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TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013
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VOL. 83. No. 37
Event with END OF THE LINE Raif Mair and Damien Gillis cancelled
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Some of the best cowboys and cowgirls in the province were in Williams Lake this weekend for the 43rd annual Williams Lake High School Rodeo. Rodeo athletes competed in both junior and senior high school divisions hoping to accumulate points to go toward an overall season points total. Chase’s Jake Herman leaps out of the saddle here during the tie down roping event Sunday, posting a 18.9-second time. For results from the WLHSR check Thursday’s Tribune.
Monica Lamb-Yorski Tribune Staff Writer An evening with political commentator Raif Mair and documentary film-maker Damien Gillis that was scheduled for May 8 at Williams Lake Secondary School has been postponed, organizers say. John Dressler with the Council of Canadians Williams Lake Chapter said that Mair is experiencing health problems so the event has been cancelled. “I know lots of people were looking forward to having Raif and Damien here in Williams Lake,” Dressler said.
Inside the Tribune NEWS A2 Christy Clark discuses Fish Lake. SPORTS A8 Young rodeo athletes compete. COMMUNITY A community sings/plays.
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Clark’s bus tour makes stop in lakecity Monica Lamb-Yorski Tribune Staff Writer BC Liberal leader Christy Clark was in Williams Lake Thursday, the 10th city on what she described as a three-day “barn storm” of the province. Almost 100 people filled the Tourism Discovery Centre, some wearing red and blue, others carrying pompoms, to welcome Clark, Thursday, May 2. “I’m so proud to be here with you tonight,” Clark said. “British Columbians are really thinking about the issues that we have at stake in front of us, thinking about the economy, thinking how important it is that we live in a place where our leaders want to try to say yes to economic development, yes to jobs, yes to liquefied gas and yes to mining, yes to expanding markets of our forestry products we produce and yes to agriculture and yes to ranching.” Clark said the Liberals have the chance to change British Columbia for a future generation. “There hasn’t been anybody that’s had the chance as a generation to make this kind of a differ-
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Liberal leader Christy Clark at a rally in Williams Lake.
ence in an election since Brad Bennett’s grandfather W.A.C. Bennett decided to power up B.C.” The difference between “us and them” and the reason her supporters were there was because they believe in “yes,” Clark told the crowd. Taking the stage with Liberal candidates Donna Barnett, Cariboo-Chilcotin, and Coralee Oakes,
Cariboo North, Clark said she was proud to stand with both women. “These two women, one with four-generations of routes in these communities here, building our province and of course, Donna Barnett, who has done more than any MLA in the B.C. legislature to work her tail off for you guys.” Both know how to lead, listen, act and make sure that communities in the region that depend on a strong voice get the action they need. “We need leadership that says yes. British Columbia was not built by people who say no,” Clark said, adding the region is “literally sitting on a gold mine” with opportunity for all British Columbians. “As we literally sit on top of that wealth, the opportunity for a generation of British Columbians to work at high paying jobs.” Child poverty is “way too high” in the province and the province has a long way to go. Child and parent poverty can be fixed by growing the economy, she suggested, adding the difference between the Liberals and the NDP is that the Liberals would grow the economy and the NDP would grow government.
“In order to grow government they’ll need to take more money out of your pockets to pay for it. Once they’ve done that, and they’ve taken as much as they can out of your pockets, you’ll leave and your children will leave and our economies will begin to shrink.” That’s a “movie” already seen, and the worst thing is sitting through a bad movie a second time, she added. “Adrian Dix was in Prince George and it’s mining week so he said he’s in support of mining, but the week before said he was opposed to the expansion of Gibraltar Mine,” Clark said. Responding Cariboo-Chilcotin NDP candidate Charlie Wyse said Clark’s suggestion that the NPD are opposed to the Gibraltar Mine expansion is a prime example of the Liberals’ “fact free” campaign. “We’re not opposed to any mining project that meets the necessary environmental reviews and the consultation that’s required by legislation. The question that I have is Christy Clark saying that projects should proceed without an environmental review? That’s my question back,” Wyse said.