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By Jackie LieuwenHouston Today

A female was res-cued from a truck that was � ipped and � oat-ing in the Morice River early last Tuesday.

RCMP Sergeant Stephen Rose says she was sitting in the window of the � oating truck when she was seen by several Houston people on their way to work.

After calling 9-1-1, the locals threw a rope to the stranded female and pulled her to shore.

The 46-year old male who was driving the truck is still missing.

RCMP Sgt. Rose says the crash allegedly happened close to 3 a.m. on Tuesday, June 30.

At 5:24 a.m., the locals saw the truck and called 9-1-1.

Ambulance, � re and police responded

to the accident 23 kilo-metres up the Morice River Road.

They immediately called in Search and Rescue from Houston and Smithers to look for the missing male driver.

The female was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, Sgt. Rose said.


Canfor is � nishing $35 million in upgrades to the Houston sawmill.

The upgrades improve employee safety and combustable dust management, and give energy conservation, cost reduction and better productivity.

C a n f o r C o m m u n i c a t i o n s Of� cer Corinne Stavness says they started upgrades in July 2013 and are nearly complete, with all the major projects � nished early this year.

They rebuilt the planer and put in cyclones and a suction system for dust extraction.

They upgraded the energy plant, built a new shipping of� ce, and added a new well to supply water to the

mill. They installed a

new Dabarker dust extraction system in the mill, and put LED

lighting in both the sawmill and planer.

They built a woodlands � re equipment and mobile

equipment storage building, upgraded rail lines, sawmill software and the local area network.

Stavness says they also spent $2.8 million in mobile equipment replacement.

This included eight new forklifts, a zoom-boom, man lift, three yard trucks, a snow plow/sanding truck and a skid steer and

walk behind skid steer.

“Canfor has secured a long term � bre supply to ensure that the Houston mill remains viable for many years to come,” Stavness said.

The upgrades will “ensure that we maintain a facility that is top quartile in both safety and performance.”

Man missing, female rescued

Canfor finishing $35 million in Houston mill upgrades

““Our plan is to wait until the

river levels drop and

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remains viable for many years to come,” - Corinne Stavness, Canfor Communications

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Mud to fly at Houston airport this weekendBy Jackie Lieuwen

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Mud pits will be loaded with action at the Houston Mud Drags July 11 and 12.

Member Sonia LeBlanc says they have $11,400 in prizes and are trying to draw out more of the alcohol and tractor tire trucks to burn through the mud.

A family event, the Mud Drags will give kids a chance to

ride a monster truck through the pits.

The rides will be raffled off, with money going to the SPCA and the B.C. Children’s Hospital in honour of Houston’s late Wilf Rondeau and Mike Anderson.

The event will also feature a sound box for kids, bouncy castle, and face painting.

The same vendors will be onsite with

food and snacks. Last year 35

competitors from Quesnel to Kitimat raced through the Houston pits, and LeBlanc says they hope to have more this year.

There will be regular classes as well as sleds, quads and tractor tire classes.

LeBlanc says it is a redneck event, relaxed but pumped with horsepower and big trucks.

“The whole ‘go big or go home’ totally applies,” she said.

Teamwork and support is also a big

part, and LeBlanc says drivers are backed by family and friends lining the stands, and a pit crew

to handle repairs. LeBlanc says it

will be awesome for families and for all who “love the smell

of burnt mud on exhaust.”

Mud Drags are July 11 and 12 at the Houston airport.

Jackie Lieuwen/Houston TodayLast year the Houston Mud Drags has 35 competitors from Quesnel to Kitimat. Organizers say this year to hope to have more monster and tractor tire trucks race through the pits.

By Tom FletcherBlack Press

Premier Christy Clark says an indepen-dent inquiry into the firing of eight health ministry contractors may be too long and costly, but the public deserves answers in the long-running contro-versy “in a very timely and cost-effective way.”

The B.C. Liberal government has been on the defensive since the abrupt dismissal in 2012 of university researchers assessing drugs for eligibility under the province’s Pharmacare program. One fired contractor

committed suicide, another is suing the government for wrong-ful dismissal and the remainder have been paid settlements and reinstated.

An independent re-view by labour lawyer Marcia McNeil last year failed to deter-mine who made key decisions and why. McNeil said restricted terms of her review and a lack of docu-ments showing the sequence of decisions left her unable to deter-mine accountability.

The health ministry initially said a confi-dential database of B.C. patients who had

taken various drugs had been misused, and some of the research-ers appeared to have conflicts of interest.

After Clark down-played the suggestion of a public inquiry in Vancouver this week, NDP leader John Horgan said her ac-tions indicate the gov-ernment has something to hide.

“We need to be able to compel testimony,” Horgan said. “We need to ensure that we’re protecting those public servants who might have something to say about this pro-cess.”

The affected em-

ployees released an open letter to Health Minister Terry Lake this week, calling for an inquiry that covers the legal costs of ev-eryone affected. They said the program to assess the safety and effectiveness of pre-scription drugs has saved B.C. more than $100 million over the past 20 years.

Horgan said the opposition will con-tinue its campaign for answers when the B.C. legislature convenes July 13 to consider a development agree-ment for a liquefied natural gas export fa-cility at Prince Rupert.

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Bulkley Valley Search and Rescue (SAR) from Smithers brought in two jet boats and two inflatable kayaks for the search.

The search continued Tuesday to Thursday, and Search Manager Whitney Numan says they had 14 to 17 SAR volunteers, water technicians, boat drivers and ground searchers.

Numan says that while boats scoured the river, Houston SAR members combed the banks of the river on both sides for two kilometres.

Two swift water technicians from Terrace and a search manager and two technicians from Vanderhoof came to help Thursday.

Numan says they will be looking for the body in the river.

“The likelihood of him being onshore is next to nothing. We

have ground searched both sides of the river down two kilometres and there is no sign of him,” he said.

The search was called off Thursday night and Numan

says they plan to try again Saturday.

“We will be going back out,” Numan said.

“Our plan is to wait until the river levels drop and

water clears up a bit to continue… It is expected the river levels will drop 8-10 inches in the next week.”

Houston police and a Prince George

traffic analyst are investigating the cause of the accident.

Cpl. Dave Tyreman, RCMP media relations, says alcohol is considered to be factor.

Search for driver to continue Saturday

West Fraser Concrete pours the concrete floor for the new Seniors Centre complex in the Pleasant Valley Volunteers started building the walls last week and plan to be done this week. The project will be done end of November.

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The Canadian human family is greater than tar sands oil, lique� ed natural gas, and coal

exports. New technologies now put an independent clean energy future decidedly within our reach as a province and a nation.

The transition to a clean energy future should be the number one priority of both our provincial and federal governments. Clean energy is a job creator, pure and simple, and will stimulate local, provincial, and national economies.

We must train the next generation of workers to lead this transition to clean energy. We must make the critical investments needed to rebuild our energy infrastructure to be cleaner, more resilient, and more reliant on renewable fuels.

New � nancing mechanisms – like green bonds – will need to be utilized to provide the funding for these investments.

We need to prioritize modernizing our electric grid to connect the clean energy sources that will be developed at the neighbourhood level. We need to replace federal and provincial subsidies for fossil fuels with long-term production and investment tax credits for renewable energies like solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels, and tidal. And we need to begin with a realistic price on carbon that returns the fee to citizens so they can make the decision to empower themselves.

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Stop hiding behind the cameraLast week I was

interviewed by a newspaper reporter for the “Stop Dog Theft” event I was planning and he asked for a picture of me with our beloved pup who’s been missing since March. Before I even started looking I warned him the chances weren’t good.

I knew I had tons of photos from the last � ve years of Charlie with his sister, and with our children, but even though I was with the dogs the majority of the time, I wasn’t sure if I’d ever had my picture taken with either one of them. After reviewing thousands of images in my computer, I was disappointed that I couldn’t � nd any.

A few weeks before that I went through a similar exercise when it was the birthday of

my dearly departed mother and I wanted to post a picture on Facebook of me alone with her. I could only � nd two, and neither one was great.

Since my daughter’s birthday was approaching I also started looking for photos of just her and I together and wasn’t able to � nd many.

“Remind me to give you the camera,” I told my husband when he came home that night. “I’m in hardly any of our pictures with the kids and they’re going to be saddened by that one day.”

“You’ve mentioned that before,” he said. “The problem is you never like getting your picture taken.” He was right. I don’t, and I almost always object. I know all too well that taking pictures of someone who’s trying

to avoid the camera isn’t fun or easy.

My 14 year old son, Sam has become one of those people.

He didn’t used to be like that. He used to be like his 12 year old sister, Daisy who hams it up whenever the camera’s on her. But in the last few years he’s quick to hide his face and I’ve noticed most of his friends do the same.

“No, mom,” he’ll say behind his hands whenever I attempt to take his picture. “Later.” He must have learned that from me. Now I threaten I won’t leave him alone until he lets me get a good shot. I also promise not to post any images online without his approval.

“One day you’ll be happy you have these photos of you with your friends,” I said to

him and his buddies while they complained about us parents taking their pictures at middle school graduation a couple weeks ago.

Now I need to get myself out from be-hind the camera and in front of it once in awhile. I can’t worry about not looking good enough either. Good enough for what? My kids aren’t going to care if I’m not picture perfect any more that I cared if my mother was. They’ll just be happy to have photos of themselves with their dear old mom. Of course they’ll want them with their dad, relatives, teach-ers, friends and dogs as well, but I’ve done a decent job providing them with plenty of those.

P h o t o g r a p h s are powerful. They

capture our memories and connect us to the people, places, events and emotions that make us who we are. It’s important we leave our children with pictures of us because we’re a huge part of their lives. We might not love looking at ourselves in a photo album, but they will cherish them.


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Halfway through a consultation on distracted driving policy, the vast majority of B.C. residents who have responded want � nes increased.

Justice Minister Suzanne Anton says thousands of people have participated on the B.C. government’s consultation website, and more than 90 per cent want stronger action to stop people talking or texting on their phones while they’re behind the wheel. The issue now is how high the � nes should go.

“ B r i t i s h Columbians are also telling us they want to see tougher escalating penalties for repeat offenders, because

right now some people see the $167 ticket as the cost of doing business,” Anton said Tuesday. “We need to stop that.”

B.C.’s � ne is the second lowest in Canada, and a three-point insurance penalty was added last fall. Anton said

she doesn’t intend to follow Ontario’s lead and put the � ne up to $1,000 for repeat offenders, but an increase will be

coming within a year.C o m m e n t s

on the website w w w . g o v . b c . c a /d i s t r a c t e d d r i v i n g continue to debate

the merits of seizing cellphones from drivers, but Anton reiterated that option is not being considered.

S u s p e n d i n g licences or impounding vehicles of repeat offenders is on the table, however. S a s k a t c h e w a n impounds the vehicle for a week if the driver gets two distracted driving tickets less than a year apart.

The consultation continues until July 16. Participants are asked to reply to nine questions.

The crowd-sourcing exercise has its weaknesses. Only � ve per cent of respondents have come from the B.C. Interior, and Anton

said younger people are also under-represented.

The province attributes 88 deaths to distracted driving last year, second to speeding and ahead of impaired driving.

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Candidates for a council seat in a small community should be able to spend no more than $10,000 to run for mayor and $5,000 for a council or school board seat, says a legislature committee on local election � nancing.

For larger communities, a populat ion-based formula would limit a mayoral campaign for a city of 150,000 residents to just under $90,000, with other municipal candidates limited to half that. The formula would limit a candidate for mayor of Victoria, population 80,000, to

about $50,000, while Surrey’s population of 470,000 would mean a cap of $180,000 to run for mayor.

The small-town limits apply to communities up to 10,000 residents. For larger ones, mayoral candidates would be limited to $1 per capita for the

� rst 15,000 people, 55 cents per capita up to 150,000, 60 cents per capita for 150,000 to 200,000 and only 15 cents for communities larger than that.

F r a s e r - N i c o l a MLA Jackie Tegart, who chaired the committee as it toured the province, said the limits are aimed to

make running for local government “accessible and affordable,” while recognizing the vast difference between political campaigns in large cities and those in small communities.

The spending limits still have to be endorsed by the legislature, but the

B.C. Liberal and NDP members of the committee endorsed them unanimously. They are part of a series of local election reforms that included extending terms to four years.

The committee wants third-party advertisers limited to � ve per cent of what a mayoral candidate

is allowed to spend. The spending limits would be in effect starting on Jan. 1 of each election year.

B.C. is joining Ontario, Quebec, M a n i t o b a , Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador in placing spending limits on at least some of their local elections.

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Jan JaspersTire Technician

“It’s free. There is freedom of religion.

There are so many wars over religion. In Canada

we are tolerant of others.”

Kemi OsasanMother

“I like the weather in the summer. It’s a peaceful environment with less

crime. I like the welfare system and how it takes

cares of seniors and children. Canada is a rainbow country with so many nationalities

represented.”

Thomas BurgessRestorator

“I like the winters and the cold. The peacefulness of the

north.”

Julie HerrodRetired

“I think it’s a beautiful country. There is so much

to do in Canada with all the lakes to go to. I have lived in Canada for 23 years and I find Canadians very kind

people.”

One of a series of B.C. government graphics aimed at educating drivers about the dangers of distracted driving.

By Cecile FavronBlack Press

The B.C. government has banned campfires and open burning over a large part of northwest B.C.

With the exceptionally dry weather over the past week, they are attempting to prevent human-caused wildfires.

Campfires and open-burning are prohibited in the Nadina region, which encompasses Houston and Burns Lake, the Bulkley region around Smithers, and the Skeena region across Terrace, Kitimat, and the Nass Valley with the exception of a small sliver of land around Prince Rupert.

Campfires are still allowed in the Prince Rupert area from the border on the Alaska panhandle south to the Skeena river and east

to Rainbow Summit on Highway 16.

“The north-coast is usually excluded from fire bans because they have wetter weather,” explained provincial fire information officer

Olivia Pojar of Prince Rupert’s exception.

In the surrounding region, campfires and other burning is banned in B.C. provincial parks, and on private and crown

land, said Pojar.This ban extends

to industrial and backyard burning, using outdoor stoves and other open-flame appliances that are not approved by the CSA

or the UCL, the use of fireworks, firecrackers, tiki torches, sky lanterns, chimneys and burning barrels, and the use of binary exploding targets

O p e n - f l a m e appliances, such as camp-stoves with the proper certification, which use gas, propane, or briquettes are still allowed as long as the flame is not higher than 15 centimetres.

The ban will be re-evaluated daily based on weather conditions and current fire activity and will be in effect until the public is notified otherwise.

Anyone who does not follow an open burning prohibition may be issued a ticket for $345, required to pay an administrative penalty of $10,000 or, if convicted in court, fined up to $100,000 or sentenced to one year in jail. If the contravention causes or contributes to a wildfire, the person responsible may be ordered to pay all firefighting and associated costs.

“There were also bans briefly around this time last year in the Skeena region,” Pojar said.

To report smoke, flames, unattended campfires or non-compliant open burning, call 1-800-663-5555 or dial *5555 on your cell phone.

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Retiring from 32 years teaching at Houston Christian School, Jean Guenther is most well-known for

her music. “Music is for everybody. We are created

to make music,” she said. “It’s community building. It’s a discipline

like no other, so complex. No matter how long you make music… there is always more to learn.”

Miss Guenther has been making music since she started violin lessons at age six.

By the end of high school, she completed her Royal Conservatory exams for grade 10 violin and grade six piano.

Though she taught music in schools since 1972, she got her Kodály diploma in music education during summers 1986 to 1989.

Miss Guenther grew up in Chilliwack and went to Trinity College for two years, and then University of British Columbia for two years to get her education diploma.

She says there were lots of teachers back then, so graduates went to as many inter-views as they could.

“You don’t even know what district it is, you are just hoping to get a job,” she laughed.

With 25 interviews, Miss Guenther got a call saying she was accepted to teach in Terrace.

While on the phone, she searched her map for the town.

“Terrace… Terrace… Terrace. Oh, here! My, that’s a long ways away from Langley!” she said.

Driving there, Miss Guenther says the highway got more narrow and feeble the farther north she went.

“I thought, ‘Oh my, I hope there is some road left by the time I get to Terrace!’” she laughed.

Miss Guenther says she taught in the Terrace school for two years, and it was crowded.

Built for 500, the school had 600 stu-dents, and her first class had 37 grade seven students crammed in.

“There was hardly room to fit between the desks and blackboard,” she said.

Next, she went to Rennell Sound, Haida Gwaii, where she taught ten students in a one-room school house.

There for four years, Miss Guenther says it was “the most westerly school in Canada,” and it was rainy.

On one of the rare sunny days, she decid-ed to go to the beach. She raced around the 12 trailers of the community to collect the students in their swim wear, but by the time she finished, it was raining.

“West coast, wet-coast!” she laughed. From there, Miss Guenther moved to

the then-packed Topley Elementary School, where she taught four years.

It was there she developed her love for skiing.

Diane Strimbold was a teacher there, and Miss Guenther says her family was “in-strumental in making cross country skiing big around here.”

The school owned a shed full of skis, and P.E. students would buckle into skis and cir-cle the community for their exercise.

After Topley, Miss Guenther took a job at HCS.

One thing she has loved there is “the op-

portunity to be blatantly Christian,” and ex-press the personal Christian faith within the curriculum.

Throughout her 32 years there, Miss Guenther has taught nearly every combina-tion of grades from one to six.

For her, one highlight from the early days is school concerts in Houston and Smithers, which included all elementary and high school students from both towns.

The concerts also included an orchestra, where Miss Guenther played violin with her violin students and other musical students from Smithers.

The Burns Lake Music Festival was also big in those days and sometimes HCS sent 20 students to participate, said Miss Guenther.

She has loved organizing dramas and Christmas programs, and has two goals with those events.

First, she wanted an educational pro-gram for the audience and students, and second, she wanted every elementary stu-

dent have a moment to shine. She sought to give each child a task ac-

cording to their ability so they could have their moment.

“It would be such a personal triumph for me when some person actually spoke clearly into that mike, or got the overhead switched at the right time, or remembered to take out the triangle to play… All of those little things,” she said.

Miss Guenther also loved teaching math and is well-known by her students for drill-ing the multiplication chart.

Students would race against their past re-cord, seeking to beat their previous time and number of correct answers.

Miss Guenther says it is partly about mo-tivation, but also about repetition.

She learned at university that the average person needs 40 repetitions of anything to make it permanent.

“If they don’t know it, they obviously haven’t gotten enough repetitions,” she said.

“That is how you develop skills. Anything where you develop skills, you have to repeat and repeat until it becomes automatic. Then it becomes a building block to use for higher things.”

Not against problem solving, Miss Guenther sees multiplication is a building block to enable students to solve practical math problems.

When she reflects back on the years, Miss Guenther says one things that has changed is the level of independence teachers have.

In the early days, teachers took care of things themselves, from painting classrooms to dealing with difficult students.

Technology has also been a big change. “It’s supposed to save your time, but it

doesn’t for the most part,” she said. For her, the most rewarding thing is see-

ing a student change for the better. “It has been so special to see some stu-

dents, who have been so extremely self-cen-tred and rebellious, change,” she said.

But overall, Miss Guenther says school-ing has not changed all that much.

“There are always those who try very hard at not working and not learning, but there are always those who profit, who are teachable and make the most of the oppor-tunity to learn,” she said.

As for teachers, she says they have always been very dedicated at HCS.

“I have great respect for all the teachers I’ve worked with over the years,” she said.

After 32 years teaching at HCS, Miss Guenther is retiring. She says

she plans to do “more of all the good stuff I do currently,” including

painting, hiking, yard work, and especially music. She will continue singing in a Smithers choir, playing

in a string trio, and playing music for seniors in long-term care at the

Houston Health Centre. She also plans to volunteer at HCS doing tutoring

and helping out teachers.

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Over 350 people packed Jamie Baxter Park for Canada Day celebrations last Wednesday. Live local talent provided music throughout the event and sword fights raged as entertainment from the Society for Creative Anachronism. Families enjoyed a great pancake breakfast and community barbecue, as well as a host of activities from a bouncy castle to face painting to a dunk tank and Fire Department hose down. Left: Leisure Services Director Ryan Coltura goes for a splash in the dunk tank. Right: Izzy is crowned with a balloon hat.

Middle right: Fire Lieutenant Sheldon Slaney hoses kids down at the park. With the hot afternoon sun blazing down, kids loved the chance to cool down in the water.

Above: Dominique, Sasha, Teagan, Rahne, Alexandra and Kendra enjoy the face painting and other activities at the Canada Day celebrations.

Middle right: Fire Lieutenant Sheldon Slaney hoses kids down at the park. With the hot Middle right: Fire Lieutenant Sheldon Slaney hoses kids down at the park. With the hot Middle right:

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Above: Lord Sigehere Skerebaerd

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The Bulkley Valley Development Centre helped 11 Houston kids learn to bike last week. They ran a bike camp at Silverthorne School Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, Friday for all the kids who need extra help to master biking.

Houston Christian School wrapped up their year with a field trip and picnic at Rough Acres Bible Camp and a hike up Barrett Hat.

Left are Mrs. Jaarsma and her Kindergarten class at the top of the hike.

Above are a few students and teachers relaxing on the grass at Rough Acres.

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Bursting with new confidence, 11 Houston kids successfully peddled their bikes for the first time last week.

The kids learned to bike at a week-long camp put on by the Bulkley Valley Child Development Centre at Silverthorne School.

Parent Stephanie Wicks says the camp was amazing.

“It means a lot to Olivia to be around other kids who are like herself, who she can relate to and see that she is not the only one who can’t ride a bike,” Wicks said.

“It’s such a great experience.” Pete Breuer agrees. “It means so much for Eric to gain

his confidence by learning how to ride a bike, and socialize and meet new friends during the summer.”

Breuer says his son feared falling off the bike, and through the camp he learned he was not alone in that fear.

At the camp, the kids slowly learned skills to handle a bike and gradually built up their confidence.

The goal of the camp is to help kids who need a little extra help, learn to ride their bikes, said Coordinator Caitlyn DeBruyne.

The camp “is all about having a re-

ally fun and inclusive environment and then adapting the bikes themselves as well as the environment to teach them those skills.”

With help from sponsors, the BV Child Development Centre bought 11 new bikes which will be part of a bike loan program for families to loan bikes free for the summer.

DeBruyne says they have bikes of different sizes, some with pedals, no pedals and training wheels, so they can adapt the bikes to fit each kids’ level.

Each kid also got a helmet to take home.

DeBruyne says a lot of kids struggle to learn to bike independently.

Biking “was a goal that families kept identifying because I think biking is such a form of freedom and indepen-dence for kids. Its such a strong confi-dence booster,” DeBruyne said.

“It makes kids feel like they are part of the community and they have this sense of individually and freedom when they’re biking.”

The BV Child Development Centre thanks sponsors Glacier Toyota, COB Bike Shop, Dungate Community Forest, Variety the Children’s Charity, Smithers Mountain Bike Association, MOST Committee, Houston Early Childhood Development Committee, and Houston and Smithers RCMP.

An active start to summer...

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Houston and Smithers schools will be empower-ing students to save lives starting this September.

The program was coordinated by the Advanced Coronary Treatment (ACT) Foundation.

School District 54 teachers were certi-fied last Tuesday as in-structors for CPR and defibrillator (AED) training - trained by volunteer paramedics from B.C. Emergency Health Services.

That CPR and AED training will be worked into the grade 10 Physical Education and Planning 10 curriculums next

September. Sandra Clarke,

Executive Director of the ACT Foundation said she is excited about what the pro-gram means.

“We are thrilled to bring this program to Smithers and Houston because we know that it will ensure that ev-ery young person is empowered to save the life of a family mem-ber or friend in a dire emergency,” she said.

The program has seen results in the communities it has gone, with students stepping up to save lives in all kinds of emergencies.

“The beauty of having [the training] as part of a school program is that the ripple effect is extraor-

dinary,” Clarke said.After next year,

“we will see 200 stu-dents hit the ground running with their life-saving skills every year.”

There are close to 50 Houston students and 150 Smithers students who will be trained to do CPR and use a defibrillator

every two years.

“ E ve r y five years, that is over 1,000 students,” C l a r k e said.

To date, three mil-lion stu-dents in

Canada have been trained in CPR by teachers.

She says the goal of the program is to “en-sure that eventually everyone is trained in CPR.”

By raising up gen-erations to know CPR and how to use a defi-brillator, it will “really increase the chanc-es of saving lives,” Clarke said.

“It’s terribly excit-ing.”

The AED equip-ment and dummies

were donated to the school district by RBC, AstraZeneca Canada, Pfizer Canada and Sanofi Canada.

S D 5 4 Superintendent Chris van der Mark says emergencies can hap-pen anywhere, in the home and in the work-place, and it is help students be prepared.

“These are life sav-ing skills and you nev-er know when you are going to need them,” he said.

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If there is no standard, how can we know what is right or wrong? Is morality just a personal or subjective thing? Do my set of morals have any effect on me, my neighbour or my nation?

Today we have the Supreme Court changing the Creators de� nition of marriage and introducing euthanasia into the health care system. Tomorrow? Who knows what will be next? The standard seems to be set at the whim of the court, the constitution and the will of men, rather than the will of God, the Creator of it all.

God has a standard that no country, no person, no court, or any human institution can change without running into very serious problems down the road, even to the downfall of nations. God spoke to his people through the prophet Jeremiah many years ago, “This is what the LORD says ‘ Stop at the crossroads and look around. Ask for the old godly way and walk in it. Travel its path, and you will � nd rest for your souls. But you reply ‘That’s not the road we want’ ….. Listen all the earth! I will bring disaster on my people. It is the fruit of their own schemes, because they refuse to listen to me. They have rejected my word.’” Jeremiah 6:16;19 NLT

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALProject: Mechanical Pigging of Existing Water Mains

Owner: District of Houston

Scope: The District of Houston is pursuing Request for Proposals to assist in the completion of Mechanical Pigging of the existing watermains in the District of Houston, prior to the commissioning of the newly completed Water Treatment Plant. This will provide a cleaning of all supply watermains to minimize occurrences of colourization of water supplied to the District of Houston.

The successful bidder shall provide an outline of their proposed Methodology/Workplan, Statement of Qualifications, Costs/Bid price for Completion of Works and Schedule of Completion of Proposed Works.

Closes: Friday, July 17th, 2015 at 4:00pm (local time) At: 3367 – 12th Street, Houston, BC

Deposit: Fifty Dollars ($50) Non-refundable (if hard copy) or available on BC BID at no cost.

Documents: District of Houston Municipal Office (3367 12th Street) between 8am-5pm District of Houston Website BC Bid CivicInfo BC

Proposal Corporate Services Officer Submission: District of Houston Box 370 - 3367 12th Street Houston BC V0J 1Z0

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The District of Houston reserves the right to accept any qualification submittal received, to reject any or all qualification submittals received, in whole or in part, to waive irregularities or formalities, as deemed appropriate, and to request clarification of any qualification submittal.

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The Regional District is seeking three individuals to work at the Knockholt Landfill, which is located approximately 8km east of Houston, BC, commencing September 1, 2015.

A landfill compactor, excavator with thumb, crawler dozer, dump truck and roll-off truck will be used at the facility. The hours of operation of the Knockholt Landfill are Monday through Sunday 10:00am to 6:00pm, closed Statutory Holidays. The three positions available are as follows:

Employee 1 will work 5 days per week (Monday through Friday), 9 hours per day, for a total of 45 hours every week.

Employee 2 will work under an averaging agreement, 7 days on (Monday through Sunday) followed by 7 days off, 9 hours per day, for a total of 63 hours every two weeks.

Employee 3 will work under an averaging agreement, 7 days on (Monday through Sunday) followed by 7 days off, 9 hours per day, for a total of 63 hours every two weeks.

All three positions are permanent, full time and offer a competitive wage and comprehensive benefits package following the successful completion of a 6 month probationary period.

The general duties of the landfill staff will be:• Daily operations of the landfill including directing vehicle

traffic to proper unloading zones, use of heavy equipment to spread and compact the garbage, hauling cover soil, unloading public drop off bins at the landfill active face, plowing snow in the winter and grading roads in the summer;

• Maintaining a clean and accessible public drop off area, conducting regular inspections of the electric fence and ensuring that the on-site weigh scale is operational;

• Greeting and assisting the public in the proper disposal of waste materials;

• General maintenance of on-site equipment;• Monitoring, reporting and documentation of landfill activities

including recycling initiatives.

Skills that the landfill staff should possess:• Good public relations skills;• Be physically fit and enjoy working outdoors in all weather

conditions;• Be safety conscious;• An ability to keep an organized and clean and tidy site, including

the ability to correctly fill out paperwork and documentation;• Experience operating and maintaining heavy equipment

including loaders, excavators with thumbs, crawler dozers, dump trucks and roll-off trucks. Experience with the above equipment in earthwork and road building construction activities where achievement of proper elevation and grading is desired.

Resumes which include a detailed description of relevant experience will be accepted until 3:00pm, Monday, July 27, 2015 at the Regional District office in Burns Lake. Please indicate on the resume if you wish to be considered for one or all of the available positions. Resumes may be faxed to 250-692-3305 and should be addressed to Janine Dougall, Director of Environmental Services.

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• Extensively renovated 4 bedroom home in the popular Avalon Subdivision.• Updated vinyl siding with Styrofoam insulation under it, vinyl windows, high effi ciency furnace, new vinyl plank fl ooring in spacious kitchen, dining, living and hallway.• Basement just recently fi nished features a huge rec-room with a pellet stove and a gorgeous bathroom with a jetted tub and tile surround.• Fenced yard, wired workshop, paved drive and back yard access, backs on to the neighborhood park too! Sundeck as well as a patio.• Kitchen has built in oven, countertop range & ample cupboards. All appliances incl.

• Attractive, very well kept, recently updated 4 bedroom home on a gorgeous 5.97 acre lot on the popular Lund Road!• 4 separate fenced areas, barn with stalls, water, hay storage and tack room.• Fenced back yard. House features updated dark cherry cabinets in the kitchen, new laminate fl ooring throughout the main.• 3 bedrooms on the main, 1 in the basement. 3 bathrooms, rec-room in the basement as well as 2nd kitchen area! New Blaze King wood/electric furnace.• Wrap around drive way, nicely landscaped, drilled well.• Your own pond for hockey in the winter! Double garage.• All appliances included. This one won’t last long!!

• Hard to fi nd acreage only minutes from town!• 34.9 acre hobby farm with a 1998 1638 square foot 3 bedroom modular with extensive updates! 4 separate fenced areas, shelters, detached workshop/storage, woodshed, greenhouse and other outbuildings.• Hay fi eld and spectacular views! Located approximately 15km down the Buck Flats Road.• The country kitchen features ample cabinets and a bright dining area as well as an island. Cozy family room with a woodstove.• Custom touches such as barn wood wall in the master as well as the ensuite.• Garden area and pond just outside your front door. Fridge, stove, dishwasher and window coverings included. Call Lia to view 250-845-1147.

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Evergreen EquipmentB.V. WholesaleSmithers LumberCoast Mountain GMCWayside ServicePaul’s BakerySalt BoutiqueInterior StationeryGlacier View Satellite

Image DesignOK TireFrontier ChryslerTrail’s NorthSafewayWash the WorksSteakhouse on MainSausage FactoryB.V. Credit Union

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THANK YOUThe GRANISLE POWER BOAT CLUB would like to thank the following businesses

for helping make our Father’s Day Fishing Derby a HUGE success...

Country Wide PrintingAll West GlassMonster IndustriesNapa

D&M IndustrialHouston Pizza FactoryHome HardwareEmberson’s

SullivansCountry Wide SportsMike’s AudioCanfor

Traction TireFinning1st Choice FashionsPharmasave

Castle Building CentreB.V. Insurance

Napa / Polar ParkCanadian Wholesale ClubCIBCTiretechKal Tire

Grapevine PubFieldsMulvaney’sHome HardwareWoods & Water

Auto SensePharmasaveL.D. Printing & StationeryRexallLino’s Sales

Blu Jay SportsOverwaiteaEagle Auto

Country Grill Grizzly Jim’s Ookpik LodgeGranisle General StoreLin’s Haristyles

Babine LodgeStone Made Ent.Babine Barge

1st: Stu Ducheminski 8.982nd: Beatrice MacNell 7.643rd: Mike O’Neill 7.48

Vince & Monica Hall Memorial Girl: Cissa Godfrey 6.26 Boy: Lucus Carnrite 5.40

Rainbow: Mike O’Neill 6.46

Child: 1st: Cissa Godfrey 6.262nd: Lucus Carnrite 5.403rd: Jayce Barnes 4.60

SMITHERS

HOUSTON

BURNS LAKE

TOPLEY GRANISLE

The winners of the Derby are:

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HOUSTON COMMUNITY CALENDARmeets every 3rd Sat. evening at 6pm at Andy Pollack’s house (17642) on Buck Flats Rd. All Buck Flats residents are welcome to attend, we discuss issues concerning the Buck fl ats area. Please call Chris Newell at 250-845-3564 for more info.

Activities for Seniors in Houston at the Seniors Centre: Carpet Bowling Tues. & Fri. 1:00 PM • Floor Curling Mon. 1:00 PM • Pool any afternoon to schedule call; Adrian-250-845-2338 • Breakfasts- fi rst Sat. of the month, community invited. • Soup and Sandwich luncheon- third Thurs. of the month. Community invited. At Pleasant Valley Village, 3603 11th St.: Senior Exercise, Mon. & Fri 10:00 AM • Cards Mon. & Thurs. 7:00 PM. At the Bowling Alley: Seniors bowling Wed. 1:30 PM. At the Houston Swimming Pool: Aquafi t, Mon., Wed. & Fri. 9-10 AM. At the Legion: Seniors darts and light lunch Thursdays 11a.m. - 2 p.m.

Coffee Break - an Interactive Women’s Bible Study meet every Wed. morning from 9:30-11:00 at the Houston Christian Reformed Church, 1959 Goold Road. Childcare is provided. For more info call Margaret: 845-2348, Darlene 845-7438, Evelyn 696-3229.

The Houston Legion Branch 249: Meeting: 2nd Monday of the month is Executive, 4th Monday is General Meeting.

TOPLEYStructural Firefi ghting/Hwy Rescue. Interested? Topley Volunteer Fire Dept. is accepting applications. No experience necessary please contact Byron - F/C 250-696-3348 or come to a Fire Practice Thurs @ 19:00 hrs (7pm).

Topley Fire Protection Society meetings every second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 pm.

GRANISLEThe Granisle and District Senior Citizens meet every second and fourth Thursday of the month at 1:30 p.m. at the Seniors Centre.

Granisle Volunteer Fire Department meetings & fi re practices every Tues., 7:00pm at the Fire Hall.

Granisle Church of the Way services are Sunday, 11:00am.

Please keep your announcements as brief as possible. Deadline (faxed or mailed or delivered) is 4 p.m. Thursday. Items are printed or alternated as space permits. Items will be accepted via fax, email or dropped at the offi ce. No phone calls please. More calendar items are listed online and can be submitted or viewed at www.houston-today.com

Houston Gospel Festival is July 11-12, 2015 in Houston Jamie Baxter Park. It’s a weekend packed with worship music of all styles, Bible skits, delicious BBQs, gospel messages and testimonies of God’s power and grace! Featuring Cheryl Bear, award-winning First Nations artist; Veneration X, a contemporary worship band from Vanderhoof; and many other local musicians and bands. The main speaker is Ron Rooker, who pastored Thornhill Community Church 1989-2008 and is now equipping churches in Peru through LAMP (Lifeline Associate Ministries and Publications). Camping is available at Jamie Baxter Park. For more, see our Facebook page “Houston Gospel Festival” or our blog houstongospelfestival.wordpress.com

Houston Public Library Events: Summer Reading Club has started! This year’s theme is “Build It!” Kids, ages 3-12, are invited to come and participate in all the summer fun-playing games, reading books, and building cool stuff. For more info please contact the library @250-845-2256.

Houston’s “Love by the Bowl” Soup Kitchen serving healthy homemade soups in two different seatings, 11:00 -12:00 and 12:00 -1:00 on Wed.

Buck Flats Community Development Society,

Evergreen EquipmentB.V. WholesaleSmithers LumberCoast Mountain GMCWayside ServicePaul’s BakerySalt Boutique

Interior StationeryGlacier View SatelliteImage DesignOK TireFrontier ChryslerTrail’s NorthSafewayWash the WorksSteakhouse on Main

Sausage FactoryB.V. Credit UnionEckland’sBig SmilesMt Eagle BooksHoskin’s FordBabine TruckMcDonald’sDairy Queen

PharmasaveHome HardwareMcBike’sExtra FoodsTotem Audio VideoOscarsSmithers FeedNapaTim Horton’s

Kal TireColin BruintjesMainerzWooden MallardHeartstring’sGlacier ToyotaFour Dimensions

THANK YOUThe GRANISLE POWER BOAT CLUB would like to thank the following businesses

for helping make our Father’s Day Fishing Derby a HUGE success...

Country Wide PrintingAll West GlassMonster IndustriesNapa

D&M IndustrialHouston Pizza FactoryHome HardwareEmberson’s

SullivansCountry Wide SportsMike’s AudioCanfor

Traction TireFinning1st Choice FashionsPharmasave

Castle Building CentreB.V. Insurance

Napa Auto PartsCanadian Wholesale ClubCIBCTiretechKal Tire

Grapevine PubFieldsMulvaney’sHome HardwareWoods & Water

Auto SensePharmasaveL.D. Printing & StationeryRexallLino’s Sales

Blu Jay SportsOverwaiteaEagle Auto

Country Grill Grizzly Jim’s Ookpik LodgeGranisle General StoreLin’s Hairstyles

Babine LodgeStone Made Ent.Babine Barge

1st: Stu Ducheminski 8.982nd: Beatrice MacNell 7.643rd: Mike O’Neill 7.48

Vince & Monica Hall Memorial Girl: Cissa Godfrey 6.26 Boy: Lucus Carnrite 5.40

Rainbow: Mike O’Neill 6.46

Child: 1st: Cissa Godfrey 6.262nd: Lucus Carnrite 5.403rd: Jayce Barnes 4.60

SMITHERS

HOUSTON

BURNS LAKE

TOPLEY GRANISLE

The winners of the Derby are:


Houston Gospel Festival

www.facebook.com/HoustonGospelFestival www.houstongospelfestival.wordpress.com

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Where: Jamie Baxter Park When: July 11, 12Come and join us this year and learn about our theme:

Embracing Freedom.

SATURDAY1:00 – 1:30 p.m. ............ Unger family band1:30 – 1:45 p.m. ............ Male Trio1:45 – 2:30 p.m. ............ Al and Friends 2:30 – 3:15 p.m. ............ Jim Andrei family band

and testimony3:15 – 3:30 p.m. ............ Jericho skit 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. ............ Tony Chung 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. ............ Project Worship (Whelan) 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. ............ Doug and Marnie Phair 5:00 – 5:45 p.m. ............ Speaker Ron Rooker 6:00 p.m. ....................... Beef on a bun barbecue6:30 – 7:30 p.m. ............ Cheryl Bear 7:30 – 7:35 p.m. ............ Brandon testimony7:35 – 8:15 p.m. ............ Cunningham family band 8:15 – 8:30 p.m. ............ Rachel and Emily songs

and Mask skit 8:30 – 9:00 p.m. ............ Youth game – � ag football

9:00 – 11:00 p.m. .......... Veneration X

SUNDAY10:00 – 11:30 a.m. ........ Worship service led by

Praise Him band and messageby Ron Rooker

12:00 – 12:30 p.m. ........ Hot dog and chilli barbecue12:30 – 1:00 p.m. .......... Nicole’s testimony1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ............ Cheryl Bear 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. ............ Tony Chung 2:30 – 2:45 p.m. ............ Mask skit 2:45 – 3:30 p.m. ............ To be determined3:30 – 4:00 p.m. ............ Doug and Marnie Phair4:00 – 4:15 p.m. ............ Grampa Lieuwen testimony4:15 – 4:45 p.m. ............ Al Trumpah and friends 4:45 – 5:30 p.m. ............ Unger family band 5:30 p.m. ....................... Pork barbecue


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