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There will be no extra meetings added to those already sched-uled for further public consulta-tion into the core review process, council decided Monday.

The initial contract put for-ward by KPMG was amended once by council to include more public consultation, adding to the cost of the service. Further review would not only add, once again, to the cost, but also set the timeline of the review back, something many councillors said would adversely affect the upcoming budgeting process.

The suggestion to add more public consultation time came from Janet Bigelow with CUPE during a presentation to council at Monday’s meeting.

“We’ve consulted with as many or more people than the KPMG team,” Bigelow said.

She said the public consulta-tion process, in particular the on-line forms, were complex and difficult to understand.

Bigelow added she also gleaned many of the people she and her team, members of ‘I heart PG’ felt the outcome of the core review and the recommendations that would be put into place were predetermined.

“Many people gave up because of the complexity. People get frustrated and decide not to par-ticipate.”

She said one of her purposes in appearing before council was to invite them to a public forum on Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. where a guest speaker who went through the Toronto core review process will speak.

“Many people in the com-munity without a voice will be impacted and need to be consid-ered,” she said.

She said a strategy needs to be applied so they are heard, one that is broader in scope and more positive than the core review.

One of the major concerns she’s heard discussed revolves around who will run the Four Seasons pool.

“I would suggest at least one

town hall meeting. The key to success with any change is com-munication and engagement.”

Mayor Shari Green said there was a core review public meeting scheduled for the following eve-ning, and she planned on attend-ing it.

After Oct. 8 there won’t be any more opportunities for input. KPMG have until the end of October to compile a list of “opportunities” for change. The

list will go to the select commit-tee, then possibly some will go to staff, then a committee as a whole meeting. Then the sug-gestions will come before council who will then decide which will be implemented.

Both Coun. Garth Frizzell and Coun. Brian Skakun said they believed more public consulta-tion is in order.

“I don’t think we can get too much consultation,” Skakun said.

“I know we need to make a deci-sion but I think tacking another week on would be beneficial.”

“Consultation is important,” Coun. Lyn Hall agreed, adding he had a few issues with adding another public session. The first, he said, was the cost. The second was how another week could interfere with the timeline of the review.

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Council nixes more public meetingsUnion representing city workers issues call for more input sessions

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Ray Michalko with Valley Pacific Inves-tigations is a former RCMP officer who has dedicated years to investigating the Highway of Tears murders and disappear-ances, and despite the EPANA announce-ment that at least one murder has been solved, he knows there is still a great deal of work to be done.

The first time he heard the name Bobby Jack Fowler was when EPANA announced last week that the murder of 16-year-old Colleen MacMillen in 1974 was finally solved.

Though Fowler has been eliminated as a suspect in eight of the 18 cases EPANA is investigating, he remains a suspect in some of the remaining files, in particular the murders of 19-year-old Gale Weyes (Clearwater, B.C.) in 1973 and 19-year-old Pamela Darlington (Kamloops, B. C.) also

in 1973.In the United States, Fowler is a suspect

in the murders of Shelia Swanson, 19, and Melissa Sanders, 17, in Oregon in 1992 and Jennifer Esson, 16, and Kara Leas, 16, in Oregon in 1995.

Fowler died of lung cancer while in prison, serving a 16-year sentence for rape, kidnapping and attempted rape for a crime that happened in 1995.

“I never heard of him until the press release,” Michalko said. “I hope this gives the families some hope that there’s a possibility of something being done with some of their cases, but I think the announcement has caused a lot of anxiety and brought up old feelings for the fami-lies as well.”

Michalko, like the investigators work-ing for EPANA, believe the murders along the Highway of Tears were committed by more than one killer.

Michalko added it will be very hard to

tie Fowler to any more of the murders.“Everyone needs to step back and take

a breath. They figured out Fowler was responsible for one of the victims because of DNA. If they had other DNA they could link to him they would have probably said that,” Michalko said. “The chances of link-ing him to another victim now are prob-ably nil, unless someone comes forward as a witness who saw a crime, or who was an accomplice.

“I think you can insinuate Fowler did a lot of things here, but finding the proof of that is going to be next to impossible. I think this is good and it certainly brings closure to one family but I don’t see it going any further.”

However, he added, there is still hope for closure for other families.

“The only reason they were able to link Fowler with DNA is advance-ments with DNA. So there could be other DNA they have but the system

can’t analyze it yet, and there could be improvements that way. I think the discouraging thing with families is if your victim doesn’t fall under that serial killer net you have to be concerned about the the police doing anything about that case.”

Michalko added that, technically, the MacMillen’s case does not fall under a Highway of Tears murder.

“With the Highway of Tears there are nine victims, inclusive of what they (EPANA) have. EPANA added nine in 2007, so the one they solved isn’t a Highway of Tears case, but it is one they were working on.”

Finding answers to more of the High-way of Tears murders means looking into the communities along the route, Michaldo said.

“I think the answer still lays in some of those communities that lie along Highway 16.”

More investigations needed: Michalko

TOY RUN TAKES OFF

As most city residents know, the sunshine locals got this summer after a cool rainy sea-son last year lasted through most of September, with warm daytime temperatures that cooled down in the evenings.

Daytime highs were well above normal with lots of sun-shine. The average daily high was 19.7 above the normal of 16.4 The warmest day of the month was Sept. 8 at 26.1 degrees Celsius.

The coolest was the 16th with an overnight low of -2.3.

It was also a dry month with a total precipitation of 22.4 mm, 42 per cent of the normal.

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Two times in eight days, members of the Prince George RCMP’s Drug Section arrested the same man for drug and weapons related offences.

On the evening of Sept. 5, the Prince George RCMP’s Drug Section arrested two men for possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of traf-ficking at a local hotel. Evidence acquired led investigators to obtain-ing a search warrant for the hotel room they were associated to.

Upon search of the hotel room, officers located approximately one kilogram of mari-juana, one ounce of cocaine and drug traf-ficking paraphernalia. In addition, a loaded pistol grip shotgun and a significant amount of cash were located.

This arrest and search warrant came just eight days after one of the men was arrested by the Prince

George RCMP’s Drug Section following an investigation into a residence believed to have been involved in the local drug trade. Evidence from that arrest led investigators to execute two search warrants on residences on Vance Road and Isle Pierre Road during the early morning hours on August 30. Cocaine, heroin, marijuana, cash, a shotgun and two, loaded, assault rifles were amount the items seized at these residences.

Timothy Adam Campbell, a 21-year-old Prince George resident, is facing the following charges in relation to both inves-tigations:

Four counts of pos-session of a controlled substance for the purposes of traffick-ing, possession of a controlled substance, three counts of care-less use of a firearm, and two counts of pos-

session of a prohibited device.

These investigations are continuing and officers are not ruling out the possibility of further charges.

The Prince George RCMP is committed to enforcement and pre-

vention initiatives that combat the possession and sale of drugs in the community. These search warrants were supported by informa-tion provided to the police by concerned citizens who are also committed to ridding their community of this problem.

It is through these type of collabora-tive partnerships that criminal drug activity

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information about drug related offences in the Prince George area, please contact the Prince George RCMP at (250)561-3300 or anonymously contact Crime Stop-pers at 1(800)222-TIPS (8477), online at www.p g c r i m e s t o p p e r s .bc.ca, or Text-A-Tip to CRIMES (274637) using keyword “pgtips”.

Charges have now been approved by pro-vincial Crown Counsel against the two persons thought to be responsible for two armed rob-beries of restaurants earlier in the month. Both are in custody and under charge for other rob-beries.

During the evening of September 14, two separate Subway restaurants on opposite sides of the city were robbed by two men brandishing hand guns.

Raymond Douglas Pennicott, a 21-year-old Calgary man with former ties to Prince George, is now facing two counts of robbery with a fire-arm, possession of a restricted firearm without a licence, two counts of pointing a firearm, care-less use of a firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm, knowingly in possession of a firearm without a licence, and two counts of possession of property obtained by crime.

In addition to the above charges, Pennicott is already facing a charge of robbery with a firearm for the September 17 armed robbery of a local gas station. An additional charge of pointing a firearm has now been approved.

Raymond Jarrod Constant Pruden-Colling, a 20-year-old Prince George resident, is facing two charges of robbery with a firearm, two counts of pointing a firearm, careless use of a firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm, knowingly in possession of a firearm without a licence, and possession of property obtained by crime.

Pruden-Collins was recently accused of being one of the two persons responsible for the rob-bery of a jewelry store in a local mall.

“Many members of the Prince George RCMP, especially the Crime Reduction Team, have worked hard to ensure that the persons believed to be responsible for these crimes are brought to justice” said Cpl. Craig Douglass, spokesperson for the Prince George RCMP. “Once again their hard work has resulted in charges of suspects and seizures of firearms, making Prince George a safer community.”

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The community of Giscome will soon have a new modu-lar school to replace its elementary school demolished this sum-mer, Education Min-ister Don McRae and Prince George-Vale-mount MLA Shirley Bond announced yes-terday.

This facility is part of the government’s $10 million modu-lar school replace-ment pilot program to renew aging infra-structures in rural B.C.

Giscome Elemen-tary was built in 1957 to serve families in a town growing rap-idly in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2009, the Prince George board of education voted to close the school due to its deteriorating conditions and declining student enrolment. After consultation with residents, portable classrooms were put on site so students can continue to learn in their community, instead of travelling to Blackburn Elementary in Prince George.

The new modular Giscome Elemen-tary will continue to accommodate students in Kindergarten to Grade

7. In contrast to portables, modular classrooms are a permanent solu-tion for school space and have a 40-year life span. They feature bright, open designs with high ceilings and windows for plenty of natural light and cross-ventilation. The Giscome modular will also utilize B.C. wood as much as possible.

The Prince George school district is working with the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George to determine a location for the new modular school.

The objective behind projects like this is to ensure students can go to school close to home.

In addition to Giscome Elementary, the B.C. government also is creating modular schools in Nisga’a, Nechako Lakes and Nicola-Similkameen to provide a new, modern learning envi-ronment for students in small com-munities.

All of these modular schools are expected to open in September 2013.

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Prince George-Valemount MLA Shirley Bond and Education Minister Don McRae announce the community of Giscome will soon have a new modular school to replace its elemen-tary school which was demolished this summer. From left to right: Regional District of Fraser-Fort George Chair Art Kaehn, Regional District of Fraser-Fort George Director Lara Beckett, Regional District of Fraser-Fort George Director Kevin Dunphy, MLA Shirley Bond, Education Minister Don McRae, District of Mackenzie Mayor Stephanie Killam, and Regional District of Fraser-Fort George Director Warren Wilson.

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“If we delay the discus-sions we’re really behind the eight-ball for getting the 2013 budget done. I’m really torn,” he said.

Coun. Murry Krause said he, too, was torn. He added his concern revolved around the mechanism that would be used to articulate the results of another public meeting and add them to what has already been gathered.

Coun. Frank Everitt said council has not yet made any decisions regarding the out-

come of the core review.“I want to assure you there

are no pre-determined solu-tions,” he said.

He added it is time for council to get the informa-tion that has been gathered.

“We need to boil it down and make some strong hard decisions,” he said.

This, he said, will mean taking a stand and some-times fighting for the results you want.

“It’s not just about cutting costs. It’s about bringing the focus back to do what we’re supposed to be doing, that the public wants us to do,”

Everitt said.“If we delay, that means a

delay all the way through,” Greens said.

A motion made by Frizzell to add to the public consulta-tion process was denied, with

Frizzell and Skakun support-ing the motion and all the other councillors opposed.

“Nothing is pre-deter-mined,” Green said. “I’m interested in the final report.”

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In Provincial Court in Prince George on June 28:

Nikkita A. John was found guilty of failing to comply with a pro-bation order and sen-tenced to one day in jail.

I r v i n K. Joseph was found guilty of assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon, sen-tenced to 90 days in jail, placed on proba-tion for 18 months and prohibited from pos-sessing firearms for 10 years. Joseph was also found guilty of unau-thorized possession of a restricted or prohib-ited weapon and utter-ing threats, sentenced to 90 days in jail and

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In Provincial Court in Prince George on June 29:

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was found guilty of

two counts of failing to comply with a pro-bation order and sen-tenced to five days in jail.

James W. Shanoss was found guilty of failing to comply with a condition of an under-taking, sentenced to 14 days in jail and placed on probation for 12 months.

In Provincial Court in Prince George on July 4:

Brandon A. Beck was found guilty of assault, assessed a vic-tim surcharge of $50 and placed on proba-tion for 12 months.

Jason W. Caldwell was found guilty of driving while sus-pended, fined $500, assessed a victim sur-charge of $75 and pro-hibited from driving for 18 months.

Jason K. Elder was found guilty of two counts of possession of a controlled sub-stance, fined $250 and assessed a victim sur-charge of $50.

Simon A. George was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order and fined $200.

Jessie L. Giroux was found guilty of failing to comply with a con-dition of an undertak-ing and sentenced to one day in jail.

Chad R. Harris was found guilty of utter-ing threats, sentenced

to 90 days in jail, placed on probation for 18 months, assessed a vic-tim surcharge of $50 and prohibited from possessing firearms for 10 years. Harris was also found guilty of break and enter, sen-tenced to 90 days in jail, assessed a victim surcharge of $50 and placed on probation for 18 months. Harris was also found guilty of theft of property with a value greater than $5,000, sentenced to 90 days in jail and assessed a victim sur-charge of $50. Harris was also found guilty of identity fraud and mischief and sen-tenced to 90 days in jail. Harris was also found guilty of failing to comply with a con-dition of an undertak-ing or recognizance, sentenced to one day in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $50.

Leonard J.J. Joseph was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order and three counts of failing to comply with a con-dition of an undertak-ing and sentenced to 14 days in jail.

Ranbir S.S. Lally was found guilty of driving without due care and attention, fined $500 and assessed a victim surcharge of $75.

Derek W. Leyen was found guilty of driving without due care and attention, fined $500 and assessed a victim surcharge of $75.

Anna M. Pettorosso was found guilty of theft of property with a value less than $5,000, received a con-ditional sentence of 45 days and was placed on probation for 18 months.

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This year the Union of B.C. Municipalities voted in favour of a resolution to decriminalize marijuana as well as study how to regulate and tax it. The resolution is similar in part to one for-warded by the Prince George Chamber of Com-merce at the provincial AGM in 2011.

Jennifer Brandle-McCall, the CEO of the Prince George chamber said their resolution was enti-tled Organized Crime in B.C. and took a look at the ties between money laundering and the drug trade.

“Our chamber put forward a resolution in 2011 to the B.C. chamber AGM and conference entitled Organized Crime in B.C. There were two aspects to that resolution. One was a focus on money laundering, the second on the drug trade and how those two interplay. It was voted down during the policy session. It was heavily discussed on the floor, but in the end it did not receive two-thirds majority as is required, so it did not go any further,” she said.

Part of the original resolution, which was amended many times during the discussion, suggested the provincial government review the regulations and laws that surround the

industries in B.C. hardest hit by money launder-ing. The second recommendation suggested the provincial government work with police boards to reduce the emphasis on marijuana in their service plans. Part of that meant working with the federal government to look at legislation to decriminalize marijuana, and if part of that was to legalize it, then that would be a recommenda-tion from province to the feds.

“But it was defeated, and therefor not a policy that was recommended to provincial govern-ment at the time,” Brandle-McCall said.

“And it was not a policy that came back last year, but I will say this year at the federal level there were a lot of informal conversations regard the decriminalization of marijuana and the pos-sibility of legalizing it,” Brandle-McCall, who just returned from Canadian chamber AGM in Ontario, said. “There seems to be an increased amount of discussion on the topic.”

The point of the resolution the Prince George chamber made in 2011, she said, was they wanted to at least get the conversation started.

“Starting the discussion was main gist of rea-son we brought it forward. Since we brought it forward we’ve seen a series of articles and in dif-ferent media outlets throughout the province,” she said.

Pot debate nothingnew for P.G. Chamber

The Prince George RCMP’s Serious Crime Section is requesting the public’s help with the investigation into the recent shooting of a man in Prince George.

The man was shot at a res-idence on Northwood Pulp Mill Road September 20.

Investigators are now ask-ing the public’s help to pro-vide information about any

erratic driving or suspicious vehicles observed between 3 and 4 p.m. on, or in the area of, Northwood Pulp-mill Road on September 20.

A 33-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman, both city residents and both known to police, were arrested and are facing several Criminal Code charges in connection to the shooting.

If you have any infor-mation that could further this investigation, please contact the Prince George RCMP at (250)561-3300 or anonymously contact Crime Stoppers at 1(800)222-TIPS (8477), online at www.p g c r i m e s t o p p e r s . b c . c a , or Text-A-Tip to CRIMES (274637) using keyword “pgtips”.

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Decriminalization of marijuana is not the answer. Legalization is … at least if we truly want to deal with the escalating destruction it wreaks in commu-nities across the land.

Delegates the Union of British Columbia municipalities last week voted, closely, for the federal government to move on decriminalizing marijuana.

There is a succinct difference between decriminalizing mari-juana and legalizing.

Decriminalizing marijuana would make possession a minor offence. Police would confiscate your stash, write you ticket, and you’d be on your way.

The primary benefit to decriminalizing marijuana is that it frees up time in our already massively court system. Simple possession would no longer require a court appearance. It frees up police time as well, as they would not be required to attend court for such offences.

However, the real devastating cost of marijuana in our com-munities lies in the fact it is the main source of income for organized crime. Decriminalizing marijuana doesn’t attack the problem of gangs and gang violence in our communities.

Legalizing it does. It won’t make gangs or organized crime go away, but it will remove a huge source of their revenue.

Decriminalizing marijuana is a perhaps a step to legalization, but the problems associated with marijuana won’t go away with simply decriminalizing it.

Coquitlam councillor Terry O’Neill made the point perfectly. He called decriminalization “the worst of all worlds,” protecting people from simple possession charges while leaving large-scale growing and sales in the hands of criminals.

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When they say “Daybreak” at the CBC, they mean it.

I was the guest of Betsy Trumpener on Daybreak yesterday morning at the ungodly hour of 6:45 a.m. I came on right after a piece about Justin Trudeau running for the Liberal leadership, so I’m pretty sure most of my right wing friends had already switched to 94X because they needed something to help them bang their heads.

I was asked to speak about last week’s column “A call for indepen-dents,” which was about the need/pos-sibility for more independent MLAs in the Legislature.

As former Fort St. John mayor Bruce Lantz tweeted me yesterday morning after the show; “journalists interviewing journalists, must have been a slow news day.”

I have to agree with him on that one, even though now I’m obviously part of the problem. Journalists interviewing journalists has always been one of my pet peeves.

One of the tricks is when something big happens in a small “close-knit” community (because they’re all close-knit when something tragic happens) is the big city media calls the local reporters and inter-views them, rather than interview, say, the people directly involved in the story.

Journalists aren’t experts in anything except jour-nalism so they shouldn’t be used as sources.

And, as testament to that, I’ve strayed way off topic.

It was actually fun going on the radio live. I was on the Meisner show once. He talked for 10 minutes and I think I got an “uh-huh” in before my time was up. Before that, the last time I was on radio was back in the Kootenays when the colour guy for a Western International Hockey League game in Nel-

son didn’t show up so they asked me to fill in. For some reason, I said “yes.” The regular announcer plopped a six-pack of beer on the floor and we pro-ceeded to call the game … or rather he called the game and I mumbled stuff when he stopped for a drink.

My column about more independents in the Leg-islature was prompted by a Twitter townhall, hosted

by independents Bob Simpson and Vicky Huntington. It was about democratic reform, not specifically having more inde-pendent MLAs.

One of the suggestions put forward at the townhall was to restart the Citizen’s Assembly on Electoral Reform … the

body that came up with the single transferable vote system. It was narrowly rejected by the electorate in a referendum.

That, however, shouldn’t be interpreted as a reti-cence for electoral reform. I think the public is still clamouring for it.

And, I predict that the calls start anew after the provincial election next spring. Here’s what I think will happen. Even with the BC Conservatives emerging from obscurity and the Greens still hold-ing some ground, I think we’ll have another major-ity government.

However, we’ll be back in world where less than 40 per cent of the popular vote can win a majority. That’s one of the things that spurs calls for electoral reform.

The sad part is that our system works well only for those in power.

Many politicians and political parties talk about electoral reform but do little about it because the system worked for them. So why change it?

It’s not working for British Columbians, that’s why.

Natural gas taxation revenues are down, way down, because the price (and therefore how much the province skims away) has dropped. Overall sales are down as well because of new supply hitting the market in the United States.

That’s blown a huge hole in the provincial budget and it’s any-one’s guess how finance minister Mike de Jong is going to plug it.

It’s bad news for the province but good news for the consumer. The more natural gas there is, the lower the price drops and the less the consumer pays.

To be sure, the provincial Liberals have slapped on a carbon tax affecting the total bill, but generally speaking, consumers are ben-efitting from lower natural gas prices.

The one area where natural gas pricing remains a problem is here in the northwest. We’re paying far more than elsewhere to have gas delivered to their homes because industrial users who once helped pay to maintain the Pacific Northern Gas pipeline have disappeared.

But a liquefied natural gas project at Kitimat, the smallest of the ones on the drawing boards, is designed to fill up the surplus pipe-line space.

When that happens, the money that project pays to run gas through the pipeline should then lower the price the rest of us pay.

The new project also means new revenue for the province. Could this be a rare occurrence – something that helps the government and us?

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Coffee with a reporterStories come to reporters in a variety of ways. News

releases, press conferences and phone calls are some. Sometimes you might think whatever story you have in mind isn’t worth a phone call or visit to the news-paper’s office, but is it worth a cup of coffee?

Reporter DeLynda Pilon would like the chance to hear what you have to say so every Friday at 11 a.m. she will be having a coffee break at Zoe’s Java House at 1251 Fourth Ave., and is hoping you will drop by to chat. Or just stop in and introduce yourself.

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BOB ZIMMERPrince George-Peace River MP

As we celebrate National For-est Week, I would like to take this opportunity to highlight our Conservative government’s unprecedented support for the Canadian forest and wood products industry.

This industry is not only an important part of our local heritage, but a critical economic driver and valued source of skilled employment. In fact, the forest industry accounts directly for 234,000 Canadian jobs – 53,000 of which are located here in British Colum-bia. Strategic investments by our Conservative government over the past six years are help-ing companies innovate and increase trade and Canadian jobs a home.

The measures put in place

by our government have helped result in a 1000 per cent increase in the value of Cana-dian softwood lumber exports to China between 2007 and 2011. Economic Action Plan 2012 committed $105 million over two years to continue our support of the forest industry’s ability to market products in key markets like Asia and Europe.

Our government also intro-duced the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program. In an unprecedented invest-ment in the forest and wood products industry, our govern-ment set aside $1 billion in funding to help pulp and paper companies improve energy efficiency and environmental performance of their mills. This program has funded 98 projects in 38 countries across Canada supporting over 14,000 jobs.

Here in Prince George-Peace River, two local mills have ben-efitted from this program. The Canfor Pulp Limited North-wood Pulp Mill received over $100 million for its Northwood Pulp Mill Green Transforma-tion Project and the Canfor Pulp Limited Prince George Pulp and Paper Mill received over $22.1 million to fund three projects – the Prince George Pulp Mill Odour Reduction Project, the Increased Biofuel Generation Project, and the Prince George Pulp Mill Green Transformation Project.

David Lindsay, President and CEO of Forest Products Association of Canada said earlier this week that this pro-gram is “a shining example of smart government policy” and “helped drive environmental improvements and allowed the Canadian industry to leverage

its strong green credentials in the international marketplace.”

Our government is commit-ted to working with the indus-try and the provinces to help strengthen opportunities for our forest sector to create jobs and economic growth. Over the next 10 years, as many as 600 projects worth more than $650 billion are planned or proposed in the natural resources sector across Canada.

Few countries are blessed with such an abundance of nat-ural resources. In fact, 10 per cent of the world’s forest cover is found here. Canada has more certified sustainably managed forests than any other country. Our Government will continue with our plans for Responsible Resource Development to sup-port jobs in forestry and the rest of the natural resource sector.

Are you in??Jack, our black-hatted cowboy, was

the one who invented the phrase, and it stuck. Whenever there is a call to arms in our households someone is bound to call out “are you in?” and a slew of hands will go up in the air. Often you don’t even know what you’re agreeing to - it could be a camping trip, a run to the local corner store or an afternoon cleaning up our homes. But if you don’t want to be left out, best you throw up a hand and say you’re in. Heck, even Matty, Jack’s enormous golden Lab, sits up on his haunches and raises his paws when someone asks if you are in.

However, being ‘in’ also generally means going somewhere. And when you go somewhere with the boys in our family, you are likely to wind up at least slightly embarrassed. Matter of fact, if you aren’t embarrassed they are likely to get a bit sad since they work so hard at it.

For instance, Merle, who has been known to make grown men tremble and cower with one stoney look, will often

skip-to-my-lou-my-darlin’ through gro-cery store isles. He did it once at the Mr. G’s while wearing a pair of underwear over his slacks.

Well, at least they were clean under-wear. Geez.

Kris came to pick me up at the office one day wearing a pair of jeans and an old Budweiser box with a Santa hat taped

to it over his head. ‘Hello Derwinda,’ he called in his best creepy voice, cheesy grin spread across his face. ‘Why you don’t introduce me to your friends?’

They both jumped in with Darby one day when she was

headed for Costco. Apparently my short little friend (she says she’s five feet tall, but I have my doubts) jumped out of the vehicle at the store and hightailed it away from the boys so quickly she would have made Speedy Gonzales’ head spin.

Of course, there is an up-side. Some mornings the boys are with me when I drop Vicky and Kat off at school.

I remember when my dad used to pick me up at PGSS when I was a teen. There’d be a long line-up of nice middle

class cars waiting in the parking lot. My dad would not be among them, looking all shiny and normal.

Nope, my dad would have his truck nosed up to the door, occasionally hitting the gas so the rusty beast wouldn’t stall. A cloud of black exhaust surrounded it.

But that wasn’t bad enough. The stereo would always be blaring,

usually playing Bruce Springsteen.And my dad? Was he sitting calmly

behind the steering wheel like all the other parents? Nope, he’d be waving wildly, a red bandana he saved just for picking me up at school tied around his hair. And he would sing. Loud. While honking and hollering questions to pass-ing students.

Him: Have you seen Delynda any-where? Delynda Pilon? Can you tell Delynda Pilon that her Daddy-kins is here?

So I do take a perverse pleasure in dropping off Kat and Vicky while Merle and Kris call out ‘Bye! Love you! Bye!’ in their best creepy voices, promising to chase after them.

Vicky just drops her head and tries her best to pretend she doesn’t even exist.

Kat will try and pretend she’s not embar-rassed at all, sending back her own cat-calls. However, you can’t hide the pink cheeks nor the extra fast walk.

Now the boys know Vicky is in band and Kat is in drama, they are looking for-ward to concerts and plays.

So am I. I have a feeling neither PGSS nor Duchess Park have witnessed fans like these before.

I’m sure the embarrassment will be epic, but that’s okay.

Our big crazy family might be filled with nut bars, as Kris says, but it’s also filled with love, acceptance and friend-ship, the kind of things that keep you warm on frosty fall mornings.

They are the same things that keep you walking when you think you are too tired to take one more step, smiling when the world seems intent on tearing you down and hopeful when the skies are dark and grey.

When you have good friends, you can do anything.

Even embarrass boys who seem immune to it. I am going to accomplish this, I swear I will. Vicky, Kat, Dallas, Pat and Darby - Are you in??

Life inLife inthe fatthe fatlanelane

DELYNDAPILON

All in for a slightly embarrassing ride

Celebrating National Forest Week

Prince George-Peace River MP Bob Zimmer


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SHOW POSTPONEDThe Charlie Daniels

Band show scheduled for Oct. 28 at the CN Centre has been postponed. The local show is one of five Canadian dates cancelled. Refunds for the Oct. 28 CN Centre show will be available through the Ticletmaster point of purchase as of Oct. 3. There are plans to reschedule the shows, but no dates have been announced.

URBAN FARMINGWhether you just want

to feed yourself with a backyard garden or possibly turn it into some extra income, drop by the downtown branch of the Prince George Public Library on Oct. 4 for a free talk on Urban Farming. Don Basserman will talk about growing and gathering foods in the city, have some of his harvest available to sample, and give tips on how to make an income from your backyard garden. The talk runs from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and is free.

CNC MARKETCNC will be holding its

first Fall Harvest Market on Oct. 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the atrium. The event is open to the public, and up to 20 vendors are expected to be on hand.

Free PressPlaybill Getting the story behind the song

When April Wine takes the stage at the CN Centre on Oct. 17 for Rocktoberfest, Brian Green-way knows what songs they’ll be playing.

He’s just not sure how long the show is going to last.

“It can be anywhere from 90 minutes to two hours,” says the guitarist for the legendary Cana-dian rockers. “A lot depends on how talkative Myles (Goodwyn) is feeling that night.”

Greenway says Goodwyn, depending on the mood he’s in, has been known to spin some great stories about songs the group is playing.

“It’s never boring,” he says, when asked if he sometimes feels inclined to take a nap while Goodwyn is talking. “It’s not scripted, so there’s always some-thing new.”

The Prince George date is one of the first on the band’s current tour, which starts Oct. 11 in Van-couver.

“We’ll get out there a couple of days earlier,’ Greenway said. “We’re getting older now, and it’s nice to have a day or so to relax and adjust to the time change.”

In the late 1980s, April Wine split up for a few years before reforming in 1992. Goodwyn and Greenway both released solo projects during that time, but don’t expect to hear any of those songs at CN Centre.

“We don’t do any of the solo stuff. It’s all April Wine, from the big albums – First Glance, Harder...Faster, and The Nature of the Beast – and we do some older stuff too.”

For Greenway, like so many growing up in the 1960s, the Beatles turned him on to music –

and to guitars.“I realized guitar was where

it was when the Beatles were around. I remember going to a summer camp in 1965 and one of the instructors had a guitar. I didn’t know how to play it, but I would just sit there and pluck the strings. That’s how I got started.”

Besides the Beatles, Greenway says his own musical tastes were solid musicians.

“I got into Eric Clapton early, when he was still with John May-all and the Bluesbreakers. I loved early Procol Harum, just the

orchestral sound of their songs. I was into Ritchie Blackmore and Jimi Hendrix.”

He remembers one concert experience clearly.

“I was sitting centre stage, four rows back for a Hendrix show. It just sounded so good.”

April Wine plays about 60 shows a year now, but Greenway cautions you have to “multiply that be about three to account for travel and everything.” Those shows are arena shows (like CN Centre) or outdoor festivals. Playing those venues has some definite advantages, he says.

“We don’t do bars anymore. I still remember one drunk guy who kept asking us to play Brown-Eyed Girl. I don’t think he had the slightest idea who we were.”

He pauses for a second.“Or maybe he just wanted to

hear what our version would sound like.”

Tickets for the Rocktoberfest show on Oct. 17 at CN Centre, featuring Myles Goodwyn and April Wine, are on sale at all Ticketmaster locations. This is a cabaret concert, limited to those 19 and over.

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Role players of the north will have a chance to put their skills to the test on Oct. 20 and 21.

Those are the dates for NPC-Con, the role-playing gaming convention for the north.

The event is set for Knox United Church, 1448 Fifth Ave., start-ing at 9 a.m. each day.

There will be table-top role playing, live action role playing and board games, and all skill levels are welcome, as are cos-tumes.

There will be a wide variety of games available, with skilled gamemasters in charge of each one,

but there will also be chances to sit down and play a quiet two-person game if that’s what you prefer.

It’s $15 a day or $20 for the weekend, and student discounts are available.

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Overnight rain left the Prince George Civic Plaza damp on Sunday morning. But the mood was any-

thing but dark.Enthusiasm was evi-

dent with runners and walkers showing off pink for the CIBC Run for the Cure, the larg-est single-day fund-raiser for the Canadian

Breast Cancer Founda-tion.

Co-run director Renee McCloskey reported that 475 peo-ple participated in the event, with a total of $84,335.07 raised.

“It’s so great. It’s a day for the community to come together and celebrate the survi-vors who have battled through breast can-cer, and a chance to honour the memory

of those we’ve lost,” she said, “create some awareness to help pro-mote early detection and raise money for research so we hope-fully don’t have to be talking about breast cancer in 20 years.”

Both the participa-tion and money totals were slightly down from 2011, when the Run for the Cure had 540 participants and raised close to $130,000.

“It’s down a bit from the last few years, but there seems to be a trend across the prov-ince,” McCloskey said. “But obviously those that were here were here to have fun and raise money, so we were grateful for everyone who showed up.”

Sunday marked the 21st annual Run for

the Cure, with Prince George one of 60 par-ticipating communities nation-wide. As the only B.C. city north of Kamloops staging the run, it draws partici-pants from throughout the region.

“I haven’t got a breakdown today,” McCloskey said. “But we traditionally see people from Vander-hoof, Fort St. James, Mackenzie, Quesnel.”

After final regis-tration and donation drop-offs, Sunday’s event began with Opening Ceremonies. Breast cancer survivor Janice Walberg, who works as a teacher, gave an speech on her successful battle with the disease. After a group warm-up ses-sion, participants went to the start line, with the run and walk

beginning at about 10:15 a.m. Each par-ticipant finished one of two distances, a 5 km or 1 km route.

Participants were offered food and refreshments, while musical entertainment was also provided. An awards celebration and survivor parade also took place.

The national event raises tens of millions of dollars. In the 2011 CIBC Run for the Cure, Canadians raised more than $30 million. The support of over 170,000 participants allows the CBCF to continue research, edu-cation, awareness and advocacy initiatives. The support extended beyond national bor-ders in 2011 with the first international run in Kandahar, Afghani-stan.

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Sitting in the front row

When I interviewed Michelle Wright a few weeks ago, she asked if we had spoken before.

I told her I had interviewed her a few times, then asked if she remem-bered her visits to the Merritt Mountain Music Festival. When she said yes, I told her I was the fellow in the front row in the interview room who was asking almost all the questions.

Then she remembered me.It was funny how that happened. I was at

almost every Merritt festival, but so were a number of other reporters. I went to all the press gatherings before the artists went on stage, but so did a few of the others.

Somehow, I ended up being the one asking most of the questions. It got to the point where the person organizing the interview would, before the artist came in, ask, “Does anyone besides Allan have any questions?”

Some of the artists noticed. Henry Paul of the group Blackhawk answered one of my questions, then turned to the rest of the group and said, “Don’t the rest of you have any ques-tions?”

“Yes,” replied one of the other reporters, “but he’s asking all the good ones.”

I had other reporters ask me how I managed to come up with good questions for each of the six or seven artists we might see during a day. I didn’t really have an easy answer.

Some of them I had interviewed before the festival, so I knew a few things I could ask them about. Sometimes I fell back on ‘routine’ questions, like how busy their summer was or where they were on their next album.

It was also kind of funny how many of the artists recognized me as the years went by. If I had interviewed someone by phone ahead of time, I tried to make a point of going up to them after the interview at the festival and introducing myself.

They usually remembered me, for some reason. There was one year where four artists in a row, as they came into the interview area, waved to me or said “Hi”. I think some of the other reporters were wondering why I merited that attention when I wasn’t from a big-city paper. (I was working in Kamloops most of those years.)

Maybe they remembered me because I was the loudmouth dominating the interview.

I prefer to think they remembered me as the fellow with the good questions.

Allan’sAmblings

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The Prince George Community Founda-tion in partnership with the TrueSport Foundation and the JW McConnell Foun-dation are pleased to announce the success-ful grant recipients for this year’s program.

Earlier this year we announced that the Prince George Com-munity Foundation was one of 10 Com-munity Foundations across Canada who were chosen to intro-duce the program in our community. A series of community consultations were held with prospective organizations who wanted to make an impact on the prem-ise that Good Sport should be a positive experience, should be welcoming and inclu-sive, and should be values driven.

TrueSport is a social movement whose goal is to help sport live up to its full poten-tial – making a sig-nificant contribution to the development of youth, the well-being of individuals, and the quality of life in our communities. At the heart of True Sport is a simple idea … good sport can make a great difference.

“Together we are pleased to announce that there were many, very solid, proposals that came together, partnerships were formed and great pro-grams offering sustain-ability and broad reach will be available to our community because of this,” said Judy Neiser, executive director for the foundation.

A total of $18,000 was granted from TrueSport. In addition, anonymous donors, existing funds such as the Road to the Roar Legacy Fund, the Scott Tournament of Hearts 2004 Fund and the Sports Legacy Fund held with the Commu-nity Foundation were able to provide the 75 cents match on these funds and the remain-der of 50 cents on each dollar was provided through volunteer time, donations of lumber, supplies and equipment.

“In total we will see over $70,000 worth of funding at work in the community from the initial grant of $18,000 that we have received from True Sport.”

Because the pro-

gram operates on the premise of Asset Based Community Develop-ment, it forces us to see what we have in the way of facilities, equipment, expertise and manpower avail-able.

“We are so fortu-nate in Prince George to have a broad spec-trum of facilities, great resources, and wonder-ful volunteers,” Neiser said. “In addition we are thankful to donors who have come for-ward to help with the cash match portion of the program.”

The programs are as follows:

• Run Jump Throw, to Hit Swing Score, $3,500; a partner-ship with the City of Prince George, District #57, and PacificSport Northern BC, which will see six of the local community associa-tions provided with equipment to promote tennis, golf, and curl-ing by trained recre-ation volunteer lead-ers.

• Sports for a Healthy Hart $2,000; a partner-ship with the City of Prince George and the Hart Community will see the replace-ment of both indoor and outdoor outdated and badly worn equip-ment for the volunteer run neighbourhood programs for ages 3 to 65.

• The Prince George Family Y $3,000; together with the Ryan Shiels Memorial Fund will offer an expanded program promoting outdoor recreation through the City’s parks that will be open to the general public at no cost. Additionally

current programs for youth leadership that are enhanced by out-door recreation will be supported through this grant.

• Field of Dreams, Miracle on Ice; $4,000; to the BC New Hope Recovery society in conjunction with the Baldy Hughes Treat-ment Facility this grant will be utilized to repair the hockey arena and ball fields currently on the site for all the residents, work crew, and families to enjoy. It will also see spectator seating built and be a project where the labour is provided by the volunteer resi-dents.

• Rings Rocks and Rolls $4,000; to Active Support Against Pov-erty who will work with the PG Curling Club to introduce this sport at a young age by developing their existing junior curling program and expand it beyond their tradi-tional attendees. This will offer the oppor-tunity to those indi-viduals who could not otherwise afford the registration fees.

An added compo-nent of it will be the purchase of equip-ment for wheelchair and blind curling.

• Ricochet Recre-ation $1000; to Project Friendship who cur-rently reach out to disabled particpants and those who are in need of developing social skills to assist with their integration into maintstream com-munity associations through sport or simu-lated sport.

This program will see a TV and Xbox bun-

dle purchased to pro-vide animated sport in a controlled environ-ment. This program is offered to a variety of ages and abilities year round where fair

play and good sport is essential.

We hope each and every resident of Prince George will benefit from the pro-posals accepted.

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Operation Red Nose is getting a bit of an early jump on the holiday party season this year.

The first night of operation for the service, which gets people home safely with their vehicles, will be Nov. 30, and the volunteers will be on the road Friday and Saturday nights until Dec. 22 before returning for the biggest night of the year – New Year’s Eve.

“In order to meet last year’s demand and even exceed it,” said spokesperson Andrea Johnson, “we’d like to have 300 volunteers this year to ensure we reach as many clients as possible.”

In 2011, the local Operation Red Nose had 252 vol-unteers and finished the season with 1,035 rides.

On average, about 15 teams of three will be on the road each evening, working from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m., as well as other volunteers at the office answering phones.

Applications are now available for anyone who would like to volunteer. They can be found online at www.ornpg.ca. Fill out the information, print it out and drop it off at the Community Policing Office on Brunswick Street.

Volunteers must be 19 years old and fill out a criminal record check, which is included in the application process.

This is the 15th year for Operation Red Nose in Prince George, organized by the Rotary Club of Prince George - Nechako.

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NATIONAL SILVERBarbie Conway brought

home a silver medal from the Special Olympics Canada national golf championship, held in Hamilton, Ont. on Friday and Saturday.

Conway was placed in the women’s second division and finished second with a score of 72.

A member of the Prince George branch of Special Olympics British Columbia, Conway also competes in cross-country skiing, swimming and track and field.

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On the weekend in Langley, the Cougars defeated the Valley West Hawks 5-4 on Saturday and 4-3 on Sunday.

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SportsShorts UNBC loses Amani for season

The UNBC Timber-wolves’ most significant loss of the Canada West soccer season didn’t come in the form of a final score.

It’s much worse than that.

During the second half of Sunday’s 1-0 loss at home against the Leth-bridge Pronghorns, star midfielder Sourosh Amani went down with a season-ending broken lower right leg. Chasing a loose ball in the 70th min-ute, Amani collided with Pronghorns goalkeeper Tyler Boast. Boast landed on top of Amani’s leg.

Amani went in to hos-pital for surgery on a broken fibula and tibia. Timberwolves head coach Alan Alderson figures it’ll take a full year for him to recover.

“The tough thing about that is, as you guys are aware, Amani is by far our best player, probably one of the best players in CIS (Canadian Interuni-versity Sport),” he said. “He’s a fantastic player, he’s an incredibly well liked teammate, he works hard, he’s a great attitude, very positive kid, so that’s a devastating blow to all of us because you never like to see somebody go down hurt. When it’s your best player and one of your favourite team-mates, that’s a blow for sure and the last part of the game there, you just want time to go by quickly

so the game can be over, and we can go see him at the hospital and see what he’s up against.”

The injury resulted in a half hour delay. Timber-wolves staff aided Amani until ambulance arrived to transport him to hos-pital.

The Timberwolves showed energy and pas-sion in the first few min-utes after play resumed. But Pronghorns mid-fielder Dominic Point du Jour scored the game’s lone goal in the 75th min-ute, and facing a deficit without their best player on the pitch, UNBC had a difficult time coming back. They had a few chances, but weren’t able to capitalize.

“Missing a player like Amani is going to hurt us, without a doubt,” Alderson said. “However again, as a team, we’ll have to find ways to grow and improve, to try our hardest and see what we can do.”

On Saturday, the Tim-berwolves were blanked 5-0 by the Calgary Dinos. The weekend results dropped the their Canada West record to 0-8.

“(Saturday), despite the score line, the first half was one of the best halves of the season,” Alderson said. “The first three min-utes we had three great chances to score, and it seemed like every time they had a chance it was in the back of our net and deflections and whatever else. I was actually very happy with our effort and

our performance (on Sat-urday).”

The Timberwolves are the only squad in the 11-team men’s conference without a point. The Win-nipeg Wesmen (0-7-1) had to forfeit two wins and a tie due to an ineligible player, but managed a 2-2 tie against the Trin-ity Western Spartans on Saturday in Winnipeg. Like UNBC, Winnipeg is a first-year entry in the Canada West Universities Athletic Association. The Calgary-based Mount Royal Cougars (2-6) are also in their first year in the league.

While Calgary sports a 2-4-1 mark, Sunday’s win improved Lethbridge’s record to 3-2-2.

“I think technically we’re very strong,” said long-time Pronghorns head coach Randy Bar-dock, in his 21st season guiding the team. “We’re very young though, so with that comes some ups and downs. But I thought we dealt with the long trip real well.”

The Timberwolves have passed the halfway point of their regular season. After a road doubleheader against the UBC Thun-derbirds on Friday and

Saturday, they’ll return to Prince George for their final home weekend, a two-game set against the Fraser Valley Cascades on Oct. 13 and 14. They wrap up their schedule on the road with games at Mount Royal (Oct. 20) and Winnipeg (Oct. 21).

On the women’s side, the Timberwolves were in Alberta on the weekend for a pair of games. After tying Mount Royal 2-2 in Calgary on Saturday, they dropped a 6-0 decision to the Alberta Pandas in Edmonton on Sunday.

For more on the UNBC women, turn to A17.

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Lethbridge Pronghorns defender Brett Silbernagel, left, chases a ball back in his zone with UNBC Timberwolves midfielder Sourosh Amani behind him during the second half of Sunday’s soccer game, just seconds before Amani collided with Pronghorns goalkeeper Tyler Boast and suffered a season-ending leg injury.

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The Prince George Spruce Kings knew their three-game southern interior road swing would be a challenge.

The results indicate points weren’t easy to come by. While the B.C. Hockey League trip started off with a decisive 5-2 win against the Vernon Vipers on Friday evening, what followed was a pair of losses, 6-2 against the Merritt Centennials on Saturday and 4-3 against the Penticton Vees on Sunday.

The setbacks were the first and sec-ond regulation defeats of the Spruce Kings’ season. Their record sits at four wins, two losses, one tie and one over-time defeat (4-2-1-1). They’re second in the five-team Mainland Division, two points behind the Coquitlam Express (6-2-0-0).

On Sunday in Penticton, the Spruce Kings battled back with two late goals. But after forward Lyndon Martell scored their third goal at 17:49 of the final frame, they were unable to score the equalizer.

Forward Chad Staley recorded the Spruce Kings’ second goal, his marker coming just 30 seconds before Martell’s tally. Forward Liam Board collected the other goal for the visitors, opening the scoring at 3:43 of the first period.

The Vees tallied four unanswered goals. James De Haas and Sam Mellor had singles, while Michael Rebry had a pair, including the game-winner at 12:12 of the third period. Rebry’s game win-ner came off a penalty shot.

The Spruce Kings outshot the Vees 28-23, including 15-3 in the third period. Spruce Kings rookie Liam McLeod took the loss in net, while Chad Katunar recorded the win in the Vees’ goal.

Twenty-year-old veteran goalie Kirk Thompson recorded the win for the Spruce Kings in Vernon. Thompson and McLeod each saw time in their defeat at Merritt.

Special teams provided a boost to the Vees on Sunday. In addition to the pen-alty shot goal, Mellor’s second period

marker came on the power play, the home team finishing 1-for-5 with the man advantage. They were also effec-tive on the penalty kill, as the Spruce Kings ended up 0-for-3 on the power play.

Sunday’s victory improved the Vees record to 7-1-0-0, their only defeat a 4-2 setback against the Spruce Kings on Sept. 15 at the Coliseum. They sit atop the 16-team BCHL with 14 points.

Midway through a stretch of six con-secutive road games, the Spruce Kings are in the Lower Mainland this weekend for a trio of divisional games. After hit-ting the ice Friday evening for their first meeting of the season against the Surrey Eagles (4-3-0-1), the Spruce Kings meet the Langley Rivermen (3-2-0-1) in a doubleheader on Saturday and Sunday.

The Spruce Kings will return home for a pair of games at the Coliseum the following weekend, Oct. 12 against the Island Division’s Powell River Kings and Oct. 13 against the Eagles.

Spruce Kings lose twice on road■ BC HOCKEY LEAGUE

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Prince George Spruce Kings goalie Liam McLeod puts his stick down in an effort to keep the puck out, while a couple of players battle in front of him during their B.C. Hockey League road game on Saturday evening in Merritt. The home team, the Merritt Centennials, downed the Spruce Kings 6-2.

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wolves are still seek-ing their first Canadian Interuniversity Sport soccer victory.

But on Saturday in Calgary, they came the closest yet to picking up three points. In Can-ada West women’s soc-cer action, the Timber-wolves held a two-goal advantage early in the second half and one-goal lead late in their road game against the Mount Royal Cougars.

The teams played to a 2-2 tie. But with the game-tying goal com-ing in the 84th minute, a marker by Kelsey Kin-zner, UNBC missed the win by slightly more than five minutes.

The Timberwolves’ second tie of the sea-son, the point improves their record to 0-6-2. Mount Royal is also winless, but has a bet-ter winning percentage with a 0-4-2 mark. The

Timberwolves’ other point was also collected on the road, a scoreless tie against the Winni-peg Wesmen (0-7-1) in their first Canada West game on Sept. 8. The Cougars’ other tie was against their city rivals, the Calgary Dinos (1-3-3), on Sept. 16.

The Cougars and Timberwolves sit 11th and 12th respectively in the 13-team Canada West Universities Ath-letic Association wom-en’s soccer standings, ahead of only Winni-peg. Mount Royal and Winnipeg are also first-year entries in Canada West, as the division expanded by three teams this year.

Against a stronger Alberta Pandas team in Edmonton on Sunday, the Timberwolves were blanked 6-0.

With only four reg-ular-season games left, UNBC concludes its

six-game home sched-ule this weekend. The Timberwolves meet Calgary on Saturday and the Lethbridge Pronghorns (1-6) on Sunday. Each game starts at noon at the North Cariboo Fields.

While the Timber-wolves were unable to hang onto the lead on Saturday, the Cou-gars had no shortage of chances. UNBC goal-keeper Jordan Hall offi-cially made 21 saves, but according to the Cougars’ stat sheet, she faced 35 shots from the opposition.

The Cougars’ Kelsey Marklund was credited with one save.

The UNBC goals came from a couple of rookies. Sidney Roy, with her second of the year, opened the scor-ing at the 26th minute. Jessica Manning gave the visitors a 2-0 lead at the 52nd minute.

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the home team on the board.


Darren Hards, 14, hits a return during a badminton rally at the Northern Sport Centre on Saturday. Badminton was among a variety of sports offered as part of PacificSport Northern BC’s SportZ Xtravaganza, held in con-junction with CBC’s Sports Day in Canada, a national celebration of sport at all levels.

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October has started. That means playoff baseball.

Yes, the Major League Baseball playoffs get under-way this week. Friday marks the beginning of a new for-mat, as MLB introduced a second wildcard team in each league this season.

At first, I wondered how necessary it was to have a second wildcard team. I won-dered if it was really worth adding two more playoff teams for only a pair of extra games.

My attitude has changed. The new format rewards the top teams in the American League and National League more. While each wildcard squad will field its stron-gest lineup, and pitchers, in Friday’s one-game playoff, division winners will use the extra time to rest up and pre-pare. For the top two teams, they’ll face opposition that had to win an elimination game two days earlier.

What makes the new for-mat appealing to fans is the thrill of a one-game playoff. We’ve seen how successful the National Football League has done with its playoffs,

which begin with a wild-card round. Not only is it a win for the fans, but the top teams benefit as well.

This format also makes those divi-sional battles more excit-ing.

Take a look at the previ-ous format, which had single wildcard berths in the AL and NL. If the top two teams were in a close battle for the division, but had playoff spots secured, they’d focus more on resting up for the playoffs. There was less incentive to win the divi-sion, with home field in the best-of-five Division Series the biggest incentive to win. With the new format, win-ning the division means a playoff spot and no wildcard game.

After each one-game wild-card playoff is complete, the remainder of the playoffs will run the same as it has in past years. The other divisional winners (No. 2 vs. No. 3) will also meet, for a total of four best-of-five sets. Those

winners will play in best-of-seven

series for the AL and NL Championship titles.

The best-of-seven World Series is scheduled to get underway on Oct. 24. The

NL representative will get home field advantage since the National League defeated the Ameri-can League in this year’s All-Star Game in July.

Baseball in November? It’ll only happen if the playoffs go the distance. If that occurs, then Game 7 of the World Series will take place Nov. 1.

Change isn’t a bad thing. Having looked deeper into this, I think MLB hit a homerun with this move.

HARD LOSSIt was hard to watch. I

could only imagine the pain UNBC men’s soccer player Sourosh Amani went through on Sunday.

As a sports reporter and pho-tographer, I spend a lot of time on the sidelines. I get a close view of the action, often closer than many of the spectators watching.

I’ve seen my share of inju-ries unfold in person. But I don’t recall any being as hard to look at as Amani’s broken lower leg on Sunday, the result

of a collision with Lethbridge Pronghorns goalie Tyler Boast. He screamed in pain and fell back on the ground. The setback delayed the game for nearly a half hour as Timberwolves staff attended to the injured star while players, coaches and spec-tators quietly waited. The game resumed after an ambulance lifted Amani to hospital.

On Sunday evening, Amani had surgery for a broken right fibula and tibia.

If you don’t feel bad for Amani and his teammates, you have no heart. The Timber-wolves already had a mountain to climb this year, the men’s and women’s soccer teams making the jump to the next level in their inaugural Canada West campaign.

Amani was a prized recruit for UNBC, no doubt their best all-around player. Just the previ-ous weekend, he scored both Timberwolves goals in a pair of losses. After those games, Alder-son talked about the value of Amani, effective at all positions that aren’t goalkeeping.

Amani is done for the year. The long-term picture isn’t clear. But hopefully he can make a full recovery in time for the 2013 season because he doesn’t want his tenure playing soc-cer at UNBC to be remem-bered by this.

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The Prince George Cougars were fewer than 10 seconds away from starting their Western Hockey League season a per-fect 4-0.

The Seattle Thunder-birds needed only two minutes and nine sec-onds to turn a 1-0 defi-cit into a 2-1 victory. They stunned the home team with an overtime triumph at CN Centre.

“The game is 60 min-utes long and that’s the lesson that we learned on Saturday night there,” Cougars assis-tant coach Jason Becker said.

With a 4-3 come from behind win in their home opener on Friday evening, the Cats car-ried momentum into Saturday’s contest. They opened their reg-ular-season schedule with a doubleheader sweep at Everett, Wash. on Sept. 22 and 23.

“Obviously three out of four isn’t a bad weekend,” Becker said. “But being that close to getting four points on the home-opening weekend, it would’ve been even that much better for us.”

Defenceman Shea Theodore was the over-time hero on Saturday evening, scoring two minutes into the extra session. Forward Seth Swenson recorded the tying goal with nine and a half seconds left in regulation time.

On the goal that forced overtime, Swen-son batted a loose puck out of the air. Becker described the play as a scramble with “prob-ably four or five bodies in front of the net.”

“With the game, it was a pretty back and forth game. Both teams had lots of chances,” he said. “I think we had some good quality chances on the power play during the game and we didn’t capital-ize. I believe we hit three posts in the first period and that kind of came back to haunt us obviously in the last 10 seconds of the game there. There’s a goalmouth scramble and anytime there’s a scramble there, on a 6-on-5 faceoff, some-times that happens and unfortunately that hap-pened to us.”

Second-year player Alex Forsberg has found chemistry on the top forward line with first-year Cougar

Colin Jacobs, and the teammates connected again on the scoresheet on Saturday. Forsberg opened the scoring with two minutes left in the second period, Jacobs picking up the second assist on the marker. Overage forward Brock Hirsche recorded the first helper.

Forward Daulton Siwak scored the game winner on Fri-day evening, a power-play marker with 2:15 remaining in the sec-ond period. The goal broke a 3-3 tie, and was the third consecutive Cougars’ marker, as they turned a two-goal deficit into a one-goal advantage with three goals in a span of 3:01.

Devon Fordyce recorded the win in goal on Friday evening, and the Cougars went back with the second-year netminder on Sat-urday night. Rookie Brett Zarowny skated between the pipes in both games the previ-ous weekend in Ever-ett.

The Cougars played without injured for-ward Chase Witala (bruised shoulder) on the weekend. Witala is expected to be back in the lineup for this weekend’s home dou-bleheader against the Kelowna Rockets. The teams will play on Fri-day and Saturday, 7 p.m. start times at CN Centre.

The Cougars have one more minor injury. Defenceman Marc McNulty has an upper body injury, the status for his return listed at day-to-day.

NOTES: Home opener – The

Cougars’ regular-sea-son home opener typi-cally draws a larger than average crowd. Friday evening was no exception.

The announced attendance for the first

game against Seattle was 4,238. The total is slightly lower than the previous two home openers, with 4,530 last year (against the Victo-ria Royals) and 5,095 in 2010 (against the Van-couver Giants).

Prior to the home opener, the Cougars held a tailgate party outside CN Centre. Fri-day’s contest was also the Pink Power Play game, with the Cougars and spectators support-ing the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.

Funds from golf – A total of $25,156.30 was presented to the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation at centre ice before the opening faceoff on Friday eve-ning. The funds came from the inaugural Prince George Cougars Alumni/Hospital Pro-Am Golf Tournament at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club on Aug. 16 and 17.

Key addition – Jacobs, a forward acquired in the offsea-son from the Seattle Thunderbirds, has pro-vided a boost to the Cougars’ offence. He sits tied for the WHL lead in points with nine (four goals and

five assists). Among his tallies is a penalty shot marker recorded in Fri-day’s game.

Return – The two-game set marked the return of defenceman Jesse Forsberg, dealt to Seattle for Jacobs in the summer. Jesse, Alex’s older brother and last year’s Cougars cap-tain, was held off the scoresheet.

Attendance – As expected, the Cougars’ announced attendance took a drop on Satur-day, with 1,971 specta-tors taking in the sec-ond half of the double-header.

Schedule – After this

weekend’s set against the Rockets, the Cou-gars will enter a dif-ficult stretch, with five of their following six games on the road. They take on a three-game Central Divi-sion road swing, with games against the Kootenay Ice (Oct. 10), Lethbridge Hurricanes (Oct. 12) and Medicine Hat Tigers (Oct. 13). Then they return home to play another Cen-tral Division team, the Calgary Hitmen (Oct. 16), before road games against the Kelowna Rockets (Oct. 18) and Spokane Chiefs (Oct. 20).

BC Hydro is undertaking the construction of two underground concrete duct banks in Prince George. One ductbank will be 225 meters in length and will be constructed along 5th Avenue and Dominion St. The other ductbank will be 450 meters in length and will be constructed along Carney and 1st Avenue. These underground ductbanks are required to modernize BC Hydro’s infrastructure. The ductbanks will be buried within the municipal roadbeds. All roads listed above, including sidewalks and curbs, will be impacted to facilitate the installation.

Construction is scheduled to start Monday October 1st, 2012 and will run from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday to Saturday inclusive. Work is estimated to be complete in approximately three weeks on or about October 20th, 2012.

Traffic management and rerouting during the proposed three week construction window will be required to balance the safety practices of BC Hydro’s contractor with the continuation of daily activities for the public. Roads, sidewalk and curbs will be restored.

Construction is scheduled to start Monday October 1st, 2012. For further information, please contact Bob Gammer at 250 561 4858.

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Qualifi ed applicants are invited to send their resumes by email only, to Paula

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The ability to provide excellent customer service to homeowners and contractors and assist the store manager with marketing initiatives for the fl ooring department are key priorities. The position also requires a general knowledge of building materials and the ability to work in a computerized environment.

Houston is located in the beautiful Bulkley Valley, 50 km east of Smithers. There are outstanding opportunities for year-round outdoor recreation activities. Assistance with relocation will be considered for the right person.

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PRINCE GEORGE NATIVE

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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 a candidate for the following position within our organization:

Youth & Community Services:

Helping Handz Facilitator – PTClosing date: October 8, 2012 @ 12 Noon

A hard copy listing the roles, responsibilities and qualifi cations of the positions 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(s) you are applying for, to:

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.

Prince George Native Friendship Centre

1600 Third Avenue

Prince George, BC V2L 3G6

Fax: (250) 563-0924

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Passage Dragon Boat Society general meeting, Oct. 11, 7:00 p.m., Chronic Disease Management Room, hospital. Information: Betty 250-962-7985 or Anita 250-563-2949.Whist, Wednesdays,

7 p.m., Senior Activity Centre, 425 Brunswick St.Wing night

and karaoke, Wednesdays, 6-10 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion.B.C. Civil Liberties

meets second Wednesday of the month, 6 p.m., 2105 Pine St.CNC Retirees meet

fourth Wednesday, 9 a.m., D’Lanos. Information: Lois 250-563-6928.Army Cadet

Rangers free youth program, meets Wednesdays, 6:0-9:30 p.m., Connaught Youth Centre. Information: Sondra 250-963-9462 or Andrew 250-981-8270.

THURSDAYDayBreakers

Toastmasters meets Thursday, 7-8 a.m., Elder Citizens Recreation Association,1692 10th Ave. Information: Heather 250-649-9591.Plaza 400

Toastmaster Club meets Thursday, noon, Aleza room, fourth floor, Plaza 400 building, 1011 4th Ave. Information: 6252.toastmastersclubs.org/ or 250-564-5191.

Chess nights, Thursdays, 6-9 p.m., Books and Company. Information: Marilyn 250-562-9580.

Tai Chi classes, Thursday, 7-9 p.m., Knox United Church, 1448 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-964-3849.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.

Prince George Grassroots Cribbage Club registration, 6:30 p.m. play 6:45 p.m., Thursdays, Spruce Capital Recreation Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr. Information: Gerda 250-564-8561.

FRIDAYLive bands, Friday,

8 p.m.-midnight, Royal Canadian Legion.

SATURDAYHarvest Dinner,

Oct. 6, 5:30 p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors, 3701 Rainbow Drive. Information: 250-563-6450.Eat, Play, Laugh,

a celebration of our diverse community, Oct. 20, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Northern Sport Centre. Co-hosted

by AiMHi and the Northern Sport Centre.Flea market,

Saturdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 1156 Fourth Ave.Live bands,

Saturday, 8 p.m.-midnight, Royal Canadian Legion.

SUNDAYPancake

breakfast, Oct. 7, Hart Pioneer Center.Flea market,

Sundays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., 1156 Fourth Ave.Meat draw, Royal

Canadian Legion, 3-5 p.m., sponsored by Peace Keepers Proceeds to Alzheimer and MS societies and others.

MONDAYThanksgiving, Oct.

8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Huble Homestead Historic Site, 40km north of Prince George, off Highway 97 on Mitchell Road. Information: 250-564-7033.

Tai Chi, Mondays, 1:30 p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.Northern Twister

Square Dance Club meets Mondays, 7 p.m., St. Michael’s Church Hall. Information: Gys 250- 563-4828 or Reta 250-962-2740.

TUESDAYBridge, Tuesdays, 1

p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.Buddhist

meditation class, Tuesdays, 7:15-8:45 p.m., 320 Vancouver St. Information: 250-962-6876 or www.tilopa.org.Spruce Capital

Toastmasters meet Tuesdays, 7:25 p.m., 102-1566 7th Ave. Information: Tom 250-562-3402.Sweet Adelines

women’s four-part chorus meets Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., Studio 2880. New members welcome. Information: Kathleen

250-563-2975.

Hospital retirees meeting, first Tuesday of the month, 9 a.m., Prince George Golf Club. Information 250-563-7497 or 250-563-2885.

SUPPORT GROUPSDo you worry

about the way you eat? Overeaters Anonymous may have the answers. No weigh-ins, dues or fees. Monday, 7:30 p.m., hospital, Room 421. Call Shelley 250-612-3877.

Power Play, for children from newborns to five years old, Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Tuesdays, 1:30-3:30 p.m., South Fort George Family Resource Centre, 1200 La Salle Ave. Information: 250-614-9449.NorthBreast

Passage Dragon Boat Society meets first Thursday of the month, 7 p.m., Chronic Disease Management Room, UHNBC. Information: Anita 250-563-2949 or Betty 250-962-7985.

Crisis Line volunteers training starts Sept. 28. Information: Sandra 250-564-5736 or www.north–ernbccrisissuicide.ca.NCP workers

and retirees meet third Thursday of the month, 10 a.m., Pine Centre food court.Royal Purple meets

meets second and fourth Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Information: Dianne 250-596-0125 or Jeanette 250-563-9362.

Wednesday evening Tops (take off pounds sensibly), Spruceland Baptist Church, 1901 Ogilvie St.. Information: Leona 250-962-8802.Prince George

Genealogical Society meets the third Tuesday of the month, St. Giles Presbyterian Church, 1500 Edmonton St.

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. at the Health Unit auditorium. Information: Tammy 250-612-0085.PGRH retirees

breakfast, first Tuesday of the month, Prince George Golf and Curling Club. Information: 250-563-2885.Prince George

ATV Club meets third Tuesday of month, 7 p.m. Carmel Restaurant meeting room. Information: George 250-964-7907.Prince George

Healing Rooms - Are you hurting? Do you have health issues? Confidential prayers Monday noon-2 p.m. and 7-9 p.m No appointment necessary, located in the Prince George Pentecostal Church, 497 Ospika Blvd. Information: 250-617-9653.Free sports

and recreation, Wednesdays, 2 p.m.,

1160 7th Ave., ages 15-30. Information: 250-656-5278.Children’s choir,

Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Hartland Baptist Church. Information: 778-415-5000.Parents Together,

a mutual/self-help support group for parents of teens, meets Mondays, 7:30 p.m., Intersect (basement entrance). Information: Carmen 250-562-6639.

Tuesday night Tops (take off pounds sensibly) 6:15-7:15 p.m. weigh in, 7:30-8:30 meeting. Everyone welcome. Information: Marvene 250-962-8001 or 250-612-2031.DivorceCare,

a support group for persons going through a separation or divorce. To find out if this group is for you, call 250-564-6213. Group meets at Artspace, Room 202, Sundays at 5 p.m. Call about childcare.Prince George

Healing Rooms - Are you hurting? Do you have health issues? Confidential prayers Wednesday noon-2 p.m, All Nations Church, 1395 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-617-9653.COPD support

group meets Wednesday, 1 p.m., AiMHi. Information: Nancy 250-561-1393.


Free Press accepts Datebook submissions in written form only — dropped off, mailed or e-mailed. No phone calls please.

Free Press Datebook runs as space allows every Wednesday.No guarantee of publication.

Mail to 1773 South Lyon St., Prince George, B.C. V2N 1T3. E-mail [email protected]


Datebook

The Community Datebook provides free community event listings every Wednesday. Submissions are accepted in written form only – dropped off, mailed or emailed – No Phone Calls please. Datebook runs as space allows, there is no guarantee of publication. Mail to 1773 South Lyon St., Prince George BC V2N 1T3 E-mail [email protected]

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From June 1 to 29 all proceeds from the sales of the Smokehouse Daily Specials were earmarked toward the Lakeland Mills fundraising efforts and were matched dollar for dollar by the PGNFC. The Smokehouse raised $867.25 and the PGNFC matched this for a grand total of $1734.50.

“GIVE A LITTLE…GAIN A LOT!”

For information on volunteering with more than 100 non-profi t organizations in Prince George, contact Volunteer Prince George

250-564-0224www.volunteerpg.com

LACE Campaign - Oct 22-28LACE promotes regular Pap testing and screening for

cervical cancer during Pap Awareness Week hosting local clinics. Volunteers are needed to: spread the word, organize an outreach team or event, distribute fl yers and more.

Email [email protected]

Kidney Foundation of Canada - Oct 14

‘Give the Gift of Life Walk’ on Oct 14 at the Northern Sports Centre. Please come yourself

or bring a team to support those living with kidney disease.

Email [email protected] Paul 250-962-7958

Northern Bear AwarenessLooking for people who would like to give away their apples and crab apples or volunteers

to help pick fruit to donate. Contact [email protected]

Laura (778) 281-2327.

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This weeks McDonald’s Pic of the Week was submitted by Melissa Hotvedt. Melissa wins a $25.00 McDonald’s Gift Pack for providing the Pic of the Week. For your chance to win, email a picture of a resident of Prince George with your name and phone number, as well as the name of the person (people) in the photo, to [email protected] of the judges is fi nal. Prizes must be accepted as awarded. No substitutions.

A steaming hot bowl of borscht is exactly what the doctor ordered and is what Bob Guy was serving up at the Mennonite Fall Fair on Saturday in the Civic Centre.

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Giving an inspiring speech on Sunday morning at the

Civic Centre, breast cancer survivor Janice Walberg talks

about her battles with the disease shortly before the

start of the run and walk at the CIBC Run for the Cure.


The Prince George Ladies Golf and Curling Club presented PG Hospice Society with a cheque for $2,035.00 raised during the Ladies last Regular Golf Day. Left-Marcia Martinson, Donalda Carson, Chris Cooper

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