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Crash throws youth driver out window
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
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ROADRASH: Josh Harris 17, was sent to Vanderhoof Hospital where he was treated with deep lacerations after being thrown from his vehicle’s window. Rebecca Watson Omineca Express A young male in Vanderhoof escaped with his life Friday Oct. 10 after being thrown out of his moving vehicle during an incident on Nechako Avenue, just east of Redekop Rd. Around 11 am that morning, Josh Harris 17, left school angry, over what he can not remember. What happened next is still all a bit fuzzy, he said. “I remember the motion of spinning inside my blazer. The next thing I remember is someone picking me up and getting put down onto a stretcher, riding
in the ambulance and then being put into the hospital bed,” said Josh in a telephone interview one week after the crash. Cindy Brophy was first on scene and orchestrated others nearby to call for help while she waited with Josh until authorities came. Once the firetruck and ambulance arrived, the young man was taken to Vanderhoof hospital where he was treated for severe road rash and deep lacerations. Later he was sent to Prince George as a precaution for further testing. “It was hard to move for a while,” said Josh. “But every day it gets a bit better.” RCMP investiga-
tion reports determined the crash was a result of speed and failing to wear a seatbelt as the inexperienced driver turned the first corner heading up Kenny Dam road. The police also determined through vehicle-impression evidence that the vehicle could have likely rolled on top of the youth or may have hit him with some capacity if it had continued to roll. The traffic investigator concurred with police and concluded in his report that the car flipped five times, once over Josh, landing a couple feet away on his left, a couple feet away on his right and kept going. Continued on pg 2
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I’m excited to be a candidate for the Mayor of Vanderhoof! The next four years will be the most important decision making years in determining what our future will be for the next generation. My passion for Vanderhoof is families. What values will see families move to Vanderhoof and call it home? What characteristics of our community will they see that will encourage them to move here and want to be involved? Some of the qualities I want are strong health care, recreation, education, and stewardship of the environment and forests around us.
and raised by Abe and Kathy Klassen, I am the youngest of six children. I attended Sinkut View Elementary School, Northside Christian School, and graduated from Nechako Valley Secondary School. In 1991 I married Scott Wilson and we raised our two children (Tarina and Chris) here. Needless Jessi Wilson to say, I’m Vanderhoof I am so excited to be all the way. running for mayor in For eight years, I the 2014 election! Born ran my own daycare. Winter is Coming, Be Ready!
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The last six years as Mayor I have seen the aquatic referendum pass and made significant design and financial progress in the last 18 months. We developed a bike park, walking trails, stream rehabilitation, and soccer fields. We’ve embraced recycling, built a sturgeon facility, and completed arena improvements. We have worked hard to have great roads, water and sewer. The community has developed a post-secondary plan which has been adopted by the board of CNC and we hope to have a new college for trades and career training very soon. I am currently the chair
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of the Regional District Forest committee and the Northern Medical Trust. In both these areas we are known as leaders by our neighboring communities. We have achieved all this and still, of the 17 northern municipalities, we have the second lowest cost per resident for local government, and basically no debt. I have 13 grandchildren; the future generation of Vanderhoof is my priority. Each decision has to make Vanderhoof a place, which they as adults, can call home. The next four years we will see the end of the mountain pine beetle harvesting while New After that, I worked for an accounting firm before deciding to buy the local dollar store, which Scott and I owned for six anda-half years. In 2006 I was elected as a director for the Vanderhoof Chamber of Commerce and was elected president in 2011. During that time, I sat on various boards and committees such as Minerals North 2014 and the pool society. Due to these experi-
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Gold and LNG lines will have construction camps around us. This could be a negative, or a positive which will add capacity to Vanderhoof. We must make decisions which will determine our future; I will share my thoughts at an open house at the Village Inn on Nov. 6 at 7 pm. ences, I have a strong understanding of what businesses need as well as how a board is supposed to operate. I feel strongly about the youth in our community and their future, and as such I teach the Junior Achievement Economics for Success course to grade ten planning students. My husband and I, Continued on pg 2
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