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Adell Robson and Stephen Saunders are happily at home with their family after spending a month in Williams Lake awaiting the birth of their second daughter
Lack of birthing services in Bella Coola a challenge for local families BY CAITLIN THOMPSON Driving hours from your home community to give birth has become the norm in many small communities across the province. In Bella Coola, it is an all too familiar story since birthing services ceased to be offered locally three years ago. Recently, this issue has sparked much attention as stories such as the community
of Fort Nelson, where women are forced to drive four hours to give birth in the larger community of Fort St. John. As many as 50 pregnant women a year make the 380 kilometre road trip south to give birth. In Fort Nelson full maternity care is frequently suspended when the staff that are needed on hand to perform emergency caesarean sections are unavailable, said Chris Morey, spokeswoman for Northern Health.
In Bella Coola, the resources for women who need cesarean sections simply don’t exist anymore. As a result, Bella Coola women are advised to leave weeks before delivery and to fund the entirety of their expenses on their own, something that is difficult for many families to afford. Baby showers in Bella Coola are preceded by fundraisers to enable expectant parents to
pay for the trip out. “We do see a lot of families holding fundraisers to help out with costs,” said Bella Coola General Hospital CEO Michel Bazile. Adell Robson and Stephen Saunders recently returned from Williams Lake after the birth of their second child. The couple, along with their 18 month old daughter, had to spend nearly a month in the city waiting for the birth of their second child. Robson
said the entire experience is something she does not want to repeat. “We had to wait over a month in Williams Lake waiting for the birth of our first daughter and another month waiting for the birth of our second,” she said. “It was even harder this time around because we had our oldest daughter with us.” SEE FAMILIES ON PAGE 3
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Work Habits Achievements Students receiving all ‘Excellent’ and/or ‘Good’ on their report cards for Work Habits Ashley Moore Kasey Karran Carrigan Tallio Francois Jacques Aodhan Cearnaigh Kelly Harrison Jordan Tuck Cole Tallio Melissa Brooks Connor Kopas Brody Tuck Bobby Snow Jacob Gascoyne Megan Snow Chelsea Dickens Tamika Tallio
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With no financial assistance available for families, they must foot the bill for all of their expenses, and it gets pricey. “Our hotel alone was $600 week,” said Robson. “We had a kitchenette and cooked our own food, but it was still a very costly.” While there are accommodations available at the Williams Lake hospital, Robson says they are hardly suitable for pregnant women, and even less suitable for families. “It’s basically a hospital cot, a common room and a microwave,” she explained. “There is no room for a toddler to run about.” Something that may help with the local situation is the skills of a midwife. In Haida Gwaii, the situation is very similar to Bella Coola where women must leave the community and travel long distances to give birth. Celina Laursen is a midwife from Haida Gwaii. She left her community four years ago to pursue her midwifery training after the local hospital stopped delivering babies. Despite the lack of services, some women were simply refusing to leave and instead opting to show up at the hospital in labour. “It became obvious
that there should be a choice for lowrisk women who wanted to stay,” said Laursen. “I decided to pursue my training at UBC.” Midwives have been regulated and legally recognized as autonomous health care practitioners in BC since 1998. They operate as part of an overall health care team, consulting with physicians and referring a woman with a suspected problem to a specialist, such as an obstetrician, should the need arise. While the midwife option may seem to be a good fit for many rural communities, Laursen stresses that a good model must be implemented for the practice to work and that all aspects of the health care team need to be on board. Women in communities served by midwifes are still encouraged to leave if there is anything that indicates they may be at risk for any complications. “There are some very good models in communities such as Rankin Inlet and Fort Smith where midwives do the majority of pre and post-natal care,” she said. “But these models came from the community; the community really wanted it.” To practice in a community, a midwife must first assess whether or not the
community is interested in the service and then apply for hospital privileges. Last year was Laursen’s first year as a midwife on Haida Gwaii and she delivered eight babies; this year more are planned. “Even though we didn’t deliver a lot of babies this year I still did a lot of pre and post-natal care,” she said. “And I assisted many women who chose to leave by arranging things for them with their chosen physician outside.” Despite all of the benefits a midwife can provide, they are limited in their practice and cannot perform many of the functions a doctor or surgeon can. In Haida Gwaii, as in Bella Coola, caesarean sections are not available and if a woman requires one the situation could become difficult. It is precisely this reason that many women still choose to leave. Dr. David Arnold, Medical Director of the United Church Health Services Society, says that while the UCHSS has not formally considered the question of instituting a low-risk maternity program without immediate surgical backup so there is actually no ‘official’ view on the subject either way. Additionally, Dr. Arnold stated that no midwives have
expressed an interest in working under such conditions in any communities served by the UCHSS. The community of Bella Coola, when consulted in 2008 about the ‘lowrisk’ concept, didn’t express much interest in the midwife model either. “There are a few communities that have resisted this trend and provide maternity care without immediate surgical backup. These communities may have doctors and/ or midwives,” said Dr. Arnold. “Queen Charlotte City is one of them. These places focus on healthy women with no known risk factors for complications i.e. `low-risk` births. These places have a good track record for safety and are approved of by the professional regulatory colleges.” Although the skills of a midwife may be appreciated, putting the system into practice is complicated. Complete cooperation and mutual understanding is required from the entire health care team. “UCHSS will not insist that its doctors practice in a way that they feel is unsafe,” said Dr. Arnold. “It is extremely unlikely that a group of doctors willing to practice maternity like they do in Queen Charlotte City will
Bear Aware Bella Coola to host electric fencing clinic Bear Aware and the Bella Coola Sustainable Agriculture Society are hosting a “hands-on” electric fencing clinic on Sunday, March 13. Electric fencing is a proven cost effective bear deterrent that has been successfully used in the valley as a means of managing predator attractants such as livestock and fruit trees. Electric fencing expert, Gillian Sanders, with 10 years of experience deterring black and grizzly bears in and around the Kootenays, will be providing the expertise. The clinic will include the installation of a demonstration electric fence and during the process review fencing design and components,
and human safety basics. The clinic starts at 10AM at 962 North Grant Rd, is free and includes a light lunch—it is an outdoor event so dress appropriate for the weather. In addition to the free clinic, Gillian will be touring local properties, upon request, on Saturday March 12 to provide site specific ideas and suggestions. Please contact Tim deGrace or Dayna Chapman at 250 799 5199 or email bearawarebellacoola@gmail.com if you wish to have your property viewed by Gillian or to pre-register for the installation portion of the clinic.
come to Bella Coola. However, midwifery remains an option, albeit with many obstacles.” Even if Bella Coola was offering midwifery services, Robson feels that she still would have left because the birth of her first daughter was fraught with unexpected complications. But, the continuity of care offered by midwives both pre and postnatal does appeal to her. “Perhaps I would have been able to remain at home a little longer,” she said. North Coast MLA Gary Coons believes this situation needs to change and views the situation in Bella Coola as particularly dire because expectant mothers are advised to leave their communities up to a month in advance of their due date. Coons is supportive of considering the midwifery model of care, especially in aboriginal communities, but he also understands the unique challenges of putting such a model into practice. Coons cites the Aboriginal Midwifery Demonstration Project on the North Island that was enacted in August 2009 with the intention of looking at the maternity care needs of North Island Aboriginal women that have not been
successfully met by existing services. This pilot project is intended to provide community-based midwifery with community outreach. “A model midwifery program can save money, save lives and ensure a peace of mind for expectant mothers and their families,” said Coons. “There are some obstacles that must be overcome including strategic discussions on the value of midwives, the acknowledgement of the unique funding needs to start a practice in rural BC, and the support of all to ensure midwives have opportunities to open practices in
underserviced rural areas. Any practitioner must have the appropriate cultural training and orientation to ensure success.”
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The Canadian Brandowner Residual Stewardship Corporation (CBRSC), on behalf of the Canadian Toy Association and its members, have developed a Stewardship Plan outlining how the brandowners intend to collect unwanted electronic toys from the public and ensure that they are properly recycled and not sent to landfill. Go to www.cbrsc.ca to review the draft. Public meetings to accept comments will be held in: } Prince George: Coast Inn of the North Wednesday, March 9, 1 to 4pm } Kelowna: Ramada North Kelowna, Friday, March 11, 1 to 4pm } Surrey: Sheraton Guildford Tuesday, March 15, 1 to 4pm } Victoria: Sheraton Four Points Langford Thursday, March 17, 1 to 4pm Webinar will be held on Wednesday, March 23. Pre-registration is requested through www.cbrsc.ca or (604) 831-7203. Comments on the draft plan for Electronic Toys are welcome until the close of business April 25, 2011.
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Taseko Mines submits new plans for Prosperity Mine at Fish Lake BY CAITLIN THOMPSON Taseko Mines hasn’t given up on its bid to create a gold and copper mine in the West Chilcotin. The company submitted revised plan last week that
addresses the major concern of both First Nations and environmental officials – the proposed destruction of Fish Lake. The original proposal would have seen Fish Lake drained and turned into tailings pond
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for toxic mine waste, poisoning much of the surrounding watershed. This proposal ultimately failed the federal environmental assessment, which cited ‘adverse environmental effects’ on everything from fish habitat to aboriginal rights and title. The Tsilhqot'in, upon whose traditional territory the mine would lie, remain vehemently opposed to the project despite the revised plan. The company had originally stated that there was no alternative to the destruction of Fish Lake but now says higher metal prices are enabling them to seek the more expensive solution. Taseko maintains this new proposal greatly reduces environmental impacts and will preserve Fish Lake and the surrounding aquatics. The price projections of gold and copper have nearly doubled, making it possible to pay for a more expensive solution to the waste problem, said CEO
Russell Hallbauer. “Price projections for copper average about $2.50 per pound and for gold above $1,000 per ounce, nearly two times the prices we used in our original assessment,” Hallbauer said. “We are now able to consider and advance this new design proposal which adds construction costs and life of mine operating expenditures of approximately $300 million.” Adding more fuel to the fire, the newly minted BC Premierdesignate, Liberal leader Christy Clark made comments during the leadership race suggesting she believes the mine should go ahead. Ms. Clark has said that if she became premier, she would use her first meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to demand that his government reverse its decision last November to reject the mine. This certainly didn’t sit well with NDP MP Nathan Cullen. “Some BC
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Taseko Mines hasn’t given up on its bid to create a mine at Fish Lake and has now submitted a new proposal politicians have tried to grandstand on this issue, claiming they will lobby to overturn the panel's decision,” said Cullen. “But sustainable development is about better design and consultation - not backroom muscle.” Taseko certainly hasn’t made any inroads in the first nations communities, with Tsilhqot’in National Government Tribal Chair Joe Alphonse citing a basic lack of respect from the company towards the Chilcotin people and their territory. Alphonse confirmed that local first nations still have no desire to work with Taseko, despite not having even seen the new proposal. “It doesn’t matter what changes they’ve made,” he said, “We’re not interested, not by that group.” By contrast, the new proposal is providing some hope
for those in Williams Lake who want to see it go ahead and is welcome news for the City’s mayor, Kerry Cook. “I’m very pleased that Taseko is moving ahead with this project,” she said in a press release. Cook expressed a hope that the provincial and federal governments could use much of the information that was provided in the plan’s original submission for assessment purposes and that could speed up the process. Cook is hopeful the new proposal would address the concerns raised during the environmental assessment. “This project is very important to the economy of the City and the region and we want to see it proceed,” she said. The environmental assessment is only one of many hurdles the project faces, but Cariboo-Prince George MP Dick
Harris is confident that this new proposal is a significant step forward. Harris said the new design greatly reduces environmental impacts and preserves Fish Lake and its adjacent habitat, while also enabling all mine operations and related components to be contained within one single watershed. “Of course I am happy to see that Taseko has taken up that option despite hundreds of millions of dollars in additional cost,” Harris said. “This project means future and long-lasting economic stability to the Cariboo-Chilcotin region, by creating thousands of jobs and adding billions to the economy over the life of the mine and it will also provide skills training and long lasting economic benefits for First Nations who live in the project area.”
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SAMS students got a firsthand look at day-to-day operations at the Snootli Hatchery
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SAMS science students take a trip to Snootli Hatchery BY EVAN DICKSON In late January Science grade eight to ten science classes from SAMS visited the Snootli Hatchery after learning dissection techniques during a classroom dissection of giant spring salmon, led by hatchery staff. The field trip to the hatchery let us see what kinds of things are done at the hatchery, in the rivers around Bella Coola and learn a little about all of the research that happens there. Carl and Tom were nice enough to take our class of tired and unenthusiastic grade tens around the hatchery and made things fun. First we walked through the main buildings, looking at pictures of the boys and girls hard at work in the rivers, setting up fish traps, and catching some pretty mighty fish. Next we walked through the large room where tiny minnows swam among the rocks in huge groups. After that we went into another building where the
boys and girls from the hatchery got us to do their work for them--for free! It was really interesting. We got to weigh and count the tiny fish and see what kind of research they do regularly at this time of year to help many more salmon survive than if it were just left to Mother Nature. We also got to remove dead salmon eggs from the live ones, count a sample of live eggs and deter-
mine the total number of salmon eggs from our sample—math in action! Did you know that a live salmon egg bounces when you drop it on the ground and still lives (but only at a certain stage of development)? After doing these activities with the staff I decided it was kind of cool and that I wouldn’t mind working at the hatchery myself! All in all, I thought it was pretty fun trip
and I’m positive the rest of the SAMS classes enjoyed it too. A big thank you to all of the staff from the Hatchery that made this fun science possible! SAMS science teachers are also excited to work with the Hatchery this spring with future programming to connect the local ecology to students’ education through science eight to ten and Biology eleven and twelve.
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Discovery Coast Music Festival gearing up for 2011
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Music Festival devotees Taslyn and Qla in 2008
Has cold and rainy February weather got you dreaming about outdoor summer fun? Well, you’ll be happy to know that the Discovery Coast Music Festival (DCMF) Directors are already working hard to plan this summer’s 12 annual Festival on July 23 and 24. The line-up is still developing, but you can look forward to more of the award-winning music you’ve come to expect: lyrical and avantgarde folk singing, Arabic/French fusion, Plains Cree Hip Hop, oldtimey string band, and Afro/jazz fusion! DCMF dedicates one festival slot to showcase a local musician. To apply, artists need to fill out a simple application, available at the Valley’s Career Centre, and mail it along with a recent demo and any promotional materials to: Artistic Director, DCMF, Box 858, Bella Coola, BC, V0T 1C0. Submissions must be received by April 15, 2011. This is a competitive process and all decisions will be made by the Artistic Director, with prefer-
ence given to artists playing original material. The Festival encourages repeat submissions. Some Festival ticket prices are going to increase in 2011, but children 12 and under will be free. Adult tickets will be $25 per day, students (13-18) and seniors (65+), $20. Advance tickets, available until July 16, will still be a great deal at $20 for adults and $15 for students and seniors. A weekend pass will be available at the gate for $45. These changes will bring DCMF ticket prices more in line with similarly sized festivals. Be assured that DCMF still remains one of the best, if not the best, music festival bargain in the province. If you want to get involved to help bring to life one of Bella Coola’s signature community events, contact Susan O’Neill at 799-5618. For details about the performers and the festival schedule, watch for articles in this paper, or check out our web site—bellacoolamusic.org and our event page on FaceBook.
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The Community Question: What are your expectations of Chief and Council?
Name: Clyde Tallio Occupation: Language and Cultural Teacher, Acwsalcta School Response: I cannot stress enough how important the preservation of our language is to our community. We need our leaders to do as much as they can to make our language a part of our everyday lives – it is the glue that will keep our community together.
Name: Mary Mack Occupation: Kindergarten Teacher’s Assistant, Acwsalcta School Response: I hope to finally see some community meetings happening to increase community knowledge of band affairs. I would also like to see more employment training become available for young people.
Name: Gail Moody Occupation: Program Director, Healthy Beginnings Response: As the elected Chief and Councilors are elected with trust and respect, I would expect that they in turn show the community that same trust and respect by making sure the membership is informed of the issues and that they respect the wishes of the majority.
Name: Irene Hans Occupation: ECE Childcare Worker, Nuxalk Daycare Response: I would like to see more communication with the community
Name: Gloria Hilland Occupation: ECE Childcare Worker, Nuxalk Daycare Response: I would like to see decisions being made that benefit the whole community
Name: Jaylene Siwallace Occupation: ECE Childcare Worker, Nuxalk Daycare Response: I would like to see more support for the problems that exist in the community today
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Christy Clark elected as leader of BC Liberal party Radio talk show host and former deputy premier Christy Clark has won the B.C. Liberal leadership on the third ballot and will succeed Gordon Campbell as premier. Clark, who billed herself as a Liberal party outsider, won the party's leadership contest by beating former cabinet ministers Kevin Falcon, George Abbott and Mike de Jong. Clark
currently does not hold a seat in the legislature and talk is turning to which riding she will run in. It took three rounds of the preferential ballot to decide who would replace Campbell, who resigned last fall over his party's disastrous unveiling of the harmonized sales tax. Clark has made some significant promises, and pollsters are saying she
should enact these quickly to keep the party faithful happy. Those promises include the restoration of $15 million in community gaming grants, a new business-creation tax credit, raising the minimum wage and moving up the HST referendum to June from it's currently scheduled date in September. She has also promised to create a holi-
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day, ‘Family Day,’ in February. Five other provinces already observe this statutory holiday. In a speech following her win, Clark addressed the people of British Columbia. “I want you to be my partners in change in Victoria. I want you to be my partners in bringing open government. You can count on me to listen, you can count on me to engage, and you can count on me to make sure government really does include you. I have specific ideas on how to do these things but I also need to hear from you,” she said. “My top priority will be to put families first. In British Columbia we are blessed with families of all shapes and sizes, families as diverse as our great province. This is the foundation of our communities. This is the building block of
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Christy Clark waves after being elected as the party's new leader in Vancouver our future.” Clark said her government's top priorities will be job creation and fighting poverty, and she vowed to focus on
innovation and rural B.C. Attention is now turning to the NDP leadership race, which has five candidates running, Adrian
Dix, Mike Farnworth, John Horgan, Dana Larsen, and Nicholas Simons. The party’s leadership vote is scheduled to take place April 17.
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An aerial shot of the Valley taken September 22, 2010 - this is perhaps the last picture before September's 2010 for many
massive flood Bella Coola residents - certainly the defining moment ‘Operation Santa’ of delivers some Christm as cheer to flood affected families
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An aerial shot of the Valley taken September 22, 2010 - this is perhaps the last picture before September's 2010 for many
massive flood Bella Coola residents - certainly the defining moment ‘Operation Santa’ of delivers some Christm as cheer to flood In addition to the affected families Ministry of Transportatio Associates donated n’s $4,000 to A joint effort by ity, other BCGEU generosthe Flood Relief at the Williams numerous employees Bank
Michael Wigle photo
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Lake hospital account agencies resulted from various provincial to be used for firewood, also sent local householders in an early minisfurnace Beeline gifts to the valley via Christmas for many tries including fuel and hay. October through in from mid Courier. the Corrections November last fall’s tremendousvictims of Branch, Client Many people purchased Earlier that week and December. Services Branch, flood. The first group Michel At the Ministry Ministry of Environment, specific items that Bazille (CEO of to arrive was a the Bella Coola families had six-person Transportation of Ministry of Forests indicated their Hospital), and crew from the Mennonite and children would and Range, some Infrastructure office Ministry of Agriculture appreciate including pital staff delivered of the hos- Disaster Service. and gift blankets Hosed at Lake, Leanna Illinickiin Williams Lands, and the mets, skates, board bikes, hel- that had been the Community Integrated Land and donated games and Church in Loreen Russell Management Bureau clothing. affected households, to flood Hagensborg these organized men helped which had fourteen project that substituted a part in the project, took been donated by Leanna loaded householders with as did their two pick-up Vancouver usual staff gift exchange their union. trucks with the Coastal Health cleanup and reconstruction gifts employees in in favour of buying Interior Roads, ered them to Bella and delivVancouver. during the nine gifts for floodDawson days affected families. Construction, Triton volunteers used Coola where were in the valley. that they The Bella Coola the Mormon Flood Environmental Church Hall to Restoration Committee In mid-Novembe and Binnie organize and r volunwas distribute them. also able to organize Employees SEE MANY unteer work crews two volON PAGE 3 that assisted
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% Interest
For 72 Months
5.0L, AUTO SYNC, NICELY EQUIPPED
MSRP $43,259 $ , *
Special
2010 010 Flex Fl Limited Li it d AWD 3.5L, ECO BOOST ENGINE, LOADED WITH NAVIGATION, PANORAMIC ROOF, TRAILER TOW & MORE!
Special
#1T068
*
Clearance Priced\
MSRP $59,819 $ ,819
LESS $1000 FORD CREDIT CASH!
TAXES INCLUDED
3.0L, AUTO, MOONROOF, REMOTE START MSRP $33,579 $ ,
6.2L, MAX TRAILER TOW, NAVIGATION, LOADED
Special
2010 01 Edge Ed SE FWD FW
TAXES INCLUDED
2011 2 11 F150 0 Supercrew S Lariat #1T064
*
Clearance Priced\
Special
TAXES INCLUDED
2.5L, AUTO, REMOTE START, SYNC AND MORE! MSRP $36,104 $ ,
MSRP $28,549 *
Special
TAXES INCLUDED
Special LESS $1000 FORD CREDIT CASH!
TAXES INCLUDED
2 11 F250 Super 2011 S Regular Cab XL 4x4 #1T113
MSRP
6.7L,DIESEL, AUTO, TRAILER TOW PACKAGE
MSRP $52,669
*
Special
Special
TAXES INCLUDED
2011 Escape Limited 4x4
2011 2 011 FF350 350 C Crewc Crewcab rewc Lariat
#1T130
#1T027
3.0L, AUTO, LOADED WITH OPTIONS INCLUDING NAVIGATION
6.7L, AUTO, LOADED WITH ALL THE TOYS PLUS ACCESSORIES
0
% Interest
For 72 Months
* ON APPROVED CREDIT. BI-WEEKLY PRICES ARE BASED ON AN 84 MONTH TERM AT 6.99%. PRICE DOES INCLUDE TAXES AND FEES BUT NOT LICENCE AND REGISTRATION. SEE DEALER FOR MORE DETAILS. VEHICLES MAY NOT BE EXACTLY AS SHOWN.
MSRP $39,149
MSRP $78,249 *
Special
TAXES INCLUDED
Burton Astleford
Demo Special