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THIS WEEK'S FLYERS:

The squeeze is on

>> Oil prices have dropped by half in eight months. Contractors in the Peace Region have been forced to cut costs. Some blame producers, while others say it's just business. One thing's for sure: Local companies are feeling the pinch.

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The owner of a shop in Fort St. John is upset after he was asked by cash-strapped oil companies to cut costs.

The proprietor did not want to be named, fearing reprisal from the producers, and asked to be called John Smith.

Smith showed Alaska Highway News letters he'd received from Calgary and Houston-based producers and service compa-

Ta ke A P aws Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) Repair in the dog Rivers Animal Hospital

When we see an overweight middle-aged lab scheduled for an appointment because of “not bearing much weight on hind leg”, I cringe as I know it is a lengthy surgery, drawn out recovery period and a lot of stress on the dog. Nonweight bearing would imply more of a structural problem like a fracture or dislocated hip while mildly limping is often arthritis or soft tissue injury. It’s the dog that is simply “toe touching” that concerns me.

ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) surgery in dogs is a commonly done surgical procedure in veterinary practice. When the anterior cruciate ligament is torn or stretched, instead of moving like a hinge, the knee joint will make a sliding motion.

This abnormal motion and instability creates trauma within the joint that leads to wearing of cartilage, and inflammation. Eventually, DJD...degenerative joint disease...results.

A torn cruciate ligament can occur if just the right (or wrong!) forces impact the knee joint. Most commonly

seen in larger breeds of dogs and in dogs that are overweight, the ACL surgical procedure does not repair the torn ligament but rather replaces the ligament with artificial material that takes over the function of the Ligament. Presented here nylon strands of 80 pound tensile strength are utilized to restabilize the knee (stifle) joint.

If a torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament is diagnosed, the best way to get back to full function would be to do a surgical procedure where an artificial ligament is placed along the side of the knee; we don’t try to fix the torn ligament because that particular one just won’t heal properly. After a few weeks of confinement, and then months of controlled activity, the fibrous connective tissue buildup around the knee stabilize the joint during activity. Then your dog can begin using the leg properly.

It should be stressed that any injury that does not improve within a couple of days should be checked out.

Most injuries respond better to early treatment and a torn ACL is a prime example of that.

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One requested that he reduce costs “in the magnitude of double digits from 2014 rates."

“With the price of oil dropping by over 40 per cent in the last six months, we expect a challenging environment for the foreseeable future,” wrote an American company from their office in Calgary.

After oil prices lost more than half their value over the past eight months, suppliers in the Peace Re-

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gion have been asked to share the financial burden with the larger companies they do business with.

Suppliers are being squeezed, and that's trickling down into other sectors of the economy.

Smith doesn't like it, and called the tactic "bullying."

In another letter to Smith, a Houston-based integrated project management company noted "current market trends and the associated revenue reduction for our clients” before requesting "an immediate and significant rollback of pricing with a continued commitment to adjustment should the market dictate.”

Another letter to Smith, a company said they'd “revisit this based on market conditions to determine if this temporary rate adjustment should continue and if so in what manner.”

Smith won't budge. He said his company has fixed costs that aren’t flexible. He’s trimming advertising costs, but with other added expenses, he's pretty much breaking even.

“We see both sides of the story, and we understand their pain,” he said, but added that isn’t how he treats his suppliers, and didn’t think it was fair to be treated that way himself. “We’re not passing that down, because we respect their good service,” he said.

Although collapsing oil prices haven't been reflected in macroeconomic data for Northeast B.C., they're starting to have an impact on businesses across the board.

Energetic Services President and CEO Brennan Ross said he's scaling back operations significantly.

He doesn’t blame producers.

“We’re at the mercy of both the demand of our clients and the competition that’s here,” he said.

“There’s so much competition and so little work that it has a downward pressure on the rates, and the customers – the oil and gas companies – are aware of this supply and demand disparity and it’s a

good time for them to reduce their costs.”

For Ross, it's simply a matter of economics.

“This is a very cyclical business, it goes up and down, and the advantage passes back and forth from the supplier to the producer depending on the economic reality of the day.”

Alberta has been hit hard by oil's downturn, but Northeastern B.C.'s labour force has been insulated from trauma — in a relative manner. That's because while oil has tanked, natural gas prices have largely stayed the same over the same time period. And natural gas is the name of the game in B.C. Northeastern B.C. is still at what economists term full employment, which means almost everyone who wants a job can get one.

But cracks are starting to show.

Ross has no plans for layoffs now, but going forward a lot that depends entirely on the severity and duration of the downturn.

Not so for Art Jarvis, owner of FloRite Environmental Services.

In the past few months, he’s had to let four of his 10 employees go.

That frustrated him as a business owner. After a decade of carefully building up a team, many of those workers will leave the oil and gas sector entirely.

“They can’t jump parallel or laterally and go work for my competition, because they don’t have work either,” Jarvis said. “They just get right out of the industry.”

Jarvis said that will make it harder to maintain a knowledgeable, experienced staff after oil rebounds and producers turn the tap back on.

Although Jarvis hasn’t reduced wages, he said some shops have tightened their belts with 10 per cent wage cuts.

Jarvis is also the executive director of Energy Services BC, a nonprofit group that lobbies on behalf of oil and gas contractors and service firms in the Northeast.

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Locations identified for new schools Fort St. John issues notice of intention to sell two plots of land for combined value of $4.4 million Elementary schools would be built to meet growing enrollment in the school district; no timeline has been laid out day at 6 p.m. at Fort St. John City Council to discuss changing the zoning of the area northeast of 112th Avenue and 86th Street to allow for the school to be built.

The two sites were first identified in 2011 in an SD 60 proposal. But it was not until 2014 that City Council authorized staff to put the locations on hold for po-

tential development by SD 60.

Monday was the first time the city put the public on official notice for a sale.

A report from Fort St. John staff to City Council in June 2014 identified the two potential projects as elementary schools.

The Ministry of Education did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

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to be ready.”

The schools would be built to meet growing enrolment in the district.

Headcounts from the Ministry of Education showed there were about 6,100 students in School District 60 for the 2014/2015 school year. That's an increase of about 200 students over the 2010/2011 school year.

Provincial estimates expect enrolment to grow another 25 per cent by 2023.

The need for new schools was supported by both staff and elected representatives.

At a provincial finance committee meeting on Sept. 17, SD 60 officials requested two new elementary schools and another middle school be added to the ministry's capital plan.

“We as a district need new schools,” wrote School District 60 Zone Five representative Bill Snow last November. “Fort St. John keeps on growing and growing and our schools are bursting at the seams.”

A public hearing is set for next Mon-

Fort St. John has put the public on notice that it intends to sell land to School District 60 for the possible construction of two new elementary schools.

On Monday, Fort St. John issued the notice to sell two plots of land within the city limits. The disclosure was made as part of its legal obligations under the city charter.

The first plot of land is located in the western part of town near the well water distribution station, and would be sold to SD 60 for about $2.2 million. It would be located east of 116th Street, near 108th Avenue.

The second plot of land is near Fort St. John Hospital, close to 86th Street and 112 Avenue. It would also sell for about $2.2 million.

“As soon as we can, we’re going to purchase them,’ said School District 60 Secretary-Treasurer Doug Boyd. “That’s the bottom line.”

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Johnny Wakefield

Should selfie sticks be banned everywhere?

Should a ban on selfie sticks extend from within the walls of a private business and into the public realm?

No, I say. The selfie stick user should be free to look like a total doofus in parks, schools, historical sites, even public cemeteries. Liberty demands it.

Let me start, as I so often do, by quoting John Stuart Mill, the 19th century liberal philosopher.

He famously wrote about the "peculiar evil" of silencing the expression of an opinion, saying that by banning or oppressing certain speech, society is deprived of a "clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."

Yes, we're talking about selfie sticks and not free speech. Yes, selfie sticks are objects, which are banned all the time in public (lawn darts, loaded weapons, vuvuzelas, etc.)

We can agree or disagree over whether selfie sticks are dumb.

But what better way to bring about an explosion of selfie stick usage than by banning it outright, in public?

Let the public see how silly the selfie stick user looks. Let them look upon that extended arm of narcissism and decide whether it is for them. Let the fad be a fad.

If a private business wishes to ban something, that is its prerogative. People can take their business elsewhere, along with their extendy phone holders.

But an outright ban on selfie sticks? Even I would carry the hated instrument in protest.

Science Matters David Suzuki

It’s time to end the grisly trophy hunt

Watching grizzly bears catch and eat salmon as they swim upstream to spawn is an unforgettable experience.

Many people love to view the wild drama. Some record it with photos or video. But a few want to kill the iconic animals — not to eat, just to put their heads on a wall or coats on a floor.

The spring grizzly kill starts April 1 and extends for several weeks, followed by a second fall season. By year’s end, several hundred will have died at the hands of humans, close to 90 per cent shot by trophy hunters — many of them foreign licence-holders, as the B.C. government plans to enact new regulations to allow hunters from outside B.C. to take 40 per cent of

grizzlies slated for killing. The government also plans to allow foreign interests and corporations to buy and run guide-outfitting territories previously run only by B.C. residents. Local hunting organizations say the new rules put them at a disadvantage.

According to the Vancouver Observer, hunting guide associations donated $84,800 to B.C. political parties from 2005 to 2013, 84 per cent to the B.C. Liberals.

In the controversy over regulatory changes, we’ve lost touch with the fact that the grizzly trophy hunt is horrific, regardless of whether bears are killed by resident hunters or big-game hunters who pay thousands of dollars for the chance to kill a bear here — often because it’s illegal in their home countries.

Grizzlies once roamed much of North America, from Mexico to the Yukon and from the West Coast through the prairies. Habitat loss and overhunting have since shrunk their range by more than half.

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Picture yourself at a concert, your son’s baseball game or trying to get a look at the Mona Lisa.

Now insert hundreds of 40 plus inch long sticks with cell phones attached to the end into that picture, just to capture “the moment”.

Maybe the selfie stick hasn’t reached the crazed phenomenon phase yet, but be assured with this self obsessed, photo hungry, Facebook generation it is only a matter of time before they do.

And when they do it’ll be like every person walking the streets will be carrying a moderately dangerous weapon, along with a general life distraction.

Schools? You really want kids carrying these around the hallways? It’s been a while since I was in school, but it’s pretty safe to say a selfie stick could be turned against someone you don’t agree with pretty quickly. That really goes for any public scenario.

It’s not like people are signing a non-violence waiver when they buy one.

Maybe you trip and fall when you are looking three feet in front of you into the sky at yourself phone. Lawsuit anyone?

Lawsuits aside, what about enjoying that moment, whether it is a beautiful sunset, a base shrieking riff or a son’s homerun, only to have it ruined by the couple next to you looking for the perfect photo for their Facebook album named after the newest Taylor Swift song.

It’s time our generation worried less about their “selfie” and more about the world around them.

on the brink of extinction, including nine in south-central B.C. and Alberta’s entire grizzly population.

Just how many bears reside in B.C. is in dispute. The government claims more than 15,000 grizzlies live here, but Raincoast Conservation Foundation science director Chris Darimont, a University of Victoria conservation biologist, puts the number closer to the government’s earlier estimate of 6,600 — before it doubled that in 1990 based on a single study in southeastern B.C.’s Flathead area.

According to a Maclean’s article, in 2000, the government “suppressed the work of one of its own biologists, Dionys de Leeuw, for suggesting the hunt was excessive and could be pushing the bears to extinction. De Leeuw was later suspended without pay for having pursued the line of inquiry.” The government then pursued a five-year legal battle with groups including Raincoast Conservation and Ecojustice to keep its grizzly kill data

sealed.

Allan Thornton, president of the British Environmental Investigation Agency, which has studied B.C. grizzly management since the late 1990s, is blunt about the government’s justification. “The British Columbia wildlife department does not use rigorous science,” he told the Vancouver Observer. In 2004, the European Union banned imports of all B.C. grizzly parts into member countries after its analysis found the hunt to be unsustainable.

Even the economic case is shaky. Studies by the Centre for Responsible Travel and Raincoast Conservation conclude revenue from bearviewing is far higher than revenue from grizzly hunting.

Grizzly population health is an indicator of overall ecosystem health, and bears are important to functioning ecosystems. They help regulate prey such as deer and elk, maintain forest health by dispersing seeds and aerating soil as they dig for food, and fertilize coastal forests by dragging

salmon carcasses into the woods. Hunting isn’t the only threat. Habitat loss, decreasing salmon runs, collisions with vehicles and other conflicts with humans also endanger grizzlies. Because they have low reproduction rates, they’re highly susceptible to population decline. Hunting is one threat we can easily control.

According to polls, almost 90 per cent of B.C. residents oppose hunting grizzlies for trophies, including many Frist Nations and food hunters.

Scientists say it’s unsustainable. The Coastal First Nations coalition has banned grizzly hunting in its territories, but the government doesn’t recognize the ban. The Raincoast Conservation Foundation has bought hunting licences in an attempt to reduce bear kills on the coast.

Simply put, most British Columbians — and Canadians — are against the grizzly trophy hunt. It’s time for the government to listen to the majority rather than industry donors and ban this barbaric and unsustainable practice.

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He said letters like the ones sent to Smith come across his desk with every bust in the boom-and-bust oil cycle, but this time is different.

“Usually service companies can get through the first quarter: January, February, March,” he said. “The ground is frozen, they can work anywhere, do anything, so they like to get as much work done as they possibly can because you can get to wells that you can’t get to in the spring, summer, or fall. This is the first time that I’ve seen the projects cut off and the letters go out this early.”

He's seen anecdotal evidence to suggest that this downturn will be worse than previous ones.

“I’ve talked to a lot of different businesses and it’s impacted everyone from the shoe store to the sandwich [shop].”

Jarvis said that he wished the province had moved faster on coming up with LNG tax rates to encourage faster growth in that sector. “We’re close, but every year that we take we’re getting further behind and lessening the opportunity to make bigger net dollars on this product.

"Every year there are other countries getting in the game as well.”

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A Welcomed Arctic Visitor The arrival of a new month signals days that become warmer, longer and more favourable to the outdoors! It’s a welcomed change – as welcomed as the friendly flocks of crimson capped visitors that have descended from the Arctic. Quite vocal with their constant calling, these recent arrivals add colour to the birdfeeders or the birch and willow bushes in your yard.

Yes - the Common Redpolls with their bright red caps have arrived and are kept busy socializing and flitting about Charlie Lake. Busy and acrobatic, the Common Redpolls travel in fairly large flocks, often choosing to gather in catkin-bearing trees. A member of the Finch family – with resemblance to the House Sparrow - the Common Redpoll wears a splash of red to its chest as well as a red capped head. A bit of colour to our otherwise bleak winter canvas!

The Common Redpolls are well adapted to feeding at the very tips of small branches, hanging upside-down, and using their feet to hold food items. They forage on the ground, especially in winter, and will clean up the leftover seeds from larger birds. The Common Redpolls prefer smaller seeds and were attracted to my birdfeeder because a couple of feeders were filled with Niger seed. This ancient black oil seed originated in Ethiopia (also known as nyjer) but is predominantly grown in the USA now.

An interesting and unique fact about the Common Redpoll is that they have special pouches in their throats that allow them to gather large amounts of food quickly to then retreat to a safe place to process the food. On colder winter days, they will even drop from a tree into deep snow and make a tunnel about a foot long to a roosting chamber.

Interested in participating in a little winter bird watching? It’s never too late to set up a feeder - but keep in mind the feeder’s accessibility to the birds, the feeder’s visibility for the viewers and shelter from the wind. Depending on the size of your yard, a couple of feeders could be set up in strategic places, but a feeder placed in the most sheltered spot in your yard makes a consistent place for birds to feed.

If you don’t already have a suitable location, take a moment to think about the ease of filling and maintaining the feeder, the capacity of the feeder, how well the feeder is sheltered from the snow and predators as well as what type of bird you want to attract.

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Your diligence and concern for the birds can bring you singing bushes and bright flashes of colour to add variety and warmth to your winter landscape. And soon – there will be robins.

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The Fort St. John Inconnu Swim Club had five swimmers compete at the 2015 SwimBC Short Course Age Group Championships from March 7-9.

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The pool may only have been 25 metres long, but the Fort St. John Inconnu travelled more than 12 million of them to arrive in Surrey and compete against some of the best swimmers in the province at the 2015 SwimBC Short Course Age Group Championships from March 5-7.

The club sent five swimmers to compete in the Under 15 age group event and finished 31st overall, which considering the small number of swimmers that represented Inconnu was a strong accomplishment.

Many topped personal bests over the course of the event, including 11-year-old Nic Eyles, who was the top performer bringing home two medals from his

performances.

“I got bronze in 50 [metre] back [stroke] and silver in 100 back [stroke], Eyles said of his racing in Surrey.

“Before my race I was a little bit nervous but after my races I was pretty happy… I dropped some time so I was pretty happy.”

The youngest member of the team was 10-year-old Kade Schwarz and he didn’t disappoint either, swimming to best times in each races and two club records.

“Yeah, I was pretty nervous. But after my first race it seemed like nothing really. But it was lots of fun,” Schwarz said.

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“I think I did good,” he said. “I shaved time off a few races and I made finals which was pretty exciting for me… it was just a good opportunity to race faster people than at other meets.”

14-year-old veteran of SwimBC AAA provincials Brittany Welsh had some high expectations for herself going into the meet, and well she thinks she might not have lived up to those standards, she was still satisfied with her racing over the weekend.

“I did okay,” Welsh said. “Not as many [personal bests] as I hoped for but it was still a good meet. I would have liked to do better but in certain swims I did really well so I was proud.”

Welsh was in the B final (the top swimmers from 9th-16th place in the preliminary races) in three of her swims.

Alex Hedges, 13, was looking to grab a few top spots in her races at the Surrey meet, and although she only reached the final in one race, she was happy with how she competed.

“In most of all of my races I got best times,” Hedges said. “I was just really proud. Even though I didn’t place in silver and gold, I still felt really proud of myself.”

Proud was the overwhelming emotion from the swimmers upon their return and along with that, the team might have had a little bit of fun too.

“It was great,” Welsh said. “Especially seeing all the new faces that came with us this meet, it was a lot of fun.”

Senior BC open Following the Under 15 short course event, six swimmers from the Inconnu Club competed in the SwimBC Senior Open long course event also in Surrey from March 7-9.

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18-year-old Ben Blackmon, who used the event to prepare for the World Championship trials, was close to some of his top times and accomplished a few of them in the process.

“Just getting close to or best times is just perfect,” Blackmon said of his mindset at the Senior Open. “If I’m getting best times that’s overachieving, but really good.”

Aaron Glover, 18, has been swimming in only summer events for the last eight years, decided to compete in the winter season this year for the first time, and had some interesting analysis of his races in Surrey.

“This was my first competition in a long-course pool,” he said. “It was actually a lot of fun. Some of the races, like the 100 m races seem a lot longer, it’s weird the 50m and the 200m seemed a lot shorter but there was just that middle ground where it doesn’t seem to end for some reason.”

Cale Murdoch raced in a modest 14 races over the course of the Senior Open event including finals and his top time was in the 50 metre freestyle where he took second place. “[Races] went really well,” he said. “I just wanted to make a bunch of best times and I did that.”

Chelsea Kerr, 16, is a veteran of provincials and looked to put forth some best times, and did so in the 200m backstroke and 100m butterfly.

Skyeler Kerr, 16, was also using the meet as training for World Championship trials like Blackmon, explained part of the experience of going to the Senior Open was getting to share it with his teammates.

“It is [cool],” Kerr said. “I love it. It completely changes the atmosphere. It’s no longer this closed home system you are part of a way bigger family. It’s just really open and everyone is cheering— there’s always someone to talk to. Everybody just helps each other get through the meet.”

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The Fort St. John Figure Skating Club competed at the Super Series Starskate Final in Kelowna last weekend and returned home with some favourable results and plenty of hardware.

This was the last major competition for most of the Starskate skaters this season.

Sophie Stevens— Star 5 Under 10, (11/15); Intro Interpretative (4/13).

MyKenzie Beech— Star 5 Under 13, (11/35); Bronze Interpretative (5/12). Emma Stevens— Star 5 Under 13, (19/35); Intro Interpretative (5/14). Shaya Jeffery— Juvenile Women Under 14, (3/10); Bronze Interpretative (1/12). Kirstyn Beech— Silver Interpretative (2/13).

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Rotary Club draws crowd

"If you’re interested in improving your life through your vocation, join Rotary. If you’re interested in international service and want to help people in other countries, join Rotary. If you’re interested in helping young people or enjoy students from here and abroad, join Rotary. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how I feel.”

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Rotarians young and old gathered last week at the Rotary Recruitment Dinner for a night of food and a look back on the Rotary Club over the years.

Dudley Wagner told the audiance what got him interested when the Fort St. John chapter of the Rotary Club was created 52 years ago.

“My Rotary experience started out one warm spring day, just like we’ve had here lately,” began Wagner. He was walking at the intersection of 100th and 100th in Fort St. John when Frank “Pop” Spicer — the town baker — and a man named Jack Nackey approached him. Nackey, it turned out, was in town to start a Rotary Club, and after explaining the basics to Wagner, he signed up.

They needed 20 people to for the charter.

Spicer was named president, they threw their first party on May 17.

“There were people there from Grande Prairie, Dawson Creek, Red Deer, Calgary, Stettler, Edmonton; it was just out of this world,” said Wagner. “And the stories that I heard that night about Rotary and what Rotary had done in communities in Canada and in the world, I decided right then and there that Rotary was for me.”

He said that the Rotary four-way test (the club’s ethical guide) and the code of conduct changed his outlook and became a way of life for him.

Fort St. John city councillor and Rotarian Larry Evans added some of the broader history of the Rotary Club beyond the borders of Fort St. John.

“It might be interesting to know that Buzz Aldrin, the guy that landed on the moon ... planted a four-way test pin on the moon’s surface,” said Evans. “Rotary Clubs all over the world have access to the moon, potentially.

Can you imagine visiting a Rotary Club on the moon?” he joked.

Wagner encourages non-members to sign up.

“If you’re looking for a club that works through fellowship, join Rotary,” he said. “If you’re interested in helping your community, join Rotary.

"If you’re interested in improving your life through your vocation, join Rotary. If you’re interested in international service and want to help people in other countries, join Rotary.

If you’re interested in helping young people or enjoy students from here and abroad, join Rotary. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how I feel.”

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Dudley Wagner, a charter member of the Fort St. John Rotary Club, told the story of how he helped start the Energetic City’s chapter. Inset: Larry Evans explained the significance of Rotary through its rich history.

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The Special Committee on Local Elections Expense Limits is conducting public consultations on campaign expense limit amounts for candidates for local government positions, such as mayor, councillor, school trustee, regional district electoral area director, Vancouver Park Board commissioner, or Islands Trust trustee. In addition, the Committee is examining limits for third party advertisers in local elections.

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WONOWONMonthly 4-HReport BEEF CLUB Hello reader, Three Firsts for WONOWON!!!

The 4-H District Communications were held March 14, 2015 at the Northern Lights College. Our club members placed very well.

Our clubs prizes: Daniella and Carissa 1 place Senior Demonstration Sara and Grace 1 place Junior Demonstration Peter 1 place Senior Speak and Show Ben and Justin 2 place Sr Demonstration It was a fun day! We will be able to attend the Regional Communication Event and compete against members of the South Peace 4-H in April.

In my Speak and Show I explain how to process a calf. Have you ever wondered why cattle get ear tags and get dehorned? This is part of my Speak and Show and will share some of it with you here today: Peter Weitzel Have you ever wondered how a cow can find her own calf in a bigger group of cattle? If you think the cow smells it you are right!

But how about people? We tell the calves apart by using ear tags. Ear tagging the calves after they are born is just one important part 4-H Reporter of managing your cattle herd.

We need to write an ear tag for the calf. Each calf gets two ear tags. The first one is called a Z-tag , which is a one piece dangle tag. This ear tag has the number of the cow. This is an identification that is helping in lots of ways, like finding a calf's mother when a calf is sick.

The second one is a CCIA tag which is a RFID tag that stands for Radio Frequency ID. All our cattle need to have a CCIA tag when they leave the place so they can be traced back to the place where they came from.

Dehorning is important because of safety, dominance, damage to corrals, and not to forget market value. A cow with horns can hurt a person much more than a cow without horns. Also they would be very dominant in the herd.

All for polled calves. So called polled cattle are cattle that are born without horns and don't grow any. You do not have to dehorn them.

Any cattle that is not polled need to be dehorned.There are different ways to dehorn cattle, it is best done when the calf is young because the horn is not fully developed and you can use dehorning paste. This is easier on the calf than doing it later by burning the horn our using a scooper or wire.

When a calf is horned you can feel the little hard hairless spot where the horn is. We like to cut the hair around it so you can see it before you apply the dehorning paste with a popsicle stick.

Each calf gets two injections: One with Vitamin AD, because they are in born in winter and are lacking those vitamins and this will keep them healthy.

You need to read the instructions on the bottle. It says there: to give the shot into heavy muscled area. Calves get 0.5 to 1 ml of AD Vitamins.

The second shot we give to our calves is Selenium and Vitamin E. It is given for the prevention of white muscle disease in calves. It says to give 1 ml for a 45 kg calf and it is given under the skin.

May be you wondered why you don't see cattle with horns anymore. Now you know why!

It is calving season and most of the beef 4-H members are busy with calving chores and also processing their calves.

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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

Auto Club Speedway Track Details Distance: 2.0 miles Shape: D-Shaped Oval Turns / Front / Back: 14º / 11º / 3º

Top 10: 4

2) Joey Logano Points: 160 Wins: 1 Top 5: 2

Top 10: 4

3) Jimmie Johnson Points: 124 Wins: 1 Top 5: 2

Top 10: 2

4) Martin Truex Jr. Points: 155 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1

Top 10: 4

5) Kasey Kahne Points: 132 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1

Top 10: 2

6) AJ Allmendinger Auto Club Speedway opened its doors in June of 1997 with the Inaugural NASCAR Sprint Cup Series California 500 presented by NAPA. More than 90,000 guests watched as Jeff Gordon won the 500-mile race. Fourtime Sprint Cup Series Champion Jeff Gordon holds numerous Auto Club Speedway records, including the best average finishing position. Auto Club Speedway stands on the historic site of the former Kaiser Steel Mill. The speedway stretches across 568 acres, including 131 acres in the Infield and a 30-acre parking lot. Kyle Busch has won this race the past two years.

Driver 1) Ty Dillon 2) Chris Buescher 3) Ryan Reed 4) Chase Elliott 5) Darrell Wallace Jr. 6) Brendan Gaughan 7) Regan Smith 8) Elliott Sadler 9) David Starr 10) Daniel Suarez

Points: 127 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 2

7) Dale Earnhardt Jr. Points: 126 Wins: 0 Top 5: 3

Top 10: 3

Racing News NASCAR reinstated suspended driver Kurt Busch last week and ruled him eligible to compete in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. NASCAR suspended Busch indefinitely on Feb. 20, just two days before the season-opening Daytona 500, for an alleged domestic assault on his ex-girlfriend. “It’s been torture sitting out of the car,” Busch said in a conference call. He called the allegations against him “a complete fabrication.” Busch, the 2004 champion, missed the season’s first three races during the suspension.

Racing Trivia

8) Ryan Newman Points: 123 Wins: 0 Top 5: 2

Top 10: 3

9) Brad Keselowski Points: 116 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 3

10) Matt Kenseth Points: 113 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1

Points 157 143 135 132 132 122 121 114 106 103

Top 10: 2

Who is the oldest driver to have won a race at Auto Club Speedway? a) Dale Earnhardt b) Jeff Gordon

c) Rusty Wallace d) Richard Petty

Last Weekend’s Race: Kevin Harvick won the CampingWorld.com 500 CampingWorld.com 500 Results Driver Points Kevin Harvick 48 Jamie McMurray 43 Ryan Newman 41 Kasey Kahne 40 Kurt Busch 39 Brad Keselowski 39 Martin Truex Jr. 37 Joey Logano 37 Jeff Gordon 35 Kyle Larson 34

The best car in the CampingWorld.com 500 at Phoenix International Raceway won on Sunday. Kevin Harvick had to hold off a charging Jamie McMurray on the final restart with 12 laps left. This notched his fourth straight victory at the one-mile track. The reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champ had led 224 of 312 laps, but McMurray took his best shot on the Lap 301 restart, driving hard to the inside of Harvick and, for the briefest of moments, cleared Harvick’s No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing. Then, the driver who has become an all-but-irresistible force in NASCAR’s premier series fought back to the outside, clearing McMurray’s No. 1 Chevrolet and cruising to the finish line 1.153 seconds ahead of McMurray.

Jamie McMurray Born: June 3, 1976 Crew Chief: Matt McCall Car: Chevrolet

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TV: FOX Last Year’s Pole: Matt Kenseth - 187.315 mph Last Year’s Winner: Kyle Busch

Points: 182 Wins: 2 Top 5: 4

Xfinity Series Top Ten

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This Week: The Arnold Palmer Invitational

The Arnold Palmer Invitational is one of the top draws in the PGA Tour since this event is hosted by the impeccable Arnold Palmer.

Defending: Matt Every The tournament became a part of Winning Score: 13-under par the PGA Tour back in 1966 as the Winning Share: $1,116,000 Florida Citrus Open Invitational.

Lionel Hebert won the inaugural event, defeating Charles Coody and Jack Nicklaus by two strokes. Perhaps the most stunning run of wins at this tournament began in 2000. Tiger Woods won his first Arnold Palmer Invitational that year and went on to win three more times in a row. He has won the tournament a record eight times in total.

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Jordan Spieth sank a Tournament Results dramatic 28-foot birdie putt 1. Jordan Spieth Score: -10 *won in playoff on the third play-off hole on Earnings: $1,062,000 Sunday to win the Valspar T-2. Patrick Reed Championship and capture his Score: -10 Earnings: $519,200 second career PGA Tour title. The T-2. Sean O’Hair 21-year-old rolled a tension-packed Score: -10 putt over a ridge and into the cup at Earnings: $519,200 the par-3 17th on Innisbrook resort’s Copperhead course to defeat Patrick Reed and Sean O’Hair. Ryan Moore, the 54-hole leader ahead by three with six holes to play, made bogeys on three of them and finished two shots adrift.

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Last Week: Jordan Spieth won the Valspar Championship

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Answer: c) Jim Furyk with 72.92% greens in regulation.

Tiger Woods will skip this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Orlando, leaving him with little time to sharpen his game enough for the year’s first major, the April 9-12 Masters.

“I spoke to Arnold today and told him that I will not play in his tournament this year,” Woods wrote on his website on Friday. “I’m sorry I won’t be in Orlando next week, but I know it will be a really successful event. I hope to be ready for the Masters, and I will continue to work hard preparing for Augusta.” Woods, who had back surgery last year, has played just two PGA Tour events this season and said last month he would not return to competition until he felt his game was “tournament-ready”.

Lessons from the Golf Pro Both the uphill and the downhill bunker shots provide different challenges, but both can be addressed to provide an easy solution. For the uphill bunker shot, address the ball with it forward in your stance and your shoulders tilted more than normal.

You do this with your shoulders in order to hit through the ball without digging too much sand out as you make your swing on the ball. There can be no denying that the downhill bunker shot is the more difficult of the two shots. The biggest problem that the amateur golfer has is getting the ball up quick enough to get it out of the bunker. Your hands need to be ahead of the ball to create a descending blow. The most important aspect is that you have to hit the ball with authority to get it out of the bunker rapidly.

Player Profile

Jordan Spieth

Turned Professional: 2012 FedEx Cup Ranking: 7th World Ranking: 6th PGA Tour Wins: 2

FedEx Cup Standings Through March 15, 2015

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

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

3) Patrick Reed 1,076 pts. / 3 top tens

4) Dustin Johnson 910 pts. / 3 top tens

5) Robert Streb 903 pts. / 5 top tens

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Player Points 6) Ryan Moore 877 7) Jordan Spieth 864 8) Sang-Moon Bae 862 9) Jason Day 847 10) Brandt Snedeker 834

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