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Friday, October 11, 2013 B1 www.pgfreepress.com | newsline: 250.564.0005 CHIDIAC: Holocaust course wins major award B4 B Section Letter from Wingfield Farm stars Rod Beattie along with a cast of characters he knows very well. Indeed, the actor has played the role of Walt Wingfield thousands of times but he never tires of him. He also portrays Ed, a Larkspur newspaper editor, Jimmy, the nervous mechanic, old farmer e Squire and many more. Seven plays have been based on the Wingfield characters and Beattie hopes his debut performance at eatre North West this month will win over new fans. e plays written by Dan Needles are based on a series of letters written to Walt’s friend Ed about his “mid-life crisis” change of career from stockbroker to farmer. ey are set in a small (fictional) town in Ontario called Persephone Township. e story is about Walt’s misadventures and Beattie says that he never gets tired of bringing Walt and all his friends to life on the stage with every performance. “It’s strange really because I have got- ten sick of other roles I’ve played a lot but I never get bored with this one. It’s always fresh. Part of that is the great characters – the other part is that Walt is talking to a new audience all the time, as is Ed, and the audience is a partner, so that makes it a new experience every time out.” Performing Wingfield 150 to 200 times a year doesn’t leave the actor much room for enjoying time off. However Beattie recently got in some vacation time and he spent it on the road in a fast car. “I took a week off to travel to Newfound- land – where I’ve never been – and I drove in the annual Targa road rally. It’s sort of a [non competitive] car race, they take you to places where you can drive on off roads at high speeds you otherwise could not do. “ I love driving, I love driving fast ... and I’ve had a little experience at it so we just had a ball,” said Beattie. Asked how difficult it is for him to shiſt from one Wingfield personality to another, Beattie immediately changes his “regular” voice and slips into character. “ere is a sequence at the beginning of the third play where Ed says to Doreen, ‘Lock the door will ya. I feel an editorial coming on... When you run a small town weekly some days are worse than others. ‘I just had a fellow in here who said he wanted to buy the paper. I said that will be 50 cents. ‘No,’ he said he wanted to buy the whole business. And I said, ‘that’s what I meant too.’” ere are days you see, said Beattie, when Ed’s not so keen about his job.” As an actor, Beattie agrees people oſten confuse him with his character – but he rather likes that. “I answer to Walt [he laughs] and I don’t mind doing that. I suppose it’s a form of typecasting but I don’t mind. For one thing, I’m being typecast as about 50 different personalities, so it’s not so limiting.” One actor playing multiple characters is challenging but it also comes up as a good opportunity, he says. “It doesn’t come up very oſten. Most one person shows are really based on one main person. Even Billy Bishop [Goes to War] which does have other characters in it, is really about Billy Bishop and he’s by far the main character.” How hard is it to be the only actor that is physically present and talking on stage for the duration of the play? “It’s a lot of talking. When I performed Macbeth at Stratford Festival years ago [an interviewer] said: ‘What’s it like playing one of the big parts ... with all the memorizing and all that?’ And I said, ‘Actually it’s kind of a step back because it’s not as physically demanding as what I used to do.’ You have to be in shape to do this stuff and you have to give it your full concentration.” Beattie says that he’s looking forward to being in Prince George and introducing his characters to the local audience. “I know for someone who hasn’t seen the Wingfield plays, it’s going to be a hard thing to grasp. ese are apparently letters to the editor of a newspaper and they are about a man who’s in mid-life crisis and he decides he’s going to change his life. “Instead of becoming a stock broker he went back to the farm and then he joined the newspaper. He’s had both sides of it, rural and city life.” With a long list of acting credits to his name, Beattie says his career has offered many rewards, not the least of which has been knowing that audiences take away something positive. “Film and TV are oſten a lot of fun but I am a stage actor,” said Beattie. “ere is nothing that appeals to me more than being in front of a live audience, in a unique situ- ation, at eight o’clock one evening, having to do something for them that is faithful to the text, during a two-hour interlude in their lives which I hope will leave them changed somehow.” Dan Needles’ Letter From Wingfield Farm, directed by Douglas Beattie, plays at eatre North West in Parkhill Centre from Oct. 2 to 23. Tickets are for sale at Books and Company or phone 250-614-0039. Teresa Mallam [email protected] Terry MANZO/Special to Free Press North Rod Beattie performs in Theatre North West’s production of Letter from Wingfield Farm which runs until Oct. 23 at TNW in Parkhill Centre. Rod Beattie delivers Rod Beattie delivers a cast of characters a cast of characters THEATRE NORTH WEST

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Letter from Wingfi eld Farm stars Rod Beattie along with a cast of characters he knows very well.

Indeed, the actor has played the role of Walt Wingfi eld thousands of times but he never tires of him. He also portrays Ed, a Larkspur newspaper editor, Jimmy, the nervous mechanic, old farmer Th e Squire and many more.

Seven plays have been based on the Wingfi eld characters and Beattie hopes his debut performance at Th eatre North West this month will win over new fans.

Th e plays written by Dan Needles are based on a series of letters written to Walt’s friend Ed about his “mid-life crisis” change of career from stockbroker to farmer. Th ey are set in a small (fi ctional) town in Ontario called Persephone Township.

Th e story is about Walt’s misadventures and Beattie says that he never gets tired of bringing Walt and all his friends to life on the stage with every performance.

“It’s strange really because I have got-ten sick of other roles I’ve played a lot but I never get bored with this one. It’s always fresh. Part of that is the great characters – the other part is that Walt is talking to a new audience all the time, as is Ed, and the audience is a partner, so that makes it a new experience every time out.”

Performing Wingfi eld 150 to 200 times a year doesn’t leave the actor much room for enjoying time off . However Beattie recently got in some vacation time and he spent it on the road in a fast car.

“I took a week off to travel to Newfound-land – where I’ve never been – and I drove in the annual Targa road rally. It’s sort of a [non competitive] car race, they take you to places where you can drive on off roads at high speeds you otherwise could not do.

“ I love driving, I love driving fast ... and I’ve had a little experience at it so we just had a ball,” said Beattie.

Asked how diffi cult it is for him to shift from one Wingfi eld personality to another, Beattie immediately changes his “regular” voice and slips into character.

“Th ere is a sequence at the beginning of the third play where Ed says to Doreen, ‘Lock the door will ya. I feel an editorial coming on... When you run a small town weekly some days are worse than others.

‘I just had a fellow in here who said he wanted to buy the paper. I said that will be 50 cents. ‘No,’ he said he wanted to buy the whole business. And I said, ‘that’s what I meant too.’”

Th ere are days you see, said Beattie, when Ed’s not so keen about his job.”

As an actor, Beattie agrees people oft en confuse him with his character – but he rather likes that.

“I answer to Walt [he laughs] and I don’t mind doing that. I suppose it’s a form of typecasting but I don’t mind. For one thing, I’m being typecast as about 50 diff erent personalities, so it’s not so limiting.”

One actor playing multiple characters is challenging but it also comes up as a good opportunity, he says.

“It doesn’t come up very oft en. Most one person shows are really based on one main person. Even Billy Bishop [Goes to War] which does have other characters in it, is really about Billy Bishop and he’s by far the main character.”

How hard is it to be the only actor that is physically present and talking on stage for the duration of the play?

“It’s a lot of talking. When I performed Macbeth at Stratford Festival years ago [an interviewer] said: ‘What’s it like playing one of the big parts ... with all the memorizing and all that?’ And I said, ‘Actually it’s kind of a step back because it’s not as physically demanding as what I used to do.’ You have to be in shape to do this stuff and you have to give it your full concentration.”

Beattie says that he’s looking forward to being in Prince George and introducing his characters to the local audience.

“I know for someone who hasn’t seen the Wingfi eld plays, it’s going to be a hard thing to grasp. Th ese are apparently letters to the editor of a newspaper and they are about a man who’s in mid-life crisis and he decides he’s going to change his life.

“Instead of becoming a stock broker he went back to the farm and then he joined the newspaper. He’s had both sides of it, rural and city life.”

With a long list of acting credits to his name, Beattie says his career has off ered many rewards, not the least of which has been knowing that audiences take away something positive.

“Film and TV are oft en a lot of fun but I am a stage actor,” said Beattie. “Th ere is nothing that appeals to me more than being in front of a live audience, in a unique situ-ation, at eight o’clock one evening, having to do something for them that is faithful to the text, during a two-hour interlude in their lives which I hope will leave them changed somehow.”

Dan Needles’ Letter From Wingfi eld Farm, directed by Douglas Beattie, plays at Th eatre North West in Parkhill Centre from Oct. 2 to 23. Tickets are for sale at Books and Company or phone 250-614-0039.

Teresa [email protected]

Terry MANZO/Special to Free Press North Rod Beattie performs in Theatre North West’s production of Letter from Wingfield Farm which runs until Oct. 23 at TNW in Parkhill Centre.

Rod Beattie deliversRod Beattie deliversa cast of charactersa cast of characters

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Claire Headrick, 3, runs from the living room Wednesday and then quickly returns with her sticker book in hand and sits down to watch Curious George on T.V.

She is an active and happy child. Parents Chad and Joanne watch

her and they smile. Th eir lives now are a total contrast from when ev-ery breath their newborn daughter took was met with relief and every “good day” she had was celebrated.

Claire was born May 2, 2010 at Prince George Regional Hospital (now UHNBC). At just 25 weeks gestation, she had entered the world three-and-a-half months premature – much to the surprise of her young parents.

She weighed one pound, nine ounces.

“Aft er two hours of painful contractions, I was in full labour,” said Joanne. “I had to have an emergency C-section and the baby had to be fl own to Vancouver. I couldn’t go with her because I was in no shape to travel so Chad

went.“I only saw her for about

fi ve minutes before they took her away and I didn’t see her again until Day 2.”

Th e visit was not as she had expected.

“I developed an infection, so they put me in a room upstairs and I would visit her by going downstairs in my wheelchair,” said Joanne. “At fi rst I didn’t know what was wrong – or what was right – with her.”

Th e parents waited ner-vously for news.

“We felt a lot of uncer-tainty at fi rst,” said Joanne. “Especially during that fi rst day when Chad and I were apart and he was alone with the baby, and he didn’t know what to do.”

Chad not only had to adjust to being a new father,

he also had to come to terms with his wife and daughter’s respective medical emergencies.

“It was defi nitely an eye opener,” he said.

Claire was placed in an incuba-tor where a medical team moni-tored and cared for her around the clock.

“She was born not breathing on her own and had to be ventilated,” said Joanne. “She was diagnosed with BPD, bronchial pulmonary disorder, and because she was in the incubator, I couldn’t even hold her. For me, that was one of the hardest parts of this journey.”

Her husband agrees. “It was a massive life changer at

the drop of a dime,” Chad said. On Day 5 Claire had to undergo

her fi rst operation, open heart surgery. Her second operation was to perform retinopathy, laser eye surgery, to repair damage to blood vessels of the retina, a condition

common in premature babies. Today Claire wears glasses to

improve her vision. Knowing they were going to

have to stay in Vancouver for a time so Claire could get the neces-sary tests and treatment she re-quired, the parents began looking for suitable accommodation.

“We were lucky to have a social worker come to see us who heard about our problem and got in touch with Variety Club who then helped fund our stay at the Ronald McDonald House. I had family living in Vancouver, but they were far out and the Ronald McDonald house is in the Shaughnessey area, a two- to fi ve-minute drive to the hospital.”

Th e couple stayed there four months, May 2010 through August 2010 until Claire was well enough to return home with them.

Baby born too soonTeresa [email protected]

A family photo of Chad Headrick’s loving hand over the head of his premature newborn daughter, Claire, shows how small she was in 2010. She weighed one pound nine ounces at birth.

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“On August 30 we came back to Prince George and she was in hospital here for another month. She was doing well and doctors in Vancouver thought she would be in ‘good hands’ in the hospital here.”

Ronald McDonald House was more than just a place to stay, say the Headricks.“Staying there helped us with the emotional part of all this. It’s a great big house with a family room,

lots of bedrooms for families, play room, music room, TV room and common areas. A lot of families who stayed there were in similar situations. Many of them had children who had cancer, but all of them were going through a rough time and they were in diff erent stages of emotional distress. It helped us hope and gave us comfort and provided some sort of sanity.”

During their stay, Claire suff ered a number of setbacks.“Th ere were several health crises where Claire’s oxygen levels would go down dramatically. Th e scariest

part for me was when they had to paralyze her. She was always kicking and moving, she was very feisty – she still is – and that caused her heart rate to race which aff ected her lungs. She had had collapsed lungs, so they had to have ventilator do her breathing for her,” said Joanne.

Chad shakes his head. He remembers their emotional roller coaster ride very well. “She’d get better, then she’d get worse,” he said. “Some days she’d be doing great, then the next day, she

was have breathing problems and she’d be crying. She had a tube down her throat, so she couldn’t make the sound, but you could see her and you knew she was crying.”

It was oft en a case of fi ve steps forward, three steps back, says Joanne. Today Claire makes her parents proud and she has amazed doctors with her steady progress. “Th e doctors are so happy with her and they say that they’re amazed at her growth and development,

her personality and how far she has come from then to now.”Th e family is involved with the local Child Development Centre and the infant development program.

Recently Claire had a bout of pneumonia along with a return of her RSB which made for some anxious days for her working parents.

“She is maybe more susceptible than other children are,” said Joanne. “But it makes it harder because I work and Chad oft en works out of town so it can be challenging with a child who is sick.”

On Th ursday Claire was back to her “old” self and keeping her parents fully engaged in all her activities and the things she loves. Like Curious George.

When the reporter is taking a picture of the shadow box fi lled with items from Claire’s hospital stay, Joanne wipes away a tear.

“I had to take this [box] down the other day and it brought tears to my eyes, like now, just looking at it and remembering those days and how hard it was to get through them.”

Th is year the Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver marks its 30th anniversary. Th e house provides a safe and comfortable place for families to stay when their children are being cared for in B.C. Children’s Hospital.

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Teresa MALLAM/Free PressNadine Lindstrom is chapter coordinator of the non-profit group Tetra Society of North America.

Nadine Lindstrom has never been one to let her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis slow her down.

She keeps her body fi t. She eats well, exercises and has always kept her mind open to new ideas and innovations that can help her adjust her life to her body’s ever changing needs. Lindstrom has learned to work with, not against, MS.

With her own health in check, Lindstrom wants to help others in similar situations improve their quality of life.

Th at’s where her interest and work with Tetra Solutions came in. She began working with the non-profi t group, Tetra Society of North America, on June 1. Now she is the Prince George chapter coordinator for the organization.

“People with physical disabilities and movement limitations oft en need help performing everyday tasks that able bodied people take for granted,” she said.

“Not all mobility aides are avail-able on the market. Th e idea behind Tetra Solutions is to bring together a client and volunteer who off ers a so-lution, a customized assistive device that can solve the problem.”

Tetra was fi rst created in 1987 by former Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan who became a quadriplegic following a skiing accident when he was 19. He was unable to hold the fl ag for the city’s B.C. Winter games opening ceremonies years ago and Tetra designed a special bracket for his wheelchair.

“Mr. Sullivan was at a support meeting one day and he said he could use some diff erent devices

created to help him live more inde-pendently. Th ere was a retired able bodied man who heard him say that and he volunteered to help,” said Lindstrom.

“Th en more people got involved to help people with disabilities. Simple little gadgets or gizmos can help a person have a better quality of life.”

Lindstrom’s job is to recruit cli-ents, both adults and children with disabilities.

“Th e Tetra Society of North America helps people with dis-abilities all over the country but I wanted to do this in Prince George. Right now I am recruiting techni-cians, carpenters, sewers and other trades people as volunteers and then I can match them with people who have a specifi c problem they can help with. What I do in my job is bring the two sides together.”

Th e word tetra, she noted, comes from tetraplegia also known as quadriplegia which is paralysis caused from illness or injury which results in the loss of use of limbs.

Sometimes the loss of mobility is due to aging.

“I worked with a Prince George senior, a woman with severe arthri-tis and other health problems who was having trouble bending over and dressing herself. She couldn’t put on her undergarments. In my role with Tetra Solutions, I made contact with a local seamstress and she solved the problem by putting velcro fasteners on her clothing.

“Th ese are not commercial prod-ucts, they’re not things you can fi nd in stores. We make them available to suit the specifi c needs of our clients.”

Currently, Lindstrom is looking for people who need custom devices

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to help them with specifi c problems for a better quality of life.

Clients with disabilities, are not billed for a volunteer’s time, she said. But they are requested, if they can, to cover cost of any materials and mile-age costs of volunteers.

Anyone with an idea for a cus-tomized assistive device that could

transform some aspect of a disabled person’s life or for those who wanting to volunteer their trades, talent and time, can contact Nadine Lindstrom at 250-562-3334.

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Jim Terrion Jr. lives in a silent world but he marches to his own drum.

Terrion, 52, was born deaf.

He communicates mostly by writing down what he wants to say or by using sign language. It can be a frustrating and slow process. Es-pecially for new people he meets on the street or those who open their doors when he’s out canvassing.

Th at has never stopped him though from raising whopping amounts of money for charity events and causes he holds dear to him like the annual Terry Fox Run.

Terrion raised $3,963 in Prince George in pledges from the local run this month even though he was in his former home, Prince Rupert, taking part in its fundraising event. He raised money for them too.

“Jim raised $24,730.25 in 23 days in Prince Rupert,” said his proud mother, Faye. “Th at brings his fundraising total to date – since he fi rst started his walks in 1990 – to a grand total of $584,557.80. I think that’s quite an accom-plishment.”

Indeed, it would be exceptional for any per-son but Terrion is deal-ing with a disability. In 1990 he walked across Canada and back, 6,300 miles in eight months, on a fundraising mis-sion to raise awareness for people with hearing disabilities.

He continues to chal-lenge himself every day. Th at has made him try even harder and set his sights even higher.

“He was walking through Saskatchewan years ago in tem-peratures of minus 45 degrees and the driver asked him to stop, he wouldn’t stop. He just kept on going. He always pushes himself to do more. Th at hasn’t changed.”

In one day, on August 7, 1990, he logged 100 kilometres. In his jour-nal, Terrion wrote that he got up at fi ve or six

The million dollar manHearing impaired fundraiser sets big goal for Terry Fox FoundationTeresa [email protected]

Teresa MALLAM/Free PressJim Terrion Jr. with a portrait of his Canadian hero Terry Fox which was gifted to him by Fox’s family members and the Terry Fox Run Foundation.

in the morning and “never stopped” until dark.

Just as on that wintry day, over 20 years ago, Terrion now has a new goal in mind.

Th e reporter asks him, “how much do you want to raise for the Terry Fox Run?”

He holds up one fi nger, smiles, and mouths the words: “One million dollars.”

He shows the reporter a tall fi ling cabinet where he keeps in neatly organized folders, facts, fi gures and letters, dated newspaper clippings of his walks, awards, and – most impor-tantly to him – the amount of money he’s raised.

Inspired by his childhood hero, Terry Fox, who overcame adversity

to run marathons across Canada and motivate people to support cancer re-search, Terrion is getting recognized for his fundraising eff orts.

On the wall, is a framed portrait of Fox given to him by the family and Terry Fox Foundation. He also has numerous plaques, certifi cates and a signed picture from his friend Rick Hansen, a bronzed running shoe, a momento of his walk on behalf of the deaf community.

His most prized possession? A photograph of him dropping the puck in Vancouver on Oct. 29, 2011 at a Canucks game.

“Jim was about 12 when we got him into the Jericho Hill School for the Deaf in Vancouver,” said Faye. “We knew something was wrong.

We took him fi rst for testing and eventually our MLA in Prince Rupert stepped in and we saw a specialist in Victoria.

“When he was a young boy, people actually thought he was retarded because he could not communicate.”

Soon they knew the truth.“We found out he has normal

hearing in his outer ear, so he can hear a beeping car horn or if I clap loud enough, he can hear that. The problem is he has 95 per cent hearing loss in his inner ear which controls the speech and language.”

Terrion graduated school in 1980. He began training for his first walk in 1977, hoping to raise awareness about the many chal-lenges facing deaf and hearing

impaired people. “In Prince Rupert everybody

knew him, so communication was not a problem. When I moved to Prince George in 1994, he didn’t want to come with me. He wanted to be independent but it was hard for him to find work there.

“In 2006 he moved here and bought a trailer for himself and I sold my place and moved into his. Within a short time he had gotten two jobs, one at Save On Foods and he also works now in house-keeping at the hospital (UHNBC).

As the reporter and Terrion sit at the kitchen table, he and Faye carry on an animated “talk” about their day. Both say they want people in Prince George

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the blood.”Ah, yes, the blood. Did I mention how this reporter feels queasy at

the mere sight of blood? Th at it is the big reason why I did not go into nursing?

Well apparently, according to the Russells – all of them, producers Bill and Judy, Enchainement Productions Inc., actors Matt and Andrew, actor/director/choreographer Anna Russell, choreogra-pher Nicole Russell and show designer Jonathan (I’m guessing baby Russell is junior technical advisor in charge of sound) – I will be too busy laughing and having a good time to notice the red blood gushing from assorted severed limbs.

Th at’s a good thing.Evil Dead, the musical, is loaded with tal-

ent: Matt Russell in the lead role as Ash, Anais Barnes as Cheryl, Ash’s sister, Shelby Meaney as Annie, Anna Russell as Linda, Adam Harasimiuk

as Ed, Annie’s boyfriend, Nigel McInnis as Scott, Andrew Russell as Jake, Jenny Tracey as Shelly and Anthony Gagne as Fake Shemp.

Music is provided by the Evil Dead Rock Trio: Curtis Abriel on piano, Erin Yule on drums, Patrick Michaud on guitars.

Th e songs have very weird titles like What the F***Was Th at? and All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons.

Evil Dead, the musical, takes all the elements of cult classic horror fi lms – Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness – and combines them into one of the craziest theatrical experiences of all time.

Th e plot: Five college students go to an abandoned cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It’s up to Ash, a housewares employee turned demon-killing hero and his trusty chain-

saw to save the day. Blood fl ies, limbs are dismembered and demons are telling bad jokes.

And they do all this to music.

Judy Russell En-chainement Produc-tions Inc. presents Evil Dead, the musi-cal. Featuring the real triple threat: Death, dismemberment and dance numbers. Ask about tickets in the Splatter Zone. Parental guidance is advised. Show runs from Oct. 23 to Nov. 2 at the Prince George Playhouse. Tickets are at at Studio 2880. Doors open at 7:15 p.m. Show starts at 8 p.m.

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Th is very funny live stage show is an absolute departure for Judy Russell, said show director Anna Russell who brought her own vision of Christmas Carol to the stage last year. Th e new musical was chosen and cast in record time.

“It’s a little dark,” said Anna, dur-ing a rehearsal break Tuesday. “And it’s a bit ‘campy’ – but there’s lots of comedy. We wanted to put on some-thing to do with Halloween. We thought of having a Haunted House but then I remembered Evil Dead from when I lived in Vancouver.

“So we decided to do it, and then it all came together very quickly, we pulled together actors we knew from previous productions.”

Fans of the movie will know the story and all its characters, and they’ll love the musical, says Anna. But you don’t have to be a horror fl ick fan to love this show. Audience members who are new to the genre are also in for a real treat.

And did I mention, lots of blood? “Th is is very diff erent from when

I directed [Judy Russell’s] Christmas Carol where I adapted it especially for what we wanted to bring to the stage,” said Anna. “Th e biggest chal-lenge for me with Evil Dead is the special eff ects, all the tricks and ....

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Teresa MALLAM/Free PressMatt Russell as Ash, a housewares employee and college student during rehearsals at PG Playhouse Tuesday. Death, dismember-ment and dance numbers: an uncharacteristic, unlikely and unnerving scenario of Judy and Bill Russell’s latest musical theatre production, Evil Dead which runs Oct. 23 to Nov. 2.

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Amanda Alexander is no stranger to the YMCA of Northern BC.

“When I moved to Prince George 18 years ago,” Alexander says, “I joined the YMCA, and was a front-desk volunteer and helped with running clin-ics.”

When she moved back to Prince George, she and her family joined the YMCA again, and she became “a faithful lunch-hour fi tness participant.”

Now, she will have a new role with the group. On Oct. 1, Alexander takes over from Mark Miller as the CEO.

“I love what the YMCA off ers the communities it serves,” Alexander says. “Not just Prince George, but across the north.”

She especially likes how the Y works with fami-lies.

“Th ey help families to be healthy. Th ey schedule things so it’s not a question of dad or mom being able to go, but not the kids.”

Alexander has been serving as the women’s and children’s services program manager at the Prince George and District Elizabeth Fry Society, design-ing new programs, identifying partner-ship opportunities and managing budgets.

To some extent, that’s what she’ll be do-ing at the Y, as well.

“I’ll be talking to staff and getting up to speed on what they’re doing across the region. Th ere are some really neat initiatives they’re working on.”

In a press release announcing the ap-pointment, Y board chairperson Pat Flack said they had a lot of work to do.

“We received over 40 quality resumes from across the country for this position, and Amanda’s stood out from the beginning. Her education and career experience will play a key role in the YMCA’s regional expansion and 50th anniversary celebrations in 2014.”

Alexander has already indicated there is one aspect of the new job she is willing to take on.

“I will defi nitely be participating in next year’s Strong Kids Challenge.”

Th e challenge is part of the Strong Kids Cam-paign, which raises money to help send children to Camp Kanannaq.

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Craig Keating has been involved with the NDP in B.C. for a long time — and he’s never seen members as energized about change as they are now.

Keating, a fi ve-term councillor in the City of North Vancouver and defeated candidate in the North Vancouver-Lonsdale riding in the May provincial election, said that is one of the reasons he agreed, when asked by party members, to run for the soon-to-be-vacated presidency of the party.

Moe Sihota, who has been presi-dent since 2009, has announced he will leave the post when his term ends in November. Party leader Adrian Dix has also announced he will step down once a new leader is elected.

Th e party’s new president will be elected at the November convention in Vancouver, while a date has yet to be set to select a new leader.

Keating, in Kamloops on Friday, Sept. 27, to meet with local party supporters, said people are dedicated to make changes to the party now — and he believes it must happen from the ground up.

He would like to fi nd ways to engage people and bring them back into the true political process, not one composed of robocalls and photo-ops.

“People get a lot of requests for money,” Keating said, “but few for their input and I want to change that.”

To do that, he said, the party’s provincial headquarters in Burnaby needs to change the way it interacts with supporters who don’t live in the Lower Mainland.

“I tell people to look at a map of the province and where we have representation and they will see a large swath from Penticton through Kelowna and farther north without any NDP representation. We have to change that.”

Although he would want to determine the fi nancial viability fi rst, Keating said one way to do this would be to have an organizer dedicated to areas beyond the Lower Mainland and Coastal areas.

“I don’t know how you engage people from 500 miles away,” he said.

Keating threw his hat into the ring for the party presidency in 2003, only to withdraw a few weeks later. He said the one signifi cant change for him between then and now is “the organization changes we faced in the past are sharper in focus for me now.

“In 2003, what we were aft er was electing more than two MLAs,” he said.

“Now, the focus is becoming the government.”

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If the words, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” had not already been famously penned by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities, it may have been the opening line of Bjorn Norheim’s fi rst book.

He wrote and self-published Viking to Canuck, which chronicles tales of his earlier life under German occupation and his risky work for the underground smuggling Jews into Sweden.

However, the book is mostly about his later, and happier, years spent with his wife, Gwen, in the Canadian wilderness. An avid outdoorsman who enjoys seeing animals in their natural habitat, Bjorn relished his time working in the bush as a logger in Ontario.

In 1952, he moved to Prince George where he met and later married Gwen and together they began exploring and hiking nature trails and skiing routes.

Th e author’s two cities? Oslo and Prince George. “I was 24 when I left Norway to come to

Canada. I had $20 in my pocket,” he said. He writes of his decision: “In my worn-out book, Ebbell wrote about

the three main organizations that built up Canada: Th e North West Company/Hudson Bay Company, the Canadian Pacifi c Railroad and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

“I dreamed of being a policeman in a right red suit riding a horse in the mountains. I dreamed of being a conductor driving a train through the vast wheat fi elds of the prairies, and I dreamed of being a trapper hauling piles and piles of fur to trade at the Hudson Bay Post.”

He also dreamed of being a gold miner, panning the icy creeks.

Th e 256-page book illustrated with photo-graphs is set to be launched Oct. 3 at Books and Company. It contains riveting passages about close calls with the Nazis, stories about wildlife and survival and a closing chapter, Four Legged Buddies, about adventures with dogs owned by Bjorn and his wife.

Gwen helped with the book by making suggestions, typing the original manuscript

and giving moral support. She also wrote a chapter on how the couple met.

“I wrote about how we fi rst met at the Silver Spike Cafe on Th ird Avenue. It was where everybody went to have coff ee. I was teaching out in Hixon and sometimes we got rides with our parents to come into Prince George.”

It wasn’t love at fi rst sight – she saw him looking at the waitresses and heard about his wild parties – but they have now been together for 58 years. In their early years to-gether, the couple lived just past Miworth, on an expanse of land overlooking the Nechako River.

“In the 70s they had a [government] pro-gram where if you cleared the land, you got a parcel of land given to you,” said Gwen. “So we had 160 acres on the river, we lived there for 30 years.

“We had no electricity when we moved there. Th ere was a power plant but the phone service stopped two kilometres from where we were. But we’re animal lovers and we got to enjoy all the bears and deer that came around.”

Today they live in the city.Bjorn credits local author and travel writer

Vivien Lougheed with giving him the push to put his life stories into a book.

“I had about 400 pages written in Nor-wegian and had translated them. My father owned a printing house and newspaper in Norway and I had sent him my work.

“Vivien was a fellow hiker, we explored trails together. I would tell her stories about my native Norway and she’d say, ‘why don’t you write a book?’”

It took four years, but he’s written the book. “About 20 per cent of the book is about

my life as a kid living in Norway during the war years. During the war, I was studying psychology at the University of Oslo.”

An excerpt from Viking to Canuck: “During the latter part of the occupation

some of us students would meet at an apart-ment in Oslo to listen to the B.B.C. news. Th e radio was hidden in the kitchen amongst two sacks of potatoes.

“We would put the radio on very low and all huddle around listening to the news. Our favourite speaker was [Prime Minister

Winston] Churchill, especially when we heard him telling us not to give up and that the Nazis would be beaten in the end, as they were.”

Th ere will be a slide show of pictures which are featured in the book.

His wife helped with organizing material and inputing stories on the computer

“She couldn’t decipher my chicken scratches,” says Nor-heim.

Th e book launch and signing for Viking to Canuck takes place Th ursday, Oct. 3 start-ing at 7:30 p.m. Th ere will be a slide show of photographs from the book. Light snacks will be served.

All proceeds from sales of Viking to Canuck will be donated to the UNBC Medical Program.

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Teresa MALLAM/Free PressBjorn Norheim with his first book Viking to Canuck that was launched at Books and Company on Oct. 3.

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