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Mayor, staff helped city councillor get $157K grant ARTHUR WILLIAMS Citizen staff

“They must be making them differently, that’s for sure,” he said. “I’m a little worried about it, if there’s a fine.”

Muirhead was not aware of the fact he could be subject to a $230 fine for driving with a defective plate, as stated in Section 3.03 of the Motor Vehicle Act regulations.

When the Best Damn Music Festival hit the stage at the Prince George Exhibition Grounds this past weekend, it was thanks, in part, to a $157,000 provincial grant through the BC Fairs, Festivals and Events Recovery Fund.

The event is hosted by Kyle Sampson Productions, owned by Prince George city councillor Kyle Sampson.

In letters dated Sept. 22, 2021 and Sept. 28, 2021, Prince George Mayor Lyn Hall and former City of Prince George manager of economic development Melissa Barcellos wrote letters supporting Sampson’s application for the grant. Coun. Brian Skakun provided copies of the letters to the Citizen, which he obtained through a Freedom of Information request to the B.C. Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport. Sampson also received letters of support from Tourism Prince George, the Prince George Chamber of Commerce, the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation and Northern Health.

“City administration and the mayor of Prince George wrote letters on behalf of his personal business. All of this is done on city letterhead,” Skakun said. “Senior administration signed off on this, we (city council) didn’t get told about it, and here we are nine months later.

It’s all about transparency. Council should have been informed.”

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Dave Muirhead first noticed his peeling licence plates a year ago.

The Prince George resident is among thousands of B.C. drivers whose licence plates have delaminated and peeled off, leaving the plate identification numbers and

letters unreadable from a distance.

“The car is a 2004 and that’s probably when I got the plates,” said Muirhead. “I wondered about it when I first noticed it but it’s a lot worse now, or course.”

Muirhead, 79, has been driving for decades and this is the first time he’s ever noticed a plate not standing up to the test of time.

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PUBLIC HEARINGS / CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERATION OF APPLICATIONS

Comments on the above noted Bylaws for Public Hearing may be provided in writing, in person or via telephone. For details on how to provide comments, refer to “How Can I Participate?”.

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Public Hearings regarding: 4. “City of Prince George Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 8383, 2011, Amendment Bylaw No. 9214, 2021” AND “City of Prince George Zoning Bylaw No. 7850, 2007, Amendment Bylaw No. 9215, 2021”

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Comments on the above noted Bylaws and application for Council Consideration may only be provided in writing. For details on how to provide written comments, refer to “Written Comments” under “How Can I Participate?”.

The purpose of this application is to facilitate a Health Service, Minor Use that would permit the operation of a medical office on the subject property, or other uses, pursuant to the C8: Commercial Conversion zoning designation.

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WHAT: City Council consideration of: 1. “City of Prince George Zoning Bylaw No. 7850, 2007, Amendment Bylaw No. 9270, 2021” 2. “City of Prince George Zoning Bylaw No. 7850, 2007, Amendment Bylaw No. 9333, 2022” 3. Temporary Use Permit Application No. TU000074

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WHERE: Council Chambers of City Hall, 2nd Floor, 1100 Patricia Boulevard, Prince George, BC PROPOSALS: 1. “City of Prince George Zoning Bylaw No. 7850, 2007, Amendment Bylaw No. 9270, 2021”

Location Map #2 1661 4th Avenue

Applicants: Camille Cote

3. Temporary Use Permit Application No. TU000074

Subject Property: 1950 McLaren Road W Lot 8, District Lot 635, Cariboo District, Plan 8921

Applicant: PG Rock and Gravel Ltd., Inc. No. BC1204621

Time: 6:00 p.m.

Bylaw No. 9270, 2021 proposes to rezone the subject property from RS1m: Suburban Residential to RS2m: Single Residential.

The purpose of this application is to facilitate a two-lot subdivision on the subject property, or other uses, pursuant to the RS2m: Single Residential zoning designation.

In accordance with Section 464(2) of the Local Government Act, a public hearing regarding this application will not be held as the proposed Bylaw is consistent with the “City of Prince George Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 8383, 2011” that is in effect for the subject area.

Subject Properties: 5027 Sandberg Road Lot A, District Lot 4054, Cariboo District, Plan 15023 Time: 6:00 p.m.

The purpose of this application is to extend a Temporary Use Permit allowing “fleet service”, “equipment, major” and “contractor service, major” uses on the subject property to facilitate the ongoing gravel and aggregate extraction. The applicant has applied to extend their current Temporary Use Permit which was approved by Council on October 7, 2019 and will expire on October 8, 2022 for an additional three (3) years.

The subject property is currently zoned AG: Greenbelt and AF: Agriculture and Forestry. In accordance with the Local Government Act, temporary use permits can allow a use not permitted by a zoning bylaw. These permits may only be issued for a maximum of three (3) years and may be renewed once for an additional three (3) years.

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Bylaw No. 9333, 2022 proposes to rezone the subject property from RS2: Single Residential to C8: Commercial Conversion.

Location Map #3 5027 Sandberg Road 4. “City of Prince George Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 8383, 2011, Amendment Bylaw No. 9214, 2021” AND “City of Prince George Zoning Bylaw No. 7850, 2007, Amendment Bylaw No. 9215, 2021” Applicant: Peter Wise for 1253545 B.C. Ltd., Inc. No. BC1253545 Subject Properties: 1177 Foothills Boulevard Lots 104, District Lots 2507 and 2609, Cariboo District, Plan 22809 Time: 7:00 p.m.

Tel. (250) 561-7600 • Fax (250) 612-5605 • 1100 Patricia Boulevard, Prince George, BC V2L 3V9 311@princegeorge.ca Visit princegeorge.ca for information about City services and operations. You can even subscribe to receive information directly to your inbox. Visit news.princegeorge.ca/subscribe to select the categories that matter to you.

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PUBLIC HEARINGS / CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERATION OF APPLICATIONS The purpose of these applications is to amend the Official Community Plan and Zoning Bylaw to facilitate development of a six-story apartment building comprised of 127 units for seniors housing, amenities, and services on the subject property.

authority of section 33(2) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA).

For information or questions, contact the City’s FIPPA Coordinator at (250)561-7600 or 1100 Patricia Boulevard, Prince George, BC, V2L 3V9.

In order to protect sensitive land, the applicant has offered to register a Section 219 Covenant on the subject property that would restrict land disturbance and buildings from the sensitive area.

NEED MORE INFORMATION? A copy of the proposed Bylaws and related documents will be available for review by the public on the City’s website www.princegeorge.ca/PublicNotices beginning Wednesday, August 17, 2022.

These documents may also be reviewed at the Development Services office on the 2nd Floor of City Hall on August 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and 29, 2022 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

1. Official Community Plan (OCP) Amendment Bylaw No. 9214, 2021 Bylaw No. 9214, 2021 proposes to amend “Schedule B-6: Future Land Use” of the “City of Prince George Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 8383, 2011” by re-designating the subject property from Neighbourhood Residential to Neighbourhood Centre Corridor.

2. Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 9215, 2021 Bylaw No. 9215, 2021 proposes to amend “City of Prince George Zoning Bylaw No. 7850, 2007” by rezoning the subject property from RM4: Multiple Residential to RM6: Mid-Rise Residential.

WHO CAN I SPEAK TO? For more information, please contact Development Services in person, by telephone at (250)561-7611, or by email to devserv@princegeorge.ca.

SUBSCRIBE TO STAY INFORMED Subscribe to receive information and updates regarding upcoming public hearings, council and committee meetings, elections, media releases, and more by registering at www.princegeorge.ca/Subscribe.

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WHAT: Notice of Intention to amend “City of Prince George Council Procedures Bylaw No. 8388, 2011”

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PROPOSAL: “City of Prince George Council Procedures Bylaw No. 8388, 2011, Amendment Bylaw No. 9336, 2022” NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT pursuant to Section 124 of the Community Charter, the Council of the City of Prince George (the “City”) intends to consider “City of Prince George Council Procedures Bylaw No. 8388, 2011, Amendment Bylaw No. 9336, 2022” at its regular meeting scheduled for Monday, August 29, 2022, at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 1100 Patricia Boulevard, Prince George, BC.

HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE? Members of the public who believe their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaws and application are invited to provide comments to Council by the methods noted below.

Bylaw No. 9336, 2022 if adopted, would amend “City of Prince George Council Procedures Bylaw No. 8388, 2011” by revising the definition of “Public Notice Posting Places”.

WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS Written submissions will be accepted for all items.

HOW CAN I PROVIDE COMMENT? Residents are invited to provide written comments.

Written comments received by the Corporate Officer before 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2022 will be available on the published meeting agenda for Council’s review in advance of the meeting date. Written comments received after the noted deadline and before 12:00 p.m., Monday, August 29, 2022 will be provided to Council on the day of the meeting for their consideration during deliberations on the application.

Written comments received by the Corporate Officer before 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2022 will be available on the published meeting agenda for Council’s review in advance of the meeting date. Written comments received after the noted deadline and before 12:00 p.m., Monday, August 29, 2022 will be provided to Council on the day of the meeting for their consideration during deliberations on the application.

Written comments may be sent by email to cityclerk@princegeorge.ca, faxed to (250)561-0183, or mailed or delivered to the address noted on the bottom of this Notice.

Written comments may be sent by email to cityclerk@princegeorge.ca, faxed to (250)561-0183, or mailed or delivered to the address noted at the top of the first page of this Notice.

ATTEND BY TELEPHONE Telephone participation is available for item 4.

Written comments will form part of the Council agenda, become public record, and are posted on the City’s website. By submitting a written comment, you are consenting to the disclosure of any personal information that you provide.

To participate in the Public Hearing by telephone, members of the public should dial into the meeting at least 10 minutes before the start of the Public Hearing by calling 1-877-708-3350, Access Code: 1269574#.

ATTEND IN PERSON In person participation is available for item 4.

Members of the public who wish to speak to Council in person can do so during the Public Hearing in Council Chambers on the 2nd Floor of City Hall at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, August 29, 2022.

For more detailed information on providing submissions to Council, please visit www.princegeorge.ca/publichearings.

By submitting written comments or speaking during a public hearing, you are consenting to the disclosure of any personal information that you provide. All written or spoken comments will form part of the official public record of the Council meeting and will be published on the City’s website, televised, streamed live by webcast, recorded, and archived for public viewing.

Personal information is collected under the authority of section 26(g) and disclosed under the authority of section 33(2) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA).

For information or questions, contact the City’s FIPPA Coordinator at (250)561-7600 or 1100 Patricia Boulevard, Prince George, BC, V2L 3V9.

NEED MORE INFORMATION? A copy of the proposed Bylaw and other related documents will be available for review by the public at the Legislative Services Division on the 5th Floor of City Hall on August 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and 29, 2022, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

WHO CAN I SPEAK TO? For more information on the proposed bylaw please contact the Legislative Services Division in person at the address below, by telephone at 250-561-7793 or by email to cityclerk@princegeorge.ca.

This is the first of two (2) publications of this notice.

Dated this 18th day of August, 2022

Personal information is collected under the authority of section 26(g) and disclosed under the Tel. (250) 561-7600 • Fax (250) 612-5605 • 1100 Patricia Boulevard, Prince George, BC V2L 3V9 311@princegeorge.ca Visit princegeorge.ca for information about City services and operations. You can even subscribe to receive information directly to your inbox. Visit news.princegeorge.ca/subscribe to select the categories that matter to you.

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‘It needs to be fully transparent’ Continued from page 1

Section 11 of the City of Prince George Council Code of Conduct says, “Members shall not use City public resources such as staff time, equipment, supplies or facilities, for private gain or personal purposes.”

In a notice of motion, Skakun is asking council to direct the city administration to report back on the process the mayor and city administration use to decide which organizations will receive letters of support.

This notice of motion will come before city council at its next public meeting on Aug. 29 for discussion.

“This report will include how the Mayor and City Admin decide what letters for grants and assistance come before council for a resolution and what letters are not required to come before Council,” Skakun’s notice of motion says. “As a result of an elected official getting grant letters of support from both the Mayor’s office and senior admin for their personal business without the knowledge of Council as a whole and the general public, I feel that in order to make this process not only fair, it needs to be fully transparent.

It also will help with ensuring the Mayor’s office informs City Council about the meetings he or she has with regards to funding requests.”

In an email, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport said that all applications to the BC Fairs, Festivals and Events Recovery Fund, which provided one-time funding to help community events restart following

the COVID-19 pandemic, were required to have letters of support.

‘I’M EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED’ Skakun said the issue first came to his attention when he read an article in the Citizen, after the province announced the recipients of the BC Fairs, Festivals and Events Recovery Fund. A total of 13 local groups received grants ranging from $250,000 to $7,401, totalling $882,795.

Skakun said reached out via email to Hall and the rest of council asking if the city had written letters of support for the organizations, including Kyle Sampson Productions.

Skakun said Sampson confirmed he received the letters, and Hall informed Skakun he had written letters for many of the successful applications. However, Skakun said his requests for BRIAN copies of the letters were SKAKUN ignored.

“I’m extremely frustrated,” he said. “(But) I’m not suggesting any wrongdoing.”

Skakun said in June he finally decided to request the letters through Freedom of Information requests to the City of Prince George and the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport. Skakun provided copies of the letters of support to the Citizen.

“We (city council) had absolutely no input on who gets letters of support and who doesn’t,” Skakun said. “This isn’t about any one individual, it’s about a process that is seriously flawed.”

‘I THINK THIS IS A POLITICAL THING’ Sampson said his request for letters of support was made as a local business owner and event promoter, not a city councillor.

Sampson said when he heard about the grants, he reached out to the mayor and city staff to ask if they were writing letters of support for local applications. He was told that the city had already written letters for several other applications, and a short time later received letters from the mayor and Barcellos.

Sampson said he received no money or special favor from the city, and in fact paid the City of Prince George for the rental of the exhibition grounds.

“I asked for the letter of support… as a local business owner, who employs local people..

KYLE SAMPSON and supports local economic activity,” he said. “I would never have taken advantage of my position on council.”

Sampson said the Best Damn Music Festival was originally scheduled for 2021, but was shut down by changes in public health orders at the last minute.

The event fit the criteria for the grant, Sampson said, and so he applied for a public grant for the first time in his life.

Even with the $157,000 grant, “this event will not be profitable,” he said.

Being a city councillor shouldn’t mean his business is unable to pursue the same grant opportunities offered to other

businesses and events in the community, he added.

“Councils are often filled up with business people. This is not a unique circumstance,” Sampson said. “I did my due diligence, I did everything above board.”

Sampson said when Skakun asked if he’d received letters of support, he responded within hours to confirm that, and Skakun never asked him for copies of the letters. Sampson questioned the timing of the notice of motion, with the municipal election coming up on Oct. 15.

“I think this is a political thing.”

CITY RESPONSE If the motion proposed by Skakun passes, city staff will bring back a report with more details about the decision-making process around writing letters of support, city communications manager Julie Rogers said in an email.

“Mayor Hall and the City’s economic development division provided letters of support to Kyle Sampson Productions as they do upon request from other Prince George organizations applying for grants from third-parties such as the Province,” Rogers said. “Staff are in the process of determining which other organizations received a letter of support for this specific Provincial grant fund as it is not immediately available due to staff absences. It has been a matter of practice for the economic development division and the Mayor’s office to provide letters of support for such third-party grant applications to all Prince George organizations who request it and they do not go before Council.”

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Drivers are responsible to replace lost, stolen or damaged plates on their vehicles.

According to the provincial law: “A number plate must be kept entirely unobstructed and free from dirt or foreign material, so that the numbers and letters on it may be plainly seen and read at all times and so that the numbers and letters may be accurately photographed using a speed monitoring device or traffic light safety

device prescribed under section 83.1 of the Act.” ICBC spokesperson Greg Harper says customers with delaminated plates should visit an Autoplan broker to obtain a replacement plate free of charge.

In March, ICBC announced it is discontinuing the use of licence plate decals, which indicate the day an insurance policy expires. The change took effect on May 1 and all customers with new policies or renewals have not had to attach decals to their plates.

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Hall not seeking third term as mayor ARTHUR WILLIAMS Citizen staff

Prince George Mayor Lyn Hall announced he will not be running for reelection on Oct. 15 on Monday night, at the end of the regular city council meeting.

Hall served two terms as mayor and has spent 21 years in local politics in the city, serving on the School District 57 board for 10 years, including as chairperson, before running for city council and then mayor.

“This is a tough one. So today is bittersweet,” a visibly emotional Hall said on Monday night. “I have made this tough decision for the betterment of myself and my family.”

Hall thanked his family, city staff and everyone who has supported him during

in time in office. He thanked his wife and daughters for the many sacrifices they’ve made over the years during his time in politics.

Hall said his goal throughout his time in local politics was to serve and improve the community he loves.

“It was an absolute pleasure and privilege to serve the citizens of Prince George,” he said. “When I look out at our city, I see a community that has really come into its own.”

While there is still many challenges, Hall said he believes Prince George is “one of the best” places to live.

Hall said he wanted to make his announcement at a city council meeting, with his council colleagues and the city’s senior administration with him.

“I wanted us to be together,” he said.

Leadership is always challenging, but

leadership is hardest during times of crisis and change, Hall added.

Hall lead the city through the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2017 wildfire season, which MAYOR LYN HALL saw Prince George take in thousands of evacuees from across northern and central B.C. During his tenure as mayor, Prince George hosted the 2015 Canada Winter Games, the 2022 B.C. Summer Games and

the 2022 World Women’s Curling Championship - which was originally scheduled to come to the city in 2020, but was cancelled days before the event due to public health concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic.

But he was also a key figure in the George Street Parkade scandal, which was approved in 2018 with a $12.6 million budget, but eventually ended up cost taxpayers $34 million for the parkade and surrounding works.

It was also during his tenure when a B.C. Supreme Court justice ruled the city violated a court order in November 2021 by dismantling the Lower Patricia encampment known by residents of the camp as Moccasin Flats.

“The past two years have been difficult in a bunch of ways,” Hall said.

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The Hurricane spins its riders around in 2019 at the midway during the 107th BCNE. The midway is back in action for the 100th BCNE Aug. 18 to 21.

Fun in store at BCNE The 110th BC Northern Exhibition takes place Aug. 18 to 21 at the exhibition grounds in Prince George.

Along with West Coast Amusements midway for thrills and games of chance there is entertainment all day every day during the four-day event.

Foodies can take in the grilling competition hosted by Masterchef season 7 winner Shaun O’Neale. Backyard grillers will compete for prizes and bragging rights as PG’s Top Grillmaster. Preliminary rounds

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will be held Thursday and Friday, with the finals taking place on Saturday. O’Neale will do two demonstrations and have cookbooks available for purchase.

Those 55+ are invited to attend Seniors Day Thursday in Kin 3 to get all the latest information about health, wealth and lifestyle. Admission into the BCNE is a toonie for seniors making this event accessible for all.

For all the details and an entertainment schedule visit www.bcne.ca.

The Sunflower Festival, which is a multi-week celebration of summer, kicked off on Sunday at Foreman Farms, just a 10-minute drive from downtown.

“We had this idea, because we do have Foreman Farms, of bringing something kind of light and bright and fresh and new to Prince George,” said Sarah McKinley, events manager for Northern Estate Lights Winery.

The walk-through family attraction is

being hosted by the winery which owns the Foreman Farms property.

In the midst of the sunflowers is a measurement tool allowing visitors to see just how tall the sunflowers will get by the end of the season. Tickets for the Sunflower Festival, as well as directions to Foreman Farms at 1965 Foreman Road, are available online through the Northern Lights Estate Winery website.

The festival takes place Sunday to Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and from Thursday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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City council to consider steps to protect Ginter’s ARTHUR WILLIAMS Citizen staff

City council will get a report back on Oct. 3 on two possible measures to protect Ginter’s Meadow.

Council directed city staff to prepare a report on what the process would be to remove a possible extension of Massey Drive to Tyner Boulevard from the city’s official community plan (OCP). In addition, council asked for information about the process to officially designate Ginter’s Meadow area as a park.

The moves came after the Ginter’s Green Forever community group made a presentation to city council and packed council chambers with supporters.

“That whole area is not zoned park…

But everybody thinks it’s a park,” Ginter’s Green Forever member James Steidle

said. “It’s the most popularly-reviewed park in the city’s Google reviews. It’s the primary off-leash dog park in the city.”

But the area is more than a dog park, he said, it is critical moose habitat and home to many other species, and a popular destination for locals and visitors alike.

“It is a phenomenal asset - the whole hillside, not just the dog park,” Steidle said. “We don’t like there’s a plan on the books to build two four-lane roads through our favourite park. It’s just ridiculous.”

In addition to the extension of Massey Drive, the OCP also calls for the extension of Foothills Boulevard to Ferry Avenue.

Ginter’s Green Forever member Susanne Weber said there are many reasons to cancel the proposed road extensions.

The construction of University Way

went considerably over budget, thanks to the unstable nature of the slopes along Cranbrook Hill.

“The proposed Massey extension would cross seven streams and some of the steepest slopes in the area,” she said.

The slopes of Cranbrook Hill are “the most unstable slopes in the city” and the best way to prevent landslides, erosion and other problems is to maintain the forest cover over the area, she said.

City director of planning and development Deanna Wasnik said a full review of the city’s 11-year-old OCP is planned for 2023. That process would involve significant public consultation, she added.

The process of reviewing the OCP is dictated by provincial legislation, city manager Walter Babicz said. The process is lengthy and involved a minimum of three meetings of city council, as well as

substantial public engagement.

Coun. Murry Krause said there is no funding or project approved to actually do the Massey Drive or Foothills Boulevard extensions, “so people can rest assured” the roads won’t be built soon and wouldn’t be built without significant public input.

Coun. Cori Ramsay said she’s looking forward to the report coming back to council because, “this area has been a question mark in our community for a long time.”

Coun. Susan Scott thanked the presenter and the standing-room-only crowd in the gallery for showing their commitment to their community and to keeping the conversation happening.

“If one thing is clear, the ‘give-a-damn’ button here is not broken, it’s working well,” Coun. Garth Frizzell said.

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Sampson grant fails sniff test

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oun. Kyle Sampson is in a boiling pot of political hot water but he’s the one who leaped without looking.

Fellow city councillor Brian Skakun wants to have a public discussion at a city council meeting about how Sampson received a $157,000 provincial grant to put on this past weekend’s country music festival at Exhibition Park. Specifically, Skakun wants to know why Mayor Lyn Hall and senior city administrators wrote letters of support for Sampson’s business without some input from the rest of city council.

Sampson can complain that Skakun made it “a political thing” by bringing it up two months before this fall’s municipal elections but it doesn’t change the fact that, on principle, Skakun has a point and is doing his job as a city councillor to bring it forward.

Whether Sampson is donating proceeds to charity, whether this outdoor concert is good for the city, whether it makes money or not for Sampson, and what Skakun’s private motives might be are side issues that have nothing to do with the key matter.

When mayor and council discuss this issue, they should look at city council’s code of conduct.

Section 11 (Use of Public Resources) states: “Members shall not use City public resources such as staff time, equipment, supplies or facilities, for private gain or personal purposes.” Did Sampson do that while asking for and receiving his letters of support from Mayor Hall and the City of Prince George?

Sampson could have avoided this problem if he had applied for the provincial grant without city support, going with the other letters from local groups and a note in his application saying he did not seek a support letter from the city to avoid any perceived conflict of interest and undue use of political influence to benefit his private business. And if he felt a support letter from the city was essential to his application, he could have taken the initiative by asking the rest of council at a public meeting to approve or deny his request for a letter.

The issue here isn’t Sampson’s integrity. It’s if he violated, intentionally or unintentionally, in a minor or major way, city council’s code of conduct.

In this case, there are 157,000 reasons why a sitting city councillor urging the mayor and senior staff to support his bid for provincial government funds to benefit his private business doesn’t meet the sniff test of conflict of interest and undue influence.

Editor-in-chief Neil Godbout

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Nous reconnaissons l’appli financier du gouvernement du Canada.

Hall’s term marred by failures

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f transparency, accountability, and oversight are the metrics of Lyn Hall’s two terms as the mayor of Prince George, his eight years leading local government were a dismal failure.

After serving just one term as a city councillor, the former School District 57 board chair defeated Don Zurowski in 2014 to become mayor.

Hall succeeded the deeply unpopular Shari Green as mayor and sought a different tone from the beginning, quickly firing the previous city manager and promoting Kathleen Soltis from within.

After hosting the 2015 Canada Winter Games with an embarrassing hole of concrete and exposed rebar right next door to Canada Games Plaza, Hall revived the hotel project and the Marriott was finally completed. An award-winning Citizen investigation later revealed the City of Prince George plowed millions of dollars provided from the Northern Development Initiatives Trust for downtown enhancements into that one project. A chain of emails from a Freedom of Information request showed Hall was demanding updates and action from senior city staff on an almost daily basis to get the deal done and the long-dormant construction site busy again.

Unfortunately, the emails also revealed that Soltis didn’t want to

publicly reveal the city’s subsidization of the project and Hall deferred to her, establishing a pattern of hiding public spending that would come to a head years later with the George Street parkade fiasco and the eventual removal of Soltis as city manager.

Hall did not pay a price politically for his lack of transparency for the Marriott, nor for the big raises for Soltis and her senior managers.

The Citizen revealed in the summer of 2018 that Soltis and her leadership team had been given several lucrative pay hikes far more than the increases given unionized staff, while they also collected tens of thousands of dollars in overtime pay during the 2017 wildfire evacuation crisis.

Hall had to speak to the pay raises and the overtime pay during his 2018 reelection campaign but the only opposition he received was from political rookie Willy Ens, allowing an easy path to a second term.

The seeds for Hall’s disastrous second term were being sown in the summer of 2018 at the same time the senior staff pay scandal went public. Soltis sent an email to Hall in early July giving him a “heads up” about possible budget problems with the parkade, under construction to accompany the first phase of the Park House condo project. Hall

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EXCESSIVE NOISE

Cariboo Rocks the North, lauded as a great success in the Citizen, was a weekend of insanity for other citizens. The powers to be at city hall blessed the event by avoiding the noise bylaw. Most people who live within a four-kilometre radius were forced to stay indoors in order to lessen the impact. I visited the site briefly. In five minutes, my ears

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were sore. Talking and discussion was not possible, and I suspect there was much damage done for those who stayed, including security staff.

I am sure there were many citizens who felt similarly acoustically bombarded.

Rick Cook, Prince George

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I so enjoyed the three years break from Cariboo Rocks the North. My

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never replied to the email.

In late 2020, after Coun. Brian Skakun spent months demanding a full financial accounting of the parkade, Soltis and her senior administrators publicly admitted the parkade had cost $10 million more than budgetted, with the out-of-control spending hidden by clever accounting and extra spending authority Hall and council had bestowed on Soltis years earlier.

A subsequent Citizen investigation showed senior administration working on the problem from the very beginning but there were no emails showing Hall knew what was going on. As the two Citizen editorials calling for Hall’s resignation in early 2021 argued, he either knew all along what was happening with the parkade but had covered his tracks or he was blind, intentionally or otherwise, to the financial disaster happening under his nose.

With Hall announcing at the city council meeting that he wouldn’t be seeking a third term, he steps aside the same day news outlets in Prince George were invited to a mayoral candidate announcement on Wednesday morning.

Whomever succeeds Hall as mayor will hopefully take transparency and administrative oversight far more seriously than he did.

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husband and I live in a residential area near Exhibition Park and the noise is so loud and stressful for us that it makes the days of the festival a horror show for us.

Why does it have to be so loud?

Please, either move the show to a location outside of town, inside at the CN Centre or turn the volume down to a comfortable level for people who live nearby.

Louise Sarrazin, Prince George

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School trustees deny ‘toxic workplace’ claims MARK NIELSEN Citizen staff

The School District 57 Board of Education is denying ex-superintendent Anita Richardson’s allegation that she suffered maltreatment during her time at the posting.

“There is no basis in law for an award of punitive damages because the School Board did not engage in any extreme, harsh, vindictive, reprehensible, malicious behaviour,” according to a response to Richardson’s civil claim filed on behalf of the board.

The document was filed Aug. 2 at the Prince George courthouse, roughly 3 1/2 weeks after Richardson filed a claim

in which she alleges she “experienced a toxic work environment and bullying and harassment” over the one year she held the job before taking a leave of absence.

Trustees did agree with Richardson that in the aftermath of taking the leave, she filed a complaint alleging they breached both the school board’s respectful workplace policy and rights and responsibilities policy and, in turn, a third party was brought in to investigate the complaint. But they deny Richardson’ allegation that it was seven weeks after the complaint was filed that the investigation was started, although a specific date was not provided in the response.

They also deny Richardson’s allegation that the summary of the investigator’s

findings confirmed and substantiated several of her complaints, but do not provide further details on what the investigator specifically states.

Trustees and Richardson also differ on the reasons for her eventual dismissal.

On that note, they advised Richardson that she was going to be let go because her relationship with area First Nations was “difficult and there was a lack of trust” and that her continued employment as superintendent “would make a constructive relationship with the First Nations very difficult.”

In her notice of claim, Richardson agreed those were the reasons she was given but contends her relationship with First Nations was good and that it was the

trustees’ conduct that undermined it.

Trustees also say Richardson was given three additional days to respond to the reasons given for her termination. They agree with Richardson that she had asked for a copy of the investigator’s report and, in response, she was given a redacted version but for reasons of privacy.

In a separate filing, the school board also disputes that the B.C. Supreme Court has jurisdiction over the matter. Reasons for this were not set out in the filing but in the response to Richardson’s claim, it is contended that she is defined as a worker under the Workers’ Compensation Act and that any claims she may have for damages are barred by operation of the WCA.

Life-saving device recovered after being stolen ARTHUR WILLIAMS Citizen staff

A life-saving device stolen from the parking lot of Masich Place Stadium on Aug. 5-6 has been found, thanks to a sharp-eyed resident.

The automated external defibrillator (AED) was found near some garbage at a gas station, a city spokesperson said in an email.

“The person who found it recognized what it was and returned it to the fire department,” city communications manager Julie Rogers said. “It appears to be in good working order, but we will send it out for testing to be sure. It should be back in place in (two) weeks.”

The machine, which stimulates the heart with electrical current to get it to start beating again, was like those used in hospitals – except it was automated

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Prince George MLA Shirley Bond helped her grandsons unveil an AED machine at Masich Place Stadium on July 22, 2021. to allow it to be used by an untrained bystander, by following simple instructions. When a cardiac arrest happens outside a hospital, the chances of survival are less than 10 per cent, according to

information provided by the B.C. Heart and Stroke Foundation. With access to an AED and CPR, the chances of surviving double.

When the AED was stole, the culprit

Drug-checking machine now available in city HANNA PETERSEN Citizen staff

A new drug checking machine is now available to help people who use drugs make more informed choices and to help save lives.

A new Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) drug checking machine is now operational in Prince George in partnership with the POUNDS Project (Preventing Overdose Undoing Stigma).

The FTIR machine will allow trained staff at the POUNDS Project location in downtown Prince George to do advanced drug checking in the community including fentanyl and benzo testing. Drug checking is an evidence-informed harm reduction tool that allows people to check what is in their

drugs. The machine can test a range of substances including opioids, stimulants and other psychoactive drugs such as MDMA. The POUNDS Project said drug checking is one of many harm reduction tools to help keep individuals in the community safer and it strives to be a safe and inclusive space for all people who use drugs.

The support is offered to individuals who occasionally consume, those who do on the weekend, and folks who use substances daily and Individuals from any walk of life are welcome to visit Two Doors Down (1126 Third Avenue) to use the new service.

Drug checking services using the FTIR machine will be available six days a week -from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. from Wednesday-Saturday and in the evenings 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Tuesday-Sunday (closed Mondays).

also vandalized the climate-controlled case for the device, located in the Griffiths Avenue parking lot of Masich Place Stadium.

The AED device was donated by Prince George-Valemount MLA Shirley Bond and her family in July 2021, in honour of Bond’s late husband, Bill Bond. Bill Bond died on June 6, 2020, following a stroke.

The installation in a climate-controlled case in an outside area was the first of its kind in B.C. outside the Lower Mainland.

Bond and her family created the Bill Bond Memorial Fund, managed by the Prince George Community Foundation, to raise money to purchase a minimum of 10 of the machines and install them in locations throughout northern B.C. Donations to the Bill Bond Memorial Fund can be made by going online or by calling the Prince George Community Foundation office at 250-562-7772.

RCMP officer charged HANNA PETERSEN Citizen staff

The BC Prosecution Service (BCPS) has approved charges against a North District RCMP officer for driving without due care and attention.

Cst. Jay Barban was charged in connection with an on-duty motor vehicle incident alleged to have occurred on August 19, 2021 near Bear Lake.

The first appearance on this matter is scheduled for Sept. 21 in Prince George Provincial Court.

The charge was approved by an experienced Crown Counsel with no prior or current connection with the officer.

In July, the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) forwarded its findings from the collision to the prosecution service for consideration

of charges.

The collision occurred on Aug. 19, 2021, on Highway 97 near Industrial Way in Bear Lake between an unmarked SUV being driven by a Prince George RCMP officer and a Kia Rio. The car’s driver was transported to the hospital with what were initially believed to be minor injuries.

But on April 29, 2022, the IIO was notified that the injuries from the crash were serious enough to spark an investigation.

The civilian-based police watchdog said “reasonable grounds exist” to believe the officer may have committed a driving offense.

As this matter is now before the court, the BCPS will not be releasing additional information or commenting further at this time.

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International student has Olympic dreams CHRISTINE DALGLEISH Citizen staff

There’s an international student from India who needed a fresh start after tragedy struck his family.

After the sudden death of his father and cousin, Sagardeep Singh said coming to Canada in 2018 gave him the new perspective he needed.

“I left everything behind because it was just too hard for me to stay,” Singh explained.

Singh was heavy into track and field in Punjab four years ago and recently found the strength to venture back onto the track here as a member of the Prince George Track & Field Club as he awaits his permanent residency after completing his studies at CNC.

Singh specializes in the 100m sprint, long jump and triple jump and his dream is to become an Olympian representing Canada on the world stage.

“I will never stop,” Singh said. “I will always keep going.”

Athleticism runs in the family, his dad was a record holding weight lifter in India, so he knows what it takes to be a champion.

“Sagar is very dedicated to his training,” PGTF head coach Lauren Matheson said about Singh. “He is very focused on his goals, which I really enjoy. He’s always coming up to me saying he’d like to work on this or that to improve himself – so he’s always looking for ways to improve in his sport. He’s just a good overall athlete.”

Singh is happy to say he has great support from his cousin Sukhman Singh who plays soccer for the University of Northern BC. “He will support me all the way and it really makes a difference,” Singh said.

During this season’s early competition Singh has improved his sprint times and jumping distances.

When he participated in the Prince George Track & Field Club’s Spruce Capital Meet, he broke meet records with a time of 11:53 in the 100m and long jump distance of 5.81m.

While at the U16-Sr. 2022 BC Athletics Provincial Championship Jamboree held in Kamloops July 8 to 10, Singh ran the 100m in 13.05 and in triple jump recorded a leap of 13.05m.

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Adam Sieben, 16, a member of the Prince George Track & Field Club, came back from the BC High School Championships June 6 with a gold medal in the 400m metre race.

From his first 400m race in May at the local club’s Sub Zero meet at Masich Place to the high school championships in Langley he shaved more than two seconds off his time of 50.50 seconds. Then less than a month later he ran at the BC Championship Jamboree and took first place with his personal best time of 50.34.

Sieben is currently ranked second in the province in his age group in the 400m this season.

“Adam is very dedicated to his sport,” Lauren Matheson, Prince George Track & Field Club head coach, said. “When I talk with him, he’s already got his goals in place and he’s ready to meet those goals.”

Matheson has known Sieben since he first started with the club.

“Over the years I have seen him develop as an athlete and I’m really excited to be here for him as a coach during this long-time journey,” Matheson said.

Sieben also runs the 100m at 11.32 seconds and 200m at 22.80 seconds but

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ADAM SIEBEN the 400m is his specialty. He’s got big plans for his future for the grueling sprint to take him further than just once around the track.

“I put a lot of expectation on myself,” Sieben said. “And I’ve been training a lot.”

This is a transitional year for the young athlete whose first goal is to make Team BC so he can compete at the national level. He’s eligible this year and next so he’s got another season to make that happen.

Ultimately he’s looking to get a scholarship to a Division 1 stateside college and go from there.

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Former player returns to coach hockey team HANNA PETERSEN Citizen staff

SAGE DESJARDINS

Northern Capitals alumnus Sage Desjardins is coming back to her roots – after six years away she’s rejoining the girls’ hockey team, but now as the team’s newest assistant coach.

Originally from Terrace, Desjardins first moved to Prince George to pursue her hockey career where she played for the Northern B.C. team for three years prior to attending the University of Calgary and joining the Dinos. She’s now back in northern B.C. with the U18 AAA team to develop the team as an assistant coach.

For Desjardins, coaching is a family legacy, as her father Mario Desjardins coached her all through her major midget career and was the head coach of the Northern Capitals for the past few years.

“We’ve both been involved in the program, even when I was away at university. So now that I’m back home, and I’m moved back to Prince George, it’s kind of exciting to get the chance to assistant coach with them again,” said Desjardins.

However, she noted that this year will be a bit of an adjustment as it’s the first year she won’t be lacing up skates as a player having finished her time with the Dinos where she was coached by Danielle Goyette, and Carla MacLeod, both Olympic gold medalists in women’s hockey.

“I have no doubt come September, when I’m not putting on my gear to play an actual game, it’s going to feel a little weird,” said Desjardins. “But definitely, I want to make that step into coaching. I didn’t get to where I did in hockey without so much support from people in this organization and beyond it, and so just to

come back and give back and help these girls try and get to where I got to go is really the end goal for me.”

Desjardins says she sees herself staying involved in hockey throughout her career. She is also starting the education program at the University of Northern British Columbia and plans to continue to coach and teach kids in both capacities.

She’s also a big advocate for encouraging girls to become involved with sports.

“I remember when I started hockey when I was like five years old, and you step on the ice and you’re with a bunch of boys, it can be so intimidating,” she said.

“I think the biggest thing with females especially is don’t get discouraged. It’s so easy to lose your confidence so fast, and it takes months to build it back up.

Try not to let that happen. If you’re where you’re at, you should be there.”

Tabor Mountain Line Relocation Later this summer, BC Hydro will begin construction to upgrade the Tabor Mountain

Tabor Mountain Ski Resort

distribution line that runs through the Regional District of Fraser Fort George, east of Prince George, near Tabor Mountain Ski Resort. Crews will be rebuilding and relocating the line on

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Tabor Mountain to mitigate safety concerns, improve access, and enhance reliability.

The construction is split into two phases:

Phase 2

○ Phase 1—rebuild about 2.1 km of line along the existing right-of-way in summer/fall 2022. ○ Phase II—reroute and build 2.8 km of line around Tabor Mountain Ski Resort and along the highway and salvage/remove old sections of line. Scheduled for spring/summer of 2023.

Upcoming Work Schedule ○ Phase 1 vegetation clearing and access for the project is expected to start in August/September. ○ Phase 1 line construction is expected to start in the fall.

Phase 1

Note: Construction start is dependent upon favourable weather and fire season conditions.

Planned Outages To complete this work safely, several planned outages will be required. We will work with local government and the community to minimize any impacts to our customers.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact: Mike Kellett Manager, Northern Community Relations BC Hydro

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ARIES If you’re offered extra work, it’ll be essential to weigh the pros and cons before accepting. Is it a job that’ll showcase your value and advance your quality of life? Give it some thought.

TAURUS You’ll find yourself in an excellent position to negotiate something that brings you prestige.

You may also become a hero in someone’s eyes, even if only because you listen to them for a few moments.

GEMINI You may adopt a whole new way of life, possibly considering a switch to a vegan diet. Your health will require that you refine some of your habits, and to feel better, you may inevitably have to modify them.

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CANCER Whether in a professional or personal context, you’ll place yourself in situations where you’ll be able to interact with multiple people. This will enable you to expand your circle of friends and social networks.

LEO You may have taken steps towards securing financing for a professional project or a house purchase. You’ll be delighted to finally receive a positive response that sets things in motion.

VIRGO The telephone will ring off the hook at times, and then other times, you’ll have total silence. Even if you leave urgent messages, you may have to exercise patience before getting responses from some people.

PUZZLE NO. 148

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LIBRA Clearly, improving your eating habits will be beneficial to your health. A radical change in the rhythms of your life will enable you to regain your youthful beauty and vitality.

SCORPIO You’ll develop new friendships, which will lead to beautiful and enriching adventures.

These people may cause you to discover a new form of spirituality. At work, you’ll expand your client base abroad.

SAGITTARIUS You’ll see significant changes at work. This’ll come as a surprise and cause you added stress. Fortunately, the storm will pass, and your financial situation will improve considerably.

CAPRICORN A great desire for change and transformation will drive you if only to give the walls at home a new coat of paint. In all spontaneity, you’ll find yourself at the hardware store buying the supplies you need.

AQUARIUS New clothes, a new hairstyle and other new accessories will help you feel more at ease in your professional duties. This will amplify your value in the eyes of others and yourself.

PISCES You may find yourself subject to some adjustments at work. As colleagues leave their positions, you’ll inherit their responsibilities and find it somewhat challenging. You’ll catch on brilliantly and gain much pride from it.

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Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 only once.

Each 3x3 box is outlined with a darker line.

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Remember: you must not repeat the numbers 1 through 9 in the same line, column or 3x3 box.

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Healthyy North immunocompromised, please see the BC Government web page on young children and COVID-19: www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/vaccine/young-children For information about COVID-19 vaccination for other age groups, visit the BC Government website: www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/vaccine A version of this story originally appeared on the BC Children’s Hospital website (bcchildrens.ca/ about/news-stories/stories/register-your-child-under-5-for-covid19-vaccination). It has been shared with permission.

You can now register your child under five for COVID-19 vaccination Registration for COVID-19 vaccination for BC children aged six months to four years is now open.

Below, read why doctors at BC Children’s Hospital recommend the vaccine.

Call or go online to register The COVID-19 vaccine for children aged six months to four years will be available at child-friendly clinics in communities. Register children in the provincial Get Vaccinated system (getvaccinated.gov.bc.ca) now by going online or calling 1-833-838-2323 (7 am to 7 pm daily; translators are available).

Once registration is complete, parents or guardians will be invited to book a vaccination at a clinic in their community when the immunization program starts in August. For children who are not yet six months old, parents or guardians should still register their child and can expect an invitation once the child reaches that age.

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) recommends two doses with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, with eight weeks between doses. This Moderna vaccine is a smaller dose of the same Moderna vaccine that’s used for older children. You can read more here: canada.ca/en/publichealth/services/immunization/national-advisory-committee-on-immunization-naci.html Doctors recommend vaccination “Vaccination is one of the most effective ways to protect our families, communities and ourselves against COVID-19,” says Dr. Laura Sauvé, a BC Children’s Hospital infectious disease pediatrician who has been caring for children with complex infections for 16 years.

She led the group that created the COVID-19 pediatric treatment guidelines in BC, and has read extensive amounts of data about children, COVID-19, and vaccines.

“Evidence indicates that the vaccines used in Canada are very effective at preventing severe illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19. Based on Health Canada’s review of the safety, efficacy, and quality of the vaccine, Health Canada determined the benefits of the vaccine in this age group outweigh any risks,” says Dr. Sauvé.

COVID-19 clinic information for Prince George Who: Ages 12+ Where: A local pharmacy will provide your vaccine. Register and book through the province’s Get Vaccinated system. Visit the BC Pharmacy Association for more information: www.bcpharmacy.ca Who: All ages (including 6 months and older) When: August 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 31 (varying daytime slots available) Where: Northern Interior Health Unit, Auditorium, 1400 Edmonton St Booked appointments only. To get your invitation, you must be registered with the Get Vaccinated provincial registration system.

Please have your Personal Health Number (PHN) with you. For additional info, please visit: northernhealth.ca/health-topics/covid-19-immunization-clinics

Children and COVID-19 “Severe outcomes of COVID-19 in young children are unusual, but they do happen,” says Dr. Sauvé.

“There’s increased risk from some underlying medical conditions, but some children who were otherwise previously healthy have also had severe COVID-19.” Having your child or youth vaccinated also means they are less likely to get severe COVID-19 or its complications.

Even if your young child has already had COVID-19 and recovered, they should still get vaccinated. Not everyone develops a strong immune response after having COVID-19.

Vaccine safety testing All COVID-19 vaccines for adults and children follow the same review and approval process in Canada.

The Moderna clinical trial showed that the vaccine was well tolerated, and no serious adverse reactions were identified. There were no deaths, no cases of MIS-C (a rare complication of COVID-19), and no cases of myocarditis and/or pericarditis reported among the nearly 5,000 trial participants. As usual, surveillance for adverse events will continue even after the vaccine has been licensed.

The trial also showed that the immune response to the vaccine in children six months to five years of age was comparable to that seen in people 18 to 25 years of age. This was assessed when Omicron was the main type of COVID-19 circulating in the US and Canada, so it is effective for that strain.

The ingredients of the Moderna vaccine have been researched for more than 20 years. COVID-19 vaccination has no impact on future fertility. There is no biological way for this to occur.

Resources For more information, including third-dose criteria for young children who are moderately to severely

Get ready for fall boosters!

Boosters are the best way to stay protected against any COVID-19 variant. This fall, everyone 12+ will be invited to get their second booster – for many that’s a fourth dose. Getting boosted in the fall helps to protect you and your loved ones as we head into cold and flu season, when the risk of getting COVID-19 is likely the highest.

Learn more: gov.bc.ca/booster

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2022 General Local Elections — Notices of Nominations Public notice is hereby given to the electors of the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George that a General Local Election will be held on Saturday, October 15, 2022, to elect four local community commissioners for the Bear Lake Local Community.

Nominations will be received by the Chief Election Officer or Deputy Chief Election Officer as follows:

By Hand, Mail or other delivery Service To: 155 George Street, Prince George, BC V2L 1P8

From: 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 To: 4:00 p.m. on Friday, September 9, 2022

By Fax To: 250-563-7520

From: 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 To: 4:00 p.m. on Friday, September 9, 2022

By Email To: election@rdffg.bc.ca

Originals of Faxed or Emailed nomination documents must be received by the Chief Election Officer by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, September 16, 2022

Nomination documents are available online at www.rdffg.bc.ca or in person, from July 22, 2022 to the close of the nomination period, as follows: Regional District Office,155 George Street, Prince George, BC Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Bear Lake Community Commission, 353 Grizzly Avenue, Bear Lake, BC Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF NOMINATIONS IS 4:00 P.M. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE A person is qualified to be nominated, elected, and to hold office as Bear Lake Local Community Commissioner if they meet the following criteria: • Canadian Citizen; • 18 years of age or older on general voting day Saturday, October 15, 2022; • resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day nomination papers are filed; and • not disqualified by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election in British Columbia or being nominated for, being elected to or holding the office, or be otherwise disqualified by law.

Public Notice is hereby given to the electors of the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George that a General Local Election will be held on Saturday, October 15, 2022 and that nominations for the offices of: Director – Electoral Area A 1 person to be elected

Director – Electoral Area E 1 person to be elected

Director – Electoral Area G 1 person to be elected

Director – Electoral Area C 1 person to be elected

Director – Electoral Area F 1 person to be elected

Director – Electoral Area H 1 person to be elected

Director – Electoral Area D 1 person to be elected

will be received by the Chief Election Officer or Deputy Chief Election Officer as follows:

Local Community Commissioner

$5,398.92

THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING LIMITS In accordance with the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act, for the 2022 general local elections, the following third party advertising limits apply: Local Community Commissioner

$809.84

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on the nomination process, please contact: Karla Jensen, Chief Election Officer (250) 960-4444 Dayna Hegel, Deputy Chief Election Officer (250) 960-4415 Email: election@rdffg.bc.ca FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on the campaign period expense limits and third party advertising limits, please contact Elections BC: Toll-free phone: 1-800-661-8683 Email: electoral.finance@elections.bc.ca Website: www.elections.bc.ca

School Trustee – Mackenzie Trustee Electoral Area (2) 1 person to be elected School Trustee – Robson Valley Trustee Electoral Area (3) 1 person to be elected School Trustee – Prince George Trustee Electoral Area (1) 5 persons to be elected

By Hand, Mail or other delivery Service To: 155 George Street, Prince George, BC V2L 1P8

From: 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 To: 4:00 p.m. on Friday, September 9, 2022

Nomination documents are available online at www.sd57.bc.ca or in person, from July 22, 2022 to the close of the nomination period on September 9, 2022, as follows:

By Fax To: 250-563-7520

From: 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 To: 4:00 p.m. on Friday, September 9, 2022

School District No. 57, 2100 Ferry Avenue, Prince George, BC Office Hours July 22, 2022 to September 2, 2022: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Office Hours September 6, 2022 to September 9, 2022: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

By Email To: election@rdffg.bc.ca

Originals of Faxed or Emailed nomination documents must be received by the Chief Election Officer by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, September 16, 2022

Nomination documents are available online at www.rdffg.bc.ca or in person, from July 22, 2022 to the close of the nomination period, as follows: Regional District Office,155 George Street, Prince George, BC Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Director – Electoral Areas A, C, D, E, F, G, H

District of Mackenzie, 1 Mackenzie Blvd, Mackenzie, BC Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Director – Electoral Area G

Bear Lake Community Commission, 353 Grizzly Avenue, Bear Lake, BC Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Director – Electoral Area G

Village of McBride, 100 Robson Centre, McBride, BC Office Hours: Monday 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Tuesday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Director – Electoral Area H

Village of Valemount, 735 Cranberry Lake Road, Valemount, BC Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (closed between 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.)

Director – Electoral Area H

THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF NOMINATIONS IS 4:00 P.M. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022.

CAMPAIGN PERIOD EXPENSE LIMITS In accordance with the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act, for the 2022 general local election, the following expense limits for candidates during the campaign period apply:

Public Notice is hereby given to the electors of School District No. 57 (Prince George) that a General Local Election will be held on Saturday, October 15, 2022 for the office of:

District of Mackenzie, 1 Mackenzie Blvd, Mackenzie, BC Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Village of McBride, 100 Robson Centre, McBride, BC Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Village of Valemount, 735 Cranberry Lake Road, Valemount, BC Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (closed between 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.)

Nominations will be received by the Chief Election Officer or Deputy Chief Election Officer as follows: From: 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 To: 4:00 p.m. on Friday, September 9, 2022

By Hand: By Appointment Only, Please Call 250-561-6800 to schedule School Board Office 2100 Ferry Avenue, Prince George, BC V2L 4R5

QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE A person is qualified to be nominated, elected, and to hold office as a School Trustee if they meet the following criteria: • Canadian Citizen; • 18 years of age or older on general voting day Saturday, October 15, 2022; • resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day nomination papers are filed; and • not disqualified by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election in British Columbia or being nominated for, being elected to or holding the office, or be otherwise disqualified by law.

CAMPAIGN PERIOD EXPENSE LIMITS

THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING LIMITS In accordance with the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act, for the 2022 general local elections, the following third party advertising limits apply: Director – Electoral Area A $809.84 Director – Electoral Area C $809.84 Director – Electoral Area D $809.84

Director – Electoral Area E $809.84 Director – Electoral Area F $809.84

Director – Electoral Area G $809.84 Director – Electoral Area H $809.84

In accordance with the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act, for the 2022 general local election, the following expense limits for candidates during the campaign period apply:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on the nomination process, please contact: Karla Jensen, Chief Election Officer (250) 960-4444 Dayna Hegel, Deputy Chief Election Officer (250) 960-4400 Email: election@rdffg.bc.ca

Director – Electoral Area A $5,398.92 Director – Electoral Area C $5,398.92 Director – Electoral Area D $5,398.92

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on the campaign period expense limits and third party advertising limits, please contact Elections BC: Toll-free phone: 1-800-661-8683 Website: www.elections.bc.ca Email: electoral.finance@elections.bc.ca

Director – Electoral Area E $5,398.92 Director – Electoral Area F $5,398.92

Director – Electoral Area G $5,398.92 Director – Electoral Area H $5,398.92

By Mail or Other Delivery Service School Board Office 2100 Ferry Avenue, Prince George, BC V2L 4R5 Office Hours August 30, 2022 to September 2, 2022: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Office Hours September 6, 2022 to September 9, 2022: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m

By Fax: 250-561-6820

By Email: election@sd57.bc.ca Note: Originals of faxed or emailed nomination documents must be received by the Chief Election Officer by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, September 16, 2022 THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF NOMINATIONS IS 4:00 P.M., FRIDAY, September 9, 2022 QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE: A person is qualified to be nominated, elected, and to hold office as a School Trustee if they meet the following criteria: • Canadian Citizen; • 18 years of age or older on general voting day Saturday, October 15, 2022; • resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day nomination papers are filed; and • not disqualified under the School Act or any other enactment from being nominated for, being elected to or holding the office, or be otherwise disqualified by law.

CAMPAIGN PERIOD EXPENSE LIMITS In accordance with the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act, for the 2022 general local election, the following expense limits for candidates during the campaign period apply: School Trustee – Mackenzie Trustee Electoral Area (2) School Trustee – Robson Valley Trustee Electoral Area (3) School Trustee – Prince George Trustee Electoral Area (1)

$5,398.92 $5,398.92 $32,547.30

THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING LIMITS In accordance with the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act, for the 2022 general local elections, the following third party advertising limits apply: School Trustee – Mackenzie Trustee Electoral Area (2) School Trustee – Robson Valley Trustee Electoral Area (3) School Trustee – Prince George Trustee Electoral Area (1)

$809.84 $809.84 $1,627.37

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on the School District No. 57 and the Role of Trustee, please contact: Diane Nygaard (250)-561-6800 Ext 301 Email: dnygaard@sd57.bc.ca Website: www.sd57.bc.ca FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on the nomination process, please contact: Jan Cote, Chief Election Officer 250-561-6800, Ext. 321 Ellen Bryden, Deputy Chief Election Officer 250-561-6800 Ext. 319 Email: election@sd57.bc.ca FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on the campaign period expense limits and third party advertising limits, please contact Elections BC: Toll-Free Phone: 1-800-661-8683 Email: electoral.finance@elections.bc.ca Website: www.elections.bc.ca

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2022

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2022 General Local Election Notice of Nomination Period Public Notice is given to the electors of the City of Prince George that nominations for the offices of: One (1) Mayor and Eight (8) Councillors will be received by the Chief Election Officer or a designated person, as follows: By hand, mail or other delivery service: City Hall, 5th Floor 1100 Patricia Boulevard, Prince George, BC V2L 3V9

From: 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 To: 4:00 p.m. on Friday, September 9, 2022 Excluding statutory holidays and weekends

By fax to: 250-561-0183

From: 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 To: 4:00 p.m. on Friday, September 9, 2022 Excluding statutory holidays and weekends

By email to: Maureen Connelly Chief Election Officer maureen.connelly@princegeorge.ca

Originals of faxed or emailed nomination documents must be received by the Chief Election Officer by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, September 16, 2022

Note: The nomination deposit must be received by the Chief Election Officer before the end of nomination period.

Interested persons can obtain information on the requirements and procedures for making a nomination by requesting a nomination package available at the 5th Floor of City Hall, 1100 Patricia Boulevard, Prince George, BC V2L 3V9, during regular business hours (Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. excluding Labour Day). Nomination packages are also available on the City of Prince George website www.princegeorge.ca/election from 8:30 a.m. on Friday, July 22, 2022 to the close of the nomination period.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE A person is qualified to be nominated, elected, and to hold office as a member of local government if they meet the following criteria: • Canadian citizen; • 18 years of age or older on General Voting Day October 15, 2022; • resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day nomination papers are filed; • a person or the commander of an armed forces unit who has been granted freedom of the municipality, if that person is a Canadian citizen; and • not disqualified under the Local Government Act or any other enactment from being nominated for, being elected to or holding the office, or be otherwise disqualified by law.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on the nomination process, please contact: Maureen Connelly, Chief Election Officer at (250) 561-7793 Joan Switzer, Deputy Chief Election Officer at (250) 561-7686 Email: election@princegeorge.ca Website: www.princegeorge.ca/election CAMPAIGN PERIOD EXPENSE LIMITS In accordance with the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act, for the 2022 General Local Election, the following expense limits for candidates during the campaign period apply: Mayor: $55,922.34 Councillor: $28,297.80 THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING EXPENSE LIMITS In accordance with the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act, for the 2022 General Local Election, the following two types of expense limits for third party advertising sponsors apply: Directed Advertising Expense Limits The directed advertising expense limits specific to the Prince George election area are as follows: Mayor: $2,796.12 Councillor: $2,796.12 Cumulative Advertising Expense Limit The cumulative advertising expense limit is $161,967.47 and applies to directed and issue advertising conducted by a third party sponsor in all election areas.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on the campaign period expense limits and third party advertising limits, please contact Elections BC: Toll-free phone: 1-800-661-8683 Website: www.elections.bc.ca Email: electoral.finance@elections.bc.ca

CITIZEN STAFF PHOTO

Deadfall Brewing Company owners Erin and Brandon Baerwald opened their craft brewery/taproom at 1733 Nicholson St. in June.

Biologists hop into beer science TED CLARKE Citizen staff

Considering the scientific process that goes into making beer, it’s only fitting that biologists Erin and Brandon Baerwald have made it their business to create Deadfall Brewing Company.

Open since June in the Nicholson Centre, Deadfall is the third microbrewery in a relatively untapped Prince George market and its roots are spreading as more customers discover what’s in store for them to sample in a Deadfall can or tapped into a glass.

Brandon, 41, got his undergraduate and masters degree in biology at the University of Calgary and went on to earn his doctorate in ecophysiology at the University of Regina. He met Erin while they were studying bat biology in Alberta, where they first got bit by the homebrewing bug. Their passion for making beer grew exponentially when they moved to Regina in 2015 and discovered the Ale

and Lager Enthusiasts of Saskatchewan (ALES) Club, which introduced them to a group of professional brewers.

That led to jobs for both of them, Brandon as a brewer and Erin serving customers in the taproom at Nokomis Craft Ales in Nokomis, Sask., a small town halfway between Saskatoon and Regina.

They worked there for nearly three years until they moved to Prince George late in 2019 when Erin was hired to teach animal behaviour and conservation biology at UNBC. Brandon continued to refine his craft at Trench Brewing & Distilling, where he worked for about a year before branching out to start Deadfall.

“It hit us the other day, we’re now small business owners in Prince George and we’ve worked real hard to create something really nice,” said Erin. “Because we’re friends with Trench and CrossRoads we’ve built something that looks very different and we’re brewing different styles of beer, so there is no competition.

If one of us does well, we all do well.”

Condos springing up When people converge on the fairgrounds this week to take in the B.C. Northern Exhibition, they’ll notice a large blue building southwest of Exhibition Park that wasn’t there last year.

That huge four-storey structure will soon be home to hundreds of Prince George residents. The 40-unit condominium complex is part of the Framework 22 development taking shape at the west end of 22nd Avenue. Built by Hayer Construction, it’s one of several multi-family housing developments that are changing the face of Prince George.

According to a Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) report released last month, housing starts in the province are not keeping pace with

population growth and shortages are keeping prices high, reducing affordability. The average price of a house in Prince George at the end of June was $529,729, up nearly $74,000 from June 2021.

In May and June, the city issued building permits for 18 new single-family homes, two new multi-family developments and four new mobile homes.

During the first six months of the year, permits were approved for 52 new single-family homes (down from 61 over the same period in 2021), 10 new mobile homes (down by one from January to June 2021), five new duplexes (down from seven in January to June 2021) and 12 new multi-family developments (down from 28 in the same period of 2021).

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REMEMBRANCES In Memoriam

Obituaries

In memory of Gerald

Obituaries

DYER, David Floyd January 15, 1957 August 6, 2022

June 25 1936 - August 18 2020

Because I loved you so much Time will not dim the face I love & the voice I hear each day & the things you did for me in your own special way.

I will miss you each & every day as the years come & go.

I will keep you in my heart, as I love you so!

Celebrate the lives of loved ones with your stories, photographs and tributes

Memorial Services

Memorial Services

Memorial Services

Celebration of Life

Memorial Service and Celebration of Life

Celebration of Life for

Lawrence (Larry) Schneider

Leona Leiski (nee Grouett)

Delbert and Dorothy Wood

Larry’s family will be hosting an informal gathering at his home at 1652 Blackburn Rd N on the afternoon of August 27th. If you were his fishing partner, former fellow employee or a friend, you are very welcome to join us to share memories and stories.

August 21, 1940 - January 23, 2021

There will be a gathering in remembrance and celebration of the life of Leona Leiski, on Sunday, August 21st from 1:00 – 4:00 PM at the home of Sharron Miners, 364 Central Street East. Friends and family are invited to gather and share a meal of all of Leona’s specialties.

With the loss of Dorothy in November 2019, Covid postponed her celebration, so this will be a combined celebration. Deb passed in May of 2022. We would like to invite all friends and family to join us August 26, 2022, at the Kinsmen Club (777 Kinsmen Place). from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. This is behind the Fire Hall on 5th and Ospika. Bring a smile and reminisce about their wonderful lives.

David was born in the small town of Matheson, Ontario. He completed 13 years of school in 12 years after which he pursued his civil engineering degree at the University of Waterloo.

He grew up loving music and playing hockey, and was a loyal Toronto Maple Leafs and Blue Jays fan. After graduation, his search for work and his love of hiking and canoeing led him to British Columbia. He started work for a consulting firm in 1981 and relocated to Prince George in 1991, where he met and married the love of his life, Grace Dyer. In 1995, Dave accepted an engineering position with the City of Prince George where he remained employed until he retired in 2020. Dave was an outstanding husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle. He was a faithful Rotarian, a committed Christian and served as chairperson for Timbers Community Church Board until pancreatic cancer stole his life.

David leaves behind his grief-stricken wife, Grace, children Jeremy LaFontaine (Jennifer) Jonathan LaFontaine (Dina) and Joy Florell (Chase), and grandchildren Jocelynn, Jeremiah, Dalen, Faith, Charlyse, Dylan, Luke, Lucy, Mary and Jack. He also leaves behind his sisters Kathryn (Murray Cruickshank), Terry (John Stepanian), sister-in-law Fanny Yeh and nieces Karen, Joelle, Danielle, Ghislaine, Julianne and nephews Bradley, Patrick, and Norman. He was predeceased by his brother George and parents Floyd and Ruth Dyer.

The Celebration of Life service will be held at the Westwood Mennonite Brethren Church, 2658 Ospika Blvd., at 1:00 pm (PST) on Saturday, August 13, 2022. For those unable to attend, the service will be live-streamed at: live.westwoodchurch.bc.ca In lieu of flowers, donations could be sent to the Rotary Prince George Hospice Palliative Care Society, 3089 Clapperton Street, Prince George, BC V2L 5N4 or go to: https://pghpcs.ca/ support/

Fond memories linger every day, Remembrance keeps them near.

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Obituaries

Marvin Philip Ray Sarasin June 7th, 1958 - August 3rd, 2022

Robert (Bob) Thomas Payne A celebration of life will be held on August 20th, 2022 from 1 pm - 5 pm at 14460 Frankford Rd, Prince George.

Come share your Bob “Pains” stories.

Michael Pohynayko Nov. 5, 1929 Aug. 8, 2022 It is with great sadness that the family of Michael Pohynayko announce his peaceful passing on August 8, 2022.

A mass of remembrance will be held on August 22, 2022 at 11:00 am at Christ Our Savior Church (4514 Austin Rd W).

It is with deep sadness that the family of Marvin Sarasin announces his unexpected passing at the Red Deer Regional Hospital in Red Deer, Alberta at the age of 64 years.

Marvin was predeceased by his parents Rolland and Maude; siblings William, Arthur, Elizabeth, Tommy, Irena, and Rosalind (Wayne); nephew Malcolm; father-in-law Tony; sister-in-law Glenda; and brother-in-law Dutch.

Marvin is survived by his loving wife of 41 years Linda; children Cora-Lee (Gray), Nicole (Aaron), and Shane (Krystal); grandsons Ethan, Emmett, Easton, Eli, Sawyer, and Jackson; siblings Ruth (Vic), Carolyn (Kerry), and Rolland; mother-in-law Thelma; brothers-in-law Gordon (Christiane) and Mike (Freda); sisters-in-law Brenda and Kella; as well as many cousins, nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews, and an abundance of friends.

Marvin was born in Viking, Alberta and lived in Rylee, and Round Hill, Alberta as well as McBride, Barriere, Kamloops, and Terrace, British Columbia.

Marvin married Linda Molendyk on March 28th, 1981 and they moved into their forever home in Prince George, British Columbia in 1987. Within their 41 years of marriage, Marvin and Linda welcomed 3 children. Their family grew with the marriages of their children and the addition of 6 grandsons.

Marvin worked on the family farm growing up and at his sister’s farm in Alberta. He worked at Zeidler’s Mill in McBride for a short time. Marvin worked for CN Rail from 1977 until he “retired” in 2013. He then worked for Remcan from 20132020. Marvin worked hard to provide for his family.

Marvin lived a life full of adventure and laughter. From volunteering for the kids’ activities and at the Multiplex, to playing ball, to

camping, salmon fishing, and enjoying the lake, from family dinners to weekly games nights, and travelling near and far to seek fun in the sun or visit the friends and relatives. Marvin will be fondly remembered for his zest for life, sense of humour, love of games, and devotion to his family.

There will be a celebration of life for Marvin on Saturday, August 27th, 2022 at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. The celebration will begin in the Canfor Theatre at 1pm with refreshments to follow in the atrium of the administration building at UNBC. Marvin held a special place in many people’s hearts and he will be forever remembered by all that had the pleasure of knowing him. We love you and we will miss you Marvin; as a husband, father, Opa, brother, uncle, cousin, and friend.

Until we meet again.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made directly to the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation at www.spiritofthenorth.ca Fond memories and expressions of sympathy can be made at www.wilsonfuneralchapel.ca

Alan John Hunter October 21, 1956 August 8, 2022.

65 years young On Monday August 8, 2022 Alan Hunter, devoted husband, father & stepfather, brother, uncle, grandfather, passed away quietly while at North Okanagan Hospice in Vernon BC. Alan was preceded by Margaret (Mother) & John (Father) Hunter. Alan is survived by his wife, Patti, daughters Amanda & Krissy, stepsons Marty & Shayne, brother Eric, nephew Tyler and numerous grandchildren from all of the families.

Alan was born in Montreal, Quebec & attended bilingual school in Pointe aux Trembles until he was 9 years of age. His family then relocated to Prince George BC in May 1966. Alan attended elementary & high school in PG before stepping into the working world, working as a parts man, welder & equipment operator in many communities through out BC. He worked at Fortis Gas for 30 years as a welder & equipment operator. He also travelled to the United Arabic Emirates to work as a welder building natural gas pressurizing stations for two years.

Tinkering was one of his passions. He updated each & every home that he moved into. Alan & Patti both loved to travel as well as just hang out at home. Their last trip was in Cozumel, Mexico earlier this year. Patti’s personal favorite.

Following Alan’s wishes there will not be any service or Celebration of Life at this time.

Donations in lieu of flowers could be contributed to a Hospice House of your preference.

Robertson, Margaret D. December 25, 1927 - November 18, 2021 A Celebration of Life will be held for Margaret at 11:00 AM on Saturday, August 27, at 3210 Bellamy Road. Please RSVP to Gord at 250-640-1879.

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Joseph Jozo Ravlic JOSEPH JOZO RAVLIC passed away unexpectedly on August 8, 2022 at home. Joey is survived by his mother Mira, stepfather Kai, brother Darcy and nephews Cohen, Kaleb, and Liam. As well, numerous aunts, uncles and cousins who love and miss him dearly. He is predeceased by his father Steve Ravlic.

Joe was a beloved son, brother, nephew, uncle, cousin and friend. He will be remembered for his kind nature, good heart and excellent sense of humor. A funeral service will be held at St. Mary’s Parish at 10:00am on Wednesday, August 17th 2022. Reception to follow.

In Loving Memory Of

Jeannine Nicole Tattari November 10, 1978 - July 26, 2022

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Obituaries

Mary (Molly) Frances Eberle (née Sewell)

Lola (Reaugh) Chappelle

1925-2022

1933-2022

Mary (Molly) Frances Eberle (née Sewell) passed away peacefully at home on August 7, 2022, with family by her side. She is survived by her children Dorothy (Reg) Kempster, Donna (Gerry) Hutchinson, Ted (Eleanor) Eberle and Dean (Anita) Eberle along with many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her loving husband Casper (Cap) in 2010, siblings Isabel Bender, Everett Sewell, Don Sewell, and Betty Eberle, as well as greatgrandson Bradley Kempster.

Molly was born in Lafleche, Saskatchewan on March 2, 1925. She moved to Nipawin and then Leduc, before settling in Prince George with her husband and daughters in 1952. Their family was complete after having two sons. She thought fondly of her time spent working at Prince George Regional Hospital. Molly lived a full life that centered on family – a devoted mother and doting grandmother, always worrying about everyone else. She will be lovingly remembered as a sweet, quiet and proper lady who enjoyed being welldressed. An avid shopper at Northern Reflections, she eagerly awaited any opportunity to peruse the latest sales.

Molly will be missed tremendously.

We’ll miss your goodbye waves from the front window.

A special thank you to Farah McKenzie NP of BC Cancer and the Home Care team. There will be no service by request. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in Molly’s memory to a charity close to your heart.

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Lola passed away aged 89, at Parkside Care Residence surrounded by her children. Born May 20th, 1933 Lola was the youngest of six born to Laverne and Archie Reaugh - an early settling PG family. Lola graduated high school, joined the Air force, then married and had her family with Gerry Chappelle. Returning to PG in 1965, many remember the years Lola and Gerry owned the iconic corner store on 9th and Winnipeg - busy and happy years. Lola worked at PGRH as a unit clerk and later as a detox worker until retirement to the Okanagan, returning to PG in recent years.

She was a great walker, and was a talented amateur artist and singer. She is survived by four children, Debbra, Ken, Denise (Richard), and David (Barb), 13 grandchildren, 8 great grandchildren and dear friends - niece Shirley Ballum and Marlene Ongman. It must be said that Lola experienced exceptional care and attention at Parkside residence. Lola requested cremation and a celebration of life will be held at a later date.

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Ardith Gwendeline Smedley October 1st, 1941 August 9th, 2022 Ardith Smedley is cruising the interstellar highways with few regrets. She felt it was time to move on to the next adventures as this incarnation was fulfilled. “No fear of dying” she said.

On this side of the veil there still are her children Jeff Smedley (Theresa) and Sandell Bowler. Her grandchildren Kyle Smedley (Hanna), Russ Smedley (Shay), Joshua Bowler, and Timothy Bowler and 3 Great Grand Children.

She grew up in Kamloops moving to Prince George with her husband Heward.

As a Minister of the Inner Peace Movement, life’s quests tugged her around the far East and North America. After PG, it was off to Pitt Meadows to work for Vancouver Information Society. Then a B&B at Canim Lake and eventually led to the last 10 years calling Prince George home.

A gathering of friends and family will be held at her home on August 29th at 11:00 am. Contact Jeff for details. 250-640-0965.

It was a good run and may she feel the love on her travels.

Donation gratefully accepted the Rotary Hospice House in Prince George.

Audrey Jean Fritz Audrey Jean Fritz gained her wings on Tuesday August 2nd 2022. Beloved wife to Orland Leroy Fritz, Mom to Michael Wesley Fritz, Audra Merie Baldinger and Sherrey Lyn Hall. Grandma to David Baldinger, Keshia Baldinger, Joseph Baldinger (Abby), Kira Ken, Rob Ken, Cheyenna Hall, Kami Kwan and Katrina Fritz and Great Grandma and friend to many, she will be missed always. Known for her feisty spirit and big heart - this world won’t be the same without her.

A Vanished Friend

Around the corner I have a friend In this great city that has no end; Yet days go by, and weeks rush on, And before I know it a year has gone, And I never see my old friend’s face, 2., $63% 6+ ; +'6? ;B( =%,,67$% ,;4%< He knows I like him just as well As in the days when I rang his bell, "B( :% ,;B> C6B%< @% '%,% &.)B>%, =:%BA "B( B.' '% ;,% 7)+&A #,%( C%BA Tired of playing a foolish game, -6,%( '6=: =,&6B> =. C;!% ; B;C%< “Tomorrow, I will call on Jim, /)+= =. +:.' =:;= 0 ;C =:6B!6B> .3 :6C<5 But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes, And the distance between us grows and grows, Around the corner, yet miles away 81%,%9+ ; =%$%>,;CA +6,A5 8/6C (6%( =.(;&*5 And that’s what we get, and deserve in the end, Around the corner a vanished friend!

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Lynda Levesque October 17, 1952 March 13, 2022

After a long courageous battle with cancer, Lynda passed away peacefully at home. She was predeceased by her son Sean (1998), husband Maurice (2008), and her companion Dennis Hale (2019). Lynda is survived by and will be greatly missed by her four legged, fluffy companion Rory, her loving family, extended family and her good friends. Lynda’s family would like to extend a heartfelt Thank You to Dr. Andrea Larson and all the staff in the office, to everyone at the Cancer Clinic, to all of her friends and our friends for all of your love and support during this difficult time. No funeral service by Lynda’s request.

Kathleen Gladys Boyes 1923-2022

Kathleen Gladys Boyes, passed away peacefully on Sunday August 7th, 2022 with loved ones by her side.

Kathleen is survived by her children, David (Valerie), Janet Turnbull, John (Edna), Conrad (Marjorie), Cedric (Lynn), Robert (Charlotte), Bill (Laurinda), Valerie (Jeff) Johnson, Clay (Shirley), Mary (Mark) Ryan, and Philip.

Kathleen is predeceased by daughters Sara and Patricia, and sister Mary Howat.

Kathleen lived her 99 years in Wales and Canada. Born 1923 in Llantrissant, Wales, to Alfred Llewelyn Jones and Gladys Ann Jones, the youngest of two daughters, Kathleen enjoyed a farm girl’s life. Kathleen trained as a nurse in the early 1940’s. On that fateful day in 1944 of the D-Day invasion, her geriatric hospital in Herefordshire became one of many triage centres for wounded soldiers. She eventually fell in love with Bob Boyes, one of those wounded soldiers and married in 1945. In 1947 they moved to Canada to fulfill her husband’s dream of living off the land in Northern Ontario. As Kathleen was always ready for an adventure she eagerly accompanied Bob into the Northern Muskeg where they learned from the Indigenous people to earn a meagre living from trapping and trading furs with the Hudson Bay Company. They raised 13 children in a small log cabin without electricity or running water for the next 20 years. There was much work to be done to rear a large family without the conveniences of modern society, cooking with supplies purchased just twice a year from Hornepayne, washing laundry and diapers by hand, skinning furs for trading, living each summer downriver in a teepee as they fished for their dogsled team’s winter food supply. Yet, in the midst of all this toil, her children remember fondly that she took the time to read to them at bedtime, tales from such novels as The Yearling, Old Yeller and other classics. Her melodic Welsh accent and engaging narrative tone had her children enthralled and herself lulled into dozing in the chair only to be prodded several times by the children to please read on!

In 1969 Kathleen embarked on her next adventure, of raising her 7 youngest children as a single mother. In 1976 she and most of her children moved to Prince George BC. Money was tight, as her British nurses’ training had long expired and only qualified her to work as a personal care attendant at a nursing home, but in spite of her challenges she remained positive and cheerful. As her family grew and expanded to dozens of grandchildren, she remembered each one with a birthday card in the mail.

Kathleen had a firm faith and trust in God. Kathleen was a long-time member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In her senior years she served an 18 month mission at the Atlanta Georgia Temple and then a second mission as a Librarian at the Family History Library, British Isles Floor, in Salt Lake City.

Kathleen leaves behind 11 living children, 50 grandchildren, 84 great grandchildren and 9 great-great grandchildren. Her legacy of unconditional love and faithful endurance will remain forever in our hearts.

Our family would like to thank the staff at Simon Fraser Lodge for caring for mom in her final years.

Kathleen’s funeral service will be held on Saturday, August 20th at 12:00 noon at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 4180 5th Ave. Prince George with Bishop Mark Ryan officiating. Family and friends are invited to meet the family from 10:30 am to 11:45 am prior to the service. Interment will follow the funeral service.

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Ida Bernardo 1952-2022 On Saturday, July 9th, 2022, Ida Bernardo, passed away at the age of seventy in Prince George, BC, Canada. Ida is survived by her husband, Cesarino, and her four children, Renaldo, Adriano, Sergio, and Anita, as well as her siblings; Mario, Nicola, Luigi, Maria Antonia, Lucia, and many cousins, nieces and nephews around the world.

Ida was born on March 4, 1952 in the village of Grimaldi, Calabria, Italia to her loving parents, Paolo and Antonia Fata. Her family raised her on farmland that was shared with other families in a close-knit community.

Many of her closest friendships were formed when she was a little girl on that farm, and she carried those friendships forward in her life.

Seeking a better life, she married Cesarino Bernardo on April 13th, 1971, and soon immigrated to Prince George. Her new life held many challenges as she adjusted to life in this northern climate, with the new culture and language. She was welcomed into an extensive community of Calabrese immigrants. As a young bride and a new immigrant, she worked hard to establish a new life-building a duplex with her husband, establishing a truly legendary garden to feed her family, and thinking of the future, she even planted saplings that grew into tall, fifty year old evergreens. As Ida and Cesarino settled into life in Canada, they raised their children, who she loved very much, and she gave everything she had to give to them. She was a proud, strong, and tough woman.

Ida had many passions in her life. She enjoyed baking, cooking, and getting a deal on anything from food to livestock. Ida was a generous person, often sharing fresh fruit and vegetables from her garden, bread and other baked goods. She enjoyed feeding friends and family, whether by making her famous potato donuts for a wedding or funeral reception, celebrating a birthday, or sharing afternoon tea with a friend that stopped by. Ida was a friendly figure around the neighbourhood and met a lot of people just through chatting on the street. In addition to being a talented gardener, she also preserved her own food, canning her own tomato sauce, and freezing or drying her harvests in the fall. One of her favourite things to do was foraging for mushrooms and fiddleheads. Mom’s passion for baking gave her the idea to sell bread, tarts and pies at the Prince George Farmers Market. Becoming a vendor combined a lot of her favourite things; baking, meeting new people, and being independent. She was a very popular figure at the market, and continued to visit with her friends even after she stopped being a vendor.

DO NOT STAND AT MY GRAVE & WEEP

BY MARY FRYE (1932)

Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.

I am the diamond glint on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.

I am the gentle autumn rain.

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She lived her life according to her sense of duty to her family. Ida travelled back to Calabria many times to visit her parents, family and friends. She was a humble, gracious and curious person. Her curiosity motivated her to use the computer, searching Google and Youtube for her interests from around the world.

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As per her wishes, the family will not be holding a funeral for Ida. A longer version of this obituary is available online at: https://www.forevermissed.com/ida-bernardo/about,

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If you wish to honour Ida through a donation, Ida requested donations to Prince George charities focused on helping the homeless. The family welcomes any donations to the https://bccancerfoundation.com/.

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How to put together the perfect guest room Whether they’re staying with you for one night, a long weekend or a couple of weeks, your houseguests will surely appreciate your hospitality — and even more so if their room is cozy and inviting. Here are a few ideas to help you put together the perfect guest room.

First, ensure your guests’ optimal comfort by leaving several pillows, cushions, towels, sheets and blankets at their disposal. In the summer, keep a fan in the room if it isn’t air conditioned, and in the winter, leave some comfy slippers at the foot of the bed.

might need (paper, pens, magazines, books, alarm clock, phone charger, etc.).

And don’t forget to give them your Wi-Fi password.

Finally, leave a personal care kit in the room in case your guests forgot any essentials.

Make sure the kit contains at least a tooth brush, dental floss, soap and shampoo.

Furthermore, make sure there’s enough space for your guests to store their clothes and other belongings in a closet or dresser, for example. In the bedside tables, stow some useful objects that your guests

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Our Property Management Department offers a wide range of rental properties available to rent, as well as we can provide management services for your investment and strata properties. Please contact Keisha Rochon at 250-617-4864.

Shawn McLaughlin *PREC Owner/Sales Representative 250-640-5478

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How to choose the right paintbrush Do you have a painting project in mind? Before you get started, make sure you have the right paintbrush for the job. Here’s what to consider.

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1. THE BRISTLES Paintbrushes can have either synthetic or natural bristles. The latter are especially resistant to solvents and are thus the better choice for applying oil-based or alkyd paint. If you plan on using water-based paint — acrylic or latex, for example — opt for a brush with synthetic bristles, which won’t expand when wet, to ensure an even application. Synthetic bristles are more durable and easier to clean than natural ones.

2. THE SHAPE Paintbrushes come in different shapes, such as flat, angled and tapered.

To make the right choice, consider the task at hand.

For trim and other types of precision work, opt for an angled paintbrush designed for tracing fine lines. To cover larger surfaces, go with a flat-tipped brush, and use a paintbrush with tapered bristles to paint uneven

surfaces (pipes, furniture, grills, etc.).

3. THE SIZE As a general rule, the bigger the surface you intend to paint, the bigger your paintbrush should be. Choose a brush that’s at least 10 centimetres (4 inches) wide for painting walls, floors and ceilings. To paint doors, cabinets and wide mouldings, use a brush that’s around 7 centimetres (3 inches) wide.

Finally, brushes that are 5 centimetres (2 inches) wide or less are perfect for trim and smaller mouldings.

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Tiny Beats 3D Ultrasounds Studio, $179,900

Business is turn-key with strong financials (even during COVID) & a fantastic lease of only $505 /month that has another 34 mnths.

Call Mike!

With no special licensing required, all inventory, specialty equipment & staff contracts included, this business practically runs itself. Located at 207-715 Victoria St.

2575 OAK Street, $999,900

Investor Opportunity! Don’t let the exterior fool you as the building boosted 25,000

Completely re-built after a fire, this essentially new 6-plex is fully rented and completely turn key with management already in place.

First, whether you choose to use your garage or your basement, make sure that you set up your personal gym in a brightly lit and well-ventilated area. In order to maximize the square footage available and create a space that’s conducive to exercise, divide the room into different sections. For example, you could dedicate one area to cardio, another to strength training and yet another to stretching.

In terms of equipment, always keep your budget in mind and evaluate your needs accordingly before making purchases you

Mike Hurrell Realtor® P.R.E.C. Managing Broker

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Sq/Ft finished in the proportion of 65%. With high ceilings and concrete floors, the 12 bays boast fire-rated plywood, spray closed call polyurethane isolation foam 5” of cc SPF on the ceiling and 4’ on the exterior walls. This has been completed in approximately 65% of the building. The Torch roof was done within the last 2 years.

Too many things to list but here are the main features - Electrical is 800Amp, 3 phase water well and septic on the property. Approximative 8 acres are fenced with a 6-foot wire fence and two gates. The property has two large driveways.

may regret. You can surely find a multi-purpose, high-performance exercise machine at a specialty retailer in your area that won’t break the bank! Furthermore, stocking up on basic equipment, such as free weights, elastic bands, an exercise ball and a yoga mat, is always a great way to start.

STAY MOTIVATED! Design a space that’s visually appealing and that you wouldn’t mind spending a few hours each week in by painting the room your favourite colour or hanging some inspiring art on the walls. You could also put up a chalkboard (or bulletin board) to track your progress on. Finally, consider investing in a good sound system that will encourage you to keep moving to the beat of your favourite tunes.

Matt Petkau Realtor® 250-617-8179

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Carling Groves Realtor® 250-570-7439

2015- 2019 OAK Street, $169 900

Linda Stacey Property Manager 250-562-6228

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2778 GREENFOREST Cres $799,900

These three duplex zoned lots are directly across from the Gateway Seniors Complex at the very top of Oak st on a quiet dead end cul-de-sac

This stunning 142.73 acre Estate property is on full city services & offers gorgeous views of the McGregor and Rocky Mountains. Overlooking a deep ravine that contains McMillan Creek are 3 potential building sites, each at the end of an elevated esker, and completely surrounded by soaring ancient Douglas firs. A System of trails leads.

1808 BITTNER RD - $1,350,000

Wow! This 27 acre east facing lake front subdivision has beautiful gentle slope sand beaches and has been subdivided in to 10 fully serviced bare land strata lots with wells and a community septic system. All lots are fully registered with land titles and can be sold separately, all that’s needed is for someone to setup and write the strata rules according to their vision. You could create a lively interactive neighborhood with common docks and beach access or a gated community with exclusive and private beaches. Your vision and imagination is the only limitation.

Waterfront lots range in size from 1.268 acres to 1.478 acres and sublake shore lots range in size from 2.693 acres to 5.164 acres.

1510 PG PULP MILL Road, $2,888,000

Tips for designing the perfect home gym Do you feel like having a space where you can exercise (without judgment!) in the comfort of your own home? Here are a few tips to help you design the perfect home gym.

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This 20.5 AC city development property is the ot her undeveloped side of the Kovachich subdivision.

Access off Bitter Rd E and Blackburn Rd North.

PGS 349 WEST LAKE Road $3,515,000

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3882 HILLCREST ROAD, $89,900

31645 PINEWOOD Road, $109,900

Enjoy country living on level, treed acreage. This lot has electricity, septic and a deep water well (295 feet) with good water quality as per seller.

Matt Petkau Realtor® 250-617-8179

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Cutest rustic cabin ever seen!Lots of parking for your friend’s RV’s. Almost 10.5 acres of land on 2 titles is located only 10 minutes from town center.

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SION JLULDY 40 10180 HART Highway, $110,000

This 14’ wide trailer has two bedrooms 2 & 1 bathroom. Fresh paint in the living room/kitchen and brand new carpet in both bdrms

10233 WESTERN ROAD, $99,000

This nice flat treed 80’ x 150’ city lot is the perfect place to build your Western Acres dream home. City Water/sewer are available.

LOT 11 SHAD Road, $179,900

5.01 Acre treed lot in much sought after Beaverley. Very close to town with access off Hartman road and the lot is mostly flat.

G N I D N PE 103-2217 REGENTS CRESCENT, $179, 900

This spacious walk-out garden unit in Regents Park Condominiums has 2 large bedrooms and is absolutely spotless.

2550 OAK Street, $170,900

Very clean townhouse that comes with newer paint thru-out(2 years), & fenced backyard.

1161 CUDDIE Crescent, $229,900

Accessible home with a fantastic view over looking the VLA. Move in as is or capitalize on the great potential this place has to offer with some updates.

N PENDI LOT C MIWORTHD ROAD, $327,500

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY! 16 acres on Miworth Rd approximately 15 min from Prince George. Close to Caledonia Ski Club. Incl 3 drilled wells.

2377- 2383 QUINCE Street, $329,900

Surrounded by trees and nestled up against the Wetland Nature Park trails this side by side duplex is at the end of a cul-de-sac surrounded by park.

8015 LOOPOL Road, $229,900

Suite Deal! - This rock solid well built home on 1.34 acres needs some cleanup but has enormous potential with 3 bedrooms up and a 2 bedroom suite down.

141 101 TABOR Boulevard, $279,000

Move in ready! Many updates including new flooring, kitchen and stainless steel appliances. Large private patio on the main floor plus secluded balcony on the upper level.

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2738 QUINCE STREET, $344,888

Very nice starter home, or investment opportunity in Upper VLA with Paved driveway and RV parking. Located on quiet cul-de-sac of mostly owner occupied homes.

425-433 WAINWRIGHT, $359,900

This updated side by side duplex is centrally located with each side boasting 2 large bedroom, full laundry, large kitchen and dining area’s.

2047 NORWOOD Street, $369,900

Features 3 bedrooms up and a 2 or 3 bedroom suite down. The main floor has many updates over the years including paint and light fixtures.

G N I D N PE 1710 6TH AVENUE $349,900

This beautiful updated character home has 9’ ceilings, original hardwood floors, redone kitchen & baths + wonderfully located on 2 city lots.

3290 NEW DALE ROAD, $429,900

Handyman SPECIAL. Located on private land with mature timber, trails for your toys and lots of outbuildings to set up for a hobby farm.

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6547 SIMON FRASER Avenue, $449,900

Suite Deal! - This home in an absolutely awesome location in lower college has lots of updates.

SION JLULDY 153 SWANSON ROAD, $589,700

Custom built home featuring an open concept kitchen with maple cabinets. Five covered parking spots include 2 detached garages & RV parking.

1323 BABINE Crescent, $359,900

6 bedroom home is in a great central location close to everything & boasts separate basement entrance making for excellent suite potential.

389 N PATTERSON STREET, $399,900

This updated home with separate basement entry boasts a brand new kitchen, 3 bedrooms up, and an enormous oversized yard.

13755 KEPPEL ROAD $449,000

Attention hobby farm enthusiast! Here is your spacious country rancher situated on 2.01 flat acres in the desirable Miworth location.

8400 DOMAGALA Road, $399,900

This immaculate mobile is on 2.66 acres set up for horses, has a full length addition with extra family living and master bedroom areas.

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6082 CALEDONIA Crescent , $439,900

This spotlessly clean home has excellent street appeal, a huge yard, and has a bright, mostly above grade bsmt.

9395 OLD SUMMIT LAKE Road, $449,900

Suite Deal! - This updated home on 4.72 acres in city limits, is located minutes from all amenities.

755 UNION Street, $411,000

This property features 5 bedrooms 2 bathrooms. Close to Spruceland shopping Centre and bus stops and just a hop, skip and a jump away from CNC.

G N I D N PE 7915 ROSEWOOD Place, $439,900

This updated 4 bed home is on a huge 1/3 acre sub-dividable lot located on a quiet cul-de-sac close to recreation

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2889 GREENFOREST Crescent, $519,900

Custom home backing on to greenspace, boasts a wide open layout designed for entertaining, and has a drive-through garage with yard access.

108 4397 W AUSTIN Road, $414,900

Gorgeous true rancher in a 55+ bare land strata complex. Large entryway leads to open living and dining area. Large master suite has full ensuite.

1910 LARCH Street, $449,900

Suite Deal! - This big elegant home is on 3 city lots, has a sprawling open layout with over 1800 SF on the main, 3 bedrooms up.

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4115 GUEST Crescent, $539,900

2700 SF total the bright spacious open main floor plan that includes half of the basement, boasts a bright cheerful updated kitchen.

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1724 - 1732 TAMARACK Street, $649,900

This nice clean duplex with suites on each side is in a great central location close to everything.

7034 TONY ROAD, 749,900

A perfect location close to schools, shopping, the university, and more, plus will have RV parking. pre-purchase now before construction has completed. Choices of finishings still available. Completion tentatively March-April. Built by Elite Pacific Homes Ltd.

17065 ROBYN Way, $769,900

Quality country home on 16 acres. An excellent set up for horse & perfect for country enthusiast. On bus route. 24x25 wired shop.

2436 W KNELL Road, $949,900

This enormous executive home with 30’x 50’ truck shop is in a perfect mid Hart location on 1.7 sub-dividable acres. A dramatic entrance foyer.