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jump back and get out of the way of traffic.” Passing a school bus with its red lights flashing is both illegal and dangerous, but bus drivers like Dettling have people pass their flashing red lights on a daily basis. “A lot of them are assuming, I think, that all of the students get off the bus and walk straight into a driveway,” she said. “Teenagers might have a little more responsibility when it comes to Photo Credit Bronwyn Scott crossing. Unfortunately, Mike Fitzgerald, transportation supervisor for School District 60, and Cindy Dettling, bus some of these are kindriver and Safe Stop co-ordinator, are getting the message out that kids’ safety is at risk. dergarten kids, they’re Grade 1’s, Grade 2’s, and they’re getting off the bus, crossing in front of the bus BRONWYN SCOTT across the street, and then into their driveways. reporter@northeastnews.ca “Little kids are easily distracted, they see Mom and FORT ST. JOHN – There have been too many close calls Dad on the other side of the street, they know the bus has for School District 60 bus driver Cindy Dettling to sit back stopped and that they’re allowed to cross, and sometimes and watch as careless drivers continue to put her passengers they get excited, and they don’t always watch where they should.” at risk. One morning Dettling was stopped three times in a row, Dettling is launching an awareness campaign she’s calland at each stop, somebody different went through her ing Safe Stop to remind drivers to slow down when they fl ashing lights. see the flashing yellow lights of a school bus, and to come “In the space of a minute, I had three infractions. It was to a complete stop when the see the red lights. That goes for vehicles behind the stopped bus, and those insane,” she said. That in part is what spurred her to action. in the oncoming lane. While bus drivers can report infractions to the RCMP, “Do not pass. Stay stopped until the lights go out. We have a real problem in this area,” she said, in an interview they have to be able to catch the license plate number of the passing vehicle. As ensuring the safety of the kids getting with the Northeast News. “There has been lots of times where kids have had to on and off the bus is a higher priority, it’s not always pos-
sible to get the plate number. A solution, however, is in the works. Before the end of the school year, cameras will be installed on School District 60 buses that will be able to take license plate photos of the drivers who fail to stop. To help spread the word about Safe Stop, Dettling has been approaching businesses in industry to ask that they add Safe Stop information to their in house and tailgate safety meetings.
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Bumstead has also been communicating with Peace River South MLA Mike Bernier about road safety action, as Alaska Avenue and 8th Street are under Provincial jurisdiction. ICBC’s Road Improvement Program works with municipalities and the Province to implement road improvement projects. It also conducts engineering safety studies to ensure that issues surrounding road safety are considered when planning new roads and traffic management measures. Michelle Hargrave, senior communications specialist with ICBC, identified three aspects of strategy which are considered by a group of stakeholders during the planning phases of projects: whether the problem area is an issue of
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To the Editor: I see by the articles in the newspaper that Fort St John City Council is having conniptions about the possibility of having the fair share grants reduced. The whole province has to cut back and they think they should continue on their merry spending ways. If they had been prudent with the fair share money over the years and spent the money on infrastructure as it was meant to be, the city would be in great shape. They spent money on a $50 million skating rink, paid $3 million for a mostly used gravel pit, plus a couple of million on equipment to operate it, (I’d like to see a financial statement on the operation of the pit.) Council paid $250,000 per acre for 8 acres along the highway plus I don’t know how much to run sewer and water to it. Now I hear they are talking about buying the old hospital property. What in the hell for? If they thought they needed the old hospital grounds, instead of giving the land for the new
hospital, they should have trades properties for the old hospital site. Council has no business gambling on real estate with taxpayers dollars. Almost every time council has to make a decision, they hire consultants. No one expects councilors to know everything but they should have the ability to look at facts and separate the wheat from the chaff. We are paying some of the highest salaries to city employees. They should have the expertise to advise council. If they can’t do that, what are we paying them for? Many times over the years, some people including city council have said we need to have certain amenities to attract professional people. First there was the cultural centre—that didn’t help. Then the $8 million swimming pool—that didn’t help either. Then the $50 million skating rink—that didn’t make a difference. What might make a difference is having a clean city with sidewalks, streets wide enough to park and drive on, and hav-
ing decent services with reasonable taxation. The city has some of the highest taxes, fees and building permit cost, and regulations which drive up the cost of building. Our taxes used to include all service, water, sewer, garbage collection, etc. Now besides huge tax increases, we pay a water and sewage frontage tax, a charge for garbage collection, another for water coming in and another for water going out. In our area the developer installed the streets and lighting, water and sewer lines. These are paid for when you purchase the lot. In spite of this my taxes on a 1,300 sq. ft. house are now about $4500 per year. Council’s mismanagement and lavish spending is making living in FSJ Almost unaffordable.
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what I was getting at. “It’s right in the middle of where people are driving,” I pointed out the obvious. He turned to his mother/grandmother for clarification on that point. “Put the cart away so people don’t drive into it,” she quickly interpreted and jumped into the car, shutting the door and leaving me alone to teach life lessons to her son/ grandson. I sensed that she knew something that I didn’t. The young man then proceeded to grab the offending cart, drag it across the pavement, and jam it between the row of other carts and the wall of the cart shelter. Just to spite me. Or her. Or the world. Or the cart. “Cool,” I said. “Nice attitude, kid.” He then proceeded to tell me, in the most charming language, that if someone were to have driven into said shopping cart, scratching their paint or denting the body, it would have been unfortunate for them but not at all his problem. This is more or less what he said, but he said it much more expressively and creatively. He seemed to feel that it was his prerogative—his right— to not actually care about anything beyond his own direct sphere of physical experience and need, and was outraged that anyone, especially me, some woman in the Walmart parking lot, would dare to expect or request anything more of him. I got the distinct feeling that this kid did not experience much discipline, from day to day, and that my little dose of
responsibility really ruined his afternoon. Upturned his cart, if you will. As they drove off, his minimally-involved mother/grandmother behind the wheel, he in the backseat giving me the stinkeye as they rolled past my Corolla, I thought to myself “I fear for every woman in this boy’s future. Every person who will ever have to deal with him throughout his life.” I understand that there is a fair chance this boy has had a not-so-ideal upbringing. His current train-wreck approach to life is most likely not his fault, or only partly. But my interaction with that prickly little bundle of angst and entitlement chilled me. His complete lack of respect for me, for others, for the cart, is harbinger of things to come. It’s an echo of a world where kids are being brought up by a mess of influences coming at them from all sides, and no clear distinctions between role models and villains, reality and fantasy, and right and wrong. They’re so inundated with constant images and marketing and spend so much time staring at screens and Snapchatting each other, that they miss out on what it feels like to be a kid, just a kid, free from influence. And I think that this kid, confused and belligerent because someone told him to take the most minimal part in society, is one result of that and it’s going to get worse unless we, as a society, take a step back and stop letting mass media raise our future adults.
The following editorial is going to officially establish me as a grumpy old curmudgeon. But, after an eye-opening to say the least experience this week in the Walmart parking lot, I feel compelled to stand here on my little soapbox and shout for a minute. Because, I am scared. Strolling back to my vehicle on a beautiful sunny Dawson Creek afternoon, I was confronted by the sight of a young man, around 15, another youngster, and a woman who I presume was his mother or grandmother, unloading their cart into the trunk of their car. As I walked nearer I observed as the young gentleman flung, with a deliberately, flamboyantly careless flourish, their emptied shopping cart away from their car, and then promptly turn away as it rolled to a stop in the middle of the lane, directly in the path of parking vehicles. “Hey,” I called to the young sir; “are you going to put your cart away?” He turned to me, with a blank, kind of bewildered expression on his face, obviously completely uncomprehending as to why this random woman was sort of shouting at him in the middle of the parking lot. “Are you going to put that cart away,” I said, louder and a bit more clearly, so that he could definitely understand
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First crowdsourced meeting for D.C. arenas was “very, very positive” according to mayor Dale Bumstead the first meeting was “a very worthwhile couple of hours.” City staff and consultants briefed the guests about the arenas’ mechanical equipment, and assessments which have taken place so far, Bumstead said, then they were toured through both arenas’ mechanical areas and were invited to discuss the issues surrounding them. “The group had a wide open, great conversation in terms of them inquiring about different components, different issues, different aspects of the facility,” Bumstead said. Among those present were representatives from Encana Corp., ARC Resources Ltd., Murphy Oil Co. Ltd., Shell Canada, Edge Controls Inc. and Lawrence Meat Packing Co. “It was very, very positive in terms of the feedback, response and interaction we had from them, and in fact there was a number of them that said that they would like to stay involved in the process with us, and suggested that there’s such a value in that expertise that exists in the
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I was wondering through the one of the dollar type stores in town a while ago. I have no idea what made me do it, but I picked up this pack of toilet paper and flipped it over. There on the back, in big, bold letters was this: MADE FROM 100% VIRGIN FIBRE. Now, juvenile chuckles aside, what the heck are we doing being proud of cutting down trees to wipe our butts then flush it away? Anyone have any ideas, because I’m stumped on this one! As Yoda could have predicted, this got me thinking about all of the paper products that we use every day: paper towels, paper plates, napkins, Kleenex, and toilet paper in addition to all of the newspapers and till receipts floating around in the bottom of my purse. That’s a lot of trees! But it’s not just trees, the pulp and paper industry is the third largest producer of climate change pollutants which is expected to double by 20201.
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In response to all of this craziness, I stopped buying paper towels. This made me stop and think about a couple of things. First, what did we do before we had paper towels we could throw away? And second, how exactly am I going to pull this off. Thankfully the answer to both questions was pretty much the same: use a real towel and then wash it. I really put my education to work on this one! To go a step further, I purchased two sets of microfiber cleaning cloths that look nothing like my kitchen cloths. The last thing I wanted to do was end up using the same cloth on my counters and I did on the toilet (although science assures me this is perfectly safe, my ick meter says that’s not cool!) Then I picked up another set of bar cloths for the kitchen messes. These are easily found in packs of 6-12 and don’t cost any more than a pack of paper towels, so I was off to the races with minimal fuss. Now, I hear the question arising…. Are you actually benefitting the planet because you have to wash those cloths? In short, yes! I am reducing waste and all of the energy and water that go into making a paper product we just throw away. According to Carbonrally.com the average tube of paper towel is responsible for about 1.25 lbs of CO2 plus that emitted during transportation all the way up here. (Is it just me, or does hauling an entire truck of paper towels up the Alaska Highway through snow, sleet and hail so we can use them once then toss them in the landfill for the next 10,000 years seem entirely too preposterous for a group of humans that seem to think they are smart?!) So when I toss a few extra cloths into a load of laundry that I’m doing anyway, I’m definitely coming out ahead. (Note: When using microfiber cloths, let them air dry completely before washing them. This will kill all of the germs they collect. Do not put these guys in the dryer, avoid anything related to fabric softener and they will treat you well for the rest of their lives.)
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The added bonus for me was the elimination of cleaning chemicals. I still use vinegar on my mirrors and such, but with microfiber cloths, you do not need any extra stuff. Which means…. You guessed it! The kids can help without worry of anyone spilling the jug of multipurpose cleaner! And that hits it out of the park: less money spent, less waste and the kids can pull their weight. Total win. 1 National Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org/cities/ living/paper/default.asp Your challenge for this week is anything buy grey. Stock up on real cloths and skip the paper towels. Buy one pack of microfiber cloths, one set of kitchen cloths and if you really want to, a set of cloth napkins for lunch boxes or your purse. This will all but eliminate paper towels from your kitchen, bathroom, public restroom and the best part, your budget! For more challenges, check the NEAT-Northern Environmental Action Team Facebook page each week as we add to the “50 Shades of Green” challenges. Like our Facebook page and share with friends for your chance to win prizes. Our first draw will be when we reach 750 likes. Karen Mason-Bennett, Program Coordinator
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Fort St. John’s community cleanup is around the corner
The Pitch-In Kick Off will take place Sun., May 24th at 2 p.m. when city staff members take 20 minutes to do a volunteer tidy around city buildings. On May 26th, there will be a community planting day in Centennial Park, where schools that have registered will meet with the city grounds staff to plant flowers. As this event will take place on a weekday afternoon, it’s expected the volunteers will primarily be school children, but any individuals interested in helping out are welcome to join in. The city will be providing everything needed, but anyone wishing to bring their own gardening tools are welcome to do so. Thurs., May 28th is Pitch-In Day throughout the city. Community groups and individuals who have registered will be provided with a map of their designated area and supplies. Although it’s typically larger groups, rather than individuals, who sign up for Pitch-In Day, it doesn’t have to be, according to Armstrong. Teams of any size can register. New this year is a 20-minute neighbourhood challenge, which will wrap up the week on Sat., May 30th. Participants of this event Photo Credit File photo have a chance to win prizes. This challenge was designed for individuals, BRONWYN SCOTT neighbourhoods or smaller reporter@northeastnews.ca groups who are unable to commit to a larger clean-up FORT ST. JOHN – Spring cleaning isn’t just a time for area, but who are nonethekeeping house, it’s also a prime opportunity to pick up garless interested in enhancing bage strewn in the ditches and streets, left behind when the the appearance of their own snow melted. neighbourhood. Pitch-In week in Fort St. John is a community effort held “This is a great way to every year to do just that. meet your neighbours and During the week of May 24-31, hundreds of community make the city a beautiful minded volunteers will have the opportunity to come toplace to live,” said Armgether to clean up the city in a number of scheduled events. strong. “I think all of us can notice there is a lot of debris and The city will provide garbage after the snow melts, especially along the Frontage gloves and bags to everyone roads and in the ditches, and down 100th,” said Danielle who registers, and guideline Armstrong, community development co-ordinator with the safety information about city. how to handle garbage items “There’s definitely areas in the city that, it won’t take that participants may come a lot of time, but it’ll just take some manpower and some across will also be issued. resources to really be able to bring it up to our summer kind Registration is open until of scene.” Mon., May 11. To sign up, Anyone who’s participated in past years knows what a email Danielle Armstrong at difference Pitch-In week makes. darmstrong@fortstjohn.ca, “The impact is immediate. Like vacuuming your floor, or call her at 250-787-5791. you can immediately see the difference,” Armstrong said.
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Traffic calming Continued from Page A4. education, enforcement or engineering. Sometimes the identified issue, such as speed and increased traffic along Alaska Avenue and 8th Street in Dawson Creek, is a combination of all three, Hargrave said. Hargrave told Northeast News that she spoke with an ICBC engineer who sits on the regional traffic safety committee for Dawson Creek and Fort St. John, which meets twice a year and includes various stakeholders and city representatives, representatives from the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, ICBC and the police. The engineer did not confirm that any discussions have occurred around Alaska Avenue and 8th Street, but he did identify a road improvement project planned for 10th Street south of 107 Avenue, adjacent to Dawson Creek Central Middle School. That project was planned in order to increase pedestrian safety. The project will include narrowing the road, adding curb extensions and relocating the crosswalk to the intersection. This project is planned for 2015 but the “funding agreement has not yet been finalized”, she said. There may be other projects planned for Dawson Creek for 2015, but Hargrave could not provide further details. At the April 16 council meeting, councillor Paul Gevatkoff wondered whether Rolla Road between Spirit River Highway and Dawson Creek - Tupper Highway—or the “snake pit” as the notoriously dangerous stretch of road is known—might be included in Bumstead’s future discussions with ICBC. Gevatkoff is working with other stakeholders to have the road identified as a hazard by the Province. “They’re all interconnected,” Gevatkoff said, “the safety issue on the snake pit road has an effect on 8th Street and
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These things don’t happen overnight, in fact sometimes they take a number of years. fact sometimes they take a number of years. “It’ll be an ongoing issue to keep bringing these issues back to [the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure] and back to the Provincial government to get something done. We need to get as much support as we can.” Hargrave said that once a plan of action, if any, is decided upon by the traffic safety committee, a funding structure will be decided upon with monies being contributed by ICBC and the other stakeholders.
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T o C o n s i d e r Review 2014 financial statement. Sales increased 24.6% to $101.8 million and net savings of $7.9 million or 7.9% of sales. Directors recommendation of a patronage allocation Election of 2 Directors for 3 year term Guest Speaker FCL Director
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wanted to have their say, got to have their say, and they saw that they were heard,” said Batterham, in an interview with the Northeast News. “It’s easy to pay lip service to peoples’ input, but we want to make it real, we want to make it tangible, we want to make what the community has said actually happen.” Other changes ahead include the decision to open the cultural centre on Mondays, and to keep it open through the month of July. The board is sending out regular newsletters, and they’re talking to stakeholders, making efforts to promote the centre, and improve it. The cultural centre has roughly 150,000 visits in the course of a year, and for many it plays an important role. For Laurie Petrucci, a mother of four, it was a key educational centre for her children when they were small. “Once they start school, that becomes the institution of learning, of art . . . but before that, the first five years, this is where we spent our time, this is where I met friends,” she said. “The kids grew up in the gallery, the kids grew up in the library, so to me, the cultural centre has always been one of our cultural institutions. Local business owner Nelson Stowe
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provided the board with some insights into funding opportunities, and stressed the importance of giving a clear sense of what funding will go towards when appealing for sponsorship. “I find that people have to really believe in what they’re giving to, and also, a lot of organizations do a very poor job in educating them as to what it is you exactly do,” he said. Barry Moss, gallery curator at Peace Gallery North, brought numerous ideas to the table, including the possibility of hosting a fundraising cocktail party, and he highlighted the importance of enhancing user experience. “When you come in the door, it’s very clinical, there’s nothing that says arts. And for me, arts are kids. So, where’s the kids’ paintings when you walk in the door? They should be splattered all over the place on the wall. Where’s the little videos of the dance groups? . . . The performances, why aren’t they getting played on the television that’s by the café?” he said. The third meeting about improving the cultural centre, which hasn’t been scheduled yet, will incorporate the new ideas that were discussed at the last meeting, and help to formalize a plan for the future.
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Dilley told Northeast News that the current load factor for flights out of Dawson Creek is between 40 and 50 per cent, and the airline would like to see a load factor of 80 per
Continued from Page A9. decision making process,” said Bumstead. Bumstead says there are about ten individuals from the group of local professionals who have volunteered to continue being involved in the possible repairs and replacement of the equipment in the arenas on a consulting basis; in fact they alluded to perhaps donating equipment on behalf of the companies they work for. “I think there’s some indication that certainly, there are companies that are considering that,” he said. “Once they know what we’re going to do and what we can do, then industry companies can say, ‘we may have a chiller just like that, that you’re looking for’ . . . that’s the kind of insinuation that I got today.” City council will be presented with an updated staff report regarding the arenas in the near future, and at that point will decide how to proceed officially with this group
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of professional advisors. “I’m not exactly sure how that structure’s going to unfold, but here’s something I do know,” Bumstead told Northeast News. “These guys are very familiar with the equipment and the operation of that plant facility that we have in the Memorial Arena, and so they’re going to be extremely helpful for us, in helping us understand what equipment it needs and how we can do that . . . there’s some really huge advantages to the city, in having this group of people in here.”
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Photo Credit Stacy Thomas Jay Dilley, President of Hawkair Aviation, was in Dawson Creek April 14.
STACY THOMAS news@northeastnews.ca DAWSON CREEK - According to Jay Dilley, president of Hawkair Aviation, Hawkair is “prepped and ready” to launch new Dawson Creek routes once there is either increased general ridership or a commitment from the LNG industry. Dilley made the statement while he was in Dawson Creek April 14 speaking to the Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon at the George Dawson Inn. During his presentation, Dilley focused on unique opportunities which exist in the North, but during question period discussed the possibility of opening new routes out of Dawson Creek Airport. Hawkair is waiting for key decisions to be made as to the future of LNG drilling and pipeline construction, and possible ticket sale commitments from the industries. “If the projects move ahead and we have some agreements with those organizations, we would be able to launch a flight that really catered to their needs,” Dilley said. “We’re prepped and ready to introduce a flight.”
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Campaign for safety Continued from Page A3. “Everybody I’ve spoke to has been on board, they’ve been very good,” she said. In addition, a web page is being designed to promote Safe Stop, and to make information readily available to the public. At an April 13 council meeting, Dettling gave a brief presentation about Safe Stop, and April 24th, 2015, was declared Safe Stop Education Day in the City of Fort St. John. To mark the occasion, school buses will be parked at Home Hardware, Safeway, Rona, Totem Mall, Walmart and Save-On Foods with their red lights flashing. Drivers will be on site to hand out posters, provide information and to answer questions about Safe Stop. Something else Dettling would like to see is steeper fines in B.C. “We’re one of the weakest provinces on that stance, our fine right now for passing a school bus with his flashing reds is $167, and three demerits . . . I would love to see it hurt people a little bit more in the wallet, maybe then they would pay attention,” she said. In contrast, Alberta’s penalty is $400, and in Ontario the fine is between $400 and $2,000, depending on the number of infractions a driver has had and the speed he or she was travelling at. There are a number of factors at play that have made infractions more common over time. “I think we’ve seen a gradual increase because we’ve got more traffic on the roads than we had five years ago. There’s more people that are here that didn’t grow up in this area, aren’t aware of the roads as well as other people,” said Mike Fitzgerald, transportation supervisor for School District 60. “But it’s not always the newcomers that are doing it either, it’s people that were born and raised here.” He attributes part of the problem to the condition of Fort St. John’s roads. “We haven’t had any road improvements really in the last five years, there’s hardly been anything done to our main roads,” he said. “It’s just a variety of things.” More than 2,200 students rely on school buses to get them safely to and from school within School District 60 every school day.
Chocolate Festival brought bakers’ talents to the fore BRONWYN SCOTT reporter@northeastnews.ca FORT ST. JOHN – Fort St. John, it turns out, has a sweet tooth, and many talented bakers who are able to satiate it. The 15th annual Chocolate Festival took place on Sat., March 28, and this year there were a number of decadent winning items that deserve due recognition. The People’s Choice winner this year was a child. Kaitlyn Campbell’s Cupcakes were entered in the Kids’ Category, and were tasty enough to gain the favour of those in attendance. There was a tie in the Candy Category, with Delores Cooper’s Peanut Butter Cups and Elaine McEachern’s Bear Claws being the winning items. Delores Cooper also won in the Cakes Category, with her Oreo Kit Kat Candy Cake. Whisky Chocolate Donuts, a creation of Logan McEachern’s, won in the Squares Category, and Ruth Ann Darnell’s Double Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies were deemed the best in the Cookies Category. In the Kids’ Category, there were a number of delicious winners. Zach Stingner’s Chocolate Peppermint Fudge, and mud pies by Abigail and Kaleb Francour were winners, as were Kaitlyn Campbell’s Cupcakes, and Rice Krispie Squares on Chocolate Lace made by Linden Evans and Nolan Conohan. Dustan Sweder, bakery manager at Safeway, earned top honours for his Black Forest Torte in the Commercial Category. Sweder’s father was also a baker, and owned a Dawson Creek bakery for several years. It was one of his recipes that inspired the winning entry. “I apprenticed with him, and back in the 70’s he had made a blueberry boat, it had a boat shaped pie shell, and he used to fill blueberries, icing and chocolate,” he said. “I was working for him, I kind of made some changes to it, I made it with cherry, and kind of like a black forest tart, so I thought it would be nice, something a little different than what you might see at the Chocolate Festival.” He used a white chocolate drizzle on top, and had a chocolate rosette on top to give it some dimension. Although the event was smaller than it has been in past years, with fewer volunteers and participants, sales went extra well for the items, according to Sandy Troudt, organizer with the Peace Arts Gallery Society. $5,000 was raised.
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Photo Credit Stacy Thomas Tryna Gower’s be.real Conference is heading into its second year.
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Photo Credits Stacy Thomas The Northern B.C. Regional Science Fair was at Dawson Creek Secondary Central Campus on April 16. Top: Jenny Johnson from Charlie Lake and her project The Fruit Set. Middle: Danica Caccaro from Dawson Creek and her project Keep it In Keep it Out. Bottom: Andrew Surinak from Dawson Creek and his project Wind Power!
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Pagepresident A20 April 23, 2015 Editor: NLC The past five and a half years in the Peace Country as President and CEO of Editor:Lights College have been very fulfilling. bids president farewell Northern NLC The five and a halfforyears in when the Peace Country President CEO of The past potential I noted NLC I decided to as apply for thisand position is Lights College have beenevolving very fulfilling. and becoming a reality. The addition bids farewell Northern The potential I noted for NLC I decided to apply for position is of when the Centre of Excellence forthis Clean Energy
staff, and has been able to recruit experienced leaders in many departments. The Northeast NEWS leadership team members are exceptional and I have been proud to work with them staff, andthe hasclarity been able recruit experienced leaders inexperienced many departments. The Further, of thetoCollege's vision is attracting professionals leadership team members exceptional and have been proud work with them who want to contribute toare an organization thatI "knows where it to is going". Further, of the College's vision on is attracting experienced professionals It alsothe hasclarity been gratifying to collaborate Dual Credit programming with loca who want to contribute to an organization that "knows where it is going". partners School Districts, industry, Aboriginal agencies and other post-secondary ALL It alsoNorthern has been gratifying to collaborate on Dual Credit programming locaa evolving and becoming reality.combined The addition Opportunities. The Peace Region is very fortunate with to have Technologies in DawsonaCreek, with through Peace River industry, Aboriginal agencies and other partners of of Industry Excellence for Clean Energy group ofDistricts, exceptional leaders committed to expanding thepost-secondary scope of this program thethe JimCentre Kassen Training Centre/ Oil School SHAREHOLDERS Seed Co-op Ltd. ALL Northernthe Opportunities. The Peace Region is veryeducational fortunate to have a Technologies in Dawson Creek,incombined with through and to spreading word on the benefits of this innovative initiative and Gas Centre of Excellence Fort St. John, Peace River exceptional leadersby committed to for expanding scope of this program the JimNorthern Kassen Lights Industry Training Centre/ Oil group I have of been very impressed the passion learningthe these leaders bring to the allows College to fulfil its brand SHAREHOLDERS Seed Co-op Ltd. spreading on the commitment benefits of this educational initiative and Gas Centre Excellence in Fort St. John, and table,tobut also forthe theirword continuing toinnovative finding learning solutions for the as B.C.'s Energyof College™. haveof been impressed by the passion for learning these leaders bring to the allows Northern Lights College to fulfil brand Iyouth the very region. NLC is committed to providing theitsskilled Where live during a renovation thatsectors could taketable, aOver con •years, Less Y o u ’ v e r e t i r e d a n d , o n e d a y , y o u a n d y o u r s p o u s e b e g i n a c o n - •as butthe also forupkeep. their commitment to finding learning solutions for the B.C.'swill Energy College™. I havecontinuing received support and encouragement from local politicians workers foryou these expanding industrial s i d e r a b l e a m o u n t o f t i m e ? v e r s a t i o n t h a t g o e s s o m e t h i n g l i k e t h i s : “ T h i s h a s b e e n a g r e a t and youth of the region. NLC is committed to providing the skilled including: Senator Richard Neufeld, the former Minister of Energy, Mines and supporting the economic development of • May have appeal if you intend to spend significant time away February 23, 2011 • 1:30pm f a m i l y h o m e – i t ’ s f u l l o f m e m o r i e s . 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Public Notice is hereby given by the Undersigned, Mayor Gwen Johansson that the District of Hudson’s Hope Council is meeting to discuss providing assistance for the Financial Assistance Grants in accordance with Section 24 of the
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It’s possible miscommunication occurred, because according to the Reverend Enid Pow, rector of the parish of the North Continued from Page A7. Peace, Royer did indeed know. president of Strategy Execution and acting “She was told very clearly that it had CEO at NPSCU. been sold, and that we only had a certain length of time to be there,” she said. “I’ve always kept her informed about what’s going on.” Indeed, the church is facing the same trouble that Royer is. “It’s quite hard trying to find somewhere in Fort St. John because there’s not that much building land that’s within our price range, to be honest,” Pow said. They’re hoping to find something central because of the kinds of programs and public services they’re planning for. “We need to be in the midst of the community in order to serve it,” she said. While the property wasn’t necessarily up for sale, NPSCU made an offer, and 1 & 2 Bed Apts – 2 & 3 Bed TH the church accepted, in part Furnished & Unfurnished, Short & Long because the building needed term rentals! Call Carlyn today for Details significant repairs that the church wasn’t able to afford. For the time being, services are still being held, ckoecher@npreit.com and will be until the end of June, at which point they npreit.com/apartments/cities/dawson-‐creek have a temporary location We Live & Work Here Too! available to them with the Peace Lutheran Church.
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BRONWYN SCOTT reporter@northeastnews.ca TAYLOR – Five new windmills are coming to the Taylor area, with construction expected to start by early summer of this year. Septimus Creek Wind Farm is one of three wind farms announced Weds., April 15, that will add new clean power to the provincial electricity grid. Together with developments slated for the West Kelowna and Summerland areas, the projects will provide enough electricity to power 14,000 homes a year, according to a B.C. Hydro press release. Taylor’s windmills alone will generate about 50 gigawatt hours per year, enough to power just under 4,500 homes per year, according to Dina Matterson, standing offer program manager at B.C. Hydro. The agreements were signed with Zero Emission Energy, a developer based out of White Rock, B.C., under B.C. Hydro’s
Standing Offer program, which supports the creation of small clean energy projects. Combined, the wind farms will add about 45 megawatts of clean wind capacity to B.C. Hydro’s system. They’ll bring B.C. Hydro’s total capacity for wind power to more than 700 megawatts. “Much of B.C.’s current wind capacity already comes from the north,” said Pat Pimm, MLA for Peace River North, in a press release. “Wind farms in the north produce enough energy to power more than 90,000 homes a year. Our region is rich in wind potential and we are leading the province in wind development.” Construction of projects will take about 18 months, and each will require between 25 and 50 contract jobs. The wind farms are expected to operate for 40 years, and each will require between five and 10 full time and part time employees for ongoing operations and maintenance.
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South Peace GIA meeting STACY THOMAS news@northeastnews.ca DAWSON CREEK - The South Peace Sub-Regional District 2015 Grants-in-Aid Allocation Meeting was held at Tupper Community Hall April 15, where representatives from the area’s non-profit organizations hashed out a fair allocation scheme. The unequal award amounts recommended by the District were almost immediately rejected by the group, who proceeded to debate a better way to allocate the $145,508.02 provided by the PRRD for recreation grants.
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Photo Credit Stacy Thomas Members of South Peace recreational organizations carried a motion to split grant funding evenly among them. After carrying a motion, 15 of the 16 applicants received 88 per cent of their grant requests—Tupper Community Club donated $8.02 of their grant to the youth travel fund. Due to a missed email, Hats N’ Chaps Gymkhana received none of their $21,000 grant request, as there was no one from their organization present at the meeting. It is a stipulation of the PRRD that there must be at least one representative from each organization at the Grants-inAid meeting in order to be eligible for the funding. Hats N’ Chaps had planned to use the grant to relocate their arena this year. “We’re very disappointed and we’ll apply again next year,” said Heather Moat of Hats N’ Chaps. The amount allotted for Hats N’ Chaps was distributed among the other recipients.
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SLT, w/level kit, 35” tires not exactly as shown
not exactly as shown T15-9483A
3802A
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