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Northeast B.C. mayors and the province’s natural gas ministry are looking for alternative markets for B.C. petroleum products after a string of bad news for B.C.’s stalled LNG export industry. Natural gas minister Rich Coleman and members of the Northeast B.C. Resource Municipalities Coalition have been in discussions about attracting investment in “value-added� industries that could use B.C. gas, according to a July 19 news release from
the coalition. Those industries could include petrochemicals, plastics, methanol, gas to liquids, and natural gas for transportation uses, the coalition said. “The coalition will be having further meetings with Minister Coleman and his senior staff to examine opportunities to develop a sophisticated natural gas processing industry in the northeast, well beyond extracting natural gas liquids,� Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ackerman said in the release, noting those industries “could spur a steady
source of jobs and taxation for the northeast.� The coalition’s statements come after major setbacks for B.C.’s LNG export plans. Earlier this month, Shellled LNG Canada, a proposed export plant in Kitimat, announced it would not be making an investment decision this year as planned. A deal to export B.C. gas to Hawaii through an existing plant on Tilbury Island fell through. Pacific NorthWest LNG, the project many analysts say has the best chance of being built, won’t have an answer on its federal environmental assessment until mid-September. See PLAN B on A8
Fort St. John jumps in crime severity rankings JONNY WAKEFIELD reporter@dcdn.ca
Dawson Creek had the highest rates of severe crime in the Peace Region last year, but overall crime in Northeast B.C. continues to decline. That’s according to Statistics Canada’s annual index of police-reported crime statistics, released July 20. The Mile Zero City had a crime severity index score of 179.35 in 2015, compared to Fort St. John’s score of 165.46. Statistics Canada
calculates the severity of crime in an area based on police statistics adjusted for population. Violent crimes are given more weight in arriving at an overall score. It is not the same as a crime rate, which measures the volume of police-reported crime relative to population. Dawson Creek and Fort St. John ranked 10th and 13th in Canada for crime severity, up from 18th and 17th place in 2014. North Battleford, Sask., had Canada’s highest crime severity score with 320.94,
followed by Prince Albert, Sask. (235.32), Yellowknife (234.5) and Williams Lake (224.55). Grande Prairie ranked sixth with a score of 211.57. Fort St. John saw an increase in robberies, theft and mischief in 2015, while Dawson Creek experienced with an uptick in violence in the city’s drug trade. Some tied the spike in crime to a downturn in the economy, but RCMP say it’s hard to say for certain what was driving the increase.
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Residents in Hudson’s Hope will need to travel to Chetwynd or Fort St. John for medical care during August, Northern Health says. That’s because the district will be without a doctor for the month as tries to recruit a new doctor to the community. “While the Hudson’s Hope Health Centre will remain open, there will not be a physician in the community during the month of August,� Northern Health spokesman Jonathon Dyck said. “During this time, residents of Hudson’s Hope will have to access medical services from physicians elsewhere in the region for instance, Chetwynd or Fort St. John. Northern Health does have physician coverage for September and October, and is working to secure longer term coverage.� The health authority is also recruiting a nurse practitioner to the community, Dyck said. See DOC on A8
Prospectors seek gold rush at Peace Island ZOĂ‹ DUCKLOW reporter@ahnfsj.ca
Get ready for a rush, Taylor. The gold panners are coming to town. The 44th annual Worlds Invitational Gold Panning Championships takes place July 29 to 31 at Peace Island Park. The pros will race to find gold in their pans, and amateurs won’t be far behind. An annual parade will kick off the event on Friday, with decorated floats, dignitaries, old cars and good candy winding through Taylor, starting and ending at the arena. “It’s a really great family event,� said Taylor’s community services director, Laura Prosko. “Plus there’s good candy. We throw good candy from the floats, not the cheap stuff.� Wondering what a professional gold panner does? It’s about being quick and careful. The first competitor to find the gold in their pan won’t win if they’ve been careless and sloshed out some gold flakes. Each pan gets a set amount of gold added to a mixture of gravel and black sand. There’s a 15-flake round, 5-flake round, and the speedy gold-nugget round. See GOLD on A3
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From left, Sterling Nelson, Josh Craig, and Tavis Viens spray the ball diamonds in Taylor with a garlic concoction the district hopes will curb mosquito populations. The crew began spraying Friday, July 22, and the efforts will be monitored by the district.
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The most expensive dinner in the world JAGGER JEST: We start this week’s news chewing with an item for rock fans. Mick Jagger, who is already a greatgrandfather, announced he will soon become a father again. This will be his EIGHTH child. Mick Jagger is so old I predict this latest kid will be born with gray hair and dentures.
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MAYONNAISE MAYHEM: Last week near Brampton, Ontario, a busy highway was closed after a truck flipped and spilled its load of mayonnaise. The cleanup took 12 hours due to the sticky goopiness of the mayonnaise. Gee, if only a truck had flipped nearby and spilled burger patties, buns, lettuce and tomato, I would have a nifty story. But it didn’t. So I don’t.
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Human Rights Code amendments extend rights to transgender people ‘This will afford us the protection that we need in order to survive,’ says member of local Pride committee ALEISHA HENDRY ahendry@ahnfsj.ca
The provincial government has passed amendments to the B.C. Human Rights Code to include gender identity and expression in its protections, ending a years-long fight for transgender advocates across the province. Spencer Chandra Hebert, the NDP MLA for Vancouver-West End, had introduced this legislation four times since 2011 but was rejected by the Liberal government each time. The amendments passed July 26 in a summer session of the legislature. “In order to be protected by the human rights code you have to know you are,” said Herbert in a statement. “This legislation will ensure that it’s crystal clear that discrimination against someone because of their gender identity or gender expression is unacceptable in B.C.” Dustin Carnell, a transgender man and member of the FSJ Pride Committee, stressed how
important it is for transgender people to be included. “I’ve heard the horror stories of people getting kicked out of where they’re living for coming out as trans or losing their jobs, it’s devastating, there’s nothing you can do,” he said. “This will afford us the protection that we need in order to survive, to live, just like anybody else does.” The amendments will mean that a landlord may not refuse tenancy and an employer may not fire someone because a person is transgender. The move also puts B.C. in line with other provinces that have already made those amendments to their own human rights codes. This also falls in line with the federal government, which recently unveiled a plan to outlaw transgender hate speech and discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act and in the Criminal Code. Carnell noted that attitudes towards transgendered people have changed, including in
Fort St. John. “Just in the years that I’ve been here, things have really changed. Being that we’ve organized the first Pride Walk—I never thought that would happen—and to see the positive response that we’ve had,” he said. “Being out as a trans man is very important to me as well, because it allows people to see that maybe are afraid to come out that ‘hey, here’s this guy, he’s living his life, he’s doing his thing, no problem.’” The government had said that all individuals were equal under the law, so no changes were required, but Attorney General Suzanne Anton said she decided to act after many meetings with people from the LGBTQ community. “Transgender persons are protected now. They have not all known that,” Anton said. “That is the importance of putting it plain and simple into the human rights code. It is a relatively simple change.” —with files from Canadian Press
youth and “B” panning events where anyone can enter. Candy rush, not be confused with candy crush, is for youth 14 year olds or younger, who win big bags of old fashioned candy in addition to the gold they find. Some adults have tried to pass for under-14 in previous years for their chance at the coveted prize. Not interested in gold? There’s also a bannock baking
competition on July 30 at 7:30 p.m. Contestants are given an hour to build a fire, mix the ingredients, fry the bannock and present for judging on taste and appearance. The parade starts from Taylor Arena July 29, at 6:30 pm. A chili bowl and bun dinner runs on July 30 at 6 p.m. For a complete schedule, and pricing information, visit districtoftaylor.com.
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Brief deluge leads to flash flooding in Fort St. John MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca
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A brief bout of torrential rain and high winds caused flash flooding in areas around Fort St. John Tuesday, July 19, including 93 Avenue near 100 Street where a $3 million storm sewer upgrade is underway. Intense rain began around 7 p.m., causing areas around Mathews Park and several points along the Alaska Highway through town to flood. The hardest hit was 93 Avenue between the Stonebridge Hotel and Canadian Tire, where Knappett Industries is finishing the final phase of storm sewer upgrades for the area. Peter Loetscher, the site superintendent for the project, said there was simply too much rain too fast, which lifted and dislodged two newly installed pipes. “We’ll fix it,” Loetscher said, adding that he
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Napa Auto Parts assistant store manager Jason Stewart doing some light mop up in the store shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday, July 19.
doesn’t expect delays as project work is ahead of schedule. Flooding in the area had mostly receded by 9:30 p.m. and work was continuing on the storm sewer upgrades a week later. The local airport weather station only recorded around five millimetres of rain for July 19, though some estimates of the downpour on the
city range between 20 to 50 millimetres. Alaska Road North at 104 Street remains closed as the storm caused some “buckling” of the road, city officials said. Knappet’s contract with the city includes storm sewer fixes for this patch of road. At Napa Auto Parts, assistant store manager Jason Stewart did some light mop up in the store shortly after 9 p.m. Though the centre of some pretty dramatic photos on Facebook, there was no damage to the store, according to Stewart. Stewart was driving through the area after dinner when the flooding hit and rushed to the store to get product off the ground. “The water was up to my headlights,” he recalled. “The water was just beating off the door windows.” He added: “There were a couple of boxes wet, but no product damaged.”
Summer rainfall totals nearly three times average JONNY WAKEFIELD reporter@dcdn.ca
After a fiery spring, the Peace Region is on track for an unusually wet summer. According to Environment Canada, June rainfall totals in Dawson Creek were nearly three times above normal, while Fort St. John is wetter than average. Armel Castellan, an Environment Canada meteorologist, said a weather front called a cut-off low has parked itself over B.C. for longer than usual, leading to more days with precipitation and more frequent torrential rains. “Usually it’s May-June, but this year we were a little bit ‘unlucky’ to have this pattern to stick around for July,” he said. The effects of that cutoff low have been most visible in Dawson Creek,
which has seen more rain than Fort St. John this summer. Between 1981 and 2010, Dawson Creek has averaged 67.4 mm of rain in June. This June, more than 168 mm fell on the city’s weather station. Fort St. John saw 91.8 mm of rain in June, well above the 30-year average of 65.6. July rainfall totals, however, look like they will be below average for both cities, Castellan said. Castellan added that days with more than 25 mm of rain are becoming more common. This June, Dawson Creek had two days with 25 mm-plus (compared to an average of one day ), while Fort St. John had one day with that much rain (average: .43 days). He said temperature in both cities tended to be close to 30-year normals.
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Bounty offered after vandals cut down trees at Totem Mall MATT PREPROST editor@ahnfsj.ca
Totem Mall officials say they are facing a bill of at least $5,000 after vandals cut down nine trees lining its parking lot early Thursday morning on July 21. A mall employee made the discovery upon arriving to work around 6 a.m., said Farin Ellwood, a mall manager. She estimated the trees to be at least two years old, and said the incident happened around 4:30 a.m. “About three feet up, they took a machete, a sword, I’m not sure what it was, and they were cut down,” Ellwood said. “They’ve done a lot of damage, they don’t even realize.” Police have been notified and have reviewed security footage from the mall. At press time, no arrests had been publicly announced.
Ellwood estimated the damage to be at least $5,000. “It’s not a small (issue) when someone comes in and does this,” she said. “It will be good chunk of change to dig up and replace.” The vandals struck at an inopportune time as judges from Communities In Bloom were in Fort St. John the same day for a tour of the city. Several city councillors took to social media to voice their frustration over the destruction. Coun. Trevor Bolin says he is offering a $1,000 reward. “These aren’t my trees but this is my home,” he said on Facebook. Ellwood said the mall will match Bolin’s bounty if information leads to arrests and charges. Local MP Bob Zimmer has also offered to match the reward. Several other residents have also pledged to pitch in.
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Farmers across the Peace Region continue to bale their first crop of hay for the season, as this young woman does in a field in Milligan Creek on Sunday, July 24.
Sierra Club launches legal challenge of Site C Wildlife Act exemptions ZOË DUCKLOW reporter@ahnfsj.ca
The Sierra Club BC and environmentalist Josette Wier filed a petition for judicial review in B.C. Supreme Court July 20, asking the court to rule on whether the province broke the law by granting BC Hydro a Wildlife Act exemption to expedite construction on the Site C dam. The environmental group says the ministry allowed BC Hydro crews to move Western toad populations from their breeding habitats on the Peace River as it moved forward with construction on the $8.8 billion dollar dam project. “Removing wildlife from its habitat without a permit is an offence under (sections) 29, 33 and 37 of the Wildlife Act punishable by imprisonment and fines,” the Sierra Club wrote in a press release. “Ministry emails show that officials deliberately and knowingly disregarded the statutory permitting process and gave BC Hydro an ‘exemption from prosecution’ as a shortcut to avoid delays in the construction schedule.” Chris Addison, the northeast regional director for the Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations (FLNRO), said in an email that “there is no provision in the Wildlife Act for this specifically.” He called it an “administrative law principle” that is sometimes used to allow projects to move forward without specific permits.
“Essentially the activity remains citable, but the proponent would have a defense against a charge in saying that they had permission from the regional manager to conduct an activity that is within my power to authorize,” he wrote. “This approach is preferable to the alternatives.” The email was one of a series included in the documents filed with the petition. NDP MLA environment critic George Heyman said the government broke its own rules. “There is actually no option for an exemption in the Wildlife Act,” Heyman said in an interview last month. “Some First Nations asked under what authority they granted the exemption, and staff admitted there is no authority within the Act to grant exemptions.” “But they granted the exemption anyway. So now you have one arm of government doing everything it can to expedite the hasty construction schedule of BC Hydro to get it past the point of no return, including the issuing of exemptions to permits where there is no legal basis for doing that. The government ignores its own laws to expedite its agent, BC Hydro, to carry out its bidding.” The removal of Western toads and other amphibians occurred in May and June 2016 as construction on the $8.8 billion project moves ahead. Western toads are listed as a
species of special concern by Species at Risk Canada. BC Hydro submitted a proposed salvage plan to FLNRO Friday, May 13, outlining how the affected species would be caught and transported downstream. The work was set to begin the following Tuesday, giving little time for FLNRO staff to complete a review and issue a permit. An exemption from offence was issued May 19, allowing BC Hydro to move the species without a permit, with an understanding they would not be prosecuted for doing so without a permit. It is not clear whether BC Hydro kept to their original schedule and began salvaging before the exception was issued. Once the B.C. government files response materials a hearing date will be set. Jason Gratl, the lawyer who will represent the Sierra Club in the case, hopes the judicial review will establish that the Wildlife Act has no authority to offer such exemptions. “Apparently this was not an isolated incident,” Gratl said. “We want to stop them from authorizing work by means of exemption from prosecution for offences in the future.” “This is an unusual situation, in that the minister has actually admitted in writing to not having statutory authority to issue an exemption from prosecution. So they did what they knew they weren’t allowed to do.” —with files from Jonny Wakefield
BC Hydro and a First Nation in Northwest Alberta have reached an agreement on the Site C dam. The Dene Tha’ First Nation, a 2,400 member nation with three settlements near the Peace River in Alberta, will receive a one-time payment from BC Hydro and “ongoing information” on contracts and employment on the $8.8 billion mega dam. In a release, Dene Tha’ Chief Joe Pastion called the agreement “a milestone in the relationship between BC Hydro and Dene Tha’.” “We are striving to strengthen our relations with industry and First Nations in our Traditional Territory,” Pastion said. “Dene Tha’s Treaty rights will continue to be practised by our current members and future generations.” Earlier this month, BC Hydro announced it had reached a similar deal with
the McLeod Lake Indian Band, located north of Prince George. While the financial details of that agreement were not disclosed, the Vancouver Sun reported the band was offered annual payments of $250,000 for 70 years and a $2 million lump sum payment. That deal also included a lands management agreement and transfer of Crown parcels. McLeod Lake was previously involved with the West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations lawsuit against the project. Last year, two other Alberta First Nations, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and Mikisew Cree First Nation dropped a judicial review of the dam. During Joint Review Panel hearings in early 2014, Dene Tha’ members said Site C would have major impacts on treaty rights to hunt, fish and engage in traditional land use. The Dene Tha’ are members of Treaty 8, but are not part of the Treaty 8 Tribal Association, which represents the treaty’s B.C. adherents.
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not refundable deposits,” Boyd wrote. The city holds the deposits from developers as security for them to pave and landscape new developments. The deposits are refunded when the work is complete. Councillors expressed concern that waiving any fees would set a precedent that could lead to private developers making the same request.
“I trust the school is going to be built and the province is going to uphold everything they say they’re going to do, but at what point are we not doing this for the next developer, who’s a private guy, because he needs more of a break than the province does?” Coun. Trevor Bolin said. “That is honestly my concern.” Council’s decision carried unanimously.
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Letters to the Editor COULD AIR AMBULANCE HAVE SAVED FATHER? (Re: ‘Delayed air ambulances ‘putting lives in jeopardy’: PRRD’, page A7) My dad, Sandy (Alexander) McLaren, suffered a heart attack Nov. 30, 2015, and died Dec. 5. He was admitted to the Dawson Creek Hospital Nov. 30 and every day between then and the day he died, still in the Dawson Creek Hospital, we waited on the air ambulance to transfer him to a cardiac unit for surgery at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. The day before his heart attack he was in otherwise excellent health for his age and had been outside cutting up firewood as he so often did. While he was in hospital for those six days waiting on a transfer by air ambulance he showed daily improvement until a second heart attack took his life. The doctor in Dawson Creek wanted Dad to be transferred as soon as possible, and definitely within 24 hours but it never happened. The reasons given for the delays in air ambulance transfer were alternately bad weather, no available air ambulances or more critical patients. Would he have been helped if he had made it to St. Paul’s? We’ll never know; the way the system is set up there’s no actual person accountable or responsible. —John McLaren, Victoria CAN WE TRADE IN A WORKERS CAMP? The Site C workers camp has been reported to cost $470 million to design, build, operate and maintain. That $470 million will be paid via increased hydro rates. That means we all foot the bill for the camp and the $9 billion dollar Site C project. Given the current economic climate in Fort St. John the workers camp makes no sense at all. Can we trade it in? Can we trade in the workers camp, save $470 million and house the workers in the ever increasing number of vacant housing and rental units in Fort St John? Can we trade in the workers camp and create 235MW of wind power? That’s about how much wind energy we can create for $470 million and almost 21 per cent of Site C power generation. Can we trade in the workers camp and Site C as well? Can we burn natural gas instead since its not been exported via LNG any time soon? Can we trade in Site C and diversify our energy production in BC using a combination of gas, wind, solar and geothermal? Can we have Minister of Education Mike Bernier actually focus on education issues and not Site C announcements? Can we have a government that adapts publicly funded projects to changing economic conditions? The answer to all those questions is no, and that’s why Site C is a problem. —Jeff Richert, Taylor SITE C AND WILDLIFE ACT EXEMPTIONS (Re: ‘Sierra Club launches legal challenge of Site C Wildlife Act exemptions,’ page A5) The Peace Valley Landowner Association is very concerned about information revealed in court filings about flouting of the rule of law inside the Provincial government in order to fast track construction of Site C. The evidence filed in support of the petition for judicial review filed by Sierra Club of BC
and Dr. Josette Weir shows that the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations knowingly purported to grant to BC Hydro an “exemption” from the Wildlife Act that the law does not allow. Rather than following the law put in place by the legislature, the Ministry ignored the legislation, allowed BC Hydro to proceed without a permit, but advised that BC Hydro would be immune from prosecution because it had been “induced” by government to break the law. To make a mistake in government decision making is one thing. But to knowingly issue “permission” that government knows it has no lawful authority to give in order to assist a proponent to avoid prosecution goes too far. PVLA has long been concerned about corners being cut and laws being ignored in the race to get Site C “past the point of no return” as Premier Clark has said her government intends to do. PVLA has sought judicial review of the Minister of Environment and Minister of FLNRO’s original decision to issue the Environmental Assessment Certificate for the Site C Project despite the Minister of Environment stating that in coming to that decision she had not taken into account key recommendations made by the independent Joint Review Panel for the Project—including on whether the electricity from Site C is needed. The Environmental Assessment Act explicitly requires that all JRP recommendations must be considered in coming to the Certificate decision. That is essential to a sound and valid decision being made to authorize the Project. PVLA awaits the decision of the BC Court of Appeal in that case. Members of PVLA have also observed violations by BC Hydro of the conditions that the company must comply with in Site C construction under the company’s Environmental Assessment Certificate. While the BC Environmental Assessment Office did finally issue a violation citation against BC Hydro for causing siltation of the Peace River contrary to its Environmental Assessment Certificate conditions. However, the much bigger issue of high levels of silt from ongoing machines working in the Peace River since early last winter has yet to be investigated and reported back as promised from the BC Environmental Assessment Office. Further, the PVLA brought to the EAO’s attention that BC Hydro has not been monitoring drinking water wells in the vicinity of the reservoir, as it is required to do under the Certificate conditions. The EAO confirmed in April 2016 that BC Hydro is not in compliance with Certificate conditions on this point, but has yet to confirm that BC Hydro has been brought in to compliance. PVLA commends the petitioners, Dr. Josette Weir and the Sierra Club of BC for taking the important step of seeking judicial review and oversight of the BC government’s decision making in this most recent case under the Wildlife Act. Environmental assessment and protection laws are the product of generations of hard work, and have been democratically enacted because they are fundamentally necessary for all of us. For the government of the day to side step these laws to fast-track this Project makes a mockery of the rule of law, and is dangerous. —Ken Boon, President, Peace Valley Landowner Association Got something to say about a hot button issue? Send us a Letter to the Editor. Email editor@ahnfsj.ca or fill out the form on our website, alaskahighwaynews.ca
he other day, Metro News reported on the increase in the illegal dumping of mattresses in Vancouver. Now, mattresses are a bit of a soap box issue for me to begin with, but seriously, a three-fold increase in people just dumping their mattresses wherever they want in the last decade? You have got to be kidding me! Illegal dumping in general is something that costs taxpayers tremendous amounts of time and money—much, much more than if the person took their stuff to the landfill and paid the fee. But here’s the kicker: mattresses are completely recyclable. And they end up in landfills (and back alleys) all the time. Now, as we move collectively away from large vehicles and more towards public or active transportation, we are going to have to figure out what to do with bulky household waste like mattresses, the couch you inherited from your Great Grandma, and the kitchen table you’ve been carting around since college. Because honestly, when was the last time you saw someone with a mattress on a bus. Never. And that’s not just because the bus doesn’t go to the landfill. In B.C., we have these great organizations called stewards. They brought us the plans to return drink containers for deposit, the ability to recycle our heavy metal-laden electronics and all that paint you’ve been storing in your shed because you might need it later. I personally think these programs have staved off a divorce or two because there’s much less guilt when you recycle these products. What is the next evolution in stewardship programming in this province of ours? I would say that mattresses fit the bill perfectly! First, mattresses are a pain in the almighty patooty! If you’ve ever moved, you know what I’m talking about. And if you haven’t discovered the joys of a split box spring, your experience likely sounded a lot like an episode of Friends! Second, getting your mattress to a second hand store, transfer station, or landfill is not easy if you do not have appropriate transportation for this task. Third, thrift stores often have to dispose of them anyway because people donated to avoid paying fees on them. And fourth, when your mattress gets to the landfill, they are super annoying to manage. For the same reasons the sales person listed when you bought it, these items don’t really compact. This leaves them “floating” around and generally making a nuisance until the end of time. There are places that you can drop off mattresses for reuse if they’re still in good condition but most do not pick up or deliver, so we face the same transportation issues getting the mattress to its new home as we did before. There are even places that recycle mattresses. They take them all apart and sort them into their component parts, bale and ship them off for processing. These places employ people that need to get paid for their time and efforts towards saving the planet from roving hoards of zombie mattresses. This means that you usually have to pay to drop them off. Most people would rather spend that $20 on a coffee or a lottery ticket and we’ve cycled back to our illegal dumping issue. Oh, and all of these places are in the Vancouver area, so transporting a truck full of mattresses down from here for recycling is a costly endeavour no matter how big your soap box is. So, if I had one stewardship wish, it would be that mattresses were managed by an organization responsible for mattresses all over the province. They could come to your house or apartment and pick up the unruly mattresses (and maybe other furniture too). Then the mattresses would be delivered to the fantastic recycling place and stop floating around our back alleys, ditches and landfills. Karen Mason-Bennett is a program co-ordinator for the Northern Environmental Action Team in Fort St. John. Visit neat.ca for more.
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Delayed air ambulances ‘putting lives in jeopardy’: PRRD
BUILDING THE HONOUR HOUSE Dan Davies, representing the Heroes Dinner Committee, presented a cheque for $2,500 to the Honour House Society in New Westminster last week. Honour House supports all first responders, military members, and veterans (including families) by providing accommodations while accessing medical services in the Lower Mainland. Incidentally, there is a local veteran staying there now. Funds were raised during last months Heroes Dinner in Fort St. John. For more information on Honour House, visit honourhouse.ca.
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Delayed air ambulance flights are putting medical patients in need of urgent care at risk, Peace River Regional District directors say. The district is pushing provincial officials to station a medical aircraft on the east side of the Rockies after a pattern of delays put “lives in jeopardy,� PRRD acting chair Brad Sperling said in a letter to BC Emergency Health Services (EHS). The EHS operates a fleet of fixed-wing and helicopter air ambulances from bases in Vancouver, Kelowna, Kamloops, Prince George and Prince Rupert. Residents in the northeast, however, often face delays due to weather over the Rockies, PRRD directors say. “Our people, our residents are definitely at risk,� Electoral Area B Director Karen Goodings said. She said she’d spoken with one resident who had an inter-hospital air transfer delayed three times. Stationing medical aircraft in Northeast B.C. would make it easier to transfer patients to hospitals in Alberta instead of flying over the Rockies, she said. “I feel very strongly that we are still not being taken seriously enough about the need for an air ambulance aircraft to be stationed in this region,� she said at the July 14 meeting of the PRRD. Dawson Creek Mayor Dale Bumstead said residents in his city have also struggled with air ambulance delays. “It’s a significant issue for us,� he said. “We had a gentleman from Dawson Creek this winter who was (delayed) three to four days. He finally private chartered himself out because he couldn’t get an air ambulance out of here for emergency heart surgery.� According to EHS, there were 173 air ambulance trips to and from Peace Region airports between November 2015 and April 2016. Ninety-nine of those were designated as “red� transfers—patients at risk of death or losing a limb or organ. Of those, three took more than 24 hours from initial call to the patient being loaded into the air ambulance. The majority of patients in critical condition (77) were transferred within six hours. The remaining 19 were on board an air ambulance in 6-24 hours. In all, seven patients were sent to hospitals in Alberta. In a response to the PRRD, Chief Operating Officer Jodi Jensen said EHS could look at how it uses chartered carriers from the northeast “to meet your communities’ unique needs.� Regional district directors say they plan to raise the issue with the provincial health ministry.
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be attending the University of Alberta for a Bachelor in Engineering; and • Erin Stutt, who will be attending Northern Lights College to pursue an Electrical Apprenticeship. Most of the students will be starting classes in the fall, NPSCU said in a release. “Investing in education provides a strong foundation for skill development, leading to the enhancement and strengthening of our communities,” NPSCU CEO Mitchel Chilcott said in a statement. “Being able to provide some relief to the financial stress of post-secondary education is another way in which we help our members succeed in life.”
Two new ultrasound techs in the north Northern Health says it has cross-trained two x-ray technologists in ultrasound who will be used to address needs in Dawson Creek and Fort Nelson. The techs were trained online through the Burwin Institute of Diagnostic Medical Ultrasound and practicums at Northern Health facilities, the health authority said in a news release. The pair have passed their national ultrasound certification, and have committed to staying in their respective communities for
the next two years. Dayna Van Haren is will work three weeks each month in Dawson Creek and spend the fourth week in Fort Nelson. “The part-time position in Fort Nelson was previously covered by a locum who was preparing to retire, which would have left the community without an ultrasound tech,” Northern Health said. Meanwhile, Michael McCue filled a position in Prince Rupert that had been vacant for 27 months. —Staff
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LNG was initially touted as a means of eliminating B.C.’s debt and creating a multibillion dollar government prosperity fund. However, oil and gas prices have since collapsed due to oversupply, tempering expectations for the industry. The United States, B.C.’s biggest natural gas customer, meanwhile, is set to become a net exporter of gas by 2017. Premier Christy Clark has since said the new markets afforded by LNG are the best chance of keeping the province’s natural gas industry from going into terminal decline. Kathleen Connolly, director of the Dawson Creek Chamber
of Commerce, a member of the coalition, said Peace Region communities need a Plan B in case an LNG industry does not materialize. “Even if LNG happens, we’re still a few years out,” she said. “What are we going to do in the meantime, and how are we going to find ways to use the resources we have?” She described talks with the ministry in Victoria last week as “very preliminary.” “The conversation was really what are we going to do, what’s Plan B?” she said. “I think there’s a recognition we have stranded assets here. Our markets are diminishing, so what do we have to do to capitalize on that resource?”
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Hudson’s Hope said goodbye to Dr. Rurik Hubner March 31. Dr. Ramesh Kamath, who left the Fort St. John Primary Care Clinic April 1, moved to the community to fill in for four months. Northern Health advises the following: • If you require urgent care, please call 9-1-1. • You can book an appointment with a physician or nurse practitioner at the North Peace Primary Care Clinic 250.262.5210 or the Chetwynd Primary Care Clinic 250.788.7300. Make sure to call ahead to check the clinic’s hours or book an appointment as appropriate.
• Call HealthLink BC at 8-1-1 for confidential health information and non-emergency services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For deaf and hearing-impaired assistance (TTY), call 7-1-1. • If you have a cold, ask your pharmacist for advice about over-the-counter medications to ease your symptoms. • If you have concerns about your mental health, call the Community Response Unit at 250-565-2668. • If you are concerned about a possible poisoning or exposure to a toxic substance, call Poison Control at 1-800-567-8911.
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Rental market goes from boom to bust in 18 months JONNY WAKEFIELD reporter@dcdn.ca
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respectively. A year before, those rates sat at 5.3 and 2.5 per cent, according to the CMHC. In spring of 2014, Fort St. John had an apartment vacancy rate of just 1.5 per cent. In Dawson Creek, three of every four residential units built between 2012 and 2015 were rentals, according to Kurjata. “I saw the oversupply issues coming,” he said. “I did not see the demand vanishing at the same time.” Powell, who worked for the CMHC before founding Li-Car Property Management Group, said official vacancy rates don’t take into account properties with fewer than three units—leaving out duplexes, homes with suites and other types of rentals. When those properties are accounted for, Fort St. John’s overall vacancy rate is now closer to 30 per cent, she said, with more rental units set to come on the market in the coming months.
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Rental companies continue to drop rents to hold on to tenants. Daniel Martin, who works as a medic in the oilpatch, said his landlord has knocked hundreds of dollars off the two-bedroom apartment he shares with his fiancé. In some cases, the property management company has Investors Group Financial Services Inc., I.G. Insurance Services Inc. renegotiated leases with people in his building who have been recently laid off. “They decided it’s better to DAPHNE HOGG lower the rent and have people Consultant pay instead of not paying the rent 9319 - 100th Avenue, Fort St. John, BC V1J 1X8 at all,” Martin said. “Everyone’s feeling Ph. (250) 785-4312 the crunch, even the Fax (250) 785-2344 superintendents (at work),” Cell (250) 264-7399 he added. “It’s flowing to daphne.hogg@investorsgroup.com everybody, so it was only Licensed Sponsored by The Great-West Life Assurance Company inevitable the landowners
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themselves would have to take a cut.” Kurjata, who rents a pair of duplexes, also faced that choice. “I have units that I haven’t changed, but I didn’t change them while rents were going up either. They’ve been moderately priced the entire time. Then I have units that are down by more than half because they were exorbitant.” Powell said that in some ways, she’s happy to see the market cool off. “When you have a zero per cent or a negative vacancy rate, no one benefits in the long run,” she said. “The tenant turnover is so fast landlords can’t get in and do the necessary repairs and upgrades. You get slack on checking your references. It’s just not a good environment.” But the weak rental market has left homeowners with few ways out if they lose their jobs. Powell has heard from more than a dozen families this month who faced a stark choice: find a tenant or lose the home. “I ask them what their expectation for rent is and they say ‘for $1,800 I could do it.’ I have to tell them ‘I’m really sorry, but that’s not the magic number.’ You can hear the panic in their voices.” Without a new outlet for B.C.’s natural gas, she’s not sure when the market will stabilize. “This is deep,” she said. “I don’t think we’ve seen the bottom yet.”
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A record of 24 teams turned up to play ball at the 5th Annual Arnie Isberg Memorial 1-Pitch Softball Tournament, June 24-26 at the Taylor Baseball Diamonds. Thanks to sponsors, volunteers, and over 200 players, this year’s tournament raised the highest amount yet, with over $19,000 for the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation’s Cancer Diagnostic and Treatment Fund. Funds raised will be put to work purchasing equipment that will help in diagnosing, treating, and comforting patients with cancer at the Fort St. John Hospital. This year in addition to the ball games, 50/50 and draws, the first “Light for Life, Join the Fight” luminary ceremony was held. This allowed anyone to purchase a bag for $5 and decorate it with their special message to remember those lost from cancer, and celebrate those still fighting for their lives. A special Thank You to Team Sumo for planning and organizing such an amazing event! As well, Thank You to all the teams that played, all the winning teams for donating your winnings back, volunteers for your countless hours, and sponsors. Without you all this event would not have been so successful. Event Sponsors include: Rudy’s Highway Car & Truck Wash, Peace Country Rentals, Northern Spring Break & Steering, Peace River Hydro Partners, Precision Well Servicing, Inland Heidelberg Cement Group, Jerry’s Diesel Performance, Highmark Oilfield Services, Roska, High Arctic Energy Services, Fort St. John Petroleum Association, Western Financial, Macenna Staffing, Great Canadian Oil Change, Tyron Professional Group, Belziuk & Associates, Above & Beyond Compression, McElhanney, Alaska Hi-Way Autobody, The Station, JPSI, Murray GM, Kim & Jim Harris, Peace River Building Products, Zoo Food, Rona, Imagine That, The Hair Bin, The Jason McBride, recipient of this year’s award for most dedicated and sportsman like player with the love of the Butcher Block, Save On Foods, and The District of Taylor. game, in memory of Dan “Sumo” Ruttan.
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Document your life changes Life is change – marriages begin and end, children are born and grow, you are employed for years and then you retire – and at each step along the way, you must document those changes. There are certain important documents in your life – more than you may realize – that will dictate who gets your financial support while you’re alive and how your legacy will be distributed when you’re gone – and each time there is a change in your life, those documents need to be updated. Here are a few to consider: • Budgets: Review the sources of income and expenses for you and a new partner and update your family budget. Update as necessary. • Properties: Update property ownerships. Speak to your legal advisors regarding ways to hold title to property in a way that benefits your children and carries out your wishes. • Financial plans: If you and a new partner have separate financial plans, update to a cohesive plan that will best help attain your new family’s objectives. • Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs) Ensure RESPs are in place for every child who does not already have one. • Beneficiaries: Update the beneficiaries of your life insurance policies and Registered Retirement Savings Plans
(RRSPs). • Wills: Update your Will right away. If you die without a valid Will – any previous Wills may be rendered invalid when you remarry, although a Will is not automatically revoked when a person divorces – your estate may be divided without regard for your wishes, your assets may be frozen while distributions are determined, you may inadvertently disinherit some children, and your heirs may have to pay more taxes. • Power of Attorney (POA) and Power of Attorney for Personal Care: A POA is the designate for your financial affairs should you become incapacitated. A Power of Attorney for Personal Care (sometimes referred to as a Living Will or Health Care Directive) explicitly authorizes your designate to make medical treatment decisions on your behalf. Update your designates as life changes dictate. • Personal Representative: Sometimes called an Executor or Liquidator (in Québec), this designate will administer your estate when you die. Update your designate as needed, selecting a capable individual who will also make the more sensitive decisions involving your family. This column is written and published by Investors Group Financial Services Inc. For more information on this topic, contact your Investors Group consultant.
Canfor opens two new pellet plants Canfor cut the ribbon on two new pellet plants in Chetwynd and Fort St. John on Tuesday, July 19. The two plants, at a cost of $58 million, were built at Canfor’s existing sawmills, and have a combined annual production capacity of 175,000 tonnes of wood pellets. The Chetwynd plant began operations late last year, while the Fort St. John plant reached full operations earlier this year. “(The plants) play an important role in maximizing the value of our fibre with their production of sustainable wood pellets from once waste-bound sawmill residues,” Canfor CEO Don Kayne wrote in a post on the company’s website. Wood pellets are a form of wood fuel generally made from compacted sawdust. When put into pellet stoves,
they can create a heat source proponents say is green and natural. Kayne says the installation of an organic rankine cycle, which functions as a power plant, has made the Chetwynd pellet plant self-sufficient in renewable heat and electricity. The ORC converts 20 per cent of the heat generated by the plant’s energy system into electricity—up to 21,000 megawatt hours a year, or enough to power 1,470 homes. The remaining 80 per cent of the heat is used to dry sawdust into pellets. “We’re proud to officially celebrate the addition of the Chetwynd and Fort St. John Pellet Plants and Canfor’s further expansion in green energy production,” Kayne said. —Staff
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Ibrahim Guden with Wales McLelland Construction hammers away on the new $5 million BC Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU) building in Fort St. John last week. The build is the fifth BCGEU office Wales McLelland has undertaken, with previous new offices built in the Lower Mainland, Nanaimo, Kelowna, and Prince George. After Fort St. John, the company will build new offices for the union in Terrace.
$6 million mansion listed in Fort St. John JONNY WAKEFIELD reporter@dcdn.ca
O n e - h u n d re d - a n d - s i x t y- a c re s. 7,640 square feet. Crystal chandeliers. A four-bay shop. A $6 million mega-home in Fort St. John that hit the market on July 21 is “custom built from the ground up,” the realtor working to sell the property says. “There’s so much work and detail that’s gone into that place that it’s unreal,” said Roland Cataford. The home, located on a gated compound at 11040 271 Road, includes five bedrooms, a children’s play space, billiards and media rooms and two chandeliers—one of Swarovski Crystals, one of African Crystal. “The owners sat down and drew it out themselves and ran it through an architect,” Cataford said. “They custom built from the ground up. The thing is loaded right from the carpet to the drapes, to the crystals and diamonds.” “The railings alone on the staircase
is $20,000,” he added. “Half the walls aren’t painted, they’re done with marble dust to give it that coliseum look. At night time when you drive by (and it’s) all lit up, it’s like Vegas.” The sale price includes a separate trailer home and a four-bay shop, currently used by Thunder Oilfield Services. With the downturn in the local economy, Cataford said finding a buyer for the home will be a challenge. However, the property itself is a money maker, he said. The agricultural land includes two oil and gas sites, providing a secondary source of income, as well as a hayfield that brings in around $3,000 a year. “There’s a great opportunity there for someone who has a little bit of money that has either another trucking company or wants to lease that shop out,” he said. “It’s going to be different. It’s not like I’ve got one across town I can compare with. It’s completely rare in every sense,” he said.
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The commercial start up in early July of AltaGas Ltd.’s $430 million integrated midstream complex at Townsend near Wonowon offers significant potential for the midstreamer to leverage its footprint in the area, says its chief executive. “These facilities are the first major step with our northeast B.C. strategy,” David Harris, president and CEO, said July 21 in a conference call to discuss second quarter 2016 results. “With one of the only major modern gas processing facilities there, we have significant competitive advantages to offer further capacity for producers in the region.” AltaGas’s own construction team did a “fantastic job” to bring the Townsend facility, associated infrastructure, the gas gathering lines, the liquids egress lines and the Alaska Highway truck terminal in ahead of schedule, and roughly $40 million under budget, said Harris. Project updates
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Painted Pony Petroleum Ltd. has reserved all of the firm capacity at the Townsend facility under a 20year take-or-pay agreement. The estimated final cost for the facility and associated infrastructure is expected to be approximately $330 million which includes the plant, sales gas line, improvements to site, local roads and the Alaska Highway, as well as additional compression. The Townsend facility started commercial operations July 10. Volumes are expected to progressively ramp up through the fourth quarter of 2016. AltaGas achieved capital efficiencies during construction of the Townsend facility and related infrastructure, and the project is expected to be completed under budget with AltaGas and Painted Pony sharing the cost savings. Incremental to the Townsend facility are two other related projects. The first is a 25-kilometre gas gathering line, which connects the Blair Creek field gathering area to the Townsend facility. The line was completed under
budget at approximately $35 million and on schedule, and Painted Pony has reserved all of the firm service on the line under a 20-year take-or-pay agreement. The second project consists of two 30 -kilometre liquids egress lines running from the Townsend facility to a new truck terminal on the Alaska Highway. The pipelines can move initial liquids volumes of up to 10,000 barrels per day each, and with pumping modifications can accommodate up to 30,000 barrels per day each. The twin pipelines were substantially constructed in the first quarter of 2016. Construction of the truck terminal is also substantially complete and pre-commissioning is expected to be completed by the end of July 2016. Painted Pony is expected to reserve firm liquids capacity on the liquids egress lines for all the liquids from the first phase of the Townsend facility under a 20-year take-or-pay agreement. The two liquids egress lines and the truck terminal are now estimated to cost approximately $65 million when completed, well under the original budget. North Pine liquids separation project AltaGas is developing a liquids separation and handling facility (North Pine Facility) approximately 40 kilometres northwest of Fort St. John. The facility will be connected to existing AltaGas infrastructure in the region, including the proposed Ridley Island propane export terminal, and will serve producers in the Montney region. Engagement with First Nations and key stakeholders continues, and on April 14, 2016 AltaGas filed its application with the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission (OGC). Approval is expected in the third quarter of 2016. The North Pine Facility and the two liquids supply lines are expected to cost approximately $190 to $210 million. AltaGas expects to receive permits and reach a FID in 2016 with commercial operations beginning in the first half of 2018.
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Go for a drive and you’re likely to find plenty of Mel Kostiuk’s wooden signs adorning driveways and lawns around Fort St. John and the surrounding area. The wood carver hails from Calgary, but has made Fort St. John a sort of second home and annual summer vacation spot, setting up shop in the Totem Mall parking lot plying his trade. “Any northern community likes things that are natural, wood or rustic, whatever they want,” Kostiuk says on a recent afternoon. “I’ve found in the northern parts of the provinces, that people are proud of who they are and what they have, and are not afraid of putting up a
sign saying Jim Jones Trucking or whatever the case is. In the cities and further down south, it seems that everybody, what they do and where they are is a secret. In the north, they’re proud of who they are and what they’ve accomplished and they’ve put up a sign. “So that’s what keeps me busy here.” Kostiuk is a carpenter by trade, and began carving signs around 35 years ago. At the time, he worked for a friend’s furniture company, refinishing log dressers, beds, and chairs that were built in Ontario and shipped to Calgary. Kostiuk later moved on to work sales at the company’s mall shows before he was shown how to carve signs. It was the perfect way to mix business with creativity, Kostiuk says.
“I’ve always been artistic, ever since I was in Grade 5. My cover sheets for my projects were always the nicest, and I wasn’t too popular with a lot of parents … because I would take felt pens and draw tattoos on my buddies. They were beautiful drawings on their arms, but they were still felt drawings on arms,” he says. “When they taught me how to carve their basic signs, I took that and just expanded and expanded and expanded. “Within a couple years, I was their number one sign carver. They would put me in malls where they were the busiest doing signs because I made the fastest, prettiest signs they had. “I bought that business out after a couple years and I’ve been doing it ever since.” Kostiuk began taking his
mobile studio on the road to towns in Western Canada, but says he turned north to Fort St. John in the 1980s as economies “got tough” along the Yellowhead Highway. “I have so many friends here … I feel as at home here as I do at home,” he says, adding that when he was younger he would hit different towns and cities every week. “As you get older and are satisfied with what you’ve got or where you want to be, you just stay there longer.” That doesn’t mean Kostiuk hasn’t picked up any side jobs—he keeps busy during the winter on larger carving projects. Some of his carvings have also been commissioned for display by the historic and luxurious Banff Springs Hotel.
The index ranks both overall crime and violent crime. Fort St. John had a higher rate of violent crime than Dawson Creek last year, with an index score of 221.68 to 173.40. Both cities saw year-toyear increases in overall crime severity. Crime severity
increased around 30 per cent in Dawson Creek and 16.04 per cent in Fort St. John. However, overall crime has been declining in the region since 1998. In that year Dawson Creek had a crime severity index score of 266.60, while Fort St. John was at 213.63.
Canada as a whole saw its first rise in police-reported crime in 12 years in 2015, according to Statistics Canada. The crime severity index increased five per cent from 2014 to 2015, but was 31 per cent lower than it was a decade ago.
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Alaska trip was about making peace for man killed in collision Daniel Dutrisac had planned to ride highway with partner who passed away from cancer JONNY WAKEFIELD reporter@dcdn.ca
Daniel Dutrisac and his partner Andre Lamothe had always dreamed of seeing Alaska. The two had planned to ride the highway to Fairbanks on their Harleys when they retired, before Lamothe fell ill with cancer and passed away last October. When Dutrisac packed for the seven-day ride from Timmins, ON earlier this month, he brought Andre’s helmet with him. “Dan decided to make it a memorial ride,” his brother Tim Trevenna said. “He took Andre’s helmet with him and made it all the way to Alaska. He shared a few posts along the way, where he was going everyday, what he was thinking.” On his way back, Dutrisac was killed when his bike collided with a delivery van at an intersection in Dawson Creek on July 20. He was 54. Trevenna remembers his brother as a caring man who loved travel and cooking and planned to retire to Panama
after completing his ride. Dutrisac was born and raised in Timmins. He went to school for nursing, and was working for the Victorian Order of Nurses and as a nursing instructor at Northern College at the time of his death. Dutrisac had been all over the world, including a volunteer stint in Saudi Arabia training nurses. He married Lamothe, his partner of 20 years, seven years ago, Trevenna said. The two loved travel, as well as spending time at their cottage of Ice Chest Lake near Timmins. Around a decade ago, the two bought Harley-Davidsons. “They wanted a different view of the world,” Trevenna said. “They started travelling across Canada, different trips: B.C., the East Coast, on their bikes.” In 2015, Lamothe passed away after a brief battle with kidney cancer. Dutrisac planned to go to Alaska to honour his partner. The trip seemed to help his brother grieve, Trevenna said “He said ‘I got here, seven
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days, 1,000 kilometres a day.’” he said of their last conversation. “He’d basically made peace with his (partner’s) death and was preparing to start a new chapter in his life.” Trevenna said he hopes his brother’s death leads to new safety measures at the intersection of 15th and Alaska Avenue. Dutrisac was stabilized on scene by a trauma nurse who was a passenger in the vehicle involved in the crash. Two off-duty police officers also witnessed the collision and were some of the first on scene. While Dutrisac regained consciousness and was talking to paramedics on his ride to hospital, he died after being put in a medically-induced coma for surgery While the city hopes to improve the intersection by adding a turn lane, city officials can only advocate for changes to the province, which has jurisdiction over Alaska Avenue. According to a recent road safety audit, there were 48 crashes at the intersection between 2008 and 2013.
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Traffic impacts We have approval from the B.C. Utilities Commission to begin work on the WAC Bennett Dam Rip-Rap Upgrade Project. The early stages of the project will see the contractor mobilize equipment and workers to the area. During the month of August 2016 our contractor will start with road maintenance on the Utah and Table Forest Service Roads (FSRs) and construction on the spur road access to the Sand Flat quarry site, west of the dam. Improvements including road widening, ditching and possible culvert repairs will then be made. Quarry operations and trucking are expected to start shortly after. Please be aware that traffic on the Utah and Table FSRs will see intermittent stoppages with flag person control. Please respect all speed limits in construction zones and obey traffic control personnel.
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Communities In Bloom judges were in Fort St. John on July 21 to take a tour of the city with NEAT, including a stop at the cemetery behind the North Peace Savings & Credit Union. From Left: Judge Allie Double, Jeryn Mackey of Urban Systems, FSJ councillor Larry Evans, Karen Mason-Bennett with NEAT, Heather Desarmia with the Credit Union, Candace Peever and Harleen Kaur with Restorative Justice, Judge Shirley Gratton, and Edward Stanford with Urban Systems.
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An area pastor is asking Dawson Creek City Council to consider bringing back a voluntary prayer before meetings. At a meeting July 18, Ruth Czerniak, Pastor at the Tupper Church of the Nazarene in Tomslake, asked elected officials to bring back a five minute prayer session prior to council. Czerniak was part of a group of volunteer pastors “who met for five minutes before council, purely voluntary, for a few minutes of prayer” when Wayne Dahlen served as mayor. Council does not currently pray before meetings. However, a local pastor attended the inaugural meeting of council
in Dec. 2014 and began the proceedings with a Christian prayer. Czerniak’s request comes at a time when many local governments are phasing out pre-meeting prayer, after a Supreme Court of Canada ruling against a Quebec municipality. In early 2015, the city of Calgary voted to end prayer before meetings, opting instead for a moment of quiet reflection. Chetwynd, the only Peace Region municipality to pray before meetings, said it was reviewing its policy after the ruling. Czerniak said the recent shootings of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge led her to contemplate bringing back prayer in Dawson Creek.
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After years of decline, caribou herd shows signs of recovery B.C.’s Rocky Mountain foothills used to be hundreds of animals strong, but three years ago, there were just Garrett Napoleon and Harley Davis 16 caribou. Now, after three years of walk up from their cabin with several protected calving, the herd is up to bags of lichen, collected by community around 70 animals. Maternal penning members from under the pines between allows mothers and calves to bond in Chetwynd and Tumbler Ridge, where a safe place, and lets the calf get fast there are hoards of the food stuff. enough to keep up with the mother Over the last few weeks, the herd once they’re released. has been weaned off a diet of pellets of “It gives them a much stronger fats, minerals and protein back to plain fighting chance of survival,” says West lichen in preparation for release back Moberly Chief Roland Willson. into the wild. It’s two days until Davis Everyone seems encouraged by how and Napoleon will open up the fence, the new calves are doing, but maternal and they feel sad to say goodbye. penning is not a golden bullet for the “Sad but happy,” Davis says. “It’s caribou’s woes. The population has time for the caribou to be out on their been in decline primarily due to habitat own, and we’ll still monitor them after loss and changes to predation. Caribou are a migratory animal and they’re out.” This maternal pen is run by Saulteau need wide uninterrupted spaces to and West Moberly First Nations along roam. Access roads for logging, gas with Wildlife Infometrics, which was wells and mines fragment their habitat hired three years ago to intervene in the and inadvertently give predators easy access to terrain that used to be declining numbers of caribou. The Klinze-za herd in Northeast natural sanctuary for caribou. Wolves, for example, don’t travel well in deep snow like caribou do with their spindly legs, but access roads have paved a way for wolves to the formerly inaccessible mountain tops. There’s no avoiding the invasive capture process, but the team at Wildlife Infometrics do what they can to prevent In 2016, the FWCP funded 20 projects to help conserve harm, beginning with picking and enhance fish and wildlife impacted by existing what cows to capture. BC Hydro dams in our Peace Region. The projects “We try to pick cows who are underway and are being delivered by local First don’t have a calf with them, Nations, stewardship groups, agencies and others. And or a teenager from last year. now we’re accepting grant applications for next year’s And we look at the group size, projects. Join us. Apply for an FWCP grant at fwcp.ca. if there’s only two or three we • Learn more and read our Grant Application won’t take one. We don’t want Information Kit at fwcp.ca/apply-for-funding to break up the families too • Read our Peace Region Action Plans and find out more about our conservation priorities and projects much,” says Brian Pate who works for the company. • Submit a mandatory Notice of Intent by September The capture starts with 21, 2016, to support early engagement of First Nations a helicopter chase, where a • Submit your online grant application by October 28, professional shoots a net gun 2016 to trap the caribou, and then drops down to hold her in place Contact our Peace Region Manager, Dan Bouillon, at until help arrives. dan.bouillon@bchydro.com or 250-783-7509. “Once he covers the eyes, Visit fwcp.ca. usually they calm down pretty The Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program is a partnership between BC Hydro, the quickly,” Pate says. Province of B.C., Fisheries & Oceans Canada, First Nations and Public Stakeholders to ZOË DUCKLOW
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Above: Harley Davis lives in the rustic cabin every second week from March until mid-July with cousin and fellow herder Garret Napoleon. Right: A caribou cow in a pen near Chetwynd. The new mother was one of 17 animals released back into the wild July 15 as part of a program to restore caribou populations.
“The veterinarian lands in a helicopter just behind, and they’ll check over the cow and give her a nasal spray that’s like a relaxant.” Assuming nothing went wrong with the net gun—broken legs are a risk, which is why they use a professional, Pate says—the main concern is temperature. Designed for life at -40 C, caribou are made to keep heat, not lose it. Running away from a helicopter is hot work, so the veterinarian wants to make sure the animal doesn’t overheat. Next, they’ll hobble her legs so no one gets kicked and load her into the helicopter, landing a half-kilometre away from the pen so as not to frighten the animals already there. They’ll bring her the rest of the way with a snowmobile and sleigh combination. At the pen, veterinarians check over her health, record weight, and collect various samples before administering an antidote for the nasal spray. “Within a minute or so she’ll bounce right up and be fine,” Pate says. This is the cost of development, some conservationists say. It would be nice to think of maternal pens as an ideal solution to population decline, but in truth it’s far from it. “We can pen and recover as many caribou as we want,” Willson says, “but if we don’t have the habitat for them, it’s not going to mean anything. They’re just going to keep on getting eaten.” He’s called for wider habitat protection but says the provincial government is unwilling to protect areas with natural resources. “The only part they have protected is the high alpine, because there’s nothing that they want there. But low elevation habitat zones are just as critically important—the caribou can’t stay on top of the mountain all the time—but the government values the coal more than they value the caribou,” he says. “We’ve said this all the time that,
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the First Nations are not opposed to development, but it’s got to be done in a sustainable and responsible manner.” Napoleon and Davis are two caribou herders from Saulteau who live up in the mountains every other week from March to mid-July, rotating with two other herders from West Moberly. “I stay out of the politics and just look after these guys,” Davis says, looking over the herd who are slowly making their way towards breakfast. “Some people do all this scientific stuff, but it’s simple, really. They just need food, a good habitat, fresh water and protection.” Earlier this month, the herders opened the fence releasing the nine cows and eight calves back to their usual haunts. By late afternoon, they had all left the pen, calves with their mothers. Four cows and three calves got out in mid-June when a portion of the pen fence was damaged by heavy rainfall and flooding in the region. The crew has kept an eye on the animals that left early—so far they seem to be doing fine. Each animal is fitted with a radio collar that records their position once a day, and transmits the data to Wildlife Infometrics Wednesday afternoons. “Scientifically, we’re looking to see what habitat they choose. We’re interested to see if they join up with other animals,” Pate says. “We also look to see that they aren’t moving around too much. This would be a sign they’re being pushed by predators. Normally, caribou will find a place they like and stay there for a while, moving maybe 200 metres in a day. But if there’s a bear or something, they might run 10 kilometres in a day.”
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Kowalski tops record at NLR In his 25th anniversary season of racing in Fort St. John, David Kowalski now owns a special record BYRON HACKETT sports@ahnfsj.ca
David Kowalski has liked going fast ever since he and his dad first hauled their 1971 Chevy Vega out of a backyard, a car that’s still more than capable of running fast times 25 years after it first hit the track in Fort St. John. Kowalski, his father and his son Devon, were out in full force celebrating the 25th anniversary of their racing team at Northern Lights Raceway for the third race this year, but it was David’s 2015 Corvette Stingray that stole the show on the weekend. The souped up ride is touted as one of the fastest corvettes in North America and routinely hits over 200 mph on the radar gun and under seven seconds almost every time down the track. The deafening sound of the engine drew the ire of the crowd Sunday afternoon. Last weekend in Edmonton the corvette went 6.33 seconds in a quarter-mile, a time that would have broken the track record at NLR, which used to sit at 6.49. Kowalski explained Sunday that to break the record, he’d probably have to make some modifications to his car, but in the first elimination race he put down a 6.7 second run, easily advancing. Later on Sunday, Kowalski topped the previous track record with a 6.40 second time. NLR president Mark Brush said having a family like the Kowalski’s around the track just shows how deep the ties with racing are in the community and what kind of calibre racers
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Above: Dave Kowalski in his 2015 Corvette Stringray broke the track record at Northern Lights Raceway on Sunday with a time of 6.4 seconds, topping the old time of 6.49 seconds set by Dale Pederson in 2014. Below: The eldest Kowalski in their 1971 Chevy Vega hits the track at Northern Lights Raceway.
show up throughout the year. “Their family is third generation, this is their 25th anniversary of racing at Northern Lights Raceway. So that’s huge,” Brush said. “I can’t begin to tell you how big a family this is… it’s an amazing community of people here.” Overall, more than 90 cars were out on a sunny, but windy weekend in Fort St. John, a turnout that had the first year president of the track glowing with pride. “Blew my mind,” Brush said about the number of racers on the weekend. “Absolute great turnout, we have great, great racers here. Really cool, really fast cars, mo-
torcycles and sleds. We had over a 90 car count. Huge, a lot of
pure street which is really good, those are the guys that are going
to step into bigger cars. They are going to get addicted and want to keep doing it.” On Saturday, July 23, Kelsie Epp in her 2000 Silverado Duramax was the top racer in the pure street class with an elapsed time of 12.868 seconds over Kevin Wiebe who was the runner up. In the No Box category, Kevin Noehring raced his 1970 Plymouth Duster down the track in 10.074 to take the win. John Tiegan and his 1983 Chevy Camaro took top spot with a 8.605 second run in the Box final. William Suisdahl was the bike/sled winner on Saturday and Kailee Morton won the junior dragster class. On July 24, Jason Miller was the fastest pure street racer in 14.080 seconds. Kevin Fehr was the top No Box winner in 12.301. Tiegan took his second straight Box win of the weekend in a time of 8.619 seconds. Richard Rollinson won the bike/sled category and Daylen Miller was the fastest junior dragster. See Drags on B2
Big kicks for future soccer stars at UVIC Camp BYRON HACKETT sports@ahnfsj.ca
Enthusiasm is not a skill, but an attitude. So, as eager soccer players arrived at the Dr. Kearny gym in Fort St. John for the 9th annual University of Victoria Vikes soccer camp this week, head coach Bruce Wilson knew what to expect. “We enjoy coming up to Fort St. John,” Wilson said. “The kids that we work with are very good, very nice to work with and our coaches like it.” Wilson has been a soccer coach for nearly three decades and says the one thing he and his counselors always notice, most of whom are current or former Vikes players, is how engaged kids are with the skills from day one. “The fact that they want to be there, there are soccer-related kids. Often in Victoria we get kids in our soccer camps that aren’t necessarily soccer players,” he said. “This camp is all soccer people and we notice it right from the opening day. The coaches have mentioned to me they are very keen and they really want to be here and it’s great to work with kids like that.” Numbers are down this year, last
year’s camp had about 92 players from ages 9-16, this year only 63 are registered. Despite this, Wilson says he is still continually impressed by the talent that is being fostered in the younger age group of players in Fort St. John. “I’ve always said when I come up here the little guys, all the players up here are as good as anyone down in Victoria,” he said. It is in the years the follow that Wilson recognizes where the problem might arise, as playing against top level talent means regular trips to Edmonton and Prince George. “The difference is as they get older, the level of competition… compared to kids in Victoria or Vancouver and Richmond, the number of teams around those areas is huge. So the level of competition is much higher and I think that is a drawback for kids here down the road, but we’ve had some of the best kids we’ve had a UVIC from Terrace and Smithers.” Wilson added it’s tough in just a week to pass on very specific skills, but he noted giving the group the building blocks to take back to their teams into the indoor season and next year a vital to growing as a player. “Basically it’s all about running, it’s about passing and dribbling and shoot-
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Aiden Korfmann, 10, attemps a wild diving save at Vikes soccer camp in Fort St. John. The runs all week long at Dr. Kearny and Surrerus fields and will wrap up on Friday.
ing and control,” he said. “Each day we have a different theme… and Friday is a combination of everything. We try to go through all the fundamentals of the game and always keeping the camp fun.” Kaden Atkins, a veteran of the Vikes camp, said while he enjoys learning the fundamentals, he thinks having university level players teaching the skills is crucial to improvement. “It’s really cool for them to come here and teach us how they do it,” he said.
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Mason Miranda, 15, added the coaching has really improved his shot since he’s been at the camp the last few years. “Shooting, because I’ve never been a very hard kicker, but they helped me with the fundamentals of it because they have experience,” he added. Wilson and his UVIC player coaches will have very little time to recover before their pre-season gets underway as after a long trip back to Victoria on Saturday, they start into training for the upcoming year on Sunday.
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Trio of locals qualify for 2017 ITU Worlds BYRON HACKETT sports@ahnfsj.ca
A confident group in both their training and experience, three Fort St. John triathletes have qualified to compete at the 2017 International Triathlon Union Multisport World Championships in Penticton next summer. Irvin Tang, Sandra McDonald and Bob Andrews punched their tickets to the event earlier this month with top times at a qualifying event in Stony Plain, Alta. McDonald finished fourth in the 4549 female age category with a time of five hours, 11 minutes and 57 seconds. She said knowing that the top five finishers in each category would qualify for Worlds, there were some tense moments down the stretch. “It went really well,” McDonald said. “I was ready… I was very excited, I came off the bike and there were no other bikes in my area. I knew I was first off the bike and a women caught me two or three kilometres in [to the run portion]…I knew I came across the [finish] line fourth, so I was very relived, but very, very happy.” McDonald started her training in March for the race this summer and will run in an Ironman event this fall to improve her running in preparation for Worlds next summer. McDonald said in order to perform at her best next summer, running will be her main focus
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Irvin Tang (top) and Sandra McDonald (right) will be two of three representatives for Fort St. John at the 2017 ITU World Triathlon Championships in Penticton next summer.
leading up to the event. Andrews grabbed his spot with a second place finish in the 60-64 male age category, finishing the race in 5:32:31, just two seconds behind winner Kerry Nisbet of Edmonton. Tang worked his way into Worlds in the duathlon, with a top finish in the 3539 male age category and a fourth place finish overall at the event. He finished the race, which includes two running portions and a bike, in 2:06:49 which was also a personal best. “The duathlon is a little bit smaller overall, there were maybe 150 people.
Much smaller than the triathlon,” he said. “It felt great because it’s an early season race, so I have two more races that are also qualifiers… going into the race I kind of knew I would make it in, I have been in these races so I know where my times are and just looking in the past at the times. I knew probably top five would be within the books.” For this group, it’s the second time in the past two years that they will represent the region on the world stage, as they all attended the Ironman 2014 70.3 World Championships in Mount-Tremblant. The difference between the
two events will be a longer distance this time around, a bigger turnout and a few different events like auqathon and cross triathlon in the mix this time around. “The race is longer, it’s a three kilometre swim, 120 kilometre bike and a 30 kilometre run. So, it’s a little bit longer race. I’m hoping it will be about the same calibre [as last worlds] but there will be a lot of fast people there. I’ll just be excited to have all the different races there as well,” McDonald said.
Huge turnout for street legal races at NLR FROM DRAGS ON B1
On top of the Saturday and Sunday racing, Northern Lights Raceway has been hosting a Friday street legal race night, where people interested in the sport can
bring their car out to the track to give it a test drive. Brush said this weekend was the biggest crew yet and hopes to have even more at the final race day on Sept. 10. “Our Friday night street legals turned out phenomenal,” he said.
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place, bragging rights and free entry in Saturday’s race.” Mike Tomkins took home the street legal title on Friday. The last event of the summer at Northern Lights Raceway will go on Sept. 10 and 11.
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Graham Foster lines up in his 1983 Chevy Camero on Sunday at Northern Lights Raceway.
PRO GOLF WEEKLY UPDATE Golf News, Tips, Trivia & Stats
This Week: The PGA Championship
Last Week: Jhonattan Vegas won the Canadian Open
The PGA Championship is the final major championship of the season. This year, the event will be held at the Baltusrol Golf Club Defending: Jason Day in Springfield, N.J. The inaugural Winning Score: 20-under par PGA Championship took place in Winning Share: $1,800,000 1916 at the Siwanoy in Bronxville, N.Y. James M. Barnes won the first two titles in 1916 and 1919 (no championship occurred in 1917 and 1918). In the 1920’s Walter Hagen won five PGA Championships. That record held until it was tied by Jack Nicklaus. The Golden Bear won his first PGA in 1963 and his fifth in 1980. Baltusrol GC Springfield, N.J. 7,400 yards, Par 72
Golf TV Schedule PGA Event: PGA Championship Day Time Thu, 7/28 1pm-7pm Fri, 7/29 1pm-7pm Sat, 7/30 11am-2pm Sat, 7/30 2pm-7pm Sun, 7/31 11am-2pm Sun, 7/31 2pm-7pm
Jhonattan Vegas rallied Tournament Results to win the Canadian Open 1. Jhonattan Vegas Score: -12 on Sunday for his second Earnings: $1,062,000 PGA Tour title. The Player Score Earnings -11 $440,533 29-year-old Venezuelan began T-2. Dustin Johnson T-2. Jon Rahm -11 $440,533 the day 5 strokes behind leader T-2. Martin Laird -11 $440,533 Brandt Snedeker and had five straight birdies on holes 2-6, bogeyed the par-4 eighth and also birdied the par-5 13th. Vegas then birdied the final three holes for a final round 8-under par 64 and a one-stroke victory in Oakville, Ontario. U.S Open winner Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm and Martin Laird tied for second.
Golfing News
Tiger Woods ruled himself out of the PGA Championship on Tuesday, marking the first time in his career that he’s missed four consecutive majors. Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, said: “Continuing to make progress, but simply not ready for PGA. Will not play in the ‘15/’16 season and will continue to rehab and work hard to Golf Trivia then assess when he starts play for the What year was Baltusrol Golf Club ‘16/’17 season.” The decision, while not a founded? surprise, also means he will go an entire PGA Tour season without playing. Woods a) 1895 c) 1915 has now gone eight years since winning b) 1905 d) 1925 Answer: a) Baltusrol Golf Club was founded 121 his 14th major championship at the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. years ago in 1895 by Louis Keller. Network TNT TNT TNT CBS TNT CBS
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Lessons from the Golf Pro While watching John Daly make his long shot is quite entertaining to see, overswinging is a very common problem for the amateur golfer that creates a lot of havoc. The thought process behind taking a backswing beyond parallel is that a longer arc will create more clubhead speed. That is a true statement, but if you are all out of balance in trying to swing so hard, is there really any benefit? Since everybody’s mechanics are different, only a half-swing may be perfect for you. The key to determining what will produce the best shot in your arsenal is to swing back as far as you can turn your shoulders without tilting them or losing your balance. The only way to get a true description of what the best shot is for you is to practice and find out what feels right each time.
Player Profile
Jhonattan Vegas
Turned Professional: 2008 World Ranking: 86th FedEx Cup Ranking: 24th PGA Tour Wins: 2
FedEx Cup Standings Through July 25, 2016
1) Dustin Johnson 2,701 pts. / 12 top tens
2) Jason Day
2,405 pts. / 8 top tens
3) Adam Scott
2,011 pts. / 5 top tens
4) Jordan Spieth 1,904 pts. / 6 top tens
5) Brandt Snedeker 1,541 pts. / 6 top tens
FedEx Cup Standings continued... Player Points 6) Phil Mickelson 1,498 7) Russell Knox 1,457 8) Kevin Chappell 1,422 9) Patrick Reed 1,409 10) Kevin Kisner 1,371
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Tang takes title in BBC Hill Climb BYRON HACKETT sports@ahnfsj.ca
Irvin Tang looked more like a train than a cyclist chugging his way to a Blizzard Bike Club hill climb championship title on Sunday, July 24. Tang barreled up the hills and made them look like declines with his small stature, one advantage he credits for his quick 24 minute and 19 second time, a full minute ahead of second place Kevin Shaw. “It’s probably just because I’m a smaller guy,” Tang said with a laugh. “Pacing is a big thing, not trying to burn too many matches early on. That’s something I learned, besides that i’m think it’s just size.” Shaw, president of the BBC, knew from the outset he’d be in tough against such an experienced hill climber like Tang. “It’s a tough pull, just get into BYRON HACKETT PHOTO gear and go,” he said. “I don’t Irvin Tang sprinted past the field to take the win at the know if I kept pace with him, Blizzard Bike Club Hill Climb championship on Sunday. he kept pulling away, Irvin is a great hill climber— excels in the hills and was just into gear and I was just of 30:49, while Nick and Darren Guliov spinning as much as I could looking for battled each other to the finish with the top.” Nick edging out his dad by one second Sunday marked the second time Tang (32:28 and 32:29 respectively). Sam won the hill climb, the first back in 2012. Keats rounded out the field in 32:42. The club has been running the race for Next up for the club is a time trial on 16 years. July 28 7 p.m. at Baldonnel School. The Matt Gilmore finished third with a club will take the long weekend off and time of 25:57, Dan Webster was fourth return with the Terry Stone Memorial in 27:16. Pat Ferris was 5th with a time time trial on Aug. 7.
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Skyeler Kerr and his coach Jason Brockman at Canadian Olympic trials earlier this year. Kerr will be the only Fort St. John Inconnu swimmer to represent the club at Senior Nationals from Aug. 4-7.
Kerr looking forward to Senior Nationals BYRON HACKETT sports@ahnfsj.ca
Skyeler Kerr is ready to prove there truly is no rest for the wicked. Kerr is set to compete this week in Age Group Nationals from July 27- Aug. 1 but will jump back into the pool in Edmonton four days later for Senior Nationals from Aug. 4-7. For the 17-year-old, approaching his third time at senior nationals, there’s only a few lessons from previous years he hopes to carry into 2016. “Swim fast in the morning,’ he said. “Expect the morning to be quiet, it’s smaller groups. It’s a quiet meet in the morning, but at night it just erupts.”
Along with just four days in between competitions, for the first time Kerr will also swim all four days at senior national in sprint disciplines, the first time he has done so at the national level. “This is the first time I’m swimming all the days of the meet. I’ve never had enough events to swim all four days of seniors, so I’m really excited for that,” Kerr told the Alaska Highway News last week. “It’s kind of going to throw my psyche a little bit because now it’s a meet, it’s not a competition where I go and do two events, it’s a four day meet. It’s just [about] getting back into that kind of attacking it like a normal meet.”
W EEKLY P RO R ACING U PDATE Racing News, Stats & Trivia
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2016 Standings Sprint Cup Series Top Ten 1) Kevin Harvick
Race Det Race Detail tail ils s
Location: Long Pond, Penn. Date: July 31st, 1:45 p.m. TV: NBCSN Last Year’s Pole: Kyle Busch - 178.416 mph Last Year’s Winner: Matt Kenseth
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Points: 671 Wins: 1 Top 5: 8 Top 10: 16
2) Brad Keselowski
Points: 647 Wins: 4 Top 5: 8 Top 10: 12
3) Kurt Busch
Points: 627 Wins: 1 Top 5: 6 Top 10: 15
Xfinity Series Top Ten Driver 1) Daniel Suarez 2) Elliott Sadler 3) Ty Dillon 4) Justin Allgaier 5) Erik Jones 6) Brendan Gaughan 7) Brandon Jones 8) Brennan Poole 9) Darrell Wallace Jr. 10) Ryan Reed
4) Joey Logano Shape: Tri-Oval Distance: 2.5 miles Turns / Straights: 14º, 8º, 6º / 2º
5) Kyle Busch
Points: 601 Wins: 4 Top 5: 11 Top 10: 13
6) Carl Edwards Pocono Raceway opened in 1971 and the Mattioli family brought in Indy cars and USAC stock cars while dreaming of hosting NASCAR’s premiere series. In 1974, the first NASCAR 500 mile race took place. The Pocono Raceway is recognized as one of NASCAR’s most competitive raceways. Pocono’s unusual triangular configuration is conducive to many lead changes, especially with the longest straightaway and the widest main straight with the longest and widest Pit Road. Last week’s winner, Kyle Busch, finished 21st in last year’s race.
Points: 593 Wins: 2 Top 5: 7 Top 10: 12
7) Martin Truex Jr. Points: 573 Wins: 1 Top 5: 3
Top 10: 9
8) Jimmie Johnson
Points: 552 Wins: 2 Top 5: 7 Top 10: 8
9) Matt Kenseth
Points: 545 Wins: 2 Top 5: 4 Top 10: 9
10) Denny Hamlin
Points: 542 Wins: 1 Top 5: 6 Top 10: 9
Racing News
Dale Earnhardt Jr. missed Sunday’s race at the Brickyard, but said he is feeling a little better as he battles balance issues and nausea believed to be from concussions. “Today is the 1st day in many that I sensed improvement,” Earnhardt tweeted Friday morning. “Seen small gains during my physical therapy as well. Light at the end of the tunnel.” Earnhardt was replaced by one of his Xfinity Series drivers, Alex Bowman, at New Hampshire. Jeff Gordon replaced him at Indianapolis and will again this week at Pocono. There is no timetable for Earnhardt’s return.
Racing Trivia Which is the most number of wins Kyle Busch has captured in a season? a) 5 c) 7 b) 6 d) 8
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Answer : d) Kyle Busch won 8 times in 2008.
Points: 606 Wins: 1 Top 5: 8 Top 10: 13
Points 608 594 558 542 539 535 520 519 486 433
Last Weekend’s Race: Kyle Busch won the Combat Wounded Coalition Combat Wounded Coalition Top 10 Driver Points Kyle Busch 45 Matt Kenseth 39 Jimmie Johnson 38 Denny Hamlin 37 Kyle Larson 36 Kevin Harvick 35 Joey Logano 35 Martin Truex Jr. 33 Austin Dillon 32 Paul Menard 31
Kyle Busch set a Brickyard record for laps led and became the first driver to sweep both a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR XFINITY Series race from the pole in the same weekend, but the real symbolism of Sunday’s Crown Royal 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway didn’t come until the event was over. As Busch spun his No. 18 Toyota in a celebratory burnout and took his customary bows near the yard of bricks, Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon slowly circled the track, driving side by side, waving to fans acknowledging their career accomplishments after what is expected to be their respective last appearances at the Brickyard.
Kyle Busch Born: May 2, 1985 Crew Chief: Adam Stevens Car: Toyota
Year 2016 2015
Wins 4 5
Top 10s 13 16
Avg. Finish 12.4 10.8
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Kids in Fort St. John have been getting their golf fix at Links Golf Course every Monday since school ended. Here they learn an important lesson in lag putting.
In two days at Lakepoint Golf and Country Club, 57 ladies teed it up in the fight to cure cancer. The event, titled Ladies Fore A Cure raised more than $12,000.
SCOREBOARD 2 Houston 3 Seattle 4 Oakland 5 LA Angels
MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE East Team 1 Baltimore 2 Boston 3 Toronto 4 NY Yankees 5 Tampa Bay
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Northern Lights Raceway Season Standings as of July 24 Points- Pure Street 1. JORDAN MAYES 1995 CHEVY CAMARO 2. KEVIN WIEBE 1982 FORD MUSTANG 3. ROGER CARLSON -
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Points- Bike/sled 1.RICHARD ROLLINSON 2. SHANNON FRANKE 2015 ski doo XM 3.WILLIAM SUISDAHL 1983 KAWASAKI
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Points- Juniors 1.TY HOLLINGSHEAD 2012 HALF SCALE 2.DEVON KOWALSKI 2006 RPC 3. LANE DEROSE-
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Hello readers - WOW, another year of 4H is all over! It went by fast but we had a lot of laughs and made some pretty great memories. It is hard to believe that our club is celebrating our 40th anniversary this year – that’s awesome! Thank you to our amazing leaders Sherri Collins, Dawn Bennett, Kelly Ballard, and Casey Gardner. High fives also go out to Rick Kantz, Shannon Trask, and Sydney Spitzer for all your support for our club. Many thanks also to all of Silver Willow members’ parents for their critter taxi services and endless potluck requests.
Hats off to Bernice McRann for all of her hard work and amazing sewing skills that went into making all of our 30 new uniforms – they are fabulous! Thank you to all of the 4H Achievement Day sponsors and buyers at the auction. Without your support we wouldn’t be able to do what we really enjoy doing. Our last big thank you goes to the Rose Prairie hall for the use of its facility when our club doubled in size and no longer fit at member’s kitchen tables for our monthly meetings. Have a wonderful rest of summer!
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Arts & Culture Putting a twist on regional food
“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” -George Bernard Shaw
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For Judah Koile, the patio behind his downtown coffee shop in Fort St. John is a perfect place to forget you’re in the city. Hemmed in between two buildings, the patio behind The Beam is a splash of blue and beige and white walls, accented by the colours of a small herb and vegetable garden, a sort of office space away from the daily grind. It’s also become the perfect place for Koile and other local chefs to experiment with cuisine not found on Fort St. John menus, from Korean barbecue to Mexican food to an upcoming five-course food party celebrating izakaya, a style of Japanese pub house. “The patio parties spawned out of when we first start renovating this space. For us, gardenwise, it was our little oasis away from work,” Koile says. “As soon as you step out here it’s like Fort St. John doesn’t exist. There’s gardens, there’s flowers, there’s a little patio,
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Judah Koile, owner of The Beam coffee shop, wants to bring international flavours to Fort St. John.
you’re having a good time. “The more we renovated it, the more we realized this is a really good space. We constantly have people asking us, ‘Hey, when are you getting seating?’ Our issue was it’s impossible, we’d have to rip out the entirety of the building and redo the whole thing. “We were grasping, how are
we going to figure this out, how are we going to offer some seating, how are we going to offer product that has the ability to relax a bit in this space, because the space is really nice. Definitely people want to spend some time in it, but how can we make it work?” For the last two summers, Koile and his wife, Jiwon, have
made it work, hosting intimate food parties where they aim to blend “world styles with regional ingredients.” Last year’s theme was wedding barbecues: “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” barbecue, Korean barbecue, Italian wedding barbecue. An upcoming patio party on July 29 and 30 is all about Japanese izakaya,
a five-course feast featuring handmade gyoza, charcoalgrilled pork belly, salads, teriyaki chicken and beef skewers, and finished off with match mascarpone roll cake—foods that pair really well with beer, Koile says. See FOOD on B15
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Chetwynd, BC. Wow..3 parcels in total, nearly 1/2 mile of Pine River frontage, with 5 guest cabin spaces, power shed ,boat launch, sandy beach, fenced for horses with 70+ acres in hay, all 1 hour from Power King Ski Hill! Privacy, beauty of nature, wildlife of all kinds, quality construction and revenue potential over $80,000 per year.
$385,000
Acreage with public water and sewer 5 min to town, big garage and 5 bedrooms for under $400,000? YES, right here you'll find a super-clean and well maintained home in the sought-after Airport Sub!
$74,900
Super clean and well reno'ed! Fence is great for kids and pets and inside you'll see upgrades all over including furnace, paint and flooring! Check out the kitchen cabinets too! Great value here.
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$199,900
Lot 401, 405, 409 & 413 - 4 lot parcels on corner gives great access for all commercial uses! Level and ready for development or hold for investment. Bring your ideas and offers! Services are nearby!
$799,900
Rare opportunity for the right buyer! 64 acres of waterfront property right on the main paved road 30 min north of FSJ is developed with a 5 bedroom house plus 3000 sq ft log lodge with kitchen facilities and sleeping quarters for 24. Other buildings on the property are serviced, tack shed and corrals, climbing tower and too many other unique items to mention. Would be a great community centre, possible camp accommodations site, retreat facility or combined living homestead.
$435,000
Perfectly maintained 4 bedroom home on a half acre 1 minute from the city! This energy efficient 2000 sq. ft home has had many updated such as newer windows, heated tile in the main bath, new flooring and paint through out the basement. On site sewer system is a huge savings and the detached 24 X 26 shop with 10� ceiling is waiting for your vehicles! Plus, you have great RV parking with power plug. Large covered deck and Hot tub is where you watch kids play in the big fully fenced yard with trees and space to explore!
$625,000
Huge lot, great plan, RV parking and quiet cul-de-sac location makes this new construction home a keeper! Bring your colour choices and your ideas for the basement and lets make your new home dreams come true! Finished with higher end materials, triple glazed windows, composite material decks and no bi-fold doors inside! Come and see what this one has to offer!
$494,949
Finch area estate styling with classic rooms and great kitchen storage space! Double garage and well landscaped yard where you can enjoy the front courtyard too! Modern and easy, this home is a home to call your own.
$279,900
Perfectly maintained and quick possession! Newer 16' wide modular on its own lot has 2 nice sheds, concrete drive, huge deck, RV space and a corner lot with alley access too! Super clean inside and all appliances stay, including the lawn mower! See this one now!
$539,900
Perfectly maintained! Solid and spotless 3 bedroom (up) home with attached garage (fits families) and a 2-bedroom legal suite down...great help with extra family or mortgage payments! You won't need much time to decide that this home has huge value for your dollar!
$349,900
Great spot, this one's hot! Live large on small money with 4 bedrooms, ensuite, nice room sizes and fenced yard with alley access! Modern building and décor, you can move right in with no extra work!
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$389,900
9' walls, daylight basement, landscaped and appliances included! Excellent maintenance and yard access for future garage! Perfect starter/retirement home so get into this one before it goes!
$539,900
2 acres, house with garage, 28 X 38 detached garage with carport, and Mom-inlaw suite with a lake view and 8 min to Fort St John ! Charlie Lake sewer system in place and lots of windows to soak in the trees! Unique property with potential for growth or subdivision. Call today for your viewing!
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The same old Hip, one last time BYRON HACKETT sports@ahnfsj.ca
In the beginning, the words felt much like the countless times I’d heard them. Whether on a beach or in the wilderness—the dead of winter or the sunniest summer afternoon—“That was the goal that everyone remembered” played out like it always did last Friday night, July 22. Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip played their first final show in Victoria at the SaveOn-Foods Centre with more than 9,000 people jammed in like sardines to witness a band that perhaps represents Canada more than the beaver or the maple leaf. I was in the audience that night and while it may not have been the jaw-dropping, lyrical mastery that Downie made famous with his on stage tales like “killer whale tank,” it was inspiring. The double encore was one of the singlemost magical music performances I have ever seen. The crowd hung on every word and didn’t stop clapping unless Downie hushed them to silence. He found something in those winding moments of that show. It’s not something I could measure or see, but something that could be felt in the octaves of his voice. There was a confidence, that same exuberance that he’s brought to the stage so many times before. Maybe he was unsure about
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Gord Downie performs with the Tragically Hip at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria on July 22, as the band kicked off what is expected to be its last tour.
whether he could still find that place in certain parts of the show, but he sure as hell had it by the end and people just stood in awe or sat in their seats not quite sure what they had witnessed. Downie spent what felt like a lifetime on stage thanking the crowd, when really the crowd didn’t want him to go because there weren’t enough thanks they could extend. He didn’t have to do this last tour, he could have just stayed home and called it a career. A legendary ca-
reer it has been, one that will live on because the stories Downie told resonate with Canadians, and tell a tale about our unique nation and the tiny towns and great people that inspired him to make impactful music. “No dress rehearsal, this is our life,” the Hip’s front man delivers famously in Ahead By A Century, which was also the song he exited the stage with on Friday. We can only hope that sage wisdom extends as a metaphor for the band’s swan song.
SHREDDING THE LIDO
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Northern Ruin had the crowd head banging and moshing away at the Metal Show at the Lido Theatre on July 23.
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Who Made Who, an AC/DC tribute band, is coming to the Lido Theatre on July 28.
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hear, which is usually music from the Brian Johnson era. “I like both eras, but Bon Scott’s stuff is so old now that a lot of people don’t even remember him,” he said. “The (diehard) fans do, but the casual fans don’t know any different so we have to play newer, if you want to call it newer, stuff.” This won’t be Who Made Who’s first time in Fort St. John—the band has played the Lido theatre a number of times in the last few years. “We love the Lido, it’s a fantastic little theatre,” said Folkerson, who is looking forward to playing for the Fort St. John crowd once again. Who Made Who plays the Lido Theatre on July 28. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. For more information, call 250-785-3011.
Sometimes, you just love a band so much that you want to become them. Such was the case for the members of Who Made Who, Canada’s only nationally touring AC/DC tribute band. Scott Folkerson, who takes the stage for Who Made Who as Angus Young, talked to the Alaska Highway News about how the band came together. “We decided that we’d have more success doing a tribute show than just being a typical bar band,” he said. Taking the tribute road has worked well for the band; 2016 marks their 10th anniversary and they show little signs of slowing down. “We’re not dead ringers for looking like them, but we do full costumes and the stage production is as close as we can get to the real thing,” said Folkerson. “A lot of the stuff goes over most people’s heads unless they’re a real diehard, but even our Denturist little movements and how we Adrianna Salo, DD, RD interact with each other on • Services Direct to the Public • Full & Partial Denture Fabrication stage is pretty much carbon • Dentures Over Implants • Relines • Same Day Repairs • Accept all Insurance Plans copy of the real band.” Open Saturday by Appointment Folkerson is a huge fan of “Serving the Peace Country since 1972” the Bon Scott era of AC/DC, but knows that the band has #2, 10415 - 10th Street, Tel: (250) 782-2740 to play what the fans want to Dawson Creek, BC Toll Free: 1 (866) 782-2740
HOROSCOPE ARIES (MARCH 21 TO APRIL 19) Try to avoid disputes about money and possessions today, because they will be brief but nasty. Since they will be brief, theyÕll be over quickly. Hang in there. TAURUS (APRIL 20 TO MAY 20) Tread carefully today because people’s emotions are volatile! It’s easy to get upset with others or suddenly have an argument. (This especially applies to close friends and partners.) GEMINI (MAY 21 TO JUNE 20) You might be doing a slow boil behind the scenes for some reason today. Do your best to just let it pass. Things will get worse if you make a big deal about them. CANCER (JUNE 21 TO JULY 22) An argument with a friend, especially a female acquaintance, might break out today. Just remember: Patience is the antidote to anger. Remedy: Generously apply patience. LEO (JULY 23 TO AUG. 22) Squabbles with parents, bosses and authority figures are hard to avoid today. (This includes the police.) But who needs this? Not you. Therefore, zip thy lip. VIRGO (AUG. 23 TO SEPT. 22) Avoid controversial subjects like politics, religion and racial issues today, because they will quickly deteriorate into a nasty argument. Forewarned is forearmed.
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LIBRA (SEPT. 23 TO OCT. 22) This is not an ideal day to discuss inheritances or how to divide or share something, because it will be tough to reach an agreement. Postpone this discussion for another day. SCORPIO (OCT. 23 TO NOV. 21) With Mars in your sign now, you are feisty! (Scorpio is never a wimp.) Use diplomacy and patience when dealing with partners and close friends - for the sake of everyone. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22 TO DEC. 21) An argument with someone at work might break out today. Remember your long-term objective, which is that you want to get along with these people in the future, right? Connect the dots. CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 TO JAN. 19) Parents will have to be patient with children today, because hissy fits and meltdowns are likely. Romantic partners must be patient with each other as well. AQUARIUS (JAN. 20 TO FEB. 18) Avoid domestic arguments today. Get out of the house and wait till this volatile influence passes. Oy! PISCES (FEB. 19 TO MARCH 20) Discussions with siblings, relatives and neighbors could be challenging today, because someone is looking for a fight. Do what you can to keep the peace and make your life easier.
Reckoning With Music Dear Annie: I can’t stand R.E.M. (the band, not the sleep cycle). I just never understood their appeal. I was born in the early ‘80s and went to college in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, so a lot of people around me loved the band. One insufferably “alternative” guy I went to school with had a giant R.E.M. tattoo on his back. This hasn’t really been an issue for me as an adult. The lead singer, Michael Stipe, stays out of the public eye, and when my satellite radio station puts on “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” for the billionth time, I simply change the station to one that’s playing a song by Taylor Swift, Drake or Adele. But this does become a problem sometimes -- whenever I’m with my wife. It’s not what you think. She’s not like some big R.E.M. superfan. I’m not sure I could have made that work. The thing is that her brother, who is my age, had a rough time in high school. He was depressed, even to the point of being suicidal, and claims that R.E.M. saved his life. I know depression is real, and I am glad my brother-in-law is doing well (he’s married with two kids), but I can’t help myself. I still think R.E.M. is unlistenable. When they come on the radio, my wife turns it up and talks about how special the band is. Why does this bother me so much? -- Losing My Religion
Annie Lane DEAR ANNIE
Dear Losing: What about finding some compassion? We all have our pet peeves. I’m not the biggest R.E.M. fan, either. But I want you to try -- sincerely try -- to put your grievances with the band aside for 5 1/2 minutes and listen to their song “Everybody Hurts.” Imagine how someone who feels utterly alone might be comforted by its message. Yes, it’s hard to remember to be tolerant when annoying things flare up, but empathy works like a muscle; the more you exercise it the more it grows. You’ll be stronger for the effort. Dear Annie: It was my 25th birthday recently, and my fiance and I had a specific themed party on that day, but it was all of his friends who came over. I am on the shy side and didn’t wish to make my birthday a big deal, so I thought it’d be fun to have this party for the guys. After they all found out it was my birthday and showered me with positive vibes, one of the guys asked me why I wasn’t out with my friends. He didn’t mean anything harmful by it, and I didn’t think too hard about the question in the
moment. But later on, it had me thinking of the answer: “Because I have no friends.” After graduating college, my closest friends all dispersed into the world, and I found myself no longer surrounded by them. I do live with my best friend -- my fiance. However, I feel a bit sad with the realization that I have no other friends. I love spending time with my guy, but I don’t have a close-knit group like him anymore. His friends are great, but I want some, too. Am I silly for wanting this? -- Locally Lonely Dear Locally: You’re not silly for wanting friends, but you are silly if you think they’re going to magically appear at your doorstep. Surely, some of your fiance’s friends have girlfriends. Try reaching out to them. Say yes to more things. Become an active part of your community. Check out websites designed to connect people around specific interests, such as Meetup. Commit to doing something every week that nudges you out of your comfort zone, because you’re not going to find anything new inside it.
Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com. To find out more about Annie Lane and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2016 CREATORS.COM
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Helping cancer patients, one wig at a time Joyce Stevens takes care of the wig room for the FSJ branch of the Canadian Cancer Society
There’s a small room in the Fort St. John Hospital, just past the sign-in counters for the lab, down the hall towards the chemotherapy room. In this room is self-confidence, a sense of normalcy in what can often be a dark time in a person’s life—this room is full of wigs. The woman who takes care of this room is Joyce Stevens, a long-time hairdresser and a volunteer with the Fort St. John branch of the Canadian Cancer Society. “When the wig program was first installed in the cancer society, it was for people that could not afford wigs,” said Stevens. “It was at the time when it wasn’t very acceptable for people to walk around with no hair.” Stevens has only been running the wig room for about a year, but has found it to be a rewarding experience. “I’ve had many friends… who have passed away due to cancer, so I just thought that’s a good thing to do,” she said. “It doesn’t hurt people to get involved and volunteer for things. Sometimes it’s good to give.” Stevens has both human and synthetic hair wigs, in a variety of styles, colours and lengths. She shows clients how to take care of the wigs, and lets them know that if they decide the wig they’ve chosen isn’t right for them they can come back and
try a different one. “We have many hats and wigs, we try to help them find one that they feel comfortable with,” she said. She’s found that not as many people take advantage of the wigs these days, either because they don’t know the program is available, or because it’s not as taboo to have a shaved head nowadays. Stevens wants patients to know that the wigs are free to anyone going through cancer treatments, so before going out and dropping hundreds of dollars out of town, they should make an appointment with her to check out the wig room. The Canadian Cancer Society has been partnered with Proctor & Gamble Canada since 2007 for the Pantene Beautiful Lengths campaign. Donations of human hair are sent to Pantene, where the wigs are made and then distributed to wig banks across the country. Stevens says it takes eight inches of hair from four people to make one wig, and the hair shouldn’t be chemically treated. To make an appointment with Stevens, call 250-785-6445. There are several volunteer positions open, so anyone interesting in getting involved in the Canadian Cancer Society in Fort St. John or Dawson Creek, contact Nancy at 1-800-8115666 or register through www. cancervolunteer.ca.
TASMAN JUDE A MUST-SEE
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Grande Prairie’s Tasman Jude brought their reggae-roots sound to the Lido Theatre on Friday, July 22. The band is currently touring B.C., but you can catch their next performance in Grande Prairie Aug. 12 to 14 at the Bear Creek Folk Music Festival before they embark on an Eastern Canadian tour.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES OF FORT ST JOHN & ST JAMES IN DAWSON CREEK Would like to extend an invitation to the community to attend the
RECOGNITION CEREMONY FOR TERRY HAGEN
as their Shared Minister St James in Dawson Creek has been without a minister for 2 years and Fort St. John for 7 years. Both congregations have faithfully conducted services every Sunday through the years.
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Joyce Stevens shows off a human hair wig that the Canadian Cancer Society offers to patients at the Fort St. John Hospital.
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FORT ST. JOHN & DISTRICT CHURCH DIRECTORY ANGLICAN CHURCH of CANADA NoRTH PEACE PARISH Please join us at our temporary location at the Lutheran Church 9812 108 Ave Ph: 250-785-6471 “All are Invited and Welcome Here” - (Luke 14:23) SERVICES St. Martin’s, fort St. John, BC Sundays 1:30 p.m. Rev. Enid Pow ********** Church of the Good Shepherd Taylor, BC - Sundays 9:30 a.m. ********** St. Matthias, Cecil Lake, BC 3rd Sun. of the Month 3:00 p.m. Holy Communion BAHA’I fAITH BAHA’I fAITH National Baha’i Information 1-800-433-3284 Regular Firesides Mondays @ 8:00 p.m. Deepenings continued Wednesdays at 250-7870089 Next Feast Info. 250-787-0089 ********** BAPTIST CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH 9607-107th Ave., fSJ Ph. (Office) 250-785-4307 Pastor: Michael Hayes Associate Pastor: Doug Janzen SUNDAY WoRSHIP SERVICE 10:30AM ********** CATHoLIC RoMAN CATHoLIC CHURCH (Resurrection Church) Pastor: Rev. Vener Sabacan Phone 250-785-3413 www.fsjcatholic.ca MASSES: Saturday 7:30 p.m. Sunday - 10:00 a.m. oNLY OFFICE HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. BAPTISM: Contact the Pastor 3 months before baptism. MARRIAGES: Contact the Pastor 3 months before the wedding. ********** ALLIANCE CHURCH 9804-99 Ave., fort St. John, BC V1J 3T8 Ph: 250-785-4644 fax: 250-785-8932 e-mail: office@fsjalliance.ca www.fsjalliance.ca SUNDAY WoRSHIP SERVICE: 9:15am & 11:00am KIDVILLE: for ages 2yrs.-Gr.6 @ 9:15am **********
CoMMUNITY CHURCH CHARLIE LAKE CoMMUNITY CHURCH Lead Pastor: Alfred Reschke Associate Pastor: Jared Braun 250-785-1723 fax: 250-785-4136 clcc@pris.ca SUNDAY SCHooL: 9:30am SUNDAY WoRSHIP: 10:40am 1st left turn off Alaska Highway past the Charlie Lake Store. ********** PEACE CoMMUNITY CHURCH 10556-100th Street, Taylor, BC Pastor: Wally Pohlmann Phone: 250-789-3045 HoURS: 9:00am-Noon Monday-Wednesday & friday Email: office@taylorchurch.ca Website: www.taylorchurch.ca SUNDAY ADULT CLASS - 9:30am SUNDAY WoRSHIP SERVICE - 10:30am ********** EVANGELICAL foRT ST. JoHN EVANGELICAL MISSIoN 8220-89th Avenue, fSJ Pastor: Art Voth Sunday School September-June begins at 9:30am Sunday mornings. Worship Service - 10:45am Phone: 250-787-2550 ******* INTERDENoMINATIoNAL UPPER PINE GoSPEL CHAPEL Church Phone: 250-827-3833 Email: upgc@pris.ca Board Chairman: Andy Burkholder 250-827-3811 Box 66, Rose Prairie, BC ********** LUTHERAN PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 9812-108th Avenue, fort St. John, BC V1J 2R3 Office Phone: 250-785-2718 Pastor: Rev. Kebede Dibaba Regular Worship Schedule: 9:00am Youth, Adult Bible Study 10:00am Sunday Worship Service & Sunday School ********** PEACE RIVER MUSLIM ASSoCIATIoN Information: 250-787-1264 Jumm’a (Friday) Prayer @ 1:00pm 203-10903-100th Street, fort St. John, BC email: tahermorsi@shaw.ca ********** MENNoNITE NoRTH PEACE MENNoNITE BRETHREN CHURCH North Peace Mennonite Brethren Church 10816 106 St. fort St. John, BC V1J 5V2 250-785-3869
Lead Pastor: Andrew Eby Associate Pastor of Youth & Young Adults: Don Banman SUNDAY SERVICE TIMES: 9:15am & 11:00am Kids Zone During Both Services ********** MENNoNITE MoNTNEY MENNoNITE CHURCH SUNDAY MoRNING: Sunday School & Worship: 9:30am SUNDAY EVENING: 2nd & 4th Sundays: 7:00pm Everyone Welcome! Pastor Warren Martin Phone: (250) 827-3131 ********** NoNDENoMINATIoNAL CHRISTIAN LIfE CENTRE “Associated with “Fellowship of Christian Assemblies” “King Jesus is Lord Over the Peace” 8923-112th Avenue, fort St. John, BC V1J 6G2 website: www.christianlifefsj.ca Ph: 250-785-4040 fax: 250-785-4021 Pastor Steve Oboh Principal of Christian Life School: Garry Jones Everyone Welcome Sunday Morning Worship Service: 10:00am Nursery available and Sunday School is held during the sermon for ages 3-12 years. Christian Life Centre is “Home of Christian Life School” ********** foRT ST. JoHN NATIVE BIBLE fELLoWSHIP Sunday Worship: 11:00am Wed., Night Bible Study: 7:30pm Pastor John A Giesbrecht 250-785-0127 ********** GIDEoNS INTERNATIoNAL Fort St. John Camp Ray Hein 250-827-3636 John Giesbrecht 250-785-0127 ********** NoRTHERN LIGHTS CHURCH INTERNATIoNAL (Rose Prairie, BC Sunday Service: Pre-Service Prayer: 10:30am Worship Service: 11:00am Everyone Welcome ********** THE SHELTER CHURCH “...the Lord will be a shelter for His people” Joel 3:6 9808-98A Ave. fort St. John, BC 250-785-3888 SUNDAY SERVICE: 10am Pastor: Oral Benterud 250-785-9151 ********** PENTECoSTAL THE PENTECoSTALS of foRT ST. JoHN Phone: 250-787-9888 Pastor: Jason McLaughlin Sunday 10am Service, Sunday School Youth Sunday 11am Worship
Service Tuesday 7pm Prayer Wednesday 7pm Bibile Study Friday 7pm Youth ********** PENTECoSTAL ASSEMBLIES of CANADA EVANGEL CHAPEL 10040-100 St., fort St. John Phone: 250-785-3386 Fax: 250-785-8345 Lead Pastor: Tony Warriner Sunday Services: 9:30am, 11:00am www.evangelfsj.com ********** The Journey 10011-100 St., fort St. John Phone: 250-785-6254 Pastor: Larry Lorentz Services: Sundays: 10:30am Tuesdays: 7:00pm ********** PRESBYTERIAN fort St. John Presbyterian Church 9907-98th St., fort St. John, BC Phone: 250-785-2482 fax: 250-785-2482 Sunday Worship Times 9:30 a.m. - Regular Service Everyone is invited to participate ********** REfoRMED TRINITY CoVENANT CHURCH Sunday Service: 10:00am Meets at the Quality Inn Northern Grand 100th Ave & 98th St., fort St. John, BC Elder: Mike Donovan Phone: 250-787-7702 Affiliated with C.R.E.C. ********** THE SALVATIoN ARMY THE SALVATIoN ARMY Sunday Worship Service: 10:30am 10116-100th Ave., fort St. John, BC Come Worship With Us. For information; Phone 250-785-0506 or food Bank 250-785-0500 ********** SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 9008-100th Avenue, fort St. John, BC Phone: 250-785-8632 Pastor: Cavin Chwyl Phone: 250-719-7949 Saturday Service: 9:30am ********** UNITED CHURCH of CANADA ST. LUKE’S UNITED 9907-98 St., fort St. John, BC Office: 250-785-2919 fax: 250-785-2788 Email: stlukeuc@telus.net Sunday Worship Service @ 10:00am. for the month of July No Sunday School All are Welcome! The United Church of Canada is a Union of Congregationalist, Methodist & Presbyterian Churches in Canada formed in 1925. R0021161774
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© 2016 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 32, No. 33
While the 2016 Olympics are called the Summer Games, it is actually winter in Brazil where the games are being held.
Brazilian Winter: Tilted away from the sun
Most of Brazil is located south of the equator. Because the earth rotates around the sun on a small tilt, seasons are different north and south of the equator.
the sun, but because where it is summer, the planet is tilted towards the sun.
Brazilian Summer: Tilted toward the sun
Macaws, a kind of parrot, live in the Amazonian rainforest. Their big, strong beaks can crack open the hard Brazil nut. Can you find the answer to all of these questions? (Hint–they can all be found on today’s Kid Scoop page!) Have a parent check your answers.
In Brazil, June, July and August are the winter months, while summer is in December, January and February.
Summer is the warmest time of the year. Not because the planet is closer to
1. It is summer in Brazil during the 2016 Olympics. TRUE
FALSE
The land around the Amazon and its tributaries make up the largest rainforest in the world. Like its name says, it rains a lot there.
2. Most of Brazil is located south of the _________________ .
The western Amazon region gets about 160 inches (400 cm) per year. Add up the numbers on this tree to find out how much New York City gets on average.
3. The largest rainforest in the world is found along the _____________ River. 4. New York City gets an average of _____ inches of rain a year.
inches (107 cm)
Amazonian Indians were the first people to make rubber. They found a tree in the rainforest with a white sap that could be used as an insect repellent and they made their feather robes waterproof. The Indians learned that when heated over a fire, the sap thickened to make rubber. They used this rubber to make shoes and balls.
25% of the world’s medicine comes from the rainforest!
Look through the newspaper for signs of summer. Cut them out and make a “Summer Where I Live” poster.
Unscramble the letters on the leaves to discover the name of a rainforest snake that can grow up to 40 feet (12m) long.
Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.
TODRBDNEKRLATNVDQPTRJOWGHRLERSMS Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.
WATERPROOF OLYMPICS EQUATOR WINTER PLANET BRAZIL TILTED FUNGUS RUBBER AMAZON LEAVES SHOES RAINS FIRE SAP
6. As the earth rotates around the sun, it _________ towards and away from the sun. 7. Amazonian Indians were the first people to make ____________.
Brazil’s forests have millions of insects. The leaf-cutter ants cut cu leaves into tiny pieces and carry them back to their underground colonies. There they chew the leaves into a mush that they feed to a fungus that they then eat.
The green on Brazil’s flag stands for its forests and fields. Yellow is for the country’s rich deposits of gold. The blue circle represents the night sky and its twenty-seven stars are for Brazil’s 26 states. The stars are arranged in the constellations that were visible the day Brazil became independent from Portugal. The phrase ORDEM E PROGRESSO is also on the Brazilian flag.
5. The Amazon Rainforest gets an average of ____ cm of rain in a year.
8. The yellow on the Brazilian flag represents this metal which can be found there. ______ 9. How many states are in the country of Brazil? ____ 10. Rubber is made from the ______ of a ______. Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Identify answers from text.
E W A D E T L I T R
M Q W P I
I N W S T
A R U L Z E I R C F
M U R A I N S S I S
This week’s word:
TRIBUTARY
Z B G E P O E A M G
The noun tributary means a stream flowing into a larger river.
N R S S E V A E L U
The Amazon River basin has about 15,000 tributaries.
A B R N T A E R P U
O E R T H M R E Y N W A T E R P R O O F
Try to use the word tributary in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members.
Describe Brazil
After reading today’s Kid Scoop page, look through the newspaper for five or more adjectives that describe Brazil. Cut them out, paste them on a piece of construction paper you have cut into the shape of Brazil.
Tell about a time you did something really great— something you didn’t think you could do, but you tried it anyway and succeeded.
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Standards Link: Language Arts: Identify adjectives.
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The first Monday of August is known as British Columbia Day, BC Day or B.C. Day, in the province of British Columbia. It is a statutory holiday and gives Canadians in the province the chance to celebrate their achievements or relax with friends and family members.
What do people do?
In British Columbia many people use the long weekend to make short trips out of town and into one of the areas of beautiful scenery in this province. Some go camping, while others walk, hike or plan canoe trips. As the first Monday in August falls in the middle of the summer season, many people incorporate BC Day into their summer vacation or a plan it as part of a longer trip. In urban areas, particularly in Vancouver, various celebrations are organized. These include firework displays, parades and cultural festivals. Events are held to mark the achievements of people from Canada’s west coast in the areas of sport, technology, cuisine and Canadian-Japanese culture.
Background
Indigenous peoples have inhabited British Columbia, as described in their oral traditions. There are claims by the English to have explored the region in the 16th century, but it was the Majorcan-born Spanish navigator Juan José Pérez Hernández who did the first documented travel 1774. In 1778 English explorer James Cook reached Nootka Sound and set foot on British
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ALLAN, Ralph C. August 27, 1944 − July 18, 2016
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A tribute to 30 years of Al Corriveau with Margaret Keobke
Al was a great dancer and we went dancing every weekend & sometimes during the week. Summers were all camping and fishing. I caught a lake trout about 7 lbs & Al said that was the first big fish caught on his boat – that he was glad it was me. Once when we were fishing my feet were cold& he said there’s a pair of socks in the cupboard in the bathroom. I put them in there in case you ever came on my boat. It’s these kind of things that help make things a tiny bit easier. We made a few road trips into the States. One early evening it was raining & hard to see, there’s Al driving down the middle of the 2 lanes. I pointed that out to him & he said that’s ok. I pay taxes on both sides of the road. Al had a million & ½ dollar job in Moberly & it kept raining & he was so afraid he would lose everything. He was twitching so badly in his sleep, that I put one leg & one arm over him to calm him. He did ok on that job A few of the streets around town were done by Al, and the only in the last few years start to break up. I asked, how long does a street last & he said about 20 – 25 years. But some are 28 – 29 years old. Al loved chocolate, he said there hasn’t been a chocolate made that he didn’t like. So I kept a box or two on hand all the time, he’d go by & grab one or two pieces. One of his favorite foods was Oatmeal Cookies. He ate many, many pounds of them. He said to me in March, Margaret you make the best Oatmeal Cookies. Also he thanked me back then for looking after him. That if we could continue like this, that would be good. Little did we know it would not be long. Al was quite psychic but would not use it. I tried encouraging him but no luck. It’s a hard road to hoe, losing you Al, a road compacted by you. Al suffered a lot, so he did not have an easy death. He would get a look of despair in his eyes. There was big interference in our lives, and bad decisions made in Al’s care. There was a mistake made on the printing of Al’s card for his service, it should have said the “Grader Man”. I’m having more cards printed so if you want the proper saying card, please call me. R0011279356
Our much loved father and grandfather, Frank Anthony Perera passed away peacefully at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria at age 88. Born in Sheffield, England to Percival & Lily Perera. Frank attended Cambridge and the London Hospital where he obtained his medical training. While in England he met his wife, Beverly (nee Whitaker); they married in 1954. In 1960, they immigrated to Canada where Frank attended the University of Alberta, in Edmonton and earned his specialization in internal medicine. Frank led a lengthy and distinguished medical career serving Powell River, Victoria and Fort St. John. He was a well-respected and dedicated physician, fondly remembered by former patients and colleagues. Finally retiring in Ladysmith, Frank became an active Rotarian volunteer, avid bird watcher, bridge player and traveller. Frank will be remembered for his love of good books, food & wine, wit, humour and fondness for history, the classics, music and culture. He will be sadly missed by his surviving children Anne, Cathy, Margot and Dan; grandchildren Sarah, Lauren, Erik, Quinn, and Garnet. He is predeceased by his son Adam, wife Beverly, sister Jean and brother Ken. The family would like to thank all the staff of Mount St. Mary’s Hospital and RJH. Our sincere gratitude to Helen for the love and companionship she gave to Frank during his last years. A public memorial will be held at 1pm on Saturday, August 20th, 2016 at First Memorial, 1155 Fort Street, Victoria.
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Increased use of outreach store indicative of larger issue The economic downturn is having a significant impact on local residents. The Fort St. John Women’s Resource Centre outreach store had its shelves cleaned out last Wednesday within 15 minutes of opening for the day. Women’s Resource Society Executive Director Amanda Trotter was stunned. “We restock our food shelves on a daily basis, we ended up with a crowd of people in here (Wednesday) morning waiting for the outreach store to open and exactly 15 minutes later, and that’s only taking four food items each, the shelves were empty,” she said. “This is telling you something about our community, that there’s a growing need.” The outreach store has seen an increase in the number of people accessing its services. June 2016 has been the busiest month with outreach store has ever had, according to the sign-in numbers. During the month of June, the out-
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reach store saw 492 clients, 127 of which were men. According to the Women’s Resource Centre, that’s a 101 per cent increase over June 2015, which saw 245 clients use the store. In the first six months of 2016, the outreach store had an average of 383 clients per month, which according
to their data, is a 38 per cent increase when compared to the first half of 2015. Because signing in to use the outreach store is voluntary, the Women’s Resource Society believe those numbers are under-represented by 10 to 20 per cent. The centre is trying to keep up with
the demand, but due to the economic downturn, residents and businesses are all hurting, which makes it difficult to keep giving at the same rate they used to. “We can’t keep asking the same people who’ve got less and less and less to keep giving to keep each other going. They’re tapped out,” said Trotter. “This is also the most generous community I have ever stayed in, and I’m hoping that in terms of the community, if everybody does a little bit, we can keep it going a bit longer. But at some point we’re going to need a lot more intervention here.” The food items in highest demand at the outreach store include staples such as pasta, pasta sauce, rice, sugar, coffee, jams, ravioli, canned tuna and salmon, canned soup, instant noodles, juice boxes, granola bars, fruit cups, and canned fruits and vegetables. The outreach store will accept fresh fruit and vegetables, but ask that those items get dropped off in the morning, as they don’t have a fridge to store them.
No clapping and the art of compromise
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ou thought I was going to write about Pokemon Go this week didn’t you? You thought that I would make fun of those legions of Pokemon Go game players out wandering the streets with their heads down, lured by the promise of capturing a rare “thingamajig.” Nope! Not gonna do it and you want to know why? Because if they are chasing a Pokemon character, they are focused on something positive and they are getting exercise at the same time, which is a good thing. If they are chasing a Pokemon, they can’t be wielding a gun or a knife. Pokemon Go might be strange but at least it’s harmless. It is social media meets gamification meets virtual reality, and it is very cool. Honestly, folks, don’t we need a little bit of harmless fun in our lives? Especially these days?
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Enough said. I am going to write about the ridiculous article I read recently where a small elementary school in Australia has put the brakes on “clapping.” I am not kidding. Apparently there is one teacher who has a hearing sensitivity problem (loud noises bother her) and therefore the student body has been instructed to seek alternative means of showing their approval during the school assembly. An elementary school teacher with hearing sensitivity is like a farmer allergic to dirt—it just doesn’t make sense. Am I right?
The powers that be have requested that the students, “refrain from clapping and cheering at assemblies” that are held once every two weeks. Instead, they have been advised to seek alternate means of showing their excitement and pleasure during assemblies: choosing to punch in the air, silently cheer, wriggle on the spot or pull excited faces. In short, the children have been requested to “mime” their excitement and fidget and squirm as opposed to adopting the adage of “If you are happy and you know it, clap your hands!” The story has travelled the interwebs and, as you can imagine, it has received many comments. The majority being, “How politically correct do we really need to be?” I gave that some thought. How
far is too far? Children can no longer make contact with one another on the school grounds during recess, so I guess a friendly hug between friends is probably frowned upon. No touching, no winning, no losing, no failing, no clapping? The “no’s” seem to have taken over haven’t they? The issue that I have is that we are not teaching moderation, we are not teaching parameters and how to refrain from going too far. We are simply saying “no” you can no longer do that. I have a couple of questions. Why is someone who is hyper sensitive to noise working at an elementary school? Why is that one person who is sensitive to noise, simply not putting in ear-plugs? Why are they (at the very least) not teaching the children how to clap when
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in the presence of a hearing impaired individual so they know how to do it correctly: holding your hands in the air and twisting them back rapidly to mimic applause. I don’t know the answers and no doubt there is probably more to the story than what I have read so far. Who knows. What I do know is that we are raising a bunch of children who are going to be adults without a clue of how to moderate their behavior. They only know “off” and “full speed,” and nothing in the middle of the road. Compromise is a beautiful thing and children must be shown how to manage the art of compromise as they grow up. Judy Kucharuk is a lover of sarcasm, witty people and footnotes. You can follow her blog at www.judykucharuk.com or catch her on CBC Radio Daybreak North where she shares her “Peace of Mind”. Follow her on twitter @judylaine
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“How we construct our menus, we choose a country of origin, and then we choose the dishes within that country that are going to accent this region’s food the best,” Koile says, noting local meats and vegetables are used. A typical evening includes multiple courses and takes up to three hours to eat. It’s all part of creating an experience Koile likens to setting up a drama. In the end, “we want to create a space that can transform people’s experience, transform how they’re feeling, transform their day from a crappy day into a really fun day,” he says.
“If we can transform this little space into an area where people have really good food, have a really good time, a really intimate time, with people they like to hang out with, that’s success for us.” Cuisine runs in the family Koile, 32, grew up on a farm in Nova Scotia, smothered in food and music as a child. Cooking is in his family’s blood—his grandfather, three brothers, two sisters, and other families are all chefs. Koile himself graduated from culinary school at the Art Institute
of Vancouver two-and-a-half years ago, after first cooking his way through university and a sociology degree. At culinary school, Koile met Jiwon and the two moved up to Rose Prairie in 2014 after graduation to cook four meals a day for a 120-man camp with access to a farm of corn, potatoes, berries and more. “We got into farm-to-table cooking right from the get go. That’s what brought us up to the Peace Region, just beautiful stuff. The first time I got up here, I saw the biggest beet I’d seen in my life,” Koile says. The couple eventually
moved to the city, working at restaurants before launching their own venture in The Beam. Though the city is culturally diverse, Koile doesn’t see that reflected on local menus. “Fort St. John is made up of people from all over Eastern Europe, all over Central Europe, all over Africa, all over India, all over Asia, all over South and Central America, but all we do is basically British pub food,” he says. “So I was thinking to myself, there’s got to be something. Maybe the pub model is what works, and so the pub food is just coming along with the
model, I don’t know. Let’s experiment. Let’s try some stuff out.” In August, Koile plans to join forces with Black Cats BBQ in Taylor for another barbecue night. Chef collaboration is a growing trend, and he hopes to capitalize on that. “Once I’ve opened this space … I really want to see if I can get as many other chefs involved as possible,” Koile says. “This is very creative work. The more chefs involved with it, the more people get involved with it because each chef has their own following already.”
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Texas 4000 riders fight cancer with every mile ALEISHA HENDRY ahendry@ahnfsj.ca
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Nearly a month and a half ago, a group of university students climbed on their bikes and started pedaling for Alaska. Breaking off into three groups, the Texas 4000 cyclists take different routes with the goal of meeting up in Anchorage at the end of the 70-day trip. The group taking the Ozarks route had a stop in Fort St. John on Day 50 (July 23), and was invited out to the RV Park in Charlie Lake for a barbecue dinner, hosted by the Fort St. John Rotary Club. Texas 4000 cyclist Brook Chambers said it’s been an amazing trip so far. “We’ve been on the road for quite some time,” she said. “It’s been a whirlwind, but it’s been a complete joy. There’s some tough times…It’s really incredible the
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think that your dog is used to riding in the box of the truck and that it has never been an issue before, but all it takes is one sudden stop or an unexpected swerve and the dog can be thrown from the vehicle. Most of these traumatic events result in broken bones. Having your dog properly restrained in the box of the truck can prevent these unnecessary injur-
ies from occurring. One safe option is to tie the dog with a secure leash to the front of the box centrally (in the middle) so that they cannot reach the side edges. Another option is having a dog crate secured in the box of the truck (tethers or bungee cords can work well to secure the crate). One of the safest ways to go on a road trip with your dog is having them ride inside the vehicle with you, and using a dog seatbelt to keep them secure from unexpected jolts. Going on a boating adventure is another fun way to spend the summer days. Most dogs can
number of people we’ve been able to meet and the number of people we are able to share hope with.” She noted that when people see the words “Fight Cancer With Every Mile” on the back on their bright orange jerseys, it encourages people to open up about their own cancer experiences and give them an opportunity to share and reflect. The group has had a lot of interesting encounters on their journey, but Chambers noted that a certain giant beaver gave the group pause. “We saw the sign ‘Giant Beaver Attraction’ and we just had to stop and get a photo,” she said of the group’s ride through Beaverlodge. After a good night’s sleep, the group headed off to Buckinghorse River and Fort Nelson, continuing up the Alaska Highway to bring their message to the north.
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