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Mother issues plea for help The mother of a murdered Nadleh woman appealed to the public for help solving the case Wednesday. The badly beaten body of 21-year-old Destiny Rae Tom was discovered on the Nadleh Indian Reserve just outside Fort Fraser March 23. “Our lives have forever been changed with the loss of our youngest child,” said Vivian Tom in a statement read with the help of about 20 family members. “Destiny was a beautiful, caring, and loving person. She was a loving mother to our three-year-old granddaughter, Cassidy. Destiny loved life, loved people and had many family and friends that loved her. Her life was tragically taken far too soon. Whoever is responsible for Destiny’s death is still out there. My husband, children and especially our three-year-old granddaughter deserve closure to this horrific nightmare. We are not sleeping and we are having difficulty eating. “We believe that someone out there knows something and has yet to come forward with information surrounding Destiny’s death. Please – if you have any information that will help with the investigation, we ask you to help us. Please come forward with the truth. “We ask you to help our family understand this, and more importantly, that justice is served for Destiny and little Cassidy. “We are praying and trusting God for answers. We are praying for the person who is responsible for Destiny’s death. We miss you, Destiny. We love you. We are deeply hurt that you left us at such a young age. Cassidy misses you every day. We are thankful to anyone who is going to come forward and help us today.” The North District RCMP Major Crimes Unit continues to investigate the death. An autopsy was conducted earlier this month and the report confirmed that Tom died as the result of foul play. Police are unable to provide further specifics with respect to the findings as this would jeopardize the integrity of the investigation. “This investigation remains a priority for the RCMP and we encourage those who knew Destiny and were last with her on the Nautley Reserve, to come forward and speak with investigators,” said Const. Lesley Smith, North District Media Relations Officer, in a press release. “RCMP investigators are working closely with Destiny’s family and friends and they continue to work diligently in order to find the answers we all need to bring the individual(s) responsible for her death, to justice.” Anyone with information is asked to call the Fraser Lake RCMP at (250) 699-7777. If you would like to remain anonymous please call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

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Vivian Tom makes a public plea in Fort Fraser, B.C. on April 17, 2013, for information that will help with the investigation into the death of her daughter, Destiny Tom. Destiny was found dead outside of a residence on the Nautley Indian Reserve near Fraser Lake on March 23, 2013. Her death has now been officially attributed to foul play.

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Candidates face off at Chamber forum BILL PHILLIPS editor@pgfreepress.com

They should have started with the closing statements. It wasn’t until the closing statements at the Prince George Chamber of Commerce/Northern Real Estate Board all candidates forum April 30 that candidates strayed from the party scripts. Liberal candidate Mike Morris in Prince George-Mackenzie was the first to venture off the script when he leveled criticism at Conservative candidate Terry Rysz, who is a sitting councillor in Sicamous and then took a pot shot at the NDP party. “Halfway through is term he decided to abandon (Sicamous residents) and look up here for possibly something better,” Morris said of Rysz. Then he set his sights on the NDP saying likening their policies to Aesop’s fables and the tale of the goose that laid the golden egg. “They want to kill the golden goose in the northeast part of the province,” he said. “They’re going to take the benefits from up there and use it for transit systems down south.” Rysz responded that he spent three decades living in the north … 10 of those were under the NDP and 10 under the Liberals.

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Candidates at the all candidates forum in Prince George included Nathan Geide (Conservative), Don Roberts (Christian Heritage Party), Mike Morris (Liberal), Karen McDowell (Green Party), and Shirley Bond (Liberal). to those nasty ads,” Ogasawara McDowell said her party sup“I’ve seen that the impact of and to create certainty.” That brought a response from said. “We want to bring people ports community-based econodecisions made by government can be astronomical,” he said. Prince George-Valemount NDP into politics. We disagree, some- mies. “They weren’t well thought out. candidate Bobby Deepak who times profoundly, but I would “We have to look away from We need a government that is said the Liberals are all about never make the kind of attack income-based taxes and move ads we’ve seen.” honest, accountable, and honour- rhetoric and buzzwords. to waste-based taxes,” she said. “When the unemployment Prince George-Valemount “Self-governance and reliance able.” Incumbent Liberal in Prince rate was higher, we actually had Conservative candidate Nathan on their own economy is really George-Valemount Shirley also more people working in Prince Geide stressed his party’s plat- important.” took shots at the NDP, criticizing George,” he said. “In the last five form plank of eliminating the Christian Heritage Party candithat party’s slogan that it is “time years we’ve seen many forest carbon tax and, when questioned date in Prince George-Valemount companies shut down … much whether he supported logging Don Roberts said his party is profor a change.” “When I hear the cry that it’s of our manufacturing base has in parks to try and deal with the choice, anti-euthanasia and he is time for a change and that Lib- been decimated. There is no plan mountain pine beetle, he said: opposed to the Site C Dam. eral claims are rhetoric and spin, in Prince George to bring these “Absolutely. It started in parks. “It will never pay for itself,” he I look back to a time when our jobs back.” When we need to take of an issue, said. “Government will have to unemployment rate was 15 per Earlier in the forum Deepak we need to take care of. We sup- borrow for it. It’s life span will be cent,” she said. “The slogan of referred to the Liberal resource port protecting the environment, relatively short and we will lose the day was the last person to policy as “rip it and ship it.” but sometimes have to protect prime agricultural land.” leave B.C. turn out of the lights. Prince George-Valemount NDP the environment from itself.” About 75 people attended the I’m not ready to return to tax and candidate Sherry Ogasawara said Green Party candidate Karen lunch time forum. spend, that’s where we’re head- the entire political system ing again. Today the unemploy- needs to move away from ment rate hovers at five percent. attacking each other. R U N • S K I • S W I M • A P PA R E L Now’s the time for continued fis“That’s why Adrian Dix cal prudence, strong leadership, has decided to not respond

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Clark speaks to full house during visit DELYNDA PILON newsroom@pgfreepress.com

About 250 Liberal supporters filled and spilled out of the campaign office on Victoria Street last month, providing a rousing welcome to party leader Christy Clark, who made a stop at the rally on her campaign tour. Clark spoke of the commonalities of those who make up the party, saying goals like ensuring children have it better than their mothers and fathers, caring for the elderly, and leaving the province better than they found it are all things they stand for. She talked about her parents and her normal middle-class upbringing, describing their three-bedroom house and three siblings, adding sometimes tough decisions had to be made to achieve a longterm goal. “They (her parents) would have been ashamed if when they passed away they left us with a penny of debt,” she said, adding most residents in the province were raised in a similar way. “If it’s not okay for Jim and Mavis Clark, or you – why is it OK to leave our children with billions of dollars of debt?” she asked. “We have a chance in this campaign to pay off the debt so our kids can do better than us. This campaign gives a stark choice to British Columbians. The other side believes in overspending, in growing government, in deficit budgets.” She said the Liberals believe in growing the economy while the NDP believe in raising taxes. “Raising taxes will kill the natural gas industry,” Clark said. She accused the NDP of supporting an

Alberta jobs plan, rather than one for B.C., citing statistics from the 1990s showing when the NDP were last in power about 50,000 residents left the province, heading to Alberta to look for work. She said by aggressively pursuing the opportunities with LNG, the provincial debt will be paid off and the Liberals will create a prosperity fund. Clark said in spite of the global economic turmoil, the Liberals came up with a sound fiscal plan and stuck to it, protecting the economy, which she said is secure and growing in B.C. “Prince George is almost a completely Bill PHILLIPS/ Fre e Pre s s different place than it was 12 years ago,” she Liberal leader Christy Clark greets supporters at a campaign rally in Prince George last month. Several hundred supporters turned out for the 20-minute speech from Clark. said. Now the economy the cancer clinic, and upgrades to high- rected into childcare. is one of the strongest in the country. In ways like the Pine Pass, among others. “Not only do they know how to spend the 1990s she said unemployment ranged “That is the benefit of a growing econ- your money better than you do, apparently around 15 per cent. Now it is about five omy in a community that has incredible they know how to raise your kids better per cent. heart,” she said. than you do,” she said. Money has been invested in a number of Clark spoke specifically about a plan set Clark added she has challenged NDP projects like the expansion of the airport, up by the Liberals where families can put leader Adrian Dix to a debate, but thus far upgrades at the college and university, the aside a $1,200 tax benefit for each child six it has not happened. Northern Medical Program which trains and under for an RRSP. “I am not afraid of people finding out doctors in the north with the hope they will “The NDP want to take that away from what I believe in and where I stand and my practice in the North, the Kordyban Lodge, you,” she said, adding it would be redi- vision for this province,” she said.

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Dix campaigns in Prince George ALISTAIR MCINNIS sports@pgfreepress.com

For NDP leader Adrian Dix, Tuesday evening marked an opportunity to shine. Greeted with an applause in front of a room packed with NDP supporters, the mood was much different than the previous evening, when he took on other provincial party leaders in a televised debate. Dix faced no opposition in front of a couple of hundred people at the NDP rally at the Civic Centre. Winning the crowd’s support on this night was easy. Before Dix entered the room, introductions were made by the two NDP candidates of the region, Bobby Deepak of Prince George-Mackenzie and Sherry Ogasawara of Prince GeorgeValemount. They kept their speeches short, sticking with the NDP’s mandate of making change for the better, one practical step at a time. But when it became Dix’s turn to speak, he wasted no time taking shots at the Liberal government and its leader Christy Clark. “The premier said they were keeping taxes down. They raised taxes. The premier said they’d balance the budget. They haven’t. Five deficit budgets in a row.” Dix also mentioned how Clark said the Liberals offered a plan to control government spending. He said Clark has raised the debt faster than any other premier in B.C.’s history. He even poked fun at how they were spending money. “Four years when they said they were running on a jobs plan, and only created jobs for people in Liberal advertising companies.” The NDP have stressed the party’s plan to invest more in skills training. Speaking to residents in a region driven by industry, he had no problem drawing cheers when talking about opportunities for young people to get involved in the trades. He noted that completion rates in apprenticeship programs in B.C. were about 35 per cent, compared to more than 70 per cent in Alberta. The previous month, Dix also discussed skills training while giving a keynote address on forestry during the Council of Forest Industries luncheon. On Tuesday, he talked about mining.

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NDP leader Adrian Dix gives a speech during a rally for the B.C. political party on Tuesday evening at the Civic Centre. “I think it is wrong when communities who contribute so much get no access to jobs in new mines and that is our responsibility together to make sure that that happens,” he said. “I think it’s wrong in British Columbia that a government campaigns on jobs but cuts the staff required to process mining permits and that has to change B.C. That’s why we propose today an investment in skills training. That’s why we propose today a plan to improve completion rates in apprenticeship programs.” Dix also talked his party’s desire to help preserve the province’s agricultural land, and the importance of industries such as education, tourism and film and television. He talked about how they would try and improve the challenges of poverty, mentioning that the NDP is proposing a family bonus to support low income families. Towards the end of his speech, Dix talked about taking a hard road to victory. “I believe in the hard road to victory. The hard road to victory is addressing the hard issues, the tough issues of our time, issues of productivity and jobs, of inequality and justice, of climate change, that’s the hard road to victory. The hard road to victory is speaking for generations of children now and in the future. The hard road to victory is taking on the real issues that matter to people in communities. The hard road to victory is understanding that the challenges facing us today are many, but our opportunities are many as well, that we have to have faith in people, the hard road to victory is taking our message door to door, family to family, workplace to workplace, community centre to community centre and saying what needs to be said, that change is

required now, that more of the same is not good enough.” Dix is vying to be the next premier of B.C., and will find out if his party wins provincial leadership

during the B.C. general election on May 14. Although NDP governed the province in the ‘90s, the Liberal party has been in power since 2001.

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Dix meets with B.C. mayors TERESA MALLAM arts@pgfreepress.com

NDP party leader Adrian Dix gave a short address Tuesday at the Mayors in Caucus meeting at the Civic Centre. His talk began and ended on a note of optimism and also revealed a sense of humour. Looking around the room with 70 or so municipal mayors flanking him on three sides, Dix smiled. “They told me I would be speaking to a group UN style (today) so I’m going to be speaking slowly – so it can be translated (into 50 languages.)” The opener drew laughs from his audience. Dix also gave a light-hearted reference

to his lifestyle changes since taking on his new political role. “I don’t normally arrive in a big bus with my name on it,” he said. Then it was down to business. Dix pointed to 12 years of successes and lack of successes in the relationships between federal, provincial and municipal

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You don’t have to go via Vancouver the next time you head southeast now that the Prince George airport is offering a flight straight to Calgary. John Gibson, president and CEO of the Prince

George Airport Authority announced the flight Friday evening, saying it will leave the city weekdays at 5:15 p.m. He added a flight from Terrace to Prince George was being announced in that city at the same time, opening up the option of far more direct as well as speedier travel times from all points northwest to Calgary and return.

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The base price for the service is expected to start at $169 plus taxes with Central Mountain Air’s affiliated airline, Hawkair using De Havillands and Dash 8 aircraft. Gibson said if the flights were well-purchased and used, their frequency will increase. Adding Terrace into the loop makes the initiative more economically viable, he said. “It’s a good flight time and combines two markets which helps reduce the risk,” Gibson said. “We have seen a 20 per cent growth in the Calgary market over the last three years.” Aidan Kelly, CEO of Tourism Prince George said every since he took on his position he wanted to see a direct flight from Prince George to Calgary. He pointed out right now is someone is coming to the city from, for example, Ottawa, he or she has to travel to Calgary then Vancouver before catching a connecting flight to Prince George. “I think it opens up the doors and gets s a bit more on the map,” he said. It also means people travelling to smaller communities in the region

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Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3 x 3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 only once.

Catherine Pennington, who lives in Prince George and is the Manager of Community Education & Skills Development for Enbridge Northern Gateway shows off one of 50 iPads the company is offering through its 2013 “Leading Spirits” Youth Achievement Award. The award has been developed to support and celebrate youth in grades 7 – 12 who are working towards Grade 12 completion, and who excel in areas including academics, sport, culture, volunteerism, community building and most importantly attitude or “spirit”. A total of 50 apple iPads will be available for individual award to students from northern BC and Alberta.

COMING EVENTS FARMERS MARKET Every Saturday 8:30 am - 2:00 pm May to October Prince George Court House 3rd Ave. & George St.

Artist Gathering for 2015 Canada Games Friday, May 10 - Saturday, May 11 10:00am - 4:00pm All local artists and those from the region are invited to attend. No charge to attend, supported by the Prince George Community Arts Council and The City of PG. The 2015 Canada Winter Games group is organizing its ﬁrst Regional Arts, Entertainment and Culture Gathering where amateur and professional artists can ﬁnd out more about their possible involvement in the 2015 Canada Winter Games. At this gathering there will be an opportunity to network, hear guest speakers, and have a Canada Games 101 information session. Event open to graphic and visual artists, performers, musicians, photographers, videographers, and those in production; multimedia, jewelry design, sculpture and craftspeople. Contact Wendy Young, Studio 2880, 2880 15th Ave (250) 562-4526 executive@studio2880.com

Each 3 x 3 box is outlined with a darker line. You already have a few numbers to get you started. Remember: you must not repeat the numbers 1 through 9 in the same line, column or 3 x 3 box.

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Friday, May 10 6:30pm - 11:40pm Join Paciﬁc Sport Northern BC for the 4th Annual Fan The Flame celebration dinner. Great event to celebrate the success of northern athletes this past season. Tickets $55 per person. Guest speaker David Calder, Olympic Medalist and World Champion in Rowing. Evening begins with a meet & greet at 5:30pm. RSVP by May 7. The Coast Inn of The North 770 Brunswick St (250) 960-5346 Paciﬁc Sport Northern BC

Saturday, May 18 8:00am - 4:00pm The Prince George Reining Horse Association is hosting its annual Spring Slide! • NRHA Approved: Open, Ltd. Open, Int. Open, Prime Time Open, Non Pro, Ltd. Non Pro, Prime Time Non Pro, Int. Non Pro, Rookie 1& 2, Rookie Professional, Novice Horse Open 1 & 2, Novice Horse Non Pro 1& 2, Youth 13 & Under, & Youth 14-18 • NRHA Trophies & Plaques Awarded to all NRHA Class Champions • PGRHA: Youth, Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced Reining Classes • Spruce Capital Feeds Non-Pro Saddle Series Class Prince George Agriplex 4199 18th Ave PG Reining Horse Association

The Platters In Concert Friday, May 10 - Saturday, May 11 8:00pm - 12:30am All are welcome to this great dinner and show featuring The Legendary Platters. The group will be performing hits like “Only You”, “The Great Pretender”, and more. Also will be Ray Richardson’s Ink Spots. They will perform hits like, “If I Didn’t Care”. Tickets $60 each plus tax (including meal). Tickets available at the Ramada Hotel, and the Prince George Citizen or phone. Doors open 6:30pm. Dinner 7:00pm, show 8:30pm. Ramada Hotel, 444 George St (250) 563-0055

David Douglas Botanical Garden Society 2013 Annual Plant Sale Sunday, May 19 10:00am - 1:00pm Come out to the David Douglas

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REAPS Annual Plant Sale Sunday, May 26 10:00am - 2:00pm The REAPS Annual Plant Sale will feature veggies, perennials, herbs, hanging baskets, vines, and shrubs. Donations of plants and garden tools are accepted! For more information about this event, please contact REAPS at the email or number listed. REAPS (Compost Demonstration Garden), 1950 Gorse St (250) 561-7327 events@reaps.org http://www.reaps.org/

Friday, June 7 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm Wondered how the fiddle has shaped Canada’s history? The fiddle tells a unique story of Canada – how fiddle music first came to our country and spread across the provinces. This intriguing story will unfold when the Valley Youth Fiddlers present “A Fiddler’s History of Canada”. This lively and entertaining show will feature traditional fiddle tunes that were brought to Canada by immigrants from many countries. It starts with the tragedy of the Acadians, moves through the fur trade and the discovery by First Nations. A musical journey as fiddle music spreads to communities in the far reaches of Canada, assisted by radio and TV. Tickets at Studio 2880, Books and Company, and at the door. $15 adults, $10 students and seniors, and free for 5 and under. Join the fun! Jean Christian, Organizer jean.s.christian@gmail.com (250) 847-1965 Tirion Lloyd-Grice, Performer tirion.lloydgrice@gmail.com (250) 846-5763 Prince George Playhouse

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