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ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT, & CULTURAL ACTIVITIES IN PRINCE GEORGE
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MUSICIANS
Who: GREAT BIG SEAWhen: Thursday October 24,
Doors: 6:30PM Show: 7:30PM
Where: CN CENTRE
How Much: Tickets (incl. GST)
$25.00, $45.00, $59.50, Me+3 4-Pack
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Outlets
What: In celebration of the band’s
20th anniversary, Great Big Sea
kicked off a cross-Canada tour. New-
foundland’s most popular in Prince
George, 20 years is a long time in
anyone’s life
MUSICIANS Who: PGSO - MagicWhen: Sunday October 26, 2pm-4pm
Where: Vanier Hall
How Much: Adults $30, Seniors $26,
0-2years free, 3-7years $5, 8-14years
October 2013ARTISTS
Who: Groop GalleryWhen: Ongoing till December
Where: Groop Gallery
How Much: Free
What: Current exhibition titled
‘PLACE” with artists Claire Kujundzic,
Heather Kostovich, Melanie Desjar-
dines & Mo Hamilton. runs until De-
cember in the Groop down under. The
Groop Gallery also features as many
as 30 other local and regional artists
on an ongoing basis. Always some-
thing new to see! Check the website
www.groopgallery.com for ongoing
events and information on all of the
artists!!!!
THEATREWho: Theatre North WestWhen: October 2 - 23
Where: Theatre North West (#36 -
556 North Nechako Road)
What: Letter From Wingfield Farm
By Dan Needles
Starring Rod Beattie
Directed by Douglas Beattie. A home-
spun comedy about the wacky neigh-
bours on both sides of the fence.
How Much: Tickets available at Books
& Company, 250.614.0039.
www.theatrenorthwest.com
COMEDY
Who: Treasure Cove Casino & BingoWhen: Saturday Oct 12. Doors open at
7:00 pm and show begins at 8:00 pm.
Where: Treasure Cove Casino & Bingo
How Much: $25.00. 250-561-2421.
What: Under The Influence Comedy
with Diamond Tschritter Live,
MUSICIANS
Who: PGSO MusiciansWhen: Sunday October 13, 2pm-4pm
Where: Two Rivers Art Gallery
How Much: Free
What: The PGSO and Two Rivers Gal-
lery are teaming up to present Family
Sundays with music once a month.
From 2pm to 4pm PGSO musicians
will be giving a free concert. You are
welcome to come and go (in case the
little once can’t sit still long enough)
as necessary. Enjoy the beautiful
acoustics of the North Canfor Gallery,
and make a fun art project.
THEATREWho: Theatre North West When: October 17
Where: Theatre North West (#36 -
556 North Nechako Road)
What: Your Theatre Talks
Theatre North West Artistic Producer
Samantha MacDonald gives an inter-
active talk offering insight into what
goes on behind the scenes at TNW.
Refreshments provided by Hummus
Brothers Tapas Bar.
RSVP to the TNW office by October
14, 250.563.6969.
www.theatrenorthwest.com
MUSICIANS Who: PGSO MusiciansWhen: Friday October 18, 7:30-9pm
Where: Ohh Chocolat
How Much: $10
What: Come and hear some beautiful
Chamber Music and eat some deli-
cious chocolates at Ohh Chocolat. The
PGSO hold chamber music concerts
at Ohh Chocolat once a month. This
month featuring Dr. D. Bond on the
flute.
$10, 15-18 $15, Students $15, Family
Pass (2 adults and 4 children under 18)
$50
What: introduce your kids to the
magic of music - and music all about
magic - with a special Halloween show
especially designed for younger listen-
ers. “The Magical Maestro Zee” has
assembled tricks and treats galore
with a costume competition, spells,
incantations, magic wands and even a
chance to conduct Beethoven’s Fifth
Symphony with the full orchestra.
November 2013ARTISTSWho: Studio FairWhat: Northern BC’s Finest Profes-
sional Artisan Fair
Where: Prince George Civic Centre
When: November 1-3, 2013
Friday - 10am - 8pm
Saturday - 10am - 6pm
Sunday - 10am - 4pm
How Much: Adult: $3. Under 12: Free
ARTISTS
Who: Groop GalleryWhen: Friday, November 8. Doors
open at 7 pm, artist talk at 7:30 and
evening reception
Where: Groop Gallery
How Much: Free
What: artist Cara Roberts open-
ing night exhibition titled ‘INTO THE
DEEP’. A collection of her most recent
works featuring marine mammals and
sea life. Truly beautiful renderings in
Cara Roberts style.
WINE TASTING Who: Theatre North West When: Saturday, November 9, 2:00 -
4:00 pm
Where: The Exploration Place
What: Wine Lover’s Afternoon Tasting
How Much: $30 available at Theatre
North West, Books & Company, and
The Exploration Place
Safe Ride Home provided. www.the-
atrenorthwest.com
WINE TASTING
Who: Theatre North West When: Saturday, November 9, 7:30 -
10:30 pm
Where: The Exploration Place
What: 14th Annual International Wine
Festival
How Much: $55 available at Theatre
North West, Books & Company, and
The Exploration Place. Safe Ride
Home provided. www.theatrenorth-
west.com
MUSICIANSWho: A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TOFRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONSWhen: Sunday, November 10, 7:00 pm
Where: Vanier Hall
How Much: $49.50 and $55.50 (plus
service charges)
Order on-line at www.ticketmaster.ca
What:“Oh What A Night!” features
four talented performers. It is an excit-
ing fast paced musical tribute to the
legendary Frankie Valli and the Four
Seasons. Oh What A Night! comes to
Prince George, direct from Las Ve-
gas, the entertainment capital of the
world!.
THEATREWho: Theatre North West When: November 21 to December 11
Where: Theatre North West (#36 -
556 North Nechako Road)
What: Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story
Buddy Holly’s hit songs come alive in
the world’s most successful rock ‘n’
roll musical.
How Much: Tickets available at Books
& Company, 250.614.0039.
www.theatrenorthwest.com
MUSICIANS
Who: PGSOWhen: Saturday November 23, 7:30-
9:30pm
Where: Vanier Hall
How Much: Adults $30, Seniors $26,
Students $15
What: Beethoven is in the spotlight
at the PGSO this season, beginning
with his monumental Ninth Symphony
complete with its triumphant “Ode to
Joy” choral finale. Guest choirs and
musicians from all over Northern BC
come for the celebratory performance,
which also includes a showcase for
this year’s Integris Youth Concerto
Competition winner, Sage Bialuski.
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CITY: Cameron Stolz steps down as city fi nance chairP
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FRIDAYOCTOBER 11
Too much LNG‘urgency: Chiefs
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What’s the rush?Th at was the message from chiefs at the
B.C. First Nations LNG Summit in Prince George this week. With the provincial gov-ernment touting fi ve liquefi ed natural gas plants possible for the Northwest in the coming years, and as pipeline proposals come rolling through First Nations terri-tory, they are feeling under the gun.
“We’re really feel-ing the pressure, from not only the provincial govern-ment, but the pro-ponents,” said Carrier Sekani Tribal Chief Terry Teegee. “Really, we should be dealing with the two levels of government.”
He added that First Nations have limited resources to examine these projects prop-erly to determine whether they are in the band’s interest or not.
Grand Chief Edward John was a little more direct, using his band as an example.
“Th ere’s a proposal for Trans Canada Pipeline to go through adjacent to one of our villages,” he said. “Companies come in with a sense of urgency. We have to have a socioeconomic impact study done by the end of this month. Th e situation is this – we have no resources in our communities, we have a company coming in with a pipeline who are expecting us to jump up and down
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Th e psychiatrist who treated Canadian Armed Forces veteran Greg Matters in the months before his Sept. 10, 2012 death, pro-vided insight Wednesday into his patient’s emotional state.
Dr. Greg Passey, a Vancouver psychia-trist specializing in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) told a coroner’s inquest that Matters became his patient in 2011. In addition to having chronic physical pain, Matters – who Passey diagnosed with PTSD – suff ered from panic attacks, insomnia, problems concentrating, hyper-vigilance (of his surroundings), and an increased sense of ‘fi ght or fl ight.’
Treatment for patients with PTSD in-cludes trying to increase support and reduce stressors or triggers, he said. Dr. Passey said he believed that Matters was “well on his way” towards recovery. His future looked bright: His fi nances had improved, he’d en-rolled in a psychology program and wanted to be a counsellor, he planned a visit his sister in Australia, he was planting trees on his mother’s property, he was golfi ng with his neighbour.
“Th is is a guy who used to be a hermit in his own room,” said Passey. “He was enjoy-ing life,” he said, but cautioned, “Th at’s not to say he couldn’t be triggered....”
In response to questions about whether or not Matters could have been suicidal on Sept. 10, 2012 during a stand off with RCMP, which ended with police fatally shooting him, Passey said although Matters may have had suicidal thoughts in the past, in his opinion, Matters was not suicidal at the time of his death.
In fact he had just had “one of the best days of his life” when he acted as his own counsel in April 2012 on an alleged assault charge against his brother Trevor – and he had been acquitted, said Passey.
“He did not have a death wish. He did not want to die.”
Referring to Matters’ reportedly saying if people came onto his property, “I will die if necessary,” Passey faltered momentarily in his testimony.
“Th is is not a suicidal state-ment,” he said, tears coming to his eyes. He paused for a mo-ment. “I’m sorry,” he said. “I’ve lost a lot of friends to suicide.”
Returning to the question, he responded: “I interpreted that as a steely resolve to protect himself ... his family ... and his home.”
At another moment in his testimony, Passey explained:
“I’ve spent a good chunk of my life taking care of these guys [so] it’s very, very painful when I lose one.”
Some of Matters’ legal troubles, which arose from threatening language, were an attempt to get people to listen to him, he said. Passey said his expectation is that Matters would have continued to improve over the next year or so. He suggested the fatal outcome of the standoff may have been averted if Matters had had access to the people he trusted most, his mother, his sister, his psychiatrist.
Passey explained that in people suff ering with PTSD, the upper brain, which carries thought processes, starts to shut down and the lower brain, which controls impulse or the fi ght or fl ight response, takes over. Asked by Cameron Ward, counsel for Lorraine and Tracey Matters, what would be the eff ect on Matters given the presence of police in cam-oufl age, armed with M-16s and a helicopter hovering over his head, Passey said that at that point, his frontal lobe was likely “not operational at all.”
Th e fl ight or fi ght would kick in – and he was trained not to run, Passey said.
“Because of his military service?” asked inquest counsel, Rodrick Mackenzie.
“Yes,” said Passey. Th e psychiatrist explained that the men
and women who come back from a tour of duty and who may later suff er from PTSD
do not get their names on monuments but they can be called the “unknown fallen” he said and he hoped that they too would be re-membered with a wreath on Remembrance Day. Asked for any recommendations he might like to share with the inquest jury, Passey suggested police carry videocams and record what goes on in instances like the one in which Matters was fatally shot. Th e technology could protect the interests of police offi cers as well, he suggested.
“If there is a standoff , why not capture all of that?”
He also suggested a call for more public education about brain disorders and special training for law enforcement people who are dealing with people who have brain disorders.
Matters was dealingwith post-traumatic stress: psychiatrist
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at their beck and call.”He said the band has no help from
the provincial or federal government to deal with these things. In this case, Trans Canada Pipeline gave the band $75,000 to help pay for some of the work required.
“Th at’s welcomed by the community,” said John, “But a signifi cant amount of money is required to make the kind of decisions that are required.”
John says they are continually told that the demand is market-driven and Canada has a small window of opportunity to get into the market.
“We haven’t seen anything from any
source that says there’s that sense of ur-gency,” John said. “I’ve been to China fi ve times, no thanks to either government ... Somebody’s telling us there’s urgency here, and we don’t understand the source of that urgency, except somebody’s telling us it’s urgent. We have to slow this process down.”
Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief Judy Wilson-Raybould said there is a bigger issue that needs to be solved fi rst.
“First Nations have been engaged and thinking about these situations for a long time,” she said. “Th ey have been fundamentally wanting to solve the land question in British Columbia. We’re not opposed to development, but not at any
cost.”She said First Nations want to fi nd a
balance between economic development and ensuring that the land will be pro-tected and sustained.
“Our relationship has to go beyond the ribbon-cutting and the initial infl ux of money,” she said. “It has to be fundamen-tally more sustainable and comprehensive in terms of ensuring we’re in partnership with other governments and industry.”
Aboriginal Relations and Reconcilia-tion Minister John Rustad said he is cur-rently working to developing a “strategic engagement agreement” with a group of First Nations within the Carrier Sekani to deal with the concerns.
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Bill PHILLIPS/Free PressGrand Chief Ed John is flanked by provincial minister of aboriginal relations and reconciliation John Rustad, left, and federal natural resources minister Joe Oliver at the B.C. First Nations Summit in Prince George.
Slow down LNG process: Grand Chief John
On Wednesday members of the Prince George RCMP’s Crime Reduction Team located and ar-rested 37-year-old Neil Romeo Joseph Hamel on Upland Street.
Hamel, well known to local police, was found in possession of a signifi cant amount of cocaine and methamphetamine, according to an RCMP press release. His arrest led to the search of a residence on the 2900 block of Upland Street, directly across the street from an elementary school. Upon entering the residence, a 15-year-old youth and a two-year-old child were located. During the search of the residence, marijuana, ecstasy and a crossbow were located and seized.
Hamel has been charged with possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of traffi cking, failing to comply with a recognizance, failing to comply with an undertaking, and breach of proba-tion
Th is arrest is the third time since the beginning of June that Hamel has been picked up by police for allegedly traffi cking drugs
At 2:20 a.m. on June 2, Hamel was riding a bike without lights in the area of Milburn Avenue and Pine Street. An offi cer stopped the cyclist and conducted routine checks with the intention of issuing a ticket under the BC Motor Vehicle Act. Th e offi cer observed the man to be in possession of a collapsible baton, similar to those issued to police offi cers. Hamel was found to be on conditions not to possess any weapons, stemming from a previous police investigation. He was arrested. He was also found in possession of a knife, a can of mace and a signifi cant quantity of both cocaine and metham-phetamine. Hamel was charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of traffi cking.
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Matters’ final hours probedPolice testimony Tuesday
at a coroner’s inquest into the Sept. 10, 2012 shooting death of Gregory Matters provided more details of what took place in the fi nal hours of the 40-year-old’s life.
RCMP Const. Jason Dickin-son said Tuesday that on Sept. 9, 2012 he was following up on a fi le that originated with a complaint from Greg Matters about an altercation earlier that day between him and his brother Trevor. Dickinson and Const. Nathan Poyzer drove to Pinko Road in the Pineview area where they saw a jeep-type vehicle in the ditch with no one around.
Trevor was located at a neighbours’ with cuts to his face, bloody nose and “goose egg” on his forehead, Dick-inson said. Th e explanation Trevor gave was that he’d gone to his mother’s house, (where Greg lived) to see if she was home because he hadn’t
seen her in a while, and as he pulled away, Trevor said Greg followed him down the road, rammed his truck several times and forced him into the ditch.
Greg punched him as he was still holding onto the steer-ing wheel, Trevor told police, adding he’d yelled to Greg: “I’m your brother.”
Asked what action he wanted taken, Dickinson said Trevor replied that he only wanted to see that Greg “got the care he needed.”
Police attention turned to Greg, the inquest was told, because his actions could amount to assault or assault with a weapon (his truck). In 911 recordings heard Monday, the voice of Greg is heard giv-ing his version of events – that he’d been awakened (at about 3 a.m.) by the sound of some-one spinning “doughnuts” in his driveway, that he got into his truck, pursued the vehicle down the road and later found out the driver was Trevor, whom he believed had been drinking.
On Monday, Tracey Mat-
ters, Greg and Trevor’s sister, testifi ed that her brothers had a long history of disputes between them.
Cameron Ward, counsel representing Tracey and Greg Matters’ mother, Lorraine, asked Dickinson about the reasons for detaining Lorraine Matters at the police detach-ment Sept. 10, 2012 for several hours even as the “stand-off ” which led to her son’s shooting death, escalated.
Ward asked why it was the short-in-stature, 66-year-old woman, who said she’d been kneed in the chest by police (during the “stand-off ”) was not given medical attention. Further, he wanted to know what eff orts the RCMP had made to involve her in talking to her son, and possibly help-ing diff use an escalating situa-tion that over a 40-hour period had turned ugly.
It had gone from an alterca-tion between brothers to where ERT members with M-16s were coming onto the property with a police dog and a police helicopter “hovering” over-
head. Questioned by Ward about
background knowledge he may have had, Dickinson said he was aware Greg Matters was a Bosnian war veteran suff er-ing from PTSD. Ward was also troubled by the fact police did not advise Lorraine Matters of her son’s demise until about two and one half hours aft er he was shot dead.
“Greg Matters was shot and killed around 7:15 p.m,” said Ward. “Can you explain why she [Lorraine Matters] was not notifi ed (of Greg’s death) until 9:53 p.m. – more than two hours later?”
Dickinson said he was told by his superiors to simply watch over Lorraine, noth-ing more. A team of victim services people assisted her, he said. Th e offi cer also said he got a phone call from Trevor Matters, saying they’d (he and neighbours) heard gun shots and he asked what had happened. Th e offi cer stated he later advised Trevor of his brother’s death by attending his residence.
Family members of a former Canadian Armed Forces soldier shot dead by RCMP in Sept. 2012 burst into tears Monday when they heard his voice in 911 recordings played at a coroner’s inquest.
Th e inquest into Gregory John Matters’ death is being presided over by T.E. Chico Newell and is expected to hear from numer-ous witnesses. Th e deceased’s sister, Tracey Matters, was fi rst to take the stand Monday.
She told inquest counsel Rodrick Mackenzie and an inquest jury about her life growing up on the family’s 360-acre Pineview area farm with brothers Greg and Trevor. And she described Greg (aged 40 at his death) as someone who “always stood up for the kids who couldn’t stand up for
themselves.”Her brother always wanted to help
people, she said. From age 15 or 16 he had considered careers in teaching, policing and fi refi ghting before deciding on the military. Smiling, she added, “He was handsome...and popular with the girls.”
Tracey said she moved to Australia when she was 21 and Greg was 16, but she and Greg had kept in close contact and oft en talked.
He visited her in Australia.“Were you his confi dante?” asked Mack-
enzie.“Absolutely,” she said. Asked about the relationship between
her brothers, Tracey said aft er their father’s death in 1998, the two were at odds over a 150-acre land parcel and what should be done with it. Of her brother’s 15-year military career, Tracey said that at a Silver
Cross Memorial held in Greg’s honour, a fellow soldier had high praise for him and recalled him “raiding” their lunch boxes to fi nd treats for Bosnia children when they served overseas.
“He loved children,” she said. Tracey said Greg suff ered from back inju-
ries he sustained carrying a too heavy load and, later on, he had endured bullying from other soldiers.
“Greg continued to work through his pain [but] ... it got to the point where he could no longer fulfi ll his duties as a sol-dier.”
Th ere’s a bullying culture in the military, she said.
Greg Matters was honourably discharged in 2009.
“He was receiving a pension of $123 a month – that is all,” she said.
She said she and Greg talked a lot about
his problems trying to adjust aft er returning from peacekeeping duties in Bosnia. He’d suff ered from panic attacks, insomnia and told her about nightmares, she said.
“I thought it was shell shock or PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder).”
Tracey said she sought professional help for her brother and found the “perfect match. She said “Greg made tremendous progress.”
Asked about mental health issues at the time, Tracey said:“All I know is he wasn’t the fun-loving, lighthearted brother I had known. [In 2009] he was withdrawn, he hid from people... noises would irritate him.”
He planned to become a counsellor and help other veterans with PTSD, she said, noting he’d set up a cabin on the property for his own “peace and quiet” and for a place to study.
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Teresa MALLAM/Free PressTracey Matters, sister of Greg Matters, arrives at the inquest into her brother’s death.
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In Provincial Court in Prince George on Aug. 8:
Kevin J. Monk was found guilty of theft of property with a value less than $5,000, sentenced to 76 days in jail and placed on probation for three years. Monk was also found guilty of possession of stolen property with a value less than $5,000 and four other counts of theft of property with a value less than $5,000, sentenced to 98 days in jail and placed on proba-tion for three years. Monk was also found guilty of failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking, sen-tenced to 60 days in jail and placed on probation for three years. Monk was also found guilty of failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking or recognizance and failing to comply
with a probation order and sentenced to 60 days in jail.
In Provincial Court in Prince George on Aug. 9:
Blair T. Alec was found guilty of as-sault causing bodily harm, sentenced to 47 days in jail, assessed a victim surcharge of $50 and prohibited from possessing fi rearms for seven years. Alec was also found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order, sen-tenced to 45 days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $50.
In Provincial Court in Prince George on Aug. 12:
Henry Z. Naytowhow was found guilty of assault, sentenced to jail time served and placed on probation for one year.
Chad D. Parkinson was found guilty of assault and placed on probation for eight months.
Robinson J. Rainey was found guilty of mis-chief, sentenced to one day in jail and placed on probation for one year.
Delbert W. Joseph was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order, sentenced to 48 days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $50.
In Provincial Court in Prince George on Aug. 1:Roger Johnston was found guilty of uttering
threats, sentenced to 28 days in jail, placed on pro-bation for two years and prohibited from possessing fi rearms for fi ve years.
Douglas W. Joseph was found guilty of assault causing bodily harm, sentenced to 90 days in jail and received a lifetime prohibition on the posses-sion of fi rearms.
James R. Gilbert was found guilty of assault caus-ing bodily harm and sentenced to 165 days in jail. Gilbert was also found guilty of assault and assault-ing a peace offi cer and sentenced to 74 days in jail.
In Provincial Court in Prince George on Aug. 2:Bradley G. Neil was found guilty of criminal
harassment, sentenced to 21 days in jail to be served on an intermittent basis, placed on probation for 18 months, assessed a victim surcharge of $50 and prohibited from possessing fi rearms for 10 years. Neil was also found guilty of assault, sentenced to 21 days in jail to be served on an intermittent basis, placed on probation for 18 months and assessed a victim surcharge of $50. Neil was also found guilty of failing to comply with a condition of an under-
taking or recognizance, sentenced to 14 days in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $50.
Crystal D. Whittell was found guilty of failing to attend court when ordered to do so and sentenced to one day in jail.
Shane A. Wilson was found guilty of breach of recognizance and sentenced to one day in jail.
In Provincial Court in Prince George on Aug. 6:Everett R.E. Patrick was found guilty of failing to
comply with a probation order and sentenced to six weeks in jail.
Danial S. Sundman was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order and sentenced to 18 days in jail.
In Provincial Court in Prince George on Aug. 7:Zachary A. Dalman was found guilty of assault,
placed on probation for one year and assessed a victim surcharge of $50.
Cory Davis was found guilty of uttering threats and placed on probation for nine months.
Monique L. Willey was found guilty of resisting a peace offi cer, fi ned $400 and assessed a victim sur-charge of $60. Willey was also found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order, sentenced to one day in jail and assessed a victim surcharge of $50.
In Provincial Court in Prince George on Aug. 8:Terence B. Swanson was found guilty of assault
with a weapon and assaulting a peace offi cer, re-ceived a conditional sentence of 90 days, was placed on probation for two years and prohibited from possessing fi rearms for 10 years. Swanson was also found guilty of possession of a weapon for a danger-ous purpose and sentenced to one day in jail.
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Crime Stoppers is asking the public’s assistance in locating the following person who is wanted on a British Columbia wide warrant. As of 0900hrs this 9th day of October 2013, Michelle Louise DUBRULE (B: 1983-05-11) is wanted on a British Columbia wide warrant for ASSAULT x 2. DUBRULE is described as a Caucasian female, 168 cm or 5’06” tall and weighs 59 kg or 130 lbs. DUBRULE has brown hair and hazel eyes. DUBRULE should be considered violent.
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Teresa MALLAM/Free PressDeborah Dissler displays a rare hand-carved, wood inlay piece which has eight panels with different highly-detailed pictures. Dissler was one of many vendors selling their wares and sharing their stories Sunday at the South Bowl Community Association’s Antiques and Collectibles Fair at the Roll-A-Dome.
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Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver told the B.C. First Nations LNG Summit that there will be “respectful engagement” of First Na-tions when it comes to resource extraction and development.
“Our plan makes the regulatory process more protective of the en-vironment by focusing resources on the major projects that can have sig-nificant impacts,” he told the crowd in Prince George Wednesday.
He stressed that Canada must be competitive if it is to compete on the global stage.
“If we permit our resources to be stranded, we will squander our legacy and forgo enormous social and economic benefits for now, and future generations,” he said.
He stressed that Ottawa will not allow projects that harm the environment to proceed.
Natural resource development means employ-ment for First Nations communities, he said.
“Aboriginal engagement is not only a Crown responsibility, it is industry’s best interest to engage and consult,” he said.
As for LNG, Oliver said there is tremendous potential in British Columbia, adding that three licences have been approved and more are under review.
“The opportunity is not just LNG, it’s all natu-ral resources,” he said. “Over the next 10 years, as much as $650 billion could be invested in natural resource development in Canada.”
He pointed out, however, that LNG will not
sell itself and that is why he is travelling overseas to promote Canada’s resources.
“Canada is a reliable source of energy in a fre-quently unstable world,” he said, adding Canada needs to diversify its market and the rest of the world needs to diversify its supply. And that takes securing long-term contracts for LNG.
However, some in the crowd of about 400 were unconvinced.
“The music I heard this morning, I’ve heard that music for 42 years,” said Justa Monk of the Tl’azt’len Na-tion. “It’s never changed its tune.”
He drew applause from the crowd when he pointed out that the federal government helps companies pursue resource extraction opportunities, “but what have you given First Na-tions?”
There was also concern raised that while there is lots of talk about lique-fied natural gas and the economic
opportunities, the environment seems to be overlooked.
“No one is speaking for Mother Earth,” said Salteau First Nations Chief Harley Davis.
He pointed out that the Japanese ambassador to Canada, Norihiro Okuda, told the crowd that Japan can take LNG for the next 125 years.
“We won’t survive 125 years of sucking that stuff out of the ground,” Davis said.
Grand Chief Edward John added that he hears lots of discussion that everything to do with LNG, pipelines, and environmental protection, will be world-class.
“What is missing is a world-class standard for indigenous rights,” he said, adding that those world-class standards already exist in a United Nations declaration.
Bill PHILLIPS/Free PressJusta Monk of the Tl’azt’len First Nation responds to Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver at the B.C. First Nations LNG Summit in Prince George Wednesday.
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Questioned by Andrew Kemp, counsel for the At-torney General representing RCMP, Tracey said Greg was trying “100 per cent to be a better man ... to get involved in the community.” Asked by Kemp if she knew about her brother Greg’s several “run-ins with police before this unfortunate incident,” Tracey said she thought Greg’s fears of being under police surveil-lance were due to his PTSD.
When Kemp related a series of incidents involving allegations of Greg having uttered threats, complaints of harassment and an RCMP fi rearms search,Tracey said she had not been told about them by Greg. Nor was she told by Greg about threats to Crown counsel, she said. Respecting an alleged assault by Greg on Trevor, she said:
“Th ere are two sides to that story. I know that for a fact ... Greg did not agree with that account (of al-leged assault).”
She told Kemp: “I feel you’re be-ing aggressive to me ... He [Greg] was all talk, no action, He was not a dangerous person, he [just] made a lot of noise.”
Cameron Ward, counsel for the Matters family, Greg’s mother and sister, began his questions of the witness by displaying family photographs of Greg Matters – a graduation photo, a military photo and Christmas photo taken in 2011 – the last time Tracey saw him alive.
“Th at was one of the best Christ-mases I have ever had,” said Tracey.
She recalled Christmas music playing. Tears fi lled her eyes:
“We spent Christmas day at my mother’s, we made an eight-foot snowman, [Greg] took off his scarf and wrapped it around the snow-man ... we went up to Connaught Hill and saw the lights ... we sang Christmas carols.”
Greg was “so optimistic and so playful,” she said.
He was happy and relaxed. On Sept. 10, 2012, Tracey said
that she got a call at her home in Australia from a Prince George RCMP member who told her that her mother was in police cus-tody. She also had news about her brother.
“He’s been shot,” the offi cer said. Tracey said she asked, “Is he
alive?” and the offi cer said, “No.”Her voice trembling with emo-
tion, Tracey recalled: “My mom was crying ... and crying, and crying. She said, ‘Th ey shot Greg.’”
A second witness, RCMP Const. Steven Pelletier, who lived in the vi-cinity of Matters’ farm, said he was off duty Sept. 9, 2012 when he was awak-ened at about 3 a.m. by a loud vehicle going past and backfi ring. His dogs started barking, he said, and he went out to investigate. Reaching the end of his road, he saw [Trevor’s] vehicle in the ditch with a man he later learned was Greg Matters at the scene with his pickup trick. Trevor had blood on his face, he said.
Th e offi cer decided to try to keep the two brothers separated, he said. He took Trevor to a cabin located between the road and his home and told him to wait while he went into his house to get his cell phone and a towel. When he came out, Trevor was gone, he said. He then talked with an RCMP dispatcher and told them what he knew of the incident.
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1. To ascertain publicly the facts relat-ing to a death, specifi cally the identity of the deceased and how, when, where and by what means the deceased came to his or her death; 2. To make recom-mendations with the aim of preventing future loss of life in similar situations; and 3. To satisfy the community that the circumstances surrounding the death of not one of its members will be overlooked, concealed or ignored.
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It’s no secret that con-struction of a major new hotel downtown Prince George is underway.
In fact, crews snapped a gas main at the location off Brunswick Street next to the library last week, forcing the evacuation of several adjacent businesses and hotels.
What we didn’t know, until this week, was which hotel chain coming to town.
It’s Delta.Slated to open in 2015,
the Delta Prince George Hotel will become the city’s fi rst four-star upscale, full-service hotel, according to a company press release issued this morning.
Delta is revamping all its hotels and resorts and the Prince George hotel will “deliver Canada’s most upscale guest experiences in the four-star hotel cat-egory.”
Th e Delta Prince George has been designed as a contemporary hotel with high-tech design elements to refl ect the needs and expectations of business and leisure travellers to the region. Th e property design will be refl ective of the Pacifi c Northwest and will feature modern fi nishes in its public spaces and guest room suites.
Th e Delta Prince George will have 170 guest rooms, nine extended stay suites and a hospitality suite. Th ese rooms are aimed at today’s highly design-con-scious travellers who want to live, work and connect on their own terms, ac-cording to the press release. Th e hotel will also boast a full-service restaurant and lounge, a state–of-the art
fi tness centre with spa and indoor pool, a business centre and approximately 6,600 square feet of meet-ing and conference space including a 4,000 square foot ballroom.
“Th is new hotel will make Delta the market leader in Prince George and will off er travellers the most modern, innovative and thoughtfully de-signed hotel in the region,” said Ken Greene, President and CEO, Delta Hotels and Resorts, in a press release. “Th e Delta Prince George will repre-sent the new Delta and we are thrilled to bring this up-scale hotel experi-ence to the heart of British Columbia’s Northern Capital.”
Th e Delta Prince George will be managed by Delta Hotels and Resorts, and is owned and being developed by River City Hotel Management Cor-poration, a local real estate develop-ment company.
“We are delight-ed to be bringing Delta’s upscale hotel experience to Prince George,” said Clint Dahl, spokesperson for the River City Hotel Manage-ment Corpora-tion. “We chose Delta because of the modern and innovative design concepts that are being introduced across the chain. We believe these developments com-
bined with this Canadian brand’s exceptional reputa-tion in service excellence across the country will deliver an upscale experi-ence for guests travelling to the region.”
Delta Hotels and Resorts
currently has nine proper-ties in British Columbia and 42 properties across Canada.
Th e hotel development marks somewhat of a re-surgence of hotels in Prince George in the past few
years with the Ramada Inn and Coast Inn of the North both undergoing extensive renovations and the Sand-man Signature Suites hotel opening on Highway 16.
Jobs Minister Shirley Bond said the development
is certainly good news for Prince George and the North, pointing out it will create between 80 and 100 jobs. She added the extra hotel rooms will certainly be needed for the 2015 Canada Winter Games.
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Special Council MeetingOctober 15th – 12:15 p.m.Council Chambers
e-Town Hall Budget ConsultationOctober 15th – 6:00 p.m.Council Chambers
Advisory Committee on Development DesignOctober 16th – 12:00 p.m.2nd Floor Conference Room
Mayor’s Task Force on CrimeOctober 16th - 10:00am2nd Floor Conference Room
Prince George Heritage Commission AnnexOctober 17th – 12:00 p.m.
PROCLAMATIONSCommunity Living Month – October 2013
Waste Reduction Week – October 21 – 27, 2013
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The City of Prince George will be hosting an interactive, webcast 2014 Provisional Budget consultation session on October 15th, 2013 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. The session will be moderated by Marleen Morris, Associate Director of the Community Development Institute at UNBC, and will include:
• an overview of the budget process, timeline, and key consideration
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The Prince George Aquatic Centre will be open 11:30am to 5:30pm on Monday, October 14. The Four Seasons Leisure Pool will be CLOSED.
“Memorial Park Cemetery Fall Clean Up”
The crews at Memorial Park Cemetery have begun preparations for winter operations. The cemetery groundskeepers are removing plot adornments that are negatively affected by winter weather conditions. For further information contact the Cemetery Administration Staff at 250-562-4661.
• an interim summary of responses to the 2014 Online Budget Survey (available at www.princegeorge.ca)
• budget questions posed by the public and answered by City representatives
Members of the public can choose to participate in one of four ways:
1. ONLINE: Access www.princegeorge.ca and click on the e-town hall icon. Participants will be directed to a webpage where they can view the live webcast and submit budget questions online.
2. BY PHONE: Call the City of Prince George at 250-561-7600 between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m. A customer service representative will be available to receive and forward questions.
3. IN PERSON: The session will be held in Council Chambers (2nd fl oor – City Hall). Staff will facilitate the collection and queuing of audience questions.
4. AT THE LIBRARY: The Prince George Public Library – Bob Harkins Branch. The Skylab will be available from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. for residents to watch the webcast and/or enter budget questions online.
How can we protect our water quality, the natural environment, and prevent fl ooding, erosion and other hazards resulting from rain and snow melt? Answer: Storm water infrastructure.
The City is currently reviewing how it funds storm water infrastructure to ensure public safety and environmental health. Two Public Meetings are scheduled for October 17th, 2013, from 4pm – 5:30pm and 6:30pm to 8pm at the Civic Centre (808 Civic Plaza) rooms 204, 205, & 206. We welcome your input to this important City initiative.
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Simply put, the mayor doesn’t need council’s permission to go to China.
Coun. Brian Skakun pointed out that the last junket to China required a motion of council but Mayor Shari Green, this time, has simply informed council that she, city manager Beth James, and Initiatives Prince George CEO Heather Oland are going.
“Th e resolution from the last trip was about sending councillors to join me,” Green said. “So we sent Coun. Wilbur and Coun. Hall.”
Skakun said he felt there would be a resolution for council to authorize spending the money to send the mayor and city manager. Green respond-ed that she does not need council’s authorization to use funds for travel. She said the trip is within the city’s work plan and strategic priorities and the expenses will come from existing budgets.
“We do have grants that we’ve received, we have a twinning budget,” said Green. “Most of that money has been expended, there is about $10,000 in that budget at the moment, any expenses that will go beyond, I have an economic development account for, and council has an economic develop-ment account for.”
Green said she expects that the cost for her and James will likely be less than $10,000. As for Oland, she has a travel budget of her own, Green said.
Skakun also called for the city to establish some sort of protocol for dealing with overseas investors who come to the city. He took issue with council hearing, aft er the fact, that IPG recently hosted a group of about 20 Chinese investors in the city.
“We don’t hear about this,” Skakun said. “IPG seems to control all this. Should we not develop a protocol? We can send you and anyone else around the world, but we can’t spend $10 on gas and meet them at the airport. Frustrating when I hear they come, and none of us are involved. Elected offi cials do carry some weight.
“I think we’re missing the boat.”“To be on the boat, you have to be invited to the
boat,” Green responded. “IPG is our economic de-velopment agency working on our behalf. Th ey’ve got a wealth of information … and we’re starting to see some real benefi t. I assure to you that the head of that organization (Heather Oland) absolutely extends to them the opportunity and invitation to meet.”
She added that some investors do not wish to meet with politicians or realtors when they come to the city, and that is respected.
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“As someone with deep roots in Prince George, I have a great desire to help the business com-munity grow and take advantage of the forecasted economic development for the region,” Ray said in a press release.
Ray has a long history with small business in Prince George. Aft er graduating from UNBC in 1998, she ran marketing programs for several lo-cal companies. Moving from there, she managed projects related to the recruitment and retention of skilled employees to the community. Most recently, Christie managed the Prince George Chamber of Commerce marketing project – Consider Prince George.
She was born in Prince George and raised near Smithers.
“While there are some very large shoes to fi ll, I am confi dent that Christie will excel in the role and that while the selection process was onerous, I feel the board has been able to add value to the membership by extending the off er,” said chamber president Derek Dougherty.
Stolz stepsdown asfinance chair
Th e city’s fi nance and audit committee chair has stepped down aft er concerns were raised that he was in arrears on city taxes.
Cameron Stolz, who has chaired the commit-tee since shortly aft er the 2011 election, made the announcement at Monday’s fi nance committee meeting.
“I felt as the chair of the fi nance and audit it was important to remove any concerns around me holding that position, given the position I was in fi nancially,” he said following Monday’s regular council meeting. “I apologize for any concerns that has raised.”
Th e issue came to light last week when the media noticed that property owned by Stolz was being put for tax sale by the city for non-payment of taxes. Stolz explained that when the economic recession hit, his business, Great White Toys, was also hit hard and he made the decision to put off paying his taxes.
“I found myself in a position where we had some pretty tough years,” he said. “During that time frame I chose to pay my staff fi rst, everybody else second, and myself last. One of the consequences of that was that I was late paying my city taxes.”
He said that his taxes have now been paid, in full, and stressed that during the time he was in arrears on his taxes, he did make his utility bill payments.
He balked at any suggestion of him stepping down from council.
“It’s important to recognize that what I did is something that’s available to any citizen of the community,” he said. “If you’re late paying your city taxes, you’re assessed penalties and interest. Th at’s applied to me the same as it is to anyone who is late paying their taxes. I was assessed those penalties and interest ... I took all actions that we’re ready available.”
Stolz didn’t have an answer as to why he is step-ping down now and not two years ago when he originally chose to delay paying his taxes. He also refused to comment on whether this has hurt him politically.
“Th at’s not an appropriate comment,” he said. “Th is is a personal matter that’s spilled over ... If you need to ask that question, you’re not paying attention. I think you’re paying attention.”
Chamber chooses Ray
Bill [email protected]
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On the aft ernoon of October 2, a member of the Prince George RCMP located a stolen 2006 Ford F350 pickup truck being driven by one of the detach-ment’s most prolifi c off enders.
Paul Daniel Shaw, 29, was observed driv-ing the vehicle along River Road. Shaw has an extensive history of stealing vehicles, ram-ming police vehicles and attempting to fl ee from police, according to police.
As a result of his previous history with police, a spike belt was deployed on River Road near the Cam-eron Street Bridge. Aft er driving over the spike belt, Shaw failed to stop for police and continued to drive for close to two kilome-tres before ramming a
police vehicle on North Nechako Road.
Police offi cers were able to box the stolen vehicle in, causing it to come to a rest. Despite warnings from police to stop, Shaw attempted to fl ee the vehicle out the pas-senger side, but was swift ly apprehended by police service dog Azar. Shaw was found in possession of a signifi cant amount of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.
He was transported by the BC Ambulance Service to the Univer-sity Hospital of North-ern BC for treatment of minor bite wounds to one of his arms. Shaw was remanded in custody until an Octo-ber 9 court date.
He is facing the fol-lowing Crown Counsel approved charges:
possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000; fail to stop for police obstructing a peace offi cer; driv-ing while prohibited; dangerous operation of a motor vehicle; as-saulting a peace offi cer; and possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of traf-fi cking (3 counts).
Th e Ford F350 was confi rmed stolen from a residence on Graves Road on September 30.
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Market still growingTh e Prince George real estate
market is showing slow, but steady gains.
In the City of Prince George, to the end of September, 1,020 properties worth $251 million changed hands, compared with 980 properties worth $234.2 mil-lion to September 30 last year.
In the western part of the city the median price of the 239 homes sold this year was $230,000. In the area east of the bypass, the 133 single family homes that sold had a median price of $187,000. In the northern part of the city, in the area com-
monly referred to as ‘the Hart,’ the 145 single family homes sold had a median price of $278,000. In the southwest section of the city, the median price of the 196 single family homes sold was $315,000.
At the end of September, there were 793 properties of all types available for purchase through the Multiple Listing Service in Prince George.
“Th e BC Northern Real Estate Board continues to experience signifi cant regional market dif-ferences across the board area,” said president Gisela Janzen.
“Th e southern region (Williams Lake, 100 Mile House) remains a buyer’s market while the central (Prince George), western (Prince Rupert, Terrace, Smithers) and northern (Fort St. John) regions continue to do well and are con-sidered seller’s markets.
“Across the board sales volumes are up by (41 per cent) from a year ago while active listings are down by seven per cent. Inven-tory has been declining overall since 2011. Forecasts for stronger economic growth in 2014 should improve the overall market con-ditions throughout all regions.”
Local real estate sales slowing down
Police use spike belt to stop truck
Teresa MALLAM/Free PressJudy Meakin sits at her booth of vintage glassware and old kitch-en items from yesteryear at Sunday’s South Bowl Community Associations’s Antiques and Collectibles Fair. The fundraiser event was held at the Roll-A-Dome.
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Co-op Trivia In business since 1944, started as a egg pooling
station and they shipped eggs by Rail to sixty thousand men stationed in Prince Rupert.
In 2012 annual sales were over $201M; Net Savings of $15.7M 7.9%; Equity & Cash Back $8.9M, Allocation ratio of 4.6% for all locations which includes 4 bulk plants (Vanderhoof, Houston, Prince George and Quesnel); Vanderhoof Gas Bar and C-Store; 15 Cardlock locations (957 km Terrace to Valemount and 125 south from Prince George to Quesnel); Vanderhoof 70,000 sq. foot shopping centre – Food, Home and Agro Centre, Quesnel Agro Centre and Convenience Store.
Sales for last 10 years over $1.1B, Net Savings of $90M 7.96%; Equity & Cash Back $36.0M; Average allocation ratio 4.98%.
2012 Co-op paid $300,000 property taxes; over $1.6M income taxes and employed 130 employees with a payroll of $5.6M
Co-op Community Builder; Co-op invests in the communities it serves and the returns that those investments yield stay within those communities, which in turn generate more economic activity. Vanderhoof and Districts Co-op is a proud supporter of local community groups, over $93,000 per year in nancial and in-kind donations, we send two students to Co-op Camp and $800 scholarships for Sr. Secondary Students in each of 10 communities we operate in from Terrace to Valemount and south to Quesnel.
Our success is measured in the success of the people we employ, in the services we o er to our members, and in the equitable way our earnings are distributed to the membership.
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A co-operative is an organization owned by the members who use its services or are employed there. Co-operatives can provide virtually any product or service.Co-operatives exist in every sector of the economy and can touch every aspect of our lives. You can be born in a health care co-op and buried by a funeral co-op. In between you can work in a worker’s co-op, live in a housing co-op, buy your groceries, clothing and other items from retail co-ops, send your children to a child care co-op, do all your banking at a credit union, and purchase your insurance from an insurance co-op.
Co-ops and credit unions provide consumers with a distinct values-based and community-owned and controlled alternative. Unlike the private, public, or voluntary sectors, all co-operatives around the world are guided by the same seven principles:
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Th e PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) degree is, in all fi elds except the natural sciences, a waste of time and money for students, univer-sities and society at large.
Despite its name, the PhD, as the current top academic degree, is a requirement for a full-time job teaching undergraduates in virtually every fi eld at universities, not just in philosophy.
“In reality it is but a sham, a bauble, a dodge, whereby to decorate the catalogues of schools and colleges,” William James, the American philosopher and psychologist, wrote in his 1903 essay, “Th e PhD Octopus”.
Originating in the Prussianized Germany of the 19th century, the PhD became en-trenched in the top tier of American universi-ties by the turn of the last century and spread to Canada from the U.S.
Typical requirements include completing two years of course and seminar work beyond the master’s degree. Th e PhD candidate must then show profi ciency in two foreign languag-es, pass a comprehensive written examination,
and complete a dissertation of hundreds of pages comprising original research on some limited topic under a committee demanding frequent revisions. Finally the candidate has to successfully conduct an oral defence of his or her dissertation before committee mem-bers and oft en some academics from outside his or her fi eld of specialization.
“Not only is the PhD dissertation con-strained by the requirement that it be original (in the sense of dealing with material never dealt with before) and dull; it must also conform to the prejudices of the examiners,” writes the California historian, Page Smith, in his 1990 book, Killing the Spirit. “In other words, it must not be too original.”
Despite what university catalogues may say, it typically takes fi ve to 12 years beyond the M.A. to complete the requirements for a PhD.
It is “well to recognize that a PhD, even from the best universities, may mean only that its possessor showed patience and fortitude,” writes Geoff rey Durrant, UBC professor of English, in his essay, “Th e New Barbarians”. It is “one of the chief reasons for the poor quality of the English used in the academy,” he says.
“Th e style it encourages is scientifi c, objec-
tive and abstract, a style for recording the re-sults of experiments in chemistry, not a style appropriate to the discussion of literature, or likely to make a student into an eloquent teacher in the classroom,” Durrant observes.
Established faculty in the so-called better universities, to prove they have rigorous academic standards, take satisfaction in how many doctoral candidates they bounce out of their PhD programs before they can fi nish their dissertations, and this has been a prob-lem from the beginning of PhD programs in North America. “. . . At Harvard we are proud of the number of candidates whom we reject, and of the inability of men who are not [ab-solutely distinguished] in intellect to pass our tests,” James wrote in his 1903 essay.
Th e dropout rate from North American M.D. programs is about ten per cent, writes Wilfred Cude, a Cape Breton scholar. “By that standard, the wastage of North American PhD programs is appalling,” he says in Th e PhD Trap (1987). “Very conservative esti-mates of the drop-out rates there show that around 30 per cent of candidates admitted in the sciences are not successful, while over 50 per cent of candidates in the humanities or social sciences are similarly unsuccessful.”
Outnumbering those who have completed their PhD’s are these drop-outs and those who are called ABD’s (All But Dissertation), people who completed almost all the require-ments for the doctorate but ran out of time or money to fi nish their dissertations. Th ere is huge social wreckage – despair, depression and a sense of defeat and failure – underlying these and related statistics, many observers say.
Th e PhD is a great blight on the land and should be abolished in the humanities and the social sciences.
Or, as James wrote, universities can lower “their fantastic standards (which here at Harvard we are so proud of) and give the doctorate as a matter of course, just as they give the bachelor’s degree, for a due amount of time spent in patient labour in a special department of learning. . . .
Surely native distinction needs no offi cial stamp, and should disdain to ask for one. On the other hand, faithful labour, however commonplace, and years devoted to a subject, always deserve to be acknowledged and requited.”
Th e system of graduate study has to be thoroughly revamped.
Paul StricklandSpecial to Free Press
Philosophy degree has no real meaning in the modern world
As a cold autumn chill comes into the air, I feel the plight of the homeless even more keenly.
I should feel compassion for them every day and try to help. But somehow when it’s a sunny day and all is right with my world, I look past them without meaning to.
Sometimes people referred to as “street people” and their problems do almost blend into their surroundings – as T.V. ads on awareness suggest. It is not that when I pass by I don’t see them, it’s that when they smile, nod, and say “have a good day,” I think they must be OK.
Well, they are not OK. Th ey are making the best of a
bad situation. A situation they can’t change. Th ey have simply learned to survive, to adapt to their life on the street. Over time, they have learned to hide their de-plorable situation from the public.
Th e average person walking downtown might not even know that they suff er – it’s only when you see the same people, out there every day, waiting in the cold for a hot cup of tea that you know. Our long, warm summer has given them a reprieve from the bitter cold that is to come.
Yes, there are places the homeless can go for help and get a midday meal. But they are few and their resources are down. Why? Because more people need them, not just the homeless but the soon to be homeless – which includes the working poor who cannot make ends meet.
Next week is Homelessness Action Week. Th is week I have spent my days at the Prince George
courthouse covering an inquest. Walking to and from my car takes me down parts of George Street and onto Th ird Av-enue depending on where I can get a parking spot. Usually my job doesn’t take me there. I usually go to nice places like local art galleries, the theatre and music concerts.
Downtown I pass by people outside the Firepit where they gather, the thrift stores where they shop for warm scarves and hats, the pawn shops where they bring the last of their treasures in exchange for cash.
Last Saturday I was at an AWAC (Advocating for Women
and Children) fundraising event and I heard a talk by Dr. Th eresa Healy, a well-known and respected woman who, aft er spending time in an orphanage when she was young, ended up on the streets at age 14. Later on, as a young mother, she raised two daughters on her own and as a young adult, enrolled in university and ultimately attained her PhD.
She found love, got married (she says her “rock” is Wendy Young) and became what we like to refer to as an upstanding citizen.
On Saturday night, she read a few poignant poems she’d written including the School of Hard Knocks, and yes she’s
been there. She’s walked the walk. She’s known what it is like to struggle, to feel despair.
Indeed, seated all around the room were women who are still out there on the streets, still struggling. Women who still bear the scars of their ordeal. Healy spoke about the betrayal of trust in her life and about her now strong passion for the work of AWAC.
Homelessness? It all comes back to that old phrase, “Th ere but for the
grace of God go I.” It can happen to anyone.
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It’s defi nitely fall out there.
Th e days are getting shorter, it’s getting chill-ier, I’ve had to scrape the windows on my car a couple of times.
Shall we amble?• I was in Jasper over
the weekend, and I will just say I’m glad I don’t live there. I mean, the scenery is great, you’re not that far from Prince George (and my family) or Edmonton (more of my family), but the prices I saw on some things were ridiculous.
Take Nutri-Grain fruit bars. I can get them in Prince George, on sale, for $5 for two eight-bar boxes.
In Jasper, one box cost more than $4. Yes, I know it’s a tourist town, but I was very glad I brought my own snacks for the weekend.
• Made the annual trip to Seattle late in September, and we’re now starting to have a problem.
We found a couple more good restaurants, which isn’t the problem. Th e problem is, if we go to all the good restau-rants we now know about, we won’t have any time to go to the baseball games, which is the whole reason we’re there to start with.
• Oh, and I also to-tally surprised my bud-dies when I walked out of a Barnes and Noble bookstore without buy-ing anything.
Surprised myself too.• It took me a while
to fi gure out the best word to describe the next situation. When I described the events to
a friend, she suggested “disrespect”. I think that sums it up well.
When I’m listening to the Vancouver Canucks games on the radio, I’ve noticed they always run commercials over
the American national anthem. Th ey make sure the full Cana-dian anthem is heard, but we seldom if ever hear more than a few notes of the American anthem.
I can only imagine the uproar if NBC or another American broadcaster cut away from the Canadian anthem to run some commercials, so why is it OK to do it the other
way around?• Driving to work
early Wednesday morn-ing (very early), and I saw a vehicle with just its running lights on.
OK, that’s better than not having any lights on, which I still sometimes see in the evening, but not by much. Show a little sense, people.
• Baseball is into its
playoff s, the NHL is nicely underway, the NBA has started its preseason, the NFL is about fi ve weeks into the season, and the CFL is into the home stretch of the regular season.
It’s a good time to be a sports fan (and that’s not even counting all the local events).
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Cameron Stolz did what a lot of business people do when they are faced with tough economic times.
He made a choice of which creditors to pay fi rst and which to put off to another day. Businesses, even highly profi table ones, oft en choose to let accounts payable reach 90 days or more before paying the bills.
Th e choice Stolz made was to put off paying his property taxes. He waited until the city was about to put his property up in a tax sale before paying his taxes.
If Stolz was simply Joe Businessman juggling payables in order to stay afl oat, it wouldn’t be a story.
But Stolz isn’t an Ordinary Joe … he’s a second-term city councillor who, to top it off , chaired the fi nance and audit committee.
He’s been the guy leading the charge to squeeze extra dollars out of every citizen in Prince George in order for the city to balance its books. Remember pay parking?
Th ere is a certain irony in the city’s fi nance committee chair not paying his property taxes.
And just for the record, this is more than waiting 90 days before paying your bill … you have to be in arrears for a considerable amount of time before the city prepares to seize your property.
Stolz was in arrears in his taxes for most, if not all, of his time as fi nance and audit committee chair.
While there is irony in that, there is hypocrisy in Stolz leading the charge to get more money out of taxpayers while he was delinquent in his taxes.
When I talked to Stolz about this issue he apologized, but
is, in my opinion, unrepentant.In his mind, letting your taxes lapse for a few years is a
legitimate course of action.He doesn’t feel that he did anything wrong.He was in a tough situation and he did what he had to do.
He just doesn’t get it.As a city councillor he is entrusted with the
job of setting the policies, bylaws, rules, and regulations that govern all citizens. City council-lors have to lead by example and make sure that they abide by the rules they set out for everyone else. To not do so is where the hypocrisy comes in.
Th e other sour pill in this melodrama is the fact that Stolz has stepped down from the fi nance and audit committee now. He was clear that he is stepping down because of concerns raised over the issue.
When I asked him why he didn’t step down two years ago when he was fi rst in non-payment
of his taxes, which if it’s appropriate to step down now it was certainly appropriate to step down then, he didn’t have an answer.
According to 250 News, who get full credit for breaking this story, Stolz informed Mayor Shari Green he would be stepping down September 12. Th e story broke on 250 News shortly thereaft er.
Could it be that, like a lot of politicians, Stolz did the honourable thing and stepped down … aft er he knew it would become public?
One of my favourite lines is a defi nition of integrity: Do-ing the right thing even when no one is watching.
This week’s B.C. First Nations LNG Summit was refreshing in that it was probably the fi rst such summit that wasn’t a love-in.
Quite oft en such meetings, that attract big resource players, high-ranking politi-
cians, and stakeholders are genteel aff airs where no one wants to really put anyone else on the spot. Not so with this summit.
With the provincial government salivating over lique-fi ed natural gas possibilities and the federal government pushing resource extraction as our savior, they need to hear voices from outside their political circles … voices that are unafraid to say what needs to be said, regardless of who is in the room.
Kudos to federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver and provincial Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation Minister John Rustad for agreeing to take questions from the fl oor Wednesday. Hopefully they were listening.
Comments were frank and heartfelt.“No one is speaking for Mother Earth,” said Salteau
First Nations Chief Harley Davis to Oliver and Rustad. And he was right.
Another issue that was pressed from the fl oor was what has been termed as “cumulative eff ects.” Rustad touted the provincial dream of fi ve LNG plants in the northwest but what, really, is the impact of all that, combined with oil pipelines, mines, etc. We tend to look at projects as one-off s, but we should be looking at the eff ects of all of them.
Th ere has been some movement there, however, as the province last week approved a $650,000 study to “look at the cumulative eff ects of existing and proposed industrial air emissions in the (Kitimat) airshed. Th ese include emis-sions from: an existing aluminium smelter, three proposed LNG terminals, a proposed oil refi nery, a crude-oil export facility, and gas-turbine-powered electrical generation facilities. Th e study will focus on sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide emissions from these facilities.”
Th e ministers were also reminded that much of the proposed LNG development is occurring on un-ceded land. It was a point Assembly of First Nations Chief Jody Wilson-Raybould drove home. She stressed that the over-arching issue is that of land claims. Th e land issue comes fi rst, not last.
Th e comment of the day, though, went to Grand Chief Ed John who pointed out that is lots of talk about world-class standards for pipelines, world-class standards or oil tankers, world-class standards for environmental protec-tion, which is all good. But the one that is missing is a world-class standard for indigenous rights.
Kudos to Rustad and Oliver, Japanese Ambassador Norihiro Okuda, and other stakeholders for attending the summit.
And kudos to the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council for hosting the summit and to B.C. First Nations for seeking to understand.
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Editor:I was interested to hear of Premier
Christy Clark’s recent interview with Peter Mansbridge of CBC’s Th e National talking about the lack of preparedness on B.C.’s coast to deal with oil spills.
Th e contents of the interview high-lighted the bizarre kind of two-fold world that is unfolding these days in this prov-ince and country. On the one hand we have scientists who have dedicated their lives to studying climate science and are in large majority warning us about cli-mate change and the very high likelihood that humans are contributing to this sad scenario for future generations; alongside them we have some incredibly intelligent and innovative people putting together ideas about how we could grow a clean economy, in a true sense of the word.
On the other hand, we have a kind of thuggish dominant politic that posi-
tions economic growth before and at the expense of all else as a kind of biblical message that is not to be interfered with nor contested by anyone else on any basis -- human health, human rights, First Nations rights and title, water quality, air quality and other aspects of the environ-ment matter naught with this kind of mentality unilaterally calling the shots.
Christy Clark seemed lost between these two versions of the world in the Mansbridge interview. On the one hand she made a lot of sense in stating that we are not prepared to deal with oil spills, and I give her credit for that.
On the other, she seems to be advocat-ing for the federal government to step forward with public resources aimed at trying to tackle this impossibly danger-ous scenario of bitumen spills on B.C.’s incredible coast.
Th e fi rst question that comes to mind
for me is: really, is this where we want our tax dollars to go, to oil spill response mechanisms? What is all of this eco-nomic growth and development about anyway if not for the common good? Wouldn’t a better starting point to build-ing the economy be to fi rst identify those things that are simply not acceptable nor negotiable: detrimental human health impacts, potential environmental catas-trophes, degradation of water and food supplies for the people.
Wealth means more than how much China will pay the government for our raw bitumen exports. Let’s start with the basics of health, environment and people’s rights and together build on that. We do not need Enbridge Northern Gateway to be part of the picture of B.C.s future economy.
Mary MacDonaldPrince George
Editor:Cheers to you, Bill Phillips, for your opinions on
oil companies and our MLAs (MLAs should get priorities right, Free Press, September 20).
Not for nothing were (and probably still are) the major oil companies called the ‘seven sisters’. We can all think of other examples of corporate ‘sister-hoods’. It takes less eff ort for these companies to collude with each other than it does to individually become more effi cient. As long as the sharehold-ers are happy with their dividend cheques, the consumer can go hang. Th e consumer is basically at the bottom of a huge pyramid scheme.
Our federal and provincial governments have recently realized they can avoid a lot of embarrass-ing questions by not convening their respective legislatures.
While elected members are swanning around to gala events, lunches and meetings, they are still being paid and submitting their expense reports. If Mr. Rustad and the other MLAs were in the leg-islature, they wouldn’t be attending all these other functions. I wonder if he has asked himself how many of these meetings might actually be able to function without him. He might be sad and disap-pointed with the answer. Aft er all, they seemed to be able to carry on okay in the past when he actu-ally was in his seat in the legislature.
I think many of our MLAs think they are some kind of celebrity rather than being what they really are – the servants of all the people who elected them. If they don’t want to do the less pleasant parts of their job they should step down.
Pete FutterPrince George
Editor:On behalf of everyone involved with the Cana-
dian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure, we’d like to extend our sincere gratitude to the 350 participants, many volunteers, sponsors and donors who all made this year’s event so successful.
Th anks to the generosity of Price George and area residents, more than $80,000 was raised at the Run for the Cure, contributing to the $2.6 million raised in B.C. and $27 million raised across Canada. Funds raised in B.C. stay in B.C. to support breast cancer research, education and awareness pro-grams.
Your support is making a diff erence. It is esti-mated one in nine Canadian women will be diag-nosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Th anks to advances in research, treatment and awareness, the fi ve year breast cancer survivor rate in B.C. is over 91 per cent, the highest in Canada. We are getting closer to creating a future without breast cancer.
Th ank you for your continued support of the Ca-nadian Breast Cancer Foundation and the Run for the Cure. We look forward to seeing you next year on October 5, 2014 when we will ask once again, “who are you running for?”
Renee McCloskey & Shari MacLellanPrince George Run Directors
Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure
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Editor:On September 12, my fi ancée called
the Conservation Offi cer because of agi-tated black bears in our neighbour’s tree.
Th e sow and cubs had been eating apples in the neighbour’s yard and then chased by a dog.
We too have apple trees but our elec-tric fence and daily eff orts to remove any fallen fruit have eliminated bear prob-lems in our yard. “Electric fences make good bear neighbours,” according to the Bear Aware Website. Th e environment benefi ts from local food, which can be grown without attracting bears. Unfortu-nately, the offi cer who responded to our call left us with a written order to pick our unripe fruit or face a $345 fi ne.
A gust of wind can easily knock a couple of apples out of a tree so it is im-possible to grow apples without any fruit ever falling to the ground. If apples are left to accumulate and decompose, they will emit a smell that can attract bears. I have no problem with fi nes and warn-ings given to irresponsible fruit growers, but people are allowed to grow fruit if they frequently remove what falls to the
ground. On CBC Radio September 25, Conser-
vation Offi cer Gary Van Spengen said if it was up to him, there would be no fruit trees in Prince George. His views may be typical of conservation offi cers who are overworked and oft en demoralized by the task of destroying bears.
When I questioned the warning, an-other offi cer came to look at the electric fence and said they would never follow through with a fi ne in a case like mine, because the recipient of a fi ne would have legal recourse.
Th e offi cer explained that the recipient of a warning would not have access to a legal process by which to question the offi cer’s judgment. He said that he would speak to the offi cer who gave the warning and get back to me, but there would be no admission of any sort of mistake.
As documented in Sidetracked by Vi-vien Lougheed, the Conservation Offi cer Service admitted acting without proper legal authority in 2005 aft er confi scating research materials in Kakwa Park. In that case, the COs had been misinformed but later corrected their mistake. Th e
leadership has since changed, as has the willingness to admit mistakes.
Having volunteered for the Omin-eca Wildlife Patrol and testifi ed for the Crown against poachers, I have worked with a great many conservation offi cers, so it is with genuine sadness that I now fi nd myself at odds with a group that has otherwise earned such widespread admiration.
Openly challenging the order to pick my apples, I asked Superintendent Doug Forsdick to please serve me with the threatened fi ne, or to admit that the warning was not appropriate. He responded that the warning would stand but has taken no further action, leading me to believe that one can safely ignore warnings and orders issued by the Con-servation Offi cer Service.
Whether to deter calls or to harass conscientious fruit growers, offi cers should not be making empty threats. I would like to see specifi c guidelines or legislation to defi ne acceptable practices for residential fruit growers.
Garnet FraserPrince George
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We know too much and we know too little.
In our world we are awash in a fl ood of information. It is impos-sible for an individual to absorb and evaluate all of it. One is fortunate to be able to feel competent in even a very small area.
To attempt to stay informed we need both help and organization. We oft en turn to those who have studied and learned much more than we have on a particular subject.
Th ere is a multitude of experts who should be able to help us understand the basic premises underlying the information thrown at us. Unfortunately the experts are not always reliable or fully truthful. Th ey can wander into incorrect conclusions and take the rest of us with them.
Experts in any fi eld may also become entrapped in giving more weight to information which sup-ports their view and ignore or down-play data which may indicate their previous conclusions were wrong.
Even the experts can be wrong and we need to severely question their conclusions and how they arrived at them.
For most of us we call upon a mix of fact, hope, belief and fantasy in our decision making.
For example, our little planet is an ever changing place. Climate changes occur and always have. We know from geologi-cal studies of the earth that several cooling and warming cycles have happened. Where you sit reading this may have been under a mile or so of ice in the distant past. It has warmed up since then and the question remains as to just how much warmer it will get
before it starts to cool down. Despite all our science and expertise, only a wild guess can be made. Is the earth going through a warming period? It appears so. How warm will it get is anybody’s guess.
Many of the opinions bandied about are more theological than factual. Th ose opinions are based on a set of beliefs, which may be factual
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Teresa MALLAM/Free PressCIBC Run for the Cure participants get ready to walk in the 22nd Annual Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation event on Sunday at the Prince George Civic Centre. The event is Canada’s largest single-day event in support of breast cancer research, education and advocacy programs.
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or may be fairy tales. Many of the environmental fanatics live in that space. Th ey treat any disagreement with their beliefs by countering with pseudo “facts” and rationalizations which are some distance away from
reality.Th e recent Gateway proposal by
Enbridge is a good example. Th e demonstrations, complete with drums, chants and banners, prove nothing. Municipal governments
and other organizations who declare their op-position only illustrate their ignorance. Th eir opposition is based nei-ther on fact or reason-able, studied opinion. Th ey are simply the ignorant leading the ignorant. Perhaps it is a good party, but of little other value.
Th ankfully the hear-ings did attract some thoughtful comments from those with the knowledge and exper-tise to make worth-while submissions. Th e submission by Chris Peters, a local engineer, is a great example of what approach should be taken. He raised some thoughtful ques-tions regarding the type of piping proposed and gave a solid opinion as to what the minimum standard should be. Th ere were others with a depth of knowledge in ship design, naviga-tion, spill cleanup, and a host of other topics. Th ey had opinions, both pro and con, which were well worth considering.
Primitive man used casting of the bones, counting the spots on a frog’s belly and other nonsensical indicators of the future.
Th e future is always unpredictable, but we will be more likely to survive it as a species by sorting through the rational and factual in-formation before mak-ing decisions rather than just joining the group with the greatest emotional appeal.
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Phone (250) 561-7600
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Narrow Lot Housing: Survey &
Neighbourhood Open House InvitationThe City of Prince is looking to change the zoning of suitable properties to the RS4 zone to encourage single family housing on narrow lots. The existing RS4 zone allows for smaller lot subdivisions and greater building site coverage than any other single family housing zone in the City. The most suitable areas for narrow lot housing are identifi ed on the map below. These areas feature small lots (<400 m2), narrow lot widths (<12 m), and laneway access.
Do you have a property you would like the City to rezone to RS4 or another intensive residential zone to help revitalize your neighbourhood? Please contact Jesse Dill, Planner at [email protected] or 250-561-7539 with your property’s information (legal description or civic address), or for more information on this project.
Here is how you can provide input on the project before October 23, 2013
1. Complete the narrow lot housing survey with your comments online (www.princegeorge.ca), by email ([email protected]), by fax (250-561-7721), or in person / via mail (see address above).
2. Attend one of the four (4) scheduled open houses coming to a neighbourhood near you to hear more about narrow lot housing, to inquire if your property is eligible for RS4 zoning, or to provide your input. The format of the meetings is open house style with an overview presentation to begin at 6:00pm. City staff will be available for questions.
October 7th Public Open House October 15th Public Open HouseWhere: Spruceland Elementary Where: Heritage Elementary 3805 Rainbow Drive 257 Anderson Street Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
October 10th and 17th Public Open House Where Ron Brent Elementary School 1401 17th Avenue Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
For further information on this project and zoning, please contact the Community Planning Division at 250-561-7611, or on the 2nd Floor at City Hall 1100 Patricia Boulevard, Prince George, BC, V2L 3V9 to discuss the project with a Planner or see www.princegeorge.ca.
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Teresa MALLAM/Free PressBev Critch holds up an old doll from New Orleans that is almost scary enough to be Chucky’s bride. The oddity was one of hundreds of interesting items to be found at the South Bowl Community Association’s annual Antiques and Collectibles Fair at the Roll-A-Dome last weekend.
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over three and a half years, and in 2012 pumped $125 million in spending into the region.
Dennis Hoof, Mount Milli-gan vice president and general manager, spoke at the event about the rapid development of the property, which was a deposit fi rst discovered by Fort St. James prospector Richard Haslinger in 1983.
“What we’ve experienced at Mount Milligan … is nothing short of a very extraordinary accomplishment,” said Hoof.
Th ompson Creek Metals bought the Mount Milligan project from Terrane Metals in 2010 and began construc-tion the same year.
Haslinger himself was at the commissioning, and said
the project would never have happened without Rob Pease, president and CEO of Terrane Metals, who brought the proj-ect to the development phase.
Kevin Loughrey, chairman and chief executive offi cer of Th ompson Creek Metals, re-marked on the importance of Mount Milligan for Th omp-son Creek Metals, which up until now has been strictly a molybdenum-producing company, and with molybde-num prices being low at the moment, is looking to Mount Milligan to diversify their company’s assets and income.
“We have worked a long time to get to this point,” said Loughrey, who joked lightly about the cost overruns and extra fi nancing the project
required to get to production. “Th is means everything for
our company,” he said. Minister of Jobs, Tourism
and Skills Training Shirley Bond and Minister of Energy and Mines Bill Bennett were also both in attendance and spoke briefl y.
“I’m really proud of the fact that the McLeod Lake Indian Band and the Nak’azdli Indian Band are going to share in revenue from this project,” said Bennett.
Both groups have agree-ments with the provincial government, however, Nak’azdli First Nation has not yet negotiated a revenue-shar-ing agreement with Th omp-son Creek while Tse’khene (McLeod Lake) First Nation
has. Once in full production, the
mine is expected to process an average of 60,000 tonnes of ore per day.
Th e fi rst concentrate has now been shipped via the load out in Mackenzie and the ore produced contains an estimat-ed 25-30 per cent copper and an ounce of gold per tonne.
Th e mine is expected to produce 81 million pounds of copper and 195,000 ounces of gold over an estimated 22-year mine life.
Th ere are around 350 people working at the mine, which is located 150 km northwest of Prince George, and there were over 1,000 people working at the site during the peak of construc-
tion. Eighty per cent of the employees are from the Prince George, Mackenzie, Fort St. James and Vanderhoof area.
Haslinger found the ore body in his pros-pecting around Fort St. James. Haslinger came to the area under the advisement of someone he met while kayaking the Liard River in the Yukon.
Th e man told Haslinger Fort St. James would be a good area for gold, so he moved here and found work as a hunting guide, hand faller and other jobs, but always prospecting on the side.
“More than 40 years later and I’m still here,” he said.
Th e Mount Milligan copper-gold mine held a commissioning ceremony on site Oct. 8 with gov-ernment and mine offi cials in attendance.
Th e commissioning means the mine is opera-tional, with the equipment having been tested and run through the start-up phases. Th e mine is expected to be in full commercial production by the end of the year.
Th e mine cost around $1.57 billion to build
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Leanne Parker is in chronic pain.She takes morphine for the pain and warfarin, a powerful
anti-coagulant.She doesn’t administer these drugs herself. It has to be
done by a medical professional. For Parker, waiting for hours at the hospital is out of the question because she can’t sit for that long.
For her, the Blue Pine Primary Health Care Clinic is exactly what the doctor ordered.
“I don’t know what I’d be doing right now if it wasn’t for the clinic,” she said at the grand opening of the clinic last Friday. “If I had to spend hours in the hospital, I couldn’t do it. I just couldn’t do it.”
At the clinic, she says she can come in, get her medica-tions administered quickly, and go home.
“It’s nice to have people that are caring who can get us in and out, and listen to what we have to say, listen to our concerns about our health,” she said.
Th e Blue Pine Primary clinic, which off ers services to Prince George residents who do not have access to a family physician or nurse practitioner, has actually been open for about a year.
It is expanding its referral system so that community agencies and services can refer patients with complex health needs to the clinic for care and treatment.
Located at Suite 102, 1302 – Seventh Ave. in Prince George, it has a team of health care professionals that includes family physicians, nurse practitioners, a mental health clinician and a social worker, who work together to support the diverse care needs of the clinic’s patients. Prince George residents can currently access the clinic by referral from any facility or program within Northern Health. Th e Prince George Division of Family Practice operates the Blue Pine Clinic which is jointly funded by the Division of Fam-ily Practice and Northern Health.
Dr. Barend Grobbelaar said the focus of the clinic is to
provide care to those people who do not currently have a care provider and who would most benefi t from care by a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals.
“We’re pleased to announce that we’ve recently expanded our referral sources to include a number of community agencies and services such as Community Living BC and the Canadian Mental Health Association,” said Grobbelaar. “Th e success of Blue Pine Clinic is due to partnerships and ongoing collaboration, and we’d like to thank Northern Health for the hard work and dedication that went into
eff orts to improve access to quality care for the people of northern B.C.”
Th e Blue Pine Clinic was created through an initiative of the General Practice Services Committee, a partnership between the BC Ministry of Health and the BC Medical Association. As a prototype community for the “A GP for Me” initiative, the Prince George Division of Family Practice developed the clinic in partnership with Northern Health and the fi nancial support of the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation.
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Bill PHILLIPS/Free PressBlue Pine clinic patient Leanne Parker, with one of her caregivers Dr. Kyle Merritt, talks about how the clinic provides her with the care she needs.
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It doesn’t matter what the weather is like in Prince George on Oct. 19, Speed Control has seen worse.
“I think about the only thing we haven’t seen is a hurricane,” Graeme Peters of the Whitehorse-based band says over the phone from Alberta. Th e three-man power rock band plays Riley’s Pub on Oct. 19.
It was raining in southern Alberta on Monday when Peters called. Th ey didn’t have a show that night, but they were on the road to Tilley, Alta. to visit the local school.
“We do a lot of work with kids at school during the day, giving them a RAWK school,” Peters said. He is the guitarist and vocalist for Speed Conrol, while brother Jody plays bass and does vocals, and Ian March handles the drums. “We work with whoever is there, from kindergarten up to Grade 12.”
In summer, the touring usu-ally ramps up – and so does the RAWK.
“Between shows, we’ll put on RAWK Camps. Th ey might three days, they might be a full week. We work with Yamaha to have brand-new instruments for the kids to play, and at the end of the week, they put on a RAWK con-cert for their family and friends.”
Speed Control was putting on a show of its own on the weekend, as they attended the Breakout West Showcase in Calgary. Th ings did not get off to a good start, timewise, Peters says.
“We forgot to look at the maps, and we fi gured it was 24 hours to drive from Whitehorse to Calgary. It turned out to more like 30 or 32, so we got there, and they basi-cally said, ‘Play’, and we’re like ‘Oh my God’.”
Th e band played two sets, both well-attended, but it was what happened aft er the music that Peters found more valuable.
“You play, and then the next morning you start doing these one-on-one meetings with people from all over the music business. One might be the manager for Red Hot Chili Peppers, then the next one is one of the organizers of the biggest festival in Australia.
“You get all kinds of info, some really general and some really specifi c.”
Last week marked the release of F.A.B., the group’s second album. Peters says there are a lot of things diff erent this time around.
“Th e fi rst album, I did it all. I wrote all the songs, I was the producer, I basically said, ‘Th is is my band, and this is how it’s going to be.’”
For F.A.B., though, the songs came from other sources.
“I was working with a friend of mine in the Yukon, Barry ‘Jack’ Jenkins,” Peters says. “I had forgotten we had agreed to write a rock opera as part of one of those ‘Write a book in 24 hours’ things. So he calls me at like 2 a.m. and says, ‘Th e lyrics are all done, you just need to write the music’.”
Peters fi gures it took him about two hours to get all the music done, and three of the songs from that collaboration made it to the album.
“I’m super-bad with lyrics,” Peters admits. “I’m starting to challenge myself now to write the lyrics fi rst sometimes, because
I’ve always done it the other way around.”
His brother and bandmate Jody also contributed a couple of songs, and Graeme brought in some of his own as well.
“What I did this time was record my songs and send them to the other two, so they could listen to them. Th en, when we got to rehearsal, we could make changes if we needed to.”
With Speed Control now having two albums out, it would be rela-tively easy for them to do a whole show of just their own songs, and Peters says sometimes they do.
“If you’re only playing one set, and there’s three or four other bands playing, then yeah, you
want to make sure you play your stuff .
“But if we’re doing a two-set show in a club, I like throwing in covers.”
His reason is simple.“When you grabbed a guitar
for the fi rst time, you didn’t start playing your own music. You played the songs you heard and liked. Th at’s what infl uenced your music, so give the audience a chance to hear where you’re com-ing from.”
Th e Oct. 19 show at Riley’s Pub wraps up the fi rst portion of Speed Control’s western Canada tour. Show time is 9 p.m., there’s a $5 admission charge, and no one under 19 will be admitted.
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Photo submittedJody Peters, left, Ian March and Graeme Peters make up Speed Control. The Yukon-based power rock band will be playing Riley’s Pub on Oct. 19.
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a lion now but a poet,” said Lucas. “He’s recorded all 32 of Beethoven’s sonatas.”
Silverman is a concert pianist, teacher and renowned performance artist who has played with every major Canadian orchestra and also with the BBC, Chicago and Syd-ney Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops and Leningrad Philharmonic among others. He has toured Europe, North America, Australia, Far East and the Soviet Union and is known for his love of music masters Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Lucas said Silverman, now in his 70s, asked him if Northern Orchestra, comprised of amateur but very talented commu-nity musicians (aged 11 to 64), could play Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto.
“Of course I lied,” said Lucas, smil-ing.
He explained that although the piece, Beethoven’s piano concerto No. 5 in E-fl at major, called Emperor
Concerto, is diffi cult – “Th e key of E fl at seemed to inspire grandeur in Beethoven” – he knew that his highly disciplined musicians were up to the challenge.
He was right. Two Northern Or-chestra concerts: Kings, Queens and Emperors featuring Silverman are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.
“Th is is an opportunity not just for our audiences in Prince George and Vanderhoof to hear someone of Mr. Silverman’s calibre play – and what are the chances he will ever be here again? – but it is also an opportunity for our orchestra members, some of whom are fi ne players and are con-sidering a future career as musicians, to play on stage with a world-class musician. Th is is one of Canada’s foremost pianists we are talking about, someone who has received the Order of Canada.”
Th e lifetime opportunity came at a time, Lucas noted, when Northern
Orchestra is rebuilding its ranks aft er several of its most seasoned and ac-complished players have graduated and moved on. Currently, the North-ern Orchestra has about 35 members.
“Th ey are performing at a very high level for an amateur group,” said Lucas. “Music is a high-pressure environment and ironically, two of the biggest pieces are those that can be played by smaller groups.”
Th e programme also showcases the North-ern Orchestra’s Ariane Nelles, who performs Bach’s second orches-tral suite for fl ute, and orchestra and it includes Henry Purcell’s Fairie Queen Suite.
“Th at’s why we’re call-ing it Kings, Queens and Emperors,” said Lucas. “because it has every-thing imperial in it.”
Northern Orchestra’s Kings, Queens and Emperors’ Concert takes place Saturday, Oct. 19 at the First Baptist Church, concert begins at 7:30 p.m. It also plays at the Vanderhoof NVSS
on Sunday, Oct. 20 starting at 2 p.m. Tickets in advance $15 adults, $10
students, $5 seniors or $20 (all ages) at the door. Tickets are available at Books and Company, Studio 2880 or from any member of the Northern Orchestra.
Even in the music world, when you want to attract a big name to a small orchestra, it oft en comes down to who you know.
Th at is how it came to be that conductor/music director Gordon Lucas and his Northern Orchestra are hosting the world-class musi-cian Robert Silverman in concert this month.
“I was in kind of shock,” said Lucas. “Bob contacted me and asked if he could play with my orchestra. Of course I was delighted – and very honoured. I’ve known him for a long time. We went at UBC’s School of Music back in the 70s, he’d just been made new head of the music department.”
Lucas describes Silverman as a “young lion at the keyboard” who even much earlier on in his career had established a good reputation for himself with his extraordinary level of pianism.
“Aft er I graduated as a violinist,” said Lucas, “the next time I ran into him, years later, he was already an international artist who was playing in major centres all over the world.”
Th e two also crossed paths as colleagues at the Courtenay Youth Music Centre where Silverman taught piano and Lucas taught violin.
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It won’t start as a puzzle, but it may up as one.
Th e College of New Caledonia is the new owner of a set of Hom-inid Bone Clones, and anthropology instructor Jennifer Reade has some ideas on how she is go-ing to use them.
“Next semester, in Introduction to Physi-cal Anthropology and Archaeology, I’ll prob-ably start the students off with a way to get them thinking about the skulls and craniums.”
Her current idea is to set up the skulls in pairs around the classroom, and have the students go around, making notes about each one.
“Th en we can focus on each skull, looking at the diff erences between them as we evolved.”
At the end of the semester, she says, she may scramble the skulls on a table and challenge the students to put them in correct order.
Reade and the college started working on getting the replicas in August.
“Th ese are replicas from a company in the United States that spe-cializes in making replicas of bones.”
Th e replicas are taken from skulls and craniums found at archaeological sites, which means the students will fi nd they all look a bit diff erent.
“Th ese are exact replicas. Th e colouring is the same as the original, the pittedness of the skull is the same.
“A few of them have pieces missing, which were missing when the piece was found. On others, you’ll be able to see where the scientists who found the piece recreated a missing piece, usually with clay.”
She explains that some of pieces are craniums, which is the top part, and others are skulls, which include the lower jaw as well.
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“In the craniums which we have, the jaw can be separated from the cranium, which allows the student to have a closer look at the whole thing.”
Having a set of replicas also makes it easier for the students, and the school, in many ways.
“If these were originals, they would have to kept in a temperature-controlled environment,” Reade says. “With the replicas, you also don’t need special equipment like special gloves to handle them with.
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have to worry about getting some oil on the skull when they handle it.”
Th e set includes replicas such as Australopithecus Afarensis, Australo-pithecus Boisei, Homo Neanderthal-sis and Homo Sapiens.
“Most of the names come from either the place they were found or the person who found them,” Reade explains.
With the fi rst class using the new replicas not starting until Janu-ary, they are on display in the CNC library until the end of November for the public to view.
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Letter from Wing-fi eld Farm is loaded with comedy and charm.
Opening night Friday, seasoned actor Rod Beattie in his de-but role(s) for Th eatre North West (TNW) delighted the audi-ence with a remarkable performance honed over the many years
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does – bringing writer Dan Needles’ townspeople to life – is not at all easy. However, he makes it look eff ortless as he switches seamlessly from one character to another, chang-ing not just hats and jackets, but facial ex-pressions, manner-isms, body language, way of speaking – and all the little nuances and quirky traits that make us all individuals.
Beattie is a master, of course, and it is fascinating to watch the master at work.
Simply put, the play’s storyline is about Walt Wingfi eld and his fi rst season as a novice farmer, a life far removed from his previous career as a stockbrocker.
Since the actor must deliver all the clever lines himself and on stage has only himself to an-swer to, literally, the timing is all his own. And it is perfect.
Yes, the “motley crew” of characters are by now a natural part of him but when you think there are no other actors to fall back on, it is an awesome responsibility each night out in front of a new audience, just as he said in an earlier interview with the Free Press. Not since I Claudia, I was reminded Friday by former artistic director Ted Price, have we seen this kind of performance at TNW where one actor plays multiple roles. Maybe because I work at a newspaper, I loved Beattie as Ed, the newspaper editor with a wicked sense of humour. Th ere are some really funny scenes
– boys night out at neighbour Freddie’s place in which Walt shows his complete lack of knowledge about wood stoves and another about his learning curve getting his fi elds plowed and his crops in on time using horses instead of machinery.
Th e set is deliberately bare bones; barn siding, fence, hat/coat rack, simple wood table and chairs, etc. to allow room for all those characters to be released on cue from Mr. Beat-tie and to play freely across the stage. For 20 years, Beattie’s
name has been understandably linked with the ever popular Wingfi eld series (seven plays) and his performances have won him numerous acting awards.
To see why, you have to go and see the play.
Letter from Wingfi eld Farm directed by Douglas Beattie, featuring Rod Beattie in a one-actor play, runs until Oct. 23 at Th eatre North West at Parkhill Centre. Tickets for the play are available at Books and Com-pany or by phone at 250-614-0039.
Teresa MALLAM/Free PressRod Beattie is all alone on stage during Letters from Wingfield Farm, a one-actor play currently being presented by TNW.
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A loonie could buy you some very nice items on the Oct. 19 weekend.
All you have to do is get a bit lucky in the Handy Circle Resource Society Loonie Auction.
It’s a very simple process. You come into the gym-nasium at AiMHi at 950 Kerry St. between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Oct. 19 or 20, hand over your loonies and get a ticket for each one. You put your name and phone number on each one, then start exam-ining the wide selection of items available.
When you fi nd one you want (and trust us, you will), you put a ticket in the bag attached to it. Starting at 2 p.m. on Oct. 20, the draws from the bags start.
“You don’t have to be there to win,” says Lorraine Young, offi ce program manager for the society. “and you can put more than one ticket in a bag to improve your chances of winning that item.”
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Handy Circle is, as its name says, a resource soci-ety.
“We are a resource centre for people with disabili-ties,” Young says. “We work with them on basic offi ce skills, help them with disability forms, refer them to other agencies for assistance.”
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Every year at this time, com-munities across B.C. and the Yukon host events and provide awareness opportunities to pro-mote an understanding of the issue of homelessness.
Th e Community Partners Addressing Homelessness Society (CPAH) is once again organizing the Prince George Homelessness Awareness week October 13–19.
Homelessness is a very real issue in Prince George, and with the cold weather rapidly approaching, the plight of the homeless becomes even more diffi cult.
Th e United Nations has declared homelessness and housing in Canada a national emergency. Poverty is the lead-ing cause of homelessness in Canada, and the gap between rich and poor continues to grow. Th e image of who is homeless is perpetuated by prejudice and lack of understanding. A stereo-typing exists that the homeless are single men and women, but the reality is that there are now signifi cant numbers of families
with children, senior citizens, displaced workers, young people and low income earners in this sector. Th ey struggle to maintain their shelter only by being able to access the essential services off ered by our local service groups; service such as food drop in centres, hampers, used clothing, advice and counselling, basic health care etc.
Homeless count surveys confi rm that most people are homeless because of a lack of aff ordable housing and because they simply don’t have enough income for a home and the basic necessities of life.
Th e Homelessness Action Week is our opportunity as a community to highlight these issues and look for strategies to deal with them, while at the same time, focussing the week’s events on the residents of our community that need our help and support.
CPAH and our local partners are proud to provide the oppor-tunity to promote understand-ing across Prince George and break down some of the barriers
that trap people in poverty and homelessness by organizing a week of special events for the homeless and those at risk of being homeless.
October 13 – Saint Vincent De Paul Society Th anksgiving dinner
October 15 – Connect Day at the Native Friendship Centre
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October 17 – Pancake break-fast @ the Native Friendship Centre
October 18 – Potlatch at Th e Fire Pit @ 1:00pm
One of our most important events during the HAW week is the ‘Connect Day’, to be held on Tuesday, Oct. 15 from 10 to 2 pm. Information tables are hosted by local social and health services, a lunch is provided, and we off er free haircuts to those in need. In addition at-tendees can receive a ‘survival backpack’ containing useful items as we approach the colder weather. Th ere is also warm clothing available to those that attend.
Teresa MALLAM/Free PressBlues entertainer Harpdog Brown works up a sweat performing for the crowd Saturday night at the AWAC (Advocating for Women and Children) fundraiser held at Coast Inn of the North. The advocacy group provides emergency shelter, drop-in services, outreach support, supported housing and a street humanities program.
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Events planned forHomelessness Awareness Week
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A fundraising event for men’s health, pros-tate cancer programs and rotary community projects called the Big Blue Ball runs Saturday, Nov. 2 at Coast Inn of the North. Tickets are $75 at Coast Inn of the North. Dinner, speak-ers and dance. Music by Brandon Isaak Band with Nick Tindale, Pat-rick Killcullen and Steve Smith.
Saturday, Oct. 26 is Diwali Nite 2013 at Columbus Community Centre, 7201 Domano Blvd. Ethnic food (ap-petizers, main course, dessert), cultural enter-tainment with Nepali dance, Garba dance and more, karaoke, dance with music. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. For tickets call IMSS at 250-562-
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A Night to Let it Out. Saturday, Oct. 26 a re-turn of the popular Me-nagerie event to usher in Halloween at Two Rivers Gallery. Danc-ing and cash bar, late
night lunch. Performers, games, silent auction. Prize for best costume: Via Rail trip for four to Jasper. For tickets and information visit www.tworiversgallery.ca.
Th e Prince George Folkfest Society will present the 2014 edition of Coldsnap Winter Music Festival, which runs Jan. 24 to Feb. 1.
It promises to be another stellar week of hot music to warm up the cool temperatures. Two nights will showcase the many local and regional music talent of northern B.C. and the free daytime workshops that have become the tradi-tion of Coldsnap. Th e line up for main stage performances and tickets for all shows will be available in early Novem-ber.
“To kick off the party and celebrate our seventh winter music festival, PGFFS is
pleased to present Willhorse at Riley’s Pub on Nov. 26,” said artistic director Sue Judge. “Willhorse is a young, up and coming high energy southern-rock band with captivating melodies and thrilling harmonies. Th ey hail from Vancouver and are fi nalists in Th e Peak Performance Project.”
According to its website, the project is a $5.29 million program designed to educate, promote, develop and hopefully launch the careers of some of British Columbia’s top emerging artists. It also hopes to foster the province’s music industry and creates a sense of com-munity amongst music professionals. In
addition to the six-month artist devel-opment program and the $315,000 in artist development funding, the Pattison Group of Companies will also contribute an annual media credit of $1,000,000 in support of the PEAK Performance Project by marketing, promoting and advertising the PEAK Performance Project and the participating artists mak-ing it the largest individual radio station project in Canada.
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FridayPotluck, Oct. 11, 5
p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.
Whist, Oct. 18, 7 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.Saturday
Halloween costume exchange, Oct. 12, 2 p.m., H&H Market, 3955 Hart Highway.
Dance to Stages, Oct. 12, 8 p.m.-midnight, Hart Pioneer Centre. Over 19 only.
Video Symposium, Oct. 19, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., hospital. Sponsored by BC Lupus Society.Register at bclupus.org,1-866-585-8787.
Fall Fair, Oct. 19, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, 3580 Dufferin.
Artisans of the North Fair, Oct. 19, 10 a.m, UNBC.
Fall book sale, Oct. 19, 1-4 p.m., downtown library.
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.
SundayFall book sale, Oct.
20, 1-4 p.m., downtown
library.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.
MondayOld Fashioned
Thanksgiving, Oct. 14, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Huble Homestead Historic Site, 40km north of Prince George, just off Highway 97 on Mitchell Road.Information: 250-564-7033 or hublehomestead.ca.
Canasta, Oct. 14, 7 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.
Tai Chi, Mondays, 1:30 p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.
Cariboo Toastmasters meet Mondays, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Ramada Hotel, - 444 George St. Information: caribootoastmasters.com or Laura (250) 961-3477.
Northern Twister Square Dance Club meets Mondays, 7 p.m., Knox United Church basement. Information: Gys 250- 563-4828 or Reta 250-962-2740.
TuesdayBridge, Tuesdays, 1
p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.
Center City Toast-masters meet Tuesday, noon, City Hall Annex. Information: 9164.toastmastersclubs.org.
Prince George Quilters Guid meets fourth Tuesday of the month, Connaught Youth Centre, 1491 17th Ave. Registration 6:30 p.m., meeting 7 p.m. Information: Echo 250-612-0499.
Buddhist meditation class, Tuesdays, 7:15-8:45 p.m., 320 Vancou-ver St. Information: 250-962-6876 or www.tilopa.org.
Spruce Capital Toastmasters meet Tuesdays, 7:25 p.m., 102-1566 7th Ave. Information: Tom 250-562-3402.
Sweet Adelines women’s four-part
chorus meets Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., Studio 2880. New members welcome. Information: Kathy 250-563-5170.
Hospital retirees meet, first Tuesday of the month, 9 a.m., Prince George Golf Club. Information 250-563-7497 or 250-563-2885.
WednesdayCanadian Federation
of University Women meets, Oct. 16, 7 p.m., Magnolia Gardens, 2055 Ingledew St.
P.G. COPD Support Group meets Wednes-days, 1-3 p.m., AIMHI gymnasium, 950 Kerry St. Information: www.pgcopdsupportgroup.ca.
Bingo, Wednesdays, 1-3 p.m., Spruce Capital Senior Recreation Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.
H&H Market, Wednesday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 3955 Hart Highway.
Whist, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., Senior Activity Centre, 425 Brunswick St.
Hart Toastmasters, Wednesdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre. Information: harttoastmasters.ca
CNC Retirees meet fourth Wednesday, 9 a.m., D’Lanos. Information: Lois 250-563-6928.
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.
ThursdayBingo, Oct. 17, 12:30
p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre. Over 19 welcome.
Kidney Foundation meets, Oct. 17, 7 p.m., fourth floor education room, hospital. Information: Diane Dupperon 250-962-7958.
Metis Elders Craft group, Th ursday, 10 a.m.-noon, Princse George Metis Elders Society offi ce, 117 – 1600 Th ird Ave. (Prince George Native Friend-ship Centre).
Prince George Grassroots Cribbage Club registration,
6:30 p.m. play 6:45 p.m., Thursdays, 3701 Rainbow Dr. Information: Gerda 250-564-8561.
Tai chi, Th ursdays, 7-9 p.m., Knox United Church, 1448 Fift h Ave. Information: Lister 250-964-3849 or [email protected].
DayBreakers Toastmasters meets Thursday, 7-8 a.m., UHNBC Conference Room 1. Information: Heather 250-649-9591.
BC Civil Liberties Union meets second Thursday of the month, 6 p.m., 1575 Fifth Ave.
Plaza 400 Toastmaster Club meets Thursday, noon, Aleza room, fourth floor, Plaza 400 building, 1011 4th Ave. Information: 6252.toastmastersclubs.org/ or 250-564-5191.
Prince George Toastmasters meet Thursdays, 7:15 p.m., AiMHi, 950 Kerry St. Information: pgtoastmasters.com, Joyce 250-964-0961.
Old Time Fiddlers jam, Thursday, 7-10 p.m. Elder Citizens Rec
Centre, 1692 10th Ave.
ECRA Forever Young Chorus meet Thursdays, 12:45 p.m., ECRA, 1692 10th Ave.Support Groups
Tea Time for the Soul. Would you like someone to listen to you? Come, listen, and share while enjoying a cup of tea. Mondays from 3 to 5 p.m. at Forest Expo House, 1506 Ferry Ave. No cost. For more information, Jesse or Catherine at 250-563-2551.
Singles and friends, social group of people of all ages and diverse backgrounds, meets Wednesdays, 7 p.m., A&W on 20th Avenue.
Wednesday Tops (take off pounds sensibly) noon, AiMHi, 950 Kerry St. Information: Diane 250-964-6072.
Learning Circle Literacy Program works with adult learners and families on literacy, numeracy and computing skills. Information: 250-
564-3568 ext. 228, or [email protected].
Do you worry about the way you eat? Overeaters Anonymous may have the answers. Monday, 7:30 p.m., hospital, Room 421. Call Tanya 250-613-2823.
Power Play, for children from newborns to five years old, Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Tuesdays, 1:30-3:30 p.m., South Fort George Family Resource Centre, 1200 La Salle Ave. Information: 250-614-9449.
NorthBreast Passage Dragon Boat Society meets first Thursday of the month, 7 p.m., Chronic Disease Management Room, UHNBC. Information: Anita 250-563-2949 or Betty 250-962-7985.
Royal Purple meets meets second and fourth Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Information: Dianne 250-596-0125 or Jeanette 250-563-9362.
Wednesday evening Tops (take off pounds sensibly), Spruceland Baptist Church, 1901
Ogilvie St. Information: Leona 250-962-8802.
Prince George Genealogical Society meets the third Tuesday of the month, St. Giles Presbyterian Church, 1500 Edmonton St.
Prince George Stroke Survivors Group meets Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Elder Citizens Recreation Association, 1692 10th Ave. Information: Julia 250-563-3819, Roland 250-562-1747.
La Leche League breast feeding support group meets the second Thursday of every month 7 p.m., 176 Aitken Cres. Information: Tammy 250-612-0085.
PGRH retirees breakfast, first Tuesday of the month, Prince George Golf and Curling Club. Information: 250-563-2885.
Prince George ATV Club meets third Tuesday of month, 7 p.m. Carmel Restaurant meeting room. Information: George 250-964-7907.
The Community Datebook provides free community event listings every Friday. Submissions are accepted in written form only – dropped off, mailed or emailed – No Phone Calls please. Datebook runs as space allows, there is no guarantee of publication. Mail to 1773 South Lyon St., Prince George BC V2N 1T3. E-mail [email protected]
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NBC Centre for Skating Volunteers are needed to help with
several ice skating events. No experience necessary! Get involved! Come share our
passion for winter ice sportsand give back to the community.
More info [email protected]
Rory 250-962-1993
PG Cougars Hockey Club Seeking volunteers to sell 50/50 at the
PG Cougars hockey games. You can sign up for any game, volunteers will contact us at the Cariboo Cougars Major Midget team, email Corrine at [email protected]
Theatre North West - Oct 2 - 23``Letter from Wingfi eld Farm``, Oct 2 – 23. Volunteers can do: ticket taking, ushering, concession, 2-3 evenings per production.
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MERRITT HERALDAd DesignerThe Merritt Herald is looking for an Advertising Creative Consultant to work along side our award winning design team.
Hours of work: full time hours
Responsibilities:
• Ad design using InDesign & Photoshop• Real Estate listings• Uploading information to the internet• Mockup of paper editions• Reception• Additional duties as required
This individual must be able to endure pressure/deadline situations and yet keep a healthy sense of humour with their fellow employees.
The Merritt Herald publishes and distributes to over 8300 homes twice a week. If you feel you have what it takes to be a star among our stars we look forward to hearing from you.
To apply, please forward your resume with a cover letter to:
Theresa Arnold, PublisherMerritt Herald2090 Granite Ave.,P. O. Box 9 Merritt, B.C.V1K 1B8e-mail:[email protected]
THERAPEUTIC YOUTH CARE WORKERPrince George, BC - FULL TIME/ PART TIME
Carrier Sekani Family Services (CSFS) is looking for two (2) Therapeutic Youth Care Workers to join the Child and Family Service Program in Prince George. This is an exciting opportunity to engage aboriginal children, youth and families in building a healthy and positive future.
In this newly created position you will be responsible for providing goal-based support and supervision to children and youth with complex needs residing within a network of therapeutic foster homes. The successful candidate will understand the importance of trauma-informed care and preserving cultural identity and will be keen to work collaboratively with families, community and a multi-disciplinary team.
Education and Experience
• Degree in Child and Youth Care or other related discipline or Diploma in Child and Youth Care or other related degree plus signifi cant direct care experience
Key Accountabilities
• Provides day-to-day support and supervision in residential and community settings to assigned children/youth as per direction of Therapeutic Homes Coordinator
• Provides crisis de-escalation, intervention, and support and de-briefi ng to children/youth and foster parents when needed
• Supports completion of comprehensive placement assessments and development of service plans, intervention and transition plans
• Supports children/youth to meet behavioural, social and educational goals
• Supports foster parents to meet the needs of children and youth in care
Proof of credentials, a valid Drivers’ License, and a clear Criminal Record Check will be requested from the successful applicant. Travel and the use of a personal vehicle is required.
To learn more, visit www.csfs.org. To apply, send a cover letter with your resume to [email protected].
We thank all applicants in advance for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
PRINCE GEORGE NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE
Our People make a difference in the community
The Prince George Native Friendship Centre, a visionary non-profi t society, has been serving the needs of the entire community for the past 43 years.
We are seeking candidates for the following position(s) within our organization
BETTER AT HOME PROGRAM: Coordinator (FT) Closing date: October 21, 2013
A hard copy listing the roles, responsibilities and qualifi cations of the position are available from the Prince George Native Friendship Centre’s web site atwww.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.
Professional Class 1 Driver Excel Transporta on Inc. is a medium sized company that is based in Prince George, BC with opera ons in both Northern BC and Alberta. We are a transporta on company with over forty years of bulk commodity haul experience, delivering innova ve and sustainable logis cal solu ons for our customers. We are a team commi ed to ge ng the job done right, and doing it safely.
Excel is IMMEDIATELY seeking Professional Class 1 Safety Oriented Drivers to join our team.
Job Requirements: • Class 1 driver’s license• Winter driving would be an asset• Two years experience would be an advantage• Safety conscious• Friendly and outgoing personality • Be able to work well independently and as a team player • Ability to communicate in a professional manner
Excel Transporta on Inc. o ers a healthy and safe working environment as well as a compe ve compensa on/bene ts package
All applicants require a clean driver abstract.
Interested individuals can fax their resume to 250-563-3201 or email to:sbo @exceltransporta on.ca
For more informa on about Excel Transporta on Inc. visit us at www.exceltransporta on.ca
We thank all applicants in advance for their interest; however only those candidates selected will be contacted.
According to the BC Check-Up, a report issued jointly by the province’s professional accountants, new labour force entrants and young workers boast record-high levels of post-secondary educational attainment. However, many young workers lack the skills that are in demand, and they are also entering a competitive job market that is marked by greater employ-ment uncertainty.
“For the past decade, labour market analysts have predicted a looming labour market shortage. In particular, this strain will be felt in northern B.C., where major invest-ments are generating both construction and resource industry employment,” said Richard Rees, FCA, CEO of ICABC. “However, many post-secondary gradu-ates are lacking the necessary credentials for these occupations, and for those seek-ing a job outside the trades or profes-sions where defi cits exist, it is diffi cult to fi nd a good entry-level job. Increasingly, students will need to plan their education carefully, with a view to what programs will get them the skills required by the
current labour market.“ According to the report, several other
labour market trends are impacting young workers.
“Looking at the unemployment rate for workers aged 19 to 24, in 2012, BC’s
was still 10.9 per cent, which was much higher than the overall provincial aver-age of 6.7 per cent ,” said Vi-netta Peek, CMA (Hon.), CMA, President and CEO of CMABC. “We also see that in real terms, the
average hourly full-time wage for young Canadians is less than what it was 30 years ago, and an increasing number of older workers are staying in the work-force past the age of 65.”
Th ese trends have increased competi-tion for fewer middle-income jobs, and have also contributed to greater under-employment among young workers, with many taking on work that is temporary, part-time, or contractual, with no ben-efi ts and poor income prospects.
Th is problem is com-
pounded by decreased fi nancial literacy and an increase in personal debt load per capita, which makes young workers highly vulnerable to events such as un-employment, or a hike in interest rates.
While the report outlined several con-cerns, this evolving labour market has created more resilient workers. Facing these challenges, many young work-ers choose to become self-employed, using their skills to generate their own business, and they do not harbour their parents’ expectations of “career.”
Workers now expect to have several careers in their lifetime and the notion of job security has become dated.
“Generation Y workers desire in-creased fl exibility, less commitment to routine, collaborative approaches to work, and that the connective and mobile devices they use in their private life will be available in the workplace,” said Gor-don Ruth, FCGA, CEO of CGA-BC.
“Proactive employers are off ering these types of work environments, and as older workers fi nally leave the workforce, with new skills, more fl exibility, and an evolv-ing perspective of what defi nes work, young workers are well positioned to take on these jobs or create new jobs of their own.”
Young workersfacing more market uncertainty
Many post-secondary grads
are lacking necessary
credentials.
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Deryle Wayne ForrestMarch 29, 1956 - August 21, 2013
It is with heavy hearts that the family of Deryle Wayne Forrest announces his passing at the age of 57 on August 21, 2013.
He is survived by sisters, Sandra (Dave) Bottineau, Sheila (Barry) Germann, Sharon (Keith) Meng, brothers Robert Forrest, Richard Forrest and many beloved nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews.
Predeceased by his father Joseph Alfred Forrest, mother Verna Forrest.
Please join us in the Burial for Deryle on August 21, 2014 at PG Memorial Park Cemetery.
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IS SEEKING APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS:
PROGRAM SUPERVISOR (PRINCE GEORGE)
Qualifi cations:• At least three (3) years Supervisory Experience.• A combination of experience and/or Post-Secondary
Education in: Trades and Workplace Training, Continuing and Adult Education, Training and/or Employment Counselling, Counselling and Helping Professions.
• Proven Administrative Skills to manage, assess and report demographic and fi nancial information to support decisions related to client training and employment.
• Working knowledge of standard computer programs and keyboarding skills.
• BC Drivers Licence, insurable, reliable transportation and willingness to travel over a wide geographic area in all seasons.
• Demonstrated ability to work with a variety of stakeholders and motivate staff to meet specifi c performance objectives within specifi c deadlines and budgets.
• Experience with First Nation communities, culture and protocols.
JOB COACH (VARIOUS LOCATIONS)
Qualifi cations:• At least three (5) years of experience working with First
Nations at the Band and Community level.• A combination of experience and/or Post-Secondary Education
in one or more of the following areas: Education, Trades and Workplace Training, Adult and Community Education, Training and Employment Counselling.
• Demonstrated ability to manage case/workloads of up to 50 Clients.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently to meet specifi c program/client objectives within specifi c timeframes.
• Must have sound working knowledge of standard computer applications and keyboard skills.
• Must have a valid B.C. Driver’s Licence, be insurable and willing to travel by road throughout a large geographic area in all seasons.
APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL 4:30 P.M.
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
Reply by email to: [email protected]
Attention: PTP ASEP Training Society Hiring Committee.
Please provide:• Covering Letter • Resume (3 pages max.) • Three references
ONLY THOSE CANDIDATES SHORT LISTED WILL BE CONTACTED
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NECHAKO RESERVOIR UPDATE
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Reservoir Elevation: 851.76 m (2794.50ft)SLS Discharge: 31.52 m3/s
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ChildcareTERRACE Childcare Society is looking to hire an Early Childhood Educator for its 3-5 year old group daycare and an experienced society Manager. Prefer licensed ECEs but will consider those with related childcare training and experi-ence. Email cover letter and resume [email protected] or mail or drop off at 3425 Kal-um St. Terrace BC V8G 2N8
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Drivers/Courier/Trucking
Lally Trucking Ltd. in Prince George is hiring 5 f/t long haul truck drivers with 1 to 2 years experience and class 1 driver’s licence. Duties are: perform pre trip inspection, maintain log book, load and unload car-go, follow safety procedures for transporting goods , com-municate with dispatcher and clients, read road maps for directions etc, working knowledge of English is required. Salary would be $23.00 per hour with 40 hrs. week. Interested applicants please email resume with driver abstract to [email protected]
Wanted part time driver with class 1 & air. Longhaul pin to pin. Call Danny 1-250-886-7792
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OWNER OPERATORS$3500 SIGNING BONUS
Van Kam’s Group of Compa-nies requires Owner Ops. for our Prince George based terminal for runs throughout BC and Alberta. Applicants must have winter and mountain, driving exp. / training.
We offer above average rates and an excellent
employee benefi ts package.To join our team of Profes-sional drivers, email a resume, current driver’s abstract & details of truck to:
[email protected] or call Bev at 604-968-5488
or Fax: 604-587-9889Van-Kam is committed to Employment Equity and Environmental Responsibility.We thank you for your interest, however only those of interest to us will be contacted.
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Th ey scored in droves in June, and in October, the rewards were reaped.
On Wednesday, three local groups focusing on youth programs received $3,000 each from CLUB11, an entity of the Prince George Youth Soccer Association.
“We held a Score-a-Th on in June,” said CLUB11 director Mario Mastroianni. “It was one day where everybody played, and we tallied all the goals.”
Players had been doing fundraising, collecting either fl at donations or donations per goal.
“Th ere were more than 580 goals, and we raised $13,000.”
Th e top fundraiser was fi ve-year-old Brody Staff ord. His mother, Lesley, said they went coun-
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Allan WISHART/Free PressGaetano Mauro, left, and five-year-old Brody Stafford present Selen Alpay and David Shuvera of Canadian Tire Jumpstart with a cheque for $3,000 from CLUB11, while Thom Ross of Special Olympics accepts a similar cheque from Dean Rolufs, and Kelly Sharp of Northern BC Friends of Children Society accepts one from Mario Mastroianni.
CLUB11 kicks in for groups
Football tonightTh e high school football season in
Prince George has passed the halfway point.
All six teams in the Northern AA Conference played their fourth games last week, and Duchess Park continued its undefeated ways with a 32-0 win over Nechako Valley of Vanderhoof.
Th e loss dropped NVSS to 2-2, and a third-place tie with Kelly Road, which downed winless Correlieu
(Quesnel) 32-7. Th e other game last weekend saw College Heights move to 3-1 with a 27-7 win over PGSS, which dropped to 1-3.
Action this week started Th urs-day evening, with Nechako Valley taking on PGSS. Th e action wraps up tonight (Friday) with a pair of games, both at Masich Place stadium. At 5 p.m., College Heights tangles with Kelly Road, while Duchess Park meets Correlieu at 7 p.m.
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trywide to raise $585.““We put the word out at home,
which was Prince Rupert, and we called his grandparents in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
“Everybody pitched in.”CLUB11 kept $4,000 of the funds
raised within the PGYSA to pur-chase a soccer mascot costume, which will assist in promoting the game in the city.
Th e three groups which received cheques on Wednesday were:
• Jumpstart, a Canadian tire program which assists families that cannot aff ord to enrol their children
in sport or recreation ctivities;• Northern BC Friends of Chil-
dren Society, which assists families with a children in extraordinary medical need; and
• Special Olympics BC, which provides individuals with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to enrich their lives through positive sport experiences.
Th is was the fi rst year for the Score-a-Th on, and CLUB11 director Dean Rolufs doesn’t think it will be the last.
“We plan to make this an annual event for our group.”
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Th e UNBC Timberwolves men’s soccer team lost both games at home on the weekend against the Univer-sity of British Columbia.
UNBC coach Alan Alderson, though, didn’t sound too upset about the 3-1 and 4-0 defeats.
“We played the defending national champions, probably one of the top three teams again this year, and we didn’t get killed.
“Th e scoreline was much better than ir could have been.”
So was Alderson happy with the way the Timberwolves played?
“I didn’t say I was happy.”Saturday’s 4-1 win stretched UN-
BC’s winning streak to seven games, as they scored twice in each half. Th e fi rst goal came just three minutes into the game, aft er UNBC keeper Ty Venhola stopped a penalty kick, but was unable to block the rebound.
“On Saturday,” Alderson said, “UBC did what champions do. Th ey came out and they played their game, at their level. Our guys got to see what a top teams looks like.”
Th e Wolves were down 4-0 until Connor Noft le converted a free kick with about 10 minutes to go. Alderson commended his team for not quit-ting.
“Th e positive was we kept fi ghting against a superior team. It was great to see Connor execute a set piece we’d worked on.”
Sunday’s 3-0 loss, however, was a dif-ferent story, accord-ing to Alderson.
“If we were going to get points, it would have been Sunday be-cause UBC came out slow.
“It took us a long time to work ourselves into the game, though,
and we missed our chance. We have to develop the habit of bat-tling hard for the whole game,
regardless of the opponent.”
Alderson gave credit to keepers Venhola and Mitch Macfarlane for their play on the weekend, and singled out one other T’wolve for his eff orts.
“Tyson Hunter had two fantastic games for us. He was just a tireless worker all weekend.
His ability on the ball was great, and fi nding people with the ball was key.
“Sometimes what he does
goes unnoticed, but he played great.”
UNBC travels to Alberta this weekend for games against Leth-bridge on Sunday and Calgary on Monday.
“We’re looking forward to the Alberta trip,” Alderson said. “It’s a chance to put more and more of what we’ve been working on into practice.
“Hopefully we’ll enjoy the rewards of bringing home a few points.”
Th e UNBC women’s team had a bye on the weekend, but gets back into action with home games against Manitoba tonight (Friday) at 7 p.m. and Winnipeg on Sunday at noon. Both games are at the North Cariboo Senior Soccer fi elds off 15th Avenue.
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UNBC misses chance on pitch
Photo courtesy of UNBCUNBC Timberwolves goalkeeper Ty Venhola blocks a penalty kick by Reynold Stewart of UBC in action at the North Cariboo Senior Soccer fields on Saturday. Stewart picked up his own rebound and scored the first UBC goal in what turned out to be a 4-1 win over the Timberwolves.
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Low scores common for Cougars
For the Prince George Cougars, the past three games appear to have been played under a new rule: First goal wins.
Th e team’s last three WHL games, including a 3-0 win Satur-day in Kamloopa, have been shut-outs, with the Cougars winning two of them. Coach Mark Holick likes one aspect of those games, but not another.
“You obviously want to be good defensively, but you don’t tell the team we want to win 1-0 every night. You can’t do it.”
Aft er giving up 17 goals in their fi rst two games this season, the Cougars have given up just eight in the last six games.
“We spend a lot of time on it (defense),” Holick says. “Th e kids’ habits are getting better, the goal-tending has been great, and we’ve been cutting down the number of powerplays we’re giving up.”
Th ose were some of the problems the team had in those fi rst couple of games, and Holick is happy with the way things are going.
“We had some bad habits in the fi rst couple of games. We were run-ning around, taking bad penalties. What we’ve seen since then bodes well for the eff ort and the atten-tion to detail of the players in the defensive end.”
Ty Edmonds turned aside 27 shots to get the shutout Saturday, and Holick says the next step is to give him and goaltend-ing partner Brent Zarowny some support.
“Our powerplay has to get better. It was improved against Kamloops, we got a lot more pressure than we had been getting.”
Th e Cougars host the Everett Silvertips for a pair of games at the CN Centre this weekend, Friday (to-night) and Saturday. Everett was one of the teams the Cougars played on that opening weekend, and they handed Prince George an 8-3 loss. Holick laughs when asked if some of the Cougars might be look-ing for some revenge this weekend.
“We haven’t mentioned it at practice, but it would be remiss to think they aren’t thinking about it. We took a lot of penalties that game. I think we’re a diff erent team now.”
While Holick wants to see more off ence from the Cougars, he doesn’t want them to abandon their current style of play.
“I don’t think we have the type of team to get into a track meet with other teams. We have to develop more good habits in the off ensive
end. We have to get more traffi c in front of their goal, pay the price at the net to score some goals.
“If we can get three goals a night, I like our chances.”
Edmonds NominatedTy Edmonds of the Cougars has
been nominated for the CHL Goal-tender of the Week Award.
Th e 1996-born Edmonds went 2-1 last week with two shutouts in three starts. Edmonds stopped all
31 shots he faced Oct. 1 in a 2-0 Cougars victory over the Victoria Royals. Th e next night Edmonds stopped 23 of the 24 shots he faced in a 1-0 loss to the Royals. Ed-monds wrapped up his week with 27 saves in a 3-0 shutout victory over the Kamloops Blazers on Oct. 5.
Last week Edmonds stopped 81 of the 82 shots he faced and had a goals-against-average of 0.34 along
with a save percentage of .988. So far Edmonds is 4-1 on the season with a goals-against-average of 1.68 and a save percentage of .939. His two shutouts are tops in the entire WHL.
Edmonds was selected by the Cougars in the ninth round of the 2011 WHL Bantam Draft , and has a career record of 5-1-0-0 with a 1.66 goals-against-average and a .940 save percentage.
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Photo courtesy of Kamloops BlazersPrince George Cougars goalie Ty Edmonds gets some help from Joseph Carvalho, left, and Martin Bobos during a 3-0 win over the Kamloops Blazers in Kamloops on Saturday.
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We invite you to meet members of the team and find out more about the Project at an upcoming information session.
Date: October 16, 2013 Time: 4:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Location: Prince George Civic Centre (Room 208) 808 Civic Plaza Prince George, B.C.
Project representatives will be available to answer questions and share information. Light refreshments will be provided.
If you are unable to attend, but would like more information you can contact us by email ([email protected]) or by phone at 1.855.633.2011 (toll-free).
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Th ere is more to the Prince George Cougars season than Ty Edmonds. It just doesn’t appear that way.
Eight games out of 72, (just over 11 per cent), is far too small a sample to be making a proper assessment on a player or a team. However, just for fun, I off er these early observations:
Ty Is The GuyWill someone please tell Ty Edmonds he is a
17-year-old rookie, and that he is supposed to have butterfl ies in his stomach, sweat on his hands, an
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Quick look at Cougarsincreased heart rate, and loss of ap-petite or at least some restlessness? Th ese are all signs of nerves and to his credit he shows none of these symptoms. Instead, he is demon-strating poise, calmness, and the composure of a four-year veteran who doesn’t get rattled and just goes about his busi-ness of stopping the puck like it is no big deal.
Edmonds, the CHL Goalie of the Week, has staggering numbers that are “head scratchers” for someone who has only started six games (including one last season). He has a 4-1 record this year and in those fi ve games has allowed a total of just three goals. In addition, Edmonds stopped 81 of 82 shots in three games last week and 128 of 131 shots in his fi ve starts.
Oh, by the way, the 6’ 0”, 165 pound Winnipeg native, originally slated as a back-up this season, was just an aft erthought in the 2011 WHL Bantam Draft where he was selected in the ninth round (186th overall).
Edmonds is sitting with a 1.68 GAA and .939 save percentage and the only reason those numbers are that high is because he had a couple of early relief appearances (losses to Portland and Everett) where he gave up goals long aft er the outcome of those games were in doubt.
Naturally, Edmonds will not be able to keep up such a hot streak but he now must be on the NHL scouts radar in his draft year.
On the other hand, Brett Zarowny’s slow start has been overshadowed by Edmonds’ excellent play as Zarowny has a 6.95 GAA and .811 save per-centage in his three starts. Obviously, those numbers will climb rapidly, but the question is how many games will he get in the short term with Ty on fi re?
Lack Of PopTh e Cougars have not scored more
than three goals in any of their eight games. No player is averaging a point per game and Klarc Wilson leads goal scorers with four. Chase Witala and Brett Roulston still have not found the back of the net, much-heralded rookie Jansen Harkins and Alex Forsberg only have one goal, and Zach Pochiro is sitting with two. Sooner or later these core players will need to produce more off ense as the Cats are averaging a mere total of 2.125 goals per game.
Complementary PlayersEnergy players Jordan Tkatch and
Tyler Mrkonjic are making sig-nifi cant contributions although both have mainly played on the so-called third line. It’s not a coincidence they are one-two in team plus minus with Tkatch +4 and Mrkonjic +3.
Solid Play From Back EndMarc McNulty and Peter Koster-
man have been the two best blue liners. Even though McNulty has fi ve points and is +1, I think Kosterman has been the most consistent. Th e 20-year-old ex--Calgary Hitmen does not have a point but is a +2 with 12 penalty minutes and has shown to be the ultimate stay at home defence-
man.Not So SpecialTh e bad news is the Cougars
specialty teams are again ranked near the bottom with the power play 21st out of 22 at 9.5 per cent and the penalty kill 16th at 73.8. In fact, the Cou-gars have only scored four goals on the PP while allowing a league-high four shorthanded goals against. Th e good news is that the
PP has tallied in the last two victories and the Cats have been success-
ful in killing off 18 straight penalties.SummaryTh e Cougars are 2-2 both at home
and on the road and still haven’t gone into overtime. Th eir stats are a bit skewed because they were blown out in their fi rst two games. Th ey have lacked discipline by leading the league in penalty minutes. I suggest-ed this would be a sixth place team in the West. Nothing I have seen has changed my mind, but it will be interesting to look back to judge whether the eight-game start was a trend, an anomaly, or a bit of both.
From The Quote Rack:USC reports that impostors have
been applying for the head coaching job there. Th ey added, however that it was good to hear from Barry Switzer again.
Contributor Bill Littlejohn of South Lake Tahoe, California
Th e Denver Broncos are a NFL record 28-point favorite over the Jacksonville Jaguars Sunday. Have to wonder if the spread would be less if the Broncos were playing the FSU Seminoles.
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Th e Saskatchewan Roughriders put themselves into contention for two home playoff games with a win over the BC Lions. Th ey now have a shot at home fi eld against the Lions and home crowd at Calgary.
Comedy writer Derek Wilken of Calgary
A diamond sold for $30.6 million at an auction in Hong Kong. No one even knew that Kobe Bryant and his wife were fi ghting again.
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NASCAR’s Danica Patrick will co-host the American Country Awards. And why not? Her marriage broke up, she’s got a dog, drives a Chevy and all her chases end in heartache.
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Th e results kept im-proving on the week-end for the Northland Dodge Cougars female midget hockey team.
Th e Cougars, who play in the Female Midget AAA League, were in Surrey for three games. Th e fi rst game saw them run up against a hot Kootenay Wildcats goalie, as the Cougars outshot the Wildcats 36-9 but fell 2-0, with the second Kootenay goal being into an empty net.
Th e second game of the weekend saw the Cougars again domi-nate on the shot clock, this time outshoot-ing the North Coast Avalanche 26-15, but having to settle for a 2-2 tie.
Th e fi nal game was against the Vancouver Island Hurricanes, and this time the Cougars came out on top in a close game 3-1, with their fi nal goal into an empty net.
“It was encouraging from a coaching stand-point,” coach Mario Desjardins said in a press release, “to see the eff ort the team put for-ward over the weekend. With some puck luck and capitalizing on a
few more chances, the team could have taken six points.”
Th e next home game for the Cougars is Oct. 25 when they host the Fraser Valley Phan-toms, who are currently leading the league.
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Bill PHILLIPS/Free PressVernon Vipers goaltender Danny Todosychuk stacks the pads to make this save against the Prince George Spruce Kings Friday night, but it wasn’t enough as the Spruce Kings skated to a 3-0 victory.
Injured Kingshit the road
Th e Prince George Spruce Kings have a simple battle plan for the com-ing three-game road weekend in the B.C. Hockey League.
“We have to circle the wagons and hope we get a few goals,” coach Dave Dupas says of the upcoming trip. “It couldn’t have come at a worse time for us.”
With Brent Lashek already out of the lineup with a concussion, the Spruce Kings lost Jake LeBrun part-way through a 3-0 home-ice win Fri-day over the Vernon Vipers. LeBrun was checked headfi rst into the boards by one of the Vipers, and has also been diagnosed with a concussion.
“Th ose are two of the guys on our top line,” Dupas says. “It can’t pos-sibly help us to have both of them out of the lineup.
“Somebody else is going to have to step up.”
It wouldn’t have been the easiest weekend to start with for the Spruce Kings, and being shorthanded off en-sively won’t help. Th e Kings were in Merritt on Th ursday, and play Pentic-ton on Friday and West Kelowna on Saturday. Th eir opponents are the top three teams in the Interior Division and, Dupas says, “they may be the three best teams in the league.”
“It’s never, ever easy going into Merritt. It’s always tough to win there. Penticton is the same, very rarely do teams get out of there with a win, and West Kelowna is probably the best team in the league right now.”
If there is any good news for the
Spruce Kings heading into the three games, it’s that the ‘circle the wagons’ strategy is one they’ve already been playing.
“We did it against Victoria on Sat-urday (a 1-0 loss) and held our own against a very high-powered team. We held them, and we just didn’t get any goals.”
Th ey need more of the same on defense this weekend, and they need someone to put the puck in the net.
“I can’t see us getting fi ve or six goals in a game right now, so we need to play good defensively. And we need guys to step up on off ense. Guys who haven’t gotten powerplay time this season are going to get it.”
Dupas says the losses of Lashek and LeBrun doesn’t just mean having to juggle lines.
“You can’t replace those guys. Not only are they two of our top scorers, they’re also big bodies who spend a lot of time in the other team’s end. If the puck’s in that end, it’s going to be tough for them to score on us.”
He says there is one other thing he is going to be preaching to his team as they head south for the three games.
“Our penalty-killing is really good, it’s saved us in some games, but we can’t play with fi re in these games.
“Good penalties, you have to take them, but we can’t aff ord to take any lazy penalties.”
It’s another three-game road weekend the following weekend for the Spruce Kings, as they play a pair of games in Surrey on Oct. 18 and 19, then play Langley on Oct. 20. Th e next home game is Oct. 24, when they host Merritt at the Coliseum.
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Female Cougars on road
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Todd Jordan doesn’t have any illu-sions about the start of the Canada West basketball season.
“We’ve got a pretty new group of guys,” says the UNBC mens’ bas-ketball coach. “We’re going to have to be patient over the fi rst couple of months.”
Th e Timberwolves got their fi rst
taste of game action on the weekend with three pre-season games in Al-berta. Th ey lost all three, but Jordan saw plenty of encouraging signs.
“We got better as the weekend went along. We didn’t play well against Mount Royal (an 81-70 loss), were in control most of the game against Red Deer (84-80 loss), and played well against Alberta (86-62 loss).”
Th e good news was Jordan had the chance to experiment with diff erent combinations of players on the fl oor.
Th e bad news was that was partly due to a couple of injuries.
“We were missing Billy Cheng and Devin McMurtry this weekend, both out with injuries. Devin is on a concus-sion watch. He hasn’t shown any problems, and he probably could have played, but that’s something you don’t mess
around with. If there are no setbacks, he should be good to go this week-end.”
Cheng, however, won’t be.
“Billy broke his foot mid-summer, and we’re just waiting for x-rays to see how it’s healing. When he does get back, he’s going to have to catch up to the other
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players, because he obviously hasn’t been doing any running. We’re hoping to have him back by the last week of October.”
Missing two players meant more court time for others.
“I played most of the guys a decent amount of time, experimented with the lineup. We aren’t quite as deep when we’re missing a couple of players, so guys got tired as the games went along.”
Cheng’s absence was noticeable, Jordan said.
“He’s a pretty dy-namic guy, and he has a lot of experience in our system. We had to tweak things depend-ing on what personnel we had on the court. Each lineup has its own strengths and weak-nesses.”
With Cheng out, Jibreel Stevens got a lot of time at point guard on the weekend.
“He’s got a lot of experience, playing two years at junior college in Tacoma, so he gives us another option there.”
Another newcomer, Franck Kouagnia, also had a strong weekend, Jordan said.
“He’s originally from Cameroon, but he spent the last few seasons in England. He’s a 6-7 for-ward who had a pretty solid weekend. He was commanding in the paint a lot of the time.”
Returnee Charles Barton also had a strong weekend.
“We expect him to be one of the main con-tributors this season,” Jordan said.
Th e Timberwolves are back home this weekend for a pair of preseason games against Grande Prairie Regional College.
“I only saw a few minutes of one of their games in Edmonton,” Jordan says, “but they look like a very scrappy team. I expect them to be better than last year.”
Game times are 7 p.m. on Oct. 12 and 1 p.m. on Oct. 13 at the Charles Jago Northern Sport Centre.
Th e women’s team was also in Alberta on the weekend, where they lost 75-63 to Grant McEwan and 65-62 to NAIT before downing Mount Royal 61-45. Th e women are now off until they host Quest Univer-sity Oct. 25 and 26.
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For high-school cross-country teams in the north, the season doesn’t start in September.
“You can tell if the kids have been running over the summer,” College Heights Secondary coach Jeff Goodrich says. “Isaac (Goodrich) and Julia (Babich) are both looking very strong so far this year, and Ariel (Gilbert) is running better than she’s run before.”
Goodrich fi nished second in the senior boys’ di-vision of a race at 10 Mile Lake on Saturday, while Babich was leading the senior girls’ race when she was misdirected and ended up off the course.
“It’s better that it happened here than at the zones,” Goodrich says. “Our girls team looks pretty strong. Julia is one of the strongest runners in the zone.”
Even without Babich, College Heights runners claimed four of the top eight spots in the senior girls’ race at 10 Mile Lake, with Sydney Irving fourth, Ariel Gilbert sixth, Abby Goodrich seventh and Bianca Zemliak eighth.
Sheridan MacArthur fi nished fourth in the junior girls race, while Kaitlyn Joyce was second in the juvenile girls event.
On the boys side, aft er Goodrich’s second-place fi nish in the senior boys event, Colten Illingworth fi nished fourth and Th omas Cosh 11th in the same race.
“It’s a short season up here,” Jeff Goodrich says. “It always is, but this year I think we had one race fewer than normal. I’m not sure what happened.”
In previous years, he said, College Heights usu-ally had more boys than girls competing, but the pendulum has swung the other way recently.
“You need to have fi ve runners for a team, so I’m not sure we’ll have an offi cial boys team at the zones.”
Th e zones are in Vanderhoof on Oct. 19, and the course won’t be a surprise.
“We’ve already had one race on the same course this year, and it’s the same course they’ve used out there the past few years, so the kids know it pretty well.
“It’s about a 2k course, so the girls will do two laps and the boys do three.”
One thing that hasn’t changed in the zone this year is a dominant run-ner in the senior level. What has changed is the name and division.
“Th e girls event is wide open this year with Emma Balasz (Kelly Road) graduating. Julia has a real good chance to medal.”
In previous years, the question in the senior girls division was “Who’s going to fi nish second to Ella?” Th is year, the same question is being asked in the senior boys division.
“Alexander Nemethy (of Vanderhoof) is just so strong. It is a question of who’ll fi nish second, and I think Isaac and Colten both have good chances to medal.”
Qualifi ers from the zones will head to the provincial in Langley.
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Cougars aim for zone medals
Photo courtesy College Heights SecondaryAbby Goodrich of College Heights Secondary leads teammates Ariel Gilbert (in sweatshirt) and Bianca Zemliak (in glasses) through part of the course at a weekend cross-country race at 10 Mile Lake.
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Speed skating, especially short track, is a very simple sport: Go fast and turn left .
For members of the PG Blizzard speed skating club, those are words to live by, and they’ll be getting plenty of chances over the next couple of seasons to practice them at home.
With the Canada Winter Games coming to Prince George in 2015, this winter will see test events in all the sports, including both short track and long track skating. Ariadne Hiller is the sport leader for short track skating at the Games, and she says it should be a great event.
“We hope to have the fastest ice in B.C. at the Kin Centre for the Games,” she says. “Right now, the Coliseum is the fastest in B.C. for short track.”
Kin 1 will be used for the short track events at the Games, while the long track races will be held at the Outdoor Oval. Hiller says they are already gear-ing up for a test event for short track this winter.
“Th ings are going really, really well. Speed Skating Canada will be sending high-level offi cials to the test event to help train local people to be offi cials at the Games.”
Th e test events will also test every aspect of the facility and the volunteers, including transportation, the venue itself, and medi-cal facilities. Hiller says they hope they never have to use the medical facilities, but it can happen.
“I was in Kitimat when the BC Games were held there, and we had a cata-
strophic injury. A skater had a skate blade pierce their lung. We saved a life because we had the proper medical equipment and staff .”
Samara Th ew knows the dangers of short-track skat-ing fi rsthand.
“I went into the boards headfi rst during a race last year,” the 16-year-old says. “I was in the hospital for quite a while, wondering at fi rst if I had a broken neck.”
Th at’s one of the reasons she prefers long-track skat-ing.
“I do short track for the training, so I stay ready for long track.”
Samara has been speed skating for three years, but has been a fi gure skater for 13, and still does both.
“I like long track be-cause it’s more like fi gure
skating. It’s more of a solo event. When you’re on the ice, you’re never directly competing against another person at the same time really.”
She says the toughest part about making the change from fi gure skat-ing to speed skating was getting used to the longer blade on the speed skate, as well as the lack of a toe pick.
“I’m still working on my technique, especially for my starts. I think I’ve got a lot of endurance, so I like the longer races. My favou-rite is the 3,000 (metres), because I can just keep going and the other racers usually fall away.”
Samara competed at the Short Track Single Distance races in Calgary at the end of September, her fi rst ma-
jor speed skating event.“I wanted to get personal
bests in my races, and I did, but not as much as I wanted.”
Carolina Hiller was an-other member of the Bliz-zard who was at Calgary, and she returned to Cal-gary last weekend for the Canadian Open National Qualifi er, where she quali-fi ed for the nationals.
“Th is will be my second trip to the Nationals,” says the 16-year-old. “I was 27th last year in Toronto. Th is year, they’re in Montreal.”
Unfortunately, she says, you don’t get to see much of the city.
“Th ere are practices and you skate in the races. Th ere’s not much time to be a tourist.”
Carolina has been skat-ing for 12 years, and says
she thinks the start is key to her races.
“I get a good start. Last year, I was always fi rst to the corner in every race. I think being in track helped with that.”
Along with Hiller, Alison Desmarais also qualifi ed for the nationals. Des-marais splits her train-ing between Vanderhoof, where she lives, and Prince George. Madison Pilling of the Blizzard also skated in the meet on the weekend, but was hampered by a knee injury.
Corine Masich is the vice-president of the Bliz-zard, as well as more.
“I’m also an advanced group coach, the marketing and media director, and the fundraising coordinator. We’re a small club, so we all keep busy.”
Her family joined the club seven years ago, and she says it’s nice at times that it is a small club.
“Th ere’s a real sense of family, everyone takes care of everyone. Many of the parents are also offi cials, and it’s nice to know when you’re timing, that some-one else is making sure your child is getting their skates tied up correctly for their next race.”
Th e Blizzard have about 50 skaters in the club this year, ranging in age for 4 to 60.
“We take a bit of a break in December for long-track skating,” Masich says. “It’s a pretty short season for us here.”
For more information on the PG Blizzard, go to their website at www.pgblizzrd.ca.
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Allan WISHART/Free PressPG Blizzard coach Duane Swan, second in line, skates with a group during a practice Tuesday evening at the Coliseum.
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