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More mayoral candidates step forward City’s former lawyer seeking mayor’s seat

Two-term councillor running for top job

ARTHUR WILLIAMS

HANNA PETERSEN

Prince George lawyer Roy Stewart announced his candidacy to be the next mayor of Prince George at an event on Saturday.

Stewart previously served as a School District 57 trustee and board chairperson in the 1980s.

He was a key figure in the Interior University Society and UNBC Foundation, advocated for the construction of the new court house downtown and is currently president of the Prince George Symphony Orchestra.

“As a lawyer in private practice (Stewart) was the solicitor for the City of Prince George for twenty years, until 2001, advising on all legal matters,” a statement issued by Stewart’s campaign said.

“As well, (Stewart) acted as solicitor for the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, the District of Mackenzie and other local governments. This provides a unique knowledge of how mayor and council can and should take responsibility for the administrative process at city hall.”

Stewart identified his top five priorities as: • Finding solutions to the issues caused by homelessness.

City councillor Terri McConnachie is running to become Prince George’s next mayor.

McConnachie has been a resident of Prince George for over 40 years. She grew up in the Hart area and after graduating from Kelly Road Secondary School (Shas Ti Kelly Road Secondary), she met and married her high school sweetheart, Kevin, and together they have raised three children.

She was the general manager of the Prince George Exhibition (British Columbia Northern Exhibition) for seven years.

She is currently the executive officer for the Canadian Homebuilders’ Association of Northern B.C. She presently serves as a trustee for the Prince George Public Library, a director for the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George and is a member of the Nechako Rotary Club.

McConnachie has been a Prince George City Councillor since 2014, which she says has required her to draw on her leadership experience to support residents and businesses through the wildfires of recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the challenges that Prince George faces today.

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“As a community leader, ensuring that our home remains a top choice to attend school, grow a career, operate a business and raise a family has always been a deeply personal priority,” said McConnachie, adding that she is ready to continue championing this priority, while building on her values of respect and integrity in her mayoral campaign.

Voters will hit the polls for the municipal election on Oct. 15.

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• Changing the attitude of the city to investment and development.

• Magnifying the accountability of elected officials, demanding transparency.

• Revising current practices to ensure public spending is controlled to avoid overspending and unnecessary tax hikes.

• Changing the image of the City of Prince George, here, provincially, and in the world.

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Terri McConnachie, a two-term city councillor, has announced her candidacy to be Prince George’s next mayor.

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Roy Stewart, who previously served as the City of Prince George’s solicitor for 20 years, is running for mayor.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

TAX SALE OF LANDS Pursuant to Section 254 of the Community Charter and Section 645 and 647 (1) of the Local Government Act, notice is hereby given that the City of Prince George Annual Tax Sale will be held on September 26, 2022 at 10:00am in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 1100 Patricia Boulevard, Prince George, BC. Unless full payment of the outstanding delinquent taxes, plus the necessary interest to date of payment is received prior to the aforementioned time and date, the following properties shall be offered for sale by public auction: Folio Civic 00-00922-000 1395 2ND AVE

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Notice to Prospective Purchasers:

In the case of all properties, the City of Prince George makes no representation express or implied as to the condition or quality of the properties being offered for sale. It is the buyer’s responsibility to satisfy themselves regarding the condition/potential of the property. The purchase of a tax sale property is subject to tax under the Property Transfer Tax Act on the fair market value of the property.

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City reviewing policy in wake of controversy HANNA PETERSEN Citizen staff

The City of Prince George will now review the process of the mayor writing letters for local businesses, non-profits and elected officials following controversy over the Best Damn Music Festival.

During its Monday night meeting, city council unanimously voted in favour of Coun. Brian Skakun’s motion directing administration to review the process.

This included looking at how the mayor and city administration decide what letters for grants and assistance come before council and what letters are not required to come before council.

Skakun first raised the issue after discovering the Best Damn Music festival was put on with the help of a $157,000 provincial grant through the BC Fairs Festivals and Events Recovery Fund.

The music festival was hosted by Kyle Sampson Productions, owned by Prince George city councillor Kyle Sampson.

In Sept. 2021, Sampson received letters of support from Mayor Lyn Hall and the former city manager of economic development supporting Sampson’s application for the grant.

A total of 13 Prince George groups received grants ranging from $250,000 to

$7,401, totalling $882,795 for the one-time funding to help community events restart following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Skakun put forward the notice of motion calling for the processes to be both fair and fully transparent and to ensure the mayor’s office informs city council about meetings with regard to funding requests.

Skakun said he believes this is a serious matter that deserves attention and that he doesn’t believe the current processes aligns with council code of conduct.

“To be clear, this is not about whether or not the letter grant support should have been provided... or whether the grant contributed BRIAN positively to our commuSKAKUN nity,” said Skakun.

“In my opinion, if there was even a small debate whether or not these letters of support of the grant could or would be considered a conflict of interest or breach of the council code of conduct, administration in my opinion should have chosen to be proactive rather than reactive.”

He said he was concerned a city councillor had been given letter of support without knowledge of council or the public for a personal business.

Skakun said after doing some more

research he felt city practices for providing letters for support for grants were flawed and in June he requested a copy of the letters through Freedom of Information requests to the City of Prince George and the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport.

“If administration would have spotted this in the first place, we wouldn’t have been here today (and) that would have saved Coun. Sampson and myself from public scrutiny, freed up time to better serve our community with what we were elected to do.”

City manager Walter Babicz then clarified the existing practice for administrative letters of support. He said requests for letters of support that KYLE SAMPSON require a council resolution come as an agenda item, organizations may request letters of support during a delegation to council, or requests for letters of support can be received through the economic development division.

“So, the long-standing practice of the city, as we understand it, has been that those requests for letters of support are reviewed and responded to based on the economic benefit considerations for the community.”

Sampson running again Prince George city councillor Kyle Sampson will be seeking a second term on city council.

“Today I announced my candidacy and re-election campaign for a seat on Council here in the City of Prince George,” Sampson wrote on Facebook. “Serving our community over the past (four) years has been my greatest honour, and after much consideration, I am excited to be seeking another term on council where I can bring my common sense, logic-based approach to tackling the issues we are facing.”

Sampson said he’s learned a lot from his first four years on council.

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He voted against two increases and recommended budget cuts that would have resulted in lower property taxes in the city. He also requested the city look at its inventory of property, and consider selling land no longer needed to generate revenue for the city, he said.

“Now, more than ever, our city needs a logical approach for how we address the needs of our community, and as we seek stability,” he said. “The City of Prince George is in need of leadership that can create a plan towards finding community safety for all members and all areas, especially downtown and in the bowl areas.”

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He said individuals and organizations seeking local government services are treated equally and the same criteria is used and from an administrative perspective, individuals who are also members of council are not automatically restricted from accessing city services that their neighbours may access.

While the grant in question wasn’t city dollars and the city was not the decision maker, administration viewed Sampson the same as any other applicant.

However, Babicz said he agrees that a formal council policy is in order and would provide value and certainty on council’s preferred process.

Coun. Cori Ramsay noted that because there is not currently a policy in place, there was no conflict as Sampson was following the process.

“Without policy directing this, I think it’s really challenging to make a determination, so I am definitely supporting getting more information on this because I don’t want any of my colleagues to have to be put in this situation,” she added.

Sampson said he followed the steps that were made known to him by the city when asking for support in applying for the provincial grant.

“I can say with conviction that I followed all processes that were shared with me carefully and deliberately,” said Sampson.

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School board trustees running for city council Ron Polillo says he will focus his efforts on the city’s ‘critical challenges’ School District 57 board trustee Ron Polillo has announced that he’s running for Prince George City Council in the Oct. 15 municipal election.

Polillo was elected to the school board in 2018 and has served as vice chair.

As a city councillor, Polillo said in a news release that he will focus his efforts on the “critical challenges that the next city council will need to tackle head on.”

He cited “the overwhelming social issues in the downtown core,” “the massive overruns on capital spending projects,” core infrastructure and making the city more accessible for residents with disabilities as key issues he’d like to address.

“I feel I can provide the passion, the positivity, the leadership and vision needed for the next four years,” he said in a news media release.

Currently the community residential/home sharing manager at AiMHi, Prince George’s Community Living Association, Polillo was a longtime program director and on-air personality for Pattison Media.

His past and present volunteer work in Prince George includes Crimestoppers, the Prince George Italian Club, St. Mary’s Knights of Columbus, the Prince George Soccer Association.

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Tim Bennett says he will advocate for collaboration and responsibility ARTHUR WILLIAMS Citizen staff

Former School District 57 chairperson and long-serving trustee Tim Bennett is running for a seat on city council.

Bennett is the executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern B.C. and has served as a school board trustee since 2011 – including four years as vice-chairperson and four years as chairperson. While the issues are different, Bennett said the city and school district are similar organizations in their size, budgets and complexity.

“Representing you as a trustee, board chair and on the provincial stage as a director and most recently vice president of the BC School Trustee Association has

been a great honour and a responsibility I have taken very seriously,” Bennett said in a statement issued to the media. “I strongly believe in the power of public education and know that it plays a critical role in our society. As I enter my 12th school year, I have seen almost a generation of students through the system. Just as I have watched these students contemplate their next steps, as they move along different paths and careers, I have made the difficult decision that I, too, am ready to make a change. “ Bennett said he hopes to bring his inclusive style of leadership to city council.

“The way we govern in 2022 is not the way we governed in the past,” Bennett said. “We can build a strong Prince George, but it is going to take everyone

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working together. The city can’t do it alone.”

The social issues facing the downtown is one area where the city will need to forge partnerships with other TIM BENNETT agencies and levels of government to make meaningful change, he said.

Bennett said his top four priorities, if elected, would be: commitment, accountability and accessibility; building a sustainable Prince George for all; creating change together; and families and future generations.

As a father with a young family at home, he said he understand the issues facing families in the city, and wants to ensure

that Prince George is a place where young people can grow up, stay and build a life.

That means addressing issues ranging from parents trying to get their kids into swim lessons, up to the city’s lack of a nightlife for students attending UNBC and the College of New Caledonia.

“After looking at the realities and struggles faced by families and other community members over the past few years, I felt it was important to step forward and advocate for a collaborative and responsible way to build a stronger community,” Bennett said. “I love Prince George. I grew up here, and this is home for me, my wife and our four kids. Prince George is changing, and our city must adapt to address the needs of all citizens in 2022 and beyond.”

SD57 holding candidate information sessions School District 57 will be holding information sessions in Prince George, Mackenzie and McBride for people interested in running for school trustee in the Oct. 15 election.

Sessions will be offered at the School District 57 board office (2100 Ferry Ave. in Prince George) at 7 p.m. on Sept. 6. A session at Mackenzie Secondary School will be held on Aug. 31 at 6 p.m. and a session at McBride Secondary School will be held at 6 p.m. on Sept. 7.

“School board trustees represent the public and advocate for public education in their community. While members of

the board act as representatives of their constituency, their primary job is to participate in policy making and strategic planning in the interests of the district’s students,” a statement issued by the school district said.

“The sessions are designed to provide a brief overview of the board of education and the role that school board trustees play.”

The nomination period for school board trustee candidates runs now to 4 p.m. on Sept. 9. For more information or to download nomination documents, go online to the School District 57 website.

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Krause, Everitt not seeking re-election ARTHUR WILLIAMS Citizen staff

After 23 years of public service on city council, councillor Murry Krause announced on Thursday that he won’t be running for re-election on Oct. 15.

Krause was first elected from 1996 to 1999, and then again from 2002 to the present. Krause said the decision was difficult, but he has confidence in the new generation of younger people stepping up to serve the community.

“It wasn’t an easy decision. I’ve been agonizing it over for the last year,” Krause said. “There is fresh faces coming up, and hopefully they serve the community well – that’s what it deserves.”

Krause turned 72 this year, which would have made him 76 by the time he finished the next term, he said.

“We don’t get any younger,” he said. “I have lots of energy left, so it’s time.”

Although Krause will be stepping away from city council at the end of September, he won’t be stepping away from the community.

“I’m really interested in engaging in social justice work in the community,” Krause said. “There are lots of exciting art projects coming up I’d like to part of.

I haven’t made a lot of big plans yet, I’m just going to jump off the pier and see what I find.”

In a statement, Krause thanked his friends, family and his partner, Brian, for “being by my side every step of the way for this entire time.”

Krause also thanked his many council colleagues, city staff, Prince George firefighters and RCMP for their service to the city. City council couldn’t accomplish

anything, without their hard work to turn policy into reality, Krause wrote.

“It has been an incredible honour to serve the citizens of Prince George, and I want to thank those that have supported me over the years,” Krause wrote. “My goal has always been to serve the community well, and to make the community a better place for everyone who calls Prince George home.” * * * Coun. Frank Everitt has announced he will not be seeking re-election during the upcoming municipal elections on Oct. 15.

Everitt has lived and worked in Prince George for nearly 40 years. He became the president of United Steelworkers in 1983 and has also been very active sitting on boards such as Spruce Credit Union, CNC and CNIB. “As many of you may already know I

will not be seeking re-election for a fourth term. Thank you to the citizens of Prince George for giving me the privilege to be on city council for the past eleven years,” said Everitt in a statement sent to the Citizen.

“Together, with my fellow councillors we have seen record-breaking investment in our city in both residential and commercial building. Our city is certainly living up to its name as the Northern Capital and hub for the north! Families continue to move here for work and affordable housing, in one of the best areas in the province.”

Everitt thanked city staff and council as well as voters who supported him in previous elections.

“Lastly, let me say thank you to my wife Kathy and family for allowing me to pursue my passion within our community.”

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Teacher who said he wanted to hurt students will be working in a local classroom this year ARTHUR WILLIAMS Citizen staff

A teacher who once told students in his care he’d like to hurt students, and that he wanted to use one student to kill and injure other students, will be teaching Grade 6/7 at Heritage Elementary School this fall.

In Heritage Elementary’s June 1 newsletter to parents, outgoing principal Linda Picton encouraged parents to, “Please welcome Josh Laurin who will be joining our staff next year as a grade 6/7 teacher.”

Laurin is listed in the school’s staff directory, and is also listed in the staff directory of École Heather Park Elementary as a Grade 5/6 teacher.

In a consent resolution agreement from 2019, B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation Howard Kushner suspended the teaching certificate of Joshua Frederick Roland Laurin for one day for professional misconduct, after an incident on Nov. 6, 2018, while Laurin was a teacher on call working for School District 72 (Campbell River).

Laurin signed the consent agreement in Prince George on Sept. 6, 2019, in which he admitted to the facts laid out in the

consent resolution agreement.

According to the consent resolution agreement, Laurin was supervising a Grade 8 class field trip when he made comments overheard by some students.

“Laurin said that he would like to use one of the students on the field trip to beat two other students to death and to injure a third one. Laurin said he wanted to use one of the students to ‘whack’ two others,” the consent agreement said.

“After the field trip, when the students were back in their classroom, Laurin commented that if he was going to die the following day, he would want to hurt students as he would not then get into any trouble.”

According to the consent resolution agreement, which is published online, Laurin also said he “did not like this job or being around kids,” and that he liked teaching Grade 8 “because he could leave students with worksheets and then leave them to it.”

“Some of the students who heard these comments described them as ‘weird’ and reported feeling shocked by them, although they thought that Laurin was joking,” the consent resolution statement says.

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On Nov. 8, 2019, School District 72 issued a letter of discipline to Laurin and suspended him from the teacher-on-call list for three weeks. The district also required Laurin to complete the Justice Institute of B.C.’s Reinforcing Professional Boundaries course, which he did in March 2019.

School District 72 also reported Laurin to the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation, under section 16 of the School Act. Laurin had been teaching at École College Heights Elementary from September to Nov. 14, 2019, when he was removed from his position.

“Once this matter was brought forward, he was removed from his classroom,” former School District 57 board chairperson Tim Bennett said at the time.

“This matter is currently being looked into and addressed by the district.”

‘I AM DEEPLY CONCERNED’ A parent of children attending Heritage Elementary this fall said they were surprised and concerned when they learned about Laurin’s conduct in the recent past.

The parent spoke to the Citizen on the condition of anonymity.

“This is the individual I am entrusting

to spend as much time with my children as I get to,” the parent said. “Is he a safe adult to be around children? I am deeply concerned surrounding that.”

The parent said they know there is a shortage of qualified teachers, but “I can’t believe this is our best option.”

“If this person is an amazing educator who made a mistake, then why weren’t we front-loaded with that information?” they said.

“What has changed this year to allow him to teach at Heritage, when he wasn’t allowed to teach at École College Heights (in 2019)?”

Parents should have been informed about Laurin’s past, and the steps he and the district have taken to allow him to return to the classroom safely, they added.

DISTRICT RESPONSE School District 57 superintendent Cindy Heitman declined to comment on the issue, as it is a personnel matter.

Laurin, District chairperson Sharel Warrington, Heritage Parent Advisory Council chairperson Sandra Blackwell and District Parent Advisory Council chairperson Andrea Beckett did not return requests for comment from the Citizen.

City buses returning to school schedule BC Transit buses in Prince George will return to school service levels on Sept.

6, according to BC Transit.

Additional trips on routes 15 UNBC/ Downtown and 55 Victoria will start in September. Those extra trips are denoted by the “U” and “F” trip notes in the city’s riders’ guide.

In addition, service will resume on the 12 Parkridge, 96 Shas Ti Kelly Road and 97 Shas Ti Kelly Roadroutes to cater to students in Kindergarten to Grade 12. Route

105 Pine Centre/Downtown Express offers an additional alternative for College of New Caledonia students, to supplement the existing routes 88 and 89.

“The first two weeks of school are the busiest for our routes, as students return to class and are figuring out their new schedules,” BC Transit said in a statement on Tuesday Information about bus routes and schedules can be found online and on the NextRide app.

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Gov’t targets alleged drug house for seizure MARK NIELSEN Citizen staff

B.C.’s director of civil forfeiture is seeking to seize a home in Mackenzie from its owner, alleging it is an instrument of crime.

In a notice of claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court, the director outlines a lengthy list of allegations related to 221 Crysdale Drive and centred largely on Michael Kenneth Robert Matson.

Since May 2014, RCMP have been dispatched to the property more than 300 times in response to complaints ranging from suspected drug use and trafficking to stolen property to assaults to attempted murder, according to the claim.

In addition, District of Mackenzie’s bylaw officers have attended in response

to parking violations, noise, dangerous dog issues and unsightliness, the director says.

The claim goes on to detail the outcomes of search warrants the RCMP executed on the home in May and October 2018, October 2019 and September 2021 during which an array of illegal drugs - mostly methampthetamine - plus cash and trafficking paraphernalia were seized.

In addition, police officers made a series of arrests nearby of people found in possession of methamphetamine following short visits to the home, according to the filing.

Details on the attempted murder claim were not provided in the claim.

However, in July 2016, three people were arrested and charged with the offence following what Crown

prosecution described as a “drive-by shooting” in which Matson and two other men were targeted, leaving one with a bullet wound to his calf.

Crown prosecutors later stayed the charge against the trio - Kelly Michael Richet, Christopher Ryan Russell, and Miranda Leigh Dingwall - but all three were eventually sentenced to lengthy terms in prison on lesser criminal counts.

According to the claim, Matson’s mother, Maria Angela Matson, became the registered owner of the property this past June.

Prior to that point, she was the “beneficial owner” while another of her sons, Robert Steven Matson and his partner Michelle Anne Margaret Niro, were the “owners of convenience” on behalf of Maria Matson, having financed the

purchase in May 2012.

At all material times, Michael Matson resided with his mother at the address, according to the notice.

Maria Matson “knew or ought to have known” how the property was being used and, in the alternative, was “willfully blind” to the manner in which it was being used, the director says.

Criminal charges against Michael Matson from the October 2018 and 2019 arrests remain before the court. Charges from the September 2021 arrest remain pending.

Allegations made by the director have not yet been tested in court and the defendants have not yet filed a response to the claim.

The director is seeking a court order to have the property forfeited to the provincial government.

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Thank you, Murry Krause

Why are the rights of kids so blatantly ignored?

n his 23 years on Prince George city council, under four different mayors, there was never any doubt what Murry Krause stood for and who he was representing.

In a city that routinely elects right-of-centre candidates to provincial and federal office, local voters still threw their support behind an openly gay man who fearlessly championed social issues from a left-of-centre perspective. His announcement that he will not be seeking another four-year term leaves a huge vacancy for the next mayor and city council.

Krause was the head of the committee that formed the Prince George Community Foundation in the 1990s and was the 2000 recipient of the Citizen of the Year Award. A decade later, I was serving on the Citizen of the Year nominations committee with Krause and Michael Kerr, the 2008 Citizen of the Year.

The first name I put forward for the 2011 Citizen of the Year was Matthew Church. Krause knew that would be a controversial nomination, seeing as how Church was just 24 years old at the time and the honour was widely seen as a lifetime achievement award for philanthropy and community service. Krause backed my nomination of Church, recognizing that Church’s work with the Prince George Library Board, the Prince George Road Runners club, and other groups, as well as his student advocacy while still in high school at Duchess Park and then at UNBC met the Citizen of the Year criteria. (Two years later, Church showed the brain chops that earned him a presidential scholarship to UNBC and acceptance at all seven Canadian medical schools he applied at after graduation by becoming the first-and-only person from Prince George to ever compete on the Jeopardy! game show.)

When I returned to the Citizen in 2012 and started writing critical editorials about Prince George city council decisions, Krause remained as gracious as always. He recognized that we each had jobs to do – his as a politician and mine as a journalist reporting and commenting on the decisions of elected officials – but any disagreements had nothing to do with us working together to recognize worthy residents and help the Prince George Community Foundation raise money at its annual Citizen of the Year dinner.

Speaking of honours, there’s one more to give to Krause and it should happen late this year or early in 2023, soon after the new mayor and council take office. The Freedom of the City is the highest award city council can bestow on a local citizen or group for “exceptional merit and contribution.” Many other long-serving mayors and city councillors, such as Shirley Gratton, Cliff Dezell, Don Bassermann, Colin Kinsley and John Backhouse, have received the Freedom of the City.

Krause should be next. While his absence on the next city council will be felt, this is also an opportunity for some new faces, with new energy and ideas, to step up. Let’s hope they do so with the same compassion and enthusiasm Krause brought to the table.

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chool begins in less than a week. Families are getting ready to send their children to school. The fortunate can do this with a sense of joy, but too many with a sense of

dread.

Imagine your children attend Heritage Elementary and finding out a few days ago that your school has hired a teacher who not only told students that he would like to beat them, but that he didn’t like his job. That he liked teaching Grade 8 because he could give the students worksheets and walk away.

Then imagine that you are one of the families within a few hundred dollars of bankruptcy.

Rising inflation has eaten away any reserve you may have had, and now you are faced with being unable to pay for the school fees and clothing that will put your child on more equal footing with his peers.

I grew up in what most of my readers would say was a backwards society. When I left (at the ripe age of 19) I didn’t expect was that the “outside” world had its own version of backwardness.

We all agree that shuffling a teacher from one school to another is a bad idea. Yet we continue to do it. Why? Does no one have the guts to stop this? Does no one have the guts to say “You need to find other work, because children deserve our best?”

We look at history and judge (rightly) this practice of moving around teachers, yet we are powerless to stop it today. Why? Apparently because the rights of one teacher outweigh the rights of children to a decent school experience.

The school district cannot comment on this because it is a personnel matter. The school trustees don’t offer comment. No one is accountable.

Families are simply supposed to trust the system and throw their children into a system designed to protect the adults. This is backwards.

Just as backwards as the backwards community I grew up in.

Backwards also is a public school system that is systemically economically discriminatory, or more simply, is designed to be better for rich kids than poor kids.

The current school board has once again approved the schedule of school fees.

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Their explanation is basically: blah, blah, blah… we charge fees so that only the richer kids can go on field trips. Poor children shouldn’t think they deserve to go on a field trip.” Is no one aware that children self-select out of these enriching activities because kids don’t want to burden their parents, so the hardship policy is ineffective.)

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So who is accountable for these dreadful, backwards policies? It’s the adults in the school board office that have the power to change a school system designed to discriminate against the less well-off families. It’s the adults in administration that have the power to ensure we don’t simply shuffle teachers from one school to the next.

Our children deserve better. They deserve a school system that looks out for their interests first.

Trudy Klassen is a Prince George writer.

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Comedy exposes political hypocrisy

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merican comedian Sarah Silverman said, “Comedy puts light onto darkness and darkness can’t live where there is light.

So that’s why it’s important to talk about things that are taboo, because otherwise they just stay in this dark place, and they become dangerous.”

We have all experienced the moment when we laugh at something and feel embarrassed that we have done so.

Some comedy is by nature controversial.

Mel Brooks’ classic “The Producers” uses satire to examine the rise and fall of Nazism. The work is very poignant and brings us to very uncomfortable places, especially when we find ourselves singing along with the musical number

LESSONS IN LEARNING GERRY CHIDIAC

“Springtime for Hitler”.

Like any artist, a good comedian exposes hypocrisy and defies unspoken and unjust social mores. In this sense, comedy is necessarily subversive.

Perhaps this is why the Nazis took such extreme measures to control all forms of art.

The British comedian turned social philosopher Russell Brand often buffoons Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s efforts

to look casual and trustworthy. He does his best Canadian accent as he says, “I’ve rolled up my sleeves and loosened my tie. I’m like a guy, like you’re a guy,” and then points out that Trudeau is putting forward laws to control our civil liberties under the guise of protecting us from “misinformation and disinformation.” We laugh at Brand’s characterization of our Prime Minister while recognizing how dangerous Liberal government legislation could be to the well-being of our democracy.

At other times, comedy is simply offensive, yet even then it exposes uncomfortable truths of our deep-seated misconceptions of one another and the need for social change. Jokes can be blatantly

racist, and when we ignore extreme racism, as the Germans did in the 1930s, we truly are stepping closer to genocide.

Perhaps this sort of mindful self-examination is the answer to “cancel culture”.

It would be easy to condemn a foreign comedian for criticizing our Prime Minister or to simply spew online hatred toward individuals who tell racist jokes.

Yet, what would that accomplish? Both examples shine a bright light on uncomfortable truths that exist in our society and even within ourselves.

Comedy is a powerful force in exposing what is wrong. The next -- and most difficult step -- is to find positive solutions and build a better world.

Gerry Chidiac is a Prince George writer.

Do away with the yoke of oppression

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fter achieving a 95 per cent strike vote in June, the BCGEU has finally begun job action. In our era of unaffordability, institutional capture, and cowardly leadership, abandoning wickets in favor of pickets appears to be the only option left for working folks. As a unionized employee myself, it is my duty to not trespass their line. I am happy to oblige, and indeed I hope more civil servants join in. A strike that shuts down the government might be the only democratic tool we have left.

Due to being raised an anabaptist, my view of democracy is rather fundamentalist: ballots and elections do not define a free people.

Rather, their ability to abstain from any scheme, no matter how grand or small, proves whether they are truly free. I do not have liberty if I can be compelled by anyone, particularly the state, to act against my conscience. If readers are unclear on this point, I invite them to visit a library or store, and pick up any book about the 20th century.

Within the workplace, the right to “conscientiously object” compounds.

GUEST COLUMNIST NATHAN GIEDE

While it’s true that as a society we have made the woebegotten choice to live as little better than well-clothed serfs with less privileges and rights than our ancestors on every front, cajoled into often manic and meaningless work by people of no greater virtue or insight than ourselves on behalf of elected officials, investors, and commissars entirely dissociated from reality, we still own our labour.

Indeed, contrary to COVID propaganda, workers still own their bodies. It is their voluntary compliance that keeps this debt-riddled, listing boat called by ever less relevant place-names afloat. And given how low in red ink the gunnels truly lie, thanks to the nonsensical policies from parties that do not live with the consequences of their ideology, those in steerage class finally have an opportunity to save or scuttle this bark by battening down hatches or abandoning ship.

You’re welcome to call that an extreme

view. But instead of jeering at me in the style of our post-political age, I invite anyone in good conscience to defend the social contract as it stands today. Select a member of the establishment - from the lukewarm complacent to the diabolically self-righteous - to demonstrably prove that everything is just fine: “oh Giede, you silly alarmist: pull this lever and turn these dials - you’ll see that the popular will still affects change!”

Long ago, conservatives and liberals were actually in harmony on this point.

The “think globally, act locally” motto of the left resonated with pundits on the right dismissing the idea of saving the planet - “try saving your school board instead!” And yet, if I tried to save SD 57, by the end of my first week of campaigning, I’d find myself not just disqualified, but without a job and run out of town.

Those are the reactions of a hardline theocracy, not a liberal democracy.

This is not a debate about odious or outdated concepts of morality, nature, etc, because far less strident positions invite the same reaction from the consensus. COVID made this crystal clear

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DRUG PLAN BAD IDEA In the middle of the opioid crisis which has killed over ten thousand men, women and children already, Public Health is going to do an experiment with provincial and federal government approval. On January 1, 2023, they are going to make all the illegal and obviously deadly drugs legal in beautiful B.C. only (Editor’s note: possessing a small amount for personal use will be decriminalized but possessing more and drug trafficking will still be illegal). This is supposed to help convince the addicts we have now to ask for help that is not available.

To me and you, mom and dad, kids, everyone, your worst nightmares will

start coming true for some.

Can you imagine next spring when school gets out? By then the drug dealers will have ramped up production to meet the new demands and anyone can buy these deadly drugs as easy as buying a pizza. Delivered in thirty minutes, no I.D. required. Public Health will provide everything you need to do these deadly drugs and instructions on how to do them if it is your first time. Sounds pretty tempting, doesn’t it? It sure looks to me that experts at Public Health wants us to at least try them. The more people involved in their experiment, the better results they will get.

This experiment is for four years. They will then add up all the dead men women

with its coercive mandates but the same unquestionable orthodoxy exists at both the city and regional district’s permit office, in the halls of our college, university, and hospital, around your neighborhood the second you contravene the covenant slightly. Trespassers are heretics.

Some might agree with my theme but still assert that all of these bodies have appeal processes to address grievances.

I’ll simply say this: I have been both an appellant as well as a witness in these proceedings, from pathetic zoning laws to the untouchable topic of gender. Your presence there means you are guilty, and your defense simply helps them make their predetermined decisions sound less arbitrary. This isn’t open court, it’s a closed inquisition.

But there is a remedy: non-participation. At work, this manifests as job action and the strike, which the BCGEU is currently exemplifying. Let us pray more join in solidarity, bringing our overreaching ship of state to a halt.

At this point, we have nothing left to lose but our chains.

Nathan Giede is a Prince George writer.

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and children in the next four years and compare them to the number of deaths we are having this year. This experiment will show them if making all illegal deadly drugs legal was the right thing to do.

Rick Berry, Prince George

BOARD EXPERIENCE NOT AN ASSET

Given the current state of School District 57, I wouldn’t hire one of the school board trustees to run a one-man lawn care business, let alone an operation as large and complex as the city of Prince George.

We must remember that Lyn Hall was chair of the school board when its

problems started and then did a very poor job administrating the city.

I would suggest that being a past member of the school district board is a telling reason to not vote for these candidates.

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Canfor Leisure Pool opening delayed ARTHUR WILLIAMS Citizen staff

Prince George residents wanting to try Canada’s first NinjaCross obstacle course will have to wait a month longer than expected.

Construction of the Canfor Leisure Pool is a month behind schedule and is not expected to be complete until October, city director of recreation and events Andy Beesley wrote in a report to city council.

City staff are expected to be able to take possession of the pool later in October.

“The project is in the final stage of construction at 96 (per cent) complete with $33.4 million spent. The remaining works for completion include pool tank fills, finishes, HVAC and fire system commissioning, systems corrections and run tests, NinjaCross finalization, operator training, landscaping, and staff move in,” Beesley wrote.

“The delay is largely attributed to unanticipated trade defaults and labour shortages which are outside of the project controls. The project is anticipated to remain within this completion schedule provided there are no extenuating circumstances such as system deficiencies identified through the commissioning process or supply chain delays.”

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The Canfor Leisure Pool currently under construction in downtown Prince George.

Exterior work and landscaping for the pool is scheduled to be complete in early fall, with the work being coordinated with projects approved in 2021 and 2022 for streetscape improvements to Seventh Avenue and a planned traffic signal at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Dominion Street, Beesley wrote.

The project is expected to stay within the $39.126 million budget city council approved on May 9, 2022, Beesley

wrote. The original budget for the pool was $35.75 million, plus $500,000 for the addition of the NinjaCross course, which council approved on Feb. 22, 2021.

Of the $2.876 million cost overrun, $1.7 million was attributed to deficient primer which was on the structural steel beams when they were delivered, Beesley wrote.

The city is “actively seeking compensation” for the costs linked to the deficient primer, he added.

“Much of the project’s construction has taken place during the pandemic with impacts to the project budget and schedule from market conditions and other factors,” Beesley wrote. “However, the project remains in scope and will feature the first NinjaCross obstacle course in Canada.”

Installation of a new, bronze Terry Fox statue outside the pool is expected to be complete before the 2022 Terry Fox Run.

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Forestry action lagging, conservationists say MARK NIELSEN Citizen staff

A Prince George-based environmental advocacy group says the provincial government is failing to act on recommendations from B.C.’s forest practices watchdog for protecting old growth forest in the Prince George timber supply area.

“It has been two years since the Forest Practices Board concluded that nature was at high-risk in the Prince George TSA because of industrial logging. Why is it taking so long for the B.C. government to act on the Board’s recommendations when these ecosystems are on the brink of collapse?” Conservation North’s director Michelle Connolly said in a statement this week.

In December 2020, the FPB issued findings from an investigation into a complaint that biodiversity values are not being appropriately addressed due to the high levels of mountain pine beetle salvage harvesting in the TSA. The FPB found loggers were complying with existing regulations but that those regulations needed to be updated to better protect biodiversity. That recommendation has not yet been acted on, nor have old growth stands within the TSA been properly mapped, according to Conservation North.

Current requirements are contained in a “biodiversity order,” a document Conservation North says was negotiated with industry 17 years ago.

“The Order is widely known to have been written to protect logging company access to the amount of old forest they want, where they want it,” said Connolly. “It specifies minimum areas to be retained that are way below what the science says must be protected to avoid

ecological collapse.”

Conservation North also says keeping track of what has been logged and how much old growth remains in the TSA is left to a group of logging companies, as opposed to an independent scientific body or B.C. government staff and views the arrangement as a “serious conflict of interest that needs to be rectified if there is to be any hope of protecting nature in our region.”

In an emailed response, B.C. Forests Minister Katrine Conroy said work is underway on a spatial approach to implementing the landscape biodiversity order “which will include identifying biodiversity areas and protecting them.”

“We are taking bold action to better protect our oldest and rarest forests,” Conroy added.

“Since November, our government has prevented logging in nearly 1.7 million hectares of old growth working in partnership with First Nations - an area equal to more than 4,100 Stanley Parks.

“Approximately 80 per cent of the priority at-risk old growth identified by the Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel is not threatened by logging because it is already permanently protected, covered by deferrals, or uneconomic to harvest.”

Conroy also made noted biodiversity management areas established in the Stuart Nechako Forest District through a process with the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council.

“Harvesting within these areas is largely paused to assess and confirm that these areas will achieve goals for biodiversity, old growth, and species at risk,” Conroy said. “We are working together with our partners to ensure that future generations will be able to enjoy the benefits that BC’s forests provide to people and communities.”

Victim Services receives donation for new vehicle Being a victim of crime can be a traumatic and life-changing experience.

But when crime happens, the two staff and 15 dedicated volunteers of the Prince George RCMP Victim Services Unit are available to help victims through the days and weeks that follow.

“The RCMP Victim Services unit has graciously received a $50,000 grant for the purchase of a new Victim Services vehicle from a local organization that wishes to remain anonymous until they have issued a media release, sometime following council’s approval,” city director of public safety Adam Davey wrote in a report to city council.

The unit’s current vehicle, which was also donated, is 16 years old and the

unit is looking to replace it with a more reliable vehicle, Davey wrote.

The $50,000 donation will cover the cost of purchasing a new vehicle for the unit.

“The unit uses their vehicle as a mobile office, providing shelter and transportation for victims, witnesses and families while attending on scene,” he added.

“The RCMP Victim Services Unit would like to thank the local donor for its support towards purchasing a much-needed replacement Victim Services vehicle.

Upon council’s approval, the vehicle will be purchased for the unit and be added to the city’s fleet inventory by the beginning of September.”

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Asay memorial game set for Sept. 24 TED CLARKE Citizen staff

Amanda Asay’s knowledge of the game of baseball made her an on-field expert like no other on her team.

Her teammates on Canada’s national women’s team would gravitate to her for a quick huddle on the diamond to sort out where to position themselves on a defensive shift that gave them the best chance to adjust to a hitter and putting out a baserunner.

Blessed with a sharp analytical mind that paved her way to a doctorate in her professional career in forestry management, Asay’s never-ending curiosity to learn the strategies of the game and desire to improve as an athlete helped make Canada a perennial World Cup

medal threat for the 17 years she with the team (2005-21) and led her to individual honors as an international all-star and team MVP. Asay’s life ended in tragedy on Jan. 7 when the 33-year-old Prince George native died in a skiing accident near her home in Nelson. On Saturday, Sept. 24 at 1 p.m. at City Field (formerly known as Citizen Field), the Prince George Senior Men’s Baseball League is hosting a game as a tribute to Amanda Asay.

Game organizer Paul Wilson is trying to line up a team of female players and is inviting Asay’s friends, either on the national women’s team or during the six years she played fastball as a teenager for the Prince George Thunderbirds.

If there are enough players to form a team, they would play an all-star team

selected from the five-team Prince George men’s league. Asay played several years in the league during summer breaks when local games did not conflict with her national team commitments.

Asay was a multisport athlete who played hockey and softball at Brown University in Rhode Island from 2006-09, and later starred for the UBC Thunderbirds hockey team, was working for the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resources and Rural Development in Nelson at the time of her death.

Six years older than any of her national teammates, Asay was being groomed to take over as head coach of the national women’s team “I always say to people, as amazing as an athlete she was, she was an even better person just to be around,” said

Wilson. “She was one of the best women’s baseball players in the world and if she was a male playing in the major leagues she’d be worth about $300 million.

“I learned so much just talking to her.

She was very good at coaching it and explaining it well to other people.”

Wilson says there’s a push to fast-track Asay’s entry into the Prince George Sports Hall of Fame and the baseball community is talking about naming the ball diamond at City Field as a tribute to her.

He said there will be opportunities for people to donate to local charities in Asay’s name.

The Prince George Youth Baseball Association is planning a girls’ baseball clinic for Sunday, Sept. 25, the day after the Asay game. More details will be released later.

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A Prince George man well known to the police and courts no longer stands accused of possessing a large-calibre handgun and 50-rounds of ammunition to go with it.

Eric Vern West was found not guilty Tuesday of counts related to the discovery by Prince George RCMP following a drug-related pullover on June 17, 2019.

Police noticed the barrel of the gun protruding from underneath the back seat where West had been sitting and then uncovered a bag containing not only the ammunition but a wallet containing his identification.

However, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ron Tindale found there was reasonable doubt that West was in “constructive possession” of the items.

During a trial on the matter, West testified that he had been staying at the house of a known drug dealer when he and some others got word that RCMP were about to execute a search warrant on the home.

(Located at 1103 Chilako Ave., the house was destroyed in an Oct. 12, 2019 fire. What was left of the home, which had

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been owned by Harjinder Berar, was later cleared on order by the city) They quickly packed some belongings and made their escape.

West said he did not know how his wallet ended up in the bag. As well, analysis of DNA found on the items was inconclusive.

West was found guilty of simple possession of cocaine and heroin-fentanyl and will likely be sentenced to time served on the counts.

However, his troubles are not over yet.

West still faces sentencing from a bout of gang-related gunplay in the 200 block of Bellos Street in the Highglen area in October 2020, for which he has pleaded guilty to four counts, including unlawful discharge of a firearm and dangerous driving.

In February, co-accused Bradley Andre Ouelette was sentenced to eight years in prison and Kenneth Ricardo Munroe to five-and-a-half years. Less credit for time served prior to sentencing, Ouelette had six-and-a-half years left to serve and Munro had slightly less that three-anda-half year to go at the times of their sentencings.

A date for sentencing on the matters is to be fixed in September.

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Teen waited half hour Ness Lake resident frustrated for ambulance when fire department not sent to 911 call help was minutes away ARTHUR WILLIAMS

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Ness Lake resident Laurie Muise was at home around noon on July 21, after volunteering with the BC Summer Games, when she heard her daughter screaming downstairs.

Her daughter’s 17-year-old friend was lying on the floor of Muise’s basement, having a grand mal seizure. Muise, a former Ness Lake Fire Volunteer Fire Department member, knew what to do.

“I told (my daughter) to call 911 right away. She called, then handed me the phone. I asked right away for them to dispatch the fire department,” she said.

“The ambulance took about half an hour, from town. But our fire department could have been here in five minutes.”

With road construction and the extra traffic because of the BC Summer Games events being held at Ness Lake, Muise said she was concerned it could be a long time for the ambulance to arrive.

Muise said she had a family member who suffered from seizures and was familiar with what they look like. But the teenager had no history of seizures and as it ended, she was confused, disoriented and kept saying her arm hurt, Muise said.

It turned out later that the seizure had been so intense, the girl had dislocated her shoulder, but at the time they didn’t know what had caused the seizure or the pain.

“Near the end of the phone call, she came out of the seizure,” she said. “I called them back 10-15 minutes later, because she was complaining about her arm hurting, and I thought she might be having a stroke. I asked them where the fire department was, but they said they couldn’t come.”

The girl’s mother arrived before the ambulance. When the paramedics arrived, they told her there was a risk her daughter could have a second seizure and the ambulance might need to take off at high speed to get her to the hospital, Muise said.

“That ambulance didn’t even have the medication she would need,” Muise said.

‘I CAN’T SEE HOW THEY COULD MAKE THAT CALL’ A friend in the Ness Lake fire department later told Muise they’d never gotten the call out to attend the incident. The Citizen could not independently confirm that.

“I’m pissed off, because I requested it, and then I phoned them back and requested it again,” Muise said. “Because she’d never had (a seizure) before, they should have come.”

Ness Lake Volunteer Fire Department Fire Chief Percy Dergez declined to comment and referred the Citizen to the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George.

“For privacy reasons, we are not able to go into details of the specific call, but

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A teenager spent roughly half an hour lying on the floor, following a seizure, waiting for an ambulance to arrive in Ness Lake.

The Ness Lake Volunteer Fire Department hall was only five minutes away. we can share that when a 9-1-1 call is reassure the patient and their family dispatched to BC Ambulance Service, that BCEHS works hard to respond to it is the sole decision of BC Ambulance all emergency calls with the appropriate Service to determine if they require resources based on the severity of a additional First Responder support for patient’s condition,” the BCEHS statement the call,” regional district spokesperson said. “BCEHS is looking into the circumRenee McCloskey said in an email. “If they stances of this call and our early infordecide they do not require additional mation is that fire first responder notifiFirst Responder support, no additional cation was not initiated. This could be agencies are dispatched.” for a number of reasons, every patient’s Regional District of condition is different.

Fraser-Fort George We will work with the The ambudirector Warren WilPatient Care Quality son, who represents Office to reach out to lance took the Ness Lake area, the patient’s family to about half an said he is concerned answer any concerns that BC Ambulance hour, from town. But or questions they made the decision have.” our fire department not to notify the Ness BC Ambulace works Lake fire department. could have been here with professional and “The person volunteer fire departin five minutes.” remained on the ments, who are able ground for a long to provide basic first time… before the ambulance got there,” aid and emergency health services while Wilson said. “For BC Ambulance to make paramedics are en route to a medical the decision to not bring the volunteer emergency. fire department was a significant call. I “BCEHS responds to the most critically can’t see how they could make that call, ill and injured patients first, by prioritizwhen they really didn’t know (the girl’s ing the response based on the Medical condition.)”

Priority Dispatch System (MPDS), a sysBC AMBULANCE RESPONSE tem used around the world,” the BCEHS In an emailed statement, the B.C. Emerstatement said. “ In this system, patients gency Health Services (BCEHS), which reported to have life-threatening sympoperates the BC Ambulance Service, said toms including cardiac arrest, chest pain, emergency dispatchers use the interbreathing difficulties, and severe bleeding nationally-recognized Medical Priority or unconsciousness are prioritized.”

Dispatch System and Clinical Response A colour-code system, with purple Model to prioritize first responder being the most urgent and blue the least resources. urgent, is used to prioritize calls for “Having a loved one suffer a medical emergency medical help, the statement emergency is stressful and we want to said. Cases that are immediately life

threatening (for example, cardiac arrest) are categorized as purple; immediately life-threatening or time-critical calls (for example, chest pain) are categorized as red; urgent or potentially serious, but not immediately life-threatening calls (for example, abdominal pain) are categorized as orange; non-urgent calls (such as a sprained ankle) are categorized as yellow; and non-urgent calls which can be handled by telephone triage and advice are classed as blue.

“BCEHS automatically notifies firefighter first responders when calls are coded red or purple under the (Clinical Response Model), where minutes or seconds in response time can be a matter of life or death,” the ECEHS statement said. “Although BCEHS may also notify volunteer firefighter departments of certain orange and yellow calls depending on the circumstances, first responder partner agencies determine what types of calls they have the resources to respond to. It is essential that all emergency services are used where and when they are needed the most to ensure the best use of all emergency resources to care for patients.”

PATIENT ON THE MEND Muise said her daughter’s friend did recover, although she will need to follow up with doctors to determine the cause of the seizure. The incident has inspired her daughter and her friends.

“I asked them what they’d have done if it had happened while they were out on the lake. The answer was, ‘go to the first house, and call 911, don’t try to get back home,’” Muise said. “My daughter and her friends are all going to take first aid.”

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Local donors step up for Ukrainian refugees TED CLARKE Citizen staff

Forty-five seconds.

That’s all it took to fill a request for an iPad tablet posted on Facebook by the Prince George For Ukraine Initiative.

Mary and Don Antoshko, whose home in the Hart on Nixon Crescent has become a cluttered clearing house of donated goods to help Ukrainian families fleeing the war in their homeland, were stunned at the rapid response when somebody saw their post and volunteered to buy the brand-new tablet computer.

It was to replace an older iPad the family of a disabled seven-year-old boy relied upon to entertain and communicate with their non-verbal son. In less than a minute, the Antoshkos realized the generosity of a Prince George resident has been stirred. Word about the smashed tablet spread in the community and before long MEDIchair NorthBC donated an attachment to fasten the new computer to the boy’s wheelchair.

“The support we get from the people of Prince George is absolutely phenomenal, we’re just overwhelmed” said Mary Antoshko. “The boy was in one of those umbrella strollers since February and when he got here in May and had no muscle tone whatsoever, but they will work with him at the Child Development Centre with whatever physiotherapy he’ll need.”

The Antoshkos took over the Prince George Yalenka Ukrainian Society’s humanitarian branch when Peter and Dianne Buhan moved to Kelowna and for many years they’ve co-ordinated donations to charities in the Ukraine.

They were just about to send eight boxes of school supplies when the Russians invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.

The Antoshkos joined forces with the Share Hope Refugee Sponsorship Committee, which previously helped families from Iraq and Syria get settled in Prince George. They offered to take on the task of co-ordinating donations of clothing, furniture and household goods to take some of the burden off Ukrainian families who are arriving in the city with whatever belongings they can fit in one suitcase.

The basement level of their home is a maze of shelves loaded with furniture, clothing, bedding, kitchen items, toys, books, bikes and just about everything needed to set up an apartment or house.

Virtually all the floor space in the lower half of the house, their carport and Mary’s upstairs sewing room are jampacked with items donated to the cause.

“You know that TV show, Hoarders, we’re way past that,” joked Don. Thankfully, they’ve found an expert willing to volunteer to keep the flow of goods in and out of their home a smooth-running operation. Liliia Miroshnyk arrived in Prince George on May 24 with her husband Oleksii and their three daughters from Merefa, Ukraine, a suburb

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From left, Don Antoshko, his wife Mary and Ukrainian refugee Liliia Miroshnyk stand in the Antoshko’s basement where they store items donated to Ukrainians who have come to Prince George to escape their war-torn country. of Kharkiv, where many of the Russian missile and bombing attacks have been targeted since the war began.

Until the war began, the 36-year-old Liliia managed a thrift store run by a charity in Merefa and she is now utilizing her retail skills to create an online database to catalog all the goods donated to the Antoshkos. On Wednesdays, Liliia and her twin 13-year-old daughters Masha and Dasha spend hours at the house photographing each item and they post the photos using the Telegram app. That allows the other Ukrainians refugees in Prince George to see what’s available and they are encouraged to make lists of what they want. The items are then placed in boxes, put into a trailer, and delivered to the Yalenka Community Hall for the people to pick up.

Don Antoshko, a retired Prince George firefighter, has family roots in the Ukraine and he and his wife Mary have been active members of the Yalenka Ukrainian Cultural Society for 25 years. In 2008, they spent nearly a month touring all over Ukraine, a country of 44 million in an area the size of Alberta. Ukraine ranks as the poorest country in Europe, with a per capita gross national income of $3,540 US in 2020.

“They were 30 years behind other countries in 2008,” said Mary. “But the people just embraced us when we were there.”

There are now 13 Ukrainian families and 60 individuals already in Prince George, with more war refugees on the way later this week. As the war drags on, there’s no end in sight to the danger facing the people still in Ukraine and the Antoshkos plan to stay involved as long as their help is needed.

“I know it’s not going to be forever; they’re not going to need a lot of ongoing support,” said Mary. “These families get a job within the first week or two, they find

ways of dealing with things, they’ve very independent people.

“I don’t think there will be a lot of people going back to the Ukraine because a lot of people right now have nothing to come home to.”

Last Wednesday marked the 31st anniversary of the Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union and it was emotional day for Liliia and her family.

She left behind her mother and 86-year old grandmother, who were unable to follow the Miroshnyks to Romania due to her grandmother’s medical conditions.

They’ve been living the past six months in an apartment in Merefa, under constant threat of more bombing attacks. The windows of her grandmother’s home were blown out by previous explosions and are covered with plywood.

“They don’t want to replace the glass because they don’t know if it will be blown out again,” said Liliia. “Plywood is reliable.”

The Share Hope committee has established a network of professional support which includes a retired pediatrician (Marie Hay), English skills teacher (Olga McLeod) and trauma counselling (Charis Counselling Services). Volunteers are assisting in finding jobs (David Fuller), accommodations and housing (Eva Gillis) and a family doctor/dentist of vision specialist (Hay). The group also has a fundraising/donations chair (Dick Mynen).

Share Hope helped connect some of the Ukrainian newcomers with Ness Lake Bible Camp and the UNBC Timberwolves kids soccer/basketball and through the Prince George Catholic Diocese eight families had the exclusive use of the church’s facilities at Camp Maurice. The Yalenka Dance Group is offering free memberships for them and the Prince George Track and Field Club has also waived its fees.

Right now, there are 27 school-aged children among the 60 people from Ukraine who have come to P.G. this year, but those numbers are expected to more than double between now and the start of the school year after Labour Day. Most of the Ukrainians who have just come to the city are from regions where winters are mild, comparable to that of Kelowna or Kamloops, and they fear what’s in store for them in a Prince George winter.

“Families are scared about the incoming winter, so they’re already asking about winter stuff,” said Mary. “The Knights of Columbus donated 35 brandnew kids’ winter coats. Kids want to do the Canadian thing and play hockey and we were asked last week about hockey equipment but we don’t have any.”

They’re also short of beds, pillows, lamps, desks and desk chairs. The Bon Voyage Inn is remodelling its rooms and is donating chairs, nightstands headboards and dressers, but it just replaced its beds and bedding last year.

The Mennonite Cultural Centre has stepped up in a big way to find apartments at reduced rates for the new arrivals. Federal government settlement funds provide a one-time payment of $3,000 for each adult and $1,500 per child.

Once registered for the federal program, refugees are eligible for provincial funding that ranges from $935-2,193.50 per family per month for up to six months. Private donors to Share Hope also fund grants of between $500 and $3,000 per application.

More host families are urgently required to provide temporary homes for the new families expected to land in Prince George over the next few weeks.

More information on all the services Share Hope provides is available on by contacting the group through email at pg.sharehope@gmail.com.

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The College of New Caledonia’s heavy mechanical trades foundation program is one of the most popular courses on the college program calendar. New classes started in mid-August at the Prince George campus.

Training tomorrow’s trades professionals College tailoring programs to meet industry standards TED CLARKE Citizen staff

The pandemic that forced educators to scramble to devise new methods of teaching is having a lasting effect that will enhance how students at the College of New Caledonia learn.

During the lockdown period when students were forced to stay home and use computers to link to classrooms, one of the college’s automotive service technician instructors perfected a method of using his phone camera to replicate what he was seeing while working under a car.

Now he projects the video onto a large screen for all the students in the shop to

see, instead of having them crowd around him under the vehicle struggling to see what he’s doing.

“COVID was difficult for everyone but if there’s a positive out of it, we’ve adapted some alternate delivery methods that we’ve incorporated into our learning today,” said Frank Rossi, CNC’s dean of trades.

“Because trades is so heavily into practical training, we need to be innovative when it come to stuff like that and a lot of instructors stepped up to the plate and made the adjustments we needed in the shops.”

Course content in trades programs continues to evolve as technology advances.

CNC automotive students have four new hybrid cars in their shop donated to the college to learn how to diagnose and repair battery-powered vehicles.

Electrical apprentices are studying solar power generation and carpentry students are learning how to build homes and structures that utilize high-efficiency materials and renewable energy systems.

Fueled by a shortage of housing and a thriving economy, construction trades are booming in north central B.C. and the demand for trained workers is ever-increasing as skilled workers retire from the workforce.

The college estimates that apprentices will fill 41 per cent of B.C. jobs over the next decade and is working with the province to try to open its most popular programs to more students.

Aside from a two-week lull in August, classes are in session year-round at CNC. The new term for carpentry, electrical, heavy mechanical trades and

professional cook programs started in mid-August, while all other programs begin classes Sept. 7.

COVID restrictions forced CNC to limit its class sizes starting in the spring of 2020 and with the return of classes this fall, college capacity is now back to pre-pandemic levels.

Carpentry and plumbing apprenticeship programs are close to being full, while CNC’s electrical and heavy mechanical trades foundation programs are oversubscribed and have long waitlists.

The demand for trained workers is such that electrical and heavy duty mechanical trades students already have job offers from industry players and most will graduate into apprenticeships once they complete their foundation programs.

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The B.C. government is reinstating a requirement that workers in 10 compulsory trades will soon have to be certified tradespeople or registered apprentices.

The trades affected are electricians (industrial and construction), automotive service technicians, autobody/collision technicians, heavy-duty equipment technicians, gasfitters, steamfitters, pipefitters, air conditioning mechanics, sheet metal workers, and powerline technicians. The legislation, which will be phased in by 2025, is designed to make workplaces safer and increase the number of registered apprentices.

“That’s going to really put a lot of pressure on the school system because there’s going to be a higher demand for individuals to get their certifications,” said Rossi. ”You will have to a registered apprentice or leaning to a Red Seal certification. There might be some questions from industry, but I think that’s a good system that will really boost the apprentice numbers, and we need that because of the aging demographics.”

Some workers, especially those in rural areas, have learned their trades on the job and never had formal training and that will complicate how the new rules will affect some job sites.

“The (Industry Trades Authority) is trying to address that particular issue where

you’ve got folks who have been working in the field who aren’t certified and are probably going to need some different path to get their certification and CNC and all the colleges will have a big role to play in that,” said Chad Thompson, CNC’s vice-president academic.

Traditional four-year apprenticeship programs won’t work for some of those businesses and to encourage more employers to take on apprentices the province’s 15 post-secondary trades schools are consulting with the ministry to prepare alternate learning models.

CNC has technology programs in power engineering, civil engineering, computer networking , natural resources/forest technology and post-diploma information technology. Next year, the college plans to unveil a two-year diploma program in information technology program, which will be the first offered in northern B.C. CNC continually monitors labour market needs and is working on an industry initiative to develop a professional driver training program, which is contingent on government funding.

Civil engineering was added as a new program added in 2020. The first cohort of civil engineering graduates completed their studies in June and 93 per cent of the first- and second-year students had jobs lined up before their classes ended.

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“There’s an urgent need for civil engineering technologists, especially after the floods of last year and how much is needed to rebuild infrastructure to maintain infrastructure,” said Thompson.

“Our natural resources/forest tech program is still full, it’s got very strong industry support. The forest sector is changing but we still need the forest technologists supporting the forest industry itself and of course the restoration/reclamation side of things, not just related to forestry, but mine site reclamation. You’re still doing the work of a forester.”

The college continues to promote its Trades Discovery Program which allows high school students who have completed Grade 9 English and math to earn credit for a 20-week, 300-hour program that allows them to experience four different trades. Each year, CNC takes 64 Trades Discovery students at the Prince George campus and more attend the college’s satellite campuses in Burns Lake, Quesnel, Vanderhoof and Mackenzie. CNC plans to soon add its technology programs to the choices available to young students on its Trades Discovery list.

“We often hear that in order to get more individuals into the trades, we have to get them in at an earlier age,” said Rossi. “So we are working with the

school district to have students in Grades 9, 10 and 11 to discover different trades in hope they will in the future get into an apprenticeship and move into a Red Seal.

“There is a high waitlist to get into Trades Discovery because we’re limited by the amount of seats we can get. We’re trying to look at the under-represented groups and one of the cohorts last year was an aboriginal female cohort and it was a highly successful program.”

Since 2000, CNC has offered dual-credit programs to Grade 11 and 12 students attending the Career Technical Centre.

When those students graduate high school they’ve already completed the first level of an apprenticeship program.

Some CTC students take their instruction with college students and some stick with their high school peers in classes of 16 students. Once they compete the course and fulfill their workplace hours they are regarded as second-year apprentices.

“It kind of de-mystifies the college,” said Thompson. “A lot of students here are first-generation students and no one in the family might have gone on to post-secondary and setting foot into the college is an intimidating experience. If they get that opportunity at high school they get to see that it’s a great place to be and it breaks down that fear that some of them have and they feel they belong here.”

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Many creative ways to forge a career in the arts ANNA RUSSELL

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It’s the obvious scenario. As an arts teacher and a performer, I see it all the time. I lived it.

Those passionate performing urges are strong, and you head off to a theatre program or the audition circuit after high school.

You pursue that artist life for as long as you can stand it (mentally and emotionally) and then you head into a more stable career. You “pick a lane.”

I recently attended an online lecture given by producer (among so many other things) Eric Cornell, who has worked on Broadway, numerous international theatrical tours, and is an arts teacher himself. Picking a lane was NOT on his list of suggestions.

The lecture was titled “Exploring Careers in Theatre” and here is one of his points I know to be true – ANY interest intersects with theatre.

I have worked in some varied sectors.

My arts training benefitted me in all of them and, in turn, those jobs have benefitted me in the arts.

I boomeranged all over the place but, finally, I seem to have made my way back to the arts (if I ever fully left, I am not sure).

This is exactly the emphasis of the

lecture I attended. If you know you have food chain. However, there is something a passion for the theatre, but you want to be said for job satisfaction. If you have consistent employment and a home base, that artistic itch, it’s probably not going how do you scratch that itch in a vocato vanish the day you get that accounting tional way? degree.

The list of ways is endless.

But there is hope for everyone out There is an incredible, interactive there who, like me, has a left and right resource that shows the connections brain in constant conflict. between different roles at https:// Currently, within Theatre NorthWest, www.playbill.com/ I am working in an broadway-commuartistic leadership If you nity-project. Some of role. However, I also the most important, spend my workday have that up-and-coming jobs in the box office and artistic itch, in the performing handling front of arts industry are house duties. Others it’s probably not connected to technolin the organization going to vanish the ogy, humanities and have similarly diverse health and safety. working roles, which day you get that While a theatre combine artistic and accounting degree.” diploma doesn’t “regular” skills. hurt, it also isn’t the But what if the boopiece of paper necessary to get a job as merang was reversed? What if individuals a diversity, equity and inclusion coordiwith skills in business or trades boomernator with a regional theatre or a touring anged right into the theatre? What if an production company, for example. architect or a physiotherapist actively The final point in the lecture was this: sought employment in the arts sector “The more you broaden your vocational FIRST? I know, I know. Financially, why skills and diversify your career, the more would anyone do that? satisfaction I think you might find.”

Well, did you know that, in 2019, the While I can argue all day about the arts and culture industry contributed necessity of art for a healthy society, $919 billion to the American economy?

I cannot argue that a career in art will Arts and culture contributed more place you near the top of the financial than agriculture, transportation or

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warehousing. Of course, our industry breakdown is different in Canada.

We do not have Hollywood or Broadway or Disney to draw in arts tourism dollars.

But, there is potential in the industry, and not every architect wants to design skyscrapers for their whole career.

All of this is to say that, in this age, “picking a lane” may not be the most beneficial model. There is nothing wrong with going back to school and getting a degree or a “stable” career.

But if you have a young artist in your house, I encourage you not to write off the arts but rather to explore the numerous ways your artist can contribute their talents to this fulfilling, creative industry.

The diversity of possible careers is vast and this industry values unique perspectives and people.

A carpenter, computer programmer or engineer inside a theatre is not a rarity – they are often a valuable and respected necessity.

The theatre will not chain your passions to a desk.

It will open doors and connect those passions, often in directions you could never imagine.

Anna Russell is an Artistic Associate and FOH/Box Office Manager at Theatre NorthWest.

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Riding the NH Connections bus as a senior: Affordable, fun, and COVID-safe

By Anne Scott Did you know that if you’re 60 or older, you can ride the Northern Health Connections bus at the same low price medical travellers pay – with no need to have a medical reason for your trip?

The purpose of the Connections bus program is to give Northerners who have medical appointments in other cities an affordable way to travel. It’s also for Northerners who were taken to another city for treatment (e.g., by air or by ambulance), who need a way to get home. See full details here: nhconnections.ca/passenger-information/eligibility. There’s a whole system of routes throughout the North, as well as down to Vancouver and Kamloops. See full schedule here: nhconnections.ca/sites/ connections/files/documents/bus-schedule-nh-connections.pdf The Connections bus also lets seniors travel at the same low rates. I’m 61 and I recently rode the bus from Prince George to Vancouver to visit my son, for only $20 each way. It was safe, clean, relaxing — and fun! (Similar low rates apply across the North: nhconnections.ca/sites/connections/files/documents/ nh-connections-route-fares.pdf).

I pre-booked my trip by calling 1-888-647-4997 (everyone has to do this – no walk-ons are allowed).

The bus leaves from the parking lot of the University Hospital of Northern BC in Prince George, near the main entrance. When I arrived for the 8 am departure, driver Arlene Christensen was there to welcome us and help everyone board, even making the bus “kneel” to help passengers with mobility problems climb the steps.

Our bus was a large intercity coach with an onboard washroom, comfortable plush seats, and charging ports at each seat. (The Connections program also uses minibuses on some of its shorter routes).

The bus stops only at certain locations, and only passengers who have pre-booked their seats can board — there’s no picking up random people from the side of the highway. COVID precautions include daily deep cleaning, plastic dividers separating the seats, and physically distancing the passengers by blocking off rows of seats.

The trip between Prince George and Vancouver takes 11½ hours, but this includes two 15-minute stops for coffee, and a one-hour lunch break at Cache Creek. The break at Cache Creek is at the Husky Travel Centre, which has a restaurant, convenience store, and large, clean washrooms. Plus, other restaurants in Cache Creek are just a short walk away – it’s a great way to stretch your legs.

Vaccines for kids under 5: register now Great news! COVID-19 vaccines for children ages six months to five years are now available in BC. Register your child in the Get Vaccinated system now! You can register online (gov.bc.ca/gov/content/ covid-19/vaccine/register) or on the phone (1-833-838-2323).

Once registered, you’ll be notified as soon as it’s time to book an appointment for your child. The booking process will be the same as it was for adults and older children.

Health Canada has approved the Moderna mRNA vaccine for children ages 6 months to 4 years. mRNA vaccines are the best choice for young children because they provide the most effective protection against COVID-19. All COVID-19 vaccines for adults and children follow the same review and approval process.

When you get your child vaccinated, you protect them from serious illness. Young children still need to be vaccinated even if they already had COVID-19.

Learn more: gov.bc.ca/under5vaccines

(Speaking of washrooms, the bus features a large, spotlessly clean wheelchair-accessible washroom that you can use anytime, even while the bus is moving – a great convenience!)

If you’re travelling for a medical reason, you’ll get priority when booking, and the bus is fully set up to make you feel safe and comfortable: there’s an emergency call button in the bathroom, the bus can be reconfigured to accommodate a wheelchair, and you can bring a companion with you. As well, each Connections bus carries a small stool for those who’ve had hip or knee surgery and need to keep a leg elevated.

All passengers on the big coaches, whether travelling for a medical reason or not, can bring two large pieces of luggage under the bus, weighing up to 50 pounds each, plus a small carry-on bag at their seat.

(Minibus passengers can only bring a carry-on).

Get ready for fall boosters!

When you compare travelling on the Connections bus to flying, there’s no contest: it’s cheaper, your luggage arrives when you do, and the bus always leaves on time.

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.

Visit nhconnections.ca to learn more!

Learn more: gov.bc.ca/booster

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Edith Dorothy OLESIUK (nee Terris)

June 22, 1962 - September 2, 2021

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In memory of

A year has passed since you peacefully slipped away.

I’m sorry we never got to say goodbye.

Thank You for 45 years of being my best friend, partner in crime and husband.

I have a lifetime of cherished memories.

You will always be in my heart and thoughts.

Till we meet again.

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OLESIUK, Edith Dorothy (nee Terris) passed away August 20, 2022 at Gateway Complex Care Home, Prince George, BC at the age of 94.

Edith was born April 1, 1928 in Edmonton, Alberta and grew up on the family homestead just north of Wildwood, Alberta. After living briefly in Vancouver, ‘Edie’ and Art moved to Prince George where they raised their family on Douglas Street and in Charella Gardens. In 1980, they moved to Canoe, BC where they enjoyed many happy retirement years. After Art passed Edie returned to Prince George in 2009 to be closer to the family. She spent her final 10 years living in the PG Gateway Assisted Living and Complex Care Home.

Edith’s greatest love was her extensive family, always taking special interest in each and everyone’s life.

She was passionate about gardening and spent many hours creating oil paintings. In her younger years she loved to dance and she and Art were avid square dancers.

Edith had numerous friends wherever she lived with whom she loved to discuss current affairs over a cup of coffee and a cheese biscuit. You would often find her reading the local newspaper, reading McLeans magazine, or watching Judge Judy and Jeopardy.

Survived by sons Donald (Diane), Williams Lake; Brian (Shannon), Ft St James and daughter Roxane (Ron) Gunderson, Tobiano, BC. Also, 8 grandchildren & 20 great-grandchildren and their families located throughout Canada and the US; Sister Evelyn Finner, Wildwood, AB; Sister-inlaw Shirley Terris, Hinton, AB and many, many nieces and nephews.

Predeceased by Arthur, husband of 51 years; parents Fergus & Louise Terris; and brother Donald Terris.

Special thanks to all Gateway Staff for their continuous time and care of Edith.

A Celebration of Edith’s Life will be held on Monday Sept 12, 2022 from 1:00 to 4:00 at the Bon Voyage Banquet Hall, 4366 Highway 16 West, Prince George, BC. It would be an honour for family and friends to join us as we celebrate Mom’s life and share memories of her. (If you choose, in lieu of flowers please make a donation to a charity of your choice.)

Janet Marie Erler (Pederson) 1949-2022

Janet was born on January 8, 1949 in Huchison, Minnesota and passed away on August 11, 2022 at University Hospital.

Granny Janny is survived by her husband Dr. Keith Erler, daughters Chantal (Scott), Heather (Peter) and grandchildren Jacob and Halle.

A service for Jan will be held on Saturday, September 10th at 11:00 am at Zion Lutheran Church - 180 Tabor Blvd S. She loved her god She loved her family She will be greatly missed

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Thobo-Carlsen, John Perch July 20, 1934 – August 17, 2022

1928-2022

John Perch Thobo-Carlsen, age 88, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, August 17th, 2022 at the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC. He was born in Odense, Denmark on July 20th, 1934 to Paul and Paula Thobo-Carlsen—the second of three children. John immigrated to Canada in 1954 and worked for several years in Alberta and Saskatchewan before finally settling in BC. John married Sheila Anne Munro of Vancouver, BC, and during 61 years of marriage they made homes together in Kamloops, Penticton, Prince George and Fort St. James.

A trained accountant, he later co-owned and operated several businesses in Prince George and Fort St. James. John was a long-time volunteer for the sport of speed skating. He served as the first president of the Prince George Speed Skating Club (5 years) and later became president of the BC Speed Skating Association (2 years). He was a Level 2-certified coach and Level 3-certified referee who helped run many meets and competitions across the province. In Fort St. James, John was also heavily involved in the community—serving as chair and treasurer of Stuart Lake Community Futures (17 years), president of the Chamber of Commerce (2 years), and treasurer of the Arts Council (5 years). John was predeceased in death by his son Billie, wife Sheila and brother Preben. He is survived by his sister Hanne; daughter Anne; son Paul; grandchildren Toven, Jennifer, Alexa and Erin, and great-grandsons Madan and Ryland. John will be fondly remembered for his passion and strong commitment to family, work and many community organizations. Respecting John’s wishes, no public service will be held. Special thanks to the staff of Northern Health in Prince George whose excellent support helped keep John comfortable in his final years.

Maria Lidia Soares December 16, 1935 - July 11, 2022 Lidia is lovingly remembered by her family and friends after a sudden and unexpected death at the age of 86. Although gone, her spirit and love will forever live in the memories she shared with those who knew her best. She enjoyed spending time with family and friends, but was most happy in the company of her children and grandchildren. Lidia was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She was predeceased by her husband of 59 years, Jose Soares. Lidia is survived by her sisters Graciete and Isabel in Portugal, her sons Oscar (Paula), Jorge (Camilla), Roy (Colleen), and Luis (Melissa).

Grandchildren Amanda, Daniel, Nicholas, Tiana, Rohan, Delaney, and Colby. Great Grandchildren Blake and Emmett.

Also many nieces and nephews in Portugal. She will be dearly missed and always remembered, in our hearts forever.

A funeral mass will be held for her at St. Mary’s Church 1088 Gillett St. on Thursday, September 1st at 2:00pm.

Bill passed away peacefully on August 22, 2022.

Bill was born April 3, 1928 in Viscount Sask., the 3rd of 12 children. Bill moved to Prince George with his family when he was 12 years old. Bill is survived

by Josephine Lloyd, his wife of 67 years; Bill and Joey’s three daughters, Sandra Theroux (Hector), Margot Slater (Peter), and Nancy Gallagher (Brian); grandchildren, and three great grandsons; two of Bill’s brothers Merl Lloyd and Howard Lloyd; and three of Bill’s sisters Joan Winther, Verna Shields, and Pat Todoruk; and many nephews and nieces.

Bill said he and Joey had a very fulfilling life. He and Joey travelled and lived a good life together. Bill and his brothers started the Lloyd Brothers Lumber Company and Bill ran the sawmill. After nearly 20 years of successful operations, the brothers sold the business. Then Bill ranched in Vanderhoof raising horses, cattle, and crops. He was also very involved in woodlots and replanting the trees that were logged.

Bill loved to play golf and was proud that he had three holes-in-one in his lifetime. He said he retired from golf when his “sticks did not work so good anymore”. He also hunted geese and ducks and worked with Ducks Unlimited creating and maintaining wetlands for the birds on his ranch. His most enduring passion was fishing. Bill went to the ocean on many salmon fishing trips and loved to fish for rainbow trout at Cluculz Lake. Joey says when they were dating Bill would take his fishing rod with them, just in case.

Our family wants to say a special thank you to Bill’s caregivers, particularly Kristi, Angela, Poppy, Dr. York, and the staff at Rotary Hospice House who cared for Bill during his last two weeks of life. We are grateful for your compassionate care.

A funeral service will be held for Bill on Friday, September 2 at 1:00 PM at St Michaels and All Angels Anglican Church at 1505 5th Ave, Prince George. A reception will follow the service in the Church Hall. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to Hospice House, Ducks Unlimited, or a charity of your choice.

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Woodlot Licence Plan Woodlot Licence 1727 Notice is hereby given, pursuant to Section 17 of the Woodlot Planning and Practices Regulation, that a Woodlot Licence Plan has been prepared for Woodlot Licence #1727 held by MJM Forestry Ltd. This Woodlot Licence is located east of Prince George near the Willow River and Wansa Lake. If approved by the Ministry of Forests, this plan may apply for a term of 10 years from the date of approval.

This Woodlot Licence Plan is available for public review and comment by from Sept. 1, 2022 to Oct. 7, 2022. Any written comments on the plan should be mailed to: S. M. Forrest & Associates Ltd. , #100-466 2nd Avenue, Prince George, B.C., V2L 2Z7.

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This Woodlot Licence Plan is available for public review and comment by from Sept. 1, 2022 to Oct. 7, 2022. Any written comments on the plan should be mailed to: S. M. Forrest & Associates Ltd. , #100-466 2nd Avenue, Prince George, B.C., V2L 2Z7.

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• Woodland themes. Colours that bring to mind a peaceful stroll through the woods are must-haves in trendy, Zen-inspired homes this year. For inspiration, think of natural elements like leaves, pine needles, ferns, moss, mushrooms, bark and stone. Adding simple, earthy tones to your home is the perfect way to infuse some peace and serenity into your life.

• Nocturnal skies. This year, colour schemes featuring gradients of blue, grey and purple are transporting trendsetters to a place where the stars — and unexplored galaxies — enchant us day and night. For a truly original, dreamlike design, consult a specialist about the use of wat-

ercolours to recreate the richness and depth of a dark night sky.

• Expert picks. Pantone and Color Marketing Group — two recognized authorities on international colour trends — have both chosen luscious green tones as this year’s top colours. Coincidence or fate? Greenery (selected by Pantone) is a refreshing and revitalizing shade, whereas Thrive (chosen by Color Marketing Group) is more of a warm olive green.

• Sequined elegance. This year, be bold and opt for a chic design using special paint that includes a sequined finishing gel. This ultra glamorous style can be achieved by combining any number of dark colours (midnight blue, burgundy, charcoal grey, etc.) with small, iridescent flakes. In the right light, the end result is simply stunning!

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

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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

2015- 2019 OAK Street, $169 900

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

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

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.

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.

Fall under the spell of MOROCCAN-INSPIRED DÉCOR

Would you like to add an exotic touch to your bedroom, kitchen or family room? Let yourself be inspired by the extraordinary beauty of Moroccan design! There are so many possibilities: lampshades made with stained glass; lanterns adorned with finely crafted metal leaves; pillows, ottomans and carpets boasting complex motifs; or frames, vases and chests carved in exotic wood. Talented Moroccan artisans know how to create true works of art!

COLOURS Defined by rich, bold hues, Moroccan design often features one or more of the following:

• Fuchsia or coral • Bright red or maroon • Violet or dark purple • Yellow or burnt orange • Electric blue or teal • Turquoise or emerald green

WOOD The types of wood most often used in Moroccan design include cedar and mahogany, as well as bark from lemon and olive trees. These woods are often employed to build decorative objects like picture frames and candlesticks, or other household items like tissue

boxes and magazine racks. Fashioned to perfection, these works of art are impossible to resist and deserve a special place in your home.

METAL The types of metal most often used in Morocco include copper, stainless steel, brass and silver. These materials are often found hanging from ceilings in the form of beautiful lanterns that give off a sensual and mysterious glow. Do you love tea? Get your hands

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

on a Moroccan-style metal teapot inspired by the famous Arabian Nights!

TERRACOTTA For centuries, Moroccan potters have mastered the art of crafting beautiful, durable items using earthenware materials like terracotta. Pots, garden lamps and amphora jars are but three examples of Moroccan-inspired items that you can use to embellish your home’s décor, inside and out!

PGS 349 WEST LAKE Road $3,515,000

VINTAGE DESIGN

ANTIQUE BIRDCAGES: precious and romantic Sometimes, in country-style weddings, a beautiful birdcage serves as a holding chamber for greeting cards.

Today, this vintage decorative item is increasingly used to embellish spaces defined by pure, innocent and romantic design.

Often decorated with finely crafted flowers or candles, these metal antique cages are adorable, especially when painted a soft colour like cream, mint green, rose gold, pale blue or yellow.

Visit specialty retailers and vintage shops in your area to unearth an authentic antique cage — or at least a faithful replica — to complete your rustic-inspired décor.

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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.

2550 OAK Street, $170,900

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

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.

1323 BABINE Crescent, $369,900

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

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N I D N E P 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

404-392 KILLOREN Crescent, $220,900

Fantastic 1 bedroom condo close to schools and amenities. Fresh painted with newer appliances. Comfort of secure maintenance-free living.

4154 CARSON Street, $339,900

Wrap around covered porches are a wonderful place to sit and relax while listening to the rain or enjoying the summer heat and watching kids play.

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.

10233 WESTERN ROAD, $110,000

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.

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.

2738 QUINCE STREET, $354,900

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

108 4397 W AUSTIN Road, $424,900

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.

389 N PATTERSON STREET, $429,900

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

103-2217 REGENTS CRESCENT, $179, 900

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

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.

1710 6TH AVENUE $369,900

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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NG I D N E P This updated home with separate basement entry boasts a brand new kitchen, 3 bedrooms up, and an enormous oversized yard.

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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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6547 SIMON FRASER Avenue, $449,900

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

6780 SIMON FRASER Avenue, $479,900

This updated home in a fantastic location boasts new kitchen, a one bedroom mortgage helper and a detached shop/garage.

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136 VOYAGEUR DRIVE, $489,900

This top to bottom redone custom home with walk-out suite is move-in ready! The bdmt suite is also completely redone & has grade level walk-in

13755 KEPPEL ROAD $479,878

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

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.

9395 OLD SUMMIT LAKE Road, $549,900

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

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.

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2889 GREENFOREST Crescent, $559,900

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

1724 - 1732 TAMARACK Street, $649,900

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

7230 SALMON VALLEY Road, $649,900

This spotless custom home with huge 4 bay shop is on 2.12 acres and minutes to town. The main floor boasts a wonderful open layout with 3 bedrooms.

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.

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.

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Helping drive interest in the northern real estate market is the growing trend of working remotely, something that gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With interest rates rising in Canada, list prices along with getting the most out of selling your home is now more important than ever. That’s where PropertyGuys.com can provide clients a competitive edge over traditional real estate agent listed homes.

“When using our services, our clients pay just a fraction of what they’d pay a traditional agent in commission,” says Dale McDonald, who, along with his wife Rena Mae, acquired the PropertyGuys.com franchise in Prince George in January this year, and their region spans a substantial portion of Northern B.C. and Yukon!”

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“We are a flat fee real estate service.

We help homeowners sell their own properties as we are not licensed agents, but we give our clients the tools to do what the agents do. That way they keep control of the sales process.”

“The main benefit of our services is that our clients get to keep much more of their equity instead of paying it out on commissions.”

After they took over the franchise, Dale and Rena implemented some new services & extra marketing.

“We want people to know our licensed brokerage can post your property listings on the MLS platform, Realtor. ca.”

“Customers also liked the fact that we have added the 3D 360°-degree virtual tour system which showcases properties well and provides a 24/7 open house.”

Rena Mae says, adding it also provides a legal floor plan alongside the digital tour images.

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“PropertyGuys.com offers competitive

“Connectivity is really opening up the north,” Dale says. “One good thing that came from the past few years, is that we learned we can utilize technology to work from home.

“The benefit of serving such a large area is that our clients can put their homes on platforms that cover all of B.C. and Yukon, which seems to be a sought-after region, primarily because the list prices tend to be lower compared to other regions in B.C.” Dale says. “ “Our marketing reach really opens up choices for people who are trying to get out of the higher-priced Lower Mainland areas to retire or simply start the next chapter of life.”

So, PropertyGuys.com can help you market your home. But what about the important paperwork that goes along with a real estate transaction? How do clients ensure they have that done properly?

Dale explained they can refer clients to a trusted and experienced law firm to undertake the task.

“The real estate world can be challenging, so having a lawyer handle things provides confidence that matters are handled right.”

“The traditional model of selling real estate is available if clients want it. But we offer homeowners the tools that simplifies the sales process and can generate significant savings for them at the same time.”

For more information about how PropertyGuys.com can assist you with your real estate marketing needs, visit their website at https://propertyguys. com/#find-an-office

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