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The North Peace SPCA is crying foul in the wake of a series of alleged thefts targeting their donation bins around Fort St. John.

The first occurred at Rivers Animal Hospital in early October.

SPCA staff said they got a call from Rivers asking if the pet shelter had come and removed the bin.

They hadn’t.

Soon after that incident, a large water jug used for collecting coins was stolen from the front of the shelter itself.

The SPCA building closes at 4, but the staff spends another half hour in the back, administering medications and making sure the animals have food and water before they leave.

“Somebody snuck in through the gate, saw that there was nobody in the office, and away it went,” said Candace Buchamer, supervisor of the North Peace SPCA. Finally, Buchamer said she noticed just this past Wednesday that the two bins set up to collect donations at Paws and Claws pet store were also missing. She said she has no idea if the thefts are related, or who is responsible.

All together, Buchamer speculated that up to $225 went missing from the bins combined, but she said that they haven’t yet contacted police.

“We’re definitely very disheart-

ened by it, but we don’t have anything to tell them other than they went missing,” she said.

Buchamer is warning people as much as she can that anyone collecting money with SPCA bins is not acting on behalf of the North Peace branch, and ask that police be called.

More than the amount of money stolen, what bothers her is the principle of it: “It doesn’t matter if it’s an SPCA or a children’s charity – you wouldn’t take the hospital foundation bins or the nursing moms’ little bottles. What’s the difference? You’re still taking from those in need.”

The missing funds were not earmarked for any particular projects – which is exactly what made them so valuable to the SPCA, Buchamer said.

“If we needed an emergency surgery for somebody, instead of approaching the public to fundraise for it, it gives us that much money to put towards it right off the bat,” she said. “Or maybe we have a water main break and we need to pay our plumber. We have all the same expenses as everybody else does.”

However, Buchamer said that so far, the reaction from public has been strongly empathetic.

“There’s enough help available in our community to people who need assistance that it shouldn’t have to come to taking from a charity,” she said.

William Stodalka Staff Writer

The first of several threatened legal challenges against Site C was issued Wednesday.

The Peace Valley Landowner Association (PVLA) announced that they served a Petition for Judicial Review on the Ministers of Environment and of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.

The petition seeks to challenge the provincial environmental assessment certificate that these two ministries issued. The PVLA, a grassroots association of local landowners opposed to Site C, also said that next week, it will try and challenge the Federal environmental assessment certificate.

A judicial review is when a court determines whether an administrative decision maker, such as a cabinet, had the proper authority to make the decision it did.

By petitioning the court, the PVLA is hoping to have a court review the governments’ decision to issue environmental certificates.

If the petition succeeds, and a judicial review found that these government ministries overstepped their authority, it might delay or cancel the proposed $7.9 billion hydroelectric dam, set to be built about seven kilometers near Fort St. John.

Maegen Giltrow, PVLA’s legal counsel, said the government has “failed to consider the economic effects of the project.”

Specifically, she continued, the ministers’ decision to issue the certificate was wrong because it failed to heed several recommendations from the Federal-provincial Joint Review Panel that analyzed the potential environmental effects of the project, partially during hearings last winter.

The recommendations that Giltrow said the governments ignored included referring the project to the B.C. Utilities Commission, creating a long-term pricing scenario for electricity and having Hydro create a research and development budget for other alternatives.

According to their petition, by not considering the economic effects, the B.C. government was not following a section of the Environmental Assessment Act. PVLA President Ken Boon said that the decisions are “seriously flawed.”

“Relevant findings and recommendations of the Site C Joint Review Panel were not considered by the decision makers,” he said in a statement. “We have reluctantly concluded that a court challenge is the only way to ensure that a decision by the BC Cabinet on the Site C Dam is not based on flawed environmental approvals.”

Boon also expressed confidence about the challenge, despite a reluctance to do so.

“This is not where we really wanted to get to, but we really don’t have a choice,” he said.

Another landowner, Renee Ardill, echoed her support of the petition.

“The government has shown to ignore the rest of the Joint Review Panel reports they didn’t like,” she said. “They’ve chosen what they do like, but the ones they don’t like, the financials, they sweep under the rug. If anyone has any common sense at all, they want a review ... Site C should be thrown in the trash bin and never resurrected.”

Even if the government were to repeal their environmental assessment certificate – which Giltrow said was unlikely – the PVLA would want it quashed.

“It’s time to deal with it and to move on to other options,” she said.

Even though a legal challenge has been put forward, work on the project may still continue if the government decides to move ahead.

“The ball’s in the government’s court, and we’ll wait to see how the government responds,” said Rob Bottrell, a lawyer for the PVLA. “One of the reasons we filed in the way we have ... (is) we don’t think it’s in the interests of BC taxpayers affected by this proposed project that work gets underway and costs are incurred when it’s being done on an invalid or flawed environmental assessment.”

The government has not yet announced whether or not it will actually put money towards the Site C project. In recent interviews, B.C. Energy Minister Bill Bennett said he is considering Site C among other alternatives.

Other First Nations groups have also said that they plan to mount legal challenges if Site C goes through. Chief Roland Willson of the West Moberly First Nations has told the Alaska Highway News in the past that a separate legal challenge is “in the works,” which Boon also alluded to on Wednesday.

When asked for comment, Dave Conway, a BC Hydro spokesman, said that his company's "approach to properties affected by Site C is to strive to minimize the amount of land acquired, while maximizing land-use flexibility.”

Conway also said BC Hydro is “committed to an equitable and consistent acquisition process."

Questions sent to both the provincial and Federal Ministries of Environment asking for their comment about the petition were not returned as of press time.

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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

More bad news for bees: The new “F” word Have you heard of flupyradifurone? Probably not, unless you work for the federal government agency poised to approve this new pesticide for use in Canada.

But take note: This new “F” word is bad news for bees.

Flupyradifurone is an insectkilling systemic pesticide similar to the controversial neonicotinoid, or neonic, family of beekilling chemicals. When applied to seeds or soil, it’s absorbed by plant roots and travels to leaves, flowers, pollen and nectar, making the plant potentially toxic to insects.

This past summer, the international Task Force on Systemic Pesticides analyzed 800 scientific studies and concluded that systemic pesticides like neonics are harming bees, butterflies, birds and worms and should be phased out globally. The European Union banned three neonics for “crops

attractive to bees”, but the European Environment Agency says that’s just a starting point, and recommends regulators look at similar pesticides and take into account potential harmful effects on aquatic invertebrates, birds and other insects. The EEA also found “mounting scientific evidence has been systematically suppressed for many years and early warnings were ignored.”

Inexplicably, Canada’s Pest Management Regulation Agency has yet to respond to the Task Force findings and now wants to approve a new systemic pesticide. What’s especially troubling is that, in its description, the PMRA states flupyradifurone “may pose a risk” to bees, birds, worms, spiders, small mammals and aquatic bugs, and that it doesn’t readily break down in water, air or sunlight and may carry over to the following growing season. When it enters streams, rivers and wetlands, “it may persist for a long time.”

Like neonics, flupyradifurone is a nerve poison, acutely toxic to bees if ingested. As in the past, we don’t fully understand the cumulative effects of the increasing amounts of today’s insecticides, pesticides, fungicides and other chemicals being applied to crops across the country.

Neonicotinoids are showing up more frequently and in higher concentrations than the harmful chemicals they replaced. A study

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. last year found 90 per cent of Saskatchewan prairie potholes contained residual neonics in the spring, before farmers planted their fields. Research from the U.S. Midwest found neonics in all 79 samples taken from nine rivers. Similar results have been found in wetlands, streams and rivers in the southwest U.S., Georgia and California.

It’s not even clear whether the widespread use of neonic seed treatments increases agricultural yields. A recent report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding soy crop treatments concluded, “these seed treatments provide little or no overall benefits to soybean production in most situations.

Published data indicate that in most cases there is no difference in soybean yield when soybean seed was treated with neonicotinoids versus not receiving any insect control treatment.”

The European Environment Agency also found a 2004 ban on neonicotinoid chemicals by France for sunflower and maize crops hasn’t negatively affected productivity. In fact, yields were higher in 2007 than they’d been in a decade.

You’d think we’d learn from past experience with persistent and bioaccumulative pesticides like DDT and organophosphates, and the more recent research on neonicotinoids. DDT was widely used until Rachel Carson’s book

Silent Spring drew attention to its negative impacts on ecosystems, wildlife and humans. Many, but not all, organophosphate pesticides have also been pulled from widespread use because we learned their neurotoxic effects posed serious risks to humans and wildlife.

Rather than approving new pesticides that may harm pollinators, birds and other animals, including humans, we need better ways to protect crops. A recent report, “Alternatives to neonicotinoid insecticides for pest control”, published in the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research, suggests further research and methods including “diversifying crop rotations, altering the timing of planting, tillage and irrigation, using less sensitive crops in infested areas, applying biological control agents,” and other lower-risk alternatives.

We need to stop contaminating the environment with neonics and related systemic pesticides.

Approving flupyradifurone would take us in the wrong direction. Canada’s Pest Management Regulation Agency is accepting comments on flupyradifurone approval until November 3. You can submit through the PMRA or David Suzuki Foundation websites.

Putting bees and ecosystem functioning at risk endangers us all. It’s time to find a better way.

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Road repair, infrastructure on list for Fort St. John 2015 capital budget William Stodalka Staff Writer

Just over half of a $25.4 million capital budget proposed for the city of Fort St. John goes towards upgrading roads – but in order to avoid drawing on reserves, staff said council must slim it down by $4.4 million.

On Tuesday, City Hall hosted a sparsely attended open public hearing about the city’s capital budget. Only four people showed up.

The hearing was meant to show what the city wanted to spend on capital projects, such as road upgrades, building repair and other large infrastructure projects.

About $19 million was allocated towards streetlights, roads, sidewalks and storm sewers. Road repair took up most of the capital budget.

Projects include 110 Street between 100 Avenue and 102 Avenue, 108 Avenue from 96 Street to 98 Street, 85 Avenue from 79 Street to the East Bypass Road, 85 Avenue from 88 Street to 91 Street, 87 Avenue from 74 Street to 78A Street, 92 Street from 100 Avenue to 102 Avenue, and 97 Avenue from 98 Street to 100 Street.

Other projects were deemed to be local area service projects. These projects are in part funded by additional funds put forward by nearby property owners.

They include 75 Street from 85 Avenue to 93 Avenue and 98A Avenue from 93 Street to 94 Street.

About $3.3 million was set to be spent on various recreational facilities, including projects at the Charlie Lake boat launch and the Pomeroy Sport Centre.

The largest single line item, $770,000, would go towards neighbourhood parks.

Included in this was a refurbishing of the spray park near the North Peace Arena.

“We can either refurbish what is there and add to it, or go through a bit of a process and

reconstruct it,” said the city’s general manager of community services, Wally Ferris.

“We have to do a feasibility study on our own to see what's practical. It’s rather aged and it does have infrastructure issues.”

One of the items in that part of the budget was money to improve the Pomeroy Sport Centre’s acoustics. This would include a study outlining potential options the city can take to make it easier for the Centre to host two events at the same time, as well a second dehumidifier to improve the quality of the ice.

As for the Charlie Lake boat launch, an earlier 2014 report from city staff said that the dock may soon need to be completely reconstructed, at an estimated cost of about $200,000 to $300,000.

"The existing structure will have to be removed and replaced with new concrete matting, the bases strengthened and the boat launch extended," it states.

Ferris said that currently, “(the boat launch has) deteriorated to the point where there could be some potential liability situations, so we have to move forward with it.”

Councillor Byron Stewart suggested that the conversation take place with the regional district for help fund that project, as rural citizens were using the launch as well.

The final 2015 capital budget may be very different, as council has yet to vote on it. The budget presented on Tuesday was over-allocated by $4.4 million.

City finance director Mike Roy said that some of this gap could be paid for by using reserve funds, but Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ackerman seemed to not support that idea.

“We don't want to use all of that,” she said.

“That's what reserves are for.”

Ackerman suggested that the city reach out through its Facebook page to give residents more chances to comment on the proposed budget.

Now that winter is fast approaching, it’s time for everyone to get as busy as a beaver in preparation of the months ahead of us. Although many people believe that beavers hibernate throughout the winter, beavers are actually non-hibernating herbivores. During the warmer weather, beavers eat many different kinds of vegetation, including leaves and twigs of trees and aquatic plants but when the temperatures kill off this tender vegetation, beavers eat the inner bark of trees.

With lots of sightings, this past summer was a particularly busy year on the lakes and rivers in the Peace region. Beavers build dams on small streams to create deep water as the deep water becomes their defense against predators. The dams are created from the part of the trees they do not readily ingest, such as gnawed branches, as well as mud from the bottom of the ponds or streams. They also use other elements from their surroundings to create these dams that may include rocks or mussel shells.

As winter approaches, the beavers become more noticeable and to help prepare for the winter months when their water may freeze, beavers chew down extra trees to store near the den, thus providing them with an additional food source.

To make sure their dams are prepared for the winter months, beavers will chop down even more trees to help in the home-maintenance plan. These shelters, or lodges, are built along the shoreline and are generally coneshaped with underwater entrances. When constructing these lodges, the beavers will build from the inside of the lodge to the outside.

Although there were numerous sightings on lakes this past year, the beaver is actually a river-dwelling animal and will generally use mud and create burrows along the riverbanks.

When winter strikes and the water freezes, beavers can be seen swimming under the ice. An adaptation that they have is that their fur has a thick underfur which acts as an insulation. Beavers have a scent gland that secretes an oil which they use to waterproof their fur as well as a thick layer of fat under their skin.

Through their architectural, constructional and numerous adaptations, these furry, water-loving creatures survive the winter months very well.

Beavers are monogamous, mate for life and manage to raise a family of one to six kits in their lodge every winter … thus adding to the idiom as busy as a beaver!

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Ryan Kearns trades hockey skates for paddle Byron Hackett Staff Writer

Ryan Kearns grew up like most other kids in Fort St. John, dreaming of one day playing in the NHL. What developed was a competitive spirit, but no professional hockey career.

Kearns, a 32-year-old graphic designer, eventually landed in Vancouver 10 years ago and found himself unable to continue playing the game of hockey. That was when he found dragon boat racing.

“When I first moved to Vancouver in 2004, I was still trying to play hockey… it was just too expensive, so I had to give up on hockey. A friend told me to try [dragon boat racing] and I was like ‘sure why not’,” he said.

“I tried it and it was the hardest thing I had ever done. You think you can just jump in the boat and just paddle, but it’s repetitive, over and over again, it really tests you physically. So I was really motivated to figure it out and get good at it.”

Now he will represent Canada in an event he has been building towards since he saw other Canadian athletes compete on home soil in 2010 at the Vancouver Olympics.

Kearns was selected last week to represent Canada in the 2015 Dragon Boat World Championships in Welland, Ontario next summer.

“That was my goal when I started too,” he said. “This was five year goal … I really wanted to be on team Canada in Canada, because to me that’s the highest honour.”

The sport of dragon boat racing is relatively low key in Canada and largely unknown outside of those who compete in it.

The race is a rather simple one.

20 individuals crowd into a boat, and paddle a predetermined distance (500 metres is the crown jewel event according to Kearns, but there are also 200, 1000 and 2000 metre races).

You’ve probably seen or heard of charity dragon boat races, where a group of people get together to fundraise, or race for charity.

It has become much more than that for Kearns, who has competed internationally and won several gold medals at competitions around the world.

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Ryan Kearns has competed all over the world in Dragon Boat racing and will reach the pinnacle of his career in 2015 racing for Canada in the World Championships on home soil.

That includes medals in Tampa in 2011, Hungary in 2013 and Fuzhou (the first ever Dragon Boat World Cup) in 2014.

The pursuit of his dragon boat career started modestly enough, with the new guy in town trying to make friends doing an activity that some people he knew were doing.

What grew was something beyond anything even Kearns himself could have imagined.

“It was a good way to make friends at first. What kept me coming back was I was making new friends,” he explained.

“After the first couple years you start seeing that your team gets really good; there’s a pretty big scene here. Vancouver has one of the largest dragon boat scenes outside of China. So you start seeing this team that gets better and better – you keep seeing the potential.

So you get motivated; you keep wanting to win more and more…”

That is when his team, known as One West starting competing in Dragon Boat racing events, and starting winning – a lot.

“Over five or six years, we have got to the point where, most of us had been involved with the national team at some level, our club team got really good, really fast.

We are at the point now, in 2012 we won the men’s national championship, in 2013 we won the mixed national championship, which is big in North America … and by winning in 2013 we qualified for the World Club Championship which we just returned from in Italy… we were by far and away the most successful Canadian team there.”

Before those latest accomplishments, Kearns’ team wanted to try

out for the under 23 Canadian national entry, but Kearns was too old. He decided if his team was going to do it, he was too. He tried out for the national premiere team and his expectations were low, but made it first try and competed for a national championship in Tampa Bay in 2011.

Since then he has joined the national team two other times, and after accomplishing a lot of what he has hoped to within the sport, the 2015 World Championships in Welland will have meant his career in dragon has brought him everything he thought it possibly could.

“This is what I’ve been building towards, this is my swan song,” Kearns explained. “This is how I wanted to go out. It is something that I really, really enjoy but after competing in Canada, I will have done everything that I can do in

dragon boat. This will be my third World Championships, so far I’ve won three gold medals, five silvers and a couple bronze. We’ve been very successful as a program.

And I’ve had my club team be very successful … I’ve got all these things, I’ve checked all these boxes, not that I think of it as a checklist, but I’ve done everything I think I can as a paddler.”

So what does a guy who has done it all in a sport do next?

Develop it, he hopes.

“I think if I’m going to continue, it’s going to be in program development or coaching. I feel like again, dragon boating is under developed as a sport,” he said.

“Programing and developing athletes; developing a winning culture, that’s something I would want to be involved in moving forward.”

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Fort St. John council presents preliminary operating budget

Staff Writer

A preliminary 2015 operating budget presented to Fort St. John City Council suggests residents could possibly pay more in local taxes next year.

To pay for the entire budget as suggested by city staff could mean as much as a 7 per cent tax increase, council was informed at Monday’s meeting.

According to Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ackerman, some extra money will be needed because “the city is growing, and so we have to expand our services to accommodate a growing population.”

The report presented to council showed that the average homeowner in Fort St. John paid about $1,700 in taxes, and under this new plan, he or she would pay about $1,800.

However, the budget process is in its earliest stages, and no part is set in stone. City Council has yet to direct staff on what they would like to see in the budget, or taken out, or deferred to later years.

Also, as home values are also rising in the Energetic City, higher assessments could make up the difference without needing to raise the actual tax rate.

“We have seen a remarkable growth rate, but we don’t know what that growth rate is until BC Assessment comes,” Ackerman said. “That will be in January.”

The mayor went on to say that if the “market growth rate increases beyond that, we may be able to do what we did last year by decreasing the tax rate.”

Scott Sitter, a Peace Region assessor, said that while the final count wasn’t yet in, the average house price would almost certainly go up.

Mike Roy, the city’s director of finance, added that the city is “basically trying to maintain the current service levels.” However, regardless of revenue, staff said some new

ideas might come into the operating budget that weren’t included in the budget presented by city staff.

“One (issue) that comes to mind in 2014 we didn’t see coming was the medical staffing issue,” said City Manager Dianne Hunter.

“Your options when it comes to that are to drop something else from the list, or move it forward to another year to deal with some of the emerging topics.”

And Hunter suggested that city staff resources aren’t infinite. “Historically, we've been overcommitting on what we can deliver on,” she said. “(City staff) believe it needs to be done, and we can do it all. We've all made our commitment to do our part, if not 100 per cent.”

According to the draft, the city’s operating budget expenditures are projected at around $68.6 million. The largest shares of this went to general government services and protective services (such as cops and bylaw officers), which accounted for about $22 and $13.7 million, respectively.

The biggest changes for the city in the draft budget stemmed from an increase in salaries and an increase in contracted and general services.

Roy gave a simple explanation for the higher cost in these two areas: “With all the development there’s more infrastructure that needs to be maintained, and you need bodies to do it.”

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The geese are flying and the leaves are falling….it’s definitely fall folks! This fall we have saw many great and sad things come to pass here at the SPCA. I’m sure many are now aware of the increased reports of animal cruelty and neglect that have occurred. We want to thank the individuals that brought these situations to our attention and assited us to save their lives. Rango, the dog that had been strung up to strangle and dosed in chemical, is still awaiting a knowledgeable, loving forever home. He has been with us over 50 days now and would love to find a home worthy of his trust. Alaska, the kitten tossed out to freeze, is in her adoptive home and doing fabulously.

As for Nick Furry, the poor dog that lost and eye and then a leg to a gun-shot injury, well …. life couldn’t be better! Nick is pictured here with his new best friend. His family is pleased to report that Nick was overly enthusiastic to see the fresh snow. He played in it for some quite some time, rolling and shovelling a path with his face.

Our final tally is not in, but the 10th annual Halloween Howl looks like it is heading to be a success once again! Being our tenth anniversary we decided to spice up this very important fundraiser and added a few events; such as a silent auction, a live auction of “return airfare to anywhere West Jet flies” tickets, and a Last Man Standing event. This event had a prize of return airfare tickets to Vancouver which were graciously donated by Marlin Travel. Another new thing started this year was the opportunity to sponsor our event in return for logo recognition and media mention. Some of our sponsor packages even include free tickets to the event! We would like to thank Western Financial, Marlin Travel and the Pomeroy Hotel for continuing to support us, year after year. We would like to welcome Finning and thank them for their “Ghoul Sponsorship”. If you would like any information in regards to helping sponsor the event next year please contact the shelter at 250-785-7722 and request a sponsorship package. Many thanks to Mr. Mikes, Back Country, Marcy’s Bright Ideas, Zoo Foods and Tru Value for their donation of prizes.

Just a reminder, as the weather grows colder we are getting more calls about cats and kittens that need to come in. We continue to only have 24 spaces for cats and we ask people to call in information about the stray to put on our waiting list. Please do this as soon as you find the kitty. We can provide food and temporary shelter units for the cats, but may not be able to take the cat/kitten, on the spot, if you show up at our door with it. We appreciate that people will take the animals in to their own homes to assist us with back log during the freezing cold of winter.

As temperatures drop and we start to plug our vehicles in cats will seek out the warmth from the motor. It is strongly recommended to step outside, sweep the snow off your car and POUND THE HOOD before you hit that command start. Hundreds of cats and kittens die or suffer devastating injury each winter when unsuspecting humans start up their vehicles.

Lastly, it has come to our attention that citizens are unaware of the changes to city bylaw. The City of Fort St. John has recently approved for after-hours calls regarding INJURED STRAYING ANIMALS. So, if you have an animal that has been hit-by-car or attacked by another animal and you can’t take it to the vet, please call the City at 250-787-8150. You will need to inform the answering service that you have found an injured animal and need assistance. The answering service should put you through to the City official tasked with co-ordinating the effort and they will have a Bylaw Officer attend. Until next month, enjoy hot apple ciders and thanks again to everyone who assists us save lives. Next year one lucky branch will be adopting out the Societies 1 millionth animal – maybe it will be your new addition!!

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Halloween Haunted House Community Bridge hosted their annual Halloween haunted house on Oct. 31, and these are a few of the brave souls who were waiting in line to explore it. Photos by David Dyck.

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Why do we wear a poppy in remembrance of our veterans?

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The poppy became a beloved and honoured symbol at the beginning of the 20th century and, even now, is worn proudly on the left lapel in memory of our war veterans. This is why, on November 11 — Remembrance Day — we honour the courage of those who gave their lives in wartime, sacrificing themselves for their country and for peace, by wearing this bright red flower close to the heart.

It’s important for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes today and always!

Remembrance Day November 11

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Our club this year is fantastic! There are 11 kids in our club so far; possibly 3 more are going to be joining. We have had one 4-H ride, and that was on October 18th, and it was really fun! We are planning to have another ride on November 8th. Thank you very much Mr. Hedges for letting us use your arena! We really appreciate it. On our ride that we already had, we played lots of games. First, we did a name game so we could get to know each other, and then we did an egg and spoon game, where we had plastic eggs and we would walk/trot our horses around the arena and we would try not to drop the egg. We also played another game, I don't remember what it was called, but we would get Monopoly money and stick it under our thighs when we were on our horses, and it had to be sticking out a little bit, and we had to walk/trot around the arena and try not to lose it. The hardest part was a posting trot! We played a few other games, and it was a really fun ride. Everyone had a blast!

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Hi, it's Josie Lawlor here with the Beatton Community Horse 4-H club.

Kyra, Kayli, Lee and I had a couple riding lessons with our leader, Julia Fellers last weekend, and it was really fun. First, we warmed up by trotting and walking around the arena. Next we worked on leg yielding to the wall of the arena at a walk and trot. We also worked on keeping our horse's heads down at the right level, so their ears are level with their dock. Then we worked on collecting them at a canter. Our other leader, Christine, brought one of her horses named Jade, and she has never had a saddle on her and she let Christine put an English saddle on her! She didn't buck or rear up, and Christine was able to get on her and ride her a bit! Jade was great. We had a great lesson.

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For the second straight year, Tournament Results Ryan Moore won the CIMB 1. Ryan Moore Score: -17 Classic. Moore shot a 5-underEarnings: $1,260,000 par 67 Sunday for a three- Player Score Earnings -14 $522,667 stroke victory, beating American Gary T-2. Gary Woodland T-2. Sergio Garcia -14 $522,667 Woodland for the second straight year. T-2. Kevin Na -14 $522,667 -12 $266,000 Moore finished at 17-under 271 to T-5. Cameron Smith T-5. Sang-Moon Bae -12 $266,000 become the first player to successfully defend a title on the PGA Tour since Tiger Woods at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March 2013. “It’s been a great week, I’m a little bit lost for words,” Moore said moments after the victory. “To come back and defend a title, it’s something I’ve never before.”

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PGA Event: WGC - HSBC Champions Day Time Network Thu, 11/6 9am-2pm GOLF Fri, 11/7 9am-2pm GOLF Sat, 11/8 9am-2pm GOLF Sun, 11/9 9am-2pm GOLF

Tom Pernice Jr. won the Champions Tour’s seasonending Charles Schwab Cup Championship on Sunday, beating Jay Haas with a birdie on the fourth hole of a playoff. Haas opened with rounds of 66 and 62 to take a four-stroke lead and broke the tour record Golf Trivia for consecutive rounds of par or better at 38, then shot 75 on Saturday to fall a stroke behind During his 35 years of playing in major Pernice and Kenny Perry. On Sunday, Pernice championships, how many times did closed with a 3-under 67, making a 6-foot birdie Jay Haas finish in the top 5? putt on 18, to match Haas at 11-under 269 a) 0 c) 9 on Desert Mountain’s Cochise Course. In the b) 6 d) 14 playoff, the 55-year-old Pernice got up-andAnswer: c) Jay Haas finished in the top 5 nine times. His down from the left bunker on the par-5 18th, best finishes were T-3 at the Masters in 1995 and T-3 at holing a 6-foot putt for birdie after Haas made a the PGA Championship in 1999.

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Lessons from the Golf Pro If you have ever watched a tournament on television, you will almost always see a particular “stunt” performed once during the coverage. A player will get ready to make his drive/iron shot/putt and then stop as a menacing insect has interrupted the procedure. While insects are quite prevalent through most of the country, this is usually a trick that the professional is using to break the tension of the moment. For whatever reason, the pro is not ready to make his/her shot and decides to restart the motion. What more convenient way to do that than to swat the pesky fly out of the way. For the amateur, we usually do not react the same way. We do not want to back out of a shot due to fear of embarrassment and go ahead and make a terrible shot. The next time you don’t feel comfortable, just stop and restart your routine and better results will occur.

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Turned Professional: 2005 FedEx Cup Ranking: 4th World Ranking: 27th PGA Tour Wins: 4

FedEx Cup Standings Through Nov. 2, 2014

1) Sang-Moon Bae 605 pts. / 2 top tens

2) Robert Streb 600 pts. / 2 top tens

3) Ben Martin 552 pts. / 1 top tens

4) Ryan Moore 500 pts. / 1 top tens

5) Brendon de Jonge 363 pts. / 1 top tens

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Player Points 6) Kevin Streelman 342 7) Steven Bowditch 325 8) Will MacKenzie 263 9) Hideki Matsuyama 237 10) Sergio Garcia 208

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WEEKLY PRO RACING UPDATE Racing News, Stats & Trivia

Quicken Loans 500 Nov. 9th, 3:15 pm ET Phoenix International Raceway

2014 Standings 2014 Chase for the Cup

2014 Nationwide Series

The Eliminator Round

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

1) Joey Logano

Points: 4072 Wins: 5 Top 5: 16 Top 10: 21

2) Denny Hamlin Points: 4072 Wins: 1 Top 5: 6

Top 10: 16

3) Ryan Newman Points: 4070 Wins: 0 Top 5: 4

Top 10: 15

4) Jeff Gordon

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Points: 4060 Wins: 4 Top 5: 13 Top 10: 21

Chase for the Cup: Quicken Loans 500 Preview

In 1964, when Phoenix International Raceway was carved out of the foothills of the Estrella Mountains, it was intended to be a new jewel in the crown of American open wheel racing. Drivers like Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt, Parnelli Jones and the Unsers soon came to love the one mile paved oval with the unique bend in the backstretch. But it wasn’t until 1988, when NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing came to PIR, that auto racing in Phoenix really became a major sporting attraction for the “Valley of the Sun.” Today, Phoenix International Raceway has a tradition that is unmatched in the world of racing.

While Jimmie Johnson got the win Sunday, the fight after the race drew more attention. Jeff Gordon confronted Brad Keselowski, after Keselowski’s vehicle collided with Gordon’s car, spinning him out.

Gordon screamed at Keselowski and a scrum ensued with fists flying. This was Keselowski’s second post-race fight in four weeks. The last time it was Matt Kenseth jumping Keselowski after a race in Charlotte, with Keselowski earning a $50,000 fine for hitting Kenseth’s car on pit row and trying to wreck driver Denny Hamlin’s car after the race. Keselowski said Sunday’s crash was all part of the race. “We were just racing for the win,” he said.

5) Matt Kenseth

Points: 4059 Wins: 0 Top 5: 12 Top 10: 20

6) Carl Edwards Points: 4059 Wins: 2 Top 5: 7

Top 10: 14

7) Brad Keselowski

Points: 4055 Wins: 6 Top 5: 15 Top 10: 18

8) Kevin Harvick

Points: 4054 Wins: 3 Top 5: 12 Top 10: 18

Racing History

Nov. 3, 1958 - Derrike Cope, best known for his win in the 1990 Daytona 500, was born on this date. During the last lap of the 1990 Daytona 500, Dale Earnhardt ran over a piece of debris and cut a tire in turn three, causing him to nearly lose control. After narrowly avoiding most of the resulting debris, Cope assumed the lead and earned his first win in NASCAR competition.

Racing Trivia

Which driver set a new qualifying record at Phoenix earlier this year? a) Ryan Newman b) Jeff Gordon

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c) Joey Logano d) Brad Keselowski

Answer : d) Brad Keselowski set the record with a speed of 139.384 mph during qualifying for the February Cup race.

Track Details

Location: Phoenix, Ariz.

Distance: 1.0 miles Shape: Tri-Oval Turns: 11º (1-2) & 9º (3-4) Last Year’s Pole Winner: Jimmie Johnson 139.222 Last Year’s Race Winner: Kevin Harvick

Points 1146 1098 1083 1078 1071 1017 943 903 847 813

Last Weekend’s Race: Jimmie Johnson won the AAA Texas 500

Driver Start Finish Points/Bonus Jimmie Johnson 3 1 48 Kevin Harvick 5 2 43 Brad Keselowski 26 3 42 Kyle Busch 9 4 40 Jamie McMurray 21 5 39 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 12 6 38 Kyle Larson 17 7 37 Kurt Busch 4 8 37 Carl Edwards 11 9 35 Denny Hamlin 20 10 35

Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the tempers.

After the conclusion of the second race of the Eliminator Round at Texas Motor Speedway, a fight ensued on pit road between Brad Keselowski, Jeff Gordon and Kevin Harvick. On the first green-white-checkered attempt, the No. 2 of Keselowski got into the side of Gordon’s No. 24, cutting Gordon’s tire and sending him spinning. Harvick and Keselowski battled hard on the ensuing final restart, finishing second and third respectively, but the emotions boiled over onto pit road. Jeff Burton may have seen this coming, after his own run-in with Gordon on the backstretch at Texas in 2010.

Driver of the Week Jimmie Johnson #48 Born: Sept. 17, 1975 Crew Chief: Chad Knaus Car: Chevrolet

Year 2014 Career

Wins 4 70

Top 10s 19 291

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