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City closing in on $4M in federal and provincial funding over the last month

Provincial funding lands at airport

South Peace MLA Mike Bernier announces provincial funding for the Dawson Creek Regional Airport Tuesday. MIKE CARTER PHOTO

Improvements to the Dawson Creek Regional Airport are already underway, but it's never too late for the provincial government to help with the cost.

Christy Clark’s caucus has chipped in $82,311.With workers installing a new roof above their

heads, South Peace MLA Mike Bernier, Dawson Creek Mayor Dale Bumstead and Airport Man-ager Ian Darling gathered in the terminal building

Tuesday afternoon for the announcement.Three projects will be completed with the

funding, including $52,961 to fi x the leaky termi-nal roof.

A CCTV surveillance system will also be put in place at a price tag of $19,149. The airport hopes the cameras will help deter break-ins and vandal-ism.

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Determining whether the Dawson Creek RCMP officer who killed James McIntyre will face charges could take between six months and a year, a spokesperson for the B.C. Independent Investigations Office (IIO) said Tuesday.

The office has confirmed that in-vestigators have left Dawson Creek but continue to probe McIntyre's death outside the Fixx Urban Grill on July 16.

"[Investigators] are no longer ac-tively deployed, however, the file is still being investigated back here in Surrey," said spokesperson Ralph Krenz.

"It's not unusual for these types of files to take anywhere from six months to a year before we're in a position to re-port out or make any conclusions."

According to the office's latest an-nual report, previous investigations have run an average of 165 days, rang-ing from 98 to 373 days between the incident and the release of the office's findings.

IIO officials say the McIntyre shoot-ing has been one of the most complex cases the office has dealt with, follow-

ing an initial report that McIntyre was causing a disturbance at a Site C open house at the restaurant that evening.

Spokesperson Kellie Kilpatrick later said that McIntyre and the man at the Site C event were not the same person.

McIntyre, 48, was the sixth person to be shot by police since April 1. He later died of his injuries.

“At this point, we’re in the very early stages of this investigation so we don’t have a sense of when we’d be able to think about an end point regarding this file,” said Krenz.

Deadly police shootings on the rise

Fatal police shootings have become more common since the IIO began op-erations in 2012. The office was created after public inquiries into the deaths of Frank Paul in 1998 and Robert Dziekan-ski in 2007.

Since April 1, the start of the IIO’s fiscal year, police officers have shot six people in British Columbia.

That follows on the heels of a record 2014-15, which saw 13 people die in in-teractions with police—seven of which were shooting deaths. Nine people were killed by police officers in both 2012-13 and 2013-14. In the first year, four of those deaths were shootings, while in 2013-14 one person was fatally shot. Reckless driving, Tasers, use of force and deaths in custody accounted for other fatalities.

Since 2012, the IIO has investigated a total of 124 incidents, the majority of which were non-fatal.

Once an investigation is open, the office will determine whether the of-ficer was justified in killing or injuring a person. If the officer acted appropri-ately, the IIO will typically issue a report detailing what happened. If not, the IIO will forward the file to Crown Counsel, which determines whether to charge an officer.

Thirty-six of those files have been sent to the Crown, six of which have led to charges including assault, as-sault with a weapon, reckless driving and second degree murder. Only two of those cases have concluded, and only one with a guilty verdict.

In Oct. 2014, an officer in New West-minster was convicted of distracted driving after he drove his cruiser into a van, injuring the 67-year-old driver.

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Cows in a pasture near Groundbirch. Three men face charges after three calves were discovered dead in the community pasture Sunday. JONNY WAKEFIELD PHOTO

Three men have been charged after allegedly shooting and butchering three calves in a com-munity pasture west of Dawson Creek.

Travis Ricky Wiebe, 24, Cody Lee Housego, 21 and William Rodrick Blanchard, 19, face charges of killing cattle, as well as multiple counts includ-ing animal cruelty, fi rearms and theft charges.

Gina Odden went to the Groundbirch Com-munity pasture Sunday night and was disturbed to fi nd the remains of the three calves. One of the animals belonged to Odden and her husband Clint, while the other two calves belonged to a neighbour.

"I saw the remains of what was left of the car-casses, which was pretty gruesome," she told the Alaska Highway News.

"They were poached for purpose of taking meat home to their freezer, that's basically what the people had been up to."

Odden's calf was born this spring and weighed nearly 500 pounds.

"That calf that got butchered is worth between

$800 and $1,200 to us," she said. “You just don’t do those things to other people.

This is our livelihood.”

Multiple ranchers summer their cattle at the community pasture, which is on thousands of acres Crown land.

Odden expects poaching happens from time to time, but said she has never been personally af-fected.

“As farmers we put them out there and that’s where they are the whole summer,” she said.

“We tour around and keep track of things, but you can’t be there every minute of everyday.”

The men have not been convicted of the al-leged offences. Their next court appearance is scheduled for Aug. 25.

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Bernier vows to take hard look at school bus funding

Newly minted Education Minister Mike Bernier says school bus funding will be “one of the fi rst things” he will crack the books on as he settles into his new cabinet position.

Bernier was promoted to his new post last Thursday, replac-ing Peter Fass-bender in one of the toughest port-folios for Premier Christy Clark’s caucus.

But, for Bernier, the job is a chance to use his new powers to fulfi ll an old campaign promise.

In the 2013 elec-tion campaign, changes to the pro-vincial school bus funding for-mula were a hotly contested issue, leaving School Districts 59 and 60 with fewer dollars for bussing costs, and other dis-tricts with more.

As a candidate, Bernier said in an interview that the prov-ince couldn’t use a “cookie cut-ter approach” to funding and that it needed to look at rein-stating its old formulas or to give special exemptions to re-gions like the northeast.

“We need to make sure we get recognition out here for the distances that we need to drive and the rural populations that we have to serve,” Bernier told the Alaska Highway News.

“I’m not happy with the for-mula either and it’s one of those things that I vow to look at if I get elected.”

School District 60 has al-ready begun charging a $100 fee for rural families to bus their children to school this fall.

In SD59, the district has in-troduced busing fees for pri-

vate schools, cut a total of six bus routes, and have begun charging fees for Chetwynd in-town bussing.

Last week, Bernier said the way the province funds school transportation must be ad-dressed.

“It’s a huge issue,” Bernier said.

“It was only a month ago that I met with the school board and said I was going to do ev-erything I could to have the Minister of Education come to talk to them about that issue.”

Now that he’s the man in charge, Bernier said “one of the fi rst things I’m going to do is start

looking at that and see what the options are.”

If one of those options is to change the funding back to the way it was—as Bernier has said the province should look at—that may cause rip-ples across the province, since other school districts benefi ted from the new funding formula, even though the northeast lost dollars.

Meanwhile, Bernier will have other issues to deal with, which include mend-ing a frayed relationship with the B.C. Teachers’ Federation, which went on strike in 2014.

Bernier said that he wanted to improve that relationship.

“One of the comments mentioned to me when I was put in is to use my style around collaboration and working well around a lot of different opin-ions,” Bernier said when asked why he was chosen for this po-sition.

“A lot of the things I’ve been appointed to lately is dealing with a lot of sectors.”

Bernier called the new posi-tion “quite an honour.”

“It was really exciting to get

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Dawson Creek has been de-veloping as quite a hot bed for female hockey and on August 20 those young girls who have taken up the game will have the opportunity to meet some of the female games best.

The Canadian Women’s Hockey League will be bringing the Clarkson Cup, their league

trophy, Olympic Gold medal-ists Natalie Spooner (Toronto Furies) and Meaghan Mikkel-son (Calgary Inferno) along with Canada’s biggest mobile synthetic ice rink to the com-munity later this summer.

The tour, called the Prairie Toyota Clarkson Cup Tour will be in 26 cities over the course of the summer with the 26’ x 20’ mobile synthetic ice sur-face.

Communications director for the CWHL Jennifer Smith said it’s all about extending the reach of the women’s game and helping young girls see a future in hockey beyond their local club.

“Hockey opens so many doors for young women,” smith said.

“Increasingly parents are becoming aware of that... I think for these young girls in your community, to see these players and hear their story, because they were just like them. Love the game, passion-ate about the game, probably didn’t see what the road ahead looked like, but these women are real trail blazers.”

Smith said the event, which

gets underway at 5 o’clock on August 20 will have plenty of cool opportunities for young hockey players.

“Kids can come down, we ask they bring skates and a hel-met, if they have hockey sticks bring their sticks down. Kids can take to the ice with these CWHL players and do little skills clinics and play games,” she said.

“We have the Clarkson Cup, which is the trophy awarded to the league champion. Kids can get their picture taken with the players and with the cup. In doing so learn about the CWHL and some amaz-ing athletes who are play-ing hockey October through march, folks that you would

normally only get to see in the Olym-pics.”

Mikkleson will be one of the players in a t t e n d a n c e and was in Dawson Creek in 2010 with the Women’s Olympic team training camp.

She noted that for her and Spooner, the opportu-nity to inspire young girls to play hockey

made it an easy decision to get on board with the tour.

“As a CWHL player and a native of Saskatchewan, I am so excited to be a part of this event,” said Mikkelson, Calgary Inferno forward and Olympic gold medalist in a CWHL re-lease.

“For Nat and me to tour the Prairies talking to young fans about their goals and dreams is such a big part of our vision at the Canadian Women’s Hock-ey League. We know that this event will inspire young people and build new fans of wom-en’s hockey – we couldn’t do this without the Prairie Toyota Dealers’ incredible support.”

At the event the City Of Dawson Creek will also host a Swap/Shop/Sell and Showcase that will allow parents to ex-change new or used ice sports equipment. Dawson Creek Mi-nor Hockey Association, Mile Zero Figure Skating Club and the Dawson Creek Speed Skat-ing Club will all have booths set up with information about their upcoming season.

If you can’t attend on Au-gust 20, the city asks you to drop your new and used equipment off at community services in city hall Monday to Friday from 8:30-4:30 or at Kin Arena Monday to Friday 9 a.m.- 2 p.m.

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On Wednesday 111 hopeful hockey players gathered for Can-ada’s National Under-17 Devel-opment Camp in Calgary.

66 of those players will even-tually make up the rosters of the three Canadian teams that will compete in Fort St. John and Dawson Creek come November at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge that was awarded to

the North and South Peace Ear-lier this summer.

The challenge will bring to-gether the top players from around the world born in 1999 or later and is the first step in Hockey Canada’s Program of Ex-cellence, from which some of the best Canadian hockey players have honed their skills.

The camp is also a first for Hockey Canada, as they brought together 200 male players and 86 female players over a two-week period in Calgary for what is be-

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The Wild and Lawless Horse Show is a unique spectacle that intends to capture the early days of riding a horse, along with the new age thrill of an Ex-treme Cowboy Challenge.

That was the opportunity ahead of about 100 cowboys and cowgirls at the Lakota Agriplex in Dawson Creek on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the sev-enth annual show put on by the Peace Country and Riders Association. The weekend featured three days of reining and western riding, with the Extreme Cowboy Challenge packing the house on Saturday night.

The cowboy challenge is glorifi ed trail horse class, where 12 riders, each in teams of two compete to register the

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airport’s secure key control access sys-tem including replacements of replac-ing card readers, key fobs, padlocks and door controllers. This $10,201 project was identifi ed by Transport Canada as a need for the airport, Darling said.

“We have millions of dollars worth of investment sitting on the [tarmac], and vehicles parked in the [parking lot] and no real way of securing that,” he said.

“I’m really happy the provincial gov-ernment has recognized the great need for investing in transportation in gener-al, but [especially] investing in airports.”

When Bernier, a former mayor of Dawson Creek, was fi rst elected to council in the city, one of the fi rst jobs he was given was to be part of the Air-port Advisory Committee, he said.

“It was all about how we make this airport sustainable and try to grow it,” Bernier said. “This airport is important not only to Dawson Creek, but to the re-gion.”

Bernier noted that the airport is used extensively for corporate fl ights and fi xed-wing air ambulance transports, as well as commercial fl ights by Hawkair to Vancouver and Terrace-Kitimat.

According to BC Emergency Health Services, the airport was used for 233 air ambulance transports last year, and 261 in 2013.

The money comes from the province’s B.C. Air Access Program, part of the B.C. on the Move transportation plan. The program will distribute $24 million over three years to airports across the prov-ince.

Bumstead said the city had planned to spend $160,000 in its capital budget plan for improvements to the airport and was working to fi nd that funding.

“With this announcement, half of that is now going to be taken care of by the provincial government,” Bumstead said.

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A collection of 26 volleyball players from Dawson Creek sat quietly, listen-ing intently to the professional volley-ball tales of Michael Amoroso, Sofia Björndahl and Andrea Jacobsson.

They learned about what it takes to become a professional volleyball player from three players who have made the jump from youth volleyball to the pro-fessional ranks, and learned about their worst injury and most triumphant mo-ment.

Although Björndahl and Jacobsson are both Swedish and took a much dif-ferent path to playing pro, their stories still enthralled the young athletes in Dawson Creek.

“Just the idea of opening the door to them. I didn’t know we had a national

team until grade 12. I didn’t even know there was university volleyball until grade 11. A lot of kids just don’t know,” Amoroso said.

“If your goal is to play high school volleyball and that’s all you see at the end of the road, that’s what you’re going to shoot for. Whereas at this age if you can see more than that with this camp, maybe they shoot for that.”

In total 41 volleyball players attend-ed the weeklong camp at Dawson Creek Secondary School, and for Amoroso that turnout is great for a first year loca-tion.

“We’re never quite sure what we are going to get. Because we have been go-ing to Fort St. John for so long and be-cause there is a bit of a legacy there with

Ryan Pomeroy being from there,” he said.

“We were a bit unsure if we wanted to leave. But at the end of the day it’s about access. Speaking to Steve Oliver, he thought even more girls would come but they didn’t hear about it on time. The turnout has been great. Even more than that they really want to be here.”

One significant benefit for the camp in Dawson Creek is the fact that many of the players play together on a regular basis, making it easy for the instructors to move quickly with instructions.

“All these girls they want to get better, they want to learn, they want to work hard. They really want to work hard which is cool. They are willing to dive all over the court and get right back up,”

Amoroso said. “The quicker they gel with each oth-

er, the more malleable they are, the eas-ier they learn… they are getting better fast, which is cool.”

And while in one week it might be hard to significant change, alter or im-prove a skill set, Amoroso said if they can take those skills forward in the rest of the season, they will have done their job.

“The biggest service we can do for these kids is introduce them to as much as possible. To the kind of stuff as they get to higher levels they will need to know, so that their club coaches say it, the light switch is go-ing to go off,” he added.

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The seventh of nine children born to John Edward andMary Millicent Graydon on September 21, 1951 in Fernie BC., Maureen was known as “Wink” to her brothers and sisters. She always fondly recalled happy times growing up with her parents and siblings.

She met the love of her life, Stanley Howard and on March 8, 1969 they were married in Williams Lake BC. They spent many years living and

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She was creative, witty and sarcastic. Fiercely protective and always concerned with how everyone was doing, she was the centre of the family, binding us all together.

She leaves to mourn her loving husband and best friend, Stanley, her 3 childrenMary (Kevin) Butt of Yellowknife, NT, Bernadette (Alvin) Ukrientz of Vanderhoof, BC and Trevor (August) Howard of Sparwood, BC.

She is sadly missed and lovingly remembered by her grandchildren of whom she was so proud: Sara, Samantha, Kaitlynn, Billie-Jean, Katrina, Tyrell, Braden, Nathan, Breanna and Robyn.

She will also be dearly missed by her brother Ed and her sisters Shirley, Bonnie, Pat, Kathleen and Marlene, and a lifetime of extended family and friends.

She was predeceased by her parents, her younger brother Steven and her big sister Dean.It was her wish that no service be held. As an expression of sympathy please donate to the

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On August 29th at the Bear Mountain community PastureOn August 29th at the Bear Mountain community Pasture

2015 Horseback Poker Ride2015 Horseback Poker Ride2015 Horseback Poker Ride2015 Horseback Poker Ride2015 Horseback Poker Ride

Contact the Dawson Creek & District Hospital Foundation for more information. 250-784-7355

First hand is $25, additional hands are $15. Prizes will vary.

Brought to you by the Dawson Creek & District Hospital Foundation

Show your support by joining us at 3:00 pm at the community pasture in Arras (please call for directions). Play a hand of poker, and enjoy an a� ernoon ride around the pasture with your friends & family. Don’t have a horse to ride? Call us to hear about our wagon rides!

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