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Vol. 28 No. 04

Friday, January 22, 2016

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Fort St. John Library Director Kerry France says she feels the library is being "disregarded" after council rejected its request for additional dollars to keep pace with the city's growth.

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Fort St. John Public Library feels 'disregarded' as council rejects extra funding Bronwyn Scott Staff Writer

The Fort St. John Public Library needs extra money for more staff, additional space and expanded programming, but it won’t be getting a boost from the city.

Council voted at Monday’s meeting to provide $380,000 as a base budget grant to the library for 2016, short of its request for $400,000.

The decision has library director Kerry France feeling the library is being “disregarded.”

“It makes me worry for the value that the city places on library service for their community,” she told the Alaska Highway News.

The library has been receiving $380,000 each year from the city since 2008, France said, adding the library is the third-lowest local government-funded library per capita out of 71 public library systems in the province.

“We have traced our (funding) increases back to 1987, which were quite regular up until 2008... We received the last one in

2008,” said France.

More than 80,000 people come through the library’s doors each year, according to France. It’s struggling to keep pace with the growth of the city, is short staffed, and has severe space limitations, France said.

“We are running at a third of (the) staffing (of) any library our size within the province,” she said.

“We are also the lowest square footage per capita out of all libraries in the province.”

The 21 employees who work at the library are unionized, “which makes a difference,” she said, because each year there’s an increase in wages.

“Everything goes up except for our funding from the city.”

The library also receives funding from the provincial government, which is on par with what other libraries receive, and funding from Areas B and C of the Peace River Regional District.

In 2015, the library received $119,999 from the province, $30,800 from Area B, and $65,000 from Area C, France said.

All told, the funding the library receives

amounts to $13 per resident per year. The next lowest funding per person in the region is Taylor, which receives $39 per person. The Tumbler Ridge Public Library receives $126 for each resident, which France calls “kind of an anomaly.”

Council unanimously approved staff’s recommendation not to provide the additional funding. There was no discussion on the subject.

Mayor Lori Ackerman could not be immediately reached for a follow-up interview.

However, when the library board presented to council in October requesting the extra funds, council responded with some hesitation.

Coun. Gord Klassen explained to France and library board Chair L.J. Lawson that the city has limited resources due to having a relatively small tax base.

Coun. Byron Stewart added that funding is a challenge, and that council would love to have “an endless pot” of money. peacereporter@ahnfsj.ca

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Council awards seven groups base budget grants Staff Writer

City council approved seven applications for 2016 base budget grants at Monday’s meeting.

However, only two — the North Peace Fall Fair Society and the North Peace Historical Society —will receive the amounts they requested, worth $5,000 and $10,000 respectively.

One application, from the North Peace Cultural Society, will not receive a base budget grant because the city has since worked out a new funding model with them whereby the group receives $200,000 annually.

The requested amount for a base budget grant was $199,396, the same amount as they received last year.

But other groups, like the Fort St. John Community Arts Council, are still struggling.

The organization requested $20,000, and will receive $15,000 – the same dollar figure it’s received for more than 10 years, according to board director Margaret May. The arts council acts as an umbrella organization for between 25 and 30 arts groups and whatever it receives from the city is distributed to the various organizations. “$15,000 does not go very far,” said May. “We’ve asked for more every year.”

She explained that the pressures on the arts groups continue to grow with increasing costs and the growing population.

“It’s a young population, so we want to give all these opportunities to the people coming into the community, but it gets harder and harder,” May said. “There’s more and more demand for the services that those groups provide.”

The Fort St. John Women’s Resource Society is in the same boat, trying to maintain its programming in a growing city with no increase in funding.

The society requested $9,180, an increase of $1,705 over last year’s grant, in order to

accommodate a dramatic increase of people in need who are utilizing the non-profit’s bus program.

According to information contained in a staff report to council, the society allocates a certain number of passes each month and the program is “always fully utilized.”

A Women’s Resource Society representative was not available for comment by press deadline.

The North Peace Justice Society and the Tourism Fort St. John board will also receive less than requested.

The Justice Society, which offers an alternative to the legal system and accepts referrals from RCMP, Crown counsel, School District 60 and the fire department, requested $22,734 for 2016, which is the same amount it received in 2015.

Council opted to give the society $20,451 as a base budget grant for 2016.

Fort St. John’s tourism board had hoped for $71,000 in funding, but received just $36,000 — the same amount it’s received for the past three years.

Of the amount requested, $25,000 was to go towards hiring an employee. However, as a staff report to council indicates, Tourism Fort St. John is not a legal entity, and as such the city would have to hire and administer the staffer. All new positions have to be vetted through the city.

In addition to base budget grant funding, the city provided permissive tax exemptions for the Fort St. John Community Arts Council, the Fort St. John Women’s Resource Society and the North Peace Historical Society.

The value of the arts council’s exemption for 2016 is worth an estimated $9, 814, and for the Women’s Resource Society it was $5,275. The permissive tax exemption for the historical society is estimated to be $58,979.

Mayor Lori Ackerman did not respond to a request for comment by press deadline. peacereporter@ahnfsj.ca

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Debbie Scholten, a member of the North Peace Spinners and Weavers Guild, weaves a blanket on a loom at the Artspost. The guild is just one of the groups under the umbrella of the Fort St. John Arts Council that will require funding in the coming year.

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Should there be certain places that oil and gas companies are banned from drilling?

Ban drilling in all places? What kind of crazy talk is that?

With the economy in the tank right now, the industry should be allowed to drill wherever they want! Parks, schools, senior’s homes — everywhere!

How else are we going to get through these tough times without being allowed to create jobs by drilling for oil? The industry can’t help it if there’s a huge source of oil or natural gas a few dozen feet beneath a daycare centre! Those kids will be fine, probably. Breathing in any weird fumes can only help their little bodies build up immunity, right?

Heck, if there’s a source under the intersection of 100th and 100th, I say rip the street up! If anything, it’ll help bring dollars into the community, since there would likely have to be some royalties or something paid out somewhere, and people with jobs spend more money, so that’s a bonus too. Also, it could be used as an educational experience for students — they could see how a well site goes up without leaving town! Education is very important.

So throw those setback distances out the window and start your drilling, wherever you please!

Jonny Wakefield

Should there be certain places that oil and gas companies are banned from drilling? One would think there's a simple answer here: parks. And while drilling is banned within parks in B.C.—that is, provincial and federal parks—in most cases gas resources beneath those lands can be tapped from thousands of metres away through directional drilling. The controversy over drilling under Swan Lake in the South Peace is a good example of how controversial this can be. Ultimately, whether in-versus-under is a meaningful distinction depends on who you ask.

Which brings us to the Peace River Regional District's latest stand against drilling in Blackfoot Park. It's a regional facility, which, for the purposes of subsurface rights, is basically private property. We'll see how willing to flex its muscles the district is on this one, but at the last meeting, they drew a pretty distinct line in the sand.

This could be a flash in the pan. The province could withdraw the drilling rights as a show of good faith. The parcel could go to tender and not sell—no one's really buying new land for exploration these days.

Or this could prove to be a real battle between governments. In those cases, the big guys tend to win, but it would be interesting to watch.

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Science Matters David Suzuki

We are the world; we must act on that understanding The coming year looks bright with the promise of change after a difficult decade for environmentalists and our issues. But even with a new government that quickly moved to gender equity in cabinet, expanded the Ministry of the Environment to include climate change, and offered a bravura performance at the climate talks in Paris, can Canada’s environmentalists close up shop and stop worrying?

Of course not. The nature of politics includes constant trade-offs, compromises and disagreements. Even with a gov-

ernment sympathetic to environmental issues, we won’t act deeply and quickly enough or prevent new problems because we haven’t addressed the root of our environmental devastation. The ultimate cause isn’t economic, technological, scientific or even social. It’s psychological. We see and interact with the world through perceptual lenses, shaped from the moment of conception. Our notions of gender, ethnicity, religion, socio-economic status and the environment we grow up in all limit and create our priorities.

If we were to examine the anatomy of human brains, the circuitry and chemistry of neurons or the structure of our sense organs, nothing would permit us to distinguish gender, ethnicity or religion because we all belong to a single species. But if you were to ask a man and a woman about love, sex or family, answers could be quite disparate. A Jew and Muslim living in Israel might respond differently

to questions about Gaza, the West Bank or Jerusalem. A Catholic and Protestant living in Northern Ireland might hold radically different outlooks about their country’s history.

We learn how to see the world. That, in turn, determines our priorities and actions. The world has been overwhelmed by the belief that our species stands at the pinnacle of evolution, endowed with impressive intelligence and able to exploit our surroundings as we see fit. We feel fundamentally disconnected from nature and therefore not responsible for the ecological consequences of our actions.

Even at the 2015 Paris climate conference, the sense of urgency about climate change was dampened by the perceived equal need to protect jobs and to consider the economic costs of aiding vulnerable nations and even ways to continue exploiting fossil fuels, the very agents of the crisis.

We can’t just look at the world as a source of

resources to exploit with little or no regard for the consequences. When many indigenous people refer to the planet as “Mother Earth”, they are not speaking romantically, poetically or metaphorically. They mean it literally. We are of the Earth, every cell in our bodies formed by molecules derived from plants and animals, inflated by water, energized by sunlight captured through photosynthesis and ignited by atmospheric oxygen.

Years ago, I visited a village perched on the side of an Andean mountain in Peru. People there are taught from childhood that the mountain is an apu, a god, and that as long as that apu casts its shadow on the village, it will determine the destiny of its inhabitants. Compare the way those people will treat that mountain with the way someone in Trail, B.C., will after being told for years the surrounding mountains are rich in gold and silver.

Is a forest a sacred grove or merely lumber and

pulp? Are rivers the veins of the land or sources of power and irrigation? Is soil a community of organisms or simply dirt? Is another species our biological relative or a resource? Is our house a home or just real estate?

Once we learn that our very being, essence, health and happiness depend on Mother Earth, we have no choice but to radically shift the way we treat her.

When we spew our toxic wastes and pesticides into the air, water and soil, we poison our mother and ourselves. When we frack our wells, we contaminate the air and water on which we depend. When we clear-cut forests, dump mine tailings into rivers and lakes and convert wilderness into farms or suburbs, we undermine the ability of the biosphere to provide the necessities of life.

Is this how we treat our source of survival? Until all of society understands this and then acts on that understanding, we will not be able to act fully to protect a future for ourselves.

The Northerner • Friday, January 22, 2016 • 5 Bronwyn Scott Photo

Alfred Reschke, lead pastor at Charlie Lake Community Church, said the congregation voted unanimously in favour of sponsoring Syrian refugees locally.

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Two Syrian refugee families on their way Bronwyn Scott Staff Writer

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In little more than a month, Fort St. John will be home to two Syrian refugee families.

The Charlie Lake Community Church congregation voted unanimously Jan. 14 to sponsor a Syrian refugee family. Church officials have been in contact with authorities and have learned they already have two families assigned to them.

“We are getting ready to hit the ground rolling here,” lead pastor Alfred Reschke told the Alaska Highway News Monday.

“At this point it looks like a family of four, and connected with them is a family of two, and the two families don’t want to be separated, so we are going to do our best to accommodate and bring both families.”

Two of the refugees are children under the age of 10, Reschke said.

Volunteers are busy getting a settlement plan in place. There’s still a lot to do.

“We need to look at housing, what the housing is going to cost us, and then to basically provide everything in the household

that they will need,” he explained.

Though the refugees are being sponsored through the Charlie Lake church, it’s expected they will live in Fort St. John.

The church held a meeting in early December asking those interested in helping out monetarily or otherwise how much they were willing to contribute. From that meeting church officials determined they had “more than enough” to go ahead.

For Reschke, a first generation Canadian, helping Syrian refugees during their time of need takes on special significance.

During the Second World War, a time when being German was “very, very unpopular,” his parents, who lived in Russia and Poland, had to flee for their lives and wound up in refugee camps in Germany.

The Baptist Church brought them to Canada more than 70 years ago, and as a result, Reschke is Canadian.

Anyone interested in helping to sponsor and settle the refugee families can call the church at 250-785-1723.

Dry mouth is an unpleasant symptom often caused by certain drugs. You can take several measures to relieve and decrease your discomfort: ✔ Increase your liquid intake by always keeping on hand a bottle of your favorite beverage. ✔ Choose preferably soft moist foods. Adding sauce, cooking juices, melted margarine or butter, or other liquids (milk, fruit or vegetable juice, etc.) may help. Use dressing, sour cream or mayonnaise to make foods more creamy. ✔ Moisten your mouth frequently during the day by eating ice chips or spraying water in your mouth with a spray bottle. ✔ Clean and freshen your mouth several times a day with a mouthwash made with 1 teaspoon (5 ml) sodium bicarbonate and 2 cups of water. ✔ Have a sip of liquid (soup or a beverage) with every bite of food or soak your food in it to make it easier to chew and swallow. ✔ Protect your lips with a lip balm.

Irvin Tang the risk of tooth decay and oral infection. Good oral hygiene is essential. The following steps can help: ✔ Avoid sugary and sticky foods (eat simple sugars with your meals). ✔ Stimulate saliva flow by eating lemon-flavored hard candy or chewing sugar-free gum. ✔ Use artificial saliva spray or swabsticks as needed (ex. MoiStir™). ✔ If you have thick saliva, drink hot or acidic beverages (lemon tea, lemonade, unsweetened citrus fruit or pineapple juice) or eat ice pops. ✔ If milk causes you problems, drink skim milk. Rinse your mouth with water after drinking milk.

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From left to right: Jack Hanson (Prince George), Matthew McRae (Dawson Creek) and William Brown (Fort St. John Elks) burst off the start line during the BC Long Track speed skating Championships on Saturday at the Pomeroy Sport Centre.

Elks glide to podium at home Byron Hackett Staff Writer

The Fort St. John Elks played host to the BC Long Track speed skating Championships on the weekend and cleaned up on the podium with 11 medals.

24 skaters from the home club competed amongst more than 80 athletes from 13 clubs across B.C. at the two-day event on the Pomeroy Sport Centre Oval.

The success of the Elks overall at the event was no surprise to coach Richard Stickel, who said after the interclub meet last weekend, his group was extremely prepared for the meet on Saturday and Sunday.

“They raced good,” Stickel said.

“We raced last weekend and then we did a

camp. We had a coach come from Calgary and we did some really hard [training] Sunday and Monday, so their legs were a little bit dead, so they weren’t as quick as they were last week but they still skated really well. The times were down a little bit from what I expect, but they are really starting to look good.”

Sidney Bennie, Brooke Braun, Amanda Mitchell, Nyam Newlove, Joshua Telizyn all grabbed gold medals for Fort St. John at the event in their respective age categories.

Matthew Mitchell, Michelle Kalkman, Yuna Lovell and Nicholas Guliov were all silver medal winners for the Elks.

Jessica Telizyn picked up a bronze in the train to train 14 age group and Eryn Stickel grabbed an iron medal in the competitive for

life junior female category.

The Elks head coach added that while hosting a meet like the BC long tracks is important for the club, ultimately the hope is to put the team in as many competitive events as possible to gain experience for future races.

“We’re just looking for places, we’re looking for them to skating with a little bit of pressure. You can practice and practice races, but you have to be in the situation a lot to get better and deal with that pressure. So that’s really what we’re looking for,” he said.

Stickel anticipated that between eight and 10 of his skaters will represent team BC at the Canadian Age Class Long Track Speed Skating Championships in Quebec in February.

“Right now we’re pretty strong— provin-

cially we are very strong so I expected we would do well and I think we did,” he said Sunday.

Nine skaters from the Dawson Creek Speed Skating Club competed and several also took home medals.

Ethan Halverson grabbed an iron in the learn to train group and Dakotah Ruel also was the iron winner in the train to train 12 age group. Hannah Brunn won bronze for Dawson Creek in the competitive for life junior female category.

Skaters from Fort St. John Kelowna, Vancouver, Fort St. James, Dawson Creek, Vernon, Vanderhoof and Prince George competed at the event. sports@ahnfsj.ca

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Looking Back at Rotary The Rotary Clubs of Dawson Creek look back to this month in 1985, 1995 and 2005

January 1995: •Rotarian Don Bourassa presents a cheque to Mike Malin to help fund the 1995 Alberta Junior Curling Zone championship hosted that year by Dawson Creek.

•Rotarian Rene Tremblay offers a donation on behalf of his club to Ken Copping of the Salvation Army to help them with their tremendous efforts to help those in need.

•Rotarians Barb Caldwell, Heinz Mettauer, and polio survivor Ben Sawchuk make a contribution to Polio Plus, an international Rotary project to rid the world of that devastating disease. Today we are “This close!” to accomplishing that goal.

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January 2005: •Rotary District 5370 Governor Bruce Christensen from Fort St. John puts out a district wide challenge to all clubs to fundraise for relief efforts to help the victims of the tsunami that struck Sri Lanka on Dec. 24, 2014.

•Rotarians Dale Campbell and Brian Sims help with a fundraising auction to support the Northern BC Winter Games held in Dawson Creek that February. Rotarians enjoy partnering with their community’s other volunteers to accomplish great things.

•Mayor Wayne Dahlen, Rotary Club of Dawson Creek president Rick Hall, Rotary Club of Dawson Creek Sunrise president John Kurjata announce improvements to the Rotary Centennial Skateboard Park. Rotary funded $60,000 of the project, land was donated by SD59 and the City, also an additional $160,000 was donated by the City. This grant for $20,000 was from the Vancouver Foundation, to be used for landscaping to complete the 14,000 sq.ft. facility.

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January 1985: •Club President John Shuller announces the first Annual Rotary TV Auction, now in its 32nd year and recently moved to an on-line format, it is the largest fundraiser the clubs have. This year’s is “just around the corner!”.

•Rotarian Orin Boe and mayor Bob Trail wish farewell to Rotary Exchange Student Jenny Rob as she returns home to New Zealand. This program has enriched the lives of many students, both local (outbound) and foreign (inbound).

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The Peace River Regional District says help for the horticultural industry needs to be a top priority when decisions are made on how to dole out the $20-million fund to offset farmland that will be flooded by the Site C dam.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Energy and Mines and BC Hydro have been consulting with agricultural stakeholders since November on how the fund will be spent. This work wraps up Jan. 29.

According to Area B Director Karen Goodings, four meetings have already been held throughout the region - one in Hudson's Hope before Christmas and three so far in January.

The regional district has pushed to be part of the planning for distributing the funds in the past, but now it's also pushing the fund's steering committee to give top billing to the horticultural sector.

At a meeting held in Fort St. John, "horticulture was brought up as a significant concern," Goodings noted at a Jan. 14 board meeting.

"The loss of being able to produce... locally is something that we felt needed to be high on the list," Goodings said. "The agricultural mitigation fund should be targeted to the area which is going to be impacted. The sector which should be targeted is horticultural, because that is where the major loss is going to be."

Discussion on the topic at the meeting was spurred by a letter from residents Kevin and Barb Knoblauch, suggesting the PRRD develop community orchard programs "as a learning and extension tool for those who aspire to (be a part of) the (horticultural) industry."

"We could all have such wonderful community orchards in about 10 years if our junior levels of government would endorse our plan," the Knoblauchs wrote.

Goodings pointed out that the regional district's role in promoting the horticultural

industry as a priority for the fund is key, since there is no professional group to represent the sector in the region.

"One of the problems that exists is that all of the other producer groups like the grain producers, the cattlemen and so on all have very active and well established professional organizations," she said.

"The horticultural industry does not."

Area E Director Dan Rose voted against sending the letter of support for the industry.

"I think as far as singling out one particular industry... we have to be careful of that," he said.

"It doesn't hurt to encourage the steering committee to make extra effort to involve those not represented by the producer groups. But... I don't think it's up to us to pick one group over the other. I think it's up to us to include everybody," he later added.

Chetwynd Mayor Merlin Nichols advocated for development of the Pine River valley to replace the lost agricultural lands on the abnks of the Peace.

However, Chief Administrative Officer Chris Cvik said it was too late to suggest that idea.

"To be adding (that idea) at this late stage in the game, I don't know how that would be received," Cvik said.

It was also noted that doing so would pose difficulties for development because the land in the valley is privately owned, and not Crown land.

Hudson's Hope Mayor Gwen Johansson spoke in favour of Goodings' motion to support horticulture.

"The basis of mitigation is to replace (what you are losing)," she said.

"The argument I would make is that the sector of the agricultural industry that is going to be most effected by Site C, I believe, is horticulture. I haven't got involvement in the industry one way or another except I do eat vegetables once in a while.

"We need to pay particular attention to horticulture because that is what is being lost," Johansson said. dcreporter@dcdn.ca

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Wonowon Beef and Sheep Club Hello again. This is Daniela Buerge reporting for the Wonowon Beef and Sheep Club. Today I will report what our 4-h club did this month. We had a really fun skiing trip at Worsley on the 30th of December. Two 4-h clubs were there; Wonowon and Prespatou. We were going to have a meeting that day, but our 4-h leaders decided not to. There will not be another meeting until the 16th of January.

My 4-h steer project is doing well and increasing pounds by the day! He is now halter broken and will soon lead very well. Others from the club also have healthy animals and are training them to lead as well. I wish you all a happy new year and the best of success for all 4-h projects!

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Peace River Regional District Area B Director Karen Goodings.

PRRD explores options for rural water service Mike Carter Staff Writer

In the wake of a failed referendum to provide potable water services in rural areas, the Peace River Regional District is worried it may be held liable if someone is harmed by drinking contaminated water.

The board decided on Jan. 14 that it would leave area water stations open for now, and soon, it will hold a referendum to decide if rural residents would be in favour of a separate approval process to allow the PRRD to provide potable water services.

The regional district has provided untreated water stations for agricultural use in rural areas for a number of years.

In November, it sought approval from residents through a referendum for an addition to rural property taxes that would create a fund to pay to have the water stations treated. The public was not in favour of this idea.

Staff presented options on how to continue providing untreated water while acknowledging that the PRRD was exposed to legal liability if someone falls ill or dies from drinking contaminated water it provides.

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"The regulations (from provincial and federal governments) have come down in part because of what happened in Walkerton, Ontario," Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ackerman said, recalling that town's contaminated water supply crisis in 2000 that killed seven and left hundreds more sick.

"People died and the local government was held to account because there was not the appropriate investment in infrastructure and there were people aware of it."

The PRRD detceted E. coli at its Romedo spring last year, however the water is only intended for

crops and no one became sick as a result.

There are currently signs on the water stations to indicate that the water is not safe for drinking, but Northern Health's drinking water officer has notified the regional district that this does not absolve them from responsibility should someone become ill.

"For me it's overkill (to close the water stations)," Area B Director Karen Goodings said.

"These water stations have been in use for a number of years — there has never been a problem. I think liability is such a scare tactic. I really don't think we are going to

be in a position that there will be a problem, but I respect the fact the board disagrees with that."

Ackerman suggested that with the proper fee in place, private companies can provide portable treated water stations, the kind that are commonly used in work camps.

A separate referendum also held in November to increase property taxes to pay for ongoing maintenance to the Charlie Lake sewage facility was also defeated. The PRRD will decide how to proceed on that issue at its Jan. 28 meeting in Dawson Creek. dcreporter@dcdn.ca

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PRO GOLF WEEKLY UPDATE

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This Week: The CareerBuilder Challenge

The CareerBuilder Challenge, founded as the Palm Springs Golf Classic in 1960, evolved from the Thunderbird Invitational that was held in Palm Springs from 1954 to 1959. The biggest Defending: Bill Haas draw is the celebrity pro-am competition Winning Score: 22-under par which attracts some of the era’s most Earnings: $1,026,000 famous celebrities. History was made at the tournament in 1995 when the pro-am team of President Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Bob Hope and defending champion Scott Hoch teed up for the tournament’s opening round. The event marked the first time a sitting president played during a PGA tour event.

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Argentina’s Fabian Gomez Tournament Results birdied the second playoff 1. Fabian Gomez Score: -20 *won in playoff hole to beat Brandt Snedeker Earnings: $1,044,000 and win Sony Open title in 2. Brandt Snedeker Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday. Gomez Score: -20 Earnings: $626,400 shot a final-round 62 that included 3. Zac Blair seven birdies in a row from the sixth Score: -19 through the 12th. “I’m really, really Earnings: $394,400 happy,” Gomez said. “It’s my second victory on tour. I felt good all week long and was able to put on a great round today.” Gomez will improve to 55th in the world rankings, closing in on a berth in the Rio Games when golf makes its Olympic return.

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In the last 10 months, Jordan Spieth has won the Masters and the U.S. Open, Network pursued the calendar Grand Slam like GOLF no one before, crossed $20 million in GOLF career PGA Tour earnings and established himself as GOLF No. 1 in the world. He still keeps Tiger Woods and GOLF Phil Mickelson on a pedestal though. “The more you look at Tiger, you look at Phil, you start realizing how Golf Trivia far away you are from one of the best players to ever play the game,” Spieth said. “And if you look at that, Since 1983, what is the highest it keeps your head small.” Since 1970 when the PGA score ever recorded on an Tour began keeping more thorough records, Spieth individual hole on the PGA Tour? and Woods are the only players with seven victories at age 22. Woods was about a month younger when a) 15 c) 17 he picked up his seventh tour victory, and he had not b) 16 d) 18 quite completed two full years as a pro. Spieth is in Answer: d) John Daly shot an 18 on the par 5 6th his fourth PGA Tour season. Woods won seven of his hole during the 1998 Bay Hill Invitational. first 38 starts. Spieth won seven of his first 77 starts.

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Lessons from the Golf Pro “When it’s breezy swing easy.” How many golfers have heard this old saying when it’s windy outside? Let’s get into just a little bit more detail about this. What will swinging easy do for you when the wind is up? For one thing, it increases the chances of solid contact creating a more penetrating ball flight. For another thing, it compresses the ball less causing it to spin less, which also creates a more penetrating ball flight. Notice the theme. A solidly struck ball with a more penetrating trajectory is less affected by the wind. Swinging harder when the wind is blowing is a powerful instinct to overcome. But if you can discipline yourself to use more club and swing easier it will have a wonderful effect on your ability to control the ball in the wind.

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1) Kevin Kisner 1,073 pts. / 4 top tens

2) Russell Knox 920 pts. / 2 top tens

3) Justin Thomas 748 pts. / 2 top tens

4) Graeme McDowell 732 pts. / 2 top tens

5) Fabian Gomez 716 pts. / 2 top tens

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Player Points 6) Smylie Kaufman 695 7) Kevin Na 672 8) Emiliano Grillo 620 9) Jordan Spieth 586 10) Jason Bohn 560

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WEEKLY PRO RACING UPDATE Postseason Racing News, Stats & Trivia

All-Time Top Driver’s Bio

This Week’s Racing News

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver, Rico Abreu, won his second straight Chili Bowl Nationals Saturday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The 4-feet, 4-inch tall driver, had a hard-fought battle with Bryan Clauson and Zach Daum for the top spot. Jerry Coons Jr. and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kyle Larson rounded out the top five. Abreu and Larson were not the only NASCAR regulars to hit the dirt at the Tulsa Expo Raceway in hopes of winning the Golden Driller trophy. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won B-Feature 2 to advance to the main event, but finished the A-Feature in the 16th spot. Stenhouse was fully supported by girlfriend and fellow Sprint Cup Series driver Danica Patrick. Hendrick Motorsports’ Kasey Kahne finished the main event in the 13th spot after starting 10th. Threetime Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart was also on hand but did not race.

He made headlines Friday night when he was involved in an altercation with a drunken fan that was heckling Stewart.

Racing History

Bobby Allison’s last Cup Series win was the Daytona 500. What year did it occur? a) 1985 b) 1988

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Answer : b) The 1988 Daytona 500 was Bobby’s last Cup Series win. He was foreced to retire from driving after nearly dying in a wreck at the Mille High 500 later that year.

January 16, 1949 - Marshall Teague won the opening race of the NASCAR season by driving his 1939 Ford to the win in the Nascar modified division race. Only 38 of the 75 cars that started the event finish the race. Teague competed in 23 NASCAR Grand National races from 1949 to 1952, winning seven of them.

Racing Trivia

Bobby Allison Born: Dec. 3, 1937 Cup wins: 84 Cup top-tens: 446 Cup championships: 1 During the course of his career, Bobby Allison accumulated 84 victories, making him fourth all-time, tied with Darrell Waltrip, including three victories at the Daytona 500 in 1978, 1982 and 1988. In 1972 he was voted national Driver of the Year for winning ten races and taking 11 poles (including a record 5 straight) and again in 1983 when he claimed his only championship.

On June 19, 1988, Allison was almost killed, suffering massive head injuries in a crash at Pocono Raceway which forced his retirement from driving in NASCAR. In 1992, his younger son, Clifford Allison, died in a practice crash for the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Michigan International Speedway. Allison was elected to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1993. Bobby Allison was a car owner for numerous drivers from 1990 to 1996, most notably Mike Alexander, Hut Stricklin, Jimmy Spencer, and Derrike Cope.

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