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Local liquor outlets look to the future of legal weed

William Stodalka Staff Writer

FORT ST. JOHN — If new marijuana legislation goes the way some local liquor storeowners are hoping, you could soon pick up some bud with your Bud. Many local liquor storeowners say they would support a plan that would allow them to sell marijuana in their stores, should the federal government move forward with legalizing the drug, as it signaled in its recent throne speech.

On Thursday, the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU) and the B.C. Private Liquor Store Association (BCPLSA) announced they both want marijuana sold through the existing liquor distribution and retail system.

If you are leaving your Jack Hynes, who owns pets with a petsitter make On The Rocks pub in Fort sure this person comes to your home before you St. John, believes the move leave so that your pet gets would benefit his company. acquainted with this per“The private liquor stores son. if your dog tends to are definitely going to emguard its territory make brace the idea just because sure it is comfortable with the petsitter coming in of how regimented we are with (identifying) people,” when you are not home.

If you are boarding he said. “If I have the opporyour pets over the holi- tunity to expand my licence days, make sure you have reservations early as ken- or something like that into nels tend to fill quickly. It the sale of marijuana, then I is also wise to check if the kennel requires any vaccinations and update these before you leave.

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Remember, the holidays can be a stressful time for you and your pets, let’s minimize this stress wherever we can.

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Christmas is coming and many of us will be away from home.

Whether you are travelling with or without your pets there are a number of things that should be taken into consideration to make the experience easier for all parties.

If you are taking your pet with you in the car make sure it is used to riding in a vehicle. This can be achieved by going for small trips, starting now, to familiarize your pet with the car. Many pets, especially cats will travel best in a travel crate. The crate helps keep the pet confined so not to distract the driver and many animals feel more comfortable in a small space. If your pet tends to be very anxious or is affected by motion sickness talk to your Veterinarian. There are some medications that can help with these common problems.

will definitely be interested in it, but that’s only if they decide to make it legal.”

On Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new government confirmed in its first throne speech that it would introduce legislation to legalize and regulate the drug.

Michelle Doonan, who runs The Liquor Box in Pouce Coupe, said she would probably look to sell legal weed, but she would have to research it first.

“I’d have to see what a licence would cost you,” she said.

“Don’t you doubt it’ll be in the $20,000 (price range).”

Doonan also expected there to be a lot of red tape for businesses to obtain a licence to sell.

“You’d have to buy from a certain person, and the government would have that regulated,” she said. “They would regulate it so much.”

Some liquor storeowners are looking for new sources of cash since the B.C. government announced changes to provincially-run liquor stores.

Last April, the province expanded BC Liquor Store hours to include Sundays and holidays.

In a letter last July, Hynes complained about this new state of affairs to Fort St. John city council.

“We are taking a beating with all the cold beer and wine stores in town now that the (government-run) liquor store is open all the time,” he wrote.

As of Nov. 23, the matter is still on the city’s radar.

On that most recent council agenda, council’s request to staff to “provide additional information on the concerns expressed by the business owner, what is being done for best practices in other municipalities throughout the province and the regulations with respect to issuing liquor retail sale licences to grocery stores” was still listed as a work in progress.

Ryan Docksteader, who owns both Casey’s Liquor Store and the 110th Street Liquor store in Fort St. John, said the policy to legalize weed made sense.

“The laws are very light right now anyway,” he said.

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Breathing new life into an old, vacant church Bronwyn Scott Staff Writer

instructor who wants to use the space for lessons, a poetry group keen to host public readings, and musicians interested in hosting small shows.

“My vision would be to have the community embrace the location so we could have several different interest groups come in that have to do with culture and arts, so you would have anything from poetry to arts classes,” said Isenbecker.

The church, guessed to be 68 years old, can fit around 50 people.

“It’s a very old church, we don’t know exactly, but it’s one of the older (ones), for sure,” Isenbecker said.

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Terry Isenbecker and his friends are restoring an old church on 96th Avenue and 79th Street into an arts and culture club.

moved to its current location from “way up the highway back in the day.”

“It’s got a lot of heritage, and it’s been used for many, many decades, so I thought it would be great to have the community look at it as a spot to go and keep having good memories and good events in it,” he said.

Anyone interested in using the space, or helping transform it, is encouraged to contact Isenbecker. peacereporter@ahnfsj.ca

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Terry Isenbecker, Horst Holstein and Jon Jueng are friends with a common vision who are working to restore a dilapidated old church on 96th Avenue and 79th Street and turn it into a 1920s-styled lounge space for arts and culture activities.

“Warm, inviting, rich, deep colours, comfortable,” are the words Isenbecker, who is leasing the space, used to describe their ideal décor. He envisions Victorian-inspired furniture, velvet window coverings and large, low hanging chandeliers.

The trio has been reaching out to different groups to gauge public interest, and already have a ballroom dance

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Jonny Wakefield

Is there really a "war" on Christmas?

Is there a "war" on Christmas? Sure, but if it's a war, it's a war of attrition, more akin to erosion than actual battle.

Saying there's a "war" on Christmas implies I'm going to go on some rant about political correctness, or give some tired opinion on whether or not Walmart greeters should say "happy holidays." Let's keep far away from all that.

Instead, let's look at the larger trends and forces that are chipping away at our shared institutions!

(Side note: I have yet to give myself over to the Christmas spirit, thus the totally depressing tone of this article. I should probably watch Elf or something.)

Christmas, like the towering sea stacks on the Oregon coast, is slowly collapsing into the ocean. It is being assailed from all angles by apathy, individualism and consumerism (those are like the waves in this ocean metaphor.)To say that Christmas has become unhitched from its traditional moorings in the past 50 years is pretty uncontroversial (I'm going with a boat metaphor now.) Whether that matters is another question entirely.

Christmas will continue to grow more amorphous as we move away from physical gifts and start giving "experiences" and digital presents. At the end of the day, it will become a vague year-end celebration of consumption, with a few touchstones to remind ourselves just what it is we're celebrating (Santa, the wrapping of presents, the Christian faith etc.)

It's not the battle that the 24-hour news networks imagined when the "war on Christmas" concept was first floated way back when, but maybe Christmas is a casualty all the same.

Science Matters David Suzuki

UN climate talks offer hope for humanity

With world leaders now meeting in Paris for the UN Climate Change Conference, we’re seeing signs of hope for an agreement to limit the escalating effects of global warming.

Canadians, especially, have reason to be optimistic about our country’s role.

It hasn’t always been this way. Governments have been formally discussing climate change since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the first climate conference in Berlin, Germany, in 1995.

Since then, we’ve been taking two steps forward and one step back — not good enough when dealing with an accelerating crisis.

Canada signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1998, ratified it

in 2002, did little to meet its targets, then withdrew in late 2011, the first and only nation to do so. The Climate Action Network selected our country for numerous Fossil of the Day, Fossil of the Year and Lifetime Unachievement Fossil awards for inaction on climate change and for obstructing international agreements.

But it appears leaders in Canada and globally are finally giving the issue the attention it deserves. Our government now has a minister of environment and climate change, and sent a delegation to Paris that includes a cabinet committee on environment, climate change and energy headed by Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion, as well as opposition party representatives and provincial leaders.

Alberta, which has long put fossil-fuel interests ahead of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, now has a comprehensive strategy to phase out coal power, promote renewable energy, put a price on carbon pollution and limit oilsands emissions. Ontario and

Byron Hackett

Any supposed “war” on Christmas has been concocted by societies serial antagonists.

They are the ones that are constantly offended on a day-to-day basis, they take up the crusades of any cause, and most often before fully understanding it’s merits.

They can’t be taken seriously, or given any validity; hence there is no such thing as a “war” on Christmas.

The antagonists may try and attack Christmas, but it’s nothing more than spider bite on the leg of an elephant.

It in it’s essence has no merit.

If you deal with the idea of Christmas in a pragmatic way, boiling it down to the sense of togetherness and celebration of family that the winter holiday provides, then there is no need to make a “war” on Christmas.

So no, there is no war on Christmas, there is just a collection of individuals who have nothing better to do than try and take up a cause that “offends” them.

It’s not a war, it’s a petty position, a mildly inconvenient stance against something that stands as no more than a family celebration.

English comedian Stephen Fry said it best, “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so what."

Quebec have also moved to put a price on carbon emissions, joining California in a cap-and-trade system.

Even Saskatchewan, not known for climate leadership, has committed to 50 per cent renewable energy by 2030.

Phasing out coal power and putting a price on carbon are effective ways to reduce dangerous CO2 emissions. Burning coal is the most polluting way to produce energy and creates the highest greenhouse gas emissions, and a welldesigned carbon tax or capand-trade system has proven to cut emissions and fossil-fuel consumption without negatively affecting economies.

In its first five years, B.C.’s carbon tax, implemented in 2008, led to a 17.4 per cent drop in petroleum-fuel use, and greenhouse gas emissions went down while GDP remained strong. B.C. income tax rates remain the lowest in Canada.

Globally, things are also looking up. The Paris conference required the 196 participating countries to

submit their own climate plans. Although those combined aren’t enough to keep us below the 2 C increase in global average temperatures beyond pre-industrial levels that scientists say is necessary to avoid catastrophe, they do limit warming to a 2.7 C rise, which is at least a serious starting point.

Current practices put us on track for a 5 C increase!

The Paris conference is also aiming for national climate plan reviews every five years to ensure targets are being met and to look at ways of improving them.

And cities, local governments and businesses are being encouraged to do more, which has worked well in Canada.

Another important component of the Paris talks is to find ways to help developing nations improve prosperity while keeping emissions from rising.

Developed countries have committed to raising $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing nations though the Green Climate Fund, World Bank, government contributions and other mechanisms.

But government commitments only raise hopes so far. The other good sign is the rapid development of renewable energy technologies like wind, solar and geothermal. Coupled with energy conservation, renewables are critical to confronting the climate crisis.

A recent report from Stanford University and the International Renewable Energy Agency found it’s technically feasible and economically viable for the world to shift to sustainable energy by 2030, and lays out a plan for 139 countries to reach that goal. Many jurisdictions are already getting a lot of their energy from renewable sources.

With clean energy production and grid technology improving and costs coming down, there’s no excuse to continue rapidly burning diminishing supplies of fossil fuels. As leaders meet in Paris, citizens march in the streets and innovators develop solutions, we have more reason than ever to be hopeful for the future of our place on this small, blue planet.

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D.A.R.E. Achievers in Fort St. John

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D.A.R.E. ACHIEVERS: Austin Van Wyk receives his certificate marking his graduation from the D.A.R.E. program from Fort St. John RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie at Duncan Cran Elementary School Friday morning.

D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a provincial youth drug prevention program where police officers work with Grade 5 and 6 students to help build their communication and decision-making skills to handle everything from stress to bullying.

Friday was also Cpl. Shelkie's last day with the Fort St. John detachment. Shelkie had been leading the city's crime prevention unit, and was the detachment's media spokesperson. She moves on to a post in Kamloops.

From the P harmacist’s File

Food and Oral Anticoagulants Irvin Tang Foods and Oral anticoagulants The following table presents a short list of foods with their vitamin K content. Of course, this list cannot include all available foods! It can nonetheless guide you when making food choices. Remember that you do not need to avoid or prefer any of these foods. The secret is to eat stable amounts each week. Foods identified with the No. 4 change the effectiveness of the oral anticoagulant without any relation with their vitamin K level.

• Algae 2 • Apples, green with peal 2 • Apples, red 1 • Artichokes 1 • Asparagus 2 • Avocado 4 • Beef 1 • Beet greens 3 • Blackberries 2 • Broccoli 3 • Brussels sprouts 3 • Cabbage, boiled 3 • Cabbage, raw 2 • Carrots, boiled 2 • Carrots, raw 1 • Celery, raw 2 • Cheese 1 • Coffee 1 • Collard 3 • Cow peas 2

• Crackers 1 • Cranberry juice 4 • Cucumber, without peel1 • Dill pickle 2 • Flaxseeds 4 • Grapes 2 • Green onion, raw 2 • Green peas 2 • Ice cream 1 • Kale 3 • Kelp 4 • Kiwi 2 • Lettuce, green leaf 3 • Lettuce, iceberg 1 • Lettuce, romaine 2 • Mango 4 • Mustard greens 3

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Are you taking an oral anticoagulant (warfarin, Coumadin TM, Sintrom TM)? Then you must have been told about vitamin K! But do you really know what vitamin K is? Have you noticed that it is almost never included in the many multivitamins offered at the drugstore?

Even though it is relatively unknown to the general public , vitamin K plays a major role in the blood clotting process. This essential vitamin comes from the food that you eat. Because vitamin K can modify the effect of your oral anticoagulant. as measured by the INR, you need to have a wellbalanced diet and avoid radical changes of your diet.

In fact, here as in many occasions, it’s a question of common sense. You do not have to eliminate every food that contains vitamin K, nor is there an “ideal” quantity of vitamin K to strive for. The secret is in a stable diet. Try to keep your vitamin K intake as stable as possible. If you are already fond of vitamin K-rich foods, continue eating them in reasonable amounts, alternating with other dietary choices. Because this vitamin is often found in the external leaves and skin of vegetables, simply peeling your vegetables and discarding the outer most leaves can help. Other foods can also have an impact on the effect of your anticoagulant through reactions where vitamin K is not implicated. With these foods, the same principle applies: stability is best.

The following page presents a list of foods with their vitamin K content.

Herbal products and anticoagulants Some herbal product supplements (in capsules, tablets or other formulation) can increase or decrease the effect of your anticoagulant therapy. Every day use is usually not a problem. For example, garlic is inoffensive when used in every day cooking.

However, garlic supplements can affect the efficacy of your therapy. Talk to the health professional in charge of monitoring your therapy before using any dietary supplements. The following dietary supplements are especially problematic: • Alfalfa • Dong Quai • Licorice • Angelica • Fenugreek • Matricaria • Boldo • Fish oils • Pineapple • Bromeline (omega-3) • Red clover • Chamomile • Garlic • Royal jelly • Chitosan • Ginkgo biloba • St John’s wort • Coenzyme • Ginseng • White willow 010 • Glucosamine • Vitamin E • Cranberry • Golden seal

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Byron Hackett

Huskies haul in 30,000 lbs of groceries

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It’s a bird... It’s a plane… It’s a rock truck... filled with groceries?

That was the scene Sunday rolling down the Alaska Highway, as the 60-tonne Morgan Construction vehicle was on route to the North Peace Arena with a sizable donation in tow.

The company, after hearing about the Fort St. John Huskies annual Fill the Bus campaign, decided to help out by sending the 20-foot wide truck filled with $15,000 worth of groceries to help the cause.

“It was just an opportunity to get involved with the community,” Morgan Construction Project Controller Doug Morgan said, while adding the original plan was to just put a few boxes together for the campaign.

“This is what we’re all about, this is what Fort St. John is all about, and I think this is fantastic time of year for everybody to show their colours.”

Morgan also noted that the truck was filled with food contributions from several other contractors associated with the Site C dam.

Overall the team and a group of about 70 volunteers, including the Northern Metalic Bantam Flyers, kids from Alwin Holland Elementary School and others, gathered donations across the community to fill the Huskies’ team bus, a tradi-

tion in the community for the last 15 or so years.

This year was their biggest haul yet, over 30,000 pounds of food was loaded onto the bus and dropped off to fill the store room at the Salvation Army.

“This is amazing, I’ve never seen anything like this,” Fort St. John Salvation Army Captain Sheldon Feener said after looking inside the nearly full bus.

“Absolutely incredible… we feed families and people throughout the year, but Christmas time is a time when we focus on food, everybody focuses on food…we have a responsibility to help those that aren’t going to be able to experience that and this… I’m blown away, this is amazing, this will help us for months and months and months.”

Typically the team collects between 18,000 and 20,000 pounds of food for the cause, and organizer for the last four years Allan Karasiuk said the support just continues to grow year after year.

For members of the team, it also serves as an opportunity to get out and connect with the community that they look for support from. That includes second-year forward Kody Disher, who is the team captain this year and said the chance to help makes it easy for the players to gather for

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This isn't the bus you're looking for: The Fort St. John Huskies and more than 70 other volunteers gathered at the North Peace Arena Sunday for the team's annual Fill the Bus Campaign. Morgan Construction chipped in as well, donating about $15,000 worth of groceries and made the delivery in grand style—with a 60-tonne rock truck. the cause.

“It’s awesome to give back to the community, we’re going to give all that we can,” he said.

“We’re going to get out every chance we get…we’re not able to do this stuff all the time but when we can we are definitely going to give back.”

And there’s even a lesson in it for the players, according to Huskies General Manager Jeremy

Clothier.

“It’s a feel good thing, hits home to the fans around town and to our team it’s a big event...it’s a good team boding opportunity [as well] and just for them to get out in the community and get recognized,” he said. sports@ahnfsj.ca

Comeback Kids earn bronze in Whitehorse

The boys started the weekend affair with a game against The Notre Dame Argos, famed academy from Saskatchewan. Petroleum Midget Flyers opened the scoring on a Jason Andrews point shot set up from Jaden Piket and Tim Rice. Andrews beat the goalie with a low glove side shot. The Flyers doubled their lead when Daniel Forrest rushed into the zone and fired a shot over the net, but on the rebound off the boards, captain Tim Rice shovelled home a bankhander into the net.

The two team broke at the midway point for some zamboni work, upon their return to the ice, The Argos tallied 3 quick goals within four minutes to stun the Flyers and take the lead. Lane Derose was exceptional on the pk as the Flyers ran into penalty trouble and Nathan Bragg tied it at 3 with assists going to Rice and Derose. Late in the third the Argos were able to get one and then added an empty netter for the 5-3 win.

The Saturday morning game saw the boys go up against the U-18 Mustangs from Whitehorse. The Mustangs tallied first as an attempted shot deflect ended up in the top corner behind netminder Austin Craig who had no chance on the play. It would be the only puck to get by Craig, who made 29 saves in the contest. Flyers answered back off the

rush where from Lance Aylward and Cooper Willms; Max Dobson was able to sneak a backhander through the five hole. Little Lane Derose layed an impressive bodycheck backchecking in the offensive zone and the Flyers were able to keep the play alive and we saw Jaden Piket scoop up the puck, dish to Tim Rice who bagged the eventual game winner. There was some rough stuff at the buzzer, but cooler heads did prevail, and the boys did eventually shake hands in a good sign of sportsmanship.

On Saturday evening the seeded round was to begin and the Tier 1 Flyers were to once again face the U-18 Mustangs. Again the Mustangs were first to strike, netting two goals in the first period. Just before the games halfway point, forward Lance Aylward was able to steal the puck on the forecheck just in front of the opponents net and pop one home for the Flyers. The play would seem to have lit a fire under the team, as they would come out in the second half a different team.

Dobson would beat the opposing goalie off a drop pass from Aiden Craig-Steele, to tie the game at 2. The Mustangs were not done as the peppered goalie "Chetty" Edler Cherry.

One shot squeaked through, but Kyle Robertson was there to pull it off the goal line.

Moments later Chetty made a huge left pad save as he kicked back a hard Mustang shot.

Through a wholesale line change amidst some confusion Tim Rice grabbed the puck and went in alone to score on the breakaway.

Shortly thereafter, Aylward sent Willms in on the rush, where big number 6 scored to seal the deal for the Flyers.

Early Sunday the boys were in tough against the Yellowknife Wolfpack, although they played a solid game, they were unable to muster much. The wolfpack outshot the Flyers 30-20 and won the contest 3-0. The loss would keep the Flyers out of gold medal game, and would end up playing familiar foes, Grande Prairie for bronze a mere two hours later.

It would be a fantastic affair, and starting it off in fantastic fashion was Aiden CraigSteele sent in alone by Travis Domeij; scored a beauty a la Peter Forsberg, as he moved the goalie one way and with one hand extended slid the puck in. GP would tie in soon after on the PP with a seeing eye bullet from a sharp angle, and go ahead off a giveaway in the slot and go ahead by two with another PP goal before the 1st period was over. Steele would bring the boys back to within one, before back luck saw a flipping skipping puck

end up in the Flyers net to again be down 2 goals. In the second half of the game, down 4-2 Piket scored a goal from Derose to make it 4-3 and with under 5 to go Piket would win an offensive zone face off right to Derose who would snipe the tying goal into the top shelf glove side where momma keeps the peanut butter. That set the stage for overtime, but the Flyers Domeij took an untimely penalty and The Flyers would start the fourth frame a man short in the four on four format.

Hard work saw the boys kill off the minor penalty and on the forecheck, pesky Aylward would draw a penalty behind the GP net and put the Flyers on the 4 on 3 PP. With 1:15 to play in OT we saw Cooper Willms play give and go with Craig-Steele as slick #13 passed it back out to big #6 where Willms netted the bronze medal winner. Solid team efforts all around.

The U-16 Whitehorse Mustangs beat the Yellowknife Wolfpack 2-1 to capture Gold.

Both teams were undefeated heading into the game. It was a very entertaining tournament.

Next up for the Flyers is a game in Sexsmith and then home to Valleyview this weekend.

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Police arrest one at dam protest

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FORT ST. JOHN — RCMP arrested a man Wednesday morning for blockading the entrance to the Site C dam site.

About a dozen protesters gathered in front of the entrance off Old Fort Road around 9:30 a.m. Mark Meiers, who organized the protest, began blockading the entrance soon after the protest began, preventing truck traffic from entering and exiting the work site with a large stick.

On-site security approached Meiers to end the blockade, however, Meiers refused to move. RCMP arrived on scene around 10:30 a.m. and Meiers was arrested for breaching the peace.

Meiers was arrested without incident. He was later released and will not face charges, police said.

Meiers, who spoke to the Alaska Highway News before his arrest, said he has lived in the area for 45 years, and was protesting the destruction of the Peace River valley, where he hunts and fishes.

Meiers said he didn't plan to blockade, but had a last minute “epiphany.” He added that the other protestors were unaware of his intentions and that he was the sole instigator.

“This is supposed to be beautiful British Columbia, but look at that god-awful mess,” he told the arresting officers, pointing in the direction of the construction. “This should’ve happened a long time ago, what I’m doing right now.”

The two officers discussed his actions with him before the arrest.

“All it takes is one hot-headed trucker to say ‘I’m not stopping for this guy’ and now we’re in some sort of altercation,” an officer told Meiers.

“At that point, nobody wins.”

A breach of the peace arrest does not result in charges.

Insp. Michael Kurvers, the head of the Fort St. John RCMP detachment, was at the

10011 – 96th Street, Fort St. John, BC V1J 3P3 Tel: 250-785-6677 | Website: www.fsjmedicalclinic.com The Fort St. John Family Practice Associates are pleased to announce that Dr. Hamid Sadri will be joining us starting November 16th, 2015. Dr. Sadri joins us from the St. Paul’s Residency Program for International Medical Graduates. While a resident he was an active member of the Faculty for Research and Evidence-Based Medicine in the UBC Family Medicine Residency Program. Since moving to Fort St. John he has taken on the Faculty Position for Resident Research in the Fort St. John Family Practice Residency Site.

Dr Sadri is currently accepting new patients. If you would like to register with him as a patient, we ask you to please come to the clinic to be registered as our phone lines are already very busy. If you do call to register you will be directed to come in to the clinic to do so in order to keep our phone lines free for regular scheduling. If you wish to complete a registration form in advance it can be found in the “Your First Clinic Visit” section of our web page.

Please Note: If you have already been registered to Dr. Sadri while in the NH Primary Care Clinic you will remain registered with him. For privacy reasons each patient will need to request transfer of their medical record (at no charge). We ask that these patients please present on a timely basis to the Fort St John Family Practice Clinic to complete a transfer of records request.

We thank you for your patience during this transition period and we hope you will join us in welcoming Dr. Sadri to our practice.

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scene of the protest and informed other protestors why Meiers was being arrested.

After Kurvers told the protestors Meiers was in breach of the peace, Esther Pedersen, another protestor, retorted that the Site C construction site was “a breach of the Peace.”

"BC Hydro respects the rights of all individuals to express their opinions about Site C peacefully and in a lawful manner," said spokesman Dave Conway when reached for comment.

Meiers did not block the only entrance to the whole Site C work site. A second entrance to the dam site is located next to the North Peace landfill. reporter@ahnfsj.ca

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Peace fifth in most dangerous places to work

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NORTHEAST B.C. — For anyone who moves dirt, fells trees or raises houses for a living, it should come as no surprise: Northeast B.C. can be a dangerous place to work.

New data from WorkSafeBC makes clear just how dangerous.

Workers in the Northern Rockies and Peace Region are the second and fifth-most likely to be seriously injured on the job in B.C., respectively.

WorkSafe recently released serious injury data for 2010 to 2014 in a dashboard tool on its website.

In both the Peace and Northern Rockies, most serious injuries occurred in the general construction industry.

Any injury that can kill or permanently wound is considered serious under the law.

A higher rate means workers in a given region are more likely to be seriously injured on the job. However, that doesn't mean a greater number of overall injuries.

In the Northern Rockies, the region that includes Fort Nelson, there were 58 serious injuries that resulted in 253 lost workdays in the five-year span.

The region had the second-highest rate of serious injuries, at 22.9 per cent, well above the provincial average of 13 per cent.

Leading the pack was Stikine, in north central B.C., where there were only nine serious injuries, mostly caused by falls.

However, those represented nearly a quarter of all workplace injuries in the region.

The Peace Region ranked fifth overall, with 418 serious injuries, for a rate of around 18.6 per cent.

According to WorkSafe, that translates to 2,242 hours of lost productivity in the region.

Most of those were fractures to the wrist, hands or fingers. Construction workers were the most likely to be injured.

The safest place to work was the Capital Regional District, which includes Victoria, where 8.9 per cent of all work place injuries were potentially deadly or debilitating. Vancouver had a rate of 12.2.

Overall, construction lead the way in injuries, with 6,469, followed by transportation (2,757) and food service (2,642).

Of industries that are prominent in the northeast: Oil and gas saw 423 injuries, agriculture 636, forestry 912, education 948, and wood and paper manufacturing 1,834.

According to WorkSafe, employers paid nearly $2.3 billion in time lost to injuries between 2010 and 2014. reporter@ahnfsj.ca

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Good Samaritan, teen reconnect two years after crash

William Stodalka

Staff Writer

A Good Samaritan from Fort St. John has reconnected with the woman he helped save two years ago, according to the Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune.

On Nov. 26, 2013, Kiesha Mastrodimos hit a moose while driving home from a babysitting job. The crash left her paralyzed from the waist down.

Before the first responders arrived, Dan Passey, a truck driver with Mustang Rentals, a Fort St. John company, came to her and provided Mastrodimos and her passenger with

blankets, comforted them, and stayed with them until more help arrived.

"It was pretty cold that night, I remember thinking I was cold standing there while I was with her, thinking, I can't imagine how cold it was laying there in the snow—but we didn't want to move her," Pasey told the Herald-Tribune.

Mastrodimos’ passenger did not suffer serious injuries as a result of the crash.

Mastrodimos didn’t know Passey’s name, but posted a statement of appreciation on Facebook. That post went viral,

helping her to re-connect with Passey.

Passey told the newspaper that he never knew of Mastrodimos’s status after the crash until she re-connected with him.

“The problem with the north is that everyone gets used to seeing vehicles in the ditch and you don't even think twice about it, right?” Passey was quoted as saying.

“Everybody should take that second look at things.” reporter@ahnfsj.ca

Some snow, but not much, weatherman says Bronwyn Scott Staff Writer

Despite the weekend's dump of snow, there’s still not much white stuff on the ground in Fort St. John.

In the past week, only seven centimetres of snow has fallen, with most of it—six centimetres—coming down Thursday, Dec. 3. Another one centimetre fell on the night of Dec. 5.

“There’s hardly been anything,” said Environment Canada weather forecaster Greg Pearce.

There was practically no snow on the ground by Dec. 3, which is unusual for this time of year. Normal snowfall for the month of November is 32.5 centimetres, Pearce

said. The city usually sees 26.8 centimetres of snow fall for the month of December.

Environment Canada couldn't determine how much had fallen in Dawson Creek because it doesn't have a manned observation station there.

The automatic station it does have measures precipitation by melting the snow to give a water equivalent, Pearce explained.

“There’s no one there to measure basically the depth of snow . . . it doesn’t really give us a snow depth.” bronwyn scott photo Meteorologists are predicting a warm, mild winter, and City worker Harold Olynyk salts the sidewalk along so far that prediction is spot on. peacereporter@ahnfsj.ca 100 Street in Fort St. John on Sunday morning.

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usan (not her real name) remembers the cramped, smelly bus ride from Vancouver to Calgary.

She is carrying a bag of cash, intended to buy drugs from gang members in Calgary.

When she gets there, she meets two men in a parking lot. The exchange goes wrong. One of the men hits her. She falls to the ground. And then they start kicking her.

When they stop, the money is gone.

The drugs are gone. Susan is lying bloodied on the pavement. But she is worried – in fact, frightened to death – about one thing above all: how she is going to explain what happened to her gang bosses back home.

Raw, gritty and told by Susan herself, her story is the centrepiece of the latest Community Report from B.C.’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU-BC), the province’s integrated anti-gang police agency.

Formed in 2009, CFSEU-BC is tasked with combating gang activity throughout the province, and since 2013 it has published annual community reports as

part of its public education and advocacy efforts.

The theme of the 2015 report is “Youth, Girls and, Gangs,” with stories and commentary that focus on the increasing involvement of younger people and women in gangs.

“The gang landscape in BC is continually changing,” says Constable Jordan McLellan, community engagement officer for CFSEU-BC. “The typical gangster used to be a male in his late 20s, but now very young men and women are getting involved in the gang lifestyle.

Some are as young as 15 – children who can’t really appreciate the consequences of their actions.”

According to the CFSEU-BC report, the average age of a victim of gang violence 10 years ago was 30. Today, the average is 25, and the youngest victim this year was only 15 years old.

Why the increase? Recruiters for gangs actively prey on youth’s naïveté.

Culture plays a part, too, with easy access by ever-younger kids to glamorized gang images in TV shows, music and movies.

For too many, it works.

“There’s an allure to the gang lifestyle

– an easy life, lots of money, girls will like you, people will respect you,” says McLellan. “The reality is that the life is not easy, the money goes just as fast as it comes, and you end up destroying your relationships with friends and family.”

Sadly, it’s a similar pattern for the increasing number of girls recruited into BC gangs.

Typically, young women get involved because they are seduced by the seemingly lavish lifestyle gangsters enjoy.

Many begin the journey as girlfriends, but after a time they take on more active roles, like holding drugs or hiding weapons. Some, like Susan, get more deeply involved.

But there is hope. Although violence spiked in the first half of the year, with 30 gang-related homicides and attempted homicides, the longer-term trend is toward a steady decline in gang activity since 2008, when there were 51 gang-related homicides and attempted homicides in BC. Last year, there were 18 such incidents, according to CFSEU-BC. One of the reasons for that trend is CFSEU-BC’s enforcement and investigative activities, resulting in several arrests of high-level gang criminals this

year.

As well, the unit has launched a high-profile “prevention through education” program called End Gang Life (endganglife.ca), whose goal is to keep people out of gangs by telling the other side of the story.

A multi-media campaign that features a website, posters, radio ads, and thought-provoking videos, End Gang Life reveals the hard realities of gang activity, and the damage it does to individuals, families and communities.

The program also provides parent resources in eight different languages, to help adults have frank and effective conversations with their kids about gangs.

“These resources are a good start to having a discussion,” says McLellan.

“Parents need to understand that it may be a hard talk to have with your kids, but it will be easier than talking about their funeral.”

For Susan – who is, at last, out of gangs – the impact of the End Gang Life campaign is very real. Earlier this year, after she saw the posters and visited the website, she approached CFSEU-BC

with an offer to tell her story and help educate other young women on the realities of life as a gang member.

“I was young, I was stupid, and I would caution any kid against this,” she writes in the report. “What I lived through, I didn’t come out unscathed. I came out damaged, with wounds that’ll never heal and emotional scars that will linger forever.”

The full CFSEU-BC 2015 Community Report, “Youth, Girls, and Gangs,” is available online at bcanti-gang.com

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~ DON’T DRINK & DRIVE ~

Play it smart with spirited parties Parties catering to adults are often enhanced with a variety of food and beverage options, and alcoholic drinks are a common component of such gatherings. Party hosts and hostesses who will be offering the spirits to their guests should keep safety in the back of their minds.

Many party hosts are unaware that they may be held liable should a person become intoxicated at their event and then go on to injure another person while under the influence. This is why bartenders will stop serving customers who are visibly drunk.

Although laws vary from place to place, party hosts should still keep tabs on their guests’ alcohol consumption, cutting off guests who might have had enough to drink. In addition to monitoring alcohol consumption, party hosts can employ these additional practices to keep everyone safe. * Collect keys upon entry to the party. Ask guests who plan to drink alcohol to surrender their car keys to you when they arrive at the party. Guests may be offended at having to relinquish control of their cars, but it is a wise move to remove any temptation to drive away. * Remain sober. As the party host, you will have a number of responsibilities, including ensuring your guests’ comfort and safety. Having your wits about you will enable you to make better decisions for you and your guests.

* Serve plenty of food. Drinking on an empty stomach is a surefire way to get intoxicated. Be certain to have a number of foods available and encourage guests to dine before you start serving any alcoholic beverages. This way you can reduce the potentially intoxicating effects the alcohol will have on your guests. Though a full stomach won’t guarantee your guests won’t become intoxicated, they are likely to consume less alcohol on a full stomach and the food in their stomach can counter the effects of any alcohol they do consume. * Keep drinks simple. Some specialty drinks call for more alcohol than others. In addition, fruity drinks can mask the flavor Party hosts and hostesses are responsible for the safety of guests when alcoholic beverages are served. of the alcohol, causing a person to drink more than he or she would normally. Serve simpler drinks so guests know just how much alcohol nonalcoholic drinks between alcoholic beverages will they are consuming. keep blood-alcohol content down. * Establish a cut-off time. Stop serving alcoholic beverages at a certain time. This will give guests time to sober up before the end of the party. The rate at which alcohol leaves the body and enables persons to no longer feel its effects varies depending on age, gender, weight, and even race. Experts advise only having one alcoholic beverage per hour, which is the average time it takes for that drink to be metabolized. Consuming

*Make nonalcoholic beverages available, too. Giving guests options may help them drink more responsibly. Drinking water is a way to flush out the system and reduce the effects of alcohol.

Party hosts often make alcoholic beverages available to their guests. Use caution and monitor guests’ drinking so no one gets sick or injured.

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~ DON’T DRINK & DRIVE ~ Personal safety can be threatened when nights out on the town last into the wee hours. Though this isn’t a reason to stay in, it does highlight the importance of emphasizing safety when unwinding with loved ones late atnight. The following are some safety precautions men andwomen can take when their next night on the town figures to continue long after the sun has gone down. * Never go out alone. When going out for a night on the town, always do so in the company of friends or family members.

Going out alone can make you a more attractive target for criminals. If friends cancel at the last minute, it’s best to reschedule your revelry rather than going it alone. If friends are ready to go home, then you should go home as well rather than staying out alone late at night. * Avoid excessive alcohol consumption. Alcohol may help some people lower their inhibitions, but alcohol also makes you less aware of your surroundings, especially when you consume large amounts of alcohol. Alcohol also impairs judgement, which can put people who drink excessively in precarious positions they would otherwise avoid when sober. When consuming alcohol, drink in moderation.

* Have a designated driver. Designated drivers are a good thing to have even if no one plans to drink to excess. A designated driver is one person in the group who agrees to abstain from alcohol for the night so he or she can safely drive everyone home at the end of the night. The designated driver also can monitor the group’s alcohol consumption as the night goes on to ensure no one is overdoing it and putting their health at risk. * Be mindful of your valuables. A night out on the town might be a laid back way to unwind, but that doesn’t mean you should drop your guard when in a public place. Men should keep valuables like their wallets and mobile phones with them at all times, while women should never let their purses out of their sight.

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WEEKLY PRO RACING UPDATE Postseason Racing News, Stats & Trivia

All-Time Top Driver’s Bio

This Week’s Racing News

Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the 2015 Sprint NMPA Most Popular Driver Award for the 13th consecutive year last Friday night during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Awards banquet at the Wynn in Las Vegas. “I’m humbled,” he said. “This award is for Junior Nation.” Only NASCAR Hall of Famer Bill Elliott has won the award more times than Earnhardt Jr., having earned it a record 16 times. Elliott, in fact, was the last driver besides Earnhardt Jr. to win the award, having done so in 2002. The Hendrick Motorsports driver ended the 2015 season 12th in the championship standings, collecting three race wins along the way. Even the retirement of NASCAR legend Jeff Gordon couldn’t stop Earnhardt’s win streak. “I thought Jeff was going to win it, to be honest with you, in his last year,” Earnhardt said afterward.

“You just never know. You never take it for granted.”

Dec. 6, 1933 - Blackie Watt was born on this day. Watt, a standout in Western Pennsylvania with hundreds of wins in Late Model and Modified feature races, started 24 races in the Cup series, 20 in 1966 and four in ‘67. He finished his NASCAR career with nine top 10s, all in ‘66.

Racing Trivia Which driver won the first Daytona 500 in 1959? a) Richard Petty b) Tom Petty

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c) Kyle Petty d) Lee Petty

Answer : d) It took NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. three days to decide the winner. In the end, with the help of the national newsreel, Lee Petty was officially declared as the winner.

Racing History

Lee Petty Born: March 14, 1914 Cup wins: 54 Cup top-tens: 332 Cup championships: 3 Lee Petty was one of the pioneers of NASCAR, and one of its first superstars. Petty was thirtyfive years old before he started racing. His NASCAR career began at NASCAR’s first race at the three-quarter mile long dirt track, Charlotte Speedway. He finished in the Top 5 in season points for NASCAR’s first eleven seasons and won the NASCAR Championship on three occasions. In the first race at Daytona International Speedway, Petty battled with Johnny Beauchamp during the final laps of the race. Petty, Beauchamp, and Joe Weatherly drove side by side by side across the finish line at the final lap for a photo finish. It took NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. three days to decide the winner. In the end, with the help of the national newsreel, Petty was officially declared the winner. Lee is the father of Richard Petty, who would become NASCAR’s all-time race winner.

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PRO GOLF WEEKLY UPDATE

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Golf News, Tips, Trivia & Stats

This Week: The Franklin Templeton Shootout

The Franklin Templeton Shootout is a team format that pairs PGA Tour players in a tournament started and still hosted by the legendary Greg Defending: Day/Tringale Norman. The event takes place at Winning Score: 32-under par Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida.

Tiburon is a WCI community featuring 36 holes of Greg Normandesigned golf. The first round, on Friday, uses the modified alternate shot rule; round two, Saturday, utilizes the better ball rule; and the final round, on Sunday, uses the scramble rule. Last year, Jason Day and Cameron Tringale won the tournament after shooting a 7-under 65 in the better-ball final round to finish at 32-under.

Tiburon Golf Club Naples, Fla. 7,288 yards, Par 72

Golf TV Schedule

Last Week: Bubba Watson won the Hero World Challenge

Facing a soft course featuring Tournament Results five par-5s and with little breeze 1. Bubba Watson Score: -25 to contend with, Bubba Watson ran away from 17 of the best 2. Patrick Reed Score: -22 players and won the Hero World Challenge on Sunday. Watson shot 3. Rickie Fowler a final-round 6-under-par 66 to finish Score: -21 at 25-under and three clear of Patrick Reed. “The key for me was about staying focused, staying committed to my shots,” said Watson, the No. 4 player in the world. It was his second victory of the year and eleventh of his career. Rickie Fowler finished four back in third and world No. 1 Jordan Spieth came home in fourth.

Golfing News

Tiger Woods is resigned to facing the recovery from his back surgery on a day-by-day basis with no future date on the calendar to circle for his comeback. “There is no timetable for this (recovery), and that’s been the hardest mindset adjustment is that I don’t know. So where is the Golf Trivia light at the end of the tunnel? I don’t know, so that’s been hard,” Woods said. He said he’s still What is “Bubba” Watson’s first name? sore and the extent of his exercise these days is light stretching and walking. He hasn’t hit a golf ball in two months. Woods sounded at peace with a) Gary c) Jerry his career up to this point. “I’ve had a pretty good b) Gerry d) Barry career for my 20s and 30s,” he said. “For my 20 years out here I think I’ve achieved a lot, and if that’s all it entails, then I’ve had a pretty good run.

Answer: b) Bubba Watson’s full name is Gerry Lester But I’m hoping that’s not it. I’m hoping that I can get “Bubba” Watson, Jr. back out here and compete against these guys.”

PGA Event: Franklin Templeton Shootout Day Time Network Thu, 12/10 1pm-4pm GOLF Fri, 12/11 1pm-4pm GOLF Sat, 12/12 1pm-5pm FOX

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Lessons from the Golf Pro One of the most embarrassing things the amateur golfer does is to mis-hit a bunker shot and watch it not get over the lip and roll back into the bunker. Most of the time, our mindset is to just get up to the ball and hack away quickly to get out of the bunker once and for all. However, did you know that you can use a rake to smooth the bunker out before you take that second bunker shot? Rule 13-4 in the Rules of Golf speaks on the matter and states that as long as you do not improve your lie, raking the bunker is acceptable. Now, let’s say the ball rolled right back into the general vicinity of where your first shot was hit from. In this case, you can not rake the sand because the lie would be improved or you would be assisted in making your next stroke.

Player Profile

Bubba Watson Turned Professional: 2002 World Ranking: 4th Pro Wins: 11

FedEx Cup Standings Through Dec. 6, 2015

1) Kevin Kisner 888 pts. / 2 top tens

2) Russell Knox 876 pts. / 2 top tens

3) Justin Thomas 699 pts. / 2 top tens

4) Graeme McDowell 690 pts. / 2 top tens

5) Smylie Kaufman 640 pts. / 2 top tens

FedEx Cup Standings continued...

Player Points 6) Kevin Na 631 7) Jason Bohn 560 8) Emiliano Grillo 534 9) Peter Malnati 376 10) Kevin Chappell 347

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Hello Readers!

Its Grace Koop from the Lakeshore Swine Club! This year I am club reporter, so as our members enjoy another year of 4-H, I will be giving you updates on what our club has been doing each month. With club elections, and choosing our projects, our club has been very busy this November, as it plans for another fun-filled year!

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On November 26, a general meeting was held where my fellow 4-H members and I got the chance to elect our own club executive. With the positions of president, vice president, secretary, safety officer, and - you guessed it - club reporter up for grabs, we all got to enjoy nominating those we considered best for the job. One by one, positions were filled, and a big thank you to all the seniors who stepped up!

President: Alexandra Lehmann Vice President: Mackenzie Clovis Secretary: Heather Carlson Treasurer: Halley Brekkaas Club Reporter: Grace Koop Safety Officer: Owen Carlson

As well as electing a club executive, we also had to decide what projects we wanted to participate in this year. Popular projects include Beef, Sheep, and Swine. In addition, non-livestock projects such as Photography, Sewing, and Food give members in urban areas the opportunity to enjoy the 4-H program. This year, my two brothers and I decided to do swine projects. Pigs are full of personality, and after a fun-filled experience raising them last year, my brothers and I are excited to be preparing for round two in the swine club.

As we decide on our projects and prepare for another year of 4-H, I think we’re all looking forward to the challenges and fun times ahead!

My best to all our members in your 4-H endeavors! See you next month!

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