ALASKA HIGHWAY NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2023 | VOL. 79 NO. 15
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Brenda Baumeister and Payton Webster get their hair cuts at the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation on Friday, March 31.
Generational bonding: $6,752 raised by grandma and granddaughter shave-off
A new driver learned a tough lesson this week after being caught by the highway patrol speeding at 169 kilometres an hour. The BC Highway Patrol says the driver was caught for the excessive speed in a 100 km/h zone on April 2, during patrols in the Fort St. John and Dawson Creek areas. The driver was fined $483, hit with three penalty points, and had his vehicle impounded for seven days, according to police. Two other vehicles were caught for excessive speeding that day, and the Highway Patrol is urging motorists to slow down. “The posted speed limits serve as a reminder to the public to slow down and that exceeding these posted speed limits puts themselves and others at risk,” said Const. Matthew MacCallum.
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T.W. Buck tbuck@ahnfsj.ca As the scissors snipped and the shavers buzzed, Brenda Baumeister and Payton Webster shared a moment of pride in their new hairdos and solidarity with seniors health and those battling cancer. The grandma and granddaughter duo teamed up for a health care fundraiser supporting both the BC Children’s Hospital wig program and the Peace Villa care home, cutting off their locks in the lobby of the Fort St. John Hospital on March 31. Webster, 11, first approached her grandmother, who she lovingly calls ‘Oma’, with the idea in December. Baumeister wholeheartedly supported her granddaughter’s philanthropic efforts and even committed to shaving her head. “Isn’t this wonderful?” said Baumeister. “She’s only eleven years old and she’s already donating her hair to the children’s wig foundation. She asked me to join her, but since I don’t have hair to donate, I’m shaving mine. It all started with Payton.” Webster cut her long hair short for donation to the wig program, which supports kids suffering hair loss due to cancer or other serious illnesses. “I wanted to grow my hair long and cut it short, so I decided to cut it and donate it, and asked Oma if she could do it with me,” said Webster. Added Baumeister, “She said, if she’s going to cut it anyway, she wanted to donate it.” Together, the two also decided to raise funds to support Peace Villa through the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation, raising an incredible $6,752. The funds will be used for care home activities. Baumeister began her nursing career at the Peace Lutheran Care Home in 1988, making the decision to give back an easy one.
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“We chose to donate to the care home because it’s where my nursing career began 35 years ago, and there isn’t a lot of funding specifically for activities,” she said. “They try to keep the clients engaged in fun activities and games, and my mother is also a resident there.” From her start in the care home, Baumeister’s long career in local health care took her to work on the medical-surgical floor at the old hospital, and later in pediatrics, maternity, and most recently the respiratory department. After 35 years of service to the community, she will retire this year. In addition to running the wig program in town, Baumeister also facilitates the Cancer Support Circles held the first Wednesday of every month at 6:30 at the hospital.
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An attempt to recall Dan Davies as the MLA for Peace River North has failed. Elections BC said Wednesday, April 5, that the petition launched by Joseph Wayne Bell of Cecil Lake was not submitted to the agency as required by the April 4 deadline. First elected in 2017, Davies is a former Fort St. John city councillor and elementary school teacher. He is currently the provincial Opposition critic for social development and poverty reduction, and was appointed last year to provincial committees reviewing the opioid epidemic and police reform in B.C. Canvassers needed to collect signatures of 10,487 eligible voters over the last two months for their petition to have been successful. Elections BC said 23 voters registered as canvassers to collect signatures. Financial disclosure reports must now be filed by May 2, the agency said.
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