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The managers at CCT Controls in Fort St. John took their ALS Ice Bucket Challenges seriously, and had a loader truck drench them with frigid, icy water, on Thurs., Aug. 28. After fishing out the largest ice chunks to avoid injury, the team lined up to endure their drenching. From Left: Jon Pfeifer, Glen Lawrence, Toni McCarthy, Jonathan Obie and Jayden Roberts.

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FORT ST. JOHN – A special project is in the works in Taylor, delving into the history and lives of longtime residents going back as far as the 1940’s.

The Taylor Memory Project is a docu-mentary that mayor and council initiated in 2010 when the first of the filming took place. After a hiatus of a couple of years, production on the project picked up again recently.

“A lot of people ask about different things about the history of the community, and so to build forward, you can do it a lot better if you know what really made Taylor . . . it’s not meaning that it’s going to stay the same in the future, but at least then you know where it comes from, and why some of the things are here,” said Mayor Fred Jarvis, in an interview with the Northeast News.

“I think it’s very important because that’s what Taylor is, the people of the past and their lives have made Taylor what it is.”

Craven Studios is completing the docu-mentary, a task that has involved sifting through more than 40 hours of original foot-age, shooting an additional 16 hours of ma-terial, choosing which stories to highlight, and weaving it all together.

“There’s a million stories that are there, and we’re going to try to highlight some of the big events, and bigger memorable events throughout the town’s history,” said Brent Craven, president of Craven Studios.

Some of those major happenings in-clude the building of the Alaska Highway, the collapse of the Peace River Bridge, the

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FORT ST. JOHN – There’s a grassroots movement forming about the medical situ-ation in Fort St. John, and it’s got a lot of people worked up and passionate about making changes to the current system.

On Thurs., Aug. 21, a small group of committed and concerned citizens – who call themselves, fittingly, the Concerned Citizens for Health Care – gathered togeth-er to gain some perspective on the current situation.

The group, of about eight people, in-

cluding three long term physicians, was spearheaded by three individuals who, like many in the community, feel that enough is enough, and something has to change.

Residents Lorraine Isenbecker, Twila Soule and Brad Brain are at their breaking point.

“The reality is, we’ve got 24,000 people in Fort St. John and area that don’t have doctors, and despite Northern Health trying to put a positive spin on that, the facts are the facts,” said Brain.

“There’s been a lot of people that feel equally passionate about it, and I guess my

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Tate Creek will giveup community centre with failed referendum

TATE CREEK - Without a positive ref-erendum result, residents of Tate Creek and Tupper have decided that they will not take ownership of the Tate Creek Community Centre.

In November, while voting for their area representative, Tate Creek catchment area residents will also vote on whether they will allow the Peace River Regional Dis-

trict board to establish a service that would support op-erations of the Centre through taxa-tion.

During a community meeting on Aug. 24, residents cast their ballots in a yes or no vote to de-cide the fate of the Centre if Novem-ber’s refer-endum fails. Of the 67 at-tendees, 19 voted to take ownership of the building

on a failed referendum and 48 voted not to take ownership on a failed referendum.

Tomslake and District Recreation Com-mission member Art Seidl explained that if the Commission were to walk away from the building, School District 59 would con-tinue to be responsible for the Centre and the attached Tate Creek Elementary School (now closed), all investments in the facility made by the community would be lost, and access to and use of the facility would also lost by the community.

Seidl also said that taking ownership of the building would result in a significant fi-nancial responsibility on behalf of the Com-mission. He said that in taking ownership, they would have to find at least $20,000 for insurance and $4,200 for property taxes an-nually to keep it open; not to mention ad-ditional monies for any operational costs.

“We can’t afford to keep this building on a no vote...it’s our asses on the line,” said one attendee, worried about the financial burden that the Commission would have to undertake without taxation funding to sup-port them.

Another said that the community has helped make Commission fundraisers very successful in the past, believing that the Commission wouldn’t have any trouble finding funding if the taxation function is

voted down. He also pointed to potential donations from surrounding oil and gas com-panies as possible funding relief.

“We cannot operate this facility on bingos, bake sales and dances...they are too un-reliable,” said Seidl, adding that fundraisers on behalf of the Commission would need to be held even if the com-munity agrees to be taxed for the Centre’s operations.

He said that in the event that the referendum is posi-tive and the Centre is kept open, the Commission will need more people to step for-ward to help run the general operations of the building in-cluding programming, reno-vations and maintenance. Seidl said the current board is getting tired, and needs ad-ditional members with new ideas.

“This is a community fa-cility, we need community input,” said Seidl.

“There are some tough de-cisions that are going to need to be made,” he said.


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Photo Credit File PhotoThe Tate Creek community decided not to take ownership of their Centre if November’s referendum fails.

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DAWSON CREEK - What is assumed to be a group of vandals, helped garden-ers in Dawson Creek with their harvest last week, pulling up a number of vegetables and destroying growing plots in the Daw-son Creek Community Garden located on the Northern Lights College campus.

When Rebecca Frederick, treasurer for the Dawson Creek Community Gardens, arrived at the garden on Monday morning she found the shed door kicked in and bits of vegetable debris scattering the ground.

“They had hit almost every single gar-den, pulled stuff out, pulled potato plants out and threw them on the ground...the gas can... they poured it on one of the raised gardens and killed a lot of vegetables,” Frederick said.

Frederick’s plot was one of the ones that had gasoline poured on it; she said it in-stantly killed two thirds of her vegetables.

Unfortunately, vandalism is an all too often occurrence at the gardens. Frederick said that they usually have vegetables sto-len and some vandalism, but nothing of this magnitude.

“I’m extremely discouraged. We get vandalized every year, and the harder you work, the better your garden is, and then you’re the one that is usually first on the list to get vandalized,” she said.

Frederick said that nothing appeared be stolen from the shed, al-though several tools are kept there.

The constant vandal-ism has lost the club sev-eral members over the years, Frederick herself has even had to get an additional gar-den plot elsewhere in town to ensure she yields some vegetables at the end of the growing season. Since the most recent incident, many members have started to remove their veggies even though they are not quite ready to come out of the ground.

“It’s better to take them small, than to not have them at all...I took the carrots out well before they were ready, just so that I could have something,” said Frederick.

The local RCMP were contacted, but not much could be fingerprinted.

“I know that from past ex-

periences that they can check, but there’s not a whole lot that they can do,” Frederick said.

The club did get a grant to put a fence around the garden, but since Northern Lights College can’t guarantee that they can keep donating that spot to them, the club decided to fence their garden location on the community trail instead.

“It’s supposed to be a park-like setting, we don’t want it to look like a prison,” said Frederick.

Many of the club’s gardeners prefer the plots in the fenced-in garden, however the barrier doesn’t deter vandals from getting in from time to time.

These incidents hit the club especially hard, they discourage more members from joining and becoming a part of the execu-tive, which is already short on members. Of the approximately 40 plots the garden has, 15 were not used this year.

“It’s frustrating because it’s a great thing [the club] and I like to see people garden, but it’s hard to get people to participate to help it grow,” Frederick said.


Vandals keep D.C. Community Garden from growing

I’m extremely dis-couraged. We get vandalized every

year.

Photo Credit Jill EarlThe shed at the Dawson Creek Community Gardens was kicked in Aug. 24 by vandals.

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formation of the District itself, as well as a lot of the community events through the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Also featured will be the boom and bust years of the early 1980’s, right through to the current decade of the Vil-lage on a Diet, and all the amenities that the town has and offers, said Craven.

“The goal was to record, archive, the stories of Taylor from the point of view of the people that live there and grew up there. They interviewed close to 100 people from

town, and tell the story from back in, as far back as they went, the ‘40’s and ‘50’s, and what it was like in the town back then, and how it evolved, and the events and activities and the people that were there during the days,” he said.

It’s a project that many are taking to heart.

“One of the gentlemen I interviewed said, you know, it’s important to get the sto-ries first hand from the peo-ple that lived there and were there when these events hap-pened, and not from their children or their children’s children. First hand knowl-edge is, once they’re gone, they’re gone, and it’s impor-tant to archive them while we can,” said Craven.

Mayor and council have high hopes for the finished proj-ect, which is expected to be complete in November.

“We do want to have it so that it is up to the standards of even being festival ready,” said Laura Prosko, community services director for the District of Taylor.

Prosko has a background in film and entertainment, and it’s a project she really wanted to see completed.

“There are so many different things we can do with it . . . maybe it fits into different areas of broadcasting, or pro-motional use for our town with the visitor information cen-

tre, or maybe other initiatives, and of course, just having the history there as well, through a type of online museum where we have this documentary and we can show people, if special guests come to town, there are so many different possibilities,” she said.

A big chapter of the last 28 years has been Mayor Jar-vis’s involvement, and the timing fits nicely with the end-ing of his term as mayor.

“That wasn’t set out to be our plan, it just, it was a project that I know, preserving these stories and these histories is very important to him and all of council, and it’s something that we wanted to do,” said Prosko.

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Taylor Memory Project

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FORT ST. JOHN – The North Peace Leisure Pool will be closed from Sat., Aug. 30, to Sun., Sept. 28, for its annual shutdown.

While closed, a number of main-tenance items will be attended to, including repairs to damaged areas, tile work, paint and maintenance on

the filtration and air handling systems.

“Every single year, for one month we close down just to do repairs, annual kind of stuff, repaint the pool,” said Amy Priore, an aquatic su-pervisor at the pool.

“If we want to add or take away features, this is the time to do it, a lot of the, any-thing that requires the water to be drained out to fix, this is when we can fix it, this is our opportunity to do it,” she said.

Although the pool facili-ties will be closed, the recep-tion area will remain open during this shutdown from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to assist with registration of lessons, pur-chasing passes and customer service during the weekdays.

When the pool reopens on Mon., Sept. 9, there will be a new feature in the Leisure Pool, but what it is will re-main a mystery for the time being.

“We’re keeping it a secret right now,” said Priore. “It’s definitely kid oriented . . . the kids are going to love it,” she said. “It’s definitely going to be noticeable.”

To keep up to date on the status of the pool closure, see the City of Fort St. John webpage at www.fortstjohn.ca/north-peace-leisure-pool.


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FORT ST. JOHN – Canada Winter Games representa-tives were in town rallying volunteers on Aug. 21-22, as Fort St. John could host long track speed skating if Prince George has bad weather.

The long track speed skating events are set to take place at the Prince George Outdoor Ice Oval from Feb. 14 to Feb. 18, 2015, and the Winter Games is relying on optimum weather conditions. Should there be performance issues due to weather, the Pomeroy Sport Centre is the official contingency venue.

A number of committees have been established to en-sure that the needed services are in place, and represen-tatives from these committees – ranging from marketing

and communications to ath-lete and participant services, ticketing and transportation – were in Fort St. John meet-ing with organizations and individuals to get a plan in place.

“We will need to make sure that we have the re-quired medical personnel here in Fort St. John, medal ceremonies will be here, we need to make sure we have all the IT (information tech-nology) in place, entertain-ment for the athletes at the accommodation venue, we need to make sure that we have enough volunteers in Fort St. John to assist with all of these areas plus ticket tak-ers, readers, ushers, security venues set up, drivers, and we need to make sure that the venue is ready to go,” said Lisa Shaw-MacLaren, manager of sport operations.

“The only people that will be coming from Prince George is the athletes, coaches, managers, mission staff, one host society staff, one Canada Games staff, the rest will be done by people here in Fort St. John,” she said.

In the event of inclement weather, the first action will be to change the start times of the events. If problems with the weather persist, the next step is to move the entire competi-tion start to alternate contingency days. If conditions are still not favourable, the plan to move the long track speed skating events to Fort St. John will be implemented.

“It’s a really tight sched-ule we’re working on,” said Shaw-MacLaren.

The athletes will arrive

in Prince George on Feb. 12, the opening ceremonies will take place the next day, and the plan is to have the athletes begin training on Feb. 14. The decision to move the events to Fort St. John wouldn’t happen until Feb. 15.

“We would bring athletes here on the 16th, they would


Photo Credit Bronwyn ScottLisa Shaw-McLaren, manager of sport operations for the 2015 Canada Winter Games, pre-sented volunteer information at the Pomeroy Hotel in Fort St. John on Thurs., Aug. 21.

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Through recent media stories the public is becom-ing increasingly aware of healthcare providers who pose as professionals or otherwise cause harm or potential harm to the public.

The Health Profession Regulators of BC represents regulatory colleges with the legislated mandate to pro-tect the public through the regulation of healthcare professionals. Together, we regulate nearly 100,000 people working in more

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Dear Editor:

If we want to look into the future and see what the power of nature has in store for us following the Mount Polley tailings dam failure, we need look no further than the ex-perience of the small town of Aznalcóllar (Los Frailes) near Saville Spain.

In April of 1998, a similar dam failure occurred. But, in a report issued six years after the incident, it was noted that any wa-terways that may have been contaminated had restored themselves within a few short months and sixteen permanent water test-ing stations continue to show safe levels for drinking water.

To this day, monitoring of any soil con-tamination in the main area affected by the dam failure, which has been remediated, show that it remains low and the riverbed

has been recolonized by fish and amphib-ians, which survive without any problems. By six years after the incident, in 2004, six different species of fish had laid eggs.

Over the short span of a few years, the ecosystem of Aznalcóllar has improved naturally. Fauna and flora quickly recolo-nized the area. And the natural dynamic of the river, particularly the flood plains, has fully recuperated and is now recognized as a “green corridor” and a tourist destination with trails for walking, biking and horse riding.

Six years from now, this is the future we can fully expect to see at Mount Polley ow-ing to the amazing resilience and power of nature.

Jimmy PelkLangley, B.C.

Dear Editor,

Perhaps it’s just me, but I really don’t understand the need for all of the misleading tech-nical data that is being reported in relation to the Polley Lake tailings pond. The contents of the pond water can certainly be measured, but just because you can measure something doesn’t mean it’s bad for you. Context is everything. Everyone has cancer cells in their body. You can measure them. But that doesn’t mean everyone is going to die from cancer.

Let’s keep things in perspective folks. Polley Lake is a reminder that mining is our his-tory here in BC and it will be our future. It’s what built this province and it will provide for us for years to come. Mining today is natural, clean, and safe, and it also pays darn well. It employs more First Nations than almost any other industry in BC. Without mining, I have no doubt that BC could quickly go into recession and fade away as an economic leader in North America. And that’s not something that anyone wants to see happen.

Sandra RobinsonMaple Ridge, BC

Dear Editor:

Despite all the uproar, it seems to me that the natural “next step” one would expect in the Polley Lake mine dam breach situation is already taking place just as it should: The BC Government has convened an indepen-dent panel of engineers with the expertise and experience to do a forensic investiga-tion to determine a) why the dam failed and b) how to ensure that it does not happen again.

The expert panel has been given the au-thority to compel testimony and evidence while the Minister in charge, Bill Bennett, has ordered that every tailings pond in BC, and its associated dam, go through a man-datory, but extraordinary, independent in-spection by December first, to be paid for by the mining companies themselves.

The company involved at the Polley Lake Mine has already started to clean up the site and is preparing a long term reme-diation plan for the affected water ways.

Water in the region has been tested re-peatedly and found to be fully fit for human consumption, and the government contin-ues to have independent specialists con-ducting water and sediment contamination tests at multiple sites.

Despite all of this, many special inter-est groups continue to sensationalise this unusual incident and misrepresent how it is being dealt with when it is clear that all things are unfolding as they should in re-sponse to the situation. I say kudos to all involved in making things right!

Bruce SandersonNorth Vancouver

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DAWSON CREEK - President and CEO of Northern Lights College, Laurie Ran-court, announced her resignation on Aug. 25, and has set her last day at the College for Oct. 31.

Rancourt has accepted the position of vice-president of academics at Humber Col-lege in Mississauga, On. The selection pro-cess of a new president has begun under the direction of the NLC Board of Governors.

“The VP Academic position at Humber represents an incredible professional oppor-tunity that will allow me to continue to fol-low my passion for academics at the largest polytechnic institution in Canada, while at the same time bring me closer to family,” said Rancourt in the press release.

Rancourt has been with the College since Feb. 2011, and during that time launched the Oil and Gas Centre of Excellence, the Aerospace Centre of Ex-cellence, and the Clean En-ergy Centre of Excellence. Rancourt also advocated for education and skills training to meet labour market needs, and helped position the Col-lege as a key player in the de-velopment of the northeast’s natural resource economy.

The new position means a return to Ontario for Ran-court; she previously held positions as the vice-presi-dent of corporate services, vice-president of academics and registrar over a 15-year career at the Collège Boréal in Sudbury.


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DAWSON CREEK - After a lifetime of living and work-ing in Dawson Creek, Arleene Thorpe is finally ready to seek election onto city council during November’s munici-pal election.

Although Thorpe did run for council once, over 20 years ago, she feels that now she has acquired the skills and ex-

perience necessary to be an asset to council. She said that many of her skills, such as organizing and listening, were honed through volunteer work at the Royal Canadian Le-gion, Order of the Easter Star, Daughters of the Nile, the Kiwanis Club, the Cancer Agency and the Heart and Stroke Foundation; many of these organizations Thorpe has been with for several years and continues to volunteer with to-day.

“I’ve lived in the community for about 45 years, and I have volunteered a lot and I continue to volunteer. You learn a lot of things from volunteering for various groups and organizations, and that kind of experience will work very well running for council,” said Thorpe.

“When you’re on council you need to be able to work as a team, and to me that’s crucial. You can’t be an individual because council is a group of six people that need to be able to interact with one another. Not everybody agrees, but you need to be able to compromise and to listen to one another, as well as listen to your citizens in the community, and if you can’t do that, then there’s no point of being on council,” she said.

Thorpe is currently the volunteer coordinator at Better at Home, and while she recognizes her special interest in seniors, she is also interested in the ideas and opinions of all residents including youth and new families.

“I think it’s important to be able to talk to them and find out what are some of the things that they would like to see in our community,” she said.

She has decided to focus on economic development, environment, development, and fiscal responsibility as the key issues in her platform. Thorpe believes in working to ensure the protection of the environment and hopes to cre-ate more green spaces to enhance the city’s parks and areas that are environmentally sensitive. As far as development is concerned, she hopes to manage residential and commer-cial development in a responsible way and also hopes to address the need for more low-income housing.

“I think residential [development] is huge because we have a lot of new people com-ing in, and not everybody works for the gas and oil and can afford those kinds of pric-es... so we need to be able to come up with a plan to be able to do that. Being on council I hope to come up with some

plans and work with some other people down south,” said Thorpe.

“We need to continue to attract new business, retain existing business and create a strong economic base. We need to promote business opportunities that showcase our unique arts, culture and environment,” she said.

If elected, she also hopes to continue to evaluate the city’s financial position and find new ways that the City can meet their operational and capital needs.

Thorpe said that she’s been considering running for council for awhile, and decided to put her name in the ring after being encouraged by her family. She has already start-ed reaching out to potential voters for support, and plans to go door to door before voting day.

“I want to run because I want to be able to make a differ-ence in the community,” Thorpe said.

She said that every vote counts, and encourages every-one to cast their ballot on Nov. 15.

“People think ‘my vote’s not going to matter’, but it does matter. The council elected on Nov. 15 will be making the decisions that affect you and our community. It’s important that you have a say, so on Nov. 15, please vote for Arleene Thorpe,” she said.


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start training that day, they fly up on charter flights and they would train, have four days of competition, and then they fly back to Prince George, so the athletes would be participating in opening ceremo-nies for sure, and then they would finish off in Prince George,” she said.

“We need to make sure that we’ve met those standards . . . that means Canada Games standards and the Speed Skating Canada standards. So we need to make sure that what they get in Fort St. John is what they would get in Prince George.”

Currently there are no budget implica-tions for Fort St. John. All of the funding is coming from the host society in Prince George.

Community benefits for participating in the Winter Games include an economic im-pact for the community, for example, in ho-tel accommodations, food services, vehicle rentals and shopping, as well as the oppor-tunity to be part of the Games, and national exposure for the Pomeroy Sport Centre and Fort St. John, according to Games repre-sentatives.

“We’re looking at over $90-million in economic benefits, and that’s not just for Prince George, but for the region. 15,000 visitors from all over Canada will be com-ing to the Games, it will take 4,500 volun-teers, 10 per cent of whom must be bilin-gual because it’s a national sporting event, and 10 per cent of our staff is also bilingual, and as well, all of our public communica-

tion is in both official languages,” said Aly-son Gourley-Cramer, manager of commu-nications and community relations.

Two information sessions were held on Thursday evening (Aug. 21) in the Sport Centre lobby, although the turnout was scarce, with just one individual arriving for the 6:30 p.m. event. Nonetheless, planning must go on. The goal is to have complete plans for all of the volunteer areas by late fall, 2014.

The Canada Games was established in 1967, where it first took place in Quebec City. The Games takes place every two years, and alternates every summer and winter. This will be the first time that a win-ter edition of the Games has been hosted in B.C.

“We won’t see the Games again in this province for another 26 years,” said Gour-ley-Cramer.

The Canada Games is the largest multi sport competition for young athletes, and is unique in that it’s a fully inclusive event.

“You would see para and special Olym-pics sports at the exact same time, some-times in intermittent heats of the same sport, which is really inspiring,” she said.

“There are over 100,000 athlete alumni all across the world . . . for every athlete that makes it, about 10 athletes are vy-ing for that position, so really the Canada Games is a really broad, broad entity,” said Gourley-Cramer.

Prince George will be the 25th edition of the Games.

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FORT ST. JOHN – From fire breathers to contortionists, from jugglers to stilts walkers, the 2nd annual Moose FM Block Party is back, and it’s going to be big, with a variety of entertainment.

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Public Notice is given to the electors of the District of Hudson’s Hope that nominations for the offices of:

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By hand, mail or other delivery service: District of Hudson’s Hope 9904 Dudley Drive, PO Box 330 Hudson’s Hope, BC V0C 1V0

From 9:00 am Tuesday, September 30, 2014 To 4:00 pm Friday, October 10, 2014 Excluding statutory holidays and weekends

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Tate Creek Continued from Page 2.

On July 22 the community met in an information session to discuss details of the referendum and voted to make the referendum question include a maximum annual tax req-

uisition limit of $200,000. If approved, residents would pay $.73 on property im-provements; approximately $73 on $100,000 of improve-ments. During the meeting, it was reported that heavy and light industrial properties

would end up paying the majority of the costs. School District 59 closed Tate Creek Elementary at the

end of June because of low enrollment. They have offered the property (including the school, the community centre, skating rink, skate shack and garage) to the Commission for a ‘nominal price.’

DAWSON CREEK - Chetwynd, Dawson Creek, Fort

St. John and Pouce Coupe are all in the running to be the host of a 2015 Canada Winter Games Regional Community Torch Celebration in the Illuminate the North contest.

Through an online poll, voters can decide which north-eastern community they want the celebration hosted in. The celebration will be a part of the torch relay and act as a lead up to the 2015 Canada Winter Games to be held in Prince George in February.

The winning community will become a part of the 2015 Games Torch Relay, have local torchbearers included in the relay, receive a visit from Nanguz (the Games’ mascot), a visit from Canada Games alumni, and have a 2015 Games DJ and a fireworks display at the celebration. The winning community will also get coverage on Global BC-TV.

“The quality of submissions we received from communi-ties across the region were remarkable. Now, it’s up to Brit-ish Columbians to help decide what communities will host 2015 Canada Winter Games Regional Community Torch Celebrations,” said Stuart Ballantyne, 2015 Canada Winter Games CEO, in the press release.

Contests finalists for the northwest include Terrace and New Hazelton. Williams Lake and Quesnel are the contest finalists for the Central Interior.

Voting will be open at www.canadagames2015.ca un-til Sept. 12. Winners will be announced on Sept. 24 at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities convention.

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little foray into social media was the catalyst that sort of galvanized the community into saying, enough is enough, we need medical care in our area, this is ridiculous,” he said.

On Mon., Aug. 18, Brain set up an online petition calling for urgent action to the medical staffing crisis in Fort St. John, available at change.org, that garnered over 1,200 sig-natures in the first three days after it went live. A Facebook group and Facebook page, under the same title, have also had a tremendous response from the community.

“I can say with certainty that even though some of the next steps are still to be clearly defined, they are happening, we are moving towards ramping up our focus on this situ-ation to make sure that the issues are out in the open, and we’re not going to ignore the problem or pretend it doesn’t exist,” said Brain.

As these social media efforts were launched, Isenbecker was already considering revamping her efforts to address the issue. A year and a half ago, Isenbecker was the impe-tus for the formation of a group that included five doctors to address the very situation that we’re facing today.

“We were supposed to have a committee formed and get investigating into all this, because at that time there was some serious crisis, things happening,” said Isenbecker.

“They were short staffed, they moved into the new hos-pital, a whole bunch of nurses were promoted into Northern Health taken off the ward, leaving the ward short. They shut down the care facility, the extended health, and moved all the patients into the hospital, leaving only six operating beds. Others were filled with extended care people, so it was a real crisis for the doctors and nurses,” she said.

She found out about these issues when a large number of nurses began applying at her spa, Hair Bin Salon, for jobs.

For various reasons, the initial group 18 months ago nev-er did much beyond their two meetings and discussing the situation with MLA for Peace River North Pat Pimm. But seeing the mounting frustration among residents in recent

months spurred Isenbecker back into action.“This is now beyond anything else, this is serious for

each and every individual here in this community, and it needs to be corrected,” she said.

While Isenbecker acknowledges that it’s harder to recruit physicians to the north than to warmer climes, she believes that the way Northern Health is handling the situation here is unsatisfactory.

“It is Northern Health, the way they run this facil-ity here. There’s been words like ‘toxic’ when a doctor down south hears about the Northern Health Board up here, or the positions, here, they go, uhh, it’s toxic,” she said.

As for how to address the problem, Isenbecker feels a complete review and audit of Northern Health should take place.

“It should be accountabil-ity and responsibility to the community of Fort St. John. There’s people that worked here all their lives, senior citizens, have given their whole lives, they (Northern Health) are expecting seniors at 75 and 80 years old to go on Medeo, which is a com-puter, to talk to a doctor?” she asked, rhetorically.

“They don’t know how to run a computer, and you know what? A lot of them just give up and just say, to heck with it, I might as well

just die. There’s no humanity being left in this kind of ap-proach, and if they continue it, it’s going to lead to such a disaster that nobody’s going to want to live in this com-munity, or any other one that’s taken the humanity out of Medicare.”

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Hunting is a popular hobby and sport

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Over the last 10 years, more and more fe-males are taking up hunt-ing.

Hunting seasons vary depending on where you live. Regulations designed by local conservation, game, fish, and wildlife de-partments often dictate the start and end of hunting season. Although the licensing, seasons, limits, and fees for hunting may differ geographically, the preparation that goes into getting ready for hunting season is similar regardless of geography.Many seasoned hunters realize hunting season does not begin on “opening day.” Rather, it can take weeks or months to get ready for a successful season. Consider-ing hunting seasons can be brief, preparation helps hunt-ers make the most of their time spent in the field.* Purchase your license, tag or stamp. Many wildlife departments require hunters register in advance of the season, and this registration includes securing a hunting license. Because there is a limit to how many animals each hunter can hunt, tags for the animals they’re hunt-ing also will be issued. Hunters planning on going out for the season should stay apprised of when licensing and registration begins and ends so they can hunt legally.* Scout areas. The landscape can change from year to year depend-ing on a host of factors, including construction, commercialization and weather. Areas once open to hunting may now be restricted lands. Map out your potential hunting location and be aware of any new landmarks or changes. * Check and replenish gear. Inspect weaponry, field-dressing supplies, clothing, and other supplies for wear and tear. Address any issues that need to be fixed, or replace items as nec-essary. If a rifle, bow or shotgun hasn’t been fired in a

while, take it to a range to verify accuracy and sighting. If you hunt out of a tree stand or blind, make sure it is sturdy and in good condition prior to use.* Get in shape. Hunting often requires hiking in and out of the great outdoors in various terrain. It’s helpful to in-crease physical activity leading up to the hunt to prepare your body for the physical demands of hunting. * Organize and pack gear. Ensure your equipment is clean, in working order and packed away in your travel bags. Establish a system of organization and a checklist so you’re certain you will have what you need. Don’t for-get to bring along your hunting license and animal tags;

otherwise, you may be levied with costly fines.* Always hunt safely. It is quite easy to get swept up in the moment when tracking game. Don’t let overzealousness cloud rational judgement and safety precautions. Oth-erwise an injury or even death can occur.

Hunting season is on the horizon and that means prepar-ing now for the few weeks of sport to come.

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Hunting Safety Tip #1:Every time you see a gun, pick up a gun or point a gun, assume that it’s loaded.Hunting Safety Tip #2:Make sure your safety is always ON and that the barrel is pointing DOWN when you are walking with or transporting your gun.Hunting Safety Tip #3:Make sure that you are certain of your target before you take your shot. That is, make sure that you are shooting at an animal and not a human and that there are no people anywhere near the animal you are shooting at.Hunting Safety Tip #4:Wear the required amount of orange so that you don’t become another hunter’s target.

Hunting Safety Tip #5:Make sure all animals are dead before you put them in or strap them onto your vehicle.Hunting Safety Tip #6:Do not bring small children with you hunting.Hunting Safety Tip #7:Do not climb up or down a tree or over a fence with a loaded gun. Instead, hand your gun to a hunting partner with the safety on and allow them to hand it back to you when you are in position.Hunting Safety Tip #8:Stay sober and do not take any mind-altering drugs before or during your hunting sessions.


It’s important when you go hunting to make sure that you know enough about how to hunt safely in order to remain the hunter and not become the hunted. Here are 20 safety

tips for beginning hunters to help you make it through hunting season alive:



Hunting Safety Tip #9:Wear a brightly colored hat so that you will not be mistaken for a target.Hunting Safety Tip #10:Look well beyond your target before you shoot. High pow-ered ammunition can travel up to a mile.Hunting Safety Tip #11:Hunt with a buddy. If you can’t hunt with a buddy, make sure that someone knows where you will be and what time to expect you back.Hunting Safety Tip #12:If using a tree stand to hunt, don’t forget to wear a safety belt.Hunting Safety Tip #13:Before you begin the hunting season and before you use any new or borrowed equip-ment, make sure to go over everything and make sure that it is working properly.Hunting Safety Tip #14:Make sure you know how ev-erything operates before you attempt to use it while hunting. Safety requires that you ask questions and have practice sessions before you put any new equipment or techniques to work.Hunting Safety Tip #15:Store and transport ammuni-tion separate from your guns.Hunting Safety Tip #16:Keep both your guns and your ammunition under lock and key.Hunting Safety Tip #17:Never shoot at a sound or movement.Hunting Safety Tip #18:Store firearms and bows in cool dry places.Hunting Safety Tip #19:Take home what you kill, clean it and eat it. Freeze or dry the extra and share it with the neighbors or have meat for months!Hunting Safety Tip #20:


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You’re preparing your will – that’s good – and you’re considering leaving part or all of your estate to a child or children who are minors – that may not be so good. Let’s look at why you need to carefully consider whether or not to name your minor children as direct beneficiaries in your will.

• If you leave money directly to a child who has not yet reached the age of majority, and depending on the juris-diction, provincial authorities may have the right to man-age that money until the child becomes an adult. A public trustee is appointed who will charge a fee to manage your estate and may not manage or disperse the funds as you would have wished. Then, when your child reaches the age of majority, he or she will receive your inheritance as a lump sum. Is a young person 18 or 19 years old capable of managing a (perhaps) huge sum of money?

• It is usually more prudent to have your inheritance held in trust until your child is more mature – you choose a spe-cific age in your will (21, 25, 30, it’s your choice) with the trust managed by a personal representative you name who can be given the power to dip into the capital of the trust for the benefit of your child, according to the directions in your will.

• It is generally not a good idea to make a child a joint owner or direct beneficiary of your assets. If you do, even though you directed in your will that your child was not to receive a large sum earlier than you specified, he or she may still receive a large amount of money right away. For example, if your child is a joint owner of an account or asset or a direct beneficiary of investments held within an RRSP or insurance policy, he or she may receive the funds immediately because the assets will not form a part of your

estate (except in Québec, although not always). If the child is a minor, the public authorities may step in to manage the funds until the child reaches the age of majority.

• You may have heard that there are tax advantages to naming a minor child as a beneficiary of investments held within an RRSP because the RRSP proceeds will not be immediately taxable at time of death, as they otherwise would. That’s true – but the tax deferral is not forever and, at time of death, a registered annuity must be purchased for the child, which (unless the child suffers from a disability) must be paid out prior to the child’s 18th birthday – putting a great deal of money in a young person’s hands.

If your intended beneficiary is a minor, it usually prefer-able to leave the assets in the estate so the funds are sub-ject to the terms of your will, create a testamentary trust, and name a trustee who will manage and invest the funds according to your wishes. Your professional legal and financial advisors can help you make sure where there’s a will, there’s (your) way.

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The main focus of the event will be the North Peace Sav-ings and Credit Union Main stage, which will feature local musicians and street performers from all over Canada.

“We’ve got street performers, like a guy that will come in and show you how he can balance 20 plastic chairs on his head, how he discovered that talent and can turn that into a show where he’s juggling and doing other things, I don’t know, but he’s able to do it. You’ve got people who are going to breathe fire, and stilt walkers,” said Reaburn.

He’s most looking forward to the street performers.“We don’t tend to see those types of performances here

in Fort St. John, so we’ve got some very unique people,” he said. “We’ve got a family that’s coming from Peace River, their act is called Circus of Hell, but they’re a husband and wife and two daughters, and they do a family show, so one is a contortionist . . . the husband and wife breathe fire, and lots of other things in that act as well.”

There will also be an arts market, featuring local artists and small businesses, as well as displays from the Fort St. John Museum, the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation and the EnCana Events Centre.

In the evening there will be a family dance, put on by the Evangel Chapel, on 101 Avenue in front of Dairy Queen, where the Montney Coulees will perform live music.

The 2013 Block Party was a 10th anniversary birthday party for the radio station, but it was such a success – with an estimated headcount of 2,000 to 3,000 people attending – that organizers decided to bring it back.

“We’re kind of morphing it into an annual event that we do to celebrate Fort St. John, and downtown, so it’s just a fun thing that we see growing over the years to come and expect lots of big things in the next few years with this event,” said Reaburn.

The full schedule of events and performances is avail-able online at moosefmblockparty.ca.


Meanwhile, Northern Health is aware of this movement that’s taking place, and one of the possible solutions they’ve considered is opening up a new facility that is close to the hospital to create more of a community

and support system for doctors.

“One of the biggest p r o b l e m s that physi-cians told us that in the community is that in the long term, o v e r h e a d s is basically quite oner-ous in Fort St. John for the physi-cians. And it would be e x t r e m e l y helpful if we could have a facility that particularly is close to the hospital and which phys i c i ans could use, and hope-fully if we work togeth-er, Northern Health, the phys i c i ans as well as the

community, we can bring down a little bit the overhead costs by having a single fa-cility which is closer to the hospital,” said Ronald Chapman, vice president of medi-cine for Northern Health.

It’s an idea that is in the very early stag-es, and no plans have been solidified yet, he said.

Northern Health has also hired a full time recruiter who is currently working spe-

cifically on finding physicians for Fort St. John, and on the horizon is a visit to Wash-ington, where Northern Health will try to recruit American physicians.

“With respect to the movement, we are well aware, we’ve been in regular contact with them and certainly been monitor-ing and responding to many of the things they’ve been doing on social media, through Twitter and Facebook, Northern Health does take it very very seriously, we recognize that it’s a challenge up there and we’re putting a tremendous effort into try-ing to recruit,” said Steve Raper, director of communications at Northern Health.

According to Northern Health, there are 24 resident family physicians living in Fort St. John. Some do locum work, and some work full time in the Emergency Room.

On Weds., Sept. 17, the Concerned Citi-zens for Health Care are holding a public forum at 7 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Hall in Fort St. John at 10908 100 Street. All are welcome to attend.


DISTRICT OF HUDSON’S HOPE

2014 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS

NOTICE OF NOMINATION

Public Notice is given to the electors of the District of Hudson’s Hope that nominations for the offices of:

Mayor (one to be elected) and Councillor (six to be elected)

will be received by the Chief Election Officer or a designated person, as follows:

By hand, mail or other delivery service: District of Hudson’s Hope 9904 Dudley Drive, PO Box 330 Hudson’s Hope, BC V0C 1V0

From 9:00 am Tuesday, September 30, 2014 To 4:00 pm Friday, October 10, 2014 Excluding statutory holidays and weekends

By fax to: 250-783-5741 By email to: [email protected]

From 9:00 am Tuesday, September 30, 2014 To 4:00 pm Friday, October 10, 2014

Originals of faxed or emailed nomination documents must be received by the Chief Election Officer by 4:30 pm on Friday, October 17, 2014

Nomination forms are available at the District of Hudson’s Hope, 9904 Dudley Drive, Hudson’s Hope, BC from 9:00 am Tuesday, September 30, 2014 to the close of the nomination period.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE

A person is qualified to be nominated, elected, and to hold office as a member of local government if they meet the following criteria:

• Canadian citizen; • 18 years of age or older on general voting November 15, 2014 • resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day

nomination papers are filed; and • not disqualified under the Local Government Act or any other enactment from being

nominated for, being elected to or holding the office, or be otherwise disqualified by law.

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Fort St. John• Ft. St. John Parkinson’s Support Group Parkinson Society British Columbia People living with Parkinson’s disease, caregivers and family members are warmly invited to the Ft. St. John Parkinson’s Support Group. Join others in your community to share information and resources, coping strate-gies, ideas for living well with PD, good humour, social support and more. Last Wednesday of the month at 11:00 am Mc-Donald’s Restaurant 10920 Alaska Road North Ft. St. John, BC Note: there is no meeting in December For more information please contact: Sarah at 250 785 7348• S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Northern B.C. Newcom-ers Integration Service Centre is a non-profit organization in Fort St. John. Our Settlement Program provides information, orientation, assessment, referral and service linking, educational workshops and short term adaptation counselling to immigrants. The program also offers assistance with form completion, correspondence between clients and service providers, navigating immigration processes including sponsor-ship applications, obtaining permanent residence cards and applying for citizen-ship. Bridging services are provided to a variety of community and government ser-vice agencies and organizations. Service is available in English and Spanish. The Set-tlement Program is located at: #209 10142-101st Ave (Execuplace building). From 8:30-4:30 p.m. Phone # 250-785-5323 Ext 22.• Toastmasters International Club of Fort St. John meets from 7 - 8:30 pm every Thursday evening at Northern Lights Col-lege, Room 105. Learn valuable communi-cation and leadership skills. Contact Joyce Hadland at 250-261-3886 or Lori Slater at 250-787-1912 for more information. No meetings during July and August. • Rocky Mountain Rangers Army Cadets

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Online Edition of the Northeast News for Sept. 4, 2014