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As the crowd watched on, team riders with their spurs ready and lassos swinging roped the head and back legs as quickly as possible in the Team Roping event on Saturday afternoon in the Indoor Arena during the 49th Nechako Valley Exhibition. Results to come next week.

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Vanderhoof may be no stranger to clean air, water, and food, and the District has now declared citizens’ offi cial right to them.

Representatives of the Enviro-Vikes, environmental club students at the Nechako Valley Secondary School, presented to the district council a model municipal declara-tion on the right to a healthy envi-ronment last Monday.

“It’s not making our district ac-countable for anything,” said Kathy Russell, the club’s staff sponsor. “It’s giving them guidelines, hope-fully to support initiatives that are already in place.”

The declaration is part of the Da-vid Suzuki Foundation’s Blue Dot project, which aims to add envi-ronmental rights into the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by gathering support from seven out of 10 provinces, which would rep-resent more than 50 per cent of the Canadian population, according to the foundation.

“As Canadians, we feel like we do have a healthy environment and we take it for granted, and we just assume that it’s in our Charter of Rights,” Russell said. “It turns out that we’re one of the minority of

countries that doesn’t have it writ-ten in our Charter.”

She noted that 76 municipal governments across Canada have currently signed the declaration, while only six communities had in November, when the Enviro-Vikes met David Suzuki at a luncheon in November.For District Councillor Kevin

Moutray, the new declaration goes along with the council’s mindset.

“We have a green event policy for when the council hosts events,” Moutray said. “We try to look out for the environment where we can, within our limited area of jurisdic-tion.”

He noted that the council has doubled the amount of reusable place settings to 200 sets in the Green Toolkit last year, which is available for rental from the Necha-ko Valley Waste Reduction Initia-tive.

For the students, who were mostly graduating and have been involved with the environment club for fi ve years, it’s a fi nal project for a cause they are very passionate about, Russell added.

“When we went to the tour, they were just so inspired by David Su-zuki’s speech,” she said. “They wanted to take it to our commu-nity.”

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SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 91 (NECHAKO LAKES)

KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION

1. DAVID HOY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – Fort St. James Parents should register Kindergarten pupils new to the area on August 31 – September 4, 2015

2. MOUSE MOUNTAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – Fraser Lake Parents should register Kindergarten pupils new to the area on August 31 – September 4, 2015, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

3. EVELYN DICKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – Vanderhoof Parents should register Kindergarten pupils new to the area on August 31 – September 4, 2015

4. MAPES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – Vanderhoof Parents should register Kindergarten pupils new to the area on August 31 – September 4, 2015, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

5. SINKUT VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – Vanderhoof Kindergarten Registration for the 2014-15 School year is closed, but will re-open for the 2015-16 School year.

6. W.L. MCLEOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – Vanderhoof Parents should register English or French Immersion Kindergarten pupils new to the area on August 31 – September 4, 2015

7. EBUS Academy – Vanderhoof Please phone our registrar at 1-800-567-1236 any weekday during the summer to discuss how the EBUS distance learning Kindergarten program may fi t your child’s needs.

TRANSPORTATION: Kindergarten pupils will be transported on regular school bus runs. To request transportation for your child/children please contact the offi ce starting the week of August 31, 2015

Fort St. James Bus Garage: Frances Honeywell, at 250-996-7835Vanderhoof Bus Garage: Graeme Kellam or Tracey Syrota, at 250-567-9618Fraser Lake Bus Garage: Lisa Barnes, at 250-699-6995


REGISTRATION FOR STUDENTS NEW TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT

Registration for all students who are NEW to this District will take place in the school listed below on the dates indicated during the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. unless otherwise stated. Grade 6 & 7 students heading to Nechako Valley Secondary and students who are returning to their same school as last year do not need to re-register.

Report cards or transfer records should be presented to the school upon registration to assist in proper placement in the school. Please bring the student’s birth certifi cate and care card.

Beginning students (Kindergarten and Grade One) who have already registered should not re-register.

SCHOOL GRADES ENROLLED DATE

Evelyn Dickson Elementary Kindergarten - Grade 6 Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2015

Mapes Elementary Kindergarten - Grade 6 Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2015 **(9:00 am to 1:30 pm)

Nechako Valley Secondary Grade 7 - Grade 12 Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2015

Sinkut View Elementary Kindergarten - Grade 6 Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2015

W.L. McLeod Elementary Kindergarten - Grade 6 Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2015

Fraser Lake Elementary Sec. Grade 4 - Grade 12 Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2015

Mouse Mountain Elementary Kindergarten - Grade 3 Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2015 **(9:00 am to 2:30 pm)

David Hoy Elementary Kindergarten - Grade 7 Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2015

Fort St. James Secondary Grade 8 - Grade 12 Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2015

EBUS Academy Kindergarten - Grade 12 Online, July & August, 2015**NOTE TO SECONDARY STUDENTS:

Those students who register after Friday, September 4, 2015, may have diffi culty registering in classes due to space availability.


SCHOOL OPENING AND REGISTRATION

All schools will open on Tuesday, September 8, 2015, at the regular time. Parents and students should note that on school opening day school bus runs would be as follows:

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015Bus runs will begin on their regular schedule in the morning and will make the return run immediately following school dismissal at noon. Please note that noon hours vary from school to school.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015WEDNESDAY, September 9, 2015, will be a full, regular day with regular bus runs both morning and afternoon.

Kindergarten students will begin regular bus runs. For further information, see the advertisement re: Kindergarten.

NOTES:With student population shifts in various locations, some changes in bus runs or pick-up locations may be required. Problems such as these will be carefully studied and parents will be notifi ed. Cooperation by all concerned will be appreciated. If you have any questions, contact Tracey Syrota, Transportation Manager, at 250-567-9618.

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Along with speeding complaints, the Vander-hoof RCMP recorded four roadside encounters with drivers this week, including three fails or warning after an alcohol test and one charged for impaired driving.

Broke and enteredA man broke into a car in the Vanderhoof Home

Centre on the night of Aug.16.According to a surveillance camera on site, the

man had climbed the compound’s fence, headed straight for the car, smashed the car window, rum-maged through the glove compartment, and left immediately.

The man appeared to have left the premises with an object, though staff from the Vanderhoof and Districts Coop did not report missing anything.

Beating the trainOn Aug.18, CN Police Service reported a log-

ging truck running across the railway tracks on Burrard Avenue as the safety gates came down for an incoming train, damaging the south gate as it caught the truck’s tail end.

Though unsafe railway crossings are rare in Vanderhoof — two to three instances per year — the RCMP reminds citizens of the safety risks in-volved, as the train would not be able to stop at such short distances.

The Recreation Avenue overpass east of the crossing provides an easy-to-access alternate route to the other side of town.

Itchy fi ngers courting carsSummer has brought to the RCMP a half dozen

of reports last week on people wandering and ran-domly checking car doors.

The police advices citizens to secure their vehi-cles and ensure that their valuables are locked away from prying eyes.

- With fi les from Sgt. Svend Nielsen, Vanderhoof RCMP

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New CAOTom Clement, formerly Vander-

hoof’s Director of Community Devel-opment, is now the new Chief Admin-istrative Offi cer.

“I have great staff here, who will make my job as CAO a whole lot eas-ier,” Clement said. “The public works and recreation employees are the best around, I expect great things from them all.”

The previous CAO Evan Parlia-ment, from Summerland, had left on Aug.12 after his two years of tenure at the district council.

“Mr. Parliament has left Vander-hoof and I wish him all the best in the future,” Clement said.

Renewing arena concession

The District is call-ing for volunteer or pri-vate groups to operate the concession in Van-derhoof’s arena.

With new manage-ment, the concession could open for more

hours and have better food choices, as well as eliminate past concerns re-garding volunteer shortage and food safety, stated Clement in a council document.

The concession was previously managed by the Nechako Figure Skating Club, where registrants were asked to help run the food outlet by volunteering or paying an additional cheque for food staff.

“[Not operating the concession any more] is the best way to ask less from the parents of the fi gure skaters, as well as having a comparable cost to other sports clubs in the district,” said the club’s president Jeannie Garrett.

“We were having to ask for reg-istration fee, and then concession postdated cheques, and ask people to volunteer to fundraise as well,” she added. “It turned away some people.”

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Cameron Burg test drove his new ride at the Fall Fair on Saturday.


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Play and exercise for better sleep – Research shows that exercising helps you fall asleep faster and stay asleep for longer. This is especially true for kids. Unfortunately, studies show that only seven per cent of kids in Canada get the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity each day. Make sure your child gets enough sleep every night by encouraging physical activity during the day.

Go organic – Teaching our kids about the benefi ts of organic foods is almost as important as making sure that they eat breakfast every day. When you buy organic foods, you’re investing in your health and the health of your family, and you’re supporting environmentally sustainable practices. These are all important messages we

should be teaching our children.Add a multivitamin to your mix – Mornings

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A big thank you to the many, many volun-teers that made the 2015 Nechako Exhibition a fun and entertaining weekend for all ages.

Without these tireless volunteers there would be no Vanderhoof Fall Fair. These volunteers step up to the plate, some of them year after year to make the Nechako Exhibition one of the best coun-try fairs in B.C.

New this year was the logging show and the me-chanical bulls, this entertainment was fun for watching and participating and it was great to see the line ups and the crowds having fun.

The beef show volunteers and participants should be especially proud both with the amount of animals

that were exhibiting and the many, many people who came to watch and check our these fi rst rate top quality show stoppers.

Thank you again volunteers for giving up your time to make our weekend one of the most entertaining and memorable local events of the year and I wish you well for your 50th year in 2016!!!

J.B., Vanderhoof

It has been a long time interest of mine to operate the concession in the Vanderhoof arena. For over 20 years, I had operated restaurants, as well as catering weddings and sports man shows, throughout Canada from Ontario to Yukon. I would like to use my experi-ence to support Vanderhoof junior hockey.

The concession would be open much longer hours including during the week so the school kids could get a wholesome lunch.

The new menu would feature roast beef on a bun, fi sh and chips, chicken wings, pizza, salads and des-serts.

I feel with wholesome food, customer service and cleanliness this would work. It will draw more people from out of town when they can get a meal without leaving the arena.

Ken Pridham

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Coastal city girl meets Fall Fair

Thank you, Fall Fair

volunteers!

For some, it’s “just” another year of the Fall Fair in Vanderhoof, but it’s defi nitely my fi rst.

And it happened only at my second week in Vanderhoof as well — what great timing!

I had expected something similar to the rodeo shows I had seen as a kid during a family trip to Williams Lake, while fl ipping through this year’s booklet produced by our beloved newspaper. Alas, the almost half-a-century-old Nechako Valley Fall Exhibition proved to be much more interesting.

To be fair, it is diffi cult to compare a journalistic experience, which means all sense were tingling at full awareness, with a childhood memory that I could only recall the vestiges of.

What I found the most entertaining and engaging was the 4-H Au-dition. The West Coast Lumberjack Shows were certainly funny, the team roping and barrel races were exhilarating — especially when I was trying my hardest to capture fl ying lassos and swirling dirt in non-blurry photos. But my lips quirked in laughter and excitement with the calls of the auctioneer and the emcee’s lilting song of rising prices.

Nevertheless, the Fall Fair had kicked off with an adrenaline-fi lled start on Friday morning as our offi ce received a call that sent me out the door, camera and recorder in hand, within seconds.

(Is that why being a reporter is such a great disguise for Clark Kent? Where else can you rush out the door during work with no questions asked?)

An accident with a horse-drawn cart had happened. On the way I took two wrong turns. Who knew it could be so easy to get lost in Vanderhoof!

To another great year of Fall Fair!

Vivian Chui

The Rosewoods Diary is “the most dimen-sional group in Vanderhoof,” said Randy

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A young boy raises his hat in salute to the fall fair.


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After being without a home for sev-eral years, the Nechako Valley Search and Rescue is hoping to move into their new headquarters, the former Air Cadet build-ing on Burrard Street.

“We have our equipment and offi ces in three or four different places around town,” says NVSR President Chris Mush-umanski, “and right now we’re based out of the fi re hall. We’re excited about the opportunity to have a dedicated train-ing facility, our mobile command base, equipment, and offi ce in one location. The building permit is in place, the con-tractor has been selected, and we hope to have it complete by this fall.” Seed money came from the Search and Rescue team, followed by $20,000 from the District of Vanderhoof, a grant from the Nechako-Kitimat Development Fund, and money from the Bulkley-Nechako Regional Dis-trict gas tax fund. “We’re grateful that we fi t their parameters,” says Mushumanski. “It can be diffi cult for groups to meet the criteria, and they were very helpful in guiding us through the process.

“We’re also thankful for the recognition of what Search and Rescue does through-out the area. It’s helpful that we operate in all areas of the Regional District, which has a large footprint.” He acknowledges that the money from the four different sources—some $150,000—means that the volunteers on the NVSR don’t have to spend time and energy fundraising. “Some teams have a dedicated fundrais-ing section, which takes a lot of time and effort. The fundraising model for Search and Rescue teams needs to be overhauled, with all levels of government committed to equitable funding. There’s a certain amount of money needed for equipment, training, and expenses no matter how small a team is. We need to provide stable funding for all the teams in the province.”

Considering the amount of time and en-ergy Search and Rescue volunteers devote to their training—let alone their calls—it’s not surprising that they don’t want to have to fundraise as well. The NVSR has three different training areas, all of which meet twice a month for sessions: regular ground search and rescue; water rescue; and rope rescue. While most of the members are in one team, four of the members are in all

three.The NVSR currently has 48 members,

21 of whom are full time active, with an-other 27 who can be used as extra man-power. They’re not trained to the full breadth of the full time members, but can be used when more basic skills are need-ed, especially in a large operation. The team is always looking for more members, and anyone interested in learning more is encouraged to come to the training session on the fi rst Thursday of each month.

“It’s a big time commitment,” notes Mushumanski. In 1991 there were 400 Search and Res-cue callouts province-wide, a fi g-ure which rose to 1,400 in 2014. The growth in that number shows that a lot of things are in play, says Mushumanski. “The provin-cial population is up, plus we’re known throughout the world for being a super, natural outdoor ex-perience. More people are confi -dent in their abilities in the back country, and the RCMP, who are usually the fi rst ones called when someone needs rescuing, are turning to us more and more as they realize we have the neces-sary skills to fi nd people.”

He also points to an urban/rural split, that’s not so much in evidence here but comes into play in a place like Vancouver. “You have an urban population beside a true wilderness, where people don’t have the necessary skills but still go up the Grouse Grind and then fi nd themselves in trouble. It’s great that we live in a province and community where there are groups of volunteers willing to provide help to others regardless of the reason why they got into trouble.”

It’s for this reason that Mush-umanski disagrees with those who call for rescued people to be charged for Search and Rescue services. “We don’t always know the whole story. I like to use the analogy of a guard rail on a high-way. It’s there to protect you no

matter how you got into trouble, whether you were careless or whether it’s an emer-gency. Search and Rescue is the guard rail of the back country. It doesn’t matter why people need it; we’re there. Not charging for that is appropriate.”

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Sean and Kyle Solmonson, champions of the Cow Hide Drag Race, attempted wakeboarding cowboy-style on Saturday.


Nechako Valley Exhibition turns 49!

In the 4-H Pavillion

Left: To the audience on Saturday, Willa Crowley presented on how to identify the different types of trees in the Nechako Valley with the fi rst three letters of their name. Before Crowley, a participant presented on the way to esti-mate a cow’s weight without a scale.

Below: Turkeys (left to right)

Peter Pan, Wendy, and

Captain Cook searched through the

audience of the 4-H auction on Saturday

afternoon for their new owner.

*Please excuse any mistakes in

identifying turkeys.

Above:Abby Dorion tended to seven-month-old Bay max, who weighs 303 lbs. Currently her fourth fair, Dorion prefers pigs over sheep be-cause “you don’t need to worry about them bloating; you can feed them as much as you want.”

Right:The audience of the 4-H auction looked on as

Miss Bacon presented her best side.

Photos by Vivian Chui


Axe-shining new to this year’s Fall Fair:

lumberjack shows and mechanical bulls

Above: A spectator from Australia laughed in victory with her second prize at the Jack n’ Jill Cross-Cut event — a rocking chair carved on the spot by a lumberjack athlete in the show.

Above: A young mechanical bull tamer rose up for the challenge as the crowd cheered on.

Right: During the Tree Climbing

event, the East Coast lumberjack (left) swung

his legs and hung on as he slipped, and his West

Coast competitor raced by to the top.

Above: Lumberjacks from the East Coast stretched in preparation for the Cross-Cut Saw event.


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Stealing base for Blaine Barfoot

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As balls crunched into mitts and cheers roared from the crowd, the fast ball tournament commem-orating Blaine Barfoot fi nished with success as the Nadleh Hornets defeated Prince George Giants 5 to 1.

Nine teams from Vanderhoof, Fort St. James, and Burns Lake competed at the Blaine Barfoot Memorial Fast Pitch Tournament in Vanderhoof last weekend.

Barfoot, from the Saik’uz Reserve, had passed away in 2013, and he used to be an avid fast ball player, said Barfoot’s mother Karen John.

“He participated [in the last] North American

Indigenous Games, where he played centre fi elder,” John said.

The idea for the memorial tournament came from Barfoot’s sister, who “dreamt about playing ball with him,” added John.

Winners received $2000, $1200, and $800 for fi rst, second and third places respectively, along with trophies sponsored by Stoney Creek Elders Society.

Participating teams:Nadleh Hornets TigersPrince George Giants Burns Lake BanditsVanderhoof Rippers TlaztenBinche Stealers Nautley JuniorsStampeders

Above:The Nadleh Hornets, champions of the tourna-ment, pointed to the skies in unison for the win on Aug.23.

Left: A Nadleh Hornet was up for bat against the Prince George Giants during the tourna-ment’s fi nal match.

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As the end of summer approach-es, it’s party time at the Vanderhoof Community Garden.

On Sept. 1 at 5:30 p.m., the Nechako Valley Food Group is of-fering a free harvest workshop for thumbs in all shades of green on har-vesting types and storage techniques.

For instance, potatoes are best harvested during dry weather to avoid muddy ground, said Maya Sul-livan, a coordinator of the group.

Taking place on Sept. 9 is the

Harvest Festival, featuring local ven-dors and a dinner of local produce.

“It’s a great chance to see the garden, what we have accomplished this year, and what local producers are doing,” said Sullivan.

The garden is also a venue for W.L.McLeod School’s Farm to School program, which offers a healthy lunch to students, said Mi-chelle Roberge, a participant in the program with her children.

Having maintained the garden throughout the summer, students and parents will harvest the fruits of their labour in mid-September.

A student from W.L.McLeod School harvested tomatoes from the community garden last year.

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Karl Fredericks, the only survivor of a trio of men who had gone north from Fort St. James in June 1930, was found to be working at a farm in Moon Lake, Alberta. Fredericks was promptly arrested for the murder of the other two men, although he maintained that he had never met Max Westphal or Herman Peters, the dead men, and had never been to Trembleur Lake, Fort St. James, or Vanderhoof. He was brought back to Prince George, and during the journey his story changed. Now he claimed that he did know the other two, and that while they were camped by Trembleur Lake there had been an argu-ment, during which Westphal and Fredericks told Peters they wanted to end the journey. Peters—who according to Fredericks had a vicious temper—told the other two he would kill them if they turned back. Fredericks claimed he had killed Peters in self-defence, and had returned to the camp some hours later to fi nd Westphal dead, apparently killed by Peters earlier in the day.

Fredericks was placed in a police line-up and identifi ed as the man who had come out of the bush alone. The German asked for paper and a pen, and proceeded to write a lengthy account of what had transpired.

A preliminary hearing in December 1930 saw the evidence presented, and Fredericks was charged with the murders of Westphal and Peters. The case was scheduled to be heard at the Spring Assize in Prince George, with the Citizen noting that “the greatest interest” was being taken in the matter.

When the case of Rex vs. Fredericks opened on May 14, 1931, the courtroom was packed. A long

string of witnesses, mainly Indians from Tachie, testifi ed as to what they had seen when the three men went into the bush and only one came out. When it came time for the defence to present its case, Fredericks’ lawyer, Mr. Young, asked that the accused’s written statement be entered as evidence. Some doubts were raised as to whether it was ad-missible, as the accused had not received an offi cial police warning before writing it. Eventually, how-ever, it was allowed, and was found to contain yet another version of the story.

In this account, Fredericks asserted that Peters had been a brutal man who had at one point kicked Fredericks into the river when the latter had said he wanted to turn back. On the night of the murders Fredericks claimed that Westphal had retired to bed and Fredericks decided to go hunting for bears. He had gone some half-mile from the camp when he heard shouts, and then a gunshot. He turned back for the camp, and was about a quarter-mile away when he said that Peters fi red several shots in is di-rection. Fredericks dropped to the ground, where he remained motionless for some minutes. Then he heard another shot, and there was silence from the camp. After an hour he plucked up his cour-

From the history fi le: was Fredericks a killer?

See MURDER, page 12

A store at the Tachi Reserve in 1923, which could be the one Karl Fredericks visited, after leav-ing his two companions in the bush.

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-age and returned to the camp to fi nd Westphal dead, his head half-blown off, and Peters dead close by, also shot through the head; suicide af-ter killing the other man, or so Fred-ericks claimed.

Terrifi ed, he left the camp and re-turned next morning. Assuming he would be suspected of the crime, he stripped most of the clothes off the bodies to prevent identifi cation, and hid them under a nearby log. He bur-ied the two bodies and covered the grave with rocks and driftwood so it would go undetected. He burned all the men’s papers, loaded the provi-sions into the boat, and returned the way he had come, intending to disap-pear to the east.

Fredericks did not take the stand, but his lawyer argued that bullet marks found on two trees near the camp confi rmed his client’s story that Peters had shot at him. No explana-tion was offered as to why Peters’ head had been severed from the body. The crown attorney, Mr. Johnson, pointed out a number of contradic-tions in Fredericks’ statement. For example, he had told some Indians that he had worked for a man named Cameron near Vanderhoof, and had cleared some $150 personally. How-ever, Cameron said he had paid the three men a total of $149. Johnson argued that Fredericks had lied about the money in his statement, in order to lead people to think he had a good deal of money, and therefore no need to kill his companions. Cameron also testifi ed that the three men had been on good terms. Johnson pointed out that Fredericks’ actions after the death of his companions were not those of an innocent man, nor was his state-ment, upon returning to Tachie, that his companions had headed north.

The question faced by the jury was simple: who had killed West-phal? Was it Peters, in anger, or Fredericks, as part of a double mur-der to rid himself of his companions and leave the area? The jury members retired just after noon to deliber-ate, and twice reported back to the judge that they felt unable to reach a unanimous verdict. Both times the judge sent them back to con-sider further; but when, at 6:00 pm, the foreman reported they were still deadlocked the jurors were discharged, with the case being traversed to the Fall Assize in Prince George.

When the case re-sumed in November 1931 the same evidence was once more pre-sented, including the written statement Fred-ericks had made in De-cember of the previous year. This time the jury

did not hesitate to bring in a verdict of guilty; but Fredericks’ defence ap-pealed the decision, winning him yet another trial, this time in Kamloops in the spring of 1932. The third time was the charm for the German, as he was acquitted of both charges and able to leave a free man.

Two years later, however, he was picked up near Bridge Lake in the Cariboo by a game warden, who dis-covered that Fredericks did not have a licence for the rifl e he was carrying. He was told he could either pay a fi ne or spend 60 days in jail, and Fred-ericks, unfortunately for him, chose the latter option. While he was be-ing held, his fi ngerprints and picture were sent to Ottawa, where they were promptly identifi ed with the man who had been tried for murder two years earlier. As he was a German national, this information was transmitted to German offi cials, who replied that Fredericks had six criminal convic-tions in his native country.

The matter was turned over to Im-migration, and Fredericks soon found himself heading towards Halifax, where he was placed on a ship back to Germany. Much had changed there since Fredericks had left, including the rise to power of Adolph Hitler. The Nazi Party had started round-ing up those who opposed it, paying particular attention to anyone who was a member of the Communist Party. Fredericks, it turned out, had been involved with the party before he left for Canada, and had taken part in some street fi ghting. When his ship arrived in Germany in 1934 he was met by members of the S.S., who promptly whisked him away to a con-centration camp.

He was never heard of again.Barbara Roden

Th ree trials later...WAS FREDERICKS A KILLER, continued from page 11

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Walking through his trails, gazing at his woodwork, Vanderhoof’s visitors and residents alike can now view the Nechako River from Peter Rodseth’s park.

The unnamed green space on the north shore of the Necha-ko River, west of the Burrard Avenue Bridge and across from Riverside Park, will be called “Pete Rodseth Park”, as the District’s council decided last Monday.

“This park really was his initiative, it was his sweat and muscle that made it possible,” said Mayor Gerry Thiessen. “I am so thrilled that the park overlooks his beloved Nechako River.”

Access to the park — freshly named after Vanderhoof’s trail maker — will need an upgrade, said Tom Clement, the District’s Chief Administrative Offi cer.

“YRB (Yellowhead Road and Bridge) has offered to do this by widening the two paths down to the park and bringing

them up to a safer standard.”Located in the park is one of the many tables Rodseth

had built— another of his contributions to the area, his sister Joyce said.

“I remember reading a letter from when he was negotiat-ing with the council,” Joyce said. “He [said he] wasn’t charg-ing them, that was his gift.”

Whenever Rodseth was building a trail, he would build something for people to sit and enjoy, she added.

“He just wanted people to sit there and enjoy the river and look over the bird sanctuary,” Joyce said.

“My brother really was a giver.”Rodseth’s love for the Nechako Valley is also monumen-

tally conveyed through his 33-foot long and 10-foot high carved wooden mural, which currently hangs in the atrium of Vanderhoof’s Service BC building on Stewart Street.

Consisted of 10 separate panels and depicting life in interior B.C., the two-inch thick mural not only showcas-es Rodseth’s skill in woodcarving — a craft he studied in a Norwegian valley where his father was born — but it is

also “a love song to his passion for the bountiful landscape of British Columbia, its rivers, its rich Native and pioneer history and his love for all of us,” said Vanderhoof resident Craig Hooper.

Hooper worked with Rodseth in BC Forest Service, where building trails in the region were “a collaboration of two men who were obsessed by the spell of trails, of sunlit pathways winding through forests and mountains,” he recounted.

“When you walk on any trail in the whole landscape of our beautiful Nechako country, chances are you’re walking in Peter’s footsteps and seeing the work of his strong hands,” Hooper said.

As Rodseth said to the Omineca Express in 2006 during an interview, he had much to express through wood.

“I have a simplistic view of what our environment, tour-ism and industries can be here if I am proactive to change. We all need the energy that comes from those around us,” he said. “Dreams of the perfect lover — somewhere out there in deepest, darkest Canada — are real and keep life worth-while.”

District names park after Vanderhoof’s trailblazer

“The valley, the river, the people, the land,Would spring to life beneath Peter’s hand,” writes Craig Hooper, in a poem dedicated to Peter Rodseth when he completed the wooden mural of the Nechako Valley.

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The now-named Pete Rodseth Park provides visitors a view of the bird sanctuary over the Nechako River.VIVIAN CHUI photo

vanderhoof omineca express, august 26, 2015

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