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Direct flight to Victoria now offered out of P.G. For local provincial government staff, doing business in the province’s capital got easier Jan. 12. That was the day the first direct flight between Victoria and Prince George touched down at the Prince George airport. The inaugural flight, originating in Victoria, landed in northern B.C. at 6:40 p.m. The non-stop service, offered by Pacific Coastal Airlines, operates six days a week on a 30-seat Saab 340A. “I flew in on the new non-stop service and it was a very comfortable, quick flight,” said John Gibson, president and CEO of the Prince George Airport Authority. “The cabin is very roomy and we are extremely excited locals can get to the Island in only an hour and a half. We look forward to working with Pacific Coastal on making this new service a success.” “We’ve had our eye on Prince George for many years, so today is a very exciting day for us,” said Pacific Coastal Airlines’ director of sales and marketing Kevin Boothroyd. “We look forward to planting and growing roots in northern B.C. and creating relationships with those who live in the region.” Welcoming celebrations took place in both Victoria and Prince George. Prince George Mayor Lyn Hall along with representatives from Tourism Prince George, Initiatives Prince George and the BC Construction Association were in attendance welcoming the first flight into YXS. The flight between Prince George and Victoria operates Sunday to Friday. It departs Victoria at 5 p.m. arriving into Prince George at 6:40 p.m. The aircraft departs YXS at 7:05 p.m., arriving in YYJ at 8:45 p.m.
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For artist and teacher Jennifer Annais Pighin, her designs chosen for the 2015 Canada Winter Games are as much about showing respect for those who came before her as they are an expression of her artistic talent. Pighin created three designs used for Team B.C. scarves and shirts as well as commemorative pins that will be widely seen around Prince George in February when it proudly hosts the Games for the first time. Importantly for her, says Pighin, Lheidli T’enneh is First Nation host for the Games, the first time a First Nation has been named an official host of the Games. “They [Winter Games committee] called and asked me to create the designs – I really Teresa MALLAM/Free Press Artist and teacher Jennifer Pighin shows off the design she created for don’t know why they chose me but I scarves worn by Team B.C. during the Canada Winter Games hosted by was happy to come Prince George. up with someWinter Games Medal Design Competition. thing,” she said. “But I also want to acknowlHer work was chosen from 39 submissions edge the knowledge-holders who have passed from across Canada. on our art and cultural traditions so that I Pighin is a snowboarder who loves the could do this.” outdoors. When she first sat down to create them, the “I love winter. It is my thing,” she said, adddesigns came easily to her, she says. ing her eight-year-old twin boys enjoy sports “I have lots of ideas,” she said, laughing. including skiing and outdoor recreation and Indeed, the prolific artist has her own webher mother was a figure skater. Growing up site featuring her work which is always evolvon the North Nechako River, Pighin says she ing despite the fact she has other roles such has a true understanding of and strong enduras teacher, student and busy mother of two. ing bond with natural environment which Pighin was born and raised in Prince George comes through in the three designs she creand spent six or seven years in the Lower ated for Team B.C. Mainland pursuing her higher education. The scarf shows a sockeye salmon, a staple Currently she’s working on her Masters of food of the interior people. First Nations Studies at UNBC. She teaches at “Salmon take a phenomenal journey to PGSS. Prince George and they are nothing like they Team B.C. partnered with Pighin, a council member for the Lheidli T’enneh, and commis- were when they started, changing colours and becoming lean as they move up the river,” she sioned three designs to be used on Team B.C. said. apparel and pins for the 2015 Canada Winter Another aspect of her talent is represented Games. in a Team B.C. puzzle pin, a three-part pin in“These beautiful designs are going to be spired by the work of her elders and depicting a huge hit at the upcoming Games,” said a dug-out canoe, a traditional form of travel. Coralee Oakes, minister of community, sport “It has been an honour to work with Jenniand cultural development, in a Jan. 13 press fer on the creation of these designs,” said Rob release. Needham, Team B.C. Chef de Mission. “The “What a great way to share the spirit of the North and the culture of the Lheidli T’enneh,” Team B.C. athletes, coaches and mission staff will wear the pieces with pride and they are she said. excited to debut them in Prince George.” “I am excited to be part of this project as According to the release, the 2015 Canada it involves youth,” Pighin said in the same Winter Games are expected to bring together release. “Opportunities like this are so uplift3,300 athletes, coaches and managers from ing and the chance to share the pride of our every province and territory to compete in 19 culture and our province is exciting.” sports. For more about Jennifer Pighin visit In a Jan. 14 news release, it was announced www.jenniferannaispighin.com. that Pighin is also winner of the 2015 Canada
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Flu season in the North has been a mild one this year Bill Phillips editor@pgfreepress.com
Bill PHILLIPS/Free Press Dr. Abu Hamour, Prince George Medical Director, left, Dr. Ronald Chapman, Vice President, Medicine, and Michael McMillan, Northern Health Northern Interior Chief Operating Officer, address the media Wednesday.
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tis. “The risk is exceptionally low. This was the pre-cleaning process, that was followed by the actual cleaning process, which involves manual cleaning as well as sterilization.” Northern Health is urging anyone who may be concerned about possibly being infected
For close to two years, endoscopes at the University Hospital of Northern B.C. were not being cleaned according to the manufacturer’s recommendations. As a result, Northern Health is now in the process of notifying the approximately 10,000 people who had a procedure using an endoscope. “First and foremost, I would like to apologize because of this, to contact their for any undue stress that this local physician, who can arrange information might cause our for them to be tested. patients,” said Dr. Ronald ChapChapman said the risk of man, Northern Health’s vice an infection stemming from president of medicine. Chapman, along with Dr. Abu the cleaning procedure is low because the error was in the preHamour, Prince George medical cleaning process. director, stressed that the risk “The physician and the nurse of anyone becoming infected who use the scope are responsibecause of the improper cleanble for the pre-cleaning steps, to ing, is extremely low. Northern remove any tissue from a narrow Health has consulted with the air and water channel,” he said. British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, which has also advised that the risk of anyone becoming infected is extremely low. Ms. Lorea’s offers both the full “We are not aware of any infections,” said Esthetic and Nail Technology Hamour, who added diploma program. that the risk includes * Certificates for specific modules contracting blood* Start anytime borne viruses such * Fully accredited with PCTIA as HIV and hepatiand BBB
“This involves using a syringe to flush air and water through the channel to remove any debris.” He said a button must be held down for 30 seconds to flush the water and air through the scope, followed by suction for 10 seconds. The button was not being held for the complete 30 seconds, said Chapman. After the pre-cleaning, the scope was then cleaned and sterilized. “If debris was not removed in the pre-cleaning, it may be possible that it might not be removed by further processing,” Chapman said. He added that as soon as the error was noticed, the procedure was changed. The error did not impact the diagnostic outcome of the tests and other endoscope procedures at UHNBC were not affected, he added. Michael McMillan, Northern Health Northern Interior Chief Operating Officer, would not say whether disciplinary action was taken as a result of the error, but said Northern Health will conduct a “full accountability review of the issue.”
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He said veterans often want private meetings and are uncomfortable being lumped in with the crowds at the Service Canada offices. “It’s been my experience, in dealings with veterans, is that they feel abandoned by Veterans Affairs,” Scott said, asking council to help press Ottawa and local MPs to re-open a Veterans Affairs office in Prince George. “I’ve been appalled for a while,” said Coun. Susan Scott, who is the chaplain for the Prince George Legion and, she said, the daughter of two veterans. “The fact that Veterans Affairs is in a major financial surplus, is just staggering, in light of what has been done. It is shameful.” Her voice broke slightly as she said: “I hope we stand behind our veterans.” Coun. Brian Skakun said Prince George is the hub throughout northern B.C. for many services and veterans’ services shouldn’t be any different. Mayor Lyn Hall said it’s an issue that the city should also bring up with the North Central Local Government Association. “I think there’s an opportunity for us to do something,” he said. “If we can get on the bandwagon to try and show support in the entire north for the need, that’ll go a long ways.” Coun. Garth Frizzell put forward a motion seeking to enact a community covenant, which was recently approved, to determine what the city can do in
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New Spirit for Northern Health Allan Wishart allanw@pgfreepress.com There’s a new Spirit inside Northern Health. Spirit the Caribou was unveiled Jan. 13 at Duchess Park Secondary, where Isabel Stratton, who designed the mascot, is a Grade 8 student. “I decided to make him a caribou,” she said, “because that’s an endangered species. I probably did 10 or 15 drawings of him over two weeks.” Spirit was designed to help Northern Health engage young people in thinking about healthy living, and was sponsored by the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation. “It’s so different seeing him in 3D,” Isabel said. “I’m really pleased with how he turned out.” According to the back story she created for Spirit, “When Spirit was young, he was adventurous and loved to explore. One day, when Spirit was out discovering the world, he got a really bad cold and had to go visit the doctor.” The doctor encouraged Spirit to practice healthy living habits, “so he and his family can stay strong.” Spirit will make a number of appearances during the upcoming Canada Winter Games, before making appearances across the north, Allan WISHART/Free Press spreading the message of healthy living to Spirit the Caribou, the new mascot for Northern Health, prepares to high-five the Duchess Park Condors mascot last week at the school. Isabel Stratton, a Duchess Park student, right, designed Spirit. young people.
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Robert Quibell is a techie at heart. Coming in a close second, though, is marketing. So when the opportunity to become the new executive director at the Innovation Central Society came up, he jumped at the opportunity. “There’s huge innovation (in Prince George),” he said. “It felt like home.” Armed with an MBA from UNBC Bill PHILLIPS/Free Press and his own success- Innovation Central Society executive director Robert Quibell. ful start-up business, Vortex Social Maror ideas and providing the assistance to get those keting, the former business ventures off the ground … big or small. College of New Caledonia and City of Prince The second is an “investor’s group,” which George employee will now focus his efforts on helping innovative businesses get off the ground. involves creating essentially a pool of investors who are looking to invest in the area. He If you have have an idea or a prototype and will then be able to pass some good ideas onto want to bring it to market, that’s where the Inthese investors and the rest is up to the parties novation Central Society can help. involved. Quibell says they will look at the idea and first The third focus will be a venture acceleration help determine whether it has business potential. program, which is based on a customer devel“Then we either find them money or brain opment model and a lean start-up framework. power,” he said. “Or both.” The goal of the program is to drive economic Quibell says there is a tremendous amount of development and job creation by accelerating companies in Prince George already doing inthe commercialization of technology. There is a novative things and that innovation can involve small fee for the venture acceleration program, all kinds of business … from a social markethowever all other services provided by the Ining start-up like Quibell’s to innovation in the novation Central Society are free. forestry and mining sector. “I’m interested in moving things forward,” Sometimes those innovative ideas just need a Quibell. helping hand. The Innovation Central Society is funded by Quibell says he wants to focus on three key the B.C. Innovation Council, the National Reitems at Innovation Central Society. search Council and other agencies. It is governed The first is to develop an “inventor’s circle,” by a local board of directors. which is finding and evaluating new inventions
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CNC prof. publishes textbook An instructor at the College of New Caledonia has published an award-winning textbook on Aboriginal health care in Canada. Dr. Vasiliki Douglas, CNC nursing instructor and expert on Indigenous health care, wrote Introduction to Aboriginal Health and Health Care in Canada, the first entry-level textbook of its kind. Dr. Douglas holds a PhD in History of Nursing (University of Alberta), an MA in History and BA in Ancient History and Classics (McGill University), and a BSN (University of British Columbia) and has won multiple research grants to study and present on Indigenous health research. Douglas, who has taught Aboriginal health to nursing students for more than six years, noticed a gap in dedicated learning material for the topic. “When I began teaching I was aware that there was a large and rapidly growing body of research on Aboriginal health,” said Dr. Douglas. “I was, however, surprised to find that there was no textbook specifically written to introduce nursing students to this important field.” The textbook was named a 2013 PROSE Award Winner in Nurs9
ing and Allied Health Sciences, an honour granted by the Association of American Publishers. The content is presented in two parts, using relevant case studies and concrete examples to introduce students to health concerns facing Canada’s Aboriginal population. Part one, Aboriginal Culture and Health, is an introductory section which discusses the diversity of Aboriginal culture, history of Aboriginal health and the importance of cultural safety in health care. Part two, Aboriginal Health and the Canadian Health Care System, contains chapters on the determinants of Aboriginal health, diet and nutrition, diseases, mental health, women’s and children’s health and the future of Aboriginal health care. The text emphasizes the necessity of cultural safety in Aboriginal health care. Cultural safety is a set of practices used worldwide in health care to treat patients of varying cultural backgrounds and belief systems so that patients may be treated without denial of their identities, and also feel spiritually and emotionally supported through their treatment. “Cultural safety offers the potential to bridge the divide between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals
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in the health care system,” said Douglas. “This applies both to our relationship with patients and our relationship with other health care professionals, as the number of Aboriginal professionals increases. I strongly believe that increased knowledge
of cultural safety will improve levels of care, and wrote An Introduction to Aboriginal Health and Health Care in Canada with this in mind.” Douglas also has publications focusing on Inuvialuit and Inuit traditional medical care
and midwifery, food/cultural security and reconciling traditional knowledge and climate change. She is currently working on a manuscript for another textbook that will have a focus on Aboriginal women’s health in Canada.
Missing the mark Target closing Canadian stores After being open for just over a year in Prince George, Target is closing. Target announced last week that it is closing all of its stores in Canada. It has obtained an initial order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice for creditor protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. The order authorizes Target Canada to begin a court-supervised wind-down of its Canadian businesses. It also provides for a broad stay of proceedings against Target Canada and authorizes Target Corporation to provide a debtor-in-possession credit facility of US$175 million to finance Target Canada’s operations during the CCAA proceedings. Target opened its location in the Pine Centre Mall in Prince George in early 2013. Target invested between $10 million and $11 million in up-
grading the location at the mall. When it opened, it employed between 150 and 200 people. The Ontario court also approved a $70 million employee trust for the benefit of employees of Target Canada. This trust will help provide severance for Target Canada’s 17,600 employees during the wind-down. Target’s departure predictable says the union representing B.C. retail workers “It’s no surprise that the Target store in Prince George was thin on staff and merchandise when they refused to hire Zeller’s retail workers – who had years of experience running a successful retail operation in Canada,” said Jason Mann, spokesperson for United Food and Commercial Workers 1518. The United Food and Commercial Workers represented unionized Zellers employees at several stores across Canada.
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UNBC Assistant Professor of Nursing Dr. Greg Thomas-Reilly has recently returned from Liberia where he worked on ebola infection prevention, control, and mitigation efforts. Upon his return to Canada he followed all public health requirements, including 21 days of symptom monitoring. He was tested for ebola at the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia this week as a precaution and received confirmation on Thursday morning that the test came back negative. “I would like to recognize the professionalism and support of Northern Health and the BC Ministry of Health, who acted prudently in the face of a very low-risk situation,” Thomas-Reilly said, in a press release. “I would never place my family or the public
at risk, as my life and career has been dedicated to preventing and controlling infectious diseases. While not perfect, we as Canadians should be proud and grateful of the incredible health systems that we are privileged to enjoy, as this is certainly not the case in many places around the world, including Liberia.” Thomas-Reilly would like to use his experience in Liberia to raise public awareness about the current ebola outbreak in West Africa and potential future outbreaks of infectious diseases. He is also interested in starting a support network to help other Canadian healthcare professionals who are thinking about going to work in an area with an ebola outbreak as well as those returning from assignments in outbreak zones.
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Pivotal year ahead in B.C. for aboriginal relations says minister Rustad Black Press legislative reporter Tom Fletcher sat lot of work with those nations to date, and we will down for a year-end interview with Aboriginal Relacontinue to be engaged with the Treaty 8 nations. tions Minister John Rustad. Here is what Rustad had But certainly, particularly for West Moberly First to say. Nations, who are arguably most impacted by this Q: Can you tell me about some agreements with project, it’s going to be challenging. First Nations you have in the works for 2015? It has significant impact on them directly as a A: On the LNG front, we have agreements with ap- people, so we’re going to need to find ways to mitiproximately 20 nations that we have signed and we’ll gate. You can’t mitigate the fact that the valley will be be announcing some time into the new year. I can’t flooded, but find some other things that we can do give you more details than that, but they include the with the nation. coast, some of the sites where LNG facilities will be, We’re engaged with them as well as the other Treaty and some of them of course are also pipeline benefit 8 nations. BC Hydro still has a lot of work to be done. agreements. We have to find some way to bring some agreement It’s been a good year for us with LNG negotiations. if we can. We have another 20 nations that we’re working with Q: Some of those groups have logging and conand with a few exceptions, most of those are moving struction companies that could realize a benefit from along relatively well. a project like that? Q: One of A: There will the agreebe hundreds of ments signed millions of dollars recently was a worth of business benefit agreeand economic ment with the opportunity for Wet’suwet’en the people in that First Nation. At area and specifithe same time cally First Nations. we have one or Some business two hereditary units already have chiefs at the contracts with BC Unist’ot’en camp Hydro. My hope (accessible by is that those comlogging road panies and bands Tom FLETCHER/Black Press have opportunities from Houston), Aboriginal Relations Minister John Rustad (left) meets with with support Tsilhqot’in chiefs Roger William and Joe Alphonse at his leg- to fully participate. from profesQ: Can those islature office. sional environopposed stop Site mentalists, and they’re adamantly opposed to gas or C? oil pipelines. Have I got that right? A: Obviously there are some legal challenges out A: I wouldn’t characterize it that way. Here is how there. I would say Site C has probably been the most the Wet’suwet’en people are divided. There is the ofstudied major project in British Columbia’s history. fice of the Wet’suwet’en, which is all of the hereditary There have been conversations that have gone on for chiefs from the Wet’suwet’en areas. And then there are 30-plus years and a lot of engagement with First Nasix elected bands, four of which have asserted their tions on it. I can’t say what a judge will say. territory, working with their hereditary chiefs, and And not to forget that there are 10 [non-aborigithose are the Wet’suwet’en First Nation, the Skin Tyee nal] landowners that will be significantly impacted, First Nation, the Nee Tahi Buhn Indian Band and the and it will certainly be difficult for them as this Burns Lake Indian Band. project advances. And then there is the Moricetown Band and Q: The Tsilhqot’in court decision recognizing Hagwilget, which have not asserted their territory but aboriginal title was a big event in 2014. Are people work under the Office of the Wet’suwet’en. reading too much into that as a precedent for other The Unist’ot’en is one hereditary chief, and the First Nations, or is that territorial claim really unique? Unist’ot’en family is involved in the blockade. So I’m A: It is unique. There has never before been a dechopeful, we’ve been working with them. I’m optilaration of aboriginal title in Canada. It’s also unique mistic that in the new year we may be able to find a as a very long court case that led to that decision. One resolution to that particular issue. thing that isn’t unique, we know that aboriginal title Q: Another highlight of the year, the Site C dam exists, it’s in the Canadian constitution. The courts announcement on the Peace River. We’ve got Treaty 8 have said that it exists but they have never defined exFirst Nations who remain opposed. They signed their actly where it was. When you look at how the definitreaty in 1899, it surrendered the territory east of the tion was applied for the Tsilhqot’in decision, that was Rockies and it protects their traditional hunting, trap- known as well, in terms of the continuous occupation ping and fishing. The joint review panel on Site C said prior to 1864 [Chilcotin war], their continuous and there are impacts here that really can’t be mitigated. exclusive use. What’s the duty of the Crown in that situation? This is the first direct title award. It certainly has raised expectations, and from our perspective, we A: Obviously we have a duty of consultation, and want to do as the courts have said, and that is sit where appropriate accommodation. We’ve done a 10
down and negotiate. What does this mean? How do we work with First Nations to define their aboriginal title for those nations who want to do that. Q: That decision was based on the jurisdiction of the forests ministry, and what the Supreme Court of Canada decided was that the province still has jurisdiction to go in and put out forest fires if that’s required, but not much else. Is there a sense of unfairness among the non-aboriginal population about how this has come out? A: I’ve certainly heard from people who are wondering, where does this go. When you look at what the constitution and the court says, it’s a reality for us in British Columbia. It’s some8
thing I think we need to embrace and find ways to work within it. More importantly for the Tsilhqot’in people, how do we create an economy for them? How do you help them build a future in today’s world and economy? I think [former Nisga’a Nation president] Dr. Joseph Gosnell put it well when he was at the legislature not long ago. He said aboriginal people, economically, are 100 years behind non-aboriginal people and that needs to change. And that means aboriginal people need to be engaged in the economy, and there need to be benefits that flow from where aboriginal people have title on the land base.
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A celebration of diversity at CNC Teresa Mallam arts@pgfreepress.com A celebration of diversity. The College of New Caledonia (CNC) held the latest instalment in a series of workshops that celebrate their digenization and internationalization. Organizer and artist Cat Sivertsen said Jan. 14 the workshop had a heart theme and slogan: “This is the HeArt of diversity.� The event was hosted by CNC’s International Education department and the Aboriginal Resource Centre and was held in the Gathering Place. Participants were encouraged to be creative with their ideas and use of materials, said Sivertsen. “Canfor donated all the paper for our event and I cut it up into squares to make it easier for people to work on. Our medium was mixed media so we had materials like little maps, origami paper, cupcake holders – and lots of glitter. “We’ve been running this
series at CNC for about a year and a half but this is the first art-based one we’ve done.� Facilitator Elyse Elmslie said several students and faculty members stopped by Wednesday to add their artistic flair. “I’m painting a picture in between talking with people. Rather than just simply asking people to do a piece of art about where they come from, which can be a little daunting for some people, I ask them to use a heart shape. I think the heart is a nice symbol and people can get creative with it and incorporate it in their artwork.� Elmslie says the intent of the series as a whole is to create a more welcoming environment for the college community. Indeed, twin sisters Orsi and Francisca Hamari, exchange students from France, were at a table with fellow CNC student Nimra Riaz enjoying a creative time with brushes, paints and paper Wednesday. A table at the back of the room was piled high with colourful paintings and, of course, hearts.
Teresa MALLAM/Free Press Orsi Hamari, left, joins Nimra Riaz and her twin sister Francisca Hamari in creating heart-themed artwork Jan. 14 during a workshop to celebrate CNC’s indigenization and internationalization. The sisters are exchange students from France.
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CONAN DOYLE IN WEST Creator of Sherlock Holmes Stories Now in National Park Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the “Sherlock Holmes” adventures, who, accompanied by Lady Doyle, is camping in the Courtesy The Exploration Place Yellowhead Pass of the Canadian A BX Sternwheeler makes its way along the Nechako River in a photo from about Rockies, the guest of Colonel S. 1910. Maynard Rogers, superintendent of the new national park, will attempt to scale Mt. Robson, before returning to England, early in July. R U N • S K I • S W I M • A P PA R E L He will also join Colonel Rogers and party on a big 5 game expedition outside the reserve, making part of the trip in a canoe. “ It is unlikely Conan Doyle scaled Mount Robson, which at 3,954 metres is the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. The first ascent was in 1913 by Conrad Kain, an experienced Austrian climber who said it was one of the most dangerous expeditions he had made. Fort George Herald, Aug. 29, 1914
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“The Herald has secured the consent of the Brown Bros, of the Electric Light and Power Plant, to blow their whistle every night at eight o’clock, for the benefit of the public. There are so many different times being kept about town that we thought it would be advantageous for those making and keeping appointments if a common time could be maintained by all. The Standard Grand Trunk Pacific Time will be secured daily and the whistle will blow sharp at 8 p.m. to the second. This will enable our people going by the outgoing trains to make proper connections. Announcement is here given so that there will be no misunderstanding and our readers start looking for a fire.”
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“Queer stories are told of the weather in this century–old hamlet. Some three years ago an oldtime prospector, named Bill Johnson, was acting as cook at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s. The weather was so cold for a time that Bill wore woollen mitts when frying bacon and had to skate when moving in the kitchen. The writer of this paragraph (editor John Houston), one night last week, when setting type at an improvised stand, with a red-hot stove within two feet of his legs had his German socks freeze solid to the soles of his arctic shoes.” Fort George Tribune, December 18, 1909 Under the heading: Don’t Ask for Too Much (Editor John Houston was twice elected as a B.C. MLA and understood the province’s politics). “A meeting of the Fort George Conservative Association is to be held on Sunday, January 2nd, at 2 o’clock, in the Hudson’s Bay Company’s diningroom. At this meeting the requirements of the district are to be considered, and for that reason every member of the association should try and be present. The fault found with the action of such meetings is that too much is asked for which gives the Government a fair excuse to say the people making the demands are unreasonable. Ask for the main requirements of the District; the minor requirements will come without asking. Above everything else show that you are not all looking for jobs, as reward for party service.” And on the same page Houston provides a personal observation: “In three months and nine days, the writer has seen but two hen’s eggs and tasted none. The two will be tasted on Sunday. They came from William Kennedy’s henhouse, the only one within a hundred miles of Fort George.” Fort George Herald, August 20, 1910 “The first piano to arrive in South Fort George reached here Monday last. It is the property of Mrs. R.M. Burns and is now installed in the Burn’s residence on Fourth Street.” Fort George Herald, Sept. 10, 1910 In this article the editor laments the shortage of gasoline: “A gasoline famine is rampant here. The “Traffic Regulation Act” will not permit steamboats to carry this very necessary commodity, and owing to the fact that there is no other mode of freight transport to this point the people of South Fort George who wish to use gasoline for both light and power purposes are suffering in consequence. We would point out to the navigation companies that it would be a simple matter for them to equip their boats with magazine compartments in which gasoline or powder could be carried without violating the act, or by refusing to accept passengers for one trip one of the smaller boats could bring up a large consignment from Soda Creek….” In the following week’s Herald we see why the editor was concerned about fuel shortages: “Our gasoline engine arrived this week and is now installed in the new Herald building on Fourth Street.” The Fort George Herald, of June 20, 1914 described an appointment to an unusual job, by someone who had “considerable experience in
“Mr. Eugene Cashman of Prince George has been appointed City Scavenger and will enter upon his new duties at once. Mr. Cashman will have complete charge of the removal of all garbage, refuse, stable manure, and night soil from Prince George and Fort George to the Government Dumping Ground. ….the City Scavenger will collect fees for the Scavenger work from the owners of same…” The Fort George Weekly Tribune of June 27, 1914 carried this item from Edmonton:
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It’s easy to take a trip back in time with the Prince George newspapers digitization project, found online on the Prince George Public Library’s website at pgnewspapers.lib.pg.bc.ca/ The old papers are often difficult to read due to their condition. The earliest copies have few if any photographs. But they’re a treasure trove of stories. The writing is colorful, with a mixture of news and opinion, often in the same article. Here are some snippets beginning with our earliest newspaper. Fort George Tribune, December 11, 1909 Under the heading:
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Comedy tour Gerry Dee coming to Prince Allan Wishart allanw@pgfreepress.com As life changes, so does Gerry Dee’s comedy routine. “When I started doing stand-up,” Dee says over the phone from Ontario, “teaching took front and centre. Now, there’s a lot about parenting.” Dee will be at Vanier Hall on Jan. 30, bringing his act to Prince George for the first time. “It’s always fun going to a place for the first time,” says Dee, whose CBC show, Mr. D, starts its fourth season on Jan. 20. “This show might be more of an introduction to Gerry Dee, whereas if I’m playing a city I’ve played before, I might change things up a bit.” Dee says he had always been an entertainer and a story-teller growing up, but his first career was as a teacher. “I was teaching for about five years before I did my first standup routine. It was something I wanted to try, and this was just the next step from what I had been doing for years.” For those early routines, he stuck to what he knew best. “Teaching was an easy source of stories. There might be something that had happened the day before in class that I could make a story out of.” He started to attract notice across Canada for his comedy, and after another five years, he gave up teaching and turned to comedy full-time.
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He took part in a season of Last Comic Standing on NBC, where he finished the third, the highest finish ever by a Canadian. That was when Canadian TV came calling. “A guy at The Score knew my sports background, so he asked if I’d be interested in doing a segment. That lasted about six or seven years.” The segments featured Dee interviewing sports personalities, and he really enjoyed it. “I was getting the chance to meet some of my sports heroes. I still look at them as heroes.” When he got the chance to do Mr. D, a series about a high-school teacher who tries to stay one step ahead of his students, the sports angle ended up tagging along. “We’ve had some sports people guest star on the show, like Nathan McKinnon, Daniel Negreanu and Roberto Alomar. It’s always a lot of fun.” And he says, even though he’s been out of teaching for a while, there is no shortage of story lines. The tour he’s on now started with a few dates in December, than has a few in B.C., then picks up again about a month later. “It’s nice to be at the point now in my career where I can dictate what events I go to. I get the chance to get back to Toronto and have some time with my family, then go out on the road again.” Tickets for the Gerry Dee show on Jan. 30 at Vanier Hall are available at all Ticketmaster locations.
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Kids with real personality keep local couple busy on their goat farm also are valued for their milk. And Gustafson soon learned how to make artisan soap which she sells in local stores According to the Chinese Zodiac and markets. calendar, 2015 is the Year of the “Brad milks the goats Goat. and I make the soap,” says Trisha Gustafson and her husGustafson. band, Brad, will have no trouble “Their milk is not super in celebrating. The couple raises Chivolume but it is very creamy. lako Nubian goats on their 160 acre Nubians have the highest “hobby farm” in the Mud River area butter fat content so it really – and there’s always plenty of live does make beautiful soaps. It’s action going on. labour intensive we use high “Right now we have 22 Nubians quality essential oils, so it’s not on our farm. They’re like the ‘Jersey’ cheap to produce but it’s very of the goat world and we just love luxurious.” their antics,” said Gustafson, who The couple’s love of Nubian often photographs them. goats began with a herd of “They’re really fun to be around horses. because they do the most entertain“Originally, when we ing things. Each one has its own per- bought the farm five years ago, sonality so they are more like dogs we planned to have a small that way. They love attention and hobby farm which would help have a pecking order in the herd.” us to be as self-sufficient as They all have names to suit their possible. We had a friend who personality. needed a temporary place to “All our goats are registered with keep horses – we ended up formal names but I’m surprised they looking after 17 horses for don’t have an identify crisis with all about six months. As a thankthe nicknames we give them – based you present, we got a small on their distinctive behaviours.” herd of Nubian goats.” The Gustafsons have two livestock Calling it the “best present guardian dogs who stay with the ever,” that’s how their advengoats and protect them from harm. ture with goats started, she “We have a lot of coyotes where said. Trisha Gustafson gets a kiss from “Skye.” we live, and they are really sneaky, Anyone wanting to raise ers like deer. Sheep and I find. They seem to always have a Nubians is advised to ask lots cattle are grazers and plan, they try to lure one dog away of questions and buy from a reputhey will eat down a so they can get closer to the goats. table breeder/owner, says Gustafson. pasture but goats like We’ve seen cougars and bears and She likes to share information on the to nibble the tops off there’s been lynx tracks although care and feeding of Nubians with her everything instead.” lynx don’t usually go after goats.” social media friends. Page wire fencing Nubian goats are cute but they “Goats love alfalfa, they are browskeeps the goats in a large but contained area – but they love to play and socialize outside, says Gustafson. Like many northerners, though, they like to stay inside during the winter. “We make them go out, otherwise they’d stay in this time of year. We put their water a couple of hundred yards away so they get fresh air and exercise. They do get a winter coat which comes out in the spring.” The Gustafsons regularly post photos and stories about their goats’ latest antics and adventures. Trisha Gustafson came in fourth last month in an international online photo contest which featured a photo of their goat friends. For more information about the Gustafsons and their goats, go to their website at www. chilakonubians.com. The “celebrity” goats even have their own facebook page at www. facebook.com/ChilaPhoto contributed Trisha and Brad Gustafson with four legged friend “Player.” koNubians.
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