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Couple gets up $250,000 richer
  Christine Skorepa Citizen staff
   What a great way to get woken up.
   Julie McKenney was roused from a snooze Boxing Day by the voice of Don Gowan, chief executive officer of the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation, telling her she and her husband Kevin had won $250,000 - the top prize in the Cash to Fight Cancer lottery.
   Gowan said he was almost as excited to deliver the news as they were to hear it.
   “It was such an interesting feeling drawing the winning ticket of $250,000,” said Gowan.
   “We’re thrilled to have made a small impact on their lives.”
   The couple couldn’t immediately be reached for comment Monday.
   The McKenneys, along with all the lottery ticket buyers, can also take pride in making an impact on people’s lives.
   The lottery’s proceeds enhance healthcare across northern B.C., and this year they’re earmarked for an ultrasonic gastrovideo-scope, which allows doctors to perform endoscopic ultrasounds at the University Hospital of Northern B.C.
   “This highly sophisticated piece of equipment will cost close to $400,000, and the Spirit of the North has raised about $275,000 through other events and donations to date,” said Gowan.
   The machinery can capture images of the entire digestive tract -esophagus, stomach, pancreas, bile duct and rectum.
   It can also help locate cancerous tumors within and surrounding the digestive tract, as well as minute stones in the gall bladder and bile ducts.
   The McKenneys were joined by a handful of other Cash to Fight Cancer lottery winners, including $10,000 winner Anne Kitely, $5,000 combined winners David Doust and Wendy Pelletier,
 $5,000 winner Edith Martin and the winners of $1,000 each: Jamie Gerrie, John and Sherry Gorbet, Shelby Watson, Dan Stewart,
 Ryan Penner, Sandra Rossi, Kris Kole, Pam Hoecherl and Brin Nevile and Sonia and Frederick Clarke.
   All are from Prince George except the Clarkes, who are from from Granisle.
   Pick up tomorrow’s Citizen for more details on the winning ticket holders.
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NOT TOO COLD FOR A STROLL — Stafford and Kirt Schuman took 15-month-old Finlay along with family pets Claire and Max, out for a sunny walk along Ospika Boulevard Monday afternoon. The Schumans were very happy to be out in the warm weather as a change to more seasonal temperatures is forecasted for later in the week.
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One dead after lakeside incident
 Gordon Hoekstra Citizen staff ghoekstra@pgcitizen.ca
   A 44-year-old Prince George man was killed Sunday night in a snowmobile collision at Eena Lake, off Chief Lake Road northwest of Prince George.
   The RCMP received a call at 9:42 p.m. Sunday regarding a snowmo-biler hitting a tree. Police were told the victim showed no vital signs.
   BC Ambulance transported the man to the University of Hospital of Northern B.C. where he was pronounced dead.
   Early reports state the man was wearing a helmet and was with another snowmobiler. However the pair became separated leading one snowmobiler to backtrack and find the other man injured.
   The RCMP’s investigation was initially hampered by warm weath-
 er, which made the ice leading up to the island where the accident took place potentially unstable.
   The surface of the lake had to be tested for safety, but Prince George RCMP spokesperson Const. Craig Douglass said police officers reached the island Monday.
   The B.C. Coroner’s Service is also investigating.
   Few details of the collision were known by Monday afternoon, said Douglass, although he did say the man did not go through the ice.
   The police ask if anyone has information about this collision, please contact the Prince George RCMP at (250)561-3300 or anonymously call Crime Stoppers at 1(800)222-TIPS (8477).
   There have been other snowmobile fatals this year in northern B.C.
   In January, a 32-year-old
 McLeod Lake resident was killed in a collision on Carp Lake Road near McLeod Lake.
   Two people were on a snowmobile that went off the road when the driver lost control.
   In April, a snowmobiler was killed after hitting a tree, falling into a tree well and being crushed under his vehicle.
   The collision took place near Blue River in a popular snowmobile area east of Prince George.
   The man was part of a group of 15 snowmobilers, who discovered one of their riders was missing. They found the man 20 minutes later buried under his snowmobile.
   A tree well is a hole filled with loose snow that can form around the base of a tree. Often hidden by the branches of a tree, it can bury a person in up to six feet of snow. It is a danger common to backcountry areas.
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