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THIS WEEK'S FLYERS:
Home Haredare (1)
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Chocolate Festival a sweet success
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Zach Stigners, age nine, took home the top prize in the kids’ category for his white chocolate peppermint fudge. He said his secret was stirring everything thoroughly.
Abscesses An abscess is simply a localized accumulation of pus, usually caused by an infection introduced from an animal bite or other penetrating wound. It may appear as a painful swelling (not a mass) or, if it has ruptured, as a draining wound. What to do • If it has ruptured, clean the wound with soap (not detergent) and water. Rinse well and pat dry. Repeat several times a day. • If there is swelling, apply warm, moist compresses for 10 to 15 minutes. Repeat 3 or 4 times daily. • Abscesses should be examined by a veterinarian within 24 hours.
What not to do • Do not attempt to open the abscess yourself. • Do not apply medicines, potions, or home remedies unless directed to by a veterinarian. Abscesses are a frequent problem in cats, especially unneutered males who get into territorial or breeding disputes. During these disputes, the pet may receive a bite or a scratch. If the wound becomes infected, an abscess may form within a day or two. Neutering your male cat will reduce his “need” to fight. Without the influence of male hormones he will mark out a much smaller territory and will be less likely to engage in fights over a female.
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It’s been a tradition in the city for the past 15 years in support of the Peace Arts Gallery Society (PAGS), one that originated when director Sandy Troudt’s cousin was passing through town on her way to Anchorage, Alaska. “She told us about a chocolate festival they had up there, and I’d never heard of such a thing, so I asked her to give me a few details,” said Troudt. PAGS was looking for another fund raiser, and this sounded like something fun and they could do their own. Sure enough, it was a success, and has been ever since. That doesn’t mean it was a sure thing this year, however. With PAGS president unavailable due to illness and other members out of town, it didn’t come together for the regular February schedule to coincide with Valentine’s Day. But organizers managed to get it together for an Easter theme this year. Troudt said there were fewer people than usual in attendance due to spring break, but she thought they would still pull in about as
much funding as usual. “You can just not come in here and not feel good,” said Troudt, looking around the room at the participants. She said one bachelor comes every year and leaves with a bunch of baked goods that he then brings to dinner parties. City Councillor Larry Evans has attended every one of the 15 festivals. He said a highlight is the number of people who come out. “We’re down a little bit with spring break and that, but there’s still lots of entries and lots of people — it always does well,” said Evans. “In the past we’ve filled up this room so you couldn’t move.” Of course, it wouldn’t be a Peace Country event without a live auction, officiated by Brian Baldry, where platters of the chocolates were sold to the highest bidder. Some bidding wars raised well over $100. Troudt said she expected the weekend event to bring in between $4,000 to $6,000, which will go towards free kids arts programming and student bursaries, as well as gallery operations and other society initiatives. peacereporter@ahnfsj.ca
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Fracking health report says risks in northeast are low In the areas immediately north of Fort St. John, there was found to be a concentration of acrolein – a certain type of chemical sometimes used as a herbicide – which went greater than five micrograms per cubic metre. An EPA study found that volunteers experienced slight discomfort at about 2000 micrograms per cubic meter. The report made a number of recommendations. One of them is that they “should consider the implementation of a reciprocal agreement framework for setbacks between the oil and gas industry and BC’s communities.” The report also said that it should consider implementing baseline, pre-drilling groundwater testing requirements. (This would be done with the approval of the landowners, according to the ministry.) Another recommendation was that “existing aquifer mapping should be expanded for (Northeast B.C.) to help enhance the protection of groundwater resources in relation to oil and gas development.” “There is room for improvement in some
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A recently released study says that the health risk associated with oil and gas activity in Northeast B.C. is “low” and within established guidelines. “This [Human Health Risk Assessment] is a comprehensive analysis of the oil and gas industry in the Northeast, and British Columbians can be assured that we did not find any significant threats to human health,” said Bart Koppe, the report’s project leader. The report also came with 14 recommendations, which the province said it is either already doing or will take action towards. This report has been in the works since 2012. It aims to address concerns about whether or not industrial oil and gas extraction has had any effects on human health. The report detailed some unusual measurements of five chemicals found in the air that the province identified as being of concern. They include nitrogen dioxide, the atmospheric particulate matter PM2.5, sulphur dioxide, acrolein, and formaldehyde.
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David Dyck
Is it really that important to have a family doctor?
I remember a time in my life when I had a family physician, and I don’t look back on it fondly. He would always poke and prod me, ask me all kinds of personal questions, and occasionally gave me shots, which I always thought were unpleasant, even cruel. It was a general nuisance, disrupting my whole day to go and see him. By the time I got home, it was already naptime. I still don’t understand how my mother could just stand by and allow all of this to happen. I was probably about 4 years old at the time, but I’m sure my memory serves me correctly. That’s why I’m personally not worried about a having a family doctor here in Fort St. John; I don’t need to recreate those unpleasant memories as an adult. I’m sure that not much has changed, what’s the worst thing that could happen? The only plus side was that after the whole checkup ordeal was complete I would usually get some candy. But they have that at the emergency room, right?
Science Matters David Suzuki
Who says a better world is impossible? Cars, air travel, space exploration, television, nuclear power, high-speed computers, telephones, organ transplants, prosthetic body parts… At various times these were all deemed impossible. I’ve been around long enough to have witnessed many technological feats that were once unimaginable. Even 10 or 20 years ago, I would never have guessed people would carry supercomputers in their pockets — your smart phone is more powerful than all the computers NASA used to put astronauts on the moon in 1969 combined! Despite a long history of the impossible becoming possible, often very quick-
ly, we hear the “can’t be done” refrain repeated over and over — especially in the only debate over global warming that matters: What can we do about it? Climate change deniers and fossil fuel industry apologists often argue that replacing oil, coal and gas with clean energy is beyond our reach. The claim is both facile and false. Facile because the issue is complicated. It’s not simply a matter of substituting one for the other. To begin, conservation and efficiency are key. We must find ways to reduce the amount of energy we use — not a huge challenge considering how much people waste, especially in the developed world. False because rapid advances in clean energy and grid technologies continue to get us closer to necessary reductions in our use of polluting fossil fuels. It’s ironic that anti-environmentalists and renewable energy opponents often accuse those of us seeking solutions of wanting to go back to the past, to living in caves, scroung-
Byron Hackett
Having a family doctor is vital. Having somebody you trust giving you medical advice is crucial to remaining in good health. Being able to ask your doctor some tough questions about your health in good times and in bad can make a huge difference in your life. On the other side of the fence, you can always trust your doctor to give you sound and accurate medical advice, and that may not be the case if a doctor is more concerned with getting patients in and out quickly. The continuity of care with a family doctor is the other aspect that makes it important. A family doctor will know exactly what a patient needs based on their health history. That in the end means a more complete care, and the comfort for an individual to know that they are getting the right treatment and most appropriate for them.
ing for roots and berries. They’re the ones intent on continuing to burn stuff to keep warm — to the detriment of the natural world and all it provides. People have used wind and solar power for thousands of years. But recent rapid advances in generation, storage and transmission technologies have led to a fast-developing industry that’s outpacing fossil fuels in growth and job creation. Costs are coming down to the point where renewable energy is competitive with the heavily subsidized fossil fuel industry. According to the International Energy Agency, renewable energy for worldwide electricity generation grew to 22 per cent in 2013, a five per cent increase from 2012. The problem is that much of the world still burns non-renewable resources for electricity and fuels, causing pollution and climate change and, subsequently, more human health problems, extreme weather events, water shortages and environmental devastation. In many cities in China, the air has become almost
unbreathable, as seen in the shocking Chinese documentary film Under the Dome. In California, a prolonged drought is affecting food production. Extreme weather events are costing billions of dollars worldwide. We simply must do more to shift away from fossil fuels and, despite what the naysayers claim, we can. We can even get partway there under our current systems. Market forces often lead to innovation in clean energy development. But in addressing the very serious long-term problems we’ve created, we may have to challenge another “impossibility”: changing our outmoded global economic system. As economist and Earth Institute director Jeffrey Sachs wrote in a recent Guardian article, “At this advanced stage of environmental threats to the planet, and in an era of unprecedented inequality of income and power, it’s no longer good enough to chase GDP. We need to keep our eye on three goals — prosperity, inclusion, and sustainability — not just on the
money.” Relying on market capitalism encourages hyperconsumption, planned obsolescence, wasteful production and endless growth. Cutting pollution and greenhouse gas emissions requires conserving energy as well as developing new energy technologies. Along with reducing our reliance on private automobiles and making buildings and homes more energy-efficient, that also means making goods that last longer and producing fewer disposable or useless items so less energy is consumed in production. People have changed economic systems many times before, when they no longer suited shifting conditions or when they were found to be inhumane, as with slavery. And people continue to develop tools and technologies that were once thought impossible. Things are only impossible until they’re not. We can’t let those who are stuck in the past, unable to imagine a better future, hold us back from creating a safer, cleaner and more just world.
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Frost Heaves Have you noticed that fence post is not quite where you thought you left it? Farmers also know that rocks have a habit of appearing in their fields following the long winter. Early spring is often the time nature works to move things around, although it can happen in the fall. This is when seasonal temperatures fluctuate the most and Jack Frost has his last hoorah! This effect is known as frost heaving. Frost heaves are common in our area with plenty of cold air and soil moisture. The ground hardens as cold air causes water within the soil to freeze. Particularly in the early spring, fluctuating freezing and thawing conditions heave, or lift, the soil, often evident with deep cracks in the soil. As water freezes, it expands, creating pressure—both upward and downward. Additional moisture, such as that from below the frost line or from melting, is drawn upward, freezing as well. Soil-free ice lenses also develop in the ground. These grow and exert pressure on the upper frozen soils.
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Why is frost heaving worse in some places (where posts can pushed up and out of the ground over several years) than others? This is because heaves are also more likely to happen in moisture-retaining soils such as loam, silt and clay – like much of the soil in the Peace area. These soils undergo the greatest expansion when they freeze compared to other soils. If you are lucky to have your fence sitting in well-draining soil, like coarse sand, you won’t likely have to worry about frost heaving issues.
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Frost heaving occurs in very localized areas and causes damage in the form of cracks, on roadways in the form of potholes, buildings and foundations. Gardeners may also see the effects on some of their plants. These may be uprooted from the ground as well. Plants can quickly dry out and die once their roots have become exposed to cold temperatures.
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The Fort St. John Senior Flyers are the 2015 Coy Cup champions. It has a nice ring to it, and it comes along with a trophy that carries a hockey history that is rivaled by few in sport. First handed out 97 years ago to the Enderby Hockey Club, the trophy will now rest with the Flyers. It completes a collection of senior hockey royalty, including a provincial Savage Cup and a national Allan Cup. “It’s a monumental win,” Fort St. John Senior Flyers team president Paul van Nostrand said.
“As people are aware we had never won a Coy Cup up until this year. Five years ago we won the Allan Cup, and we have won a number of Savage Cups, BC AAA, but we had never won the Coy Cup… It was something we all had in our sights at some point and we are happy that it happened as quickly as it did.” Their first ever Coy Cup victory wasn’t exactly the smooth sailing they had in mind, with a 4-3 overtime loss in game one against the Terrace River Kings on Tuesday night. From there, the Sr. Flyers rattled off three straight wins to setup a rematch with Terrace. In the final, head coach Gerard
Dicaire said it was some of the best hockey he’d seen the group play all year, and what a time it was to peak, as they took home the championship with a 6-1 win. “It was all week, we lost to those guys the first game of the tournament,” Dicaire said Sunday morning. “The boys held a team meeting without the coaches there after that loss [in game one] and the rest of the week— I haven’t seen them play any better hockey than that all year. Last night was no different, we just carried on with the momentum that we had. They were skating on pucks, chipping pucks— doing everything.” The Flyers kicked off the scoring on Saturday night in the first
period with a short-handed goal from Adam Horst. The River Kings tied the game at one in the second period, but Joey Massingham and Rick Cleaver gave the Flyers a 3-1 lead after two period. Fort St. John put the game away in the third period adding three more goals. Cleaver, Brad Fast and Horst had the third period tallies. “Lots of them didn’t even know that Fort St. John had never seen a Coy Cup before in senior hockey,” Dicaire said. “After losing that first game they had a little redemption in their eyes. Credit to them, I’m proud of the boys, they put on a good performance and they worked hard all
week. They were tired and banged up, five games in five nights isn’t easy, and they made it look easy.” While van Nostrand has seen a number of winning teams in his years with the Flyers, he is ultimately happy to share this win with both the organization and the community as a whole. It’s very gratifying,” van Nostrand said. “We put together a wonderful organization here that’s carried on the history of the Flyers for approaching 60 years. We have a great organization, wonderful players, very unselfish and very appreciative and it really means a lot to be able to bring this home to Fort St. John.” sports@ahnfsj.ca
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$50 million tuneup for Taylor gas plant William Stodalka Alaska Highway News
About 600 people will descend on the North Peace this June for a $50 million tuneup of Spectra’s McMahon plant in Taylor, Fort St. John council was told last Monday. Spectra Energy representatives Jay Morrison and Franca Petrucci spoke to council about this and other plans for the coming years. Every four years, Spectra does a “turnaround” of the McMahon plant, which they said would take about 35 days, from June 6 to July 9. William Stodalka Photo This turnaround would Jay Morrison and Franca Petrucci spoke to Fort St. allow the company to “conJohn city council. duct comprehensive regula-
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As spring approaches the shelter is gearing up for an all new year of fundraising and saving lives! Already at the end of March, our shelter has been sitting void of a significant number of animals for some time now. We have had a consistent flow of three to four dogs and fifteen to twenty cats. We have seen few puppies or kittens. Does this mean that our efforts in educating citizens about the benefits of spay and neuter has finally paid off? Don’t fret I am sure the spring litters will be gracing our door anytime now. Or maybe people are keeping a “closer reign” and more watchful eye over their pooches since the news of an increase in dog thefts. A post on our branch Facebook page produced a lot of discussion. The post was meant only to offer suggestions on how to keep your dog safe against theft and what to do if you suspect your dog has been stolen. The article suggested to never leave dogs unsupervised in yards during the day while you are at work, not to leave them outdoors overnight or alone in unlocked vehicles. If your dog has gone “missing” from your yard, dwelling or vehicle and does not have a history of escape behaviors, was securely tied on lead or was in a secure fence that suddenly has loose boards or unhinged gates please call the RCMP immediately. Follow up by placing a call to the SPCA. We are working with the RCMP to try determine the areas where the most dogs have gone missing or are known to be stolen. Any persons from 2014 or 2015 suspecting their dog as stolen are encouraged to contact both the RCMP and the SPCA to provide reports. We would also like to urge the public to contact the RCMP immediately upon finding any animal bodies or body parts, as there have been three separate cases of this matter. RCMP can only look for forensic evidence or conduct a search if they are alerted to the incident. The BC SPCA Million Acts of Kindness campaign is still running strong on week 7. Anyone can register for this year-long campaign to increase awareness for wild, farm and domestic animals. Each week features a new act, an easy step that anyone of any age can take to help improve the lives of animals, regardless of if you own a pet or not. This week’s ACT features small animals available for adoption. Simply share their profiles and increase their chance for a home! Other acts have included taking a ‘felfie’ (photo of yourself and a furry friend), sending a letter to the MLA, contribute to the shelter wish list and more. It is never too late to join us, just search online for the BC SPCA Million Acts of Kindness. Keep your eyes and ears open for information on the upcoming BC Pet Registry brought to you, province wide, by the BC SPCA! This program will be a massive site open to the public and mandatory for every adopted animal through the BC SPCA. It will offer yearly or lifetime memberships. These memberships allow for multiple ID
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tory inspections, improvements and upgrades to maintain business viability, system integrity, reliability and safety.” Gas producers using the McMahon plant and Spectra "will be doing maintenance work that can only be done while the system is shut down,” said Morrison. The main contractor for this work is CIMS, based out of Port Coquitlam. The company “provides services for the largest plant shutdowns and complex industrial projects,” its website states. “There is no impact anticipated to full time employees at the facility,” wrote Jennifer Thomlinson, a
Spectra spokesperson. “McMahon employees will continue to perform their regular duties and will be instrumental in ensuring that all of the turnaround work meets Spectra Energy's safety and environmental standards and is completed following existing processes.” During this time, the plant would not operate to allow for this turnaround. Morrison said his company would aim for local hires first in their work. Council questioned Morrison and Petrucci about the proposal. Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ackerman said she anticipated the majority of work-
ers would be non-local, and asked where the workers would stay. Morrison told Ackerman that there would not be a camp built specifically for the turnaround. There was also a question of transportation to and from the plant. Morrison said they had used shuttle buses in the past, but could not address that point directly at that meeting. “Local buses will be used, where practical, to alleviate impacts to local traffic,” said Thomlinson. CIMS was considering opening a Fort St. John office, Morrison said that during the meeting. reporter@ahnfsj.ca
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new properties within Fort St. John boundary William Stodalka Alaska Highway News
Despite hopes for more urban development, certain pieces of land newly incorporated into Fort St. John will remain agricultural. On Monday, city council held a public hearing for 12 parcels of land in the northwest side of the Alaska Highway. When these lands were part of Area C of the Peace River Regional District, they were zoned as agricultural. To comply with Fort St. John’s bylaws, they had to be rezoned under the city’s zoning bylaws. These property owners could have had their parcels zoned differently, but instead they remained agricultural, which will not mean as much development as it could if it were zoned residential or commercial. During the public hearing, Mayor Lori Ackerman asked staff if they had contacted the property owners about what they wanted them zoned as. According to the city’s planning manager Renee Jammurat, despite attempts to contact these parcel owners, they had not replied back with what they wanted to do with their property. This did not sit well with Ackerman. “I’m just not settled with the process,” she said. “We made some assurances, if you will, over the boundary extension process and until that’s clarified, until how these things move forward over the five year period that
needs to come back to us.” Earlier this year, Ackerman mentioned that these new areas could help development. “This extension (of the boundaries) will increase opportunities for not only residential development but commercial and retail as well,” she said last July. According to a release from city hall that same month, the city's growth requirements can't be met by existing vacant lands, and Fort St. John "will be out of available industrial and residential land within the next few years if growth continues as anticipated." While Dawson Creek holds 24 square kilometres of land in its borders, and Chetwynd has 63 square kilometres of land, Fort St. John only has 22.7 square kilometres, city officials said at the time — this despite the fact that the Energetic City's population is much larger. In the end, while other members of council voted in favour of allowing the agricultural designation, Ackerman was opposed. No members of the public spoke about the proposal at the hearing. reporter@ahnfsj.ca
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It's been a great month. I have a lot to write about today, we've had the district communicates competition, a photography meeting, and also a club meeting. In all of this we had a lot of hockey (but that's off topic, who cares about hockey, right?)
Let's start with our communicates competition. We had a lot of people that made it to district and I, remarkably, was among them! Three of our member made it to the next level; which is the regionals. I'm hoping someone from our club will make it to the provincials but we’ll have to wait and see! Next I want to tell you about our photography meeting. We had to do a project where we had to capture the emotions, I challenge you to try it; try to capture emotions on a photograph. It is a lot of fun! I still haven't captured the emotion hope, it a difficult one to get because it's similar to a couple of the other ones! A few of our photography member were missing so I'm hoping we could take a look at our pictures again on our next meeting. Then we had our club meeting were we started with the pledge following with our roll call as we always do. Part of the meeting was having to name one of the ways you know that a cow is sick. We have two members that aren't doing beef (myself being one of them);we were speechless. Thankfully we got to change it so that the photography members could just name one of the ways to take care of our photos. (I'm not very knowledgable when it comes to cattle but hey, I'm learning!) After that the beef, sheep and, photography split up. The beef members got a work sheet to do, the sheep member talked a little about where they were getting their lambs, and looked at their handbook. The two photography member that are not doing beef talked about a couple ideas for a barn display. When we all came back together we started talking about our barn displays. We had a hard time coming up with ideas this year and yet we still ended up with quite a few at the end of our discussion. We decided to voted for our favourites and that narrowed our selection down a little but still leaving the top six favourite on the board. Then we voted again we narrowed it down even more leaving just three; we’re planing on making our final decision on our next meeting. We also talked about our next weigh-in. We're planning to have our third beef weigh in on Saturday March 28th. We also talked about our first sheep weigh-in which will be on Thursday April 2. I'm hoping I'll get some pictures for my article! We are also having a meeting about 4-H and the credit system. That is about all we’ve done and, talked about this month. See you next month!! Thank you to Butler Farm Equipment for sponsoring our page
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W E E K LY P R O R A C I N G U P D AT E Racing News, Stats & Trivia
2015 Standings Sprint Cup Series Top Ten 1) Kevin Harvick
JD Gibbs undergoing g treatment Joe Gibbs Racing announced d last week that its presidentt JD Gibbs has been forced to curtail his s involvement with the team’s operations while e he undergoes evaluation and treatmentt for symptoms impacting brain function. JD D Gibbs, 46 is the son of JGR founder and d former NFL head coach Joe Gibbs, and was s named president of JGR in October 1997. He e is himself a former driver, with five NASCAR R Xfinity Series starts and eight in the Camping g World Truck Series. NASCAR returns to single-car qualifying g at restrictor-plate tracks Each car will get one timed lap, and NASCAR R will release the cars in an order that will prevent drafting but could have more than n one car on the track at the same time. The 12 2 drivers with the fastest speeds will advance to o a second round, where they will get anotherr single-car, one-lap run to determine the pole e and starting positions for the first six rows.. The new format will eliminate the wrecks and d the jockeying in the draft that occurred during g Daytona 500 qualifying.
Top 10: 6
2) Joey Logano Points: 239 Wins: 1 Top 5: 3
Top 10: 6
3) Brad Keselowski Points: 206 Wins: 1 Top 5: 2
Top 10: 5
Driver 1) Ty Dillon 2) Chris Buescher 3) Chase Elliott 4) Ryan Reed 5) Darrell Wallace Jr. 6) Brendan Gaughan 7) Regan Smith 8) Elliott Sadler 9) David Starr 10) Brian Scott
4) Denny Hamlin Points: 172 Wins: 1 Top 5: 3
Top 10: 3
5) Jimmie Johnson Points: 168 Wins: 1 Top 5: 2
Top 10: 3
6) Martin Truex Jr. Points: 231 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1
Top 10: 6
7) Kasey Kahne Points: 193 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1
Points: 180 Wins: 0 Top 5: 3
Top 10: 4
9) Paul Menard Points: 173 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1
Top 10: 1
10) Dale Earnhardt Jr. Points: 172 Wins: 0 Top 5: 3
Racing History April 19, 1953 - Lee Petty won the first Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway. The average speed was 45.535 mph. Petty won five races that year and had 32 top tens in 36 races. He would go on to win three Cup Series Championships, in 1954, 1958 and 1959. He also won the inaugural Daytona 500 in 1959.
Top 10: 2
8) Ryan Newman
Top 10: 4
Points 187 182 172 168 165 164 157 148 136 134
Racing Trivia Which car manufacturer has won the most races at Texas Motor Speedway? a) Ford b) Chevrolet
c) Dodge d) Toyota
Last Weekend’s Race: Denny Hamlin won the STP 500 STP 500 Results Driver Points Denny Hamlin 47 Brad Keselowski 43 Joey Logano 42 Matt Kenseth 41 David Ragan 39 Martin Truex Jr. 39 Danica Patrick 37 Kevin Harvick 38 Jeff Gordon 36 Jamie McMurray 34
With his No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota sliding sideways as it approached the checkered flag, Denny Hamlin held on to his car and held off Brad Keselowski to win Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series STP 500. In winning his first race of the season, his fifth at the .526-mile short track and the 25th of his career, Denny took the lead for good on Lap 473 of 500. He passed teammate Matt Kenseth for the top spot. Two laps later, Keselowski surged past Kenseth and tracked down Hamlin, setting up a breathtaking battle in the closing laps. Keselowski could have won his second straightSprint Cup race by wrecking Hamlin, but the 2012 premier series champion opted not to win the race with his bumper. “Hats off to Brad -- he had an option, and he took the latter,not to wreck the No. 11,” said Hamlin. Brad broke a 31-race Toyota winless streak dating back to his victory at Talladega last May.
Denny Hamlin Born: Nov. 18, 1980 Crew Chief: Dave Rogers Car: Toyota
Year 2015 Career
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Answer : a) Ford cars have won 12 races at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Points: 263 Wins: 2 Top 5: 5
Xfinity Series Top Ten
Wins 1 25
Top 10s 3 157
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