PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW - Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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Do you want to practise forestry in BC?
Join News Review staff for coffee and cake on Dec. 13 The Peninsula News Review is celebrating its 100th anniversary as a community newspaper this year. The paper published its first edition — and was at the time known as the Sidney and Islands Review — on Friday, Dec. 13, 1912. One hundred years later, we’re inviting people for coffee and cake at the Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney to commemorate the occasion. The event takes place in the foyer of the Mary Winspear Centre from 1 to 3 p.m. Staff from the News Review will be on hand to meet our readers. The News Review produced a commemorative book earlier this year — The Review — published
and offered for sale first in September and coincided with a larger celebration of the paper’s 100th anniversary at that time. Extra copies will be available for sale on Dec. 13, and the proceeds go to the local museum and archives. Readers can also purchase them at the Town of Sidney office, Tanner’s Books and Brentwood Pharmasave. A special section on the News Review’s 100th anniversary will be published in our Wednesday, Dec. 12 edition — the paper nearest to the actual anniversary date. — News staff
New forestry designation available now The Natural Resource Professional (or NRP) designation is new and recent grads from natural resources conservation programs at the University of BC, Thompson Rivers University and the University of Northern BC can apply today. The NRP designation will allow you to practise aspects of professional forestry in every corner of the province. You might find yourself working for government, consultants, industry, Aboriginal groups and more! For more information and to see which programs qualify, visit our website at www.abcfp.ca.
Drunk driving deaths are down again Jeff Nagel Black Press
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RCMP officer removes bottles from a vehicle. Police have been seizing vehicles and imposing other penalties for two years, based on roadside breath tests. A June survey of drivers in Vancouver, Abbotsford, Kelowna, Prince George and Saanich found the lowest levels of drinking and driving recorded in a series of similar surveys dating back to 1995. Nearly 60 per
cent fewer drivers who agreed to be tested were at or over the 0.08 criminal blood-alcohol level than in past years. There was a 44 per cent drop in those who tested in the warn range above 0.05.
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