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Name changes, fun stays same Teresa Mallam arts@pgfreepress.com It was smaller, one day shorter and it had less space to work with but organizers are proud of this year’s BCNE, said longtime board member and interim manager Della Bondarchuk. She stepped in to fill a job vacancy left by Angela Cunningham, who resigned in June. Despite its changes and challenges, the fair, held Aug. 8 to 11, went forward and was well-attended, Bondarchuk said. “We are very proud, once again, of our fair. The number of fairgoers was down slightly from 2011 when we had about 38,000 come through the gates. This year we estimate about 35,000 came through, so down a little. And we think that was probably because it was so hot. In 2012 it was our centennial year so the numbers – as we expected – were higher.” A four-day fair continues to be the most viable, she said. “The biggest block [for a five-day fair] was that the midway operated by West Coast Amusements is in southern B.C. just before it comes to us. So they can’t get set up here in time for Wednesday night – the day we wanted to open the fair. We tried it for three years and it didn’t work, so we had to get back to a four-day fair.” And while the BCNE may have literally lost some ground this year, vendors and performers still gave positive feedback, she says. “There were fewer vendors this year – we had 80 – due to the Kin 1 construction [for the 2015 Canada Winter Games] which narrowed our outdoor space. We didn’t have space for stages, so all the acts had to be on one stage. Even though the numbers were down, some vendors still said they did great. Some didn’t feel they did as well as other years and new vendors had nothing to compare it with. Overall, though, the feedback from vendors was very positive.” Teresa MALLAM/Free Press People did miss out on rodeo events this Young riders on the midway at the B.C. Northern Exhibition had a variety of year. responses to the thrills.
“There were huge cuts to gaming grants to all non-profits. This is the third time in four years they’ve cut our funding. We had the equestrian club horses putting on the show as we do every year, that’s a separate thing. In the future, we are hoping to have a regional rodeo division as opposed to going to a national competition which is very expensive to put on. The biggest hit of the BCNE as voted on by children? Hands – or hooves and webbed feet down – the pig and duck races won. “The pigs and ducks were definitely the favourite thing at the BCNE for children. And their second favourite was a sprinkler we put in at the volunteer firefighter’s event to offset the heat. So that’s something that we could expand on next time. Maybe we could have a cool water park-type feature.” Prices of the fair are – fair, says Bondarchuk, considering there have been no major price hikes in midway or entry in recent years. “Entry prices remain the same from last year,” she said. “The one increase was the midway. Armband prices rose from $35 at the fair, $30 in advance to $40 at the fair – but if you bought in advance it was $32.50. So that’s only up a couple of dollars and they haven’t raised the midway rates for years. This year the higher price was basically to cover the higher fuel costs in bringing all the heavy equipment up here.” With another successful fair behind them, it is back to the drawing board in preparation for their first meeting in September to discuss the 2014 BCNE. “We are proud of this year’s fair,” said Bonderchuk. “It’s a huge thing, people come from far and wide for the fair. It started out 100 years ago as a grassroots fair and it still is a grassroots fair. I am just blown away by people’s commitment to the fair, they want its success – for the next 100 years. I am so thankful for the volunteers, sponsors (business and corporations), youth groups and individuals who gave their time and resources. It shows it really is the people’s fair.”
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complexity in the system,” he said. One example of items set to be included in the new system are newspapers. The owner of a paper is the one who owns the brand and is, therefore, responsible for the cost of recycling. “So what we do is we try and track everything that is recycled and apportion the cost appropriately, depending on what it cost to recycle the material,” he said. “Newspapers are probably one of the easier materials to recycle, so they would be cheaper on a per unit basis. Plus there are well established markets for that material in Washington State and in the Far East.” He said Multi-Material B.C. has to pay for the cost of the system, they have to pay the collectors and the processors a certain amount. This cost is passed on to those who are creating the material. Producers are also asked how much material they put into the market over the year. Those variables are used to apportion the cost to the various producers. So, they are charged based on the cost of the system as well as the volume and type of material they put into the market place. For some companies, those that don’t have outlets in one of the four jurisdictions in Canada that have this system in place, this will be a brand new cost. Despite this, Langdon said he
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she said. “They wanted to come after reading the Amnesty International report, Sisters in Spirit.� She added the missing and murdered Aboriginal women in the province were numbered at 136 then, and a follow-up report puts the number at 180 in B.C. “Women are going missing and murdered in B.C. like nowhere else in the country. The government doesn’t seem concerned and doesn’t seem to have a plan, so it continues unchecked,� Erickson said. “I think that the international organization bring new eyes to the problem. The problem a Canadian commission would have is that the sexism and racism is so deeply ingrained, people don’t even recognize it in themselves. “I think indigenous women in Canada are despised and hated. As an example she talks about her niece taking a fall in Fort St. James, badly hurting her knees. Before the RCMP would help her, they made her take a Breathalyzer test. “Racism is just so commonplace, I think we normalized it,� she said. “And when someone goes missing we never thought to go to the RCMP because they never really helped before. They were the ones who took us away (to residential schools).� Barbara Morin, president of the B.C. Native Women’s Association, agrees. She said they were sup-
posed to be a part of the Oppal commission, but weren’t able to attend, even to give evidence. Now they are calling for a national inquiry as well. “A data base was started a number of years ago counting the number of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada. They got to 600, then had to stop due to a lack of funding,� she said. “Most of the cases were in western provinces. Nearly half of the cases are unsolved, and we get more reported cases in different provinces on a daily basis.� When the data stopped coming in, the association called for a national inquiry. At first there was resistance, but when provincial premiers met in July, they also supported the idea. “The cost of violence in Canada is extremely high,� Morin said. “Every time we have to address a spousal violence report, it costs the taxpayer money. We have to find ways to reduce violence against women. Aboriginal women are five times more likely to experience violence than the national average. The root cause of violence is racism and poverty, and if the woman lives in a remote community, there is no such thing as an emergency shelter. “We have to ask if police proceed in a manner that gets a case of spousal violence to court. Right now women are scared to
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights spent three days in Prince George last month talking to families of missing and murdered women, bringing more international attention to an issue that has been of concern for a long time, especially among the Aboriginal population, and highlighted recently by the Human Rights Commission which issued a report breaking down many of the barriers facing indigenous women in northern B.C. Mavis Erickson, the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council’s Women’s Advocate, said she was happy to agree to the visit and help set it up. She added there was a lot of hope issues concerning Aboriginal women and their vulnerability would be addressed when the Oppal Commission was struck; however it seemed to primarily focus on the Pickton case, adding northern B.C., with its infamous Highway of Tears cases, as an afterthought, then making it difficult to impossible for many organizations that advocate for northern B.C.’s Aboriginal women to participate. Considering it offered no funding opportunities for them to attend the inquiry. Now, she added, the hope is there will be a national inquiry. “I participated in the Human Rights Watch 7 investigation and helped in coordinating that,â€? Erickson said. “I felt really strongly for women when the Oppal commission came along. A lot of organizations weren’t able to get representation for the Oppal commission. It was really kind of a backhanded slap to people in the north.â€? She added she thought investigations by international organizations might be a way of achieving what families in the north wanted. The Human Rights Watch gathered information and issued a report on various aspects of the issues Aboriginal woman face in northern B.C. Most recently the Inter American Commission on Human Rights expressed an The 59 HP RX6010 is a feat of human engineering. It delivers fuel efficiency and low emission output without sacrificing power. It has interest at looking into an optional power shuttle for easy operation. Plus, it comes with one local human rights of the highest lift capacities in its class. There’s nothing in the world, violations concerning or anywhere else, quite like it. Aboriginal women, talkŠ 2013 KIOTI TractorCompany a Division of Deedong-USA, Inc. ing with families of the missing and murdered, and Erickson jumped at Located next to the chance to make that happen. “I immediately got in touch with the Inter wwwww.w.nno or trhtehrenrancar ec ar eg ea .gcea. c a American Commission through the Native ContinentalWay Way• •Prince Prince George, George, BC 48704870 Continental BC••f afxa:x2: 5205- 05 9- 65 -9262-7242 7 4 Women’s Association,â€?
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