ALASKA HIGHWAY NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022 | VOL. 78 NO. 38
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GOD REST THE QUEEN — MLA Dan Davies and Mayor Lori Ackerman lay a wreath during a memorial service for Queen Elizabeth II at the Fort St. John cenotaph Monday morning, Sept. 19, 2022. Also pictured saluting is Mike King, Sgt. at Arms of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 102. About 50 residents turned out to pay their respects to Elizabeth, a short but solemn service as millions worldwide laid to rest the Queen of Canada, and the second-longest serving monarch in world history. The Queen died Sept. 8 at her holiday home of Balmoral Castle in the Scottish Highlands at the age of 96.
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Residents in Hudson’s Hope were able to sleep in their own beds last Saturday night after being evacuated a week earlier due the encroaching Battleship Mountain wildfire. “It’s so nice to be back in our own community in our homes with clear skies,” said Mayor Dave Heiberg in an open letter on the district’s website Sunday. “It was shared with me that the structural protection operation that was deployed for this wildfire was the second-largest in B.C. history.” Heiberg thanked a number of agencies and volunteers including the Emergency Support Services reception centre established at the North Peace Arena in Fort St. John. Over 800 people were processed through the centre, said Heiberg. Continued on A3
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Like many who move to Fort St. John, Bob Trobak thought he and his wife would be here for only a couple of years before moving on to new ventures in life and business. That was 1968. More than half a century later, Trobak continues a legacy of selfless commitment to community groups working to make the city a great place for newcomers to plant their roots: minor and junior hockey, seniors housing and the seniors hall, his church and the hospital auxiliary, the Kinsmen and the Oilmen to name just a few. “I convinced my wife we’d move to Fort St. John for two years then we’d look for something else,” says Trobak of their move from Prince Albert all those years ago. “But we just found the community so open and inviting that we never moved.” Trobak was a recent recipient of a Queen’s Platinum Jubilee medal, one of 70 honoured during a ceremony in August to mark the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II. He was also the recipient of the same award for the Queen’s Diamond 60th anniversary in 2012. He’s framed both of the prestigious royal honours to display with pride at his home. “I was quite surprised. I don’t do what I do for recognition, I do it because I enjoy helping,” says Trobak, adding the awards are now even more memorable with the Queen’s death at age 96 last week. “I think she was a great monarch. I feel
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a little more touched receiving the award.” Trobak was among the thousands who showed up to greet and catch a glimpse of Elizabeth and Prince Philip when they visited Fort St. John in May 1971 during a tour of British Columbia. Though he didn’t get a chance to meet her, “She’s pretty special,” Trobak said. “We don’t get many visitors to Fort St. John of that stature.”
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For 25 years, Trobak coached minor hockey in Fort St. John, and was for 10 years the commissioner of the Northwest Junior Hockey League. Two days after he moved to Fort St. John, he remembers becoming a director for the Golden Hawks hockey club, now the Huskies, where he has continued to serve as a director for the last few years. Continued on A6
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