Tribune
WEEKEND FRIDAY MAY 17, 2013
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VOL. 24 NO. 21
REACHING 10,675 HOMES WEEKLY
LIONS COOK FREE BREAKFAST FOR MOTHERS ON MOTHER’S DAY
Pipe band gives away Carrie Underwood tickets....Page A21
Treat the kids to a new playhouse this spring.
Be the envy of the neighbourhood! Flyer in effect until May 25, 2013
Lions Club members (from right) Dean Halfnights, Lionel Bernier, Sid Breckenridge, Skip Murray and Ed Kozuki cook up a delicious breakfast Sunday morning during the club’s annual Mother’s Day Pancake Breakfast. Greg Sabatino photo
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The RCMP Cariboo Chilcotin Traffic Services reminds people traveling this long holiday weekend to consider the following: • Drinking or using drugs and driving is a bad idea, the carnage from this affects us all. There is always another way to get to where you need to go, taxi, bus or call a friend. One person injured or killed is too many. • The use of a seat belt is mandatory and is the best safety device in an automobile. When worn correctly in conjunction with an airbag, the crash survival rate is as high as 95 per cent. • Talking or texting while driving is extremely dangerous and results in far too many crashes, injuries and deaths. Ask yourself if you would close your eyes driving at 100 km/hr for up to seven seconds. The answer is probably no. • Police will be conducting increased enforcement this weekend.
Liberals sweep to a comfortable win
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Drive carefully this long weekend
Donna Barnett Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA
Both Liberal candidates Donna Barnett, Cariboo-Chilcotin, and Coralee Oakes, Cariboo North are excited to have won their ridings after what they said was a “nail-biter” election night. By the end of Tuesday evening preliminary results showed Barnett had received 56.44 per cent of the vote and Oakes received 41.26 per cent. Speaking from her campaign headquarters in 100 Mile House late Tuesday evening, Barnett said she and her supporters had a great evening. “We’re very pleased. It’s a very good mandate for myself and a very good mandate for government,” Barnett said. Throughout the campaign Barnett said she felt good, but “not” confident. “I’ve been in many, many elections
in my life and I never ever take anything for granted in an election. As you start to think you’re way ahead of the game, you get yourself in trouble, so every day you work as hard as you can.” Speaking from Quesnel Tuesday evening, Oakes said she was thrilled how it looks for people in the north. “Several years ago we talked about the ‘northern decade.’ This is just one more piece in what that northern decade will look like.” Oakes enjoyed the entire campaign, something she had not expected, she said. “We had such an amazing campaign team,” Oakes said. “Every single day we had fun and I’m so thankful.” For more on election 2013 turn to page A4.
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