Prince George Citizen July 8, 2021

PRINCE GEORGE

family-owned business has created its own Every Child Matters shirt to raise awareness and funds for the Orange Shirt Society

Hair studio creates Orange Shirt inspired by family history

Shannon Wright is a Gitxsan Hereditary Chief and she co-owns the Pepper Tree Hair Studio with her mother Nyanna Wright, a matriarch who’s traditional seating name is Salaxlilp.

The shirts feature the salon’s logo which was designed by Nyanna and partly illustrated by Gitxsan artist Michelle Stoney

In 2018, Wright and her mother completely gutted and renovated the salon to turn it into a platform that showcases not only the business but also their rich heritage and culture.

During this period, they also redesigned the salon logo.

“We wanted it to incorporate and encompass who we are as business owners, but more importantly who we are as Indigenous people,” said Wright.

The logo features a tree that also resembles people intertwined together in a circle.

“The people represent family, community, and nations,” said Wright.

“The circle means that we’re all one because it incorporates everybody and the base of the tree goes into a leaf which represents healing of the nations.”

The circle is also a reference to the Pepper Tree being a Green Circle Salon which means they recycle everything and send as little as possible to the landfill.

“Also as Indigenous people it’s important for us to be caretakers of the Earth,” added Wright.

When the news broke in May that the remains of 215 children were found in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Wright and her mother wanted to do something to create awareness.

Key figure in parkade scandal retires from city

Acting deputy city manager Ian Wells has retired from the City of Prince George. Acting city manager Walter Babicz told city council last week that Wells had retired from the city

“After a long and distinguished career with the city, Mr Wells has retired as of last week, your worship,” Babicz said.

“We thank him for all of his service and all of his great work in the development community and other work in the city.”

Wells’ career with the city spanned decades.

He previously served as the city’s manager of real estate services and the general manager of planning and development, before being appointed acting deputy city manager following the departure of former city manager Kathleen Soltis.

Wells was a key figure in the development of the city’s downtown parkade that went millions of dollars over budget.

City council approved an initial $12.6 million budget for the project.

The final cost of the project came to $34.16 million – $22.46 million for the parkade, $597,138 to connect the parkade to the city’s district energy system, and $11.1 million for water and sewer upgrades in the area, and other off-site works.

Emails obtained by the Citizen through a Freedom of Information request show that Wells was a key point of contact between the city and parkade developer A &T Project Developments.

Emails sent in July 2018 from A & T Projects Development to Wells warned the project would be $7 million over budget

Deanna Wasnik has been appointed the acting director of planning and development, Babicz said.

HANNA PETERSEN

PEPPER TREE HAIR STUDIO PHOTO

The Pepper Tree’s Orange Shirts were offically approved by Phyllis Webstad who created Orange Shirt Day. A local Indigenous

WHAT:

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERATION OF APPLICATIONS

Public Hearing regarding:

•Proposed amendments to “City of Prince George Official Community Plan BylawNo. 8383, 2011” and to “City of Prince George Zoning BylawNo. 7850, 2007”

City Council consideration of applications:

•TemporaryUse Permit Application No. TU000068

•TemporaryUse Permit Application No. TU000070

•Proposed “City of Prince George 1450 Taylor Drive Road Closure Bylaw No. 9165, 2020”

WHEN:

Monday, July 12, 2021

WHERE:

Council ChambersofCity Hall, 2nd Floor,1100 Patricia Boulevard, Prince George, BC

PROPOSALS:

1. TemporaryUse Permit No. TU000068

Applicant: Carrier Sekani Family Services for Beekman Printing Ltd., 453778

Subject Property: 970 4th Avenue

Time: 6:00 p.m.

The purpose of the application is to allow for aprimarycare clinic in an existing building on the subject property that will be in close proximity to Carrier Sekani Family Services’ administrative office located at 987 4th Avenue. The applicant has applied for a TemporaryUse Permit to allow for Health Service, Minor as apermitted use on the subject property

The subject property is currently zoned as M4: Transition Industrial, which does not permit Health Service, Minor as aprincipal use. In accordance with the Local Government Act,temporaryuse permits can allow ause not permitted by azoning bylaw. These permits mayonly be issued for amaximum of three (3) yearsand maybe renewedonce for an additional three (3) years.

The proposed TemporaryUse Permit applies to the property legally described as Lot 16 and 17, Block 136, District Lot 343, Cariboo District, Plan 1268, as shown outlined in bold black on Location Map #1 below.

Location Map #1 970 4th Avenue

2. TemporaryUse Permit No. TU000070

Applicants: MikeDavis and AmyJohnson

Subject Property: 1677 7th Avenue

Time: 6:00 p.m.

The purpose of the application is to allow the operation of amedical and dermatological clinic within an existing single-family dwelling on the subject property.The applicant has applied for aTemporaryUse Permit to allow for Health Service, Minor as apermitted use on the subject property

The subject property is currently zoned RS4: Urban Residential, which does not permit Health Service, Minor as aprincipal use. In accordance with the Local Government Act, temporaryuse permits can allow ause not permitted by azoning bylaw. These permits mayonly be issued for amaximum of three (3) yearsand mayberenewedonce for an additional three (3) years.

The proposed TemporaryUse Permit applies to the property legally described Lot 3and Lot 4, Block 180, District Lot 343, Cariboo District, Plan 1268, as shown outlined in bold black on Location Map #2 below

Location Map #2 1677 7th Avenue

3.

Applicant: City of Prince George

Time: 6:00 p.m

Pursuant to section 40 of the Community Charter,the City of Prince George intends to close an approximate 35.1 m² (square metres) of road dedicated on Plan 1268, as shown on Reference Plan EPP110034, adjacent to the property legally described as Block V, District Lot 343, Cariboo District, Except Plans 12259, 13410 and 17026 and remove the road dedication, as shown outlined in bold black on Location Map #3 below

The purpose of the road closure is to enable the sale of the closed road area to the adjacent property owners. The proposed closure and sale provides the property owners the ability to consolidate the closed road area with their adjacent property and to rectify and encroachment.

Location Map #3 1450 TaylorDrive Road Closure

“City of Prince George 1450 Taylor Drive Road Closure BylawNo. 9165, 2020”

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERATION OF APPLICATIONS

4. “City of Prince George Official Community Plan BylawNo. 8383, 2011, Amendment Bylaw No. 9184, 2021” AND “City of Prince George Zoning BylawNo. 7850, 2007, Amendment Bylaw No. 9185, 2021”

Applicant: L&M Engineering Ltd. for CenturyGroup Lands Corporation, Inc. No. 648774

Subject Property: St. Lawrence Avenue (terminus of Vista Ridge Drive and Southridge Avenue)

Time: 7:00 p.m.

The applications propose to amend the Official Community Plan and rezone the subject property located at St. Lawrence Avenue, being aportion of property located at the terminus of Vista Ridge Drive and Southridge Avenue (Property ID 005-287-391) to facilitate afuture subdivision consisting of single-family residential development and multi-family development.

4.1 “City of Prince George Official Community Plan BylawNo. 8383, 2011, Amendment Bylaw No. 9184, 2021”

BylawNo. 9184, 2021 proposes to amend “City of Prince George Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 8383, 2011” as follows:

a. That “Schedule B-6: Future Land Use”, be amended by re-designating Subject Area 1, legally described as Lot 1, District Lot 1605, Cariboo District, Plan 30863, Except Plans 34562, PGP38585, PGP41824, PGP46265, PGP46269, BCP25534, BCP36464 and EPP41947 from Parksand Open Space to Neighbourhood Residential, as shown on outlined in bold black on Location Map #4 below

4.2 “City of Prince George Zoning BylawNo. 7850, 2007, Amendment BylawNo. 9185, 2021”

BylawNo. 9185, 2021 proposes to amend “City of Prince George Zoning BylawNo. 7850, 2007” as follows:

a. That Subject Area 1, legally described as Lot 1, District Lot 1605, Cariboo District, Plan 30863, Except Plans 34562, PGP38585, PGP41824, PGP46265, PGP46269, BCP25534, BCP36464 and EPP41947, be rezoned from P1: Parksand Recreation to RS2: Single Residential; and

b. That Subject Area 2, legally described as Lot 1, District Lot 1605, Cariboo District, Plan 30863, Except Plans 34562, PGP38585, PGP41824, PGP46265, PGP46269, BCP25534, BCP36464 and EPP41947, be rezoned from RS2: Single Residential to RM3: Multiple Residential;

all as shown outlined in bold black on Location Map #4 below

Location Map #4 St. Lawrence Avenue

Residents are invited to provide comment in writing,bytelephone or in person.

As aresult of the COVID-19 pandemic, City Council at their meeting held April 6, 2020 passed a resolution to discontinue informal hearings for certain Bylaws, TemporaryUse Permits and all other applications where such hearings are not legally required to be held.

Submissions in Writing

Residents are encouraged to provide written comments to Council to be included in the Council meeting agenda package and available for public viewing on the City’swebsite.

Forsubmissions to be included on the agenda for Council’sreviewinadvance of the meeting date, theymust be received by the Corporate Officer no later than 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 6, 2021. Submissions received after the noted deadline and before 3:00 p.m., Monday, July 12, 2021,will be provided to Council on the dayofthe meeting for their consideration during deliberations on the applications.

Submissions maybesent by email to cityclerk@princegeorge.ca, faxed to (250)561-0183, mailed or delivered to the address noted below

Please note that written submissions for all applications will formpartofthe Council agenda, become public record and are posted on the City’swebsite. By making awritten submission you are consenting to the disclosure of anypersonal information that you provide.

Residents wishing to provide comments to Council on the following Bylaws and applications, maydo so by submitting written correspondence:

•“City of Prince George Official Community Plan BylawNo. 8383, 2011, Amendment Bylaw No. 9184, 2021”;

•“City of Prince George Zoning BylawNo. 7850, 2007, Amendment BylawNo. 9185, 2021”;

•TemporaryUse Permit Application No. TU000068

•TemporaryUse Permit Application No. TU000070

•“City of Prince George 1450 TaylorDrive Road Closure BylawNo. 9165, 2020”

Submissions by Telephone

In an efforttoprovide the public with options to speak to Council on Public Hearing applications and in accordance with the current Ministerial Order,the City now offersparticipation remotely via telephone during Public Hearings.

Residents can pre-register to speak to the proposed Bylaw(s) live via telephone. Pre-registration will be open from 8:30 a.m., Thursday, July 8, 2021 to Monday, July 12, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. To pre-register to speak to Council via phone, visit our website www.princegeorge.ca/publichearings to complete an online registration formorcall 311. If you miss pre-registering,please watch the online live meeting broadcast as there will be an opportunity for you to call in for alimited period of time.

Telephone submissions mayonly be received during Formal Public Hearings. Residents are invited to participate by telephone for the following application(s):

•“City of Prince George Official Community Plan BylawNo. 8383, 2011, Amendment BylawNo. 9184, 2021”;

•“City of Prince George Zoning BylawNo. 7850, 2007, Amendment BylawNo. 9185, 2021”;

Submissions in Person

Residents who wish to speak in person can do so during the Public Hearing in Council Chamberson the 2nd Floor of City Hall at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, July 12, 2021.

The City of Prince George follows the ordersofthe Provincial Health Officer and guidelines regarding the size of the gatherings and physical distancing.Where Public Hearings are required to be held, measures have been put in place to ensure the safety of membersofthe public attending the Public Hearing to provide comments.

City of Prince George open Council meetings are public and maybetelevised, streamed live by webcast, recorded and archived on the City’swebsite for viewing by the public. By attending an open Council meeting or making asubmission at apublic hearing you are consenting to the disclosure of anypersonal information that you provide.

Formore detailed information on providing submissions to Council, please visit www.princegeorge.ca/publichearings.

Authority

Personal information is collected under the authority of section 26(g) and disclosed under the authority of section 33.1(1) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). For information or questions, contact the City’sFIPPACoordinator at (250)561-7600 or 1100 Patricia Boulevard, Prince George, BC, V2L 3V9.

NEED MORE INFORMATION?

Acopyofthe proposed Bylaws, applications and anyrelated documents will be available for review by the public on the City’swebsite www.princegeorge.ca under ‘News and Notices’ beginning June 30, 2021.These documents mayalso be reviewedatthe Development Services office on the 2nd Floor of City Hall on June 30, July 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9and 12, 2021,between the hoursof 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

WHO CAN ISPEAK TO?

Formore information, please contact Development Services in person, by telephone at (250)561-7611 or by email to devserv@princegeorge.ca.

Formore information with regards to Road Closures, please contact Real Estate Services, by telephone at (250) 561-7611 or by email to realestate@princegeorge.ca.

Forquestions related to Public Hearing participation and procedures, please contact the Legislative Services Division by telephone (250) 561-7793 or by email to cityclerk@princegeorge.ca.

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the provisions of Section 26 of the Community Charter that the City of Prince George intends to dispose of land via adirect offer,toTano T’enneh General Partner Corporation.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the provisions of Section 24 of the Community Charter that the City of Prince George intends to provide assistance to Tano T’enneh General Partner Corporation in the formofdisposing of land for less than marketvalue.

The proposed area is aportion of land at 755-20th Avenue, legally described as an approximate .3 acre area of Parcel ZDistrict Lot 417 Cariboo District Plan 1409 Except Plans 12977 and 32450 for $1.00.

Ian Wells, Acting Deputy City Manager

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Tel. (250) 561-7600 •Fax (250) 612-5605 •1100 Patricia Boulevard,PrinceGeorge,BCV2L 3V9 311@princegeorge.ca

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PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the provisions of Section 26 of the Community Charter that the City of Prince George intends to lease land via direct offer,toDaycare at the Park Association for construction and operation of adaycare.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the provisions of Section 24 of the Community Charter that the City of Prince George intends to provide assistance to Daycare at the Park Association in the formofdisposing of land for less than marketvalue.

‘It’s been really

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“My father was forced into residential school and all of his siblings and countless family members and friends, as well So it really hits home for us this has been our reality.”

They decided to create an Every Child Matters T-Shirt design using the Pepper Tree’s logo because of the importance of the meaning behind it

Nyanna then contacted Phyllis Webstad, whose experiences and story inspired the first Orange Shirt Day which is now observed annually on Sept. 30, to have the design officially approved.

“We had her permission to use to use our logo and to make the shirts, but she also said that it was really well thought out and well designed,” explained Wright.

The Pepper Tree is donating 100 per cent of the profits from the sale of the shirts to the Orange Shirt Society and has already sent off three cheques from the sale of the shirts

“With the support of the community it’s been really healing,” added Wright. “It’s been really helpful to just smooth out that roughness that comes from ripping that Band-Aid off from the recoveries of these children.”

Wright says when she sees people wearing Every Child Matters shirts in the community she doesn’t have the words to express how uplifting it is.

healing’

“I absolutely love it because for the longest time it wasn’t even a discussion and when it was discussed it was very dismissive, you know? Like ‘it’s happened a long time ago’ and that wasn’t the case. I’m talking about my dad who’s just turning 65 on July 2,” explained Wright.

“It really brings a sense of support without someone even having to say it You could just see someone from a distance at the park seeing a sea of orange shirts is just so supportive and so healing.”

Wright said she is so thankful people are wearing orange shirts regularly now, and that the legacy of residential schools is being discussed openly.

“Now seeing it is more than a discussion. Now, we’re seeing actions involved. I can’t even tell you how therapeutic it is.”

John Brink, from the Brink Group of Companies, purchased $2,015 worth of Every Child Matters shirts from the Pepper Tree and handed them out to community members for free at 10 a.m. on Canada Day at Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park.

“You’ve really raised the bar with your generous purchase to spread awareness on residential schools with Every Child Matters T’ooyaxsi’y niism!” said Wright of Brink’s donation.

T’ooyaxsi’y niism means thank you in Gitxsan

The Pepper Tree Hair Studio is located at 770 Brunswick Street inside the Coast Inn of The North.

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the provisions of Section 26 of the Community Charter that the City of Prince George intends to lease land via direct offer,tothe Prince George Native Friendship Society for construction and operation of adaycare.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the provisions of Section 24 of the Community Charter that the City of Prince George intends to provide assistance to the Prince George Native Friendship Society (“PGNFC”) in the formofdisposing of land for less than marketvalue.

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The proposed lease area is at 1953 Gorse Street, legally described as an approximate 3.5 acre area of Parcel X(Plan 17962) of District Lot 343 Cariboo District Plan 1268, Except Plan 17963. The lease will be for a Term of 15 years, with an Option to Purchase in favour of Daycare at the Park Association for $10.00. Ian Wells, Acting Deputy City Manager

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The proposed lease area is at 6776 Dagg Road, legally described as Lot 45 District Lot 4047 Cariboo District Plan 11088. The lease will be for aTerm of 60 years, with an Option to Purchase in favour of PGNFC for $10.00 after 15 years.

The proposed development is funded by PGNFC and the Province of British Columbia Childcare BC NewSpaces Fund and will provide 60 newchildcare spaces in the city of Prince George.

An operating agreement between the City of Prince George and PGNFC is a requirement for the operation of the daycare. Apermitted and restricted use of land covenant will be registered against the land, providing for daycare use only.

Ian Wells, Acting Deputy City Manager

Housing in works for at-risk elders

TED CLARKE

Aboriginal and Metis seniors at risk of homelessness will soon be getting new roofs over their heads as a result of a joint venture to create 35 new supportive homes close to the city’s downtown core.

Ground was broken Friday on the third phase of the project at 1919 17th Ave., to create a day care and three-storey building with 35 studio units, each with a kitchenette and washroom Construction of the BC Housing project will be covered by an $11.4 million Supportive Housing Fund provincial grant and the land is provided by the Aboriginal Housing Society of Prince George, who will operate the housing development.

“Thanks to the help and vision of the Aboriginal Housing Society of Prince George, these 35 new homes will provide the supports and care that older people experiencing homelessness in Prince George need to live independently with dignity,” said David Eby, Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Housing, in a prepared statement “Our government will continue to do its part to make projects like this a reality – including encouraging the federal government to match our Indigenous housing investments.”

Seniors who identify as Aboriginal or Metis will be given priority for tenancy.

An aerial photo shows the progress of the 200-unit Urban Aboriginal Community being built by the Aboriginal Housing Society of Prince George at 1919 17th Ave.

Tenants will have access to 24/7 health and wellness support services, daily meals, life/employment skills training. AHSPG will provide culturally appropriate supports and programming that boosts physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being and the society will have at least two staff members present on the site

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The entire project will eventually have 200 affordable housing units on the 2.8-hectare site. Construction of the first phase to build a 50-unit townhouse in five two-storey buildings development along Bowser Avenue began in 2018 and full occupancy is expected by the end of this year. Phase 2 construction started this

past spring to build a 57-unit structure for multi-family/senior dwellings. The existing AHSPG centre will be expanded to provide additional space for learning, gathering and cultural activities.

The on-site day care will have spaces for 40 children, supported by a $1.5 million grant from the province’s Childcare NBC New Spaces Fund, with additional support from the Prince George Native Friendship Centre.

“The Childcare BC New Spaces Fund is supporting this new innovative project, which will allow more urban Indigenous families to access the affordable, quality and inclusive child care they need,” said Katrina Chen, BC’s Minister of State for Child Care. “The new childcare facility will help Indigenous children connect to their community, culture and heritage for generations to come.”

The 17th Avenue project is slated for completion in the spring of 2022. The community will be maintained through a yearly $1.2 operating grant. The development is the first of its kind in Canada

“We are very excited to have the supportive housing project as part of the Urban Aboriginal Community,” said AHSPG executive director Kim Hamilton.

AHSPG currently serves close to 500 people in Prince George on the traditional territory of the Lheidli T’enneh.

NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION

What: TemporaryUsePermitNo.235

When and Where: 1:30p.m.,Thursday,July15,2021 RegionalDistrictBoardRoom 155GeorgeStreet,PrinceGeorgeBC

Owner: JudySindia

Proposal: ThepurposeofTemporaryUse PermitNo.235istopermitEquipment RepairandServicinguseandLogging/ TruckingContractoruseonpartofthe subjectpropertyforathree-yearperiod. ThesubjectpropertyisThatPartofthe SouthEast¼ofDistrictLot3819Cariboo DistrictasShownonPlanB7466andis locatedat24935HartHighway

Need moreinfo? Acopyoftheproposed Permitandanyrelevantbackground materialsareavailableforreviewbythe publicontheRegionalDistrict’swebsite athttp://www.rdffg.bc.ca/services/ development/land-use-planning/currentapplications/orattheRegionalDistrict office,byappointmentonly,Monday throughFriday,8:00amto4:30pm, betweenJune14,2021,andJuly15, 2021.Tomakeanappointmentcontact theRegionalDistrictat250-960-4400or developmentservices@rdffg.bc.ca

Who can Ispeak to? HeatherMeier, PlanningLeader,250-960-4400

AHSPG WEBSITE PHOTO

HANNA PETERSEN

Lheidli T’enneh Chief Dolleen Logan is demanding the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis visit Canada and apologize to Indigenous people for the crimes committed at residential schools.

Chief Logan said the only way for healing to begin is to have the head of the Catholic Church visit residential school sites – particularly in B.C. and Saskatchewan – and apologize directly to the families of the children who never made it home.

The Catholic Church operated many residential schools across Canada on behalf of the Canadian government where over 150,000 Indigenous children were forcibly sent and many suffered abuse and even death.

“I learned last week that a group of Canadian Indigenous leaders are scheduled to travel to meet with the Pope at the Vatican in December. They are hoping to convince – yes, hoping to convince – the pope to issue an apology for crimes committed against Indigenous children,” said Chief Logan.

“My point is if Pope Francis is truly

Lheidli T’enneh chief calls for Pope apology Developer unveils plan for three new apartment buildings

remorseful and genuinely cares about Indigenous people in Canada he should come to Canada and not expect Indigenous leaders to go to Italy.”

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) said Indigenous leaders will visit the Vatican between Dec. 17 and 20 to meet with Pope Francis and “foster meaningful encounters of dialogue and healing.”

The CCCB said Pope Francis extended the invitation to hear directly from Indigenous people. The bishops said in a statement the Pope wants to express his heartfelt closeness, address the impact of colonization and the role of the church in the residential school system, in the hopes of responding to the suffering of Indigenous Peoples and the ongoing effects of intergenerational trauma. The bishops did not say whether the Pope will offer an apology

Prince George Diocese Bishop Stephen Jensen wrote a public letter on June 15, where he said it was wrong for the Church to “cooperate in policies that aimed to deny native children their language and culture and destroy their family life.”

A developer is looking to build three new apartments buildings, with a combined 169 units, on the site of the Briarwood Place apartment complex. The three new buildings would be in addition to the two existing buildings on the Foothills Boulevard site.

ARTHUR WILLIAMS

A developer is looking to build three new apartment buildings on Foothills Boulevard near the intersection of 15th Avenue.

Pacific Peace Properties Inc has applied for an amendment to the city’s official community plan and rezoning to allow the development on the area of the Briarwood Place apartments, located at 1330 and 1380 Foothills Blvd. Currently two buildings with 36 apartments each are located on the site.

The developer is seeking to build three additional buildings, with a combined 169 apartment units, according to a report that went before city council on June 28.

City acting director of planning and development Deanna Wasnik said the city administration supports the infill proposal, but that a traffic study would be needed before the matter comes before city coun-

cil in a public hearing.

In addition, a report on the ability of city services like water and sewer to handle the extra demand will be required before the changes receive final approval, Wasnik said.

“The services are in the areas, we just need to confirm if they have capacity,” she said.

Construction on another new apartment building in the area is nearing completion, on the other side of 15th Avenue.

City council unanimously approve the first and second readings of the OCP change and rezoning bylaw on Monday night.

The public will have an opportunity to submit comments on the development, prior to and during the public hearing on the issue.

A date for the public hearing has not been set.

CITIZEN PHOTO BY ARTHUR WILLIAMS

Paddleboarder wades into swiftwater safety

TED CLARKE

About five years ago, Kimberley Kenyon and her group of paddlers were just about to pull out of the Willow River when they saw the man and his two dogs stranded downstream on the last piece of land before an impassable canyon.

One of his dogs had gotten into the river to chase a bird and was briefly swept away and the other dog followed. The man managed to get himself and both pets out of the water and on to the island, but they were certainly not out of danger

Just ahead around the next bend, not far from the Highway 16 bridge, was the notorious canyon with its steep sides and huge boulders that churns the river into a death trap that on May 10, 1974 took the lives of eight teenaged boys.

“By sheer luck on that day on the Willow River we actually had a raft with us, so we were able to stop, create a plan, paddle over to the individual and still make the last takeout out before what we refer to as Killer Canyon,” said Kenyon.

“He’d been there about 40 minutes before we actually got to him. Thankfully, for the crew that we had, most of us had swiftwater (rescue) training I did not, at the time, so I was able to witness what it meant to work as a group with training to help an individual.”

They got the man and his dogs into the raft and they made it safely back to the

shore without having to call in a search and rescue team.

Kenyon was among a group of 17 paddlers, fisheries biologists and conservation officers who sighed up for the OVERhang

boards on rivers and lakes.

Kenyon has a background in surfing, on Vancouver Island and in Vietnam and Mexico. She moved back to landlocked Prince George and started whitewater stand-up paddleboarding eight years ago and she’s also learning how to surf in the rivers, working with resident expert Andrew Cline. Cline amazed onlookers a few years ago when he completed the Two Rivers Canoe Race from Ilse Pierre to Prince George on his stand-up paddleboard.

Instructors Lauren Phillips, Dean Price and Austin Roberts taught their students the basics of hazard awareness and avoidance, safe wading in rivers and streams, self-rescue techniques, how to help and friend or co-worker and how to use specialized rescue equipment. The group practiced roping skills in dryland exercises and later put those skills to us in simulated rescues on the Bowron and Willow rivers.

“People tube in all sorts of places and they have no idea what’s around the bend, and they get into trouble, usually in bikinis and flipflops and tied to a cooler,” said Phillips. “If you talk to most people who have taken the course they say, ‘I had no idea what I didn’t know.”

Climbing Gym’s Swiftwater Safety & Rescue course over the weekend. The 35-year-old Prince George native started a business last year – Born to Board – that teaches people how to navigate stand-up paddle

OVERhang’s swiftwater courses, which range from one to four days, are sanctioned by Rescue Canada and are ongoing with 12 courses fully booked through the summer. For more information go to the OVERhang website at www.overhang.ca.

NOTICE OF WAIVER OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Regional District Boardhas waived the holding of apublic hearing into Zoning Bylaw No. 2892, Amendment Bylaw No. 3225, 2021. The Regional District Boardwill consider thirdreading of Bylaw No. 3225 at its regular meeting scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Thursday, July 15, 2021 in the Regional District Boardroom located at 155 George Street, Prince George, BC.

The purpose of Bylaw No. 3225 is to rezone Lot 4 District Lot 2726 Cariboo District Plan 16656 from Residential 3(R3) to Residential/Seasonal 3(R/S3).

The amendment is proposed to permit Recreation Cabin use and other permitted uses pursuant to the R/S3 zone. The subject property is located at 27520 Ness Lake Road.

Acopy of the proposed Bylaw and any relevant background materials areavailable for review by the public on the Regional District’swebsite at http://www.rdffg.bc.ca/services/development/ land-use-planning/current-applications/ (Electoral Area ‘A’) or at the Regional District office, by appointment only,Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, between July 2, 2021 and July 15, 2021. To make an appointment contact the Regional District at 250-960-4400 or at developmentservices@rdffg.bc.ca

CITIZEN STAFF PHOTO

Kimberley Kenyon practices her rope tossing technique as part of the OVERhang Climbing Gym, swiftwater safety and rescue course outside the gym headquarters at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club.

Family Feud Canada holding auditions

CHRISTINE DALGLEISH

Family Feud Canada is looking for enthusiastic, lively, fun(d)-loving families to audition for the show that’s filmed at CBC studios in downtown Toronto where they’ll play for a chance to win up to $30,000.

This is the third season of the Canadian version of the popular game show starring host-comedian Jerry Dee who will guide families through the question and answer game that showcases a diverse landscape of Canadians trying to find the most popular answers to some pretty tricky-funnysilly-cheeky questions.

“We’ve totally had to switch up our casting game from in-person auditions to virtual casting and honestly it’s such a treat because we’re meeting so many incredible families from across the country,” Donia Aly, supervising casting producer for Family Feud Canada, said.

Families have the opportunity to audition to be on the show from the comfort of their own home, she added. To apply online submit a few facts about each family member and upload a short video. Aly offered some tips on how to make the most of the application process.

“In person we get to see that physical energy – people jumping up and down and dancing – so we encourage people to be energetic even if it is on Zoom so that’s smiling, clapping, high fiving each other, throwing up those team Xes and after you introduce yourself and family members on the show, we want them to tell us what hometown they are representing, why they are proud to represent their hometown, what makes their family unique... what would you do with the prize money – you have the opportunity to win up to $30,000 on the show –we want to know about how you would spend the cash.”

If the initial audition goes well, it’s on to the next step

“What happens next is our team will reach out to do a virtual audition and what’s great about this is that we understand that everyone has different schedules and sometimes not all family members reside under one roof, or in one city or even one province, so family members are able to join the call remotely which is kind of neat,” Aly said.

The show takes care of accommodation and travel costs for participating families. For more information visit www.cbc.ca/television/familyfeud

Things kids can do in Prince George this summer

With summer holidays here, parents looking for things to do with their children can consider several options available this summer with safety protocols in place due to the pandemic.

Art Monkeys

Summer Art Monkeys for ages six to 11 is ready for registration at the Prince George & District Community Arts Council (CAC).

Glitter, Goop and You! Art Journaling with Si Transken and Diane Levesque and Arts North Lego and Toy Animation with Christina Watts are workshops that take place every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon throughout the summer

protocols in place there’s only room for eight children per class.

Art Journaling is fun, creative and interactive Children will explore their creativity in a no-rules, self-expressive way Junior artists will develop skills necessary to organize their thoughts, inspirations and ideas to help them better understand their creative path.

During Arts North Lego & Toy Animation it’s going to be a full production from idea to storyboard to final edit. Children will be part of a junior production team as they develop a short animation video. They will learn both creative and technical skills in the new Arts North digital media centre. The cost is $45 per student. For dates, details and to register at www.studio2880. com/summer-art-camps

“We’re really happy coming out of the pandemic to offer some programs – we miss all the kids who have joined us for many years – and getting back to our regular programming is very refreshing and certainly much needed,” Lisa Redpath, program manager for the CAC, said.

Of course because there are still safety

Summer Sewing Camps

Theatre NorthWest is offering an opportunity for people to hone their skills or learn something new with sewing camps.

See ‘KEEP KIDS on page 10

CHRISTINE DALGLEISH

CITIZEN FILE PHOTO

Si Transken, centre, leads an art journal class at Art Monkeys Community Arts Council 2019 summer art classes at Studio 2880 Art journal is a way for children to express their emotions and feelings through art, the one day class gets them on their journey with their art journals.

Into the mindful oblivion

Each week this summer, Citizen editor Neil Godbout will share his experience learning to golf at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club. \

Want to get in a free round with Neil? Just drop him a line at ngodbout@pgcitizen.ca

WEEK 4

During the recent heat wave, it was simply too hot to pick up the clubs anytime after 10 a.m.

So I headed out to the backyard in the early morning quiet with a dozen wiffle balls Pierre here at work bought for me. They let me take a full swing but the soft, hollow plastic ball with the holes in them don’t fly too far and there’s no danger of causing any damage.

They don’t feel like a real golf ball but they’ve been great for aiming and getting me to slow everything down, focusing on a nice, smooth swing and following through. Like a real golf ball, however, a wiffle ball tells you when you’ve done it right because it jumps off the face of the club, straight and true, with a sweet click.

I’m still having to concentrate on the mechanics but now, when I’m ready to swing, I’m moving into mindful oblivion, as Citizen columnist, UNBC chemistry professor and avid golfer Todd Whitcombe calls it. Mindful oblivion is the quiet pause when everything falls away and the only thing left is the ball and creating, out of nothingness, a brief but meaningful connection. My best practice shots have come when

I’ve reached that mindful oblivion. I feel my arms, hands and wrists relaxing, despite the effort of the swing. I’m not trying to swing hard, I’m trying to swing with smooth grace and when I do that, the ball responds.

The further I go down this golf rabbit hole, the more I dwell on this mental side of the game. No wonder so many people, especially those with stressful jobs and lives, gravitate to it.

exercises to help with that calmness. He’s having me warm up by taking swings while keeping my feet together at the heels and then opened in a V-shape He’s really working on my swing now and trying to break me of that habit where my hips and knees slide back and then forward in my swing. Despite the obvious movement in a swing, solid golfers are remarkably still. Taking those warmup swings with my feet together forces me to turn my upper body as I pull back to start the swing Combined with the turn and the raised back foot of the follow through, it’s easy now to see where the torque and the power come from to hit a strong, controlled shot.

When he asked me to pull out my driver (always been intimidated by that thing because it feels like the big dog is wagging me, not the other way around) and implement what I had just learned, that hound came to heel.

Golf is a game of rehearsed relaxation and intense concentration happening simultaneously It demands you occupy only your immediate time and space, forcing you out of whatever was on your mind beforehand. The ability to be calm and present in the moment pays dividends, not just on the golf course but in all challenging personal or professional settings.

Prince George Golf and Curling Club pro Blair Scott has introduced some different

I hit multiple straight and powerful shots, easily the best shots I had ever hit in my life with that club.

And it made the ping!

Won’t win any competitions for driving distance in my life but I’m feeling for the first time like everything is coming together

Now can I put it all together – the improved technique and the mindful oblivion - over 18 holes? I’ll find out in my round later this week with the good professor himself.

TO: downtownpg.com/SummerfestSaturdays

Citizen writer flunks driver’s test

TED CLARKE

I failed my driver’s test.

Chris Schulz, my instructor from PG Driving For Life Academy, broke the news to me in the Citizen parking lot when I asked him to critique my one-hour cruise through the city streets.

We went through the gamut of shoulder checks, lane changes, parallel parking, blind-spot explanations, road sign quizzes and watching for wayward drivers in intersections and in most cases I passed those checks without incident.

My downfall came when Chris asked me to take the right exit off Massey Drive for the second time and head up the hill on Griffiths Drive towards Prince George Secondary School. I slowed down to 30 kilometres per hour on the first pass but the second time I got caught doing 35 as we sped past the school zone sign – an automatic failure in any driving instructor’s book Good thing the RCMP weren’t out there with their radar.

“Your observations were OK but your shoulder checks probably would have gotten you (a fail) and I got you in the 30 zone speeding,” said Schulz.

“You weren’t super over but you were over enough. If you’re over the limit and I count to five and you haven’t gotten it back down again, you’re failing. You have to be consistent in all your habits to pass your road test.”

With summer’s arrival and new drivers sporting their ‘L’ and ‘N’ plates out in full force trying to get their licences I thought it might be a good time to feature one of the city’s career driving instructors and the work they do teaching people the right way to drive.

The 42-year-old Schulz has been a driving instructor half his life. He started out when he was 21 and by the time he hit 24 the PGSS graduate already had his own driver training business

started. He was working in the city as a courier when his mom saw an ad looking for instructors for Young Drivers of Canada. He was one of 50 applicants for two positions and he worked in that job for three years until the franchise folded, and in November 2003 he started his own school, backed by his parents and Community Futures Development Corporation The business struggled at first but by 2005 he’d hired his first instructor to work with him. Driving For Life Academy now has five driving instructors, including Schulz, as well as an administrator/classroom instructor, secretary (his mom Regina) and social media liaison (his wife Jen)

“It takes about a year to get decent at it,” said Schulz. “I was really young and looked really young and that worked well with students but parents would always look at me sideways. The training for the job is difficult and it can be a challenge to find

“You can look a thousand times and not see anything and the one time you don’t look there will be a cyclist.”

instructors. They usually have to go to the Lower Mainland for between two weeks and a month of training ”

Schulz says driving too slowly and failing to shoulder check to the right are the two most common reasons for failing a driver’s test. The speed limit on unmarked Prince George roads is 50 kilometres per hour and 30 km/ hr in playground/school zones and he tells his students to try to be five km/hr under the limit in whatever zone they’re in.

Our lesson took us along Second Avenue to Brunswick Street, which he says is the most commonly-run red-light intersection. The road climbs as it reaches Victoria Street right into the line of vision where people see a green light and they fail to see the traffic light at Brunswick He warns his students to avoid crossing Second if they’re on Brunswick just because the westbound drivers often fail to stop for the red light.

Instructors like to see students scanning every intersection for traffic. One of the tricks of a road test is to ask the driver approaching an intersection to follow the lane they are currently in and the student is given no other directions So they have to follow where the lane takes them.

If that means a turn, that’s usually readily apparent when the turn arrow is painted on the road, but in spring those lines are obliterated by winter driving and it’s

up to the student to know what’s expected. Right-hand shoulder checks and signals are required whenever you turn your car to the right.

“Getting students to do it consistently is hard,” he said.

“You can look a thousand times and not see anything and the one time you don’t look there will be a cyclist.”

Defensive driving means not only allowing the necessary following distance between you and the car ahead of you but also trying to avoid driving in another motorist’s blind spot whenever possible to avoid lane-change accidents.

“Until you can see his face in the side-view mirror, he can’t see you,” Schulz said. “You always want to make the assumption that they’re not going to shoulder check because so many people just use their mirrors when it comes to lane changes

“For so many students the test is passed or failed based on what their observations look like. The mantra in manoeuvres for students (when parallel parking) is slow car, fast hands; the car moves very little but there’s lots of steering involved. Instructors of new drivers want to see some kind of hand over hand or shuffle on the wheel and they don’t want to see palming.”

Prince George has nine of the 10 most dangerous intersections in northern B.C. and all of them cross highways. Chris made sure to guide me through one of the most confusing intersections in the city, at the top of Griffiths Avenue near PGSS where it meets 22nd Avenue and Highway 97, which has multiple lanes of traffic merging together

“Of all the highway intersections the one I find most dangerous is 10th Avenue crossing Highway 97,” Schulz said “That intersection is so bad for the rigs running the light. If I’m working consistently I see that light being run once a day. “

Keep kids learning with summer reading programs

from page 8

young children can learn from August 2 to 6. For more information and to register visit www.theatrenorthwest.com

Crack the Case

The Prince George Public Library has a six-week summer reading group for those children ages five to nine years called

Crack the Case. Join in the in-person fun at the Knowledge Garden with activities, stories and special events which will encourage children to keep reading during the summer break.

The sessions start July 7 and go every Wednesday until August 11 from 11:30 a.m. to noon at the Bob Harkins Branch.

Registration is limited but free Visit or call to register at 250-563-9251 (ext 147) or 250-563-9251 (ext 108).

There is also an opportunity to tune into

the fun through Zoom.

For more information on that visit Crack the Case virtual event.

Storytime Walk

Storytime Walk is presented by the library at the Central BC Railway and Forestry Museum as a self-led tour to experience the museum’s exhibits through recorded songs, rhymes and fun historical facts. This adventure will feature field guides and library resources. The tour is available in July and August.

Download the tour on the Geotourist app before you go. Search Prince George Public Library.

Thanks to a generous donation by Scotiabank, admission is free for families accessing the library’s tour

Simply check in and show PGRFM staff the Geotourist app on the mobile device to qualify

The tour will only be accessible during the museum’s hours of operation. Learn more about the Central B.C. Railway and Forestry Museum at www.pgrfm.bc.ca

CITIZEN PHOTO BY JAMES DOYLE/LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE. Citizen reporter Ted Clarke goes for a driving lesson with PG Driving For Life Academy instructor/owner Chris Schulz.

Old-growth logging concerns linger

MARK NIELSEN

Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Prince George-based environmental group Conservation North is giving a mixed review to the latest pronouncement on how the provincial government plans to deal with old growth forest in the Prince George timber supply area.

In December 2020, the Forest Practices Board called for a revamp of the way that old growth forest was being treated in the PGTSA

The public watchdog noted, in part, that the PGTSA was one of the few in B.C. where the amount to be conserved is not specifically identified on maps, but instead as a percentage of the overall forest inventory.

In a May 27 response to the FPB, a Ministry of Forests official said work has begun on identifying spots for deferral from logging that would last 2-3 years while also working on a longer-term land use plan.

Conservation North welcomed the news that deferrals are in the works but noted those deferrals will be based on regulations set out in an order that dates back to 2004 despite the FPB calling for it to be updated to reflect current science on biodiversity.

The group also raised concern that science will be left out of the equation as stakeholders negotiate the land-use plan.

“We are relieved that something is happening to slow biodiversity loss in our region, but we need to protect all old growth

now for long-term ecological resilience, not just set aside a minimum amount,” Conservation North field director Sean O’Rourke said in a statement.

How soon the deferrals will come into effect remains vague.

On Friday, a five-person panel to provide “science-based” advice on determining areas for deferral across B.C. was unveiled.

In making the announcement, Forests Minister Katrine Conroy said she hopes to see the first deferrals ready by this summer but would not say if any will be in the the Prince George TSA

In a response to a request for comment from the Citizen, a forests ministry official said the plan is to “move as quickly as possible.”

Areas protected will be located throughout the TSA, the official said.

“They will vary in size, but will be large enough to provide ecosystem protection and connect wildlife habitats. They will include a range of species and ages similar to the historical composition for that area.”

In an interview, Conservation North director Michelle Connolly said she would like an emphasis on protecting the eastern end of the TSA where old growth spruce is “getting hammered.”

More specifically, she named the Parsnip, Anzac, Hominka, Table and Walker as valleys in need of protection.

CONSERVATION NORTH HANDOUT PHOTO

A log deck of old growth spruce in the Anzac watershed.

Huble Homestead lands handmade riverboat

Rivers Lost can be found at Huble Homestead Historic Site.

That’s the name of the flat-bottomed riverboat made by Bernard McKay, author of the Crooked River Rats and modeled from those riverboats that were used during the first half of the 20th century.

The McKay family donated the handmade piece to showcase the boat on the historic site.

“I built the riverboat about 10 years ago and had it on display at Huble shortly after that, then I used it for a few years and then I gave it to my son and he actually donated the boat,” McKay said. “And then I donated the antique motor that goes on the back of it.”

The motor is a Johnson Sea Horse dating back to the 1940s

“So it was a family affair,” McKay said.

McKay wrote his best-selling book the Crooked River Rats about his experiences of running the rivers for 17 years with his family

This is Rivers Lost with the Johnson Sea Horse motor attached to it that was donated to Huble Homestead by the McKay Family. Bernard McKay made it himself.

“We explored the whole province using an old-fashioned river boat,” McKay said.

McKay built this particular riverboat when a man commissioned him to do it.

The man requested a plankstyle riverboat and then promptly

canceled the order.

“But I decided to build the boat anyway,” McKay said.

“So I cut down the trees and sawed the logs with my little band saw lumber mill and planed the lumber and built it from

scratch. It really had a pleasing look to it.”

Huble Homestead is pleased to accept the generous donation, Krystal Leason, executive director said.

“We’re very excited to have

Rivers Lost on display at Huble Homestead,” Leason added “It provides us with an excellent example of the riverboats that traversed this region during the first half of the twentieth century Bernard McKay’s interviews with river boaters from this area, including Al Huble Jr provide us with an even greater connection to the historic site.

“Rivers Lost also helps to center Huble Homestead in the broader context of the river trade that took place during the years that the Huble family lived on the banks of the Fraser, as similar boats were taken across the Giscome Portage by Al Huble and Ed Seebach.”

Huble Homestead Historic Site is located 40 km north of Prince George, just off Highway 97 on Mitchell Road and is open daily until September 6. Admission is by donation and dogs are welcome.

To book demonstration time slots, view schedules and learn more about safety measures, visit www.hublehomestead.ca or call 250-564-7033.

CHRISTINE DALGLEISH

HUBLE HOMESTEAD PHOTO

Fatalities not just a part of life

In a recent press conference, B.C. Premier John Horgan announced to those of us residing within its borders that “fatalities are a part of life.”

These words were gifted amidst a conflagration, as regionally we are experiencing hundreds of deaths from an unprecedented heat wave and forest fires, part of a longer even deadlier pattern of ecocide-induced climate change.

Perhaps this was news to Horgan but most of us have been grappling with this already, this thing about fatality and life and the moment we’re in. We’ve all seen it: summers have been getting progressively hotter, and that’s not only a reference to the weather. More than one tension has hit a boiling point and fatalities are common as crows. Last summer, we saw a world on fire with marches in protest against racism and police brutality This summer, in B.C. alone we are sitting at the nexus of several crises: climate change and opioid deaths, mass graves of murdered and then discarded Indigenous children, class war on the houseless, brutal extraction of old growth trees, a truly global pandemic

Which is certainly not to say that the anti-black racism and police brutality went away They didn’t. Even the Canadian state’s recent day of self-celebration was doused in a sea of orange shirts and collective grief. All while disparity deepens as the wealthiest people in the world get richer, their wealth growing proportionally to the rest of our devastation, their colonizing gaze turned excitedly now to outer space.

Oddly, however, the tragedies we have been served and our response to the people and systems that serve them, to their condescending condolences, have not been so proportional. The ruling class has put fatality on a platter and, though we smell the poison cooking in the kitchen, we eat it, because they told us it’s all they could make and besides; it’s only polite to eat first, complain later (using the designated complaint box located inside a dumpster out back, of course).

They call this nuance.

They call this justice.

They’ve worked hard to bring this kind of fatality to us, and they have our relatives and neighbours working for them in the kitchens too, who have found security and even solace in the steadiness of the poison work – don’t we care about that? In our outrage, have we really taken everything

B.C. Premier John Horgan takes in the semifinal matchup between Canada and the Czech Republic during the FIBA Men’s Olympic Qualifying basketball action at Memorial Arena in Victoria on Saturday

into account?

The better question is can we? Can we care about the delicate intricacies of electoral politics and the hearts of the people who do it? Do we have the time? The answer, I’m certain, is no. We don’t, not if that means compromising on our own survival, which is a zero-sum game. And if the rising death toll isn’t making that clear then I’m not sure what will.

What I know is that the currently acceptable responses to capitalism and colonialism’s planetary destruction are not cutting it, and they’re not cutting it because they’re not designed to Rule makers do not make rules that permit the abolition of their or their business acquaintances’ social status, or their right to property, accumulation, exploitation, pollution, and power. Last year, during discussions amongst young Prince George organizers about what we might demand of the city in terms of anti-racism, we were warned not to “demand” anything of city council, because they wouldn’t respond to demands Indeed, bourgeois politics is a soup of ego, but that one was baffling, especially given the subject matter You have to ask nicely, I was told not for the first time, that’s politics, that’s how these things are done I argue that’s not how you get things done, that’s just how you appease people. That’s how you save them and their system from the kinds of friction and frustration that might lead to important

Compliance as a concept is interesting for many reasons, but especially as we consider those who have rejected masks and other public safety measures throughout the pandemic. We are a society obsessed with individual rights, an obsession that comes often at the expense of collective ones. We have watched the same government officials wring their hands over enforcing life-saving public health measures who didn’t even blink before sending the RCMP to arrest Wet’suwet’en grandmothers for protesting on their own land Compliance can be dangerous in social hierarchies like this one, as it is self-justifying and can only punch down. I mean, we can’t seem to make them comply to their own campaign promises, to paying taxes, to not bailing out oil corporations that still just laid workers off anyway We can’t get them to comply to their own budget for a parking structure downtown. It’s a one-way street.

revelations about what they have done, are doing, to all of us. It is their prerogative to be appeased and they have corralled us very well into sharing this belief.

“You catch more flies with honey then with vinegar,” we tell each other.

And absolutely this is true if what you’re trying to do is get your brother to help you move your couch, but that’s only because the stakes are low enough to permit niceties and you and your brother love each other As disability writer Imani Barbarin reminds us, there is niceness, and then there is goodness, and these are not the same thing and can even be at odds.

This is what those of us at the margins already know: the ability to recognize the difference between what is nice and what is good is a life-or-death skill

But that’s just not how it works, they say, so instead of making good and doing right and staying alive we cater to the egos of those in charge. We make signs and put them up where they tell us we can, we run our marches through approved routes, we make petitions for them to fold into cute coasters for the hot coffee they drink in an air conditioned office, and in turn they give us only what they were already prepared to give, because this was never a negotiation over the conditions of people’s lives, this was an exercise in (to borrow from some of our own city councillors in a recent debate over the Safe Streets Bylaw) “compliance.”

So really there are very few people for whom compliance and fatality are necessities of social life, and it is not you or me. Let’s return to the Horgan quote that prompted this writing. I think it’s very important that we not confuse his point here by misreading it. He did not say death is a part of life, as the old adage goes, he said fatalities. Fatalities are social, they are caused, they happen as a result of human action or inaction. They are not part of the life cycle, the one that we cherish, they are obstructions to it. They are a fact, yes, but they are not necessary. The only people that the notion “fatalities are part of life” benefits are those responsible for the fatalities in question If I were a hawk, I would probably tell mice the same thing.

This is not about intention, though, as perhaps even Horgan wishes there were an edit button for that one. And I do, in spite of myself, care that people mean well, but we have raised our concerns through the appropriate channels and tones for longer than we really had time for Summer after boiling summer we are (re)learning that niceness can be fatal, compliance too, and I and many others are not willing to watch our community, the land or its peoples, die en masse to uphold a sense of decorum and a mode of production that will be obsolete when we are gone. After all, what’s left to sacrifice? We are already on fire – UNBC graduate Soili Smith is a teaching assistant and PhD student in American Studies at Rutgers University, Newark.

THE CANADIAN PRESS PHOTO BY CHAD HIPOLITO

O’Grady a man at his time

My name is Kevin Beliveau. I wrote my M.A. thesis at UBC in 2001 about Bishop John Fergus O’Grady, OMI, and the history of Prince George College.

As my thesis has become the sole piece of research ever conducted on this man and this school for scholarly submission, I have been referenced a great deal over the past month by local political and academic authorities

As a student and teacher of history, I’m challenged with looking at sources and using the tools of my trade to better understand the past. Inference and empathy are two key tools used by the historian. In my own classroom, I try to teach students how to infer “truth” from a variety of sources, but to be humble in claiming to ever arrive at a “complete” truth without having considered all the available sources.

This makes history an incomplete art and open to interpretation and subject to bias. It does not make the writing and telling of history any less valuable or important, but we know that our understanding of the past is constantly changing as we face new evidence and try better to understand.

Likewise, empathy is an important consideration as it challenges us in both literature and history to consider the time, place, and context of the past in order to say something intelligent and reliable. Making use of an “educated imagination” allows the historian to begin to understand why people in the past said and did what they did.

The distinguished English historian, G.M Young, was fond of saying that in order to understand a figure from the past, a good question to ask is, “What was going on in the world when he was twenty?”

It follows that these two tools – inference and empathy – can help me understand, for example, who was Francis of Assisi as he lived in medieval Italy in his own time and place and how his sense of faith inspired him to challenge some prevailing notions of piety and justice; or why did Henry VIII do what he did and say what he said in the sixteenth century that lead to so much political and religious division. Likewise, when a character such as

Hitler is rightly vilified today it is because even in the context of the 1930s and 1940s his vitriol and murderous anti-Semitism were considered abhorrent and evil. On a personal level, it might help me better understand my own seventeenth century French ancestors who left France and came to Acadia amidst relative poverty and with courage from their sense of faith in a Christian worldview; or it could provide me some clues to help me empathize with my sixteenth or seventeenth century Illocano ancestors in the northern Philippines who became Catholics under Spanish imperialism – for better and for worse.

It might also help me as an historian to better understand the life of Fergus O’Grady, son of Irish immigrant ancestors living in a very Protestant Ontario, ordained a priest after the First World War, administrator in several residential schools in British Columbia during the Great Depression and World War Two, and then the first Roman Catholic bishop of Prince George in the least Catholic and least religious province, decidedly English and Protestant in cultural and political leadership.

As it is, 1928 or 1929 are two of the most tumultuous and momentous years of the century.

The Great Depression ushered in twenty years of extreme government parsimony The Great War was still a fresh memory in the minds of most in Canada and the world. The rise of European totalitarianism was met by strengthening both socialism and Communism across Europe. And let’s be clear: the assumption that European and western civilization, including religion, were superior to Indigenous, Asian, or African worldviews was not really challenged at the political level until after 1945 at best and would continue into the 1950s and 1960s. Canadian leadership was unapologetically white, Christian, and male.

In my own research and lived experience, however, the tools of inference and empathy –the contributions of the historian – tell me that O’Grady is not the villain he has been made out to be. In his own context of time and place, he was shrewd, progressive, and compassionate.

Despite the challenges of his time and place, I have argued, he managed to secure financial resources and thousands of young European volunteers to build and staff schools and hospitals in a province that – at the time – did not give any funding to denominational schools be they Christian, Muslim, or Sikh.

The tools of the historian tell me that I have to understand this man within the context of his time and place. If I borrow the premise of G.M. Young, then I must try to understand the world of O’Grady’s twentieth birthday. He was born in 1908.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Time for real change

Dear John Horgan, we have been residents of BC for over sixty years and want to share our heartfelt thoughts with you. First and most importantly, with the devastating discoveries in this province and now in Saskatchewan in regards to our human brothers and sisters of yesterday and the disaster of residential schools, we ask that our government lobby the federal government to establish a national holiday in Canada that honours all First Nations people.

We want this to be not just a token but an honorary holiday that lifts up those

who have been wronged in so many ways. With Canada day, can we ever look on it as a celebration under these current circumstances and with our new realizations? All flags should be flying at half mast. Let BC’s voice echo across the country in human compassion and sorrow for those lost children.

The second thing is how we treat our environment and our wilderness. We must stop current logging practices, stop the mining, stop expensive oil and gas exploration and stop building pipelines and infrastructure for fossil fuels. Exploiting natural resources for short-term gain must end.

people so entirely different from other men in positions of leadership at the time My thesis showed him to be a man who spoke as men spoke in the first half of the twentieth century. He can’t be expected to speak from any other context.

If he was racist, misogynistic, hateful, and evil within his milieu – just as we would say Hitler was clearly racist, misogynistic, hateful, and evil in his own milieu – then fair enough, tar and feather him, rip down his name from every signpost in the city. I don’t ever want to see a Hitler Boulevard in Prince George! But I would challenge any historian to find a journalist, curator, mayor or businessman who spoke with any more enlightenment or sophistication during the Great Depression or shortly after the Second World War.

As my thesis suggested, O’Grady was born into and spent most of his life within this cultural context. It follows that to judge him today with the moral, cultural, and political lens of 2021 is unfair, ignorant, and clearly ahistorical.

I will not even pretend to speak from the perspectives of an indigenous political leader, a CBC journalist, a local museum curator, a member of the UBC honourary doctorate committee or the mayor of Prince George. You each have your own tools for understanding the past and trying to tell your own story and with your own agenda.

In my own research and lived experience, however, the tools of inference and empathy – the contributions of the historian – tell me that O’Grady is not the villain he has been made out to be. In his own context of time and place, he was shrewd, progressive, and compassionate

There is no evidence he was a genocidal maniac, a murderer, or someone who spoke about his religion or Indigenous

O’Grady did as much as anyone else at the time to fulfil the dreams of integration in Canadian classrooms in the 1960s and 1970s. He was ahead of his time in church history as he advanced the role of lay people in positions of church leadership and education. He petitioned Ottawa to allow Indigenous families in northern B.C. to at least have the choice to send their children to Prince George College – the only Catholic high school in northern B.C. From 1960 to 1990, literally thousands of Indigenous youth attended this school entirely voluntarily

Finally, my own sense of history shows me that too often in recent history attempts to right the wrongs of the past, though good intentioned, merely sow the seeds of future conflict and pain. We need only look at the Middle East and parts of central and southern Africa for clear antecedents.

Let all of us – journalists, curators, mayors, and historians – attack vigorously and with honesty and outrage the sins of the past, the misdeeds, the injustice, as well as the pain and the suffering inflicted on many who claimed this land as their own before the arrival of European culture and religion.

The historical “truth”, however, can’t be told if we are sloppy and ahistorical with the past.

Kevin Beliveau is a teacher in Vancouver

The consequences of current practices are devastating our environment and any hope for future generations of living beings. There has to be a better way, and we need to find it, for our children, our grandchildren, and all of creation.

We know this might be hard to achieve, and many have different opinions, but let’s build on our consensus, on the indisputable facts and undeniable evidence of climate change, and find a better way.

Let’s start with our provincial parks in BC, and give them the same classification as our national parks.

That would mean a moratorium on logging, mining, oil and gas exploration,

pipelines and hunting throughout them Instead let’s make provincial parks the focus of environmental awareness and growth for the future, leaving nature to flourish because it’s the right thing to do.

Let’s learn from First Nations peoples relationship with the land by seeking harmony with our environment and becoming its advocates instead of its enemies. We know there is so much more we could do to help each other and protect the environment. That knowledge and compassion is needed now to help defend and support all those that do not have a voice.

Ralph Rowell and Susan Phillips Prince George

Principled acts take courage

An incredible act of courage and international solidarity took place recently at the Port of Prince Rupert.

Ninety-four members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) refused to unload a ship of the Israeli ZIM Corporation.

This same ship had been prevented from unloading in Oakland, California as part of the Block the Boat movement, which seeks to draw attention to the injustices suffered by Palestinians by preventing Israeli ships, often transporting weapons, from docking at ports all around the world.

On June 15 and 16, members of ILWU Local 505 refused to report for work out of respect for the Prince Rupert Solidarity Group which was picketing in support of Palestinian rights.

The employer, Dubai Ports World Prince Rupert, then announced that it was going to suspend these workers without pay for three days and note the disciplinary action in the personnel file of each worker

Dubai Ports World claims the action by ILWU members in Prince Rupert was illegal and caused “harm” to its customer

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They later reduced the suspension of the workers to one day.

It should also be noted that the ZIM ship was moored and unloaded later in the day on June 16 before sailing off to Shanghai.

The ZIM corporation likely didn’t expect to experience opposition in a small community like Prince Rupert, perhaps unaware that international solidarity for social justice is thriving in northern British Columbia.

Recently Israeli military attacks on Palestinians living in Gaza generated a response in the form of widespread global demonstrations. As an Arab, I was deeply moved by the strong presence of drummer Wesley Mitchell and other members Indigenous community at protests that were mounted in Prince George.

There was also a strong Indigenous presence at demonstrations in Prince Rupert

Clearly, there is a definite link, a profound bond that is growing between Palestinians and colonialized and oppressed peoples around the world.

It is as though the drumming and chanting in different languages and traditions are all singing the same song, a beautiful cry expressing the oneness of our humanity and the commonality of our struggles.

It is also important to note the tradition of organized labour in working for a more just world.

Participation in the Block the Boat movement is only a small part of a rich and proud ILWU tradition.

They have not only been supporting Palestinian rights for decades, they also played a pivotal role in global protests during the 1980s which forced South Africa to abandon its policy of Apartheid.

Corporations and governments rely heavily on longshore workers to keep the global economy flowing.

The ILWU recognizes this and does not take its responsibility lightly

Since 1953, they have been governed by their Ten Guiding Principles, which recognize, “There can be no discrimination

because of race, color, creed, national origin, religious or political belief, sex, gender preference, or sexual orientation.”

Principle four was of particular importance with regard to recent actions in Prince Rupert.

It states, “Every picket line must be respected as though it were our own.”

Looking back on my own experience of political activism, I see the truth behind the statement made by Dr Martin Luther King, that “The arc of the moral universe bends toward justice.”

Gandhi said it another way: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

I’m beginning to understand why these statements are true.

There is an unseen bond between all people working for a better world, rooted in the power of solidarity

There is also an understanding deep within our beings that knows that working for a more just world is not only the right thing to do, but that this quest for ultimate truth will always be victorious.

Thank you, ILWU Local 505 Prince Rupert Your sacrifice is an inspiration

Disenchantment with democracy

Recently, the IE University’s Centre for Government Change asked 2,769 respondents how they would feel about removing some of the politicians in their government and replacing them with artificial intelligence programs.

Despite carefully laying out the “clear and obvious limitations” of AI, 51 per cent of Europeans thought this would be a good idea, with a high of 66 per cent in Spain. For Chinese respondents, the number climbed to 75 per cent in favour

But in the bastion of democracy south of the border, 60 per cent said they would not be in favour. Strangely enough, despite everything that has happened in the past year, the United States still believes in democracy

Perhaps more importantly, they believe decisions about humans should be made by human beings. Skynet will not rule the U.S.! Germany and the United Kingdom were also not in favour of letting computers takeover.

What do these results tell us? Oscar Jonsson, director of the centre and one of the researchers contributing to the work, suggests the results are indicative of the general disillusionment which exists in society for democracy

But given the diversity of respondents from a variety of political system, it is perhaps not so much democracy which is at issue but politicians.

When broken down by age, 60 per cent of the 25-34 years old cohort were in favour of AI politicians falling only slightly to 56 per cent in the 34-44 years old range. Not surprisingly, the 55+ crowd were

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dead set against the idea.

Asked pretty much any question about the present state of politics and it tends to be young adults who are disillusioned by the process.

I know that when I was younger, I once voted for the “Rhinoceros Party” because none of the federal candidates in my riding seemed to have any understanding of the issues important to my generation.

Of course, I am older now. And I know that politicians rarely represent the collective voice of an entire riding.

Indeed, it would be difficult for anyone to bring together the collective opinion of a riding.

Most politicians find people in their own party – who, in theory, are supposed to hold to the same political values – often disagree with them. MPs often find themselves at odds with the official party position.

But would AI solve any of these problems? And what would they base their decisions on?

Despite the illusion of intelligence provided by computer programs, they are – after all – computer programs. They are programmed algorithms for solving problems. They are often writing in mathematical coding with logic defined by boolean relations.

The coding is complex. No doubt about that. Often programmers are left shaking

It would be difficult for anyone to bring together the collective opinion of a riding. Most politicians find people in their own party – who, in theory, are supposed to hold to the same political values – often disagree with them. MPs often find themselves at odds with the official party position.

their head at the things their creations come up with.

The structure of the algorithms and the extent of coding a simulated intelligence often makes it so that the programmers really aren’t sure exactly what they results will be. They have a good idea what the program will do but not an exact understanding.

But one of the things AI is good at is looking at masses and masses of data Most of the systems are trained on data sets well beyond any human capacity. Could you really look at a couple of million pictures of chairs to understand what constitutes a chair? Humans don’t learn this way. We are far more intuitive and able to extrapolate from the specific to the general.

When it comes to politics, having an AI provide a consensus opinion for a particular riding might sound like a good idea. By scanning Facebook posting, Twitter feed, conversations in public spaces, smartphone texts, and the rest of our electronic communication, it is possible an AI could come up with a better understanding of how a particular community truly feels about an issue.

But how would it then parse the dichotomy of opinions into a single point of view? Wouldn’t the result always be “well, I am of two minds on the issue…”?

This is an issue also faced by politicians For the most part, I would suggest they resolve the issue by considering their own opinion, their own values, and the view held by the party. Sometimes the last matters most so politicians find themselves voting on a bill or acting in a fashion that is at odds with their own personal convictions

But they are able to resolve these moral compromises. Or, at least, learn to live with the choices they made. Can a computer? Would an AI even have morals to compromise? Would it care?

If democracy or government is broken – and I am not saying it is – then the only way to fix it is by participating. Getting out and talking to friends and strangers. Discussing the important issues Being involved Letting our politicians know what you think and how you feel

Perhaps with enough information, they might make better choices.

Todd Whitcombe is a professor of chemistry at UNBC.

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Nestled on the western edge of the Rocky Mountains, Purden Lake is deep and known for its clear water. Since 1979 the lake has been stocked annually withrainbowtrout. The Freshwater FisheriesSociety of BC released 10,000 rainbow trout into Purden Lake in 2018 as well as 83,600 kokanee. Burbot are also abundant in the lake.

Angler’s Atlas member kbd635 was out on Purden Lake during the summer of 2015, and offers this report: Last Sunday was the first time Icould get out and try the Lucky Bugs and although Iwanted to do amorescientific analysis and fish one rodwith the Lucky Bug and one with my usual PurdenLakefare,RyanandHunter had other

ideas and wanted to both try the new lures!

The Weather was hot, the water calm and Iwasn’texpecting to catch much, but it was agood day out with my friend and the two kids.

Iput one rodinwith ablack and white Bingo Bug trolling 100 feet behind the boat and was just setting up the second and Ryan had our first fish on! Anice stock rainbow which was well hooked and gave agood fight.

Not five minutes later Hunter hit a fish,

using ared and white Bingo, but lost it, but made up for it alittle while later with one we managed to land.

Wecontinuedtofishandwererewarded with three morefish, which we decided to release, since the two we caught werefor Ryan and Hunters supper.

Imust admit I’m always skeptical

when new lures come on

the market, offering “life like” action and new technology, but these lures do seem to entice fish to hit, and Iwas especially impressed since the conditions weren’tlooking good for some sport.

Needless to say,IWILL be keeping a few of these lures in my box of tricks on futureadventures!

Brian Smith, fly fisher and author, says that Purden Lake has “fair to good fishing May to August using mayflies, caddis and dragonfly nymphs.Fish the shoals at the east end with these patterns and anglers will have good success.”

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W. COLEMAN

September 22, 1972 - June 28, 2021

Heath loved his family, his friends, his bike and the great outdoors. He is profoundly missed by his wife Jennifer, sons Danton (Liza) and Ethen, parents Gerry Coleman, Jan Coleman, sister Shawna Morland, in-laws Susan McDonald (Ron), brother in law Gary McDonald, many nieces and nephews and extended family.

Celebration of Life

Saturday, July 3, 2021 3:00 - 7:00 pm 1662 Hoferkamp Road, Prince George

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Mytting,RachelB. July07,1953-June23,2021

Itiswiththedeepestsadnessweannouncethepassingof ourbeautifullovingMummaBearRachelBrendaMytting. Rachelpassedsurroundedbyherlovingfamily.Rachelis survivedbyherSignificantOther,Marvin.Daughters Amanda(Paul),Jodie(Russel).HerlovingGrandchildren Brianna(Daren),Aisha,EdanandHaakon.Her GrandchildSavannah.HerSisterJoanne(Chuck)and numerousniecesandnephews.Rachelwillbecelebrated onherBirthday,Wednesday,July7at2:00pmpst@ 24500MurchLakeRoadforthosewhowanttoattend pleasebringachair. Momwasatherbestwhenpeopleneededherthemost. Shewastherewhetheryouhadabrokenheart,theflu andespeciallytothosewhowerereadytocrossthe RainbowBridge.Momsloveofmusicwasbeyond compare.Shelovedhavingdancepartiesandshowingus herfavouritemusicandvideosonYouTube.Soifyouget achance,pleasedanceinherhonour.Inlieuofflowers, pleasedonatetotheCanadianDigestiveHealth Foundation.

REMEMBRANCES

John Hockley 1951-2021

JOHN HOCKLEY passed away at Hospice House on June 24th 2021 at the age of 70 years. He was predeceased by his loving with Patricia and his parents. A memorial celebration for John will be held Saturday July 3rd at 1:00pm at 1489 McCullagh Avenue.

Rose H. Skobin

January 5, 1927June 6, 2021

Born in Moosejaw, Sask. Rose moved to Vancouver as a teen, and later North Bend where Peter, Jonathan (deceased) and Ellen were born. Then to Prince George with her Russian husband Victor (deceased), where she joined BC Tel. Rose had ambitions to become a journalist, but instead became a world traveler. An adventurous spirit who was interested in everyone around her.

Godspeed, Mum, Gramma, Auntie & Sis

1955-2021

Born September 24, 1955, Doreen passed in her sleep on June 8, 2021.

Survived by her brother, Roger and numerous cousins. Pre-deceased by father Edwin, mother Violet. Doreen couldn’t walk or talk, but she knew how to make herself understood, sometimes loudly.

Right now she would probably be saying THANK YOU to all those who have helped her. Thank you Aim-hi group home workers who cared for her and gave her a real home life. Also Wilma and others who have moved on. Thank you to the Crooks family for accepting Doreen as part of their family. Plus many, many others.

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Gerald Allan McKinnon

October 23, 1951 - June 30, 2021

Gerry passed away after a short battle with cancer at home on Wednesday, June 30, surrounded by his family. Gerry was born in Calgary, the oldest (by 4 minutes with his twin Ed) of 5 siblings born to Mabel and Marvin McKinnon. When Gerry was 17, he went to fish with the Haida people in Prince Rupert who told him many a story of how the world came to be. Gerry, who had a remarkably good memory, was able to recite “How Raven Stole the Light” and other stories to all his grandchildren who remember this to this day! Gerry joined the army when he was 20 years old and was stationed in Cold Lake, AB for 5 years. He became a radio technician and obtained a degree in electrical engineering technology. He left the military and then spent time in Africa where he set up infrastructure for radio communication and technical schools, wrote curriculums, and taught courses in radio transmission technology.

Gerry returned to Prince George in 1981, where he worked as an alarm installer for PG Lock & Key. In 1986 he met the love of his life, Maria Brouwer, who gave him an “instant” family of four “older” children. On May 10, 1991, a car accident changed his life forever. After a recovery period of 2 years in multiple hospitals, Gerry became a stay-at-home dad for Iris and his two boys: Wolfey (1987) and Sean (1988). Gerry then devoted all his free time to researching and writing about McKinnon genealogy and the history of the Gaelic population in the Highlands and Hebrides of Scotland. He was a thorough researcher and a prolific writer. His published works include: The Shank Bone Papers, The End of an Old Song, The Small Regiment, A short History of the Lordship and Baronage of Nova Scotia, The Clan McKinnon, its Genealogy, Lands and Arms, Biographies of the Officers of the McKinnon Clan, and How Heraldry came to the West Highlands of Scotland. Gerry became a Licentiate of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada (LRHSC), and helped many people obtain their family crests. Gerald was a kind and modest man of faith, and most of all proud of his family which also includes his furry friends Sam, Tucker, and Duchess.

He is survived by his loving wife Maria Brouwer, his son Sean R. McKinnon (Danielle) and stepchildren: Marc (Corry), Lilian (Geza), Daphne, and Iris (Kevin). His grandchildren: Elizabeth, Tyler, Loryn, Emily, Emma, Mason, Leon, Marijke, Maia, and Jeffrey. His great grandchildren: Mariah and Amelia. His siblings: Ed (June), Darwin (Loretta). His sister-in-law Marion (Harry). Cousins Jim (Bee), Robert (Penny), and Wally. His nieces and nephews: Bella, Koosje, Kim, Leanne, Naiomi, Kathleen, Kristina, Nicole, David, James, Robert. His special friends: Neal Cook, Des, Ami, and Jay. Predeceased by his parents, son Wolfey, sister Maureen, and brother Grant.

Gerry lived in thankfulness for the medical community who helped save his life in 1991. He specially honoured Dr. Appleby, Dr. Neary and Dr. Preston who were by his side for the past 30 years, giving him the best of care as he struggled with declining health due to the accident.

Gerry loved deeply and was loved deeply. He will live in our hearts forever.

A memorial service will be held at 11:00am on Saturday July 10, 2021 at Trinity United church. In lieu of flowers donations to the Canadian Cancer Society will be greatly appreciated.

REMEMBRANCES

Nancy Lou Murphy (Huckson)

1954-2021

It is with a heavy heart we announce that Nancy Lou (Huckson) Murphy passed away June 18th, 2021 at the age of 66 after a decades long battle with cancer. She passed away at home surrounded by friends and family, love and laughter.

Born July 9th 1954 to William Huckson and the late Thressa (Shewfelt) Huckson in Sault Ste. Marie, ON. Beloved mother of Christopher (Anne-Marie Ranger) of Gatineau, QC, Andrea (Gary Reese) of Prince George, BC, and David (Shelbea Lalonde) of White Rock, BC. Grandmother to: Keenan Murphy, Aiden Reese, Isabella Reese, Sean Murphy, and Tristan (TJ) Murphy. Siblings from Sault Ste. Marie, ON: Carol Lacasse (late Paul), late Judy Crosby (Kent), Jim (Ruth Anne), and estranged but loved Daniel. Aunt to many special nieces, nephews, great nieces, and great nephews.

Any who knew Nancy knew she had a great love for living life to the fullest. She had an unmet strength to her and was extremely active in her community spreading education about Al-anon.

Due to the pandemic and because she had family and friends across many borders, an in person event will not be held. Donations can be sent to donationsfornancymurphy@hotmail.com and will be passed with proceeds going to AA and Al-anon.

Tiegann Mariah Bodger

1991-2021

Beloved partner to Daniell Malais, and mom to Hadley and Cooper. Born on December 12, 1991 and passed away tragically on June 25th 2021.

Survived by her mom Deborah Bodger and adored brothers Jordan (Melissa) and Ryley Bodger (McCully). Also survived by her nana Heather Fenton, gramma Flo Bodger and grandparents Barb and Mike Burns, her aunts Heather Andrews (Dean), Debra Burns and Maria Mackenzie (Grant) and uncle Terry Fenton. Her sweet nieces Khyler and Rylee Bodger and nephew Jackson Bodger will miss out on so much not growing up with Auntie Tiegann. Her friends, too numerous to count, will miss her dearly. Tiegann was predeceased by her uncle Kenneth Fenton on June 20th, 1992 and greeted her grandpa James Bodger on July 2nd 2021.

Tiegann had an energetic and impactful personality and will be missed by all you who knew and loved her, to know her, was to love her. Until we meet again.

For my auntie Tiegann

It was good knowing you

You’re still in our hearts

You were so kind, I loved that about you

I’m happy that you are my auntie It’s hard to say goodbye but I love you Khyler Bodger

Service Details to be announced in the near future.

It is with deepest sadness that we announce the passing of Vince Marotta on July 2, 2021 at the age of 56 after a short but hard fought battle with cancer. Vince was the most loving, considerate, and thoughtful man who cared deeply for all his family and friends. He opened his arms to everyone he met and made them feel that they all had a special part in his life. His children Matthew and Carly were his pride and joy and he was so very proud of them. He was a devoted husband to Susy and always made sure Susy, Matthew, and Carly were his top priority. He will be greatly missed but always loved by all who knew him.

Funeral services will be at Sacred Heart Cathedral on Thursday July 8, 2021 at 10:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers a donation to the Cancer Agency or Prince George Hospice would be greatly appreciated.

Patricia G. Kersey 1936- 2021

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Patricia G. Kersey on May 20th, 2021 in Stoughton, Saskatchewan at the age of 84. Pat was born November 21, 1936 in Chatham Ontario, the only child of Alvin and Gladys Totten.

Pat will be deeply missed by her daughters Virginia (Rolf) Mueller, Dorothy (Dave) Martell and Peggy (Brian) Whalen. Pat leaves her grandchildren, Eric, Jonathan, Lisa, Logan, Amie, Paul, Christopher and Brandon as well her great grandchildren, Deseree, Courtney, Presley, Seth, Kealey, Grace, Angel, Kylie, Merissa, Shinara, Frank, Marnie, Pierce, Deklyn, Isaac, Claira and Ellie.

In keeping with Pat’s wishes, there will be a family and friends graveside service at the Prince George Cemetery August 6th, 2021 at 1:00pm.

As you share the stories and the memories of how they lived their lives and how very much they meant, may you find comfort...

In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to the: New Hope Lodge Recreation Fund, 123 Government Rd. N. Stoughton SK S0G 4T0 in memory of Pat.

Fond memories linger every day, Remembrance keeps them near

Vince Marotta

1964-2021

Pauline Anderson

1926-2021

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Pauline Elizabeth Anderson (nee Nangle) on June 24, 2021, six days short of her 95th birthday. Pauline was born on June 30, 1926, in Musselburgh, Scotland and emigrated to Canada in 1937. She is survived by her children Rod (Darlene), Bruce (Leona), Heather, Mac (Brenda) and Alison; grandchildren Erica, Katrina, Stuart, Evan, Thane, Rylan, Joshua, Garet, and Justin; great grandchildren Adriana, Ava, Ashlyn, and Bennett. She is predeceased by her husband Harvey and all of her siblings. Pauline was a loyal community member who devoted her time to the Catholic Women’s League and Golden Age Club to name but a few. Pauline was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother and her family always came first. We would like to sincerely thank the friends of Pauline who phoned, cooked, and gave her comfort in the last few years of her life. We would also like to commend the staff in the PMU unit - you were truly amazing. Funeral service was held on Friday July 2, 2021, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 1088 Gillett Street. Father Gilbert will be officiating. Interment will occur at a later date. In lieu of flowers please make donations to St. Vincent de Paul or a charity of your choice.

Mar 19, 1930Jul 5, 2020

A year has passed without you, and I miss you so very much. You will forever be the love of my life and my heart will be yours until we are together again.

Always in my thoughts

Rosaire

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• Good computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Excel.

Successful candidate will possess the following qualities:

• The ability to deal with customer needs in a calm constructive manner

• The ability to adjust to rapidly changing

and developments

• The ability to work both independently and as part of a team The position offers:

• A competitive salary and benefit package

• Opportunity to work in and exciting dynamic environment.

• Opportunity for advancement.

Please submit your resume to Frank Skerlak, General Sales Manager at fskerlak@lumber.ca or Bev at: gobbi1@telus.net Only those persons chosen for an interview will be contacted.

Job duties

HEAVY- DUT Y EQUIPMENT TECHNICIAN

Decker Lake Forest Produc ts Burns Lake, British Columbia

The Technician per forms some or all of the following duties:

• Check bulldozers, cranes, graders and other heavy construction, for proper per formance and inspect equipment to detect faults and malfunctions

• Diagnose faults or malfunctions using computerized and other testing equipment to determine extent of repair required

• Adjust equipment and repair or replace defective parts, components or systems, using hand and power tools

• Test repaired equipment for proper performance and to ensure that work meets manufacturers’ specifications

• Clean, lubricate and per form other routine maintenance work on equipment

• Service attachments and working tools such as harvesting and tillage equipment, blades, ploughs, winches and side booms

• May perform repair work on heavy trucks

• May attach components and adjust new acquired equipment.

• The Technician may also specialize in specific types of machiner y, or in engine

Responsibilities:

• Test repairs for proper performance and ensure the work meets manufacturer ’s specifications and legislated regulations

• Repair and replace defective parts and components on all machinery, equipment, hand tools, and power tools.

• Read and understand operating manuals, blueprints and drawings

• Perform daily routine maintenance on machiner y and equipment including cleaning and lubrication

• Complete all duties in accordance with Company health and safety regulations.

• Work independently and collaboratively with other members to achieve common objectives.

Requirements:

• Experience working with all brands of heavy-duty equipment

• Valid class 1 driver ’s license

• 5 years experience with diesel engines, hydraulics, electrical, and air brake systems

• Must have a Red Seal certification

• Ability to lift and carry heavy objects: minimum 50 lbs.

• Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.

• Must be able to take direction from super visors and work with minimal super vision.

• Good command of oral and written English

To apply to this position please contact: Justin Dechamplain Resumes can be dropped off to the Decker Lake Forest Products office: 10345 Lewis Road Or emailed to justindechamplain@hamptonlumber.com

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• Use a keyword. Start your ad with the item for sale, ser vice offered or the job title. • Be descriptive. Give customers a reason to respond. Advertisers have found that the more information you provide, the better the response.

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Kitselas Development Corporation (KDC )

JOB POSTING

Chief Exec utive O fficer (CEO)

As a visionar y, the Chief Executive O fficer (CEO) is direc tly responsible for the health and per formance of the organization, the success of its operations, and strategic planning. Internally, the CEO will focus on the ongoing improvement of the organizations business model to ensure maximum produc tivit y and revenue Ex ternally, the CEO will establish key long-term relationships with business par tners that enhance the organizations profit abilit y and market position. This individual will also provide financial leadership by managing budgets and monitoring long-term strategic fiscal plans. A competitive remuneration pack age will commemorate with experience and suitabilit y. If you’re interested in applying, please email your resume and coverletter (in PDF file format) to the Board Chair : c.carlick@k itselasdlp.ca

Deadline for Application: July 9th, 2021

Warehouseman’s Lien Ac t TAKE NOTICE

Pursuant to Section 4 of the Warehouseman’s Lien Ac t, the motor vessel:

described as Sea Cruise ex 29766 will be sold by private sale on July 29th 2021, to satisfy the indebtedness of Roderick Johnson in the sum of $17,915.62

described as Slide Bay ex 23780 will be sold by private sale on July 29th 2021, to satisfy the indebtedness of Jason Groven in the sum of $26,857.44

described as Pelican Houseboat will be sold by private sale on July 29th 2021, to satisfy the indebtedness of David Macrae in the sum of $22,219.79.

The vessel may be viewed at Port Edward and offers made in writing to the Port Edward Harbour Authority, PO Box 1820, 200 Bayview Drive, Port Edward, BC, VOV 1 GO.

The sale will be on a where is-as is Vessels must be removed from PEHA Highest offer or any offer not necessarily accepted.

THIS WEEKEND! GARAGE SALES

Apartments / Condos-For Sale

Spacious, 3 level 4 bdrms, 4 baths, superb location. $277,500. 250-561-1255 Ready to sell!

Houses for Sale

4 bdrm house - 2 bdrms upstairs, kitchen, bathroom completely renovated. 2 bdrms basement need upgrading. Stove, fridge, blinds inc. Buy now before the price goes up. $380,000 2679 Queensway St. Will consider trade of a motor home, newer trailer or truck. 250-981-3583

Property For Sale

“DUNSTER PROPERTY FOR SALE” 115 acres with 1/2 mile Fraser River frontage. 10 acres Island. 15 acres cleared. Mixed forest. 100% reliable water source. Log cabin attached to mobile home. Water line and hydro. Easy access. Mountainscape views. Private. 250-479-5545

2294 Queensway St. Fully service, C6 zoning, will take partial trade of motorhome, trailer or pick-up. $149,500 (250) 981-3583

45.5 ACRES Corner of Upper Fraser Rd & Beaver Forest Rd. with good driveway & building pad. $155,000. 250-614-6667

Recreational Property 1000sq m building

160 Acres, 72 miles East Prince George, all weather road access year around, mixed timber, 250 feet from river frontage, creek flows through property. Electricity and phone.

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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS

4 ways kids can help in the garden

Ifyou’reaparent,youmightfinditdifficultto tend to your garden while also keeping acloseeyeonyourkids Fortunately,thereare a number of simple tasks that can keep even theyoungestgardenersoccupied

1. WATERING

Fillupawateringcan makesureit’snottoo heavy and let your little ones go about hydrating your planter boxes and potted plants Whenitcomestimetowaterthevegetablegarden or flower beds, offer to let your kids hold thehose.

2. WEEDING

Teach your children to recognize the most common unwanted plants that sprout up in your garden Ask them to go on a hunt for weedsand,withyoursupervision,letthemtry pullinguponeswithshallowroots

3. MULCHING

You can add mulch to your garden to help itretainmoistureandlimitthespreadofweeds Encourageyourkidstogettheirhandsdirtyby carefully transferring mulch from the bag to

the garden and spreading it evenly over the soil.

4. TIDYING

Frompickingupleavestoputtingtwigsinthe compost bin, there are plenty of easy ways your kids can help clean the yard. Remind themtokeepaneyeoutforfallenpetals,pineconesandacornstheycanuseforcrafts.

Inadditiontogivingyouahand,yourlittleones willhaveplentyofopportunitiestolearnabout howplantsgrow It’sawin-winsituation.

5 strategies to ward off squirrels

Squirrels are agile creatures that like to snack on seeds and dig up flower bulbs This can make them quite a nuisance for gardeners. If you want to keep the squirrels in your area at bay,herearefivetrickstotry.

1.Plantbulbsatleast15centimetresdeep,and opt for species that squirrels tend to avoid suchasdaffodils,hyacinthsandfritillaries.

2.Cover your flower beds with chicken wire Thismetalmeshwillkeepunwantedcritters atbaywithoutdisruptingthegerminationof yourseeds.

3.After planting, cover the soil with blood mealorchickenmanurefertilizer Theodour repelssquirrelsandhelpsmaskthesmellof bulbs

4. Grow aromatic plants that repel squirrels suchasonion,garlicandherbs Scentedgeraniums (pelargoniums) and certain other fragrantflowerswillalsodothetrick.

5.Ifyouhaveacatordog,letitroamnearyour garden. Your pet’s presence, as well as the

furandscentitleavesbehind,willserveasa deterrent.

Goodluck!

3 fruit shrubs native to North America

There are several advantages to growing fruit shrubs that are native to your area. In addition to improving the look of your yard, many of these plants produce edible berries.Herearethreespeciestoconsider.

1. BLACK CHOKEBERRY

This easy-to-grow ornamental shrub will brighten up your yard in spring with its white and pink blooms.After admiring the flowers, you can harvest handfuls of the black berries, which are rich in antioxidants and can be used to make jam, juice and wine

2.

Asfortheberries,theymustbecookedprior to eating them. Failing to do so is likely to result in an upset stomach. However, their tart taste makes them a great option for pie fillings,jamsandsyrups.

3. HIGHBUSH CRANBERRY

Though it’s different from a regular cranberry, this bright red fruit does have a simi-

Buying an outdoor fireplace: factors to consider

Doyouwantafireplaceforyourbackyard?With so many outdoor models available, you should take the time to find one that suits your needs. Hereareacoupleofthingstothinkabout.

THE FUEL

THE USE

Considerhowyouwanttouseyouroutdoorfireplace. If you want to make it a gathering place forfriendsandfamily,optforaroundmodel.To createarelaxingcornerwhereyoucancurlupin privacy,arectangularfireplacemaybemoresuitable. If you plan to cook over the embers, chooseamodelwithagrill.

Finally, keep in mind your budget and space limitations when shopping for an outdoor fireplace Consult the staff at your local hardware storeforadditionaladvice.

One of the first decisions you’ll need to make is whether you want a fireplace that uses wood or gas. While wood-burning fireplaces are easy to installandgiveoffapleasantaroma,theyrequire regularmaintenance.You’llalsoneedsomewhere to store the logs, and some municipalities have restrictionsontheuseofwoodfirepits. Contrarily, fireplaces that run on natural gas or propane are easy to maintain. Another advantage is that you can adjust the intensity of the flames with the push of a button. However, you must be able to connect it to agaslineorwillingtoperiodicallyrefillthetank.

3 ways to use your garage

Garages are versatile spaces that can serve multiple purposes. Here are a few ways you canusethispartofyourhome.

1. AS A WORKSPACE

If you plan to use your garage as a workshop, you’ll need plenty of storage. Considerinstallingshelvesalongthewallsto give yourself enough floor space to work on various projects. In addition, you should invest in a large workbench as well as sturdy hooksthatcanholdheavytools

2. AS A STOREROOM

If your garage will be used to house all your odds and ends, it’s a good idea to invest in a varietyofverticalstoragesolutionsincluding

shelves, racks and pegboards Just make sure you leave enough space to move around a parked vehicle. In addition, you can install magneticstripstoholdyourtoolsandceiling hookstohangbikesandladders.

3. AS A LIVING SPACE

Ifyoudon’thaveacar,youcanturnyourgarage into a living room, crafting area, rehearsal space or home gym. Keep in mind that you’ll need to insulate, light and heat the space.

Before you decide to make upgrades to your garage,it’sagoodideatosetabudget.Fora complete makeover, consider hiring a professional contractor