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An amended agenda greeted the public at Mon-day’s council meeting, with the new item added being the fourth and final reading for rezoning the old Haldi Lake school to build a women’s treatment centre.

The issue of putting the centre in the area has been a contentious one since it came to the attention of residents who were generally opposed to having the facility in the old primary school.

When the public hearing came before council, it took more than five hours for all those who attended, the majority of whom were opposed to the centre’s location, to speak.

A handful, also passionate, spoke in favour of the centre and its location.

Monday night representatives of the centre were on hand, but residents who live in the Haldi Rd. area were scarce, though at that point in the process there was no opportunity for public presentations anyway.

“At this point I don’t think it matters if you’re for or against this,” said Coun. Brian Skakun. “But I think with an issue as controversial as this it would have been nice to have it on the agenda as soon as possible even though no submissions are accepted from the public.”

He added having it on the agenda would have shown transparency in government.

“I can appreciate the timelines involved but I think people in the Haldi area needed more time than they got.”

A question to city administration confirmed that, at the point of a fourth and final reading, no pub-lic notice needs to be given and no public input is accepted.

Likewise, it is not unusual for such items to come to the agenda at the last moment because of time constraints.

Coun. Garth Frizzell asked if the conditions, includ-ing disconnecting any wells on the property and dealing with some security issues, had been met.

He was informed they both were.The fourth and final reading passed with council-

lors Murry Krause, Lyn Hall and Skakun opposing while Mayor Shari Green recused herself from the process due to her association with Marshall Smith, the centre’s executive director.

Smith volunteered for Green during her election campaign.

Late item,Haldi OK’d


About a dozen neighbours set up a blockade Dec. 9 at the entrance of Wright Creek Road and Highway 97 North to stop a city truck from dump-ing biosolid waste on an area farm.

The owner of the land contracted with the city, giving them the right to dump the waste, however neighbours have been concerned since finding out about the deal, worried how the mate-rial will affect their land as well as sur-rounding creeks.

Andy Angele, a local farmer whose land adjoins the 117 acres where the waste will be dumped, has been protesting the move since he found out about it. He is concerned that the sloped piece of land the waste is headed for will drain into his land and into the creek. Leaching is also an issue, he said, and he believes that could contaminate the aquifer. During a dry summer, he said the waste could very well migrate onto his property and run-off could bring issues in the spring.

In a previous interview, Angele said signage at other biosolid dump sites warn people not to eat anything that

grows above ground for a year and a half and anything that grows in the earth for three years and two months after an application.

Angele heard the first dump of waste was scheduled to take place sometime last week, and since then he has been waiting at the junction of Wright Creek Road and the highway alongside piece of plywood held erect with a post with No Sludge On Farmland painted on it.

Friday morning the city truck made its way to Wright Creek Road, loaded with waste.

“They tried to come this morning,” he said.

Angele got on the phone and called about a dozen neighbours, who all came out in support, blockading the road.

“The driver stopped, of course. He was very nice. The police came and asked me what the situation was. Then the city officials came.”

The city officials discussed the situ-ation with the police. A decision was made to send the city truck back to town.

Angele said if it comes out again, he and his neighbours will be ready.

“We will keep on trying to block

them. We had 1,000 signatures on a petition against this. We had support all the way from Australia.”

Marco Fornari, the manager of utilities for Prince George, said right now the city is considering its legal options.

“For now we’re going to spend the next couple of days reviewing legal plans,” he said.

He added there has been a lot of consultation with Angele about the process, which Fornari said is not only safe, but has been in practice in the area for about 30 years.

“We more than adequately answered any and all concerns that were brought forward. The application is nothing new. It’s been going on for 30-odd years in Prince George. It is safe.”

He added the city has a registered professional hired to ensure all the methodology outlined regarding how to go ahead with the process properly is followed. This includes following setbacks from water courses.

However, Angele doesn’t think the process is as safe as the city says and will continue to try to block any dumping.

“I will be sitting here every week with this sign,” he said.

Blockade halts biosolids

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Vigil for climate change held at UNBCIt was a frosty evening in the

city, but that didn’t keep about a dozen students, including a few professors, from gathering for a candlelight vigil on Dec. 8 at the UNBC Agora, giving each a chance to express disappoint-ment in Canada’s stance during the climate negotiations in Dur-ban, South Africa.

“We need to see the gov-ernment stand up and make change,” Nadia Nowak, co-organizer of the event, said.

She pointed out Canada is one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gas, and said it’s time for the countries in that position to take responsibility and change, rather than mak-ing those producing the least emissions pay for the lack of foresight.

“I understand jobs are an issue, but there are things they could be doing,” said Thomas Cheney, a student at the vigil.

He said the government could be helping people move towards phasing out fossil fuels and said there is a growing demand for environmentally friendly ser-vices, from transportation to construction, and thus also an opportunity for investors to ben-

efit economically.“There’s nothing preventing

the government from taking extensive actions,” he said.

“Meeting targets would increase jobs in B.C. and the whole of Canada,” added Geoff de Ruiter, a student at UNBC.

“There’s an incredible amount of opportunity that exists,” Cheney said. “It’s unfathomable the amount we can change.”

Nowak said previous events at the university were held to bring attention to the climate change issue.

“But this is more of a som-bre occasion,” she said, adding she was greatly disappointed when she first heard about Can-ada’s stance during the negotia-tions. “This is a chance to come together as a community and to build strength as a community.”

She said university students across Canada, including those at UNBC, organized an event a week to bring the issue of climate change to the attention of all.

Then she said a call came in from the House of Commons that a motion would be brought forward saying Canada would commit to some greenhouse gas reductions.

“Youth across the country had been raising their voices every

Monday for four months. Now, after Copenhagen we’ve had the wind taken out of our sails.”

She added she suspected Can-ada would soon formally pull out of the Kyoto accord, and was proven correct Dec. 12 when Environment Minister Peter Kent announced the country would withdraw from the agree-ment, though he set no date for when that would happen.

“Canada was asked not to

step down during the confer-ence because it would cripple the conference,” Nowak said.

Stepping down means Can-ada avoids financial penalties that would be imposed after the country agreed to cut emissions to six per cent below 1990 levels by 2012. However, by 2009 emis-sions were 17 per cent higher than the 1990 levels.

“Therefore they don’t have to pay any price. There are no legal

repercussions. Canada is essen-tially escaping everything, get-ting off scot-free,” Nowak said. “The richest countries in this are the ones stopping the process.”

The vigil, she added, was about acknowledging this while planning to keep fighting.

“When we heard this we felt alone, but we are not alone. If we work together as a com-munity we can accomplish any-thing.”


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About a dozen people gathered at the UNBC Agora for a candlelight vigil Dec. 8 to show their disappointment in Canada’s stance at the Durban climate negotiations.

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Monday night city council established its

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“This is a group of business leaders to give a fresh perspec-tive on what we do well and also what we

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Council has made the first step in organizing a core review of services at the City of Prince George.

At Monday’s city council meeting, Mayor Shari Green said the process was another initiative she’s talked about for some time, along with estab-lishing a select committee on business.

Last night the process began with council directing city man-ager Derek Bates to return a report to council by the end of January outlining the pro-posed scope of work and review options regarding method, bud-get and schedule.

“Will there be a built-in con-sultation plan as to how to work with staff?” asked Coun. Brian Skakun.

Bates said the report will out-line how council and the admin-

istration team will take part in the process.

Skakun wondered if the review would look at items like the property owned by the city, the cost of lost tax revenue and whether or not it was more via-

ble to sell property.Bates said the report is more

aimed at finding the options on how a review will be done, looking at phases, the depth of the review, scheduling, and cost. Whether or not council decides

to include questions like the one Skakun put forward will be tied with how deep they want the review to go.

“I want to ensure once council makes the decision, then we get it to all the employees,” Coun.

Lyn Hall said.Green said communicating

with everyone will be key to a successful review.

“They are one of the best sources of information on how to do things better,” she said.


City administration will be putting together a

12-month pilot project for expanded alcohol service at the CN Centre for council to discuss at its Jan. 9 meeting.

Coun. Lyn Hall asked, if

sales are expanded, where will liquor be sold?

Derek Bates, city manager, said those details would be hammered out and included

in the pilot project plans to come before council in the new year.

“At that time there would be a discussion over the

extent of sales?” asked Coun. Cameron Stolz.

Bates explained ratifying the directive, which was put forward at a committee of

the whole meeting, would not be policy, but would would set direction over what sort of policy would develop’


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Whatever happened to Cariboo-Prince George MP Dick Harris?

Oh, he’s still our MP. Maybe it’s just me, but since the May election we haven’t seen much of Harris. We’ve seen lots from his counterpart to the north, Prince George-Peace River Bob Zimmer, but not much of Harris.

During the election campaign it was suggested that Harris was actually living in the Okanagan, something he steadfastly denied then, and continued to deny last week when the question of his residency rose again.

Harris admits that he spends as much time as he can in the Okanagan, where his wife owns prop-erty and that he continues to rent a house in Prince George. Kind of like having a cabin at the lake, he told a local journalist, adding last year he figures he spent about 19 days in the Okanagan.

We here at the Prince George Free Press thought it might be a good idea to try and find out exactly where Harris spends his time. Harris, in defending the fact he ran up $199,363 on travel in 2010-11, the fourth highest in the House, likes to point out he is chair of the Conservatives’ B.C. caucus.

So, to see where he’s been, we launched a Free-dom of Information request asking to see Harris’ parliamentary and personal calendar for last year.

The request, of course, was declined.That didn’t surprise us. But what did was the

response received from Theresa Bell, Harris’ legisla-tive assistant.

“Such information is subject to the ATI (Access to

Information) Act,” she wrote. “Nor will we be shar-ing information that is confidential or of a private nature concerning his constituents.”

We didn’t ask for that, only a record of Harris’ whereabouts.

The kicker was that Bell included a stack of Harris’ householders and flyers an inch thick that would have cost any other Canadian an arm and a leg to mail.

She somehow thought that “other infor-mation that is readily accessible” was pertinent to our request.

“What is important is that Mr. Harris’ constitu-ents have expressed confidence in his abilities to represent them at the federal level and thus have returned him to that role for the seventh consecu-tive time,” she ended with.

In other words … bugger off.This issue dogged the MP through the election

campaign and it continues to dog him now, espe-cially since he hasn’t been front-and-centre since the election campaign.

Harris will have to continue to defend himself until he spends more time in the riding.

He could also take a page from independent Cariboo North MLA Bob Simpson who has taken to publishing his expenses on his website. Anyone wanting to know what Bob’s been up to … how much he spent on a taxi, for instance, can check it out online.

It’s time that all politicians did that. We hear lots of talk about transparency in government, but that transparency seems to have an opacity to it.

Santa will be making a list and checking it twice … handing out candy canes and/or lumps of coal. To help Jolly Ol’ St. Nick, we’ve compiled short list of those are deserving.

Candy Cane: To Mayor Shari Green’s appointments to the select standing committee on business. There is a terrific cross-section of interests on the committee. It has an interesting task ahead and the committee members have good grasp of issues facing business in Prince George. It could have been a double-cane, though, if there was also the announcement of a similar committee to examine social development in Prince George. If it’s tough for a developer doing business in Prince George, imagine what it’s like for a homeless person.

Lump of Coal: Whoever rushed the fourth reading of the Haldi Road rezoning onto council’s agenda in the dead of night. To include such a controversial item as a late item just before Christmas deserves an entire bucket of coal. Whatever the rea-son, is there no one at city hall who understands that this simply looks like someone trying to pull a fast one, especially when the proponents of the rezoning knew it was going to be on the agenda but the residents did not?

Candy Cane: Coun. Lyn Hall who, even though it was only his second city council meeting, voiced his displeasure at the fact the Haldi Road rezoning was added to the agenda and voted accordingly.

Lump of Coal: To the Government of Canada for abrogating its Kyoto Protocol commitments with the expressed rationale of: “Well, Johnny doesn’t have to, so I don’t have to either.” One of the best comments came from New Democrat environment critic Megan Leslie who said it’s like the kid in school who knows they’re going to fail a class so drops it before they get a failing grade. But, of course, the Conservatives would love a lump of coal: “Throw it on the open fire, we got rid of Kyoto so now, no problem.”

Candy Cane: UNBC professor Dr. William McGill, who was appointed to the Forest Practices Board. McGill, who is also a vice-president for the Prince George Chamber of Commerce, has expertise in sustainable land use, resource recovery and soil remediation.

Candy Cane: Everyone who dropped a coin or two, or even a bill, into one of the Salvation Army Kettles set up around town during this holiday season.

Double candy cane: Everyone who volunteers their time to help the Salvation Army and guard one of the kettles for an hour or two. There’s still time to help, just call the Salvation Army.

Lump of coal: ICBC, for seeking an increase in insurance rates.

Candy Cane: Independent Cariboo North MLA Bob Simpson for publishing his MLA expenditures on his website. It’s refresh-ing to see a politician who actually means it when he says gov-ernment should have transparency.

Candy cane: The City of Prince George and Prince George Transit for the “Food for Fare” initiative from December 15-18. Transit users can donate a non-perishable food item on any Prince George Transit bus in exchange for a free fare. All items collected will go to assist the Salvation Army this holiday sea-son.

A stocking full of candy canes: To everyone who helps some-one less fortunate this holiday season.

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I’m sure I’m missing something very obvious, but why are there no “classic” songs celebrating Wednes-day and Thursday?

And yes, I’m cheating a bit by counting the Rolling Stones as celebrating one of the other days of the week with Ruby Tuesday, even though the song doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the actual weekday.

I started thinking about this slap in the face to midweek when a friend

posted some lyrics on Facebook from the Mark Chesnutt song It Sure Is Mon-

day on (surprise, surprise) Monday. Judging by early com-ments, I think I was the only person who caught the refer-ence.

So then I started thinking (using the word rather loosely)

about other weekday references in song titles. Monday is a big one, with I Don’t Like Monday (Boomtown Rats), Manic Monday (Bangles) and Monday, Monday (Mamas and the Papas) among

the first to come to mind.For Tuesday, as I say, the only thing

that came to mind quickly was Ruby Tuesday.

Wednesday and Thursday, strangely enough, didn’t evoke any song titles in my mind, but I do know both of those days were used by groups as their names.

Then we come to the end of the week, and things pick up again. Start with Thank God It’s Friday (Love and Kisses), then segue into Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting (Elton John)

and finish with Sunday Morning Com-ing Down (Johnny Cash).

The weekend isn’t short of song titles to reference if you’re out at a party, and Monday has its share. But the other days seem to be badly shortchanged.

Come on, songwriters. There’s a wide area here nobody is taking advantage of. Use your imagination, figure out what separates Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from the rest of the week, write a song about it, then sit back and watch the royalties roll in.

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Canada must take climate-change leadEditor:

Until recently, the federal government argued that, since developing countries such as China and India didn’t have to take action under climate change, there was little point in Canada’s engaging in reduc-tions of greenhouse gas emis-sions. Now the Durban agree-ment, the successor to Kyoto, ensures developing countries will assume their responsibilities in this area. There are, then, no excuses left for our country.

It is time for Canada to re-engage in its historic leadership role on climate change, not continue with its current role as a laggard. Arguments that mea-sures to address climate change are too expensive are simply false. Wind and hydro power are competitive in many places, as are heating solar hot water and heat pumps. Finally, saving energy by using it more effi-ciently saves money. Reducing emissions by saving emissions can actually make money, an investment superior to anything offered through the stock mar-ket in recent years.

While taking action on cli-mate change would reduce oil and natural gas production, the world is likely going to move away from oil and gas. Finding economic alternatives to hydro-carbon extraction is inevitable for our national future as juris-dictions such as the EU move towards electric and hydrogen-powered cars.

In taking action on climate change, such as through passing

a cap and trade system, Canada will stimulate the development of the industries of the future.

Action to deal with climate change is not only the right thing to do: it is also in our

long-term economic interests. Oil is a sunset sector. Let’s not go down with the sinking oil

tanker.Thomas Cheney

Prince George

Editor:The Canfor coffee group

toy run started in 1995 under the watchful eye of John Harris.

This year approximately 750 toys will be assembled

and distributed, not only to Prince George groups but to agencies in Hous-ton, Vanderhoof, Fort St. James, Quesnel and 100 Mile House.

We would like to thank

Canfor for supplying lum-ber, plywood, and hard-ware; General Paint and Rona Building Supplies for pain supplies; also Bru-nette Industries and Bear Lake Curling Club for their

support.A special thank you to

Velma Senner for orga-nizing not only the coffee group wives, but also the Hart Seniors to help paint and detail all the toys.

Thanks to the Hart Pio-neer Centre for giving the group space to do all this work. This is what makes this toy run such a success.

Skip CleavePrince George

Toys couldn’t be made without help

Editor:I want to thank everybody who helped

me at the time of the evacuation of Vic-toria Towers: The City of Prince George for getting me in at Esther’s Inn and also giving us funds for clothing and necessities. Esther’s Inn personnel for taking extra care of seniors, especially Alice who made sure I had everything I needed. The manager of the place I now

reside in for going out of his way to help me into my new place so I didn’t have to put my belongings in storage.

Canadian Red Cross for paying for the security deposit and first month’s rent. Also to the Free Press for the article that you wrote about me and the picture you took that was seen by a person who bid for a tree at the Festival of Trees and had it delivered to my new residence. Also

to the person at Elder Citizens Recre-ation Centre who gave me the name and phone number of the reporter, without that nothing would have happened.

I really appreciate everything you people did for me and I would like to mention how great my new neighbours here are.

Thank you again.Jean Patenaude

Evacuee thanks all who helped

Editor: I commend Neil Godbout

for his excellent column, “Derek Boogaard story exposes hockey hypocrisy,” in the Dec. 9 issue of The Prince George Free Press.

It provides a thorough, hard-hitting analysis of the attitudes leading to a wor-ship of out-of-control vio-lence in hockey.

Paul StricklandPrince George

Boogaard column right on the mark

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It’s really cool being back in Prince George.

I took a drive the other night down Candy Cane Lane, enjoy-ing all the Christmas lights and decorations. I will never, in this lifetime, be organized enough to get lights out on the outside of my house. Maybe if someone started telling me Christmas was com-ing in a month around September, it would happen, but otherwise

no way. I’m the gal who

throws up a tree two weeks before the big event, buys a turkey two days before dinner

needs to be ready, and is usually out Christmas Eve hunt-ing for that one last present for the son-of-a-gun relative who you haven’t seen in 25 years yet who put something under your tree anyway.

By the way, I would not recommend shop-

ping for gifts at a 24-hour convenience store. You might deny it, fellow procrastina-tor, but you know just who you are. Other-wise how is it all the darned travel mugs were sold last year? It would have been a perfect gift for my second cousin once removed, especially if I filled it with cocoa packs and candy canes.

Anyway, checking out the lights was fun, but also a little bittersweet. See, the last time I took that ride, there was a car seat next to me and

my little guy was sit-ting there, blue eyes agape, amazed by all those lights. In fact, every time we drove home from the mall or Grampa and Gram-ma’s (they were kind enough to baby-sit for me while I worked) it was a tradition to take a detour down Candy Cane Lane before we cozied up for the night in our apartment.

The Christmas I lived in the apartment, everyone came to my place. My brother, Clayton, got a karaoke machine, and he and my brother, Rolly, sang all afternoon.

They did a duet called Nothing But A Child, by Steve Earle. Now, every time I hear that song I think of that Christmas and how simple things seemed back then.

But plenty of miles and years have passed. My baby is over six feet tall and between his beard and tattoo (ya, I like it, but I’d like it better if it was on someone else’s kid), most people are

a bit stunned when I call him my little man. He just rolls his eyes and puts an arm around me – and reminds me he’s been taller than me since he was 13.

Six-foot-tall hell-raiser or not, I know my boy will take a drive with me down Candy Cane Lane sometime this season, and I know it will be as sweet for him as it was for me. I guess

both of us, and prob-ably a lot of other people in this city, owe the folks who live along those streets and who go to all the work of making the season a little extra special for the rest of us a big thank-you.

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In Provincial Court in Prince George on Nov. 9:

Sandor F. Gabris was found guilty of driving without due care and attention, fined $1,000 and assessed a victim surcharge of $150.

Edward M. Noel was found guilty of oper-ating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol reading over .08 and false pretense and sentenced to jail time served of 29 days.

Leo J. Penney was found guilty of oper-ating a motor vehicle while prohibited, sen-

tenced to 90 days in jail to be served inter-mittently, placed on probation until the expiration of the jail sentence, assessed a victim surcharge of $50 and prohibited from driving for five years.

Steven J. Russell was found guilty of failing to comply with a pro-bation order, fined $250 and assessed a victim

surcharge of $50.Bobby T. Smith was

found guilty of two counts of failing to comply with a proba-tion order and fined $200.

Sabina H. Haskell was found guilty of theft of property with a value less than $5,000 and placed on proba-tion for 12 months.

Redmond R. Little Chief was found guilty of operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol reading over .08, fined 1,000 and prohibited from driv-ing for one year.

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Rory R. Hardt was found guilty of fail-ing to comply with a condition of an under-taking, fined $300 and assessed a victim sur-charge of $45.

Joe M. Horwath was found guilty of oper-ating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol reading over .08, fined $1,000 and prohibited from driving for one year.

Andrew Lowley was found guilty of assault and placed on proba-tion for eight months.


Brady A. Caron was found guilty of resist-ing a peace officer, fined $500 and assessed a victim surcharge of $75.

Robert K. Rickett was found guilty of driving while prohibited, fined $500, assessed a victim surcharge of $75 and prohibited from driv-ing for 12 months.


Kenneth R. Bishop was found guilty of careless use of a fire-arm, unauthorized possession of a fire-arm in a motor vehi-cle and possession of a firearm knowing its possession is unau-thorized, assessed a victim surcharge of $100, placed on proba-tion for two years and prohibited from pos-sessing firearms for 10 years. Bishop was also found guilty of failing to stop a motor vehicle when ordered to do so, possession of stolen property with a value greater than $5,000 and possession of sto-len property with a value less than $5,000, placed on probation for two years and pro-hibited from driving for 18 months. Bishop was also found guilty of failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking or recog-nizance and sentenced to one day in jail.

Sharon D. Glaim was found guilty of two counts of possession of a controlled substance and placed on proba-tion for one year.

Braiden L. Nolan was found guilty of assault with a weapon, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and failing to stop a motor vehicle when ordered to do so, assessed a vic-tim surcharge of $50, placed on probation for 18 months and prohib-ited from driving for two years. Nolan was

also found guilty of theft of property with a value greater than $5,000 and three counts of possession of stolen property with a value less than $5,000 and sentenced to one day in jail.


Amy L. Joseph was f o u n d guilty of failing to c o m p l y with a probation order and failing to c o m p l y with a condition of an undertaking and sen-tenced to one day in jail.

Wayne H. Parry was found guilty of oper-ating a motor vehicle while impaired, sen-tenced to 30 days in jail to be served intermit-tently, placed on pro-bation until the expi-ration of the jail sen-tence, assessed a victim surcharge of $50 and prohibited from driv-ing for three years.

John W. Pyy was found guilty of resist-ing a peace officer and fined $500.

James A. Webb was found guilty of theft of property with a value

less than $5,000, sen-tenced to one day in jail and placed on pro-bation for 12 months. Webb was also found guilty of a second count of theft of prop-erty with a value less than $5,000, fined $500 and placed on proba-tion for one year.


Allen E. Belanger w a s f o u n d guilty of d r i v i n g

without due care and attention, fined $1,000 and assessed a victim surcharge of $150.

Reid J. Fichtner was found guilty of driving without due care and attention, fined $1,000 and assessed a victim surcharge of $150.

Rahim N. Lalani was found guilty of driving while prohibited, fined $500, assessed a victim surcharge of $75 and prohibited from driv-ing for one year.

Dallas A.L. Wil-liams was found guilty of break and enter, assessed a victim sur-charge of $50, placed on probation for 12 months and ordered

to make restitution of $970.

Elijah J. Massettoe was found guilty of assault with a weapon, sentenced to 66 days in jail, placed on proba-tion for 12 months and prohibited from pos-sessing firearms for 10 years.


Amanda L. Allan was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order and sentenced to 45 days in jail.

Larry W. Barks was found guilty of oper-ating a motor vehicle while impaired, fined $1,200, placed on pro-

bation for one year and prohibited from driv-ing for three years.

Mary A. Carter was found guilty of posses-sion of a restricted or prohibited firearm with ammunition, fined $800, assessed a victim surcharge of $120 and prohibited from pos-sessing firearms for 10 years.

Preston P.M. Deveny was found guilty of three counts of failing to comply with a con-dition of an undertak-ing or recognizance, sentenced to one day in jail and assessed a vic-tim surcharge of $50.

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Prince George school trustees got a lot to think about at an orientation session in Vancouver on the weekend.

For new trustee Tim Bennett, having a couple of experi-enced people on hand helped.

“Trish (Bella) and Sharel (Warrington) were really good at helping us ease into

it,” he said of the meetings, hosted by the B.C. School Trust-ees Association. “I learned a lot.”

Fellow trustee new-comer Brenda Hooker had experienced this kind of orientation session before, when she served as a coun-cillor in McBride.

“I attended the same sort of session for the Union of B.C. Munici-palities. That one was held in Valemount, but it was also more

of a business meeting.“The focus this

weekend was on training and network-ing, which was great for new trustees.”

Martha Piper, the former president of the University of Brit-ish Columbia, was a keynote speaker at the event, while Educa-tion Minister George Abbott also spoke to the trustees.

“I give George a lot of credit,” Hooker said. “He gave us some bad news in his speech, saying there would be no increases in the budget this year, and then stayed around to take ques-

tions.”Abbott also

announced changes to the funding for-mula, some of which should benefit Prince George, she said, but they won’t take effect until 2013.

Bennett, like Hooker, appreciated the chance to net-work and also spend time with his fellow trustees from Prince George.

“The conference was designed to give us an opportunity for team development. There were a lot of boards with a lot of new members, so we didn’t feel too alone.”

Prince George-Vale-mount MLA Shirley Bond, Mayor Shari Green and around a dozen first respond-ers were on hand at Canadian Tire Dec. 9 to promote safe winter driving.

“As the Minister of Public Safety in the province, I am acutely aware of what first responders do,” Bond said. “All these indi-viduals put their lives on the line each and every day for us.”

She said while she was on her way to the event she was feel-

ing enormously pres-sured by other drivers who were going too quickly.

“The speed limits are posted, but you have to drive for the road conditions,” she said. “The Shift into Winter campaign is to help prepare our driv-ers and vehicles for winter.”

She added there are 28 road maintenance contractors who plow the province’s 20 mil-lion km of roads.

Web cams accessible at drivebc.ca are set up at strategic points so travellers can always know exactly what the road conditions are.

“Think before you drive. Know before you go,” she said.

Green shared a story that happened to her family which could have ended in tragedy.

She said they were driving one spring and her husband was using cruise control. Suddenly it began to snow and it got ugly before he could safely bring it out of cruise.

“We went into the snow and started to spin. We passed a loaded logging truck and I remember see-ing that red flag pass by my window,” she said.

It was fortunate the vehicle struck the opposing ditch rather than the truck.

She added, from the city’s perspective, it is important people are aware of snow removal equipment. She invited anyone who knows of a place where sanding needs to be done to report it at 250-561-7600.

“Call and let us

know where sanding needs to happen,” she said.

North District RCMP traffic services commander Insp. Eric Brewer said he noticed how customers enter-ing the store shuffled their way across the parking lot in order to avoid falling on the ice. Shoes, he added, are much like tires, and he wondered why people didn’t take as much thought about driving on ice.

“We’ve talked about slowing down. The speed limit is for opti-mum driving condi-tions,” he said.

He added there are a number of safety fea-tures in modern vehi-cles that help people when roads are poor, however they can only do so much.

“They don’t work if

you exceed the ability of them to help you,” he said.

He said wearing a seat belt is another way to improve your chances of avoiding injury in case of a col-lision.

“There is a signifi-cantly greater chance of surviving if you wear a seat belt,” he said.

Keeping a kit in the car with emergency equipment in it is another good idea, he added.

Canadian Tire ser-vice manager Guy Cote suggested such a kit should contain things like a blanket, cones with reflective stripping, booster cables, a flashlight, gloves, a small shovel, and a snow brush with a scraper.

He added winter-izing your car means getting some advice about the best tire for you, whether it is one that excels in snow or packed snow and ice, or a hybrid of the two.

Wipers should be winterized as well, he said, and it doesn’t hurt to have a hydrom-eter test done on your fluids to ensure they can stand at least -45 degrees Celsius.

The battery should be tested to ensure it is charging properly and the car should have a block heater to keep it starting on cold winter mornings.

“But the most impor-tant thing is to drive for the road conditions and have the vehicle ready for winter,” he said.

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Cariboo CatsThe Cariboo Cougars

split a road doubleheader against the Fraser Valley Bruins on the weekend.

They opened the two-game set with a 4-2 victory over the Bruins on Saturday night. The home team won 5-4 on Sunday.

The Cougars (14-5-3) are clinging to first place. They’re tied with the Vancouver North West Giants (13-3-5) with 31 points, but have one more victory.

This weekend, the Cougar and Giants meet in a Kin 1 doubleheader, Saturday at 7:15 p.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m.

World JuniorsPrince George native

Brett Bulmer survived Tuesday morning’s cuts at Canada’s selection camp in Calgary for the World Junior Hockey Championships.

The Canadian team staff released seven players, leaving 35 players on its roster. The final 22-man roster was scheduled to be announced this morning. Felow Prince George minor hockey product Brett Connolly is also with the team, loaned by the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning

The final roster will be the host squad at the World Junior Hockey Championships, scheduled for Dec. 26 to Jan. 5 in Edmonton and Calgary.

SportsShorts Cougars fall short in bantam final

The visitors got on a roll at the right time.

The hockey tournament hosts, in the words of their head coach, “ran out of gas.”

The result was a 4-0 Terrace vic-tory over the host Integris Credit Union Bantam Tier 2 Cougars in the final of a five-team event on the weekend at the Kin Centre.

In the championship game, played Sunday afternoon at Kin 1, Terrace scored three third-period goals to seal the title. It marked the Cougars’ only defeat of the weekend as they entered the final with a 5-0 record.

“We played extremely well,” Cougars head coach Wes Scott said. “I think probably the Num-ber 1 factor is we had five of our regulars out of the lineup due to different injuries, so we had three (affiliated players) who played for us from bantam club, and for us to get to the final – really we were undefeated the whole tournament – we just literally ran out of gas.”

Terrace finished third in the round robin at 2-2, with losses to Prince George (5-4) and Fort St. John (7-4), the same teams they defeated in the playoff round. In their semifinal round, Terrace edged second-seeded Fort St. John 3-2 in a shootout while the Cougars downed fourth-ranked Dawson Creek 3-1.

Burns Lake rounded out the field of teams in the competition.

A banged-up bunch, the Cou-gars played on the weekend with-out the services of defencemen Jared Stevens (wrist) and Brandon Sande (knee) and forwards Ben Paul (concussion), Garrett Hilton (shoulder) and Parker Dowhy (rib). Scott is hopeful each of the five players will be back in game shape in January. With their on-ice absence, affiliated forwards Jax Bailey, Tyson Ghostkeeper and Dylan Krahn saw ice time.

Like the Cougars, Terrace was short of full strength on the week-end. They were missing forwards Jack Lofroth (broken collarbone) and Ryan Kawinsky (ankle sprain) in the final.

“We had a lot of injuries, a lot of guys that were hurt and we got enough of a crew together for the last couple of games to play some good hockey,” said Jesse Schroeder, head coach of the Ter-race squad with a name sponsor of MacCarthy Motors GM.

Terrace had several players rise to the occasion in the last couple of games. Goalie Dion Johnston recorded the shutout in the final, while forward Fred Mowatt scored the shootout win-ner against Fort St. John.

The semifinal shootout, on Sun-day morning, saw Terrace and Fort St. John go through five skat-ers each.

“I’ve been coaching the bantam team here, well this is my second year and we’ve never had a situa-tion like that so it’s pretty cool for the guys,” Schroeder said. “They

always practice their breakaways at the end of their practices and it’s not too often that they actually get to do the real thing, so it was a pretty neat experience. “

Scott wasn’t short of words when asked to comment on the tournament champions from Ter-race, who also won a competition in Quesnel in October.

“They’re a very strong club. They’re one of the top teams in their category in the province. They’ll be competitive at the pro-vincial stage at the Tier 3 level, so it’s a good measuring stick for us,” he said. “They handled us quite a bit earlier this year quite easily, so for us to come back and beat them and be competitive with them tells us that we’re mak-ing huge headway.”

The Cougars also edged Daw-son Creek 2-1, doubled Fort St. John 4-2 and outscored Burns Lake 5-1. Terrace downed Daw-son Creek 7-4 and blanked Burns Lake 8-0. Fort St. John defeated Burns Lake 7-2 and downed Dawson Creek 5-3.

Dawson Creek and Burns Lake tied 3-3 to finish with the same 0-3-1 record, but Dawson Creek finished fourth for having a lower goals for and against differential.

The Kin Centre was booked on the weekend for the Farr Fabricat-ing Bantam Tier 1 Cougars’ tour-nament. But since the Farr Fabri-cating squad couldn’t attract Tier 1 teams as it had hoped, the Inte-gris Credit Union team stepped in to play the role of host.

The Integris Credit Union club is hosting its own tournament Jan. 27 to 29 at the Kin Centre. Terrace, Fort St. John and Dawson Creek are returning for an event rounded out with visitors from Quesnel, Williams Lake, Smithers and Fairview, Alta.

The Cougars will also meet Williams Lake in Tier 2 provincial playdowns in February.

“We’ve come a long ways,” Scott said. “The beginning of the year we were losing to teams significantly and now we’re beat-ing them and have become very competitive.”

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Dylan Krahn of the Integris Credit Union Bantam Tier 2 Cougars skates in for a wrist shot against Terrace on Sunday, during the final of a five-team tournament at the Kin Centre.

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Spruce Kings surrendered the first goal in Salmon Arm on Sunday. But they replied with four of their own.

The end result, a 4-1 vic-tory for the visitors over the SilverBacks, improved the Spruce Kings’ record to 13 wins, 12 losses, two ties and three overtime defeats (13-12-2-3). They’re tied with the Vernon Vipers (14-12-1-2) with 31 points, but with one less win, are fifth in the eight-team Interior Conference. And at 30 games played, the Spruce Kings have reached the halfway mark of their 60-game regular season schedule.

The Spruce Kings wrap up the pre-Christmas por-tion of their 2011-12 sched-ule this weekend with three road games in as many days. After meeting the Chilliwack Chiefs on Fri-day evening, they’ll make a short drive east to meet the Langley Rivermen on Saturday night. In their final game before a 10-day Christmas break, they bat-tle the Surrey Eagles on Sunday afternoon.

In Sunday’s victory in

Salmon Arm, defence-man Ben Woodley led the Spruce Kings offensively with one goal and two assists. Forward Paul De Jersey had a two-point game with a goal and an assist. Jujhar Khaira, De Jersey’s linemate, and Myles Fitzgerald (empty net) also scored for the vis-itors. SilverBacks forward Morgan Zulinick opened the scoring at 6:49 of the first period.

Kirk Thompson picked up the victory in goal for the Spruce Kings and was named the game’s first star. The Spruce Kings outshot the SilverBacks 42-28, with netminder Kurt Williams taking the loss at the other end despite a 38-save per-formance.

The Spruce Kings fin-ished 2-for-5 on the power play, while Salmon Arm couldn’t score on five opportunities with the extra man.

The SilverBacks are sev-enth in the conference at 10-15-0-5, six points behind the Spruce Kings and one in arrears of the sixth-place Westside Warriors (10-14-1-5). The SilverBacks play in the Nicola Valley against the Merritt Centennials on Friday.

Before their home game

against the Penticton Vees on Tuesday night, the Cen-tennials were second in the conference at 17-8-2-4. With 56 points, Penticton (27-3-0-2) had a command-ing lead while the third-place Chiefs (18-9-0-1)

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Trail Smoke Eaters (5-21-1-3) round out the confer-ence.

The Spruce Kings opened the weekend with a 4-3 loss to the Centen-

nials at the Coliseum on Friday night. On Saturday evening in Kelowna, they tied the Warriors 3-3.

After taking a break for Christmas, the Spruce Kings resume their sched-ule on Dec. 28 at Chilli-

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The Prince George Cougars must enjoy playing in Seattle and Spokane these days.

Two weeks after picking up wins in the U.S. against the Seattle Thunderbirds and Spokane Chiefs, the Cougars returned to the teams’ home arenas and once again

skated away victori-ous.

Saturday night’s vic-tory at the Spokane Vet-erans Memorial Arena was a shootout thriller in come-from-behind fashion, a 4-3 decision which improved the Cougars’ record to 12 wins, 19 losses, zero overtime setbacks and two shootout defeats (12-19-0-2). It marked the Cougars’ third

consecutive victory, their longest winning streak of the 2011-12 campaign.

The Cougars hope to make it four in a row on Friday night when they host the Vancouver Giants in the first half of a CN Centre doubleheader. They’ll meet again on Saturday evening, the Cougars’ annual Teddy Bear and Toque Toss game.

More offence has factored into the team’s improvement. Friday night’s 1-0 win against the Thunder-birds was the only game in the Cougars’ last nine in which they haven’t scored at least three goals, a welcome sight for a club which got blanked in three consecutive games in October.

“Everything has been really good that way. We’re happy about the confidence we’re gain-ing and that’s impor-tant,” Cougars head coach Dean Clark said. “We just want to keep going in that direction obviously for the last two games here and then let everybody go home for the break.”

Saturday night’s game is the Cougars’ final contest before Christmas, the next game on their sched-

ule on Dec. 28, a home date with the Eastern Conference’s Calgary Hitmen.

Including a 3-2 road win at Kelowna on Dec. 3, the Cougars have won four of their last five, three of those victories recorded away from CN Centre. Before travelling to the U.S., they split a home doubleheader against the Portland Winter-hawks, losing 5-3 on Dec. 6 and winning 4-3 in overtime on Dec. 7.

Players at both ends of the experience scale have played key roles in the team’s recent success. Twenty-year-old overagers Drew Owsley, Cody Carlson and Spencer Asuchak all made key contribu-tions on the weekend. Owsley, the team’s starter, made 24 saves on Friday night for his third shutout of the season. Carlson, a defenceman, scored the lone goal in Seat-tle and both the tying and shootout winner the next night in Spo-kane. Asuchak, a for-ward, recorded a pair of helpers on Saturday evening.

Among the first-year players leaving their mark are forwards Alex Forsberg, Jor-dan Tkatch and Chase Witala. Forsberg and Tkatch each scored his eighth goal of the sea-

son on Saturday night. In the Dec. 7 win over Portland, Witala (one goal, two assists) and 19-year-old forward Greg Fraser (two goals, one assist) each had three-point games. Fraser also scored the overtime winner.

“We’re starting to score by committee. There are guys that are getting in on the offence,” Clark said. “The young guys are chipping in, I think

that’s key for us too because we need them to.”

In their latest win, the Cougars overcame a three-goal deficit with three consecu-tive goals, all in the third period, to force overtime. Carlson’s tying goal came on the power play with 3:46 left in regulation time. Jason Fram, Anthony Bardaro and Steven Kuhn scored for the Chiefs.

Carlson’s winner came in the fourth round. The first shoot-ers for each team, Forsberg and Blake Gal, also scored in the shootout.

“(Carlson) had a huge weekend,” Clark said. “Last time we were in Seattle he had scored for the first time in a long time and I think that kind of got him going, the first time we were there, and he did really good for us ever since.”

Although fairly healthy, the Cougars’ injury report includes one significant set-back. Forward Brock Hirsche is coming off shoulder surgery and Clark said he’ll likely be out of the lineup until the playoffs in March. Defence-man Reid Jackson and Shane Pilling are both nursing upper body injuries. Pilling is questionable for this weekend, while Jack-son won’t be back in the lineup until after Christmas.

The Cougars were also waiting to hear the league’s ruling on disciplinary action taken on forward Campbell Elynuik for an incident on Fri-day night. Elynuik received a five-minute boarding major and game misconduct for a hit on Thunderbirds defenceman Shea Theodore early in the third period. Theodore was in the lineup the next night when the Thunderbirds hosted the Victoria Grizzlies, a 4-3 shootout victory for the home team.

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Here’s a question for you, and be honest with your answer.

When training camps for the Cougars and Spruce Kings opened in August, which team did you think would be more competitive in its respective league?

If you based your answer on experi-ence and last season’s results, your answer would’ve been the Cougars. I’m willing to guess that, had a poll of 100 hockey knowledgeable people in the city been asked that question, most would’ve answered Cougars.

Yet as the Western Hockey League and B.C. Hockey League teams sit at or near the halfway point of their regular-season sched-ules, it’s the BCHL’s Spruce Kings sport-ing a greater winning percentage than the WHL’ Cougars. Let’s analyse the teams’ situations further.

SPruCe KIngS

Sunday’s game in Salmon Arm marked the 30th of the season for the Spruce Kings, who enter the second half of their 60-game schedule with 13 wins, 12 losses, two ties and three overtime defeats (13-12-2-3). While the Penticton Vees (26-3-0-2 as of Tuesday) appear destined to win the conference with a comfortable hold on first, the Spruce Kings are in

the thick of a playoff race.

For the Spruce Kings, it’s a much more favourable position than their halfway mark last season,

when they were in the Interior Conference basement at 6-22-0-2. The 30th game of the 2010-11 campaign turned out to be the last for Ed Dempsey as the team’s head coach and general manager, a 10-1 shel-lacking at Penticton on Nov. 21, 2010. Dave Dupas took over as the interim head coach and, after the comple-tion of the regular season a few months later, was rewarded with a coaching con-tract.

Furthermore, the Spruce Kings are only two points away from matching their point total of the entire 2010-11 season, when they finished last in the league at 13-40-1-6.

Although there are still 30 games remain-ing on the Spruce Kings’ gruelling schedule, if the first half is any indication, they should at least be in the hunt for a play-off spot until the last couple of weeks of the season.

So what have been the biggest factors in the Spruce Kings’ competitive play this season? In a nutshell, it’s been more scoring (they ice one of the top lines in the league), a greater focus on defence and strong play on home ice (10-7-0-0 at the Coliseum).

Before turning

my attention to the Cougars, I need to add that it’s a breath of fresh air to see so much parity in the Interior Conference this season. It’s nice to see franchises which had been at or near the bottom of the con-ference standings, the Merritt Centennials and Chilliwick Chiefs (formerly Quesnel Millionaires) among the teams holding down the four playoff positions. Further-more, the Okanagan teams (Vernon, West-side and Salmon Arm) are facing greater challenges than past seasons.

CougArSTo suggest the Cou-

gars were expected to compete for the 2011-12 WHL title is outlandish.

But with the poten-tial of star forward Brett Connolly return-

ing, an experienced overage starter in Drew Owsley and tal-ented rookie core, they appeared a team that would at least com-pete for home ice in the opening round of the playoffs. Instead, as they near their Christmas break and halfway point of the season, they’re once again in a tight battle just to qualify for the playoffs.

The Cougars have won their last three games to improve to 12 wins, 19 losses, zero overtime setbacks and

two shootout defeats (12-19-0-2).

To explain why this season hasn’t gone as the club had hoped, fingers can be pointed in various directions.

Perhaps the biggest factor has been the decision of the Tampa Bay Lightning to keep Connolly for full-time duty this season. In a league with such a small portion of proven snipers and superstars, the Cou-gars are feeling the effects of life without Connolly. They’re among the lowest

scoring teams with 82 goals in 33 games. Connolly makes play-ers around him better, a leader on and off the ice.

Still on the topic of offence, there’s the Charles Inglis situa-tion. Inglis brought intensity, passion and scoring touch to the Cougars lineup. Unfortunately, his frustration and temper got the best of him. He was assessed a 10-game suspension for an elbowing inci-dent in October, and then he got sent home

after last weekend’s game in Kamloops for breaking team rules. He’s awaiting a trade in Saskatoon.

Inconsistencies dur-ing an Eastern Con-ference road swing, goal-scoring woes and injuries have played roles in the Cougars’ struggles. To be fair, they’ve won three in a row and are getting key contributions from their rookies. But they still have a long way to go to be considered a playoff threat.

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Members of the Prince George Spruce Kings assist with clearing objects off the ice after their teammate Paul De Jersey scored the first goal in the team’s Drop Your Gloves and Sock It To ‘Em game Friday at the Coliseum.

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The Duchess Park Con-dors are sending early notice that they’re the team to beat in senior boys basketball in the city.

In a six-team tournament at PGSS on the weekend, the Condors soared to the title with a 3-0 record. They defeated the Correlieu Clan of Quesnel 74-59 in the final on Saturday.

“For us, our primary focus is to sustain a good level of intensity on our defence for as long as possible,” Con-dors head coach Dave Hol-mes said. “We try to gen-erate our offence from our defence.”

Grade 11 forwards Eric Kidwell and Nathanial Pawluk led Duchess Park against Correlieu, with 20 and 19 points respectively. Kidwell and Pawluk are part of a core group which played under Holmes at the junior level in the 2010-11 season. They’re among a list of Grade 11s which includes Holmes’ son Luke and Mon-tell Lindgren, a returnee who was the only junior-eliglble player to suit up for the senior team last year.

Lindgren, who chipped in with eight points in Satur-day’s final, is also a product of the Team B.C. provincial

program. He’s one of five returning players.

In their other games on the weekend, the Condors defeated the College Heights Cougars 66-53 and outscored the D.P. Todd Trojans 84-51.

The Condors lost to the host Nechako Valley Vikings in the final of a tournament the previous weekend in Vanderhoof. They were short staffed against the Vikings since a portion of their lineup was on the Duchess Park senior boys volleyball squad which finished fourth at double-A provincials in Kelowna.

Holmes admits the 2011 portion of this season is more about familiarizing themselves with their com-petition and finding their groove.

“It gives us a chance to give us a sense of where we’re at at the beginning of the year, and where a lot of the teams in our zone are at.”

Although he’s moved up to the senior level this year, Holmes should have no problem making adjust-ments. A junior coach for a few seasons prior to this year, he’s guided a lot of the players since Grade 8 and has seen them develop over the past few years.

“Almost all of the players had been on one of my two

teams that have won zones and gone on to provincials over the past two years, so they’re used to that level of competition,” he said. “I think they embrace the opportunity to come out of our zone.”

SenIor gIrLSThe Houston Christian

Wildcats left the city as champions of an eight-team senior girls tournament at D.P. Todd Secondary.

In the championship final on Saturday evening, the Wildcats hammered the Nechako Valley Viqueens 73-39. The triumph followed a 76-61 victory over the Duchess Park Condors in the semifinal round.

Houston Christian opened its weekend schedule on Fri-day with a 57-43 win over another single-A squad, the Cedars Christian Eagles.

The Wildcats have an expe-rienced lineup this season led by six-foot-five forward Ruth Hamblin, who will begin studying engineering at Oregon State University on an NCAA Division 1 scholarship next year. Ham-blin is one of four Grade 12s on the team.

Wildcats head coach Wen-dall Ewald knows this could be a special season for his squad.

“It should be a good one.

We’re strong, we’re definitely strong in the post position and our guards are show-ing lot of good things, just athletic things right off the bat even though we weren’t ready as far as a basketball team goes,” he said. “We didn’t have enough time. Just athletically they picked things up very well on their own.”

ChrISTmAS CLASSIC

This week, the Duchess Park Condors play host to the Christmas Classic senior tournament.

The tournament features separate draws for boys and girls. On the boys side, the Condors are joined by Col-lege Heights, Correlieu, D.P. Todd, the PGSS Polars and Caledonia (Terrace).

Duchess Park is one of eight teams on the girls side. The other squads are College Heights, Cedars Christian, the Kelly Road Roadrunners, D.P. Todd, PGSS, Nechako Valley and North Peace (Fort St. John).

Action gets underway on Thursday with boys games at 3:15 p.m. The girls cham-pionship game is Friday at 4:45 p.m.

The final draw, a pair of boys games, is slated for Fri-day at 6:30 p.m.

Condors stake claim to top hoops spot

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Peace FMPeace FM (www.peacefm.ca) has recently celebrated its 15th anniversary. It originally started out in a small room in the Chetwynd Secondary school as the first community owned and operated radio station in Canada. They now have operations in Dawson Creek and Chetwynd.

Northeast Housing ShortageThere appears to be a huge housing shortage for many workers in the Peace Region of northern B.C. With the recent expansion and development of the oil and gas industry in the region, many hotels are full with workers. A number of hotels in Dawson Creek recently reported to be 100 per cent full since the start of August and they expect this to continue until March or April 2012. On a recent business trip to the region, we had trouble finding a room for three nights. We usually stay at a upscale hotel in Fort St. John and as a valued customer our rate is usually $109 a night. We ended up paying $179 per night. There have been a number of conversions of small retail spaces into residences. The Market Place in Chetwynd has converted all former retail rental units into residences. These units were only rented to three retail customers. Each 10×10 unit is now being rented out for $300 a night. They now have a waiting list

Woodjam DrillingGold Fields Horsefly Exploration Corporation (www.woodjamcopper.com) has recently completed its 2011 drilling program which was budgeted for $5 million exploration budget for the Woodjam South Property, which is located 45 km east of Williams Lake. The results are now being reviewed by ALS Laboratory Group in Vancouver

Fort St. John ExpansionThere are numerous businesses that are

expanding in the Fort St. John area due to the increase in business opportunities in the oil and gas sector. One of the largest developments is being undertaken by Shell who is building a large office building in the area. Years ago Shell looked at expansion in the Prince George region with the potential of building a plant next to Husky Refinery. Now it appears Shell is looking at a plant or refinery in the Fort St. John region.

Natural Resources ForumJanuary 11-12 (www.bcnaturalresourceforum.com) is the annual show that is combined with the business and technology awards. The pleasant thing about this show is the participants and attendees are from all over northern B.C. Many times the award winners have been from outside Prince George which makes the conversations interesting about business development in the north. These events brings together unique and interesting projects highlighting the entrepreneurial sprit of the north.

Fracking Under FireWith shale gas booming and work beginning for pipelines and export facilities in northern B.C., the NDP wants to tighten the rules and take a closer look at the environmental effects of the newest form of deep drilling. Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” injects large amounts of water and chemicals deep underground to crack shale layers and release

trapped gas. Much of that contaminated water comes back up with the gas, where it must be collected and treated.

Deficit to Exceed $3 billionExpected revenues to the B.C. government fell by $303 million in the second quarter of the fiscal year, due mainly to instability around the world, Finance Minister Kevin Falcon announced recently. The drop in revenues will make it more difficult to meet the government’s target of balancing the budget by 2013. Falcon said he will wait until January, when the finance ministry has to finalize its next budget, to see if that target can still be met. Coupled with a $30 million jump in spending, the latest figures bring the deficit forecast for the year fiscal year ending next March to $3.1 billion.

Many at Prosperity ForumA forum to discuss the New Prosperity mine proposal drew around 120 people on in Williams Lake. The forum, hosted by the Tsilhqot’in National Government, included a large crowd of people who crammed themselves into the Central Cariboo Arts Centre in Williams Lake to hear firsthand from First Nations leaders and TNG’s mining manager about their opposition to the proposed gold-copper mine project. Tl’etinqox (Anaham)

Chief Joe Alphonse, TNG tribal chair, confirmed his nation’s opposition to the mine hasn’t changed.

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Dec. 18, 1 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.Skate with Santa

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Jean Patenaude, 88, is one of 80 or so residents evacuated from Victoria Towers last month when a fire broke out in the early hours of the morning Nov. 3.

She and the other tenants could not return home because of work needed to be done on the building. So after temporarily housing her at Esther’s Inn, workers at the local branch Canadian Red Cross helped Patenaude find and move into a townhouse.

Widowed in 2010 after a 66-year marriage, the Prince George senior has had a very difficult year with a series of unexpected deaths in her family and personal health problems. However on Thursday, Patenaude was bright and cheery.

She gave the Free Press reporter a tour of her new home.

“I have my own washer and dryer here, so I can get up early in the

morning and do my laundry if I want to,” she said, smiling. A flight of stairs to the bedroom level means she can get regular exercise and has more room for her sewing and crafts (she still makes and repairs her own clothes).

“I’ll never go back to a place that has an elevator,” she said. “I’m much happier taking the stairs.”

So does this “cloud of smoke” have a silver lining?

“Oh yes, this has worked out much better for me,” said Patenaude.

In the sunny living room stands a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. Patenaude plans to have a special dinner for her family members over the holidays. Now she has the space to do that – and a dishwasher to help with cleanup.

“A man read about me in the Free Press and had the (organizers) at Festival of Trees deliver the tree he’d won in the silent auction to my new place. It is so nice to have it,” she said, admiring the toy airplanes and turquoise and lime-green ornaments. “I was so surprised. And I know I’m going to be happy here.”

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The Duchess Park Players delighted audiences last week

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of the musical Bah, Humbug! Scrooge’s Christmas Carol.

The senior drama club and drama class students (Grades 10, 11 and 12) worked on the production for two months.

“They helped create the sets and posters,” said director/drama teacher Paul Coupe, “and they assembled costumes for the per-formance with the

help of two especially talented students and Excalibur Theatre Arts Company.

“They spent many hours outside of class time rehearsing for their parts.”

Former student Becky Coupe and teacher Elaine Dickin-son worked as stage managers. Coupe also

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Playing the Charles Dickens’ character Ebeneezer Scrooge was Padraig Hogan. Suesan MacRae played Tiny Tim.

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The resource centre has several programs for special needs chil-dren and adults that offer basic office skills like computer knowl-edge, organizing, fil-ing, how to answer phones, and help with filling out pension or disability forms.

Now that she’s back doing her artwork, Young feels she’s come full circle.

“I was always paint-ing as a kid,” she said. “Then I stopped for a while when I had my own kids, started it up again, then had to stop it when I had a neck injury in the 1980s.”

This collaborative project has meant that Young and Rohl have had lots of “sit-down” meetings to discuss how to present their art, she said.

On Thursday after-noon, a few hours before public view-ing, Young admired the installation by Two Rivers Gallery

assistant curator Ken Turner.

“I’m really pleased with how it looks on the wall,” she said.

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(and Rustad Galleria) is located at 725 Civic Plaza. Phone 250-614-7800 for more infor-mation on exhibits or hours of operation.

In 2005, Lorraine Young and husband, Dan, decided to go on an adventure and take a motorcycle trip cross eastern Canada.

The beautiful scen-ery inspired Young to get back to her paint-ing, a passion she’d left behind while rais-ing her children and nursing a neck injury.

“We took 10 weeks off and drove out to Newfoundland where I’m originally from. You really get to see the countryside that way.

“You can feel the wind, and the rain – and the bugs – on your face.” (She laughs.) “We each drive our own motorcycles, so there’s a real sense of freedom and you can stop when you want to explore.”

During 2011, she completed a number of acrylic-on-canvas paintings of pictur-esque places such as Cape Spear and Rocky Harbour, New-foundland; Peggy’s

Cove, Nova Scotia; Campobello Island, New Brunswick; and Cavendish Beach and Dune Shores, P.E.I.

Young then collabo-rated with Calgary artist Kathy Rohl on an exhibition called Across Canada which officially opened Thursday at Rustad Galleria.

The duo’s exhibition will be on display until Jan. 15.

Rohl began her cross-country trek in Ontario (Lake Wawa) and worked her way west.

Quebec is the only province not repre-sented in the series. The women are both accomplished artists.

“I began painting just lighthouses – then I got into painting the scenery because it was just so beautiful,” said Young, explaining how the first pair of paintings turned into a series.

Some proceeds from sales of her work will go to help the down-town Handy Circle, where Young is office program manager.

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Most people think of Santa Claus travelling on a reindeer-powered sleigh, but things are a little different at one Prince George location.

Every afternoon from Dec. 18 to 23, Santa and Mrs. Claus will arrive at the Prince George Railway and Forestry Museum on – you guessed it – the muse-um’s own minirail train. The happy (and busy) couple will pull in to the station at about 4:30 p.m. each day.

What will Santa do when he gets there? Well, if he’s like the rest of the visitors over the holiday season, he’ll have

plenty to keep him busy. Start with the new Christmas village and the light displays, add in ice skating and minirail train rides (weather permitting), and special events every day.

On the opening day of the Christmas season at the museum, Dec. 18, admission is free with the donation of a non-perishable food item for the Salvation Army Food Bank. As well, the Cantata Singers will be performing from 4 to 5 p.m. and the St. Andrew’s Church Choir will be singing from 6 to 7 p.m.

From Dec. 20 to 23, there’s

a different form of entertain-ment from 6 to 7 p.m. each day. On Dec. 20, it will be the Knox United Church choir; on Dec. 21, the Cantata Singers; on Dec. 22 the Sweet Adelines; and on Dec. 23, storyteller Ingrid Wen-zel will be featured.

As well, you can get a dinner special each day from Dec. 18 to 24, consisting of a hot dog (which you roast yourself), hot chocolate and a s’more (which, again, you get to make your-self).

The Railway and Forestry Museum is open Dec. 18 to 24 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Artist Lorraine Young with some of her work in the Across Canada exhibit on display at the Rustad Galleria. Teresa MALLAM/Free Press

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Across Canada exhibit runs until January 15 at Rustad Galleria at Two Rivers Gallery

Two stand-up comedians, headliner Chris Gaskin and funny guy Brian Majore, both former residents of Prince George, return for one night only to put on a stand-up comedy show Dec. 15 at the Lambda Cabaret.

Joining them is local comedian Mike McGuire. Majore started his comedy career at Open Mic

nights at UNBC before moving to Vancouver three years ago. He began working the Vancou-ver comedy clubs, including Yuk Yuk’s and Laff–lines and other comedy rooms in restaurants, coffee houses and bars.

“Vancouver brought my comedy to a whole new level,” said Majore. “There were just more opportunities to get onstage in Vancouver and with more experience, you’re bound to improve. Plus, I was able to watch other comedians work-ing on their craft and I was able to ‘talk shop’ with other comedians.

“The material I wrote during my time in Van-couver is some of the best stuff I have in my cur-rent routine,” he said. “Vancouver has some of the best comedians in the country and we got to watch them on a nightly basis.”

During his time in Vancouver, he added two more TV appearances to his resume: he was fea-tured in CTV B.C.’s First Story and APTN’s First Talk with Tamara Bull.

He also continued performing on the First Nations conference circuit across Canada.

“Vancouver taught me my comedy could appeal to a wider audience than the predomi-nantly First Nations audience I was performing for at the Native conferences,” he said. Majore said since Gaskin moved to Vancouver, he’s seen his comedy writing and performance improve too.

“Chris has gotten so much better since I first met him and saw him perform in Prince George. But come out to the show and see for yourself,” he said.

The Stand-Up Comedy Show with Chris Gaskin, Brian Majore and Mike McGuire is on Thursday, Dec. 15 at Lambda Cabaret, 1177 Third Ave. Doors open at 7 p.m. Show starts at 8 p.m.

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Zion Lutheran Christian School will present The King’s Birthday on Thursday, Dec. 15 starting at 6:30 p.m.

Directed and designed by Andrea Brown, Janice French, Diane Souvie and Celena van–Dinter, the show will feature a

variety of talents by the ZLCS students: hip hop. ocarinas, wooden spoons, French and sign language with a special duet performance by Isabelle vanDinter and Victoria Milton.

The story follows three nar-rators as they tell the story of

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JOB POSTING – Logistics AnalystPinnacle Renewable Energy is seeking an experienced Logistics Analyst to fi ll a full-time position in its Prince George offi ce. As a member of the Sales & Logistics team, the Logistic Analyst will provide support to the Logistics General Manager. He/she is responsible for logistics data collection and analysis, the preparation of required documentation for customers and service providers, and providing ongoing reporting to Management.

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FRI DEC 23, 2011Game 1: Florida @ BostonGame 2: Washington @ New JerseyGame 3: Toronto @ Ny IslandersGame 4: Philadelphia @ Ny RangersGame 5: Ottawa @ CarolinaGame 6: Pittsburgh @ WinnipegGame 7: Nashville @ DallasGame 8: Tampa Bay @ ColoradoGame 9: St Louis @ PhoenixGame 10: Calgary @ VancouverGame 11: Los Angeles @ San Jose

MON DEC 26, 2011Game 12: Colorado @ MinnesotaGame 13: Washington @ BuffaloGame 14: Ny Islanders @ Ny RangersGame 15: New Jersey @ CarolinaGame 16: Dallas @ St LouisGame 17: Detroit @ NashvilleGame 18: Columbus @ ChicagoGame 19: Edmonton @ VancouverGame 20: Phoenix @ Los Angeles

Game # 21 Tie Breaker Game:Dec 26 Anaheim @ San Jose ___________________________

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Steamers Pub New Years 2012Arabian Nights Masquerade Ball

New Years Bash ~ 8pm-closeFeaturing Hell Toupe, cover is free & Special Guest Appearance by Halawa of the Zahirah Dance Studio

New Years Black Tie paired with… Bright colours, Feathers, Masquerade Masks

Please call for more info or to make reservations.

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WEEK 9 WINNER

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