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Vol. 37

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May 8, 2015

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Memorial Arena and the Curling Club will have ice next fall after Dawson Creek city council unanimously approved $2.4 million of a $9 million plan to replace the broken refrigeration systems in both facilities.

Around 50 citizens showed up to a special meeting of council Thursday, the majority of whom supported the plan to fix the arena and curling rink.

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without ice since city staff discovered toxic ammonia leaking from the aging chiller system late last year.

Earlier this week, a longexpected report estimated the cost of rehabilitating the city’s three ice facilities at just over $9 million over six years. It also offered options for building a new multipurpose ice complex, shifting ice operations to Kin Arena and the Encana Events Centre and not repairing the curling centre, and dropping ice altogether in favour of dry floor facilities.

Council approved the first option, but with amendments that would allow them to decide year-by-year whether certain pieces of the work needed to be done.

The plan would be paid for out of the city’s existing capital budget by putting off other projects, including a City Hall phone upgrade, the demolition of the old Centennial Pool, upgrades to the Encana Centre, money for a fire training site, and an expansion of the city cemetery. The city will not take on any debt by repairing the arenas.

Despite some worries about the impact on the city’s fiscal situation, the plan passed without opposition.

“I feel like this is a no-brainier, that we have to do this,” said Councillor Cheryl Shuman.

“Building a new facility is not something we can do at this

time. Frankly I’m afraid to build anything in this community, given our record.” She added that “doing nothing” was not an option.

Councillor Mark Rogers was most critical, but decided not to vote against the plan.

“We’re talking about spending over $9 million on something that less than ten per cent of the community uses,” he said (an assessment on the future needs of ice users found around 1,400 people use the arenas).

“Recreation is important, that’s evident [from the crowd] here today, but the amount of money we’re spending on those services, it’s a bit expensive and it’s not sustainable,” he said. He said he worried about the quick turnaround between the issuing of the report Tuesday and council’s decision Thursday.

“There are a lot of things we haven’t heard from the citizens about the items we’re considering cutting or suspending.”

Two items that would have been put off under the $2.4 million plan— upgrading the aquatic centre parking lot ($250,000) and improving Crescentview Park ($265,000) — were brought back by shifting money from a special fund for energy efficient projects.

The first year of work would see the refrigeration plants for Kin Arena and the Memorial Arena and Curling Club replaced with a lesshazardous Freon system — with an esti-

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Unanimous decision by Dawson Creek council means there will be ice at Memorial Arena and the Curling Club come fall

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Around 50 people gathered in council chambers Thursday to watch a vote on the future of the city’s ice arenas. Most supported council’s decision to undertake a $9 million plan to squeeze another 25-35 years out of the facilities. (Jonny Wakefield Photo)

mated price tag of $2.2 million.

The rest would be spent on minor fixes to the buildings. Those projects have not been tendered, so it’s not yet clear what the final cost will be.

If council approves the work, subsequent years could include the replacement of the aging concrete ice pads in the facilities.

Those repairs would give the arenas another 25 to 35 years of life, the report found.

Councillor Charlie Parslow said he believed the spending needed to happen.

“I’m a fiscal conservative for sure, but I can’t conceive this town without curling, hockey, figure skating, so as councillor Shuman said. This is in part a no-

brainer,” he said.

Mayor Dale Bumstead also voted in favour.

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The warm smell of freshbaked sweet bread is making its way through the Nawican Friendship Centre in Dawson Creek where Louise Isadore is in the kitchen, wearing an apron labeled “Bannock Queen”.

Every Thursday Isadore comes into the centre, mixing, needing, rolling and cutting out three batches of bannock – making 90 in total.

“I’ve been coming to the centre since 1999, now I’m on the board here so I’m here all the time,” she says, waving a flourcovered hand.

She has already filled a large silver bowl with flour and baking soda when I arrive and pours in a mix of liquid ingredients, creating a well in the middle.

“I learned this from an early age, I was nine years old when I was already baking for my family because there was a lot of us, 13 all together and I’m the second oldest,” she says. “My brother is the oldest but he was living with us and my grandmother took over on him because my mum was very young when she started. When they got married, she was only just turned16 and got pregnant right away and she had my brother, then me and from there all the little ones –13 of us.”

Being the oldest after her brother, a great deal of the work around the house was piled on her, from cooking to clean-

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ing and changing diapers – she points out that at that time they didn’t have washing machines and everything was scrubbed out by hand.

“I learned from a very early age how to work,” she says.

Isadore grew up on the outskirts of the reserve in Driftpile, Alberta, northeast of Grande Prairie.

“I was born close to the river, Driftpile River,” she says. “My dad worked for a farmer there.”

Her father took the farm job after moving the family off of the reserve where she says he no longer wanted to live.

“The agent, he was not treating the people right, he was taking money from the government which should be going to the reserve and the people there so [my dad] had a fight with the Indian Agent, so we were out of the reserve,” she says.

At eight-years-old, Isadore says it was time for her to go to school and the family moved to Faust, Alberta, on Lesser Slave Lake.

“It was just a garage, Post Office and one store,” she says. “It was just a little tiny place and now it’s big and I go back there, oh, is it ever huge.”

Isadore’s family lived more than two miles south of the town centre on a ranch with her grandparents close by.

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lucky to have two sets of grandparents, then.”

The family had horses and travelled by team wherever they went. Isadore was given a horse by her grandparents when she was born and says she rode it everyday since she was small.

When Isadore was 14 years old her horse was hit by the train that rolled past the town. The horse was pregnant at the time and she says her Metis grandfather – a medicine man – tried to save the colt but both were lost.

When they were children, Isadore says her and her siblings rode horseback to school, otherwise running through the bush – she recounts a time that they came across a bear en route but scared it away with all of the noise they were making.

“We never knew what a real shoe looked like cause we always had moccasins and rubbers and wore our dress, we never wore pants or slacks,” says Isadore.

“I think I was only about 14, or maybe a little older when I started wearing, I don’t know if it was jeans at that time, but that was in 1949 or 50.”

She says the girls were all wearing pants so her and her sister talked her mom and dad into letting them wear jeans.

Her family always lived quite traditionally, she says, speaking Cree at home, although her father knew both English and French from his time at residential schools.

“When I first went to school I didn’t know one word of English and it was hard in the beginning,” she says. “It was horrible but the teacher was really nice. She was wonderful, only one teacher for all the grades from grade one to six.”

The same teacher, Mrs. Bannister, is now about 90 years old and still lives in Faust today – the school was eventually named after her, Isadore says.

She stayed in school until the eighth grade when her mother pulled her out because she needed help at home and had medical problems, having five miscarriages and losing one daughter at just over one year old.

“I basically was the second mother with my siblings. They didn’t call me mom, they had a name for me, my name was ‘Yay’,” she laughs. “I don’t know what that means but it was my

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brothers, mostly, there’s five girls and eight the individual pieces off of the cookie boys – they almost made a ball team.” sheet and onto the counter to cool. A few Isadore says she has eight of them left more people have already headed into the today. While cutting out individual ban- centre – she says some come after soup at nocks with the mouth of an empty tin St. Mark’s, others come just for bannock. can, Isadore says she also makes bannock Growing up, Isadore says both sides of for her brother in Chetwynd, and used to her family were hunters and fishers – in send it by bus to another brother. the late summer and fall they would all “I used to put it on a bus for him, my head out with the grandmothers in charge other brother that passed away, he used of the children.

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“My grandma told me, come and live ing to fend the children off from a bear. with me, so I stayed with them for four From Faust, Isadore’s father worked for years,” she says. Despite all of the time the railroad for 25 years before retiring.

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Louise Isadore: cooking up culture Continued from Page 5 my son, he was only 8 years old. He didn’t know there was a bullet in this gun and he was pointing it at everyone in the garden, we had a huge garden, this goes back to 1962,” she says. “It was on Thanksgiving Day, it was

so horrible, he just barely made it. He had six hours in surgery to patch up all the little holes the bullet made.”

She says the accident affected her son for a long time, his grandfather was his best friend, she says.

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boy,” she says, he didn’t want to see him punished for an accident that he already felt terribly about.

At the time, Isadore was with her first husband, a polish farmer who was killed in a car accident one Christmas Eve. Isadore remarried, having eight children in total but said her second husband was “not a very nice person, he was drinking all of the time, my children were scared”.

Suffering abuse over the 11 years they were married, Isadore says she might not have gotten out of that situation had it not been for her oldest son – from her first husband.

“My son said I get paid this weekend and I’m buying you a ticket and you’re getting on this bus,” she says.

Isadore’s parents moved to Chetwynd in 1967 and she followed shortly after. While there she returned to school to complete her grade 10 but says she didn’t like Chetwynd and it didn’t like her – she was frequently ill with bronchitis and other lung problems.

She moved back to Alberta for some time and then crossed the border again to Fort St. John, where she volunteered with the elderly community. After having major surgery, Isadore moved to Dawson Creek to recover – her daughter was living here at the time.

“Since 1986 I’ve lived here,” she says, filling a cup with flour for a second batch of bannock.

Adding in baking powder to the dry mix, she says she never measures. She doesn’t set an oven timer either, just looks in the oven and says they’re good.

As well as the Nawican Friendship Centre, Isadore is called on to bake bannock for Northern Lights College and various events around town. She has also done the opening prayer and smudging ceremonies at notable events – she names the Premier’s visit most recently.

“I even stood beside the Prime Minister when he came here,” she says.

Isadore has kept her language and helped others learn, at times assisting Cree language instructors in town.

“We still talk Cree whenever we have the chance,” she says. “I still get my words that I can’t remember, you know when you have your words you forget over the years going to a public school, and then marrying somebody that you have to talk English to all the time, and then going back to Cree – Isadore is Cree.”

Whoever speaks Cree, she says she’ll talk to them, “that’s keeping your tradition, your culture.”

When someone in town was seeking out a person to teach hide-tanning Isadore says she wanted to volunteer – she was taught to tan hide, as well – but says it’s hard work, that requires a younger body.

“It’s very important for me to get involved with things like that for our culture,” she says. “If anybody has questions, if I can answer it I will, otherwise that’s what it is all about, it’s all about my culture.”

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Local Sports

DC Seals ready for swim season B yron Hackett Staff Writer

The Dawson Creek Seals Swim Club won’t enter the pool for an official practice until next Tuesday, but they already have their sights set on a huge goal for 2015.

Last year the club had about 50 swimmers, this year they are looking for 100.

“We’ve got a goal to increase the

membership by 100 percent over last year,” co-head coach of the Dawson Creek Seals Danny Schilds said. “We are well on the way already. We are half way there.”

That expectation would help the club immensely according to the cohead coach, as more bodies in the water means a better opportunity for everybody in the club.

“First thing that it does is it gets more also help guide the club, along with rekids involved in the sport which is my turning coach Tove Schilds who has main goal,” Schilds said. “This is a sport been a co-head coach with the program that sticks with you for the rest of your since 2011. life. So the more kids we can get involved While having three coaches will be the better. helpful, with so many new swimmers “It makes the club stronger too, we the learning curve is a steep one. are better able to deliver a lot more pro“That’s something that is going to grams if we have more kids. It spreads build,” Danny said of the competitivethe cost around, we are able to have ness of the team. “We have an extremely more qualified coaches on deck. So that young team. Very, very young team, we kids get that much better coaching and are going to be looking at probably three there is a chance to be more successful quarters or and least 2/3’s of the swim1:13 PM going to be brand new. So it are as well.” Dawson Creek 5.12x7.174.pdf 1 2015-04-29mers Along with Schilds, Megan Lutz will generally takes a couple years before a

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Local Sports The Dawson Creek Seals are hoping to reach 100 swimmers this year.

“We’re aiming for 100 percent turnout of all of our ally work on being efficient in the water,” he said.

Another way the club hopes to combat the inexperi- swimmers [here],” he said.

The club is also trying to start an alumni group, any ence of the club is by hosting mini-meets each week at of the swimmers from the past are encouraged to reach practice.

“We do mini practice meets just about every week… out to the club and hopefully get them back in the waall the kids are involved so they get a chance to practice ter.

For more information check out the Dawson Creek their dives, their turns and their stroke with officials on deck watching them. So they get to play the game once Seals website, www.dawsoncreekseals.ca. a week,” he said. sports@ahnfsj.ca Swimmers are split up into teams at those practices, and are awarded points based on the event they race in and the improvement that they see from the last minimeet.

Overall, despite the turnover Schilds believes the team will be a strong one this season.

GOUT Srinivas “We’re looking for a really strong year,” (Gouty arthritis) Chalagalla B.Pharm., PhD he said.

Uric acid is one of the body’s waste products.

Usually it is eliminated by the “We are already seeing results from our kidneys. In some circumstances, however, winter training, I think we are going to see it accumulates in the blood and forms some much faster kids.” are preferred. They are effective and, when crystals. These crystals are then deposited taken with food or milk, cause few side The club’s first competition is May 30-31 in certain joints (e.g., the elbow, knee, FILE PHOTO in Mackenzie. One of the biggest events on effects. fingers). causing extreme pain and Last year the Dawson Creek Seals put forth a strong What can happen if gout is not the schedule will be the team’s home meet swelling. The feet (especially the big toes). treated? performance at the invitational meet in Fort St. John. on July 18-19. knees, and finger joints are most at risk.

Gout can eventually cause joint Gout attacks often occur in the early deformity. The crystals form whitish morning. They are unpredictable: they can deposits, called tophi, in certain tissues. occurccur a few days or months apart, and Sometimes gout causes the formation of last anywhere from a few hours to a few kidney stones. weeks.

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With so many new faces on board, Schilds noted that often one of the biggest surprises is how far the kids swim during their first month in the pool.

“Within the first month, practically raw beginners will be swimming a mile in a practice, and that will be easy for them. It’s very accelerated development. We re-

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• May 12, 2015 - The South Peace Community Arts Council will be holding their monthly meeting at noon at the Art Gallery.

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• May 19, 2015 - The South Peace Historical Society will be holding their monthly meeting at 2:00pm in the Archives Room at the Calvin Kruk Arts Centre on 10th St. and 104th Ave. • May 24, 2015 - The Peace Country Roots Group hold their monthly meeting at 1:30pm, located in the small building in the NAR Park.

• May 25, 2015 - Friends of the Library meet at 10am • May 30, 2015 - The Peace Region Songrwriters’ Association will be hosting their monthly Coffee House at Faking Sanity from 6:30-9:30pm. Open Mic takes place throughout the evening including music and spoken word. Open to all genres of music and skill levels. Admission by donation.

Coffee, tea & goodies available. (corner of 9th St. & 103rd Ave, Dawson Creek) • • Fridays Steak Night at Bear Mountain Ski Hill, 6-10 pm. Menu: 8 oz NY steak or herb roasted chicken breast or teriyaki glazed salmon steak and garlic mashed or rice.

Meals include caesar salad andhomemade dessert. Regular concession available. (02) MACHITAWIN FAMILY LEARNING CENTRE • If you have any questions please feel free to drop by for a coffee at 14-1405-102nd Avenue, Central Place or give us a call at 250-782-1169. Monday: Gross Motor Skills Development 9:00 am - noon • Walking • Swimming • Playing Tuesday: Fine Motor Skills / Literacy Development 9:00 am - noon • Sharing Circle • Story Time • Singing • Crafts Wednesday: Breakfast Group 9:00 am - noon • Start the family off to a healthy breakfast with a Cultural theme Thursday: Parent Child Mother Goose Program 9:00 am - noon • Come learn to sing your favorite song and tell rhyme with your children. Traditional Dance - 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm. • Come learn the Pow-wow style way. Friday: Field Trip Day 9:00 am - noon. Getting to know your community. Gaia Program 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • Support for Pregnant Moms using Drugs and Alcohol. (11)

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NAWICAN FRIENDSHIP CENTRE • Mondays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm, Nurse 11am-2pm. Tuesdays - Fund raiser • BBQ11am - 1pm Wednesdays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm Thursdays - Bannock 11am

Fridays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm. Also call 250.782.5202 for the dates on the following events: Afternoon Fund raiser Bingo - Elders Free Dinner/Entertainment - Community Fund raiser Dinners/Entertainment.

Dawson Creek Seniors Hall: Monday 9:00am, Skittles/Pool 10:00 am Exercise 11:45 Lunch 1;00pm Pool 1:30pm Carpet Bowling 7:00pm Crib & Bridge. Tuesday 8:00 Foot Care/Blood Pressure (by appointment) 1:00 pm Pool / Bingo 7:00pm Floor Curling/Darts. Wednesday 9:00am Skittles/ Ladies Pool 10:00am Exercise 1:00pm Pool/Crib & Bridge 3:30 pm Beginner Line Dancing. Thursday 10:00am Game board Café 1:00pm Floor Curling 7:00pm Floor Curling. Friday 9:00 Skittles/Pool 10:00am Line Dancing 1:00pm Pool 1:30pm Carpet Bowling. For more info on our activities call the 250 782 7620 or visit our hall at 1101 McKellar Ave. MONDAY AA Meetings 8:00 pm at the Dawson Creek Health Unit. (0) New! AA Meetings noon at South Peace United Church, 1300 - 104 Ave., Dawson Creek. (0) Cocaine Anonymous meets 7:00 pm at 1320 - 102nd Ave. The only requirement is a desire to quit using cocaine and other mind altering substances! (0) Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention: A skills group open to adults struggling with addiction Mondays 10:30am-12noon @ Mental Health & Addictions at the Dawson Creek Health Unit, 1001 110th Ave., Dawson Creek. Call Sean at 250-719-6525. (0) TUESDAY AA Meetings 8:00 pm at Dawson Creek Health Unit, Living Sober Meeting, 2197624. (0) AA Closed Meeting 8:00 pm at Pouce Coupe Community Church Annex (next to the Post Office) 5002 - 49th Ave, Pouce Coupe. Big book study. (0) TOPS B.C. #3450 - Arras, meets every Tuesday at Cutbank Hall, from 3:30-5:00 pm. For more info call Eileen at 250-843-7625 or Doreen at 250-780-2324. Join us having fun while winning with weight loss.

Mile “O” Quilter’s Guild meets every Tuesday & Thursday at at the New Calvin Kruk Arts Centre on 10th St. and 104th Ave. at 7pm.

(06) First Tuesday: - Piecemakers Quilt Guild meets in the board room at Tiger’s Printing & Stationers, 7:00 pm. Contact 250-786-5793.

(12) First Tuesday: - The Visually Impaired Support Group meets at 12 noon at First Baptist Church, 1400 113 Ave. All who have or who care about someone with a vision problem are welcome. For further info call Pam 782-5187 or Margaret 782-3221. (03) Last Tuesday: Book club for adults, 7pm at the Dawson Creek Library. Call 250-782-4661 for more details. (01) WEDNESDAY

• New! AA Meetings noon at South Peace United Church, 1300 - 104 Ave., Dawson Creek. (0) • AA Meeting at the Health Unit @ 8:00pm.

• Cocaine Anonymous meets 7:00 pm at 1320102nd Ave. The only requirement is a desire to quit using cocaine and other mind altering substances!

• Grief Support Group - free 6 week program.

The group will run Wednesday evenings from 6:30pm until 8:30pm starting October 22nd and ending November 26th, 2014 at the Bergeron Funeral Services Social Room, 10200-17th Street, Dawson Creek, British Columbia. For more information or to register, please call 250-782-2577. (11) THURSDAY • AA Meetings 8:00 pm - 9:00pm at the Dawson Creek Health Unit. (0) • Al-Anon 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm at the Dawson Creek Heath Unit. (0) • Knitting Group meets every Thursday at Faking Sanity from 6:30 to 8:30pm.

• TOPS: Taking Off Pounds Sensibly weigh in starts at 8:30 a.m. 10221-18th Street.

Contact Mary Kidd 250-782-6628. (12) • Mile “O” Quilter’s Guild meets every Tuesday & Thursday at at the New Calvin Kruk Arts Centre on 10th St. and 104th Ave. at 7pm.

(06) FRIDAY • AA Meetings 8:00 pm. 12x12 Meeting, at the Dawson Creek Health Unit. Big book study. (0) • Cocaine Anonymous, 7:00 pm at 1320102nd Ave. The only requirement is a desire to quit using cocaine & other mind altering substances! (0) SATURDAY • AA Meetings 8 :00 pm , Dawson Creek Health Unit, Dawson Creek, 219-7624. (0) • Each Saturday - September through June Peace Country Roots Group building will be open from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm to members wanting to use the genealogy library. A member will be available by appointment to anyone requiring help on how to get started on your family history. Everyone is welcome.

We are located in the small building in NAR Park. Call Lynn 250-782-4058, Neil 250-782-7651, Lyle 250-782-2804 Peace Country Roots Group Website http:// peacecountryroots.ca SUNDAY • NEW AA Meeting at the Cultural Room at the Northern Lights College 8pm Sunday evenings.

• Fourth Sunday — September through June Peace Country Roots Group meets 1:30 pm in the small Roots building in NAR park. Getting started on family tree research, need help?

Come learn & share experiences with other amateur genealogists. Everyone welcome.

Call Lynn 250-782-4058, Neil 250-782-7651, Lyle 250-782-2804 Peace Country Roots Group website: http://peacecountryroots.ca

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