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Province pledges cash for schools

Funding divvied up between two locations — one elementary school in northeast and an elementary & middle school in northwest Aleisha Hendry

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From the P harmacist’s File Irvin Tang

B.C. Education Minister Peter Fassbender announces $7 million for the acquisition of two sites for three new schools in Fort St. John during the K-12 Innovation Forum.

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abuse, but prolonged use of bisacodyl (Dulcolax®) or senna (Senokot®) can really lead to dependence! In such cases, the intestine becomes lazy and is unable to work without the laxative. To prevent this from occurring, never use laxatives for more than a few days without first speaking to a health care professional.

Treating/preventing constipation Several measures can be taken to relieve or prevent occasional constipation: • Drink plenty of fluids • Eat plums, raisins and figs (8 glasses or more • Do not repress the a day) urge to have a bowel • Avoid foods that movement cause constipation • Increase your fibre (cheese, eggs) intake • Exercise regularly These simple steps can help prevent or relieve constipation, often without having to resort to laxatives.

Laxatives Laxatives, available in several forms including liquid, powder, suppository, tablet or enema, stimulate the intestine and rel ieve constipation. They are usually differentiated by their onset of action. The most potent ones act within a few hours and often cause diarrhea.

The milder ones need several days to take effect, cause fewer side effects and are most widely recommended.

Most laxatives are available without a prescription. Consult your pharmacist to determine which product would be the safest and most effective for your own condition.

Before he can recommend a specific product, your pharmacist will take into consideration the probable cause of your constipation, your current medications and concurrent diseases, if applicable. Follow his advice and do not hesitate to consult him if you have any questions.

Fort St. John is now even closer to breaking ground on three new schools, thanks to a $7 million funding allocation from the province.

B.C. Minister of Education Peter Fassbender was in town on Friday as part of the K-12 Innovation Tour, where he made the announcement.

“That $7 million is only the beginning of the in-

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vestment that we are going to make in this community, it is going to allow us to acquire the school sites in this school district and it is a commitment to then build on those school sites the facilities you’re going to been in Fort St. John and in the region for the years to come,” said Fassbender.

“Buildings are only buildings. What goes on inside those buildings and what goes on in the communities around them is what makes our education system what it is today.”

The funding will be divvied up between two site locations. There will be $2.2 million for one elementary school in the northeast quadrant of the city, and $4.8 million for an elementary and a middle school in the northwest section.

“It is great to see the Ministry of Education recognizing the growing number of students attending SD 60 schools and the need to supply future infrastructure,” said Peace River North MLA Pat Pimm.

“By actual numbers Fort St. John is the fastest growing school district in the province and will need more schools in the future,” he added.

No timeline was given as to when construction would begin on the schools.

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Stool frequency and regularity vary from person to person. For some, having three bowel movements a day is normal, while for others, it is perfectly acceptable to have one every three days. Although the frequency of bowel movements may not be relevant, their regularity is. That being said, the definition of constipation is very personal. Generally speaking, CONSTIPATION is defined as the absence of bowel movements for 3 days. The word constipation is also used to describe the painful passage of hard stools.

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Young children and the elderly are slightly more at risk. Constipation affects 3 times more women than men.

The causes of constipation are many and include: • Lack of exercise • Eating foods that • Lying down for harden stools prolonged periods (especially cheese (when sick, for and eggs) example) • Low dietary fibre • Certain drugs intake • Stress • Haemorrhoids • Disease When constipation lasts for several days, it is important to identify and treat the root cause of the problem.

When should I see a health care professional?

Most of the time, constipation is a minor and temporary problem. In most cases, it is caused by changes to one’s diet. However, certain signs may indicate a more serious problem: • Major abdominal pain • Constipation that • Nausea or vomiting lasts more than a • Reddish or black week stools • Anal pain Consult a physician if you experience any of these symptoms. It is important to identify the cause of your constipation. If you think that your medication may be causing your constipation, speak to your pharmacist.

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Aleisha Hendry

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“Fort St. John is growing, unlike a lot of other areas, so we want to move as quickly as possible. I don’t have a fixed date yet, but we’re going to make sure we move it as quickly as we can to meet the need that’s here already,” said Fassbender.

The K-12 Innovation Tour began in Vancouver and had stops in Comox, Langley and Kelowna. The purpose is to support innovative learning opportunities for B.C. students.

As part of the K-12 Innovation Tour, B.C. Education Minister Peter Fassbender paid a visit to North Peace Secondary School to hear from local students about their education.

The student-led panel shared experiences as part of Northern Opportunities, the school’s duel credit programs, work experience, career training and ways to improve the education of students.

One particular topic that led to lengthy discussion was the issue of driver’s licenses. High school students fall into the graduated license program, which doesn’t allow them to

get their full Class 5 license until they are 19 at the earliest. Since most companies require employees to have their full Class 5 license, they’re unable to hire students upon completion of their work experience.

The possibility of altering the rules for Northeast B.C. students was suggested, something that Fassbender said he would be willing to look in to.

“This region has a different set of dynamics than what you might find in a large metropolitan area like Vancouver, so I think we have to be open minded and look at some creative opportunities and try some things,” said Fassbender.

“I thought I would hear a lot of different things from students, but if that is a huge barrier in this community and this region for future job opportunities, I think we have to be willing to look at it.”

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Each week editorial staff take turns engaging in debate on a hot topic. These debates are intended to explore both sides of an issue and arguments expressed here are chosen by flip of the coin, therefore they do not necessarily reflect the true opinion of the duelist.

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Matt Lamers

Is affordable housing really a necessity?

Government-assisted affordable housing is not a necessity.

The government shouldn’t be involved in affordable housing, because affordable housing already exists; it’s just that people aren’t willing to move someplace they can afford and gain employment. That creates imbalances in our economy.

Rather than a worker in downtown Vancouver living in government assisted affordable housing, that worker could move his family to Fort St. John, where the price of living is more in tune with the price of labour. The cost of living here is not cheap, but surely a couple making $15 per hour each can make ends meet.

If you can’t afford to live in a place, then why wouldn’t you move someplace you could can?

I don’t have what I can’t afford. I also don’t expect my fellow citizens to subsidize my cost of living.

Economics doesn’t get any simpler than that.

Economic mobility is one of the cornerstone’s of our economy. There are more jobs than workers in Northern British Columbia, so people migrate here from “economically challenged” regions like most of Ontario, for example.

That’s part of how our economy keeps people employed. Someday that flow of labour and capital will tilt back to Ontario. That’s just the way it is.

To summarize, the government shouldn’t be involved in “affordable housing” unless society comes to a majority consensus that it ought to subsidize the housing costs of a local population of labours, who otherwise wouldn’t have been able to afford to live there.

Science Matters David Suzuki

Signs of change are sweeping the nation Recent events in Canada have shown not only that change is possible, but that people won’t stand for having corporate interests put before their own.

When plummeting oil prices late last year threw Alberta into financial crisis, people rightly asked, “Where’s the money?”

They could see that an oil producer like Norway was able to weather the price drop thanks to forward planning, higher costs to industry to exploit resources and an oil fund worth close to $1 trillion! Leading up to the election, the government that ran Alberta for 44 years refused to consider raising industry taxes or reviewing royalty rates, instead offering a budget

with new taxes, fees and levies for citizens, along with service cuts.

The people of Alberta then did what was once thought impossible: they gave the NDP a strong majority. Almost half the NDP members elected were women, giving Alberta the highest percentage of women ever in a Canadian provincial or federal government.

On the other side of the country, voters in Prince Edward Island followed B.C. provincially and Canada federally and elected their first Green Party member, as well as Canada’s second openly gay premier. Remember, homosexuality was illegal in Canada until 1969!

In my home province, after a long struggle by elders and families of the Tahltan Klabona Keepers, the B.C. government bought 61 coal licences from Fortune Minerals and Posco Canada in the Klappan and Sacred Headwaters, putting a halt to controversial development in an ecologically and culturally significant area that is home to the

William Stodalka

There are three things people need to live - food, water, and shelter.

These are by their definition necessities. If people can't afford food, they starve, if they can't afford water, they die of thirst, and if they can't afford shelter, they go out in the streets, catch a cold, or, in the olden days, get eaten by wolves.

This, in my view, makes affordable housing a necessity.

It can be considered an economic necessity. If people are spending all their money on their rent, they won’t have money to spend at the local shops. This can mean a less robust economy, which brings everyone in the system down.

While some may have differing definitions of affordable housing, it's a common place rule that you shouldn't spend more than a third of your income on housing.

There will always be people who can afford this amount of money to do so, whether you're a Vancouver billionaire or a roughneck in a Fort St. John oil service company.

But for the people who aren't making this amount of money, they will either be forced to go without this necessity, or do things that would be detrimental to them just to have a warm place to sleep at night.

People will find a way to survive no matter what situation you put them in, but they should not be forced to make choices that hurt them to do so.

Tahltan people and forms the headwaters of the Skeena, Stikine and Nass rivers. The Tahltan and the province have agreed to work on a long-term management plan for the area.

On the same night as Alberta’s election, people of the Lax Kw'alaams band of the Tsimshian First Nation met to consider an offer by Malaysian stateowned energy company Petronas of $1 billion over 40 years to build a liquefied natural gas export terminal on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, at the other end of the Skeena River, an estuary that provides crucial habitat for salmon and other life. The 181 people attending unanimously opposed the offer. Two nights later in Prince Rupert, band members also stood unanimously against the proposal.

A final vote was scheduled after this column’s deadline, but the message is clear: integrity, the environment and human health are more important than money.

Gerald Amos, a Haisla First Nation member and community relations director

for the Headwaters Initiative, said the federal Prince Rupert Port Authority’s decision to locate the facility on Lelu Island also demonstrated a failure to properly consult with First Nations. “By the time they get around to consulting with us, the boat’s already built and they just want to know what colour to paint it,” he said.

On a broader scale, change is occurring around the serious threat of climate change. Even well-known deniers, including U.S. oil billionaire Charles Koch, now admit climate change is real and caused in part by CO2 emissions. But they argue it isn’t and won’t be dangerous, so we shouldn’t worry. Most people are smart enough to see through their constantly changing, anti-science, pro-fossil-fuel propaganda, though, and are demanding government and industry action.

We’re also seeing significant changes in the corporate sector. The movement to divest from fossil fuels is growing quickly, and businesses are increasingly integrating positive

environmental performance into their operations. Funds that have divested from fossil fuels have outperformed those that haven’t, a trend expected to continue.

We can’t expect miracles from Alberta’s new government, which has its work cut out. After all, it would be difficult to govern Alberta from an anti-oil position, and the fossil fuel industry is known for working to get its way. Although NDP leader Rachel Notley has spoken against the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal, she isn’t opposed to all pipeline and oilsands development, and she’s called for refinery construction in Alberta. But she’s promised to phase out coalfired power, increase transit investment, implement energy efficiency and renewable energy strategies, and bring in stronger environmental standards, monitoring and enforcement.

I’ve often said things are impossible only until they aren’t anymore. The past few weeks show how people have the power to bring about change.

The Northerner • Friday, May 22, 2015 • 5

Road rage shocks Fort St. John Police are attempting to locate 18-year-old female involved in assault, but other men still not identified

A nasty case of road rage led to the pepper spraying of a three-year-old boy, an officer nearly being run over and a car speeding through residential yards — hitting fences, shrubs and trees — according to an RCMP release.

At 8:15 p.m. last night, numerous residents of the Mathews Park area called 911 to report a man and woman being assaulted on 90th Street.

According to Fort St. John RCMP, the incident began when one driver took exception to another for following too closely. Words were exchanged, and this led to one man pepper spraying the child, man and woman.

During the altercation, the alleged pepper sprayer was joined by a group of people who then aided in the assault.

Witnesses told police that six or seven perpetrators, including one woman, had assaulted the victims.

The suspects fled the area in two vehicles.

Four or five left in a maroon-coloured car, according to the release.

At about 8:35 p.m., a police officer spotted the other suspected vehicle in the neighbourhood and attempted a roadside stop.

When the officer approached the vehicle, the driver sped away.

The vehicle returned to the Mathews Park area and drove towards a police officer who was investigating the incident — nearly hitting him — then through residential yards. It fled the area a second time.

The officer was not hit by the vehicle.

Police found the vehicle parked outside Winks Convenience Store across from North Peace Secondary School.

The 20-year-old male driver was arrested inside the store.

Police are recommending charges of assault, assault with a weapon, flight from police, assaulting a police officer with a weapon and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle. He is set to appear before a judge Thursday.

“I have heard of road rage leading to physical assaults before, but never to this extent,” said Fort St. John RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie. “People who get frustrated with other drivers’

actions should mentally and physically remove themselves from the incident before the situation gets out of hand.”

Police have identified and are attempting to locate the 18-year-old female involved in the assault, but the other men have not been identified.

The maroon-coloured car has not been located.

Police are asking anyone with knowledge of the incident to contact Fort St. John RCMP at 250-787-8100 or to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-242-8477 (TIPS). reporter@dcdn.ca

Contractors to face stricter regulations on Sundays

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Companies doing noisy work on Sundays in Fort St. John may have to tell neighbours about their activities, if a proposed bylaw change goes through.

On Monday, city council went through the first three readings of a new noise regulation bylaw. It must still be formally adopted at a later date.

Currently, developers must gain a permit to work on Sundays. However, the current bylaw does not require them to contact nearby residents when they receive one.

The company would have to tell people up to 100 metres around the work site three days before the work starts by hand-delivering notices to their homes. Continued page 8

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At the North Peace Gymnastics club on Tuesday, overtop of the music playing, the prevailing sound was medals clanking together.

17 members of the club returned from Prince George last week with more medals than they knew what to do with, and they had them on display for family members to get a look at all the hardware.

The group returned from competing at the Prince George Invitational, which also doubled as the Zone 8 Championships on May 2 and 3, and the NPGA basically cleaned house.

It was amazing,” head coach Leanne Couch said.

“We had 17 athletes attend and out of those we had 13 medal finishes. We also came out with first place team award for our level four team, and first place for our level six team.”

The club also won best individual awards in each of the separate disciplines including vault, uneven bars and floor.

Couch went on to explain that although the club usually does well in Prince George, the showing on May 2 and 3 was outstanding.

“I think this is one of our bigger showings of [in terms of] how many athletes attended and how well we did with those athletes that attended. We do tend to do very well at that competition, but it’s a great confidence booster going into our last competition of the year.”

Gymnasts from Kitimat, Williams Lake, Prince George, Quesnel and Smithers competed in the twoday meet.

Couch also noted that despite the change in the level system from CCP levels 1-5 to the new Junior Olympic rankings from 1-9, the girls made the adjustments and performed at the top of their game when it

came time.

“I’m extremely proud of it, their hard work has definitely paid off. The new program we are using this year was an adjustment. For them to take that and work with it and still do well it was really good to see,” She said.

With the group doing so well, it has also ramped up the competitiveness within the NPGA team according to their head coach.

“There is a byron hackett photo bit of competi- Back (Left to Right): Phoebe Lunn, Avery Hucker, Deane Kitzul, Amelia Gauvin, Tayler MacDontiveness even ald. Middle (centre): Ann Marie Barrette, Kevala Van Volkenburg. Middle: Grace MacDonald, Ava more within the Clarance, Jordan Tucker, Kaleyah Lock, Jolea Baumle, Brynn Adam. Front: Madden Mize, Katie group because Yates. Missing: McKenna Powers, Sadia Horel. they know that their teammate could be catching up to them and They really shined,” she said. “Believe me, you they have to work that much harder to get to the next could not wipe the smiles off their faces. They were level,” Couch said. extremely happy overall.”

But at the end of the day they are a team, and Next up for the NPGA is the Kelowna competition Couch noted the girls were well aware of the strong on the first week of June. performance. sports@ahnfsj.ca

Golf Days Underway at Lakepoint Golf Club Byron Hackett

Alaska Highway News

Warm and dry weather has been kind to most of the Peace Region going on a week now, but at Lakepoint Golf and Country Club it wasn’t until Sunday when the public finally got a taste golf action.

General Manager for the club Troy Knight explained last Wednesday, it was a few troublesome greens that wouldn't dry up as fast as expected that kept the course from opening any earlier.

“It was time for sure,” Knight said. “We are probably average or a bit before average (in terms of opening date) everybody was really itching to get on the course this year because there wasn’t much snow for the longest time, but

it was real wet, we were close but we couldn’t quite get there.”

In particular it was four greens that Knight noted as the reason the course just wasn’t quite ready until lastSunday.

“Our concern was honestly just the greens, that’s the thing people remember most at a golf course,” he said.

“And that’s the most important factor. There were four greens right up until Sunday morning that we would have damaged if we cut them.”

The course is now fully up and running with a 90 degree cart to ball rule in effect, and Knight explained the whole course is starting to blossom quickly.

[Everything] is excellent, the greens are excellent. A couple little spots here and there but everything has pret-

ty much filled in and so in a other week it will be good,” he said.

He added that with some downtimes in the season, golfers can expect deals at certain points this summer.

“We are really going to try and go after our downturn market, not necessarily with discounts, but with value added things, like in with a green fee add in a food and beverage gift certificate, just try and put some extra value into things,” he said.

The first men’s night kicked off on Wednesday for Lakepoint and one of the biggest tournaments of the year, the Oilmen’s annual tournament is just a few weeks away. sports@ahnfsj.ca

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Hello reader, How was your May long weekend?

The weather is sure nice for calving and fieldwork. Some of the cows are already on grass. Most of the bulls should be turned out by now, so there will new calves next spring. Today I want to report from our 4-H clean up and Club Achievement last week.

On the 14th of May we had our annual garbage clean up around the dumpsters at Upper Halfway. There is always lots of garbage to collect, but this year it was not so bad. Sometimes it gets drug out by the bears deep into the bush and it is a lot of work to clean it up.

We also had a Club Achievement for Daniela's heifer and Michaela's 2 year old cow that lost her calf. Daniela's family is moving back to the Yukon for the summer, so she won't be able to attend the Achievement Days with her heifer on July 17. and 18. Michaela's cow had a beautiful bull calf. Sadly the calf died because it hat pneumonia.

Daniela and Michaela had both clipped their animals nicely and our leader Eckbert did some showmanship practise with them. At the end they each got a price, one a show halter the other a halter with necktie. Club achievement makes it possible for the animal to achieve so it can stay in 4-H and can be shown the next year again. 4-H members still must do their record book, take care of the animal and show it to the club. Basically it means the animal is just not coming to the Achievement Days. The animal can continue 4-H. Since Daniela is moving back to the Yukon we had a good bye party with wieners that we roasted over the campfire and floats and other yummy food. We will miss Daniela at Achievement Days.

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The changes would also mean higher fees for companies who break these rules. Under the old rules, contractors who break these rules would be fined $100. Under the new

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“I think where some of the complaints are coming [to the city] from is the fact that are the residents aren’t notified that [a contractor] is going to do work on a Sunday, whereas if they had advance noticed, it would alleviate some of those complaints,” said Janet Prestley, director of legislative and assembly services.

City Manager Dianne Hunter also said that Sundays were an area “of particular concern” for noise complaints to the city. Mayor Lori Ackerman questioned these changes.

“I think if someone showed up on my place and said ‘We are going to do construction on Sunday, whether you like it or not,’ I’d be a bit more crankier than just waking up to a hammer,” said

Ackerman.

The move was also questioned by at least one person involved in construction.

Myron Dirks, the project manager for Peace Enterprises, said that while his company doesn’t typically work on Sundays, there are situations where they need to do so, given the weather of the Peace Region and the short construction season.

“The feedback I'm getting from a lot of the guys is that when the weather’s good, they gotta get it,” he said. “On Sundays, when the weather's nice, they’re out there doing the work that they may not be able to do during the week … in some cases people just don’t want to see any work happen on Sundays.”

For Dirks, it would be better if the city could arrange a time for people to work on Sundays, such as between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Jim Rogers, the city’s director of facilities and protective services, said that in coming up with the bylaw changes, they were attempting to make the real complaints they receive “more manageable.”

In the end, council decided to pass the bylaw, as long as city staff agreed to get input from Fort St. John residents and local developers. reporter@ahnfsj.ca

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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 Points: 437 Wins: 2 Top 5: 8

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Location: Concord, N.C. Date: May 24th, 6:00 p.m.

TV: FOX Last Year’s Pole: Jimmie Johnson - 194.911 mph h Last Year’s Winner: Jimmie Johnson

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Top 10: 10

2) Martin Truex Jr. Points: 391 Wins: 0 Top 5: 2

Top 10: 10

3) Jimmie Johnson Points: 389 Wins: 3 Top 5: 7

Top 10: 8

Xfinity Series Top Ten Driver 1) Chris Buescher 2) Ty Dillon 3) Chase Elliott 4) Darrell Wallace Jr. 5) Brian Scott 6) Regan Smith 7) Elliott Sadler 8) Ryan Reed 9) Brendan Gaughan 10) Daniel Suarez

4) Joey Logano Points: 375 Wins: 1 Top 5: 6

Top 10: 9

5) Dale Earnhardt Jr. Points: 360 Wins: 1 Top 5: 6

Top 10: 7

6) Brad Keselowski The Coca-Cola 600, the longest race of the NASCAR season, takes place this Memorial Day weekend by returning to Charlotte Motor Speedway. This speedway currently hosts two of the biggest races on the NASCAR schedule.

With cars lining up three and four-wide through 24-degree banked turns, you can bet there’s going to be a lot of excitement as 43 furious machines storm down the 1.5 mile track. Nearly 180,000 people will attend the race. Darrell Waltrip is a fivetime winner of the Coca-Cola 600 and so the inner perimeter road around the speedway was named in his honor. Last week’s winner, Denny Hamlin, finished 22nd in last year’s race.

Points: 343 Wins: 1 Top 5: 3

Top 10: 7

7) Matt Kenseth Points: 331 Wins: 1 Top 5: 3

Top 10: 6

Racing News NASCAR officials are investigating Jimmie Johnson’s Hendrick Motorsports team for a possible rules violation during the Sprint All-Star Race on Saturday night. A NASCAR official said after the race that a crewman was being investigated for modifying the side skirt on Johnson’s car during the race.

NASCAR implemented new rules prior to this season preventing teams from modifying the side skirts during a race. NASCAR also has new video cameras monitoring pit road, making such rules violations easier to detect. Any possible penalties would be announced this week.

8) Jamie McMurray Points: 328 Wins: 0 Top 5: 2

9) Jeff Gordon Points: 317 Wins: 0 Top 5: 2

Top 10: 7

Top 10: 4

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Who is the youngest driver to win at Charlotte Motor Speedway? a) Jimmie Johnson b) Jeff Gordon

10) Kasey Kahne Points: 313 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1

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Top 10: 4

c) Kyle Busch d) Kasey Kahne

Answer : b) Jeff Gordon won when he was 22.

Shape: Quad-oval Distance: 1.5 miles Turns / Straights: 24º / 5º

Points 368 360 337 331 326 320 317 288 283 281

Last Weekend’s Race: Denny Hamlin won the All-Star Race A skillful move with only three laps left in Saturday night’s nonpoints Sprint All-Star Race, allowed Denny Hamlin to deliver the first victory in the non-points showcase event. As he drove into Turn 1 to start Lap 97, with Kevin Harvick glued to his bumper and ready to make a run at the $1 million first prize, Hamlin moved up a lane in the corner and took Harvick’s line away, causing Harvick’s No. 4 Chevrolet to lose momentum. “It was more defense than anything, but it turned into offense for me,” Hamlin said. “Harvick kept getting closer and closer, and eventually he gets to that right rear quarter panel, and your race is done.

Initially, I was looking in my mirror, and I knew it was going to be a defensive move to take his line.” Hamlin led the field to the green for the final segment and stayed in front the rest of the way, beating Harvick to the finish line by .823 seconds.

Denny Hamlin Born: Nov. 18, 1980 Crew Chief: Dave Rogers Car: Toyota

Year 2015 Career

Wins 1 25

Top 10s 4 158

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This Week: Crowne Plaza Invitational

Last Week: Rory McIlroy won the Wells Fargo Championship

The Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial has been part of the PGA Tour since the 1946 season when it began as the Colonial Defending: Adam Scott Invitational. Ben Hogan won the Winning Score: 14-under par first two years of the tournament Winning Share: $1,152,000 and holds the record as a fivetime winner of this event (1946, 1947, 1952, 1953, 1959). Kenny Perry holds the tournament record for the four-day event, firing a 19-under par total score in 2003 to defeat Justin Leonard by six strokes. Last year, Adam Scott defeated Jason Dufner with a birdie on the third playoff hole.

TPC Four Seasons Resort Irving, Texas 7,166 yards, Par 70

Golf TV Schedule Crowne Plaza Invitational Day Time Thu, 5/21 4:00pm-7:00pm Fri, 5/22 4:00pm-7:00pm Sat, 5/23 3:00pm-6:00pm Sun, 5/24 3:00pm-6:00pm

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Golf Trivia What is the record for most consecutive birdies in a PGA Tour round? a) 5 b) 7

c) 9 d) 11

Rory McIlroy won the Wells Tournament Results Fargo Championship on 1. Rory McIlroy Score: -21 Sunday, his second win in the Earnings: $1,278,000 last three weeks, in the most T-2. Patrick Rodgers dominant fashion. McIlroy broke the Score: -14 Earnings: $624,800 course record on Saturday, shooting T-2. Webb Simpson a 61. He destroyed the previous Score: -14 tournament record of 16-under, set Earnings: $624,800

by Anthony Kim back in 2008. He broke the birdie record at the 14th hole, pouring in his 26th of the week.

He also passed Gary Player as the international player with the most PGA Tour wins before 30, and he’s got four more years to add to that.

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Answer: c) Mark Calcavecchia made 9 consecutive birdies in the second round of the 2009 RBC Canadian Open.

Playing the par-3 eighth hole at Real Club de Golf El Prat in the Open de España on Friday, Miguel Angel Jimenez matched Colin Montgomerie’s all-time European Tour record with his ninth ace in competition. Typically, anyone who scores a hole-in-one has to buy drinks. Jimenez, who never has a problem buying drinks, likely will not have to buy any this time around. For his hole-in-one, Jimenez collected a prize of 288 bottles of beer. That number represents the four-round par total at the tournament (Real Club de Golf El Prat is a par 72). It’s the second time Jimenez has won such a prize; he got 100 bottles of beer a few years ago on a hole-in-one in Portugal.

Lessons from the Golf Pro One of the common issues the amateur golfer has that causes a loss of power in the golf swing is a reverse pivot. A reverse pivot occurs when the weight of the golfer moves to their front foot during the backswing, which causes the spine to tilt in the wrong direction.

In trying to keep your head still, you prevent a good shoulder turn from happening as well as the proper weight shift to the back foot. In order to correct a reverse pivot problem, here are a couple of suggestions. The most important key is to make sure that your hips stay still on your backswing. You have to imagine that you are in a drum and your hips do not touch either side of the drum on the backswing. The second piece of advice is to get your sternum directly over your back foot at the top of the backswing to ensure the proper weight distribution.

Player Profile

Rory McIlroy

Turned Professional: 2007 FedEx Cup Ranking: 3rd World Ranking: 1st PGA Tour Wins: 11

FedEx Cup Standings Through May 17, 2015

1) Jordan Spieth 2,118 pts. / 7 top tens

2) Jimmy Walker 1,693 pts. / 5 top tens

3) Rory McIlroy 1,428 pts. / 5 top tens

4) J.B. Holmes 1,320 pts. / 5 top tens

5) Patrick Reed 1,273 pts. / 3 top tens

FedEx Cup Standings continued...

Player Points 6) Bubba Watson 1,188 7) Dustin Johnson 1,180 8) Charley Hoffman 1,121 9) Hideki Matsuyama 1,106 10) Robert Streb 1,079

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