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Local Reflections

Fort St. John and Dawson Creek to host U-17sDawson Creek and Fort

St. John will co-host the 2015 World Under-17 Hockey Chal-lenge this fall, Hockey Canada officials announced Wednes-day. It will be the second time the tournament has been held in British Columbia.

It will be held Oct. 30-Nov.

7 and Dawson Creek will host the Gold Medal game of the tournament at the Encana Events Centre.

The announcement was made to a gathering of media and hockey fans at the Pome-roy Sport Centre in Fort St. John.

Although not an official In-ternational Ice Hockey Fed-eration (IIHF) tournament, the eight-team competition does attract international clubs.

Canada will be represented by three national teams—Black, Red and White—which will be made up of a combina-tion of the 66 best under-17 players from across the coun-try.

They will be joined by five international entries from Czech Republic, Finland, Rus-sia, Sweden and the United States.

Dawson Creek Mayor Dale Bumstead told Alaska High-way News that the city was ap-proached by Hockey Canada about the event, noting that the organization had remem-bered the city from its unsuc-cessful bid to host the 2016 IIHF Under-18 Women’s World Championship.

“They approached us [for

this tournament] but said we would need to partner with another city.”

According to Bumstead, Hockey Canada originally sug-gested Grande Prairie as a pos-sible hosting partner.

“We said no. If we are going to be partnering with some-body, we’re going to partner with our neighbours in the Peace, Fort St. John,” Bum-stead added.

The tournament will be hosted at the North Peace Are-na in Fort St. John and the En-cana Events Centre in Dawson Creek.

At least one other city was involved in the process before Hockey Canada approached Dawson Creek, Bumstead confirmed. It is as yet unclear what circumstance lead Hock-ey Canada to approach Daw-son Creek about hosting the tournament.

The tournament originated in 1986 as the Quebec Esso Cup, at the time considered the unofficial world champi-onship of midget hockey.

Now, the tournament is the first step in Hockey Canada’s Program of Excellence and is used to identify players capa-ble of moving on to the IIHF Under-18 Men’s World Cham-

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Fort St. John and Dawson Creek to host U-17s

pionship and National Junior Team, which competes at the IIHF World Un-der-20 Championships held each year around Christmas.

Prior to November 2014, the World U-17 Hockey Challenge was held from December through to early January.

For the first time in its 29-year his-tory, it underwent an overhaul an-nounced November 2013, moving from a ten team tournament to eight.

The changes will take place for the first time during the 2015 tournament hosted by Dawson Creek and Fort St. John.

To adjust for the changes, there were two World U-17 Hockey Challenges in 2014.

The first one began in 2013 and end-ed in early 2014. The second was held in November.

From now on, the tournament will be hosted each year in November.

Kris Knoblauch, head coach of the Ontario Hockey League’s (OHL) Erie

Otters will coach Team Canada Red, Jamie Kompon, head coach of the Western Hockey League’s (WHL) Port-land Winter Hawks will coach Team Canada White and Marco Pietroniro, head coach of the Quebec Major Junior League’s (QMJHL) Drakkar de Baie-Co-meau, will coach Team Canada Black.

The 2015 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge will bring together the top players in the world born in 1999 or later.

Since the first under-17 tournament in 1986, more than 1,200 NHL draft picks have played in the tournament, including 11 of the last 14 first-overall selections (Ilya Kovalchuk, 2001; Rick Nash, 2002; Marc-André Fleury, 2003; Alexander Ovechkin, 2004; Erik John-son, 2006; Patrick Kane, 2007; John Tavares, 2009; Taylor Hall, 2010; Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, 2011; Nathan MacK-innon, 2013; Aaron Ekblad, 2014).

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Local Reflections

There was more mud than grass when soccer action wrapped up Sunday in Dawson Creek, but the cold and rainy weather couldn’t dampen the spirits of the 14 teams playing in the South Peace Junior Soccer U10 and U12 year-end tournament.

The two-day tournament that got underway Saturday under less than ideal field conditions wasn’t able to come to an end Sunday

thanks to lightening in the area.Trophies were awarded to the

top team in the U10 and U12 in a shootout on Monday .

SPJS Vice President Jeremy Pohl said although it was a cold and wet weekend, you couldn’t wipe the smiles off the young players faces.

“The kids seem to love to play in the mud— the wet doesn’t seem to bother them it just makes for kind of a fun, crazy game,” Pohl said with a laugh.

Overall Pohl was happy with

how play went and how smoothly the weekend moved along given that conditions were not perfect.

“I think it went pretty good even though the conditions [weren’t great],” he said. “We had a decent turnout, most of the players were here.”

This year the SPJS decided to move the tournament to the end of the season as opposed to having it mid-season, and that seemed to be a positive change according to Pohl.

“Yeah for sure, we wanted to move it to the end of the season,” he said. “In past years we have had low numbers after the tour-nament, everybody kind of fig-ures it’s year-end. So we moved it to the end of the year and it seems to be encouraging, everybody seems to be showing up and hav-ing a good time.”

One big highlight over the weekend was the addition of a skills competition.

“[We] just wanted a fun event for the kids to come out [to],” Pohl said. “We have a little radar to measure how hard the shots are and we will have some targets on the nets and they can do some target shooting. Just for them to maybe evaluate what they devel-oped this year, and mostly just fun.”

The vice president of the SPJS added that skill-wise he has also seen a significant improvement in the players throughout the year, largely due to the addition of practice time before games.

“There has definitely been im-provement,” he said. “That little bit of practice time absolutely helps compared to no practice time. I can see improvement in lots of the kids. Hopefully next year we can add a little more prac-tice and keep progressing.”

Next weekend will be the big tournament for the SPJS, which will feature all the kids from the Timbits U5 to U8 programs, as well as the U15 and U18 groups. The U15 portion of the tourna-ment will kick off at 9 a.m. Satur-day, June 27 and the U18 group will start at 11:30 a.m., with the Timbits groups taking the field at 11 a.m.

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Local Reflections

a tale of two busesFor decades, a fleet of eight blue

and silver 1969 GMC buses ferried Alaska tourists from cruise ships in Skagway to the state's rugged inte-rior, the workhorses of a major sight-seeing company.

The fleet was decommissioned in the early 2000s, but at least two of the buses have had eventful retirements. One bus recently played a bit part in a Disney movie. Another is sitting in a yard in Pouce Coupe. One is loosely associated with George Clooney, the other has a stove.

Bus number 212 occupies a corner

of Victor Purdy's yard in the village of Pouce Coupe, population 700. A previous owner stripped the seats to convert the bus into a camper, but the outside is still stately.

Earlier this month, Purdy listed the bus for $4,000 on a Dawson Creek classifieds website, after his plan to use the bus as an RV stalled. If it sells, it would be another chapter in the bus’s strange journey.

At first, Purdy thought he had an old Vancouver transit bus. A placard above the windshield reads “Transit Terminal,” while a revolving sign in the side window lists a dozen Lower Mainland destinations, including Ladner Exchange, Tsawwassen Ferry,

Coquitlam Centre and UBC. But the faded words “Gray Line of Alaska” along the length of the bus add to the mystery.

John Day knows that part of the story. A member of the B.C. Transit Museum Society, Day is also 212’s former owner. In 2005, his now-defunct Vancouver tour company bought the bus that’s now in Pouce Coupe from Gray Line.

The company had moved the bus to its headquarters in Seattle after its tour in Alaska, and the old Alaska buses were appealing because they were only used in summer, meaning they tended to have fewer miles on them.

Day acquired a second of the orig-inal eight from a collector in Dallas and drove it across the continent.

Day’s company installed the route signs that made the bus appear to be part of a transit fleet — the signs were set to “charter” when Day ran Vancouver tours. The bus’s raised seating platform, dome windows and luggage storage indicate it was built for highways, Day said.

Eventually, Day’s company decid-ed to buy newer buses and put the two GMCs on the market. A movie company in Vancouver bought one. In 2009, Kim Trask’s dad bought the other.

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Continued from Page 5“We looked online and we saw one

in Vancouver for sale,” said Trask, a resident of Charlie Lake. Her dad, Russell, had been living in a convert-ed school bus in Peace Island Park, where he was the caretaker. When his TV caught fi re and the bus burned down, he needed a new place to live.

“He purchased it and [he and a rel-ative] drove it all the way up here and converted it into a camper,” she said.

The family sold the bus to Purdy in the summer of 2014. Meanwhile, its stablemate was being readied for the big screen. Painted as a 1960s Greyhound, the bus appeared in “To-morrowland,” the Disney sci-fi fi lm starring George Clooney. According to YVRshoots, a website that tracks movie fi lming locations in Vancou-ver, the movie fi lmed at the Univer-sity of B.C. in the summer of 2013.

The scene featured actor Thomas Robinson stepping off the bus onto the midway of the 1964 World’s Fair.

When 212 came to rest in Purdy’s yard, the odometer in the rear wheel hub sat at 32,214.5 miles. Day guess-es the bus’s actual mileage is closer to half a million, saying the odometers are sometimes swapped out after a major engine rebuild. In other words, the bus has life left in it.

On seeing photos of 212, Day was surprised by how well the old diesel had aged. Unlike its movie star coun-terpart, it looked much as it did more than 45 years ago in the Alaska wilds.

“It’s got our numbering on it still,” he said. “It was our 212, it was Gray Line’s 212. It’s always had the same number.”

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(NC) Road-trip season is upon us, which means many families will be loading up their vehicles and heading out on the open road. The family road trip is a favourite Canadian pastime and a great way to enjoy the beautiful landscapes and impressive sights this country has to offer.

Creating a memorable experience for all members of the family comes down to planning. Proper preparation not only makes a road trip more enjoyable, it ensures the safety of all of those taking part. Here are a few simple steps to help you achieve just that:

Plan your route in detail. When it comes to route planning, technology is a great ally. If you have a specifi c destination in mind, but aren’t entirely sure of how to get there, do some research online by browsing travel websites to see if there are cities or sights worth stopping for along the way.

Once you have your stops planned, use a GPS device to help you fi nd them. Many vehicles have this technology built in, but you can also use a smartphone. Today’s GPS devices even provide real-time updates on construction and traffi c fl ow, which can help you avoid delays. Just remember that distracted driving laws forbid you from inputting your destination while driving, so enter this information before heading out.

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It was finally time.On Friday, after a courting process

that has gone on for the last several years, the Dawson Creek Junior Canucks finally got their man.

Gene Cooper will be the coach of the 2015-2016 team, taking over a squad that cracked the .500 mark for the first time in four years last season.

Junior Canucks President Neil Shu-man said he was thrilled to finally get Cooper on board, and hopes that he can continue to build on the foundation that former head coach Eric Fulton laid since he took over four years ago.

“We’ve been trying to get Gene to coach for quite a few years,” he said. “Him being a hometown guy and all around good guy. Good in the communi-ty and always been involved with hockey. We thought he would be a good fit for our team.”

The 20-year head coach in the Daw-son Creek Minor Hockey Association was reserved in his reaction to receiving the offer, nervous about what the future might hold, but confident at the same time.

“It’s good. Hopefully it turns out good,” Cooper said. “I don’t know. A guy gets a little nervous over it but it shouldn’t be that bad. Some of the boys I’ve coached previously. All and all I think it will be a pretty good change.”

He added on Monday that his plan this season would be to build the team from the looker room out, working on establishing chemistry with the group and translating that to a successful product on the ice.

“First and foremost we need to build the chemistry in the dressing room,” he said. “I’ve coached with Shawn Hen-rickson in the midget program for the last three years and we find that if we can get some chemistry in the room and gain the boys interest in our in-structional ways— to teach the game of hockey, that’s the first thing we want to accomplish and it may take a little bit to get buy in from everybody.”

On the ice Cooper will look to create a culture of learning that he believes is valuable at any level of hockey.

“From there it is going to be a pret-ty good year when it comes to learn-

ing the game of hockey for the guys,” he said. “Even though it is junior hockey there is still so much to learn at that age and that’s the direction we want to go with them. We want to teach them different systems so they understand what it’s all about.”

Although Cooper has never coached a junior group before, he has worked extensively with the Dawson Creek Midget Ca-nucks team and with the Senior Canucks organization.

That lack of experience work-ing with junior players wasn’t something that the board con-sidered to be a problem.

“Not at all, I think Gene has a well-rounded resume when it comes to coaching so we don’t have any fear of him stepping in and not doing a good job,” Shuman said.

Cooper doesn’t view it as an issue either, especially consid-ering he has worked with many of the players he will coach next season already in the Dawson

Creek Minor Hockey Association. “No, not at all,” Cooper said unequiv-

ocally about any lack of experience be-ing an issue.

The new head coach added he was most excited for what the position will bring, and at the same time under-stands the deep roots the organization has in the community.

“Just the challenge of making it work,” he said. “I’ve always been a part

of the Senior Canucks organization and that started for me in the late 80s. So I understand the history of it and the im-portance of it and what it adds to the community and making it successful.”

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Gene Cooper was named the Earl John-son Memorial Award winner by the Dawson Creek Athletic Associ-ation in November last year. The award was given to a volunteer in Dawson Creek Minor Hockey Association for their efforts over the years and contribution to the game. He will take over as the coach for the Dawson Creek Junior Canucks in the 2015-2016 season.

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Once a pocket of Mixed Martial Arts talent, Daw-son Creek has been waiting in the wings since the first Fivestar Fight League event for another opportunity to host a show.

Even more so, FFL presi-dent and CEO Justin Donal-ly has been looking for a chance to bring MMA back to Dawson Creek, a place where he hoped they would be once a year just like Fort St. John.

“The obstacle was finding a venue in Dawson Creek,” after noting that the En-cana Events Centre was just too big for the fight league’s needs. “We ended up fi-nally getting in discussion with the curling rink…we’ve been working at it for a few months and finally sealed the deal.”

That’s how the idea for “Pride of the Peace” was born and will finally happen October 9, a return to Daw-son Creek after three years away from the Mile Zero City.

Not only does Donally see Dawson Creek as a fight town, he also believes it to be the perfect bridge for fight fans of the league, who are spread from Fort St. John all the way to Grande Prairie

and Prince George. “Looks like we will have

five or six local Dawson Creek guys and one lady on the card,” he said. “We get guys coming in from all over which is great for Dawson, it will bring a lot of fight fans from out of town. We don’t expect an amateur show to sell like our pro shows, but we are still expecting 700-1000 people there.”

The card will be a purely amateur one, partly because of the cost of a pro show and also because Donally often sees more entertainment value on the amateur side.

“I love doing all amateur shows,” he said. “The ama-teurs tend to be really excit-ing and there are so many of them chomping to get in there and put on exciting

fights it makes my job easy.”He expects the card to set-

tle in at about 12-14 fights, right now with four amateur titles on the line and maybe as many as six come fight night. Those fights right now include Canadian champi-ons Dylan Lielke and Jamie Herrington, but Donally noted it might be tough to find them fights if both are dominant at the 2015 IM-MAF World Championships of Amateur MMA in Las Ve-gas.

“It may be really tough to get them amateur fights come October,” Donally said. “They could fight two or three times in Vegas and Dylan could be 12-0 and Ja-mie could be 9-0 and then I run into trying to find oppo-nents that suit them in the

amateur scene in Canada it might be tough.”

Other title fights right now include Tate Rawling of Prince George (3-0) against Jarrett Vornbrock (3-0) of Yellowknife, Middleweight champion Travis Lussier (3-0), and Alex Martinez (7-2) of Grande Prairie.

“We have some big talent from the whole Peace Re-gion,” Donally said. “That was something we really worked hard on the last two years— developing amateur talent in this area.”

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