NIGHT LIFE: Plans for a 400-seat night club downtown unveiled A3 Friday, February 3, 2011 Newsline 250-564-0005 www.pgfreepress.com The Clockmaker comes to Theatre North West A12 THIS WEEKEND! Feb 3 rd & 4 th 7:00pm vs. February 3 rd Local singer Caitlyn Macaulay will perform during the 2nd intermission. February 4 th Kellogg’s Mascot Mania Cheer on the mascots during the mascot soccer match! Bring office or cleaning supplies to support the Minor Hockey Scrimmage Budget shortfall; tuition protest ■ COLLEGE OF NEW CALEDONIA ALLAN WISHART [email protected]The College of New Caledonia needs to find ways to make up $1.8 million in the next three months. A budget development report pre- sented to Friday’s board meeting showed a shortfall of that amount for the 2012-13 school year. “There is lots of work still to do on this,” president John Bowman told the board. “We are looking for all groups to identify potential areas for savings. No decisions have been made yet.” The board also gave preliminary approval to a two per cent increase in tuition and fees for next year. A final decision on the increase will be made at the board’s next meeting, sched- uled for March 1. “Like every year,” vice-president of finance Penny Fahlman said in the report, “the college is facing a vari- ety of unavoidable higher costs and spending pressures.” She listed some of these costs as being rising utility costs, higher soft- ware and licensing and maintenance fees, and employee salary step incre- ments. “We intend to make available a limited number of one-time early retirement incentives and voluntary severance packages to full-time regu- lar employees,” Fahlman said, “who will not be replaced in the following year by a new regular or full-time employee.” Bowman said one new initiative the college is undertaking is trying to get more of the students who apply for seats in courses to follow through. “We want to make more applicants into registrants, which would boost our tuition revenue.” Board deals with $1.8 million deficit ALLAN WISHART [email protected]Students at the College of New Caledo- nia (CNC) joined their fellows across the province on Wednesday for a day of action against student debt and rising tuition costs. At CNC, Highball Riot provided the musical entertainment to kick off the after- noon, followed by a number of speakers, including Zach Crispin, chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students-BC. “Student debt in B.C. is at a record high,” Crispin said in a press release. “Students and their families are sick of governments squabbling over jurisdiction. We demand the provincial and federal government work together to eliminate student debt.” Leila Abubakar, chairperson of the CNC Students’ Union, agreed with Crispin. “Access to post-secondary education is vital in our northern community,” she said. “CNC is suffering from insufficient govern- ment funding which threatens the qual- ity and accessibility of education in our region.” Students were able to take part in a number of activities during the afternoon, including sumo wrestling, with the tagline “Wrestle Student Debt Down”. The day of action calls on the provincial and federal governments to work together to reduce tuition fees, drop student debt, and increase funding for public post-sec- ondary education. Students hold Day of Action to protest tuition hike Allan WISHART/Free Press Local band Highball Riot provided the early entertainment for CNC students at Wednesday’s Day of Action on tuition and fees, held in the atrium at the school.
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NIGHT LIFE: Plans for a 400-seat night club downtown unveiled A3Friday, February 3, 2011
Newsline 250-564-0005
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The Clockmaker comes to Theatre North West
A12
THIS WEEKEND!Feb 3rd & 4th
7:00pm
vs.
February 3rd
Local singer Caitlyn Macaulaywill perform during the 2nd
intermission.
February 4th
Kellogg’s Mascot ManiaCheer on the mascots during the
mascot soccer match! Bring offi ce or cleaning supplies to support the
Minor HockeyScrimmage
Budget shortfall; tuition protest■ CoLLEGE oF NEw CALEdoNIA
The College of New Caledonia needs to find ways to make up $1.8 million in the next three months.
A budget development report pre-sented to Friday’s board meeting showed a shortfall of that amount for the 2012-13 school year.
“There is lots of work still to do on this,” president John Bowman told the board. “We are looking for all groups to identify potential areas for savings. No decisions have been made yet.”
The board also gave preliminary approval to a two per cent increase in tuition and fees for next year. A final decision on the increase will be made at the board’s next meeting, sched-uled for March 1.
“Like every year,” vice-president of finance Penny Fahlman said in the report, “the college is facing a vari-ety of unavoidable higher costs and spending pressures.”
She listed some of these costs as being rising utility costs, higher soft-ware and licensing and maintenance fees, and employee salary step incre-ments.
“We intend to make available a limited number of one-time early retirement incentives and voluntary severance packages to full-time regu-lar employees,” Fahlman said, “who will not be replaced in the following year by a new regular or full-time employee.”
Bowman said one new initiative the college is undertaking is trying to get more of the students who apply for seats in courses to follow through.
“We want to make more applicants into registrants, which would boost our tuition revenue.”
Students at the College of New Caledo-nia (CNC) joined their fellows across the province on Wednesday for a day of action against student debt and rising tuition costs.
At CNC, Highball Riot provided the musical entertainment to kick off the after-noon, followed by a number of speakers, including Zach Crispin, chairperson of the
Canadian Federation of Students-BC.“Student debt in B.C. is at a record high,”
Crispin said in a press release. “Students and their families are sick of governments squabbling over jurisdiction. We demand the provincial and federal government work together to eliminate student debt.”
Leila Abubakar, chairperson of the CNC Students’ Union, agreed with Crispin.
“Access to post-secondary education is vital in our northern community,” she said. “CNC is suffering from insufficient govern-
ment funding which threatens the qual-ity and accessibility of education in our region.”
Students were able to take part in a number of activities during the afternoon, including sumo wrestling, with the tagline “Wrestle Student Debt Down”.
The day of action calls on the provincial and federal governments to work together to reduce tuition fees, drop student debt, and increase funding for public post-sec-ondary education.
Students hold Day of Action to protest tuition hike
Allan WISHART/Free Press
Local band Highball Riot provided the early entertainment for CNC students at Wednesday’s Day of Action on tuition and fees, held in the atrium at the school.
Prince George Free Press
Snowman Building ContestDeadline for building and submitting pictures is Feb. 3rd at 5 p.m.Get your team together or build on your ownThree Categories1. Most Snowmen in one place at one time 1st Place $7002. Tallest Snowman 1st Place $5003. Best Snow Sculpture 1st Place $300Entry fee is $10 for each category you enterGift Certi cates for 2nd & 3rd place in each categorySubmit photos to Mardi Gras Snow Daze of ce at 1529 8th Avenue oremail to [email protected]
Snow Daze Cash LotteryTickets are $2 - available at Mardi Gras Of ce or watch for us around town.Draw for $1000 cash to be made Saturday, Feb. 18th at 10 p.m. the PG Golf & Curling Club.
Friday, Feb. 3rd“Mr. Prince George Pageant”Ramada HotelDoors open at 6 p.m. Show time 7 p.m.Tickets $30 (includes Calendar, munchies & door prizes)Tickets available at Mardi Gras of ce, 1529 8th Avenue
Saturday, Feb. 4thSeniors Fun Fair DaysElder Citizens Recreation Association - 1692 10th Ave.“On Centre Stage”1st Ever Battle of the Seniors Idol ContestShow time is 7 p.m. Admission is $8
“No Limit Texas Hold’em Tournament”Days Inn Hotel - Charlie’s Banquet Room
Doors open at 5 p.m. Tournament starts at 6 p.m. sharpTickets $60 - only 100 tickets for sale - start with $2500 in chips. Tickets available at Mardi Gras of ce or at the Days Inn front desk.B.C. Gaming Licence No. 40272. Must be 19 or over to play. “Know your limit play within it”
Wednesday, Feb. 8th“Harpdog Brown in Concert”Treasure Cove Casino Show LoungeDoors open at 6 p.m. Show time 7 p.m. Tickets $20 in advance or $25 at the doorTickets available at Mardi Gras Snow Daze Of ce or Dovey’s Blues News, Studio 2880 or the Treasure Cove
Saturday, Feb. 11th“Wendy’s Kids Fun Fair”Connaught Youth Centre10 a.m. - 4 p.m.No admission fee, game & food tickets are only 50cents eachGames, face painting, craft table, balloon art, dancing and a whole lot more. Hotdogs, chips, water & pop available. Mascots will be in attendance.Come dressed up in costume with masks and beads. You could win a prize for best costume.
Snowman Building Contest
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Friday, Feb. 17th“Snow Daze Talent Night”Treasure Cove CasinoDoors open at 6 p.m. Show time at 7 p.m.Tickets $10 in advance $15 at the doorTickets available at Mardi Gras Of ce or at doorA line up of some of Prince George’s nest talent.Half time performance by Doug Koyama & Charles Amos, 2011 winners
Saturday, Feb. 18th“Curling Funspiel”Prince George Golf & Curling Club$160 entry fee for team of 4Includes Roast Beef DinnerTeams start playing at 3 p.m.Awards at 10 p.m.Grand prize package includes 2 nights for 2 at Hampton Inn in Kamloops, two rounds of golf at Eaglepoint Golf Course and a dinner for 2 at the award winning Italian restaurant Vittorios.Mardi Gras Snow Daze cash lottery draw at 10 pm
Saturday, Feb. 18thSeniors Fun Fair DaysSeniors Activity Centre - 425 Brunswick StreetMardi Gras Snow Daze Dance - Music by Country RoseDoors open at 7 p.m. Dancing 8 p.m. to midnightAdmission - $10 at the door - includes lunch. Everyone 19 and over is welcome
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“Celebrate Mardi Gras Style Downtown”Head downtown and get a set of Mardi Gras Beads & an entry form from participating merchants. For a list of these merchants please visit www.snowdaze.ca or watch the Free Press for list of merchants. Fill out your entry form and wear your beads to one of the Mardi Gras Snow Daze produced events and get your name in our draw box to be eligible to win up to $500.00 Downtown Dollars to spend in February at participating businesses. Just ask for a Mardi Gras representative at the event and they will look after you. For a list of participating events go to www.snowdaze.ca or watch for the list of events in the Free Press.
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Plenty of memories for UNBC players before final home games
A week after police issued a warning that Ford F-350 pickup trucks are favou-rite targets of thieves, one was stolen and another damaged near the Foothills landfill.
Two men parked their trucks near the landfill Sunday morning, unloaded their snowmobiles and headed off for a morn-ing of fun on the fresh snow.
When they returned just after noon, they discovered one vehicle was gone and the other was damaged.
The stolen pickup is described as a 2007 white Ford F-350 bearing BC license plate DC5221. The damaged pickup was a 2006 grey Ford F-350. The door lock was punched, the ignition damaged and the cab had been thoroughly gone through.
The Prince George RCMP would like to remind the public, in particularly those that own Ford F350 pickup trucks, that car thieves are out looking for vehicles to steal 24 hours a day.
Here are a few things you can do to
prevent your vehicle from being stolen: Invest in at least one anti-theft device,
particularly a passive immobilizer. Anti-theft devices can deter thieves in three ways:
Physically – No thief wants to waste precious time exerting a lot of physical effort.
Visually – Just the sight of an anti-theft device inside a car will turn a thief away from your car.
Audibly – Thieves never want to draw
attention to themselves.Don’t leave a spare key in your vehi-
cle.Park in well-lit areas. Avoid parking
behind barriers such as fences or hedges; If you see any suspicious person or
activity near a vehicle, call the police immediately.
Police would like to also remind auto thieves that the Prince George RCMP actively participates in the bait-car pro-gram.
Ford F-350s continue to be prime target for thieves
■ ProPosEd NIGHTCLub
Open house attracts support and oppositionCountry/rock cabaret suggested for corner of Third and Vancouver
City residents had the chance to stop by the Civic Centre Wednesday night to check out plans for a 400-seat nightclub planned for the corner of Third and Vancouver, the site of the old Odeon theatre.
The evening provided an opportunity for people to share comments and con-cerns about the planned project. These comments will be passed on to city council.
Cameron Thun, who is partnering with Ted, Nathan and Robert Coole as well as Lorne Larose on the project, said the group chose the location because it offers 10,000 square feet of space.
“In a bar you always run out of space,” he said.
However, the partners want to provide a concert-style stage and a large dance floor that will allow plenty of room for two-steppers to come out and strut their stuff.
“We’ve been in the industry over 40 years, and we see the need for this in Prince George,” he said. “There is no place for nor-mal adult-oriented people to go. We want older cli-entele who want to go out dancing, maybe after a nice dinner downtown and we plan to bring in big-name bands out of Nashville and Alberta and use great local acts.”
The country/rock caba-ret does have the capac-ity to hold 400 people, he
said, however that number includes staff, about 30, meaning at capacity there will be 370 patrons.
The nightclub, which will be called Coyotes, is designed to mitigate any issues that might dis-turb neighbours. He said the stage will be on the left-hand side of the cen-tre of the club behind a complete theatre, which will be used for storage, insulating the surround-ing neighbourhood from the noise. Another side is a foyer, equally large and the other is surrounded by businesses.
“There will be absolutely no sound from the enter-tainment,” he said.
He added because of the size of the foyer, the lineup for patrons will be inside, which not only means no outside lineups to disturb neighbours, but protec-tion from the elements for patrons. An outdoor smok-ing area will be accessible from a walkway within the club and will be enclosed.
Thun pointed out that some councillors visited Halifax during the Canada Winter Games and were impressed not only with the game sites but with the downtown Halifax night-life during the event.
“We have to have incred-ible areas for night activi-ties,” he said adding the cabaret will fit well with the Keg and Ramada reno-vations.
Ted Coole said build-ing the cabaret is possible because of everything the city and the RCMP have
done to clean up the down-town.
The cabaret, he added, will respect its neigh-bours.
“We have respect for the neighbourhood, the busi-nesses and the commu-nity,” he said.
He added they have worked hard to design the club so it mitigates any concerns that might come from the community, and many who see the design and hear what project planners have in store are impressed. The problem to date, he said, is getting that message out there.
One longtime area citizen, however, is not pleased with the idea of
the club.He said when a liquor
store was in the area a few years ago, it caused problems for everyone, with people drinking in the alleyway at all hours of the day and night, fall-ing asleep in people’s back yards and urinating whenever the need struck. He said traffic is going to increase in the area, park-ing will be an issue and he thinks there will be more noise, whether it comes from the band or patrons leaving the establishment in the wee hours of the morning.
“We were that age once. They will be rowdy and there will be noise,” he
said.Though he believes the
city needs a nightclub, he said the area isn’t right for one.
Jesse Dill, city planner, talked to several peo-ple during the evening, encouraging them to fill in comment sheets or send an e-mail or message to the city stating their position and concerns.
These, he said, will be accepted until Feb. 13, then forwarded to council.
“I think most resident and business owners near the site are expressing their concerns or support for the project,” he said. “There have definitely been con-cerns over some of the
impacts like the long hours and late-night noise.”
If the land in question passes the first two read-ings of a rezoning bylaw, then it will come before council a third time, and people will have another chance to state concerns during a public hearing.
Council will have the opportunity to look at these concerns within the framework of the Prince George liquor policy.
“We focus on land use and community impact,” Dill said.
If the project gets to that stage, the date for the pub-lic hearing will be adver-tised in the newspaper, Dill said.
Lorne Larose, left, Nathan Coole, Cameron Thun, Ted Coole and Robert Coole hold up a photo of what a new nightclub they are proposing will look like. Coyotes would be located in the old Odeon building on Vancouver Street.
Hampton Affili-ates, majority owner of Babine Forest Prod-ucts, prefers to rebuild the mill, but first they must know there is enough fibre to make
that sort of investment worthwhile.
MLA Pat Bell, min-ister of jobs, tourism and industry, visited Burns Lake Friday along with local MLA John Rustad and spent the day in meetings with local leaders and
First Nations, ham-mering out a plan of action for the commu-nity.
He said one of their first decisions is to form one task force, a collaborative effort jointly chaired by the province, First Nations
and the district. Answering to that task force will be two sub-committees. One will work on short-term employment options for locals while the other will investigate the fibre supply.
“We had a good dis-cussion with Hamp-ton and they prefer to rebuild if they can amortize the invest-ment over the proper period of time,” Bell said.
The task force will provide a transparent disclosure of the fibre supply in the region, one of the areas hard-est hit by the mountain pine beetle. That pro-cess will take between
four to six weeks, then far more detailed work will be necessary.
“We’ve been clear one mill should not be sacrificed for another in this region. We think there is enough fibre in the region to be able to manage for all,” Bell said.
The task force will also look for ideas to capture more value from the fibre avail-able.
Bell also announced Bob Clark, the former ‘beetle boss’ of the province, will head up the task force.
“He has the connec-tions to move forward in an expeditious fash-ion,” he said.
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Woodley Words
Children in the YMCA Child Care
program listen carefully as Ben Woodley of the
Spruce Kings reads to them
Friday afternoon. Six of the Spruce
Kings dropped by the facility to read to the chil-
dren for Literacy Day.
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An open discus-sion about renew-able energy systems at UNBC Wednes-day helped attendees understand the impor-tance of renewable resources as well as the role B.C. could play in the industry.
The two-hour pre-sentation was opened and closed by Chancel-lor John MacDonald.
“The 21st century will be a time, in my view, when human beings will change in fundamental ways the way they generate their energy,” he said.
He added most peo-ple in the room had spent at least a por-tion of their life in a developed economy and enjoyed the best quality of life human beings ever have expe-
rienced. This, in a large part, he said, is due to the availability of large q u a n t i -ties of affordable energy.
H e sees three issues with e n e r g y today.
The first, he said, is climate c h a n g e . The second is the risk of harvest-ing fossil fuels, and the third is supply and demand.
“That, I believe, is what is going to drive the change we are going to see in the coming decades,” he said.
What will happen, he asked, when the demand for energy exceeds the conven-
tional supply?“There are advanced
developing economies w h i c h want our l i f e s t y l e and they are going to get it, w h i c h means they are going to increase t h e i r energy use rapidly.”
T h e s e ‘ B R I C ’ countries
include Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Figuring out when demand will outrun supply isn’t an easy task, he said, so he looked at the problem in two different ways, the first using a more optimistic approach and the second pessi-mistic. The first table shows supplies of
conventional energy sources lasting until between 2030 and 2040. The second table, with a different set of inputs collected by another group, shows supplies lasting until between 2012 and 2015.
These two sets of figures likely bracket reality, he said.
The question then becomes: how will people fill the supply/demand gap?
One solution lies in nuclear energy, however MacDon-ald pointed out these sources are not abso-lutely renewable, and many people find the idea of utilizing nuclear energy trou-blesome. The second would be renewable resources entering the mainstream.
Renewable resources are inexhaustible if managed properly
and should be secure as well as low risk. In other words, they should come from your own backyard. For example, B.C. using large hydro resources for power because of the availability of water. Other provinces don’t have access to the same resource.
Most renewable power resources, Mac-donald said, are inter-mittent or location dependent, or both.
The answer to over-coming those chal-lenges lies in using a variety of renewable resources together. This means asking what sources are avail-able and what are their characteristics.
C o m b i n i n g resources and, for a time, using fossil fuel to back them up, likely natural gas which, he said, seems to be the
transition fuel, is the answer.
All of these fac-tors combined means B.C. is in a position to become a world leader in renewable energy, MacDonald said.
“We have an oppor-tunity to build a world-class industry that exports renew-ables,” he said. “We could become a global renewable energy cen-tre.”
A sold-out event at the Civic Centre happening from Feb. 13-16 is bringing First Nations leaders from across the province and matching them with corporations that want to grow partner-ships and business opportunities.
Keith Henry, presi-dent of the Industry Council for Aborigi-nal Business, said the concept of matching the business interests of First Nations com-munities with like-minded community partners came out of the work of a number of parties.
Part of the process meant those inter-ested in the confer-ence fill out detailed registration forms regarding their priori-ties. Conference orga-nizers then aligned
those priorities and made matches which will culminate in a number of meetings between community leaders and busi-nesses during the conference.
“Each participant has at least 31 appoint-ments,” Henry said.
Interests among Aboriginal commu-nities run the gam-bit from forestry and mining to tourism. In fact, Henry said, pretty much every sector is represented.
Businesses send-ing representatives to the conference come from B.C., Alberta and different parts of Canada and 117 First Nations communities are registered for the event.
Over 4,000 appoint-ments are scheduled, Henry said.
“It was sold out well in advance. We are feeling really pos-
itive about the out-comes.”
The event includes a trade show compo-nent, which will be open to the public.
Henry said they decided to hold the convention in Prince George in order to reach more remote and northern First
Nations communities.“This will give great
accessibility and sup-port to First Nations in Prince George,” he said.
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Cette prématernelle offre un programme francophone, conçu pour les enfants dont la langue maternelle des parents ou d’un des parents est le français. Ce programme éducatif vise à favoriser l’ensemble des dimensions du développement global de l’enfant sur les plans physique, intellectuel, langagier, socio-affectif, et morale, dans un milieu riche et stimulant.
This preschool program provides kids (age 3 to 5) with a positive environment where their emotional, social, physical, and intellectual development is enhanced while learning the French language. Our staff will share their years of experience and knowledge with you. All preschool children are welcome in this program.
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The Prince George & District Elizabeth Fry Housing Society is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications from
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The Fraser-Fort George Regional District board gave approval to enter into a competitive bid process for the expansion of the Ferndale/Tabor fire hall.
The expansion is based on a recommendation from a report that highlighted space deficiencies in the current hall. The current hall was designed to house three firefighting vehicles, though there are currently four vehicles in the hall. This cre-ates some safety and space issues.
The report further recommends that the expan-sion would provide sufficient exhaust extraction for vehicles within the hall.
The Fraser-Fort George Regional District board approved a number of appointments to standing committees, external agencies, and select committees. Directors appointed to external agencies include:
• Municipal Finance Author-ity – Shari Green;
• Fraser Basin Council –Lara
Beckett;• PG Treaty Advisory Com-
mittee – Terry Burgess;• Columbia Basin Trust –
Andru McCracken;• Municipal Insurance Asso-
ciation – Kevin Dunphy;• NCLGA – Mike Frazier;• Northern Treaties Treaty
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Development Association – Ken Starchuck.
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It’s still early in the process, but John Bow-man sees potential for training at the recently closed Rustad Saw-mill.
“I went for a tour of the site on Monday,” said the College of New Caledonia presi-dent. “It was my first time on the site, and it was very helpful. I hadn’t realized before
just how large the property is.”
Bowman had reported to the CNC board meeting on Fri-day his plans for the tour, noting there was a possibility of some of the property being turned over to the pro-vincial government and education part-ners.
“We’ve had a pre-liminary meeting with (Minister of Jobs, Tour-ism and Innovation)
Pat Bell and Bryan Fehr of the BID Group. It’s an expensive proposal which would require substantial support from the province.”
After the tour Mon-day, Bowman empha-sized again the idea was in the “very pre-liminary stages of development.”
“CNC and BCIT (British Columbia Insti-tute of Technology) are involved. There is the potential of a joint pro-
gram with BCIT. There are programs offered at BCIT which are needed by i n d u s t r y that aren’t offered at CNC. We’re a l r e a d y w o r k i n g with them on other programs, so this would be an exten-sion of that.”
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Early Tuesday morning, city crews were out on the streets of Prince George, getting rid of the latest dump of snow.
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Non-compliance gets jailIn Provincial Court in
Prince George on Jan. 11:Herbert J. Lazarre
was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order and sentenced to one day in jail and time served of nine days.
Wilfred P. Lowley was found guilty of theft of property with a value less than $5,000, sentenced to one day in jail and placed on proba-tion for six months.
John C. Nyirenda was found guilty of uttering threats and placed on probation for six months.
Clayton L. Palley was found guilty of driving without due care and attention, fined $1,000 and assessed a victim surcharge of $150.
Derek J.P. Parent was found guilty of failing to comply with a condi-tion of an undertaking or recogni-zance, sentenced to one day in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $50.
Lance L. Robinson was found guilty of driving without due care and attention, fined $1,000 and assessed a victim surcharge of $150.
Lloyd Sword was found guilty of two counts of fraud, received a conditional sentence of nine months and was ordered to make restitution of $21,507.55.
Melissa J. West was found guilty of theft of property with a value less than $5,000, sentenced to one day in jail and placed on probation for six months.
Michael D. Wilkinson was found guilty of causing a disturbance and placed on probation for six months.
Darcy G. Arthurs was found guilty of possession of a firearm contrary to order, assessed a victim surcharge of $50, placed on proba-tion for one year and received a lifetime prohibition on the posses-sion of firearms.
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Logic: we all believe we use it, but do we? What appears to be a matter of simple logic often
becomes more complex than was initially thought. Like an onion, we remove the skin from the prob-lem under discussion only to find there are more layers of information that must now be dealt with.
Exporting raw logs is a controversial subject, par-ticularly on the coast. The logic says that when we export raw logs to other countries we are exporting jobs that should stay in British Columbia. Makes sense on the surface but doesn’t take into account all aspects of utilization.
There doesn’t appear to be a long line-up of forest companies eager to enter into or expand processing those logs into pulp products or lumber. If building more pulp mills and sawmills had the potential to produce a reason-able return for the shareholders, they would be there with their investment dollars.
What if we applied the same logic to another well-known Canadian product? Wheat is grown in Canada along with other crops. The wheat is put in railcars, shipped to one of our coasts and loaded on ships bound for other countries. If we use a simi-lar logic as we use to oppose raw log exports, we wouldn’t let that happen. We would insist the wheat was processed in Canada and then the flour would be sold worldwide. It would not work for numer-ous reasons and if raw wheat was not allowed to be exported, Canadian farmers would be bankrupt and the Canadian economy would be poorer.
The same faulty or incomplete logical analysis can be applied to many other products. If we applied the “raw log” logic, we would insist that all miner-als would be processed before leaving the country. Anyone want to start a copper smelter? Rather than
exporting coal, perhaps we could insist that product would be used to manufacture steel or produce elec-tricity and not exported as raw coal. The same could be said for natural gas and petroleum products.
We all need to be cautious when we apply our particular form of logic. All the factors must be taken into account. The complexity tends to grow the further we think through all the ramifications. Simple logic probably doesn’t exist.
Opposition to raw-log exports appears straight-forward. But, the discussion rarely takes into
account the economic benefits that flow from raw-log exports. There are the primary jobs for the forest workers who harvest the logs. Transportation, loading and shipping of those logs provides further primary jobs. Those workers, like the rest of us, spend the money they earn on food, housing,
entertainment, education and other of life’s desires. That in turn creates more employment.
If there is no demand for the logs being exported in the traditional industries, then the choice is a sim-ple one. Those surplus trees can be used to enhance our economy by being otherwise utilized, or they can rot in the forest. One small but important ben-efit is the mature forests are replaced with younger trees and the rapidly growing younger trees con-sume more carbon than the old mature trees. That is one little side benefit toward a better climate.
As with almost everything in life, things are more complex the further we study them. It is anyone’s privilege to have a point of view based more on emotions than facts. Even when the majority sub-scribe to that emotional response, it doesn’t make it right. The hard fact of life is “wishing it were so” doesn’t make it so.
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And this in memory of John Diefenbaker who said, “polls are for dogs.”
NDP leader Adrian Dix has passed Premier Christy Clark as the most popular choice for the
top job in B.C., according to a poll released Wednesday.The online survey of 800 B.C. adults found Dix was chosen
“best premier” by 26 per cent of respondents, compared to Clark at 22 per cent. It’s the first time Dix has ranked first in that category in Angus Reid’s series of polls.
On voting intention, the poll found 42 per cent decided or leaning to the NDP, up two per cent since the last poll in November. The B.C. Liberals were down three points to 28 per cent, the first time the party has fallen below 30 per cent since former premier Gordon Campbell resigned.
The B.C. Conservatives collected 19 per cent of voter inten-tions, a one per cent increase from three months ago, and the B.C. Green Party was up two points to 10 per cent.
Regionally, 51 per cent of decided voters on Vancouver Island and 41 per cent in Metro Vancouver favoured the NDP. The B.C. Conservatives have reached the 20 per cent mark in both Metro Vancouver and the Interior.
Even though Clark has been snatching up every former fed-eral Conservative MP, strategist, and party hack she can find to work for her, one in four B.C. Liberal voters from the 2009 election are now supporting the B.C. Conservatives, the poll found. The margin of error is calculated at plus or minus 3.5 per cent.
A series of issue questions rated the B.C. Liberals and NDP evenly. Angus Reid vice-president Mario Canseco said the results show, “Clark has lost her edge on issues like crime and the economy, which her predecessor used to dominate, even at the pinnacle of his unpopularity.”
The government must soon call two by-elections to replace departed B.C. Liberal MLAs Barry Penner and Iain Black.
Black resigned his Port Moody-Coquitlam seat last October to take a job as CEO of the Vancouver Board of Trade. The Port Moody-Coquitlam byelection must be called by April.
Former Port Moody mayor Joe Trasolini has been acclaimed to run for the NDP, and the B.C. Conservatives have nomi-nated Christine Clarke. The B.C. Liberals have scheduled a nomination meeting for Feb. 17.
Penner resigned his Chilliwack-Hope seat in early January, giving the government six months to call a byelection there. The B.C. Liberals meet Feb. 4 to select their candidate, with the only declared candidate being Laurie Throness, a long-time assistant to former MP Chuck Strahl.
On Jan. 28 NDP members in Chilliwack-Hope selected Gwen O’Mahony, the party candidate in the last federal and provincial elections.
A former conservative stronghold (Liberal provincially and Conservative federally), many pundits are now suggesting that the NDP can actually win the riding.
The B.C. Conservatives have acclaimed John Martin, a crim-inology professor at University of the Fraser Valley, as their Chilliwack-Hope candidate.
Even though Liberals are dismissing the poll, it has to be troubling for them, just as it has to be good news for the NDP … with the next provincial election just over a year away … unless, of course, Clark wants to abandon the legislation mandating regularly scheduled elections and use up the full five-year mandate, which is what governments faring dis-mally in the polls often do.
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It has been called the “long goodbye” and certainly that is an accurate way to describe the circumstances for many families who care for a loved one diagnosed with dementia.
January 2012 was pro-claimed Alzheimer Aware-ness Month in British Columbia and last Sunday thousands of people across the province, including here in Prince George, joined in the annual Walk for Memories. Seventy thousand people are living with dementia in B.C. and 10,000 of them are under the age of 65.
There is no known cure for this dev-
astating illness. If none is found it is pre-dicted that the prevalence of dementia will double in a generation. I was also very
interested to learn that 61 per cent of Canadians with demen-tia will be women.
Attending the annual walk is always an emotional experi-ence. Each event honours a fam-ily that has been impacted by
dementia and this year in Prince George it was the Buckman family. It is never easy to share a personal story in public, but I am very grateful that family members gave us some insight into the lives of two very special people, Jim and Bev Buckman. Jim was diagnosed with dementia and passed
away in 2009, and Bev was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2008.
We are very lucky in Prince George that families and caregivers are supported through a dedicated team at the Alzheimer Resource Centre. Education, awareness, support and research are all critical com-ponents in the fight to find a cure.
What better way to share information than to use social media? The Alzheimer Society used Twitter to increase awareness by tweeting the day-to-day experiences of Jim Mann, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at the young age of 58.
From losing track while counting change to buy a newspaper, to getting disoriented
when driving a car, the tweets tell a vivid, moving, and powerful story. For example, on January 24 he tweeted, “I run in peri-ods of being cognitively dense, like my mind is thinking through a very vicious solution of mud.”
You can follow his tweets on Twitter at @AlzheimerBC, under the hashtag #injimsshoes. Thank you Jim for sharing your story; it was a highlight of Alzheimer Awareness Month.
If you missed the Walk for Memories this year, why not plan to join us next January? I know from personal experience you will be very glad you did.
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When words you hear aren’t the ones they sing“Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!” Anne-
Marie shouted as Sweet Child of Mine pumped out of the stereo. “Sweet Caroline!”
The whole room stopped dead.
The drunks got sober.
“What did you just say?” Chris, Anne-Marie’s boyfriend, finally asked.
“Sweet Caroline,” Anne-Marie confessed, con-scious that everyone was look-ing at her.
A pause, followed by a tsunami of laughter and merciless teas-ing about the difference between Neil Diamond and Axl Rose.
What Anne-Marie experienced to our great pleasure was a mon-degreen, which is the word used to describe when someone hears something different from what the speaker intended but it sounds almost exactly the same.
There’s some famous monde-greens in popular music.
In Purple Haze, is Jimi Hen-drix singing “excuse me while
I kiss the sky?” or “excuse me while I kiss this guy?”
Some great directions in CCR’s Bad Moon Rising - “there’s a bathroom on the right.”
And who can for-get Blinded By The Light? Wrapped up like a douche or revved like a deuce?
And some we’ve heard so many times that we’ve forgotten we have no idea what the lyric is.
Volkswagen put out a com-mercial this year, boasting about the great sound system in the new Passat by showing people singing some hilarious variations on the final line in the chorus of Elton John’s Rocket Man.
What is that line, anyway?“Stinking up the place with
cheap cologne? ““Stinking up the room with
provolone?”“Chewing up his food right to
the bone?”“Taking a long trip to
Ontario?”I was as disappointed to hear
the real lyric as I was when I found out Cher’s Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves wasn’t Cheese, Please, Pass The Cheese.
Some mondegreens have been repeated so often that they have replaced the original version. People say “you’ve got another thing coming” but the phrase started life in the late 19th cen-tury as “you’ve got another think coming.”
Some are intentional and just plain saucy. Britney Spears put out a single a few years ago called If You Seek Amy.
This is a family newspaper, so I won’t explain that mondegreen to you but say it out loud a few times and you’ll figure it out. Turns out, Britney is quite liter-ary.
Turns out an old joke I love is a mondegreen, too. The corny punchline has Dick Van Dyke saying that Mahatma Gandhi‘s tough feet, poor health and leg-endary bad breath made him a “super calloused, fragile mystic, hexed by halitosis.”
(Say it fast, I know, har har har).
My personal favourite is one I heard in a Tide detergent com-mercial many years ago.
The announcer was cheerfully telling viewers about the great results of a national survey Tide conducted, asking Canadians what their favorite laundry soap was.
The first three words of the commercial seem innocent enough.
Tide asked Canadians.
Only heard it once.No doubt some tight-assed
Canadians called to com-plain.
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Editor:A day late and many dollars short..Really? Again? The arsenal of graders, plows, and pace trucks are
out today, (snowed Saturday, it’s Thursday). It’s only asphalt and sand they’re plowing, again. The cul-de-sacs might have one centi-metre of snow, but where are they the day it snows?
So how’s that snow budget doing?Shane Giesinger
Prince George
No sense in plowing
Prostitution and politics, proud fathers and concerned citizens – the coffee con-versation every Friday at Zoe’s at 11 a.m has been a lot of fun , and I just thought I’d share a bit of what some of the folks who dropped by had to say.
One of my first big treats was a visit with Mrs. Orlinis, a lady I mentioned in passing in one of my col-umns a few months ago. It was great to see her and hear some of the stories she and her friend told about Prince George in the 50s. Funnily enough, both ladies had a few ideas about downtown revi-talization, and they mirrored much of what the professionals are saying. First, parking isn’t easy. Making more spaces available will allow greater access to downtown businesses, they said. Second, where is there a decent grocery store in the downtown core? Both ladies thought the new seniors housing downtown was a great addition to the city, but they hope all these developments are soon followed by some sort of easily accessible market.
Wayne Vander Werff stopped in to give us an update on his daughter, Gloria.
Gloria was one of the 4-H exhibitors featured in the Free Press during the Prince George Exhibition. She went on to compete at the PNE Aug. 19 - 23, and though the paper printed a photo of
Gloria at the event, the results weren’t available at the time. Wayne said she came in fourth in the province, and he is
very proud of her and thankful to the volunteers who lead 4-H and all they do for area youth.
He added Gloria would like to train to be a veterinarian when she finishes high school.
A resident of Prince George for many years discussed the
prostitution problem in the VLA, particu-larly in the area of Gateway at the cor-ner of Pine and 20th. This person, who wished to remain anonymous, said it is awful vice is being allowed to prosper in residential areas, particularly in front of a seniors’ home. Sometimes the street worker jumps into a wrong vehicle and the driver has difficulty removing her.
This resident also questioned the need for two drug rehab centres for females in the city and wondered if, somehow, locating them in Prince George might be, inadvertently, drawing people with issues from the entire region into the city. This person also wondered what happens when someone gets partway through a program then drops out. Are they then sent back to the place they came from? Or do they remain in Prince George?
Paul Strickland, a retired reporter who currently runs his own business, stopped by to discuss the way government is say-
ing a lot of baby boomers coming into retirement age will stress the medicare system to the point of bankruptcy. Not true, he said.
“There is a drumbeat implying that they are all going to turn 65 tomorrow and by next Tuesday be in the hospital and bankrupt medicare. This seems to be a bit of a statistical distortion,” he said.
Baby boomers, he said, were not the rich, privileged Ivy League people they are being portrayed as, and they are not the lazy wealthy 55-year-old retirees bent on destroying the system. Rather, he said, many were ‘downsized’ and others stay working.
Helen Sarrazin dropped in to express her concern about the government easing the way for immigrants to come into the area and fill the skilled trade job shortfall being predicted, while ignoring local youth who could do the same, if only they had the means to do so.
She pointed out the pressure of student debt and the difficulties getting appren-ticeship sponsorship locally and shared a few experiences of those she knows who’ve tried. And, the problem isn’t just with youth. It is also among those who’ve went through job loss and want retraining. That can mean amassing bills while trying to raise a family, she said.
She added she isn’t against immigra-tion, particularly to fill open positions, she just wants to ensure local people
have the first opportunity to get the kind of jobs that allow them to raise their families right here. She’d like to see the government make that an easier, less expensive task.
Gary Jardine dropped in to share his experience getting a doctor in the area. He lived here several years ago, then returned to the city with is wife. Visiting the walk-in clinic and Emergency was the norm for the couple until they finally found a doctor taking new patients. However, a few visits later and Jardine realized the doctor they got just didn’t feel right for them. He went to another doctor taking new patients, followed the advice of a friend and didn’t say he’d seen a doctor in the city, and was accepted. Then the misrepresentation was discovered, and on his next visit – after a bit of a disagreement – he was asked to leave the office.
It’s kind of a given that folks aren’t going to get along with every profes-sional they utilize within their lifetime. If you don’t like your mechanic, for instance, you hire a new one. Likewise, it’s the same with an electrician, contrac-tor – or even grocer – that doesn’t quite suit you.
If you have interesting questions, observations or just want to say hello, please drop by Zoe’s on Friday’s at 11. The coffee is great, and the conversation is even better.
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Beatties write from overseasEditor:
Greetings from our temporary home in York-shire, UK.
We just want to say a big congratulations to all the organizers, volunteers and local artists that took part in last week’s highly successful Cold-snap Music Festival.
We were sad not to be a part for the first time of what has been nine years of Coldsnap/PG Folk-fest. Thanks to all the ongoing and new sponsors for continued support of this marvelous, annual, national event for our city.
In particular we are so proud of the bold board of directors who had the nerve and the gumption to go forward this year in producing the event.
We miss our real home in P.G. and the com-munity. Whilst Yorkshire folk are in some ways pretty similar to P.G.’ers there is no place like home. The people make the place. So thanks for coming out and making yet again another suc-cessful festival!
Go P.G.Jo, Greg, Benedict Beattie
Yorkshire, UK
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The weather for Winterfest at UNBC last week was chilly, but Jimi Smyth was spinning some hot tunes at the ski hill and skating rink area.
WarminG Up Winterfest
Coffee with a reporterStories come to reporters in a variety of
ways. News releases, press conferences and phone calls are some. Sometimes you might think whatever story you have in mind isn’t worth a phone call or visit to the newspaper’s office, but is it worth a cup of coffee?
Reporter DeLynda Pilon would like the chance to hear what you have to say so every Friday at 11 a.m. she will be having a coffee break at Zoe’s Java House at 1251 Fourth Ave., and is hoping you will drop by to chat. Or just stop in and introduce yourself.
11 a.m. Fridays at Zoe’s Java House at 1251 FourtH avenue
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Ness Lake Bible Camp has touched the lives of many.
A Heartfelt Thank You to the Businesses that sponsored this Fundraising Ad.
On December 3 they lost their gym to a fi re.Here is your opportunity to give back.
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From a Volunteer: These last few days have really made me think. My rst reaction when I looked out and saw ames coming out of our gym was panic. How can it be on re? What’s going on? That’s our gym! Camp is burning down! But you know camp isn’t the buildings. One news report said that with-out the gym, it was hardly a camp at all. I disagree. Camp is in the hope and love, in the hearts of every camper and every team member. Camp is in God. The mission statement is to glorify God by making Jesus Christ known by word and deed through camping and conference programs. And while camp was burning and the sky was orange, we stood out in the snow, in the cold, in the dark and uncertain, but together and alive, and we sang songs to God. If that isn’t truly what camp is about, then I can’t say I know what is. Our God is stronger.
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for the final show of Francofun Winter Festival on Saturday, Feb. 4. Starting at 7 p.m. there will be a concert and dance with Blou, all the way from the Maritimes with a new sound: Acadico, on the Conseil Scolaire Francophone Stage. The show opens with local musicians: Brittany and Chloe on fiddles and Barry on guitar. Silent auction. Columbus Community Centre, 7201 Domano Blvd.
Burns LakeThere will be a
fundraiser to help in the aftermath of the Burns Lake explosion on Friday, Feb. 24 starting at 8 p.m. Let’s work together to help rebuild this community. The event takes place at the Prince George Kinsmen Hall. Tickets are $20, available at Books and Company, The Inn Flower Place, Shhhh Gifts (two locations). Door prizes and late night snack.
HedLey openerVancouver-based hip-
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■ THE CLoCkmAkEr
McKay finds lots to like in scriptLatest TNW production opens on Feb. 9
When the time is right, love enters in.
The Clockmaker, by playwright Ste-phen Massicotte, is part love story, part mystery, part thriller, part puzzle. For his part, Saskatoon-based actor Bruce McKay is – much like his char-acter – affable and unassuming. He talked with the Free Press Monday.
In his debut performance for The-atre North West, McKay says his role as kindly clockmaker Heinrich Mann has timeless appeal.
“He’s just a nice, quiet, unassuming guy who gets caught up in a bizarre world, something that kick starts a whole new life in which he is smitten by a (married) woman who enters his shop with a broken clock.”
The dialogue is a gift, he said.“This (Stephen Massicotte) play is
very well written. It’s a great script with an interesting storyline and fan-tastical time travel which shifts around romance and also has some funny bits in it, too. So it’s fun to perform.”
Like many of his creative contem-poraries, McKay was bitten by the acting bug when he performed in high school plays. Still, it didn’t help him plan his career.
“My friends were all in theatre and I liked hanging out with them, so that’s really what got me onto the stage. I love acting. But when I finished high school I still wasn’t sure what I wanted to do.”
McKay obtained his B.A. in French and English from Mount Allison Uni-versity and then trained with the act-ing program at the National Theatre School of Canada. He found a mentor along the way.
“My French professor also ran a French Theatre Club so I got involved in that,” said McKay. “It was a great way to learn a second language.”
Later on, as a professional actor
working in a bilingual country, his flair for French proved an asset.
“Each actor is on their on individual journey when it comes to work.”
Is there steady work for actors in Canada? Generally yes, says McKay but actors can often use their own ingenuity.
“Many actors form their own the-atre companies. And most actors have something else they can do besides act – they play guitar, sing or dance. My thing is French,” he says with a good-natured laugh. “I’ve been able to act in both English and French-speaking roles and I’ve done several plays in French.”
McKay appeared in La Troupe de Jour play Encore and he has taken part in several artist-driven Equity Co-op productions. He also co-wrote Antic Quill Theatre’s first play, Lou, with Cheryl Jack and they performed the play at the Saskatoon Fringe.
The actor moved to Saskatoon in 1997, but he may have discovered the value of versatility growing up in Sackville, New Brunwick where McKay’s father was man-aging editor of the community newspaper.
“It was a small-town weekly and so he had to cover all the news and events by himself, including going to town council meetings.”
McKay’s fellow cast members in The Clockmaker include Peter Grier as Adolphus and Matthew MacCaull as Monsieur Pierre. His on-stage love interest, Frieda, is played by Lucy Hill.
Theatre North West presents The Clockmaker by playwright Stephen Massicotte at Parkhill Centre from Feb. 9 to 26.
Director is Mark von Eschen.Evening performances start at 8 p.m.
Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m. on Feb. 19 and 26.
Tickets are available at Books and Company, phone orders 250-614-0039.
Heinrich Mann, played by Bruce McKay, examines a part on the set of Theatre North West’s production of The Clockmaker, which runs Feb.9 to 26.
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about nutri-tion.
Thus far, I’ve not taken any action other than passing on a slice of pizza at the office Tuesday – and I’m told that although calorie-laden, pizza contains good stuff like cheese, meat and veggies. So maybe not the worst food in the world to say ‘no’ to.
But it put me to the test. Kind of like snubbing one’s nose at puffing
passersby after finally breaking the smoking habit. It gives you strength. And of course, there is none so pious as the new convert. However it will take a lot more ‘no’s to get the job done. That’s because maintaining or losing weight gets harder as you age, and, as George Bernard Shaw so wisely observed, “Youth is wasted on the young.”
When we are young, we have this giant garburator of a stomach that turns food into fuel and let us get away with body mass index (BMI) murder. And it doesn’t take a CSI inves-tigator to see why.
Bring it on and almost anything you devour before the age of (for most people) 40, is fast forgiven: greasy hamburgers, bags of chips, candy, chocolate bars, bread, pasta and your firm, super-supple body lets you get away with it. Then bingo bango. Gravity dictates where it all goes.
So I was interested to see online a CBC health news report called “Chasing Cures” about a McMaster University study illustrat-ing how investigators would like to see if they can perhaps slow down the aging process and avoid the physical and mental declines that come with aging.
In a laboratory setting, Prof. David Rollo’s “test” mice ate bagel bits soaked in a cocktail of supplements such as B vitamins, vitamin D, ginseng and garlic. Yum. They appar-ently lived longer than those not given the enhanced mice chow. The supplemented mice, it is noted, maintained their memory function and their learning abilities were like those of very young mice. Indeed, they acted like rest-less teenagers and showed spontaneous motor function.
It is not clear from the story if there was any
physical activity such as how many times the little “experimental” rodents did turns on a hamster wheel to burn calories and build up muscles. Or if either or both groups of mice engaged in other, uh, other calorie-burning activities.
So for me, the study, as reported, is incom-plete. In Science class I do remember we
noted variables in both “control” mice and “test” mice. There are variables in humans that effect our health like hereditary, environ-ment, good nutrition and exercise. But if this “laboratory concoction” tested on mice ever makes its ways to the human race, I would worry about going back to my youth. Once was enough.
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REGULAR MEETINGS OF COUNCILRegular Meetings of Council Mondays, February 6th and February 20th Council Chambers – 6:00 p.m.
Committee of the WholeWednesday, February 8th
Budget MeetingsFebruary 15, 22, and 27 Council Chambers, 4:30 and 6:00 p.m.
Standing Committee on Finance & AuditMonday, February 6th - 12:00 p.m.
Advisory Design PanelWednesday, February 8th – 12:00 p.m.
Prince George Accessibility AdvisoryCommitteeWednesday, February 8th – 5:00 p.m.
Winter City CommitteeThursday, February 9th – 12:00 p.m.
BROADCASTING OF COUNCILMEETINGS:Shaw TV runs a recorded version on Tuesday’s after each Council meeting. To follow live Council meetings, visit the City’s website at www.princegeorge.ca as webcasting services and video archiving of agenda items are avail-able for the public.
INVITATION TO TENDER:T12-03 Sale of City Owned Property – Barnes Drive Closing Date: March 16, 2012T12-04 Supply of Road Patching Material and Aggregate Closing Date: February 3, 2012
PUBLIC NOTICENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to the provisions of Section 26(3) of the Commu-nity Charter, that the City of Prince George intends to sell a municipally owned property at Penn Road, Prince George, BC, legally described as Lot A DL 751 Cariboo District Plan EPP14328. This property is to be sold to Harris Steel Group Inc. at a purchase price of $611,585.00.Ian WellsReal Estate Services
PROCLAMATIONFebruary 2012 is “Black History Month”February 2012 is “Heart and Stroke Month”February 5 – 11, 2012 is “International Devel-opment Week”
VOLUNTEER RECOGNITION AWARDS& YOUTH OF THE YEAR AWARD
The City of Prince George is once again hosting the annual Volunteer Recognition Awards and Youth of the Year Award. Volun-teers are the heart of our community and we need your help in recognizing those that give so much of themselves for others. The
City of Prince George annually recognizes the outstanding contributions of individuals in our community. Several awards are bestowed on volunteers that contribute so much and make a difference in our community. These individu-als are recognized and honoured at the Civic Appreciation Dinner. There are four types of awards including:
Recreation Award of Merit Community Service Award Youth of the Year Award Outstanding Volunteer Award of Merit
Nominations are due by 4:30 pm on March 5th, 2012 and can be submitted to City Hall. For a Nomination Package please check the website at www.princegeorge.ca click City Living>Civic Appreciation or contact Commu-nity Services at 250-561-7640.
APPLY FOR A COUNCILCOMMITTEEHere’s an opportunity to make a difference in your community
Prince George is a City full of volunteers willing to give their time to ensure their community is a better place to live, work and play. Council Committees provide residents of our com-munity the opportunity to participate on the development of our municipality.
At this time the City Manager’s Offi ce is ac-cepting applications for Membership on the following Council Committees:
• Prince George Combative Sports Commission
• Prince George Heritage Commission
The Committees meet monthly, do research and provide information and recommenda-tions to Council and City Staff.
Applications are available on the City’s web site www.princegeorge.ca/cityhall/commit-tees/, or may be picked up at City Hall, 1100 Patricia Boulevard. For further information or to have an application form mailed to you, please call 250.561.7684.
Applications or resumes received by the City Manager’s Offi ce, Manager of Legislative Services prior to the February 8, 2012 dead-line will be considered by City Council at its Regular Meeting of February 20, 2012.
Deadline for Applications: 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 8, 2012.
***Information contained in the applications will be included in the public Council Agenda and posted on the City’s web page***
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Location: PG Aquatic CentrePool Theme: Pirate PartyDate & Time: Friday February 17th from 8:30 pm – 10:30 pmAges: 14 and under (parents/guardians welcome) Regular admission rates apply
NOTIFICATION OF HARVESTINGThe Prince George Community Forest will be conducting fuel management activities near the end of Kimball Road, and in an area ac-cessed by Beaverly West Road (past the BCTS blocks). These fuel management activities are designed to reduce wildfi re hazards for our communities. Please ensure your safety and the safety of the crews by respecting all signs and by avoiding the areas during operations. We hope to begin operations in January and expect that each area will be complete within an eight week period. No piles will be burnt subsequent to these operations. We appreci-ate your patience while equipment and logging truck traffi c increases for a few weeks.
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The B.C. Operating Engineers are contribut-ing $5,000 to the United Steelworkers Burns Lake Fund.
“We stand with our brothers and sisters in Burns Lake, their families and community,” said business manager Brian Cochrane. “This is what unions do. We stand together in difficult times. This devastation touches us all.”
This contribution comes in the wake of the explosion at the Burns Lake sawmill on Jan. 20 which resulted in the deaths of two workers and serious injuries to 19 others. The closure of the mill has put hundreds of people out of work.
CNC and the Prince George African Heri-tage Society are team-ing up to present a number of events dur-ing the 14th annual Black History Month celebration in Febru-ary.
The events are a way of educating the com-munity about Black History Month by inviting guest speak-ers to talk about their experiences, contribu-tions and some aspects
of Black history, said event organizer and CNC instructor George Kaweesi.
“These events remind everyone that our com-munity is made up of those from near and far and they share a com-mon goal of trying to make it better.”
The line-up of events begins Saturday, Feb. 4 and includes an open-ing act featuring guest speaker Paul Winn, movie night at CNC on Feb. 11, Evening of Song on Feb. 18, Carib-bean cooking demon-stration Feb. 20 and the main event Feb. 25
which features a light dinner, guest speaker, fashion show and dance.
“These events also serve as a reminder that people of Afri-can heritage have made some significant contributions to this community, that we
appreciate it and that we should all learn to work together to build a better society,” said Kaweesi.
Tickets for all the Black History Month events are available at Books and Company, CNC Bookstore and UNBC Bookstore.
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Steve Morse, guitar-ist for Deep Purple, talked with the Free Press from Florida recently about the group’s first and much anticipated 17-date cross-Canada 2012 Smoke On The Nation Tour – and for Prince George fans – their Feb. 23 show at CN Centre.
We didn’t walk about the weather.
Known as pioneers of the heavy metal, blues rock and pro-gressive rock, the Brit-ish band has under-gone lots of line-up changes over the years (Morse and Ian Paice are original members) since the late 1960s. But four decades is a long time to make music and Morse says we can expect a real “mixed bag” of songs drawn from the past 40 years.
The local show, like most of their shows, will have songs from “four sections” of their music making, he says.
“We do the classic tunes people have come to expect like Black Night (1970), Fireball, Highway Star, Space Truckin, Smoke on the Water, songs from what we call the ‘blues period,’ plus ones that get regular radio play and some obscure blues trails blazed ear-lier that hardcore fans would know. Then we do some spontaneous stuff and some solo bits to keep the pace moving.”
Deep Purple likes to play simple, hard-hit-ting elements, he said.
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edge,” Morse said. Although there have
been many line-up changes and an eight-year hiatus in their his-tory (Morse, the only American member, joined the band in 1994) ‘we’ currently means his bandmates Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Ian Gillan and Don Airey. How do they travel while on tour?
The group travels mostly by plane, which suits Morse, he says, because as a licensed pilot, he feels totally
at ease up in the air. He has flown in many foreign countries and seen the world from another vantage point as a pilot but also likes being a passenger.
“I like flying. And it feels good knowing what’s involved in keeping the plane in the air (he laughs).”
Over the years, the band has built on its solid as a rock repu-tation but in touring, there is a unique oppor-tunity to reach out to fans, says Morse. Deep
Purple has sold 100 million albums world-wide and they had the perhaps dubious hon-our of being named the loudest pop group in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Deep Purple (pre-sented by Paul Mercs Concerts) plays CN Centre on Thursday, Feb. 23. For more about this iconic band visit www.deeppurple.com.
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The Fraser Basin Council has begun the first phase of a three-phase human health risk assessment in northeastern British Columbia to identify any human health concerns that people may have about oil and gas development in the region.
The council is carrying out Phase 1 of the human health risk assessment for the BC Ministry of Health. Phase 1 will inform the ministry’s terms of reference for Phase 2, an assessment of health risks.
During Phase 1, the Fraser Basin Council is inviting comments from multiple interests, including members of the public who live and work in northeastern BC, citizens groups, gov-ernment authorities, health organiza-tions, environmental organizations, community groups, industry, workers, academic institutions, and anyone else who may be able to identify human health concerns.
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East Coast rapper and hip-hop artist Classified has been chosen by Vancou-ver’s multi-platinum band Hedley as opening act for their 30-date cross-Canada tour which kicks off in Kelowna on Feb. 10.
Classified (born Luke Boyd), from Enfield, Nova Scotia, is a Canadian rapper and producer who released his first full-length LP, Time’s Up, Kid, in 1995. A few
years later, he pro-duced, recorded and released his ninth album, Trial and Error, which contains collaborations with Canadian artists like Eternia, DL Incognito and Maestro.
The album was one of the highest sell-ing independent rap albums in Canada in 2004. Classified solidi-fied his fan base with his major label debut, Self Explanatory, fea-turing singles Trouble,
Anybody Listening and the platinum sell-ing single and unof-ficial 2010 Olympic anthem Oh, Canada. The MC released his 14th studio album, Hand Shakes and Middle Fingers.
The album’s first single, That Ain’t Classy, reached No. 45 on the Canadian Hot 100 and the album debuted at No. 7 on the Canadian Albums Chart – Classified’s highest charting album to date. Hand Shakes and Middle Fingers also features hit singles The Day Doesn’t Die and Pas-sion.
Classified has also
joined forces with some of Canada’s best emcees including Choclair and Maestro Fresh Wes and he’s opened for Snoop Dogg, Nelly, The Black Eyed Peas and Black Moon. Classi-fied enlisted the help of Nova Scotia native Joel Roy to beatbox during some of his songs.
Classified plays the CN Centre, opening for Hedley on Mon-day, Feb. 13. Tickets are on sale at all Tick-etmaster locations including the CN Centre box office. For more information on the artist visit www.classifiedofficial.com.
Live music and comedy come together for a Feb. 18 concert at Artspace.
Producer and performer Dawn Boudreau, will host an evening of comedic songs presented by a dozen different performers. Songs range from Broadway musical songs (A Chorus Line, Oklahoma, Spamalot) to covers of the popular YouTube team Garfunkel and Oates to origi-nal tunes Boudreau has written.
“Stand-up comedy has been a fascination for me for a number of years,” said Boudreau. “After singing a couple of my originals to open for some of the comedy nights presented monthly at Nancy O’s, this seemed like the perfect way to
combine the two performance arts I love most.”
An Evening of Musical Comedy was first suggested by an active member of the PG Wannaglees, Ari-elle Bernier, after watching Bou-dreau open for Carter Hortie at a Nancy O’s show in October. Bernier will be performing a few numbers in this show, along with other stu-dents and friends of Dawn Bou-dreau Music.
Tickets for An Evening of Musical Comedy are $15, available at Books and Company and Dawn Boudreau Music. The concert will be at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18 at Artspace, 1685 Third Ave. Doors open at 7 p.m.
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Dennis Stark finishes his UNBC home career this weekend
Three finish home careers on weekendIt’s been almost four years since
Northern Timberwolves’ Jennifer Clyne and Maria Neumann cel-ebrated a provincial basketball title at home.
They’ve completed three full years of schooling since then, but helping UNBC secure its first B.C. Colleges Athletic Association ban-ner remains a positive memory to reflect on.
Clyne and Neumann were rook-ies on a 2007-08 women’s squad which finished 10-0 at home in the regular season and playoffs. The special campaign was also the Northern Timberwolves’ first in the Northern Sport Centre, capped off with a 71-54 victory over the Camosun College Char-gers in front of a capacity crowd on March 1, 2008.
“Basically just that winning moment I guess, with all the fans and our team together. That was really exciting,” Neumann said.
The 2008 Canadian Colleges Athletic Association nationals in Truro, N.S., where UNBC finished sixth out of eight teams, marked the only appearance at the tournament for the women’s program. Clyne is hopeful this season’s group will get the Timberwolves back there. They carry a 10-0 regular-season record into their final home games of the 2011-12 campaign, tonight against the Capilano University Blues and Saturday against the Quest University Ker-modes (6 p.m. at the NSC).
“There’s something (more) spe-cial about this team than other years, and I just think we have
such a good bond,” said Clyne, who completed high school at D.P. Todd Secondary in 2007. “I think this is the team that’s going to do it.”
The men’s games will follow the women’s action at 8 p.m. each night. This weekend is also the final at home for men’s fifth-year graduate Dennis Stark (see story on Page A20).
Clyne and Neumann represent two thirds of this season’s UNBC female basketball graduating class, players who will get recog-nized for their achievements on the court on Saturday night. The other is Erin Beckett, who began suiting up for the Timberwolves in 2008 after using up her first season of eligibility in Canadian Interuniversity Sport with the University of Saskatchewan Hus-kies in 2006-07.
While she wasn’t on the court with the provincial champions in 2008, Beckett has become no stranger to the NSC, basketball spectators, her teammates and classmates. The 2006 graduate of College Heights Secondary, who
took the 2007-08 sea-son off varsity basket-ball to recover from a virus, was named the Timberwolves’ Most Valuable Player last season.
“I would say just playing in this gym, in my hometown,” she responded when asked what she’ll remember most. “We have amazing fans, an amazing crowd
almost every game.”A Dawson Creek product, Neu-
mann relocated to Prince George to begin attending UNBC.
“It’s had its hard moments, but for the most case I’ve loved it. I love the team. That’s what’s
brought me back every year.”The difficult times include
heartbreaking defeats over the past three seasons. As the provin-cial silver medalists in 2009, the women’s team was hoping for an invite to the CCAA tournament as a wildcard. That never hap-pened.
In the 2009-10 campaign, the Timberwolves rolled to a 17-1 reg-ular season, but a semifinal defeat eliminated any chance of qualify-ing. They finished fourth.
As a lower seed at provincials last year, UNBC finished with a 2-1 record. But since their only defeat was in the semifinal round, they fell short of a berth to nation-als and settled for bronze.
This year’s national tourna-ment is scheduled for March 15
to 17 at Lethbridge College, with provincials taking place March 1 to 3 in Vancouver.
Clyne has played a key role in the Timberwolves’ success this year, leading the the team in indi-vidual scoring, and her efforts will go a long way in helping the team down the stretch. She ranks sec-ond in PacWest points per game average at 19.25, with a total of 154 points in eight games.
“This has been my best year and I just feel the most comfort-able out there, and it kind of feels like Grade 12 in high school,” she said. “I just feel super confident and capable and it feels awe-some.”
Each player may head a sepa-rate way once the school year ends. With one more year left to
complete her Bachelor of Edu-cation program, Beckett will be back at UNBC in the fall. Clyne completes her Bachelor of Com-merce double major in general business and finance, while Neu-mann is earning a Bachelor of Sci-ence Degree in psychology. Clyne and Neumann are both exploring options, but are including travel-ling in their plans.
As much as she’s looking for-ward to the break, Clyne admits she wishes she had one more year to see how she’d perform in UNBC’s first season in the Can-ada West Universities Athletic Association.
“It’s definitely been a roller coaster of events over the years. I would love to have one more crack at it.”
Wrapping up their fifth and final seasons suiting up for the UNBC Northern Timberwolves, Jennifer Clyne (back row, second from left) and Maria Neumann (back row, fourth from left) still carry vivid memories from their B.C. Colleges Athletic Association provincial champion-ship win at the Northern Sport Centre on March 1, 2008.
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Junior football spring camps are still a few months away.
In Prince George, all of the outdoor fields are unlikely to be open until May. But that hasn’t stopped coaches from taking advantage of indoor facilities.
This weekend, football practices for high school students will unfold in the fieldhouse of the Northern Sport Centre
at UNBC. Regional try-outs for Football BC’s provincial program (Grade 10 and 11) and the Senior Bowl (Grade 12) are being held at the NSC on Saturday. Also on Saturday, Prep to Be the Best tryouts will take place, practices which offer younger students (Grades 7 to 9) an opportunity to get evaluated.
Tryout times are: 11 a..m. to 1 p.m. for Team BC, 1 to 2:30 p.m. for Prep to Be the Best, and
1 to 3 p.m. for Senior Bowl. Players have been asked to arrive 30 min-utes before the start of the sessions to register and pay a $10 tryout fee.
Helmets and shoulder pads are required for each player in the sec-ond half of the tryout, with no pads required for Prep to Be the Best participants.
“We’re expecting there to be a good turn-out of guys there. It’ll be a good showing,” Prince George Minor Football Association president Ryan Bellamy said. “It’s a great opportunity for guys to try out and get (identified) for the pro-vincial team and stuff like that, and seasonal tryouts. A lot of qual-ity seniors so there will probably be a good handful of guys that’ll make it to the Senior Bowl, and the last few years it keeps growing
on how many kids get invited to the provincial ID camps and stuff like that.”
The Senior Bowl, every March in Van-couver, is a high school showcase of top Grade 12 players in B.C. After a week-long camp with sessions run by top
football coaches, includ-ing BC Lions represen-tatives, an East versus West all-star game takes place.
The Team BC tryout on Saturday is the initial phase in the selection a provincial team. Kelly Road Roadrunners defensive lineman Tra-
vis Shields made Team BC’s 40-player roster for the 2011 Football Canada Cup last July in Lethbridge. Vanderhoof running back Kyle Var-ley was a reserve on that squad.
“As soon as they start to see a couple of play-ers come out of this
area, actually making the team, they come back and start looking closely for that next player,” said Bellamy, who’s also the Roadrun-ners’ coach.
Also this weekend, the PGMFA is holding its AGM on Saturday, 4 p.m. at the NSC.
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Prince George Cougars forward Chase Witala skates the puck up ice against the Everett Silvertips during their Western Hockey League game on Saturday night at CN Centre. The Cougars are back at home to Kelowna tonight and tomorrow after splitting a pair of games in Victoria. The Cougars beat the Royals 4-2 on Tuesday before losing 5-1 Wednesday.
A resource centre for people with disabilities opened by the B.C. Paraplegic Association is the first of its kind in the prov-ince and will be a multi-use place where people can come together for everything from education sessions to coffee meetings.
Brandy Stiles, the peer pro-gram coordinator, explained it is her job to get people with spinal cord injuries and other disabilities together to encour-age independence. This can mean everything from health education to coffee groups and include a variety of events depending on personal interests.
“Through that, everybody gets to hang out,” she said.
The centre will also offer informa-tion services and support staff who can answer a variety of questions about dis-abilities in general, from specific health-related questions to housing issues.
“This gives us a home base for our peer program,” she said.
“We’ve been in the office but we really weren’t open for drop-ins.”
Now they can offer many activities and supports in-house, from a teleconferenc-ing area where interactive tele-health classes can take place to a computer cen-tre with special devices in place to ensure it is a space accessible to all.
Alison Duddy, who visited the
centre for its grand opening on Wednes-day, explained she is a peer volunteer from Quesnel.
She said the centre will be a regional gathering place, likely for all of north central B.C.
Chris McBride, executive director of the B.C. Paraplegic Association, said the centre is funded through grants.
“We went through a transfer of services a few years ago, and now the focus is on the peer program and education services. We’ve been using information technology to connect with members but felt the need for more personal access,” he said.
He added there is already a strong existing community and a lot of support for the association in Prince George, mak-ing it a good place to start a pilot project
like the resource centre.
DeLynda PILON/Free PressChris McBride, executive director of the B.C. Paraplegic Association, Alison Duddy, peer volunteer and Brandy Stiles, peer coordinator, welcomed visitors to the new spinal cord injury resource centre.
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It is nearly impos-sible for the New England-New York Giants Super Bowl XLVI game Sunday in Indianapo-lis to live up to its advance billing, especially since it is the biggest extravaganza in North American sports.
Four years ago, the Patriots and Giants played in arguably the greatest Super Bowl ever, so how can the thrilling Giants come from behind 17-14 vic-tory in 2008 possibly be topped?
There are as many storylines for this year’s game as any in the past. Can Bill Belichick and Tom Brady become the greatest coach/QB combo in history? This will be the Patriots’ fifth championship game in the last 11 seasons, all of them under the dynamic Belichick/Brady combo. There are three coach-and-quarterback pairings- – Cow-boys’ Tom Landry and Roger Staubach; Steelers’ Chuck Noll and Terry Bradshaw; Bills’ Marv Levy and Jim Kelly – who have reached four Super Bowls together. They will be surpassed by Belichick and Brady, who are attempting to match the four Super Bowl wins by Noll and Bradshaw.
There are seven Patriots and 11 Giants remaining from that 2008 Super Bowl game. The Giants were 12-point underdogs but pulled off one of the greatest football upsets ever, ending the Patriots’ unbeaten season. Will anyone ever forget the miracle fourth quarter play where Eli Manning escaped from the rush
to heave a 32-yard pass to David Tyree who somehow caught the ball while it was held to his helmet?
To think New Eng-land gets another chance at that same opponent is intrigu-
ing. If the Pats win, it will not erase the bitter memory of 2008 but it will certainly mark a little revenge. Amazingly, if the Giants win, Eli will have one more Super Bowl than his older brother Peyton, which will spark discussions of who is the better “clutch” quarterback.
Both teams are on a roll. The Giants have won five straight after going 7-7. The Patriots have won 10 in a row, but Brady and many of the other Patriots were not impressive in that fortunate 23-20 AFC championship victory over Baltimore.
A strong case can be made for a New England win because Brady will not have two bad games in a row and the Giants will not be able to handle the Pats’ tight end duo of Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez. Moreover, the Patriots have lost two straight to the Giants (24-20, Nov. 6, 2011 and the 2008 Super Bowl), but seldom do they lose three in a row to the same team.
Although the Pats are three-point favou-rites they are more under the radar than most New England teams of the past. In addition, the Patriots are on a “mission” to deliver another championship to their likeable owner, Robert Kraft, and the memory of his late wife, Myra, who died in July at
age 68 after a battle with cancer.
A strong case can be made for a Giants victory because their defensive line will chew up the Patri-ots offensive line, the Patriots defence ranked 31st in the league in yards allowed, N.Y. has already won on the
road back to back at Green Bay and San Francisco, arguably the two best NFC teams, the Giants are better balanced on both sides of the foot-ball, and Eli has been the most consistent quarterback in the playoffs.
The Patriots’ three Super Bowl victories
were all by three points but based on history, I suspect this will not be decided by a last-second field goal. Double digits have decided 28 of the 45 Super Bowls and 35 of the games have been decided by five or more points. However, four or less points have decided
five of the last 10 games. Interestingly, overtime has not fac-tored into any of these contests.
My pick is for New England to win the Vince Lombardi Tro-phy by more than a touchdown. If that happens and Brady is the game MVP, then we can all spend the
offseason discuss-ing whether he is the greatest quarterback of all time.
Hartley Miller is the sports director for radio stations 94X and the Wolf@97fm. He also writes for the Opinion 250. Send along a quote, note, or anecdote to [email protected].
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Dennis Stark is a one of a kind player on this year’s Northern Tim-berwolves.
The only fifth-year player on the UNBC men’s basketball team, he’ll play in his final college home game on Saturday night at the Northern Sport Centre, the last graduate who played under long-time former head coach Zane Robison.
“I think I keep a little bit of Zane alive in me every time I hit the court, so when-ever he’s at the games I always look for him,” said Stark, a 2007 grad-uate of Kelly Road Sec-ondary who turns 23
in April. “It’s always good to see him still out there because he was the guy who gave me the chance to play at this level.”
In his tenure at UNBC, Stark has been taking directions from three different head coaches. Mike Raim-bault held the position for two years from 2008 to 2010 and over the past two seasons, Todd Jordan has been guid-ing the Timberwolves. A Brandon product, Raimbault left UNBC to take a men’s basketball head coaching posi-tion at the University of Winnipeg. Jordan, a Prince George native and former UNBC stu-dent, returned to his hometown after a sea-
son as head coach of the women’s basket-ball program at Quest University.
“I think the transi-tions between Zane, Mike and myself were all pretty easy because there’s a lot of sup-port within the pro-gram,” Jordan said. “But (Stark) has dealt with all that stuff really well.”
Stark represents a program which has made appearances in the past three Canadian Colleges Athletic Asso-ciation men’s basket-ball nationals. He was merely a fresh face at UNBC when the NSC opened officially for the first time in September 2007, and a sophomore on the 2008-09 squad which finished fourth as hosts of the CCAA national tournament.
Both of those experi-ences were memorable, but the highlight hap-pened in Calgary when UNBC won the Cana-dian championship in March 2010.
“That whole (2009-10) season, looking back, it was such a long, long journey and
it all paid off, which was the best part about it,” Stark said. “That’s what made that win so sweet is because we really, really killed our-selves in practice every day and it totally paid off, so that’s definitely my highlight so far. But it’s not done yet. A little better highlight would be to win on my last year.”
But Stark also went through tough and challenging times. As a UNBC freshman, he could only play the role of spectator when the 2008 B.C. Colleges Athletic Association provincials unfolded at the NSC, since no automatic berth was awarded for hosts of the tournament and the Timberwolves fell short of qualifying with a 5-11 record.
“To miss provincials your first year and then to win a (national) championship just two seasons later is pretty amazing,” Stark said. “But as soon as I got here, even with every-thing that was going on with our struggles, I knew that the organiza-tion and the city would be behind us the whole way, and it worked out sooner than I thought. But once I saw the guys who Zane brought in, I knew we had a good chance.”
Stark credits Robi-son, the head coach from 2001 to 2008, for his recruitment efforts bringing in players from outside Prince George, including fourth-year guards Joel Rybachuk and Francis Rowe. He also attracted 2011 gradu-ating guards Inderbir Gill and Matt Mills to
UNBC.Robison also helped
Stark reach personal achievements.
“When Zane told me in my Grade 12 year that I had a shot to play, I had no expecta-tions,” he said. “I was flattered and wanted to work hard to deserve
my spot. But every-thing that’s happened – a championship, a national all-star, a pro-vincial all-star, an Aca-demic All-Canadian and two other aca-demic all-star awards – have really filled up my list. I’m extremely pleased. But I’ve got 10 fingers so there’s cer-tainly room for a sec-ond ring.”
Stark plans on earn-ing the necessary cred-its to obtain a Bach-elor of Commerce
joint degree in Human Resource Management and international busi-ness this year. He’s expressed an interest in returning to the bas-ketball court.
“I don’t know where I’ll be,” noted Stark, whose younger brother Daniel is a second-year player on the Tim-berwolves. “If I’m in Prince George, I’ll defi-nitely be involved with the team if coach will put up with me on the sidelines.”
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The Prince George Spruce Kings are back on home ice this week-end.
Tonight and Sat-urday (7 p.m. at the Coliseum), the Spruce Kings meet the Salmon Arm SilverBacks in a B.C. Hockey League doubleheader.
The Spruce Kings enter this evening’s contest with a record of 22 wins, 17 losses, two ties and four overtime defeats (22-17-2-4). With 50 points, they’re holding down the fourth and final play-off spot in the eight-team Interior Confer-ence. They’re one point behind the third-place Chilliwack Chiefs (24-17-1-2) and five points ahead of the fifth-place Vernon Vipers.
The Spruce Kings’ next five games are against the seventh-place SilverBacks (14-24-0-7 as of Tuesday) and eighth-place Trail Smoke Eaters (9-29-1-4). Next weekend they’re back on the road, at Trail on Feb. 10 and 11 and in Salmon Arm on Feb. 12.
“We have to make sure that we take care of the business on these teams lower in the standings,” Spruce Kings head coach Dave Dupas said. “Trail is playing well right now, and they’re beat-ing some teams and they’re staying close in a lot of these games, so we can’t take anybody for granted here at this point.”
The Spruce Kings have 15 games left on their 60-game sched-ule, nine of which will be played on the road.
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Only eight games remain on the Cariboo Cougars’ 2011-12 regu-lar season schedule.
This weekend the squad meets the Oka-nagan Rockets in a BC Hockey Major Midget League doubleheader at Kin 1. Game times are scheduled for Sat-urday at 7:15 p.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m.
The series will mark a return to familiar ter-ritory for Rockets man-ager David Michaud, a former Prince George resident who was involved with minor hockey in the city.
“He’s always try-ing to school the Cari-boo Cougars, who got him into the league,” Cariboo Cougars head coach Trevor Sprague
said.With 32 of 40 games
complete, the Cou-gars sit second in the 11-team league with 19 wins, eight losses and five ties (19-8-5). With 43 points, they’re nine behind the division-leading Vancouver North West Giants (23-3-6).
The Cougars are coming off a three-point weekend in Nanaimo against the North Island Silvertips, tying 2-2 on Saturday and winning 5-3 on Sunday.
“We totally domi-nated the third period in the first game,” Sprague said. “Their goaltender played well but we also created a lot of opportunities to score goals, but we didn’t capitalize on them.”
CouGArsThe Prince George
Cougars will be seeing a lot of their home barn the rest of this season.
Fourteen of the team’s 22 remain-ing Western Hockey League regular-season games are on home ice. Coming off a two-game road set against the Victoria Royals on Tuesday and Wednes-day, the team welcomes the Kelowna Rockets to Prince George.
The Cougars and Rockets will meet this evening and Saturday (7 p.m. at CN Centre). Saturday night also marks the the Cougars’ Mascot Mania event.
Tonight’s game marks the start of a five-game homestand which includes meet-ings with the Eastern Conference’s Edmon-ton Oil Kings (Feb. 10 and 11) and Red Deer Rebels (Feb. 15).
The Cougars sit ninth in the 10-team Western Conference. They car-ried a record of 16 wins, 31 losses, zero overtime setbacks and two shoot-out defeats (16-31-0-2) into Wednesday night’s game in Victoria.
bAskETbALLThe Duchess Park
Condors won the Cou-gar Classic senior boys basketball tournament at College Heights Sec-ondary on the week-end.
The Condors defeated the host team 68-58 in
Saturday’s champion-ship final. The Cor-relieu Clan (Quesnel) finished third, while the PGSS Polars ended up fourth. Other teams entered in the compe-tition were D.P. Todd, Bulkley Valley Chris-tian (Smithers), South Peace (Dawson Creek) and North Peace (Fort St. John).
In a junior girls bas-ketball competition at Kelly Road Secondary, the College Heights Cougars defeated Nechako Valley (Van-derhoof) 37-20 in the final.
College Heights Sec-ondary is playing host to a senior girls basket-
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The B.C. Cup No. 2 event is taking place on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, Interval Start Free Technique races are taking place beginning at 10 a.m. Sunday marks the Sprint Race Classic Technique, with sprint qualifiers starting at 9 a.m.
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At Taseko Mines, we’re proud to call British Columbia our home. We are looking for enthusiastic employees who share our vision for long-term, responsible growth in this province.
Joining our Gibraltar Mine team makes you part of Canada’s proud mining heritage. The Gibraltar copper-molybdenum mine is a cornerstone of the regional economy and an example of great Canadian mining in action. Located in the heart of BC’s stunning Cariboo region, Gibraltar is approximately 60 km north of Williams Lake. It is the second largest open pit copper mine in Canada.
A sustainable mining operation with a 27 year mine life, Gibraltar is undergoing a signifi cant multi-phase expansion taking our daily milling throughput to 85,000 tons per day and we’re looking for talented candidates to help us facilitate this. That’s where you come in…
We currently have a full time opportunity for a:
CERTIFIED JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN
Reporting to the Foreman, Electrical Maintenance the Certifi ed Journeyman Electrician is responsible for:• Meeting production and maintenance goals• Performing electrical maintenance associated with pit
equipment, crushing, milling and instrumentation• Assisting mechanical maintenance personnel in
coordinating major overhauls• Contributing to the development of apprentices
Qualifi cations• High School Diploma or Equivalent• Inter-provincial Trade Qualifi cation• Preferred open pit mining experience relating to:• G.E. Diesel/electrical drive systems• Electric mining shovels• Power distribution systems and PLC control systems
CompensationGibraltar offers an excellent benefi t package which includes competitive salary, a Registered Retirement Savings Plan and relocation assistance to Williams Lake.
Qualifi ed applicants, eligible to work in Canada, are invited to explore this opportunity by submitting a cover letter and detailed resume outlining your qualifi cations and experience along with Trade Qualifi cation Certifi cates via Email to [email protected] or via fax to 250-392-3121 by February 10th, 2012.
Visit us at www.tasekomines.com to learn more about our New Prosperity, Aley and Harmony projects.
We thank all candidates who express interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Your application to this posting is deemed to be consent to the collection, use and necessary disclosure of personal information for the purposes of recruitment. Gibraltar Mines respects the privacy of all applicants and the confi dentiality of personal information and we will retain this information for a period of six months
GIBRALTAR MINE: A Rock-Solid Foundation for
Career Growth
At Taseko Mines, we’re proud to call British Columbia our home. We are looking for enthusiastic employees who share our vision for long-term, responsible growth in this province.
Joining our Gibraltar Mine team makes you part of Canada’s proud mining heritage. The Gibraltar copper-molybdenum mine is a cornerstone of the regional economy and an example of great Canadian mining in action. Located in the heart of BC’s stunning Cariboo region, Gibraltar is approximately 60 km north of Williams Lake. It is the second largest open pit copper mine in Canada.
A sustainable mining operation with a 27 year mine life, Gibraltar is undergoing a signifi cant multi-phase expansion taking our daily milling throughput to 85,000 tons per day and we’re looking for talented candidates to help us facilitate this. That’s where you come in…
We currently have a full time opportunity for a:
CERTIFIED JOURNEYMAN INSTRUMENTATION MECHANIC
Reporting to the Foreman, Electrical Maintenance the Certifi ed Journeyman Instrumentation Mechanic is responsible for:• Meeting production and maintenance goals• Installing, repairing and maintaining the Mill and Mine
Instrumentation systems• Ensuring that production and maintenance targets are
met in a safe and effi cient manner • Contributing to the development of apprentices
Qualifi cations• High School Diploma or Equivalent• Inter-provincial Trade Qualifi cation• 2-5 years of concentrator (mill) operating experience
relating to crushing, grinding and fl otation would be a defi nite asset
• Familiarity with Modicon PLC, Emerson Delta V DCS
CompensationGibraltar offers an excellent benefi t package which includes competitive salary, a Registered Retirement Savings Plan and relocation assistance to Williams Lake.
Qualifi ed applicants, eligible to work in Canada, are invited to explore this opportunity by submitting a cover letter and detailed resume outlining your qualifi cations and experience along with Trade Qualifi cation Certifi cates via Email to [email protected] or via fax to 250-392-3121 by February 10th, 2012.
Visit us at www.tasekomines.com to learn more about our New Prosperity, Aley and Harmony projects.
We thank all candidates who express interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Your application to this posting is deemed to be consent to the collection, use and necessary disclosure of personal information for the purposes of recruitment. Gibraltar Mines respects the privacy of all applicants and the confi dentiality of personal information and we will retain this information for a period of six months
JOB POSTING – Plant AccountantPinnacle Pellet is seeking an experienced Accountant to fi ll a full-time accounting position at its Strathnavor BC Plant location (approximately 50 km north of Quesnel).
Responsibilities include:• Full cycle accounting including payables, payroll coordination and inventory control• Involved in budgeting process and monthly analysis of budget variances• Maintain bank records and prepare cash fl ow forecasts
Skills and Qualifi cations:• Preference given to candidate enrolled in accounting designation program• Background in a manufacturing environment an asset• Profi ciency with Microsoft Offi ce • High level of accuracy and attention to detail• Excellent Written and Verbal Communication
Pinnacle Pellet is a dynamic and rapidly growing company that currently manufactures wood pellets at 6 locations in British Columbia. Pinnacle offers competitive salaries and benefi ts, as well as the opportunity for young professionals to build a long term career.
No Phone Inquiries Accepted – Closing date February 17, 2012
Certifi ed ElectricianWestern Forest Products Inc. is currently seeking a Journeyman Electrician Certifi ed for the Province of British Columbia to join the Duke Point Sawmill, located south of Nanaimo, BC.Reporting to the Maintenance Supervisor, the Certifi ed Electrician will perform a full range of journeyman level Electrician duties utilizing considerable initiative and judgment and in accordance with blueprints, diagrams, electrical and building codes, regulations and company policy.
A detailed job posting can be viewed athttp://www.westernforest.com/careers/current_openings.phpThis is an USW hourly union position with a Certifi ed Rateof $33.47 per hour and a comprehensive benefi t package.Details of the collective agreement can be viewed athttp://www.westernforest.com/careers/collective_agreements.php The successful candidate will be team orientated with an ability to deliver results that are aligned with the strategic objectives of the business. He/she will have the ability to adopt and encourage innovative thinking that contributes to achieving practical solutions to complex problems.Western Forest Products Inc. is an integrated Canadian forest products company located on Vancouver Island that is committed to the safety of our employees, the culture of performance and the discipline to achieve results. If you believe that you have the skills and qualifi cations that we are looking for, please reply in confi dence:
Houston Pellet Limited Partnership (HPLP) requires a Plant Coordinator at its Houston pellet plant location. The Plant Coordinator works closely with the Plant Manager in leading the production and maintenance team of approximately 16 people to achieve and exceed targets in safety, quality, and cost. The ideal candidate will have management experience and expertise in a manufacturing environment. This is a permanent full-time position.
HPLP offers competitive salary packages, a positive work environment, and career advancement opportunities.
No Phone Inquiries Accepted – Closing date February 17, 2012.
Looking for an exciting new job opportunity? West Park Mall, Quesnel, has an opening for a General Manager.The ideal candidate will have:• Sound knowledge in retail property management, including leasing and budgeting• Excellent communication and computer skills• A customer focus • Retail marketing experience• A current Property Management licence would be an asset.
Please submit your resume to:Debbie Quick, General Manager, West Park Mall
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PROFESSIONALSDue to rapid expansion we are accepting applications for qualifi ed professionals regarding the design and engineering purpose built products tailored for the heavy industrial, oil and gas as well as the mining applications.
The company offers competitive remuneration, above average benefi ts and a great working environment. Located in the BC Lower Mainland, the job opportunities are immediate and a priority. Positions available are:
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As a valued employee, you will work in a caring commu-nity where you will fi nd friendly faces and an abun-dance of rec. opportunities www.tpcs.gov.sk.ca/Mead ow Lake. Meadow Lake has a lot to offer, including exc. education and incredible scenery. For more info. about the community, visit www.meadowlake.ca About Meadow Lake OSB: Northwest Communities Wood Products, Meadow Lake Tribal Council, Crown Investments Corporation and Tolko Industries Ltd. have formed a limited partnership a world-class oriented strand board (OSB) facility in the vicinity of Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. The facility is owned by the Meadow Lake OSB Limited Partnership and operated by Tolko. Benefi ts of working in Meadow Lake: · Sask.Basic Healthcare is offered to all residents at no charge · Excellent Pension Plan · Full Benefi ts Plan · Sask. has the third lowest personal income tax rate (15%) · Sask. has the lowest Provincial Sales Tax in the country (5%) · Continuous Operating Premium (COP) Payments provided to all permanent employees · Relocation Allowance · Retention Bonuses “Our strong values of Safety, Respect, Progressiveness, Open Communication, Integ-rity and Profi t guide us at Tolko”.
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ing chairs-$5 ea, 1-small wooden bedside table $10250-562-3747 after 6 p.m.
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