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A dispute between Brink Forest Products and BCR Properties deserves to have its day in court, according to a Supreme Court justice.

BCR Properties had sought to dismiss a civil claim launched against it by Brink Forest Products regarding the use of property for a sawmill, but Justice J. Steeves ruled February 2 that “there are triable is-sues between the parties.”

Th e dispute goes back 10 years and centers around property on Boundary Road. In early 2005, Brink Forest Products started leasing the 100-acre parcel of land with the intention of building a sawmill on the property.

About two years later, Brink realized that the property was contaminated when the City of Prince George caused dam-age to the Boundary Road Property while

constructing a road along one side of the property. While repairing this damage, an extensive landfi ll was discovered and Brink, according to Steeves’ ruling, said this was the fi rst time they knew of the landfi ll. It turned out that the landfi ll covered about 22 acres of the property and contained sawmill residue including petroleum prod-ucts, heavy metals and tires, about fi ve to 10 metres deep.

Th e issue then became who is respon-sible to clean up the contamination, with an estimated price tag of $10 million. Th e issue has been in the courts since 2009.

Brink has accused BCR Properties of fraud and/or deceit, arguing in court that BCR Properties concealed the contamina-tion when the lease was being negotiated.

BCR Properties, on the other hand, claims the contamination was a part of the

history of the property and suggests that Brink’s claim is an abuse of process.

BCR Properties has argued that Brink’s “claim is vague, ambiguous, fraught with elements of opinion and is made without any evidentiary basis,” Steeves wrote in his ruling.

In their Notice of Civil Claim Brink For-est Products says that the defendant repre-sented that the Boundary Road Property was “clean and did not require any further environmental remediation.”

Th e claim alleges BCR Properties knew the statement was false, that Brink Forest Products relied on the statement, and that it has suff ered damages as a result.

BCR Properties, however, has argued there is no evidence that it knew any of the information it gave during the lease nego-tiation was false, nor is there any evidence

its representatives deliberately deceived Brink Forest Products.

“Th ese issues are obviously joined be-tween the parties and, as can be expected at the pleadings stage, the evidence on these points thus far is by numerous af-fi davits generated as part of the defendant’s application,” Justice Steeves wrote. “Th e pleadings are, by defi nition, legal claims to be tested with evidence in discovery and at trial. Th is does not mean the plaintiff s’ claims are actionable or not, only that they have not been tested. I do not agree with the defendant that a lack of particulars at this stage means that the entire claim of the plaintiff s must be dismissed. Nor, in my view, can it be said at this point that the plaintiff s’ claim is vague and ambiguous.”

Th us, the application to dismiss the civil suit was dismissed.

B&E suspects sought

Several masked people broke into a home on Blackburn Road on Monday morning, assaulted a man inside, and fl ed in a stolen truck, police say.

RCMP responded to the call of a break and enter in progress at about 8:30 a.m. Monday morning.

Police believe approximately six masked suspects were involved. Th e victim was able to defend himself, injuring at least two of his at-tackers. Two suspects, one male and one female, were arrested at the scene and transported to the University Hospital of Northern BC for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. Th e remaining suspects fl ed the scene in a stolen Ford F-150 pickup truck. Th e victim was treated at the scene by the BC Ambulance Service and released.

Indications are that the group targeted this residence on Blackburn Road to conduct a home invasion/robbery.

At approximately 10:30 a.m., RCMP located the stolen vehicle in an alley between Norwood Street and Oak Street. Police believe that a num-ber of items, including a rifl e, were stolen during this violent crime.

Police are requesting the public’s help in locat-ing the remaining suspects. Th e suspects may be dangerous and should not be approached. If you locate the suspects, call 9-1-1 immediately.

Judge allows Brink Forest claim against BCR Properties to move ahead

Teresa MALLAM/Free PressDamien Hornby, 2, reaches for a healthy snack Jan. 30 at the Prince George Native Friendship Centre’s third annual Health Fair. The event included several booths with health-related information, giveaway items like toothbrushes, a free hair styling and nails clinic and door prizes.

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on probation for 12 months and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

George E. Sponagle was found guilty of breaking and entering and two counts of mischief, sentenced to time served of three months in jail, placed on probation for 18 months, assessed a victim surcharge of $200 and prohibited from possessing fi rearms for fi ve years.

In Provincial Court on Dec. 23:Daryll D. Basil was found guilty of possession of

a controlled substance, sentenced to 21 days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

Justin G. Dionne was found guilty of driving while prohibited, fi ned $1,000, assessed a victim

surcharge of $150 and prohibited from driving for two years

Elliott R. Joseph was found guilty of failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking or recognizance, sentenced to 21 days in jail and as-sessed a victim surcharge of $100. Joseph was also found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order, sentenced to 30 days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

Paul R. Murray was found guilty of failing to pro-duce a driver’s licence when ordered to do so, fi ned $250 and assessed a victim surcharge of $37.50.

James D. Poole was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order, sentenced to time served of 17 days in jail and assessed a victim sur-charge of $100.

Catlin J. Williams was found guilty of causing a disturbance and mischief, sentenced to two months in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

In Provincial Court on Dec. 24:Johnny D. Alexander was found guilty of failing

to comply with a condition of an undertaking, sentenced to time served of eight days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

Jason W. Baker was found guilty of driving without due care and attention, fi ned $1,000 and assessed a victim surcharge of $150.

Andrew D.S. Bellman was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order, sentenced to one day in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

Wayne H.K. Brown was found guilty of theft of property with a value less than $5,000, sentenced to four days in jail, placed on probation for one year and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

Wayne K.H. Brown was found guilty of theft of property with a value less than $5,000, sentenced to four days in jail, placed on probation for one year and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

Gregory J. Cunningham was found guilty of tres-passing at night, failing to comply with a probation order and two counts of failing to comply with a

condition of an under-taking or recognizance, sentenced to 30 days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100. Cun-ningham was also found guilty of a third count of failing to comply with a condition of an under-taking or recognizance, sentenced to 22 days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

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Failing to comply gets time in jailIn Provincial Court on Dec. 18:Kerry J. Isadore was found guilty of failing to

comply with a probation order, sentenced to one day in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

Fabian B. Joseph was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order, sentenced to nine days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

Vernon L.M.Knott was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order, sentenced to one day in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

Gordon W. Pagens was found guilty of theft of a motor vehicle, sentenced to 115 days in jail, placed on probation for 12 months and assessed a victim surcharge of $100. Pagens was also found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order, sentenced to 30 days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

In Provincial Court on Dec. 19:

Cecil Izony was found guilty of failing to comply with a condi-tion of an undertaking or recognizance, sen-tenced to 21 days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

Brent J. Morgan was found guilty of failing to comply with a proba-tion order and sen-tenced to time served of fi ve days in jail.

In Provincial Court on Dec. 22:

Graysen L. Aby was found guilty of assault, placed on probation for six months and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

Douglas W. Joseph was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order, sen-tenced to 27 days in jail, fi ned $10 and assessed a victim surcharge of $3.

David W. Maude was found guilty of two counts of failing to comply with a condi-tion of an undertak-ing or recognizance, sentenced to two days in jail, fi ned $10 and assessed a victim sur-charge of $3.

Donald J. McIntyre was found guilty of possession of stolen property, sentenced to 60 days in jail, placed

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A special meeting of council will be held next week to determine which capital project the city will hope to fund through the New Building Canada Fund – Small Communities Fund.

City staff has recommended that the city apply for $1.4 million for the completion of the Fraser River Bench Land Outfall Re-mediation project. Th e project involves the installation of storm water piping and the construction of a fl ow control berm, inlet structure, and an energy dissipation struc-ture. Th is project is the preferred alternative identifi ed in the Drainage and Erosion As-sessment prepared by McElhanney Consult-ing Services Ltd., July 2010, according to Kris Dalio, the city’s fi nancial planning manager. Th e city has completed construction-ready design drawings and the required archaeological assessment. Th e project is ready to proceed as soon as additional funding is secured.

Council, however, is also getting pressure from residents in the Hart Highlands area to submit the Hart Highlands Local Area Service Phase 2 proj-ect, sewer system upgrades, as the city’s project.

“Because they were concerned about the cost to residents, a couple of women from this area ex-haustively researched the possibility of grants that were available from other levels of government for infrastructure renewal,” resident Sandi Kubert said in a letter to council. “Th is was presented to the former council in the fall. City council congratu-lated the women on their diligence and promised to apply for the available grant, hold a meeting with concerned residents in January, and then let us know if the grant was approved at the January

19 council meeting. Imagine our surprise, when the council meeting date was suddenly upon us, no meeting between the city and our residents had been called, and we turned up at council meet-ing to fi nd that our application wasn’t even on the agenda … and that it was being proposed for shor-ing up the Fraser River embankment.”

Perhaps a wee bit late, but council is now follow-ing up on that promise.

Th e city was set to meet with area residents Th ursday evening to discuss the project.

“We’re going to have an opportunity for full feedback,” said Mayor Lyn Hall.

Following Th ursday’s meeting, a special meeting of council will be held next week and council will decided which project it will apply to seek funding for. Th at will, Hall said, allow staff enough time to get the funding application by the February 18 deadline.

Council to choosebetween infrastructure projects

Th e Prince George Chamber of Commerce is teaming up with the University of Northern British Columbia to help local businesses reduce their carbon footprints.

In 2014, phase one of this project focused on building awareness of carbon reduction initiatives to im-prove air quality within the Prince George airshed.

Th e newly launched phase two will build on this, and shift the focus to carbon management; the process of accurately estimating and accounting for the carbon footprint of goods, services and technologies.

Sponsored by CN, phase two brings together the local business

community and students partici-pating in UNBC’s Carbon Manage-ment: Th e Intersection of Business and Environmentalism course. Th is course, off ered by the Environ-mental Studies and the Natural Resources and Environmental Studies programs, will work with 10 to 15 local businesses to measure their corporate carbon footprint and investigate recommendations for carbon reductions and energy savings.

“Th is service will be off ered for free, and will benefi t both students and businesses,” said Kyle Aben, course instructor and Pacifi c Institute for Climate Solutions Program Coordinator at UNBC, in

a press release. “It will give students the opportunity to solve real-world business problems. Meanwhile, businesses have an opportunity to save money through implementing the recommendations.”

Local businesses interested in learning more about this new project are invited to attend a meet-and-greet reception with the students and Aben.

Th is will take place on Tuesday, February 10 at 2 p.m. at Hummus Brothers Restaurant and Lounge. If you are a business interested in sup-porting carbon reduction initiatives in our community, please contact project coordinator Barbara Otter at the Chamber (250-562-2454).

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Plunging oil prices have put the nation’s books in disarray and the government is doing little to deal with the matter, says NDP MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley Nathan Cul-len.

“Revenue has dropped off and they are scrambling right now,” he said of the Conservative government. “Th ey are not coming clean to Canadians.”

Last week Cullen called on the government to provide a fi scal up-date in the wake of plummeting oil prices, which have an impact on the federal budget.

It shouldn’t be too diffi cult for the government to provide an economic update, Cullen said, adding it has the numbers, it’s just not releasing them.

“Now we’re running into the ques-tion of whether the Conservatives have spent the (federal budget) sur-plus before they even got a surplus,” Cullen said Th ursday.

A reality check, which govern-ment’s regularly provide, would tell the country where it stands fi scally.

“Instead, we have a fi nance minis-ter who is ducking under the covers, crossing his fi ngers and hoping things get better on their own,” Cul-len said. “We’re in some real trouble.

Th e Canadian economy, last year, grew much more slowly than our population grew.”

Part of the problem, according to the NDP, is that the Canadian government relies heavily on the oil patch for economic prosperity. Part of the NDP platform for this year’s election is to diversify the economy by helping rebuild the manufacturing sector.

Another plank is a 20 per cent tax cut for small businesses. Coupled with that would be a tax increase for larger businesses. Cullen says he has been talking with some of the largest businesses in the country and says they are not opposed to the NDP plan.

“(Large businesses) will pay a rate higher than they’re paying right now, but still incredibly competitive versus the United States or any of our com-petitors,” he said. “Everybody needs to pay their fair share.”

Cullen said small businesses create eight out of every 10 jobs, so that’s where some tax relief would go un-der an NDP government.

“We’ve been getting good acco-lades from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, from other small business associa-tions across Canada,” he said.

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Games closes downtown streetsTh e City of Prince George is advis-

ing residents of the temporary road closures and parking restrictions that will be in place during the 2015 Canada Winter Games (February 13 to March 1, 2015).

Th e following roadways will be closed to all public vehicular traffi c:

• Canada Games Way: Closed from February 6 to March 4.

• Brunswick Street and 10th Avenue: Closed from February 8 to March 1.

• Patricia Boulevard: Closed from February 8 to March 1.

Emergency vehicles will have access to closed roadways.

Th e following streets will have “No Parking, Bus Only” parking restric-tions from February 9 to March 2:

• Dominion Street: 6th Avenue to Patricia Boulevard. West side.

• Seventh Avenue: Canada Games Way to Dominion Street, Both sides and Victoria Street to Brunswick Street. North side.

• Quebec Street: Sixth Avenue to

Seventh Avenue. East side• Sixth Avenue: Quebec Street to

Dominion Street. South side.• George Street: Fourth Avenue to

Fift h Avenue. Both sides• Ninth Avenue: Victoria Street to

Brunswick Street. East side.• Fift h Avenue: George Street to rear

lane. North side.Parking restriction signage will be

installed to provide parking along specifi ed roadways for the use of ath-lete buses, motor coaches, and motor pools. Th ese locations will continue to accommodate the existing Prince George Transit service at their regular stop locations.

Residents can fi nd a map with the road closures, parking restrictions, and additional information related to the 2015 Games at www.princegeorge.ca.

Residents are reminded that public transit in Prince George is free for rid-ers from February 12 to March 1, and they are encouraged to help prevent traffi c congestion and parking issues by using transit when possible.

This map of downtown Prince George shows which roads will be impacted by the Canada Winter Games. Many of the closures and restrictions start today or next week.

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A design fl aw led to the catastrophic breach of a tailings pond at Mount Polley Mine last summer.

Th at is the conclusion of an independent review panel tasked with investigating the cause of the August 4 failure, which resulted in the release of 17 million cubic metres of water and eight million cubic metres of tailings into Hazeltine Creek, Polley and Quesnel Lakes.

Th e review panel said evi-dence indicates the breach was the result of a failure in the foundation of the embankment, a failure that occurred in a gla-ciolacustrine (GLU) layer of the embankment’s foundation.

According to the panel’s re-port: “Th e panel concluded that the dominant contribution to the failure resides in the design. Th e design did not take into ac-count the complexity of the sub-glacial and pre-glacial geological environment associated with the perimeter embankment foun-dation. As a result, foundation investigations and associated site characterization failed to identify a continuous GLU layer in the vicinity of the breach and to recognize that it was suscep-tible to undrained failure when subject to the stresses associated with the embankment.”

Th e report also indicated that the failure was triggered by construction of the down-stream rockfi ll zone at a steep slope. Th e panel concluded that had the downstream slope been fl attened failure would have been avoided. Th e slope was in the process of being fl attened to meet its ultimate design criteria at the time of the accident.

In its report, the panel also concludes that there was no evidence that the failure was due to human intervention or overtopping of the perimeter embankments and that piping and cracking, which is oft en the cause of the failure of earth dams, was not the cause of the breach.

In regard to regulatory oversight, the panel found that inspections of the tailings storage facility would not have prevented failure.

Th e panel made seven recom-mendations to improve practice and reduce the potential for future failures. Recognizing that the path to zero failures involves a combination of best avail-able technology (BAT) and best applicable practices (BAP), the Panel recommends the follow-ing:

1) To implement best avail-able technology using a phased approach:

a. For existing tailings impoundments. Rely on best practices for the remaining ac-tive life.

b. For new tailings facilities. Best available technology should be actively encouraged for new tailings facilities at existing and proposed mines.

c. For closure. Best available technology principles should be applied to closure of active impoundments so that they are progressively removed from the inventory by attrition.

2) To improve corporate governance:

Corporations proposing to operate a tailings storage facil-ity (TSF) should be required to be a member of the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) or be obliged to commit to an equivalent program for tailings management, including the audit function.

3) To expand corporate design commitments:

Future permit applications for a new TSF should be based on a bankable feasibility that would have considered all techni-cal, environmental, social and economic aspects of the project in suffi cient detail to support an investment decision, which might have an accuracy of +/- 10-15 per cent. More explicitly it should contain the following:

a. A detailed evaluation of all potential failure modes and

a management scheme for all residual risk

b. Detailed cost/benefi t analy-ses of best available technology tailings and closure options so that economic eff ects can be understood, recognizing that the results of the cost/benefi t analyses should not supersede BAT safety considerations

c. A detailed declaration of Quantitative Performance Ob-jectives (QPOs).

4) To enhance validation of safety and regulation of all phases of a TSF:

Increase utilization of Inde-pendent Tailings Review Boards.

5) To strengthen current regu-latory operations:

a. Utilize the recent inspec-tions of TSFs in the province to ascertain whether they may be at risk due to the following potential failure modes and take appropriate actions

i. Undrained shear failure of silt and clay foundations

ii. Water balance adequacy iii. Filter adequacy b. Utilize the concept of

Quantitative Performance Objectives to improve regulator evaluation of ongoing facilities.

6) To improve professional practice:

Encourage the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Co-lumbia (APEGBC) to develop guidelines that would lead to improved site characterization for tailings dams with respect to the geological, geomorpho-logical, hydrogeological and possibly seismotectonic charac-teristics.

7) To improve dam safety guidelines:

Recognizing the limitations of the current Canadian Dam Association (CDA) guidelines incorporated as a statutory requirement, develop improved guidelines that are tailored to the conditions encountered with TSFs in British Columbia and that emphasize protecting public safety.

Poor design at Polley

Courtesy Ministry of EnvironmentThe tailings dam at Mount Polley mine has been modified since the Aug. 4 breach to contain further flow of tailings into Quesnel Lake.


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It’s tragic that researchers are unaware that high doses of vitamin C and lysine cannot only prevent, but reverse athero-sclerosis in coronary and other arteries in the body. Vitamin C is needed for the manufacture of collagen, the glue that holds cells together. A lack of vitamin C means poor collagen, resulting in cracks appearing between coronary cells thus setting the stage for fatal blood clot.

Recently, Dr. Sydney Bush, an English researcher, made this monumental dis-covery. He took photos of the retinal arteries and then gave patients 6,000 milligrams of vitamin C and 5,000 of lysine (lysine adds strength to coronary arteries just like steel rods increase the strength of concrete). A year later he re-peated the pictures. To his surprise, he found atherosclerosis fading away.

Millions of North Americans also suffer from osteoarthritis. Without sufficient vitamin C to produce collagen, a major component of cartilage, bone eventually grinds on bone. There would be fewer joint replacements if more vitamin C were available to produce healthy colla-gen.

Rheumatoid arthritis, the inflammatory type, also requires large doses of vitamin C. Every moment of the day our bodies are using oxygen to keep us alive. But oxi-dation results in metabolic ash, known as “free radicals”, which are believed to trig-ger an inflammatory reaction in joints. Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that helps to reduce damaging free-radicals.

Patients often appear surprised when I tell them that vitamin C will help them keep their teeth a lifetime. By age 65 one in five North Americans has lost all their teeth and many of their teeth were nor-mal. Rather, it was the gums that could no longer hold teeth firmly in place in part due to inadequate amounts of vita-min C. This vitamin is needed in large amounts to produce healthy collagen, the glue that holds cells together and keeps gums healthy. Without good mor-tar bricks fall apart and the same happens when gums lacking collagen lose their grip on teeth.

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Th ere were 28 building permits issued in De-cember worth approximately $4.6 million.

Most of that value ($2.9 million) came from 10 single-family houses. Six building permits were issued for commercial alterations, total-ing $718,000. December 2014 was a pretty good month for building permits, compared with De-cember 2013 when 14 permits were issued valued

at $840,000.Some of the large building permits issued last

month included improvements for Edo Japan to the tune of $225,000 and an enclosed patio at Earl’s worth $225,000.

For the year, 509 business permits were issued worth approximately $125.6 million, up from 487 permits, worth $116.2 million, issued in 2013.

December a busy month for building permits

Rezoning close for hotelTh e development of a hotel

complex between the Prince George Playhouse and the Prince George Golf and Curling Club moved one step closer Monday.

Council gave fi rst and second readings to a rezoning applica-tion that would rezone 2.15 hectares from parks and recre-ation and major institutional to regional commercial.

Th e Pomeroy Group is pro-

posing to build two four-storey hotels connected perpendicularly by a one-storey pool and fi tness facility. Th e proposed hotels are part of the same building and are owned by the same company, off ering a total of 243 rooms. Th e building footprint fronts Recplace Drive with the main pedestrian entrances facing the interior parking lot.

“I think this is an exciting

development,” said Coun. Brian Skakun. “I would have preferred to have it downtown.”

Skakun also questioned access to the site, which is currently only along Recplace Drive off of Ferry Avenue.

City director of planning and development said the city is working with the owners of Pine Centre Mall to continue Recplace Drive to continue into the mall.

Pomeroy HotelsArtists drawing of proposed four-storey hotel next along Highway 16. The Prince George Playhouse is in the foreground.


It was another record-breaking year at the Prince George Airport for passenger traffi c.

In 2014, 445,929 passengers used YXS, an increase of 4.5 per cent from 2013.

“Th is is the third consecutive year we have broken the passenger traffi c record which shows strong stable growth,” said John Gibson, President and CEO of the Prince George Airport Authority, in a press release. “In 2014 our airline partners added additional seats to existing routes, WestJet started non-stop daily service to Calgary and Central Mountain Air commenced fl ights to Vancouver in December. Travel asso-ciated with the 2015 Canada Winter Games can also be credited as a number of people attended sponsor summits and test events.”

Manager of Marketing and Com-munications, Lindsay Cotter added continual growth in passenger num-bers bodes well for Prince George.

“It aids in sharing our story to existing and potential new air carri-ers. It helps paint a picture of strong economic activity in the region,” she said.

December was the busiest month of the year with a 12 per cent increase in travellers over the same period in 2013. Other heavy travel months out of YXS include January, September and October, which saw increases between seven per cent and nine per cent.

Passenger numbers at a glance:• 2014 - 445,929• 2013 - 426,709• 2012 - 418, 589• 2011 - 402,438• 2010 - 390,340• 2009 – 376,030Th is year is shaping up to be

another busy year at YXS with the addition of Pacifi c Coastal Air-line’s non-stop fl ight to Victoria along with the 2015 Canada Winter Games.

Airport hits new high point for passengers in 2014

City snow removal map onlineTh e City of Prince George has

released a new and interactive mobile-friendly snow and ice operations map — just in time for this week’s expected heavy dump of snow.

Th is snow operations map, accessible directly at http://bit.ly/11kxrlz or from the link on the city snow operations web page www.princegeorge.ca/snow,

allows residents to click on any road within the city to determine its snow removal priority level, and applicable parking restric-tions. Th e map is ready to use for smartphones, tablets, and desktops.

“By creating this interactive map, residents will be able to view information for specifi c streets in the city, allowing them

to better plan their travel and parking requirements,” said Gina Layte Liston, Associate Direc-tor of Public Works, in a press release. “Being mobile ready, residents unsure of parking restrictions can view them upon arriving at their destination.”

Th e City of Prince George will off er both the static and interac-tive maps online.

Courtesy City of Prince GeorgeAll the information you need about where city crews will be working on snow and ice removal is now available in the palm of your hand, thanks to a new interactive program.

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Ale be seeing you next year.OK, that was pretty bad, but appropriate

following last weekend’s Kiwanis Alefest.In case you missed it, and there’s a good

chance you did because the inaugural event sold out in early December, it was terrifi c.

Craft brewer-ies from around the province, and the Yukon, were represented and patrons got to taste all kinds of wonderful beer with great, inno-vative names such as Lead Dog Ale from Yukon Brew-ing in Whitehorse and Hounds of Barkerville, from,

of course, Barkerville Brewing in Quesnel (surprisingly, not Barkerville).

Th e best name, however, goes to the craft beer off shoot of Prince George’s own Pacifi c Western Brewing … Scandal Brewing. Now that’s a clever name.

Th e Prince George Kiwanis Club is al-ready looking to next year.

Th e event was a turning point, of sorts, for

the Kiwanis Club, which has been helping out in Prince George for about 60 years now.

Alefest was the fi rst major fundrais-ing project the club has undertaken in the past few years. Like most service clubs, the Kiwanis Club had been suff ering from baby boomers going pop. Th e average age of club members had been steadily increasing and person-power was the biggest obstacle to undertaking major projects. I’m a prime ex-ample. Th is year will mark my 20th year as a Kiwanian. I fi nd that hard to believe, but it’s true. And, when I moved to Prince George eight years ago and joined the local club, I was one of the younger members.

A few years ago, however, the Kiwanis Club started making a concerted eff ort to recruit new, younger members … even though pundits inside the service club world and out opined that younger people aren’t interested in joining service clubs anymore.

Th ey were wrong. Dead wrong, and we’ll drink to that.

Th e Kiwanis Club was successful in at-tracting new members, many of whom are in their 30s and 40s. Th e idea for the Kiwanis Alefest came from those “younger” members and the organizing committee was com-prised almost completely of those “younger”

members, with the entire club pitching in on event day (ex-cept for one who refused to give up his tickets to the Superbowl in Arizona and come and help … sheesh … but he was on the organizing committee, so we’ll let him off the hook).

With service clubs every-where facing the same problem, hopefully the Kiwanis Club can serve as an example that they can, and will, continue.

To that, raise a glass of IPA.

CAN WE SUE GOOGLE?Much to the chagrin of overly-worried

civic bureaucrats everywhere, Google is has

developed Th e Great Canadian Toboggan-ing Map.

It’s an online resource where you can check out the best tobogganing spots and, if you so desire, add your own.

What were they thinking? Th e liability must be horrendous.

Plodding through the snow today in my leather high-heeled boots I thought long and hard about the coming of spring.

Reading the reports about Groundhog Day (Feb. 2), it turns out the whimsical weather forecasters have made their predic-tions for 2015.

Folklore has it that if the day is sunny when the groundhog comes out of its burrow and if it sees its shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter. If it is cloudy and the groundhog goes back into its burrow, spring will come early.

So this week we hear Wiarton, Ontario’s “Wiar-ton Willie” predicts an early spring while “Fred” from Val d’Espoir, Quebec predicts six more months of snow. “Manitoba Merv”s demeanour suggests Winnipeg will have an early spring, as does Shubenadie Sam of Shubenadie, Nova Scotia. I couldn’t fi nd no news on Dundas Donna of Toronto but you know what they say, no news is good news.

We don’t have groundhogs here. We have bear, deer and moose. So I’m a little envious that

other places have these pint-sized meteorologists. Sure we have our mascots, a wily red fox Nanguz for the 2015 Canada Winter Games, the Cougars mascot for hockey games and, of course, the wooden-headed Mr. PG. But none of them predict the weather.

So here’s what I’m thinking.Let’s make Groundhog Day relevant to those of us living in

the North. Bruins make better barometers of when it’s a good time to emerge from the den.

We could still use the same date Feb. 2 but we would call it Black Bear Day (I’m not attempting this with a grizzly bear, and a Kermode bear would be too hard to see in the snow).

Here’s how it would happen.First we fi nd a den on the outskirts of town.

Th ey’re not too hard to locate since dogs can read-ily sniff them out.

Th en we hire an environmental consultant out of Ottawa, followed by a lengthy research study. Aft er it goes before council two or three times and fi nally gets approval, we go ahead with our original plan and hire an experienced bear biologist who actually lives in the North.

I suggest my sister, Erica. She has a biology de-gree from Guelph University and she worked for many years at the Valhalla Society in B.C. We don’t get along so I would send her in fi rst to kind of check things out.

Outside the den, waiting a safe distance away, we will have some conservation offi cers on standby with tranquilizers be-cause we have to play by the rules and keep things safe. Prob-ably the next thing we will hear is the kind of thing you usually

hear from humans when you interrupt them from a deep sleep.Th at’s when reporters clear the area. Except for the ones who

want to win Ma Murray awards. Th ey will stoically stand by to capture the danger and the precise moment when – assum-ing all goes according to plan – the bear emerges from its den, grumpy but grateful to see the sky aft er months in confi ne-ment.

Th en the same principles of predictability would apply. If it is sunny and the bear sees its shadow, we are in for six

more weeks of winter. If it is cloudy and the bear grunts and gets up on its hindquarters, taking a few swats at meddling humans in his view, then – if we survive the attack – we at least can look forward to an early spring.

All this is speculative of course and the bear may not comply but the thing is this.

So it hardly makes sense to pay homage to a groundhog, this cute and cuddly member of the rodent family, when the animal we should be heeding is the big black bear.

We are far more likely to come into contact with a bear than a groundhog, so why not give them the notoriety, the respect and the positive press they deserve?

Groundhogs, also called woodchucks, are better left to the tongue twisters and comic strips.

Let the indigenous big burly black bears have a shot as our province’s prognosticators – but take along the bear spray just in case.

TEA WITH TERESATERESAMALLAM

Big bad bruin a better barometer than wily woodchuck

Alefest a different kind of success

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Barkerville Brewing general manager Justine Pelletier, left, Erin Dale, and brewmaster Troy Rudolph show their wares at the Kiwanis Alesfest Saturday. Both the afternoon and evening ses-sions of craft beer tasting were sold out.

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In just under a week, the 2105 Canada Winter Games will open in our city. It is time to get excited if you are not so already.

Strangely there are people out there who think it is no big deal. Th ey are wrong; it is a very big deal. Th e Games are the preview of the next Olympic Games. Th e participants are the cream of the youth athletes from over 800 towns and cities in Canada. Th ere will be par-ticipants in these Games who will be on the podium in future Olympics.

Of the 18 medals won by Canadian athletes in the 2012 Olympics, 11 were Canada Games alumni. Sixteen of the Canadian medal winners in the 2010 Olympics were Canada Games alumni. Th at is more than half of the Canadian medals. In simple terms, some of the young athletes you will be watching and cheering on in Prince George you will cheer for in the next Olympics.

Toller Cranston was a gold medal winner at the fi rst Canada Winter Games held in Quebec City in 1967. Bob Gainey was a gold medal winner for hockey in 1971. Hayley Wickenheiser, who did such a magnifi cent job of leading the women’s Olympic hockey team, picked up a Canada Games gold medal in 1991. “Sid the Kid,” also known as Sidney Crosby, was at the 2003 Canada Winter Games. He and his teammates didn’t get into the medals but Sid sure as heck made up for that in the years following. It is a good example of just how competitive the Games are.

Th e young athletes we will see performing are the kind of young people we want to be the role models for our children.

Th ey have talent but that talent would be nothing if it wasn’t for the endless hours of practice and learning they individually give to their sport. Th ey are a great inspira-tion to other young people and their dedication sets

an example for many more young people. We should applaud them regardless of where they fi nish in their individual fi eld because simply being part of the Games makes each and every one of them a winner.

Along with the athletes are the coaches, parents and others who have helped them to arrive at this level of competition. Th ey devote hours of their time and considerable cash from their own pockets to help these wonderful young people realize their potential.

As with any event of this size, a small army of volun-teers is also needed. Th ey do a hundred diff erent jobs

and are the horsepower that gives the Games their zip. Some 4,500 of these wonderful citizens of our city will give hours of their time because they believe in the youth, the Games and the city. Th ey deserve a lot of thanks for their eff orts and if you know some of them, thank them, give them a pat on the back and buy them a coff ee or something.

As you wander from venue to venue you will see the logos of the corporate sponsors. Without their fi nancial support the Games probably would not be possible. Look upon them kindly as the good corporate citizens they are. Th ey believe in our youth and our

city.Th en there is the staff who have been working diligent-

ly for several years to coordinate the Games. Th ey have taken on a massive task that presented lots of problems needing solutions and active resolution. Th ey have done well.

Th e city is going to be a busy place with several thou-sand athletes, coaches, parents, friends and others com-ing to visit our city. It is show time for Prince George on the national level. We should greet our visitors with unbounded enthusiasm.

See you out there.

The independent engineer’s report into the collapse of a tailings pond wall at Mount Polley mine really didn’t hold too many surprises.

When the breach happened there weren’t too many who felt such a catastrophic breach wasn’t preventable. It certainly was, and the engineers pointed to a faulty design.

“Th e design did not take into account the complexity of the sub-glacial and pre-glacial geological environment associated with the perimeter embankment foundation,” according to the report. “As a result, foundation investigations and associated site characterization failed to identify a continuous glaciolacus-trine (sediment deposited by glaciers) layer in the vicinity of the breach and to recognize that it was susceptible to undrained failure when subject to the stresses associated with the embank-ment.”

In other words, the ground wasn’t stable enough to hold a huge tailings pond. As mentioned, no big surprise there. Th at became obvious August 4.

Th e report also stated that the “failure was triggered by con-struction of the downstream rockfi ll zone at a steep slope.”

Once again, in other words, they piled it high rather than deep.

What is surprising is that the report, which came less than a week aft er the province was hailed by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business for its red tape reduction eff orts, stated, “in regard to regulatory oversight, the panel found that inspec-tions of the tailings storage facility would not have prevented failure.”

Of course, one of the criticisms emerging from last summer’s breach, which is still impacting lakes in the area, was that the Liberal government has steadfastly moved away from having inspectors, in everything from house-building to mine-building.

It might be reasonable to assume that inspections would not have detected “a continuous glaciolacustrine layer in the vicinity of the breach” that was “was susceptible to undrained failure.”

However, it’s hard to accept that inspectors wouldn’t, or couldn’t, have noticed that Mount Polley was not building the tailings pond wall, on the downstream side where the pressure is greatest, properly.

Th e panel concluded “had the downstream slope been fl at-tened failure would have been avoided. Th e slope was in the process of being fl attened to meet its ultimate design criteria at the time of the accident.”

By the panel’s admission, the mine knew it had to make changes and was doing so. Imperial Metals had hired an inde-pendent engineer who told them in May that the pond was a mess. In addition to the pond being built poorly, it was fi lled, almost literally, to the brim.

To suggest that inspectors wouldn’t have discovered that is folly. No one can say for sure whether more mine inspections would have prevented the disaster, but more inspections likely would have identifi ed the slope problem prior to it being the catalyst for the disaster. And inspectors, hopefully, might have had the clout to order Imperial Metals to lower the level of the water when the pond got full rather than increase the level of the berm holding the water back.

And perhaps if an inspector had ordered the mine to fi x the problem and it still failed, then maybe, just maybe, someone could be held accountable.

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What do Paper Lace and Journey have in common, besides being musical groups?

Both of them have songs about places some people say don’t exist – but do.

In Th e Night Chicago Dies, Paper Lace notes, “Daddy was a cop, on the east side of Chicago”. In Don’t Stop Believin’, Jour-ney sings about, “Just a city boy, Born and Raised in south Detroit”.

I have heard people describe the lyrics in both cases as meaningless. “Th ere’s no such place as the east side of Chicago”, they say. “Where is south Detroit? Windsor?”

Well, if Journey was singing about South Detroit, these people would have a point. But they aren’t. Th ey’re singing not about a specifi c neighbourhood in Detroit (or in the case of Paper Lace, Chicago), they’re singing about a geo-graphic area.

I was on a website some time ago where someone was talking about the Paper Lace song and saying there was no east side of Chicago. I simply posted the question, “So how do people from Chicago get to New York? Do they travel west?”

I never got a response.• Th is is why high-school basketball

games in B.C. have a shot clock. A boys’ game in Alabama last week ended in a 2-0 score.

Th e only basket came about 15 seconds into the game, at which point the other team got the ball and held it for the rest of the fi rst quarter, taking a shot right at the end of the quarter.

Th ey did the same thing in the second quarter, again missing the only shot they took.

Th e other team got the ball in the third quarter and, since they had the lead, de-cided they would just hang onto it as well.

Th en the other team got the ball back in the fourth quarter, but turned it over with about 15 seconds left .

As a former scorekeeper, that would have been one of the easiest games I would ever have. As a fan, it would be one of the hardest games to watch.

• And so now it’s just one week until we welcome the country to Prince George for the 2015 Canada Winter Games.

Aft er the weather we’ve had the past week or so, I’m not going to make any pre-dictions about what the weather will belike for the Games. I just hope it isn’t too cold.

Of course, for Prince George residents, “too cold” is a relative term. I would think -20 is too cold to be outside watching a sporting event, especially if there’s any sort of wind.

To some people, -20 is just a brisk day; to others, it’s a good reason to stay inside.

We’ll see.

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Editor:Th e Conservative government of Canada

closed many Veterans Aff airs offi ces as a supposed austerity measure. Th is, while al-located funds in the millions remained un-used. Th e Prince George offi ce was among those lost.

Th e Prince George Free Press has reported that the Royal Canadian Legion supports the re-opening of our local offi ce of Veterans Aff airs. Lyn Hall, mayor of our city, supports the re-opening of that offi ce to

serve local veterans. City council, individu-ally and collectively, supports the re-open-ing. I have no doubt that the majority of our citizens want to see our military veterans, the one was venerate on November 11 each year, served in a reinstated Veterans Aff airs offi ce. We should not forget that these men and women put their lives on the line at the behest of our government and they deserve no less than dedicated service to their needs.

Th ere seems to be but one vocal opponent of the re-opening of this vital offi ce. Th is

is our elected Member of Parliament Bob Zimmer. He parrots the offi cial line of the prime minister on this, as on every other issue.

I have a question for Mr. Zimmer: Were you elected by us to represent our collective concerns to Ottawa or do you serve merely to give us lowly citizens our marching orders as dictated by the Prime Minister’s Offi ce?

James LougheryPrince George

Does Zimmer representthe riding or the prime minister?

Editor:Th ese are my opinions environmental issues:Th ose giant corporations, instead of helping to protect Mother

Earth, are fouling up their inheritance and our inheritance. Th e present governments in Ottawa and Victoria, and including the lo-cal government, are helping them do that.

Here is a quote from Th omas Paine:

“When a man ceases to be accountable to those who elected him, and with whose public aff airs he is entrusted, he ceases to be their representative and is put in a condition of being their despot.”

With that I believe we all have a chance to vote well in the next election.

Joan B. SutherlandPrince George

Fouling up our inheritance

Editor:Open letter to all ranchers in British Columbia

Th is letter is sent out to you on behalf of hundreds of very concerned Merritt Nicola Valley residents.

We are fearful for your industry; a few shortsighted gamblers are put-ting your industry and your livelihood in jeopardy.

A small number of ranchers in the Merritt area are looking for the golden handshake while putting their friends and neighbors, and the land, air, and fresh drinking water sources in peril.

Th is small group, as you may or may not know, have intentions of using bio-solids, (human waste sludge), as fertilizer, on fi elds where they intend on growing forage crops that will then be used to feed cattle destined for human consumption.

Using sewage sludge bio-solids (human waste) as fertilizer on grazing or forage-producing land may be short term gain, but it is sure to be long term pain, both economically and environmentally, for the beef industry.

Let’s look fi rst at the economic side. Th e B.C. Cattlemen’s Association (BCCA) website posts its own marketing research report, which includes the following in its executive summary:

“Th e consumer research clearly demonstrated that a signifi cant seg-ment of these markets were willing to pay premiums for beef products with identifi able attributes. Seventy four per cent of those surveyed in B.C. and 59 per cent in the Pacifi c Northwest were willing to pay more for beef with any of the value-added claim. Th irty per cent of consumers in this region (on average) were willing to pay 25 per cent more for antibi-otic and hormone free beef.”

Th e review of the supply chain and in discussions with industry, it ap-pears the majority of ranchers and feeders surveyed would welcome more collaboration and communication. Th ey are very open to producing products with specifi c attributes, if it could be demonstrated to them that “it was going to pay-off ” in the long-run.

Th e goal is to improve the profi tability and sustainability of BC’s cattle industry by aligning the supply chain to produce a product with the spe-cifi c attributes that consumers’ demand. Developing beef programs with these specifi c attributes and ensuring they are widely available at retail will increase beef demand.

Th e BCCA website also does provide a link to known facts about using artifi cial hormones in beef production, citing how small the residues are and attempting to minimize its risk to human health (not unlike the pitch of sewage sludge proponents in regard to chemical residue and metals), but is it smart to ignore what the consumer is telling you, and take your chances with your livelihood and the health of your consumers?

Th e pendulum has already started to swing. A&W chain of restaurants

is spending millions of dollars in advertising to let the public know that they are no longer using beef containing hormones, in an attempt to bring back the customers.

Th e already bad press in the dairy industry as of late has forced them to rewrite their code of practices to disallow the use of hormones.

Do you truly want to be the next industry to shoot itself in the pocket book because of the questionable decisions of a few? We all know that these treatment plants would not be able to give these bio-solids away if they didn’t come with a gift of $500,000 a year attached for the discharger.

A single case of BSE (mad cow disease) crippled your industry once, not so long ago. Can you aff ord to go down this slope again and risk all because a few poor ranchers take the easy way out? Th e forty-three slaughter houses in this province will surely be slowing down production as Th e Canadian Food Inspection Agency goes on high alert due to the possible higher levels of heavy metals in the samples from farms using bio-solids. Poor decisions by a few should not compromise the whole industry. Greed is a poor excuse.

Now let’s look at the environmental side. Although there is evidence that there is at least short term improved forage crop yield on some farm-lands where sewage sludge has been applied, there are also documented cases where long-term eff ects have been disastrous.

Th e regulatory bias in favor of land application of sludge is obvious from the laxness of sampling and testing requirements. Th e required sampling intervals are ridiculously inadequate and a very limited number of known toxins are tested for at all. Th e system is self-regulated, so enforcement of the OMRR specifi cations, inadequate as they are, is non –existent.

In May, 2015 you and other BCCA members will be coming to the Merritt area for your A.G.M. We urge you to do the right thing and let your directors know, in no uncertain terms, that you are not in favor of the use of bio-solids (human waste) as part of your farm practices.

Send a clear message to the government that you are well aware that the proponents of land application of sewage are using only science that favors their policy while hiding behind the OMRR in a practice that jeop-ardizes our health while protecting corporate profi ts. Regulation without public feedback is a direct shot at democracy in this country.

Consumers are more and more looking towards organic and pollutant free products to put on their table.

More than 2,500 residents in the MERRITT area have already signed a petition, adamantly opposed to the use, storage, or composting of bio-waste in any form, on any farm or ranchland in the Nicola valley.

Neil CaineMerritt

Ranchers should say ‘no’ to bio-solids


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Her smiling face lights up a room.But Shirley Dodd, 83, lives in a world of dark-

ness. It has been that way for as long as she can re-member. By the time she was 13 years old, Dodd’s vision was almost completely gone.

Diagnosed with adolescent onset cataracts, she had her fi rst eye operation done in Vancouver as a teenager.

“I was getting by but my eyesight was diminish-ing. Th e day before I lost my sight in 1944 or 1945, I got 99 per cent on my tests at school. Th e next day I went to school, I was sitting at my desk and for the fi rst time, I couldn’t see anything at all. Th e last of my vision was gone,” said Dodd.

“I told the teacher I couldn’t read what was on the blackboard. I was in Grade 9 (at Prince George Junior Secondary School) and I still remember the teacher saying: ‘You can’t read what’s on the board – or you can’t see?’

When I said that I couldn’t see, I was sent home. And that was the end of my public education.”

At that time, there was no medical plan, said Dodd, and people across the country were still struggling to make ends meet in a post-First World War economy.

“My parents later found out I had Type 1 Diabe-tes, the kind you have to take insulin for, but not much was known about it – or about cataracts. I saw only thin slivers of black and white. It was like looking through a narrow slit.”

She still remembers the intense pain of her fi rst eye surgery.

“I was not under anesthetic and they put a needle in my eye. I can still feel the pain. [Dodd winces at the memory.] Th ey operated on the cataract three days later. I had to lie quietly in my hospital bed with my head held in place by ‘sand bags’ so I didn’t jar my eyes. And I was on fl uids because I couldn’t move my head to eat.”

Days later the bandages came off . “When they took off the bandages – I was so

happy. I could see! In colour. Th e fi rst thing I saw was my surgeon’s face staring down at me.”

Her joy was short-lived. A few days later, Dodd’s newly regained eyesight was gone and, once more, she was plunged into her world of darkness.

“Th e surgeon told me they didn’t know what went wrong. All along, they had been consulting back and forth with a cataract specialist in Eng-land. Th ey tried all kinds of things aft er that.

“Th is was January and I stayed in hospital until March when I came home to Prince George. Th ey had pulled any teeth that were ‘rotten’ because they thought that might be causing my blindness. Th ey gave me a mild malaria injection thinking that might help. But nothing worked.”

Worried about her friends and catching up her school year, Dodd said she was anxious to get home.

“Two good teachers taught me bookkeeping aft er school, so I would have a skill. I couldn’t see

Th e Canadian Council of the Blind was founded in 1944 by blind war veterans and schools of the blind.

Th e national offi ce is located in Ottawa with over 65 chapters across Canada. Th e CCB off ers programs to assist those with vision loss and create awareness of vision issues to the public and government. Re-

cently the CCB has undertaken proactive programs such as mobile eye health and training for employment.

Th e CCB is also a member of the World Blind Union, which represents the 285 blind and partially sighted persons in 190 member countries. For more about the CCB, visit www.ccbnational.net.

Teresa MALLAM/Free PressShirley Dodd, 83, with her assortment of mobility canes “for all occasions” and gadget aids such as a “talking” alarm clock which make the senior’s darkness easier to navigate.

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but I had a good memory.”It is true, she said, that when a person’s

vision is impaired, the other senses ap-pear to become more keen.

“Your hearing is better, particularly when you are young and you take things in stride better. I could get around Prince George because I had grown up here, I knew it like the back of my hand.”

For the most part Dodd was spirited and independent, she said. She tried her best to fi t in with her friends and their activities.

“I went skating and skiing with my friends. Th e only time I was embarrassed was when I was walking with a group of my friends, we were going to the ball park on First Avenue and somehow I got ahead of them,” said Dodd.

“I didn’t hear this young boy coming across the street because he had runners on and I bumped into him. I said I was sorry but a man who’d seen it happen said: Maybe if you took your dark glasses off you’d be able to see.”

Th e incident hurt her pride and her feelings, she said, and the following summer it was decided to try eye surgery again.

Th is time the operation, only on her left eye, was successful.

“I was about 14 and a half. When the operation was over, I could see and the doctor gave me coke glasses which I’d never had before. At 17, I was able to work as a dispatch in a taxi stand and I made $75 a month – but we were still poor and I helped support the family.”

She met her future husband, who’ had come to B.C. from Alberta and was work-ing in Salmon Arm. He decided to stay on aft er a Christmas visit with relatives here.

“I was now 18 and wanted to get mar-ried but my father said I had to get my

right eye operated on before I could do that. So I got the other eye done and again, we went to Vancouver. My father took time off work and stayed with me but then I got pneumonia, so what was to have been 10 days to two weeks became a longer hospital stay again.”

But now her eyesight was “levelled,” said Dodd, who married her beau and later gave birth to a daughter.

She never “saw” it coming. “At age 36, I developed glaucoma and

went blind again. I could see the odd shadow on the odd day but that was

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Th e Prince George African Heritage Society and CNC are teaming up to present a number of events during the 18th annual Black History Month celebration in February.

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about it. So it was back once more to Vancouver to see a spe-cialist who worked on my left eye fi rst because it was always the worst. For a long time, I could see pretty good but then vision problems set in again.”

Dodd smiles as she reaches the next part of her story.

“At age 70, I had a ‘bonus.’ Th ey decided to – and maybe it was just another experiment (she laughs) –– give me a cornea and lens transplant so that I could see again.”

Two or three years ago, Dodd hit another low point when it was discovered she had macular degeneration.

“All this time I had coped with my diabetes and now I had this. I hope to live long enough to try this new thing, stem cell technology.”

She is only half kidding. Dodd

says she’s been a willing ‘guinea pig’ and hopes doctors were able to learn from her childhood condition and from the technol-ogy available at the time.

“Th is is the only way we can learn,” she said, as she gets up from the sofa and taps her thin white cane on the hard-wood fl oor as she moves to the kitchen to make the reporter a cup of coff ee.

“Do you take milk or sugar?” she asks. Th en later, sipping on her coff ee and nibbling on a sugar-free muffi n and showing all her aid devices like a “talk-ing” phone and wristwatch, she ponders how life could be made easier for the sight impaired.

“I don’t understand. If they can put a GPS in a car (to help navigate) why can’t they put one in a cane? Th ey could make it smaller and put it near the handle which is too big and clumsy anyway.”

Dodd has three types of canes, including her mobility cane that folds up and fi t in her purse for when she attends events and a sturdier cane for support. Still, she “sees” that people around her don’t pay attention to what and who is around them.

“Th ey say hello and walk away but they forget to say their name so I know who they are.”

Th en, as a woman known in her Red Hat Ladies, Ladybug group and her White Cane Club for her quick wit and dry sense of humour, she adds:

“People don’t keep their eyes open when they still have them.”

White Cane Week runs Feb. 1 to Feb. 7. For more information visit the national group’s website at www.ccbnational.net or drop by the Prince George chapter’s next meeting on Monday, Feb. 23. Phone Rose Dorish at 250-563-904 for details.

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Teresa MALLAM/Free PressAfter eight performances in Prince George, Cirque du Soleil’s Dralion team left CN Centre a gift to remember - a gigantic promotional banner signed by every cast member. On Wednesday, CN Centre’s event/marketing manager Tracy Shaw, left, operations fore-man Ken Squires and general manager Glen Mikkelson display the beautiful banner. The Dralion show was a huge success last month and people came from all over the region to see it. “The show was successful by all accounts that Prince George is now on the radar of Cirque du Soleil for future performances,” says Mikkelson, who described the show as “unforgetable.” Will they be back with another Cirque du Soleil show? Mikkelson’s answer suggests they probably will be. “We had eight sold-out shows with 24,000 people com-ing out and they (Cirque du Soleil) only targeted for 15,000 people so we were way above that figure.”

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A new program hits the airwaves this month and Free Press editor Bill Phillips will be one of the fi rst invited guests.

Local radio 93.1 CFIS is now creating a roster of future guests and people are welcome to call

the radio station with ideas on topics, said radio host Garrett Perry.

“Th e program is a magazine style show, cover-ing a variety of topics and guests, from musicians to politics,” says CFIS Garrett Perry.

“We are currently in the fi nal steps of increas-ing our broadcasting power from fi ve watts to 500 watts. We’ve been very close for a while now but it seems as soon as we get over a major step, another obstacle gets in our way. Now we are waiting for Telus to hook up a cable to our tower.”

For his part, Phillips said he looks forward to appearing on the new show when it airs Feb. 10.

“Journalists are trained to listen, but really, they love to talk.”

Th e show is hosted by Reg Feyer, Lisa Redpath and Greg Kauk. Interviews are approximately 20 minutes long and it is possible to arrange a phone interview. Morning Break runs Monday through Friday at 9 a.m. with a proposed four guests per instalment, said Perry.

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As the days draw closer to Prince George’s hosting the 2015 Canada Winter Games, Cfree (she prefers to use that name) is getting down to business, and battening down the hatches so she can focus on com-pleting the last of 20 of her works to be shown – and hopefully sold – at a booth representing artists from

Ridge Side Art.Cfree feels inspired and creative –

but just a little stressed.“It’s down to the wire, time to get

myself locked in and just get them done,” Cfree told the Free Press on Wednesday.

Some of the works will be mixed media.

“I love vibrant colours and mixed media is good as it covers a lot of ground. For the Games I’ll be doing both mixed media and zen tangle

(pen and ink form of drawing) mixed with digital art.”

In her artist’s biography, Cfree explains her start in art.

“Growing up on the side of a mountain overlooking a grand city such as Vancouver and having lush green canyons, rivers and nature all around was a good place to start life. I have always carried these images and memories with me. Th ey inspire me today and likely always will.”

Although a recent “trans-plant” from the Lower Main-land, Cheryl has actually lived in Prince George for most of her life.

“Prince George was quite a

change from the bustle of a big city but nature continues to surprise me and a walk with my camera never seems to disap-point.”

In her early life, art was the only class that really interested her, she said.

“I was always artistic. As a child, I was sneaking Mom’s supply of Ivory soap bars and turning them into whales, fi sh and other animals I was familiar with.”

Eventually, Cfree said she discovered the Artist’s Co-op on Hart Highway, she set down roots and began taking draw-ing classes and making good art

friends along the way. “I learn every day as I push

the boundaries of ‘what if?’”Her work is varied and she

doesn’t want to be defi ned by a particular medium.

“For me to keep on turn-ing out a variation of the same would drive me to the end of what I love.”

Besides the paintings for the Canada Winter Games, Cfree is working on pieces for other local projects.

Cfree’s work can be seen on Ridge Side Art which is a web-site representing local artisans. For more information, visit ridgesideart.com/artists/cfree.

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Allan WISHART/Free PressArtist Cheryl Free (CFree) with some pieces of her mixed media art at the Free Press on Tuesday.


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Th e YMCA of Northern B.C. will be giving free memberships to all Grade 6 students across Prince George.

It’s a 2015 Canada Winter Games legacy program designed to support the health and well-being of youth in the community.

“Grade 6 marks a pivotal age where youth need a place to belong, feel safe, explore and grow,” said Amanda Alexander, YMCA CEO, in a press release. “Our Grade 6 initiative has the potential of dra-matically impacting youth by introducing a healthy lifestyle, supporting healthy peer connections and providing an opportunity to engage in exercise as a means to not only be physically healthy, but also as a way to reduce stress and increase mental well-ness.”

Programs at the YMCA of Northern B.C. incor-porate the principles of the nationally developed YMCA Healthy Adolescent Development curricu-lum, which provides youth with the space to gain developmental skills, explore their interests, and celebrate their skills and passions.

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Two Rivers Gallery has two exhibitions opening next week.

Canfor South Gal-lery will house An Exhibition for the 2015 Canada Winter Games, a juried exhibition fea-turing the work of art-ists across the province including Annerose Georgeson, Azucena Rudland, Bill Horne, Mary Mottishaw, Perry Rath, Roderick Brown and Saul Miller. Th e exhibit will highlight youth, sport, commu-nity and culture, says curator/artistic director George Harris.

“[Local artists] Crystalynn Tarr made pigments from soil and other elements she col-lected in Prince George for her paintings and Susan Barton-Tair made casts of fi rewood out of handmade paper from Canfor pulp mill,”

he said.In the Canfor North

Gallery, Two Rivers Gallery is presenting a group exhibition, Elapsed, which explores the concept of time. Th e exhibition includes the work of Adad Han-nah, Philippa Jones, Marianne Nicolson, Ann Smith and Jennifer Pighin, whose work seems to bridge the past with the future.

Th e new exhibitions will be open to the public on Feb. 12 with an opening reception and aft er party Satur-day, Feb. 14 at 2 p.m. featuring four short artists’ talks. Both An Exhibition for the 2015 Canada Winter Games and Elapsed will be on display at the gallery until April 26. For more information on gal-lery events, visit www.tworiversgallery.

Two shows open at Two Rivers Gallery

Journey make July trip to cityJourney arrives in Prince George

July 15.Th e American rock band’s tour

marks the fi rst time it will perform a Canada-only tour including stops in cities it has never played before such as Penticton, Prince George and Dawson Creek.

“Journey is the biggest blockbuster summer concert we have hosted in fi ve years since Elton John,” said Glen Mikkelsen, manager CN Centre, in a press release.

Th e band’s line-up includes founder Neal Schon (lead guitar and backing vocals), Jonathan Cain (keyboards and backing vocals), co-founder Ross Valary (bass and backing vocals), Deen Castronovo (drums, percus-sion and backing vocals) and Arnel Peneda(lead vocals).

Journey has created some of the best-known songs in music such as Wheel in the Sky, Separate Ways and Faithfully.

Th eir anthem Don’t Stop Believin’ is one of the top-selling tracks in digi-tal history aft er being featured in the last scene of the series fi nale of Th e Sopranos (it was also covered in the series Glee). Over the years Journey has earned accolades including 19 Top 40 singles, 25 gold and platinum albums. In 2011, they drew nearly a million fans to the Eclipse World Tour. For more information, visit www.twitter.com/journeyoffi cial.

Tickets for the July 15 Journey concert go on sale Friday, Feb. 6 at 10 a.m. at all Ticketmaster outlets or order online at www.ticketmaster.ca. Show is at 7:30 p.m.

Get ready to rock out to Journey when they appear at the CN Centre on July 15.

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moss still clinging tentatively to its branches and ceramic birds frozen in fallen fl ight.

Sunlight streams through the windows and bounces off stark white walls of Storefront Studio Tuesday as guest artist Joanna Smythe explains how her creations came about.

“When a Tree Falls is a projected light assemblage that uses three-dimensional objects to create a two-dimensional image intended to set up a playful dialogue between real and pictorial space.”

She hopes to show another side of how we view and regard nature.

Th e artist’s materials and found objects (tree limbs, ceramic angels) used in her mixed media art were found locally.

Wherever possible she uses local materials and is particularly proud of high-grade pulp from a local mill used in making the main elements (wings) in the cast paper kinetic work she calls Winged in which white cast paper birds, suspended from the ceiling, fl y in a “tethered fl ight path.”

“When I was invited to exhibit here in this beautiful space by Susan Barton Tait, who owns the gallery, she showed me how to make paper

castings. So I included that new technique into my exhibit, I’m play-ing with the lyrics of If a Tree Falls by Bruce Cockburn. I want to convey the message that many people attach romance to transcendency.

“We have machines that can fl y but we cannot transcend ourselves, I want people to take a diff erent view of nature and of our relationship with nature.”

Th e twisted branches used in When a Tree Falls are from a fallen tree in her backyard, she said. Th e ceramic angels she found in a local thrift shop.

Smythe’s new installation is on display at Storefront Studio from Feb. 12 to 28.

A recent Emily Carr graduate, Smythe’s past works have included installation, sculpture and photog-raphy. In each she tries to examine our “constructed and romanticized relationship with nature.”

“I worked for 17 years teaching art in the educational system before deciding to branch out on my own and pursue my own art full time.

“Since then I’ve exhibited in Two Rivers Gallery and in Vancouver. So it was exciting to be invited to do this site specifi c installation because

it means taking on the challenge of working with space and light constrictions.”

She’s pleased with the results and expects visi-tors will fi nd their own meaning of her work.

“I’ve done traditional drawing and painting and worked with new media and other instal-lations. And I always seem to come back to wanting people to think about their experience with nature and what is authentic,” said Smythe. “We are just part of the whole ecosystem and we have to look aft er the environment – just as we have to look aft er ourselves and see na-ture in a diff erent way.”

Th e trees are not there just for our enjoy-ment, she says. Rather, they are there for our survival.

“Many people in the North derive their in-come from our forests but it has to be man-aged properly – and I think it’s getting much better. Th at’s why I’m playing around with the lyrics: ‘If a tree falls in the forest will anybody hear it?’”

When a Tree Falls at the Storefront Gallery, 1144 Fourth Avenue, opens with a reception Th ursday, Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. and will be on display until Feb. 28 during regular gallery hours 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Storefront Studio is an independent artist run gallery. For more information about the artist visit www. joan-nasmythe.com.

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Joanna Smythe with part of her When a

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Visitors arriving at the Prince George Airport for the 2015 Canada Winter Games will be greeted by a piece of Lheidli T’enneh art.

Th e 8’x10’ piece features a number of Lheidli T’enneh community mem-bers and it can be found in the arrivals area of the terminal.

“Lheidli T’enneh is very excited to be able to showcase their community members and help welcome everyone to their traditional territory,” said Chief Dominic Frederick, in a press release.

Prince George Airport Authority President and CEO John Gibson said they are “beyond thrilled” to have the Lheidli T’enneh’s presence at YXS.

“Th e Prince George Airport is oft en the fi rst im-pression of our city and the more we can share our region’s history and story to travelers, the better,” he said, adding the airport looks forward to working with the Lheidli T’enneh on similar initiatives in the future.

“Th e Lheidli T’enneh community was so inviting and such a joy to work with and photograph,”

said Kathleen Rossel of Kay Ross Photogra-phy. “I am so excited to be a part of wel-coming the athletes and their families to Prince George for the 2015 Canada Winter Games.”

Th e project has also been endorsed by

the Community Arts Council.

“Th e Arts Council is thrilled to see the addition of the Lheidli T’enneh art piece at our airport welcoming visitors to the region,” said Community Arts Council executive di-rector Wendy Young.

Art for Games revealed at airport features Lheidli T’enneh people

Art chosen for UNBC celebrationA team organized by a University

of Northern British Columbia faculty member has been awarded funding to create a permanent art installation that celebrates the 25th anniversary of UNBC.

Dr. Annie Booth, a UNBC envi-ronmental studies professor, along with Dr. Th eresa Healy, a history instructor at UNBC, and interna-tionally recognized local artists Betty Kovacic and Wendy Young, were awarded funding up to a maximum of $10,000 to develop their project, entitled Refl ections – Past, Present, and Future.

Last fall, UNBC released a call for proposals to artists who were mem-bers of the UNBC community, with a mandate to represent UNBC through art, its community outreach and impact, its future role in community and regional development, and its GREEN environmental focus. Th e winning team developed a concept of two paintings linked together by pieces of fused glass.

Th e fi rst painting, Leap of Faith, will honour the leap of faith north-ern residents took in supporting the

call for a northern university. Th e second painting, entitled Th e Future Awaits, will include symbols and icons that represent UNBC’s future growth and evolution, including physical infrastructure, academic excellence, and UNBC’s connection to community.

Th e fused glass artwork, entitled Landmarks, will involve members of the Prince George and university communities in co-creating the art glass through a series of workshops. Th ese pieces will form a pathway between the two paintings, creat-ing a metaphor for the journey of discovery as well as recognizing the journey undertaken to become a university for the North.

Th e pieces will be unveiled at UNBC’s 25th Anniversary Commu-nity Celebration on June 20, 2015.

Th e two paintings will be cre-ated by Kovacic, an internationally renowned artist from Prince George. Young will lead the workshops to create the fused glass. Booth and Healy will provide on-going research and logistical support, and will over-see the glass workshops in collabora-

tion with Young. Healy will also involve UNBC students in collecting oral histories that will inform the work.

“I am really pleased to see this project go forward,” said Booth, in a press release. “It incorporates some really tremendous local artists, but also off ers a chance for the UNBC com-munity and the Prince George community to participate in creating a legacy. I think the 25th anniversary is an oppor-tunity to include more members of the UNBC community (students, but especially staff and faculty) and this project will help do that.”

“I am excited and honoured by this award,” added Kovacic. “I am delighted to have the oppor-tunity to work with an amazing

team and to create and see my concept for this project real-ized. Th e theme of acceptance, inclusivity and respect for all has been an important element in

my work. It seemed logical and creative to combine it with the celebration of UNBC’s growth and achievements, and its 25th anniversary.”

Photo courtesy UNBCWendy Young, left, Betty Kovacic, and Dr. Annie Booth are part of the team working on an art installation for UNBC’s 25th anniversary.

Photo submittedNicole Wiltermuth, left, is the designer and Kathleen Rossel the photographer for the lat-est addition to the walls of the Prince George Airport.


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Valentine’s Day tea, Feb. 13, 1-3 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.

Meat draw, Fridays, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion, 1116 Sixth Ave.

Crown Market, Fridays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 3955 Hart Highway.

Read-to-me Storytime, Fridays, 10-10:45 a.m., South Fort George Family Resource Centre, 1200 La Salle. Information: 250-614-0684.

Dance, Fridays, 8 p.m.-midnight, Royal Canadian Legion, 1116 Sixth Ave.Saturday

Seedy Saturday, Feb. 7, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., The Exploration Place. Information: 250-564-3859.

Dance, Feb. 14, 8 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.

Nechako Public Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 5100 North Nechako Rd.

A Butler’s Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 1156 Fourth Ave.

Meat draw, Saturdays, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion, 1116 Sixth Ave.

Crown Market, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 3955 Hart Highway.

Dance, Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight, Royal Canadian Legion, 1116 Sixth Ave.Sunday

Moderate snowshoe hike, Northern Lights

Trek, Pidherny, Feb. 8, 8:50 a.m. Information: Nowell 250-562-7485.

Sweetheart auction and dessert, Feb. 8, 1-4 p.m., Masonic Hall (Fourth Avenue and Vancouver Street). Hosted by Order of the Eastern Star. Information: Bonnie-Jean Foulds 250-964-8267.

Amnesty International meets, Feb. 8, 1 p.m., Books and Company, 1685 Third Ave. Information: 250-614-2376.

Cribbage, Feb. 15, 1 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.

Roast beef dinner, Feb. 15, 5 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.

Nechako Public Market, Sundays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 5100 North Nechako Rd.

A Butler’s Market, Sundays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., 1156 Fourth Ave.

Meat draw, Sundays, 3-5 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion, 1116 Sixth Ave.

Crown Market, Sundays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 3955 Hart Highway.Monday

Canasta, Feb. 9, 7 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.

Royal Purple Ladies, meet second and fourth Monday of every month, 7:30 p.m., Studio 2880.

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

Northern Twister Square Dance Club meets Mondays, 7 p.m., Knox United Church basement. Information: Gys 250-563-4828 or Reta 250-962-2740.Tuesday

Bridge, Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.

ACBL duplicate bridge, Tuesdays, 7 p.m., 425 Brunswick St. Information: 250-561-1685.

Sweet Adelines women’s four-part chorus meets Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., Studio 2880. New members welcome. Information: Kathy 250-563-5170.Wednesday

Bingo, Wednesdays, 1-3 p.m., Spruce Capital Senior Recreation Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.

TOPS meeting, Wednesdays, 6:15 p.m., Kordyban Lodge dining room. Information: Jessie 250-613-5933.

Whist, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., Activity Centre, 425 Brunswick St.

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

CNC Retirees meet last Wednesday of the month, 9 a.m., D’Lanos. Information: Lois 250-563-6928.Thursday

Potluck, Feb. 12, 12:30 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.

Whist, Feb. 12, 7 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.

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

Central Interior Darts Club, meets Thursday, 6:30 p.m., P.G. Legion, 1116 Sixth Ave.

Crown Market, Sundays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 3955 Hart Highway.

Bridge, Thursdays, 1-3 p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors’ Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr. Information: 250-563-6450.

ACBL duplicate bridge, Tuesdays, 7 p.m., 425 Brunswick St. Infor-mation: 250-561-1685.

Little Artists, Thursdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m., South Fort George Family Resource Centre, 1200 La Salle. 250-614-0684.

Old Time Fiddlers jam, Thursday, 7-10 p.m. Elder Citizens Rec Centre, 1692 10th Ave.

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Prince George Stroke Survivors Group meets Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Elder Citizens Recreation Association, 1692 10th Ave. Information: Julia 250-563-3819, Roland 250-562-1747.

La Leche League breast feeding support group meets the second Thursday of every month 7 p.m., 176 Aitken Cres. Information: Tammy 250-612-0085.

Al-Anon New Hope AFG meets Fridays, 1:15-2:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 483 Gillett St. Information: 250-561-3244.

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Al-Anon PG Beginners AFG meets Tuesdays, 7-7:45 p.m., Knox United Church, 1448 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-561-3244.

Al-Anon Hart Courage AFG meets Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m., Knox United Church, 1448 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-561-3244.

Al-Anon Mustard Seed AFG meets Thursdays, 7:30-8:30 p.m., St. Michael’s Anglican Church, 1505 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-561-3244.

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

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

Prince George Quil-ters Guild meets fourth Tuesday of the month, Connaught Youth Centre, 1491 17th Ave. Registration 6:30 p.m.,

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

Cariboo Toastmasters meet Mondays, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Ramada Hotel, 444 George St. Information: caribootoastmasters.com or Laura (250) 961-3477.

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Th e competitors in his own age class were too green – literally.

Branden Edwards of the Prince George Judo Club won gold in the U16 boys -60kg event at the Saskatchewan Open in late January, but also moved up to U18, where he won a bronze medal.

“In the U16, they were all green belts,” Edwards, a brown belt, said. “To get points towards my black belt, I need to

fi ght blue belts or better.”He had four fi ghts in winning

the U16 title, and three more in the U18, so it was a busy weekend.

“I moved up be-cause I feel it’s more of a challenge,” Edwards, 14, said. “I didn’t have too much trouble in the U16, and I got some good experience in the U18.”

He has been in judo for nine years, and says it’s something of a family thing.

“My dad did judo and my grandfather

was into the martial arts as well. I started young, and I liked it.

“I’m a competitor, and I fi nd

judo keeps me in shape mentally and physically.”

Edwards and other members of the club are in Langley this week-end for the B.C. Youth Champion-ships, which will give them points towards the Western Games.

•••While Kristen Yawney will

probably be in Langley this week-end with her teammates from the Prince George Judo Club, she is looking at the B.C. Youth Cham-pionships as preparation for her next event – the Canada Winter Games.

“I’ve never fought at a big tour-nament in my hometown,” says Yawney, 17. “It’ll be nice to have a cheering section.”

Yawney isn’t the only Prince

George representative on Team BC in judo, as two members of the Hart Judo Academy, Lavanna Laass and Grace Northrop, are also competing.

“It’s kind of cool,” says Yawney, “be-cause I train a fair bit with Lavanna and Grace on things like the regional team.”

She’s been in judo since she was 6, and knows exactly how it happened.

“My dad worked with (coach) Aline Strasdin, and she kept bugging him to put me and my sister into judo.”

He did, and she’s been with the

sport since, earning her black belt last year.

“I like being a black belt because it gives me a chance to help out the

younger kids in the classes.”

Yawney is com-ing off a silver-medal showing in the Sas-katchewan Open, losing the fi nal of the U21 girls -70kg divi-sion.

“I made a mistake in the fi nal. I think the match could have gone either way.”

It isn’t sure she’ll be in Langley, as she has

been sick this week, and wants to be ready for the Games.

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Allan WISHART/Free PressOscar Dewar, 6, tries to keep Tate Brownridge, 7, on the mat during their bout at the Prince George Judo Club’s Kohai Taikai last week. The name translates as ‘Junior Tournament”, which is exactly what it was.

Local judoka aim for provincials

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UNBC aims to clinch playoff spot

With two weeks to go in the Canada West men’s basketball regular season, Todd Jordan likes where the UNBC Timberwolves are.

“We’re happy with controlling our own destiny,” the coach said aft er a weekend sweep of the MacEwan University Griffi ns at home on the weekend. “Being up two games in the playoff race with four games left is a good spot.”

Th e Timberwolves are currently tied with Th ompson Rivers Univer-sity for second place in the Explorer Division with records of 9-7. Mount Royal is fourth at 7-9, with the top three teams making the playoff s. In fact, as Jordan points out, UNBC is in an even better position than it looks.

“We won the season series against Mount Royal, so they have to fi nish with more wins to fi nish ahead of us in the standings.”

He thinks the magic number for clinching a playoff spot is three wins in the last four games, but says, “two probably gets us in”.

Getting those two wins might be a problem this weekend, as the divi-sion-leading Fraser Valley Cascades (15-1) come to the Northern Sport Centre. Jordan has no illusions about

the task ahead of his team.“UFV is really tough, but we

played them tight the second game down there.

“If we played them close on their home court, we can beat them here. We need to be super-engaged on both ends.”

Th at holds especially true on the defensive end, where Jordan says some of the players still suff er oc-casional lapses of concentration, although they are getting better.

“Our last three games, we’ve held the other team under 70 points, and that gives you a good chance to win in this league.”

Th e off ence seems to be cook-ing now, with Franco Kouagnia and Devin McMurtry playing well inside and Rhys Elliott and Billy Cheng hitting from outside. Th ose four combined for 70 of the team’s points in an 81-65 win Friday.

“When Franco, especially, is get-ting good position inside,” Jordan says, “teams have to defend us diff er-ently. He’s tough to stop one-on-one, so teams have to commit a second guy to help on him, which frees up the guys on the outside.”

Th e games this weekend are the fi -nal home games of the regular season for UNBC. Th e men take the court at 8 p.m. tonight (Friday) and 7 p.m. on Saturday.

Sergey Shchepotkin knew what he wanted at the beginning of the

season.“I didn’t really expect a lot of

wins,” the coach of the UNBC Tim-berwolves women’s basketball team says. “I wanted to see the players increase the level of their skills this

Courtesy UNBC ATthleticsRhys Elliott of the UNBC Timberwolves gets off a jump shot Friday night against the MacEwan Griffins at the Northern Sport Centre. Griffin had 50 points in the two UNBC wins.

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Timberwolves women’s team continues to improve, build to futureyear.”

Despite two losses on the weekend at home to the MacEwan University Griffi ns, he is seeing that growth.

“We have been working on spe-cifi c things as the year went along,” he said. “Now we are working on defence.

“We want to be competitive, and defence is the best place to start.”

A couple of the Timberwolves’ in-side players continued their solid play on the weekend, with Vasiliki Louka picking up 29 points and 15 rebounds in the two games, while Sarah Robin had 15 points in the game on Friday.

“Vasiliki has been very consistent for us re-

cently,” Shchepotkin said. “Almost every weekend, she is averaging a double-double. Sarah Robin has also been consistently good for us.”

He also noted the play of the team’s point guards this weekend.

“Th ey were improved over what we have seen so far. Th ey cut down a lot on their turnovers, which is impor-tant to our off ence.”

Shchepotkin is building a base for the future with this year’s team, and doesn’t expect to see a huge shift in focus next season.

“I don’t want to see big changes next year. You always want to have some new players, but I am looking for players who can fi t into the system we are using.

“I have spoken with a couple of players, but there are no fi rm commitments yet.”

Th e Timberwolves wrap up the home por-tion of the season this weekend, when they host the Fraser Valley Cascades, who are leading the Explorer Division of Canada West. Game time for the women is 6 p.m. tonight (Friday) and 5 p.m. on Saturday.


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Th ere are more than 20 local athletes and coaches set to take part in the Canada Winter Games, which start in Prince George next Friday.

One of those athletes, wheelchair basketball player Avril Harris, will have a feature role in the opening ceremonies at the CN Centre that eve-ning, as he has been selected to read the Athletes’ Oath on behalf of all the athletes taking part.

Th e Oath pledges that athletes will respect and abide by the rules, strive for excellence and have fun.

Th ere are other Oaths read for coaches and offi cials.

Th e fl agbearer for Team BC will be Micah Hart, a female hockey player from Saanichton, while Aaron Mah, a gymnast from Vancou-ver, will be the team’s lantern carrier.

When competition starts, Harris will be joined on the wheel-

chair basketball team by Joel Ewert of Prince George.

Th e sports with the most local representation at the Games will be biathlon and judo. Biathlon will have Bobby Kreitz, Claire Lapointe, Arthur Roots and Emily Dickson, who is from Burns Lake but lives and trains in Prince George.

In judo, athletes Lavanna Laass, Grace Northrop and Kristen Yawney are joined by coach Bruce Kamstra.

Th ere are also four speed skaters taking part, with siblings Carolina and Nicolas Hiller on the long track and Callie Swan and Alison Desmarais (who lives in Vanderhoof but skates with the Prince George club) on the short track, joined by coach Lorelei St. Rose.

On the slopes, Meryeta O’Dine will be in the

snowboard competition, while Alice Muirhead will be coaching the para-alpine team.

Archery will have two Prince George shooters: Tony Proctor and Mya Schouwenburg.

Two members of the Cariboo Cougars will skate for the male hockey team: Dorrin Luding and Justin Almeida (from Kitimat).

Sydney Irving will play on the ringette team.

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Games venues ready to goIt started in January

2013 at Tabor Mountain.It fi nished two weeks

ago at the College of New Caledonia.

In between, every sport and every venue which will be part of the 2015 Canada Winter Games, starting in just over a week, was put through a test event.

“In general,” says Phil Beaulieu, manager of sport and venues for the Games, “the test events did what they were designed to do. Th ey trained minor offi cials, they provided more experience in some cases for major offi cials, they gave a chance to see the venues in competition mode.

“Th e success gave the technical delegates for the diff erent sports a good comfort level for the Games.”

Th ere were some concerns expressed about the Outdoor Ice Oval, the venue for the long-track speed skating, but Beaulieu says it’s one of their least challenging venues.

“We have a lot of fl exibility with the outdoor oval. As long as

the temperatures are cold enough at night for them to do any main-tenance, there shouldn’t be any problems.

“We have bad-weather days built into the sating schedule if we need them, and the oval is lit, so we can skate later at night or earlier in the morning. If we have to, we can start races at 4 or 5 a.m.”

He said the organizing com-mittee is prepared if the weather

does turn bad for the oval.“We can go to the indoor oval

at Fort St. John if necessary, and we don’t have to make that decision until Feb. 14 or 15, just before the event starts.”

However, the weather would probably have to be quite bad (as far as the oval is concerned) for that decision to be made.

“Th ey had warm weather during the test event a few weeks ago, and the track held up. Th e

capital work we invested in there paid off .”

As for other outdoor venues, including Purden, Tabor and Otway, Beaulieu says none of them would mind a bit more snow, especially closer to Games time.

“On some of the courses they’ll be running, more snow is better. We have world-class course designers at all the venues, so we’re in a good position.

“Th e recent weather and the forecast has taken the pressure off the contingency plans, for the most part.”


Free Press file photoJoel Ewert of Prince George closes in on Erin Higgins of Richmond as she attempts to capture the flag in one of the training drills the Team BC wheelchair basketball team did during a camp at Duchess Park Secondary in October.

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Patti Knezevic knows how important the fi ft h player on a curling team can be.

Last year, that was the Prince George skip’s position on the Kesa Van Osch rink represent-ing B.C. at the Scotties Tourna-ment of Hearts in Montreal.

“I feel very fortunate to have attended the Scotties last year,” says Knezevic, who won this year’s B.C. title last weekend in Maple Ridge. “I ended up playing six games, including a couple as skip and one at lead.”

So while the hope is that the fi ft h player isn’t called into action, the skip needs to feel comfortable with that player if needed. Luckily, Knezevic had the perfect player in mind for Team B.C. at this year’s na-tional championship in Moose Jaw, Sask.

“We asked Nicole Backe, who curls out of Nanaimo, to be our fi ft h for the Scotties. She’s been with the team as an alternate player for a couple of years. She actually started the

season last year with us while Jen (Rusnell) was having a baby.

“We have great dynamics on and off the ice as a team, and Nicole fi ts right in with us.”

Having experienced the Tournament of Hearts last year, Knezevic is hoping her team of second Rusnell, third Kristen Fewster and lead Rhonda Camozzi will be somewhat prepared for playing at the national level.

“Th ey’re been asking ques-tions about what it’s like. It is a diff erent experience, and I’m hoping I can fast-track them for it this year.”

With less than three weeks between winning the provin-cial title and starting the Tour-nament of Hearts, Knezevic says there is a lot to be done in a short time, but they knew what they were getting into.

“If all we had to do was curl for a living, it would be great. But there’s a lot of stuff to take care of. I’ve got twins who will be on spring break that week, I have two businesses I have to make arrangements for.

“I don’t script anything the

easy way.”However, Knezevic says the

team knew what the possibili-ties were at the beginning of the season, and will work to make sure everything comes together on the home front.

“Obviously the curling is important, but family has to come fi rst.”

Th e fi rst game for the Knezevic team in Moose Jaw will see them take on the host team skipped by Stefanie Law-

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Th e team is holding a train-ing weekend next weekend at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club, and is having a fundraiser dinner, dance and silent auction at the same loca-tion Sunday, Feb. 8 starting at 6 p.m. Tickets are $25 at the club from either Brock or Mandy.

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Th is week may have felt like a trip back in time for the Prince George Cougars.

“We’re going to get in four days of practice,” coach Mark Holick said. “It’s going to be like a mini-training camp.”

With a losing streak which reached 12 aft er a pair of weekend losses to Seattle, Holick knows the team is going through a bad stretch right now. But, aft er losing 9-2 on Friday, he saw some positives in Saturday’s 3-0 loss.

“We committed better on defence on Saturday. Guys were blocking shots, they weren’t just stick-checking when they had the chance.

“We also outchanced them on off ence, but didn’t win. It was a good game, but you still have to score goals to win, and we weren’t doing that.”

Th e Cougars are still shorthanded with injuries, but Holick says that could improve by the time the Edmonton Oil Kings come to the CN Centre for games tonight (Friday) and Saturday.

“We should have (Zach) Pochiro back, and (Jari) Erricson is a question mark. We know (Haydn) Hopkins and (Cam) Babych are still a ways away from coming back.”

One thing the Cougars will have this weekend is the advantage of rest. Th e Oil Kings played Tues-day night, losing 4-3 to the Lethbridge Hurricanes at home, before hopping on the bus to Prince George.

“It hasn’t happened too oft en this year,” Holick said, “where we’re the more rested team going into a game.”

Aft er the weekend series, the Cougars play seven of their eight remaining games in February on the road, mainly because of the Canada Winter Games taking over the CN Centre.

“We’ve got a week-long trip to start with,” Holick said. “It’s going to be a tough trip, but we’ll have to scratch out points somehow.”

Th e trip starts with a game in Kelowna on Mon-day before going to Calgary for a game Wednesday, then to Medicine Hat and Red Deer for games Friday and Saturday, before wrapping up with a Feb. 16 game in Edmonton.

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Welcome to scoreboard watching. It’s an annual event, where in the stretch drive,

teams oft en become just as consumed about the out of town scoreboard as they do about their

own game result. For the purposes of this col-umn, I will concentrate on the WHL, but the principles apply to vir-tually every organized league where standings are scrutinized around the clock.

Upper echelon teams generally don’t have to worry about results else-where because they win consistently and have a playoff spot locked

up well before the regular season concludes. Th e Kelowna Rockets, for example, are the best team in the B.C. Division and the Western Conference, so if they beat out the Brandon Wheat Kings for fi rst overall it is not that signifi cant.

In another category, there are competent teams that also do not have to live and die by scores from other cities. Th e Victoria Royals are locked into second place in the B.C. Division. Th ey won’t be moving up or down from that position, so they will fi ne tune their game before playoff s when they will meet the third-place team.

Th is takes us to scoreboard watchers; bubble teams who haven’t been productive enough them-selves and would appreciate a little help.

Th e Kamloops Blazers, Vancouver Giants and Prince George Cougars are in this category, all with losing records, but with high hopes of secur-ing that last post-season position. Kamloops has the advantage, sitting third in the division with the eighth best record in the Western Confer-ence, but Vancouver and P.G. are within striking distance. Moreover, it appears all fi ve U.S. Division teams will qualify for the post-season, leaving the bottom two in the B.C. Division on the outside looking in.

Scoreboard watching is similar to snakes and ladders; lots of ups and downs. Th e Cougars can fi nd it enjoyable each time Kamloops and Vancou-ver loses, particularly if a loss occurs in regula-tion time. On the other hand, getting those out of town results can be demoralizing and ruin one’s night when P.G. sees the Blazers or Giants score a victory. It’s a double whammy when the result is Kamloops 3-2 over Vancouver in a shootout, which was the case last Saturday.

Th e Cougars can blame themselves for being at the bottom. It’s been a month since they have won a game as the mental anguish and stress takes its toll on the entire organization. It seems each of the last few seasons the Cats are victims of scoreboard watching, and it hasn’t been a rewarding experi-ence since they have been left out of the post-season party since 2011.

Th e schedule doesn’t favor Prince George. Th e Blazers have 19 games left (7 road, 12 home), the Giants have 21 remaining (10 road, 11 home) and the Cougars have 19 games to go (11 road, 8 home).

Th e Cougars have no games left with the Giants but have four remaining against the Blazers, two at CN Centre and two in Kamloops, all from March 11 to 21 at the end of the season.

Kamloops also has two games left against Vancouver, once on the road (Feb. 21) and once at home (Feb. 28).

Th e Blazers appeared out of contention until they turned their fortunes around and at the same time received plenty of help from their good friend, the out of town scoreboard.

Yes, the situation changed in a hurry. Th e Cougars have lost their last 12 games and in that stretch have just two points to show for it (an overtime and a shootout loss). Th e Giants have also been in the tank over their last dozen with just fi ve points in their last 12 games (2-9-0-1).

Th e Blazers took advantage of the Cats and Giants tailspin by earning 15 points (7-4-1) in 12

January games and that’s why they moved into the driver’s seat. Kamloops must be pleased with the acquisition of defenceman Marc McNulty, as they have a winning record with him in the lineup, since he was acquired from P.G for Josh Connolly just prior to the trade deadline.

Players, coaches, executives and front offi ce staff with the Cougars, Blazers and Giants will all preach for the last quarter of the regular season that they just have to concentrate on their own results and by winning each time out everything else will take care of itself.

In theory, this may be true, but in reality, the out of town scoreboard will play a prominent role in the fate of three teams seeking that one fi nal elusive playoff spot.

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Allan WISHART/Free PressCariboo Cougars captain Austin Gray, left, and Kootenay Ice cap-tain Kyle Chermenkoff shake hands with Jameson Jones after the ceremonial faceoff before their B.C. Major Midget League game Saturday at Kin 1. The night was a fundraiser for BC Children’s Hospital, where Jameson, a cancer survivor, spent a lot of time while undergoing treatment.

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Th e playoff race in the BCHL’s Mainland Divi-sion is still tight, with teams down to their last dozen or so games.

“We could still fi nish anywhere from fi rst to fourth,” Prince George Spruce Kings coach Dave Dupas says. “If we can win the games this weekend, we’ll be pretty good for third and hop-ing to move up.”

Th e Spruce Kings welcome the Coquitlam Express to the Coliseum for games tonight (Fri-day) and Saturday. Th e Express are currently eight points behind the Kings, with each team

having 10 games left .“If we sweep, or even

split,” Dupas says, “it makes it tough them to catch us this late in the season.”

Th e Spruce Kings are coming into the Coquit-lam series aft er a three-game weekend road trip that saw them play the other three teams in the division. Aft er losing 3-2 to Langley, the Spruce Kings fell 4-3 in over-time to Chilliwack, but bounced back with a 4-3 win in Surrey to wrap things up.

“We played well this weekend,” Dupas says, “considering how shorthanded we still are. Counting Ryan (Fritz) and (Karan) Tuur, we had nine guys out this

weekend.”One player they got

back for the Surrey game was defenceman Viktor Dombrovskiy.

“Viktor was sick, so he stayed behind in Prince George, but he came down to Surrey, which meant we had fi ve de-fencemen for that game.”

Going into the weekend, wrapping up against Surrey had wor-ried Dupas a bit, even though the Eagles are at the bottom of the divi-sion. Th ey have a fast team, and play on a big rink. He wasn’t sure how much the Spruce Kings would have left , playing their third game in three days.

“We got up on them early, and then hung on.

We have two good goal-ies (Jesse Jenks and Alex Brooks-Potts) and they both played well on the weekend.”

Th e Spruce Kings wouldn’t have had to worry so much if they had a little puck luck in that game, Dupas said.

“We hit four goalposts in the game. If a couple of those go in, it’s not such a close game.”

He said the Spruce Kings playing with a short lineup is some-thing opposing teams are noticing.

“I’ve got other coaches coming over to me and saying, ‘I don’t know how you guys do it’.

“I just say, ‘We’ve been doing it this way all year’. ”

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Alicia doubles up on gold on iceIt’s been a year of changes for Alicia Hayne.Th e 15-year-old moved down from Hay River,

NWT last year and joined the B.C. Centre for Com-petitive Skating.

“I’ve been skating since I was 5,” she says, “but I stopped when I was 10 and 11, trying to get my grades higher at school.

“I couldn’t wait to get back on the ice.”Two weekends ago, Alicia and other club mem-

bers went to Quesnel for a regional competition, and she came back with two gold medals, one for Senior Bronze Wom-en and one for Bronze Interpretive.

“Th e Senior Bronze Women is based on your level as a skater,” she explains, “and they’re looking at your jumps and spins. Th e Interpretive is more about how you interpret the music, how you move on the ice from one element to the next.

“Th e hard part is next – trying to get the com-bination together.”

Andrea Ludditt, who has coached Alicia this year, wasn’t sure what to expect in Quesnel.

“Her fi rst competition

with us was in Kelowna in Oc-tober, and she was apprehensive going in and it showed on the ice.

“In Quesnel, she was so diff er-ent. She knew a little more what to expect, and she was in more of a comfort zone. It was so cool to see.”

Ludditt says she has been impressed by Andrea’s work ethic this season.

“She trains so hard, and she’s just like a sponge when it comes to learning things.

“She’s so tough physically and mentally. She’ll fall trying some-thing new, and she just bounces right back up and tries it again.”

While a lot of the club mem-bers will be watching the Canada Winter Games later this month, Alicia won’t be.

“We’re going to be in California for the Games,” she says with a smile. “It’s my fi rst trip there, and I’m really looking forward to it.”

Members of the club won 33 medals at the Quesnel competi-tion, including 15 gold. Besides Alicia, Justin Hampole, Ally Norum, Myah Milner and Alex Callaway each won two gold medals at the evnt.


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The Prince George Native Friendship Centre, a visionary non-profit society, has been serving the needs of the entire community for the past 43+ years.

We are seeking candidates for the following position(s)within our organization: SMOKEHOUSE RESTAURANT & CATERING Closing date: February 15th, 2015 A hard copy listing the roles, responsibilities and qualifications of the position are available from the Prince George Native Friendship Centre’s web site at www.pgnfc.com (click on Join Our Team / Careers).

To apply, submit a resume, cover letter and three (3) references detailing which position you are applying for, to: Prince George Native Friendship Centre 1600 Third Avenue Prince George, BC V2L 3G6 Fax: (250) 563-0924 E-mail: [email protected]

Applications will be accepted until dates noted on postings, no telephone inquiries please. We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

The Prince George Free Press is seeking a full time Inside Sales Representative to handle sales of Print and On-Line advertising and to manage an existing account list. This individual will work out of our Prince George office and will be responsible for building strong relationships with current clients, develop new business to increase revenue and perform to sales goals set by management. The position requires solid communication skills, creativity and attention to detail. Prior advertising knowledge and media experience are both a big plus, but not required. To qualify, you must be outgoing and driven to succeed. Other responsibilities include problem solving and the ability to multitask.

If working in a positive, goal oriented team environment, with state of the art equipment appeals to you, submit your resume in confi dence to:

Ron Drillen, General ManagerThe Prince George Free Press1773 South Lyon Street V2N 1T3Fax: 250-562-0025Email: [email protected]

Inside Sales Representative

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155 George Street, Prince George, BC V2L 1P8Telephone: (250) 960-4400, Toll Free 1-800-667-1959

Fax (250) 563-7520, Web: www.rdffg.bc.ca

ACCOUNTING CLERK-TYPIST (Permanent, Full-Time)

The Regional District of Fraser-Fort George is inviting applications for a permanent, full-time position of Accounting Clerk-Typist in Financial Services. The primary duties of this position include accounts payable and/or accounts receivable and a variety of clerical duties in an accounting environment. Qualifi cations include a completion of the fi rst level CGA or CMA or one year post-secondary course in business administration or fi nance. Three years of related experience and the minimum accurate typing speed of 50 net words per minute are required. More detailed information on the duties of this position is available on our website under “Employment Opportunities”.This is a union position with a salary of $1,960.58 to $2,165.87 bi-weekly (2013 rate). Please forward your resume (including 3 work references) by 4:00 p.m. on Monday, February 16, 2015 to:

Marie St. Laurent, CHRPManager of Human Resources

Regional District of Fraser-Fort Georgeat the address or fax number set out below

or E-mail: [email protected]

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individual, who is passionate about design for our kitchen

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and time management skills. Must have the ability to pay close attention to detail and

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Employment

Drivers/Courier/Trucking

HIGHWAYOWNER OPERATORS$3500 SIGNING BONUS

Van Kam’s Group of Compa-nies requires Highway line-haul Owner Operator based in our Prince George terminal for runs throughout BC and Alberta. Applicants must have winter and mountain, driving expe-rience/training.

We offer above average rates and an excellent

employee benefi ts package.

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[email protected] Call: 604-968-5488Fax: 604-587-9889

Only those of interestwill be contacted.

Van-Kam is committed toEmployment Equity and

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Employment

Education/Trade Schools

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email [email protected] call: 250 596-2433




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DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PLAN

Spectra Energy is revising their current Integrated Pest Management Plans (IPMP) under British Columbia’s Integrated Pest Management Act and associated regulations. Under these regulations our plans are required to be revised every fi ve years.

The purpose of this revision is to ensure safe and effective vegetation and invasive weed control by utilizing the most current integrated pest management techniques along Spectra Energy’s pipeline right-of-ways, facilities and related infrastructure. These IPMPs will cover various activities within the following regional districts and associated communities: Peace River, Fraser-Fort George, Cariboo, Thompson-Nicola, and Fraser Valley, including the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality.

Under these newly developed integrated pest management plans, the following selective methods are proposed and may be used alone or in combination, depending on particular local circumstances:

• Integrated vegetation control measures that include mechanical, manual, cultural, prevention, biological and herbicide.

• Trade names of herbicides that may be included as part of these integrated pest management plans: Vantage XRT, Roundup, Vision Max, Sightline, Clearview, Milestone, Arsenal, Navius VM, Escort, Tordon 22K, Tordon 101, Garlon XRT, Vanquish, Overdrive, Banvel, Telar, 2,4-D amine, MCPA, Karmex, Truvist, Esplanade SC, Transline, Lontrel 360 and Chontrol Peat Paste.

• Active ingredients in these products are: Aminopyralid, metsulfuron-methyl, difl unfenzopyr, MCPA, Picloram, 2,4-D, Chlorsulfuron, Triclopyr, Dicamba, Di-uron, Aminocyclopyrachlor, Indazifl am, Imazapyr, Clopyralid, Glyphosate and Chondrostereum purpureum which is a biological natural-occurring fungus used to inhibit regrowth when applied to cut stumps.

The proposed effective date for these IPMPs for Spectra Energy’s BC Pipeline, Field Services and Midstream business units is June 15, 2015 to June 14, 2020.

Diagrams, maps and the IPMP documents are available and may be viewed by contacting the appropriate offi ce and contact person below:

• Dan Tisseur, Spectra Energy, 3985 - 22nd Ave. Prince George BC, V2N 1B7, 250-960-2034

• Angus Dickie, Spectra Energy, Mile 301 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, BC V0C 1R0, 250-233-6385

Any person wishing to contribute information about a proposed treatment site, relevant to the development of these two IPMPs may send copies of the information to the address above within 30 days of the publication of this notice.

Between April 18, 2013 and April 19,

2013, at the Prince George RCMP

detachment at 999 Brunswick

Street, Prince George, B.C., Peace

Officer(s) of the Prince George

RCMP seized, at the time indicated,

the subject property, described as:

$1,386.85 CAD and $80 CAD, both

between 23:58 and 01:56 Hours.

The subject property was seized

because there was evidence that

the subject property had been

obtained by the commission of an

offence (or offences) under section

354(1) (Possession of property

obtained by crime) of the Criminal

Code of Canada.

Notice is hereby given that the

subject property, CFO file Number:

2014-2469, is subject to forfeiture

under Part 3.1 of the CFA and will

be forfeited to the Government for

disposal by the Director of Civil

Forfeiture unless a notice of dispute

is filed with the Director within the

time period set out in this notice.

A notice of dispute may be filed by

a person who claims to have an

interest in all or part of the subject

property. The notice of dispute

must be filed within 60 days of the

date upon which this notice is first

published.

You may obtain the form of a notice

of dispute, which must meet the

requirements of Section 14.07

of the CFA, from the Director’s

website, accessible online at www.

pssg.gov.bc.ca/civilforfeiture. The

notice must be in writing, signed

in the presence of a lawyer or

notary public, and mailed to the

Civil Forfeiture Office, PO Box 9234

Station Provincial Government,

Victoria, B.C. V8W 9J1.

In the Matter of Part 3.1 (Administrative Forfeiture) of the Civil Forfeiture Act [SBC 2005, C. 29] the CFA

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT:

On August 30, 2014, at the 2900

block of Griffiths Avenue, Prince

George, B.C., Peace Officer(s) of

the Prince George RCMP seized,

at the time indicated, the subject

property, described as: $3,795 CAD,

on or about 19:15 Hours, and a 2000

Acura Integra, BCLP: AC581K, VIN:

JH4DC4342YS801705, on or about

21:16 Hours.

The subject property was seized

because there was evidence that the

subject property had been used in

and/or obtained by the commission

of an offence (or offences) under

section 5(2) (Possession for purpose

of trafficking) of the Controlled

Drugs and Substances Act of

Canada (CDSA) and was therefore

offence-related property pursuant

to section 11 (Search, seizure and

detention) of the CDSA.

Notice is hereby given that the

subject property, CFO file Number:

2014-2466, is subject to forfeiture

under Part 3.1 of the CFA and will

be forfeited to the Government for

disposal by the Director of Civil

Forfeiture unless a notice of dispute

is filed with the Director within the

time period set out in this notice.

A notice of dispute may be filed by

a person who claims to have an

interest in all or part of the subject

property. The notice of dispute

must be filed within 60 days of the

date upon which this notice is first

published.

You may obtain the form of a notice

of dispute, which must meet the

requirements of Section 14.07

of the CFA, from the Director’s

website, accessible online at www.

pssg.gov.bc.ca/civilforfeiture. The

notice must be in writing, signed

in the presence of a lawyer or

notary public, and mailed to the

Civil Forfeiture Office, PO Box 9234

Station Provincial Government,

Victoria, B.C. V8W 9J1.

In the Matter of Part 3.1 (Administrative Forfeiture) of the Civil Forfeiture Act [SBC 2005, C. 29] the CFA

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT:

NOTICE IS GIVEN BY HIGH-WAY 16 STORAGE 4422 Kimball Rd. PG BCTO: Alexandria MartinUnder the warehouse Lien Act, An online auction of your goods will be held on Feb 12,2015 at 10am The Auction will close at 10am Feb 16thPlease go to iBid4Storage.com to place a bid.

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Employment

Help WantedLithium One Imports Ltd in Prince George is hiring full-time/permanent 1 carpenter. Applicant must have 3 to 5 yrs experience in measure, cut, shape and join mould-

ings, wood material, drywall & plastic material, fi t and in-stall windows, door, stairs, build decks & fences etc. Must be able to read blue

prints and drawings. Knowl-edge of working with working hand tools and power tools

is required. High school pass with knowledge of

English is required. Salary would be $25.00 per hour

with 40 hours a week. Interested applicants email

resume to [email protected] or

drop resume at work location at 1618 Ogilvie St, PG BC V2N 1W9. Call 250 961-

2866.

Vernon Service Company requires F/T Journeyman Plumber/Gasfi tter. $36/hr. Call 250-549-4444 or email: [email protected]

WantedRetired person with Class 5 for vacation relief.Delivering freight in PG. Some heavy lifting. Need criminal background check. Pay $70/day. (250)960-8372

Home Care/SupportBAYSHORE HOME Health is hiring Register Nurse, LPN’s, HCA’s and House Cleaners in the following areas: Prince George, Smithers, Houston, Terrace, Prince Rupert. Send resume to:[email protected] 250-717-7538. Questions - call 1-877-717-7528.www.bayshore.ca

Home Stay FamiliesHOST FAMILIES needed! Northern Youth Abroad is looking for families to host 2 youth from Nunavut/NWT vol-unteering in your community July/August. www.nya.ca or Toll-Free 1-866-212-2307.

Medical/DentalMEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION is an in-demand career in Canada! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get the online train-ing you need from an employ-er-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-888-528-0809 to start training for your work-at-home career to-day!

RN’s and LPN’SAre You currently

employed or retired? NEED EXTRA CASH?

Causal RN’s & LPN’s needed for in home 1 on 1 pediatric respite care in the Prince George area.

Offering Union wages, paid training, gas mileage

and full support.E-mail resume to:

[email protected] fax: 1.250.762.9898

Attention: Connie Penner

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Home CareMATURE lady available for housekeeping services, meal prep, shopping for seniors and bathing elderly ladies. (250) 961-0546 (Trina)

LandscapingWINTER MAINTANCESNOW & GARBAGE

REMOVALCall Pal:

250-961-3612 or 250-964-4758 res

Pets & Livestock

Feed & Hay

GRAINSCREENING

PELLETSDelivery available Houston to Williams Lake.

Call 250.567.8780

PetsStd POODLE pups, CKC, M/F, 16 wks, trained, all shots, health guar’t, exc. pedigree, $1800. Camaraderie Kennels, Victoria (250)381-0855

Merchandise for Sale

AuctionsBUD HAYNES & Ward’s Fire-arms Auction. Saturday, March 7, 10 a.m., 11802 - 145 St., Edmonton, Alberta. One Man’s Collection, store disper-sal, case lots, ammo, etc. Consign now. Catalogue w/pictures online. Phone 403-347-5855 or 780-451-4549; www.budhaynesauctions.com; www.WardsAuctions.com.

$400 & UnderWinter Tires For Sale

195/70 R14 Hankook tires & rims. 5 Bolt for Ford

Ranger. Driven less than 100 km. $375.00 250564-

3194

Firewood/FuelFIREWOOD

Driest wood in town split & delivered.$200/cord (250)964-2020.

Misc. for SaleFor Sale

-135 Gallon aquarium with stand $700.00

Call :250 563-5565

Merchandise for Sale

Misc. for Sale Fridge $100 Glider Chair $105 Drawer white wardrobe $50.

Cedar chest $10 Bread machine $25

778-281-1010

SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & DVD available online: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/ 400OT or call 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

STEEL BUILDINGS/metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 or visit us online: www.crownsteelbuildings.ca.

STEEL BUILDINGS. “Really big sale!” All steel building models and sizes. Plus extra savings. Buy now and we will store until spring. Call Pioneer Steel at 1-800-668-5422 or on-line: www.pioneersteel.ca

Misc. WantedPrivate Collector Looking toBuy Coin Collections, Silver,Antiques, Native Art, Estates +Chad: 778-281-0030 Local

Real Estate

Business for SaleDVD RENTAL business. Selling due to illness. Fully stocked $5500.00 OBO.www.tigressevideorentals.com 250-542-0473

STEELFABRICATING SHOP FOR

SALEFully equipped steel

fabricating shop. Price includes all

machinery, equipment and inventory. For photos and

equipment list visit www.nechakosteel.ca

Retirement Sale$160,000 OBO

1994 S Quinn St, Prince George Call: 250 562-8851

Rentals

Apt/Condo for Rent

JUBILEE Apt’s1 bedroom Adult orientated,

close to downtown & bus route. N/S, N/P. Parking.

Call: (250) 562-7172

1 bdrm. apt. $590.2 bdrm. apt. $710.

Includes heat & h/w 1601 Queensway St.

250-612-7199

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Apt/Condo for Rent

Midtowne

To Rent Call:250-561-1447

• 1 & 2 bedroom apartments available

• Close to hospital & downtown

• Rent includes heat, hot water• Elevator to undercover

parking • Fridge, stove, quality carpets,

drapes • Laundry on each fl oor • No pets

SUMMIT APTS2666 Upland Street

1 & 2 bedroom apts. Rentincludes: hydro, heat, hot

water, appliances, drapes and parking. Quiet, no pets

250-564-3162

Commercial/Industrial

WAREHOUSE FOR RENT2080 sq ft warehouse

space aval $1200.00 per month. For more info call Ron 250 564-0005 ext 115.

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Rentals

Commercial/Industrial

Space available for rentFor all your rental needs

Call 562-8343 or 562-RENT

Majestic Management(1981) Ltd.

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Transportation

Scrap Car Removal

FREE SCRAP CARREMOVAL

within 15 kmP & R

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