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DAWSON CREEK – Treaty 8 Nations West Moberly First Na-tion and Prophet River First Nation are presenting two affi davits to the BC Supreme Court this week which directly dispute BC Hydro’s recent claim in court that to postpone the construction of the Site C dam for one year would cost an extra $335 million, which would be deferred to ratepayers.

The two Nations were in court today (August 18) in a latest at-

tempt to stop construction of the controversial hydroelectric dam which, if built, will generate approximately 5,100 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity each year.

The proposed dam will operate for 100 years.Philip Raphals, of the research group Helios Centre based in

Montréal, prepared the affi davits which are to be submitted to BC Supreme Court this week.

Raphals has been advising Treaty 8 Tribal Association on their

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dealings with the B.C. Crown corporation BC Hydro since February of 2013; for example on behalf of Treaty 8 he presented to BC Hydro, the Joint Review Panel, BC En-vironmental Assessment Offi ce, and the Canadian Assess-ment Agency during the environmental assessment process for Site C.

In his affi davits, provided to Northeast News by Peace Valley Landowner’s Association, Raphals outlines discrep-

ancies and weaknesses he found in the BC Hydro reports which were presented to Supreme Court on August 12 2015.

Raphals reports that BC Hydro discounted more effi cient and cost-effective alternatives to Site C in its analysis of cost effects, which he has used to develop his own alterna-tive solutions to the dam, stating: “Specifi cally, by making use of resource options that had been inappropriately set aside by BC Hydro, in-cluding more aggressive energy effi ciency (de-mand-side management) options and low capacity-factor gas turbines1, I developed alternate sce-narios that would meet BC Hydro’s forecast en-ergy and capacity needs at lower cost without Site C, while meeting all the requirements of the Clean Energy Act.”

After extensive analy-sis of the implications of delay of construction for one and two years, by looking at factors such as capacity costs, capacity price forecasts, energy costs, energy price forecasts, energy market prices, historical energy market prices, and the annual cost of Site C, Raphal’s affi davit concludes that contrary to BC Hydro’s August 12 report, after a one- or two- year delay of commission “ratepay-ers would see a benefi t of between $174 and $347 million nominal dollars. Similarly, a two-year delay would lead to a benefi t of between $317 and $678 million nominal dol-lars.”

Raphals also points out that should the commission of Site C be moved forward one or two years, the payment schedule for ratepayers would not be shortened but rather moved forward as well for the corresponding amount of time, so B.C. ratepayers at the end of Site C’s life would be responsible for any extra costs incurred by delay.

“Thus, a one-year delay would result in adding a pay-ment in F [fi scal year] 2094 to compensate for the one not made in F2024; a two-year delay would result in adding payments in F2094 and F2095 to compensate for the ones not made in F2024 and F2025,” Raphal’s report states.

Also infl ation will come into play, according to the re-port: “Because the value of a 2095 dollar is so much lower than that of a 2024 dollar, replacing a payment of $500

million in F2024 with one in F2095 in fact tends to reduce the overall cost to ratepayers, not to increase it.”

The report points out that the cost-and-benefi ts lost by the deferral of the commissioning of the project by one or two years can be compensated for by the added costs-and-benefi ts of an addi-tional year or years at the end of the dam’s service.

The affi davits also call into question the number

itself; showing that the $335 million which BC Hydro’s report claims as losses, is not actually based on concrete fi gures, citing costs in the millions which are partly attrib-uted to work and contracts that have not been confi rmed or accounted for by BC Hydro.

“For all these reasons, the fi gure of $335 million . . . should be not relied upon unless supported by a detailed ac-counting.”

In conclusion to his fi ndings, Raphal states: “Given these results, one can only conclude that Site C is not a cost-effective solution to meeting BC Hydro’s forecast needs for additional energy and capacity. On the contrary, when compared to alternative portfolios that are not overbuilt to mimic the Site C surpluses, we see that Site C is in fact the most expensive of the alternatives studied.”

Treaty 8Continued from Front.

. . . one can only conclude that Site C is not a cost-effective

solution to meeting BC Hydro’s forecast needs for additional energy and capacity. On the

contrary . . . Site C is in fact the most expensive of the alternatives studied.

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FORT ST. JOHN - Saving our Northern Seniors (SONS) was at the Peace River Regional District (PRRD) board meeting on August 20 to ask the board for support in its pledge to get provincial government to build a third care home at Peace Villa in Fort St. John.

“It is critical that the construction of the third house at Peace Villa be started immediately,’ Leahy told the board. “The situation is not going to get any better and in fact if you look at the current statistics, the situation will be even worse.”

The construction cost of the project is projected by SONS to be upwards of $20 million.

It would house 60 residents and include a daycare and an activity room.

“We’re asking them for help, because they’re all politi-cians, they get to see the government more than we do. And this has got to get going because it’ll take two to three years to build it,” Jean Leahy of SONS told Northeast News.

“And everything is full . . . we just can’t keep on like this, and the population in seniors is just exploding.”

Figures provided by SONS shows that there are currently 358 long term beds in Fort St. John which are presently all occupied, with a constantly fl uctuating waiting list that is currently at 296.

Not included in these numbers are 138 se-niors who are in their own homes receiving home care or home nursing.

Director Dan Rose expressed that senior housing is a regional and even a province-wide problem.

“It’s not just Fort St. John that has the prob-lem, it’s district wide, and is probably province wide,” Rose said.

“Things need to change in the higher lev-els in order to get funding and recognition . . . think all of us are involved, or should be, on working towards some kind of solution.”

Leahy only partially agreed: “The only dif-ference in the other communities, probably Prince George beyond, is they have private fa-cilities, and we have none.”

While it is ideal for many to be in their own homes, Leahy says, it is not a permanent solu-tion.

“They’ve got the at home project, where they’re trying to keep people at home as long as possible, and that works pretty good but only so long,” Leahy said. “There comes a time when you can not be alone in your house, no matter how much help you have. If you need complex care you’ve got go where there’s complex care.”

“Who’s go-ing to assess when that help is no longer ad-equate?” Leahy asked the board.

C h r i s t i e Schilling, pro-gram coordina-tor of Better at Home, which

provides non-medical ser-vices to seniors who are re-ceiving medical support at home, says that the number of their clients is growing as well; currently there are approximately 85 clients re-ceiving support from Better at Home.

“Our program is expand-ing very rapidly, and there are defi nitely a large number of seniors in our program that are receiving it because . . . they can’t do it them-selves, they’re not medically able.”

Better at Home is funded by the government of B.C. and managed by United Way.

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DAWSON CREEK - Dawson Creek city council have announced decisively that both Kin Arena and Dawson Creek & District Memorial Arena will be open and ready for ice use as of October 13.

The arenas were originally slated to be opened on No-vember 1.

The Dawson Creek Curling Rink will also be ready for ice use once its dry fl oor season has concluded, a City of Dawson Creek press release confi rmed.

Barry Reynard, Community Services Director of Daw-son Creek, says the earlier opening times are due to nothing more than hard work and effi ciency.

“Some very effective work by our contractor and our consultant, and I guess we’d always hoped for a positive startup date that might be earlier than November 1, and we’re seeing those results of some very effective work on their behalf,” he said.

“It’s a good news story.”Reynard said that city staff are also completing routine

drainage work around the arenas, as well as additional

small items that are included in scheduled operational capi-tal expenditures.

Continued future work on the arenas, which was ap-proved at a Spring special council meeting this year, has been tentatively scheduled but still must be approved for next year’s budget, Reynard said.

All three of Dawson Creek’s ice arenas were closed for much of the 2015-2016 winter season due to ammonia leaks in the ice plants which service Memorial Arena and the Curling rink, and then defi ciencies which were found in all three arenas upon further assessment.

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FORT ST. JOHN - Fort St. John RCMP confi scated green pills containing fentanyl and heroin during a traffi c stop in June, according to RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie.

In 2014 there were nine overdoses involving fentanyl in Fort St. John, four of which resulted in death.

In 2013, there were three overdoses involving fentanyl, of which two resulted in death.

Dawson Creek RCMP responded to fi ve fentanyl related overdoses in July, none of which resulted in death.

Recently fentanyl topped headlines in the Lower Main-land when Amelia and Hardy Leighton, a “wonderful couple and responsible parents” in their early 30s—as de-scribed by their landlord—were both killed after inhaling a fentanyl-laced substance in their North Vancouver apart-ment.

“This is the fi rst time that heroin has shown up in a drug seizure in our community in recent history,” stated Cpl. Jodi Shelkie.

“Historically cocaine was the predominant illegal drug in Fort St. John. More recently, large amounts of illicit fen-tanyl has been seized. It’s known that fentanyl is produced in clandestine drug labs using various cutting agents. The fact that heroin has been discovered in illicit fentanyl pills in Fort St. John is very troubling.”

Fentanyl is being imported illegally in powder form, as

it is diverted from pharmaceutical markets in China, for ex-ample, and is also being produced domestically in clandes-tine laboratories where they are most often made into tab-lets to resemble popular street opioids such as Oxycodone.

They are often green in colour and are sometimes called “greenies.”

The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) re-leasesd a bulletin in August 2015 on the rampant rise of the use of and subsequent deaths from the drug fentanyl in Canada.

Between 2009 and 2014, there were at least 655 deaths in Canada where fentanyl was determined to be a cause or a contributing cause of death, the bulletin reports.

According to the bulletin this fi gure indicates an aver-age of one fentanyl-related death in Canada every three days during that time period and that this estimate is like-ly an understimate.

The danger of fentanyl comes from its cheap, easy manufacturing process and its ability to be cut or mixed with heroin or other opioids such as Oxycodone.

Fentanyl is approximately 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine; as its illegal production and use is com-pletely unregulated, illicit drugs containing danger-ous amounts of fentanyl are

making their way onto the streets and into the hands of un-wary drug users.

This improper mixing of fentanyl by traffi ckers and pro-ducers is causing a spike in overdoses and deaths.

The CCSA, RCMP and the Canadian Community Epi-demiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) have been attempting to formulate a national framework to deal with what it is acknowledging is an epidemic.

The challenge is co-ordinating between jurisdictions across Canada which all have different drug policies in place.

Deputy provincial health offi cer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Dr. Jane Buxton, harm reduction lead at the BC Centre for Disease Control, conducted a teleconference on fentanyl on August 11.

“This is not a problem that we’re only seeing in B.C., it’s seen across the country. While we are doing fairly well in terms of measuring the problem in relation to other prov-inces, we’re not all using the same data sources, not all of us are monitoring things in the same way, so a more co-ordinated approach would help us understand the issues,” said Henry, “a national coordinated approach would help us address them better, and we’re strong supporters in B.C. of the four pillars harm reduction approach, so we would look to our national partners to endorse those types of ap-proaches as well.”

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Did you know that the city planners of Fort St. John, and I imagine, Dawson Creek, Chetwynd, and Tumbler Ridge are in league with this group of bureaucratic Bol-sheviks of these communities are again planning another secret campaign to force rural land owners to manda-tory building inspections. The very issue that was over-whelmingly rejected by rural residents a very short time ago. This group of modern day Bolsheviks are on the move to gain control of the rural areas not under their authority. They are secretly conspiring with their Pro-vincial Bolshevik Brethren to accomplish their socio-pathic desires for control. Basically what they are trying

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The writer of a recent article in a local paper extols the virtues and work ethics of fossil fuel indus-try employees. She wonders why these employees are sometimes referred to as “rig pigs”. This term was prob-ably more descriptive in days gone by of rig camp con-ditions, slovenly habits of workers, the incredibly dirty jobs they had and the uncouth, often drunken behavior when they were off work. Although working conditions have improved, the deep down, unconscionably self-ish and belligerent attitude of the fossil fuel industries and many of their employees has not. This attitude has been evident in every oil and gas town I have been in. It is characterized by rude and destructive behavior, by vandalizing anything that doesn’t immediately appear to support the oil and gas industry. Rig pigs ROAR and speed through residential neighbourhoods at any hour of the day or night. They spin doughnuts, tearing up the sod, on parks, school yards, lawns etc. leaving a trail of beer cans and other alcohol bottles in their wake. Ev-ery oil and gas boom town is rife with drug and alco-

hol abuse, prostitution, STD’s etc. When an ultra loud pickup blows past you at twice the legal speed limit on a double solid line you know it’s a roughneck or some other fossil fuel industry worker. When, on a Fri. or Sat. night, your town sounds like the Indianapolis 500 with engines revving, tires screaming and the cops are “looking the other way” you know the rig pigs are out “having a little fun”. All we can do is keep our kids and pets off the street and hope life will be more pleasant tomorrow. The unconscionable avarice and gluttony of the fossil fuel corporations fosters arrogance, belliger-ence, selfi shness and greed in their employees, although it can be well disguised. The fossil fuel industries, and yes their employees as well, are burning down our for-ests, polluting our atmosphere, depleting our resources and killing our future. I have only scratched the surface on this issue but I hope I have been able to convey the relevance of the term “rig pig”. Thank you.

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fi rst dedicated senior’s housing building—Heritage Manor I— was constructed after a citizen group identifi ed what at that time was seen as a crisis.

It is the only fully wheelchair-accessible building in Fort St. John.

Heritage Manor I (35 units subsidized by BC Housing) was followed by Heritage Manor II in 2007; an assisted liv-ing home with 24 units.

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The number of seniors living alone without proper care is growing and the situation is worse than it’s ever been, says Leahy.

Peace Villa was built in 2012, with 123 beds, all in all equalling an inadequate number of beds for seniors in Fort St. John, SONS says.

“It’s by far the worst. We knew when that care home [Peace Villa] was built it would be fi lled the day it was opened, and it was, and we told the authorities that, and no-body would do anything about it,” Leahy said. “They said we’ll get along, well we’re not getting along.”

Director Karen Goodings questioned SONS as to what action locally they expect the board to take, for example more taxation.

“I know that has been suggested, and I don’t know if that’s the answer but you people would know better what the region might think of that,” Leahy said.

Director Dale Bumstead said that the burden of cost which seniors receiving extended care in hospital puts on the health care system is an issue which could be broached with provincial levels of government.

“That’s really affecting the facility in Dawson Creek, be-cause it’s jamming our emergency, overlay that, it’s delay-ing surgery, because there’s no care beds available to move them in, and because there’s absolutely no place for those individuals to go who should be in the hospital,” Bumstead said.

“I think that’s impacting our medical community, our medical service . . . that is a valid point for us I think to make to the Province, the Minister of Health, that the cost to the system for us, in terms of having those patients in the acute care facility, is nuts. And they shouldn’t be there, it’s not where they should be, they should be in a residence, in a facility that’s equipped to care for them.”

Lack of private facilities in Fort St. John was also dis-cussed as a concern.

“I have friends who have moved to Penticton, and they say, there are lots of private places. You have to afford it, but at least you can have options,” Leahy said.

SONS brought fi ve recommendations to the PRRD board, including requesting that all three levels of govern-ment work with SONS to develop more facilities, fi nding a way to provide more funding for construction of low-cost housing, and working with BC Housing to create more ap-propriate criteria for placement in Heritage 1.

The board moved to have a meeting with Northern Health about facilities for seniors, at the Union of BC Municipali-ties (UBCM) Convention in September, with the further intention of approaching the Minister of Health with the issue once more information is gathered.

It was also moved to invite the CEO of BC Housing to the to discuss topics such as the Heritage units in Fort St. John and other municipalities, and the possibility for more low-cost housing in the region, and also to be educated on BC Housing’s policies.

Photo Credit Stacy ThomasA detail of Kit Fast’s sewn photograph Formation, currently on display at Peace Gallery North at the North Peace Cultural Centre.

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spectives that they can share just to get the conversation going.”

Between 2012 and 2014 in British Columbia alone, there were 152 fen-tanyl-detected deaths which occurred under illicit circumstances.

Preliminary data and pending cases indicate approximately 90 of these deaths in 2014, meaning a 5 per cent increase since 2012.

“We can’t predict what’s going to come out of this, it’s the latest in the long list of illicit drugs that has made its way onto our shores and the impact of it is immense so far,” said Henry.

Naloxone has been identifi ed as a medicine that can reverse the overdose effects of fentanyl and other opioids, but as yet is only available by prescrip-

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Dawson Creek RCMP report continued break and enters; some electronics recovered


DAWSON CREEK - On August 16, Dawson Creek RCMP responded to an alert of a vehicle which had been located by CRS. The vehicle had been taken from a yard on Triangle Road, along with approximately 800 litres of diesel fuel and possibly two yards of fi bre optic cable.

RCMP are currently awaiting video surveillance footage of the area and will be forwarding images of suspects to media once they recieve the video.

Further, tracks found in the yard show that a skid steer may have been used to remove the cable from the yard.

On Tuesday August 18, a distinctively bright yellow Ford F350 was stolen from the 1900 block of 93rd Avenue in Dawson Creek.

It can also be identifi ed by an aluminum headache rack and a tool chest in the box of the truck.

The tool box contained a number of power tools.The license plate of the vehicle reads JL 2501, however

RCMP point out that the plates have likely been removed and substituted with other stolen license plates.

Also on August 18, Dawson Creek RCMP responded to a report of a break and enter of an abandoned homestead in the area of Rolla.

Upon inspection of the site, RCMP located a stolen truck and fi fth wheel camper.

Inquiries returned that that the truck had been stolen out of Grande Prairie, and the trailer from Beaverlodge.

Both vehicles are now in possession of the RCMP; fo-rensic examination has been completed on both vehicles and police are now awaiting lab results.

Both vehicles were stolen on August 7, 2015.Dawson Creek RCMP were notifi ed

on August 20 that several items stolen from Audiotronics on August 16 had been found in North Okanagan.

While investigating a stolen vehicle North Okanagan RCMP recovered a Nikon camera and 22 cellular phones.

Police are still investigating the initial break and enter at Audiotronics.

Dawson Creek RCMP responded to 225 calls during the week of August 16 to 22, including 7 break and enters and 13 thefts.

Anyone with information regarding these crimes is asked to contact Dawson Creek RCMP or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477 if they wish to remain anony-mous.

Photo Credit RCMP submittedFord F350 stolen on August 18.

Sun 1st A beautiful day. Self taking the Fur down to the bank for the Steamer. The SS Athabasca arrived from H. Hope after taking on the Furs. They continued on their way down the River.

Mon 2nd A fi ne clear day. Self in offi ce. Hanley ar-rived from H. Hope on a Raft. The River still falling down. Wablie arrived from Pouce Coupie and left again. A wire came in and reported the death of Mr. H. Cameron at Grande Prairie where he has been sick for some time.

Tues 3rd Rain this morning but cleared up towards noon. Self busy at odd jobs. River still going down.

Wed 4th Continues fi ne. Lee Mannon came up from the Pine Flat. No arrivals.

Thurs 5th Continues fi ne. The Homestead Inspector ar-rived from H. Hope on his way down the River. Some of the Men of the Telegraph Line came down from the Hope in a Boat. They report the Line fi nished to the Hope.

Fri 6th Continues very fi ne weather. Self busy in the store. The Catholic Bishop & 2 men passed down on a Raft this evening from H. Hope. The River came up a little. Mr. Birley started making Hay.

Sat 7th Mr. Wilder and the balance of his Men arrived from H. Hope on a Raft and after putting up the Telephone for the Police continued on their way down the River. A fi ne clear day. Self in offi ce.

Sun 8th A fi ne clear day. Mail arrived this evening. 3 Indians arrived from Montney Camp. F Treadwell arrived.

Mon 9th Continues fi ne weather. 3 Men left this morning in a canoe for P. River. A white man arrived overland from PRL. The Mail left this evening.

Tues 10th George & Hazen started to make Hay. They will put up 15 loads for the HBC for $50.00. Mr. Birley also started to make Hay. Very hot. Self fi xing up the mower.

Wed 11th Self very busy in the store. Montaigne and 3 others arrived. Also some of Adisless band arrived. Vey hot. River going down fast.

Thurs 12th Adisless and 4 others arrived. Self very busy. Continues very hot weather.

Fri 13th A fi ne clear day. The Indians left for home this morning. Appain arrived. A man arrived who is travelling with the Forestry Outfi t. They are camped about 5 miles from here.

Sat 14th Continues fi ne. Self in offi ce. River going down fast.

Sun `15th A fi ne clear day. The Northern Call arrived this evening with a few passengers including Mrs. How-land, also Mr. & Mrs. Carmichael. They all are going to H. Hope.

Mon 16th The Steamer left this morning to H. Hope. Mrs. Birley also went up to have her Teeth fi xed by Dr. Green. Mr. Birley haulling out lumber to his homestead. 2 men passed down to the Xing. Mr. Doucett arrived from his

camp at Fish Creek.Tues 17th Continues very

fi ne hot weather. Everybody making Hay. Mr. Benot’s Packer arrived from the Halfway River for supplies.

Wed 18th Very hot day. Self in offi ce. Mr. Doucett came down with his pack train for his supplies. Davis and a few others arrived. The Northern Call arrived from H. Hope. Mr. & Mrs. Lessouth as passengers on their way out.

Thurs 19th The SS N. Call left this morning for the Xing. Rain in the morning for about an hour. Self busy in offi ce. River still falling. D. Cadenhead arrived from the Crossing and continued on his way up the River. A few Indians arrived.

Fri 20th Very hot day, “sultry”. Very smoky. There must be some big fi res burn-

ing somewhere north. 2 men arrived from Hudsons Hope.Sat 21st Continues fi ne. Self in offi ce. Thomas & 2 other

Indians arrived. Burt Carmichael & Mrs. Carmichael also Mrs. Birley arrived from H. Hope.

Sun 22nd Mr. Howland arrived from H. Hope. This morning a fi ne hot day but very smoky. The Mail arrived this evening.

Mon 23rd Self in store. Mr. Howland in offi ce. One In-dian arrived from Addisless camp. The Mail left for Pouce Coupe. Also Cadenhead left with the Mail for H. Hope. Blowing a strong North wind all day.

Tues 24th Mr. Howland as before. Self at odd jobs. A fi ne mild day but very smoky. The Fire Ranger arrived. River still falling. 2 Indians arrived from up the South Pine River.

Wed 25th Mr. Howland left this morning for Dunvegan by Canoe. Self in offi ce. Blowing a strong gale of wind from the West all day.

Thurs 26th Self cut my wheat and had a fi ne crop. A fi ne clear day. Mr. Benot and party passed down the River on a Raft to Taylors Flat where they are going to start work.

Fri 27th Self making Hay with scythe. Continues very fi ne weather.

Sat 28th Self as yester-day. Very hot. Joe Appas-assin arrived from Pouce Coupe. Modest & Lesyne ar-rived having been with Mr. Doucett for a week.

Sun 29th Continues very hot weather. We all went out for a ride this evening. 2 men passed down the River from Fort George.

Mon 30th Self & Johnny calking hay and fi nished one bunch. Cloudy & looks like rain. 2 miners passed down the River this evening. A heavy thunderstorm with rain started about 7 o’clock and rain continued all night.

Tues 31st A fi ne clear day. Got taken very sick this af-ternoon.

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DISTRICT OF HUDSON’S HOPE, BC

The District of Hudson’s Hope is requesting Expressions of Interest (EOI) for the supply of a new “Public Works Shop Building” that will provide storage and maintenance services to the District public works department.

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The successful proponent will supply and construct a completed, move in ready, structure based on the needs of the District. Successful proponent to site inspect area of construction. The building at a minimum should be 12,000 square feet in size and must contain:

• A partial second floor • Plumbing, heating and cooling elements • 1’ x 80’ x 150’ Reinforced concrete foundation and building slab • Electrical and communications elements • The building’s roof will need to support a 150kW photo-voltaic solar panel array. • The installation of a crane with a twenty thousand pound (20,000lb) lifting capacity • The building’s floor should be Hydronic Radiant Flooring - wet and dry costs/options

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SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS:

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DAWSON CREEK - Five years ago Conny Rohr and her then-partner were travelling through the Peace Region, on

holiday from Switzerland where she was born and raised, when Rohr spotted a little log cabin by the side of the Alas-ka Highway, and a light-bulb went on above her head.

Her boyfriend at the time was a professional baker, and she thought that the cabin would make the perfect place to start a European bakery, and so they settled in Dawson Creek.

They made the move, put an addition on the back of the small cabin, equipped it to be a bakery, and the Dawson Creek Old Fashioned Bakery was up and running.

Five years later, with all of the ups and downs that run-ning a small business brings, Rohr is on her own and closing up shop.

But it’s not for the reason you might think; the bakery is doing well, she says.

After an ini-tial slow fi rst three years, the last two have been busy year-round.

A bit too busy for one person—basical-ly, she needs a break.

“It’s too much work, it’s a really good running business. It’s kind of stupid to close or sell a business which runs so good,” said Rohr.

“Sometimes you just have to do what your heart shows you to do; I always liked the bakery and I’ll have a hard time to just let it go, I know that, but on the other hand I have to fi nd something else and start new.”

After the departure of her partner a year-and-a-half ago, Rohr handled the baking herself for three months, although she is not a trained baker, while she searched for a Euro-

pean baker in Canada and then Europe.“It’s very hard to fi nd a European-style baker in Cana-

da,” said Rohr.With the help of friends who served customers while she

baked, Rohr made it through this tough time and found a baker in Switzerland who was willing to relocate to Can-ada.

This is what Rohr says she will miss the most about the Peace; the people.

“Everybody’s so nice here, and that’s something that I re-ally will miss when I’m not here anymore, because as soon as you go to the bigger cities, Victoria or Vancouver, it’s not that familiar anymore, people get more separated, but here it seems always like a big family, and I really like that.”

She plans to move herself (and her horses) South to the Victoria area to be closer to her daughter, and she knows it will be a little bit different from Dawson Creek.

After all the hard work Rohr has put into the business and the building, it is impor-tant to her that it continues as a bakery or a restaurant.

It could potentially even come complete with a European baker, she says, as her Swiss baker wants to stay in Dawson Creek.

“It’s a really nice business,” Rohr said.“You build something up, it’s like a kid, you feel con-

nected to it, and that’s why I always said I really hope that somebody takes it over and keeps it as a bakery, because I think everybody appreciated what we’re doing, and it would be sad to just see it gone.”


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Watt’s Happening #62CO-OPERATIVES : The Quiet Revolution.Push my cart down the isle and pick up a few groceries.

Grab a coffee and say howdy to a few familiar faces. Stop at the gas bar, fi ll my tank and buy a magazine. Cross the street to the credit union to pay a few bills and pick up some cash, then zip home on my electric bike.

Just going about my day-to-day affairs, but each of my actions expresses a fundamentally different way of looking at the world. It is the way of the co-operative.

The Dawson Co-op Union is a food and materials co-operative, credit unions are fi nancial co-operatives, and Peace Energy is a renewable energy co-operative. There are also worker co-operatives where the employees own and democratically govern their own businesses, and there are producer co-operatives where farmers and others band together to market their products. It’s a versatile business model.

CO-OPS ARE DIFFERENTCo-ops are profi t-making entities, but they are not profi t-

maximizing. In other words, it’s a model designed to serve customers and workers, not take as much profi t and work from them as possible. And it does not funnel wealth up to the top, but rather distributes it evenly among its members.

Co-operatives are intensely democratic, governed from the bottom up, not from the top down: each member has one and only one vote, period. Co-ops are designed to serve not just their members but also their communities, and of-ten have a clear commitment to the environment and prin-ciples like “fair trade.”

CO-OPS ARE BIGEven though it has grown side-by-side with the corpo-

rate economy for some two hundred years, few people real-ize the size and scope of this distinctly different economic model.

How big is the co-op movement today? The numbers are impressive: 2.6 million co-operatives worldwide with over one billion members, employing 250 million people, and within the G20 nations, accounting for 12 percent of all jobs, with annual revenues of US $3 trillion.

In the United States, more than 130 million people are members of a coop or credit union, more than Americans holding shares in the stock market. The U.S. is home to some 30,000 co-operatives that provide 2 million jobs, $75

billion in wages and benefi ts, and $500 billion in annual revenue. These diverse enterprises, if grouped together into a single nation, would be the 9th largest in the world.

CO-OPS ARE ENERGYRenewable energy co-ops are new to Canada, (Toronto

Renewable Energy Co-op, or TREC, was Canada’s fi rst, and Dawson Creek’s Peace Energy Co-operative was the fi rst in western Canada) but elsewhere they have been long-standing and successful energy players.

Renewable energy lends itself to the co-operative model of distributed local ownership, because renewable energy itself tends to be distributed and local. The old-fashioned conventional energy sources tend to rely on massive, cen-tralized generating facilities from which electricity is then sold to the masses. Renewables like solar and wind power tend to be distributed over wide areas: the sun shines on my roof and the wind blows across my neighbourhood as well as yours.

CO-OPS IN EUROPEGermany provides a good case study on how co-opera-

tives can provide a rapid rise in the growth of distributed clean energy. Today, roughly half of Germany’s renewable energy facilities are in the hands of farmers, citizen groups, and almost nine hundred co-operatives.

Like the clean energy they produce, the profi ts from these co-ops are distributed to local owner/members and their communities. There are now 1.4 million solar power installations and 25,000 wind turbines owned locally in Germany, creating over 400,000 jobs.

Like Germany, so Den-mark. By providing a level playing fi eld for small re-newable producers and a long-term national energy plan focused on clean en-ergy, Denmark now pro-vides 40 percent (aiming for 100 percent) of its electric-ity from renewables (mostly wind), 85 percent owned by small players like farmers and co-operatives.

CO-OPS DISTRIBUTE WEALTH

Co-ops not only help to decentralize energy produc-tion but also political power and, of course, wealth. Find-ing a method of distributing wealth instead of collecting it in the hands of the top one percent is proving to be one of the most critical and diffi cult problems of our troubled times. Co-ops of all kinds are helping.

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Photo Credit SubmittedCredit unions are essentially financial co-operatives. They have proven to be resilient in a crisis like the 2008 financial collapse.


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Dawson Creek Better at Home was delighted to work with ARC on organizing and carrying out this fun event.

Seniors were driven to the rodeo, their entry fee was covered, and they were treated to a delicious burger and fries dinner.

Volunteers from Bet-ter at Home and from ARC Resources acted as runners, bringing dinner to the se-niors in the stands and mak-ing sure they were comfort-able.

Seniors thrilled to the fast paced action of the Chuck Wagon races and not even a sudden downpour, as they returned to the bus, could dampen their spirits.

The Better at Home pro-gram helps local seniors to remain independent through non-medical services.

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Annual General Meeting

February 23, 2011 • 1:30pmRycroft Community Hall

5208 - 47th AvenueRycroft, AB TOH 3A0

Agenda:1) To receive the financial statements of the Association for the financial

year end.2) To elect Directors of the Association.3) To appoint an auditor of the Association.4) To transact such other business, if any, as may properly come before

the meeting.

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Editor: The past five and a half years in the Peace Country as President and CEO of

Northern Lights College have been very fulfilling. The potential I noted for NLC when I decided to apply for this position is

evolving and becoming a reality. The addition of the Centre of Excellence for Clean Energy Technologies in Dawson Creek, combined with the Jim Kassen Industry Training Centre/ Oil and Gas Centre of Excellence in Fort St. John, allows Northern Lights College to fulfil its brand as B.C.'s Energy College™.

NLC is committed to providing the skilled workers for these expanding industrial sectors and supporting the economic development of the region. Given the scope of the industrial expansion in our region, a major part of my role at the College was to build capacity through partnerships with other post-secondary institutions and industry, and to ensure that funding provided by the government supports the breadth and depth of needed programming.

I knew Northern Lights College was a "classy" institution when the first person to welcome

me to my new job was the former President, Jim Kassen. He committed 25 years to NLC and provided me with a firm foundation on which to build.

T h e institution is fortunate to have capable faculty and

staff, and has been able to recruit experienced leaders in many departments. The leadership team members are exceptional and I have been proud to work with them. Further, the clarity of the College's vision is attracting experienced professionals who want to contribute to an organization that "knows where it is going".

It also has been gratifying to collaborate on Dual Credit programming with local School Districts, industry, Aboriginal agencies and other post-secondary partners through Northern Opportunities. The Peace Region is very fortunate to have a group of exceptional leaders committed to expanding the scope of this program and to spreading the word on the benefits of this innovative educational initiative. I have been very impressed by the passion for learning these leaders bring to the table, but also for their continuing commitment to finding learning solutions for the youth of the region.

Over the years, I have received support and encouragement from local politicians, including: Senator Richard Neufeld, the former Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources; Jay Hill, former Member of Parliament for Prince George-Peace River; Blair Lekstrom, MLA for Peace River South and former Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources; and Pat Pimm, MLA for Peace River North. And I would like to acknowledge the exceptional municipal and regional leadership provided by the Chiefs and Band Councils, Mayors and Councils, and Regional District Boards. I was impressed by the quality of leadership demonstrated by members of the oil and gas and renewable energy industries. Thank you to all for being willing to work with Northern Lights College on joint planning that benefits the region.

The College’s Board of Governors recruited me to make changes and supported me when the changes became uncomfortable. I was very appreciative of this support and pleased that the original Board and succeeding Boards provided progressive direction and encouraged innovation. I am particularly proud that we continued to focus on the fundamental mandate of providing education for quality of life in the region, and that we were responsive to requests by industry for new programming.

I am looking forward to the innovative initiatives and opportunities for applied research in clean energy technologies that are in the planning stages. Through partnerships with provincial, national and international leaders in this evolving industry, Northern Lights College is poised to demonstrate the strength of its vision. I will be cheering from afar as these plans become operational.

My husband Gordon and I made friends with a number of very special people in the north and we will miss you. We were treated to the unique brand of warmth, enthusiasm and innovative spirit we now associate with northern British Columbia.

A fond farewell to you all and our sincere thank you for your many kindnesses. D. Jean Valgardson, Dawson Creek

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JUST MOVE IN AND ENJOY! NO wORDS TO DESCRIBE!

www.edithschmidt.comSelling Fort St. John since 1996‘It Begins with Trust’

Cell: 250-263-3030

$79,900 MLS# N204924

$459,900 MLS#N206989

#12 Forest Lawn Mobile Home ParkFort St JohnMany new updates! Spacious 1987 14’ wide 2 bdrm mobile home in popular Forest Lawn mobile home park! New windows,new kitchen cabinets,new bathroom, new laminate and tile, all new trim inside and out, new paint, new 10x16 deck, 5 min from city in country like setting! Inc fridge,stove,bi dw & shed.

Annual General Meeting

February 23, 2011 • 1:30pmRycroft Community Hall

5208 - 47th AvenueRycroft, AB TOH 3A0

Agenda:1) To receive the financial statements of the Association for the financial

year end.2) To elect Directors of the Association.3) To appoint an auditor of the Association.4) To transact such other business, if any, as may properly come before

the meeting.

ALLSHAREHOLDERS

Peace RiverSeed Co-op Ltd.

19437

GOVERNMENT LICENCED TRUSTEES

Trustees in Bankruptcy & Proposal AdministratorsSuite 2, 10611 – 102nd Street Fort St. John 110 –1628 Dickson Avenue Kelowna (Resident Office)

Together we will find a solution.We understand what you’re going through.

For your FREE confidential consultation,

CALL 250.785.4280or visit our website at mnpdebt.caDebt troubles?

Editor: The past five and a half years in the Peace Country as President and CEO of

Northern Lights College have been very fulfilling. The potential I noted for NLC when I decided to apply for this position is

evolving and becoming a reality. The addition of the Centre of Excellence for Clean Energy Technologies in Dawson Creek, combined with the Jim Kassen Industry Training Centre/ Oil and Gas Centre of Excellence in Fort St. John, allows Northern Lights College to fulfil its brand as B.C.'s Energy College™.

NLC is committed to providing the skilled workers for these expanding industrial sectors and supporting the economic development of the region. Given the scope of the industrial expansion in our region, a major part of my role at the College was to build capacity through partnerships with other post-secondary institutions and industry, and to ensure that funding provided by the government supports the breadth and depth of needed programming.

I knew Northern Lights College was a "classy" institution when the first person to welcome

me to my new job was the former President, Jim Kassen. He committed 25 years to NLC and provided me with a firm foundation on which to build.

T h e institution is fortunate to have capable faculty and

staff, and has been able to recruit experienced leaders in many departments. The leadership team members are exceptional and I have been proud to work with them. Further, the clarity of the College's vision is attracting experienced professionals who want to contribute to an organization that "knows where it is going".

It also has been gratifying to collaborate on Dual Credit programming with local School Districts, industry, Aboriginal agencies and other post-secondary partners through Northern Opportunities. The Peace Region is very fortunate to have a group of exceptional leaders committed to expanding the scope of this program and to spreading the word on the benefits of this innovative educational initiative. I have been very impressed by the passion for learning these leaders bring to the table, but also for their continuing commitment to finding learning solutions for the youth of the region.

Over the years, I have received support and encouragement from local politicians, including: Senator Richard Neufeld, the former Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources; Jay Hill, former Member of Parliament for Prince George-Peace River; Blair Lekstrom, MLA for Peace River South and former Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources; and Pat Pimm, MLA for Peace River North. And I would like to acknowledge the exceptional municipal and regional leadership provided by the Chiefs and Band Councils, Mayors and Councils, and Regional District Boards. I was impressed by the quality of leadership demonstrated by members of the oil and gas and renewable energy industries. Thank you to all for being willing to work with Northern Lights College on joint planning that benefits the region.

The College’s Board of Governors recruited me to make changes and supported me when the changes became uncomfortable. I was very appreciative of this support and pleased that the original Board and succeeding Boards provided progressive direction and encouraged innovation. I am particularly proud that we continued to focus on the fundamental mandate of providing education for quality of life in the region, and that we were responsive to requests by industry for new programming.

I am looking forward to the innovative initiatives and opportunities for applied research in clean energy technologies that are in the planning stages. Through partnerships with provincial, national and international leaders in this evolving industry, Northern Lights College is poised to demonstrate the strength of its vision. I will be cheering from afar as these plans become operational.

My husband Gordon and I made friends with a number of very special people in the north and we will miss you. We were treated to the unique brand of warmth, enthusiasm and innovative spirit we now associate with northern British Columbia.

A fond farewell to you all and our sincere thank you for your many kindnesses. D. Jean Valgardson, Dawson Creek

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• Welcome to the Achievers Toastmasters Club. Toastmas-ters International is a world-wide non-profi t educational organization dedicated to self-improvement. The Toastmas-ters program will help you to develop your communication and leadership skills and open doors in your personal and professional life. Learning occurs not only by reading the materials, but by actively participating in the club. You will learn in a self-paced, friendly and supportive environment. The rewards are tremendous so please give us a call, email or just drop in for one of our weekly Thursday meetings as our guest. Take full advantage of this valuable opportunity to learn, grow and achieve! Thursday, September 3, 2015 - 19:00 to 20:30• Campfi re Cowboy Parking Lot Party, Sat., Sept. 19, at the Fort St. John Legion. Local Live Country Music at 2 p.m. Save the date.Dawson Creek• Dawson Creek Walk for ALS, Sept. 5, 2015. This walk will begin at 11 a.m. at the Walter Wright Pioneer Village, 1901 Alaska Highway. Registration will be at 10:00 AM (Sudeten Hall). For more information contact: Shirley Dubois (250) 786-0107 or (250) 719-6143.• The Summer Reading Club at Literacy Now is in full swing, but it’s never too late to sign up! This year’s theme is “Build It!”. Call 250-782-4661 or visit their Facebook page for more information.• Senior’s Swim & Tea Every Wednesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm Swim any time between 9:00 – 11:00 am, then join us for tea, coffee and treats in the classroom. Monthly guest speakers as well – all included in the regular admission price! Hope to see you here!• KPAC will be holding their meeting on September 9th at noon at the Calvin Kruk Centre for the Arts• Tuesday 15th September. 1.30pm A workshop with Service Canada from Grande Prairie. Emily will be here to answer all your questions about federal matters: CPP, OAS, GIS, etc. Come and fi nd out what you want to know from a real live, knowledgeable person without having to go through the usu-al telephone maze. Location: Seniors’ Access Offi ce in the Coop mall, to the right of Pharmasave. Sponsored by South Peace Seniors’ Access Service Society. 250-782-3221Hudson’s Hope• That Dam Run - Sept. 27, 2015. 10 Mile Trail Race & 5 Km Route. Sponsored by: Hope for Health. Facebook Page: That Dam Run

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DAWSON CREEK - Encana’s application to be ex-empted from an environmental assessment (EA) certifi cate on the Saturn 15-27 sweet gas plant expansion project in Farmington, B.C. has been accepted by the Environmental Assessment Offi ce (EAO), the Peace River Regional Dis-trict (PRRD) was informed on August 20.

Encana Corporation is proposing to construct a new sweet gas processing facility at the spot, to be co-located with an existing compressor station about 25 kilometres northwest of Dawson Creek.

The facility will remove water and hydrocarbon liquids from sweet raw gas produced from Encana’s Saturn gas fi eld, to meet transmission pipeline requirements.

Encana had applied for the exemption on March 31, and the EAO had requested comments from the Working Group (including the PRRD) on April 2.

A letter from EAO dated July 31 stated that the EAO had

decided that the proposed project “will not result in signifi cant adverse environmental, economic, social, heritage or health effects, taking into account practi-cal means of preventing or reducing to an acceptable level, any potential adverse effects”.

The PRRD had taken a hard line against Encana’s application and against another by Pembina Pipeline Corp. at its April 23 meeting.

“This is a facility that is going to be there for quite some time. It probably will have some type of emis-sions from the site . . . There’s potential for there to be a long term impact,” said director Rob Fraser at the April 23 meeting.

“To me that’s what an environmental assessment should look at, it’s not just what happens while we’re building it, it’s what happens over time, so I think that this type of project in any case should go through an environmental assessment.”

There had also been concerns expressed by local residents in Farmington, that the expansion of the plant is a far cry from what they had originally been presented by Encana representatives, and what they had agreed to.

Vicky Simlik, who lives approximately three miles from the site, wrote a letter of opposition to the EAO at the time of Encana’s application for exemption.

She has lived in her Farmington home for 27 years and told Northeast News that researching and attempting to oppose the expansion near her home has been an ongoing challenge for her.

“Looking right now at the 50 page document Encana sent to the Environmental Assessment Offi ce and just looking at the gigantic size this is going to morph into, yeah, this is a far cry from the compressor station we start-ed with,” Simlik said in an interview with Northeast News at the time of the application.

Doug McIntyre, spokesperson for Encana Corporation, explained to Northeast News that since the plant will be powered by BC Hydro electricity and is centralized, it will have a small ecological footprint.

The plant will only be using “existing area infrastruc-ture” he said; “We believe, as outlined under the require-ments of the Environmental Assessment Act, that this project will not cause signifi cant adverse environmental,

economic, social, heritage or health effects.”Director Leonard Hiebert said at the August 20 meeting

that he had been privy to the emissions testing which was conducted by Encana at the site, and was surprised at the low levels they found.

The board moved to send a letter to the EAO acknowl-edging the information.

The project is still subject for approvals under the Oil and Gas Activities Act, Environmental Management Act and the Agricultural Land Commission Act.


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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL/QUOTE FOR THE

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The District of Hudson’s Hope is requesting proposals/quotes for the repair of the exterior and interior wall and other structural repair of our curling rink building caused by a vehicle accident. A Scope of Repair has been developed and is available. Work is to be completed as soon as possible and by October 2, 2015. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The successful proponent will supply materials and labour to repair the exterior and interior walls as per the Scope of Repair provided by the District of Hudson's Hope. Should further work be necessary due to any further structural damage found, negotiation for that work will be considered, based on the needs of the District. Successful proponent should site inspect area of repair.

PROVISION OF DOCUMENTS TO BIDDERS AND SELECTED CONTRACTOR The Bidder must request via email; and the Contractor will be provided with the following documents and data to enable the project completion in a timely and cost effective manner:

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Must be received by 4:30pm, September 11, 2015 local time: Email submissions entitled “District of Hudson's Hope Curling Rink Repair”, to the following email address: [email protected]. An email will be sent back to the proponent confirming receipt. All inquiries can be directed in writing to the email address provided above. Deliver submissions entitled “District of Hudson's Hope Curling Rink Repair”, to the following address:

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2012 GMC SIERRA 1500 SLE

M10178

ONSTAR,SIRIUS,HEATED MIRRORS

$27,900

2013 FORD EDGE SEL

M66247

BACKUP CAMERA,HEATED SEATS,NAVIGATION

$39,900

2013 FORD F-150 FX4

M01462

REMOTE START,HEATED & COOLED SEATS,BACKUP CAMERA

$39,900

2013 FORD F-150 XLT

M00579

SIRIUS,TILT STEERING,P/W, P/L

$28,900

2013 DODGE RAM 1500

M75864

REMOTE START,TONNEAU COVER,P/W, P/L, P/S

$26,900

2014 FORD ESCAPE SE

M00310

LEATHER SEATS,SIRIUS,P/W, P/L, P/S

$20,225

2014 FORD FUSION

M67148

BACKUP CAMERA,MOON ROOF,SIRIUS

GREAT FOR HUNTING! GREAT FOR HUNTING! GREAT FOR HUNTING! TAKE IT DOWNSOUTH FORTHE WINTER!

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