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March 6, 2015

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Laine Dahlen played in his first band at 14 years old in the basement of the Park Hotel, now the Silverado Inn and Spike’s Pub. “In those days when you played, the place would be packed and all the songs were arranged in groups of three like: three Waltz, three Polkas, three Fox Trots and after each dance everybody just kept moving around the floor,” says Dahlen. “It was a neat education. For a young kid, I learned a lot.” Dahlen fell into the band by way of his then-piano teacher Natalie Kazakoff, along with her husband Fred and two others – the Kazakoff’s son was also a member of the band for some time. “I was playing piano but I was not a good student but she knew I played guitar so she said how would you like to sit in for a few nights and play,” recalls Dahlen. “I had a cheap Simpson Sears guitar and amp and I started to play with them and I think I knew about four chords.” Kazakoff had a guitar instructor teach Dahlen the bar chords but he says the rest of the band was expertly reading music, leaving him to play catch up. “I couldn’t read fast enough so I had chord charts and I remembered being scared the first time because there were sometimes three or four chords to the bar,” says Dahlen. “I remember Natalie saying just play the root, just play the key chord change from each bar or each phrase so I made out okay with that.” At such a young age, Dahlen says Kazakoff kept a close eye on him in, ensuring he wasn’t sneaking a beer. He says the gigs certainly sparked his interest in playing and he continued to play in a number of bands, performing around the region over the

years. “I always remember there was a flight of stairs from the bar down through the back alley into the dance area and sometimes the guys that were a little inebriated or the women sometimes, would stand in the doorway and look in and listen to the music,” says Dahlen. “There used to be an old guy, his name was Bill I think, a shoe shine guy and they had a little barbershop down there right off the dance floor and so you go before the dance and sit and he’d shine your shoes for you.” At one time, in the mid-60s he says there were two notable bands in town: The Nighthawks and The Dynamics. After a few members dropped away, Dahlen and a friend joined up to the latter, travelling out to communities around the region and into Alberta for gigs. “In those days, you’d go a week ahead, put up posters and hope like hell somebody showed up for the dance because you had to pay for the hall out of what you made,” says Dahlen. Generally, he said everything worked out with enough people showing up to recoup costs and a little left over for the band members, although sometimes it was only about $15 each. One show he recalls, The Nighthawks were playing just one town over and the band’s French Canadian heritage – several of The Nighthawks’ members were the Regnier brothers – had a stronger draw than The Dynamics could compete with. “Whatever town it was, it was them playing and we were in the town next to them and I think because they were better known and the French Canadian name, and I think we had two people show up at our dance and they were both girls and they heard us playing from the sidewalk,” Dahlen laughs. “So we lost on that gig, but most of the time we made a little money.”

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er. The family farmed for some time in North Rolla when they first moved to the region following the war. “My mother was a war bride and my dad landed on Juno Beach 70 years ago today,” says Dahlen, noting the coincidental timing of our interview. After moving into Rolla, Dahlen’s father and uncle operated the Rolla store for a couple of years before it burnt down, eventually moving on to Dawson Creek. In school, Dahlen says he was artistically inclined which didn’t always help on the academic front. “I failed grade 9, was told I would never go to university and have to go on general program probably bound for the trades,” says Dahlen, adding that his math and French were particularly problematic. “But I loved English and I really liked to draw.” His first notable experience in visual arts, perhaps like many children, was under the direction of Paint by Numbers. “My mother bought me, one Christmas, some of those old Paint by Numbers sets. I did two or three of those, she did a couple, she was really good with her hands. She was a sewer, knitter, excellent seamstress all of those things,” says Dahlen. “I thought, I’m going to try this on my own. An uncle of mine had a cabin on Swan Lake and we went out there one time, I sat down and did a painting on a

little old easel that I still have. I did this tiny 8x10 thing and from there it just kind of kept going.” After grade 12, Dahlen was offered a position creating show cards for CJDC. “I was using tempera paint and collage and all sorts of things of a standard size for the TV camera,” says Dahlen. “Sometimes it was as simple as tomatoes on sale at Safeway.” CJDC sent Dahlen to two sign painters in town to learn the trade where he also practiced silkscreening. As well as learning from he local artists, Dahlen also picked up a great deal about production at the time. “I had to do those show Has joined the team. cards, shoot them with a Accepting new clients 35 mm camas well as looking forward era, develop the film, load to seeing familiar faces again! them into Cell: 250-219-0834 slide mounts, load the slide cassette trays and they were shown and at the end of the day get the slides back,

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Music is something Dahlen has held to all through his life and various jobs, it was also his first inclination into the arts. “The musician stuff came first. All my aunts and uncles, my dad, all of them either played or sang and a lot of my cousins,” says Dahlen. “I spent family parties underneath the piano or falling asleep beside it. My uncle would play violin and my aunt on the piano and somebody on the guitar.” Dahlen’s father came from a large family of 10 children that emigrated from Mile City, Montana. “They had a 27 Chevy truck and a 20 Studebaker car and nine kids and a dog with puppies and they drove all the way up here,” says Dahlen, adding that his one aunt was married and stayed behind in Montana, moving up shortly after. Dahlen grew up in Dawson Creek, though he was born in Edmonton and adopted soon after. “I was adopted just a few days, I think, after I was born so my parents came, in those days, they left Rolla and drove up the old route to Edmonton,” says Dahlen. “It was January so in the end, it was too cold. My dad drove back, he had a green truck and my mother came back with me on the train.” Dahlen’s two sisters and brothers were also adopted, and he says the two youngest are biological siblings, adopted togeth-

catalogue them and keep them in your area,” says Dahlen. “In those days, films for movies came in on actual film and they had little boxes of film with commercials like Palmolive Soap. I had to sit with these big reels of movie film, spin them through the editing machine, stop them at so many minutes, cut the film, splice in the commercial so they could have the run for the night and the next day I had to come and cut them and take all the commercials out, resplice the film and ship them on to the next place.” At the time, he says he loved the job. Dahlen’s first move away from Dawson Creek was to Vancouver in 1968, with his then-wife. “My dad and uncle talked me into taking a real estate course in Vancouver because they were both selling,” he says. “I went down and failed it three times, thank God. Seeing an advertisement in the newspaper that the government would pay for one year of commercial art training in Nelson, they packed the car. The program included everything from running a multi-lith press to drawing, typesetting and applied design. “When I was done my first year at art school, which was actually a commercial art year, my ex-wife had an uncle who was the art director for Eatons in Calgary. We drove over there and I talked to him and he offered me a job,” says Dahlen. “I don’t know what happened to me but I thought, I don’t think this is for me. I told him I’d think about it, we drove all the way back to the Kooteneys and I said ‘No, I’m going to go on, I need more training’.” After two more years of art school, and two completing a bachelor of fine arts degree in university, they moved back to Dawson Creek to be closer to his ex-wife’s father who was ill. “We thought, well, we’ll move back here Cont. Page 7

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Kids in North Peace schools are vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella at a significantly higher rate than their peers south of the river, according to health authority statistics. School District 59 had an MMR vaccination rate of 85 per cent last year — the lowest of the three Northeast school districts. Ninety-one per cent of Peace River North kindergartners had the vaccine, while 97 per cent of kids entering Fort Nelson schools were vaccinated. Overall, 89 per cent of Northeast kindergartners were fully up to date on their MMRs during the last school year, the Northern Health data shows. The rates measure the percentage of children who have both the MMR vaccination and booster shot by the end of their kindergarten year. Overall, kindergartners in Northeast B.C. are vaccinated at roughly the same rate as their peers in the rest of the province. With the exception of Fort Nelson, those rates are below what's recommended for population-wide immunity, according to two University of B.C. immunologists. "For a community to be protected against a measles outbreak, vaccination rates of around 94 per cent are required as measles is highly infective," Dr. Pauline Johnson told Alaska Highway News in an email. Dr. Ninan Abraham, a UBC immunology researcher, said the Public Health Agency of Canada has a target coverage rate of 95 per

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cent for a given "herd." "When you drop below 95 per cent, as in two of the school districts, the herd protection vanishes," he said. "[Measles] can actually find susceptible individuals, multiply in them and spread." The differences in vaccination rates between northeast school districts is significant, according to the researchers. "Especially one community (with the 85 per cent vaccination rate) would be more at risk than the 91 per cent and this more than the 97 per cent, which would be highly protected," Johnson wrote. "So there are increased risks for a measles outbreak in the community when the vaccination rate is 85 per cent, and, to a lesser extent even when it is 91 per cent." While it is possible to compare rates in the districts, each had significantly different incoming class sizes last year. SD 60 took in around 510 kindergartners, while SDs 59 and 81 had classes of 263 and 66, respectively. That means increases or decreases in the number of children vaccinated will have larger impacts, either positive or negative, on the rate in the smaller school districts. Children are typically given the first MMR vaccination at 12 months. Until recently, a booster was given at 18 months. That booster has since been pushed back until kindergarten, which has not impacted the drug's effectiveness. The first shot is 85 to 95 per cent effective at preventing the disease, according to the BC Centre for Disease Control, while the kindergarten booster ups immunity to nearly 100 per cent. Provincial law does not require that children entering public school have the vaccine. Districts are not in charge of distributing the

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vary widely shot, which is usually given by public health units. Measles outbreaks in both the U.S. and Canada have thrust the vaccination issue into the headlines. In 2014, a measles outbreak in the Fraser Valley infected several hundred people, according to the BC CDC, while an outbreak in Disneyland ahead of spring vacation has public health officials worried.

The Fraser Valley outbreak began last March at a religious elementary school and spread to the general public. Vaccination rates in Peace River South are notably lower than in Fraser Health, where 86.6 per cent of kids had both measles shots in 2012 — the last year for which full provincial data is available. According to Johnson, "the Fraser Valley outbreak

illustrates what can happen when the vaccination rate is lower than 90 per cent." "If I was a parent with a young child looking to go to school, I would consider this information when selecting a school," she wrote. The provincial average for full MMR vaccination in 2012 was 88.6 per cent. reporter@dcdn.ca

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Third at Zones for DCSS Girls Byron Hackett / Staff Writer

With a team of mostly grade 11 players, there was a time this season when the Dawson Creek Secondary School senior girls basketball team was considering taking a pass on the provincial zone qualifiers. Last weekend in Williams Lake, after positive results earlier season against similar opponents that they would face in zones, the coaching staff at DCSS decided they would make the trip and try their luck. The trip resulted in a third place finish and two tournament All-Stars (Somer Haycock and Sarah Graham were given those honours for DCSS) against some of the best teams in northern B.C. and those achievements were a huge takeaway for DCSS. Head coach Troy Erickson said his team had “earned the respect of the other teams” and was really proud of the performance they put forward. After arriving in Williams Lake, DCSS promptly had to square off against the tournament host Lake City Secondary and after a strong start fell short 47-41. They rebounded in the second game of the tournament against Correlieu Secondary from Quesnel with a huge 65-27 win. Erickson called game three of the tournament a “highlight of the season” and a “measuring stick for his team of mostly grade 11’s” when they were able to upset the perennial tournament

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The Dawson Creek Secondary School Girls Basketball team finished third place at the provincial zone qualifiers in Williams Lake last weekend. favourite Prince George Secondary School team 57-52. That meant a rematch and a chance for redemption with Lake City in the semi-finals, but after a close first quarter DCSS allowed a 27 point second

quarter for their opponent and lost 5940. Lake City would go on to face the North Peace Secondary School Ooks in the final, and the girls from NPSS brought home the tournament cham-

pionship and will head to provincials in Langley for just the 4th time since 1966. For more details on the Ooks victory, check out the Alaska Highway News on Thursday, Feb. 26. sports@ahnfsj.ca

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Continued from Page 3 until something happens again with him and then leave to somewhere bigger for work for me,” says Dahlen. “We had two kids at the time. We got back here, I had three or four small jobs to keep us alive.” In April 1977 Dahlen accepted the instructor position for the Visual Arts Program at Northern Lights College, despite his first encounter with teaching. “When I was at university getting my BFA, when I was done I took a month of teacher training thinking that’s what I was going to do and I hated it,” he laughs. “I thought this is not for me. Of course, it was geared towards high school. When I got the job at the college I didn’t have the same fear because all of a sudden it was adults or kids coming out of high school, so I thought this was neat because I was teaching painting, silk screening, drawing, graphic design and it was just me for all of those things.” Dahlen remained with the program for more than 30 years, laid off once for about a month in 1990, before funding was found to continue the program. “I started to teach and I found I just loved it and I still do,” says Dahlen. “The day I found out I’d been hired for that job I went to the ceiling I was so happy and except for three different occasions at the college, I never came down.” For a celebrated painter, teacher and advocate for local arts, Dahlen offers a surprising sentiment. “I found that I stopped being an artist in 1977, I kept working on my own stuff but I guess around the year 2001, somewhere in there, I think ironically the same year my mother and dad died – they died within six months of each other and my life changed, my thinking changed,” says Dahlen. “I woke up one day and thought, I’m not an artist, what I’ve become is an instructor who tells students about technical things about art but I’m not an artist in the true sense of that word.” It’s a point he says he has argued with many artist friends, his partner, as well as his daughter – a Juno-award-winning musician who Dahlen does consider an artist. “I think it’s someone who devotes their entire life to it, their thinking, their being,” says Dahlen, naming artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Leonardo da Vinci and Canadian painters Tom Thomson and Lawren Harris. “When you start to read their lives and you start to equate it with your own you very quickly come to the realization that you’re not really living your life like you should in order to get to somewhere near that level.” Despite opposing views on the subject and his profound impact on the arts community of Dawson Creek, Dahlen is adamant that he is not yet an artist and lacks the time to get to that level. “I think the best I can hope for is to keep doing my own stuff, keep working and that’ll be good because I’ll get back at my kids, they’ll have to spend hours deciding what to do with it all,” he laughs. “I’m still fighting in my head and my heart and I’ll just keep producing until I can’t anymore and that’s what I want to do and that’s what I need to do because if I don’t do it I will explode.”

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One of our readers spotted these visitors on 96th Avenue between 8th and 9th Street in Dawson Creek. Deer are frequently found around the edges of town.

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When the final buzzer sounded,it looked more like a family reunionthan the end of a basketballgame, as the Dawson Creek Secondary School Penguins marked their place in school history. DCSS booked an appearance in the B.C. high school AAA basketball provincials for the first time since 1977, by knocking off the NPSS Oscars with a convincing 83-72 win in Fort St. John on Saturday. It was a culmination of 13 years of work with the program according to DCSS head coach Richard Payne, who spoke post game wearing the mesh of the net like a sash as is customary for title winners in the basketball realm. “It’s been a long road for us,” Payne said. “For me it’s been 13 years since I’ve moved up here. I couldn’t breathe. It was something I’ve never experienced. I’ve seen it, we’ve gone through it with North Peace, battling back and forth. Too bad we don’t have two berths because these are two tough teams. I’d love to see us both go.” For the players it had been a vision the last four years and senior Ben Van Spronsen, who was named Most Valuable Player for the weekend tournament, said the feeling was simply pure elation. It was pretty overwhelming,” he said. “We put in a lot of hard work, we wanted to do it last year but North Peace was a

lot better team so they got it from us last year. We worked really hard this year and were able to do it.” Over the course of the season and the weekend zone qualifier it was clear that DCSS and NPSS were posed to meet in the final, both cruising to victories against their game one opponents. On Friday night the two teams met for the first of three meetings on the weekend in the double elimination event, with the visiting Penguins coming out on top 85-78. With their tournament lives on the line Saturday morning after the loss, NPSS disposed of Duchess Park 98-81 to line up a rematch with DCSS. When Saturday afternoon rolled around, the NPSS gym was filled with rambunctious hometown fans and the Oscars wouldn’t disappoint, beating the visitors 79-72 to set up the 8:00 p.m. winner take all final. Dawson Creek had their own section of rowdy fans for the prime time matchup Saturday night, and the visiting fans willed their team to a first half 39-34 lead. In the third quarter the Penguins outscored the home side 23-14 and ultimately pulled away from the Oscars clinching the 83- 72 win with consistent play down the stretch. The difference between the first and second game according to Van Spronsen, was a little last minute research. “They surprised us with a 1-3- 1 zone,” the MVP said of the first game Saturday. “We had no answer for that. They played phenomenal defense.

My mom was actually videotaping the game, we did a bunch of review after our game and we planned for it and that was the difference for sure.” That offensive adjustment lead to clever ball movement and some timely three point shooting, all aspects of the game that Payne has been stressing to his team since day one. “We just believed in ourselves,” Payne said of his team’s ability to pull through in the end. “I worked it out. It was back and forth all season. I looked at it, they won, we won, they

won, we won— it was our turn to do it. The boys stayed within themselves and played outside their skin. It was a great effort from all my boys. My coaching staff, everybody involved— the fans. Everybody that supported us for many, many years.” The Penguins will now travel to Langley from March 10-15 to take on some of the best basketball teams in the province and will also be joined by A zone champ Ron Pettigrew Christian School, also from Dawson Creek.

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The Ron Pettigrew Christian School boys basketball finished third in the zone championships in Tumbler Ridge from Feb. 19-21 and will head to Langley later this month for the 1A basketball provincial championships

Dawson Creek will send a second representative to the provincial championships in Langley next weekend as the Ron Pettigrew Christian School boys basketball team has also qualified for the 1A tournament. In Tumbler Ridge at the North Central zone championships from Feb. 19-21, the Ron Pettigrew boys lost game one of the tournament before going on a five game winning streak to book their ticket to Langley. In action on Friday, it was an 8154 win over Acwsalcta of Bella Coola to start the day. Later that evening

they came back from being down beat Fort St. James 87-58. Saturday morning they started off strong playing Sir Alexander Mackenzie and grabbed an 80-61 win. Next up was a rematch with Fraser Lake Secondary School, who handed RPCS their first loss of the tournament. RPCS got redemption with a 74-40 win. In the bronze medal game with a trip to provincials hanging in the balance, RPCS battled back and forth with Lake District Secondary school from Burns Lake, leading by just four points late in the fourth quarter. In the final seconds RPCS lead by just two 49-47, LDS put up a three point shot for the win that wouldn’t fall, clinching the win for RPCS.

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RCMP search for suspects in robbery MIKE McMEANS / Staff Writer

Construction work is progressing well on the Dawson Creek/ Chetwynd Area Transmission Project (DCAT). Between mid-March and early April, some helicopter work will be taking place along the DCAT right-of-way, as follows: Second half of March: The initial stages of conductor stringing will be taking place on the west segment of DCAT. You may notice helicopters working between the new Shell Groundbirch Substation site (Highway 97, just west of 281 Road) and the new Sundance Lakes Substation site (Highway 97 about 19 km east of Chetwynd). First half of April: Helicopters will be used for an aerial survey of the entire DCAT line, from the Dawson Creek Substation to the Sundance Lakes Substation site. This will involve several flights along the right-of-way over a period of about four days. Please note that helicopter work is weather dependent, so all dates are approximate. BC Hydro and its contractors have obtained the necessary permits and permissions, and will be in compliance with Transport Canada requirements. For more information on the DCAT project, visit bchydro.com/dcat or contact BC Hydro at stakeholderengagement@bchydro.com or toll free 1 866 647 3334.

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Authorities say they are searching for at least two suspects after a Dawson Creek convenience store was allegedly robbed at knifepoint Sunday night. RCMP Sgt. Ed Reinink told the Alaska Highway News on Monday that a male wearing blue reflective coveralls, a black hoodie and a red bandana walked into the Legacy Village Market, at the corner of 17th Street and 108th Avenue, just before 7 p.m. on Sunday. Reinink reported that witnesses said the suspect allegedly brandished a fourinch knife and demanded money. After receiving an undisclosed amount, RCMP say, the suspect allegedly ran out of the store and into an older van, which reportedly took off west on 108th Avenue out of town. An RCMP release on the robbery suspect identifies him as a fairskinned male, about 5’10” and 230 pounds, with brown hair. Legacy has been the occasional target of more than its fair share of robberies over the past few years, including almost exactly two years ago, when the store was hit by two sepa-

rate, related incidents in a week. Despite that history, Reinink said the RCMP did not believe Sunday’s incident was connected to any previous robberies of the store, or any of the ongoing drugrelated violence that Dawson Creek officers have been investigating with the help of teams from Fort St. John and Prince George. “This was just the target of opportunity,” he said. The RCMP is currently looking for the suspect in the actual robbery, as well as the alleged getaway van and its driver. Reinink said Legacy Village Market has an extensive, “live-feed” camera system that helped police by giving them a possible photo of one of the suspects, adding that such a system has helped deter previous criminal activity at other businesses run by Legacy’s owners. “It actually allowed them to describe to us exactly what was going on,” Reinink said. “They gave us the playby- play, and it was very helpful to our investigation.” The detachment asks that anyone with information on Sunday night’s incident or any of the suspects to contact the Dawson Creek RCMP at 250-784-3700. Tips can also be provided anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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South Peace Hospice Palliative Care Society Presents: St Patrick’s Day Fundraising Dinner Saturday March 14, 2015 at Senior Citizen Hall 1101 McKellar Ave. Dawson Creek Cash bar & Rides Home Available. Doors open 5:30pm Dinner 6:00pm. Tickets $25 Per Person. Ticket Available at Northern Toybox, Tiger Printers, and Andre 250-719-9226 Cash or Cheques only The Borderline Culture Series presents: BOOGIE PATROL Saturday March 14, 2015 at the DEMMITT COMMUNITY CENTRE (1/2km South of Hwy 43 on RR 132) Tickets: $25.00 Advance $27.00 Door Doors open at 7:00pm Music at 8:00pm For tickets and information call: 780-356-2904 or go to www.borderlineculture.com

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Events 1055 Coming Tuesday 10 March at 1.30pm. Seniors’ Access will host a workshop “Don’t Let the Frogs Get in the Washing Machine” (healthy emotional aging) presented by Carol Loney. Everyone is welcome the young and the not so young In the Seniors’ Access ofﬁce in the Dawson Co-Op Mall. Everyone is welcome. The young and not so young.

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The Campbell family is sad to announce the passing of their father and husband John Duncan Lewis Campbell. Johnny passed away peacefully at his home in Taylor on Sunday, February 22, 2015, surrounded by his family and just six days shy of his 87th birthday. He was born February 28, 1928 in Cork, Alberta to William and Emma Campbell and raised in early childhood on the Saddle Rock Reserve with his sisters Beatrice, Bessy, Doris and Peggy. The family moved to Cherry Point, Alberta in 1937. Johnny purchased the family homestead in 1965 when his parents retired to Edmonton. Johnny married the love of his life, Mary Ellen Yake (Nicholson) on March 26, 1959. They raised their family of five in the Cherry Point/Clayhurst area until relocating to Taylor, B.C. in January, 1973. John and Mary settled on a farm on the top of the South Taylor Hill before moving to Goodlow, B.C. in 1999, and then into the District of Taylor in 2010. Johnny will be missed and fondly remembered for his humour and friendly and outgoing personality. He was predeceased by his daughter Gloria Baker of Burstall, Saskatchewan and grandsons Wally Baker Jr. of Burstall, Saskatchewan and Dieter Eggers of Taylor, B.C. Left behind to mourn Johnny’s passing are his wife Mary; sons Albert Yake of Goodlow, B.C. and William (Jodi) Campbell of Falkland, B.C., daughters Evelyn (Rhynn) Eggers of Taylor, B.C. and Beatrice (Mike) Galliazzo of Lillooet, B.C. and son-in-law Wally Baker of Burstall, Saskatchewan. He will also be lovingly remembered by his grandchildren Ab, Ivy, Amber, Logan, Marla, Terry, Dustin, Devon, Pierce, Greg, Blaine, William and Abbi; and great-grandchildren Max, Jett, Jace, Cooper, Sawyer, Lynden, Nora, Landon, Emma, Brenden and Aria. A memorial service will be held at the Taylor Community Hall on Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 1:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, the Campbell family has requested that donations in Johnny’s memory be made to charity of your choice.

Neighbors Helping Neighborswould you like to help a senior keep their walkway cleared this winter? Dawson Creek Better at Home can help you ﬁnd a senior in your neighbor who needs help with snow shovelling. Call: 250782-2341 or stop in to the Better at Home ofﬁce in the Co-op Mall.

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for Rent 6525 Duplexes 2-5 BEDROOM DUPLEX- FURNISHED in Pouce Coupe. Better Rates for Long Term. 250-719-9392 2 bedroom unit in 4-plex for rent in Dawson Creek Phone: 250-7195181 3 bedroom unit available immediately. Located at # 1-8407-17A Street. This unit is approx. 1250 sq ft beautifully ﬁnished living space. Includes 6 appliances and parking for 2 vehicles. No smoking, no pets.1 year lease is required. See dawsoncreekrentals.ca or call: 250-782-8009

For Rent 6560 Houses WILLOWCREEK 2 and 3 BEDROOM TOWNHOMES IN DAWSON CREEK. Completely renovated, quiet yet are close to downtown and all amenities. AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY. All appliances. Full size unﬁnished basement for storage. Two bedroom $1300, 3 bedroom $1400 on a 1 year lease. Call 250-782-2824. OR apply online www.sterlingmgmt.ca

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Community Events

• March 5, 2015 - Concert with Saskia and Darrel at 7 p.m. Presented by/at Dawson Creek Senior Centre - 1101 McKellar Ave. For advanced tickets call Fay 250-782-5472. • Fridays Steak Night at Bear Mountain Ski Hill, 6-10 pm. Menu: 8 oz NY steak or herb roasted chicken breast or teriyaki glazed salmon steak and garlic mashed or rice. Meals include caesar salad andhomemade dessert. Regular concession available. (02) MACHITAWIN FAMILY LEARNING CENTRE • If you have any questions please feel free to drop by for a coffee at 14-1405-102nd Avenue, Central Place or give us a call at 250-7821169. Monday: Gross Motor Skills Development 9:00 am - noon • Walking • Swimming • Playing Tuesday: Fine Motor Skills / Literacy Development 9:00 am - noon • Sharing Circle • Story Time • Singing • Crafts Wednesday: Breakfast Group 9:00 am - noon • Start the family oﬀ to a healthy breakfast with a Cultural theme Thursday: Parent - Child Mother Goose Program 9:00 am - noon • Come learn to sing your favorite song and tell rhyme with your children. Traditional Dance - 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm. • Come learn the Pow-wow style way. Friday: Field Trip Day 9:00 am - noon. Getting to know your community. Gaia Program 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • Support for Pregnant Moms using Drugs and Alcohol. (11) NAWICAN FRIENDSHIP CENTRE • Mondays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm, Nurse 11am-2pm. Tuesdays Fund raiser BBQ11am - 1pm Wednesdays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm Thursdays - Bannock 11am Fridays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm. Also call 250.782.5202 for the dates on the following events: Afternoon Fund raiser Bingo - Elders Free Dinner/Entertainment - Community Fund raiser Dinners/Entertainment. • Dawson Creek Seniors Hall: Monday 9:00am, Skittles/Pool 10:00 am Exercise 11:45 Lunch 1;00pm Pool 1:30pm Carpet Bowling 7:00pm Crib & Bridge. Tuesday 8:00 Foot Care/Blood Pressure (by appointment) 1:00 pm Pool / Bingo 7:00pm Floor Curling/Darts. Wednesday 9:00am Skittles/Ladies Pool 10:00am Exercise 1:00pm Pool/Crib & Bridge 3:30 pm Beginner Line Dancing. Thursday 10:00am Game board Café 1:00pm Floor Curling 7:00pm Floor Curling. Friday 9:00 Skittles/Pool 10:00am Line Dancing 1:00pm Pool 1:30pm Carpet Bowling. For more info on our activities call the 250 782 7620 or visit our hall at 1101 McKellar Ave. MONDAY • AA Meetings 8:00 pm at the Dawson Creek Health Unit. (0) • New! AA Meetings noon at South Peace United Church, 1300 - 104 Ave., Dawson Creek. (0) • Cocaine Anonymous meets 7:00 pm at 1320 - 102nd Ave. The only requirement is a desire to quit using cocaine and other mind altering substances! (0) • Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention: A skills group open to adults struggling with addiction Mondays 10:30am-12noon @ Mental Health & Addictions at the Dawson Creek Health Unit, 1001 110th Ave., Dawson Creek. Call Sean at 250-719-6525. (0) TUESDAY • TOPS B.C. #3450 - Arras, meets every Tuesday at Cutbank Hall, from 3:30-5:00 pm. For more info call Eileen at 250-843-7625 or Doreen at 250-780-2324. Join us having fun while winning with weight loss. • AA Meetings 8:00 pm at Dawson Creek Health Unit, Living Sober Meeting, 219-7624. (0) • AA Closed Meeting 8:00 pm at Pouce Coupe Community Church Annex (next to the Post Oﬃce) 5002 - 49th Ave, Pouce Coupe. Big book study. (0)

• Mile “O” Quilter’s Guild meets every Tuesday & Thursday at at the New Calvin Kruk Arts Centre on 10th St. and 104th Ave. at 7pm. (05) • First Tuesday: - Piecemakers Quilt Guild meets in the board room at Tiger’s Printing & Stationers, 7:00 pm. Contact 250-786-5793. (12) • First Tuesday: - The Visually Impaired Support Group meets at 12 noon at First Baptist Church, 1400 113 Ave. All who have or who care about someone with a vision problem are welcome. For further info call Pam 782-5187 or Margaret 782-3221. (03) • Las Tuesday: Book club for adults, 7pm at the Dawson Creek Library. Call 250-782-4661 for more details. (01) WEDNESDAY • New! AA Meetings noon at South Peace United Church, 1300 - 104 Ave., Dawson Creek. (0) • AA Meeting at the Health Unit @ 8:00pm. • Cocaine Anonymous meets 7:00 pm at 1320-102nd Ave. The only requirement is a desire to quit using cocaine and other mind altering substances! • Grief Support Group - free 6 week program. The group will run Wednesday evenings from 6:30pm until 8:30pm starting October 22nd and ending November 26th, 2014 at the Bergeron Funeral Services Social Room, 10200-17th Street, Dawson Creek, British Columbia. For more information or to register, please call 250782-2577. (11) THURSDAY • AA Meetings 8:00 pm - 9:00pm at the Dawson Creek Health Unit. (0) • Al-Anon 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm at the Dawson Creek Heath Unit. (0) • Mile “O” Quilter’s Guild meets every Tuesday & Thursday at at the New Calvin Kruk Arts Centre on 10th St. and 104th Ave. at 7pm. (05) • TOPS: Taking Oﬀ Pounds Sensibly weigh in starts at 8:30 a.m. 10221-18th Street. Contact Mary Kidd 250-782-6628. (12) FRIDAY • AA Meetings 8:00 pm. 12x12 Meeting, at the Dawson Creek Health Unit. Big book study. (0) • Cocaine Anonymous, 7:00 pm at 1320-102nd Ave. The only requirement is a desire to quit using cocaine & other mind altering substances! (0) SATURDAY • AA Meetings 8 :00 pm , Dawson Creek Health Unit, Dawson Creek, 219-7624. (0) • Each Saturday - September through June - Peace Country Roots Group building will be open from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm to members wanting to use the genealogy library. A member will be available by appointment to anyone requiring help on how to get started on your family history. Everyone is welcome. We are located in the small building in NAR Park. Call Lynn 250-782-4058, Neil 250782-7651, Lyle 250-782-2804 Peace Country Roots Group Website http://peacecountryroots.ca SUNDAY • NEW AA Meeting at the Cultural Room at the Northern Lights College 8pm Sunday evenings. • Fourth Sunday — September through June - Peace Country Roots Group meets 1:30 pm in the small Roots building in NAR park. Getting started on family tree research, need help? Come learn & share experiences with other amateur genealogists. Everyone welcome. Call Lynn 250-782-4058, Neil 250-782-7651, Lyle 250-782-2804 Peace Country Roots Group website: http:// peacecountryroots.ca

FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2015 THE MIRROR - l - A15

A16 - l - THE MIRROR FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2015

The Dawson Creek Sportsman’s Club

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presents the

Benefit “Clay Bird” Shoot in support of the

Dawson Creek and District Hospital Foundation

Sunday May 10, 2015

Early 9 am Start

At the Shooting Range at Riley’s Crossing!

Skeet, Trap and 5-Stand

$20/section for 3 sections $50/person for team of 5

New Shooters Welcome!

Expert Safety Advice - Loaner Guns Available

, S R E E T N U L O V L L A G N I L L CA S R O S N S O R P S & S T N A P PARTICI

For more information contact:

250-784-7355

or email: dcdhfoundation@northernhealth.ca

8:30 am Registration

Events Men Women Teams Officers of the Courts Media Youth First Time Shooters Oilmen’s

Prizes for the Winners! BBQ Lunch will be available by donation