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The Stuart Lake Sailing Club had some good news back in July, when a 15’ Sea Spray catama-ran was donated to the club by a local couple who wanted to see it used.

“It’s mostly been kids on the catamaran this summer, playing around,” says Paul Inden of the SLSC. “That’s the wonderful thing about sailing: it’s lots of fun.” The catamaran is ideal for those just learning how to sail, as it’s easy to steer and easy to bring back up if it tips over, and has already convinced one greade 12 student to start sailing by herself.

The good news about the catamaran was set against the bad news that the sailing camp planned for the summer didn’t get enough registrants, and had to be cancelled. “B.C. Sailing puts the camps on, and they need 12 to 15 registrants aged 6–15 years old. We only had fi ve register.” Still, Inden points out that there are 10 kids—most of whom have their own boats—who are part of the club. One 16-year-old went to Sidney, B.C. this summer and completed CANsail levels 1, 2, and 3. “He has one more level to complete, and then could come back here and instruct at the sailing club if he wanted to.”

The club also helps sponsor someone aged 13–25 to attend a SALTS (Sail and Life Training Soci-ety) trip aboard a traditional “tall ship”. Several 10-

day trips are held each summer, with those aboard crewing the ship around Vancouver Island.

Inden stresses that the SLSC is a year-round group, however. “The summer is busier, but we have two ice-sailing boats that are available to peo-ple who want to use them. Ice sailing is fast, and you need good conditions: no snow and black ice.” While most people will probably give up sailing for the year in late September, Inden says he’ll keep going until the ice comes. “When the warm lake water hits the cold morning air and pumps up steam in October and November, the lake is really pretty with the fog on it.”

For more information about the Stuart Lake Sailing Club, call Paul at (250) 996-8226.

Donation brings delight to sailing club

A Sea Spray catamaran that was recently donated to the Stuart Lake Sailing Club has been plying the waters of the lake all summer, to the delight of many young sailors.

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High-school stu-dents throughout B.C. can get a jump start on their career plans for the jobs of tomorrow with last week’s release of the 2015-16 Grad Plan-ner.

This year’s updated edition helps point stu-dents toward jobs that will be in demand in B.C. by the time they graduate. Carpenters, accountants and early childhood educators top the list of jobs in need by 2022. The 2015-16 Grad Planner can be found on the Ministry of Education website.

Launched in 2004, this easy-to-use planner also provides students with guidance and tools to help choose courses, credits and electives to successfully graduate high-school.

Key information of-fered in the guide:

* A list of in demand jobs from 2012-22.

* Required courses and elective credits needed for successful graduation and accep-tance into post-second-ary and apprentice pro-grams.

* Exams, awards and scholarships available to students.

* Links to websites with information to help with distance education, earning external credits, and preparing for post-secondary and career programs.

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The provincial government is grant-ing $204,691 to regional organizations to provide residents with the literacy skills they need to participate in B.C.’s growing economy.

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ties with the chance to improve their lit-eracy skills, these programs will help peo-ple reach their education goals,” Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad said.

The grant comes from the $2.4 million government has invested in community adult literacy programs in 75 B.C. com-munities in 2015-16.

Funding is distributed to non-profi t community groups to offer free literacy training that is easily accessible in local places such as schools, Aboriginal friend-ship centres and community centres. The program is tailored to suit the needs of any adult with low-literacy ability, and is de-livered by trained volunteers offering one-

to-one tutoring or small-group classes. Community organizations collaborate

with a public post-secondary institution in their region. These partnerships encourage the transition of adult learners from lit-eracy programs to post-secondary studies and/or employment training. The College of New Caledonia is collaborating with the Vanderhoof Public Library, the Fraser Lake Library, the Fort. St James Public Library and the Nak’azdli Band-Social Development Department. Northwest Community College is collaborating with Houston Link to Learning.

Since 2001, the provincial government has invested more than $25 million in community adult literacy programs, help-ing approximately 100,000 adults improve their reading, writing and math skills.

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The start of a new school year means that children—especially younger ones—will be exposed to a variety of diseases. Some, such as the common cold, can’t be reliably prevented; but a good many can, which is why it’s important to keep your child’s immunizations up to date.

“Starting off the school year with an up-to-date im-munization schedule is a safe and effective way to safeguard your kids from many serious and poten-tially deadly diseases,” says provincial health offi-cer Dr. Perry Kendall.

“By the time a child reaches five or six years old, he or she should have received booster shots that protect against measles, po-lio, chicken pox, whooping cough, and more, and kids in grades 6 and 9 should re-ceive follow-up vaccinations. This is all part of B.C.’s free, routine immunization program.

“It is thanks to routine vaccinations that many of these diseases seem like distant threats; however, as we’ve seen with recent whooping cough and measles

outbreaks, they still exist. They spread quickly among those who are not immu-nized, can cause serious complications, and can be life-threatening.”

Students entering kindergarten in Fort St. James are expected to have had booster shots that supplement their infant series of vaccinations (at two, four, six, 12, and 18 months). However, some par-

ents might be unsure how up-to-date their children’s immunizations, Pene Berth-elsen, a Public Health nurse at the clinic in Fort St. James, says all parents have to do is call the clinic (250-996-7178), and staff will check. If necessary, parents can then make an appointment to schedule any “catch-up” shots that are needed.

“The approach we take is that vacci-

nations are for a person’s health, but they’re also about protecting your com-munity,” says Bethelsen. “There’s the odd person who can’t have a vaccina-tion, and if everyone else does then it protects them. It’s herd immunity.”

Kendall notes that parents of children enrolling in kindergarten should pro-vide a copy of the child’s immunization record. “If someone at school contracts a vaccine-preventable infectious dis-ease, children who are not immunized may have to stay home until it is safe.” It is not mandatory for parents in B.C. to provide this information, although Kendall joins the Canadian Medical As-sociation in urging this province to join Ontario and New Brunswick, where parents are required to show vaccina-tion information when enrolling chil-dren in school.

Kendall says that having easy access to vaccination records gives healthcare professionals a way to identify parents whose children haven’t been immunized, so that they can be spoken to to help clear up any misinformation or misun-derstanding. “We can tell them the facts and what is real and what is not real, and hopefully convince a good proportion of them that what they’re actually fearing is

either unreal or not scientifi cally valid, or is in fact a misplaced fear.”

And it’s not just children who need to keep their vaccinations up to date; grown-ups need to watch out. “Adults should be getting tetanus shots every 10 years,” says Berthelsen, “to help prevent illness.”

Vaccinations help keep the whole community safe

Parents of children entering kindergarten in Fort St. James this year should ensure their child’s vac-cinations are up to date.

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With the start of the new school year RCMP ask drivers to be especially careful and watch for children on the roads as the kids head back to class.

The beginning of school also means School Zones will be in effect throughout the region with speed limits of 30 kilometers per hour during sched-uled school days from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Police will be closely monitoring drivers’ speeds in school zones around the province.

“The new school year provides a good opportunity for par-ents to speak to their children about road safety. Police want to ensure everyone has a safe start to the school year and again remind drivers to slow down and watch for children along the road,” said Cpl. Mike Rail.

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· Watch for school buses. Vehicles ap-proaching from both directions must stop for school buses when their lights are fl ash-ing.

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All across the province it’s back to school time (grade school, I mean: kindergarten through grade 12) for hundreds of thou-sands of parents and children. Is it, as those ubiquitous TV ads would have it, “the most wonderful time of the year” for parents? Not where back to school shopping is concerned. Any parent who’s recently had to shop for even basic items will have no problem be-lieving that the back to school spending sea-son is second only to Christmas in terms of cash outlay. Perhaps the ads mean that it’s the most wonderful time of the year for any-one selling school supplies, school clothing, and anything else destined to wind up in the school’s lost and found bin by the middle of October.

For the last 13 years our household has, like so many others, battled the back to school blues (students blue about going back to school, and parents blue when they think of next month’s credit card bill). We’ve been governed by the simple rhythm of the school calendar which is, by and large, something you don’t really think about; it’s simply the way things are, as immutable as the seasons.

Well, all that has come to an end, as our son Tim graduated from grade 12 in June. Don’t ask me where those 13 years fl ed to. It

seems like only yesterday that I was putting his kindergarten photo into an album while he gazed up at me, and then there I was, in the blink of an eye, gazing up at all 6’7” of him as we walked to the stage at graduation so he could receive his diploma.

I do know, however, that life in the Roden household will be somewhat different from here on in, no longer governed by warn-ings about missing the bus, reminders about homework, and attending all those events—PAC meetings, Christmas concerts, month-end assemblies—that crowd the school calendar. Part of me rejoices in the fact that Tim is now starting on another stage of his life; but part of me already misses the school days that have formed the timetable of our world since he started kindergarten all those years ago.

There are things I won’t miss, however, such as the bewildering number of forms that had to be fi lled out at the start of each school year, many of them carbon copies of the forms I’d fi lled out the year(s) before. Since we’ve lived at the same address for 18 years, I should probably have just photo-copied that fi rst set of forms back in kinder-garten and kept recycling them.

I also won’t miss the perpetual headache that is school lunches, the realisation that I have completely forgotten everything I learned in high school math (I’m sorry, Mr.

Cunningham; you did your best), and that my high school French isn’t much better, and the discovery—in the depths of a back-pack—of a notice about something coming up the next day that entails a) the baking of 24 cupcakes; b) the production of an in-sanely detailed costume; c) the creation of some craft that Martha Stewart could knock off in an hour but which will cause me noth-ing but grief, a few choice swear words, and a search for bandages; or d) all of the above (a particularly nasty recurring nightmare I’ve been having that will, I hope, fi nally go away now).

Not that I didn’t try my best, when I got the notices about those crafty parent-and child projects that various teachers insisted on holding. When Tim was in kindergar-ten, parents were invited to come in one day near Christmas and make gingerbread houses with their children. Like the eager fi rst- (and only-) time Mom that I was, I de-cided against buying a gingerbread house kit with pre-baked gingerbread (yes, these are a thing), and instead looked up gingerbread recipes and followed the most promising (that is to say, easiest) one as best I could.

I ended up with several sheets of (pretty much edible, once I scraped off the burnt bits) gingerbread which possessed roughly two straight edges among them. I decided that the icing would (probably) hold them

together, and act as a sort of grout, which was a bonus.

When I took the gingerbread into school the next day, however, I was taken aback to see that most of the other moms had pur-chased kits. A quick survey revealed that the moms who had baked gingerbread were al-most all fi rst-timers; the others were on their second or third child, and had presumably been there, done that, and decided life was far too short.

Then there was the overnight fi eld trip to the Vancouver Aquarium when Tim was in grade three. I stowed everything we were bringing—duffel bag, sleeping bags, pil-lows—under the bus, but was surprised to see, when I boarded, that most of the oth-er parents were clutching pillows. By the time we got to Yale, not quite halfway to Vancouver, I realized that the pillows were for more than just sleeping with, since I’d never ridden a school bus for longer than a few minutes and had not appreciated how bum-numbingly jolting they are for hours at a time. School bus drivers of the world, I salute you.

And now it’s come to an end, in what seems like no time at all—certainly not 13 years—leaving little except memories. Would I change anything, if it was all to do again? Not much; although I’d defi nitely give those gingerbread house kits a try.

The school years go by in no time at all

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***VOLUNTEER WITHIN YOUR COMMUNITY!...Are you or anyone you know interested in becoming a volunteer? No matter your age or your interests, there are plenty of opportunities for you or your family members to volunteer within our community. At Volunteer Fort St. James we assist local non-profi t organizations in recruiting volunteers and assist volunteers to fi nd an organization(s) they want to work with. If you chose to become a volunteer you are in control. You get to choose the event(s) you volunteer for, how often you volunteer and how much time you’d like to volunteer. Volunteers are not obligated to volunteer for any opportunities, no questions asked. It is as simple as that! If you’d like to become a volunteer, when opportunities become available you have the option to be notifi ed by email, or you can check out our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/volunteerfsj or stop by the Volunteer Fort St. James Offi ce Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:30 – 12:30 pm. You can sign up today to become a volunteer at www.volunteerfsj.ca. For more information you can e-mail us at [email protected] or call us at 250-996-8284 (Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 11:30 – 12:30 pm).

***ST PATRICK’S ANGLICAN CHURCH...Services at St Pat-rick’s Anglican Church will now take place only on the fi rst Sunday

of the month except for special oc-casions.

***STUART LAKE OUTREACH GROUP FOOD BANK SCHED-ULE... is the third Wed of each month: 10:00 am to noon at the Food Bank behind St. Patrick’s An-glican Church, Stuart Drive. Volun-teers needed. Call 250-567-6744. Food Bank needs canned meals, beans, stews, soups, tuna, salmon, sandwich meats, pasta and sauce, tea, coffee, toilet paper, canned milk, cereals, etc. At this time we have lots of sugar! Thank you for your generosity.

***UNTOLD TRAUMA...author seeks contributions from non-First Nations students and staff who experienced Catholic residential or day schools abuse in Northern BC. For more info email [email protected]

***FIREWEED STOPPING THEVIOLENCE & OUTREACHSERVICE For those who believe all is possible!...Provides free Confi dential, Safe, and Supportive counselling and outreach services for women. Hours of Service: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and every other Friday. Location: Room 203, 349 Stuart Drive, Fort St James, BC Phone: (250) 996-1214 Fax: (250) 996-7647 Email: fi [email protected]

***STUART LAKE OUTREACH GROUP... hosts a free hot lunch each Tuesday from 10.00am to 1.00pm in the space behind St. Patrick’s Anglican Church. Meals are served by members of area churches and other volunteers from the community. We wish to thank all those who assist by cooking, serving, and cleaning up. Your help is invaluable. We also host a free Christmas Dinner on Christmas Day to all who are lonely or in need. Volunteers for these programs are needed. Please call Gwen at 250-567-6744.

***ST. PATRICK’S ANGLICAN CHURCH SERVICES... will now take place only on the fi rst Sunday of the month except for special

occasions.***

FORT ST. JAMES SEARCH & RESCUE... steering committeemeetings fi rst Tuesday of everymonth. 7:00 p.m. above the Fort St. James Firehall. Training is thethird Tuesday of every month at theFirehall at 7 p.m. New members arewelcome and training is provided.For more information pleasecontact Paul at 250.996.7478 or Rod at 250.996.3231

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Friday 11:30-8:00Saturday 11:00-3:00

***AUXILIARY TO STUART LAKE HOSPITAL... Monthlymeeting 2nd Wednesday eachmonth. Hospital Cafeteria 7:00 p.m.

***NECHAKO VALLEYCOMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY...Child and YouthMental Health and CounselingServices available at no cost.Monday to Friday 8:30 am to4:30 pm. Call 996-7645 for appointment.

***FORT TRAP AND HANDGUNCLUB... meets last Sunday of every month. Contact (Sue)at 250-996-7728 (h) for moreinformation.

***MUSIC MAKERS...Newmembers always WELCOME. Not everyone has to be on stage, thereis lots of work behind the scenes. Call Heike Fonda at 250-996-7006 for more info.

***THE THRIFT STORE...has a new name! “The BargainBasement”. We are still at the samelocation, across from ShoppersFood Mart. Donations of clean clothing and small housewaresare greatly appreciated. Please, nobooks or magazines. Proceeds areused for community needs. OpenWed-Sat, 12 noon to 4pm.

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Are you a local agriculturist who has ever won-dered if you could be doing something “more” with what you produce? Are you someone who’s inter-ested in small-scale food processing? Or are you a local restaurateur who’d like to see about bottling and selling the homemade barbecue sauce or dress-ing that your customers rave about?

If so, then you won’t want to miss the “Get Ready to Grow” workshop being held in the Fort St. James fi re hall on Sept. 22 at 10:00 am. It’s a learning session about the value-added food busi-ness, co-sponsored by Beyond the Market (an economic development strategy run by Commu-nity Futures Fraser Fort George) and the Certifi ed Organic Association of BC. However, Beyond the Market’s Jillian Merrick says that attendees don’t have to be certifi ed organic to attend the session.

“It’s for anyone who wants information about value-added food businesses and how to get start-ed,” she says. She describes value-added food busi-nesses as ones where a basic piece of food is trans-formed into a product with a higher value to the consumer: turning meat into jerky, for example, or berries into preserves or ice cream.

“It’s aimed at folks who’ve got started in the ag-riculture sector but now want to go to the next level, or anyone interested in small-scale food process-ing,” she says. “And if a restaurant, for example,

wants to get started producing its own product it can help them negotiate the regulatory environ-ment.”

There are four main questions that the ses-sion sets out to answer. Can you transform food products into something more valuable? Are there buyers out there interested in your products? What regulations affect your industry? Is there a profi t to be made?

Candice Appleby, Executive Director of the Small Scale Food Processors Association, will be facilitating the session and answering these ques-tions. She is a provincial expert in the value-added food industry, with extensive experience in food safety programs and in fi nancing farm ventures. In addition to the Fort St. James event, there will be workshops in Prince George, Vanderhoof, Smith-ers, Terrace, and Dunster.

Merrick is pleased to be able to continue to bring these workshops to Fort St. James, which was in danger of losing the Beyond the Market program due to limited funds on the part of the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako. “The RDBN found it challenging to offer these workshops in Vanderhoof and Smithers, and there was no funding for Fort St. James. So the District stepped up and came in as a partner in 2014 to make up the shortfall and ensure that people here can still get access to the sessions.”

Get Ready to Grow is free of charge for all who want to attend. To register, please contact Jillian Merrick at 250-562-9622, ext. 115.

“Get ready to grow” with agriculturist workshop

The Get Ready to Grow workshop will offer information on value-added food businesses—such as turning meat into sau-sages—and how to get started.

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A campaign to educate peo-ple about Fetal Alcohol Spec-trum Disorder (FASD) is about to kick off in Fort St. James. Entitled “I’m Worth the Wait: Nine Months No Alcohol”, the initiative is being spearhead-ed by Joan MacGillivray, the Community Action Program for Children FASD worker at the Nechako Valley Community Services Society.

Sept. 9 is FASD Prevention and Support Day, and Mac-Gillivray had two breakfasts planned: one at the high school and one at the Key on Stuart Drive beside the Credit Union. “At the high school we wanted to show that whatever goes in mom’s mouth affects her baby, while at the Key we wanted to bring the community together.” The 10:00am Key breakfast on the 9th is open to all commu-nity members who’d like to at-tend.

One of the purposes of the current campaign is to educate service providers about how they can support mothers in their plans to not drink during pregnancy. “And men can help their partners by taking a ‘preg-nancy pause’ while she’s preg-nant,” says MacGillivray, add-ing that other people can help out by making sure they offer non-alcoholic drinks at par-ties and gatherings, and by not pressuring people to drink. “We have to be compassionate, and

support pregnant women in not drinking, because it’s not an in-dividual problem; it’s one that needs community support.”

She notes that there are many organizations around the Fort that offer support, advice, and assistance to women who are pregnant, think they might be pregnant, or are trying to get pregnant, and who need help, either with their drink-ing or with any other questions they have. The medical clinic, public health units, and mental health and addictions unit have resources, information, and support, while the NVCSS of-fers a range of support for par-ents, and for their children aged 0 to + years.

“It’s not just for FASD,” adds MacGillivray, noting that the society has a Stop the Violence counsellor and other resources for parents, guard-ians, and children. “And we’re very resourceful. If we can’t help, then we will direct you to someone who can.”

However, FASD is a ma-jor concern in the province. A conservative estimate is that nine out of every 1,000 babies in Canada are born with FASD, which means at least 41,679 people affected in British Co-lumbia. It’s the leading known preventable form of brain dam-age and developmental disabil-ity in the country, which is one of the reasons that September is FASD Prevention and Support month throughout the province.

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awareness of FASD has come a long way over the last few decades. “Schools have sup-ports in place for students with FASD, and testing for FASD and other behavioural issues can be done through the Col-lege of New Caledonia. All you need is a referral from a doctor if you suspect your child might have FASD. About 70% of the pregnancies of women between the ages of 20 and 30 are un-planned,” she continues. “If the mother was a social drinker then the baby might be fi ne, but if she was addicted there’s more risk for the child.”

This is one of the reasons that MacGillivray is trying to get funding to have two “Think Before You Drink” machines installed in washrooms in the Fort. For $2 a woman can ob-tain a pregnancy testing kit in privacy and get accurate results almost immediately. The ma-chines will also provide infor-mation about who to call local-ly if the woman has questions or concerns.

MacGillivray says that the NVCSS is looking to see if there is enough local inter-est from mothers and fathers to form a parents’ support group. “It would be open to all for whatever the community needs,” she says. “It’s a way to share resources.” Anyone in-terested in being part of a par-ents’ support group, or fi nding out what others services the NVCSS offers, can call them at (250) 996-7645.

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Those using the Nor-dic ski trails at Mur-ray Ridge this winter will be able to take advantage of two large kiosks providing trail maps and information, as well as a new out-house, thanks to a grant from the Northern BC Tourism Association’s Community Tourism Opportunities program and the District of Fort St. James.

The $3,500 grant was given to the Stuart Lake Nordic Society, with the NBCTA and the Dis-trict each funding 50%. Over the weekend of August 29, volunteers from the Nordic Society erected the kiosks—similar to those found in BC parks—and out-house. “A big thanks to Al Henderson for do-nating his backhoe and his time and effort to the project,” says volunteer Paul Inden. “Putting the posts in the ground, dig-ging out the pit for the outhouse: what took him a day would have taken us a week by hand.”

The SLNS works with Murray Ridge to maintain the Nordic trails there, and volun-teers use a sled to main-

Grant helps Nordic club build new facilities

Paul (l) and Sam In-den were part of a work bee on Aug. 29 at the Nordic trails at Murray Ridge, con-structing new kiosks and (seen here) a new outhouse for the cross country trail network there, as well as trimming brush, looking for blow downs, sweeping out the hut, and piling old lumber. The work bee consisted of Toni Dagenais, David Nut-brown, Marilyn Gam-mon, and the Inden family (Paul, Kelley, Hannelise, and Sam

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tain a trail along the lake, from the National Historic Site past Cot-tonwood Park to Stones Bay. “They’re very close and convenient for skiers who live in

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Campfi re bans were lifted for most of B.C. heading into the Labour Day weekend, and rain in most areas of the province has helped crews make progress on most of the 176 fi res burning in B.C. as of last week.

Campfi re bans were lifted in the Kamloops and Southeast fi re cen-tres, although restric-tions continue on use of burn barrels and fi reworks. No fi re bans remain across northern B.C., and the only re-maining campfi re ban is in the Cariboo fi re cen-tre for areas west of the Fraser River.

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main in the Chilcotin, South Thompson River valley and the south-ern part of the Prince George fi re centre. But continued cool weather and showers last week offered some relief for communities and fi re-fi ghters.

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Some of the most threatening fi res have eased. Evacuation or-ders for the Testalinden Creek fi re near Oliver were downgraded to alerts last week, and alerts were lifted for Grand Forks and Chris-tina Lake as B.C. and U.S. crews made prog-ress on the Stickpin fi re burning near the border in Washington.

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age for the 2015 forest fi re season continues to track at a similar pace as last year, with 296,000 hectares burned and $255 million spent as of last week. That’s above the 10-year average for B.C. fi res, but lower than the worst seasons in recent years, in 2003 and 2009.

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On Monday, September 28, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. in the Council Chambers at the District of Fort St. James Offi ce, 477 Stuart Drive West, Fort St. James, BC, I will sell at Public Auction the lands and improvements thereon, in the list set out be-low, UNLESS THE OUTSTANDING DELINQUENT TAXES, INCLUDING INTEREST, ARE PAID PRIOR TO THE DATE OF TAX SALE.

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Look out for some new signage around Fort St. James in the fall of 2015, when close to three dozen directional and information-al signs will be put in place. “The signs were part of our Tourism Strategy,” says Dis-trict EDO Emily Colombo. She adds that they were also necessary because of the growing population of Fort St. James. “Between 2006 and 2011 our population in-creased by 25%; the second fastest growing community in the province. More and more people are moving to town.”

The signs have been made possible by a grant from the Northern BC Tour-ism Association Community Tourism Opportunities pro-gram, to help provide “way-fi nding signage”. In addition to pointing out places within the Fort (such as the library, bike park, tennis courts, fi re hall, arena, and more), signs will show the way to the Nordic trails at Murray Ridge, the Kokanee salmon run near Sowchea Creek, and the scenic drive from the National Historic Site to Stones Bay Road and then

to Mt. Pope. There will also be signs for places such as the Sailing Club, Our Lady of Good Hope church, the cemetery trails, and Sow-chea Provincial Park, as well as signs giving directions to various locations.

The purpose of the grant—which pays for 50% of the costs of the project—was to “develop and imple-ment a wayfi nding system in Fort St. James providing di-rectional signage to instruct tourists on key locations and traffi c fl ows.” Colombo says that the District’s Tourism Committee, which includes Ruth Lloyd and Bob Grill, did drives around the town and identifi ed locations where signage was needed, as well as what information needed to be on the signs.

The signs are ready to go, as soon as consultation has fi nished with BC 1 regard-ing any underground infra-structure where the signs are to be located. The necessary permits are also being ob-tained from the Ministry of Highways.

The Community Tour-ism Opportunities program is designed to assist com-munities that are in a posi-tion to implement their own tourism building initiatives.

New signage will high-light local attractions

An information sign about Kokanee salmon run near Sowchea Creek is just one of the many new directional and location signs going up in and around the Fort.

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Eligible activities for CTO cost-shared funding must focus on incremental tour-ism related projects that are initiated by the community.

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