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YEAR IN REVIEW: A look back at our community in 2012 A12-15Friday, December 28, 2012

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A look at the stories that shaped P.G. in 20121 LAKELAND EXPLOSION AND FIRE

On April 23, 2012 at about 9:45 p.m. many homes in and around the city shook.

People reported see-ing a fireball light up the sky. Within moments First Ave. was lined with vehicles, first responders had River Rd. blocked off and the news was out - sketchy at first over the Internet and on the air-waves, passed from car window to car window and witnessed by others who ventured out, many with a loved one on shift.

Lakeland Mills was on fire with flames ripping red holes through the night sky. The questions shot as rocket fast as the flames - how many were inside? Was anyone seri-ously hurt? Worse?

The wait for answers, though not so long as things are generally mea-sured, was excruciating for some that night. In the end, reports came back of one man dead, another three critically injured, and one of those men would soon succumb to the wounds, and over a dozen more in the hospi-tal with a varying degree of injuries.

Glenn Francis Roche, 46, and Alan Little, 43, both of Prince George, were killed.

Then the second question resounded, and it echoes today - what happened?

WorkSafeBC warned it would take time to complete the investigation, which though independent from the one into the explosion at the Burns Lake mill, certainly had to be looked at for similarities - after all, both mills were in the north, both cut bug-killed wood, both fires ignited on the conveyor level where electrical and/or mechanical equipment was in operation in areas contained by walls

and equipment. These areas are in the lower levels or basement in both mills.

Several updates came in periodically from Work-SafeBC, which promised to keep stakeholders abreast of any information that could keep employees and work sites safe, with the statement that a final report would be delivered in the fall.

Updates did come in, even as the two who died in the Lakeland explosion were buried, fundraisers were hosted to aid their families and two devastated communities tried to heal.

In fall the call everyone expected came. Work-SafeBC was prepared for another press conference.

But what was announced, that the evidence was compiled and would be referred to crown, left many shocked.

Because the evidence may be used in a court case, it cannot be released to the public.

However, information brought forward during the investigation which could prevent another incident has been released as soon as it was confirmed. Spe-cific details, though, continue to be withheld.

Meanwhile, Hampton Affiliates will rebuild the mill at Babine while the Sinclar Group has not yet decided the fate of Lakeland, though a portion of it continues to supply the Downtown Energy System.

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Fire rips through the Lakeland Mills sawmill April 23 ... the top news story of the year in Prince George in 2012

2 NORTHERN GATEWAY PIPELINE

The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipe-line proposal calls for a twinned pipeline to running 1,100 kilometres between the oilsands and a marine terminal to be con-structed at Kitimat, carrying bitumen, a heavy type of oil, while the other line will transport condensate.

The Kitimat terminal will have two berths and storage for three condensate tanks, 11 petroleum tanks, and a radar monitoring system as well as first response capabilities. The project has many compo-nents, from building the lines through some of the most pristine natural country-side in the world, then transporting it by ship along a coastline know to be one of the most rugged in the world to its final

destination via supertanker to China.The Conservatives support the Northern

Gateway pipeline. At a news conference in Vancouver Prime Minister Stephen Harper said: “We think it’s obviously in the vital interest of Canada and in the vital interest of British Columbia, as Canada’s Asia-Pacific gateway. The economic growth we expect to have here in the future is going to be based on commerce with the Asia-

Pacific region and we think it’s important that we continue to diversify our exports through this province.”

Conversely, NDP opposition leader, Thomas Mulcair, has described the project as dead in the water. Provincial liberal leader, Christy Clark, was criticized for her stance, or lack of stance, on the pipe-

Northern Gateway pipeline dominated all year long

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YEAR IN REVIEW: Stories No. 4 to No. 10 A4-5


Premier Christy Clark opened the B.C. Cancer Agency Centre for the North

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Up Front■ TOP 10 STORIES OF 2012

Opposition fierce, Enbridge opens local officeline. The province did not take part in the environmental assess-ment, opting to accept the fed-eral decision. Clark’s five point policy for those wishing to push a heavy oil pipeline through the province came in a little too late, critics said. Critics add she should take a more active role in the joint review panel hearings.

Clark has said she will oppose the pipeline if Alberta and the federal government don’t meet the five conditions her gov-ernment has imposed, which include environmental concerns and the necessity of B.C. being given a fair share of benefits for complying.

NDP environment critic, Rob Fleming, said the Liberals dropped the ball, abdicating their power to be an in-depth part of the process, and added the Harper government is biased in favour of the project.

Conversely, he said he can’t imagine a situation where the

NDP would support the pipeline construction.

Environmental concerns lead the list of issues pipeline advo-cates are facing, however there are those who believe no mat-ter how safe proponents say it will be will never alleviate the apprehension felt by many Brit-ish Columbians, in particular environmental groups.

Many see it as a choice between the environment and jobs. First Nations, for the most part, stand firmly against the pipeline, citing the fact many treaty lines have yet to be finalized within the province. Shipping the oil in an area where a tanker moratorium exists opens another cauldron of care.

“There are three hair-pin turns, and without ever mak-ing a mistake they have to do everything perfectly right 15,000 times,” Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP, Nathan Cullen said.

“We have to protect our land for our children - for all the chil-dren,” said Chief Martin Louie of the Nadleh Whut’en First Nation.

Terry Terry Teegee , tribal chief with the Carrier Sekani tribal council, said the pipeline will cross B.C. in areas that have out-standing land claims, an issue

he feels isn’t being dealt with appropriately.

Many of these voices are being heard by members of the Joint Review Panel, an independent

body under the mandate of the Minister of Environment and the National Energy Board. It’s job is to hear from anyone with respect to the pipeline.

3 CORE SERVICES REVIEWMayor Shari Green promised a core services review

if she was elected to office, and she made good on her word, setting up a select committee on the project and getting tenders out as soon as some parameters regarding the review was set up.

Of course there were snags along the way. In January, before the core review was underway, 28

positions were slashed from city hall, meaning several employees were laid off.

Questions were raised as to why not wait until the review was complete before slashing jobs.

The review itself, tendered to KPMG, had little public input when the plan was first presented to council. After some bartering, more public input sessions were added,

upping the cost of the review.But when it came to public input, some claimed the

forms asking for information regarding the core review was difficult to follow, too complicated.

But on time and on budget (at $350,000), the core review results came in.

With dozens and dozens of suggestions to look through, council chose a handful to explore at length, ones that can, for the most part, be implemented with little trouble. Others, even within that first handful, are controversial and may take some time to sort through , such as selling the Pine Valley Golf Course and finding a third party operator for the Four Seasons Pool.

One, Green said, nearly made the review worth it on its own.

With preliminary rough estimates of the 2013 budge

sitting at seven per cent tax levy, something no one at council wants any more than the resident of the city, she said through the core service review it was discovered building permit fees haven’t been looked at, never mind increased, for nearly a decade.

Increasing them to the same standard as comparable cities the size of Prince George has Green happy, pointing out the city will collect about $300,000 of new money.

Periodically looking at services is part of good local governance, Green stated, and the review was something the city needed so it understands where each tax dollar goes.

The new year, she said, will mean looking at the other suggestions within the core service review, and see if they lead council and the city down a gateway to more fiscal responsibility.

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Nadleh Whut’en First Nation Chief Martin Louie leads about 300 anti-pipeline protestors from the courthouse to the Civic Centre in July

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4 CANCER CLINIC COMPLETED

Premier Christy Clark opened the B.C. Cancer Agency Centre for the North in Octo-ber with a personal story about her mother and their battle with the disease, as well as how nice it was for her to be able to stop and see her mom, morn-ing and evening, in a hospital close enough to access.

“It was her final gift,” she said. “Now families in Prince George will also have that gift. This is some-thing you have needed in this community for a long time.”

She added the prov-ince has the best cancer survival rate anywhere in North America, thanks in great part to

the B.C. Cancer Agency and the specialists who work there.

Prince George now has the most recently built clinic, one of six throughout the province, filled with state-of-the-art equipment.

“But the real difference is the people who work in the building,” she said. “It is these people and their passion for wanting to save lives... that is what makes the difference.”

5 HALDI RD. WINSAfter fighting city hall, and seemingly losing,

Haldi road residents were victorious when a judge overruled city council, rendering invalid its rezoning of the the Haldi Rd. school for a women’s treatment centre.

It was a learning experience both for staff and councillors according to Coun. Cameron Stolz.

“When the rezoning for Haldi Rd. came before us, and during the public hearing stage, the proponents brought in a speaker for them, their solicitor,” Stolz said. “At that time he mentioned concerns he had that the rezoning was incongru-ent with the official community plan (OCP).”

Stolz said Dan Milburn, who worked for the city at the time, and who now teaches at the

university, disagreed and recommended city council proceed with the rezoning. However, the proponents took the issue before a judge who ruled in their favour.

“So the rezoning was rendered null and void, so it goes back to original zoning,” Stolz said. “For anything to happen at this stage, it would require for the proponent to bring this back to the city, and the OCP would have to be amended at the same time as the school is rezoned. Now we have to wait to see what the proponents want to do, whether they want to find a new location, or proceed with this.”

At the time, proponents for the centre were unsure how they would proceed, but amend-ments to the zoning and OCP passed the first necessary bylaw readings last week in council, and though it wasn’t yet their turn to speak, more than 30 Haldi Rd. residents showed up, and they as well as their neighbours are likely to have plenty to say about the new zonings in the future.

6 EXTRA MONEY FOR ROADSAlmost $2 million was added to the road reha-

bilitation budget this year after city staff, follow-ing a recommendation from council, researched reserve funds to find money to transfer so more of the worst of city streets can be repaired.

Council was looking at both short and long term strategies to find money to dump into road repair, an issue that has been of great concern to citizens. However, during a previous council meeting, it was agreed that something, if pos-sible, must be done immediately to plump up a budget that is only half, at $3.5 million, of what it needs to be just to maintain city streets.

The money came from a local area service reserve fund in the 2012 capital expenditure plan called 4th Ave. reconstruction. The open-ing balance of the fund is $2,323,280. Since the city doesn’t have a funding source for its por-tion of the of the project’s cost, the project is unfunded.

7 DIKE DAMNEDYou can beat city hallCity council discussed its options at a meet-

ing after the citizens of Prince George filled out nearly 10,000 ballots during the alternate approval process, spurred on by local activist, Eric Allen, to stop the River Road dike proposal, which he felt was a unnecessary project, and used the alternative approval process to make it happen. Allen did much of the work gathering signatures himself and delivering them to city hall.

In 2012, though, the issue did not proceed to a referendum, which would have cost the city $65,000.

Cancer centre opens in P.G.

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Premier Christy Clark tours the B.C. Cancer Agency Centre for the North in Oct.

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Canadian Institute of Mining board members Jerome LaMarre (West Fraser Electro Mechanical), Glen Wonders (Allnorth), Ed Beswick (NWP Coal Canada), Christy Smith (Taseko Mines), Trent Bilodeau (Star West Petroleum) and Brent Marshall (Northland Auto Group), presented Randall Heidt of CNC with a $10,000 cheque, bringing CIM’s donations to the college to $40,000 to aid students interested in the mining industry.

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8 IIO FORMED, FIRST CASE IN PRINCE GEORGE

Greg Matters was killed by Prince George police in Sep-tember, the same day the Independent Investigations Office was formed.

The office was cre-ated so police would no longer be investi-gating themselves.

“This is, in fact, our first case and it did occur on our first day of operations,” Owen Court with the IIO said in September. “We are here to con-duct a thorough, fair and unbiased investi-gation, and we look forward to being able to produce results.”

The Independent Investigations Office (IIO), officially opened its doors Sept. 10 with the mandate to investi-gate incidents of death and serious harm involving police.

According to a police report, on Sept. 9 the Prince George RCMP were made aware of a situation in a rural area southeast of the city. Police set up and maintained a perimeter in the area in order to locate the person believed to be responsible for the offence. In the early evening of Sept. 10, an interaction between police officers and the suspect occurred and Matters, a Canadian veteran, was killed.

No investigation results were made available by the end of 2012.

9 SKILLED TRADES SHORTAGE

It was hard not to hear about the skilled

trades shortage in the North in 2012. The issue came up at virtu-ally every conference dealing with business or development in the North. With 10s of bil-lions of dollars worth of major projects underway or in the planning/approval stages, skilled workers increasingly in higher demand in the North. It’s an issue that both the Liberals and the NDP agree needs to be dealt with.

10 MOST DANGEROUS CITY IN CANADA - AGAIN

The designation by Maclean’s magazine might have raised serious ire the first and second time the city ‘won’ this title, however by the third time most citizens just shake their head in disgust, shrug their shoulders and mutter something derogatory

about easterners.The fact that there

were no murders in

the city, compared to cities like Edmonton and Winnipeg with

double digit homicide stats, it’s a bit hard to swallow Prince

George as Canada’s most dangerous city.

It’s also impossible to put your head in the sand and pretend there isn’t a crime problem in the city.

Gangs, break and enters, drugs and a thriving black market make it a criminal’s paradise - if that’s the path you choose to walk. Most people, however, live quiet lives with their fami-

lies, going grocery shopping and taking in the occasional movie. They don’t experience the violence for the most part.

Still, the mayor along with our super-intendent have prom-ised to do something about those statistics, and that’s a good promise. After all, it will only serve to make a really fine city into a great city.

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If you are reading this, the threat of Armageddon has passed, at least for now. Given the propensity for human DNA to combine into an infinite number of combinations, it will not be long until another group of nuts comes along.

For the rest of us, the new year is the opportunity to plan ahead. We can look afresh at our commit-ments, energy and assets and list all the things we want to accomplish in the next 12 months. It should not come as a surprise how many are duplicates from the previous year’s list. Most of us suffer from the optimistic speculation that we will accomplish much more than time and circumstances allow.

As we make our own resolutions for the coming year, it is also a bit of fun and wishful thinking to make a few resolutions for others. Let us suggest a few resolu-tions they may be wise to consider.

For Mayor Shari Green, being closest of our politi-cians, she may like to resolve to listen more intently to all the citizens of our fine community. She is hard working and very genuine in her effort to do a great job. A good resolution for her would be to listen to all and not be swayed by the opinions and desires of just a small group of people. We are a community of diverse individuals and as hard as it is to accom-plish, a great leader finds a way to understand all wishes of the community and find solutions that fit.

For her councillors, the resolution may be to remain supportive to the mayor but still not be afraid to enter into strong and contrary debate on issues. While we would like to have governance that reflects a united will of council, there must still be room for individual councillors to have the

courage to disagree with their fellows. Councillors should resolve to speak up and present fair com-ment even when it may be at odds with the opin-ions of their fellows.

On the provincial level, with an election looming in the near future, there is a couple of resolution it would be nice to see.

Mr. Dix and the NDP party should resolve to tell us what they would do if they became the next gov-

ernment of British Columbia. A little honesty and a lot of policy revelation would be welcome. Being passionately in love with the environment, heath care, education and the other mother-hood issues is not enough. The people of the province would like to know what you would do and how you would pay for it.

Our current premier could resolve to establish her own policy agenda instead of simply giving us a replay of the Campbell government. You are hard-working, intelligent and putting forth a lot of effort. Let the true Christie out of the box and tell us what you think. Lay it all out so we can make a reason-able decision when we go to vote.

For our local members of parliament, make a reso-lution to find the middle ground on all the decisions you must make. Simply following an agenda set for you does not serve us, the people you are supposed to represent, but also diminishes the democratic pro-cess. You represent us first and your party second. Group-think decisions made in caucus must not be supported if those decisions harm those who elected you. You have been given our trust. Appreciate it.

To all of you, may the coming year be one of great happiness and accomplishment.

OnsideOnsideVICTORBOWMAN

Last week I was talking about the ghosts of Christmas past, and like many of you, I’m sure there are more than a few people you would like to see - and probably feel - all around you dur-

ing the Christmas season.My Uncle Charlie was an unrepentant alcoholic most of

his life with whiskey bottles stashed here there and every-where. He considered quitting hitting the mickey one day on the farm when they were all out working hard and he drew a deep cup of spring water from the barrel we’d hauled up for the men. He looked supremely satis-fied for a few seconds then he got a funny look on his face.

“Swallowed a GD pollywog,” he huffed as he started hacking and spitting, stumbling because he still had whis-key legs.

Mom, who never had a sip of alcohol as long as I’ve known her, got the giggles for some reason, though for the most part she didn’t care for Uncle’s drinking habits. She laughed so hard you’d have thought she had whiskey legs, and my Aunty Coleen, as upright a woman as my mom - and that’s saying a lot - fell down on the shaven wheat roughed ground, laughing with her.

Uncle Charlie eventually found his feet and staggered away to his tent, peering at the two women with great suspicion.

Uncle Charlie - Have you two whiskey jacks been taking wee nips off my bottle?

And he eyeballed them sternly while peeking into his pocket, so as to keep his bottle hid from us poor wee innocent kids.

This hit mom and Aunty even harder, and by the time Uncle Charlie fumbled away, they were crying again.

Anyway, every year Uncle Charlie used to make every-one their own container of brown sugar fudge for Christ-mas. I’m not sure what brown sugar fudge is really called, but I sure would like to find the recipe. I remember it being so delicious, so creamy crumbly sugar and yummy, I just couldn’t resist wanting another piece - and another and another.

Ya, nobody ever made brown sugar fudge like my Uncle Charlie.

And no one ever made bread like Aunty Coleen. Not that weird tasting stuff that comes out of a machine, but the real kind, made from scratch, you just have to cut into and bite, bite, bite.

Uncles, aunts, grammas and grampas, cousins and brothers - they’ve all made our Christmas a bit brighter with their grins, teasing, special talents or just plain old crazy ways.

I guess that’s why every light associated with Christ-mas, every decoration, every bit of tinsel or the wild winding snowy roads, decorated with tall straight spruce hung with icicles gives a warm feeling in the belly, a glow. Because they bring those lovely ghosts with all their hauntingly beautiful memories with them. And then I talk about them, and those same ghosts come alive for my son.

I guess that’s our little bit of eternity, gathered like wool around us every Christmas.

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Sports

The past 12 months have been full of sports stories in this city.

They all impact Prince George in different ways. Champion-ship finishes, heartbreaking defeats and improvements on the field of play.

Then there are the projects. As Prince George continues to prepare for the biggest sporting and cultural event in its his-tory, the 2015 Canada Winter Games, groundwork began on the biggest facility upgrade in relation to the event. The Kin Centre Enhancement Project started, as the wrecking ball came down on the former Kin 1.

Yet the Free Press top sports story is something else. The new Kin Centre isn’t slated for completion until October 2013, and the most significant Canada Winter Games impact won’t be felt until 2015.

For this, we’re looking at something more current. We’re look-ing at major change at an institution that’s helped shape this community since it officially opened in 1994.

The UNBC athletics department took a major step forward in 2012, advancing from the Canadian Colleges Athletic Associa-tion to Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

The move brought in much more than greater competition and expanded travel. To fulfill Canada West requirements, UNBC hired three individuals, increasing its athletics department from four to seven full-time paid staff. For the first time in its five-year history, UNBC soccer was guided by full-time coaches, Alan Alderson (men) and Andy Cameron (women).

Cameron and Alderson joined the Timberwolves in the spring. In the summer, University of Victoria alumnus Jesse Olynyk was hired as UNBC’s sports information officer. Athletics and recre-ation director Jason Kerswill leads a department rounded out by basketball coaches Todd Jordan (men) and Loralyn Murdoch (women), and athletics and recreation assistant Kaz Ikuta.

Although UNBC has a lot of room to improve on the field of play, the impact Canada West has had in Prince George has been noticeable already. It’ll continue getting recognized in the years ahead.

Free Press looks at the Best of P.G. Sports■ 2012 YEAR IN REVIEW

BEST TOURNAMENT

Prince George product Brandon Hunt-er’s performance received a lot of attention at the 2012 RE/MAX Centre City Baseball Canada Senior Championship. His team also got its share of accolades for win-ning the title, although the host Axemen received a little bit of criticism for fielding a roster with only four local players.

But once again, a committed volunteer effort led to a well-organized event in Prince George. Even Mother Nature was mostly cooperative, with warmer week-end weather after chillier conditions early in the event.

As the only major national event to come to the city, it was Prince George’s best tournament of 2012.

BEST FIRST-TIME EVENT

Hockey fans in Prince George know the Cougars haven’t been a success story. But last summer, they put on an event that seemed to go over well

The inaugural Prince George Cougars Alumni/Hospital Pro-Am Golf Tourna-ment was held in August at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club. Only three

of 180 available spots weren’t filled and thousands of dollars supported a good cause. Fans and current players enjoyed connecting with alumni, a list of for-mer Cougars highlighted by Vancouver Canucks defenceman Dan Hamhuis.

The Cougars announced that the event raised $25,156.30 for the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation.

August sees a pair of successful events unfold in the city

BEST CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM

The university’s basketball teams made headlines for a double-gold performance in March.

A fitting way to end their final campaign in the CCAA’s B.C. provincial circuit, the UNBC Timberwolves captured the PacWest (Pacific Western Athletic Association) ban-ners in North Vancouver on March 3.

Each team topped the Vancouver Island University Mariners in the final. After the UNBC women celebrated a 62-53 victory, the men downed the Mariners by a 69-61 score.

Neither team won a medal at the CCAA national cham-pionships, each squad finishing its tournament 1-2.

Facing tougher competition at the CIS level, neither team has looked out of place. In the Canada West Uni-versities Athletic Association men’s division, the Timber-wolves sit fourth in the eight-team standings with a 5-5

record. On the CWUAA women’s side, UNBC is sixth with a 3-7 mark.

Other winners: Prince George Westcana Electric Axemen (Baseball Canada Senior Championship); Coast Inn of the North Cougars (BC Hockey Midget Tier 1); Prince George Western Industrial Contractors Cougars (BC Hockey Bantam Female); IDL Midget Knights (BC Minor Baseball Association Midget AA)

BEST RUNNER-UP

If you’re a member of the Cariboo Cougars, it’s hard not to get frustrated finishing in second each season.

Especially when it’s the same team defeating you in the league championship series.

In the BC Hockey Major Midget League champion-ship series at the Burnaby Winter Club in March, the Vancouver North West Giants swept the Cariboo squad two games to zero. It marked the third year in a row the

Giants topped the Cougars in the league final.Other runners-up: Duchess Park Condors (B.C. high school

volleyball double-A boys); Cedars Christian Eagles (B.C. high school basketball single-A girls)

MOST IMPROVED TEAM

The Prince George Spruce Kings advanced to the B.C. Hockey League playoffs for the first time in three years in March.

Their short-lived playoff appearance, swept in four games by the Merritt Centennials, took a back seat to an otherwise positive 2011-12 campaign. Their regular-season record of 33 wins, 21 losses, two ties and four overtime defeats (33-21-2-4) marked a 39-point improve-ment over the previous season, when they ended up with a 13-40-1-6 mark.

The Spruce Kings completed the 2012 portion of their 2012-13 schedule with a 17-10-1-5 record.

A double gold performance for UNBC basketball

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Members of the PacWest-winning UNBC Northern Timberwolves celebrate after winning gold in women’s and men’s basketball on March 3 in North Vancouver.


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Cariboo goalie posts four consecutive shutouts ■ THE NUMBERS

BEST STREAK

For four straight games, Cariboo Cou-gars goalie Nathan Warren was unbeat-able.

Warren set a BC Hockey Major Midget League record in November with four consecutive shutouts. He carried the streak through four Cariboo victories: 8-0 over the Okanagan Rockets on Nov. 4 in Kelowna, 6-0 over the Thompson Blazers in McBride on Nov. 10, and 7-0 triumphs over the North Island Silvertips on Nov. 24 and 25 in Victoria.

STREAK STOPPERS

The Prince George Spruce Kings ended the Penticton Vees’ Canadian Junior Hockey League record winning streak at 42 games.

In front of a Coliseum sell-out crowd of 2,112, the Spruce Kings defeated the Vees 5-2 on March 10. The Vees’ previous loss was more than four months earlier, a 3-2 overtime setback at home against the Merritt Centennials on Nov. 5, 2011.

The Vees went on to win the 2012 Royal Bank Cup national junior A title in Hum-boldt, Sask. in May.

CLOSE FINISH

Two hundredths of a second. That’s how much faster Emma Balazs’

provincial gold-medal winning time was over runner-up Regan Yee’s mark in their 1,500-metre steeplechase race on June 2.

Balazs’ time of 5:08.00 gave her the edge over Yee’s run (5:08.02), a finish so close it required officials to review the race. The event was in the senior (Grade 10 to 12) female division, one of many held dur-ing the B.C. high school track and field provincial championships on June 1 and 2 in Burnaby.

Now a Grade 12 student at Kelly Road

Secondary, Balazs will try and win the event again at the 2013 B.C. high school championships.

TOP SCORER

In March, Paul de Jersey became the first Spruce King to ever win the Brett

Hall Trophy as B.C. Hockey League scor-ing champion.

De Jersey finished the 2011-12 regular season with 41 goals and 57 assists for 98 points. He ended up two points ahead of runner-up Joey Benik of Penticton.

De Jersey landed an NCAA Division 1 scholarship early in the campaign and has been playing with the Providence College Friars this season.

The Spruce Kings joined the BCHL in 1996.

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Nathan Warren set a BC Hockey Major Midget League record when he posted four shutouts in a row in November. He was named the league’s Player of the Month for his efforts.

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Brandon Hunter’s batting statistics only told part of the story.

OK, we can’t ignore numbers like this: a tournament-best .667 average (10 for 15)

with two homeruns, one double, 10 runs batted in and only one strikeout in five games.

But spectators who watched the host Prince George West-

cana Electric Axemen’s last two games at the 2012 Baseball Canada Senior Champion-ship at Citizen Field remember something different. They saw an athlete’s ability to rise

to the occasion.It was Hunter’s

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Aug. 26. Earlier the same day, the centre fielder hit the game tying two-run homer in a come-from-behind 4-2 Axemen win over the Fort Saskatchewan Athletics in the semifi-nal round.

TOP PRIZE

Yes he won gold in a team sport. But he may have won a more significant award than any other former or current Prince George resident in 2012.

Hedges was a mem-ber of the gold medal-winning men’s wheel-chair basketball team at the 2012 Paralym-pics in London in the summer. The Cana-dian team defeated Australia 64-58 in the championship game.

Bringing home gold from the biggest multi-sports event in the world wasn’t the only 2012 highlight for Hedges, a Fort St. John product and UNBC graduate. He was named the win-ner of the Stan Stronge Award for the Athlete with Fair Play and Dedication to Excel-lence.

OLYMPIAN

She was the closest connection to Prince George in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Canadian Olympic wrestling team mem-ber Leah Callahan grew up in Mackenzie, but her parents call Prince George home. Her former coach at Mackenzie Secondary, Louie Van Grootel, also resides in the city as a wrestling coach at PGSS.

Callahan was elimi-nated in the quarterfi-nal round of the wom-en’s freestyle 72-kilo-gram division.

OLYMPIC HOPEFULS

They fell short of their Olympic dreams.

Kenny Lally, the 52 kg representative on Boxing Canada’s elite A team, lost his shot at London after a heart-breaking defeat at a qualifying event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in May. Geoff Martinson fell short of advancing in 1,500-metre men’s running.

Just being in a posi-tion to qualify for the Olympics is a major a c c o m p l i s h m e n t . While Lally has made clear his intentions to try qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olym-pics in Rio de Janeiro, Martinson wasn’t so certain he’ll try again.

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TRAVEL GRANTSApplications are now available at the Community Services Department in City Hall or on the City web site. Applications are reviewed in June and December of each year. For more information call 250-561-7646.Grants can be paid to individuals or organizations for travel related to academic, art, cultural and amateur sport/recreation purposes involving youth 18 years of age or younger, if they have:• Been selected at a juried show to have his/her work displayed in a Provincial, Western Canadian, National level or within a designated geographic area as recognized by the sponsoring organization; OR• Been awarded a scholarship within a specifi c fi eld or art to attend a school of National or Western Canadian recognition; OR• Won a zone or regional competition or have been selected by a sponsoring organization to represent Prince George at a Provincial competition; OR

• Won a Provincial competition and have gone on to participate in a Western Canadian, National competition or competition within a designated geographic area as recognized by the sponsoring organization; OR• Won the right or been selected to represent the City, the Province, and/or Canada at an international competition.On occasion, those activities that are considered to be in pursuit of excellence are eligible for funding.

CULTURAL GRANTS FOR ARTS ORGANIZATIONSNon-Profi t arts organizations wishing to apply for the City’s Cultural Grants can obtain an application package from the Service Centre at City Hall. Applications may also be obtained on the City’s web site www.princegeorge.ca/CityHall/Grants/CulturalArtsRequests for grants must be submitted on the City’s application form, and must include all of the supporting documentation listed on the application. Late or incomplete submissions may result in the rejection of applications.The deadline for 2013 grant applications for City assistance is 5:00 PM - Monday, January 21, 2013.

CITY OF PRINCE GEORGE HOURS OF OPERATION – HOLIDAY SEASONThe City’s usual hours of operation will apply during the holiday season with these exceptions:1. All operations except police, fi re/rescue and emergency operations will be closed on January 1, 2013.2. December 31, 2012 non-essential services will close at 2:00 pm.3. The Four Seasons Leisure Pool will remain closed for maintenance shut-down and will re-open January 7th, 2013 at 9:00 am.4. The Prince George Aquatic Centre will operate on this schedule: • December 27 – 30 – regular hours • December 31 – 6:15 am – 7:00 pm (from 3:00 – 7:00pm is a toonie swim) • January 1, 2013 – 11:30 am – 5:30 pm

We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand

Prince George athletes and teams had many memorable moments in 2012. Here are some highlights as we travel down “memory lane”:

Before joining CIS, The UNBC Timberwolves left the PACWEST basketball league as provin-cial champions. The UNBC men and women each won their second provincial title as they earned top honours at Capilano defeating VIU in the final of both divisions. (69-61 on the men’s side and 62-53 in the women’s title game). MVP honors from UNBC went to Francis Rowe for the men and Mercedes Van Koughnett for the women.

UNBC finished with a 1-and-2 record and tied for 5th in the men’s and women’s divisions at the CCAA National Basketball Championships. The men played in Truro, Nova Scotia while the women competed in Lethbridge.

The Prince George Spruce Kings beat the Penticton Vees 5-2 in their final BCHL regular season game to end the Vees’ Canadian Junior record 42-game win streak. Penticton would go on to capture the Royal Bank Cup.

Scoring champ Paul De Jersey of the Spruce Kings (98 points) was named the MVP of the BCHL Interior Division.

The Spruce Kings finished the regular season 33-21-2-4 but they lost four straight to Merritt in the first round of the playoffs.

Jujhar Khaira of the Spruce Kings and Troy Bourke of the P.G. Cougars were selected in the third round of the NHL Entry Draft. Khaira became the highest drafted Spruce Kings player ever when he was picked by the Edmonton Oilers 63rd overall and Bourke was chosen 72nd overall by the Colorado Avalanche.

Before a crowd of 4,582, the Prince George Cou-gars won their final 2011-12 regular season game, 4-2 over Kamloops. The Cougars though finished last in the WHL Western Conference with a record of 24-46-0-2.

For the third straight year the Cariboo Cougars lost the BC Major Midget League final to the Vancouver NW Giants. The Giants won in two straight, 4-1 and 2-1.

A couple of Prince George minor hockey rep teams won gold at the provincials. PG Coast Inn came first at the Midget Tier 1 in Kelowna and PG WIC took top honors at the Bantam Female in Victoria.

The Langley Blaze whipped Kamloops 6-1 in the final of the Provincial Senior Men’s Baseball Championship at Citizen Field. The host Prince George Grays finished 2-2.

The nucleus of the Langley Blaze team suited up for the host Axemen that captured top honors at the Baseball Canada senior championship in Prince George. Brandon Hunter, one of four P.G. players on the team, went 3-for-3 with a grand slam in a 9-5 victory over Windsor (Ontario) in the final. Hunter was the top batter in the tourney

with a .667 average.The host Prince George IDL Knights won the Provincial

Midget AA Baseball Championship at Citizen Field, out-scoring Tsawwassen 7-3 in the final.

Prince George fighters earned three medals at the Cana-dian Elite Boxing Championships in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Kenny Lally of Inner City took gold, Thomas Spiers of Spruce Capital captured silver and Jag Seera of Inner City got bronze. Later, Lally came up two wins shy of qualifying for the 2012 Olympics at the trails in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Meanwhile, Spiers won the main event at the “Tribute to Laurie Mann” ama-

teur card at the Northern Sport Centre. Sarah Beaudry led six P.G. athletes with one gold and

two silver at biathlon nationals in Valcartier, Quebec. In addition, Beaudry earned silver at the Cross Country Ski Nationals in Mont-Ste-Anne, Quebec.

Emma Balazs of Kelly Road won the U18 women’s 2,000 metre steeplechase at the Legion Canadian Youth Track and Field Championships in Charlottetown, PEI. Balazs

also came first in the women’s 1,500 meter steeplechase at the B.C. High School Track Championships in Burnaby.

The College Heights Pub Assault took the Dale Rolufs Memorial Trophy in Prince George Senior Lacrosse with a four-game sweep over the BX Pub Bandits.

The Duchess Park Condors earned silver at the B.C. Boys AA Volleyball Championship in Kelowna, dropping the final 3-2 to Langley Christian.

Cedars Christian took silver at the Provincial Girls A Basket-ball championship at the Northern Sport Centre, falling 80-63 to Houston Christian in the final.

Carolina, Nicholas and Lucas Hiller of the P.G. Blizzard Speed Skating Club had overall gold medals at the Canadian Age Class Long Track Championships in Fort St John. Morgan Swan and Kadeja White captured silver.

The Dennis Graber rink of P.G. won the B.C. senior men’s curling Championship in Kelowna.

Yes, 2012 provided many highs, but the time has come to say our goodbyes, May you and yours celebrate with a holi-day cheer, and have a very happy healthy prosperous New Year!

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Visual and performing artists all over the city show-cased their wide range of talents at a number of com-munity events. The city also welcomed lots of luminaries and first class entertainment from around the world.

Last week actor Demetri Goritsas, in town to visit his family for the holidays, took time to drop by the Free Press for an interview. Every so often while telling a story about his own movie or television projects, he would stop mid-sentence and say, almost apologetically, “is that too much name dropping?

Demetri, when you live and work in the North – but not quite as far as the North Pole where another famous celebrity has taken up residence – there can never, ever be too much name dropping. It keeps us warm.

In this review issue, the Free Press is “dropping” some names in order to help recap what an wonderful year 2012 has been for arts and entertainment. But we can’t name everyone – all the wonderful individuals and arts organizations who makes this a great place to live and enjoy art, music, dance, musical theatre, exhibitions and special events – that would be impossible.

Names like Matt Rus-sell, Prince George Play-house, Earl Krushelnicki, Blues Under-ground, Jim B r i n k m a n , Books and C o m p a n y and Glen M i k k e l s e n , CN Centre, are definitely g o - t o - g u y s when it comes to bringing in top talent.

They work hard but so do women.

J o v a n k a Djordjevich who gets a gold star for her working on commu-nity-minded

events like Solstice Soiree, PGSO International Wine Fes-tival – and just about anything to do with food and flow-ers. Monica Peacock who the Community Foundation’s Citizen of the Year 2012 works tirelessly on fundraising events like Evening of Pink. Sue Judge is still building this year on the good job she did last year getting in acts for Coldsnap Music Festival.

Groop Gallery owner Melanie Desjardines finds and exhibits the art of new and established art-ists with shows that this year included Annerose Georgeson, Corey Hardeman, Keith Carlson, Milan Basic, Mark Tworow and many others.

Then there are conductors like the PGSO’s Kevin Zakresky and Northern Orchestra’s Gordon Lucas who bring out the best in our local musicians.

Prince George is also lucky to have some of the

best music, art, vocal, dance and acting coaches and teachers in its schools and studios. Judy Russell, Bonnie and Dave Leach (Excalibur) Lorna Carbutt, Conservatory of Music, Prince George Theatre Workshop, Serious Moonlight Productions, and many others have given local performers a chance to shine and showcase their talents.

Local artisans are fortunate to have the support of the Community Foundation and the Community Arts Council (Studio 2880) which hosts art exhibi-tions throughout the year and Studio Fair. Artist’s Co-op on the Hart also encourages many new art-ists.

First and foremost, we salute the local teachers and mentors who first see that spark of talent and work to encourage it.

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What shaped our community in 2012


Legendary wildlife artist, teacher and philanthropist Robert Bateman visited Direct Art in the city in 2012 and took time to sign his artwork and books.


Demetri Goritsas stars in the Golden Globe winning series Episodes but during the holidays he was in Prince George visiting family and friends. A night out was spent in the audience enjoying Judy Russell’s A Christmas Carol.

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and heritage of the Lheidli T’enneh with a traditional carved canoe resting on a “glass mosaic” river with different species of fish found in the region.

Huble Homestead hosted many special events during the year and the summer’s Sheep and Wool Fair was one of the best ever. The PGX in August saw the return of the popu-lar duck and pig races, exciting new events including the trac-tor parade and great entertainment includ-ing dynamic groups 54.40, The Stampeders, Powder Blues, BC/DC and Krome.

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The Prince George Public Library had many guest speakers and events during the year. Music director and maestro Gordon Lucas and his North-ern Orchestra brought Messiah Festival to the stage with a program featuring alto Mela-nie Nicol and baritone Damian Dorschner. The community orchestra played Dec. 1 at Prince George Playhouse and Dec. 2 at Northside Church in Vanderhoof.

Studio Fair featured the works of over 80 artisans from the region and across the coun-try. Chinese New Year was celebrated at the Immigrant and Multi-cultural Services Soci-ety and the Explora-tion Place. The crisp air was warmed up with winter family events like Francofun, Mardi Gras (Snow Daze) and Coldsnap Music Festival. In January, a new show for seniors aptly called Senior Moments (93.1 CFIS-FM) aired for the first time. Theatre North Wests’ new play The Clockmaker got unde-way in February with a month long run. Local crowds were thrilled to hear Elizabeth Pitcairn perform as a soloist at the PGSO’s Red Violin concert at Vanier Hall on March 31.

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Emma Paterson (left) , Hannah Paterson and Claire Needham got into the Canada Day celebration spirt at Fort George Park July 1.


Drummer Enid Bond gives the signal to fellow NorthBreast Passage Dragonboat team members to perform their “salute” close to shore at West Lake.


Former Mayor Colin Kinsley was just one of several who lent their familiar faces for the arts council’s literacy calendar.

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Elder Josie Paul blesses a dugout canoe during an unveiling of public artwork at city hall, June 21.

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The service of remembrance will be held at:Pleasant Valley Funeral Home, 4303 Pleasant Valley Road Vernon, B.C. on January 4, 2013 at 1:00pm . The burial will follow at Pleasant Valley Cemetery. Many thanks to the doctors, nurses, care aids and BC ambulance services. In lieu of fl owers, memorial donations may be made to Kelowna Hospice House www.hospicecoha.org/HospiceHouse.aspx or Prince George Hospice House at www.hospiceprincegeorge.ca . Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.mem.com, clicking on stories and typing in Paul Serko. Arrangements entrusted with First Memorial Funeral Services, Kelowna. 250-762-2299

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block of the Old Cariboo

Highway, Prince George, B.C.,

Peace Officer(s) of the Prince

George RCMP seized, at the time

indicated, the subject property,

described as: $39,800 CAD, on or

about 22:44 Hours.

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because there was a warrant

authorized by the court pursuant

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evidence in respect of an offence

(or offences) under section

5(2) (Possession for purpose of

trafficking) of the Controlled Drugs

and Substances Act of Canada.

Notice is hereby given that

the subject property, CFO file

Number: 2012-1355, is subject to

forfeiture under Part 3.1 of the

CFA and will be forfeited to the

Government for disposal by the

Director of Civil Forfeiture unless

a notice of dispute is filed with the

Director within the time period set

out in this notice.

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a person who claims to have an

interest in all or part of the subject

property. The notice of dispute

must be filed within 60 days of the

date upon which this notice is first

published.

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notice of dispute, which must

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Section 14.07 of the CFA, from

the Director’s website, accessible

online at www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/

civilforfeiture. The notice must be

in writing, signed in the presence

of a lawyer or notary public, and

mailed to the Civil Forfeiture

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Provincial Government, Victoria,

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I talk to my cat.I’d talk to my best

friend, but she’s down in the Okanagan and Miss Boots is always close at hand when I have something seri-ous on my mind. It’s not that Miss Boots answers me – well, she does purr because she thinks I’m paying attention to her -- it’s just that sometimes I need to sort out my tangled thoughts and get a grip on frenzied feelings, and the best way for me to do that is by talking to some-one.

I tell my cat all kinds of things – from com-plaints about these damned stiff thumb joints that make it dif-ficult and even down right painful to knit, to secret and maybe silly hopes and wishes for my five growing grandchildren, and even how worried I am that the cost of grocer-ies keep rising faster than my paycheque.

The great thing about talking to Miss Boots is being able to count on her discre-tion. She doesn’t gos-sip about me with the tabby down the hall.

You may think talk-ing to my cat is ridicu-lous. Not so. At some point or another in each of our lives, we need to talk to some-one. Another human might be best, be they friend, pastor, counsel-lor, or colleague, but there are times when

we really need some-one to just hear us.

Sometimes being heard allows you to understand things you weren’t clear about before, and conse-quently empowers you to make more positive choices in your daily lives. We can sort out all kinds of clutter by saying whatever is going on internally out loud. And let’s face it; we humans accumu-late a lot of mental and emotional clutter over the decades. The more decades we live, the more we accumulate.

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So who do you talk to if you don’t have a cat? (Sorry, I’m not loaning out Miss Boots.)

There is a fabulous group of trained vol-unteers right here in P.G. who are avail-able to listen. They are all compassionate folks over the age of 55 who are great listen-ers. Like Miss Boots, they will provide non-judgmental support and keep whatever they hear strictly con-fidential. Unlike Miss Boots, their services are completely free – no expensive cans of cat food necessary – and they can also talk to you about other available community resources. They are PG Council of Seniors peer support volun-teers.

If you need to be heard, call PGCOS at

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a peer support volun-teer.

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