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Faulkner murder suspect nabbed
Tyler Neudorf has been arrested for the murder of Leah Marie Faulkner, the Prince George woman whose body was found last month in West Lake provincial park, says the Prince George RCMP.
With the assistance of Kamloops RCMP, members of the Serious Crime Unit arrested Neudorf without incident at a residence in the Kamloops area Friday.
Faulkner, 21, had been missing from her Prince George home for almost a month before her body was discovered March 6 in a frozen canal near the lake, southwest of Prince George.
She was last seen Feb. 11 at her Flamingo Road residence, where she lived with her 15-month-old son and with Neudorf, her boyfriend.
At the time of her disappearance, Faulkner had left her son with her parents, Bev and Rick Faulkner, in Quesnel for a weekend, but never returned for him or called the parents.
FAULKNER
Her parents had said it was unusual for their daughter to be gone more than a few days without getting in touch with family.
The Faulkners had issued a public plea in a bid to generate clues on their daughter’s whereabouts. An extensive ground and air search ensued, but failed to turn up anything.
The family had also launched a poster campaign, distributing 300 bulletins in Prince George as well as in Dawson Creek, Quesnel, Merritt and Kamloops, where Faulkner had been looking for work last fall.
At the time, RCMP had no solid leads
in the case and said foul play was a possibility.
Faulkner’s last contact with her family was a phone call to her grandmother in Prince George around noon on Feb. 11.
In an interview, Neudorf had said he last saw Faulkner at their Flamingo Road home before he went to bed at 10 p.m. that night, and had “had sleepless nights always waiting for a call.”
Neudorf has been remanded in custody for a court appearance in Prince George today on a charge of second degree murder.
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Citizen photo by Brent Braaten
DANCING UP A STORM - Dancers from Excalibur Performers Association perform ’Pride’ at the Saturday performance of Keltic Fire at the Prince George Playhouse. Saturday was the final night of a five-night run of Keltic Fire, directed and choreographed by Bonnie Mathers, owner of
Excalibur Theatre Arts Company.
Support for NDP hot topic for IWA
by SCOTT STANFIELD Citizen staff
There was plenty of discussion about forestry issues, but the hot topic of debate concerned the support of the NDP, said IWA (Industrial, Wood and Allied Workers of Canada) Local 1-424 president Fred Carroll, following the union’s convention Sunday at the Ramada Hotel.
Dozens of Local 1-424 members attended the annual gathering, at which a number of resolutions were passed and will be forwarded to the government.
One resolution is to stop the exporting of logs from both private and public lands “because we’re exporting our jobs,” Carroll said.
Another is to support the NDP.
“We know they made mistakes, but they’re not vindictive, nasty people, unlike those in Victoria,” Carroll said. “He (Premier Gordon Campbell) is certainly not doing anything for our members with a new forest policy.”
Proposed amendments to the Forest Act, along with the softwood lumber crisis, is the thrust of a series of upcoming IWA-sponsored town hall
meetings in northern B.C.
The IWA’s national president Dave Haggard is scheduled to deliver a presentation on the proposed provincial forest policy changes and give an update on softwood lumber tariffs at the meetings.
“There’s no question it’s (Forest Act) flawed, and the government recommendations are just as flawed,” said Haggard, who attended Sunday’s convention. “We think the town hall meetings will help garner support and convince the government to do things differently.”
Citizen photo by Brent Braaten
Jesse Seitz, left, Sean Johnson and Christopher Hornby all with the Navy League Cadets 0142 Aurora pick up garbage along Victoria Street on Sunday morning as part of the Civic Pride spring clean-up. There were also members from Yellowhead Rotary cleaning up Hudson Bay Slough, Prince George Naturalists Club cleaning up Cottonwood Island Park and volunteers from CPAC cleaning up Connaught Hill Park.
Volunteers pitch in for RG.
About 150 youths who belong to the Prince George Sea, Army, Air and Navy League Cadet Corps were busy Sunday collecting hundreds of bags of garbage at various locations around the city.
Their efforts were part of the annual spring Civic Pride clean-up program, in partnership with the Civic Pride Action Group, Canadian Waste Services, P.G. Sanitation, Fraser-Fort George Regional District and the city.
Also involved were the Yellowhead
Rotary, who cleaned up the Hudson’s Bay Slough, and the Prince George Naturalist Club, who cleaned up Cottonwood Island Park on Sunday.
“With the cadets on board it’s been one of our best years,” said Robyn Mc-Conkey, the city’s community recreation co-ordinator.
McConkey extends a special thanks to P.G. Sanitation and Canadian Waste for donating the garbage bins, which were placed at six locations around the city, as well as the drivers who picked
up the bins and transported the garbage to the Foothills Landfill site.
There were also containers for compostable waste placed at Hudson’s Bay Slough and College Heights Secondary.
McConkey encourages Prince George residents to continue to pitch-in and pick up litter in their neighbourhoods, greenbelts, school yards and their own back yards.
“Civic pride is year-round,” she said. “Every little bit helps.”
According to Haggard, who represents 55,000 people across the country, Local 1-424 represents about 5,600 people, which he said is the largest IWA local in Canada.
There will be four town hall meetings, one of which is scheduled for 7 p.m. May 5 at the Ramada in Prince George.
This follows a 2 p.m. meeting on the same day in Quesnel. There are also meetings scheduled for Houston (May 7) and Fort Nelson.
All IWA members and the public are welcome to attend.
Grass fire season is upon us
There were several grass fires within city limits during the latter part of the past week, says the city’s fire rescue service.
On Thursday shortly before 3 p.m. firefighters extinguished an estimated 50 square-foot grass fire off Highway 16 west of Northland Chrysler.
That same day, shordy before 5 p.m., crews put out another small grass fire at Carrie Jane Grey Park, which was followed by yet another grass fire, this one about an eight square-foot smoldering area, at about 5:30 p.m. in the 2500 block of Oak Street.
There were two further grass fires on Friday, the fire department said.
The first occurred shortly after 5 p.m. at Fairview Crescent, where firefighters extinguished a small fire, while the second occurred around 7:45 p.m. at Bowser Avenue near Carney Hill, where the blaze was out when fire crews arrived.
According to assistant fire chief Rick Docksteader, most grass fires occur from about 2 - 5 p.m., with a noted area being around Carrie Jane Grey Park where students pass by on their way home from school.
“A lot of it is human error,” Docksteader said. “The majority of our calls are from the human aspect.”
In fact, Docksteader attributes 95% of grass fires to carelessness, such as discarded cigarette butts, and about 5% to things such as sparks from motorcycles.
Besides being careful with cigarettes, Docksteader said speaking with children about the perils of playing with matches can go a long way in helping prevent grass fires. •
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