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There was no shortage of innovative ideas at the school board office Friday when some of Fort St. John’s most gifted students got to work on developing life-changing prototypes for the less fortunate.

Middle school students in the gifted program learned about internally displaced persons, or IDP’s, who are forced to flee their homes but remain within their country’s borders, and were tasked with building a prototype that would improve or sustain an IDP’s quality of life.

The 15 students, ranging from Grade 7 to Grade 9, were broken into groups and each group was given $100 to purchase the materials needed for their project. They (Above) Liam Stregger works the drill while his team- had half an hour to buy their materimate Megan Salinas observes how their innovative als at Home Hardware, and then project, a portable cooking machine, is shaping up. two hours to construct their protoBronwyn Scott Photo type.

“It was like a reality cooking show where they had half an hour to get all the ingredients together,” said guest teacher Jerad Neufeld, from Upper Pine Elementary Junior Secondary School.

“Ten minutes after getting together as a group and coming up with a design, they now had to shop with a budget, and they said it was quite intense and stressful for them.”

The students had to consider portability and adaptability to accommodate a displaced lifestyle, and their prototype had to be useful and consider an IDP’s priorities.

While most groups opted to build shelters, one developed a portable cooking machine in the shape of a

cube, featuring a solar panel and a baking sheet.

The lesson was an eye-opening one for the students, and got them thinking about biases people have towards the homeless population in their own city.

“Normally I think like, oh they’re there . . . it can’t be super hard, propping something up, sleep under it. You realize, it’s not easy just to do that,” said Liam Stregger, in Grade 9.

William King, in Grade 8, chimed in to say his views have changed.

“I see them just lying in like banks and stuff, where you can go 24-7, and I thought that was easy for them, but I’m realizing that sometimes, if they sleep there, someone will call the police and they’ll have to leave, and then they don’t have (anywhere to go),” he said.

Grade 7 student Hunter Lythall expressed his frustration with people who believe all homeless people are in that situation because of their own actions and choices they’ve made in their lives.

“I’ve always thought that not all of them are bad,” he said.

“Some people, they just have their vision and they stick to that vision no matter what people say, because they’re not open-minded . . . that’s the problem with some people out there, because they think that . . . there’s no point of helping them, but, really, there’s people out there who actually ... can help."

Students in the gifted program across School District 60 meet several times a year for what’s called Thinking Tasks. peacereporter@ahnfsj.ca

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Matt Preprost

Should Canadians be allowed to nominate themselves for the Senate?

If the Liberals have their way with their plans for Senate reform, Byron Hackett could be a senator, heck, so could I. Can you imagine the chaos?

While there is little doubt the Red Chamber is in need of serious reform, allowing Canadians to nominate themselves would do more harm than good.

No doubt thousands of Canadians would jump at the chance to nominate themselves – I'd give it a shot, too, because why not? – but doing so would create an unwieldy quagmire for the committee tasked with recommending the right people for the job. A relatively short short-list would turn into an incredibly long list to filter down. And what would those filters be?

The Senate is serious business and a serious commitment -- while it looks good on paper to allow Dan the Welder or Patty the Long-Haul Trucker to participate in the system by nominating themselves, the Senate needs sharp and politically educated people who can appropriately navigate the growing complications of Canada's domestic needs and its place in a tense geopolitical world.

Not everyone is going to be happy with the reforms that are decided.

People who nominate themselves but don't get a seat will feel shafted, provinces will complain about being short-changed seats, and people will still think Senators are overpaid crooks with unlimited expense accounts and a fat pensions.

So increase the seat count, cut back the expense accounts, eliminate the party system, and make the Senate an elected body accountable to voters.

Science Matters David Suzuki

Environmental rights are human rights My grandparents came here from Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. Although it would be a one-way trip, the perilous journey across the Pacific was worth the risk. They left behind extreme poverty for a wealth of opportunity.

But Canada was different then, a racist country built on policies of colonization, assimilation and extermination of the land’s original peoples. My grandparents and Canadian-born parents, like indigenous people and others of “colour”, couldn’t vote, buy property in many places or enter most professions. During the Second World War, my parents, sis-

ters and I were deprived of rights and property and incarcerated in the B.C. Interior, even though Canada was the only home we’d ever known.

A lot has changed since my grandparents arrived, and since I was born in 1936. Women were not considered “persons” with democratic rights until 1918. People of African or Asian descent, including those born and raised here, couldn’t vote until 1948, and indigenous people didn’t get to vote until 1960.

Homosexuality was illegal until 1969!

In 1960, John Diefenbaker’s Progressive Conservative government enacted Canada’s Bill of Rights, and in 1982, Pierre Trudeau’s Liberals brought us the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, with equality rights strengthened in 1985.

We should celebrate those hard-won rights. I’m happy to have witnessed much of the progress my country has made. But there’s room for improvement. And in some ways Canada has gone backward.

Byron Hackett

As a country that believes in free and righteous democracy, giving the citizens more power has long been the goal of our government and the founding fathers of our nation.

It started with electing your leaders and representative to Parliament Hill and has grown into the rights of free speech, a fair trial and so many other wonderful opportunities.

In the growing and fast developing age of technology, who’s to say someone sitting on their couch spending endless hours researching the democratic process or talking to people in online forums about what the best way to revitalize Canada could be, isn’t the right person to be a senator.

Why bog down government sorting through your financial records and your property values and all the rest of the simple qualifications that make you eligible for this position, and allow us to fill out a quick online survey to determine your eligibility.

What better people to be our “sober second thought” than regular, everyday people who know what it’s like to be a drunk first decision?

That kind of foresight could develop perhaps one of the most diverse and cognizant groups sitting on the hill in Ottawa.

And as Canadians if we truly ever hope to separate ourselves from mama bear England, what better way to than to pave the way to more inclusive, population representative government by letting people elect themselves as senators?

Let this be my proclamation that I’ll be the next great senator. You should be too.

When I was a boy, we drank water from lakes and streams without a thought. I never imagined that one day we would buy water in bottles for more than we pay for gasoline. Canada has more fresh water per capita than any nation, but many indigenous communities don’t have access to clean drinking water.

When I was growing up in Vancouver, Dad would take me fishing for halibut off Spanish Banks, sturgeon on the Fraser River and salmon in English Bay. Today I can’t take my grandchildren fishing in those places because the fish are gone.

As a boy, I never heard of asthma. Today, childhood asthma is as common as red hair. And half of all Canadians live in places with unacceptable air pollution.

I also remember when all food was organic. I never thought we’d have to pay more not to have chemicals in our food. Today we can’t avoid the toxic consequences of our industrial and agricultural activities. We all

have dozens of toxic pollutants incorporated into our bodies.

We may think the highest rate of deforestation is in the Amazon but in 2014 Canada became the world leader in loss of pristine forests.

Surely, in a nation with so much natural wealth, we should expect better appreciation, treatment and protection of the air, water, soil and rich biological diversity that our health, prosperity and happiness depend on.

The right to live in a healthy environment is recognized by more than 110 nations — but not Canada.

That inspired the David Suzuki Foundation and Ecojustice to launch the Blue Dot movement a little over a year ago.

It’s exceeded our expectations, with more than 100 municipalities passing environmental rights declarations and a number of provinces considering or committing to the idea. The next step is to take it to the federal level, by calling for an environmental bill of rights and, ultimately, an amendment to the Charter of

Rights and Freedoms.

The environmental rights campaign is also about human rights and social justice — something recognized by the United Nations, which has appointed a special rapporteur on human rights and the environment.

A country and its values are measured not by the number of extremely wealthy people but by the state of its poorest and most vulnerable. Many environmental problems are tied to societal inequities — hunger and poverty, chronic unemployment, absence of social services, inadequate public transit and often conflicting priorities of corporations and the public interest — as people at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale are disproportionately affected by environmental hazards and toxic pollution.

Canada has come a long way, but we can’t be complacent. We must work to maintain and strengthen the rights of all Canadians, to build an even better Canada.

That means giving all Canadians the right to a healthy environment.

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NAPP Enterprise Ltd. workers Eric Spokes and Bob White were busy shoring up the North Peace Gymnastics building on Thursday morning to prevent a collapse in the event of heavy snowfall, since the inner walls of the facility burned down in July.

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Limit your intake of certain foods Other purine-rich foods should also be eaten in moderation. These foods should NOT be eliminated from your diet, but you should eat them in moderate amounts • Seafood: crab, lobster and oysters; • Legumes: beans and lentils; • Soups made of meat stock; • Meat and poultry; • Vegetables: asparagus, mushrooms, cauliflower, spinach and peas; • Freshwater and saltwater fish; • Cereals: whole-grains, oat flour, wheat germ, bran germ.

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Jamie Herrington (left) has fought on every Fivestar Fight League card in Fort St. John and on April 22 will step into the ring as a professional for the first time.

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Herrington adds another award to impressive MMA season Byron Hackett Staff Writer

Fort St. John’s own Jamie Herrington added to her already crowded shelf of accomplishments over the past year earlier this month when she was named WMMA Press 2015 amateur of the year.

The award comes after a banner year for the newly turned pro fighter, who went 6-0 in 2015 and won the IMMAF World Amateur title at featherweight in Las Vegas in July.

Herrington said earlier this week she was surprised when her name

was announced, as she figured there for at least five fighters who had better years than she did.

“I was really excited,” Herrington said in a phone interview.

“I was competing against eight other girls in the running for the award and the week before the actual announcement I was sitting in sixth. So to win the award was quite exciting.”

Herrington was announced as the winner on Jan. 16 and was live on the radio when she first found out.

At the start of the year in 2015,

Herrington was just another amateur trying to find fights and explained she never expected her MMA journey to end up as a world champion and fighter of the year.

“No definitely not,” she said modestly. “There are a lot of girls that have come into MMA in the last year and done very well for themselves and to be the top of that list, it’s been an honour to accept the award.”

Herrington will now turn pro on the Fivestar Fight League card on April 22 where she will square off against “Boozy” Susy Watson in a flyweight fight. That means

Herrington must drop 30lbs in order to fight, but is excited about the new opportunities being a pro fighter will bring to the table.

“I’m looking forward to the challenge,” she said. “I’ve had a great amateur career so far, not only within B.C., but internationally. I think it’s time to step up to the plate and take something that’s a little more intense for me. My wrestling has got me pretty much as far as you can go in amateur… going pro and taking on a new weight class will be interesting but it will be fun.”

As for her accomplishments last

year, Herrington said she exceeded expectations but just had fun in the end and hopes that 2016 brings much of the same.

“I think I blew way past my original goal,” she said.

“I haven’t been doing MMA for a really long time and to have that many fights in the last year and haven’t been beaten yet, it’s been good, it’s been exciting. It’s been a new career path along side my wrestling and I’ve had nothing but fun at the end of the day and hopefully this year will continue this road.” sports@ahnfsj.ca

On December, 18 we had a Christmas party complete with crafts, a gift exchange, and the 4-H members running barrels, poles, and holding piggy back races. The craft was one where members, parents, and leaders got to decorate old bits and horseshoes with a variety of things brought in by leaders and parents, from bells to flowers to branches of Christmas tree.

For the gift exchange each member brought in a homemade gift; treats for human and horse, art, and many other unique things were all brought, and every member got a number.

Numbers were then drawn out of a hat and when your number was drawn you picked a gift from the table. When not doing crafts or during a break members ran down to the part of the arena where we would normally ride horses. Seeing as it was too cold to haul our horses to the arena, at -22, members ran the barrels and poles on their own two feet, with some remarkable times being made, and then gave each other rides in the piggy back races. I think I can say we all had a pretty good time.

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Hi, I’m Gracie. I’m a second year junior in the Beatton Community 4-H Horse club and the new reporter for 2016. I’d like to thank Leigh Hedges for doing such a great job in 2015. I’m 11 years old and now that we have done introductions let’s get into what you are reading this article for. To find out what has been going on in 4-H.

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Beatton Community Horse 4-H Report

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Going into our new 4-H year we would like to welcome seven new members to the club. Five cloverbuds, members under the age of nine, and two junior-seniors, members old enough to be seniors but who have not yet completed the test to become one, were warmly welcomed into our 4-H club. So far this year we have had three meetings. Two theory meetings, held on January 13 and 20, and one riding, held January 10. During the theory meetings, we first went over what our year would contain and then worked on our record books. Before the riding meeting, we voted in people for six positions.

A President, Vice President, Secretary, Reporter, Treasurer, and Safety Officer were elected. The last thing I will cover is the Sears grant we recently received for $750. We would like to say that we are very thankful for the grant and will put it to good use. We plan to use it to make our meeting place at Rod Hedge’s a more comfortable learning/educational space.

We have purchased chairs and tables so far but are asking members to brainstorm and bring ides to our meeting February 14 to finalize.

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Peace valley family takes home top prize in canola yield contest Mike Carter Staff Writer

A canola farming family in the Peace River valley won top prize in a yield contest with last year's harvest—on land rented from BC Hydro that will be lost to the Site C dam reservoir.

Colin Meek and his parents, Blane and Maryann, farm land off of Highway 29 in the valley. The Meek's winning yield was from canola fields that brought in 57.3 bushels per acre, which Colin described as "not bad for a drought year."

A bushel weighs in at about 50 pounds.

The contest was put on by DEKALB seed manufacturers, a division of Monsanto Canada. The Meeks won for the Alberta-B.C. Peace Region zone. In order to claim the honour, farmers must produce the highest yielding crop in their crop category in their respective contest zone.

Representatives from the company came to the Meek family farm during harvest to help weigh the canola, accounting for its moisture content.

Colin told the Alaska Highway News that the company's representatives hadn't even weighed the whole field before they knew the Meeks were going to win.

"There was a lot of other places that were higher (yield) but we were already in the lead. (Dekalb) said 'Well, you are already winning it,'" he said.

"Where they took their measurements,

where we won, that will all be underwater.

The rest of the field is within the impact zone. I would imagine what is not underwater would eventually slough in."

The top prize was an all inclusive trip to Florida, which they gave as a bonus to an employee.

But the Meek family is holding this large harvest up as an example of the land that will be lost to the dam.

"The field that we grew it on was one we call 'the Hydroland,' as it is already owned by BC Hydro," Colin wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers about his win.

"Not all of that field will be flooded, but, of course, the parts that will be are the highest yielders.

"I came back to work on the family farm from the oilpatch because I realized that I'll never be able to eat oil, drink liquefied natural gas or breath electricity, but... I can help feed the world and clean the air with the food I grow," he continued.

Although producing almost all the canola in the province, the latest statistics from the Canadian Grain Commission show that the B.C. Peace is relatively small player on the national stage.

For the week of January 4 to 10, B.C.owned producers delivered about 4,000 tones of canola, compared to 118,000 in Saskatchewan. dcreporter@dcdn.ca

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WestJet and Shoppers Drug Mart raffle raises $6,800

Happy New year from tHe Board of directors!

Shoppers Drug Mart’s Love You campaign raised $22,430 last fall for the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation’s Eastern Star Children’s Fund. Contributions from hundreds of donors helped to raise the funds which will support the purchase of medical equipment for babies, children, and expecting mothers.

WestJet donated two flight vouchers to a raffle in October that raised $10,000 for the campaign. They then donated another two flight vouchers that were raffled off in a draw on December 18 that raised an additional $6,800 for the campaign.

Congratulations to October raffle-winner Cindy Kitchen and December raffle-winner Taylor Chubey.

Caption Group: WestJet manager Mallory Moore and staff Melissa Postnikoff and Kim Kadza, along with Shoppers Drug Mart representatives Tammy Koponyas and Irvin Tang, present Fort St. John Hospital Foundation’s Executive Director Ashley Bentley with a $22,430 donation.

Inset: Congratulations to December’s raffle-winner Taylor Chubey!

from left to right: chair Gordon Gentles, sally emory, deb Butler, avi sinclair, dr. Kevin page, marco schwab, twila soule, and sherri collins.

Friends of the Foundation Monthly Giving Program Small, consistent donations make a big impact at the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation. That’s why the Friends of the Foundation Monthly Giving Program was recently created; to make donating easier than ever.

With a pre-authorized withdrawal, donors won’t have to write and mail gifts every time they wish to make a donation. The program is flexible to meet the needs of all donors; allowing them to set a gift amount, and easily increase, decrease, pause, or stop their gift at any time. The consistency of a monthly contribution ensures a stable and reliable source of funding that allows the Foundation to better plan for equipment purchases for the Fort St. John Hospital and Peace Villa Residential Care Unit.

No matter how big or how small, every gift to the Foundation truly makes a difference in the lives of patients.

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WEEKLY PRO RACING UPDATE Postseason Racing News, Stats & Trivia

All-Time Top Driver’s Bio

This Week’s Racing News

For the 2016 season, Jeff Gordon’s teammates are now Fox analysts Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds, and race-day announcer Mike Joy. “It’s going to be a very similar approach except I’m not going to be doing it at 200 miles an hour,” Gordon, a four-time Cup champion, said during the NASCAR Media Tour.

Gordon was ready to step out of the car after the 2015 season for numerous reasons, including concerns about his back, a greater focus on family time and a bucket list that was very much fulfilled in 24 seasons as a NASCAR Cup driver. There will still be some connective tissue between Gordon and Hendrick Motorsports. He remains part of that dominant race team, as he settles into an uncertain role once his obligations to Fox end at the middle of the season and NASCAR switches to NBC Sports as its primary broadcast partner. “My role is somewhat undefined as far as a title,” Gordon said. “But it’s pretty clear to me that I am partner at Hendrick. I think a big part of my support is from the sponsorship side of things, the marketing side of things.”

January 21, 1973 - Penske driving ace Mark Donohue took a surprising victory in the season opening 500 miler at Riverside. Donohue’s first career Cup win came in only his 5th start, driving a Matador. That race was Penske’s first NASCAR win in a long history of NASCAR participation and remains to this day, the last non-regular (non-full schedule) driver to win a NASCAR Cup Series road race.

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c) Martinsville d) Darlington

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Jeff Gordon Born: Aug. 4, 1971 Cup wins: 93 Cup top-tens: 475 Cup championships: 4 Jeff Gordon was five years old when he first performed laps on a makeshift racetrack. After his childhood and teen years, Gordon moved on to NASCAR and won Rookie of the Year in 1991. The next year he signed with Hendrick Motorsports and has gained 93 wins during his career, third on the all-time Cup wins list and the most wins in NASCAR’s modern era (1972–present). Gordon’s 81 pole positions lead all active drivers, and is third all-time. He has won at least one pole in 23 consecutive seasons, a NASCAR record. He is also the active iron man leader for consecutive races participated in with 797 through the 2015 season. In 2009, Gordon became the first NASCAR driver to reach $100 million in career winnings. Gordon, along with Rick Hendrick, co-own the No. 48 Chevrolet driven by Jimmie Johnson, who won six Cup championships from 2006 to 2010, and 2013.

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Northern Health to hire 100 nurses Staff Writer

Northern Health will hire 100 new nurses by the end of March, the Ministry of Health and the BC Nurses' Union (BCNU) announced Tuesday morning.

"We are pleased with the collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the BCNU in this new approach to staffing," Northern Health spokesperson Jonathon Dyck said.

The posting process has already begun in a number of areas covered by the health authority, but Dyck was unsure how many jobs this announcement would translate into for the Peace Region specifically.

"There is a process we need to follow with all of our postings," he said. "We're going through the processes that we do with

these types of announcements and we'll share more information as it becomes available. We're still working through exact details."

In total, more than 1,600 nurses will be hired throughout the province by March 31.

Gayle Duteil, president of the BCNU, welcomed the news with a message to struggling nurses.

"To nurses who are working 16-hour shifts... trying to provide safe patient care while working short in emergency rooms and operating rooms and nurses who cope with overwhelming workloads, this agreement means that relief is on the way," she said.

According to Northern Health’s online job boards, there are currently more than 50 registered nursing positions available in Northeast B.C. including

casual, full-time and vacation relief jobs, as well as one parttime nurse practitioner position open in Dawson Creek.

"We know that nurses are often the first point of contact for many in the healthcare system," Health Minister Terry Lake said.

"They are often a helping hand in what can be a sea of confusion during a medical emergency.

Today's announcement acknowledges their integral role."

Last April, the government reached an agreement with the Health Employers Association of B.C. that aimed to improve patient care. It included $5 million to specialty nurse training programs across a variety of fields of care and an additional $1 million for increased staffing levels of nurses province-wide.

The deal also included $2

million to support community nurses.

The B.C. government and the BCNU are currently negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement with talks set to resume in February.

"Nurses are a key pillar of B.C.'s healthcare system, delivering quality treatment to thousands of patients every day throughout the province," said HEABC president and chief executive officer David Logan.

"This recruitment effort will contribute immensely to maintaining these high standards while supporting our current efforts at the bargaining table as we work to reach a collective agreement over the next couple of months that serves the primary aim of providing the best care possible to British Columbians." dcreporter@dcdn.ca

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Applicant: Encana Corporation 37 Vic Turner Airport Road Dawson Creek, BC V1G 0G1 Attention: Jennifer Critcher jennifer.critcher@encana.com 250-719-6829 ext: 1120 The purpose of the proposed Pest Management Plan (PMP) is to manage vegetation, including noxious weeds and invasive plants on all land owned, leased, and/or controlled by Encana for oil and gas production, transmission, distribution and storage within the plan area, including oil and gas wells and associated production facilities (and their access roads), several pipelines and gas processing plants. These sites are located in proximity to the communities of Fort Nelson, Fort St. John, Dawson Creek, Tumbler Ridge, Hudson’s Hope, Pouce Coupe and Chetwynd. All sites are within the geographic boundaries of the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality and the Peace River Regional District.

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SAWMILLS from only $4,397 - MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills. com/400OT 1-800-5666 8 9 9 E x t : 4 0 0 O T.

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steel Buildings

STEEL BUILDING SALE...”REALLY BIG SALE-EXTRA WINTER DISCOUNT ON NOW!!”

21X22 $5,190 25X24 $5,988 27X28 $7,498 30X32 $8,646 35X34 $11,844 42X54 $16,386.

One end wall included.

Pioneer Steel 1-800-6685422 www.pioneersteel.ca

travel

SEE POLAR BEARS, Walrus and Whales on our Arctic Explorer Voyage next summer.

SAVE 15% With Our Winter Sale for a Limited Time. CALL TOLL-FREE: 1-800363-7566 or visit www. adventurecanada.com ( TI CO # 0 4 0 014 0 0)

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Sale starts @ 8.00am on January 29th 2016 to Saturday, February 13th @ 4 00pm.

3 for 1 Clearance Sale on Select Carpet Lines Carpet (Price includes Material, Underlay & Labor) New Mexico II Carpet @ $5.55 sq. ft.

New Orleans II Carpet @ 3.90 Sq. ft.

Luxury Vinyl Plank: In Stock colors @ 3.99 per Square ft. Material Only.

Select Benjamin Moore Premium paints Regal and Aura is also on sale @ 30% discount for as long as stock lasts.

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