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Community wish list Cameron Orr From the Haisla Nation to the Tamitik Status of Women, people pitched their needs to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services when they were here last week. The bipartisan committee is on tour to gather public input to determine priorities for next year’s provincial budget. With seven scheduled speakers at the Oct. 15 meeting, it would be impossible to go into length on each one in our space here, but we will include the highlights of each presentation below: Northwest Community College Cathay Sousa (Registrar) and Dr. Denise Henning (President) The Northwest Community College had two main priorities for the committee: provide funding to upgrade their trades building on the Terrace campus and also to implement a funding formula that they say would be more suitable. They compared their funding formula to that of the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology, a First Nations college-university which receives $14,100 per student, said Cathay Sousa, NWCC registrar. The NWCC received about $10,400 per student. They say when applying the difference of funding for just their 41 per cent of the student body which is First Nations, the college is down $3,700 a student in comparison. As for their Terrace building, Dr. Denise Henning, college president, said that they are looking to replace their building with a new one that is slightly bigger but, more importantly, up to code and able to provide modern training. “We have a mice-infested, below-code facility that would require more than $5 million just to upgrade,” she told the committee. The process of ‘futurizing’ the building would also allow them to install multi-million dollar simulators, equipment which simply cannot be installed in the current building. When asked about what facilities the college has, in particular Kitimat, Henning said that their Kitimat campus is “under-utilized”, but
does have three classrooms and a computer lab. The campus currently serves about 50 students. Haisla Nation Council Chief Elected Councillor Ellis Ross The Haisla Nation is seeking a better way to engage with proposed industrial projects in the region as their resources are stretched to thin to make effective decisions on referrals of projects from the Crown. The Haisla are given referrals on projects but Ross said that “We don’t have the in-house resources or expertise to evaluate these referrals and to determine if a particular case is one we have to be concerned about or not.” He asked the committee to propose to the government a way to allow the Haisla to address referrals without drawing on their own resources, and as well approach referrals through regular meetings with senior government officials to outline each referral, allowing the Haisla to make a decision on which referrals need a full study. He said that they currently have 17 referrals, all to do with the proposed Pacific Trails Pipeline, and 10 more are still coming. “We’ve already agreed in general about some of the conditions in the environmental certificate, but now it’s coming down to the specific referrals that we’re having problems with, and there are just too many. It’s death by a thousand cuts to us,” he said. Those suggestions aside, Ross was complimentary to government (in power and the opposition) for their position on economic activity in the area. “Let me also thank the government and the opposition for their consistent support of the LNG export opportunity that we’re trying to take advantage of,” he said. “We’re pleased to see both parties working to agree on such an important issue.” Kitimat Child Development Centre Margaret Warcup, executive director Presenting on behalf of Smithers’ Kerri Klaus and other representatives of the BC Association for Child Development and Intervention, Margaret Warcup advocated
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The on-duty fire crew took some time last Tuesday to visit the old fire truck at their training grounds. The truck is being donated to a fire hall in Peru. See page 7 for more. Cameron Orr that funding for children and youth with special needs “be deemed a core service.” She said they want attention especially in the therapies, such as speech language pathology and family support. “Our second recommendation is that we immediately address the funding and the policy direction, which you’ve already started, for the provision of school-age therapy services,” she said, adding there are massive gaps for children in schools for therapies they need. She said she wants the government to address service gaps by funding and implementing policies for youth with special needs who are transitioning to adult services, and also for students to have adequate therapy services funded so they can be successful in schools. One way to achieve this is for the Ministry of Child and Family Development to stop issuing single year contracts and
return to a system of three-year contracts. “This enables us to have security of funding, retain our professional staff and operate a viable business,” she later told the Sentinel. Kitimat Health Advocacy Group Rob Goffinet, Chair In the Kitimat Health Advocacy Group’s continual effort to promote local health services, Goffinet promoted sustained capital funding for Northern Health in the coming fiscal years. “It’s absolutely crucial that the health care facilities of the north in general be maintained and, where necessary, expanded.” Referring to Kitimat specifically, he said that our “rapidly changing demographics have required the expansion of our emergency room facilities to the tune of almost $300,000.” The expansion, he said,
would improve efficiency at a hospital where up to 30 per cent of acute care beds are taken up by multi-level care patients. Goffinet said that capital cutbacks of almost 90 per cent almost put an end to ER improvements, but the advanced state of the project have effectively kept the project alive. And similar to that topic, he also asked the committee to recommend additional funding to construct and staff more multilevel care beds. At the same time he hopes for continued support of initiatives such as age-friendly communities, home care services and healthy communities programs. NWCC’s Students’ Union Mikael Jensen The tuition structure in B.C. is hypocritical and unethical, claims the head of Northwest Community College’s student union. Continued on page 3
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ages. Jennifer Mascall began as a touring improviser and rapidly received international attention. Her emerging choreographic voice was characterized as maverick, visionary, radical and “the enfant terrible of Canadian dance”. An accomplished teacher and lecturer, Mascall’s educational programs such as Make a Dance and Homewerk tour extensively and are considered highly effective bridges between contemporary dance and multilevel learning. Tickets for Nail to House/Homewerk may be purchased at Hollywood Video or at the door. Information for this article was provided by Mascall Dance.
providing insight into narrative, movement and the creation of a dance through the lens of Homewerk’s own creation process. For those who are just starting to look at dance, the narrative/performance offers the vocabulary and tools for discussion and gives revelatory insight into dance. For those who are already students of dance, it brings the nuanced discoveries, perspective and rich details of forty years of somatic research to bear on the inner workings of a creation process. After intermission, Mascall Dance will perform Homewerk, a dance that examines the idea of home through global stories and images of dwelling. Four dancers tell stories through words and choreographed movement, using cardboard props to create vivid imagery, transforming from houses to villages, to airport screens to medieval towns. Homewerk is a dance for all
Contributed The Kitimat Concert Association presents the second show in its 2012-2013 season on Oct. 27at 8:00 p.m. at the Mount Elizabeth Theatre. Mascall Dance will perform Nail to House and Homewerk, a special double feature contemporary dance work. Before intermission they invite you to tour behind the scenes through the choreographer’s eye in Nail to House. Artistic Director Jennifer Mascall reflects on the 18 years of work that led to making a dance called Homewerk. This is a humorous and poetic description of a particular thread of ideas as seen and studied by the artist: from house to home, and from walls to the invisible space between people. Inspiration, creation and perspiration abound. Nail to House is an incredible window into contemporary dance
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Harrison Ocsovai, a grade 5 student at St. Anthony’s, uses his desk as a defense during an earthquake drill at the school last week, part of the provincial ShakeOutBC earthquake awareness campaign. In the event of an earthquake you are encouraged to drop, and cover your head and neck with your arms or nearby structures.
that “If he sees a Portuguese woman, hire her. You can live off her soups, I guarantee it.” Turning serious again, he said he just hopes something changes soon. “I just hope somebody here convinces people in this hospital or in Northern Health to get their act together and find us some way of getting the food cooked here,” he said. “I never got a quicker reaction in telling a dietitian in Prince George that I hoped the next time I meet her I’m not sitting across the table from her at an inquest for why somebody died of malnutrition in Kitimat General Hospital.”
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Private citizen Ernie Archer Resident Ernie Archer took the opportunity at the public speaking portion of the committee meeting to again pursue action relating to food quality at the hospital. Recalling instances of foul smelling food and even frozen or moldy food, he said nothing has been done to correct food handling at the hospital. While he said he wasn’t sure the exact cost for providing food for patients, he is certain money could even be saved in a different system of providing food. “When you think of the fact that some of these people in multilevel care are paying $7,000 and $8,000 a month to be there, that’s garbage they’re getting,” he said. Archer noted that he had the option of moving to multi-level care but instead opted to remodel his home for over $100,000. “I hope I never have to go back to the hospital,” he said. “You go in the hospital and ask somebody what their complaints are? The food,” Archer continued. “Ninety percent of what comes out of the kitchen goes back. It’s a waste of money.” Archer took an opportunity to also find humour in the situation, saying that he has told the hospital administrator in Kitimat
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Taking recycling to the curb Crystal Smith has an excellent letter on page 5 today and so I don’t want to rehash what she said but I wanted to elaborate a bit on her comment about centralized recycling with my own two cents. The idea of a centralized recycling dropoff was something I asked of KUTE president Barb Hall the other week when I first wrote the story. I was inspired from memories of living on the Sunshine Coast and recalling a line of these massive bins in Sechelt, each for a different recyclable. They were unmanned and provided an easy way to drop off your recycling, and was conveniently located near a strip mall. I therefore envisioned a similar set up for the Lower City Centre Mall parking lot, a vast expanse with space to spare. I asked Hall about how something like that would work and she said her knowledge on it — drawing on examples from places like Prince Rupert — is that it becomes a real headache when those bins become vandalized or used inappropriately. It made perfect sense when she said it. The majority of people are trustworthy and reliable but I can see where it might end up making more work than it saves, and the last thing KUTE needs is unnecessary work. Also, the last time I was in Sechelt I don’t believe I saw those bins there anymore. I want to suggest that the District of Kitimat could then just kick in a grant to hire a part-timer to watch over the bins, but it seems like it would be itself a waste to have someone just standing around for the occasional drop-off. Providing a blue-box style curbside recycling program is the only other alternative I can think of. Curb side pick-up isn’t unheard of in a small town as a service of the local government. I remember from my time in the Bulkley Valley that the Village of Telkwa started a pilot program to offer the same. Last I heard it was doing well, but I’m not sure if it’s still going. Being green and environmental is one of those things that seems to get harder and harder the more you try. But certainly where there’s a will there’s a way. And it’s encouraging we keep asking the questions. Cameron Orr
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Excitement everlasting at provincial level Life in Canada’s provincial governments is never dull. As of now the public in two provinces, British Columbia and Ontario, are relying on their governing parties, the bureaucracy and, to some extent, the media to ensure that government is by Allan Hewitson continued in a democratic way without the checks and balances the opposition from the legislatures and of opposition through 2012 fall bulldoze forward to their next required sessions of their legislatures. Both provinces are watching Premiers budget approvals. In Clark’s case a fixed election next struggle with heavy adverse public and political pressure amid a host of extreme year will force Premier Clark into head to head confrontation with the opposition economic and other crises. Premier Christy Clark, while still in and polling suggests a change of governplace, has decided there will be no leg- ment is more than likely. It’s not as if either the B.C. or Ontario islative session until 2013 – and Premier Dalton McGuinty has decided after nine Liberals have even majority governments years as premier to throw in the towel and and can feel comfortable with essentially turn over the fireballs he has been juggling disenfranchising almost half of the provto another Liberal leader. He also has pro- inces’ political ridings which are not represented by Liberals. McGuinty was only rogued the legislature indefinitely leaving some hefty issues a year into his mandate, and while closer to a majority, his party’s strained public up in the air. It’s not as if there’s nothing going on support will no doubt plummet with pro– the west coast is aflame with discontent rogation – especially one seemingly deon numerous economic and environmental signed to buy the government some time fronts, highlighted by the benighted En- to distract an angry public and media exbridge Northern Gateway Project, while amination of various partisan issues. But, in British Columbia and Ontario the Ontario government is equally beleaguered with growing deficits, corruption today, elected representatives of thousands allegations and stuttering economic pros- of voters need to use their own initiatives and opportunities to challenge the way pects. So their cynical reaction is to absent government is dealing with its day-to-day
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issues, and I certainly don’t think that’s a healthy situation. Locally, I must say I was pleased to see Rio Tinto Alcan seek alternatives to the closure of Hospital Beach and the boat launch ramp for public traffic safety reasons – which I criticized a couple of times over this past warm summer. Resentful direct community feedback and discussions with the District of Kitimat were, however, certainly a big reason why the beach, the Moore Creek Falls attraction and the boat ramp were reopened Oct. 10. The company explained its decisions in a public advertisement and noted that construction of traffic pattern changes took place during the summer months. In announcing the re-opening, the company said the changes to work site traffic pattern included re-routing rock trucks, construction of a new bridge over Anderson Creek, and will include the eventual installation of traffic lights near the Construction Village. An extra construction road from the former Eurocan Haul Road has also been built and all will contribute to reduce risk to public safety on the highway past the modernization site. Once again, demonstrating that communication and some clarity can result in solutions that will please at least some of the people some of the time. Continued on page 5
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Cardboard ban only a first step towards sustainability Dear Sir, It is very positive to hear that City Council is supportive of recycling and is going to ban cardboard from the municipal dump. I too have been astounded by how much cardboard and other recyclables are on the curb for garbage day. Although I agree with the ban on cardboard in the landfill, I do believe that as a community we need to institute better alternatives and make recycling available for all citizens. We need to look at curbside recycling, or a central recycle bin site; the lower City Centre Mall parking lot or the back parking lot behind the BC Liquor Store would be perfect locations. We need to figure out how we are able to build and sustain the infrastructure to support plastic, Styrofoam and glass recycling. I take my plastics and glass to Terrace to recycle. I normally have a garbage bag a week of plastics, glass and Styrofoam to recycle and that is just one home. We know through various research and studies that have been conducted, the negative environmental effects that plastics, Styrofoam and glass have on the environment; the average time
it takes plastic to decompose in a landfill is close to 700 years, glass that ends up in landfills never decomposes and Styrofoam will remain in landfill space for close to 500 years and it is not biodegradable. I am staggered by the fact that our community does not have the availability to recycle the most detrimental products that end up in our landfill. We also know there are various different products that can be reproduced from recycled materials. Perhaps stores should be responsible for products they sell and the packing they sell it in and maybe we should be able to return Styrofoam, plastics and glass from where it was purchased. There are many trucks and trailers that leave town empty to various locations; is there not a way to utilize the current traffic to export our recycling. There must be different federal, provincial and municipal monies and grants for recycling that we may be able to tap into as well as other local business support. Can you imagine how much more we can save from our landfill if we as a community were able to recycle plastics, Styrofoam and glass?
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Sea Cadets get break on Riverlodge fees Following the request to Kitimat Council from an earlier meeting, the proposed Sea Cadet unit in Kitimat will be getting a discount for use of the Riverlodge. The motion which passed unanimously at the Oct. 15 council meeting will allow the Cadets to use the Riverlodge at a 50 per cent discount off regular
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Cameron Orr Michelle Marentette’s annual Halloween haunted house is so popular you could say it’s a scream. The local scare-monger is set to assemble her fourth major haunted house in Kitimat at her home at 35 Finch Street. Using a tent which covers her driveway, she opens up the attraction for youth and adults to make their way through a dimly lit maze like corridor, full of gory scenes and even real people hiding in the corners, waiting to draw out a scream or two from visitors. This year Marentette plans to make the first room of her haunted tour closed off with black sheets, leaving people with a challenging time to see anything — at least not until being pounced on by an actor also in black clothing. Marentette started making her ghoulish attraction after noticing a significant decline in the celebration of Halloween. Homes aren’t as decorated as they once were, there are fewer people handing out candy, and when kids do dress up it’s in something decidedly non-scary, like a princess costume. “I love Halloween, it’s my favourite time of year,” she said. “I started to notice that people weren’t really celebrating it anymore.” She continued, “It’s almost like the scariness has been taken out of Halloween...I felt the need to bring Halloween back.” Marentette herself has always enjoyed the thrill of being scared and is a fan of horror movies. She said she has a blast putting the house together along with her friends. In all it takes about a week to get everything just right. “People love it around town,” she said. “There was about 400 people [last year].”
A door person is even needed to make sure not too many people go in at one time. “People, I think, talked about my Halloween house for at least two months after Halloween.” Once inside the house you may find heads hanging from the ceiling, a scene from a butcher’s shop, and people under tables grabbing at your legs. Her main theme on the porch this year is witches. Marentette still gets a laugh thinking about the scares the house gave people last year. She had a person positioned under her porch to reach for people and she said many people’s first reaction is to kick back. “I love hearing the screams and the looks on their faces,” she said. “I had so many people run out of the haunted house last year.” Marentette isn’t the only person in Kitimat with the Halloween spirit. Chery Willis will be putting the finishing touches on her Halloween stage at 66 Partridge. Not as “interactive” as Marentette’s (meaning you won’t be chased by a monster), Willis has been putting on a Halloween scene in her garage for as long as she can remember. Kids who went through her displays are now going through with their own kids, to give you an idea of her longevity. This year’s theme will be an ice cream and soda shop — operated by a staff of evil clowns. She said they hand out homemade cookies to kids who come to the display with their parents. Work on the display is still ongoing so specifics weren’t ready to be revealed. She said they usually have well over 100 visitors to their home. Halloween is on Oct. 31, next Wednesday.
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Let our qualified cosmeticians do your Halloween makeup for you! Unit 21301 is being retired from the training grounds in Kitimat and will get new life in Peru for one of their fire halls thanks to Firefighters Without Borders.
Fire truck off to Peru Cameron Orr Good ol’ Unit 21301. The 1978 Ford L9000 fire truck, today just a training tool at fire department’s grounds off Forest Avenue, will be sent off for good from town, to start a new life as a fire truck in Peru. The fire truck is being donated via an organization called Firefighters Without Borders (FWB), which provides equipment — from hoses to outfits to, of course, trucks — to countries in South America. This is the first time that Kitimat’s fire department have participated in the program. Kitimat Fire Chief Trent Bossence said that he had the idea of donating the truck after a fire chief convention last year. FWB had an information poster up which gave him the details. He was encouraged to pitch in something through conversations with Smithers’ fire chief. The fire department sought and received an endorsement from Kitimat Council for donation, which means all that’s left is to get the truck to Vancouver. Initially planning to get it to Prince Rupert, Bossence says now they might have to drive it to Vancouver, where FWB have means to get the truck onto ships.
The truck in question was taken out of service in 2005 and has been with the department for 29 years. It has since been a tool for fire fighters to train on things like hose attachments and uncoiling hoses. At the Oct. 15 council meeting, Bossence said that the truck has very little re-sale value in Canada. Wayne Humphrey, a firefighter from Vancouver who was in Kitimat last week and is an active member of FWB, said that the fire departments receiving equipment from Canada are under-supported by their governments. “They’re very, very limited in what they have,” he said, noting they rely fairly extensively on donated material. Humphrey has been on a few deployments to El Salvador through the organization and will be in Peru next — that means he’ll likely reconnect with Kitimat’s truck at its destination. The fire truck will be repaired enough to be in service for its use in Peru. Bossence said he remembers driving the fire truck back when it was in service and said that having grown up on a farm he was quite at home with it. “It was a good truck.”
As of press time there is not much else to report regarding Kitimat Council’s plans to investigate opening a marina. The last in-camera minutes of council were released late last week and revealed that council has directed
comment on Friday. She said it was in such early stages there were no details she could share. The other item on the minutes show that council is also re-
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staff to look for land and grants to develop a Kitimat Marina. However there was not much that Mayor Joanne Monaghan could say on the proposal when sought for
searching contracting options for an airport shuttle or bus service. That would likely be in response to the summer closure of First Canada’s airport shuttle service.
Public Notice 160 Konigus Street - Lease to Navy League of Canada, Kitimat Branch Take notice that Kitimat Council intends to lease 160 Konigus Street, also known as Cadet Hall, to The Navy League of Canada, Kitimat Branch 205. Lease term will be five years, at the nominal rate of $10.00, commencing 1 November 2012; with possibility of renewal for a second term of five years. For more information, write dok@kitimat.ca, call Community Planning at 250-632-8910; or visit the District of Kitimat, 270 City Centre. Office hours are 8:30 am - noon, and 1:00-4:30 pm, Monday to Friday. 18 October 2012
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Current and past members of Kitimat’s Hospice executive pose outside their Kitimat office with a plaque honouring past association presidents.
20 years of Hospice Cameron Orr For 20 years now the Kitimat Hospice and Palliative Care Association has been there through people’s most challenging moments. But while death is the tragically unavoidable conclusion to any person’s story, the presence of a group dedicated to making those final moments more peaceful is a cause to celebrate. And celebrated it was. Kitimat Hospice invited the community to a get-together at their City Centre Mall office on Oct. 13 for a reflection on their 20 years in the community, and a look forward. Kitimat Hospice Palliative Care Association is a group which provides comfort and companionship to people who are in their final stages and moments of life, and provide information and support to those who need it. President Frank DaSilveira, who has been with Hospice since 1994, said that it’s entirely understandable that family members cannot always be at the side of an ailing loved one. People need rest and time away. Hospice is there to fill in the gap, to keep company with people who otherwise might be alone. Many people at the end want someone there for comfort. A Hospice volunteer provides comfort, and also acts as a communicator if the patient cannot communicate for themselves.
“Every person should have the right to die with dignity...and not alone,” said DaSilveira. DaSilveira has been there in a person’s final moments, and he told the gathering at their office that it’s not as terrible an experience for a volunteer as you might expect. It’s also an experience he said helps a person reflect on their own life. That said, he told the Sentinel afterwards that it does take a special kind of character to be involved in Hospice on that side. It is a “special gift”, he said, to offer compassion at the end of life. “We are always very rewarded by doing this,” he said of his and his wife’s experience with the organization. “I would never like to die alone. So it is what I would like given to me.” Hospice’s office is on the mall’s second floor, next to the Canadian Cancer Society’s office, and is open three times a week. People are free to stop by to grab information. Around Christmas each year, Hospice also puts up a tree in the mall where people can hang up tags with a lost loved one’s name and turn on a light in remembrance. DaSilveira said that family members always ask Hospice volunteers if their loved one died peacefully. For Hospice members, it’s their job to make sure the answer is always yes.
Council sets pay for 2013 Our councillors and mayor won’t be riding golden jet-skis with their approval of the 2013 pay increase of one per cent. Kitimat Council continues their strategy of only increasing their pay in line with the Consumer Price Index. Their policy has usually results in modest increases — in 2012 it was 2.1 per cent — but in 2010 is actually meant a lower wage, dropping 1.1 per cent. The one per cent rise will mean our town councillors make $121.64 dollars more, or $12,285.64 in 2013. The mayor’s remuneration will grow from the
current $29,584 to $29,879.84 To compare to Terrace, their councillors currently received $11,989. Their mayor is paid $31,278. Those numbers are nothing when compared to a community like Campbell River. Their councillors receive $20,409.26 and their mayor a comparatively astounding $60,422.30. Since 2003, Kitimat council has not increased their pay in one-go higher than 3.3 per cent, which was in 2009. The annual consumer price index is taken from Statistics Canada’s figures for the province of B.C.
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Going the distance to prevent spills I want to share a few things with you about the crude oil pipeline industry. Despite what you have undoubtedly heard from various corners of the news media, pipelines are the safest, most economical, and most environmentally sensitive method of transporting petroleum on the planet. Here’s another thing I can tell you — there are no absolutes in life, and that also applies to the pipeline industry. With the Gateway pipeline, we have gone to incredible lengths — extensive geotechnical investigation, special pipe design, tunnels and deep burials — to avoid any possibility of a spill. At the end of the day, however, we can’t guarantee zero spills. No one can. That’s why we’ve also mapped out detailed contingency plans in the areas of preparation and response in the very unlikely event of a spill along the pipeline route. To start with, we announced in July that we will add nearly 100 remotely operated isolation valves along the Gateway twin pipelines, bringing the total to 264 — and we’re continuously updating their locations to ensure optimal placement. That means our control-centre operations staff, and remote pump station employees all
along the line, can shut down and isolate sections of the pipeline at the first hint of a possible leak. Because all our remote pump stations are also staffed 24/7, response to a potential spill will begin immediately. With response equipment stored at those pump stations, our manager of engineering Ray Doering tells me that at least half a dozen local operations staff, joined by additional personnel and local trained response contractors, would be mobilized and attempt to establish containment of any potential leak as soon as possible, based on accessibility. We have designed Gateway to the highest standards of pipeline safety and integrity. Our goal is zero spills. And we’ll still be ready, just in case.
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COMING EVENTS 250-639-9110. October 30 The Annual General Meeting for Kitimat Arts for Youth will be at 7 p.m. at the MESS band room. Contact Louise Avery, chair, by October 16 at kitimatmuseum@telus. net if you wish to propose changes to the bylaws. Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11 tion necessary. Guard- ideas, etc. The first meeting will be held ian must also attend. SILLY YAKS (CE- Aug. 23 from 7-8:30 LIAC) SUPPORT p.m. in the multipurGROUP supporting pose room at the Kitigluten free eating and mat General Hospital. helping people with The group is open to celiac disease feel anyone interested in well and healthy. Par- learning about celiac ticipate in discussions disease. For more inaround safe foods, formation please call foods to avoid, cross 250-632-3063. More on page 13 contamination, recipe
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Edith the woman behind the craft fair Sean Glanville Edith Klepsch was one of the founding members of the very first Kitimat Arts and Crafts Show which started 40 years ago in 1972. Klepsch was instrumental in bringing the first Ceramic and Pottery Club to Kitimat. Klepsch will be back again for this years Christmas Craft and Gift Sale will take place Friday and Saturday November 2-3 at Riverlodge. Edith and her husband Horst and their three young children at the time arrived in Kitimat on March 18, 1971 from the coastal community of Ocean Falls, about 200 kilometres down the coast from Kitimat. “Horst worked at Crown Zellerbach and they had cut back in the late 1960s and in 1972 we thought it was time to leave and we came here to Kitimat because Eurocan wanted my husband to work in the pulp and paper industry here,” said Klepsch. Today Ocean Falls is a Ghost Town of about 100 residents. “It’s a little ghost town
but still some people there didn’t want to leave. They survive by boats coming in. There’s nothing there, but everything comes to an end and so did Ocean Falls,” says Klepsch. After arriving in Kitimat, Klepsch found nothing here in the line of ceramics. She then contacted the local YMCA who offered her a facility to teach ceramics free of charge. She then got in touch with the municipality who provided a $500 grant as start up money for the club. “I had to fly to Vancouver that September anyway so while I was there I found a supply store and bought two medium size kilns, two wheels and several moulds,” says Klepsch. On November 29, 1971 the Kitimat Ceramic Club was officially opened by mayor Springer. “We didn’t have the moulds available to make all the items we wanted to so we decided to raise some money,” said Klepsch. “I had two classes every week with about 12 ladies and each of us made
about five or six items. I asked if the Riverlodge would let us use the small room to sell our items and that’s how the arts and crafts started.” The arts and crafts fair has grown exponentially since its modest beginning back in the 1970s. “Now we have 120 to 130 tables and they are not only from Kitimat but as far as Vanderhoof and Smithers,” says Klepsch. “They come to set up their goods even here in our seniors centre because the Riverlodge is not big enough.” In addition to the Christmas event, Kitimat also has its Spring Craft and Business Fair every April which has grown into a major event as well. Klepsch kept busy teaching her lessons as well as raising her three children. When the youngest was 16, she went back to nursing. “To me teaching was to simply make the people happy doing what they were doing, for years I gave it up to go back to nursing,” says Klepsch. After 41 years of resid-
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Vehicle Lease / Rent
Trucks & Vans 1976 FJ40 Toyota Land Cruiser Runs great but needs body work. Lots of extra spare parts. $4,000 obo. 250-632-6239
Boats Dodge 3500 Crewcabs 32’ FIBERGLASS FERRELL BOAT 370hp 8.1L John Deere Engine, 1500hrs on engine. Trolling valve, Bow Thruster, 3 Stage Steering. 2 Hydraulic Deep lines, Hydraulic Trap Puller, 3 Sounders, Radar, 8’ Dinghy, 2 Radios. Com-Dev Auto Pilot, Spare Prop. Can be seen at MK BayMarina. Assessed at $84,400. Contact Warren Poff at 250.242.4445 or 250.242.1789 MAKE AN OFFER!
BADGER 30’ SUNDOWNER TUG 100hp turbo charged Yanmar Diesel, sleeps 6, shower, f/s, autopilot, radar, colour depth sounder, GPS, VHS, am/fm 2000w inverter/charger, 9’ dingy. Moorage at MK Bay Marine. (250) 632-6575 Kitimat
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Tenders
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Gingolx Village Government SEWAGE LIFT STATION CONSTRUCTION TENDER 2013 – 1156 - 1
INVITATION TO TENDER Sealed tenders marked “Sewage Lift Station No.1 Construction 1156-1” will be received no later than 3:00 pm local time on Thursday November 22, 2012 by the Gingolx Village Government at the office of McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. Suite #1 – 5008 Pohle Avenue, Terrace, BC V8G 4S8 This tender is for the early spring construction the installation of a pre-fabricated – fiberglass reinforced plastic sewage lift station complete with submersible pumps, controls; sanitary sewer modifications, force main, control building, and standby electric power generator. The owner reserves the right to reject any or all of the Tenders and the lowest tender will not necessarily be accepted. Tender Documents may be viewed at the Gingolx Village Government Office or at McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. Suite #1 – 5008 Pohle Avenue, Terrace, BC on or after October 24, 2012. All bidders shall familiarize themselves with the local site, high ground water conditions, availability of local materials, labour and equipment, infrastructure conditions, and the need to provide full time compliance with DFO fisheries and sediment control, and possible dewatering requirements. A mandatory site visit will be held November 1st at 11:00 a.m. Meet at the administration office, Gingolx, BC. Tender documents may be obtained on or after October 24th, 2012 from McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd., Suite #1 – 5008 Pohle Avenue, Terrace, BC V8G 4S8. Project Engineer: Joel Barkman, P.Eng. (250) 635-7163.
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Demons stomp Stampeders but bounced by Kangaroos
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Contributed In Weekend Hockey League news, the Profitness Blazers rose to the occasion, winning against Aurora Marina 8 to 5. Gerard Baldo dropped back to play goal for the Blazers, which skated to a win on a multi-goal effort from Dave Venman. A hard skating game between two short benches, DCH Industries and Worley Parsons, ended with DCH taking the win 7 to 2. DCH was back to take on Profitness Blazers, and the game ended with a hard-fought tie 2-2. On Oct. 15 Worley Parsons made up for their earlier loss in the week, beating Diamondback Electric 7-4. Brandon Wakita led the way with a hat-trick.
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A new feature of Nechako Elementary’s playground is something called an Oodle Swing, designed to be an inclusive structure. Nathan Medeiros with Kentron Construction pitched in for the installation of the swing with reduced costs, work which the Nechako Parent Advisory Council praises as great support for the students. The construction includes a ramp for people to use the swing who have accessibility concerns.
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Contributed The Kitimat Ice Demons split two weekend games on the road, Oct. 13 and 14. They had a smooth-skating and convincing win-over-win over old nemesis the Williams Lake Stampeders 5-2, on the strength of three power play goals and a hat trick performance by Brandon Wakita on Saturday. And, for two periods it looked like as if the Demons could take another game in Quesnel Sunday, but a couple of late defensive lapses allowed the Kangaroos to come back for their first win of the season, 4-2, with three unanswered goals in the third period. With two wins in their first three games, the Ice Demons sit first in the western division as the Smithers Steelheads survived a late rally by the Terrace River Kings to win 5-4, while the Prince Rupert Rampage had a tough road trip losing 9-5 in Lac La Hache to the Tomahawks and then 7-1, Sunday, as the Stampeders came alive. Although Kitimat were missing some key players on the weekend, they got off to a flying start with two power play goals in the first – one by Brandon Wakita (Derek Wakita, Jeff Mildenberger) just under nine minutes into the game and Ian Coleman (Jeff Baker, Derek Wakita) five minutes later. The power play struck for the third time as Brandon Wakita scored the second of his three on the night on a nice set up by Derek DeLisser just 2.06 into the second period. The Stampeders seemed to wake up at that point, seeing the game slip away and retaliated quickly with Nathan Zurak scoring just 47 seconds later, assisted by Matt Lees and Brent McIsaac. The Stampeders seemed to be clawing back into the game with a second goal by Stu Sasges (Lees and McIsaac) but Derek DeLisser got that one back very early in the third (Josh Slanina, Kyle Madsen) and Tommy Mildenberger, playing his first game in goal for the Ice Demons held the fort the rest of the way, stopping all 11 of the Stampeders shots in the period, while Brandon Wakita’s unassisted hat-trick goal at the 10:10 mark of the period beat Justin Foote to restore the Ice Demons three goal lead and suck the fight out of the Stampeders. On Sunday, the Demons had a solid start and led 1-0 at the end of the first as Brandon Wakita (Ian Coleman, Nick Markowski) kept up his torrid scoring pace. This was a rough game, with lots going on behind the scenes, but few calls (only 16 minutes in penalties, four minors to each team, but the visitors still held the lead at the end of the second period with Curtis Gassoff (Justin Fulton, Braydon Penner) tying the game at 1-1, at the 3.34 mark of the second, before Derek Wakita responded (Jeff Mildenberger, Scott McGregor) three minutes later to restore the one goal advantage. But the Demons wilted under pressure in the third period as goals by Levon Johnson (Justin Fulton) pulled the Kangaroos level, at 8:31 and the visitors had no answer for an eighth minute goal by Brolin McGowan (Joel Boyetchko, Dominic Tomassetti) and another at the 16:37 mark of the third by Devon Whalen, also assisted by Boyetchko and Tomasetti. The Ice Demons had Tyson Craven in net in Quesnel. Craven stopped 24 of 28 Kangaroos’ shots, while Ryan Manderson held the fort in the third period, stopping all Demons shots in the third. Demons had a total 24 shots in the game. For other Saturday-Sunday scores, see scoreboard entries on Pointstreak, accessed online from cihl.info. The next Demons game in Kitimat will be on Oct. 27 when they take on the Prince Rupert Rampage.
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Saturday, Oct. 27 at 8:00 pm KITIMAT ICE DEMONS VS PRINCE RUPERT RAMPAGE Game at Tamitik Arena
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