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Canadian Tire 7,790 The rural hamlet, north of Fort St. John at mile 143 on the Alaska Highway, has seen an Jysk 7,241 explosion of liquefied natural gas activity in the Staples 6,093 past year.

While it remains to be seen whether an LNG Walmart 8,015 "boom" will pan out, companies continue to invest in the area. With that investment comes Shoppers Drug Mart 6,700 new workers, and with those workers, new Wholesale Club 8,015 worker camps.

At last Thursday's Peace River Regional T.C Equipment 9,500 District meeting, the board issued a new permit that would allow a 500-person worker camp at Mile 147 to double in size. The need for new worker accommodations is driven by investment by Progress Energy, which needs around • Employment Assistance Services 2,000 new beds in the area • Trades & Apprenticeship to staff upcoming projects.

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PRRD tries to assure residents that Building Bylaw is dead The PRRD's hated Building Bylaw 1996 2011 is dead, but the board wants to let residents poke it a few times, just to make sure.

The district decided on Thursday to schedule a number of public information sessions in each of its four rural areas on the replacement bylaw – dubbed Building Bylaw 2131 2014 – in part to assure rural residents that it is functionally the same law as the one that has governed rural construction since the early 1990s.

That's in addition to the 19 public consultation meetings that were held over the course of the bylaw debate.

For more than a year, the district attempted to bring its building bylaws up to date. Generally speaking, Bylaw 1996 2011 would have greatly increased the number of circumstances in which rural residents would need to apply for building permits when upgrading their property.

Proponents argued that modernizing the bylaw was necessary to make sure structures built on rural land are up to fire codes, appropriate for the area and properly constructed.

However, a cadre of affected residents fought back hard, and the bylaw was eventually rescinded. These critics argued that the new bylaw amounted to a cash grab, and that new rules were redundant since rural construction is covered under the provincewide B.C. Building Code.

The updated bylaw was passed over these protests, later rescinded, then brought back in a modified form to address a legal loophole, and once again rescinded earlier this year. But since late 2013, there's been a slow return to the status quo of the 1990s bylaw, although PRRD staff said earlier that a new bylaw would have

to be passed.

At a meeting this summer, Area C rural director Arthur Hadland indicated that there was little appetite left on the board for updating the building bylaw. "[The building bylaw questions] should be over – at least I certainly hope it is," Hadland said.

But first, they plan to smooth ruffled feathers by doing another round of consultations – up to three in each of the region’s four electoral areas.

"It's just showing [residents] that in fact the bylaw has not changed," said PRRD chair Karen Goodings. "There were a few corrections that had to take place, but the bylaw itself has not changed from 1189."

The meetings have yet to be scheduled. In all, these “community conversations” have cost the board around $25,000 to date, not including staff time and advertising.

Airport upgrades on the way Fort St. John's increasingly busy airport is on track for a $189,000 spruce-up.

The North Peace Regional Airport asked the PRRD to sign off on a grant application to the Northern Development Initiative Trust, a regional economic development body.

If approved, the airport will invest the money in improvements to the main terminal washrooms and furniture, as well as upgrades to business areas and access to power supplies for laptops and cell phones.

The improvements are needed to deal with a projected increase in traffic through the airport in the coming years.

"Use of the North Peace Airport has grown substantially in the past five years, and predictions are that usage will see another major increase in the next five years," according to a PRRD report.

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A hundred years ago last month, the First World War began for the fledgling country of Canada.

Drawn in by Britain’s declaration of war against Germany, the Canadian military joined the ranks of her mother country across the Atlantic and, over the course of the war, proved itself on the world stage.

The Fort St. John North Peace Museum has commemorated this centennial with a display, put together by University of Victoria student Alana Green, who has been working over the summer to gather information on the North Peace’s involvement in the war.

This region’s closest involvement in the war came in the aftermath, as returning soldiers were given plots of land in the North Peace with interest-free loans to put towards developing it. Soldiers put down their rifles and picked up plows, populating the North Peace, and many of their children are still here.

Not all of them settled here after the war was over, however. A recruiter visited the Fort St. John and Hudson’s Hope area, and some of the men signed up. The closest office, however, was in Edmonton.

“There wasn’t really a good road to Edmonton at that time, so it was quite a grueling process to go and enlist,” said Green.

“There were a lot of soldiers who did sign up, and it was all about patriotism. Young men were looking for adventure, and they thought they could find it there.”

One of those men was young Duncan Cran, and Green managed to dig up a letter he wrote home while he was serving overseas, and later reprinted in the Alaska Highway News.

Green said that letters like that provided an insight into life on the European front that she wouldn’t have otherwise had, much of it centred around two extremes.

“It was so quiet and then bam! It was action. And then it was so quiet again,” said Green. “It would just be so stressful, being in that environment.”

Of course, life back in the Peace was difficult as well. Green said that one of the most interesting parts of her research was learning about life at home while many of the men were fighting.

“The home front, I found that to be really interesting. It was [the museum curator] Heather Longworth who suggested that I include it,” said Green. “I hadn’t actually really thought about it, I was thinking more about things like the Duncan Cran letter, about what it was like over there, and I had sort of forgotten about what people made a lot of sacrifices at home as well.

“There’s a propaganda poster that didn’t make it into the display about teenage boys who had to work on farms. Everyone had to work even harder at home – especially in Canada, where a lot of wheat and dairy came from that was shipped overseas.”

She said that there was even a term that became popular for women who had to pick up the slack of farm work: farmerettes.

Green also compiled a list of everyone she could find from the North Peace area who participated in the war. If anyone knows of someone who was in the war, they are asked to contact the museum for inclusion.

Canada was instrumental to the war effort, participating notably in the battles of the Somme, Vimy and Passchendaele. Those victories weren’t without losses, however – 67,000 Canadians lost their lives, and a quarter of a million were wounded.

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Aleisha Hendry

Is summer in the Peace Region overrated?

You know what the best season in the Peace Region is? It’s not summer, not in the slightest.

It’s actually fall. Autumn is far and beyond the best season in the Peace.

For one, it’s the most colourful, which by default makes it the prettiest. And it only last two or three weeks, which makes it even more special than summer, which we get at least two and half months of.

If summer was more like one would expect it to be in the North, maybe it wouldn’t be so overrated. One does not expect temperatures to reach the 30s this far north. People are always stunned when I tell them how hot it gets here. I think they finally understand that we’re not an Arctic tundra 11 months out of the year, but none expect that it’s actually hotter here than in southern B.C. at times.

So when everyone is getting all hyped up about summer, I want to invite them over to my apartment, which is on the top floor of the building and has nothing in the way of AC other than a ceiling fan. Tell me then just how wonderful a Peace Region summer is when you’re nearly passing out from heat exhaustion just by sitting on the couch.

Science Matters David Suzuki

Of passenger pigeons and coal-mine canaries Passenger pigeons were once a remarkable story of nature’s abundance. Despite producing only one chick a year, they were the most numerous bird on Earth, sometimes darkening the sky for hours or even days when they flew overhead. But then they told another tale — about the destructive power of humans. We killed them all. The last wild bird was believed to have been shot in Laurel, Indiana, in 1902. The lone captive survivor was named Martha; she died at the Cincinnati Zoo 100 years ago, on September 1, 1914.

In some ways, the passenger pigeons’ success led to their demise. According to an article on Yale Environment 360, their

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When it rains, it pours, and when it’s sunny, it’s – whatever the sunshine equivalent of “pours” is.

I definitely underestimated just how hot it was going to get up here this past summer. I know it wasn’t exactly a normal summer this year, with a couple of records broken for heat and lack of precipitation. I had the sunburns to prove it.

That being said, if the snow we got a few days ago is any indication, we’re going to be missing those dog days of summer more than ever in no time.

Take a second to look outside at your barbecue. What was the dispenser of so much delicious joy for the past five months soon will be under a giant pile of snow.

I’m not trying to be a downer; I just think it’s important to remember, when you’re shivering, trying to start your car in the cold, dark morning, that it won’t always be like that. There will be an end. You will lie out in the sun again.

There’s no doubt that this corner of the world is a place of extremes.

Summers are hot, winters are cold, and there’s no way around it. The best way to cope is just to roll with the proverbial punches.

abundance made them “the least expensive terrestrial protein available.” Although habitat loss from expanding logging and agriculture played a role, hunting ultimately wiped them out.

Birds have long been the “canaries in the coal mine” for our destructive ways. Extinction of the passenger pigeon sparked the first large environmental movement in the U.S., and led to restrictions on hunting, as well as federal and international regulations to protect migratory birds.

The next great environmental movement was also ignited out of concern for birds. For 20 years after Swiss chemist Paul Müller discovered DDT was extremely effective at killing insects, it was the most widely used insecticide worldwide. But in her 1962 book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson explained how the chemical was also killing birds, and accumulating in the environment and up the food chain, to humans.

Carson’s book inspired me and many others to heed the environmental consequences of our actions, and eventually led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Now, birds face a range of new problems, most caused by humans and many serving as further warnings about our bad habits.

According to BirdLife International, one eighth — more

than 1,200 species — are threatened with extinction. Habitat destruction is a major cause.

Birds can’t survive when the places they live, breed and feed are destroyed or altered, and when food supplies are diminished.

Chemicals such as PCBs, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and pesticides are also killing birds, and, like DDT, also often affect humans.

Our insatiable energy appetite also puts birds at risk. Reading some energy-related news and blogs, one might conclude wind power is the biggest bird killer.

But that’s far from true. Although poorly situated wind farms, especially ones using older turbine technology, do kill birds, it’s an issue that can be addressed to a large extent, as can problems around solar installations where birds have died. By far the largest energy-related bird killers are fossil fuels, especially coal. Heavy metals like mercury and lead from burning coal kill numerous birds — and even change their songs, which can affect their ability to mate and protect territory. And climate change is affecting many species’ breeding and migratory patterns.

U.S. News and World Report analyzed estimates of how many birds are killed every year by U.S. electricity sources. The numbers are telling: between 1,000 and

28,000 for solar; 140,000 and 328,000 for wind; about 330,000 for nuclear; 500,000 to one million for oil and gas; and a whopping 7.9 million for coal.

According to one recent study, between 12 and 64 million birds a year are also killed in the U.S. by transmission lines. The article notes that all those numbers pale in comparison to birds killed by domestic cats: from 1.4 to 3.7 billion a year!

Not only do birds fill us with awe and wonder, but they also provide food and feathers, and keep insects and rodents in check.

Their ability to warn us of the drastic ways we’re changing the world’s ecosystems and climate and water cycles can’t be ignored.

By working to ensure more species don’t go the way of the passenger pigeon, we’re also protecting ourselves from the effects of environmental destruction.

As individuals, we must conserve energy, shift to cleaner sources and demand that our industrial and political leaders address issues such as pollution and climate change. And we can work to protect wetlands and other bird habitat. We can also join the legions of citizen scientists who are contributing to avian knowledge by posting information to sites such as eBird.org.

It’s not really just for the birds; it’s for all of us.

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Peace Region gets an early brush with winter David Dyck Staff Writer

The snow was flying a little early this year. Much of the Peace Region witnessed the first snowfall of the season yesterday, while Environment Canada issued snowfall warnings for Fort Nelson and Munch Lake.

And this is just the beginning, according to one group. A harsh winter is in store for Canada, says the 2015 Old Farmer’s Almanac – but don’t stock up on winter socks just yet, warns Environment Canada.

The 200-year old guide’s latest edition predicts an especially cold winter followed by an especially hot summer.

However, David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada, said that his preliminary prediction is that it won’t be so bad, judging by the severity of last year’s winter.

“It was certainly cold across the prairies and a good chunk of Canada. I’ve been saying that it’s hard for nature to produce two years in a row with a tough winter,” he said.

“Our seasons are warmer, all of them – and particularly winter – so my sense is that they may be totally wrong on this one.”

Phillips added that in the Northeast in particular, there is a weak El Nino formation expected to come through that would warm the region.

“What I’ve seen today is that the models seem to suggest that it will come out,” he said, pegging the likelihood at 65 per cent, which he added was a slightly lower chance than the same models had predicted a few weeks ago.

“The feeling is that it will come through and it’ll be weak, but it does generally mean even in a weak state, it does generally bring for your area more Pacific air than Arctic air,” Phillips said.

The almanac claims to be 80 per cent right, a claim that Phillips finds dubious.

“I don’t even think they’re 50 per cent right, to tell you the truth, because nobody ever challenges them,” he said.

The original Old Farmer’s Almanac was founded in 1792. The newer Canadian version has been published annually since 1982.

Its pages are filled with humorous advice and tips for things like gardening and cooking.

Phillips did admit that he enjoys the Old Farmer’s Almanac, but not for the forecasts.

Every year the Charlie Lake Conservation Society receives reports of over zealous lake front property owners who have cleared their properties and are now faced with severe sloughing or erosion problems. Worse yet, they risk the chance that their cottages or homes may slide into the lake!

You can prevent shoreline erosion and slumping by leaving vegetation along the shorelines. Willow, Red Osier Dogwood, Birch, Tamarac or Larch trees and deeply rooted grasses stabilize the soil. These plants and trees also provide a natural habitat for birds and small mammals.

Pruning the bushes that obscure your view is a far better choice than bringing in a bulldozer to clean up or clear your shoreline. Willows, for example, are a good choice as they can be aggressively cut back in early spring only to branch out quicklyleaving an attractive hedge for the rest of the summer. The roots protect your shoreline and act as anchors or rebars in the ground. Anchoring logs and encouraging the growth of bull rushes or cat tails along the shoreline will help buffer wave action. The use of screw piles, metal poles and chicken wire is ineffective, corrosive, and in the case using wire… hazardous to the fish, frog and waterfowl populations.

Laying geo-textile fabric over the shoreline bank and placing rocks over it will help protect the soil from erosion and slumping although care must be taken in the placement or the amount of fabric that is laid down. Unfortunately, many homeowners either underestimate the number of rocks they need to cover an area or simply scrimp on the amount of needed fabric. As a result, the cloth ends up being exposed or partially washed into the lake by wave action.

Avoid solid retaining walls and commercial cement barricades. They are undermined by wave action and eventually tip towards the lake. Man made retaining walls are unsightly, they do not fit into the natural shoreline and it’s best to think naturally when creating your lake front property to look the way nature intended it to be.

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Racers only got to hit the track for one of the two days during the final weekend at the Northern Lights speedway but saw near perfect conditions on Saturday.

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Weather shortened final weekend at NLR Byron Hackett Staff Writer

In hindsight it’s unfortunate that they don’t make winter tires for drag racers because Sunday in Fort St. John would have been the perfect test facility.

That’s not the case and for that reason the Fort St. John Drag Racing Association was forced to call the season short with only 7 race results this year instead of eight.

After perfect race conditions Saturday at the Northern Lights Raceway in Fort St. John, the over 100 racers had to break out the snowbrushes and pack away the cars for the final time.

“I think everyone was a bit disappointed when they woke up Sunday morning and had to be scrapping snow off their windshields but they don’t make snow tires for drag cars yet,” Spokesperson for the track Bryan Bates said with a laugh.

Bates noted that even with the cancelled Sunday, Saturday was a great day for racing and even had some new faces at the track.

“A little over 100 cars were out at the race track and the best part was there a number of racers who hadn’t been at the track in a while

or had never been to the track so we got some fresh new faces out for the final race, so that’s always good to see,” he said.

Bates said with just an initial look at the overall points on the season, he noticed a “dramatic” shift in some of the top categories based on Saturday’s races alone.

Despite losing the final day Bates was happy it was the only cancelled day of the season and says the season in total was a strong one for the association.

“Overall it was a really good year weather wise, generally dry conditions on our race weekends. So we lost on race day and that’s actually not too bad on the season,” he said.

The club also felt like the there was significant growth throughout the season in terms of both the racer turnout and the crowds.

“On average we had 15 or 20 more racers at each race than the year past. We also had a very successful IHRA race at the track. Now it’s time for the club now that the season is over to look back at how everything went and what to change for next year or what to do again,” he said. “If we want to see people keep coming out we need to make sure we provide great entertainment value and I think we do that.”

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Northeastern B.C. mayors form resource coalition William Stodalka Staff Writer

The mayors of Dawson Creek, Fort St. John and five other northeastern B.C. communities officially unveiled plans on Monday to form a “super-team.”

While residents are unlikely in the near future to see local politicians don skintight jumpsuits and fight crime, the Northeast B.C. Resource Municipalities Coalition is intended to serve and protect the region from a common issue that looms large. “[It’s] actually a single-purpose organization – to represent the interests of these municipalities in resource development issues,” Colin Griffith, the new coalition’s executive director.

However, the plan has received stern comments from the mayor of the one local government that was left off the final team, as well as a Peace River Regional District director, both of whom protest the lack of rural representation in the coalition.

The coalition’s meetings will be in public, held every month in Fort St. John. It will be co-chaired by the mayors of Dawson Creek, Fort St. John and the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality. One of the group’s key issues is the FairShare agreement with the provincial government. It is a grant in lieu of industrial taxes that adds up to millions of dollars each year in funding for Northeast B.C. municipalities.

The reason FairShare is important for Northeast towns is because the industrial growth that is fuelling the region happens outside of their municipal boundaries, which means these cities cannot tax them. But the costs on infrastructure and increase in other service demands from this industrial growth are paid for by the city.

However, the agreement only lasts until 2020. Last year, Premier Christy Clark promised to extend the agreement to 2030, but so far her government has not made any formal announcements to make this happen.

Meanwhile, FairShare has taken up an ever-increasing share of the load in the growing budgets “(The coalition municipalities) are united in FairShare from a municipal perspective,” said Griffith.

Griffith also said that the coalition is “happy” with how FairShare is set up. However, the coalition will “advocate for a permanent arrangement with the province in order that a predictable and permanent source of industrial tax revenue is available.”

He said that they will work to make FairShare permanent, and protect it from any fiscal slashing that may occur in future governments – provisions which are not in the FairShare agreement as currently laid out.

According to estimates by the oil and gas industry, there is enough natural gas in northeastern B.C. to heat all of Canada’s homes for 8,100 years.

The coalition’s preliminary budget is for $2 million over three years, said Griffith. Dawson Creek Mayor Dale Bumstead said that the funding will come from seven of the eight municipalities in northeastern B.C. on a per-capita basis, meaning that larger communities like Dawson Creek and Fort St. John, will pay more than smaller communities.

“It’s not trying to become another level of government ... it is just saying, the municipalities have come together, we’ve got these shared interests and this is how we’re going to represent them,” Griffith said.

Chetwynd, Pouce Coupe, Taylor and Tumbler Ridge are also members. The only municipality in the Northeast that declined to join is Hudson’s Hope.

Hudson’s Hope Mayor Gwen Johansson said that her district had “not had a lot of good experience” with cooperative agreements like this, which she said bypasses the PRRD’s authority.

“Our council didn't have comfort with the way (the coalition) was structured thus far,” she said. “If you're going to go to, say, senior government as a region, you want to make sure that all of the region is represented. That organization leaves out the electoral areas.”

That statement was echoed by PRRD Area C Director Arthur Hadland, who said in a recent letter to the rest of the PRRD board that his ire was raised by the coalition’s discussions thus far.

“From time to time, as an electoral area director, I feel that our voice is somewhat diminished,” he wrote.

“This is especially true when we hear rumours of ‘mayors’ partnerships’ and ‘northeast resource municipalities’ coalition’ that excludes the representatives of where the ‘resource’ is located.”

In its promotional information, the coalition wrote that members “will represent their municipality’s interest in conjunction with rural area needs being represented by their electoral area directors.”

Griffith said that his group will work with directors like Hadland as much as these directors want to work with them.

“Rural interests are not going to be exactly the same (as the coalition’s),” said Griffith.

He also said that the PRRD has “no authority to represent municipal districts’ interests,” and that the PRRD has “no mandate to represent the region” except in a limited number of issues.

Other policy positions that the coalition has taken include collabo-

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Senator Richard Neufeld, Dawson Creek Mayor Dale Bumstead, Northern Rockies Regional Municipality Mayor Bill Streeper, Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ackerman, Taylor Mayor Fred Jarvis, Chetwynd Mayor Merlin Nichols, and Tumbler Ridge Acting Mayor Don McPherson helped announce the formation of the Northeast B.C. Resource Municipalities Coalition.

rating and partnering with First Nations, addressing the impacts of worker accommodations on municipal services and infrastructure, and maximizing local content in the labour, goods and services provided to resource industries.

During Monday’s announcement, Chetwynd Mayor Merlin Nichols spoke about environmental effects, and said that Finland was “a good example” about a way to balance industry and a healthy environment.

(According to the industry website Natural Gas Europe, Finland is one of three countries that has “not taken any formal position” about shale gas.)

“With First Nations, we are merely the stewards of the land,” he said.

Northern Rockies Regional Municipality Mayor Bill Streeper spoke about the need to keep workers living within northeastern B.C., as opposed to “fly-in/fly-out” workers.

He said that workers “want modern communities to live in,” which would include adequate sewers and other municipal services.

The coalition has already hired a professional economist to consult on the expected future growth of northeastern B.C. in population and industry, along with other specialists.

Staff from the seven municipalities will also be involved with these meetings. Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ackerman said that the events would be arranged similar to council meetings.

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Having regular, unified meetings will also help these municipalities to plan for the industrial growth that is expected in the region, officials with the coalition said.

“We must plan and prepare now so our municipalities can accommodate the new workers and their families, and our coalition is the mechanism to carry out this vital work,” Bumstead is quoted as saying in promotional material handed out by the coalition.

“When we look at what’s coming in the natural gas sector along with projects like BC Hydro’s Site C dam and more growth in forestry, mining and other resource sectors, our new Coalition can’t begin comprehensive regional planning fast enough,” added Ackerman.

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Call to the rink comes early this year Byron Hackett Staff Writer

It’s easy to ignore calls to head back to the hockey rink when it’s 25 degrees and sunny.

The urge for youngsters to be begging Mom and Dad to drag them out to the rink got a lot stronger this past weekend with the Peace Region’s first dusting of snow.

For the Fort St. John Minor Hockey Association both registration and the on ice process is well underway and it is again that time to think about dusting off the hockey bags in the basement as the new season is nearly upon us.

For first year FSJMHA president Craig Brownlee, the alarm bells have started to ring and time is slowly ticking away for families to get their kids registered for hockey. So far numbers are at an alarming low for the league.

“Right now we have 354 registered players. That is down quite a bit from last year. We are hoping that people do know that is time to register if they want to play this year,” he said. “Also if there are financial issues that are preventing you from registering at this time, we have always had a policy where we get the kids on the ice and we can deal with those financial things when families are ready.”

Currently registration is down more than 100 players from last season, and Brownlee believes both the lack of a school year and nice weather up until this point in the year has kept people’s minds off heading to the rink.

“That’s a pretty alarming amount and we are concerned,” Brownlee said about the registration so far this year. “It is down 112 from our final registration which was in November, that’s not to say that we aren’t concerned, we would like to see them be higher at this point.”

Brownlee believes that in minor hockey kids can develop skills that will not only help them in sport, but also off the ice.

“We want kids in Fort St. John to love the game and be able to foster some skill development in any age and any level,” Brownlee said. “To build skills such as teamwork and hard work and be able to advance off the ice as well. Learn things like cooperation with teammates and build those social skills. We of course hope to tie that all up with a fun experience playing minor hockey.”

Beyond those learning experiences, there are plenty of opportunities for kids who have never played hockey or need to learn more about the game.

“We start with a “Lace ‘Em Up” program – that’s getting new kids on the ice and kids that haven’t skated before or are still getting used to skating,” Brownlee said. “I think for anyone who is unsure of the skating level or from past experience, it could be knowledge or lack of knowledge of the game, it’s things like our “Lace ‘Em Up” program that help. We have leagues that cater to all the skill levels of players.”

Peewee age group kids will also have an opportunity to play in the Peewee North Hockey League. Fort St. John had a team in the league for the first time last year and will have another again this year. Bantam age level kids will have a chance to play in the Edmonton Rural Hockey League.

If the kids haven’t reached a competitive level, weekends at the Pomeroy Sport Centre show off a wide array of hockey from five year olds to the highest level in town.

“They can look forward to fun on the ice,” Brownlee said about what families and players can expect from the season. “They can look forward to new people and teammates, striving to reach team goals together.

Heading down to the rink on Saturday, watching and cheering along other Fort St. John teams. I encourage people who haven’t done that, it kind of goes beyond the parents and people, if you are ever down at the rink, it is pretty adorable to

watch a five year old play hockey with half ice and small nets, right up to competitive hockey.”

The organization will also host an Ice Breaker tournament the weekend of Sept. 19, which is designed to get teams ready for league play that gets underway the following week. The tryouts for the age groups involved in the tournament

(Peewee, Bantam, Midget) had their tryouts moved up a week in order to be ready for the pre-season tournament.

There is still time to register for families if they head to fsjminorhockey.ca and click on the getting started tab.

Families can also drop by the FSJMHA office to inquire about registering or call 250-787-7133.

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Teachers strike shuffles shifts for working students S taff W riters

Haley Johnston is ready to go back to school. But she also wants shifts at work.

It's a predicament many working students in both Dawson Creek and Fort St. John find themselves in as the B.C. teacher's strike stretches on indefinitely.

Johnston, who works at the Dawson Creek Shoppers Drug Mart as a merchandiser, typically sees her hours reduced when school prevents her from taking day shifts. Not so this year.

"It's a little bit frustrating, because I do want to get back to school. But it's kind of nice being able to get more shifts in at work," said Johnston, who is in Grade 11 and enjoys studying science.

Alex Hollman, a waitress at Roustabouts in Fort St. John, has had more hours – and with that extra money, she is further along paying back her parents for purchasing her a car.

“It’s my last high school year, so I’d just rather start,” she said.

“I do enjoy school, I do enjoy my friends.”

Hollman adds that she may be affected more than most, because her parent is a teacher.

“It’s kind of getting ridiculous at this point, I’m just getting tired of it,” she said. “I just want to know when I’m going back.”

Fellow waitress Mackenzie Vandergaag also said that she has been given more hours.

“I had a few friends who decided to get jobs over the time they weren’t going back to school,” he said. “I think (the strike) is going to affect us more than the government realizes.”

Robyn Bickford, who works at Marc Joseph in Fort St. John, said that she is continuing to work full-time at the store, even

though she would have gone part-time were school back in session.

“Even (other student employees) in the mall, they work fulltime when they’re supposed to be part-time,” Bickford said. “I don’t mind (working full time) – it gives me something to do – but I’d rather to go back and finish my education.”

Managers are also in an uncertain position when it comes to their young employees. Dawson Creek Shoppers Manager Sandra Chapman is charge of scheduling shifts, and said she has around 12 school-age employees who work year-round.

"At this point, a lot of them are still scheduled as if they were still on summer holidays," she said. "I told one of them that if school goes back, and I have you scheduled from 8 a.m. to 4:30, just come work 4 to 9."

Others may not be so affected.

Sheree Davis, the owner of Lilies & Lavender Floral Boutique, said it’s “business as usual” for herself, even though she employs a student part-time.

(That student has another parttime job, as well, at the golf course.)

“The government should get on board and get the teachers back at work, because you know, they’re messing things up,” she said. “If it is money for the teachers, they should have all the money. Can you imagine being in a classroom with 30 kids?”

But for many retailers across the Peace, the strike has owners scratching their heads, said Dawson Creek Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Kathleen Connolly.

"Some of our businesses are hoping to keep their summer students, so if they can get another couple of weeks, it's great," she said. "There's a struggle."

Connolly added that business-

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es would typically hire new staff in September to fill positions vacated by high school students.

Now, they run the risk of overstaffing if the strike drags on through the month.

Retailers are also unsure whether to keep backto-school products on shelves.

"They've got a lot of inventory, and people aren't necessarily buying it," said Connolly. "It's different for retailers right now, and a bit stressful."

At this point, it's unclear when the labour dispute between the province and its public schoolteachers will end. On Tuesday, School District 59 Superintendent Leslie Lambie informed parents in a letter that schools would not be open for the foreseeable future.

"A withdrawal of services due to the strike action or lockout will impact schools' ability to provide educational services and supervise students," she wrote. "We ask that you do not send your children to school."

Negotiations between the BC Teachers Federation and and the Public School Employers Association collapsed last weekend. Wage and benefit proposals from the union and the province are rumoured to be close, but the real sticking point is over class size and composition rules.

Despite the appeal of an extended summer vacation, Johnston said the sooner school is back in session, the better.

"I just don't want to miss out on learning opportunities, or lose breaks or have to be held in school for longer," she said.

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Lack of specialists means patients have to travel to get care William Stodalka Staff Writer

For Gilbert Loucks, six months was too long to wait.

The 86-year-old Fort St. John man was told that he would have to wait six months for a visiting specialist to remove his cataracts.

But as Loucks explains, he “gets in a hurry sometimes.” So he got a friend to drive him over the border, to Grande Prairie, where he was able to immediately get the surgery – which only took the specialist a few minutes.

This lack of local specialists is part of the difficulties facing those seeking healthcare in northeastern B.C. Even though there is a shortage of some types of healthcare professionals, some people want to

be doctors and practice locally, but are facing impediments to do so.

One example is Irina Evseeva.

The 32-year-old mother said that she has received medical training in Russia.

Evseeva said that she had five years of medical training from the Russian school system. This included helping real operations by real doctors in that country.

But her efforts were stymied.

“None of the Canadian universities would accept my paperwork,” she said. “It’s not an easy situation (since coming to Canada). I’m just not afraid of working.

As soon as I got my permanent residency, it’s even that I was six months pregnant at that moment, I started working right away.”

But so far, that work is not including pediatrics, something

she received training to do.

This type of specialist can be found within the Fort St. John and Dawson Creek area. Others, however, cannot be found, and many people have to travel outside of the area to do so.

The medical professionals who live here also experience this.

Dr. Stephen Ashwell is a Dawson Creek doctor who has been practicing for over 25 years in the Peace Region.

Ashwell said that every day he practices he sends out an average of one person to travel to see some type of specialist.

Ashwell said last year that the Peace Region’s biggest need is for those who need help from a cardiologist. Currently, that type of specialist is not available to the Peace Region, according to information given by Northern Health.

Part of the reason for this, according to Northern Health’s Vice-President of Medicine Ronald Chapman, is that if these specialists were brought up here, there would not be enough work to sustain them.

“It's more important from a perspective to ensure that their recruit is financially sustainable for that person,” he said. “The worst thing we can do is get a physician up here and (they’re) not economically sustainable.”

One of these would be a cardiothoracic surgeon and a neurosurgeon.

Other specialists, like an ophthalmologist who only comes up to the area a few times a month, is “sufficient for that community,” Chapman said.

Northern Health offers other specialists, but they would require travel to places outside of

Fort St. John – for example, basic oncology services. (Oncology is the science of treating cancer.)

Two specialists that Chapman identified as needed within the Fort St. John/Dawson Creek area was a physiatrist – a doctor specializing in physical rehabilitation - and a second general surgeon.

Still, though, Chapman was positive about the types of specialists offered by Northern Health in the area.

“Our specialists, although not ideal, we're in a fairly good position where we are with our specialists,” he said.

Chapman also offered Northern Health would offer Northern Health Connections, which offers a cheaper form of transport to these centres to see specialists they could not see in the Fort St. John/Dawson Creek area.

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Iris Wenger 4-H Reporter

A New 4-H Year Hey everyone! With achievement days finally over, we have only 2 months until a new 4-H year starts.

Those months are used to sign up new members and choose projects for the coming year. Anyone from ages 6 to 21 can join 4-H, no matter if you live in the city or country. There are 6 clubs in the North Peace, around Fort St. John. You can do up to 4 projects per year, with 30 different projects to choose from. That includes the self-determined project.

The self-determined project is where you can create your own project fitted to your interest (like computers, canoeing and bird watching) while still being a part of 4-H. Most projects are suited for urban areas, save for some large animal projects and a few others. So even if you can’t train a horse, you may find the same satisfaction in training your dog or learning how to live out in the wild. If you would like to learn more about 4-H, go to www.bc4h.bc.ca . And to find a club in your area, call our Key Leader Jessie Clarke at 250-789-3656.

This year I will be doing my 5th year of Photography, and maybe my 2nd of Foods. But the question is: What projects are you doing? Hope to see you at 4-H! Thank you to Bulter Farm Equipement Ltd. for sponsoring this page!

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PRO GOLF WEEKLY UPDATE

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This Week: The TOUR Championship

The top 30 players in the FedEx Cup standings qualify for the TOUR Championship. Despite the tournament’s status as the final FedEx Defending: Henrik Stenson Cup event, the FedEx Cup will not Winning Score: 13-under par necessarily be awarded to the winner Winning Share: $1,440,000 of the TOUR Championship. The FedEx Cup points reset following the BMW Championship in order to give each of the 30 players who advance to the TOUR Championship a chance to win the FedEx Cup title. If any of the players in the top five of the FedEx Cup standings this week win the Tour Championship, they are also guaranteed to win the FedEx Cup title.

East Lake Golf Club Atlanta, Ga. 7,154 yards, Par 70

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Which player won the first TOUR Championship in 1991? a) Tom Kite b) Billy Mayfair

c) Paul Azinger d) Craig Stadler

Answer: d) Craig Stadler

Billy Horschel let a threeTournament Leaders shot lead drop to nothing 1. Billy Horschel Score: -14 early in the final round of the Earnings: $1,440,000 BMW Championship before 2. Bubba Watson rebounding for a two-stroke victory over Score: -12 Earnings: $864,000 Bubba Watson. Horschel shot a 1-under 3. Morgan Hoffman 69 and finished at 14-under 266 to put Score: -11 himself in prime position for the FedEx Earnings: $544,000 Cup title and its $10 million bonus at the Tour Championship next week. Watson shot 66 to finish second, his small chance at victory essentially ending when his ball landed up against a divot on the 18th fairway that he couldn’t move, lest the ball roll downhill.

Golfing News

PGA Tour Event: TOUR Championship Day Time Network Thu, 9/11 1:00pm-6:00pm GOLF Fri, 9/12 1:00pm-6:00pm GOLF Sat, 9/13 12:00pm-2:30pm GOLF Sat, 9/13 2:30pm-6:00pm NBC Sun, 9/14 12:00pm-1:30pm GOLF Sun, 9/14 1:30pm-6:00pm NBC

Golf Trivia

Last Week: Billy Horschel wins BMW Championship

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Billy Horschel heads into the final week of the playoff chase in second place in the points standings thanks to the victory and his tie for second a week ago. Bubba Watson finished the BMW Championship in second to move to third in the FedEx Cup standings, joining Chris Kirk, Rory McIlroy and Hunter Mahan among the top five, all of whom control their destiny this week. A win will give them the playoff title. Sunday’s biggest winner was third-place finisher Morgan Hoffman, who shot 7-under 63 on Sunday to go with his course-record 62 on Saturday and vaulted from 68th to 21st in the standings. He started the playoffs 124th.

Lessons from the Golf Pro One of the hardest shots that a player has is making the proper contact with chip shots.

It seems like the shot is either a flub shot or we will send the chip screaming past the hole. With the proper setup and technique, you should be able to master a shot that is quite difficult to accomplish. The first step in a proper chip shot is to open you stance up at your feet and your shoulders. Place the ball back a bit in your stance, because you are going to go from a high backswing down to the ball in a quick amount of time, resulting in a descending blow. One of the last keys to remember is that you do not want to have a huge followthrough once you make contact with the ball. Having a short and low followthrough will provide the right amount of contact to make a good shot more times than not.

Player Profile

Billy Horschel

Turned Professional: 2011 World Ranking: 64th 2014 PGA Earnings: $1,765,640 PGA Tour Wins: 2

2014 FedEx Cup Standings Through Sept. 7, 2014

1) Chris Kirk

4,314 pts. / 4 top tens

2) Billy Horschel 4,307 pts. / 4 top tens

3) Bubba Watson 4,058 pts. / 8 top tens

4) Rory McIlroy 3,736 pts. / 11 top tens

5) Hunter Mahan 3,364 pts. / 6 top tens

FedEx Cup Standings continued...

Player Points 6) Jim Furyk 3,074 7) Jimmy Walker 3,074 8) Matt Kuchar 2,738 9) Rickie Fowler 2,633 10) Jason Day 2,550

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RADA CUTLERY/CLEANCUTS We will be at the Seniors Hall at 10908100th Street, Fort St John on September 20th from 9:30 to 3:30 We invite you to check out our products and contest at www.radacutleryfortstjohn.com We look forward to seeing you.

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Are you a parent looking for insight on the transition from elementary to high school?

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Early Years Fair Mon. Nov. 24th; 11am3pm. Tremblay School Gym. Displays, screening, games, food. 250-7827045.

Family Dance at the Cutbank Community Hall on Friday September 12 from 7-12pm. Tickets are $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for minors and are available at Reg Norman Trucking or by calling Christal at 250-219-0599. There will be draws, spot dances, and lots of great music!! A free ice cream sundae is included in the ticket price.

Also, if you would like to spend the night, feel free to bring your camper.

The Gathering Pioneer Village Dawson Creek. Saturdays from May-Sept.

8am-2pm.

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Died suddenly and peacefully at home of natural causes while corresponding with friends and family.

Blake will be cremated and interred next to his mother Joan Dressler in the City of Fort St. John Cemetery. A celebration of Blake’s life will be held at the Fort St. John Legion on Saturday October 4, 2014 at 2:00 p.m.

Lovingly remembered by his children Zachary Dressler, and Kristina Stone (Johnny), and granddaughters Jade and Kameryn Stone; his father Ralph Dressler; brothers Dan (Yvonne); Gary; Michael, Rubin (Candace); sister Becky Nelson (James), and nieces and nephews.

Blake enjoyed spending time with his granddaughters, reading and woodworking and still dreamed of being a pirate.

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SEPT 20 -COUNTRY MUSIC DANCE-Music by Old Friends at the Senior Citizens Hall, 1101 McKellar Ave. Dawson Creek Dance from 8:30- 12:30.

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DRESSLER, Blake A. April 24, 1960 - August 28, 2014

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WEEKLY PRO RACING UPDATE Racing News, Stats & Trivia

2014 Standings

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2014 Chase for the Cup 1) Brad Keselowski

Points: 2012 Wins: 4 Top 5: 11 Top 10: 13

2) Jeff Gordon Points: 2009 Wins: 3 Top 5: 9

Top 10: 17

3) Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Points: 2009 Wins: 3 Top 5: 11 Top 10: 16

4) Jimmie Johnson Points: 2009 Wins: 3 Top 5: 8

Points: 2009 Wins: 3 Top 5: 10 Top 10: 15

Location: Joliet, Ill. Shape: D-shaped oval Distance: 1.5 miles Turns / Front / Back: 18º / 11º / 5º Last Year’s Pole Winner: Joey Logano 189.414 Last Year’s Winner: Matt Kenseth

6) Kevin Harvick Points: 2006 Wins: 2 Top 5: 8

The MyAFibStory.com 400 is the first race in the Chase for the Cup. In 1997, nine Joliet area entrepreneurs had the vision to create Route 66 Raceway along the historic Route 66 road. A few years later, Chicagoland Speedway was created. Chicagoland Speedway is a $130 million, 1.5Mile, D-shaped, tri-oval track that sits on 930 acres of land. The raceway first held a Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series event in 2001. It has a grandstand that seats 75,000 spectators with 37 luxury suites and also camping areas. It provides parking areas for recreational vehicles in the infield adjacent to the second and third turns. The race will be aired on ESPN.

Top 10: 13

7) Carl Edwards Points: 2006 Wins: 2 Top 5: 6

Chase for the Cup: MyAFibStory.com 400

Top 10: 11

8) Kyle Busch Points: 2003 Wins: 1 Top 5: 6

Top 10: 9

9) Denny Hamlin Points: 2003 Wins: 1 Top 5: 6

Top 10: 11

10) Kurt Busch Points: 2003 Wins: 1 Top 5: 6

11) 12) 13) 14) 15) 16)

Kasey Kahne Aric Almirola AJ Allmendinger Matt Kenseth Greg Biffle Ryan Newman

Driver 1) Chase Elliott 2) Regan Smith 3) Ty Dillon 4) Elliott Sadler 5) Brian Scott 6) Trevor Bayne 7) Chris Buescher 8) Brendan Gaughan 9) Ryan Reed 10) James Buescher

Top 10: 7 Points: 2003 Points: 2003 Points: 2003 Points: 2000 Points: 2000

Points 916 897 874 862 859 832 747 720 686 671

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Top 10: 16

5) Joey Logano

Track Details

2014 Nationwide Series

Jimmie Johnson was treated for dehydration following Saturday night’s race at Richmond. After finishing eighth in hot and humid conditions, Johnson climbed from his car and proceeded to lie down on pit road experiencing cramps and dizziness.

“I started cramping when I got out of the race car, Johnson said. “Then when I was cramping I was trying to stand up because I was fine when I sat down then I would stand up and I would get dizzy.” Johnson was transported to the infield care center where he was treated for dehydration and given five liters of intravenous fluids.

Racing Trivia

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How many starts in the Sprint Cup Series did it take before Brad Keselowski won his first race? a) 1 b) 5

c) 10 d) 20 Answer : b) 5 starts

Sept. 14th, 2:15 pm ET Chicagoland Speedway

Points: 2000

Last Weekend’s Race: Brad Keselowski wins the Federated Auto Parts 400 In a dominating performance where he led all but 17 laps, Brad Keselowski won NASCAR’s regular season finale Saturday night race at Richmond International Raceway.

Never seriously challenged, Keselowski led 383 of 400 laps to take his series-best fourth victory of the season. This win gave him the No. 1 seed in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, which begins this weekend. Ryan Newman and Greg Biffle raced their way into the playoffs via finishes of ninth and 19th, respectively. “What a night,” Keselowski said. “I pulled into Victory Lane and pinched myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. I can’t imagine a better way to enter the Chase and earn the No. 1 seed. We’re ready.”

Driver of the Week Brad Keselowski #5 Born: Feb. 12, 1984 Crew Chief: Paul Wolfe Car: Ford

Year 2014 Career

Wins 4 14

Top 10s 13 72

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Driver Start Finish Points/Bonus Brad Keselowski 1 1 48 Jeff Gordon 2 2 42 Clint Bowyer 6 3 41 Jamie McMurray 15 4 40 Kevin Harvick 4 5 40 Joey Logano 5 6 38 Kurt Busch 9 7 37 Jimmie Johnson 3 8 36 Ryan Newman 12 9 35 Aric Almirola 26 10 34

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