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“We’ll certainly work with Donna [Barnett, the parliamentary secretary for rural development] and the province on getting some successes.”

The new board was announced at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention last month as part of a package of plans to boost rural development, presented by Barnett and Minister of Forests, Lands, and Resources Steve Thomson.

Actual details of who would serve on the board or where and when it would meet are still scarce.

Initially, the officials said, the council will be expected to provide advice on how to support rural access to capital and how to help rural entrepreneurs grow their businesses, according to a government release.

Jerrilyn Schembri, the PRRD Area E Director who also attended the UBCM convention in Whistler, said the advisory council was a step in the right direction.

“I think sometimes in government, municipalities, communities and cities get a lot of recognition and acknowledgement of their issues, where the rural areas don’t get nearly as much – and it’s often the rural areas that are the most impacted by things

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But she was optimistic that elected officials who rural people have voted into office will sit on it.

“It’s not just going to be something that the province has set up and is going to direct,” Schembri said.

“I think it’s going to be a more inclusive council, so that makes me happy.”

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Work camps to get waste receiving centre Staff Writer

The city of Dawson Creek is teaming up with the Peace River Regional District to address a gaping hole in the region's waste disposal network.

City Council agreed on Monday to partner with the PRRD to build a trucked waste receiving facility where rural residents and worker camp operators can safely dispose of septic waste in municipal sewage treatment systems.

The city is proposing a $3.5 million facility that would receive waste and charge the dumper a fee. It would be part of a network of three new facilities the PRRD is proposing for the region, and would include a separate site for RV owners to dump their tanks.

The trucked waste facility would tentatively be built at the end of 115th Avenue, while the RV only dump would be built between 115th and 116th Avenue, in the old 2nd Street right-of-way.

The issue of waste disposal has become increasingly fraught in recent years, in part because new federal laws expose cities to more liability should waterways be contaminated with sewage.

The city of Fort St. John announced last fall that it would close its own sewage transfer facility at the end of 2014, in response to several loads of illegal contaminants that threatened the biological components of the city's treatment system.

Dawson Creek has had similar close calls.

"The big danger Dawson Creek seeks to prevent is a truck holding waste from the oilpatch wrecking the whole system," said the city’s chief administrative officer, Jim Chute.

Treated water from both the Dawson Creek and Fort St. John systems are discharged into local waterways.

On several occasions, as reported earlier in the Alaska Highway News, Dawson Creek city staff caught septic contractors trying to dispose of diesel and fracking chemicals at the unmanned transfer station near the exhibition grounds.

Industrial activity has led to a spike in the total amount of sewage the city processes annually.

According to a report, the Dawson Creek facility handled 14,800 cubic meters of sewage in 2012.

That number is now projected at 45,000 cubic meters in 2014, and is expected to top out in the medium term at 60,000.

Chute said that if approved, industrial users and

the PRRD would pay a large percentage of the costs for new receiving facilities proposed for Dawson Creek, Fort St. John and Chetwynd.

"Industry doesn't want [illegal dumping] to happen, and they're willing to pay to make sure that doesn't happen," said Chute.

The new facility would be staffed, and would have sensors to detect hazardous materials in loads before they are introduced into the main sewage system.

Unlike the city's existing sani-dump, the new facility would be monitored by a staff person.

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Are there too many stat holidays?

Matt Lamers Yes, Canada most definitely has too many statutory holidays. Our corporate and government overlords generously grant every citizen five full days off, which is close to the lowest in the world. (Most of the holidays you think are “national” are not actually followed in every province.) If you ask me, that number ought to be reduced to zero.

While it may be true that Canada and the United States are amongst the least generous nations on the entire planet when it comes to granting statutory holidays for its citizens, there is good reason: In the age of globalization, it’s increasingly important for our country to maintain competitiveness vis–à–vis other countries.

Canada must foster a culture where corporations can thrive, not one where people can live lives of leisure.

The international distribution pioneer Walmart, for instance, pays its workers next to nothing, and sources its products from countries who don’t mandate a “weekend” let along a “statutory holiday.” That’s the world we live in now, because that’s where people want to buy the items they “need,” like clothing and food.

If Canada wants to keep the few manufacturing jobs it has left, letting people have more days off isn’t the best way to do it.

Countries in Asia have set the bar high when it comes exploiting their citizens: Workers in the Philippines get a solid five days off, while Thai workers get six and the Chinese enjoy 10.

So should Canada reduce it’s five days off? Clearly the answer is yes.

Science Matters David Suzuki

Let’s slow down, for the sake of ourselves and our planet The Amazon rainforest is magnificent. Watching programs about it, we’re amazed by brilliant parrots and toucans, tapirs, anacondas and jaguars. But if you ever go there expecting to be overwhelmed by a dazzling blur of activity, you’ll be disappointed. The jungle has plenty of vegetation — hanging vines, enormous trees, bromeliads and more — and a cacophony of insects and frogs. But much of the activity goes on at night or high up in the canopy.

Films of tropical forests don’t accurately reflect the reality of the ecosystems. They’re skillfully edited shots acquired over many months.

Our media-nurtured impatience and urgent sense of time often prevent us from seeing how life truly unfolds.

Nature needs time to adjust and

adapt to biosphere changes. After life appeared on Earth, atmospheric oxygen gradually went from zero to 20 per cent, oceans appeared and disappeared, mountains thrust upward and then eroded, continents moved on tectonic plates, climate cycled between ice ages and warm intervals, magnetic poles reversed and rereversed. Life flourished because species and ecosystems evolved over time.

The fossil record also indicates periods of rapid change, including mass extinctions when up to 95 per cent of living things were wiped out.

Each time, survivors changed, adapted to new conditions and flourished.

Still, recovery took millions of years.

Humans have been around for a mere 150,000 years. We’re an infant species, but our precocity has allowed us to expand exponentially. Now our technological power and consumptive demand are undermining the planet’s life-support systems on a geologic scale.

We’ve become impatient. We’re so demanding that we’re unwilling to slow down and ensure our major projects are sustainable for human society and the biosphere. Over the past century, we’ve burned increasing amounts of finite fossil fuels that were stored and compressed over millions of years, exacerbating condi-

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We should not decrease the number of statutory holidays. In fact, we should add more. I think every month should have a three-day weekend of some kind.

Right now, BC has days off ten months of the year. Why not add March and June?

This would allow for easier vacation planning, plus would help decrease from worker burnout. People could go for a June holiday rather than waiting for Family Day. It would also allow for people to plan out their bills better, either if they are paid more to work on these holidays, or the lack of funds if they are not working on those days.

Sure, this would put us as having more holidays than France - which only has 11 national holidays. But it would still make us harder workers than the Alsace region and the Moselle area, which offer 13 statutory holidays.

(Keep in mind, we were founded as a bilingual country. So all these holidays are, in a way, part of our national heritage.)

It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to make these holidays days off. For June it is “Summer Day”, and March is “Spring Day.” Everyone likes May Long. Who wouldn’t like June Long, too?

tions that lead to climate chaos.

We’ve clear-cut vast tracts of forest that have evolved over millennia, flooded huge areas under large dams, depleted our oceans with over-efficient fishing technology and spread vast quantities of toxic waste throughout the planet’s air, water and soil.

Governments rationalize these actions by claiming to do proper environmental assessments, but continue to impose restrictive time limits on assessment processes while reducing the number of scientists and other staff who do the work. It takes time to acquire scientific information, and it can’t always be done on a strict timetable.

If we truly desire a sustainable society, we require vibrant and abundant nature. To recognize that nature isn’t separate from us and fully understand how it provides critical services, we need patience to learn its secrets. We can’t survive, let alone be healthy and flourish, without clean air, clean water, clean soil and food, photosynthesis and biodiversity. But we’re overwhelming nature — and ourselves — with the incessant demands of our ramped-up consumer culture.

Fortunately, people are starting to remember that we’re part of nature and that what we do to the natural world we do to ourselves. They’re

taking notice of the drastic impacts we’re having on Earth, our only home, and demanding that we show more care.

In New York on September 21, more than 300,000 people turned out for what was billed as the largest climate march ever, one of 2,646 marches in 162 countries. Leaders of some of the world’s largest corporations are calling for climate action and carbon pricing, and distancing themselves from organizations that have worked to stall progress. Even the heirs of the Rockefeller Standard Oil fortune announced they’ll withdraw their investments in fossil fuels, including the Alberta oil sands.

With the Blue Dot Tour, the David Suzuki Foundation and I are hoping to encourage all Canadians to become part of this growing movement to protect the air, water, soil and biodiversity that we and our children and grandchildren need to survive and be healthy. Like nature, social movements sometimes take time to evolve and unfold. We don’t always see their impacts as they happen. If we expect a dazzling blur of activity and immediate results, we’ll be disappointed.

Let’s slow down, breathe, listen, look and feel. Only then will we understand our place in the world and what we must do to live well on this small blue dot spinning in an enormous universe.

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Peace Passage Figure Skating Club recently honoured the accomplishments of three of their own. Jayci Lucas (left) and Janice Gibos (right) received achievements in coaching, while Courtney Bueckert (middle) reached the gold level in interpretative figure skating.

Skating to the gold standard Byron Hackett Staff Writer

Courtney Bueckert approached her coach Janice Gibos with an idea for her program, and more specifically a particular song that she wanted to use, in her gold level interpretative test last spring.

The song she chose was Martina McBride’s "I'm Gonna Love You Through It”, which is a particularly emotional dedication to survivors and women with breast cancer.

The choice for such an emotionally driven song was an easy one for Bueckert, whose mother Sandra recently battled and won a fight against breast cancer. The

16-year-old from the Peace Passage Figure Skating Club in Taylor remembers the skate well, and was extremely pleased to become a gold skater, especially while dedicating the program to her mom.

“It was a big accomplishment to get my gold with that song and that program,” she said. “The last skate when I got my gold was probably the best skate I’ve ever done. The emotion – I had a hard time not crying and keeping my face straight. But it made me so proud to do that for my mom.”

Her coach, Gibos, remembers the skate because she saw Bueckert step out of her comfort zone and deliver such a passionate program.

“She is not always an outgoing person, she is more of a shy person, but because this was so meaningful she just skated it,” Gibos explained. “I was also in tears, I knew it was her last time and she just did it so passionately.”

Bueckert had tested the skate earlier in the year, but she knew on that test day in spring there was something special.

“It did [feel different]. I had tested my interpretative once before with this program and that skate was just a whole different level,” she said.

After the skate Bueckert had an inking that her performance had struck a cord with a few of the audience members in particular.

“I made the judge cry – I felt pretty bad making people cry, but it was also a pretty big accomplishment,” she said. “[My Mom] cried the first time I did it, but the last time I think she was more proud than anything.”

It has taken the young skater a lot of years of dedication to get to the gold level, and both Gibos and Bueckert were grateful she was able reach such a standard.

“I have doing interpretative for years and to be able to get my gold this year was really amazing,” Bueckert said.

Coach Gibos added: “We really just wanted to focus on a lot of the things that Courtney is good at field moves and footwork,” she

said. “We spent the whole year working on it. She went to a couple competitions and a couple test days, we got feedback from the judges and we had other people look at it.”

The long road to becoming a gold skater culminated on Wednesday when her club honoured Bueckert with a place on the gold wall of fame at the Taylor Arena.

The day was also a chance the Peace Passage Figure Skating club to congratulate two of their coaches, Gibos who was finally able to reach her level two coaching after the recent success of some skaters and Jayci Lucas who reached her coaching level one.

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'Help Wanted' signs everywhere David Dyck Staff Writer

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Some of the countless help wanted signs that were posted in the Peace Region last week. Employers are having a harder time hiring and retaining workers throughout the Northeast.

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It doesn’t take much more than a short drive around the Peace Region to notice a common thread: "help wanted" signs.

Some are posted on large billboards outside office buildings. Some are placed discreetly by cash registers. But they all tell the same story of too many jobs and not enough workers.

Jeannette Karasiuk, client services coordinator for WorkBC Fort St. John, said in her 10 years working there, she’s never seen this much help wanted at the same time.

“Right now we have over 300 job openings, and that’s the employers that are willing to post,” said Karasiuk. “There are lots of employers that aren’t posting jobs, just because they aren’t getting any applicants.”

The owner of Windsor Plywood in Dawson Creek, Rudy Van Spronsen, said his company is rarely able to fill positions with skilled employees.

"What that means is we have to put a lot more effort into training, since we don't have any people with past experience," he said, adding that's especially true for sales associates, yard and delivery staff.

And starting positions at Windsor Plywood pay well above minimum wage, he said.

"People with experience in our industry, there are very few. We get people who have experience in similar industries, but even in those cases its few and far between," he said.

For a company that isn’t in oil and gas, like Canfor, it’s a constant problem. The company had a booth set up at the Fort St. John job fair recently, with a smiling human resources manager Tracey Byam sitting behind the table.

“We’re not oil and gas, we’re forestry, so sometimes people don’t think about us. So it’s nice to be here front and centre,” said Byam, who added that recruitment and retention was a problem for the company.

Other companies came to the job fair from hours away to try to find any skilled employees to work for them. Powerstroke Well Control is based out of Grande Prairie, but they’re desperate to find workers.

“Even though I do post Kijiji ads in Grande Prairie, I do get lots of response from B.C., so I was just wondering if we came over here, what response it would get,” said Katy Watson, an HR administrator for Powerstroke, which employs nearly 100 people.

She said retention was definitely an issue on the Alberta side of the Peace as well. “I’m having trouble retaining people, just because in Grande Prairie they can go up the street and find a job as well,” Watson said.

Although numbers can vary wildly, the unemployment rate in the region has hovered around 4 per cent, which the Federal government considers to be “zero unemployment.”

“There’s lots of opportunities in Fort St. John and the region – people don’t have to go anywhere,” Byam said. “They can take chances and try different jobs, different industries, so it really pushes you to do things better every day and to make sure you take care of your people.”

Some of the ways that Canfor takes care of its people, she explained, is by talking to their employees, and including them when they talk about changing processes, really trying hard to engage their employees.

“That’s what keeps people interested in the job they’re in,” said Byam.

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Continued from Page 8 The Fort St. John Association for Community Living (FSJACL) also had a booth set up at the job fair, both looking to recruit workers and talking to recruiters, hoping to find jobs for their clients.

The FSJACL is a nonprofit that provides services, including employment assistance, to adults with developmental disabilities.

“It’s hard because with the oilfields, it’s all on-site, but even in the offices and stuff, they look for certain positions,” said Sheri Ashdown, supported employment coordinator for the FSJACL. However, she said that they’ve been more successful in the past year than ever before, some companies even calling them asking for labour.

The FSJACL employs approximately 50 staff of its own, but Trina Blank, HR and office supervisor, said they could use 20 more.

“Out of every 10 interviews I do, usually only five of those people actually start working for us, because they end up going somewhere else or something happens,” said Blank. “HR is a full-time job in this industry.”

Some companies have found a mix that helps them retain workers.

Shelley Milne, who owns Action Health and Safety in Dawson Creek, said her company manages to bring back workers year after year – despite the part-time, temporary nature of paramedic work.

They recruit locally where they can, and provide crew housing for out-of-town hires, she said.

"Once they're here, they tend to stay long term," said Milne, who added that some employees have been with the company as long as 18 years.

"We're a long-term company – we have a solid reputation and treat workers fairly, so people come back to work for us over and over," she added.

Another solution for some is to hire temporary foreign workers. But that’s easier said than done, especially since the Federal program that oversees hiring overseas labour underwent some changes that were designed to ensure that the program was a last resort for employers.

Linda Patterson owns the Dairy Queen in Fort St. John with her husband. They wanted to get temporary foreign workers into staff positions that locals weren’t taking, but said the process wasn’t going very well. They originally applied to get two workers for the kitchen – a year and a half ago. They’ve been back and forth with paperwork ever since.

“What we found is that we would get one official immigration person, and then the paperwork got shuffled, and then the paperwork got shuffled. Oh, it was wretched,” said Patterson.

New changes came into effect over the summer, raising the admin-

istration fee from $275 to $1,000 per worker, limiting the percentage of foreign workers a business is allowed to employ, and making the process for verifying that foreign help is needed more rigourous.

But Patterson said she doesn’t even know where they stand with their previous application. “We’re still a little confused,” she said.

Dairy Queen managed to staff the restaurant with foreign students, Patterson said, as they don’t require a special visa as long as

they work under a certain number of hours per week.

According to a CBC report, the number of applications for foreign workers was down 75 per cent for July and August from the same time last year.

“I’ve had a ‘Help Wanted’ sign on my front counter and on my door for ... basically four years,” Patterson said. “It’s been tough, it really has. My husband says it’s probably going to get worse, but right now this summer we’ve been

The Northerner • Friday, October 17, 2014 • 11 lucky.”

She said it’s normal for the comThere was one company who had pany to offer incentives for worka booth at the job fair that wasn’t ers in other provinces to relocate, worried about the labour shortage. helping them with hotel costs, or “It’s not difficult to recruit – we connecting them with other people get lots of applications in every in the area. single day,” said Amber “We’ll offer transportation to get Achtemichuk, personnel recruiter them to whatever region needs the for Precision Drilling Corporation. hands,” said Achtemichuk.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NOTICE Application for a Permit Under The Provisions of the Environmental Management Act I, Mr. Glenn Soroff, Director, Facilities & Midstream for Progress Energy Canada Ltd., (Bow Valley 2, 1200, 205-5th Avenue SW, Calgary, AB, T2P 2V7), intend to submit this application to the Director, Waste Management and Reclamation, at the Oil and Gas Commission to authorize the discharge of air emissions from a gas plant. The sources of air emissions are: - Three Waukesha L7044 GSI Compressor Engines (1253 kW each, one-new) with Catalytic Converters; - Three Waukesha L36 GL Compressor Engines (600 kW each, one-new, third for back-up only); - Two Waukesha L5794 LT Generators (1081 kW each, second for back-up only); - Two Saskatoon JWG-250 Glycol Boiler Heat Medium (1905 kW); - One Tornado emergency high pressure flare (including a pilot & purge); - Other equipment including condensate / produced water tanks.

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Prespatou 4-H Community Club

4-H 101

Amanda Bueckert 4-H Reporter

Hello everyone! The new school year is coming in, and the 101st year of 4-H is wrapping up. So what would be better than to give everyone a little history lesson on 4-H? 4-H started out as a government-organized program called the Boys and Girls club. It consisted of 8 clubs, the first being created in Roland, Manitoba in 1913. In the first year, there were only 3 projects to choose from: Poultry, Potato and Corn. The Department of Agriculture sent out a dozen of the best eggs, and seed for potatoes and corn to each club for the members to use. The eggs would then be placed under a chicken to hatch, and then raised. Both corn and potatoes were planted and specially cared for. When it became time for competition, the winners would take home prizes ranging on $5.50 (1st place) to $0.25 (12th). The Boys and Girls club was only changed to 4-H in 1952, to keep up with the clubs in the United States.

Wow! 4-H has changed a lot since then. There are 150 4-H clubs in BC alone, and 18 of the 30 projects to choose from can be done in the city. Canada has certainly grown from the original 8 clubs in Manitoba. But then again, it has been 101 years! As we roll into the 102nd year of 4-H, I hope you remember a bit of my 4-H 101!

See you next time!

Thank You to Butler Farm Equipment for sponsoring this page! For more information on 4-H, go to www.bc4h.bc.ca

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Foods project Adopt a Grandparent project

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PRO GOLF WEEKLY UPDATE

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Golf News, Tips, Trivia & Stats

This Week: Shriners Hospitals for Children Open

The Shriners Hospitals for Children Open is played in Las Vegas at the TPC at Summerlin.

The tournament was founded in 1983 and has been known by Defending: Webb Simpson Winning Score: 24-under par other titles. It was played over five Winning Share: $1,080,000 rounds instead of the normal four until 2003. The Shriners Hospitals for Children recently took over the operations of the tournament from the Las Vegas Founders. In 1991, Chip Beck became the second golfer in PGA Tour history to shoot 59. Beck finished the tournament two strokes out of a playoff.

TPC Summerlin Las Vegas, Nev. 7,223 yards, Par 71

Golf TV Schedule Time 5pm-8pm 5pm-8pm 5pm-8pm 5pm-8pm

Network GOLF GOLF GOLF GOLF

Golf Trivia Which golfer won the John Deere Classic in three consecutive years? a) Zach Johnson b) Fred Funk

South Korean Sang-Moon Bae Tournament Results survived a mid-round slump 1. Sang-Moon Bae Score: -15 to earn a two-shot victory at Earnings: $1,080,000 the Frys.com Open in Napa, 2. Steven Bowditch Score: -13 California on Sunday. Bae carded a final round of 73 to finish at 15-under Player Earnings: $648,000 Score Earnings -12 $270,600 par at Silverado Country Club in the T-3. Retief Goosen T-3. Martin Laird -12 $270,600 opening event of the new season on T-3.Hunter Mahan -12 $270,600 the PGA Tour. Bae posted four bogeys T-3. Hideki Matsuyama -12 $270,600 -12 $270,600 in a seven-hole stretch mid-round but T-3. Bryce Molder the 28-year-old held on to take the win. It was Bae’s first top-10 finish since he won the Byron Nelson Championship in May of last year.

Golfing News

PGA Event: Shriners Hospitals for Children Open

Day Thu, 10/16 Fri, 10/17 Sat, 10/18 Sun, 10/19

Last Week: Sang-Moon Bae won the Frys.com Open

c) Jim Furyk d) Steve Stricker

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Answer: d) Steve Stricker won his third straight John Deere Classic in 2011, becoming just the 10th golfer since World War II to win a tournament three straight times.

Illinois grad, Wisconsin native and PGA Tour veteran Steve Stricker hit golf balls from the rim of Camp Randall Stadium during halftime of Saturday’s IllinoisWisconsin game. Dressed appropriately for the occasion in an Ilini hat and Badgers shirt, Stricker was given three tries to land a shot on the Wisconsin “W” at midfield from the top of Camp Randall Stadium, as only about 80,000 people looked on. If he was able to hit the target from the top of the video board, one lucky fan would have recieved VIP Wanamaker Club tickets to the 2015 PGA Championship at nearby Whistling Straits. Sadly, he missed.

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

Player Profile

Sang-Moon Bae

Turned Professional: 2004 FedEx Cup Ranking: 1st World Ranking: 90th PGA Tour Wins: 2

FedEx Cup Standings Through Oct. 12, 2014

1) Sang-Moon Bae 500 pts. / 1 top tens

2) Steven Bowditch 300 pts. / 1 top tens

T-3) Retief Goosen 125 pts. / 1 top tens

T-3) Martin Laird 125 pts. / 1 top tens

T-3) Hunter Mahan 125 pts. / 1 top tens

FedEx Cup Standings continued...

Player Points T-3) Hideki Matsuyama 125 T-3) Bryce Molder 125 T-8) Robert Allenby 78 T-8) Jon Curran 78 T-8) Brooks Koepka 78

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