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PRINCE GEORGE
High today: 4 Low tonight: -1 Details page 42
Serving the Central Interior since 1916
We ’re saving for a snowy day.
Champagne, who didn’t want to risk a prediction year also depend on the snowfall pattern. One one
on any potential savings this year. big snowfall that can be plowed once costs much
He did say they’re hoping to increase the less than a steady fall of snow that must be plowed
reserve fund which was depleted during a string of continuously, explained Champagne,
heavy snowfall years in the early 1990s. “You have There are also fixed costs — including the
to be prepared for that.” upkeep of snow removal equipment — that the city
And even though there’s little snow on the roads pays regardless of how much snow falls, he said,
now, during mild winters, the sanding budget goes The city bases its cost estimates for snow removal up as the roads thaw during the day and freeze using current labor and equipment costs and histori-
over night, said Champagne. The costs in any given cal snowfall data dating back to the 1960s.
by GORDON HOEKSTRA Citizen staff
The City of Prince George is not counting its chickens just yet when it comes to this year’s low snowfall.
Besides, any savings on a projected $4.1-million snow removal budget (for a normal year) is plowed back into a reserve fund for heavy snowfall years.
It could start snowing next week right through until spring, said Public Works manager Gary
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■ Cougars might be having a tough time finding the net on their current road trip, but with 10 players hailing from Alberta, there’s no shortage of family members tagging along. /8
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■ Many Canadian seniors will face poverty in the years to come because of changes in the workplace in the 1990s, predicts a professor of social policy at the University of Victoria. /18
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Citizen photo by Dave Milne
HELPING HANDS — Staff at the Victoria Street Barton Insurance office decorate Christmas tree, which is the centerpiece for food collection boxes to assist the Salvation Army’s Christmas hamper drive. Standing, from left: Joanne Prediger, Florence Ward and Leanne Rudolph. Kneeling are Genny Mager and Jodi Stoutburg. See story, page 13.
anonymous tips from the public, said Ruth Christensen, the ministry’s communications co-ordinator in the Omineca-Peace Region.
Loveseth was fined $3,160 last spring. He was also ordered to pay a further $4,940 to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation as part of the conditions of a suspended sentence. At the time the judge ordered a publication ban in that case until Velkjar’s case was heard by the courts.
Both men had their rifles forfeited, and will receive a five-year minimum licence suspension.
Anyone who finds evidence of illegal hunting anywhere is asked to call the toll-free Observe, Record, Report line at 1-800-663-WILD (9453).
A Fort St. James man has been fined $1,000 and sentenced to 240 days in jail after being convicted of eight hunting violations, the B.C. Environment Ministry said Thursday.
John Calvin Velkjar pleaded guilty in Fort St. James provincial court this week to poaching two elk, a moose and a whitetail deer near the Necoslie River, southeast of Fort St. James, in the fall of 1997.
The Wildlife Act violations included hunting without a licence, hunting wildlife with the use of a light, failure to remove edible portions of wildlife, illegal possession of wildlife and making a false statement.
Velkjar was charged, along with Kit Loveseth, also of Fort St. James, after conservation officers received
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More Furbys on auction block
Here’s another chance to get a Furby for Christmas. Hudson’s Bay Co. is donating 600 of the talking, singing, furry creatures to 32 radio stations and children’s hospitals across Canada.
In Prince George, Country 101 FM has received 12 Furbys, and they will be auctioned off for five consecutive days during air time from 6 to 9 a.m. beginning Monday, Dec. 14.
Funds raised will go to Salvation Army’s Christmas Kettle campaign. For more information call Rob Mitchell at 562-2101.
Ann Landers.................20
Around Town.................22
Bridge......................42
Business ................29-32
City, B.C..........3,5,7,13,35
Classified ..............39-43
Comics .....................28
Crossword ..................28
Entertainment 25-27
Horoscope ..................42
Lifestyles .. .17,20,22,24,44
Movies...................26,27
Nation....................6,15
Sports ...................8-12
Television..................27
World....................14,34
Santa alive and well after UNBC debate
close look at the credibility of the other debaters.
“He (Rev. Zimmer) is in the business of believing,” said Macknak.
The winning team came back just a strong, providing stockings full of proof to Santa’s existence.
Zimmer produced presents that had been found in unexpected places containing just what he wanted for Christmas.
Campbell provided Santa’s e-mail address and postal code which proved he existed. In the end no doubt could be found of Santa’s existence.
Not long after judge Harvey proclaimed Santa’s existence, the jolly old soul appeared through a crowd of cheers and good tidings.
by ARLENE WATSON Gtizen staff
Santa’s existence was confirmed this week during a debate in the Winter Gardens at UNBC.
More than 100 people, children included turned up to hear debaters banter over “Is there a Santa Claus?”
In the end, judge Mark Harvey declared Santa’s existence is as real as “love and devotion.”
The Wednesday evening debate went on for more than an hour with the pro team sprinkling sugary arguments all over the opposition’s pessimism.
The anti-Santa team consisted of UNBC representatives Richard Lazenby, Doug Baker and Denis
Macknak. The pro-Santa debaters were Anglican priest Peter Zimmer and UNBC library staffers Neil Campbell and Lyn Benn.
The first to step up to the podium was UNBC’s professor of anthropology, Richard Lazenby. “Rubbish, balderdash and poppycock” he proclaimed. “Santa is but a myth.” Lazenby then produced a skull in a Santa hat. He went on to say that DNA collected from the skull explained that “Santa was, but is no more.”
His comrade Baker said Santa had been run out by over-regulations such as minimum wage increases for people under four-feet tall and the Asian toy crisis.
Macknak said we should take a
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