Prince George Citizen October 10, 2019

Campaign aims to lower costs for cancer patients

CHRISTINE HINZMANN Staff Reporter chinzmann@pgcitizen.ca

Getting the dreaded diagnosis of cancer will cause a lot of different stresses on the patient and their families, especially when traveling to get treatment is the only option.

The Kordyban Lodge was built in 2013 to offer an affordable home away from home for those in the northern region of B.C. while they are undergoing treatment at the BC Cancer Centre for the North in Prince George.

The goal is to reduce the current nightly cost of staying at the Kordyban Lodge from $54 to $20 during the Peace of Mind campaign.

The Peace River Regional District has already pledged $150,000 over the next three years and with other donations

already coming in the campaign has raised $220,000 of the $450,000 goal.

Campaign leader Margaret Jones-Bricker said there have been reports of people choosing not to take treatment because of the financial barrier it would pose to have to travel from their remote communities to stay in Prince George for treatment.

Jones-Bricker said she knows the reduced rate to stay at the lodge will help make the decision to take treatment easier.

Michael Downes, a logger from Vanderhoof, was a guest at the lodge during his treatment for stage 4 naso-pharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma, which required 35 radiation treatments and seven chemotherapy sessions.

For Downes, it started with a sore throat he had for quite a while and then one morning while he was in the shower his

mouth filled with blood.

Immediately, his daughter Lindsay took him to the hospital and from there Downes was quickly diagnosed and sent to Prince George for treatment.

“It was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done,” he said.

Downes said he stayed at the Kordyban Lodge through his seven weeks of treatment, except for two weekends that he went home.

“Lindsay came to visit me several times and I just can’t say enough about the people in here,” he said. “They are all such excellent support.”

“Every time I came to see him everyone here was so happy,” Lindsay said. “Everyone here is just super, super nice and I told my dad that I was happy he was stay-

DRIVING

MARK NIELSEN Staff Reporter mnielsen@pgcitizen.ca

A Prince George man has been sentenced to a further 89 days in jail for leading police on a chase that ended in Valemount.

Jesse Luke Jack Juillette, 31, was issued the term in Prince George provincial court for dangerous driving under the Criminal Code for the Sept. 28, 2018 incident.

According to an RCMP statement issued at the time, Juillette was wanted on outstanding warrants when at about 2 p.m., police attempted to pull over the car he was driving in the 2700 block of Spruce St.  He took off and police called off the pursuit in the name of public safety.

But his car was seen heading east on First Avenue and by 5 p.m. RCMP had set up a road block on Highway 16 west of McBride. But not only did Juillette refuse to stop, he nearly ran over a RCMP officer, police said.

But RCMP received a tip he was at a motel in Valemount, 285 kilometres east of Prince George, and at 10 p.m. police converged on the spot. He was arrested by the Prince George RCMP street crew with help from the Valemount RCMP, McBride RCMP, police dog services, RCMP air services, and the North District RCMP emergency response team. Juillette had remained in custody since he was arrested on that day.

He was wanted in relation to a Sept. 15, 2018 robbery and assault in Prince George along with outstanding warrants out of Williams Lake related to a May 4 break and enter and allegation of dangerous driving.  He was prohibited from driving for three years, sentenced to two years probation and issued a lifetime firearms prohibition on the outstanding counts.

He had also faced charges from a Jan. 23, 2018 armed robbery in Prince George. Those counts were stayed in June.

Citizen Photo by James Doyle Runners take off Sunday at the CIBC Run for the Cure at Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park.

public noticeS

Make a difference in your community!

The City is seeking the expertise of residents interested in serving on the Prince George Public Library Board

The Board meets monthly and is responsible for providing library services and programs in Prince George by establishing the policies, goals and objectives of the library and advocating for the library in the greater community.

The City is accepting applications to fill three volunteer positions on the Board with two-year terms beginning January 1, 2020 and ending December 31, 2021, and two interim volunteer positions on the Board to fill the remainder of the term ending December 31, 2020.

Involvement with council committees, commissions, and boards provides residents the opportunity to contribute to the growth and development of our municipality and to provide input on important civic issues.

All applicants to the Prince George Public Library Board are required to undergo a Criminal Records Check. Information on the Library Board, application forms and details on the application process and Criminal Record Checks are available on the City’s website or may be picked up from the Legislative Services Department, 5th Floor City Hall.

Deadline for Applications: 5:00 p.m. Friday, October 25, 2019

Completed applications, including a completed Criminal Records Check, may be mailed or hand-delivered to City Hall (1100 Patricia Boulevard), emailed to cityclerk@ princegeorge.ca, or faxed to (250) 561-0183.

For any questions or to have an application form mailed to you, please contact the Legislative Services Department at (250) 561-7655 or cityclerk@princegeorge.ca

ing at the lodge because they were taking such good care of him. Right from the first day when we came here everybody was so welcoming.”

Downes said he quickly formed friendships at his home away from home as people would gather in the common room for hockey games or to play cards.

“You all become family very quickly because you all have this disease in common,” hesaid. “It was like having extended family right here and it was fantastic.”

Since his recovery from cancer, Downes has moved to Prince George and is looking forward to  volunteering at the lodge soon to give back in a meaningful way.

Another aspect of the fundraising campaign is to donate $25 for each daffodil to be planted in the front garden at Kordyban Lodge at 1100 Alward St.

The local branch of the Canadian Cancer Society is looking forward to creating a Field of Dreams filled with newly planted daffodils as a symbol of the Peace of Mind offered to cancer patients in their time of need.

Donations can be made online convio. cancer.ca/goto/peaceofmind or at the Canadian Cancer Society office, located at 1100 Alward St. in the Kordyban Lodge.

HOW LONG IS A WHOLE NOTE?

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KinderConcert titled It’s About Time on Saturday afternoon at the

sure to measure the lengths of musical notes.

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Business leader was active volunteer

Citizen staff

After a battle with cancer, longtime Prince George business leader Roz Thorn died Sunday. She was 70.

Kathy Nadalin’s Seniors’ Scene column featured Thorn in March 2017.

Below is an excerpt of the original column:

Roz (Rosalind Proverbs) Thorn was born in 1949 in the old Prince George hospital that was formerly an old army building.

Her father Rupert Proverbs was born and raised in Barbados where he grew up on a sugar plantation owned by his father. He immigrated to Canada in 1937 and joined the Canadian Scottish Regiment in 1939.

Her mother Margaret Cooke (ProverbsGracey) was born and raised in Leicester, England. Roz explained, “My mother was the second eldest of eight children, her family had a flour distribution business as well as a garage rental business; most houses didn’t have garages at that point in time so they rented them.

“Mom trained as a legal secretary and worked for the town clerk of Leicester. When my grandfather passed away in 1943, she took over and ran the family businesses until the end of the war when

her brother returned from active duty. My mother met my father in England in 1943 and immigrated to Canada; they were married in Vancouver in 1946.”

Roz was schooled in Prince George and grew up on the banks of the Nechako River.

As a child, she joined Brownies, moved on to the Girl Guides and then into the Wrenettes. At the age of 16, she got involved in sorority and established the first and only Beta Sigma Phi Teenage Chapter in Prince George with the assistance of senior sorority advisor Bea Wilson.

From early on, she had a driving work ethic beginning with a paper route at age ten, babysitting at age 12 and a part time job in the accounts office at Eaton’s when she was 16.

After high school, she attended the College of New Caledonia, taking business courses and joined the Prince George and Northern BC Construction Association as a “Girl Friday.” She was originally interviewed and hired by Henry Creuzot and Bob Borrie and mentored by Nora Strawbridge. She worked her way to the top of the organization and after 48 years in the industry, she retired in 2015 as the chief executive officer of the association.

Roz reflected back and said, “I met Bob in 1967 during my last year of high school and we got married in June of 1969. Bob was a builder and loved anything to do with construction – we did lots of landscaping, gardening and home improvements together.

“Travel was a passion for both of us. We made so many good memories and lasting

friendships through all our travels and I am thankful that we had that time together. Sadly, Bob passed away in December 2013 at the age of 67, after losing an 18-month battle with cancer.

“He was a super star in supporting me through my career, always helping in the background and assisting me with preparations for work related events and travel. He always looked after things in my absence.”

Through Bob’s unending and dedicated support of Roz in her career, he got to know many of the directors and members of the associated construction industry boards. Roz said, “He was awarded the Chairman’s Award by my colleagues for all his volunteer work and when he passed away, the association established a bursary in his name.”

After 48 years with the Prince George Construction Association and nearly as much time with the B.C. Construction Association–North, Roz retired as their CEO in 2015.

She was successful in her climb to the top in a traditionally male dominated industry all the while earning the confidence and respect of the construction industry associations all over the province.

Many of her colleagues have testified that Roz had a tremendous work ethic and made a positive impact on the construction community in a variety of ways during her tenure. One of the quotes that I read about Roz when she received the 2008 B.C. Construction Association Distinguished Service

a class act.”

Roz summed it all up and said, “I had a great career. My mantra was that we needed  one strong voice for the construction industry provincewide. We worked hard collaboratively and collectively through many years to achieve that voice that would benefit the association in discussions with government.

“One of my big thrusts has always been to have government recognize the need for expanding skilled trades training and other construction related training for the north, including having more up to date training facilities.

“I am proud to say that the PGCA has always been a strong community supporter; the list of projects we worked on and donated back to the community is long and impressive and included fundraising to support the many projects. It was a pleasure to watch the northern economy grow toward its potential and at the same time adapting, revising and bettering the services for our association members.”  Roz served on numerous local, provincial and national committees and boards some of which include the United Way, Prince George Economic Development Commission, Provincial Apprenticeship Board, BCCA Employee Benefit Trust, Provincial Unity Panel, the College of New Caledonia, Prince George Progress Board, Initiatives Prince George, Northern Interior Mining Group/Resource Connector, and BC

CITIZEN PHOTO BY JAMES DOYLE

George Symphony Orchestra

special guests held a

Prince George Playhouse. In this skit, they used a tape mea-

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

What: Public Hearing regarding Zoning Bylaw No. 2892, Amendment Bylaw No. 3138, 2019.

When and Where: 7:00 p.m., Thursday, October 24, 2019 Salmon Valley Volunteer Fire Department Hall 5155 Salmon Valley Rd, Prince George, BC

How can I provide comment? Anyone who believes that their interest in land is affected by the proposed bylaw shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard at the public hearing or to present written comments prior to or at the public hearing regarding matters contained in the bylaws.

The public hearing will be chaired by a delegate of the Regional District Board.

Owner: The owner is Ariane Gollub.

Proposal: Zoning Bylaw No. 2892, Amendment Bylaw No. 3138, 2019 proposes to rezone the subject property on a site-specific basis within the current Rural 3 (Ru3) zone to allow Cannabis Production use with a maximum site area of 1.0 hectare and no minimum site area. The subject property is legally described as The North West ¼ of District Lot 3821 Cariboo District Except Plans H42, 18466, 19198, 20234 and 20460 and is located at 27000 Hart Highway.

Written comments: Written comments will be accepted by the Regional District in advance of the public hearing until 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 23, 2019 by:

Email: developmentservices@rdffg.bc.ca

Hand/Mail: 155 George Street, Prince George BC V2L 1P8 Fax: 250-562-8676

Written comments may also be submitted at the public hearing.

Any material received before or at the public hearing will become public information.

Need more info? A copy of the proposed bylaws and other relevant background material are available for review by the public at the Regional District office Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., between October 10 and October 24, 2019. The Regional District Office will be closed on Monday, October 14, 2019.

A staff report may be viewed online at: https://tinyurl.com/RDFFG-Bylaw-3138

Who can I speak to? Tyson Baker, Planner I, 250-960-4400

Lheidli T’enneh, UNBC sign education deal

Citizen staff

Members of the Lheidli T’enneh Nation will now be able to earn an undergraduate degree at the University of Northern British Columbia at no cost.

Called the Northern Promise Parnership, it’s believed to be the first of its kind in Canada and is being described as a meaningful response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s call to make education more accessible for Indigenous people.

It will see UNBC waive tuition while the LTN will cover the remaining costs, including housing, food, transportation and fees other than tuition, textbooks, and tutoring.

Chief Clayton Pountney said the goal is to remove the barriers that have prevented band members from working toward a degree and increase the proportion of those who have one.

“Our membership is below the average and so we actually want to shoot for the stars and get above the average,” he said.

Pountney said band members can get support from the federal government to defray the costs but the process of securing them can be cumbersome, includes early deadlines, and does not cover the whole bill.

“With some of our companies, we do have education funds and some of our own-source revenue we put in,” he said. Two LTN members are currently

Chief Clayton Pountney said the goal is to remove the barriers that have prevented band members from working toward a degree and increase the proportion of those who have one.

enrolled at UNBC and a further 68 are coming up through the School District 57 system, Pountney said.

UNBC president Daniel Weeks said the university will absorb the cost of taking on the students who enroll through the partnership. Along with tuition, he said that includes counseling, career services and other on-campus supports for students.

“My hope is that this program is so widely successful that maybe we do feel pressure in those areas and resources because we have so many students that want to join us...that would be a great problem to have,” Weeks said.

Tuition itself can range from $5,000 to $7,000 a year at UNBC. Waiving tuition will allow LTN to use the funds it does get from the federal government in a “much more effective way,” Weeks said.

Goodsir park gets support

Citizen staff

Four local businesses have banded together to give the roof over Goodsir Nature Park’s founder and operator Jim Good’s head a new lease on life. Last week, staff at Ridgeline Corp. were at the preserve north of Prince George donating their labour to replacing the roof on Good’s home with lumber bought by local businessman John Brink and transported at no cost by RONA.

Another local company, which prefers to stay anonymous, donated a new central heating system, furnace and propane tanks.

GROWING THE NORTH

The lumber will also be used to upgrade the park’s signage.

The donations come on top of $10,000 raised through a GoFundMe campaign, pushing the the total value of the contributions to about $30,000, according to a statement from the Brink Group of Companies.

“To receive this kind of help, at a time when the park is celebrating its 30th anniversary, is just wonderful,” Good said.

The park is home to over 2,000 plant species and over 200 types of trees as well as an indoor plant museum and two botanical gardens, according to the preserve’s website.

Meet MNP’s New Regional Managing Partner, Jameel Sayani

MNP congratulates Jameel Sayani, CPA, CA, CAFM, on his appointment to Regional Managing Partner for our newlyestablished Northern B.C. region. Jameel has a deep appreciation for MNP’s culture, values and client service approach and is a leader our team is proud to follow.

A dedicated MNP team member since 2008, Jameel most recently served as Regional leader for Indigenous Services for Vancouver Island and Northern B.C. In his new role, he will continue to work closely with our First Nations and Indigenous clients, while leading the overall growth of our Northern B.C. offices in Prince George, Quesnel, Terrace, Vanderhoof and Williams Lake.

As part of the transition, Jameel, his wife Renita and their three children recently moved to Prince George from Nanaimo. We look forward to the vision, leadership and entrepreneurial spirit Jameel brings to our team, our clients and our communities as we continue to build on a strong foundation of client service excellence in the North.

Contact Jameel Sayani, Regional Managing Partner, Northern B.C., at 250.596.4900 or jameel.sayani@mnp.ca

No sudden changes planned by new CNC president

The College of New Caledonia’s new president will be taking a cautious approach when it comes to pitching any major changes to the schools’ board of directors.

Rather, Johnson said he will be taking an “evidence-informed approach” and focus on developing a new five-year strategic plan

to replace the current version, which is set to expire in June 2020.

“I’m not going to rush in, no preconceived notions... I’ll be doing my due diligence, working closely with lots of important stakeholders in the region,” he said. “Certainly, the board

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will provide lots of guidance and direction.”

Johnson brings 29 years of experience in the post-secondary sector to CNC. He was previously at Saskatchewan Polytechnic where he held down two vice president positions - academic and strategy and business development.

Johnson replaces Henry Reiser, who announced his retirement a year ago.

CNC board of directors chair Gil Malfair

said Johnson has shown a “depth and breadth of experience” and noted his experience in the trades. Johnson apprenticed as a carpenter after he graduated from high school.

By 2015, Johnson had completed a PhD, Malfair also noted, and described him as a “life-long learner” who has “demonstrated continued success in each institution he’s been in.”

Citizen staff

ROCK THE RINK HITS THE ICE SATURDAY

CHRISTINE HINZMANN Staff Reporter chinzmann@pgcitizen.ca

The show features all-star figure skaters like Canadians Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir, Patrick Chan, Elvis Stojko and Kaetlyn Osmond.

Bringing a strong live-music element is Toronto’s alt-rock band Birds of Bellwoods who take to the stage to round out the entertainment.

The band includes musicians Stephen Joffe, lead vocals and mandolin; Adrian Morningstar, guitar and vocals; Chris Blades, banjo, guitar and vocals; and Kintaro Akiyama, upright bass and vocals. The band dropped their latest album Victoria late last year and just released their latest single Easy.

The Birds of Bellwoods will be the special opening act for Rock the Rink and their stage will be located in the middle of the ice rink.

Each member of the group has also been a professional actor at one time

or another and so instead of taking the predicted routine looking for ways to steadily supplement their incomes the young men decided to go a whole other way.

“As an actor, you need a secondary source of income, and what better way to do it than to join the industry with the least potential of income in the world,” Morningstar laughed. “I was interested in going into accounting or business or something like that and then all of a sudden I’m writing songs - what? Who thought this was a good idea?”

For Morningstar, he said he uses the training he received during his time at the National Theatre School because it wasn’t so much that it informed him as an actor but as a human being.

“And when you are in training, you’re not training to be an actor, you’re just training to be a person, whoever that person might be on that day and whoever that script requires you to be,” he

said. “So the training definitely informs the live performance and writing and just working with four other individuals on a daily basis, running our music business. The time I had at the National Theatre School was tremendous for just learning how to be and exist and breathe and take it one step at a time.”

During the performance the band will be on a stage in the middle of the rink - on ice. It’s one of those unique circumstances in which preparing for it might not be an option.

“We’re used to playing club shows or being at outdoor venues,” Morningstar said.

Those stages are facing only one direction while during the Rock the Rink show the stage will be all access with the audience viewing the 360 degree stage.

“We will be on stage at centre ice playing to people all 360 degrees to people who are not right up at the stage either,” Morningstar said. “Those people will all be in the stands. So that’s going to be a really difficult thing to navigate because usually we can at least make eye contact with some of your audience where as this, we’re just going to be playing in a bit of a fog.”

Tickets are available at www.ticketsnorth.ca.

2019 Citizens of the Year

The 2019 Citizens of the Year Gala will be held on Friday at the Coast Inn of the North. Tickets are $80 each or $640 for a table of 8. Tickets are almost sold out so do not wait if you want to help honor this year’s recipients. You can purchase tickets online through our website at www.pgcf.ca.

The Prince George Community Foundation is pleased to be hosting the 22nd Annual Citizens of the Year Gala on Friday. This year, we are honouring three more than deserving individuals: Albert Koehler, Chuck Chin and Noreen Rustad. Together, the 2019 recipients have contributed thousands of volunteer hours, contributed their time, skill, knowledge and finances to local organizations. We are extremely grateful for their efforts and are pleased to be recognizing them as the 2019 Citizens of the Year.

The 2019 Citizens of the Year Gala will be held on Friday at the Coast Inn of the North. Tickets are $80 each or $640 for a table of 8. Tickets are almost sold out so do not wait if you want to help honor this year’s recipients. You can purchase tickets online through our website at www.pgcf.ca.

This year’s event is sure to be fantastic with three incredible honourees, a wonderful silent auction, champagne reception and great networking for all in attendance. We hope to see you there!  - Prince George Community Foundation

ALBERT KOEHLER

Albert Koehler is best known for his many years of service as a Prince George city councillor but that is merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to his community service. A longtime Rotarian, Albert follows Rotary’s Service Above Self motto to the letter. It’s that devotion that earned him the support of voters in his political career and now being recognized as one of the 2019 Citizens of the Year. Besides serving as president of the Yellowhead Rotary Club in 2010-11, Albert has served in recent years on the boards of the Spirit of the North Health Care Foundation, Community Futures, the Prince George Symphony and Resources North. He served on the board of the Chamber of Commerce for five years, culminating in his presidency in 2008-09. A founder of the Northern Technology and Engineering Society of B.C.,  Albert’s pursuit of a civil engineering program at UNBC finally came to pass last year. Albert served as the Honorary Consul for the Federal Republic of Germany, a role he held for eight years.

Albert has received many awards over the years for his community service, including the Immigrant and Multicultural Society’s Diversity and Community Service Award and the Professional Engineer’s Community Service Award. So it’s only fitting he’s being recognized as one of the 2019 Citizens of the Year.

Local economy upbeat, studies show

Citizen staff

A bright economic outlook for the city is being expressed in two recently-published studies.

Both the Conference Board of Canada and Vancouver-based consultant MDB Insight see optimism for Prince George over the next few years, despite the turmoil in the forest sector.

After growing by a modest 1.3 per cent in 2018, Prince George’s economy is expected to pick up the pace and expand by 1.5 per cent this year and a further 1.7 per cent in 2020, according to the Conference Board study, which provides out-

NOREEN RUSTAD

Noreen Rustad’s community service record stretches back more than 50 years and is so impressive, this isn’t the first time she’s been one of the Citizens of the Year. In 1992 alone, Rotary named her a Citizen of the Year, she was a recipient of the Governor General’s 125 Commemorative Medal and she received the City of Prince George’s Award of Merit for Recreation. Those  accolades were for her 15 years of work with Brownies and Guides, her 13 years of service with children’s drama groups and for her decades of work with the Prince George Weavers and Spinners Guild (including a term as president of the Canadian Weavers Guild) and various other community groups.

Instead of resting on her laurels, Noreen got even busier. In 1996, she was a founding director of the Prince George Community Foundation and has worked tirelessly for the foundation ever since, including serving three years as foundation president. A UNBC Honorary Alumni member, Noreen sat for six years on UNBC’s Board of Governors. More awards have followed, including the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, a B.C. Achievement Award and the Woman of the Year Award for Impact and Influence. It’s now time to recognize Noreen as one of the 2019 Citizens of the Year.

CHUCK CHIN

The most popular post on the Hell Yeah Prince George Facebook page this year asked this simple question – does Chuck Chin deserve to be recognized as one of the 2019 Citizens of the Year? The response, of course, was overwhelming.  While some people slow down after they retire, Chuck grabbed his camera and got busy chronicling the city he loves, the people who live here and the amazing things they do in pictures. He has been the photographer of record at virtually every single fundraising and awareness event, from the Relay For Life, the Festival of Trees, the Climb For Cancer, Remembrance Day, Canada Day, the Pride Parade and Pops In The Park to all the major sporting events and teams, from the 2015 Canada Winter Games, the World Baseball Challenge and the World Para Nordic Championships to the Prince George Cougars and Prince George Spruce Kings.

Chuck’s fee for all of that work? Not one penny. He considers as payment the thanks and gratitude he has received over the years, in person and online, particularly on Hell Yeah Prince George which he helped found. Chuck has also been the photographer at numerous awards dinners in recent years. Hopefully, he can put his camera down long enough to be recognized as one of the 2019 Citizens of the Year.

looks for seven mid-sized Canadian cities.

The report notes other positive developments including:

- The region’s unemployment rate edged down from 5.2 per cent last year to 4.9 per cent this year and is forecast to hold steady at 5.1 per cent in 2020.

- The region had near record housing starts in 2018 and building permit values continue to be very robust in 2019. The study also notes the struggling forestry sector will weigh on local industry, but indicates that a resolution to the U.S–Canada softwood lumber dispute would provide welcome relief to the region’s forestry sector.

MDB Insight, in turn, says Prince George’s economy is poised for continued growth as the economy thrives with new investments, projected population growth, and adaptation influenced by global economic shifts including growth in the services sector, and modern industry.

The study, which included a comprehensive survey of local businesses, in order to inform and support local businesses and the City to grow and strengthen the local workforce.

Key findings from the study include:

- Most Prince George businesses have short-term plans to hire new employees (78 percent in the next year, 84 percent in

the next two years).

- Over 85 percent of businesses indicate a skilled workforce is important for current operations and future growth.

- Most businesses identified barriers to hiring and retaining employees.

Recommendations of the report are designed to inform local businesses of best and promising practices for talent attraction and retention, inform on strategies to retain post-secondary graduates in order to grow the labour pool and local population, and strengthen business competitiveness.

Both reports are posted with this story at www.princegeorgecitizen.com.

Ceremony to pay tribute to lost babies

To honour the memory of all angel babies, the Wave of Light Ceremony will take place Tuesday at the Omineca Arts Centre from 6 to 8 p.m.

at the Omineca Art Centre. Mena lost her son Xavier last year when he was four months old. The Wave of Light ceremony is a memorial for all those who have lost their angel babies.

nancy and infant loss aren’t considered taboo subjects as much as they used to be but support systems for that kind of loss are not really advertised,” Mena said. “So that’s why I’m trying to raise more awareness and show people there is more support out there.”

The Wave of Light is something Mena finds very healing, she added.

“It’s also a really good space to be able to share our stories without having to worry abut how others are going to react because it can be very awkward being an infant loss parent or pregnancy loss parent,” she said.

“It’s definitely a hard subject to bring up but having a place to share your story I find is a very important part of the grieving process. I find a lot of people try to avoid talking about their children in front of me because they are worried about upsetting me, which can be a difficult situation because some days I’m fine and then other days it hits me but for the most part I like to talk about my son as much as I can and I think that’s always the way it is for a grieving parent - at least for myself - one of my greatest fears is that my son will be forgotten so I try to keep his memory alive as much as I can.”

CHRISTINE HINZMANN Staff Reporter chinzmann@pgcitizen.ca

After experiencing four miscarriages, one local mother finally gave birth to a healthy baby boy on Jan. 7, 2018.

On May 6, four short months later, Shayla Mena put little Xavier down for a nap. He never woke up.

To honour the memory of all angel babies, the Wave of Light Ceremony will take place

Tuesday at the Omineca Arts Centre from 6 to 8 p.m.

The Wave of Light is a global event that takes place on Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day, Oct. 15, where people around the world are invited to light a candle in memory of their lost little ones at 7 p.m. in all time zones for one hour, creating a wave of light across the world. The event is for all those who are affected by the loss of an infant, including mom and dad, grandmothers and grandfathers and all

other family members and friends. During the local event, there will be a slideshow of those babies who have been lost. Mena is the organizer of the local event along with her sister Natasha Muir and Xavier is their inspiration. Having experienced such loss, Mena knows how important it is to seek help and support during these difficult times. Mena said she’s experienced many losses during her lifetime but losing Xavier has been the most difficult. “After I lost my son, I just realized preg-

Mena has asked Ann Bozoki to appear as a guest speaker during the event as she is a representative for the Compassionate Friends Group in Prince George.

“During the event we will do a slideshow with names, dates and photos and I will read out the names as we light the candles,” Mena said. “It seems to help people to hear their angel baby’s name being spoken.”

Organizers of the event will provide care packages for those parents who have lost a baby, which include a resource list of programs to help with the grieving process.

Prince George provincial court, September 30-October 4 COURT DOCKET

- David Warren Girroir (born 1974) was sentenced to no further days in jail for breaching probation. Girroir was in custody for one day prior to sentencing.

- Tristan Alan Olson (born 1997) was sentenced to 18 days in jail for breaching an undertaking or recognizance. Olson was in custody for one day prior to sentencing.

- Raymond Francis Thiffault (born 1991) was sentenced to 360 days in jail and ordered to provide a DNA sample for possessing stolen property over $5,000, to 240 days in jail and ordered to pay $1,180.28 restitution for theft of a motor vehicle and mischief to property over $5,000, all committed in Dome Creek, to 234 days in jail for possessing stolen property over $5,000, to 90 days for willfully resisting or obstructing a peace officer and to 45 days for breaching probation, all committed in Prince George, to 90 days in jail for fraud $5,000 or under, to 14 days in jail, prohibited from driving for two years and fined $500 plus a $75 victim surcharge for driving while prohibited or licence suspended under the Motor Vehicle Act, all committed in McBride and to 90 days in jail for possessing or using a stolen credit card, 60 days for mischief and 45 days for breaching probation and breaching an undertaking, committed in unspecified communities. Thiffault was in custody for 83 days prior to sentencing.

- Irene Marie Johnny (born 1979) was sentenced

to 42 days in jail and one year probation for assault.

- Aaron Christopher Stanyer (born 1996) was sentenced to time served for theft $5,000 or under. Stanyer was in custody for 12 days prior to sentencing.

- Mitchell William Boreland (born 1982) was prohibited from driving for one year and fined $500 plus a $75 victim surcharge for driving while prohibited or licence suspended under the Motor Vehicle Act, committed in Buckhorn.

- Cody Drew Chapman (born 1976) was prohibited from driving for one year and fined $500 plus a $75 victim surcharge for driving while driver’s licence is suspended under the Motor Vehicle Act.

- Justin David Paul Clements (born 1985) was sentenced to no further days in jail for breaching probation. Clements was in custody for two days following his arrest.

- Clement Eugene Joseph (born 1974) was sentenced to no further days in jail for breaching probation.

- Donald Jonathon Novak (born 1976) was sentenced to no further days in jail for uttering threats. Novak was in custody for 16 days prior to sentencing.

- Jonah Savard (born 1996) was sentenced to 41 days in jail for theft $5,000 or under and to 11 days for a separate count of theft $5,000 or under, carrying a prohibited weapon and assaulting a peace officer. Savard was also sentenced to two years probation on the counts and issued a 10-year firearms prohibition on the

weapons count. Savard was in custody for 23 days prior to sentencing.

- Steven Rasmussen (born 1969) was sentenced to 14 months in jail and three years probation and ordered to comply with conditions for sexual offenders for 10 years for possessing child pornography.

- Ryan Sean Sawchuk (born 1980) was sentenced to one year in jail for theft of a motor vehicle, to 180 days for dangerous driving, assaulting a peace officer, to 108 days for theft $5,000 or under, to 90 days for mischief $5,000 or under and to 60 days for a separate count of theft $5,000 or under, all committed in Prince George, to 270 days in jail for possessing stolen property and 60 days for willfully resisting or obstructing a peace officer, committed in Kitsumkalum,  and to no further time for mischief $5,000 or under, committed in Salmon Arm, break and enter with intent to commit offence, committed in Gleichen, Alta. and two counts of breaching probation, committed in Vernon. Sawchuk was in custody for 411 days prior to sentencing.

- Marcel James Abou (born 1985) was sentenced to one year probation for possessing stolen property under $5,000, mischief $5,000 or under and three counts of breaching probation and to no further time for carrying a concealed or prohibited weapon and two counts of breaching probation. Abou was in custody for 67 days prior to sentencing.

- Shayla Lynn McCartney (born 1997) was issued a six-month $500 recognizance after allegation for assault with a weapon.

- Warren Allan Beattie (born 1975) was sentenced to 39 days in jail for two counts of breaching probation and to 10 days for possessing a controlled substance.

- Brandon Thomas Beauchamp (born 1991) was sentenced to one year probation for breaching probation.

- Cecilia May French (born 1987) was issued a one-year $500 recognizance after allegation of causing fear of injury or damage.

- Douglas William Donald Gibbs (born 1986) was sentenced to nine days in jail for willfully resisting or obstructing a peace officer. Gibbs was in custody for 12 days prior to sentencing.

- Gwayne Travis Moyah (born 1985) was sentenced to 76 days in jail for mischief $5,000 or under, committed in Quesnel and to 30 days for willfully resisting or obstructing a peace officer and breaching probation and no further days in jail for breaching an undertaking or recognizance, all committed in Prince George. Moyah spent a total of six days in custody prior to sentencing.

- Devon Albert Sawyer (born 1991) was sentenced to one year probation for mischief to property, and two counts each of willfully resisting or obstructing a peace officer and breaching an undertaking and breaching an undertaking. Sawyer was in custody for 88 days prior to sentencing.

- Ralph Herbert Pierre (born 1974) was prohibited from driving for 90 days and fined $500 plus a $75 victim surcharge for driving without a driver’s licence under the Motor Vehicle Act.

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OPINION

Stellar candidates OUR VIEW

More than a few times during this federal election (and probably a few more times before it comes to a merciful end Oct. 21), it’s been depressing to look at the federal party leaders and wonder why they aren’t as smart, decent and politically astute as their riding candidates. The numerous shortcomings and missteps of Justin Trudeau, Andrew Scheer, Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May (Mad Max Bernier and his pathetic people’s party? Spare us, please) have been well-chronicled elsewhere so let’s instead focus on the two Prince George ridings and how our own local candidates have been better than the people who “lead” them.

The best example in either riding and any party has been Cariboo-Prince

George’s Conservative rookie MP Todd Doherty. On so many occasions and so many files, he’s been more articulate than Scheer. When confronted on abortion at an all-candidates forum at Trinity United Church (so many national and regional issues so let’s talk about something that was settled legally more than 30 years ago?), Doherty’s response, as reported by myprincegeorgenow.com, was that he personally opposes abortion but respects the right of women to make their own decisions and refuses to judge them should they terminate their preganancy. Unfortunately, Scheer has been unable to state a similar view with the same eloquence and has been unwilling – past and present – to be more tolerant and less judgmental on this and other social issues. Mavis Erickson, the federal Liberal candidate in Prince George-Peace River-

Northern Rockies, has more education, more leadership qualities and is far more well-spoken than Trudeau. A Prince George lawyer, Erickson got her law degree from Harvard(!) after obtaining two bachelor degrees from UBC. A former Carrier Sekani tribal chief, Erickson led the charge in calling for a federal inquiry into missing and murderered Indigenous women and girls across Canada.

The NDP’s Heather Sapergia, a medical technologist at Northern Health, lacks the polish and political experience of Singh but brings a far more educated and mature approach to guns and gun ownership than her leader or her party as a longtime and active member of the Prince George Rod and Gun Club.

The Green Party’s Mackenzie Kerr has no problem talking about forest industry and agriculture jobs as fixtures in the

BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS

Resource industries in Canada are used to facing pressure. For forestry, mining and oil and gas, some of the pressure is caused by poor access to markets, simply because of our vast geography.

For agriculture, farmers and ranchers never know if weather will be a friend or enemy, as it is always unpredictable, and the huge work load makes it hard to attract young people to the industry. These challenges are hard enough, but all our resource industries in Canada are facing additional pressure from a few idealists.

What we have happening right now is a few idealists pushing the public into thinking that the very industries that provide our jobs, food, health care, and all other government services, are harmful and will kill us and the Earth if we don’t shut them down. Some suggest that the problem is people. Even if the fine folks advocating for this begin to offer to reduce the human population one activist at a time, it won’t be enough to reach their unrealistic solutions to their uninformed problems. It often seems that the voices calling for panic would have us point to each other as the destroyers of our environment. We need to resist that call. We need to stand together because the solutions to

the real problems we face will be found in working together, as well as individually, in our own – and our community’s – best interest.  Beyond the very real things like food, heat for our homes, transportation, a tax base able to support excellent government services compared to less developed countries, what would our lives be like without the money generated by resource extraction?

Many local charities wouldn’t survive in their current form if it wasn’t for donations from our various resource industries. I have spent the last few weeks trying to compile a list of local donors to sports, education, arts and cultural organizations. Perhaps someone has a comprehensive list, but I couldn’t find one. What I did find is even the largest companies in town don’t really advertise their charitable giving. And often it seems that they make many small donations to many different organizations.

The largest local employer (not count-

ing the school district, the hospital, or the city, none of which would exist here in even close to their size if it wasn’t for forestry, mining, or oil and gas) is likely Canfor. Perusing Canfor’s website doesn’t give any information, just a place to request funding. The one thing that is very public is Canfor Theatre at UNBC, which implies a significant donation to the university. But, other than that, it seems their donations are mostly to small groups like 4-H, rodeos, sports, Indigenous cultural events, Dry Grad and scholarships.

Local forest product companies like Carrier Lumber, Dunkley Lumber and Brink Forest Products provide significant funding to various organizations as well. Brink just promised $1 million to CNC for training. Kordyban Lodge, built to provide a place to stay for out-of-towners receiving cancer treatment, was largely funded by the Kordyban family, who own Carrier Lumber. Again, though, I know that these families and companies also provide funding to many other local organizations, so much so that it is hard to track them down.

Various mining and oil and gas companies like Rio Tinto, Encana, Coastal Gas Link, and the companies that provide support for them, support the Northern Medical Programs Trust, Spirit of the North

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community and essential pillars in a more sustainable economy, in stark contrast to May’s long-held and irrational views on logging (trees actually have to be cut down to create wood products) and farming (pesticides, fertilizers and geneticallymodified crops feed millions of people who might otherwise starve).

The list goes on. Bob Zimmer has done fine work on cyber security and data privacy, while his leader has been silent. Tracy Calogheros has made more sincere and meaningful efforts at Indigenous reconciliation and partnership in the last four years leading Exploration Place than Trudeau has in four years leading the country.

Prince George area voters are blessed to have such strong candidates. Too bad their party leaders couldn’t be more like they are.

Healthcare Foundation and sports, arts and cultural organizations. The companies that support the major companies also often appear in lists of donors. Think of companies like Rolling Mix, Inland, Huber Farm Equipment, IDL, IFS, CN, PWB, IRL and TWD.

Kathy Nadalin has written for the past seven years in The Citizen about the people who built Prince George. Many of the names in her two books appear on the back of programs for arts and cultural events, sporting events, etc.  There is so much good here. So much generosity.

Perhaps the best way to inform yourself on all the side benefits of our various resource extraction industries, is to read the sponsor list at the next event you are at. Check your child or grandchild’s sports or arts club list of donors. Check the symphony’s donors. Check the Spirit of the North wall of donors. When your child receives a scholarship, check the donor.  These companies and their employees have built a better life for us all. Change is inevitable, and environmental protection is worthwhile, but unless we are willing to go back to the pre-industrial era and live like the Indigenous people did, we need to take a breather. Let’s allow reason, and not panic, to inform us.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

FIRST IMPRESSION BAD

This year, my partner and I made the decision to “move up” to Prince George. We were drawn to the city by the promise of excellent education and work opportunities and a high quality of life. We are truly grateful for the kindness that folks here have shown us, and would very much like to put down roots and raise our young family.

Now, as we expect the birth of our first child, I can assure you that having a petrochemical plant in our backyard was not on our wish list.

What happens when you begin to locate multiple noxious industries in a single place?

Everyone who can afford to move will move, further spurring disinvestment and compounding existing social issues, leaving the most vulnerable to bear the brunt of the consequences. This is a devastating cultural and psychological loss as much as it is a financial one. It cannot be compensated for by an industry tax, no matter how severe. No amount of doctored reassurance from a corporate CEO will convince me that living next to a noxious industry is good for my family’s health. We are being told that we cannot have both a healthy economy and a healthy environment. Do not accept this. It is not just a privilege, but a fundamental right, to have access to high quality job opportunities and safe, clean spaces to raise our families.

Is it unreasonable to ask our local elected officials to have our best interests in mind? Certainly not. I find it cruel and unconscio-

nable that these officials would capitalize on a starved forestry sector to invite noxious industry to town. Let us be frank –the solution to these economic woes is not another boom and bust industry. The hardworking people of this city deserve better. Do not take advantage of their struggle to sell them jobs at the cost of their health.

So, I would have to agree with the mayor that this proposed development is a “game changer,” just not the one he has in mind.

Monika Krzywania

Prince George

BLAME THE KIDS?

To all the citizens angry at children: wow, you are so right! I never knew that children, who cannot vote, had some much power. I didn’t know that they were shaping the economy to such a high degree.

This clearly explains why so many companies are headed by children, who insist on mass production of goods. Of course, it makes so much sense.

It must be the children, instead of the people who can vote and enact change in the world, who are at fault.

The people who can vote spent the last fifty years trying their best to improve the world, and never installed AC or drove cars or needlessly bought things.

They were saints and the children they raised are devils who hate the world and only pretend to care.

How silly of me.

August Denz

Prince George

HOW YOU VOTED:

With 43 per cent and 428 votes the answer was “yes, it’s about time he got the boot.”

Following that answer with 27 per cent and 264 votes was “yes, what happens in the U.S. is important to Canada.”

Trailing with 20 per cent and 202 votes was “no, it’s a fake news presidential harassment witch hunt” and then with 10 per cent and 96 votes was “no, we’ve got an election going on here.”

The total votes was 990. Remember this is not a scientific poll.

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BUILD THE PLANT

West Coast Olefins wants to build a petrochemical plant here in Prince George to the tune of some $5.6 billion. That’s with a “b.” Maybe it’s my age or something but I think this is a big deal but there has hardly been a murmur from the community at large since the initial announcement – either for or against.

So I am going  to step up to the plate and with great enthusiasm say,  “good on them, and welcome to Prince George,  and I am for it,  and let’s as a community get behind them.”

At this time in our history, when the opportunities out there in the forestry sector appear to be in decline, we need a boost in good, high paying, permanent jobs and would this ever be a boost. Huge numbers of workers would be needed during construction but the really big news is over a 1,000 direct employees when the plant is up and running. This will mean huge numbers of more jobs in the community plus more to come with the additional plants that WCO say will result from it. These are high paying, highly skilled, long term, permanent jobs.

Olefins are used to manufacture long wearing, tough, colourful fabrics used for such things as automotive upholstery and carpets. The WCO plant proposed for our city would manufacture olefin pellets that would be shipped to customers all over the world that manufacture these fabrics.  Demand for these products is strong and growing.

The naysayers are worried about the

A letter to Greta Thunberg

Greetings. I commend you on your recent address to world leaders, who are too often sheltered from the truth. Despite our political differences, the desire to yell at naked emperors is a shared interest; even much of the language would be the same, since “you have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words” is an apt description of our political realities. Yet I am writing you to offer advice and caution, using a delicate tone because of your not so advanced age, though it ought to be noted you are not even a full 20 years my junior.

Before you were born, people who could well be your older siblings or cousins grew up in a triumphant world. The Cold War had ended, the global economy was buoyant, and optimism about the future was widespread in the generation entering adolescence as well as adulthood.

Then, at the beginning of this century, 19 men killed 3,000 people with four planes on Sept. 11, 2001. This created a surveillance

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state in every developed country and motivated many people to imitate those heinous acts. My country is a belligerent in one of the theatres for the War on Terror - after 18 years, strategic victory has still not been achieved.

From the harassment at airports to the secret courts of the state, our liberties have been crippled with no recovery in sight. There are better ways of meeting the threat of extremism but few bother to take up the issue of civil liberties. I offer this as a first example of a man-made problem with several man-made solutions available, yet the situation only worsens over time.

The second bookend of the generation just before yours is the financial crisis of 2008, which also caused the Eurozone crisis. Here again, a few bad actors made

the whole world suffer by gambling with the foundations of our market system: mortgages and sovereign debt.

America has just begun to recover after a decade, but your home, Europe, still has 50 per cent unemployment in places and your political union is constantly threatened by populists who can trace their lineage to the moment Brussels and Berlin began attempts to save the EU and Euro, whatever the cost might be. All this is my second example of entirely man-made problems that have dozens of proven man-made solutions, yet policy makers refuse to act accordingly.

Let us now turn to your cause du jour, climate change. I mean no offence when stating the following: there is perhaps nothing more complicated on Earth than what is happening to the environment and the climate, yet you are calling on governments to try and solve this problem?

I fully empathize with your passion and frustration. My adolescence and adulthood were darkened by forces far beyond my control, particularly the malicious intentions of wicked men.

potential air quality and pollution issues. Certainly we should all be concerned, questions need to be asked, we need assurance from government that only the highest standards will be acceptable and all of the possible safe guards must be put in place.   But don’t just say no because there are some concerns.

I am 83 years old so I talk to a lot of old people, some of who are opposed to the project. Not in my back yard they say.  To those folks I say, “shame on you.”

All of you,  if you have lived here for any time at all, owe the wonderful life you enjoyed as well as the pensions and benefits you now have at least in part if not completely to the forest and other resource industries. Our generation lived high on the hog from the jobs, both direct and indirect, as well as the stumpage and taxes poured into this area by those resource industries. Now many of those jobs are disappearing and you want to say it was OK for us but the next generation is going to have to be happy with either leaving here or trying to get by on lower paying, part time, no benefit work. I don’t want to see our town slowly fade into obscurity as sawmills close, logging contractors shut down, and pulp mills pull back on employment and nothing there to replace those highly paid, skilled jobs.

I have confidence that West Coast Olefin will build their plant to the highest standards known today and, as our current industries did, they will improve those standards as better technology becomes available.

But as I have just finished briefly describing, entirely closed systems within peoplekind’s control – political-economy, liberal democracy, justice, the conduct of war – are issues we as a species are not dealing with very well. Thus, I strongly doubt the ability of our institutions and leaders to solve a problem as non-linear and open-ended as the climate on God’s green Earth. Without getting bogged down in the various talking-points surrounding this issue, and to keep this missive brief, I humbly suggest that instead of yelling at world leaders who are all but deaf to our complaints, perhaps the best thing we can do is try to save the world right where we are. From heating our homes with recycled plastic waste to community cleanups that help keep animals safe from pollutants, there are many options for eco-friendly solutions at the local level.

In the end, only our personal ethics and efforts can make any real difference, no matter the challenge we face. Like charity, the duty of care to our God-given dominion starts at home.

NATHAN GIEDE

John Warner Prince George

HISTORY NEEDS HOLISTIC VIEW

The great German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, “Durchs Suchen und Stolpern lernen wir,” or “By seeking and blundering we learn.”

How true this is on so many levels. If we take the time to understand our mistakes, life is rich on so many levels.

As individuals, none of us is immune to error. When we examine why things did not work out as we’d hoped, can find new and more effective ways to move forward. A child will never learn to walk unless she is willing to fall, get back up and try again. We become aware of how to do things correctly by paying attention to our errors. We need not dwell on them; we need simply learn and move forward.

The same concept applies to our social interactions. We learn that some people are trustworthy and some are not. Some are good friends, good leaders, good colleagues, and others need to be looked on with compassion, yet kept at arm’s length.The key is to develop a sense of awareness and learn

My little nephew Ty has dark brown skin and curly black hair.

His father, a Jamaican man, has much darker skin than he does.  His mother – my wife’s sister – has much lighter skin than Ty.  She is white.

Ty’s skin colour is a combination of his mother and father but there was only a 50 per cent chance of that happening. There was a 25 per cent chance that his skin could have been as dark as his dad’s, as well as a 25 per cent chance that his skin more closely matched that of his mother.

Twenty years from now, Ty could meet someone just like him – a woman with dark brown skin and curly black hair and is the product of a union between a black man and a white woman. Their children could have the same skin colour as their parents but there is a significant chance – as high as 50 per cent – that their child could have the same light skin colour as their grandmothers.

Would anyone believe Ty and his equally dark-skinned partner when they would tell

the valuable lessons life offers to us, mindful of the ever-expanding base of knowledge regarding human behavior offered to us by the science of psychology.

On a societal level, it is vital that we understand the lessons of history. In essence, we live in a world of failed and successful social experiments. Though it can be difficult to determine cause and effect with certainty due to inaccuracies in the recording of history, repeating patterns tend to reveal deeper truths.

It is also important to remove judgment from our analysis of mistakes. Just because we trusted an untrustworthy person does not make us a fool. Just because a certain political philosophy led to a period of war and destruction does not mean that the

the world their white son or daughter is their biological child?

If Ty had been born with a skin colour much like his mother’s, he likely could identify as white, even with that curly dark hair. And if he were to meet a woman just like him – same skin colour, same product of mixed-race parents – the odds are also as much as 50 per cent that these two white adults could have black children.

Again, would anyone believe them if two white adults would introduce their black son or daughter as their biological child?

Such are the mysteries of heredity, explored with joyful zeal in Carl Zimmer’s book She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity.

Heredity skips generations all the time, as we all know.

My adult biological daughter is shorter

purveyors of this view were all evil, it just means the concept must be seen for what it is, a very bad idea.

In my own studies, I find it very easy to label figures like Hitler, Goebbels, Mao, Stalin and King Leopold II as the epitome of evil. Deeper analysis, however, reveals that they were frail, frightened and unbelievably insecure human beings who felt constantly threatened.

What then is the deeper lesson? Perhaps it is to learn to recognize destructive styles of leadership and respond to them effectively. At the end of the Second World War, we promised “never again.” Making that reality involves more than squashing despots when they rise to power, it means promoting systems of fair governance and choosing principled leaders.

The study of history also reveals that there are always people who live with a sense of integrity which allows them to see the faults of their leaders and requires them to take a stand according to their own values, regardless of the cost.

Where there are tyrants, there are always

than both me and her mother. She’s also shorter than three of her grandparents. Her shortness was clearly influenced by the one grandparent she is taller than – her grandmother (my mother), who is only fourfoot-ten.

Yet Zimmer explains in his book that there is no one gene that determines an individual’s height. Rather, height is influenced by as many as 100 genes, meaning that it is impossible to predict a child’s adult height. There are simply too many interactions among too many genes to even hazard a guess.

Still with interactions, Zimmer notes that heredity and ancestry are two different things. I am a descendant of Nicolas Godbout, who came to Canada from France in 1651. From a genetic standpoint, however, I carry virtually none of his genes because so many generations separate us.

The difference between heredity and ancestry gets even funkier when flipped around. If I could identify a specific ancestor who lived 2,000 years ago, that person wouldn’t just be related to me but to quite possibly every living person on Earth. The statistical model to show this was the case

rescuers. We see the brave souls who sacrificed their lives to hide Jews from the Nazis. We study the accounts those who put their credibility at risk to unveil the horrendous crimes of the powerful King of Belgium was committing in Africa. We read the disturbing words of the Russian novelist Solzhenitsyn, who revealed to the world the truth of Soviet oppression.

It can be argued that the greatest mistake we made in the past was in trusting the wrong people to lead us and ignoring those who lived by the principles of love, respect, compassion, and moral courage. Looking back with the eyes of wisdom, we can see who was right.

Today, we are writing the history that our descendants will study. Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer them is to truly learn from the blunders of our ancestors.

Gerry Chidiac is a champion for social enlightenment, inspiring others to find their greatness in making the world a better place. For more of his writings, go to www.gerrychidiac.com.

was first developed in the 1990s, Zimmer explains, years before genetic proof caught up to the theory.

Family trees aren’t trees at all but intertwined hedges impossible to untangle.

Despite the fact we experience the world as individuals, our genetic identity paints a far more complex picture of who we really are. The view of humanity through a microscope more closely matches that seen of us from the vastness of space, as well as the depths of time.

We are as connected to other humans and to all other living things – not only in the present and in the distant past of hundreds of millions of years but also going forward until life ceases to exist on this planet –as the hair on our heads is linked to our toenails.

When I look at Ty, my eyes deceive me into believing he is not of me, nor I of him.

Yet I am Ty’s uncle and he is my nephew.  The real, spectacular truth is that every man, everywhere and everywhen, is Ty’s uncle.

And every boy, everywhere and everywhen, is my nephew.

OUR CARBONATED UNIVERSE

One of the fundamental principles taught to chemistry students is the law of conservation of mass. In any chemical reaction, the amount of mass in equals the amount of mass out.

Put in slightly better terms, it is the law of the conservation of atoms. With the exception of a few nuclear processes, the total number of atoms on the planet stays the same. They just get rearranged in different compounds. It is a bit like having a Lego set where the number of bricks stays the same but there are a number of ways they can be put together.

The fourth most abundant element in the universe is carbon and, of all the elements, it has the ability to form the widest array of compounds over a number of different oxidation states. A highly versatile element, it can be found everywhere from simple compounds such as carbon dioxide, methane, and carbonate minerals to extremely complex species such as DNA, saxitoxin, and Vitamin B12. To push the analogy, carbon is the standard two-by-four brick of the Lego set, involved in so many different and important structures.

Carbon also moves through the carbon cycle, engaging with the various components of the Earth surface – from water to soil and sediment and back again, from the air to the oceans, lakes, and rivers and back again, and from the air to soil and sediments and back again. We are finally at a point where we have a good understanding of the processes

involved.

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According to the Deep Carbon Observatory, a 10-year research project which has been amassing data on all aspects of carbon on Earth, there is 1.85 billion giga-tonnes (Gt) of carbon with 99 per cent of that buried deep in the crust and mantle in the form of carbonates.

On the surface or outer layers of the Earth, there are 43,500 Gt of carbon compounds and the majority of that –38,340 Gt – can be found in the oceans. Not as sea creatures but as carbonate ions formed from the dissolution of carbon dioxide into the waters and dead or decaying organic matter from various organisms. The amount of carbon in ocean biota is estimated to be about three Gt.

The amount of carbonate ions in the ocean is like a chequing account in which carbon is both deposited and withdrawn on a continual basis. Approximately 96 Gt of carbon is sequestered in the ocean each year while 96.9 Gt is released.

This might not seem like a huge amount, being only 0.2 per cent of the total in the ocean, but these fluxes of carbon across the air/water boundary are responsible for stabilizing the atmospheric concentration of

carbon dioxide. Further, since more carbon is being released than is being sequestered, the process is presently aiding in the total carbon found in the atmosphere.

One of the other foundations of chemistry is the difference between thermodynamics and kinetics. Thermodynamics tells us where the destination is and kinetics tells us how fast we will get there. Rates matter. In the case of carbon shifting between the various reservoirs in the carbon cycle, the rate of sequestration and release are critical.

The rate at which carbonate is absorbed by the ocean to be converted to calcium carbonate or other species and eventually form new sediment on the bottom of the ocean is only 2 Gt per year from terrestrial sources. On the other hand, we are adding about 9 Gt to the atmosphere through the combustion of fossil fuels, the deforestation of terrestrial ecosystems, from livestock, and other processes. If we think of this in terms of money, we are spending $9 per year and only making $2 Not a recipe for success.

Of course, life also takes up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The best estimates we have suggest a further 3 Gt end up in living organisms on the planet – mostly bacteria which dominate life. But the net result, when we consider the equation, is we are putting 9 Gt into the atmosphere and only removing 5 Gt annually. It is easy to see why carbon – in the form of carbon dioxide, carbon

On the other hand, we are adding about 9 Gt to the atmosphere through the combustion of fossil fuels, the deforestation of terrestrial ecosystems, from livestock, and other processes.

monoxide, and methane – is increasing in the atmosphere.

Celina Suarez at the University of Arkansas and with the DCO points out we are destabilizing the carbon cycle with our activities. Throughout the last 500 million years – the period when complex animal and plant life has existed on Earth – the carbon cycle has been in balance for 99 per cent of the time – with inputs into reservoirs matching outputs.

However, four periods are known when the cycle has become unbalanced. “Those occurrences are correlated to mass extinction events” according to Suarez, such as the end-Permian extinction which eliminated 90 per cent of all species.

And with the balance once again out of whack, we seem to be heading towards an extinction of our own making.

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College Heights boys fall in final

TED CLARKE Staff Reporter tclarke@pgcitizen.ca

The College Heights Cougars were serving up a comeback and Emmanuel Adefisayo was dishing out the punishment.

He reeled off seven straight serves in the third and deciding set of the gold-medal match, giving the Centennial Christian Seahawks all kinds of trouble on their side of court at the Jon Bragg Memorial senior boys volleyball tournament Saturday night at College Heights gym.

The Seahawks, who had been just four points away from wrapping up the tournament title, continued to suffer when they missed a pass in the backcourt which dropped them a point down to the Cougars. Adefisayo’s string of winners from the serve line came to an end when Jacob Ringma, the Seahawks exquisite power hitter, landed a tip that put the ball back in the hands of the visitors from Terrace.

Facing championship point, Cougars power Isaiah Ohori kept his team alive with a big kill but the Seahawks, who rank No. 2 among single-A teams in B.C., finished it with a sideline tip that sealed a 25-23, 22-25, 15-13 victory.

“They’re a really good team, Jacob runs the floor really well for them,” said Cougars head coach Linden Smith. “He’s a great blocker, great setter, great offensively and defensively, he does everything and on defence they got some stuff up that most teams would not. It’s good for us to play against those teams because it gives us more experience being gritty on defence.”

The Seahawks have just over a month to prepare for the single-A provincial tournament that starts Nov. 21 in South Slocan. The double-A provincials are in Langley beginning Nov. 27.

The Cougars, ranked fifth provincially on the double-A list, were at their best in the second set of the final. Ohori staked them to a lead with a series of solid serves, backed by a few alert plays at the net from power hitter Eli Woldringh and middle blocker Ethan Costley - both provincial team players this summer. Ringma’s smashing power and Skylar Mantel’s well-placed tips kept the Seahawks close at 19-19 but the Cougars pulled away and finished the set on the referee’s whistle when Jonas Struyk reached over the net before the Cougars had their three touches.

“It was a great match, back and forth the whole game,” said Costley. “They went on a few runs and we went on a few runs. We kind of got down a bit but then brought it back and we just got a little complacent and they took it.”

There were no awards handed out but Ringma was the obvious choice for tournament MVP. He showed he has the experience and athleticism to know when to slam it down and when to tip to find open hardwood.

“He really did a number on us,” said Woldringh, a Grade 10 player on a seniorstacked Cougar squad. “It was a great game for each team. I think we definitely could have gotten a couple more passes up but both teams played great and it was wellfought. I think we all played great.”

The Cedars Christian Eagles, ranked sixth in single-A, were the surprise team of the tournament, winning bronze in a three-setter (25-23, 18-25, 15-11) over the D.P. Todd Trojans. Cedars won its first quarterfinal playoff of the season in three sets, knocking off the favoured Duchess Park Condors, who came in with double-A provincial honourable mention status.

The Eagles have five returning starters from the team that hosted the single-A pro-

College Heights Cougars player Eli Woldringh spikes the ball against Centennial Christian School Seahawks blockers Luke Shimizu (7) and Ben Mantel (4) on Saturday evening at the College Heights Secondary gymnasium. The two teams met in the championship game of the Jon Bragg Memorial Senior Boys Volleyball Tournament.

vincials last year. They’re led by six-foot-four power hitter Lucas Crosina, their team MVP at the Jon Bragg tournament.

“He’s tall and skinny and he jumps through the roof,” said Eagles head coach Roland Rempel. “He touches the top of the antenna and he’s a big part of why we’re finding success. D.P. Todd’s two big hitters (Matt Graham and Holden Black) swung really well

GIRLS RUGBY MAKING COMEBACK

Until the Prince George Youth Rugby Association picked up the ball and ran with it, the rugby scene for high school-aged girls was headed into a death spiral. With the exception of a senior girls team at Prince George Secondary School and pockets of interest in Smithers, Houston and Williams Lake, high school teams in the region have gone the way of the dodo, succumbing to low numbers and pressure from school administrators who would rather not see girls playing a full-contact sport.

But that would mean too much potential national team talent going to waste.

The success of Canada’s national sevens women’s team as bronze medalists at the 2016 Olympics, coming off a top-four finish at the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series in April, has encouraged the B.C. Rugby Association and Rugby Canada to throw their support behind a three-club girls league which has its roots in Prince George.

The Prince George Junior Vixens hosted an icebreaker tournament a few weeks ago at Masich Place Stadium and invited the Lake City Rustlers and Fort St. John Mini Marks to

join them in a series of mini games.

“This is really good for the north, girls will get a lot more opportunities to play at a higher level,” said Vixens veteran Taylor Keba, a member of the B.C. provincial 15s team who captained the now-defunct high school team at Kelly Road. “There’s so much talent in the north and if they have no outlet for it then it doesn’t get noticed.”

Keba started playing three years ago and has loved the game ever since, but there weren’t enough of her school colleagues who shared her passion for rugby.

“It is a huge commitment to come out to

but we just stuck with our gameplan and kept focusing on them and our defence paid off for us and we got some digs.”

After a weekend off for Thanksgiving, the Cougars and Condors will be in Kelowna for the Best of the West tournament, Oct. 17-18. The Eagles have three weeks to prepare for their next tournament in Abbotsford.

practices, there’s lots of different skills rugby requires and if you don’t come to practices it’s really hard to play well in a game,” she said.

Keba is looking forward to joining the UBC Junior Thunderbirds team to Bermuda in March for a sevens tournament and as part of the B.C. provincial team she’s making plans to play in the Salt Lake Sevens tournament next August in Utah.

“There are just so many opportunities, I would never have imagined I would go this far in the sport when I started,” Keba said. “I See JUNIOR VIXENS, page 14

Soccer trio wrapping up UNBC

JUNIOR VIXENS, from page 13

just love the team concept of it, it’s unlike any sport I’ve ever played. It’s really a family. I’ve done basketball and volleyball and a whole bunch of sports and I’ve never had a team that appreciates me like this. I’ve never been so confident in my life. There’s nothing like going to a different rugby team and everyone’s so friendly and welcoming.”

The three northern club teams are part of the Interior girls sevens league which includes teams from Kamloops, Kelowna, Merritt and Salmon Arm, with tournaments upcoming this fall in Kamloops, Kelowna and Vancouver.

The high school team concept didn’t work in North Central B.C. because there weren’t enough girls with rugby experience to sustain it. Pooling the talent to form one club team in each city gives coaches more athletes to choose from and those players can work on skills in practice against teammates of similar ability so they’re better-prepared for the opponents they’ll face at club tournaments.

“Typical of small-town sports, you’d have two strong players on each team and that doesn’t work, they would just run the ball all the time and get hurt,” said Junior Vixens head coach Jeremy Cundy. “Now, in the club, you get everybody who works together.”

TED CLARKE Staff Reporter tclarke@pgcitizen.ca

After five seasons chasing her soccer dreams with the UNBC Timberwolves, Julia Babicz has come to realize the end of her career as a university-level midfielder is near.

Sunday’s 1-1 tie with the Fraser Valley Cascades at Masich Place Stadium was the last U Sports Canada West regular season home game Babicz will play for the T-wolves, who entered her life when she started training with the team in 2012 as a Grade 9 student living in College Heights.

“When a program like that incorporates younger players, just like we do now with the Junior Timberwolves, it gets the community very excited, I didn’t want to play for anyone else, it didn’t even cross my mind,” said Babicz. “I just wanted to

The 12-player Junior Vixens roster includes high school players from Kelly Road, Duchess Park, PGSS, and College Heights. Nico Marshall, a 16-year-old Duchess Park student, loves the game, even when it causes her pain. She took an elbow to the face in practice and was left with a bit of shiner under her eye, but for Marshall that just comes with the territory.

“It is a rough sport but if you play it properly it’s really fun,” said Marshall, who tried competitive swimming and volleyball. “You don’t really get hurt if you know how to tackle and how to get hit. If you’re watching it it’s a little scary but you have to try it, it’s an acquired taste. I wasn’t a contact-sport person before I tried it.”

“You know it’s a good game when you come out with really big bruises and if you don’t then you know you haven’t played your hardest,” added Marshall’s Vixen teammate Camryn Ossi.

The path to Canada’s national program has already been established for girls from the

play for my hometown and for my family and friends. I think if I would have gone anywhere else I wouldn’t have got the same experience and I wouldn’t have developed as much.”

Babicz was nursing an ankle injury Sunday and was limited to 56 minutes of playing time. She was on the sidelines when teammate Sofia Jones notched the tying goal in the 84th minute.

The 22-year-old daughter of Walter and Michelle Babicz joined the team as a Canada West rookie in 2015 and has been a fixture ever since. Assuming Babicz plays all four remaining games this month she will end the season having played 68 regular season games, one more than the team-high 67 games Madison Emmond suited up for in her career after she graduated the Prince George youth soccer ranks.

Babicz is one of only five T-wolves in the

north now that Alicia Sorken, a former Junior Vixen/Duchess Park Condor, is attending Belmont Secondary School in Victoria while playing for Rugby Canada’s junior development team. Another Vixens player, Lani Loth, who just moved to Prince George from Houston, plays for the B.C. elite girls team. Cundy and Junior Vixens co-coach Mabel Elsner, a former PGSS player, are trying to start a women’s team in Prince George. For now, boys rugby in Prince George is nonexistent.

“There’s no interest at all,” Cundy said. “The real reason is football, the football community doesn’t promote rugby. But if you look in the Lower Mainland, those guys are playing rugby and football because the complement each other. Things you get from rugby, like safer tackling, ball-handling and footwork, you could implement that in football.”

The Junior Vixens practice Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-7 p.m. at Duchess Park field.

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UNBC Timberwolves seniors Jenna Wild, left, Ashley Volk, and Julia Babicz pose for a photo on Sunday afternoon at Masich Place Stadium after playing in their final home game in Timberwolves colours.

When a program like that incorporates younger players, just like we do now with the Junior Timberwolves, it gets the community very excited, I didn’t want to play for anyone else, it didn’t even cross my mind.

starting lineup for 50 or more Canada West games. She grew up watching local girls take on major roles wearing the T-wolves’ green and gold as the team made the transition from its early days in the B.C. Colleges Athletic Association to university soccer in the Canada West Conference and it made her want to stick with soccer.

“I came out and watched (Prince George) girls like Sydney Hall, Sidney Roy, Sydney Wilson, Fiona Raymond and Tianna Pius and that was all at (North Cariboo Field) and I was aspiring to play at that field and now we have this beautiful new facility (the revamped Masich Place Stadium), the newest in Canada West and we’re very blessed,” said Babicz. “It just shows the younger girls that this is a good league and you don’t have to travel outside of Canada to get good soccer.”

Babicz will graduate in the spring with a business degree and plans to apply for law

school.

The T-wolves also paid tribute to two other Canada West veterans who won’t be returning next season – second-year midfielder Jenna Wild and third-year defender Ashley Volk. Wild is going back to her Victoria hometown to finish off her education degree at UVic with designs on a career as an elementary school teacher.

“It’s going to be so sad to go,” said the 21-year-old Wild. “I think it’s really easy to play well and have fun when you have these kind of people around you and a big part of it is the team culture Neil (head coach Sedgwick) has created. He’s created an environment where we’re comfortable to grow and to be ourselves and that’s been really key performance-wise and effort-wise.”

Volk plans to attend the Justice Institute of B.C. in New Westminster to get her training so she can work alongside her police officer father Corey with the Saanich Police Department.

Volk, 21, a two-time Academic All-Canadian has been a starter for 37 of her 38 games since arriving for the 2017 season. She’s made the playoffs in each of her previous two seasons and despite a tough schedule ahead of them the next four games she has faith they will make the postseason for a third time.

“Everybody before us has worked tremendously hard to get to where we are today and there’s some vets on the team who have put in the time,” said Volk. “It’s been a great opportunity since I’ve been here that we’ve been fortunate enough to make playoffs but it’s a team effort. We hope to do the same this year and finish off on a high note and hopefully they continue to do it when I leave.”

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Rhinehart climbing depth chart

TED CLARKE Staff Reporter tclarke@pgcitizen.ca

It seems only fitting that Rhett Rhinehart is paired with Ryan Schoettler on the Prince George Cougars blueline. Although they’re two years apart in age, they grew up a two-minute walk away from each other in Lloydminster, a city of 31,000 that straddles the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.

“I kind of just knew of him when I was younger because I always used to watch his team and we kind of started talking more when I was traded here, just having the Lloydminster bond,” said Rhinehart. Rhinehart arrived in Prince George in the January 2018 trade from the Prince Albert Raiders, along with fellow defenceman Austin Crossley and the Raiders’ first-round bantam draft pick in 2018 which the Cougars used to draft goalie Tyler Brennan. The Cougars sent winger Kody McDonald and a third-round pick to Prince Albert. Since then, the six-foot-three, 200-

pound Rhinehart has emerged as a bruising defenceman, not afraid to throw his weight around but also armed with the skills needed to generate offence. The Cougars earned their first win Saturday, a 4-1 triumph at CN Centre over the Kelowna Rockets, which came 24 hours after they lost a 2-1 decision to the Rockets on a late power-play goal.

The 18-year-old Rhinehart assisted on on Josh Maser’s goal in Friday’s game and had four shots on goal as the second star of the game. He proved his durability and showed his ofensive upside last season, playing all 68 games while generating five goals and 24 points.

“It’s a little different than when I first came to the Cougars in my 16-year-old year, I wasn’t getting the most icetime trying to fit into a new area and playing bits and pieces,” he said. “In my 18-year-old year season now I’ve taken on more responsibility offensively and defensively, and I think I’ve prepared myself well for it.”

The Cougars lost their first five games this season and were the last WHL team to register a point but Rhinehart says Cougar fans should not be worried. He says they’re much better than their 1-4-0-1 record would indicate.

“It may not look good but we deserved to win most of those games,” he said. “I think

Cougars get new bus

The Prince George Cougars will be boarding a brand-new bus when they embark on road trips this Western Hockey League season.

As the team’s transportation provider, Pacific Western Transportation is supplying a customized Prevost coach bus

“equipped with the latest in safety and rider comfort” under a new partnership.

“It’s no secret that the Cougars have a very heavy travel schedule, and we are extremely happy to be able to provide our players and coaches with a brand new bus that has state of the art features, and ensures the countless hours they spend on the road are as safe and

COMMUNITY CONNECTION

Rock the Rink

Saturday at 7 p.m. at the CN Centre Rock the Rink, Battle of the Blades combines athletes from two of Canada’s favourite sports, figure skating and hockey to pair up in a high-stakes figure skating competition for the charity of their choice. The cast features Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, Patrick Chan, Kaetlyn Osmond and Elvis Stojko. Also appearing is world-renowned skating talent from Europe and the U.S. Italian Olympic medalist and world champion, Carolina Kostner, plus Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov. And for the first time in seven years Jeremy Abbott, Olympic medalist and U.S. champion will also join the tour. Birds of the Bellwoods will offer musical entertainment as well. Tickets are available at www.ticketsnorth.ca.

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Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Columbus Community Centre, 7201 Domano Blvd., there will be a night of electrifying energy, bright colours and traditional Gujarati dance. It is one of the most sacred festivals in Hinduism where the Goddess Durga or Shakti is worshipped, which represents the energy of the universe, in her nine beautiful forms, with great reverence. Tickets are $10 (including refreshments). For tickets call the Shah brothers store at 250- 561-2620.

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four out of the five games we outshot the other team and weren’t able to prevail and (in Saturday’s game) we capitalized on our opportunities.”

The Rockets came in as the top team in the WHL and the 16-year-old Brennan, in his first WHL start, allowed just one goal on 27 shots for his first career WHL win. That took a ton of weight off the Cougars, who head to Spokane and Tri-Cities for road games Friday and Saturday.

“He came in and shut the door and good on him, he played a heck of a game,” said Rhinehart, who has four assists in six games this year. “Me and (Schoettler) played shutdown against their top line and we held them to pretty much nothing and it feels good doing that.

“I love to play physical and if I ever get the opportunity to jump into the offence I really like to do that. Coming in as a 16-year-old and having guys four years older than you, it’s a lot different from midget hockey. This is Year 3, and just the level of comfort goes way up.”

comfortable as possible,” said Cougars’ vice president for business Andy Beesley.

“With three-point safety belts on every seat, an excellent entertainment system, plenty of extra leg room, and many other features, we believe our players and coaches are going to have one of the best travel options in the WHL.”

PWT vice president for transit, Greg Nichols, said the company is “extremely proud to partner with the Prince George Cougars as their bus transportation provider” and provide a coach bus equipped with the latest technology. Ralph Posteraro will continue as the team’s bus driver this season. It’s a position he’s held for nearly two decades.

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Saturday at 8141 Otway Rd., there is the inaugural Turkey Trot 5K at Oway, where costumes will be encouraged and homemade prizes of pie will be awarded with cash registration only between 8:30 and 8:45 am on race day. Donations to Caledonia Nordic youth ski programs will be gratefully accepted. This will be a low tech timing event for those that wish to race. Two turkeys will be handed out after the race, one for the overall race winner, and the other as a draw prize. $10 adults, $5 kids (12 and under), or family rate $25. For more information or to donate a draw prize or volunteer, email susanneacweber@gmail.com.

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Monday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Huble Homestead Historic Site is hosting a Thanksgiving celebration during its last weekend of the regular season. Join in to have some traditional fun with games like apple bobbing, scarecrow making, and crafts. Learn how pioneers prepared for winter with the heritage demonstrations, try the special seasonal lunch menu, and take a browse through the General Store before the historic site closes for winter. Huble Homestead Historic Site is located 40 km north of Prince George, just off Highway 97 on Mitchell Road. For more information call 250-564-7033 or visit hublehomestead.ca.

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WEEK OF OCTOBER

6 TO 12, 2019

ThE luCKiEsT signs This WEEK: Aries, TAurus A nd Gemini

ARIES

You’ll make new friends or network contacts that benefit you in the long run. Your busy schedule makes it difficult to balance your career and family life this week. It’s time to start managing your time better.

TAURUS

You’ll be overwhelmed in all aspects of your life, but you’ll ma nage to get everything done in time. Having some fun will put the smile back on your face, so don’t hesitate to buy tickets to see an artist you love.

GEMINI

You’ll hear about an amazing deal on a trip to a tropical paradise and decide to take a last-minute vacation. Solo or in a relationship, breaking up your routine will invigorate you.

CANCER

A passionate dreamer, you have ideas that are beyond comprehension. To make these dreams a reality, you’ll need determination and audacity. Stop trying to please everyone, and you’ll shape your world as you see fit.

LEO

At work, you’ll bring together your colleagues or clients in a festive way to celebrate signing a big contract. In your love life, you’ll see signs of commitment. If you’re single, you’ll be sought after.

VIRGO

Work or your health will take up a good portion of your time. In either case, you’ll succeed in arranging things to make your life better in the future. An honest conversation will put things into perspective.

LIBRA

You’ll pay some much-needed attention to your wellbeing this week. Also, you’ll be congratulated for one reason or another and put on a pedestal. In your love life, it’s time to swap moments of passion for a lifetime of devotion.

SCORPIO

Happiness is inside you. Once you’ve found it, it’ll shine on your family, your friends and on everyone you love. Your joy is contagious. It’s important to be happy in your daily life.

SAGITTARIUS

You’ll be on the move a lot, both at work and in your social life. You’ll organize an event on a strict budget that will bring people together. In your love life, you’ll hear words that reflect your emotions.

CAPRICORN

You’ll work twice as hard at the office, which will bring in some extra income. When they observe your work ethic, your bosses will have no choice but to offer you a promotion. Be generous in your love life: you’ll get back as much as you put in.

AQUARIUS

There’s lots going on this week. Not only do you have a ton of work, but a number of activities will be spontaneously thrown together. You’ll find the perfect balance between having fun and working hard.

PISCES

You’re entering a rather ambiguous period. You could try to swim against the current, but it would be better to let the elements guide you to your destination. Stress will oblige you to listen to the messages your body is sending you.

INPUT SOUGHT ON WILDFIRE PLAN

Citizen staff

The city’s plan to reduce the threat posed by wildfire will be the subject of a public information session.

It’s set for Thursday at the Columbus Community Centre in College Heights from 7-9 p.m.

The plan involves clearing forested areas of dead and highly flammable vegetation. Typically, mature healthy trees are retained, while immature and unhealthy smaller trees are removed.

Five areas are being targeted:

• Malaspina: Just west of the Fraser River, to the south and west of Loedel Crescent;

• Broddy Road: South of Tyner Blvd., west of Highway 97 West;

• Pidherny: North of North Nechako Blvd., west of Foothills Blvd.;

• Vellencher: Near the intersection of Austin Road, and Foothills Blvd.;

• Dever: East of North Nechako Road, south of North Meadow Road, and Newglen Place. Work is scheduled to begin in 2021 with Malaspina, Broddy and Pidherny areas making up the first stage.

It remains pending receiving grant money from the Union of British Columbia Municipalities’ community resiliency investment program.

After a presentation from Diamond Head consulting, representatives from the City, Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development and Diamond Head Consulting will be on hand to answer questions.

TOY RUN RAISES $2,000

The Prince George Harley Owners Group’s 38th annual Toy Run drew more than 300 riders and raised over $2,000 in cash and gift cards.

Held Sept. 29, it also generated six pallets worth of toys and stuffed animals.

All the proceeds are going to the Salvation

Army’s Christmas Hamper program.

“We are grateful for the ongoing partnership with the Harley Owners Group,” Salvation Army Major Neil Wilkinson said. “Teaming up with the community, we are able to meet the needs of the most vulnerable people in our community.”

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Maritime girl followed her big, handsome logger

RSENIORS’ SCENE

KATHY NADALIN

uby (Hooper) Miles was born, in the home of her grandparents, in a fishing village in Back Bay, New Brunswick in 1935. Her father was a carpenter and worked for the Department of National Defense on the army base in Oromocto, N.B.

By 1965, Ruby was a single mom with three sons from a previous marriage and working in the social welfare department for the town of Oromocto. Her life was good, she was happy and her daily routine was quite calm until she met a big, handsome logger from British Columbia. Her life started to change in the spring of 1965 when she met Charles (Chuck) H. Miles. Chuck had come to town on a vacation to visit his parents and they happened to meet through mutual friends.

Ruby said, “Our first date was a dinner date and every day after that he arrived at my office with lunch. We walked to the park by the river, ate our lunch and chatted a mile a minute and got to know one another. He invited me to dinner at the home of his parents so that we could all meet one another. I was impressed because he cooked the entire meal and was pleased to learned that he was an excellent cook as well.

“Chuck knew I was the mother of three sons and he included the boys in everything.

“Before he left to go back to B.C., he asked me to marry him. I just laughed and thought, ‘I hadn’t been on a date for years and now my new friend wanted to marry me.’ It was the last thing on my mind to leave my job and my stable life in New Brunswick to move out west. I told him to just finish his holiday here in Oromocto and go back to B.C. and think it over.

“He returned to his home in Giscome and wrote to me every day and phoned me on the weekends. I was quite impressed. He appeared to be a decent and good man and he had certainly been a gentleman. My boys liked him and pretty soon I started

to miss him. Three months later, I was on the train with my boys headed west to get married.

“My friends, family and work mates thought I was crazy and making a big mistake but my heart told me otherwise. I had always been level headed and I never did anything risky or unknown like this in my life. I always had a lot of responsibilities in my job and had to be very careful and make big decisions. Using those skills and starting with my boys, I considered everything from every angle and felt I was making the right decision.

“I talked it over with my mother, gave notice at work and then I packed up my boys and our belongings and headed to B.C. on the train.

“Chuck met us in Hinton, Alberta and we were married two days later in July of 1965.

“My boys were thrilled to be going out west even though they were going to miss their grandparents.

“We arrived in Giscome; there were no paved roads from Prince George to Giscome and there was a lot of dust along the

way. I can remember wearing this white pleated skirt and every pleat had a brown tinge from the dust. I was surprised by that but it didn’t seem to matter. We arrived to a nice little house that Chuck had prepared for us and started what would be the next 53 years of a good marriage.”

Chuck worked as the wood superintendent for Eagle Lake sawmill which is now part of Northwood.

He was born in Fredericton, N.B. in 1931 and grew up on the family farm at Maurgerville in the Saint John River valley. After high school, he attended the Maritime Forest Ranger school at the University of New Brunswick and worked for a while with the N.B. Forest Service as an assistant forest ranger. In 1952, he moved to Ontario and worked for the Ontario Paper Co. as a timber cruiser.

In 1954, he was employed by the Department of Lands and Mines and worked in the Yukon and Northwest Territories as a land surveyor. In 1956, he was working on the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line as an engineer when the constant daylight of

SENIORS HOUSING RESOURCE NAMED

Citizen staff

There’s a Prince George Council of Seniors housing information coordinator at the Seniors Resource Centre who will be able to answer questions for those 55 years and older about the local housing market. Susan Tapp will be at the office at 721 Victoria St. and is ready to answer all kinds of questions.

One-on-one, Tapp will help people navigate the assisted living, complex care route,

SAFER (shelter aid for elderly renters) and BC Housing applications.

Tapp will be a resource for those who need a guiding hand when it comes to relocation planning including information about landlords, caretakers and building managers, where accessible or pet-friendly housing can be found, what’s available that’s close to bus stops and which grants are available to people who wish to stay in their own homes for as long as possible.

To find out what else might need to be addressed for seniors looking for housing options there is an open dialogue session scheduled for Oct. 29 at the River Bend activity centre, 1444-20th Ave., from 1 to 3 p.m.

Tapp wants to get creative and find out what housing options are missing in the community.

“Let’s think outside the box,” Tapp said. Maybe there’s seniors who are living alone

early summer caused him to head south to Hinton, Alta.

He worked with North West Pulp and Power in Hinton for seven years and then moved to Giscome.

In 1969, Chuck formed his own logging company and logged for Canadian Forest Products for over 20 years. His first and his last employee was Van Ross; they worked together for 30 years.

In 1974, he started building their new log house in Beaverly.

Chuck retired for the first time in 1989. Slowly, he got back into logging and retired again in 1999. Sadly, Chuck passed away in October of 2018.

Ruby said, “We bought a house on Kenwood Street and rented it out until we moved into Prince George in 1968. Later, we moved out to Beaverly to our beautiful home in the Mud River area.

“I was able to be a stay-at-home mom from day one. When the children grew up, I went to work at Ricki’s ladies wear at the Pine Centre Mall for nearly six years.”

Ruby volunteers at the Artist Co-Op Workshop and Gallery and teaches children’s art classes.

She concluded by saying, “I knew that I met my soulmate when I met Chuck. I knew deep down in my heart that I was making the right decision back in 1965. We shared many of the same values; he wasn’t perfect (no one is perfect) but he was a good man.

“Giscome was a great place to start our marriage and raise our family. It was while we lived in Giscome that we added two daughters to complete our family of five children. As they all grew up, we did everything together. Chuck was a great father and taught them many of the life lessons and skills they learned over the years to become the great people that they are today.

“We had five children: Tedd, James, John, Lori and Lisa, who in turn gave us five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. I am so proud of all of them.

“I still have many good friends and fond memories from those years in Giscome.

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the staff and the doctors at the Jubilee Lodge for all their excellent care and attention given to my husband Chuck Miles during his stay before he passed away nearly one year ago.”

who might want another senior as a house mate, Tapp suggested.

Maybe there’s other options that need to be shared and considered.

The housing information coordinator position was made possible by a Ministry of Health grant provided through the Northern Health Authority.

For more information about the program or to make an appointment call 250-552-2820.

Ruby Miles left New Brunswick to join Chuck, the love of her life, in B.C. She’s lived in the Prince George area ever since.

BBBS, TNW partnering on fundraiser

CHRISTINE HINZMANN Staff Reporter chinzmann@pgcitizen.ca

Big Brothers Big Sisters is partnering with Theatre NorthWest to host Gin Blossom: A Speakeasy as a fundraiser where guests will vote for the People’s Choice for best gin cocktail during an evening soiree held at the theatre Jan. 18.

The organizers have invited six community leaders to act as bartenders who will present their signature cocktail to guests. Each bar tender will have an assistant and Theatre NorthWest will provide costumes, creatively make use of their set designer to match the mood at the venue to the event and guests are encouraged to wear 1920s era costumes if they so choose.

The partnership sees Theatre NorthWest provide the venue while Big Brothers Big Sisters has the vehicles to offer a safe ride home to those who need one.

“We thought it would be a great way for us to partner to raise some money,”

Marnie Hamagami, general manager of Theatre NorthWest, said. “We really wanted to go after the younger crowd, we’re looking to engage people who are just learning to be corporate donors and sponsors and how can we put together an event that’s going to appeal to a slightly younger group and start that process of this is how you get involved with our organizations - you start by buying tickets to some of our events and then maybe become a donor, a sponsor, a volunteer, a ticket buyer, whatever the progression looks like for each individual.”

Tim Bennett, executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters, said the non-profit was looking for something a little different to do as a fundraiser and this kind of event certainly fits into that criteria.

“It’s a great complement to what we

SUBMITTED

Haylee Seiter, one of the bartenders, Tim Bennett, executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern B.C. and Marnie Hamagami, general manager of Theatre Northwest, are teaming up to present Gin Blossom: A Speakeasy, a fundraising event in January.

already do as an organization but will bring something new to the community as well,” Bennett said. “What we have seen over our many years of fundraising is that people are looking for things they can do together with their friends, with their co-workers.”

Although the event will be a fun tastetesting, the prize money for the creators of the top two most popular drinks as chosen by guests’ votes will see $500 go to the first place winner’s registered charity of choice and $200 to the second place

winner’s chosen charity.

One of the bartenders is Haylee Seiter, a communications team member at Northern Health.

Seiter said she’s been enjoying pink gin cocktails during the summer and will be experimenting with that for her signature cocktail.

“I did Boogie with the Stars with Tim back in the new year and I like doing different community events,” Seiter said. “If you can provide a really fun experience where people feel good and have fun and then are able to have that giving aspect as well, I think that’s where you get those really awesome fun events that are really successful so I’m really excited for all those elements.”

Seiter said she’s been enjoying pink gin cocktails during the summer and will be experimenting with that for her signature cocktail.

“So I’m thinking really girlie over the top, but not so much as to detract the guysthey can taste it too,” Seiter said. “There’s no shame in that.”

“I like pink drinks,” Bennett laughed. Seiter offered a couple of hints for her upcoming creation, which will be showcased at the Gin Blossom Speakeasy. “I like to add herbal elements to it,” she said. And there could be a bit of bling coming into the cocktail as well.

“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend,” Seiter smiled. “That’s what I’m thinking and I will say nothing more.”

Everyone is welcome to attend the event to experience Seiter’s fancy gin cocktail while challenging the other bar tenders to get creative as well.

Tickets are $60 each, which includes admission to the event, two drink tickets and a safe ride home. Additional drink tickets will also be available to guests throughout the evening. Tickets are on sale at theatrenorthwest.com.

Huble hosting Thanksgiving

CHRISTINE HINZMANN Staff Reporter

chinzmann@pgcitizen.ca

The last weekend of the regular season at Huble Homestead will end with a Thanksgiving celebration Monday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The fall colours will be out in full force on the beautiful riverfront property where guests are invited to join in traditional fun like bobbing for apples, scarecrow making and autumn crafts.

“Get out of the house, away from the turkey and get a little fresh air,” Krystal Leason, executive director of the Huble Homestead Giscome Portage Society, said. “It’ll be one of the last

nice weekends of the year and it’ll be great to do something with your family that’s not poultry related.”

Guests can learn how pioneers prepare for winter with heritage demonstrations like butter and ice cream making and black smithing.

Visitors can get a guided tour and see the building exhibits.

“And there will be some games and races in the field,” Leason said.

There will be a 10 per cent off sale at the General Store for all items except for food.

And besides the usual concession items of hot dogs and hamburgers there will be a soup and other fall items available.

Oct 18 · 2019 to Jan 5 · 2020

Grand Theft Terra Firma

David Campion & Sandra Shields

The Halloween Spooktacular will be the last event before Huble Homestead closes for the season. It will be held Oct. 25 and 26 from 3 to 8 p.m. The main event is a spine tingling night event on the grounds of Huble Homestead that’s sure to test visitors’ bravery. This is a bone-chilling, hair-raising event geared for those who are looking for something a little different. At the same time there’s a family-friendly option at the Welcome Barn offering costume contests, pumpkin carving and crafts or head over to the animal barn for a magic show featuring William the Conjurer. There’s also a fortune teller on site for those wishing to know what the

future holds.

For those craving more of an adventure there’s a spooky maze, graveyard ghouls and for something truly terrifying head for the House of Horrors, with guided tour available for an extra charge of $3.50 per person, $12 for a group of four. Don’t forget a flashlight and weatherproof boots  All other activities are included with a family admission of a suggested donation of $10.

Huble Homestead is located 40 km north of Prince George, just off Highway 97 on Mitchell Road. For more information call 250-564-7033 or visit hublehomestead.ca.

Opening Night · Thur · Oct 17

7:30pm Artist's Tour

8:30pm Live Music & Refreshments. All are welcome. Please join us!

Panel Discussion: Fri · Oct 18 · 7:30pm with David Campion, Sandra Shields & guests

Nutcracker Prince relishes role

CHRISTINE HINZMANN Staff Reporter

chinzmann@pgcitizen.ca

Every other year, Judy Russell

Presents The Nutcracker, a family favourite during the holiday season in partnership with the Prince George Symphony Orchestra.

This year, The Nutcracker will take to the Vanier Hall stage from Thursday, Dec. 19, to Sunday, Dec. 22, with matinees on Saturday and Sunday afternoon.

Russell saw a prince on stage when she saw Julian Hunt performing during last year’s local music festival on the very stage he will perform on this Christmas.

Hunt, 19, came to Prince George from a dance studio in Terrace. He started to dance when he was 16 years old and things came together very quickly for him.

“He started so, so late in his life,” Russell said. “You know for a dancer 16 is pretty late. But for a lot of young men that’s really the time they should start. For some reason it seems that’s a threshold age - almost every one of the young men that have come

through the studio and have gone on  - it was when they hit 16 that they made the decision they wanted to do it. That’s when they are strong enough in their own soul and in what they do.”

Russell knew she had to ask Hunt to perform this year and took a chance he would still be in the region.

“He said he decided to stay in north and central B.C. for his post-graduation year,” Russell said. “That’s how he can do this and it’s been an excellent opportunity for all of us.”

Hunt said from his start in dance until now has been an interesting journey.

Hunt went to a bring-a-friend day at a Ter-

race dance studio his best friend attended. He signed up for a recreational hip hop class and loved it.

“So that’s when I decided to go for more training,” Hunt said. He signed up for classes at Art in Motion in all the disciplines of dance including ballet, modern, hip hop and jazz.

He then was able to his exams for the Royal Academy of Dance.

Hunt said Russell asked him if he was interested in playing The Nutcracker Prince during the local dance festival held in March and by the time the provincial competition was held in Prince Rupert in May, it was a done deal.

“It was really cool to be asked,” Hunt said. “It was definitely a surprise and it’s a really big opportunity for me. Judy has put a lot of faith in me so I will definitely step up.”

Rehearsals started mid-August and when Hunt goes back to Terrace, he practices five days a week. When he’s in Prince George with the rest of the cast, he’s here for a week at a time for rehearsals with his co-stars and

once December hits he will be in town until the end of the show.

There are always two people who share the role of Clara, who will be the character who dances the most with the Prince during the show.

Kendra Hamelin and Sara McGowan are the two Claras this year.

Hunt says getting used to dancing with two different people in the same role also presents a challenge.

“Sara is taller than Kendra so working with them it’s almost like a different dance each time,” Hunt said.

“So being able to practice with both of them is super important.”

Hunt is looking forward to being the Prince in The Nutcracker. He’s got family and friends who will be coming from Terrace to watch his performance.

“Standing on the stage for the first performance is probably going to feel like a dream,” Hunt said. “It’s going to be a really magical production.”

Tickets are on sale at centralinteriortickets.com.

Explore career path options at upcoming job fair

JOB FAIR

AROUND TOWN COMMUNITY CALENDAR

There is a career fair Thursday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hart Community Centre, 4900 W Austin Ave. This event will feature employers, education institutions and service providers throughout the interior that are ready to help get people on their career path. Contact:  250-864-1259  |  sheri.jackson@blackpress.ca

ROCK THE RINK

Saturday at 7 p.m. at the CN Centre Rock the Rink, Battle of the Blades combines athletes from two of Canada’s favourite sports, figure skating and hockey to pair up in a high-stakes figure skating competition for the charity of their choice. The cast features Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, Patrick Chan, Kaetlyn Osmond and Elvis Stojko. Also appearing is world-renowned skating talent from Europe and the U.S. Italian Olympic medalist and world champion, Carolina Kostner, plus Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov. And for the first time in seven years Jeremy Abbott, Olympic medalist and U.S. champion will also join the tour. Birds of the Bellwoods will offer musical entertainment as well. Tickets are available at www.ticketsnorth.ca.

NAVRATRI CELEBRATION

Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Columbus Community Centre, 7201 Domano Blvd., there will be a night of electrifying energy, bright colours and traditional Gujarati dance. Navratri is one of the most sacred festivals in Hinduism where the Goddess Durga or Shakti is worshipped, which represents the energy of the universe, in her nine beautiful forms, with great reverence. Tickets are $10 (including refreshments). For tickets call the Shah brothers store at 250-561-2620.

OTWAY TROT

Saturday at 8141 Otway Rd., there is the inaugural Turkey Trot 5K at Otway, where costumes will be encouraged and homemade prizes of pie will be awarded with cash registration only between 8:30 and 8:45 am on race day. Donations to Caledonia Nordic youth ski programs will be gratefully accepted. This will be a low tech timing event for those that wish to race. Two turkeys will be handed out after the race, one for the overall race winner, and the other as a draw prize. $10 adults, $5 kids (12 and under), or family rate $25. For more information or to donate a draw prize or volunteer, email susanneacweber@gmail. com.

HUBLE THANKSGIVING

Monday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Huble Homestead Historic Site is hosting a Thanksgiving celebration during its last weekend of the regular season. Join in to have some traditional fun with games like

apple bobbing, scarecrow making, and crafts. Learn how pioneers prepared for winter with the heritage demonstrations, try the special seasonal lunch menu, and take a browse through the General Store before the historic site closes for winter. Huble Homestead Historic Site is located 40 km north of Prince George, just off Highway 97 on Mitchell Road. For more information call 250-564-7033 or visit hublehomestead.ca.

BEE TALK

Tuesday from 6:45 to 8 p.m. at the Exploration Place, 333 Becott Pl., there is an October Adult Speaker Series: Native Bees of the Central Interior, Lynn Wescott. When considering bees and pollination, the honey bee is often the first species that comes to mind. In northern and central British Columbia, there is a rich diversity of native species that are excellent pollinators of native plants as well as cultivated crops. By gaining an understanding of local bee diversity and their habitat needs, we can help our native bees to survive and thrive. Presentation is at 7 p.m., there is a question and answer period afterwards. Cash beer + wine bar. This event is free and aimed at an adult audience. Contact:  250-562-1612  |  info@ theexplorationplace.com

WAVE OF LIGHTS

Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Omineca Arts Centre, 369 Victoria St., the Wave of Lights Ceremony is an event to remember all angel babies taken too soon. This event is meant to help bring peace and help

families come together who have been touched by this type of loss. Everyone is welcome. There will be a special guest speaker, Ann Bozoki, who will be speaking on behalf of the Compassionate Friends Group in Prince George. There will be a slideshow of lost loved ones. Contact:  info@ ominecaartscentre.com

BLUE ROSE GALA

Saturday, Oct. 19 at 5:30 p.m. at the Kinsmen Community Centre, 777 Kinsmen Pl., featuring Elvis Elite, Steve Elliott there is a fundraiser for Project Friendship Society. There is a roast beef buffet dinner, bar, silent and cake auction, 50/50, door prize is a $500 Via Rail travel voucher. Tickets are $45 each at Books & Co and Studio 2880. Come celebrate Project Friendship Society and their 30th year of promoting community inclusion. Proceeds will go to SD57 bursaries for graduating students.

CRAFT FAIR

Saturday, Oct. 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hart Pioneer Centre, 6986 Hart Highway. There will a great selection of crafts and unique gifts just in time for Christmas shopping. Delicious home baking will be available to enjoy. Vendor tables are $10 each. For more information contact 250-962-6712.

Let us know about your coming events by emailing us at events@pgcitizen.ca

HUNT

Football is more exciting than baseball.

How

FACTS OPINIONS

are pieces of information based upon things that can be measured, proven or seen by anyone.

Tom Brady joined the New England Patriots in the year 2000.

The Cowboys beat the Cardinals 21 - 17.

Example: “Our quarterback threw for 235 yards on Sunday” is a fact

The Chicago Bears uniform is navy blue and burnt orange.

How

Everyone would be happy if the Seahawks win their division.

describe how someone feels about a thing or event. They can vary from person to person.

Example: “Our quarterback is my favorite player” is an opinion

The Tennessee Titans have the best logo in the NFL.

Joe Montana led the San Francisco 49ers to four Super Bowl wins.

The Oakland Raiders are moving to Las Vegas in 2020.

Two of the fans below are sharing OPINIONS and one fan is making a statement of FACT. Follow the maze to find out which one is the factual fan!

The Wildcats are going to win next week’s game for sure! The Wildcats are now undefeated so far this season!

I don’t think our team can keep this winning streak going much longer.

How many footballs can you nd on this page in two minutes? Have a friend try. Who found the most?

Fact and Opinion Headlines

Review several pages of the newspaper and decide if the headlines on those pages are facts or opinions. Are there more facts or opinions in the headlines?

Can you change each of these factual statements into opinions?

I have a doctor’s appointment at 1:00 p.m.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was president of the United States during the Great Depression.

The blue whale is the largest ocean mammal.

Can you change each of these opinion statements into factual ones?

Pepperoni pizza is delicious.

Basketball is the best sport.

Cats are better than dogs.

Take a good look at

about

Find the words by looking up,

During halftime, the most amazing thing happened

Finish this story.

© 2019 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 35, No. 44

UNBC TAKES SECOND IN RANKINGS

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UNBC placed second in the primarily undergraduate category of Maclean’s Magazine’s annual ranking of Canadian

It is the sixth straight year UNBC has finished in the top two in its category and 12 years in the top three. Mount Allison finished first with Trent University maintaining its hold on third place.

UNBC placed first in two of the 14 categories in the overall rankings, including the number of students who have won national awards and operating budget, which measures operating expenditures per fulltime student. The university also received top marks in the student-to-faculty ratio (second), the number of faculty citations (fourth), and total research dollars

In the student satisfaction survey, Maclean’s once again gave UNBC strong grades in promoting Indigenous visibility (first), mental health services (second), and steps to prevent sexual assault

The university made significant gains in the national reputation ranking including categories such as innovation and developing leaders of tomorrow. The national reputation ranking combines all universities from the primarily undergraduate, Comprehensive and medical doctoral categories into one group.

BUDGET SURVEY ONLINE

Citizen staff

The city’s Talktober online budget survey is up and running.

The survey gives residents an opportunity to express their opinions about the budget allocations for various services and functions.

It also features an “interactive budget simulator” to see how personal property tax is allocated across a variety of City operations and how their choices about the allocations would be reflected in their property taxes.

The survey will remain online until the end of this month and the results will be presented to council at the outset of 2020 budget deliberations.

It can be found at princegeorge.citizenbudget.com and through the city website, www.princegeorge.ca.

CLOUDY WATER POSSIBLE

Citizen staff

Don’t be surprised if you find your tap water is a little cloudy as City of Prince George workers carry out fire hydrant maintenance this month.

Simon Fraser University placed first in the comprehensive list, while McGill finished first in the medical doctoral category.

“When tap water is cloudy, simply run the tap until the water is clear,” City Hall said in a notice. “The water is safe to drink.” The maintenance will occur during the work week until the end of October.

EMILY GILLESPIE

Special to The Washington Post

As the boat glided down the Amazon River, I swung from a hammock and watched the seemingly endless jungle pass by. I was entranced; I’d never seen so many shades of green in one place. I had come to witness the Amazon rainforest firsthand, and it was already putting on an amazing show. Commanding 2.3 million square miles, the rainforest is one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet, home to millions of species of plants, animals and insects, many of which have yet to be identified by scientists.

Thanks in part to the rubber boom of the late 1800s, it’s accessible to visitors through a handful of port towns that dot the edges of a few of the thousands of rivers that weave through the jungle. One of the best of those towns for basing a visit to the Amazon is Iquitos, Peru - which, at more than 400,000 people, is actually a city. Aside from one highway that runs between it and a smaller nearby port town, there are no roads connecting Iquitos to the outside world. The only way into and out of the city is by plane or boat.

While most people opt for the under-twohour flight from Lima or a day-long speedboat ride from a town reachable by car, I decided on a more uncommon approach to Iquitos: a three-day cruise via cargo ship. I learned that cargo ships were an Amazon River basin transportation option from a German couple I met while traveling in South America with my husband. It sounded so romantic. We’d find a boat with room for us and spend a few days drifting along two tributary rivers before meeting up with the world-famous Amazon River. Flanked by wild jungle, I would take in the first sights and sounds at a slow, relaxed pace. Thankfully, we’re flexible travelers and were on a leisurely schedule, because you can’t book these trips in advance, and schedules are uncertain. Just traveling from the northwestern city of Trujillo, where we’d enjoyed some beach time, to Yurimaguas, the Peruvian river-port town from which the cargo ships depart, required a 20-plus-hour bus ride followed by a two-hour ride in a colectivo, essentially a shared taxi. (Most travelers get to Yurimaguas via the north-central city of Tarapoto.)

When my husband and I arrived in Yurimaguas, we went straight to the central market to buy supplies for the cruise: hammocks, and mosquito nets to drape over them; bowls for our meals aboard the ship; lots of bottled water; and snacks to get us by should the food look dodgy.

Then we headed for the port - or so we thought. It turns out we were at the wrong one; no cargo ships were leaving from it. When we reached the correct port in the northeast corner of town, which our mototaxi driver called Enapu, we saw a flurry of activity. The small dock, which could more accurately be described as a slab of flat

shoreline that abuts the river, had enough space for a handful of boats. Using slats of wood as ramps from the muddy ground, men carried armfuls of watermelons, bags of rice, furniture, electronics and live animals onto two docked cargo ships.

After talking to a man in an authoritativeorange vest, I discovered that only one boat, the Kiara I, would let us aboard. (The Eduardo VIII docked next door had filled two entire decks with live chickens and wasn’t taking on any human passengers.)

In between the activity, we slipped onto the Kiara I and strung our hammocks between rusty holes in the ceiling of the open-air deck at the stern of the boat. This would be our sleeping area for the journey.

Once we got situated, we waited. While cargo boats in the area regularly allow travelers passage for a fee (we paid the equivalent of about $30 apiece, which included meals), the cargo is the priority and the boat would only leave once the 200-foot-long ship was full. That, however, was a difficult thing to determine. Asking three crew members about the departure time elicited three different responses, which did nothing to ease my fears of being left behind.

I had been warned that it could take a few days to embark, so this really only became a problem when we wanted to leave the ship to get lunch or dinner (meals were covered only when we were moving). I decided the best way to determine whether we had enough time to leave was to look at the cargo - if there was still a good amount of product to unload from a truck onto the ship, it felt safe to leave the ship for a few hours.

To pass the time, I chatted with our hammock-mates. Of the roughly 50 passengers, about 10 were international travelers like us, and the rest were locals. Through my conversational Spanish, I learned that some of the locals were related to the crew and others were just going between towns after doing

business or visiting family.

Simply sitting on the docked boat was surprisingly enjoyable. At one point, a pod of dolphins splashed around our ship for a few hours. Some were the pink dolphins that are famous in the Amazon, which prompted awws from all the non-Peruvians. We were also thoroughly entertained by the nearby chicken boat. One by one, several chickens (presumably bound for the dinner table) jumped overboard. They bobbed away with the current of the river, prompting both cheers for the birds that were making a bid for freedom and a debate about whether chickens could swim.

By the time the boat finally left, we’d spent a total of 36 hours - including two full nights - on the docked ship. But once we got going, any frustration born from delay dissipated. The gentle, warm breeze and the sights and sounds of the Amazon made for a tranquil experience. Over the low rumble of the ship’s engine, I heard a choir of birds chirping and the sound of crickets screeching. Trees thick with vines were so dense that there was no way to see much farther than the water’s edge.

Every so often, the green of the forest was broken up by stilted thatched houses. As the boat slowly passed, I captured glimpses into the lives of those who called the Amazon home: a young woman washing clothes, boys playing soccer in a field, young men loading bananas onto a long wooden boat. The rivers we traveled are a milky brown color that I later learned comes from sediment. While that made the waters appear dirty, various pieces of floating garbage added to the impression. It was painful to see some of the crew members throw their trash into the water. At one point, I watched as a man on our boat struggled to re-secure a tarp draped over some cargo, only to toss the tarp overboard a few minutes later, seemingly out of frustration.

The accommodations - which included the option of a few cabins, though everyone chose hammock space given the heat - were about what you’d expect from a cargo ship; water pooled in parts of the rusty deck, and spiders came out in droves at night. At one point, I spotted a fat, several-inch-long black beetle that sent me running. A Peruvian girl, who couldn’t have been more than 5 years old, picked it up and moved it away from me without flinching, leaving me feeling as though we’d swapped our child-adult roles. The bathrooms were awful. The floor was constantly covered with about an inch of standing water. The toilet had no seat and didn’t flush, so waste had to be washed down with a bucket and seemingly flowed into the river. A pipe hanging from the ceiling in the middle of the room was used to fill the bucket. It also doubled as a shower, which I couldn’t bring myself to use. Thankfully, I had thought to pack baby wipes, which I used every day. Even so, I was grimy. The meals were tastier than I expected, though a bit odd and lacking in variety. One lunch consisted of chicken, rice and potatoes, while another was essentially the same ingredients but in soup form. For dinner, we were served a sweet, cinnamon-flavoured milky soup with bits of rice floating in it. If you closed your eyes and imagined a mug instead of a bowl, it would have made a decent after-dinner by-the-fire beverage. For breakfast, we were served chicken soup one morning and the milk soup another. Between watching the scenery go by and chatting with other passengers, I also filled the days lying in my hammock reading. Each night on board, the international passengers crowded around a small headlamp and played various games. I had packed a small bottle of rum, which got passed around, and that, along with some translation-induced hilarity, had us laughing into the night. By the end of the second day, our boat reached Nauta, the small town that connects to Iquitos by road. Here, a lot of locals got off. A bus to Iquitos would take only about two hours, rather than the eight hours left to go via boat. Having gone four days without showering, the idea of getting to my destination more quickly was pretty appealing. But, after buying some beer and snacks, all the international travelers got back on the boat and gathered on the topmost deck above the wheelhouse. We just weren’t done with our journey.

Surrounded by strangers turned friends, I watched as the blue sky faded to oranges and pinks that deepened as the sun set. A feeling of contentment washed over me. I had grown to appreciate how time seemed to move differently on the boat. The smallest moments and simplest observations were enjoyed in full, because we had nowhere else to be and nothing else competing for our attention. Early the next morning, we drifted into the port at Iquitos. Groggy but excited to have finally made it, we exchanged contact information and went our separate ways. Overall, the trip was immensely satisfying.

PHOTO FOR THE WASHINGTON POST BY EMILY GILLESPIE

Hammocks strung from metal pipes and rusty beams serve as the sleeping arrangements aboard the Kiara I.

Ideas for the family china nobody wants

JURA KONCIUS

The Washington Post

Ariel Davis was taking an evening run in Brooklyn, New York, when she literally stumbled over a pile of 75 pieces of china set out in the street. “Someone had left their beautiful Franciscan Desert Rose set out next to their trash,” says Davis, 32, who happens to adore old china. “I had to rescue it.”

This unexpected find led Davis to pick up a drill press last year and start the Brooklyn Teacup, a business that takes vintage plates and teacups and upcycles them into tiered cake stands.

Her designs are popular with younger consumers who are often space-strapped and might not otherwise go for the flowery dish sets of past generations. Formal china isn’t a staple in many homes anymore. According to Jeffra Trumpower, a senior creative director at WeddingWire, “Entertaining has become much more casual. Couples are registering for things to make that experience more their own instead of the things that used to define fine dining or entertaining.”

What to do with stacks of dinnerware is a hot issue in many households. The topic swirls through family holiday meal discussions and decluttering forays. Between guilt and sentimentality, many households have trouble releasing their heirloom china.

“I was just at a house today where the woman had nine sets of china,” says Libby Kinkead of Potomac Concierge, which offers downsizing and moving services. When clients protest that they are keeping all of this “in honor of Granny,” Kinkead says she asks them: “How are you honoring your grandmother’s memory by keeping your china sitting in a box in the attic? That’s not honoring anything.” So what else can you do with heirloom plates and cups? You could take a hammer to them and make the broken pieces into jewelry or a pique assiette mosaic mirror. But that might be too disturbing. Here are five other ideas.

1.

CREATE A PLATE WALL

Georgia designer James Farmer is a big fan of hanging plates in an arrangement on the wall. “If you can’t use your plates every day, they can become art,” Farmer says. “It’s a beautiful way to celebrate your heritage.” He suggests starting with a larger piece, such as a platter, in the middle as inspiration and hanging the rest around it. He mixes patterns, shapes and sizes and sometimes adds in art for more of a gallery wall look.

Farmer’s method is usually to first arrange plates on the floor or on a tabletop until he is pleased with the look. He takes a photo of the final placement for reference, then puts up the nails and hangs the plates, which he has secured with old-fashioned wire plate

hangers. His favorites are Tripar brasscoated plate hangers from Ace Hardware. Sometimes he adds a bit of Collectors Hold Museum Putty to anchor them, especially if plates are hanging near a doorway.

“A lot of people think this is part of a Southern tradition, but it’s very French and English,” Farmer says. “When you’re watching a Jane Austen movie, check out the walls. They are adorned with plates that have been hanging there for hundreds of years.”

2. USE DISHES TO DELIVER

A GIFT

If you must divest yourself of a set of china and you want to feel as though it is going to a good home, take matters into your own hands. Start making host or hostess gift plates, says Kinkead: plates you fill with homemade cookies or bars and bring to your friends and family when you are invited over. Use the cups and saucers to fill with a selection of nice teas, and gift those to your nearest and dearest. If you feel inclined, write a charming note on a gift card describing the provenance of the china.

This can work for presents for housewarmings, baby showers or birthdays. Be creative. If you’re drowning in Spode Christmas Tree plates, give them away during December when others can make use of them as appetizer serving plates.

3. HAVE CHINA UPCYCLED

The Brooklyn Teacup sells ready-made

tiered stands made of vintage plates that Davis finds in thrift shops or on Facebook Marketplace. She also does custom design for customers who provide her with their china. Davis can take several-size plates and a teacup and create a stand, in whatever arrangement you like. A custom three-tier stand costs about $50 between the hardware and the drilling; she has a minimum order of $250, which will get you about five stands you can share with family. Then you can de-accession the rest of the set without feeling guilty.

Sadie Horton of Brooklyn Heights was a recent customer. “It’s all about finding new ways to use old things,” says Horton, who uses hers for fruit in her kitchen. “This is a great way to repurpose something that you would really hate to just put out in recycling.”

4. REPURPOSE PIECES AS PLANTERS

Don’t feel guilty about breaking up a china set: Soup tureens and teacups can be repurposed as beautiful containers for plants. Sell or donate the rest.

Cynthia Nouri, owner of the luxury gift registry Sasha Nicholas, often counsels couples on how to refresh and repurpose old china and posts ideas on her popular Instagram feed. You can fill a flower-bedecked Herend serving bowl full of orchid plants or plant herbs in a row of Wedgwood teacups you keep on a windowsill. “An interesting soup tureen with the matching platter under-

neath filled with plants can make a beautiful centerpiece,” Nouri says. “Looking at these pieces reminds you of sitting at the table with old friends and past generations.” She suggests putting small pebbles at the bottom for drainage. “I’ve seen tea cups used with cute fresh flower arrangements on a table or as an accent in a powder room,” Nouri says. “There are so many ways to use these pieces. You don’t need to keep the whole set to remind you of its history.”

5. GIVE IT ONE LAST PARTY

You’ve concluded that you just can’t keep the china you inherited from your greataunt. If you’ve emailed every distant relative and canvassed your friends and can’t find anyone who wants the Noritake Nanarosa, it’s time to party. “Unwrap it all and set your table, invite your friends and have one last great time with your china,” Kinkead says. Take lots of photos and post them on Instagram. Then, get over it and kiss the china goodbye.

If you can’t find a consignment shop, give it away on Craigslist, Freecycle or your neighborhood email group. You could call a local church and see if they have a family who might like some china for the holidays. Your conscience can then be clear. Your basement and attic will be liberated, your kitchen cabinets will have more space for food, and your sideboard can be filled with pieces you really like and use. “Then it’s your memories you hold on to,” Kinkead says, “not all that stuff.”

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A tureen filled with flowers and sitting on its matching platter makes a nice centerpiece.

Make your advertising more effective

Advertising can stimulate desire. Not that any advertising I ever participated in when I was single resulted in crowds of female admirers, however, working in the health food industry, I would often work to create in my readers a desire for better health. These ads would try to kindle a response that would generate traffic in my business, enabling me to sell the products that would make a difference for these people.

Advertising can make people mad. I remember the first time I upset people with my marketing was when I was the advertising sales person for the college newspaper back in 1984. I ran an ad for the local pub, suggesting to students that they would enjoy their beer much better at this pub rather than at the campus drinking hole. Apparently, as I learned later, the college rag should not have been promoting those establishments that weren’t paying for ads. My ad caught the attention of some people in authority and I was reprimanded. Over the years, some of my advertising has made other people angry as well, as was my intention.

Terry O Reilly, author of the book This I Know and host of the Under the Influence radio show and podcast, states that when we are marketing and advertising our prod-

BUSINESS COACH DAVE FULLER

ucts, “we need to connect with the audience emotionally.” If we fail to connect somehow in an emotional sense, we will be unable to get the response that we are looking for. The purpose of all business communication, whether it be from a business, non-profit or government, is to get a response. In business, that response is typically to drive leads that our sales team can close.

The interesting thing about your advertising is that it might produce an effect which is totally the opposite of what you are trying to do. How often do we see bad advertising that just annoys us? Sometimes those ads are wasting space in a publication, interrupting our time on the radio, TV (if anyone is still watching TV), or social media, or perhaps it’s a billboard blocking the view. It’s not that the company spending well-earned money is intending to upset you or annoy you, the truth is that most advertisers don’t really have a clue about how to get the response that they want. They believe that if they advertise where people might see them, customers will flock

into their business.

Wrong!

Good advertising stands out because it is so rare. Think about a time when you looked at an ad and it really captivated you, caught your attention and made you feel an emotion. It’s hard!

Sometimes we respond to advertising because we happen to need that item and it’s placed at the right time in the right medium. The advertisers have done something right; they know where you are, yet how they are capturing your attention is weak. More often than not, we respond to advertising because we are searching to fill our needs not that the ads have reached us.

Too often, advertisers are trying to get new customers rather than marketing to their existing customers. Studies show that it takes eight times more money to get a new customer to buy from us than to sell more to an existing customer. Think about it. When we have a relationship with someone, isn’t it easier to build on that friendship than to put the effort into making new friends? Not that we couldn’t use some new friends sometimes.

Your advertising should make people mad, sad, happy, joyful, caring or experience whatever emotion you are trying to illicit. Good advertising works to capture attention and get responses, it shouldn’t be

How to give when you’re dead

They say the rich get richer, but my experience is that the rich get nicer. Not the wannabe rich. They’re cranky. I mean the ones who earned it from scratch, and they’re stingy with themselves but generous to a fault. Not a few of them still shop at thrift stores and there’s not a chance in heaven they’ll ever spend that money.

They could leave it all to the kids but they’re cautious about robbing their offspring from the hike up the mountain that looks so good from there. Nobody takes a chopper up Mt. Robson and brags about it. There’s a whole division where I work dedicated to helping this work just so. In the mix are lawyers, accountants, trusts, insurance, philanthropy, and a laser focus on not overpaying tax.

In estate planning, tax-deductible gifts can take a variety of forms including cash, assets in-kind, or even life insurance proceeds. Today we focus on insurance,and its delicious tax impacts.

It may be an existing policy you no longer need or one bought specifically for the gift. Permanent insurance is usually the most

impactful. Special rules govern such gifts, and our exploration here is necessarily brief.

The charity must agree to become the owner of the policy and the gift an irrevocable one. This is easily done by sending a few forms to the insurer. You receive a donation tax receipt for the policy’s cash surrender value, less any outstanding policy loans. The transfer is a taxable disposition, but the tax credit from the donation will offset the taxes payable.

You will also get donation tax receipts when you make premium payments into the policy. Then, when you pass away the charity receives the proceeds of the policy. Neither you nor your estate will receive any further tax benefits upon the death of the life insured.

You can also name a charity as the beneficiary of your life insurance while retaining

its ownership. The death benefit is paid outside your estate and is not subject to probate taxes.

With an immediate gift/transfer of a policy, you cannot change beneficiaries. However, with a deferred gift, you can change beneficiaries whenever you want.

Claim the donation tax credit on the deceased’s final income tax return if the charity is designated as the beneficiary of the life insurance policy. A donation tax receipt will be issued for the amount of the death benefit paid by the insurance company to the charity.

Federal tax laws made earning investment income inside a holding company more punitive in 2017. But it’s possible to tunnel under the CRA’s fenced-in capital trapped in your company, using the diamond-head of your charitable intentions. And since the proceeds of a corporately owned life insurance policy flow through your capital dividend account on their way out the door, the remaining capital, up to the now inflated CDA balance, can be paid out to remaining shareholders tax free, (after deducting the adjusted cost base of the policy).  Furthermore, the funds in the policy can continue

Good advertising stands out because it is so rare. Think about a time when you looked at an ad and it really captivated you, caught your attention and made you feel an emotion.

a waste of money.

Next time you look at an ad or are building an advertisement, consider if it is really going to be effective or just satisfying your need to spend money. If you are not great at doing the work yourself, start by asking your paid media rep to help you. Chances are they want you to get results as well.  – Dave Fuller is the author of the book Profit Yourself Healthy, he has an MBA and is an award-winning business coach. Email dave@profityourselfhealthy.com and tell him about the best advertising you have ever experienced.

Federal tax laws made earning investment income inside a holding company more punitive in 2017.

to grow inside a tax shelter, like a big giant friendly corporate TFSA, reducing corporate tax while you are alive.

This gets even better for you, but draw on the expertise of a high net worth specialist.  It’s too long for this article.

– Mark Ryan is an Investment Advisor with RBC Dominion Securities Inc. (Member–Canadian Investor Protection Fund), and these are Mark’s views, and not those of RBC Dominion Securities. This article is for information purposes only. Please consult with a professional advisor before taking any action based on information in this article. See Mark’s website at: http:// dir.rbcinvestments.com/mark.ryan

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Svend Andersen

(March 25, 1931May 23, 2019)

Celebration of Life

Please join us in sharing memories and honouring Svend’s life

2:00 PM, October 12, Prince George Golf and Curling Club

A short program will begin at 2:30pm Light refreshments will be served

Memorial Services

CELEBRATION OF LIFE

JACK MEDA

October 19, 2019

1:00pm - 4:00pm 3595 Upper Fraser Road

Please Join us in the Celebration of Lives for EMILY WOZNEY

January 24, 1934May 25, 2019

MATTHEW WOZNEY

March 26, 1929August 23, 2019

Saturday, October 19, 2019

1:00pm - 4:00pm Elder Citizen’ Recreation Centre 1692 10th Avenue, Prince George

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us.”

As you share the stories and the memories of how they lived their lives and how very much they meant, may you find comfort...

The children of Lloyd McKee Bonner would like to announce his passing on September 29, 2019 in Prince George, BC at the age of 88. Lloyd was born in Jasper, AB on October 6, 1930. Lloyd worked for CN rail from 1946-1985, retiring as Inspector of Traffic Systems. Lloyd was an avid golfer and enjoyed his retirement golfing. Lloyd was predeceased by his four siblings. Lloyd is survived by his six children: Lorraine (Wayne), Linda (Dale), Doug (Judy), Maureen (Brian), Sandra, and Jim (Cindy), along with many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Thank you to Simon Fraser Lodge for their excellent care of Lloyd in his final years. There will be no service by request.

August 31, 1950September 30, 2019

ANITA LAWRENCE 1939 - 2019

My Sweetie, the woman I loved with and laughed with and cried with. 57 Years of being together, sharing and caring. Saying goodbye to you was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. You are the love of my life, my friend, my partner and my wife. Now you are gone to another place, waiting for me to join you one day. I talk to you daily as if you are here, reliving the memories I hold so dear. I miss you so much today, tomorrow and forever.

It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Sven Nestor Davidson on Monday, September 30, 2019. Sven was born and raised in Prince George. He is survived by his loving wife of 24 years, Monica Willmann, 4 daughters, Belinda (Chase and Cayle) Shauna and Roy (Jonah and Roan), Leanne, Tiffany and Tony (precious granddaughter Abby), brother Eric and mother-inlaw Karin Willmann, many nieces/great nieces and nephews/great nephews. He was predeceased by his mom, Greta Davidson, father Carl Davidson, sisters May-Britt, Anna, Sonja and Ingrid and brother Sifton. Sven wasn’t fond of school and would rather spend the day down by the river with his dog and vagabonds. He did various jobs around the Province of BC working in the logging industry, tree faller and log building. He went to Japan twice fulfilling his passion with log building. He enjoyed his years with loggers sports and canoeing, even winning the Northern Hardware Canoe Race in 1972.

There will be no service as per his request and the family will gather in the spring to spread his ashes. Rest in peace our beloved Sven and see you on the other side. He is finally pain free!

Grand Master

Michael Anthony Forster 14 Sept 1943 - 28 Sept 2019

It is with great sadness that we announce that Michael passed away on Sept 28th after a courageous 12 year battle with cancer.

Michael is survived by his loving wife and best friend Marie of 60 years, sons Russell (Carrie), Lee(Kat) and granddaughters Shelby, Brooke, Meagan and their children.

Michael will be remembered for his devotion to teaching and sharing his knowledge and skills of Hapkido and also his compassion and caring in his practice of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture, where he brought comfort and healing to many.

Special thanks to Dr Steven Ferreira, Dr Neil McKinney, Farah McKenzie, Dr Stacey Miller and the angels at the Rotary Hospice House.

Until we meet again, Your Loving Husband, Grenville. Loved and missed by her husband Grenville, daughter Elizabeth (Steve) Angel, grandson Stephen (Amie) Angel, many family members and extended family and friends. Thank you to Dr. Denise McLeod and all the staff at Gateway for the excellent care given to Carole over the years.

On September 29, 2019, Lloyd McKee Bonner passed away peacefully in Prince George, BC at the age of 88. Lloyd was born in Jasper, AB on October 6, 1930. Lloyd worked for CN Rail from 1946-1985, retiring as a supervisor. Lloyd was an avid golfer and enjoyed his retirement golfing with his wife, Eugenie. Lloyd was predeceased by his four siblings. Lloyd is survived by his wife, Eugenie and six children, Lorraine (Wayne), Doug (Judy), Linda (Dale), Maureen (Brian), Sandra and Jim (Cindy) along with many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Thank you to Simon Fraser Lodge for their excellent care of Lloyd in his final years. There will be no service by request.

Anton Vogler

October 1, 1930September 22, 2019

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our Dearly Loved Husband, Father, Grandfather, Brother, and Friend. Hubert lived a long and productive life. He was a humble, kind and generous man. He was born in the small village ofAu, Bregenzerwald, Austria and grew up in southern Germany. Hubert journeyed to Canada in 1952, settling in Prince George, B.C. where he and two brothers (Bruno and Victor) later forged a successful Dairy processing business (Fraser Maid Dairy).

Hubert retired in June 1988 and he and his wife Patricia later moved to Qualicum Beach in January 1998. Hubert and Patricia travelled extensively to Asia to visit their children and grandchildren.

Hubert is survived by his wife of 51 years, Patricia (nee: Feeney), daughters Louise (Enock), and Rebecca (Israel), grandsons Enock Jr, Jakob, Simon and Benjamin, two brothers, Josef and Helmut, and sister Doris (Peter) in Germany, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Hubert was predeceased by his mother, Amalia (nee: Beer), parents, Josef and Erna (nee: Schwärzler), brothers Bruno and Victor, and his beloved grandson, Mathew.

A Special thank you to all the 3rd Floor Care Staff at The Gardens.

A Celebration of Life will be arranged at a later date.

In Lieu of flowers please consider a donation to the Alzheimer Society BC or Oceanside Hospice Society.

“With heavy hearts, we said goodbye. We had to let you go.

An Angel came and took your soul, upon his tiny wings.

Your spirit stays within our hearts, to guide us day by day.

The Strength of God, and your Love, Will help us find our way.” - P.Vogler

CAROLE

In Memoriam

Hubert

Fred Bruce August 6, 1946 - October 5, 2019

Fred is survived by Daughters Laura (Ken) & Debbie, grandchildren Ashley & Jason and his loving four legged companion, Stewie. Predeceased by wife Marlene, his parents and his brother Wayne. No service by request. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Hospice House.

Catherine Bilbrough October 1, 1946September 28, 2019

Cathy left us after a courageous battle with Parkinson’s Disease. Cathy is survived by her husband, John, and by sons Tylor and Scott (Alison), and their children (Jake, Sadie, Zachary and Jacob). Also survived by sister Lynne, brother in law Daniel (Cyndy), nieces and nephews.

Predeceased by mother, Margaret, and father, Jack, and sister Bev, Cathy was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba and relocated to Prince George with her husband of 51 years. Prior to a career with the School District, Cathy worked for Canada Post. Cathy will be missed by many special long time friends, as well as those at the Elder Citizens Recreation Association and the Catholic community of Christ Our Saviour Church.

Special thanks to Father Michael, Father Jack, Fran Ross, Alice Riegert, Crystal & Dennis Yool. Cathy was well cared for by Doctors E. Turski, D. Shepherd, H. Siemens and all the staff at the Simon Fraser Lodge.

A memorial service will be held at Christ Our Saviour Catholic Church, Prince George on Thursday October, 10, 2019 at 10:00 am. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the Parkinson’s Society of B.C.

LINFITT (NEE: GIESE)

LOLA M.

August 15, 1936 - July 31, 2019

After a long battle with lung cancer, Lola passed away peacefully at her daughter’s home in Langley; with her daughter and sister at her side on July 31 2019. As per her wishes there will be no funeral, but instead a celebration of life Oct 12 2019 at her son’s home at 5592 Old Summit Lake Rd in Prince George from 1.30 to 4.30pm.

This is to be a gathering of family and friends, not to mourn but to rejoice in the love and bond we all have, and to remember a great lady. Please come to visit and share your memories. In lieu of flowers please make a donation to the Canadian Cancer research society.

Tomas Schulz and family would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to all who showed care and compassion for Sharon during her fight with cancer and to all who showed so much love and support in her passing. To all of our friends who took time out of their busy lives to be with her, every act of kindness was deeply appreciated and your caring meant more to Sharon and I than you will ever know. Thank you also to the many health care providers, Dr. Dhillon, Dr. Coetzee, St. John’s Vanderhoof Oncology staff, Dr. Kraima and staff, UHNBC Emergency staff, Fraser Lake nursing staff Kinga, Lora-lee, Nicky and Yvonne and so many more. Thank you also to the Fraser Lake Ambulance Crew for showing “The Power of Love”. May God bless you all for your love, care and kindness.

Sincerely, Tomas

It is with great sadness, we announce the passing of Treasa Frances Ragan. Treasa passed peacefully surrounded by family on Monday, September 30, 2019 at the age of 69 in Prince George, BC.

Treasa will be greatly missed by her daughter, Crystal (Brent), Grandson Steven (Ashley) and Great Grandson Thomas. Treasa is preceded in death by parents Earl and Gertrude; brothers Robert, Marcel, Leslie; sisters Patsy, Connie and nephews Trevor, Billy Joe and Darren and survived by sisters Violet, Marlene, Shirley, Susie, Brenda, Cindy, Wendy; brother Lester and numerous nieces and nephews.

Treasa was an established barber for almost 50 years in the Prince George and surrounding areas.

DIAL,PatrickL. March1,1952-September24,2019

Itiswithgreatsadnessweannouncethepassingof PatrickLynnDial.WelostPatsuddenlyon September24,2019.PatwasborntoRichardand AudreyDialonMarch1,1952,inInnisfail,Alberta. HemarriedValerieDial(neeWick)onOctober31, 1975.Theyhadtwochildren,MelissaandMark (Emily).Healsohadtwograndchildren,Parkerand Ryah,whoheadoredandtormentedwithhis humour.Hewastheeldestofthreesiblingsandis survivedbytwosisters,LaurieBeatonandKaren (Lorne)Benson.Healsoenjoyedhisniecesand nephews,ChrisBeaton,Evy(Ryan)McKay,Richard (Jennie)Beaton,JanetBenson,andMichelleBenson. Healsoleavesbehindhisco-workers/friendsat CanuckMechanical.Patwillalwaysberemembered asafun-lovingguy,wholovedagoodjoke.A CelebrationofLifewillbeheldonOctober4,2019,at thePrinceGeorgeGolfandCurlingClubbetweenthe hoursof3pm-6pm.Bringyourlaughter,leaveyour tearsathome.

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