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DAWSON CREEK- The Olympics have captured the attention of millions of people worldwide and last week staff at the Kenn Borek Aquatic Centre hoped to capture the attention of residents in the community with Olympic-themed afternoon activities. From July 30 to Aug. 3 the community pool invited swimmers of all ages and athletic ability to try some of the Olympic sports they may have seen on TV. Some of the activities included water polo, diving, synchronized swimming and swimming races. The cost to participate was free after purchase of a regular admission pass to the pool. Continued on Page 4.
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Leighten Janzen, 12, and his sister Alexa, 11, compete in kayaking during the Kenn Borek Aquatic Centre’s Olympic celebrations.
Minimal moisture means minimizing water usage By Jill Earl
DAWSON CREEK- Stage Three water conservation measures were officially in effect on July 27 and will continue until the region sees more moisture. “It’s going to continue until we get some moisture, until we get some decent rainfall, not just a passing shower. We’re in a situation where we do need some extended rainfall, a nice easy two day rain would sure help us out a lot,” said Kevin Henderson, director of infrastructure and sustainable development with the city. Under the Water Conservation Measures bylaw residents cannot water their lawns, gardens, vegetable gardens or decorative planters or shrubs unless it’s with a hose with an automatic shut-off device and not using a sprinkler. Residents are also restricted from washing their boats or motor vehicles unless it’s with a hose with an automatic shut-off and the purpose of washing is to maintain the visibility of lights, licence plates and windows. Refilling garden ponds, ornamental fountains, hot tubs and swimming pools is also prohibited. Henderson says that the City has tried to reach as many people as possible reminding them of the conservation measures in effect. The City has reached out to different media outlets and social websites in order to get the word out; they have also included reminders in residents’ utility bills. The penalty for not complying with the bylaw is a warning at the first offense, a $75 ticket at the second a offense, and upon
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conviction of the third offense a fine of not less then $100 and not more then $500. Every year on May 1 the City automatically enforces Stage One water conservation measures, which prohibits watering lawns on certain days and times. Stage One is carried throughout the summer until Sept. 1, unless the City progresses to another stage. “Whether we go to Stage Two, Stage Three, or Stage Four depends on what happens throughout the year, so should we have a normal above average moisture then we just stay in Stage One, if we have experienced dry conditions like we have this year then we progress through the stages…The way the weather patterns have been recently we have seen that we’ve been progressing into various stages just about every year,” Henderson said. Henderson says that the conservation measures are in place due to the city’s only water source, the Kiskatinaw River, being at a historic low. There is a flow monitoring station down stream from the city and according to the monitor, the Water Survey of Canada, as of July 23 the discharge from the river was .410 cubic metres per second. “What we were seeing is that the flows in late July this year were actually a bit lower then what they were in late July of 2010 when we had a pretty significant drought…At that point they were saying that’s about a one in 30 year low flow,” he said. The low level is due to the extended dry periods
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Jill Earl photos The Community Action for Seniors’ Independence took another bus trip last week, this time to the Walter Wright Pioneer Village. Volunteer coordinator with the CASI program, Arlene Thorpe, says the reason for the trip was to get seniors out and into the community and because many hadn’t been to the village in awhile. Thorpe says that just by recognizing an artifact or certain items on display can bring back memories for some seniors and that puts a smile on their face. Approximately 15 seniors attended the bus trip on July 30. Thorpe says that the program is already in the planning stages for another outing.
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Olympic Celebrations Continued from Front. “We took old Olympic sports…there’s one called the plunge and all you do is dive in and see how far you can go, so lots of games like that and a lot of fun,” said lifeguard, front desk attendant and Olympic celebrations organizer Amanda Newfeld. Though Newfeld hadn’t been planning the celebrations for years, as the real Olympic committee had, she made an extra effort to include important Olympic
staples; the top three people overall each day received metals and Newfeld made a torch for the winners to hold on the podium. Newfeld and her fellow coworker, lifeguard and lessons supervisor, Robyn Gilman, hope that by introducing some of these sports to the city they can spark interest in some of their new programs scheduled to start this fall. After the pool has its routine September closure for cleaning staff will offer classes in synchronized swimming, diving and water polo. “The main part of why we wanted to do this Olympic week was because we also have these new programs that we’re launching in the fall...So it’s kind of like come and see what it’s like, and then reg-
ister for our program later,” Gilman said. “Mostly to introduce our programs, you know they see it on TV, like water polo and stuff like that we can say hey you know we offer it here you should join it if you thought it was interesting…it’s a good time to introduce it,” Newfeld adds. Recently five instructors all took courses on the new programs and are all certified to teach them. The classes are open to all ages but must be a confident swimmer who can swim a width of the pool on their own and feel comfortable in the deep end. Cost and times of these classes have not been decided yet, but will be available in the City’s fall leisure guide. Gilman has heard interest from a number of regular swimmers about starting up teams for some of these sports, but for now the pool staff are just trying to generate interest. “We’d love to get a team going, right now we’re just trying to get staff interested so you know through word of mouth get more people interested in the sport but there has been quite a number of people through swim teams and what not pushing for one,” she said.
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When lives are at risk, how is NOT using readily available family doctors better for BC families? How is NOT using them when available saving BC Taxpayers money? Use of local practice family doctors, as an BC Ambulance Service augment, would begin to show traits of ‘a true world class / first class pre-hospital care system’, but that is not the case, and that is why we in BC, have nothing even remotely close to a world class system: the BC Ambulance Service is decades out of date with other first world nations and even other Canadian provinces. Proof: Alberta, a province with almost a million fewer residents than BC, 1/3 less area than BC, vastly less challenging terrain than BC and two world-class trauma centers centrally located (Edmonton and Calgary) has 2,100 Advanced Life Support paramedics, BC has, out of our total circa 3,650 BC Ambulance Service employees, only has 137 (full-time) advanced life support paramedics; do you see something wrong with that? BC only has one ‘level one’ trauma center located in Vancouver, BC only trains 20 Advanced Life Support paramedics each year (with only 16 graduating on average) in Alberta they train hundreds of ALS paramedics each year; so why are British Columbians second class citizens when it comes to pre-hospital care in Canada? Do you see anything wrong with that? In BC we have one (giant) government run, unionized, pre-hospital service provider, in other jurisdictions they have many municipal and even non-profit service providers. In Alberta, they have no hiring restrictions when I comes hiring in already trained ALS paramedics, here in BC, that is not legal (!!!) consequently other jurisdiction have far more
capable EMS systems than we do. Why is this government allowing this byzantine system to carry on year after year? The BC Ambulance Act legally prohibits anyone other than the BC Ambulance Service from providing anything more capable than ‘First Responder’ services, even if entities like municipalities, charities/ non-profit service providers, want to provide Advanced Life Support (or even doctor-led) prehospital care for their community; how is this approach / our current system, better for my family? Clearly it’s not, and our families members are dying or ending up long-term care because of this stupid and archaic system we still have here in BC! The BC Ambulance Service is a highly dysfunctional service and is in clear and dire need of overhaul, both to save more lives/keep more persons out of long-term care and to save our socialized health care system from financial collapse. When carrying out your duties as an MLA, please try to remember these two facts: The greatest wealth we as individuals have is our health. - 47% of people that voted in the last BC provincial election were aged 50 or over, an age demographic that consistently identifies “better health care” as being in their top three priorities. If I were a politician looking to get re/ elected, I would pander to what the majority of voters want, clearly that is not what this government is doing and they will likely pay a price for that in the next election. Hans Dysarsz, Vancouver, B.C.
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Dear Editor, The following is NOT an indictment of the hard working men and women of the BC Ambulance Service, they are doing the best they can with what this government gives them to work with. There is no other area of medicine where spending such a small amount more up front, will make such a profound difference both in terms of additional lives saved and people kept out of long term care (or from sustaining permanent injuries) than in our pre-hospital care system. Fixing BC’s grossly out-of-date BC Ambulance Service should be the highest priority for this government; to be clear, the BC Ambulance Service is inadequate to the needs of British Columbians. Fixing the BCAS, will greatly help reduce our skyrocketing health care costs. So how do we fix our out of date ambulance service; by training more advanced life support paramedics and adding a dozen, rapid response, doctor-led, EMS helicopters to the system. This approach will provide patients with vastly more capable medical care much sooner, especially for all areas outside immediate Metro Vancouver and Greater Victoria. Such an approach will dramatic reduce our pre-hospital mortality and morbidity rates; to be clear, pre-hospital mortality rates remain extreme (third world like) in some areas of BC. They are: 12% in Metro Vancouver, 49% for parts of Vancouver Island, 59% for the interior, 75% for the north and 82% for the northwest. British Columbians should know that up to 50% for all trauma related deaths are from clinically treatable conditions, that means out of the 7,500 unnatural, pre-hospital deaths in BC each year, hundreds, potentially even into the thousands did not need to die had they been attended to sooner and by higher capability medical practitioners. Furthermore, by (at least) a factor of 10 to 1, morbidity rates outnumber mortality rates, and morbidity is what costs societies the really big money. By (simply) choosing to change how we delivery pre-hospital care, it becomes possible to dramatically reduce our mortality rates (along with our morbidity rates) thereby saving British Columbian taxpayers many times more the money than such an enhanced EMS system would cost. Understand that trauma related injuries and deaths costs BC society an estimated $2.8 billion per year, and it simply does not have to! The above facts were understood by many other countries / jurisdiction many decades ago, none more so than Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland. The reader needs to understand that for these very reasons, most western federal governments, except the Canada and the US, passed national pre-hospital care standards legislation, including such innovations as use of local family practice doctors to respond to certain medical conditions (such as accidents) located within a certain radius of their family practice. It is important to note that BC only has 148 actual ‘Emergency Medicine specialists’, the rest are General Practitioners / family doctors working in hospital Emergency Rooms, so why not use them in our urban and rural areas, whenever possible, to augment BC ambulance attendants, the vast majority of which are only basic life support qualified attendants?
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The financial case against the Site C Clean Energy Project Dear Editor: Within the past month, the Premier has given a new status to natural gas: it is now to be considered as a “clean energy source”, similar to wind power, solar, etc. , as long as the reason for its use is to produce electricity for Liquified Natural Gas or LNG production. It is obvious to any British Columbian, that the Premier’s statement is to take full advantage of the opportunity to meet the criteria for the Clean Energy Act initiated under the Gordon Campbell era and at the same time, to power and ship shale gas overseas. It might be the perfect time to initiate another change: a sober re-examination of the financial case behind Site C hydro dam proposal and the clean energy status of natural gas . Consider the following option, now that natural gas has been granted a political reprieve. The City of Calgary is presently building a natural gas powered generator, called the Shepherd Energy Centre. It is about 2 years away from completion, and will be capable of producing 800 megawatts of usable power. Total cost: $1.3 billion dollars. The Shepherd Energy Centre is operated by Enmax Corp, a wholly owned subsidiary of the City of Calgary. Electricity will be sold at 8 cents per kWh to the Calgary customer. BC customers presently pay between 6 cents to 10.2 cents per kWh. (based on a sliding scale ) Meanwhile, BC Hydro’s hydroelectric project, called Site C is at least 8-10 years away from actual production. The new dam will produce about 1035 megawatts of usable power. (not the 1100 megawatts of “peak” power, we see in the ads). Total cost: $7.9 billion dollars. BC Hydro is a Crown Corp and wholly owned by the tax payers of BC. It’s time to do a financial comparison of costs. The Site C dam will be producing 1035 MW in comparison to the natural gas fired Shepherd Energy Centre in SW Calgary (800 MW of usable power and 835 Megawatts of peak power) If we compare capitol costs for both projects, and make the comparison on an equal “per megawatt” basis, the capitol cost for the Site C project will still be 5.7 times greater than the natural gas fired facility. On a per megawatt of power comparison, our Site C megawatt (on
capitol cost alone) will be 5.7 times more costly to build. Construction time line: Shepherd Energy Centre: 3 year completion date Site C hydroelectric project: up to 10 years completion time Power (megawatts) Shepherd Energy Centre: 800 MW usable power Site C hydroelectric project: 1035 MW usable power Capitol Cost: Shepherd Energy Centre: $1.3 billion dollars Site C Hydroelectric project: $7.9 billion dollars Now, doing the math....it is now clear that one of our megawatts (from Site C) will cost us almost 6X the cost of the average megawatt being generated by the Shepherd Energy Centre, using the natural gas fired system(on capitol cost comparison). Remember also, the inflated cost per megawatt for Site C generated electricity will continue for the life of the proposed dam ( 75-100 years) Who will be on the hook for the massive cost difference? Clearly, the BC taxpayer. Is this differential reasonable considering the option of using natural gas? How is it that the number crunchers within the BC Liberal party or BC Hydro have not revealed other better financial options regarding the production of electricity in this province? Shale gas production is now booming in the province. Yet, the government wants nothing more but to extract it and ship it overseas in the blink of an eye. Shale gas is now being produced here at unprecedented rates and at a price expected to remain low for years to come. (around $3/gigajoule) Some might however argue the point that, “water is free” and natural gas will cost the taxpayer. This is not the case at all. As an example, BC Hydro is presently dumping “free” water from our dams while it pays a number of Independent Power Producers (IPP’s) under a previous contract, about $50.00 per megawatt hour . (this was a contractual agreement made by the former Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell) Let’s also not forget that natural gas (shale gas) is wholly owned by the citizens of BC. The Crown owns the natural gas asset and therefore can set the Royalty rates accordingly. Neither water nor natural gas is
free and both resources are equally owned by the people of BC. Everything will have a cost attached. Take the initial cost of building Site C: the government will clearly need to borrow the money. Even with an interest rate of 5%, the citizens of BC will be on the hook for nearly $400,000,000 per year interest payments alone on $7.9 billion capitol. In comparison, the natural gas generation system would come up with an annual interest of $45,000,000 per year on the $1.3 billion capitol cost. Simply put, the cost differential in interest payments (minus the marginal cost of natural gas used in the facility) makes this option clearly, the better financial choice. Finally, I would ask this question to our political representatives here in BC: will our Site C Megawatt be a better Megawatt because it will cost us a minimum of 4 to 7 times more than the Megawatt coming from a clean natural gas sourced generator such as the Shepherd Energy Centre in Calgary? Is a more expensive Megawatt similar to driving a Mercedes sport car versus driving a compact Toyota? Would the Toyota not drive the same distance at a much cheaper overall cost? Does not the natural gas fired generator produce exactly the same megawatt as would a Site C generated megawatt? Who exactly do we hold responsible for making such poor financial decisions on massive amounts of capitol expenses? It is time to question our political representatives and get clear answers. At the end of the day, we will all pay dearly for very poor financial decisions rendered in the very near future regarding the Site C project. I encourage all readers to ask their political representative or MLA specifics about the financial details of both electrical generation systems. If, at the end of the day, the “money” or cost of any project is the bottom line for a politician, why are they not questioning the motive behind this massive expenditure of taxpayer money , when much cheaper, clean natural gas fired systems are available? Rick Koechl, Mike Kroecher, Charlie Lake, B.C.
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PRFA work with agro and industry in new research project By Jill Earl
Peace Region- The Peace River Forage Association of B.C. has taken on a new initiative that aims to help stop the spread of weeds on land leased to oil and gas companies and their neighbouring properties. After the Ministry of Agriculture and the PRFA received several queries from forage producers and oil and gas companies about what to seed on berms, the PRFA decided to conduct a research project to find the answer. Berms are essentially hills that are created by topsoil and subsoil that is scraped off land leased for oil wells and pipelines. “We get calls from producers saying that this pipeline is going across my place or it might come from an oil company,
‘we’re putting a pipeline in, what should we seed it with?’ No one really knows what to put in this (seed) mix and we’re trying to develop that,” said Bill Wilson, coordinator and director of the project and PRFA member. To help get their research project off the ground Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada through their Canadian Agriculture Adaptation Program and their provincial office, Investment Agriculture Foundation of B.C., provided them with $177,550 in grant funding. “In B.C.’s Peace region, energy and agriculture are operating on the same land base...This research project will bring farmers, seed growers and energy companies together to address an issue of concern for both industries,” said Peter Levelton, chair of the IAF, in the press release. Research will be conducted over a three-year period, the PRFA have already started their research by seeding their three study sites with seven different types of seeds, each type of seed is planted four times in each location for a total of 24 plots on each site. Each year the PRFA will reevaluate the plant species that have done
well and those that have not. After the third year of the project the PRFA hope to be able to confidently recommend a mix of seed that will be successful in the difficult growing conditions berms often possess. “We’ll find what works and learn a little about something else,” Wilson said about the research process. “We’re going to be changing our species a little bit, we’ll start doing some mixes…if we find some that grows good on topsoil and some that grows good on subsoil then we’ll put them together in a mix and we can say to an oil company put both of those seeds in there and then go spread it on, and it will do well. It won’t be the same one growing but at least something will grow,” he said. During the research process Wilson, his volunteers and contractors will also be experimenting with different seeding techniques and different seeding times. Forage producers in close proximity to these berms are concerned that if they are overlooked and abandoned it could mean serious consequences to their personal crops. Weeds have the potential to grow on these mounds of soil and other debris and if they are not managed properly can spread quickly and easily to other properties. “If you have grass growing there, you don’t have weeds, you need something there to prevent weed growth and if it’s on a fragile area like a slope or something it’s just going to wash away. So you’re trying to get something to grow to hold the soil there and prevent the weeds from establishing,” Wilson said. Oil and gas companies leasing these properties have an obligation to take care of the land and therefore have an interest in weed management. Industry stakeholders, contractors, forage producers, and reclamation companies have been invited and are welcome to participate in the study in any capacity. “It helps the oil companies because if there’s something growing there then they’re not responsible for the weeds, but it helps the farmer in that the weeds aren’t getting into his land,” Wilson said. “They’re buying some of the seed…anything that can be put on by a contractor, they hire the contractor, we tell them what to do but they’re hiring the contractor and buying the seed,” he said about one of the oil and gas company’s involvement so far.
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Convoys celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Alaska Highway als, arrange for a safety inspection for their vehicle and attend By Jill Earl DAWSON CREEK- The highway looked as though it could drivers meetings so that all participants are aware of policies and have been a scene from 70 years earlier with the number of mili- procedures. MVPA members partook in a significantly shorter convoy tary vehicles on the Alaska Highway last week. Two military vehicle convoy groups, the Canadian Western last Wednesday to Rolla to show off their vehicles and answer Command Military Vehicle Historical Society and the Military questions. The Rolla community hosted them for dinner for their Vehicle Preservation Association, made Dawson Creek the con- trouble. Trimac invited MVPA members to Sudeten Hall for gregation point for their participants and appropriately made breakfast last Thursday, and the Dawson Creek community got Mile 0 their official convoy launching point. Approximately to enjoy the vehicles Friday evening at the Mile 0 cairn. The 13 military vehicles and 18 participants from the CWCMVHS drivers were finally on their way Saturday morning. While on and approximately 80 military vehicles, 36 support vehicles and their trip up the highway, the MVPA is scheduled to stop at variabout 200 participants from the MVPA joined their respective ous communities along the way for photo opportunities, static convoys for a common purpose: to celebrate the 70th anniver- shows and other activities. After reaching their final destination members will have their group photo taken and meet with local sary of the opening of the Alaska Highway. “Mostly we’re just traveling the Alaska Highway in our his- dignitaries. The MVPA started taking registrations for the convoy two toric military vehicles and really looking to let the people along the way see them and enjoy them and recognize what an impor- years ago and they started arranging and preparing fuel stops tant role military vehicles played in the building of the highway and other logistical considerations last year. “Everyone should know we’re coming,” Rowsam said. and bringing attention to that especially on the 70th anniversaThe MVPA arranges military convoys on military historic ry,” said Wendy Rowsam, public relations volunteer and memroads every two to three years; they have been an association for ber of the MVPA. The MVPA organized a similar convoy on the Alaska Highway 20 years ago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the highway. John Hawthorne was a participant in that 1992 convoy and is now leading his own as the coordinator for the CWCMVHS’s trip. “It was interesting, it was a long drawn-out convoy but we had a lot of fun and saw a lot of country side and a lot of things along the road, it was part of the MVPA who are here now...and at that time we had about 50 vehicles so I joined their convoy and it was an interesting tour,” Hawthorne said. While in Dawson Creek MVPA convoy members were busy making final preparations for their 27 day-long trip (to Delta Junction, Alaska and back to Dawson Creek), they had to Jill Earl photo pick up registration materi- CWCMVHS parked outside the Co-Op Mall last week to show the community their vehicles. DL#5247
approximately 35 years. The CWCMVHS started their trip in Vancouver and have united with their participants along the way. They left D.C. on Aug. 1 and expect to reach Fairbanks, Alaska by Aug. 9 before making their way back to Dawson Creek. Since leaving Vancouver their convoy has visited six Royal Canadian Legion branches, and has another five stops at legions along their route. The RCL Dawson Creek branch hosted the CWCMVHS for a BBQ lunch at the Co-Op Mall on July 31. Continued on Page 10.
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Alaska Highway Convoy Continued from Page 9. “We decided that we want to raise public awareness of the veterans and honour the veterans too, so we travel to legions and show them some of the equipment and some of the equipment some of the old boys drove in the second world war and the Korean War, so that’s the main aim. In this case the secondary aim is…it’s the 70th anniversary of the Alaska Highway, so we said ok we’ll just come by and help both aims into one big convoy,” said Hawthorne.
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Convoying Collectors Collectors can buy these vehicles at surplus auctions, but more often they exchange hands with people who’ve purchased them long ago. “An easy way to describe it is that we’re kind of an old car club, for people that collect military vehicles, there are people that collect Corvettes or Chevrolets we are a club or an organization for people that have an interest in historic military vehicles, and they are available,” Rowsam said.
Hawthorne had obtained his military truck, ‘Old Pokey,’ 20 years ago from a man who had intended to restore it. The man Hawthorne had bought it from was a shepherd in Colorado who had used the truck as a warming shack. Jim Cwell and his wife Sandy became members of the MVPA two years ago when they heard about the Alaska Highway convoy; they shipped their Chevrolet C-15 from their home in Perth, Australia to Vancouver just to partake. Jim was 20 when he obtained his first military vehicle; he still owns that vehicle today along with 12 others. Jim also belongs to the Military Section Veteran Car Club of Western Australia, with that organization he participated in a convoy in 2009 traveling to Turkey, Greece, Italy, Sweden and France for a D-Day celebration. Jim’s vehicle is actually a Canadian vehicle made in 1942 and was shipped to Australia soon after as a part of the war effort. “We had a lot of these trucks in Australia and the army hung on to them until the mid 40s but I believe that the Canadian Army took a lot of them over seas with them but didn’t bring very many back. What they did bring back they sent back over again in the 50s because of the communist threat to countries like Hungary, so not many ended up in Canada...We would probably have more in Australia than Canada’s got,” Jim said. Before Jim owned the C-15, it belonged to a WW2 veteran named George for 44 years. According to Jim the owner had fought in South Africa before being captured by the Germans and held for over three years as a prisoner of war. After he was released, George bought the vehicle from the military surplus and moved to the very remote Australian interior to be a gold miner; apparently he needed to live in open and remote places because of his time as a POW. Jim says that George lived in the back of his truck until getting sick and moving to a seniors’ facility. Jim had heard about George and his truck through word of mouth and the pair became friendly, in 1990 George sold the truck to Jim. To honour it’s previous owner Jim named the truck ‘George’.
Green Disease Some military vehicle collectors and owners can’t explain their fascination with the hobby but label their pastime as ‘green disease,’ which they define as anybody who has an interest in collecting military memorabilia or is a war history buff. Continued on Page 13.
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Green Disease Continued from Page 10. Hawthorne’s interest in the military continued after his service in the army reserves. “I’m sort of a lifer, I spent 25 years in the Canadian military so I guess that little bit of green sort of rubs off on you after a while,” he said. In the MVPA convoy, there are 51 known veterans participating. “They call it a disease when you collect things like this, the green disease, people happen to collect all sorts of things, but I happen to collect military trucks,” said Jim. His interest in military vehicles started in childhood, his father owned a truck after WW2 for his businesses as a woodcutter. “I guess it’s stuck with me,” he said. Jim’s wife, Sandy, wasn’t an instant fan of the vehicles but her interest was a slow conversion taking many years. “I like traveling, I like going to other countries and this is the only way that Jim will go, if it’s for purpose...When he first showed me (the military truck) I though it was the ugliest thing I ever saw and thought how could anybody love this? But you do,” she said. Rowsam was also influenced by her husband’s interest. Her husband, Jeff, had grown up around military vehicles with his father who worked for 40 years in the military. Jeff has a lot of
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going on our social media sights, looking at the buzz that our local media has had and the kind of conversations that have been happening online is incredible...That’s something to really take pride in here in Dawson Creek,” Gibeault said. Gibeault says that the highway is an integral part of the community, to tourism in the city and for other industries. “The greatest thing about Dawson Creek is that we literally are the congregation point for the highway, no matter where somebody is traveling from they have to get to Dawson Creek to get on the highway, so for us that’s a celebration...the highway is really the main artery to get products, business, money through to Alaska so that’s a big opportunity as well. But if we didn’t have the Alaska Highway I can’t even predict what it would be like... it really has made these communities along the Alaska Highway really flourish in a different way then you could ever predict,” she said.
Curious Communities A military vehicle convoy isn’t something you see every day, so naturally the vehicles attract attention when they are on the road. Convoy participants report that many people will engage them in conversations about their vehicle, who they are, how they got it and where they are going. “You engage in these really neat conversations and you get to meet a lot of interesting people...as we travel we like to meet veterans, they enjoy seeing the vehicles and we hear lots of neat stories about a truck that they might have driven or how military vehicles were involved in their service, so our guys really like to meet veterans,” Rowsam said. The vehicles attract the attention of young children as well, who may have never had the opportunity to see these vehicles in person. “Of course the veterans love the old vehicles, and a lot of the youth the children seem really interested, they say ‘oh wow I’ve never seen a big army truck like that,’ and it raised interested, and local citizens drop in,” Hawthorne said. Tourism development coordinator for Tourism Dawson Creek, Samantha Gibeault, says that the convoys have drawn tourists and local residents alike towards the vehicles and the public viewing events that were held. “We just want to celebrate Dawson Creek and the 70th anniversary of the Highway and the celebration of this convoy...
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$49,999
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$32,999
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$39,999
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350 Mag MPI Mercruiser Motor and Shorland’r Trailer
IS
$36,999
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4.3LT MPI Mercruiser Motor and EZ Loader Trailer
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$55,999
Stk# 18197
Was $66,203
350 Mag MPI Mercruiser Motor and EZ Loader Trailer
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2011 Moomba Outback V
$49,999 IS
2012 Sea Ray 185 Sport
Stk# 19485
4.3L MPI 220HP A1 Mercruiser Motor and Shorland’r Trailer
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Stars shine bright on Alberta farm By Jill Earl
DAWSON CREEK- In the tradition of annual additions to Star Bright Farm, the Porrill family has added a menu to their tearoom among the long list of current endeavours, and once again will be offering their What About Wednesday farm tour and dinner every Wednesday this summer until Aug. 29. Star Bright Farm, located in Bay Tree 20 minutes east of Dawson Creek, attracts residents, tourists, senior’s groups and school groups to its 160 acreage. Visitors mostly come in the spring and summer but since opening their store a year ago- selling fabric and quilting materials, meat, and treats- has allowed for more visitors in the winter as well. “The visitors are a lot of locals, we do get the locals because the kids don’t have all the variety of animals and you always want to go and see somebody else’s animals even if you do have animals,” said Heather Porrill, owner, chef and farm entrepreneur. Among the hundreds of animals at the farm are rabbits, chickens, pigeons, goats, horses, mini horses, mini donkeys, geese, llamas and a bull named Bill. Porrill, her husband Dan and three of her five children regularly help around the property by feeding, cleaning and entertaining the animals. Porrill says that during the farm tour visitors can feed and touch most of the animals with few exceptions, she says that she started these farm tours four years ago because she knew that not all children had the opportunity to connect and learn about animals. “It has something to do with that need to remember where our food comes from, we’re losing family farms. We don’t all just have grandma just down the street anymore where we can go and visit, and be the kid who found the spider’s web up in the corner of the barn and start talking with the pig. We don’t have that anymore, so I think it’s important that kids get out to a farm and because I feel like that, I believe that, that would mean my farm. To be able to go somewhere and see an animal, touch an animal, feed an animal; there’s nothing better then watching kids feed animals,” Porrill said about opening her farm to the public. Porrill raises her rabbits and llamas for meat but as Charlotte’s Web is her favourite book she often reevaluates and finds other uses for the animals that she’s grown attached to. For example one llama, Dinky, was raised for meat but while shearing him last week Porrill found that he had a very good temperament and didn’t spit at her once, she is now considering how he can be utilized elsewhere. Another example is of Gravel a baby bunny who escaped his cage and was found in the middle of their driveway, miraculousNortheast British Columbia ly he was not hurt or eaten by one of the other animals; Porrill took that as a sign that he was not meant for the butcher when it comes time. “I concluded the other day that Charlotte’s Web was my favourite story growing up because I was that little kid in the barn talking to the animals, that had to be it I just love animals, I love having them, I love playing with them,” she said.
Though many people in the region may own or work on a farm, Porrill says that not many are equipped to handle visitors and that her exotic herd of llamas is something different for people to observe. “It’s not a park, it’s not this pristine beautiful… not every thing’s in place, this is my home. I’m more like grandma but I’m not that age...not all farms are designed so people can come to it, yes we have the outhouse, we have a hand wash station. Yes, I’m willing to drop everything if someone drives into my driveway and says can I have a tour? ‘Sure just let me turn supper off and I’ll be right out’. I do that, I do that for people,” she said, adding that she welcomes visitors Wednesday to Saturday from 10am to 6pm. The Porrill family bought their raw property in 1999 and since then have built their home, a tearoom, store, and kitchen for Heather to make her Buttery Bites Caramels, a part-time business that she started eight years ago that keeps her busy all winter long. In the future Porrill hopes to plant more berry bushes for visitors to come and pick their own berries and also hopes to one day open her own casual dining restaurant right on her property. Though Porrill constantly has her hands full of projects she is not stressed out about work and still finds her home to be a relaxing place. “Star Bright Farm is cozy, casual, homey, grandmas, seriously, this is what I remember when I was a kid was going to grandmas place…I want people to come here and I think we get wound up really really tight in the city and Dawson Creek being city, anywhere where we work, work, work, work, work. We go through these routines of work, eat, live, insanity, you can come out here and relax…I think we can destress when we come out to a place like this,” she said.
Jill Earl photo
Heather Porrill welcomes a newborn baby llama to her farm.
Jill Earl photo
Gravel, a baby bunny has won over the Porrill family and will keep him as a pet.
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UPCOMING Dawson Creek • Dawson Creek Toastmasters meets every Thursday at 7pm at Farmer’s Advocacy Office 1032 103 Ave (Front door on 11 st.) Contact Heather at 250-784-5700 or 780-353-3050. • Did you know only 3/10 of the water on earth is suitable for human use? The Northern Environmental Action Team, in partnership with Encana, is hosting a splash-tastic event focusing on water. Join us August 18th at Rotary Lake in Dawson Creek for “It’s a NEAT Wave!” Starting at 11:00am, “It’s a NEAT Wave” will have information and activities for all. Bring the kids for water races, games, trivia, and finish the day with a Free BBQ courtesy of the City of Dawson Creek. There will be draw prizes and demos. Protecting our water source from pollution and overuse is an important concern in the Dawson Creek area. Water regulates both your body temperature and the temperature of the earth: stewardship is everyone’s responsibility. For more information on “It’s a NEAT Wave”, visit www.neat.ca or click on our Facebook page. Fort St. John • 50 th Anniversary Celebration of the Goodlow Evangelical Free Church Sunday, August 19,2012 Service 11:00 am Lunch to follow Afternoon program & tea to follow Everyone welcome Please RSVP to (250) 781-3406 before August 12th. • The Fort St. John Literacy Society Family Literacy program will begin again on September 11, and continue for 12 weeks. The program runs Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 am to noon. The program gives parents of pre-school children a quiet place to work on upgrading their skills, getting their GED, Grade 12, or learning English as a second language. While the moms or dads are studying, the children do activities, sing songs and listen to stories with a certified Early Childhood Educator and her assistant. A facilitator is available to help the adults with whatever they are studying. Pre-registration is required, and space is limited. To sign up, or for more information phone 250-785-2110 or e-mail glundquist@fsjliteracy.ca.
• Bryan and Alissa Harding In Trust - Many of you may have heard fo the fire / accident which happened in the early morning hours on July 24, 2012. Bryan sustained second degree burns to 40% of his body. He is recovering in the Edmonton burn unit with his wife Alissa at his side. Their four children are staying with their grandparents at the time being. This could be a long term recovery for Bryan and his family. Anyone who wishes to contribute to their family at this time and in the future may do so at any CIBC branch in their community. The transit and account numers are: 3090 8646694 - Many thanks to all of you who contributed to the trust fund established for Bryan and Alissa Harding & Family. ONGOING Fort St. John • The Fort St. John Public Library is offering Free Computer Skills Training Sessions. These are one-on-one, one hour sessions, where you can learn at your own pace. You can learn what you are interested in learning and how you want to learn it. Areas covered can include, but are not limited to, basic computer skills, using the internet, office skills, email and social networking. Call the Fort St. John Public Library at 250-785-3731 to register or find out more. • Ft. St. John Parkinson’s Support Group Parkinson Society British Columbia People living with Parkinson’s disease, caregivers and family members are warmly invited to the Ft. St. John Parkinson’s Support Group. Join others in your community to share information and resources, coping strategies, ideas for living well with PD, good humour, social support and more. Last Wednesday of the month at 11:00 am McDonald’s Restaurant 10920 Alaska Road North Ft. St. John, BC Note: there is no meeting in December For more information please contact: Sarah at 250 785 7348 • The Fort St. John Literacy Society offers free one-toone tutoring for people who want to improve their reading, writing or math skills. We also offer free English as a Second Language classes and one-to-tutoring for people learning English. Contact 250-785-2110 or info@fsjliteracy.ca for more information. • S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Northern B.C. Newcomers Integration Vold, Jones & Vold Auction Co. Ltd. Service Centre is a nonVold, Jones & Vold Auction Co. Ltd. profit organization in Fort St. John. Our Settlement 301-116th Ave. Dawson Creek, British Columbia Program provides Dawson Creek Office: 250-782-3766 VJV Main Office: 403-783-5561 Cattle Sales, Don 301-116th Ave. Dawson Creek, British Columbia information, orientation, Fessler: 250-719-5561 Fax: 250-782-6622 Dawson Creek Office: 250-782-3766 VJV Main Office: 403-783-5561 Cattle Sales, Don assessment, referral and Fessler: 250-719-5561 Fax: 250-782-6622 service linking, educational workshops and short term adaptation counselling to immigrants. The program On Thursday, August 2, 2012, 250 head of cattle went through our ring also offers assistance D1 - D2 Cows 71.00-75.00 395 head ofD3 cattle went through the ring of Dawson Creek Action on July 8, 2010 with form completion, - D4 Cows 62.00-68.00 SALES EVERY THURSDAY! correspondence between Holstein Cows 55.00-63.00 clients and service providers, D1 D2 Cows 53.00-56.00 Heiferettes 80.00-95.00 navigating immigration D3 - D4 Cows 48.00-53.00 Bologna Bulls 83.00-90.00 processes including Holstein Cows 50.00-53.00 Feeder Bulls 85.00-98.00 sponsorship applications, Heiferettes 55.00-65.00 Good Bred Cows N/A obtaining permanent Bologna Bulls 62.00-72.50 Good Bred Heifers N/A residence cards and applying Feeder Bulls 65.00-70.00 Milk Cows N/A for citizenship. Bridging Good Bred Cows None Cow/ Calf Pairs (younger) N/A services are provided to a Good Bred Heifers None variety of community and Cow/ Calf Pairs (older) N/A Cow/ Calf Pairs 900.00-1000.00 government service agencies Older Cows None and organizations. Service Milk Cows None is available in English and Good Feeder Steers 1000 lbs Plus: 112.00-118.00 Heifers 92.00-105.00 Spanish. The Settlement Good Feeder Steers 900 lbs Plus: 120.00-127.00 Heifers 115.00-122.00 Program is located at: Good Feeder Steers 800 lbs Plus: 124.00-135.00 Heifers 115.00-124.00 #211 10142-101st Ave Good Feeder Steers 1000 lbs Plus: N/A Heifers N/A Good Feeder Steers 700 lbs Plus: 140.00-147.00 Heifers 122.00-130.00 (Execuplace building). From Good Feeder Feeder Steers Steers 600 900 lbs lbs Plus: Plus: N/A Heifers N/A Good 145.00-153.00 Heifers 130.00-140.00 8:30-4:30 p.m. Phone # 250Good Feeder Steers 800 lbs Plus: 92.00-100.00 Heifers 80.00-88.00 Good Feeder Steers 500 lbs Plus: 145.00-155.00 Heifers 130.00-145.00 785-5323 Ext 22. Good Feeder Steers 700 lbs Plus: 102.00-108.00 Heifers 85.00-92.00 Good Feeder Steers 400 lbs Plus: 150.00-165.00 Heifers 140.00-155.00 • ROTARY PLAY Good Feeder Steers 600 lbs Plus: 110.00-118.00 Heifers 98.00-104.00 Good 150.00-170.00 CENTRE SCHEDULE AT Good Feeder Feeder Steers Steers 300 500 lbs lbs Plus: Plus: 115.00-125.00 Heifers Heifers 145.00-155.00 100.00-108.00 THE CDC, 10417 – 106 Good Feeder Steers 400 lbs Plus: 110.00-125.00 Heifers 100.00-110.00 Ave., Fort St. John. Tel. Next Cattle Sale Thursday, August 16, 2012 • Next Horse Sale Sept 29, 2012 Good Feeder Steers 300 lbs Plus: None Heifers None (250) 785-3200. Mon. 9:00 Vold, Jones & Vold Auction Co. Ltd. to 12:00, Tues. 12:30 to 3:30 Gym Time 2-2:30, Wed. Vold, Jones & Vold Auction Co. Ltd. 9:00 to 12:00, Thurs. 9:00 to DAWSON CREEK AUCTION ‘MILE ZERO CITY’ 12:00 Gym Time 10:30-11, 301-116th Ave. Dawson Creek, British Columbia Dawson Creek Office: 301-116th Dawson British Columbia 250-782-3766Ave. VJV Main Office:Creek, 403-783-5561 Cattle Sales, Don Fessler: 250-719-5561 Fax: 250-782-6622 Fri. 12:30 to 2:30 Gym Time Dawson Creek Office: 250-782-3766 VJV Main Office: 403-783-5561 Cattle Sales, Don
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Local grain farmer Martin Leuenberger, Miles Wuthrich, grain farmer David Wuthrich, MP Bob Zimmer and grain/dairy farmer Fred Lehmann.
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FORT ST. JOHN – Western Canadian farmers now have the freedom to sell their wheat and barley on the open market thanks to the support of the Harper Government. Member of Parliament Bob Zimmer, Prince George-Peace River joined in the chorus of celebration to mark the historic announcement that took place August 1, 2012, in Kindersley Saskatchewan. Zimmer joined David Wuthrich, president of the BC Grain Producers Association, and a couple of other farmers on the Wuthrich’s farm in Cecil Lake last week for the announcement. “Our Government has delivered on our longstanding commitment to give Western farmers the marketing freedom they want and deserve,” said MP Bob Zimmer. “Thanks to the leadership of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, our farmers can finally choose how they market their own crops.” The passage of the Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act paved the way for Western Canadian grain farmers to finally have marketing freedom. On the start of the new crop year, August 1st, the act fully came into effect. Farmers are now free to sell their wheat and barley to any buyer as they see fit. The Harper Government continues to work with its provincial counterparts, producer groups, the CWB and the entire value chain to ensure an orderly transition to an open and competitive Canadian grain market. The voluntary CWB remains a viable marketing option for Canadian farmers and is poised to compete for farmers’ business in this new era of marketing freedom. “Farmers know how to run their own businesses, and with the support of the Harper Government, they now have the freedom to do so,” concluded MP Bob Zimmer. The Harper Government’s top priority continues to be the economy, and the agriculture industry plays an important role in creating jobs and keeping the economy strong. Canada is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of agriculture and food products, with last year’s exports hitting an all-time high of more than $40 billion.
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