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PRRD passes on role with Site C rec fund JONNY WAKEFIELD reporter@dcdn.ca

The Peace River Regional District wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play a role in administering a fund to make up for recreation areas lost to the Site C dam, saying $200,000 isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough to make up for what will disappear beneath the reservoir. BC Hydro was required to create a plan to mitigate Site Câ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impacts on Peace River recreation as a condition of the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental approval. PRRD directors heard more about the damâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Outdoor Recreation Mitigation Plan from BC Hydro officials at a board meeting Oct. 13. A $200,000 Community Recreation Site Fund is one part of the mitigation plan, which also includes a public viewpoint over the dam site near Fort St. John, money to replace parkland lost in Hud-

Electoral Area E Director Dan Rose

sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hope, and funding for three new boat launches and picnic areas along the 83-kilometre reservoir. The plan would also see the creation of

a Site C Reservoir Navigation and Recreation Opportunities Plan once the reservoir is filled in the 2020s. BC Hydro had asked the regional district if it would like a role in distributing the $200,000 fund to local community and recreation groups. Some directors worried the regional district could be saddled with operating and maintaining the facilities after theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re built. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How many years of picking up garbage would that be?â&#x20AC;? Area B Director Karen Goodings asked. Dan Rose, Electoral Area E director, suggested sending a letter saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;$200,000 isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nearly enough and as such we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really be bothered with it,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough to do anything.â&#x20AC;? See REC on A7

Snow-slicked roads prompt RCMP reminder

SLIDING IT HOME

10 crashes keep police busy MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca

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Fort St. John Huskies forward Geoff Dick slips a backhand past County of Grande Prairie JDA Kings goalie Liam Murphy in the second period of a 5-3 win Friday night at North Peace Arena. The Huskies will hit the road Friday to take on the Fairview Flyers before welcoming the Sexsmith Vipers to town on Saturday, Oct. 22. Story on B2.

Encana to spend up to $300M to grow Montney production MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca

Encana plans to spend between $200 to $300 million in 2017 as it ramps up production of its liquids-rich holdings in the Montney. The company laid out its plans for the basin in a presentation in New York on Oct. 5, telling investors liquids production in the Montney is estimated to grow four to five times, while gas production doubles over the next five years. According to the present-

Five year plan laid out to investors as it looks to quintuple liquids ation, liquids production is slated to grow to 50,000 barrels per day by the end of 2018, and growing to 70,000 barrels in 2019. Gas production, meanwhile, will grow to 1.2 billion cubic feet per day by 2019. Much of the production will be focused in the Tower, Dawson South, and Pipestone areas. The company, meanwhile, is currently building its South

Central Liquids Hub south of Dawson Creek. Overall, Encana plans to spend between $1.4 to $1.8 billion in 2017 in its Permian, Montney, Eagle Ford, and Duvernay plans. The lionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s share, up to $1 billion, will be directed to the Permian in the U.S., with spending in Duvernay and Eagle Ford projected to be between $300 to $450 million combined.

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Mounties were kept busy last week after another shot of snowy weather slicked city streets and the Alaska Highway. Fort St. John and surrounding areas saw 24 centimetres of fresh snow between Oct. 13 and 16, with local officers responding to 10 collisions, according to Environment Canada and RCMP numbers. Eight of the collisions involved property damage over $1,000, while there were another two accidents that caused injuries. There were no fatalities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From a police standpoint, one vehicle collision over $1000 (and with injuries) is one too many,â&#x20AC;? Sgt. Dave Tyreman said. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prompted another reminder from police to drivers to shift their gears into common sense as winter sets in. While Tyreman couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speak to the exact causes of the 10 collisions, he stressed the importance of installing winter tires, leaving early when travelling on the roads, and driving to conditions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s society, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all in such a hurry to go somewhere, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slow down, leave five extra minutes early,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It seems like todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s society is rush rush rush. Sometimes that extra five minutes will help you avoid a speeding ticket or sliding through a stop sign. See SLICK onA3

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Seven-year-old Emma Lyon and 12-year-old Berlin Livingston make use of the work stations with presenter Nick Johnson at the Work BC Find Your Fit event at Dr. Kearney Middle School on Oct. 12. The event is meant to help students find out what sort of career they could have based on their interests. ALEISHA HENDRY PHOTO

Why Canadians should be thankful JAIL JEST: Before we start news chewing, a question: Do you remember news items earlier this year from Ohio and Texas, about men who were trying to break INTO jails? Well, it happened again. This time in Stephenville, Newfoundland. Last week, a Canadian man was charged after he tried to break INTO jail. Folks, when I predicted the day will come when all the honest people are in jail and only the crooks are free—I was joking! You were not supposed to take that remark seriously!

GOLDEN GAG: Remember The Golden Girls from TV? This is kind of weird—a toy company is selling Golden Girls action figures. Each doll comes with removable dentures.

Bob Snyder CHEWS THE NEWS

GEE, THANKS: Last Monday was Thanksgiving Day in Canada. Canadians have a lot of reasons to be thankful. Mostly they should be thankful they are not Americans and they have to pick between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

CAR CHAOS: A poll shows most Canadians would never buy a self-driving car. They don’t like the idea of a car telling them what to do. Give it time. I remember when the average Canadian never dreamed their life would be ruled by their cell phone.

PHIL PHUNNY: According to Forbes Magazine: Dr. Phil is the highest paid CHRIS DISS: Monday was Columbus TV host. He makes $88 million a year. In Day in the U.S. Christopher Columbus stores now, Dr. Phil’s latest book: “How To was trying to prove the world is round. Become Incredibly Rich By Sticking Your What an idiot! Everybody knows the world Nose Into Other People’s Business.” Dr. is flat. Flat broke. Phil makes $88 million a year from his TV show—plus another $50 million from his https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-78_metric_e.html MOUNTAIN MEMO: As part of Finland’s line of head polish for bald guys. independence celebration, Norway gave an unusual gift to Finland. A mountain. I SHOOZ NOOZ: Remember Michael Tumbler Ridge always wanted my own mountain. It would J. Fox’s self-lacing shoes from the movie 118.9 BOB BULLETIN: Maybe you heard: be a perfect place to practise my yodelling. Back To The Future? Nike will launch Bob Dylan—yes, Bob Dylan—won the self-lacing shoes next month. This rePrince George 104.9 Nobel Prize for Literature. That’s bePUPPY PROBLEM: In Tucson, Arizona: minds me of when I lost money with my Environment and natural resources  Weather  Weather ALocal forecastsa “free  British Columbia cause there’s noinformation Nobel Prize for Mumman discovered puppy” he adop- invention: Longjohns with a remote-conHythe 102.9 bling. Bob Dylan is 75. It’s nice that he ted was actually a wolf. It’s now living in trol trapdoor at the back. won the prize before he croaks. Actually an animal sanctuary. The guy who adopCAD$ per litre, prices as of Oct. 18. I’m a big fan of his. I have several alted the puppy became suspicious when MAGNUM MAYHEM: Coming soon to Source: GasBuddy.com bums of Bob croaking. it huffed and puffed and tried to blow the TV: A remake of Magnum P.I. This time the rrent house down. show will star a female private detective. lson, BCConditions - 7 Day Forecast - Environment Canada https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-83_metric_e.html Past 24 hours Radar Satellite Lightning Correction A LITTLE OFF THE TOP: In Ann Arbor, Tom Selleck’s chest hair was a big part of Observed Fort John Michigan, a barber at: gives kidsSt. a $2 dis- Airport ACTION REACTION: In a survey, Vanthe original show. Please, please, PLEASE In our Oct. 13 report ‘31 par- count if they read a book while getting a couver was rated Canada’s most active tell me we will not see chest hair on the Date: 8:00 AM MST Tuesday 18 October 2016 cels eyed for Site C-impacted haircut. Some kids are scared of getting city. People in Vancouver walk more, they female Magnum. Condition: Cloudy Temperature: -3.8°C First Nations,’ it was stated 31 their hair cut, reading a book distracts run more, they exercise more. The only parcels were identified for trans- them. IfPressure: you want to be mean, hold sharp time the averageDewpoint: Vancouverite stands still 101.5 kPa -5.8°C fer to First Nations impacted by scissors near their little ears and make is when they are answering a survey about Bob Snyder can be reached at: Tendency: rising Humidity: 86% Environment and31natural  Weather information  Weather  Local forecasts Site C. While parcelsresources in the them read a Stephen King novel. how active they are.  British Columbia chewsthenews@fastmail.com Visibility: 24 km Wind: SE 12 km/h Peace Region have been identified by a Notice of Intent, not all Wind Chill: -8 °C °F are related to Site C, and not all of those would transfer. ecast Further, the article conflated 24 Hour Forecast AQHI Alerts Jet Stream FORT ST. JOHN Past 24 hours Radar Satellite Lightning Government to Government Tue Wedthe West Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon negotiations involving Observed at: Fort Nelson Airport Moberly and Prophet River First 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct Date: 8:00 AM MST Tuesday 18 October 2016 Nations and Site C land transfers. Those talks, listed as early Condition: Cloudy Temperature: -2.7°C discussions, are not directly related to Site C. Pressure: 101.4 kPa Dewpoint: -5.2°C We regret the errors. Tendency: rising Humidity: 83% 40% 40% —AHN

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Water flushing plan, new sink on tap as lead sampling continues below the federal limits. The district will flush water lines at the school once a week for the next four to six weeks, with new samples being taking

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The District of Taylor plans to replace a sink at its fire hall while School District 60 will flush water lines at Taylor Elementary School after elevated lead levels were found in the drinking water at the two facilities. In a Sept. 30 report, Operations Director Ryan Nelson outlines the measures as a response to tests in June that found lead levels at the two buildings exceeded federal Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality of 0.010 milligrams per litre (mg/L). A second water sample taken from the fire hall Aug. 18 found lead levels at 0.0146 mg/L, while a third test on Sept. 1 at a newer sink in the upstairs of the building found levels at just 0.00231 mg/L. “It has been since decided to have the downstairs sink where the first two samples exceeded, changed and then retested,” Nelson wrote in the report. Meanwhile, a water sample taken from the sink at Taylor Preschool on Sept. 7, after the school reopened, found lead levels at 0.0192 mg/L, higher than levels of 0.01160 mg/L first detected in a sample taken from a locker room in June. Separate post-summer and operational water sampling by School District 60 found levels at 0.00754 mg/L and 0.000372 mg/L, respectively, according to a recent report from the district, both of which are well

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'B' 10756-100 St. Fort St. John, BC vacancies in the Dawson Creek Community Oncology Clinic are filled with certified oncology nurses.” Northern Health’s Connections transportation service is available three days a week from Dawson Creek for patients and their family members or support

personnel. More information about the bus can be found at nhconnections.ca. “(We’re) committed to the delivery of safe and sustainable cancer care services in northern B.C.,” Northern Health said. “We are taking these temporary measures to ensure people can receive

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timely treatment as close to home as possible in one of our other cancer clinics.” It added that it is “aggressively recruiting” to fill the vacancies in Dawson Creek. Patients who have further questions are asked to contact Northern Health at 250-9617724. •

“People don’t realize, if you come in to intersection and slide through, it’s still a ticketable offence,” Tyreman said. “No matter how fast you’re going, if you cannot stop for that stop sign you are deemed to be driving too fast for the conditions.” Between Oct. 1 and April 30, winter tires or chains are mandatory for motorists and truckers using regional highways throughout the north. The Fort St. John area has seen more than 60 centimetres of snow already in October, according to Environment Canada data. Wearing a seatbelt protects against concussions, even in minor accidents, Tyreman added. He also stressed the importance of driving with both hands on the wheel in the winter to better adjust and react to driving conditions. While there were no fatal collisions in the Fort St. John detachment’s coverage area, one man was killed after his vehicle slid off Highway 29 near Hudson’s Hope and into the Peace River on Oct. 13.

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Northern Health has announced plans to temporarily centralize chemotherapy intravenous treatments at the Fort St. John hospital. Cancer patients in Dawson Creek were upset earlier in the year when the health authority began shifting the on-again, off-again treatments from their local hospital to Fort St. John. Arranging for childcare, travel and having to deal with icy winter roads was causing stress, some said. Now, at least for the time being, there will be no cancer services in Dawson Creek. The health authority says the move comes because of a lack of certified oncology nurses. “Chemotherapy services in Fort St. John are located at the Community Oncology Network Clinic at the First St. John Hospital,” Northern Health said in a release. “Patients will be diverted there on a temporary basis until the two existing

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post-summer water sampling program. While all schools tested under federal limits last spring, excess lead was found at Bert Bowes (0.0103 mg/L), Ecole Central (0.013 mg/L), Upper Halfway (0.014 mg/L), and Wonowon (0.0133 mg/L) schools post-summer, prior to their respective water lines being flushed. In an Oct. 6 community letter, Superintendent Dave Sloan said all schools are tested twice: once before flushing water lines and again after lines have been flushed for more than two minutes. All sites tested safe when the lines were flushed, Sloan noted in his letter. “The district continues to develop an ongoing safety plan to ensure safe water is always available at all our facilities,” he wrote. “Testing and flushing programs are being set in place to guarantee our ongoing commitment to maintaining a safe water supply.” The samples are being taken as part of a Northern Health plan to identify potential lead contamination in drinking water supplies. Health Canada notes it guidelines set lead limits at 0.010 mg/L for the biochemical and neurobehavioral effects the heavy metal can have on infants and children under six, and for women who are pregnant. Lead concentrations must be at least 0.00050 mg/L to be detected and reported.

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From left: Sage Birley, Marianne Bloudoff, Wayne Robert, and Amanda Trotter took part in a panel Oct. 13 to talk about the food security challenges facing the Peace Region.

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CITY BEAT

Updates from October 11, 2016 Council Meetings PROCLAMATIONS

• The week of October 17 – 23, 2016 was proclaimed as “Waste Reduction Week” in the City of Fort St. John. • The month of October 2016 was proclaimed as “Foster Family Month” in the City of Fort St. John.

RCMP SEMI-ANNUAL PRESENTATION

At the Committee of the Whole meeting, Council received the semi-annual statistical presentation from the RCMP for the first six months of 2016 (compared to the same time period in 2015). Total calls for service were 7,080 in that period, with 5,562 being municipal and 1,518 rural. Criminal Code calls totaled 2,474, 2,062 municipal and 412 rural, and included 572 crimes against persons, 1,022 property crimes and 679 other crimes. Violent crimes against persons included 6 robberies, 4 assault (police), 21 sex offences, 39 ACBH/ Weapons/Aggravated Assault, 53 Utter Threats, and 148 common assaults. There was a 20% decrease overall; 2015 had an 8% increase over 2014. Under property crimes, arson increased from 6 in 2015 to 14 in 2016, business break and enters increased from 33 to 40 and residential break and enters decreased from 37 to 27. Vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles, theft, and vandalism all dropped in 2016 while shoplifting increased. So far in 2016, under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, there have been 184 occurrences resulting in charges against 46 adults (39 males/7 females). There has been an increase in fentanyl related incidents and seizures causing concern for the community and officers’ safety. 119 persons have been charged with impaired driving under the Criminal Code while 37 persons received 24 hour/3, 7, 30 day warnings under the Motor Vehicle Act. This is a result of consistent enforcement. Motor vehicle collisions included 4 fatalities, 16 injuries and 158 with vehicle damage only. There have been 700 Public Disturbances in 2016, an increase of 21% over 2015. 713 persons have been held in custody. Both Noise Bylaw complaints and False Alarms have continued to decrease from 2015 to 2016.

FORT ST. JOHN CURLING CLUB – 70TH YEAR CELEBRATION AND FUNDRAISER

Council received a presentation from the Fort St. John Curling Club. They are hosting a celebration and fundraiser in honour of the 70th anniversary of the Club. The event will include a Mixed Doubles Clinic on October 21st, a family bonspiel, a dinner with music and a silent auction on October 22nd. The Club is very proud of reaching this milestone and invited Council to join the event.

SPORT CELEBRATION WALL DISPLAY CHANGE

Council authorized staﬀ to enter into a sole source agreement with Three Dimensional Services (3DS) to fabricate forms and install the next set of artifacts in the Sport Celebration Wall lobby display for the total quoted amount of $23,202.14. Council also directed staﬀ to re-establish a Sport Celebration Wall standing committee.

APPLICATIONS FOR TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICES

Council authorized staﬀ to issue a letter of concurrence to Cypress Land Services Inc. regarding their application for two 15.85 metre joint use BC Hydro/Telus utility poles located at 86th Street and 115th Avenue and north of 100th Avenue and east of 88th Street. In both locations, existing utility poles are proposed to be replaced with taller poles that would enable wireless equipment to be attached. No equipment is to be located at ground level. The letter of concurrence will form part of Industry Canada’s approval process.

2017 UNDER 17 WORLD MEN’S HOCKEY CHALLENGE

Council directed staﬀ to negotiate a hosting agreement for the 2017 Under 17 World Men’s Hockey Challenge with Hockey Canada, the City of Dawson Creek and BC Hockey Association and to bring it back to Council for approval. Hockey Canada did not receive any bid submissions to host this event and City of Dawson Creek staﬀ approached the City of Fort St. John to see if there was any interest in co-hosting this event once again. The proposed dates for the 2017 Under 17 World Men’s Hockey Challenge are October 27 to November 4, 2017.

BYLAWS

• As part of the original presentation of the proposed changes to the Animal Control Bylaw, Council recommended that public consultation be conducted. The consultation was conducted by way of an online survey and an informational meeting. Overall the recommended changes appear to be in line with the public’s wishes and Council directed staff to submit the draft bylaw for first three readings. There is also significant concern regarding cats in the community. It was felt that this issue should be dealt with separately from the current changes to the Animal Control Bylaw. Council directed staff to explore the possibility of regulating cats in the community and to develop an engagement process to engage the public in an information session and online forum. Staff will also be proceeding with the implementation of a Beekeeping Bylaw. This process will include amendments to the Zoning Bylaw, public engagement including a subject matter expert, and lastly the creation of the Beekeeping Bylaw. • Permissive Tax Exemption Bylaws No. 2328, 2016 through No. 2358, 2016 were introduced and read for the first three times by title only.

Food security is as much a modern issue as it was a century ago. The Northern Environmental Action Team and Urban Systems invited members of the public to Come To The Table Oct. 13, an evening of discussions and presentations around access to healthy food in the region. Judah Koile, owner of The Beam coffee shop, created appetizers made with local ingredients, including potatoes, beets, kale, and zucchini that came from the Braden Valley, Rose Prairie, and Bear Flat. Presentations came from Sage Birley, a local organic farmer; Wayne Robert, a consultant who is passionate about food security; Marianne Bloudoff, a population health dietician with Northern Health; and Amanda Trotter, executive director of the Fort St. John Women’s Resource Society. Birley’s discussion revolved around growing up on a farm, but not really appreciating it until he was an adult. “I had no idea how lucky I was,” he said. “I thought that’s what everybody did, everyone worked in 4H, everyone worked in the garden.” His decision to become an organic farmer came after hearing a story about how school kids couldn’t say where a tomato came from—their answer was the grocery store. It was then he decided to go back to his roots and start his own market garden. It’s been a learning curve, but he said he’s slowly but surely learning how the growing season works in the Peace. Robert’s talk centered around the economics of food security, and how producer and the community need to work together. “By 2050, we need to produce 70 per cent more food,” he said. Bloudoff discussed the importance of access to healthy food, as a community is more “resilient and vibrant”

when they are food secure. She shared a video of a food security program underway on Haida Gwaii, where the whole community gets involved with growing and catching food, preparing it, and bringing it to market for everyone to access. She also noted that it’s important that immigrants and First Nations have access to culturally appropriate food. Trotter talked about the basic hierarchy of needs, which, at its base, is food, clothing and shelter. When the economy is bad, food is often the main place people cut in their budgets as it’s not a fixed payment, unlike a mortgage or car loan or other bills. Fort St. John saw 16 per cent of its population using food bank services this summer, which Trotter said shows the area has a serious food security problem. During the panel discussion, a member of the audience wondered why food security become a big issue. “The way we value food has changed,” said Birley, who is related to Peace Region pioneer Frank Beatton. Birley noted that when he goes back and reads Beatton’s journals, he could see how important and valuable food was a century ago—mostly because the pioneers had no choice. Robert also noted that farming isn’t presented as a viable career choice to today’s youth; university degrees are pushed over learning to work the land. When asked how much food the community would have if the roads to town were somehow cut off, the panel said the commonly accepted idea is about three days worth, which is not a whole lot. The purpose of the event was to get the discussion going on how to make Fort St. John more food secure. Ideas about turning front lawns into foodproducing gardens, community freezers and root cellars, and going back to eating at the table without any technology getting in the way, were included.

A Committee of the Whole meeting is also scheduled for 2:00 p.m. (tentatively) on Monday October 24, 2016. The Regular Council meeting will follow at 3:00 p.m. All meetings will be held in the in the City Hall Council Chambers and the public is welcome to attend.

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The food made for Come To The Table was prepared by Judah Koile of The Beam and was made using ingredients grown locally.

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Lack of land transfer transparency ‘deplorable’: Pimm MLA decries issues in transfers of Crown land to Site C dam-impacted First Nations JONNY WAKEFIELD reporter@dcdn.ca

MLA Pat Pimm slammed BC Hydro and the provincial government for an “insulting” lack of transparency, borrowed a phrase from Hillary Clinton, and got in a barb about the Agricultural Land Reserve in an hour-long presentation on land transfers to First Nations set to lose territory to the Site C dam. It’s the latest development in the years-long process of compensating Aboriginal people impacted by the $8.8-billion hydroelectric project and its 83-kilometre reservoir. The issue emerged this spring after a hunter and anglers group noticed parcels the provincial government had flagged for potential transfers for Site C. The land transfers have been a source of tension between the Peace Region’s six Treaty 8 First Nations and backcountry users including fishermen and hunters, who say the transfers could privatize access to adjacent Crown land. Three-hundred people attended a public meeting on the issue in March. Pimm, who left the B.C. Liberal caucus following his arrest on an assault charge this summer, has helmed a 20-member MLA First Nations Stakeholder Advisory Committee created in May. The committee includes hunters, anglers, grain producers, ranchers and trappers who use backcountry Crown land. Pimm said the committee sent invitation letters to First Nations but received no response. In a presentation to the Peace River Regional District board Oct. 13, Pimm said he was fed up with the lack of information around which lands are on the table for Site C transfers.

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MLA Pat Pimm presents at an Oct. 13 regional district meeting. Pimm heads a committee designed to engage backcountry users, ranchers and other rural residents on land transfers to First Nations impacted by the Site C dam.

“I don’t think it’s (just) an insult to the people of the Peace River Regional District, I think it’s an insult to the people of the province—that there’s no public transparency in any of these discussions,” he said. “We all live in this province, so I think we should all have input into the process.” While the ministry did not provide exact details on which lands are up for transfer, Pimm found 32 parcels of Crown land totalling tens of thousands of acres flagged for use by government—some potentially for Site C-affected First Nations. Site C will inundate 5,000-12,000 acres of First Nations traditional territory by Pimm’s estimates. Any parcels identified for use by government are options for First Nations to consider, but not all would be transferred. “The lack of transparency within government and within BC Hydro on these transfers is absolutely deplorable and an insult to the 98 per cent non-First Nations population in the Peace Country,” a copy of Pimm’s presentation to the Peace River

Regional District reads (Pimm later noted Hillary Clinton’s use of “deplorable” to describe Donald Trump supporters.) “Keep in mind there are approximately 70,000 residents in the Peace Country with only 1,721 First Nations living on the reserve lands, which is approximately 2.4 per cent of the region’s residents.” First Nations people account for around 13.5 per cent of Northeast B.C.’s population when off-reserve populations are taken into account. While Pimm’s committee can give input on access issues related to land transfers, Canada’s constitution requires government to negotiate directly with First Nations. Earlier this year, Energy Minister Bill Bennett said there were “legitimate criticisms” of the process, but said the government is required to hold confidential negotiations. Pimm said he did not believe highlighting First Nations’ minority status would create tensions between First Nations and non-First Nations people.

“We need to accommodate everybody. You can’t accommodate two per cent and have 98 per cent not accommodated,” he said. “That’s the point of my discussion and that’s what I’m standing behind. I represent everybody in my region: First Nations, non-First Nations alike. They’re all my constituents. If I feel the government is not standing up and representing the general population, it’s my job as MLA to make sure my constituents are heard.” “When you’re not transparent about something, it creates an awful lot of distrust, and that’s what’s happened over the years. As long as things are protected, like access, and people know what’s going on, I don’t think there’s as big a disconnect as people might think there is.” He also took the opportunity to criticize the province’s Agricultural Land Commission. “We know a local farmer can’t give five acres to his kid, we know that, because the ALC won’t let

you. But we’ll give 312,000 acres away? Our committee is a little bit stuck on some of (those) points.” In 2014, Pimm was forced to apologize for comments made in emails obtained by the Globe and Mail in which he used the word “Indians.” ‘This practice is changing’ In an Oct. 12 letter included in Pimm’s presentation, Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Rustad said the committee’s concerns would be addressed, adding access to other Crown land would not be cut off by land transfers. “Our practice in the past has been to treat negotiations with First Nations as confidential and, therefore, have not fully engaged stakeholders, the public and local governments. This practice is changing,” he wrote. “We are implementing new engagement principles that serve as clear instructions to our negotiators.”

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Letters to the Editor CHARGING STATIONS WOULD BE GREAT FOR HIGHWAY I saw and read the article ‘Public demo charges up electric car use’ (Alaska Highways News, Sept. 28). How cool it would be to have a charging station at the Shepherd’s Inn along the Alaska Highway? — Daniel Francis, Peace Region THANKFUL FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE

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I recently saw some photos online of the local North Peace Search and Rescue hard at work again. It appears they did some leadership/ trainer rope rescue training at Dawson with other northern B.C. SAR teams to support the trainers/leaders of B.C. SAR with ongoing training for northern communities. Not sure who was all involved, but I’m so thankful to the SAR teams in B.C. who sacrifice family time/weekends/practice night training sessions to improve their ability to help others throughout the province. I know your local SAR has backed up SAR Watson Lake this past year. I currently live in Hope, B.C., but I am a past resident of the Peace area and volunteered as a firefighter in the Peace Region through the years I lived up there. Our local Hope SAR staff are amazing here in Hope and respond frequently to lost persons and highway accident calls due to our geographic location with five highways intersecting here. I can’t believe the amount of sacrifices they have to make as volunteers involved with SAR. Kudos. That said, I see the family postings from my son every month or less of the amount of additional training he participates in with many other team members of NP SAR. When I saw that the guys from the region were out again for three days to train for rescue responses this past week, it struck a chord that (provincially) they are all under appreciated and not recognized enough for

their efforts each week. Hope you can find room to thank SAR for their ongoing commitment and efforts sometime soon. —Spencer Cameron, Hope, B.C. A POEM FOR THE SEKANNI This poem was inspired by the interviews by Earl K. Pollon and S. S. Matheson conducted with native Sekanni peoples who were negatively effected by the flooding of their communal homelands by the building of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam. “This Was Our Valley” tells that story of injustice. 640 square miles of riverfront and hunting territory would be flooded to form Williston Lake. The Sekanni peoples were driven from their ancestral homeland in northeastern British Columbia, Canada and dispersed in the 1960s. The Shopping Cart Injustice People, place and spirit All were our relations Biopeds, quadrupeds, beings with wings or fins River language told us so. Fishing rocks spoke the run Where the riffles and the rapids talked. Ancestors, dead and alive, told living stories where Running the river banks, the children played. The land was a book written in forms. We made our mark with love, community Fishing weirs, aspen dugout canoes, Hunting trails, camps and sacred sites. Always traders, we traded furs with White settlers when they arrived On the rivers Parsnip, Finlay and Peace at Finlay Forks, Fort Grahame, Fort McLeod. We added pack trains, teams of pack horses River freighters, flat bottom ‘longboats’ For supplies and for mail delivery.

It seemed that we could live together. Then one day a government agent said That shopping carts were coming They would flood our world Water rising everywhere Shopping carts with electric can openers Full, fast to check out, Shopping carts with electric hair blowers, Full, faster to check out, Shopping carts with electric air conditioners, Full, fastest to check out Shopping carts with electric stoves. Check out, check out, check out. They would make our rivers into a lake We would move or drown. Our elders did not believe it. That was the only consultations! Soon Saskatoon berries all under water Next, the banks sloughed back to graveyards Next, cliffs crumbled, and banks fell into rising lake Houses of the villages slipped and floated Coffins, bones and bodies strewed the shore Where tangled trees, debris and more Eddied with flotsam in the wind. We wept for our ancestors! We weep for our children. We had to flee the destruction Caused by tree grinders, D-9 bull dozers The dam construction. Now they want to take more Another dam for more shopping carts. Please stop Site ‘C’. —Wally du Temple, Peace Region Got something to say about a hot button issue? Send us a Letter to the Editor. Email editor@ahnfsj.ca or fill out the form on our website, alaskahighwaynews.ca

Canadians are just so gosh-darned nice

merica has made a lot of questionable decisions in the past. As we know, the most important question for them is a few weeks away: Who is going to run their country? As a lot of Americans are thoroughly disillusioned with the potential outcome, and because there’s some angry man telling them their country is terrible every time a camera is pointed at him, some Canadians decided to start a Twitter campaign to help America feel good about itself again.

Aleisha Hendry AS I SEE IT

Creative agency The Garden made a website and a hashtag “Tell America It’s Great,” a nice little rip on Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan. We are just so darn nice sometimes. Everyone could use a little pick me up once in

a while. So rather than focus on the negatives about America, here’s a few positive things about our neighbours to the south. Some of the greatest artists of the 20th century are from America, including Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Andy Warhol, Georgia O’ Keefe, and Jackson Pollock. Along the same vein, some of the greatest writers—including F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemmingway, Emily Dickenson and Harper Lee—are American.

And some of the greatest musicians of all time are American as well. Where would we be without Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan and James Brown? So yes, America. There are plenty of reasons why you’re pretty great. Don’t let some loudmouth tell you otherwise. Aleisha Hendry is a proud feminist writer who loves cold weather, her cats, roller skates and righteous indignation. Follow her on Twitter at @aleishahendry

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LOCAL NEWS

Land Act:

Notice of intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land Take notice that British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority from Vancouver, B.C., has applied to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Northeast Region, for a Licence of Occupation situated on Provincial Crown land located at Williston Reservoir. The Lands File for this application is 8015875. Written comments concerning this application should be directed to Joyce Veller, Authorization Officer, Northeast Region. MFLNRO at 370, 10003-110 Avenue, Fort St. John, BC, V1J 6M7, (250) 787 3438. Comments will be received by MFLNRO up to November 21, 2016. MFLNRO may not be able to consider comments received after this date. Please visit the website at: www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index.jsp for more information and a map of the application area.

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A fire that destroyed a vacant house on 101 Avenue will be officially reported as undetermined, but officials still say the cause is suspicious.

Fire destroys vacant house Cause suspicious but undetermined MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca

A fire that destroyed a vacant house on 101 Avenue will be officially reported as undetermined, but officials still say the cause is suspicious. The Fort St. John Fire Department responded to the blaze on Oct. 13 around 8:22 p.m. But after the hot spots were extinguished, there was little evidence left for investigators to work with, according to Fire Chief Fred Burrows. “With the amount of damage to the structure, we weren’t able to find anything,” Burrows said, noting the snowy weather didn’t help. “There was no evidence laying on the ground that we can pinpoint the cause of the fire to.” The building had sat vacant for more than 20 years, Burrows said, and was not connected to hydro or gas utilities. There were no injuries. “Anything could have been possible,” he said. “We have to point to it being suspicious in

nature.” Burrows noted the house was set a short distance from the road. “Until it actually broke out and there was visible flame, probably no one would have noticed it, especially with the way the snow was falling that night,” he said. The home is located in the regional district and the city’s fire department has no authority to deal with vacant buildings, Burrows said. Still, they do pose safety hazards, he noted. “Any building left empty is always a potential target,” he said. “Not only is there just a danger of fire, it’s the danger of people being hurt on private property. “The owner had gone to significant ends to try to keep people out of it, but obviously somebody probably got into it.” According to recent data from the Fort St. John RCMP, arson rates more than doubled in the first six months of 2016, up to 14 incidents from just six in 2015.

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Zimmer to PERMISSIVE TAX EXEMPTION NOTIFICATION keep tabs on Asia-Pacific Gateway

In accordance with Section 227 of the Community Charter, notice is hereby given that the following properties including improvements will be receiving 100% permissive tax exemption status (unless another percentage is indicated) for the 2017 to 2019 taxation years (unless otherwise indicated): Class

MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca

Local MP Bob Zimmer has been tasked to keep the government’s feet to the fire over its Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative. The initiative, led by the federal transport ministry, looks to drive investments and trade between the North America and Asia. Canada has pumped $1.4 billion into infrastructure as part of the initiative, including road and rail networks, and major ports, according to the government’s website. Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose named Zimmer the party’s critic on the file Oct. 17. He’ll continue to serve as Deputy Critic for Families, Children and Social Development as well as vicechair for the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (HUMA) Committee. “I look forward to focusing on the Asia-Pacific Gateway as well as continuing my work on the HUMA Committee as both are very important to the people of my riding and all Canadians,” Zimmer said in a statement. “We have a strong Conservative team and we will continue to hold the government to account and insist on accountability and transparency.” A recent study found that B.C. will require thousands of workers to fill more than 100,000 jobs expected to open up by 2025 to maintain and expand the initiative.

Roll #

Owner

Civic Address

Total Assessment

2017 Estimated Permissive Tax Exemptions

2018 Estimated Permissive Tax Exemptions

2019 Estimated Permissive Tax Exemptions

3825.013 Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Prince Rupert

9504 - 100 Avenue

193,300

1,658.51

3825.013 Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Prince Rupert

9504 - 100 Avenue

1,423,000

32,659.42

3825.013 Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Prince Rupert

9504 - 100 Avenue

58,490.70

3,947,300

58,490.70

481.000 Fort St. John Christian and Missionary Alliance

9804 - 99 Avenue

104,000

2,386.91

482.000 Fort St. John Christian and Missionary Alliance 6290.015 Evangel Chapel Society

9804 - 99 Avenue

1,296,100

19,205.48

10040 - 100 Street

2,155,000

31,932.57

2953.000 Guru Nanak Sikh Temple and Cultural Society 2954.000 Guru Nanak Sikh Temple and Cultural Society

8915 - 100 Avenue

151,200

3,470.21

8911 - 100 Avenue

148,000

3,396.76

2955.000 Guru Nanak Sikh Temple and Cultural Society 2951.000 Guru Nanak Sikh Temple and Cultural Society

8907 - 100 Avenue

148,000

3,396.76

9915 - 90 Street

702,700

10,412.54

8 6 6 6 8 8 8 8

2979.000 BC Corporation of the Seventh Day Adventist Church 1750.000 Calvary Baptist Church (Baptist Union of Western Canada) 492.000 Trustees of the Congregation of Fort St. John Presbyterian Church

9008 - 100 Avenue

419,000

6,208.70

9607 - 107 Avenue

866,700

12,842.67

620,800

9,198.95

9812 - 108 Avenue

1,301,000

19,278.09

8555.000 Peace Lutheran Church 8296.000 BC Conference of Mennonite Brethren Church

10816 - 106 Street

2,056,600

30,474.49

9347.000 Peace View Congregation of Jehovah's Witness of FSJ

7912 - 94 Avenue

704,300

10,436.25

5981.000 President of the Lethbridge Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

11412 - 100 Street

1,119,200

16,584.19

8220 - 89 Avenue

932,000

13,810.28

8480.000 Evangelical Free Church of Fort St. John 9810.670 Christian Life Centre

4,383,000

100,594.67

9810.670 Christian Life Centre

8923 - 112 Avenue

6 6 1 6

9907 - 98 Street

8923 - 112 Avenue

227,600

3,372.55

1,155,000

26,508.52

10251 - 100 Avenue

859,000

19,714.99

10519 - 102 Avenue

612,000.00

5,250.96

861,000

19,760.90

2,819,000

64,699.15

810,000

18,590.39

415.000 Salvation Army 384.000 Fort St. John Association for Community Living

10120 -100 Avenue

1690.200 Fort St. John Association for Community Living 3963.200 Fort St. John Friendship Society

10208 - 95 Avenue

9807.605 Child Development Centre Society 111.000 Fort St. John Senior Citizens Association

10408 - 105 Avenue

6 1

9341.300 North Peace Seniors Housing Society

10804 - 98 Street

2,745,000

23,552.10

8554.000 North Peace Seniors Housing Society 8553.000 North Peace Seniors Housing Society

9816 - 108 Avenue

2,567,000

22,024.86

9908 - 108 Avenue

2,270,000

19,476.60

9364.000 North Peace Seniors Housing Society 9346.000 North Peace Historical Society

9907 - 110 Avenue

1,968,000

16,885.44

9323 - 100 Street

2,457,000

56,390.85

10015 - 100 Avenue

4,540,000

104,197.99

1 1 6

10908 - 100 Street

City of Fort St. John (North Peace Cultural Society Management Agreement) * 6539.000 2017 taxation year only * City of Fort St. John (North Peace Cultural Society Management Agreement) * 556.000 2017 taxation year only *

10015 - 99 Avenue

131,000

3,006.59

9058.000 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

9311 - 81 Avenue

636,000

14,596.90

1112.000 Board of School Trustees (Totem Preschool Lease)

9908 - 84 Street

2,081,700

47,777.30

6790.001 New Totem Archery Club Society [City of Fort St. John]

9196 Jones Subdivision

1,631,000

24,167.99

6790.001 New Totem Archery Club Society [City of Fort St. John]

9196 Jones Subdivision

22,500

516.40

9821.460 Fort St. John MotoX Society

8903 - 77 Avenue

841,000

19,301.88

2849.000 Margaret Cavers and Dean May (Fort St. John Community Arts Council Lease) 2519.500 Abbeyfield Houses of FSJ

10320 - 94 Avenue

449,700

10,321.11

8112 - 96 Avenue

933,000

8,005.14

1070.000 Royal Canadian Legion - 81.6% exemption 1070.000 Royal Canadian Legion

10103 - 105 Avenue

265,000

4,962.95

10103 - 105 Avenue

515,000

7,631.22

1072.000 Royal Canadian Legion 1073.000 Royal Canadian Legion

10111 - 105 Avenue

88,600

2,033.47

10115 - 105 Avenue

177,000

4,062.34

1 6 8 6 6 1

623.000 Passivhaus (City of Fort St. John) * 2017 taxation year only *

9904 - 94 Street

638,000

5,474.04

645.000 FSJ Women's Resource Society - 81% exemption 872.010 United Pentecostal Church of British Columbia

10045/51 - 100 Avenue

271,200

5,041.71

8 2016-09-292016-09-29 343.000 North Peace Community Resources Society - 50% exemption

10507 - 101 Avenue

563,300

8,346.92

10142 - 101 Avenue

1,488,000

17,075.62

Copies of the proposed Tax Exemption Bylaws may be inspected at City Hall, 10631 - 100 Street, Fort St. John, BC between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. from October 13 to 24, 2016. Inquiries may be directed to Janet Prestley, Director of Legislative and Administrative Services or Dan Kazymyrskiy, Director of Finance by telephoning (250) 787-8150 on or before October 24, 2016.

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Peace Water Use Plan, last updated in 2007, Hydro was required to study the impacts of lower minimum operating levels on industry in Mackenzie. Earlier this year, B.C.’s Comptroller of Water Rights opted to maintain the status quo. Bob Gammer, manager of Northern Community Relations, said BC Hydro can still run more water through the dam if needed—for example, if Hydro requires more power from its Peace Region system due to lower reservoir levels at Southern B.C. dams. “We still can access lower reservoir operating levels in those emergencies, but we are not going to have those as part of a regular operating regime,” he said. “Right now we can go as low as 2,150 feet above sea level. If we go lower than that, we have to get permission, and we have to get it six months in advance, and we have to notify Mackenzie and Hudson’s Hope that we’re doing that.” Hydro will hold meetings on its Peace Water Use Plan on Oct. 26 in Hudson’s Hope, and on Oct. 27 in Mackenzie.

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The National Energy Board has granted Pacific NorthWest LNG a 40-year export licence. The licence will allow the company to export a maximum 34.62 billion cubic metres of natural gas annual from its proposed terminal on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert. The company had previously received approval for a maximum 25-year licence in March 2014, however, legislative amendments under the Economic Action Plan 2015 Act increased the maximum term to 40 years, the board said in its decision. The new licence still needs governor-in-council approval, however, the NEB noted the gas Pacific NorthWest LNG is seeking to export is surplus to Canadian needs. “The Board is satisfied that the natural gas resource base in Canada, as well as North America overall, is large and can accommodate reasonably foreseeable Canadian demand, including the natural gas exports proposed in this Application, and a plausible potential increase in demand,” the decision reads. Atlantic Pacific Spaceline Enterprise Incorporated (APSE) sought the board to delay its decision for six months to allow time to consider the quantities of gas required for all proposed LNG

projects in Canada should all exports proceed. The board rejected the recommendation, and others made by APSE, including a request to keep Pacific NorthWest’s 25-year licence only, and a study of the economic viability of LNG facilities when considering export applications. “The Board considers that the applications approved by the Board to date represent a significant volume of LNG exports from Canada. However, all of these LNG ventures are competing for a limited global market and face numerous development and construction challenges,” the decision reads. “Accordingly, the Board is of the view that not all LNG export licences issued by the Board will be used or used to the full allowance.” Rich Coleman, B.C.’s natural gas minister, said the licence extension gives momentum to the project. “Export approvals from Canada’s National Energy Board are essential, providing proponents with the assurance they need to secure customer contracts and, ultimately, reach a final investment decision,” he said in a statement. “This extension immediately improves Pacific NorthWest LNG’s long-term certainty and strengthens its competitive positioning in the global market.”

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Trish Morgan, general manager of the regional district’s community services department, said the money wouldn’t be sufficient—but added there could be benefits to having a hand in its administration. “I agree $200,000 isn’t enough money—it’s a pittance in rela-

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Northeast B.C. First Nations split on PNW LNG Opinions on massive energy project is diverse JONNY WAKEFIELD reporter@dcdn.ca

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Company upgrades proposal for fourth dam on Peace River Amisk Hydroelectric adds height, megawatts to proposed dam near Dunvegan, Alta. JONNY WAKEFIELD reporter@dcdn.ca

The Amisk Hydroelectric Project is a dam on the Peace River, but that’s where comparisons with its betterknown upstream cousin end. The company seeking to build the 300-plus megawatt project near Dunvegan, Alta., says its dam has little in common with Site C, the 1,100-megawatt BC Hydro under construction up-river near Fort St. John. If built, the Alberta proposal would be the fourth dam on the Peace River. It comes at a time when Site C is focusing attention on the health of the Peace-Athabasca Delta—including a UNESCO monitoring mission in Wood Buffalo National Park, where some First Nations say upstream development is affecting the health of

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the rivers. The Joint Review Panel appointed to scrutinize Site C found the dam “would not have any measurable effect” on the Peace-Athabasca Delta.

Ian Sanchez, vice president of the Amisk Hydro project for AHP Development Corp., said the impacts of the Amisk project would be small compared to Site C. “(Site C is) inundating a lot of land and is inundating, in some instances, some very high-quality agricultural land. Ours just isn’t like that,” he said. “We’re very fortunate with this location. So from a stakeholder point of view, from an environmental impacts point of view, our project is just much more benign.” The Amisk project has yet to file its environmental impact assessments with provincial and federal regulators.

Sanchez expects a Joint Review Panel will be appointed to review the dam in the coming years. The project has a projected in-service date set for 2026— two years after Site C is scheduled to come online. Amisk would be located in what Sanchez called a “deeply incised” valley on the Peace River near the B.C./ Alberta border. It’s headpond would be significantly smaller than Site C’s 83-kilometre reservoir, and would hold less than 48 hours of water. However, it would inundate some upstream campgrounds, as well as parts of the Dunvegan Wildlands park and some private land. The Amisk dam was initially proposed in 2012 as a private power project to sell electricity to the Alberta grid. Work has ramped up since the Alberta government announced its intent to decommission its coal power fleet by 2030. Designers recently added 5-7 metres to the dam’s proposed height, putting it at about 24 metres and adding around 50 megawatts of generating capacity. Sanchez said his company was continuing to follow news of Site C. “We have followed what’s happening in terms of the regulatory process and stakeholder concerns, for sure,” he said. “But our (project is) quite different.”

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Local Mounties now armed with fentanyl antidote as ‘epidemic’ persists MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca

Police in Fort St. John are being trained and equipped with a lifesaving antidote for the deadly drug fentanyl. In a report to council earlier this month, Staff Sgt. Steve Perret said officers are now being issued naloxone spray to deal with overdoses in the community and protect themselves as first responders. “Officers, as soon as they’ve done the training, are permitted to carry that,” Perret said. “That’s to assist if we have somebody experiencing an overdose in the community but also to protect ourselves because there have been a few of accidental exposures to fentanyl by first responders. So

that’s one thing we’re trying to do to mitigate that.” There have been at least six fatal overdoses connected to the synthetic opioid this year in the Fort St. John area, and use and abuse of the drug remains a “disturbing trend,” Perret says. “A number of our overdose cases, whether they result in just hospitalization or death, we suspect, or we have evidence to support, that all of these are

fentanyl related,” he said. “That’s a concern, not only in Fort St. John, but right across the province and across the country. Fentanyl has become a epidemic. “We continue to gather intelligence and try to target people that are peddling this type of drug in our community.” Fentanyl is meant to treat severe pain, and is estimated to be at least 80 times as potent as morphine and at

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COURT DOCKET A weekly summary of what went on in Peace Region courts for the week ending Oct. 14. Fort St. John Law Courts: • Eric Robert Thomas Parr (born 1982) was sentenced to 14 days in jail, fined $1,000, banned for driving for three years, and handed $150 victim surcharge for one count driving while driver’s licence is suspended. Parr faced an identical sentence on a separate count of driving while driver’s licence is suspended. • Delmar Romeo Courtoreille (born 1945) was fined $750 and handed a $112.50 victim surcharge after being found guilty of the lesser included charge of driving a motor vehicle without due care and attention. The original charge was care or control of a vehicle or vessel while impaired. • Devon Andrew Wolfe (born 1986) avoided jail time but was handed a $100 victim surcharge for one count of possession of stolen property over $5,000. • Darcey Lynn Woodhead (born 1971) was sentenced to 81 days in jail and assessed a $100 victim surcharge for one

count breach of probation order. Woodhead was given an identical sentence for additional count of breach of probation. • Sylvester Herbie Apsassin (born 1992) was handed a $100 victim surcharge for one count, breach of an undertaking. • Todd Alexander Large (born 1994) was sentenced to 12 months probation, given a 10-year mandatory ban from firearms, ordered to provide a DNA sample, and handed a $200 victim surcharge for one count trafficking of a controlled substance. Large was also assessed a $100 victim surcharge for one count breach of an undertaking or recognizance. • Kristopher Ryan Carter (born 1985) was sentenced to 20 days in jail and handed a $100 victim surcharge for one count of breach of an undertaking or recognizance; assessed a $100 victim surcharge for one count failing to appear pursuant to a court order; assessed a $100 victim surcharge for one count breach of an undertaking or recognizance; sentenced to 15 days in jail and handed a $100 victim surcharge for one count breach of a probation order; and given two 20-day jail sentences, each with a $100 victim surcharge, for two counts of breach of probation order.

• Nicholas Grant Harrison (born 1980) was fined $500 and assessed a $75 victim surcharge after being found guilty of the lesser included offence of driving without a driver’s licence. The original charge was driving while prohibited/licence suspended. • Joseph Jean Paul Contant (born 1968) was sentenced to six months of probation after which he will be given a suspended sentence, and was handed a $100 victim surcharge after being found guilty of the lesser included charge of assault. The original charge was assault causing bodily harm. • Matthew Luke Hagen McIsaac (born 1978) was sentenced to 18 months of probation, given a discretionary ban from firearms for 10 years, ordered to provide a sample of DNA and assessed a $100 victim surcharge for one count of assault. McIsaac was given an identical sentence for one count uttering threats. • Oliver Leslie Wokeley (born 1981) entered into an agreement to keep the peace and be on good behaviour for one year and was fined $500 for one count fear of injury/ damage by another person. To learn more about diabetes, volunteer, advocate or donate, please contact : Northern Region (250) 561-9284 boyanne.young@diabetes.ca

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Pipeline project panned The south side of the Peace River would see less drilling activity but more pipeline development. The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission line, a 900-kilometre TransCanada project, would carry gas from fields north of Hudson’s Hope to the coast, past the West Moberly and Saulteau First Nations reserves. Parenteau said the nation opposes the current pipeline route, which crosses the Moberly River more than a dozen times. He added Saulteau does not have a specific position on the LNG project itself. “We’re against bad mitigation measures around the pipelines and the project. We had to oppose (the pipeline) because of its current route.” As for the potential jobs: “there would be temporary jobs, a few months long, then that’s it. And we’re left with all the possible repercussions from a spill or a leak or other environmental damages.” He said pipeline and other oil and gas developments have opened up the backcountry, making it easy for wolves to decimate caribou and moose populations—part of the reason the provincial government has begun a wolf cull in the South Peace. There are also social impacts. Human rights group Amnesty International, for example, is in the midst of an investigation into resource development and missing and murdered Indigenous women in Northeast B.C. Benefits agreements According to the First Nations LNG Alliance, 16 of 19 First Nations along the pipeline route have reached benefits agreements with the province, including the Doig River and Halfway Rivers First Nations, and the McLeod Lake Indian Band. TransCanada, meanwhile, has reached agreements with those nations, as well as Blueberry River. On the coast, Pacific NorthWest LNG has facilities agreements with just two of six eligible First Nations, according to the alliance. The Lax Kw’alaams, which initially voted to oppose the project, later approved an agreement in a referendum this summer. Messages with Fort Nelson, West Moberly, Halfway River and Doig River First Nations were not returned by press time.

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Researcher and writer Bryan Brown recently returned to the region after finishing a solo journey from the source of the Peace River to the Arctic Ocean. “People aren’t seeing that (the Peace River) is actually a really small artery in a very large corpus, and a vital corpus, one that doesn’t exist anywhere else,” he says.

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If approved, the company says it will source its natural gas from Northeast B.C. The results of the geotechnical work underway in October will be fed into the design of the project and is being done at a time of the year that Fisheries and Oceans Canada has identified as a window when work would pose the lowest risk to fish and their habitat. The work is expected to be complete in about a month and is another indication that Woodfibre LNG could be the first LNG plant to be built in B.C.

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It took him nearly two summers to complete, but U.S. researcher and writer Bryan Brown has finally finished his solo journey from the source of the Peace River to the Arctic Ocean. Brown finished his paddle in July, and returned to the region this month to take the last series of photographs needed for his forthcoming book about his trip, and the ecological changes to the river and larger Mackenzie watershed from hydroelectric developments. “It is just heartrending to see what has happened out there,” said Brown, a market strategist and chemistry major from California. “On the one hand ... I get the fact I’m not Canadian. On the other hand, we live in a global world and the collective commons is incredibly important. What we do matters everywhere. But there’s too much regionalization and I think people aren’t seeing that this is actually a really small artery in a very large corpus, and a vital corpus, one that doesn’t exist anywhere else.” Brown has already completed solo journeys of the Colorado and Yukon River watersheds in 2013 and 2014, and turned his attention to the Peace and the Mackenzie in 2015 specifically because of the Site C dam. The United States, he said, has given the world the “keys to the magic kingdom” when it comes to watershed mismanagement across multiple jurisdictions. While the Yukon River is “probably the most pristine watershed left on earth,” he said, the Colorado River system has been heavily developed for hydropower, with some 45 dams that supply irrigation

and power across five separate states. “We have shown in the United States … that if you dam these waterways into serial impoundments, the flush that keeps them vital all the way down doesn’t occur,” he said. The Mackenzie watershed begins at Thutade Lake some 260 kilometres north of Smithers, where it dumps into the Finlay River. From there, the river empties into Williston Reservoir and the Peace River system, which eventually meets the Slave River in Alberta and off into Great Slave Lakes. The Mackenzie River takes the water from there out to the Beaufort Sea. Brown had to end his trip early last September due to the onset of winter. He returned to Fort Simpson this past June to finish what was supposed to be an eight-day paddle. It ended up taking 33 days. An early ice breakup caused unpredictable localized weather, he said. “They create super cold air right over the water column, and the icebergs create friction that apparently creates thundershower local-type weather,” he said. “It just got to the point where the snow and ice wouldn’t give it up. It wouldn’t stop.” Last October, the province and Northwest Territories signed an agreement to manage water in the Mackenzie basin, setting rules for how the two will manage shared waters of the Liard and Petitot Rivers. The province also has a Bilateral Water Management Agreements in development with Alberta, part of which will examine flows out of the WAC Bennett Dam and the downstream needs such as the flooding of the PeaceAthabasca Delta.

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Nielsen ready for shot at gold Tristen Nielsen will play for Team Canada White at the 2016 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge BYRON HACKETT sports@ahnfsj.ca

Fort St. John’s own Tristen Nielsen is about to get his second shot at international competition. The five-foot-nine, 182pound forward, who has spent most of this season with the WHL’s Calgary Hitmen was named to Canada’s World Under-17 Hockey Challenge roster on Wednesday, Oct. 12. “I was a little scared because one of my buddies had texted me who was [at camp in July] said he had made it and they didn’t call me until three and a half hours later because they had to go down the roster. I was a little terrified,” Nielsen recalled about when he got the news on Monday, Oct. 10. Nielsen was named one of Canada’s 66 best 2000 born players that will be split up into three teams for the beston-best tournament set to take place in Sault St. Marie, Ont. this month. “I was stunned,” Nielsen said. “My mom came down from Fort St. John. It was the first time she was with me when I experienced something big in hockey, so she was crying and

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Tristen Nielsen has played five games with the Calgary Hitmen of the WHL and was named to team white for the upcoming World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.

my dad was pretty much crying. Pretty much tears of joy. Called my grandparents and my sister.” Nielsen was named to Team White, and will play with Joe Veleno, the only player who played in the 2016 World U17 Hockey Challenge in Fort St. John and Dawson Creek. 111 players participated in a seven-day development camp

in July and from there, the final 66 players were chosen. “These are the 66 best players in the country who are, byand-large, making their first appearance in international competition as part of Hockey Canada’s Program of Excellence. They have been selected not only based on their current ability, but also on their potential to represent Canada at

under-18 and junior competition in the coming years,” said Shawn Bullock, senior manager of hockey operations and men’s national teams for Hockey Canada in a press release. “This is a skilled group of high-performers with longterm international potential, and we look forward to working with them at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, and

in the future.” Nielsen’s last opportunity on the international stage came in the Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, last Feb. where Canada took home silver after a 5-2 loss in the final against the U.S.A. Nielsen had one point in five games at the tournament. Fourteen of Nielsen’s teammates at that event were also named to the U17 roster on Wednesday. “I kind of know the level of play and what (Hockey) Canada expects,” he said of the past experience with Hockey Canada. “They call it the Canadian Way, so I have a little bit experience under my belt. It’s a new tournament and everybody is improving and everybody has worked their way here. Everybody has earned it. It’s going to come down to who worked the hardest.” In five WHL games this season with the Hitmen, Nielsen has one assist. “Playing with the Hitmen is amazing. It’s that next level that every 16-year-old wants to play in. It’s not easy to get to, but once you’re there it’s a hell of a lot of fun,” he said. Exhibition action for the tournament begins Oct. 27, with the official puck drop set for Oct. 30.

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With the opening of the North Peace Hockey League season still two weeks away, the Fort St. John Senior Flyers will get their first taste of real hockey action in exhibition play Friday. The Flyers will welcome their cross the river rival Dawson Creek Senior Canucks at 8 p.m. at North Peace Arena. It will be the first meeting of the two squads since the Flyers ousted the Sr. C’s from the NPHL playoffs last February. The five games series came to an epic conclusion with a 7-2 win for Fort St. John at home, but the series as a whole was full of fireworks. Dawson Creek won games two and four of the series by a goal a piece, while the Flyers outscored the Sr. Canucks 20-4 in their wins. The regular season series was a much different story, as the Sr. Canucks handed the Flyers three of their four losses. The exhibition game will be a good way to kick start the rivalry again in 2016, because the two teams won’t meet in the NPHL regular season until Thursday, Nov. 17.

The North Peace Secondary School Boys Soccer team is full of confidence heading into their zone qualifiers this weekend. Rightfully so, the Oscars were just one win away from qualifying for provincials last year in Williams Lake, but a 7-1 loss against the host prevented the final step. “It would mean a lot to them,” coach Ryan Sinclair said about the importance of a zone win. “Some of these guys have been playing with me since Grade 10, so for three years they’ve been trying do it. They know what it means, they know it’s not an easy tournament to win. So I think that makes it special. Last year we came close, we lost in the final. I think they are hungry. They want to get over the hump.” This year, Friday marks the start of the redemption song for the more experienced squad, one that is fresh off a tournament win in Prince George, another reason for the poised group. “We played really well, we were strong, especially in the midfield. We had very skillful players that were very confident on the ball. Those other teams didn’t have strong midfield, they had strong defense,” Grade 12 Mitch Linley said about the tournament win. “When it came to Duchess Park in the final, they were really good everywhere. I think we beat them because they weren’t really a team, they did their own skills and get through everyone and score. Our defense line

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The Nigerians that came this year, they are really dedicated to soccer… they are like the backbone and we actually have a goalie this year… Gage (Adkins) is making saves left right and centre.” Sinclair also said even with a snow practice on the weekend, he had a bigger squad than he expected. That experience will likely be necessary in Dawson Creek on the weekend at zones. “We just have to be a lot more careful with the ball. If it is in a danger area, we just clear it out. We wouldn’t mess around with it,” Sinclair said. “Hopefully the snow won’t be a factor.” The zone tournament begins Friday, Oct. 21 at DCSS.

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was good. We got a 2-0 lead and they scored once and we held the lead.” Sinclair added he has noticed an increased commitment from the squad this year, and a better team concept has helped them grow as a group. “They like playing for each other, they like having fun,” he said. “Winning is important, but they also want to have a good time. I think that’s why they show up.” Linley also said an influx of talent has helped the team be stronger as a unit compared to last year. “We’re definitely stronger than last year, we have a good chance at going to provincials,” he said. “We have more rookies than second or third years so we have a big bench.

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Whatever residual effects lingered from a sloppy effort turned two points Friday, Oct. 14, became glaring mistakes Saturday for the Fort St. John Huskies (3-3). The pups travelled to Beaverlodge and handed the Blades (1-5) their first win of the season in a back and forth 8-6 game. The difference, once again, was the Huskies’ penalty kill, allowing five power play goals on six opportunities for the Blades, including four in the third period. Through six games this season, the Huskies have now allowed 11 power play goals. Assistant coach Todd Alexander said after allowing two of those 11 on Friday, the team needs to find someone willing to do the job shorthanded. “We can only talk about it so much, eventually somebody has to go out and execute. We warned our guys when it goes up high we want to be in a diamond and when it goes down low we want to be in a small box. We didn’t shift into that at all.” The Huskies also allowed Blades forward Evan Tordiff to score six goals in the loss. Geoff Dick, Gary Loewen, Thomas Webster (2), Drew Fudger, and Kyle Crawford scored for the Huskies Saturday. Matt Fawcett allowed all eight goals on just 24 shots.

Fort St. John Huskies forward Brandon Howard celebrates a goal with Ellias Thompson on Friday in a 5-3 win at North Peace Arena.

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Jacob Lang, Brandon Howard, Dick, Tyson Leard and Josh Robinson scored for Fort St. John on Friday in the 5-3 win over the Country of Grande Prairie JDA Kings. Alexander said the performance wasn’t his team’s best, but sometimes a mark of a good team is finding a way to grind out a win without the best effort. “Lots of stick swinging, stick checking; sloppy plays. Sloppy passes, some bad decisions. Ultimately, at the end of the day we found a way to win, even though we weren’t at our best,” he said Friday. Alexander added that this week in practice there will be plenty of adjustments to be made before taking the ice Friday in Fairview against the Flyers. “We need to do a better job of stop and start hockey,” he said. “We are young and we know that but, our energy, we just need to do a better job at containing it and using it to our advantage instead of going out there and running all over the place and start doing a better job at playing positional hockey.” The Huskies will return home Saturday when they host the Sexsmith Vipers at the North Peace Arena with puck drop set for 8 p.m.

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The Northeast B.C. and Yukon Midget Trackers dropped the puck on their Northern Alberta Midget Hockey League season Saturday in Fort St. John with a 5-3 win over the Leduc Roughnecks. Following the home opener, the Trackers dropped a tight-checking affair 3-2 to the Strathcona Warriors on Sunday, Oct. 16. In Saturday’s home opener, the Trackers took the lead with two first period goals from captain Joel Bourgeois. The Roughnecks tied the game in the second, but the Trackers quickly snatched the lead back early in the third on a goal from Cooper Beamish. Jayden Piket scored the game winning goal midway through the third and Cooper Willms added an insurance marker with 2:26 left in the final period. Tyler McArthur was solid in net with 31 saves. Jeridyn Loewen opened the scoring Sunday for the Trackers on the power play, but the Warriors added two goals in the first period to hold a 2-1 advantaged after 20 minutes. Early in the second, Bourgeois scored his third goal of the weekend to tie the game at two.

The only third period goal went the Warriors way and handed the loss to the home side. “All the goals came down to bounces, they had the 2 on 1 which was a bad break, the power play goal on a 5 on 3, you can’t expect to defend a 5 on 3 every time and the last one hit our (defenseman’s) stick and popped over the goalie, just a bad bounce,” assistant coach Sam Brennan said. Despite the loss Sunday, Brennan liked the strides his team has made early on in the season. “They’re improving at a phenomenally fast rate,” he said. “I wasn’t there at the tournament in Kamloops (Oct. 7-9) but from the exhibition games before, we are miles ahead. We still see a lot of thing we can improve on… our defensive zone coverage has improved a lot, but it still has a ways to go. “Transition play, we are seeing more speed on the forecheck. Going forward, a better regroup and a more unified transition so we are attacking together and then individual skills sets (as well).” The Trackers will travel to Grande Prairie on Friday to take on the GPAC TEK Plumbing and Heating Storm, before returning home Saturday when they host the Fort McMurray Barons in Dawson Creek at 3 p.m.

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

This Week: CIMB Classic

The CIMB Classic features the top 25 available players from the PGA Tour’s final FedExCup standings and the top 10 available Asian Defending: Justin Thomas players. Five sponsor exemptions Winning Score: 17-under par will make up the rest of the field, Winning Share: $1,260,000 with at least one place reserved for a Malaysian professional. This year’s CIMB Classic will be played on the West Course, an international championship Par 72 course. Originally opened in 1991, the course was completely redesigned by renowned international golf course architects E&G Parslow in 2008. TPC Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 6,959 yards, Par 72

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Last Week: Brendan Steele won the Safeway Open

Brendan Steele birdied the Tournament Results last three holes to win the 1. Brendan Steele Safeway Open by a stroke Score: -18 Earnings: $1,080,000 over Patton Kizzire on 2. Patton Kizzire Sunday. Steele shot a final round Score: -17 7-under par to finish at 18-under par Earnings: $648,000 Score Earnings for the tournament. “I wanted to be Player T-3. Paul Casey -16 $288,000 aggressive and I didn’t want to just T-3. Michael Kim -16 $288,000 kind of coast in and just make sure T-3. Johnson Wagner -16 $288,000 T-3. Scott Piercy -16 $288,000 that I had a decent week,” Steele said. It was Steele’s first victory in 141 starts on the PGA Tour dating back to his rookie season when he won the Texas Open.

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Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo has won the PGA Rookie of the Year, Network completing a long journey of GOLF incremental development from GOLF GOLF his home town of Resistencia, Argentina, GOLF to a successful professional career on the PGA Tour. Though it is his first year on the Golf Trivia PGA Tour, Grillo has been a professional since 2011, grinding out wins at smaller Which golfer won the Rookie of the tournaments. Grillo, 24, only has a single Year in 2008? PGA Tour win to his credit this year, but he has consistently placed in the top twenty a) Andres Romero c) Jordan Spieth spots of major tournaments. Grillo finished b) Rickie Fowler d) Keegan Bradley 12th place at the Open Championship, 13th Answer: a) Andres Romero. Romero was the first at the PGA Championship, and 17th at the golfer from Argentina to win Rookie of the Year. Masters this year. PGA Event: CIMB Classic Day Time Wed, 10/19 10:30pm-2:30am Thu, 10/20 10:30pm-2:30am Fri, 10/21 11:00pm-3:00am Sat, 10/22 11:00pm-3:00am

Lessons from the Golf Pro One of the first things that we need to learn when we get ready to tee off is to have the proper ball position. More than half the time, the ball is not lined up with our body properly, resulting in an errant drive. For every inch that the ball is teed up too far back in your stance, it puts the flight of the ball some 15-20 yards off of your intended line. It is almost a universal rule that the ball should be close to even with the tip of your front shoulder. This will allow the clubface to make a full rotation through the ball, maximizing your distance, accuracy and consistency. Place the ball in line with your front heel and make sure that the heels of your feet are shoulder width apart.

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Brendan Steele

Turned Professional: 2005 FedEx Cup Ranking: 1st World Ranking: 88th PGA Tour Wins: 2

FedEx Cup Standings Through Oct. 16, 2016

1) Brendan Steele 500 pts. / 1 top tens

2) Patton Kizzire 300 pts. / 1 top tens

3) Paul Casey 134 pts. / 1 top tens

4) Scott Piercy 134 pts. / 1 top tens

5) Johnson Wagner 134 pts. / 1 top tens

FedEx Cup Standings continued... Player Points 6) Michael Kim 134 7) Kevin Na 90 8) Phil Mickelson 75 9) Martin Laird 75 10) Chris Kirk 75

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New Inconnu coach dives in head first

Steve Carson hopes to inject a little more fun into the Fort St. John Inconnu swim program this year BYRON HACKETT sports@ahnfsj.ca

Steve Carson isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel. Although he may drop one in the pool to spice things up occasionally at practice, the new head coach of the Fort St. John Inconnu swim program is all about one thing— fun. “You have to have fun at swimming or you’re not going to want to be here,” said the former carpenter, who traded in his toolbelt for a flutterboard to help coach full-time. “I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve. We play a card game, and what we work on is based on what card is drawn. I’ve made dice that decides what we’re doing. We’re trying to have little competitions between the groups. Anything we can do to keep it positive and fun.” Carson took over the job as the head coach of the Inconnu just six months ago, so he said although fun is an imper-

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The Fort St. John Inconnu swim team will embark on the 2016-2-17 swim season with a new coach.

ative to keep things light, the program still must remain competitive. “It’s essentially just a continuation from last year, but we have a bunch of new coaches this year,” he said. “Our turnover has been tremendous, so we’re trying to just take the foundation that

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we built last year and continue with it. But just become a little more competitive.” Carson said that while he plans to keep the Inconnu competitive, he noted that there had been some burnout with swimmers late in the year and the new approach will hopefully address that.

Curling club to celebrate 70th year BYRON HACKETT

Oct. 14-16 marked another successful season opening tournament for the Fort St. John Women’s Soccer league. 13 teams battled it out in the recreation and competitive divisions throughout the weekend. The FSJWL also raised over $500 for the Women’s Resource Centre. Ford Motors (right) beat Highmark in the rec final and KBRD Mean Green defeated D&D in the competitive final.

“In years past, we’ve gotten to hard work really quickly. This year, we’re trying to develop hard work and skill for a lot longer and than start the hard work. We were finding that the kids were getting burnt out and tired last year, so we’re trying to prolong the season, to help them enjoy the sport,” he said. “As much as we’re trying to help them develop new techniques and new skills, we have to find ways to bring a little bit of fun and a little bit of silliness to it. Especially with the 6-10-yeard-old range. If we can be silly with them, they’re loving it.” A time trial for the junior and novice swimmers will take place on Oct. 29 and then a swim meet in Grande Prairie the first week of November. The club’s first big event will be J.P. Fiset International Meet, December 16-18 in Edmonton. For more information on the Fort St. John Inconnu, contact club administrator Sandra McDonald (iconnuoffice@ gmail.com) or Steve Carson (inconnucoach@gmail.com).

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Back when brooms looked they belonged in the kitchen cupboard and ice was almost as natural as a backyard pond, the Fort St. John Curling Rink took off. Seventy years ago, families gathered at the rink to start playing and haven’t stopped since. 2016 marks that anniversary for the club and in celebration the rink will hold a honourary

weekend bonspiel and dinner between Oct. 21-22. “It’s a big milestone,” Club manager Braden Whitford said. “Try to keep people interested and honour some of the old families that have been here because there are quite a few generations that have come through the building.” Friday, the club will host a mixed doubles clinic, along with a wine and cheese night, before a family Bonspiel on Oct. 22 with dinner at 6:30 p.m.

The club is also looking to kick start their fundraising for new rocks and to refurbish the whole rink Whitford estimates it will cost about $80,000 with the trade in of the current stones. “We need to start purchasing new curling stones. That’s quite a big expense to the club. So we thought we could do both at the same time,” Whitford said. For tickets and more information contact the club at 250-785-2037.

W EEKLY P RO R ACING U PDATE Racing News, Stats & Trivia

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2016 Standings Chase for the Cup

Xfinity Series

1) Jimmie Johnson

Race Det Race Detail tail ils s

Location: Talladega, Ala. Date: Oct. 23rd, 2:30 p.m. TV: NBCSN Last Year’s Pole: Jeff Gordon - 194.500 mph Last Year’s Winner: Joey Logano

Talladega Superspeedway

Driver 1) Elliott Sadler 1) Daniel Suarez 3) Blake Koch 4) Justin Allgaier 4) Erik Jones 6) Ryan Reed 7) Brendan Gaughan 8) Darrell Wallace Jr. 9) Ty Dillon 9) Brennan Poole 11) Brandon Jones 12) Ryan Sieg

Points: 3082

2) Matt Kenseth Points: 3074

3) Kyle Busch Points: 3072

4) Carl Edwards Points: 3069

Shape: Tri-Oval Distance: 2.66 miles Turns / Front / Back: 33º / 16.5º / 2º

5) Kurt Busch

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Points: 3062

After nearly seven decades of automotive racing without lights, historic Martinsville Speedway is finally set to flip the switch. International Speedway Corporation announced that it will commit $5 million to equip the track with LED lighting, making it the first major motorsports facility to do so. The lights, which will begin installation following this year’s Goody’s Fast Relief 500 on October 30 and are scheduled to be in place by January 2017, represent the largest capital investment by ISC into Martinsville to date.

6) Martin Truex Jr. Points: 3058

7) Kevin Harvick Points: 3048

8) Austin Dillon Points: 3045

8) Joey Logano Points: 3045

10) Denny Hamlin

Racing Trivia

Points: 3039

11) Brad Keselowski

Which active driver has the most wins at Talladega?

12) Chase Elliott

a) Kyle Busch c) Tony Stewart b) Dale Earnhardt Jr. d) Brad Keselowski

Points: 3038

Points: 3020

Answer : b) Dale Earnhardt Jr. has 6 wins at Talladega Superspeedway.

This week’s race is the sixth in the Chase for the Sprint Cup and the third race of the Contender Round. Talladega Superspeedway is one of the best known motorsports facilities in the world with over forty years of racing tradition. Records for both speed and competition have been established at Talladega. The backstretch is nearly 4,000 feet long with a total frontstretch of 4,300 feet, making it the largest oval track on the NASCAR circuit and allowing stock cars to reach speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour. The track’s true dominator had been Dale Earnhardt, who posted 10 NASCAR Cup wins. The speedway can accommodate more than 143,000 fans and has a 212-acre infield.

Points 3039 3039 3032 3027 3027 3025 3010 3009 2114 2114 2097 2086

Last Weekend’s Race: Kevin Harvick won the Hollywood Casino 400 Hollywood Casino 400 Top Ten Driver Points Kevin Harvick 44 Carl Edwards 40 Joey Logano 39 Jimmie Johnson 37 Kyle Busch 36 Austin Dillon 36 Alex Bowman 0 AJ Allmendinger 33 Matt Kenseth 34 Kasey Kahne 31

He did it again. Last in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings and faced with an uphill struggle to make the Round of 8, Kevin Harvick and his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing team did what they do the best, win with their backs to the wall. Moments after a restart on Lap 238 of 267, Harvick cleared Carl Edwards for the lead through Turns 1 and 2 at Kansas Speedway and pulled away to win Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 by 1.183 seconds. With his second victory at Kansas, his fourth of the season and the 35th of his career, Harvick joined last week’s Charlotte winner, Jimmie Johnson, in the Chase’s Round of 8.

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Kellar brings hockey wisdom to the Peace four-time olympic medalist Becky Kellar returned to Dawson Creek to last weekend to coach a hockey clinic JONNY WAKEFIELD reporter@dcdn.ca

It’s been seven years since the Team Canada women’s hockey team trained in the Peace in the lead up to their gold medal run at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. But for young hockey players in Northeast B.C.—especially girls—the 2010 games are still yielding dividends. From Oct. 14-16, four-time Team Canada medalist Becky Kellar led a hockey clinic in Dawson Creek. It’s the second time Kellar has returned to the region since the Team Canada boot camps in Dawson Creek and Tumbler

Ridge in summer 2009. “We were living in people’s homes,” said Kellar, who played defence on three gold medal teams. “People left their houses and gave them to us for the twoand-a-half weeks. It was pretty crazy. We skated (at the Kin Arena), we skated at the Encana Centre, we ran probably every path there is in this town, did workouts in the pools and the gyms. So we got to know this town pretty good.” It’s a relationship that has endured between members of the 2010 team and the Peace. This year’s Encana Hockey Jamboree is the first to include boys. The event focused on skills development, with ice

and dry land sessions scheduled for Kellar said that skills clinics are relatively new, especially for girl’s hockey. Now, she and former teammates run clinics around Ontario. “There definitely wasn’t anything that was like this for girls, so if you did go to something, it was through boys hockey and it was led by men,” she said. “I think…for the girls, (it’s) to see there’s opportunity. It’s nice for girls to see they’ve got something to aspire to as well. This is definitely the furthest I’ve come for this type of clinic. It’s great to be back, and hopefully (this will) leave an impact on the girls in this community.”

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Becky Kellar led a youth hockey clinic in Dawson Creek last weekend—more than seven years after she first came to town to train in the lead-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

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Daniela BUERGE Wonowon 4H Beef and Sheep Club Hello reader. It is Daniela Buerge again reporting for the Wonowon beef and sheep club. Since Achievement Days took place there hasn’t been any other 4-h events this year for our club and there won’t be any till awards night. So I will share some thoughts on what I think of the 4-H program and what it is about. The 4-H program is much more than raising an animal to show and sell. It’s about the learning experience, what it takes to own and care for an animal, all the costs involved, and a lot about today’s animal

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Arts & Culture

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Mike Sowers Jr. (left) plays Buddy Holly, while Denis Szalai plays Hipockets Duncan in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story opening Oct. 20.

‘OK boys, let’s rock and roll...’

Stage North mixes music, theatre to bring the life and times of Buddy Holly back to life “It’s been a really fun character to get into and it’s remarkably easy because he’s a lot like myself in a lot of areas. It was basically finding out where I could fit into his life,” he said. “Buddy Holly is a very driven young man, he has a lot of ambition, a lot of dreams a lot of goals, as you’ll see in the play he’ll actually stop at nothing to achieve those dreams.” The show has the unique task of bringing together the local theatre and music communities, which director Blair Scott said has been a great experience.

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The birth of modern rock and roll comes alive on the stage in the latest offering from Stage North. Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story is, as the title suggests, the story of the rock music pioneer in glasses and the voice behind classic hits That’ll Be The Day, Peggy Sue, Everyday, and Maybe Baby. Mike Sowers Jr. plays the title role, his first ever as an actor, and has welcomed the challenge.

“I just think that Fort St. John is just ripe with so much talent,” he said. “The music scene is just insane right now, it’s the most exciting I’ve ever seen it. I’ve been here 20 years and it just blows my mind.” With 56 people in the show—the majority of which didn’t know each other when rehearsals started—it’s been an interesting journey seeing it all come together. “You just put all these people together and watch this amazing magic that happens. It blows my mind,” said Scott. See BUDDY on B6

Two Canadian artists have been added to the bill for Dwight Yoakam’s tour stop in Dawson Creek at the Encana Events Centre Oct. 20. Rugged, raspy and reserved, JJ Shiplett is an Alberta-born singer/songwriter that has a bold range of musical creativity and a passion for his art form that has captured the attention of fans across the country. He is currently putting the finishing touches on his self-produced debut album. The second act, The Dungarees, have a musical mandate to inject twangy telecaster country with a modern pop sensibility. Already one of Canada’s biggest rising country stars, the group has performed at some of the biggest country festivals in Canada, including Big Valley Jamboree, Dauphin CountryFest and Sunfest. They’ve also opened for Blake Shelton, Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, and Shooter Jennings. Tickets for the Oct. 20 show are still available at www.tigerboxofficeplus.ca, by phone at 1-877-339-8499, or in person at the two Tiger Box Office Plus location at the Encana Events Centre and Tiger Printing & Stationers.

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Fans of 1990s Canadiana were in for a treat on Oct. 17 as Our Lady Peace and I Mother Earth took to the stage at Revolution Place in Grande Prairie.

Ready to Cook in Demmit, AB The Borderline Culture Foundation in Demmit, AB, is ready to Cook. As part of its Culture Series, the foundation is bringing Scott Cook and The Second Chances to the Demmit Community Centre on Oct. 22. Considering himself a “high-tech hobo,” Cook wanders the world, taking a close look at politics and the environment and turning those observations into songs. The show will open with David and Forrest McGregor, long time friends of Cook’s. Scott Cook and The Second Chances plays the Demmit Community Centre on Oct. 22. Doors open at 7 p.m. For more information, call 1-780-356-2904.

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As a musician, Sowers is hoping to get plenty of young people out to the show so they can learn how today’s music was influenced by Holly. “I really hope that the younger generation will get a better understanding of what kind of music inspired music today,” he said. “You listen to Buddy Holly and you hear so much of the stuff he pioneered in bands like John Fogerty, the Beatles even, going back earlier, Johhny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis. Those guys all took that sound and made it their own. It just inspired what I would call the greatest generation of music between the 50s and the 80s.” Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story runs Oct. 20-22 and 2729 at the North Peace Cultural Centre. For more information, call 250-785-1992.

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Stevi Eby (left) plays Maria Elana Santiago, whom Buddy Holly (Mike Sowers Jr., right) married after a whirlwind romance, in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story.

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Left: Artist Miep Burgerjon showcases ‘Blue Cliff’ Platter made by Leanna Carlson during the 33rd Art Auction and Masquerade Oct. 15. Right: Auctioneer Brian Baldry works the crowd and drives up bids.

Gallery looks to bolster Art Auction’s $20K haul At least $10,000 still needed to launch new program MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca

Art aficionados picked up more than 60 pieces of locally made art, sculptures, and crafts to raise an estimated $20,000 for youth art programs and student bursaries on Oct. 15. The Peace Arts Gallery Society’s 33rd Art Auction and Masquerade brought a colourful cast of characters to the Pomeroy Hotel and Conference Centre and left organizers pleased. “With the downturn in the economics in Fort St. John, we’re very pleased with what we’ve done,” President Barry Moss said. “We met our minimum goal, people had a good time, and moving forward, we look forward to next year’s 34th.” Much of the funds raised will go to support “Let’s Art,” a new after school program for students age five to 14 set to

begin in January. Moss hopes up to 90 kids will benefit from the program, which will offer three one-month sessions in a variety of artistic mediums. The society, however, still needs to raise $10,000 to fund the program, Moss said. “Sport is part of growing up, and it’s an important part of growing up, but so is culture to make a well-rounded individual,” he said. “Arts education is also an important part of growing up.” Moss hopes the difference can be made up through a mix of grants and other local contributions. “Even the institutions that give out grants … for education initiatives, they’re under restraint as well,” Moss said. “You can’t get one grant to fund the rest of your program, you need to get two or three smaller grants to move forward with your initiative.” “Partnerships with local businesses, if they feel like

they can donate $500 to the initiative, that would be wonderful,” he added. “Any dollar amount from the local community would be greatly greatly appreciated.” Coming up Meanwhile, an exhibit of gallery favourites will be up for display as Peace Gallery North next week. Wild North, an exhibit of mixed media wildlife work by Alan White, may make a stop in Fort St. John before it makes its way to Grande Prairie, Moss noted. It was previously on display in Dawson Creek. Following that, the gallery’s Christmas market will open in December, and will launch a new exhibit celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday in the new year. The exhibit, called Our Country, will open in February and feature a mix of works by local artists invited to take part.

Make your mark for Canada’s 150th birthday Want to leave your mark for Canada’s 150th celebration? Residents have a chance to be part of Canadian history, by painting a tile for a travelling mosaic project. Fort St. John was one of 15 cities chosen for the project. The tiles painting in FSJ will be form a train car, which will be added to a larger train. HOROSCOPE ARIES (MARCH 21 TO APRIL 19) Think before you speak today, especially to partners and close friends, because you might blurt out something you later regret. Be aware of this. Count to three before you open your mouth. TAURUS (APRIL 20 TO MAY 20) Your work routine will be interrupted today. It might be because you feel feisty and independent about something and refuse to do it. Or perhaps high-tech equipment breaks down, and co-workers are unreliable. GEMINI (MAY 21 TO JUNE 20) This is an accident-prone day for your kids, so be vigilant. You also can expect social plans to suddenly change. Everything is up for grabs today! CANCER (JUNE 21 TO JULY 22) Be diplomatic with family members to avoid an argument. However, this is an accidentprone day at home. Small appliances might break down, or minor breakages could occur. LEO (JULY 23 TO AUG. 22) This is a mildly accident-prone day for you. ItÕs also the classic day for you to shoot from the hip and say something that you later wish you did not. Therefore, think before you speak! VIRGO (AUG. 23 TO SEPT. 22) Today you might find money, or you might lose money. Ditto for your possessions. Something about your finances

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is unpredictable. LIBRA (SEPT. 23 TO OCT. 22) Guard against knee-jerk reactions today. Be like the wise carpenter: Measure twice, cut once. SCORPIO (OCT. 23 TO NOV. 21) You are restless, edgy and nervous today. This might be subconscious or you might be aware of it. Avoid doing anything that is upsetting or nerve-racking. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22 TO DEC. 21) A younger friend might surprise you today by doing something reckless or by suggesting something unusual. Be careful, because today is a crapshoot! CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 TO JAN. 19) This is not a good day to ask for permission or approval from bosses. In fact, they might say something that upsets you. Don’t quit your day job. AQUARIUS (JAN. 20 TO FEB. 18) Travel plans will be changed, canceled or rescheduled today. Likewise, classes and schedules pertaining to higher education will be unreliable. This is not a good day to discuss religion, politics and racial issues. PISCES (FEB. 19 TO MARCH 20) Stay on top of your banking and money needs, because something unexpected might affect your finances. Checks could bounce. An important bill might be due. Is the posse after you?

Keep It Down Down There! Dear Annie: I live in a large city with high real estate prices. This has prevented me from buying my own home, so I reside in an apartment. I have done so for the majority of my adult life. All of my previous experiences have been pleasant. However, the most recent apartment complex I moved to has very thin walls, and as a result, I can hear just about everything that goes on in my neighbors’ apartments. A new neighbor recently moved to the apartment below me, and I can hear everything that goes on down there. Our building has a strict rule stating that there should be no loud noise between the hours of 9 p.m. and 9 a.m. Unfortunately, my downstairs neighbor seems to be a night owl, and I have been woken up on numerous occasions at 2 in the morning by her partying and loud talking. I have spoken to my landlord twice about this, and he has assured me that he has spoken to her. However, this behavior continues to happen. I understand that you have to choose your battles as an apartment dweller; however, this neighbor’s complete disregard of the apartment rules has my blood boiling. I have invested in earplugs, and a kind co-worker gave me a white-noise machine that she was not using. Using these tools has helped me, but the fact remains that this woman seems to have no regard for anyone. I feel completely disrespected, and it makes me angry that

Annie Lane DEAR ANNIE

she is keeping me awake. Moving is not an option for me right now, so I believe I am doing the only thing I can do by keeping the landlord aware of this behavior. Annie, I am not really asking for your advice. I am asking you to please print this letter as a public service and a reminder to all apartment residents to remember that there are others in close range who deserve consideration. I think this will help numerous individuals who are in my situation. Thank you for letting me vent. -- Blood Has Boiled Over Dear Boiling: Always happy to let people vent if it prevents an explosion, but I am going to make one suggestion here: Talk to your neighbor. It’s possible your landlord never actually talked to her in the first place. And even if he did, he may be out of sight, out of mind as far as she’s concerned. Stop by for a neighborly chat, and ask this woman to keep it down. Once she sees the face -and major under-eye circles -- of the person she’s keeping up every night, it ought to be harder for her to party on as if no one outside her four paper-thin walls exists. Dear Annie: It’s been a few

days, but I find I just can’t let pass how strongly I disagree with your reply to “On Clearance,” the girl whose boyfriend got free concert tickets for her birthday. You advised her to let her boyfriend know that she does not consider them a present because he didn’t have to pay for them. I would have told her to get over herself -that if the cost of a gift is most important to her, she should rethink her values. She writes that she is not materialistic, but maybe she needs to check that definition. Also, she can’t know what this “cost” him. He listened to her interests and desires. He actually gave thought to how he could fulfill one of those desires. He put himself out there for her and asked his friend for the favor. He was her knight in shining armor. He plans to escort her and try to see to it that she enjoys herself. If I could advise him, I’d tell him, “Run!” He would be fortunate to find out her true, only-interested-in-the-almighty-dollar nature before entering into any long-term relationship. There are plenty of young ladies out there who would thank their lucky stars for such a thoughtful beau. -- Florida Reader

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com. To find out more about Annie Lane and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2016 CREATORS.COM

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“I just enjoyed the work. The museum is moving right along.” - Zlypha Alenxander

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Living through history Pioneer Zylpha Alexander played big part in preserving local heritage and sharing it with the next generation

The North Peace Historical Society gave a toast to one of its longtime volunteers after nearly two decades of service last week. Zylpha Alexander recently retired from the society’s board of directors after joining the museum around 18 years ago and was celebrated Oct. 12 with a tea, dessert, and side of camaraderie. “I’d lost my husband and I needed something to do. It was too lonesome,” said Alexander, who began volunteering at museum events, in the gift shop, and eventually as a board director to help steer the museum’s growth. “I had always been interested the museum but had never been able to do anything with it before. So I came and found it very satisfying.” Alexander came to the Peace Country at a young age, only eight years old when her father brought her from Imperial, Saskatchewan, to a new farm in Montney in 1930, her mother and brother also in tow. “The prairies had run out of land, and my dad farmed,” she said. “So he wanted land of his own, he didn’t like renting land. So we came here.” Back then, Fort St. John was not much more than a pair of stores, the post office, a police barracks, and the government office. “There was lots of bush in the country yet then,” Alexander recalled. “People were moving in from the prairie where it had dried out and no rain. “Gradually, it was built up, then when the war came and they built the highway then it really moved ahead and never seemed to quit after that. It just kept growing.” Alexander would grow up and travel to Vancouver to study hairdressing. Shortly after she returned home, she met Earl around 1940 after taking a job at the Hudson’s Bay Company. They would marry after he returned from service in the Second World War and go on to have five children, four boys and a girl. Heather Sjoblom, who has served as the museum’s curator for the last six years, said Alexander has been one of the museum’s most committed volunteers. “She’ll be there from morning ‘til evening for the pie sale and Christmas tea, which are both physically demanding. I’ll get exhausted and there’s Zylpha, still doing dishes,” Sjoblom said with a laugh. Working alongside Zylpha has been “wonderful,” Sjoblom

added, always willing to help identify a historical photo, share her experiences working in the laundry during construction of the Alaska Highway, and other stories of how the region developed. “She has all this first-hand knowledge. That’s something that’s rapidly disappearing,” SJoblom said. Though the museum has had much to celebrate over recent years—a burgeoning archival collection, steadily rising attendance numbers, historical buildings added to its grounds— Alexander doesn’t take pride in any particular accomplishment over another. “I just enjoyed the work. The museum has been moving right along,” she said. And while she may no longer be on the historical society’s board, Alexander plans to remain a volunteer and be a constant presence in the museum gift shop and at events. The museum will hold its next event on Friday, Nov. 18, a documentary night showcasing the best film clips of Rudy Schubert. It includes the collapse of the Peace River Bridge, Princess Margaret’s visit, and rodeos of the past. Special exhibits now on display • Making a Splash: Swimming in the North Peace Take a plunge and find out about swimming in the North Peace from local lakes and rivers to the first pools in Fort St. John. It was a rough road to get some of our pools up and operating smoothly. This exhibit is on display at the North Peace Airport. • “Damn Tough Going” Historic Trails of the North Peace Exhibit Discover the historic trails of the North Peace from the Klondike Gold Rush to the Bedaux Expedition. Our newest permanent exhibit examines the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush trails, the 1898 RNWMP Trail, the 1905 NWMP Trail, the Fort St. John– Dunvegan Trail, the Fort Nelson Trail, and the Bedaux Expedition Trails. Experience life on these trails through photographs, artefacts, maps, and travellers’ recollections. • The Spread of Aviation to the North: History of the Fort St. John Airport and Its Community Summer student Ezra Lainsbury has developed an exhibit on aviation in Fort St. John. Come learn about the humble beginnings of our current airport and what it was like to live in the airport community. This exhibit will be on display until next May.

Fort St. John Literacy Society seeking tutors Are you looking for a way to give back to your community by helping others? The Fort St. John Literacy Society is offering a tutor training workshop in November. Once someone becomes a certified tutor, they can help people upgrade their reading, writing and math skills, as well as help with English as a Second Language (ESL) students. “Our volunteers are tutors who work with low literacy learners or those in a need of improving their ESL skills,” Executive Director Sonja Harkness said. No background is necessary, however, volunteers will need

to demonstrate the skills they will be teaching, she said. For example, tutors must speak fluent English if working with an ESL learner, or have great math skills if they are teaching math. The Literacy Society is looking for those who can make a six-month commitment, and spend one to three hours a week with learners. Schedules can be flexible. A criminal record check is also required. The workshops take place Nov. 4 to 6 at the Literacy Society at 10142 101 Avenue. For more information, call 250-785-2110 or email akelderman@fsjliteracy.ca — Aleisha Hendry

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Zylpha Alexander in front of the Fort St. John North Peace Museum’s newest exhibit under construction: the C.M. Finch store. Finch’s store was just one of two in the area when Alexander arrived in the region in 1930.

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FORT ST. JOHN & DISTRICT CHURCH DIRECTORY ANGLICAN CHURCH of CANADA NoRTH PEACE PARISH Please join us at our temporary location at the Lutheran Church 9812 108 Ave Ph: 250-785-6471 “All are Invited and Welcome Here” - (Luke 14:23) SERVICES St. Martin’s, fort St. John, BC Sundays 1:30 p.m. Rev. Enid Pow ********** Church of the Good Shepherd Taylor, BC - Sundays 9:30 a.m. ********** St. Matthias, Cecil Lake, BC 3rd Sun. of the Month 3:00 p.m. Holy Communion BAHA’I fAITH BAHA’I fAITH National Baha’i Information 1-800-433-3284 Regular Firesides Mondays @ 8:00 p.m. Deepenings continued Wednesdays at 250-7870089 Next Feast Info. 250-787-0089 ********** BAPTIST CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH 9607-107th Ave., fSJ Ph. (Office) 250-785-4307 Pastor: Michael Hayes Associate Pastor: Doug Janzen SUNDAY WoRSHIP SERVICE 10:30AM ********** CATHoLIC RoMAN CATHoLIC CHURCH (Resurrection Church) Pastor: Rev. Vener Sabacan Phone 250-785-3413 www.fsjcatholic.ca MASSES: Saturday 7:30 p.m. Sunday - 10:00 a.m. oNLY OFFICE HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. BAPTISM: Contact the Pastor 3 months before baptism. MARRIAGES: Contact the Pastor 3 months before the wedding. ********** ALLIANCE CHURCH 9804-99 Ave., fort St. John, BC V1J 3T8 Ph: 250-785-4644 fax: 250-785-8932 e-mail: office@fsjalliance.ca www.fsjalliance.ca SUNDAY WoRSHIP SERVICE: 9:15am & 11:00am KIDVILLE: for ages 2yrs.-Gr.6 @ 9:15am **********

CoMMUNITY CHURCH CHARLIE LAKE CoMMUNITY CHURCH Lead Pastor: Alfred Reschke Associate Pastor: Jared Braun 250-785-1723 fax: 250-785-4136 clcc@pris.ca SUNDAY SCHooL: 9:30am SUNDAY WoRSHIP: 10:40am 1st left turn off Alaska Highway past the Charlie Lake Store. ********** PEACE CoMMUNITY CHURCH 10556-100th Street, Taylor, BC Pastor: Wally Pohlmann Phone: 250-789-3045 HoURS: 9:00am-Noon Monday-Wednesday & friday Email: office@taylorchurch.ca Website: www.taylorchurch.ca SUNDAY ADULT CLASS - 9:30am SUNDAY WoRSHIP SERVICE - 10:30am ********** EVANGELICAL foRT ST. JoHN EVANGELICAL MISSIoN 8220-89th Avenue, fSJ Pastor: Art Voth Sunday School September-June begins at 9:30am Sunday mornings. Worship Service - 10:45am Phone: 250-787-2550 ******* INTERDENoMINATIoNAL UPPER PINE GoSPEL CHAPEL Church Phone: 250-827-3833 Email: upgc@pris.ca Board Chairman: Andy Burkholder 250-827-3811 Box 66, Rose Prairie, BC ********** LUTHERAN PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 9812-108th Avenue, fort St. John, BC V1J 2R3 Office Phone: 250-785-2718 Pastor: Rev. Kebede Dibaba Regular Worship Schedule: 9:00am Youth, Adult Bible Study 10:00am Sunday Worship Service & Sunday School ********** PEACE RIVER MUSLIM ASSoCIATIoN Information: 250-787-1264 Jumm’a (Friday) Prayer @ 1:00pm 203-10903-100th Street, fort St. John, BC email: tahermorsi@shaw.ca ********** MENNoNITE NoRTH PEACE MENNoNITE BRETHREN CHURCH North Peace Mennonite Brethren Church 10816 106 St. fort St. John, BC V1J 5V2 250-785-3869

Lead Pastor: Andrew Eby Associate Pastor of Youth & Young Adults: Don Banman SUNDAY SERVICE TIMES: 9:15am & 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) 827-3131 ********** NoNDENoMINATIoNAL CHRISTIAN LIfE CENTRE “Associated with “Fellowship of Christian Assemblies” “King Jesus is Lord Over the Peace” 8923-112th Avenue, fort St. John, BC V1J 6G2 website: www.christianlifefsj.ca Ph: 250-785-4040 fax: 250-785-4021 Pastor Steve Oboh Principal of Christian Life School: Garry Jones Everyone Welcome Sunday Morning Worship Service: 10:00am Nursery available and Sunday School is held during the sermon for ages 3-12 years. Christian Life Centre is “Home of Christian Life School” ********** foRT ST. JoHN NATIVE BIBLE fELLoWSHIP Sunday Worship: 11:00am Wed., Night Bible Study: 7:30pm Pastor John A Giesbrecht 250-785-0127 ********** GIDEoNS INTERNATIoNAL Fort St. John Camp Ray Hein 250-827-3636 John Giesbrecht 250-785-0127 ********** NoRTHERN LIGHTS CHURCH INTERNATIoNAL (Rose Prairie, BC Sunday Service: Pre-Service Prayer: 10:30am Worship Service: 11:00am Everyone Welcome ********** THE SHELTER CHURCH “...the Lord will be a shelter for His people” Joel 3:6 9808-98A Ave. fort St. John, BC 250-785-3888 SUNDAY SERVICE: 10am Pastor: Oral Benterud 250-785-9151 ********** PENTECoSTAL THE PENTECoSTALS of foRT ST. JoHN Phone: 250-787-9888 Pastor: Jason McLaughlin Sunday 10am Service, Sunday School Youth Sunday 11am Worship Service Tuesday 7pm Prayer

Wednesday 7pm Bibile Study Friday 7pm Youth ********** PENTECoSTAL ASSEMBLIES of CANADA EVANGEL CHAPEL 10040-100 St., fort St. John Phone: 250-785-3386 Fax: 250-785-8345 Lead Pastor: Tony Warriner Sunday Services: 9:30am, 11:00am www.evangelfsj.com ********** The Journey 10011-100 St., fort St. John Phone: 250-785-6254 Pastor: Larry Lorentz Services: Sundays: 10:30am Tuesdays: 7:00pm ********** PRESBYTERIAN fort St. John Presbyterian Church 9907-98th St., fort St. John, BC Phone: 250-785-2482 fax: 250-785-2482 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 Quality Inn Northern Grand 100th Ave & 98th St., fort St. John, BC Elder: Mike Donovan Phone: 250-787-7702 Affiliated with C.R.E.C. ********** THE SALVATIoN ARMY THE SALVATIoN ARMY Sunday Worship Service: 10:30am 10116-100th Ave., fort St. John, BC Come Worship With Us. For information; Phone 250-785-0506 or food Bank 250-785-0500 ********** SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 9008-100th Avenue, fort St. John, BC Phone: 250-785-8632 Pastor: Cavin Chwyl Phone: 250-719-7949 Saturday Service: 9:30am ********** UNITED CHURCH of CANADA ST. LUKE’S UNITED 9907-98 St., fort St. John, BC Office: 250-785-2919 fax: 250-785-2788 Email: stlukeuc@telus.net Sunday Worship Service @ 10:00am All are Welcome! The United Church of Canada is a Union of Congregationalist, Methodist & Presbyterian Churches in Canada formed in 1925.

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As the weather turns from the warm sunny days of summer to the chilly darkness of winter, it can be difficult to maintain a positive frame of mind. For those feeling stressed, depressed or anxious this time of year, there is support available. Beyond The Blues: Education and Screening Day is holding an event at Northern Lights College in Fort St. John on Oct. 27. Held as part of Mental Health Awareness Month, Beyond the Blues engages and educates people on mental health issues, stress, mood and anxiety problems, effective treatments, supports and self-care. “One of our commitments in organizing Beyond the Blues is to create friendly, engaging, and safer spaces for people to start and continue conversa-

tions about their mental health—and encouraging reflection on what good mental health looks like,” said organizer Patty Mars of Northern Lights College. “We’re also committed to supporting people in finding and navigating community supports that can help. We want Beyond the Blues participants to leave feeling empowered, better informed, hopeful, and supported.” The Fort St. John event is targeted at college students and staff, but it open to the general public as well. Beyond The Blues takes place at the Fort St. John campus of Northern Lights College on Oct. 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, call 250-787-6244. — Aleisha Hendry

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An intriguing angularity, combined with arched windows and brick detailing, draws eyes to the Norwich. Cedar shakes, corner quoins and small sections of lap siding add to the visual appeal. This single-level plan can be adapted for wheelchair accessibility. Standing in the tiled entry, you face the kitchen, living room and dining room. The vaulted living room, with its richly glassed rear wall, is breathtaking. An entertainment center is on one side of the fireplace while cabinets, shelves and a small sink fill the opposite space. A raised eating bar provides partial separation between the kitchen and a dining room, and French doors swing open to access a partially covered patio brightened by skylights. Kitchen amenities include: a step-in pantry, built-in appliances, and a work island. The small powder room and large, fully outfitted utility room are mere steps away. Linked to the garage, the utility room serves as a mudroom and a convenient place for

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Modern, roomy and close to schools is what you will enjoy here! Nice layout with corner lot access means easy to park and storage space is readily accessible. Full ensuite and walk in closet here, 2 more bedrooms and you can get started in home ownership or make this a low maintenance home base to work from.

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Quiet location, close to schools, nice sq ft and room sizes all with a mortgage helper too! Lots of upgrades and fresh paint here with single garage and no RV restrictions for parking! Excellent value property here!

$925,000

5000 sq ft of living space and a waterfront view 10 minutes to town with a mom-in-law suite too? Yes, it's true! On site sewer system means no big bills for service and 3 years new means all the modern amenities and none of the fix up or maintenance of the older ones! Too many features to describe so you will just have to come and see them yourself!

$164,900

$479,900

Land or rental investment made easy! Low cost place to call your own is ready for quick occupancy and you can be a home owner now!

Finch area estate styling with classic rooms and great kitchen storage space! Double garage and well landscaped yard where you can enjoy the front courtyard too! Modern and easy, this home is a home to call your own.

$539,900

$429,900

2 acres, house with garage, 28 x38 detached garage with carport, and mom-in-law suite with a lake view and 9 min to Fort St John! Charlie Lake sewer system in place and lots of windows to soak in the trees! Unique property with potential for growth or subdivision.

Super clean and close to 2 schools and park! Quiet location here has an attached garage and still room for RV's. Very nice yard space with mature trees and private deck area. Inside you will feel the spaciousness of the great room sizes and a rec room downstairs you can have game night and movie night at the same time!

$509,900

Great home in Ambrose area with nice yard and roomy garage! Very well maintained and nice room sizes bring a very modern feel to a traditional home. Nice deck for summers outside, and a toasty fireplace for winter evenings, too!

$1,200,000

Springtime sunrise over Tea Creek Valley will fill your home with natural sunlight where you can sit and enjoy the start of the day in professionally designed, restaurant quality kitchen. 10' walls and glass to match brings in the quiet peacefulness of your surroundings like every home should. The second floor has its own laundry room for the 4 bedrooms service and the master suite is a resort quality retreat space to relax and recharge in.

$389,900

9' walls, daylight basement, landscaped and appliances included! Excellent maintenance and yard access for future garage! Perfect starter/retirement home so get into this one before it goes!

$399,993

Spacious! at 1200 sq ft plus full basement this duplex is one of the largest you'll find in FSJ. Bigger than many single family homes and still on warranty, lots of upscale options were put into this one right up front! 9' basement, full ensuite and walk in closet, lots of storage space and room sizes that rival 1500 sq ft homes! Come and see all the unique ideas and you will soon be thinking this needs to be your new home.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 B11

FINANCING & LEASING AVAILABLE ON MOST VEHICLES! TRADES WELCOME! 2015 CHEVROLET TAHOE LS

$53,900

5.3L, auto, gas, 4x4, Bluetooth, cloth seats, PL, PM, PW, PS, remote start, satellite radio, adjustable pedals. Stk#123891

ISO 9001

2013 FORD MUSTANG GT

2013 HYUNDAI ELANTRA L

5.0L, auto, gas, RWD, leather heated seats, Bluetooth, convertible, PL, PM, $ PW, PS - Stk #132888

1.8L, auto, gas, FWD, cloth seats, PL, PM, PW, Bluetooth - Stk# 134072

35,900

2014 FORD FUSION SE

2015 FORD EXPLORER LIMITED

2.5L, auto, gas, FWD, Bluetooth, cloth seats, PL, PM, PW, PS, satellite radio, keyless entry, $ remote trunk release - Stk# 121744

3.5L, auto, gas, 4x4, Bluetooth, h/c leather seats, NAV, PL, PM, PW, PS, remote start, satellite radio, sun/moon $ roof, lane departure- Stk #124917

21,900

44,900

2013 VOLKSWAGON TOUAREG EXECLINE

2016 GMC YUKON XL DENALI

3.6L, auto, gas, AWD, Bluetooth, heated leather seats, NAV, PL, PM, PW, PS, panoramic sunroof, remote $ start, satellite radio - Stk #132167

6.2L, auto, gas, 4x4, Bluetooth, h/c leather seats, entert. system, NAV, PL, PM, PW, PS, remote start, sat.radio, $ sun/moon roof & more! - Stk #128925

43,900

79,900

2015 TOYOTA SIENNA SE

2015 GRAND CARAVAN

3.5L, auto, gas, FWD, Bluetooth, heated leather seats, PL, PM, PW, PS, satellite radio, $ power liftgate - Stk #127007

Canada Value Package, 3.6L, auto, gas, FWD, cloth seats, PL, PM, PW, $ 2nd row bench seat - Stk# 134774

32,900

19,900

2014 GMC SIERRA 3500HD SLE

2014 RAM 3500 LONGHORN

6.0L, auto, gas, 4x4, Bluetooth, cloth seats, PL, PM, PW, PS, $ remote start - Stk# 121917

6.7L, auto, diesel, 4x4, megacab, Bluetooth, h/c leather seats, NAV, PL, PM, PW, PS, remote start, $ sat. radio, sun/moon roof - Stk# 121417

35,988

Dion Girard Used Sales Manager

Grace Martin Account Manager

52,900

Phil Seguin Account Manager

6674 Airport Road, Fort St. John Toll Free

1•877•707•2373 www.drivingforce.ca

16,900

2015 CHRYSLER 300 S 3.6L, auto, gas, AWD, Bluetooth, heated leather seats, PL, PM, PW, PS, remote start, $ satellite radio - Stk# 126330

32,900

2015 JEEP CHEROKEE LAREDO 3.6L, auto, gas, 4x4, Bluetooth, cloth heated seats, PL, PM, PW, PS, remote start, $ satellite radio- Stk# 115260

30,900

2010 CADILLAC ESCALADE 6.2L, auto, gas, AWD, h/c leather seats, Bluetooth, entert. system, NAV, PL, PM, PW, PS, remote start, $ satellite radio, sun/moon roof- Stk# 134860

33,900

2014 RAM 1500 LARAMIE 3.0L, auto, diesel, 4x4, heated/cooled leather seats, Bluetooth, PL, PM, PW, PS, satellite radio, $ sun/moon roof - Stk# 134583

45,900

2014 RAM 5500 ST 6.7L, auto, diesel, 4x4, cloth, Bluetooth, PL, PM, PW, remote start, Ferrari crane - Stk #125744

95,000

B12 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016

Classifieds Catholic Women’s League. Winter Wonderland Tea & Bazaar. Immaculata Centre 9504-100 Ave. Homemade crafts from various vendors. Sat. November 5th, 2016 10:30am-3:00pm Tea starts at 11:00-3:00pm

CARD OF THANKS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

LOCAL

Peace Country Craftsmans Association “2016”

Our yearly sale will be at a new venue - The Charlie Lake Community Hall and a new weekend December 2, 3 and 4th If you are a craftsperson and would like to join our group - please contact Judy Torrie 787-0460 - evenings please. We would love to have some new members. Hope to see you there!

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CARD OF THANKS

Thank you to everyone that helped support the 2016 Aboriginal Day Events that was held at the Tse’K’wa House • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Treaty 8 Tribal Association Dalco Instruments D & D Insulators Northern Health Authority First Nations Health Authority TransCanada Black Swan Nun Wa Dee Stewardship Society Ministry of Aboriginal Relations & Reconciliation BC Parks Ministry of Aboriginal Relations & Reconciliation Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources Operations NENAS Northeast Aboriginal Business Centre

GENERAL EMPLOYMENT

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NENAN Shell North Peace Savings & Credit Union Progress Energy New Relationship Trust FSJ Metis Society Canadian Water Serve & Save Canadian Industrial Paramedics Complete Safety Services Inc.

New In Town... Getting Married... Had A Baby... New in Business...

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GENERAL EMPLOYMENT

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The 35th Anniversary of the

NEWS!

CARD OF THANKS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

GENERAL EMPLOYMENT Bonnie Carlson 250-827-3132 Community & Bridal

COMING EVENTS Music Therapy Workshop Sat. Oct. 22, 2016 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Sudeten Hall 1901 Alaska Hwy, Dawson Creek $25 FEE to attend South Peace Hospice Palliative Care Society presents a one day Music Therapy workshop conducted by Registered Music Therapist, Kelsi McInnis. Lunch is included For more information and to pre-register by October 15th Call: 250-782-3261 or Email: sphpcs@pris.ca

CARD OF THANKS

Thank you for saving my life Husband, Paramdeics, Dr Nobar, Emergency Room Nurses. I will be ever so grateful from Janet Ferguson OBITUARIES

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES URBAN SYSTEMS HAS AN IMMEDIATE OPENING: CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIST Our Design Production Team (DPT) is looking for an experienced intermediate to senior civil technologist to provide design, inspection, mentor−ship, and project leadership assistance to our practice. Apply online: www.urbansystems.ca/careers Deadline: October 31, 2016 250−785−9697

NORTH PEACE DIVISION OF FAMILY PRACTICE PRACTICE IMPROVEMNET COACH The North Peace Division of Family Practice (NPDoFP) is a growing, innovative, local orga− nization working to strengthen primary care. The Practice Improvement Coach will be re− sponsible to proactively reach out to physician practices, identify improvement opportunities and through networking and coaching, assist practices to implement various initiatives. Pre− vious experience in primary care or healthcare background are assets. The job description is available at www.divisionsbc.ca/north−peace Compensation is competitive and will vary de− pending on experience. Application closing date is Tuesday, November 1st, 2016. Please send resume and cover letter to: Mary Augustine, ED, NPDoFP maugustine@divisionsbc.ca 250−785−6677 maugustine@divisionsbc.ca www.divisionsbc.ca/north−peace

GENERAL EMPLOYMENT

Field Integrity Technologist

Painted Pony Petroleum Ltd. Based in Fort St. John, BC The successful candidate will be expected to control and implement Painted Pony Petroleum Ltd.’s Pipeline Maintenance Program and Pressure Equipment Integrity Management System. Minimum five years of oil field experience complemented by a technical diploma or degree or 10 years’ minimum field operations experience is required. Cathodic Protection of Pipelines & Pipeline/ Vessel Integrity. Apply at www.paintedpony.ca – Careers or careers@paintedpony.ca Closing Date: October 28, 2016

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New Totem Archery club will be holding their annual general meeting on Nov 13th at 6:30pm at the Taylor Rec Center. We are in need of new board members as we have a few leaving and this club needs its volunteers in order to continue. If you have a few hours a week to assist us with set up and take down of targets your volunteer hours would be appreciated.

COMING EVENTS KNIT NIGHT: Thursdays at Faking Sanity Cafe in Dawson Creek6:30 to 8:30 PM.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Troyer Ventures Ltd. is a privately owned,

equal opportunity energy services company

serving Northern British Columbia and Alberta

and is now accepting applications at our FORT ST

JOHN office for the following positions:

HD Commercial Transport Journeyman Mechanic and Mechanic Apprentice The successful candidate will be self-motivated and eager to learn. Minimum fourth year apprenticeship, clean drug test are required. We offer competitive wages, a comprehensive benefits package and career development opportunities.

If you are looking for a rewarding career and an excellent opportunity to expand your experience, we would like to hear from you.

Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply with current resume and references online at www.troyer.ca , fax 250-785-8110, or in person at 9303-85 Avenue, Fort St John, BC. For more information on this position and our other career opportunities, visit our website at Troyer.ca.

COMING EVENTS ART CLASSES UNTIL JUNE 30: Each day a different skill for after school youth DAWSON CREEK ART GALLERY: 3:30 to 5:00PM 250782-2601 DAWSON CREEK BADMINTON CLUB From Sept. 19, 2016 to April 26, 2017 Mondays & Wednesdays Time: 7:30-9:30 pm Central Campus Gym Dawson Creek Do not play on any statutory or school holidays. Go on the school website to check on the holidays Please pay before you start playing. Players under 16 years must have an adult with them. You will need clean gym shoes and a racquet. Contact Dan or Judy Pandachuck: 250782-4783 Dawson Creek Mens Basketball League looking for teams and players. Interested in playing organized basketball during winter. Have a team or need a team contact Trevor at 250-719-1211 or email dcmesleague@yahoo.ca Gord Bamford with special guest Jesse Mast Sat. Nov. 19, 2016 7:30 pm MST North Peace Cultural Centre, Fort St. John MOOSE FM and the Community Touring Alliance are pleased to welcome Gord Bamford with special guest Jesse Mast to the North Peace Cultural Centre on Saturday November 19, 2016. http://www.npcc.bc.ca /events-mainmenu-51

We thank all candidates who submit applications, but will only contact those selected for interviews.

MILE 0 QUILTERS GUILD: Tuesdays & Thursdays 7PM at Calvin Kruk Performing Arts Centre in Dawson Creek SATURDAYS: LEARN YOUR ROOTS - Genealogy information NAR PARK ROOTS BUILDING 10:00am peacecountryroots.ca

BJORNSON, Paul Benedikt Oct 14, 1948 − Sep 24, 2016 Paul, age 67, passed away peacefully September 24 in Chilliwack after a courageous year long battle with lung cancer. Paul was born October 14, 1948 in Fort St. John to John and Alice Bjornson and lived on the farm in Pineview until the family moved to town in 1965. Paul married Corinne Bessey in 1969 and settled in the Kamloops area where he worked as a pipe and gas fitter, eventually owning his own business. In 2005, in poor health, Paul moved to the Fraser Valley to be close to his father John, sisters Christine and Charmain, and extended family. Paul lived a quiet life, enjoyed reading, music, television, holiday celebrations and visits with family. He will be remembered for his quiet demeanour, generous spirit, and sweet smile. Paul will rest in peace with the family in North Pine Cemetery.

COMING EVENTS

ORDER OF EASTERN STAR’S ANNUAL TEA & BAZAAR IN DAWSON CREEK- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2016 FROM 1:00 PM- 3:00 PM- $5.00 PER PERSON- CRAFTS, BAKING, RAFFLE DRAW & DOOR PRIZES. Seniors Hall- 1101 McKellar Ave, Dawson Creek. EVERYONE WELCOME!

South Peace Historical Society Meetings Third Wednesday of the month. In Dawson Creek at the Calvin Kruk Centre Archives Room at 2 pm. SUNDAYS: FAMILY TREE HELP - Peace Country Roots Group Meeting - Fourth Sunday of each Month at the CALVIN KRUK CENTRE in Dawson Creek 1:30pm

LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICES

We’ve Got Your Weekly News When You Need It! Phone: 250-785-5631 LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICES

LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICES

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST Snow Removal Dump Trucks

Description: The City of Fort St. John has a requirement to periodically remove snow from the downtown core and various streets after significant snowfall. The City is accepting applications from contractors who are interested, and able to commit to supply operated dump trucks when called upon by the Public Works Department for snow haul off purposes. If you are interested in providing the City of Fort St. John with these services please forward the required documentation to operations@fortstjohn.ca or phone 250 787 8173. • The City agrees to pay the Contractor for Tractors and Trailers provided in accordance with the hourly rates published in the most current edition of the 2016-17 BC Blue Book Equipment Rental Guide (all found) plus a 10% premium. This rate is all inclusive (e.g. fringe benefits, overhead, profit, wear items, mobilization, fuel and operator costs). • Contractors must have valid Worksafe BC coverage. • Contractors must maintain all certification while working for the City of Fort St. John. • Contractors will be contacted on an as needed or required basis. All reasonable efforts will be made to give sufficient notice for availability; however, short notice will be considered the norm. • Contractors will be required to attend a City of Fort St. John Contractor Orientation meeting prior to commencing work, and as required. • This is not a contract and there is no guarantee of minimum hours per call or frequency of haul offs. Required Documentation: Copy(s) of Certificate(s) of Insurance for each vehicle considered. Automotive Liability Insurance up to $3,000,000. Comprehensive General Bodily Injury Insurance up to $5,000,000. Unit number, capacity, and vehicle type. Current Letter of Account in good standing from Worksafe BC. City of Fort St. John current business license. Contractors without the proper documentation may not be eligible for winter snow haul off operations. Contact: For more information or to submit documentation contact Public Works at 250 787 8173.

www.fortstjohn.ca

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ABC MEDICAL CLINIC is pleased to announce the arrival of Dr. Jaber Hayaty. Dr. Hayaty will be taking over Dr. Ali’s practice, so patients do not need to worry about not having a family physician. Dr. Hayaty is excited to serve the patients here and asks Dr. Ali’s patients to fol− low up with him

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Classifieds LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICES

Tuesday October 25, 2016 at 1.30pm there will be a Workshop on Seniors Preventing Fires & FallsVideo: “At Our Age” Join: Captain Rob Huttema, Dawson Creek Fire Department- at the Seniors Access Office in the Co-Op Mall. EVERYONE WELCOME!

LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICES

COMING EVENTS LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICES

INVITATION TO TENDER

FORT ST. JOHN PUBLIC WORKS All Wheel Steer Skid Steer Loader Sealed Tenders clearly marked FORT ST. JOHN ALL WHEEL STEER SKID STEER LOADER will be received at the main reception desk of City Hall no later than 2:00 pm, local time, Tuesday, November 1, 2016. Tender documents may be obtained at City Hall during regular working hours (Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) or online at www.fortstjohn.ca. Sealed tender submissions are to be addressed to the attention of Jeremy Garner, Roads Superintendent and mailed or delivered to the City of Fort St. John: 10631 100 Street, Fort St. John, BC, V1J 3Z5 The submission is to contain detailed speciﬁcations of the unit along with warranty particulars, including arrangements for repairs under warranty. Prices quoted are to be F.O.B. Fort St. John and are to include all applicable taxes. Additional information may be provided by Walter Wilson, Mechanic Shop Foreman at 250-787-8185. R0011320898

www.fortstjohn.ca

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

NORTH PEACE LEISURE POOL CONCESSION OPERATION

The City of Fort St. John is seeking proposals for the North Peace Leisure Pool Concession Operation. Request for Proposal packages with information about this RFP are located on the City website www.fortstjohn.ca under “Notices and Tenders”.

Save the Dates July 7, 5:00 pm to July 9, 2017 at 3:30 pm for the 23rd Annual Mile Zero Cruisers Summer Cruise weekend starts with Registration held at the Dawson Co-op. Bring down your pride and joy and register for the 2017 Summer Cruise Car Show weekend. All registrants will receive access to all weekend events as well as a chance to win prizes. Check in this paper for more details closer to the show! WEDNESDAYS: COMPUTER INFORMATION -Seniors Computer Club - Dawson CO-OP Bistro 1:15pm 250-782-4668 for more information

GENERAL EMPLOYMENT MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get online training you need from an employer-trusted program. In-demand career! Visit: CareerStep.ca/AtHome or 1-844-272-7617 to start training for your work-at-home career today!

BUSINESS SERVICES

Electronic proposals will be accepted and must be conﬁrmed received at pool@fortstjohn.ca prior to the deadline. Hard copies of the proposal are to be clearly marked as “North Peace Leisure Pool Concession Proposal”, addressed to Karin Carlson, mailed to City Hall, 10631 – 100 Street, Fort St. John, BC V1J 3Z5. Proposals must be received by 2:00pm local time, November 1, 2016 to be considered.

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APARTMENTS/ CONDOS FOR

PROFESSIONAL HELP Doig River First Nation Financial Controller Doig River First Na− tion is seeking a Fi− nancial Controller who will have over− sight for finance, accounting and re− porting activities to Chief and Council, Band Manager and the senior manage− ment team. The Fi− nancial Controller will lead all day−to− day finance opera− tions and supervise the finance team. Applicants must be a Certified Profes− sional Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant (CA) in good standing. Deadline for appli− cation is November 4th, 2016. To apply please submit a cover letter and resume to: Shona Nelson Band Administrator Doig River First Nation Box 56 Rose Prairie, BC V0C 2H0 P: 250−827−3776 F: 250−827−3778 snelson @doigriverfn.com

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PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: Troyer Ventures Ltd. is a privately owned energy services company servicing Western Canada. All job opportunities include competitive wages, comprehensive benefits package and room for advancement. We are accepting applications at multiple branches for: Professional Drivers (Class 1, 3) and Swampers. Successful candidates will be self-motivated and eager to learn. Experience is preferred, but training is available. Valid safety tickets and current drivers abstract are required. For more information and to apply, please visit our website at: Troyer.ca

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The Borderline Culture Series presents: Scott Cook and the Second ChancesSaturday October 22, 2016 at the DEMMITT COMMUNITY CENTRE (1/2mile South of Hwy 43 on RR 132) Doors open at 7:00 pm (AB) Concert @ 8:00 pm . Tickets: $25 Advance and $27 at the Door. For tickets and information call: 780-356-2904 or go to www.borderlineculture.com

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How did Canadians lose their empathy? A

re you empathetic?” “No Pfft! I can’t read people’s minds!” “No…not TELEPATHIC….. are you empathetic? Are you able to relate to and understand someone else’s feelings and perspectives? Are you are able to imagine yourself walking in their shoes?” Where o’ where has the empathy gone? What has happened to my fellow Canadians that we didn’t crack the top 10 in the list of most empathetic countries in the world. Researchers launched a study and surveyed approximately 104,000 people from 63 countries and the Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology recently released the results. The survey was to measure ‘people’s ability to imagine another’s point of view and their tendency toward compassion’

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otherwise known as empathy. Canada didn’t crack the top ten? The United States ranked seventh? We ranked lower than Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Peru, Denmark, the U.A.E., Korea, United States, Taiwan, Costa Rica and Kuwait. I actually don’t know where we ranked, because I couldn’t find the entire study. The map shows us ranking high for empathy, but obviously not high enough to make the top ten. Le sigh. Some may read this and think, “But Canadians are sooooo polite and we apologize all the time. How come we

didn’t make this list?” Let’s not confuse empathy and politeness—they are two entirely different things. I can bump into you on the street, cause you to drop your bag and spill the contents all over the sidewalk and show good manners or politeness by apologizing and assisting you to pick up your belongings. Empathy would be if I also stopped to take a moment to find out why you were walking down the sidewalk with all of your belongings in a plastic bag. Empathy is the understanding of what someone else is feeling or experiencing through their frame of reference. Why are you rushing down the street with your belongings in a plastic bag? Are you homeless? Are you fleeing domestic violence? Are you a runaway? How can we become a more

into someone else’s reality, that curiosity; that is the first step towards showing empathy. Let’s rank a wee bit higher on that study next time, deal?

empathetic society? What can we do? Stop, look and listen—taking a moment to really see the situation, the person, the dynamics; being curious and asking questions; listening and learning. When we employ the “Stop, Look and Listen” model, we are forced to take a moment and really examine the situation. It is what we do with that moment, that glimpse

Judy Kucharuk is a lover of sarcasm, witty people and footnotes. You can read her book “Naked Tuesday” or catch her on CBC Radio Daybreak North where she shares her “Peace of Mind”. Follow her on twitter @judylaine

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Birch trees pack a surprising nutritional, healing punch

irch tree is a spring of nutrition plentiful in the Peace River region. Whether used as a sweetener, firewood, baskets, canoes, or for paper-making materials, it is unparalleled. Birch’s paper-like bark has been our ancestors’ writing surfaces for ages. Its entomology in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit means paper or writing tree. In the spring and fall, its leaves, bark, and roots hold exceptional micro-nutrition. Birch’s essence acts as an anti-inflammatory in steams or baths. Infuse it into vinegar, oil, alcohol, carbonated drinks and candy. Birch tree trunks are also the site of the much sought after Chaga; a local mushroom to the Peace, packed with red antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. Some of birch’s nutritional ingredients are: Vitamin C, iron, calcium, zinc, magnesium, and potassium. Spring birch sap is evaporated for syrup. Once concentrated, it can be used as a fructose sweetener, with a scent of liquorice, for diabetics and preserving

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food. Harvesting syrup takes years of work and an extensive tapping systems for only weeks of production. Alternatively, yellowed birch leaf is abundant in the fall and easy to carry in large quantities for smaller scale production. Birch leaf infused honey for tea or granola 0.5 L Honey 250 g Dried birch leaves 300 g Butter (or sunflower oil) 1 kg Rolled oats 200 g Almonds 200 g Flax seed 200g Sun flower seed 100 g Hemp hearts 454g Butter 300g Dried blue berries, Saskatoon and cherry • Add dried birch leafs to honey, heat to100 Celsius, remove from heat and cover.

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Look hard enough, and you’ll still find some birch trees ripe for harvest. Judah Koile picks some bark and some leaves, which include Vitamin C, iron, calcium, zinc, magnesium, potassium and more.

Let set over night. • On a large sheet pan lined with parchment paper, toast all seeds and nuts in the oven at 300 Fahrenheit. After 20 minutes, when a nutty, sweet smell develops and the colour becomes golden toasty brown, remove from heat. • Reheat honey and through a sifter remove any large

particles of stem and leaf from the honey. • In a large bowl, mix melted butter, infused birch honey and vanilla. Add the toasted ingredients to the liquids and mix well. • Place mixture back onto the sheet pan and toast until crunchiness desired, 30 minutes to an hour. Nut

butters add depth of umami, a dash of salt balances out the sweetness. Judah Koile is a Fort St. John chef and co-owns The BEAM with his wife, Jiwon Kim. Koile has more than a decade of culinary experience, and has worked in restaurants across Canada and South America.

Quilters helping Fort McMurray fire victims JONNY WAKEFIELD reporter@dcdn.ca

Winter is setting in on residents of Fort McMurray who were displaced when wildfires engulfed the town this spring. But a few dozen are getting a warm reminder that they’re not forgotten. Ada Peats, a long-time Fort McMur-

ray resident who now lives in Dawson Creek, will soon deliver more than 20 quilts made by local women to people in Fort McMurray. Peats’ son and grandson “lost everything” in the fire, she said. “It was totally terrible,” she said. “My one son and his grown children, with their vehicles, came out through the flames and the cinders.” Another evac-

uated to a worker camp north of town until the fire was contained. Peats lived in Fort McMurray from 1979 to 2012 before moving to Dawson Creek. She knows dozens of people who lost their homes or other possessions in the fire, which roared to life May 1. Friends and acquaintances began giving her quilts, crocheted baby blankets

and other items when they learned she had friends and family in the devastated community. “When some of the gals found out I was from Fort McMurray, because they’re quilters and they love doing it, they just so freely gave quilts,” she said. “I’m new in Dawson Creek, and I have to say these are the most generous people I know.”

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