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Triumph and Sensation, “Jaspers Clydsdales,” took the Houston Christian School grade 5 and 6 class on a sleigh ride around the Jasper farm in Topley. Teacher John Seibenga and Evert Jaspers led the horses while dog Texas ran alongside.
The District of Houston Grant Writer Valerie Anderson will help the Library apply for funding. The Houston Public Library asked council for a nine percent increase, $9,500, in their annual Grant for Assistance from the District of Houston. The Library ran a deficit budget of $10,672 in 2013, with total income of $152,202 and total costs of $162,874. Over 70 per cent of their budget, $105,500, came from the District of Houston grant, Director of Finance William Wallace reported to council on Tuesday, Dec. 17. Over the past four years, the Library hasn’t asked for any increases, so the increases can be viewed as a catch-up, Wallace wrote in his report. “The Library’s need for increased support appears reasonable and is primarily connected with higher staffing costs,” he said. Council declined the requested increase at this time, opting to revisit it in March during their next budget meeting. “We’ve got to start cutting,” said Councillor Rick Lundrigan. “It’s a tough decision, it’s a valuable thing in our community, but is it the wisest
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way to spend the money? At the end of the day we need to start making our choices. I think this is one of them where we should at least consider not giving them the full amount they requested,” he said. C o u n c i l l o r Michalle Jolly agreed. “We do have to start making cuts, but I think that the Library is rather important. It’s a free facility where people can go to and when times are tough we need to have these kinds of facilities open,” she said. “I see it as one of the public uses that we can’t be cutting at this point,” she said. Councillor Kyle Thomson said he’d rather not give the increase, clarifying that they would not cut Library funding, they just wouldn’t increase their funding. William Wallace, Houston Director of Finance said the funding increase fits into the base 2014 budget, which covers all the projects that need to be done. See COSTS on Page 2
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2014 REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE In accordance with section 127 of the Community Charter Council must make available to the public the date, time and place of regular council meetings. The 2014 Regular Council Meetings will be held on the first and third Tuesdays of the month in Council Chambers, at 3367 – 12th Street, Houston, B.C. commencing at 7:00 pm as follows: January 21, 2014 February 18, 2014 March 18, 2014 April 15, 2014 May 20, 2014 June 17, 2014 July 22, 2014 August 19, 2014 September 16, 2014 October 21, 2014 November 18, 2014 December 16, 2014
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The District of Houston is budgeting for a maintenance building for the Leisure Facility in 2014. The building will provide work space for the on-going repair of pumps and other equipment and it will store pool chemicals. Of the full cost estimated $34,000 cost, $31,405 will carry over from the 2013 budget. Councillors Shane Brienen and Rick Lundrigan agreed that a workspace was needed for pool maintenance. The current space being used is a very small, hallway-type area upstairs in the Leisure Facility, with plumbing and piping all around,
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explained Councillor Lundrigan. “It’s not a workspace really. It’s just a hallway that he’s trying to fix stuff in. “I can understand
the need to have a proper work space,” he said. Council discussed other options, such as heating a section of the large Public Works cold storage building,
but felt it would be best to build a small building close-by. John Guenther, Interim Community Planner, said 25 to 30 percent of the pool maintenance is done
in that area, some of it involving tearing apart pumps and moving in and out of the main facility area. “He needs a convenient work space,” he said.
Free drop-in skating starting in January By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
The District of Houston is eliminating admission fees for arena dropin programs starting this January. Previously drop-in programs charged $2 to $3 admission and
had skate monitors at the arena to collect the fee. Now, there will be no admission charges or skate monitors. “This is something MacKenzie did when their mills shut down. It’s just to keep people out there and active,” said
Councillor Michalle Jolly. Ryan Coltura, Director of Leisure Services, said this also saves the District of Houston money. “We’re eliminating the need to staff the program. We’ve collected approximately $2,100
in admission revenue, but paid $3,200 [in wages for people] to collect that money,” he said. Staff will also seek annual sponsors for public skating programs to generate more revenue, said Houston CAO Linda Poznikoff.
District to heat arena seats By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
The District of Houston is installing heaters for the arena bleachers by earlyJanuary. Ryan Coltura, Director of Leisure
Services said the two high-efficiency, gas radiant tube heaters will replace old heaters that are leaking and unsafe for use. The new, high efficiency heaters will be anchored to the
ceiling and will heat the centre section of the bleachers, Coltura said. The $11,000 cost will be funded through the 2013 arena and maintenance budgets. Coltura said they
got a lot of feedback from the public and arena users that they wanted heating for the arena bleachers. “We want people to be comfortable when they’re out watching the action on the ice,” he said.
Council denies Library funding increase COSTS from Page 1 “I feel badly for these guys,” Wallace said. “Here they are coming along to try and catch up… and they couldn’t have timed it worse.
“Looking at their figures, I’m not quite sure I fathom exactly how they are running the show, because even with the ask it appears that there’s still a deficit built into their annual operations,”
Wallace said. He added that the requested increase is not aggressive. Councillor Dawn Potvin said she would like to consider giving them a smaller increase, rather than no
increase. Council agreed to give the Library use of the grant writer’s services to look for other funding opportunities, and then reconsider District funding in March.
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Weekly police report By Jackie Lieuwen
Way Dec. 21. Sgt. Rose says the damage was estimated at $300, the person responsible was identified, and they apologized to the home-owner and re-
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“There’s been a decrease in the number of collisions compared to what we’ve been having in recent weeks,” RCMP Sergeant Rose said when asked how the week of Christmas was. “Police certainly did work through the Christmas season, and for the most part, members were able to balance time off with their families and still ensure that we had good police coverage,” he said. *** Police are seeking an arrest warrant for a female. Sgt. Rose says police did a curfew check and did not find her home at the Houston Trailer Park at 12:50 a.m. Dec. 19. *** Police gave a written warning to the driver of a dark, fourdoor car on Highway 16 and Butler Ave. at 8:30 a.m. Dec. 20. Sgt. Rose says police got a report of the driver’s unsafe passing and Houston was getting significant snowfall at the time. Police also directed the driver to clear the snow off their vehicle before they continued. *** Someone significantly damaged the Christmas decorations of a home in the 1900-block of Sullivan
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searched the vehicle and found 5.5 grams of marijuana. Due to the small amount, both occupants were released and no charges were laid. *** Police got report of a disturbance, a
ous breach. She was lodged in cells to face charges later in the week. *** Police arrested a male for assaulting a female in the Ambassador Trailer Court at 10:15 p.m.
Police arrested a male recognized for having an arrest warrant on Butler Ave. at 2:20 a.m. Dec. 27. Sgt. Rose says the male was also breaching curfew and alcohol conditions. The male was held for court where he will face three breach charges. *** Police are working
to arrest a male for assault on Hagman Cres. at 4:45 a.m. Dec. 27. Sgt. Rose says the female victim was taken to the hospital for assessment. *** In the past eight days, police have dealt with four other traffic complaints, two bylaw complaints, one abandoned 9-1-1 call, and one false alarm.
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A vehicle hit a moose on Highway 16 near Morgan Road at 5 a.m. Dec .21. Sgt. Rose says the driver was not injured, the moose was gone, and the vehicle had an estimated $5,000-worth of damage. Police served the driver a ticket as he was violating court conditions. imbursed the cost of repairs. *** A vehicle slid off of Highway 16 two kilometres east of Topley at 4:30 p.m. Dec. 21. Sgt. Rose said the driver was not injured and reported the crash was due to icy conditions, and the vehicle damage was minimal. *** Police did a vehicle check on Kanada Ave. after seeing the driver leaning outside with the door open at 11:20 p.m. Dec. 23. Sgt. Rose says police detected marijuana, detained the occupants,
male and female arguing on 10th Street, at 11:15 a.m. Dec. 24. Sgt. Rose says police found that no offence was committed and given the history of the two, directed one to stay elsewhere for the night. *** At 9 a.m. Dec. 25, police arrested a female after getting report of an unwanted guest at a home on 11th Street. Sgt. Rose says the female was intoxicated and in breach of court conditions, and also had an unendorsed arrest warrant from a previ-
Dec. 25. Sgt. Rose says the female had minor injuries and the male was released to face charges in court in January. *** Police got a request to check on several children left unsupervised at a home on Pearson Road at 2:30 a.m. Dec. 26. Sgt. Rose says police found several children left in the care of the oldest, who was under 16, while the guardians went out. Police contacted the Ministry of Children and Families and two social workers took custody of the
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n Dec. 16 the Conservative federal government opted not to address the very urgent and growing problem that is the Canadian Pension Plan. Instead of offering any sort of meaningful reform or choosing to adequately fund CPP so that Canadians can expect to be taken care of - after having spent a lifetime of paying taxes - the Conservatives instead opted to do nothing, and presumably hope the problem just goes away. It’s no secret that CPP is underfunded. And given the country’s demographics - with millions of Canadians facing retirement in coming years - this is an issue that can’t be put off any longer.
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Seniors now make up close to 15 per cent of Canada’s population, totalling more than four4 million people. And with the median age in Canada now over 40 years old for the first time ever, the issue of our aging population and how to take care of them isn’t going away. The issue is clear to see: Canadians are living longer, and as a result, drawing on CPP more than in generations past. As result, we need to do a better job of funding CPP if we want it to work. Finance minister Jim Flaherty needn’t worry about his own financial future, of course. As an MP who has served more than six years in the house of commons, Flaherty has a goldplated taxpayer-funded pension to draw on for the rest of his life, upon his retirement. The rest of us aren’t so lucky. Adequately funding CPP is the fiscally-responsible thing to do, but it is also politically difficult. As a result, the Conservatives have taken the easy way out, opting for the instant gratification of low taxes in the present at the cost of a stable future for our citizens. And isn’t that how we got into this mess in the first place?
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Every year, the Fraser Institute irritates me with its annual rankings of elementary and secondary schools based on the results of the Foundation Skills Assessment. And they’ve done it again, just in time for Christmas, with their annual generosity index which has determined that fewer Canadians are donating to charity, and those who do are giving less. The rankings are based on tax returns, but they fail to take into consideration the absolutely overwhelming generosity I see around me, especially at this time of year. The generosity index did not look at volunteer time or nonmonetary donations, such as donations of food items to food banks.
It also doesn’t take into account all of the ways in which people give. I see the Christmas kettles all over town, where people toss in everything from a quarter to $20 bills in support of the Salvation Army. Generous students at my daughter’s school came up with the idea of a pyjama drive so kids in need could have a nice new pair of jammies to wear. I was happy to help. And no, I did not require a tax receipt for my donation. The school also “adopts” a local family, this year a single mom with several kids. Cash donations allowed the school to purchase gift cards for various merchants to give the family a Christmas to remember. I won’t deny that it’s nice to get a charitable donation tax receipt to use at tax time. But it doesn’t influence whether or not
I donate. Perhaps if I were giving away more than I do I’d change my mind. But the little bits here and there don’t make a huge difference on my return. The Shoparama Holiday Gift Sale, the annual event coordinated by Ingrid Baron, has just handed over a cheque for $1,100 as a donation from the event, along with $955 in cash from the kettles, 39 boxes of food for the Salvation Army Food Bank (1,638 items in total) and six large boxes of toys for the Kiss-FM Santa Toy Club. All of this just from one event. And what about the donations made to the food bank, $2 here and there, that gets added to my grocery bill? That’s not taking into consideration the many events held throughout the year, whether a fundraising bake sale for a child undergoing treatment at B.C. Children’s
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Hospital or a silent auction for a sports team heading to the provincials. Every story we have ever run on people in need — and there have been many — has resulted in an outpouring of support. Let’s face it, many of us are strapped for cash, especially at this time of year. It can be difficult to say no, but we can’t support every charity in need and to be honest, the recent e-mail making the rounds detailing the massive salaries made by CEOs of certain non-profit organizations was horrifying, and has made me think twice about supporting certain causes. So if we are lucky enough to be able to support a cause or two, we pick the ones that truly mean something to us, that we believe in. And if money is in short supply, which it is for many of us, give your time instead. It
won’t be noted on the generosity index, but you’ll feel good and so will those you’re helping. And if it’s better to give than to receive, Tom Crist is about to feel very good indeed. The Calgary man has just won $40 million on LOTTO Max and is planning on giving away every single dollar of his winnings. We all fantasize about winning the lottery, and what we’d do with our winnings. Yes, I’d quit my job, pay off our mortgage, put money aside for my daughter’s postsecondary education and travel to exotic lands. But I’d also happily donate a lot more than I currently do to my favourite cause. The bottom line is I give what I can, wish I could give more and I don’t need the Fraser Institute to undermine the good efforts of Canadians who are doing what they can.
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“My favourite memory is picking huckleberries on the Gold Road. It was really good picking this summer. ”
“My favourite part of 2013 was that I got twin great-granddaughters, Annabelle and Lilah born this past year. And I had a grandson Daniel born in Finland.”
“My favourite part of the last year was spending time with my family. We went camping at Tyee Lake this summer, and we went to the fair. We also play family games like dominoes together.”
“My favourite part was camping at Morice Lake with my family this past summer. We went fishing and huckleberry picking and it was really fun.”
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Premier looks back on 2013
After a whirlwind year that started with a come-from-behind election win, Premier Christy Clark sat down with me for the traditional yearend interview in her Victoria office. Here are excerpts from that discussion. A longer version with video can be found under the Opinion tab of this newspaper’s website. TF: Premier, you surprised a few people this year. What surprised you the most about 2013? PCC: I guess it was the disconnect between the pollsters and the pundits, and the public. I did have a sense all the time
that the citizens were thinking something different in the run-up to the election campaign. I wondered, am I missing something here, or are they missing something? And I guess it turned out that it wasn’t me that was missing something. TF: The liquefied natural gas export project is going to use a lot of natural gas, especially in the early years. Will B.C.’s greenhouse gas reduction targets [20 per cent reduction by 2020, 80 per cent by 2050] have to be changed? PCC: I don’t have a clear answer on that yet. We are working
with the companies on exactly how we are going to structure their environmental commitments and costs, and their electricity costs versus using gas, the total royalty tax regime. We’re looking at that as one package. However that turns out, though, this opportunity to export natural gas to Asia is the single biggest opportunity we have ever had as a province to reduce greenhouse gas emissions around the world. In shipping this to China, we are going to help them wean themselves off some of the dirtiest coal anybody’s burning anywhere in the world.
TF: If B.C. is going to get credit for displacing coal use in Asia, shouldn’t B.C.’s coal exports, even though it’s metallurgical coal, count in our greenhouse gas total as well? PCC: I know that the academics and pundits are going to get all mired in competing sets of numbers and studies. For me, we have a chance to do good for the world, and we’re going to take it. TF: On oil pipelines, your agreement in November with Alberta Premier Alison Redford involves B.C. supporting her effort
for a national energy strategy. What do you see it doing in the future? PCC: The big idea that she’s trying to pursue with that is a strategy that will connect us east to west in energy. Energy grids are much better connected north to south than they are east to west. So she’s trying to pursue a panCanadian strategy for the exchange of energy, whether that’s hydroelectricity or natural gas or whatever it is. We haven’t been intimately involved with it until recently, so we’ll see where it goes. TF: There’s a per-
ception out there, fuelled by the opposition, that you campaigned against oil pipelines and now you’re turning the tanker around, as it were, to be in support of them. What do you say to that? PCC: It’s typical of the other guys to reinterpret and misquote. That’s what they do. They’re in opposition. What I said was, we have five conditions that must be met in order for heavy oil to be considered to go ahead in British Columbia. That has not changed. The five conditions remain in place. As of today, none of
B.C. Views Tom Fletcher them have been met. The only thing that is different today, from before the election, is that now I no longer stand alone in supporting the five conditions. I have one other premier supporting me, and that’s Alison Redford.
Kids, happy hour coming to B.C. pubs By Tom Fletcher Black Press
The B.C. government has uncorked another round of liquor law reform, with children to be allowed in pubs and restaurants allowed to serve drinks without food. Premier Christy Clark announced the changes at a downtown Vancouver res-
taurant Tuesday, as the provincial cabinet works its way through a list of 70 recommendations from a recent public consultation on updating B.C. liquor laws. As with earlier rounds of liquor reform, Tuesday’s event was short on details and long on populist appeal. Some time next year B.C. will see the changes, and
will also join all other Canadian provinces in allowing pubs to offer discounted drinks for happy hour. Permitted times and a minimum drink price are still to be determined. Children are to be allowed to accompany their parents into pubs up until an evening curfew time, also yet to be determined, but Clark said it will allow families to have lunch
or dinner together at a pub. Royal Canadian Legion branches will have the same freedom to admit under-age family members. Restaurants with “food primary” licences will still have to offer a full menu when liquor is available, Clark said, “but customers who don’t want to order food shouldn’t be forced to do so,
and food primary businesses that want to fully transition away from food service after a certain hour, and operate for example as a night club, will be able to apply for a special licence to do so.” NDP critic Shane Simpson said the changes effectively erase the distinction between a licensed restaurant and a pub, and
are being announced for popular effect without any research to support them. The province also intends to make its Serving it Right liquor training to all servers in licensed restaurants, as well as staff at B.C. Liquor Stores and rural agency and wine stores. Licensees, managers, sales and serving staff “should also be required to recertify,”
according to a government news release. Last week Clark and RichmondSteveston MLA John Yap, who led the public consultation on liquor law reform, announced that regulations would be eased for winery tasting rooms. Farm markets will also be allowed to offer samples and sales of locally made beer, wine and spirits.
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This year was filled with special moments to be remembered including anniversaries, birthdays and graduations. Above is John and Molly Luszcz celebrating their 60th anniversary with their five children. Families and kids enjoyed the unusually long and warm summer and fall this year. Above, several kids from the All Nations soccer team enjoy a break from their soccer practice one warm summer day.
2013 year in review
On June 26, the Ministry Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations threatened to pull the plug on Irrigation Lake unless the dam was brought up to safety standards and a water licence holder found. The Bulkley Valley Credit Union stepped in with $10,000 to fund the needed engineer study, which was started Oct. 2 by Water Resources Engineer Carl Pentilchuk. Stakeholders will meet early this year to decide about the water licence and how to fund the dam upgrades.
Above: Houston’s downtown merchants threw a Downtown Merchant Festival in August - the first of a now annual event. With store sales and streets closed down, local residents and families crowded downtown Houston, done up with inflatable bouncers, a petting zoo and an antique car show.
Right: On October 24, Houston Forest Products announced that it would permanently shut down in May 2014. The community is coming together to work on initiatives to support mill workers, develop the Houston economy to mitigate the impact and brace social services to be ready to lend support.
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Picturing life in Houston Right: Local ladies Monique, Daniel and Connie try their hand at curling, hitting the rink for the first time during the “Try it out� curling event this winter. Missing from the picture is Amy, who also took the curling lessons. Left: A jeep careens down the hill just east of Houston, enjoying some off-roading fun in the warm fall. Bottom left: Kids sharpened their soccer skills at an Embody Life Fitness Camp that runs in Hazelton, Houston and Burns Lake during the summer and spring break. Bottom middle and right: RCMP safety bear collects $150-worth of food from Super Valu, donated to the Salvation Army Christmas Hampers. The Houston community crammed three cruisers full of food donations in addition to other food drives and donations.
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Locals Marnie, M arlee, Jennie hit the rink to try out curli ng Trudy Amonson, Cu for the first time. rling Instructor, ga ve them curling lesso ns.
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Back in 2007, this collapse of an old culvert led to the deactivation of a small section of the Thatsa Forest Service Rd. The road, originally built to service Kemano project work in Thatsa Reach, had become a well-used access road for back country enthusiasts as well as trappers, sport-fishers, forestry and mining workers. A team effort has brought about the road’s recent re-opening. By Walter Strong
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struggle to determine who was responsible for the road’s maintenance. Because that section of the road was not licensed to any industrial operator, Thompson took the problem to the Ministry of Forest and Range (now subsumed under the Ministry of Forest, Lands and Natural Resource Operations MFLNRO). At the time, ministry representatives told Thompson that they simply didn’t have the money to repair the road to modern standards. Instead, the ministry deactivated the road leaving it impassible by car or truck traffic. The closure of the road had an impact on Thompson’s business and also meant that the lodge lost an emergency exit. “Since that time, we were evacuated two times because of forest fires,” Thompson said. “The secondary road would have been the emergency exit, so that prompted us to fight [for the road] as well.” Getting the road repaired was a drawn
out process. “We were unsuccessful in convincing the ministry that it needed to be fixed,” Thompson recalled. Recently, Onno VandenHoek, an area supervisor for Houston Forest Products, took the initiative and set repairs in motion. “I know them [the Thompsons] and I’ve stopped in at the lodge a few times,” VandenHoek said. “I knew this business with the road was at a stalemate and I just decided to see what we could do.” Va n d e n H o e k has plenty of roadbuilding experience and is familiar with the permitting and paperwork involved in getting road work approved. He obtained the MFLNRO permit, and Thompson obtained the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) permit (a nearby fish stream mean DFO permitting was required). Houston Forest Products and Huckleberry Mines Ltd. agreed to split the cost of the road repairs. The road was popular with mine employees who
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would pop over to the Nadina Lake lodge to wet their fishing lines, VandenHoek explained. “I talked to the guys at Huckleberry and asked if they wanted to split the bill; they were fine with that.” Thatsa Timber Ltd. of Burns Lake did the actual roadwork, which took a couple of days. They provided their work at a reduced rate to help out with reopening the section. “Everybody realized what was going on,” VandenHoek said. “It’s just a goodneighbour deed.” “It’s now repaired and has been reactivated,” Thompson said. “It is two-wheel drive accessible. It’s a vast improvement and it’s open to the public. There’s still some work to do to make it really nice, but we’re going to do that this summer ourselves by hand. Now it’s worth doing because the road is drivable.” Thatsa FSR remains classified as a wilderness road by the MFLNRO. As such, the province’s responsibility for its upkeep is limited.
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Thompson Rivers University Assistant Professor Rob Higgins visited Harvard University this past summer to pursue his research on developing a better understanding of one particular group of ants in British Columbia (genus Myrmica). The best collection of ant specimen is housed at Harvard University in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Higgins was welcomed by Stefan Cover, curator of ants, and was given full access to the collection and connected with researchers from around the world.
“Ants in this genus are extremely difficult to identify to species, a problem that created real world issues when the European fire ant (Myrmica rubra) turned up in British Columbia. There is a desperate need to clean up the species clutter,” Higgins says. The best collection of ants in Canada is at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. André Francoeur, a retired taxonomist opened up his collection to Higgins. He was able to spend a week there going over Myrmica specimens. Through research, Higgins has discovered
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European invasive ant that has spread across Vancouver and Victoria (Myrmica specioides). The Canadian National Collection in Ottawa has just asked for specimens for their collection, as well as the Royal BC Museum. Thompson Rivers University is equipped with state of the art science laboratories. Research on the myrmica species continues to be conducted. Jacquie Johnston is the marketing and recruitment co-ordinator for TRU in Williams Lake. - Submitted
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other zone teams from across B.C. Coach Jacque Dahl from Terrace says their team has a strong mix of players. “We have some great skaters and good scorers, and two goalies - that’s a bonus,” she said. The Houston girls on the team are Camryn Himech, Shaely Niven,
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Brooklyn Bowes, Madison Emberley, Alicia Bishop, Emily Anderson, Kassidy Stuart, McKenzie Chudyk, and Nadyna Monkman. “They’re all really hard working players, they all have good skating ability, and they have good ring control,” Coach Dahl said. She said the
interesting challenge is getting team strategies worked out, because they are joining together girls from two different teams. “Each team has their own things that they learn as a team and strategies that they focus on, so we need to sort of combine and come together on some new strategies as a team,”
she said. The B.C. Winter Games, funded primarily by the Province of B.C. through the B.C. Games Society, happens every two years and includes a large variety of sports. The teams stay in schools with other ringette players, which Dahl says adds a good social aspect to the
Games. “They get to integrate and hang out and meet the girls from other teams. It’s a lot of the players that they might be playing with on double AA teams, or if they tried out for a B.C. team, they’d see a lot of these same faces,” she said. Dahl says the Games only allow
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Phone: 250-845-7117 www.bvcu.com
Smorgasbord every Friday & Saturday
Phone: 250-845-2419
HOUSTON MALL
Phone: 250-845-2910
2350 Butler Ave. 250-845-3400
25 GIFT CERTIFICATE
LUNCH FOR TWO
ONE PUNCH PASS
BOUQUET FOR MOM
3462 - 9th Street, Houston
$
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MOTOR INN 250-845-2296 Beer & Wine & Spirits Store Pub & Lounge • Motel
UP TO $25 VALUE FROM
PLEASANT VALLEY RESTAURANT Call 250-845-2232 Great Home-Cooked Meals!
VALUE: $60 FROM
Pleasant Valley Plaza Bowling Centre Open: Monday to Saturday: 10:00a.m. - 10:00p.m.
FROM
A ngel F lowers & G ifts
Phone: 250-845-2298
Located downtown on Ninth Street in the Barber Shop
REGISTER FOR BOWLING LEAGUES
Phone: 250-845-2329