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Council fence-sits On Lane
JOHN KING
Observer Reporter ;
While a few councillors fourid it all
somewhat amusing, it's no laughing matter
for Gene MacKinnon who's sick of
breathing secondhand pot smoke day in
and day out.
Her husband, Ed, doesn't understand
why city council deferred their decision
to close off Winder Lane, and now wonders
why the City failed to show leadership
on behalf of city taxpayers.
He also wants tb know what it's going
to take for the City to stop allowing
Correlieu secondary students from engaging
in illegal activity on public property
- especially on property where the City
could have done something.
And done something now before anything
bad happens.
"The city is putting it off and putting it
off," Ed said.
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It's a reaction after Coun. Thapar wanted
council to pay for at least half of the
cost to erect a feiifce between two properties
along the public access when closing
off Winder Lane.
But the motion went dead after Mayor
Nate Bello asked council to defer the decisioii
for next council meeting.
Public Works director Jack Marsh recommended
the city pay half the cost and
the two property owners pay the other
half-the total tab of closing off the lane
and putting up a new fence is around
$2,500.
But for Humberto Ferreira, he's just not
going pay for a fence on land he doesn't
even own. ^ '
"I'm not going to pay for something
that doesn't even belong to me," he said.
Mayor Nate Bello drove a line of
questioning asking whether or not the
two property owners thought it appropriate
to use taxpayer's money to close
HONOURING
WAR BRIDES:
Lil Hess followed
hen heart.
PagoAM
off Winder Lane and
cohstruct a new fence.
"You come to us for a
solution," Bello said.
"We have a solution
from which you'll
benefit.
"You're getting all the
city's taxpayers tb pay
for [half of] a fence."
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• 'a
-r— —:—r ——• pacify those people."
"It's something we have The dike was estimated
^ ^ * J ^1. to have cost city taxpaytO
put Up Wurl fl5Wa f^^ers $400,000.
city V done more for other So $1,260 is quite a
. tl 1 J „ small number in comnetghoourhoods.
parison to ensure the
Ed MacKinnon, resident safety of QSS Students
and Quesnel citizens.
In fact, many parents
'I realize taxpayers money will go into no longer use Winder Lane because they
this, but I'm a taxpayer," Humberto said, feel unsafe there, Ed said in the summer
reacting to the Mayor's comments. when he first wrote a letter to city couri-
"I've paid into other projects the city's cil.
done." •
Students use Winder Lane to smoke
Ed and his wife Gene agreed.
drugi, cigarettes and horse around.
'It's unfair," Ed said.
Students.damaged both Gene and Ed's
"It's something we have to put up with property, as well as Ferreira's, and often
and the city's done more for other neigh- break into bouts of shouting and yelling
bourhoods. when they should be in school.
"t mean, they put up the Fraser River "It's dangerous," Ed said,
dike. \ "And they throw their cigarette butts
"It cost hundreds of thousands to around. It could start a fire," Ed said.
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QUESNa CARIBOO OBSERVER Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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Imperial Tobacco Canada's new straight to stores distribution system Is running a whole lot smoother how. A month of cigarette
Shortages rocked stores such as Quesnel's Husky service station. Rhonda Faust stacks some Imperial brand cigarettes.
• _ John King photo
JOHN KING
; Observer Reporter
were said. And it wasn't
pretty as customers in the throes of
nicotine fitsAvere unablie to buy their
fovourite Imperial Tobacco braiid of
cigarettes over the course of Septemr
ber and into October.
For days, Quesnel's Husky service
station put up with the muttefings
and rants of irate customers when
they ran out of Imperiars trademark
cigarettes including Pliayer's and du
Maurier after the company decided
to skip their wholesalers and ship
their smokes straight to stores.
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Husky owner Jeana Moore said.
"It was really hard for my staff to
put up with all the nastiness.
"A lot of things were said and there
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Husky's central office told Moore
of liriperial's changes to its distribution
system, but she never anticipated
the chaos.
"It just happened and the ball
started rolling," she said.
With the cigarette rnanufacturer
getting its deliveries in line last week,
Moore said they're using DHL to
ship cigarettes in Ford trucks with
their logos "splashed all over the
trucks." :''-''^^'-\'4y :'y.
Husky now gets one shipment every
week, forcing Moore to buy and
carry more stock than what she's
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Wholesalers in Prince George, but at
a higher price."
While Husky was dodging verbal
jabs from customers, it was a whole
other story on the west side.
"There was no supply problem,"
Mac's convenience store manager
Sandeet Samra said.
"Our head office asked them to
send a drop shipment, a back order.
"It was anticipated and we already
knew it was going to happen so we
never ran out of cigarettes."
For 7-Eleven, things are getting
"back on track."
"The transition was a little mucked
up," store manager Skeeta Kumpula
said.
"We ran out of a new brands but
there were no major problems."
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On offer at Valley Auction Ltd. on October 12th, 2006
were 693 head of livestock selling to 23 buyers.
Baby Calves .....
D1-2 Cows......
D 3-5 Cows
Holstein Cows...
Bulls ..............
Bred Cows....
Cow Calf Pairs..,
Feeder Cattle Division
Steer Calves 300-400........
Steer Calves 400-500...............
Steer Calves 500-600
Feeder Steers 600-700.,.................:...
Feeder Steers 700-800...,............i......
Feeder Steers 800-900.......................
Feeder Steers 900-1000.....................
Heifer Calves 300-400
Heifer Calves 400-500
Heifer Calves 500-600
Feeder Heifers 600-700 ....
Feeder Heifers 700-800
Feeder Heifers 800-900
Feeder Heifers 900-1000
Hoas. Sheep and Goats
SpecioMUngin
Livestock and
Farm Sales
Armstrong, BC
50.00-150.00
30.00-37.00
17.00-26.00
25.00-33.00
25.00-32.25
650.00-880.00
130.00-146.00
120.00-130,00
110.00-123.50
109.00-116.50
103.00-110.50
97.00-106.25
93.00-102.00
120.00-130.00
110.00-122.00
104.00-113.50
100.00-107.00
99.00-108.00
95.00-104.00
90.00-98.50
Feeder Pigs....
Feeder Lambs
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RMV train
JOHN lONG
Observer Reporter
As an autumn dusk deepened,
closing in on Quesnel's train station,
many awaited the city's lasr
passenger train for the season.
A hodgepodge of families, politicians
and women wearing giant red
hats milled about the plaza beside
(e'^udln^'"
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one. busy set of tracks.
A year of learning. Rocky Mountaineer
Vacations said its infant
Fivers
Fraser Discovery Route, a Whistler-
Jasper run, had vacationers trum­
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"It had the highest guest satisfaction
of all our routes," guest services
vice-president Mark Southern said.
"There's always obstacles with
• Sovdos Wear new routes, but'we had an incred­
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ibly smooth start.
"We anticipate continued growth .
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"It's been a great relationship with
internet question Quesnel."
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Go lo www.quesnelobsmer.t6m in the to growinig vote In darkness as the train
this week's quBSlion moved along the tracks to where 50
or so people gathered together. .
- "It's bittersweet," assistant manager
Victoria Hamilton said.
"I'm not looking forward to
waying good-bye for the next six
months. . y'- [/
"We're rookies at this, but we
managed to pull it off."
For onboard attendant Gerry Porter,
it was all about learning.
"We had the opportunity to learn
about where our guests were from,"
he said.
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"Many were far away from
home. .••
"So we formed a tight-knit
group.
> "We learned a lot from our guests
and they learned a lot from us."
While guests enjoyed the route's
breathtaking scenery of untamed
forests and mountain ranges reaching
the heavens, it took a dedicated
group of behind-the-scenes engineers
and conductors helming the
train's controls to keep the cars
chugging along the tracks.
And it isn't easy keeping the train's
nuts and bolts in working order.
"There's all sorts of maintenance
to keep it all going," train operations
co-ordinator Glen Petruk
said.
"There's always rattles and
squeaks."
Chamber of Commerce manager
and Coun. Goralee Oakes said the
RMV run generated $1 million of
outside revenue to city businesses
such as retail stores, catering companies
as well as janitorial and septic
tank companies.
"It's a great opportunity for the
city," she said.
"Hopefully everybody who takes
the ride, will remember Quesnel
and come back."
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School districts responsiliie
TOM FLETCHER
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VICTORIA - School
districts should not need
to cancel band programs
following a court decision
' they can't charge
students rent for basic
musical instruments, Education
Minister Shirley
Bond.says.
action suit
"We expect another
30,000 students over
the coming years, and
funding isn't going
down, it's going up."
Shirley Bond, education minister
Bond ruled out both
those options.
"We have to look at
this from the taxpayers'
perspective too," Bond
said.
"We have 35,000 less
children in the system
than we had in 2000-
2001, and that decline
is going to continue
over the next number of
Bond said a letter to all districts from years. Ih fact, we expect another 30,000
her deputy minister makes it clear fees students over the coming years, and fundare
not permitted for field trips and in- ing isn't going down, it's going up."
struments needed to complete courses for Some district^^^^^^^ indicated they may
graduation, and boards should find the stick with existing fees this year, which
money to replace fees that shouldn't be have already been collected from parents
charged. willing and able to pay them.
"In fact, it shouldn't- mean to school In his letter to district superintendents,
boards that there aren't music programs," deputy education minister Emery Dos-
Bond told reporters at the legislature last dall said the ruling means fees can't be
week. charged for elective courses if the credits
"They need to go back and assess the arc needed for graduation. He said field
programs that will provide choice and trips should be assessed to see if they are
opportunity for students in the province, necessary to complete the course, and if
and those are decisions that school boards they are, they should not have fees atare
asked to make ever)^ day." tached.
Some districts are expecting to lose pro- "Boards may continue to charge fees
grams, while others have indicated they for the~ purchase of paper, writing tools,
may continue with fees until last month's calculators, student planners, exercise
B.C. Supreme Court^uling is further clar- books, computer diskettes and other
ified or appealed. The case was brought school supplies and equipment for a
by Greater Victoria trustee John Young, student's personal use, and may require
who won a similar ruling covering his students to provide appropriate personal
own district in 1997. clothing for school activities such as gym
Greater Victoria schools dropped course strip, footwear, outerwear and personal
fees then but continued to charge rent for safety equipment," Dosdall wrote,
band instruments. Now the boardis con- Bond declined to comment on possible
cerned its music programs may have to refunds to parents who have paid fees
resort to fundraising or bie cancelled. riot allowed by the School Act, because of
Board chair Michael McEvoy called on pending legal action. A class action lawthe
ministry to chiange its legislation or suit has been filed on behalf of a North
provide additional fonding for school Vancouver parent seeking refund of fees
districts. for two high school students.
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CRIME
Crack cocaine
suspects are busted
JOHN KING
Observer Reporter
Three suspected drug traffickers tried
fleeing out the back door of their Bouchie
Street condo before Quesnel Mounties
swarmed in and arrested them.
"They tried to run," Staff Sgt. Keith Hildebrand
said.
"Officers tracked them down and got
them as they tried getting out the back
door."
Quesnel RCMP executed a search warrant
at 10 p.m. Friday on the west-side
condo after police received several complaints
from neighbours.
Cst. Luiz Sardinha led eight officers in
the raid with Quesnel's drug section and
general duty section joining forces.
"It's my file. We were doing surveillance
on it, and haid information there was a lot
of traffic going in and out," Const. Luiz
Sardinha said.
"We had four officers go through the
front door and four go through the back
door."
Three males were handcuffed and taken
into custody before being released on bail
with charges of drug trafficking pending.
A half once of crack cocaine, 10 grams,
was found along with cash.
"Fighting drugs is a continuous battle,"
Hildebrand said.
"Crack cocaine does a lot of damage in
this community."
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"It all depends," he said.
"People buy different amounts.
"It depends on what a drug dealer is
selling to people, whether they sell a half
rock for $40, that's about half a gram."
Machinery nabbed
In an hour, one white 2004 Ford septic
pumper truck, a black PJ flat deck trailer
and a red Kubota Excavator went missing-
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Between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. Saturday,
the equipriient disappeared from Quesnel
Septic Tank Cleaning Service located at
1611 Jade Rd.
Both the truck and excavator have the
business markings, "Quesnel Septic Tank
Cleaning Service LTD."
Anyone with information is asked to
contact Quesnel RCMP, 992-9211 or
Crimestoppers, 250-992-TIPS.
Suspicious blaze
With two males leaving the scene of a fire
breaking out in the 200 block of Bouchie
Street Sept. 30, Quesnel Fire Department
has deemed the fire as suspicious.
Fire investigators and RCMP don't
know whether the two males were responsible
for the structure fire.
Quesnel RCMP are asking anyone with
information to call Quesnel detachment,
992-9211.
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B U S I N E S S
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Skilled labour in Short demand
M L A assures crowd provincial Liberals fixin^^
JOHNMNG
Observer Reporter
While the Liberal
government continues
to applaud its work to
increase B.C's labour
pool, pne small business
owner stood up during
a luncheon Monday,
and told Small Business
Minister Rick Thorpe
he was forced to hire an
apprentice from Tanzania.
"We need to train
our o\yn youth," Great
Indoors HVAC Cameron
Fehr said.
"And call on individuals
from our own country
and province, instead of
individuals from other
countries'and provinces."
Tomorrow's generation
of workers and
entrepreneurs was
the focus of Thorpe's
speech during a Quesnel
Chamber of Commerce
luncheon to kick off Small
BusinessWeek.
'Six years ago we had
everybody leaving,"
Thorpe said, talking about
skilled and unskilled
workers leaving B.C.
for greener pastures in
Alberta and abroad.
"We're not going to
have a trade school in
every community in this
province.
"[But] we're going to
have to find a balance.
The world's changed..,.
Education must adapt and
accelerate."
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ernment is tackling the labour shortage in B.C. during a Chamber of Commerce luncheon to kick
off Small Business Week in Quesnel Monday.
secondary students
attending the luncheon,
tomorrow's business
leaders looked on as '
Thorpe talked about his
government's business
plan.
'•Small business is big
business in B.C.,"
said.
tough decisions. We knew
British Columbians were
going to feel the pain."
Regulatory reform was a
top priority for Liberals.
And today, many still,
feel the crunch when it']
comes to running their
enterprises.
'Quite frankly, I don't
Ninety-eight per cent understand why it takes
of companies in the
province are small
businesses, Thorpe said
British Columbians were
in "deep, deep trouble"
when the Liberals took
the reins in 2001,
"The province was in
a downward spiral," he
said,
"We had to make some
IMTEGRIS CREDIT UNION
t
a year to do an audit,"
Thorpe said.
Questions of taxation
rose to the surface as well.
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"Taxation is best
addressed at the local
level," he said.
"The business
community must
work closely with
municipalities."
But Thorpe issued a
warning.
"It's only a matter of
time before municipaUties
make sure they're
competitive," he said.
"People will leave if
taxation is too high."
CARRIER OF THE WEEK
name is
Ben Johannesen
1 have been delivering the
Quesnel Cariboo Observer
since January 2006.
My hobbies are rock col­
lecting and biking. I like pets
(birds, dogs, fish), pizza, going
to Cottonwood River, soccer
and dirt biking.
I got to meet two Great Dane
puppies one day.
A permanent paper carrier is heeded for
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•Larch Ave.
•Caravelle, McLean, Omega, Schemenaur
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N E W S
CCBAC reaches out to Quesnel
ANDREA JOHNSON
Observer Editor
Cariboo-Chilcotin Beetle Action
Coalition wanted to reach but to the
community last week.
They did, but only three people from
the public attended the Operation
Outreach meeting to discuss
CCBAC's Economic Development
Working Group.
CCBAC was formed with the
intent of helping forest-based
communities of Quesnel, WilUams
Lake and 100 Mile House deal with
the aftermath of the mountain pine
beetle infestation.
That includes developing local
solutions to the huge economic
impacts the mountain pine beetle
will cause.
CCBAC manager Keith Dufresne
told the small audience Oct. 11 a
lot has been done since the group
hatched in 2005. The board received
$2.54 million from the provincial
government to design an adequate
plan.
"Our pine beetle' governance
group started in September, we've
approved sector strategies such as
agriculture and conservation and
proposed sector strategies such as
mining," he said.
"The social development working
group was approved and they had
their first meeting in September. We
have a meeting in Victoria in mid-
November.
EDWG is examining opportunities
and detail specific, practical targets
for expansion of several aspects
of the economy - tourism, log
home building, secondary wood
ENVIRONMENT
Fniser River at alMimel^^^
JOHN KING
Observer Reporter
As winter approaches, the situation with
Quesnel's two major rivers isn't good.
Not good at all.
The Fraser River and (Quesnel River
have hit 50-year to 100-year low flow
levels..But they're not the only rivers.
About 13 other major B.C. rivers are
heading into winter weak and wary from
one hot summer. ^
Environment Ministry blames the
summer drought, an earlier the normal
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snovvmelt in mid-May and lack of rain
for the weak waters.
Rainfall was 30 to 70 per cent of normal
for June and July and 50 per cent of
normal in late summer and early autumn,
the Environment Ministry reported.
"If significant rainfall does not occur in
the next month, precipitation may occur
as snow, and rivers will remain at their
low levels for the duration of the winter,"
the Environment Ministry stated.
No outright torrential rain storms are
predicted as B.C. continues to experience
El Nino-like conditions.
Service Canada Public Meeting
Service Canada will be hosting a public meeting
in the community of Quesnel.
The objective of the meeting will be to share Information on the following:
- Service Canada's mandate, points of access, and
service offerings;
- Service Canada funded employment programs and
services available in the community: and,
- Service Canada project type funding (Job Creation
Partnership, Labour Market Partnership, Summer
Career Placement, Skills Link, and Career Focus).
The meeting will be held
October 25th from 9:30am to 11:30am
at the Best Western Tower Inn.
Please RSVP by email to:
sharon.thain@servieecanada.gc.ca by October 23rd.
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manufacturing, agriculture, forest
workers, timber and attractionretention
of residents.
"There are five key issues,"
Dufresne said.
"Secure the future for our
communities; development of
our community stability factors;
management of mountain pine beetle
damaged volume and area; [have
our] mining, oil and gas sectors as
economic generators..."
M.J. Cousins, in charge of EDWG,
explained the seven strategies are all
at various stages of being completed.
Each strategy has a specific
deadline and budget for completion
prior to being presented to the
board.
Most of the money CCBAC has
now is being spent on contractors to
devise those specific plans.
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