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It was a fine day for a walk Saturday as participants and their supporters took to the track at Masich Stadium for the Relay for Life, earning funds to go towards finding a cure for cancer.
Relay for Life tops $500,000 Prince George officially has a halfmillion-dollar Relay For Life. Trevor Patenaude, leadership chair of the Prince George Relay For Life committee, announced during Sunday’s closing ceremony that the event raised $500,000. “We set out on this to be No. 1 in Canada,” he told the crowd, which included relay participants, sponsors and organizers. “Prince George has always done relay, pound for pound, better than anyone else. We’re the only 24-hour relay in Canada [and we said] we’ll take on Winnipeg, we’ll take on Edmonton, we’ll take on Calgary, we’ll take on Vancouver, we’ll take on Canada. So Canada, the time for talk is over. Prince George says three words – ‘Just bring it!’” The Prince George edition of the Relay For Life, the Canadian Cancer Society’s largest fundraiser, was held
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at Masich Place Stadium from 10 a.m. Saturday to 10 a.m. Sunday. More than 1,500 people registered to participate and countless others showed up at the track over the course of the weekend to show their support. Money raised from the various Relay For Life events across Canada is put toward cancer prevention and research and is also used to assist people who are living with the disease. Locally, donations will continue to be accepted until July. Donations can be brought to the Canadian Cancer Society office, located at 1100 Alward Street, or can be made online at www.relaybc.ca. Simply select ‘Prince George’ from the drop-down menu at the top right of the page. At the 2012 Prince George Relay
For Life, the announced total on the Sunday was $420,000. In the weeks that followed, another $74,000 rolled in. That total – $494,000 – was the second-highest in Canada, behind only Coquitlam, which raised $550,000. Helen Owen, Team Lead, Relay For Life, was overseeing her second relay in Prince George. Owen said she’s “blown away” by the amount of money raised so far. “I just can’t believe the community spirit that we have and the generosity,” Owen said. “The sponsors and the people that came on board in the last six months – and especially in the last couple of months – is heartwarming. It inspires me. “Everyone is affected by cancer and everyone wants to make a difference,” she said. “And we’re a little bit competitive here. Prince George wants to be No. 1, and I like to be No. 1.”
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Hikers discovered human remains when walking through the Greenway Trails west of Tyner Blvd. on Monday. “That’s all we’re saying at this point,” Cpl. Craig Douglass, media liaison with the Prince George RCMP, said. He added part of the park system will be closed to the public while the investigation ensues and asked if hikers could consider using the east side of Tyner for now. “It could be days,” he said when asked how long the investigation will take. “Or we could be done today.” Cheryll Huck was one of the hikers who found the remains. She told the Free Press she was hiking with a friend on Monday, following the markers for a new trail forestry is creating in the Greenway. They went off the trail after crossing a swampy area when her friend called to her and asked “what’s that.” Huck said the remains were recognizable as human right away though they seemed to be a few years old. “From what I saw I couldn’t say whether it was male or female,” she said. They also noticed a lean-to in the area, and though Huck said she’s no expert, and though she’d rather leave any conclusions about the remains to them, it appeared to her as though someone might have gotten lost. She added only seasoned hikers should leave the marked trails. The investigation, Douglass said, will involve many of the RCMP’s units, including forensics, the police dog unit, and general duty officers with members of the serious crimes unit leading the investigation. The RCMP will be working in partnership with the B.C. Coroners Service. “They are human,” Douglass said of the remains. “We are working with the experts to get a better idea as to the nature of the remains. Right now we are in the beginning stages of the investigation. “These types of investigations are not a race. We have to take time to do things thoroughly and accurately.” He said the RCMP are aware of local cases of high interest to the public, especially those involving women, and promised they would work diligently to get more information, but right now no one should make presumptions regarding the remains.