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A 14-year-old boy was killed in motorcycle accident near Cluculz Lake May 31. The Prince George Regional Provincial Traffic Services, along with Vanderhoof Traffic Services, are investigating the accident, which occurred at 5:27 p.m. The boy was riding a dirt bike, on Gill Place Road when it collided with a Ford pickup truck driven by a 19-year-old man. The driver of the truck was uninjured in the crash. Both are from the Vanderhoof area.

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Cowboy logic beats mouse That chubby little mouse who used to visit us every night around 10:30 p.m. will scuttle no more across the living room floor. A friend of ours, Jack, put an end, once and for all, to its shenanigans. Let me fill you in a bit on

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not one to be taken lightly. having a coffee and chat while The first time Jack set his the rest of the house slept when sights on taking out our chubby Jack heard a scuffle under the little mouse, he showed up at fridge. He went rigid. His face the trailer about 10 p.m. and stiffened. That Clint Eastwood set himself right in front of the glare returned to his eyes. microwave stand armed with a I knew right then it was him knife (uh, ya, I said a knife) and or the mouse that night. Only a keen-eyed glare. one would survive. About two He ordered me minutes later to get a flashlight Life in he growled out, while he comthe fat “Where’s that menced jiggling the lane mouse?” fridge to and fro. DELYNDAPILON I did, just as the Did I mention he lacks considerably in the mouse scuttled out then fled patience department? Anyback under again. Lickety-split way, the longer he waited, the Jack jumped up and grabbed a more growly he got. He even metal spatula from the set my crumbled a bit of bread in front best pal – and mouse-phobic – of the stand in an effort to draw Darby hangs on her wall. Then the little critter out. Unforhe hunched down again, comtunately the four dogs in the manded me to hold that light house – none of them much big- steady and began shaking the ger than one of Jack’s cowboy fridge around. The mouse made boots – thought he was treating one last scuttle and – swat, them to an evening snack which swat, swat – was off to mousy created more ruckus and incited heaven. a lengthy tirade of cussing from Then Jack took a look at the one disgruntled cowboy. About spatula and told me we could the same time the mouse scutnever tell Darby he’d used it to tled sidewise out from under kill a mouse. We both knew this the stand and disappeared was a very important secret to down the hall with Jack in hot keep, because if she ever found pursuit. out she would chuck that tool “Mouse wins,” I said as he in the trash likely while holding stomped back. it at arm’s length with a paper Then I got the keen-eyed towel. Then she’d probably disglare. infect the trailer. A few nights later we were I made a solemn vow to keep that cowboy’s secret as he sterilized the spatula and put it, once again, in its proper place. “Now who 6. Court excuse wins?” he asked me 7. Retribution with that cowboy 8. Buck or doe cocky grin. And he 9. Wicker material 10. Untethered kept asking until 11. “We ____ a Little I begrudgingly Christmas” answered him. 12. Clerical garment “Jack wins,” I 13. Lassie sighed. 14. Poetic work He crowed like 22. Notation Peter Pan and tossed 24. Streamlined up his hand for a 28. Trounce high five. 30. Provoke A few days later he 31. Flower part confessed to Darby 32. Indian pole emblem 34. Foreground he killed the mouse 36. Volatile solvent with the spatula and 39. Grain-storage tower left me, who’d been 40. Bosc or Bartlett solid with that little 42. Dress part bit of information, 43. Beginning hanging. 45. Land surrounded “Well, I can’t lie,” by water he said. “It was bug46. Numerical ending ging me.” 47. Settee 71. Before of yore 37. Aboard Darby is taking it 48. Woman’s title 73. Ten-four buddy 38. Aretha Franklin all pretty well, by the 50. Despots wanted it 75. Cherish way. Except every 55. Licorice flavoring 41. Siamese or tabby 76. On the ____ 58. Silly talk time we go some42. Track broker 77. Forbidding 60. Channel where she parks me 44. Correct 80. 1601, to Caesar 61. Deviate in mud puddles and 47. Dollar division 81. Sink one’s teeth into 62. Profession thanks me for always 48. Day’s beginning 82. Glide over snow 64. Catlike having her back. 49. Milk sugar 83. “____ of Destruction” 65. Eloquent speaker And Jack? Well, 51. Scoop 84. Word of regret 69. Not widespread 52. Entrance there’s no chal85. Promptly 70. Light bender 53. Rice-like pasta lenge too big or too 86. Scope of knowledge 72. Fix text 54. Yeast, e.g. small for a cowboy, 87. Apiece 74. Pager sound 56. Unearth 88. Sulu’s station I guess. And one of 75. Asian nanny 57. Insect’s feeler 89. Geek these days I mean 77. Grill 59. Burning substance to kick his butt in a 78. Maui strings DOWN 61. Threaded fastener debate. 1. Oversee 79. Serious offense 63. Data 2. Break Well, as soon as I 81. Enjoin 66. Bill of fare 3. Boo-boo list can figure out a way 67. Lived Answers can be found 4. Animal’s home to circumvent cowin the classifieds. 68. Matterhorn’s range 5. Mackerel boy logic.

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Runners celebrate with Voneugen ALISTAIR MCINNIS sports@pgfreepress.com

There’s nothing like a milestone to bring back an old tradition. Prince George running legend Dick Voneugen turns 80 this year. To mark the occasion, runners in the community will complete a multi-distance, trail fun run in Prince George. The course will cover 80 kilometres, not exactly a new concept to Voneugen, who used to run the kilometres of his age with a group of friends on his birthday. But when the Dick Voneugen Birthday Fun Run takes place on June 10, it’ll be the rebirth of an event that was held annually until 2004. The circumstances are different, since Voneugen isn’t preparing to jog, instead opting to follow the course in a mobile aid station to help runners. But supporting Voneugen and his passion for running by tying in the course distance with his age is the purpose, the reason his friends were drawn to the birthday run in the first place. Voneugen, inducted into the Prince George Sports Hall of Fame in 2003 as a builder and adminstrator, began running the kilometres of his age on his birthday in his late 40s. He began alternating between Mount Robson and the Cranbrook Hill Greenway, a trail system he played a leading role in developing. But Voneugen, who will celebrate his 80th birthday on July 24, is only human. His age got the best of him in the 1990s. “When I turned 60 in ‘92, I got a little scared. I thought, this is getting out of hand, 60 K,” he said. “So from then on, we counted down in kilometres while my age went up, so we’d always still add up the distance and my years to 120.” Voneugen also began tying

in mountain biking with the (France, Switzerland and course, down to 48 kilometres Italy) and includes 9,600 when he turned 72 in 2004. metres of positive elevation A proud Prince George resigain. The race is scheduled dent who supports athletes at to start Aug. 31, with each running events, Voneugen still runner allowed a maximum carries a competitive edge. of 46 hours to complete the He’s been a regular particicourse. pant at the BC Seniors Games “It’s probably the toughas a coordinator and athlete. est 100-mile race. There are While the event is taking 2,300 runners, you got to place in Voneugen’s honour, it qualify,” Hunter said. “I had wouldn’t have come to fruition to do two top-10 finishes in if not for the efforts of a group the Death Race to qualify, to of organizers led by extreme get in, to be allowed to run marathoner Jeff Hunter, who it, and then it still has a 50 specializes in multi-terrain to 60 per cent drop-out rate, mountain runs. in the end of that race.” Hunter said discussions As for the Voneugen run, on bringing the birthday run Hunter said there’s been a back heated up late last year lot of discussions through and they decided to pursue it. Facebook, Twitter and A lis ta ir M cINNIS/ Fre e Pre s s Hunter is planning to run Dick Voneugen looks over the Cranbrook Hill Greenway map at the e-mails. the full 80 kilometres as a solo- Otway Nordic Centre with long-distance runner Jeff Hunter. Anybody interested in ist, an undertaking that would participating in the Dick feel torturous to most people. Voneugen Birthday Fun Bridge, goes through a river trail the Hart and stuff, they’re pretty But intimidation likely won’t be and the Cottonwood Island trails good climbing so they added Run can get more information a factor for an athlete who com- before crossing the Highway 16 a little bit of extra time in the through Hunter’s website at runpetes regularly in marathons, east bridge. After going through beginning.” ningthenorth.com. a fitness fanatic who has suc- LC Gunn trails, the route crosses The website includes a list of Later this year, Hunter will try cessfully completed the 125 km the bridge, going down Ferry and complete the ultimate course. each different starting point and Canadian Death Race in Grade Avenue through the grave- He’s planning to enter the Ultra time, and a map of the course. Cache, Alta., the past few years. yard, along Cowart Road, and Trail Du Mont Blanc, a 168 km Hunter can also be reached via Hunter even mapped out the up through the College Heights mountain race in Europe which e-mail at jeffthehunter@gmail. course for the June 10 event. area. passes through three countries com. “Without talking to Dick, I put From Domano in College together this course and I wanted Heights, runners will con9 to make it a loop and no, not nect to the Blue Spruce/ rerunning the same piece of trail Cranbrook Hill Greenway and trying to make it mostly which leads to the UNBC trail,” he said. “I came up with Forests for the World/ this course and then when Dick Cranbrook Hill Greenway and I went for lunch a little while trail. After passing through ago, he brought out the 60 K the Takla Road crossing, course, and it was almost identi- the path will lead particical.” pants back to the finish line The 80 km course will start and at the Otway parking lot. finish at the Otway Nordic CenThe run has six different tre parking lot. It follows Otway starting points and times back to the Foothills bridge, then for 80 km, 50 km, 42.2 km, goes northwest through the Pidh- 25 km, 19 km and 7.5 km erney area, by the Foothills land- distances. fill before heading southeast past “It’s good, some good North Nechako to the Hart High- climbing at the beginning,” way weigh scales. From there, the Hunter said. “Those trails path crosses the Cameron Street up Pidherny and through

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