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Years ago, people had come from miles around to a Baldonnel ranch to watch what could have turned out to be an execution by horse.

The executioner in this case was a stallion named Jack. The victim was the man who'd been hired to train him.

The trainer didn't want to tell the gathered crowd, but word had gotten around from someone who knew about the type of animal he was facing. There are wild horses out there, but this one was, in human terms, certifiably insane.

At the time, Jack had scar tissue from where he bit himself on the ribs, hair missing from where he tore it off from his lower legs, and he was slightly drenched in his own urine.

He'd spent a bit of time hitting himself on the ground, squealing, kicking. That behaviour didn't stop when the trainer approached the fence, as Jack charged at the trainer and tried to bite him through the gap in the fence.

Some of the people in crowd suggested gathered that the horse should just be shot.

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He wasn’t always this way, however. Stewart was raised around Fort St. John, playing or feeding on his farm.

He knew he wanted to do something outdoors, but he didn’t think he could make money at it. At 17, he decided to work in the oil patch, but for 100 days from July to October, he would work with his great-uncle Gary Powell as a wrangler.

Powell was “one of the original old-timers from up here ... he’s one of the good ol’ boys,” according to Stewart. Powell would pick Stewart up by landing his plane on the highway, then taking off when the traffic was clear.

Stewart travelled to the Rocky Mountains 80 miles away from the nearest road to work with his uncle, who wasn’t afraid to challenge him.

“His words to me were, ‘Go bring some horses in, and if you don’t have some horses in front of you, don’t come back to camp,’” said Stewart.

“If I wanted to have supper and sleep in my bed roll, I had to find horses and make sure they came back to the corral, no matter what it took.”

Oh, and Stewart had never actually done this before in his life, and he was offered no training on how to get a horse, or where to find them. All he had was his own horse to ride in.

When Stewart was actually able to find a horse — either wild or a tamed horse who hadn’t seen a human in nearly a year — he thought he might just have to go and call up one to get him. When he approached, however, they would “put their tails straight up and gallop as fast as they can.”

Occasionally, in chasing down these horses, Stewart and the horse he was riding on would somersault over, and they would have to bring the horse back up and get back to riding before the horse he was chasing got away.

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The Northerner • Friday, March 6, 2015 • 3 It certainly didn’t help that when Stewart came into the pen, Jack charged at him “like a shark,” a move that Stewart deflected before he got hurt.

Stewart had learned some tricks in dealing with horses, however. He did the opposite of what came naturally.

“There are things we are taught to do throughout our life that might work in the human world a little bit at times, but it really interferes with horsemanship,” he said. “We are born with our little hands (closed). It gets a long time for babies to open up their hands.”

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squinting — things that people do when they’re in scary situation — Stewart reacted by getting calmer and more open.

Then, for the next two hours, a little dance began. By watching the horse’s movement and getting a feel for the animal’s body language, he would attempt to calm him down and move the horse’s feet with his own. By the end of a two-hour session, he was able to calm the horse down, the first of ten days of sessions he worked with Jack.

Over time, Jack became Stewart’s “pet pit bull.”

When Stewart took him to train in areas with other riders, he would always warn others nearby that the animal was a bit dangerous.

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In the end, though, Stewart did catch these the other days of the year. In time, people would horses, and he credits these tasks given to him by bring him horses to see if he could train them.

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Stewart admits that he “should give all the money “He was fantastic at getting me to do things back, because I didn’t know what I was doing.” that you were really uncomfortable with,” he He learned from others, and eventually besaid. “I didn’t understand the long-term effects, came quite good at it, and over time he has trained and I’m sure he didn’t plan it either; he was just thousands of these horses. He admits that there that way.” only about 10 or 15 “really tough” horses to deal By the end of October, he and a 13-year-old with. One of them was Jack. boy were tasked with riding 11 horses on a threeJack was trained to be a show-horse, and apday ride to the nearest highway alone, guided parently quite a good at it. But Stewart said that only by a map drawn on a napkin in the kitchen he eventually became so wild that even his traintable. ers and his owners — a husband and wife — The 13-year-old led, as he was more experi- couldn’t handle him. enced.

It all came to a head when Jack “took down” The trip involved crossing rivers and muskegs the husband, breaking his collarbone, and forcing in sub-zero northern temperatures. They were him to crawl out from under the rail. also what some might consider intentionally ill That’s when they gave Stewart a call. He prepared. agreed to help, but under some rules. They would “We weren’t allowed to keep bedrolls, and the take him out of his box stall and put him with othonly food we had was in our (approximately six er horses, and they have to forgo their dream of inch by eight inch) saddlebag,” said Stewart. “bringing this horse to the world.” The old trainSleep wasn’t a reprieve either. Powell re- ers would have to go, too. quired Stewart to sleep under the “stinky, sweaty All this led to that day when Stewart first enold horse blanket” that the horse had just been tered the ring with Jack, to the disbelief of some wearing, and they were shivering and shaking in the crowd gathered to watch. throughout.

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William Stodalka

Should people be judged based on what they post on social media?

With anything you say about someone, you should remember this: would you say it to that person's face?

To some, that wouldn’t seem to be a controversial. But as with a lot of things, rules seems to go by the wayside when you go online.

With anonymous Twitter handles, sneeze and you miss it Snapchats, or just Facebook comments made behind someone’s back, it’s become easier and easier to talk smack behind someone’s back. You don’t even have to leave your house or get out of your pyjamas!

That’s too bad for polite discourse, and it would be impossible – and quixotic – to try and turn it back. Progress marches on, but that doesn’t mean our standards shouldn’t.

If someone calls a person stupid behind their back, to their face, or on Facebook, it’s all the same insult. And it should be judged the same.

There’s a saying I found online – the internet never forgets. That’s true.

There’s still a few statements I have made on social media that I’d rather people forget – and that I wish I’d never made in the first place. If you go through my social media accounts, you might be able to find them. But I made them, and for better or for worst, that’s what people can judge me on.

I hope they would remember some of the positive things I’d written, and the things I’m more proud of. Either way, it’s something everyone should remember before they click that “send” button.

Science Matters David Suzuki

We have to stop filling and killing the oceans with plastic

Eight million tonnes. That’s how much plastic we’re tossing into the oceans every year! University of Georgia environmental engineer Jenna Jambeck says it’s enough to line up five grocery bags of trash on every foot of coastline in the world.

A study published by Jambeck and colleagues in the journal Science on February 12 examined how 192 coastal countries disposed of plastic waste in 2010. The report, “Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean”, estimates that of 275 million tonnes of plastic generated, about eight million (based on a midpoint estimate of 4.8 million to 12.7 million tonnes) ends up in the seas

— blown from garbage dumps into rivers and estuaries, discarded on beaches or along coastlines and carried to the oceans.

China tops the list of 20 countries responsible for 83 per cent of “mismanaged plastic” in the oceans, sending between 1.32 and 3.53 million tonnes into the seas.

The U.S., which has better waste-management systems, is number 20 on the list, responsible for 0.04 to 0.11 tonnes. Some countries in the top 20 don’t even have formal waste-management systems.

The fear is that, as human populations grow, the amount of plastic going into the oceans will increase dramatically if countries don’t improve waste-management systems and practices — and reduce the amount of plastic they produce and use.

Scientists don’t know where most plastic ends up or what overall effect it’s having on marine life and food supplies. They do know that massive islands of plastic and other waste — some as large

Aleisha Hendry

People say a lot of stupid things. If they’re lucky, no one is actually around to hear those stupid things, except maybe their pet. But we’ve all had moments of glaring stupidity in front of other human beings, and for the most part we’re forgiven for saying them… or mocked mercilessly for several weeks because, quite frankly, we deserved it.

So should be the recourse online. People tend to say even more dumb things when behind the imagined cloak of anonymity the Internet provides us.

I mean, it’s really social media’s fault for even letting us post stupid things. If they can make a “Like” button, you’d think they could make a “Are You Sure You Want To Post That?” warning that pops up whenever certain combinations of words are put together. Maybe then the more awful stuff people post wouldn’t make it out there.

Nobody is perfect and I’m sure you could dig up all kinds of stupid, insensitive, ignorant comments or posts from pretty much anyone if you looked hard enough. So our social media shenanigans shouldn’t be factored in when someone is Googling us to find out if we’re a suitable employee or romantic partner or child minder. Check the skeletons in your own online closet before you judge anyone else for theirs.

as Saskatchewan — swirl in five gyres in the north and south Pacific, north and south Atlantic and Indian oceans.

But that’s only a small amount of the total.

Plastic is everywhere in our seas. It accumulates on the sea floor and in sediments, washes up on coastlines and is taken up by fish and other sea creatures. It affects birds, fish, mammals and other marine life. It eventually breaks down into smaller bits, which can look like fish eggs and get eaten by marine animals, but it never biodegrades. Those particles, or microplastics, just keep building up. They also absorb and concentrate toxic chemicals, poisoning the animals that consume them. Studies show that 44 per cent of all seabird species have plastic in and around their bodies, and fish, birds, turtles and whales often become fatally entangled in plastic waste.

Even the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went down over the South China Sea in March

2014, was confounded when investigators looking for crash evidence kept finding plastic debris.

Humans depend on healthy oceans for food, water, air, recreation and transportation.

Oceans contain more than 97 per cent of the planet’s water and produce more than half the oxygen we breathe. They also absorb carbon — important to reducing global warming. Half the world’s people live in coastal zones, and ocean-based businesses contribute more than $500 billion a year to the global economy.

What we do to the oceans and the life therein, we do to ourselves. So what can we do to keep them — and us — healthy?

The report’s authors say reducing “mismanaged” plastic waste, regulating the amount of plastics that enter the waste stream and improving waste-disposal methods in the top 20 offending countries are all essential. But, Jambeck notes, “It’s not just about improving the infrastructure in other countries. There are

things we can do in our daily lives to reduce the amount of waste plastic we all produce.”

Canada’s relatively good waste-disposal and recycling systems keep us off the 20 worst offenders list — but we can still do better. Reducing the amount of plastic we use is the first step. For consumers, that means avoiding overpackaged goods and unnecessary plastic items, such as bottled water, single-serve K-cup coffee pods and disposable products. We must also get better at reusing and recycling. According to a report by the U.S. non-profit As You Sow, plastic is the fastest-growing form of packaging, and only about 14 per cent gets recycled.

Oceans and the life they support face numerous threats, from climate change to overfishing. Reducing the amount of plastic we dump into them is a challenge we can meet. Let’s get on it.

Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington.

Baldonnel's horse whisperer

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One rider apparently snorted at this news. So Stewart opened up the ropes a bit, and Jack “roared like a lion, reared up, and lunged at the guy.”

He closed his hand, and the horse stopped.

“If you’re going to snort at me when I’m trying to be nice, maybe I’ll show you why I should be a little more polite next time.”

Eventually, Jack was rehabilitated. The fees Stewart earned through this, teaching others how to train horses, and various other facilities have allowed him a nice ranch near Baldonnel. Called “The Horse Ranch,” its front “HR” logo is the same one he wears on his customized shirts.

Still, Stewart is trying his hand on other things that make him uncomfortable, like public speaking. He’s taught to universities, CEOs, lawyers, and more besides publicly, even though he admits

this doesn’t come naturally to him.

In his view, a flawed person can’t be a good horseman.

“If you want to improve with horsemanship, you have to improve as a person,” he said. “You can’t be impatient, you can’t be unfair, you have to see the horses point of view.”

He recently added up his head, and by his estimates, he’s spoken to 20,000 people. And all this has come not from anything he really planned to do, but going for what’s difficult.

“If I’m not uncomfortable kind of regularly, I go hunt it, I go find it, because I know I’m not growing ... whenever you’re uncomfortable, you’re learning,” he said. I can’t say, ‘you horses grow and get better and be able to handle this,’ but it’s unfair that I would not have to do the same.”

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Yet another month has passed and with it comes changes here at the North Peace branch!

We would like to inform everyone that starting February 1st 2015 our branch will be changing its’ long standing stray hold period to co-inside with the BC SPCA provincial standards.

This means that we will NO LONGER hold animals in stray care for 7 days. Instead, we will ONLY hold for 4 days as a stray animal. After this 4 day stray hold, originally set forth by the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, the animal will be classed as abandoned or unowned and will be put up for adoption.

These changes are coming forward to try move animals more quickly form shelter care. By decreasing the length of stay for dogs we are able to minimize the occurrence of learned inappropriate behaviors such as barking, frustrated digging and excessive territorial marking. Shelter dogs are also at higher risk of minor medical issues such as stomach related bacterial infections, kennel cough and others due to a drop in immune response caused by stress and depression. Early adoption also allows for a quicker transition into their new family home.

By decreasing the length of stay for our feline companions we are able to make a larger impact in the number of unwanted kitties roaming the streets. Many people find straying cats a nuisance. They are rummaging through garbage, spraying homes, defecating in flower beds and so on. With only 24 feline spaces available in shelter we must keep the flow of cats and kittens moving steadily. Likewise with felines more readily available in pet stores and on several online classified sites we can no longer risk missing as adoptive opportunity. Increased adoption rates allow for more felines to come in off the streets, which in turn dramatically decreases the amount of unwanted offspring. The decreased length of stay also contributes to improved mental and physical wellbeing of shelter cats.

We encourage pet owners to be proactive in care and identification of their animals. Purchasing collar and name tags shortly after bringing your new pet home, ensuring all dogs wear a dog license (required by City Bylaws), purchase microchip identification before their spay or neuter and consider a tattoo at the time of surgery. By ensuring multiple id types your pet will never be unidentified upon entry to a shelter or veterinary clinic, even if you have forgotten to put the collar back on after bath night!

We also encourage a proactive approach to finding lost pets. DO NOT WAIT! Don’t be afraid of our answering machine and call 250-785-7722 as soon as your pet is known to be missing. Why wait for days before deciding they may not make it home? If this was a human child would you wait? POST, POST, POST. Facebook sites allowing lost/found ads include FSJ Critters, FSJ Lost and

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The number of missing pets is staggering at times and we cannot keep everyone in memory. If you suspect your pet has been stolen contact the RCMP immediately! Your pets’ wellbeing is your responsibility we are merely here in case something goes awry.

We would like to thank Zedi, Gorr Contracting, Rentco, the City of Fort St. John and Jeanie Piszar for their generous donations this month. Until next month, remember to take the pooch with when you are outside enjoying the gorgeous warm weather!

The photo is of Bugatti, a 7 month old spayed, female. Bugatti came to us through our feral trap neuter and release program. She and her siblings were young enough that they could be socialized and made available for adoption. Bugatti gets her name because she likes to run laps and is always at high speed when playing! Currently available for adoption.

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Formula Powell Midget Flyers fight back in the second game of playoffs against Peace River to win and move on.

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Travelling to Peace River Sunday Feb 22 had a few bumps in the road so to speak. After an hour and half delayed game the boys struggled to re-focus.

Jessie McArthur started the scoring off 5 minutes into the first, followed by Lance Aylward in the second period scoring after his assist to McArthur, and Blake Hedges for their third goal. Going into the third trailing 5-3, Aylward gets his second of the game. Coming up short the boys took a loss 6-4, bringing the second game back to Fort St. John.

Being on home ice this past Sunday Mar 1 the Flyers wanted the win and it definitely showed.

Going into the dressing room after 1st period the Flyers led Peace River 2-0 (Nicholas Dragojevich and Zachary Paradis). Coming out strong in 2nd was Jessie McArthur with a “hat trick” making the score 5-1.

Third period finalized the 7-1 win with Paradis getting his second of the game and McArthur with a 4th goal. Huge assists going to Lance Aylward (4), Lane DeRose (2), Paradis (1), Nicholas Dragojevich (2), and Liam Harris (1).

Austin Craig with some crucial saves in this second game for the Flyers.

On to face Grande Prairie this coming up weekend for the All Peace banner. Home game Sat, Mar 7 2:15pm NPA.

For just the fourth time in the last 49 years, the North Peace Secondary School Ooks Girls basketball team will represent the region at AAA provincials next week.

NPSS girls booked their ticket at the zone qualifiers last weekend in Williams Lake, winning three games including two against the host Lake City Secondary and beating out the seven-time defending zone champion Prince George Secondary School in the process.

“I was confident,” coach Lori Coulter said about her team’s chances to win zones. “We had played very well and done very well at lots of our tournaments, however we haven’t played these teams. So it was one of those things where you don’t know what your competition is going to look like until you get there.”

The biggest competition came to open the tournament on Friday morning Feb. 21, when NPSS played PGSS and managed to pull out a 67-55 win.

“At the start of the game we played really well,” said Grade 12 starter Allyson Knight. “And then in the second half Prince George started to come back and our fouls started to get us there so we had to really pick it up in order to win that game, it was a really crucial game for us and I’m really proud of the way we played.”

In the next two games, both against LCS, the Ooks dominated winning both games by more than 40 points.

That included an 84-38 final win and Coulter said she wasn’t expecting to win in the fashion they did.

“I was actually super surprised we were able to dominate as much as we did,” she said.

Knight added: “We were all pretty pumped, we didn’t sleep much on the bus back. Me and a couple of the other seniors were really excited because

that was our goal from last year, we really wanted to take the team to provincials.”

One of those other seniors was 17-year-old Tori Coulter, who noted with only four grade 12’s, one Grade 11 and six Grade 10’s on the team, the expectations were unclear.

“I knew that this season we had a young team, only four seniors this year so I knew it was going to be different but I didn’t expect it to be this good,” she said.

So good that the girls got the trip to provincials they had been hoping for and along with that Knight was named Most Valuable Player of the zone tournament.

“We’re the first North Peace team since 2007 to get that trophy,” she said.

“The last two people that won I actually know them. It was really cool to get that same trophy. They both used to coach me so that was really cool.”

Coulter said it was Knight’s consistency that locked in the MVP. “Allyson’s performance was good,” Coulter said. “She was consistent— helped bring the ball up all the time. We were fortunate that we had those shots from the outside to change the momentum in the games and put the nail in the coffin.”

The next task for the Ooks started the moment they returned to the Energetic City, a fundraising campaign needed to raise more than $10,000 for the trip to Langley from March 4 to 7.

As of Tuesday after the players went door-to-door dropping off donation letters and parents had also given letters to several businesses, the team had already raised $8,000.

“We’ve had quite a few parents take letters to different businesses that they know and we’ve had an overwhelming response from our community,” Coulter said. “Which isn’t unusual for Fort St. John but in such a short time it’s pretty amazing that we’ve had that much support already.”

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Back off man, I’m a scientist David Dyck

Alaska Highway News Story from page 1

A local science fair turned the gymnasium of Duncan Cran Elementary School in Fort St. John into a hive of scientific experiments on Wednesday afternoon.

Students from around the city gathered to have their projects inspected. The 11 winners from Grades 4 to 6 would go on to compete in the Regional Science Fair in Dawson Creek after Spring Break.

All of the contestants worked on their projects in class and were required to show how they’ve followed the scientific method.

“I have a degree in biology myself, so I like to stay in touch with the science end of things at the school level,” said organizer and teacher Allison Finter. “I like to see kids that didn’t know that they were interested in science all of a sudden become interested in science.”

She said that a taste of success will often spur students on to try again and do better.

That’s the case with 11-year-old Kaiven Olson, who said he’d won gold at the regional level.

He’s hoping to get another one this year with his project on the absorptive qualities of rocks.

“It’s about three types of rocks: shale, sandstone and limestone, and I have two liquids, water and olive oil, and see which one absorbs the fastest,” explained Olson.

“My conclusion was that it was sandstone that absorbed it the most.

We tested it with the eyedropper.”

According to Finter, there’s a strong culture of science fairs in the Peace region, thanks in large part to teachers like Kevin Frankham, who took local students to national and even international science fairs, and was heavily involved in Youth Science Canada.

“I think it’s teachers like that who are keen to stay with it and continue to make it a part of what they do in the classroom that makes Clockwise from top left: Kaiven Olson's science project looks into the absorptive qualities of three difit an important part of our culture ferent kinds of rock. Max Morrow, age 10, looked into whether or not families had similar fingerprints.

He said that his findings showed they did not. Dillon Doucette, age 11, shows what happens when here in Fort St. John.” mints interact with soda.

There is still more time to apply for Personal Credits of up to $3000 for educational, language or cultural programs.

Délai prolongé pour présenter une demande de crédits personnels d’une valeur pouvant atteindre 3 000 $ pour des programmes éducationnels, linguistiques ou culturels.

Les bénéficiaires du Paiement d’expérience commune en vertu de la Convention de règlement relative aux pensionnats indiens peuvent recevoir jusqu’à 3 000 $ sous forme de crédits personnels pour des programmes ou services d’éducation.

Individuals who received a Common Experience Payment under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement are eligible for up to $3000 in Personal Credits for education programs and services.

Cela comprend des cours dans des universités, des collèges ou des écoles de métier ou de formation, ou des programmes ou ateliers fournis par des groupes communautaires ou des centres culturels qui offrent des activités liées aux langues ou à la culture autochtones. Les crédits personnels peuvent être utilisés par les bénéficiaires du Paiement d’expérience commune ou partagés avec un ou deux membres de leur famille, ou encore mis en commun dans le but d’obtenir des services d’éducation collective.

La date limite pour présenter une demande a été prolongée au 9 mars 2015. De l’aide pour remplir le formulaire d’attestation de crédits personnels est offerte.

The deadline to apply has been extended to March 9, 2015. Help with completing the Personal Credits Acknowledgment Form is available.

Pour plus d’information, consultez le site Web www.residentialschoolsettlement.ca ou communiquez par téléphone avec les organisations suivantes : • Ligne d’information principale : 1-866-343-1858 • Assemblée des Premières Nations : 1-866-869-6789 • Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, Iqaluit : 1-888-646-0006 • Société régionale inuvialuite, Inuvik : 1-867-777-7092 • Société Makivik, Québec : 1-418-522-2224

These include courses at universities, colleges, trade or training schools or for programs and workshops provided by community-based groups or cultural centres for activities related to Aboriginal language and culture. Personal Credits can be used by a Common Experience Payment recipient, shared with up to two family members or pooled for group education services.

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Prespatou 4-H Community Club

Yay Winters almost over…

Or that’s how it feels right now with the weather we’re having… well except the couple of storms we’ve had this month.

Hey everyone, it’s Gabriella. We had our communications competition on Saturday February 21. I’d like to thank Gloria Loewen and Savannah Loewen for being our MCs, you did a great job! I did a speak and show.

I’ll give you a hint about what mine was on. It had something to do with both food and agriculture. (A speak and show has to be either food or agriculture; for you readers that didn’t already know that.) If you still don’t know what I did mine on; I’ll tell you. I did it on how to make JELLO.

One of my favorites was the speak and show done by Lynette Wiebe her title was A Formal Gabrella Loewen Feast. It was about how a formal table is set. What the different plates, utensils, and glasses were used 4-H Reporter for. Now when I go somewhere formal where I have to eat I know which fork to use for which food. She also talked about table manners… I’m guilty of not using some of them…

We’re still waiting to see our scores for the communications, and to see who won. Hopefully we’ll get those soon. We’ve had more then just the communications this past month so lets talk about that. We had our second weigh-in on Saturday January 24; and we did a project out of our beef activity guide. We took a special type of measuring tape. It was a beef measuring tape, they have milk cow ones too; but those don’t work for the type of cow that the 4-H members have. We used that to measure the steer. Then we had to figure out if the steer was nicely finished or what kind of finish it was. With that we got the weight of the steer; it was really closes. It didn’t work for the heifers it was way out.

We also had another photography project/meeting. This project we learnt how to use our filter effects; like black n’ white, fisheye, there are many more. We also started filling out our record books. The first time I looked at my record book I had a HUGE question mark over the top of my head. Now it all makes sense!

I’m going to go a little off topic. I asked one of our 4-H members what she thought about this 4-H year; her answer was: “ It is amazing! If there’s something that doesn’t make sense you turn around and there’s always someone to help you” another member said that “the leaders are doing an amazing job in beef, sheep, and photography, they are always ready to help you. So I’d like to take this time to thank our 4-H leaders. You’re doing a great job!

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The Cadillac Championship is one of the four annual World Golf Championship tournaments. The event is played on the Blue Monster Defending: Patrick Reed Course of the Doral Golf Resort & Winning Score: 4-under par Spa, in Miami, Fla. Donald Trump Winner’s Purse: $1,530,000 purchased the resort in 2012 and began a redesign of the course after the 2013 tournament. The redesigned course is a longer, more challenging layout that is true to the original design. There are new lakes also, which improve drainage but also increase the risks of shooting for the pins. Previously, water was in play on six holes. Now players contend with water on 14 holes.

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Padraig Harrington made a Tournament Results par on the second hole of a 1. Padraig Harrington Score: -6 *won in playoff playoff to defeat Daniel Berger at the weather delayed Honda 2. Daniel Berger Classic on Monday. Berger’s tee shot Score: -6 on the second playoff hole found the Player Score water for a double bogey. Harrington T-3. Paul Casey -5 Russell Knox -5 had a rough third round, but found his T-3.

T-3. Ian Poulter -5 momentum again in the final round where he notched five birdies on the back nine. His double bogey on the 17th hole nearly knocked him out of championship contention, but he came back with a birdie on the 18th to force the playoff.

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Answer: d) Dustin Johnson leads the PGA Tour in driving distance with and average drive of 315.5 yards.

The PGA Tour is completing plans to bring the Match Play Championship to Austin, Texas, starting in 2016. It would be held next year on March 23-27, the week after the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. The Match Play initially would be held at Austin Country Club, though that still requires a vote of the membership. Austin Country Club dates to 1899, though the current course was designed by Pete Dye in 1984. Texasbased Dell will be the title sponsor of the World Golf Championship event. The Match Play is being held this year from April 29 to May 3 at Harding Park in San Francisco, with Cadillac filling in as a title sponsor.

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Padraig Harrington Turned Professional: 1995 FedEx Cup Ranking: 21st World Ranking: 297th PGA Tour Wins: 5

FedEx Cup Standings Through March 2, 2015

1) Jimmy Walker 1,113 pts. / 4 top tens

2) Robert Streb 890 pts. / 5 top tens

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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) Joey Logano Points: 88 Wins: 1 Top 5: 2

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TV: FOX Last Year’s Pole: Joey Logano - 193.278 mph Last Year’s Winner: Brad Keselowski

Top 10: 2

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Top 10: 2

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Points: 86 Wins: 0 Top 5: 2

Top 10: 2

Xfinity Series Top Ten Driver 1) Chris Buescher 2) Ty Dillon 3) Ryan Reed 4) Darrell Wallace Jr. 5) Dakoda Armstrong 6) David Starr 7) Brian Scott 8) Chase Elliott 9) Ross Chastain 10) Jeremy Clements

4) Dale Earnhardt Jr. Points: 84 Wins: 0 Top 5: 2

Top 10: 2

5) Martin Truex Jr. Points: 75 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 2

6) Casey Mears With 1,600 acres in the northeast portion of the Las Vegas Valley, the “Diamond in the Desert” has been deemed the most remarkable race complex in the world. Sports Illustrated called it the Racing Capital of the West. With more than a dozen different venues at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, ranging from go-karts to NASCAR Sprint Cup at the 1.5-mile superspeedway, there’s something for everyone at the complex. Last year’s winner of the Kobalt 400 was Brad Keselowski. In that race, Keselowski set a new track race record of 155 mph. Jimmie Johnson has four wins at this track, the most of any Cup driver.

Points: 68 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 1

7) Kasey Kahne Points: 65 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 1

Racing News Travis Kvapil’s No. 44 Chevrolet Sprint Cup and trailer were stolen from their hotel Friday on their way to Atlanta Motor Speedway. On Saturday, the car was recovered along a remote road in suburban Atlanta, apparently abandoned by the thieves who stole it. The discovery didn’t occur in time for Team XTREME to compete in the race. The No. 44 car wasn’t damaged, so it should be able to run at Las Vegas with Kvapil behind the wheel. The team also plans to send a backup car.

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8) AJ Allmendinger Points: 62 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 1

9) Aric Almirola Points: 62 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 0

10) Clint Bowyer Points: 58 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 1

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Track Details Distance: 1.5 miles Shape: D-shaped Oval Turns / Front / Back: 20 / 9 / 9 degrees

Points 83 83 75 66 57 56 56 55 55 53

Last Weekend’s Race: Jimmie Johnson won at Atlanta QuikTrip 500 Results Driver Points Jimmie Johnson 47 Kevin Harvick 44 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 42 Joey Logano 41 Matt Kenseth 40 Martin Truex Jr. 38 AJ Allmendinger 37 Brett Moffitt 37 Brad Keselowski 36 Ryan Newman 34

Coors Light Pole-sitter Joey Logano and Kevin Harvick dominated the early and middle stages of Sunday’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Then, came Jimmie Johnson. He took the lead on Lap 198 of 325. From then on, his No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet was the class of the field, leading six times for 92 laps. Jimmie won for the fourth time at Atlanta and for the 71st time in his career. For the second straight event in NASCAR’s premier series, Harvick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished second and third. After Johnson took the top spot, a massive wreck in Turn 3 on the restart lap slowed the field for the 10th time.

After the race Johnson said, “I think it is pretty much a lock, as long as we have a smooth season.”

Jimmie Johnson #48 Born: Sept 17, 1975 Crew Chief: Chad Knaus Car: Chevrolet

Year 2015 Career

Wins 1 71

Top 10s 2 294

Avg. Finish 3.0 12.5

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