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For Daniels, deadlines are easy Country superstar with more than 50 years in music brings his tales to Prince George
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There are a couple of reasons Charlie Daniels might have made a good newspaper reporter – and one reason why he wouldn’t. The country superstar is in Prince George on Oct. 28, and in a phone interview talked about some of the similarities between writing songs and writing newspaper stories. “There’s no particular unit of time it takes to write a song. If you’ve got a good idea of where the song is going, like you probably find when you’re writing a story, it goes pretty good. “If I can get the whole story in my mind before I start, it comes fast.” He also finds he works well under pressure. “Years ago, Hal Needham called me and said he needed some music for a movie he was doing called Stroker Ace, and he needed it pretty quick.” Daniels received a copy of what had been shot already on Thanksgiving, but decided not to take the holiday off. “So after dinner, I went down to the basement and watched the movie. Knowing what the story was about helped, and I got the songs written pretty quick.” Known for story songs like The Devil Went Down to Georgia, it comes as a bit of a surprise to find out Daniels doesn’t always start with the lyrics for a song. “A lot start with a guitar riff. There have been some songs where we’ve gone in and recorded the song and then added the lyrics at the end. “Producers will be saying, ‘So when are you going to write the song?’ and I say, ‘Don’t worry, it’ll get done’.” Daniels has a million stories about the music business and his more than 50 years in it, but he remembers a time he was at a loss for words. “We were doing an annual charity show at the Ryman Auditorium (in Nashville), where the Grand Ole Opry used to be, and all of a sudden Martina McBride shows up on the stage.” McBride was carrying a small package, which included a Christmas card wishing Dan-
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Charlie Daniels will be celebrating his 76th birthday when he plays the CN Centre in Prince George on Oct. 28, but he’ll be one bringing the presents of great music. iels the best of the season for all his charitable works. Then she dropped the bombshell: She invited Daniels to become a member of the Opry. “If you see that piece, you’ll see me in my speechless mode. That’s the dream of every country performer, is to be invited to join the Opry.” Daniels then had the opportunity to turn the tables on another act. Montgomery Gentry were playing a show at the new Opry facility when Daniels suddenly came charging out from the back of the audience. “There’s a balcony, so it’s kinda dark back there, and they thought at first I was just a drunk coming up. They were looking for security to take
care of me.” Instead, Daniels came right up on stage and extended the invitation for the duo to join the Opry. “They’re good friends of mine, and I was thankful to be given the opportunity to do the inviting.” Seeing Daniels wield a fiddle like a lethal weapon, it’s a little hard to believe he hasn’t been playing the instrument forever. “I started on the guitar, then added the mandolin. The fingerboard on a mandolin is basically the same as on a fiddle, so it wasn’t that hard a change to make.” He’s also had the chance, over the years, to tour and work with some great singer-
songwriters, such as Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan. “I never really talked writing with Leonard. I came from a whole different school of music, and his music is so personal. So Leonard Cohen.” What he did learn from them was “not to write like they do.” “You’re still concerned with the same things, like communication and imagery and flow, and it inspires you to raise the calibre of your writing.” The show on Oct. 28 at CN Centre will be a special occasion for Daniels, as it will also mark his 76th birthday. He doesn’t anticipate anything different for the show, though. “At the beginning of each year, we do a rehearsal for the
next tours. We know there are some songs we have to play, like Devil Went Down and Legend of Wooley Swamp and Long-Haired Country Boy. “That gives us the skeleton, and then we look at it and say, “Where do we go from here?’” Where they went for this year will be found out by the audience at CN Centre on Oct. 28. Oh, the one reason Charlie Daniels probably wouldn’t make a good newspaper reporter? He phones a few minutes early for the interview. Tickets for the Charlie Daniels Band at CN Centre on Oct. 28 are now on sale at all Ticketmaster locations.
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Wheaties may not be the breakfast of choice for 28-year-old Prince George product Brandon Hunter. But he sure swung like a champion on Sunday. The top hitter at the 2012 RE/MAX Centre City Baseball Canada Senior Championship, Hunter’s heroics on the final day of the weekend event led the host Prince George Westcana Electric Axemen to the tournament title. Hunter’s grand slam in the Sunday, Aug. 26 gold-medal final was the difference maker in the Axemen’s 9-5 victory over the Windsor Stars, who entered the contest as defending champions of the event. Earlier the same day, Hunter hit the gametying two-run homer in a come-from-behind 4-2 Axemen win over the Fort Saskatchewan Athletics in the semifinal round. The centre fielder’s batting statistics for the four-day event are eye-popping: a tournament-best .667 average (10 for 15) with two homeruns, one double, 10 runs batted in and only one strikeA llan WISHA RT/Free Press out in five games. Kevin Mailloux of the Windsor Stars connects Those numbers stick out. But anybody who watched the Axemen’s games at Citizen Field with a pitch from Jesse Peters of the Prince would’ve been more impressed with Hunter’s George Axemen in the first game for both teams. ability to rise to the occasion on playoff Sun- The same two teams met for the championship, day. It was a special championship celebrated with the Axemen claiming the Canadian title on a special day, something Hunter won’t with a 9-5 win. forget anytime soon. like the Axemen, Chatham won a three-team “It was crazy. I’m like still in shock,” he said tiebreaker to top its group in the round robin. shortly after Sunday’s championship game ended. The Ironmen, Victoria Mavericks (B.C.) and Res“Even after that tying run (against the Athletics), I ton Rockets (Manitoba) finished Pool B with 2-1 couldn’t believe it and then the grand slam. They records. The Strathroy Royals of Ontario also were giving me pitches that I could do something ended up 0-3, and joined the Canadians on the with.” outside looking in when the playoffs started on Hunter’s grand slam came in the fourth inning. Saturday. The bomb to left-centre field opened up a 9-3 AxeFort Saskatchewan, which downed Chatham men lead. Despite that electrifying shot, he called 6-5 to win bronze, had two tournament award his homerun in the previous game more special, winners. Second baseman Jason Sutherland was pointing out the fashion in which that game named Most Defensive Player while Matt Beaudry ended. was named Top Catcher, joining Hunter (Most The Axemen’s semifinal win against Fort Sas- Offensive Player), as only three tournament award katchewan ended with a homerun by Coquitlam winners were named. shortstop Sean Hotzak in the bottom of the sevNo tournament MVP was announced. Axemen enth. manager and tournament co-chair Jim Swanson “We were struggling for offence, it was the bot- said Hunter would’ve been his choice for the hontom of the sixth, it tied us up,” Hunter said of his our, with right-handed pitcher/second baseman game-tying homerun. “It went into the seventh Jesse Peters of Surrey coming in a close second. and Hotty hits a walk-off, that’s huge.” Peters was on the mound for the majority of the The Athletics were the only squad to defeat the Axemen’s win over Fort Saskatchewan, and went Axemen in five tournament games, a 3-2 triumph the distance in their 2-0 victory over Windsor. during round robin action on Friday night. 18 Furthermore, the Axemen were the only team to down the Stars in the eight-team competition, and they did it twice. In their opener Thursday evening, the host squad blanked the Ontario provincial champions by a 2-0 score. In their other tournament game, the Axemen ©2012 HOLIDAY CANADA MANAGEMENT ULC 17256 hammered the Halifax Canadians (Nova Scotia) 10-0 on Saturday. Windsor finished 4-2 in Freedom for them. Peace-of-mind for you. the tournament, the Axemen playing one fewer Living at Prince George Chateau, your senior game for winning Pool A. Fort Saskatchewan loved ones will no longer have to worry about life’s was also in the group, daily chores and you’ll cherish the peace-of-mind the teams each finishing with a 2-1 round robin that only our 24/7 live-in managers can provide. record. Winless at 0-3, Welcome to Holiday. Welcome home. Halifax missed the playoff round. In the second semifinal on Sunday, Windsor hammered the Chatham Independent Retirement Living Ironmen (New Bruns4377 Hill Ave, Prince George, BC V2M 7G1 wick) 14-3, a game called after five innings due to 250-564-0202 | princegeorgechateau.com a 10-run mercy rule. Just
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Olympics. This year’s Paralympic Games in London run Aug. 29 to Sept. 9. Day 1 of the multi-sports event falls only 17 days after the current Summer Games conclude. “It’s a great lead-in and it helps for my mental preparation and stuff,” Hedges says of the Olympics. “You see the facility where we’ll play our games at so you can kind of get a feel for what it looks like a little bit, and then seeing some of the accomplishments and hardships and the tests that our other Canadian athletes have been through, and thinking about how I would react and be mentally prepared for those types of things would be a huge benefit for us and myself, I guess.” With the impact of the Olympics and how close the Paralympics are to beginning, it’s
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The women’s team is out of the medal hunt. There’s no national representative on the men’s side. Therefore, most Canadians aren’t following the basketball events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England with much interest. Most, but definitely not all. Robert “Bo” Hedges is one of the exceptions. The 32-year-old Fort St. John product and UNBC graduate is preparing for his second trip to the Paralympic Summer Games. He’ll be on the Canadian team in men’s wheelchair basketball, a program coming off a silver medal standing at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing, China. The Paralympics always follow the
no wonder Hedges is getting excited this month. He has a busy schedule ahead, but has used some downtime this summer to visit his parents’ cattle ranch, located about an hour north of Fort St. John. The path to London speeds up next week. Hedges will be leaving the country on Aug. 14 to suit up with the Canadian team for a set of exhibition games in the Netherlands. The squad will see the host team, Germany and Turkey in the preParalympic event. Germany and Turkey are also competing in men’s wheelchair basketball at the Paralympics. Canada plays Germany on Sept. 2 in London. “Germany is in our pool so they’ll be a tough game for us,” Hedges says. “They got some really good offen-
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2008 gold medal game in Beijing. Great Britain won bronze four years ago with an 85-77 triumph over the U.S. Hedges says the same top four national teams from Beijing are frontrunners to medal in this year’s wheelchair basketball event in London. He notes that Germany, Turkey
and Poland are also medal contenders. Results for Canada in recent years include a seventh-place showing at the 2010 World Championships in Birmingham, U.K., and a third-place result at the 2011 Parapan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. Hedges was a
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As a student at Duchess Park Secondary, Elisha Williams was a standout in stand-up basketball. Back then, the Prince George product dreamed of representing her country in international play. At 34 years old, Williams’ journey has finally led to the biggest stage. It’s just not the way she would’ve imagined as a teenager, before 1999 when she suffered the first of a string of knee injuries. With the wheelchair as her ride, Williams will represent Canada at the 2012 Paralympic Summer Games in London, England. The multi-sports event runs from Aug. 29 to Sept. 9. Williams and her teammates open their schedule in the women’s wheelchair basketball tournament on Aug. 31 against the Netherlands. Williams talked about the keys to having a successful tournament during a phone interview on Monday. “I think really just that old saying about you beat yourself, or you guys can be your own worst enemies. I think we just got to stay positive, have fun and be confident that we have what it takes to win, so we just got to push hard,” she said. “The game is going to have ups and downs and teams are going to make turnovers, teams are going to make mistakes and that’s not what’s going to cost you the game. It’s going to be how you react to those mistakes. Whether you make or miss that shot, you’ve got to go back and play defence. We’re really excited and we’re trying to bring home a medal.”
A spot on the podium eluded the team four years ago. Williams was an alternate on the squad that finished fifth in women’s wheelchair basketball at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing. The U.S. won gold with a 50-38 triumph over Germany, while Australia outscored Japan 53-47 for the bronze medal. The U.S. and Germany join the People’s Republic of China, France and Mexico in Group B in London. Canada will compete in Group A against host Great Britain, the Netherlands, Australia and Brazil. The event’s championship game is slated for Sept. 7. After a visit to Prince George on the weekend, Williams flew to Vancouver. From there, she was scheduled to begin a trip to the Netherlands, where Canada will open its schedule in a pre-Paralympic tournament this weekend. The group will arrive in the Athletes Village in London next week. “We’re super excited and like I said, we had a really good year and a really good summer leading up,” Williams said. “Everyone has been training hard and is healthy and confident.” In an effort to improve on its standing from Beijing, Wheelchair Basketball Canada provided the women’s team with a base at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. They set up shop in June and for a couple of months held regular practices and training sessions, and discussed strategies. They even watched parts of the recent Summer Olympics in London. “When we had time off, we could watch a little bit. First thing in the
morning, we would all get up early as a team,” Williams said. “We didn’t have TVs in our room, but there was a lounge, so we’d be watching.” The team may have paid particular attention to the basketball facilities while watching the Games in London. But the Canada colours also caught their attention. “It was even cool just to see what are we going to be wearing,” Williams said. Williams began playing wheelchair basketball in 2005. On the international stage, she’s helped Canada finish second at a pair of Parapan American Games, 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico. She also helped the national team finish third at the 2010 World Championships in Birmingham, U.K. Williams is also an academic success. She’s working her way towards a PHD in kinesiology focused in exercise science at the University of Alabama, and already carries a Masters in Disability Management from UNBC. She’s also completed a pair of undergraduate degree programs, with a Bachelor of Arts in Physical Education (San Jose University) and Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy (University of Alberta). Family, friends and coaches helped Williams develop her skills while growing up in Prince George. The 1996 Duchess Park graduate expressed gratitude for everybody sending her congratulatory messages. Ph o to co ur te s y W h e e lch a ir Ba s k e tb a ll C a na d a “The community has just been really great at supporting me. It’s just Elisha Williams will be competing with the Canadian nice to have your whole town behind women’s wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 you.” Paralympic Summer Games in London.
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UNBC student wins national honour A graduate student at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) has been honoured by the Canadian Association of Geographers for his research involving the First Nations treaty process in B.C. Chris Turner recently received the prestigious Robin P. Armstrong Memorial Prize for his master’s thesis on First Nations’ “overlapping claims.” The prize recognizes and promotes excellence in applied research on Canada’s Aboriginal peoples and is selected from among both masters and PhD-level theses across the country. “I’m delighted to be recognized for this research,” says Turner, who is currently a doctoral candidate at UNBC. “It’s flattering to have the project singled out, and my graduate supervisor, Dr. Gail Fondahl, as well as my thesis committee deserves a lot of credit. UNBC is a terrific school to do graduate research in the field of indigenous geographies.” “UNBC is an exemplary school for a whole bunch of reasons. The world-class faculty goes out of its way to help students succeed,” says Turner. “I work with a legal scholar with extensive
“One of the fascinating aspects of this work is the idea that through such an institution we can learn about and accommodate indigenous legal systems, and thus support a more just application of Canadian law and treaty making,” says Turner. Right now, only four treaties in B.C. have reached the final stages of negotiation in B.C.: Nisga’a, Lheidli T’enneh, Tswawwassen, and Maa Nulth. Turner argues that the current approach to treaty-making in B.C. is problematic and that a solution,
experience in treaty mentorship I receive negotiation, an expert at UNBC.” Turner ’s research in the legal geographies of indigenous examines the potential of a peoples, bi-cultural and the b institution Canada such as a Research commission C h a i r of inquiry of comto research parative and hear indigevidence enousconcerning s t a t e land claims relations. and, where “These Chris Turner required, are first- Treaty process mediate r a t e territorial scholars and very generous disputes among First people. There is isn’t Nations. This is the another university first time this has in the world where I been investigated to would have the kind resolve land claims of knowledgeable disputes in B.C.
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Italian sandals took on water when I got into the boat. Enid Bond, the team’s drummer, fitted me with a life jacket and asked me where I’d like to sit. Well since Bond has the best seat in the house (she sits up high), I went for a great vantage point at the other end. From the moment we left shore, I can tell you the women who paddle work hard. Their strokes are smooth and aerobic and I felt like I was gliding on glass. Unlike an aerobics class, however, I do suspect that I was the only one not breaking a sweat. I felt a tad guilty, just sitting there, enjoying the ride and rhythm of the drum – and taking photos. From the boat launch area, the team paddled into view of sunbathers on the beach at West Lake Provincial Park who waved as the colourful dragonboat passed by. Then on signal from Bond, they picked up the pace to racing speed using shorter strokes – their paddles dipping in and out of the water so fast, they become one big blur. Too soon, my “speed date” with the blue dragon was over. With a signature salute from the team, the boat headed back to shore. It was a wonderful time. Joie de vivre.
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Car buffs and vintage car enthusiasts are almost always on the hunt for parts – parts that will improve the look, value, comfort or
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Harvey is hoping to draw new people out to the popular event. “This is the only event like it in the North,� he said. “We have about 125 booths inside (Roll-A-Dome) and the corral outside will have 34 cars that
people can restore. “We had a good attendance last year – and we broke even. We’re hoping to increase the numbers this year.� Currently Harvey is hard at work restoring a 1955 Pontiac which originally came from Williams Lake. Not everyone has the vision he does. Case in point: When Harvey returned from a parts buying trip in the U.S. and was crossing into Canada, there was an amusing exchange. “The border guard looked at this hunk of metal I was hauling in the back and asked me if I had bought it in the U.S. I told him yes, then he (Customs official) asked: ‘Did you pay real money for that?.. Go ahead.’� Harvey had to laugh, but he’s used
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INCLUDES: AIR CONDITIONING ■ EZ LANE CHANGE ASSIST ■ DOWNHILL BRAKE CONTROL AND HILLSTART ASSIST ■ MOTOR DRIVEN POWER STEERING ■ REAR SPOILER ■ iPOD®/USB/MP3 AUXILIARY INPUT JACKS
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TUCSON L 5-SPEED MANUAL. DELIVERY & DESTINATION INCLUDED.
AWD SANTA FE PREMIUM PKG.
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SANTA FE AWD PREMIUM PACKAGE. PRICE INCLUDES $4,500 IN PRICE ADJUSTMENTS‡. DELIVERY & DESTINATION INCLUDED.
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VERACRUZ GL
VERACRUZ GL FWD. DELIVERY & DESTINATION INCLUDED.
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