointing to several issues that have led to a growing sense of uncertainty within the province’s forestry sector, including low lumber prices, a declining annual allowable cut, increasing log costs, and uncertainty around ever increasing over-regulation. There are also concerns about the lack of progress on the softwood lumber file. These issues have now only been exacerbated by the province, along with their federal Liberal counterparts, imposing a two-year moratorium on new natural resource development in our region as part of their caribou recovery plans.

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I am deeply concerned that this interim moratorium will lead to permanent restrictions and I fail to see how pushing pause on natural resource development will “limit economic impacts” as Minister Donaldson would have us believe. There’s no denying that all of us care about the caribou and bringing the herd back, however, we have heard from

local experts that a moratorium would not necessarily be effective in seeing caribou numbers increase. Instead, this decision will surely have a greater negative impact on our local mill operations, with more closures likely to come. Unfortunately, we are seeing the real-world consequences of the Liberal’s failure to act on the softwood lumber file and a provincial government that wants to increase regulation and red tape at a time when the industry is already on its knees. In these uncertain times, Conservative Members of Parliament from British Columbia, including myself, have been briefed on these

closures and curtailments and possible next steps. It’s clear that both the federal Liberal government and provincial NDP government are simply not doing enough to support the forestry sector and its workers. Instead both seem content to leave an already battered industry to languish. This is simply unacceptable, which is why we continue to fight this government’s desire to keep our resources in the ground and why we fight to protect our way of life and the jobs that go along with it, all while developing stronger conservation measures. We need a federal and provincial government that fights for us.

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A former Dawson Creek school teacher and artist has completed a long-standing project she says was originally influenced by her daughter. Mary Parslow has written a children’s book, If I Could Go To Work With My Dad, a story that centres around her grandson and his father, who was away from home quite a bit working as a contractor in the oil patch. Parslow says it was her daughter, Joanna, whom she lost to cancer in 2012, that put the wheels in motion, and encouraged her 16 years ago to create the drawings for the newly published book. “It was her idea when her little boy (Brandon) was seven. I just wanted to carry forward and finish it off. She kept saying ‘Mum, you need to do the illustrations,’ so I finally did,” Parslow said at her book launch June 28 at Peace Gallery North. “So, it’s her idea, her concept. I took the photographs that she gave me, some of the text we worked on together and made it into verse, and I did the illustrations. So, this is her and I together.” As the book title suggests, If I Could Go To Work With My Dad is “about this little guy who misses his Dad, really badly,” said Parslow. Working some 12 hours north of their home in Grimshaw, her son-in-law, Lynsey, would be away for two weeks and then come home for a week. Seeing some of the anguish in her son, Parslow said Joanna approached her with the

idea. “She said, ‘You know, people need to know what it’s like to be a family that works in the oil and gas industry, and their dads go off. There isn’t a book out there for kids, like ours, so let’s do it, Mum’.” Parslow says the book not only focuses on her then seven-year-old grandson, but is geared towards someone with a Grade 2 reading level. In the next few weeks, Parslow hopes to have it showcased in libraries and school libraries throughout the region. As for the true-to-life story itself, Parslow admits that some slight changes were made in the book versus the main character’s real life. “I cheated a bit. In the story, he’s seven and he doesn’t (in real life) have any sisters then, but I moved the sisters up a bit.” said Parslow. Brandon, who is now 23, and recently graduated with a degree in criminal justice from the University of the Fraser Valley, does, in fact, have two sisters — Miya, 16, and Jasmine, 14. For the purpose of the book, though, they’re closer in age in their roles. Now retired, Parslow, a former educator who majored in art at university, says she is now able to devote more time to a recently-found love — print making. In the last couple of years, Parslow has been able to make friends and connections with Edmonton’s arts community, and has resulted in a new exhibit which opened June 28 in Fort St. John. Titled Ex Libris, it’s a joint collaboration with Sara Norquay from Edmonton, whom Parslow credits with helping her to develop her artistry. The show runs until July 26 at Peace Gallery North.

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There was so much information out there that was misrepresented on oil and gas, so essentially I started thinking, ‘Well, what can I do?’” — Heidi McKillop

Young filmmaker seeks straight facts about Canada’s oil and gas Deborah Jaremko JWN Energy

Heidi McKillop knows what it’s like to have the facts change your mind about oil and gas development, and she’s hoping her new documentary will help do the same for others. The New Brunswick-born social work grad turned surface land administrator and now filmmaker has just released “A Stranded Nation”, a feature-length documentary that addresses the key issues around Canadian oil and gas development and explores the interconnections between oil and gas and everyday life. The Lido Theatre hosted two screenings of the film on June 27. The film features interviews with prominent industry leaders and supporters including former New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel, Modern Resources CEO Chris Slubicki, BMO Capital Markets managing director Randy Ollenberger, researcher Vivian Krause and energy advocate Cody Battershill. McKillop’s goal is for people across Canada, particularly young people, to be better informed about oil and gas. As a student at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, she supported the province

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implementing a ban on fracking, but says that she was not properly informed. “I didn’t believe that you could balance both business and environmental standards. I also thought that the oil and gas industry was irrelevant and was being phased out of Canada,” she says in the film. McKillop moved to Calgary in 2013 and found work as

an office administrator with an oil and gas company. She then studied petroleum land administration at SAIT and moved into the role of junior land administrator with the same company until she was laid off in 2017. “During the recession I actually lost my job and I became a full-time waitress at Joey Eau Claire,” McKillop said.

Ottawa pumps $275 million into LNG Canada matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

Ottawa will spend $220 million to help fund energy efficient gas turbines for the LNG Canada project. The federal government announced the funding on Monday, along with another $55 million to replace the Haisla Bridge in Kitimat. The turbines will cut both greenhouse gas emissions and fuel use, while the new bridge will support and service increased traffic in the region, the government said. “The Government of Canada is proud to support this historic $40 billion project that will get our resources to new markets, diversify our trade, grow our economy and create middleclass jobs for Canadians, including First Nations and other communities in northern British Columbia,” said Finance Minister Bill Morneau, who

made the announcement in Kitimat. “It’s a vote of confidence in Canada’s resource industry and is good news for Canadians right across the country.” The supports are coming from the government’s Strategic Innovation Fund and Western Economic Diversification Canada. The $40-billion liquefied natural gas export facility led by Shell was formally sanctioned in October 2018. Other partners include Petronas, PetroChina, Mitsubishi, and Korea Gas. “The Government of Canada has enabled LNG Canada’s development of the lowest carbon content LNG for export in the world today,” LNG Canada CEO Andy Caltiz said. “This secures thousands of high-paying jobs and billions in government revenues and demonstrates Canada is a place for major private sector investments.”

“Basically what happened was I realized there was so much information out there that was misrepresented on oil and gas, so essentially I started thinking, ‘Well, what can I do? What would be something that people would actually be interested in?’ And I was actually watching Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary and I was like, ‘I’m going to make a document-

ary.’ Quite literally one day I woke up and decided to do it.” McKillop says she chose the documentary format because she knows from her own circle it is an effective way to reach young people “who don’t like politics or don’t necessarily care.” She didn’t have any filmmaking experience and taught herself the language of filming and editing using resources online. She also paid for the whole thing. The lead camera operator, editor, and drone pilot on the project is Calgary photographer Arden Shipley. McKillop says her full time job at the popular restaurant in downtown Calgary helped her make the connections to put together the interviews for the documentary. “Everyone started from me serving a table at Joey’s, every single person,” she said. “Our overall message is that Canada is not an environmental laggard, it’s not dirty oil, that Alberta’s concerns should be heard and that we need to start working together cross-provincially.”

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eflecting on NPSS graduation ceremonies, all I can say is WOW. Fort St. John, you have talent! From the mic dropping moment of Elysia Cruz, who gave it her all leaving the stage in tears and real emotion after a passionate rendition of Rise Up, to the tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships, to our leaders speeches sending the grads off, to the decorations, grad fest, parents supporting these kids, families travelling from near and far. We are blessed with community. Congratulations and well done! There was another talented woman who came to Fort St. John last week presenting her self-made documentary called Stranded Nation at the Lido Theatre. Canadian filmmaker, producer, and director Heidi McKillop has created a doc-

umentary called A Stranded Nation, a documentary about our national interests, a competitive oil and gas sector, and the benefits it provides to all Canadians. “The environment is arguably the most debated topic of modern Canadian politics. The use of hydrocarbons has become a central political discourse within Canada. The decision to build a national pipeline to meet international demand has left Canadians divided and uncertain,” its synopsis reads. This fresh insight tells another side of the drivers behind the petroleum industry. It also highlights the impact of the digital age on public perception. The social media engine is strong and has so much control over public perception. It is important to be informed and understand the impact of the global digital nation we live in. Globaliza-

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tion has changed our world. Are we giving away our natural resource wealth? Once again, the local economy is on a roller coaster of a ride. One hundred and ninety direct jobs lost with the closing of Louisiana Pacific Peace Valley OSB. The indirect jobs is estimated impact of more than 680 people. This has huge cumulative impact. We are in the shadow of a federal election, which stalls any economic growth moving forward. We have provinces fighting over pipeline access and the forest industry heavily impacted. Mismanagement of our natural resources

does not support stable economic growth. Take a step back. Take some time. Become involved. Understand. Ask your leaders to be accountable and take this voice to the national leaders. As we sit in a community fueled by global markets, we are the leaders. We have an opportunity to connect with a change maker and support the voice of our future. A Stranded Nation is the upcoming documentary of the decade that will ignite change. Ask yourself if your digital world and social media has compressed your world into an algorith that controls what we see and how we see it. View with an open mind. Listen to the public discussion fueled by the documentary. Stand up and be heard. Our community has experienced economic hardship fueled by global impacts

of our local resources. Our community is, as we speak, in real time preparing to lose a significant number of local resource-based jobs in the forestry industry. Our petroleum is exported at cheap prices. Petroleum value-added marketing does not occur in our community, our province, or our country. At the same time, we import vast amounts. Canada creates less than 2% of the global greenhouse gas emissions, yet we are world leaders in innovation and change. That innovation and change is an opportunity to market as global leaders. Edwina Nearhood is a lifelong resident of Fort St. John. Her 30-year experience in the appraisal industry offers a unique lens on the challenges associated with the economic forces impacting real estate and the community.

Pacific Oil and Gas completes acquisition of Canbriam Energy

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Pacific Oil and Gas announced that it has completed its acquisition of Canbriam Energy. In a news release Friday, June 28, the two companies announced Pacific had acquired all issued and outstanding shares of Canbriam. “We welcome the Canbriam team to Pacific Oil and Gas Ltd,” Ratnesh Bedi, president of PO&G, said in a statement. “Our intention is to continue to produce the cleanest natural gas from the Montney region, and to help reduce global GHG emissions by sharing that resource through international export.” The deal advance’s Pacific’s lique-

fied natural gas aspirations through it’s $1.8-billion Woodfibre LNG project in Squamish. The facility is licensed to export 2.1 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year for 40 years. “We are pleased to close this acquisition and look forward to a seamless integration with Pacific Oil and Gas,” said Paul Myers, Canbriam’s president and chief executive officer. “We expect to continue to responsibly develop our prolific, low-cost Montney resource to support future natural gas export opportunities in Canada.” Earlier this week, Pacific announced it signed a sales agreement with BP Gas Marketing Limited for 0.75 million tonnes per year of LNG over 15 years from the Woodfibre facility.

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Ecole Central Elementary celebrated its fourth annual Festival of Colours on June 26, 2019. Says Principal Broyden Bennett: “We use it as a chance to celebrate each other, our uniqueness, diversity, and the year we had at Ecole Central by throwing chalk in the air. We invite our whole community to come join us and this year we even had the Grade 5s run games and activities afterwards adding to the celebration.”

Cannabis job fair coming to Fort St. John MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca

The BC Liquor Distribution Branch will host a job fair in Fort St. John on July 9 to recruit employees for a BC Cannabis Store set to open later this year. The branch is looking for one store manager, two assistant managers, six full-time cannabis consultants, and eight part-time and auxiliary cannabis consultants. The job fair will be held on Tuesday, July 9 from noon to 6 p.m. at the Best

Western Plus Chateau. Recruiters will be accepting resumes at the event, but all prospective candidates must also submit their application online at the LDB’s website. Employees will be subject to security screening. The store will be located at the Northgate Mall complex, and is expected to open later this year. No date was provided. Meanwhile, five private retailers continue to await provincial licensing approval to open their proposed stores in Fort St. John.

Curtailments hit Prince George pulp mills

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and higher fibre costs resulting from recent sawmill curtailments across the BC industry,” the company said in a news release Thursday, June 27. The curtailments will reduce pulp production output by roughly 70,000 tonnes of NBSK pulp, Canfor said. Canfor said it intends to resume full production at the two mills in September.

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Hot off a US$68-million funding round earlier this year, B.C. cleantech firm Carbon Engineering (CE) has landed another C$25 million in funding — this time from Ottawa. The Squamish-based company specializing in technology that captures carbon from the atmosphere will be using the fresh capital from the federal coffers to design and build its Newport Innovation Centre. “CE’s air treatment technologies have the potential to realize significant greenhouse gas reductions, create jobs and investment in Canadian projects and deliver clean fuels to consumers. We are grateful for this support as we work to commercialize our technology and cement our position as a world leader in this field,” CEO Steve Oldham said in a June 25 statement, the day the funding was announced.

The innovation centre, also located in Squamish, will include an advanced development facility, and an integrated direct air capture and air-to-fuel plant. The plant will be able to capture 4.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and produce at least 320 litres of low-carbon fuel a day, according to the company. Including the US$68 million in investments announced in March, CE’s total funding for the year now sits at about C$115 million. Previous investors include Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, Chevron Technology Ventures and Murray Edwards, executive chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. Oldham told Business in Vancouver at the time of the previous funding round that the capital would help CE enhance its test plant in Squamish, boost its headcount to about 80 workers (it had 50 workers at the beginning of 2019) and ramp up plans for commercial deployment of industrial plants.

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Fort St. John RCMP are warning the public against taking justice into their own hands after responding to a complaint about a malnourished dog earlier this month. Police seized the 16-year-old dog after receiving a report on June 15, and took it to the veterinarian, where it was decided that the dog would be euthanized, according to a press release. The dog’s owner had been medevaced and hospitalized for two months and had left their dog in the care of others, according to police. RCMP say they have since responded to reports of mischief at the owner’s address, where a vehicle was vandalized

Fort St. John RCMP are looking for tips to help recover a stolen mountain bike. In a press release, police say the cyclist was accosted and robbed by four men on the north side of 100 Avenue and 102 Street around 3 a.m. on June 16. One of the men punched the cyclist in the face, causing the rider to fall off their bike. The suspects took the cyclist’s red mountain bike and left eastbound on 100 Avenue. The canine unit was called in but could not find the suspects. “If you or someone you know has seen anyone matching this description or knows someone who mysteriously has a red mountain bike, we would like to hear from you,” Cst. Chad Neustaeter said in the release. “If there are people willing to physically assault someone else for their bicycle, then the police need to meet these people.” Anyone with information is asked to call the detachment or Crime Stoppers.

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Fort St. John RCMP are looking for help solving an arson on June 25. Officers were called out to a house fire in the 8100 block of 99 Avenue just before midnight on Tuesday, the detachment said in a news release. “Arson is a crime of deliberately setting a fire with full expectation of destruction,” Cst. Chad Neustaeter said. “In this case the destruction was limited to the house structure and there were no injuries to any persons, which we are so thankful for.” Anyone with information is asked to call the detachment at 250-787-8100, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), or online at www.crimestoppersnebc.ca.

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because of the public’s perception about the lack of care for the dog. “The RCMP request that disgruntled members of the public channel frustrations in a more constructive manner. Two wrongs don’t make a right; finding the truth and utilizing education or intervention is a better response than only knowing one angle of a story and seeking retaliation or revenge,” Cst. Chad Neustaeter wrote in a release. “The RCMP warn, vigilante justice is not acceptable and, depending on the actions taken, could be prosecuted as a criminal offence.”

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for fraud over $5,000. • Bryan Gary Capot Blanc (born 1983) was sentenced to 30 days jail with an 18-month probation order for assault, and received the same sentence on a charge of forcible entry. Capot Blanc was was handed another 18-month probation order for a separate charge of assault, and received the same sentence for a charge of attempting to obstruct justice. • Ryan Eric Whitehead (born 1995) was sentenced to 60 days in jail and given a 12-month probation order for assault. Whitehead was sentenced to seven days in jail, given a 12-month probation order, and ordered to provide a DNA sample for another charge of assault. Whitehead was sentenced to 14 days in jail for breach of undertaking. • Ricky James Needlay (born 1969) was given a one-year probation order for each count of causing a disturbance, possessing an unauthorized firearm, and breach of undertaking. Needlay entered into a peace bond for a charge of fear of injury/damage by another person. • Riley Darian McLeod (born 1994) entered into a peace bond for a charge of fear of injury/damage by another person. • Joel Roger Yvon Beaulieu (born 1997) was fined $200 for driving without a driver’s licence. • Keith Colin Chipesia (born 1978) was handed an 18-month probation order with a suspended sentence for breaching probation.

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• All entries will begin assembling on 103rd Ave, coming in on • Undecorated vehicles (exceptClub those in theof Vintage Category) Highway 49of (Rolla Rd) at 8:00 a.m. with parade commencing at need not register. Club Dawson Rotary 10:00 a.m. sharp. • Entrants understand that photos will be taken ofCreek the parade Dawson Creek • Judging of pre-registered entries and ribbon distribution and may be used in future publications and promotional Sunrise will take place at 9:15 a.m. prior to the parade beginning. If you are not in line at 9:00 am – you will not be judged • Entrants who have not registered with the Chamber of Commerce will not be judged! • Entries must be able to keep up with the flow of the parade or they will be excused.

materials. • NOTE: Candy throwing is NOT permitted from floats for safety reasons, but can be handed our using walkers beside your float. • Parade ends at Northern Lights College. • We will need to know if you will have sound/music on the float. CATEGORIES: Marching Bands/Band on Float • Commercial/Business Entry • Draft Horse/Pony/Mounted entry • Non-Commercial, Non-Profit Club/Organization, Cultural Group • Vintage Cars, Trucks, Tractors • Civic / Municipal

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Location: Daytona Beach, Fla. Date: Saturday, July 6, 7:30 p.m. Last Year’s Pole: Chase Elliott - 194.045 mph Last Year’s Winner: Erik Jones

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NASCAR Cup Series action returns to Daytona International Speedway for the Coke Zero 400 Powered By CocaCola. Since its inception, this race has been traditionally held on or around Independence Day. Since 1988, the race has been scheduled for the first Saturday of July closest to July 4. In 1998, it became the first restrictor plate and Daytona race to be held at night. The 2.5-mile superspeedway consists of 31-degree banking in the turns while the tri-oval and back straightaway are 18 and two degrees respectively. Current points leader, Joey Logano, finished 39th in last year’s race.

Last Weekend’s Race: Alex Bowman won at Chicagoland Alex Bowman held off Kyle Larson for his first career NASCAR Cup Series victory at Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday. Bowman had one of the fastest cars during practice, and the strength of his No. 88 Axalta Chevrolet showed after the race was delayed by a storm. The 26-year-old Bowman had just six top-five finishes in 133 starts on NASCAR’s top series before his banner day on the bumpy 1.5-mile oval. Joey Logano, who entered with a onepoint lead over Kyle Busch for the top spot in the series standings, finished third.

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Christopher Bell disqualified from Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity race NASCAR Xfinity Series title contender Christopher Bell was disqualified from Saturday’s race after his No. 20 Toyota Supra failed post-race inspection. Bell ran strong throughout the Camping World 300 at Chicagoland Speedway but finished third behind winner Cole Custer and runner-up Joey Logano. NASCAR officials said Bell’s No. 20 was found to be too low in post-race inspection, the same infraction which cost Ross Chastain a Truck Series victory at Iowa earlier this month. Bell will now receive last-place points and will not be allowed to keep any of the stage points he earned in the race. Bell had finished second in Stage 2 and third in Stage 1. Bell is already locked in the series’ playoffs through his four series victories. “We have a pre-race height and a post-race height rule. All the cars passed before they went out on the race track,” Xfinity Series managing director Wayne Auton said. “Once the car went up on the height sticks up onto the ramp, and when we put the sticks on the car failed both front heights and the rightrear. The front was extremely low and the right-rear was a little high.” Auton said there was no damage to the car from the race. The No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing operation has until Monday at noon ET to initiate the appeal process. No additional penalties will be handed down after the disqualification.

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Alien Messages: Canada Day is for all Each week, Fort St. John writers Charo Lloret and Kalpana Loganathan will reflect on their experiences immigrating to Canada and settling into their new homes in Fort St. John through a series of dialogues called Alien Messages. Here’s their conversation about Canada Day: Charo: “A nation is not made out of land. Land is only dirt. A nation is made out of its people and we are Canada’s people. You are Canada. Your laughter, your tears, your work, your songs, your culture, your identity are part of the fabric of the maple leaf flag now, because you decided to be part of this nation called Canada.”

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Kalpana: “That’s true. We should all stand up and walk proudly with our red and white on Canada Day.

I think it would be very healthy for immigrants to get out there and shout, ‘This is my land’ — because it is.” Charo: “You know, when I think of Canada, some very special lines come to my mind. They were written by the late Argentinian First Nation singer and poet Atahualpa Yupanqui: ‘Mirando correr el río le dije, casi en silencio, Vas a tener que andar mucho para ganarle a mis sueños’, which means, ‘Watching the river run, I told him, almost quietly, ‘You´re gonna have to run real fast to outrun my dreams’. Canada is a land for dreamers, a land where the alchemy of success can be smelled in the air like the scent of flowers. And we are certainly dreamers.” Kalpana: “Yes, many of

us left everything behind to pursue the Canada dream. There is also one common reason most of the immigrants chose Canada: Because of the core Canadian values such as respecting individual liberty and equal opportunity. However, sometimes the reality makes us believe multicultural Canada might be good in principle, but not in reality. How come we don’t claim ownership on our land, Canada?” Charo: “Maybe because many people question whether immigrants are as Canadian as born Canadians, or because of the people that advise us to go back to our country whenever we complain about the weather, or the health system.” Kalpana: “Yeah, or when they don’t under-

stand our English accent.” Charo: “And yet this is our land. From the desolation of refugee camps, from the oppression of totalitarian countries, from the exotic tropics where beaches are only open to tourists, from the mysterious spiritual Asia, the good ol’ Europe, Africa and Latin America, we all made the difficult decision to leave family, friends, and roots behind and become a part of this beautiful wild Canada. In Canada, we raise our children, we love, we dream, we work hard and pay taxes, so… Are we allowed to feel like Proud Canadians, Kalpana?” Kalpana: “Damn right we are!” Charo Lloret is from Spain; Kalpana Loganathan is from India. Both call Fort St. John home.

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Fort St. John’s Becky & Mike Dyke were out early to get a good spot along 98th Street for the city’s annual Canada Day Parade in Fort St. John July 1, 2019.

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Kamdyn Apsassin, 6, from Doig River waits patiently along a stretch of 100 Street for the start of the annual parade July 1, 2019.

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The Matson family from Fort St. John are all set up to watch the annual Canada Day Parade July 1, 2019. From left to right are dad, Shaun, 8-year-old Blake, 2-year-old Carter, and mom, Megan.

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Fort St. John’s Colten Beaumont (red) holds the lead in the first main event Sunday afternoon in the Mini-Sprints, June 30, 2019. Engine trouble would knock him out of this race and the second round. Carissa Elliott of Sexsmith (purple) would go on to win both main events on the day.

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Thunderstorms both Friday and Saturday night resulted in some last-minute shuffling for organizers of the Doug Babcock Memorial Points Challenge at Taylor Speedway. Friday’s schedule was called off after a storm rolled through the area just an hour before racing was to begin. On Saturday night, another fast moving storm dumped a large amount of rain even closer to the start, however, this time organizers decided to wait it out — it was just after 9:30 when the first green flag was dropped and racing began. However, with an 11 p.m. curfew, as per an arrangement with the District of Taylor, each of the four classes were only able to squeeze in one heat each, and the IMCA modifieds were the only group to get in a main event. The Bomber, Mini Juniors and Mini Seniors would have to wait until Sunday afternoon to do theirs. With a muddy track even before Saturday night’s thunderstorm, the Mini-Sprints was pushed entirely to Sunday, as well. Thankfully, ideal weather Sunday afternoon allowed organizers to complete the remaining

main events and and carry out a full second day schedule of heats and main events. Day 1: • IMCA Modifieds: Johnny Beaumont (Fort St. John) • Bomber: Swain Hackman (Taylor) • Mini-Senior (adult): No race • Mini-Junior: Cody Willis (Smith, AB) • Mini-Sprints: Carissa Elliott (Sexsmith, AB) Day 2: • IMCA Modifieds: Johnny Beaumont (Fort St. John) • Bomber: Richard Hildebrand (Fort St. John) • Mini-Junior/Senior (combined): Cody Willis (Smith, AB) • Mini-Sprints: Carissa Elliott (Sexsmith, AB)

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Curl B.C. announced the host sites of its nine B.C. championships for 2020 today. Fort St. John is among the cities hosting a provincial tournament, as the 2020 B.C. Winter Games will be here Feb. 20 to 23. “The year 2020 will be a great year of competition in BC. We will once again be taking the men’s and women’s events and combining them in an arena setting, this time in the City of Cranbrook. We will also once again be running

the BC Club Challenge, our competitive event for club curlers. We are really looking forward to helping make these events a positive experience for curlers, club volunteers and curling fans,” said Will Sutton, Curl B.C.’s competitions manager. Other noteable competitions are the B.C. Junior Curling Championships in Victoria, Dec. 28 to Jan. 2, which Sterling Middleton will attempt to win for a fourth straight year, and the B.C. Men’s and Women’s championships in Cranbrook, Jan. 28 to Feb. 2.

ey Doc, my horse has been lame for two weeks. I think he needs an x-ray of his shoulder.” We hear things like this often at the clinic, but this is not the starting point for a lameness evaluation. Lameness is a clinical sign; it is a term used to describe a gait abnormality which can have a wide range of causes. Often, the underlying cause is pain, but it can also be due to a mechanical restriction on normal range of motion or movement. When we think of a lame horse, we think of one that has an obvious limp, but lameness can be more subtle, causing a slight gait change or sometimes a decreased ability or willingness to perform. There are multiple steps for a thorough lameness evaluation. First, a detailed medical history is taken. Next, the horse will be examined at rest. The conformation will be assessed. Is the horse balanced and does it bear weight evenly on all four limbs? Is there any obvious evidence of an injury? A thorough hands-on exam follows. The limbs and body are palpated, and joints manipulated to assess for signs of inflammation, pain or any other abnormalities. Hoof testers are applied to feet to check for any sensitivity by placing pressure on the soles and hoof walls. Then, we get to the motion exam. Your veterinarian will watch the horse at both the walk and the trot; evaluating the gait from the front, rear and sides observing for abnormal movements and identifying which limb(s) appear to be affected. We are looking for things like head bobbing, hip hiking, shortened stride, irregular foot placement, stiffness, winging or paddling feet, etc. Next, flexion tests are performed. This involves holding the horse’s joints in a flexed position for a set length of time and then releasing

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them and sending them off in a trot to observe for signs of pain, abnormal movement or weight shifting. Flexion tests can make an issue more obvious, or even reveal problems that are otherwise not readily apparent. Depending on the findings from the history, standing and in-motion exams, further diagnostics may be required to isolate the specific location and cause of the lameness. This may include diagnostic nerve or joint blocks, radiographs (x-rays) and ultrasound. If more advanced imaging, like an MRI, is required, then a referral to an equine specialist may be recommended. Treatment options and prognosis will vary depending on the reason for the lameness, which is why it’s best to have a diagnosis for the underlying cause if possible. There are things that you can do as an owner to help your horse. If you suspect a problem, discontinue riding and consult with your veterinarian promptly. Ensure your horse is conditioned properly prior to asking them to perform at a certain level. Match a horse’s conformation to its intended use. Ensure that their feet are well maintained and that they have appropriate nutrition. Dr. Kim Jones joined the North Peace Veterinary Clinic care team in 2009 after graduating with distinction from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine.

FORT ST. JOHN & DISTRICT CHURCH DIRECTORY ANGLICAN CHURCH of CANADA NoRTH PEACE PARISH Please join us at our temporary location at the Peace Lutheran Church @ 1:30pm Ph: 250-785-6471 “All are Invited and Welcome Here” - (Luke 14:23) SERVICES St. Martin’s, fort St. John, BC Reverend: Christopher Samson Sundays 1:30 p.m. ********** Church of the Good Shepherd Taylor, BC - Sundays 10:00 a.m. ********** St. Matthias, Cecil Lake, BC 3rd Sun. of the Month 4:00 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 250-787-0089 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 ********** BAPTIST CHARLIE LAkE CoMMUNITY CHURCH 12731 244 B Road, Charlie Lake (1st left turn off the Alaska Hwy. past the Charlie Lake Store) 250-785-1723 office@charlielakechurch.com www.charlielakechurch.com Lead Pastor: Joshua Goetz Associate Pastor: Jared Braun Sunday Worship: 10:40 AM Sunday School during the service nursery-grade 6 ********** CATHoLIC RoMAN CATHoLIC CHURCH (Resurrection Church) Pastor: Rev. Aruldhas Lucas, SAC Phone 250-785-3413 www.fsjresurrectionchurch.com MASSES: Saturday 7:30 p.m. Sunday - 10:00 a.m. oNLY OFFICE HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 9:00 -12:00 noon & 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. BAPTISM: Contact the Pastor 3 months before baptism. MARRIAGES: Contact the Pastor 6 months before the wedding. **********

ALLIANCE CHURCH 9804-99 Ave., fort St. John, BC V1J 3T8 Ph: 250-785-4644 fax: 250-785-8932 e-mail: office@fsjalliance.ca www.fsjalliance.ca SUNDAY WoRSHIP SERVICE: 10:00am ********** CoMMUNITY PEACE CoMMUNITY CHURCH 10556-100th Street, Taylor, BC Pastor: Wally Pohlmann Phone: 250-789-3045 HoURS: 9:00am-Noon Monday-Wednesday & friday Email: office@taylorchurch.ca Website: www.taylorchurch.ca SUNDAY ADULT CLASS - 9:30am SUNDAY WoRSHIP SERVICE - 10:30am ********** EVANGELICAL foRT ST. JoHN EVANGELICAL MISSIoN 8220-89th Avenue, fSJ Sunday School September-June begins at 9:30am Sunday mornings. Worship Service - 10:45am Phone: 250-787-2550 ******* INTERDENoMINATIoNAL UPPER PINE GoSPEL CHAPEL Church Phone: 250-827-3833 Email: upgc@pris.ca Board Chairman: Andy Burkholder 250-827-3811 Box 66, Rose Prairie, BC ********** LUTHERAN PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 9812-108th Avenue, fort St. John, BC V1J 2R3 Office Phone: 250-785-2718 Pastor: Rev. Kebede Dibaba Regular Worship Schedule: 9:00am Youth, Adult Bible Study 10:00am Sunday Worship Service & Sunday School ********** PEACE RIVER MUSLIM ASSoCIATIoN Information: 250-787-1264 Jumm’a (Friday) Prayer @ 1:00pm 203-10903-100th Street, fort St. John, BC email: tahermorsi@shaw.ca ********** MENNoNITE NoRTH PEACE MENNoNITE BRETHREN CHURCH North Peace Mennonite Brethren Church 10816 106 St. fort St. John, BC V1J 5V2 250-785-3869 Lead Pastor: Andrew Eby Associate Pastor of Youth & Young Adults: Don Banman SUNDAY SERVICE TIMES: 9:00am & 11:00am **********

MENNoNITE MoNTNEY MENNoNITE CHURCH SUNDAY MoRNING: Sunday School & Worship: 9:30am SUNDAY EVENING: 2nd & 4th Sundays: 7:00pm Everyone Welcome! Pastor Warren Martin Phone: (250) 827-3231 ********** NoNDENoMINATIoNAL CHRISTIAN LIfE CENTRE “Associated with “Fellowship of Christian Assemblies” “King Jesus is Lord Over the Peace” 8923-112th Avenue, fort St. John, BC V1J 6G2 website: www.christianlifefsj.ca Ph: 250-785-4040 fax: 250-785-4021 Pastor Steve Oboh Principal of Christian Life School: Garry Jones Everyone Welcome Sunday Morning Worship Service: 10:00am Nursery available and Sunday School is held during the sermon for ages 3-12 years. Christian Life Centre is “Home of Christian Life School” ********** foRT ST. JoHN NATIVE BIBLE fELLoWSHIP Sunday Worship: 11:00am Wed., Night Bible Study: 7:30pm Pastor John A Giesbrecht 250-785-0127 ********** GIDEoNS INTERNATIoNAL Fort St. John Camp Ray Hein 250-827-3636 John Giesbrecht 250-785-0127 ********** NoRTHERN LIGHTS CHURCH INTERNATIoNAL (Rose Prairie, BC Sunday Service: Pre-Service Prayer: 10:30am Worship Service: 11:00am Everyone Welcome ********** THE SHELTER CHURCH “...the Lord will be a shelter for His people” Joel 3:6 9808-98A Ave. fort St. John, BC 250-785-3888 SUNDAY SERVICE: 10am Pastor: Oral Benterud 250-785-9151 ********** PENTECoSTAL THE PENTECoSTALS of foRT ST. JoHN Phone: 250-787-9888 Pastor: Jason McLaughlin Sunday 10am Service, Sunday School Youth Sunday 11am Worship Service Tuesday 7pm Prayer Wednesday 7pm Bibile Study Friday 7pm Youth **********

PENTECoSTAL ASSEMBLIES of CANADA EVANGEL CHAPEL 10040-100 St., fort St. John Phone: 250-785-3386 Fax: 250-785-8345 Lead Pastor: Tony Warriner Sunday Services: 9:00am, 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 **********

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