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Poppy campaign soars with $15,000 raised matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

Fort St. John’s annual poppy campaign is off to a remarkable start, with an estimated $15,000 raised during the first weekend of the fundraising drive.

That’s a dramatic jump from 2017, when roughly $17,000 was raised over two weekends.

“I must thank the community for their continued support because that is an incredible showing of support,” said Capt. Geoff Bough, the commanding officer in charge of the 2276 PPCLI Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps.

The annual poppy campaign began Oct. 26 and ends Nov. 11.

Funds raised support everything from the hospital, seniors care, and graduating students. Funds are also used to support the Veterans Transition Program at the University of British Columbia, which helps military members return to civilian life.

Local cadets have taken their

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Cadet Jackson Funk pins a poppy on Diane Rogers outside the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 102 in Fort St. John, Oct. 27, 2018.

posts around Fort St. John to raise funds. You can find them at Canadian Tire, Safeway, Walmart, Save-On Foods, No Frills, Shoppers Drug Mart, Home Hardware, Staples, and more on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The cadets volunteer their

time during the poppy campaign as part of the citizenship component of their program, Bough said.

Remembrance Day ceremonies in Fort St. John begin Sunday, Nov. 11 with a parade at 10 a.m. from the legion. A service will follow in the legion auditorium.

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A 23-year-old man who allegedly claimed he was carrying a bomb at Totem Mall on Monday turned out to only be carrying groceries.

Police were called to the mall shortly after 12 p.m. after the man was questioned by security and twice claimed he was in possession of a bomb, according to Fort St. John RCMP. Both uniform and plain clothes officers quickly responded and arrested the man, who was found carrying a duffle bag outside the mall.

“Members were able to quickly determine that there was not a bomb in the bag but rather... groceries,” police wrote in a news release.

No injuries were reported.

Benjamin Kelvin Neil is charged with one count of common nuisance. He remains in custody.

The investigation is ongoing, and police believe it to be an isolated incident.

“Though it may be the season of Tricks or Treats, the Fort St John RCMP take the safety of the public they serve, very seriously and the threat of a bomb is more than a joking matter,” police said.

Charges pending in bait car theft Two people were arrested and are facing theft related charges after stealing a police bait car in September.

Fort St. John RCMP say they were notified the car had been “activated” and tracked it down an undisclosed location in the city, where a male passenger was seen attempting to exit the vehicle, and the female driver tried to flee from officers.

The car was remotely disabled and the two were arrested without incident, police say. They face charges of theft and for possession of property obtained by crime.

Details about the age of the suspects, and when the theft took place were not provided.

The bait car program is run by the Integrated Municipal Provincial Auto Crime Team.

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involved in the violence. There could have been serious injuries if a violinist used his instrument as a club.

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SCROLL TOLL: A Washington Museum discovered some of its Dead Sea Scrolls are fake. That’s what happens why you buy stuff at the Discount Scroll Store.

LOTTERY LUCK: Somebody in South Carolina won $1.5 billion in the lottery.

Thank goodness Canada does not have a lottery prize that big. I could not handle that much money. $1.5 billion would send me over the edge. Although I’d be willing to try half a billion and see how it goes.

SMURF SMIRK: Last week, the Smurfs celebrated their 60th anniversary. There’s a report a new Smurf movie will be made next year. People tell me my column does for quality journalism what the Smurfs do for the colour blue.

HALLOWEEN HA HA: Halloween is a big deal across Canada; a study released last SCAM STUFF: Accord to a news report, week shows it’s second only to Christmas B.C. Average Canadians lose many millions of dollars in terms of money spent. Meanwhile in 143.3 every month in internet scams. I use the the States, one Halloween haunted house internet a lot. I’ve never been scammed, offers a “Torture Experience.” People pay Alberta Average 113.9 but I have been sucked into some iffy deals. money to be suffocated, waterboarded, t St. John, BC - 7 Day Forecast - Environment Canada https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-78_metric_e.html And there was that time my wife made me and receive electric shocks. Another Saskatchewan Avg. 118.3 ROYAL REPORT: While visiting the Pa- remove $3.6 billion worth of stuff from my haunted house offers an “EXTREME Torcific Island of Tonga, Princess Meghan Amazon shopping cart. ture Experience.” One hour of uninterrupMarkle committed a fashion oops.

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Canada Post strike hits Fort St. John matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

Thirty-five Canada Post employees walked off the job in Fort St. John Tuesday as rotating strikes continued across the country.

“We are here because we’ve been negotiating with Canada Post for just over a year and we’ve failed to come to an agreement with them,” said Kelsie Murray, secretary treasurer of the Canadian Union Of Postal Workers Local 738.

Job action began Oct. 22, and workers were also out on the picket lines Tuesday in Dawson Creek, Fort Nelson, and Prince George.

Mail was not collected, processed, or delivered during the strike. Residents could pick up mail that was already delivered to their mailboxes, or at the Shopper’s Drug Mart or Sootay drop-off locations.

At issue for the union is the infrastructure and hiring needed to meet increased parcel loads and work demands, and pay equality for postal workers across the board, Murray said.

Over the last several years, parcel delivery has jumped from 60 parcels a day to close

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Canadian Union Of Postal Workers Local 738 members Kelsie Murray and Babe Seguin on strike in Fort St. John, Oct. 30, 2018.

to 160 day day per letter carrier in Fort St. John, Murray said. At Christmas, that rises to more than 200 parcels.

“Canada post has failed to recognize that. Some of the things that are affected by

that are work-life balance and a lack of hiring full-time positions to staff the work that needs to be done,” she said.

The union also wants to eliminate a two-tier wage system brought in as part of

its last collective agreement, when striking postal workers were legislated back to work in 2011, Murray said. Canada Post wants to add a third tier, Murray said.

“We make roughly $5 less

than that top tier and will never meet that top tier with wage increment increases,” Murray said “Our goal is to eliminate that and go back to to a one-tier system because we do the same work and it’s not valued the same.”

Nearly 6,000 workers walked off the job Tuesday across Canada, including in Montreal, Squamish, Columbia River, Nelson, Weyburn, Sask., and seven Ontario communities.

CUPW members have been conducting rotating walkouts across the country as special mediator Morton Mitchnick tries to resolve the labour dispute.

The union has said that Canada Post needs to come to the bargaining table ready to talk about the issues that matter — health and safety, equality for (rural and suburban mail carriers) and an end to precarious work.”

For its part, Canada Post says it has made “significant offers” to CUPW — which include increased wages, job security and improved benefits — and has not asked for any concessions in return.

— with files from the Canadian Press

B.C. Supreme Court dismisses Site C injunction, orders trial matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has dismissed a bid by two Treaty 8 First Nations to halt work on the $10.7-billion Site C dam.

Justice Warren Milman refused to grant an injunction to West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations on Wednesday, but ordered a trial on whether the project infringes aboriginal treaty rights be held by mid-2023, before the dam’s reservoir is filled.

The First Nations wanted work on all, or some portions of Site C be stopped until that trial is held. However, granting the injunction would put Site C into “disarray,” Milman said.

“Although the claim raises a serious question to be tried, West Moberly’s chances of ultimately succeeding with it and halting the Project permanently are not strong,” Milman wrote in his 98-page decision.

“The proposed injunction, in either of its iterations, would be likely to cause significant and irreparable harm to BC Hydro, its ratepayers and other stakeholders in the Project, including other First Nations and that harm outweighs the risk of harm to West Moberly flowing from not granting an injunction.”

The First Nations plan to

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pursue the trial, and are considering an appeal of Milman’s ruling, their lawyer said.

“The Court acknowledged that there was a serious issue to be tried, as well as the risk of ‘irreparable harm’ being suffered, ordering a trial of the treaty infringement claim to occur before the reservoir is flooded. My client has every intention of proceeding to tri-

al and will also consider appealing this judgement,” said Tim Thielmann of Sage Legal.

“We are disappointed the Court chose not to suspend work immediately, but landslides and potential appeal may force the same result.

West Moberly and Prophet River do not believe this Project will ever be completed.

Taxpayers should ask how

many billions of dollars will be wasted before it finally grinds to a halt.”

In a statement, BC Hydro CEO Chris O’Riley said the Crown utility continues construction.

“BC Hydro has reached benefit agreements with the majority of First Nations that we consult with on Site C. We remain committed to working

with Indigenous communities to build relationships that respect their interests, O’Riley said.

“With the court’s decision today, we will continue our work to safely advance construction of the project.”

Courts have previously dismissed lawsuits by the First Nations and landowners seeking a judicial review of Site C. However, the courts have yet to rule whether the dam infringes Treaty 8, with one provincial Supreme Court justice noting in a September 2015 ruling that the question would need to be answered in a civil trial.

“Through this whole process, no one has asked that question. This project, in our view, unjustifiably infringes the treaty and they have never done a test on it,” West Moberly Chief Roland Willson said when the injunction hearing began on July 23.

The province said courts “have not yet considered whether it is possible for treaty rights to be infringed through ‘cumulative impacts’ to specific, defined areas.”

Several project agreements have also been signed with a number of First Nations in Northeast B.C. over the construction of Site C. There were more than 3,500 workers employed in some capacity on Site C in August.

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Bedrock failure the cause of Old Fort landslide The regional district says it’s working with the ministry of transportation and infrastructure to ensure 24/7 operation of a semi-permanent road back into the community that can support residential traffic, emergency vehicles, school buses, and other service vehicles.

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The ground beneath the Old Fort landslide had been moving for months before it finally let go in a massive collapse in September and forced more than 150 residents to evacuate their homes.

Geologists that have been studying the slide since it let go Sept. 30 were pushed for answers about their findings and the future facing evacuees during a tense, two-hour sitin at the Peace River Regional District office in Fort St. John on Oct. 24.

It’s been 24 days since residents were ordered to evacuate on Oct. 7, one week after the nearby hillside collapsed and destroyed the only road in and out of Old Fort.

The landslide started because of failure in the bedrock, said Tim Smith, a senior engineering geologist with Westrek Geotechnical Services. That triggered another slide to the west of it and sent a large tension crack splitting out to the east toward Old Fort homes.

The company is analyzing its data and assessing the future risks to the community.

Those will be filed in a report to the regional district, which will make the ultimate decision on whether residents can return home, Smith said.

“We’re trying to work out, if this thing fails, where does it go to? And are there houses on the east side of the main slide that could be at risk?” said Smith, who was questioned by residents and regional district board chair Brad Sperling during a phone call at the sit-in.

“We’re trying to get an understanding on how fast this slide is likely to move, and does that give them (residents) time to get out if something

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A portion of the Old Fort landslide below the Peace River viewpoint, Oct. 20, 2018.

goes on.”

“If the slide goes again, how fast does it move, how big do we think it’s going to be, and where does it end up getting to? From there, we can say, ‘Well, this is what we recommend,’” he said.

The bedrock failed in the area of a gravel pit that had been operating on the hillside above Old Fort, according to Smith. The slide was last estimated at more than eight million cubic metres, and has pushed its way down through a gully beneath the gravel pit and into a back channel of the Peace River.

Evidence so far suggests the ground had been moving for months before its collapse, Smith said.

“This piece of ground has been moving for quite a while

before it let go,” he said.

“It’s a pretty big slide. It’s not just what has happened so far.”

Data from a laser light survey technique called LiDAR continues to be collected daily, and recent data hasn’t shown any significant movement of the landslide, Smith said. However, that could change, and winter weather will be a factor.

“The time of year when movement is going to be of the greatest concern is during the periods when we have excessive snowmelt or rain on snow, and the groundwater levels are high,” Smith said.

Report due soon In addition to assessing ongoing hazards, the regional district says Westrek Geo-

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Westrek’s entire report, any recommendations from the independent geotechnical firm, plus any comments from provincial agencies will then be sent for a legal review before being returned to the regional district board for careful consideration.

“The report will provide guidance to the residents of Old Fort about the safety of their community with regards to the landslide risk,” the regional district said, although there is no timeline for completion of the process.

The board will make the ultimate determination whether residents can return home.

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Investigation stalled Meanwhile, the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources told StarMetro Vancouver last week that the evacuation order has stalled a review of the gravel quarry and its operations.

“The ministry … has classified the slide as a dangerous occurrence under the Health, Safety and Reclamation Code and required a geotechnical assessment by a professional engineer,” the ministry said.

By classifying the slide as a dangerous occurence, the ministry has power to order the owner of the site to undertake a third-party assessment by independent geotechnical engineer under that code, the StarMetro reported.

On Oct. 29, the regional district lifted an evacuation alert for 12 properties mostly on the 240 Road, and downgraded an evacuation order to an alert for another property.

The quarry remains under an evacuation order.

An evacuation order remains in effect for most of the Old Fort community.

Temporary permits were issued Thursday that allowed 20 homes to have their natural gas service restored, the regional district said. Power was restored to the community earlier this week.

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Taylor Elementary School inspected for mould matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

Initial inspections of Taylor Elementary School have found no evidence of mould, officials say.

School District 60 said it has conducted two inspections of the school, one by its staff and another by a third-party contractor, after the issue was raised at an all candidates election forum in October.

“Any time we get a concern registered, that’s our regular response. This was not a different response from any time we get a concern raised about air quality in any of our buildings,” superintendent Dave Sloan said at the board of education meeting on Oct. 22.

“WorkSafe BC has regulations and we’re in compliance with those regulations. We have no interest in having unsafe working or learning conditions within the district, so the allegations made about Taylor school, as far as we can tell, are unfounded.”

Council candidate Sherry Davies raised the concerns at the forum Oct. 11, saying Taylor should do more to work with the school district to improve the health of the school.

“The building in itself is unhealthy. A teacher took me around and showed me mould in the classrooms,” Davies said. “I don’t know much about mould either, but I know that’s not a good thing.”

The district said it dispatched its facilities staff to do an inspection the day after the forum, and that its contractor, Pinchin West, inspected the school on Monday.

“We were not able to identi-

fy any water, sitting water, or any apparent visual mould, but in order to make certain that we did our due diligence in regards to that, we do have the third party contractor we deal with,” secretary-treasurer Brenda Hooker said.

It will cost the district between $5,000 and $7,000 for that inspection, Hooker said.

The district is still waiting for that report and any issues that are documented will be addressed, she said.

“That’s a significant cost to the district when we take those responses, but it’s important for us as a district to ensure the health and safety of our staff and students,” Hooker said.

“It would be nice if there were concerns they are brought through school based staff and facilities and channels. If we’re not aware of them, we can’t address them.”

Davies said she remains concerned about the school, but declined further comment when reached today.

“My first question is who was the third-party tester and what exactly did they test for?” she said.

The teacher she spoke with now fears for her job, Davies added.

“Her text to me was her job was in jeopardy. She has asked to step totally away and I have to honour that,” Davies said.

In 2016, drinking water samples found lead levels above federal guidelines at the Taylor preschool.

The district flushed the school’s water lines weekly for a month, and further samples found levels well below federal limits.

Tax changes prompt bump in school trustee salaries matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

School District 60 trustees approved a small increase to their pay last week.

The decision comes as salaries for elected officials across Canada will be fully taxed starting in the new year. Currently, one-third of their pay is tax-free, and the boost for trustees ensures their net income remains unchanged, officials said.

“It’s straightforward; it makes sure trustees stay whole on what they’re taking home,” out-

going trustee Jaret Thompson said.

The annual pay for a trustee rises from $13,045 to $13,200; pay for the vice-chair rises from $14,612 to $15,000; pay for the board chair rises from $16,177 to $16,500.

The increases take effect in the new year.

Trustees are paid monthly in equal instalments, and is part of the district’s budget. It does not include reimbursements for travel and professional development.

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The end of the grizzly hunt, for now

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or an animal that most never see, grizzly bears command a lot of attention. A great and wonderful animal to look at, until you come face to face with one, and look into its piercing little round eyes.

Dodging grizzly bears has been part of my life since I was old enough to walk. I grew up in the Bella Coola valley, were grizzly bears are an every day occurrence except for their few months of hibernation. During my life, I have watched grizzly bears come to be considered a pest, routinely shot around homes and farms, to a liberal hunting season where anyone could buy a tag, to limited entry hunting in some areas, with full protection in others, to now, a total ban on hunting.

I have also watched the bear viewing industry grow, to the point where bear viewing in places like Bella Coola, Knight’s Inlet, and the Khutzeymateen have waiting lists with local guides and lodges. Bear viewing in Bella Coola has become so popular that there are now discussions whether people should be allowed to watch them, for fear the bears will become habituated to people and a bigger problem than they already are.

I have worked and hunted across the Northern B.C. interior and Yukon. Grizzly bears certainly do exist, but are not regularly encountered, as they have large ranges and low densities. In my 20-plus years of being out in the bush here in the Peace, I have yet to come

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face to face with one. As a big game guide, I did guide grizzly bear hunters, but when you want to find one, they can be hard to find. Now, no more hunting of grizzlies, at least under this government’s watch.

For all you fellow hunters out there, need I remind what this may mean? What is still to come?

Think about the outcomes for all those hunters who now head out into the bush to pursue their hunting lifestyles and are unlucky enough to come face to face with a disgruntled grizzly.

What will happen now, if you must shoot one of these now “socially valued” and fully protected beasts, in defence of your life or property?

“By bringing trophy hunting of grizzlies to an end, we’re delivering on our commitment to British Columbians,” Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development said last August.

“This action is supported by the vast majority of people across our province”.

This past spring, government further announced that the hunting of grizzlies for food would also end. To that, Minister

Donaldson stated, “It’s mostly a social values issue. When it comes down to it, this species is seen as an iconic species for B.C., and people just weren’t willing to accept the hunting of grizzly bears anymore in this province.”

Interestingly, First Nation members are exempted from this ban. Apparently grizzly bears aren’t so special or endangered that some people will still be allowed to remove a grizzly’s skin, teeth, and claws, without the permission of its owner!

Since these announcements, much has been said by those both for and against the ending of this hunt. As usual within today’s anti-everything environment, many of those opposing the hunt are citing a lot of misleading facts.

Government’s own studies have shown that grizzly bears are not endangered in B.C., are not in short supply, and hunting has had very little effect on total populations. About 250 of an estimated 15,000 bears were harvested annually. Other studies have shown that in hunted populations where large males are removed, the bear population grows. Fewer cubs are eaten by those males and more become breeding adults.

I could go on about the lack of science in this decision or argue the fact that the bear hunt and bear viewing industries do not compete with each other, but this would take another page or two.

The ending of this hunt was based purely on emotion, and nothing else. As the Safari Club

International (SCI) so aptly stated on its website: “Sustainable management of wildlife in British Columbia was sucker-punched this week when the Provincial government announced the closure of grizzly bear hunting.

Protectionist politics of antihunters trumped sound science in a drama that could see grizzlies bear the brunt of vitriol aimed at hunter-conservationists.”

The decision to end the hunt was delivered and sold to B.C.’s public by well-organized and well-funded anti-environment groups.

Lush Cosmetics proudly states they contributed $200,000 to end the hunt, and MEC financially supported the Raincoast Conservation Society in their efforts to end the grizzly hunt, and they are still trying to end other hunts. These groups also used pure emotion and rhetoric to convince the majority to protest the hunt, by supporting their polls.

Now, I agree that these polls did reflect what people are thinking, but, most people do not hunt bears. Supporting an end to a hunt that is done by a very small number of people has no material affect on the daily lives of the majority. Poll respondents gave an opinion on something that doesn’t cost them anything, as the ban only affects someone else — someone else that they do not know or understand why they hunt. Next week, Part 2.

Evan Saugstad lives in Fort St. John.

Party chasm will remain under proportional representation

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received my brown envelope in the mail last week, did you?

The voting package from Elections BC for the 2018 Referendum on Electoral Reform was waiting for me in my mailbox and I was near giddy with excitement as I went through it and separated out all of the pieces. Folks, it comes with a secret sleeve!

The only thing that was missing was a pen with invisible ink and a secret decoder ring.

I certainly could use a decoder ring.

Reviewing the paperwork, I realized that I am no closer to understanding the options offered for electoral reform than I was the last time I wrote about the referendum. Of course, the initial package I received last month attempting to explain the process has been tossed with the recycling and therefore I am left searching for answers via the myriad of websites dedicated to explaining each process.

Sure, I have seen little explainer infographics that show the difference in systems as illustrated by favourite beverages, “If 40% of the province prefers coffee, should

Judy Kucharuk THE DESK OF THE GREEN-EYED GIRL

everyone be forced to drink coffee?”

I said it before and I will say it again” I will not vote for something that gives Northeast B.C. less of a say.

No one can tell me if our electoral map and manner of representation in the Peace Country will change, or how it might change. The focus, as per usual, is clearly on southern British Columbia.

Isn’t that special.

Andrew Weaver was on CBC radio last week and he said something to the affect that proportional representation would break up political monopolies; areas of the province who have never seen representation by a different political party.

Using my coffee preference analogy, does

that mean that there would be a different beverage offered altogether, or perhaps two new area representatives would get along so well that they would create a new hybrid of coffee that everyone loves to drink?

Sorry folks, don’t be disillusioned into believing that a new electoral system would create a love fest between political parties and force them into working together like the Brady Bunch: Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.

The chasm will remain: NDP, Liberals, and the Green parties all have vastly differing ideology. Those doctrines do not go away in a puff of smoke if we suddenly change to something like Mixed Member or Dual Member Proportional Representation.

My mind remains filled with questions and scenarios that have unwanted consequences.

Judy Kucharuk is a lover of sarcasm, witty people and footnotes. Follow her @ judylaine

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OP-ED

Something isn’t sitting right with the Old Fort slide

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hen it comes to the Old Fort slide situation unfolding before our eyes, something is not sitting right with me.

My heart goes out to the residents, and I can only imagine what they are going through. I also would like to commend our local residents, volunteers, and politicians for standing up for Old Fort residents in their time of need; this is what community is all about.

When I think about the Old Fort slide though, that weird feeling in my gut tells me something is fishy. This feeling started when the slide first happened and being the talk of town now, I know I’m not the only person with questions. A lot of questions.

There is one question that I have heard over and over again, and this is in addition to the gravel pit at the head of the slide, of which I’m sure more details will emerge.

Is Site C connected to the Old Fort slide?

Multiple times during the Site C environmental assessment process, BC Hydro and the Government of British Columbia insisted Site C was the most studied project in the history of Canada — more on this in a moment.

Concerns were constantly raised about the stability of the north bank of the Peace River valley, and to date we have seen proof those concerns are valid on multiple occasions, including the most recent Old Fort slide.

On the night the Old Fort slide initiated, September 30, BC Hydro via the @sitecproject Twitter feed made the following post: “At this time, there

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is no evidence that the slide is related to #sitec or any of the work taking place on the project.”

How can the public utility issue a statement that the slide has nothing to do with Site C when it did not conduct an analysis, assessment, or investigation to determine that this is in fact the case? Wouldn’t you think BC Hydro would take some time to determine if this is in fact the case, instead of the knee jerk reaction announcement via Twitter soon after the slide initiated?

This is why I have a strange feeling about this whole issue in my gut. With BC Hydro priding itself on the amount of time and degree of study on Site C, you would think that same philosophy would be applied to this situation. It’s not like the Old Fort slide is far away from Site C — it’s close enough to warrant some effort.

BC Hydro may be right, the Old Fort slide may have nothing to do with Site C at all. But the problem is Site C is quite close to the Old Fort slide and it’s not a stretch to question whether Site C construction activity might impact areas that far away.

Does this mean BC Hydro and its passion for studies and investigations stops when a project is approved? Sure seems like it.

What we are also missing here is an opportunity to address a very important issue: public safety living with the Peace River valley.

BC Hydro and the provincial government have a duty to the people of Old Fort, the people impacted by Site C, and residents of the Peace Region to take the time to ensure Site C does in fact have no impact on the Old Fort slide. Simply denying any

impact is unethical in my opinion.

But there is also an issue of public safety, an area of which I am of the opinion is worth some time and money spent to answer a very important question. If the answer is no, there is no impact, my response to BC Hydro is take the appropriate steps and prove it.

Mr. McKenzie called our article an opinion piece, which it certainly reflects, but his response was hardly any different, being vague, misleading, containing even more BC Hydro platitudes. In other words, it was also his opinion piece.

It is obvious that Mr. McKenzie did not read our article very carefully.

He stated that we questioned slope stability at the Site C location, which we did not. We would have liked to have had a closer look at those slopes, but that would have resulted in being charged or arrested with trespassing and in violation of a court injunction.

All we tried to do was to point out that shale is not bedrock, due to shale’s properties and may not make a sound foundation due to the massive structural weight of the dam.

The very recent massive (on-going) landslide near the Old Fort Road and village should convince even the most stubborn supporters of Site C that no part of the Peace Valley is stable. That was our initial intent for writing our article.

For the past few years, we have written many articles and op-eds critical of Site C, published in the Alaska Highway News other B.C. newspapers and magazines. This is the first time that an executive of BC Hydro (from Vancouver) had responded directly, mentioning our names. Have we touched a sore point?

Another question: Why would BCH have spent decades and tens of millions of dollars studying the Peace River-Site C geology unless they had encountered difficulties and problems all along?

Dave Conway, spokesman for BCH stated back in August that, “we are not looking for bedrock. The dam is going to rest on shales.”

Yet, Mr. McKenzie makes a contradictory comment in his response letter: “We’ve hit shale bedrock on both the north and south banks. On the south bank we have removed bedrock to create the area for the concrete foundation.”

McKenzie’s term “shale bedrock” caught our attention because Dave Conway clearly separated the two words. McKenzie’s coined term “shale bedrock” is simply that, made up or fabricated.

So, here we have it. Mr. Conway states one thing, that BCHydro is not looking for bedrock, then Mr. McKenzie creates a new term “shale bedrock.”

Very reassuring.

Seems that BC Hydro is at it once again, using their version of damage control by distorting the facts and the related safety issues for the public.

We can only imagine that the folks from the Old Fort area are equally reassured by McKenzie’s comments.

Jeff Richert lives in Taylor.

Letters OLD FORT FRUSTRATION The following is an open letter sent to the Peace River Regional District: I find myself wondering how a residence, 7583 Old Fort Road, that is in the direct slide path and directly below a house that has sustained considerable damage can be deemed to only be required to be under an evacuation alert since Oct. 18?

The community of Old Fort is much further from the slide yet remains under an evacuation order. I have been told it is due to concerns about the relic landslide activating above Old Fort. I have sat with a geotechnical engineer working on the slide and have seen numerous LiDAR maps and Google Earth photos going back as far as 1967 with very little or no change to the hills above the community.

There has been no evidence that there has been any tension cracks, sliding, or general signs of activity in this region. Have studies been done on the hills above the homes on Old Fort road that are no longer under an evacuation alert or order? Or the places that were downgraded to an alert?

Maybe these hills are also in danger of suddenly letting go.

It seems to me that the Old Fort community should have never been put on an evacuation order and only on evacuation alert but due to the

fact that there was no power and no road access it was easier to place an evacuation order than to deal with getting power and road access. Now that the evacuation order was put in place due to “immediate danger to life” it is difficult to remove without studies being done to prove it is safe.

Yet some places close to or in the direct slide path have been deemed safe. We have been told that we have to wait for Westrek’s report to go to peer and legal review before the PRRD can determine the fate of Old Fort yet some places have had the evacuation orders and alerts changed without waiting for this report. I find this very confusing and would appreciate some clarification.

—Art Smith a frustrated Old Fort resident COMMUNICATION CONTRADICTIONS Re: ‘Site C dam studied for decades, being built to last,’ Letters, Sept. 8, 2018 This letter is in response to Ken McKenzie’s letter “Site C dam studied for decades, being built to last.” McKenzie is the executive vice president for the Site C project. He clearly found it necessary to respond personally to our earlier article also in the Alaska Highway with the title: “The Northeast is rich in shale, but can it hold up Site C?”

— Mike Kroecher and Rick Koechl, Charlie Lake

Changes needed to ensure justice for sex crime victims

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first heard the name Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh in 2011 shortly after I was first elected as your member of parliament. I was contacted by a constituent from Dawson Creek, who shared his story of how he was sexually abused by Mr. MacIntosh in Nova Scotia when he was a young boy in the 1970s and about his fight for justice.

In 2010, Mr. MacIntosh was convicted on 17 charges related to sexual assault.

However, in 2011 the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal overturned these convictions ruling that his case had taken too long to get to trial. The Supreme Court of Canada upheld this ruling in 2013.

Throughout the years, this constituent has expressed his extreme disappointment and anger with how

this case was handled. I could not have agreed with him more and have tried my best to help him find answers.

There have been many questions regarding why it took so long to bring Mr. MacIntosh’s case to trial, including why it took so long to extradite Mr. MacIntosh from India, where he was living when a warrant for his arrest was issued in 1996, to face these charges or how he was able to travel to India to begin with.

In 2013, then Justice Minister Peter MacKay apologized to victims for the mistakes the federal government made in this case after releasing the findings of an internal review which cited human error and institutional failures as the reasons behind the

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federal government’s role in the delay.

Nova Scotia’s Public Prosecution Service also did an internal review into their handling of this case.

In 2014, Mr. MacIntosh was arrested in Nepal and in 2015 was sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually abusing an underage boy.

In recent weeks, news emerged that Mr. MacIntosh was released from prison after only serving part of his sentence and would be coming back to Canada.

This news has angered many, especially victims in Canada who do not believe they were treated fairly by our justice system. I’m personally disgusted that someone who apparently shows no remorse continues to be allowed out

of prison and be threat to our children.

How is it possible that someone like this is still allowed to be a threat to others?

I will be watching what happens next with Mr. MacIntosh closely now that he has returned to Canada. The fact Mr. MacIntosh was able to avoid facing trial in Canada for so many years is unacceptable, and it’s clear that changes need to continue to be made to ensure victims of sex crimes get the support and justice they deserve.

A travesty of justice like this cannot happen again.

Bob Zimmer is Member of Parliament for Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies.

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LOCAL NEWS

Bruce Christensen, Larry Evans give their farewells MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca

It wasn’t goodbye but see you later at city council on Oct. 22 as two long-time councillors gave their final reports and farewells.

Bruce Christensen and Larry Evans did not win re-election on Oct. 20, bringing more than a decade of their time served on council to an end.

“I want to thank all the citizens who voted, it was great to see the increase,” said Christensen as he tried his best to hold back tears.

“The ones that voted for me, thank you; sorry I didn’t make it, but we got some good people coming in.”

Christensen and Evans are being replaced by newcomers Becky Grimsrud and Tony Zabinsky. Incumbents Lilia Hansen, Gord Klassen, and Byron Stewart were also re-elected, while Mayor Lori Ackerman was re-elected by acclamation.

Christensen was first elected in a byelection in 2006. He saw 1,162 votes in this year’s election, placing eighth of out twelve candidates.

He began his final council report by noting he attended Rotary’s recent sold-out Bollywood movie and dance showcase, and praised the city for its growing multiculturalism.

“When you see the cultural diversity in this community, how can you not love it?”

Christensen said.

Christensen thanked his colleagues for their work over the years, saying his job was fun.

“It hasn’t always been easy,” Christensen said. “I think our leadership has been excellent, thank you. To our new council, congratulations and welcome.

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Bruce Christensen: “When you see the cultural diversity in this community, how can you not love it?”

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Larry Evans: “You’re going to have a council that rocks, I really do. Along with the wonderful staff that we have, the city is in good hands. In the final analysis, that’s all I care about.”

Staff, it’s been good. And my family, thanks.”

Evans was first elected in 2005 and was a former fire chief for the city. He finished with 1,324 votes, just 37 votes shy of Coun. Trevor Bolin, who was re-elected.

Evans also thanked his voters and said running for office is a stressful time.

“I know I disappointed them in a way. I felt like sometimes that my heart wasn’t in it, and I apologize for that,” Evans said.

Evans congratulated the new council.

“I think you’re going to have a council that rocks, I really do,” Evans said.

“Along with the wonderful staff that we have, the city is in good hands. In the final analysis, that’s all I care about.”

Councillors also said their goodbyes and gave their well wishes.

Hansen said Evans and Christensen have shown great leadership in the community.

“Men like these do not fade,” she said.

Klassen said the two set a great example for councillors.

“I appreciate you as gentlemen and leaders, and I wish you all the best,” Klassen said.

Both Evans and Christensen made sure to help new councillors when they were elected, Bolin said.

“A decade ago, I was the new guy, and Larry and Bruce you were here and you were willing to help me and show me what I needed to show,” Bolin said.

“Here we still are this many years later, but it’s time now that you guys enjoy the better things, and get to enjoy what you want with your families and your grandkids.”

The inaugural meeting of the new council will be held on Nov. 5.

LNG Canada is unlikely to spark a drilling frenzy NELSON BENNETT Business in Vancouver

In unconventional gas production such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, about 80% of a new well’s gas comes up in the first three years, before output goes into a long, slow decline.

But these wells can produce gas at low levels for up to 20 years.

Shell Canada already has 500 wells in production in its Groundbirch operations south of Fort St. John, and once the LNG Canada plant and Coastal GasLink pipeline are built, its gas production will shift from east to west. As a 40% partner in LNG Canada, Shell is obliged to supply 40% of the gas.

All of the partners in the LNG Canada partnership, except Korea Gas Corp., have substantial natural gas assets in northeastern B.C. Production from those assets is expected to fill roughly half of LNG Canada’s

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Groundbirch general manager Rej Tetrault, left, with Tim Braun, lead operator, at a well pad that has six producing wells.

gas needs for Phase 1, a twotrain plant.

In other words, there are significant amounts of natural gas being produced now by the LNG Canada partners that can shift west to Kitimat. The LNG Canada project alone therefore is unlikely to trigger the kind of fracking frenzy that some have

predicted.

Starting about two years before LNG Canada’s plant goes into production, Shell expects to bring in its drilling rig. The company expects it will need to drill about 200 new wells over two years to meet additional demand from LNG Canada and to replace production from some

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of the wells whose production will have declined by then.

From then on, the LNG Canada partners will need to drill about 200 new wells per year for the life of the LNG plant.

“Last year, B.C. drilled 608 [wells],” said Chris Montgomery, manager of government and community relations

for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. “We need about a third more of that.”

While the LNG Canada project may not spark a drilling bonanza, even a small uptick in drilling provides a substantial amount of investment and jobs, since it is labour-intensive.

Montgomery said two billion cubic feet per day of demand (roughly the demand from LNG Canada’s first phase) would translate into 20,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs in B.C., $500 million in additional revenue to the B.C. government and $3.7 billion in added GDP growth.

That’s just from the upstream activity, and doesn’t include the jobs and revenue from the pipeline and LNG plant in Kitimat.

“Alberta gets a little bit of an uplift, but most of the uplift from LNG production comes from here in British Columbia,” Montgomery said.

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Business

“There’s a lot of people behind the scenes who have helped us grow and develop.”

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— Kory Wood, president, Kikinaw Energy Services

Kikinaw awarded for outstanding business achievement ness would have “stopped in its tracks” if he didn’t have good employees under his wing.

The company invests around $10,000 a year in community sponsorships, from minor hockey in Chetwynd, to free golf for youth at Lone Wolf in Taylor, to the Tse’K’Wa Heritage Society in Charlie Lake, to a youth entrepreneurship camp at the Northeast Aboriginal Business Centre, and much more.

Wood is working on a Master of Business Administration degree from Athabasca University to develop the business and take advantage of emerging opportunities, but he’s cautious about growing too big.

“I never want this business to be outside my ability to have a relationship with everybody in our business,” Wood said.

“We’re still a young company and we’re still improving.

We’re still constantly looking within and saying how could we provide better service? How can we be a better employer?

How can we develop more careers? We’re always trying to find ways of getting better.”

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Fort St. John’s Kikinaw Energy Services has been recognized for outstanding business achievement at the 2018 BC Indigenous Business Awards.

Awards were handed out at a gala ceremony Oct. 15 at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, where more than 650 people gathered to honour excellence in Indigenous business in British Columbia.

“It’s not my award, it’s the company’s award,” said company president Kory Wood, a member of Saulteau First Nation.

“There’s a lot of people behind the scenes who have helped us grow and develop.”

Kikinaw means “our home” in Cree, and with a background in electrical instrumentation Wood incoporated the business in 2014 shortly after he started work as a contractor for the Willow Creek mine.

From there, the company was knocking on the doors of wind companies in Chetwynd and Tumbler Ridge, and over the last four years Kikinaw

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Kory Wood of Kikinaw Energy Services at the 2018 BC Indigenous Business Awards.

has grown its national profile, working on projects in B.C., Alberta, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Ontario.

Today, wind energy maintenance and construction makes up 55 per cent of Kikinaw’s

business, and Wood hires out of Northern Lights College’s wind turbine maintenance program in Dawson Creek.

The company has held steady electrical work at Site C since August 2015, and with

the $40-billion LNG Canada project on the horizon, the company is turning its focus to growing its oil and gas portfolio, Wood said.

Kikinaw employs 33 people today, and Wood says his busi-

New school ahead of schedule, but steel challenges loom dams and bridges, “which encompasses a heck of a lot of steel,” said Jesse Goldman, a lawyer representing the Canadian Coalition for Construction Steel.

He said the surtax puts the construction steel industry in “a very dire position” because of Canada’s limited domestic steel supply.

“Because of the actual quota amounts for this type of steel from non-U.S. sources, U.S. steel is going to come into Canada at record high prices.

They will simply pass on the 25 per cent retaliatory tariffs to their Canadian customers.”

Prices for construction steel are already at near-record highs, and supply issues are greatest in B.C. and Atlantic Canada.

The country’s geography deters West Coast buyers from purchasing from central Canadian mills. It costs more than four times extra to ship a tonne of steel to Vancouver from Ontario than it does from China or Korea, said Richard Lyall, president of the Residential Construction Council of Ontario.

Last month, Fort St. John city councillors were warned that steel tariffs would impact construction of the city’s new RCMP detachment.

matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

Crews are ahead of schedule building Fort St. John’s new elementary school, but the project may be impacted down the line by costly new steel tariffs and quotas.

Two phases of the school’s foundations have already been poured, and School District 60 officials say they were optimistic of getting even just one completed before winter.

“We were optimistically hoping we could get phase one poured before winter set in, so we’re actually ahead of our construction schedule,” secretary-treasurer Brenda Hooker told trustees on Monday.

“We’re optimistic that we’ll be able to get the full foundation poured and then have enough time for curing and backfilling so that we wouldn’t have to do do heating and pouring through the winter.

“This weather has been phenomenal for us,” she said.

The school district hopes to have a full tender package for construction out by the end of October.

The ongoing trade and tariff dispute between Canada and the United States over steel is expected to be an ongoing challenge for the school’s construction, Hooker said.

“It has created a shortage to some extent, and that could hold up construction,”

Housing researcher to talk local trends Nov. 8

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Northeast Elementary School construction, Oct. 19, 2018.

she said. “At this point, until we get the full tender out, we really won’t know if that will affect the timeline.”

The two-storey school is budgeted at $31.1-million and will have seats for 505 students, as well as a neighbourhood learning centre, a daycare, and multi-purpose spaces for community use.

Work got underway this summer, and is planned to be complete and ready for students in fall 2020.

The Community Development Institute is bringing in one of its own to talk about Fort St. John’s housing market next week.

Marleen Morris is co-director of the CDI and co-authored the Northern BC Housing Study, released in 2016. She will present on the current and future housing needs of Fort St.

Earlier this month, the federal government said it would impose a 25 per cent surtax on some foreign steel products in a bid to head off dumping.

That takes effect Oct. 25 and targets seven products that range from rebar to wire rods.

The announcement came after Canada imposed tariffs on $16.6 billion worth of American goods in retaliation for hefty U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum.

Earlier this year, the Cana-

John, and talk about emerging opportunities.

“Housing is a big issue for this community with the resource development that happens in the region,” Carolynn Oliver, Leaders Lab Facilitator, said in a news release.

“The fluctuations in the economy have a significant impact on the housing market. The re-

dian Coalition for Construction Steel urged the federal government to be cautious in setting tariffs and quotas on steel imports. Canada’s steel producers only have the capacity to supply half of the domestic demand for construction steel, and the country has historically relied on the United States and other countries for the rest.

The products affected by the fresh tariffs go into structures from condominiums to

cent final investment decision from LNG Canada makes this conversation very timely.”

The Northern B.C. Housing Study found that more than half of Fort St. John’s housing stock was more than 35 years old, though it saw two housing booms in 2010 and 2015 that saw nearly 800 new homes built.

— with files from the Canadian Press Though the report was released during an economic lull, it concluded that the city would still see promising growth, and would need to expand its supply of smaller, multi-family units, and build more adaptable homes to remain competitive.

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o the 87 people who attended the Opioid Dialogues event on October 18 at the Lido Theatre, a sincere, humble thank you. Some magic happed that night, in the heart of the city, in the living room of Fort St. John. A very important conversation began around a very important topic: the opioid crisis.

People are dying in our community on a daily or weekly basis because of overdose. They are dying alone, in their homes. I will not refer to them as those people. Addiction has a very ugly billboard. We have lost sight of the real people whose lives are lost to addictions. They are not those people.

They are mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, aunties, uncles, grandparents. This ugly epidemic has no bias. It takes everyone.

The Lido event began in a good way, with Sam Acko from Doig River First Nation opening in prayer and drumming followed by Mayor Ackerman’s words of greeting and welcome.

Thank you to mayor and council as well as several candidates for city council for attending. There was a panel of speakers that included Dr. Ohiaeri, Dr. Kim, Sonia with ICM (Intensive Case Management), Amanda Trotter from the Women’s Resource Society, Cameron Eggie with the Salvation Army, and Connie Greyeyes from Nenan Dane zaa Deh Zona Family Services. These people spoke of their roles and resources in the community offering education and insight. They were available to answer questions and discuss some very difficult questions in the room.

Yes, there were difficult questions in the room. The audience had many demographics, including people with active addictions. After a difficult conversation, one gentleman struggling with addictions left the room. Two people followed him to make sure he would come back in the room when he was ready. The room was held. It was a safe compassionate place to begin the dialogue.

Fort St. John, you are amazing.

Together we can make a difference.

Yes, we need some pretty big support services for a community of our size dealing with statistically higher volumes of opioid casualties per capita.

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As one of our speakers in the room eluded to – we have you, she said, pointing to the audience. To build a capacity for peer support, compassion and understanding in a community is huge. When a community comes together to support those who are struggling, big things can happen.

Sometimes, we must witness the ugly face of addiction. Sometimes, we must stand strong as someone very frustrated and hurting that is invisible to the world gets their voice heard.

And to the stars of the evening, our people with lived experience who volunteered their time to come on stage and be vulnerable; a thank you is not enough. What you gave the community on that night was hope. There is so much strength in your vulnerability. Four people shared their very private stories of trauma and addictions. From this courage, great seeds were planted in the room. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Thank you to the frontline people of our community! You do very hard, important work. Fort St. John, we need to look after our frontline supports. We need to express gratitude and acknowledgement to our frontline workers, physicians, nurses, and support staff. The Lido event showed us there is an opportunity and tolerance when we all come together with a face of compassion.

Addictions touch everybody. How can you help? Naloxone training, peer mentorship, fundraising? How about a buy-a-bed program, to have a fully community (maybe corporate, hint hint) funded detox bed or two?

Do you have any ideas? Visit the Healthy FSJ Facebook page and share your thoughts and ideas. No one is alone. We are in this together. Together, let’s keep this momentum growing.

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

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court docket A summary of sentences and fines handed out in Northeast B.C. courts for the week ending Oct. 26, 2018.

Fort St. John Law Courts • Levi Huggins (born 1995) was sentenced to 90 days in jail, handed a two-year probation order, handed a mandatory lifetime firearms ban, and assessed a $100 victim surcharge for each count of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, carrying a prohibited device or ammo concealed, and possession of stolen property over $5,000.

Huggins was sentenced to an additional 10 days in jail, handed another two-year probation order, ordered to provide a DNA sample, and assessed a $100 victim surcharge for another charge of possession of stolen property under $5,000.

• Riley Wade Danyluk (born 1990) was fined $1,500, handed a one-year driving ban, and assessed a $225 victim surcharge for driving a motor vehicle without due care and attention. Danyluk was further fined $500 and assessed a $150 victim surcharge for willfully resisting or obstructing a peace officer.

• Krista-Lyn Lane Hurst (born 1986) was handed nine months of probation with a conditional discharge and assessed a $100 victim surcharge for possession or use of a stolen credit card.

Hurst was handed nine months of probation with a conditional discharge for failing to appear pursuant to a court order.

• Dakota James Leitch (born 1996) was fined $500, handed a one-year driv-

ing ban and assessed a $75 victim surcharge for driving with a suspended licence. Leitch was further fined $250 and assessed a $37.50 victim surcharge for failing to remain at the scene of an accident.

• Tammy Georgina Rain (born 1970) was handed six months of probation with a suspended sentence for theft $5,000 or under.

• Dean Earl Rogers (born 1970) was fined $500 and assessed a $75 victim surcharge for driving while prohibited. Rogers was also handed a two-year criminal driving ban for failure to stop at an accident with a vehicle or vessel.

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Dawson Creek Law Courts • Jeffrey James McNeal (born 1990) was handed a six-month conditional sentence, handed a one-year probation order, ordered to provide a DNA sample, and assessed a $100 victim surcharge for assault causing bodily harm.

• Travis George Peters (born 1995) was handed a six-month probation order with a conditional discharge and assessed a $200 victim surcharge for possession of a controlled substance.

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• Collin Needlay (born 1992) was sentenced to 75 days in jail, given 18 months of probation, and assessed a $100 victim surcharge for care or control of a vehicle or vessel while impaired. Needlay was sentenced to 75 days in jail, handed a three-year criminal driving ban, and assessed a $100 victim surcharge for operating a motor vehicle while disqualified.

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Community forest plan submitted matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

The Fort Nelson First Nations and Northern Rockies Regional Municipality have filed their application for a community forest agreement to the province on Oct. 15.

It’s a major milestone toward a reboot of the region’s forestry industry.

The two partners are seeking a community forest agreement that would cover 200,181 hectares within a 100-kilometre radius of Fort Nelson, and an annual allowable cut of 185,000 cubic metres of timber.

“The prospect of a Community Forest managed jointly by FNFN and

the NRRM has been welcomed and endorsed by members of both communities,” the partners said in a joint news release.

“It is seen as a key element in the rebuilding of a sustainable forest sector that provides economic, social and cultural benefits to the region.”

It’s estimated community forests create one full-time job for every 3,000 cubic metres of wood harvested, with average total sales of $2.3 million in communities with 3,000 people or less.

The application is under review by the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, with a decision expected within six to eight weeks.

Fort St. John seniors survey underway matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

It’s a key issue facing Fort St. John: what are the needs of our local seniors?

The Community Development Institute has launched a survey to find out as part of an age-friendly assessment and action plan it’s creating for the city.

The survey is looking to find out how accessible and effective programs, services, and amenities are for seniors, with questions about transportation, housing, health services, voluntarism, and community engagement.

“The age-friendly assessment and action plan is the first step towards ensuring that the City of Fort St. John is prepared for its growing population of seniors,” said Dr. Michael Lait, a CDI

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“Through engagement with seniors and seniors care providers we will get a better understanding of the barriers for older residents as well as the agefriendly assets in the community.”

The city’s seniors population grew 119 per cent between 1996 and 2016.

There were 1,455 persons aged 65 and over in Fort St. John, according to the 2016 Census, or 7.2% of the city’s population.

There are nearly 150 seniors waiting for housing through the North Peace Seniors Housing Society.

The CDI’s work is being supported by a $25,00 provincial grant. The survey takes 20 minutes to complete.

To take the survey, or visit https:// ca.research.net/r/fsjseniorssurvey.

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Wait continues for answers on Taylor Bridge fix matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

The findings of an engineering study of the Taylor Bridge are under review, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure says.

The $200,000 study began last fall to determine whether to replace the bridge’s steel deck or replace the bridge entirely, and a draft of the study was completed earlier this year.

“At this time, the current maintenance work will proceed until the review is completed and a decision had been made,” a ministry spokesperson said.

“At this time the ministry has not confirmed plans to go to Treasury Board regarding the Taylor Bridge.”

Since 1960, the 712-metre two-lane structure has carried an average of 5,000 drivers a day across the Peace River at the same spot where its predecessor collapsed after a 1957 landslide.

Recent inspection reports of the bridge have continued to highlight ongoing deterioration and corrosion problems that have increased mainten-

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Arctech crews were out repairing the Taylor bridge on June 2, 2017.

ance time and costs, as well as traffic delays.

Transportation Minister Claire Trevena said last year that the bridge is in good condition, outside of the steel deck. The engineering study was ordered to review the op-

tions of building a new deck with different materials, or replacing the bridge entirely.

An earlier study on replacing the deck with concrete revealed the existing structure couldn’t bear the weight.

Moving away from a steel deck

would mean the bridge would likely have to be rebuilt. The cost of replacing the bridge as a two lane could cost as much as $100 million.

The District of Taylor has recently signalled its support of four-laning the Alaska

Highway through the district if the bridge were to be improved and expanded to four lanes.

In September, Taylor Mayor Rob Fraser Fraser sat in on separate meetings with Travena as a representative for Taylor, the Peace River Regional District, the Rural Roads Taskforce, and the Resource Municipalities Coalition during the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention.

The province was looking at a business case and different options for the Taylor bridge, but didn’t go into much details, Fraser said, likening the meetings to “15-minute speed dating” sessions.

The highway through the Peace River valley and the District of Taylor is a key link for the Peace Region economy, as well as those of Northern B.C., the Yukon, and Alaska, and activity is once again on the rise, Fraser said.

But the province is looking at the highway in individual segments, and were urged to start looking at it as one whole crossing, from the top of the hill and through the district, Fraser said.

Fort St. John students cast votes in mock election matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

Students in Fort St. John had their fingers on the pulse of voter intentions during a mock election held last month.

Five local schools took part in Student Vote elections across the province on Oct. 18 and 19, electing a city council nearly 100% identical to the

one that voters elected on Oct. 20.

Students at Alwin Holland, Baldonnel, Bert Ambrose, Bert Bowes, and Ma Murray schools took part, electing Trevor Bolin, Larry Evans, Becky Grimsrud, Tony Zabinsky, Lilia Hansen, and Byron Stewart to council.

With the exception of Larry Evans, that matches real voting results on Oct. 20.

Evans, a former fire chief for the city, did not win re-election. Students did not vote in Gord Klassen, who did win re-election.

Byron Stewart - 312 Gord Klassen - 300 Justin Jones - 278 Chuck Fowler - 268 Jim Harris - 256 Bruce Christensen - 234 Gabor Haris - 216

Results Trevor Bolin - 634 Larry Evans - 420 Becky Grimsrud - 400 Tony Zabinsky - 338 Lilia Hansen - 322

In the Northern Rockies, Rombough Homeschool took part in the initiative, electing Bill Streeper as mayor, and electing Kyle Andrews,

Lorraine Gerwing, Todd Penney, and Tanner Whidden to council.

Hudson’s Hope and Taylor schools did not take part.

There were 60,000 students in B.C. who cast ballots in this year’s Student Vote, which gives youth the chance to experience the voting process.

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Fort St. John firefighters recognized for service to city lieutenant in the absence of his crew’s officers and has many a nickname amongst his crew: Donszelburg; The Crusher; DJ Donsz; Launch Pad McQuack, and many more.

What does Jasen do with his free time? The better question would be what isn’t he doing?

Jasen has as many hobbies as he does nicknames and is always busy learning a new skill.

You may find him going for a ride in his plane, DJ-ing, hunting, the list goes on forever.

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Four Fort St. John firefighters with a collective 40 years of service to the city were awarded by council on Oct. 22.

Paul Roe was recognized for five years of service; Jasen Donszelmann for 10 years; Adam Winn for 10 years; and Fire Chief Fred Burrows for 15 years.

Each received a long service award for their time with the department. From the city: Fred Burrows: Burrows came to the Fort St. John Fire Department in May 2003 from Terrace to become the deputy fire chief. Only two years later, Fred was promoted to fire chief. During his 15 years with the fire department, he has been instrumental in the replacement of the fire department apparatus and the construction of the new fire hall.

Chief Burrows is active in the Fire Chief Association of BC as a Zone 5 sub-director, and he is heavily involved with provincial initiatives as they relate to the fire service. Chief Burrows is currently in his 40th year with the fire service.

Chief Burrows is looking forward to his retirement in December of 2019, and can of-

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From left, Fort St. John Fire Chief Fred Burrows with firefighters Jasen Donszelmann, Adam Winn, and Paul Roe.

ten be found doing research for his future sheep farm! On his days off, you can find Chief Burrows relaxing with his family in a boat with a fishing rod and a floppy brimmed hat.

Adam Winn: Winn started his fire career as a fourth class firefighter for the Fort St. John Fire Department on July 14, 2008. Ten years later, Adam is now qualified to work

as an acting lieutenant in the absence of his crew’s officers.

In his spare time, Adam can be found travelling around the North Peace and performing with his musical group Adam Winn Music at many a location. Adam also devotes plenty of time to his duties as the president of the Fort St. John Fire Fighters Charitable Society whose mandate is to help those in need to travel to out of

town medical appointments. In addition to all this, Adam has big, beautiful family of seven to keep him busy!

Jasen Donszelmann: Donszelmann started his fire career as an auxiliary firefighter in 2007, but quickly moved on to join the ranks as a fourth class firefighter on July 16, 2008.

Ten years later, Jasen is now qualified to work as an acting

Paul Roe: Roe started his fire career in 2013 as a fourth class firefighter. Five years later, Paul is now a first class firefighter and the fitness guru of his crew, always leading a crew workout and making sure everyone is involved. Also known as the man child, Paul can turn any situation into a game or challenge – but even so, he is at the top of the list when needed in an emergency situation…just don’t ask him to babysit!

If you need a helping hand with anything especially carpentry related, Paul is willing to make time to help and is a very knowledgeable carpenter. Paul seems to have caught the travel bug, and has been globetrotting through Asia the past month with his wife.

Paramedic shows exemplary service matt preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca

Fort St. John paramedic John Te Bulte has been awarded with an EMS Exemplary Service Medal.

The medal was created on July 7, 1994, to recognize emergency medical professionals who have performed their duties in an exemplary manner, characterized by good conduct, industry, and efficiency.

“John is an excellent paramedic and a great ambassador,” reads a statement from BC Emergency Health Services.

“He is an incredible mentor and team builder who never forgets what it’s like to be just beginning your career as a paramedic.

His focus has always been to build people up -as a driver preceptor, he makes new paramedics feel comfortable during what could be a very stressful and uncertain situation.

“John has also brought his commitment to environmental sustainability into the station, and is always the first to start a recycling program. He is trusted and respected by all those around him, and takes every opportunity to build coalitions with partners and advance the reputation of BCEHS.”

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HOROSCOPE ARIES (MARCH 21 TO APRIL 19) Today is a mixed bag. In one way you’re ready for fun! You want to enjoy yourself at social occasions, sports events and playful times with children.

However, a friend might annoy you. (Oops.)

TAURUS (APRIL 20 TO MAY 20) Be patient with family members today, especially a female relative. Your ambition might cause you to overreach your grasp. In turn, this could bring criticism to you.

GEMINI (MAY 21 TO JUNE 20) Be careful, because this is an accident-prone day. (This applies to verbal accidents as well as physical accidents.)

Slow down and pay attention to everything you say and do.

CANCER (JUNE 21 TO JULY 22) Something unexpected might impact your finances today.

You might find money; you might lose money. Protect your possessions against loss, theft or damage.

LEO (JULY 23 TO AUG. 22) Today the Moon is in your sign opposing fiery Mars, which will create a sudden conflict with someone. Bite your tongue and be diplomatic for your own benefit as well as his or hers.

VIRGO (AUG. 23 TO SEPT. 22) You might be doing a slow boil about something because you feel annoyed with someone, and yet you feel you cannot speak up.

This is frustrating for anyone.

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LIBRA (SEPT. 23 TO OCT. 22) Be patient with friends and members of groups today, because why get into a quarrel?

It only leads to bad feelings, which later become a problem.

(You don’t need this.)

SCORPIO (OCT. 23 TO NOV. 21) Be patient with parents and bosses today to avoid a nasty squabble. When people have power over you, why alienate them? Think about it.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20 TO FEB. 18) Relations with partners and close friends are rocky today because the Moon opposes fiery Mars. Take the high road and stay in a positive frame of mind.

PISCES (FEB. 19 TO MARCH 20) Avoid quarrels with co-workers today, because they will not benefit you. Make a good impression on others. (Don’t be defined by your angry words.)

Angela Griffin PEACE REFLECTIONS

lapsed Catholics with whom I walk each day has told me that we will take the school van and make the Sunday morning winter trek to the Catholic Church in Fort Albany. That will be nice. I miss the Eucharist. I miss the Catholic Mass. I find an internal strength and peace at Mass I cannot entirely summon without attending a daily or weekly service.

Last weekend another self-professed lapsed Catholic and colleague said that people historically went to church for the pageantry of it. People worked hard in their fields all week and then flocked to church to see men in colourful, flowing robes, candles burning brightly on an altar surrounded by thick plumes of incense. It was the equivalent of going to the Cineplex for us, he told me before adding, “That’s still why people go!”

“I go to receive the Eucharist and listen to the Word of God,” I told him. “Priests and flowing robes are my least favourite part.”

He looked at me with a shocked, sheepish expression.

His pained appearance told me that he was afraid he’d offended someone of that rare, almost extinct breed: an authentic practicing Catholic.

That lapsed Catholic was sufficiently contrite. His Catholic guilt weighed upon him, piercing his brow like a proverbial crown of thorns. What can I tell you? Once Catholic, always a Catholic.

It’s okay though. I quickly forgave him for his incorrect assumption. It was the Catholic thing to do.

The Peace is a place of many peoples and faiths. In this space, readers are invited to share their own reflections of faith in the Peace. If you have a story of faith you’d like to share, email angelamarygriffin@gmail.com.

Unemployed and Sluggish Dear Annie: I have read columns like yours since I was a child in the 1980s and always figured, “Yeah, I have problems, but I can handle them.” I guess not.

Most importantly, stay in touch with yourself, your family and your doctors about how you’re feeling. In time, you’ll get back your get-up-and-go.

Annie Lane DEAR ANNIE

I am in my mid-40s and have two kids and a husband who keeps a roof over my head. I am unemployed, recently losing SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22 TO DEC. 21) my job with family because the Avoid controversial subjects like business closed. I have a head politics, religion and racial issues injury from being hit by a car today, because people are keen when I was 16, and since losing to quarrel! They’re looking for the family job, I have been finda chance to pick a fight. (Don’t ing it difficult to find another, even go there.) not able enough for work outside of a family business yet not CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 TO JAN. 19) Disputes about shared property, disabled enough for governinheritances, insurance issues ment help. I have been rejected and anything that you own two times. jointly with someone else might occur today. Think of your longterm objective.

etween 1994 and 2009, I attended daily Mass in London, Ontario.

When I moved to London, England in 2009, and to Toronto in 2010, I could always find a Catholic service between 7 in the morning and 7 in the evening somewhere in those massive metropolises on any given day of the week. When I lived in Fort St. John between 2012 and 2018, Mass times were limited at the Church of the Resurrection making daily Mass for me impossible. Now in Kashechewan, I cannot even get to weekly Mass.

There is no Catholic church on the First Nations Reserve where I live and teach. I plan to visit the Anglican Church once it is built. I have gone to the Pentecostal; however, that service was not for me.

I brought my Bible with me to Kashechewan and my book of Catholic daily devotionals.

I try to read the Word of God daily, but some days I manage to do so and other days I forget to do so. Chalk it up to my humanity - the spirit is willing and all that.

Daily I walk with fellow Christian teachers, and together we discuss Scripture.

I suspect as lapsed Catholics themselves they seek to redeem me and convert me to whatever watered down or amped up brand of Christianity they currently embrace.

Their churches sound nice but despite the many fundamental differences I have with my own Church, it’s still my Church. What can I tell you?

Once a Catholic, always a Catholic.

Kashechewan was once part of Fort Albany, located 10 km up river. In 1957, the town split because of - you guessed it - religion. Catholics remained in Fort Albany and Anglican and Pentecostals relocated to Kashechewan. It’s sad when different branches of the same faith cannot agree to disagree enough to let one another worship however they see fit within the same community.

Fort Albany is not accessible from Kashechewan except along the winter road that will be the frozen Albany River once temperatures drop sufficiently. One of those

That’s the back story. My problem is that though I have been taking my antidepressants (so that’s not it), I cannot seem to get motivated to do anything anymore. I go to have coffee with my friends each weekday.

And then I come home and don’t want to do anything. My husband says, “Why didn’t you (whatever); you were home all day.” I don’t know why. Am I just lazy? -- Sitting Around Dear Sitting Around: First off, taking antidepressants

doesn’t mean depression is no longer a problem for you. Let your doctor know what you’re experiencing to see whether he or she needs to adjust your treatment. Also, medication is most effective when supplemented with therapy, so consider asking your doctor to refer you to a therapist.

Know that what you’re going through is perfectly normal. No matter the reasons for a job loss, adjusting to unemployment is rarely easy, especially for someone who has been working for years. It’s natural to feel a combination of restlessness and sluggishness. You are not lazy; you are bored and could possibly use some more structure to your days.

So look for other sources of stimulation and routine, such as social clubs, hobby-oriented groups and volunteer opportunities. Don’t be afraid to try activities that are a little outside your comfort zone. That’s where great things happen.

Dear Annie: In reference to the writer asking about whether to tip on the gross amount or to tip on the pretax amount, I agree that one should not feel obligated to tip on the gross amount. Many places of business now have pre-calculated tip options -- e.g., 15, 18 and 20 percent -- at the touch of a button. This is always figured on the gross check (after tax has been applied). If you wish to tip 20 percent but only want it figured on the pretax amount, choose 18 percent. Because most sales tax rates are about 9 percent, you will find that this comes out to within pennies of the pretax 20 percent figure. -Kansas Accountant Dear Kansas Accountant: Thank you for the expert tip! Always happy to learn more helpful little tricks such as this.

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

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Local News

An evening in concert with Murray McLauchlan this Sunday Murray McLauchlan is one of Canada’s most highly regarded singer/songwriters, and with good cause.

Over a 45-year career, he has released 19 albums and been awarded 11 Junos. His songs Farmer’s Song, Down by the Henry Moore, Whispering Rain, and Sweeping the Spotlight Away are now considered Canadian standards.

Murray is also a painter, an author, an actor, a radio host; he’s been bestowed an Honourary Doctor of Laws and appointed to The Order of Canada.

That’s quite a ride.

Until recently Murray’s touring had been restricted to Lunch At Allen’s, whose members also include Ian Thomas, Marc Jordan and Cindy Church.

But with the release earlier this year of his critically acclaimed Love Can’t Tell Time, he’s back on the road treating concert goers to a seamless blend of old and new.

Here’s what he has to say: “As a songwriter I know that it’s not enough to sit in your kitchen and write. Your songs need to be heard. Music is a communicative art and if it isn’t brought in front of people there is no way to tell if that end has been met.

I like to think of a concert tour as a kind of roving gallery to test your art and your ideas. I try to do my very best to make it worthwhile for folks to be there and to perhaps look at things in a new way when they leave.”

And this, in a nutshell, is the Murray McLauchlan concert experience.

McLauchlan performs in Fort St. John Sunday, Nov. 4 at the North Peace Cultural Centre.

Showtime is 7:30pm.

Call 250-785-1992 or visit tickets.npcc.bc.ca for ticket information.

Visit alaskahighwaynews. ca for our interview with McLauchlan.

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Art Gallery News I would like to extend a very sincere and heartfelt thank you to everyone who helped make this year’s auction such a great success! We were all so pleased with the art, the artisan work, the donations and sponsors, the food, and, most of all, the people who came and bid on all the fabulous items.

Cindy Vincent’s donation of her splendid piece Evening Sonnet was generous and kind, and her piece was definitely much anticipated and sought after. The whole evening was fun and pleasing for all, given the lovely feedback I have been

getting in the gallery.

Peace Arts Gallery Society will be using the funds raised for a host of programs for kids, teens, and seniors, as well as supporting the gallery directly.

We, Bev (Gallery Assistant) and I, very much appreciate everyone’s continued support. It is a wonderful group of folks that we work with here and I know that Bev and I have discussed how much we appreciate being able to work in such a beautiful place, surrounded by beautiful things and talking to so many beautiful-inside-and-out people every day.

Again, to all those who donated, came to the event, volunteered, and attended, you all make a difference and you are all appreciated for the things you do! Thank you!

New exhibition Our newest exhibition in our temporary gallery space is an exciting new show by Mike Kroecher, Sandy Troudt, and Miep Burgerjon called He Said, She Said, She Said.

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Fort St. John Huskies, winners of four in a row, play Dawson Creek twice this weekend DILLON GIANCOLA sports@ahnfsj.ca

Don’t look now, but the Fort St. John Huskies have won four straight games and are climbing up the standings. At 6-3, the team currently sits in third place, four points behind the 8-4 Dawson Creek Junior Canucks.

Fortunately for the Huskies, two of those four wins have come against the Canucks, and Fort St. John plays Dawson Creek twice more this weekend — in Dawson Creek on Friday, Nov. 2, and in Fort St. John on Saturday, Nov. 3.

The rivalry between the two teams usually produces exciting, close games, but so far, the Huskies have been having their way with the Canucks, with Fort St. John winning 4-2 and 5-1.

“The game in Dawson Creek was probably the best we’ve played there in the 10 years I’ve been with the team. In the 5-1 game at home, we only scored once in the first period on 19 shots and their goalie kept it close early,” said Huskies GM Jeremy Clothier.

Huskies goalie Jonathan Bateman said the game against the Canucks on Oct. 24 got real heated by the end of the game, and he expects it will stay that way this weekend, especially considering the back to back games.

“It’s a healthy rivalry. I think this weekend’s games will be even more intense than normal,” said Bateman.

So far, the Canucks have outscored the Huskies 54 to 38, but have played three more games. The two teams are fairly even when it comes to defence as well, with the Huskies allowing just 29 goals to the Canucks 39.

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Above: Jared Loewen looks for a hole to shoot through during the Huskies 5-1 win against the Dawson Creek Junior Canucks on Oct. 24. Below: As is often the case, a fight broke out between the two teams.

One reason the Huskies have allowed so few goals (only the North Peace Navigators have allowed less at 26) is the recent play of goalie Jonathan Bateman.

“He’s refocused and energized, and back where he was last year when he was the top goaltender in the league,” Clothier said.

Since losing his first two starts, Bateman has gone 4-1

his last five games and has a record of 4-3 on the season.

Fort St. John is also getting much better play from their defencemen. The team allowed five and six goals, respectively, in its first two games of the season, but haven’t allowed more than four goals against in the seven games since.

“The defence is coming around. The young guys

are stepping up, and our veterans have been better.

We needed them to step up and they have been. That’s big when you’re a young team like we are,” Clothier said.

Jared Loewen, Nathan Bragg and Jeridyn Loewen are the veteran defensive players for the Huskies.

Both games this weekend start at 8 p.m.

ports are a continuous mix of the unpredictable and predictable.

Every year, teams make decisions that every single person watching at home knows are stupid. However, we’re only right about half the time.

This past week, a number of these scenarios played out on the big stage.

The Boston Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in a relatively easy five games to win their fourth World Series title since 2004. As many thought, Clayton Kershaw continued to struggle in the playoffs, and lost both games he pitched in the World Series.

I’m a massive Kershaw fan, and want so bad for him to change the narrative. One big World Series win and a championship ring would go a long way. Yet, I didn’t think it would happen, and it didn’t.

Across the diamond were the Red Sox. Every baseball fan in North America knows that David Price is even better than Kershaw when it comes to postseason performance. After losing his first two games this playoffs, the haters were out for blood. But all of a sudden, Price turned in a big win to help close the ALCS out against the Houston Astros, and then had two wins in the World Series, making that three straight.

He also pitched two scoreless innings in the 18-inning Game Three.

That Price would exorcise his demons was even more unlikely than if Kershaw would have done so, but Price did just that while Kershaw continued to disappoint. The fact that sports aren’t entirely predictable are the best parts about them.

Then there’s Blake Bortles, Hue Jackson, and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Bortles, the Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback, remained the team’s starter this season despite being bad last year.

Hue Jackson remained the Cleveland Browns head coach even though he was 1-31 through two seasons, and Tristan Thompson of the Cavaliers told the media that the Cavs were still the team to beat in the East despite losing LeBron James in free agency.

Well, on Sunday, Oct. 28, the Cavaliers fired head coach Tyron Lue after starting the season 0-6, and Bortles and the Jags lost their fourth straight game, a week after Bortles was benched. Then on Monday, the Browns fired Jackson after his record fell to 2-5-1 on the season and 3-36-1 in his career on Cleveland. That makes two Cleveland teams that fired their head coach in consecutive days.

You can’t make it up.

Nobody was surprised about any of these moves. Often, it does seem like things unfold as expected.

Except that’s not really the case.

During the 2016 NFL season, nobody could have predicted that the Los Angeles Rams would be 8-0, and that Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs would be having one of the best seasons at quarterback in just his first year as a starter.

You never know what will happen, and, as the saying goes, that’s why they play the game.

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Local hockey

Fort St. John Huskies raise $1,450 for hospital foundation

Huskies player of the week Jonathan Bateman Position: Goalie Hometown: Calgary, AB Height: 6’3 Wieght: 177 lbs 2017 stats: 14-6, 2.05 GAA, 0.919 % 2018 stats: 4-3, 3.13 GAA, 0.889 % Age and year with Huskies: 20, third year with Huskies Favourite NHL team: “Winnipeg Jets. Ever since they came back in the league I’ve cheered for them and I love their grinding style.”

The Fort St. John Huskies donned their pink jerseys Wednesday night and helped haul in $1,456 in support of the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation.

It was the team’s annual Pink in the Rink breast cancer awareness night, and proceeds will go to the foundation to help buy new equipment to diagnose and treat patients with cancer.

The good deeds event is just one of many the team takes on throughout the season that helps form bonds between players and the community, said Huskies veteran Matt Apsassin.

“The community and the fans and all our friends and supporters, they’re great. They’ve been with us for a long time, so supportive, they give us so much,” Apsassin said.

“We’d be a lot different team, not as strong as we are now. That’s what really helps. The community keeps us together and helps us bond a lot more.”

The team raised $500 through gate sales, and another $956.45 through a raffle, 50/50 draw, games, and donations.

“It’s always fantastic when we can have an opportunity to give back to the community,” coach Todd Alexander said.

“A lot of fans here just come to watch us play and they give to us and help us out, so we can use this as a platform to raise awareness.”

The Huskies will hold their next fundraising event Nov. 24 in support of men’s health.

Favourite NHL player and why: “Connor Hellebuyck. I love how he competes every night and that he’s a young goalie.”

On his play this season: “It’s going well. I didn’t have the starts I was looking for at the beginning of the year, but I’ve been bouncing back pretty well and the team is helping me out.”

On being one of the team’s older players: “I’m used to having older guys lead the way, but it was an eye-opener to realize I’m one of those guys now that has to step up. It took a while, but we’ve all embraced the leadership roles.”

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The Huskies pose for a team photo following their game on Oct. 24 as part of their Pink in the Rink Brest Cancer Awareness Night.

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Huskies coach Todd Alexander and his players follow the action during the game against the Canucks.

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Jordan Spieth gets his 2018-19 season underway in Las Vegas this week at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open The Shriners Hospitals for Children Open is played in Las Vegas at the TPC at Summerlin. Built on land in Las Vegas’ western reaches once owned by Howard Hughs, the layout winds through arroyos and canyons, building to four closing holes that make golfers weigh risk/reward. This week’s lineup features nine entrants who competed in last month’s TOUR Championship at East Lake and highlights arguably the best field to hit Vegas in recent years.

PGA legend Gus Andreone passes away at age 107 Gus Andreone, the oldest member of the PGA of America passed away Saturday evening at Tidewell Hospice House in Sarasota, Florida. Andreone, who had suffered a stroke, was 107. In 1947, he became the PGA Head Professional at Pittsburgh’s Edgewood Country Club, a position he held for 34 years. While he enjoyed giving lessons and managing the golf shop, Andreone remained a skilled player. He posted a 66, which were then course records at Edgewood and St. Clair Country Club. In 1971, Andreone was the Tri-State PGA Golf Professional of the Year. Andreone made his first of eight holes-in-one in 1939. His last was struck on Dec. 12, 2014, at age 104, using a driver on the 113-yard 14th hole at Palm Aire Country Club near his home in Sarasota, Florida.

Xander Schauffele won the HSBC Champions

Xander Schauffele made birdie on his final three holes Sunday, the last one a two-putt birdie from about 30 feet on the par-5 18th hole to beat Tony Finau in a sudden-death playoff at the HSBC Champions. Schauffele began the tournament by celebrating his 25th birthday. He ended it with one clutch shot after another in the closing stretch at Sheshan International for a 4-under 68, the lowest score of the final round, and his first victory in 13 months.

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FedEx Cup Standings

The chip-and-run shot is one of the most difficult parts of the game to master, yet it is the part of our game that we spend the least amount of time working on. This nonchalant approach to the chip shot is what separates the cream of the crop from the remainder of the field. Here are a few easy steps to practice whenever you have that difficult chip-and-run shot in front of you. Narrowing your stance is the first bit of advice. If you are a right-handed player, put more weight on your left foot to keep the loft out of your shot. When you are ready to take the shot, play the ball inside your right foot with your hands positioned ahead of the ball. Finally, make a putt-like motion, keeping your wrists firm and strike the ball with a clean, crisp stroke.

Through Oct. 28, 2018

Course Stats Yards: 7,255 Par: 71 18-hole record: 59 Tournament record: 260 Defending champion: Patrick Cantlay

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Pro Golf Trivia Only one other player besides Tiger Woods has won the PGA Championship as No. 1 in the world.

Who was it? a) Nick Price b) Vijay Singh

c) Rory McIlroy d) Greg Norman

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Tournament Results Player Score Earnings 1. Xander Schauffele *playoff -14 $1,710,000 2. Tony Finau -14 $1,072,000 3. Justin Rose -10 $587,000

1) Xander Schauffele 594 pts. / 1 top tens

2) Brooks Koepka 556 pts. / 1 top tens

3) Marc Leishman 545 pts. / 1 top tens

FedEx Cup Standings continued...

Player Points 4) Kevin Tway 538 5) Gary Woodland 393 6) Cameron Champ 330 7) Tony Finau 315 8) Brandt Snedeker 295 9) Emiliano Grillo 287 10) Ryan Moore 253

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npss sports

Junior Girls Volleyball team wins Prince George tournament It was a busy weekend for Grizzlies Volleyball with the senior teams at the Comp. in Grande Prairie and the junior girls team at Duchess Park in Prince George.

The jr. girls started the weekend with decisive wins over College Heights and Kelly Road on Friday night. With consistent play from key players, the girls found themselves in the final against a strong team from PGSS on Saturday. The girls took the game in two sets, 25-22 and 25-18 and finished the weekend off strong with a first place finish and a wild card entry for Zones.

The sr. girls started the weekend 2-1 in Grande Prairie, falling to Lacrete and GP Comp. In the first round of playoffs on Saturday, the girls lost to a strong Dawson Creek team, putting them in

the consolation bracket. They lost in the final, finishing sixth.

The sr. boys had a slow start to their weekend in Grande Prairie. They started with two tough losses, but were able to pull through and place third in their pool. After falling into the consolation bracket, they fought hard and ended the weekend with a win in the consolation final.

Up Next: The cross country team is off to provincials in Nanaimo this week, and the jr. girls volleyball team competes at regionals on Friday and Saturday at Bert Bowes. Senior volleyball has the weekend off, and will play in Peace River November 9 and 10.

— Samantha Stackhouse

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Above: The jr. girls, led by Taylor Schmidt, were undefeated in Prince George and won gold.

Below: The sr. boys team followed up their gold medal showing in Dawson Creek by winning the consolation final in Grande Prairie.

Athletes of the week Taylor Schmidt

Nathan Narcisco

Taylor played hard this weekend and approached every game with a positive attitude. She always came up big for the team when they needed it.

Taylor had some huge blocks again and helped lead the junior girls to gold.

Over the weekend, Nathan played a key role in putting pressure on the other teams with consistent serving and sets. Despite the quality of a pass, Nathan was able to make it work for the team and played an important defensive role. Nathan was also chosen as the consolation final MVP.

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Distance: 1.5 miles Shape: Quad-Oval Turns / Straights: 24º / 5º

This week’s race is the eighth in the NASCAR Playoffs. There’s an old adage in the Lone Star State: “Everything is bigger in Texas.” One of the country’s largest sports crowds will descend this weekend on the Texas Motor Speedway for the AAA Texas 500 NASCAR Cup Series race. This is one of the finest NASCAR facilities on the circuit.

It is a 1.5 mile quad-oval with a controversial dual banking setup of 5 and 24 degrees.

Additional facilities include a 1/5-mile short oval and a 4/10-mile clay oval. The track was completed in 1997, and has been used for NASCAR and Indy Racing League events.

It currently seats 155,000 fans and has 194 VIP skybox suites.

Last Weekend’s Race: Joey Logano won at Martinsville Joey Logano used an old-fashioned bumpand-run on Martin Truex Jr. to win Sunday at Martinsville Speedway. The contact caused both cars to wiggle, but Truex’s slide was nearly sideways while Logano corrected after a swerve and straightened himself out as he hurtled across the finish line. “I’m a hard racer, I don’t think that’s a secret to anyone, and we are here to win a championship this year,” Logano said. Logano was showered in boos and Truex jeered the winner with both thumbs down as Logano was interviewed over the public address system.

Joey Logano Born: May 24, 1990 Crew Chief: Todd Gordon Car: Ford

Year 2018 2017

Wins 2 1

Top 10s 24 17

Avg. Finish 15.2 10.4

2018 Standings Cup Series Top Ten Drivers 1) Kyle Busch 2) Martin Truex, Jr. 3) Kevin Harvick 4) Joey Logano 5) Kurt Busch 6) Chase Elliott 7) Clint Bowyer 8) Aric Almirola 9) Ryan Blaney 10) Brad Keselowski

Points 4104 4083 4083 4074 4058 4052 4041 4033 2232 2227

Xfinity Series Top Ten Top 10s 26 19 26 24 20 19 15 14 15 18

Drivers 1) Elliott Sadler 2) Daniel Hemric 3) Tyler Reddick 4) Christopher Bell 5) Matt Tifft 6) Justin Allgaier 7) Cole Custer 8) Austin Cindric 9) Ross Chastain 10) Ryan Reed

Points 3058 3057 3055 3045 3044 3040 3022 3002 2115 2110

Top 10s 23 20 17 19 16 22 23 10 8 10

Ally Financial joins Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 team as full-season primary sponsor Ally Financial will join Hendrick Motorsports as the whole-season primary sponsor of Jimmie Johnson’s iconic No. 48 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 team in 2019 and 2020. The partnership will feature the leading digital financial services company on the champion driver’s cars across the entire 38-race NASCAR schedule, beginning with 2019 DAYTONA Speedweeks and the 61st running of the DAYTONA 500.

Gateway interested in Cup date in 2020 A schedule shakeup for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series could come as early as the 2020 season and Gateway Motorsports Park is positioning itself for the shortlist for when league officials are ready to talk.

The greater St. Louis area boasts more than 2 million residents, and Gateway drew more than 40,000 of them for the return of the Verizon IndyCar Series in 2017. The follow-up event this summer drew somewhere between 25,000 and 30,000. Track owner and former openwheel racer Curtis Francois without hesitation has indicated that he is willing to let Gateway be the guinea pig when it comes to finding a facility gutsy enough to host the elusive but often-discussed prime-time middle-ofthe-week Cup race.

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Flyers look to start season 2-0 dillon giancola sports@ahnfsj.ca

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Grande Prairie A’s goalie Kiefer Smiley is beaten by Fort St. John Flyers forward Tanner LaSann (left) during a penalty-filled second period on Oct. 27, 2018.

The Fort St. John Flyers will look to start the NPHL season 2-0 this weekend in Grande Prairie in a rematch of last weekend’s season opener against the Athletics. In the first game, the Flyers, despite being penalized five times and outshot 35 to 30, held on for the 6-5 win.

“I thought we played well, considering we have some new defenseman that played their first game. It was a great game against a skilled Grande Prairie team,” said Flyers coach Andrew Leriger.

Leriger said his team will have to match Grande Prairie’s speed and physical play again this weekend if they hope to win.

“We’re not a real physical team. We made the adjustment in the first game against (the Athletics) and will need to do that again this weekend. They like to play run and gun and we’ll need to guard

against the breakout pass,” Leriger said.

Newcomer Tanner LeSann was instrumental for the Flyers in his first NPHL game, with two goals and an assist, and likes what he sees from his team so far.

“It was a good start and we played good as a team. I’m still getting to know the guys, but we have a good skilled group that’s not afraid to play aggressive,” said LeSann.

Fort St. John once again got a big boost from goalie Travis McLean.

“In my opinion (McLean) is the number one goalie of the league. He doesn’t get the credit because he rarely plays against the teams in the East, but he’s the reason why we won it all last year and why we’ll go deep this year,” Leriger said.

The game starts at 8:30 p.m. local time. The Flyers home game is Nov. 10 against the High Prairie Regals.

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Red Dragon Martial Arts took 12 competitors to the 34th annual K.H Min Taekwondo tournament in Edmonton on October 13, bringing home 18 medals. Back left: Coach Ben Marsh, Megan Ross - two gold, Olivia Desor - two bronze, Rhys Fuhr - bronze, Josh Coenders - gold and silver, Ryan Dutchak - bronze, Front left: Cole Duncan, Marshall McCracken - gold and bronze, Scarlett Desor - two bronze, Nikolas Pajor - two bronze, Myah Marshall - silver and bronze, Roc Fraser - silver and bronze, Brody McKnight. Right: Megan Ross won gold medals in sparring and poomse.

Prespatou 4-H Community Club LACEY WIEBE Prespatou 4H

Hello again!

What beautiful October weather we’ve been having! It is the perfect opportunity to start halter breaking calves. I hope everyone is excited to start the new 4-H year,(I am) the meetings, weigh ins, communications competitions, judging rallies, fundraisers, going out in 30 below twice a day to feed the steers, and eventually we have the biggest event of all, achievement days.

The 4-H busy-ness is starting up again. We have had a few 4-H events over the last month the biggest event was the awards night. I would like to give a huge congratulations to all the members that completed the 2018-19 4-H year!

Most of the members of our club attended the annual awards night at the Montney hall on October 19, I think everyone really enjoyed the good times we had there. The beef members now have their projects picked out for next year and some of us are already starting to halter beak them. Our club has its start up meeting on October 29.

-Lacey Wiebe

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Fort Bowling Lanes league standings: week 4

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Just two points separates The Fantastics and Freeze Frame after four weeks.

Here are your week three rankings for the Mixed No Cap and Wednesday Morning Coffee bowling leagues.

The Fantastics lept Freeze Frame for first place. Trouble won the week, and moved into a tie for third overall.

In the coffee league, Ball Busters remain in front, and Fab Five, by winning the week, moved into a tie for second with Shady Ladies.

Mixed No Tap Overall points / week four points

High Series 1. Trouble - 3,760 High Single 1. The Fantastic Four - 1,367

Coffee League

Individiual Leaders

1. Ball Busters - 20 / 4 2. Fab Five - 17 / 5 3. Shady Ladies - 17 / 2 4. Five Alive - 16 / 6 5. Pin Poppers - 10 / 3

Mens Single Flat - Kevin Alexander - 337 Mens Series Flat - Kevin Alexander - 821 Ladies Single Flat - Marlene Bigcharles - 335 Ladies Series Flat - Clara S. - 725 High Averages

1. The Fantastics - 40 / 10 2. Freeze Frame - 38 / 6 3. Trouble - 33 / 12 4. Got Balls - 33 / 9 5. Good Time Girls - 30 / 11 6. Rusty Gates - 27 / 8 7. Blue Balls - 22 / 7 8. Forever Friends - 20 / 3 9. Comic Reliefs - 20 / 4 10. Brianna - 19 / 5 11. Here 4 The Beer - 16 / 1 12. Big Chucksies - 14 / 2

Ladies 1. Marlene Bigcharles - 216 2. Nicole F - 207 3. Brianna Warnock - 204 Mens 1. Kevin Alexander - 231 2. Percy - 214 3. Elvis Calahasen - 213

Overall points / week four points

High Series Ball Busters - 3,324 High Single Ball Busters - 1,210 Ladies Series Sheryl Harris - 622 Ladies Single Maria Baxter - 283 Ladies High Average 1. Jeannette Ward - 177 2. Cindy Dettling - 170 3. Joanne McGinnis/ Shelley Gunn - 165 League play goes each Wednesday night, 7 to 9 p.m.

To inquire about joining a team, call Fort Bowling Lanes at 250-785-8882.

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Kane Schreiner, Nathan Jackle and Mason Maddigan at the North Central Cross Country Zones in Vanderhoof on Oct. 20..

Schreiner is the Junior Boys Champion, while Jackle and Maddigan finished second and ninth, respectively, in the Grade 9 race. Both Schreiner and Jackle will compete at the provincials in Nanaimo this weekend on Nov. 3.

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Maintenance Coordinator Kelt Explora�on (LNG) Ltd. is currently seeking applica�ons for the posi�on of a Maintenance Coordinator.

Only qualified individuals with a minimum of 5 yrs work experience coordina�ng opera�ons maintenance ac�vi�es for piping systems, rota�ng equipment, system integrity, measurement applica�ons. This role will be posi�oned in Fort St. John, BC with occasional travel to the Grande Prairie field office when required. The role is part of the Opera�ons team and will report directly to the Produc�on Forman and work closely with the field opera�ons including construc�on.

The candidate must be a self-starter and have the ability to work with minimal supervision. Knowledge of the BC OGC regula�ons, proficiency in Microso� office suite is required.

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

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

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

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

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

SAS NATSADLE ABORIGINAL HEAD START EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR (ECE) Responsibilities will include: − Planning and organizing activities for 3 to 5 year old pre−school children − Leading and monitoring children in activities to stimulate and develop their intellectual, physical and emotional growth − Share in the responsibility of the day− to−day operations of the Head Start centre Qualifications: − Valid Early Childhood Education Certificate and license to practice − Current First Aid Certificate − Knowledge and understanding of the Head Start Program will be an asset − Driver’s License required − Must conduct themselves in a professional manner and maintain strict confidentiality − Must love working with children − Knowledge and understanding of First Nations culture and traditions Individuals of Aboriginal ancestry are encouraged to apply.

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Mile “O” Quilter’s Guild meets every Tuesday & Thursday in Dawson Creek at KPAC in Studio #10 at 7pm

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Coming EvEnts PC Roots Group Meeting: 4th Sunday/month - from Sept-June 1:30pm in the Archives Room at The Calvin Kruk Center. Getting started on family tree research, need Help?

Come learn & share experiences with other amateur genealogists.

New members welcome. For more info call: Lynn- 250-7824058. Neil- 250-7827651. Website http://peacecountryroots.ca Rolla WI Turkey Supper- Sunday November 11th,2018 at the Rolla Community Hall 4:30pm-7.00pm Adults: $15, Children: $10 Under 5 yrs: Free SATURDAYS: LEARN YOUR ROOTS - Genealogy information NAR PARK ROOTS BUILDING 10:00am peacecountryroots.ca

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Coming EvEnts Rotary Manor Annual Christmas Bazaar & Tea Saturday, November 17th 2:00 - 4:00 pm Admission: $5 Crafts, Raffle, Baked Goods, and Tea. Proceeds go towards resident programs and activities. Everyone Welcome.

Please use our FREE shuttle service from Alliance Church Parking Lot. Shuttles will start at 1:45 pm & run until 4:00 pm Save the Dates July 12, 13, 14, 2018 for the Mile Zero Cruisers Silver Anniversary Summer Cruise weekend starts with on-site Registration at Dawson Co-op parking lot. Bring down your pride and joy and register for the Summer Cruise Car Show weekend. For online Registration and more information: MileZeroCruisers.com

Seniors Game Time: Th. Nov. 1, from 10:30am-12:00pm at the Dawson Creek Library.

Join us for Seniors Game Time. Do you have a favourite game?

Bring it along! Make friends and have fun every month at the DC Library!

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

Lost Reward offered for information leading to the recovery of 10-2w gray livestock panels-including gate panel stolen from Charlie Lake Store August 29 at 1:22 am.

Thieves dismantled the round pen and loaded the panels in the dark at 1:22 in the morning.

Phone 250-263-1430

General employment

FIRST CHOICE TOWING looking for tow truck driver with class 3 with air, looking for class 5/with air commission sales. Med/Dental after 3 months experience is good but will train.

Drivers abstract and resume can be dropped off at 10150-Alder Rd behind TJ’s Restaurant.

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

MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION! In-demand career! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get online training you need from an employertrusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1855-768-3362 to start training for your workat-home career today!

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Margaret Jean (Peggy) Blanchette August 28, 1937 – October 16, 2018 Peggy Blanchette passed away peacefully on October 16, 2018 at the age of 81. Services were held on October 23rd at the Church of the Resurrection in Fort St. John. Peg is survived by her husband of 57 years, Vic, her two sons, Richard (Karen) and Ronald (Melody) She will also be greatly missed by her grandchildren, Lindsay, Christine, Curtis (Kelsey), Emily, Caleb (Abigail) and one great grandson, Lucious. Peg was predeceased by her daughter Elaine and a baby boy.

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Peg was born and raised in North Pine, B.C. After marrying Vic, they raised their family in Fort St. John, farming just north of town. Peggy could always be found outdoors, doing yard work, transplanting trees and the like. Her garden was always plentiful and weed-free. In later years, Vic and Peg did a lot of travelling within Canada and wintering in Yuma. Wherever she was, Peg’s door was always open and visitors welcome. She will be missed by many.

Kelt Explora�on has an excellent opportunity for an experienced full �me operator in the Fort St. John opera�ng area. Working in a high paced, high energy work team the primary responsibility of the successful person will be to effec�vely par�cipate as a team member by providing safe and cost effec�ve opera�on and maintenance for our wells, gathering systems, and process facili�es. The opera�ons team ensures the superior performance of mechanical, instrumenta�on and facili�es by implemen�ng cost efficiencies and maximizing produc�on. The successful applicant must be willing to work extra hours and be on-call as required.

Key Accountabili�es & Responsibili�es • Manage and maintain day-to-day opera�on of wells, pipelines and processing facili�es • Compliance with produc�on accoun�ng u�lizing FieldView • Manage wells by u�lizing SCADA • Contribute to successful daily execu�on of the area Business Plan (i.e. produc�on volume targets, HSER, OPEX,) iden�fying opportuni�es to maximize produc�on, minimize opera�ng costs and minimize down�me • Provide equipment maintenance and troubleshoo�ng • Provide training and mentoring for team members to assist in comple�on of assigned produc�on tasks that required addi�onal competencies or in depth problem solving • Consistently meets and strives to exceed Kelt Explora�on expecta�ons including: Health, Safety & Training; community rela�ons; environment; regulatory; company policy; corporate values; and Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

• Perform housekeeping, performance monitoring and maintenance ac�vi�es

Qualifica�ons • Minimum 5+ years of oil and or gas opera�ng experience • Must have a minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent • Class 4 Power Engineering Cer�ficate is an asset • This is a safety sensi�ve posi�on and will be subject to the relevant requirements of the Kelt Explora�on (LNG) Alcohol and Drug Policy • Possess excellent communica�on skills, a posi�ve a�tude and the ability to work effec�vely in a team environment • Self-mo�vated with a strong work ethic and the ability to work in an unsupervised work environment • Strong troubleshoo�ng and problem solving skills • Strong computer skills (proficient in MS Office Suite) • Possess a valid Class 5 driver’s license - drivers abstract is required We thank all applicants. Only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

Applicants must include a copy of their resume and updated drivers abstract to be considered.

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Caregiver/Nanny for hire: To look after my (3) children; 14 year old; 8 year old & 4 year old girls. Permanent, full-time at a rate of $12.65/hour for 40 hours/week.

Completion of Secondary School/Some College/CEPEG/Vocational. 1 to 2 years of experience supervision or care for children.

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

Applicants may apply via email: gelinemdetorres@yahoo.com Child Caregiver: 7 year old girl & 17 month boy. $12.65 per hour.

Permanent-40 hours per week. Employer’s home/94 Ave, Completion of Secondary School, some college/ CEPEG/Vocational or technical training in child care or related field. 1 to 2 years supervision of children.

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Accommodations could be made available on a live-in basis at no cost.

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Yolande Harrison A dedicated nurse, homemaker, and volunteer who made Fort St. John her home for more than fifty years, Yolande passed away peacefully in Prince George at the university hospital with her family by her side. She had been fighting for weeks to recover from a fall when her health took a turn for the worse and cancer was discovered. Strong till the end, she made sure to tell her loved ones that she had enjoyed a good life and that she was ready to move on.

Born in Sudbury in the middle of the Depression, Yolande (née Labelle) the oldest of five siblings, was a dutiful daughter who helped care for her three sisters and her brother, as well as a diligent student who skipped a grade. She entered nursing school at age seventeen, moved to Montreal at twenty to work in a hospital there, and after a few years found her way west to B.C. and further work as an RN. After a year in Trail, she studied at UBC for her public health certification before heading to Fort St. John and life as a highway nurse. For two years she would serve the many small and often remote communities along the Alaska Highway, driving with a fellow nurse in all kinds of weather to do baby visits and provide much needed health care. It was in Fort St. John that she met her future husband Brian Harrison, whom she married in July 1963. She had two sons with him, Douglas and Bruce, and settled into life as a homemaker and community volunteer. Yolande was an active woman who ran the household, kept a garden, skied, skated, swam, entertained her many friends, and did more than her share of the work in all her endeavours. She travelled to Europe with Brian, vacationed in Penticton, B.C. nearly every summer with him and the kids, and always had a real tree to celebrate Christmas.

Yolande returned to nursing when her sons entered their teens, working full time and raising the boys as a single parent after Brian’s untimely death. She made a career in public health and took on increasing responsibility at work, eventually becoming the acting manager of both the Fort St. John and Dawson Creek Public Health Units. When she retired, she dedicated herself to volunteer work, co-founding the Fort St. John Film Society, helping out regularly at the public library, and serving as secretary of the Friends of the Library. Still, Yolande found time for her close circle of friends: she loved to go with the “girls” to the movies and then to coffee, would arrange an Oscar party with them each year, and shared their company over too many lunches to count. She travelled to the Maritimes with her lifelong friend Barbro, visited her family back east, and she spent time with her grandkids in Kamloops whenever she could.

Constantly busy and ever responsible, Yolande never failed to ask herself what she could do for those around her. She wanted to be there for her family, her friends, and her community—and she was. We who loved her will miss her always.

She is survived by sons Douglas and Bruce (Shari), granddaughter Frances, grandson Kieran, sisters Jean and Diane, and brother Ray. She is predeceased by sister Claudette and ex-husband Brian.

There is no memorial service, by request; instead, please remember her by enjoying a cup of tea in a peaceful place. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Fort St. John Film Society (via the Fort St. John Arts Council) or the Fort St. John Public Library.

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The family would like to express their heartfelt thanks to the staff at the Peace Villa for the wonderful care that Peg received as a resident there for the last two years. Your kindness was so appreciated. Also, a special thanks to friends and family for all their support and expressions of sympathy.

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October 26 – November 11, 2018 was proclaimed as “Poppy Campaign” in the City of Fort St. John.

Poppies will be for sale at various loca�ons in Fort St. John throughout the campaign. Wearing a poppy serves as a reminder of those who guard and protect our country. Funds collected from the sale of poppies help fund programs that assist veterans.

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The month of November 2018 was proclaimed as “Adop�on Awareness Month” in the City of Fort St. John. The Adop�ve Families Associa�on of BC requested the proclama�on to bring awareness to the many children in BC who are wai�ng in foster homes for adop�on. On November 9, 2018, the Pomeroy Sports Centre will be lit up in green to recognize and honour adop�ve and guardianship families.

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The month of November 2018 was proclaimed as “Be an Angel Month” in the City of Fort St. John. The intent of the proclama�on is to promote the launch of the 22nd Annual “Be an Angel” Campaign organized by the Fort St. John Hospital Founda�on and hopes to realize a fundraising goal of $250,000 with opportuni�es to donate throughout November.

STAFF RECOGNITION AND LONG SERVICE AWARDS Council acknowledged the educa�onal achievements of two staff members. Kim Ward, Building Inspector I, was recognized for achieving Building Official 2 Cer�fica�on with the Bri�sh Columbia Building Officials Associa�on and Jagdish Naraina, Building Inspector 2, was recognized for achieving Building Official 3 Cer�fica�on.

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Jim McKnight

Environment / Conservation Representative

Ron Wagner

Labour Representative

Budd Phillips

Non-commercial Recreation - fishing, hunting Representative

Roy Lube

Outdoor Recreation - non-consumptive Representative

Les Christianson

Outdoor Recreation Alternate

Dave Harris

Range Alternate

Ray Ensz

Trapping Representative

Andy Ackerman

Urban Communities Representative

Rob Fraser

Rural Communities Representative

Karen Goodings

Rural Communities Alternate

Lyle Mortenson

Halfway River First Nation Representative Prophet River First Nation Representative

Roslyn Notseta

Halfway River First Nation Alternate

George Desjarlais

West Moberly First Nation Representative

Carl Pouce Coupe

Doig River First Nation Representative

John Stokmans

Saulteau First Nation Representative

LIQUOR LICENSING Council recommended the issuance of a Liquor Primary Licence for the North Peace Cultural Society.

Council considered noise and safety as well as local area impact in their decision to support the applica�on. The applica�on will be submi�ed to the BC Government for provincial approval.

PERMISSIVE TAX EXEMPTION BYLAWS The following four Permissive Tax Exemp�on Bylaws were adopted by �tle only:

• Industrial Surplus Supplies Ltd. (North Peace Gymnas�cs Associa�on) Permissive Tax Exemp�on Bylaw No. 2446, 2018 • City of Fort St. John (Fort St. John Curling Club Management Agreement) Permissive Tax Exemp�on Bylaw No. 2447, 2018 • Fort St. John Associa�on for Community Living Permissive Tax Exemp�on Bylaw No. 2448, 2018

UPCOMING COUNCIL MEETINGS The Inaugural Council Mee�ng is scheduled for Monday November 5 at 5:30 p.m.

A Commi�ee of the Whole mee�ng is tenta�vely scheduled for Tuesday November 13 at 1:00 p.m.

The Regular Council mee�ng will follow at 3:00 p.m.

All mee�ngs will be held in the City Hall Council Chambers and the public is welcome to a�end.

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LEASE OF LAND In accordance with Sec�on 26 of the Community Charter, no�ce is hereby given that the City of Fort St. John intends to lease the concession area within the North Peace Arena to Tasty Dogs on land legally described as Parcel 1, Plan BCP 29880 Sec�on 31, Township 31, Township 83, Range 18, Meridian 6, Peace River Land District (civic address 9805 96 Avenue) for: - $980.00 per month plus applicable taxes for the months of October to March - $33.00 per day plus applicable taxes for daily opera�ng for the months of April to October For a five year term ending on September 30, 2023.

Inquiries regarding this lease of land may be directed to Janet Prestley, Director of Legisla�ve and Administra�ve Services at (250) 787-8153 by November 13, 2018.

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Land Act: Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land Take notice that BC Hydro and Power Authority has applied to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Northeast Region, for a Temporary Licence of Occupation situated on Provincial Crown land located at Halfway River, Peace River District.

• Pinnacle Capital Corpora�on (Canadian Red Cross Lease Agreement) Permissive Tax Exemp�on Bylaw No. 2445, 2018

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Council presented Long Service Awards to four employees from the Fort St. John Fire Department: • Paul Roe, Fire Fighter – 5 years • JasenDonszelmann, Fire Fighter – 10 years • Adam Winn, Fire Fighter – 10 Years • Fred Burrows, Fire Chief – 15 years

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The Lands File for this application is 8015857.

Written comments concerning this application should be directed to Authorization Officer, Northeast Region, MFLNRO, at 100-10003-110th Avenue, Fort St. John, BC V1J 6M7, (250) 787-3415 Comments will be received by MFLNRO up to December 8, 2018 MFLNRO may not be able to consider comments received after this date. Please visit the website at http://comment.nrs.gov.bc.ca/ for more information and a map of the application area or send comments directly to: AuthorizingAgency.FortStJohn@gov.bc.ca A Government decision for this application is expected on or after December 8, 2018 Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered part of the public record. Access to these records requires the submission of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. Visit http://www.gov.bc.ca/freedomofinformation to learn more about FOI submissions.

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Local Sports

Blizzard Bike Club season wraps: Sapp and Pasincky win senior titles dillon giancola sports@ahnfsj.ca

The Blizzard Bike Club held its 36th annual end of season banquet on Oct. 28, and handed out awards for the top points getters in each age division.

Robert Sapp and Natasha Pasincky won the senior mens and womens titles (29 and under).

The club had 59 members this year, an impressive number considering how long its been around.

“Our membership numbers are decent. We’re still going strong, and are excited about next year. We continue to get younger and that’s really great to see,” said club president Dan Webster.

Webster said he’s noticed an increase in speed skaters joining the club in the summer months to train, and said there’s a good relationship between Blizzard

and the Elks Speed Skating Club.

One such cyclist is Josh Telizyn, an excellent speed skater who won the gold medal at the Alberta Summer Games this summer for mountain biking.

“They’re complementary sports and the two clubs have great synergy,” said Webster.

Webster said the club’s older riders continue to impress and are committed to riding each year. Richard Wood, 75, won the Masters E category for members 70 and older.

“I still struggle to keep up with (Woods) in the time trials. It speaks to the longevity of cycling as a sport,” Webster said.

The club will be back starting next spring with another 100 rides and races.

Webster said the club continues to focus on having more friendly and community rides, as races can be intimidating.

Awards Peewee Boys (12 and under): Brett McCracken and Jack Webster

Senior Womens: Natasha Pasincky

Peewee Girls: Emma North

Vet Masters A (30-39): Mike Dufresne, Heather McCracken

Mini-me Boys (13-14): Matthew Mitchell

B (40-49): Dan Webster and Kristine Bock

Mini-me Girls: Hannah North

C (50-59): Rick Newlove

Cadet Boys (15-16): Josh Telizyn

D (60-69): Pat Ferris

Junior Girls (17-18): Amanda Mitchell

E (70+): Richard Wood

Senior Mens (19-29): Robert Sapp

Most Improved: Dan Webster

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From left: Blizzard Bike Club President Dan Webster presents trophies to his son Jack Webster, Natasha Pasincky, and Robert Sapp at the club’s year-end banquet on Oct. 28.

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

Rev. farai Mutamiri ********** Church of the Good Shepherd Taylor, BC - Sundays 10:00 a.m. ********** St. Matthias, Cecil Lake, BC 3rd Sun. of the Month 3:00 p.m.

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

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. Louis Kwena 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 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

BAPTISM: Contact the Pastor 3 months before baptism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The United Church of Canada is a Union of Congregationalist, Methodist & Presbyterian Churches in Canada formed in 1925.