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Volume 65, No.21
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Henry Schoof named citizen of the year BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff
In the 20 years that he has lived in Creston, Henry Schoof has quietly amassed an astonishing volunteer resume. For his long commitment to his community, Schoof was named the 2013 citizen of the year at the Creston Valley Blossom Festival opening ceremonies on Friday night. Born in 1940 in Rostock, Germany, Schoof earned a diploma in chemical engineering before emigrating to Canada in 1967, where he worked at a Prince Rupert pulp and paper mill. It was that northwestern city that he became a member of the Lions Club, in which he has remained active for 40 years. Schoof said on Monday that there was no tradition of volunteer service in Germany, but he was quickly drawn in by a friend in Prince Rupert. “My buddy was in the Lions Club and he said, ‘Why don’t you join, too?’ That’s how it all started.” He met his “first wife” as he jokingly calls her, Rosie, in Langley in 1979 and they were married in 1985. In 1993, they moved to Creston after purchasing the Downtowner Motor Inn, which they operated until 2007. Schoof has served as president of the Creston Lions Club on several occasions and, as a Lion, has been involved in Christmas tree sales, the Blossom Festival committee, the street fair, the children’s parade and in the operation and maintenance of the club’s mobile kitchen. A cook and cleanup specialist, it is a rare Lions Club event where Schoof isn’t working quietly behind the scenes.
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LEARNING AND DANCING — The Prince Charles Secondary School gymnasium was filled nearly to capacity on Friday
morning as students from local schools watched and took part in their third annual school powwow. Visiting dancers also showed off their skills for the students, who came away with a new appreciation of First Nations culture.
Mungall re-elected as MLA BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff Nelson’s Michelle Mungall romped to a runaway election win yesterday, amassing more votes than her Liberal and Green opponents combined. The New Democrat MLA for Nelson-Creston will serve her second term, once again as an Opposition member after a Liberal
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majority win that few could have predicted. “It’s not what people were saying as I toured around the province,” Mungall said this morning. “I wonder, did people just not show up to vote, thinking the election of an NDP government was a foregone conclusion?” With 7,576 votes, she easily outdistanced rookie candidates Greg Garbula (4,348 votes) and Sjeng Derkx (3,133
votes), in an election that saw the Christy Clark-led Liberal Party wipe out expectations that a New Democrat government would be elected. “The polls always said the same thing, regardless of how the information was collected,” Mungall said. “It will take some time to process what happened.” See ELECTION, page 5
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