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The pull of spring feels like a kite on a string. The colours and warmth dance and run together, pell mell, and fill us with a pure and simple joy. The Prince George Quilters’ Guild has lofted their creations into a festival of fabric fun and they bid us to Fly Into Spring together. The quilters are busy all year round. They are constantly working together to stitch new life into this traditional and functional art form. The group teaches and inspires each other, as members, and they also contribute their skills to a number of local charities. Every so often they will apply their membership’s considerable force to a major exhibition, and this is one of those years. “We had one in 2016, and it was our first in 12 or 13 years. This is our first since then,” said Barb Friesen, a longtime member of the guild. “It’s a major undertaking. It takes everybody helping out and it’s all volunteer. As it is we run three volunteer events per month, which is a lot to commit to, and a lot of people will take things home and work on them on their own time, which we really appreciate.” All this work is done to teach the finer points of the old artisan form. Quilting has an almost endless depth of knowledge. It starts off simply by sewing layers of cloth together into a basic blanket, but the array of fabrics, the array of treads, the array of techniques, and the depth of artistic detail is as infinite as the human imagination. In order to pass on those skills, the members learn from each other, call in expert help, and have fun together with this functional art form. You learn best by doing, so the guild sets goals for helping charities, providing them with the finished quilts. “We have about 120 members right now,” said president Theresa Smedley. “It has really expanded in the past few years. There was always a strong interest in quilting, but it seems like in the last few years people have really latched onto it. A lot of communication is going on between quilters and the guild really tries to be an

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Barb Friesen and Theresa Smedley with the Quilters Guild are preparing for their spring event. interchange for that knowledge. It’s like a sisterhood where you can be around likeminded people and learn from each other.” The membership is a diverse collection of quilters of all levels from brand new to sewing all the way to master crafters at the professional level. It’s the kind of art form that can be a hobby or be a business, and everyone around the table can have fun together regardless of the task. “I have a thread obsession. To me, thread is like its own art form,” said Friesen, gripping the handles of her long-arm sewing machine. “I’m all about the fabric,” said Smedley, stroking a silky bolt of cloth like a pet. “Whatever it is that excites you, you can take it whatever direction you want to go, plain and simple or incredibly complex. We have some in Prince George who are at that master level and it’s incredible to see their work.” Holding a quilt extravaganza is hard

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work for the guild members, but it spotlights those highest level quilters and gives knowledge and encouragement to the ones aspiring to reach whatever their next level might be. It is also eye candy for the public. Each quilt is a labour of love, and no two quilters ever produce the same quilt even if they are given the same materials and general instructions. More than 200 quilts will be on display at the upcoming show. They have entitled it Flying Into Spring, with a kite theme, just to give the explosion of colours and fibers one more wow element. “Some guilds only have their own members in their shows, but we have opened ours up to anybody,” said Friesen. “There are at least 10 quilters’ groups in town, some of them are interlinked with our guild but not all. I’m a member of a couple of different ones. We go to the ones that focus on our areas of interest, or work on

things that fit with our schedule. Everyone likes to share and do volunteer work.” The guild handed out more than 170 charity quilts last year. The Legion, Council of Seniors, Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation, Meals On Wheels, Aboriginal Infant Program, Association Advocating For Women & Children, Victims’ Services, and many more recipients have gotten quilts to cover laps, spread over beds, go into hampers, or be prizes for raffles. Smedley said one patient at Hospice House so cherished the quilt donated to his bed that staff could only clean it when he was sleeping because he wouldn’t let it go. The compelling art form will Fly Into Spring at the Prince George Golf & Curling Club on May 10 and 11. In addition to the quilts on exhibit, guild members were issued a challenge to create quilted kites, to add visual fun throughout the display area. It’s a challenge the PGQG passed with flying colours.

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Skye Borgman wasn’t just in Prince George to be a special guest at Northern FanCon. The director of the hit Netflix truecrime documentary Abducted In Plain Sight was also here for some project development with local writer-director James Douglas. He is the driving force behind the award-winning Dollar Baby drama The Doctor’s Case. It was all because of Northern FanCon, though, that the two came to be involved in a pending screen production. The roots of the idea trace all the way back to Denise Crosby, a FanCon alumna, who also attended a fan event that predated the Prince George pop-culture convention. Douglas is also one of the senior managers at Barkerville Historic Town where this precursor event took place. He explained how the origins of the project got sparked. “When Denise Crosby first came to Barkerville in 2013, she and I got talking one night at the Wells Hotel Pub about historical interpretation and some of the incredible things she’d seen at Barkerville and how she related it to some experiences she’d had at a cemetery in Hawaii where they had a historical interpreter who took people on tours and they would meet these historical characters along the way. She had always been fascinated by it, and she said she thought it would be interesting to try something like that at the Hollywood Forever cemetery where she and her friends had hung out as a kid. We talked about that back and forth a few times even before The Doctor’s Case 97/16 photo by James Doyle came up.” Film director and writer Skye Borgman in Prince George for FanCon. Come up The Doctor’s Case did, though, a couple of years later when wine, the peacocks that are there, this Douglas and FanCon founder Norm and they hit it off in conversation. great thing to do in the summer that’s just Coyne were collaborating on some film “We became festival buddies,” said part of that neighbourhood. Denise was projects, one of which was a pitch to SteDouglas, and the discussion eventually telling me about how she grew up right phen King’s Dollar Baby program to make came up between them about Crosby’s around the corner and the kids would all idea to roll cameras on the interesting a film adaptation of the King story The go to play at the cemetery and it was just Doctor’s Case. The film was indeed made, human interest stories a filmmaker could zero fear, it was full of life, in that bizarre unearth at cemeteries like Hollywood and when it was, Crosby was one of the way of thinking about it.” Forever. leading cast members. Douglas and Borgman were just getBorgman got the appeal immediately. Douglas took the movie around North A meeting was held in Los Angeles with ting their filmmaker wings when they America for various film festivals. The Coyne, Douglas, Crosby and Borgman very first one, where The Doctor’s Case first met, but both have had projects that and the idea started to take the shape of had its official world premiere, was the soared in the past year. Borgman sees an an action-item. Julien Dubuque International Film Festiespecially good fit between this proposed “Denise and I went there during Day of cemetery cinematography and her newval. As Douglas and one of the film’s stars, the Dead,” said Borgman. “There are food found status, because this series would be J.P. Winslow, got off the plane and was trucks everywhere and all these movies looking for a cab to the venue, they got nonfiction with dramatization. they project against a big wall, so you can chatting with another airport passerby “Because of Abducted In Plain Sight I’m see these great films while people sit on who, it turns out, was also a director meeting so many more people now with the lawns blankets, drinking Relay Forshared Life Prince | Juneon9picnic – 10, 2018 there for the festival. They the cabGeorge the ability to green-light projects,” she

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said. “We will have to take it around and see if anyone wants to back it. I can see it happening on so many platforms, a lot of homes we could find for it, for sure.” Douglas has made a career, in and out of film, of historical interpretation and drawing story out of authentic antiquity. In addition to the historical settings in which The Doctor’s Case was shot, he is also involved in a working project called Wicked Ways With Vamp (also sparked at Northern FanCon) in which cosplay superstar LeeAnna Vamp shows the audience around places with paranormal stories, one of which is in Barkerville. So Douglas, too, has a lot to empirically contribute to a project such as this. With Crosby also excited about the show, it stands a ghost of a chance.

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AROUND TOWN Sewing classes

Registration is now open for Sewing For Young Children and for Sewing Camps-Beginners, a pair of fiber art summer programs for youngsters being offered by the costume department at Theatre North West. The Sewing For Young Children classes run July 2-5 with options for morning (9 a.m. start) or afternoon (1:30 p.m. start). This class is designed for young children with an interest in learning to sew, ideal ages 8-10 years old. The class consists of 3 hours per day for 4 days. The Sewing Camps-Beginners program runs July 2226 afternoons only starting each day at 1:30. The ideal ages are 10-15 years (as young as 8 for experienced kids) with no experience necessary. It runs three hours per day, producing a project each day. Sign up at the Theatre North West website.

Art show The Federation of Canadian Artists has a members’ show on display now at the Bob Harkins branch of the PG Public Library. This group exhibition by the Central Interior Chapter runs through the month of May.

Solo exhibit Tonight is the night Vanderhoof painter Michael Rees opens his solo exhibition at the Rustad Galleria in the Two Rivers Gallery. The public is invited to the free reception at 7 p.m. introducing the artwork and a chance to meet the artist.

when she meets a big-city rocker. Rock Of Ages has delighted international audiences for the past 10 years. This is the P.G. debut. Tickets available now at the CN Centre box office or online at the TicketsNorth website. Start believin’ and don’t stop.

Alban series

Alban Classical holds the next in their concert series. Obbligato features classical voice music with clarinet, alto saxophone and piano. Showtime is 3 p.m. on Saturday at Trinity United Church (3555 5th Ave). Admission is $20.

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On Friday and Saturday, come see the biggest collection of quilts and quilt art of the year, presented by the Prince George Quilters’ Guild at their Fly Into Spring show and sale (this year the quilters will be demonstrating a kite theme). Tickets are $5. It includes vendors with quilting supplies, door prizes, raffles and more all at the Prince George Golf & Curling Club. Times are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

The Wheely Funny Fundraiser 2 happens May 16 at Theatre North West with local comedian Mike McGuire and friends. The proceeds go to support the Wheelin’ Warriors of the North Ride to Conquer Cancer. Tickets are $25 available at Theatre North West and Books & Company.

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The next edition of the poetry-spoken word series WordPlay is entitled A Magical Musical Mash-Up, hosted as always by local writer Erin Bauman, the Panoptical Poet. The event is May 16 at Books & Company starting at 7:30 p.m. “Bring your guitars, ukuleles, oboes, etc. to back up those who are reading,” said Bauman. “If you don’t read or play an instrument you can bring your art supplies and draw, knit, bead, etc. while you listen to melodic poetry.”

Two Rivers Gallery hosts a Saturday special event called Science OdyssyEnhanced MakerLab from 1-4 p.m. Try 3D doodling, use the laser cutter, try out cyanotypes, see demos and try your hand at the build-it station and more. It’s a free drop-in event for all ages. Call 250-6147800 for more information.

PGSO concert

Choices: The New Temptation is the art show by Donna Morrison opening tonight at the Studio 2880 Feature Gallery. A 5 p.m. reception will reveal the artwork and introduce Morrison. The show hangs until June 6.

Art Of The Dance is the final mainstage show of the season for the Prince George Symphony Orchestra, with a very special guest performer. Enjoy Lehar’s Merry Widow Waltz, Brahm’s Hungarian Dances, Marquez’ Danzon No. 2, Smetana’s Three Dance Episodes from Bartered Bride, and Strauss’s On the Beautiful Blue Danube. Also joining for the evening will be the winner of the 2018-2019 Integris Youth Concerto Competition. The show is Saturday at the Prince George Playhouse at 7:30 p.m. Get tickets via the Central Interior Tickets website.

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Theatre North West hosts the children’s play Jack & The Magic Bean tonight and tomorrow. Written by Linda Carson, directed by Kim Selody (both former PG theatre professionals), this is an enthralling new spin on the old story of Jack & The Beanstalk. Showtime is 6 p.m. both nights (get tickets online at the TNW website). Perfect for ages 3-9, fun for any age.

Omineca Arts Centre is the stage for A Night Of Rap & Rhymes on Saturday at 8 p.m. All welcome, tickets are sliding scale from $10-$20 at the door. Kids are welcome (licensed event). Bring your own poetry for the open mic component. Featured performers are telephone switches, The Brain Porter, theWETuntreatedCEDARshingle and GRIM.

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Rock of Ages Rock Of Ages pumps out the hard rock tunes of the ‘80s in a musical theatre event coming to CN Centre for one night only on Friday. A small-town girl arrives on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood and falls head over heals into the L.A. lifestyle

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Fundraiser Saturday is the Save The Lake fundraiser at the Westwood Pub, all money raised goes to purchase a weed harvester for Tabor Lake. Burgers and auction. If you have a business and can donate or help please call David Mothus at 250-961-7664.

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Interstellar Jays Cariboo alt-folk band Interstellar Jays perform a set of shows in the region on the strength of their new album Musasabi Madness. Recorded in the Cottonwood community. It’s an upbeat blend of ska, klezmir, and old tyme fiddle. The closest appearances are May 17 at the Sunset Theatre in Wells and May 18 at the Prince George Legion.

Huble Homestead May 18 is the first day open for the Historic Huble Homestead farm north of the city. The first event of the year happens immediately, May 19 and 20, with their annual Spring On The Homestead events. Spring is here and that means Huble Homestead Historic Site opens soon! The 2019 season kicks off with Spring on the Homestead May 19 & 20. “The whole family can get outside and learn all about how pioneers prepared for spring,” said Huble’s executive director Krystal Leason. “Participate in the May-pole dance, crafts, scarecrow making, and demonstrations including ice cream and butter making. Enjoy lunch, tours, music, and more” Activities run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Huble Homestead is located 40km north of Prince George, just off Highway 97 on Mitchell Road. For more information call 250-564-7033 or visit hublehomestead.ca.

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Theatre North West holds their next Scotch & Social night on May 18. Doors at 2 p.m., first pour at 2:30. Scotch expert Keith Trusler is the special guest on the theme of Best Scotch Under $75. Accordingly, tickets are $75 (at Books & Company or the TNW website) with all proceeds to TNW.

The next Open Gallery event at Two Rivers Gallery is May 19 from 1-4 p.m. Free for members, or $7.50 adults, $3 children, $15 families. Come for some Sunday free-style art-making.

Art of business On May 21 the Community Arts Council hosts special guests Neil Godbout (editor of The Citizen) and Sean Farrell (executive director of the CAC) for the next Art Of Business workshop, entitled How Good Is Your Hook? Come to Studio 2880 at 6 p.m. to find out about effective news releases, program announcements, and the ways to best get the word out about your arts endeavours (or any endeavour). There is no cost to attend.

Wish Me Luck Alex Mackenzie is gonna need it so he’s hosting his Wish Me Luck Show on May 25. The local comedian is heading off on national tour so he’s starting in hometown P.G. at the Prince George Playhouse starting at 7 p.m. He’ll make a contribution to the Hospice Society on his way out of town. Joining Mackenzie that night will be fellow local comics Mike McGuire, Jon White, and Cody Malbeuf. Tickets are $25 at Central Interior Tickets website (all ages welcome, some mature subject matter).

Photo workshop Acclaimed local photographer Philomena Hughes leads a one-day cellphone photography workshop on May 25 (also on June 22) at her studio at 423 Dominion Street from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost is $150 (lunch is included). Learn the snapshot potential we hold in our hands in our everyday smartphone devices.

Trashion show Two Rivers Gallery is where fashion fans and recycling fans can meet on the glamour runway. May 25 at 7:30 p.m. is the Trashion Show - Where Art & Ecology Collide, hosted by the creative team at Adventures In Self-Sufficiency. They said “The Trashion Show is a fashion showcase that invites creators, makers, artists, and design enthusiasts to bring to life unique, creative designs made out of recyclable materials, salvaged finds, or anything that is saved from the landfill.” Tickets are $25 In partnership with

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SHOULDERS TO THE WHEEL Mary and Charles Jago immersed themselves into Prince George

ormer president of the University of Northern British Columbia, Charles Jago was born in St. Catharines, Ont. in 1943. He married Mary McDonagh in 1966. He actually knew Mary in high school and they both laughed and said, “We knew each other during our high school years and didn’t really like one another.” Here is how it unfolded. A friend of both Charles and Mary set them up on a date. Charles replied that he knew her from school, she didn’t seem like his type but that he would agree to the date. Mary also agreed to the date, thinking she would not have a good time but that she would do it for her friend. Both Charles and Mary agreed that the evening went off without a hitch and they really enjoyed each other’s company. The date was the beginning of a beautiful 53 years of marriage. Mary was born in Welland, Ont. in 1943. After high school, she earned a diploma in nursing at St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing in Toronto, attended McMaster University in Hamilton, and completed a diploma in enterostomal therapy from the Cleveland Clinic in 1985. An enterostomal therapist is a specialist nurse trained in the area of ostomy, wound and incontinence management. She had a wide range of experience within her nursing specialty that included hospital and community nursing, teaching at the Mohawk Community College in Hamilton, Ont., research and related administrative experience. She gave a series of lectures to nurses and surgeons, was a guest speaker at major conferences and NortherN Medical Society PreSeNtS

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published articles in the Canadian Association of Enterostomal Therapy Journal. Prior to 1985, she worked as a medical/ surgical, orthopedic and pediatric nurse as well as a supervisor in charge of a facility for severely mentally handicapped children. Just before moving to Prince George, she worked as a case manager for the Middlesex London Home Care Program in London, Ont. Charles obtained a Bachelor of Arts in honors English and history from Western University. He was the gold medalist from Huron College and the recipient of a Commonwealth scholarship for graduate studies in Britain. He graduated with a PhD in history from Cambridge University in 1969. He held his first academic position at Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology in 1969, and joined the Department of History at McMaster University in 1970 attaining the rank of professor in 1987. He chaired the McMaster Board/Senate Committee on long range planning from 1978-81 and the Department of History from 1982-87. In 1987, Charles was appointed Principal of Huron University College at Western University thereby returning to his alma mater. His next big advancement would be serving as president of the University of Northern British Columbia, an exciting new university taking shape in Prince George, a university he knew about through the long-term friendship that Mary

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and Charles had developed with Iona Campagnolo earlier in their McMaster years. In 1995, she informed him that UNBC was seeking a president. His name went forward and the appointment was made. Campagnolo was the founding chancellor of UNBC and served in the position from 1992-98. Jago could not have had a better friend and mentor to introduce him to northern B.C. She received an honorary degree from UNBC in 1999. Charles became the second president of UNBC and, in the process, Mary became a university president’s wife. She learned her new role from her experience at Huron College and from the other university president wives involved with the Association of University and Colleges of Canada. She was told that she had to mentally prepare for the role and that it was a husband and wife job. The ladies laid out all the rules and expectations of a successful president’s wife. There were traditions of how to dress, how to present one’s self, how to entertain, when to entertain and basically never to go out in public with out being coiffed, manicured and welldressed. Charles began his presidency in October 1995 by driving across country to their new home. Within two weeks of their arrival, they headed to the Nass

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Valley to attend a pole raising event. Mary said, “That was my introduction to the Nisga’a Nation and the culture of First Nations people. We had to cross a river on a rope bridge for the ceremony celebrating the opening of their new bridge. It was all so totally amazing and I loved it. “When we settled in our home in Prince George, Linda Steadman (wife of Tom, the Canadian Tire owner) and I eventually took up the equestrian sport of dressage. I am still learning. I am now the owner of a Haflinger pony for driving and a Trakhehner gelding for dressage. At age 76, they fulfill my need for physical and mental challenge.” As the UNBC president’s wife, as Charles explains, “Mary did her own catering and in fact, at one convocation, served a baked salmon that I caught on a fishing trip She catered extensively for social gatherings at our home, including university athletes, graduates, scholarship winners, community leaders, the Board of Governors, faculty and staff and many dignitaries. She studied and learned all the protocols for each event. I am proud to say that she was the university’s welcoming presence in our home and did many great things behind the scenes. She was poised and professional through it all”. It all sounds easy but it wasn’t always easy for Mary. As Charles says, “I was Handout photo

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In the spotlight Darren Neufeld of Blake Productions sets up a projector for the B.C. Natural Resources Forum, which starts tonight at the Civic Centre. The forum, which will bring industry leaders and high-level political figures like federal minister of natural resources James Carr to the city, runs through Thursday.

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key witness in a trial for three men accused of a drug-related murder recounted what she saw and heard during the fatal shooting of a Prince George man two years ago. Darren Sundman, Kurtis Sundman, who are brothers, and Sebastian Martin each face a count of first-degree murder in the Jan. 16, 2015 death of Jordan Tayor McLeod, who was 24 years old at the time. Recounting events in the hour or so leading up to the shooting, Stacey Stevenson said she was in the back of a friend’s mobile home in Vanderhoof when Darren Sundman entered the room and told her to grab her belongings. Stevenson complied, the court heard, and went out to the kitchen where she saw McLeod sitting on a bar stool in the middle of the room. Darren Sundman tried to convince McLeod to unlock his phone but he refused and Sundman grabbed the phone away from him, Stevenson said. From there, they filed out of the home and into a pickup truck where Kurtis Sundman got into the driver’s seat while McLeod got into the passenger side. Stevenson sat in the middle back with Darren Sundman sit-

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enough of everything” and was planning to move out. At about that time, Sundman was introduced to McLeod as a supplier. Stevenson said she began communicating with McLeod via text messages and phone calls behind Sundman’s back and when he and his brother left for Merritt, she stayed behind. Stevenson packed her bags while the Sundmans were away but when she convinced McLeod to pick her up and drive her to Prince George for New Years Eve she left them behind. While in Prince George, Stevenson stayed with some friends and then, for a brief time, with McLeod. While with him, McLeod asked Stevenson to text Darren Sundman and ask if he had the money he owed McLeod. “Yes, I have his f---g money,” Sundman tersely replied. She said McLeod had been friendly to Sundman in previous conversations but also a “little bit rude,” because he wanted Sundman to pay up. McLeod had “no real reaction” to Sundman’s text, Stevenson said. McLeod asked Stevenson for some photos of her and, in response, she sent him some portrait shots. McLeod drove her back to Vanderhoof and instructed Stevenson to “pretend like nothing happened,” because he wanted his money from Sundman. Stevenson’s testimony continues today at the courthouse.

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She said they took off and made their ting behind McLeod and Martin behind the driver, resting a shotgun between his knees. way onto a logging road where they dumped the body – it was found off the With Kurtis Sundman “driving crazy” Kaykay Forest Service Road northwest of and “going quite fast” they headed to the city, the court has heard. In the hours Prince George and, after driving through that followed, they also retrieved McLeod’s the city, travelled east on Highway 16. car from Vanderhoof and abandoned it Stevenson said Darren Sundman began north of Williams Lake after hitting McLeod with the butt of a handgun and then, just As she bent over, rolling it down a gully and setting it on fire. as they passed Prince George The Sundmans and StevenRegional Correctional Centre, placing her head son were arrested a matter of McLeod was told he would between her hours later in Quesnel after have to jump out of the truck knees, Stevenson they tried to steal an all-terwhile it was still moving “or vehicle and then failed to he knew what was going to said she heard rain evade police. happen to him.” a shot and then Under questioning from They turned onto Upper prosecutor Joseph Fraser Road and soon afMartin say “I got Crown Temple, Stevenson spent ter, McLeod did jump out. him boss.” much of Monday setting the Kurtis Sundman pulled the scene. She and Darren Sundtruck over and the three men man had been living together jumped out. Stevenson got as girlfriend and boyfriend in Vanderhoof into the front because Martin had accidenwhere he had been working at a pellet plant tally set off a can of bear spray. in the community. As she bent over, placing her head He had been selling cocaine on the side, between her knees, Stevenson said she heard a shot and then Martin say “I got him with Stevenson keeping track of debts owed boss.” Stevenson, who turned tearful as she to him. But in late summer 2014, Sundman quit his job and they began using methamtestified, said she then heard a second shot and, when she looked up saw all three make phetamine heavily while selling cocaine to cover their bills. their way across a ditch and into the bush By December, Stevenson said she broke where they pulled McLeod’s body from the up with Sundman because she “just had trees and put it into the back of the pickup.

Liberal leadership candidate Dianne Watts says it’s time to reboot the B.C. Liberal Party and she’s the one to do it. The former mayor of Surrey and MP for South Surrey – White Rock was in Prince George on Monday, promoting her bid for the job of leadership of the opposition. The B.C. Liberals will elect a new leader on Feb. 3. “I offer the B.C. Liberals a fresh start,” Watts said. While good work was done by the former Liberal government, she said, “there was a level of frustration” by the voting public which resulted in the loss of 11 seats in the 2016 election. She said her experience building coalitions and leading a government in Surrey would help her to unify the Liberals and present a united front in the next provincial election. Her experience in local government has taught her that one-size-fits-all solutions don’t work for B.C., she said. “Every community is unique, and every community has unique issues,” Watts said. “As a former mayor... we deal with things on the front line. We deal with homelessness,

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away from home nearly every weeknight and most weekends. At the age of 52, she had to leave her profession, family and friends for a job of my choosing many miles away. We can still laugh and say that when our kids grew up, we left home.” Charles and Mary have three sons: Charles David, a lawyer in New Westminster, Johnathon Noel, an osteopath in Barrie, Ont., and Christopher Paul, an exploration geologist at the Mount Milligan Mine northwest of Prince George. They have four grandchildren: Charles JiWon, Hunter, Pia and Jules. “We are proud of them all, including daughters-in-law Eun Hye, Aidyl and Maria.” During his presidency, Charles led major campus expansions in terms of academic programs, enrolments, endowments and new buildings. It was his foresight that enabled significant growth of the university, both in Prince George and other regions of northern B.C. Charles always saw UNBC as belonging to all the people of the north. Among his major achievements were the creation of the UBC Northern Medical Program at UNBC and the planning and construction of the

Northern Sports Centre, subsequently named in his honour. The university more than doubled in physical size during his presidency, remaining true to its original architectural beauty. Charles has served on numerous boards. Locally he served on the board for Initiatives Prince George, the Two Rivers Art Gallery, Theatre Northwest, various provincial boards, Canfor Pulp Products Inc., Sinclar Forest Products Inc., the Northern Health Authority, the Fraser Basin Council, Northern BC United Way, the Canada West Foundation and the Academic Health Science Network of B.C., just to name a few. He played an initiating role in the establishment of a full-service Cancer Treatment Centre in Northern B.C. Subsequently he served as advisor to the Canadian Cancer Society in a campaign that raised over $12 million to establish a cancer lodge for patients receiving cancer treatment at the centre. He is the recipient of the Queen’s Silver and Diamond Jubilee Medals, the Order of Canada and in 2013 he was installed as a member of the Order of British Columbia in recognition of his service to the province. Charles joined UNBC in the institution’s second full year of operations and served as president of

She was appointed as a medical member of the Canada Pension Plan/Old Age Security Review Tribunal for British Columbia by the Governor General in Council. She served on the board of directors for the Prince George Community Foundation, chaired and served on the grants committee and chaired their silent auction fund raiser at the Citizen of the Year banquet. While Charles was busy managing the university from the inside, Mary involved herself as the development chair for the David Douglas Botanical Garden Society. Her final major project was to help raise funds for the creation of a botanical display garden at the UNBC detention pond site complete with a magnificent bridge and a water feature to enhance the beauty of the entire project. Charles concluded by saying, “Mary’s personal expectations as the wife of the president of UNBC were of the highest order and required many hours of her attention to fulfill. I cannot thank her enough for that. It was my dream job to have a chance to shape a new university. The job has been my vocation, hobby and life. “Prince George is a remarkable place and when people decide to do something here, they put their shoulder to the wheel and they do it. My wife Mary is tops on that list.”

UNBC from 1995 to 2006. He returned to serve again as the president of UNBC from July 2008 to June 2009. He has since retired with the distinguished title of professor emeritus.

He played an initiating role in the establishment of a full-service Cancer Treatment Centre in Northern B.C. Subsequently he served as advisor to the Canadian Cancer Society in a campaign that raised over $12 million to establish a cancer lodge for patients receiving cancer treatment at the centre. Mary gave back to her community through her volunteer work. She volunteered as the Regional Director for the B.C. Women’s Hospital and Healthcare Foundation, for the Prince George Symphony Orchestra, the Festival of Trees, zone leader for the Heart and Stroke Foundation and volunteered as a researcher for the UNBC pilot project on Type 2 Diabetes.

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Lauren Brandt, one half of professional cosplay couple Thousand Faces Cosplay, strikes a pose in her Harley Quinn cosplay on Friday.

Professional cosplayer Ainsley Bircher of Pigtails & Powertools shows off her Jane of Proudmore cosplay from World of Warcraft on Saturday at CN Centre

97/16 PHOTOS BY JAMES DOYLE Dylan Sankey shows of his modified Helghast cosplay from the video game Killzone on Friday.

Teri Forster shows off their Queen of Hearts cosplay from Tim Burtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alice in Wonderland on Saturday at CN Centre. Eight-year-old Duncan Kelly-Norlander shows off his Ghostbusters cosplay on Saturday at CN Centre.

Andrew, left, and Barb Bevan show off their steampunk inspired cosplay on Saturday at Kin 1.

Deanne MacKay shows off their Sylavanas Windrunner cosplay from World of Warcraft on Saturday at CN Centre.

Professional cosplay couple Lauren and Ethan Brandt from Thousand Faces Cosplay show off their Tiny Tina, left, and Psycho from Borderlands on Saturday at CN Centre. Professional cosplayer Andy Rae shows off her Lilith cosplay from the video game Borderlands 2 on Friday night at CN Centre on the opening night of Northern FanCon.

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WE COULD USE MORE GG O ur beleaguered prime minister found himself viewed in a less than favourable light in front of the cameras while filling sandbags (for 15 minutes) for flood mitigation in Ottawa. Yes, he was wrong to tell a volunteer that he should listen to him, and then call him unneighbourly and unfriendly, but besides that, there are other optics problems that have to be considered. As Neil Godbout wrote very well in the April 30 edition of the Citizen, how a politician can show support for disaster victims is a difficult thing to get right. The temptations are too great to do grandstanding and politicking. Using the disaster to showcase one of his primary campaign platform issues around climate change, makes his efforts to support the flood victims appear politically motivated, even if it wasn’t. Disasters are not a time for politics, they are a time when the policies, character, and governance capabilities of elected officials are evident by how well everything works. The time for partisan politics is after, when things return to normal and danger has passed. If only we could have someone from government who was non-partisan, of no party affiliation, who could represent the good will of all Canadians toward those suffering, so that we could avoid these difficulties. Someone who could represent us without being charged with politicking at the people’s expense. Someone who could encourage the volunteers by bringing the media’s attention to their

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hard work. Someone to bring publicity to the issue without being accused of seeking out the camera for their own political gain. Someone who can bring Canadians together in times of trouble. Wait, we actually do. Our Queen’s representative, the Governor General. We have had Governor Generals since Confederation. Currently, our Governor General is former astronaut Julie Payette. Officially, her roles include carrying out constitutional duties, serving as commander-in-chief, representing Canada at home and abroad, encouraging excellence, and bringing Canadians together. That sounds strikingly like who needs to show up to disasters. Let our elected officials, like the PM, meet with local government officials to work out the kinks in how to best help them. Let our Governor General represent us to bring media attention and a bit of encouragement to exhausted volunteers. I am not a huge fan of this Governor General, as she has not been as discreet as she should be, but nevertheless, she represents me, you, us all. Before I finished this column, I took a quick look at the GG’s schedule. It looks quite low key; handing out medals, a trip

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Oh, one more thing! Guess who taught me to love the monarchy? My mother, who sometimes said the solutions to problems are right under our nose. Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there, and to all who have moms!

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very year around my birthday, I like to take stock of my life and what has happened the previous year and what I am grateful for. I find the timing of my birthday more useful that the false optimism of the New Year wherein I enthusiastically pledge to lose weight, write more often, file my columns early and clean up my basement. My birthday is in early May and (most) of the snow has melted and the winter blahs are starting to dry up in the spring sunshine. It’s a nice month for a birthday – for me, not for my husband because he gets the joy of buying me a gift for my birthday and then turning around and buying another one for Mother’s Day. I usually am quite spoiled in May. I am very grateful for the life that I have here and for the people in my city. I am grateful for new opportunities and for a space in which to reach out to my community. I am exceedingly grateful to live in the north and to be close to my family and friends. There is one thing that makes living in Prince George wonderful and strange: I can’t go anywhere without running into someone I went to high school with. If I am just running out to the store on the weekend on a lazy Sunday with unwashed hair, wearing ill-fitting jogging pants, you can guarantee that I will run into someone that I have not seen in twenty years. Usually, the people that I run into when I am looking my worst, are the ones look great and don’t look like they’ve given up entirely. I always thought that I would be one

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of those people that would remember everyone’s first and last name from high school, years later. As it turns out, I’m not. Instead, I tend to make awkward eye contact with familiar-looking people and internally debate whether or not I approach them and say, “Did we go to high school together?” When you live in a community like Prince George or any one of our neighbouring northern towns, every person is connected through one or two degrees. Guys I went to school with ended up working at one of the mills with my dad or brother, girls I went to school with ended up having kids at the same time as we did and now our kids go to school or dance together. I was in a meeting at work and I looked out in a room full of professionals and catch sight of a friend of a friend who I haven’t seen in two decades. “Oh, hey!” I said, ungracefully, interrupting myself in the middle of the meeting. This is a normal occurrence in northern life. Everyone knows everyone and if they don’t know you, they probably know your dad. I am thankful for this life and for another year in this community that is a bit like Cheers – everyone knows your name, or your parents, or at least, your face seems familiar.

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SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE IN THE 12 STEPS C unning, baffling and powerful, this is addiction to us. It manifests through various forms – shopping, gambling, sex, food and drugs – even aggressive driving can become addicting to us. Anger especially can change our unconscious state (which usually is fear or some other form of pain). Addiction is defined as continued behaviour/use despite adverse consequences. Many of us live in denial or are unconscious about our state of being. I am comprised of genetic material that comes from my parents, their parents and grandparents to the beginning of time. The knowledge and experience of my ancestors past lies in my DNA; I believe exercise (especially yoga) releases their wisdom into my physical form. Exercise releases nutrition (blood/oxygen) into my lungs and my heart and circulates feel good chemicals through my brain and my soul. Scientists say this is dopamine, I laugh thinking how funny is that – dope that is mine, dope a mine! I am an addict and a funny one at that!

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After exercise (yoga), I then meditate, which is particularly hard. Meditation is exercise for my mental mind; the brain is an organ which requires focused discipline, especially for addicts whose neural pathways have been hijacked by drugs. Meditation allows me to listen to the whisperings of the universal energy which guides all the world. I quiet my thoughts to hear the DNA conversation of my ancestors past, to show me the way that I should now live my life. They say in the program that inside every man, woman and child is the fundamental knowledge of God. Now, I am not religious, but rather, a spiritual person. Religious people fear hell while spiritual people have been there and back. There is an immense body of DNA, genetic material/wisdom

entrapped in my soul and I believe it is the program which allows me access to it. The god of my understanding is that of my past, of my parents and grandparents’ gift to my life. Addiction is of a spiritual nature, it says that clearly in the program – a spiritual malady. I once thought my issues were only about drinking, then I believed it was only about stinking thinking – alcoholic and drug thinking which brought me back to the addictive disease. Now, after several decades in the program I know it is a spiritual malady which only can be helped through a higher power, one which I choose to call God (and believe you me, I easily can have several issues with God). The 12 steps were formed by two men, an alcoholic doctor and stock broker. Even the Rockafeller family was involved from the start, not because of drinking but because they could see how powerful the program could be. The 12 steps are for everyone, even (and especially) non addicts. I think any person

can benefit from this simple, life-changing program. It works for all types of issues – even those in Alanon (or Alateen), those who are not addicts. The 12 steps are merely an outline which derives wisdom from several great thinkers including Carl Jung, Emmet Fox and the Oxford Group. The Oxford group wrote about a spiritual malady which impacts us all and one which manifests through suffering and pain. From this foundation, the 12 steps were formed. To me today, recovery is not about not using, it is a total revision of the way that I live. The 12 steps offer a new freedom, a new way of life. They provide direction, comfort and peace of mind; something which I once found in drugs, but soon discovered was just a big lie. Now the program provides this to me – a powerful, free way of living, one which everyone deserves, including you. – Questions for Ann? Send your submissions (anonymously, if you choose) to columns@ pgcitizen.ca and we’ll pass them along.

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Prince George is surrounded each summer by music festivals that bring a national and international presence to our region. One of the longest and liveliest is the Robson Valley Music Festival held in Dunster (about two and a half hours east of P.G.). This year the showcase runs Aug. 16-18. The lineup of performers includes My Son The Hurricane, Annie Sumi, DJ Shub,

Red Path Dancers, Cozy, Fanfare, Cocojafro, Namgar, Meiwa, Mngwa, Dodgy Mountain Men, Jody Peck, Sarah Burton, The New Customs, Danny Bell & His Disappointments, Saltwater Hank, Interstellar Jays, Party On High Street, The Giving Shapes, The Dirrty Show, Electric Audrey 2, Gustavo The Impossibilist, Naomi Shore, Jesaja Class, Zonnis, Under The Rocks, Samson’s Delilah, Athabasca Barnburner, Simbiyez, Wilson, Mary Matheson, Logan and Nathan, This Way North, Nice Verdes,

Pico’s Puppet Palace, Navaz, Jim & Penny Malmberg, Captain Thunderpants, and host Robson Valley band Mamaguroove. More acts may yet be added, according to festival organizers. There are opportunities to volunteer to make this yet another artistic success. Those who contribute time to key jobs will receive attendance perks. Email rvmfvolunteer@gmail.com for information about that. There are openings for vendors of food,

art or artisan creations, and other wares. Any merchant or pop-up service provider must apply by May 30 to get a spot inside the festival site. Email russpurvis@gmail. com for more information. There are camping options and other accommodations in the close-by area of the festival. McBride and Valemount are towns near the event. Tickets are on sale now only via the Robson Valley Music Festival website (those 13 year or younger may attend free of charge).

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struggling musician. Boyle laughed that the songs are “both the enabler and the destroyer. Because if you get them wrong, it’s terrible, there’s nothing worse. If you get them right, it gives you an advantage.” He even made the bold choice to cast a relatively unknown actor in the lead role. “Any studio is going to prefer one of the leading men if you can get it,” Boyle said. “But there’s a natural inhibitor here: They’ve got to be able to play Beatles songs.” The one who stood out in a sea of “Yesterday” auditions was Himesh Patel, who Boyle said made them sound new. “It’s not cheap making a Beatles movie. The Beatles songs cost money. But (the studio) saw the audition and they bought into him,” Boyle said. “He’s a lovely discovery. He has a modern sense of humour.” It’s not the only big original movie coming out this summer featuring a South Asian lead, either. There›s the Bruce Springsteen-soundtracked film “Blinded by the Light,” from “Bend It Like Beckham” director Gurinder Chadha , the Uber driver who gets in over his head comedy “Stuber,” with Kumail Nanjiani, and Mindy Kaling’s “Late Night,” in which she plays a diversity hire on a late night talk show writing staff. There’s also diversity in the independent realm with two notable and highly personal visions manifested in Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell,” with Awkwafina, and “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” both A24 releases. Wang’s semi-autobiographical film about a Chinese-American family who decides to keep their Chinese grandmother’s terminal illness from her, was a breakout at the Sundance Film Festival. “To have an entire film of Asian faces and then have it predominantly be not

LOS ANGELES – Pass the popcorn, the summer movie season is here and all the spectacle and air-conditioned respite it offers audiences. Summer at the movies has long been synonymous with blockbusters and franchises that are easy to spend a few hours with. For the most part, 2019 is no different. You want superheroes? You’ve got “Spider-Man: Far From Home” and “Dark Phoenix” on the horizon. Or sequels? There’s “Toy Story 4,” “John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum,” “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” “The Secret Life of Pets 2,” and even a “Fast & Furious” spin-off, “Hobbs & Shaw.” How about a reboot with a casting twist? Look no further than the “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” update “The Hustle,” with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, or “Men In Black: International,” with Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth. Biopics? “Rocketman” is coming and “Brian Banks” too. A literary adaptation? There’s ”The Sun Is Also a Star“ and ”Where’d You Go Bernadette?“ Or a remake of an animated classic? Disney has you covered with two: ”Aladdin“ and “The Lion King.” But there is also a world of original films that will add fresh stories, unique perspectives, depth and diversity to the mix. And they’re not all indies either. Some studios are making big gestures, with original horrors, comedies and major releases from auteurs: Quentin Tarantino has his 1969 Manson-era Los Angeles film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which Sony will release; and Danny Boyle has “Yesterday,” coming from Universal. “Yesterday,” while a fresh conceit, does have a big recognizable selling point: It’s about the music of The Beatles and what happens when everyone in the world forgets that they ever existed – except one

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English language, but to still have it be American financed and distributed and marketed as a US production is not the usual,” Wang said. “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” is another exciting discovery from newcomer Jimmie Fails who wrote and stars in this story about gentrification and loving a home that’s no longer yours. “I love that company,” Fails said of A24. “They give young, new voices a platform.” Another outfit taking gambles on new stories is Annapurna, which backed Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut “Booksmart,” a sure-to-be breakout about two high school overachievers and devoted good girls who decide to go to a party one night. Focus Features is releasing Jim Jarmusch’s star-studded zombie-comedy, “The Dead Don’t Die,” with Bill Murray and Adam Driver, and Neon has “Wild Rose,” about an Irish mother of two youngsters, recently released from prison, who dreams of being a country music star. Some found luck with Netflix, like Amy Poehler with “Wine Country,” which is based on a real trip she took with Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch and others. In the film, the group of friends gets together in Napa to celebrate a 50th birthday. “There are just not enough representations of long female relationships,” Poehler said. “We’re obsessed with the beginnings and endings of things and there’s so much to tell in the middle.” The film will be getting a limited theatrical run, too, but she likes that audiences will have the option to watch it with wine and then just roll into bed if they want. “The summer can be a land of opportunity for films that offer an antidote to the overwhelming onslaught of blockbusters that are the stock in trade of the industry›s biggest season,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore.

Of course it’s usually the franchises that earn the most. Last summer the top five films were all sequels and accounted for over 40 per cent of the overall summer box office. The last time a non-animated original topped the summer box office was in 1998 with “Saving Private Ryan.” And this year needs all the help it can get, even with the “Avengers: Endgame” boost, the year is still down 13.3% . But the originals have a chance to provide upside. There’s rarely the kind of grassroots-level buzz as when something truly fresh comes along. “Last summer was a great example of how original and fresh concepts were big drivers during the summer months with ‹The Meg,› ‹Crazy Rich Asians,› ‹Book Club,› ‹Tag› as well as the documentary ‹Won›t You Be My Neighbour?’ all performing better than expected at the box office,” noted Dergarabedian. And it’s something that creators and studios are fighting to preserve. “People like original content and are excited when there are good original movies. I think they also like big franchises but I think there’s room for both,” said Seth Rogen, who produced two original films this summer with “Long Shot” and the sixth graders go wild film “Good Boys.” ”Studios have an appetite for both.“ Plus, Boyle hopes that even with all the possibilities on television and streaming that there’s still specialness to going to the theatres to see something new. “Television is endless time, in a way,” Boyle said. “But movies, you go and you give two hours of your time to one thing, and you’re not going to be distracted. You sit there and you go, take me somewhere and transform me. It’s wonderful to be able to do that. The spotlight is so much more precious.”

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Which animal would you like to be your mom? Motherhood means different things to different animals. Read about how these animal mothers care, or don’t care for their young. Which animal mother would you like to have?

Are you an eagle-eyed reader? Read the article below and circle the six errors you find. Then rewrite the article correctly on the lines below the article.

The wolf spidur is a caring mom. While most spiders wrap their eggs in a silken pouch and leaf them behind, this mom carries her egg sac on her back. She carry it everywhere she goes. If it fall off, the wolf spider mom puts it back on. And once her eggs hatch, she takes care of the little crawlers and let’s them ride on her back until they are reddy for life on their own.

Donkey Devotion

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Silly Sheep

It is not uncommon for a sheep to simply abandon its lamb. Farmers often have to bottle-feed lambs. Help the little lost sheep find the farmer with the bottle. START

A donkey’s mother may be the most devoted of all. They will not let any other animal come between them and their babies. Even if a curious, little kitten comes close, a donkey mom will chase it away.

Strange Reflection

Find the differences between the mother donkey and its foal and their reflection in the pond. Standards Link: Visual Discrimination: Finding similarities and differences in common objects.

Use the numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

Sometimes a goat will abandon its kid. Usually a farmer does not have to bottle-feed the little critter because another nanny goat will step in and adopt it.

Make the top row of eggs equal 6. Make the sum of the middle row of eggs equal 16.

Adoptions can also be seen in the chicken coop. Some hens will sit on any eggs that happen to be around.

Make the sum of the bottom row equal 17. Standards Link: Math: Find the sum of whole numbers to 20; students use strategies, skills and concepts in finding solutions.

Standards Link: Life Science: Different animals inhabit the earth, reproduce and adapt in different ways to survive.

Underwater Moms

Frogs and fish moms generally lay their eggs and forget about them. Fortunately, once the eggs hatch, the tiny tadpoles and baby fish can survive on their own. In fact, one of the predators they have to watch out for is their own mom! Find 8 things in the pond that don’t belong.

Mom Adjectives Look through today’s newspaper for adjectives that describe each of the animal mothers mentioned on today’s Kid Scoop page.

Standards Link: English Language: Conventions: Grammar; identify adjectives.

Standards Link: Life Science: Different animals reproduce and adapt in different ways to survive; classify objects.

he mother Surinam toad cares for her eggs in one of the strangest ways. As the mother toad lays eggs, the male toad presses them one by one into the soft skin on the mother’s back. After a while, each egg sinks into a little pocket that forms on the mother’s back. Then a covering of skin grows over the pocket. The baby toads hatch and develop in these little pockets. A few weeks later, the mother rubs her back and the little toads swim free. What did the mother Surinam toad say to her kids? Unscramble the answer:

FARMER EGGS DONKEY MOMS SHEEP FROGS BOTTLE TADPOLES FISH LAMB POND CHICKEN CHASE HATCH

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A few months ago, my son started to go through a Play-Doh phase. In a desperate attempt to keep at least some of it out of our area rug, I grabbed the broiler pan as a makeshift work surface. It helped. Sort of. You might say that sounds like the move of someone who rarely uses the broiler. Except I do use it. And I use it a lot. I like it so much that the smaller broiler pan is usually insufficient for what I’m cooking, so I prefer to use a larger baking sheet instead. Even without a broiler pan, it’s still worth it to make use of this standard oven feature. As chemistry professor and food science writer Robert Wolke has explained, baking cooks food by exposing it to hot air. “Broiling cooks food almost entirely by infrared radiation,” an electromagnetic energy emitted by something very hot. “The heat source, whether a red-hot electric element or a line of gas flames, doesn’t touch the food; it bathes it in intense infrared radiation, which gets absorbed in the top layer of the food, heats it to 600-700 degrees, and sears and browns it quickly.” If this sounds similar to grilling, that’s because it is. Wolke goes on to explain that grilling is, in fact, a form of broiling. Whether you want to replicate that outdoor-cooked appearance and flavor or not, here are tips for making the most of your broiler. Get to know it. Did you ever go on that getting-to-know-you first date with your broiler? Even if you skipped ahead to cooking with it, the time is always right to get a better idea of how it operates. First, figure out if it runs hot or cold (or fast or slow). Try this test from Cook’s Illustrated: Heat the broiler to high (ignore the low setting even when you’re cooking for real) and place a piece of white bread underneath. After a minute, the bread should emerge golden. If it’s burned, your broiler runs hot, and you may need to reduce a recipe’s cook time by a minute or two; pale, and the element runs cool, so try extending the cook time. Hold on to that loaf of bread for the next test Cook’s suggests: Line a baking sheet with fresh slices of bread and broil them until all the pieces are browned (some may burn, which is okay as long as nothing is smoking). Pull out the sheet and look at the browning pattern to figure out where the hot and cool spots are. You can even keep a photo nearby to remind yourself how to arrange or rotate your food

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Salsa ingredients on a pan get the broiler treatment. every time you want to broil. Most recipes will also give you a range of how far the food should be placed from the broiler element (our typical range is 4 to 6 inches). Now would also be a good time to track down your oven manual and see what it recommends. If you have an electric broiler, Cook’s advises finding the zone where that infrared radiation is most evenly distributed. Do tests by placing a parchment-lined baking sheet on racks positioned at varying distances from the broiler, refreshing with a new piece of paper each time (more below on why you usually want to avoid parchment in the broiler). You’ll know you’ve hit the right spot when the browning covers the whole width of the parchment rather than just concentrated spots. Broil the right foods. “Broiling is a good cooking method for tender meats, poultry and fish, because it’s a dry, high-temperature, short-time method,” according to Wolke. “Less tender meats generally need long, moist cooking. Beef steaks and other red meats are a natural, while pork, chicken and fish have to be watched carefully to prevent drying out.” Better Homes & Gardens has an impressively comprehensive guide to broiling any kind of food you can think of, and I highly recommend you check it out. When it comes to meat, thinner is typically better. I especially like broiling for the way it can imitate grilling, especially when it comes to kebabs. Broiling skewered marinated chicken, as in my Simple Butter Chicken recipe, is a no-brainer. Broiling can do wonders for vegetables, too. When I grew impatient with

how long roasting slices of eggplant took for my No-Fry Eggplant Parmesan, I broiled the eggplant instead and was thrilled with the super-silky result. Smoky salsa made under the broiler? Yes, please. In the category of less obvious foods to broil: Don’t forget about fruit, whose sugars caramelize wonderfully under the intense heat, as long as you pull them out before they burn. And pizza! After working on recipes for our Voraciously pizza package, I am a believer in the power of the broiler to help you get close to the kind of crust you’d achieve in a wood-fired oven. Keep certain things out of the broiler. Almost every time I mention tempered glass cookware (a.k.a. Pyrex), I hear from someone about exploding glass. In this case, the warning is warranted: It definitely does not belong under the broiler. In addition to your broiler pan or metal sheet pan, cookware made from ceramic, porcelain and cast-iron (regular or enameled) is a safer bet. And that parchment paper? Fine for a quick test, as above, but since it can hold up only to temperatures around 450 degrees, you don’t want to expose it to broiler heat

for any longer, or else you risk it burning and disintegrating or, worse, catching on fire. Because of its quick cooking power, broiling is not the best idea for thick or large cuts of meat, which can scorch on the outside before the inside is done. In other words, probably best to save the whole chicken for roasting (or at least legit grilling, where you can take advantage of indirect heat). Be careful with anything extremely fatty or oily, too, which can make for a smoking - or flaming - mess. If anything has splattered, it’s a good idea to wipe down the oven with a damp cloth after it’s cooled to a safe temperature. Be vigilant and smart. The speed and intensity of broiling is great, but it also means that food can go from perfectly browned to burned in a matter of seconds. So don’t walk away. Keep your oven light on and look through the window. You can even keep an eye on the food with the oven door ajar, which is what some people recommend with an electric oven to ensure the broiler doesn’t cycle off. Rotate and flip your food as necessary. If you’re cooking something that’s going to render a lot of fat, consider using that broiler pan so the fat can drain. Otherwise, your food will steam in the fat rather than brown and crisp. If you line the top half of the broiler pan with foil, be sure to poke holes for the fat to drip through. A wire rack set in a sturdy baking sheet (lined with foil, if you like) works well, too.

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