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Fireworks lit up the sky over Stuart Lake on Aboriginal Day in Fort St. James.

To help grow and promote local tourism, the communities in the Nechako Lakes area are eligible to receive funding towards marketing and development projects. Eligible communities include: Vanderhoof ($6,500), Burns Lake - ($9,200), Fort St. James ($9,200) and Houston ($3,800).

Two-week extension in response to postal service delays

Representatives of the School District 91 Business Company came to make their case to the Fort St. James mayor and council on Wednesday, June 22. The business company is asking the mayors and councils of the School District 91 (SD 91) area to help them raise the initial capital to create B.C. certified offshore schools in China, which would then make money for the school district and help fund schools within the SD 91.

Questions were answered and asked alike at the Enbridge Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel information session on June 21. About 20 members of the Fort community came out to find out how to get involved in the Joint Review Panel (JRP) process and how it all worked.

Stasher was thrilled to be able to attend the Fort St James Mini Soccer Tournament. On behalf of Integris Credit Union Stasher was pleased to be able to present FSJ Youth Soccer President Chad Lantz with $750.00 to be used to help develop the youth soccer program in Fort St James.

Tl’azt’en Nation has been chosen as one of only 10 groups awarded grant funding through the TD Financial Literacy Grant Fund which awarded $700,000 to ten different organizations for projects to support financial education.

New projects could help bring stability to the forest sector in north-central B.C., using wood biomass now being burned along roadsides or in beehive burners. Western BioEnergy Inc. is awaiting a decision on their proposed BC BioEnergy Network which would include three biomass-fired, electricity generating stations, one in Burns Lake, one in Merritt and one in Fort St. James.

Former Vancouver Olympic boss John Furlong and former Nova Scotia deputy attorney general Doug Keefe have been appointed co-chairs of a review into the June 15 Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver.

With his position on a committee called a rural caucus, Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad sees good things ahead. “The technology that’s available now opens up a world of possibility in terms of how small or remote areas can improve the services that are offered.” Video conferencing technology will be used to improve rural education and health care and will bring higher-level services normally only available in larger urban centres to rural communities.