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A small crowd of about 10 people kept two speakers with Enbridge busy answering questions at a presentation on August 23. Michele Perret, senior manager of community relations and Shane Kelly, a senior geotechnical engineer, both spoke and took questions from the small audience. Enbridge asked to present at a Chamber of Commerce meeting on the proposed 1,177 km twin Northern Gateway pipeline.

A small crowd of about a dozen people came out to watch a film on the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline at the local library Tuesday, August 16. The August 16 film was a video recording of speakers who came to communities across the proposed pipeline route last year, to talk about their experiences with Enbridge pipelines.

Participants in the Summer Reading Program were presented with medals for their reading accomplishments at the Fort St. James Bicentennial Library. Nancy Vezina (back left) and Tamara Timothy (back right), representatives of the Royal Bank, which sponsors the program, handed out the medals. Participants (left to right): Rochelle Owens, Rae-Ann Lynn, Ocean Wingerter, Shaman Pauls, Onawa Gustafson, and Austin Friest.

A FrontCounter BC was opened locally by Steven Thomson, Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad and Mayor Sandra Harwood on Wednesday, August 17.

The B.C. government is getting to work dismantling the harmonized sales tax, a job that may take more than a year and add billions to the province's deficit.

This sentiment is behind Kandace Kerr’s resignation from the organizing committee for an upcoming business forum in October in Vanderhoof. Kerr resigned last week, after learning Enbridge was going to be a speaker at the upcoming business forum put on by the Regional District of Bulkley Nechako (RDBN).

An anti-poverty initiative is underway in the Fort. A new society is being formed to coordinate hunger and homelessness reduction projects and programs, and while they don’t yet have a name, they do have some funds.

The first Métis Culture and Music Fest will take place on August 27 and feature a variety of fun and exciting educational activities. Amongst the programs taking place will be professional jigging lessons and instruction, a variety of musical talents and fiddle players and a craft fair. Free buffalo burgers will also be available to all visitors on August 27 beginning at 11 a.m..

Some studies suggest a variety of reasons why seniors are not going online for these services as much as they could be, ranging from a lack of perceived need to a fear of an over technological society. Regardless of the reasoning, it is important to understand and reduce this ‘gray gap’ as much as possible to make sure senior citizens aren’t left in the past.

Doubts grow for probe into serial killer Pickton's slaying spree. Months ago, the National Parole Board promised to notify Ernie Crey if serial killer Robert Pickton is transferred between prisons for any reason. Now the feds have retracted the offer by way of a letter to Crey, whose sister is thought to have been slaughtered on Pickton’s Port Coquitlam farm.