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The contract has been awarded for the tallest wood structure to be constructed on Fourth and George with construction expected to begin in April.

PLC Constructors Westcoast Inc., the same company that built Prince George’s cancer centre, will build the $25.1 mil-lion Wood Innovation and Design Centre. Michael Green will be the architect, the

man who designed the addition for the airport.

Prince George-Mackenzie MLA Pat Bell said the building, set to be six storeys though the first contains an atrium housed in a double layer, will have world-wide influence and is set to display innovative new styles of construction. The design will use a variety of different species of wood found province-wide. With commercial and office space, the WIDC will be home to a masters degree program in engineer-

ing, specializing in tall wood buildings.“There is definitely a demand out there

for it,” Bell said, both of tall wood build-ings and the program. “We will be able to deliver it not just here in Prince George but across the world.”

The WIDC has been in the works for several years, first announced in a throne speech in 2009. Recently, rumours have swirled around the validity of the land procurement process and various aspects of the process.

However, Bell said he’s excited to be finally announcing the company which will take on the process, the starting date of construction and, finally, the finishing date.

Vice-president of PLC, Anibal Valente, explained the company makes the best use of local products and labour. He said he expects construction to begin at the end of April and be completed in July of 2014.

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It will include 350,000 man hours of labour, and at its peak there will be about 50 people on-site constructing the building.

Valente said one requirement was the bidder had to use at least 800 cubic metres of wood in the project.

“We are at 2,000 cubic metres, so we exceeded the minimum wood requirement by quite a bit,” he said.

In spite of that, Green explained the building meets the same fire codes as one made of concrete. He likened its tendency to eas-ily catch fire to someone trying to light a big stump with a tiny lighter.

Green added cutting-edge innovation will be used creating the structure, and it will lead to taller buildings in the future, though at 27.5 metres it will be

the tallest in North America. By using wood rather than con-

crete, Green said, 2,000 tonnes of carbon did not go into the atmo-sphere, or the equivalent of 500 cars on the road per year.

“We wanted the ground floor to be about the community,” Green said.

That is why there will be big windows passers-by can look into, catching site of the variety of activities happening within.

“We really wanted to activate the street,” he said.

He added the lighting will make the wood glow at night.

Inside the mezzanine, a set of stairs will take you up to a theatre designed for students. The building has ‘shoulders’, allowing for a second-floor deck. There will be a feature wall at the heart of the build-ing and another wall with slats made of all the different types of wood available in the country

so people can see, smell and feel its texture.

A distance-learning theatre will allow students to share

course work across the province, country or internationally.

Bobby Deepak, NDP candidate for the Prince George-Mackenzie riding, said although he believes the Wood Innovation and Design Centre (WIDC) is a good project, he also believes an independent investigation needs to be conducted to get to the bottom of all the accusations and rumours surrounding the land procurement process.

“It benefits Prince George and the north, however there are some troubling questions that arise,” he said. “The B.C. Liberals have bungled the whole process and have not answered the questions that arise from the process itself.”

He added local prominent businessmen Brian Fehr and Dan McLaren complained to the fairness advisor regarding the projects and have been widely quoted regarding being ‘duped’ into being party to procuring the land in question with the understanding Fehr’s company would be shortlisted to build the WIDC.

The fairness advisor, Jane Shackell Q.C., found there were no issues with the procurement process, though she said the allegations made went beyond the scope of her mandate.

An announcement Friday named PCL Westcoast Con-structors as the firm that will build the centre.

“There have been some serious and troubling allega-tions made by two well-known business people about the role of Bond (MLA for the Prince George-Valemount riding, and the province’s Attorney General) and Bell (MLA for the Prince George-Mackenzie riding and Min-ister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training) in the process,” Depak said. “Those questions remain unanswered. The people of Prince George and the north deserve to know whether these allegations were investigated and whether there was any inappropriate involvement by Mr. Bell and Ms. Bond.”

He added now that a contract has been signed, no mat-ter who wins May’s election, the project will go forward.

“As far as I understand as of today the government has entered into a contract with PCL,” Deepak said. “Any commitment made today, we have to follow through with and will follow through with as commitments of the government.

He added there is no information on specific vendors.Another issue, Deepak said, revolves around the pre-

mier’s announcement in 2011 during which she said the building would be a 10-storey structure.

“The premier, in September of 2011, announced a 10-sto-rey project even though she knew there wasn’t enough money in the budget for it. At the time Shirley Bond was deputy chair of the Treasury Board. She supported the announcement even though she knew there was not enough money. The question is why was it announced when she knew there wasn’t enough money?”

NDP MLA and House Leader John Horgan visited Prince George Monday and agreed with Deepak. He said Bond was aware the money was not available and should have said so.

“To have the Minister nodding her approval without critical comment is demonstrative of their detachment from each other,” he said.

He said other ministers in similar positions have writ-ten letters telling their colleagues to stop spending money that has not been approved.

“Perhaps Mr. Deepak should do his homework,” Bond said, adding the process followed in the WIDC case was the same as for any other project.

“Sometimes it takes a number of budget cycles in order to deliver on commitments the government makes,” she said. “We used the same kind of process to bring the cancer centre to Prince George and the Charles Jago

Northern Sports Centre. We make the announcement, then we looked at a business case, then the Treasury Board approves whatever amount of money should be applied to that project.

“We should be very clear here. The fairness advisor has said the procurement process was fair and transparent. The NDIT has said they made their decision indepen-dently and we have now announced a building that we hope will begin the revitalization of downtown. I actively and aggressively lobby for projects all the time as an MLA and as a cabinet minister. That’s my job. I lobbied to make sure Prince George had a cancer centre and to make sure it had investment in our two institutions, so we should be perfectly clear. Nothing inappropriate took place. Did we support investment in the downtown? Of course we did.”

Bond said cabinet ministers sit on the Treasury Board all the time and added she was a member of the Treasury Board when the cancer centre was approved.

“I don’t think anyone complained about that,” she said. “It is a natural part of the work we do. I have had senior cabinet portfolios, and I have been a member of Treasury Board for years. Those processes have been in place for decades in the province.”

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Prince George-Valemount MLA Shirley Bond (left), acting mayor Dave Wilbur, Prince George-Mackenzie MLA Pat Bell and Anibal Valente of PCL Constructors announce that PCL will design and build the $25.1 million Wood Innovation and Design Centre.

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In Provincial Court in Prince George on Feb. 8:

Wendell E. Williams was found guilty of assault with a weapon, sen-tenced to 85 days in jail, placed on probation for one year and prohibited from pos-sessing firearms for 10 years. Williams was also found guilty of failing to comply with a condi-tion of an undertaking or recognizance and failing to comply with a probation order and sentenced to 24 days in jail.

Bradley C. Fowler was found guilty of driving while prohibited, fined $1,000, assessed a victim surcharge of $150 and prohibited from driving for one year.

Gina A. Monk was found guilty of five counts of theft of property with a value less than $5,000 and sentenced to one month in jail. Monk was also found guilty of another count of theft of property with a value less than $5,000, sentenced to four months in

jail and placed on probation for 18 months. Monk was also found guilty of failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking and sentenced to 11 days in jail.

Wilfred J. Thomas was found guilty of two counts of fraud, sen-tenced to 90 days in jail, placed on probation for one year and ordered to make restitution of

$3,950. Thomas was also found guilty of two counts each of failing to com-ply with a condition of an undertak-ing or recognizance and failing to comply with a probation order and sentenced to 11 days in jail.

Kevin S. Ward was found guilty of failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking or recognizance and sentenced to one day in jail.

Bruce B. Willier was found guilty of assault with a weapon, sentenced to one day in jail and placed on pro-bation for one year. Willier was also found guilty of two counts of failing

to comply with a condi-tion of an undertaking or recognizance and sen-tenced to one day in jail.

Connie Massettoe was found guilty of utter-ing threats, sentenced to one day in jail and placed on probation for 12 months.

Robert J. Tulari was found guilty of assault causing bodily harm, failing to comply with a probation order and two counts of failing to com-ply with a condition of an undertaking or recog-nizance, sentenced to 60 days in jail, placed on probation for two years and assessed a victim surcharge of $100.

In Provincial Court in Prince Goerge on Feb. 12:

Dillon B. Ertmoed was found guilty of robbery, sentenced to 586 days in jail, placed on proba-tion for two years and prohibited from possess-ing firearms for 10 years. Ertmoed was also found guilty of disguise with intent, sentenced to 180 days in jail, placed on probation for two years and prohibited from possessing firearms for 10 years.

Scott L. Sampare was found guilty of failing to comply with a probation order and sentenced to 41 days in jail.

Brian M. Visona was found guilty of driving while prohibited, fined $500, assessed a victim surcharge of $75 and prohibited from driving for one year. Visona was also found guilty of a second count of driving while prohibited, fined $1,000, assessed a victim surcharge of $150 and prohibited from driving for one year.

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A budget that government hopes will be balanced in 2015/2016 is in line with what the local chamber of commerce has been advocating.

“As an overarching comment I would say, from a chamber perspective, some of the posi-tives we saw is the commitment to balance the federal budget by 2015/2016,” Jennifer Bran-dle-McCall, CEO of the Prince George Chamber of Commerce, said. “That is something as a chamber com-munity through our advocacy and policy develop-ment process we have asked consis-tently for.”

She said the gov-ernment is able to maintain that com-mitment in two ways. It is restrain-ing growth in pro-gram spending and looking for tax loopholes and evasions that might be occur-ring, then dedicating resources to tighten that up.

“We are also pleased to see they based the budget on very prudent economic assump-tions. None were out-of-line or over-inflated,” she said. “We feel that prudent economic planning over years has kept Canada’s position as strongest of the G7 countries, and helped us weather the economic storm we’ve seen the over last two years.”

They were, however, disap-pointed in the budget’s lack of support for the research and development sector.

“One area of disappointment for us as a local chamber, and at the Canadian level, is we know Canada lags behind in innova-tion and productivity.”

However, she said, they did not see any support in the bud-

get in research and develop-ment. There was nearly $700 million in support for the sec-tor removed from last year’s budget and she said there was hope for either a reinstatement or relief this year to companies involved in innovation and technology.

“We didn’t see any. If I was a businessman in Canada, the province or city involved in some way in innovation, I would really feel disappointed about the lack of support in

that regards, par-ticular because we are lagging behind and we know that from statistics,” she said. “On the other side, the number one local challenge we know members are having is access to a skilled labour force, and the need for skills and train-ing in our area. They made a skills and training com-mitment in three

ways.”She said the government is

creating the Canada Job Grant, opening opportunities for apprentices and ensuring the country’s under-utilized por-tion of the population is sup-ported in labour development, whether they are immigrants, people with disabilities or First Nations youth.

“We are definitely happy to see this on the national radar. That is one of the key things Canada needs to focus on.”

The Canada Job Grant is a matching grant where the province, federal government and employers each put in up to $5,000 towards training an individual.

“This suggests both upscal-ing and helping those who are unemployed get into a posi-tion if the employer feels the person has good potential and could actually be trained into

a position,” Brandle-McCall said. “My only caution is this is a good situation if you have people to up-train or provide additional training to, but look at what Alberta is facing, where there are no people to train. Those are the kinds of concerns we hope will be addressed that chamber can help provide help with while they develop that program.”

The government’s procure-ment process will help provide positions for apprentices.

“There is a government focus to create opportunities for apprenticeships. We are seeing that come out in budget details in federal procurements and contracts. It seems within those details the federal government is supportive and going to be putting criteria so to be eligible to bid, companies must hire and involve apprentices.”

She added educating the under-utilized portion of the population applies locally, especially when considering the fastest-growing population in the province is Aboriginal youth.

“The government committed to try to support the under-uti-lized when it comes to labour development,” she said. “It looks like there will be some money to help First Nations youth to train for employment.

“Any money to help them get training specifically for jobs that exist is definitely a plus. There is work to develop a First Nations education act, which will make it so government has to be accountable for funding on-reserve education.”

She added overall the budget contained few surprises.

“Overall it’s very solid. There are not a lot of surprises, not a lot of winners or losers. Our chamber believes it is a solid, fiscally conservative budget. This is the time to be that way when we’re not quite out of the weeds when it comes to the global recession.”

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When Prince George-Mackenzie MLA Pat Bell ranted in the Legislature about Brian Fehr being an NDP supporter, it brought into question who are the Liberal supporters as well.

Bell, in his rant, tried to diminish Fehr’s criticism of the Wood Innovation and Design Centre bid process by point-ing out that Fehr, and his companies, have donated $50,000 to the NDP. Bell, somehow, forgot to point out that Fehr had previously donated $122,995 to the BC Liberals over the years.

Fehr has cried foul that his company didn’t make the shortlist for the Wood Innovation and Design Centre project.

The $25.1 million project is going to be done by PCL Constructors Westcoast, who are no strangers to Prince George, having built the cancer centre.

So how much money has PCL Constructors West-coast given to political parties? According to Elec-tions BC, it has given $110,489 to the BC Liberals since 2006. It also gave Wally Oppal $500 when he was a candidate in 2009.

Of the other contractors named to work on the project - Michael Green Architecture Inc., Equi-librium Consulting Inc., B.R. Thorson Consulting Ltd., RDH Building Engineering Ltd., MMM Group Ltd., Opus DaytonKnight Consultants Ltd., Equity Plumbing + Heating Ltd., and Houle Electric Lim-ited, only Houle Electric has contributed politically. It has given the Liberals $24,300 since 2005, nothing to any other political party.

The PCL Constructors political contributions fall

short of $122,995 Brian Fehr has given over the years, so I guess we can say the projects wasn’t awarded solely on who has been greasing the Liber-

als’ palms.However, of the other two proponents

who were shortlisted for the centre, nei-ther WIC Design and Build nor Maple Reindeers/Cree contributed anything to the Liberals.

Once again, it’s an argument for elimi-nating corporate and union donations to political parties.

In fact, Integrity BC has just released a poll sug-gesting that a majority of British Columbians sup-port a ban on corporate and union donations to political parties.

When asked: “Do you believe that corporations and unions should be prohibited from donating money to B.C.’s provincial political parties?,” almost two to one were in favour (59 per cent yes, 31 per cent no, 10 per cent undecided).

The BC NDP, Conservative party, Green Party and BC First support a ban on corporate and union donations. B.C.’s three Independent MLAs seeking re-election (Vicki Huntington, Bob Simpson and John van Dongen) called for a ban in February.

It seems the Liberals are the only ones in British Columbia who seem to think it’s still a good prac-tice. One only has to look at the numbers above from only a handful of businesses to understand why.

It’s time that changed. British Columbia will be a better place for it.

There is no doubt the $25.1 million Wood Inno-vation and Design Centre will be a showcase building.

It’s not quite the 10-storey building touted by Premier Christy Clark when she was promoting it a couple of years ago in Prince George.

But, it will, nonetheless, be impressive. If PCL Con-structors Westcoast can build Michael Green’s design, on time and under budget, it will truly be a magnificent structure.

At 27.5 metres high (about 90 feet), it will be the tall-est wood building in North America. Green talked about similar such buildings being stackable, which of course wood is, so the sky is the limit … so to speak. Although, he didn’t talk about stacking anything on top of the Prince George building.

It will use a full complement of wood from “all corners of British Columbia, including Douglas fir, cedar, hem-lock, pine and spruce,” although no mention of cotton-wood.

Engineered-wood products used in the design, such as glulam columns and beams, cross-laminated timber and laminated veneer lumber, are produced in B.C. and, we assume, will be used.

The building will also use lots of glass to allow pass-ersby a view into the structure. And, of course, wood will be prevalent throughout the building, including a nifty tree motif greeting you when you exit the elevator that will be commensurate with a tree at that height.

While the building itself will undoubtedly be spec-tacular, it has become mired in controversy, which will continue to dog the building. And, of course, there is the question of really how badly do we need this build-ing. The group hoping to build a performing arts centre, one of the four pillars identified as crucial to this city’s growth a couple of decades ago, likely would drool over the prospect of $25 million to play with, as would a host of social service agencies in this community.

Regardless, the building will now proceed and the NDP have committed to continuing should they form govern-ment in May. And, of course, the NDP, should they form government, will be blamed for and responsible for any cost overruns. Welcome to politics.

At least Prince George-Mackenzie Pat Bell has kept his sense of humour through it all quipping on Friday that currently there is a big hole in the ground where the Wood Innovation and Design Centre will be built and “at times I thought I’d be buried in that hole.”

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So far our new digs are turning out pretty good.

For example, no one driving a big ginor-mous piece of machinery invented for digging big holes has accidentally bumped into the house and jarred everyone off the couch. Even if one did, it seems unlikely we’d be knocked halfway off the founda-tion, separating the seam connecting the addition to the main structure, and giving birth to what would become known as the Rainforest Room.

Now, big fancy man-sions might well come with a rainforest room, but when a trailer in the hood develops one, it is generally a bad thing. Instead of growing beauti-ful trees whose branches arch over the sky, you cre-ate a strange sickly green substance you are forever trying to clean off the walls. Instead of watching the rain soak deep into the earth, providing nutrients

for all the flowers bursting with colour, you plant just as colourful buckets, to be

dumped at light-ning pace some days, to catch all that moisture. Instead of enjoy-ing the fragrant scent of grow-ing things, you

smell... well, I’m not sure. My son, Dallas, says you are smelling That Which Shall Not Be Named.

I’m not entirely sure what it came from, but I do know That Which Shall Not Be Named will never be used to perfume a bot-tle of fabric softener. Or even used to warn some-one an odourless gas is about to kill them in their sleep. It’s just too rancid.

Although most of the people who live in the hood, which is supposed to be called the VLA, are decent hardworking indi-viduals no different than those you’d find in any neighbourhood in any town in the country. It’s those dastardly few, those ones that really know how to stand out in a crowd, that give the area its repu-

tation. Some of them look like the walking dead (different from a zombie invasion, though), barely hustling along, bleary eyes sunken into a mass of hair as they try to figure out where ‘The Man’ moved. Others flip their collars and strut their stuff, snarl-ing at passers-by like an ill-bred pit bull. Others are more likely to come out at night, dolled up in mini-skirts and about a half pound of make-up. Some of them look so young and others so old you can’t help but feel a bit of compassion. But you still have to be care-ful. A friend of mine had one jump in her truck and demand a ride or pay-ment.

Another good tip. If you’re riding in the hood, errr, the VLA, then keep your doors locked. Some of those people fight despair on a second-by-second basis.

But for the most part the folks there are kind, friendly and easy to talk to.

So I’m still living there. I remember when the area

belonged mostly to the blue-collar crowd, and it seems like that era is returning, if somewhat slowly. Of course, still living in the hood means I’ve already had an officer knocking on my door, looking for a previous

tenant. But that’s all right. He’s doing his part to clean up the neighbour-hood. Now it’s up to the regular folks (I’m dump-ing myself in with this group - I don’t care what anyone says) to do our part.

Maybe it’s time for an ‘I heart the hood’ T-shirt.

Or maybe we should just make sure we mow our lawns and plant flow-ers and such.

Either way, the point is regular folks need to show they care.

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releases, press conferences and phone calls are some. Sometimes you might think whatever story you have in mind isn’t worth a phone call or visit to the news-paper’s office, but is it worth a cup of coffee?

Reporter DeLynda Pilon would like the chance to hear what you have to say so every Friday at 11 a.m. she will be having a coffee break at Zoe’s Java House at 1251 Fourth Ave., and is hoping you will drop by to chat. Or just stop in and introduce yourself.

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Through extensive research, I have determined the magic number for a ques-tion which has plagued photographers from the time the first cave-man told his friends to “Say ‘Ugh’”. (Cheese hadn’t been invented yet.)

The situation is this: You have a group of people you’re taking a picture of, who are doing something. It might be holding one of those big cheques, or standing by a new sign, or whatever.

I have determined that you can set a certain number of people up, then remove everything else in the universe, leaving only yourself and your camera

and these people, and when you take the photo, one of those people will be look-ing at something else.

The magic number is six.I have taken pictures of four

or five people, all of whom were looking at the camera. More than half the time (by a very scientific guess) that I have six people, someone is looking

somewhere else.And don’t even get me (or any other

photographer) started on the questions of blinks.

The magic number for being sure of getting a photo where everyone can be relied on to have their eyes open is three (and even then it’s iffy, especially if one

of them says ahead of time, “I always have my eyes closed when they take my picture”. Their eyes will be open, but someone else’s will be closed.)

Of course, things were a lot worse when we photographers still used film (and yes, I have been around that long. I realize my youthful looks may have you believe I’m fairly new . . . and you’re not buying a word of this, are you?). Back then, you couldn’t see what your pictures looked like right away.

No, you would go out to get a simple head-and-shoulders picture of someone you had interviewed for a story. You would take five or six pictures (making sure the lens cap was off).

Then you would return to the office

and the darkroom. You would carefully develop the film, making sure it wasn’t ruined by someone opening the door at a crucial moment. Then you would let it dry, and then would come the moment of truth.

That one’s no good – he’s got that silly half-grin.

That one’s no good – he’s blinking.That one’s no good – he’s not looking

at the camera.About 90 minutes after taking the

picture, you would have to phone the person up and ask if you could come by again.

At least we don’t have to worry about that anymore – but it’s still not a picture-perfect world.

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nominee, is touring across Canada. He plays Artspace on Wednesday, April 24. The show starts at 8 p.m. Visit his website at www.peterkatz.com. Tickets for the concert are $15 in advance, available at Books and Company, or $20 at the door.

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He has his sights set on New York.

In the meantime, Tristan Ghost-keeper, 17, keeps his eyes on his immediate goal – to improve his dancing every single day.

On Friday he danced his award-winning modern/contemporary solo at the Prince George Dance Festival Gala Performance. Mov-ing across the stage with the grace of a gazelle, Tristan per-formed a dramatic dance number called Empty Handed. The piece was beautifully choreographed by Andrea Downie and the audi-ence loved it.

He took home five awards for superb dancing from the festival last weekend but Tristan is mod-est about his achievement. Far from boastful, he seems almost shy talking about trophies, med-als and scholarships won for jazz, ballet, lyrical and modern/ con-temporary dance. To top off his stellar achievement, Tristan was also selected by adjudicators to perform at the provincial festival in Chilliwack (May 26 to 30).

Judy Russell Enchainement Dance Centre is Tristan’s second home. On Monday, he met the reporter there to talk about how he went from playing baseball to performing ballet.

“My family (Tristan has three sisters and two brothers) loves sports. My Dad [Chad] played hockey and ball and was really good at sports. I played ball when I was younger and did swimming for awhile but then I wanted to try something new – so I began taking hip-hop classes.”

His budding talent did not escape the eye of studio owner Judy Russell.

“I was about nine years old when I started dancing. I was taking one hip-hop class a week

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Tristan Ghostkeeper practises some moves at Judy Russell Enchainement Dance Centre on Monday.

– then Judy reeled me in (he laughs) and said that I should try ballet. I did and I just loved it.”

Now he spends hours out of every day perfect-ing his moves, he says.

“This takes dedica-tion and hard work. For five years now I’ve been working on my strength and flexibility. I’m here every day, either teach-ing (jazz, hip-hop and acro – dance and acro-batics) or working on my own dancing.”

He’s not sure what he’ll do after graduating from PGSS this year, but Tristan knows the world of dance has opened up for him.

“I would like to take a year to decide what I want to do with my dancing,” he said. “New York is where it all happens in dance, so I would like to go there for sure but I want to think about my future and decide what is best – I really want to go far with my dancing. There are lots of ups and downs with a career in dance and I want to be ready for that.”

Versatility is impor-tant for dancers, he says, and right now Tristan is taking voice lessons and working on his musical theatre skills.

“As dancers we’re

already actors because we’re often portraying someone on stage,” he said.

Performing on stage before a live audience is a highlight, he says.

“I put so much work into it at the studio, so I want it to be perfect on stage – but there’s no such thing as perfect. I get that [drive] from my Dad. And I want to show the audience every year how much I’ve learned and improved.”

In January, Tristan competed in a dance fes-tival in Australia where at the gala show (the competition’s finale) he won first place in the

Battle of the Countries event for his solo lyrical performance, beating out three top dancers from New Zealand, the U.S. and Australia.

He was chosen to compete in Australia after winning Performer of the Year at the Prince Rupert Dance Festival. His family is proud of his accomplishments.

“He always puts a lot of focus into his dance,” says Tristan’s grandfa-ther, Peter.

“When he makes a mistake, he’s mad at himself. He wants it to be perfect – so he will do it all over again and make it right.”

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The Canadian Can-cer Society is turning 75 this year, and the Prince George Relay for Life is turning 21.

Both of them are looking good for their ages.

“Numbers for the Relay are up consider-ably over last year,” says team lead Helen Owen. “We’re up in participants, number of teams and funds raised compared to last year.”

This year’s Relay for Life, the only 24-hour relay in Canada, is set for May 11 and 12 at Masich Place Stadium. Owen says they have more than 120 teams and 1,00 participants signed up already, but urges people to regis-ter soon.

“The deadline for registrations is April 26, which is coming up faster than you might expect,” she said, “and registering now gives you more time to raise the $500 you need to get an entry into the draw for the 2013 Dodge Dart, donated by Northland Chrysler Jeep Dodge.”

But why stop of $500? To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Canadian Can-cer Society, the local relay has a few sug-

gestions:- Set fundraising

goals with 75 as a them. If you normally raise $50, aim for $75. If it’s normally $500, aim for $750.

- Self-pledge $75.

- Send out 75 e-mails to potential sponsors.

- Ask friends, co-workers and family mem-bers to drop by the sta-dium during the relay and drop off loose change total-ling $7.50 or $75.

Owen notes the local society is also looking

for people to take part in a couple of the spe-

cial events at the relay.

“ W e ’ r e looking for more survi-vors to reg-ister with us for the Survi-vors Victory Lap, and also for people who would like to take pat in the Luminaries Ceremony at midnight.”

The soci-ety is in its new office at 1100 Alward St., the new K o r d y b a n Lodge, and can be found

online by going to bc.cancer.ca and fol-lowing the links.

The YMCA Strong Kids Cam-paign has barely wrapped up for 2013, and Karen Cameron is already talking about plans for next year.

“Everything went really well,” says the manager of resource devel-opment for the YMCA of Northern BC. “I think we’re around $15,000, and there’s still some trickling in.”

While the campaign included some of the usual events, includ-ing an auction of hand-painted bird feeders, there was one major new event this year, and it seems to have been a success.

“This was the first year for the Strong Kids Challenge,” Cam-eron says, “and what I’ve heard is everyone had a good time.”

The challenge saw seven people – including YMCA staff, volunteers and local members – accumulate points for taking parts in a variety of Y-related events. Selen Alpay of Canadian Tire ended up winning

the challenge, with Malcom Dunn of Scotiabank second.

“Some of the participants were telling me they hadn’t realized how many groups we worked with in the city. A couple of them were very impressed with the work they do at YAP (Youth Around Prince), and they might continue working with them there.”

The success of the challenge has Cameron confident they’ll con-tinue with it next year, probably in a larger format.

“We’ll talk to the people involved this year, find out what they liked and didn’t like about it, and then plan for next year. We might have more ways to earn points, and I would like to find a way to get more people involved as well.”

Overall, she says, the Strong Kids Campaign, which raises money to help send children to Camp Kanannaq, achieved its goal.

“It helps raise our profile in the community, making people more aware of who we are and what we do.”

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tion, and it was great.”The expedition, which is set for Dec. 28 to Jan

9, is held every two years and attracts students from around the world.

“The students at the information session here,” Maher said, “seemed to represent a wide variety of disciplines. A couple I recognized from my Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Management courses, some seemed to be from more science-related areas, and there was at least one grad student who was interested.”

The intent of the information session was fairly basic, he said.

“I made sure the students have the informa-tion they need at this point. I walked them through the website (uantarctic.org) and tried to

help them find answers to questions they had.”While Dec. 28 may sound far in the future,

Maher says students planning on taking part in the expedition have to start planning now.

“It’s a tremendous experience, but it does cost a lot, so they should get started now. The first thing I told them to do was contact Students on Ice and register with them.”

While the expedition offers credit for courses at UNBC, that isn’t the only school students could get credit in by going on the expedition.

“We’re affiliated with Lulea, a school in Swe-den, and there are also courses offered by McGill and Carleton which are part of the expedition.”

One of the minor sticking points, Maher points out, is connected to the time factor.

“These courses aren’t offered yet for enrol-ment. My course, for instance, can’t be registered for until April. Some of the courses connected with the expedition do need specific pre-requi-sites, which students will have to make sure they have, although with a lot of them, there is some flexibility.”

The expedition makes use of the motor vessel Ushuaia, originally built for the National Ocean-ographic and Atmospheric Administration and refurbished to accommodate 89 passengers and staff.

“When I went four years ago,” Maher said, “there were students from across Canada and around the world, in a wide range of disci-plines.”

Students meet in either Buenos Aires, Argen-tina or Santiago, Chile before proceeding to Ush-uaia, the jumping-off point for the expedition. Some of the work is done on land or on the ship, with five full days in Antarctica as well.

Most people in Prince George would plan their Christmas holidays around going south.

For some UNBC stu-dents, they might go just about as far south as you can. Instructor Patrick Maher says about 20 or 25 students came to an informa-tion session earlier this month on the Antarctic University Expedition.

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Beth Pawluk can breathe a sigh of relief and enjoy the holiday.

The local artisan has just finished making 200 beautiful hand-painted Ukrainian Easter eggs. Each one is a work of art. Some of her more intricate or traditional (pysanky) patterns, and those done on larger ostrich or goose eggs, can take 12 or more hours to complete.

Pawluk began work on this year’s “batch” in September. The 78-year-old school board retiree says the very delicate work helps her maintain good eye and hand coordination.

“I am lucky to have good eyesight and steady hands so I can do this,” she says. “Even for lines you have to really concen-trate to get it right.”

Starting with a raw egg, the desired pat-tern is drawn on first. Then using a wax-re-sist or batik method, the eggs are dipped in dye and dried for each traditional design. When finished, the decorative egg is sprayed with a protec-tive lacquer.

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Her family has roots in Ukraine and Pawluk first learned the tech-nique of painting tra-ditional Ukrainian Easter eggs when her family lived in Vegre-ville, Alberta.

“My grandpa immi-grated to Canada in 1895 and settled in Vegreville. My sister started learning how to decorate Ukrainian Easter eggs first, then it was my turn. I’ve been doing it now in Prince George for about 10 years. The designs are taken from traditional patterns from different regions of Ukraine.”

Pawluk shows the reporter her Good Friday eggs and ones made for other days of the Easter celebra-tion which have reli-gious symbols such as crosses. There are some brightly coloured eggs with more modern designs and, of course, pysanky, which have traditional Ukrainian designs.

Pawluk says patterns from the Yukon that feature Ukrainian folk art are also popular. People often ask her to do Christmas eggs and other seasonal designs but traditional patterns remain her favourite.

On Saturday, dozens of her painted Ukrai-nian Easter eggs were on display and for sale at an Easter Bazaar at St. George’s Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Some of her loyal customers return year after year to choose another egg for their collection, she says. Often they find it hard to choose among the array of colours and designs.

“Sometimes people look at them a long time before deciding, but they always go away happy. For me, it’s just nice to know I’ve made someone’s day. That’s why I enjoy doing this.”

Pawluk hopes one day to teach classes in making Ukrainian Easter eggs so that the art form is not lost. Recently she had her grandchildren over to try their hand at mak-ing the traditional eggs – but they found it took too long, she said. Maybe when they’re older.

Growing up in Veg-reville, it was easier to learn about their native culture and tradition, she says – even though her family also loved to follow the lives of the British monarchy.

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In Prince George, the end of a hockey season before April isn’t a pretty sight.

The snow hasn’t melted, golf season hasn’t started, and the feeling of wanting more out of the campaign is impossible to hide.

For the Prince George Cougars, it’s been a painfully familiar sight. When they com-pleted their final regular-season game on March 16, a 7-0 loss against the Kamloops Blazers at CN Centre, it marked the sixth

time in the last 10 years their Western Hockey League campaign ended before playoffs.

The players hope it’s not the same story next year.

“It’s not acceptable for the people of P.G. to watch a losing team every year and next year it’s going to be different,” Troy Bourke said in an interview after their last contest. “We got to make sure of it or there’s going to be a lot of changes.”

The Cougars finished the 2012-13 sea-son with 21 wins, 43 losses, two overtime defeats and six shootout setbacks (21-43-

2-6). They collected the same number of points and finished in the same position overall, 21st out of 22 teams, as the 2011-12 campaign when they sported a 24-46-0-2 mark.

After consecutive non-playoff seasons, the Cougars will be hungry to return in 2014. But will they have the horses to get there?

While offseason movement is likely to happen, three players guaranteed not to be back in uniform are this year’s three 1992-born graduates: defencemen Dan Gibb and Dallas Ehrhardt, and forward

Ryan Hanes.Who forms the next overage core is

also up in the air. In this year’s last game against Kamloops, the Cougars had four 1993-born players on their roster: for-wards Colin Jacobs, Klarc Wilson and Caleb Belter; and goalie Mac Engel.

Shortly after the season ended, Jacobs signed an amateur tryout contract with the American Hockey League’s Rochester Americans, putting his future with the Cougars in question.

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Harris sneaks under Games-age wireIf Avril Harris was born a cou-

ple of months earlier, he’d be too old to compete in wheelchair basketball at the 2015 Canada Winter Games.

Harris, a Prince George prod-uct, celebrated his 22nd birthday last month. To be age eligible to compete in the sport at the 2015 Games, athletes must have a birth date of Jan. 1, 1991 or later.

With the Games set to unwind here in his hometown, Harris is thankful for the opportunity to compete in front of friends and family.

“Hopefully I bring my experi-ence, as well as just the mentality of being a team person, helping them out,” he says. “Even if they just need the chairs fixed, I’m there for the team.”

Harris played for Team BC at the last two CWG wheelchair basketball events, 2007 in White-horse, Yukon and 2011 in Halifax, N.S. With the squad falling short of the podium both times, Harris is hoping the host province can medal in 2015.

Anybody who knows Harris’ parents may not be surprised by his success in the sport. His

father Pat is a wheelchair basket-ball coach and former competi-tive athlete in the sport involved for more than 35 years. He was a driving force behind the devel-opment of the Prince George Titans.

Nancy, Harris’ mother, runs the Prince George wheelchair basketball program. She was one of the organizers of the recent Wheelchair Basketball Canada Junior West Regional Champion-ships, which took place on Satur-day and Sunday at Duchess Park Secondary.

Harris has played the sport competitively for 10 years. Unlike his father, who took to wheelchair sports as a result of a physical disability, Harris is an able-bodied wheelchair athlete.

“Being raised with the wheel-chair basketball, I always thought it was one of the things that we did as a family,” Avril says. “Dad would play, mom would volun-teer and I would volunteer. Later, I started playing. And then I just stuck with it, it was the fact that I was used to it.”

Harris also jokes that his run-ning is a funny sight to see.

The weekend event was a three-on-three tournament with seven-minute halves. Although

Harris and his BC Blazers team-mates fell short of a medal, the BC Warriors captured the title with a 21-18 win over Saskatch-ewan A.

“This is actually one of the bet-

ter venues,” Harris says of Duch-ess Park Secondary. “Whitehorse, it was the same thing. It was in a high school. This one is a lot nicer. It’s really light, it’s open. It brings in just a better feeling to

playing.”The seven-team tournament

featured players from B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan. For more information, check Friday’s Free Press.

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BC Blazers member Avril Harris, a Prince George product, breaks in between a couple of Alberta players during wheelchair basketball action on Sunday at Duchess Park Secondary.

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The 1994-born core is led by Bourke, who stands a good chance of becoming the Cou-gars captain next sea-son. Bourke was sec-ond in Cougars scor-ing in the 2012-13 sea-son with 50 points (15 goals and 35 assists), behind only Jacobs (25 goals and 28 assists).

Zach Pochiro, another 1994-born for-ward, is expected to play a larger offensive role. With 39 points (15 goals and 24 assists), he finished third in 2012-13 team scoring.

Then come the 1995-born players looking ahead to their third WHL seasons. After showing promise as rookies, members of that class may have taken steps back in 2012-13. Cougars man-agement will try and help those players get back on track.

“Obviously we’re getting to the point to where they have to produce and be the difference on those nights, along with the older guys we have coming back as well,” Cougars general man-ager Dallas Thompson said.

Skaters born in 1996 coming off rookie seasons are forward Carson Bolduc and defenceman Jordan Harris.

This season’s 1997-born underagers included forwards Jansen Harkins and Brad Morrison. The Cougars chose each player in the first round of the 2012 WHL Bantam Draft, Harkins second and Morrison seventh.

Thompson expects both first-round selec-tions to be in the Cou-gars’ active lineup next season.

“It’s certainly look-ing like that. They both had very good

years,” he said. “I like the way that they both developed, and it’s a big summer for every-body.”

As for goaltending, Thompson called it wide open. The 2012-13 season saw Engel play in 47 games, while Brett Zarowny skated between the pipes in 31 contests. A third goalie in the mix, Ty Edmonds, will also try and earn ice time.

Like Thompson, Cougars head coach Mark Holick wasn’t pleased with the fashion in which the Cougars ended their 2012-13 season. They ended the campaign on a five-game los-ing streak, including the lopsided defeat on home in their last game.

“There will certainly be an evaluation of everybody involved,” Holick said.

Holick joined the Cougars in January. He was hired to fill a position previously held by Dean Clark, dismissed after com-piling a record of

83-163-5-11 in three and a half seasons with the Cats.

Holick is 7-16-0-2 as Cougars bench boss. Holick carried a WHL mark of 120-75-0-21 from three seasons coaching the Koote-nay Ice from 2007 to 2010. He was named WHL Coach of the Year in 2009-10. He also guided the AHL’s Syracuse Crunch for two seasons from 2010 to 2012.

Gibb, whose four-year WHL tenure with the Cougars ended with only one play-off appearance (2010-11), said he thinks the Cougars finally have pieces in place to build a contender.

“Mark with a full year, I think he can do a lot of good things with this team. Not to take anything away from Dean, but change is good sometimes.”

Thompson wouldn’t compare the coaches. He said players han-dled the transition OK.

“Obviously things are run a little bit dif-

ferently, accountability and being counted on, and being a guy who the coach can trust to put out in some situ-ations has changed a little bit here now. I think it was good for our guys to see exactly how it’s going to be and meeting with them at the end of the year, I think they’re excited and happy with the way things are going here, and the expecta-tions are high. We’re not happy not being in the playoffs this year.”

BANTAM DRAFT

The Cougars will select third at this year’s WHL Bantam Draft, scheduled for May 2 in Calgary.

Although they fin-

ished second-last in the 2012-13 season, the Cats slipped to third in line for the draft. For winning the lot-tery, the Regina Pats moved up two spots to the second overall selection.

The last-place Van-couver Giants hold the first overall choice. The Cougars will select second for all subsequent rounds of the draft.

FORSBERG

The Cougars may also make a trade this offseason. They still hold the rights to Alex Forsberg, who left the organization in December, returning to his home province of Saskatchewan and

joining the Saskatch-ewan Junior Hockey League’s Humboldt Broncos. The Cats used the first overall selection in 2010 to draft Forsberg, a 1995-born forward from Waldheim.

“He is an asset for us. But I’ve said all along and certainly proved it at the dead-line that until we get something that helps the Prince George Cougars, we won’t be making a trade,” Thompson said. “If something presents itself to help us and we’re happy then

obviously we’re going to do something and move on.”

GIBB His junior hockey

career barely finished, Gibb has already joined another team.

The East Coast Hockey League’s Stockton (Calif.) Thun-der announced last week that they signed Gibb.

Gibb served as cap-tain of the Cougars this past season, and is a Prince George minor hockey prod-uct. Although raised in Prince George, he was born in Cranbrook.

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Progress, regress or neither? It can be a matter of perspective.

The Prince George Spruce Kings recorded a .527 win-ning percentage in the 2012-13 regular season with 25 wins, 22 losses, one tie and eight overtime defeats (25-22-1-8) in 56 games. The previ-ous campaign, they sported a 33-21-2-4 mark in 60 games, a .600 winning percent-age.

This season, they had a harder time scoring. At 170 goals, they averaged only 3.04 goals per game. In 2011-12, the aver-age was 3.63. They were also outscored overall (170-185) and had a higher goals against than 2011-12, when they outscored the opposition 218-185.

The 2011-12 sea-son also saw Spruce Kings forward Paul de Jersey take the B.C. Hockey League scoring title with 98 points (41 goals and

57 assists). This sea-son the Spruce Kings’ top scorer, Coltyn Hansen, recorded 50 points.

But look beyond the regular season statistics, and you may say the Spruce Kings took a step for-ward this season.

A significant por-tion of the Spruce Kings’ 2011-12 roster didn’t return this season. While they lost a chunk of play-ers to graduation and NCAA Division 1 commitments, they also said goodbye to the Fitzgerald trip-lets, who requested a trade and ended up property of the Victo-ria Grizzlies.

While the majority of staff remained in place, the team iced a

vastly different look-ing lineup. They also switched conferences. They didn’t only sur-vive the move from the Interior to Main-land Divi-sion. They were compet-itive in the new division, ending up third in the five-team group.

Something else that indicates a sign of progress: The Spruce Kings had playoff wins this year, two more than the 2011-12 campaign.

That’s right, the 2011-12 season ended in disappointment for the Spruce Kings as they were swept in

Round 1.While 2012 saw the

Spruce Kings make the playoffs for the first time in three years, they lost four

games to zero against the Merritt Centenni-als. This year, they pushed

the Chilliwack Chiefs to the limit in their best-of-five set, losing three games to two.

The Spruce Kings also appear to be in good shape moving forward.

OK, the losses will be noticeable. They lose a few of their top skaters in addition to goalie Kirk Thomp-son, who you could say was their most valuable player this past season.

But this team has

a solid core of talent returning. And as they proved last year, they have an ability to attract skilled new-comers.

Long gone are the days when the Spruce Kings were among the bottom feeders in the BCHL. Despite the losses of Cariboo neighbours (Quesnel and Williams Lake), the Spruce Kings have been competi-tive in the BCHL the past two seasons.

But with the rise comes higher expec-tations. The past two years have shown they’re clearly a strong BCHL team that can make the playoffs.

The question we now ask is this: Can this team change from average BCHL team to elite BCHL squad?

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Matt Janzen jogs through the snow along Gladstone Drive during Heights Fiver on Sunday morning. The event was the first Prince George Road Runners competition of 2013. Janzen topped the field in the 5 km race, clocking in at 20:14.

MORNING JOG

The Prince George Spruce Kings have closed out another B.C. Hockey League season.

With that, another group of players have been recognized for their on- and off-ice contributions. On Saturday evening, the team held its annual player awards banquet.

Kirk Thompson, the team’s starting goalten-der in the 2012-13 campaign, took home the top honour of Regular Season MVP. Thompson was a workhorse between the pipes, playing in 50 of 56 games. The 21-year-old Surrey product racked up a total of 2,806 minutes, a new single-season franchise record.

Thompson also set Spruce Kings career marks in the BCHL with 6,705 minutes played and 46 victories. His 24 wins this past season is the high-est BCHL single-season mark for a Spruce King.

In 50 games, Thompson recorded 24 wins, 22 losses and one tie. He sported a 2.84 goals against average, .915 save percentage and two shutouts.

Another top honour was the Playoff MVP award. This year, the Spruce Kings named co-winners: forward Coltyn Hansen and defence-man Trevor Esau. In losing three games to two against the Chilliwack Chiefs in the best-of-five opening round, Hansen (five goals) and Esau (two goals and three assists) led the Spruce Kings in scoring.

Thompson, Hansen and Esau form three quar-ters of the team’s 1992-born graduating core. For-ward Shayne Morrissey, named the Fan Favourite Player of the Year, will also be ineligible to return due to age.

Esau captured the most hardware. He was also the recipient of the Muchalla Family Bursary, the Steel Man Player of the Year award and the Best Defenceman of the Year honour. Hansen and Morrissey were also multiple award winners. Hansen was named the Leading Scorer of the Year (50 points) and Plus/Minus Player of the Year (plus-16). Morrissey was selected for Outstanding Community Service and Fan Favourite Player of the Year.

Other player award winners were: Jake LeB-

run - Scholastic Player of the Year; Cam Lawson - Most Dedicated Player of the Year; Kevin Guilti-nan - Most Inspirational Player of the Year; Chad Staley - Most Improved Player of the Year; Karan Toor - Rookie of the Year; and Bryant Christian - Seventh Player of the Year.

Bill van Helvoirt and Tom Baratta were co-recipients of the Volunteer Appreciation Award.

The Spruce Kings recorded 25 wins, 22 losses, one tie and eight overtime defeats (25-22-1-8) in the regular season. The Chiefs ended the Spruce Kings’ season with a 5-2 victory in Game 5 of their best-of-five series on March 20 in Chilliwack.

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The Gitxsan Child and Family Services Society is a non-profit Aboriginal Child and Family Services Agency located in beautiful Northern British Columbia. The ED will proactively lead, promote and manage the implementation and administration of the current programs offered, plus expanding its services to communities in a holistic approach. The ED reports to the Board of Directors and is the senior representative of the agency, promoting the agency’s activities through contact with Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, The Ministry for Child and Family Development, the Gitxsan communities and other agencies. The successful candidate will bring the following requirements;

• Demonstrated knowledge in the areas of Child, Family and Community Service Act and other relevant regulatory and legal requirements

• Personnel management experience • The ability to develop and maintain a positive working relationship with

staff, contracted partners, community members and others • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal • Proven leadership and the ability to be part of a multi-disciplinary team

and work independently • Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills • Excellent analytical and administrative skills

Financial Management• The Executive Director is responsible for oversight of the agency’s financial

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Qualifications• A minimum of five years current experience in Child and Family Services,

including child protection; and • Master of Social Work (MSW), Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) or • Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in a related human services field, plus

supervising training, plus 3 years current child protection experience or; a master in Education (counseling) or Master of Psychology degree, plus four years current child protection social work experience.

• Experience in management of Child Welfare Services• Knowledge of Gitxsan Culture is a definite asset• Must have a valid driver’s license and a reliable vehicle• Good knowledge of computers and supporting software• Successfully pass a Criminal Records Review

Pursuant to Section 41 of the BC Human Rights Code, preference may be given to qualified applicants of Aboriginal ancestry.

41 (1) it a charitable, philanthropic, education, fraternal, religious or social organization or cooperation that is not operated for profit has a primary purpose the promotion of the interests and welfare of an identifiable group or class of persons characterized by a physical or mental disability or by a common race, religion, age, sex marital status, political belief, colour, ancestry or place of origin, that organization or corporation must not be considered to be contravening this Code because it is granting a preference to members of the identifiable group or class of persons.

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PRINCE GEORGE NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE

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The Prince George Native Friendship Centre, a visionary non-profi t society, has been serving the needs of the entire community for the past 43 years.

We are seeking candidates for the following position(s) within our organization:

Youth & Community Services: Youth Care Workers (FT, PT and Casuals) Closing date: March 22, 2013

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To apply, submit a resume, cover letter and three (3) references detailing which position you are applying for, to:

Prince George Native Friendship Centre 1600 Third Avenue Prince George, BC V2L 3G6 Fax: (250) 563-0924 E-mail: [email protected]

Applications will be accepted until dates noted on postings, no telephone inquiries please. We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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or Fax: 604-587-9889Van-Kam is committed to Employment Equity and Environmental Responsibility.We thank you for your interest, however only those of interest to us will be contacted.

Help WantedCurry Kingdom Restaurant requires full time experienced cooks with min 2 yrs exp, spe-cializing in South Indian and Srilankan. $14.50 per hour.Plan meals & prep. Work with min supervision. Train staff in prep, cooking and handling of food. Speak & write Tamil and English Drop off resume to 1789 S. Nicholson St. between 10am - 9pm

GUARANTEED JOB Place-ment: General Laborers and Tradesmen For Oil & Gas In-dustry. Call 24hr Free Record-ed Message. For Information 1-800-972-0209.

Employment

Help WantedEast Indian Cooks Wanted

Nijjer 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].

HOOKTENDER, F/T.- Dun-can, BC. Wages as per USW coastal agreement. Loader &processor experience an assetor be willing to learn to run these machines. Fax resumeto 1-604-736-5320 or email [email protected]

Park Attendants Required

Mariah Recreation Manage-ment Services is seeking

suitable couples or individuals for employment in the following Provincial Parks for the 2013 season

(May - Sept): Beatton, Charlie Lake

& Moberly Lake Duties will include:• Park maintenance & landscaping• Fee collection & park security• Record keeping & customer service• Use of small power toolsRequirements:• Must by physically fi t & • willing/able to work outdoors in all kinds of

weather conditions• Experience with power

tools for park mainte-nance

• Must have experience with handling cash & customer service

deliveryFax/E-mail resumes to:

Mariah Recreational Management Services

[email protected]

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Employment

Help WantedVersatile Painting & Sand-blasting is looking for quali-fi ed experienced Journey-men Painters/Sandblastersin KITIMAT. Must be highly motivated, energetic and work well with others. Please send resumes to:

[email protected]

Hotel, Restaurant, Food Services

TIN Rooster Holding Ltd, P.O. Box 160 (100 Boulder Ave.), Dease Lake, B.C., V0C1L0, requires full time cooks to pre-pare and cook short orders and full meals for eat-in and take-out. Prepare and cook deli items for retail sale. Main-tain all health standards. Appli-cants must have 3 years expe-rience. Salary $13.30 / hr. Apply by mail or fax: (250) 771-4382.

Professional/Management

EXPERIENCED strata manager re-quired for Abbotsford and Surrey Must be organized, work well under pressure and results oriented. Re-sume and cover to:[email protected]

Trades, TechnicalJDT CONSTRUCTION

is hiringWeldersFitters

& Millwrights

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Pets & Livestock

Pet BreedersBeautiful 3 yr old. female malamute medium size husky requires a medium male size husky for breeding. Call asap 250-617-5088

Merchandise for Sale

AuctionsLARGE AUCTION of hard-wood fl ooring (fi nished & un-fi nished), pallet racking equip-ment, offi ce furniture. Saturday, April 6, 10 a.m., 9370 - 48 St., Edmonton, Al-berta. Phone 1-888-453-6964.

$200 & UnderFirewood, driest wood in town split & delivered $180/cord (250)964-2020

White hobby lock serger just serviced $200 250-964-9141

Heavy Duty Machinery

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Misc. for SaleAluminum tri-fold ATV/

Mower ramps. 1500 lb capacity

50” wide x 77” lengthNew $280 Will sell for

$175 obo 250-640-3970

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 REDUCED to $300

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SAWMILLS FROM only $3997 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill- Cut lumber any dimension. Instock ready to ship. Free Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

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Rentals

Apt/Condo for Rent

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To Rent Call:250-561-1447

• 1 & 2 bedroom apartments available

• Close to hospital & downtown

• Rent includes heat, hot water• Elevator to undercover

parking • Fridge, stove, quality carpets,

drapes • Laundry on each fl oor • No pets

1 bdrm $570, 2 bdrm $680 heat, h/w incl.,

1601 Queensway; 250-596-4275 250-612-7199

HILLSBOROUGH AptsNewly updated, spacious 3

bdrm apts. Clean, quiet, secure entrance.

No Pets. Includes H/W Utilities extra

Phone 250-596-4555

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Bachelor, 1 & 2 bdrm SuitesBalcony, Elevator, Under-

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On July 2, 2010, at the 13700 block

of East Beaverly Road, Prince

George, B.C. , Peace Officer(s) of the

Prince George RCMP seized, at the

time indicated, the subject property,

described as: $4,760 CAD, on or

about 09:53 Hours.

The subject property was seized

because there was a warrant

authorized by the court pursuant

to the Controlled Drugs and

Substances Act of Canada to seize

evidence in respect of an offence

(or offences) under section 7(1)

(Production of substance) of the

Controlled Drugs and Substances

Act of Canada (CDSA) and was

therefore offencerelated property

pursuant to section 11 (Search,

seizure and detention) of the CDSA.

Notice is hereby given that the

subject property, CFO file Number:

2013-1368, 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.

A notice of dispute may be filed by

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.

You may obtain the form of a notice

of dispute, which must meet the

requirements of 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 Office, PO Box 9234

Station Provincial Government,

Victoria, B.C. V8W 9J1.

In the Matter of Part 3.1 (Administrative Forfeiture) of the Civil Forfeiture Act [SBC 2005, C. 29] the CFA

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT:

ANSWER TO PUZZLE NO. 656

X CROSSWORD

Notice is hereby given, under section 6 (1) of the Tree Farm Licence Management

Plan Regulation, that Canadian Forest Products Ltd. (Canfor) is seeking public review

and comment on Draft Management Plan 10 (MP 10) for Tree Farm Licence 30 (TFL

30). MP 10 is being prepared in order to meet the requirements of the Tree Farm

Licence Management Plan Regulation. This regulation includes content requirements,

submission timing and public review requirements for TFL Management Plans. These

content requirements replace the Management Plan content requirements previously

listed in the Tree Farm Licence document and reduce duplication with associated

Forest Stewardship Plan results and strategies.

All interested parties are invited to view and comment on MP 10, from March 13th

2013 through to May 13th 2013. Viewing appointments can be arranged by calling our

offi ce at (250) 962-3398, or by visiting:

http://www.canfor.com/responsibility/environmental/plans.

Comments will be accepted until 4:00 pm, May 13th 2013.

For further information, please contact:

Sara Cotter, RPF

Planning Forester

Canadian Forest Products Ltd.

Forest Management Group

P.O. Box 9000, Prince George BC V2L 4W2

CANADIAN FOREST PRODUCTS LTD.

Draft - Tree Farm Licence 30 Management Plan 10

Warehouse Lien Act of B.C.BigSteelBox.com, 1670 Dilworth Drive, Kelowna, BC claims a Warehouse Lien against Eric Wood of Prince George, BC for arrears of container rent amounting to $1,312.80 plus any additional costs of storage that accrue. If not paid in full the contents, household goods, will be sold or disposed of April 6, 2013.

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Rentals

Offi ce/Retail900 sq ft 533 Dominion St. Retail/Offi ce space $900/mo neg + Hst. Heat & Ph. not incl. Ph:Anna 563-1289 or Danillo 563-2738

Room & BoardRoom & Board, on bus route. Walking distance to 2 shop-ping and civic centre $550 per mth n/s 250-614-0155

Suites, Lower2 BDRM bsmt suite

Off N. Nechako, w/d, f/s. Mature, working people only.

N/S $850. Avail immed. Call Theresa 250-962-5570

Fully furnished 1 bdrm bsmt suite. New appl, wireless cable, & all utilities. included in rent. Close to CNC, UNBC & Pine Centre. Call 250-564-9443 or 250- 301-9350

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WEDNESDAYEaster tea, March

27, 1-3 p.m., Hart Pioneer Centre.Caledonia

Ramblers easy full moon trip, McMillan Creek Park, March 27, 8 p.m. Information: Nowell 250-562-7485.Whist,

Wednesdays, 7 p.m., Senior Activity Centre, 425 Brunswick St.Wing night

and karaoke, Wednesdays, 6-10 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion.CNC Retirees meet

fourth Wednesday, 9 a.m., D’Lanos. Information: Lois 250-563-6928.Army Cadet

Rangers free youth program, meets Wednesdays, 6:0-9:30 p.m., Connaught Youth Centre. Information: Sondra 250-963-9462 or Andrew 250-981-8270.

THURSDAYDayBreakers

Toastmasters meets Thursday, 7-8 a.m., UHNBC Conference Room 1. Information: Heather 250-649-9591.BC Civil Liberties

Union meets second Thursday of the month, 6 p.m., 1575 Fifth Ave.Plaza 400

Toastmaster Club meets Thursday, noon, Aleza room, fourth floor, Plaza 400 building, 1011 4th Ave. Information: 6252.toastmastersclubs.org/ or 250-564-5191.Tai Chi classes,

Thursday, 7-9 p.m., Knox United Church, 1448 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-964-3849.Darts games,

Thursdays, Prince George Golf and Curling Club, Pepsi Room (downstairs). Registration 7 p.m. Information: Robin McGuire 778-890-0683.

Old Time Fiddlers jam, Thursday, 7-10 p.m. Elder Citizens

Rec Centre, 1692 10th Ave.

ECRA Forever Young Chorus meet Thursdays, 12:45 p.m., ECRA, 1692 10th Ave.

Prince George Grassroots Cribbage Club registration, 6:30 p.m. play 6:45 p.m., Thursdays, 3701 Rainbow Dr. Information: Gerda 250-564-8561.

FRIDAYDrum Circle with

Granville Johnson, Friday, 7-9 p.m., Le Cercle des Canadiens Francais de Prince George, 1752 Fir St. Information: 1-250-966-2320.

SATURDAYNechako Flea

Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 5100 North Nechako Rd.A Butler’s Market,

Saturdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 1156 Fourth Ave.

SUNDAYCaledonia

Rambler Mystery Lake Bushwack, March 31, 9 a.m. Information: Nowell 250-562-7485.Nechako Flea

Market, Sundays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 5100 North Nechako Rd.A Butler’s Market,

Sundays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., 1156 Fourth Ave.Meat draw, Royal

Canadian Legion, 3-5 p.m., sponsored by Peace Keepers Proceeds to Alzheimer and MS societies and others.

MONDAYTai Chi, Mondays,

1:30 p.m., Spruce Capital Seniors Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.

Northern Twister Square Dance Club meets Mondays, 7 p.m., Knox United Church basement. Information: Gys 250- 563-4828 or Reta 250-962-2740.

TUESDAYBridge, Tuesdays, 1

p.m., Spruce Capital

Seniors Centre, 3701 Rainbow Dr.

Buddhist meditation class, Tuesdays, 7:15-8:45 p.m., 320 Vancouver St. Information: 250-962-6876 or www.tilopa.org.Spruce Capital

Toastmasters meet Tuesdays, 7:25 p.m., 102-1566 7th Ave. Information: Tom 250-562-3402.Sweet Adelines

women’s four-part chorus meets Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., Studio 2880. New members welcome. Information: Kathleen 250-563-2975.

Hospital retirees meeting, first Tuesday of the month, 9 a.m., Prince George Golf Club. Information 250-563-7497 or 250-563-2885.

SUPPORT GROUPSNorthBreast

Passage Dragon Boat Society meets first Thursday of the month, 7 p.m., Chronic Disease Management Room, UHNBC. Information: Anita 250-563-2949 or Betty 250-962-7985.Royal Purple

meets meets second and fourth Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Information: Dianne 250-596-0125 or Jeanette 250-563-9362.

Wednesday evening Tops (take off pounds sensibly), Spruceland Baptist Church, 1901 Ogilvie St.. Information: Leona 250-962-8802.Prince George

Genealogical Society meets the third Tuesday of the month, St. Giles Presbyterian Church, 1500 Edmonton St.Prince George

Stroke Survivors Group meets Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Elder Citizens Recreation Association, 1692 10th Ave. Information: Julia 250-563-3819, Roland 250-562-1747.La Leche League

breast feeding support group meets

the second Thursday of every month 7 p.m. at the Health Unit auditorium. Information: Tammy 250-612-0085.PGRH retirees

breakfast, first Tuesday of the month, Prince George Golf and Curling Club. Information: 250-563-2885.Prince George

ATV Club meets third Tuesday of month, 7 p.m. Carmel Restaurant meeting room. Information: George 250-964-7907.Prince George

Healing Rooms - Are you hurting? Do you have health issues? Confidential prayers Monday noon-2 p.m. and 7-9 p.m No appointment necessary, located in the Prince George Pentecostal Church, 497 Ospika Blvd. Information: 250-617-9653.Free sports

and recreation, Wednesdays, 2 p.m., 1160 7th Ave., ages 15-30. Information: 250-656-5278.Children’s choir,

Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Hartland Baptist Church. Information: 778-415-5000.

Parents Together, a mutual/self-help support group for parents of teens, meets Mondays, 7:30 p.m., Intersect (basement entrance). Information: Carmen 250-562-6639.

Tuesday night Tops (take off pounds sensibly) 6:15-7:15 p.m. weigh in, 7:30-8:30 meeting. Everyone welcome. Information: Marvene 250-962-8001 or 250-612-2031.DivorceCare,

a support group for persons going through a separation or divorce. To find out if this group is for you, call 250-564-6213. Group meets at Artspace, Room 202, Sundays at 5 p.m. Call about childcare.Prince George

Healing Rooms - Are you hurting? Do you have health issues? Confidential prayers Wednesday noon-2 p.m, All Nations Church, 1395 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-617-9653.COPD support

group meets Wednesday, 1 p.m., AiMHi. Information: Nancy 250-561-1393.Heartbeat, a group

for mutual support of

those who have lost a loved one through suicide, meets monthly at CMHA office. Information: Sandy 250-960-9047.

Thursday Tops (take off pounds sensibly) 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Knox United Church,1448 Fifth Ave. Information: 250-564-6336 (days), 250-964-4851 (evenings).Elks’ meat draw,

Thursday, 4:30- 6 p.m., Legion. Proceeds to Elks’ Children’s Fund.Rainbows grief and

loss program for ages 5-15, registering for the fall session. No charge. Information: Catherine 250-563-2551.Tea Time for the

Soul. Would you like someone to listen to you? Come, listen, and share while enjoying a cup of tea. Mondays from 3 to 5 p.m. at Forest Expo House, 1506 Ferry Ave. No cost. For more information, Jesse or Catherine at 250-563-2551.Singles and

friends, social group of people of all ages and diverse

backgrounds, meets Wednesdays, 7 p.m., A&W on 20th Avenue.

Wednesday Tops (take off pounds sensibly) noon, AiMHi, 950 Kerry Sth. Information: 250-960-3959, 778-416-0908.


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Bob Toews, left, Janine Reilander and Duke Nguyen of Boston Pizza present Darrell Roze of the Prince George Child Development Centre with a cheque representing a portion of the funds raised at local stores through a number of fundraisers, and donated back to local groups.

“GIVE A LITTLE…GAIN A LOT!”

For information on volunteering with more than 100 non-profit organizations in Prince George, contact Volunteer Prince George

250-564-0224www.volunteerpg.com

Arthritis Society June 8 Walk to fight Arthritis & Health Fair at Masich Place. Looking for 3-4

volunteers to work on committees for the event. Margaret 250-614-2233

Hart Community Assn Apr 8 – May 31

Learn To Run 5K – 8 wk session, Wed & Fri, 6:30-7:30pm at Heather Park

Elementary. For age 18+. Cost $135. Registered Personal Trainer/Group

Leader. 250-561-7600.

Immigrant & Multicultural Services April 19

Arabian Night – 40th Anniversary of IMSS at Coast Inn. Join us for a taste

of exotic Middle Eastern Flavor. More info Sam 250-562-2454

Theatre North West Apr 18 – May 8

”Henry and Alice: Into the Wild”. Professional live theatre needs vol-unteers for front of house activities: ushering, taking tickets, concession.

2-3 evenings per production. Catherine 250-563-6969

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Picof the Week

This week’s McDonald’s Pic of the Week was submitted by Crystal Welsh. Crystal wins a $25.00 McDonald’s Gift Pack for providing the Pic of the Week. For your chance to win, email a picture of a resident of Prince George with your name and phone number, as well as the name of the person (people) in the photo, to [email protected] of the judges is fi nal. Prizes must be accepted as awarded. No substitutions.

There were wonderful performances during the Prince George Dance Festival last week.

Dancers from the Dance Academy of Prince Rupert perform

a colourful Following the Crane number Sunday evening at

Vanier Hall. Hundreds of dancers from all over the region are

taking part in the annual Prince George Dance Festival. Teresa MALLAM/Free Press

There were wonderful performances during the Prince George Dance Festival last week.

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