Phraser Connector, Issue 40, September 2015

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE :

Editorial by Elaine 2

Audrey Read 3

Mud Bogs 5

FL Sawmill 6

Community Health 7

Playground update 8

Calendar 9

Ian Kluge 10

Village updates 11

Terry Fox Run

TERRY RAN FOR ME IN 1980 I’m running for :

Walter Schmidt; Uncle Jack (In memory); Larry & Rita; Everyone; Auntie & Todd; Everyone Fighting;

All those with cancer and their families and for Kia who couldn't run for her Dad today; my Aunty Tass; Those fighting the fight; Dads;

Dave Thake; My Dad; My Granpa; Leah, Rob & Kevin

These were the names

of the loved ones they

ran for at this year’s

Terry Fox Run on

Sunday Sept. 23rd.

The Terry Fox flag

above was purchased

by the Wiley/Storey

family in September

1981 at the first Terry

Fox Run in Fraser

Volume 40 Issue 40 SEPTEMBER 2015

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Editorial by Elaine Storey

This is the season of — Ups and downs & Ins and outs.

The loss of heat is gradual until the first frost that withers the plants and tugs at the laves. It’s a tug and pull of cool and warm-of keeping indoors to be cool or outdoors to warm up.

As the outside temperature goes down, The windows go up.

When the thermostat goes up, The leaves come down.

When the coats come out, the lawn chairs go down. And as you wipe the chairs, checking for spiders and dirt and bugs and those sticky cobwebs that catch in your hair when you’re bent over trying to clean the bottom of the chair legs because you don’t want the outside -inside to hatch more creepy bugs that thrive in damp, dark storage areas -like earwigs and those crawly bugs that stare at you when you try to crush them with your forefinger and thumb.

Ahhhh….

When the closed-toed shoes come out the flip-flops get stored. Boots replace sandals and leggings replace capris.

The lawn mower makes space in the for the shovels and the snow blower.

The gardens come up and the vegetables go down.

Yet, despite all the packing, and digging and putting away, Fall is my favourite season. I love its’ colours, and the birds and the flurry of completing projects.

If summer is THE season, Fall is the off-season. Its when you re-evaluate the work of a twenty acre lawn and mowing uphill for three hours after every rainfall. You ask if this is really how you want to spend next summer and every dang summer after that.

You re-evaluate the strength of the deck and how it will with-stand twenty feet of snow.

You think about the blade of the snowplough and its inability to lift over rock gardens and re-taining walls hidden under twenty feet of snow and ice….and store accordingly.

You change out tires, and stack wood in sheds and fill bird feed-ers.

And you buy boxes of Hallow-een treats and hide them ….

At Autumn Services we are always struggling to stretch our limited funds between rent and our ability to deliver pro-grams. At our AGM in July and our last executive and general meetings we ‘ve discussed several fundraising options.

The organization of many events and fundraisers is often left to handful of individuals. And being one of the individuals left at the alter at the end of the night to cart boxes up and down stairs, to clean the kitchen and wash floors, I am all about dis-covering other fundraising alternatives.

We decided that a raffle, if well thought out and organized, could give us the end result we are searching for…. A fund-raiser with manageable output where the reward is great enough that we are able to sit back and relax for at least one day before the New Horizons grant applications in the spring.

To make it worth while we are going to sell tickets at $20 apiece for six months. For the raffle to sell itself, the prizes must be of the nature that people will clamour to purchase them. So with that in mind, we are taking steps to amass a large bounty of donated items that will have a ‘wow’ effect when you read the poster.

We will have tickets available in December and have planned an Early Bird draw for Valentines Day and possibly Easter.

The first of the season potlucks in September was very well attended with many tantalizing German –food dishes. The October potluck will be hosted by FL Sawmill and, we need a business or group to host November. Autumn Services will once again host turkey dinner in December.

We have invited vendors from the Community Market to set up twice a month in our building starting at the end of Octo-ber. With our new Fall programs:-sewing, crocheting, quilt-ing and writing along with our walking group, stitch & gab group, our mental health meetings, monthly potlucks and Friday coffee group...the centre is ONE BIG ball of activity.

Healthfest will be on November 5th this year and we hope to make it more interactive with painting, and crafts, and cook-ing demos, and beginners computer lab, and Reiki demos and yoga.

We are in search of Chinese Auction items for the Spirit Fami-ly Fun Night in late November. Contact us if you have items –big or small to donate for an auction, plus we need empty baskets.

Please share this news about our programs –we want to see more of all of YOU!!!!!


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The Employment Program of British Columbia is funded by the Government of Canada and

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October is Small Business Month in BC The Village of Fraser Lake’s first Business Walk event will take place on Wednesday, October 28 2015. The Business Walk aims to take the pulse of local business’s by conducting short face to face interviews with business owners and managers.

The Business Walk program involves a partnership facilitated by the Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training (JTST), the Vil-lage of Fraser Lake and local service providers. The Business Walk program is recognized as an Economic Development Best Practice by the Provincial Government. Gathering community and business information is a key ingredient to foster the area’s growth and expansion potential.

Business owners and managers are encouraged to be at their business on Wednesday ,October 28 when the teams are engaging in a Business Walk. By taking the time to answer just a few questions, you will provide valuable information that area support agencies can use to develop programs and services that will better support our small businesses.

Questions or more information please contact: Jolene Webb at 250-699-6257


I lived in Fraser Lake several years ago but

with various circumstances and some opportu-nities too good to pass up I left the area and moved to Vancouver. While I was in Vancouver I went to acting school. Saying you went to acting school gives people the idea that you and a bunch of other people sit around and read scripts and then try to read scripts better. That isn't anything at all like what acting school is actually like. Acting school, or at least my experience of acting school was more intensive than any therapy or self analysis than anything that I have ever ex-perienced before. On one of our first assignments at school was to write our own eulogies. This was a dreadful experience for every single person in the class. It wasn't just one eulogy, it was a eulogy from three different people in our lives. One fellow read a eulogy written by his young daughter. He couldn't stop crying enough to read the eulogy and had to ask one of the girls in the class to read it for him. The affect of having a girl read it made the eulogy even more impact-ing and everyone in the class was crying by the end of it as she talked about the loss of her daddy and what he meant to her in his life. This wasn't a wimpy fellow, incidentally. He was covered in tattoos and his regular casting roles were for things like: prison inmate, ex-cons all sorts of tough guy characters. One day I was crossing the street after getting a coffee and I had the most horrible premoni-tion that I got hit by a car. It was incredibly vivid. I could feel the car hit me, I could hear the sound of bones breaking. I tasted blood in my mouth. I called my husband up and told him about it. It scared us both that such a pow-erful premonition had occurred but neither one of us really knew what to do about it. I had

been jay walking when I had the premoni-tion so I decided that I would be extra careful, stick to crosswalks and just try to pay really close attention. A week passed and I was very careful every time I crossed the street. I looked both ways, I made eye contact with driv-er, I only used crosswalks, I waited for

walk signals. There weren't any close calls, everything was just fine. Then one evening there was a concert in town for the band 'Journey'. My friend Janice had come to town and I was going to walk the few blocks over to her hotel to visit after she was finished at the concert. I used the crosswalk, a white car was coming and they came to a po-lite stop on my left. I waved and looked both ways and started across the street. I came to the second lane of traffic, it was qui-et out, there was no one in sight. I looked briefly to my left, looked right again to see headlights bearing down on me. I had a moment where everything just seemed impossible, I couldn't believe that it was actu-ally happening. The headlights were much too close. RUN I tried to run but it was too late. The minivan hit me dead on the passenger's side. I hit up on the hood and went down on the pavement. The miracle was that nothing was broken. I was taken to the hospital and no one could figure out how I was still alive, how I was walking around, how I was somehow whole after being hit by a speeding taxi. It was all so sudden that I didn't have anyone to come to stay with me at the hos-pital. My husband was working out of town and nobody else seemed to be around. It was a long and lonely night, or was it? After I had my premoni-tion I had prayed. I had

prayed that this didn't have to happen, but that if it did, that I wouldn't leave my loved ones and that I wouldn't be crippled or maimed. Alone in my hotel room, confined to a neck brace, the only comfort I had was that in the corner of the room there seemed to me to be a presence glowing. I was alive, I was unbroken. Something had heard my prayers and some-thing stayed with me all that lonely night giv-ing me hope and comfort. I spent a long time trying to decide who to pick for my eulogies. I am not as close to my biological family as I am to many of the adopt-ed members of family. I was one of those peo-ple who by and large sought out people who resonated with me to form a sort adopted tribe. When I examined the depths of my heart I discovered that most of the people who I would want to speak of their experience of me were all from Fraser Lake. I wrote eulogies, my imaginings of what these people would say about me after my 'death'. How had I impacted their lives? How had they impacted my life?

The surprise was that the people I really

thought of when it came to life or death were

all from Fraser Lake. My funeral was in Fraser

lake. All my aspirations to be an actor were

moot when I wrote my eulogy and realized

that my heart and soul resided with the people

and the land of Fraser Lake. Now I'm back in

Fraser Lake. It doesn't take a lot of explanation

other than this to explain why I have returned.

It took me awhile, I was in denial, I still want-

ed to explore the world but it didn't matter

because my heart had decided where home is:

right here, with all of you.

I'm Back By Virginia Carraway Stark

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On September 11th, A hundred guests in “hi vis’ vests and hard hats swarmed the sawmill to see what one of the largest power plants in North America really looks like. And by the huge grins and head shakes, one can assume they (we) were impressed. Following speeches and the official ribbon cutting we spread out with a guide and received the royal tour amid the roar and squelch of sawmill business as usual. The first stop was to observe the wood waste leaving the general area of the old beehive burner and being carried by a half mile of conveyor to the new plant. The three inch pieces of bark and waste go through many processes of heating and cooling –resulting in the production of electricity. The Sawmill has signed a twenty year agreement with BC Hydro to buy the energy produced from 1000 tons of annual wood waste. While that is the Readers Digest version of how wood gets turned into power, there is much excitement about the financial stability awarded the residents of Fraser Lake and especially the sawmill employees. James Gorman Vice President of Corporate & Govern-ment Relations said, “ We have a twenty year agreement with Hydro to sell power.” On the ground, that agreement equates to a sustainable future for the community. Those words were echoed by the speakers who held the scissors for the ribbon cutting ceremony. Amid the thankyous and the recognition for ‘Doing the right thing’ and ‘Creating a new revenue stream’ Scott Macdougall spoke in large about how the two year project employing over a thousand workers, was completed without injury. “That was a credit to everyone” on site, said Macdougall. The technical explanation on how to run the largest Biomass Power Plant in North America is included below thanks to Howard who had never even heard of an ORC plant until just a few years ago. “It’s a legacy I can share,” agreed Howard from his desk in the control room that we visited at the end of the very informative two-hour tour.

Largest biomass power plant in North America

Cutting the ceremonial ribbon to open ORC plant at Fraser Lake Sawmill Fr left: James Gorman West Fraser V.P. Corp & Gov Relations; Mark Lacerte Elder Nadleh Whut’en; John Rustad MLA Nechako Lakes; Dwayne Lindstrom Mayor Fraser Lake; Scott Macdougall (hidden, sorry Scott) FL Sawmill Man-ager; Mark Parker Bulkley Nechako Reg Dist Area D

Retiring the Beehive Burner

Technical info submitted by Howard Reid Chief Engineer F L Biomass Plant

Fraser Lake Sawmills is producing power at our brand new state of the art biomass power plant! The plant consumes all the fuel that used to be burnt as waste in the beehive burner. A ‘hogger’ breaks the wood fiber (hog) into manageable size pieces that are fed into duplex 118 million BTU thermal oil furnaces via dual live bottom walk-ing floors and a series of augers and conveyors. The flue gasses are scrubbed in an electrostatic precipitator (ESP), removing virtually all par-ticulate before exiting the stack. The thermal oil is heated to 310C in the fur-naces before it is pumped through the evapora-tors where it gives up 100C of temperature to the working fluid, cyclopentane. The cyclopentane vapor exits the evaporators and turns the heat energy into kinetic energy via the high pressure and low pressure turbines. From there the vapor exhausts into the condenser where it collapses back into a liquid thanks to a water cooling loop which pulls the remaining

heat from the cyclopentane. Two separate cooling towers keep the water cool. In the water treatment room the water is cycled up to 8 times before a reverse osmosis / ultra filter unit is employed, filtering out undesirable compounds. Inside the turbine hall we have two separate organic Rankine cycle systems. This is where the nickname ‘ORC’ was derived. Each systems main components are a preheater, a superheater, a high pressure turbine, a low pressure turbine, a condenser, a feed pump and a 6.5 MW genera-tor. Each generator is run as close to 6.5 MW as possible, which allows us to produce 13 MW. However it takes 2 MW to produce the 13 and being as the plant is the first consumer of the power produced we fluctuate between 10 and 11 MWs to the grid. First synchronization occurred just before Christ-mas, which is the first time the power plant connected its generators to the BC Hydro grid. We then spent 3 months ironing out any kinks.

At the end of March the plant achieved commer-cial operation date, or COD. That important milestone meant that we started getting paid for the power we produce. We have been working at optimizing the plant ever since. So far August has been our best month yet, we are currently sitting at 99% of our target pro-duction for the month. It has been great to see the hard work and finan-cial investment come together and continue to provide long term stability for Fraser Lake Sawmills and the community of Fraser Lake.

Written by Elaine Storey


Hairstyles for the family

ENDAKO THIS & THAT by Audrey Read

Our thoughts are with Walter Schmidt and his family. Walter has a serious medical condition so our prayers are with him & his family. A very successful looney auction was held to raise money for his trips to Vancouver for treatment as well as to help in the coming months. ==== Got the first wee bit of frost August 23, not enough to kill anything though, but I guess it is getting to be that time of year when fall sets in with winter right on its heels! Some dang fool told me the other day that there is only a few short weeks until Christmas! === My neighbor Rita Hiatt & her fabulous horse, Chip took top honours at the Vanderhoof Fall Fair with Jenny Stringer placing second. Way to go ladies! In Smithers Hilary McNolty came out on top with Rita Hiatt, Jenny Stringer and Janine Payne following in very close order. Our congratulations go out to all these ladies. As usual they did us all proud! === Ray & Terese Steiner welcomed a new baby boy into their family on August 27, 2015. "Daniel Frances" is certainly a sweet addition for Mathius, Kathlene, May & Teresa! Welcome little man! === I attended a lovely Memorial Service for my dear friend, Carol Stump on Sept. 18, 2015. Carol was loved by all who knew her, she was a wonderful Mother, friend and great community participant. Carol was instrumental in guiding me to get the first Loonie Auction going for the Endako Hall for which I am very grateful. May you rest in peace Carol, I'll miss you. === When I was out feeding my donkey's yesterday a bloody HORNET crawled up my pant leg and before I could deROBE the dang thing bit me twice! I am allergic to their stings so made a mad dash to the house for some pills hoping I wouldn't have to give myself a shot...I HATE shots!...In the meantime I have a huge grapefruit sized lump, (over and above my regular lumps!) on my right hip as well as one behind my knee! By the way I DID manage to get my jeans back on before a pick-up drove up into the yard! LOL! === Finally got my chickens sorted out, roosters in one pen and pullets in another. Hopefully the roosters will fatten up and I can have a few good chicken dinners. No sleeping in around here with them all trying to crow and outdo each other at the break of dawn. At least most of them have finally learned to crow. For awhile the noises that came out of their mouths caused people to really question what that noise was! === Well I am STILL feeding my cows hay because it has not frozen enough to kill the alfalfa Dad burn it anyhow, every other year things are frozen solid by now! Ah the trials & tribulations of a rancher! My family all came and we had a couple of work-bees to get things ready for winter, got a lot of work done, fencing, potatoes all dug, chimney cleaned and even a brand new wood heater installed, (although I cuss it every time I go to light it!) My thanks to all, including Keona & Lyle for bringing a large load of wood that we got all split & piled in the basement! Bring winter on! === Had a surprise visit from Rick Turner from Calgary the other day, he bought property from us a few years ago and loves to come up to spend time there, hoping to move up permanently in the near future. === I make myself laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry over it! Have a great fall everyone, winter is coming so enjoy the fall colours and sunshine while you can!

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Francois Lake Gardeners growing vegetables year round

Submitted by W Galvin Built to last a life-time, a Tower Garden is a smart investment. The clear garden is 5’tall and holds up to 20 plants. All the produce you would normally buy can be grown indoors year round using this system. Produce grows much quicker in the nutri-ent rich environment which uses 90% less water and no soil. The patented aeroponics growing system recycles nutrients and water in its vertically designed tube. No pesticides, no herbicides and no growing medi-um like hydroponics. Vegetables such as beans, broccoli, chard, cucumbers, lettuce, melons, peas, squash, tomatillo’s strawberries, tomatoes, herbs, peppers can be grown in a these container gardens. Upon hearing about this environmental approach to year round gardening, the Galvin’s started their own seedlings in mid August and added grow lights just as the natural sunlight was beginning to wan on Sept 15. In just six weeks, their plants have grown over four feet. Wendy said, “When I talked to a woman much further north who has been using this system to supply her family with fresh produce for the past four years, I was sold. Most of the (above ground) produce grown in California, this woman grows in her garage.” According to Galvin, Chicago O’Hare airport has a Tower Garden and supplies all their restaurants with fresh produce. Yankee Stadium also has Tower Gardens to supply their outlets. “Can you imagine if Northern BC grew all their own produce? This garden produces better looking, tasting and smelling plants in less time,” says Galvin.

Growing vegetables all year

After six weeks, cucum-bers are form-ing.

Becoming Canadian On Friday, September, 14th, our Electoral District of Skeena Bulkley Valley gained one more eligible voter. Charlotte Grimm, a six year resident of the area, took her Canadian citizenship with 83 immigrants from 20 different countries. During the short ceremony, she agreed to become Canadian with the promise of an oath and singing our national anthem. The ceremony took place in a Prince George high school. “There was a judge and an RCMP in red surge,” said Charlotte who hardly slept the previous night for fear some-thing would go awry at the ceremony. Charlotte proudly showed her signed citizen-ship document at Autumn Services Centre a few days later where she joined her friends in singing a rousing rendition of O’Canada before enjoying Black Forest cake and coffee. Charlotte is looking forward to becoming a registered voter and voting on Oct 19th.

Proudly Canadian, Charlotte Grimm shows her citizenship papers at Autumn Services

where she has been receiving tutoring

Reaching out for better services Omineca Lakes Mental Health and Addictions Advisory Committee is advocating for better services in our communities such as housing, counseling, education and job opportunities. Meetings are 1:30—3:00 the second Thursday of each month via – video conferencing from the communities of; Burns Lake, Fraser Lake, Gran-isle, Ft. St. James, Southside and Vanderhoof. In Fraser Lake meetings are held in

the Library Room of the Medical Clinic. Clients, family members and community partners are invited to attend. Your voice is IMPORTANT.

For more info on the committee contact: Heather @ 250-692-7500

Or FL Crisis Line & Drop-in Centre @ 250-699-6315

Fraser Lake & Area C.A.L.P. COMMUNITY ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM

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Tuesday & Thursday 10am-2pm

At 298 McMillan Avenue,

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All courses are FREE! Call to register for Quilting & Crocheting

QUILTING 6:30PM-9:30PM OCT 13 & 27 NOV 10 & 24 DEC 8TH

CROCHETING 6PM-7:30 PM OCT 6 & 20 NOV 3 & 17 DEC 1ST

WALKING GROUP 10AM EVERY TUESDAY & FRIDAY

STITCH & GAB 11AM EVERY TUESDAY

WRITERS BLOCK 3-5PM OCT 5 & 26 NOV 2 & 16

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Preschool playground now way more FUN! by Lynne Clark

The Preschool Playground expansion south of the Mouse Moun-tain School staff parking lot, was finally up and ready to go for the beginning of the new school year. Kids have been clamouring

over the new riding toys and testing out the deep bed of chips, with a fence going up on the east side to complete the project. We would like to give a great big thank-you to all the funders who made this pro-ject possible. We would also like to thank Hurry Help for their donation of time and materials, West Fraser for woodchips, Jon Remple for delivering the wood-chips and of course the parents who came out and helped. An additional thank you to the school district for allowing us to have the playground there and Nechako Valley Community Services for handling the finances for this project.

Our next big project in partnership with the Village of Fraser Lake is to add new playground equipment to the White Swan Park play area. We will also be hosting another parenting workshop in February as well as helping to fund the family social before the December 23rd Community Charity Hockey Game.

Bike Rodeo Welcome Baby event CPNP Diaper bags for newborns Children’s Art area at Arts Festival,

Mouse Mt &Ft Fraser Ready Set Learn Fairs

Use of the HUB room at Mouse Mt School

Community Kitchen materials Library Books and puzzles Parent Support Group Lego Club

- Endako Mine …$5000 - New Gold Mine …$2500 - Success by Six (United Way) …$2500 - Children First (MCFD) …$2000 - West Fraser Sawmill …$1000 - Pacific Northern Gas …$500

The committee meets the 3rd Wed. of the month and is made up of community members who have a vested

interest in early child development & care, and sup-port families to make the best of their

children’s early years.

For more information call Lynn Clark @ 570-7868

Preschoolers enjoying the new playground in the Mouse Mnt Schoolyard

Other projects we have helped fund this year have been:

THANK YOU TO THESE FUNDERS:

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October 2015 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

Sat

1 2 3

4 5

Writers Block

3-5

6 Crocheting

6-7:30

7 Drop In Sewing

1pm

8 Mental Health & Addictions 1:30 @ Clinic

9 Federal

ELECTION Advance Poll@

Autumn Services noon– 8:00 pm

10 Federal



11 Federal



12 Federal



13 Quilting

6:30-9:30

14

Mammogram

Clinic

15 16

17

18

19 Federal

Election DAY!

Vote!

7am-7pm

20 Crocheting

6-7:30

Cancer Support

21 Drop In Sewing

1pm

22 23 24

25 Community

Potluck 5:30 pm

HOST FL Sawmill

26

Writers Block

3-5

27 Quilting

6:30-9:30

28 Business

Walk

Card Making 6:30pm-9pm

29 30 Community

Market 11:00—2:00 at Autumn

Services

31 Halloween

Walking Group 10am

Weigh-in10am Coffee 2pm

Men’s Coffee

10am

Walking Group 10am Stitch & Gab 11am Cheryl Stewart Massage/Footcare

BOO


899 Vanderhoof Squadron Meets every

Tuesday 6:30pm-9:30pm The Gospel Chapel, 448 Connaught St.,

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Free ground school. Earn scholarships to get a pilots license.

Ways to Vote in upcoming Federal Election

-Vote on Election Day October 19th, 2015 (7am-7pm) -Vote on advance voting days Oct. 9, 10, 11 & 12 from (12pm - 8pm) at Autumn Services in

Fraser Lake located at 312 McMillan Ave. -Vote at one of 400 Elections Canada Offices – nearest one is in Burns Lake BC

-Vote by mail, deadline to apply is Tuesday, Oct 13 at 6:00 pm.

If you are registered, you will get a voter information card by mail. It tells you when and where to vote. YOU should receive it by October 1st. You can use the Voter Information Service (on-line) to find out where to vote.

To VOTE Before any of the above dates, you can vote at an Elections Canada Office

Visit the office before the deadline of Tuesday, October 13th at 6:00pm. Offices are open Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, and Saturday from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and Sunday from noon to 4:00 pm. Bring proof of identity and

address. Our Federal Electoral District is Skeena Bulkley Valley

To vote in the federal election you must be a Canadian Citizen, at least 18 years old on Oct 19th, 2015, and can prove identity and your address.

Acceptable ID: Drivers license, provincial or territorial ID Card, any government card with your photo, name and current address.


THANK YOU from

THE FRASER LAKE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS COMMITTEE 2015

The Fraser Lake Festival of the Arts Committee would like to thank all the wonderful people and organizations that helped make our First Annual Festival of the Arts on August 8th such a rousing success! The weather may have been wet but the spirit of the occasion was definitely warm and dry. First of all, we would like to thank those who donated the funding to make this event possible. We deeply appreciate their belief in our project; their financial assistance and all their support: The Nechako Kitimaat Development Fund Society The Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako The BC Child Development Society Rio Tinto New Gold Village of Fraser Lake The Committee wishes to express our appreciation to our volunteer partners: the Mayor and Council of the Village of Fraser Lake; Fraser Lake Village Office and Village Works employees.

A great big “Thank you” to The Fraser Lake Fire Department for providing Security. Thank you to Phraser Connector and also the other community newspapers that advertised our event - as did Valley Country Radio in Vanderhoof. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all the onstage performers who provided non-stop entertainment for the entire day and to Phillips and Company who provided the sound system. Also thank you to Bob Whipps (Buckshot) and Jamie Nielson for MC’ing the event. Most importantly, we wish to thank the artists and artisans, who not only displayed their variety of creations, but also provided inspiring and informative demos and workshops for both adults and children throughout the day. And a thank you to Gerri Mal-chow for her popular Bob Ross painting demos. We also wish to thank all the local businesses, Fraser Lake Legion Branch #274, the Fraser Lake & District Historical society for their letters of support. Thanks to the food vendors and vendors of handmade products. And all the other individuals who pitched in to help make our Fes-tival such a wonderful success. We want to also recognize the hard-working members of the Festival of Arts Committee 2015: Cathy Harder, Richard Cannon, Gill Kopy, Ashley Kennedy, Doris Ray, Darwin Harder, Regina Kemp and Tony Stark. The Festival of the Arts Committee is affiliated with the Fraser Lake Arts Council. The Council is planning for the Festival to be-

come a two day annual event to be held on the second weekend in August. Next year’s Festival will be on the weekend of August

13&14, 2016. Mark your calendars!

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Local family takes Trek for Terry Fox Submitted by The Van-werkhoven Family—Sept 2015.

The 35th Annual Terry Fox Run has come and gone. There were 9,000 orga-nized runs across Canada and 67 countries around the world hosted similar events.

The total money numbers, world-wide, haven’t been tallied yet, but we have this exciting news to report about Fraser Lake: 40 runners, 10 walkers, 6 kids on bikes, 4 volunteers, and several community sponsors helped raise over $1500. The money is a significant goal, but it’s more critical to honour the memory and efforts of one Canadian who has inspired so many people and improved the standard of living for cancer survivors. Remember: 84% of all money raised goes directly into researching the cause and, hopefully, a cure for cancer. In fact, the cure rate for osteogenic sarcoma (the type of cancer that took Terry’s leg), has increased by 80% since the Marathon of Hope began in 1980. Terry’s original goal was to raise $10,000. But in 1981, he challenged every Canadi-an to donate $1, or roughly $25 million. To date, nearly $700 million has been raised. To honour the 35th Terry Fox Run, his siblings Fred, Daryl, and Judith sent out an open invitation to join them on “Trek for Terry,” a one day climb up Mount Terry Fox near Valemount, on Sept, 6th. We joined 50 people on a grueling 6 hour ‘stair climb’ and a 4 hour descent. It was a great day full of positive conversations and reflections—as exhausting as it was, it still didn’t compare to running a marathon, every day, on one leg.

Start collecting pledges and stay in shape for next year’s run, Fraser Lakers—see you in 11 months.

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The Vanwerkhoven family on Mount Terry Fox Sept 6th

Phraser Connector, Issue 40, September 2015

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