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"When the [panel's] mathematical error is corrected by adding the low LNG load into its analysis, it shows that Site C is in fact needed on the timetable that BC Hydro had set forth" — ministry spokesperson The Joint Review Panel created to review Site C made "a mathematical error" when it claimed there is no pressing demand for power from a third Peace River dam, the ministry in charge of the project says.

That's one of the points in a Jan. 30 letter from Energy Minister Bill Bennett to the Peace River Regional District, responding to a request that the controversial project be sent to an independent regulatory agency for further review.

Bennett wrote that liquefied natural gas facilities would drive more electricity demand than the Joint Review Panel accounted for.

Whether B.C. actually needs power from the 1,100 megawatt Site C has been one of the biggest questions looming over $8.8 billion project.

In its report last May, the Joint Review Panel wrote it "cannot conclude that the power of Site C is needed on the schedule presented." The dam is expected to begin generating power in 2025.

But according to Bennett, the review panel "erred" in calculating the energy demands of LNG projects.

The review panel made its calculations based on a scenario with "no LNG load," Bennett wrote. However, BC Hydro expects LNG will need around 3,000 gigawatt-hours of new electricity a year, according to a ministry spokesperson.

The panel settled on 800 gigawatt-

hours a year as the likely LNG demand, but failed to include that number in calculations, the ministry said.

In an email, a ministry spokesperson said the panel "inadvertently failed to include [800 gigawatt-hours of LNG demand] in the summation column" of its calculation.

With 800 gigawatt-hours of new demand, "there would be a need for new capacity in 2019 and new energy in 2024," Bennett wrote.

"When the [panel's] mathematical error is corrected by adding the low LNG load into its analysis, it shows that Site C is in fact needed on the timetable that BC Hydro had set forth," the ministry spokesperson wrote. "Under the expected LNG scenario there is a need for new energy resources earlier than Site C's inservice date."

While the panel later admitted the mistake in a followup publication, panelists wrote that its "conclusions remain as noted."

Regional District Director Karen Goodings said the letter makes "pretty clear" that Site C is moving forward with LNG in mind.

"We started off having to build Site C for residential use," she said. "This is not residential use. They want to build Site C at a huge cost, and it's based on an industry that, to my way of thinking, may or may not happen."

An opposition critic also questioned BC Hydro's numbers.

Because the panel used the Crown corporation's figures, demand and cost projections for Site C have not had a fully independent hearing, New Democrat Hydro critic Adrian Dix said. "[The JRP's] work was based on BC Hydro's work," he said. "The government themselves are playing games with the math here, and they won't allow their assumptions to be tested in the way the law suggests they be tested [by the utilities commission.]"

Without further scrutiny, LNG demand "becomes a matter of opinion," he said.

The review panel called LNG "the biggest wild card" in forecasting the need for Site C. Nineteen companies are in the mix to export LNG from gas fields in Northeast B.C. to Asian markets, though none has made a decision to invest.

Liquifying natural gas takes tremendous amounts of power — as many as 700 megawatts in some proposals.

Each proposal differs on where it plans to get that energy.

The review panel notes that gas developers have been given a "free hand" to burn their own gas to power their operations — meaning it's less likely projects will hook into the BC Hydro grid. continue page 7

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FSJ mulls spray park revamp

Fort St. John has approved a $220,000 budget to replace the aging Rotary Spray Park next to the North Peace Leisure Pool, and is seeking public opinion on proposed designs David Dyck Staff Writer

Craig Stanley, Fort St. John's Director of Facilities and Grounds, is gauging the public's opinion on the aging Rotary Spray Park next to the North Peace Leisure Pool.

“Our goal is to use this space to the best of our ability according to the budget that we can work with, and incorporate the old section of the spray park.”

It may be the dead of winter, but the city is busy planning for the summer.

The Fort St. John Rotary Spray Park next to the North Peace Leisure Pool is getting old, and the city is taking steps to replace it with a new, expanded facility.

To that end, it is looking for what the community wants to see for relief on those long, hot summer days.

It would ideally be put over top of the existing facility, to take advantage of the existing infrastructure.

The city has drawn up four prototype drawings to put forward to the public, to see what kind of feedback they get.

They’ve taken to social media and are holding meetings to gauge public reaction.

“It’s more of an East Coast, Jersey Shore type of feel,” said Craig Stanley, the city’s Director of Facilities and Grounds. Some of the potential amenities included shaded seating, WiFi, security cameras and a stroller or tricycle loop that could double as a skating rink in the winter.

Some of the feedback that Stanley got from an info session was a fence to keep kids in and dogs out, and a hopscotch court built into the design. david dyck Photo

Craig Stanley, Fort St. John’s Director of Facilities and Grounds, is looking for feedback on potential spray park designs.

“Our goal is to use this space to the best of our ability according to the budget that we can work with, and incorporate the old section of the spray park.”

The city has approved a budget of $220,000, which Stanley said was enough to make a good park. To make an even better one, they’re looking to raise an additional $100,000, for a total of $320,000.

If they don’t get the extra money, Stanley said they could get the project started and add to it in phases over time if necessary. If all goes according to plan, construction will commence over this summer, and it will be open in 2016.

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

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Johnny Wakefield

Should B.C. have a Family Day that matches with the other provinces that celebrate it?

That would make a lot of sense, hey?

It is a bit odd that B.C. celebrates Family Day (AKA Louis Riel Day in Manitoba, Islander Day in PEI and President's Day in that SUMMER OFFICE HOURS: majestic land south of the border) on the second weekend in February rather than third.

Monday to Thursday Unfortunately, the B.C. government is in a bit of a bind on this 8:30 am - 5 pm one.

Fridays 8:30 am - 4 pm As you may recall, premier Christy Clark revived the idea of a Subscription rates are $40 February long weekend in her leadership bid, and B.C. celebrated its per year, payable in advance. first Family Day in the lead up to an election where things seemed to be going badly for the party in power.

I don't want to say this is a devil/golden fiddle kind of a situation, Regional Manager but let's just say this: there isn't proof that a dragon/demon/faerie William Julian wasn't involved in the Family Day scheduling process.

Managing Editor As a high-level media operator, I understand, these things happen.

Matt Lamers Sometimes a semi-mythical being/entity makes a wager that, while seemingly not worth eternal damnation, is too good to pass up.

Assistant Editor It can be a tough balance to strike.

Aleisha Hendry Let's just say that barring upheaval in cosmic forces beyond our Advertising Consultants understanding, we're gonna have to leave Family Day where it is.

Trust me. Leave it alone.

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Science Matters David Suzuki

Speaking truth gives youth great power When she was just 12 years old, my daughter Severn gave a speech at the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. She spoke with such conviction that delegates were moved to tears. It was one of my proudest moments as a father. More than 20 years later, Severn is the mother of two young children, and the video of her speech is still making the rounds, inspiring people around the world. Its popularity speaks to the power the young have to affect the world’s most pressing issues.

More than half the world’s population is under 30, a demographic now at the forefront of international decisionmaking and some of Canada’s most powerful environmental

changes. Across the nation, youth are thinking critically about how we can become better stewards of our vast landscapes and spectacular wildlife and protect the air, water, soil and diversity of nature that keep us healthy and alive. They’re standing up for strong environmental protection and a saner approach to resource management in their own communities.

Take Halifax resident Stephen Thomas, an engineer in his 20s. He’s been recognized as a driving force for our nation’s clean energy future. If You Build It, a project he co-founded, mobilizes volunteers to construct renewable energy projects, including wind turbines and solarpowered generators. He’s also catalyzed large-scale, community-owned wind projects in Nova Scotia and spearheaded Dalhousie University’s student campaign for fossil fuel divestment.

Vanessa Gray, a 22-year-old member of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, mobilized other young people to campaign

Aleisha Hendry

The idea of adding a stat holiday in February – the most miserable little month of the year – was a stroke of genius on the government’s part. Asking the public to make the decision as to what Monday it would fall on was not.

You don’t let the public decide something like that. You know how pretentious the majority of the population is down in the Lower Mainland – of course they’d pick the second Monday instead of the third, just for the sake of being different.

Of course now, because people have the memory span of goldfish, you saw people asking why we had Family Day on a different Monday than Alberta.

Because that’s what YOU decided, John Q. Public! Stop acting like it wasn’t completely your fault that B.C. is in this situation!

Really, the government should have nipped this thing in the bud after the first Family Day and just said, ‘oh, sorry, residents of British Columbia… our government crystal ball tells us that you’re going to start whining about Family Day not being on the same weekend as Alberta, so we’re just gonna sync up with them, kay?”

I mean really, what were they thinking?

Family Day 2016 should just be quietly moved to the third weekend in February and let the collective amnesia of the public do its thing. No one will complain, in fact, they’ll be thrilled that they can go visit family in Alberta and have it not be awkward when everyone has to work on the Monday.

against Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline proposal to transport oilsands bitumen through Sarnia, Ontario, to Montreal for export. She continues to speak out about refinery pollution and host “toxic tours” of Canada’s Chemical Valley, where 63 petrochemical plants surround her community.

Some young leaders are taking up the David Suzuki Foundation’s call to support the right to a healthy environment in their towns. In December, after attending a Foundation Blue Dot Tour event, 10-year-old Victoria resident Rupert Yakelashek led a successful charge to have his city adopt a declaration giving citizens the right to clean air, water and food, and to participate in decisions that affect their environment.

Ta’Kaiya Blaney, a 13-yearold from B.C.’s Tla'Amin First Nation, followed a path similar to my daughter’s, speaking at the UN Rio +20 conference in 2012 when she was just 11. She’s also gaining recognition as the visionary behind the Salish Sea Youth

Foundation and for speaking, writing and singing in defence of a healthy future for animals, humans, plants and ecosystems. She incorporates environmental messages into her songs, as she did on the Blue Dot Tour. “In my culture it’s a fact, and an understanding of life, that everything is connected, and we were put on this earth to be stewards and caretakers of the environment,” she writes.

Young leaders are also at the forefront of Idle No More, one of the largest Indigenous mass movements in Canadian history. What began in 2012 as teach-ins in Saskatchewan to protest parliamentary bills that would erode Indigenous sovereignty and environmental protections has changed the social and political landscape of Canada.

These young environmental champions share a commitment to their communities and to the world. They know that young people have the power to rally others to create positive change. And when people gather around a common

cause, magic happens.

Although many young leaders aren’t yet old enough to vote, they’ll be left to clean up messes from decisions made today. We owe it to them to think more carefully about the world we want to leave to their generation.

National non-profit The Starfish Canada, co-founded

by David Suzuki Foundation public engagement specialist Kyle Empringham, celebrates young people with its Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25 program. Every year, 25 youth are recognized for their efforts to create environmental change. The group recognized is diverse, from community gardeners and outdoor recreationists to scientists and advocates. Thanks to them, the program continues to showcase positive change across the country.

If you know a young leader who deserves national recognition, nominate him or her for The Starfish Canada’s Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25. It could help inspire others to change the world.

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3 year jail term for killing of Chris Ball

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The family of a man killed after an altercation on the streets of Fort St. John three years ago is saying that justice has not been served.

Joel Christopher Marchand, 31, was found guilty of manslaughter after punching Chris Ball, 39, on the streets of Fort St. John in the early morning hours of July 23, 2012. Ball was taken to the Royal Alexandria Hospital in Edmonton, but was taken off life support and passed away 11 days after the incident.

Marchand was sentenced to three years in prison, 219 days of which had been served in pre-trial custody.

He could be eligible for parole this spring because the sentencing was issued Nov. 27. That's because under Canadian law, eligibility for parole typically comes after one-third of the sentence.

“The justice system is so sickening, it’s not even funny,” said Chris Ball’s older brother, Jonathan Ball. “If it was a fair fight, and my brother and him had exchanged words and they decided to have a fistfight, and my brother got the worst of it, what would I say?”

Instead, he said his brother was sucker

punched by Marchand, who had experience with mixed martial arts fighting.

“We’re completely destroyed by what happened to my brother, we’re be no means over it, and we’re absolutely disgusted at the kangaroo court — that’s what I call it — of Canada. It’s a joke,” said Jonathan.

Jonathan and his father Ken said that justice would have been a charge of second-degree murder. “I would have liked to have seen a 10-year sentence,” said Jonathan.

During the trial, Marchand’s lawyer asked for a sentence of time served plus probation.

“He actually stood in the courtroom and asked for time served,” he said. “Someone was killed over this and these guys are asking for four months time served.”

Jonathan did give credit to the police who handled the case. They tracked down video evidence of the altercation, taken by a bystander, which provided a graphic firsthand account of Chris Ball’s final moments.

“His hand didn’t even come up, he didn’t even make an attempt to protect himself from hitting the ground,” said Jon-

athan, describing how his brother didn’t see his attacker's final blow in the video.

His father said that without that pivotal piece of video evidence, there might not have even been a trial.

“If there hadn’t have been a video, he would have walked,” said Ken. “The police told us that. We could have charged the guy with assault, and that would have been it. He would have gotten six months or something.”

Chris graduated from Simon Fraser University with a degree in criminology in 1998, and after graduation worked as a counselor to troubled youth in Calgary.

He started his own tiling company, but sold it to work in the oil patch with his brother, Jonathan. He had been working in Northeastern B.C. for seven months when his life was cut short.

“He’s just gone. He died on a dirty street in Fort St. John, and he’s gone. You look at all the things he did in his life, you grew up with him, and he’s your little brother, and you just feel like there’s such a void. I can’t explain it,” said Jonathan.

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Peace Passage gets first quadruple gold David Dyck

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Halla Aitken (left) with her coach Janice Gibos at the celebration last Wednesday evening at the Taylor Arena.

Halla Aitken recently achieved something never done before in Taylor’s Peace Passage Skating Club.

She recently passed her gold free skate test, her final test of the 43 required to achieve the quadruple gold – that is, gold in all four skating disciplines.

She’s the first from the Peace Passage to achieve it.

“We’ve pretty much been working all season towards this. It’s a really tough, tough thing,” said Aitken’s coach, Janice Gibos, at the celebration they had for the skater on Wednesday evening at the Taylor Arena.

Aitken had already achieved golds in skating skills, ice dance, and interpretive. The free skate is “arguably the hardest,” said her coach. She explained that it is divided into two parts, and many get through the first part without ever completing it.

“It was the hardest one,” said Aitken. “I think it was because of the jumps, but I love jumping. It’s

my favorite part.”

Aitken has been skating for 15 of her 17 years, and Gibos has been her coach for 10 of them. She said they’ve been working towards this for a long time.

“You always retry some [of the tests], and to get quadruple golds is usually a very long process,” said Aitken. “She’s the first one in the club to actually do this.”

By comparison, the much larger and more competitive Fort St. John skating club has about 15, said Gibos. This win is big for Aitken, but it’s also a win for the club. The duo said that they have been working towards improving their smaller organization, and hoped that this would show that they’re serious about skating.

“We’ve always been this kind of small, unknown club, and I feel like we’re finally showing that we’re something,” said Gibos. “This club’s never been a big competitive club, they’ve had a lot of coach changes, a lot of turmoil … We’ve

period, found some traction and brought the game back to within one goal after two periods with goals from Colton Gies, Connor Rose and Cody McManus. “[After the first] I just asked them if they still wanted to play,” Junior Canucks head coach Eric Fulton said. “It’s up to them. No strategy is going to help you come back. All they needed to do was work harder and be more determined and we did that.”

With the second frame belonging to the Junior Canucks, the ice slowly start titling in the favour of the home side in the third.

“We just had to get control of ourselves. Get back to discipline and playing hockey. Their minds go in all directions byron hackett photo when they start having a turnaround and The Fort St. John Huskies maul overtime hero Shane Rutherford after a 5-4 overtime win to complete a three it was just a tough process to get them game series sweep over the Dawson Creek Junior Canucks at Kin Arena this past Saturday night. back on track again,” Alexander said of Byron Hackett ten minutes of the first period and then you just watch his team and their collapse.

Staff Writer it melt away.”

That was when Junior Canucks rookie Kolhman It all ended too soon— for one team anyway.

Through 20 minutes, it was utter elation for the Fort Brinsky completed the comeback, rolling a desperaThe Fort St. John Huskies beat the Dawson Creek St. John side, leading 4-0 after the first period and feel- tion backhand on net while his team was shorthanded Junior Canucks in overtime of game three in their five ing ready to cruise toward their round two opponent. with three defenders collapsing around him, the puck game series on Saturday night at Kin Arena, a series Goals from Daylen Pearson, Jordan Gies, Blair found the target. that had all the makings of a another epic between the Karasiuk and John Apsassin had the Huskies out front.

With no solution coming in regular time and for the two Alaska Highway rivals before it was over.

The Junior Canucks however, were determined to second time in two nights, sudden death overtime was The Huskies completed the sweep in historically clinch a better fate for themselves, after losing both called upon. unique fashion, a 5-4 win that surely had the hearts games one and two by a goal, and game two in overJust three minutes in, Huskies' defenseman Shane Rutherford wrote his name into lore. of the visiting fans close to cardiac arrest midway time.

A seeing-eye power play point shot found its way through the third period.

You would need several mile markers to measure “It was unreal,” Huskies head coach Gary Alexan- the resiliency of the Dawson Creek bunch, who after past Junior Canucks standout goalie Josh Round, who der said after the game. “You go up four goals within looking completely dead in the water through one made 31 saves in the loss and the series was over.

all swept up

worked a long time to change that and to show that just because you skate in Taylor doesn’t mean you can’t be a good skater. It’s really something that we’re proud of."

“We’ve been known as the club that’s just skating for fun,” added Aitken.

Because of that, the skater said that expectations were high leading up to the test. “I felt so much pressure and I was trying not to let it get to me, but it was stressful,” she said. She breathed a huge sigh of relief when she passed.

Now, Gibos said that she’s already seeing renewed interest in younger athletes who look up to Aitken, though it’ll be a little while and a lot of hours of training before they see another quadruple gold. “The little girls were just asking me earlier, ‘can we do that?’” she said.

Although she’s moving away for post-secondary, Aitken said that she’s not hanging up her skates yet, and might go into coaching herself. If she does, her quadruple golds will pave the way.

“It’s a big thing to fight through the adversity,” Alexander said. “This team has always had the talent, even four years ago when we started here, we knew we had the talent but we could get them to control their emotions and fight through the adversity. It’s finally starting to show and they are getting rewarded for it.

I still expect to make big leaps and bounds with this team because of that.”

The Huskies stormed the ice and the Junior Canucks hung their heads, but only for a moment before shaking hands and saluting what was one of the loudest crowds in Dawson Creek all season long.

“I’m proud of them,” Fulton said. “Ken Dryden said hockey doesn’t make character, it reveals it. And it revealed a lot of our character tonight. Our guys weren’t going to quit— weren’t going to throw in the towel. Back was against the wall and they just kept swinging until they made some connections.”

Alexander also tipped his cap to the opponent, but explained his team found a little extra edge that eventually propelled them to the series win.

“You can’t take anything away from the Dawson [Creek] boys,” Alexander said. “They worked their hearts out out there. They stuck with their game plan and they were physical and they never gave you a shift off. There was no meltdowns by them really, everything we got we had to earn it… we just stuck together at crucial times and got the winner.”

Daimon Derouin made 19 saves for the Huskies in the win.

The Huskies will now face the regular season champion North Peace Navigators in round two. Fort St. John managed to hand the Navigators one of their three loses this year in a 5-2 win at North Peace Arena.

A series start date has yet to be determined.

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Did Site C panel make 'math error'?

Jonny Wakefield

Alaska Highway News

continued from page 2

The B.C. government says the Site C Joint Review Panel failed to factor in LNG when evaluating demand for the dam.

Critics say the project’s economics need an independent review by the B.C. Utilities Commission.

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.

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.

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

A gas-powered LNG industry "would make provincial (and national) greenhouse gas targets all but impossible to reach," the panel concluded.

Some projects do intend to use power from BC Hydro.

According to the ministry spokesperson, three LNG projects using the B.C. grid (LNG Canada, Woodfibre LNG and an upgraded Tilbury Project in Delta) would exceed Hydro's 3,000 gigawatt-hour projection.

Woodfibre plans to run its 1,300 gigawatt liquefaction plant on the BC Hydro grid for environmental reasons, according to a spokesperson.

However, many proponents hope to be liquifying and exporting natural gas well ahead of Site C's inservice date.

Around 20 B.C. local governments, including the PRRD, have asked BC Hydro to send Site C to the BCUC, which is tasked with regulating utility rates.

Many claim the BCUC would better evaluate the economics behind Site C. When announcing the decision to go ahead with the project, the province delayed construction — which had been slated to begin this winter — to summer.

Find out more at www.residentialschoolsettlement.ca or by phone:

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Shoppers Drug Mart & WestJet grow Tree of Life campaign

Shoppers Drug Mart teamed up with WestJet last October, for the second year in a row, to make their Tree of Life campaign the best one yet. The Fort St. John location was able to raise $20,636 for the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation’s Eastern Star Children’s Fund, benefiting babies, children, and maternity patients. To encourage more donations, WestJet donated two tickets anywhere they fly to be raffled off.

Their efforts earned them the top spot in the province for most money raised, and they were named third in Canada.

Dale Bobby, District Manager, Janine Wolff, Cosmetic Coordinator, Denise Mazur, Tree of Life Coordinator, and Tammy Koponyas, Manager of the Fort St. John Shoppers Drug Mart, present Ashley Bentley, the Hospital Foundation’s Executive Director, with their Tree of Life donation.

SHOWCASING Friends of the Bluey Day is back! Be Brave and Shave Fort St. John Hospital Foundation is currently seeking participants and volunteers to Foundation Monthly Giving Program The help make the 16th Annual Bluey Day the best one yet! This year’s Bluey Day is set for

The Friends of the Foundation Monthly Giving Program was recently established to make donating to the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation easier than ever.

The consistency of a monthly contribution ensures a stable and reliable source of funding that allows the Foundation to better plan for hospital improvements. The program is flexible to meet the needs of all donors; allowing them to set a gift amount and easily increase, decrease, pause, or stop their gift at any time.

A preauthorized monthly donation can be directed to any one of the Foundation’s funds of the donor’s choosing, and all monthly donors will receive a charitable tax receipt in January for the previous year’s contributions, and regular updates on Foundation campaigns.

No matter how big or how small, the Foundation truly appreciates each and every gift.

May 30, but registration is quickly approaching. Registration forms will be available for pick up starting on March 2 at the Foundation office.

This year’s goal is to raise $100,000 for the Foundation’s Cancer Treatment and Diagnostic Fund. This fund helps to purchase equipment that will either aid in identifying cancer or help comfort those in treatment.

Join the fight against cancer and “Be Brave and Shave”!

Last year’s Bluey Day raised over $90,000 for the Foundation’s Cancer Treatment and Diagnostic Fund.

As a small token of appreciation, the Foundation updates the Accumulated Giving Wall each year with donors who have donated over $1,500.

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Josie Lawlor 4-H Reporter

Beatton Community

4H Hi, it’s Josie Lawlor and Leigh Hedges. Leigh will be taking over the club reporter position for Beaton Community 4-H club 2015.

Leigh Hedges here, I am here to tell you a bit about myself.

This is my first year of 4-H but my older siblings have been in Silver Willow 4-H club before doing Beef Project. I am doing Horse Project and as Silver Willow is only a Beef and Sheep club I have joined Beatton Community Club with my horse ‘Dolly’ and to hang with my friends that are also in Horse Project. I’m 13 in gr.8 and I grew up here in Fort St John and still growing, I hope. Now enough about myself let’s talk about our 4-H. We have 12 new members and 4 returning members. Our AGM and general club meeting was on Jan 12th 2015. We filled all the necessary positions for our club and also learned about what we have to do for communication. For communications our style, topic and title needs to be done by February 2, our next meeting.

We will do our Club level communication presentations on February 28. We are currently looking for judges to come and judge our club communications. If you are interested call the number below. Chris Taylor is our A leader, Trena Hebert is B leader and Julia Feller is our Horse leader.

Those filling 2015 club executive positions are: President: Kyra Taylor Vice President: Nate Burchell Secretary: Lexie Maclean Treasurer: Josie Lawlor Safety Officer: Josie Pearson /Colten Pearson Club Reporter: Leigh Hedges Barn Decorator: Jessie Pearson/ Mollie English For more information or interested in helping out please call: (250) 794-7452 Thank you to our page sponsor North Peace Veterinary Clinic for letting our club let the public know what we are up to.

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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 Cup Top Ten 1) Joey Logano Points: 47 Wins: 1 Top 5: 1

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Location: Atlanta, Ga. Date: March 1st, 1:00 p.m.

TV: FOX Last Year’s Pole: Kevin Harvick k 190.398 Last Year’s Winner: Kasey Kahne

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2) Kevin Harvick Points: 42 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1

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3) Dale Earnhardt Jr. Points: 42 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1

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4) Denny Hamlin Top 10: 1

5) Jimmie Johnson Points: 40 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1

Top 10: 1

6) Casey Mears The biggest names in racing will battle on Sunday, March.

1st, for 500 miles in the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 Sprint Cup race. The Atlanta Motor Speedway is a superspeedway located 20 miles south of Atlanta with a seating capacity of over 125,000. It opened in 1960 and was almost completely rebuilt in 1997. In the process it has become one of NASCAR’s fastest tracks. Bobby Labonte has achieved more wins than any other full-time driver at this speedway.

Current points leader and last week’s winner of the Daytona 500, Joey Logano, finished 14th last year.

Points: 39 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 1

7) Clint Bowyer Points: 37 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 1

8) Martin Truex Jr. Points: 37 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 1

9) Kasey Kahne Points: 35 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 1

Kurt Busch was suspended indefinitely after a Delaware judge said the 2004 champion almost surely choked and beat his former girlfriend, Driscoll, last fall at Dover International Speedway. A threejudge panel denied his first appeal Saturday. His second and final appeal was denied Saturday night. “The decision of the National Motorsports Final Appeals Officer is final and binding on all parties,” NASCAR said in a statement. “Kurt Busch now has exhausted his appeal options under the NASCAR rulebook, and the indefinite suspension remains in effect. He will not be allowed to race nor participate in any NASCAR activities until further notice.”

Racing Trivia

Top 10: 1

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How old was Joey Logano when he won his first Cup Series race? a) 18 b) 19

10) Greg Biffle Points: 35 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Racing News

c) 20 d) 21

Answer : b) Logano was 19 years old when he won the 2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301.

Points: 41 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1

Track Details Distance: 1.54 miles Shape: Quad-Oval Turns/Straights: 24º / 5º

Points 47 43 42 38 35 33 33 30 29 28

Last Weekend’s Race: Joey Logano won the Daytona 500 Daytona 500 Top Ten Driver Points Joey Logano 47 Kevin Harvick 42 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 42 Denny Hamlin 41 Jimmie Johnson 40 Casey Mears 39 Clint Bowyer 37 Martin Truex Jr. 37 Kasey Kahne 35 Greg Biffle 35

No one seemed more surprised than Joey Logano as he stood atop his No. 22 Penske Racing Ford in Daytona International Speedway Victory Lane. He celebrated his first-ever Daytona 500 victory on Sunday. Logano in 2009, at the age of 19, became the youngest winner in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series history. Joey emerged from a tight pack of pre-race favorites on a green-white-checkered overtime restart to hold off reigning Cup champion Kevin Harvick. “I can’t believe it,” said Logano, whose previous best finish in this race was ninth in 2012. “That is really amazing. The Daytona 500. Oh my God. Are you kidding me? I was so nervous pretty much the whole race.”

Joey Logano #22 Born: May 24, 1990 Crew Chief: Todd Gordon Car: Ford

Year 2015 Career

Wins 1 9

Top 10s 1 83

Avg. Finish 1 17.1

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This Week: The Honda Classic

The Honda Classic has been part of the PGA Tour since 1972 when it began as the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic. Tom Defending: Russell Henley Weiskopf won the inaugural Winning Score: 8-under par event, besting Jack Nicklaus Winner’s Purse: $1,080,000 by one stroke. Nicklaus would get his revenge, winning the event in consecutive years, 1977 and 1978. In fact, only three men have won the event twice in its illustrious history: Nicklaus, Johnny Miller (1980, 1983) and Mark Calcavecchia (1987, 1998). Honda became the sponsor in 1982 and this will be its 32nd season as the sponsor.

PGA National Champion Course Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. 7,158 yards, Par 70

Golf TV Schedule

The Honda Classic Day Time Thu, 2/26 2:00pm-6:00pm Fri, 2/27 2:00pm-6:00pm Sat, 2/28 1:00pm-3:00pm Sat, 2/28 3:00pm-6:00pm Sun, 3/1 1:00pm-3:00pm Sun, 3/1 3:00pm-6:00pm

Network GOLF GOLF GOLF NBC GOLF NBC

How many tournaments did Charles Sifford win? c) 2 d) 4

James Hahn made a 25Tournament Results foot birdie putt to defeat 1. James Hahn Score: -6 *won in playoff Paul Casey and Dustin Earnings: $1,206,000 Johnson on the third T-2. Paul Casey playoff hole and won the Northern Score: -6 Earnings: $589,600 Trust Open on Sunday at Riviera T-2. Dustin Johnson County Club. “I never would Score: -6 have thought I would win this Earnings: $589,600 tournament,” Hahn said. Sergio Garcia, a solo leader at various points in the final round at Riviera Country Club, finished with consecutive bogeys to take himself out of contention.

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Golf Trivia

a) 0 b) 1

Last Week: James Hahn won the Northern Trust Open

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Answer: c) Charles Sifford won the Greater Hartford Open in 1967 and the Los Angeles Open in 1969.

Dr. Charles L. “Charlie” Sifford passed away Tuesday night at the age of 92. Sifford was the first person of color to compete in PGA-sanctioned events following the demise in 1961 of the “Caucasian-only” PGA of America membership clause. Throughout the world of golf, he was often compared to baseball’s Jackie Robinson, and went on to win PGA Tour events in 1967 and 1969 as well as the 1975 PGA Seniors’ Championship.

In November, Sifford was among 18 Americans to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from President Obama at the White House.

Lessons from the Golf Pro One of the first things that we need to learn when we get ready to tee off is to have the proper ball position. More than half the time, the ball is not lined up with our body properly, resulting in an errant drive. For every inch that the ball is teed up too far back in your stance, it puts the flight of the ball some 15-20 yards off of your intended line. It is almost a universal rule that the ball should be close to even with the tip of your front shoulder. This will allow the clubface to make a full rotation through the ball, maximizing your distance, accuracy and consistency. Place the ball in line with your front heel and make sure that the heels of your feet are shoulder width apart.

Player Profile

James Hahn

Turned Professional: 2003 FedEx Cup Ranking: 8th World Ranking: 86th PGA Tour Wins: 1

FedEx Cup Standings Through Feb. 22, 2015

1) Jimmy Walker 1,086 pts. / 4 top tens

2) Bubba Watson 888 pts. / 3 top tens

3) Robert Streb 879 pts. / 5 top tens

4) Sang-Moon Bae 834 pts. / 4 top tens

5) Jason Day

810 pts. / 3 top tens FedEx Cup Standings continued...

Player Points 6) Charley Hoffman 794 7) Brandt Snedeker 767 8) James Hahn 736 9) Hideki Matsuyama 728 10) Brooks Koepka 721

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