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Up Front

There was a bit more opti-mism in the room than usual during an annual meeting that includes family members of young women who went miss-ing or were murdered along the Highway of Tears.

The optimism comes after police announced on Sept. 25 that Bobby Jack Fowler was respon-sible for at least one of those murders and that he remains a suspect in other deaths.

The break, after so many years, came as a result of improvements in DNA technology.

Mary Teegee with Carrier Sekani Family Services said advances in technology combined with the tips that have been com-ing in to police is what is fuelling the families’ optimism.

“The idea of today’s meeting is to remember the victims,” Insp. Gary Shinkaruk with EPANA said. “Although we try to feel the true pain and utter despair they feel everyday, it’s good to get together.”

He added they try to update families as they can, but for some of them it has been decades with no idea what happened to their loved one.

Over the nine years the annual meeting among the missing and murdered women’s loved ones has been taking place, it

has evolved to include various support groups. On Wednesday, about 40 people were gathered together, 20 of whom were fam-ily members. Others represented organizations like Victim Ser-vices, the RCMP, Carrier Sekani Family Services and senior inves-tigators with EPANA.

Brenda Wilson, whose sister, Ramona, was 15 when she was murdered along the Highway of Tears, said it is heartening

to see these organizations come together and collaborate in an effort to find answers.

“It brings hope to us. We’re not doing this alone anymore,” she said.

She said she knows the cases continue to be investigated, not just on a daily basis, but every second.

Eighteen years ago, when her sister went missing, she said her mom and her felt alone.

Nicole Hoar was 25 when she went missing on June 21, 2002.

“At this point I think they’ve made a lot of progress,” her dad, Jack, said, adding there were 1,500 tips for police to inves-tigate after his daughter went missing. “They’ve gone through the chaff.”

However he said there is still a lot of information required. He said he believes there is someone out there who knows something.

Perhaps that person was afraid to come forward at the time of his daughter’s disappearance.

“Now they might be more comfortable,” he said.

Teegee said people uncomfort-able talking to the police about what they know are welcome to call her office.

“Any information is valuable. If someone is not comfortable, definitely contact our office, and we will follow up with that,” she said.

Hoar was last seen hitchhiking west of Prince George, heading to Smithers.

Educating young women about the dangers of hitchhiking is an example of one of the things the family members discuss during their meeting.

In fact, the families forwarded 33 recommendations to the gov-ernment in a bid to build a safer environment for young women.

Teegee said, as of yet, not all of those recommendations have been realized.

Meanwhile, the investigation into Bobby Jack Fowler’s life con-tinues.

Shinkaruk said about 300 tips came in following their announce-ment. Tips on the other murders and disappearances continue to come in.

“Even if you think it’s trivial, or it’s something you think we already know, please call,” he said.

The Coroner’s Service has released the name of the man killed Monday morning at the intersection of Highway 97 and 15th Avenue when he was struck by a tractor-trailer unit.

Dead is Miklas Bognar, 68, of Prince George.

The incident occurred just after 10 a.m. when a southbound chip truck loaded

with wood chips was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Highway 97 and 15th Avenue in Prince George. After the light turned green, the driver of the truck proceeded through the intersection, slowly increasing speed. Moments later emergency services received a report of a struck pedestrian.

An RCMP collision reconstructionist

attended the scene to assist Prince George RCMP Municipal Traffic Services with determining how this incident happened.

Physical evidence at the scene indicates that Bognar was not struck by the front of the truck.

Physical tests utilizing the actual trac-tor trailer have confirmed that the truck could not have been traveling more than

24 kilometres per hour at the point of the collision, ruling out speed as a factor.

No criminal or Motor Vehicle Act charges are being considered against the driver of the tractor trailer.

As the incident has been determined non-criminal in nature, the investigation has been handed over to the BC Coroners Service.

Chip truck was stopped before fatal accident

Highway of Tears families updated on progressDELYNDA [email protected]

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Jack Hoar (Nicole Hoar’s dad), EPANA Insp. Gary Shinkaruk, Brenda Wilson (Ramona Wilson’s sister) and Mary Teegee with Carrier Sekani Family Services talked about the importance of the annual meetings between family members of women murdered along the Highway of Tears as well as the new sense of optimism some are experiencing.

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B1BILL PHILLIPS 250-564-0005 [email protected]

Up Front

There was a bit more opti-mism in the room than usual during an annual meeting that includes family members of young women who went miss-ing or were murdered along the Highway of Tears.

The optimism comes after police announced on Sept. 25 that Bobby Jack Fowler was respon-sible for at least one of those murders and that he remains a suspect in other deaths.

The break, after so many years, came as a result of improvements in DNA technology.

Mary Teegee with Carrier Sekani Family Services said advances in technology combined with the tips that have been com-ing in to police is what is fuelling the families’ optimism.

“The idea of today’s meeting is to remember the victims,” Insp. Gary Shinkaruk with EPANA said. “Although we try to feel the true pain and utter despair they feel everyday, it’s good to get together.”

He added they try to update families as they can, but for some of them it has been decades with no idea what happened to their loved one.

Over the nine years the annual meeting among the missing and murdered women’s loved ones has been taking place, it

has evolved to include various support groups. On Wednesday, about 40 people were gathered together, 20 of whom were fam-ily members. Others represented organizations like Victim Ser-vices, the RCMP, Carrier Sekani Family Services and senior inves-tigators with EPANA.

Brenda Wilson, whose sister, Ramona, was 15 when she was murdered along the Highway of Tears, said it is heartening

to see these organizations come together and collaborate in an effort to find answers.

“It brings hope to us. We’re not doing this alone anymore,” she said.

She said she knows the cases continue to be investigated, not just on a daily basis, but every second.

Eighteen years ago, when her sister went missing, she said her mom and her felt alone.

Nicole Hoar was 25 when she went missing on June 21, 2002.

“At this point I think they’ve made a lot of progress,” her dad, Jack, said, adding there were 1,500 tips for police to inves-tigate after his daughter went missing. “They’ve gone through the chaff.”

However he said there is still a lot of information required. He said he believes there is someone out there who knows something.

Perhaps that person was afraid to come forward at the time of his daughter’s disappearance.

“Now they might be more comfortable,” he said.

Teegee said people uncomfort-able talking to the police about what they know are welcome to call her office.

“Any information is valuable. If someone is not comfortable, definitely contact our office, and we will follow up with that,” she said.

Hoar was last seen hitchhiking west of Prince George, heading to Smithers.

Educating young women about the dangers of hitchhiking is an example of one of the things the family members discuss during their meeting.

In fact, the families forwarded 33 recommendations to the gov-ernment in a bid to build a safer environment for young women.

Teegee said, as of yet, not all of those recommendations have been realized.

Meanwhile, the investigation into Bobby Jack Fowler’s life con-tinues.

Shinkaruk said about 300 tips came in following their announce-ment. Tips on the other murders and disappearances continue to come in.

“Even if you think it’s trivial, or it’s something you think we already know, please call,” he said.

The Coroner’s Service has released the name of the man killed Monday morning at the intersection of Highway 97 and 15th Avenue when he was struck by a tractor-trailer unit.

Dead is Miklas Bognar, 68, of Prince George.

The incident occurred just after 10 a.m. when a southbound chip truck loaded

with wood chips was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Highway 97 and 15th Avenue in Prince George. After the light turned green, the driver of the truck proceeded through the intersection, slowly increasing speed. Moments later emergency services received a report of a struck pedestrian.

An RCMP collision reconstructionist

attended the scene to assist Prince George RCMP Municipal Traffic Services with determining how this incident happened.

Physical evidence at the scene indicates that Bognar was not struck by the front of the truck.

Physical tests utilizing the actual trac-tor trailer have confirmed that the truck could not have been traveling more than

24 kilometres per hour at the point of the collision, ruling out speed as a factor.

No criminal or Motor Vehicle Act charges are being considered against the driver of the tractor trailer.

As the incident has been determined non-criminal in nature, the investigation has been handed over to the BC Coroners Service.

Chip truck was stopped before fatal accident

Highway of Tears families updated on progressDELYNDA [email protected]


Jack Hoar (Nicole Hoar’s dad), EPANA Insp. Gary Shinkaruk, Brenda Wilson (Ramona Wilson’s sister) and Mary Teegee with Carrier Sekani Family Services talked about the importance of the annual meetings between family members of women murdered along the Highway of Tears as well as the new sense of optimism some are experiencing.

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The panel of Enbridge experts explained the process that would ensue if there was a full-bore rupture starting into the Burnie River and flowing into the Clore.

Christopher Jones, a lawyer representing the Province of B.C., set up the conditions during the hypotheti-cal spill. He said it was a full-bore rupture, assuming closure of the valves within the 13-minute time frame Northern Gateway has established.

It happens late in the evening or during the night in late fall or winter with deep snow covering at the site of the spill along the path but no ice on the river.

Kevin Underhill, Enbridge expert wit-ness, said safety would be the first priority.

He added it would be a tier-3 event and Enbridge would over-respond to it.

“It is Enbridge’s practice to over-re-spond in any type of release,” he said. “We can always send peo-ple home if they’re not required.”

In conjunction with the tactical response, he said the incident command structure would be directing with the first priority, being safety.

Dr. Elliot Taylor continued with the response.

“Just to let you know, this is exactly the sort of thing you do in con-sultation when you develop the response plans, the detailed response plans. You sit down with a situa-tion like this, you talk to the community, the province, the other parties that are going to be part of an emer-gency response should

the situation arise and to talk through these exact type of exam-ples,” Taylor said.

He added the sce-nario Jones set up was the most dif-ficult along the pipeline.

“This is p r o b a b l y the most challenging example we have along the route in terms of access and river char-a c t e r i s t i c s . So, you have chosen the worst case,” he said.

E a r l y detection and valve closure, s o m e t h i n g set up in Jones’ sce-nario, was paramount, Taylor said.

“We want to mini-mize what is going to come out of the line,”

he added.The next step is

assessment, the first task of the personnel who are mobilized.

“In a release like this, the indi-cations early on would give the con-trol room a heads-up that this is a major event.”

The com-pany, he said, would begin not only mobi-lizing its own p e r s o n n e l (tier one) but send an alert to the tier two group as well because of the large scope of the rupture.

T e a m s would potentially be coming out of Terrace since there will be access maintained to the tunnel portal, and the other route is via the tunnel out of the Kitimat side.

So potentially responders would come from both points.

A first assessment would find out where the rupture happened and assess exactly where the oil is found, if it’s been contained by natural depressions, if a lot of it has been caught up in snow.

Snow, he said, acts as an absorbent, and the cold temperatures slow down the move-ment of the oil.

The local terrain at the point of the rup-ture would be very important in terms of what would be col-lected naturally and what might be mov-ing towards the river itself.

“Those teams that are deployed to the site would be doing the assessments and they would be tackling con-tainment at the spill source,” he said.

He added you would divert drain-down to catchment rather than let it go into the soil and river.

Concurrently, they would be looking at protection measures, or protecting down-stream resources. The first deployment would likely go just down the river, upstream of the confluence with the Copper River.

They would work to divert or collect any-thing at that location.

More points could be built in downstream of that location.

He pointed out there is a lower flow in the Copper River which has more readily acces-sible points.

Dale Burgess, an expert witness for Enbridge, added they call the scenario Jones set up a table-top exer-cise.

He pointed out the first call from the con-trol centre goes to the on-call personnel who would then call out the emergency response resources.

He added they would set up so in daylight they’d be able to respond with heli-copters.

Terry Lake, B.C.’s Minister of Environ-ment, said the prov-ince is concerned with the lack of detail Enbridge is sharing with its emergency response plans.

“We are concerned with the lack of detail in the plans presented by Northern Gateway in our questioning over the last few days.”

He added they are concerned with the oil spill response time.

Lake said Enbridge has promised it wishes to be a world-class company.

“However its record, and the level of detail provided with these plans, doesn’t pro-vide us with evidence of that commitment,” Lake said.

He said they are con-cerned about access to river control points, response to incidents in the winter.

“We feel this should be addressed at the approval stage, rather than later,” Lake said.

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■ CORE REVIEW

Toronto held up as warningThe main problem with core service reviews is

they have a bias against excellence. If the municipality is doing something better

than others, the service is above average and assumed to be problematic, says a consultant who went through the experience in Toronto.

Sean Meagher, president of Public Interest, shared some of his insights into the process he experienced when Toronto undertook a review, during a lecture at CNC Tuesday evening. Like Prince George, Toronto chose KPMG to complete the review.

“The idea is to give services a good hard dispassionate look, but there is no role for civil society,” he said.

The core service review didn’t take social goals into account, he said. Meagher pointed out it’s hard to know how to spend your money if you don’t know what you want to buy.

Meagher asked if a core services review is really a good way to look at city’s services. In the case of Toronto, KPMG was given three months to evaluate city services and look for efficiencies. However, there are 236 services to investigate.

KPMG took those 236 services and bundled them into a few dozen areas.

In Prince George, he said, they were grouped into seven.

The lack of time invested in the review led to some interesting suggestions to save residents money.

For example, one suggested Toronto sell off its seniors homes. However, as it turned out, it was illegal to do so.

The city would save money by cutting back on recycling, it was suggested. However recycling in that city is done on a cost-recovery basis. They should put the city zoo up for sale, however the city didn’t own the land the zoo sat on, nor did it own the animals.

All it owned was the cages. It suggested they cut back on grants to the community, like Meals on Wheels, even though $1 spent on those pro-grams leverages $10 for the city.

“Those are the kind of things a review can come up with,” he said.

Another thing the core service review doesn’t do is take into account what kind of city people want to live in. It has no social goal. And the process of the core services review, he added, was difficult. Questionnaires were complex and leading.

And the city didn’t wait for the results of the review before municipal leaders started making cuts.

“In the middle of it they bought out 1,700 workers who were cut from the payroll. Sound familiar?” he asked.

In Toronto, the tide changed when residents continued to speak out against it, to hold rallies and speeches, then took their concerns to their councillors.

“The voices saying the core services review isn’t working were diverse. You want the city to work for the people who live in it.”

DELYNDA [email protected]


Sean Meagher of Public Interest shared his insights into the issues that arose during the Toronto core service review, which was also conducted by KPMG, during a meeting at the college Tuesday evening.

In Toronto, research showed fair and equitable taxes was on of the bottom of the list of priorities for Tononto’s residents while services to people was most important.

Peter Ewart with Stand Up For The North pointed out 10 of the major issues he sees with the Prince George core services review.

“In my opinion there is little to praise and much to criticize with the core service review,” he said.

He questioned KPMG’s indepen-dence, saying the company promotes privatization. A KPMG member, he added, sits on the Select Commit-tee on Business, whose report has been merged into the core review process.

The cost of the review, at $350,000, is very high, he said. Though it might be comparable to the price of a review done in Toronto, that city is perhaps 30 times bigger than Prince George.

The online survey questionnaire was difficult, complex and hard to use.

The public engagement sessions were supposed to be facilitated by KPMG employees, however he said they, along with the mayor, planted ideas.

He added the public sessions don’t follow research protocols. The opportunities identified by KPMG don’t list how many people sup-ported each one.

The mayor and council, he said, are not setting a good example, asking people to tighten their belts while taking a pay increase and approving a trip to China.

“The China trip is just another example of the bad optics the mayor and some of council are giving off,” he said.

He added there should be an examination of council’s spending on mega-projects.

“I think the core review is about opening up the municipality to privatization,” he said.

At the end of the day, he said, he doesn’t believe the city will find a substantial decrease in spending.

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The panel of Enbridge experts explained the process that would ensue if there was a full-bore rupture starting into the Burnie River and flowing into the Clore.

Christopher Jones, a lawyer representing the Province of B.C., set up the conditions during the hypotheti-cal spill. He said it was a full-bore rupture, assuming closure of the valves within the 13-minute time frame Northern Gateway has established.

It happens late in the evening or during the night in late fall or winter with deep snow covering at the site of the spill along the path but no ice on the river.

Kevin Underhill, Enbridge expert wit-ness, said safety would be the first priority.

He added it would be a tier-3 event and Enbridge would over-respond to it.

“It is Enbridge’s practice to over-re-spond in any type of release,” he said. “We can always send peo-ple home if they’re not required.”

In conjunction with the tactical response, he said the incident command structure would be directing with the first priority, being safety.

Dr. Elliot Taylor continued with the response.

“Just to let you know, this is exactly the sort of thing you do in con-sultation when you develop the response plans, the detailed response plans. You sit down with a situa-tion like this, you talk to the community, the province, the other parties that are going to be part of an emer-gency response should

the situation arise and to talk through these exact type of exam-ples,” Taylor said.

He added the sce-nario Jones set up was the most dif-ficult along the pipeline.

“This is p r o b a b l y the most challenging example we have along the route in terms of access and river char-a c t e r i s t i c s . So, you have chosen the worst case,” he said.

E a r l y detection and valve closure, s o m e t h i n g set up in Jones’ sce-nario, was paramount, Taylor said.

“We want to mini-mize what is going to come out of the line,”

he added.The next step is

assessment, the first task of the personnel who are mobilized.

“In a release like this, the indi-cations early on would give the con-trol room a heads-up that this is a major event.”

The com-pany, he said, would begin not only mobi-lizing its own p e r s o n n e l (tier one) but send an alert to the tier two group as well because of the large scope of the rupture.

T e a m s would potentially be coming out of Terrace since there will be access maintained to the tunnel portal, and the other route is via the tunnel out of the Kitimat side.

So potentially responders would come from both points.

A first assessment would find out where the rupture happened and assess exactly where the oil is found, if it’s been contained by natural depressions, if a lot of it has been caught up in snow.

Snow, he said, acts as an absorbent, and the cold temperatures slow down the move-ment of the oil.

The local terrain at the point of the rup-ture would be very important in terms of what would be col-lected naturally and what might be mov-ing towards the river itself.

“Those teams that are deployed to the site would be doing the assessments and they would be tackling con-tainment at the spill source,” he said.

He added you would divert drain-down to catchment rather than let it go into the soil and river.

Concurrently, they would be looking at protection measures, or protecting down-stream resources. The first deployment would likely go just down the river, upstream of the confluence with the Copper River.

They would work to divert or collect any-thing at that location.

More points could be built in downstream of that location.

He pointed out there is a lower flow in the Copper River which has more readily acces-sible points.

Dale Burgess, an expert witness for Enbridge, added they call the scenario Jones set up a table-top exer-cise.

He pointed out the first call from the con-trol centre goes to the on-call personnel who would then call out the emergency response resources.

He added they would set up so in daylight they’d be able to respond with heli-copters.

Terry Lake, B.C.’s Minister of Environ-ment, said the prov-ince is concerned with the lack of detail Enbridge is sharing with its emergency response plans.

“We are concerned with the lack of detail in the plans presented by Northern Gateway in our questioning over the last few days.”

He added they are concerned with the oil spill response time.

Lake said Enbridge has promised it wishes to be a world-class company.

“However its record, and the level of detail provided with these plans, doesn’t pro-vide us with evidence of that commitment,” Lake said.

He said they are con-cerned about access to river control points, response to incidents in the winter.

“We feel this should be addressed at the approval stage, rather than later,” Lake said.

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Rupture containment explainedDELYNDA [email protected]

This is prob-ably the most challenging example we have along the route in terms of access and river char-acteristics. So, you have chosen the worst case.”

- Dr. Elliott Taylor

‘‘

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With this expanded perspective - we see “the bigger picture” and many of the incidences that used the trigger stress shrink in significance, and no longer produce a stress response. Stress is created or avoided by our internal reaction to a situation. Holly Basil nour-ishes and soothes the root cause of stress-our mind. Because of that, it helps to stop stress reactions before they ever start.

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With tomorrow being Small Business Saturday in British Columbia, Prince George Mayor Shari Green and CFIB BC Director Shachi Kurl are drawing attention to the importance of shopping at small, independent businesses and bolstering local economies.

Making the choice to shop at local small busi-nesses - the heart of local economies – helps ensure jobs and your dollars remain in the com-munities where you live, says Kurl.

“Small business punches above its own weight when it comes to the B.C. economy,” says Kurl,

in a press release. “Even though most B.C. small businesses operate with fewer than five employ-ees, they contribute one-third of the provincial GDP and represent more than half of all private sector employment.

“CFIB’s 10,000 members in B.C. tell us they give back to their communities in other ways too: donating to local charities, sponsoring sports teams and supporting arts and cultural events.”

That’s why on October 20, CFIB is presenting B.C.’s first-ever Small Business Saturday. This special day represents an opportunity to commit

to supporting local families and local jobs by shopping local.

“We’re asking everyone to commit to shopping small, and shopping local, this Saturday,” said Kurl. “We’re very grateful to Mayor Green and council for officially proclaiming October 20 Small Business Saturday in Prince George.”

To find out more about the benefits of shopping small in your communities on Small Business Satur-day, business owners and consumers are encouraged to regis-ter on-line at www.shopsmallbiz.ca. The process is fast, easy and completely free. Businesses will be encouraged to offer a special promotion or discount on Small Business Saturday in order to attract new customers.

Small, locally owned businesses create vibrant cities and pro-mote family-centered living environments. These businesses mat-ter to our economies, and to our friends and neighbours.

The importance of making short and long-term choices to support retailers and manufacturers who operate where you live goes beyond the bot-tom line. Your choices and actions help sup-port the businesses that in turn, support and sustain your com-munities.

Recently, in this space, I mentioned the extra care and attention that have gone into the planning of the Gateway pipeline route. I’d like to tell you now about another largely untold piece of the Gateway pipeline story — and that’s all the work we’ve done on pipeline integrity in order to prevent a spill.

Recently, we announced a series of safety enhancements that push Gateway far beyond the stringent standards of the pipeline industry. Put simply, they make what was already a very safe project even safer.

To begin with, the overall wall thickness of the oil pipeline will be increased by 19 per cent, and the condensate pipeline by 14 per cent. For water crossings such as major tributaries to the Fraser, Skeena, and Kitimat Rivers, that number will be bumped up by another 10 to 20 per cent. During the construction phase, we’ll ensure serious quality control during fabrication, ultrasonic or radiographic testing of every weld, hydrotesting and extra care in the backfi ll process.

All of our remote pump stations along the route will be staffed 24/7. That means an extra level of security — with on-site personnel, in addition to remote control-centre operators, keeping tabs on video security

monitoring, intrusion alarms, pipeline pressure, temperature, and vibration level, and several forms of leak detection technology.

We’ll be making more in-line inspection surveys across the entire system — at a minimum of 50 per cent above current standards — plus full biweekly air patrols.

We’ll also be fi tting the pipeline with dual leak-detection analysis systems. That means two entirely different means of highly accurate data analysis along the route, giving us a computerized model of pipeline fl ow, with information constantly being captured, updated, and monitored.

As a British Columbian, I know how seriously you value this strikingly beautiful province. I do too — and I have every confi dence that Gateway’s pipeline integrity measures will keep it that way.

Janet HolderExecutive Vice PresidentWestern AccessEnbridge Inc.

Building a strong, safe pipeline

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A leader in the mining industry was recog-nized last week for his important, long-standing partnership with the College of New Caledonia.

John Sandstrom, from Mount Milligan Mine, received an Industry Partner Award during CNC’s recent President’s Industry Council meet-ing.

“John has embraced the college’s Mining Indus-try Certificate and supports students through their course work,” said Catherine Wishart, CNC vice-president of community and student services. “We are privileged to have John work-ing with us and the communities as we provide much-needed training for the mining industry.”

Sandstrom is the superintendent, training and development for Mt. Milligan, which is owned by Thompson Creek Metals and based in Fort St. James.

“John has been working closely with CNC and all community partners, providing creative training solutions, not only to employees but for potential employees in the mining sector,” Wishart said.

The Mount Milligan copper-gold mine is located 155 km northwest of Prince George and midway between the communities of Fort St. James and Mackenzie; CNC has campuses in both those communities.

Sandstrom said it’s been a rewarding experi-ence working with CNC.

“CNC is a hidden gem,” said Sandstrom. “Col-lege employees have new ideas and a collabora-tive approach and they embrace them. It’s not just about Mt. Milligan, it’s about being part of the community.”

CNC’s first Industry Partner Awards were presented in 2005 to industry leaders who have a multi-year history of providing various types of support to the college, going above and beyond typical partnerships.

Individuals are recognized for providing addi-tional supports to the College’s industry-related projects or programs; have been particularly creative in supporting CNC’s industry-related training; and have willingly shared their knowl-edge and skills to support students’ success.

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With tomorrow being Small Business Saturday in British Columbia, Prince George Mayor Shari Green and CFIB BC Director Shachi Kurl are drawing attention to the importance of shopping at small, independent businesses and bolstering local economies.

Making the choice to shop at local small busi-nesses - the heart of local economies – helps ensure jobs and your dollars remain in the com-munities where you live, says Kurl.

“Small business punches above its own weight when it comes to the B.C. economy,” says Kurl,

in a press release. “Even though most B.C. small businesses operate with fewer than five employ-ees, they contribute one-third of the provincial GDP and represent more than half of all private sector employment.

“CFIB’s 10,000 members in B.C. tell us they give back to their communities in other ways too: donating to local charities, sponsoring sports teams and supporting arts and cultural events.”

That’s why on October 20, CFIB is presenting B.C.’s first-ever Small Business Saturday. This special day represents an opportunity to commit

to supporting local families and local jobs by shopping local.

“We’re asking everyone to commit to shopping small, and shopping local, this Saturday,” said Kurl. “We’re very grateful to Mayor Green and council for officially proclaiming October 20 Small Business Saturday in Prince George.”

To find out more about the benefits of shopping small in your communities on Small Business Satur-day, business owners and consumers are encouraged to regis-ter on-line at www.shopsmallbiz.ca. The process is fast, easy and completely free. Businesses will be encouraged to offer a special promotion or discount on Small Business Saturday in order to attract new customers.

Small, locally owned businesses create vibrant cities and pro-mote family-centered living environments. These businesses mat-ter to our economies, and to our friends and neighbours.

The importance of making short and long-term choices to support retailers and manufacturers who operate where you live goes beyond the bot-tom line. Your choices and actions help sup-port the businesses that in turn, support and sustain your com-munities.

Recently, in this space, I mentioned the extra care and attention that have gone into the planning of the Gateway pipeline route. I’d like to tell you now about another largely untold piece of the Gateway pipeline story — and that’s all the work we’ve done on pipeline integrity in order to prevent a spill.

Recently, we announced a series of safety enhancements that push Gateway far beyond the stringent standards of the pipeline industry. Put simply, they make what was already a very safe project even safer.

To begin with, the overall wall thickness of the oil pipeline will be increased by 19 per cent, and the condensate pipeline by 14 per cent. For water crossings such as major tributaries to the Fraser, Skeena, and Kitimat Rivers, that number will be bumped up by another 10 to 20 per cent. During the construction phase, we’ll ensure serious quality control during fabrication, ultrasonic or radiographic testing of every weld, hydrotesting and extra care in the backfi ll process.

All of our remote pump stations along the route will be staffed 24/7. That means an extra level of security — with on-site personnel, in addition to remote control-centre operators, keeping tabs on video security

monitoring, intrusion alarms, pipeline pressure, temperature, and vibration level, and several forms of leak detection technology.

We’ll be making more in-line inspection surveys across the entire system — at a minimum of 50 per cent above current standards — plus full biweekly air patrols.

We’ll also be fi tting the pipeline with dual leak-detection analysis systems. That means two entirely different means of highly accurate data analysis along the route, giving us a computerized model of pipeline fl ow, with information constantly being captured, updated, and monitored.

As a British Columbian, I know how seriously you value this strikingly beautiful province. I do too — and I have every confi dence that Gateway’s pipeline integrity measures will keep it that way.

Janet HolderExecutive Vice PresidentWestern AccessEnbridge Inc.

Building a strong, safe pipeline

GATEWAYperspectives

Join the conversation at northerngateway.ca

©2012 Northern Gateway Pipelines Inc.

It’s more than a pipeline. It’s a path to delivering energy safely.

The Prince George

Farmers’ Market

HAS A NEW

INDOOR

HOME!

Spotlight on the Market:

1074-6th Avenue behind the Keg Restaurant

visit our new website at:www.farmersmarketpg.ca

GRAND OPENING OF THE NEW INDOOR LOCATION

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20!CELEBRATE WITH US!

Local Meats from Bison and Chicken to Prime Beef, Pet Food & Pet Products, Sweet Baked

Goodies, Fair Trade Coffee, Prepared Hot Food,

NEWYEAR-ROUNDLOCATION:1074-6th Avenuebehind the KegRestaurant, nearOhh Chocolatand City Hall!

Small business recognized

VINTAGE WINE

Myles Goodwyn of April Wine brought the rock to the Molson Canadian Rocktoberfest Haus Party at CN Centre Wednesday. night. Teresa MALLAM/Free Press

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One of the arguments defending council’s Chinese junket is that building these relationships takes time. It’s true. The city’s push to strengthen ties with China goes back several terms. It started

long ago.Things are different today, however, and may very well

be drastically different when the Prince George delegation cashes in some AirMiles next month.

What will be different? If Prime Minister Stephen Harper gets his way, and with a majority government he likely will, an agreement between Canada and China “for the promo-tion and reciprocal protection of investments,” will be in place.

We suggest that Mayor Shari Green, Coun. Lyn Hall, and Coun. Dave Wilbur get a copy and not only read it, but get a professional opinion on what it means to Prince George’s dealings in China.

The agreement is essentially a free trade agreement with China and, like the North American Free Trade Agreement, there are ramifications for those doing business in China.

The biggest one that is emerging this week, and it emerged when former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was touting his Free Trade Agreement, is liability for saying “no” to foreign nationals.

One of the main conditions of the agreement is: “the national treatment obligation requires, with respect to cer-tain activities after the establishment of an investment, that a party treat investors of the other party or their invest-ments, no less favourably than national investors and their investments in like circumstances.”

And, following up on that, if one side feels slighted and “has suffered damages as a result of a breach of the Agree-ment by the other Party, the investor may submit a claim directly to an international arbitral tribunal, established in accordance with the Agreement, for monetary compensation from the other Party.”

A strict and likely far-fetched example, but applicable nonetheless, is if a Chinese firm applies to fix our potholes with a lower bid than others and council chooses a local company because, well, they’re local, the Chinese company can sue the city.

The bigger issue here, however, is the free trade agreement with the Chinese that the federal government is embark-ing on without any public debate. Cariboo North MLA Bob Simpson is issuing a call for more debate, (see Page A9), and he’s right.

Whether one likes the Free Trade Agreement, and sub-sequent North American Free Trade Agreement or not, at least it was subject to a vigorous public debate. The current agreement, which is just as far-reaching if not moreso, is not. Stifling debate is what we would expect of a communist government, not a democratic one.

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Each age of our lives has its pros and cons. Hope-fully, there are a lot more positive activities than negative, so you are blessed with a number of good experiences and happy memories. For most of us that is the way it is.

As children, we spend a lot of time living in our imaginations, slowly becoming aware of the world around us. Almost every day brings new adventure, new people and new knowledge into our lives.

Adolescence is a difficult time for most of us. It is a difficult stage of life, where we are not yet adults but we aren’t kids anymore either. It is a time of developing personal opinions while still following all the rules of home and school. There are pressures to join a peer group. When we do, we are exposed to values of the group that often conflict with those instilled by parents, extended family, and friends of our parents. Most of us are back and forth and up and down as we try to find a balance where we are accepted and respected by both our peers and our families. Through this period most of us change friends, shifting to new endeavours, and try to make our world fit our values and goals. Welcome to the real world where the ground under your feet likes to move.

Growing up, marrying and raising families is probably the one period of our lives that seemed to be a constant challenge. We do our best to keep thing rolling along. Most of the time things work out just fine, even if not exactly as planned. Obvi-ously some of us have more challenges or disasters

in our lives. Some seem to have an easier time than most, but this is what makes us all different. As par-ents, it is natural to put your children first, and you find ways to dig down to an inner well of strength. That is what parenthood is about: being there when your child needs you.

It is a bit of a big bad world out there and it has to be frightening to anyone raising a family today. Drugs alone seem to come in a wide variety and are far too easily accessible. Each time a death is caused by the use of recre-ational drugs, a family and a circle of friends suffers a loss that stays with

them for a lifetime.While the Internet a great tool to stay in touch

with friends, it has also become a weapon for weak, sad people who wish to hide while they inflict pain on a chosen victim. As we have all seen in the news, this means of bullying and broadcasting hurtful things can also cause a fatality.

Parenting has never been easy, but there is noth-ing more rewarding than getting through those years and watching the success of your own chil-dren moving into adulthood, selecting a life partner, building a career, creating a home, and maybe hav-ing a family of their own.

For those of us who have done the child rear-ing and are now grandparents, this is the payoff. We are still there for our kids, but it seems that the grandchildren are pure pleasure, since it is now our children who deal with the daily stress. Growing up does have its good side after all.

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We’ve all watched dogs chase their tails. It’s a frivolous act that always amuses and entertains. Some days it feels like we’re chasing our tails on Twitter.

Twitter is a part of our strat-egy to build a web presence and market our goods and services. We limit our Twitter time and hope for a return on the investment. During the past couple of years we’ve built a Twitter following just over 4,500. We’ve built the account through a variety of tasteful means: fol-lowing people and businesses we want to be connected with, sending out meaning-ful tweets, and continually weeding out the bots, bare butts, and crazies.

Until recently, whenever we followed heavyweights with masses of followers, I wondered what tribe-building wizardry we might be overlooking. It seems that quite a few folks have been fostering an inflated glow of “popularity” by pur-

chasing bogus Twitter followers.It works something like this. Enter-

prising folks build huge lists of spuri-ous followers and then offer them for sale. Seth Stevenson, a freelance journalist and contributing writer for Slate, bought 27,000 counterfeit per-sonas – Zombie Twitter fol-lowers – for $202. Apparently

you can buy a million faithful fakers for about $1,200. Not to be confused with the practice of paying someone to find tar-geted followers for you, these are Zombie followers, phony accounts created to appear real; the vendor puts up a picture, posts a few tweets to make it look like somebody’s home, but there’s nothing there. According to Stevenson, buying inert followers is a technique used by many public figures whose names we would recognize.

Stevenson, who bought his ill-gotten followers in an act of curiosity, says he

did get a smug ego boost from appear-ing to be substantially more popular, and he noticed that he picked up an increas-ing number of new followers because of his falsely acquired status. After he outed himself by publishing his article, I Bought 27,000 Twitter Followers, Twitter zapped his illegal followers, reeling him instantly back to his pre-fake following of just over 1,100.

In a world that’s gushing apps from every angle, it makes sense that some-body would have created a tool to expose false followers. Sure enough, a business called StatusPeople has created a service, albeit not yet perfected, at fakers.status-people.com/Fakers/V/1 which allows you to check your Twitter account for counterfeit followers; it turns out that our very own RiskBuster account has 1 per cent fake and 1 per cent inactive follow-ers. Bah humbug! Still, we fared much better than Perez Hilton (17 per cent fake, 50 per cent inactive), Justin Bieber (31 per

cent fake, 33 per cent inactive) or Lady Gaga (43 per cent fake, 34 per cent inac-tive).

It seems that buying Zombie follow-ers is a way to create the illusion of suc-cess, and that it does lead to an increase in new followers. In other words, the appearance of more followers incites more folks to follow, a kind of bogus popularity contest. A new twist on the old “fake it ‘till ya make it” theme. If a man stands alone in a throng of fake fol-lowers, is he popular or still pretty much a dweeb?

Whatever else can be said, the practice of buying phony personas to make you appear more popular than you are is pathetic. It’s encouraging that Twitter is able to identify and nuke the Zombies. It helps to make Twitter seem a little less like chasing our tails. No more Twitter-envy for this puppy.

Dan Boudreau owns RiskBuster Business Plan Oasis and Blog at www.riskbuster.com.

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Chinese shouldn’t take our new jobsNow that our better-

paying manufacturing jobs are moving offshore, we’re starting down a whole new “free trade” path: sell our ore bodies, oil sands, natu-ral gas reserves, and forests directly to foreign national governments, while allow-ing those same govern-ments to import their own lower-cost workers to Can-ada to extract our resources and ship them home.

This new approach to trade begs for full public debate before we com-mit to selling any more of our resources to foreign national corporations and to the exploitation of temporary foreign work-ers to extract our natural resources.

For a start, Prime Min-ister Harper’s proposed free trade agreement with China (FIPPA) must be subjected to full public scrutiny and debate, inside and outside of Parliament.

Free trade, on principle, should only be formalized between liberal democratic nations whose people share the same basic rights and freedoms. How can we support, through a free trade agreement, a govern-ment that does not permit free elections, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press? Do Canadians want to support a nation with a track record of exploit-ing workers both at home and abroad by offering up

unfettered access to our natural resources?

There was vigorous and healthy public debate sur-rounding NAFTA. At a minimum, FIPPA should be subjected to this same level of scrutiny.

The recent admission by the B.C. government that

thousands of temporary Chinese workers will be heading to northern coal mines raises a related issue that also demands more public attention and debate. How much of the Premier’s jobs strategy will require this importation of temporary workers, and

how well equipped are we to protect these workers?

The ongoing saga of the Chinese workers who were killed in an Alberta oil sands accident in 2007 clearly illustrates how weak our laws are. In this case a Chinese national company was not comply-

ing with engineering and safety regulations, in addi-tion to not paying workers their full wage.

If we’re going to import workers to export our natural resources, how do we ensure those workers have the same rights and protections as all British

Columbians? We must enforce our own regula-tions to prevent China, and other national govern-ments, from importing their weaker labour and environmental laws.

These public policy debates need to take place now.

BOB SIMPSONCariboo North MLA INCOMING!

It was ‘Meet our Managers’ day at Home Depot this week where staff got to meet the managers in a rather unique way. Paint associate Ben Wicks (right) meets store manager Adrian Pryce. The event was a fundraiser for the store’s social committee. There were four spots, each a different character that suited each manager. Pryce was Elmer Fudd.

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Her life will never be the same. Susan Deveau’s son Keith ended his life at age 20. The victim of bullying and taunt-

ing by his peers for years, he was found one night locked in his car with the engine running. It was not an accident. Keith chose to die by carbon monoxide poisoning and Deveau still struggles daily to find answers in the 1995 suicide of the eldest of her three children.

The wound was reopened this week with news reports of a B.C. teen who took her own life after being sexually exploited, then bullied, online.

“I’m a private person usually but the suicide of Amanda Todd makes me want to speak out now,” Deveau told the Free Press on Wednesday. “What really upsets me about the Amanda Todd case is not just that it was youth bullying youth but it’s said to be also adult bullying of a teenager. I think there should be very harsh penalties for people like that. To me, this is all like a hate crime and the [perpetra-tors] of bullying should be punished.”

Recent years have brought a new wave of bully-ing, one that is far more wide reaching given the vast social media its audience, but the problem has been with us since time began.

“There has always been bullies. And they are not just at high school. You meet them throughout your life from the school yard to the workplace – and I’m pretty sure they will be in the seniors homes when I get there.”

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean destroying some-one’s life, she notes.

“The Internet is fantastic but it has opened up a whole new world for bullies, pedophiles and prank-sters. They can post terrible things online – anony-mously– and never get caught.”

She believes that bullying and taunting led to her own son’s death.

“I get so angry because nothing’s changed. Kids are still dying and I think more people have to step up and get involved so that this does not keep hap-pening.”

Deveau is aware and thankful that there is now an increased focus on bullying, more media atten-tion, and anti-bullying days [on which students wear pink] and programs in the school system. But more needs to be done, she says.

“I think there should be support groups in each school, made up of trained young people who can look for signs of kids at risk for suicide. They would report to a pro-fessional in the field. Kids have their groups and you can’t just butt into that.”

Had there been someone outside the family who recognized the early signs of dis-tress, her son might be alive today, she says. The family moved to Prince George in 1989 and Keith’s high-school years were made miserable by bullies.

“Keith had a kind of learning disability and that made him the brunt of jokes for other students. They were cruel to him. It happened to him all the way through his school years.”

How did he respond?“My son was a gentle person, he would never hurt anyone. He wasn’t that kind of

kid. He just took it, but I know it affected him deeply. Bullies get something out of this, it gives them an ego boost. But they can’t stand alone. If no one supported them,

or looked up to them, most of them would stop.”Her son first attempted suicide when he was 18.

Deveau claims this was an opportunity for the men-tal health system to step in – before it was too late.

“He was discharged as soon as he was stable. That was wrong. I think counselling after a suicide attempt has to be immediate. It’s not good enough to send them home with a phone number and tell them to make an appointment.”

As a mother, Deveau said she did her best to be supportive.

“I gave him the usual motherly advice about stick-ing up for himself. It’s very sad because he tried hard to ignore it. He was outgoing, he had friends, he had a girlfriend. He was no loner but they still picked on him.”

The pain and alienation by his peers took its toll over time, she said.

“I keep asking myself – even after all this time – if there is anything I could have done to prevent this. I was a single mother, raising three children and I wonder what I could have done differently.”

Earlier intervention may have helped. The signs were there, said Deveau, who confesses she is still wracked with guilt, even after attending years of counselling.

“I still feel guilty because a mother should be able to protect her children. But I can’t turn back time. I just wish kids who are contemplating suicide could know there is hope. Suicide is so final. There’s no going back. Teens may see suicide as a way to end their pain but they don’t think beyond today, they just want to stop the pain.”

Even though he’d tried suicide before and failed, his death two years later still came as a shock.

“I did a lot of reading about suicide after my son died and I learned that once a person has made up their mind to commit suicide, there is a huge stress release. The night Keith died, I remember phoning home and I could hear him in background. He was

headed off to the movies and he said, ‘bye, Mom’ so cheerfully as he was going out the door.”

She pauses before continuing. “He never came home. Now that I think of it, I realize that he’d decided that night

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A12 Friday, October 19, 2012 www.pgfreepress.comPrince George - Community - Free Press

Once again it’s that time of year for Spot-less Dry Cleaners’ 18th annual Coats for Kids (of all ages) cam-paign.

The campaign started on Monday and ends on Oct. 21. Please bring in your lightly used coats and outerwear to any of their three Prince George locations and they will clean and donate them directly to those in need.

Over the past 17 years Spotless Clean-ers has collected more

than 10,000 coats and hope to make 2012 a record year thanks to

your donations. The three Spotless

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are 3121 15th Avenue, 2030 Fifth Avenue, and 1699 Spruce St.

Brentwood College School is coming to Prince George

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phoned police. The car doors were locked, so they had to break a window to get him out.”

In the years since his death, Deveau has sought not just answers but peace. She has Keith’s initial tat-tooed on her wrist so that every beat of her heart means a pulse wave in his memory.

“When Keith died, I joined a local support group called Heartbeat and you only have to enter the room to feel the over-whelming grief there.

“They are all people who have lost someone close to them and who understand. Losing a child under any circumstances is always painful whether it is terminal illness or a tragic accident which, like suicide, is sudden and often unexpected.”

Today, Deveau enjoys visits from her two grand-children (she still has two adult children) and life goes on – but she wants others to be spared her grief and that, she says, can only happen when people care enough to “get involved.”

“We have to do some-thing. We have to do more,” she said, holding tight to a high school graduation photo of her son Keith.

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Friday, October 19, 2012 A13 www.pgfreepress.com Prince George - Community - Free Press

They take turns in the night getting up for a foster child who is on a monitor and requires 24-hour care.

It’s all in a day’s work – they call it a labour of love – for seniors Tom and Jean Leboe. In the past 26 years the Prince George couple has looked after 66 children, many of them special needs.

In 2006 they were awarded the Com-munity Achievement Award for their key role and dedication in looking after foster children.

“We started out with three little girls. We had put in our application with the [Families and Children] ministry to become foster parents and about a year later they brought us a baby 10 months old... and then we got two older children who were her siblings,” said Jean.

Along with their own son Chris, now 32, the Leboes have formally adopted one foster child and raised another one until she was old enough to leave home.

“She is 26 years now, is working and has two children – so that makes us grandpar-ents,” says Jean, smil-ing at Tom. One thing both of them stress is that when the time comes, foster parents have to be prepared to let go.

“You have to meet a certain standard of care which includes taking care of their needs, buy-ing them things, taking them to sports activi-ties. But in the back of your mind you have to remember the goal in many cases is for the child to one day be returned to its natural parents who may not be able to provide as much. And you have to be strong enough

emotionally to let go when the time comes for them to move for-ward in their life.”

There is more than enough love to go around, Jean says.

“Sometimes with special needs children requiring so much time and care, the foster par-ents’ own children may feel a little left out, so you have to be aware of that when you take on the commitment but I think they learn so much from each. They (social workers) initially tell you not to get too attached. But each child – whether they stay a few days or a few years – has a bit of your heart. They leave an imprint.”

Raising foster chil-dren today is more challenging than it was when they first started out, she says.

“It’s always a learn-ing process. I have a nursing background so I have that advantage but we didn’t know as much two decades ago about conditions like fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and drug-addicted babies as we do know. So you have to keep your

knowledge and skills up.”

The rewards of foster parenting are many.

“When you see them smile, grow, do well in school, it is a good feeling. The child has already had a loss in their life not being with their parents. It’s like you have helped to fill a hole in their heart. We are 60 and 65 and we’re still going to par-enting classes.”

She says it helps to have a very stable life and relationship when you are a foster parent although singles can make excellent foster

parents too.“There are demands

on your time, lifestyle and energy. The min-istry does offer some respite time, but mostly it is up to you. And you can’t just do things with foster kids on the spur of the moment, it has to be planned.”

October is Foster Par-ent Month and there are several events planned for PG to applaud this hard working group of people. Today (Friday, Oct. 19) is Recruitment Kickoff event at Two Rivers Gallery.

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It’s a 10-minute interview that takes closer to 20 minutes.

It’s no problem, though, as the interruptions are from young swimmers looking for the autograph of a Canadian Olympian.

Savannah King smiles at each request. She clearly enjoys this aspect of being one of Canada’s best. It’s Saturday, and she’s at the Prince George Aquatic Cen-tre as a coach at a Swim B.C. regional training camp.

She hasn’t made many trips to Prince George, but that could change.

“My parents moved here recently,” she says, “so it’s a bonus to be able to come here for a camp and visit family at the same time.”

King smiles (which she does a lot) when asked about how long she’s been a competitive swimmer.

“I took part in my first com-petition in December 2000. I went to my first Nationals in 2005. I’ve been to both Olym-pics I tried for.”

She stops, shaking her head for a second.

“That still sounds so strange.”But while the 20-year-old

who currently trains at UBC didn’t start swimming competi-tively until she was 8, she says she actually started swimming much earlier.

“I was a natural, I guess. I was in the neighbour’s swim-ming pool when I was 2. When I got a bit older, I was kind of a roly-poly kid, and I wasn’t really coordinated.

“So I started swimming because I figured I couldn’t fall any farther when I was already in the water.”

It didn’t take long for coaches to notice her abilities.

“The funny thing is I started as a butterfly specialist, and I’ve been swimming freestyle at the Olympics. Coaches noticed that I was a very good technical swimmer, so they encouraged me to go into competitions.”

As she moved up in levels, she found her rate of improve-ment also increased.

“One of my coaches said I could make the national team if I kept working at it, so I did.”

She didn’t just make the national team, she made the senior national team when she was 14 – much younger than most of the other swimmers.

Even after making the national team, though, she wasn’t thinking about the Olympics.

“I never thought about that. I watched them on TV, but it was like a whole different world from where I was competing.

“I mean they came out with their baskets of stuff, had chairs to sit in, got introduced. That wasn’t the way the meets I was swimming in worked.”

So casual was King in her approach that she didn’t real-ize how important one specific meet was.

“I honestly didn’t know this meet was the Olympic trials. I finished my race and they told me I had met the qualifying time.”

That didn’t mean she was on the Canadian team for the 2008 Olympics, though, even if King kept getting reminders about it.

“I knew I wasn’t sure of a place, but I kept getting mes-sages from people asking for stuff like my ring size for the team ring.”

After the 2008 Olympics, when she was just 16, quali-fying for the 2012 Olympics should have been a piece of cake, right?

“It was almost more difficult in 2012,” King says. “Between the Olympics, I was thinking, ‘What if I can’t do it again?’ Then I started to get some good races in, and I built up a lot of confidence going into the tri-als.”

There was another problem she had this year, which she didn’t have in 2008.

“I was much more emotion-ally involved with the other swimmers this year. In Beijing, I didn’t really know many of them when we started, but I got to know them really well at the Games.

“This year, it was like I was more concerned about how they were doing than how I was. My mom said she couldn’t believe how composed I was after my race, but I hadn’t been that way watching my friends.”

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As she’s walking the deck during the train-ing camp, a tattoo is visible on her right ankle. It seems to show the five Olympic rings. When asked about it, King smiles.

“It’s more than that,” she says, peeling off her shoe and sock, “it goes all the way down onto the foot. It’s got waves and an outline of a maple leaf. I got it after the Beijing games.”

The design is one she came up with herself.“It took me seven months to draw it out.

I decided if I was going to get something pretty permanent on my body, I wanted it to look right.”

She laughs, thinking back.“My parents were pushier than I was to

get it done. The kept saying, ‘When are you going to get the tattoo?’

“I was thinking, ‘You guys are trying to get your 16-year-old daughter to get a tattoo? That doesn’t sound right.’”

She signs a few more autographs for young swimmers, then moves off for a bite to eat and the afternoon session of the camp.

After that, it’s back to training – but prob-ably a few more autographs first.

The Cariboo Cougars may have lost their undefeated record in the B.C. Major Midget League on the weekend, but they’re coming home to recognize a spe-cial fan this weekend.

The Cougars travelled to Langley on the weekend for a pair of matchups against the Vancouver NW Giants, the team which has beaten them in the league finals the past three seasons.

Both teams came into the games unde-feated, but the Cougars were in first place in the league by virtue of having played two more games than the Giants.

Saturday’s game started slowly, with the Giants getting the only goal of the first period before Liam Blackburn tied it eight minutes into the second on assists

from Braiden Epp and Brad Morrison.The tie lasted a full 17 second before

the Giants retook the lead, but Eli Jarvis scored on a powerplay to knot the score 2-2.

The game marked his return to the lineup after starting the season with the Cowichan Valley Capitals of the BCHL.

Vancouver got one more before the end of the period to retake the lead, then made it 4-2 about six minutes into the third before Tyler Povelofskie made it 4-3 with just under 12 minutes to go. That was as close as the Cougars got though, and their undefeated start was over.

Sunday’s rematch was just as exciting, with the Giants again opening the scor-ing before Kirk Hards scored a short-

handed goal to tie things up. Povelofskie and Morrison gave the Cougars a 3-1 lead, but the Giants got one of those back before the end of a wild first period.

Halfway through the second, the Giants scored again to tie things up, but Povelofskie got his second of the game and third of the weekend to give the Cougars another lead.

The Giants tied it up again, and Logan Styler put the Cougars up 5-4 with a powerplay marker before the Giants tied it once more at 5-5 at the end of two periods.

That was how things stood until the final minute of regulation.

The Cougars got a late powerplay, but that was negated when they were

whistled for too many men on the ice. The Giants scored on the man advantage to eke out a 6-5 win.

The Cougars are home to play the Kootenay Ice for a pair of games at CN Centre, and Saturday’s game will be a special one.

Jameson Jones was first diagnosed with cancer at 4.

He has fought the disease off twice, and will be a special guest for the Cou-gars, handling the opening faceoff for the second year in a row.

Admission to Saturday’s game, which stats at 4:15 p.m., is by donations, with proceeds going to the B.C. Children’s Hospital. Sunday’s game is a 10 a.m. start.

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Prince George Cou-gars coach Dean Clark says Tuesday’s game against the Calgary Hitmen was a story of two games.

“The first few min-utes, the game was there for either team to take control. They got the early goal and they got the momentum.

“I thought we played well for the first 10 minutes and the third period. The middle 30 weren’t very good.”

Those middle 30 minutes were the dif-ference in what turned out to be a 5-0 Hit-men win. The game was the Cougars’ lone home game in a stretch which saw them play Medicine Hat and Lethbridge in weekend road games, return for Tuesday’s game, then hit the road again for games Thursday (last night) in Kelowna and Saturday in Spokane.

“It was a tough turn-around for us,” Clark said. “We travelled back, had the one game here, made a trade that day, then hit the road again right away.

“And we were play-ing probably the top team in the Eastern Conference.”

The trade the Cou-gars made Tuesday brought goalie Mac Engel from the Spo-kane Chiefs roster for a fourth-round pick in the 2014 Bantam Draft. Engel arrived in Prince George in time for Tuesday’s game and was suited up as the backup to Brett Zarowny.

That changed part-way through the sec-ond period, after the Hitmen scored their fifth goal.

“Mac really needed a couple of days prob-ably to get settled in here, but Brett has played a lot of good hockey for us recently, so I decided to give

him a break. Mac played a very solid game.”

The Hitmen outshot the Cougars 53-30 on the night, with 27 of those shots coming in the second period.

“ Tw e n t y - s e v e n shots is how many we want to be giving up in a game,” Clark said, “not in one period.”

He feels the game was a definite learn-ing experience for the Cougars, with a couple of points he intended to make clear to them.

“The teams in this league are so compara-ble, you don’t have an easy night. You have to

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He also pointed to the way the Hitmen played the game.

“They all stick to their system, on offence and on defence. That’s something a few of our players are forget-ting about, that they have to work as hard backchecking as they do on offence.”

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Loralyn Murdoch can’t help but laugh when she thinks about the first Canada West road trip for the UNBC Timber-wolves basketball teams.

“All this work to get into the top division,” the women’s coach says, “and our first league games are at Thompson Rivers Univrsity.

“That Prince George-Kamloops rivalry. We just can’t get away from it.”

That trip the first weekend in November to Kamloops will be a short one compared to the pre-sea-son trips the teams have been on and will be on.

Last weekend, both teams trav-elled to Waterloo, Ont. for the Naismith Classic, with the men winning the championship and the women placing second.

“It was a very good weekend for us,” Mur-doch says, “and maybe a little unexpected. You’re moving up to another level and you don’t know how the team is going to react.”

She found out early, as the Timberwolves were down nine points to Cape Breton Univer-sity entering the fourth quarter of their opening game.

“We fell behind, but we just kept competing. The girls just didn’t quit.”

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The final match of the roundrobin event saw UNBC take on Concordia, from Montreal, and come out on the short end of a 66-52 score.

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The women are in Calgary for the Cougar Classic at Mount Royal University. They play Southern Alberta Insti-tute of Technology in their first game today, then play the University of Calgary on Saturday and the University of Lethbridge on Sunday.

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The top forestry companies in British Columbia have teamed up with some of the province’s most talented and innova-tive architectural firms and builders to form Canfor’s Playhouse Challenge.

It’s a unique undertaking that will ulti-mately entertain thousands of B.C. chil-dren while providing funding to build homes for families in B.C.

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That need for consistency showed up again on the weekend during a tourna-ment at College Heights.

“We finished third in the roundrobin in our pool. We beat Fort St. James and Nechako Valley (Vanderhoof) and lost to College Heights and Kelly Road. We had a good match against College Heights, and I was happy with how the girls played against Kelly Road, espe-cially on Saturday.”

Ah yes, the game that took two days to play. A problem at the scorers’ table resulted in the wrong score for the sec-ond set being posted for the game offi-cials, who called the set over, with Kelly Road winning two sets to none.

But the official scoresheet didn’t match the scorecards posted, so it was decided to have the teams come back out after the rest of the roundrobin matches, and play out the end again.

This time, PGSS won the second set, so the teams then went to a third set, which Kelly Road won.

Finishing third in their pool put PGSS up against North Peace (Fort St. John) in the playoffs, and that was where consis-tency became a problem for the Polars.

“We had about a dozen hitting errors, just giving points away,” Tong said. “This is our fourth tournament of the year, and we’re still making too many

unforced errors.”One area the team did show improve-

ment in this weekend was serving.“We were serving much better than

we did in the other three tournaments. Again, it comes down to making your serve consistently, and not just giving points away.”

Tong says this zone is one of the more

competitive he’s seen in recent years.“There’s no real powerhouse. There

are a number of good teams, so you have to be playing well every game to win.”

The Polars have this weekend off before taking part in a tournament at Kelly Road on Oct. 26 and 27.RESULTS

The host Cougars won the College Heights event, downing Correlieu (Quesnel) in the final.

The semifinals had matched College Heights against Cedars Christian on one side, and Correlieu and North Peace on the other.

The Cougars have now one three of the four tournaments they’ve played this year, finishing fifth at the 36-team Best of the West tournament in Kelowna on the Thanksgiving weekend.RANKINGS

The Cougars tournament win at home boosted them two spots in the provin-cial AA rankings, up to sixth. The only other city squad to earn a spot in the girls’ rankings is Cedars Christian, who moved from fourth to third in the A rankings.

On the boys side, the strong show-ing by the Duchess Park Condors at the Best of the West in Kelowna, where they finished third, moved them to the top of the AA rankings, up from third. Two other local teams are also in the AA rankings, with College Heights mov-ing up to fifth from 10th after a strong showing at Best of the West, while D.P. Todd continued to be an Honourable Mention.

In the A rankings, Cedars Christian fell to 10th from ninth.

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Loralyn Murdoch can’t help but laugh when she thinks about the first Canada West road trip for the UNBC Timber-wolves basketball teams.

“All this work to get into the top division,” the women’s coach says, “and our first league games are at Thompson Rivers Univrsity.

“That Prince George-Kamloops rivalry. We just can’t get away from it.”

That trip the first weekend in November to Kamloops will be a short one compared to the pre-sea-son trips the teams have been on and will be on.

Last weekend, both teams trav-elled to Waterloo, Ont. for the Naismith Classic, with the men winning the championship and the women placing second.

“It was a very good weekend for us,” Mur-doch says, “and maybe a little unexpected. You’re moving up to another level and you don’t know how the team is going to react.”

She found out early, as the Timberwolves were down nine points to Cape Breton Univer-sity entering the fourth quarter of their opening game.

“We fell behind, but we just kept competing. The girls just didn’t quit.”

UNBC outscored Cape Breton 16-2 in the fourth quarter to pull out a 62-57 win. Mercedes Van Koughnett led the attack with 15 points, and added 11 rebounds and seven assists. Emily Kaehn and Jen Bruce chipped in with 13 points each.

In their second game, UNBC took on the host team from Waterloo. After falling behind in the first quarter, the Timberwolves outscored the Warriors 23-12 in the second quarter, and eased away for a 73-62 win. Van Koughnett again led

the attack, pouring in 27 points and grabbing 11 rebounds. Sarah Robin had 17 points and Jordyn Rabbit added 11.

The final match of the roundrobin event saw UNBC take on Concordia, from Montreal, and come out on the short end of a 66-52 score.

“They were bigger and stronger than we are at this point in the sea-son,” Murdoch says. “It was good for us to see that physicality and know that’s what we would be facing.”

Bruce led the Timberwolves in scoring in the third game with 10

points, while Van Koughnett, Robin and Kaehn had nine each. Rabbit and Van Koughnett were named to the tourney all-star team.

“It was good to see three teams, all fro differ-ent conferences,” Mur-doch says. “We know Canada West will prob-ably be stronger overall than those conferences, so this was a good way to get started.”

The women are in Calgary for the Cougar Classic at Mount Royal University. They play Southern Alberta Insti-tute of Technology in their first game today, then play the University of Calgary on Saturday and the University of Lethbridge on Sunday.

“It will be good to play a couple of teams from our conference,” Murdoch says, “and get an idea where we stand.”

After that, it’s a weekend off before opening Canada West play in Kamloops.

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The BID Group donated this playhouse, a winner in the Canfor Playhouse Challenge, to the Prince George YMCA last week. DeLynda PILON/Free Press

The top forestry companies in British Columbia have teamed up with some of the province’s most talented and innova-tive architectural firms and builders to form Canfor’s Playhouse Challenge.

It’s a unique undertaking that will ulti-mately entertain thousands of B.C. chil-dren while providing funding to build homes for families in B.C.

Canfor’s Playhouse Challenge has resulted in the building of several mag-nificent and whimsical children’s play-houses that are being sold to corporate donors, with proceeds benefiting Habitat for Humanity Canada.

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One of these playhouses was unveiled at the YMCA in Prince George last week.

“We’re incredibly proud and excited to see this inaugural playhouse challenge come to fruition and not only bring joy to families across B.C. but also showcase the vast array of unique applications for B.C.’s sustainable forest products,” said Don Kayne, president and CEO of Canfor, in a press release.

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Major league baseball is having a ban-ner playoff year, yet it is marked with the controversy of the Yanks deciding to yank Alex Rodriguez, which captured prominent headlines.

Here are some of those other top stories: • There have been many games featuring

remarkable come from behind wins includ-ing the largest comeback ever in a winner-take-all post-season game (St. Louis, down

6-0 in the third and 7-5 with two outs in the ninth winning 9-7 over Washington). The Nationals collapse raised more attention to Washington not using ace pitcher Stephen Strasburg in the playoffs.

• The Tigers have had multiple master-piece pitching performances from Justin Verlander but on the other hand, Detroit’s closer Jose Valverde has been awful.

• The Yankees have had the highs of the

Raul Ibanez clutch homers (at age 40 he is the old-est player to hit a walk-off homer in the post-season) to the lows of the Derek Jeter fractured ankle and the struggles of many regulars at the plate. With all these developments and more, the Rodriguez trials and tribulations have arguably been the most fascinating

development. This begs the question: At what

point does treatment of a super-star change

A-Rod is baseball’s highest-paid player this season with a $29 million salary. Rodriguez also has

five years and $114 million left on a 10-year, $275 million contract (2008-2017).

For the record, that is nearly $170,000 per game or about three times what the aver-age worker makes in a year.

His performance against Baltimore was barely worth $170 per game. In the ALDS, Rodriguez was 2-for-16 with no RBI’s and nine strikeouts.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi pinch hit for him in games three and four and then sat him entirely in the game five 3-1 series-clinching victory.

There is no book to read, no course to take at university and no one theory that fea-tures absolute answers on when a superstar stops getting special status treatment. I think we can all agree that if minimum wage John Smith had put up Rodriguez type of numbers he would have been benched without any fanfare or arguments.

What I found inter-esting was the huge public outcry that A-Rod should have been sat and then when he was, an even bigger furor that sug-gested he should not have been because there was always potential for him to hit the long ball. Rodri-guez is fifth all-time with 647 homers. There were also the sug-gestions that Girardi was picking on A-Rod because many other N.Y. hitters were also struggling.

Girardi should be applauded for mak-ing a statement and a bold move that many managers would have avoided.

We should commend Rodriguez and the Yankees for their issues and MLB for its drama.

The baseball soap opera is far more intriguing than any-thing the NHL could provide. By the way, did anybody really miss not having the NHL in October?

Hartley Miller is the sports director for radio stations 94X and the Wolf@97fm. He also writes for the Opinion 250. Send along a quote, note, or anecdote to [email protected].

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Todd Jordan is happy with the way the UNBC Timberwolves men’s basketball team played on the weekend, but he knows there’s work to be done.

“That was a positive road trip, a long road trip,” the coach says of the team’s trip to Waterloo to take part in the Naismith Classic and get their first real look at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) teams they would be competing against this year.

“Any time you can get out that far east and play some good teams, it’s a good expe-rience.”

What’s even better is when you come back as the tourney champi-ons, which the Timber-wolves did. They did it the hard way too, drop-ping their first game to the host squad 80-71.

“There was a learn-ing process involved for the guys,” Jordan says. “That first game we were very tenta-tive. They were hold-

ing onto the ball and not shooting like we normally do.

“After the game we talked about it, and they felt they had let that one get away.”

J o e l Rybachuk led the attack for the Tim-berwolves with 23 p o i n t s while Fran-cis Rowe added 14.

A f t e r that, UNBC started to roll.

“Our defence improved in the second game, and then it really improved for the third game,” Jordan says.

The second game saw UNBC win a high-scoring affair with York (Toronto) 97-89. Jose Araujo led the attack with 28 points, and got ample support from Sam Raphael (22) and Rowe and Rybachuk with 13 each.

The game was not as close as the final score might indicate, with UNBC carrying a

14-point lead into the fourth quarter.

The third game of the tourney saw UNBC thump Universite du Quebec a Montreal

94-53. After a close first q u a r t e r , the Tim-berwolves outscored their oppo-nents 25-8 in the s e c o n d q u a r t e r and never l o o k e d back. Rowe led the

attack with 22 points, while Araujo had 21 and Rybachuk added 16.

“There’s still tons to work on,” Jordan says, “but I think we’re mov-ing in the right direc-tion.”

Araujo was named the tourney’s MVP while Rybachuk was named to the all-star team. Jordan says in some respects, it shows how the players are adapting to their roles.

“Jose (Araujo) was named the MVP, and he was coming off the

bench for us. We’ve got a lot of guys who have been here for a few years, and they’ve got a reasonably good idea of what their roles are.”

He figures they will be relying on their bench a fair bit this year.

“Most nights, we’re going to go eight or nine deep and some-times 10. The players know they’ll get their minutes.”

The Timberwolves are off this weekend before heading to an event at University of the Fraser Valley from Oct. 25 to 27.

“It’s not really a tourney,” Jordan says. “There’s are some east-ern teams out to play some B.C. teams, so it’s a good chance to see some more styles. Lakehead (Thunder Bay) and McMaster (Hamilton) can both be good teams, and I fig-ure it will be a higher level than last week-end.

“It will be a good measuring stick for the season.”

That season starts

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Help WantedAUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIANrequired at Jenner Chevrolet in Victoria BC. Rare opportu-nity for a top performing, quality & customer focused team player. Email: [email protected]

Curry Kingdom requires full time experienced cooks, baker specializing in South Indian and Srilankan. $18 per hour. Drop off resume to 1789 S. Nich-olson St. between 11am - 5pm

EARN some extra money for Christmas! Canfor’s J.D. Little Forest Centre in Prince George is looking for Seasonal Nursery Workers for our seed-ling harvest. Working for 5 to 6 weeks starting around October 17th. Two shifts: Morning (7:00 am to 2:30 pm) and Af-ternoon (3:00 pm to 10:30 pm) Excellent and safe working en-vironment! Ideal Candidate for Employment is physically fi t, capable of working on your feet, safety conscious and able to work alongside others in a fast-paced team environ-ment. Drop off your resume at the nursery or e-mail to [email protected]: J.D.Lit-tle Forest Centre 6677 Land-ooz Road Phone: 250-960-0165 Directions to nursery: On highway 97 at the top of the hill north of the John Hart Bridge turn right on Northwood Pulp Mill Road and follow for 6 km. At the bottom of the big hill, make fi rst left turn on Landooz Road and follow road for 1 km. Turn left into en-trance to nursery.

East Indian Cooks WantedNijjer Food Ltd. dba Dana Mandi & Indian Restaurant a full service Indian restaurant located at 2095 - 5th Ave, Prince George, B.C. needs (4) Full time, permanent, ethnic Cooks specializing in Indian Cuisines and (1) sweet maker (Mithai). Job duties include menu design and planning, back cooking for banquets, special religious and commu-nity events, labour & food cost control, shift supervision and training of employees. Also re-sponsible for preparing orders for out of town deliveries. Mini-mum 3 years of experience. Knowledge of Hindi or Punjabi an asset. Salary $ 18/hr. Email resume to [email protected].

Employment

Hotel, Restaurant, Food Services

FRONT COUNTER & KITCHEN

Frankie’s Burger Enterprises Inc. dba Fatburger hiring for their lo-cation in Prince George,BC. Food Counter Attendant($10.90/hr) & Kitchen Helper ($10.25/hr for all locations); both 40hrs/week+ben. Apply by Fax: (604) 637-8874.

Trades, TechnicalBETTS Electric Penticton re-quires an experienced Indus-trial Controls Tech for our CSA Panel shop. visit www.betts.bc.ca for details. send Resume to [email protected] or Fax 250-492-3343

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call Mark 250-614-3028 or [email protected]

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Bath & Kitchen SpecialistWe bring creative design ideas to the table, as we work closely with you to achieve the perfect remodel. No job too big and none certainly, too small. Call Tom today for free estimate.

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G Gilbert Renovation Year round reno needs. Int/ext,nothing too small. 30 yrs exp. Free estimates! Call Gaetan (250) 560-5845 or 552-7184

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Lessons/TrainingDOG obedience classes. Next set of classes to start on 28 October. Check website www.canineswithclass.ca for registration forms and more in-fo.

Merchandise for Sale

$200 & UnderBridgestone tires. 1 new LT 265 75R/16 on steel 7 bolt rim $200. 2 used LT 265 75R/16 tires $30 ea (250)613-6455

Golf Clubs,like new Callaway X18 Steel Shaft Irons $200 Call for info 250-613-6455

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FurnitureRecliner, exc cond, like new, golden brown $350 obo. 3/4 bed with bookcase head board $400 obo. 7 drw desk 48”w x 22”d $80 obo (250)596-6366

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Modular Homes

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FOR THE HOME BREWER Wine making equipment. Incl. 2 primary buckets, 4 carboy’s, hoses, syphon’s, thermometers, fl oor corker (some corks) electric bottle fi ller plus lots more. Must be sold as a complete set $375

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Lots2 acre building lot (219’ x 397’)in city limits. 10862 Jutland Rd$35,000 Ph (250)964-0357

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Midtowne

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Carriage Lane Estates

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1575 Queensway 250-596-9484

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Suites, Upper3 Br Heritage area, all majorappl inc, Shared laundry,$1350 inc utilies. Close toschool & bus.Ph 250-614-9675

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A huge opportunity has become available at an industry leading truck and equipment dealer. Inland Kenworth is taking applications for a Heavy Duty Truck Parts Person. This position requires grade 12 or equivalent, a valid driver’s license and Technical Qualifi cation Certifi cate and a willingness to learn. WHMIS and forklift training an asset.

Please forward resumes to:Jeff Morrison, Parts Manager

1995 Quinn StreetPrince George, BC V2N 2X2

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PARTS PERSON

A huge opportunity has become available at an industry leading truck and equipment dealer. Inland Kenworth / Parker Pacifi c is looking for an energetic well-organized person to start at an entry level position. This position requires grade 12 or equivalent, a valid driver’s license and a willingness to learn. WHMIS and forklift training an asset.

Please forward resumes to:Jeff Morrison, Parts Manager

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GIBRALTAR MINE: ROCK-SOLID CAREER

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At Taseko Mines, we’re proud to call British Columbia our home. We are looking for enthusiastic employees who share our vision for long-term, responsible growth in this province.

Joining our Gibraltar Mine team makes you part of Canada’s proud mining heritage. The Gibraltar copper-molybdenum mine is a cornerstone of the regional economy and an example of great Canadian mining in action. Located in the heart of BC’s stunning Cariboo region, Gibraltar is approximately 60 km north of Williams Lake. It is the second largest open pit copper mine in Canada.

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within budget• Working closely with materials department to ensure

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QUALIFICATIONS• High school diploma or equivalent• Minimum of 6 years varied electrical /instrumentation

maintenance experience, including 2 years at the planner level, within a heavy industrial environment

• Instrumentation or Electrical Trade Certifi cation is preferable

• Ability to set plans and priorities based on diverse inputs and changing requirements

• Solid verbal, written and group presentation skills• Experience with MS offi ce and Computerized

Maintenance Management Systems (4site preferred)

COMPENSATIONGibraltar offers an excellent benefi t package which includes competitive salary, a Registered Retirement Savings Plan and relocation assistance to Williams Lake. Qualifi ed applicants, eligible to work in Canada, are invited to explore this opportunity by submitting a cover letter and detailed resume outlining your qualifi cations and experience.

Please visit us at www.tasekomines.com under the careers section to electronically submit your application or learn more about our New Prosperity, Aley and Harmony projects.

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