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] | 2016-08-27T02:49:59 | null | 2016-08-26T21:47:01 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F4102187-letter-employers-are-looking-hire-people-hands-experience.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/woodburybulletin_53.jpg?itok=gZaleJRy | en | null | LETTER: Employers are looking to hire people with hands-on experience | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | It's no secret, getting a degree or postsecondary credential is a necessity for finding a good job in today's economy, but many employers are demanding more.
They want employers who are career-ready, equipped with the hands-on skills they need to hit the ground running. However, many are finding there is a skills gap. According to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, employers spend $177 billion on formal training annually and an additional $413 billion on informal on-the-job training. This emphasis that there's not only a place but a need for career colleges in higher education.
Career colleges, like Globe University right here in Woodbury, work daily to fill that gap between education and employment by training students with relevant, hands-on skills in specific career fields. The contribution of career colleges and universities can't be disregarded as policymakers look to invigorate the middle class through higher education.
Career colleges and universities are designed to train the students who are a little older, working full-time, supporting families, and in need of flexible career training. These "non-traditional students" are quickly becoming the norm in higher education, which is why colleges and universities like Globe University serve a critical role for families and businesses in our communities.
We offer programs in fields where skilled employees are needed most — areas like health and wellness, business, accounting, information technology, mechanical engineering, paralegal, and veterinary technology. Our students gain the skills necessary to compete in the 21st-century economy. Equipped with the career education they received at Globe University, our graduates matter to employers, consumers, and the greater economy of Woodbury and our state.
Charles Buehler
Campus Director
Globe University — Woodbury & Online | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/opinion/letters/4102187-letter-employers-are-looking-hire-people-hands-experience | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/e97ab411dea9d0470525112f2bb3e0512415d59fb12f16fa4bdce5a13f195f52.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T00:50:45 | null | 2016-08-28T18:50:03 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fopinion%2Fcolumns%2F4102484-viewpoint-our-students-are-focus-all-we-do.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/834_14.jpg?itok=1l3tioNj | en | null | VIEWPOINT: Our students are the focus of all we do | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | Parents are measuring their kids to see how many sizes they've grown, then heading off to the store to outfit them with new shoes and clothes. They're filling shopping carts with pencils and notebooks, glue sticks and crayons — crossing each item off of the school supply list as they go. They are doing all of these things to ensure their children have the tools they need to be successful as they return to school in just a few short weeks.
We're doing the same thing here in schools across Stillwater Area Public Schools. Our students are at the center of all we do, and our focus is on creating schools with support systems that provide them with everything they need to be successful. We're ensuring our students have access to the very best teachers who can teach them all that they need to know in engaging and fun ways. We're making sure we can provide all of our kids with the extra support they need, whether it comes from a counselor or student advocate, intervention teacher, gifted and talented educator, English Language teacher or other support staff. We're considering the lessons we teach, the classrooms we teach in, and the methods we use — all to ensure we're doing the very best we can for our kids.
As we measure ourselves at the start of this year, we can see all of the ways that we've grown as a district. Achievement results show us that we've done an incredible job of meeting the needs of many of our students. Stillwater students continue to perform well on state tests, graduate at high levels, and get accepted into top colleges and universities. Yet when we really look closely at those measures, we also see that there are kids who just don't fit into the typical school mold. These are the kids who might get bored in school because they learn faster than others. Or those who struggle to keep up. Some of them have language barriers or mental health issues, while others are dealing with stress and anxiety because of things happening at home. Our traditional ways don't always work for every kid. As wonderful as our schools are, our teachers and staff are working to make them even better. Every single one of our kids deserves the opportunity to succeed.
As a district we are working to expand learning for our kids and giving them more access to things like preschool and language immersion. We're balancing class sizes, reducing the number of multi-graded classrooms, and providing more access to adults who can give them the help that they need. We're creating middle schools that allow students to explore their interests — whether it is music or art, physical fitness, science and technology, computer coding, or engine repair. We're opening up pathways for them to discover future careers, and working with local industry to provide hands-on learning opportunities and real-life experiences. We're creating a school district that doesn't just work for some kids, but truly meets the needs of them all.
We are so excited to welcome you to the 2016-17 school year, and we look forward to working with our families and our communities to grow the very best Stillwater Area Public Schools possible — for all of our kids. We'll continue sharing exciting news from our schools with you in the months ahead.
Stay connected!
Contact Superintendent Denise Pontrelli at pontrellid@stillwaterschools.org or follow her on Twitter @drpontrelli. Subscribe to our Pony E-News at stillwaterschools.org/subscribe. Search for Stillwater834 on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Denise Pontrelli is superintendent of Stillwater Area Public Schools. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/opinion/columns/4102484-viewpoint-our-students-are-focus-all-we-do | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/fa7f1d5f601fd66c2f7a42675d47f1888d32244c832f822bdd55ea2935373608.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:01:49 | null | 2016-08-24T15:43:31 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fsports%2Fhigh-school%2F4100397-girls-tennis-woodbury-loses-state-champs-first-match.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/083116.N.WB_.WBGirlsTennis146-john.jpg?itok=cY7AzEuq | en | null | Girls tennis: Woodbury loses to state champs in first match | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | At No. 1 singles, Woodbury freshman Delaney Schurhamer lost to defending Class 1A state champion Libby Rickeman.
Woodbury's sole win was a big one, as sisters Elizabeth Ellington and Emerson Ellington rallied for a 1-6, 6-2, 7-5 win at No. 3 doubles.
"They were down 4-1 in the third set, so coming back to win should be a nice confidence boost," Woodbury head coach Brandon Heath said.
By playing one of the best teams in state early in the season, the Royals got a good look at where they are and what they have to do to finish to improve, Heath said. "We want to see where we can get to by the end of the year."
Woodbury results:
No. 1 singles—Delaney Schurhamer lost 6-1, 6-0.
No. 2 singles—Mackenzie Schurhamer lost 6-0, 6-0.
No. 3 singles—Maura Stevenson lost 6-2, 6-4.
No. 4 singles — Elizabeth Jordahl lost 6-3, 6-4.
No. 1 doubles — Jenica Monkman-Scout McCullum lost 6-4,6-2
No. 2 doubles — Leah Stroebel-Eleanor Kreibich lost 6-3, 6-3.
No. 3 doubles — Elizabeth Ellington and Emerson Ellington won 1-6, 6-2, 7-5. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sports/high-school/4100397-girls-tennis-woodbury-loses-state-champs-first-match | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/4902ab8bd2ae1ecefb89d7709c5ea203f639c727ccd5a95eb9016dfe22b643ef.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T14:50:34 | null | 2016-08-26T09:07:16 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fsports%2Fhigh-school%2F4102188-girls-soccer-raptors-knock-no-9-eastview.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/083116.SP_.WB_.ERGirlsSoccer150-john.jpg?itok=RKPUVCkz | en | null | Girls soccer: Raptors knock off No. 9 Eastview | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | East Ridge senior defender Emma Stoehr battles for the ball at midfield against an Eastview opponent. (Photo by John Molene)
East Ridge's Brittany Mahowald, left, and Noelle Tomes try to move the ball downfield in the first half against visiting Eastview last Thursday. (Photo by John Molene)
East Ridge ninth grader Madi Majewski, right, smiles as she runs downfield after scoring the first goal of the game. The Raptors opened the season in style with a 3-0 win against ninth-ranked Eastview. (Photo by John Molene)
The East Ridge Raptors kicked off the 2016 girls soccer season with a bang last Thursday, scoring a 3-0 home win against ninth-ranked Eastview.
The Raptors, ranked 17th in the girls Class 2A preseason poll, dominated the action both offensively and defensively.
"Eastview is a good team," Raptors coach Mark Abboud said. "That's why we scheduled them. Again, coming into this year I knew we were going to have a strong team and I knew we wanted to get tested as early as we could by good teams. Luckily things just went our way. We've had about 1-1/2 weeks of training so it's really effort and attitude.
"I was counting on the girls and I think they showed it. The core group of 14 seniors who I think led by example, our little ninth grader gets our first goal and opens up our campaign really well, and the fans were unbelievable. It meant a lot to the girls to have that type of fan support there. Twenty-three girls saw the field and 23 contributed."
On a team with 14 seniors, it was freshman defender Madison Majewski who drew first blood, scoring in the first half. Brittany Mahowald gave East Ridge a 2-0 lead with 16 minutes, 2 seconds to play in the first half.
"I felt that we possessed really, really well in our attacking half, and even in our last third, I felt there wasn't a lot of kicking and there were a lot of great possessions and we got three goals," left wing Majewski said. "Last year they beat us 3-0 so it was a turn of events."
Emily Bunnell made it a 3-0 East Ridge advantage with a goal at the 34:32 mark in the second half.
The Raptors used a pair of sophomores in goal. Erika Freiberg and Peyton Gutenberg both made several tough stops to preserve the shutout.
"I think we went in thinking well of ourselves," junior center back Tori Bennett said. "Our goal is to go to state so I think we went in and planned to play well."
The Raptors play at 7:30 p.m. Monday at St. Michael-Albertville. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sports/high-school/4102188-girls-soccer-raptors-knock-no-9-eastview | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/43a959212fd91063a2ac2fbe3e2fb9acde577dedafe36f428e71b23cf99150c4.json |
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"Let somebody else have some fun," Schenk said, expressing confidence that their unknown successors will aptly fill their roles.
The council is a well-oiled machine that meshes institutional memory with a willingness to seek to better the annual event via brainstorming. They are hard workers who share their knowledge of Woodbury Days with each other in order to be sure the festival goes off without a hitch. Paskett does the bookkeeping, while Schenk is an all-around volunteer who's played pretty much every role from set-up and take-down to electrical to assisting the Woodbury Ambassadors Royal Family in fundraising.
Woodbury Days Council members put in long hours—8 a.m. to midnight some days—during the festival, but they also work year round to plan three days of fun.
"There's always something to do," Paskett said.
From bands to fireworks, rides to the business fair, demonstrations to Taste of Woodbury, the Aug. 26-28 event offers a lot to its 30,000-some attendees each year.
It's a festival that people look forward to each year, Schenk said. "They'd almost rather come to Woodbury Days than the State Fair. We have rides, food, a petting zoo, entertainment."
More than 250 volunteers put on the festival.
"It's 100 percent volunteer run," Paskett said. "The community comes together."
Woodbury Days' 38th year will be the last Paskett and Schenk worked as council members, they said. Rather than running around helping out everyone else, Paskett said she hopes to slow down and enjoy Woodbury Days for just a minute; did you know they offer free massages for sponsors in the VIP tent? she said. "I didn't get a chance to do that yet. That's my goal this year."
Next year, maybe Schenk can take up his kids' offer to sit down for a couple hours of bingo at Woodbury Days.
It's been a lot of fun being on the Woodbury Days Council, where creative people join in putting on a quality event in a beloved park, Schenk said. "We're always looking for good people."
For more information about volunteering, go to woodburydays.com. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/life/events/4102309-valued-council-members-bid-adieu-woodbury-days | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/4565478d5b6a454e36837a7d49ed6d45273dfc4129eecf3ab2758409d67e0987.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T18:51:27 | null | 2016-08-29T12:01:01 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fsports%2F4103525-new-life-academy-tennis-eagles-fare-well-tournaments.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/all/themes/woodburybulletin_theme/images/touch-icon.png | en | null | New Life Academy tennis: Eagles fare well in tournaments | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | The New Life Academy girls tennis team had two successful invitational tournaments last week, coach Marcia Bussey said.
The team played in the Farmington Quad on Friday against Farmington, Belle Plaine and Cannon Falls. It played in the Stewartville Triangular on Saturday against Stewartville and Trinity School at River Ridge.
The team went 1-4 in the matches but played hard all weekend, Bussey said.
"They played with a lot of heart," she said.
Junior Victoria Moorman won four of her five matches on the weekend at No. 3 singles and placed second overall at the position in the Farmington Quad. Sophomore Siri Nicol placed first overall at the No. 2 singles position in Farmington.
"We were really proud of them," Bussey said. "That was a fun thing for them."
The Eagles lost 6-1 to Farmington, 5-2 to Belle Plaine and 5-2 to Cannon Falls on Friday. Moorman and Nicol each went 2-1, and No. 1 singles player Jessica Gross also won a match.
Bussey said the coaches at Farmington did a good job welcoming everyone. The Farmington coaches had all the singles players compete at the high school and the doubles players at a nearby junior high.
"It was a very efficient way to deal with lots and lots of people," Bussey said.
Rain delayed New Life Academy's matches by about 45 minutes Saturday. The team started the Stewartville invitational with a 5-2 win over Trinity, a squad this year that only has four players. Moorman and No. 4 singles player Elena Draheim won their matches, and Nicol also played a close match.
The team lost 6-1 to Stewartville.
Bussey played all 12 players on her squad. She said brand new players Marryn Morris and Ann Raihala are improving every match at fourth doubles and that seventh-grader Bryna Eigenfeld is playing well at second doubles.
"She is really a rising star," Bussey said. "For her to be a seventh grader playing at second doubles is really a good thing for us."
New Life Academy was scheduled to compete against Southwest Christian and Tartan this week and to play in an invitational at Winona Cotter. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sports/4103525-new-life-academy-tennis-eagles-fare-well-tournaments | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/392e9e6b7d742bb2f38f8fc347b229a842467f8a5e7918c3ab7c28b2052d18ac.json |
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Philip Thomas Farnsworth, 28, has been charged in Washington County District Court with four felonies in connection with the reported assault last month. He faces charges of second-degree assault with a firearm, assault by strangulation, false imprisonment and fifth-degree possession of cocaine.
Police were called about the alleged assault after Farnsworth and his wife showed up July 17 at Woodwinds Hospital in Woodbury, according to the criminal complaint filed against him. Farnsworth had blood on his shirt and was carrying a loaded gun magazine, and told police the blood was his wife's and his gun was in the car. Officers found a gun in the glove compartment and arrested him.
The hospital went into lockdown.
Farnsworth is scheduled to appear in court Aug. 17 and was being held in the Washington County jail on $100,000 bail with conditions or $250,000 bail without conditions.
According to the complaint:
The woman had puffy and red eyes and there was bruising, blood and swelling on her face. She was visibly upset as she told a Cottage Grove investigator who interviewed her in a hospital room that Farnsworth has a history of substance abuse and depression and recently had been using heroin and drinking alcohol continuously. She also said he was delusional and paranoid.
The woman said on July 15 Farnsworth was extremely intoxicated and making "nonsensical accusations" that she was a prostitute and that she had hired the Hell's Outcast motorcycle gang to kill him. He yelled at her and pinned her down on a bed and put his hands on her throat, she recounted. She got away and went to Farnsworth's mother's house.
Hoping Farnsworth would seek help for his issues, the woman met with him at a family function the next day. He drank the entire time and later went to a house where the woman said Farnsworth goes to do drugs and get high. He returned at 5:15 a.m. and accused her of having an affair. He told her she was on house arrest when she asked to leave. He took a pitcher of water from the kitchen and threatened to waterboard her to get information. He then pinned her down on a bed and they struggled. She tried to leave the room but he pistol-whipped her and then pinned her down on the bed again and choked her, the complaint states.
Farnsworth allegedly attempted to put a plastic bag over her head and then paper towels in her mouth to stop her from screaming. The woman said she was able to convince Farnsworth to call his mother, and when he did the woman screamed for help in the background.
She ran out to their car and then Farnsworth got into the passenger seat with his gun. She drove to the hospital and ran into the emergency room, and Farnsworth followed her.
Farnsworth told police they were at the hospital because his wife needed to be safe and that "she fought me."
When Farnsworth was arrested, police reported finding a bag of cocaine in his sock.
Police obtained a search warrant for the couple's Indian Boulevard home and found evidence corroborating the woman's story, including a pitcher of water in the bedroom, blood on the bed sheet, a plastic bag and wadded paper towels and drug paraphernalia. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4102158-charges-couple-shows-woodbury-hospital-bloodied-after-alleged-assault | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/2ad85b1966dfa963e4d7221412a12d8fa8ce377c17a137248fcde5444c2abcee.json |
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Lauren Lewis is without a doubt the star returner for East Ridge. Lewis, competing last season as an eighth-grader, took sixth-place in the 500-yard freestyle at the last year’s state meet.
“The way I look at it is she’s the fastest eighth-grader in the 500 in the entire state,” coach Kathy Madden said at last year’s state meet. “This is the tip of the iceberg for her. This is also a really good sounding board for next season, too. We are really excited for what she can do.”
Lewis also swam a key leg of the 200 medley relay for the Raptors at the state meet.
East Ridge returns a number of swimmers and divers from last season’s squad, including most of the 200 medley relay team that made it to the state meet and star diver Olivia Burleigh.
That said, Lewis will likely lead the way for the Raptors.
Miller aims for gold with Royals
Meghan Miller earned a third-place finish at last year’s state meet and will certainly be looking to finish a little higher this season.
Miller finished with a final score of 419.50 -- only about 20 points behind the winning score posted by Michelle Schlossmacher Smith of Roseville. Miller also finished behind Andrianna Jacobs of Rochester Century in the final standings. Jacobs has since graduated.
Schlossmacher Smith returns for the Raiders this season and will be a favorite to win the event. Miller, however, will also be among one of the favorites to take home the title amid a very talented field.
Ali Grinde also returns to help Miller form a powerhouse squad in the well.
Royals sophomore Melissa Parker will lead the program in the pool. Competing as a freshman last season, Parker went undefeated in the 50-yard freestyle in regular-season competitions.
Aside from those standouts, there are a handful of returns that could make Woodbury a team to be reckoned with this season.
Wolfpack return key swimmers
Park boasts sophomore Tiana Cachuela and senior Emma Pomeroy this season. Both were standouts for the team last season, and will be looking to build on that success this season.
Cachuela took 11th in the 200-yard individual medley (2:18.79) and 100 butterfly (1:02.47) at last year’s section meet. Pomeroy, meanwhile, took 16th in the 200 freestyle (2:08.06) and 14th in the 500 freestyle (5:44.71) in the same meet.
There are also a handful of other talented swimmers and divers that should have coach Amanda Johnson excited about the upcoming season. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sports/high-school/4103631-2016-preview-swimming-and-diving-teams-boast-talented-returners | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/288b01549a0a9142312289edd1b958d7913c462c674b463084d28ed488ac25f9.json |
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In a letter to residents Tuesday evening, the City of Woodbury said the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has been monitoring its municipal wells for a chemical called perfluorochemical, or PFC, since the early 2000s. The state health agency determined PFC levels have remained below federal and state health risk limits.
MDH announced earlier that day that 80 Washington County households using private wells will receive bottled water and filtration systems because drinking water exceeded the new federal safety guidelines for PFC levels.
None of the private wells were located in Woodbury.
Citing new research indicating the chemical may pose health risks, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency significantly reduced its drinking water guidelines for two specific PFCs, called PFOS and PFOA, from 300 and 400 parts per trillion to 70 parts per trillion.
In Woodbury, drinking water from city wells meets these updated requirements, according to the letter.
State regulators will sample up to 500 wells near contaminated areas in the East Metro in the coming months.
Regulators discovered that PFCs had seeped into groundwater in parts of Washington County in 2002.
For decades, the 3M Company used PFCs, including PFOS and PFOA, at its Cottage Grove facility for producing Scotchgard anti-stain spray until 2002. The company legally disposed of products containing the chemicals in Oakdale, Lake Elmo and Woodbury landfills until the 1970s.
Other manufacturers used PFCs to produce fabrics, furniture, firefighting foam, nonstick cookware and other products.
The chemical has been phased out in recent years, but it continues to remain in the environment, especially within fish, according to MDH.
MDH designated areas near a PFC dumpsite in the southeastern corner of Woodbury as medium- to high-priority sampling areas.
City spokesman Jason Egerstrom said few residents live in that area, and those who do are serviced by private wells. “They’re not hooked up to the municipal water system,” he said.
MDH is reviewing the EPA’s studies and recommendations to determine new guidelines in light of the EPA’s findings.
A review is expected to be completed in the next several months. In the meantime, Egerstrom said the city will continue to update residents on the health department’s findings.
Residents living in areas with high levels of PFC contamination can still use water for bathing and cleaning, but MDH advises against using water for cooking or drinking.
“While we believe the immediate health risks for most people exposed to PFCs are low, the latest information from EPA indicates a risk for developing fetuses and infants,” said Minnesota Health Commissioner Dr. Ed Ehlinger Tuesday.
Ehlinger added that people are exposed to a wide variety of chemicals and consumer products.
“Eliminating a significant source over which we have some control makes good public health sense,” he said.
Residents who have questions about private well water should contact MDH.
Private well owners can also order testing kits from Washington County for $394. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/region/4100967-woodbury-drinking-water-ok-city-says | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/a5bd741af795b41e47fcfc82516efe40318d0c42238e458c3ddf00034a94e6a5.json |
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The Arden Hills 28-year-old found a key in a car on the side of the road and held onto it for months. He later went to the address associated with the car, in the 1800 block of Donegal Drive in Woodbury, and pressed the key fob.
A 2013 Chevy Equinox beeped and, according to a Washington County District Court complaint, Heimerman decided to "grab the car," he told police.
Heimerman was in court Aug. 10, facing felony charges of car theft and receiving stolen property for the incident which allegedly occurred June 16. At 4:30 a.m. that day, officers were dispatched for a complaint of a stolen car. The vehicle was located on Clippership Alcove, where police employed a high-risk traffic stop.
Heimerman was the sole occupant of the vehicle.
He has not been in trouble before. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4102163-alleged-car-thief-gets-nabbed-his-first-try | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/38400916b9b08049f9721c16beb3d217c0e2efebcb99403bb06cbe5874912c37.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T02:50:56 | null | 2016-08-28T21:05:56 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fsports%2Fhigh-school%2F4103532-2016-preview-new-life-academy-girls-tennis-ready-plenty-road-matches.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/all/themes/woodburybulletin_theme/images/touch-icon.png | en | null | 2016 preview: New Life Academy girls tennis ready for plenty of road matches | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | The New Life Academy girls tennis team will log plenty of miles on the highway this season after losing its home courts to the Tartan Park redevelopment project.
The team will practice on four courts near Afton and about 20 minutes north of the school. It will host just one home match there this season, coach Marcia Bussey said.
“We just tell people, ‘We don’t mind coming there,’” said Bussey, the second-year coach.
That shouldn’t stop the Eagles from another successful season, however. The team returns nine of its 12 players, including starters Jessica Gross, Tori Moorman, Rachel Breiholz, Emme Fry and Siri Nicol. Many of the players attended tennis camps during the summer, Bussey said.
“It’s fun to get back into the tennis,” she said. “It’s a wonderful group of girls.”
Moorman, a junior, went 17-4 as the team’s No. 3 singles player last year. Gross also had a strong season as the team’s No. 2 singles player.
Gross and Breiholz are the team’s two seniors and will serve as captains along with Nicol, a junior. Bussey hadn’t set a lineup as of last week but said she would evaluate after the first week.
The team will need to replace last year’s top singles player, Krista Haglund, who advanced to the Class A, Section 1 individual semifinals last season.
Assistant Jon Tretsven will again join Bussey’s staff, after coaching the boys junior varsity squad at Mounds Park Academy in the spring. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sports/high-school/4103532-2016-preview-new-life-academy-girls-tennis-ready-plenty-road-matches | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/eaca435e0b5d04be5a84cf87be56f3a679ec320b87a7aedc480cf98d296e043f.json |
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The Minnesota State Figure Skating Championship, will be held at Bielenberg Sports Center this weekend, Aug. 26-28. This is a standard U.S. Figure Skating non-qualifying competition sponsored by the Twin Cities Figure Skating Association and Woodbury Figure Skating Club.
About 200 competitors from across Minnesota will be participating in the Championship.
The public is welcome to watch the competition free of charge.
"WFSC is excited to host this prestigious event this year, and again next year," said Tammy Chalmers, Woodbury Figure Skating Club president. "We hope people around the community will come out and watch some of the competition, which draws competitive skaters from across the state."
Dave Black, Bielenberg Sports Center manager, added: "We are looking forward to having the Minnesota State Figure Skating Championship here at Bielenberg Sports Center. It is a great opportunity for us to welcome people from around the state, and showcase what a great venue our city has for skating, as well as many other sports."
Competition takes place from:
• 8:30 a.m.-7:33 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26;
• 9 a.m.-7:29 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27;
• and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28.
For more information on the Woodbury Figure Skating Club, visit skatewoodbury.org. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sports/4102247-states-top-skaters-compete-woodbury | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/4a3f6e7098fbf9ccc1c21b93009d4f4e9474d301433034aa9d45edff474a6bab.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T20:49:57 | null | 2016-08-26T15:42:57 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime-and-courts%2F4102567-man-arrested-afton-possible-hostage-situation.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/WashCoSheriff1_2.jpg?itok=vv9WHj8H | en | null | Man arrested in Afton for possible hostage situation | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | Washington County Sheriff's deputies arrested a man in Afton Friday morning for an alleged assault.
Deputies responded to the 3200 block of St. Croix Trail South at approximately 6:45 a.m. after a caller said two women approached him and told him to call 911.
One of the women reportedly told the caller that the women were being held hostage, according to the dispatch call.
Deputies arrested an adult man after arriving to the scene in the downtown area of Afton.
The incident prompted a large police response because of initial dispatch information that the man had a firearm.
Commander Chéri Dexter, an investigator for the department, said the attorney's office is planning to file charges Monday.
The investigation is ongoing, she said. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4102567-man-arrested-afton-possible-hostage-situation | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/a4669ebe27c6a7cbaabf9b9094135df8c1538aa9b38e6b2aaabeec728e9cb8ce.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T18:51:42 | null | 2016-08-30T12:30:04 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime-and-courts%2F4102172-court-issues-warrant-alleged-fraudster-hastings.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/washingtoncountyatty%28best%29_160.jpg?itok=S6IKcw2Y | en | null | Court issues warrant for alleged fraudster from Hastings | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Hastings woman who allegedly attempted to defraud a Woodbury woman of $15,000 by starting a bank account with a check taken from the victim's mailbox.
Kaitlyn Suzanne Todnem, 20, brought a $15,000 credit card check to Alerus Bank in Oakdale, where employees contacted the victim to confirm the check had been forged.
According to the complaint, Todnem used a passport as identification and wrote her Hastings address on paperwork at the bank. She left the Oakdale branch and attempted another transaction at Alerus Bank in Maplewood, where her license plate was taken down by an employee, the complaint said.
Surveillance footage identified Todnem.
In June she was released from Washington County jail on her own recognizance, and in July she failed to appear in court.
Her alleged accomplice, Jeremy Jake Clarin, 38, of Hastings faces one felony count of aiding and abetting credit card fraud.
Stolen credit cards were used to make more than $2,300 at Walmart in Cottage Grove, Kohl's Department Store in Woodbury, a Target in Woodbury; and Holiday gas station in Hastings. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4102172-court-issues-warrant-alleged-fraudster-hastings | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/7f3b722a743531c6ef2a41b7935d6954d801e9cacccbb25734db58c702c15c0e.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:03:32 | null | 2016-08-24T13:22:45 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fsports%2Fhigh-school%2F4100881-east-ridge-bowling-club-hold-info-session-pinz.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/all/themes/woodburybulletin_theme/images/touch-icon.png | en | null | East Ridge bowling club to hold info session at Pinz | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | Students interested in joining the East Ridge Bowling Club are invited to meet the new coach Joe Reynolds, returning members and parent booster club members at 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28, at Pinz, 7520 32nd St. N., Oakdale.
Boys and girls in grades 9-12 who will attend East Ridge in the fall and students in grades 7-8 who will attend East Ridge in the future are welcome to attend. No experience is necessary.
If you are unable to attend the meeting, email ERHSBowling@gmail.com for information about the club. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sports/high-school/4100881-east-ridge-bowling-club-hold-info-session-pinz | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/fde35b0b1295e5cc226c18de65a9ab4fc0eca90a7b9eb719fe9667853c7253bd.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T10:52:23 | null | 2016-08-31T05:34:02 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime-and-courts%2F4102175-police-cut-short-shopping-spree-woodbury.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/washingtoncountyatty%28best%29_162.jpg?itok=dyw67ltf | en | null | Police cut short shopping spree in Woodbury | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | After allegedly going on a shopping spree with someone else's checks and credit card, Suzette Elise Meland, 51, of St. Paul has been charged with felony check forgery.
She appeared in Washington County District Court this month, and is scheduled to return for a hearing in November.
According to the complaint:
Mail was twice stolen from Lino Lakes woman in 2015.
The first time, someone opened used a stolen credit card application to open an account in her name. The credit card was used in Hinckley, Minn., and Forest Lake.
Two days later, the missing mail included a box of checks, some of which were used to make fraudulent purchases throughout the Twin Cities, including several in Washington County.
Woodbury police investigated purchases by Meland and an accomplice at the local Maurices, Victoria's Secret, Walgreens, Walmart, Kwik Trip, Cub Foods (twice), and Ulta.
Almost $810 of the total loss of $1,856 occurred in Woodbury. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4102175-police-cut-short-shopping-spree-woodbury | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/f2a2924b66939ef66aa51a694ecd88840b85cf6b5389ec29d48cafeaed85a020.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T12:51:04 | null | 2016-08-29T06:28:02 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fopinion%2Fcolumns%2F4102285-viewpoint-east-metro-deserves-100-year-plan-transportation.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/woodburybulletin_54.jpg?itok=6Aj0iSWo | en | null | VIEWPOINT: East metro deserves 100-year plan for transportat... | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | The recent article in the Star Tribune, titled "East metro officials worry as jobs people migrate west" by David Peterson (Aug. 13) and the other articles about transit recommendations by Washington County that fail inspire the populace should prompt a revisit of the whole East Metro transportation planning effort. Bottom line, scrap the plans and start over.
It is clear the future trend is that workers will rely on public transportation. Today, the millennials are opting to live in central cities and use public transportation to travel to work and play. Suburban seniors are retiring, selling their cars, and moving near transit hubs. There is no reason to think this trend will change.
The Gold Line bus-rapid transit (BRT) as planned by Washington County was nothing more than shooting low and hitting the mark. Fortunately, two cities and concerned citizens held their noses placing the ill-conceived plan in jeopardy. Many officials cannot plan beyond their own mortality while a quality transportation system is a 100-year proposition. Their goal: to be there for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Thus, short-term, lowest-cost solutions are favored. A low-cost system ensures fast construction, but history has proven it will not survive to the generation of their grandchildren. We have a history of stadiums to prove that.
Thus we have a transit plan not only for the Gold Line but of the Red Rock Corridor line that is a warmed-over bus system. While the west metro is building a rail transportation system for the future, we are planning a system with the goal to be completed in the next couple of election cycles.
I have engineered transportation communications and signaling systems across North America. What most communities build is a quality system a few links at a time. As more funds come available, more is built. This also allows time for development patterns to gel especially if the right of way and station locations are defined on the yet to be constructed portion of the line.
So what should be done?
Transportation systems work best when lines are triangulated or interconnected at nodes. Interconnections at employment and market centers are the best. If the east metro wants to be more than an ill-designed, ill-served branch line off of a large west metro rail system, a triangular connection should be planned.
Step 1: Immediately start engineering a light-rail transit (LRT) line from the 3M Center corporate complex west via the Union Depot via an upgraded Canadian Pacific's Ford Plant railroad spur. It is important to buy this line before abandonment! Once it is abandoned, the NIMBYs will never let it be more than a bike trail. This will put the end of the line 0.75 miles from the Blue Line across the river. It also places in line in the major development of the old Ford Plant. A bridge, a station for the Minnesota Veteran's Home, and you have a connection to the Blue Line. Now you have LRT service from 3M to St. Paul to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport and on to the Mall of America. It triangulates with the Blue and Green LRT lines and connects market and employment centers.
Step 2: At or near the 3M LRT station, construct a park-and-ride station. It will serve buses from the east metro including the Red Rock. These should be standard buses and coaches operating on streets and highways.
Step 3: Begin defining right-of-way on or adjacent to interstates 94 and 494, and U.S. Highway 61 from the 3M Center. Purchase right-of-way and station locations.
Step 4: Construct park-and-ride stations. Serve them with standard buses and coaches operating on existing highways and streets.
Step 5: As funds are available and development demands, begin extending the LRT system along both right of ways.
Yes I am proposing a 100-year transportation system.
There will be no photo ops for our elected officials because there won't be a quick solution consisting of a warmed-over bus system.
Planners and decision makers must think long term like those in the rest of the country. It will bring the east metro into a quality metrowide transportation system much appreciated and utilized by our grandchildren. Such a system will never be cheaper to build than if started today. It will certainly be cheaper than if it starts as an ill-conceived bus system and in a generation must be replaced with LRT.
Leonard J. Koehnen is a professional engineer who lives in Woodbury. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/opinion/columns/4102285-viewpoint-east-metro-deserves-100-year-plan-transportation | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/287365c2a46e209187167e487436e2818f4d8d5eed0bbb04f70f4a85cb973b61.json |
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An Aug. 29 jury trial is set for Ryan James Saiko, 22, of Somerset.
According to the complaint:
The St. Croix Sheriff's Office pursued a Nissan Cube stolen from St. Croix Cleaners in Oak Park Heights after a theft from a liquor store in New Richmond, Wis., and Woodbury Public Safety got involved as the car crossed the Interstate 94 bridge into Minnesota.
Saiko was arrested with Amanda Elizabeth Webster, 19, of Stillwater, on suspicion of fleeing police in a motor vehicle and motor vehicle theft.
Saiko, a former St. Croix Cleaners employee, admitted to stealing the booze but not the car.
New Richmond, Wis., the Minnesota State Patrol and Cottage Grove police were in on the chase, which included a trip through a drive-thru at the Culver's restaurant in New Richmond, evasion of spike strips in the roadway, a motorist not involved in the chase driving over spikes, and speeds of up to 100 mph through a busy commercial district in Woodbury.
Officers from Cottage Grove and Woodbury patrolled neighborhoods in Cottage Grove and found the Cube unoccupied at Oakwood Park. A Woodbury officer then found the suspects walking near 79th Street and Hemingway Avenue in Cottage Grove. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4102162-100-mph-chase-through-woodbury-brings-somerset-man-minnesota-courts | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/d83a6dc3c1bf1aa429f92e69eb9ab82fa2e6028eeeb4cc8243ee7f0d963ac689.json |
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] | 2016-08-28T22:50:44 | null | 2016-08-28T15:56:02 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime-and-courts%2F4102161-man-faces-burglary-charges-after-jumping-through-screen.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/washingtoncountyatty%28best%29_154.jpg?itok=cll93N6v | en | null | Man faces burglary charges after jumping through a screen | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | David Anthony Scarella-Florentine, 20, is facing first-degree burglary charges, appearing in Washington County District Court late last month and scheduled for a hearing in November.
According to the complaint:
At 3:30 a.m. July 14, a 911 caller told police that there was an unwanted party at her home, in the 500 block of Cimarron. She told police Scarella-Florentine seems obsessed with rekindling a relationship with her, which ended seven years ago.
He jumped through a screened front window, and assaulted one of its occupants, a neighbor. The neighbor was struck in the head seven or eight times, causing a bloody laceration.
Scarella-Florentine admitted to the acts, telling police he was "only doing something for the woman he loved." | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4102161-man-faces-burglary-charges-after-jumping-through-screen | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/803d3411e4c189682a81cf49eb50473595ba6a6f43b6bd18ad2bbd3d1e252fc2.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T20:50:56 | null | 2016-08-29T14:01:01 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fsports%2Fhigh-school%2F4103630-swimming-and-diving-raptors-lead-conference-relays.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/all/themes/woodburybulletin_theme/images/touch-icon.png | en | null | Swimming and diving: Raptors lead conference relays | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | East Ridge swimmers dominated the five-team Suburban East Conference Relays meet last Thursday, easily claiming the team title with 156 points.
Woodbury finished a distant second with 128. Forest Lake (120), Roseville (114) and Park (112) also competed.
The Raptors won every race, so that by the end of the evening the result sheet read like an East Ridge honor roll. Paige Smoley, Chloe Wangensteen, Callie Kunz and Kolbe Bachman won the 400-yard medley with a time of 4:18.99.
Kyra Bachman, Gretchen Olson, Elizabeth Mortenson and Robbie Witikko won the 200-yard freestyle relay in 1:47.84.
Daphne Smoley, Simone Becker, Ella Stephan, Max Smith topped the field in the 200-yard butterfly relay (2:01.70).
Other East Ridge winning foursomes were:
-- 4x100 individual medley relay: Ali Smith, Grace Rauker, Smoley and Wangensteen (4:32.85)
-- 800-yard freestyle relay: Rauker, Kolbe Bachman, Mortenson and Kunz (8:27.42)
-- 200-yard backstroke relay: Paige Smoley, Elli Moss, Stephan and Witikko (2:03.28)
-- 200-yard breaststroke relay: Olson, Ali Smith, Daphne Smoley and Wangensteen (2:19.81)
-- 400-yard freestyle relay: Kyra and Kolbe Bachman, Rauker and Kunz (3:54.93)
Such was the Raptors' depth that they were able to claim a pair of second-place finishes with their non-scoring B-teams: Wittiko, Moss, Susan Xia and Mortenson in the 400-yard freestyle relay (4:05.45); and Laura Mortenson, Jill Kammann, Marisa Duran and Smith (9:16.46).
Only a Roseville win in the diving competition prevented a clean sweep for the Raptors.
East Ridge returns to action on Thursday with a dual meet against Mounds View. Park takes to the pool at Cretin-Derham Hall on Thursday. Woodbury faces Stillwater at home Thursday. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sports/high-school/4103630-swimming-and-diving-raptors-lead-conference-relays | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/347c4e1cda07965b86c73b6a7fd65f4231482ac4ab2400ffc6840071456fc376.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T04:50:57 | null | 2016-08-28T22:55:06 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fsports%2F4103611-2016-preview-new-life-academy-boys-soccer-enters-season-high-expectations.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/all/themes/woodburybulletin_theme/images/touch-icon.png | en | null | 2016 preview: New Life Academy boys soccer enters season with high expectations | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | The New Life Academy boys soccer team returns the core of last year’s Minnesota Christian Athletic Association regular-season champion squad.
That nucleus features 20 upperclassmen, including multiple key players from the 2015 squad.
New Life Academy coach Robb Rupp said four seniors and 15 juniors were among the 31 kids going out for the team. It's a squad that returns three of its leading scorers in senior captain Jack Flavin, and juniors Nate Mueller and Evan Atkinson.
“To have 15 in one grade is just massive, and on top of it we have some pretty talented players this year,” Rupp said. “I think we should improve upon what we did last year.”
Last year’s squad won its first MCAA title since 2007 before losing to Southwest Christian on penalty kicks in the conference tournament championship game.
Rupp said the conference has added two schools this year and won’t have a conference tournament. That will ensure schools can play games against section opponents.
The Eagles lost in the first round of last year’s Class A, Section 1 tournament to Richfield in a game that came down to one botched play, Rupp said. He said the team is looking forward to its Oct. 1 rematch with Richfield.
In addition, the team will play section opponent Simley on Sept. 24 for its homecoming game. The Spartans outplayed the Eagles in their regular-season matchup last year, Rupp said, but New Life Academy played to a 3-3 tie.
“They were heavily favored and they should have won that game,” Rupp said. “I’m confident that it won’t be as one-sided as it was last year.”
Rupp said his players are anticipating a “positive” season in 2016 but added that success isn’t necessarily a given.
“There’s great potential, but it has to be through hard work and focus,” he said. “The challenge is up to them to make good on what they think could happen, and that takes dedication and perseverance and focus.”
New Life Academy is scheduled to begin the season Thursday vs. St. Paul Harding. Conference play is set to begin Sept. 8 vs. St. Croix Preparatory Academy. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sports/4103611-2016-preview-new-life-academy-boys-soccer-enters-season-high-expectations | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/411434660c2b7c61a5f41ced203694e0e3ac4c1510b5f3544451eba04f072022.json |
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CityPlace development partners announced Tuesday that Ohio-based restaurant chain Piada has signed a lease at the 100 acre development site off of Interstate 94 and Radio Drive.
The restaurant serves up Italian street food classics, such as pastas, salads and its signature piadas--a grilled or baked flatbread wrapped around Italian meats, cheeses and other ingredients.
Prices at the fast-casual chain range from about $7 to $8 for these items.
The future Woodbury location will be the third Twin Cities metro location, along with restaurants at the Mall of America and in Chanhassen. Piada also plans to open an Eagan location.
“We are delighted that Piada, an expanding casual restaurant concept, has selected CityPlace,” said Gloria Fernandez, managing director of asset management at Elion Partners, the Florida-based company developing CityPlace along with Kraus-Anderson. “We look forward to its made-to-order fresh menu, which will complement the existing restaurant choices a the center.”
Piada joins more than a dozen new restaurants and retailers opening in CityPlace, including the Marriott Residence Inn and anchor tenant Whole Foods.
“We’re excited to bring a fresh, modern Italian concept to the new CityPlace development and to the community of Woodbury,” said Piada CEO Chris Doody in a statement Tuesday.
The site of Piada's 2,571 square-foot restaurant is currently under construction and is slated to open this fall.
The restaurant is also offering a sneak peak (and a free meal) the week before it opens.
Those interested can sign up at: mypiada.com/vip/woodbury | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/business/4104885-italian-street-food-chain-piada-open-woodbury | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/0814f76ce068397978e5b7098d5bfcb53b3e2209b1b735052dac25072053ba93.json |
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The Woodbury City Council approved up to $243,763 to replace the truck at its Aug. 10 meeting.
Woodbury Engineering and Public Works Deputy Director John Bradford said an "equipment failure" on July 26 led to the fire. The League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust (LMCIT) identified the damages as a total loss.
Bradford said approving the budget amendment was urgent because a new plow wouldn't arrive for six months—well into the snowy season.
"We want to have it here for as much of the snow season as we can," Bradford said.
Once insurance money becomes available, Bradford said, LMCIT will return funds.
The vehicle was around the midpoint of its life and was unlikely to be replaced were it not for the fire.
No one was injured from the fire. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4102153-fire-destroys-woodbury-snowplow | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/05941087125b6b6d47fecbcdafea85aeadad7bf0e3554fb7cc09e2d8d5e0beef.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T00:51:05 | null | 2016-08-28T19:26:02 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fnews%2Fgovernment%2F4102209-afton-approves-bid-125-million-downtown-project.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/Afton%28best%29-2016_10.JPG?itok=piBEFzHl | en | null | Afton approves bid for $12.5 million downtown project | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | In likely the largest and most expensive project to date, the Afton City Council approved a more than $12 million contract bid for the city's downtown improvement project last Tuesday.
The three-year-long project includes reconstruction of the flood levee along the St. Croix River, building new roads and sidewalks, and construction of a sewage and sanitation system.
City officials noted in 2014 that major floods during the past 50 years have resulted in substantial damages and subsequent costs for residents and businesses as well as government agencies in the downtown area.
Coming in at $12,542,476 the council approved the construction bid of its lowest bidder, Watkins-based contractor Geislinger & Sons Inc.
Though the company's bid was only about $100,000 more than the city's estimate, some councilmembers were perplexed by large cost differences between the two bidding contractors for specific tasks, such as painting street lines, as well as tree and building removal.
Ryan Contracting Co., whose overall bid was the highest, also bid about $20,000 less than Geislinger & Sons Inc. for painting yellow and white street lines.
Councilmembers also noted contractors' bids for tasks like de-watering—a process that involves pumping water out of the ground before construction can begin—were more than double the city's initial estimate.
The city estimated the cost for de-watering would be $150,000, but Ryan Contracting Co. and Geislinger & Sons Inc. bid $300,000 and $375,000 for the process, respectively.
"My gut reaction is, can we cherry pick?" Councilmember Randy Nelson said.
Councilmember Bill Palmquist said the city has known for years about potential development issues due to wet ground caused by a fluctuating water table that is in close proximity to the river.
City Engineer Todd Hubmer said that the variances in bid costs for specific items weren't a concern since the overall bid was close to the city's estimate.
"The water bounced 10 feet while we were doing bids, and I'm sure that didn't help us in the de-watering discussion because they saw the water come up," Hubmer said. "These are what they take into consideration."
The project is also contingent upon a state agency identifying historic sites and if and how construction will affect those sites.
The city expects that process will be completed next month. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/government/4102209-afton-approves-bid-125-million-downtown-project | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/3ae768f66369010419f10bd660aaeec1e1932ab353857d630529d465313f6806.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T18:51:37 | null | 2016-08-29T13:01:01 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fsports%2Fhigh-school%2F4103605-new-life-academy-girls-soccer-eagles-drop-opener-visitation.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/all/themes/woodburybulletin_theme/images/touch-icon.png | en | null | New Life Academy girls soccer: Eagles drop opener to Visitat... | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | The Eagles suffered a 6-0 thrashing at the hands of Visitation to open their season Friday.
The Eagles managed to put seven shots on goal, but could not beat Visitation goalkeeper Samantha Burke. The Blazers, meanwhile, threatened the Eagle net 17 times, with Maggie Conners (2), Martha Koenig (2), Greta Seitz (1), and Mary Jurich (1) opening their 2016 goal accounts.
Conners and Koenig were also credited with two assists each.
The Eagles (0-1) play eight of their first nine games on the road this season, including each of their first six. They continue their difficult opening act in the coming week with games at Minneapolis Roosevelt on Wednesday, St. Croix Lutheran on Friday, Simley on Saturday and Bloomington Kennedy on Sept. 6.
The Eagles will not play a home game until Sept. 9, when they will welcome Southwest Christian to the Bielenberg Sports Center. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sports/high-school/4103605-new-life-academy-girls-soccer-eagles-drop-opener-visitation | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/85a73f3aba9dab59c56855181d6c307a2e536fd801602f914d4388404b87a8c4.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:03:07 | null | 2016-08-24T05:07:01 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime-and-courts%2F4089886-police-report-immigration-arrest-stolen-tools-friends-alcohol.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/WoodburyPublicSafety3_14.png?itok=xs_mAnSX | en | null | Police report: Immigration arrest, stolen tools, friends with alcohol | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | Note: This is a sample of recent incidents involving the Woodbury police. All subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
• Injuries were reported at a 1:20 p.m. July 13 chain-reaction crash on Woodbury Drive, near Interstate 94. A 54-year-old Afton man took a sip of soda and rear ended a slowing vehicle driven by a 29-year-old Maplewood woman, who rear ended the car in front of her, driven by a 70-year-old Akron, Ohio, man. The woman was treated for right neck and shoulder pain and transported to Woodwinds Health Campus. The driver who rear ended her was cited for careless driving.
• Minnesota State Patrol responded to a one-vehicle accident causing a head injury to a woman at 2:43 p.m. July 13.
• Two days after a rear-end accident along City Centre Drive, a 54-year-old Woodbury woman told police she was going to get her neck and head pain evaluated at a medical clinic. The previously unreported accident, after which parties exchanged insurance information, occurred at 2 p.m. July 11. The victim let the other involved driver know she was contacting police at 5:50 p.m. July 13.
• At 2:17 p.m. July 15, at a home along Wellington Lane, while conducting a neighborhood canvas in the name of crime prevention, a police officer located a key in exterior of a deadbolt. No one answered the door for the canvas, and the location and key were secured.
• At 8:01 a.m. July 16, a Woodbury ambulance responded to a single-vehicle accident causing injuries near the intersection of Tamarack Road and Interstate 494. One patient was transported to Regions Hospital in St. Paul.
• At 11:06 a.m. July 16, at Tamarack Village, a 28-year-old Woodbury woman failed to yield and was being yelled at by other driver involved in the accident, a 42-year-old man from St. Paul. The woman proceeded through a stoplight on Tamarack Road, causing the man, proceeding on a green light, to hit her and injure his right knee. He declined medical evaluation at the scene, she got a citation, both cars were towed, and a state accident report was completed.
• A suspicious phone call was reported at 12:21 p.m. July 16, and police responded to Anchor Bank to talk to a 63-year-old Woodbury woman. She thought the phone call was a scam, when the phone caller identified as an Internal Revenue Service employee and requested $12,000 via Western Union or police would arrest her. She didn't send any money, no crime occurred, and police documented the incident.
• Woodbury firefighters put out a vehicle fire at 4:14 p.m. July 16, near the intersection of Manning Avenue and Interstate 94.
• Police responded for alleged first-degree burglary at 6:54 a.m. July 17, along Thone Ridge, where a 40-year-old electrician's tools were stolen from a garage sometime overnight. The man was missing three heavy-duty canvas bags of power tools, hand tools, drill bits and more.
• At 7:26 a.m. July 17, an accident caused injuries at the intersection of Valley Creek Road and Radio Drive. Despite having told police the stoplight "may have been yellow" when he passed through the intersection, a Woodbury 20-year-old was cited for failure to obey traffic control, after his story conflicted with others' recollections of the event. The man's vehicle struck a Hugo man's vehicle, whose vehicle crashed into a St. Paul woman's vehicle. The Hugo man had a solid green light; he suffered a slight laceration. The woman was stationary at the time of the crash.
• At 12:27 p.m. July 17, near the intersection of Hudson Road and Radio Drive, a 21-year-old Woodville, Wis., woman was cited for failure to drive with due care after a four-vehicle accident caused injuries. The woman admitted she was talking to her passenger, not paying attention at the stoplight, where three cars were rear ended. One driver, a 53-year-old woman from Woodbury, was transported to Woodwinds Health Campus for treatment of neck and back pain.
• Firefighters were called to a grease fire at 6:22 p.m. July 17, along Sutherland Drive. The bottom of a gas grill started on fire, but no damage occurred, the fire burned itself out, and police and fire response was canceled.
• At 2:41 p.m. July 18, a 19-year-old Woodbury man was cited by police for speeding in the 1900 block of Woodlane Drive. He was clocked at 80 mph in a 30-mph zone. He also had no proof of insurance.
• Minnesota State Patrol were called at 6:58 a.m. July 19 to the intersection of interstates 94 and 694 for a collision involving two semi-trailers and another vehicle.
• A Woodbury K-9 unit assisted the State Patrol at the intersection of Manning Avenue and Interstate 94 at 9:26 a.m. July 19.
• A bicycle struck a car at 10:39 a.m. July 19, in the 6900 block of Collingwood Lane. The driver, a 41-year-old Woodbury man, said the juvenile male bicyclist was traveling too fast through a parking lot and struck the driver's side of the Toyota Camry. The boy got up and pedaled off without giving his name. Police checked the area for the boy, with negative results.
• At 9:45 p.m. July 19, a 44-year-old Woodbury woman called police because her son's friends keep coming over to the house. She told police that in the past they have broken into her garage with alcohol. Police checked the area an hour later, due to other priority calls.
• Woodbury Public Safety stood by at 6:16 a.m. July 20, while a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent took into custody a resident of the 2600 block of Copper Cliff Trail. The agent had an arrest warrant for the 20-year-old man. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4089886-police-report-immigration-arrest-stolen-tools-friends-alcohol | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/29618dcd60c40934952649a100b2fa795cf6dd8e349741371b6205b65e8c63fe.json |
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Lafferty posted bail in July and most recently appeared in Washington County District Court on Aug. 4.
According to the complaint:
Lafferty has been convicted of three previous DWIs.
On July 2, Woodbury police stopped his vehicle near the intersection of interstates 94 and 494/694. Lafferty was clocked at 80 mph in a 55-mph zone, and he smelled like alcohol.
He denied consuming alcohol, and claimed to be a "disabled veteran and could not do field sobriety" due to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury.
When an officer asked Lafferty how he could drive a vehicle if he could not make decisions and follow basic instructions, Lafferty stared at the officer and didn't respond.
The officer asked Lafferty if he knew the alphabet, and Lafferty said he did not.
Lafferty showed signs of impairment, but he refused to submit to most field sobriety tests, including a preliminary breath test. He was arrested.
After 28 minutes of attempting to contact an attorney, his blood-alcohol content tested at 0.13.
His previous DWI convictions were in October 2015, May 2015 and January 2007. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4102159-river-falls-man-says-he-cant-take-field-sobriety-tests-because-hes | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/b0291fadecad0fd1d1318d8e9f50a3e53f8a7e83ed7b93a4fefdcc96c0e3ef7c.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:07:22 | null | 2016-08-24T10:05:02 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fnews%2Feducation%2F4096915-minnesota-hands-out-25-million-launch-pre-kindergarten-programs.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/833Igniting-a-Passion%28best%29_95.jpg?itok=lrsOEk2d | en | null | Minnesota hands out $25 million to launch pre-kindergarten programs | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | ST. PAUL—Minnesota taxpayers will fund free pre-kindergarten for 3,302 4-year-olds this fall, a far cry from what Gov. Mark Dayton would like. But Newport Elementary made the list, slated to receive $118,415 for 24 students.
Dayton and state education officials last week announced what districts will get money to start the programs.
The $25 million legislators approved earlier this year means slightly more than a fifth of the state's school districts will provide free pre-kindergarten. Money is headed to 74 districts and charter schools.
District 622 received $455,308 to support 78 students, while North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale's requests to support 143 more students were denied. District 834's application to support 30 pre-kindergarten students was denied.
State funding will allow South Washington County Schools to not utilize as many general fund dollars for its pre-kindergarten program at Newport Elementary. Four applications, which would've provided service to 78 District 833 students, were denied.
Only 6 percent of the state's 4-year-olds received funding under the bill, District 833 Superintendent Keith Jacobus said.
Parents are free to send their children to district programs, other options or not at all.
Dayton had asked lawmakers for $173 million to enroll more than 47,000 4-year-olds, and within a few years, the Dayton administration expected 57,000 to attend pre-kindergarten classes.
The Democratic governor said that the fact 183 districts and charter schools applied for pre-kindergarten funding proves there is a demand for the program. State officials turned down 109 applications because there was not enough money, Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius said.
"Thousands of kids will be denied the educational opportunities they need to achieve their greatest potentials," Dayton said.
Legislation required that the Education Department give funding priority to districts with the highest poverty and those without existing pre-kindergarten programs. Cassellius said the law also requires money to be distributed statewide.
"We need all kids to do well," Democrat Dayton said, not just poor ones.
The money is available for schools this fall. Dayton said schools that do not have enough space will need to ask voters for money to expand.
Dayton said he plans to make increasing pre-kindergarten funding a priority during next year's legislative session. He already won an effort to provide money for all-day kindergarten in schools that want it.
Shekina Washington, a parent of a kindergartener-to-be in the Osseo area, said her daughter attended pre-school and will be better prepared this fall than students who did not. Students in pre-kindergarten programs "will gain academic and social" skills and will better understand school routines, she said.
The pre-kindergarten program establishes a five-day-a-week schedule for the young students, Washington added.
Osseo teacher Etta Rassier said that with pre-kindergarten, licensed teachers can "target the school-readiness skills that we know are so important."
Cassellius said the new program should help cut the learning gap between black and white students as poor minority communities were more likely to get the new money.
The commissioner said she heard from superintendents who could not put an application together in time for the tight deadline to get funding for this fall. Others did not apply because their poverty rates are low.
Schools that were awarded funding on Monday will not need to reapply, Cassellius said, unless the law changes
Money is headed school districts across the state, with districts in the north half of the state and the Twin Cities area most likely to receive it.
Districts serving Columbia Heights, Minneapolis, Osseo and St. Cloud will get more than $1 million each. At 226, Osseo has the most students who would be served.
Approved, denied
List of school districts that will get funding, as well as districts that were turned down: mn.gov/governor/newsroom/?id=1055-251633.
Mathias Baden contributed to this report. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/education/4096915-minnesota-hands-out-25-million-launch-pre-kindergarten-programs | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/3dc55d0ea41276adb7f672fcbb6d00d2c7e5c56aa7101920feca0818a3cf3fa9.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T14:49:43 | null | 2016-08-26T08:01:40 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime-and-courts%2F4102154-charges-burglars-admit-arson-spray-painting-thefts.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/washingtoncountyatty%28best%29_152.jpg?itok=l13H-Wvd | en | null | Charges: Burglars admit to arson, spray painting, thefts | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | Three roommates were each charged with three counts of first-degree burglary at their neighbors' residences in Woodbury's Windwood neighborhood, where they lived in the 6500 block of Falstaff Road.
Stephan Nicholas Holmes, 21, Marcus Maurice Holmes, 20, and Billy Joe Smith, 19, appeared in Washington County District Court late last month and are each being held on $75,000 bail with conditions or $250,000 bail without conditions. Stephan Holmes is scheduled for a court hearing Aug. 18, and the other two have hearings scheduled for next week.
According to the complaint:
Their alleged crime spree included burglaries in 6500 block of Falstaff Road, the 6500 block of Falstaff Terrace and the 3600 block of York Circle.
In the 6500 block of Falstaff Terrace, the defendants allegedly broke into an occupied home, stole 55- and 50-inch TVs, a phone and a toaster.
In the 6500 block of Falstaff Road, they entered a home and stole computers and small electronics, as well as two purses, which contained credit cards that were later used at Walmart.
In the 3600 block of York Circle, the three took a Canon Pixma printer outside of a residence and were confronted by the victim inside the home.
Other alleged crimes from July 8-11:
• The three broke a window, spray painted a garage door, and committed arson in the 3600 block of Avon Drive.
• They spray painted a car and lit it on fire in the 3300 block of Juliet Drive.
• They entered a car, stole a black briefcase and handheld steam vac, and attempted to start a fire in the vehicle in the 6900 block of Romeo Road.
• They searched a car and removed a screen from the back of the house in the 3500 block of Avon Court.
• The three entered an open garage and stole a phone cord and auxiliary cord in the 6800 block of Romeo Road.
• Two cars were entered and credit cards were stolen at another house in the 6800 block of Romeo Road.
• A vehicle was entered but nothing was taken in the 6600 block of Stratford Road.
• A briefcase, computer and other items were stolen in the 3400 block of Juliet Drive.
• A phone charger was stolen from a vehicle in the 6600 block of Falstaff Road.
• The three attempted entry into another home in the 6600 block of Falstaff Road but then ran away after they startled the homeowner.
• The defendants entered a vehicle and stole a garage door opener in a third house in the 6600 block of Falstaff Road.
Police executed a search warrant at the home of Holmes, Holmes and Smith. They were all present, including Stephan, who was found hiding under a vehicle. In interviews with police, they each admitted to roles in the crime spree. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4102154-charges-burglars-admit-arson-spray-painting-thefts | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/c1d14c88db9980e7d14d78eea209431617ad02d58a828085e85f17e840c48577.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T12:51:34 | null | 2016-08-29T07:01:01 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fsports%2F4103466-east-ridge-volleyball-raptors-adjust-high-tempo-opponent-season-opening-3-1.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/083116.EastRidgeVolleyball%20Ratzloff.jpg?itok=ZiPyp26D | en | null | East Ridge volleyball: Raptors adjust to high-tempo opponent in season-opening 3-1 | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | Ella Ratzloff and the Raptors topped Blaine 3-1 in their season opener in the Side Out Classic Saturday. (Bulletin file photo)
The East Ridge volleyball team needed one set to adjust to Blaine's higher-tempo offense in the season opener.
The Raptors had no trouble once they found their rhythm, however, defeating the Bengals 3-1 in the Side Out Classic Saturday at Hopkins High School.
Senior outside hitter Allie Barber had 21 kills and sophomore outside hitter Kate Reimann added 15, as East Ridge overcame a 25-17 first-set loss to win the final three sets 25-19, 25-18, 25-12.
"We got into a rhythm and started playing our game," second-year coach Madeline Amon said. "It was nice getting into that rhythm sooner rather than later."
The win came after a 2015 season in which East Ridge went 23-6, losing to Rosemount in the Class 3A, Section 3 semifinals. The Raptors graduated three seniors, including Maya Intveld, who ranked second on the team in kills. They also lost 6-foot-4 middle hitter Chloe Thorpe, who was a junior last year.
Sophomore Grace Whitman played middle hitter on Saturday and had four blocks. The team also received strong defense from junior Ella Ratzloff and strong play from setters Leah Witzel and Stephanie Barber.
"They kind of brought a lot of calm to the team and were able to run an offense and distribute the ball well," Amon said.
East Ridge begins the season ranked 12th in the Class 3A coaches' poll, second among Suburban East Conference teams behind only sixth-ranked Roseville. Amon said the team is focusing on running a quicker-tempo offense this year in an effort to keep opponents off balance.
"We have athletes, but we don't have a bunch of people that can put the ball away on a high ball," she said. "We're trying to get those sets out there before we can get blocked."
East Ridge was scheduled to play Eastview on Tuesday and Edina on Thursday. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sports/4103466-east-ridge-volleyball-raptors-adjust-high-tempo-opponent-season-opening-3-1 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/bdc267f12429d0365be72872e09a3588681a48265b3955b362b73c475fb0ac0b.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T10:51:21 | null | 2016-08-30T05:28:02 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime-and-courts%2F4102170-woman-serves-60-days-aiding-and-abetting-1st-degree-drug-sale.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/washingtoncountyatty%28best%29_159.jpg?itok=PqG5QkyD | en | null | Woman serves 60 days for aiding and abetting 1st-degree drug sale | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | A Richfield 25-year-old is nearing the end of her 60-day term in Washington County Sentence to Serve for aiding and abetting first-degree sale of heroin in Woodbury.
In August 2015, an undercover officer bought 1/2 ounce of heroin for $1,550 in the parking lot of Green Mill, along Hudson Road.
The driver of the vehicle dealing the drugs was Angelinda Felix. She admitted to police that she knew heroin was in the car and that it was going to be sold. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4102170-woman-serves-60-days-aiding-and-abetting-1st-degree-drug-sale | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/f815cc09e75823a9750cce962aa465838d0c6e4ffc5793ea3d261d3bb2eca73f.json |
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"John Molene",
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"At A.M."
] | 2016-08-29T14:51:04 | null | 2016-08-29T09:01:01 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fsports%2Fhigh-school%2F4103480-east-ridge-tennis-raptors-lose-eagan-dominate-henry-sibley.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/083116.S.SWC_.EastRidgeTennis%20Courteau.jpg?itok=8OotFpWW | en | null | East Ridge tennis: Raptors lose to Eagan, dominate Henry Sib... | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | Junior Megan Karrow of the Raptors powers a shot in No. 2 singles play against Henry Sibley Wednesday. (Photo by John Molene)
Top singles player Regan Dolezal of the Raptors keeps her eyes on the ball in a match against Henry Sibley. (Photo by John Molene)
Kailey Courteau of East Ridge's No. 1 doubles team comes to the net to score against Henry Sibley last Wednesday. (Photo by John Molene)
The Raptors nearly had a clean sweep, with the exception of a loss at No. 1 singles.
The No. 1 doubles team of senior Allison Marshall and sophomore Kailey Courteau earned a 6-0, 6-3 victory.
"The doubles all played well today, I thought," East Ridge coach Jon Rydberg said. "We had some things we wanted to accomplish, and I think they accomplished what they were working on."
"Overall, it was a well-played match by all the girls," Rydberg added.
East Ridge lost to Eagan 6-1 a day earlier.
The Raptors competed in a doubles tournament Saturday at Mankato West, and on Tuesday were scheduled to play in a dual meet at Visitation.
East Ridge's results from their win over Henry Sibley:
No. 1 singles — Regan Dolezal lost 2-6, 5-7.
No. 2 singles — Megan Karrow won 7-5, 7-6 (7-4).
No. 3 singles — Jordyn Brown won 6-2, 6-2.
No. 4 singles — Alicia Zhang won 6-2, 6-3.
No. 1 doubles — Allison Marshall-Kailey Courteau won 6-0, 6-3.
No. 2 doubles — Julia Travis-Celina Ough won 6-4, 6-0.
No. 3 doubles — Brianna Whisler-Bobbie Ramirez Rivera won 6-0, 6-1. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sports/high-school/4103480-east-ridge-tennis-raptors-lose-eagan-dominate-henry-sibley | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/a550a6ca9c4e0d4e866d6baba4093a3c2b6c62593ac8f1abb85063a6828c336e.json |
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More than 50 of all county 4-H competitors won a trip to the 2016 Minnesota State Fair to show their livestock and over 60 won general project state fair trips, Aug. 25-Sept. 5.
Washington County 4-H clubs will be holding an open house from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at the county fairgrounds in Lake Elmo. The event is open to area youth interested in joining 4-H. It will include information about the program as well as demonstrations and hands-on activities. For details about 4-H in Washington County, visit www3.extension.umn.edu/county/Washington, call Washington County 4-H at 651-430-6800 or email mnextwashington@umn.edu.
Winners
The local winners are:
Aerospace — Junior Grand Champion, Max Liegl, Woodbury
Bicycle — Sr. Grand Champion, Josephine Ramirez, Afton
Consumer education — Sr. Grand Champion, Manashree Padiyath, Woodbury
Creative arts/crafts — Sr. Grand Champion, Libby McAtee, Woodbury
Creative arts/fine arts — Jr. Grand Champion, Ava Erickson, Lake Elmo
Crops science-corn — Jr. Grand Champion, Gabby Knowlan, Lake Elmo
Demonstration — Jr. Reserve Champion, Max Liegl, Woodbury
Electric — Jr. Grand Champion, Jackson Eide, Woodbury; Jr. Reserve Champion, Finn Tenpas, Lake Elmo
Dog education — Jr. Grand Champion, Alexis Casner, Woodbury
Engineering design — Sr. Grand Champion, Laura Irvine, Woodbury
Entomology — Sr. Grand Champion, William Bjerke, Woodbury
Exploring animals — Jr. Reserve Champion, Alexis Casner, Woodbury
Food and nutrition — Sr. Grand Champion, Manashree Padiyath, Woodbury; Jr. Reserve Champion, Liani Dalbec, Woodbury
Food preservation — Sr. Reserve Champion, Megan Nelson, Woodbury; Jr. Reserve Champion, Ava Erickson, Lake Elmo
Food review — Sr. Reserve Champion, Lucas Bertram, Woodbury
Global connections — Sr. Reserve Champion, Libby McAtee, Woodbury
Horse related — Sr. Grand Champion, Grace Killeen, Woodbury; Sr. Reserve Champion, Macy McAtee, Woodbury
Indoor gardening — Sr. Grand Champion, Tracey Nelson, Woodbury
Needle arts — Jr. Grand Champion, ava Erickson, Lake Elmo
Pet education — Jr. Reserve Champion, Carolyn Wohlers, Woodbury
Performing arts — Jr. Grand Champion, Gabby Knowlan, Lake Elmo
Plant and soil science — Sr. Grand Champion, Manashree Padiyath, Woodbury
Potato — Jr. Reserve Champion, Liani Dalbec, Woodbury
Quilting — Sr. Reserve Champion, Annika Bjerke, Woodbury
Safety — Sr. Reserve Champion, Julia Snyder, Afton
Robotics — Sr. Grand Champion, Laura Irvine, Woodbury
Self-determined — Jr. Grand Champion, Paige Sahr, Woodbury
Veterinary science — Sr. Reserve Champion, Grace Killeen, Woodbury; Jr. Grand Champion, Liani Dalbec, Woodbury
Wildlife and biolog — Sr. Reserve Champion, Julia Snyder, Afton
Dog obedience-graduate beginner — Grand Champion, Izabel Kane, Woodbury
Dog showmanship-senior — Grand Champion, Lexi Simonson, Woodbury
Dog Rally-novice — Grand Champion, Izabel Kane, Woodbury
Dairy goat showmanship — Beg. Grand Champion, Lily Ward, Woodbury
Horse performance — Sr. Grand Champion, Grace Killeen, Woodbury
Horse games — Beg. Reserve Champion, Ava Erickson, Lake Elmo
Llama showmanship — Sr. Grand Champion, Samantha Mehta, Woodbury; Beg. Reserve Champion, Carolyn Wohlers, Woodbury
Llama obstacle course and public relations — Jr. Reserve Champion, Carolyn Wohlers, Woodbury
Dairy Showmanship — Beg. Grand Champion, Gabby Knowland, Lake Elmo
Poultry — Market Chicken Grand Champion, Brandon Pott, Lake Elmo; Egg Production (White Eggs) Res. Champion, Caitlin Pott, Lake Elmo
Poultry showmanship — Beg. Grand Champion, McKenzie Springborn, Lake Elmo
Rabbit showmanship — Inter. Grand Champion, Morgan Johnson, Lake Elmo; Beg. Grand Champion, McKenzie Springborn, Lake Elmo
Swine— Market Swine Grand Champion, Julia Bowman, Woodbury
Swine showmanship — Inter. Res. Champion, Julia Bowman, Woodbury; Beg. Res. Champion, Ruby Tenpas, Lake Elmo | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/life/events/4102203-area-4-h-members-win-washington-county-fair | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/e25f9f92cd82fa5f045b2f915aa226b6e26f50b646fa8ac66b604b7fdfbc2ebc.json |
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• At 7:03 p.m. July 20, police were called to the 300 block of Lake View Drive for a possible break-in. A 32-year-old resident found her steel-plated door frame damaged. The small dent, which occurred sometime during the previous week, was inconsistent with pry marks from the exterior of the apartment. Police were not immediately provided with the estimated cost of damages.
• A 23-year-old Lino Lakes man was booked and cited for fifth-degree assault after an incident that allegedly occurred at 11:53 a.m. July 21 near the intersection of Upper Afton Road and Century Avenue. At SuperAmerica he filled containers that were not suitable for carrying gasoline, and an employee told him to stop. The employee, a juvenile, followed the man to the intersection of Ridge Drive and Century Avenue, where the man punched the employee in the face and ran. A police officer was flagged down after the assault, and another officer located the man at a restaurant in the 6000 block of Hudson Road.
• Police got involved at 12:22 p.m. July 21 with a situation involving a Cottage Grove woman who left her jewelry at HealthPartners in Woodbury and alleged that it was stolen. On July 17, while the woman waited for her son at the clinic in the 8400 block of Seasons Parkway, the woman took off two rings—one of them a diamond ring worth $3,000 to $4,000—to apply lotion to her hands. She set them on an end table and didn't realize they were gone until the next morning. Clinic staff and the cleaning crew did not see them, they said.
• Woodbury Public Safety was called to a grass fire at 3:01 p.m. July 21, near the intersection of Valley Creek Road and Interstate 494. Upon firefighter arrival, the fire had been put out.
• A 12-year-old blue and silver Trek 700 bicycle reported stolen at 8:05 p.m. July 21 from a garage in the 1200 block of Cedarwood Drive. The garage was burglarized, with the $300 bike being taken, while its 66-year-old owner was out of town.
• A 17-year-old man received police assistance at 9:33 p.m. July 21 at Carver Lake Park after two older men bloodied his nose, injured his head and broke his phone while punching and knocking down the younger man. The victim told police he had followed two girls from the beach to the parking lot, thinking they were going to hang out. The girls later told police the victim had been smoking marijuana, acting overly aggressive, using vulgar language and making inappropriate comments. An altercation ensued after the girls decided to leave.
• Juveniles received tickets for underage consumption at 2:08 a.m. July 22 at Carver Lake Park. Three juveniles and a 20-year-old were drinking. Their driver, another 17-year-old, showed no signs of intoxication but was cited for being in the park after hours.
• At 5:16 p.m. July 22, police received a report of possible drug activity at a home along Carillon Plaza. There tends to be a lot of short-term traffic. People and a car leaving the house emitted a strong odor of marijuana. Police advised that they are aware of the issue and are working to take care of it.
• At 11:18 p.m. July 23, extensive damage was caused by a lightning strike to a chimney on a house in the 10700 block of Falling Water Lane. No smoke or fire was seen by the 911 caller or the responding firefighters. Police directed traffic.
• A 66-year-old Woodbury man told police his neighbor, a 58-year-old woman, assaulted him. The man is bothered by a device in the woman's house that causes a buzzing noise. When she returned home at 4:25 p.m. July 23, he took pictures of her open garage while she was checking on her plants. She told him to stop. He said she punched him in the face and he went to call 911. She said she pushed him away, kicked him in the stomach, and got kicked back. She also said the man said: "I'm going to kill you." They have a history of issues with each other, including the man allegedly putting nails in the woman's driveway, cutting tires, breaking a flowerpot and fence, pounding on walls at all hours of the night, and yelling inappropriate comments. Police spoke with both parties, who are considering restraining orders against each other.
• Police were called to Key Inn Suites at 7:46 p.m. July 24 for help with a rude customer. An officer wrote in an initial complaint report: "A person had booked a room at the location through Booking.com. When they arrived they asked to see the room first before they officially checked in. When they looked at the room they noticed large stains on the bed sheet and bugs all over the room. They said they were disgusted and refused the room. They now want some sort of confirmation from (the) front desk staff that their credit card will not be charged for the room, and that is the cause of the disturbance as staff will not provide that for them." All parties were advised of the civil nature of the dispute, the would-be room renters left to find a different hotel, and Washington County's health department was advised of the police call.
• After two hours of explaining to a Washington County Libraries employee why he got fired, the library director called police. At 4:35 p.m. July 25, the complainant requested that the former employee be trespassed and officers escorted the former employee out of the R.H. Stafford Library and off the property.
• Police responded at 4:55 p.m. July 25, to the 6100 block of Woodbine Ave., to a report of a stolen bicycle. The $50 bike was left unsecured in the front yard for the previous day or two. It was later found a few houses to the east. Also, the complainant's son reported an open window in the vacant home next door. The home was secured, and there turned out to be no forced entry, vandalism or damage to property.
• Suspicious activity was reported to police at 10:41 p.m. July 25, in the 3800 block of Lilac Lane. Two vehicles pulled up to the community pool building with flashlights and ladders. Police spoke with a 16-year-old who forgot her phone inside the pool area. "The subject grabbed her phone without incident," an officer wrote in the initial complaint report.
• Woodbury firefighters put out a dump truck fire at 1:32 p.m. July 26, near the intersection of Kingsfield Lane and Lake Road.
• At 3:03 p.m. July 27, Woodbury Public Safety was unable to located a tree that reportedly lit on fire, possibly due to a power line.
• Police were called to a Settlers Ridge Parkway roundabout at 4:31 p.m. July 27 for a report of water flooding over the curb. Police found no flooding, that the water had gone down the storm drains.
• At 5:11 p.m. July 27, along Eagle Trace Lane, a mother reported possible drug activity involving three juveniles, including her son. One of the boys sent a Snapchat message to say: "I got a 100 of weed." The woman asked for intervention for her son.
• First-degree burglary was reported at 6:11 p.m. July 27, after a garage door was accidentally left open overnight. Someone tampered with two cars, one of which contained a 17-year-old's wallet. By the time the victim realized her credit cards were missing, $185 of fraudulent charges had accrued. She canceled her credit and debit cards, lost her $40 Starbucks and $25 Holiday Superstores gift cards, and recovered her library card.
• A 44-year-old resident's safe was found unlocked at about 6 p.m. July 27, along Avon Drive. Silver bars and coins, valued at $700, went missing. No one else had the combination to the safe.
• Police check the area around Key Inn Suites at 8:09 p.m. July 29 for a 45-year-old man. He'd just been in a verbal domestic situation, with mutual shoving and pushing.
• A motorcycle crashed at 9:52 a.m. July 30, near the intersection of 30th Street and Manning Avenue, causing a possible brain injury. The Minnesota State patrol wrote a the state accident report.
• Woodbury firefighters responded at 1:38 p.m. July 30 to a call for mutual aid in the 1100 block of Mark Court in Newport.
• At 3:21 p.m. July 30, a Cottage Grove resident was reportedly being held at his home, against his will, after an alleged home invasion. Officers created a perimeter, and the dog came out of the house. The K-9 was used to search the inside of the residence, in the 6600 block of Goodview Court.
• A Woodbury ambulance transported one patient to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, after an accident at 4:04 p.m. July 31, near interstates 94 and 494. The Minnesota State Patrol investigated the crash.
• After a three-car accident at 5:26 p.m. July 31, near the intersection of Valley Creek Road and Woodlane Drive, one driver complained of wrist pain but also refused assistance from emergency medical services (EMS). A Hastings woman was cited for following too close. She saw the vehicle in front of her stopping, but she didn't have time to avoid a collision, she said.
• At 12:47 p.m. Aug. 1, a 54-year-old Woodbury resident offered a compliment to Woodbury police. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4096920-police-report-3000-ring-end-table-lightning-strikes-chimney-bloody | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/a63184f115caaf731ef162f0087b2d8e468969aa39848ed1cbd16bf81b9b43d5.json |
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4-10 p.m. — Taste of Woodbury, sponsored by East Metro Financial Team of Thrivent Financial
4-10 p.m. — Beer tent supporting the Woodbury Rotary Club
4-10 p.m. — Carnival rides and games (unlimited ride pass valid from 5-10 p.m.)
5-7 p.m. — Noah's Ark Stuff—N-Fluff animal workshop, Primrose School of Woodbury kids gazebo, sponsored by The Urgency Room (button required)
5-7 p.m. — Robotics team demonstrations, hockey rink
5-8 p.m. — Rainbow Corral Critters petting zoo, sponsored by Yackel Dance Studio
5 p.m.-dusk — Bingo tent, sponsored by East Metro Financial Team of Thrivent Financial
5:30-6:30 p.m. — Excel Lifeforce Martial Arts demonstrations, Summit Orthopedics stage (bandshell)
7-10:30 p.m. — GB Leighton, Summit Orthopedics stage (bandshell)
Saturday, Aug. 27
9:30 a.m. sharp — Kowalski's Market children's coin hunt, ages 2-5, playground (button required)
10 a.m. sharp — Kowalski's Market children's coin hunt, ages 6-12
10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. — 3M Rod & Custom Car Club car show
10 a.m.-4 p.m. — Rainbow Corral Critters petting zoo, sponsored by Yackel Dance Studio
10 a.m.-5 p.m. — Sand volleyball tournament (pre-register)
10 a.m.-8 p.m. — Business fair
10 a.m.-10 p.m. — Taste of Woodbury, sponsored by East Metro Financial Team of Thrivent Financial
10 a.m.-10 p.m. — Carnival rides and games (unlimited ride pass valid from noon-5 p.m.)
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. — Wooblebots kids project, Primrose School of Woodbury kids gazebo, sponsored by Central Pediatrics (button required)
11 a.m.-noon — Music by Conner Allen, Summit Orthopedics stage (bandshell)
11 a.m.-dusk — Bingo tent, sponsored by East Metro Financial Team of Thrivent Financial
Noon-1:30 p.m. — Cooking show with Chef Angelo Montes and Mayor Mary Giuliani Stephens, Summit Orthopedics stage (bandshell), sponsored by Sole Mio Ristorante
Noon-6 p.m. — Dunk tank supporting the Veterans Memorial, organized by Thrivent Community-East Metro and Woodbury Lions Veterans Memorial Council
Noon-7 p.m. — Robotics team demonstrations, hockey rink
Noon-10 p.m. — Beer tent supporting the Woodbury Rotary Club
1-3 p.m. — Catapult Concoctions workshop, Primrose School of Woodbury kids gazebo, sponsored by Spire Credit Union (button required)
2:30-3 p.m. — ACME Magic Factory with Brian Richards, Summit Orthopedics stage (bandshell), sponsored by Paramount Auto Services
3:30-4 p.m. — ACME Magic Factory
3:30-3:45 p.m. — Woodbury Days Challenge registration, Primrose School of Woodbury kids gazebo, sponsored by Big Frog Custom T-Shirts & More (button required)
3:45-5:30 p.m. — Woodbury Days Challenge, sponsored by Big Frog Custom T-Shirts & More (button required)
4-6 p.m. — Clay Lego Dude art activity with Kidcreate Studio, Primrose School of Woodbury kids gazebo, sponsored by Central Pediatrics (button required)
4:45-5:45 p.m. — Excel Lifeforce Martial Arts demonstrations, Summit Orthopedics stage (bandshell)
6-6:45 p.m. — Woodbury Public Safety demonstration, Summit Orthopedics stage (bandshell)
7-10:30 p.m. — The Dweebs, Summit Orthopedics stage (bandshell), sponsored by O'Halloran & Murphy Woodbury Cremation and Funeral Service
9:30 p.m. — Fireworks, Summit Orthopedics stage (bandshell), sponsored by SuperAmerica and City and County Credit Union
Sunday, Aug. 28
9:30-10:30 a.m. — Worship in the Park, Summit Orthopedics stage (bandshell, sponsored by New Life Church of Woodbury
11 a.m. — Grande Parade, starts at the park, sponsored by Ispiri Design Build Remodel
11 a.m.-5 p.m. — Business fair
11 a.m.-5 p.m. — Carnival rides and games (unlimited ride pass valid from noon-5 p.m.)
11 a.m.-5 p.m. — Rainbow Corral Critters petting zoo, sponsored by Yackel Dance Studio
11 a.m.-5 p.m. — Taste of Woodbury, sponsored by East Metro Financial Team of Thrivent Financial
Noon-2 p.m. — Badazzled-Up Backpack, Primrose School of Woodbury kids gazebo, sponsored by Xcel Energy (button required)
Noon-5 p.m. — Bingo tent, sponsored by East Metro Financial Team of Thrivent Financial
Noon-5 p.m. — Beer tent supporting the Woodbury Rotary Club
Noon-5 p.m. — Robotics team demonstrations, hockey rink
1:30-3:30 p.m. — Musical Chair Mania! (Ball Field No. 2, near inflatable rides)
1:30-2 p.m. — Gymbo Sticker Hunt, ages 0-2, playground, sponsored by Gymboree Play and Music
2:15-2:45 p.m. — Gymbo Sticker Hunt, ages 2-5
2:45-3 p.m. — Gymboree Play Time, all ages, playground, sponsored by Gymboree Play and Music
2-3 p.m. — Raptor show, Summit Orthopedics stage (bandshell), sponsored by Jerry's Foods of Woodbury
2:30-4:30 p.m. — Silly Clay Birdies art activity with KidCreate Studio, Primrose School of Woodbury kids gazebo (button required), sponsored by KidCreate Studio
3:30-4 p.m. — ACME Magic Factory with Brian Richards, Summit Orthopedics stage (bandshell), sponsored by Paramount Auto Services
4:30-4:45 p.m. — Grande Parade winners announced, Summit Orthopedics stage (bandshell)
4:45-5 p.m. — Button of Savings prize winners drawing, Summit Orthopedics stage (bandshell)
Monday, Aug. 29
7 p.m. — Little Miss/Miss Woodbury coronation, Crossroads Church Woodbury | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/life/events/4100892-what-do-woodbury-days | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/743c06b80cf41a32bc03f833699bdeac2139d0ae0bdd8d8833e45c6b0f232707.json |
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We met on the bench at a recreational softball game during high school, she taught me everything I know about co-rec volleyball, and since then she's been at my side as a proud partner in all of my endeavors.
After knowing her for 20-plus years, 11 married, life has become far less carefree albeit very enjoyable. I like to be busy. Busy is good. Long retired from baseball, softball, swimming and basketball, we tend to play a lot of volleyball—as much as a couple with three kids ages 6 and younger can afford.
It's a busy life.
The munchkins wake us up most days, usually someone at 5 a.m. or 6 a.m., although by some miracle I stayed in bed until 8 a.m. twice in the past week. That never happens.
Usually we are up with the tweeting birds, giving morning baths or melting down because we're hungry. When we parents, wishing to get just a half-hour more of winks, choose to let Sprout TV be a diversion it usually backfires and the kids aren't ready for their day.
On workdays Mom drops off the boys at daycare, runs home to unite the 6-year-old with our favorite nanny at home, and switches cars at my office so I can pick up all of them later.
The 6-year-old has been participating in Woodbury Parks & Recreation programs all summer. This involves a monumental kid-shuffling tactic from the father, if I might say so myself. Camp Carver and Summer Playground receive my child's resounding endorsement. She even brought one of her best friends, who recently moved to Woodbury much to our glee, to Camp Carver one recent week.
Summer Playground is another top summer activity for my daughter.
They play games—some jog memories of my childhood and others are new to the dozens of kids who enjoy their hot summer days under the sun at wide open Colby Lake Park.
They do crafts—I enjoyed seeing the marshmallow-and-stick tower, but I am not especially a fan of various types of ooey, gooey goo that come home from time to time.
Then there's Water Week—all of the kids get a kick out of a hilly Slip 'n' Slide and games with buckets and balloons.
One of Woodbury Days' grand prizes is a four-week package of free registration in the Summer Playground program. This is one that I plan to win, so don't get your hopes up!
So I tend to take my daily lunch break to get a kid from Camp Carver, cool off my daughter in the air conditioning at home where we eat, then off to Colby Lake. I pick up at the end of her day, and mine. A newspaper editor's work hours are ever-changing, so sometimes I head back to the office for one thing or another.
Added to all of the summer running around is church, day trips (we went to Taylors Falls last weekend), visits to two sets of the kids' grandparents and their great-grandmother (all of whom live in the metro), volleyball practices (both my wife and I coach), grocery shopping, school supply purchases, a night out with the girls, and a midnight snack at Perkins with a friend of mine.
We did all of that this week. Phew! Until I wrote it down, I had no idea.
My lovely wife organizes most of the driving around. She somehow keeps logged in her head who needs to be where, when and via whose car.
She mows the lawn. I weed and do laundry. We both clean and sweep. The chores at home can be exhausting.
We both cook and get the kids ready for their next big thing, and we all enjoy playtime in the nearby cul-de-sac, on the trails around town, and at the parks.
When I need something, though, I depend on one special woman.
So while perusing the Woodbury Days Event Guide, I was reminded to appreciate the girl I love. She'll get two flowers from Sweet Peas Floral this week. But don't tell her I got the discounted rate with my coupon!
It's the thought, not the savings, that counts.
Total savings earned via the Woodbury Days Button of Savings: $20. Woodbury Days takes place Aug. 26-28 at Ojibway Park.
Mathias Baden is the editor of the Woodbury Bulletin. He can be reached at mbaden@woodburybulletin.com. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/opinion/columns/4100899-viewpoint-woodbury-days-provides-inspiration-appreciation | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/e5d2849807129ac674b49d45ce6e30c38bd84bf153c4b712bc8049abd614a41d.json |
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I know, I know, the White Bear Mitsubishi two-year, 24,000-mile lease on a 2016 Outlander Sport is the prize that's most grand. And how can anyone miss seeing the ads for it on parked cars and Woodbury Days Event Guides all over town?
As I looked through a list of grand prizes the other day I said to myself, "There are several businesses here that—being a new guy to town—I will need to try out."
My kid has participated in jiu jitsu and Woodbury Parks and Recreation's Summer Playground, so we know we want to win those prizes.
I'm pretty sure we could get a kick out of Gymboree Play & Music, about which I told my lovely wife. Her reaction was: "Wait, that's not just a kids clothes store?" Of course, it's not. They have music, art, Play & Learn, and school skills classes at the newish location in Woodbury. It's on my list of places to try. (Not to mention Mathnasium and AJ's Music Factory also offer large prizes in the city festival drawing.)
We have tried AJ's. They offered a great Lion Guard-related trial session that the kids loved.
And I love that Gymboree, for example, has a great coupon that came with my Woodbury Days button. It gives me a reason to try out the place before I win the grand prize of one or two months of free sessions for my munchkins.
There are lots of things that my family or I want to win—from Eagle Valley Golf Course, Envy Skin Clinic, Norwex, Nadia Cakes, Bebe Bella Designs, Primrose School of Woodbury, Rising Stars Gymnastics, Lunds & Byerlys, and more.
I do think I should try out a business before I go after the prize—and you should, too.
So the 6-year-old and I spend one of last week's lunch breaks at Lunds & Byerlys. What a salad bar! She had gourmet mac 'n' cheese, and I made the crab salad of my dreams. The deli eating-and-seating area was surprisingly quiet, and we enjoyed each other's company before heading to the next Summer Playground adventure.
Then the Culver's Woodbury Days coupon and that business' two grand prizes caught my eye. They go together—the coupon and the prizes.
Think of this beautiful thought: I could win a meal a week—one value basket and 1 pint of custard—for a full year! My kids could win a kids meal and custard for a year, as well. Then, Mr. Negativity almost immediately started thinking (a dangerous pastime, I know). I wondered if I could eat at the same fast food joint so often and enjoy it for a year. That's a lot of fast food.
Ask me later, because I'm going to try. Well, I'm going to try to eat there weekly, through Woodbury Days' Awesome August promotion. See, the coupon is a good one: buy one, get one. And they have cheese curds.
I tempted friend Timmy to join me in dining on the Deluxe, known as the never frozen, Midwest-raised beef layered on real Wisconsin cheese, crisp lettuce, ripe tomatoes, pickles, sweet red onion and our signature mayo, all on a lightly buttered, toasted bun. (Yes, I cut and paste some of that from the website. It makes the burger sound so good!) Timmy had some specifications for the chef, but I asked for the works. We both knew we would approve.
The cheese curds were new to us, and they were up to snuff, too.
So for the next few weeks, since my family of five has five coupons, I'll dine at Culver's each week. Note to self to make sure to take advantage of the many flavors of "custard of the day." Just to get a feel for what I'll need to do once I win my grand prize.
And just maybe Mitsubishi would like me to test out its grand prize before I win it, too.
Total savings earned via the Woodbury Days Button of Savings: $17.59. Woodbury Days takes place Aug. 26-28 at Ojibway Park.
Mathias Baden is the editor of the Woodbury Bulletin. He can be reached at mbaden@woodburybulletin.com. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/opinion/columns/4100929-viewpoint-one-year-culvers-i-can-do | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/0e638c14f966cca264a3041c2939ea36fb471a954aab504caafdfc563fa78836.json |
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The terms of probation include paying restitution to the victim.
According to the complaint:
In July 2014, Guerin approached the owner of a landscaping company, who working on a project at Wild Bill's Saloon in Woodbury. Guerin told the landscaper that his father was the owner of a bar and restaurant in White Bear Lake, where landscaping was also needed, and he was interested in hiring the landscaper for a project at the White Bear Lake business.
But Guerin said he had lost his credit card and canceled his accounts so he was unable to cash his payroll check from his father's business account. The landscaper held the payroll check and gave Guerin $1,500 cash, believing Guerin would buy back the check for $1,500 in a week or so.
After 10 days, Guerin had been continually promising to pay the landscaper but also had excuses for not setting or showing up at scheduled meetings. Another two weeks went by and the landscaper got suspicious and contacted police, who learned that multiple checkbooks went missing from the home safe of Guerin's father and that several checks were written out by Guerin, who has a gambling problem.
The landscaper has yet to receive any money from Guerin. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4102173-swindler-must-pay-restitution-and-comply-terms-probation | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/9e66baf65b32f453aec105d322f23049859fe726ad38644afe8d7ac78241377d.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:05:07 | null | 2016-08-24T09:34:57 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fnews%2Fbusiness%2F4100732-costco-project-happening-following-months-long-delays.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/costco1-sub_0.png?itok=7-3b0-tD | en | null | Costco project is happening, following months-long delays | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | After months of delays and setbacks, Costco is moving ahead with its Woodbury project.
The national warehouse retailer announced plans in December to build a store of about 163,500 square feet northeast of the intersection of Tamarack Road and Weir Drive and hoped to complete construction this fall. But Costco needed to revise its plan after a local watershed district determined the store would have an impact on nearby wetlands.
The Ramsey-Washington Watershed District met with Costco earlier this year and recommended the store could minimize wetland impact by reducing the store's size, building a parking ramp, eliminating a gas station and reducing stormwater management areas.
Costco said these changes would not work with its stores' designs and adding things like an underground filtration systems were too expensive.
In its revised application, Costco re-oriented the store from the east side of the site to the west side in order to reduce wetland impact, Senior City Planner Eric Searles said.
Searles added that Costco did not change the store's size and will still have a tire center and a gas station.
In anticipation of Costco's construction, Searles said his department has received numerous calls from residents in recent months about the project's timing.
Like any development project in Woodbury, Costco still has a few hoops to jump through before breaking ground on its 11th Minnesota location.
The Woodbury Planning Commission will review Costco's application at its next meeting, scheduled for Aug. 29.
The Woodbury City Council will review the project at its Sept. 7 meeting and will hold a public hearing that evening.
"Residents are encouraged to attend planning commission and council meetings to provide feedback on the project," Searles said. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/business/4100732-costco-project-happening-following-months-long-delays | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/2fe3692f54df2fdd203ebe1d53ecd288899dce75cd7cccc5e0910ed345a8c348.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T04:50:47 | null | 2016-08-28T22:49:52 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fsports%2Fhigh-school%2F4103607-2016-preview-new-life-academy-girls-soccer-boasts-new-look-new-season.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/all/themes/woodburybulletin_theme/images/touch-icon.png | en | null | 2016 preview: New Life Academy girls soccer boasts new look in new season | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | After one of the best seasons in program history, the Eagles girls soccer team looks very, very different heading into this season. New Life Academy graduated some talented seniors, including Tori Rogness, Carolyn Stacey, and Tatiana Lee, among others. It also lost coach Blake Bracket.
When new coach Sam Mann was hired in the offseason he had a clean slate to work with -- and he’s hit the ground running so far.
Mann orchestrated voluntary workouts over the summer, and started two-a-days last week with a scrimmage to gauge the technical skills of his players.
“Then we hit the ground running on Day 2,” Mann said. “I wanted two-a-days to make sure we’re ready. I believe the more we play, the better we’re going to be.”
Mann, who also plays for the Minnesota United reserves, has been stressing the importance of technical skills. Those basic fundamentals, he said, can carry teams toward success, especially at this level.
“That’s going to be a strength for us,” he said. “We will also be good at adapting in matches. We are focusing a lot on those things.”
Eagles senior captains Kayla Binsfeld, Maya Binsfeld, and Nicole Hager have been helpful, Mann said, in articulating his philosophy on the pitch.
“The underclassmen look up to those upperclassmen,” Mann said. “They really listen when the older group says something.”
Mann said he wants his team to use its speed to its advantage this season.
“I love to attack as much as possible,” he said. “We also have to have a strong backline to be able to support that attack.”
New Life Academy opens the season against Visitation on Friday.
“I’m really excited to get started,” Mann said. “We have been working out over the summer and I think the players have grasped the way I want them to play. Now we will see how it plays out in a match.” | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sports/high-school/4103607-2016-preview-new-life-academy-girls-soccer-boasts-new-look-new-season | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/2095e41df357e20a6a96b229aa4b7a12d6e38d766f6d903d6386a27ed1c25ad1.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T14:50:53 | null | 2016-08-29T09:05:02 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime-and-courts%2F4102003-police-report-bobcat-beach-roaches-tin-and-possible-protest.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/woodbury%20public%20safety_9.png?itok=-84WSsun | en | null | Police report: Bobcat at the beach, roaches in a tin, and a possible protest | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | • At 1:15 p.m. Aug. 2, a Woodbury police officer in plain clothes and a personal vehicle witnessed a suspicious man, 6-foot to 6-foot-3 and in his late 20s to 30s, walking toward the Ideal Credit Union drive-thru with "exaggerated movement as if he was on narcotics," the initial complaint report (ICR) said. A bank employee told police she thought he was taking pictures. The man, with a buzz cut, briefly stepped in and out of the vestibule at the bank, then got into the passenger's seat of a waiting car across Seasons Parkway by Savers.
• At 4:23 p.m. Aug. 2, an accident occurred in a left lane near the intersection of Hudson Road and Woodbury Drive, blocking traffic and trapping an infant in a car seat. An 81-year-old Woodbury woman stopped in the turn lane leading to Interstate 94, where she was rear ended by a 30-year-old driver from Cottage Grove, who didn't realize traffic was stopped until it was too late. The Woodbury woman felt right shoulder pain but also refused medical attention. Police ticketed the Cottage Grove woman for failure to drive with due care. Her car was towed after the infant was released from the car seat.
• Woodbury firefighters put out a semi-trailer fire at 11:05 a.m. Aug. 4, near the intersection of Woodbury Drive and Valley Creek Road. The truck was pulled over on the shoulder, where the driver reportedly kept going back into the cab. After firefighters put out the flames, the semi-trailer was towed and the fire investigated by Woodbury Public Safety.
• At 11:15 p.m. Aug. 4, a 19-year-old Maplewood man possessed a small amount of marijuana during a traffic stop that resulted in two citations—for having a headlight out and tabs that expired in June—and warnings for other violations. The strong odor of drugs led to the driver handing over 6 grams of marijuana and an already-smoked blunt, while a search revealed no other paraphernalia in the car.
• A suspicious man wearing a scarf on his head and a Superman shirt was seen at 12:57 a.m. Aug. 5, near a car from which a laptop and backpack were stolen. Upon making eye contact with the vehicle owner, the 31-year-old fled from Key Inn Suites, where the car was parked, across Valley Creek Road. Police found the suspect in a dumpster behind the Urgency Room, and the motel manager found the stolen items in an unregistered room, where the alleged thief was believed to be staying. No witnesses saw the man take the items, nor did anyone see him with the items in his possession. The suspect was released from the scene without charges.
• Police responded to a noise complaint at 11:49 p.m. Aug. 5, in the 7000 block of Coachwood Road, where the 911 caller reported three underage people were carrying alcohol. At an officer's request, the homeowner turned down his music and the party moved inside for the evening.
• A 61-year-old man was walking his dog at 9:42 a.m. Aug. 6, on Upper Afton Road, where a brown pitbull with a pink collar wandered out of its yard and made a dead sprint toward the walker and his pet. The pitbull nibbled on the other dog, according to the complainant and a witness. Police verbally warned the pitbull's owner, who said she believed the dog had not left the property and wouldn't bite another dog. After a dog bite is reported to police, witnesses provide statements, the owner of the biting dog is required to provide immunization records, and the dog license must be verified.
• At 11:22 p.m. Aug. 6, a junk vehicle was spilling oil at Colby Lake Park. Woodbury firefighters responded with floor dry, and the abandoned, offending car was towed.
• A 17-year-old was referred to the Youth Service Bureau after police found him in possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and alcohol. At 2:50 p.m. Aug. 7, near the intersection of Woodlane Drive and Sycamore Trail, the driver was stopped for having tabs that expired in July. The man received a verbal warning. Due to an odor of marijuana, officers searched the vehicle, which contained a rolled blunt, three glass pipes with residue, three scales, a tin full of roaches, four baggies containing a total of 3.5 grams of marijuana, a grinder, a cylinder of rolling papers, and two 1.75-liter bottles of vodka—all of which were photographed and then destroyed. The subject's father stepped out of his house and approached officers during the search. Upon being advised of officers' findings, he expressed concern about and disappointment in his son.
• At 10:58 p.m. Aug. 7, near the intersection of Lake Road and Interstate 494, a 25-year-old Sunfish Lake man was cited for driving 100 mph.
• In anticipation of overnight maintenance workers protesting their wages, a Doran Cos. property manager called Woodbury Public Safety for advice. At 9:01 a.m. Aug. 8, the complainant, who is affiliated with Woodbury Village shopping center, in the 7000 block of Valley Creek Road, provided a letter advising that protesters planned to demonstrate in front of all metro Kohl's Department Stores. Police advised the complainant that a representative would need to advise the protesters that they are unwelcome in the shopping center. Picketing is allowed on public property, however.
• A bobcat sighting was reported to police at 12:48 p.m. Aug. 8 along a Carver Lake Park trail, near the beach. The Woodbury resident called 911 with her complaint four days after she saw the "non-domesticated animal," the ICR said. Officers advised her to call police right away in the future if the bobcat returns. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4102003-police-report-bobcat-beach-roaches-tin-and-possible-protest | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/f7cad8d878af0bdea3cae8dd1c7a789e91d95aa22d7a96f8f12de109d2784518.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T14:49:59 | null | 2016-08-26T07:54:24 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Flife%2Farts-and-entertainment%2F4102152-dogs-and-ducks-kids-learn-life-lessons-theater-camp.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/12%281%29%20081716.N.WBB_.UglyDuckling1.JPG?itok=PVeW51xx | en | null | Dogs and ducks: Kids learn life lessons in theater camp | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | If you're going to cast young children in a play that teaches them about acceptance, confidence, tolerance and potential, "The Ugly Duckling" is a splendid choice.
A cast of children from Woodbury and Maplewood gave a stirring performance of the Hans Christian Andersen classic last Thursday at Shawnee Park.
The show was the culmination of the annual Dog in the Door theater camp, a four-day workshop taught by Michelle Storm, a literacy teacher at St. Paul City School.
"I love that story because it reminds me how children bloom and how they can reach their potential," Storm said following the Thursday finale.
The cast included Adam Leng and Alicia Silva, both 6.
Madeline Griggs, 10, played a duck and a swan.
"What I like about it is that you get to do fun things," she said.
"I like being with my friends and making up plays," said Samantha Funk, 9.
Toni Malone of Maplewood beamed as her son Matthew 14, took a bow with the rest of the cast. Matthew, who has Down Syndrome, will start at Woodbury Senior High School in the fall. Toni Malone said her son has become more outgoing since working with Dog in the Door theater camp. This was his third time with the group. During the three-day rehearsal process, Matthew and fellow cast members practiced improvisation, voice and body exercises and line memorization.
"He's able to get with peers that have the same interest as he does," his mother said. "I've noticed that social interaction has been an asset. When he goes into other areas of the community, he is then able to reach and out and communicate with much more confidence."
Mackenzie Fried, 9, played the title character, who grew from a homely member of the mallard family into a beautiful long-necked swan. Mackenzie appeared to stay in character after the show, as she cradled a bouquet of flowers from her grandparents, Tom and Kelsey.
"The hardest part," she said, in reply to a reporter's question, "is actually saying goodbye to all this."
Other park theater camps for various ages are scheduled for the fall. For more information, call Woodbury Parks and Recreation at 651-714-3583 or visit ci.woodbury.mn.us. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/life/arts-and-entertainment/4102152-dogs-and-ducks-kids-learn-life-lessons-theater-camp | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/a427c1ac130ad36da1aee7ceab5d9550e0677a0c4d1b2b6a8d895f8cdea047cf.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T22:51:11 | null | 2016-08-29T16:25:02 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime-and-courts%2F4102167-sheriffs-deputy-recovers-marijuana-meth-during-traffic-stop.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/washingtoncountyatty%28best%29_158.jpg?itok=MWcbj3IV | en | null | Sheriff's deputy recovers marijuana, meth during traffic stop | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | A Washington County Sheriff's Office deputy confiscated a gallon baggie of methamphetamine, marijuana and syringe from Thomas Jacob McGovern, and the 37-year-old Stacy, Minn., man was in Washington County District Court this week to face felony drug charges.
According to the complaint:
During a traffic stop in February, near the intersection of Highway 36 and Demontreville Trail in Lake Elmo, the deputy smelled marijuana and noticed a handgun in the vehicle.
A search of the backseat, where McGovern was a passenger, turned up more than 103 grams of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and the Ziplock baggie of meth. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4102167-sheriffs-deputy-recovers-marijuana-meth-during-traffic-stop | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/1677415a87018bf7177a8483f76c15c7728822299615360d06106dfa74593f23.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T00:50:55 | null | 2016-08-28T19:27:17 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fsports%2F4103463-2016-preview-east-ridge-boys-soccer-team-keeps-expectations-sky-high.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/082416.EastRidgeBoysSoccer.Bidwell.jpg?itok=xdjvGU2d | en | null | 2016 preview: East Ridge boys soccer team keeps expectations sky high | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | East Ridge coach Anthony Bidwell talks to his team before overtime against Roseville. (Bulletin photo by Dane Mizutani)
Raptors boys soccer might still have a sour taste in their mouths after losing a heartbreaker to Anoka in last year’s Class 2A state finals.
That, however, is not something coach Anthony Bidwell wants his players to think about -- not yet at least.
“It could be used as motivation somewhere down the road once we get to where we need to be as a program,” Bidwell said. “I’m sure it’s on the mind of some players. That’s not our focus right now, though.”
Bidwell instead wants his current roster focusing on getting the program back to playing at a high level. He knows the rest will take care of itself.
East Ridge finished last season with an impressive 15-3-3 record, and while they graduated a ton of talent -- including midfielders Ashwin Kolla and Keelan Spencer, and attackers Jarrod Ronquillo and Bailey Barjesteh, and defender Brock Sullivan, among a handful of others -- Bidwell is confident in the group of returners he has waiting in the wings.
“You want to build a program that creates success,” Bidwell said. “The way we characterize that success comes down to the kids living by our values as a program.”
And while it sounds cliche, it’s hard to argue with the results.
It seems every season the Raptors lose a talented bunch only to have new players step up to fill the void.
Bidwell attributes that to the values the upperclassmen help instill.
“We usually have had strong leadership from the upperclassmen,” he said. “That helps shape us as a program.”
This season captains Jake Boerjan and Joe Jung will be leading the charge.
Bidwell characterized both players as extremely vocal leaders.
“That’s important because there aren’t timeouts or anything like that,” Bidwell said. “So if we can get kids to communicate like they do it takes a lot of pressure off of us as coaches.”
Raptors goaltender Sam Richardson also returns after playing club during the offseason for the first time in his life.
“He’s come back a lot better,” Bidwell said. “He has shown tremendous growth. He’s going to be huge for us this season.”
Those things will be vital as East Ridge embarks on yet another quest for that elusive Class 2A title.
“We want to go against strong competition and we get that in the (Suburban East Conference),” Bidwell said. “We want to go against the best of the best. That’s the only way we’re going to stay highly competitive. And that’s the beauty of the SEC. It keeps us sharp and really prepares us for the postseason.” | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sports/4103463-2016-preview-east-ridge-boys-soccer-team-keeps-expectations-sky-high | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/f43dab74860af3a01ad0d2aeded157453e516c9551d0285daa0e6ca8e4cd44e7.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:04:47 | null | 2016-08-24T12:47:01 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodburybulletin.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime-and-courts%2F4096847-charges-woman-has-drugs-purse-during-96-mph-rush-hour-traffic-stop.json | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/field/image/WoodburyPublicSafety1_74.png?itok=wAiOyuk6 | en | null | Charges: Woman has drugs in purse during 96 mph rush-hour traffic stop | null | null | www.woodburybulletin.com | A Washington County deputy on patrol in Newport didn't know he was arresting an alleged felon until after she was booked and searched.
Brandie Megan Will, 25, of St. Paul was charged with fifth-degree possession of amphetamine after being arrested for several traffic violations, including weaving in and out of rush-hour traffic at 96 mph.
She is scheduled to appear in Washington County District Court in September.
According to the complaint:
Will was pulled over on April 5.
During a search of Will's purse, Washington County jail staff found an unlabeled bottle of 25 pills.
Will said they were hers from an old prescription, but she wasn't able to provide a prescription for the 30 mg amphetamine or dexroamphetamine tablets. A search warrant executed on the state prescription monitoring program database indicated that in the previous 730 days Will didn't have a prescription for the pills.
She has no prior controlled substance crime convictions. | http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/4096847-charges-woman-has-drugs-purse-during-96-mph-rush-hour-traffic-stop | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.woodburybulletin.com/be474bfa022000892093fcb637b517f5913e56787bda5c61baef24b2de4df78a.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:14:35 | null | null | Carrie Lange recently earned a gold medal helping Team BC earn national bragging rights by winning the U-18 Canadian Rugby Championship. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fsports%2F391353041.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/73342tribuneSGCarrieRugyb.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Lange helps BC win rugby gold | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Seventeen-year-old Carrie Lange with her gold medal earned with her team at the Canadian Rugby Championship in Markham, Ontario.
Williams Lake may have another future rugby star on its hands.
Seventeen-year-old Carrie Lange recently earned a gold medal helping Team BC earn national bragging rights by winning the U-18 Canadian Rugby Championship.
The tournament was held August 16-20 in Markham, Ontario just outside Toronto.
“It felt great to win and is definitely the highlight of my rugby career so far,” said Lange.
“The difference in competition from high school to national level was very noticeable. In high school you always have time to think before you react and at this tournament the speed is so fast you have little or no time to make a decision.”
Playing both the lock and head prop positions she helped BC to a 3-1 (win-loss) record and top spot at the five-team tournament.
After convincing opening wins over Quebec 42-0 and Nova Scotia 56-14, BC dropped their third game 24-20 to a tough Ontario squad.
“We really underestimated Ontario and thought it was going to be easy,” said Lange.
In game four BC battled the Wolf Pack, a joint squad combining Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
The Wolf Pack were undefeated having defeated Ontario earlier in the tourney and a BC win would create a three-way tie for first place with Wolf Pack, Ontario and BC all level with 3-1 records.
BC emerged victorious 8-5 in what was a very low scoring game.
“It was one of those games where so many times it felt like a team was going to score and then they’d get tackled right at the end,” said Lange.
Due to bonus points for tie-breaking procedures BC finished in first place and were crowned champions. Carrie who is a stalwart on the Lake City Secondary Falcons rugby squad, was noticed by Team BC head coach Marius Felix at the high school provincial rugby championships this past May. Lake City placed third at the event and lost in the semi final to eventual champions Brentwood College (Victoria area) where Felix is also the coach.
“My coach, Morley Wilson, and Marius exchanged contact info and I was invited to first play in a tournament in Shawnighan Lake and then went to the tryout camp in Brentwood,” said Lange.
The multiple trips to Vancouver Island paid off for Lange who looks to be well on her way to playing post secondary rugby. Lange, 17, is entering Grade 12 this fall and has one more year left of high school rugby before making the jump to university.
“I definitely want to play CIS (Canadian Interuniversity Sport) level rugby and there are three schools in B.C. that offer it so I’m looking at going to one of them,” said Lange.
Carrie has only been playing rugby for three years, starting out as a Grade 9 on her high school team.
Her steady progression in the sport she credits to her love of rugby.
“I love everything about the sport, not just the sport itself but being a part of the team and the bonds and friendships you make off the field are a big part of it,” said Lange.
Lange also got to watch hometown rugby hero Kayla Moleschi at the Rio Olympics to help inspire her.
“During our U-18 tryouts we played the American U-18 team in Seattle while Kayla was playing at the Olympics so I was following her games closely on my CBC App,” said Lange. | http://www.wltribune.com/sports/391353041.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/7744e9d3ae8e31a2b6cfc43d94cf23882b5a1966c5b66189aa84a62d9a350f3b.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-29T18:50:57 | null | null | Province has alternatives if Canada Post employees begin strike action | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fnews%2F391636531.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/40679BCLN2007CanadaPostMailboxwikim7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | B.C. prepares for possible postal disruption | null | null | www.wltribune.com | The B.C. government's plan B for income assistance cheques and other time-sensitive documents could be re-activated as the long-running Canada Post labour dispute reaches another deadline.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is in a legal position to strike as of Monday, but postponed threatened rotating strike action after weekend talks with a federal mediator. Its initial action would be an overtime ban rather than a full-scale walkout that would disrupt mail delivery.
Canada Post served lockout notice in July, with the two sides far apart on issues including pension changes for future employees and pay for rural carriers.
Income assistance, rent subsidy and other B.C. government payments are not affected if they are direct deposit. For mailed cheques and information, updates on possible postal strike effects to the Ministry of Social Development will be available as necessary at this website or at 1-866-866-0800.
Phone and online contacts are set up for questions about affected provincial departments:
• Ministry of Advanced Education and StudentAidBC online here.
• Ministry of Children and Family Development 1-877-387-7027
• Medical Services Plan payments online here or 1-877-405-4909
• ICBC inquiries 1-800-663-3051
• Family Maintenance and Enforcement program 604-660-2528
• Public Guardian and Trustee online here or 604-660-4444
• Vital Statistics 1-888-876-1633
• WorkSafe BC online here or 1-888-967-5377 | http://www.wltribune.com/news/391636531.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/9e3f806a9efb3e61bd50f59164ee63ea9f895cdf07c8ccfe00020eb236a2947b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T20:50:06 | null | null | The BC Wildfire Service is urging the public to adhere to all open burning regulations and be more diligent with their campfire use. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fnews%2F391432941.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Public reminded to fully extinguish their campfires | null | null | www.wltribune.com | The BC Wildfire Service is urging the public to adhere to all open burning regulations and be more diligent with their campfire use.
Over the last two weeks, several abandoned campfires were discovered
within the Cariboo Fire Centre's jurisdiction, reports Natasha Broznitsky
fire information officer with the Cariboo Fire Centre.
Anyone lighting or fuelling a campfire must fully extinguish it and
ensure that the ashes are cold to the touch before leaving the site for
any length of time. Failure to do so could result in a hefty fine.
Temperatures in the Cariboo Fire Centre are expected to cool over the
next few days, but little rain is expected and unpredictable, gusty winds
are in the forecast.
When a campfire causes a wildfire, it is often due to wind blowing sparks or embers into nearby forest fuels.
Keeping a close eye on your campfire at all times is crucial to stop it sparking a wildfire.
In 2015, three wildfires in the Cariboo Fire Centre were caused by abandoned campfires. So far this year, one wildfire was started by a campfire.
With hunting and fishing season upon us, the recent spike in
abandoned campfires is concerning. One human-caused wildfire is one too
many, since human-caused fires divert valuable firefighting resources
from naturally occurring wildfires.
Campfires and Category 2 open fires are currently allowed in the Cariboo
Fire Centre, but Category 3 open fires remain prohibited. A poster
explaining the different categories of fires is available online at:
http://ow.ly/jdO5301kS32
The BC Wildfire Service continuously evaluates the need for open fire
restrictions, based on weather conditions, dryness of forest fuels and
the level of compliance with burning regulations - including the
responsible use of campfires.
The Cariboo Fire Centre is asking for the public's assistance in
reporting any abandoned or unattended campfires. To report an abandoned
campfire, wildfire or open burning violation, call 1 800 663-5555 or
*5555 on a cellphone. Whenever possible, the person submitting the report
should include the location of the campfire and any information that
could help identify the person responsible, such as a license plate
number or a vehicle description.
Here are some important campfire safety tips:
• Have a hand tool or at least eight litres of water available to
properly extinguish your campfire.
• Campfires can not be larger than 0.5 metres high by 0.5 metres wide.
• Do not light a campfire or keep it burning in windy conditions. Weather
can change quickly and the wind may carry embers to other combustible
material.
• Maintain a fireguard around the campfire. This is a fuel-free area
where all flammable materials (grass, kindling, etc.) have been removed.
• Never leave a campfire unattended.
• Ensure that the campfire is completely extinguished and the ashes are
cool to the touch before leaving the area for any length of time.
Natural resource officers and conservation officers conduct regular
patrols throughout British Columbia, including looking out for campfire-
related infractions. Anyone found in contravention of an open fire
prohibition may be issued a ticket for $1,150, required to pay an
administrative penalty of $10,000 or, if convicted in court, fined up to
$100,000 and/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.
For up-to-date information on current wildfire activity, burning
restrictions, road closures and air quality advisories, visit:
www.bcwildfire.ca or call 1 888 3-FOREST.
You can follow the latest wildfire news on:
Twitter at: http://twitter.com/BCGovFireInfo
Facebook at: http://facebook.com/BCForestFireInfo | http://www.wltribune.com/news/391432941.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/d63f379f9d936a5f6189681e9e50161079bab5f680d02da70a165a052bf137cc.json |
[
"Monica Lamb-Yorski"
] | 2016-08-30T22:50:13 | null | null | Students in Williams Lake were back in the classroom early last week learning about welding and metal fabrication. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fcommunity%2F391799541.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/14003tribuneDSC_5617.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Mind Over Metal puts safety first | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Anna Best, 13, punches a hole into one of the metal pieces she created during a week long mind over metal workshop held at Lake City Secondary School’s Columneetza campus.
Students in Williams Lake were back in the classroom early last week learning about welding and metal fabrication.
Sponsored by the Canadian Welding Association Foundation, School District 27 and the Child Development Centre, the Mind over Metal Welding Camp introduced 18 students to safety, precision measurement, arc welding, wire feed welding, hand tools and sheet metal working, said Tim Westwick, Lake City Secondary School metal work and welding instructor who helped organize the camp.
“It was the first time we did a camp like this,” Westwick said. “It took two years of planning.”
Amazed after the first day by the skillset of the young students who ranged between 12 and 14 years of age, Westwick said it far exceed expectations
“We hope to do it again,” he said, noting some of the students in the camp were at-risk youth.
Rylee Allery, 14, said he enjoyed arc welding the most of all the week’s activities and that welding is the career he wants to pursue.
“I like it because it is an art and takes a lot of skill and natural talent,” Rylee said as he worked on one of his projects.
After going to a one-day trade fair at Thompson Rivers University in Williams Lake last year, his interest was sparked, he said.
“So I am taking welding in Grade 9.”
Anna Best also loved the welding portion of the camp.
“I made a log with an axe in it all out of metal,” Anna said. “It was really cool.”
On Friday afternoon parents visited and many of the students had fun showing them what they had learned.
Brooklyn Pelchat, 13, enlisted the help of her dad Remy Pelchat to help her flatten a piece of metal.
The school district co-ordinator of career programs Dave Corbett had many parents asking him about how students are selected for ACE-IT, the trades training program in high school.
He said he looks at teachers’ comments and attendance as being key.
Westwick and Corbett collaborated with the Child Development Centre’s Dave Preeper and Shel Myers, TASCO supplies, Miller Welding Equipment and Praxair Canada in Williams Lake to put on the camp.
“SD 27 also lent us their sheet metal worker Colton Manuel for the week,” Westwick said.
The Canadian Welding Association Foundation was founded in 2013 to support public safety awareness and to address the skilled welding labour shortage in Canada. | http://www.wltribune.com/community/391799541.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/181a43cbb3ae4fa8b02defb05f13f10658216726146f892af9e1cbbb54a0e4a4.json |
[
"Staff Writer"
] | 2016-08-26T13:07:00 | null | null | Three Bella Coola artists are participating in Williams Lake’s 2016 Art Walk and Sale. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fentertainment%2F391171881.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/96526tribunea12DSCF0042.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Bella Coola artists exhibit in Williams Lake art walk | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Bella Coola artists Tahirih Goffic (left), Ida Eriksen and Ernest Hall have their work on exhibition at the 2016 Williams Lake Art Walk and Sale that runs in Williams Lake until Sept. 10. Goffic’s work is at Sandtronic Business Systems. Hall’s work is at 3 Gen Cabinetry and Eriksen’s work is at the Bank of Montreal.
Three Bella Coola artists are participating in Williams Lake’s 2016 Art Walk and Sale.
Potter and clay sculptor Ernest Hall has his work on display at 3 Gen Cabinetry. Painter and multimedia artist Tahirih Goffic has her work on display at Sandtronic Business Systems Ltd. Landscape painter Ida Eriksen has her work on display at the Bank of Montreal.
Hall has been working in clay along with his wife, Jill, for nearly 40 years. Primarily self-taught through decades of experimenting, the Halls operate Creekside Studio Gallery in the Bella Coola Valley.
More than 63 artists from around the Cariboo Chilcotin and beyond are participating in the art walk which continues in Williams Lake until Sept. 10.
Art walkers who participate in the walk and have their art walk passports stamped at some or all of the participating businesses have a chance to win a beautiful carving by Spirit Carver Dean Ross of a bear he calls the Prosperity Bear.
Ernest attended high school in Bella Coola during the 1960s and is now retired there with his wife Jill.
Much of his work employs forms and images inspired by the natural environment of the B.C. West Coast and imagery suggested by Aboriginal art which he considers part of the global artistic tradition with its roots in the natural landscape.
Before retiring in 2010 from a career teaching foreign students at the University of British Columbia, Ernest was an instructor for the Delta Arts Council and a founding member of the North Delta Potters Guild.
He has participated in numerous shows, and has conducted workshops in raku firing and other techniques.
The Halls are both members of The Cariboo Potters’ Guild.
After a tumultuous past as a goat milker, laundress, fine art major, waitress and restaurant owner, Tahirih Goffic says she is now mostly a full time artist operating her own gallery/gift shop/cafe in what she calls the “fairy-tale village” of Bella Coola.
“I share my life with my charming musician husband, two amazingly creative children, and big black dog who loves his morning runs and chasing squirrels,” Goffic says.
“In my not so spare time I love to invent healthy whole food recipes, write YA fiction, play guitar, or curl up in my favourite chair with a great book and a gigantic mug of strong black coffee, all while daydreaming of living in Ireland…
Ida Eriksen started drawing as soon as she could hold a pencil, her biography states.
Painting came later and became so much a part of who she is that she earned a degree in Fine Arts at the University of Victoria, graduating with first class honours.
She has participated in a variety of group and solo shows in both Vancouver and Victoria.
While living in Victoria she worked for the student society as manager of their graphic arts department and ran her own clothing design business.
“Since I retired early, I decided to devote myself entirely to doing the thing I love most, which is painting,” Eriksen says.
“My favourite medium is oils on canvas. I painted many portraits of friends and family. I then branched out to developing some narrative in my work.
“Lately, I have been painting landscapes and trees. I have a great love of nature and living in beautiful Bella Coola is very inspiring. | http://www.wltribune.com/entertainment/391171881.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/11543655da7a7de2b4967ddfa608ec252eef36203146681302065df7b6b7c450.json |
[
"Sean Glanville"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:16 | null | null | Williams Lake’s Lucas Pinette is quickly making a name for himself in the sport of water skiing at the ripe age of 10. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fsports%2F391098331.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/61117tribunea15SGlucas.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Lucas Pinette in the medals at water ski championships | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Williams Lake’s Lucas Pinette competed in three separate water skiing competitions this past summer in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. He captured thee gold medals, two silver and two bronze as well as two overall titles over the course of the three competitions.
Williams Lake’s Lucas Pinette is quickly making a name for himself in the sport of water skiing at the ripe age of 10.
It’s been a whirlwind summer for Lucas who recently returned to the lakecity after competing in three water ski tournaments in consecutive weekends across three different provinces.
Lucas has been watering skiing since the age of three and has the luxury of being mentored by his dad Parnell, and older brother Conley, 17, who are both very decorated water skiers.
Lucas’ first tournament was July 30-31 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where he competed in the Canadian Western Championships. He finished first in trick with a score of 1,840 points, first in jump with a distance of 21.3 meters and second in slalom and first overall.
Conley is recovering from a fractured ankle and served as Lucas’ coach over the three tournaments.
“Having my brother there as my coach really helps me out,” said Lucas.
The second tournament was August 6-7 in Edmonton, Alberta as Lucas took to the water in the Shalom Park Canadian Open.
“This event had a lot of professional water skiers including Canadian jump record holder Ryan Dodd and American jump record holder Freddie Crouger who can jump something like 250 meters,” said Lucas.
Lucas did well at the prestigious event placing second in jump at 25.3 meters, improving four meters from the previous week in Saskatoon. He also was third in trick with 1,880 points.
The final summer competition for Lucas was August 13-14, the Canadian Nationals, held at Lake Shirley located in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Lucas took first place in jump at 24.1 meters and third in trick with 1,070 points and first overall. “My trick score was low because I fell on my first toe trick,” said Lucas.
Lucas, who is entering Grade Six this Fall at Sacred Heart Elementary School trains at Chimney Lake to stay sharp and was thrilled with his huge haul of medals accumulated this summer.
Parnell joined Lucas for the last event in Winnipeg and had a successful weekend as well. Parnell was fourth in slalom, second in trick and second overall.
The next action for the Pinette family is the Victoria Open held in Blaine, Washington in September.
Conley is also hoping to recover in time to compete at the Junior Worlds in Chile this January. | http://www.wltribune.com/sports/391098331.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/a953edf82237712dc47e78dd3014ac6c63247383c01728947743ae782649eb78.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:18 | null | null | Totem symbolizes Coast Salish tradition of respectful listening, with little effect on ill-tempered debate in Victoria | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Flifestyles%2F379233101.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/77020BCLN2007talkingstick7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Talking stick tradition comes to B.C. legislature [with video] | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Aboriginal elders brought a Coast Salish talking stick into the B.C. legislature this week, in a solemn ceremony that had little lasting effect on the heckling and interruptions of political debate in Victoria.
A replica of the totem pole on the grounds of Government House, the ornate stick represents the right to speak and receive a respectful hearing in aboriginal tradition. It was carved by Songhees artist James Delorme and presented to former Lieutenant Governor Steven Point in 2011 at a ceremony to mark the official naming of the Salish Sea.
Current Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon was on hand May 11 to present the stick to B.C. legislature Speaker Linda Reid, with a ceremonial prayer in the SENCOTEN language by elders Elmer George and Mary Anne Thomas.
"We present it to everybody this House but also to everybody that may come through these doors in the future," said Chief Ron Sam of the Songhees Nation.
Reid said in a statement the talking stick will remain in the legislature until the next election in May 2017.
After the ceremony, Reid continued her struggle to maintain order in the rancourous debate of question period, which has declined more frequently into shouting matches as the next election approaches. | http://www.wltribune.com/lifestyles/379233101.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/0592f0ce62fb037b65c1ae05e678b92e9839bc1094c1177df74f43eef78b12a6.json |
[
"Canadian Press"
] | 2016-08-26T13:06:26 | null | null | Whether it's home screenings or community viewing parties, much of Canada will be tuning in for iconic rock band's final bow | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fentertainment%2F390688221.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/56997CPT122356039.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Televised Tragically Hip show an 'unprecedented event:' CBC | null | null | www.wltribune.com | TORONTO – Few Canadian television events qualify as a momentous occasion for the nation, but Saturday's Tragically Hip concert promises to be special.
It seems like much of the country will be tuned into CBC's live broadcast of "The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration" from Kingston, Ont., when factoring in home screenings and community viewing parties.
Yet how many people will watch is anybody's guess at this point.
"This is an unprecedented event for us," said Jennifer Dettman, CBC's executive director of unscripted content.
The sentiment is true on many levels, she adds.
The last stop on the Hip's "Man Machine Poem" tour is widely expected to be their final performance, as lead singer Gord Downie is facing terminal brain cancer. After tickets to the tour sold out within minutes, fans launched a campaign urging the CBC to carry the band's Kingston show as a live TV event.
Dettman wouldn't speak to the contract negotiations that led to the Hip agreeing to the broadcast.
"CBC made both a competitive and financially responsible offer to acquire the broadcast rights, and we're thrilled to be able to offer this national celebration to as many Canadians as possible," she said.
The concert won't just be on the main CBC network, it will also be broadcast through various other platforms such as CBC Radio One, the CBC website and its YouTube and Facebook channels.
With so many viewing options, that will make it tough to capture how many eyes and ears are focused on the Hip this Saturday.
That's where ratings agency Numeris comes in. The Toronto-based company tracks viewership figures by using meters and viewing diaries prepared by a panel of Canadians representative of the population.
Their data shows that most huge audience draws are typically live programming, led by major sporting events.
The Super Bowl is the biggest TV event nearly every year — drawing about six million to eight million viewers in recent years — while a handful of other annual celebrations like the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes and Grammys are perennial favourites too.
The gold medal game of the men's hockey tournament at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics is considered to be the most-watched broadcast ever in Canada. It drew 16.6 million viewers, according to data from Numeris, about double the number of people who tune into most Super Bowls.
Those kinds of numbers will be hard to beat, even for a rock band with as much Canadian clout as the Hip.
Numeris spokesman Tom Jenks wouldn't guess how many viewers will tune into the CBC broadcast, but acknowledges it'll probably be a pretty big number.
The agency said it will be counting every public screening — from restaurants to movie theatres to community viewing parties — and each person streaming the concert on their phone. Viewers who playback the show on their DVRs within seven days will also be included in the final numbers.
"Our system captures all viewing," Jenks said.
Potentially driving those numbers higher is the decision make the Hip's concert a one-time broadcast, with no encore presentation and no availability on on-demand platforms.
"Our goal was to bring the experience of this live concert to Canadians in that moment," Dettman said.
"I'm sure the band will figure out what they will want to do with the concert afterwards."
She said the goal is to give all Canadians the same "crescendo" feeling that will ripple through the arena in Kingston.
"Our goal is to bring the experience ... to as many Canadians as we can," she said.
"The idea that we're all together experiencing this moment at the same time is really special."
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David Friend, The Canadian Press | http://www.wltribune.com/entertainment/390688221.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/52b42533ce5bac2499f0ae036f14291204ee24c524242f1fc5c4d52e5746a625.json |
[
"Monica Lamb-Yorski"
] | 2016-08-26T12:52:07 | null | null | With more than three decades invested, Dan Gossen is convinced Williams Lake is a great place to work, live and raise a family. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fbusiness%2F388594581.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/60445tribunemlyGLConstructionDSC_3931.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | GL Construction enjoys the lakecity | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Father and son Dan Gossen (right) and Ben (left) of GL Construction stand outside the entranceway to one of the new homes they are building on South Lakeside Drive.
With more than three decades invested in the local construction industry, Dan Gossen is convinced Williams Lake is a great place to work, live and raise a family.
Dan moved from just outside of Swift Current, Sask. to the lakecity in 1980 after the construction industry had slowed down in his home province.
He came to work for another construction firm and then started GL Construction in 1982 with Hart Loewen.
In fact it was Hart and Dan’s last names that inspired the company name.
“It’s gone very well,” Dan said of his business, which he now runs with one of his sons. “We build a mixture of quality custom and spec homes and take pride in putting in a few attractive extras.”
“We started out doing renovations and being a subcontractor, then in 1986 we started doing houses for Karl Seibert of Pine Tree Developments when Westridge first opened up.”
A shortage of lots close to town is the biggest challenge they face as contractors in Williams Lake, Dan continued. “However, the reliability of the economy here has helped provide stable and dependable work for both us and our sub-trades.”
GL Construction is excited about its newest venture.
In January the company purchased a number of lots in Bluff View Estates, at the end of South Lakeside Drive and has two houses being built and ready for sale.
“Bluff View Estates is a great place to live,” Dan said. “It is a safe, secure, rural subdivision with lots that are over 100 feet wide with room for an RV and a separate shop. It’s very unusual to have spacious sunny lots that close to town, and only eight minutes from downtown!”
Dan and his wife Cheryl have sons Ben and Andrew, and daughters Alyssa and Kiana.
Both Ben and Andrew are journeyman carpenters.
Ben, who is married to Danelle and expecting their first baby this year, began working in carpentry 15 years ago and officially became a full partner in his father’s company this year.
“You could say our business is really growing and expanding in many areas,” Dan said.
Meanwhile, Andrew has been volunteering in England with the non-profit Christian missionary organization Youth With A Mission (YWAM).
Andrew is living in a 140-year-old school facility and overseeing the maintenance and building department as well as leading their prayer ministry.
Supporting and volunteering for YWAM is a large part of GL Construction, Dan added.
“The heart of our business is not only to work but to help out in the world where we can.”
Through the years Dan and Cheryl have volunteered at University of the Nations in Kona, Hawaii helping build dorm facilities.
“It’s not too difficult to volunteer our services at that particular base, especially during the winter months!” Dan said. | http://www.wltribune.com/business/388594581.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/230eba90f85b2f42e9a6a62a34a3f1e45f385a4daf93380f264fc945be92edd4.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:09 | null | null | About 350 people turned up at the Gibraltar Room Friday evening to see a most amazing performance of Shaolin Wushu martial arts event. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fentertainment%2F391098701.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/61350tribunecrdandmayorwithgroup.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Martial arts group well received | null | null | www.wltribune.com | About 350 people turned up at the Gibraltar Room Friday evening to see a most amazing performance of Shaolin Wushu martial arts featuring the Shaolin Epo Martial Arts School of China. Following the event the performers posed for pictures with members of the audience and gifts were presented. Officials represented were Sun Peng, Deputy Director of the Cultural Department of Henan Province (centre left), Cariboo Regional District Area F representative Joan Sorley, Dong Baonan, coach of the Shaolin Epo Martial Arts School of China and Mayor Walt Cobb. In front is the youngest performer Lou Xiaotong demonstrating his flexibility. | http://www.wltribune.com/entertainment/391098701.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/49f297f2737ff039256cd7c07fe334127d4533a6d6a150a6b0f29e765e20d44e.json |
[
"Monica Lamb-Yorski"
] | 2016-08-27T22:50:35 | null | null | Williams Lake celebrated Kayla Moleschi's Olympic accomplishments and gave her a warm welcome home Saturday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fnews%2F391507421.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/62448tribunemlyreadyfortheparadeDSC_5655.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | SLIDESHOW: Community celebrates Kayla Moleschi's return home to Williams Lake | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Williams Lake celebrated Kayla Moleschi's Olympic accomplishments and gave her a warm welcome home Saturday.
After a small parade accompanied the Canadian Women's Rugby Sevens Team bronze medalist from city hall to Marie Sharpe Elementary School, people congregated on the school field for a celebration.
Kayla received accolades from MLA Donna Barnett, Mayor Walt Cobb, Lake City Secondary School principal Gregg Gaylord, one of her former rugby coaches Mauro Calabrese and Darcy Patterson from BC Rugby.
"Obviously she's had some great effort to go along with her talent," Calabrese said. "Not everyone's going to have her athletic ability but with some hard work you can go a long way."
Patterson presented her with a large banner signed by every girl that played in the BC Summer Games, as well as a jersey from BC Rugby with Kayla's number 2 on it.
Fighting back the tears, Kayla said it was amazing to see the support of the whole town.
"You guys have been following me my whole journey, and a lot of you my whole life," she said. "I owe a lot to you guys and am truly grateful for everything you have done."
She thanked her parents Andrea and Ron, saying she would have never made it where she is without them.
"You guys have always taught me to love with all my heart and to give everything that I have into anything I love and dream for."
After the speeches, Kayla shared her medal with people who wanted a photograph taken with her while local rugby players, coaches and Patterson gave children a taste of the game and its skills in a workshop.
The party closed with a touch rugby game where Kayla eventually joined in for a few minutes.
"The celebration was more than I ever expected," Moleschi said as it came to a close. "Thank you so much guys, you mean the world to me."
Watch next week's Tribune for full coverage of the event | http://www.wltribune.com/news/391507421.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/6faf29681dbc575d0f92b02a739c2bb378d07b4f7ecdd46dff3b5300fe7446d9.json |
[
"David Zirnhelt"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:26 | null | null | I might have titled this: “Is it worth keeping the investment in your farm or ranch?” | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fopinion%2F391356701.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Long term view a motivator in rating farm/ranch investments | null | null | www.wltribune.com | I might have titled this: “Is it worth keeping the investment in your farm or ranch?”
I have chosen the general term of “returns” meaning not just financial returns.
Other technical financial measurements would be Return on Investment or ROI (what you have actually invested) and ROA (or Returns on Assets) actual market value of your property and other capital.
It is the long-term view that motivates me.
This view reflects values other than maximizing or optimizing short-term financial values, for example security of a place to raise food for possible difficult times now or in the future.
We don’t want to be foolish and spend lottery winnings, outside income or savings
In a system that has been keeping food prices relatively low,we spend about 10 per cent of our income on food compared to 20 per cent a few decades ago.
If we include all the external costs (e.g. soil depletion and environmental impacts of improper fertilizer use, like the contamination by nitrates in the Fraser Valley aquifers) and add these costs onto the price of food we perhaps should be paying 20 per cent of our income on food.
Someone told me that buying sustainably raised food they pay just over 20 per cent on food. Farmers should be challenged to keep prices and costs down as much as possible and consumers should be ready to reward farmers for their real economic costs, including a fair wage.
Now, I am going to cite Allan Nation, who publishes the Stockman GrassFarmer, and who has written many books on the economics of grassfarming, which includes cattle ranching. His notes and facts appear in the June, 2016, edition of the magazine.
His facts are based in the U.S., but I suggest they apply here in Canada. Let me begin with one fact: only three percent of today’s land buyers are farmers. This is disturbing.
Recently I read what I have commented on in recent years: that is that the Chinese and others who are buying our commodities (hay, grains, beef, etc.) are really buying water. Remember it takes six to seven tons of water to grow one ton of grain.
Buying land is a longterm investment in food security for foreign government entities and corporations with a diversified investment base. Twenty years ago Asian corporations were buying farmland in the Fraser Valley as a secure investment, ever increasing in real value.
Water shortages or surpluses will increase the value of land as an investment and will provide farmers with possible increase in operating profits.
Allan Nation in Knowledge Rich Ranching said that the 200 year return to ranching, has been five per cent.
This is done by buying underdeveloped ranches and investing in land and water improvements. Not all of us want to sell out to realize returns.
A few years ago I heard an investment consultant who found a market for “patient capital” investors who only wanted a one per cent return on investment.
The security of having money in land offsets the volatility of other capital investments.
The Ranching for Profit economics and training/consulting outfit says 10 per cent is a good goal for any new investments.
Nation quotes a study that says that the top 15 per cent of American cow-calf producers earn 22.2 per cent return on investment.
Of course the objective would be to make wise investments and not be asset rich (including land) and cash poor.
I am in the patient capital school.
I am willing to see a smaller return if the land is sustainably managed.
That is for the land and water part of the investment. For the rest of investments, I don’t see anything wrong with the three to five per cent return.
Jared Diamond has written in Collapse that the long term several hundred year Return on Investment in Mining has been about four per cent.
For my money I will keep the land investment as a place to raise succeeding generations, to teach them that they are citizens of the earth (stewards) as well as citizens of civil society.
We were all born to try to be survivors and thrivers, not just consumers of the material world. | http://www.wltribune.com/opinion/391356701.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/d8b93624cb5c34e5e41513775fb61c560c0c70e7aba0230cf018a8df6fd7431a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:56 | null | null | Friends and family in Williams Lake surprised Kayla Moleschi with an impromptu welcome home Thursday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fnews%2F391356841.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | SLIDESHOW: Kayla Molsechi returns home to Williams Lake | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Friends and family of Olympian Kayla Moleschi surprised her with an impromptu welcome home Thursday afternoon in Williams Lake.
As Kayla approached the road to her family home, she was diverted to the nearby Ottoman Drive rugby fields where people were waiting to give her hugs.
A community celebration is planned for Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. with a parade from city hall.
Slideshow photos by Lindsay Bishop
Special to the Tribune Advisor | http://www.wltribune.com/news/391356841.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/4f6feac6f242c33e7d14752508eb4bdc0cfe3520cbb4f15d40f78f9f36a482c5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:17 | null | null | Water cooling towers at Atlanta Power preferred Equity Ltd. will produce numerous airborne contaminants. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F389001681.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Letter: Unpolluted air a vital, natural resource | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Editor:
Water cooling towers at Atlanta Power preferred Equity Ltd., 4455 Mackenzie Ave. North, Williams Lake B.C. will produce numerous airborne contaminants when creosote treated railway ties are burned at the plant.
Some of these chemicals produced include chlorophenols, chlorobenzenes, dioxins (a colourless liquid ether) with a faint pleasant odour, furans, chloropicrin (an odourless liquid used as an insecticide and as a chemical agent in warfare), benzenes (colourless volatile inflammable liquid), benzine (used in cleaning), benzoic acid, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), lead, magnesium, zinc, chromium, cobalt, nickel, copper, sulphate, nitrite, hydrogen carbonate sulphate, tellurium, thallium, selenium, cadmium, just to name a few that are listed in the Ministry of Environment Permit 8808 draft on the proposal issued June 22, 2016.
The authorized discharge period is continuous.
The authorized works are three cooling towers.
The liquid effluent produced by the plant runs off into the municipal storm water collection system.
Unpolluted air is a vital natural resource.
We have to have it to survive, like clean water, and agricultural land to grow food.
We are all stewards of the land, air, water resources.
It is our human right to breath clean, unpolluted air, eat unpolluted food, fish, meat, wheat, and to drink pure water.
The concerned citizens of Williams Lake and area would like Atlantic Power and the provincial government Ministry of Environment to take us seriously in our plea for unpolluted air quality in a 10-plus kilometre radius of the plant’s stacks.
Chris Hornby
Williams Lake | http://www.wltribune.com/opinion/letters/389001681.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/330309bc60ead946a4a79903f3ed4054c641ef9d7f1a74857202537cf0ea5f0d.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:50:43 | null | null | Maeghan Watkinson shares her ranch-inspired art in the 2016 Williams Lake Art Walk and Sale. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fentertainment%2F391787081.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/9009tribunea13DSC_0353CaryatAlwaysTravel.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Art Walk and Sale continues until Saturday, Sept. 10 | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Lakecity potter Cary Burnett views the art work created by Maeghan Watkinson that is hanging at All-Ways Travel during the 2016 Art Walk and Sale.
Maeghan Watkinson is an artist who has grown up in the agriculture industry and shares her ranch-inspired art in the 2016 Williams Lake Art Walk and Sale.
Her grandparents own Foster Bar Ranch in Lillooet.
Her father worked on ranches in the Merritt, Williams Lake, Riske Creek, Meldrum Creek, McLeese Lake, and Quesnel areas where she has lived with her family.
Maeghan has been involved in 4-H for 13 years and aspires to own and operate her own ranch when she is finished her education.
As an artist, Watkinson works in multiple mediums: painting, drawing, printmaking, and serigraph.
Her favourite mediums are painting and drawing, which are traditional mediums in which to represent the ranching lifestyle.
Maeghan’s art can be viewed at All-Ways Travel during the 2016 Williams Lake Art Walk and Sale that wraps up on Sept. 10.
Art Walk and Sale booklets are available at the Tribune/Weekend Advisor on First Avenue or at any one of the participating venues. Art walkers are eligible to collect stamps at each venue for the grand prize draw which is for a beautiful Spirit Bear created by Spirit Carver Dean who was carving on site Saturday at Lake City Auto Care Mall.
Walkers qualify for entries for the grand prize draw according to the number of stamps collected: 1-16 stamps equals one entry; 17 to 32 stamps equals two entries; 32 to 48 stamps equals three entries; and 48 to 63 stamps equals four entries.
Walkers also have the opportunity to participate in The People’s Choice Awards by voting for their favourite artists and merchants.
The three most popular artists and merchants will be recognized with a people’s choice award.
The 2016 Art Walk and Sale has grown substantially this year to include 63 business and public venues hosting art exhibits, up from 54 venues and exhibitors last year.
Of the 63 artists featured, Arty the Art Walker Willie Dye says 21 are new to the art walk this year and nine are returning to the art walk after a hiatus. | http://www.wltribune.com/entertainment/391787081.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/49fccf164ff0a4456e5b32f835738709b2554972b4b910c39b88fbaeb32373ec.json |
[
"Monica Lamb-Yorski"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:15 | null | null | A Likely man who faces charges of manslaughter and indignity to human remains is back in front of a judge in Williams Lake Provincial Court. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fnews%2F391178841.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/99594tribunecourthousestockphotoDSC_3782.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Preliminary inquiry continues for Likely man charged with manslaughter | null | null | www.wltribune.com | The second week of a preliminary inquiry into charges of manslaughter and indignity to human remains against a Likely man continues this week at the Williams Lake provincial court.
A Likely resident who faces one charge of manslaughter and one charge of indignity to human remains is back in front of a judge this week in Williams Lake Provincial Court.
Guy Smith's preliminary inquiry began the week of Monday, July 18, and resumed on Monday, Aug. 22.
It is anticipated the inquiry will last the week.
Smith is charged in connection with the death of 60-year-old Gary Price.
Price lived in a remote area near Cariboo Lake when he was reported missing by his siblings and extended family on Mar. 3, 2013, after routine contact with him ceased.
Price’s truck was found about one kilometre from Likely on the Keithley Creek Road, pulled over on the shoulder, but pointed towards his home at Cariboo Lake.
After determining Price was last seen alive Feb. 23, 2013, police launched an extensive ground and air search in the days that followed, however, failed to locate his whereabouts.
On Sept. 19, 2014, the Williams Lake RCMP received information of human remains being located on a local property in Likely.
By Oct. 22, the RCMP confirmed the remains had been identified as that of Price.
Crown Counsel approved charges of manslaughter and indignity to human remains against Smith, then 54, on May 4, 2015.
Smith was arrested in Saskatoon, Sask. on May 5, 2015, following a Canada-wide warrant issued for his arrest.
In January of this year, Smith elected to be tried by judge and jury in B.C. Supreme Court.
After the preliminary inquiry is completed, the court will determine whether enough evidence has been presented to send the case to trial.
Under the publication ban, no evidence presented during the inquiry can be published by media. | http://www.wltribune.com/news/391178841.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/7e26f7dc47a671d339c78a7f9a08fc64f095e5a49e5191caf45a4d07137cc42a.json |
[
"Brandon Hoffman"
] | 2016-08-26T13:05:51 | null | null | I can’t believe it but this weekend is already the final chapter in the Sunday Biscuits concert series at the Bean Counter. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fentertainment%2F391354231.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/74122tribunefiddler.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Final Sunday Biscuits concert features Haida Gwaii musician | null | null | www.wltribune.com | I can’t believe it but this weekend is already the final chapter in the Sunday Biscuits concert series at the Bean Counter.
Many thanks to everybody that’s made it down, as well as the Bean for hosting, Devon and Jen for serving up some fantastic brunch foods, and the Tribune for all their help spreading the word.
For the final episode of Sunday Biscuits, we have the Alkemist and M Lund joining us.
The Alkemist (aka Jay Afbreken) is a psychedelic folk one-man-band outfit from Haida Gwaii.
We had Jay down to kick off last year’s Safety Meeting series with High Society, and he was the perfect guy to set the tone for the season.
I am equally excited to have him back in town to wrap up the Sunday Biscuits series.
The Alkemist sings while playing some combination of drums, banjo, and fiddle, and leads you down a dark, enchanted rabbit hole of sounds. As a solo act or as part of the duo Shadows Cast, Jay has become a mainstay on the interior folk fest scene.
Joining the Alkemist is the Cariboo’s own (via Australia) M. Lund. Despite being relatively new to town, you might recognize Lund from his role in the WL Studio Theatre production of Cabaret.
I can’t wait to hear the acoustic singer-songwriter stylings he has in store for us.
If you haven’t checked out a Sunday Biscuit at the Bean Counter, this is your last chance! The final episode is this Sunday, August 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Alkemist will play around 10:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. M. Lund will play around 11:30.
It’s suggested $5 for music, and nobody will be turned away due to lack of funds. Come on down for brunch and a coffee, and some sweet sweet music, hope to see you then! | http://www.wltribune.com/entertainment/391354231.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/581fb8bdd9128b5cd05ae7753baa13bc7d7829f9700bf79cdd044b8d9909f06a.json |
[
"Canadian Press"
] | 2016-08-28T22:50:47 | null | null | Talks continue, with rotating overtime ban set to begin Monday if no agreement by midnight Sunday | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fnews%2F391545211.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/68221BCLN200782072cranbrookdailyCPweb.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Postal workers union give details of job action if no deal is reached Sunday | null | null | www.wltribune.com | OTTAWA – Contract talks continue between Canada Post and its largest union, but neither side is hinting as to whether any progress has been made.
A federally appointed mediator has been meeting with the two sides since Friday to try to reach a deal.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says if there is no deal by midnight, it would begin job action on Monday by having its members refusing to work overtime on a rotating basis, starting in Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
CUPW served 72 hour strike notice Thursday night, accusing Canada Post of forcing a labour disruption by refusing to bargain in good faith.
The two sides have been deadlocked for months on the issues of pay scales for rural letter carriers and proposed changes to pensions for future employees.
A CUPW news release says the initial job action will cause little disruption to Canada Post customers and that its members will still be delivering mail every day.
The Canadian Press | http://www.wltribune.com/news/391545211.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/e3e8abd32c159ec3cbb6ced8ce2cffd367a42c7bb6315aed06ae3039dbb55372.json |
[
"Monica Lamb-Yorski"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:46 | null | null | A new pedestrian controlled crosswalk will be activated Thursday, Aug. 25, at Hodgson Road and Highway 20 in Williams Lake. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fnews%2F391225411.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/17136tribunemlynewpedestriancontrolledcrosswalkatHodgsonRoadDSC_5559.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Williams Lake gets pedestrian controlled crosswalk at Hodgson and Highway 20 | null | null | www.wltribune.com | A new pedestrian controlled crosswalk was activated Thursday, Aug. 25, at Hodgson Road and Highway 20 in Williams Lake.
"That is good news," said Danielle Burgemaster, who works nearby at the Handi-Mart. "Many children walk across the highway to go to Chilcotin Road Elementary School. It will be good for adult pedestrians too."
For safety reasons and based on feedback from the local school district, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure proceeded with the installation of the crosswalk, the ministry said Thursday in an e-mailed response.
"The ministry heard from the school district that children were finding it difficult to cross at this intersection, and a crosswalk attendant was being used to assist them to cross the roadway to and from the Chilcotin Road Elementary school. The ministry will continue to monitor this intersection closely but at this time, there are no plans to install a speed monitor at this location."
The ministry reminded all drivers to pay attention near schools — particularly as kids head back to school in the next couple of weeks — and obey the posted speed limit. | http://www.wltribune.com/news/391225411.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/8afc847c3329623bc082ae2e618473fab124179a155a2fc17fac67757b99aec5.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T18:51:59 | null | null | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fopinion%2F390337331.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/favicon2.ico | en | null | Williams Lake Tribune | null | null | www.wltribune.com | You have already participated in this poll. Thank you!
Last Week's Question of the Week Final Results Have you been following the Olympics? Yes 43 %
No 56 % | http://www.wltribune.com/opinion/390337331.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/b737b18c73d7fc12690f8049eb0ac9b09ee915ef861d7bbf03ce60102e2c1f7d.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T22:50:09 | null | null | The Rick Hansen Foundation has named Williams Lake's Hayden Kalelest as its Difference Maker of the Year for 2016. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fcommunity%2F391802071.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/15307tribune854480c13094EDNmain129HaydenandPrincipalCalvinDubray.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Marie Sharpe student named Rick Hansen 2016 Difference Maker of the Year | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Marie Sharpe Elementary School principal Calvin Dubray presents Rick Hansen Difference Maker of the Year award winner Hayden Kalelest with a certificate of recognition,
Each year, the Rick Hansen Difference Maker of the Year award recognizes a Canadian student who has followed in Hansen's footsteps by overcoming adversity to make an outstanding contribution to his or her community.
In 2016, the Rick Hansen Foundation has named Williams Lake's Hayden Kalelest as its Difference Maker of the Year for his perseverance, courage and leadership, the foundation said in the announcement made Monday, Aug. 29.
Hayden contracted a respiratory virus when he was nine months old, causing diminished lung capacity. He has also struggled with learning and behavioural challenges.
Despite his challenges Hayden leads by example.
A Grade 6 student at Marie Sharpe Elementary School, Hayden is going into Grade 7 at Lake City Secondary's Columneetza Campus when school goes back next week.
During his time at Marie Sharpe, Hayden has transformed to become a positive role model for his peers, both at school and in his First Nations community.
He’s an enthusiastic leader on his sports teams, and has taken a teammate with autism under his wing, encouraging the student to compete.
Inspired by a Grade 7 student who mentored him in the school’s Big Buddy Reading Program, Hayden now mentors several vulnerable younger students to help them appreciate the value of reading at any skill level.
He’s also a popular lunch monitor for the Grade 1 and 2 students, comforting them when they hurt themselves on the playground.
He has embraced other activities at his school, from setting up chairs and tables for special events, to participating on the Student Leadership team, to representing the school in showcases such as Hoop Dancing.
Since Hayden has taken on (and been given) more leadership responsibilities in the past two years, he has changed noticeably as a student.
His family also believes his life changed during this time when he participated in a sweat lodge with his uncle and connected with his spirituality and culture. This year, Hayden won the school’s Most Improved student award.
“I’m just trying to be my best,” Hayden says.
In transitioning to middle school this year, Hayden hopes to play as many sports as possible, despite relying on puffers to ease the pressure in his lungs.
By continuing to embrace his challenges head on and overcome obstacles, Hayden is truly a Difference Maker. | http://www.wltribune.com/community/391802071.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/ce8b3426760df2cf306dd6801e6ae602478e9a651cc5dd07c80563fa28cf14f8.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:17 | null | null | Premier Christy Clark isn't going into next year's election with a promise to jack up Canada's only significant carbon tax | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fopinion%2F391051701.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/42735BCLN2007ClarkPolakNissanLeaf7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | BC VIEWS: B.C. fails to save the planet | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Premier Christy Clark and Environment Minister Mary Polak plug in an electric car at an announcement of the government's latest climate change plan in Richmond Aug. 19.
A B.C. Liberal operative was out with the online spin hours before Premier Christy Clark confirmed the much-leaked news in a Friday afternoon announcement at an obscure location in Richmond.
The, er, freeze is continuing for B.C.’s ground-breaking, world-saving carbon tax, which hasn’t changed since before Clark was elected in 2013.
The spin was Olympic-themed, with a picture labeled to show B.C. as a swimmer far out in the lead in the pool, to symbolize that it’s the other provinces that need to catch up in the race to save the planet.
Clark has been saying that for years, and there is merit to it. Even without a tax on “process emissions” such as from cement kilns, B.C.’s carbon tax encourages imports of non-taxed cement from the U.S. and China.
Alberta business professor Andrew Leach, who advised the Stephen Harper and then Rachel Notley governments on greenhouse gas policies, summed up the problem this way.
“Until the rest of the world has policies that impose similar cost, you’re not actually reducing emissions to the extent you think,” Leach said. “You’re just displacing the emissions and the economic activity to other jurisdictions.”
Alberta is moving to join B.C. with a modest carbon tax, but the NDP government plans to spend the proceeds rather than return them in income tax as B.C. has done. And Washington state and most of the rest of the world have no carbon tax as such, so their businesses benefit from B.C.’s “climate leadership.”
B.C.’s foreign-funded eco-radical community was, needless to say, appalled. The Pembina Institute’s Matt Horne and career protesters Tzeporah Berman and Merran Smith were named to the premier’s advisory committee last year, along with business, academic and aboriginal representatives.
They concluded that increases to B.C.’s broad-based tax on carbon fuels should resume its upward march in 2018.
Other committee members, including the mayors of Surrey, Comox and Burns Lake, were not heard from. Public discussion on this issue is now reduced to a staged conflict between those who demand a holy war on deadly carbon dioxide “pollution,” and those who don’t care if their grandchildren perish in a hell-fire of fossil fuel use.
We’ve just come off another El Nino year, like the hot year of 1998. Regular readers will recall the last time I discussed this topic was this spring, where I questioned the premier’s dire warnings of another horrendous forest fire season.
What followed has been one of the slowest forest fire seasons in the last decade, although dry conditions have finally emerged this month. Climate predictions, like next week’s weather forecast, are less than consistent.
I am regularly sent messages calling me a “climate change denier,” the nonsense term that continues to be used by federal Environment Minister Catharine McKenna among many others. I know of no one who denies that climate is always changing, at times dramatically.
If you wish to believe that paying an extra seven cents a litre for gasoline in B.C. is helping to slow the very gradual increase in temperatures we’re seeing in the northern hemisphere, you are free to do so.
You may even be persuaded to take a government subsidy and buy an expensive, short-range electric car. Me, I’m off to Prince Rupert and Revelstoke pretty soon, so I’ll stick with my little four-cylinder gas sipper for now.
Hydro-powered B.C. represents a small fraction of the less than two per cent Canada contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions. We’re not the problem, and no, the world is not looking to us for guidance.
Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca Twitter: @tomfletcherbc | http://www.wltribune.com/opinion/391051701.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/4dd216ddef66e75a0caeeedb5f7ca98bc6c529230075daab2a01525e26a38f4a.json |
[
"Ken Wilson"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:43 | null | null | Dedication, determination, desire, direction. Four D words that put together would spell Olympic Athlete. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fopinion%2F391356581.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Congratulations to Kayla Moleschi for her Olympic spirit | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Dedication, determination, desire, direction.
Four D words that put together would spell Olympic Athlete.
Can you imagine the dedication bronze medalist Kayla Moleschi of Williams Lake has put into Rugby.
I think the Saskatchewan Roughriders football team could use her talents.
Can you imagine the number of hours put into training by the 12 British Columbia athletes who also picked up medals.
Months and years of training by these women relates to the desire they need to keep going...day after day.
Did you notice that most of the Canadian Athletes who picked up hardware at the Olympic games were women?
The world is united though sports....there is power in the Olympic rings that attracts the best athletes from around the world and this time we had the opportunity to see the good the bad and the ugly of Rio.
Thank you Kayla Moleschi for desire and dedication and I hope to see you in the 2020 Olympics.
I enjoyed seeing your charismatic smile while you were playing.
It looked to me that you were competing hard but having fun at the same time.
Gold silver or bronze took a backseat to good old kindred spirit in women’s sprinting when one sprinter collided with another after being tripped.
She helped the women she collided with then she went down with muscle problems and the other runner bent down to help... they came last but showed the world that winning a medal wasn’t important at that moment in time.
Japanese prime minister Stinzo Abe came out of a giant green pot wearing a Super Mario outfit and after taking the costume off he invited the world to come to Japan for 2020....would love to go to that one... the Japanese are such gracious people.
It is too bad that the world can’t take a lesson from the Athletes who competed at the Rio Olympic games. | http://www.wltribune.com/opinion/391356581.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/872683d8c79dbd6e56f0e1a0f3de500c79fabb0f00760a29af99dcdaa7a97eef.json |
[
"Lerae Haynes"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:26 | null | null | The RCMP charity golf tournament on Wednesday saw approximately 130 people tee off to help the local detachment raise funds for Kidsport. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fsports%2F390643841.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/31637tribuneb3rcmpgolf.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | RCMP golfers support Kidsport | null | null | www.wltribune.com | RCMP Sgt. Mike Hacker and Grant Martin, retired from the RCMP, greeted participants who gathered for the tee off at the RCMP Charity Gold Tournament on Wednesday to raise funds for Kidsport.
The RCMP charity golf tournament on Wednesday saw approximately 130 people tee off to help the local detachment raise funds for Kidsport.
The turnout was excellent and the generous support from the businesses was outstanding, said to tournament organizer RCMP Sgt. Mike Hacker.
“The turnout was awesome and you could see how excited everybody was,” he said. “The business community, who donates money and prizes, has been absolutely fabulous for us every single year.
“Everyone who participates gets a prize and a chance to win the raffle. There’s a lot of charity fatigue here and our business community gets hit up all the time, especially small businesses,” he explained. “Usually, the smaller the business, the bigger the heart, and our businesses here are second to none.”
He added that Kidsport was an obvious choice for the tournament. “We looked for something that supports a diverse group of kids, and Kidsport fit the bill. It isn’t just hockey kids or soccer kids, it’s lots of different sports and all kids – wherever the need is,” he said. “They needed funds this year and we’re glad to help.”
Grant Martin, retired from the RCMP, said that he helped run the charity golf tournament for about 15 years. “It’s great to see it back up and running. We always tried to do something that was 100 per cent local and youth involved, such as minor baseball, sea cadets, navy cadets, Boys and Girls Club and minor hockey,” he explained. “Kidsport is a natural choice.”
Hacker said that it’s important that the money raised stays local. “Sports for kids has a close place in my heart,” he continued. “Sports in my life has been a saviour; a big deal for me, something that kept me out of trouble. Team sports, individual sports — it’s always been something I turn to.”
The local detachment also provides a bursary for post-secondary education to a graduating boy and girl every year.
“What we get out of this tournament is seeing a sub-set of the population that we never meet. And they get to meet us — it’s great,” Hacker continued.
“This is a way for the local detachment to give back to the community and our people.
“When we’re in uniform we don’t always see that we’re giving back. This is a great way for us to do just that.” | http://www.wltribune.com/sports/390643841.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/575e0dc628a3410c349d93d95eadac3f83e800ab7fa4a861748045d8579deb9b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:38 | null | null | Please allow me to address and correct several assumptions and inaccuracies in Mr. Carruthers’ letter regarding the generation plant. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F390370381.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Burning questions | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Editor:
Please allow me to address and correct several assumptions and inaccuracies in Mr. Carruthers’ letter regarding the generation plant printed in the August 10 issue of the Tribune.
Mr. Carruthers puts blind faith in the Ministry of Environment (MOE) to test discharges from Atlantic Power (AP) generation facility. In fact, MOE leaves such testing to AP and the company’s hired contractors.
I believe ongoing testing by an arms-length, independent government agency — MOE — is preferable to protect the health of 11,000 residents of the city.
Mr. Carruthers also states that AP be allowed to proceed “...with adequate and ongoing testing.”
In fact, AP has applied (via Permit Amendment application of 2015.10.08 ) for the request to “Remove the requirement that continuous emission monitors be maintained and audited..”
The testing conducted in support of AP request for a permit amendment from MOE has been done by various private entities hired and compensated by AP.
This data is contained in the “Consultation Report,” a thick binder of documents and submissions compiled on behalf of AP, and available for perusal at our local library.
Since Mr.Carruthers states that he has worked near the plant, he may find some of this data informative, such as the Page 28 report from Intrinsik detailing emissions in the immediate vicinity of the plant and relevant health forecasts.
I have been informed by a representative of MOE that there is no ambient air testing for HCL (Hydrogen Chloride Gas) emission in Williams Lake.
The Draft Permit allows AP to emit up to 271 tonnes of HC annually.
I have no doubt that Mr. Carruthers’ sense of smell that he alludes to in his letter, is excellent.
However, I believe an ongoing, independent testing program is a more precise measurement of any AP emissions.
Regarding the often trotted out remark regarding fly ash: is it an either/or choice? — return to days of fly ash or have emissions of many toxic, invisible chemicals?
I think not. However, if it were the only choice I’d choose the devil I can see.
In summation, does the proposal regarding burning of creosoted rail ties from Western Canada meet the following test:
• Is it the truth?
• Is it fair to all concerned?
• Will it build goodwill and better friendship?
• Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
John Pickford
Williams Lake | http://www.wltribune.com/opinion/letters/390370381.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/efb6e48fd3518abce96ef6a2afa7ea9eb049d4c3ff28db5399c30e1a9d73c6da.json |
[
"Staff Writer"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:32 | null | null | Williams Lake FC captured the Williams Lake Men’s Soccer League playoff championship with a hard fought 1-0 victory over Celtic Engineering. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fsports%2F391352741.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/73018tribunesoccerteam.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | FC captures men’s soccer championship | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Williams Lake FC captured the Williams Lake Men’s Soccer League playoff championship with a hard fought 1-0 victory over Celtic Engineering in the final on Saturday, Aug. 13 at the Esler Soccer Complex.
Kolby Taylor scored the winning goal for WLFC.
“The final saw both teams play a really hard back and forth match. Our guys (WLFC) only had 11 players and with no subs and playing in the heat we really had to come together and work hard as a team to earn the win,” said WLFC midfielder Luke Moger.
Celtic Engineering pulled off a huge upset over regular season champions Storm in the semi finals to advance to the championship game.
Storm went undefeated, with nine wins and three ties in 12 games.
The league this season featured five teams and around 100 players and there was a strong commitment made by all teams and very few games ended in defaults due to poor attendance which has hampered the league in past seasons.
“The commitment that was shown by all teams this year was remarkable and it proved that the love of soccer in Williams Lake is strong,” said Moger.
WLFC defender Rajan Mangat had very kind words to say about the local men’s soccer league after his team was crowned playoff champs.
He’s one of many university students who return each summer and participate in the league.
“Coming home for the summer from school, I look forward to soccer in Williams Lake,” Mangat said.
“This is not solely due to playing the sport but the social aspect of it as well as it really brings the soccer community together.
“Behind the scenes, there is a lot of work that goes into putting the season together and we are all appreciative of that. All in all, it was another successful season.”
After the final, the year end awards and a barbecue were held at the clubhouse.
The winners were as follows.
Goalie of the Year: Travis Nystoruk.
Defender of the Year: Sean Glanville.
Midfielder of the Year: Luke Moger.
Forward of the Year: Mike Brogan/Dragan Jukic.
Oldtimer award: Dragan Jukic.
League Most Valuable Player: Sean Glanville.
Most Sportsmanlike: Mike Waterhouse.
Leading Goalscorer: Viktor Stamenov.
Russ Lund Award: Mike Garrard.
Playoff Most Valuable Player: Tobin Bellay. | http://www.wltribune.com/sports/391352741.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/c6d8af4c845e022f0a75c4d35ca41bf86f38e8ac243c6111dbfa835997272c91.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:01:36 | null | null | The Williams Lake Refugee Sponsorship Group is expecting a refugee family to arrive mid-September in the lakecity. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fcommunity%2F391356321.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/75415tribune28484tribunemly-Williams-Lake-Refugee-Support-Committee-DSC_5074.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Refugee family to arrive in September | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Williams Lake Refugee Sponsorship Group members Kristen Konge (left), Sharon Taylor, Paolo Konge and Sherry Yonkman say the group is ready to welcome a refugee family from Liberia in September.
The Williams Lake Refugee Sponsorship Group is expecting a refugee family to arrive mid-September in the lakecity.
In early July, the group was asked to sponsor two related women from Liberia with their three school-aged children.
The family speaks both English and French, and as two of the sponsorship group’s founding members had actually worked in Africa in a nearby country, it seemed a good match.
“We hope that the family will be happy here, and find their own place in the community over the next few months,” said Paola Konge, president of the WLRSG.
“Once they have a chance to think about a future, we will help them to reach any new goals they set for themselves.”
When the family arrives they will be welcomed into a home already lovingly furnished through generous donations from the Williams Lake community.
They will receive some assistance from the WLRSG and the federal government while they get settled and learn more about Canadian culture and the Williams Lake area.
Formed in October 2015, the sponsorship group wanted to help a family come to Canada to begin a new life in a safer community with more opportunities.
More than 50 people joined the group, and $30,000 was raised over a few months, allowing the WLRSG to work through the Anglican Diocese of Kootenay as a Sponsorship Agreement Holder with the federal government.
According to the UN’s High Commission on Refugees, 1.8 million more people have been forced to leave their countries in the past few years, adding to the 21.3 million refugees worldwide at end of 2015.
Among them, Syrian refugees were the largest refugee group in 2015 at 4.9 million. There are a further 40 million people displaced within the borders of their country, no longer able to live safely in their home communities.
Some refugee camps house hundreds of thousands of people, sometimes more than one generation removed from their home. That means that more than 60 million people (nearly twice the population of Canada) have been forced from their homes and countries under terrible conditions.
Although the Syrian crisis was obviously on everyone’s mind, the WLRSG decided that it wanted to offer assistance to a family of four to six people from any part of the world where conflict made it too dangerous for people to stay.
Liberia has seen many years of armed conflict and struggle, and the WLRSG was happy to be able to help this family relocate to a safe community where particularly the children could have better opportunities in life.
Donations for the family are still welcome: please contact Sharon Taylor (778-412-2999) at Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society for more information. | http://www.wltribune.com/community/391356321.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/6d5726672324ae3cecc1698bf34f09f2c256ad36b1316f34c3c3771f90a33cfd.json |
[
"Staff Writer"
] | 2016-08-26T13:02:32 | null | null | Photographers from across the province competed in amateur competition | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fcommunity%2F391187111.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/2985abbotsfordAmateurphotographjers.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Voting open for People's Choice Amateur Photography Competition | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Cameras were the focus as 70 photographers from across B.C., including Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, Kelowna and Nelson, competed in the fourth annual Next Generation BC Amateur Photographer of the Year Contest at the recent Abbotsford International Airshow.
Sponsored by London Drugs and Black Press Media, the contest took place Aug. 12-14, as participants captured their best air, crowd, static, and wildcard shots.
Photographers experienced close-up action at the airshow including Friday's twilight show, and earned the "hot-side" tour at the airshow where they shot exclusive aircraft including the F-35, CF-18, FA-18, Breitling Jet Team, the Snowbirds and more for a chance to win the title of B.C.'s next Amateur Photographer title.
Awarding categories also include The Best in-air photograph ($750 grand prize), The Best ground/static scene photograph ($500 prize),The Best crowd scene photograph ($250 prize ), The Best video submission ($500 prize) all courtesy of London Drugs and honorary acknowledgement for Best Wildcard entry.
For the People's Choice Award Winner, the time has arrived for the public to vote on their favourite photo and be entered for a chance to win BC Lions game tickets.
For voting and contest information, click here. | http://www.wltribune.com/community/391187111.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/2f0a8a8ab6c6c5197a2b84a7d820be90a52e21ce5ccfdf542a713f4b2c23c059.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T12:59:03 | null | null | Four per cent rate hike already in effect, more to come as BC Hydro looks for savings to offset slow industrial demand | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fbusiness%2F388687371.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/9960BCLN2007DamRevelstokewiki7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | BC Hydro rates rise as demand slows | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Revelstoke dam on the Columbia River is due to have a sixth water turbine added, but Site C is BC Hydro's priority today.
BC Hydro is going ahead with its planned four per cent rate increase this year and deferring more debt to future years as it revises its electricity demand forecast downward.
The provincially-owned utility has not asked for an increase in its government-imposed rate plan despite a revised demand forecast with $3.5 billion less revenue over the next 10 years. BC Hydro has filed a three-year plan with the B.C. Utilities Commission that would increase rates four, 3.5 and three per cent in the next three years. The four per cent increase is already showing up on customer bills as an interim increase.
With the Site C dam on the Peace River and other upgrades amounting to $2 billion a year, the plan includes additional deferred debt until 2023, when Site C is due to be completed. BC Hydro CEO Jessica McDonald said the long-term nature of capital projects means its capital cost savings don't start until the next decade.
BC Hydro has also cut some of its familiar Power Smart activities, such as the fridge buy-back plan and incentives for energy efficient light bulbs.
McDonald said BC Hydro is seeing lower revenues due to two warm winters and downturns in mining and forest products. It still projects growing overall demand as population and economic growth continue.
NDP energy critic Adrian Dix said the new deferred debt represents roughly $500 for each of BC Hydro's two million customers, and it is a political move to get the B.C. Liberal government past next year's election.
The 10-year rates plan imposed by Energy Minister Bill Bennett in 2013 overstated demand to justify the construction of Site C, and translates to a 28 per cent rate increase. It allows the utilities commission to regain control over approving customer rates by 2020, after five years of political direction.
Dix said with the new demand forecast and commodity prices expected to remain low, BC Hydro should have added a sixth turbine to its Revelstoke dam for $450 million before embarking on the $9 billion Site C project. | http://www.wltribune.com/business/388687371.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/2b6e5e422bd4fe6a6c9716c5c2e4a4861d06b39d667be5091d75b081588600cd.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:35 | null | null | We belong to 300,000 years of human development on this planet. Now capitalism endangers this magnificent wonder. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fopinion%2F391177391.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Capitalism evolution concerning | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Editor:
We belong to 300,000 years of human development on this planet. Now capitalism irredeemably, irreversibly, endangers this magnificent wonder.
Capitalism degrades the biosphere that sustains us.
Seventeen transforming United Nations Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) achieved by 2030 concerns you.
These issues belong to our human family.
A war for survival rages between fossil-fuel capitalism and human development.
Capitalism will transform or future human development will end tragically.
Critical choices, stunning efforts may achieve sustainable human development by 2030.
Our democracy, our rights, our human family are on trial.
The gravest violation of human rights marginalizes our right to know SDG’s. Our ignorance favours capitalism.
Selfishness rules capitalism. What could go wrong? Selfishness serves the common good with guidance of the “free” market and the “invisible hand” is a lie.
The “Golden Bull” of Wall Street reigns above science.
The bastion of capitalism owns the world’s mightiest military-industrial complex.
Capitalist America can destroy everyone 10 times over within 30 minutes; five times over with proven fossil-fuel reserves. One trillion dollars to refine nuclear war capability through 2080?
The president always carries this “biscuit” threat in his pocket with first strike preemptive “authority,” even while Obama paid respect in Hiroshima.
“Authority” runs on oil degrading the climate of the biosphere.
One tenth of one percent of Americans now own more wealth and income than 90 per cent of Americans. Sixty-four people now own more wealth and income than 3.5 billion people. Capitalists attempt to dominate the world.
Capitalists degrade the biosphere to the edge of human extinction.
Capitalists externalize degradation. Capitalism leads. Canada follows. Selfishness is not sustainable.
Can selfishness be shepherded with mindful guarding or is shepherding selfishness a “fool’s errand?”
Fossil-fueled selfishness denies climate science. Capitalists’ selfishness cannot be resolved today with good outcome for human development.
Shut down selfishness. Democratic strength expands human rights. What you believe about the 17 UN SDGs matters. Extend future human development.
Herb Nakada
Williams Lake | http://www.wltribune.com/opinion/391177391.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/bbce974464e64953d6074759db5fd43d0ab206b796c2384b9a6b7575cad63b6d.json |
[
"Monica Lamb-Yorski"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:04 | null | null | Demolition of Wildwood Elementary School began this week, much to the surprise of local residents. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fnews%2F391228241.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/18594tribunemlywildwoodschooldemolition.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Wildwood School demolition underway | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Wildwood School is being demolished this week, much to the surprise of local residents.
Demolition of Wildwood Elementary School began this week, much to the surprise of local residents.
"It's sad," said Randy Gertzen who has lived across from the school for more than 30 years. "Both my daughters attended that school."
Gertzen said on Sunday evening the demolition company arrived with equipment and the work began on Monday.
"I think people were really surprised because we were hoping the Wildwood Association could take the building over or something like that. There have been a lot of people stopping to take photos."
The Cariboo Regional District had been working with School District 27 and the Wildwood Community Association in regards to transferring the former Wildwood Elementary building over to the Association for the community’s use, said CRD Area D director Steve Forseth.
"However, the school district said that they could not do so as the site was declared surplus to the school district's needs, which meant the land needed to be returned to its previous state of bare land."
Forseth is currently attempting to meet with staff from the B.C. Ministries of Education and Community, Sport and Cultural Development at next month’s Union of BC Municipalities Convention in Victoria to discuss steps to transfer the vacant land and the currently installed playground equipment back to the Wildwood Community Association for use by the community.
Wildwood Elementary School was temporarily closed by School District 27 due to flooding and mould issues in April 2015, and then permanently closed a few months later.
Larry Lansall, a foreman with Napp Enterprises Ltd. of Prince George, said the demolition is expected to last another week and a half, with his four-man crew.
The asbestos that was inside the building has already removed and is wrapped in tubes outside the school building.
That work required his workers to wear protective gear, now they are just wearing masks because of the dust, Lansall added.
A request for an interview has been sent to School District 27 so watch for updates on the story. | http://www.wltribune.com/news/391228241.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/7b1300cef3c77dca2086bacb867c386578080f99daf960632278e9c2cac607d2.json |
[
"Lerae Haynes"
] | 2016-08-30T22:50:15 | null | null | Williams Lake resident Mareike Moore recently won by racing her completed project to Dancing Quilts in 100 Mile House. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fcommunity%2F391789111.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/9600tribunequilter.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Lakecity quilter wins Row by Row | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Young quilter Mareike Moore is pictured here with her Row by Row competition winning project.
Quilters in Canada, the U.S. and Europe have participated in the Row by Row quilting competition, and Williams Lake resident Mareike Moore recently won by racing her completed project to Dancing Quilts in 100 Mile House.
“It’s so fun,” she said.
“You walk into any quilting store and pick up a free pattern, you sew eight row by rows into one quilt, and the first person to bring it to one of the participating stores wins.”
She said you can purchase a kit with fabric in it, or take the pattern home and use your own fabric.
“You can sew on appliques or use paper piercing; I added black fabric between my rows and an outside border,” she explained.
Although she picked up her Row by Row pattern in Williams Lake, she found out they already had a winner, so she phoned Dancing Quilts in 100 Mile House and found that she still had a chance.
“I sewed every day after work and during my lunch and was allowed to leave work early to go turn in my project at Dancing Quilts,” she said.
“I was really nervous that someone else would win while I was driving down there.”
She won fat quarters (25 pieces of fabric) and a pattern book, and said that her quilt is hanging in Dancing Quilts on display until October.
Moore has been quilting for about two years.
“My mom used to have a sewing machine when I was little, but I never used it and never showed any interest. I moved here from Germany two years ago,” she explained.
“Ibea’s Quilting had a table runner class, with a machine I could use and I was probably the slowest sewer ever. The language was so unfamiliar, but I liked it so much!
“I bought the machine I first sewed on, built a sewing table and got started — I got started with quilts.”
Since moving here, she said she’s discovered she’s really quite creative.
“I love wildlife photography and painting, and quilting really grabbed me. I like getting a product out of it,” she continued.
“You can be so creative with quilting; you can change up the colours and the patterns and you can make them up yourself.
“I create my own patterns with scraps, for example. You could take any stencil, or anything you’ve drawn yourself and add it to a table runner, wall hanging or quilt.”
She said before coming to Canada she worked as a manager at a food company — long hours with no time for anything else.
“I ended up walking part of the El Camino in Spain and it changed my life,” she said.
“I realized there was more to life than work. It took me a year. I decided to spend three months in Canada doing farm work and ended up at a farm in Alexis Creek. I liked it and decided to stay; I got a job and got married.”
Moore said her mom back in Germany loves that she sews.
“She shows pictures of my projects to all her friends,” she added.
“I gave her a table runner, custom made to fit her table.
“I hear all the time that I’m pretty young to be a quilter, and hear it even more in Germany,” she said.
“I love the creativity of quilting — love using bright and beautiful colours.” | http://www.wltribune.com/community/391789111.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/90bed08172e406e4ca72ff4b6c0aeeb85b85408aeade7ec479e142653402b7f7.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:08 | null | null | Few BC Parks bookings going to commercial operators, solution is more campsite spaces, Environment Minister Mary Polak says | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Flifestyles%2F385640471.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/18489BCLN2007CampingBarriereLakeJasonKoppwiki7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Provincial campsite rush mostly B.C. residents | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Solitude in the wilderness is still available in B.C., between holiday weekends when demand peaks at B.C.'s most popular parks.
Foreign visitors and those on package tours are a small fraction of the demand for B.C. Parks campgrounds around the province, but B.C. resident campers are still using a few tricks to get spaces for high-demand parks.
Some have protested the use of online reservations by motorhome tour operators who sell them as part of a package for tourists.
"Our provincial campsites are not products to be sold, they belong to the people of B.C.," Green Party leader Andrew Weaver said this week.
Environment Minister Mary Polak told Black Press numbers are being tracked for the current year, and the proportions haven't changed much. In 2015, fewer than one per cent of reservable B.C. Parks spaces were booked by tour operators, who also use private camping facilities.
Three quarters of reservations are from within B.C. The second highest share is from Alberta at 14 per cent, the U.S. accounts for 3.6 per cent, the rest of Canada 2.8 per cent, and all European countries combined are 6.6 per cent of the total.
The BC Parks system has 10,700 camping spaces in total, and 5,600 are reservable, to manage demand for the most popular spots.
First-come, first-served sites are kept out of the reservation system in some popular locations to accommodate travellers who drop in along the road. For high-demand periods like the recent Canada Day weekend, savvy campers work the reservation system.
At Golden Ears Provincial Park, one group booked for two weeks as soon as the 90-day eligibility window opened, then dropped the first week, giving them the coveted Canada Day weekend dates before they were generally available.
"Every year we look to change things to keep people from cheating, and every year they find new ways," Polak said. "Really the only answer is going to be finding a way to expand the number of sites that we have available."
It's shaping up as a record year for the Discover Camping reservation service, with 92,000 bookings so far this year.
B.C. Parks has added four new sites for this summer. Reservations can be made for Garibaldi Provincial Park in the Whistler area, Ruckle Provincial Park on Saltspring Island, Okanagan Falls Provincial Park, Inland Lake Provincial Park near Powell River and Dry Gulch Provincial Park near Radium Hot Springs. | http://www.wltribune.com/lifestyles/385640471.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/9cea9c75d82ab1d04055ca393ca92d3bc0090c17e0b64a77d15bdd6cada75d71.json |
[
"Ken Wilson"
] | 2016-08-26T13:08:36 | null | null | Summertime and the livin’ is easy, fish are jumping and the days are warm, the evenings are cool. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Flifestyles%2F390645191.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Stuffing and sauces spark up the summer fish fry | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Summertime and the livin’ is easy, fish are jumping and the days are warm, the evenings are cool.
Fish come in all sizes and shapes as do the people who catch them.
Caught at dawn for breakfast and brought home by a proud angler, or save it for the evening over a campfire or barbecue, fish taste good anytime.
Each catch that you bring home for whatever meal, deserves the best treatment you can give it to preserve the fine pure flavours.
There are many methods of cooking fish and many recipes used to deliver a flavour and taste to suite almost everyone.
Sauces and stocks, if used should bring out the best of your fish.
A combination of butter or oil with herbs for basting helps retain natural moisture and balances the flavours.
A well seasoned court bouillon or aromatic poaching liquid can also accent or minimize the taste of the fish.
A sauce can be made smooth and delicate to compliment a mild tasting fish or tangy and robust to blend with stronger tasting fish.
Stuffing is used to increase the flavour of mild or stronger tasting fish.
The choice of stuffing is a matter of individual taste, however, a rich fish requires a simple dressing containing vegetables or fruits and a lean fish gets flavour from a rich stuffing containing sausage, a shellfish or nuts.
Here is an easy rice and nut stuffing
3 slices of bacon, diced
1 cup of cooked rice
½ cup of cooked wild rick
1/3 cup of slivered almonds, lightly sautéed in 2 tbsp of butter
1 tbsp of parsley
Fry bacon until crisp and drain on paper towels.
Combine the reminding ingredients in a bowl and stir in the bacon.
Makes approximately two cups or enough to stuff four two pound fish or one six pound.
Cook on barbecue until nicely done, not rare or rock solid.
Now here is a tasty sauce for that stuffing.
Lemon Butter Sauce
½ cup of butter
½ cup of lemon juice
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
In a small pan combine butter and lemon juice. Stir over low heat until butter is melted. Stir in parley and serve while hot.
Makes about 1 cup.
Whether you are catching some of the great fish in Cariboo-Chilcotin or fresh from the stores, try some fish on the barbecue during the nice weather.
Bye for now and Goood Cooking. | http://www.wltribune.com/lifestyles/390645191.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/86572e8231bd7056b3de53208f922c78b5bab5f877c07e02f51166982fb6e978.json |
[
"Staff Writer"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:48 | null | null | A group of select players from the Williams Lake men’s soccer league had a successful weekend in North West B.C. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fsports%2F391098131.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/60957tribunea16SGsoccerteaminSmithers2578.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Lakecity men's soccer league takes second in Smithers | null | null | www.wltribune.com | A select group of players from Williams Lake came away with second place and $1,000 during a men’s soccer tournament in Smithers over the weekend.
A group of select players from the Williams Lake men’s soccer league had a successful weekend in North West B.C. The lakecity squad placed runners up out of seven teams at the Smithers Invitational Soccer Tournament.
Williams Lake opened the tournament Saturday morning with a convincing win over Kispiox 8-0 and then defeated Terrace 6-0 in their second contest to set up a semi final date with hosts Smithers on the Saturday night.
Smithers had won several tournaments this summer throughout the North West circuit and feature a phenomenal team which includes the three Imhof brothers who all played professionally in Switzerland.
The oldest, Daniel, played for Vfl Bochum in the German Bundesliga and for the Canadian National Team, before retiring professionally in 2012 and returning to Smithers.
During the match Smithers jumped out to an early 1-0 lead and carried much of the play for the opening 20 minutes.
Williams Lake was able to get back into the contest and tied the game 1-1 just before half time on a goal from Ethan Bhangu.
The second half was very tightly contested but Williams Lake scored with just one minute left in the game after Luke Moger was fouled inside the penalty area and Sean Glanville scored on the ensuing penalty shot to earn a 2-1 victory.
The win put Williams Lake directly into Sunday’s final and Smithers had to drop down to the bottom side of the draw and play an extra game.
“Out of our 14 players, 12 were from our local men’s league and for many of them it was their first competitive tournament experience,” said Moger. “To beat a team the calibre of Smithers felt great.”
In Sunday’s final it was a re-match with Smithers. Williams Lake came out really flat and were down 2-0 after the first 10 minutes. The lakecity created some quality scoring chances but couldn’t finish around the net and ended up falling 2-0.
Williams Lake won $1,000 as their runners up prize money. | http://www.wltribune.com/sports/391098131.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/17ae4871e0f9ca3ef388ef2253816cffb6bfa063aac7267ee69c1cee03a1995a.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:07:46 | null | null | Collector plates will be available next year for modified as well as stock cars made between 1958 and 1974 | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Flifestyles%2F389536851.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/25111BCLN2007Chevrolet_Camaro1969-wikim7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Collector program expanding to 'muscle cars' | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Modified versions of the 1969 Camaro SS and other popular vehicles will soon be eligible for B.C. collector plates, allowing occasional use for parades and car shows.
The B.C. government is expanding its collector vehicle licence system to include eligible modified cars made between 1958 and 1974, to capture the popular "muscle car" era of the 1960s.
The ICBC collector plate program gives car enthusiasts a lower-cost licence plate that allows occasional use for parades and classic car shows. ICBC plans to take applications starting in 2017 for eligible modified vehicles up to 1974, and replica cars resembling North American production cars from 1942 and earlier.
With strict rules that the cars must be in "collectible condition," changes will take in modified popular cars from the Dodge Duster to the Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang, as well as replicas of the popular Ford "deuce coupe" from the 1930s.
Premier Christy Clark announced a break for older cars this spring, allowing vehicles from 1940 or earlier and their replicas to run without fenders or mud flaps when the highway is dry and paved.
Transportation Minister Todd Stone said the collector car industry is significant for B.C., with registered collector vehicles having doubled to 26,000 in the past 10 years.
"We want to see this specialty vehicle program remain viable, preserve vehicle history and evolve with the times," Stone said. "That's why we are opening up the opportunity to owners of specialty cars within the 'muscle car' era."
Currently, the standard collector plate is available to cars 25 years or older, as well as discontinued or limited production vehicles 15 years or older. It requires a stock engine with no performance enhancements, no rust, dents or "significant wear and tear" of the interior.
Modified vehicles from 1958 or older are currently eligible for collector plates, if they retain the shell of the original body but have parts replaced or modified in the chassis, engine, suspension, steering or brakes.
Owners have to apply for a collector or modified collector plate, with purchase and parts bills, photos and inspection reports.
Applications for collector and modified collector programs are available on ICBC's website, www.icbc.com, and can be dropped off at Autoplan brokers. | http://www.wltribune.com/lifestyles/389536851.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/fed475fd5509cf4a3e2d8c012e570df46990018f23b3cdf6a3c154989ebb31af.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T12:54:08 | null | null | Asian demand for B.C. wood products peaked in 2013, analyst says China sales on pace for 50 per cent drop | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fbusiness%2F391328001.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/63096BCLN2007thomsonchinaosb7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Lumber exports shift to U.S. as China sales slump | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Wood products exports from Canada to Asia were down 18 per cent in the first six months of 2016, with the biggest decline being softwood lumber from B.C. to China, according to the Seattle-based Wood Resources International.
Lumber sales to China are on pace to drop by 50 per cent this year compared to 2014, as B.C. lumber producers direct their sales to a healthy U.S. lumber market, according to customs data tracked for the Wood Resources Quarterly (www.woodprices.com).
The latest edition notes that by value, 75 per cent of B.C.'s exports to Asia in 2015 and 2016 are in the form of lumber, while 77 per cent of exports from Washington and Oregon are logs.
Asian demand reached a record high in 2013, with China passing Japan as the largest importer of North American wood products in 2011. The B.C. and federal governments promote wood construction in China and Japan, and B.C.'s forest minister is required to conduct an annual trade mission to China, Japan and other Asian countries.
The shift in demand provides extra urgency for talks to renew the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement that expired last year. B.C. sales are booming without the export cap that both Ottawa and Washington have agreed will be required. | http://www.wltribune.com/business/391328001.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/d470a01b392a0585148dc53f78d255e7db7b4d12149fb5ab379d88b558a58198.json |
[
"Gaeil Farrar"
] | 2016-08-27T00:48:51 | null | null | Members of the Lakers Car Club were front and centre again this year supporting the A&W Canada and MS Society of Canada campaign. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fcommunity%2F391460031.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/23578tribunecarclubnewIMG_0288.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Lakers Car Club shines for A&W MS fundraiser | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Ron Lynds with his 1966 Dodge Charger which is in original 'survivor' condition and has only 52,000 miles on the odometer.
Members of the Lakers Car Club were front and centre again this year supporting the A&W Canada and MS Society of Canada campaign to raise funds to beat MS.
About 20 vintage and antique vehicles were spotted cruising into the parking lot next to A&W to show their vehicles and purchase a Teen Burger on Thursday evening Aug. 25.
On that day $1 from every Teen Burger sold was donated to the MS Society of Canada.
Lakers Car Club members were also selling tickets on their latest raffle.
Ron Lynds, who was selling the tickets was also showing his 1966 Dodge Charger which is in original condition and has only 52,000 miles on the odometer.
He said he bought the vehicle in 1980 with only 44,000 miles on it and hasn't driven it much over the years he has owned it.
He said it is a survivor car which means it is completely original, right down to the paint job which was as shiny as a vehicle just out of the shop for this show and shine.
These days "survivor" cars are more valuable than old vehicles that have been painted and restored, Lynds said.
Larry Gibbon brought his 1969 Dodge Dart GTS to the show and Norman Prest brought his 1967 Dodge Dart GTS to the show. Both men said they had restored and modified their vehicles vintage vehicles.
Lakers Car Club raffle tickets are $2 each or three for $5 with the grand prize being a power generator and second prize being a propane campfire unit.
Lynds said the Lakers Car Club will be participating in the Canadian Tire Car Show and Shine on Sunday, Sept. 18 where their raffle draw will be made. | http://www.wltribune.com/community/391460031.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/437dbc7a2170fae57de5b648133246323ccaaac3fe2556b5c12a30f2c93df342.json |
[
"Staff Writer"
] | 2016-08-26T13:00:15 | null | null | There will be lots of music playing and entertainment during the South Cariboo Garlic Festival taking place in Lac La Hache this weekend. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fcommunity%2F391175441.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/97844tribunegarlic13895271_10157262241085611_927441109643887385_n.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | South Cariboo Garlic Festival on the menu this weekend | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Garlic will be the centre of attraction at this weekend's South Cariboo Garlic Festival at Lac La Hache.
There will be lots of music playing and entertainment for children during the South Cariboo Garlic Festival taking place in Lac La Hache this weekend.
Saturday, Aug. 27: the lineup features Jason Ruscheinsky at 11 a.m.; Eloise Hobi at 12:30 a.m.; Steve Elliott’s Elvis show at 1:30 p.m. and Thorne and Filgate at 3 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 28: the day begins with a church service at 9:30 a.m.; gospel music with Elvis at 10:30 a.m.; John Goodwin at 12 p.m. and Joal Kamps at 2 p.m.
The Marie Sharpe Elementary School parent advisory council is hosting the Kids Zone this year. It features hoop dancing on Saturday and a bouncy castle on Sunday plus kids activities including a sandbox, kiddie pool, bubbles, lego and cartoon colouring, popcorn and cotton candy.
The 17th annual garlic festival centres around the sale of fresh garlic and garlic food products from garlic sausage and to garlic sauces. In addition to a dozen garlic growers from around the region the festival includes vendors selling vegetables, eggs, baking, dried soup mixes and all sorts of arts, crafts, clothing, jewellery, pottery, botanicals, and more. | http://www.wltribune.com/community/391175441.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/ef6f5b7bc83646bf05aaa2dead0151ca5a2c0d8b75c5c098aee33442f7570f7f.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-30T20:51:22 | null | null | Some urban districts struggle with overcrowding, special funds for declining rural schools, bus service to take effect | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fnews%2F391773061.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/2045BCLN2007Schoolstudentblurwide-BJ7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | B.C. school enrolment up for second year | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Students return to public school next week, with changes to curriculum and some provincial exams.
Students are returning to class next week in most of B.C.'s public schools, with enrolment expected to be up province-wide for the second year running.
Education Minister Mike Bernier says early forecasts show about 529,000 students, an increase of 2,900 from last year. But that increase is centred on fast-growing school districts, while many rural areas continue to struggle with declining student numbers.
Among changes that parents and students will see this year is a new curriculum in place up to Grade 9, with a test year for changes in the senior grades. Bernier said the new emphasis on collaboration and communication skills does not mean a watering down of the basic skills, and is designed to improve students' ability to work at modern jobs.
Report cards are to continue this school year, but the ministry is reviewing its system with an eye to providing more frequent updates. Parents are being consulted on the changes, Bernier said.
Foundation Skills Assessment tests in grades four and seven are also continuing after years of protests from teacher unions, but that program is also being examined for possible changes. FSA tests will be "enhanced" but not eliminated, Bernier said.
Provincial exams continue for graduates in math and English, but science and social studies will now be assessed at a classroom level rather than school-wide tests, Bernier said.
The ministry provided a series of top-ups to education funding this year, for bus service and to keep selected rural schools from closing. Applications are still being taken for a transportation fund until Sept. 30, requiring districts to drop across-the-board school bus fees to qualify.
Districts may still charge transportation fees for international students or those from outside a school catchment area.
NDP leader John Horgan highlighted the crowding in Surrey school district, where 7,000 students remain in portables despite an expansion program. The NDP says the B.C. government's claim of record per-student funding ignores a reduction of education funding as a share of the provincial economy.
"Since 2001, the B.C. Liberals have dragged public education funding in this province from the second best in Canada to the second worst," Horgan said. | http://www.wltribune.com/news/391773061.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/bb73b584ad962835e307704e620b8d6bd5acc30adff36ebf411a6b0b23a3019b.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:50:14 | null | null | Maeghan Watkinson is an artist who has grown up in the agriculture industry and shares her art in the Williams Lake Art Walk and Sale. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fcommunity%2F391782271.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/6390tribunea13DSC_0353CaryatAlwaysTravel.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Art Walk and Sale continues until Saturday, Sept. 10 | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Lakecity potter Cary Burnett views the art work created by Maeghan Watkinson that is hanging at All-Ways Travel during the 2016 Art Walk and Sale.
Maeghan Watkinson is an artist who has grown up in the agriculture industry and shares her ranch-inspired art in the 2016 Williams Lake Art Walk and Sale.
Her grandparents own Foster Bar Ranch in Lillooet.
Her father worked on ranches in the Merritt, Williams Lake, Riske Creek, Meldrum Creek, McLeese Lake, and Quesnel areas where she has lived with her family.
Maeghan has been involved in 4-H for 13 years and aspires to own and operate her own ranch when she is finished her education.
As an artist, Watkinson works in multiple mediums: painting, drawing, printmaking, and serigraph.
Her favourite mediums are painting and drawing, which are traditional mediums in which to represent the ranching lifestyle.
Maeghan’s art can be viewed at All-Ways Travel during the 2016 Williams Lake Art Walk and Sale that wraps up on Sept. 10.
Art Walk and Sale booklets are available at the Tribune/Weekend Advisor on First Avenue or at any one of the participating venues. Art walkers are eligible to collect stamps at each venue for the grand prize draw which is for a beautiful Spirit Bear created by Spirit Carver Dean who was carving on site Saturday at Lake City Auto Care Mall.
Walkers qualify for entries for the grand prize draw according to the number of stamps collected: 1-16 stamps equals one entry; 17 to 32 stamps equals two entries; 32 to 48 stamps equals three entries; and 48 to 63 stamps equals four entries.
Walkers also have the opportunity to participate in The People’s Choice Awards by voting for their favourite artists and merchants.
The three most popular artists and merchants will be recognized with a people’s choice award.
The 2016 Art Walk and Sale has grown substantially this year to include 63 business and public venues hosting art exhibits, up from 54 venues and exhibitors last year.
Of the 63 artists featured, Arty the Art Walker Willie Dye says 21 are new to the art walk this year and nine are returning to the art walk after a hiatus. | http://www.wltribune.com/community/391782271.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/3eee4b049d9b287be9e94be457661a1c2a8baf31b542e1a8d351d05b081e7c14.json |
[
"Jeff Nagel"
] | 2016-08-30T00:51:00 | null | null | Chronic wasting disease is similar to mad cow disease but infects and kills deer, elk and moose | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fnews%2F391677361.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/56631BCLN2007Chronic_Wasting_Disease_Map.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | B.C. wary of deadly deer disease in Alberta | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Known infections of chronic wasting disease in deer and other wildlife as of 2014.
Provincial wildlife officials are concerned that a disease killing deer and elk on the prairies could soon spread into B.C.
Chronic wasting disease, a degenerative nervous system condition similar to so-called mad cow disease, has been discovered in an animal 30 kilometres southeast of Edmonton.
That's the furthest west – by about 100 kilometres – that biologists have detected the deadly disease and the discovery intensifies concerns that infected deer may make their way to B.C.
No infected animals have been found yet in B.C. but wildlife health staff are stepping up monitoring efforts in the Peace and Kootenay regions, where deer are most at-risk.
Hunters are being asked to help by donating deer, elk and moose heads for analysis. Drop-off locations are listed at www.stopchronicwastingdisease.ca.
Anyone who encounters a sick or dead deer is urged to report it to B.C.'s wildlife health program by emailing wildlifehealth@gov.bc.ca.
Although chronic wasting disease is similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Alberta's agriculture and forestry ministry says there's no evidence it can infect humans, but notes the World Health Organization advises against allowing any meat source possibly infected by prions into the human food system.
It's thought to be unlikely that the disease could spread to domestic cattle or bison.
Outbreaks on game farms typically result in quarantines and culls.
Transmission is through saliva, urine and feces and is thought to be more likely to occur where elk and deer are crowded or congregate at man-made feed and water stations, according to the Alberta ministry.
Most of the Canadian cases have been in Saskatchewan. | http://www.wltribune.com/news/391677361.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/427d791d28491e22f1f7c9852f6600f2e325e4b4493d0a9f1d783fc6a25ab259.json |
[
"Gaeil Farrar"
] | 2016-08-30T20:52:32 | null | null | Members of the Lakers Car Club were front and centre again this year supporting the A&W Canada and MS Society of Canada campaign. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fsports%2F391781051.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/5840tribuneDSCF1468.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Lakers Car Club shines for A&W MS fundraiser | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Larry Gibbon (left) with his 1969 Dodge Dart GTS and Norman Prest with his 1967 Dodge Dart GTS at the show. Both men said they had restored and modified their vintage vehicles.
Members of the Lakers Car Club were front and centre again this year supporting the A&W Canada and MS Society of Canada campaign to raise funds to beat MS.
About 20 vintage and antique vehicles were spotted cruising into the parking lot next to A&W to show their vehicles and purchase a Teen Burger on Thursday evening, Aug. 25.
On that day $1 from every Teen Burger sold was donated to the MS Society of Canada.
Lakers Car Club members were also selling tickets on their latest raffle.
Ron Lynds, who was selling the tickets, was also showing his 1966 Dodge Charger which is in original condition and has only 52,000 miles on the odometer.
He said he bought the vehicle in 1980 with only 44,000 miles on it and hasn’t driven it much over the years he has owned it.
He said it is a survivor car which means it is completely original, right down to the paint job which was as shiny as a vehicle just out of the shop for this show and shine.
These days “survivor” cars are more valuable than old vehicles that have been painted and restored, Lynds said.
Larry Gibbon brought his 1969 Dodge Dart GTS to the show and Norman Prest brought his 1967 Dodge Dart GTS to the show. Both men said they had restored and modified their vintage vehicles.
Lakers Car Club raffle tickets are $2 each or three for $5 with the grand prize being a power generator and second prize being a propane campfire unit.
Lynds said the Lakers Car Club will be participating in the Canadian Tire Car Show and Shine on Sunday, Sept. 18 where their raffle draw will be made. | http://www.wltribune.com/sports/391781051.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/a7873efc1441b67480139ebfac37045b9a33e550e36aba2019c44f279c2b1974.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:50:13 | null | null | A group of Walmart cashiers received a personal message of thanks Friday for their part in helping to raise funds. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fcommunity%2F391782691.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/6573tribuneWalmartcampaignIMG_0432.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Breakfast Club of Canada helps students | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Marie Sharpe Elementary School principal Calvin Dubray (left) with a group of Walmart Williams Lake cashiers who are helping to raise funds for the Breakfast Club of Canada which supports the breakfast program provided for students at Marie Sharpe.
A group of Walmart cashiers received a personal message of thanks Friday for their part in helping to raise funds for the Breakfast Club of Canada.
The message of thanks was delivered in person by Marie Sharpe Elementary School principal Calvin Dubray on behalf of Robin Ryan, the Breakfast Club of Canada program advisor for Western Canada, and Marie Sharpe staff and students.
Marie Sharpe is the only school in Williams Lake that has a Breakfast Club of Canada program.
Walmart is currently running its Breakfast Club of Canada fundraising campaign which started Aug. 18 and runs until Sept. 9.
“Every dollar you raise will help feed a child, so I want to thank you for that,” Dubray said. “Many kids would struggle throughout their day if they didn’t have your support.”
He said breakfast is important for children to be able to concentrate on their studies but many children from impoverished families around School District 27 go to school without breakfast or not enough breakfast and the Breakfast Club of Canada addresses that need.
Last year Dubray said the Breakfast Club of Canada program fed more than 1,000,000 students in B.C. In addition to Marie Sharpe there is also a breakfast club at Anahim Lake Elementary-Junior Secondary School.
The Marie Sharpe breakfast club has been running for three years and serves between 35 and 40 students on average each school day, he said.
The breakfast program is open to all students at the school: those who didn’t have breakfast; those who may not have eaten enough breakfast; and students who just want to socialize with their friends.
He said teachers come in early to serve the breakfasts and many of the students at the school also volunteer to help.
“It is more than just a breakfast program but a social-emotional program where students give back, appreciate what they have and interact with their peers and staff in a positive environment,” Dubray said. “It has changed the climate of our school.”
Breakfast is usually a bit different each day: scrambled eggs, breakfast wraps, hot cereal, juice, fresh fruit, waffles, pancakes etc.
Dubray also invited the Walmart cashiers to give the school a call and make an appointment to have breakfast with the children some morning so they can see their contribution in action and the kids can meet the people who make the breakfast club possible. | http://www.wltribune.com/community/391782691.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/45a5af480254b5b7c773000aedfef4e408edc09ccb80321380121e90dd41bcc0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:58 | null | null | Before the Mount Polley Mine disaster struck two years ago, our communities lived in the reassurance from B.C. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F388998351.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Letter: Two communities, one voice: ground zero concerns about the Mount Polley Mine disaster | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Editor:
Before the Mount Polley Mine disaster struck two years ago, our communities of Xat’sull First Nation and Likely lived in the reassurance from B.C. and the company that no such tragedy could ever happen.
On Aug. 4, 2014, our lives and the landscape were changed forever, as the impacts of mining are forever.
Both our communities rely on the Quesnel Lake watershed for our way of life and economic prosperity. Yet the Mount Polley disaster — which sent 24 billion litres of contaminated process water and tailings into the lake — endangered all of that.
The mine waste has moved well off of the mine footprint, and is loose within the Fraser River watershed.
Two years later, it is still unknown what the long-term effects will be, and numerous local families and businesses have suffered great losses and hardship.
Many of us doubt we can be made whole again — by the mine or the province.
For example, previous to the disaster, harvesting and processing up to 200 salmon per Xat’sull family was at the heart of our food security, teaching our children about the land, and engaging in cultural practices such as trade and sharing with the less fortunate.
Mount Polley responded to our ongoing concerns about contaminated salmon by delivering the equivalent of three tins of salmon per Xat’sull member last winter.
The total lack of understanding and inadequate response from a company who boasts excellent First Nations relationships is stunning and revealing.
Likely and Xat’sull remain deeply concerned about water. After many months of local pressure to secure safe drinking water, the mine provided (inefficient) domestic water filters for Quesnel Lake homeowners.
It continues to use an under-performing water treatment plant that discharges mine effluent to Quesnel Lake, has not finalized a long-term water management plan and recently asked the Ministry of Environment to relax water quality requirements at the water treatment plant.
It has left local residents fuming. Have we really come to the point where wanting clean water makes us dissidents?
B.C. has not fined nor penalized the company for this disaster. Instead it granted hydro tax breaks — even as parent company Imperial Metals made a first quarter profit of $17.7 million for 2016.
This was done with the full support of the BC Liberal government who has benefitted financially from the donations of this company.
Local businesses and residents have received nothing.
While the province announced some changes to the mining code in July, the updates are not strong enough to prevent another Mount Polley disaster.
In 2015, the province’s Mount Polley Independent Expert Review Panel estimated two massive tailings dam failures will occur every 10 years. The recent BC Auditor General’s condemning report on mining in B..C stated the obvious: mining self-regulation is not working and a thorough overhaul is required. Communities across the province are still at risk.
Xat’sull never gave consent to the re-opening of the mine, nor to the ongoing discharges into the lake. Our traditional economic system lives off the interest, not the principle, of the land, to ensure long-term security. Current extractive economies are unsustainable and spend the principle in less than a generation.
For more than 100 years, the Quesnel Lake watershed produced billions of revenue dollars for government and industry through tourism, logging and mining, and a once profitable Horsefly River sockeye salmon run. Downstream farmers, First Nations, and sport and commercial fishers also depend on the integrity of the Quesnel Lake watershed for their livelihoods. It’s all connected.
The precedents being set now will impact future disasters and how they are addressed.
We all must demand that health and safety be put before one company’s profits, that sustainable economies be supported, and that local communities have decision-making powers over their own future.
Xat’sull and Likely know that it’s easy to be good neighbours when you respect and understand each other.
It’s time for the mining industry and B.C. to act in the best interest of impacted communities and ecosystems, not just the bottom line.
Richard Holmes M.Sc., R.P.Bio., Q.E.P., is a 42-year Likely resident and biologist, who worked closely with Xat’sull in the aftermath of the Mount Polley Mine disaster. He is a member of Concerned Citizens of Quesnel Lake, and the Mount Polley Mine Corporation Public Liaison Committee.
Jacinda Mack is a Xat’sull member, and a grassroots voice for protecting clean water. Previously, she was the Natural Resources Manger for Xat’sull and was actively involved in the First Nations response to the Mount Polley Disaster. Currently, she is the coordinator of First Nations Women Advocating Responsible Mining (FNWARM), a coalition of women leaders advocating mining reform in BC. | http://www.wltribune.com/opinion/letters/388998351.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/3a4942ddf62fb68668919fa5b1ac8fb30c5bf9020e758f9b6588cd8c14b66008.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:57 | null | null | Small communities have more than 400 doctor vacancies, with 'telehealth' and visiting specialists filling gaps | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Flifestyles%2F385489111.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/32759BCLN2007Kelly-Doug15-2.4.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Video links grow as rural health care shrinks | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Doug Kelly, chair of the B.C. First Nations Health Council
With patients in urban areas having difficulty finding a family doctor, the situation in rural B.C. is going from bad to worse, MLAs on the province's health committee were told Monday.
Ed Staples, a member of the B.C. Health Coalition, described his efforts to improve the situation in Princeton, a community of about 5,000 people that four years ago was down to one doctor providing on-call service.
Princeton now has four full-time doctors and two nurse practitioners, but there are still people who can't find a doctor in the region, including Penticton an hour and a half away. A recent search of the College of Physicians and Surgeons website turned up the nearest doctor accepting patients in Courtney on Vancouver Island, Staples said.
Health Match BC, the province's web portal for recruiting doctors, nurses and other health professionals, currently has more than 400 general practitioner vacancies, with 37 communities seeking 85 doctors. The result is "bidding wars" between communities to offer incentives to relocating doctors, and foreign doctors using a rural community as an entry point before relocating to the Lower Mainland, he said.
The B.C. government has announced its latest videoconferencing service for health care, linking psychiatrists with young people in Cranbrook. The service is available twice a month at the local Children and Family Development office, supplementing visits by specialists in communities such as Cranbrook and Princeton. Health Minister Terry Lake says video conferencing and electronic health records are a key part of the solution for reaching patients across B.C.
Doug Kelly, chair of the B.C. First Nations Health Council, told the committee of an Abbotsford doctor who travels to Carrier Sekani territory around Prince George for part of his practice, in a pilot project with Northern Health.
Kelly said video links and nurse practitioners are part of the solution to delivering rural and remote care, but the main obstacle is the business model for doctors that has them cycling through as many as 20 patients an hour to bill enough to cover their office overhead.
Committee members were also reminded that graduating doctors are increasingly reluctant to take on the demands of family practice, especially in smaller communities where they may find themselves on call around the clock. | http://www.wltribune.com/lifestyles/385489111.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/078047800455daca38434bd88910dcfa413f1c0d293b8189dec39d93c3d83563.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:52:34 | null | null | Returning Western Hockey League Victoria Royals goaltender Griffin Outhouse listens to coaches on the first day of training camp. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fsports%2F391781581.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/6076tribuneVictoriaRoyalsCamp20164.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Reporting for duty | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Returning Western Hockey League Victoria Royals goaltender Griffin Outhouse of Williams Lake listens to coaches on the first day of the 2016/17 season main training camp at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre Monday morning.
The Royals’ first pre-season game will be Sept. 2 in Kamloops with their first home pre-season game Sept. 10 againt Vancouver.
Outhouse and the Royals kick off their season at home on Friday, Sept. 23 against the Prince George Cougars. | http://www.wltribune.com/sports/391781581.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/560710fe08ce37f13ab3795897f1b6db02576780a8122fb8dbb1c9c26aa397e0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:57 | null | null | St. Andrew’s United Church has a new minister, Rev. Linda McLaren. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fcommunity%2F390647021.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/33260tribunea15unitedchurchpastor.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Open house Sunday welcomes new St. Andrew's United Church minister | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Rev. Linda McLaren is the new pastor at St. Andrew's United Church.
By Mary Telfer
St. Andrew’s United Church has a new minister, Rev. Linda McLaren.
She has just completed her Masters of Divinity program at the Vancouver School of Theology and was ordained on June 4, 2016.
Williams Lake is her first ministry.
Rev. McLaren is from New Liskeard, Ontario.
She moved to B.C. in 1987 and enjoyed a long successful career in health care as a RN in the lower mainland then in Prince George.
Throughout her life Linda was always involved in the United Church.
In 2012 she made the decision to change careers and pursue a call to the ministry. Our congregation is very happy she made the decision to come to Williams Lake.
Linda enjoys the small town atmosphere and friendliness she has already seen in Williams Lake.
She also loves outdoor activities such as jogging, hiking, kayaking, camping and skiing.
She has already discovered Scout Island, The River Trail and some of the many walking venues around town.
Please come and meet Linda and tour our church at our open house on Sunday August 21 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Tea and dessert will be served.
Check out our elevator that you helped to fund with your many donations at our Travel Nights, or join us at a Sunday Service at 10 a.m. and stay for coffee after. | http://www.wltribune.com/community/390647021.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/b4d1c49997d3f76adab1340e3e090eb8334de9ba57d87631ec80a4f8e472492e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:11 | null | null | Atlantic Power’s creosote railway tie burning plan is the perfect fit for the City of Williams Lake if you stop to think about it. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F390370121.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | A perfect fit | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Editor:
Atlantic Power’s creosote railway tie burning plan is the perfect fit for the City of Williams Lake if you stop to think about it.
Here you have Mayor Walt Cobb and two Liberal Party MLAs, all three with a proven track record of blindly supporting any form of “Job Creation” with absolutely no regard to environmental concerns, or long-term stewardship of our amazing gift of Supernatural B.C.
Remember your elected politicians’ past support of Taseko Mine’s idiotic plan to destroy Fish Lake, their current blind eye to Gibraltar Mine’s straight pipe of tailings effluent into the Fraser River, their denial that Mount Polley Mine tailings pond failure was a disaster, then their rush, rush, rush to get that mine up and running with no real consequences or responsible plans for their continuing buildup of excess effluent.
Yes, they will refute all this based on their in-house, self-regulating engineer’s sign-off.
Tough to argue against when our local polluting industries are “In Compliance” with the weakness of our province’s big industry driven regulations.
But seriously, when the citizens of Kamloops had zero tolerance for soiling their own yard, and sent the railroad tie burning plan down the track, what better name to pop up to the top of the list than the City of Williams Lake?
Just add one more polluter, they don’t care.
Is this the reputation you want?
Is this the legacy you wish to hand down to your children?
These polluters are gone in less than a generation, with a permanent scar in our backyard, and a tidy profit for the billionaire shareholders in Vancouver and Calgary. If you care, tell our politicians and speak with your vote. Kamloops did.
Robert Stokes
Williams Lake | http://www.wltribune.com/opinion/letters/390370121.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/99056b4e25c88e576ccf0851fd8c4b5f24584a089c8232d4f3c2c2ea27920981.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:45 | null | null | The Chimney and Felker Lakes Landholders Association recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fsports%2F390644251.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/31753tribuneb6IMG_9358puttinggroup.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Chimney/Felker lakes residents celebrate | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Pictured with the golf putting flag in the back row from the left are Mats Daneluz, Atley Bjorklund, Ronan Donnelly, Blake Hanley: front row from the left are Ashtynn Cullum, Addyson Cullum, Aislynn Donnelly, Anna Daneluz, Taryn Donnelly, and Maddex Cullum.
By Leanne McKerlich
The Chimney and Felker Lakes Landholders Association recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.
The first anniversary celebration was with a golf tournament held in June.
The most recent celebration this August was a photography contest and display held in the community hall.
More than 85 photographs were entered in the contest that was judged by Robert Moberg, a resident of the community and an award winning videographer.
Winners and runners up were chosen in six different categories. Alex Tranq won the People’s Choice Award for his photograph of a lightning storm.
Some of the more intriguing photographs at the display were ones dating back to the 1940s when the Chimney Lake Lodge was being built.
The lodge burned down many years later.
During the photography contest and exhibition held, Aug. 5-6 many children in the community also participated in a golf putting contest where they had to use hockey sticks.
They enjoyed free ice cream cones afterwards.
The Chimney and Felker Lakes Landholders Association is run by volunteers and supports the community’s volunteer fire department and Firemen’s Links golf course.
Over the years the association has sponsored many social events and projects involving stewardship of the creek, lakes and land.
There was a ratepayers association that predated the current landholders association, so there is a lot of history in this small and friendly community. | http://www.wltribune.com/sports/390644251.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/2358a6ade40640ad45c962970d34748af60cc9fed186f39d5e85b66b10ea4408.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T22:50:14 | null | null | Volunteers to ask seniors about staff, food, privacy, medications and other conditions in residential care | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Flifestyles%2F391445481.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/18269BCLN2007Nursinghomeflickr7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Senior home survey seeks volunteers | null | null | www.wltribune.com | B.C. has 300 seniors' care facilities, and residents and their loved ones are to be surveyed on conditions.
More than 250 volunteers have signed up to compile a survey of seniors in residential care, and B.C.'s Seniors Advocate is looking for more.
The 27,000 seniors living in 300 residential care facilities around the province are being asked about their experience with care home staff, the quality of food, privacy, medications and other conditions.
It's the first comprehensive survey done in B.C., to measure resident satisfaction and provide a "roadmap" for improvements, said Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie.
Interviews will be conducted in person by trained volunteers, and a matching mail-out survey will be sent to each resident's most frequent visitor.
The project is seeking volunteers with a range of professional backgrounds, ages and ethnicities. To apply as a volunteer, visit www.surveybcseniors.org or call the Office of the Seniors Advocate at 1-877-952-3181. | http://www.wltribune.com/lifestyles/391445481.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/96fa2c6a6797de2a06df699889addfccfe4d9676e72ab5358846a18f6c9b8782.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:11 | null | null | This is an open letter to chiefs, council and all communities. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F389656451.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Letter: Better safety measures needed for dipnetting; too many losses suffered | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Editor:
This is an open letter to chiefs, council and all communities.
We have suffered too many losses in the Fraser River.
First Nations regulations should be applied towards proper dipnetting, proper safety ropes and flotation devices.
Safety should be the first priority, the first concern.
Salmon fishing is sustenance for many local families, but it does not replace the lives of men, who are trying to supply food for their family.
Please consider and practice safety first, for the sake of all families.
Respect the Fraser, her tributaries and her turbulent water tributaries and her turbulent water, for she is unforgiving.
The mighty Fraser River.
Jo Ann Hamilton
Williams Lake | http://www.wltribune.com/opinion/letters/389656451.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/69bb672bbba015b1806e82099476af56eee628089d247a4c5dcce21a65c1a41c.json |
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"Diana French"
] | 2016-08-30T22:52:01 | null | null | Summer isn’t officially over but there is a hint of fall in the air and with school days just around the corner, it might as well be. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fopinion%2F391791181.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | OPINION: Issues galore | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Summer isn’t officially over but there is a hint of fall in the air and with school days just around the corner, it might as well be.
This summer has been busy especially in Williams Lake with numerous successful gatherings and events and no disasters.
For most of us, the living has been easy, we’ve had it good. The biggest topic of conversations has been the weather.
Maybe that’s why we aren’t paying much attention to what is happening elsewhere in the province.
For instance, the Peace River has had fires and floods and according to the United Way, the number of people using the Fort. St. John food bank has doubled since last year.
The once booming hub of B.C.’s gas fields has been whacked by falling energy prices. Thousands of workers lost their jobs and now their EI has run out.
(How, you may ask, does this jobless situation exist with the Site C dam construction in the area.)
There are numerous environmental issues winging around, like the large areas of green seas on B.C.’s southern coast.
Experts haven’t figured out yet what’s causing the colour change but so far it seems harmless.
Other issues aren’t harmless, like reports that salmon farms are responsible for many wild salmon deaths. When all else fails, there is always climate change to debate.
On the local scene, some problems will be front and centre again. Atlantic Power’s plan to burn railway ties is one issue. The outcome of the Softwood Lumber agreement is worrisome, although it hasn’t been getting much public attention.
Regarding the possible downturn in the local forest industry, the Cariboo Chilcotin Beetle Action Coalition was supposed to have created diverse job opportunities to replace any loss of forestry jobs.
What happened to those plans?
Speaking of the softwood agreement, where do companies like Canfor, International Forest Products and West Fraser, who have operations both here and in the U.S., stand on this issue?
Diana French is a freelance columnist, former Tribune editor, retired teacher, historian, and book author. | http://www.wltribune.com/opinion/391791181.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/b596877b70e83f491ac20092f9d69f97ab4af54c9dfff65dd3d4d5562a7c3d7b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:03 | null | null | I read the letters in the July 27 edition of the Williams Lake Tribune about all the issues with the energy plant. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F389656511.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Letter: Proceed with testing when issues resolved | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Editor:
I read the letters in the July 27 edition of the Williams Lake Tribune about all the issues with the energy plant.
I have worked for 13 years, near the plant.
I have never experienced any issues with the chemical smell, discharge, fires or any other issues.
Sometimes you can smell the fermenting sawdust, but I have never found it offensive or believe that it is harmful.
I don’t believe that the Ministry of Environment is letting dangerous discharge into the air, without first testing to see if it meets acceptable standards.
Atlantic Power has a comprehensive plan to handle the sensitive material, but some issues still need to be resolved.
When and if these issues get resolved, then they should be allowed to proceed with adequate and ongoing testing.
I hope that everyone realizes that this plant helped clean up a very poor air quality issue that was not very healthy before it was built.
Creosote coated ties lying beside railway tracks is not an acceptable alternative.
Does anyone remember the fly ash?
Bill Carruthers
Williams Lake | http://www.wltribune.com/opinion/letters/389656511.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/e9874d62ac2b2bc117da8ca7c7f01599c00b8310dc1daf6819e0ed7ba3fac4ad.json |
[
"Lerae Haynes"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:28 | null | null | Jake Ilnicki says that he’s very excited to have signed with the Manawatu Turbos in New Zealand. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wltribune.com%2Fsports%2F390643771.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/31544tribuneb1sportsjakeillnicki53800tribuneIlnicki-LorneCollicuttphoto2.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Jake Ilnicki signs with New Zealand Turbos | null | null | www.wltribune.com | Alexis Creek’s Jake Ilnicki has finished his professional rugby contract with San Diego and has now signed with the Manawatu Turbos in New Zealand.
Jake Ilnicki says that he’s very excited to have signed with the Manawatu Turbos in New Zealand.
“New Zealand is one of the best places to play rugby and learn as a player, so when the opportunity came up to play professionally here, I was very thrilled,” Ilnicki explained.
“It is something not many foreign players get to do in New Zealand.”
He added being one of the first players to play professionally in North America as something he was pretty proud of.
“My time with the San Diego Breakers was certainly a positive one.
“I got the chance to play with some of the U.S. players who we always come up against when I am with the Canadian team,” he noted.
“There were, of course, a couple of bumps in the road because it was the inaugural year of PRO Rugby, but it is very exciting to see the opportunity for growth in rugby in North America.”
He said he can definitely attribute part of his success to the opportunity he was given to play in Williams Lake.
“Mike Levitt and Morley Wilson were my coaches while I was attending Williams Lake Secondary School and I’ll always be grateful for the time and effort they put into the rugby program at the school,” he continued.
“It’s guys like them, Rodger Stewart and Todd Pritchard who were the backbone of my career.
“They put the work in for me and countless other kids, giving us the chance to try the sport out.
“I think I can say that when Matt Weingart, a former Canadian rugby player, came to do a rugby camp one summer when I was younger, it definitely lit a little fire inside me. I told myself, hey, if he can do it, so can I!”
The rugby community is awesome in Williams Lake, said Ilnicki, who hopes the game will continues to grow here.
“It’s important for older guys like me, and other senior guys at the Rustlers Rugby Club to continue their great support for youth in Williams Lake to give young kids an opportunity to play,” he said.
“There are countless people in Williams Lake who have been supporting me throughout my career, many family and friends, which makes it so great when I come home.” | http://www.wltribune.com/sports/390643771.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.wltribune.com/f96f04489f33b1e980b203dd73d1d22f0ff10a46b866def9c9d2ffa11c2ba060.json |
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