November 2, Cariboo Advisor

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the Cariboo Advisor Wednesday, November 2, 2011

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Volume 14, Issue 42

November 2, 2011

Fiddlers

Turn your clock back one hour this Sunday

Workshop held at Anaham School Page 15

WL Stags hosted the 7-a-side rugby zones Page 13

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The Legendary Betty Frank hot off the presses

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Angie Mindus Cariboo Advisor Inspired by books written about wilderness adventures as a young girl living on a remote coastal island in the 1940s, Betty Frank pursued her own dreams with fierce tenacity and lived life on her own terms in the rugged backcountry of Quesnel Lake as a guide outfitter and trapper. Still vibrant today at 80 years old, Betty Frank is now the subject of her own book, a memoir fittingly entitled The Legendary Betty Frank, the Cariboo’s Alpine Queen, she collaborated with Williams Lake author Sage Birchwater on the project which is hot off the presses this week.

“I grew up on an island with just boats. I felt confined,” recalls Frank of her early years, first hunting deer at nine years old. As a young woman Frank saw becoming a school teacher as her path to the freedom she craved in the backcountry and arrived in the Cariboo as a teacher at the Alkali Lake Ranch in 1954, teaching many children of pioneering families such as Paddy and Sandy Twan, Marsela, Audrey and Chick Bowe and Sharon and David Maurice. “I always wanted to be a guide outfitter and work with horses and pack dogs. I wanted to do what I read about.” It is safe to say Frank did that and then some, eventually

amassing a one million acre guiding and trapping territory in one of the most physically challenging and remote terrains in the world; with her area spanning from the edge of Bowron Lake Provincial Park in the north, to the heights of land above McBride in the east and south to her lodge at Quesnel Lake. “You couldn’t cover it all, but I tried to get to most of it,” Frank said of her territory, where she built or maintained nine log and tent cabins and made trails over creeks and rivers and through bogs and rainforests to get to the alpine meadows she loved so much. See FRANK on Page 17

Diesel shortage crisis

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The Chamber of Commerce is hosting an all-candidate forum for the councillor candidates Wednesday evening at the Tourism Discovery Centre. The forum goes from 5:30 until 7:30 p.m. with each candidate getting two minutes for both opening and closing remarks. The all-candidate forum for the mayoral

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pumps and are following a mandate from head office to keep Tolko, West Fraser and BC hydro supplied with fuel, which is leaving many truckers wondering and worrying. The shortage is expected to last until Nov. 19. Petro-Can is investigating other sources and say they will do their best to keep truckers as informed as possible.

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Diesel shortages in Western Canada were felt here in the Cariboo-Chilcotin over the last week by truck drivers. The shortage is due to Suncor in Edmonton being short of diesel because they are short of additives for the diesel fuel. Currently, the Petro-Can bulk stations in town are limiting their

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Williams Lake author Sage Birchwater and guide outfitter legend Betty Frank.

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