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Elaine Anselmi / Staff writerA wall of heat breaks up the cold northern air as a coal

forge burns away in the backyard of Kent Cummings’ Daw-son Creek home. The ironwork at the front of his house, and the small scars on his hands, are evidence of his dedication to his craft.

Cummings fi rst got into blacksmithing as a member of the historical reenactment community. He joined up with a group who dressed from the mountain men era, pouring black powder down Davy Crockett rifl es and shooting at tar-gets.

“Then I was with a group who did the voyageur fur-trad-ing era, where we’d take the big canoes and paddle the riv-ers,” said Cummings.

“I would see a bunch of guys making nails, and doing demos. From there, it went into blacksmithing, just making stuff for myself around camp: making tent poles, tripods. People started asking about it and I thought, rather than spending all my money going to these reenactments, why not make money at the reenactments?”

By 18 or 19 he was collecting the tools to begin offering blacksmithing demonstrations.

Elaine Anselmi / Staff writer

PEOPLE OF THE PEACE

Testing his metal

(Continued on page 2)

Kent Cummings says one of his prized pieces is his bed frame he spent a week making, as well as different pieces he forged with people who were signi� cant mentors. A future project he hopes to undertake is to forge his own anvil.

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At about 20 Cummings spent a weekend offering demonstra-tions in Michigan where four local blacksmiths took an inter-est in his work.

“Over the weekend I became really good friends with them. I spent some time with one of them up in northern Michi-gan,” said Cummings. “Him and his wife kind of adopted me as their Canadian son.”

The couple introduced Cummings to Dan Nickels, a blacksmith out of Traverse City, Michigan, who Cummings

would work for seasonally, for the better part of a decade, spending the summers at On-tario historic sites doing war of 1812 reenactments.

“I would go there for winter time and work as a traditional apprentice,” says Cummings. “He supplied me with a cot and food and I would work and learn.”

Cummings says Nickels - a Vietnam vet who turned to car-pentry, then blacksmithing - learned a lot of his trade while traveling in Europe.

“They’d go to Europe for vacation and he’d fi nd a local blacksmith shop while his wife was out site-seeing,” said Cum-mings. Some of the shops he worked in were sixth or seventh generation blacksmiths and Cummings noted one in Swe-den that dated back to medi-eval times.

“It seems like in North Amer-ica, the trade actually got lost with the Industrial Revolution,” said Cummings. “In Europe it never got lost.”

Although some blacksmiths specialize - he worked with a logging era blacksmith and Colonial Era blacksmith who made everything by hand, down to his saw blades and fi les - Cummings says he benefi ted from Nickels’ broad knowledge of the trade.

When Cummings started out blacksmithing at 16 years old, he had no one to learn the trade from and says he did a lot

of fumbling around. “Once I got the opportunity to learn, I was just a giant sponge and soaked up as much as I could,” he said. “Every time I learned some-thing I would go and practice it until it was burned into the back of my head.”

Having had the opportunity to learn under other black-smiths, Cummings has tried to share his own knowledge.

“One particular young guy, he used to come to the reenact-ments and he’d turn the blow-er on the forge for days,” said Cummings. “He would come around when he was about 10 or 11, and every time I would show up at a reenactment he’d come by and his parents were like, ‘is he bothering you?’ and I was like ‘no, he’s actually work-ing’.”

As the boy got a little older Cummings got him a forge, a few tools and an anvil so he could play around with black-smithing on his own.

“He went to college and be-came an electrician, but he still plays around with it a bit,” said Cummings.

Having completed his own education, Cummings said he didn’t need to rely on black-smithing alone for his liveli-hood.

“There were times it was dif-fi cult but I always had options,” he said. “Especially in summer-time, if it was slow, I would just go work on a farm. Then I went

would work for seasonally, for of fumbling around. “Once I got TESTING HIS METAL

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TESTING HIS METALto college for welding and equipment repair. So after that if I wasn’t black-smithing, I could always fi nd work to do something.”

He says when he was really busy with blacksmithing, he would take the time off from the other jobs; not necessarily because the money was better, he just enjoyed it more. When he fi rst moved to Dawson Creek, Cummings said he nar-rowly avoided taking a position in the oil-patch when a general contractor he was working for headed that way.

“It was close. I went and got my tick-ets: my H2S and my Level One Safety. It was a matter of a week or two,” he said. “The college called my boss and wanted him to come and do a short contract with them because he’d worked there before as an instructor. He said no, take my hired guy.”

Starting off on a short contract, Cum-mings has now worked in facilities at Northern Lights College full-time for two years. “It works out really good be-cause I work Sunday to Wednesday and then I’m off Thursday, Friday, Saturday,” he said. “Now I’ve got more time to play with my metal work.”

In his backyard, a coal forge burns away in the cold air. He had been work-ing with a gas-fi red setup until this summer when the more traditional forge - one he constructed himself - was brought out by a cousin visiting from Ontario.

Chatham, Ont. born, Cummings moved to Dawson Creek in 2009 for his partner’s job. They met while he was working as an interpreter at a historic site in Hamilton, Ont., a job that brought him around the province to dress in old-time clothes and practice his passion.

“I was the fi rst and the youngest Ca-nadian blacksmith ever to be invited to demonstrate on Mackinaw Island for the conference that they have there ev-

ery summer. So, that was kind of a treat for me,” he said. “Every year, this certain group of invites, they take on a project that stays on the island.”

Some of the projects that came out of conference have included fencing around the war memorial, handles on the church and work on the island’s old fort. “It’s kind of neat that there’s stuff that I’ve actually made that stayed on Mackinaw Island,” said Cummings.

During public demonstrations, he says he made a great deal of reproduc-tion pieces for the interpretative sites. Cummings also hatched a deal where he was paid as an interpreter, supplied his own steel and kept the revenue from selling what he made.

Cummings recalled one time, at a Maple Syrup Festival in Burlington, Ont., when a little girl came up to his stand, pointed out a fairly pricey can-dle-holder and asked if she could have it. He started to explain that sometimes you have to pay for things and told her the pieces on the table ranged from $10 to $200.

“She was like ‘oh, I don’t have any money’,” Cummings recalls. “And then she pulls this rubber ball out of her pocket - it looked like she’d had it for 100 years - it must have been her favou-rite toy. She was like, this is my favourite ball, could I trade you for something?”

He says he was so touched by that, he agreed to trade it for anything on the table and she handed him the ball and took the candle-stick, saying she would give it to her mom.

“I think I’ve still got the ball in one of my toolboxes. I’ve towed it around for a decade,” he said.

“This kid had a value; the ball, she probably got it out of a gumball ma-chine for a buck, but it meant the world to her, you could just tell because who takes their rubber ball on a fi eldtrip?”

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A WORD A DAY - MATA HARIBy Anu Garg http://wordsmith.orgMata HariPRONUNCIATION:(MA-tuh HAR-ee, MAT-uh HAR-ee)MEANING:noun: A seductive woman who works

as a spy.ETYMOLOGY:After exotic dancer Mata Hari, a stage

name of Margaretha Geertruida Zelle (1876-1917). She was a Dutch woman, who took a Malay name, allegedly spied for the Germans, and was executed by the French. Her stage name Mata Hari means sun, literally “eye of the day”,

from Malay mata (eye) + hari (day, dawn). Earliest documented use: 1936.

USAGE:“In London, Sophia joins the war ef-

fort ... and embarks upon improbable espionage escapades, hoping to come off as a Mata Hari in furs and printed chiffon.”

Liesl Schillinger; The Persistence of Levity; Newsweek (New York); 2013

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:Too many have dispensed with gen-

erosity in order to practice charity.-Albert Camus, writer and philoso-

pher (1913-1960)

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Religion

By Manya Brachear Pashman MCT

CHICAGO _ The Benedic-tine sisters at St. Scholastica Monastery breathed a sigh of relief recently when the Vati-can released its long-awaited report on American nuns.

Two Vatican investigators had spent two days at the Benedictine monastery in Chicago's Rogers Park neigh-borhood in May 2010 as part of an unprecedented review,

examining the lives of women who take vows to the Roman Catholic Church.

"The two visitators were very kind and good people, but they didn't know very much about monastic life," said Sister Patricia Crowley, prioress of the Benedictine community. "They came be-ing surprised that we had ... a schedule for the day, where we pray together and eat together.

"They were looking for

something that they didn't find," she added.

Indeed, the controversial report released by the Vati-can's Congregation for Reli-gious seemed to ease tensions and the mistrust many sisters felt as the Vatican launched its review in 2008.

Instead, it was viewed as an affirming and realistic as-sessment of women religious _ the Catholic term for sisters _ while also reminding them to adhere to church teaching.

"It is not a document of blame or simplistic solutions," said Sister Sharon Holland, president of the Leadership Council of Women Religious (LCWR), during a news confer-ence in Rome where the report was unveiled.

"One can read the text and feel appreciated and trusted to carry on," she added.

The report is the result of an investigation begun during the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI. It aimed to examine 341 religious orders with about 50,000 sisters, but did not in-clude cloistered communities of nuns.

It is the first of two separate appraisals, each one under a different Vatican department.

The second investigation comes from the church's doc-trinal watchdog, the Congre-gation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and examines the adher-ence to doctrine by the LCWR, an umbrella group to which 80 percent of the nation's women religious belong.

Both investigations have angered Catholics who see them more as misogynist in-quisitions of women who have dedicated their lives to the church.

Experts say that such an examination, or apostolic visi-tation, of sisters in a single country is rare.

"The expressed purpose to look into the quality of life of religions women in the U.S. was troubling," Holland said. "Some congregations report-ed that their elder sisters felt that their own lives had been judged and wanting."

Sister Mary Ann Zollman, 73, head of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary when Vatican officials visited their motherhouse in Dubuque, Iowa, said the one-way communication with in-vestigators with no feedback for four years was frustrat-ing. But in the end, the sisters were glad officials came and prompted them to reflect on their mission. A Loyola Uni-versity Chicago trustee, she helped edit a book of essays by sisters about the apostolic visitations.

"The fact of the matter is ... it gave us an opportunity to tell our story and tell our story to one another and make that story public," she said.

"We believe in our life. We love it. It gave us an opportu-nity, as challenging as it was, to celebrate that."

All of the religious commu-nities in the U.S. responded in some way to the investigation, even if they refused to partici-pate.

Most of those that did par-ticipate filled out question-naires, while about 90, includ-

ing St. Scholastica and the Dubuque mother house, re-ceived visits.

"While the lack of full co-operation was a painful disap-pointment for us, we use this present opportunity to invite all religious institutes to ac-cept our willingness to engage in respectful and fruitful dia-logue with them," the report said.

The report contained sev-eral reminders for sisters to reinforce church teachings in their work. It encouraged communities to explore more stringent formation programs, noting that today's candidates for religious life have more professional training and less spiritual formation.

"Caution is to be taken not to displace Christ from the center of creation and of our faith," the report warned.

Sister Maria Cimperman, director of the Center for the Study of Consecrated Life at Chicago's Catholic Theologi-cal Union, said the document echoed the tone of Pope Fran-cis.

"You could feel Pope Fran-cis in this document, speak-ing to wake up the world," said Cimperman, a sister of Sacred Heart of Jesus.

"I don't think it's a critique at all," she added. "It's a real invitation that everyone can look at as we welcome new members."

Individual reports will be sent to communities that hosted an on-site visitation or exhibited cause for concern.

The report also made a forecast for the future, quoting Pope Francis' call for "a more incisive female presence in the Church."

"This Congregation is com-mitted to collaborate in the realization of Pope Francis' resolve that 'the feminine ge-nius' find expression in the various settings where impor-tant decisions are made, both in the Church and in social structures," the report said

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Dawson Creek's on-call bus service is a bit closer to being back in the black after a major grant from the province.

Earlier this week, Step Up N Ride secured a provincial gam-ing grant totaling $55,000.

The money is a boon to the society, which has had to cut service after a budget shortfall.

Step Up N Ride, a non-profi t, operates a subsidized door-to-door bus service for people who can't access public transit.

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Brenda Kreutzer, a Step Up N Ride board member, said that although the society applies for gaming grants every year, they don't always come in.

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(TNS)“Boyhood” is like the world’s

simplest movie magic trick and yet one so risky that almost no one else would ever attempt it. Director Richard Linklater assembled a fi ctional family _ Ethan Hawke and Patricia Ar-quette as the parents and Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater as the children _ and fi lmed them once a year for a dozen years.

His own daughter, Lorelei, wanted to quit along the way, but he persuaded her to press on, and the resulting 164-min-ute fi lm is wondrous. In case you missed it on the big screen, it’s due on DVD and Blu-ray Jan. 6, which gives you plenty of time to do your Oscar home-work.

I wouldn’t be surprised if “Boyhood” wins the top prize and Michael Keaton takes best

actor for “Birdman,” but I’m getting way ahead of myself.

“Boyhood” tracks the par-ents and various partners _ di-sastrous or stabilizing _ and the girl and boy for a dozen years. It’s a movie about moments large and small, from bumpy blended families and the ache of a broken heart to the giddy delight of a “Harry Potter” book release party or a father who takes his kids bowling but re-fuses the bumper guards.

“You don’t want the bum-pers. Life doesn’t give you bum-pers.”

I probably was primed in July to love “Boyhood,” having just combed through years of photos, sleeves of negatives, memory cards, discs and fl ash drives to assemble an album and scrapbook for two momen-tous occasions. So often, mov-

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Melissa, Roxanne, and Brandon at the Boulder Gardens. (Photo courtesy Brandon Braam)

Brandon Braam is Tumbler Ridge’s eye in the sky

Jonny WakefieldStaff Writer The video opens with a

panning shot of a snow-cov-ered ridge strewn with boul-ders. The frame grows wider, as though the camera is drift-ing upward on a balloon, and we see the forested base of a mountain off in the distance.

In the bottom left of the screen are four tiny people on snowshoes, gazing up at the sky.

One of the hikers, Brandon Braam, holds a controller. Sev-eral dozen meters away, the tiny camera on the four-ro-tored remoter control helicop-ter surveys the scene.

Later, he'll upload the video from the drone to You-tube, where his Above Tum-

bler Ridge Youtube page has garnered thousands of views since he started posting foot-age last winter.

At a time when the mining town is trying to rebrand itself as a tourist destination, having someone posting breathtaking panoramas of untrammeled wilderness online is certainly not a bad thing.

Braam has been been shooting aerial video with his drone (a DJI Phantom 2 Vision Plus) for a about a year now.

"Over last Christmas holi-days, I was watching a lot of aerial videos, and I kind of started researching all the dif-ferent helicopter platforms you can buy and decided on one," he said. "When I first bought it, I posted some pho-

tos on the local Tumbler Ridge Facebook group and got a re-ally good response."

He first took the drone on the Flatbed Creek trail, where he flew it upstream over a se-ries of waterfalls.

Since then, he's flown the craft through a snowstorm, around Tumbler Ridge's Can-ada Day fireworks display, and over the edge of Kinuseo falls.

The drone's onboard cam-era streams live video to a smartphone, which can be mounted on a controller with two joysticks.

"On the phone, you can kind of see what you're look-ing at, but you really don't ap-preciate what you're looking at until you plug the memory card into the computer," said

Braam. "It's amazing. Some of the views you can get from an airplane or an actual helicop-ter, but others you can't."

The low-level videos give the impression of moving ef-fortlessly over ragged terrain.

"It's definitely a different perspective, and because it's so small you can get away with getting closer to some objects and flying between trees," he said. "But if you hit a tree the tree always wins."

Braam moved to Tumbler Ridge five years ago for a job at Peace River Coal. He left that job for a gig at the fire depart-ment before the most recent mine closure — one of a series of layoffs that shook the com-munity this year.

"Most of the people who

came to Tumbler Ridge for work have gone back home to whereever home is," he said. "But for people who actually own houses in Tumbler Ridge, it is pretty sad. They have to ei-ther go on EI or go out of town to find another job."

His videos might play a part in Tumbler Ridge's plan to di-versify its economy, however.

The district is revamping its website ahead of a larger push to become a tourist destina-tion. Braam said some of his videos might accompany in-formation about hikes, trails and natural landmarks.

"Pictures are nice, but vid-eos make it that much bet-ter for someone who's think-ing about coming to Tumbler Ridge," he said.

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NOTICE OF 2015 BOARD MEETINGS 2015 Peace River Regional District and Regional Hospital District Regular Board meetings are scheduled as follows, starting at 10 a.m., unless otherwise noted throughout the year.

DATE: LOCATION: January 8 Dawson Creek February 12 Dawson Creek February 26 Fort St. John March 12 & 26 Dawson Creek April 9 & 23 Dawson Creek May 14 Dawson Creek May 28 Fort St. John June 11 Dawson Creek June 25 Location TBA July 9 & 23 Dawson Creek August 6 Fort St. John August 20 Dawson Creek September 3 & 17 Dawson Creek October 8 & 22 Dawson Creek November 12 & 26 Dawson Creek December 11 Fort St. John

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Gas output to grow by 5 Bcf a day — but only with LNGWestern Canada’s natural

gas production will grow by about five bcf a day by 2022 if at least the equivalent amount of LNG is exported.

But without LNG exports, gas output will be flat, says Si-mon Mauger, director of natu-ral gas supply and economics at Ziff Energy, a division of HSB Solomon Associates LLC.

“Growth in Western Canada will depend on market growth, first and foremost. So no LNG exports, no growth,” Mauger said in an interview. “With the LNG exports, we expect to see quite some growth — from about 14 bcf a day today up to 19 bcf a day in 2022.”

The growth prediction — which assumes two, possibly three, LNG plants will be on-stream with combined exports

of 5.7 bcf equivalent a day dur-ing 2022 — is contained in Ziff Energy’s recently completed forecast, Western Canada Nat-ural Gas Production Outlook To 2022.

Ziff expects the overseas exports will start just before 2020 and continue to ramp up through 2022 as new LNG trains are added.

The volume of gas Ziff expects to be exported as LNG in 2022 — 5.7 bcf a day — is more than dou-ble the 2.8 bcf a day forecast to be exported in 2020, Mauger said.

By 2022, gas from shales and other tight formations will account for at least 80 per cent of Western Canada’s gas out-put, up from more than 50 per cent now, Mauger said.

Mauger said the Montney and Duvernay plays are key to Ziff’s forecast growth with combined average daily out-put of 10 bcf a day in 2022.

For the Montney, the con-sultancy is predicting strong production growth in the liq-uids-rich areas and somewhat slower growth in the dryer areas until the LNG projects come onstream.

The Horn River and Liard plays are expected to have combined average produc-tion of just over two bcf a day in 2022, Ziff forecasts. Both of these plays are dry gas, so without the liquids to bol-ster the economics neither is expected to have significant production until LNG exports begin.

— Daily Oil Bulletin

First Nations file legal challenge against TransCanada pipelineThe Nadleh Whut'en and Nak'azdli, both members of the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council,

presented the EAO with four expert reports raising concerns about the impact the projectTwo area First Nations have launched a legal chal-

lenge against the province's environmental approval for the proposed TransCanada Coastal GasLink Pipe-line.

Last week the Nadleh Whut'en and Nak'azdli First Nations, located in the area of Fort Fraser and Fort St. James, applied for a judicial review of the B.C. En-vironmental Assessment Office's [EAO's] decision to approve an Environmental Assessment Certificate for the proposed 670 kilometre natural gas pipeline.

"We're not trying to stop people from doing busi-ness -it's how they're doing it. They just don't care about protecting the environment," Nadleh Whut'en Chief Martin Louie said. "We kept trying to work with them. [But] they only really listen in court, it seems."

The Environmental Assessment Office issued the certificate to the Calgary-based energy com-pany on Oct. 23. The proposed project would see a 48-inch diameter natural gas pipeline built from the Groundbirch area near Dawson Creek to a pro-posed liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal near Kitimat.

According to TransCanada, the project would have an initial capacity of two to three billion cubic feet

of natural gas per day, with a potential for up to five billion cubic feet per day with the construction of ad-ditional compressor stations.

TransCanada estimates the project will create 2,000 to 2,500 jobs during construction and 16 to 35 permanent jobs once the pipeline is operational.

The Nadleh Whut'en and Nak'azdli, both mem-bers of the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council, presented the EAO with four expert reports raising concerns about the impact the project, which, they say, were ignored in the EAO's final report on the project.

"It's important our information is included. Hopefully we can sit down with the province and the proponents and talk about how we can get these reports included," Nakazdli Chief Fred Sam said. "The province is fast-tracking these proposals."

Sam said he expects it will be at least until the new year before they have an idea of when their case will be heard and how long the judicial review is expected to take.

The Supreme Court's landmark ruling in the Tsilhqot'in case earlier this year "changes the law on the ground" for all First Nations, Louie said.

"We need a better place to talk then in court," Louie said. "[But] we either stop them in the courts, or we go out on the land. I saw what happened in Burnaby... people got hurt for nothing. We have title. Let's just do business..."

A spokesperson for the B.C. Ministry of Environ-ment said the ministry cannot comment on the mat-ter while it is before the courts.

"We understand that the judicial review is a chal-lenge of the government's decision, but we have not seen the documents and cannot comment on them," TransCanada spokesperson Shawn Howard said in an emailed statement.

"We believe that the EAO's process provided a ro-bust consultation process concerning the project. Coastal GasLink remains committed to engagement and consultation with all aboriginal groups across this project."

TransCanada has applied to the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission for permits to build and operate the proposed pipeline. Decisions on those applications are expected in the first quarter of 2015.

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Byron Hackett Staff WriterFrom the originally planned two sessions, organizers of the first annual Dawson

Creek Christmas Volleyball skills camp needed to add a third afternoon session on Saturday to accommodate all the interest.

In all, 62 athletes packed the gym at the Dawson Creek Secondary School south campus over the course of three sessions to hone their volleyball craft, learning from local Beaverlodge product Gina Schmidt, who coaches Women’s Volleyball at Simon Fraser University.

During a brief break between the morning and afternoon workouts, Schmidt said it was awesome to see the community of Dawson Creek come out and support local volleyball.

“I wasn’t sure what kid of numbers we would get, so it’s far exceeded what I ex-pected so that’s great. Especially at this time of year. It’s the break— kids are out of school, they are thinking about Christmas. So, yeah I was definitely surprised with the turnout, but really happy,” she said.

One of the key organizers Ashley Smith, who along with her husband Trevor, Adel and Tyler Morhart were able to convince Schmidt to come up for the camp.

Smith explained having a coach of Schmidt’s cailbre is huge for volleyball in Dawson Creek.

“It’s incredible. It truly is. Over the last few years in Dawson we have been trying to get a volleyball program really off the ground.

There are certain camps that the athletes can go to in the summer that take them away from the community.

They have to go up to Fort St. John, down to Grande Prairie or Edmonton or down to Kamloops,” “The ability to actually get a university cailbre coach into our local Dawson Creek community is unprecedented. Especially a university coach— she’s local. She’s from Beaverlodge and she used to be part of the national team. It’s not only the calibre for the athletes to look up to, but also for them to see— this girl is local she is from the community— they could eventually progress to become a cailbre athlete like her.”

Schmidt put the athletes to the test in a variety of volleyball skills, including serving, passing, setting, spiking and blocking. She said spending a little bit of time on each skill is important, and her hope was that each athlete will take away one or two simple lessons from the weekend.

“It’s tough— with just a short amount of time— it takes hours and hours of prac-tice to actually change somebody’s technique. I could have spent five hours on just passing or just serving,” Schmidt said.

“To me it was about covering all the fundamental skills and if they can come away with just one or two cues for each skill that they can take back to their school teams or their club teams to work on, then I’m happy with what’s gone on.”

At the end of the day seeing all the interest that they collected on relatively short notice, Smith is optimistic they will be able to hold camps like this weekends on a

yearly basis.“This would be phenomenal to do again… we’ve already put plans in place to

help develop the program for next year and hopefully open it up to grade six stu-dents,” she said.

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Volleyball skills on display at skills camp

Simon Fraser University Women’s Volleyball coach Gina Schmidt teaches athletes the basics of a short court game during the first of three sessions on Saturday at Dawson Creek Secondary School gym. (Byron Hackett photo)

Alaska Highway NewsDawson Creek city coun-

cil has scrapped a controver-sial bylaw aimed at regulating secondary suites and rooming houses by making sweeping changes to the city's rules for building residential properties.

Council voted to rescind a proposed zoning amendment bylaw (known as 4244) before its third and final reading.

While council has backed off some of the more fundamental changes to residential develop-ment, city staff are now work-ing on a modified bylaw that

would address many of the same issues but on a more lim-ited scale.

The proposed bylaw would have limited the number of single family homes allowed to have suites, banned suites in duplexes and set new rules for parking space at homes and residential buildings.

Most of the issues the by-law aimed to regulate stem from housing transient oil and gas workers. Some property owners in Dawson Creek rent rooms in their homes to oil patch workers, which has led to

complaints from neighbours, while the density brought on by secondary suites creates is-sues around parking and snow removal

Earlier this year, council created a committee to rec-ommend changes to the city’s zoning bylaws, aimed at con-trolling explosive growth of secondary suites and rooming houses.

Talk of the new bylaw put a chill on applications for new building permits, chief admin-istrative officer Jim Chute said, and many builders with devel-

opments in Dawson Creek op-posed the plan.

A number of realtors and property developers spoke out against the bylaw at a packed public hearing in November, saying it undermined the of-ficial community plan which had led them to invest in Daw-son Creek.

Many changes in the pro-posed bylaw were sweeping. It would have increased the minimum size for residential lots, reducing density and po-tentially creating hundreds of non-conforming properties.

The reduced density would have increased the cost of city services, and would require more parcels be taken out of the Agricultural Land Reserve for the city to grow.

It would have required rooming house operators to have a business license, man-dated that suite owners live on the property and set limits on the size of trucks allowed to drive on roads in residential areas.

Councillor Charlie Parslow said council had bogged down

City Council caves in bylaw dispute

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in a “quagmire of indecision” over the secondary suite issue.

Newly elected councillor Mark Rogers said the city would lose investment dollars if coun-cil waited any longer.

“Building permits and devel-opment permits are basically on hold,” he said. “We can’t af-ford the luxury of waiting any longer, because developers need to start planning for the

2015 construction season.” Council opted to return to

a draft bylaw brought forward last spring, known as 4204.

It would also limit the single family zones that allow suites, create additional parking rules and use so-called “swiss cheese” zoning to exempt non-conforming properties.

It would not go to the ex-treme of expanding all lot sizes. Council also moved to start

work on separate bylaws aimed at regulating residential park-ing and rooming houses.

Mayor Dale Bumstead said he was frustrated by earlier hearings on the proposed by-law, which were dominated by anti-bylaw investors.

He also said council seemed eager to please inves-tors over citizens who might not attend public meetings, but who had legitimate con-

cerns over changes in their neighbourhoods.

“Today all we’re hearing about is investors, develop-ers and contractors,” he said. “I haven’t heard the word ‘resi-dent,’ and I haven’t heard the word ‘citizen.’”

The new changes will be written into the old bylaw, which could go to a public hearing after council’s Jan. 5 meeting. ([email protected])

CITY COUNCIL CAVES IN BYLAW DISPUTE(Continued from page 9)

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• January 5, 2015 - Children’s after school art program. Contact the Dawson Creek Art Gallery to register. 250-782-2601.

• January 9, 2015 - Opening reception for Art of the Peace Membership Exhibition at the Dawson Creek Art Gallery from 7-9 pm. This event is free and open to the public.

• January 13, 2015 - The Peace River Songwriters Group will be meeting at Faking Sanity at 7:30pm.

• January 31, 2015 - Open Mic Coff ee House. Doors open at 6:30 pm, entertainment starts at 7:00 pm, at “Faking Sanity” (corner of 9th St. & 103rd Ave., Dawson Creek).

MACHITAWIN FAMILY LEARNING CENTRE• If you have any questions please feel free to drop by for a coff ee

at 14-1405-102nd Avenue, Central Place or give us a call at 250-782-1169. Monday: Gross Motor Skills Development 9:00 am - noon • Walking • Swimming • Playing Tuesday: Fine Motor Skills / Literacy Development 9:00 am - noon • Sharing Circle • Story Time • Singing • Crafts Wednesday: Breakfast Group 9:00 am - noon • Start the family off to a healthy breakfast with a Cultural theme Thursday: Parent - Child Mother Goose Program 9:00 am - noon • Come learn to sing your favorite song and tell rhyme with your children. Traditional Dance - 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm. • Come learn the Pow-wow style way. Friday: Field Trip Day 9:00 am - noon. Getting to know your community. Gaia Program

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • Support for Pregnant Moms using Drugs and Alcohol. (11)

NAWICAN FRIENDSHIP CENTRE• Mondays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm, Nurse 11am-2pm. Tuesdays

- Fund raiser BBQ11am - 1pm Wednesdays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm Thursdays - Bannock 11am Fridays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm. Also call 250.782.5202 for the dates on the following events: Afternoon Fund raiser Bingo - Elders Free Dinner/Entertainment - Community Fund raiser Dinners/Entertainment.

• Dawson Creek Seniors Hall: Monday 9:00am, Skittles/Pool 10:00 am Exercise 11:45 Lunch 1;00pm Pool 1:30pm Carpet Bowling 7:00pm Crib & Bridge. Tuesday 8:00 Foot Care/Blood Pressure (by appointment) 1:00 pm Pool / Bingo 7:00pm Floor Curling/Darts. Wednesday 9:00am Skittles/Ladies Pool 10:00am Exercise 1:00pm Pool/Crib & Bridge 3:30 pm Beginner Line Dancing. Thursday 10:00am Game board Café 1:00pm Floor Curling 7:00pm Floor Curling. Friday 9:00 Skittles/Pool 10:00am Line Dancing 1:00pm Pool 1:30pm Carpet Bowling. For more info on our activities call the 250 782 7620 or visit our hall at 1101 McKellar Ave.

MONDAY• AA Meetings 8:00 pm at the Dawson Creek Health Unit. (0)• New! AA Meetings noon at South Peace United Church, 1300 -

104 Ave., Dawson Creek. (0)• Cocaine Anonymous meets 7:00 pm at 1320 - 102nd Ave. The

only requirement is a desire to quit using cocaine and other mind altering substances! (0)

• Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention: A skills group open to adults struggling with addiction Mondays 10:30am-12noon @ Mental Health & Addictions at the Dawson Creek Health Unit, 1001 110th Ave., Dawson Creek. Call Sean at 250-719-6525. (0)

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• AA Meetings 8:00 pm at Dawson Creek Health Unit, Living Sober Meeting, 219-7624. (0)

• AA Closed Meeting 8:00 pm at Pouce Coupe Community Church Annex (next to the Post Offi ce) 5002 - 49th Ave, Pouce Coupe. Big book study. (0)

• Mile “O” Quilter’s Guild meets every Tuesday & Thursday at at the New Calvin Kruk Arts Centre on 10th St. and 104th Ave. at 7pm. (02)

• First Tuesday: - Piecemakers Quilt Guild meets in the board room at Tiger’s Printing & Stationers, 7:00 pm. Contact 250-786-5793.

(12)• First Tuesday: - The Visually Impaired Support Group meets at 12 noon at First Baptist Church, 1400 113 Ave. All who have or who care about someone with a vision problem are welcome. For further info call Pam 782-5187 or Margaret 782-3221. (03)• Las Tuesday: Book club for adults, 7pm at the Dawson Creek Library. Call 250-782-4661 for more details. (01)

WEDNESDAY• New! AA Meetings noon at South Peace United Church, 1300 - 104 Ave., Dawson Creek. (0)• AA Meeting at the Health Unit @ 8:00pm.• Cocaine Anonymous meets 7:00 pm at 1320-102nd Ave. The only requirement is a desire to quit using cocaine and other mind altering substances! • Grief Support Group - free 6 week program. The group will run Wednesday evenings from 6:30pm until 8:30pm starting October 22nd and ending November 26th, 2014 at the Bergeron Funeral Services Social Room, 10200-17th Street, Dawson Creek, British Columbia. For more information or to register, please call 250-782-2577. (11)

THURSDAY• AA Meetings 8:00 pm - 9:00pm at the Dawson Creek Health Unit. (0) • Al-Anon 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm at the Dawson Creek Heath Unit. (0)• Mile “O” Quilter’s Guild meets every Tuesday & Thursday at at the New Calvin Kruk Arts Centre on 10th St. and 104th Ave. at 7pm. (02)• TOPS: Taking Off Pounds Sensibly weigh in starts at 8:30 a.m. 10221-18th Street. Contact Mary Kidd 250-782-6628. (12)

FRIDAY• AA Meetings 8:00 pm. 12x12 Meeting, at the Dawson Creek Health Unit. Big book study. (0)• Cocaine Anonymous, 7:00 pm at 1320-102nd Ave. The only requirement is a desire to quit using cocaine & other mind altering substances! (0)

SATURDAY• AA Meetings 8 :00 pm , Dawson Creek Health Unit, Dawson Creek, 219-7624. (0)• Each Saturday - September through June - Peace Country Roots Group building will be open from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm to members wanting to use the genealogy library. A member will be available by appointment to anyone requiring help on how to get started on your family history. Everyone is welcome. We are located in the small building in NAR Park. Call Lynn 250-782-4058, Neil 250-782-7651, Lyle 250-782-2804 for information. (06)

SUNDAY • NEW AA Meeting at the Cultural Room at the Northern Lights College 8pm Sunday evenings.

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It is with sadness that we announce the passing ofGarry Reginald Bourne. Garry was born on October 19, 1946 and passed away on December 20, 2014 in Dawson Creek, BC.

Garry married the love of his life, Stephane on April 30, 1966 and had two daughters, Cindy and Tammy. Garry was predeceased by his parents, Reginald Charles Bourne and Katherine Elizabeth Bourne.

Garry was a son, brother, husband, father and grandfather. He leaves to mourn his wife, Stephane; his two daughters Cindy (Paul) Thorpe andTammy (Wayne) Schmidt; his grandchildren Cody, Nicholas, Joshua, Dylan and Bradley, his sisters and brothers, and many friends.

At Garry’s request a Celebration of Life will be held in the summer of 2015 at Moberly Lake. The family would like to thank the doctors and nurses ofDawson Creek and District Hospital who cared for Garry in his last days.

Dad, you will be missed and never forgotten.In lieu of fl owers, expressions of sympathy may be made by donation to the Dawson Creek & District Hospital Foundation, 11100 - 13th Street, Dawson Creek, British Columbia V1G 3W8 Arrangements entrusted to Bergeron Funeral Services & Crematorium Ltd.

Garry Reginald Bourne

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Raymond Lloyd Sutton, better known as Ray, was born October 22, 1928 in Kaslo, British Columbia to Melvin and Dagmar Sutton, the third child of 12. In 1954, Ray married Helen and had three children: Bob, Karen, and Allan.

Ray is survived by his wife Helen; children Bob (Jackie) Sutton,Karen (Steve) Lagore and Allan (Sandy) Sutton; grandchildren Andrew Sutton,Bobby (Angelique) Sutton, Kevin (Amanda) Lagore, Kristen Lagore, andKimberly Lagore; great grandchildren Cora and Brielle Lagore; his siblingsDoris Langerud, David (Ildiko) Sutton, Arthur (Shirley) Sutton, Janet Smith,Dorothy (Richard) McNeal, Earl (Hazel) Sutton, and Kay Wendland; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Ray passed away on December 13, 2014. He will be missed by his family and many friends.

A Memorial service was held Saturday, December 20, 2014 at the Bergeron Funeral Chapel, Dawson Creek, British Columbia, offi ciated by Rev. Steve Lagore.

Arrangements were entrusted to Bergeron Funeral Services and Crematorium Ltd.

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Scope of Events Visit local events online at: www.dawsoncreekdailynews.ca

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Science Matters

Researchers say they have found strong evidence of events in India that coincided with the sudden end of the dinosaurs; the question is a long-running scientific controversy.

Leading theory why: Asteroid impact

NORTHAMERICA

SOUTHAMERICA

AFRICAIndia

Chicxulub, Mexico

ASIA

Top alternative: Volcanoes

Except for birds, all dinosaurs suddenly died out worldwide

Volcanic layers in the Deccan Traps

Source: Blair Schoene and Gerta Keller of Princeton University; Science magazine Graphic: Helen Lee McComas, TNS

Note: Yucatan is not exactly opposite Deccan; eastern Pacific is, and there are

signs of asteroid impact there

“Antipodal theory” is that impact triggered volcanoes on opposite side of Earth

Dead dinos: A second smoking gun

Millions of years ago

225 66 TODAY

Asteroid or meteor collided with Earth near what is now Mexico’s Yucatan; debris filled the atmosphere, killing plant life

Mass of volcanoes now called the Deccan Traps erupted 66 million years ago for 750,000 years; gases poisoned atmosphere

New evidence comes from precise rock dating technique; indicates that eruptions coincided with dinosaurs’ extinction

AGE OF DINOSAURS

Continents 66 millionyears ago

Tribune Media Services

ies have nothing to do with our day-to-day existences, but this one hits us where we live.

2. “BIRDMAN OR (THE UN-EXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNO-RANCE)”

Moviegoers are still debating just what happens at the end, which I would never spoil. Be-sides, I’m not exactly sure there is a single answer, but Keaton is brilliant in this black comedy.

He’s a screen actor who played the superhero Birdman three times but now wants to be

taken seriously on the Broad-way stage. Keaton has been un-derappreciated for years, and “Birdman” allows him to draw on his own history in the cape, cowl and growl, harness his jit-tery comedic energy and flex his dramatic muscles.

It’s the richest role that may ever come his way, and he doesn’t squander a minute of it.

3. “FOXCATCHER”Steve Carell, another fun-

nyman, promised director Ben-nett Miller that no part of him would enter this project with

a comedic approach. And he kept his word as John du Pont opposite Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo as brothers, wres-tlers and Olympic medalists. It’s dark, disturbing and gripping and based on a true story, with some dramatic license taken.

4. “THE THEORY OF EV-ERYTHING”

Who knew Stephen Hawk-ing had three children and two ex-wives? Well, other than the guys on “The Big Bang Theo-ry”? As with “Foxcatcher,” lib-erties are taken with timelines

and details, but Eddie Red-mayne disappears into the fa-mous physicist and his series of wheelchairs alongside Felic-ity Jones as his first wife, Jane. It’s almost too discreet at times, but it’s the story of a man given two years to live and still going steady a half-century later.

5. “SELMA”Some early bird moviegoers

have vowed they will never skip voting again after seeing this drama, set in 1965 but feeling contemporary in light of recent racially charged protests. It spins the clock back to the time when blacks and whites at-tempted three times to march peacefully from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery seeking equal voting rights.

It’s a British invasion in terms of key cast, with David Oyelowo as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King, Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon B. Johnson and Tim Roth as Gov. George Wallace. LBJ’s accent wobbles a bit, but Oyelowo looks and sounds like the civil rights lead-er to uncanny effect, and direc-tor Ava DuVernay deepens the story’s power by shooting in the South, including at historically accurate locations.

6. “THE IMITATION GAME”Benedict Cumberbatch stars

as Alan Turing, the genius Brit-ish mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer pioneer who led the charge to crack the German Enigma code but later was prosecuted by the UK government for homo-sexual acts the country deemed illegal. His story is triumphant and tragic.

7. “THE LEGO MOVIE” and “GUARDIANS OF THE GAL-AXY”

To borrow an inane pop song from the land of Bricksburg: “Everything Is Awesome!” This pair of Chris Pratt blockbust-ers, one a 3-D animated adven-ture using more than 3.8 mil-lion Lego bricks, the other an adaptation of a Marvel Comics series with a retro soundtrack, were surprising delights.

8. “WHIPLASH”J.K. Simmons told one inter-

viewer his ruthless character is a “perfectionist who is do-ing his best to bring that out in everybody around him.” Let’s just say he gives perfection-

ists a bad name as he oversees and terrifies a jazz ensemble at an elite music conservatory attended by a driven, talented 19-year-old drummer (Miles Teller). The student is willing to bleed for his art and does in this movie with stunning machina-tions, maneuvers and music.

9. “THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL”

Ralph Fiennes stars in this caper from the king of quirk, di-rector-writer Wes Anderson. He plays an impeccably dressed concierge and perfumed gig-olo who has a penchant for romancing some of the ladies who regularly visit a luxurious resort in the fictional Republic of Zubrowka. With an 84-year-old countess, her bad-seed son and a hotel lobby boy among the kaleidoscope of characters, this feature is grander, merrier and more madcap than any of Anderson’s previous pictures.

10. “LOCKE”It’s almost all Tom Hardy all

the time, not that anyone is complaining. He is Ivan Locke, a husband, father of two and prized employee who spends almost all of the movie in a car alone juggling one crisis that could end his marriage and an-other, his employment. It’s an acting master class, with a story told in real time.

Honorable mention (in no particular order):

“Gone Girl,” the engrossing, exceedingly well-cast thriller based on Gillian Flynn’s deli-ciously diabolical novel and starring Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck.

“Calvary,” with Brendan Gleeson as a priest who slides open the panel in the confes-sional in his small Irish town and hears, “I’m gonna kill you, Father.”

“Get On Up,” in which Chad-wick Boseman raises the bar, temperature and talent in what otherwise would be an average musical biopic of James Brown. The versatile actor should feel good, very good.

Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” featuring Bradley Coo-per as U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in American military history.

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