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A number of programs at the College of New Caledonia may not be taking in new students, as the school attempts to fi nd ways to balance its budget now and in the future.
“Th ere are no programs being cut,” president Henry Resier said, “but there are some program intakes being suspended.”
Th e programs being looked at are dental pro-grams as well as the Aboriginal Early Childhood Education (AECE) program. Reiser says the moti-vation for each is diff erent.
“For AECE, it’s a question of low enrolment. Th e numbers just aren’t there.
“For the dental programs, it’s more fi nancial. Th ey are well-established and they have a positive impact on the community. Th e costs to deliver the programs, though, are prohibitive.”
Th e college was facing a $2.8 million shortfall when it started the budget process for the 2015-6 school year, and Reiser says, “we’re almost there.”
“We’re dividing it three ways: students will make up just under one-third, faculty will make up just under one-third, and administration and opera-tional staff will have the remainder.”
Faculty Association president David Rourke says he knows some of the members will lose their jobs, but isn’t sure how many or who.
“My understanding is they are going to suspend the dental program, and discontinue the clini-cal counselling in Prince
George, Burns Lake and Quesnel. We estimate 20 to 25 people will be laid off .
“I can’t recall a year where we haven’t faced some form of layoff s.”
Under the collective agreement, faculty mem-bers have to receive their layoff notice by March 31 for the coming school year. However, a senior faculty member does have the opportunity to bump someone else.
“It might have a secondary eff ect wit the ses-sional or part-time faculty,” Rourke says. “It puts everything into a bit of a time crunch.”
Reiser said the suspension of intakes for the dental programs does not mean the end of the programs.
“We will be looking at ways to improve effi cien-cies in the programs. We will be looking at ways to recover costs by redeveloping the programs.
“We’re hoping to relaunch them as soon as pos-sible, but realistically it could be the 2016-17 year. Th e programs will have to re-accredited.”
Th e board has approved an increase in fees and tuition of two per cent for the coming year, the maximum increase they are allowed under provin-cial guidelines.
Th e budget for 2015-16 will be presented at the board meeting on March 27.
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Th e Prince George RCMP have re-covered the remains of Jordan Taylor McLeod and are calling his death a homicide.
McLeod was reported missing January 19. Police believe there is a link between McLeod’s disappear-ance and reports of shots fi red on Upper Fraser Road, near Highway 16, on January 16. On January 26 police announced that they were treating McLeod’s disappearance as a homicide, even though his body had not been found.
On Sunday February 22, hu-man remains were found by a man walking a dog off the Kaykay Forest Service Road, past the end of Nukko Lake Road, northwest of the City of Prince George. At that time police declined to make any comment regarding the investigation, even
though the media was reporting that human remains had been found.
Following an autopsy, the remains have been confi rmed to be those of Jordan Taylor McLeod, who disap-peared from Prince George on Friday January 16.
Investigators are fully aware of individuals that have direct knowl-edge of this incident and are asking these people to do the right thing and come forward.
Anyone with information about this investigation, is asked to contact the Prince George RCMP at (250)561-3300 or anonymously contact Crime Stoppers at 1(800)222-8477, online atwww.pgcrimestoppers.bc.ca (English only), or Text-A-Tip to CRIMES (274637) using keyword “pgtips”. You do not have to reveal your identity to Crime Stoppers.
Prince George RCMP treating McLeod death as homicide
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Teresa MALLAM/Free PressCollege of New Caledonia English professor Peter Maides gets help cutting the 100th birthday celebration cake for Prince George from city councillors Terri McConnachie and Albert Koehler on Saturday – before the showing of Monsoon, one of eight movies chosen by Maides for the 19th annual Cinema CNC Film Festival.
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Is terrorism a threat in Canada?It’s a question Prince George-Peace River MP Bob
Zimmer put to RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson during a meeting of the Standing Committee on Pub-lic Safety and National Security this week. Th e briefi ng included the public viewing of the cellphone video made by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau prior to his attacks in Ottawa on October 22, 2014.
Here is the exchange:Zimmer: “It’s a little interesting being in the same room
where, just feet away, the person came through with guns blazing. It’s interesting to be in the same room, dealing with it on the other side. It’s appropriate, too, in a lot of ways, that we’re back.
“I just wanted to make a statement or question, on the basis of Canadians, what would you say: Is terrorism a present danger in Canadian society? What term would you use for it? For us, we want to keep our citizens safe, as you just said. We want to do the same, but we want to
live in a free society. I have kids and I want them to live a happy life, like most people and parents do. What would you say to Canadians today?”
Paulson: “What I do say to people is it’s a growing threat. People don’t need to be afraid, people need to be engaged. People need to be aware. I think that’s how I’d frame it.
“Make no mistake, it’s a growing presence, and it’s not only in Canada but in most of our partner countries, at a level that is challenging us all.”
Some have argued that the Conservatives are playing the “fear” card as the country heads into a federal election this fall. So, while pundits are opposed to Bill C-51, it seems Canadians don’t mind the bill.
According to an Angus Reid online poll 82 per cent of Canadians say they support the draft law, with fully one-quarter saying they “strongly” support C-51.
Support for some individual elements of the legislation is stronger than for the draft law as a whole. One-in-three
(36 per cent) respondents say the bill “does not go far enough.” Most Canadians (69 per cent) want additional oversight to ensure law enforcement’s powers aren’t abused.
Th e majority (63 per cent) also say they trust those agencies to access and use Canadians’ personal informa-tion only for anti-terrorism purposes and nothing else.
Overall, two-thirds (64 per cent) say they believe there is a serious threat of terrorism here in Canada, while one-third (36 per cent) say the threat has been overblown by politicians and the media. Th is sentiment is essentially unchanged from a November 2014 Angus Reid Institute survey that posed the same question.
Most Canadians (80 per cent) profess to having at least heard about the legislation, and four-in-fi ve respondents either strongly support (25 per cent) or support (57 per cent) Bill C-51. Opposition to the draft law stands at 17 per cent in total, with just fi ve per cent saying they are “strongly” against the legislation.
Could Stewart Phillip be a terrorist?Th e grand chief of the Union of British
Columbia Indian Chiefs feels that Bill C-51, the Conservative government’s anti-terror-ism bill, could sweep him up in its wide net.
“As an act of civil disobedience, I was arrested at Burnaby Mountain because I believe mega-projects, like Kinder Morgan and Enbridge pipelines, do not respect the indigenous laws and inherent author-ity of indigenous peoples to protect their territories, land and waters from the very real potential and increased risk of oil spills and increased coast tanker traffi c along our coast,” he said in a press release. “I believe under the draconian measures of Bill C-51, I would be identifi ed as a terrorist. Regard-less, I will continue to do what is necessary to defend the collective birthright of our grandchildren.”
Josh Paterson, executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association agrees that provisions in the new bill are far-reaching and a threat to democracy.
“It poses a real threat to people of colour, especially to Muslim Canadians, it poses a real threat to First Nations, and it poses a real threat to political activists of all stripes,” he told a gathering of about 75 people in
Prince George Tuesday night.
Paterson said the bill, being debated now in Ottawa, is a Conservative-favourite omnibus bill … contain-ing so many items it’s hard to understand how far-reaching it goes. He added, however, that the B.C. Civil Liberties Association is trying to fully understand the ramifi cation. What it has discovered so far, he said, isn’t good.
“It’s going to dramati-cally expand the powers of Canada’s national security agencies and violate the rights of Canadians,” he said. “All without making us demonstrably safer. Th ere is no justifi cation for these powers.”
So what exactly will change?
Firstly, it will broaden the powers of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and its cyber-security partner, Com-munications Security Establishment Canada.
Paterson said that when CSIS was cre-ated, it was created as a civilian agency with no real power to do anything other than spy.
Th e new bill states that CSIS will now be allowed to “take measures” to reduce threats to Canada, without defi ning what those measures are.
Secondly, Paterson said the new bill will make criminals out
of Canadians who have “promoted terror-ism,” but who never committed, nor plan to commit, an act of violence.
He said the defi nition of terrorism is so broad that it can include such things as interrupting or interfering with critical infrastructures. Th at could, he said, include things like blockades or demonstrations that block highways or rail lines or, perhaps, voicing support for action on the land on social media.
“So you don’t have to set out to actually blow something up or commit some kind of awful crime to, potentially, be considered a terrorist,” he said.
Th irdly, Paterson said the bill brings back a law that was fi rst enacted aft er 9-11, but which had expired, which gives police the power to detain people without charging them for up to seven days.
“It amounts to putting people in jail on the mere suspicion of being dangerous,” he said.
Another area of concern, Paterson said, is information sharing.
“It will gut provisions of the Privacy Act, which says that when you give your infor-mation to government, they can’t use it for another purpose,” he said.
An example, of course, would be govern-ment agencies, such as police, being able to access your medical and/or mental health records.
“Th is bill is really problematic,” Paterson said. “It is an unprecedented attack on the rights of the public.”
Th e public meeting was hosted by the Stand for the North Committee, which will be hosting other such meetings throughout the North.
“Th e federal government is creating a great deal of fear about terrorism,” Peter Ewart of the committee said.
“Fear can be a powerful thing. Indeed, fear is the icy breath and frozen terrain of the police state.”
Canada’s anti-terrorism bill‘A threat to democracy,’ B.C. Civil Liberties Assoc.Bill [email protected]
Bill PHILLIPS/Free PressB.C. Civil Liberties Association executive director Josh Patterson (left) and Peter Ewart of the Stand up for the North Committee discuss the ramifications of the federal government’s new anti-terrorism bill.
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placed on probation for 12 months, assessed a victim surcharge of $100 and prohibited from pos-sessing fi rearms for fi ve years.
In Provincial Court on Jan. 16:
John W. Keyler was found guilty of assault causing bodily harm and sentenced to 15 months in jail.
Joseph P. Flieger was found guilty of operating a motor vehicle while impaired, sentenced to 30 days in jail, placed on probation for one year, assessed a victim surcharge of $100 and prohibited from driving for two years. Flieger was also found guilty of assaulting a peace offi cer, sentenced to four months in jail, placed on proba-tion for one year and as-sessed a victim surcharge of $100. Flieger was also found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order, sentenced to 60 days in jail, placed on probation for one year and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.
Th erese I. Sam was found guilty of theft of property with a value less than $5,000, placed on probation for 12 months and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.
Mannie J. Wesley was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order and failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking or recognizance, sen-tenced to four days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.
In Provincial Court on Jan. 19:Erin K. Cogswell was found guilty of
three counts of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of traffi cking, sentenced to 138 days in jail, assessed a victim surcharge of $200 and prohibited from possessing fi rearms for 10 years. Cogswell was also found guilt of two counts of failing to comply with a condi-tion of an undertaking or recognizance, sentenced to time served of 30 days in jail, credited with 30 days served in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.
Rino Lagace was found guilty of unau-thorized possession of a weapon, fi ned $700 and assessed a victim surcharge of $105.
Christina L. Lewis was found guilty of two counts of possession of a controlled substance, received a conditional sentence of six months, placed on probation for six months and assessed a victim surcharge of $200.
Joseph S. Sackaney was found guilty of possession of child pornography and accessing child pornography, sentenced to
183 days in jail, placed on probation for three years and assessed a victim sur-charge of $200. Sackaney was also found guilty of two counts of failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking or re-cognizance, sentenced to time served of 30 days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.
In Provincial Court on Jan. 20:Robert R. Frazer was found guilty of
production of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of traffi cking, sentenced to eight months in jail, assessed a victim surcharge of $100, ordered to make resti-tution of $15,218.91 and prohibited from possessing fi rearms for 10 years.
Paul A. Combs was found guilty of criminal harassment, received a condi-tional sentence of six months and was placed on probation for six months.
Brendan R.C. Fediuk was found guilty of two counts of break and enter and sentenced to 75 days in jail. Fediuk was also found guilty of failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking, sentenced to 30 days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.
Raymond F. Th iff ault was found guilty of possession of stolen property with a value greater than $5,000, sentenced to 64 days in jail, placed on probation for two years and assessed a victim surcharge of $100. Th iff ault was also found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order and two counts of failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking or recog-
nizance, sentenced to 30 days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.
In Provincial Court on Jan. 21:Amberlynn L. Abraham was found
guilty of failing to comply with a proba-tion order and two counts of failing to comply with a condition of an undertak-ing or recognizance, sentenced to one day in jail, placed on probation for one year and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.
Gurtej S. Billing was found guilty of driving without due care and attention, fi ned $2,000, assessed a victim surcharge of $300 and placed on probation for 21 months.
Ian B. Clark was found guilty of making harassing telephone calls, sentenced to 95 days in jail, placed on probation for two years and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.
Paul C. Doxtator was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order, sentenced to time served of 16 days in jail and time credited of 16 days in jail, placed on probation for 24 months and assessed a victim surcharge of $100. Doxtator was also found guilty of a second count of failing to comply with a probation order, sentenced to one day in jail, placed on probation for 24 months and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.
Shannon Y. Froehlich was found guilty of failing to produce a valid driver’s licence when ordered to do so, fi ned $250, as-sessed a victim surcharge of $37.50 and placed on probation for one year.
James E. Joseph was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order, sentenced to nine days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.
James R. Purcell was found guilty of two counts of theft , sentenced to 84 days in jail, placed on proba-tion for two years and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.
Failing to comply gets jail timeIn Provincial Court on Jan. 14:David I. Willard was found guilty of theft of
property with a value less than $5,000, sentenced to six months in jail, placed on probation for two years and assessed a victim surcharge of $200.
In Provincial Court on Jan. 15:Zachary Burgart was found guilty of failing to
comply with a condition of an undertaking or re-cognizance, sentenced to time served of one day in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.
Clayton A. Middlemiss was found guilty of driv-ing while prohibited, fi ned $750, assessed a victim surcharge of $112.50 and prohibited from driving for 18 months. Middlemiss was also found guilty of failing to attend court when ordered to do so, fi ned $750 and assessed a victim surcharge of $112.50.
Richard S. Plasway was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order and fi ned $100.
Tara M. Lolly was found guilty of failing to com-ply with a condition of an undertaking or recogni-zance, sentenced to one day in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.
Jacob J. Vanderminne was found guilty of pos-session of a weapon for a dangerous purpose,
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WANTEDCrime Stoppers is asking the public’s assistance in locating the follow-ing person who is wanted on a British Columbia wide warrant. As of 0900hrs this 11th day of March 2015, Edward John DESJARLAIS (B: 1979-09-24) is wanted on a British Columbia wide warrant for ASSAULT x 2 & UTTERING THREATS. DESJARLAIS is described as a First Nations male, 180 cm or 5’11” tall and weighs 66 kg or 146 lbs. DESJARLAIS has black hair and brown eyes. DESJARLAIS should be considered violent.
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WANTEDCrime Stoppers is asking the public’s assistance in locating the following person who is wanted on a British Columbia wide warrant. As of 0900hrs this 11th day of March 2015, Garth Andrew Jordan LEE (B: 1991-12-24) is wanted on a British Columbia wide warrant for TRAFFICKING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES x 4 & POSSESS CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. LEE is described as a First Nations male, 188 cm or 6’2” tall and weighs 83 kg or 183 lbs. LEE has brown hair and brown eyes.
Crime Stoppers is asking the public’s assistance in locating the following person who is wanted on a British Columbia wide warrant. As of 0900hrs this 11th day of March 2015, Shaun Vijay Alexander RAEY (B: 1987-01-10) is wanted on a British Columbia wide warrant for THEFT UNDER $5000 & TRAFFICK-ING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. RAEY is described as an East Indian male, 183cm or 6’0” tall and weighs 75 kg or 166 lbs. RAEY has black hair and brown eyes. RAEY should be considered violent.
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Faculty at the University of Northern B.C. continued to walk the picket lines Th ursday, mark-ing one full week since the strike began.
Aft er a couple of days away from the bargaining table earlier in the week, the sides were scheduled to talk again on Th ursday.
Earlier this week, UNBC President Daniel Weeks posted a report on the school’s website, giving the administration’s view on the ongoing dispute.
In it he indicated the universi-ty was proposing wage increases of zero and one per cent in the fi rst two years of a deal, followed by 1.5 per cent increases in each of the next three years.
“For UNBC, this would be a cumulative increase of 5.5 per cent to faculty salaries,” the report said, “and comes aft er two
fi scal years when faculty wages increased by 2.5 per cent in each year.”
Th e report also notes the proposal is consistent with the provincial government’s Eco-nomic Stability Mandate.
Th e Faculty Association responded to the report by noting their own proposal was for a zero per cent general wage increase, instead calling for increases to the career develop-ment increments (CDI). Th e administration has agreed to increased CDIs, but would tie them to a review of career devel-opment, instead of being given on a fi xed basis.
Th e Faculty Association sees this as an attempt to make the CDI more of a merit-based increase.
“In truth, the employer’s pro-posal will destroy our compensa-
tion system rather than fi x it,” their response says, “by giving administration full discretion over the amount of our career development increases. Starting salaries for faculty tend to be much lower than other profes-sions. To compensate for the low starting salaries, typical univer-sity salary systems have regular annual CDI, that allow faculty a reasonable career salary.
“Th ese annual increments at UNBC are less than half the increments at almost every other university in the country.”
In response to the continuing job action, the university has cancelled all MBA classes sched-uled for this weekend at Langara and in Prince George. Course as-signment and assessments with deadlines of this weekend should be assumed to be postponed until the resolution of the strike.
UNBC faculty still out on strike, talks set
Basserman gets Freedom of the City
An appreciative and emotional Don Basserman became the lat-est Prince George resident to be conferred with the Freedom of the City honour.
“I’m so proud of this com-munity, especially over the past few weeks for the support and leadership that you showed the Canada Winter Games,” he said to about 700 people gathered for the annual civic dinner, cel-ebrating Prince George’s 100th birthday.
Bassermann is known as one of the biggest community boost-ers in the city, and a mainstay in leadership positions throughout his career. He is a past board member of Tourism Prince George, the 2015 Canada Winter Games Bid Committee, and the Two Rivers Gallery.
Basserman was a city coun-cillor, director at the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, a senior advisor and former chair of the Omineca Beetle Action Coalition, and a Prince George educator and school adminis-trator. Currently, he is a board member of the Barkerville Heri-tage Trust, and of the Northern Agricultural Initiative Advisory
Committee.Freedom of the City is a rare
honour. Only 12 other individu-als and one group have received the honour prior to Basserman: Cliff Dezell, Shirley Gratton, Anne Martin, Colin Kinsley, John Backhouse, Harold Mof-fatt, Garvin Dezell, Carrie Jane Gray, Pastor Lance Morgan, Ted Williams, Chief Justice J.O. Wilson, and Peter Wilson. Th e Rocky Mountain Rangers Royal
Canadian Army Cadet Corp. also received the award.
Mayor Lyn Hall announced at the dinner a logo to be used with city volunteer-related functions saying, “Th e Volunteer City – It’s in our Nature.”
Hall also thanked everyone who volunteered for the 2015 Canada Winter Games.
“For the past 100 years, volun-teers have built this community,” said Hall. “Th ey continue to rise
Bill PHILLIPS/Free PressPrince George Mayor Lyn Hall, Lheidli T’enneh Chief Dominic Frederick, and Coun. Murry Krause, chair of the city’s 100th anni-versary committee, cut the city’s birthday cake. The city was incorporated on March 6, 1915 and turns 100 years old today.
Happy birthday
up to give their talents, skills, energy and knowledge to make this city a great place to live,” Hall said.
Honoured at the dinner for their volunteer contributions were:
Outstanding Volunteer Award of Merit: Dan Rogers and Robin Draper.
Recreation and Culture Award of Merit: Linda Self, Andrea Fraser, Lisa Redpath, Betty Burbee.
Community Service Award: Pat
Culham, John Nieson, Kristi Francis, Bart Vanderlinde.
Youth of the Year: Emily O’Reilly.Honourable Mentions: Erica Haug-
land, Yalda Safaei.Th e City of Prince George also
awarded McInnis Lighting with the Heritage Places Award. Th e annual distinction is the City’s way of rec-ognizing places of signifi cance in the city’s history.
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Mike KELLETT/City of Prince GeorgeNew Freedom of the City recipient Don Basserman with fel-low recipients Cliff Dezell and Shirley Gratton.
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Lakeland inspection found little dust
A Prince George fi re prevention offi cer went through Lakeland Mills about a month before the April 23, 2012 explosion and fi re that destroyed the mill, killing two men and injuring 22 others.
It was the fi rst time Capt. Steve Feeney toured the mill with the knowledge that the fi ne dust in the air was an explosion hazard. It was only aft er the Babine Forest Products sawmill explosion and fi re in January of 2012 that Feeney became aware that the fi ne dust could explode.
“I knew it was a fi re hazard,” he told a six-man coroner’s jury looking into the deaths of Alan Little and Glenn Roche, who died as a result of the Lakeland blast.
However, on several previ-ous inspections dating back to 2010, he had noted “exces-sive build-up of combustible dust” on surfaces in the mill. He had also directed the com-pany to develop a policy for cleaning up the dust … which the fi re department did not receive prior to the blast.
Th e March trip to the mill for Feeney was a re-inspec-tion of a full inspection he had conducted November 29, 2011, fi ve months before the explosion.
Th e November inspection had identifi ed a number of minor items that needed to be addressed, such as burned out lights on exit signs, ensur-
ing fi re extinguishers were checked, and making sure exits were clear and fi re doors closed.
While the November in-spection had noted a build-up of dust, it had been addressed when he returned in March.
“Th e mill had been cleaned up,” he said. “Th ere was very little dust on that day.”
He added that he still pressed for the mill to de-velop a policy to deal with the build-up of dust.
In addition to developing a policy to deal with the dust, Feeney had been request-ing the mill to develop a fi re safety plan since he started inspecting the facility in 2010. A fi re safety plan, which would include evacuation plans and procedures for dealing with fi refi ghters when they arrived on scene in the case of an emergency, was
never developed, said Feeney.He said the mill was sup-
posed to be inspected by the fi re department once a year. According to reports pre-sented at the inquest, it was inspected in September 2010, followed by a re-inspection on November 29, 2010 and a second re-inspection January 27, 2011. A full inspection was again done on November 29, 2011, followed by the re-inspection in March of 2012.
While authorities in British Columbia may, or may not, have been aware of the hazard of fi ne dust being an explosive hazard, south of the border it’s been an issue for decades.
Prior to Feeney’s testimony Monday, the inquest jury was shown a video prepared by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board regarding the threat fi ne dust poses in industrial environments of all kinds,
from food products plants to rubber-producing plants to those producing pharma-ceutical supplies and wood production.
Research by the board indi-cated that between 1980 and 2005 in the United States fi ne dust caused 281 explosions and fi res in plants, killing 119 people and injuring 718.
It explained that in addition to the regular components for fi re – fuel, oxygen, and ignition – a dust explosion also requires dispersion and a confi ned space, usually present in industrial environ-ments.
Th e video suggested such catastrophes usually have two or more blasts. Th e fi rst one is oft en small, but it shakes the building and dislodges dust, which then becomes airborne and ignites in a second, more devastating blast.
Inquest hears dust had been cleaned up, but no firm policy in placeBill [email protected]
Free Press file photoThe Lakeland Mills sawmill was destroyed by an explosion and fire April 23, 2012. The coroner’s inquest into the deaths of Glenn Roche and Alan Little continues.
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It was a trip to the washroom that likely saved his life.
Wayne Cleghorn went to the basement washroom moments before the April 23, 2012 explosion and fi re that destroyed Lakeland Mills’ sawmill, killing Glenn Roche and Alan Little and injuring 22 others.
“It’s very likely he would not have sur-vived the blast if he had been in his booth,” Paul Orr, WorkSafeBC’s lead investigator, told a six-man coroner’s inquest into the disaster Tuesday.
Cleghorn was the slasher operator, which is directly above where WorkSafeBC believes the fi rst explosion originated.
Orr detailed the investigation, which included investigators from the B.C. Safety Authority, Lakeland Mills, the Prince George Fire Rescue Service, the United Steelworkers of America, and at least a couple of insurance companies and involved interviews of survivors.
Orr said their fi rst job was to determine the area where the blast originated and, from there, try and determine what sparked it.
“One of the fi rst targets was the large and small head rig areas,” he said. “Due to previous fi res (in that area), dust in the area, and Glenn Roche was in the area at the time of the blast.”
Th e head rig was ruled out as was the power distribution centre which, he said, was one of the dustiest areas, and the millwright shop. Inter-views of survivors helped immensely, he said, as it helped them determine the path of the blast.
One survivor, Joe Prince, who was on the main fl oor of the mill, said the blast came up from the basement. Others described feeling the wind of the explosion fi rst, which, Orr said, indicated a
defl agration … combustion across a surface at subsonic speeds. Others, farther away from the source, saw a fi reball heading towards them and managed to duck for cover.
Th e blast, he said, hit the millwright’s lunch-room in the basement, and blew all four occu-pants into the yard.
“Pressure came from down below, seeking to get to the fuel up top,” Orr said. “Th e area of origin was below the slasher deck where the 6P conveyor was located.”
Aft er determining that, he said, the job of the investigators was to determine what sparked the blast.
He said they examined the power distribution centre and while there was a lot of dust and it was not up to code, there was no evidence the blast originated there. Th ey examined lights, motors and switches, bearings and springs, but there was no evidence any of those items sparked the explo-sion. He added there was no evidence to suggest a static electricity charge, no evidence of any hot work, such as welding, going on at the time, and no indication anyone was smoking inside the mill.
Th e 6P conveyor was driven by a motor with a high-speed gear-reducer.
“Th e gear-reducer was in good shape,” Orr said. “But the fan had become disconnected off the main driveshaft and was lodged in a screen.”
He said the driveshaft would have continued to turn, heated up, and likely ignited dust in the air.
Electrician Donald Zwozdesky had earlier testi-fi ed that he had walked by the slasher area shortly
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Free Press File PhotoLakeland Mills shortly after the deadly explosion and fire that levelled the mill April 23, 2012.
before the explosion and did not hear, or smell, anything out of the ordinary.
“It was extremely noisy (with other equipment operating),” Orr said. “As soon as he walked by, it could have come off … it would take less than two minutes to reach 577
degrees Celsius.”Orr added the actual explosion
might not have occurred right at the gear-reducer, but in the dust-laden air above it.
Th e inquest, which started March 2, will continue for at least another week.
Tuition, daycare aimto end welfare woes
Single parents on social assistance will no longer lose their benefi ts when they go back to school, and will receive additional money for tuition, transporta-tion and child care to complete their studies under a program announced Wednesday by the B.C. govern-ment.
Starting in September, the full costs of child care will continue to be paid for a year aft er the comple-tion of skills training, and government-paid dental and other health benefi ts will also continue for a year to give people a chance to get back in the workforce.
Social Development Minister Michelle Stilwell said the program will cover training programs up to a year in length, calling it “one of the most signifi cant social program shift s this government has ever introduced.”
Children and Family Development Minister Stephanie Cadieux said her ministry will cover day-care for any of the 16,000 single parents on income or disability assistance who want to be trained to join the workforce.
“We know that child care costs can be in excess of $1,200 [a month], depending where they are in the province,” Cadieux said. “Sometimes it’s less. We’re just going to make sure that they’re covered.”
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Th is year’s convention will attract senior industry, service provider, customer, community leader and senior government decision makers.
“Th is year’s convention comes at a critical juncture in our his-tory,” said James Gorman, COFI President and CEO, in a press release. “By bringing together key decision makers from in-dustry and governments, we’ll be able to have the frank discus-sions we need to have about how
to improve the competitiveness of the industry, how to increase certainty on the land base, and how we can continue to build partnerships with local commu-nities to ensure a healthy, stable industry for decades to come.”
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• BioEconomy – Existing and Emerging Markets and Prod-ucts, with Trevor Stuthridge, Executive Vice-President with FP Innovations, West Fraser’s Rod Albers, and others.
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It may have been the stage portrayal of Marie Antoinette during Th eatre North West’s recent production of W.O. Mitchell’s Th e Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon that brought it all to mind.
Or perhaps it was a closed-session meeting of sweet-toothed council-lors at City Hall. No matter, the decree has gone out throughout this northern town with due pomp and circumstance:
Let them eat cake ... with royal icing and lots of calories. In honour of Prince George’s 100th anniversary (March 6) of its in-
corporation as a city, there was a cake cutting ceremony with esteemed dignitaries at City Hall on Friday.
Th e fanfare continued over the weekend at various venues including the Aquatic Centre, Cinema CNC Film Festival at PG Playhouse, Th e Exploration Place, FrancoFun Festival held at St. Mary’s Hall, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George and District Railway and Forestry Museum and at other places, by invitation only, such as the Civic Appreciation Dinner.
I thought of a way to have my cake, and eat it too, and also enjoy some dollar popcorn, dog tricks and a movie. So I went to see a Cinema CNC fi lm pick: Big News From Grand Rock directed by Daniel Perlmutter.
Th e story centres around a small-town newspaper on the verge of being sold and the misguided eff orts of its senior reporter/editor in trying to beef up advertising by coming up with some brilliant front-page stories. How Leonard Crane goes about fi nding his stories is the “colourful” and problematic part. If not for his rival and much bigger newspaper, Th e Citizen, his “borrowing” from old movie scripts may have gone undiscovered.
Ten minutes into the fi lm, I had to wonder if Perlmutter had held a porcelain china cup to the adjoining wall and overheard our Monday Free Press editorial meetings, listening to the groans over the city’s pot hole pundits and not hearing any rustle of hands going up for those wanting to cover the ladies’ auxiliary book sale.
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear Perlmutter has worked undercover as one of our hard-hitting, soft -hearted reporters.
Truth is stranger than fi ction, as they say.Th e fi lm was one of eight discovered and brought in for the 19th annual
Cinema CNC festival by English professor Peter Maides (whose little black and white dog Bergman, now 13 years old and a veteran movie buff , does roll-over tricks on stage, much to the delight of the audience, before the movie begins.)
So this is my pitch for Cinema CNC. It takes very little, per person, to support Cinema CNC and get to enjoy
some really good fi lms and as mentioned above, there’s always something for everybody in the line-up of chosen movies. Another one, Relative Happiness, took me back to my days in Kersley as a bed and breakfast operator.
Anyway, where else for the price of a single movie ticket, $8, do you get a chance at winning a white CNC t-shirt in the size of your choice or other goodies donated by local sponsors? Th ere won’t always be birthday cake but there will be cheap popcorn. And not even Whistler, Cannes or Sundance Film Festivals can boast of openers that include shorts, shirts and canine capers.
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You will likely hear that the media is over-blowing concerns about the Conservative government’s new anti-terror bill.
Well, the media does have, to use a sports cliché, some skin in the game.
If you are wondering why the media hate this bill (even Conservative apologist Na-than Geide has some concerns), it’s because history has shown that when police states
emerge, the media is fi rst to come under attack.
No one is sug-gesting that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is going to start rolling out death squads, but provisions in the new anti-terrorism bill will certainly make it easier for govern-ment to keep tabs
on what you are doing and it will make it easier for the authorities to put you in jail.
Wording of the bill is, likely intentionally, vague and open to interpretation, which is not what legislation should be.
It gives the CSIS powers to take “mea-sured” action to “reduce threats.” However, they aren’t defi ned. It gives government agencies the ability to share your personal information without your OK.
Th ere is a wonderful graphic going around on the Internet showing the number of Canadians killed by terrorism in the last 40 years or so and the number of indigenous women killed. It’s not hard to guess which number is astronomically larger than the other. And yes, Harper summarily dismissed the larger number and is ready to rip up the Charter of Rights and Freedoms for the other one.
It’s the politics of fear, pure and simple. And it’s dangerous.
As Josh Paterson of the B.C. Civil Liberties Asso-ciation stressed at the Stand up for the North Com-mittee meeting Tuesday, the Conservatives have yet to explain how any of the provisions in Bill C-51 will make anyone safer. And, they’ve asked.
No one is debating the fact that terrorism is be-coming more of an issue, here and abroad and that we have to deal with it. However, becoming a police state isn’t the answer. Eliminating our rights and freedoms in the name of protecting them is astound-ingly Orwellian.
Paterson had a good comment that when our way of life and our values come under attack, the fi rst thing the government should do is strive to protect
our freedoms, not eliminate them.Th ere was a good question at the meeting about
people saying that because they’re not doing any-thing wrong, why should they be worried?
I was reminded of the famous poem penned by Pastor Martin Niemoller:
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out –
Because I was not a Socialist.Th en they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did
not speak out –Because I was not a Trade Unionist.Th en they came for the Jews, and I did not speak
out –Because I was not a Jew.Th en they came for me – and there was no one left
to speak for me.”
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When the Babine Forest Products mill in Burns Lake exploded and burned in January of 2012, no one seemed to know how much
of an explosive hazard the fi ne dust from beetle-killed timber posed.
When the Lakeland Mills sawmill in Prince George exploded and burned three months later, we were becoming aware that it was a hazard but nothing really had changed.
During the inquest into the deaths of Glenn Roche and Alan Little, it has been referred to as an “emerging hazard.”
It is clear no one, from the B.C. Safety Authority, to WorkSafeBC, to the Prince George Fire Rescue Service, to mill management, to the union to the guys working on the fl oor, knew the danger.
Th e question isn’t whether they knew at the time, but, rather the question is ‘should’ someone have known.
Th e answer is yes.While the risk of beetle-killed dust being explo-
sive was specifi cally documented, the explosive nature of fi ne dust was well-documented.
Safety offi cials only needed to cast their eyes eastward to the Prairies where grain-handlers have known, for a long time, the explosive risk of dust in grain elevators.
Or they could have looked south.On Monday, the inquest jury was shown a
video prepared by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board regarding the threat fi ne dust poses in industrial environments of all kinds, from food products plants to rubber-producing plants to those produc-ing pharmaceutical supplies and wood production. Th e video documented one instance where alumi-num dust ignited, killing several people.
Research by the board indicated that between 1980 and 2005 in the United States fi ne dust caused 281 explosions and fi res in plants, killing 119 people and injuring 718. Since 2005, another 71 dust explosions have occurred.
South of the border it’s not ignorance of the risk that is causing the explosions, but rather a lack of legislation compelling companies to deal with it.
Here in B.C., it seems that none of the agencies mandated with ensuring safety were aware of the risk.
It’s even more astounding to learn that parts of the B.C. Fire Code reference the U.S. National Fire Protection Association, which, according to U.S. Chemical Safety Board, outlines all the standards necessary to protect against fi ne dust explosions.
Should someone in British Columbia have known about the risk? Absolutely.
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Hopefully by the time you are reading this, the strike at UNBC will be over. Th e faculty association at the university will have reached a deal and students and their professors will be rushing about to complete their year.
While there is the occasional remark about where pay rates are, those remarks are more occasioned by lack of knowledge and comparing apples to oranges.
Th ere are hundreds of reasons why individuals choose to follow the academic life. Large motivators are a passion and a skill to further our knowledge in a given fi eld. Shortly behind is the desire to teach others by sharing knowledge and expertise.
Most academics pay a price to take up the chal-lenge of the academic life. Th ere is a decade or so of study in a given fi eld to acquire the requisite knowl-edge. Th at is followed by a constant and time-con-suming job of staying current in their chosen fi eld.
Along with the cost of tuition, books, travel, living expenses expended over those years, there is the income they forgo by not earning income while they are immersed in their studies. Th e material sacrifi ce they make to further their knowledge is consider-able.
When compared to fi elds of study which have direct applications, such as medicine, dentistry, law, engineering and others professions, the fi nancial catch-up time is many years.
Not infrequently, some in the academic world will never catch up with the lifetime earnings they would have enjoyed if they applied their knowledge in a private capacity. We have a strange set of values when we are cheap in rewarding people for their hard work but accept the millions of dollars showered upon the lucky combination of DNA, the NHL star.
Universities and their professors do more than impart knowl-edge which can take the student to graduation and a good
job. Th ey also teach the students to think. Th e skills we will be looking for in the future are the ability to observe, learn and in-corporate new knowledge. We only have to take a quick glance at the world around us to appreciate how rapidly things change. We can greet and assimilate change or pull the covers over our head and shiver in the dark.
Th e future will belong to those who can augment and ma-nipulate their knowledge and skill base to meet new circum-stances. A university, with its opportunities to learn, discuss, defend and speculate, provides the most important environ-
ment for individuals of the future.Th e blame for the strike must rest at the feet of
the governance of the university. Successive board members subscribe to the viewpoint that a degree represents a measurable level of training attained by the individual. Th ey derive comfort from that which they can quantify and retreat from those more subjective qualities the institution should espouse. Th ey have it backwards.
Th e continual eff ort to run the university as a business has created the current situation. Th at is not to say that fi nancial prudence should be ignored. We all should strive to get the best value we can for the dollars we spend. Th e question that terrifi es governance bodies is the fact that not all
value can be stated in dollars and cents. A well-developed intel-lectual capacity has more of a future value than a present day specifi c value.
Th e tendency to treat the university as a business has led to the faculty to now participate in an industrial-style union. It is a poor vehicle for the academic world, but past management practices have left them few alternatives.
We can but hope that the university return to normal soon. Its uninterrupted provision of knowledge and intellectual fl ex-ibility is important to the present and vital to our future.
ONSIDEVICBOWMAN
University not a business
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Editor:I am a person living with a disability. For more than three years
I have found worthwhile employment at a local non-profi t that served as a social enterprise and employed people with various disabilities. Unfortunately, last week I, and the rest of the staff , received our lay-off notices. Sadly our contract was not renewed, which means the end of a great company that has been a part of the community for many years.
I am obviously going through a very stressful time right now. My disability income is not enough to pay for both rent and food, unfortunately. I have already begun to look for suitable employ-ment elsewhere. I may have a disability, but I am still very capable and employable, and I know that I would make a wonderful addi-
tion to any company. I realize that looking for a job and keeping it can be hard for anyone, not just those with disabilities.
I do know that there are many resources in Prince George that can assist me through such a diffi cult time. It has been very stressful trying to fi nd information and navigate some of them, though. I realize that my situation could be much worse, and I am working very hard to make sure that that doesn’t happen. A lot of people have been helping me out, and for that I am very grateful. I just wanted to tell them thanks for everything. I know that with their help I will be able to survive all of the change and uncertainty that lies ahead.
Danielle BastienPrince George
I listen to the radio a lot, especially early in the morning when I’m the only one in the offi ce.
I switch between a few diff erent stations, de-pending on my mood, but one thing I always like is the occasional unintentional linking of songs in a set.
I say “unintentional”, because at almost all commercial stations these days, the play lists are set by a computer, and the host has very little to do with what songs are being played on their show.
I sometimes amuse myself (which isn’t hard to do) by thinking up sets of three songs which all have something in common.
I don’t mean playing three songs in a row by the Beatles or by Elvis Presley.
I mean looking for a link that’s a little dif-ferent.
It doesn’t have to be totally obscure, such as fi nding three sings which all have a com-mon series of notes in the bridge between the third and fourth verses.
I mean songs like Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon), Werewolf (Five Man Electri-cal Band) and Monster Mash (Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett), which all have (surprise, surprise) werewolves featured.
It could be a set with Photograph (Ringo Starr), My Sweet Lord (George Harrison) and Mull of Kintyre (Wings), which all feature ex-Beatles.
It could be a series of songs written by well-known songwriters, but turned into hits by other artists. I’m thinking of songs like Crazy (sung by Patsy Cline, written by Willie Nelson), RESPECT (sung by Aretha Franklin, written by Otis Redding) and A World Without Love (sung by Peter and Gordon, written by Lennon and McCartney).
It could be Unchained Melody (Th e Righteous Brothers), Chain of Fools (Aretha Franklin) and Chains (Patty Loveless). See if you can fi gure out the ‘link’ there on your own.
It can be fun to hear two songs that sort of fi t together in a set on the radio, and then try to think of what third song you could have played there.
It can also drive you a little bit crazy when you think of a couple of songs with a good link, but can’t think of the third one, even though you know there has to be one.
• Here’s an idea for tomorrow (Saturday). Go out for a late supper, and make sure you leave room for dessert.
Th en, order a piece of pie for dessert, and make sure you take the fi rst bite at 9:26 p.m.
If you want to be even more precise, take that fi rst bite at 9:26:53 p.m.
Congratulations, you have just celebrated Pi Day in the best way possible. Pi Day occurs ev-ery year on March 14, which can be written 3/14, the fi rst three digits of the mathematical constant pi. Tomorrow, being March 14, 2015, gives the chance to take things even further.
ALLAN’S AMBLINGSALLANWISHART
Thinking upa three-songplaylist
Surviving changes
It’s encouraging that a court challenge against Canada Post’s decision to eventually discontinue home delivery of mail is still proceeding, and is picking up more and more support from municipalities across the country.
Th e court action was fi led Nov. 4 by the Canadian Union of Postal Work-ers (CUPW) and is supported by groups representing the elderly and the disabled. Th e suit contends that discontinuation of home mail delivery altogether violates the rights of the elderly and the disabled under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, says a CUPW release issued Nov. 26.
Late last month a committee of mayors and councillors from Montreal district municipalities – la Commission sur le developpement social and diversite mon-trealaise – urged the City of Montreal to say no to replacement of home delivery with community mailboxes, according to a CBC News story Feb. 22. Th e com-mittee criticized Canada Post for lacking transparency and pushing through its plan to replace home-delivery service without properly consulting municipalities and their residents.
Resistance to the phase-out of home delivery was evident at a town hall meeting
last Friday in Windsor district community of Tecumseh, Ont. “Th ere’s no doubt about it, this (community mail box plan) is an ex-ercise in a lack of common sense,” Windsor West MP Brian Masse said to loud applause from a crowd of about 140 people, reporter Derek Spalding wrote in the Star article.
Canada is the only G8 country whose post offi ce is ending home mail delivery.
For the third quarter ending Sept. 27, the Canada Post Group of Companies reported a profi t before tax of $35 million, compared to a loss before tax of $109 million for the same period in 2013.
For the fi rst three quarters of 2014, the Canada Post group recorded a profi t before tax of $84 million compared to a loss of $134 million in the fi rst three quarters of 2013, according to the Canada Post Corporation 2014 Th ird Quarter Financial Report.
Denis Lemelin, CUPW national presi-dent, commented in November that the profi ts indicated Canada Post didn’t need to implement its dramatic action plan.
“At this point, it’s obvious that these cuts are based on attacking public services, rather than the facts,” Lemelin said in the CUPW release. “Our post offi ce has been profi table for the vast majority of the last 20 years and continues to be profi table. We need to stay headed in the right direction, not cut back on a good service.”
During the 1980s letter carriers in
Medicine Hat had a program to look in on elderly people who appeared to be expe-riencing unexpected health problems or hadn’t picked up their mail from previous days. One hopes that program continues.
Th e establishment of postal savings banks to serve low-income people and resi-dents of small communities could be a way to generate additional revenue for Canada Post, CUPW offi cials said at the union’s postal banking symposium last April 26-27.
Conservatism used to mean maintaining the social fabric of a country and ensuring the continuity of national and commu-nity institutions that bind us together. It is increasingly obvious, aft er its damagingly deep cuts to traditionally essential govern-ment services, that current neo-conserva-tism is a sharp departure from this under-standing of conservatism.
People who vote for present-day neo-conservatives and neo-liberals and their relentless downsizing and cutbacks are oft en members of the business and corpo-rate community who like to use the phrase, “think outside the box.”
However, this is precisely what they are not doing when they are blandly accept-ing of the current Canada Post Corpora-tion leadership’s destructive cuts to postal services and do not bother to consider new or expanded functions that Canada Post could assume, to its future profi tability and everyone’s benefi t.
Paul StricklandSpecial to the Free Press
Court challenge may help keep postal services
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annual FrancoFun Winter Festival.
The event is hosted by Le Cercle des
Canadiens Francais de Prince George.
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$250,000 towards skills training programs at the College of New Caledonia.
Th e funding will be allocated to bursaries for trades students, re-gion-wide safety training programs and implementation of the college’s Digital Delivery Initiative (DDI).
“We are very happy with this agreement with TransCanada which will help to make education and skills training more available to to communities across the region and to low-income learners,” said Henry Reiser, CNC president, “It’s through strategic partnerships like this one that we are able to off er relevant and valuable programming to our students and our communities.”
Th e Pathway to Pipeline Readi-ness Initiative will allot $55,000 in bursaries for trades students in fi nancial need. Th e qualifying students will be enrolled in Indus-try Training Authority recognized trades programs at CNC which align with TransCanada’s operations needs, including welding, power engineering, heavy duty mechanic, industrial mechanic and millwright, electrical, carpentry and profes-sional cook.
“TransCanada has a 60-year his-tory of investing in the communi-ties where we operate. We support initiatives that are important to the people who live and work in
those communities, including our own employees,” said Tony Palmer, TransCanada’s senior vice-president, stakeholder relations.
Of the funds, $45,000 will sponsor Safety Training Week, a series of in-dustry certifi cation courses through CNC Continuing Education. Th e program, which will be off ered at minimal cost for students, will run later this year at CNC’s campuses in Burns Lake, Fort St. James, Macken-zie, Vanderhoof and Prince George.
TransCanada’s donation will also support the design and implemen-tation of CNC’s Digital Delivery Initiative (DDI) through funding of $150,000. Th e funding will go to-ward educational planning as well as research and application of the DDI infrastructure and pilot delivery of programs and courses.
“Th rough discussions with local residents, community leaders, and Aboriginal groups, we have learned that investment in skills develop-ment and long-term education legacy programs are important to northern British Columbians,” Palmer said. “We are working diligently with northern educational institutions such as the College of New Caledonia to ensure residents are able to access training in the essentials skills and relevant trades needed to participate in pipeline and other development projects in northern B.C.”
TransCanada gives CNC skills training programs a boost
Two new grants have provided a solid fi nancial start to the 2015 Hudson’s Bay Wetland campaign.
B.C. Nature, parent association of the Prince George Naturalists Club, and the B.C. Naturalists Foundation have repeated their 2013 grant of $2,000, providing a further $2,000 towards informational signage and community liaison.
An unexpected grant of $2,500 was received via the Calgary Foundation. Th e anonymous source of the funding stated that it was “to help inspire the appreciation and understanding of this region’s natural wonders.”
Th e 2015 work on the wetland project has already begun, with three large information signs added this week. Signs on the new observation deck on the south side of the channel cover beaver, muskrat, and birds seen around water. Another sign on the nearby information kiosk in Fort George Park covers winter birdlife. Later in the year, another trail and observation deck will be constructed on the north side of the channel just east of Queensway Street. An earthen ramp will eventually link this new trail with Fort George Park, creating another universal-access nature loop.
Future plans for 2015 and aft er include fundraising for an accessible trail, footbridge, boardwalks, bird blinds, an observation tower and other features, covering both sides of the Wetland between Queensway Street and Norwood Street. Th is is the most ambitious part of the project, requiring substantial further funding and additional community liaison.
In 2013-14 the club received a total of $43,300 in grants from Pacifi c Salm-on Foundation, TD Friends of the Environment, TransCanada, BC Nature
Dominic Frederick will remain as Lheidli T’enneh chief.
He was re-elected to the position in band elections on Tuesday. Frederick was challenged by Louella Nome, Barry Seymour, and Jo-anne Berezanski.
Frederick will be joined on the band council by Louella Nome, who was re-elected to the posi-tion, Dolleen Logan, Vanessa West, and Shirley Wiltermuth.
Jennifer Pighin and Clarence John were not re-elected.
DOMINIC FREDERICK
Frederick re-elected as chief
Wetland campaign gets financial help/ BC Naturalists’ Foundation, and City of Prince George Social Development Fund. REAPS and BC Nature work with the
Club in applying for grants and providing charitable tax receipts. Th e Exploration Place provides in-kind support for Club presen-
tations and meetings. Substan-tially more than 1,000 hours of volunteer work have been put into the project to date.
Volunteer Lorita Woelbern sorts through donated books Saturday at the Hart Pioneer fundraiser garage sale. The event included a lunch and treasures galore for bargain hunters.
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Th e ninth annual Trav-elling World Community Film Festival runs March 25 to April 2. Festival passes are $30 available at Books and Company. Day passes are $5 at the door. Films each evening at various locations. Face-book PGTWCFF or pick up a schedule at Books and Company. Twenty-fi ve documentaries that will change your world are on the show list.
ECRA (Elder Citizen’s Recreation Association) Gospel Singers present A Shelter in Life’s Storms at ECRA centre on Saturday, March 28 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 29 at 2 p.m. Th e concert features vocalist Marie Moore accompanied by Glen Callieou on guitar and Synergy School Hand Bell Choir. Admission adults $10 per person, children fi ve to 12 years $5. Tickets are at ECRA offi ce and also at the door. Hard of hearing headsets will be available at the door.
Huble Homestead Historic Site has invited appraiser Ted Pappas back to Prince George Saturday and Sunday, March 28 and 29 at Th e Exploration Place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.
Bring your heirlooms, antiques and oddities and for $10 an item learn about your object, its value and other informa-tion. Furniture can also be appraised, just bring photos.
Learn how you can care and clean your valuables at home. Appraisal tickets at the door, fi rst come, fi rst served. For more in-formation contact Huble Homestead at 250-564-7033.
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Antoine back to roots of artMichael Antoine has returned
to his roots and his art.“I was so busy for so many
years with my daytime jobs – I worked as a roofer, carpenter and landscaper. And when I got home at the end of the day I was just too tired, physically, to get to my art,” he said. “For a long time, I left it alone. Now I have found time to come back to it.”
Antoine was one of the First Nations artisans at Aboriginal Days held at the College of New Caledonia on Wednesday.
He facilitated a workshop dur-ing the two-day event, teaching the basics of northwest coastal native art.
Arranged on a table there were exquisite examples of his work, pieces carved from birch in the shape of an eagle, otter, halibut, humming bird and loon and painted in traditional West Coast First Nations colours, red and black. A larger piece entitled Eagle Sun draws admirers from across the room.
Antoine completed his first painting during high school and he later apprenticed under master carver Ron Sebastian of Hazelton, B.C.
“I was taught to use just two colours (red and black) or three colours at most, but when I am instructing people in native art, they often want to use other colours so I let them try that,” he says. “In some of my carvings (such as in two small wooden boxes), I used turquoise.”
Antoine’s artwork has sold and been shown all over Brit-ish Columbia, the U.S., Great Britain and Germany. In his artist’s statement, Antoine says with each piece he completes and passes on to others, a part of his heart and spirit goes along with it.
That remains true to this day, he said.
“I like to put eagles in my art-work. There’s been times in my life where I’d see an eagle flying
above me and I think of it as be-ing up there as my spirit helper. I like to think of the eagle as my grandfather watching over me.”
Although it took years for him to carve out time to return to creating his art, Antoine says it has also meant a return to and fully embracing, and learning more about, his own heritage and culture.
“I go to sweat lodges regularly now and I’m learning traditional songs. And all of that goes into my art. Right now I’m choosing to surround myself with posi-tive people and I’m changing my lifestyle to further my art. I’m behind in computer technology, but I want to set up a website.”
Nothing is more important though, says Antoine, than re-connecting with his past.
“I am bringing my own cul-ture back into my art – and that is important, not just for me but for everybody who sees it and can learn from it,” he said.
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Teresa MALLAM/Free PressFirst Nations artist and carver Michael Antoine checks in with Reed Scales (left) and Scott Monroe, both of McBride, as they work on colouring in traditional motifs during Aboriginal Days at CNC on Wednesday.
Teresa MALLAM/Free PressClose-up of work being done on Wednesday by Reed Scales of McBride at an art activities station facilitated by artist Michael Antoine at Aboriginal Days hosted by the College of New Caledonia.
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beloved wilderness garden and live in Port Alberni.
Kadoski hopes to recapture her fascinat-ing life through theatre and song. Th e best way to do that, she said, was to actually experience the place Jordan called home for 65 years.
“Th e cabin she’d lived in [33 miles north of Tofi no] had fallen down in 1985 and when I was there from 2007 to 2010, I was living in a care-taker’s cabin that had been built nearby, in fact I could see the chimney of her old cabin from where I was,” said Ka-doski on Tuesday.
Th e land itself helped to tell the story, she said.
“I could see the hard day-to-day work that had gone on years before to clear the land and then, there were lots of reminders.
A bucket washed up on shore and I imagined she would have carried that with her to do her chores. All these things helped me build the character.”
Kadoski lives in Sooke, B.C. and she teaches voice, piano and guitar. Early on, she performed at music festivals, in choirs and in musical theatre. She was classically trained in voice (Royal Conserva-tory of Music.)
She also plays several instruments including piano, banjo, didgeri-doo, penny whistle, drum and harmonica.
She had a fi ve-piece band called Honeygirl and they played Celtic, folk, rock, pop, blue-grass and other music.
How much of Cougar Annie’s story is folklore, how much is true?
Amazingly, Kadoski says, historical refer-ences and documents she has found support the fact Jordan was one amazing woman.
“People are fascinated by her life as an early pioneer bounty hunter. It is true that by 1957, Cougar Annie had killed 62 cougars – aft er that the numbers may have been exaggerated but it is still remarkable.”
What has the audi-ence reaction to Cougar Annie Tales been so far?
“I’ve had people come up to me aft er the show who off ered me old
photographs they have of the area or the people who lived there and they have stories of their own to share. So my [theatri-cal] piece changes a little as I go along and as I add new things to it.”
Kadoski performs with projected backdrop of photos, letters and documents for historical context and there are props used on stage that add to the audience’s understanding of the setting, life and times of the main character.
Cougar Annie gets easier to portray over time, Kadoski says, but the little vignettes that connect minor charac-ters have taken time to bring together.
In the play she makes use of real-life letters be-tween Jordan and other people and she uses folk
ballads to help move the story along.
Th e important thing in doing the show is what it can teach us, says Kadoski.
“Being that it is a real -life story, I think it has the power to teach people about the power of creativity and believ-ing in yourself, against all odds. I think it also gives people a new con-text with which to look at their own things.”
Cougar Annie Tales comes to Artspace, above Books and Company, on Saturday, March 21. Doors open at 7 p.m. Th e play starts at 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets are $18 ($15 for students and seniors.).
For more information on the play or the artist/performer, visit www.katrinakadoski.com.
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Gabrielle Jacob of Prince George has been accepted into the 2015 National Youth Orchestra Canada.
Th e announcement was made in an NYO media release. A highly competi-tive audition process is used to make the selection from among the nearly 500 applicants. Th ose chosen become part of the 100-strong professional training orchestra for emerging artists.
Founded in 1960, the Orchestra was the creation of Maestro Walter Suss-kind and, according to the release, has since evolved into Canada’s foremost orchestral fi nishing school, providing the most comprehensive and in-depth
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NYO Canada is proud to host Canada’s only summer institute that off ers a comprehensive training program, concert tour and record-ing session to participants with no tuition required. With approximately one third of Canadian professional orchestral musicians listed as alumni, the NYO has been the most infl uen-tial step in the career of hundreds of young musicians.
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Living the life of Cougar Annie
From the moment she fi rst stepped onto the historical homestead of Ada Annie Jordan – later known as Cougar Annie – Katrina Kadoski felt inspired to write about her life.
Moving to the west coast of Vancou-ver Island, 33 miles north of Tofi no, in 2007, Kadoski spent almost three years walking in the same places as her heroine did a century ago.
She began writing songs and col-lecting information, locating photos, news clippings and letters. Th e result of fi ve years of research (she travelled to Manitoba and Alberta and visited
Jordan’s relatives) and creativity is Kadoski’s one-woman show, Cougar Annie Tales.
Th e show comes to Artspace on March 21.
Jordan had settled in the Clayoquot Sound coastal rainforest region in 1915 with her fi rst husband and three children. She cleared fi ve acres of land which became her garden. She grew her own food for her growing family (she had several more children with three more husbands).
But her claim to fame was the bounty she earned for shooting over 70 cougars in her lifetime – she also killed bears to protect her lifestock.
She died at age 97 aft er failing eyesight meant she had to leave her
Jacob selected for National Orchestra
Katrina Kadoski brings own pioneer experience to the stageTeresa [email protected]
Photo submittedKatrina Kadoski poses as her pioneer character “Cougar Annie.”
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The Wheelin’ Warriors of the North are on the road, and they’re stronger than ever.
“We have 46 riders as of Tuesday morning,” team orga-nizer Karin Piche said March 4. “My goal this year is 50.”
This will be the third year for the Wheelin’ Warriors to take part in the Ride to Con-quer Cancer, a two-day bike ride from Vancouver to Seattle to raise funds for the BC Can-cer Foundation.
The ride is later this year, and Piche hopes that will be a good thing.
“It’s at the end of August this time,” she says. “Last year, the weather was hor-rible. Headwinds, crosswinds, tailwinds, and raining. I think they’re trying to get away from that.”
Piches says about half those registered to ride so far have done the Ride before, but there are some new faces.
Glenn Lemon is one of those, although he had intended to ride in previous years.
“I always wanted to get involved, but two years ago I was in a motorcycle accident, and I had a stroke last June.”
One oft he biggest reasons he’s riding is the team leader.
“We knew each other since Grade 1. When we met up again years later and I found out what she was doing, I wanted to get in.”
His motivation for riding is a simple one.
“Cancer is a bully. My whole life, I’ve fought bullies.”
With previous experience in half-marathons and triathlons, Lemon isn’t overly concerned with the Ride itself.
“The physical part I don’t find as daunting as doing the fundraising.”
March 4, team members were in the atrium of the Uni-versity Hospital of Northern B.C. for a bake sale, something they do a couple of times a year. One of the other rookie riders on hand was Ron Gallo.
“I look at it as a personal challenge,” he said. “Cancer affects all of us in one way or another. I can do this for me, but I’m also doing it for a greater good.”
Kathy Northcott was with the Ride last year, although not on the Ride.
“I was a crew member last year,” she says. “I’m a breast cancer survivor, and I started paddling with the NorthBreast Passage Dragon Boat team in 2008. The Ride was something that looked like another way to help out.
“Being on the crew is a dif-ferent experience. You get the see what the riders do first-hand.”
The next major fundraiser for the Wheelin’ Warriors of the North will be a dinner and dance on May 2 at the Treasure Cove Show Lounge. Erik Dierks of the BC Cancer Foundation is scheduled to be the guest speaker.
For more information on the Wheelin’ Warriors, visit their Facebook page.
McLean brings wit and wisdom
Stuart McLean admits that the description of him as Canada’s favourite storyteller may be built on a bit of self-hype but as he pointed out Sunday, he was in good com-pany “in a room full of liars” at the CN Centre.
Aft er all, doesn’t everyone in Prince George say they live in the North – when a quick look at a map of B.C. tells us otherwise?
So he caught us in a little lie – but he found us in good humour.
We had fun, we laughed out loud, mostly at the telling of the hilarious antics of his favourite fi ctional char-acters but occasionally at ourselves.
Th e show was a mix of what we’ve come to expect from the Canadian icon in terms of stories. Even young fans in the audience, when asked by McLean to recall their favourite episodes, knew right away what to say.
Sunday was the fi rst time I’ve heard McLean perform live.
His CBC radio voice is clear and captivating and his stories around fi ctional but fascinating characters Dave and Morley and their off spring Sam and Stephanie, and assorted friends have captured the love and aff ection of a genera-tion of Canadians of all ages.
For me, one of the most endearing parts of the show was when McLean asked for the house lights to come up so that “regular folks” in the audience got a chance to shine.
Who’s the youngest person here? McLean asks. Several small hands go up in the audi-ence. Who is the oldest? A woman in her nineties stands up in the back of the arena. Th ey will get prizes from the merchandise table, he says.
In the format of his Vinyl Cafe show, McLean features talented musicians. Th e interludes provide breaks between stories
and on Sunday, where the show was being recorded, we were treated to the guitar stylings and songs of local artist Raghu Lokanathan.
He performed Caledonia while Pharis and Jason Romero of Likely, B.C. gave us three or four songs as well. As a trio, the singer-songwriters fi nished the show by giving us a guiding guitar rhythm for a crowd singalong.
During the show, McLean read aloud a story by Prince George photographer and philanthropist Vince Ramcharran, who wrote about growing up poor on a sugar cane plantation in British Guyana, South America. Th e story recounts how at Christmas, he would get to share slices of an imported B.C. golden apple with his
family and how he later emigrated to Vancouver and in the market saw the same apples – and fi nally knew where they’d come from.
Th at is the the magic of McLean. He makes the audience feel at
home and he reminds them of their roots. He engages them and makes them feel they matter to him.
In McLean’s opening monologue (where he says his age has two 6s), it is clear he (or his researchers) has done the homework and found out what’s unique about Prince George.
He knew that it was our 100th an-niversary and he congratulated us on the milestone – but he didn’t mince words when tracing our city’s early history and commenting on the shameful conduct with First Nations Lheidli T’enneh. He stumbled over the pronunciation, as most of us do when we fi rst try to say it.
In pointing out the good, the bad and the ugly, he showed, once again, why fans regard him as a beloved storyteller. He tells it like it is, or in the case of his fi ctional family, he tells it as it could be at its most hilarious.
Before Sunday, I had only heard McLean on CBC radio as the voice my mother loved to listen to as she
went about her multi-tasking life – bak-ing shortbread cookies, ironing my father’s shirts or sewing buttons on my sister’s cardigans.
So when he appeared live on stage with his wild hand-waves in the air, arm fl ap-ping, leg lift ing – and all the other exagger-ated body movements that accompany his tall tales, I literally saw another side to him.
He was no longer just a voice across the airwaves or well-written words on the pages of one of his books. He was real and three-dimensional. No one does it better when it comes to slice-of-life story telling than Stuart McLean – on the radio or in person.
Our enthusiastic applause was, yes, for recording purposes – but it was for real.
Wheelin’ Warriors numbers on the riseAllan [email protected]
For what it’s worth, I think Mr. McLean should keep his handle as Canada’s favourite story teller – so long as we in Prince George get to keep our image of living in the rugged North.
Teresa [email protected]
Jim VANDERPLOEG/Special to Free PressStuart McLean gets down to the business of story-telling at CN Centre on Sunday.
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Fabric-ating a unique style of art
Each piece is a unique object or character with its own story.
Vivian Martin works in an unusual medium. She creates one-of-a-kind fabric sculptures – hand-made works of art that vary from decora-tive drapings on bottles and boxes, to intricate jewelry and whimsical, three-dimensional fi gurines “frozen” in interesting poses that evoke all kinds of emotions.
Raised eyebrows, giggles and gasps are not uncommon among people who stop to admire and ask about her work.
“Th ey really seem to grab people’s attention and pique their curiosity,” said Martin. “Each one I make is unique and tells a diff erent story. I also do custom pieces with people telling me what it is they want for the piece and then I come up with a fabric sculpture that best tells their story. It’s a keepsake for them – a special memory. “
Martin always has new creations in the works, she says.
Some of her fascinating sculp-tures can be seen in her new exhibit entitled: upcycle.transform.create in the Feature Gallery at Studio 2880 until May 8.
Th e process of creating her pieces is much like seeing a butter-fl y emerge from a cocoon – Martin never knows for sure what to expect until the magical moment is re-vealed.
“I use recycled cloth or material and then I dip it in liquid fabric hardener. I prefer the colour brown but I’ve also used clear in my pieces. Once I’ve dipped it in the liquid I have about one hour to work with and manipulate it into the shape that I want. It really comes to life during this process.”
Two coats of fabric hardener are used, and once cured, a gold or silver powdered pigment is applied to highlight the piece, she said. Two coats of spar varnish are applied to help repel water and protect it.
Interestingly, each piece Martin creates comes with its own booklet that tells the sculpture’s “character” story, what inspired it, how it was made and how to care for it.
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Now that she’s created pieces for her exhibit, Martin says she’s focusing on fi nishing six legacy pieces for the Canada Winter Games with characters that include a torchbearer, downhill skier, squash player, curler and artistic gymnast.
She also creates what she calls “statement” pieces.
Her War Bride (in the exhibit) shows a woman in wedding dress and veil, looking out to sea as her new husband goes off to war. Th e sculpture is brown expect for one yellow ribbon placed there so the husband can fi nd her when he returns home from war. Its accompanying booklet includes a short history about the symbolism of the yel-
low ribbon.Another statement piece is
still in the cocoon stage.“It is of an elderly woman,
sitting at a sewing machine in a factory during the Industrial era. She has pink fabric in her ma-chine and there’s a long trail of pink fabric going onto the fl oor and it forms little pink ribbons shaped like the breast cancer ribbons [symbol of the Breast Cancer Society campaigns].”
In her custom orders, Mar-tin says she’s willing to tackle making just about any character people can “dream up.” One recent custom sculpture was of an artist painting with an easel in her hand, she said.
Filled with endless creative
ideas of her own, Martin says she’ll continue to enjoy making her fabric sculptures and ex-pressing herself in this unusual artform and medium for a long time to come.
“Eventually I’d like to teach students how to make fabric sculptures – once I feel I’ve re-ally mastered it myself,” she said.
Th e Community Arts Council presents Vivian Martin’s exhibit: upcycle.transform.create at the Feature Gallery, Studio 2880 un-til May 8. Th e gallery is located at 2880 15th Avenue. Anyone wanting an original or com-missioned fabric sculpture and keepsake can contact Martin at vivian-martin.artistwebsites.com or fi nd her on Facebook.
Teresa MALLAM/Free PressArtist Vivien Martin with her “yellow ribbon” statement piece, War Bride, one of several unique fabric sculptures on display in a new exhibit at Artists’ Feature Gallery at Studio 2880. The exhibit is on until May 8.
Th e 2015 Travelling World Community Film Festival runs March 25 to April 2.
On March 25 at 7 P.M. in room 1-306 CNC:Shameless PropagandaFeature fi lm examines its own genre, the docu-
mentary, which was oft en been called Canada’s national art form. Filmmaker Robert Lower takes on the boldest and most compelling propaganda eff ort in our history (1939-1945) in which found-ing NFB Commissioner Jon Grierson saw the documentary as a “hammer to shape society”. Th e fi lms produced until 1945 by the NFB are distilled here for the essence of their message to Canadians. Using only these fi lms and still photos from that era, Lower recreates the picture of Canada they gave us and looks for the Canada we know today. What he fi nds is enlightening, entertaining and unexpectedly disturbing.
March 25 at 8:30 p.m. room 1-306 CNC:Becoming BulletproofJoy and persistence triumph over adversity in
this award-winning documentary about a diverse group of people from across North America who come together in a camp every year to make a movie. On this occasion, it will be a Western
called Bulletproof and the entire point is that it should be fun regardless of the challenges each person faces. Director Michael Barnett’s docu-mentary brings us face to face with our prejudices and misunderstandings. Becoming Bulletproof is a fi lm about striving to live fully through artistic en-deavour and raises important questions about the exclusion and marginalization of people with dif-ferent abilities. Th is life-affi rming fi lm has much to teach us about embracing the great diversity of humanity.
Other thought-provoking movies in the fi lm fes-tival include Food Stamped followed by Just Eat It: A Food Waster Story (March 26 at 7 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. at Artspace, above Books and Company). On March 27 in room 5-178 at UNBC is a showing at 2:30 p.m. of Koch Brothers Exposed. On March 27 at Two Rivers Gallery at 7 p.m. will be All the Time in the World: Disconnecting to Reconnect (Most Popular Canadian Documentary, Vancou-ver International Film Festival).
For more documentaries in the fi lm festival and descriptions see Facebook page PGTWCFF. Vari-ous venues. Festival passes are $30 at Books and Company. Day passes cost $5 at the door.
Community film festival coming to city
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Legends come to life in showLiving Legends is known for its colourful and
energetic celebration of Native American, Polyne-sian and Latin American music and dance.
A performing troupe comprised of 36 bright and energetic students from Brigham Young University will present their unique show called Seasons at the Prince George Playhouse on May 6.
Th e Free Press spoke with the group’s artistic director Janielle Christensen on Wednesday.
“I don’t believe there is another performing group that combines the energy, the beauty, the history, and the diversity of the Native American, Polynesian and Latin American dances that this one does. Th ere are 36 performers and all 36 of them have ancestry in one of these three cultures. So they come not only with an ability to perform and to connect with the audience but they come with a really pure, true passion to share the joy and beauty of their cultures.”
Th e three cultures share a common thread with each other and with their audience, says Chris-tensen.
“Th ese cultures pass down their traditions, their values and their stories – oft entimes through their art and through dance. So when we present Sea-sons, it’s much more than just a variety show.
“We found a common thread in these cultures and really it’s probably a universal thread as well. Th e show is called Seasons because it actually traces the history of these cultures through diff er-ent times (prosperity, poverty, wartime and back to rebirth again).”
No matter what their age – children to teenag-ers to grandparents – or their ethnic background, Christensen says audience members will be able to fi nd connections to their own families and stories.
“I think [First Nations] people will certainly connect with the eagle dance or our Native American hoop dance where they dance with 20 hoops – eighty hoops for all four dancers – the jingle dances, fancy dancers and of course the big, colourful pow wow dances.”
Students not only learn the dances but they learn about the places they go to to perform them. By the time they arrive here, said Christensen, the performers will have had a class learning about
northern British Co-lumbia and its people.
“We spent quite a bit of time in Alaska and we do a unique dance from there... and in our Latin American section we cover everything from Mexico to South America and the big fi esta dances that are so colourful to some of the ancient dances like the Aztec dances. People fall in love with the traditional Polynesian and ancient Hawaiian modern dances.”
Seasons is a very colourful, high-energy show that moves very quickly, says Chris-tensen.
“Th ere are over 300 authentic, beautiful costumes in the show as well as special sets and lighting projec-tions. I think everyone will fi nd their own favourite elements from these cultures. I also think it has a strong family theme about the strength of family being together. So I feel people in the audience will discover what their own culture has to off er them...and if they haven’t thought about their own culture, they may leave [the show] feeling a little more connected with it.”
How are the performers chosen?“Th ey are all students... they are not music or
dance or performance majors but they come with a passion for their cultures... Th is goes beyond performing to representing with dignity and with passion their cultures.”
Brigham Young University Living Legends presents: Seasons at the Prince George Playhouse on Wednesday, May 6. Th e show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at Studio 2880.
Photo submittedA colourful Native American eagle dance is one of many performances by Living Legends in Seasons. The internationally-acclaimed show comes to Prince George Playhouse on May 6.
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Walk and Talk for diabetes awarenessTh e Canadian Diabetes As-
sociation invites you to join a 10-week Walk and Talk program which starts Saturday, March 14 at 10 a.m.
Th e free program includes a
short presentation by a profes-sional, prizes/incentives and good companionship. Topics include walking safely, healthy eating, active living, staying upbeat and setting personal goals. Prizes and
incentives to all participants. On Sunday, May 31 is the fi rst
annual Lace Up for Diabetes Fun Run in Fort George Park. For more information or to register, e-mail [email protected].
Teresa MALLAM/Free PressWith a little help from her friends... Mary Bergeron, 7, learns how to hold and use a saw for some friendly competition in the cross-cutting event at the FrancoFun Winter Festival on Saturday.
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Ice Hockey5-7 years by December 31, 2015. Children born in 2008, 2009 & 2010. Early registration for College Heights Ice Hockey will be held at our Spring Registration Night Monday March 23 @ 7:30pm at the Columbus Centre(7201 Domano Blvd.)
More information call 250-964-2662.Maximum 72 Limited spaces available.Returning players registered in early March.
Days: Monday & Wednesday ORTuesday & Thursday
Time: 3:45 - 4:45 p.m.Location: Kin 3
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Fees: $275.00
($20 non-refundable deposit required)Child must be able to skate across the width of the rink.
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COLLEGE HEIGHTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
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Preschool 2.5 - 5 yrsSeptember 2015 - June 2016
Registration for new participantsstart Monday, March 23 @ 7:30pm at C.H.C.A.Spring Registration Night at Columbus Centre
7201 Domano Blvd.
2 Day a Week Programs: 3-5 years old, Limit 16 per programParent Participating $75 per month (One Parent Duty Day per month)
OR Non-Parent Participating $95 per monthTuesday & Thursday A.M. 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Monday & Wednesday A.M. 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Monday & Wednesday P.M. 12:15 - 2:15 PM
Tuesday & Thursday P.M. 12:15 - 2:15 PM
All programs located at #105-6500 Southridge Ave.For more information call Cheryl @ 250-964-2662
REGISTRATION ONGOING AFTER MARCH 23!
We offer a licensed program focused on giving your child a clean, safe, friendly and fun environment where they will enjoy learning centres, free play, artwork, making new friends and learning to share and co-operate in a classroom situation. $25 Non refundable Registration Fee Required. Returning children registered in early March.
4 Year Old Only Programs: (Children born in 2011) Limit 16 per programNon-Parent Participating Programs
We will be offering 2 1/2 hour programs twice OR three times a week for children in their last year of Preschool.
Monday/Wednesday/Friday A.M. 9:00 - 11:30 am $150/mthTuesday & Thursday A.M. 9:00 - 11:30 am $110/mthTuesday & Thursday P.M. 12:15- 2:45 pm $110/mth
“NEW” Introduction to Preschool 30 months - 3.5 years1 day a week program • Parent Participating $30 per month
Friday A.M. 9:00 - 10:30 amChild must be toilet training and parent/caregiver must do a Parent
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Walk and TalkGet active and explore walking together
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Join us for our outdoor Walk & Talkprogram running every Saturday for10 weeks starting March 14th at 10 am.
This FREE program includes a short presentation by a professional, prizes/incentives and good companionship.
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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.
INVITES ALL PARENTS WITH CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 3 & 5 TO THEIR ANUAL
LE COIN DES PETITES, the only francophone preschool program program in Prince George, currently has spaces available for
children 3 to 5 years of age for the 2015-2016 preschool year (from September 2015 to June 2016). The Francophone program
is Mon/Wed/Fri, twice or three times a week, 9 to 11:30 a.m., and the French Immersion is on Tues/Thurs from 12:30 to 3 p.m.
At Le Cercle des Canadiens Français de P.G., 1752 Fir St. Info : 250-561-2565
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FridayBridge, Fridays, 1
p.m., Elder Citizens Recreation Centre.
Mini Bingo, Fridays, 1:30 p.m., Elder Citizens Recreation Centre.
Meat draw, Fridays, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion, 1116 Sixth Ave.
Whist, Fridays, 7 p.m., Elder Citizens Recreation Centre.
Crown Market, Fridays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 3955 Hart Highway.
Read-to-me Storytime, Fridays, 10-10:45 a.m., South Fort George Family Resource Centre, 1200 La Salle. Information: 250-614-0684.
Dance, Fridays, 8 p.m.-midnight, Royal Canadian Legion, 1116 Sixth Ave.Saturday
Dance, 8 p.m., March 14, Hart Pioneer Centre.
Easter bazaar, March 28, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., St. George’s Ukrainian Catholic Church (Vanier and Massey). Information: Rose Marie 250-564-3577.
A Shelter in Life’s Storms, March 28, 7 p.m., ECRA,1692 10th Ave. Concert by ECRA Gospel Singers. Tickets at office and at door.
Nechako Public Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 5100 North Nechako Rd.
A Butler’s Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 1156 Fourth Ave.
Meat draw, Saturdays, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion, 1116 Sixth Ave.
Crown Market, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 3955 Hart Highway.
Dance, Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight, Royal Canadian Legion, 1116 Sixth Ave.Sunday
Crib, 1 p.m., March 15, Hart Pioneer Centre.
Roast beef dinner, 5 p.m., March 15, Hart Pioneer Centre.
A Shelter in Life’s Storms, March 29, 2 p.m., ECRA,1692 10th
Ave. Concert by ECRA Gospel Singers. Tickets at office and at door.
Nechako Public Market, Sundays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 5100 North Nechako Rd.
A Butler’s Market, Sundays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., 1156 Fourth Ave.
Crown Market, Sundays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 3955 Hart Highway.Monday
Canasta, 7 p.m., March 16, Hart Pioneer Centre.
Royal Purple Ladies, meet second and fourth Monday of every month, 7:30 p.m., Studio 2880.
Canasta, Mondays, 1 p.m., Elder Citizens Recreation Centre.
Tai Chi, Mondays, 1:30 p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.
Bean bag toss, Mondays, 2 p.m., Elder Citizens Recreation Centre.Tuesday
Line dancing, Tuesdays, 9 a.m., Elder Citizens Recreation Centre.
Bridge, Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.
Cribbage, Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Elder Citizens Recreation Centre.
Buddhist meditation class, Tuesdays, 7:15-8;45 p.m., 320 Vancouver St. Information: 250-962-6876 or [email protected].
ACBL duplicate bridge, Tuesdays, 7 p.m., 425 Brunswick St. Information: 250-561-1685.
Sweet Adelines women’s four-part chorus meets Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., Studio 2880. New members welcome. Information: Kathy 250-563-5170.Wednesday
CFUW meets, March 18, 7 p.m., Magnolia Gardens, 2055 Ingledew St.
Bingo, Wednesdays, 1-3 p.m., Spruce Capital Senior Recreation Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.
TOPS meeting, Wednesdays, 6:15 p.m.,
Kordyban Lodge dining room. Information: Jessie 250-613-5933.
Whist, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., Activity Centre, 425 Brunswick St.
CNC Retirees meet last Wednesday of the month, 9 a.m., D’Lanos. Information: Lois 250-563-6928.Thursday
Bingo, March 19, 12:30 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.
Naturalist Club AGM and presentation, March 19, 7 p.m., The Exploration Place.
Whist, March 19, 7 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.
Tai Chi, Thursday, 7-9 p.m., Knox United Church, 1448 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-964-3849.
Central Interior Darts Club, meets Thursday, 6:30 p.m., P.G. Legion, 1116 Sixth Ave.
Crown Market, Sundays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 3955 Hart Highway.
Bridge, Thursdays, 1-3 p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors’ Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr. Information: 250-563-6450.
Little Artists, Thursdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m., South Fort George Family Resource Centre, 1200 La Salle. 250-614-0684.
Old Time Fiddlers jam, Thursday, 7-10 p.m. Elder Citizens Rec Centre, 1692 10th Ave.
ECRA Forever Young Chorus meet Thursdays, 12:45 p.m., ECRA, 1692 10th Ave.
Support Groups
Metis Elders Craft group, Th ursday, 10 a.m.-noon, Prince George Metis Elders Society offi ce, 117 – 1600 Th ird Ave. (Prince George Native Friend-ship Centre).
Wednesday evening Tops (take off pounds sensibly), Spruceland Baptist Church, 1901 Ogilvie St. Information: Leona 250-962-8802.
P.G. COPD Support Group meets Wednes-
days, 1-3 p.m., AIMHI gymnasium, 950 Kerry St. Information: www.pgcopdsupportgroup.ca.
Prince George Stroke Survivors Group meets Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Elder Citizens Recreation Association, 1692 10th Ave. Information: Julia 250-563-3819, Roland 250-562-1747.
La Leche League breast feeding support group meets the second Thursday of every month 7 p.m., 176 Aitken Cres. Information: Tammy 250-612-0085.
Al-Anon New Hope AFG meets Fridays, 1:15-2:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 483 Gillett St. Information: 250-561-3244.
Al-Anon Hart Serenity AFG meets Mondays, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Knox United Church, 1448 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-561-3244.
Al-Anon PG Beginners AFG meets Tuesdays, 7-7:45 p.m., Knox United Church, 1448 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-561-3244.
Al-Anon Hart Courage AFG meets Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m., Knox United Church, 1448 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-561-
3244.Al-Anon Mustard
Seed AFG meets Thursdays, 7:30-8:30 p.m., St. Michael’s Anglican Church, 1505 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-561-3244.
Prince George ATV Club meets third Tuesday of month, 7 p.m. Carmel Restaurant meeting room. Information: George 250-964-7907.
Royal Purple meets second and fourth Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Information: Dianne 250-596-0125 or Jeanette 250-563-9362.
Prince George Quil-ters Guild meets fourth Tuesday of the month, Connaught Youth Centre, 1491 17th Ave. Registration 6:30 p.m., meeting 7 p.m. Infor-mation: Barb Friesen 250-564-6288 or e-mail [email protected].
Prince George Genealogical Society meets the third Tuesday of the month, St. Giles Presbyterian Church, 1500 Edmonton St.
PGRH retirees breakfast, first Tuesday of the month, Prince George Golf and Curling Club. Information: 250-563-2885.
Cariboo Toastmasters
meet Mondays, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Ramada Hotel, 444 George St. Information: caribootoastmasters.com or Laura (250) 961-3477.
City Centre Toastmasters meet Tuesday, noon, City Hall Annex. Information: 9164.toastmastersclubs.org.
Spruce Capital Toastmasters meet Tuesdays, 7:25 p.m., 102-1566 7th Ave. Information: Tom 250-562-3402.
Meat draw, Sundays, 3-5 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion, 1116 Sixth Ave.
Army Cadet Rangers free youth program, meets Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Connaught Youth Centre. Information: Sondra 250-963-9462 or Andrew 250-981-8270.
Northern Twister Square Dance Club meets Mondays, 7 p.m., Knox United Church basement. Information: Gys 250-563-4828 or Reta 250-962-2740.
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Th e Cariboo Cougars didn’t have an easy time with the Fraser Valley Th underbirds in the fi rst round of the B.C. Major Midget League playoff s, but coach Trevor Sprague wasn’t surprised.
“It’s playoff hockey,” Th e Cougars coach said aft er a 4-2 win Sunday in the deciding third game. “Th ey have some older guys on their team, and they were ready to play some hard hockey.”
Th e Cougars fi nished fi rst in the league during the regular season, while the Th underbirds were eighth. Th e expected
dominance did show up in some of the statistics, though.
“Look at the shot totals,” Sprague said. “In the last game they were something like 48-18. Th eir goalie played well, and we didn’t bury all our chances.
“We battled through that adversity and got the win.”
Griff en Outhouse was in goal for all three games for the Cougars, as Dorrin Luding continued to recover from an ankle injury.
“He’s still a week or two away,” Sprague said. “He injured it in our series against the Vancouver North West Giants, and then he may have hurt it a bit more in the Canada
Winter Games.”Th e Cougars are back on the
ice at Kin 1 this weekend for the league semifi nals, hosting a bit of a surprise. Th e South Island Royals, who fi nished seventh in the regular season, took the second-seeded Giants to overtime in all three of their opening round games, and won two of them to advance.
“Th ey’ve got a new coach, Jackson Penney, and he’s got a lot of experience,” Sprague said. “He knows the roster, he knows what kind of game they have to play. Th ey play a
simple system, and they play hard.
“We’re going to have to capi-talize on our chances, because we might not get too many against them.”
Game times for the Cou-gars-Giants series are 5 p.m. today (Friday) and 1 p.m. Sat-urday. Game three, if needed, would be Sunday at 8:15 a.m. All games are at Kin 1.
Th e other BCMML semifi -nal sees the Vancouver North
East Chiefs take on the Greater Vancouver Canadians.
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Playoff crunch is now for Cougars
Th e Prince George Cougars weren’t doing any scoreboard watching Wednesday night in Kamloops, but that will probably change this weekend.
A 7-4 loss to the Blazers tightened up the race for the fi nal few playoff spots in the Western Conference of the WHL.
With the loss, the Cougars remain at 61 points with fi ve games left in the regular season. Th e Blazers moved to 59 points, also with fi ve games left . Th e Tri-City Americans are on 57 points, but have six games left , including one at home against the Cougars tonight. Th e Vancouver Giants are still in the race, sitting on 55 points with fi ve games to play.
Th e Cougars game in Kam-loops got off to a fast start Wednesday, with the teams ac-counting for fi ve goals and two fi ghts. Th e Blazers were up 3-2 aft er the fi rst and 5-3 aft er the second.
Speaking on the post-game ra-dio show, assistant coach Michae Hengen said special teams were the diff erence.
“We went 0 for 6 on the power play and gave up goals on half our shorthanded situations. Th at’s nowhere near the 110 per cent total we like to see from those two situations.”
He said the coaches would have to fi gure out why, facing perhaps the biggest game of the season, the Cougars came out fl at.
“We made elementary mis-takes, mistakes that are unchar-acteristic of the way we’ve been playing for the last month and a half. We were making too many mistakes to recover from being behind.
“Making elementary mistakes makes it impossible to win in this league.”
Tomas Andrlik was the only
Cougar to have more than one point Wednesday, as he picked up a goal and two assists.
Hengen said the team’s itiner-ary was a simple one as they prepared for games against Tri-City tonight and in Portland on Saturday.
“Th ursday will be a travel day, and there’s a lot of video work to be done, showing the guys the mistakes they made tonight
and getting them to make better choices.
“When we’re making the right choice, we’re a very good hockey team.”
As the league heads into the last nine days of the regular season, the schedules for the teams become key. Aft er their two games in the U.S. this weekend, the Cougars are at home to face the Blazers March 18 and 20 be-
fore wrapping up the season with a trip to Kamloops on March 21.
Between meetings with the Cougars, the Blazers will play a home-and-home series with Kel-owna tonight and Saturday.
Aft er playing the Cougars tonight, Tri-City hits the road to play Spokane Saturday and Seattle on Tuesday. Th ey then host Port-land on March 20 and Spokane on March 21 before travelling
to Portland to fi nish the season March 22.
Th e Vancouver Giants are sort of the odd-man out, as they don’t play any of the teams they are chasing for a playoff spot. Th e Giants host the Victoria Roy-als tonight, before travelling to Victoria for games Saturday and Sunday. March 20, they host Kelowna, then fi nish the regular season on Saturday in Kelowna.
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Allen DOUGLAS/Kamloops This WeekPrince George Cougars goalie Ty Edmunds stops Matt Needham of the Kamloops Blazers in close Wednesday night in Kamloops. The Blazers won the game 7-4, tightening the race for the final playoff spots in the WHL Western Conference.
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For the fi rst time in over a month, the Northern Cougars female midget AAA team will take the ice against a league opponent.
Th e Cougars host the Th omp-son-Okanagan Lakers in a best-of-three playoff series this weekend at Kin 1. Coach Mario Desjardins says it was good to get some exhibition games in this past weekend.
“We were lucky to set up
some games against the Banff Academy. Th ey were a good matchup for us. We won all three games, but just by 3-0, 3-2 and 1-0 scores.”
He said the coaches weren’t going to let the players en-joy their long break between games.
“We had each of them keep a fi tness log over the break. Most of them had done a good job staying in shape. Th ere was a little bit of rust, but that was to be expected aft er that long off .
“Aft er being off for three and a half weeks, I thought they
responded quite well.”He’s looking forward to the
games this weekend against the Lakers.
“Th ey’re a well-coached team, they have a fairly structured style, and decent goaltending, which can take you a long way in the playoff s.
“We outplayed them most of the year, although they did beat us once, in about the fourth game of the season.”
Game times this weekend are 10:15 a.m. on 4:30 p.m. on Sat-urday, and, if necessary, 11:30 a.m. All games will be at Kin 1.
Spruce Kings get to second round
Th e Prince George Spruce Kings didn’t want to make another overnight bus trip to Langley.
“Th ey had talked about it before the game,” coach Dave Dupas said aft er the Spruce Kings beat the Rivermen 3-2 Tues-day night to win their Mainland Division semifi nal series. “If that’s what it takes to motivate them, I’ll take it.”
Aft er splitting the fi rst four games of the series, the teams had played Monday night in Langley, with the Kings pulling out a 5-4 win in overtime on Chad Staley’s goal, then bused up to Prince George for the Tuesday game. If it had gone a seventh game, it would have been in Langley on Wednesday night.
As it was, the Spruce Kings got a day off before getting back on the bus Th ursday to face Chilliwack in the Mainland Division fi nals, starting tonight.
Dupas says the series against Langley was as close as you could have asked for.
“Th e 4-1 game they won was the only chance for either team to sit back and think a bit about the next game. Every other game was right down to the wire, and that wears you down aft er a while.
“You need a laughter every once in a while just to relax.”
He also knew the odds they would face if they had to go back to
Langley for a seventh game.
“I didn’t like our chances if it went seven games. Th ose long bus rides get to you, they’re playing in a front of a home crowd, they know if they win their next series is against a team just down the road (Chilliwack).”
Th e day or two off before playing Chilli-wack tonight will help the Spruce Kings in a number of ways, Dupas said.
“We’ve got a lot of guys feeling the eff ects of the busy schedule, and facing Langley the last eight games. Th ey’re the biggest
team in the league, and we’ve got some bumps and bruises.”
Th at shouldn’t be enough to keep anyone out of the lineup, which could come as a shock to the Chiefs.
“We haven’t played Chilliwack with a full team all season,” Dupas said. “Th ey’re a good team, a solid, deep team, and we need to have all four lines working.”
Against Langley, he juggled his lines a bit as players came back from injuries, and put Marco Ballarin, Cole Todd and Jake LeBrun together.
“Langley hadn’t seen that before, and
LeBrun especially was laying out some good hits.”
Tempers boiled over at the end of Tuesday’s game, with a number of fi ghts starting. Th e league acted quickly.
“With our guys,” Du-pas said, “a couple of them were suspended right at the end of the game, and it could have been for up to eight games.
“Th e league re-viewed the video (Wednesday) and overturned the suspen-sions.”
Th e Spruce Kings are in Chilliwack tonight and tomorrow, and come back to the Coli-seum for games March
Beat Langley in game six on home ice; face Chilliwack tonight16 and 17. Game fi ve, if needed, will be in Chilli-wack on March 20; Game six in Prince George on March 21; and Game seven in Chilliwack on March 22.
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Allan WISHART/Free PressChad Staley of the Prince George Spruce Kings stretches for a loose puck in a game against the Langley Rivermen at the Prince George Coliseum on Friday. The Spruce Kings beat the Rivermen in six games and now face the Chilliwack Chiefs.
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Withey rink second in provincials
Th e Jessie Withey rink came up one game short at the B.C. Juvenile Women’s Curling Champion-ships in Lake Cowichan on the weekend.
“I’m very proud of the girls,” coach Doug Dalziel said of the team, which lost the fi nal 8-2 to Heather Drexel of Coquitlam. “I think they actually over-achieved a bit, and they handled the loss well.”
It was the second time Withey and her team of third Carly Connor, second Hannah Lindner and lead Carsyn Hamilton had faced Drexel in the
championships. Th ey played them in the opening draw, losing 6-4.
“Th ere were a few mistakes made in that game,” Dalziel said. “We actually had a chance to win it in the fi nal end, but their skip made her last shot for the extra point.”
Even the fi nal wasn’t as one-sided as the score might indicate, he said.
“We were down one at the break aft er the fourth end, but then they stole on a couple of ends and we had to start taking chances. Th at was how they got the three in the sev-enth to end things.”
In their other pool games, the Withey team downed Erin Huitema of Kelowna 7-5, scoring three in the eighth to get the win, and scored in an extra end to beat Alysha Buchy of Kimberley 7-6. In the semifi nal, Withey stole one in the eighth end to edge Clare Schmidt of Vernon 7-6.
Dalziel says the lack of ice time in Prince George due to equipment problems didn’t hurt the team as much as they had fi gured.
“We picked up Hannah, who is actually from 100 Mile House, so going to Quesnel to practice every Sunday actually worked out not too badly, because it was sort of halfway
between.”Th e Alyssa Connell rink also
represented Prince George in the Juvenile Women’s championship, ending the round-robing portion with a 2-1 record. Connell and third Bailey Eberherr, second Jordan Henson and lead Erin Ross beat Elizabeth Schulz of Fraser Lake 9-4 in their fi rst game and downed Schmidt 6-3 in their second before losing 8-3
to Emily Smith of Parksville.Connell, Schmidt and Smith
all fi nished with 2-1 records aft er the round robin. Before each game, each team had thrown a draw to the button. Th e total distances off the button for the shots was used as a tiebreaker, so Schmidt fi nished fi rst, and Connell lost a tiebreaker to Smith.
On the juvenile men’s side, the team skipped by Colton
Vriesendorp with third James Brown, second Alasdair Wilson and lead Tyler Slaney fi nished 1-2. Th ey lost 12-1 to Alex Horvath of Victoria and 15-2 to Matthew McCrady of Royal City in New West-minster before beating Jordan Geiger of Invermere 8-6 in their fi nal game.
McCardy downed Horvath 5-4 in a game which went 10 ends to claim the title.
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Photo submittedLead Carsyn Hamilton, left, second Hannah Lindner, third Carly Connor and skip Jessie Withey were coached by Doug Dalziel to a second-place finish at the juvenile women’s provinvials on the weekend.
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Kenny Lally already knows where he will be in July this year.
Th e local boxer will be part of the Canadian team at the Pan American Games in Toronto.
“As the host country,” Lally said last week, “Canada got to name fi ve automatic qualifi ers for box-ing, and I was one of the fi ve.”
As a six-time Canadian cham-pion, the odds were pretty good Lally was going to be in Toronto anyway, but the automatic quali-fi er made it easier.
What also made life easier for Lally was the announcement last month that he is one of the new additions to CIBC’s Team Next. Th e program sees amateur athletes receive funding, as well as being paired with Canadian sports veterans to help mentor them.
In Lally’s case, he has been paired with Mary Spencer.
“Th at was great,” Lally said. “She’s a three-time world women’s boxing champion. I’ve worked with her for the last three years as well, so I already know her.
“She’ll be there more to help me with the mental aspects of preparing for the Games.”
Between now and mid-July, Lally won’t have to worry about getting bouts in, either on an individual basis or as a member of Team Canada.
“We’ve got the Alberta Golden Gloves (March 21-22), then we have a dual match with the U.S. Th ere’s a tourney in Serbia, another tourney in Puerto Rico, and then we’ll have another dual match with the Kazakhstan team.”
He knows one thing already about the Pan American Games: His toughest fi ght could come at
any time.“It’s a random draw, so I could
end up fi ghting another top guy in the fi rst round.
“A fi ght’s a fi ght, though, and you have to fi ght them all eventu-ally.”
Like last year’s Canadian championships, the Pan Ameri-can Games will be fought without the boxers wearing any headgear. Lally is getting used to that, even aft er being cut for the fi rst time in his career at the Canadians last year.
“I was OK with it, it just made me want to fi ght harder, but when I came back to the corner, (coach) Bob Pegues was really pale.”
He knows the importance of thinking positive thoughts, and he already has a picture in his mind of what July will be like.
“Th e perfect way to end my career would be to win the gold medal on my home turf.”
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File photoPrince George boxer Kenny Lally suffered a cut in his first bout at the Canadian Boxing Championships in Toronto, but it didn’t stop him from winning his sixth national title. Lally will be fighting at the Pan American Games in Toronto this summer.
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Anthony Santos wins big in Cougars 50/50 draw
Anthony Santos and ALS re-search were the big winners at the Prince George Cougars game on Saturday.
Santos walked away with half the 50-50 jackpot of more than $67,000, and the other half went to the Shelly L. Mrkonjic ALS Research Fund.
“My cousin asked me if I wanted to go to the game,” Santos said Tuesday. “I knew there was some stuff going on at the game, but I didn’t know all the details.”
Th e 50-50 draw was guaranteed to be the largest in team history aft er club president Greg Pocock jump-started it with $25,000. More than 5,400 fans packed the CN Centre for the game against the Victoria Royals, and it seemed most of them were in the 50-50 draw lineups.
“Th e lines were already crazy when we got there,” Santos said, “so we went to our seats. Th en, partway through the fi rst period, we went and got in line.”
Th at turned out to be a good idea when the announcement was made that the large volume of sales was overloading the system, and that sales would be cut off aft er the fi rst intermission.
“Th ere was probably fi ve minutes left in the intermission when we got our tickets. I bought two $20 tickets.”
And then the waiting began, Th e game was exciting, as it went to overtime, and then a shootout before the Royals pulled out a 4-3 win.
“We waited through everything,” Santos said. “Th e overtime, the shootout. Th en they announced they were going to make the draw on Monday.”
Monday aft ernoon, the draw was made and the winning ticket number, D-75142, was announced.
Santos was at work at Northland Jeep Chrysler Dodge.
“I had taken a picture of my tick-ets on my phone so I had the num-bers. One of the other salespeople said they had posted the number online, so I walked over.
“I didn’t anticipate winning.”But he did.“I’m going to buy a new car,” he
said of plans for the windfall. “I’ve also been invited to a wedding in Mexico, so I’ll probably be going to that.
“Th e rest of it, I’ll put towards a home.”
Th e Shelly R. Mrkonjic ALS
Research Fund was started aft er Mrkonjic, the mother of Cougars forward Tyler, died of the disease in 2006. Tyler scored the Cougars’ fi rst goal Saturday night aft er his father, Frank, took part in the ceremonial opening faceoff .
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Courtesy Prince George CougarsPrince George Cougars general manager Todd Harkins, left, and vice-president of business Andy Beesley, right, present Anthony Santos with a cheque for $33,533, his share of the 50-50 jackpot from Saturday’s game.
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Esopenko has big weekend in pool
Hannah Esopenko isn’t easy to satisfy.Even aft er seven top-fi ve fi nishes at the Swim BC
AAA Age Group Championships in Surrey on the weekend, the Prince George Barracudas swimmer isn’t happy.
“I expected to do better,” she says before practice Tuesday aft ernoon at the Aquatic Centre. “I didn’t get any personal bests.
“I could have done better.”Esopenko was second in the 100 and 200 breast-
stroke, third in the 50 breaststroke, fourth in the 200 butterfl y, 50 breaststroke and 400 individual medley, and fi ft h in the 200 individual medley in
the 14-15 age group.“It’s my fi rst year in that age
group,” Esopenko says. “I’ve been having a good season, but I was a little sick on the weekend.”
At 14, she’s been swimming for about seven years.
“I really liked the water when I was little. We had a cabin on the lake, so Mom wanted me to learn how to swim so I would be safe.
“I liked it, and I’ve kept do-ing it.”
Up next for Esopenko is the World Junior Trials in Toronto.
“It’s the same time standards for everyone,” she says, “so
I’ll be swimming against 17 and 18 year olds in my events. From there, you can qualify for the World Juniors or the Western Canada Summer Games.
“I’m close to qualifying for the World Juniors. I think they take two from Canada, and right now I’m third.”
If she doesn’t make the World Juniors, set for Singa-pore at the end of August, she
has her sights set on the Western Canada Summer Games, to be held in Wood Buff alo, Alta. in August.
“I’ll be swim-ming in four events at the trials: the 50, 100 and 200 breast and the 200 IM.”
Other Results
Barracuda swimmers picked up four other top 10 fi nishes at the Age Group Championships on the weekend.
Skylar Lewington fi nished
fourth in the 800 freestyle and ninth in the 200 and 400 free, while Julie Wing was sixth in the 100 backstroke.
Jenna Korolek, Kayla Ko-rolek, Jackson Girard, Mack-enzie Lewington, and Alexan-dra Winkel also attended.
Four other members of the Barracudas were swimming in the Senior Open Long Course Championships at UBC on the weekend. Patricia Fortier won the 400 IM and was fourth in the 200 IM and fi ft h in the 100 and 200 backstroke.
Adrian Lamb, Gareth Lamb and Jordan Ozcan also at-tended.
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March Madness hits the rinks in Prince GeorgeIt’s March Madness.
Prince George hockey fans don’t have to wait for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament that begins Tuesday because their favorite teams have created their own electrifying March drama.
Case #1-Th e PG Cou-gars: A team currently in a playoff spot thanks to a recent 7-1-0-2 stretch that included many come from be-hind thrilling eff orts.
Case #2-Th e PG Spruce Kings: Th ey beat Langley in six for their fi rst playoff series win in 10 years but not before some anxious moments. Th e turning point was game fi ve when the Spruce Kings erased a one goal defi cit on three
occasions before winning 5-4 in overtime. Th e next night, P.G. frantically held on at the end for a 3-2 triumph that allowed the Spruce Kings to advance to the Mainland Division fi nal against the Chilliwack Chiefs.
Case #3-Th e Cariboo Cou-gars: heavily favored as regu-lar season champions in the BCMML but needing to go the distance against the eighth place Fraser Valley Th underbirds. Th e Cariboo Cats survived, taking the third and deciding game 4-2 aft er the fi rst two were split: (3-1 for Cariboo and 4-2 for Fraser Valley). Now the major midget Cougars gear up for a home best of three semi-fi nal appearance this weekend against the seventh place South Island Royals at Kin 1.
Case #4-Th e Vancouver Canucks: Just 15 games to go, the Canucks cling to a playoff spot albeit a number of teams are within striking distance. Vancou-ver already has more wins this season than last, but the journey to the post-season is far from complete. Th e Canucks never seem to go on a long winning or losing streak, which keeps their faithful followers jittery, game in and game out, regardless if they are playing a powerhouse or a bottom feeder. With the Canucks, nothing but nothing is to be taken for granted.
March Madness hockey style can bring out the best or worst of any team. In the Prince George Cougars situation, the team battled through hardship and re-covered from a well-documented 12 game losing streak in January to put themselves in a posi-tion to capture a playoff berth for the fi rst time in four years. Th e job isn’t done yet, but they control their own destiny with fi ve games remaining: at Tri-City, at Portland and the fi nal three against Kamloops, with two of them in P.G.
Generally speaking, scoring fi rst and taking the lead is para-mount to victory but the Cou-gars took an unconventional root in late February and early March. Let’s give ourselves a refresher course during the Cats 5-0-1 run prior to Wednesday’s game in
Kamloops:• Feb 21 – Moose
Jaw scores fi rst but the Cougars win on home ice 4-2.
• Feb 27 – Seattle leads 3-1 and 4-3 but the Cougars win 5-4 on the road in overtime.
• Feb 28 – Ever-ett scores fi rst but the Cougars win handily on the road 5-1
• March 4 – Calgary scores fi rst but the Cougars win on home ice 3-2.
• March 6 – Victoria scores fi rst and leads 2-0 but the Cou-gars win on home ice 4-3.
• March 7 – Victoria scores fi rst and leads 3-0 but the Cou-gars rally for a point. Th e Cats dropped a 4-3 shootout decision in a game that needed 11 rounds of a shootout.
Last Saturday’s Cougars game was an indication that their fans will respond favorably to a promotion tied to a charity, and to players that literally will battle through adversity regardless of the score or circumstance.
On a night the Spruce Kings hosted a playoff game with 937 fans at the Coliseum, the Cou-gars nearly fi lled CN Centre with an appreciative crowd of 5,404. Many of those in attendance were there to be part of a record 50-50 draw that totalled $67,095, the fi rst $25,000 of which was put up by Cougars ownership. Half of the grand total went to the Shelly L. Mrkonjic ALS Re-search Fund. Shelly, the mother of Tyler Mrkonjic, died of ALS in 2006. Tyler, not normally a goal scorer, found the back of net to put the Cats on the board and start the comeback. How’s that for intrigue?
Yes, the P.G. Cougars, Spruce Kings, Cariboo Cougars and Ca-nucks all have a common theme in that they keep their fans on edge, seldom with a moment to relax and let’s face it that is part of the fun.
Without the losses, you cannot appreciate the wins. Enjoy the ride! Aft er all, it’s March Mad-ness!
From The Quote Rack:
Ndamakong Suh has signed with the Miami Dolphins. So, the one-time No-Name Defense will now become the No-Shame Defense.
In a recent pre-season game against the Chicago White Sox, Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers was
reportedly in ‘mid-season form’. Th ank goodness he wasn’t in post-season form.
Contributor Bill Littlejohn of South Lake Tahoe, California
To eliminate some of the back-to-back games and insane road trips, the NBA is thinking of lengthening the season into July. Great, so this means the playoff s would fi nish the week before the start of pre-season?
Forget those rumors of retire-ment, Marshawn Lynch has signed a two-year extension with the Seahawks. So I guess Lynch is going to postpone plans to star in a remake of “Th e Longest Yard.”
Contributor Janice Hough of Palo Alto, California (www.
left coastsportsbabe.com)
I’m not saying Floyd May-weather and Manny Pacquiao are too old for a marquee fi ght. But if one is suspected of biting an ear, offi cials will check for denture cream.
Comedy writer RJ Currie (www.Sportsdeke.com)
And in case you missed it: A 50-year old San Francisco
man claims that he is Wilt Cham-berlain’s son. Vegas bookmakers have set the odds of this being legit at 20,000 to 1.
Comedy writer Marc Ragovin
Hartley Miller is the sports di-rector and morning news anchor for 94.3 the Goat. He also writes for myprincegeorgenow.com. Send along a quote, note, or anecdote to [email protected]
Follow him on twitter: @Hart-ley_Miller
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RememberingJoseph William Patrick
O’BRIENBorn March 5, 1961 Montreal,Quebec
perished unexpectedlyMarch 1, 2015
Joseph in his greatest moments loved to paint, dance, sing, and make people laugh. He could walk into any room and own it. His beautiful smile and his gorgeous big brown
eyes would melt the hardness of the world.Joseph was an outgoing, energetic man that never gave up. He was always there to lend a hand to the less fortunate then him. He was full of life and a spiritual person. He traveled in many walks of life and it wasn’t always easy for him. His life was cut short due to his life long struggle with addiction.Joseph has left behind and will be immensely missed by his wife Kirsten and their son Samuel, his sons Michael and Dustin and grandson Logan.His mother, Audrey, brother Michael, sisters Susan, Catherine and Laura (Buck).His nephews David, Jeffrey, Alexander and Jeremiah. His nieces Mandi, Emma and Amanda.Joseph will always be in our hearts and will be truly missed.
Rest in peace our dear Joseph May God bless you and love you always!
Born in Saskatchewan on April 13, 1930, passed away March 3, 2015 at the Prince George hospital with family by his side. He was predeceased by his loving wife and our Mom (Frances), parents John and Violet, sisters Verna and Pat, children Stan and Lois and granddaughter Cindy. Leverne leaves behind 5 children, Ray, Glen, Sherrill, Linda and Wilma, 15 grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren and 4 great great grandchildren. Leverne was born in Maple Creek and raised in Verlo. He moved to Tompkins and worked with CPR, on the oil rigs and also as a mechanic. He then moved to BC and worked in the logging industry, retiring in Prince George. No service by request.
Leverne
CarlsonApril 13, 1930 – March 3, 2015
155 George Street, Prince George, BC V2L 1P8Telephone: (250) 960-4400, Toll Free 1-800-667-1959
Fax (250) 563-7520, Web: www.rdffg.bc.ca
SERVICE CENTRE REPRESENTATIVE (Permanent, Full-Time)
The Regional District of Fraser-Fort George is inviting applications for a Permanent, Full-Time position of Service Centre Representative. This position handles all aspects of contract management and provides clerical support including meeting scheduling, minute taking, travel arrangements, word processing, Excel spreadsheets, records management services and provides backup support to other Service Centre positions.
Qualifi cations include demonstrated training and experience in customer relations and oral communication skills; minimum Grade 12 or equivalent; a minimum accurate typing speed of 60 net words per minute; knowledge of offi ce systems and equipment as well as spreadsheets, database, desktop publishing, PowerPoint and word processing programs in a windows environment. Successful completion of a post-secondary program (minimum one year) in secretarial or offi ce administration program plus three years related general offi ce experience or fi ve years related general offi ce experience are required. More detailed information on the duties of this position is available on our website under “Employment Opportunities”.
This is a union position with a salary of $1,846.81 to $2,052.11 bi-weekly (2013 rate). The start date is to be determined.
Please forward your resume (including 3 work references) by 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 19, 2015 to:
Marie St. Laurent, CHRP, Manager of Human Resources Regional District of Fraser-Fort George
at the address or fax number set out below or E-mail: [email protected]
WATTENBARGER, Louis LawrenceNovember 29, 1944 — February 27, 2015
Louis Lawrence Wattenbarger was born on November 29, 1944 and passed away on Friday,
February 27, 2015 with family by his side. A memorial service will be scheduled at a later
date. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting:
www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.
Arrangements entrusted to:EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL
4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. (403) 347-2222
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NECHAKO RESERVOIR UPDATE
11 March 2015
Reservoir Elevation: 851.35m (2793.14 ft.)SLS Discharge: 45.25 m3/sSnow pack: 109% long term aver-age
Nechako River at Cheslatta Falls:38 m3/s
Nechako River at Vanderhoof: 49 m3/s
The overall snow pack has de-creased over the past month while infl ow to the reservoir has remained higher than normal and the probability of a bank full level fl ow in the Nechako River re-mains low.
An assessment of ice stability on the Nechako River will be con-ducted in the next week to inform fl ow management decisions over the next month. Additional in-creases to Skins Lake Spillway are not expected until April un-less snow pack and/or infl ow to the Nechako Reservoir rise sig-nifi cantly.
Visit website www.wateroffi ce.ec.gc.ca for up to date real-time fl ow information for the Nechako River.
Contact Rio Tinto Alcan at 250-567-5105 for more information. A re-cording of this notice is available 24-hours in Vanderhoof at 250- 567-5812
LOCKSMITHA Terrace locksmith business is
seeking a motivated, skilled technician.
Wages Commensurate with
experience.
Please email resume to [email protected]
Now accepting applications for the Managers Position
Located at 1905 Victoria St. Prince George
e.mail resume to [email protected] Box 2059, Smithers, B.C. V0J 2N0
Call 250.847.9766
In Memoriam Gifts
BC Cancer Foundation1215 Lethbridge Street
Prince George, BC V2N 7E9
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Junior Draftsperson Carrier Forest Products Ltd. is currently
accepting applications for a Junior Draftsperson for our Prince George shop.
The ideal candidate must have a diploma or certi cate from an accredited college or
technical school and be pro cient in AutoCAD / Inventor in mechanical and structural disciplines
as well as MS Word, Excel and Access. Must have strong interpersonal skills and ability to
communicate effectively with the design team, including a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. Duties include preparing and assisting with construction tender / contract documents.
Interested candidates may submit resumes in con dence to the Executive Assistant at
[email protected] fax: 250-963-7023
Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
Prince George Free PressDescriptionWe are seeking a team player with a professional attitude to work and learn in a fast paced, business environment.Quali cationsThe ideal candidate must be motivated and take the initiative to sell multiple media products, including on-line advertising and special products, work with existing customers and develop new customers. Strong interpersonal skills and a strong knowledge of sales and marketing are required. Above average communication skills, valid driver’s licence and a reliable vehicle are necessary.If a rewarding challenge resonates with you, contact us today. Please submit your resume and cover letter to:
Ron Drillen, General Manager Prince George Free Press 1773 South Lyon Street Prince George, B.C., V2N 1T3, Canada Tel: (250) 564-0005 Ext.115 Fax: (250) 562-0025 Email: [email protected]
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PRINCE GEORGE NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE
Our People make a difference in the community
The Prince George Native Friendship Centre, a visionary non-profi t society, has been serving the needs of the entire community for the past 43+ years.
We are seeking candidates for the following position(s)within our organization:
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Aboriginal Child & Youth Wellness Program Prince George Support Worker – Closing March 16, 2015.
A hard copy listing the roles, responsibilities and qualifi cations of the position are available from the Prince George Native Friendship Centre’s web site at www.pgnfc.com (click on Join Our Team / Careers).
To apply, submit a resume, cover letter and three (3) references detailing which position you are applying for, to: Prince George Native Friendship Centre 1600 Third Avenue Prince George, BC V2L 3G6 Fax: (250) 563-0924 E-mail: [email protected]
Applications will be accepted until dates noted on postings, no telephone inquiries please. We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.
Drivers/Courier/Trucking
HIGHWAYOWNER OPERATORS$3500 SIGNING BONUS
Van Kam’s Group of Compa-nies requires Highway line-haul Owner Operator based in our Prince George terminal for runs throughout BC and Alberta. Applicants must have winter and mountain, driving expe-rience/training.
We offer above average rates and an excellent
employee benefi ts package.
To join our team of profes-sional drivers, email a resume, current driver’s abstract & details of your truck to:
[email protected] Call: 604-968-5488Fax: 604-587-9889
Only those of interestwill be contacted.
Van-Kam is committed toEmployment Equity and
Environmental Responsibility.
The Prince George Free Press is seeking a full time Inside Sales Representative to handle sales of Print and On-Line advertising and to manage an existing account list. This individual will work out of our Prince George office and will be responsible for building strong relationships with current clients, develop new business to increase revenue and perform to sales goals set by management. The position requires solid communication skills, creativity and attention to detail. Prior advertising knowledge and media experience are both a big plus, but not required. To qualify, you must be outgoing and driven to succeed. Other responsibilities include problem solving and the ability to multitask.
If working in a positive, goal oriented team environment, with state of the art equipment appeals to you, submit your resume in confi dence to:
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Sullivan Motor Products is looking for a
If you are an experienced F&I Manager or have lending experience, and are
looking for a new opportunity and want to work in an amazing workplace then
this is the right job for you!
We’re looking for someone that has several years lending experience that is
looking to further their career or an experienced F&I Manager.
Team player
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If interested, please email your resume: [email protected]
All resumes will remain confidential. We thank all applicants who apply but only those selected will be contacted.
FINANCE & INSURANCE MANAGER
OK Tire is hiring. Please apply in person toOK Tire in Prince George. If unable to apply in person, resumes will be accepted by email [email protected]
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APARTMENTMANAGER
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FRONT DESK CLERKFraser Bridge Inn & R.V Park
located at 100 Ewing Ave, Quesnel, BC is looking for 1 FRONT DESK CLERK.
Duties: Welcome guest & reg-ister rooms & RV spaces, an-swer telephone calls, make reservations, change or cancel reservations, process pay-ment, provide information on motel & RV facilities and rent. Salary $ 13.50 per hour. High School Education & workable Spoken and written English is required. Email your resume to [email protected]
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The Prince George Free Press is seeking a full time Inside Sales Representative to handle sales of Print and On-Line advertising and to manage an existing account list. This individual will work out of our Prince George office and will be responsible for building strong relationships with current clients, develop new business to increase revenue and perform to sales goals set by management. The position requires solid communication skills, creativity and attention to detail. Prior advertising knowledge and media experience are both a big plus, but not required. To qualify, you must be outgoing and driven to succeed. Other responsibilities include problem solving and the ability to multitask.
If working in a positive, goal oriented team environment, with state of the art equipment appeals to you, submit your resume in confi dence to:
Ron Drillen, General ManagerThe Prince George Free Press1773 South Lyon Street V2N 1T3Fax: 250-562-0025Email: [email protected]
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Prince George Free PressDescriptionWe are seeking a team player with a professional attitude to work and learn in a fast paced, business environment.Quali cationsThe ideal candidate must be motivated and take the initiative to sell multiple media products, including on-line advertising and special products, work with existing customers and develop new customers. Strong interpersonal skills and a strong knowledge of sales and marketing are required. Above average communication skills, valid driver’s licence and a reliable vehicle are necessary.If a rewarding challenge resonates with you, contact us today. Please submit your resume and cover letter to:
Ron Drillen, General Manager Prince George Free Press 1773 South Lyon Street Prince George, B.C., V2N 1T3, Canada Tel: (250) 564-0005 Ext.115 Fax: (250) 562-0025 Email: [email protected]
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ANSWER TO PUZZLE NO. 759
X CROSSWORD
On December 20, 2013, at the 1600
block of the Queensway, Prince
George, B.C., Peace Officer(s) of the
Prince George RCMP seized, at the
time indicated, the subject property,
described as: $300 CAD, on or
about 23:30 Hours.
The subject property was seized
because there was evidence that
the subject property had been
obtained by the commission of an
offence (or offences) under section
5(2) (Possession for purpose of
trafficking) of the Controlled Drugs
and Substances Act of Canada.
Notice is hereby given that the
subject property, CFO file Number:
2015-2709, is subject to forfeiture
under Part 3.1 of the CFA and will
be forfeited to the Government for
disposal by the Director of Civil
Forfeiture unless a notice of dispute
is filed with the Director within the
time period set out in this notice.
A notice of dispute may be filed by
a person who claims to have an
interest in all or part of the subject
property. The notice of dispute
must be filed within 60 days of the
date upon which this notice is first
published.
You may obtain the form of a notice
of dispute, which must meet the
requirements of Section 14.07
of the CFA, from the Director’s
website, accessible online at www.
pssg.gov.bc.ca/civilforfeiture. The
notice must be in writing, signed
in the presence of a lawyer or
notary public, and mailed to the
Civil Forfeiture Office, PO Box 9234
Station Provincial Government,
Victoria, B.C. V8W 9J1.
In the Matter of Part 3.1 (Administrative Forfeiture) of the Civil Forfeiture Act [SBC 2005, C. 29] the CFA
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT:SPACE FOR RENT10,860 sq.ft. of Of ce & Warehouse space
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HILLSBOROUGH AptsNewly updated, spacious 3
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I F YO U H AV E A V E H I C L E F O R T H I S A U C T I O N I T M U S T B E O N T H E G R O U N D B YM O N D AY, S E P T E M B E R 2 3 R D AT 5 P M - S PA C E P E R M I T T I N G - S E E YO U S A L E D AY !
ALSO. . . SELLING 75-100 CARS,TRUCKS, VANS & SPORT UTILITYVEHICLES FROM MAJOR FLEET,
LEASE, DEALER, PRIVATE & FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
Central InteriorAuctions Ltd.
4174 COWART RD. Prince George
(250) 5 2-5200 FAX (250) 562-9616Website: www.ciauctions.bc.ca
VEHICLE AUCTION
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH 6:30PM SHARP!
VEHICLE MANAGEMENTON HAND WILL BE APPROX 3-5 BANK REPOS & 10 VEHICLES FROM
IF YOU HAVE A VEHICLE FOR THIS AUCTION, IT MUST BE ON THE GROUND BYMONDAY, MAR.16 AT NOON - SPACE PERMITTING - SEE YOU SALE DAY!
ON HAND WILL BE 10-15 VEHICLES FROM
ALSO...Selling 75-100 Cars, Trucks, Vans and SUVs fromMajor Fleet Lease, Dealer & Private Financial Institutions
Cars - Domestic Cars - Domestic
TRY A CLASSIFIED ADTRY A CLASSIFIED AD
SPACE FOR RENT10,860 sq.ft. of Of ce & Warehouse space
Industrial areaacross from CNC
Call Ron at 250-564-0005 Ext.115
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NORTHLAND HYUNDAIDL
# 30
540
250-564-66632021 Hwy 16 West - Prince George
*On approved credit, on select models, vehicles may not be exactly as shown. **dealer is reimbursed a holdback amount included in invoice price by the manufacturer for each vehicle sold. ***some restrictions may apply; visit dealer for details
Spring INVOICE SALEALL NEW IN STOCK 2014 & 2015’sTO BE SOLD AT FACTORY INVOICE
Just ask for the invoice!
DEALER INVOICE
PRICING**+0%*
For the first time this year NORTHLAND HYUNDAIpresents
LEASE or PURCHASE FINANCING
on select vehiclesYOU PAY THE INVOICE PRICE!**
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!ONLY AT
www.northland-hyundai.ca
Sat.Mar. 149am-6pmFREE HOT DOGS,
REFRESHMENTS &PG Cougar Ticketswith every Test Drive ***
Speed things up for yourself... call in for pre-approval!
