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Jesse Cole

Omineca Express

C h a r g e s laid against those accused of killing Van-derhoof local Fribjon Bjorn-son have been upgraded from second degree murder to first degree murder.

W e s l e y Dennis Dun-can, James Da-vid Junior Char-lie and Jesse Darren Bird have all been charged with first degree murder in relation to the slaying.

Bird and Charlie have also been charged with indignity to human remains. Teresa Marie Charlie is charged with obstruction of justice and acces-sory to murder after the fact.

Bjornson’s head was found in 2012 in a vacant building on the Nak’azdli reserve near Fort St. James, a little under a month after he was reported missing. Bjornson, 28 and the father of two, was last seen at a 7-Eleven in Vanderhoof. The remain-der of Bjornson’s body has not been located.

The accused will appear in court on July 14 and will appear again on July 21, 2014.

If convicted the accused may face life in prison.

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Paramedic Denise Raymond gives April Hughes a vital signs reading with newly purchased monitors. Photo by Jesse Cole.

Jesse Cole

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Vanderhoof paramedics celebrated their 40 year anniversary on July 9, 2014 by showing off some fancy new medical tech-nology recently installed in Vanderhoof ambulances.

Two CAREstream medical patient care monitors, which monitor vital signs of transportees, were recently added the Van-derhoof EMS’s repertoire after fundraising a total of $5,700 to purchase them.

“We’re the last crew in the north to get these monitors,” paramedic Karen Wiebe said. Wiebe attributes the late arrival of

the monitors to having a less than perma-nent workforce. “We didn’t have a steady crew of workers,” she said. “Now we do, so I took it upon myself to ask for a hand in purchasing them and we’ve managed to get two.”

The monitors automatically take vital sign measurements from patients, freeing up paramedics to tend to additional patient needs as well as providing more accurate readings.

Monitors can print out a vital sign read-ing to be given to doctors upon arrival, al-though the Vanderhoof detachment has yet to raise enough money to purchase the ad-ditional printers.

Vanderhoof has also recently acquired

a new 900 series ambulance that is larger, runs on gasoline as opposed to diesel and is more eco-friendly.

“In the old cars we had everything kind of tucked away,” paramedic Wiebe said during a presentation of the new technol-ogy. “There were wires and cords on the floor. If you had a patient on a ventilator then all of those important cords were run-ning right by your feet.”

Aside from a generous spread of food, guests were treated by paramedic Denise Raymond to a blood-pressure and vital signs reading with the new equipment.

Wiebe hopes to raise enough money in the future to purchase paediatric sets to ac-company the monitors.

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Sturmm survives bear attack and gets away with berries.

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Carl Strumm often picks berries near his Nulki Lake cabin, lo-cated one mile past the end of Castle Road. It’s an activity he enjoys, and it offers a good ex-cuse to take his dog for a walk.

On Saturday, June 26, a brief journey down the road to find some wild strawber-ries led to an experi-ence that Strumm, 52, and his dog, will likely never forget.

“I was down on my knees picking when I heard something and looked up and saw something black. I called to my dog Molly as I thought it was her,” Strumm said.

“I stood up and re-alized it was a small bear, maybe a year or two old. It was eating berries and not paying much attention to me.”

Strumm had en-countered many bears before but never had any trouble resulted.

“I let out a yell to scare it away and was immediately charged by a sow from no-where.”

Strumm tried to scare off the sow by screaming and yelling

at it, and by swinging a log he picked up off the side of the road.

This is when things really got scary. The bear charged at Strumm continually, completely unphased by his pounding her on the head with his log.

“I caught my heel and fell backwards. At that time, she jumped on top of me,” Strumm said.

“I was kicking and screaming with all of my strength, she was trying to get to my face. I grabbed the side of her head with my right hand and realized it was doing no good.”

Strumm says that at that point he was posi-tive it was all over for him.

“For some reason she backed off down to legs and feet. At that time I took my log and broke it over her nose.”

This further angered the bear, but she did back off for a moment, giving him a change to grab a larger, sturdier log.

The sow continued to charge at Strumm.

“When I finally realized screaming and swinging the log wasn’t doing any good, something told me to start charging back at her,” said Strumm.

“So, screaming, I charged back at her swinging the log.”

Finally, the bear backed off, standing on its hind legs.

Strumm backed away slowly, still yell-ing and screaming,

picked up his bucket of strawberries and re-treated about 500 feet before his wife showed up in their pick up truck.

Marjorie Strumm had heard her husbands screams from her bed-room, more than a quarter mile away.

Strumm was lucky to get away with very minimal injuries. He has several scratches on his right arm and his right calf had to be stitched.

“Dr. Preston was shocked to see what few wounds I had as he was expecting to be sewing quite awhile.”

Strumm is bothered by recurring flashbacks of the incident, and said his dogs been hav-ing a little trouble deal-ing with it as well.

He hasn’t been ber-ry picking since the at-tack, but feels he’ll be ready to go out again in another week or so.

A blast from the past: 20 years ago this monthStrumm survives bear attack and gets away with berries

Carl and Marjories love of berries, espe-cially wild strawber-ries, is far too strong to be curbed by the

possibility of a repeat attack.

“I don’t remember doing it, but I did pick up my bucket of ber-

ries when I was back-ing away from her,” Strumm said.

“That night. after we got home from the hospital, Marjorie and I made strawberry sun-

daes from the berries I picked.”

“I told her she bet-ter like it for 55 bucks a piece (the price of hos-pital care).”

CNC boosts economyJesse Cole

Omineca Express

A BC College’s sponsored study is reporting that the regional economies of cities with College of New Caledonia (CNC) campuses received a signifi-cant boost during the 2012/13 year.

The report was conducted by Economic Specialists International (EMSI). The EMSI reports that in 2012/12 those regions received an additional in-come of $57.9 million to CNC operations and student spending.

The reporter also noted that alumni of the CNC contributed another $143.8 million to regional economies.

CNC satellite campuses like the one in Vanderhoof, enrolled around 1,666 students in 2012/13 with around 300 of those students coming from a foreign country to study here in British Columbia.

Costs of living and other spending such a transportation and lodging spent by CNC students added another $5.9 million to the regions throughout the year.

Blackbear similar to the one which attacked Strumm. Submitted photo.

Josh Massey Terrace Standard

Plans by Chinese industrial interests to build an alfalfa extraction plant on land just purchased at the City of Terrace-owned Skeena Industrial Development Park make total sense, says mayor Dave Pernarowski.

Pernarowski, who was front and centre in negotiations leading up to the land deal struck this week with business interests from the Chinese economic development zone Qinhuangdao, said there is huge de-mand for alfalfa for livestock and human consumption in China which is becoming increasingly health-conscious and affluent.

“There is a particular shortage in China for this type of protein and the Chinese government is also trying to restructure diet there to a certain degree, so there are school milk plans and the development of animal agriculture which brings the de-mand for this protein even higher,” said Pernarowski.

If the plans announced last week come together, construction of an alfalfa pro-cessing centre could start within three years on a 33-acre parcel at the industrial development park to supply 10,000 tons of feed-grade alfalfa protein annually for livestock and 2,000 tons of food grade alfalfa protein for human consumption for shipment to China.

Canada is a significant exporter of alfalfa to countries such as Japan and Korea and those in the Middle East, however shipping the actual plant in unprocessed form to China has proven nearly impossible because of strict inspections for organic imports there.

By synthesizing the alfalfa into pure form using what Pernarowski calls “an intense process” it can then be

shipped in powdered or condensed form from the port in Prince Rupert.

This process involves pressing, liquid filtering and centrifuging leading to a protein in packaged form with another process that turns leftover alfalfa into pellets.

Raw alfalfa would come from Saskatchewan, mak-ing Terrace the processing point of a value-added supply chain that would eventually end in China.

According to Ed Shaw, an Albertan forage broker and president of International Forage and Feed, in recent years many large forage companies have either been blacklisted or withdrawn from alfalfa feed export to China.

“Chinese regulations for the import of [alfalfa] hay is the most strict in the world. They’ve got a platinum standard that far exceeds Japanese standards,” said Shaw. “If you ship stuff over and its rejected you can’t ship it back. There are major export-ers in the U.S. who will no longer ship to China or will not start to. The risk is too big. We’re talking hundreds of millions of dollars of cost when it’s rejected.”

Pernarowski highlighted the fact that processing alfalfa for export here is an environmentally friendly process.

“What we like about this particular manufacturing plant is that the protein is naturally pressed and extracted from al-falfa leaf so there is no chemical synthe-sis and no chemical emissions, it’s just a small amount of waste water that comes from a plant like this and is not harmful to the environment,” he said.

The proposed development also fits with Terrace’s inclinations as a commu-nity that has a long-standing agricultural tradition with a long growing season af-forded by the coastal climate, he said.

“I don’t think that many people would have imagined this would be the first manufacturing facility they would see come to the Skeena Industrial Development Park,” the mayor said. “As a community that really supports locally-grown food and agriculture we have an opportunity now considering our strategic location in Northwest British Columbia to start working really closely with agricultur-al-based products and this is a good example of that.”

The Terrace processing facility will employ 170 skilled workers, most of them slated to be local, said Per-narowski.


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As construction of the new Lakes District Hospital and Health Centre in Burns Lake continues, changes to the hospital parking will take effect the week of July 14, 2014. During this time utility crews will be on site to install underground utilities to service the new facility.

The changes to the parking lot of the existing hospital include:

Single laning of the current hospi-tal entrances as utilities are installed. Signage and flag persons will be uti-

lized during periods of work where the main entrance is impacted.

Realignment of the hospital en-trance. The new hospital entrance will begin near the current parking entrance as detailed on the attached drawing. Once this road is installed the current hospital entrance will be closed. This will allow construction crews to complete additional work at the new hospital site.

Beginning July 14 excavation for this utility work will begin and heavy machinery will be working in the ex-isting parking lot. Please take care in the area and follow the direction of

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British Columbia’s Northern Health author-ity is in the early stages of introducing routine HIV-AIDS testing as part of regular healthcare screening in northern British Columbia.

The routine screen-ing will be introduced to Vanderhoof’s St. John Hospital, Fort St. James’ Stuart Lake general hos-pital and Fraser Lakes’ community health cen-tre.

The decision fol-lows a 2014 decision set out by the Office of the Provincial Health Officer of British Co-lumbia’s HIV testing guidelines which sug-gests that all citizens between the ages of 18 and 70 years of age be tested every five years for HIV-AIDS. Reports also suggest those in high-risk population groups, such as intra-

venous drug users and gay men, be tested an-nually.

The new testing in Vanderhoof is significant as prior to the new initia-tive the onus for discov-ering your HIV-AIDS status was entirely on the patient. Patients had to take the initiative to ap-proach their doctor and request a HIV test.

There are an estimat-ed 12,000 HIV positive people living in British Columbia today accord-ing to a report by the Pro-vincial Health Officer. 300-400 new diagnosis are made each year.

Contrary to popular belief, HIV-AIDS is no longer the death sentence it once was, assuming those affected by the ill-ness are diagnosed and treated quickly. Unfor-tunately, this is often not the case, says St. John Hospital head nurse Heather Floris “I think a lot of people think that HIV is a death-sentence, so they try to keep it un-

der wraps,” she says. According to the pro-

vincial health officer 17 per cent of those diag-nosed are already in the advanced stage of the illness.

Ignorance is another contributing factor to the spread of HIV-AIDS with 54 per cent of trans-missions coming from those who are unaware of their status.

“One of the main reasons for this is that there are people who do not know they have HIV,” Floris says of the new testing guidelines. “We’re trying to reduce the stigma so that people are not afraid to get test-ed, because the earlier you’re tested, the earlier you’re diagnosed and the the earlier you can start taking medication and live life fully.”

April Hughes, the Health Services admin-istrator with Northern Health says that by nor-malizing testing it allows for increased vigilance

and awareness. “It be-comes routine,” she says. “That way we can pick up on people who have it but don’t know that they do.”

A similar initiative was employed by the lower mainland’s Van-couver Coastal Health

authority in 2011. The project there found that 94 per cent of patients agreed to be tested for HIV-AIDS.

Similarily, Prince George introduced a rou-tine HIV-AIDS testing initiative available for

any patients who were having blood work per-formed through the Uni-versity of Northern Brit-ish Columbia (UNBC) in Dec. 2013.

The new testing is a part of the From Hope to Health: Towards an

AIDS-free Generation initiative and is being funded by British Co-lumbia’s Ministry of Health. Northern Health is looking to have routine HIV-AIDS testing in all northern communities by 2016.

Blood being drawn prior to a blood test. Submitted photo

Vanderhoof to begin routine HIV-AIDS testing


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Jesse Cole

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I grew up with a 15-foot sailboat in the fam-ily. While fully equipped to sail, my family and I rarely did so, instead opting for the more leisurely motorized boating experience. However, sailing as an aesthetic had always been something that interested me greatly.

So, when given the chance to go sailing last week on Stuart Lake in Fort St. James, I leaped at the opportunity.

My colleague Rebeca Watson and I arrived at the shores of Stuart Lake in the early evening. We were dressed in jeans and t-shirts, clearly not anticipating the reality of taking a small sailboat into the choppy waters of Stuart lake.

Our guide greeted us clad entirely in bright or-ange coveralls reminiscent of discovery channel’s The Deadliest Catch.

It was at this moment I realized how thorough-ly unprepared I was.

Nonetheless I was determined to sail for the first time in years and quickly resigned myself to

the fact that I was going to get very wet. I was not wrong, within minutes of pushing the

15-foot, rainbow sailed catamaran offshore I was bombarded by the aquatic equivalent of a round-house kick to the chest.

It was exhilarating - the smell of churned up water in my nostrils, the monolithic mountains creating an enormous backdrop as our little boat cut through the water with determination.

I was immediately surprised at the speed we could achieve powered only by the wind.

For a moment, as the waves kissed my cheeks, all my thoughts of then and now and work and life washed away and I was completely in the mo-ment.

We came to shore at great speed, our captain laughing joyfully at our confusion. He seemed utter relaxed as we anxiously tried to determine whether or not sailing into a rocky beach at 20 km an hour was a wise move.

The ship hit ground and slowed gracefully into the stoney sand. I jumped off, my adrenaline pumping. “That was the greatest thing I’ve done all year,” I said, wringing out my sopping wet jeans.

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Air quality advisory issued

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The Ministry of Environment has issued a smoke ad-visory for Prince George and surrounding areas because of forest fire smoke that is affecting the area. Smoke con-centrations will vary widely as winds, fire behaviour and smoke has been building up in the Prince George area since last evening, current hourly average PM2.5 con-centrations are 58 micrograms per cubic metre, and the 24 hour average is 26 micrograms per cubic metre. tem-peratures change.

Avoid strenuous outdoor activities. If you are expe-riencing any of the following symptoms, contact your health care provider: difficulty in breathing, chest pain or discomfort, and sudden onset of cough or irritation of airways. Exposure is particularly a concern for infants, the elderly and those who have underlying medical con-ditions such as diabetes, and lung or heart disease.

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Vanderhoof will be the new stomping grounds for two far-northerners from the land of eternal sun-set, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

The two visitors will be visiting Van-derhoof as part of a program called North-ern Youth Abroad (NYA).

Monica Qattalik of Igloolik, Nunavut and Colleen Nakashuk of Pangnirtung, Nunva-vut, will travel from their arctic home-towns to Vanderhoof, where they will live with a local host fam-ily. While here, Qat-talik and Nakashuk will work, volunteer and relay their north-ern culture in presen-tations to community organizations.

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Northern Youth Abroad participants Monica Qattalik and Colleen Nakashuk will spend their summer here in Vanderhoof

is in its 17 year and aims to help foster cultural awareness and cooperation while providing career train-ing to it’s participants.

Those involved in the program are eligi-ble to earn up to nine high school credits to-wards their graduation should they complete

certain assignments during their stay here in Vanderhoof.

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Qattalik and Na-kashuk will be in Van-derhoof until Aug. 5.

Participants in the Northern Youth Abroad program during 2014 summer orientation. Photo via Northern Youth Abroad


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Vanderhoof’s Slo-Pitch baseball league played it’s final play-off game on July 10. The deciding game came down to a match be-tween local slo-pitch teams The Guzzlers and I’d Hit That.

“It was a close game right to the bitter end,” said Brenda Scott in an email detailing the game to our offices.

The game was tight-lipped and a suspenseful one with the score 12 to 11 in favour of team I’d Hit That at the end of the 6 in-ning. The Guzzlers came back to tie up the match in the 7 inning.

I’d Hit That batter David Lindstrom hit his first home run of the season, sending two players on base home and ultimately tipping the game in the favour of I’d Hit That and taking home the win.

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The eighth annual White Swan Music Festival and Car Show was well at-tended last weekend with dozens of Fra-ser Lake residents coming down to the White Swan park to enjoy the warm weather, listen to some old fashioned country music and breathe in the sweet perfume of car exhaust from a few dozen classic cars.

The festival takes place every summer in White Swan park, of which it is named after.

Events were MC’d by old school country cowboy Buckshot Bob.

Both Saturday and Sunday were full days with open mic performances starting as early as 10 a.m.

Performances by locals and visi-tors alike went on both days with performances by Vern Charlton, Bryan Worrall and Ron Meadows, the Lakeview Bible Chapel, Mud River and others.

Sunday was the headline date with a show of vehicular force as dozens of auto-nuts drove their prides and joys into the park for an after-noon of automobile worship.

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Forest fire crews ar-rived from Ontario to help Sunday, as light-ning strikes and possi-bly human activity add-ed to the fire map across a hot, dry B.C. Interior on the weekend.

A new fire at Soda Creek north of Wil-liams Lake was report-ed in its early stages, allowing crews with 10 air tankers, three helicopters and heavy equipment to be de-ployed Sunday while it covered only 12 hect-ares.

The fire is close to Highway 97 and the cause was still under investigation Mon-day. To report a fire or smoke sighting, call 1-800-663-5555 or *5555 on a mobile phone.

A new lightning-caused fire at Chelaslie Arm in a remote north-west region south of Smithers was at 5,000 hectares and threaten-ing one building by Sunday, with 10 fire-fighters and two heli-copters deployed.

The Chelaslie fire was causing visible smoke in Smithers,

Telkwa, Houston, Burns Lake, Fraser Lake and Vanderhoof.

Efforts continued for a second week to contain the Red Deer Creek fire that has caused the evacuation of three oil and gas camps near Tumbler Ridge. It has 160 fire-fighters, 12 helicopters and 31 pieces of heavy equipment building fire breaks, with plans to set controlled burns to contain it as condi-tions permit.

Another fire only six kilometres east of Mackenzie was burn-ing uphill in steep

terrain and spreading east, with more help on the way as it reached 80 hectares in size.

In the northeast, a fire 50 kilometres west of Williston Lake reached 4,000 hectares by Sunday and was ex-pected to grow signifi-cantly Monday.

Like many remote fires, the B.C. Wildfire Management Branch reported that this fire was receiving “modi-fied response” to pro-tect infrastructure and timber values, with many parts being mon-itored but not actively fought.

Fire at Soda Creek, north of Williams Lake. Photo via BC Wildfire.

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BC Wildfire has issued a region wide fire ban for the Prince George Fire Zone, which includes Vanderhoof, in an attempt to stop human-caused wildfires in the region.

The fire ban came in to effect at noon on July 11. Ac-cording to the prohibition all open fires are banned until Sept. 30 or until further notice. The ban will not affect campfires under a half-metre in height and width nor will it apply to gas, propane or charcoal cooking stoves.

Specifically outlined as prohibited by the ban is the open burning of any form of trash, slash or other materi-als. the burning of any amount of grass in any area as well as the use of fireworks, sky lanterns or burning barrels of any size.

The ban requires all campfires to be contained by a fi-reguard and all flammable debris must be removed from the area.

Furthermore, camp goers must bring eight litres of wa-ter to the fire to fully extinguish the fire when finished.

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If violation of the ban causes a wildfire the responsible parties may be fined up to $10,000 as well as having to pay for all firefighting costs.

Wildfires labelled “active” by BC wildfire are currently burning throughout the B.C. interior. Most of the interior is currently experiencing a high to extreme fire risk rating.

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The Euchiniko Lakes fire southwest of Prince George. Photo courtesy of the B.C. Forest Service

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