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A Prince George man has been sentenced to a further 89 days in jail for leading police on a chase that ended in Valemount.
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Runners take off Sunday at the CIBC Run for the Cure at Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park.
Campaign aims to lower costs for cancer patients CHRISTINE HINZMANN Staff Reporter
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Getting the dreaded diagnosis of cancer will cause a lot of different stresses on the patient and their families, especially when traveling to get treatment is the only option. The Kordyban Lodge was built in 2013 to offer an affordable home away from home for those in the northern region of B.C. while they are undergoing treatment at the BC Cancer Centre for the North in Prince George. The goal is to reduce the current nightly cost of staying at the Kordyban Lodge from $54 to $20 during the Peace of Mind campaign. The Peace River Regional District has already pledged $150,000 over the next three years and with other donations
already coming in the campaign has raised $220,000 of the $450,000 goal. Campaign leader Margaret Jones-Bricker said there have been reports of people choosing not to take treatment because of the financial barrier it would pose to have to travel from their remote communities to stay in Prince George for treatment. Jones-Bricker said she knows the reduced rate to stay at the lodge will help make the decision to take treatment easier. Michael Downes, a logger from Vanderhoof, was a guest at the lodge during his treatment for stage 4 naso-pharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma, which required 35 radiation treatments and seven chemotherapy sessions. For Downes, it started with a sore throat he had for quite a while and then one morning while he was in the shower his
mouth filled with blood. Immediately, his daughter Lindsay took him to the hospital and from there Downes was quickly diagnosed and sent to Prince George for treatment. “It was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done,” he said. Downes said he stayed at the Kordyban Lodge through his seven weeks of treatment, except for two weekends that he went home. “Lindsay came to visit me several times and I just can’t say enough about the people in here,” he said. “They are all such excellent support.” “Every time I came to see him everyone here was so happy,” Lindsay said. “Everyone here is just super, super nice and I told my dad that I was happy he was staySee KORDYBAN, page 3
Jesse Luke Jack Juillette, 31, was issued the term in Prince George provincial court for dangerous driving under the Criminal Code for the Sept. 28, 2018 incident. According to an RCMP statement issued at the time, Juillette was wanted on outstanding warrants when at about 2 p.m., police attempted to pull over the car he was driving in the 2700 block of Spruce St. He took off and police called off the pursuit in the name of public safety. But his car was seen heading east on First Avenue and by 5 p.m. RCMP had set up a road block on Highway 16 west of McBride. But not only did Juillette refuse to stop, he nearly ran over a RCMP officer, police said. But RCMP received a tip he was at a motel in Valemount, 285 kilometres east of Prince George, and at 10 p.m. police converged on the spot. He was arrested by the Prince George RCMP street crew with help from the Valemount RCMP, McBride RCMP, police dog services, RCMP air services, and the North District RCMP emergency response team. Juillette had remained in custody since he was arrested on that day. He was wanted in relation to a Sept. 15, 2018 robbery and assault in Prince George along with outstanding warrants out of Williams Lake related to a May 4 break and enter and allegation of dangerous driving. He was prohibited from driving for three years, sentenced to two years probation and issued a lifetime firearms prohibition on the outstanding counts. He had also faced charges from a Jan. 23, 2018 armed robbery in Prince George. Those counts were stayed in June.
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