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 Jumping from the heart
 Payton Chencharick, McKenna Jurista and Carson Price, all 6, along with 267 other Malaspina elementary students raised over $7,000 for the B.C./Yukon Heart and Stroke Foundation during their Jump Rope For Heart event Friday.
Chinese university finds roots in Barkerville
 Frank PEEBLES Citizen staff fpeebles@pgcitizen.ca
   Barkerville has been recognized from across the Pacific Ocean as an important education facility.
   The National Historic Site was included when officials from Wuyi University in China came to forge formal relationships with this area’s higher learning facilities.
   Wuyi University is based in the city of Jiangmen, in the province of Guangdong.
   It is part of an urban hub for that region of Asia, at the centre of a transportation and population network on the Pacific coast. It is also the primary mainland connection for Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.
   Jiangmen is also Prince George’s twin city in China, a relationship that has been gaining strength over the past five years or so.
   Barkerville has been a key partner on the Prince George side of the partnership.
   “This twinning is of tremendous significance for Barkerville,” said John Massier, chair of the Barkerville Heritage Trust.
                                                                                                                                                                        — see BUILDING, page 5
Returning home with the Musical Ride
Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff mnieben@pgcitizen.ca
hen the RCMP Musical Ride appears in Prince George in July, it will be something of a homecoming for one of its members.
  Cst. Jennifer McRae, 29, lived in Prince George from 1995 to 2002, when she graduated from D.P. Todd and left for university and a career in the national police force.
  She’s bracing herself for some extra attention when the tour arrives in the city for performances on July 13-14 at Exhibition Park.
  “My mom and dad are spreading the word around, letting them know I’m going to be there,” McRae said.
  She rode horses when she was very small but that was about it until she got a chance to enroll for a three-year stint with the musical ride.
  “When the opportunity presented itself, I jumped on the chance,” McRae said.
  The first year was strictly for training and she’s about to start her second year as part of the show.
  What will probably be one of the biggest highlights of her career occurred a year ago when McRae was one of 11 Musical Ride members to participate in the Changing of the Queen’s Life Guard at Buckingham Palace in London, England.
  It was part of the Diamond Jubilee celebration commemorating Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years on the throne and it was only the second time in the 350 year history of the Queen’s Life Guard that the RCMP has participated. The last occasion was in 1937.
  The RCMP remains the only police force to have had the honour and McRae was the first female RCMP member to be included.
  But she will have plenty of other memories to cherish by the time her tour is finished. She also traveled to the United States and Germany and through Southern Ontario and Manitoba last year.
  This year’s tour goes through Northern Ontario
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 and British Columbia.
   “The camaraderie between all of the members is fantastic,” McRae said when asked about the appeal of being a Musical Ride member. “The fact that we get to go and tour the country and visit people that want to see us and are happy to come out to the show and visit the horses.
   “It’s a really positive experience, I love that part.” Last year, McRae was on a 11-year-old mare named Misty and this year she’s on a seven-year-old gelding named Dancer. He’s 16-hands tall and has “a lot of energy.”
   For those who go to the show, keep an eye out for the second rider out in the second wave of eight people and horses. That will be McRae and Dancer.
   “It’s essentially cavalry movements done to music,” McRae said.
                                                                                                                                                           — see FOLLOWING, page 3
 Debt
 counsellor helping in Haiti
 Ted CLARKE Citizen staff tclarke@pgcitizen.ca
   In a climate as hot as Haiti’s, it doesn’t take long for people to get thirsty.
   Tropical fruit grows on trees there year-round, so juice supplies are abundant.
   All the tools for a thriving small business exist in the Caribbean Island. All that was needed was a bit of a push.
 mNow they're making moneyfrom their juice business... with that they can pay their $35 rent and can pay $30 for their kid to go to school...
                                                                                                                                                    — David Low
                                                                                                                                                                        David Low was more than happy to supply that shove.
  The Prince George debt counsellor made his fourth trip to the poverty-stricken country a few weeks ago and came home with news of another business entrepreneurship success story.
  He provided $300 to a young couple to start a street market juice business to overcome their debt, which had gotten to the point where they could not afford their rent, were facing an eviction notice, and had to pull their kid out of school.
  “Now they’re making money from their juice business - it’s only about $150 a month, which is $150 more than they had -but with that they can pay their $35 rent and can pay $30 for their kid to go to school and they have some money left for food,” said Low. “On the side of their juice business they buy mangos and make a 50 per cent markup on the mangos they sell.”
  Low and his wife Dorothy, a registered nurse, operate the charity Life International Foundation Inc., funneling donations to help the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere rebound from the 2010 earthquake, which killed
223,000    people and caused widespread property damage. — see MAKING, page 4
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