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Beki Jackson stands next to a memorial near the intersection where her mother, Connie Elizabeth Jones, was killed in an unsolved hit-and-run March 6. Two months later, the family is still searching for answers to what happened that morning. MIKE CARTER PHOTO

A plea for helpTwo months after a hit-and-run took their

mother's life, Beki Jackson and Michael Jones are still searching for answers

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It's been two months since their mother, Connie Eliza-beth Jones, was killed in a hit-and-run in Dawson Creek, but Beki Jackson and her brother Michael Jones still don’t know what happened.

They are pleading with the

public to come forward with any information that might give them some answers.

"There is no closure," Jack-son told Alaska Highway News on Tuesday. "We've been able to say goodbye, but every day there's more questions. Our wish is that we would know what happened or that some-body would accept responsi-bility."

The two have been circu-lating posters with pictures of their mother around town.

Jones was walking to work in Dawson Creek during the early morning hours of March 6 when she was struck by a ve-hicle while crossing the inter-section of 8th Street and 106th Avenue.

Several people stopped to offer first aid, police say, but they were unsuccessful in their attempts to revive her.

Connie succumbed to her injuries at the scene.

RCMP say they recently re-ceived a tip that they continue to investigate.

"We're still working on it," Sgt. Ed Reinink said. "Some-body out there knows some-thing. Somebody possibly said

something to somebody else." Police don’t suspect the vehi-

cle involved would have much damage done to it.

“She wasn’t catapulted, ba-sically she was bumped down and the vehicle went over her,” Reinink said.

“Hopefully the person has a conscience,” he added. “If they do, this is something that is go-ing to weigh heavily on their mind for the rest of their lives.

“If they know that they did this, coming forward relieves a lot of that guilt and depression that will come from bottling this up,” Reinink added.

A memorial has taken over the city-owned flower planter on that street corner. It was started by family and friends, but was later added to by members of the public.

“Random citizens, people who didn’t know her but knew that something had happened there, they’ve put flowers and ribbons and stickers and things there as well,” Jackson said.

Jim Chute, chief administra-tive officer for the City of Daw-son Creek acknowledged that the city has come forward to make the planter box a perma-

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nent memorial for Jones. “The family is going to be involved in

choosing the planting and there is go-ing to be a memorial plaque,” Chute said.

Signs have also been donated that will be erected at the intersection this week, asking for more information.

Jackson says she and her brother are pleased with the police investigation so far.

“She was my best friend,” Jackson said, “so this is of the highest importance to me. I feel like I should have every answer right now, but I know I can’t. I am very sat-isfi ed with what the RCMP has done. I am not satisfi ed with some of the citizens in this town.”

Without an answer to exactly what happened to her mother, Jackson is only left to wonder.

“Our family is doing our best to heal and move on,” she said. “But without clo-

sure — without being able to tell our chil-dren that it’s okay, the person who made this mistake accepted responsibility, they came forward — we can’t.”

Jackson says her mother loved life. “I don’t have any pictures of her where

she is not smiling,” she said. “She was an extremely happy person.”

Jackson had this message for anyone who might know something: “You have the ability to give her grand children, her children, her sisters and her friends the ability to say we know what happened. [By] not coming forward, you are denying everybody this chance to be able to prop-erly close that chapter with respect for her. I beg you to give information.”

Anyone who does have information on this case is encouraged to contact the Dawson Creek RCMP at 250-784-3700. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS). [email protected]

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The first time I met Cathy McKibben she was leading a class of kindergarten and grade one stu-dents through “Salute the Flag” – the youngsters were all seated in a surprisingly orderly fashion in the old wooden desks of the Pouce Coupe Central School built in 1918, now located at Walter Wright Pioneer Village.

Since retiring from School District 59 McKib-ben has remained involved in the classroom, both volunteering at her former school Devereaux El-ementary for a decade and leading current students through the history of education in the region, with reenactments of class in a one-room schoolhouse at Pioneer Village.

“I think it’s important for the kids coming up and for future students to see what it was like,” said McKibben. “Everyone likes to see what things used to be like.”

Born in Victoria, McKibben always saw herself becoming a teacher and, along with a friend from the city, had a particular interest in teaching at a ru-ral school in the north – something that came as a shock to those who hired them.

“When we got the job – it was in Victoria, in an ad in the newspaper – and we had to go to a hotel for the interview,” says McKibben. “We walked into the room, it was just four men in the room and us. It was very intimidating.”

The interviewers showed the girls a slideshow of the Peace Region; the scenery and idyllic landscape – McKibben says they were really trying to sell the place.

“We said we want to come and teach in rural schools with more then one grade,” she says, add-ing that they couldn’t sign them to contracts fast enough. Rural and remote were not high on the list of many new-hires.

She laughs that the interview proceeded to get stranger, as one of the four members pulled out a pink negligee from a bag and asked whether the young teachers thought his wife would like it – something that would be viewed much harsher these days, but she says they both validated his pur-chase and nothing else was said of it.

McKibben’s interest in teaching in the Peace Country’s rural schools came from stories and pho-tographs she was privy to growing up.

“It was basically because my mom and had taught in Cecil Lake and when I was little I would look at the pictures of them in the snow and I would say, ‘I want to go there where there’s snow because Victoria didn’t have any snow,” she says. “So that’s what I did and when I told people that’s why I came up here they all said, ‘Are you crazy?’”

Her parents taught at one-room schools, approx-imately eight miles apart – her father would walk or ride horseback to visit her mother – until they mar-ried on the last day of the school-year.

McKibben followed in their footsteps, starting at Devereaux Elementary in 1963 and living at a teach-erage – accommodations provided by schools for out-of-town teachers at a small cost.

Similar to her parents, within a short time of her stay, McKibben met her husband with whom she re-cently celebrated their 50th anniversary.

“I met my husband right away almost, that fall, and we got married the next July,” she says. Did she see it happening that quickly? “No,” she laughs.

“He came knocking at my door, I was in the teach-erage one night at about 6 o’clock and he asked me to go to a dance. I didn’t know him, I’d never seen him before but he said he was the cousin of a lady I’d met who lived right nearby and had kind of taken me under her wing,” McKibben. “He said he was her cousin, so I thought I guess that’s okay. So he came back later on that evening and we went out together. That was really funny because in Victoria, you would not go out with someone on the same day they asked you, that was not etiquette, you were supposed to ask several days in advance to go on a date.”

McKibben worked in town for several years fol-lowing her start at Devereaux, and then moved back out to the rural school – teaching for about 30 years in total in the district.

In her first year at Devereaux McKibben says her interest in seeing a real winter was realized, though much more drastically than she had hoped.

“That year, we had -50 and -60 [degrees Celsius],” says McKibben. “The school buses didn’t run for three months. Everybody that I’d meet would say, ‘We’ll have a Chinook’, and I was like, ‘What’s a Chi-nook?’”

McKibben says the weather was a shock to the system, but she continued on leading the class – al-though, with buses not running her class consisted of about five students who were within close range of the school.

Once regular classes began again around Febru-ary, she recalls panicking about the amount of work that had to be packed into the remainder of the year.

“I always remember the superintendent or high-er ups were visiting and we were having recess and coffee. The time was running over and class should be starting and I kept saying I have to go ring the bell – at that time we had a bell to ring – and they were all telling me to relax,” she laughs. “But I just kept thinking I have so much to do and not very much time. I have to go ring the bell.”

It wasn’t her last encounter with upper manage-ment – she also remembers her first report from the superintendent.

“I’m really nervous because he’s doing a report and I had this group of little readers, one boy had his book upside down and another boy fell off of his chair,” she laughs. “I was thinking, I’m going to be fired.”

Shortly after, the superintendent – obviously noticing how nervous she was – got up and left the

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Her memories aren’t all of nerves and stress, McKibben says there were many lighter moments throughout her career. McKibben starts laughing when she recalls

a kindergarten class in which a couch was set up on one side of the room for the stu-dents read.

“One day, I see a little girl lying on the couch a boy bouncing on top of her and Continued on Page 8

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Continued from Page 5I said ‘stop fooling around you too’,”

she says. “They stopped and he said, ‘we’re not fooling around, we’re pretending we’re married’.”

Her own stories of teaching in the re-gion haven’t been McKibben’s only focus. In the mid-2000s she, along with a group of interested volunteers, decided to take up the task of documenting the experienc-es of the early teachers in Books, Bells and Bachelors: Early school years of the South Peace, published in 2005.

“A few years ago I got interested,” she begins. “We were finding a lot of the his-tory in the schools in the area will be lost.”

Going through the archives and stored information on the one-room school-houses – mostly built around the 1930s and earlier – McKibben says the group had the idea to gather the information to-gether and found that there was a wealth of anecdotal history hidden away.

“There was really interesting stuff about bachelors in the area, with all of the single teachers and the things they would do to get them to go out with them,” she says.

As they set to work on the project, McK-ibben says the suggestion that they pub-lish a book came up, although she had never thought seriously about the idea.

As the project dragged out for two years, she decided to take charge and ded-icate a few months to it, as well as some of her own funds, on top of support from the B.C. Retired Teachers, and produced the fi-nal book – having to find her way through design and layout and the finer points of publishing along the way.

The first run of the book was conser-vative, printing only 250 copies. Selling out quickly and seeing demand for more, they ultimately produced three runs of the book and McKibben says Bill’s News in Dawson Creek now has the only remain-ing copy for sale.

Did she foresee that sort of success? “Oh no,” she says. “I was worried we wouldn’t sell 250.”

Recalling some of the stories of note from the book, McKibben says the aspect of relations between the single teachers and local bachelors was a strong theme, Continued on Page 11

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People of the Peace Continued from Page 8hence the title.One story tells of a teacher who was con-

tinually refusing the propositions of a local farmer, so he left a dead horse in the field next to where she was teaching. McKibben confirms that the gesture or perhaps threat was to no avail – “No, she still wouldn’t go out with him”.

“One year, one teacher, they tried to get her fired because two brothers had asked her and she wouldn’t go out with either of them,” says McKibben. The book docu-

ments correspondence between the board and the parties involved.

“Back then, to be on the school board you had to pay taxes and money, so people with kids often they didn’t have the money so they got a lot of bachelors on the board,” says McKibben. “They were always trying to get single teachers up here.”

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“All of the people there sang and a lady played the piano and I thought that would be great to get up here,” she says, so she went out and gathered music. “I realized they didn’t sing unless I did.”

McKibben is now the Heritage Chair for the B.C. Retired teachers, having held sev-eral other positions in the past – though, this one is a logical role for a published his-torian, not to mention her stints as a much stricter 1930s teacher.

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1055 Coming Events

97 Knights M.A. Presents 2nd An-nual Swap Meet Show & Shine at Rolla Pub on June 6, 2015 in Rolla B.C.Starts at 1pm, Judging at 3pm. $10 Bike entry, $10 Table Rental. BBQ & camping after. Proceeds go to Local Children’s Charity. More info: 250-719-8226

Dawson Creek Ladies Hospital Auxiliary meets the Last Tuesday of the Month-1:30 pm.in the Hospital Conference Room (3rd Floor). New members are wel-come. Call Carol at 250-782-4595

Friday May 15th-Ham & Beef Sup-per-Pouce Coupe Seniors Hall-$14.00 per person. Doors open at 5:00 P.M.,Supper at 5:30 P.M..

1055 Coming Events

MAY 16 -COUNTRY MUSIC DANCE-Music by Old Friends at the Senior Citizens Hall, 1101 McKellar Ave. Dawson Creek- Dance from 8:30- 12:30. Admission in-cludes lunch. 19 years and over welcome. For more information phone Fred at 250-782-2192 or Linda at 250-843-7418

May 23rd-1:30-3:30-UCW SPRING TEA & BAKE SALE AT South Peace United Church-1300 104 Ave, Dawson Creek. Enjoy sandwiches and squares with tea/coffee/juice. Everyone wel-come.

PC Roots Group Library Building Open: Every Sat-urday Sept-June 1:00-4:00pm in the small Roots Group building DC NAR Park. Open for mem-bers wanting to use the genealogy library. A member will be available to anyone requir-ing help on how to get started on your family histo-ry. Everyone wel-come. For ap-pointment call: Lynn- 250-782-4058 Neil- 250-782-7651 Lyle- 250-782-2804 www.peacecoun-tryroots.ca

1055 Coming Events

PC Roots Group Meeting: 4th Sun-day/month - from S e p t - J u n e 1:30pm, small Roots building, DC NAR Park. Getting started on family tree re-search, need Help? Learn & share experiences with other ama-teur genealogists. New members welcome. For more info call: Lynn- 250-782-4058 Neil- 250-782-7651 Lyle- 250-782-2804 www.peacecoun-tryroots.ca

1215 General Employment

1205 Career Opportunities

1055 Coming Events

South Peace Hos-pice Palliative CareSociety is hosting a Bowling Fundraiser Event. May 23,2015 at Hypertension Es-cape Bowling Al-ley 1501-102 Ave, Dawson Creek 1:00-4:00pm.$50.00 per person en-trance fee includes: 3 games, shoe rental, steak dinner. To enter a team call Andre 250-782-3291 or 250-719-9226Come join us for fun and Support a Local Charity!

1055 Coming Events

TOPS BC #3450, Arras meets every Tuesday at Cut-bank Hall from 3:30-5:00 PM. For more info call Eileen at 250-843-7625 or Do-reen at 250-780-2324. Join us hav-ing fun while winning with weight loss.

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1100 In Memoriam


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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGJune 23, 2015 • 6:30 p.m.

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2085 Garage Sales

Saturday, May 2 3 , 2 0 1 5 - 9 a m -1:00pmYard Sale for the Cure-Host-ed by Arlene De-lawsky. Personal Real Estate Corp. 709-103rd Ave-Across from the Co-Op-Sue La-voie Accounting-Annual Yard sale to Raise Aware-ness and Funds to assist Breast Can-cer Research.We accept dona-tions of your gent-ly used items to sell at our sale the week prior to the sale, as well as the morning of.There will be face painting, goodies, coffee and lots of great deals! come out and support this worthwhile cause.https://www.face-book.com/events/-405198689640630/?ref=3&ref newsfeed story type=regu-lar&feed story type=17

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6050 Mortgages

LARGE FUND--- Borrowers want-ed. Start saving hundreds of dol-lars today! We can easily ap-prove you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mortgage money is available right now. Rates start at prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income. CALL ANYTIME 1-800-639-2274 or 604-430-1498. Apply online www.capitaldir-ect.caTAX FREE MONEY is available, if you are a homeowner, today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mort-gage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income. CALL ANYTIME 1-800-639-2274 or 604-430-1498. Apply online www.capitaldir-ect.ca

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6560 Houses For Rent

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6965 Suites For Rent

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8220 Lawn & Garden

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9160 Trucks & Vans

2002 35th Anni-versary edition Z28. Black, con-vertible, Fully loaded. Stored for winters, $10,000 Phone 250-219-1975.

9165 Parts & Accessories

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