ELECTION: NDP leader Adrian Dix speaks at COFI AGM A4 Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Newsline 250-564-0005 www.pgfreepress.ca In conversation with Premier Christy Clark A3 Bill PHILLIPS/Free Press Mayor Shari Green gets a rough ride from the mechanical bull, instead of the media for a change, at the Chamber of Commerce’s annual President’s Gala - Black Tie and Blue Jeans – Saturday evening. MAYOR GETS A ROUGH RIDE DELYNDA PILON [email protected]City residents will not have the option of buying a tag at City Hall for an extra bag of garbage included in their regular curb-side pick up. Although the core services review suggestion was discussed at an earlier council meeting and staff was asked to investigate how the additional program would work, council decided not to bring the suggestion to the pilot project point for several reasons. Councillor Brian Skakun went on a ride-along with the garbage crew, discussing not only the repetitive physical labour of lifting bags and the ensuing injuries, something the automated system was supposed to, for the most part, discontinue, but also the way the schedule would be affected. Skakun pointed out the city received an award from Work- SafeBC in 2007 for changing to the automated system, signifi- cantly cutting down on claims from injuries sustained from lifting the bags. “Other communities haven’t made a lot of money and they don’t have the hazards we do,” he said in regards to the possibility of creating a revenue stream. He added he felt the city ought to take a look at bigger-ticket items for saving and earning money. Coun. Dave Wilbur said he had struggled with the idea since it was introduced, and after some consid- eration was leaning towards taking a second look at it. “There are unintended conse- quences,” he said. “My colleagues have said it all,” Coun. Garth Frizzell agreed, citing the chance for physical injury. Mayor Shari Green said coun- cil had the opportunity to discuss the possibility of injury as well as other hazards, like those pointed out in a letter from the Bear Aware- ness Society, but had opted to go forward to the bylaw stage any- way. She said she supported the bylaw as did councillors Lyn Hall, Cameron Stolz and Albert Koehler, however it was defeated. Council trashes extra pick up A woman spent a night out in the elements Sunday after she was injured in a snowmobile accident. The woman, in her 20s, was thrown from her machine and was hit by her own snowmobile. She suffered a possible back injury. A Prince George Search and Rescue snowmobile team located the young woman at 3:30 a.m., after being led to her location by a member of her party. Members of Search and Rescue stabilized the woman and did their best to make her comfortable until morning. At first light a helicopter was dispatched from Prince George with two BC Ambulance paramedics and two Search and Rescue First Aid atten- dants. At 7 a.m. the young woman was airlifted to the University Hospital of Northern BC for treatment. Prince George Search and Rescue would like to thank Pacific Western Helicopters, the BC Conservation Service, BC Parks and all of the members of the young woman’s party, who were all well prepared to handle the situation, says Dale Bull, spokesperson for Search and Rescue. Injured snowmobiler rescued
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Mayor Shari Green gets a rough ride from the mechanical bull, instead of the media for a change, at the Chamber of Commerce’s annual President’s Gala - Black Tie and Blue Jeans – Saturday evening.
City residents will not have the option of buying a tag at City Hall for an extra bag of garbage included in their regular curb-side pick up.
Although the core services review suggestion was discussed at an earlier council meeting and staff was asked to investigate how the additional program would work, council decided not to bring the suggestion to the pilot project point for several reasons.
Councillor Brian Skakun went on a ride-along with the garbage crew, discussing not only the repetitive physical labour of lifting bags and the ensuing injuries, something the automated system was supposed to, for the most part, discontinue, but also the way the schedule would be affected.
Skakun pointed out the city received an award from Work-SafeBC in 2007 for changing to the automated system, signifi-cantly cutting down on claims from injuries sustained from lifting the
bags. “Other communities haven’t
made a lot of money and they don’t have the hazards we do,” he said in regards to the possibility of creating a revenue stream.
He added he felt the city ought to take a look at bigger-ticket items for saving and earning money.
Coun. Dave Wilbur said he had struggled with the idea since it was introduced, and after some consid-eration was leaning towards taking a second look at it.
“There are unintended conse-quences,” he said.
“My colleagues have said it all,” Coun. Garth Frizzell agreed, citing the chance for physical injury.
Mayor Shari Green said coun-cil had the opportunity to discuss the possibility of injury as well as other hazards, like those pointed out in a letter from the Bear Aware-ness Society, but had opted to go forward to the bylaw stage any-way. She said she supported the bylaw as did councillors Lyn Hall, Cameron Stolz and Albert Koehler, however it was defeated.
Council trashesextra pick up
A woman spent a night out in the elements Sunday after she was injured in a snowmobile accident.
The woman, in her 20s, was thrown from her machine and was hit by her own snowmobile. She suffered a possible back injury.
A Prince George Search and Rescue snowmobile team located the young woman at 3:30 a.m., after being led to her location by a member of her party. Members of Search and Rescue stabilized the woman and did their best to make her comfortable until morning.
At first light a helicopter was dispatched from Prince George with two BC Ambulance paramedics and two Search and Rescue First Aid atten-dants. At 7 a.m. the young woman was airlifted to the University Hospital of Northern BC for treatment.
Prince George Search and Rescue would like to thank Pacific Western Helicopters, the BC Conservation Service, BC Parks and all of the members of the young woman’s party, who were all well prepared to handle the situation, says Dale Bull, spokesperson for Search and Rescue.
Injured snowmobiler rescued
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Premier Christy Clark stopped by the Prince George Free Press office on Friday to talk about various issues before Prince George voters as the provincial election campaign gets underway. Here is some of the question and answer session we had with the premier.
Q. How do you deal with being behind in the polls going into an election?
A. You put together the best pos-sible team of candidates you can, you put together a vision for the province people can believe in, and you fight an election. That’s how you do it. The thing about the polls is, people haven’t made up their minds. People will make up their minds when they walk into the polling booth and decide who is going to secure my eco-nomic future.
Q. There’s been talk about the NDP not releasing their platform, so when will the Liberals release a spe-cific platform?
A. It will come out soon. It’ll come out once we’re into the campaign. We don’t want to leave it until too late. People want to know where the lead-ers stand.
We live in a democracy and democ-racy can’t work unless you have a competition of ideas. You can’t have a competition of ideas if people don’t tell you what their ideas are … For me, the platform is the Jobs Plan, the Throne Speech and the Prosperity Fund, the balanced budget and then there is the platform.
People already really know what we stand for. The thing about the New Democrats is nobody knows what they stand for, except for some higher taxes here and there.
Q. The New Democrats say that the budget the Liberals passed is actually mask-ing a deficit. How do you respond to that?
A. Of course they say that. They are running a campaign of constant negativity. Everything they say is “no, no, no.” I’m not going to defend that because people won’t believe me any more than they believe (NDP leader Adrian Dix). I would ask people to go look at what Dominion Bond Rating says, and what Moody’s says, and what Standard and Poor’s says, who gave us a triple-A credit rating. You can believe what the bond rating says or what Adrian Dix says.
Q. Will the Liberal campaign go negative?
A. Well, I think what we’re trying to do is focus on the vision for our economy. How do we get to ‘yes’ on economic development?
Q. With the stories that have come out with the Wood Innovation and Design Centre, how do you fight an election with those kinds of in-party problems?
A. I wouldn’t consider those in-party problems, I would say those are people are unhappy with the way things have gone for them personally. That happens.
Most reasonable people look at that and they realize that. In the case of WIDC, there were some people who had a personal investment and personal self-interest in having the process turn out in a certain way. And they were really disappointed when it didn’t.
Because they were disappointed doesn’t mean that anything was done wrong. I understand that emotion, and we’re seeing it bubble up with the accusations that are being thrown around … you could take their accusa-tions as truth or you could take the truth of the fairness advisor, who is a third party … who said the procure-ment process was done absolutely fairly
… The thing about the WIDC that has been really disappointing is the way the NDP has relentlessly attacked it.
They do not want WIDC to come to this community, they are trying to stop it. They are doing everything in their power to oppose this.
Q. The NDP have said they will continue with WIDC if the contract is let.
A. Oh, they will (laughing). So if we go too far, they can’t stop it and they
will grudgingly go ahead with it. Q. How to you create fairness and equity between the wealth producers (in the
North), and the wealth consumers (in the south)?A. The quick answer is the Prosperity Fund. My vision is that we grow the North,
and we’re going to with liquified natural gas. As I said in Kitimat, we do not want another Fort McMurray in British Columbia.
We want to ensure that the resource wealth that is generated in the North, much more of it comes back to the North to create sustainable communities.
What will happen is communities will start to grow again and we’re going to start seeing people start to come here.
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In Provincial Court in Prince George on Feb. 13:
Nicole T.L. Dennis was found guilty of mischief and placed on probation for six
months.Clayton D. Gervais
was found guilty of failing to produce a driver’s licence when ordered to do so, fined $500 and assessed a
victim surcharge of $50.
Darren B. Milligan was found guilty of driving without due care and atten-tion, fined $1,000 and
assessed a victim sur-charge of $150.
Zachary R. Roy was found guilty of breach of recognizance, sen-tenced to one day in jail and assessed a
victim surcharge of $50.
Shawna M. Smith was found guilty of theft of property with a value less than $5,000 and placed on probation for 12 months. Smith was also found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order and failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking or recog-nizance and sentenced to one day in jail.
Paulette P. Abra-ham was found guilty of assault and caus-ing a disturbance and placed on probation for one year. Abraham was also found guilty of failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking or recognizance and two counts of failing to comply with a condi-tion of an undertak-ing and sentenced to one day in jail.
Bhupinder S. Dhali-wal was found guilty of driving without due care and atten-tion, fined $1,000 and assessed a victim sur-charge of $150.
John E. Klimek was found guilty of driv-ing without due care and attention, placed on probation for 12 months, fined $1,000 and assessed a victim surcharge of $150.
David W.A. Neal was found guilty of failing to produce a driver’s licence when ordered to do so, fined $1,500 and assessed a victim surcharge of $225.
Over the past decade, the mountain pine beetle epidemic and slumping U.S. housing market have created challenges for forestry.
Through the struggles, the industry has shown resiliency. International markets have expanded, with China becoming a major player, while mills are set to reopen in Prince George and Burns Lake.
Yet there remain major issues that need to be addressed. The man vying to be the next B.C. Premier, NDP leader Adrian Dix, pointed at areas like forest health and skills shortages during a visit to Prince George last week. Dix made the trip to open the local NDP office and attend the COFI (Council of Forest Industries) convention at the Civic Centre. He gave the keynote speech at the convention luncheon on Thursday.
“First of all, clearly, completion rates in our apprenticeship systems are lower and we can’t afford that any longer,” he said during an inter-view on Thursday. “Every time I meet with a forest company, especially those in this region, I’d say there’s been a skills shortage, a short-
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age of workers and we need to address that problem now, not a few years from now.
“The current government, as you know, has been running television ads about skills training. But they actually cut the budget for skills training this year, cut the budget for post-sec-ondary education. We need to, if we’re going to succeed in the future, maintain pros-perity in the future, address this question and ensure that young people, in the north in particular, get access to the good jobs that may be coming and that’s the key question for our economy and our society.”
Dix said making forestry more appealing to students needs to be a priority, especially with a large propor-tion of those employed in the industry approaching retirement. Dix said about 10,000 jobs have been lost over the past decade.
During his keynote address, he pointed out that reinstating non refund-able student grants would help, and that
80 per cent of future jobs require post-secondary education.
“We don’t have a lot of people in their 20s in the industry, not a lot of older brothers or older sisters in the industry,
so a lot of the things that draws us into a particular line of work aren’t there anymore and we have a sig-nificant skills shortage,” he said. “People are aging out. Thirty per cent of the work-force is eligible for retire-ment in this decade, and that means even if the over-all number of jobs weren’t increasing, we need to remain competitive, to have new entrants into forestry and that means arguing for forestry.
I think when the government, for example, does the throne speech, that it goes through page and page and page about oil and gas, and has one sentence on forestry. They’re misunderstanding that priority.”
Timber supply has been on the decline, and rebuilding inventory is essential in helping a recovering industry. Yet with
the U.S. still trying to recover from the 2008 recession, there isn’t high demand south of the border.
“There’s always going to be an argu-ment to wait, including the present gov-ernment has been following that and they cut the forest industry budget by $35 million,” Dix said. “In this period of mountain pine beetle, they cut the budget again for the Ministry of Forests, even after that timber supply report said they should do otherwise. I think that we need a different approach.”
Dix acknowledged that working with China has helped the industry recover.
“But the main people who have driven that were the forest industry themselves. They put aside competi-tive issues,” Dix said. “We’re talking about Canfor and West Fraser and Tolko, and all of the companies in this region in particular put aside competi-tive issues to work together to open up that market.
It wasn’t government that did that. It was the companies that did that and I was just acknowledging the role that they played and that we have to continue to support those efforts in the coming years.”
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Council will not pursue a core services review suggestion that the city provide fleet maintenance services to other agencies.
Scott Bone, the city’s manager of supply and fleet ser-vices, explained right now the city shop is at capacity with the city fleet. Maintaining and repairing more vehicles means a new building and more mechanics.
Staff was asked to investigate the oppor-tunity with the B.C. Ambulance Service, RCMP detachments outside of Prince George, and the North District detachment.
In his report, Bone explained the ambu-lance service is cur-rently under contract
with a local dealer. Detachments outside of the area, who would have to ship vehicles to and from for mainte-nance services, would incur increased costs and delays if they used the Prince George city shop. They have local service agreements in place that provide timely maintenance at competitive rates.
In Prince George, the report states, fleet services manages the detachment fleet by coordinating main-tenance with local garages and dealers. North District would not save any money or time by shifting to city fleet services.
The report estimated expanding services would mean an added building, costing about $480,000 plus a mechanic at about $80,000 per year.
The current city shop has 18 bays, eight heavy-duty mechanics and three light-duty mechanics. The fleet includes about 300 vehicles, 220 heavy duty and about 68 light. However, it also maintains 60 fire ser-vices vehicles.
Coun. Albert Koe-hler asked when the shop reached capacity.
Bone said the report analysed the shop’s workload over the last two to three years, and found, as equipment aged, more hours have been put in to repair it. Now the shop has reached capacity.
“Unless we get on top of what we have now, there’s no point looking for this pot of gold that might exist,” Coun. Brian Skakun said. “Why spread things so thin?”
Mayor Sheri Green
said the suggestion was a challenge for her from the begin-ning since the city has no intention in taking business away from the private sector. On the other hand, the city wants to get the best bang for its buck and utilize staff more efficiently. She voted not to further pursue the suggestion as did the rest of council with the exception of Coun. Cameron Stolz.
“I would have thought we could add services given the times I’ve walked through the building,” he said.
Stolz said he felt the direction to staff was too specific. He added the core services review was about looking for synergies and effi-ciencies, and said he would like to see the idea explored further
to include looking at partnering with agen-cies like the school dis-trict, the college and the university.
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Sports reporters always say whatever game they are reporting on is a “game of inches.”
So is politics … only in politics inches are replaced by nuances, half-truths, and innuendo.
The NDP made some good political hay this week by announcing that the Liberals’ balanced budget is really mask-ing a massive deficit. The reason they made good political hay with it is that British Columbians want to believe the Liberals are lying about their balanced budget. The truth of the matter is that we don’t know the truth of the matter yet, and won’t for quite some time.
The NDP base their assumption that the budget isn’t balanced on the Liberal hope that they can keep provincial spending to a 0.8 per cent increase this fiscal year. No one knows if the Liberals can keep the spending increase to only 0.8 per cent and his-tory has proven that provincial spending increases at about three per cent per year.
The NDP claim that it’s unrealistic that the spend-ing increase would suddenly be contained to less than one per cent. Unrealistic … maybe, but not impossible. And, until the figures are in at the end of the year, no one really knows whether they will be able to keep a lid on spending increases.
What we do know is the NDP are speculating that spending will increase and a deficit will ensue. They don’t know that for a fact so to claim the Liberals have hidden a deficit in the budget is … well, innu-endo at best, only inches away from what British Columbians really need to know.
Then there are the Liberals. They’ve been making
some political hay with the fact the NDP haven’t released a campaign platform yet.
When Premier Christy Clark was in the Free Press office last week and the issue of the NDP platform
came up, she leaned forward over the table and whispered “nobody knows what they stand for,” like it was some sort of secret revelation.
OK, fair enough. The NDP haven’t released their election platform yet so the next question is when can we expect the
Liberals to release their election platform?“Soon,” she said, going on to explain that they
want to wait until we’re actually into the campaign.So, let’s recap. The NDP are hiding something
(similar to the Liberals’ hidden deficit) because they haven’t released their election platform yet but the Liberals are being prudent by not releasing theirs until the campaign officially gets underway.
That’s an inch away from something, I’m just not sure what.
While it’s not good to mix federal and provincial politics, I had to chuckle at a statement that Clark made during her visit to the Free Press. We were talk-ing about resources and resource development and one of the comments she made was “we have to find a way to get to ‘yes,’” on projects.
It was almost verbatim repetition of a comment federal NDP House Leader Nathan Cullen made during public meeting here about a month ago.
Maybe, just maybe, if politicians took the time to listen to those in other parties they might find that the distance between them is … well, less than an inch.
One of Premier Christy Clark’s more interesting comments during her trip to the city last Friday came regarding the rebuilding of the Babine Forest Products sawmill in Burns Lake.
Speaking to the Council of Forest Industries convention, she acknowledged that many of the forest company executives in the room didn’t like the decision to fiddle with timber supply in the area, giving Hampton Affiliates enough fibre to justify rebuilding the mill.
Almost immediately after the explosion and fire that destroyed the mill, independent MLA Bob Simpson said the mill should not be rebuilt. He said there was not enough fibre available.
The province pushed ahead and formed a committee, chaired by Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad, to try and find a way to deal with short-term timber supply problems created by the mountain pine beetle.
Eventually, the province agreed to poach some timber supply from surrounding licences and give it to Hampton. The other licensees, in turn, were granted some timber from other neigh-bouring areas. It undoubtedly created problems for affected licensees, as acknowledged by Clark Friday.
What was interesting in Clark’s speech Friday was that she acknowledged that the decision to grant Hampton enough fibre to rebuild was borne out of the fact the community was dealing with a tragedy.
“I visited Burns Lake and told them I would be there for them,” Clark said.
It was an interesting comment from the premier, who stuck pretty close to the script during her visit here.
On one hand the comment left herself open to criticism that the decision to grant Hampton Affiliates fibre wasn’t based on forest policy, but rather on a promise the premier made in the heat of the tragedy.
On the other hand, it could also be argued that she, and the government, didn’t hide behind policy when it came time to help the community of Burns Lake.
Fibrefaux pas?
Premier Christy Clark dismissed the fact that the Liber-als are still trailing in the polls heading into the official election campaign.
“People haven’t made up their minds,” she told the Free Press last week. “People will make up their minds when they walk into the polling booth.”
Fair enough, however, a recent Insights West poll of 855 British Columbians suggested that only 20 per cent are still undecided. That’s still a fair number, but the polls also suggest that the Liber-als are still trailing the NDP.
The poll found the NDP, at 33 per cent support, continues to have a double-digit lead over the BC Liberals at 21 per cent.
Those undecided could play a big role.Surprisingly, the BC Green Party captures more voters (11 per
cent) than the BC Conservative Party (eight per cent); one per cent would vote for other parties/independents, and six per cent said they would not vote.
As the parties roll out their election platforms in the next week or so, the number of undecided voters should shrink.
Make up your mind
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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 news-paper’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.
11:00 am Fridays at Zoe’s Java House at 1251 - 4th AvenueDELYNDAPILON
Words are the tools of any author, including a journalist.
As such, you want to choose the right one for each job, but I think you also need to not get in the habit of having one tool that you use on every job, no mat-ter what.
I find many journalists seem to have a contract of some sort which says they have to get the word “very” into any story, no matter the sub-ject matter or whether the word has any, you know, meaning in the sentence.
Part of this, I think comes because so often we simply use direct quotes from people we have interviewed (or listened to), and many people (not “very many”, please note) tend to also use “very” a bit too much when they speak.
For instance, a new project will be described as “very innovative” and “a
very good example of what we are doing to help the people of this region”.
Yes, if you’re using a direct quote, some people would say you have to use the “very” because that’s what the per-son said. (And yet, those same purists don’t put every “um” and “er” into the quote, even thought’s that’s also what the
person said. But I digress.)This, to me, is a perfect spot to use a
little device called the paraphrase. You take that quote and render it something like this: “The congressman said the innovative idea was a good example of how government was helping the people of Smith City.”
Unless the speaker is prepared to pro-vide you with an idea that was merely innovative, the use of “very” does noth-ing for the sentence, so I feel it can safely
be left out.There are other words used in journal-
ism which are overused and, when exam-ined closely, prove to be nearly devoid of meaning.
For instance, how often have you seen someone say a product is “new and improved”? Happens a lot, doesn’t it?
Well, let’s think about it. “New” simply means “we changed something about it” and “improved” means “we didn’t make it any worse”.
Unfortunately, as history shows, some-times “new and improved” only hits half of its promise. My favourite example is from back in the 1980s, when Coca-Cola decided it need to change the flavour of its Coke.
The “New Coke” proved to be a major flop, forcing the company to re-introduce the old product under the name “Coke Classic”. After a period of time, they
quietly dropped “new Coke” completely and the word “Classic” also disappeared.
Another word which is used a lot in journalism because it sounds impres-sive is “exclusive”. Except in rare cases (which I almost slipped and called “very rare”), all that is meant by an “exclusive” interview with someone is “we were the only press he was talking to at that time.”
Fifteen minutes after he left our office, he was talking “exclusively” to another reporter, and 15 minutes after that, some-one else got their “exclusive” interview.
As of next year, I will have been in the newspaper business for 30 years (hard to believe I’m still so young, isn’t it?) and in all those years, I’m sure I have never billed an interview with someone as “exclusive”. Even on those occasions when I knew I was the only reporter who had the story or interview, I just didn’t see the need to use the word.
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The smells that bring back memoriesI was fortunate enough to
have a bunch of wild meat given to me by a friend.
I love wild meat, grew up on it actually. My mouth still waters when I think of my dad cooking deer or moose steak.
I’ve read that our sense of smell is the first to develop, so I guess it’s not surprising the scent of something can affect our mood almost instantly and throw us into a fond memory.
For me, the smell of moose steak frying always sends me to Porcupine Plains, Sask. We lived in a teensy house there when I was in Grade 5, and the cous-ins (Metis, from my dad’s side) would stop in. They’d never call ahead or anything so formal as that. You’d just get a knock on the door, a ton of hugs and hel-los as the car unloaded itself, body after body, and an evening of story-telling followed by an early morning with the air heav-ily scented with fresh coffee and moose steak. You’d make your way to a handy corner, plate
and cup in hand (the adults go all the good seats – after all, you have to be respectful) and listen to even more stories, maybe sing
some songs, always share some laughs.
Maybe that’s why moose steak always seems so delicious to me. It is flavoured with the memories of the past.
When I think of the power of scent, I also remember my Gramma French’s wallet. When she passed away someone gave me her wallet and a few treasure boxes of jewellery, the stuff Gramma let me dress up in whenever I spent the night. After several moves, pursuing an education, jobs and the like, the jewellery is long gone, but the wallet – ahhh, the wallet.
It’s nothing much to look at, more of a change purse really. Tiny, probably faux leather at best, doe brown in colour, but it is precious to me.
Whenever I open it I smell my Gramma.
She was a tiny lady who kept a pristine home. Her worst cuss word was ‘son-of-a-who-
bit-you’, and she only used it when my cowboy Grampa really tweaked her buttons, like giv-ing her a lecherous smack on the behind while she made din-ner. That would always make Gramma’s eyes flash, elicit her infamous cuss word along with a stern look thrown her ‘Beau’s’ way that would have made a normal guy melt like plastic on a cook-stove.
My Gramma French was a
first generation descendent of a couple who immigrated to Can-ada from London in the early 1900s. She loved doilies, playing the organ, cooking – and what I believe was called An Evening In Paris perfume.
Every time I open that wallet I still smell her perfume, and I can see her plain as day, bright green eyes, one with a tiny dot of brown by the pupil, hair a dark halo around her sweet face (she
fought grey like a born-again preacher fights the devil), and always smiling at me as though I was the most perfect child in all of creation.
There are other great smells, campfire smoke on a plaid coat, fresh cut wood, that odour that comes from the first green shoots of spring – but for me, my favourites by far are frying moose steak and An Evening in Paris.
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Editor:I admire the tenacity of contributors to your let-
ters column on the subject of water fluoridation. However, they continue to trot out the same tired, dubious arguments supporting their claim that addition of minute quantities of fluoride to drink-ing water endangers public health.
An article by Todd Whitcombe, UNBC chemist, explained the benefits of this chemical, in harm-less quantities, to the dental health of children. His conclusions are supported by a majority of den-tists who know that fluoride in water deters cavi-ties in growing children. This is a proven fact.
Certainly this campaign against fluoride has the support of producers and vendors of overpriced bottled water. Bottled water is not subject to the daily monitoring to which our community water
is. We are not sure of its origin nor age. While we moan about the price of gasoline, people pay much more per litre for this water in wasteful dis-posable plastic bottles.
Would it not be pleasant if these writers concen-trated on real issues affecting our daily lives?
James LougheryPrince George
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When Prince George-Mackenzie MLA Pat Bell was first elected, he started publishing his Top Ten list every week. This is his 500th, and last, Top Ten list as he will not be seeking re-election in May. This is his “Best of the Best” Top Ten.
1) BC’S JOBS PLANWhen the premier asked me
to take on the role as jobs minis-ter my primary task was to develop an economic strategy for the Province. Our plan combines the strengths of our traditional Natu-ral Resource based industries, new niche sectors like International Education and Clean Technology and the emerging economies in China and India. It’s still early but I believe that given the chance this plan will deliver strong regional economies that will sustain BC well into this cen-tury.
2) A REVITALIZED FOREST INDUSTRY
Forestry has dominated the B.C. landscape for more than a century but an ongoing reliance on the tra-ditional model created challenges that some believed would be the end of the sector. Building a brand new market in China, negotiat-ing a balanced trade deal with the U.S.A. and creating community forests all over B.C. has revived our industry and made it the most competitive on the planet. I am
convinced that forestry will con-tinue to drive regional economies and the new model will protect us against cyclical downturns.
3) MACKENZIEThe worst of times, the best of
times, Mackenzie has seen it all. The turning point for Mackenzie was the way in which the com-munity came together to get a new
owner for the pulp mill. Mayor Stephanie Killam, union leader Carl Bernasky, busi-nessman Tanner Elton, McLeod Lake Chief Derek Orr and many others all sat down,
rolled up their sleeves and got to work. I have seen other communi-ties play the “blame game” but not Mackenzie and today they have been rewarded with the pulp mill, saw mills, the Mount Milligan mine, new doctors and seniors housing for the effort of putting aside their differences and work-ing together. Thank you Macken-zie for being a leader in B.C.!
4) CARIBOO CONNECTORFor years we would hear “why
can’t we have a Coquihalla”? The vision was a great one and in 2005 then-Minister Kevin Falcon announced that, over time, we would four-lane Highway 97 from Prince George to Cache Creek. The nine new projects will all be underway by 2017. At the comple-tion of Phase 2, almost 50 per cent of the 440-km highway between
Backgammon is a popular spot for kids at the Persian Tea House and Cultural Experience Sunday at the Immigrant and Multicultual Services Society cente. The event was cohosted by Zaffron Cuisine.
Cache Creek and Prince George will be either three or four lanes wide, improving the safety and mobil-ity of this important corridor. Anyone that drives it on a regular basis will have seen what a difference this has made.
5) IMPROVED HEALTH CARE
One of the first things our Govern-ment committed to in 2001 was the North-ern Medical Program, training physicians in the North for the North. Add to this new nurse training seats, physiotherapy, hospital upgrades, alternate payment models, primary care initiatives and the quality of health care in the north has improved dramati-cally.
6) NORTHERN CANCER CENTRE
Long a dream for many, the notion of a full-service cancer centre has become a reality. The vision started many decades ago but the North was passed by with other communities receiving investments. Thanks to people like Charles Jago, Dr. Michelle Sutter and Dr. Bert Kelly, the hard work has paid off and Northern cancer patients no longer need to travel to Vancouver for treatment. Add to this the incredible dona-tion for the Kordyban family.
7) BC NATURAL RESOURCE FORUM
For 10 years now I have hosted this forum. Each year it has brought together business, politi-cal and First Nations leaders to discuss the key issue of the day as they relate to natural resource extraction and transportation issues.
Amongst the speakers over the years we had a past Prime Minis-ter (Paul Martin) and past Federal Leader of the Opposition (Stock-well Day) as well as premiers and CEO’s.
This forum has become a main-stay on the Prince George calen-dar and my hope is that it will continue under the leadership of the next MLA for Prince George Mackenzie.
8) NEW AGREEMENTS ON LAND USE
Although not directly related to Prince George or Mackenzie, I had the honour of leading the Prov-ince’s efforts in land use for much of the last seven years. Of particu-
lar note were the agreements that were achieved in both the “Great Bear Rain Forest” and on Haida Gwaii. Both agreements came as a result of a collaborative approach by local First Nations , the envi-ronmental movement, industry and government. Both of these agreements have brought new eco-nomic stability to the regions and have been acknowledged around the world for their significance.
9) SENIORS HOUSINGTraditionally people in the north
have tended to retire somewhere in the south and the requirement for seniors housing was not sig-nificant. With the affordability of housing in other parts of the province becoming very chal-lenged this has changed and the need for a new level of support has never been higher. With this in mind our investments in Gateway, Hart Haven, Elizabeth Fry Place and Autumn Lodge in Mackenzie couldn’t have come at a better time.
10) DECISIONS IN THE NORTH FOR THE NORTH
For years northern-ers have known that we have the answers to the challenges that we face. With that in mind our government created the “Northern Development Initia-tives Trust” with an initial injection of $135 million and a second injection of $50 mil-lion. This fund is man-aged at arm’s length from government with decisions made by a board of 13 individu-als. Projects like the Prince George Air-port, Geoscience BC research, the Northern Sports Centre have all made a significant dif-ference to our region. To date $111 million has been committed to 1,043 projects creating a total of 5,154 jobs. As of the end of 2011 due to prudent invest-ing NDIT still has over $165 million in uncommitted funds!
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A woman who helped others overcome diversity is now facing major health obstacles herself.
For several years Sue Michaud, 51, has been devoted to assist-ing people living with disabil-ity, hardship and personal chal-lenges to create healthy, mean-ingful lives. Recently she was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma.
Now family, co-workers and friends – and supporters she has never met – are hoping to send Michaud to Cleveland, Ohio where there is treatment avail-able called autoLITT laser. The same treatment is not readily available in Canada or covered by her medical plan. She’s spent time in Vancouver receiving sim-ilar treatment but the costs of treatments and travel expenses are rapidly rising.
Mary Jarbek, who works at Employment Action and has seen Michaud “in action” help-ing people, has teamed up with a group of friends to spearhead a fundraising campaign which will include several events – one is a bowling day on April 30 organized by Jarbek and Leisa Schaap and other coworkers at Employment Action.
Jarbek says that giving Michaud every chance at a full recovery is a way to give back to Michaud for her commitment to and care of others.
“Her passion, positivity and persistence have made it possi-ble for those without food to eat, without a home to stay warm and without hope to face life and love it again. She is a remarkable woman doing remarkable work – let’s do everything we can to assist her so she can continue.”
Her work stared with develop-ing Live Well Disability Access Services where she works with
the employment agency secur-ing assistance for people with multiple barriers, health prob-lems and disability, and address-
ing crisis situations. She had to take a medical leave because of her diagnosis and treatment, but continues to volunteer her time
advocating for individuals and improving lives.
Sue and Mark Michaud have raised their two sons in Prince George and soon the couple is looking forward to their first grandchild. Sue is also well known in the arts community as an artist and singer-songwriter.
Her service to others began when she was a small child sell-ing poppies alongside her par-ents and it continues to this day, says Jarbek.
“One of the reasons that Sue is determined to beat this disease stems from her long-term goal of increasing much-needed sup-port services funding and pro-grams to Employment Action services for those with persis-tent and multiple barriers. She also wants to obtain her Master’s degree to strengthen her abil-ity to advocate for the services required, through the develop-ment of her thesis. Above all, Susan wants to know her grand-child and continue to help her own sons with their futures as well as spend many more years with her beloved husband of 30 years.”
HOW TO HELPBowl 4 A Girl Named Sue
Fundraiser takes place at the Cosmic Bowling at The Strike Zone at 2366 Westwood Drive on Tuesday, April 30 from 7 to 9 p.m. Get together with family, friends, co-workers to set up a team of four to six people or sponsor a team. Start fundraising ($50 adults, $25 youth and students, $100 plus for businesses).
Bring pledge sheet and money collected to Mary or Leisa at Employment Action, 1505 Vic-toria St., Monday to Friday, 8:30 to 4:30, before April 30. Donate online at www.gofundme.com/27jsdg or donate funds to Integris Credit Union “In trust for Sue Michaud.”
MICHAEL BROWNThree-time Juno
nominee Michael Jerome Brown plays Artspace on Thursday, April 18. Tickets are $20 available at Books and Company. Brown won a Canadian Folk Music Award in 2012 and 2008 for Canada’s Best Solo Folk Music Performer.
ANTIQUESHuble Homestead hosts
antique appraiser Ted Pappas who is returning to Artspace above Books and Company April 20 and 21. For $10 per item, he will tell you what your object is, how much it’s worth and other interesting facts. Appraisal tickets at the door. No limit but first come, first served. Event runs Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information call 250-564-7033 or visit hublehomestead.ca.
OUT OF ALBAA special Prince George
Symphony Orchestra (PGSO) concert Encore! Out of Alba plays Friday, April 26 at Vanier Hall starting at 7:30 p.m. Last year’s Lord of the Dance show sold out, so the PGSO invites the Celtic sound of Out of Alba back for an encore. There will be traditional tunes and dances while Out of Alba puts some new arrangements to some of their hits.
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Prince George youngsters will have a chance to MEND some bad habits at the YMCA.
The YMCA of Northern BC is hosting MEND (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition... Do It!), a 10-week pro-gram designed for children between the ages of seven and 13 who are above a healthy weight. The free program runs from April 20 to June 15, and space is limited.
The program will take place at the Highland Family Development Centre. It is not a weight-loss pro-gram a press release emphasizes, saying “families will learn about nutrition and how to make healthy choices as well as take part in fun
games and activities.”MEND was founded in 2004 in
the United Kingdom, and adapted in 2011 to align with Canadian dietary and policy guidelines.
In the release, Tara Legault, the local MEND programmer, says, “The interactive environment builds enthusiasm and encourages participation from the entire family. By the end of the 10 weeks, parents and children will see how positive changes in food choices and activ-ity levels can build confidence and health.”
To register for MEND or get more information, call Legault at 250-562-9309 ext. 210.
Y helps kids MEND their weight problem
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Mojegan Sadeghian, owner of Zaffron Cuisine gives a cook-ing demonstration Sunday at the Persian Tea House and Cultural Experience. The event was hosted by Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society and Zaffron Cuisine.
STIRRING IT UP
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It took Direct Art owner John Westergard the entire weekend to prepare the gallery for its new exhibit.
But now that the work of internation-ally renowned artist Chris DeRubeis is on the walls, it is a sight to behold.
Brilliant, bold colours appear to jump off the walls and slick, metal-lic “canvas” made of aircraft aluminum has, on many pieces, dra-matic hits of exotic dia-mond and gem dust. A rare treat.
“We are so proud to be showing his work,” said Westergard. “Chris DeRubeis is one of the top-selling artists in the United States. Some people who have viewed the exhibit are just wowed by it.”
Princess Cruise Lines is featuring the art of DeRubeis on their latest cruise ship and they will have a film crew accompany-ing him on his visit to Direct Art to do a pro-motional video.
Part of what makes
DeRubeis’ metal art-work so exciting is the materials he uses.
In his artist’s bio, the history of how he set about to create some-thing different – much to the chagrin of his art instructors – is evident from his first ventures into uncharted art waters.
“While grinding the base paint off a Har-ley gas tank in his workshop, DeRubeis noticed something spectacularly unique. With each pass of the grinding pad, a new piece of metal was exposed to the light, unveiling fantastic pat-terns that seemingly danced off the tank, as if it had come to life.”
DeRubeis, still in his 30s, began experi-menting with different tools to manipulate the way the light reacted
with the surface. He then introduced chem-icals and paints to the surface, creating even more unique reac-tions.
In 2009, DeRubeis was signed by famous art publisher David Smith and now the art-ist’s work is on display at galleries all over the world. His works are all originals, there are no copies or prints available.
I n t e r n a t i o n a l l y renowned artist Chris DeRubeis will be in Prince George on Thursday. The public is invited to meet the artist and view some of his latest abstract art creations at Direct Art April 11 between 6 and 10 p.m. Direct Art is located at 1650 Queensway. For more information phone 250-561-7172.
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John Westergard, of Direct Art, with Chris DeRubeis’ original work Elements Vertical, a four-panel piece on aircraft alu-minium using brilliant colours. A sampling of DeRubeis’ art will be on dis-play and for sale Thursday at Direct Art. Teresa MALLAM/Free Press
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Sales were brisk, merchants were happy, lots of treasures found new homes, and the parking lot at the Roll-A-Dome was filled Sat-urday and Sunday.
The popular annual Prince George Hospice Society fundraiser, the Antiques and Collect-ibles Fair is over for another year.
Diane Sears, fund developer and mar-keting officer for PG Hospice Society, said Tuesday the event was a resounding success.
“We had about 3,000 people attend for both days so that was great, I think the weather helped to get people out,” she said. “We raised about $10,000 [with entry fees], which is up from last year and we also got some great feedback from lots of people. One of the ven-dors sold out the first day.”
Most vendors the Free Press reporter spoke to said sales were defi-nitely up this year but
they did lower their prices in some cases. Klaus Klinke of Prince George said most things at his mixed merchandise booth were selling well.
“Hot Wheels went pretty well and so did most things. When I put the cups and sau-cers on at half price they went pretty fast too. Our [overall] sales were better than last year.”
Janet Upton, owner of Jans Findings Antiques and Collectibles in Quesnel, was happy to see young people enjoying her treasures from the past. She had a boy’s tool box from the 50s with saw, miter box, clamps and chisels and also a child’s lawn-mower which attracted a lot of attention.
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Depression glass, pottery, old china, crystal and porcelain caught the eye of many buyers over the weekend at the annual Prince George Hospice Society Antiques and Collectibles Fair at the Roll-A-Dome. The event attracted 3,000 people.
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CALL FOR ART PROPOSALS
Ridley Terminals Inc. will be purchasing $50,000 worth of artwork from artists residing in northern BC.
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following the proposal procedure will be accepted. Deadline for submissions is May 31, 2013.
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Ingredients right for Recipe for DelightArtspace is the place
to be Saturday for a unique event which features, as one of the entertainers, the ven-ue’s owner Jim Brink-man.
A Recipe for Delight hits the stage April 13 with mime artist Rob Ziegler, jazz singer Darlene Shatford, musician Eric Tomp-kins, actor Lynne Brown, and poet Jana – Brinkman’s admitted better half – behind the mike creating a variety
show like no other. Just like cooking shows on Food Network, the evening show at Artspace will appeal to a wide variety of tastebuds because there’s something for everyone.
Performer Rob Ziegler said he’s exited for audiences to come out and see the decidedly different show. Ziegler’s wife, Darlene Shatford, an accomplished jazz singer (and knitter), will be performing a few favourite num-bers. Ziegler will be
showing off his mime skills.
“I will be perform-ing a piece called Kaf-ka’s Dream, among other selections,” he says. “Jim [Brinkman] will be indulging in a little political satire about Prince George (something he’s well known for at Books and Company) and he and his wife Jana are doing some free-verse poetry readings.”
“She’s a real poet,” says Brinkman.
And while many people know Jim Brinkman as the busi-
nessman behind all the books and treats at Cafe Voltaire in Books and Company, few except
those in his “group of seven” Recipe for Delight circle know he’s also a poet. The
group also includes the show’s director, Allison Haley.
Tickets for Recipe for
Delight, which starts at 8 p.m. Saturday, are available at Books and Company.
An all-desserts, all-girls only evening featuring a fashion show from Butterfly Threads Boutique and Shhh... the unique boutique, to show off all spring’s latest styles takes place April 27.
Guest speakers include Dr. Christine Kurz, an amazing local plastic surgeon who will take questions about all kinds of procedures and preventive measures to fight Father Time, and Donalda Carson, executive
director of the PG Hospice Soci-ety, who will talk about the soci-ety’s work. There will be a sur-prise song and dance duo that will really get the girlfriends going and over 20 booths to experience everything from getting your nails painted to spiritual readings to massage to signing up for a new hobby.
There will be tons of shop-ping. So help support our local Hospice House.
The second annual Girl-
friends Who Care Hospice House Fundraiser is on Satur-day, April 27 at the Ramada Hotel.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Fash-ion show starts at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $50 each, avail-able at Butterfly Threads store or Shhh... on Westwood Drive. Proceeds go to build a chil-dren’s playroom at Hospice.
Tickets can also be purchased online at www.girlfriendswho-carepg.eventbrite.ca.
Rob Ziegler (left) and Jim Brinkman rehearse for their April 13 variety show Recipe for Delight which includes poetry, mime, singing and music. Tickets are on sale at Books and Company.
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The ending was emotional.In the final medal presenta-
tion involving members of the host team, Prince George Gymnastics Club member Lina Goto couldn’t hide the tears. For showing tears of joy, she can’t be blamed. Goto stood atop the podium with the all-around title in the Level 5 open category at the 2013 Artistic Gymnastics BC Championships at the North-ern Sport Centre on Sunday.
Goto, who also won silver in bars and beam, was one of three Prince George gym-nasts to win gold in the all-around category. Alia Wilson took top spot in pre-novice aspire all-around and floor, and Level 2 novice (1999 birth year) gymnast Reid Powers finished first in bars, beam floor and all-around.
Powers and Wilson each took bronze in their vault rou-tines. Wilson was also sixth in bars and beam. Goto was fifth in vault and bars.
“It turned out to be a great event,” Prince George Gym-nastics Club head coach Jodie Hinks said. “We were very happy with everything and extremely happy with our athletes, and I think it was really nice for them to do it at home.”
Twenty-four gymnasts rep-
resented the host club at the weekend meet.
Other Level 2 novice results included: Aly Muir - 10th place in balance beam; Amy Hackle - third in vault and seventh in beam.
Level 2 open results included: Erica Hirtz - bronze in bars, sixth in vault, sev-enth all-around and eighth on floor; Kimberly Marsh - bronze in vault, seventh all-around, eighth in bars and ninth in beam.
Sydney Hamilton, Kaylee Watt, Samantha Thomas and Lindsay Van Mook also par-ticipated in the Level 2 cat-egory. The Level 2 athletes earned a bronze medal for the Zone 8 team.
In Level 3 novice, Prince George club members included: Anna MacDonald - silver in vault, fifth in bars, sixth all-around and 10th in beam; Rhiana Palfy - seventh in vault, seventh in floor, 10th in bars and 10th all-around; Mary-Kate Barwise - eighth in beam; Mekenna Parker - fourth in beam.
Prince George gymnasts in the Level 3 open division were: Miranda Doerksen - gold in vault, fifth all-around, ninth in bars and 10th in floor; Jaymie Hinks - silver in vault and 10th in floor. Tianna Millns also entered the division.
Bronwyn Ellington repre-
sented the host club in the Level 3 tyro category.
Milan Knight competed in the Level 5 open division. She finished fifth in vault, seventh in floor, seventh all-around, ninth in bars and 10th in beam.
Four members of the club competed in the Level 1 boys division: Evan Weis - bronze all-around, bronze in high bar, fourth in pommel horse, fourth in rings, seventh in floor and seventh in vault; Lane Oke - fourth in vault, fifth in rings, fifth in high bar, sixth all-around, eighth in pommel horse and ninth in parallel bars; Colbey Simunac - silver in vault, seventh in rings, eighth in parallel bars and ninth in high bar; Tyler Strizich - fifth in vault.
Wilson will represent the Prince George Gymnastics Club at the 2013 Western Canadian Gymnastics Cham-pionships, scheduled for May 2 to 4 in Winnipeg.
Wilson qualified for the event at the Surrey Classic in the beginning of March.
Hinks will join Wilson at Westerns.
“The pressure will be on a little bit for her, but abso-lutely she has proven that she has the skill base to do it. She’s got what it takes,” Hinks said. “We just have to make sure she can stay in check for the competition.”
This wasn’t the first time Prince George hosted artistic gymnastics provincials.
But the feeling during the 2013 Artistic Gymnastics BC Championships on the weekend was different than 2004, when the first event of its kind was held in the city.
Nine years ago, nobody was looking ahead to the 2015 Canada Winter Games. On the weekend, it was a common topic of discussion, and for good reason. The 2015 national event will unfold at the same venue as the recent competition, the Northern Sport Centre.
The provincial championships, which drew between 550 and 600 participants, acted as a Games test event. In addition to Gymnastics BC representatives, members of the 2015 team were on site.
“It’s going to be a little bit different because the level is going to be much
higher at Canada Games. We have some of the best athletes from the 12-year-old to the 19-year-old in Canada who will be here from all 10 provinces, rather than just from the west,” Gymnastics BC technical director Andrée Montreuil said on Sun-day. “It promises to be an amazing event. B.C. has done well at Canada Games in the past three or four, so we’re hoping for good results (in 2015) as well.”
A good showing by the host province would go a long way towards a success-ful Canada Winter Games. As the lead-ing governing body for the sport in the province, Gymnastics BC is doing its part to help.
“We’ve already identified our long list of athletes. We have about 30 athletes on the men’s side, on the women’s side, and about 20 in trampoline that we are focusing on,” Montreuil said, “so we’re giving them additional preparation in the next two years, additional training camps. We’re going to work with the coaches,
hopefully mental training to help them deal with the stress because local events, it’s very fun for them but it’s also more stressful because all light and all eyes are on you.”
With only six male and six female spots per provincial team in Canada Games’ artistic gymnastics, Prince George Gym-nastics Club members may be longshots to qualify. But that’s not to suggest there won’t be heavy local involvement.
“That’s a big part of this is testing for our volunteers. It’s a test for all of the volunteers, so of my coaches, most of the weekend they have been floor managers where you’re just keeping charge of the floor, (making sure) everything is running smoothly and things like that,” Prince George Gymnastics Club head coach Jodie Hinks said, “so definitely we’re all going to be very involved and basically we will be running the gymnastics side of things because that’s what we had to show them this weekend is that we can handle to run
an event of this size.”The NSC held another major gymnas-
tics event prior to the provincial cham-pionships, the 2008 Western Canadian Championships. In terms of numbers, the Westerns paled in comparison. Montreuil noted that Westerns had about 250 com-peting athletes.
Hinks said they had 20 people on their organizing committee and close to 150 volunteers. Thirty-two officials and close to 85 coaches contributed on the week-end.
To prepare for provincials, the commit-tee met in October and continued meeting monthly.
The NSC gym floor was packed with activity over the weekend. Apparatus for six male events and four female events were in place.
“It’s been a very good venue,” Mon-treuil said. “The gym is very nice, the light is very nice, the seating is very nice for the spectators.”
Gymnastics event probably passed Games test
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Prince George Gymnastics Club member Lina Goto stands atop the podium for winning the Provincial Level 5 open overall title during the Artistic Gymnastics BC Championships on Sunday at the Northern Sport Centre.
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The 2013 Prince George Aboriginal Youth Hockey Championships unfolded at CN Centre and Kin 2 on the weekend.
The event included 27 teams from throughout the north-central region. Action got underway on Friday and ran through Sunday.
In the end, six division champions were named. The winners were: Stella’tem Lil Cats - Tyke; Nak’azdli Chiefs - Novice; Williams Lake Chiefs - Atom; P.G. Warriors - Peewee Develop-ment; Weekend Warriors - Peewee Competitive; P.G. Mohawks - Midget.
In the past, the tournament has included games at Kin 1. But the 2015 Canada Winter Games’ Kin Centre Enhancement Project has resulted in one less ice surface. The new facility is slated to be complete in October.
SKIINGAnother test event for the 2015 Canada Win-
ter Games has been announced.The Caledonia Nordic Ski Club has been
named the host of the 2014 Haywood Noram Western Canadian Cross Country Ski Champi-onships. The event is scheduled for Feb. 14 to 16, 2014.
“Now is a great time to be a sports fan in northern B.C.,” 2015 Canada Winter Games CEO Stuart Ballantyne stated in a press release. “The Canada Games is a stepping stone in the athletic careers of Canada’s top young athletes and future Olympians, and events like the 2014 Western Canadian Cross Country Ski Champi-onships are a great platform to cheer on these talented athletes and learn about their sports.”
This will mark the first FIS (International Ski Federation) sanctioned cross-country ski event at the Otway Nordic Centre since the 2005 nationals unfolded at the site. The event will attract athletes from across Canada who will be vying for positions on Canada’s 2014-15 World Cup team. The event is expected to draw approximately 350 athletes from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Yukon and North-west Territories.
JUDOPrince George judokas competed in the
Edmonton International Judo Tournament on the weekend. Each of the city’s three clubs were represented, with the Prince George Judo Club, North Capital Judo Club and Hart Judo Academy sending members. Many of the Prince George competitors took home medals in their respective events.
Gold medal winners were: Prince George - Sydney Edgson (U11 minus-36 kg), Bryce Hayashi (U11 minus-36 kg) and Tami Goto (U13 minus-32 kg); North Capital - Gabe Sakamoto
(U9 minus-23 kg), Haven Dunphy (U11 plus-45 kg) and Paul Zorzi (veteran men minus-73 kg); Hart – Matthias Schenk (U13 minus-34 kg), Dakota Chang (U11 Group 3), Isaac Kamstra (U11 Group 4) and Gabriel Paterson (U11 Group 5).
Silver medal winners were: North Capital - Asher Young (U11 minus-27 kg), Maxwell Young (U13 minus-38 kg) and Danny White (veteran men minus-73); Hart - Kimiko Kam-stra (U13 minus-32 kg), Matthew Grilz (U13 minus-55 kg) and Brendan Bellavance (U18 minus-90 kg); Prince George - Taylor Schaus (U15 minus-38 kg).
Bronze medal winners were: North Capital - Miles Wood (U11 minus-30 kg), Shayla White (U13 minus-32 kg), Ian Kim (U13 minus-55 kg) and Shawn Young (veteran men minus-73 kg); Hart - Taylor Rowland (U15 minus-57 kg), Grace Northrop (U18 minus-52 kg) and Lavanna Laass (U18 minus-63 kg); Prince George - Lisa Russell (U18 minus-52 kg).
SOCCERAlthough they may still be in the offsea-
son, the UNBC Timberwolves have lined up pre-season dates in men’s soccer. The Timber-wolves’ 2013-14 campaign will be their second as a member of the Canada West Universities Athletic Association.
The 2013 men’s soccer pre-season schedule features five games in Quebec and Ontario, in addition to a doubleheader in Prince George against a former rival from the Canadian Col-leges Athletic Association.
The pre-season schedule begins with a road date at Sherbrooke University on Aug. 17. They’ll then play against McGill (Montreal), Montreal, Guelph and Carleton (Ottawa).
After returning home, the Timberwolves will host the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack of Kamloops in a doubleheader on Aug. 30 and 31. The WolfPack won bronze in the PacWest (Pacific Western Athletic Association) division of CCAA in 2012.
SWIMMINGThe Prince George Barracudas competed in
the World Championship long-course swim-ming trials in Victoria last week.
On the final day, the Barracudas finished 45th out of 109 clubs. In the end, Harrison Lagzdin set a club record in the 15- to 17-year-old boys’ 200m backstroke. His time of 2:09.99 topped a previous club mark of 2:12.19 he set in July 2012.
Other Barracudas who competed were Ster-ling King, Haley Black, Patricia Fortier, Harri-son Lagzdin, Danica Ludlow, Haley Black,
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Notice of the 68th Annual General Meeting
Monday, April 22, 2013Time: Meeting: 7:00PM, Supper: 5:45 PM
Location: Nechako Senior Citizens Friendship Center
To Consider: Review 2012 financial statement. Sales increased
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Directors recommendation of a patronage allocation of $8.9 million or 4.6% of 2012 purchases.
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Members of the Nak’azdli Chiefs and Prince George Hawks battle during the novice championship game at the Prince George Aboriginal Youth Hockey Championships at CN Centre on Sunday. The Chiefs won a thriller, edg-ing the Hawks 6-5 in overtime.
The Barracudas will be competing in their home pool this weekend, hosting the 2013 Dental Moose Meet from Friday to Sunday at the Aquatic Centre.
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You might find it unusual that I’d mention how busy April is.
After all, a week ago I mentioned how there’s very little happening.
On the Prince George sports front, there isn’t a lot of action. The weekend, highlighted by the gymnastics provincials at the Northern Sport Centre, was busier than the previous one. But overall, still relatively light.
But there’s a lot more than just sports going on. And a ton of sig-nificant sports action outside of this city.
With the local sports slowdown,
I’ve taken initiative to start cover-ing news. Each year, my reporting duties are primarily sports related
(Note: To this point, the most news-related content you’ve seen from me is in our Northern Report sup-plements).
That’s going to change, and I’ve made
a point of chipping in other areas. Aside from the odd major events on weekends, the Prince George sports beat is relatively light from now until late August. On top of that, it’s over these months that much of our holiday time in the Free Press editorial department gets
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used up. When would be a better opportunity to expand my horizons more?
On Thursday, I attended the Council of Forest Industries luncheon. I didn’t only listen to NDP leader Adrian Dix’s speech. I went in on a media scrum with him afterwards.
The luncheon interested me for a few reasons (the media pass gave me a free meal, but that’s not one of the points). First off, the next provin-cial election is only a month away. Naturally, I’m interested in what our would-be premier has to say regarding the state of an industry so crucial to B.C. Secondly, I’ve followed the industry many years myself (I even worked directly in forestry when I was younger, on the clean-up crew at the old Rustad Bros. sawmill).
Finally, as a part-time business student at CNC, the luncheon gave me an opportunity to do a bit of networking with other students.
No, I didn’t ask Dix sports-related questions.
COMEBACK Question: What’s more disappointing in a
best-of-seven series, getting swept 4-0 or losing 4-3 after taking a 4-0 lead?
Of course, I’m referring to the Saskatoon Blades and Seattle Thunderbirds, both elimi-nated in the first round of the WHL playoffs.
Sorry, it’s an easy answer. The Blades have to be more disappointed than the Thunderbirds.
Saskatoon bolstered its roster since they get an automatic berth to this year’s MasterCard Memorial Cup (May 16 to 26) as the host team. They were the second-seeded team in the East-ern Conference and even had an 18-game win-ning streak this past season.
The Thunderbirds were also in a No. 2 vs. No. 7 battle. But they were the lower-seeded team against the Kelowna Rockets.
The Rockets may have been a little banged up. But they were still the favourites and while four losses in a row is ugly, you can also look at it this way: the Thunderbirds were the underdogs and really struggled during the regular season. They took the Rockets to overtime five times that series.
OH, CANADAFirst off, I’ll point out the obvious. It’s a short-
ened season and not one of the NHL’s 30 teams has been mathematically eliminated.
Furthermore, the vast majority of teams are either holding down playoff spots or are well in the race.
In a season this short (48 games for each team), we only expected a few teams to be out of the playoff race with two and a half weeks remaining.
Regardless, it’s exciting for fans this side of the border that six of the seven Canadian teams are either holding down playoff positions or within striking distance of a spot.
As of Sunday, only the Western Conference’s Calgary Flames (13-20-4) were out of the playoff picture. In the Eastern Conference, the Mon-treal Canadiens (second, 25-8-5), Toronto Maple Leafs (fifth, 21-13-4) and Ottawa Senators (sixth, 19-12-6) were holding down spots. The Winni-peg Jets (19-19-2) were in ninth. But they were only two points back in a couple of races, the race for the eighth and final playoff spot and the battle for the Southeast Division title.
Also in the West, the Vancouver Canucks (21-11-6) were in third, while the Edmonton Oil-ers (16-15-7) were in 10th, four points behind the eighth-place Detroit Red Wings (19-15-5).
BCHL FINALThe B.C. Hockey League best-of-seven cham-
pionship series gets underway on Friday at the South Surrey arena.
The Coastal Conference’s Surrey Eagles get home ice advantage in the set. The Interior Conference representatives are the defending national champions, the Penticton Vees.
League realignment resulted in a new playoff format this year. While eight of 10 Coastal teams advanced to the playoffs, four of six Interior teams qualified.
Both teams took much different paths to get here. Surrey needed to oust Langley and Chilli-wack in best-of-five sets before defeating the Alberni Valley Bulldogs in the best-of-seven conference final. The Vees won a pair of best-of-seven series, downing the Salmon Arm Silver-Backs before topping the West Kelowna War-riors in the Interior final.
Both teams have cruised to the final. Surrey has 10 wins and one loss, while Penticton has eight wins and an overtime defeat. Penticton enjoyed a 10-day break after the first round ended since the Coastal best-of-five semifinals had to end before conference finals. With that long break a thing of the past, it’s unlikely to make a difference.
Free Press prediction: Eagles in six.Follow Alistair McInnis on Twitter (@AlMcInnis).
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They hit the gridiron for their first home game in 39 days.
But the wait for their inaugural B.C. Foot-ball Conference Tier 2 season ends this week-end. The Prince George Northern Eagles will take flight on Sunday at Richmond, open-ing a six-game regular season schedule that begins with four road games.
“This is awesome how we actually finally have a football team in Prince George that we can travel and can come out to watch,” Eagles defensive back Kayle Thomas says.
The BCFC Tier 2 division is a four-team loop rounded out with North Delta and South Delta. While North Delta and Richmond are returning teams, South Delta also enters its first season. The league also had four teams in 2012. Burnaby and Vancou-ver rounded out the circuit.
North Delta enters this season as the defending champions.
The three Lower Mainland teams play in a more heavily populated region, and benefit from a longer field-sports season. But one of the coaches on the Eagles coaching staff believes the geo-graphically challenged team can compete.
Ryan Bellamy doesn’t believe finish-ing with at least a .500 winning percentage is a stretch. He says they carry depth and experience, a portion of their lineup being players who have suited up in the Tier 1 B.C. Football Confer-ence in the summer.
Staying healthy will be a key, and taking care of both sides of the ball.
“You’ll learn some of it on the fly as to where the calibre and competition is,” Bel-lamy says.
The Eagles have been carrying about 30 players in the lineup during pre-season workouts. Bellamy expects more talent to join, and they plan to set a capacity of 45 on their roster.
The Eagles have been making use of the Northern Sport Centre fieldhouse to prepare.
“We’re definitely off to a good start, our numbers have been
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good, lots of commit-ment out of guys,” Bellamy says. “We’re getting a lot of sup-port in the commu-nity right now which has been good to help things really get off the ground and get started.”
Fellow Eagles defen-sive back Kieran Muir is also looking forward to starting the season.
“I think it’s great because it’s a warm-up to whatever junior team that I decide to play on, or if I get on the junior team or whatever,” he says. “It’s a warm-up for those tryouts too so it’s really good. I get game ready and I can also work out.”
NOTES:Schedule – The
Eagles’ home games will unfold next month, on May 19 (against North Delta) and 26 (against South Delta). The contests will take place at Masich Place Stadium, each game set to begin at 11 a.m.
Bellamy says they will charge a minimal ticket price for their home games, money that will offset some of the expenses.
After the league begins its season on Sunday, the teams will have a bye on April 21. Other road games for the Eagles are set for April 28 (versus South Delta), May 5 (versus North Delta) and May 12 (versus Richmond). Each road contest is slated to be held at Minoru Park in Richmond.
Each team will advance to the play-offs, with semifinals on June 2 and the championship game on June 16.
Playing an uneven regular-season sched-ule with more road games isn’t ideal. Bel-lamy points out that the longer winter sea-son in Prince George, field unavailability
and geography were contributing factors.
“There were obvi-ously some allowances we had to make to get into the league for the first year, but it’ll be a 50/50 schedule next time,” he says.
Senior Bowl – Thomas and Muir were among a group of players from the city who suited up for Team East in this year’s BC Senior Bowl.
The Senior Bowl is a week-long event for Grade 12 players that begins with a camp and ends with an all-star game. It’s held during high school
spring break in March. Team West (Lower Mainland and Vancou-ver Island) defeated Team East (Fraser Val-ley and Interior) by a 45-13 score.
The experience was valuable for Thomas and Muir, College Heights graduating students interested in playing in the BCFC this summer.
“It was just awe-some having the BC Lions coach us and the coaching was really good down there,” Muir says. “I feel like I’m a better player than what I was before. It was nice to see how
I stack up against the Lower Mainland too so that was nice.”
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If you are a qualifi ed journeyman technician or a 3rd or 4th year apprentice and are looking for work near your family and friends then you should call us. Your duties would include maintaining and repairing forklifts, docks, cranes as well as other material handling equipment. Heavy mechanical, automotive or forklift related experience would be an asset as well as customer service and interpersonal skills. This job requires the candidate to possess and maintain a valid B.C. driver’s license.
Masonlift is the provinces leading provider of material handling solutions and we take that role very seriously. We offer in house and manufacturer sponsored education and training to help you remain the top in your fi eld. We also offer competitive wages, comprehensive health and dental benefi ts and a company matched RRSP program. If you are interested in joining us please submit your resume to Doug Gale at [email protected] or fax it to (250)562-8488.
For more information about mason lift visit www.masonlift.com.
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Quesnel Industrial Transportation
Quesnel Industrial Transportation is expanding operations. We have been in operations for over 20 years. Our main focus of business is Log Transportation, Low Bedding and Deck Hauling. We have a very strong and stable customer base, dealing with some of the largest Corporations in Canada.
We are hiring professional drivers to fill the following openings.• 3 Log Transport Drivers for short log configuration.
Usually 11 months of the year employment.• 2 Highway Deck Drivers, year round work, Super B and
Tridem Deck work in BC and AB. Must be able to handle off highway roads and conditions.
• 1 Local Driver for our summer and fall seedling season. Reefer Van Work.
Drivers must have a valid class 1 license, clean abstract and a professional appearance and work ethic.
Competitive wage and benefits package. Must speak fluent English.
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If you are a motivated individual, passionate about helping women, willing to work hard while having fun, then owning this business may be for you. We are selling the newly renovated and updated Curves fi tness centre due to the owner’s lingering health issues. We will negotiate a reasonable and affordable price for this well loved club with a person who shares a passion for improving women’s health.
Global fi tness franchise who provide support and advertisingFresh approach to personal health and effective weight loss Located in Prince George for over ten years
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2 AND 4 strk small engine mechanic. Chainsaws,lawn mowers,outboards. Wage negotiable, benefi ts aval.
PCL Constructors West-coast Inc. is seeking Car-penters and Carpenter Apprentices for the Lakes District Hospital and Health Centre in Burns Lake, B.C. Experi-ences in commercial concrete formwork sys-tems an asset. We will be seeking a few with OFA2 or OFA3, Skid Steer (Bobcat) and Rough Terrain Forklift (Zoom Boom) tickets with experience. WHMIS, CSTS09 and Fall Protec-tion training an asset.
CONCRETE FINISHERS and Form Setters. Edmonton based company seeks experi-enced concrete fi nishers and form setters for work in Ed-monton and Northern Alberta. Subsistence and accommoda-tions provided for out of town work; Fax 780-444-9165. [email protected]
Curry Kingdom Restaurant requires full time experienced cooks with min 2 yrs exp, spe-cializing in South Indian and Srilankan. $14.50 per hour.Plan meals & prep. Work with min supervision. Train staff in prep, cooking and handling of food. Speak & write Tamil and English Drop off resume to 1789 S. Nicholson St. between 10am - 9pm
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Help WantedEast Indian Cooks Wanted
Nijjer Food Ltd. dba Dana Mandi & Indian Restaurant a full service Indian restaurant located at 2095 - 5th Ave, Prince George, B.C. needs (4) Full time, permanent, ethnic Cooks specializing in Indian Cuisines and (1) sweet maker (Mithai). Job duties include menu design and planning, back cooking for banquets, special religious and commu-nity events, labour & food cost control, shift supervision and training of employees. Also re-sponsible for preparing orders for out of town deliveries. Mini-mum 3 years of experience. Knowledge of Hindi or Punjabi an asset. Salary $ 18/hr. Email resume to [email protected].
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PARTS PERSONWELL ESTABLISHED Hon-da / Bombardier dealership in the Southern Cariboo region is seeking a self - motivated individual to fi ll a parts person position. Min. 2 years parts / service exp. required, in addition to a strong interest in the motor sports industry.
Experienced in shingles, metal and torch-on systems. Wages based on experience and production. Must be re-liable.Fax resume to (250)639-9448 or phone 250-632-1433 or 250-639-9447
THAI Cleaning requires full or part time workers. Mail resume c/o Free Press Box 9, 1773 S Lyon St, PG, BC V2N 1T3
Of ce Support0499692 BC Ltd. o/a Subway Restaurants req’s a full time OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR$21.50/hour, 40 hour/week.Mail resumes to: Suite 208, 715 Victoria St. Prince George, BC V2L 2K5 or email to:[email protected]
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LOUISIANA-PACIFIC Canada Ltd. requires an experienced Journeyman Electrician for our EWP Operation in Golden BC. Email resume to: [email protected] or fax to 250-344-8859.
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WEDNESDAYArtists’ Retreat,
April 10, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Domano Renewal Centre. Information: 250-964-4475 or e-mail reception@domano–renewalcentre.org.
PG Fibre Arts Guild meets, April 10. 7 p.m. upstairs at 2880 15th Ave. Information: Ruth 250-564-8482.
Canadian Federation of University Women meets, April 17, 7 p.m., Magnolia Gardens, 2055 Ingledew St. Information: Donna 250-561-0835 or e-mail [email protected].
Whist, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., Senior Activity Centre, 425 Brunswick St.
Wing night and karaoke, Wednesdays, 6-10 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion.
Army Cadet Rangers free youth program, meets Wednesdays, 6:0-9:30 p.m., Connaught Youth Centre. Information: Sondra 250-963-9462 or Andrew 250-981-8270.
A Butler’s Market, Sundays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., 1156 Fourth Ave.
Meat draw, Royal Canadian Legion, 3-5 p.m., sponsored by Peace Keepers Proceeds to Alzheimer and MS societies and others.
MONDAYTai Chi, Mondays,
1:30 p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.
Northern Twister Square Dance Club meets Mondays, 7 p.m., Knox United Church basement. Information: Gys 250- 563-4828 or Reta 250-962-2740.
TUESDAYBridge, Tuesdays, 1
p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.
Buddhist meditation class, Tuesdays, 7:15-8:45 p.m., 320 Vancouver St. Information: 250-962-6876 or www.tilopa.org.
Spruce Capital Toastmasters meet Tuesdays, 7:25 p.m., 102-1566 7th Ave. Information: Tom 250-562-3402.
Sweet Adelines women’s four-part chorus meets Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., Studio 2880. New members welcome. Information: Kathleen 250-563-2975.
Hospital retirees meeting, first Tuesday of the month, 9 a.m., Prince George Golf Club. Information 250-563-7497 or 250-563-2885.
SUPPORT GROUPSPrince George
ATV Club meets third Tuesday of month, 7 p.m. Carmel Restaurant meeting room. Information: George 250-964-7907.
Prince George Healing Rooms - Are you hurting? Do you have health issues? Confidential prayers Monday noon-2 p.m. and 7-9 p.m No appointment necessary, located in the Prince George Pentecostal Church, 497 Ospika Blvd. Information: 250-617-9653.
Parents Together, a mutual/self-help support group for parents of teens, meets Mondays, 7:30 p.m., Intersect (basement entrance). Information: Carmen 250-562-6639.
Tuesday night Tops (take off pounds sensibly) 6:15-7:15 p.m. weigh in, 7:30-8:30 meeting.
Everyone welcome. Information: Marvene 250-962-8001 or 250-612-2031.
DivorceCare, a support group for persons going through a separation or divorce. To find out if this group is for you, call 250-564-6213. Group meets at Artspace, Room 202, Sundays at 5 p.m. Call about childcare.
Prince George Healing Rooms - Are you hurting? Do you have health issues? Confidential prayers Wednesday noon-2 p.m, All Nations Church, 1395 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-617-9653.
COPD support group meets Wednesday, 1 p.m., AiMHi. Information: Nancy 250-561-1393.
Heartbeat, a group for mutual support of those who have lost a loved one through suicide, meets monthly at CMHA office. Information: Sandy 250-960-9047.
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Iris House We have a need for a volunteer to do some baking for our residents on a weekly basis at 1111 Lethbridge St.
Frankie or Jodi 250-649-7245
Heart & Stroke Foundation Looking for an office volunteer to help with the Schools program and admin support. Contact Suzanne or Rachel. [email protected] 250-562-8611
Parent Support Services (M.O.M.S), Mothers of Many
Strengths Parent Support Circle. A place for moms to get together and
talk about parenting issues, ind support and meet other moms.
Lola-Dawn Fennell, left, and Ginny Parsons of the Prince George Council of Seniors, accept a $1,000 donation from Donna MacDonald, CNC practical nursing instructor, and practical nursing students Chrysta Deaton, Ashley Smaaslet and Katrina Noda. The money was raised at a pair of bake sale, and will be used to help seniors purchase dentures.
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Prince George poet Al Rempel reads the title piece from his latest book of poems, This Isn’t the Apocalypse We Hoped For. Rempel read and chatted with a crowd of about 50 people at Artspace on Friday evening.
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Black Tie and Blue Jeans – Saturday.
Some of the visitors at Pine Centre Mall on the weekend only wanted to look at the static display of remote-control aircraft and helicopters, while others wanted more information from the members of the Prince George Aeromodelers who were holding the display and membership drive.
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