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Four new physicians recruited for FSJ

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After a long wait, Fort St. John has new doctors on the way.

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“My wife and I are very excited to join the Fort St. John community, and I look forward to meeting my new patients. I sincerely hope file Photo that I can contribute to an already A health care forum organized by concerned citizens in September drew over 200 peovery strong medical team in Fort ple. An exodus of doctors beginning and the closure of walk-in clinics has left most resiSt. John,” he said. dents of Fort St. John with few options when it comes to health care. The unattached “I am very proud of this commu- patient clinic has a wait-time of three to four months and the only walk-in clinic in Fort nity and all it has to offer, and am St. John sometimes reaches its daily capacity before it even opens. very glad that the four physicians see the benefits of relocating to Fort St. John,” said not wait to have more physicians see the benefits of living and practicing Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ackerman in a release. “We here.” know Fort St. John is a fantastic community, and canThe road to retaining doctors in Fort St. John has been a bumpy one.

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RocKIN the Peace takes over the Lido

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“They’ve been doing really awesome since coming through the contest here,” he said.

A panel of judges weighed ballots from the audience to decide the contest. “It evens out the playing field,” said Johnston. “Every year that we’ve had the judges, the audience and the judges have agreed on the winner. You can tell that people coming to the contest are actually being fair and listening to everybody, it’s not just one person’s friends.”

Johnston also added that they’re always looking for volunteers. “If people want to get involved in something this awesome, get in contact with us,” he said. “This year we have so many people that have helped out, it’s been so easy doing the contest.”

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The 10th annual RocKIN the Peace took over the Lido on Saturday evening in Fort St. John, with bands doing battle for top spot. 56th Collective walked away with the $1,500 prize.

Unlike last year, which saw a lot of group acts, 56th Collective was the only group act among four other solo artists this year. They featured a number of different styles, including hip hop, country and folk music. Another difference: Last year’s finalists came from far and wide, while this year’s contenders were all local, said organizer and president of the Fort St. John Kin Club Blair Johnston.

“Previous years we’ve had Tumbler Ridge, we’ve had Grande Prairie getting involved as well," he said. "This year they just all happened to be from the Fort St. John area.”

The 10th anniversary celebration kicked off with a performance by Lorissa Scriven, winner of the 2010 RocKIN the Peace competition, and wrapped up with an energetic set by SuperCharger, the contest’s first winner back in 2005.

Funds were also raised for local business owner and open mic participant Henry See, who is currently battling cancer.

56th Collective is made up of Trevor Cavill, Scott Maguire, Skyler Rowsell and Joss Hannaford. Cavill and Maguire have been playing together for two years and make up the core of the band, while the other two have been playing with them for only a couple of months.

“We’re both surveyors so 56 is our latitude north here, that’s kind of between Scott and I," said Cavill. "The collective part is that we can draw on local talent, bring them in to fill a particular sound for a particular event, or just that’s how we’re feeling. Skyler and Joss are great and we love it.”

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David Dyck

Should children be allowed to leave their homes unsupervised?

Of course, a toddler running around by itself is going to raise some red flags, and rightfully so. But there comes a certain age, contrary to what some mothers might think, when the nest must be left. It should be a gradual leaving, of course, but a steady one, where boundaries are pushed ever further. Children need it to learn how to interact with the world outside, and parents need to let that interaction happen.

The judgment about what age they’re allowed to go how far from home is reserved for the parents. That is as it should be, since parents know their kids the best, and no two kids are the same.

While one might not know how to navigate the great outdoors solo by the age of 10, another might be perfectly capable at that age.

As far as I’m concerned, that responsibility of determining when it is appropriate should be left to the ones who are responsible for that child’s wellbeing. Who knows what kind of impact limiting someone’s parenting will have on their child years down the road?

If you’re really concerned about the wellbeing of a child out on its own, do the responsible thing and ask politely if they’re allowed to be out on their own. If they’ve been taught properly they’ll tell you they aren’t supposed to talk to strangers and walk away.

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Let’s not sacrifice freedom out of fear

A scientist, or any knowledgeable person, will tell you climate change is a serious threat for Canada and the world.

But the RCMP has a different take. A secret report by the national police force, obtained

by Greenpeace, both minimizes the threat of global warming and conjures a spectre of threats posed by people who rightly call for sanity in dealing with problems caused by burning fossil fuels.

The RCMP report has come to light as federal politicians debate the “anti-terrorism” Bill C-51. Although the act wouldn’t apply to “lawful advocacy, protest, dissent and artistic expression,” its language echoes the tone of the RCMP report. It would give massive new powers to the Canadian Security

Intelligence Service to prevent any person or group from “undermining the security of Canada,” including “interference with critical infrastructure” and the “economic or financial stability of Canada.” And it would seriously infringe on freedom of speech and expression. The new CSIS powers would lack necessary public oversight.

The RCMP report specifically names Greenpeace, Tides Canada and the Sierra Club as part of “a growing, highly organized and well-financed antiCanada petroleum movement that consists of peaceful activists, militants and violent extremists who are opposed to society’s reliance on fossil fuels.” The report downplays climate change, calling it a “perceived environmental threat” and saying members of the “international anti-Canadian petroleum movement … claim that climate change is now the most serious global environmental threat and that climate change is a direct consequence of elevated anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions

Mike Carter

Can we say that we want kids leaving their homes unsupervised without jumping to crazy CSI type conclusions?

The answer to that should probably be yes.

But they shouldn’t just be able to run around and go where they please, unless you live in an area where your closest neighbour is ten miles down the road. In that case, give them a cell phone, a buddy, and a bike - and they are good to go. It’s how I grew up and I turned out, OK. No wait, I didn’t. Supervise your kids all the times or they might end up like me: a mildly successful journalist, making a livable wage and loving my life fulltime. Actually wait, they won’t end up like me because we probably won’t have newspapers by that time.

I say every house should have a play area with everything a kid would need.

Like an inside/outside dungeon, but fun – a fungeon. This will make it easy for them to be supervised because they will always be close to home.

This would be a place with video games and other activities inside, and a big wide-open (but supervised) area outside. It’ll give your kids lots to do.

But wait, who am I to say anything about this topic? I don’t even have kids.

Maybe someday I’ll know a bit more about what I am talking about here – hopefully.

In the end, parenting choices are up to the parents, you know what’s best for your kids, so make a choice and execute it well, with or without a funegon.

which, reportedly, are directly linked to the continued use of fossil fuels.” It also makes numerous references to antipetroleum and indigenous “extremists”.

Language in the RCMP report and Bill C-51 leaves open the possibility that the act and increased police and CSIS powers could be used against First Nations and environmentalists engaging in non-violent protests against pipelines or other environmentally destructive projects.

As University of Ottawa law professor Craig Forcese points out, with its reference to “foreign-influenced activities within or relating to Canada that are detrimental to the interests of Canada,” the anti-terrorism law could be used in the case of a “foreign environmental foundation funding a Canadian environmental group’s secret efforts to plan a protest (done without proper permits) in opposition to the Keystone Pipeline Project.”

Considering that government ministers have already characterized anti-pipeline protesters as “foreign-funded radicals”,

that’s not a stretch. The RCMP could consider my strong support for greenhouse gas emissions reductions and renewable energy as “anti-petroleum”.

Combatting terrorism is important, but Canada is not at war, and we already have many laws — and enhanced police powers — to deal with terrorist threats. More importantly, the RCMP report fuels the legitimate fear that the new law could be used to curtail important civil liberties, affecting everyone from religious minorities to organized labour and First Nations to environmentalists.

If, for any reason, someone causes another person harm or damages infrastructure or property, that person should —and would, under current laws — face legal consequences. But the vast majority of people calling for rational discussion about fossil fuels and climate change — even those who engage in civil disobedience — aren’t “violent anti-petroleum extremists.” They’re people from all walks of life and ages who care about our country, our world, our families and friends and our

future.

Canada is much more than a dirty energy “superpower”.

Many people from different cultures and backgrounds and with varying political perspectives have built a nation that is the envy of the world. We have a spectacular natural environment, enlightened laws on issues ranging from equal rights to freedom of speech, robust social programs and a diverse, educated population. We mustn’t sacrifice all we have gained out of fear, or give up our hard-won civil liberties for a vague and overreaching law that, as Forcese and University of Toronto law professor Kent Roach point out, “undermines more promising avenues of addressing terrorism.”

Pollution and climate change caused by excessive burning of fossil fuels are real threats, not the people who warn that we must take these threats seriously. And while we must also respond to terrorism with the strong tools already in place, we have to remember that our rights and freedoms, not fear, are what keep us strong.

The Northerner • Friday, March 13, 2015 • 5

Local stars shine at CDC talent show CDC marks 41 years in North Peace

It was a packed theatre at the North Peace Cultural Centre on Friday for the Child Development Centre’s (CDC) 40th anniversary celebration and annual talent show.

Performers of all ages stepped up to sing, play and perform as the centre raised over $100,000.

“We ended up raising just over $104,000,” said Penny Gagnon, the CDC’s executive director, adding that the talent show, the day for the kids, and the CDC month activities, has regularly brought in that amount for the past several years.

Many of the performers came from the Early Learning Program, out of the 240 kids that attend the preschool. “All of the preschool kids do a performance,” said Gagnon.

“We have an afternoon performance David Dyck Alaska Highway News for the younger kids, the three-yearolds, and then the four-year-olds (Above) Penny Gagnon (left), executive director for the CDC, come to the evening performance. accepting a cheque for $10,000 The Early Learning Program focuses on a number of different areas from Northern Metalic.

such as literacy, social and emotional development, and the importance of play, explained Gagnon.

It wasn’t only children performing, however, many adults including local country musician Justin Ralph put on a show for the crowd.

The money will go towards paying down the centre’s mortgage and a new playground that they will be starting this year. “It is a natureinspired playground, it’s not going to be a traditional slide and swings playground,” Gagnon explained.

“We want to do something a little bit different, because we know that kids who have the opportunity to explore the natural environment have different opportunities in terms of their learning and development and selfregulation.”

The Fort St. John city council proclaimed last month CDC Month in the Energetic City, in recognition of all the work the society has done over the years.

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Fort St. John native Denny Morrison finished the 500 metre race at the World Allround Championships in record time on the weekend.

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It is still three years out from the Olympics in Pyeongchang and Denny Morrison is already in top form.

That’s scary for the rest of the long track speed skating world, considering the four time Olympian has won medals in each of his last two games, had several medals this World Cup season and set a World Allround Championship competition record on Friday.

Friday’s record was in the 500 metre at the 2015 ISU World Allround Long Track Speed Skating Championships on his home track in Calgary, a mark of 34.98 seconds and gold in the race.

Morrison said despite the record, he is always looking to better himself.

“That’s the fun thing about speed skating,” he said. “I won the 500 but I would have liked to gone two tenths faster and got a personal best… no matter what happens you are always that far away from doing something better. There’s always something more to work towards.”

He also finished seventh in the overall competition, the top world allround finish by a Canadian since 2010, which features a 500m, 1500m, 5000m and 10,000m.

In order to be eligible for each race, a skater needs to be top eight in the previous distance.

There was no podium for Morrison on Sunday, but he did salute the large crowd out at the Olympic Oval in Calgary with a victory lap after his long 10,000m race.

“Ultimately, I didn’t really win anything today,” Morrison saidSunday. “I never made the podium but I still took a victory lap after, had to thank that crowd it was pretty cool to see everyone stick around for my 10k. I know it was grueling to watch and it took longer than I wanted it to, but I appreciate them sticking around and cheering me on right till the finish.”

Morrison has now finished in the top ten in each of the five World Allround Championships he has competed in.

More so than any of those individual accomplishments, the Fort St. John native is thrilled about his mindset this far away from Olympic competition.

“What I’m most happy about— I always look at the quadrennial— the Olympic cycle. This is the first year of a new Olympic cycle,” he said.

“If I compare this year and the season I had compared to the season I had following the Vancouver Olympics, as far as not just me as an athlete or me as my own performance but me as a teammate and a leader and also coming out here today and doing this— having positive results all season it’s been a whole new page. It’s way better— night and day compared to where I was at mentally after Vancouver.”

The final race of the international long track season will be the World Cup Finals from March 21-22 in Erfurt, Germany.

Trackers off to provincials

The Trackers hope to have success in their ultimate season goal, winning a provincial championship. They will travel to Comox Valley this upcoming weekend for the Midget Tier One Championships, the first time that the Northeast B.C. and Yukon Midget Trackers have been allowed to compete in the tournabyron hackett photo ment.

The games will get underway March 15 and will The Northeast B.C. and Yukon Midget Trackers must turn their focus this week to the Midget Tier One Provincials that get underway next Sunday in Comox Valley. wrap up Thursday, March 19.

The Northerner • Friday, March 13, 2015 • 7

New licensing for home builders

The B.C. government is launching an enhanced licensing system for residential home builders, which will require them to prove their proficiency in key areas before receiving a license Lindsay Kines Times Colonist

In a move designed to protect homebuyers, the province is establishing an enhanced licensing system for residential builders that will take effect in the summer of 2016.

The system will require home builders new to the industry to demonstrate their proficiency in key areas before they receive a licence.

Home builders who already have a licence will not have to apply for a new one. The licences must be renewed annually.

“Our goal is to protect new homebuyers across British Columbia. We worked with the construction industry to make these changes, raise the bar of professionalism and maintain B.C.’s position as a leader in the residential marketplace,” said Rich Coleman, minister responsible for housing.

The new scheme is being applauded by builders, many of whom say it’s long overdue.

“This is something we have advocated for forever,” said Casey Edge, executive director of the Victoria Residential Builders Association.

Edge said the new regulation is especially timely as the province requires new homes to be more energy efficient.

“As the B.C. government has ratcheted up energy efficiency, we have requested mandatory education and

training for builders because as homes become more energy efficient the margin for error diminishes,” he said.

Newcomers must have a licence before they can work in the industry. To receive one, they are required to take recognized courses in seven areas related to residential construction, including the B.C. building code and related regulations, construction management, construction science that includes knowledge about things such as building envelopes and mechanical systems, customer relations, basic accounting, legal issues and business planning.

To renew their licences each year, the province’s 6,000-plus builders have to prove they’ve completed professional development related to residential construction.

Qualifications can be met through a combination of education and experience. The province said there will be no additional licensing fees for builders.

The enhanced licensing system will be phased in over the next 16 months to give the industry time to prepare for the new requirements.

Last year, more than 30,000 new homes were built in B.C. About 11,695 were single detached houses and the rest were in multi-unit buildings.

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A man who used to run Millennium Jewellers in Fort St. John has been found guilty of one count of income tax evasion and one count of goods and services tax evasion.

Ivan Yiu Fai Leung of Richmond B.C. was ordered on Feb. 26 to pay $241,061 — 75 per cent of the total federal income tax that was evaded — and the GST he did not remit.

Leung, who pled guilty to the charges, was also ordered to serve a 20-month conditional sentence.

Leung had under-reported his income for the 2006 to 2008 tax years, evading $262,095 in Federal income tax and failed to remit $59,320 in GST. In cases like this, the

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February 4-H article

By Allie Lehmann

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Allie Lehmann here, sitting in for Iris Wenger, the usual club reporter, as she vacations in the amazing New Zealand for two months (not jealous at all). Actually, I’ve been sitting in for a lot of things lately, like running a club meeting. Now, normally the person who runs the club meetings is the president (Stephanie Lehmann, also my sister), but Stephanie has been MIA for various reason during the last three of them. That leaves the Vice President (that’s me!) to run the club meetings, and for this month’s article, I’ll tell you all about running them.

The first thing that will normally happen is getting an impromptu message that my sister will not be able to attend, and I’ll have two-three hours to come up with a plan that may or may not help with how the meeting goes. Luckily, theres an order of events paper that they give out to the president that tells me exactly what order announcements and reports go,m helping me look like I sort of know what I’m doing. The meetings aren’t normally too long, lasting only an hour or two tops, but sometimes they go longer if food is involved. The hardest part about running a club meeting is being assertive. Normally we’ll start off going well, but as with everything else, the club will get off task (like talking about how many different ways you can address the audience in a speech) and getting on-task is difficult. The secretary plays a part in the meetings by taking the minutes (writing down every detail about what happens during the meeting), as well as going over the old business. The treasurer gives a report on our bank statements, and any extra cash left over for fun club activities. We do a roll call where we ask for everyone’s input on a certain subject, the last meeting’s being about topics for our next communications competition. Speaking of, communications is that time of year when 4-H members work on their public speaking skills.

There are different types of speeches that you can do for communications.

You can choose between a demo, an educational display, speak-and-show, and of course, a typical speech. They vary in length, and if you’re doing an educational display, you don’t even need to go onstage and speak! Our communications is happening on February 21st, meaning that we’ll be preparing for it all month long. Once we get the meeting part of it done, we’ll normally break off into groups and work on things like judging, speech topic ideas and many other things, depending on what time of the year it is, and what events are coming up. After that, the meeting is over and we can all go home, with the impending doom of communications on all of our Allie Lehmann minds.

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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: 134 Wins: 1 Top 5: 3

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Location: Avondale, Arizona Date: March 15th, 1:00 p.m.

TV: FOX Last Year’s Pole: Brad Keselowski - 139.384 mph Last Year’s Winner: Kevin Harvick

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Top 10: 3

2) Joey Logano Points: 123 Wins: 1 Top 5: 2

Top 10: 3

3) Jimmie Johnson Points: 91 Wins: 1 Top 5: 2

Top 10: 2

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

4) Dale Earnhardt Jr. Points: 125 Wins: 0 Top 5: 3

Top 10: 3

5) Martin Truex Jr. Points: 118 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1

Top 10: 3

6) AJ Allmendinger Phoenix International Raceway has a unique tri-oval shape, with a curve in the middle of the backstretch between turns two and three, commonly referred to as “the dogleg”. This exists because the original builders were constrained by both the rocky hills located on the property and their incorporation of an external road course and dragstrip into PIR’s design. The other notable feature of PIR is the presence of the “Hillside”, a fan-favorite viewing area located on Monument Hill just outside of turn four. Kevin Harvick won this race last year.

Harvick has won four of the last six races at Phoenix International Raceway.

Points: 100 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 2

7) Kasey Kahne Points: 92 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 1

Racing News Kurt Busch will not face criminal charges over claims by his ex-girlfriend that he smashed her head into a bedroom wall and choked her, Delaware prosecutors said last week. Afterwards, NASCAR spokesman David Higdon said that Busch is actively participating in the reinstatement program. He said Busch’s eligibility will be governed by that program, but “the elimination of the possibility of criminal charges certainly removes a significant impediment to his reinstatement.”

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8) Denny Hamlin Points: 87 Wins: 0 Top 5: 2

Top 10: 2

9) Casey Mears Points: 87 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 1

10) Matt Kenseth Points: 85 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1

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What current driver has run the most races in the Cup Series without a win? a) David Gilliland b) Landon Cassill

c) Mike Bliss d) Reed Sorenson

Answer : a) David Gilliland has run 295 races without a win. He has two second place finishes.

Track Details Distance: 1.0 miles Shape: Tri-oval Turns / Front / Back: (1-2) 10-12º & (3-4) 8-9°

Points 119 113 104 103 95 86 86 83 82 81

Last Weekend’s Race: Kevin Harvick won the Kobalt 400 Kobalt 400 Results Driver Points Kevin Harvick 48 Martin Truex Jr. 43 Ryan Newman 42 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 41 Denny Hamlin 39 AJ Allmendinger 38 Brad Keselowski 38 Kyle Larson 36 Matt Kenseth 36 Joey Logano 35

Kevin Harvick must have been tired of finishing second, because on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champ did something about it.

Once Harvick got to the front of the field from his 18th-place starting spot in the Kobalt 400, he was untouchable. Even with a disquieting vibration on the final green-flag run and a left-rear tire that shredded during his celebratory burnout, Harvick had enough of a working margin to hold off runner-up Martin Truex Jr. by 1.640 seconds. Harvick, who ran second in the seasonopening Daytona 500 and in last week’s 500-miler at Atlanta, led a race-high 142 laps in winning for the first time in Las Vegas.

“It’s so cool to win here and to start this West Coast swing off this way is pretty awesome,” Harvick said in Victory Lane.

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Golf Trivia Which golfer leads the PGA Tour in scoring average so far this season? a) Webb Simpson b) Bubba Watson

Dustin Johnson shot a Tournament Results final-round 3-under-par 69 1. Dustin Johnson Score: -9 to win the WGC-Cadillac Earnings: $1,570,000 Championship on Sunday.

2. J.B. Holmes He finished at 9-under and one Score: -8 Earnings: $930,000 stroke ahead of J.B. Holmes and 3. Bubba Watson two strokes ahead of Bubba Watson.

Score: -7 Johnson never made worse than a Earnings: $540,000 bogey all week, and he didn’t have a single three-putt. It was his ninth career win, his second World Golf Championship title and his first win after being away for six months to seek help for what he termed personal challenges.

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The Puerto Rico Open was held last week for the PGA Tour players that did not qualify for the WGCCadillac Championship. Alex Cejka won the tournament on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, making a 15-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a five-man playoff. The 44-year-old Cejka outlasted Americans Jon Curran, Tim Petrovic and Sam Saunders and Argentine Emiliano Grilloto in rainy, windy conditions at Trump International-Puerto Rico. “I’m speechless,” Cejka said. “I’m glad it’s over. It’s been a grinding week, tough week.” A four-time winner on the European Tour, Cejka endured a 12-year global drought before winning on the secondary Web.com tour in 2014.

Lessons from the Golf Pro One of those shots that we do not get the opportunity to practice very much, but comes in handy at times is the lob shot. In essence, the lob shot is a complete feel shot, so there are a few tricks to follow. The first step is to make sure that your grip pressure is soft and your hands stay quiet. You want to keep your grip pressure constant throughout the entire stroke. Your best course of action is to make a long, lazy swing with as much wristcock as you can get on your backswing. You need to make your stance much wider than what you are used to and open the clubface up dramatically to get the ball in the air immediately. The final point is to play the ball off of your left instep with almost all of your weight being placed on your right foot.

Player Profile

Dustin Johnson

Turned Professional: 2007 FedEx Cup Ranking: 3rd World Ranking: 7th PGA Tour Wins: 9

FedEx Cup Standings Through March 8, 2015

1) Jimmy Walker 1,150 pts. / 4 top tens

2) Bubba Watson 1,088 pts. / 4 top tens

3) Dustin Johnson 910 pts. / 3 top tens

4) Robert Streb 903 pts. / 5 top tens

5) Sang-Moon Bae 858 pts. / 4 top tens

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Player Points 6) Jason Day 847 7) Patrick Reed 831 8) Charley Hoffman 825 9) Brandt Snedeker 819 10) Brooks Koepka 790

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