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Call made to re-open Veterans’ Affairs office in Prince George Gift of Hope

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Veterans need to be able to talk with a person when they have a problem.

That option has been missing in Prince George since January, and local veterans want the federal government to re-open the Veterans Affairs office here.

“You have to able to talk face-to-face, one-on-one,” said veteran Bruce Gabriel. “You can’t ask an 80- or 90-yearold to suddenly operate a computer.”

On Friday, Gabriel, Bob Jackson of the Public Service Alliance of Canada and Bonnie Heidt of the Union of Veterans Affairs Employees met with Cariboo-Prince George MP Dick Harris to ask him to help re-open the local Veterans Affairs office and stop the closures of eight others across the country.

Jackson said Harris told them he hadn’t heard of any problems with the local office, which had served about 1,400 clients, being closed.

“We feel people are not comfortable in voicing their opposition to government moves like this.”

Heidt was more straightforward.

“Veterans don’t complain to MPs because they’re afraid of losing their benefits. That can’t happen, but there is that fear.

“We need to get a lot of people to come forward.”

Jackson said there was no question re-opening the Prince George office would benefit people here.

“So many of the problems veterans have, they aren’t prepared to talk about publicly. Talking on the telephone or over a computer is not the best way of dealing with this.

“The government talks about investing more money in veterans’ affairs. They’re saying the words, but not folTeresa MALLAM/Free Press lowing it up with actions. Closing offices isn’t helping the Penny Jones, a volunteer with Prince George Canadian Mental veterans.”

Heath Association, helps out at a warehouse Tuesday getting over When the local office closed, most of the files were sent 400 bags of gifts ready for distribution just before Christmas to to Vancouver. Now, more files are being sent there with people who have mental illness in our community, as part of their other offices being closed, but staff there are also being Gift of Hope program. laid off.

Harris said he knew about the Veterans Affairs offices being Gabriel said the way Canada treats its former fighting closed across the country, but wants people to wait and see what men and women may impact the military in the future. the results will be.

“You can’t ask young people to put their lives on the line when “They’re trying different ways to deliver help to the veterans in they see the way the people who did it in the past are being treated whatever way they can. This is probably the biggest transformation now.

Veterans Affairs has undergone.”

“If I was 18 or 19, I wouldn’t enlist, knowing how I was going to He said one of the biggest things Veterans Affairs was facing was be treated later in life.” a fundamental change in who was coming to them.

Jackson and Gabriel agreed on one thing: Harris was willing to “The last 20 or 30 years, they hadn’t been dealing with people help veterans. “(Harris) seems committed to addressing the needs of the people who had just finished active service.”

Gabriel said a letter-writing campaign to Prime Minister Stephen who approach him directly,” Jackson said. “Unfortunately, he has a Harper is the next step, to show there is a need for the offices to be huge riding, and he’s not in his office here all the time to help.” re-opened.

Gabriel agreed.

Kids, happy hour coming to B.C. pubs The B.C. government has uncorked another round of liquor law reform, with children to be allowed in pubs and restaurants allowed to serve drinks without food.

Premier Christy Clark announced the changes at a downtown Vancouver restaurant earlier this month, as the provincial cabinet works its way through a list of 70 recommendations from a recent public consultation on updating B.C. liquor laws.

As with earlier rounds of liquor reform, the event was short on details and long on populist appeal. Some time next year B.C. will see the changes, and will also join all other Canadian provinces in allowing pubs to offer discounted drinks for happy hour. Permitted times and a minimum drink price are still to be determined.

Children are to be allowed to accompany their parents into pubs up until an evening curfew time, also yet to be determined, but Clark said it will allow families to have lunch or dinner together at a pub. Royal Canadian Legion branches will have the same freedom to admit under-age family members.

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In the news in 2013 The Free Press lists its newsmakers of the year Bill Phillips editor@pgfreepress.com

BRIAN SKAKUN Some love him, some hate him, but Coun. Brian Skakun continues to make news in Prince George as the city councillor who doesn’t like, or put up, with the status quo. Often at odds with Mayor Shari Green, other members of council, and city staff, Skakun continues to ruffle feathers as he pushes for the city to be more transparent and accountable.

It’s been a busy news year for us who toil away in the city’s newsrooms. It’s always fun at this time of year take a look back and choose our newsmakers of the year.

THE CITY There is no doubt that Prince George city council has been in the eye of the storm in 2013. Mayor Shari Green and council, in the middle year of their three-year mandate, were certainly making news throughout the year. From implementing the core services review to downtown parking to the ongoing contract battle with its unionized workers, the city, and city council, has been making news.

It started in January with the elimination of 28 positions at city hall and the restructuring has continued. The year also saw the hiring of a new city manager, Beth James, who has taken on the job of reshaping city hall.

CRANES Not the ones that fly, the ones that are used to construct really, really big buildings. Mayor Shari Green has mentioned several times that it’s been a long, long time (if ever) that two construction cranes dominate the downtown landscape. The cranes are working on building the Wood Innovation and Design Centre and the new Delta Hotel. They mark a year of big projects starting, or coming to fruition: The new RCMP detachment is virtually completed, the Boundary Road Connector officially opened, construction started on the learning and resource centre at UHNBC, so it’s been a year of building.

LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS Many were, and still are, critical of Premier Christy Clark’s love affair with LNG. She was touting it heavily during the spring election.

As the year progressed we have been hearing more and more about LNG. Earlier this month Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) approved four separate export applications.

Four natural gas pipelines are proposed to cross the northern B.C. landscape in the near future. Trans– Canada is proposing to build the Coastal GasLink and Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipelines, Apache/ Chevron is proposing to build the Pacific Trails pipeline, and Spectra/BC Energy Group is proposing to build the West Coast Connector pipeline. In October, area First Nations hosted a very successful LNG summit in Prince George.

GREG MATTERS Greg Matters was killed in 2012, but in 2013 his death became a newsmaker.

First the Independent Investigations Office cleared the RCMP officer who killed Matters of any wrongdoing and then, in the fall, the coroner’s inquest into his death began. The inquest has dragged on and was adjourned to early 2014.

THE LIBERALS Written off in all the polls except the one

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that mattered, Christy Clark and the Liberals surprised the entire province, but mostly the NDP, when they cruised to an election win in May. In Prince George that meant the return of Shirley Bond to her fourth term in office, solidifying her stature as one of the most successful politicians the province has ever seen.

NORTHERN GATEWAY PIPELINE The Northern Gateway Pipeline, which received conditional approval by the National Energy Board last week, has been a newsmaker for several years now. From the hearings, which went on for most of the year, to last week’s dramatic announcement, Northern Gateway continues to be one of the North’s main newsmakers.

2015 CANADA WINTER GAMES While we here at the Prince George Free Press feel that naming us as the Official Community Newspaper for the Games was the biggest announcement coming out of the Games office, it probably wasn’t. With the Games now just over a year away, the Games have been making news here in Prince George and across the country. The Games office continues to hire staff as the countdown to the Games heads into a fever pace.

Work continues on facilities for the Games as Kin 1 is virtually complete, the first shot was fired at the new Otway biathlon range last week, Tabor Mountain upgrades are ongoing, and work continues to bring the nation to Prince George in 2015.

This isn’t a bad thing. While crime rates have continually decreased over the past few years, we always seemed to live in fear of Maclean’s dubbing us the country’s “most dangerous city.”

Now that the magazine has stopped running the annual crime rankings, the issue has moved from the front pages. And, in an ironic and sad twist, Surrey has had a spate of homicides recently that surely would displace Prince George in the rankings.

DICK HARRIS The only significant news item from Dick Harris last year was his dismissal of allegations he’s living in the Okanagan. The Cariboo-Prince George MP is very much out of the news with Prince George-Peace River MP Bob Zimmer being the go-to guy.

BOB SIMPSON The May election saw the end of the independent MLAs political career ... at least for now. Simpson, who represented the Cariboo North riding, was a constant thorn in the Liberals’ side, putting up more of an opposition than the Opposition NDP.

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Conditional OK for pipeline The federal Joint Review Panel has approved Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline proposal, but with 209 conditions attached.

Based on its review, the panel found that the project, if built and operated in compliance with the conditions set out in its report, would be in the public interest.

The panel also recommended that the Governor in Council determine that the construction and routine operation of the project would cause no significant adverse environmental effects, with the exception of cumulative effects for certain populations of woodland caribou and grizzly bear. In these two cases, the panel found that cumulative effects as a result of this project and other projects, activities or actions are likely to be at the low end of the range of possible significance. The panel recommended that these effects are justified in the circumstances.

The panel concluded that the environmental burdens associated with project construction and routine operation can generally be effectively mitigated and that continued monitoring, scientific research and adaptive manage-

through its design approach and • Develop a training and educaister Joe Oliver said Ottawa will its commitments to use innovative tion monitoring plan; take time to review the decision and redundant safety systems. The • Prepare an enhanced marine before making a final decision on panel also found that, “after mitispill trajectory and fate modelling; the $7.9 billion project. gation, the likelihood of significant • Develop a research program “The panel’s report represents a adverse environmental effects reon the behaviour and cleanup of rigorous, open and comprehensive sulting from project malfunctions heavy oils; science-based assessment,” he said. or accidents is very low.”

• Conduct pre-operations “Now that we have received the The panel found that “opening emergency response exercises and report, we will thoroughly review Pacific basin markets is important develop an emergency preparedit, consult with affected Aboriginal to the Canadian economy and ness and response exercise and groups and then make our decisociety.” The panel also found that training program. sion. “the project would bring signifiThe decision on whether or not “We also encourage everyone cant local, regional, and national this project should proceed will be with an interest to take the time economic and social benefits.” made by the Governor in Council. and review the report.

After weighing all of the oral If this project is approved, the Na“Our government will continue and written evidence, the panel tional Energy Board must issue its to improve the safe transportation of energy products across Canada. found that Canada and Canadians certificates of public convenience would be “better off with the Enand necessity within seven days of No project will be approved unless it is safe for Canadians and safe for bridge Northern Gateway project the Governor in Council’s order. than without it.”

Federal Natural Resources Min- the environment.”

The panel’s conditions, which would be enforced by the ment could further reduce adverse National Energy Board, include effects. requirements for Enbridge The panel stated that: “The Northern Gateway to: Enbridge says it will work to meet all 209 conditions outlined in the Joint environmental, societal and eco• Develop a marine mammal Review Panel’s report on the Northern Gateway pipeline. nomic burdens of a large oil spill, protection plan; The company will also work to meet the province’s five conditions for while unlikely and not permanent, • Implement the TERMPOL heavy oil pipelines. would be significant.” review committee recommen“From the beginning of this project, Northern Gateway has worked with The panel found that Northern dations; one goal in mind: to access new markets by building a safer, better pipeline,” Gateway had taken steps to mini• Prepare a caribou habitat said Janet Holder, leader of the Northern Gateway Project, in a press release. mize the likelihood of a large spill restoration plan; “The Joint Review Panel conducted the most comprehensive and sciencebased pipeline review in Canadian history and their report reflects the input of thousands of Canadians. Their report is an important step towards that goal.

“Northern Gateway will be designed to protect B.C.’s unique natural environment with world-class spill prevention, response and recovery. And it will be a partnership with Aboriginal groups and communities.

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The Project The Enbridge Northern Gateway Project is a proposal to build and operate two pipelines and a marine terminal. The pipelines would run 1,178 kilometres from Bruderheim, Alberta to Kitimat, British Columbia, where the marine terminal would be built.

One 914 mm (36 inch) outside diameter line would carry an average of 83,400 cubic metres (525,000 barrels) per day of oil west to Kitimat. The other line, a 508 mm (20 inch) outside diameter pipeline, would carry an average of 30,700 cubic metres (193,000 barrels) of condensate per day east to Bruderheim. Condensate can be used to thin bitumen for pipeline transport.

The Kitimat Marine Terminal would have two tanker berths, three condensate tanks and 16 oil storage tanks. Costs for the project are estimated at $7.9 billion.

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‘We are not in a position to consider support for any heavy oil pipeline’ - Polak Bill Phillips editor@pgfreepress.com The province’s five conditions for heavy oil pipelines still need to be met.

“That will not change,” said Environment Minister Mary Polak regarding the Dec. 19 conditional approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline project by the Joint Review Panel.

In June the province said it could not support the project and outlined five conditions for all heavy oil pipeline projects in the province.

“With today’s Joint Review Panel report the t e proposed p oposed Northern o t e Gateway Gate ayy pipeline p pe p e project projjec p e t is i part part off the the way wayy towards tow owar a ds meetmee eett ing iin ng th the fi the firs rst rsst condition, cond co ndit itio ion, n, w which hiich h ch iiss su succ successful cces esssf sful ul

completion of the environmental review process,” she said. “But there are four other conditions that still need to be met.”

In addition to a successful completion of the environmental review process, B.C. has called for world-leading marine spill response plans, world leading land spill response plans, that Aboriginal and treaty rights are addressed, and that British Columbia receives a greater slice of the economic pie.

Meeting all five will be a challenge, said Polak, adding that the province understands the economic benefit of pipelines but that they can’t be done at the expense of the environment.

She acknowledged that a lot of work has been be d done one toward on towards ds me meet meeting etin ingg the five condiccon ondi dtions. tion ti onss. on

“We are not yet in the position to conproceeding. sider support for any heavy oil pipeline in “Throughout the review process, British B.C.,” she said “At the end of the day, we Columbians demonstrated their overwant to ensure any heavy oil pipeline will be whelming opposition to the Enbridge done in a safe and responsible manner.” pipeline, including the B.C. government’s The reality, however, is that the federal own submission to the panel,” said B.C. New government can still approve the pipeline Democrat Leader Adrian Dix. without British Columbia’s blessing.

“The Premier must match her actions to When pressed about what the province her words and tell Prime Minister Harper would do in such a case, Polak said the that B.C. opposes the Enbridge pipeline and province will continue to lobby that its will take the actions necessary to ensure it five conditions be met and stated that with does not proceed.”

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Make pipeline an election issue: Cullen Bill Phillips editor@pgfreepress.com Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen says he is “incredibly disappointed,” but not surprised with the federal Joint Review Panel’s conditional approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline.

“The process, from the very beginning, seemed to be biased toward finding a positive outcome for the company and somehow ignoring the nearly 10,000 submissions from British Columbians who virtually 100 per cent of (whom) said ‘no,’” Cullen said.

He called it a “rigged and unfortunate” process.

Cullen said he is concerned that there is no marine spill plan

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in place and that the panel suggested that a spill of diluted bitumen in the ocean is remote, however estimated that a clean up in the ocean would cost in the neighbourhood of $10 billion.

The project itself, originally touted as a $6.5 billion project, has ballooned into an $8 billion project.

“The risks outweigh any potential benefit.”

Cullen added that the issue will now likely head to the courts at First Nations prepare to launch a court challenge.

He added that British Columbians can still lobby against the pipeline and with municipal elections coming in 2014 and a federal election in 2015, it will be an election issue at all levels of government.

“The court of public opinion has spoken strongly on this,” he said. “I think it will continue to, despite the process the government has put us all through.”

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First Nations pan pipeline ruling Bill Phillips editor@pgfreepress.com Reaction to the Joint Review Panel’s conditional approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline project from the First Nations community has been that of disappointment, but not surprise.

“It’s no surprise that a flawed process has led to a flawed recommendation,” said Chief Martin Louie of the Nadleh Whut’en First Nation, speaking on behalf of Yinka Dene Alliance. “This project will never be built. The Yinka Dene Alliance has clearly refused permission for Enbridge’s pipelines to cut through our lands and waters, and the federal and provincial governments must accept that this project cannot go ahead. Our position is clearly stated in the Save the Fraser Declaration, which bans Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipelines from our territories. Nothing is changed by the JRP’s pronouncement. Enbridge is not from this place, does not understand our laws and customs, and will profit by damaging our environment now and into the future.

“We have put ourselves in the frontline for all British Columbians and together we are fighting for our homes, our future and our children’s future. We are parents, and our responsibilities to future generations are not subject to negotiation, or judgment, by others. We have drawn a line in the earth they cannot, and will not, cross.”

Leaders of the First Nations Summit and Union of BC Indian Chiefs are calling on the federal government to reject the Joint Review Panel recommendation of a conditional approval of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project.

The federal government ignored First Nations requests to create a decision-making process for the Enbridge project that would respect First Nations constitutionally protected title and rights, according to a press release from the two groups.

“The Joint Review Panel decision to provide conditional approval does not alter or negate in any way, the federal government’s clear legal responsibility to consult and accommodate First Nations, especially given the precedent provided by a long list of Supreme Court decisions,” said Grand Chief Edward John of the First Nations Summit political executive. “The necessary consultation standard for any development project in BC, especially those with such a high potential for negative impacts, must be to seek the free, prior and informed consent of each and every First Nation whose Aboriginal title and rights will be impacted by a proposed project” “We shall fully exercise our rights and inherent jurisdiction rooted in our Indigenous Laws and Indigenous land rights to defend our lands, waters and the safety and well- being of our Peoples,” stated Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs. “Today’s recommended approval with conditions stems from a fundamentally and fatally flawed process where as a matter of record, the overwhelming majority of presentations made to the Panel here in B.C. expressed grave concerns, distressing facts and a shared belief the project should not proceed. The Northern Gateway Project is being vehemently opposed by Indigenous Peoples who will not put their territories, waters and communities at risk. This is about the environmental integrity of the watersheds we all share and we are willing to go to any lengths to defend our watersheds. We are prepared to go to the wall against this project. We have no choice.”

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to amend Schedule B-6: Future Land Use by RE-DESIGNATING Lot 27 and 28, Block 92, District Lot 343, Cariboo District, Plan 1268 (subject property) from Neighbourhood Residential to Neighbourhood Centre Residential; and AMENDING Section 8.3.42 to permit a health service, minor use along Lethbridge Street. The proposed changes to the OCP will facilitate a rezoning application to allow a health service, minor use on the subject property.

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The Prince George Chamber of Commerce is planning its first familiarization tour of China in the fall of 2014.

This all-inclusive tour will visit several cities, including Beijing, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai with opportunities to visit historic sites including the Great Wall of China, Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, Ming Tombs, and The Bund.

This fully-escorted trip will offer Prince George and area residents an introduction to the people, history, culture, commerce and daily life of China. There will also be an opportunity for Chamber members to make business contacts in China during the trip. As an exclusive to Prince George Chamber members, the cost of the tour will be $2,499 (inclusive).

Non-members may join the tour for an additional charge of $150 per person.

“China is becoming a major player in B.C.’s economy,” said Derek Dougherty,

Chamber president. “With our international airport and physical proximity, trade opportunities with China are sitting on our doorstep. We feel the time is right to introduce our members to China as the first step in international business development.”

Anyone interested in learning more about this upcoming tour may join the Chamber for an information and orientation session on March 12, 2014 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., location to be determined.

An experienced tour provider will be on hand at that time to outline the trip itinerary in detail, share information on the visa application process and answer any questions. The trip includes airfare from Vancouver as well as in-country transportation and airfare, hotel accommodations at four- and five-star hotels, three full meals per day, professional drivers and English-speaking tour guides.

North Central local government officials to meet in Prince George in 2015 The board of the North Central Local Government Association has passed a unanimous motion to hold their 2015 annual general meeting in Prince George.

Coun. Dave Wilbur, an association director, presented the bid to his colleagues last week.

“This is a significant win for Prince George, and I have to take my hat off to the staff who helped prepare such a comprehensive and compelling case for holding the event here in 2015,” said Wilbur.

Established in 1955, the North Central Local Government Association (known as “the elected voice of central and northern B.C.”) works to connect communities, identify common challenges and facilitate positive change. As the name implies, their association is a coalition of cities, towns, aboriginal communities, villages and regional districts. In 2010, the Nisga’a village of Gitwinksihlkw became the organization’s newest member.

The NCLGA is unique amongst B.C.’s five local government area associations, and has significant influence with stakeholders who operate in the northern two-thirds of the province.

Their jurisdiction covers 70 per cent of B.C.’s landmass and includes nearly 60 per cent of the province’s aboriginal population.

Although forestry remains para-

mount, recent multi-billion dollar energy and mining projects make the NCLGA’s region, per capita, one of the most heavily invested areas in North America. Next year will mark the association’s 60th anniversary.

“Our AGM is an opportunity for politicians, administrative staff and other stakeholders throughout central and northern B.C. to convene and discuss our shared concerns and look at common opportunities,” said NCLGA President and Fort St. John Coun. Bruce D. Christensen. “Our annual gathering is one of the biggest of its kind in B.C., second only to UBCM’s convention.”

In Quesnel last year, the NCLGA passed 30 resolutions dealing with issues from air ambulance service to shadow populations.

“We don’t just stop at the resolutions,” added Christensen, “our team works tirelessly throughout the year to move things forward in a positive way.”

Mayor Shari Green welcomed the news.

“Conventions like this not only boost our local economy, they help to highlight the services and facilities our city has to offer,” she said.

“Our staff and council work very hard to promote Prince George as a great place to do business, and the NCLGA convention – along

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Snow: The five-day cycle Cleaning the city streets Last week it was all about snow (and Christmas) but mostly about snow.

Or, more specific, snow removal … or lack thereof.

Coun. Brian Skakun, even with the city’s new councillor code of conduct that prevents city councillors from talking to anyone at city staff without a permission slip, got some answers about the city’s snow removal efforts and posted them on his Facebook page.

The main question about snow removal is “how long does it take to clear the city’s streets?”

Thanks to Skakun, here’s the answer: It takes five days to clear a 15-centimetre snowfall; it will take the city about eight-and-a-half days to clear 40 centimetres once it stops snowing.

When Mother Nature doesn’t schedule snowfalls five days apart, and I don’t know why she doesn’t, the city crews continually fall behind.

The 40-centimetre dump two weeks ago resulted in WRITER’S BLOCK the city focusing on the main priority routes (although BILLPHILLIPS it seemed like a lot of those routes didn’t see a plow for a couple of days either).

City crews were sent into the downtown area on for what was supposed to be two consecutive nights, but ended up being three as downtown is a priority.

That resulted in it being nine days from when it started snowing to clear all the streets but only a week from the time the snow stopped.

And, of course, there was some rain thrown into the mix, which compacted the snow and made it more difficult for snow-removal crews … not to mention motorists.

Last week I questioned whether the city had enough equipment to clean the snow quickly and efficiently. Seems they don’t.

“We are finding it harder to get graders – I believe from a combination of more lucrative contracts elsewhere and a general lack of skilled operators,” according to city staff comments Skakun posted on Facebook. “With the exception of the graders you were able to get, we have cleared this snowfall with our own graders.”

Oops, maybe the CUPE folks are onto something when they say the city needs to pay good wages or risk losing skilled workers.

Back to snow removal. The city is changing its snow-removal strategies to hopefully stay ahead of Mother Nature.

Depending on snowfall, there will be increased use of trucks to plow residential streets in the bowl area. These will be one pass in and one pass out per street to minimize windrows. Residents will then likely complain about driveways being plowed in, but the city is ready for that. At least with a single pass, access will be improved from what residents had this last storm. Graders will continue to do residential streets as always.

If the loaders are effective, they may use loaders in other light industrial areas as well.

We’ll just have to keep our fingers crossed and, as mentioned last week, it’s about getting the right amount of equipment in place.

So if you want to lobby your city councillor about snow removal, remember that it’s a capital increase we need.

Gazing into my crystal ball for the news It would be so easy to make New Year’s predictions that have about a 99.9 per cent chance of happening such as in 2014 there’s going to be Senate scandals, city sanctions and Free Press flyers. Those are not real predictions as much as they are inevitable past-is-prologue ho-hums.

So I am going to be a true soothsayer, the fortune teller that I was destined to be instead of the storyteller I became.

I plan to dust off my fibre-optic changing colour crystal ball brought out only for such occasions and I will look into the future.

Warning: Some people may find its contents disturbing – and the writer disturbed.

On my presents: There are some gifts that I most certainly will not unwrap over the holidays.

The latest pedometer with a Bluetooth function that can fit for iPhone and iPad. Once connected to a phone by Bluetooth, you can record the amount of exercise, calorie consumption and master the time when you are exercising.

I predict this device will not make it under my tree this year.

And no matter how many times they pitch it on the Shopping Channel or feature it as their show stopper, I will not be ordering skinny jeans for myself. The smooth-talking snakeskin oil salesman (more on that later) is not going to fool this wily fox. There’s no seasoned sausage out there that looks “skinny” stuffed into a skintight second skin.

On money matters: I most likely will not win the Lotto Max, or draw the winning ticket on the Spruce Kings’ dream house or get a raise.

Of the three, I put my odds on the Lotto Max followed by the Spruce Kings’ house.

On the signs: Well, I’ve waited a long time for this one. In the Chinese zodiac, 2014 is the Year of the Snake. So as we slither into the fortunes and misfortunes of the coming year let us not forget the most famous reindeer, I mean snake, of all time.

The snake in the Garden of Eden. Temptation is a tough

part of the holidays. There is no temptation when it comes to two helpings of turkey but it is pretty hard walking past Lady Godiva chocolates. So my New Year’s prediction is kind of mixed in with my New Year’s resolution.

I predict I won’t ever be able to resist chocolate but I might go to the gym in 2014 and get fit enough to fit into my old jeans.

TEA WITH TERESA They aren’t as stylish as the new TERESAMALLAM skinny jeans but then skinnygirl wine isn’t a full-bodied beer either. You do what you can with what you’ve got. And if the raise doesn’t come through, I can always find work as a snake charmer.

Happy New Year everyone.

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It was a tough year for city council

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or all those who have been griping about city council, take note that next year, 2014, is the year you can do something about it … or not.

Next year is an election year.

This past year has been a challenging one for city council. From the core services review that has resulted in increased and new fees to the CUPE contract negotiations to the new city manager and the yet-to-be established communications department to the perennial potholes and snow removal, it’s been a tough one on mayor and council.

One could argue that those who chart a new path are often vilified, and that is certainly an issue here.

Others, however, would argue that things are off the rails, and there’s certainly some of that too.

When running for the mayor’s chair, Mayor Shari Green ran a very good campaign that insinuated that things were out of control at city hall. The public agreed and turfed Dan Rogers.

Three years later and the questions is: Are things now in control?

Depends who’s sitting where. From Green’s perspective in the mayor’s chair, where the control is, things are probably fine.

However, the irony is that the furor Green stirred up about city hall, in order to get elected, hasn’t gone away. If anything, it’s intensified.

Will that abate over the next 11 months? We’ll have to wait and see.

The CUPE contract has yet to be settled and while it’s easy to gain points pointing out city labourers are very well paid, if there is a protracted strike and garbage begins to pile up in the streets, an angry electorate will look to council to resolve the issue.

The debate over the core services review implementation will likely die down as the recommendations (new fees and levies) are rolling out now.

Other issues may arise. If MP Nathan Cullen gets his way, the Northern Gateway pipeline project, with its conditional approval from the National Energy Board last week, might turn into a civic election issue.

Politicians, municipal and otherwise, have danced a fine line around this issue for a couple of years now. Next year might be the one where local politicians actually have to take a stand.

We will be heading into the homestretch for the 2015 Canada Winter Games as well, so look for lots of great photos ops where politicians can hitch a ride on the good feelings coming out of the games.

The biggest question regarding next fall’s election though: Will Green spend more than $80,000 on her campaign again?

Have a great year Here we are at the end of another year. Finishing one year the little items that were not done. and standing on the threshold of a brand new year provokes Following the tradition of making New Year’s resolutions us to have our own little review of the year almost past. doesn’t usually accomplish very much except set the stage As life always unfolds, there will be happy memories and for guilt in the future when we fail to carry them out. We all some rather unhappy events that come to mind. As we reshould have some sort of plan for our lives. But plans can be member those events, both large and small, we modified when there are changing circumstancalternate between sadness and joy. es. Planning is an ongoing process not resoluFor those who have had the misfortune of tions cast in stone at the beginning of the year. losing someone close during the past year, the There are a couple of personal resolutions whole season tends to provoke moments of made in the past that used to turn up every year great sadness. A part of our lives has been taken with regularity. The resolve to re-organize my away from us and there is a void left that we ofoffice, put all my tools away in the right place, ten think can never be filled. But, the old saying and grow a large, productive garden were but a “time heals” is true, we just have to be patient. few. It would be nice if they happened and there We start that journey of healing by rememberwould be immense satisfaction when accoming all the good things that individual meant plished, but a quick reality check tells me they to us. It takes time for the pain to begin to disare as likely to happen as taking a stroll on the ONSIDE solve, but it will. moon.

VICBOWMAN On the other side of the balance scale of life Perhaps not impossible, but they are tasks that are all those moments of joy. They come from a are highly unlikely to be accomplished. variety of roots and, big or small, they add to the fun side of If one is inclined to make some sort of resolutions, make our memory book. The wonderful thing about happy memo- them small and fun to do. If they are vague and open-ended, ries is the more we review them, the better they become. so much the better, then the slightest progress is a win. That The end of the year and the reminiscing that surrounds it way, at the end of the coming year there is no need to dwell too frequently gives rise to some feelings of guilt. The list of on our failure, but rather feel good about our little accomthings we were going to accomplish in the past year always plishments. has a few un-ticked items remaining. The solace is that it is The next year will bring its share of ups and downs, which the same for everyone. Keep in mind that every one of us has is just how life is. We have no control over most of the event the same experience so there is no need to feel guilt. Instead, that will occur in the coming year. switch gears and remember all the accomplishments you had Have a great year. May it bring you much more joy than during the past year. The accomplishments will outnumber sadness and continue to affirm that it is truly a good life. circulation@pgfreepress.com | 250-564-0504

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Canada Post needs to save money Editor: I understand the concern of many people across the region about Canada Post and their decision to phase out door-to-door mail service. It is a service that Canadians in many cities have enjoyed and are accustomed to receiving. But in the world of instant and electronic communication, there is simply not enough postage being paid to sustain the current model.

Business needs to adapt in order to stay competitive when technology changes the landscape. The carriagebuilding industry needed to adapt when horses were replaced by the internal combustion engine. Live theatre had to adapt when movies came onto the scene. The newspaper industry is learning to adapt to online competition, and Canada Post is doing the same.

Canada Post had a $130 million loss in the latest quarter, and projects an operating loss of $1 billion by 2020 if nothing changes.

That is an extra billion dollars of your tax dollars which will be spent to make up that shortfall, even though most Canadians do not have their mail delivered right to their doorstep.

I remember going down to the Post Office in Dawson Creek as a child with my grandfather to pick up the mail. That mail tradition still continues in many small communities across Canada, like Pouce Coupe.

Two-thirds of urban and suburban households across Canada already pick up

their mail from community mailboxes. Updating the way mail is delivered to that remaining one-third is expected to save Canada Post upwards of $500 million over the next five years. Rural residents who have their

mail box at the entrance to their property will not be affected by this change.

Simply put, the current mail delivery structure cannot support itself. There has been a 25 per cent drop in mail volume since

2008, and Canada Post is losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

Canada Post is a Crown Corporation and operates as an arm’s-length agency from Government, but they understand something

needs to be done to adapt to a changing environment.

Our Conservative government is encouraged to see Canada Post shares our vision for more streamlined public sector services. They are taking an important first

step to ensure that reliable postal service remains available and affordable.

Bob Zimmer MP, Prince GeorgePeace River Chair, BC/Yukon Caucus

First rule of columns: Never argue against your own point in the same column There are times where I really have to from Andrew Luck, and as brought down wonder about how well-conceived some of by linebacker Derrick Johnson. Johnson’s the posts by reporters on major websites are. right hand was up on Richardson’s shoulder Take a column by Doug pad, and when Richardson went Farrar on the cnnsi.com site down, one of the officials threw on Sunday, titled Worst Call of a flag, calling Johnson for a the Season? Penalty on Derrick horse-collar tackle.

Johnson in Chiefs-Colts game A horse-collar tackle is one in may be it. which the defensive player gets Farrar basically used the his hand on the inside collar of column to rip the officiating in the runner, and uses that grip to the NFL this year (and I have take the runner to the ground. to agree there have been some Even if the player isn’t taken huge mistakes made). Howevcompletely to the ground, if er, the example he used of “the his knees buckle because of the ALLAN’S AMBLINGS worst call” was undermined horse-collar grip, the penalty is ALLANWISHART called. inside his own column.

The call came in the first Farrar was very upset about quarter of Sunday’s game between Kansas the penalty being called, since one view of City and Indianapolis. Indianapolis running the play showed Johnson’s hand was simply back Trent Richardson caught a short pass on the shoulder pad, not grabbing the inside

collar.

So after spending the first few paragraphs talking about how this showed again what a pathetic group the NFL officials were, Farrar then noted that colour commentator Dan Dierforf, after first saying the call was a bad one, actually watched some footage from a couple of other angles, and said that from those angles, it did look like a horse-collar tackle.

The call is not one that can be reviewed, so it stood, regardless of where Johnson’s hand actually was.

After Farrar’s column hit the site, the comments started to pour in, and almost all of them said, in essence, this wasn’t the worst call of the year, and maybe not even of that game, but that Farrar’s column was possibly the worst of the season.

Almost all of them picked up on the same thing Dierdorf had: From some angles, one

of which could easily have been the same one the official, it definitely looked like a horse-collar tackle. It’s a judgment call, one the official appears to have gotten right.

Running Farrar’s column was also a judgment call, one the site appears to have gotten wrong.

BLOCKHEADS The past few days have provided ample opportunities for the city’s Blacktop Blockheads to make one last appearance in 2013, and few passed up the opportunity.

I saw people driving in near-darkness with nothing on except their running lights, I saw a lot of people running red lights, I saw people simply driving too fast for the road conditions.

If I thought any of them cared, I would suggest a New Year’s resolution to be a more intelligent driver in 2014.

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TERESA MALLAM | 250.564.0005 | arts@pgfreepress.com | www.pgfreepress.com ● VERY INTERESTING PEOPLE OF 2013

People who inspired us TRAVERS WILLIAMS

an artist, I felt compelled to create something that would show him in a better place, in a better world,” she said.

The piece was later accepted as an auction item for the SPCA’s gala fundraiser Tuxes and Tails. Spencer, who’s worked in stained glass for over 20 years, said that as a child “something magical” happened when she looked through prisms, coloured glass or even her prized marble collection.

She used her skill to bring Captain back to life.

“In my vision, I saw him with his health restored, the way he once was. I wanted to put him in a loving world surrounded by other animal companions, living happily ever after in his forever home at the Rainbow Bridge.

I tried to capture all that peacefulness in the work.”

For more about the artist, visit her website at www.

Free Press file photo glasscrayons.com.

He’s hooked up for four hours, three times a week, to a machine doing the job his kidneys can no longer do. But for Travers Williams, 69, it is a small price to pay for being alive. Truly he is an inspiration.

“I may not have the freedom to get up and move about for a short time while I’m getting this [hemodialysis] but I always like to look on the positive side of things – I’m still here.”

When the Free Press caught up with him last March, Williams was on dialysis while watching television in a hospital setting at UHNBC. “The machine acts like a filtration unit that removes wastes from the blood and returns ‘clean’ blood,” explains Williams. He usually attends an independent clinic in Parkwood but it was undergoing renovations last year.

“We call it our independent [not to do with funding] clinic. It just Travers Williams watches television during one of his hemodialysis treatments. means the kidney people who go there do their own hookups to the JEANETTE machines. There are two nurses, SPENCER Les and Susan, who take care of us It was meant to be a but we set them up and hook our quiet tribute to a dog own lifelines to the machines.” who died at the hands Williams calls the tubing that of a cruel master but connects him to the dialysis the work of stained machine “lifelines” because, quite glass took on a life of simply, they are lifelines. Withits own. In June, artist out dialysis, Williams’ chances of Jeannette Spencer survival would be on the line. Not had finished work on getting his dialysis done on sched- her piece, Across the ule can have serious consequences Rainbow, which she’d as he once found out when holiwanted to be a living daying across the border. legacy for the GerBig mistake, he says. “When I man Shepherd named got to Victoria, they had to just Captain who had been about carry me into the ward. I found battered and left had built up too much fluid in my for dead in a Vancouver body – and that put pressure on dumpster. The news my heart. They had to drain five story made headlines litres of fluid from me.” and broke hearts across Anyone interested can join the the country.

“I felt so badly about Prince George Kidney Support Free Press file photo this dog and what hap- Jeannette Spencer, one of many people outraged by Captain’s death, created a stained glass tribute to Group that meets regularly at the pened to him that, as Kiwanis Centre on Quebec Street. remember him by.

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Guns, history and painting TAYLOR SAPERGIA Craftsman Taylor Sapergia opened his basement workshop to the Free Press in September and later displayed his beautifully made muzzle-laoding long rifles at the Artisanal Hunting and Fishing Showcase at Two Rivers Gallery Sept. 16 to Oct. 9. Sapergia specializes in creating rifles like the ones used at the end of the 18th century (and replicated for popular TV shows like Davy Crockett). And for fans, we also learned that Brad Pitt has in his collection a handcrafted knife made by Sapergia.

“One of Brad Pitt’s bodyguards is friends with one of my buddies in Prince George and that’s how he [Pitt] found out about my handcrafted knives,” said Sapergia.

Building a rifle is one thing, embellishing it is another, he notes. The parts have to fit perfectly and fine workmanship – down to last small details – takes time.

DENISE CHONG Author Denise Chong was at Books and

now lives. The author was a Governor General’s Literary Award finalist two times.

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Free Press file photo Taylor Sapergia with one of two muzzle-loading, long rifles he was displaying at the Artisanal Hunting and Fishing Showcase.

Company and the Prince George Library Nov. 26 and 27 to talk about her new book Lives of the Family, Stories of Fate and Circumstance. She spoke to the Free Press about her life growing up in Prince George. Her father worked at the airport and Chong remembers the drive into town to take piano lessons, not a

usual thing, she says, for children of immigrant families who were struggling to make ends meet in a new country. Chong’s mother, now 83, still lives here.

“My footprints are all throughout Prince George,” Chong said in a November interview.

“We would come down and drive past the pulp

mills and do our shopping. There was a Chinese rooming house of men that my father used to do errands [it was then the Freemasons building.”

Her new book, published by Random House Canada, chronicles the lives of a dozen Chinese families who eventually settled in and around Ottawa where Chong

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Prince George realtor Harry Backlin was featured in a May 31 story about – not about one of his hundreds of appearances before REALTOR City Council on zoning and HARRY BACKLIN bylaw issues – but about his favourite hobby, painting. Over the years, Backlin has painted over 100 pictures of wildlife. His favourite is perhaps a painting which hangs in his downtown office of a blue marlin, its long body and spear-like snout rising dramatically out of the sea.

“In 2000, I went on a fishing trip with other businessmen to Puerto Vallarta,” he told the Free Press in May. “They were having a fishing derby and I wanted to get a marlin – but I couldn’t catch one. So I took pictures of them and when I got home, I painted the one you see on the wall.”

His story now is not of the fish that got away but of how he was able to capture it on canvas. Recently Backlin got to see his dream of nearly a decade fulfilled with the official opening of Boundary Road – a project he credits his friend and business partner Henry Rempel with spearheading.

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Thank You Prince George & Area for an amazing 2013.

Have a safe and happy holiday.

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In 2013 if we have not Āxed your vehicle, chances are we Āxed one just like it.

Look what we repaired in 2013: Make/Model # Repaired Dodge 1500: 103 Ford F-150: 102 Dodge 3500: 68 GMC 1500: 62 Ford F-350: 56 Honda Civic: 52 Chevrolet Silverado: 37 Honda Accord: 30 Dodge Caravan: 29 Dodge 2500: 28 Bushwacker flares: 28 GMC 3500: 27 Chevrolet 2500: 27 Hyundai Santa Fe: 24 Honda CRV: 24 VW Jetta: 23 GMC 2500: 22 Toyota RAV4: 18 Hyundai Elentra: 17 Chevrolet Impala: 17 Jeep Grand Cherokee: 16 Chevrolet 1500: 16 Hyundai Accent: 15 Ford F-250: 15 Ford Fusion: 15 Toyota Tundra: 15 Nissan Altima: 15 Chevrolet Equinox: 13 Chevrolet Malibu: 13 Ford Ranger: 13 Dodge Avenger: 12 Canopies: 12 Ford Escape: 12 Toyota Highlander: 12

Make/Model # Repaired Subaru Impreza: 12 Chevrolet 3500: 11 Toyota Corolla: 11 Honda Pilot: 10 Honda Ridgeline: 10 Toyota Sienna: 10 Toyota Tacoma: 10 Toyota Matrix: 10 Pontiac Grand Am: 9 Dodge Journey: 9 Ford Focus: 9 Toyota 4Runner: 9 Chrysler 200: 9 GMC S15: 8 Subaru Forester: 8 Toyota Camry: 8 Nissan Rogue: 8 Chevrolet Cavalier: 8 Pontiac G5: 8 Cadillac CTS: 8 Pontiac Gande Prix: 7 Dodge Dakota: 7 Jeep Compass: 7 Ford Freestar: 7 Buick Enclave: 7 Toyota Venza: 7 Nissan Titan: 7 Chevrolet Canyon: 7 Pontiac G6: 7 Honda Odyssey: 6 GMC Yukon: 6 GMC Envoy: 6 Chrysler Sebring: 6 Nissan Murano: 6

Make/Model # Repaired Ford Mustang: 6 Infiniti G37: 6 Jeep Liberty: 6 Jeep Wrangler: 6 Chevrolet Avalanche: Mazda 3: Pontiac Sunfire: Dodge Dart: Dodge SX: Dodge 5500: Chevrolet Suburban: Kia Sportage: Ford Expedition: Buick Le Sabre: Nissan X-Terra: Subaru Outback: Subaru Crosstrek: Chrysler 300C: Golf Carts: Pontiac Fierro: Pontiac Vibe: Chevrolet Aveo: Chevrolet Trailblazer: Audi A7: Saturn Outlook: BMW X5: BMW 318: Kia Optima: Buick Regal: Buick Allure: Chrysler T & C: Dodge Durango: Kia Rio: Lift Kits: Chrysler PT Cruiser: Pontiac Pursuit: Dodge Neon:

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Make/Model # Repaired Dodge Caliber: 3 Hyundai Genesis: 3 Hyundai Tiburon: 3 Hyundai Sonata: 3 Hyundai Entourage: 3 Chevrolet Sonic: 3 Chevrolet Tracker: 3 Chevrolet Corvette: 3 Chevrolet Colorado: 3 Cadillac Escalade: 3 GMC Yukon: 3 Oldsmobile Alero: 3 Audi A6: 3 Jeep Patriot: 3 Ford Raptor: 3 Hummer H2: 3 Buick Lecurne: 3 Toyota Solara: 3 Toyota FJ Cruiser: 3 Toyota Echo: 3 VW Golf: 3 Snowmobile hoods: 2 House doors: 2 Harley gas tanks: 2 Pontiac Montana: 2 Dodge Viper: 2 Dodge Challenger: 2 Dodge Magnum: 2 Hyundai Vera Cruz: 2 Hyundai Tucson: 2 Chevrolet Uplander: 2 Chevrolet Monte Carlo: 2 Chevrolet Colbalt: 2 Chevrolet Cruze: 2 Chevrolet Tahoe: 2 Chevrolet Traverse: 2 Mercedes Benz ML350: 2 Mercedes Benz ML320: 2

Make/Model # Repaired Oldsmobile Intrigue: 2 Fiat 500: 2 Ford Fiesta: 2 Ford Explorer: 2 Ford F-450: 2 Ford Windstar: 2 Ford Edge: 2 Ford Explorer: 2 Saab 9-3: 2 Lexus GX470: 2 Lexus GS350: 2 BMW X3: 2 Kia Sorrento: 2 Kia Sedona: 2 Kia Spectra: 2 Infinti FX35: 2 Acura MDX: 2 Acura EL: 2 Acura RSX: 2 Acura CRX: 2 Nissan Frontier: 2 Nissan Maxima: 2 Nissan Armada: 2 Nissan X-trail: 2 GMC Terrain: 2 Honda Fit: 2 Toyota Sequioa: 2 Spider Spyker: 1 Motorcycle Trailer: 1 72 Challenger: 1 Pontiac Bonneville: 1 Dodge Nitro: 1 Dodge Chaser: 1 Chevrolet Traverse: 1 Chevrolet K20: 1 Volvo S60: 1 Volvo S80: 1 Volvo XC90: 1

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Stories of young and not-so-young CLAIRE HEADRICK Claire Headrick was born May 2, 2010 at PGRH (now UHNBC) three and a half months premature.

She weighed one pound, nine ounces. Her parents Joanne and Chad spent several weeks in the Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver going back and forth to the hospital where their new born lay in an incubator undergoing care. It was a massive life changer at the drop of a dime, says Chad.

The Free Press visited Claire last fall when at three years old she was happily putting stickers in her Little Pony sticker book. The couple credit the support they got from families they met at Ronald McDonald House who were going through similar experiences with helping them cope in the trying days ahead. This year, Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver marks its 30th anniversary. The house provides a safe and comfortable place for families to stay when their children are being cared for in B.C. Children’s Hospital.

JIM TERRION JR. Jim Terrion Jr. lives in a silent world but he marches to his own drum. Terrion, 52, was born deaf. He communicates mostly by writing down what he wants to say or by using sign language. It can be a frustrating and slow process.

That has never stopped him from raising whopping amounts of money for charity events and causes he holds dear to him such as the Terry Fox Run. In September 2013 Terrion raised $3,963 from pledges in the Prince George and also raised money in his former home Prince Rupert – $24,730.25 in 23 days. Terrion has never let the fact he is hearing impaired stand in the way of either his fundraising or taking part in the run. Along the way, he’s made a few friends like Rick Hansen.

A few years ago he was gifted with a portrait of his Canadian hero Terry Fox from the Terry Fox Run Foundation. What is his new goal? Terrion Jr.

trade, he has researched and built his own solar panel system for collecting and retaining heat. During the week, he rides to his welding job in Quesnel on his bicycle [well, we’re not sure about wintertime].

If this story were set in the 60s or 70s, Siba would likely be called a hippie or a “back to the lander.” As it is, Siba sees his lifestyle as just trying to be a good steward of the land and wanting to live green.

LOUISE FRAMST

was recovering from an operation and was unable to do much except watch TV and read. I found two books on metal clay at Books and Company. It was really the material that led us to create the jewelry.”

The art form was started by the Japanese who were looking for ways to recycle the silver from the photography process, explained Framst, whose own heritage is Tahltan First Nations. The process has been used to make many kinds of metal clay: silver, gold, bronze, copper and steel.

Framst has her own kiln for firings and she and Cyndi work with silver, copper and bronze.

Author and educator Louise Framst has turned her passion for life into art.

The Prince George grandmother and former columnist for the FUTURE SHOP – Correction Notice Alaska Highway Daily News has written educaIn the Boxing Day flyer, on page 1, the Samsung Galaxy S4 tional handbooks, four il(Web Code: 10248518/19/20/21/22/23) was advertised with an incorrect savings claim. Please be advised that lustrated childrens’ books the correct price is $0 save $100, NOT $0 save $180. We and three cookbooks. sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have In 2013 she introduced caused our valued customers. the community to her artistic talent with jewelry made of metal clay.

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Claire Headrick, 3, with parents Chad and Joanne, finds a good spot for stickers in her Little Pony sticker book.

smiles and signs that he plans to raise $1 million for the Terry Fox Run before he’s done.

PAUL SIBA

water for washing. There is no television but lots of books to read.

The hobby farmer is as resourceful as it

comes, right down to the produce he grows and the power for his house and out buildings. A welder and machinist by

Paul Siba lives off the grid and he likes it that way.

He owns a country house on an acreage near Cinema, south of Prince George. He’s far away from his nearest neighbour or any convenience store and the Free Press paid a visit to his remote location last summer. Siba lives with his menagerie of fourlegged friends: a Tennessee walking horse, a donkey, two dogs and a cat as well as a rooster and several laying Free Press file photo chickens. He pumps Paul Siba with his Tennessee Walking Horse at his country property his own water from a near Cinema. In the background is the solar panel system that Siba, well and collects rain- a machinist, researched and built himself.

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New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day HOURS The Prince George Aquatic Centre will CLOSE on December 31st at 7:00pm and OPEN Jan 1st from 11:00am - 5:30pm. Four Seasons Leisure Pool is CLOSED for annual maintenance until Jan 6th 2014 Visit www.princegeorge.ca Four Seasons Leisure Pool • 250-561-7636 • 775 Dominion Street ~ Aquatic Centre • 250-561-7787 • 1770 George Paul Lane

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Friday January 4 • 3-5pm Mixed Media - Kat Valcourt Tuesday January 7 • 1-4pm Water Colour - Sharon Antonenko Tuesday January 7 • 7-9pm Water Colour - Jack Peters Wednesday January 8 • 7-9:30pm Oil Portraits - Pat Russman Thursday January 9 • 1-3:30pm Water Colour Pencil & Pet Drawing - Sharon Paul (Bring your own picture) Friday January 10 • 10-12pm Oil -Benita Karlson Saturday January 11 • 10:30 - 12pm Children’s Classes - Colleen Elrick & Iris Peters Wednesday January 15 • 1-4pm Pen & Ink - Marna Tuffnell Wednesday January 15 • 1-4pm Coloured Charcoal - Marna Tuffnell Saturday January 18 • 1-3pm Basic Drawing (4 lessons) & Free Style Oil/Wet on Wet (4 lessons) Bert Hoath & Evie Fisher Monday January 20 • 1-4pm Beginners Acrylic - Jean Goudie

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Datebook www.pgfreepress.com Friday Whist, Dec. 27, 7 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.

H&H Market, FridaySunday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 3955 Hart Highway.

Read-to-me Storytime, Fridays, 10-10:45 a.m., South Fort George Family Resource Centre, 1200 La Salle. Information: 250-614-0684.

Saturday Celebration of Lights, Dec. 21, 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Railway and Forestry Museum.

Dog agility trial, Jan. 11, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Agriplex. Fundraiser for SPCA.

Nechako Public Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 5100 North Nechako Rd. A Butler’s Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 1156 Fourth Ave.

Sunday Nechako Public Market, Sundays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 5100 North Nechako Rd. A Butler’s Market, Sundays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., 1156 Fourth Ave.

Monday AWANA Children’s Club, registration Jan. 6, 6 p.m., Hartland Baptist

“GIVE A LITTLE… GAIN A LOT!” Future Cents Operates YAP Centre (Youth Around Prince George) providing empowerment to youth, supporting the community with work projects and more Call Jan or Rikki (250)645-3992 Girl Guides of Canada Girl Guides of Canada is looking for Guiders for all levels of Guiding. Visit www.girlguides.ca Call Tamara 250-301-6529 Literacy Now Providing literacy training, Train the Tutor, Plain & Clear Language & Writing and hosts special events such as the Book Give-away. To volunteer, Helen 250-564-4288

For information on volunteering with more than 100 non-profit organizations in Prince George, contact Volunteer Prince George

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Church, 6599 Driftwood Rd. Information: 250-962-8641, e-mail itklassen@hotmail.ca.

Tai Chi, Mondays, 1:30 p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.

Cariboo Toastmasters meet Mondays, 7:309:30 p.m., Ramada Hotel, 444 George St. Information: caribootoastmasters. com or Laura (250) 9613477.

Northern Twister Square Dance Club meets Mondays, 7 p.m., Knox United Church basement.

Information: Gys 250563-4828 or Reta 250962-2740.

Tuesday Bridge, Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.

Center City Toastmasters meet Tuesday, noon, City Hall Annex.

Information: 9164. toastmastersclubs.org.

Prince George Quilters Guild meets fourth Tuesday of the month, Connaught Youth Centre, 1491 17th Ave. Registration 6:30 p.m., meeting 7 p.m. Information: Echo 250-612-0499.

Spruce Capital Toastmasters meet Tuesdays, 7:25 p.m., 102-1566 7th Ave. Information: Tom 250562-3402.

Sweet Adelines women’s four-part chorus meets Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., Studio 2880.

New members welcome.

Information: Kathy 250563-5170.

Hospital retirees meet, first Tuesday of the month, 9 a.m., Prince George Golf Club. Information 250563-7497 or 250-5632885.

Wednesday P.G. COPD Support Group meets Wednesdays, 1-3 p.m., AIMHI gymnasium, 950 Kerry St. Information: www. pgcopdsupportgroup.ca.

Bingo, Wednesdays, 1-3 p.m., Spruce Capital Senior Recreation

Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr. Whist, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., Senior Activity Centre, 425 Brunswick St. Hart Toastmasters, Wednesdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre. Information: harttoastmasters.ca CNC Retirees meet fourth Wednesday, 9 a.m., D’Lanos.

Information: Lois 250563-6928.

Army Cadet Rangers free youth program, meets Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Connaught Youth Centre. Information: Sondra 250-963-9462 or Andrew 250-981-8270.

Thursday Metis Elders Craft group, Thursday, 10 a.m.-noon, Prince George Metis Elders Society office, 117 – 1600 Third Ave. (Prince George Native Friendship Centre).

Little Artists, Thursdays, 10:3011:30 a.m., South Fort George Family Resource Centre, 1200 La Salle.

Information: 250-6140684.

Prince George Grassroots Cribbage Club registration, 6:30 p.m. play 6:45 p.m., Thursdays, 3701 Rainbow Dr. Information: Gerda 250564-8561.

Tai chi, Thursdays, 7-9 p.m., Knox United Church, 1448 Fifth Ave. Information: Lister 250-964-3849 or listerchen@shaw.ca.

DayBreakers Toastmasters meets Thursday, 7-8 a.m., UHNBC Conference Room 1. Information: Heather 250-649-9591.

BC Civil Liberties Union meets second Thursday of the month, 6 p.m., 1575 Fifth Ave. Plaza 400 Toastmaster Club meets Thursday, noon, Aleza room, fourth floor, Plaza 400 building, 1011 4th Ave. Information: 6252. toastmastersclubs.org/ or 250-564-5191.

Prince George Toastmasters meet Thursdays, 7:15 p.m., AiMHi, 950 Kerry St. Information: pgtoastmasters.com,

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The Prince George Quilter’s Guide donated several bags of food to the Council of Seniors Meals on Wheels Christmas hamper program. Along with the food the guild also donated 85 quilted place mats. Making the presentation to Amita Gabriel, program co-ordinator at the centre, are Linda Kineshanko, organizer of place mat program, and Echo Hordy, president of the quilter’s guild.

Proud to recognize those who give in our community.

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2065 - 1st Ave. • 250-563-0883 www.csninc.ca Joyce 250-964-0961.

Old Time Fiddlers jam, Thursday, 7-10 p.m. Elder Citizens Rec Centre, 1692 10th Ave. ECRA Forever Young Chorus meet Thursdays, 12:45 p.m., ECRA, 1692 10th Ave.

Support Groups COPD support group meets Wednesday, 1 p.m., AiMHi. Information: Nancy 250-561-1393.

Heartbeat, a group for mutual support of those who have lost a loved one through suicide, meets monthly at CMHA office.

Information: Sandy 250960-9047.

Thursday Tops (take off pounds sensibly) 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Knox United Church,1448 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-5646336 (days), 250-9644851 (evenings).

Rainbows grief and loss program for ages 5-15, registering for the

fall session. No charge.

Information: Catherine 250-563-2551.

Tea Time for the Soul. Would you like someone to listen to you? Come, listen, and share while enjoying a cup of tea. Mondays from 3 to 5 p.m. at Forest Expo House, 1506 Ferry Ave. No cost.

For more information, Jesse or Catherine at 250-563-2551.

Singles and friends, social group of people of all ages and diverse backgrounds, meets Wednesdays, 7 p.m., A&W on 20th Avenue.

Wednesday Tops (take off pounds sensibly) noon, AiMHi, 950 Kerry St. Information: Diane 250-964-6072.

Prostate Cancer Support Group meets 7 p.m., last Wednesday of the month, UNBC Community Care Centre in BMO Building. Information: www. pgpcsg.org or call 250562-2825..

Learning Circle Literacy Program

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works with adult learners and families on literacy, numeracy and computing skills.

Information: 250564-3568 ext. 228, or literacy@pgnfc.com.

Do you worry about the way you eat?

Overeaters Anonymous may have the answers.

Monday, 7:30 p.m., hospital, Room 421. Call Tanya 250-613-2823.

Dianne 250-596-0125 or Jeanette 250-563-9362.

Wednesday evening Tops (take off pounds sensibly), Spruceland Baptist Church, 1901 Ogilvie St. Information: Leona 250-962-8802.

Power Play, for children from newborns to five years old, Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Tuesdays, 1:303:30 p.m., South Fort George Family Resource Centre, 1200 La Salle Ave. Information: 250614-9449.

Prince George Stroke Survivors Group meets Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Elder Citizens Recreation Association, 1692 10th Ave. Information: Julia 250-563-3819, Roland 250-562-1747.

NorthBreast Passage Dragon Boat Society meets first Thursday of the month, 7 p.m., Chronic Disease Management Room, UHNBC. Information: Anita 250-563-2949 or Betty 250-962-7985.

Royal Purple meets meets second and fourth Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Information:

Prince George Genealogical Society meets the third Tuesday of the month, St. Giles Presbyterian Church, 1500 Edmonton St.

La Leche League breast feeding support group meets the second Thursday of every month 7 p.m., 176 Aitken Cres.

Information: Tammy 250-612-0085.

PGRH retirees breakfast, first Tuesday of the month, Prince George Golf and Curling Club.

Information: 250-5632885.

The Community Datebook provides free community event listings every Friday. Submissions are accepted in written form only – dropped off, mailed or emailed – No Phone Calls please. Datebook runs as space allows, there is no guarantee of publication. Mail to 1773 South Lyon St., Prince George BC V2N 1T3. E-mail datebook@pgfreepress.com

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Trouble Sleeping?

Sleep Wellness Information Session Topics Include: Mattress Materials: Problems and Considerations Hip, shoulder and back pain during sleep - Causes and remedies using medical technology sleep surfaces.

Sleep Wellness Check List, Homeopathy and Alternative Therapies.

When: Every Saturday 11am to 1pm Where: MedPure Pharmacy 1531 Victoria St. T: 250-562-2266.

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Elders gather; Buddy returns On July 12, Prince George welcomed elders from First Nations communities all over the province.

Many wore their traditional garments, carried tribal flags and drums bearing their clan mofif as they joined the long procession making its way onto the CN Centre floor.

“Is that thunder or is that drums?” asked Leo Hebert, master of ceremonies during the 37th Annual B.C. Elders Gathering. His questions was answered with a loud, steady, rhythmic sound of drums much to the delight of a huge crowd of spectators who had waited in anticipation for the very colourful All

Nations Grand Entry.

They were not disappointed.

The annual gathering honours Elders for their work as advisors, teachers and leaders.

The event attended by thousands of people, was also a time to for Elders to listen to inspirational speeches, enjoy entertainment, celebrate their accomplishments and share traditional ways with visiting cultural and linguistic groups through songs, food, dance and ceremonies.

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Sunday-2 Services 9:00am and 11:00am

“Where the nations and generations worship, connect, & work together”

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Theatre North West had a smash hit on its hands in November.

Their fantastic production of Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, directed by Samantha MacDonald was filled with great vocals, marvellous music, memorable scenes and perfect mix of humour and drama. The set by Hans Saefkow was so authentic we felt like a time machine had pulled us back into the 1950s.

Suddenly we were there. Back to the days of singer-songwriter, rock ‘n’ roll pioneer

DEAR READERS, In order for our carriers to be safe while delivering the Free Press, we ask that you please rid your walkways, driveways and stairs of snow and ice to avoid unnecessary slips and falls.

Free Press file photo Jo-Anne Kruger and Grace Greyeyes of the Penticton Indian Band drum their way in to CN Centre during the grand entry of bands during the 37th B.C. Elders Gathering.

Buddy Holly (Fraser Elsdon) and the likes of the Big Bopper (Jory Rossiter) and Ritchie Valens (played by Oscar Moreno.)

Holly hits like Rave On, Peggy Sue, Oh Boy, That’ll Be The Day and his lesser-known songs as well were given the rockin’ royal treatment by band members Niki Sullivan (Tom Keenan,) Jerry Allison (Nigel McKinnis) and Joe B. Mauldin (Curtis Abriel). Most of Buddy’s 12 talented actors took on more than one role and all of them were what they call in show biz “triple threat” performers. Zarrah Holvick did us proud as Peggy Sue and choreographer Judy Russell added her own magic.

Free Press file photo Buddy Holly (Fraser Elsdon) tunes his guitar in a rehearsal scene from Theatre North West’s production of Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story.

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LES MIS It gave us goose bumps, it made us cry.

Judy Russell’s production of Boublil and Schonberg’s Les Miserables was an absolutely brilliant and stunning musical with superb cast, costumes, set, lights adn sound effects. Thanks Bill Russell. Great job, conductor Kevin Zakresky and Les Mis Orchestra for giving us such memorable music. Every actor and singer on stage at the Prince George Playhouse whether in lead, duo or support roles, in cameo or chorus gave 100 per cent opening night (July 19).

By far, this local amateur production was for the reviewer the best ever musical theatre she’d ever seen anywhere, on any stage, including London, England and Vancouver. Judy Russell didn’t just nab the soughtafter rights to Les Mis, she earned them with a build-up of musical theatre successes over the years.

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Free Press file photo Mathew Chiappetta as Javert, a policeman who dogs former inmate ValJean (played by Andy Beesley) gave a stellar performance in a scene with talented child actor Brett Dobson as street urchin Gavroche in Judy Russell’s production of Les Miserables.

songwriter put on a dazzling over the top show to thrill a sold-out crowd of 5,100.

She gave the audience plenty of hits, a heartfelt Temporary Home, a high-octave Two Black Cadillacs, her love song Remind Me (with Brad Paisley), and All American Girl to which she sang the words Canadian girl a few times as a nod to the Canadian leg of her North American Blown Away Tour. For her encore, everyone in the house knew that Underwood would return to do Blown Away – after all, it was the name of the tour.

But I’m not sure that any of us could have anticipated her soaring vocals or the jaw-dropping visual effects that went with it. Great show, great gal.

CARRIE UNDERWOOD Thank God for Small Towns.

It’s the name of one of her songs but it’s also the sentiment Carrie Underwood brought with her when the superstar songstress played CN Centre in May. As part of her Blown Away Tour, the country rock singer and

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Free Press file photo Country rock superstar Carrie Underwood had a crowd of 5,100 at CN Centre in a frenzy in May.

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There are a few coupes still available and one that is worthy of consideration is this new 2014 Honda Accord Coupe V6.

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Honda’s contemporary on a dying breed 2014 Honda Accord Coupe V6 It’s fascinating to watch trends in the auto industry play out over time.

Some changes happen quickly, with one manufacturer coming out with a feature, then the rest of the industry following suit. Backup cameras would be a good example of this.

Other trends are much slower, changing because of demographic fluctuations.

One example of a slow-moving trend is the two-door coupe falling out of favour and its replacement by sedans and crossovers. This trend is greatly affected by baby boomers getting older and buying more for practical reason, rather than styling.

In the 1980s, and even the beginning of the 90s, there were plenty of coupes to choose from and they sold well. But where are the Honda Prelude, Toyota Celica, Pontiac Sunfire and Ford Probe coupes? Now gone and many not replaced with newer models. I’m thrilled to report that there are a few coupes still available and one that is worthy of consideration is this new 2014 Honda Accord Coupe V6.

Looks The Accord Coupe is based on the all-new Accord sedan that has been selling very well for Honda. In fact, it won the Canadian Car of the Year this year as decided by the Automobile Journalist Association of Canada.

Honda has done a good job of updating this big coupe with a more modern twist. Sold in three configurations from the base EX to the EX-L Navi (L stand for leather and navi is self-explanatory),

which are both 4-cylinder way the radio stores and equipped models. The top retrieves pre-set radio trim is the EX-L Navi with stations. It took a long V6. This top trim level is the time to set the stereo model seen here: it comes up and having to go with LED projector headback and forth between lamps, 18-inch wheels and different screens is not duel chrome exhaust tips.

If you like the idea that intuitive. The rest of The 4-cylinder equipped the dash is large, with big models come with halogen of a smart looking car cup holder and plenty of headlamps and 17-inch storage areas. that is well equipped alloy wheels. The coupe The steering wheel and powerful, you starts at $26,400, a $2,500 buttons and heat controls premium over the regular might want to move on on the dash use first rate an Accord Coupe. sedan but when the switches and they are sedan is equipped with placed with precision.

Zack Spencer alloy wheels, the price is Drive Another trend almost identical. The EX-L that Honda is bucking, with this Accord is $30,100 for the leather and navi and Coupe, is the inclusion of a 6-speed the V6 premium is $35,500. Not an manual transmission and V6 engine. The inexpensive car but most are very well latest movement is to turbo or superequipped. charged 4-cylinder engines to replace V6

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Inside It’s a big and comfortable coupe. The back seat is actually usable for adults and the front seats are very comfortable. The trunk is huge and the back seat folds for extra long items but the seats do not split and fold, plus the opening to the back seat is small.

Standard feature on all Accord models is a backup camera and heated seats.

Honda, in my opinion, has raised the bar in the mid-sized category and produced the nicest dash I have seen in this class.

There are two screens in the centre console, one for the navigation unit and the other for the radio. They are framed in beautiful, high quality satin metal, chrome and soft touch materials.

One area that could be improved is the

power plants and duel clutch automatic transmission in favour of a manual. I’m glad that Honda still offers this layout; it shows they are serious about being a true enthusiast’s car company. Granted, most buyers will get the very good 6-speed automatic transmission with the 3.5L V6, but with 278hp and 252 lb.ft. of torque it will be a very lively car in either configuration. The manual is a joy to use and it is like a throwback to drive a V6 equipped manual car. The 4-cylinder models have 185hp from a direct injection 2.4L engine and either a manual transmission or continuously variable transmission (CVT) for added fuel savings. The CVT is capable of 7.8L/100km in the city and 5.7L on the highway. The

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Verdict When I started reviewing cars back in the early 1990s, cars like this were common: a mid-sized sedan with a V6 engine and a manual transmission.

I can clearly remember driving a Toyota Camry, Nissan Maxima and Accord equipped this way. While most companies are moving away from this design, Honda is sticking with it for now.

Soon Honda will have smaller turbocharged 4-cylinder engines available and this big coupe might too be fitted with something more efficient. If you like the idea of a smart looking car that is well equipped and powerful, you might want to move on an Accord Coupe V6 before it follows the latest trend.

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Electric luxury General Motors has begun shipping its 2014 Cadillac ELR electric luxury vehicles to dealerships.

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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the American Motors Corporation as a truly American enterprise.

In 1983, Renault of France bought a controlling interest in the company, bringing to an end some of the most stunning shoestring budget innovation that the American auto industry had ever seen. Here are five of our favorite oddball AMCs: 1. 1965-67 Marlin: The introduction of the Ford Mustang in April 1964 caught most of the competition flatfooted. Like its similarly fishy competition from Plymouth, the Barracuda, it had a bit of

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2. 1975-80 Pacer: The Pacer may well be one of the strangest cars ever to come from a U.S. manufacturer. Built to house GM’s stillborn rotary engine, it made due mostly with AMC’s ancient 258 cid six. Seemingly almost as wide as it is long, the Pacer, due to an appearance in the film “Wayne’s World,” was briefly popular as a collectible “nerd car” along with the next car on the list.

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The 2014 Toyota Tundra has deep roots in the Wild, Wild West.

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Busy year for Council of Seniors Lola-Dawn Fennell PGCOS Looking back over 2013, the line “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue” comes to mind.

Rest assured there were no weddings involved.

However, that particular line accurately fits the Prince George Council of Seniors’ past year.

Back in January 2013, we were packing up for our big move … from “old to new”, from Fifth Avenue to 721 Victoria Street. Our move also involved “something borrowed” as it took assorted vehicles and many volunteers to accomplish the move. Did you know an office collects an awful stuff in the space of seven or eight years?

Just like your house or apartment!

By February 1, we were “in” our new space … but far from “at home”. Ever live through renovations? We did!

Our new multi-purpose room, our new kitchen, and all the painting … again, thanks to many volunteers … came together in time for our Grand Opening Celebration on May 2, and that celebration involved “something blue” as President Sharon Hurd and Past President Bob D’Auray dyed their hair blue in response to a penny-drive challenge that brought in about $700 for our Seniors Denture Program.

Old, new, borrowed, blue … some things were business as usual … Meals on Wheels, Beginners Computer Classes, providing information and referrals to other community services. By now, you all probably know about the myriad of things we usually do, so I won’t list every single service and program here. Just some

ing this past year, including a Silent Auction at the Exhibition, a two-day garage sale, our first ever Christmas Craft and Bake Sale, as well as a 50/50 Raffle.

We gained a new newsletter editor, Lorraine D’Auray, in September, and a new President, Ernie Myers, in October.

So what’s ahead?

First, we’re going to take a little break. The Seniors Resource Centre will be closed Dec. 25 through Jan. 1.

When we come back … hopefully all rested up and ready for action … our staff and volunteers will sit down for a debriefing about our annual Christmas Hamper campaign and how to handle it more efficiently. The demand for hampers has doubled since I started this job in 2007. Beginners’ Computer Classes will resume in January. Our Income Tax Clinics will start in March.

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of the highlights. colon cancer among seniors.

Early in the year, we had a great Some things were new and exceppracticum student, Arik, from the tionally exciting. Our Mascot “ElderCollege of New Caledonia, and various beary” arrived and was introduced to staff members were out and about in P.G. at our Grand Opening. Have you the community giving presentations met Elderbeary yet? He’s available for about Falls Prevention and Elder Abuse special events … give us a call. We Awareness, and, of course, our one-day nominated a very special 90-year-old Seniors’ Information Fair at the anbut young-at-heart volunteer, Nelnual Exhibition. Can you say BCNE? lie, for a well-deserved “Boomer Plus “PGX” still comes out of my mouth Award”. We participated in an imporautomatically … I’ll have to work on tant community meeting about the that for 2014. new “Better At Home” project that will Some things were brand new for PG- provide services to help seniors stay at COS this past year. We launched Story home and independent longer. Lots of Café, a weekly opportunity for seniors great happenings. to come together and hear stories read However, times were tough for nonaloud, as well as Shelf Life: Seniors Talk profit organizations like PGCOS, so we Books, a twice-monthly book club. Do participated in some creative fundraisyou like to read? There “BC’S EYEWEAR HEADQUARTERS” is still room for a couple more readers in Shelf Life. We partnered with the BC Psychogeriatric DIGITAL PROGRESSIVE LENSES Association in doing (the leader in Digital lens technology) “What’s Your Why” preONE sentations encouraging HOUR OPTICAL early screening for breast, Spruceland Mall 250.564.0095 • Pine Centre Mall 250.564.0047 prostate, cervical, and www.visionsoptical.com

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Overall, 2013 has been interesting.

We sincerely appreciate every single volunteer and donor who has been part of the journey of the past year, and we hope you’ll come along for the ride during 2014. If you haven’t volunteered with us or donated to us, please consider dropping by over the coming year … we should talk.

From all of us at PGCOS and the Seniors Resource Centre, Happy New Year! What do you suppose we will find “old, new, borrowed, blue” at this time next year?

Lola-Dawn Fennell is a young-atheart grandmother, UNBC graduate, and general manager of the Prince George Council of Seniors.

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Spruce Kings split in Chilliwack The Prince George Spruce Kings continued their recent mastery of the Chilliwack Chiefs on Friday, winning 7-2 to split a two-game road series heading into the holiday break.

The Kings lost 5-3 to Surrey on Dec. 19 to open the trip. After a scoreless first, the teams combined for five goals in the second period, which saw the Eagles take a 3-2 lead. The teas exchanged goals early in the third before the Eagles scored into the empty net.

Friday, the teams were tied 1-1 after the first, but the Kings exploded for five unanswered goals in the second to seal the win.

The next games for the Kings are again down south, as they play in Powell River on Jan. 3, Alberni Valley Jan. 4 and Chilliwack Jan. 5. Next home games are Jan. 10 and 11 against Surrey.

MIDGETS SPLIT The Cariboo Cougars headed into the B.C. Major Midget League holiday break with a split in the Lower Mainland on the weekend against the Fraser Valley Thunderbirds.

The Cougars took the opener 7-0 in Abbotsford on Saturday before falling 8-5 on Sunday in Chilliwack. Jeremy Matte got the shutout Saturday, while Steven Jandric had a pair of goals.

On Sunday, five different Cougars scored, but they couldn’t claw their way back from a 3-1 firstperiod deficit.

The result leaves the Cougars sixth in the league with 22 points. They are tied with the North Island Silvertips, but currently sit sixth because of having one more win.

MIDGETS AT MAC’S Once again this year, the Cariboo Cougars Midget team is in Calgary over the holidays to participate in the Mac’s Midget AAA Tournament.

Coach Bryan MacLean says it will be a good experience for the team.

“Every team there is a good team. If you aren’t ready to compete when the puck drops, you’ll get left behind.”

The Cougars start play on Dec. 27 against the Notre Dame Argos. Other teams in their pool are the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs, BCMML rivals Okanagan Rockets and the Calgary Flames.

There is another Prince George team at the tourney, as the Northern Cougars, a female Midget squad, will also be in Calgary. They started play Boxing Day against the Winnipeg Ice. Other teams in their pool are the Calgary Flyers, Swift Current Diamond Energy and Edmonton Thunder.

SWIMMERS DO WELL Prince George Barracudas swimmers came home with 30 medals from the Kamloops Invitational earlier this month.

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The 31 swimmers also broke 14 club records, with Mackenzie Lewington setting five new club bests and Josiah Binnema four.

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PROVINCIALS HERE The U16 Bantam B Girls softball provincials will be held in Prince George from July 25 to 27.

Sixteen of the top teams in the province are expected to battle for the provincial title and secure a spot for the Western Canadian Nationals.

This will be the first provincial softball event in Prince George since 2009, when the U12 B Provincials were hosted here.

The last Prince George team to win a provincial title was the Midget squad in 2000.

TRACK AWARDS Two members of the Prince George Track and Field Club were recognized at the BC Athletics Annual Awards Banquet in Richmond earlier this month for their strong performances in 2013.

Keiran Leboe and Ryan Gaiesky were among the midget aged (15 year old) Athletes of the Year.

Leboe was named to Team BC and competed at the Canadian Legion Youth Track and Field Championships where he finished fifth in the hammer throw. He had earned a spot on Team BC after taking first in the hammer and placing third in the discus, javelin and shot put at the

Allan WISHART/Free Press David Ingram, a Grade 9 student at College Heights Secondary, was banging the drum Friday afternoon at CN Centre during the annual Spirit Game between College Heights and Prince George Secondary. PGSS won the game 6-2.

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The club will begin its indoor season in early January with workouts at the Northern Sport Centre for its senior athletes.

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Plenty of memories from 2013 Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.

Oscar Wilde This is a time we can sit back, reflect and ask, where did the last year go?

I am not sure if it is a sign of my age, but as I get older, it appears each year goes much faster.

2013 had its share of memorable moments. Here are just a few of the major stories that caught my attention:

CRAZY CANUCKS: Time will tell, however one can speculate that the Vancouver Canucks fired the wrong guy,

hired the wrong NY Rangers. Then, man and traded the most bizarre of away the wrong all, the Canucks kept goalie. Coach Alain Roberto Luongo and Vigneault took the traded Cory Schfall after his team neider to New Jersey was swept by San for a first round pick Jose in the open(Bo Horvat) after ing round of the telling Luongo he playoffs. But was he would be moved and the problem or was informing Schneider it GM Mike Gillis? that he was their HART BEAT The ownership goalie of the future.

HARTLEYMILLER got involved to hire Well, one can say controversial John it is never dull in Tortorella as the replacement Canucksville. behind the bench. It turned out MAPLE LAUGHS: to be a job swap with Vigneault going to Torts’ former team, the Just when it looked like the

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Toronto Maple Leafs may be turning a corner and earn respectability, especially after finally making the playoffs, they collapsed like no one before them. The Leafs became the first NHL team to lose a seventh and deciding game with a three goal lead (4-1) in the third period. still get goose bumps reciting the blunder as Boston beat Toronto 5-4 in overtime. Patrice Bergeron scored at 19:09 of the third and at 6:05 of OT. Milan Lucic (Vancouver’s favorite son?) tallied at 18:38 of the third and Nathan Horton started the comeback when he scored at 9:18 of the third.

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The City of Boston experienced absolute horror during the 117th Boston Marathon. Innocent people from around the globe taking part in a world iconic event only to have two pressure-cooker bombs explode near the finish line, killing three and injuring 264.

Remarkably, there was a Prince George connection to this international story. Three P.G. runners; Tanya Carter, her co-worker Steve Martin, and Dennis Straussfogel were among 232 participants from B.C. The three were all safe as fortunately they completed the 26.2 mile race minutes before the bombs went off.

Terrifying doesn’t even begin to describe the tragedy.

FANTASTIC FINISHES: The NBA Finals, Stanley Cup, and Super Bowl were all electrifying.

I was riveted to the TV during one of the best NBA Championship series ever. The Ray Allen signature moment occurred when he drained a three-pointer for the Miami Heat with five seconds left in the fourth quarter in game six to send the contest into overtime. Miami won (103100) or San Antonio lost depending on one’s point of view. The Heat, led

by MVP Lebron James, rallied from behind again to beat the Spurs 95-88 in game seven to repeat as champions.

The NHL lockout ended in January and the 48 game regular season was a welcome change. The playoffs were as good as ever and the Stanley Cup Final was a classic. The only reason it wasn’t ranked among best ever was it did not go seven games, but who could forget game six, where Chicago scored twice in the final 1:16 to beat Boston 3-2, and win the series 4-2.

Super Bowl 47 in New Orleans was much better than the Grey Cup in Regina (Saskatchewan 45 Hamilton 23). MVP Joe Flacco threw three TD passes (to finish the playoffs with 11 TD passes and no Interceptions) in the Baltimore Ravens 34-31 triumph over the San Francisco 49’ers. The Ravens won despite allowing 468 yards on offence to the 49’ers, the most ever by a Super Bowl winner.

CLOSE TO HOME: The Prince George sports scene included the P.G. Cougars firing head coach Dean Clark and replacing him with Mark Holick, albeit they missed the post-season again. The P.G. Spruce Kings had a solid regular season but lost in the first round of the playoffs, the Cariboo Cougars lost in the BCMML semi-finals, and the four UNBC CIS teams all failed to make the playoffs.

Jon Cooper became the first P.G. native to land a head coaching job in the NHL when he was hired to coach the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Yes, 2013 provided many lows and highs, but the time has come to say my goodbyes, May you and yours celebrate with a holiday cheer, and have a very happy healthy prosperous New Year!

Hartley Miller is the sports director for radio stations 94X and the Wolf@97fm. He also writes for hqprincegeorge.com. Send along a quote, note, or anecdote to hmiller@94xfm.com. Follow him on twitter: @Hartley_Miller

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Biathlon bookends, a second Kelly Cup and athletes NCAA-bound Tim Roots faced the challenge, and met it.

At the Otway Biathlon Range on Dec. 14, Roots was introduced by 2015 Canada Winter Games biathlon sports leader Pierre Beaudry as one of the driving forces behind the new range.

“We had been planning for about 10 years to move the range to this area,” Beaudry told a good-sized crowd.

“When we got the Games about three years ago, Tim started to go to work. I think he was involved in almost every aspect of the work.”

For his efforts, Roots was give the honour of firing off the first five shots at the new range, which is located near the main lodge by Otway Road.

As he stood behind the firing range, Roots warned people not to expect anything special.

“It’s been probably a couple of years since I actually fired one of these rifles.”

Before he took his position, the call went up, “Range is open,” as the green flags at either end were replaced with red ones for the first time officially.

Roots lay down on the shooting mat, then remembered it was easier to take the rifle off his back before he lay down. After getting the rifle off, he received more help from the crowd in terms of how to make sure it was set for firing.

Then he was ready.

He settled into the

with the Vandals this year.

The 17-year-old Prince George product accepted a four-year NCAA Division 1 scholarship from the University of Idaho.

“I know there’s quite a few people from Prince George and Quesnel and stuff who have gone there, and they’re really good,” Balazs said. “I know that they can make good runners.

There’s a girl there right now, she runs a 9:07 3,000 metres and I’m like 10:17 so she’s like a minute and 10 seconds faster, and that’s a lot for running.”

Balazs said she’s very excited about competing on the Idaho Vandals’ track and field team.

But making the choice wasn’t a slam dunk. She went on another recruiting trip to the University of Hawaii and considered Utah and Nebraska.

Free Press file photo Tim Roots checks the chamber of his rifle as he fires the first five official rounds at the new Otway Biathlon Range.

prone position, eye glued to the scope as he sighted in on the five targets at the far end.

He squeezed the trigger.

A clang, as the first target’s cover flipped up, indicating a clean hit.

A cheer went up from the crowd.

He fired again. Another clang, another cheer.

The first official shooting round at the new Otway Biathlon Range was a perfect one, as Roots hit all five targets.

ond trip to the top international biathlon competition for youth. She missed only two of 20 shots, four rounds, in recording a time of 34 minutes and 37.4 seconds (34:37.4) in the youth women’s 10 km individual event.

SECOND TITLE Bill Lim celebrated Easter by capturing the title in the 87th Kelly Cup at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club at the end of March.

In the championship draw of

the men’s curling bonspiel, Lim edged Scott Horvath 4-3. This year’s last Kelly Cup draw went by quicker than previous finals, the bonspiel going to eight from 10-end games.

In the end, Lim wasn’t complaining. Sunday’s win marked his second Kelly Cup title in more than two decades of entering the event. He began participating annually in the late 80s, and won his first Kelly Cup in 2004.

Manwhile, Haley Black is a Barracuda who is going to become a Hilltopper – with a trip to Australia thrown in.

Black, a Grade 12 student at Duchess Park Secondary, has accepted a swimming scholarship offer from Western Kentucky University, whose teams are known as the Hilltoppers.

“I looked at three or four different schools before I decided,” Black said. “I liked the program and the coaches at Western Kentucky, and they feel I can help their program.”

Before she heads to Western Kentucky, though, Black will be heading south – way south.

She’s part of Canada’s Junior National team, which will be in Australia for the 2014 Australian Junior Tour. The tour dates are Dec. 27 to Jan. 21.

HEADING SOUTH Emma Balazs was running

BEAUDRY FIFTH A local athlete who may be seen at the Games did well earlier in the year in Europe.

Sarah Beaudry member finished fifth in the women’s individual competition at the Biathlon Youth World Championships in Obertilliach, Austria.

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WBC top sports story of year World Baseball Challenge chairman Jim Swanson had no doubts how this year’s tournament went.

“We’ve run five major tournaments in Prince George, two nationals and now three WBCs, and this was the best of the bunch.”

The five-team tournament wrapped up Aug. 22 with Cuba’s Ciego de Avila Tigres downing Japan’s JX Eneos 14-4 in a final called in the eighth inning due to the mercy rule.

“The teams felt they were treated like gold,” Swanson said of the reaction of the teams, which also included teams from Chinese Taipei, Canada and the United States.

“They enjoyed the field and the atmosphere.

“In the middle of the gold-mdal game, the head of the delegation from Japan came to me and asked if we could hold the tournament annually instead of eery two years.”

Swanson was flattered by the request, but says he explained that the amount of work needed to put on the event meant it realistically could not be held every year.

The tournament made news of a different sort on the morning of the final, when Cuba’s Yozzen Cuesta apparently defected.

Swanson says the local organizers handled the situation as well as they could, and doesn’t see it affecting their relations with the Cubans for future events.

“They know his decision had nothing to do with our committee or the tournament.

There was an agent involved. He didn’t just walk off into the woods. We worked with the Cuban and Canadian authorities as much as we could on the situation.”

The Cuban delegation expressed interest in returning to the tournament (“even before they won the title,” Swanson adds) and has invited a local youth team to come to a tournament in Cuba in March.

SWANSON MOVES ON Jim Swanson sees a lot of similarities between the WCL and the WHL. “Both leagues have the same level of proximity to the top level in their sports,” says Swanson, a longtime Prince George baseball supporter who is now the general manager of the Victoria HarbourCats of the West Coast League (WCL). “There were 57 WCL players drafted by Major League Baseball in 2013.”

The announcement of Swanson’a appointment to the Victoria job came in November, and he says it was about two months ago that he heard about the opening.

CHAIRMAN “I looked into JIM SWANSON the situation there when I heard about it. There aren’t too many baseball jobs in Canada that are full time, especially for guy who’s 45.”

A lot of people Swanson knows through baseball are in the Victoria area, and, “a lot of people in Victoria wanted me to take the job. They thought it was a good fit.”

Free Press file photo Team Canada first baseman Larry Balkwill swings at a pitch against USA-NWAAC during the opening game of the 2013 World Baseball Challenge. The U.S. squad defeated the host Canadians 13-6 in the contest.

The West Coast League is a 12-team, summer league for college-age players, and uses wooden bats. That last aspect, Swanson says, is one of the most important ones.

“Scouts want to see how batters and pitchers do in a league with wooden bats, because that’s what they use in the majors. In college, they use metal bats, and it makes a real difference to the game.

“This way, they can approximate the big-league experience, and see how the player might fit in.”

MURDOCH MOVES UP The search for the next UNBC director of athletics and recreation ended in May. As it turned out, the hiring committee didn’t even have to look off campus for the successful candidate.

Long-time UNBC women’s basketball head coach Loralyn Murdoch moved up to take the position. At a press conference at the Northern Sport Centre, then-UNBC president George Iwama introduced Murdoch as their newest director of athletics and recreation.

“I think it’s a really good opportunity professionally,” Murdoch said. “I’ve been involved in athletics since a long time ago, and it just seemed the right time to maybe

move into a little bit more of an we’re looking for and that’s administrative role and start what we see in Loralyn and helping the coaches and the we’re very excited to have her other support on the team.” staff with our Murdoch, 41, was move forward born and raised in into CIS (CanaPrince George. She dian Interuniverhas a daughter, sity Sport).”

Sophie, who turns The position two in July. became vacant “I think I’d look after previous at it as building, so UNBC athletic with the women’s director Jason program, we built Kerswill left for over time to a point Toronto in April where we were very to join Canada UNBC highly competitive LORALYN at the college level, Basketball as MURDOCH and I think we have manager of high performance for the national to take this as an opportunity men’s basketball teams. Wom- in the athletics department to en’s soccer head coach Andy continue to build and get to Cameron filled in on an interim that point overall as a whole role. department.”

Bill Owen, UNBC acting dean of student success SOCCER SILVER and enrolment management, They were jumping and cheerchaired the committee in ing at the conclusion of their charge of the hiring. He said boys soccer game in early July. the process lasted about six Twenty-four hours later, the weeks, with a lot of behind the Prince George Youth Soccer scenes work that enabled them Association (PGYSA) Kodiaks’ to move along smoothly. Murdoch was selected from a pool mood was a lot different. They of 33 applicants, six who were advanced to the B.C. Soccer Association Provincial B Cup U14 shortlisted for interviews.

“I would say that her com- division championship game, but munications and her knowl- were unable to win the ultimate edge of the athletics depart- prize, losing 3-1 to CCB Galaxy ment was definitely an asset,” of Surrey.

Kodiaks head coach Rob Owen said. “It’s something that did make our job a bit Lewis described the feeling as easier. But beyond that, her bittersweet. leadership skills, that’s what “Anytime you can get to a pro-

vincial final is a big deal and well deserved,” he said before leaving the Rotary Soccer Complex after Sunday’s final. “But with that said, you want to win it so there’s satisfaction but there’s disappointment as well.”

The Kodiaks had the highest result of five Prince George teams in the B.C. championship tournament, which went under the name the Les Sinnott Memorial Boys Provincial Cup this year. Les Sinnott was a prominent soccer figure in B.C. who died in a motor vehicle accident in August 2012.

Lewis’ team was the only PGYSA squad to finish the tournament with a medal. They captured the four-team Group B after blanking the South Burnaby Metro Strikers 3-0 on Saturday.

Goalkeeper Mason Legere recorded the shutout for the Kodiaks against South Burnaby. He also started in net on Sunday, but was replaced by Ryan Teeson.

Lewis appreciated the support of the host city.

“This is fantastic. For the kids, win or lose, what an experience to play in a provincial final in front of your friends and family, to have fans,” he said. “It’s not often in your life you get to be showcased in your hometown in front of friends and family and kind of be the centre of attention and these boys were.

“The community support was fantastic.”