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Thompson Creek offers shares Thompson Creek Metals has put out a share offering to potentially raise a further $430 million to help to complete the construction of the copper-gold project Mount Milligan Mine. The announcement of the offering caused share prices to drop 11 per cent on Monday. Approximately $200 million will potentially be raised through a debtoffering and $230 million through an equityshare offering. Debt-offering does not include a future stake in the mine profits while equity shares would. The equity shares would convert to Thompson Creek common stock on May 15, 2015.

Open water Boats are appearing back on Stuart Lake. With boating season, there are some very real risks, and Boating Safety Week is just in time to remind everyone going out on the water to do what they can to stay safe. May 19-25 is the week designated Boating Safety Week for Canadians. In the past 20 years, boating fatalities have gone down, however, in over 80 per cent of drownings, not wearing a life jacket remains a factor. Alcohol and boating is also a very dangerous mix. Visit www.smartboater. ca and www.csbc.ca for further information.

A cowboy hat cut a nice silhouette in front of a Cottonwood Park sunset over Stuart Lake last week. Catching up on phone calls while enjoying the view was on this cowboy’s agenda for evening. Not a bad spot for the job. Ruth Lloyd Photo

Timber supply Allan Wishart Free Press A special legislative committee has been appointed to look at timber supply in the province. Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad is the convenor for the sevenmember committee, and says they have a short timeline to work with. “We held our first meeting Thursday to look at what kind of a schedule we could set up to meet our report date of Aug. 15. We’ll be holding our next meetings at the end of the month.” The committee, which also includes Liberal MLAs Donna Barnett (Cariboo-Chilcotin), Eric Foster (Vernon-Monashee) and Ben Stewart (Westside-Kelowna) and NDP MLAs Harry Bains (Surrey-Newton), Norm Macdonald (Columbia River-Revelstoke) and Bill Routley (Cowichan Valley), is looking at starting public meetings the week of June 18 and wrapping those up by July 20. “We plan to hold meetings everywhere from Smithers down to the Kamloops-Merritt area, as well as out in Mackenzie and McBride. The areas impacted the most by the pine beetle are where we will be focused.” The committee’s terms of reference are to consider recommendations which would increase timber supply, including direction on the potential scope of changes to land-use objectives, rate of harvest and conversion of volume-based tenures to area-based tenures. Rustad says the committee composition was determined by the house leaders, who checked with their party MLAs to see if they would be willing to sit on the committee. “I would have liked to have Bob Simpson (Independent, Cariboo North) on the committee,” Rustad said, “but the NDP didn’t want him on the committee.” Simpson was an NDP MLA before becoming an Independent in December 2010.

Sustainability group applies pressure Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier The Fort St. James Sustainability Group is calling for both the provincial and municipal governments to take a stand on Northern Gateway. The group will be presenting to the Fort St. James mayor and council at their May 23 council meeting. “We won’t be asking Council to support or oppose the project,” said Kandace Kerr, a member of the Sustainability Group. “We are going to present our concerns and feelings, and ask them to consider them in making their decision.” The group is asking other community members to speak up and let council know how they feel about the proposed pipeline. “Here’s your opportunity to let District Council know how you feel about the project, your concerns about impacts on our community,

and why it is important for them to take a public position on the project,” said Kerr. The group also signed on to a letter to Premier Christy Clark earlier this month, hoping to add their voices to the call for the premier to take a stand. The letter asked the premier to terminate the agreement to allow the federal environmental review of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline to represent both provincial and federal government processes. The group hoped signing on to the letter would help increase pressure on the premier to pull out of an agreement regarding the project review. The National Energy Board and the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office in June of 2010 signed an agreement which essentially means the the federal review would stand for both parties.

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Soccer back:

The Lakes District Secondary School team played the junior Fort St. James Falcons team in Burns Lake recently, with Lakes District coming out on top with a score of 9-0. Soccer is back on across the region, and the junior team has traveled to Williams Lake and Burns Lake already this season. Fields in the region are in early season condition, and the local fields were still not quite ready for game action until recently. Rebecca Billard photos.

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Queen Victoria’s Birthday Party @ NHS Seniors Ctr Lunch 11:30 - 2pm EMERGENCY ROOM OPEN

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WEDNESDAY

Council Meeting 7 p.m.

Cancer Support Group @ Sue’s

30 Seniors Ctr Lunch 11:30 - 2pm

Seniors Ctr Lunch 11:30 - 2pm

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Courier Mount Milligan responds regarding ammendments Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier Thompson Creek Metals said the company is not looking to house their entire operational staff on site. The clarification of some of their application to amend their environmental assessment certificate (EAC) came after the article in the May 16 issue of the Caledonia Courier went to press. While the original plan for a permanent camp said the company would like to apply to have a 300-person camp on site at Mount Milligan, the actual EAC amendment has asked for a 450-person camp instead. “It was our original intention that we would have accommodation for about 300 of the workforce, what we’re also asking for is the capacity to accommodate contractors, maintenance personnel, visitors from other sites, temporary employees,” said Jocelyn Fraser, director of corporate responsibility for Thompson Creek Metals. “We want to make sure that we have capacity to accommodate the full gamut of people who could be on site.” The amendment application also asks to change the location of the loadout facility in the original application

from Fort St. James to Mackenzie. The original plan was approved to build a rail load-out facility in the industrial area on the Tachie Road to ship out the metal concentrate after it was brought down in trucks from the mine. Thompson Creek now says they would prefer to use Mackenzie as the location for the load-out because the connector road has been upgraded to accommodate the concentrate trucks since the original application, and there would be no use of public roads to ship the material out from Mackenzie, only forestry roads. In addition, there is a Kemess loudout Thompson Creek may be able to negotiate a lease on instead of having to construct their own initially. The change is not a desire to avoid working with Fort St. James, according to Fraser. “Currently we have offices in both Mackenzie and Fort St. James, and currently most of the employees out of the Fort St. James office live in the community of Fort St. James,” she said. There are 19 personnel working out of the Fort St. James office, and 22 out of Mackenzie. The application Thompson Creek has submitted to the B.C. Environmen-

tal Assessment Office (BCEAO) does include a proposed process, but Fraser said the company is waiting for the BCEAO to define the review process and key dates. There are concerns from the District of Fort St. James and Nak’azdli the time frame for comments on the proposed amendments was far too short, but the district was given an extension on their time to comment on the application. “The key thing for us is we’re looking to (be operational) in the third quarter of 2013,” said Fraser. “So every decision for us related to project planning backs up from that commissioning date.” She also said the permission to build an operational camp is a matter of importance while they are trying to hire for over 100 positions. “So to help us meet that recruitment drive, we’re hoping for some clarity around the kind of options that are going to be available to people,” she said. Fraser remains optimistic about the opportunities an operational camp could provide for the surrounding communities in terms of service jobs. Fraser will be presenting at the next council meeting in Fort St. James on May 23 at 7 p.m..

New policy on suites Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier The District of Fort St. James has adopted a new policy regarding secondary suites. Mayor Rob MacDougall and council adopted the policy, they say, to provide guidelines to ensure fire and building codes are being observed, but not to deter homeowners from having rental suites. The policy would also allow the district to recover the costs of utilities being used by the additional suite. The policy outlines the district’s response to deal with complaints of secondary suites. The bylaw enforcement officer will contact the homeowner and arrange for an inspection by the fire chief and the building inspector. The secondary suite could then be allowed to continue to function as a secondary residence as long as it complies with building codes and fire regulations and the utilities are paid for. Mayor and council expressed their hope the new bylaw will still encourage people to develop or rent suites to help alleviate any rental shortages in the community.

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NDP finance critic Bruce Ralston said the legislation tabled Monday is a relatively simple, with regulations listing the many rules and exemptions still to come this fall so businesses can prepare for next VICTORIA – The B.C. government has spring. tabled its long-awaited legislation to kill the “I think they could have done it faster and they should have done it harmonized sales tax and return to the old faster,” Ralston said. provincial sales tax, with some modernizaThe government expects to save about $9 million a year in admintion to make it easier for small businesses to istration costs by using a new online registration and payment system administer and pay the tax. for business, which B.C. expects to administer with about 100 fewer Finance Minister Kevin Falcon said Monstaff. Businesses will have to set up their computers to comply, with day the PST will return as scheduled in April software expected to cost them about $1,000. 2013, with exemptions for haircuts, restaurant Low-income families will give up a $230-per-person rebate that meals, bicycles, movie tickets, gym memberwas introduced to offset the higher costs of HST to consumers, includships and all the other rules it had before. ing children. As of April 2013, the PST rebate will resume, paying $75 Falcon said the only sales tax breaks that per single adult with an income of $15,000 or less, and $75 per parent won’t return are temporary exemptions that for families with an income of $18,000 or less. would have expired by now, including enerFalcon noted an independent panel found the end of the HST will gy-conserving windows and appliances, and mean $520 million less revenue the the B.C. treasury next year, $645 fuel-efficient cars. million less the following year and increasing lost revenue after that. Tax changes that were made along with “Clearly, any government in the future is going to have less revthe HST will be maintained. That includes Finance Minister Kevin Falcon says the new version of the PST will be enue available to it, there’s no doubt about that,” Falcon said. “And oba 12-per-cent provincial tax on privately sold cheaper for government to administer, but will collect less revenue for viously, we’re used cars, making the tax equal to that paid the province when it takes effect next spring. going to have Tom Fletcher/Black Press to manage the at a car dealership. Provincial tobacco taxes were increased seven per cent when the HST challenge of 2779 KRING came in, and that tax will continue. Liquor taxes will also be adjusted to keep retail prices the same bringing back a tax that is less efficient and ROAD Country living as they are now. conducive to economic development.” at its best. Log

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Local Group adds pressure Continued from Page 1 “Robyn Allan in her letter to the government has stated the reasons very articulately and I don’t think we can say it better except to add that we elect people to represent us and to provide leadership in acting in the best interests of the people of this province,” said Louise EvansSalt of the FSJ Sustainability Group. “The province has abdicated its right to review independently and as Allen has stated this gives a flawed and prejudiced process even more power to act in the best interest of a minority rather than represent and decide what is in the best interest of Canadians and in particular those who live and work in BC’s Northwest. The BC government needs to be part of this process not wait for the end decision. The point of a review is to hear all opinions and concerns which include that of the BC government.” The letter to Clark, signed by a number of the intervenors currently participating in the Northern Gateway review

process, said the federal government has approve them with recommendations for broken its contract through the introduc- mitigation,” states the letter. tion of Bill C-38 which would shift the However, both Clark and Terry Lake, final decision making power on environ- her environment minister, have been mental reviews to the federal Cabinet. steadfast in resisting pressure to take a It would also put a 24-month deadline stand prior to the completion of the fedon completion of environmental assess- eral review process currently underway. ments. This new deadline will retroac“I don’t feel really rushed to do it,” tively apply to Northern Gateway, cut- said Lake to the Canadian Press. “You ting short the review process already feel the political pressure to comment underway. on it, but I think we have to be respon“The Federal Government has al- sible and get all the information before ready publicly endorsed the project and we take a position.” the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 2012, concealed in Bill C-38, reduces the authority of the Joint STORES FLYERS DEALS COUPONS BROCHURES CONTESTS PRODUCTS STORES FLYERS Review Panel to merely making CATALOGUES DEALS DEA LS COU COUPON PONS S BROC BROCHUR HURES ES CAT CATALO ALOGUE GUES S CONT CONTEST ESTS S a recommendation that the Fed- PRO PRODUC DUCTS DUC TS STO STORES RES FLY FLYERS ERS DE DEALS ALS CO COUPO UPONS UPO NS BRO BROCHU CHURES CHU RES eral Cabinet can overrule. We contend that a project which has been pre-emptively approved is no longer in accordance with the B.C. Environmental Assessment with Act, which directs the appropriate B.C. Minister(s) to make decisions on projects, not simply

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Courier Finding their voices Community

Futures join forces The Northern BC Trade and Finance Group, an alliance of five northern B.C. Community Futures, is proud to be a finance partner of the School District No. 91 Business Company. The Business Company has made a foray into international education which was announced after the official signing by Minister George Abbott in Beijing on March 21. The School District No. 91 Business Company is slated to open “Canadian Pathways Xianghe No 1 BC Offshore School” in September 2012. This undertaking is a significant achievement for both the export of educational services and B.C.’s wood products that will be used in the construction of the school in the Xianghe Province in China. In the Community Futures network, financing of the School District No. 91’s business plan is also a significant achievement; the scope and complexity of the business financing would have been beyond the capability of any one of its individual offices. The Northern BC Trade and Finance Group, was struck in late 2010 under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), bringing together the lending capacity and expertise of the five Community Futures Development Corporations: Hai-

Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier Thirteen students on the Fort Youth Council were developing their voices last week. The students were learning and practicing their public speaking skills with Vince Prince, executive director of aboriginal business development, who has had his share of public speaking engagements. As each student spoke, Prince assured them they will never get over being nervous, but to “just accept it.” The students were all very composed and handled themselves very well in front of their peers. A few of the students were even natural comics, cracking jokes to lighten the mood as they gave short introductory talks about themselves. Youth Coordinator Jana Gainor was impressed with the progress the students made over the course of the session. “You should have seen them by the end, it was incredible,” said Gainor. “I was very proud of them.” RIGHT: Morgan Prince (centre back) was the first student to volunteer at the Fort Youth Council public speaking workshop. The young man was one of a number of impressive off-the-cuff talks given by the council members. They worked on tips throughout the day with facilitator Vince Prince to bild their skills and confidence.

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Let the worries of winter diminish ...just don’t forget to pay attention Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier There is something about spring. Seeing the bright green leaves exploding out across the landscape, it makes your heart leap and the blood sing through your body and brings back a youth and vigour, a wanderlust and desire for adventure, long dormant through the long, dark days of winter. Don’t get me wrong, winter is beautiful, peaceful, and winter sports are some of my very favourite, but getting back outside and smelling the fir forest, walking through the vibrant and living hillsides, full of birds and chattering squirrels is another thing entirely. Not having to make sure you have enough layers, coverings for hands and feet, emergency fire starter - just in case. By April, the feeling of waiting for the spring to arrive gets a bit urgent, once the ski hill ends the season and the trails are still covered in snow, then thick with mud. But it is finally here, the renewal and the thrill of getting the bike out of the shed, dusting it off and getting the heart pumping again. There are kids riding their bikes in the evenings, the other night some youth were knocking a softball around on Cottonwood Beach, and the bike park is getting used again. It’s an exciting time, and one when you can, maybe not quite forget, but put the reality of a Harper government valuing fighter jets over parks, elections over honesty in accounting and pipelines over protecting the environment out of mind. It’s nice to have a distraction. I only hope we pay enough attention when we need to.

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Rebecca Billiatd Black Press So it now seems that a decision about the timber supply review won’t be made this month, the next month, or even the month after that. The decision is turning into a more lengthy process than the ‘six to eight weeks’ that Jobs Tourism and Innovation Minster Pat Bell was touting in Burns Lake in January. That was nearly four months ago and there is probably not going to be a decision made for as many months on top of that. All said and done, it may end up being a yearlong process, just for the timber supply review. If, after the review, Hampton Affiliates do decide to rebuild, it will then be another year and a half of planning and construction on top of that. It is not really all that surprising that the province has now decided to involve the public in the timber supply review process, after all so many people have had so much to say about the issue, but maybe they should have thought about that sooner. As the process moves on, the province have found themselves increasingly in the hot seat. It caused a bit of a stir when a leaked document marked, ‘Confidential advice to Cabinet’ proposed shifting forest management from a stewardship model, to one that puts short-term economic interests first, suggesting logging areas that have been set aside to protect old growth, wildlife habitat and visual corridors, logging at an increased rate and taking decisions away from the chief forester and putting them in the hands of government.

Is the province passing the buck by allowing the public to weigh in? In other timber supply reviews there has been a public consultation process, but much of public opinion is uninformed on the technicalities of the issue. Not to mention that we have already gone through a process about how much beetle killed timber is out there, how much timber is still viable and how many people think the visual quality should be relaxed. Either way, the government seems to be dragging their feet all of a sudden. As I see it, there is probably only one option to solve the issue – either you cut down more trees to feed the mills, or you don’t, because most B.C. sawmills, not just Babine Forest Products, are running out of economically accessible timber. A public dialogue is not going to change this fact. If the province is looking for public consensus or approval for cutting down trees that have previously been out of bounds, I don’t think they are going to get that. Much of the timber set aside in these visual quality areas is beetle killed and deteriorating, so harvest this timber. But the tourism industry say there is value in these trees left standing ... but I wonder, are red and grey dying trees standing in our forest a turn-on for tourists? Not to mention the fire hazard it causes. I hope that a decision is not a long, drawn-out process. Babine Forest Products employees and our community need to know where they stand, so they can get on with their lives. We can not attract any further investors in our town if we are surrounded by uncertainty.

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Breakfast club for FSJSS Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier Not just a Brat Pack film from the 80s, Breakfast Club is now a reality right here in Fort St. James. Thanks to Jhenipher Bridgeman, who thought there were more students arriving at school needing breakfast than were getting fed by the previous program, breakfast is now served five days a week at the high school. The previous breakfast program provided some basic snacks like yogurt and some cereal, but there were more students who needed to be reached and Bridgeman applied to Canada’s Breakfast Club program to do it. The organization helps provide guidance and funding for breakfast programs across Canada, and has served breakfast to close to 107,000 children in 1,034 schools according to their stats. Bridgeman wrote a grant application to the group last December and in February, the breakfast started. The national program provided some equipment like toasters and a warmer, plus coupons for juice and bread at reduced prices. Since the funding and support came through, breakfast has been served five days a week at the high school, serving about 65 kids a morning, according to Bridgeman. She said before, the basic program served some, but this program creates a “ s o c i a l gathering of kids” each morning. “It promotes inclusion,” said Jeanette Burdeniuk, who is the contractor who administers the program for the school. There is a different meal each day, with “eggers,” waffles, smoothies, grilled cheese and pancakes being the regulars so far. “They love the variety,” said Bridgeman. In questionnaires some of the students filled out, all the responses are positive, with the one thing many mentioned being an area for improvement would be to provide bacon. But many of the students recognized the importance of breakfast for performance in school, and many expressed their appreciation for what is provided. Students also assist with some of the cleanup normally, helping to satisfy some of their requirements for volunteer hours

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B.C.’s $8.6-billion mining industry has reason to celebrate Mining Week, May 13-19. Employment, revenue, exports, production and prices are all up over previous years and are in a position to continue rising. The boom is being fuelled by a global recovery in manufacturing, in particular, the strong demand from Asia. Mining Week is hosted by the Mining Association of British Columbia, which represents the collective needs of B.C.’s operating coal, metal and mineral mining companies. Currently, B.C. has nine metal mines and 10 coal mines in operation. The government’s goal to have eight new mines and nine expansions continues to move forward. The anticipated results

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a more rapid heart rate. If this occurs night after night the risk of heart attack and stroke rises. Insomnia also has an impact on today’s epidemic of diabetes. University of Chicago researchers required a group of young men to sleep just 4 hours a night. This caused an increase in blood sugar, a decrease in the hormone insulin, and a 40 percent decrease in the rate sugar was removed from the blood. Sleep debt also increases the appetite and food consumption. It’s believed that the hormone leptin gives us a good feeling when we’ve had sufficient food. But insomnia decreases the amount of leptin causing a craving for food, particularly carbohydrates. Studies done at the University of California show that tossing and turning at night also puts the immune system at risk. Researchers found that healthy men, deprived of partial sleep for just one night, have a less effective immune system the following day. Their natural killer cells to fight infections and cancer were compromised. So what’s the best treatment for insomnia? Napoleon believed he could sleep only if his feet were pointing south. W.C. Fields, the comedian, used to seek sleep in a barber’s chair, or on a pool table. U.S. President, Theodore Roosevelt, had a shot of cognac in a glass of milk, an improvement over a pool table. Still others need a warm bath before retiring, a cool room, staying up later or reading a book. And some resort to expensive pressurized masks attached to a machine. These are uncomfortable and cumbersome and many users learn to hate them. The best approach to insomnia and snoring is to keep it simple, particularly since studies show that 45 percent of the population have this problem. It makes no sense to take prescription drugs, when a natural product, “Bell Sound Sleep” is available. “Bell Sound Sleep” is approved by Health Canada and contains melatonin, camomille, fleur de la passion, skulcap and valeriane, all natural ingredients, is inexpensive and can be obtained in most health food stores in Canada and the U.S. Or from www.belllifestyleproducts. com. The suggested dosage is 4 capsules initially. This can be reduced to 3 or 2 capsules as sleeping habits improve. Don’t forget that silence at night will change your life and that of your partner. Besides a capsule is better than sleeping in a barber’s chair or on a pool table. See the web site www.docgiff.com For Comments info@docgiff.com

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Misc. for Sale 24th ANNUAL ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES SALE sponsored by the Vernon Collectors Club at Vernon Curling Rink on Fri. May 25th from 3pm-8pm & Sat. May 26th from 10am-4pm. Approx. 125 tables.$3 admission is good for both days.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. (Canfor), Carrier Lumber Ltd., Takla Track & Timber Ltd., and Conifex Inc. have prepared an Amendment Requiring Approval (ARA) to their joint Forest Stewardship Plan (FSP) for operations in the Prince George and Fort St. James Forest Districts. The Amendment is available for public review starting on April 16th 2012. Amendment ARA-008 is required to reÀect material changes to the Forest Development Units of Canadian Forest Products Ltd., Carrier Lumber Ltd., Takla Track and Timber Ltd, and Conifex Inc., and to propose a Result and Strategy to address the establishment of management objectives for the Tabor Mountain Recreation Trails and Associated Staging Areas. In accordance with the Forest Planning and Practices Regulation, Amendment ARA008 is available for public review and comment from April 16th 2012 to June 15th 2012 at any one of the following locations during regular of¿ce hours (8:00 am to 4:00 pm): Canadian Forest Products Ltd., 5162 Northwood Pulpmill Road, P.O. Box 9000, Prince George BC V2L 4W2; Phone: (250) 962-3343, Fax: (250) 962-3217 Carrier Lumber Ltd., 4722 Continental Way, Prince George BC V2N 5S5; Phone: (250) 563-9271, Fax: (250) 563-9371 Conifex Inc., 300 Takla Road, P.O. Box 254, Fort St. James BC V0J 1P0; Phone: (250) 996-5465, Fax: (250) 996-5425 Takla Track & Timber Ltd., same as Canadian Forest Products Ltd. above Representatives will be available to discuss the proposed amendment at the above of¿ce locations, and to receive comment(s). If an interested party is unable to review the Amendment (ARA-008) during regular business hours, please contact us by phone or in writing to arrange a suitable time.

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Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier The countdown is on, the projector is warming up, and soon the curtain will be going up on My Fort St. James. Students from the Fort St. James Secondary School in Andy Sundahl’s Visual Media Arts and Tech classes are finalizing their projects creating short films on their visions of Fort St. James. The films will be presented at a gala premier at the school on Friday, May 25 from 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.. The projects were all created through the assistance of the District of Fort St. James, which wanted to facilitate the creation of more tourismoriented online video for the community. They purchased some film and video equipment to help give the students a boost and hired consultant Joanne Malo to advise the students and help them through the process. The Courier has been supporting the projects through the publication of short previews or summaries of a few of the films each week. This is the final instalment of the previews, as the gala will take place on the Friday after the print edition of this paper hits the stands. This week’s films: FSJ Sports By Montana Moeller and Dylan Sheehan of Mystic

Clockwise from top left: (L-R) Matthew Calder and Keifer Steeves of The 2 of Us Productions, Montana Moeller and Dylan Sheehan of Mystic Mountain Films, and Zack Unruh and Jay Jay Julian of Inside the Fire Productions. Caledonia Courier Photos

Mountain Films This team has paired up to do a Sports Centre type short program providing some sports highlights from the past winter season. Moeller will talk about some skiing and snowboarding from the season,

and Sheehan will focus on Midgets hockey. There will be scenes of sporting events and some interview clips with athletes. The most exciting aspect of this team’s piece is they were the only production team to use “green screen” technol-

ogy, which allows them to film themselves in front of an actual green screen so they can then superimpose their image onto another background scene. The pair also have a comedic “Anchorman” style intro shot, with the appropriately campy blazer-clad cast. They were still, however, on some early editing stages last week, so it will be interesting to see how the final film comes together. What can you do in Fort St. James?

By Jay Jay Julian and Zach Unruh of Inside the Fire Productions This production team originally wanted to film the more scenic activities one might consider in the Fort, like hiking Mt. Pope. However, seasonal constraints limited their ability to really get into any of the summer activities, and it was even a bit late in the year for proper winter sports, which neither are fond of anyhow. Instead, the pair highlight some of the things people can do in Fort using other means to illustrate the activities, including fleshing the film out with some statistics and images. My Fort St. James (working title) By Keifer Steeves and Matthew Calder of The 2 of Us

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Productions Fort St. James looks a little different from six inches off the ground. This pair focussed on their favourite hobbies, with Steeves enjoying working out at the gym, which he is filmed doing, with some stylish editing to give it more impact. Calder, however, takes a little different perspective in the film, by including film footage taken from his remote-controlled car. The film takes you on a bumpy ride through his yard in the Sowchea area, and gives you a good sense of the world from an elf’s perspective. Time lapse footage from Calder’s bedroom window also ads an interesting aspect.