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The Antonov-124 which landed at Prince George Airport dwarfs the seven helicopters which would be loaded onto it before it continued on its flight to Angola. The Antonov-124, the third-largest plane in the world, made full use of the new long runway at the airport. ALLAN AL A LLA LAN W WI WISHART IS SH HAR ART allanw@pgfreepress.com all al a llanw@p nw@pgf nw @p pg gffreeep pre ress ess ss.c .com com om

They Th ey y wer w were eree li line lined ned d up p on on the the fa farr si side de of of the apron at Prince George Airport on the morning of July 13. Seven helicopters, their size clear by looking at the people near them. Those seven helicopters were waiting for their ride, as they prepared for a trip to Angola, to be used in ferrying people and supplies around the African country during its election. Anything that could fit seven full-sized helicopters comfortably would have to

be p rett re tty bi b ig. g. T Th he A he nton nt nton onov ov-1124 24 ffits its th it that hat at be pretty big. The Antonov-124 desccript desc de rip ri pttio ion. description. ““It’s “I It’ t’s th the he th hir ird-bi bigg gges esst ai airp rpla lane ne iin n th the he third-biggest airplane worl wo rld d,,”” Br Bria ian n My Mycr ycrof oftt of Van V anco couv uver er Isl IIsland slan and d world,” Brian Mycroft Vancouver Helicopters said. “We have contracts to supply helicopters to Angola, and we’re putting seven of them on that plane.” This wasn’t Mycroft’s first sight of the Antonov. “I saw it at Vancouver Airport, and we were in Angola doing the same job during their last elections, and the Antonov was there then.” Prince George Airport Association president and CEO John Gibson said the

Anto An Ant tono tono nov la nov llanding and ndiin ng in in P rin ri ncccee Ge G Geor eo orrg gee tto op pi ick ck Antonov Prince George pick p tthe he h he eellic icop opte terss w ass a b ig m ig om o men e t fo ffor or up helicopters was big moment th he airport. aiirpor airp orrt. the “It’ “I t’ss bi big g fo forr us us. It h hel elps ps p u uss bu buil ild d th that at “It’s helps build long-term commercial-business case with other clients.” The landing was also a practical demonstration of what was possible with the new runway at the airport, the third-longest in Canada. While an Antonov-124 landed here in 1995, it couldn’t take off with a load on the old runway. “We do need the big runway for something like this,” Gibson said. “We’re trying to tell the companies who supply the min-

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Turning over a new Leaf for green energy City, RDFFG, Northern Health, UNBC partners DELYNDA PILON newsroom@pgfreepress.com

The city fleet is taking its first rumble into a new era. Thanks to a partnership between the City of Prince George, the Regional District of Fraser Fort George, Northern Health and the University of Northern B.C. The vehicle, a Nissan Leaf, is 100 per cent electric and will be shared, three months at a time, by each partner. Scott Bone with the city said the $44,000 car, along with four charging stations, was purchased through the Community Works fund, administered by the Union of BC Municipalities. The four charging stations are located at the city hall parking lot, the city yard, the regional district office and UNBC. The vehicle’s range is 160 km in optimal summer weather, and in winter it can travel about 120 km before requiring recharging. There are no emissions from the vehicle, no motor oil is used to operate it, and it generally requires 60 per cent less in maintenance costs than a gas-run vehicle. Mayor Shari Green, who drove the Leaf into the parking lot during a press con-

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Prince George Mayor Shari Green parks the new electric Nissan Leaf before a press conference announcing the car will be shared between four local groups. incorporate an electric vehicle into our fleet operation” said Art Kaehn, chair of the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George. “The Regional District’s Corporate Climate Change Action Plan includes a vehicle right-sizing strategy so that we can minimize greenhouse gas emissions and maximize energy conservation. This

partnership will allow us an opportunity to see how electric vehicles may fit into our future fleet profile.” “We are looking at the future,” said MLA Shirley Bond. “We’ll always have to depend on transportation in B.C.,” she said, adding that using an electric vehicle means reducing the carbon footprint.

Fishing and hunting guides looking for photos for covers Shutterbugs with a taste for outdoor adventure will have the opportunity to see their work on the cover of the 2013-2015 Freshwater Fishing Regulations Synopsis, through a photo contest announced by the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. The Freshwater Fishing Regulations Synopsis is published every two years, and contains all sport fishing regulations in effect in freshwater in British Columbia, and is the go-to sourcebook for anglers throughout the province. The ministry is also seeking photos for a similar contest for the 2014-2016 Hunting and Trapping Regulations Synopsis. The Hunting and Trapping Synopsis is a sum-

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“It’s better to know than not to know.” – DR. ABU HAMOUR Infectious Diseases Specialist, University Hospital of Northern BC, Prince George

HIV is a real concern within our communities. You can contract HIV primarily through unprotected sex and by sharing needles. HIV can live in your body for years without you knowing and all the while you can be passing it to others. At least 25 per cent of people who are HIV+ do not know and these 25 per cent are estimated to be responsible for 75 per cent of new infections. Northern Health, in collaboration with its community partners, is working with the Province of BC to prevent the spread of HIV by expanding HIV testing, treatment, and support services to British Columbians.

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The Dog Whisperer is coming to P.G.

Cesar Millan is not a traditional dog trainer. He’s a people re-trainer, teaching dog owners how to see the world through the eyes of a dog. And he’s bringing his expertise to CN Centre on Nov. 11. “A dog’s world is one of instincts,” Millan says. “This world is very different from the human world, which is fast-paced, full of stress and ultimately creates unbalance in dogs.” As the host of Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, he works with dogs and their owners to re-establish that balance in the dog. “I hope that through understanding the world dogs live in, people will transform their dogs and maybe a bit of themselves at the same time.” Millan was born in Mexico, and moved to the United States to pursue a dream of becoming the greatest dog trainer in the world. But his style of training has less to do with “sit”, “stay” and “heel” and more to do with how to help owners create “an environment of balance and calmness for their dogs.” Among the things Millan talks about are reading your dog’s body language and identifying aggression triggers. Tickets for Cesar Millan’s Trust Your Instincts Tour are on sale at all Ticketmaster locations.

Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer, will be in Prince George on Nov. 11 to explain how to see the world through a dog’s eyes. Photo submitted

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Remembering a logging pioneer TERESA MALLAM arts@pgfreepess.com

Lamont Stevens laughs – but not too loudly – at the reporter’s suggestion he should write a book one day about his famous father. Indeed, reminiscing in the week after his father’s passing, Lamont talks about both the public persona and personal side of Allan Stevens. Allan died July 12. Stevens lived in Prince George all his life and is perhaps best known as a very successful and forward-thinking mill owner and operator in this area. Like many success stories, however, Stevens’ began with a few failures (he would call them learning experiences.) “After trying his hand at farming and having his crops ruined by hail – then buying the Kokanee Lodge in Nelson and having summer vacationers not able to get out of the Fraser Valley because of flooding – he was convinced by his brotherin-law and friend Bill Rahn to go into partner-

ship and buy a bankrupt sawmill in Salmon Valley in 1948,” said Lamont. In 1950, the partners built a new mill just north of Summit Lake. Stevens found he had to use a little common sense and initiative when it came to hiring practises. “Because mill workers were so difficult to find and keep, they convinced the school district to place a oneroom school in the camp site so they could offer employment to married men with children,” explained Lamont. (His father also later brought in entertainment that other mills didn’t have – a pool table. During the IWA strike in 1953 fellows were more likely to stay in camp – that pool hall got a lot of use.) History had shown Stevens that married men were a little more reliable and less inclined to get themselves in trouble. “I remember as a young boy going with my father, on several occasions, to the local jail at the corner of

Third and Brunswick, where he would bail out his workers and get them back on the job,” said Lamont. “Times were very hard back then. Those men lived a harsh life in unheated cabins with no running water and so often they would go to town on a ‘toot,’ especially after getting their pay checks, and my father would round them up and get them back working.” Stevens liked talking about “the old days” in Prince George, said Lamont. “Dad often talked of when Dr. Lyon bought a car, one of a very few in P.G. and he demonstrated how well it could climb the hill that rises to what is now Lyon St. He talked of one of the years that it flooded and he and other kids poled a raft at Third and George.” This year’s flood concerns left him unfazed. “He was not too impressed with the concern about flooding. He said we ‘didn’t know what flooding was really like.’ On the north side of First Ave. just west of Victoria St.

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after the main floods ended, a pool would be left behind and the kids would all swim in it.” Other stories of father’s recollections of childhood “flood” back. “My father remembered, as a kid, playing on the beached BX and Hammond sternwheelers when they were taken out of service. Dad’s summers in his early teens were spent out in the bush along the Fraser in the Shelley, Longworth, Hutton and as far east as the Tropy River where his father was a contract logger.” His job was to tally the logs. “He would read the particulate count

(reported today with respect to the air quality downtown) and he would tell me, ‘’In the 20s, you could cut the air with a knife because of all the wood and coal being burned during the winter. It was terrible.’” Perhaps Stevens’ biggest passion was for baseball. He loved the game. Among the old photographs Lamont cherishes most is a picture of baseball oldtimers taken in 1985. “Dad is the catcher kneeling below the bat being held by Dr. McKenzie. They were the Prince George Maroons who played against Quesnel, Wells,

Williams Lake, Willow River, Burns Lake – the league changed from year to year. Other notables who played on those teams were Harold Moffat, Ross Goodwin, Danny Palumbo and Doub Struthers, names people may remember. They also played against touring Black teams that were barred from playing in the States.” Stevens believed strongly in the work ethnic, values he had even as a young man. He worked for Centralia Dairy and later bought it around 1940. Before the days of pasteurization, he delivered his milk door to door by truck and lived on property

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on that today is Abhau St. just below his parent’s place on Lyon, north of Spruceland. “In 1954 Dad and Bill built a new mill at Kerry Lake further north on the Hart Highway – a beautiful millsite. The other millsites were noted for mud and logged over terrain. This one had gravel and a lake and river to enjoy. It was here that Mum and Dad and people they worked with all made lifelong friends. It was a close knit community where they had their own entertainment – like dancing – before the days of TV.” In another business venture, Stevens also partnered with Dick Corless to build the McLeod Lake Hotel. Having a hotel meant that he dealt with breweries, so he had another business reason to go to Vancouver every summer – and watch the Vancouver Mounties, a triple A baseball team. They sold the business in 1963. Stevens retired in 1970 and spent the rest of his life fishing north and west and living on his hobby farm on Ferguson Lake Rd and watching baseball on TV. “Dad was very competitive, he did not like to lose whether playing cards or catching fish.”

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‘Creative anachronism’ on display on Huble Homestead

TERESA MALLAM Free Press

The sun is beating down on a defeated Ragnar. He wears no helmet. Sweat is pouring off his brow and running down his face. However, the intense heat is now the least of Ragnar’s problems. Leering above him, jousting stick poised to ‘strike,’ is the menacing and heavily-armoured Khudyka Dobrakovich of Russia who is about to claim his prize. It’s all part of the afternoon drama at Huble Homestead on July 15 as members of the local Shire of Cold Keep perform their ‘recreations.’ The colourful and spirited outdoor “jousting matches” capture the interest of young and old during Huble’s Kidz Carnival. “Each character has chosen a persona,” explains the group’s spokesperson Viscountess Natal’ia Volkovicha – who in the “real,” modern world is known as Joanna Garbutt. “Our local branch has 34 paid members right now, and we also welcome non-members to participate and 10 to 15 non-members come out regularly.” Garbutt joined the Society for Creative Anachronism in 1996. “I was attending the Highland Games in Prince George and the local branch was putting on a demo similar to the one we put on at Huble over the weekend. There were heavily armoured combat fighters doing short demonstrations and I was just ‘transported.” Her fascination stemmed from her love of history. “I’d always been very interested in history and, at the time, I was studying both history and literature at the university. Seeing the pageantry, costumes and the fighting, it was like being in another place in time. I had to try it.” She and a friend began attending local social gatherings and soon became “hooked,” she said (perhaps an unfortunate term, given the nature of medieval tortures.) “It appealed to my desire to understand history, my interest in the crafts and daily life of the medieval and renaissance period and my fascination with costumes of the periods that we recreate.” There is a sense of community. Garbutt has found – especially since the birth of her daughter – that children too benefit from the society’s recreations.

“It’s a great outlet for children to be able to explore their imagination with real historical lessons.” Indeed, they are in a world of their own. Prince George is known as the shire of Cold Keep. “We are part of the principality of Avacal which is made up of Prince George, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Avacal is in the kingdom of An Tir (B.C. Alberta, Saskatchewan, Wa s h i n g t o n Te re s a M A LLA M / Fre e Pre s s State, Oregon Khudyka Dobrakovich (Greg Garbutt) and Alasdair MacGregor (Dave Peters) face off during a State and parts jousting demonstration at Huble Homestead on Sunday. of Idaho.)” The local group hosts two events every calendar year as well as archery and fighter practices, R U N • S K I • S W I M • A P PA R E L socials and business meetings on a monthly and 5 weekly basis. Many of their members travel all over western Canada and around the States to attend events. Most people in the SCA choose a “period” which predates 1600. They can choose any country of origin that can be documented and proven to have had trade with Europe during the period and they can choose their name from that. The SCA puts on events where members dress in medieval clothing and take part or enjoy watching tournaments, art exhibits or competitions, classes on medieval skills and workshops followed by a medievel feast, dancing bonfires and revelry. Since 1966 the society has grown to include over 25,000 members in several countries. For more information on the local branch visit www.antir.sca.org.

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