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Memorial Arena and the Curling Club will have ice next fall after Dawson Creek city council unanimously approved $2.4 million of a $9 million plan to replace the broken refrigera-tion systems in both facilities.

Around 50 citizens showed up to a special meeting of council Thursday, the majority of whom supported the plan to fix the arena and curling rink. The two facilities have been

without ice since city staff dis-covered toxic ammonia leaking from the aging chiller system late last year.

Earlier this week, a long-expected report estimated the cost of rehabilitating the city’s three ice facilities at just over $9 million over six years. It also offered options for building a new multipurpose ice complex, shifting ice operations to Kin Arena and the Encana Events Centre and not repairing the curling centre, and dropping ice altogether in favour of dry floor facilities.

Council approved the first option, but with amendments that would allow them to de-cide year-by-year whether cer-tain pieces of the work needed to be done.

The plan would be paid for out of the city’s existing capi-tal budget by putting off other projects, including a City Hall phone upgrade, the demoli-tion of the old Centennial Pool, upgrades to the Encana Centre, money for a fire training site, and an expansion of the city cemetery. The city will not take on any debt by repairing the arenas.

Despite some worries about the impact on the city’s fiscal situation, the plan passed with-out opposition.

“I feel like this is a no-braini-er, that we have to do this,” said Councillor Cheryl Shuman. “Building a new facility is not something we can do at this

time. Frankly I’m afraid to build anything in this community, given our record.” She added that “doing nothing” was not an option.

Councillor Mark Rogers was most critical, but decided not to vote against the plan.

“We’re talking about spend-ing over $9 million on some-thing that less than ten per cent of the community uses,” he said (an assessment on the future needs of ice users found around 1,400 people use the arenas).

“Recreation is important, that’s evident [from the crowd] here today, but the amount of money we’re spending on those services, it’s a bit expensive and it’s not sustainable,” he said. He said he worried about the quick turnaround between the issu-ing of the report Tuesday and council’s decision Thursday. “There are a lot of things we haven’t heard from the citizens about the items we’re consider-ing cutting or suspending.”

Two items that would have been put off under the $2.4 million plan— upgrading the aquatic centre parking lot ($250,000) and improving

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The first year of work would see the refrigeration plants for Kin Arena and the Memo-rial Arena and Curling Club replaced with a lesshazardous Freon system — with an esti-

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mated price tag of $2.2 million.The rest would be spent on minor

fixes to the buildings. Those projects have not been tendered, so it’s not yet clear what the final cost will be.

If council approves the work, subse-quent years could include the replace-ment of the aging concrete ice pads in the facilities.

Those repairs would give the arenas another 25 to 35 years of life, the report found.

Councillor Charlie Parslow said he be-lieved the spending needed to happen.

“I’m a fiscal conservative for sure, but I can’t conceive this town without curl-ing, hockey, figure skating, so as coun-cillor Shuman said. This is in part a no-

brainer,” he said.Mayor Dale Bumstead also voted in

favour.“We appreciate the passion from the

community, and we understand that this is a significant and important decision,” he said ahead of the vote.

The dozens of people who gathered in council chambers Thursday appeared to be in favour of council’s decision

The Alaska Highway News asked 35 people leaving the chambers wheth-er they supported council’s decision. Thirty-three said they did, while two ab-stained.

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Around 50 people gathered in council chambers Thursday to watch a vote on the future of the city’s ice arenas. Most supported council’s decision to undertake a $9 million plan to squeeze another 25-35 years out of the facilities. (Jonny Wakefield Photo)


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The warm smell of fresh-baked sweet bread is making its way through the Nawican Friendship Centre in Dawson Creek where Louise Isadore is in the kitchen, wearing an apron la-beled “Bannock Queen”.

Every Thursday Isadore comes into the centre, mixing, need-ing, rolling and cutting out three batches of bannock – making 90 in total.

“I’ve been coming to the cen-tre since 1999, now I’m on the board here so I’m here all the time,” she says, waving a flour-covered hand.

She has already filled a large silver bowl with flour and baking soda when I arrive and pours in a mix of liquid ingredients, creat-ing a well in the middle.

“I learned this from an early age, I was nine years old when I was already baking for my family because there was a lot of us, 13 all together and I’m the second oldest,” she says. “My brother is the oldest but he was living with us and my grandmother took over on him because my mum was very young when she start-ed. When they got married, she was only just turned16 and got pregnant right away and she had my brother, then me and from there all the little ones –13 of us.”

Being the oldest after her brother, a great deal of the work around the house was piled on her, from cooking to clean-

ing and changing diapers – she points out that at that time they didn’t have washing machines and everything was scrubbed out by hand.

“I learned from a very early age how to work,” she says.

Isadore grew up on the out-skirts of the reserve in Driftpile, Alberta, northeast of Grande Prairie.

“I was born close to the river, Driftpile River,” she says. “My dad worked for a farmer there.”

Her father took the farm job after moving the family off of the reserve where she says he no lon-ger wanted to live.

“The agent, he was not treat-ing the people right, he was tak-ing money from the government which should be going to the reserve and the people there so [my dad] had a fight with the In-dian Agent, so we were out of the reserve,” she says.

At eight-years-old, Isadore says it was time for her to go to school and the family moved to Faust, Alberta, on Lesser Slave Lake.

“It was just a garage, Post Of-fice and one store,” she says. “It was just a little tiny place and now it’s big and I go back there, oh, is it ever huge.”

Isadore’s family lived more than two miles south of the town centre on a ranch with her grand-parents close by.

“I had two sets of grandpar-ents, one side was Metis, one was status,” she says. “I was very

lucky to have two sets of grand-parents, then.”

The family had horses and travelled by team wherever they went. Isadore was given a horse by her grandparents when she was born and says she rode it ev-eryday since she was small.

When Isadore was 14 years old her horse was hit by the train that rolled past the town. The horse was pregnant at the time and she says her Metis grandfather – a medicine man – tried to save the colt but both were lost.

When they were children, Isadore says her and her sib-lings rode horseback to school, otherwise running through the bush – she recounts a time that they came across a bear en route but scared it away with all of the noise they were making.

“We never knew what a real shoe looked like cause we always had moccasins and rubbers and wore our dress, we never wore pants or slacks,” says Isadore. “I think I was only about 14, or maybe a little older when I start-ed wearing, I don’t know if it was jeans at that time, but that was in 1949 or 50.”

She says the girls were all wearing pants so her and her sis-ter talked her mom and dad into letting them wear jeans.

Her family always lived quite traditionally, she says, speak-ing Cree at home, although her father knew both English and French from his time at residen-tial schools.

“When I first went to school I didn’t know one word of English and it was hard in the beginning,” she says. “It was horrible but the teacher was really nice. She was wonderful, only one teacher for all the grades from grade one to six.”

The same teacher, Mrs. Ban-nister, is now about 90 years old and still lives in Faust today – the school was eventually named af-ter her, Isadore says.

She stayed in school until the eighth grade when her mother pulled her out because she need-ed help at home and had medical problems, having five miscar-riages and losing one daughter at just over one year old.

“I basically was the second mother with my siblings. They didn’t call me mom, they had a name for me, my name was ‘Yay’,” she laughs. “I don’t know what that means but it was my

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brothers, mostly, there’s five girls and eight boys – they almost made a ball team.”

Isadore says she has eight of them left today. While cutting out individual ban-nocks with the mouth of an empty tin can, Isadore says she also makes bannock for her brother in Chetwynd, and used to send it by bus to another brother.

“I used to put it on a bus for him, my other brother that passed away, he used to send me money on my bank account so I could by flour and baking powder and stuff,” she laughs.

With her open arms illustrating her words, Isadore says, “Our table grew and grew and grew. As the kids were just little, the benches on each side of this wooden table were long and towards the ends, my dad and my mom.”

Later into her teens, Isadore lived with her status grandparents because her and her sister had been disagreeing over how to care for the younger siblings, and her mother took her sister’s side.

“My grandma told me, come and live with me, so I stayed with them for four years,” she says. Despite all of the time she did spend with them, Isadore says she wishes she had learned more of her grandmother’s medicine and herbs.

“I was kind of not into it at all at that time because I kind of figured my grandmother was going to live forever,” she says. “She lived to be 105, she lived right up until the end and didn’t die of old age or sickness. Her house caught on fire.”

After her grandmother moved out of her still-standing log cab-in to a new house, faulty wiring caused a fire and she succumb to smoke inhalation, unable to make it out the door.

“I don’t know how long she would have lived if it weren’t for the fire,” Isadore says, obviously she was doing something right.

“She used to make her own dried meat, smoked her own fish, she had all the stuff from the ground, from the earth like the roots and stuff. She knew all kinds of medicine for healing, she even could give you birth control,” she says. “She knew a lot of things and she wanted to teach me the herbs in the bush but I was a teenager and I didn’t care for that kind of stuff. I’m sorry today that I didn’t learn any of her stuff, just common colds and teas.”

Isadore says that was her status grandmother, her Metis grandmother taught her how to make bannock.

The first batch of the warm bread comes out of the oven with steam rising and Isadore drops

the individual pieces off of the cookie sheet and onto the counter to cool. A few more people have already headed into the centre – she says some come after soup at St. Mark’s, others come just for bannock.

Growing up, Isadore says both sides of her family were hunters and fishers – in the late summer and fall they would all head out with the grandmothers in charge of the children.

“We had four wagons going, the Metis and the status both go on this hunting trip, kids and everybody, grandparents and parents, everybody went. We made camp, a huge camp, we’d have a big pit with benches and logs, stumps around the big fire. That’s the part I used to like but you couldn’t stay up too long, you’d get sent to bed or grandma would come look-ing for us,” she says.

While the mothers were off hauling wood, making the fire and drying meat, Isadore says the grandmothers would take them berry picking – on one occasion hav-ing to fend the children off from a bear.

From Faust, Isadore’s father worked for the railroad for 25 years before retiring.

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Continued from Page 5my son, he was only 8 years old. He didn’t know there

was a bullet in this gun and he was pointing it at every-one in the garden, we had a huge garden, this goes back to 1962,” she says. “It was on Thanksgiving Day, it was

so horrible, he just barely made it. He had six hours in surgery to patch up all the little holes the bullet made.”

She says the accident affected her son for a long time, his grandfather was his best friend, she says.

“My dad even said, don’t you do anything about that

boy,” she says, he didn’t want to see him punished for an accident that he already felt terribly about.

At the time, Isadore was with her first husband, a pol-ish farmer who was killed in a car accident one Christ-mas Eve.

Isadore remarried, having eight children in to-tal but said her second husband was “not a very nice person, he was drinking all of the time, my children were scared”.

Suffering abuse over the 11 years they were married, Isadore says she might not have gotten out of that situation had it not been for her oldest son – from her first husband.

“My son said I get paid this weekend and I’m buying you a ticket and you’re getting on this bus,” she says.

Isadore’s parents moved to Chetwynd in 1967 and she followed shortly after. While there she returned to school to complete her grade 10 but says she didn’t like Chetwynd and it didn’t like her – she was frequently ill with bronchitis and other lung problems.

She moved back to Alberta for some time and then crossed the border again to Fort St. John, where she volunteered with the elderly commu-nity. After having major surgery, Isadore moved to Dawson Creek to recover – her daughter was living here at the time.

“Since 1986 I’ve lived here,” she says, filling a cup with flour for a second batch of bannock. Adding in baking powder to the dry mix, she says she never measures. She doesn’t set an oven tim-er either, just looks in the oven and says they’re good.

As well as the Nawican Friendship Centre, Isadore is called on to bake bannock for North-ern Lights College and various events around town. She has also done the opening prayer and smudging ceremonies at notable events – she names the Premier’s visit most recently.

“I even stood beside the Prime Minister when he came here,” she says.

Isadore has kept her language and helped others learn, at times assisting Cree language in-structors in town.

“We still talk Cree whenever we have the chance,” she says. “I still get my words that I can’t remember, you know when you have your words you forget over the years going to a public school, and then marrying somebody that you have to talk English to all the time, and then going back to Cree – Isadore is Cree.”

Whoever speaks Cree, she says she’ll talk to them, “that’s keeping your tradition, your cul-ture.”

When someone in town was seeking out a person to teach hide-tanning Isadore says she wanted to volunteer – she was taught to tan hide, as well – but says it’s hard work, that requires a younger body.

“It’s very important for me to get involved with things like that for our culture,” she says. “If any-body has questions, if I can answer it I will, oth-erwise that’s what it is all about, it’s all about my culture.”


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The Dawson Creek Seals Swim Club won’t enter the pool for an official prac-tice until next Tuesday, but they already have their sights set on a huge goal for 2015.

Last year the club had about 50 swim-mers, this year they are looking for 100.

“We’ve got a goal to increase the

membership by 100 percent over last year,” co-head coach of the Dawson Creek Seals Danny Schilds said. “We are well on the way already. We are half way there.”

That expectation would help the club immensely according to the co-head coach, as more bodies in the water means a better opportunity for every-body in the club.

“First thing that it does is it gets more kids involved in the sport which is my main goal,” Schilds said. “This is a sport that sticks with you for the rest of your life. So the more kids we can get involved the better.

“It makes the club stronger too, we are better able to deliver a lot more pro-grams if we have more kids. It spreads the cost around, we are able to have more qualified coaches on deck. So that kids get that much better coaching and there is a chance to be more successful as well.”

Along with Schilds, Megan Lutz will

also help guide the club, along with re-turning coach Tove Schilds who has been a co-head coach with the program since 2011.

While having three coaches will be helpful, with so many new swimmers the learning curve is a steep one.

“That’s something that is going to build,” Danny said of the competitive-ness of the team. “We have an extremely young team. Very, very young team, we are going to be looking at probably three quarters or and least 2/3’s of the swim-mers are going to be brand new. So it generally takes a couple years before a

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Staff Writer


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The Dawson Creek Seals are hoping to reach 100 swimmers this year.

FILE PHOTOLast year the Dawson Creek Seals put forth a strong performance at the invitational meet in Fort St. John.

kid gets to the point where they are competitive.”With so many new faces on board, Schilds noted that

often one of the biggest surprises is how far the kids swim during their first month in the pool.

“Within the first month, practically raw beginners will be swimming a mile in a practice, and that will be easy for them. It’s very accelerated development. We re-

ally work on being efficient in the water,” he said.Another way the club hopes to combat the inexperi-

ence of the club is by hosting mini-meets each week at practice.

“We do mini practice meets just about every week… all the kids are involved so they get a chance to practice their dives, their turns and their stroke with officials on deck watching them. So they get to play the game once a week,” he said.

Swimmers are split up into teams at those practices, and are awarded points based on the event they race in and the improvement that they see from the last mini-meet.

Overall, despite the turnover Schilds believes the team will be a strong one this season.

“We’re looking for a really strong year,” he said.

“We are already seeing results from our winter training, I think we are going to see some much faster kids.”

The club’s first competition is May 30-31 in Mackenzie. One of the biggest events on the schedule will be the team’s home meet on July 18-19.

“We’re aiming for 100 percent turnout of all of our swimmers [here],” he said.

The club is also trying to start an alumni group, any of the swimmers from the past are encouraged to reach out to the club and hopefully get them back in the wa-ter.

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For Rent in Dawson Creek. SUNRIDGE APARTMENTS. BACHELOR, 1 & 2 BEDROOM Apartments www.ster-lingmgmt.ca 250-782-7609

QUALITY NEW 2 BEDROOM SUITE, quiet neighborhood, Frank Ross Area. 6/appliances, spa-cious/bright/open layout. $1175/mth. Text: 250-219-2814

STRATA Place Apts. in Dawson Creek. Special OFFER until May 15/15.Sign a 6mth lease, get 1/2 month FREE.1 and 2 Bedroom Apts. Adult Building, No Pets. 250-782-1331

6525 Duplexes for Rent

1/2 DUPLEX for rent in DC, 3 bed-rooms. $1250./month + utilities. Animal friendly. Available immediatelyPhone: 250-219-2648.

6525 Duplexes for Rent

5 BEDROOM DUPLEXES- FURNISHED in Pouce Coupe. Better Rates for Long Term. 250-719-9392

6560 Houses For Rent

Renovated 3-Bedroom Modular Home in Dawson Creek. W/D/DW.$1300./month plus utilities. Available Immediately. Call 250-719-7043

2060 For Sale - Misc

6560 Houses For Rent

WILLOW-CREEK 2 and 3 BED-ROOM TOWNHOMES IN DAWSON CREEK. Completely reno-vated,quiet yet are close to downtown and all amenities. AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY. All appliances. Full size unfi nished base-ment for storage. Two bedroom $1300, 3 bedroom $1400 on a 1 year lease. Call 250-782-2824. OR apply online www.ster-lingmgmt.ca

6945 Rooms

Furnished or un-furnished rooms/private bath in Pouce Coupe from $575.00 per month including utilities/cable. Call 250-719-8111

6965 Suites For Rent

FURNISHED BASEMENT SUITE. Internet Included. Available Imme-diately. Pouce Coupe Call 250-786-5157.

5020 Business Services

8220 Lawn & Garden

Dawson Creek Community Gar-densGarden plots For Rent. Call 250-782-3473 or 250-782-4592

8315 Renos & Home Improvement

RENOVATIONS ANDREPAIRS Finishcarpentry, tile setting,minor plumbing andelectrical repairs, dry−wall repairs, painting.

250−878−[email protected]

9160 Trucks & Vans

2002 35th Anni-versary edition Z28. Black, con-vertible, Fully loaded. Stored for winters, $10,000 Phone 250-219-1975.

9165 Parts & Accessories

For sale: Welding deck off a 2003 Dodge 1-ton $1500 OBO in Dawson Creek. 250-219-1975

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6040 Lots & Acreages for Sale

5015 Business Opportunities


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Community EventsLocal Sports

• May12,2015 - The South Peace Community Arts Council will be holding their monthly meeting at noon at the Art Gallery.

• May 12 & 26, 2015 - The Peace River Songwriters Group will be meeting at Faking Sanity at 7:30pm

• May 13, 2015 - The Kiwanis Performing Arts Center will be holding their monthly meeting at noon at the NEW Calvin Kruk Arts Centre on 10th St. and 104th Ave.

• May14,2015- The South Peace Arts Society will be holding their monthly meeting at noon at the Dawson Creek Art Gallery. Phone 250-782-2601 for more information.

• May19,2015 - The South Peace Historical Society will be holding their monthly meeting at 2:00pm in the Archives Room at the Calvin Kruk Arts Centre on 10th St. and 104th Ave.

• May 24, 2015 - The Peace Country Roots Group hold their monthly meeting at 1:30pm, located in the small building in the NAR Park.

• May25,2015 - Friends of the Library meet at 10am

• May 30, 2015 - The Peace Region Songrwriters’ Association will be hosting their monthly Co�ee House at Faking Sanity from 6:30-9:30pm. Open Mic takes place throughout the evening including music and spoken word. Open to all genres of music and skill levels. Admission by donation. Co�ee, tea & goodies available. (corner of 9th St. & 103rd Ave, Dawson Creek)

•• FridaysSteakNightat Bear Mountain Ski

Hill, 6-10 pm. Menu: 8 oz NY steak or herb roasted chicken breast or teriyaki glazed salmon steak and garlic mashed or rice. Meals include caesar salad andhomemade dessert. Regular concession available. (02)

MACHITAWINFAMILYLEARNINGCENTRE• If you have any questions please feel free

to drop by for a co�ee at 14-1405-102nd Avenue, Central Place or give us a call at 250-782-1169. Monday: Gross Motor Skills Development 9:00 am - noon • Walking •Swimming • Playing Tuesday: Fine MotorSkills / Literacy Development 9:00 am - noon •SharingCircle•StoryTime•Singing•CraftsWednesday: Breakfast Group 9:00 am - noon •Start thefamilyofftoahealthybreakfastwith a Cultural theme Thursday: Parent - Child Mother Goose Program 9:00 am - noon •Comelearntosingyourfavoritesongandtell rhyme with your children. Traditional Dance - 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm. • Come learnthe Pow-wow style way. Friday: Field Trip Day 9:00 am - noon. Getting to know your community. Gaia Program 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm•SupportforPregnantMomsusingDrugsand Alcohol. (11)

NAWICANFRIENDSHIPCENTRE• Mondays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm, Nurse

11am-2pm. Tuesdays - Fund raiser BBQ11am - 1pm Wednesdays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm Thursdays - Bannock 11am

Fridays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm. Also call 250.782.5202 for the dates on the following events: Afternoon Fund raiser Bingo - Elders Free Dinner/Entertainment - Community Fund raiser Dinners/Entertainment.

• Dawson Creek Seniors Hall: Monday 9:00am, Skittles/Pool 10:00 am Exercise 11:45 Lunch 1;00pm Pool 1:30pm Carpet Bowling 7:00pm Crib & Bridge. Tuesday 8:00 Foot Care/Blood Pressure (by appointment) 1:00 pm Pool / Bingo 7:00pm Floor Curling/Darts. Wednesday 9:00am Skittles/Ladies Pool 10:00am Exercise 1:00pm Pool/Crib & Bridge 3:30 pm Beginner Line Dancing. Thursday 10:00am Game board Café 1:00pm Floor Curling 7:00pm Floor Curling. Friday 9:00 Skittles/Pool 10:00am Line Dancing 1:00pm Pool 1:30pm Carpet Bowling. For more info on our activities call the 250 782 7620 or visit our hall at 1101 McKellar Ave.

MONDAY• AA Meetings 8:00 pm at the Dawson Creek

Health Unit. (0)• New! AA Meetings noon at South Peace

United Church, 1300 - 104 Ave., Dawson Creek. (0)

• Cocaine Anonymous meets 7:00 pm at 1320 - 102nd Ave. The only requirement is a desire to quit using cocaine and other mind altering substances! (0)

• Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention: A skills group open to adults struggling with addiction Mondays 10:30am-12noon @ Mental Health & Addictions at the Dawson Creek Health Unit, 1001 110th Ave., Dawson Creek. Call Sean at 250-719-6525. (0)

TUESDAY• AA Meetings 8:00 pm at Dawson Creek

Health Unit, Living Sober Meeting, 219-7624. (0)

• AA Closed Meeting 8:00 pm at Pouce Coupe Community Church Annex (next to the Post O�ce) 5002 - 49th Ave, Pouce Coupe. Big book study. (0)

• TOPS B.C. #3450 - Arras, meets every Tuesday at Cutbank Hall, from 3:30-5:00 pm. For more info call Eileen at 250-843-7625 or Doreen at 250-780-2324. Join us having fun while winning with weight loss.

• Mile “O” Quilter’s Guild meets every Tuesday & Thursday at at the New Calvin Kruk Arts Centre on 10th St. and 104th Ave. at 7pm. (06)

• First Tuesday: - Piecemakers Quilt Guild meets in the board room at Tiger’s Printing & Stationers, 7:00 pm. Contact 250-786-5793. (12)

• First Tuesday: - The Visually Impaired Support Group meets at 12 noon at First Baptist Church, 1400 113 Ave. All who have or who care about someone with a vision problem are welcome. For further info call Pam 782-5187 or Margaret 782-3221. (03)

• Last Tuesday: Book club for adults, 7pm at the Dawson Creek Library. Call 250-782-4661 for more details. (01)

WEDNESDAY

• New! AA Meetings noon at South Peace United Church, 1300 - 104 Ave., Dawson Creek. (0)

• AA Meeting at the Health Unit @ 8:00pm.• Cocaine Anonymous meets 7:00 pm at 1320-

102nd Ave. The only requirement is a desire to quit using cocaine and other mind altering substances!

• Grief Support Group - free 6 week program. The group will run Wednesday evenings from 6:30pm until 8:30pm starting October 22nd and ending November 26th, 2014 at the Bergeron Funeral Services Social Room, 10200-17th Street, Dawson Creek, British Columbia. For more information or to register, please call 250-782-2577. (11)

THURSDAY• AA Meetings 8:00 pm - 9:00pm at the

Dawson Creek Health Unit. (0) • Al-Anon 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm at the Dawson

Creek Heath Unit. (0)• Knitting Group meets every Thursday at

Faking Sanity from 6:30 to 8:30pm.• TOPS: Taking O� Pounds Sensibly weigh

in starts at 8:30 a.m. 10221-18th Street. Contact Mary Kidd 250-782-6628. (12)

• Mile “O” Quilter’s Guild meets every Tuesday & Thursday at at the New Calvin Kruk Arts Centre on 10th St. and 104th Ave. at 7pm. (06)

FRIDAY• AA Meetings 8:00 pm. 12x12 Meeting, at

the Dawson Creek Health Unit. Big book study. (0)

• Cocaine Anonymous, 7:00 pm at 1320-102nd Ave. The only requirement is a desire to quit using cocaine & other mind altering substances! (0)

SATURDAY• AA Meetings 8 :00 pm , Dawson Creek Health

Unit, Dawson Creek, 219-7624. (0)• Each Saturday - September through June -

Peace Country Roots Group building will be open from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm to members wanting to use the genealogy library. A member will be available by appointment to anyone requiring help on how to get started on your family history. Everyone is welcome. We are located in the small building in NAR Park. Call Lynn 250-782-4058, Neil 250-782-7651, Lyle 250-782-2804 Peace Country Roots Group Website http://peacecountryroots.ca

SUNDAY• NEW AA Meeting at the Cultural Room at

the Northern Lights College 8pm Sunday evenings.

• Fourth Sunday — September through June - Peace Country Roots Group meets 1:30 pm in the small Roots building in NAR park. Getting started on family tree research, need help? Come learn & share experiences with other amateur genealogists. Everyone welcome. Call Lynn 250-782-4058, Neil 250-782-7651, Lyle 250-782-2804 Peace Country Roots Group website: http://peacecountryroots.ca


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