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POLICE UPDATE P. 3 EDITORIAL P. 6
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VIQUEENS TOURNEY P. 8 A LOOK BACK P. 10
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Crash, spin, or ditch: driving in Jan. 5 snow With continual snowfall on Jan. 5, five traffic accidents were reported between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Two of the incidents, each involving more than three vehicles, happened within the span of an hour and half on different parts of Highway 16. First incident: ditch or crash At about 11:45 a.m. on Highway 16 in front of the sawmill west of downtown Vanderhoof, a truck heading eastbound was waiting to turn left, followed by a dump truck, a small grey car, and a red truck, Nielsen said. A truck carrying wood chips, also going eastbound, did not see the vehicle lineup between the blowing snow until the last minute. Seeing that the wood chip truck would not be stopping in time, the grey car’s driver turned right to avoid the incoming truck, into the ditch.
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In the second traffic incident involving multiple vehicles to be reported to the RCMP on Jan. 5, a loaded lumber truck went into the ditch to avoid a spinning pickup in the middle of Highway 16 by C.J.’s Trailer Park.
First Vanderhoof baby in 2016 Congratulations to Lisa and Brad Van Koughnett, from Fort St. James, on their first born child. Baby boy, Leo Eldon Van Koughnett, is Vanderhoof’s 2016 New Year’s Baby, arriving on Jan. 1 at 8:09 p.m. and weighing seven pounds eight ounces. Members of St. John Hospital Auxiliary Society welcomed the New Year’s baby with a gift basket, including a crib-size quilt donated by Nechako Quilters Guild, as well as locally purchased baby products and items for Lisa. Due on Jan. 19, Leo arrived into the world early, Lisa said SUBMMITTED photo “He’s the first baby and there’s lots to learn,” Members of St. John Hospital Auxiliary Society welcomed the New Year’s she said. “We’ll take it one at a time.” Jan. 1 is also the birthday of Lisa’s maternal baby with a gift basket on Jan. 3.
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grandfather, Lisa added. If Leo arrived a few hours later, he would have been born on the same day as Lisa’s paternal grandfather, on Jan. 2. “We have lots of family and support in the area,” she said. The first baby born in the Northern Health region in 2016 was delivered at the University Hospital of Northern B.C. in Prince George at 1:25 a.m. on Jan. 1. The first baby born in B.C. in 2016 is a boy delivered at Surrey Memorial Hospital at 12:15 a.m. on Jan. 1 to a family from Fort Nelson. - with files from the St. John Hospital Auxiliary Society and Northern Health
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